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coach, in Mechanics' Hall" (lot now occupied by W. L. Cox's shop). Daily allowance for subsistence of criminals in gaol was twenty cents.
1818 .-- January, on petition of B. Sayre and others, Maple Street was ex- tended twelve rods to reach Milford and Owego turnpike, between the bank- ing house and Rufus Bowman's (then near G. F. Fordham's present residence). February, the typhus fever begins its ravages. Anson Dart advertises paints ; Mr. Curtis, dancing in Assembly Room ; Asa Hartshorn, watches and jewelry ; Win. Turrell, as saddle and harness- maker; 'Montrose Gazette,' opposite Fuller's tavern ; Mary T. Chapman, select school, draw- ing and painting in addition to studies ; Abraham Fordham, cooper ; Sayre & Mulford dissolved ; Raynor & Mulford form a partnership ; Samuel Gregory, sheriff; P. Brulte. fencing-school.
1819 .- N. H. Lyons, bookbinder, opposite Montrose Hotel (on present site of J. R. Dewitt), was joined in the spring by his brother, Jerre Lyons ; theirs was the first bookstore. In the fall they built a store where H. J. Webb now has one. Robert McCollum, tailor, in same building. J. Etheridge, cabinet-maker, advertises for an apprentice, "who can come well recommended, clear of the itch." Justin Clark, gaoler; "the gaol needs a loek ;" three prisoners escaped in March, and one in April. Charles Catlin & Co., surveyors and land agents. B. Sayre, licensed. July 5th, a public dinner at E. Fuller's, the 4th occurring on Sunday. Among the toasts was the following by Walker Woodhouse : "The United States-what God has joined together, let no man put asunder." July 10th, Samuel Warner and Robert Day, committee upon public burying-grounds. Typhus fever con- tinues to prevail; thirty-three adults died of the disease. October 24th, "As yet no mail stage has ever passed through this place; we want the music of stage horns to enliven our village " Late in the fall a highway robbery occurred, and one hundred dollars was offered for the apprehension of the robber, who was secured by N. H. Lyons. David Fields, tailor. S. S. Mulford's store in the double house he built, now the residence of Jerre Lyons ; he resided here ten years. Samuel Barnard occupied house first built by S. S. Mulford (now Mrs. A. Jessup's), and engaged as 'teacher in the academy.
1820 .- January, Agricultural Society proposed by Dr. Rose. May, Medi- cal Society proposed by Dr. Bingham ; Carbine & Woodhouse, merchants, in store first occupied by B. Sayre ; first proposed division of Susquehanna County. December, Howard and Jerre Lyons, " Bibles and whisky." Asa Hartshorn, watchmaker. Peter Jameson supplies the village with fresh meat, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Sayre's tavern.
1821 .- Much attention given to the making of maple sugar ; also a great interest felt in the Agricultural Society, and in the raising of stock. Board of scholars from one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents per week, in families. November 10th, first agricultural show.
1822 .- Eyre & Hodgdon, merchants, in store previously occupied by I. & D. Post. [Samuel Hodgdon soon after built the house now owned by Saxon Wilson, and used it as a store and residence.] Both the turnpike roads from New York and Philadelphia finished through the county. July 4th, oration by A. H. Read; committee and officers dine at I. Post's tavern ; com- mittee of arrangements "return acknowledgments to Capt. Sayre and his company, for their very polite behavior, likewise to Lieut. Coy, Sergt. Dimock, and Henry Clark of the Artillery." October 9th, cattle show. Death of Bartlet Hinds, who was the first man to cut a tree where Mon- trose now stands. Henry Catlin keeps the tavern of B. Sayre ( Washington Hotel), for a short time. Green & Bowman, boot and shoe manufacturers, north side of Public Square.
1823 .- Statement of expenditures of Susquehanna Academy, from May 1, 1820, to January 27, 1823, shows the school teachers had received not quite five hundred dollars. March 23d, great snowstorm ; B. T. Case, deputy sur-
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veyor, in place of Jas. Catlin, resigned ; Wm. Dennis, gunsmith ; Thos. J. Brooks, hatter ; Elias Colborn (afterwards Colborn & Gregory), tin and sheet-iron manufactory ; Fordham & Woodhouse, merchants. July 4th, Masonic celebration, North Star and Rising Sun Lodges-dinner at B. Sayre's Washington Hotel. July 9th, Widow Cornwell's log house burned. Stephen Hinds " makes boots in the neatest and best manner for two dollars." November, twenty-five sheep killed by wolves within two miles of Montrose.
