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It is a difficult, as well as a delicate, task to recall the names and relate the records of the many prominent law- *1
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yers who have been members of the bar of Niagara County in times past, but who are now dead or removed to other places. Sketches of some of them have already been given, which is appreciated, are all too defective to do justice to any of them.
HON. JOHN E. POUND, U. S. COMMISSIONER.
There are many others whose records it would be agree- able to recall and relate. To do so is impracticable within the possible limits of this article.
It must suffice to give their names. Amongst those who were one time residents and members of the bar of Ni- agara County and who have removed are George C. Greene, Alfred S. Trude, John M. Chipman, Charles K. Robinson, Jacob A. Driess, A. A. Boyce, Isaac C. Colton, Edward C. Graves, William J. Bulger, Frank Brundage.
Amongst those who have deceased are recalled the fol- lowing : Sherburne B. Piper, John T. Murray, Milton Sea- man, Charles H. Piper, Moses S. Hunting, Myron L. Bur- rell, Joseph W. Higgins, William C. Greene, Garwood L. Judd, Luman H. Nichols, Harry K. Hopkins, Samuel Brown, Mark Hopkins, Samuel Wisner, Joseph Center, De- wit Chopin, Seth C. Hart, William S. Farnell, Jno. S. Wil- liams, Charles Williams, De Forest Porter, Horatio J. Stow, Sparrow J. Sage, Elias Safford, John B. Heroy, Freeman J. Fithian, Charles D. Metz, Frank A. Ransom, Robert H. Strauss, Albert Strauss, Homer H. Stewart, Alvin C. Brad- ley, John H. Buck, R. Hudson Bond, James F. Fitts. La- fayette Chaffee, Schuyler Reynolds, Sylvester Parsons, Vol- ney Simson, Ben J. Hunting, S. Cady Murray, Frank M. Ashley, George W. Cothran, Don A. Porter, Mortimer M. Southworth.
Following is a list of attorneys at law residing in Niag- ara County :
CITY OF LOCKPORT.
Eugene M. Ashley, Frank O. Averill, G. W. Bowen, Harry I. Benedict, Daniel E. Brong, A. A. Bradley. William W. Brim, Stacey D. Behe, Richard Crowley, Nathan M. Clark, William S. Caton, William W. Campbell, Chase Crow- ley, Charles C. De Lude, S. A. De Lude, S. Wallace Demp- sey, Joseph Donnelly, C. E. Dunkleberger, Henry M. Davis, Merton K. Doty, T. E. Ellsworth, Roy H. Ernest, R. A. Feagles, Mort. A. Federspiel, Carl L. Fritton, Amos H. Gardner, L. P. Gordon, Selden E. Graves, William A. Gold,
E. C. Hart, Charles Hickey, Montford C. Holley, Abner T. Hopkins, John A. Higley, Augustus H. Ivins, Frederick P. James, D. Elwood Jeffery, George D. Judson, George A. Keating, Patrick F. King, Garrett G. Lansing, John H. Leg- gett, John E. Lillis, A. Edmund Lee, William E. Lockner,
S. WALLACE DEMPSEY, ASST. U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. David Millar, Charles Molyneux, F. D. Moyer, L. J. McPar- lin, John A. Merritt, John C. McDonough, Augustus Morris, Donald S. Moore, Charles L. Nicholls, Michael J. Noonan, Thomas G. Norman, William C. Olmsted, George P. Ostrander, Edward G. Parker, A. K. Potter, John E. Pound, E. Albert Rogers, W. H. Ransom, Frank A. Ransom, W. Luther Reeves, H. G. Richarson, E. H. Southworth, Chas. M. Southworth, William W. Storrs, Burt G. Stockwell, J. Frank Smith, Burt A. Smith, William M. Saraw, John L. Sheldon, Arthur F. Sellick, Edward J. Taylor, David Tice. Homer J. Upson, William H. Vicary.
NIAGARA FALLS.
