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The following is the list of those whose names can be learned, and the branch of service they were in from Porter :
First New York Artillery-S. Brazington, William Krapp, Fred Porter, Thomas N. Quade, Hiram Ribble, Christopher Robinson.
Eighth Heavy Artillery-Truman Ash, Joseph Brown. Harvey Baker, Stephen Baker, George Barker, Sumner Barker, Harry Benson, Joseph Clapsaddle, Porter Clapsad- dle, Oscar Clapsaddle, Jeremiah Crane, John Dixon, Jerry Dixon, Ashley Hawkins, Lewis Hosmer, Isaac Lloyd, Mad- ison McCollum, Melville McCollum, Nathan Myers, Edward Perry, Charles Quade, Donald Robinson, Peter S. Tower.
Second Mounted Rifles-Charles Daniels, George Dawson, N. T. Davis, David Myers, John Scoonmaker, H. O. Spencer, Edward Taylor.
Fourteenth Artillery-George O. Powley, Nathan Smith, George Whittaker.
Twenty-third Battery - Charles Atwater, George Brooks, Burr Beebe, Perley Brown, Lewis Daniels, Luther Knapp, William Lutts, John McCollum, Augustus Nervis, George Owen, Samuel Owen, Amos Parker, Palmer Pierce, Benjamin Palmer, William Powley, John Reynolds, John Rieck, Eugene Slocum, William Sage, Jesse Stoughton, Thomas Tryon, Frank Taylor.
Nineteenth Independent Battery-I. Barnes, Ransom Bigelow, John W. Carter, John De Clute, John W. Haskell, Seth Jillson, John Kelly, John Lloyd, Joseph L. Morris, Joseph W. Morris, Edwin Northrop, Richard Perry, Thomas Turner, Sydney O. Weston.
Twenty-eighth Infantry-Dexter Carpenter, Ingraham Eaton, H. H. Helms, John Henning, Henry Logan, John Moyses, Matthew Moyses, William Merville, Adam Merville, Wesley Ray, Dennis Sullivan, James Taylor.
Forty-ninth Infantry-Michael Hutchinson, Rufus Waite, Elias Perry, Egbert Perry.
One Hundred and Fifth Infantry-John Adams, James Barber, Bartholomew Benson, Robert Clapsaddle, George Giddings. Jehial Moore, Van Renesselaer Perry, George Post.
One Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry-Adney Beals. Porter Bingham, Edward Brown, John Duffy, Jr., Henry Johnson, Hazard Kinney, Daniel Kelly, Edward Morris, Jarvis White.
One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Infantry-John Riley.
One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Infantry-James Dempsey, James Morrow ..
Regiment or arm of service unknown-Herbert Cleve- land, Warren Curtiss, Edward Cowan, William Cowan, Montreville Moss, William Roberts, Marsh Schoonmaker, Skinner.
PORTER FROM 1875 TO 1902.
At the beginning of this quarter of the century the fruit industry received a new impetus. As the second quarter marked the development of the apple orchards, so this quar- ter witnessed the planting of peaches, pears, plums and other
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small fruits in large quantities, until today, at a conservative estimate, there are 4,000 acres devoted to fruit. The yel- lows, a peach tree disease, has caused the loss of hundreds of acres of trees. This fruit is now almost exclusively raised in the vicinity of the lake and river, where the soil and climate seem especially adapated to it. For the past ten years, to secure the best results, it has been found necessary to spray all trees with fungicides, and in the case of apple trees also, insecticides, the latter to destroy the tent caterpillar, the canker worm, the codling moth and the green plant aphis. The year 1900 heralded a new pest, the San Jose scale, which threatens to be a serious problem. Among the large fruit growers are Albert Dulton, Peter and George and Luke Tower, Henry Lutts, who has sold as many as 25,000 baskets of peaches in a single year ; William Wilkeson, John Hall, Tellice Johnson, who in 1896 marketed 7,000 barrels of ap- ples; Bert Cothran, William Smithson, Edwin and Fred Carter, Elmer Brookins, Thomas Wilson, Edward Calvert and Almeron Barker. The year just mentioned is noted for its immense apple crop. To give an idea of it, at Ransom- ville a train load a day was shipped for a month during the busy season.
