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Charles Foster is a native of Lansingburgh, Rensa- laer co., N. Y. He fitted for college at the Pompey Academy, and graduated at Yale College in 1844. He read law in the office of Victory Birdseye, at Pompey, one year ; six months in the law school at New Haven ; one year in the office of B. D. and G. Noxon, Syracuse, and finally completed his studies in the office of Wood & Birdseye, at Albany. He was admitted to practice as Attorney, Solicitor and Counsellor at Catskill, in the fall of 1847. He commenced practicing in Pompey, in the office of Daniel Gott. In Jan., 1853, he located in Cort- land Village, where he continues in practice. Mr. Fos- ter possesses fine talents, tact and energy, with a fair prospect of professional success and eminence.
M. M. Waters is a native of Truxton. He was edu- cated in the common school, with a brief attendance at the De Ruyter Academy. He studied his profession with Reynolds & Crandall ; was admitted to practice, in January, 1856. His business habits, unyielding energy and close application to study, are sure precur- sors of eminence in the future .- Alvah D. Waters was educated at Cazenovia ; read law in his brother's office, and was admitted to the bar, in November, 1858.
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John S. Barber, from Broome county, was educated at Ithaca ; read law in the office of M. M. Waters ; was admitted to practice, in January, 1858, at Binghamton, and soon after opened an office in Cortland Village. The health of Mr. Barber incapacitates him for close ap- plication to his profession.
William Henry Warren studied with Ballard, and was admitted to practice, in November, 1858. He is industrious, possessed of a good mind, and has a laudable ambition to succeed in the practice.
Oliver Porter read law and was admitted to prac- tice, in Delaware county. He opened an office in Homer, in 1855, and is now doing a successful and prosperous business.
Alanson Coats was the first permanent lawyer in Truxton ; Palmer & Williams succeeded. Coats, though not decidedly brilliant, is nevertheless a good legal adviser. He went early to Syracuse, but subsequently returned to Truxton, where he still resides. Damon Coats, a practicing attorney in Syracuse, is his son .- Palmer & Williams were not very successful-went west, where the latter soon after died.
Amos L. Kinney received his academic education at Homer ; collegiate, at Hamilton ; graduated in 1843. He studied with Alanson Coats, and was admitted to practice, in 1848. He is pleasantly situated at Truxton Village.
Barak Niles located in Cincinnatus, previous to 1820. He possessed a good legal mind, and was a fair, aver- age advocate. He was for several years an Associate Judge, and was much respected. He removed in 1848 to Pennsylvania.
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Roswell K. Bourne is a native of Otselic, Chenango county. He was educated at Cazenovia ; studied with Judge Niles ; was admitted at the General Term of Supreme Court held at Utica, July, 1844. He com- menced practice at Pitcher, but subsequently located at Cincinnatus, where he still continues in the practice of law. Mr. Bourne is a man of indomitable energy and force of character, and is every way fitted to dignify and adorn the profession.
Ira L. Little was born in Wallkill, Orange co., N. Y., July 26, 1830. He graduated at Harvard Uni- versity ; studied with Benjamin S. Bentley, of Montrose, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to practice in that State, in 1852. In 1854 he located in Binghamton, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of this State, at the general term of 1855, and soon after removed to Marathon, where he has since practiced with a good degree of success. Mr. Little is possessed of a superior education, fine literary attainments ; is a well-read lawyer, and a worthy citizen. As a maga- zine writer he has won an appreciable reputation. Many of his poetical contributions have been regarded as gems of superior beauty.
George B. Jones is a native of Columbia county, N. Y. He was educated at Cazenovia and Homer ; stud- ied his profession with Horatio Ballard, of Cortland, and with Southerland & Mclellan, in Hudson, and was ad- mitted to the bar, May 9, 1848. In April, 1849, he opened an office in M'Grawville, but has recently located in Cortland Village. He possesses great energy of char- acter, and hence applies himself with untiring perse- verance to the duties of his vocation.
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John S. Van Hoesen was born in Preble, May 11, 1833 ; was educated at Homer ; studied with Judge Kingsley and Major Crandall ; was admitted to prac- tice on the 13th day of May, 1856, and commenced practice at Preble Corners. In October he removed to Minesota, landing at Hastings, a flourishing city on the Mississippi. Here he was favored with only a lim- ited practice. Hence he turned his attention in the main to another branch of business,-speculating in land ; and in the brief space of seven months he ac- cumulated a " respectable little fortune." After visiting St. Paul, Mineapolis, and several other places of im- portance, he reëmbarked for his native land, on the 14th of May, 1857, and arrived at Preble on the 17th of the. same month, where he is now doing a good business in his profession.
