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More fortunate than some, we are still able to leave the cemetery, and we halt under a dense cluster of locusts, and find at our right the home of the late Jonathan Briggs, while opposite are the barns in which he stored the products of his fertile acres. We now find as occupants the widow, her daughter, Mrs. Post, and her children. Mr. Briggs was born in Rhode Island, but when only three years old his parents moved to Cincinnatus, this state. His father was John Briggs, who married Margaret Jones, also a Rhode Islander, and sister of Pardon Jones, so well known in Rose.
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Mr. Briggs himself early found a veritable helpmeet in Emeline Baker, a sister of Julius, of this same North Rose district, her native place being Watertown, Conn. It was in March, 1844, that Jonathan Briggs moved from Seneca county to this farm. Before the railroad got into it, it num- bered, with the accessions that he had made, 213 acres. He was bounded on the south by Bishop and Bender, and on the north by Aldrich. Mindful of the Scriptural injunction to increase and multiply, these good people added to the world's numbers six sons and two daughters. Of these, the oldest, John, married Sarah Jane Otto, and lives, as has been seen, on the old Otto farm just over the Huron line; the next son, George, was drowned some years ago, at the age of twenty-five years ; Birney, a carpenter by trade, lives in the adjacent village, and his wife was Anna Terry, of Clyde; Luman and Lyman are twins, and they married twin sisters, Ellen and Helen Doremus, whose father also now dwells in the village, while Luman's home is the Valley, and Lyman lives in Huron ; Elbert, having married Nancy Ewing, of Alton, abides in North Rose ; Caroline is the wife of William Niles of the Valley, while the youngest child, Sophia, married George H. Post, from Waverly, Tioga county. She has three children-Nellie M., who recently married Julian S. Cross from Broome county ; Minnie E. and Alice E. In the same yard with the Briggs homestead is a large house constructed some years ago by Mr. B. for his youngest daughter and her family, but recently she has dwelt with her mother. Mr. Briggs was one of the solid men of the town, not con- spicuous in politics, but a man of superior judgment and ability. He was a good representative of the state that gave to the world Tristam Burgess and Nathaniel Greene. Earnest and honest, faithful, liberal and devoted, he was and is sadly missed from his town and church, he having been for many years prominent in the Rose Baptist organization, dying in 1881. He was in his sixty-ninth year. (Mrs. Briggs died August 1, 1891.) Before Mr. Briggs, no one was long identified with the place. He bought of William H. King, of Seneca Falls, who by trade had obtained it. Mr. King never lived here. The last one occupying before Mr. B. was Henry Graham, who here, I believe, made his first essay at farming. One Smith also held, and before him John Brant. First of all was James Leland, who sold and removed to Ohio. Leland had three sons-Lewis, Gale and Isaac. The latter, returning to his old home on a visit, went bathing one day in the Lamb mill pond, and diving, struck his head against something. The injury received resulted in illness, from which he died in about three weeks. (Mr. John Briggs will soon occupy the old homestead. ) The next house is that of William Smart. He passed his boyhood in No. 7. His wife is Nellie Perkins, once living in District No. 3. They have one child, Nellie. Mr. S. is employed on the railroad.
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Further along is the abode of Edward Burrell, a native of Galen, who came from that town to Rose, and, on the once well tilled acres of Briggs, has planted his vine and fig tree. His home is a pleasant one. His first wife was Charlotte M. Odell, a' native of Tyre, N. Y. Their children are E. O., who married Cornelia Hart of Huron, and lives in North Rose ; Dorothea, died in infancy, and Cuthbert, who lives in Woodland, Cal. Mrs. B. dying in 1870, Mr. B. married, second, Jane A. (Clark) Mains, in 1872. She died in 1887. Nearly opposite, Mr. William Hill erected in 1889 a very fine residence, and occupies it. He is a house painter and paper hanger by occupation. He came to Rose from Huron, being a native of that town. His wife is Alida, a daughter of Abram Doremus. Eugene Brewster is just finishing a house, next, which in no way suffers by com- parison with others in the village. He comes from west of the Valley and finds employment in the lumber yard. (Now the home of Ira Burt, late of Galen, who has left his farm in the care of his two sons, and with his wife has come to this village to reside. They have also two daughters married. Across the street a Mr. Taylor of South Butler is erecting a basket factory [Aug., 1893] and further east is the extensive evaporator of Hill & Quereau, lately sold to Mr. George Catchpole of the Valley.)