1824 .- January 1. " This morning the new line of stages commenced run- ning to New York. Business quite lively to-day. Took ten dollars cash, nearly thirty bushels of oats, and six bushels of rye and corn, and charged $3.42." (From private diary of Jerre Lyons, given to show what could be done in 1824.) The following extract is also from Mr. L.'s diary : " Huzza ! huzza ! for the new stage (via Milford and Owego turnpike) ; this evening about 7 o'clock, the new stage direct from New York. O what a shouting ! It was saluted by the drum and fife, and by the cheers of the populace. A number of buildings were brilliantly illuminated. The stage was forty-one hours coming from the city, but might have got in in less than forty hours, but stayed at Dundaff unnecessarily; six persons aboard." [This was the establishment of a tri-weekly mail from New York to Ithaca, which place it reached on the third day-two and a half days to Owego. The Philadelphia and Baltimore mail intersected this route at Montrose twice a week.] James Catlin contracts for carrying the mail to Silver Lake, Lawsville, Great Bend, Harmony, and Deposit. Ashery of B. Sayre in what is now " Bethel Valley." 'Tannery of Stephens & Foster. Brooks & Bailey, hatters, where is now the law office of F. A. Case, Esq. The borough incorporated March
29 ; B. T. Case, first burgess. May 7th, proposals solicited for putting up the frame of a Presbyterian meeting-house, signed by I. P. Foster. May 21st, reward offered for the murderer of Oliver Harper; Martin Curtis succeeds N. Raynor; A. H. Read, fire insurance agent; B. R. Lyons, merchant ; Wm. Harrington, plasterer ; B. Sayre introduces " Vertical Spinner." September 10th, Treadwell's trial; Christopher Eldridge, merchant, on site of Mrs. Mulford's present residence; B. Sayre moves his store into a wing of his house, across the street ; Miss Cochran and sister, milliners ; S. Hodgdon moves to his store and house opposite Presbyterian church ; James Catlin, opposite the Silver Lake bank, and first house east of S. Hodgdon's drug store and residence ; the same is now a wing of the house of Rev. H. A. Riley ; Colonel John Buckingham in Montrose Hotel.
1825 .- Daily stage to New York. January 13th, execution of Treadwell ; newspaper controversy on capital punishment. February. A man imprison- ed for a debt of four cents. March. Hiram Finch and E. W. Fuller. con- stables ; Wm. Foster and Caleb Weeks, saddlers ; Jabez and George Frink, blacksmiths. July 13th. Deacon Deans finished raising the steeple of the Presbyterian church ; the bank question was decided this afternoon in favor of Dundaff. July 28th. Esq. Post's woods on fire just below Mr. Etheridge's -wind from the south, and the village in danger of being consumed. August. Theatre (Archbold's) at the academy; religious meetings held in the same building on the Sabbath ; Bible society and S. S. Union hold annual meet- ings here. December. S. F. Keeler & L. Catlin, tanners and curriers ; J. W. Raynsford and James Deans, committee to raise subscriptions for a singing school this winter. Jerre Lyons mentions the putting up of a new article of comfort for those times-a stove.
1826 .- Asa Hartshorn purchases the Montrose drug store; teams go to New York for goods on the 6th of April and return the 24th. June 22d. Dedication of Presbyterian church ; pews sold August 28th, highest bid, $86. August 26th. Dimock & Fuller's office raised on east side of avenue, where is now Lyons & Co.'s store; subscriptions in county for Wyoming monument; J. C. Biddle succeeds Wm. Drinker as agent of the " Drinker Estate ;" law partnership of A. H. Read and John N. Conyngham.
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1827 .- Charter revoked of Northern Bank of Pennsylvania, at Dundaff. February 26th. Baptists begin to draw timber for their meeting-house; its raising finished June 28th. March. Internal improvement meeting at court-house ; canal commissioners anxious to bring trade of northern Pennsylvania to Philadelphia ; help for the Greeks ; address by Eld. Dim- ock ; supplies sent, with $86 in money, from Montrose. Postage, not over thirty miles, six cents; over thirty and not eighty miles, ten cents ; over eighty and not one hundred and fifty miles, eighteen and three-fourths cents ; over one hundred and fifty and not four hundred miles, twenty-five cents. July 4th. Bible, tract, and domestic missionary societies, and S. S. Union met ; discourses delivered by Elder Dimock and Rev. Burr Baldwin ; anniversary of same societies October 3d. December, Montrose Alumnus Eloquentice meet for debate.