Luther W. Griswold, Darius Allen, Orson A. and Gavett Z. House, also studied with Reynolds & Cran- dall. Griswold is the able and popular Judge of Min- neshick co., Iowa. Allen is engaged in a flourishing practice in Penn Yan, Yates co., N. Y. Orson A. House is now doing a prosperous business in New York, as a member of the firm of Bergen & House. Gavett Z. House, former editor of the Dryden News, is now prac- ticing his profession in Buffalo.
Samuel G. Hatheway, Jr., studied with Dayton & Woods. He possessed a calm, discriminating, well- balanced, intellect, and rose rapidly in both branches of the profession. He became an early partner of Judge Gray, in Elmira, where he still remains, and is unques- tionably one of the ablest lawyers in the State. Chief Justice Joseph S. Bosworth, of the city of New York,
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the able and distinguished lawyer-the profound jurist and enlightened citizen-the man who has risen meteor- like, resplendent in genius, reflecting honor upon his na- tive county of Cortland ; the late Robert O. Reynolds, the brilliant orator and gifted advocate ; Gardner Knapp, the polished student and acute observer-studied with Stephens & Ballard. H. S. Fuller, Charles G. . King, Hon. H. S. Conger, Jerome Rowe, William Marsh, Augustus L. Ballard, and Ira D. Warren, studied with Horatio Ballard. Mr. Ballard retired a few years since from the profession he honored, and is now settled at Lakeland, Minesota. Mr. Warren is now in a lucra- tive practice in the city of New York, and is one of the firm of Cutler, Pennington & Warren. He is a gentle- man of rare abilities, well read in his profession, which he pursues with great zeal, industry and success, and will undoubtedly become very eminent as an advocate Robert Stewart, now Governor of Missouri, Hon. H. L. Dunham of Indiana, Hon. A. P. Lanning of Buffalo, and W. H. Mallory, studied with Wm. H. Shankland. Hon. Levi F. Bowen, a native of Homer, studied with Joseph P. Morse, a distinguished lawyer of Lockport. Mr.
Bowen has been elevated to various honored positions, having creditably filled the offices of Judge and Surro- gate of Niagara county, and Justice of the Supreme Court of the Eighth Judicial District. Morse studied in Cortland with Dayton & Woods. He was a man of ability. Judge Ira Harris studied with Augustus Don- nelly.
Perhaps no individual has done more for the welfare of the children and youth of this country, than Profes- sor Chas. W. Saunders, the well-known author of the
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popular series of school-books that bear his name. He resided in the town of Cortlandville for almost thirty years, and spent much time in teaching. He is the author of twenty-five different works, all of which have been stereotyped from the manuscript. His text books have given him a just and an enviable reputation.
Among those who were born and educated in Cort- land county, and who have not already been mentioned, and who by their talents and industry have risen to high positions, we may briefly notice John M. Keep, son of General Martin Keep, late of Homer, who is now a dis- tinguished Judge of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. William Keep, son of Hon. Chauncey Keep, is a promi- nent banker at Buffalo, residing at Lockport. Austin Fuller, of Freetown, is the popular State Auditor of In- diana. A. L. Pritchard, son of Garret Pritchard, of Solon, formerly a practicing lawyer in New Berlin, Chenango co., N. Y., is at present extensively engaged in the banking business in Wisconsin, residing at Wa- tertown. He is a zealous and prominent citizen, highly respected for his active efforts in improving the place, having done more than any other person towards beau- tifying the town. Rev. William C. Boyce, son of Colo- nel Obadiah Boyce, is the efficient Principal of the Aurora Academy. Augustus A. Boyce (another son) is Clerk of the District Court of the Northern District of New York, residing in Utica. Charles H. Hunt, son of Dr. S. M. Hunt, of Marathon, is District Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of New York. John W. Hunt (another son) graduated as a physician, and moved to Wisconsin in 1849, and has for the greater portion of the time been Assistant Secretary of State,
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residing at Madison. Dr. Ray Hunt (also a son of Dr. Hunt) is residing at Madison, and is the Chief Clerk in the same office.