In the year 1876 the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens- burg Railroad ran its first train over the entire western di- vision June 12. This, indeed, was a good way for the resi- dents of Porter to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Independence of the United States. W. H. H. Ransom & Son and Curtiss Brothers became general produce buyers, each having built commodious warehouses on side tracks of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg, and Ransomville became, and is today, as good a grain and fruit market as there is in the County. In 1900 Upton & Co. suc- ceeded Curtiss Brothers. In 1896 the Old Fourte Route, a trolley line extending from Lewiston to Youngstown, was built, and it furnishes excellent passenger and freight service to the people of the west part of the town, and is a very pay- ing corporation. In 1890 a Bell telephone line was put in connecting Ransomville with Lockport and Niagara Falls, and a line connecting Youngstown with Niagara Falls was put in some years earlier. Evaporators for drying apples were perfected in Youngstown and Ransomville about 1880, and furnish employment for many people during the fall. The Ransomville Basket Company was organized in 1896, and occupies the sawmill formerly used by Joseph L. Fow- ler. This company gives employment to about forty hands during eight months of the year.
Two postmasters, who each served over twenty years, deserve mention-G. I. Eaman, in Ransomville, and Miss Amanda Harris, in Youngstown.
East Porter-Mr .. Hana, pastor Methodist Episcopal Church; Homer Simmons, feed and cider mill.
The Youngstown News, a weekly paper, was founded in 1881 by Nelson D. Haskell, who was succeeded by G. Oliver Frick in 1889. Mr. Frick is the present proprietor.
In 1878 St. John's Episcopal Church was built in Youngstown. The parish was formed in 1868 and services during part of the time were held in the brick church. The first rector was Rev. G. M. Skinner. The Free Methodist Church in Ransomville was built in 1877, William Jackson, pastor.
Youngstown District one has had three schoolhouses. The first was built of logs in 1823. This was succeeded by a two-room brick building about 1840, and in 1892 by the present four-room brick building, erected at a cost of $8,000. In 1900 this district was changed from a common school to
a Union Free school. The members of the Board of Edu- cation are E. J. Serviss, F. C. Carter and Angus Turner, and the teachers Mary A. Walsh, principal; Clara E. Beardsley, Ada Van Keuren and Jessie Swain.
Ransomville District one has had four school buildings, a log house, built about 1825 ; a frame one, 1837 ; a two-room frame building in 1856, and the present two-story frame building, built in 1900, at a cost of $3,000. The trustee is W. D. Wisner, and the teachers are Mrs. Mary A. Honahan, principal ; and Mary A. Hoffman, assistant. The other dis- tricts have had two buildings each. The trustees for the present years are as follows : two, T. C. Morris ; three, John Wilson; four, La Boam Smithson; five, Jacob Diez; seven, Albert Hoffman ; eight, Frank Canfield ; nine, Stanley Perry ; ten, Herman Miller ; eleven, Elwin Carter.
The present professional and business men are as fol- lows :
Youngstown-S. Park Baker, attorney; William J. Faulkner, doctor. Pastors-Presbyterian, Rev. Rohra- baugh; Methodist, Youngstown and Porter Center, Rev. Sconbacher; Episcopal, Rev. Herendene; Catholic, Rev. Dolan ; Beals & Eaton, W. A. Hutchinson, W. A. Robinson, John Thompson, general merchants; Charles Taylor, drug- gist; William King, bakery and confectionery; Martin Premus, meat market; T. E. Ellis, M. Wellman, barbers; Herbert Eaton, postmaster; Julius Ripson, foundry and hardware ; A. J. Serviss & Son, John Calvert & Son, contrac- tors; Joseph Badgley, wagon shop ; James Kinghorn, black- smith; Angus Turner, mason; D. & J. Onen, ferrymen. Hotel proprietors-El Dorado (built in 1890), Frank C. Steele; Ontario House, Timothy Murphy; Barton House, W. J. Comerford ; Columbia hotel, Arthur Mackey ; William Bogart, cigars and confectionery.