This brings us to the railroad, and just over the same, at our left, we must see the immense malt house of John York, Jr. In fact it was visible some time ago, rising much more conspicuously than the single church which the hamlet possesses. To those who can find pleasure in such a presence, this building must be a source of no little pride. As for myself, I allude to it simply as a very striking edifice and illustrative of business enterprise. My birth, rearing and profession, however, lead me to look upon malt houses, brewers and saloons as not indicative of a community's true prosperity. Mr. York is from Huron, a member of the family that has given its name to a portion of the southwest part of the town. His wife is Martha Weeks, a daughter of Caleb, and his home is at the right, the first house on the east corner, north of the railroad. In this part of the town, probably, Mr. York exercises a wider influence politically than any other one individual. The beginning of this structure was made in 1873, and it was simply a grain and fruit storehouse, being enlarged from time to time until, in 1882, it became a malt and storehouse, and assumed its present mammoth proportions. The builders at first were Mr. York and Robert A. Catchpole, of Huron. (The whole structure was totally consumed by fire, Thursday, May 14, 1891. )
Had we glanced to the right, in crossing, we would have met the prosperous lumber yard of Charles Oaks. How desirable that there should be agreement in name and business. Mr. Wise ought to be a school master, certainly Mr. Good would befit the pulpit, and that Mr. Oaks should sell lumber, goes far to preserve the unities so desirable in nature
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and art. The business was started in 1871 by Straight & Munn. Three years since Mr. Oaks bought out Mr. Straight, who went to Wolcott, and is in the same business there. After one year's continuance with Mr. Munn, the latter sold out entirely to Mr. Oaks and went to Iowa. Since then Mr. O. has run the plant alone. (The office of Mr. John Hill stands nearest the railroad, on the west side of the street. Mr. Hill deals extensively in fruit and agricultural implements. )
The large hardware store of the Welch Bros. is on the west side of the road and north of the way leading to the malt house. Thomas Welch is also postmaster (though he has recently resigned). The building was erected by Lyman Briggs, nearly opposite and on railroad land, and was then moved to its present location. In their line of work the Welch Bros. have no rivals in the town. Early and late they are devoted to their voca- tion. Naturally, they have been very successful. Back of the stores, facing the most of the malt house, are two dwellings, the first, Harriet Garlick's, the second, Frank Drury's. Lest we should engender confusion we will keep on this side of the street until we get to the Proseus corner.
An Irishman was once sent to count a litter of pigs. He discharged his duty to the best of his ability, though he declared that one little rascal wasn't still long enough to be counted. Since preparing the following article, I have seen in the correspondence of papers, printed in Rose and vicinity, so many statements of movings, that, like a kaleido- scope, the village must have been turned and the harmonies must be entirely different from those seen in August last. I describe the streets as I saw them then.
So then, the next place is the store of Henry Garlick, under the manage- ment of his son, Charles. Right here we may as well introduce a little Garlic into our composition, premising that the most anti-Spanish reader will not find the flavor disagreeable. Captain Samuel Garlick, whose body lies in the Rose cemetery, was a soldier in Revolutionary days, having served eighteen months in the patriot army, though very young. He was a native of Huntington, Conn., and when, one Sunday, the good pastor of the church, Dr. Ely, was preaching his usual discourse, there came a swiftly riding herald, who passed in a note to the preacher. Its purport was that the British were devastating the Sound coast. There was no delay for further service. The same God that enjoined prayer, counseled also watching, and fighting, too, if necessary. So pastor and people went into the fray. Young Garlick went with the rest, and thus made a record of which his descendants are justly proud. He was twice married-first, to Sally Lewis and second to Huldah Gilbert. By each of these wives he was the father of four sons and three daughters. The first family embraced Samuel, Eliphalet, Ezekiel, Eli, Sally, Eliza and Abbie. Of these, Eli married Margaret, a sister of Abner Wood, and daughter of that widow
