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The court-house was begun in 1814, the commissioners doing the work by the day, and buying the material as the building progressed. The cost of the court-house was not far from $7000, and it was completed and occupied Jan. 9, 1816, the jail occupying the basement story.
Among the bills audited were some for the expenses in- curred in "raising" the building, one of which was for $46.50 for whisky and $4 for cider, and another $91.82 for meals.
This building was burned down in the great fire of March 12, 1847. The records of the commissioners contain the following entry made by the clerk : " March 12, 1847 .- This day the greatest fire occurred in Towanda that has ever been known in this section of country. It broke out on Main street, between one and two o'clock P.M., and among other buildings the court-house and jail were burned."
An act was passed by the legislature, March 15, 1847, enabling the county to make a loan for the erection of new buildings, and a contract was made with Col. John F. Means for the erection of a new building, June 25, 1847, Sidney Hayden being the sub-contractor, who fulfilled the contract. The new building (the present one) was occupied in September, 1850. Its approximate cost, complete and finished for use, was $28,000. The prisoners in the jail the same year of its completion attempted to destroy it by fire, but were frustrated, the fire being discovered and ex- tinguished before serious damage was done. An appre- hension of a repetition of the attempt, and which might prove successful, led to the construction of the present massive structure on Pine between Main and Second streets, which was erected in 1871-72, at a cost of $65,000. For strength and adaptation to the purposes of a county prison it is probably not excelled in the State, and is equaled by very few similar structures. It is constructed of mill-stone brought from Mill Stone creek, on the Barclay railroad. It contains a "dwelling-house" basement, 30 by 60 feet, with a connection for a "prison" 48 by 60 feet, all two stories high, the stories being 10 feet 6 inches in the clear. The main entrance, on Pine street, is a massively-built archway, and the entire building presents an appearance of strength and durability that gives a most pleasing sense of security to the residents of the county.
In 1857-58 the present prothonotary's and register's office was built. It is a fire-proof building, and is usually called the " fire-proof." It cost about $7500.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The three wards of the borough constitute one school district, whose school affairs are managed by a board of six members elected by the people.
There is a brick school building on Second street, and the board completed a magnificent brick school-house on State street in 1873. It was designed by J. E. Fleming, architect, and is 63 by 65 feet, three stories, with base- ment. The architectural effect is very pleasing, and the structure is surmounted with a cupola for bell. The base- ment is 9 feet high ; first floor 12 feet 6 inches ; second floor 13 feet; and third floor 15 feet high. The third floor contains but one room, and is designed for an exhibition hall, etc.
In 1812, er thereabouts, Mrs. Ebenezer B. Gregory taught a select school, near the present site of the Catholic church. While the children were dismissed for recess, a screaming and shouting was heard from them by the school-ma'am, and the scholars came rushing into the school-room, shouting, " A bear ! a bear!" When the con- fusion had subsided, it was discovered that a tame cub had get away from its tether, and, running in among the chil- dren for a rough frolic, had caused a stampede, upon which he climbed up a tree, as much frightened as were those with whom he had come to play.
THE SUSQUEHANNA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.
This educational institution, under the care of the pres- bytery of Lackawanna, of the Presbyterian church, was chartered in 1849, and the building completed and occu- pied September 6, 1854. The building is a handsome four-story brick, and stands isolated in an inclosure of ten acres. It is built on high ground, and from it a magnifi- cent view of the borough and surrounding country can be had. The value of the property is $50,000. Its concerns are managed by a board of trustees and an executive com- mittee.
The history of the churches will be found elsewhere in the general history of the county, where will also be found the history of the press, the legal and medical professions, schools, societies and associations, and railroads.
BUSINESS INTERESTS.
THE POST-OFFICE.
The first postmaster of Towanda was Reuben Hale, ap- pointed in 1810.
The post-office is very centrally located in Mercur's block, Main street. In 1873, it was refitted and furnished with Yale's patent lock-boxes, and its interior arrangements so placed as to expedite the handling of mail matter. It is now one of the neatest and best-arranged offices in the State. Through the kindness of S. W. Alvord, Esq., the postmaster, we are enabled to give the following statistics : The office contains 1200 boxcs, of which 675 are lock, and 525 call-boxes. The present officers are S. W. Alvord, post- master ; F. C. Gore and C. M. Wilson, clerks.
TELEGRAPHIC AND EXPRESS.
The Western Union telegraph company's office in To- wanda is located in the Ward House block, a most conve- nient and central location.
The Central and Adams express companies have an office in the same room with the telegraph company. They employ, three men and one wagon at this point.