1828 .- Stage route established to Chenango Point. March 30th. Prot. Epis. service at the academy ; in May following, a visit was paid by Bishop Onderdonk. May. Wm. Foster & A. H. Bolles, shoemakers. (The latter studied medicine with Dr. Fraser, and became a practicing physician. He built the house which stood for many years on the site of D. D. Sayre's residence, and which served as a parsonage to Episcopalians, Universalists, and Presbyterians, in succession.) C. Cornwall and Allen G. Plum were wagon-makers, forty rods east of the court-house; Daniel Searle succeeds Buckingham in charge of Montrose Hotel; Asa Harsthorn's drug store, which occupied the corner of his house (now Mrs. Fanny Lathrop's), was moved down to the site of Read's store ; a sidewalk was laid up the avenue ; " hooped skirts come again ;" store established by M. S. Wilson and Wm. L. Post. December. Meeting to form a temperance society, forty-one gentlemen members.
1829 .- January 8th. A ball in honor of Andrew Jackson at D. Curtis', and an oration at the court-house, by B. Jones ; Hough & Prindle, tailors, over the store of Porter & Keene; the latter disposed of their stock to C. Avery & Co .; washing-machines by Samuel A. Brownson and Stephen Hinds ; E. Walker's fanning-mill ; Samuel Hodgdon and I. P. Foster re- move in 1829 ; controversy about Sabbath mails; G. & H. D. Fuller, dry goods, groceries, etc., opposite Montrose Hotel-no liquors ; music school, T. T. Evans taught the German flute and clarionette; Elder Dimock preached three sermons on the Sabbath, after having preached a New-Year's discourse the Thursday previous. February. Judge Herrick came Saturday evening to attend court, and left the following Wednesday. [This item and a number following are from the diary of D. Post, Esq.] Ordination of Elder J. W. Parker and of Baptist deacons in the Presbyterian meeting-house. July Ist. Dr. Mason Denison's house raised ; Hyde Crocker occupied his house (late Walter Foster's) at the lower end of the village-then next house to D. Post's ; a house opposite H. C.'s was built for a parsonage and afterwards called the Judd house ; Luther Catlin & S. F. Keeler dissolve partnership ; J'. & B. R. Lyons' store.
1829 .- Bounty of thirty-seven and a half cents for the scalp of a full-grown fox ; for that of a wild-cat, $1.00; of those not full grown, twenty-five cents each. Lewis Brush on Harrington farm. Fashions for May ; " the sleeves are of a frightful breadth ; when you have taken the quantity of stuff necessary for the gown, cut just the same quantity, and it will be about enough to make the sleeves." Ladies with gaiters, to be seen-"an instance of downright de- parture from the proper modest bearing of the sex." A gentleman of New- burg offered "a reward of five dollars for the lady who will wear the smallest hat in church for the next six months." The same paper ('Susquehanna Register') contained S. S. Mulford's advertisement of " Leghorn and Nava- rino Bonnets," the size of which was probably never exceeded.
1830 .- Excitement about Delaware and Hudson Canal and Railroad. At a meeting in Montrose, of which D. Post was chairman and C. Avery secre-
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tary, it was " Resolved, It is the sense of this meeting that the interests of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company are so intimately connected with the prosperity of the county, that an injury to the one will be seriously felt by the other." At an anti-masonic meeting it was "Resolved, That in our belief, Christianity is all-sufficient to promote charity, peace, harmony, friend- ship, and brotherly love, thro' the whole world, without the aid of a secret society which is limited in its charitable deeds." Reuben Harris, chairman ; George Walker, C. Avery, and Geo. Fuller, standing committee; Joel Lamb, Warren Bailey, Dr. C. Fraser, G. Fuller, Thos. Christian, Simon Stevens, committee of vigilance. Great interest felt in North Branch Canal. May 27th. D. Post mentions going with Wm. Jessup "to see where they had been digging for coal down on Snake Creek." Admiral Rupley, tin and sheet-iron manufactory. Mr. R. built the house now the residence of B. R. Lyons. James Eldridge and Alvan Dana, cabinet-makers. M. Curtis and L. Searle, dry goods, etc., one door east of Hartshorn's drug store. B. G. Grover & Co., boot and shoemakers. P. Hepburn, in Mon- trose hotel. U. Cushman and C. F. A. Volz, merchants. Wilson & Post remove to new store, Dewitt's corner. December. S. S. Mulford enters new house and store on the avenue. Census of Montrose, 415. Benjamin Hitchcock, merchant.