Fred M. Ackerson, F. G. Anderson, Fred J. Brown, Eugene Cary, Charles E. Cromley, Morris Cohn, Jr., H. A. Constantine, T. F. C. Clary, Frederick Chormann,, William E. Carr, Theodore L. Cheritree, John O. Chapin, F. A. Dud- ley, Charles R. Delmage, Thomas A. Devereux, W. Caryl Ely, Robert H. Gittings, H. N. Griffith, Alfred W. Gray, Harry Highland, Charles W. Johnson, George W. Knox, Fred L. Lovelace, Frank J. Mackenna, Martin S. Mix, C. H. Piper, Spencer B. Parker, Robert L. Rice, Aug. Thibaudeau, Carl E. Tucker, George M. Tuttle, W. C. Wallace.
NORTH TONAWANDA.
Elbert S. Boughton, Oscar S. Cramer, Norman D. Fish, Ed. B. Harrington, Frank N. Holman, James P. Lindsay. William Lane, Charles S. Orton, Lewis T. Payne, John K. Patton, Aug. F. Premus, Elias Root, W. Byron Simson, Charles W. Sickmon, Albert R. Smith, George J. Smith. Dow Vroman, Henry E. Warner.
MIDDLEPORT. George F. Thompson, George R. Sheldon.
ROYALTON.
M. H. Clark.
YOUNGSTOWN. S. Park Baker.
LEWISTON.
J. Boardman Scovell.
Political History of niagara County.
BY HON. RICHARD CROWLEY.
ISTORY is said to be a record of the past. In writing it, details, while interesting, must be avoid- ed, as it is only important facts and events which interest the present and posterity. The political history of the framework of our County has had to do with National, Congressional, State, Legislative, County, Town and Municipal organizations, and with elections and the men and results of over a Century past. It dates soon after, if not with, the War for Independence.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS-REPRESENTATIVES.
Under the first Constitution of New York, adopted in 1777, which was in force when the Constitution of the United States went into operation, in 1789, the State was
HON. RICHARD CROWLEY.
entitled to six members in the House of Representatives at Washington. The State was not then divided into Con- gressional Districts. The first Congressional District of which Niagara County was a part comprised the present counties of Niagara and Erie, under the name of Niagara County, and was established by an act of the State Legis- lature, March 8, 1808. It was known as the Fifteenth Con- gressional District, and embraced the counties of Alleghany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Genesee, Niagara and Ontario. Its first Representative in Congress was General Peter B. Porter, then a resident of Buffalo, but afterwards a resident
of Niagara Falls. He was Representative from Niagara County during the years 1809, 1810-1-2-3-4-5-6. He re- signed in June, 1816, and Niagara County was then a part of the Twenty-first Congressional District of the State. The next Representative in Congress from Niagara County was Bates Cooke, of Lewiston, in 1832-3, it then being a part of the Thirtieth Congressional District. The next Repre- sentative in Congress from Niagara County was Charles F. Mitchell, of Lockport, in 1838-9, 1840-1, it then being the Thirty-third Congressional District. The next Represen- tative in Congress was Washington Hunt, who represented the district in 1844-5-6-7, it then being the Thirty-fourth Congressional District. The next Representative from Ni- agara County was Thomas T. Flagler, in 1854-5-6-7, it then being the Thirty-first Congressional District. The next Representative in Congress was Burt Van Horn, during the years 1862-3, when it was the Thirty-first Congressional Dis- trict, and also in 1866-7-8-9, when it was the Twenty-ninth Congressional District. The next Representative was Rich- ard Crowley, of Lockport, in 1879, 1880-1-2, and down to March 4, 1883, when it was the Thirty-first Congressional District of the State. He was the last Representative from Niagara County in the House of Representatives.