Charles H. Salisbury, son of Nathan. Salisbury, of Scott, studied medicine, and graduated at the Albany Medical College. He was for several years employed as an assistant to Dr. Emmons, of Albany, in a chemical analysis of the soil and vegetable productions in differ- ent parts of the State, and the results are published in the agricultural parts of the Natural History of the State. He was regarded as one of the best analytical chemists of the State. He now resides in Ohio. His brother, Charles Salisbury, has acquired an enviable reputation as a portrait painter. He lived several years in the city of Albany, pursuing his profession with em- inent success.
DeLay Glover, son of Daniel Glover, of Homer, has acquired a well-earned fame as a historical engraver. He resides in Syracuse.
Hon. Arthur Holmes and Alis W. Ogden : the former a resident of Cortlandville, is at present an active mem- ber of the New York Assembly ; the latter was born and reared in Homer, and is the successor of the Hon. Rufus A. Reed, to the office of County Clerk.
There were seven delegates-emigrants from Cort- land county-honored with seats in the Constitutional Convention of Wisconsin. One of them was Michael Frank, formerly of Virgil.
Of the physicians and surgeons who have at various times commenced the practice of their profession in the county, we can only notice a few, many of them having remained scarce long enough to acquire a residence.
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John Mc Whorter, the pioneer physician, was a native of Washington county, in this State, and located in Cincinnatus in 1795. He was an excellent physician, but did not confine himself entirely to the practice. He entered into the political arena, and was honored with numerous official positions.
Lewis S. Owen was a native of New Lebanon, Colum- bia co., N. Y. He studied medicine with Drs. Stringer and McClellan of Albany ; removed to Homer in 1799, and engaged in the practice of his profession. He was eminently qualified for the position he occupied. John Miller, from Amenia, Dutchess county, settled in Trux- ton, in 1801. His medical studies were pursued in Dutchess and Washington counties, under the direction of eminent practitioners. He attended lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, then under the direction of Drs. Rush and Shipper. Robert D. Taggart was a na- tive of Colerain, and studied his profession with Dr. Ross, in his native town. He located in Preble in 1804. He remained engaged in the practice of medicine for about twenty-seven years, when he removed to Port Byron. He possessed a clear judgment ; was regarded as a man of great moral worth, and eminent in his pro- fession. Elijah J. Wheeler was a native of New Jersey, where he acquired his medical knowledge. He pos- sessed a strong, vigorous intellect ; was well educated, and eminently qualified to honor the medical profession. He located in Solon in 1805. His early habits of ine- briation retarded his usefulness, and greatly afflicted his young and intelligent family of children, and with- ered and blasted the once brilliant prospects of his wife. Jesse Searl was from Southampton, Mass. His medical studies were pursued in the office of Dr. Woodbridge,
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of the same town. He settled in Homer in 1804, and went into practice, but subsequently turned his atten- tion to politics, and engaged in conducting the Cort. land Repository. . His medical knowledge was good, his literary acquirements superior ; and, in brief, he was an excellent citizen and an influential man. Miles Goodyear was born in Hampden, New Haven co., Conn. ; graduated at Yale College ; studied medicine with Pro- fessor Eli Ives, of New Haven ; came to Cortland in the latter part of 1816, and was soon engaged in an extensive practice. His education was supe- rior ; his medicinal knowledge extensive ; his habits social ; his temper genial and forgiving ; and hence he acquired warm friends in and out of the profession. Dr. Goodyear has been engaged in continuous practice for a period exceeding forty-two years-years of usefulness and of eminence-rendering service alike to the poor and the rich,-a noble and dignified trait in the charac- ter of the worthy practitioner. He is still devotedly attached to the profession, and ardently labors to alle- viate the sufferings of the sick.
Lewis Riggs is a native of Norfolk, Conn. His medi. cal instructor was Dr. Samuel B. Woodward, of Litch- field. He received his license from the State Medical Society, in 1812. He emigrated to Homer in 1818. As a practitioner, he has been prudent, skilful and success- ful. In addition to his local offices, he has been elected to and served in the United States Congress. He erected the Superior Mills in 1838. His history is closely identified with the history of the county ; and he has in all respects maintained an upright and valu- able reputation.
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Robert C. Owen was born in Homer in 1802, educated at Cortland Academy, studied his profession with his father, Dr. Lewis S. Owen, and Platt Williams, of Albany, and graduated at the Harvard University, Bos- ton, in 1820. He was for thirty-eight years a prominent practitioner in Homer, but for the last eight years has been, in the main, retired from the active duties of the profession.