1831 .- Post-office removed from the hotel to Post's (Dewitt's) Corner. Misses Sutton, milliners, over A. Baldwin's harness shop. James Seymour surveys Susquehanna and Lackawanna Railroad, from Owego, via Chenango Point and Lanesboro' to Carbondale. Fourth of July celebrated by eight Sunday-schools : Union Sunday-school, Wm. Jessup, superintendent ; St. Paul's church, J. W. Raynsford; Bridgewater, first, B. Sayre; second, J. W. Hill ; third, N. Scott; fourth, James Deans ; Lawsville, Lyman Smith ; Friendsville, Thomas Christian; nearly four hundred scholars and teachers ; Elder Dimock, president of the day; Revs. D. Deruelle and S. Marks, speakers. First complaint of public buildings; question whether a new court-house should be erected here, or in some other village possessing superior advantages for a domestic mart. Proposal to set off a part of Susque- hanna County with Wayne and Luzerne, and make the county seat Car- bondale-" the undoubted future emporium of Northeastern Pennsylvania." Complaint of meeting-house floors besmeared with tobacco, or of slips adorned with spittoons filled with saw-dust and quids. D. Post & Son, store. October. A railroad meeting; delegates elected to a general con- vention in relation to a contemplated railroad from the city or county of New York to Lake Erie, to be holden at Owego, in December. Tuesday morning, 1 o'clock, December 27th. Great fire on Public avenue, west side; extended "from Post's Corner, and included it, with the 'Register' office in which
. the fire originated, the store of Avery & Drinker, J. & B. R. Lyons' store, house, and granary, and the building owned by Doctor Denison, the front room of which was occupied by the ' Volunteer' office, and the remainder by the family of E. Kingsbury, Esq. The fire was extinguished by tearing down and removing the store of C. Cushman, and by bringing the engine to play upon his dwelling-house (the site of W. J. Mulford's store). [The en- gine must have been the "Water Witch," though this appears to be the first mention of it.] A meeting in the court-house to form a Universalist society. Lecture by Rev. George Rogers.
1832 .- Newspaper dispute between Elder D. Dimock and Rev. S. Marks, in reference to "revivals." Mail from Montrose to Towanda tri-weekly. More railroad routes proposed, one of which was to come within half a mile of Montrose. August 9. Day of fasting and prayer in view of the ravages of cholera. D. D. Warner in Franklin Hotel. June 1. Lyons and Bennet, new store over the ruins of the former. Circuit court in August ; ten cases, all but one, ejectments. Public dinner given at D. Curtis' to soldiers of the Revolution, September 12th, during a special court held for the purpose of
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hearing and examining applicants under the new pension law; upwards of forty gray-headed veterans attended, and on Monday (11th), they paraded nnder command of Capt. Potter, an officer of the Revolution. The drum was beaten by one of their number, and, after marching, they were ad- dressed by Judge Dimock. Many of them were upwards of eighty years of age, and their exercises were performed with astonishing precision and spirit. Simeon Wylie, Elias Van Winkle, E. Wakefield, Rufus Kingsley, and Asahel Gregory gave toasts at the dinner. September. Montrose Temperance Hotel, by B. Sayre; "a variety of wholesome and refreshing drinks will be kept as a substitute for ardent spirits." "Protracted meet- ings" in the fall of 1832, and early in the winter, by the evangelist Burch- ard. Seven wolves shot not far from Montrose ; numerous sheep had been killed. Charles Beardsley's carriage factory. Citizens meet to consult about establishing a bank at Montrose.
1833 .- Wm. Wynn arrives with the " Hygeian Vegetable Medicines of the British College of Health, London, invented by J. Morrison ;" a meeting of the fire company, of which C. Cushman was chairman and Geo. Williston secretary ; indignation at the little spirit of the community in providing an efficient engine ; Read & Wurts' law office, at the Silver Lake Bank ; plaster and salt hauled from Owego ; the front-room of the long, low building then newly-erected for the 'Register' printing-office, across Turnpike Street from Mason Wilson's residence, was used as a tailor shop; the building stood about thirty years ; C. L. Ward, editor of the 'Register,' built the front of the house next west of it, and occupied it after his first marriage; it was purchased by Leonard Searle, and occupied by him until he took the Mon- trose Hotel; Mr. Etheridge buried his bees for the winter, and, in the spring of 1833, found them in good condition. Dr. Buck, dental surgeon, at Sayre's Hotel. Asa Hartshorn sells out his drugs and jewelry to Bentley & Mitchell. Constitutional reform meetings. December. M. O. Tyler, traveling mer- chant, has a store over that of Lyons & Co .; open Mondays and Tuesdays ; his residence was then one door below B. T. Case's.