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THE TOWANDA BANK
was chartered in 1838 and failed in 1842. M. C. Mereur conducted a private bank for a few years in the borough.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF TOWANDA.
This, one of the most successful banking institutions of the country, was chartered under the National banking law July, 1863, and immediately commenced business. The original capital of the bank was $100,000; but in February, 1865, it was increased to $125,000. Gordon F. Mason was the first president, and served in that eapacity until January 13, 1865, when he was succeeded by E. H. Smith ; and on January 13, 1870, Joseph Powell, the present popular and efficient president, assumed the posi- tion he now holds. N. N. Betts, Jr., has filled the position of cashier acceptably sinee the organization of the bank.
The brick building formerly owned by the bank, and oeeupied by it as a banking-house since its organization to 1874, was then demolished to give place to a structure worthy of Towanda and the bank. The banking-house was designed by J. E. Fleming, the well-known arehiteet, and is elegantly and conveniently arranged. It is of briek, 40 by 70 feet, two stories in height, and provided with fire and burglar proof vaults and safes of the most approved deseription, besides being fitted up with special reference to the comfort and convenience of the customers and patrons of the bank, as well as its employees.
THE CITIZENS' NATIONAL BANK
was recently chartered, and is fast acquiring a substantial business sueeess.
TOWANDA EUREKA MOWER COMPANY.
This company was organized in 1873, with a capital of $100,000. The present officers are S. D. Madison, presi- dent ; Joseph Powell, treasurer; W. G. Traey, deputy treasurer and secretary.
The company has purchased the premises on Main street formerly oeeupied by O. D. Bartlett as a foundry and ma- chine-shop. The company only took possession of their shops in March, 1873; yet such was the energy and vigor of the management, that on the 1st of April all had been got ready, and operations commenced. On the 20th of May the first machine ( Wilber's patent direet draft Eureka mower) was completed. The works consist of a main build- ing of briek, three stories high, 75 by 90 feet, and a two- story frame building, 45 by 70 feet. The motive power is steam.
TOWANDA IRON MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
This company was chartered July 23, 1870, and has a capital of $75,000. The works and office are located at South Towanda, on the Barelay railroad. The present officers are Col. J. F. Means, president and manager ; H. L. Scott, secretary and treasurer. William Long, an experienced iron-master, is superintendent of the works. Ground for the works was broken in August, 1871, and they were completed in September, 1872. They consist of a main building, 150 by 75 feet, with two wings, each 40 by 60 feet. They contain three double puddling furnaces, three
heating furnaces, a nail-plate mill, a puddle-bar mill, twenty- three nail machines, a set of shears with engine attached for preparing serap iron for the heating furnaces, a power- ful fan-blower with engine, and other machinery of various kinds. The motive-power for the rolling-mill is furnished by an engine of two hundred and fifty horse-power, and for the nail machines by an engine of seventy-five horse- power.
The works at present give employment to about eighty hands, and have a capacity for turning out about two hun- dred kegs of nails per day. The works turn out all kinds of nails and eut-spikes, and Towanda nails have already achieved an enviable reputation in the market as first-elass goods.
BOOT AND SHOE FACTORY.
Humphrey Brothers & Traey's boot and shoe manufac- tory is located at the corner of Main and Elizabeth streets. The firm commeneed their manufacturing business August 1, 1871, although its members had long previously been engaged in the boot and shoe trade. Their factory is a fine brick structure, 40 by 80 feet, five stories, with an elevator running from top to bottom. The business is conducted with great system, and the building is divided as follows : Basement floor, sole-leather eutting; first floor, office and general salesroom ; second floor, cutting and fitting of boot and shoe uppers; third floor, bottoming department ; fourth floor, erimping, treeing, and finishing department. There are seventy-five men employed, and the firm have in use all the latest improved machinery.
At present only pegged work is turned out in any quan- tity, and the boots and shoes, although largely manufae- tured by the aid of machinery, are in reality as much hand- made as any boots or shoes made in village or city shops. The present production of the establishment is about one hundred eases per week, each ease containing twelve pairs of boots or shoes. The establishment pays for wages alone nearly $1200 weekly.
TOWANDA TANNING COMPANY.
This company was organized in 1867. . The present officers are Joseph Powell, president, and J. F. Means, C. S. Russell, Robert H. Sayre, and James MeFarlane, diree- tors. The tannery is situated at Greenwood, six miles from Towanda, and gives employment to eighty men. It turns out sole leather only, of which it has a capacity of 60,000 sides per year. Office at Towanda.
FURNITURE MANUFACTORY.