George W. Bradford is a native of Otsego county. He received an academic education ; studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Fuller, of Cooperstown ; was licensed in 1820 by the Otsego County Medical Association, and soon after commenced practice in Homer, where he still remains in the active duties of his profession.
Horace Bronson was born in Catskill, Greene co., N. Y. His classical studies were pursued under the charge of Rev. C. Bushnell, and his medical in the office of Dr. Lewis Riggs. He attended medical lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District, where he received the degree of M. D. He subsequently spent one season with Prof. Noyes, of Hamilton College, and another with Dr. Seth Hastings, of Clinton, Oneida co. He came to Virgil in 1821, where he has, with the exception of a brief period, remained in practice. Dr. Bronson has been eminently successful in the profession, discharging all its onerous duties, and devoting his best energies to the advance- ment of medical science, and to the perpetuity of a just appreciation of the high duties of the worthy physician. Hence he has gained the kind respect and affectionate regard of a long list of devoted friends.
Azariah Blanchard came in soon after Dr. Bronson
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and settled in Truxton, where he remained many years, and "enjoyed to an eminent degree the confidence of a large part of the population of that town, and who, deservedly, was considered one of our most intelligent physicians." * Dr. Blanchard is now a respectable and influential citizen of Wisconsin.
Phineas H. Burdick received an academic education. Commenced the study of medicine in 1823, with Dr. Hubbard Smith, of De Ruyter, and completed them in the office of Dr. Jehial Sterns, of Pompey ; attended lectures at Castleton, Vermont, in 1826, and was licensed by the Medical Society of Onondaga county in 1827. He commenced practice in Scott, May, 1827, and removed to Preble, January, 1823. He received the honorary degree of M. D. from the State Medical Society in 1851, and became a permanent member of the association in 1853. He has ever been regarded as an excellent physician, and maintained a prominent position among his medical brethren. He has an exten- sive practice, in which he appears eminently successful.
Samuel M. Hunt was born in Marathon, Oct. 30, 1798, being the first child born in that town. His first recol- lection of attending school was in a long barn, and sub- sequently at a log school-house, with windows of oiled paper as a substitute for glass. His classical studies were pursued at the Cortland Academy, commencing in 1819 ; studied medicine with Dr. P. B. Brooks, of Bing- hamton, was licensed by the Medical Society of Che- nango county in 1823, of which Dr. Henry Mitchel was then President. He commenced the practice of medi- cine at Sharp's Corners, on the Otselic River, now Tri-
* Hon. George W. Bradford's Semi-Centennial Address.
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angle, Broome county ; has practiced mostly in Lisle, Union and Maine of that county. He served in the capacity of Justice of the Peace in Maine for about ten years, and for five years as Justice of Sessions for Broome county. Dr. Hunt has acquired considerable eminence in the profession ; has been active in favor- ing the various benevolent reforms, as, also, in forward- ing the educational interests of the county. His chil- dren have enjoyed the benefits derived from our academic institutes, some of whom have emigrated to other parts, and are now elevated to high public posi- tions.
George W. Maxon studied his profession with Drs. Palmer and Haven of Oneida county, and E. S. Bailey of Madison, and completed his studies with Samuel R. Clark, with whom he practiced one year. He removed to Scott in May, 1832, where he remains in a lucrative practice.
Frederick Hyde was born in Lisle, Broome county ; received a common school education ; studied medicine in the office of Dr. Hiram Moe, Lansing, Tompkins co., and Dr. Horace Bronson, of Virgil. He attended three years in Fairfield Medical College, and graduated in 1836. The Faculty embraced an amount of learning and talent perhaps unequalled in the State, and we therefore record with pleasure the names of Drs. Wes- tel Willoughby, James McNaughton, James Hadley, Theodoric Romeyn Beck, and John De Lamater. He commenced practice in Cortland, February, 1836. In 1854 he received a professorship in Geneva Medical College, which he still holds. Dr. Hyde possesses a clear, strong, vigorous mind, and is a ready, cool and
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skilful surgical operator. Hence it is with pleasure that we speak of him as having acquired considerable eminence in the several branches of medical and surgi- cal science.