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Margaret Wood who became the wife of Paine Phillips. His family was numerous, consisting of Abner, Sidney, who married a Messenger ; Samuel, who married a Weeks ; Sally, the wife of Henry Garlick, and Barbara. Eli, an aged man, lives now in a small house just back of the Welch Bros. store. He has been an industrious blacksmith all his long life. (Died in January, 1892.) The second group of Capt. Samuel's children was com- posed of William, David, Henry, Judson, Mary, Maria and Lucy. David married Tabatha Angle, of Rose, while Henry, in whom we are chiefly interested now, took for his first wife Sally, the daughter of his half- brother, Eli. When Captain G. came to these parts, it was to make his home, in 1810, in Galen, on or near the Ketchum place, east of Clyde. He built the old Waldruff house. His father, a very aged man, accompanied him, and lived, I am told, to be one hundred and ten years old. His grave may be found near the old home, east of the village of Clyde. At the time of coming the country was a wilderness, and Henry Garlick says that his mother has ridden her horse by blazed trees from Galen to the old Mudge store in Wolcott, to do a little trading. On the morning after William Garlick's marriage, three inches of snow lay on the bed covering, so many and wide were the crevices in the roof. From Galen the family came to Rose, settling on the Messenger farm, in the western part of the town, buying of one Bacon. Full of years, Capt. Garlick passed away April 28, 1843, in the eightieth year of his age. His son, Samuel, lies by his side. To his father on the farm Henry succeeded, but much of his life has been passed in a grist-mill and in a blacksmith shop. For a long time he ran the mill in Glenmark, and later the blacksmith shop in North Rose. His children are Charles, already mentioned ; Frank, a farmer in Huron (now in Covell's district), whose wife is Clara Terbush ; Emmaette, deceased, the wife of Eugene Elwood, and Edith, who is Mrs. Frank Riggs. Romaine Cole built the house in which the Garlic store is kept, just after the rail- road was opened, and ran a store for two years. Afterward Irwin Seelye and Lyman Briggs were in partnership here for two years longer, then Seelye had it alone till the Garlicks took it. (Charles Garlick was postmas- ter during Harrison's administration. )
Somewhat back from the street is a small house, in which lives Frank Davis, a stone mason, who came here from Huron. He is the father of Ellery Davis, of the Town district. The building is noteworthy from the fact that in it was kept the first store in the place. Built by William Dickinson, it originally stood just east of the old school-house, on the site- of Robert Andrews' old shoe shop. Here the first place of trade was opened and maintained, till the house itself was moved to its present loca- tion, and pretentious structures put it in the shade.
Again we find a store, managed by C. C. Shaw, from Sodus. The house was built by Irwin Seelye, but is now owned and occupied by Nancy Briggs. (In the lower story Jay R. Dickinson now keeps a store.)
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John T. Hill lives next. He came here from Huron and is interested in the York storehouse. To him is due the credit of starting the village. His wife is Elizabeth Seager, and his children are Frank and Roy.
Next we find the house of Alexander Skut, but of him and his more anon. (Now the home of his widow and family.)
Then comes the home to which Samuel Gardner came when he left his Huron farm. Mr. G. was a native of Rensselaer county, and his first wife was Hannah Brewster, of Lansingburg, and their only son we shall meet as we journey northward. For his second wife he married Happilona Chatterson, daughter of John P., whose home was in the Covell district, and thereby granddaughter of Betts, whom we saw in the Seelye neighbor- hood. (Her only daughter is Mrs. S. H. Lyman, and the latter has a son and daughter.)
Murray Becker, a recent comer from Red Creek, resides in the next house, and, for a livelihood, carries the mail to Huron. (In 1893 the home of Mrs. Alfred Graham and mother.) His neighbor on the north, John Lamb, we shall learn more about when we get to the old homestead. Myron Huffman, a brother-in-law, lives with him.
All Rose people have long known the next place as the old Aldrich farm ; but its history goes back many years before these people came hither. It is lot 151 in the old numbering, and hither, in 1813, came Isaac Gillett. He came from Hubbardton, Vt., where he had married Sally Sellick, who was a niece, through her mother, of Isaac Hickok. Though they hailed directly from the Green Mountains, they were originally from Connecticut. Isaac's father, John, came also, and died in Huron in 1819. One of the Gilletts married Rhoda Avery, a sister of Joel Bishop's wife. Perhaps it is as well to trace Isaac Gillett further. To begin with, he was a cousin of Asahel and Harvey. From Rose he went to Huron, and at his death, in 1829, at the early age of forty-five, he was the proprietor of the hotel at Bay Bridge or Port Glasgow. His widow rented this for a time to Henry Graham, well known in Rose. After a while she married John Hyde, a brother of the famous Zenas Hyde, and whom, as a shoemaker, we have seen in District No. 3 as one of the many dwellers in the old house on the present Crisler place. Making a visit to his old home in Massachusetts, he died and was buried there thirty years ago. To Isaac Gillett were born several children, as Isaac Newton and Chauncey H., both born in Vermont and both went to Junius to live ; Prosper, in Missouri ; Moses, in Roch- ester ; Almira, born on the Aldrich place; Rhoda, who married E. J. Jackway, an uncle of Avery Gillett's wife, and went to Benton Harbor, Mich .; Sally, who married Charles Kelsey, of Galen, and died in July, 1888. Of these children, Almira and Rhoda were best known in this town. They long lived together in the Valley and took care of their mother, who finally died in Throopsville, in 1862. After the marriage of Rhoda, Almira