In 1871, Messrs. J. O. Frost & Sons, furniture dealers, who had, prior to that time, carried on a limited manufac- turing business in connection with their furniture-store, finding that the quality of their produets had created a large demand, determined to ereet a factory filled with all the improved machinery, that would enable them to supply. the trade throughout this region with good and cheap fur- niture. Accordingly work was commeneed, and the present fine faetory, on Charles street, rapidly pushed forward to completion. It consists of a solidly-built three-story brick building, with slate roof, 40 by 160 feet, with an addition 12 by 30 feet, and an engine- and boiler-room 40 by 20
RES. OF THE LATE GEN. WM PATTON, TOWANDA, PA.
CLARK B. PORTER'S PHARMACY.
DRUGS
AMEDICINE
PAINTS
OILS
" WARD HOUSE" J. O. WARD, OWNER AND BUILDER , TOWANDA, PA. ( ERECTED 1876.
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feet. The motive power for the machinery of the factory is supplied by two splendid engines of forty-horse power each. The works give employment to forty persons, and turn out large quantities of bedsteads, cottage chamber suites of elegant designs, bureaus, tables, chairs, etc. These goods are sold all over the country, and a large and growing demand has sprung up for them. A portion of the factory is used as a planing-mill, and is provided with a full set of machinery for the manufacture of flooring, siding, sash, doors, blinds, architectural wood-work, etc.
CARRIAGE FACTORIES.
Henry Stulen, Pine street, near Main .- Established in 1870. The factory is 25 by 70 feet, four stories, and con- tains a blacksmith-shop, 35 by 25, two fires; wood-shop, 25 by 35, four benches ; varnish-room, 20 by 20; paint- shop, 50 by 25 ; trimming-shop, 20 by 25. The works give employment to fifteen hands.
Towanda carriage-factory, corner Elizabeth and Main streets .- This establishment was started in 1832, by G. H. Drake, and in 1866 James Bryant, the present proprietor, assumed control. The works are located in a fine brick structure, 101 by 26 feet, and give employment to twenty hands. They consist of a blacksmith-shop, 50 by 26, three fires; wood-shop, 50 by 26, four benches ; trimming-shop, 26 by 20; varnish-room and warerooms, 60 by 26.
FOUNDRY AND MACHINE-SHOP.
Means, Rockwell & Co.'s foundry and machine-shop, Pine street, below Main .- The business was established by John Carmon, in 1837. In 1869, Col. J. F. Means pur- chased the establishment, and in 1871 the present firm was formed. The works consist of a brick machine-shop 45 by 81, containing five lathes of various sizes ; two planers ; two drills ; a bolt-cutter and a boring-mill; a blacksmith-shop, 25 by 30, with two fires supplied with rotary blast ; a foundry, 45 by 50, with cupola capable of melting four tons, and crane for handling heavy castings; also a core-oven ; a pattern-room, 20 by 40; and wood-shop, 32 by 50. The engine- and boiler-room is 20 by 24 feet, and fire-proof. It contains a splendid steam-engine of sixty-horse power, which furnishes motive force for the establishment, which gives employment to twenty men, and turns out steam-engines of all kinds, mill-gearing, circular saw-mills, castings of all kinds, corn-shellers, force-pumps, Griswold's patent turbine water-wheel, mine cars and wheels, shafting hangers, etc. M. A. Rockwell, one of the firm, a practical mechanic, oversees every department.
There is also a branch at Monroeton, four miles from Towanda, of which W. H. Rockwell is superintendent, and where a specialty is made of plows, cultivators, sleigh-shoes, etc.
SPRING-BED MANUFACTURER.
L. C. Nelson, Main street .- Established in 1872. Em- ploys eight men in the manufacture and sale of Bartlett's patent adjustable spring bed.
MARBLE MANUFACTURERS.
George McCabe & Son, Main street, are the only marble manufacturers in the borough. The firm was established in
1860, and employs six hands. Their shop is 50 by 25 feet, elegantly arranged and well lighted, and contains a good as- sortment of their work, such as monuments, head-stones, mantels, etc. They also keep on hand a stock of slate mantels, terra-cotta garden-ornaments, vases, marble-dust, plaster of Paris, etc.
MINERAL AND SODA-WATER FACTORY.
G. S. Smith, Chestnut street .- Established in 1868. Em- ploys four persons in the manufacture of soda-water, buck and cronk beer, etc. His factory is 24 by 36 feet, with cellar, and provided with improved machinery.
PLANING-MILL.