In Ransomville-C. R. Clarke, H. S. Bright, physi- cians; Pastor Baptist Church, Rev. J. W. Johnson; Free Methodist Church, Rev. J. J. Thompson; Wesleyan Metho- dist Church, Rev. Readette. W. H. H. Ransom & Son, G. E. Hubble, general merchants; A. J. Barry, druggist ; W. T. Gentle, hardware and postmaster; F. D. McCormick, gro- cery and feed mill; Charles Morris, harnessmaker; W. W. Helms, carriage manufacturer; George Monahan, black- smith; William Connors, Charles Ward, meat market; Ru- fus Warren, Elton Tryon, barbers; David Bagley, cider mill; Henry Swigert, dry goods; Ransom & Son, E. M. Up- ton & Co., G. H. Foote, manager, grain buyers; John Cur- tiss, coal merchant ; J. & R. Curtiss, proprietors of the Niag- ara Poultry Farm (with an annual output of 10,000 fowls) ; S. H. Morris, lumber ; Carlos Brookins, Samuel Frederick, contractors. Hotels-Union, Myron Perry ; Hotel Porter, William Gallup.
Porter Center-Christopher Clapsaddle, General mer- chandise.
Soldiers who served in the Spanish-American War- Dwight and Budd Clapsaddle, sons of C. C. Clapsaddle; Lee Robertson, son of John Robertson; William Myers, son of Henry Myers.
The present town officers are : John Thompson, Super- visor ; G. E. Hubble, Town Clerk ; William Burmaster, Col- lector ; Warren Curtiss, William Prendegast, W. A. Robin- son, G. O. Frick, Justices of the Peace; Jefferson Warren, George Roberts, Timothy O'Gorman, Mark Schoonmaker, Constables ; Francis Kyte, William Hill, James Foster, As- sessors.
The following is a complete list of the Supervisors of the town since 1819 : Michael Helms, 1819-24 ; Moses Barsto,
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1825-27 ; William Doty, 1828-29; no election 1830; Leverett Bristol, 1831-34; Timothy Hosmer, 1835; Leverett Bristol, 1836-41 ; John Porter, 1842; Ziba Henry, 1843; Clark Ran- som, 1844; Solomon Moss, 1845-47; John Porter, 1848; Sol- omon Moss, 1849; Ira Race, 1850-53; Peter Simmons, 1854; Ira Race, 1855; George Swain, 1856-59; Joseph L. Fowler, 1860-62; Ezra Holden, 1863-64; Ira Race, 1865-66; Rens- selaer Ward, 1867-70; E. T. Ransom, 1871-73; James Fos- ter, 1874; E. T. Ransom, 1875-77 ; R. D. Balmer, 1878; P. S. Tower, 1879; R. Ward, 1880; Joseph Thompson, 1881-82; A. W. Gatchell, 1883-84; Joseph Thompson, 1885; George Swain, 1886; N. D. Haskell, 1887; A. J. Eaton, 1888; John Rierdon, 1891-93; Elmer Brookins, 1894-96: E. S. Carter, 1897-98; H. S. Ransom, 1899-1900; J. W. Thompson, 1900.
The following have represented the Second Assembly District at Albany : N. D. Haskell, 1889; L. P. Gillette, 1893 ; E. T. Ransom, 1894-95.
The following have filled County offices : George Swain, Sheriff, 1860-63; George L. Moote, County Clerk, 1874- 77; Richard Balmer, School Commissioner, 1879-82; Adelaide L. Harris (now of Wilson), School Commissioner, 1897.
Town of Lewiston.
EWISTON is the most fertile field in the County for the historian. The story of the earliest set- tlers, as well as the part of Niagara County in the French and Indian war, the Revolution and the War of 1812, have been told by Mr. Porter in his History of Niagara County, published in this volume, and also in a pleasant, discursive way by Rev. Joshua Cooke in his reminiscences of Lewiston. Many of the facts told by these gentlemen, though they relate to Lewiston, belong in the large sense to the whole County. The object of this sketch, with the corresponding sketches of the other towns of the County, is to recount the matters of greater detail, the beginnings and progress of government in the town, and to recall the names of some of the families that should be mentioned in a work of this description.