John H. Knapp was born in the town of New Fair- field, Conn. His academical education was received in the Sherburne Academy ; studied his profession with Drs. Devillo White and Elijah S. Lyman ; was licensed by the Chenango Medical Society on the 22d day of April, 1843, and located in Marathon. In 1845 he removed to Etna, Tompkins county, where he practiced until 1849, when he removed to Harford, where he now resides, and is engaged in the active duties of his pro- fession. Dr. Knapp has held various local offices, and was in 1854 elected to a seat in the New York Assem- bly. He has by his own exertions carved his way to his present honored position, enjoying the respect and con- fidence of a very large circle of friends. If he has enjoyed much of the sunshine of this fleeting life, he has also passed through the fiery ordeal of affliction, having but recently buried his fourth and last child.
Homer O. Jewett was born in Madison county, in 1819 ; studied his profession with Dr. Shipman ; graduated at the Medical University in New York, in 1843 ; com- menced practice at Summerhill ; came to Cortland in 1849, where he has since remained in the practice of his profession. He is eminently qualified for his position, and is regarded as an able and successful practitioner, enjoying a large medical practice.
Caleb Green was born at La Fayette, Onondago co., N. Y., in 1819 ; his medical pupilage was spent under the tutorship of Prof. Frank H. Hamilton, of Rochester,
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N. Y. He graduated at Geneva Medical College, in January, 1844 ; commenced the practice of medicine in Homer, in March of the same year. He was elected Professor of Materia Medica and General Pathology in Geneva Medical College in 1855, and resigned his pro- fessorship in 1858. He is now engaged in a lucrative practice in Homer. Possessed of an active, well-bal- anced mind, a thorough knowledge of disease in all its various types and phases, of medicines, their virtue, power, and use, he is ever prepared to act wisely, cau- tiously, and successfully, having a fixed purpose in view-the restoration of the sick. His surgical skill has rendered him justly eminent.
Eleazer H. Barnes is a native of Broome county, N. Y .; studied medicine with Dr. E. Barnes, late of Gen- eva ; attended lectures at Geneva Medical College in 1837-8, and in the spring of the latter year commenced practicing as a partner with Dr. E. Lyman, at Great Bend, Pa. In 1839 he removed to Marathon, where he has since been an active practitioner.
Theo. C. Pomeroy was reared in Otisco, N. Y .; edu- cated at Hamilton College ; studied with Drs. Goodyear and Hyde, and graduated at Geneva Medical College in 1844, and is now practicing his profession in Cortland with a good degree of success.
William W. Bradford is a native of Pitcher, N. Y .; acquired his education at the common school and the Fayetteville Academy ; attended lectures at Laporte, Indiana, with Dr. A. B. Shipman, formerly of this county, holding the Professorship of Surgery in the Indiana Medical College, from whom he derived much valuable knowledge ; also, attended two course of lectures at
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Castleton, Vermont, and graduated 18th of June, 1851 ; practiced successfully six years in Lysander ; came to Marathon in the fall of 1851, where he is now perma- nently located in the practice of medicine and surgery.
A. D. Reed was reared in Delaware county, educated at Roxbury ; studied with Sherman Street ; attended lectures, and was licensed at Castleton, Vermont, in 1848, and is now engaged in successful practice in Cincinnatus.
Scepter Smith is a native of Marathon ; was educated at the Cortland Academy ; studied medicine with Dr. Taylor in Alleghany, and was licensed in 1848 by the Alleghany Medical Society. In 1851 he partially retired from the practice of medicine and turned his attention to the profession of dentistry, in which he has become eminently skilful. He removed to Scott Centre in 1851, where he is now doing an excellent business.
J. C. Nelson was educated in Owego ; attended three courses of lectures in Geneva Medical College, and graduated in 1848. He spent three years under the tutorship of that most eminent physician, Dr. Thomas Spencer ; settled in Truxton in March, 1848. Dr. Nel- son is an active, energetic man, engaged in an exten- sive and eminently successful practice.
Charles M. Kingman is a native of Cincinnatus. He received an academic education ; studied with Dr. F. F. Maybury, formerly of Solon, now a prominent and skilful physician in Morrisville, Madison co., N. Y. Dr. Kingman graduated at Geneva Medical College in 1846, and commenced practice in M'Grawville, where he is much respected as a physician.
Charles S. Richardson is a native of Cayuga county ;
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studied with Dr. George W. Bradford, and graduated at the Medical Department of the Albany University in 1856 ; commenced practice in Homer in 1857. Dr. Rich- ardson is a young man of excellent habits, is persevering, and, in brief, is well qualified to excel in the profession.