L. B. Rogers & Co.'s planing-mill, on the plank-road, was established in 1864. The mill is 44 by 70 feet, two stories high, with a basement. The firm gives employment to forty men. There is also a storing-house, 20 by 30 feet, two stories ; paint-shop and drying kiln, 20 by 30; and a finishing-house, 20 by 40. The mill contains two flooring- machines, one double surfacer, re-saw, jig-saw, and a full set of sash, door, and blind machinery ; the whole driven by a fine engine of forty-horse power. The capacity of the mill is two million feet per year.
HOTELS.
Towanda has several good hotels, among which we might name the Ward House, on Main street, built by J. O. Ward in 1848, and now kept by Thomas R. Jordan. The Ward House was destroyed by fire in 1877, and rebuilt and thoroughly fitted up for a first-class hotel; and it is so kept, under the able management of the genial host and his esti- mable lady. The Means House, also under the manage- ment of Mr. Jordan, was destroyed by fire, in March, 1878. Also, the Elwell House, of Park street, opened in 1867 ; the Vance House, on State street; American hotel, near the bridge, on Bridge street; the Temperance hotel, on the cor- ner of Main and Elizabeth streets ; and the Eagle hotel, on Court street.
MUTUAL BUILDING AND SAVING FUND ASSOCIATION.
This association was incorporated in 1871. N. N. Betts, Jr., president ; R. F. Goodman, secretary ; W. G. Gordon, treasurer. It meets monthly at the court-house, on the third Monday in each month. The object of the associ- ation is to accumulate a fund and invest the same, so as to enable members to purchase real estate, erect buildings, and for other similar purposes.
TOWANDA BUILDING AND SAVING FUND ASSOCIATION.
This association was incorporated in December, 1871. Joseph Powell, president ; J. B. Judd, vice-president ; C. F. Cross, secretary ; W. H. Dodge, treasurer. Meets on the fourth Monday of each month at the grand-jury room, in the court-house. The object of this association is to ac- cumulate a fund, and invest the same so as to enable mem- bers to purchase real estate, erect buildings, pay off incum- brances, and for other similar purposes. Members are enabled to buy homes with payments no heavier than the ordinary yearly rent paid by men with families.
Masonic Hall association was chartered in 1863, and
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owns the third story of the brick building on the west side of Main street, which is occupied by the several orders of Masonry in the borough.
TOWANDA GAS AND WATER COMPANY.
This company was chartered in 1859, but work was not commenced until 1870 ; and the gas was first furnished for consumption in November of that year. The capital in- vested is $45,000, and the works are very complete. The present officers are E. T. Elliott, president and acting treasurer ; C. S. Russell, secretary ; Mrs. Olive Elliott, C. P. Spaulding, W. G. Tracy, and James Elliott, directors. The company have laid down about ten miles of main-pipe. The works are located on Railroad street, below the Barclay depot. The company supply thirty or more street lamps.
WATER SUPPLY.
At present the borough is supplied from wells and cis- terns for culinary purposes, and in case of fire the engines take suction from the river, which runs parallel with the town its whole length. There are several points in the sur- rounding hills from which an unlimited supply of water could be obtained, at an elevation which would rise above the highest buildings in town.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Fire Department of Towanda is purely volunteer in its organization. It is composed of four companies, whose apparatus is of the most approved kinds, and whose mem- bership and discipline will compare favorably with those of any fire department in any interior city of our land.
Franklin Steam Fire- Company, No. 1 .- This company was organized April 8, 1854. The company used a Button hand-engine until Dec. 11, 1870, when it purchased a Silsby rotary steam fire-engine. The number of active members is forty-eight. Engine-house next to court-house, on public square. Regular meetings on the first Wednes- day of each monthi, at the engine-house. The company has a steam fire-engine, fuel-cart, two hose-carriages, and one thousand feet of rubber hose.
Naiad Engine-Company, No. 2 .- This company was organized April 24, 1855, and reorganized in 1870. The present number of members is fifty-nine. Their house is on the public square, adjoining the court-house. The com- pany owns one hand-engine, built by Cowing & Co., Seneca Falls, N. Y., one hose-carriage, and five hundred feet of hose.
Lin-ta Steam Fire-Company, No. 3 .- Lin-ta Steam Fire- Engine Company is an independent organization, instituted Sept. 28, 1857, and incorporated May, 1871. It owns a handsome two-story brick engine-house, on Poplar street, erected by the company at a cost of $5000. The appa- ratus, consisting of a Silsby rotary steam fire-engine, two hose-carriages, fuel-cart, etc., are also the property of the company, and are worth about $7000. The company owns in all about $15,000 worth of property. The present number of active members is seventy-one.
Mantua Hook-and-Ladder Company, No. 4 .- This company was organized in March, 187I. The present number of members is thirty. The regular meetings of the
company are held on the first Wednesday of each month. The company owns a good hook-and-ladder truck, provided with hooks, ladders, axes, picks, etc.