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passed many years in this and adjoining towns as a nurse and seamstress, her services always in request and her presence always enjoyed. If, from the misty past, she could call up all the gossip she has heard, what a reci- tal it would be for the readers and hearers! Failing health now keeps her pretty closely at her Wolcott home. To Gillett succeeded Peter Lamb, a member of the family, whose name has been so long connected with this section. They were from Schoharie county, of good Dutch stock. The wife was Sally -, and the children were : Asahel, who married Jane Burns, Joel Bishop's granddaughter; David, who was an odd mortal; Hiram found his wife west of the Valley, in Diana Cooley, and lived once on the Catch- pole farm ; Perry; Ira, who took Perliette Lovejoy for his companion; Lorenzo, Louisa and Laretta. All went to Michigan, and all are dead. Simeon Mott was the next, but how long he remained I can not tell. He had a son, Chauncey, and a daughter, Jerusha, who became Mrs. John Ellsworth ; but it was a sad day for the latter when she took his name. She was a terrible shrew. Says John Lamb : "I was working with Ells- worth in the woods one day when Rusha came along. Her man was. stooping down at work, partly under the sleigh. She took up a big knot and was about to hit him on the back. I told her if she did I'd hit her. By this time Ellsworth was out, and, taking the ox gad, he went for her. It was not much of a place for sympathy on either side." In 1833: Amos Aldrich came to this place, succeeding Mott. The house that he found is now George Aldrich's pig pen. He built anew, and with sundry repairs the place is as he made it. His wife was Sally Luce, and they came here from the town of Arcadia, though Mr. A. was born in Rhode Island, where at present one of the U. S. senators bears the honored name of Aldrich. Both husband and wife, after long and respected lives, sleep. in the North Rose burial ground. At one time they were members of the Rose Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children : Joseph lived once west of the corners and then went to Ohio (died in April, 1889); James- Benjamin we shall meet east of the corners, while George, who married Ella J. Carrier, retains the old homestead. As they have a son, John C., we may hope that the place will continue in Aldrich hands for another fifty years. The row of houses that we have passed has taken the street front- from the farm, but there are still fertile acres remaining. The family has- found many queer water-worn rocks on the premises and Indian arrow heads, indicating the early presence of the aborigines. Mrs. A. has also a very fine Indian gouge, found on the farm, and, so far as I know, the only one ever found in the town.
We are now at the corners, the site of the village that was to be, the place near which were the school-house, blacksmith and shoe shops, and several dwelling houses, but the incoming railroad changed it all. The southeast corner was reserved twenty-one years by Fellows & McNab, to.
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be given as a site for a church, but the church didn't materialize, though I understand that Henry Graham and others had spells of trying to raise money to construct it. So, after a while, the inevitable log house came and was occupied by many families, among whom were William Green and John Waterhouse. After a time, Cornelius Van Buren bought and built the house now standing. He was from Dutchess county, and for many years worked at blacksmithing, east of his home and then nearly opposite. He disposed of his lot, and for a while owned the Eldred place. As he and his good wife had no children in these parts, they passed all their possessions over to Henry Garlic for a home to the end of life, and with the Garlics they lived till they passed over the river. Myron Lamb, a son of John, followed. His wife was Anna Weeks, of eastern birth, a sister of Mrs. John Lovejoy of Glenmark. Mr. Lamb is a carpenter by trade, find- ing here, with wife and daughter, Minnie, a happy home. (The latter is now Mrs. Albert Dagle of Rose.)
Carpenter Birney Briggs, a son of Jonathan, dwells next toward the south, for we will now run down the east side of the street. (In 1893 the home of George H. Ball, born in Cayuga county, who married Sarah, daughter of John Seager of Huron. They have one child, Myrtie. Mr. Ball is interested in raising raspberries, and is about building in District No. 3, near the old Oaks place. Mr. Briggs is in Rochester. )
Martin Sours, a recent comer, lives in the following place, once the home of Burton Partridge.
Then comes another carpenter, Frank Proseus, a son of Mrs. P., on the corner. Certainly, with so many of this profession in the vicinity, there should be no lack of building forces. Judging from his own house, Frank must be a good workman.
Still another carpenter, Warren Morey, follows in "Abe" Doremus' house, and this brings us to Caroline street. (Mr. Dillon, a shoemaker, lived in the Doremus house in 1893.)