William R. Brown settled in Homer in 1845, having removed from Oneida county. He graduated at Fair- field College, and subsequently engaged in the homœo- pathic art of curing disease. He is a gentleman of good abilities, and is engaged in a good business prac- tice.
Jay Ball attended lectures in Geneva Medical Col- lege, and graduated in the Medical University of New . York City in 1848. He was at this time under twenty- one years of age. In 1853 he commenced in Homer the homeopathic practice of medicine, where he still remains.
H. C. Gazlay graduated at the Eclectic College in Syracuse, and commenced practice in Truxton in 1841. He subsequently removed to Fabius, where he practiced until 1847, when he returned to Truxton. In 1857 he came to Homer, and engaged in the practice of his pro- fession. He is now a partner in practice with Dr. Ezra Loomis. He possesses an active intellect, is energetic and skilful, and has the necessary elements of success.
Henry A. Bolles is a native of Litchfield, Conn. He studied his profession with Drs. Loomis and Hobart ; was licensed at the Eclectic Medical College in Syracuse, and commenced practice in McLean, Tompkins county, in 1852. He subsequently removed to Cortland, and is at present engaged in a lucrative practice.
There are a number of other prominent physicians
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residing in the county : among these we may mention Dr. Lyman Eldrege, of Cincinnatus ; Henry C. Hen- drick, of M'Grawville; Squire Jones, of Homer; Frank- lin Goodyear, of Cortland; William Fitch, of Virgil; and Dr. Hubbard, of Scott.
CONCLUSION.
OUR history now draws to a close, and is given to the reader in as perfect a form as the circumstances of the times will permit.
We have in no instance given publicity to statements of suspicious or doubtful character ; and we have in all cases aimed to be impartial. Of the moral, social, political, educational, and religious associations, we have spoken frankly and feelingly. Of the local inter- ests and natural advantages we have remarked as became our position, and in so doing we have hoped to do ample justice to the resources of the county. Tra- ditions extending back for three centuries have been favorably regarded only when they were supported by the most warrantable chain of circumstances.
In the prosecution of our enterprise we have been materially favored by the voluntary assistance of gen- tlemen of acknowledged worth and ability; by the reading of written memoranda and valuable data, and by a free access to their extensive and well-selected libraries. To Hon. Henry S. Randall, for the liberal gift of voluminous publications, and other promoting circumstances ; Dr. E. B. O'Callaghan, author of the " Documentary History of New York," Hon. Elias W. Leavenworth, for valuable publications, Hon. William
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H. Seward, of the United States Senate, Hon. Charles P. Avery, late of Owego, now of Michigan, and Hon. Gideon J. Tucker, Secretary of State, for an exceedingly valuable work, we return our acknowledgments.
To enumerate the names of the numerous gentlemen who have given us verbal statements and interesting incidents, would be hardly possible. We are, however, none the less thankful for their favors and solicitous expressions, tending to enhance the value, correctness and truthfulness of our labors. To the Hon. George W. Bradford, for various State documents, Rufus A. Reed, Esq., for access to the county archives, Hon. Joseph Reynolds, Dr. H. S. Hunt, Hon. Walter Sweet- land, Rev. John Keep, and Hon. Harvey Baldwin, are we especially indebted.
It is also our pleasurable duty to tender our recipro- cal acknowledgments to Dr. Franklin B. Hough, author of the " History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Coun- ties," Hon. Joshua V. H. Clark, author of an admirably well written history of Onondaga county, Deacon Na- than Boughton, the practical annalist of the town of Virgil, Hon. Dan C. Squires, of Lapeer, for valuable notes on that town, Messrs. Edwin F. and Cornelius B. Gould, late editors and proprietors of the Cortland County Whig, Mr. Joseph R. Dixon, of the Cortland County Republican, Myron S. Barnes and Anson Spencer, the former of the Mt. Morris Independent Watchman, and the latter of the American Citizen, Ithaca ; Messrs. A. G. Chester and C. P. Cole,-the former of the Syracuse Journal, and the latter, of the Cortland Gazette. To Hon. Henry Stephens, late President, and Superintend- ent, William B. Gilbert, Esq., of the Syracuse, Bingham-
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ton, and New York Railroad, are we sensibly indebted, for the favorable facilities and kind courtesies which they have freely extended to us.
In brief, we return our grateful acknowledgments to all friends, and for the present, bid them an affection- ate ADIEU.
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