Fire Notes and Notices .- From a fire record kept by J. V. Geiger, Esq., we learn that from January I, 1852, to the present time there have occurred in the borough a total of sixty-three fires, destroying one hundred and fifty-six buildings of various kinds. The old Franklin hand-engine was first used at a fire in the Ward House ice-house. The Franklin steamer was first used at a fire that destroyed Ward & Overton's barn and Disbrow's hotel, on which occasion a fine team belonging to Lin-ta Steam Fire-Com- pany was burned up. The Lin-ta steamer was first used at a fire which burned up Means' foundry and Mckean's barn. The Naiad was first used at a fire which destroyed a build- ing on Main street belonging to the Barstow estate. The Button hand-engine, formerly used by the Franklin, is still in good order.
RIVERSIDE CEMETERY.
The burial-place of Towanda, known as Riverside ceme- tery, is situated in the Northern Liberties, on the high bank overlooking the Susquebanna. It comprises in all about seven acres, the first half-acre of which was donated by Henry Spalding. Thos. Burnes has acted as sexton con- tinuously since July 14, 1830, a period of forty-three con- secutive years. On December 21, 1839, Hiram Mix and wife gave a piece of ground to the trustees, to be added to the cemetery. The trustees were Wm. B. Storm, Enos Tompkins, and H. S. Mercur. In 1863, the court appointed E. W. Hale and B. S. Russell as trustees, in place of Storm and Tompkins. The cemetery contains many fine monu- ments, among which may be enumerated those of Fox, Mercur, Montanye, Baird, Overton, Douglass, Kingsbury, Watkins, and Adams. David Wilmot, the celebrated author of the " Wilmot Proviso," also lies buried here. His grave is marked by a plain head-stone, bearing the following in- scription :
" DAVID WILMOT, Born January 20, 1814, Died Mareh 16, 1868, Aged 54 years.
" Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for erime, whereof the party shall first he duly eonvieted."
The Catholic cemetery is also located on high ground on the river-bank, north of the Riverside cemetery, and com- prises an acre of ground.
THE WARD LIBRARY.
The largest collection of books, prints, coins, etc., in northern Pennsylvania was the Ward library, at Towanda, Pa., collected by the late C. L. Ward, and now the property of Lafayette college, at Easton, Pa., the same being a gift from the daughter of Mr. Ward. The library consists of over sixteen thousand volumes of standard as well as curi- ous literature.
THE TOLL-BRIDGE.
Through the efforts and influence of Hon. Reuben Wil- ber, when in the State senate, from this senatorial district, the legislature appropriated $10,000 towards building a
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bridge over the Susquehanna at Towanda; the remainder of the money necessary to complete it being raised by in- dividual subscriptions as stock. The charter of the bridge is perpetual. One span of the bridge was subsequently burned, and rebuilt by another legislative appropriation. It is a toll-bridge, but efforts are at present being made to make it free.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The earliest settlers in Towanda, on the present site of the borough, were William Means and his brother-in-law, Adam Conley, Ebenezer B. Gregory, and Harry Spalding.
William Means was the first settler. His father, Samuel Means, lived in Northumberland Co., Pa., at the breaking out of the War of the Revolution, in which he and his oldest son served. He was wounded, and, before surgical aid could be procured, died from the effusion of blood. His son was never afterwards heard of by the family. The family remained in Northumberland county, until tidings came to the mother of the approach of the Indians, when she took her children, one an infant but six weeks old,* and, in a canoe, made her escape down the river. They had scaree embarked when she saw her home in flames, but, fortunately, the savages did uot pursue her. The family soon after returned to the homestead, but the mother sur- vived her return a short time only, and her children were scattered among different families. The mother's maiden name was Clark.
When Rudolph Fox fled with his family down the river from the approach of the Indians, they fell in with Samuel Means' family, and through them William Means learned of the country about Towanda, and soon after the war closed came to view it, and being pleased with it, settled here, and after a year or two married Elizabeth Fox,t daughter of Rudolph, and ever after lived in the limits of the present borough until his death. He probably came to the place in 1784. He was engaged in the transportation of goods for Judge Hollenback between Wilkes-Barre and Athens, on the Susquehanna, for two years or more. He was an active, energetic man. He assisted to bring the French refugees to Asylum up the river. When his sister, after- wards Mrs. Dr. Warner, was fifteen years of age, he gave her a home in his family, and one by one her four sisters came into the county. The oldest sister married Adam Conley, and her son, Clark Conley, lived in Ralston, in Ly- coming Co. He is now dead.
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