BEGINNINGS OF TOWN GOVERNMENT.
The Town of Lewiston was erected from Cambria on February 27, 1818. The western part, bordering the Niag- ara River, is by far the most interesting in historical mat- ter. It was settled earlier, and has been the scene of strife many a time and oft, from the time of Joncaire till the tumult of the conflict that raged so fiercely thereabouts during the second war with England was finally stilled.
The first town meeting was held at the home of John Gould on April 7, 1818. Rufus Spalding and Gideon Fris- bee, Justices of the Peace, presided. The following officers were elected : Supervisor, Rufus Spalding; Town Clerk, Ol- iver Grace; Assessors, Benjamin Barton, Amos M. Kidder and William Miller; Highway Commissioners, John Beach, Aaron Childs and Reuben Reynolds; Overseers of the Poor, Jacob Townsend and Arthur Gray ; School Commissioners, Joshua Fairbanks, William Miller and Rufus Spalding; In- spector of Schools, Amos M. Kidder, Reuben Reynolds and William Hotchkiss; Constable and Collector, Eleazer Dag- gett; Sealer of Weights and Measures, Amos S. Tryon. Eleven Overseers of Highways were also chosen, one for each of the districts into which the town was divided.
The following Supervisors have served since the or- ganization of the town : 1818, Rufus Spalding, 1819-27, Ben-
jamin Barton; (Nathaniel Leonard filled out an unexpired term of Mr. Barton's in 1823); 1828-30, Jacob Town- send; 1831, Sheldon C. Townsend; 1832, Lothrop Cooke ; 1833-41, Alexander Dickerson; 1842-45, Sherburne B. Pi- per; 1846, Benjamin Hewitt; 1847-48, Seymour Scovell; 1849, Benjamin Hewitt ; 1850, Arthur Gray, Jr. ; 1851, Lean- der K. Scovell; 1852-53, Andrew Robinson; 1854, John L. Whitman; 1855, John Robinson; 1856, Reuben H. Bough- ton ; 1857, Franklin Spalding ; 1858, Benjamin Hewitt ; 1859- 60, Franklin Spalding; 1861-62, Isaac C. Cook; 1863-66, Moses Bairsto; 1867, Silas S. Hopkins; 1868, Moses Bair- sto; 1869-74, Sherburne B. Piper ; 1875-77, William J. Moss; 1878-80, William B. Mentz; 1881-85, Galen Miller ; 1886-90, William J. Cooke; 1891, Galen Miller; 1892-98, Wilber T. Pool; 1899-1902, James W. H. Kelly.
REDEEMING THE LAND.
The early settlements of this town were confined to the Ridge Road and the river road, owing to the remainder of the town being wet, that part lying between the ridge and the mountain having been a natural cranberry marsh, and only about fifty years ago was it reclaimed, by outlets for the water being cut through the Ridge Road. Owing to the gradual descent toward the lake of the land north of the ridge, and the lack of ditches, the roads were not much more than tracks. They were impassable for wheels until the middle of the summer. Seventy years ago or more traders who went through the country from Rochester with supplies for Fort Niagara were accustomed to take back with them sleigh loads of cranberries to help out their profits.
SOME EARLY HOTEL KEEPERS.
Lewiston was the terminus of the famous Ridge Road running between that point and Rochester, and a citizen of Lewiston, Samuel Barton, operated the stage line. His father, Maj. Benjamin Barton, was one of the contractors who furnished the boats to carry the American troops across the Niagara River on the occasion of the battle of Queens- ton Heights. The Bartons, in 1824, built the Frontier House at Lewiston, which was one of the famous hotels of the early days between Albany and the Niagara Frontier. A member of the Ashford family of hotel keepers, father of T. N. Ashford, of the Commercial hotel of Lockport, kept the hotel for a term of years afterward. George Rector, who kept the Lockport House in Lower Town, was also an early landlord of the Frontier House. It is now operated by the Raymond family, descendants of Caleb WV. Raymond. It has been conducted by this family for over half century.