CHANGES OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
Our County of Niagara has been attached to various counties in Congressional districts since the adoption of the Constitution of 1789. Its second creation into a part of a Congressional district was under the act of June 10, 1812, and its component parts were the same as before stated. and constituting the Twenty-first Congressional District of the State. The third change came under the act of April 17, 1822, when it was composed of the counties of Chau- tauqua, Erie and Niagara, constituting the Thirtieth Con- gressiona! District. The fourth change came under the act of June 29, 1832, constituting the Thirty-third District, and composed of the counties of Orleans and Niagara. The fifth change came under the act of September 6, 1842, com- prising the same counties last named, and was the Thirty- fourth Congressional District. The sixth change came un- der the act of July 19, 1851, and was composed of the same counties constituting the Thirty-first Congressional District. The seventh change came under the act of April 23, 1862, composed of the counties of Orleans, Wyoming and Niag- ara, as the Twenty-ninth Congressional District. The eighth change came under the act of June 18, 1873, com- posed of the counties of Genesee, Wyoming and Niagara, as the Thirty-first Congressional District. The ninth change came under the act of May 16, 1883, and was composed of Niagara County, with the First, Second and Third Assembly districts of Erie County, as the Thirty-second Congressional District. The tenth change came under the act of 1892, composed of the counties of Livingston, Genesee, Wyom- ing, Orleans and Niagara, as the Thirtieth Congressional District of the State, and as it now exists.
SENATE DISTRICTS SENATORS FROM NIAGARA COUNTY.
The county has been represented in the State Senate of our State Legislature since the adoption of the State Con-
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stitution of 1777, substantially as follows: Under the State Constitution of 1777 the whole State was divided into four great districts, called the Southern, Middle, Eastern and Western Districts. Niagara County was a component part of the Western District, and each District at the time of the adoption of the Constitution was entitled to six Senators. Albany and all the State westward therefrom constituted the Western District at that time. I am not able to state that the present geographical limits of Niagara County furnished any Senator to the State Legislature under the Constitution of 1777. When the State Constitution of 1821 was adopted it divided the State into eight great Senatorial districts, composed of thirty-two Senators. The Eighth Senatorial District was composed of the counties of Alle- ghany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livings- ton, Monroe, Steuben and Niagara, and the first Senator from what is now Niagara County who represented, in part, the Eighth Senatorial District from Niagara County, was George H. Boughton, of Lockport, in 1829 and 1830. The next State Senator under the Constitution of 1821, from Niagara County, was Samuel Works, from the City of Lock- port, who was a member during the years 1837-8-9, 1840- I-2-3-4.
When the Constitution of 1846 was adopted it divided the State into thirty-two Senatorial Districts, and Genesee, Orleans and Niagara was the Twenty-eighth Senatorial Dis- trict until about 1859, when it became the Twenty-ninth Senatorial District, and so continued until the adoption of the Constitution of 1894. Under the Constitution of 1846 Niagara County has been represented in the State Senate by the following persons, residents of Niagara County :
Horatio J. Stowe, of Lewiston, in 1858-9. He died in office.
George D. Lamont, of Lockport, in 1859.
Peter P. Murphy, of Royalton, in 1860-I.
Richard Crowley, of Lockport, in 1866-7-8-9.
Lewis T. Payne, of North Tonawanda, in 1878-9. Timothy E. Ellsworth, of Lockport, in 1882-3-4-5. Cuthbert W. Pound, of Lockport, under the Constitu- tion of 1846, and in 1895 under the Constitution of 1894.
Under the Constitution of 1894 the State was divided into fifty Senatorial districts, and the counties of Genesee, Orleans and Niagara constituted the Forty-fifth Senatorial District. Niagara County, under that Constitution of 1894, has been represented in the State Senate by Timothy E. Ellsworth for the years 1896-7-8-9, 1900-1-2, and he is the present Senator from the district.
ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS .- ASSEMBLYMEN FROM NIAGARA COUNTY.
In the Assembly of the State of New York, under the Constitution of 1777, there were seventy members, and I know of no one chosen to that Assembly from what consti- tutes the present territory of Niagara County, except Rob- ert Fleming, who was in the Assembly in 1818. Albany County, and all of the State westward, was entitied to ten members, under the Constitution of 1877. As new counties were formed, under the increase in population, different As- sembly districts were created. In 1808, what was then known as Niagara County, and which was composed of the present counties of Erie and Niagara, constituted one As- sembly district, and was entitled to one Member of Assem- bly. This continued until 1812-3, when the Assembly dis- trict was composed of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Niag- ara Counties, and was so continued down to 1822.3, when,
under the provisions of the Constitution of 1821, the County, as now constituted, became an Assembly district, and en- titled to one Member of Assembly.