Then we find the pleasant home of Henry Garlic, followed by a building in which Myron Lamb and Albert Dagle conduct a meat market (1893). John Weeks owns the building and lives in the upper rooms. In order follow the homes of Fred Grant, Thomas Welch and William C. Rose. In the first of the two houses belonging to Mrs. John York, dwells Mr. C. Halliday, who married Celinda Patterson, of the Lake district. Mrs. York resides on the corner. On Railroad street is the home of Nelson Parslow, who is the father-in-law of Edgar Dean, living on Gray street.
The next street, Gray, runs parallel with the main road ; but I can't help thinking that the village had been prettier had it ranged itself around the four corners, thereby escaping the melancholy view of so many rears of houses and their accompaniments. In this respect, the mile-long, single-streeted New England village was far in advance of the more
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ambitious towns of recent and sudden growth. But moralizing will not take us along the street, which, whether we like it or not, is a verity. On the west side we shall find Samuel McIntyre, a gardener. (Mr. Edgar Dean has built and now occupies a fine house on this site.) Then Mr. Dagle. (Now occupied by Mr. Charles Bowman.) Mr. Charles Dagle, who, in 1893, lives in Huron, is a native of Kingston, Canada ; his wife, Adelia Kirwin, was born in Ireland. Their children are Louvinda, the wife of George E. Miller; Ida, who is Mrs. Valentine of Marengo ; Charles, died in infancy ; Frank, died June 24, 1883, aged 32 years ; Addison ; Albert ; Wallace, died July 14, 1891, aged 22 years ; Harvey and Annabelle, at home. Next is Jay Dickinson, whose old home we shall find in our eastward journey ; he is a carpenter by trade, and saw service during the Rebellion ; his wife was Elizabeth Bovee, and she has borne him a numerous progeny, consisting of William, Robert D., Charles A., Stephen, George, John and Minnie, who is Mrs. Van Sicklen. Mr. Dickinson is a son of the late William Dickinson, and a carpenter by trade. Mrs. Frank Skut, with her daughter May, resides next. (Mrs. Skut is now Mrs. A. H. Mudge of Cortland. ) Then John Morey, a carpenter. (Now in Rochester, and the house is occupied by Manly Wright, the Rose station agent.) And next, William Green.
Now we are at Caroline street, and on the corner stands a very pretty edifice, the result of the generosity of the surrounding inhabitants. Where all were generous, it would seem almost invidious to mention names, but it may not be amiss to state that it stands on what was Aldrich land, that it cost $2,000, and that John York, Jr., Nelson Graham, Orrin Skut and others were liberal givers toward this very laudable object.
On Caroline street itself stands the blacksmith shop of G. W. Stansell. The building, an old one, once stood quite near the corners by the school- house, having been moved to that point by Cornelius Van Buren. He, too, had moved it from very near the point where the railroad crosses the main road, it having been the home of one Hudson. Across the way is the unoccupied Good Templar hall, erected in 1889. Returning to Gray street and continuing north, we pass the homes of George W. Stansell, whose house is a new one, John Rounds, Henry Courtermarch (occupied by J. M. Wolf), and Barnard Mitchell.
Coming back on the east side we are attracted by the pleasant home of Everett Slaght. He married Harriet E., daughter of James B. Aldrich. He makes quite a business of berries, raising and dealing in them. (Mr. Slaght's present residence is Rochester, he being employed on the Western New York & Pennsylvania R. R. To him has succeeded Mr. David West- cott, who, a glass-blower by trade, has lived in Clyde and the west. His second wife is Sarah Ann, widow of Christopher Dickinson of Clyde, and oldest daughter of the late William Dickinson, of Rose. )
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South ward we find the homes of Wallace W. Winchell, C. M. Shaver, who married the widow of John Hewson, and a house belonging to Samuel Warne; Calvin R. Winchell, who dwells next, is a member of the family met in District No. 10. His son, Wallace W., married Mattie, daughter of Elmer Partridge, of Huron; Frank L. Winchell married Louise A. Cole, and lives in Rochester. Ella Winchell is Mrs. Charles W. Oaks. Marcus Baker owns next, aud Elmer Winchell occupies. Dr. T. D. Tibbetts, who keeps a drug store and grocery, follows. He came from Williamson, and married Josephine Derby. They have one child, Ross D. Dr. T. built his own edifices, and also the house of Mr. Henry Garlick. He carries the mail to Lummisville in Huron. Then follow William Rogers, George Seager and Lewis Sours, the house and blacksmith shop owned by George Miller and the abode of Abram Doremus, whose twin daughters married Jonathan Briggs' twin sons. Until he moved here he was a farmer in the western part of the town. (Now the home of Charles H. Garlick, who married Mary R. Travers of Tyre.)
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