NO INTERFERENCE WANTED.
Caleb W. Raymond came to Lewiston as early as 1807. He was a blacksmith, and blacksmiths were very valuable people in new settlements in those days. A story is told of one of his early experiences that points the moral that it is unwise to interfere in domestic difficulties, no matter how necessary it may seem. He was on the way home from his farm to the hotel one night, when he passed by a cooper shop kept by a Frenchman named Bazoo. Suddenly he heard cries of "Help! help ! murder!" proceeding from the kitchen in the rear of the shop. He ran into the kitchen. through the shop and saw Bazoo belaboring his wife with a hooppole. Now, hooppoles are made of hickory and are excellent articles of castigation. They hit the spot. He cried out to the infuriated Bazoo, "What are you beating the woman for; no man's a man who will strike a woman?" The woman seized a mop stick and went in for the hapless
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Raymond. Bazoo turned upon him with the hooppole and very soon things came to be exceedingly lively for the peace- maker, who beat a retreat to the road and the woman slammed the door in his face, with the statement that she would teach him to meddle in their family aaiffrs. Ray- mond, contrary to all precedent, had the last word. He opened the door the width of two fingers and shouted to the man : "Kill her, - her ; kill her."
THE CORNELLS.
The American hotel was built before 1845 by Nelson Cornell. It was conducted after his death by his son, Hi- ram, and is now operated by Harry Cornell, a grandson of the original owner. The American hotel was burned some seven or eight years ago, the fire originating on the steam- ship Corona, lying at the wharf near by, the flames commu- nicating to the hotel. A much finer structure was built, which has since been known as "The Cornell." Nelson Cornell in his day was one of the prominent business men of the place. He ran a general store in the town, as well as the hotel, and for many years supplied the steamboats with wood, which afforded an outlet for the surplus time of the region, that was appreciated by the farmers at the time they were clearing their farms. He kept a number of teams of his own drawing wood the year round, and it was no uncom- mon sight as well to see a dozen teams of the near by far- mers in a string on the road leading to the dock.
RIDGE ROAD TAVERNS.
During the old stage days there were taverns at fre- quent intervals along the Ridge Road. Sparrow Sage kept a tavern before 1812, some three miles east of Lewiston, on the Ridge; this was the only building in the town on the road that was spared by the Indians at the time of their great raid on the settlers in the War of 1812. The comfort of the tavern that they thought they might need on their re- turn, together with the fact that there was fire-water in abun- dance, doubtless prompted them to make an exception of Mr. Sage's hostelry. The next tavern to the east was kept by Alexander Dickerson, of Dickersonville. Achish Pool, the pioneer of that family in this County, among others, kept the temperance hotel a half mile east of Dickersonville.
HAVOC OF THE WAR.
The records of the County Clerk's office show that there were many conveyances of land along the river and on the Ridge in 1810, or earlier. After 1812 there were com- paratively few deeds given by the Holland Land Company until 1830. The country had been impoverished by the War of 1812, and though a number of settlers went in and occupied the land after the war, few of them paid anything more than small initial sums. As they improved their farms and recovered from the effects of the war they were enabled to make payments sufficiently large to secure a deed from the company.
BOYS SCARE OFF A BRITISH SCHOONER.