The first Member of Assembly from Niagara County, under the Constitution of 1821, appears to have been Ben- jamin Barlow, Jr., in the Assembly of 1823. Since that time the following named persons have represented the County in the Assembly of our State :
1824, Daniel Washburn. 1825, Daniel Washburn.
1826, William King. 1827, John Garnsey.
1828, John Garnsey. 1829, John Garnsey.
1830, Samuel De Vaux. 1831, Henry Norton.
1832, Henry Norton. 1833, Henry Norton.
1834, Robert Fleming, Jr. 1835, Henry McNeil.
1836, Hiram Gardner. 1837, Reuben H. Boughton. Davis Hurd.
Hiram McNeil.
1838, Davis Hurd.
Peter B. Porter, Jr.
Peter B. Porter, Jr.
1840, Peter B. Porter, Jr. 1841, Peter B. Porter, Jr.
Francis O. Pratt.
Francis O. Pratt.
1842, Thomas T. Flagler.
Francis O. Pratt.
1843, Thomas T. Flagler. John Sweeney.
1844, John Sweeney. Luther Wilson1.
1845, Levi F. Bowen. John Sweeney.
1846, Lot Clark. Morgan Johnson.
1847, Benjamin Carpenter. Christopher H. Skeele.
1849, Hollis White.
Morgan Johnson.
1850, George W. Germain. James Van Horn, Jr.
1851, Abijah H. Moss. Jeptha W. Babcock.
1853, George W. Holley.
Reuben F. Wilson.
1855, Linus Jones Peck.
1856, William S. Fenn. John Gould.
John Gould.
1858, Burt Van Horn.
1859, James Sweeney.
John W. Labar.
Burt Van Horn.
1860, Thomas T. Flagler. 1861, Henry P. Smith.
Burt Van Horn. Oliver O. Scovell.
1862, Benjamin H. Fletcher .. . 1863, Benjamin H. Fletcher. Peter A. Porter. William Morgan.
1864, James Jackson, Jr. 1865, Albert H. Pickard. Guy C. Humphrey.
William Morgan.
1866, Solon S. Pomroy. 1867, Elisha Moody.
Guy C. Humphrey. William Pool. .
1868, Ransom M. Skeels. 1869, Ransom M. Skeels.
Benjamin Farley.
Benjamin Farley.
1870, Lewis S. Payne. Lee R. Sanborn.
Lee R. Sanborn.
1872, Isaac H. Babcock. George M. Swain.
1873, Isaac H. Babcock. George M. Swain.
1874, A. W. Comstock. 1875, A. W. Comstock.
Orville C. Bordwell. Orville C. Bordwell.
1876, Amos A. Bissell. Jonas W. Brown. 1877, Amos A. Bissell. Sherburne B. Piper.
1878, Joseph D. Loveland.
Sherburne B. Piper.
1879, T. N. Van Valkenburg. James Low.
1880, T. N. Van Valkenburg. James Low.
1881, Elijah Adams Holt. James Low.
1882, Joseph W. Higgins. 1883. Joseph W. Higgins.
Thomas V. Welch.
Thomas V. Welch.
1884, Jacob A. Driess. Thomas V. Welch. Walter P. Horne.
1886. Lewis P. Gordon. 1887, Christian F. Goerss.
Peter A. Porter.
Peter .A. Porter.
1888, Christian F. Goerss. Nelson D. Haskell.
1889. John F. Little.
J. Marville Harwood.
1852, Abijah H. Moss.
Jeptha W. Babcock.
1854, Robert Dunlop.
Reuben F. Wilson.
Ira Tompkins.
1857, Elisha Clapp.
1871. John E. Pound.
1848, Elias Ransom. Solomon Moss. Morgan Johnson.
1839, Davis Hurd.
1885. Jacob A. Driess.
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1890, Ruthven Kill. 1891, Garwood L. Judd.
J. Marville Harwood.
Levi Parsons Gillette.
1892, Garwood L. Judd.
1893, Elton T. Ransom.
L. P. Gillette.
1894, John H. Clark. 1895, John H. Clark.
1896, Henry E. Warner. Frank A. Dudley.
1897, Henry E. Warner.
Frank A. Dudley.
1898, Dow Vroman. Henry S. Tompkins.
1899, John T. Darrison.
Jay S. Rowe.
1900, John T. Darrison.
Jay S. Rowe.
1901, John T. Darrison. John H. Leggett.
1902, John T. Darrison and John H. Leggett, who are the present Representatives.
GENERAL HISTORY.
Genesee County, which in the beginning of the Nine-
TION. THOS T. FLAGLER.
teenth Century embraced all Western New York, was the great parent county, from which sprang all the counties be- tween the Genesee and Niagara Rivers. The original Ni- agara County, comprising the present Counties of Erie and Niagara, was taken from it March II, 1808. The present County of Niagara was detached from the present County of Erie April 2, 1821. Buffalo, the county seat of Niagara County, was retained as the county seat of Erie County, and Lewiston was practically the county seat of Niagara County, until a Legislative commission agreed upon Lock- port as the county seat in July, 1822. It was the forty-sec- ond county of the State in the order of its creation.
The act, dividing the old County of Niagara, appointed the Sheriff, County Clerk and Judge of the new Niagara County, and the first annual election in the county was held in November, 1822. Joseph C. Yates was elected Governor at that election, and Erastus Root Lieutenant Governor. Both were members of the Democratic party.
The Eighth Senatorial District, composed of Alleghany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingstone, Mon- roe and Niagara, was represented in the Legislature at Al- bany by Timothy H. Porter, David Easton, Joseph Spencer and Herman J. Redfield. The State Legislature in both
branches was Democratic. The Congressional District, composed of Chautauqua, Erie and Niagara Counties, being then the Thirtieth, was represented in Congress by Albert H. Tracey, of Buffalo. James Monroe, of Virginia, was President of the United States, and Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York, was Vice President. Both were Democrats.
Martin Van Buren, a Democrat, and Rufus King, a Federalist, chosen by a combination of Democrats and Fed- eralists, represented the State in the United States Senate.
The United States Senate and House of Representa- tivs at Washington, had Democratic majorities.
So, it may be said, that Niagara County, in 1821-1822, came into political existence under Democratic auspices. The National administration at Washington and the State administration at Albany were Democratic.
THE ANTI-MASONIC AGITATION.
From the organization of the County, in 1821, down to the organization of the Anti-Masonic party, in 1827, no po- litical movement of any importance occurred in the County. The abduction of William Morgan, in 1826, and his confine- ment in Fort Niagara, in this county, and mysterious disap- pearance thereafter, created a tempest throughout the County, and created political action.
HON. BURT VAN HORN.
From 1821, down to Morgan's abduction, in 1826, the Democratic party was the leading party in the State and Na- tion. The opposition to it in New York State was divided and distracted, and overrun with personal factions. Right away, after the abduction, people in this, and adjoining counties, and throughout the State, and in other States, be- gan to take sides for and against Masonry, and to organize politically on Anti-Masonic lines.
Throughout Western New York, in the elections of 1827, in Genesee, Monroe, Livingston, Orleans and Niagara Counties, the Anti-Masons carried the elections, in face of both the other parties.
Political feeling ran very high in Niagara County on
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this subject. Trials of parties, alleged to have taken part in the abduction, were held here. Eli Bruce, Sheriff of the County, was imprisoned in his own jail, and removed in Sep- tember, 1827, upon charges growing out of that affair.
This excitement was continued, and added to, by the feeling engendered in the election of John Quincey Adams to the Presidency, in 1828, and the union of other opposing elements to the then Democratic party, finally crystalized into the formation of the Whig party, in 1834, which elected William H. Seward Governor of the State, in 1838, and again in 1840, and William Henry Harrison, President, in 1840.
The feeling against Masonry has passed away. Only once in a while a smouldering ember lights up. During the time I was in the State Senate, from 1866 to 1870, some question relating to Masonic organizations was referred to the Senate Committee on Charitable and Religious Societies, of which committee I was chairman. I received from a con- stituent, residing in the Town of Hartland, in this County, a bitter letter, opposing the desired action, and signing him- self, "One whose memory goes back to the Morgan ab- duction."