The Millar family were represented in Lewiston at an early day. Alexander Millar was a merchant there before 1813. His son, Alexander, was a young man at the time of the war. A few years before the war he had a share in a little exploit that showed the mettle of Young America at the time. The boys of the town, with young Millar as a ringleader, formed themselves into a military company, Millar furnishing the powder from his father's store to fire the salutes at sunrise and sunset. James L. Barton, who was a member of the company, wrote the following little sketch of the boys' efforts for a previous history of the Coun-
ty, published in 1878, that is worth repeating here: "We constructed a regular battery on the bank of the river, with embrasures for cannon ; went into the woods and chopped down some maple saplings about five or six inches in diam- eter, cut them into pieces about two and a half feet long, bored them out with a two-inch auger and put on each end a beetle ring, mounted our blocks and garnished our bat- tery. We had some eight or ten of them. We had been into the forts at the mouth of the river and seen the manner of piling up the cannon balls alongside of each gun. We then made as many as a barrel full of balls of the clay in the bank, dried them in the sun and piled up in proper order. by the side of each cannon, a sufficient number of balls. Here we went through our military evolutions, mounted guard and did garrison duty every leisure day we could get. One afternoon, while we were all present, each with his shot- gun on his shoulder, and having much to do that day, we did not get through until dark. About twilight we discov- ered a British schooner, bound for Queenston, coming up the river under full sail, with her flag flying, and keeping very close to our side to avoid the current. We manned our battery, and when she came opposite the work, peremp- torily ordered her to strike her colors and come to. She not obeying our orders we opened our wooden cannon at her. The mud balls striking the water made considerable splashing ; she up helm and ran down the river, and losing that wind did not get up for three or four days."
A deputation soon came over from Canada and formally stated that "if the officer having charge of the troops along the river to guard the revenue laws followed up his reckless conduct of firing into unarmed vessels coming up the river on their lawful business, and having no design or intention to violate the laws of the United States, some one would be killed, shots would be returned from the other side and se- rious consequences follow."
Upon learning that the affair was but the prank of a few boys, the deputation betook themselves to his majesty's domains without further comment and considerably over- come with amazement.
TAKEN PRISONER BY A FRIEND.
This same Alexander Millar was taken prisoner during the War of 1812, when the British and Indians were making' one of their raids, the Indians burning and murdering wherever they went unless they were restrained by their British allies. Young Millar was overtaken by the English, fortunately, and was taken prisoner without harm. It hap- pened that the soldier who captured him was an old Cana- dian acquaintance, who called on him to halt and surrender. Millar had hardly accustomed himself to the idea of his old acquaintance being an enemy, and was by no means in haste to respond to the order. The command "halt" was re- peated a second time in no uncertain way, and Millar was taken and afterward carried to Quebec. On his return months afterward, the story goes, he saw the bodies of some of those who had been massacred on the same foray in which he had been taken prisoner, lying by the roadside. Alex- ander Millar was the father of Judge David Millar, of Lock- port.
SOME EARLY SETTLERS.
Isaac Colt, the first of the Colt family in Lewiston, came in 1809, from Sussex, N. J., bringing his wife and six chil- dren. He settled at a point about two miles above the vil- lage and kept a public house years afterward. The sons se- cured farms in the vicinity and were always prominent cit- izens in the town.
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The month of December, 1813, was a memorable period for the settlers. The British and Indians at that time made their celebrated raid on the settlers of Lewiston and Youngs- town under Gen. Riall. Many of the settlers were ruth- lessly massacred. The people on the Ridge Road east of Lewiston received a warning from a citizen, who dashed through the country on horseback awakening the inhab- itants after the manner of Paul Revere. Practically the en- tire population who escaped with their lives left the town and remained at a distance until the close of the war.
Many of the settlers returned in 1815. Isaac Colt, who had been wounded, brought back his family. Aaron Childs, John Robinson, Achish Pool, Silas Hopkins, Joseph Hewitt, John Gray, John Latta and their families, and others who had previously settled there, returned before the close of 1816. Among the new comers at that time were Richard Ayer, on the Ridge Road; Jairus Rose, the Carney family ; the Defoe and the Springsteen families, settled at or near Pekin; the Bliss, Earl, Bridge, Balmer, Wilson, Orton and other families located between the ridge and the mountain soon after the war. Between 1815 and 1825 settlement ad- vanced rapidly. G. P. Nichols settled in 1819, Andrew A. Farley in 1823 and Thomas Balmer in 1825. Later comers were Abel White, in 1826; the Pletcher families, in 1829; Peter Spickerman, in 1835: Joseph Shippy, Sanford White and John Cleghorn, in 1836; James Buckley, in 1838; Eras- tus Downer, in 1841 ; Charles McConnell and Reuben M. Doty, in 1842; and Hartwell Hayward, in 1845; his son, George C. Hayward, is now living in Lockport.
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