THE KNOW NOTHINGS.
In 1854-5 the so-called "Know-Nothing" party came into existence, as a party, and influenced political action and political parties in Niagara County and in this State, and other States. The sentiment in that direction commenced in 1852, and Linus Jones Peck was elected to the Assembly, from the Lockport district, in 1855, on that ticket.
It polled 1,882 votes for Ullman, for Governor, in this county, in 1854. In 1855 it elected its State ticket, headed by Headley, as Secretary of State, and eleven State Senators and forty-four Members of Assembly. King, the Repub- lican candidate for Secretary of State, polled, in this county, 2,498 votes. Headley, Know-Nothing, polled 2,247 votes, and the Democratic candidates polled-the "Hards" 835 and the "Softs" 265 votes. In 1856 it had a candidate for President, Millard Fillmore, under the name of the "Amer- ican Party," and polled 1,985 votes ; and Brooks, its candi- date for Governor, polled 2,025 votes in Niagara County.
It was second in votes in this county, the Republican party leading.
It ran State tickets from 1854 to 1858, and then disap- peared from County, State and National politics.
The Anti-Masonic party, commencing in 1827; the Know-Nothing party, commencing in 1852 and ending in 1858, and other political movements, before then and since, founded on prejudice, intolerance, bigotry and temporary passions, created angry and heated political action and feel- ings, but, not being based upon principle, were temporary in their lives and results.
The Whig party, organized in 1834, ceased to exist, practically, after the Presidential election of 1852.
BEGINNINGS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
From its elements, and from a large element of the Democratic party, dissatisfied with the action and attitude of their party on the Slavery question, as shown by the so- called "Free-Soil" movement of 1848, and from the Kan- sas and Nebraska troubles, there came into existence in all the Northern States, and in New York State, and in Niagara County, the Republican party.
In the State election of 1855 the "Republican" party appeared, with its first distinctively party ticket in New York State, and in Niagara County and all the other coun .. ties of the State.
In 1856 its first National convention was held. The Republican party and the Democratic party ever since have been, and now are, the great political parties in County, State and Nation.
Niagara County has known the Federalist party, com- mencing with Washington. It saw the rise of the Repub- lican, or Democratic party, under Jefferson. It has taken sides with those two great political parties. It has seen the Native American and the Anti-Masonic movements down to 1834. It has seen the great Whig party rise in 1834 and fall in 1852.
It saw "Free-Soil," under the lead of ex-president Van Buren, help overthrow the Democratic party and its Pres- identical nominee, Mr. Cass, in this State, in 1848, and elect General Taylor, Whig, President.
It saw "Know-Nothingism" sweep over the State and through this County, in 1855. In 1855 and 1856 it saw the rise of a great new party, "the Republican party," and which, today, is the dominant party in the County, State and Na- tion.
It saw the rise of "Liberal Republicanism" in 1872, and has seen factions and isms of many kinds spring up and pass away. It has seen its sons fairly and honestly contend for their convictions in every election, under all mutations of parties, since the County became a factor in the political history of the State and Nation.
SOME EMINENT MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE.
During its political history Niagara County has fur- nished some eminent men to the State and National admin- istrations. General Peter B. Porter was a distinguished officer in the American army on the Niagara Frontier in the War with Great Britain, in 1812-14. He was Secretary of War in John Quincey Adams' administration, in 1828, and he represented this Congressional District several times, as be- fore stated, and also represented this Assembly District in the Assembly of the State. He was a man of ability, of high character, and one of the founders of an historic family in Western New York. Washington Hunt, of Lockport, was another eminent son of Niagara. He was elected Governor of the State, in 1850, over Horatio Seymour. He was also Comptroller of the State of New York, and represented this Congressional District at Washington for several terms in the House of Representatives. He was also County Judge of Niagara, in 1836. A handsome marble and bronze mon- ument marks his resting place in Glenwood Cemetery, and his name and fame are dear to the men and women of our County.
NIAGARA COUNTY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE JUDICIARY.
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