1834 .- April. Doctor Daniel Avery Lathrop at the old stand of Dr. Fra- ser ; soon leaves to form partnership with Dr. Leet, in Friendsville. Sharp discussions respecting the act of Legislature which established a system of education by common schools. Frost on the 4th of June. Fourth of July. Twenty-four ladies in white represented twenty-four States. " A novel and handsome display of fireworks in the evening." Friday, July 11th. Tribute to Lafayette; large procession of citizens and school children; funeral ser- mon by Rev. T. Stow. Dental surgeon, J. M. Finch. Preserved Hinds in Montrose Hotel. October. Dr. Porter in house formerly occupied by A. Hartshorn. Montrose furnace and plow-shop by David Post and John Car- man. Wilson & Raynsford, merchants.
1835 .- December. Burying-round to be inclosed with a stone wall. In the spring, a meeting of " those who have enrolled themselves to form a fire company," the old organization having been given up. September. Stephen Hinds in "Farmer's Hotel" (a building that stood below Keeler's). Dr. B. A. Denison where Rev. Burr Baldwin now lives. November. "Itinerant corps dramatique," at Keeler's. J. Etheridge's grocery and provision store -the " Arcade."
1836 .- January 7th. Unprecedented storm, which commenced Thursday evening and continued three days and a part of another; snow over three feet deep on a level, and from six to ten feet where drifted. This storm "ex- ceeded any one probably ever experienced in this part of the country, by our oldest inhabitants." The weather was extremely cold, hundreds of cattle and other animals died-" nothing like it since April 1, 1807." Only one mail in nearly a week. February 18th. " Owing to the extreme depth of the snow in the woods. it is with great difficulty the deer can plunge through it. Our citizens have engaged in hunting them on snow-shoes, and four have
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been caught and brought alive into this place this week." February 25th. Death of Mrs. C. L. Ward, daughter of J. W. Raynsford, Esq. ; she, and the Misses Fanny Post (Mrs. Jackson), A. L. Fraser, Dotha Catlin (Mrs. Wm. L, Post), Mrs. Lusk, and Mary Barnard (Mrs. George Fuller), have been designated as a bevy of " Montrose beauties." March. S. B. Bennet gives a public concert at the Presbyterian church, with a choir of singers trained by him. Dr. W. Terbell purchases the stand of B. A. Denison, M.D. It was said of the latter : "He can't show off so much as Dr.
but he understands the theater of medicine better !" Anti-slavery discus- sions, warm and frequent. E. S. Castle in Montrose Hotel. Webb & Willis- ton', merchants, dissolve. Ladies' " Mental and Moral Improvement Society ;" first meeting in the Presbyterian church. Dr. Josiah Blackman, from Bing- hamton, locates one door below S. S. Mulford. Case & Hancock, hatters. " The Washington Band," of Montrose, give a concert at the Baptist church. The first visit of a governor to Northern Pennsylvania, made by Gov. Ritner, who came to Montrose. The hay scales on the avenue, opposite M. C. Tyler's store.
1837 .- A remarkable aurora borealis, late in January. Dr. B. A. Denison died, aged sixty-four. April 13th. "The bill to charter a bank, to be lo- cated at this place, has become a law." P. Hinds again in Montrose Hotel. "Four daily stages, and one tri-weekly stage, meet here at night and depart in the morning." An immense red barn then stood north of the hotel, with the great doors open on the avenue. J. Etheridge's " Arcade" was next north of it. December. Eld. Dimock's farewell discourse. Bank of Susque- hanna County ; directors elected October 9th; J. C. Biddle (president), Wm. Jessup, I. Post, S. S. Mulford, Wm. Ward, D. Post, F. Lusk, Jesse Lane, C. L. Ward, William L. Post, Daniel Searle, M. S. Wilson, Charles Avery.
1838 .- July. C. F. Read, postmaster, in place of Wm. L. Post. Septem- ber. Dr. Mason Denison died, aged fifty years. Bank began operations Dec. 17th, Isaac Kellum, cashier; broke Nov. 1849, T. P. St. John, cashier. December. Wood-bee for the widows and needy of Montrose. Wood cut on farm of Calvin Cox ; M. C. Tyler, H. J. Webb, and B. S. Bentley, com- mittee.
1839 .- A parting public supper to Judge Herrick. Montrose, Bridge- water, Choconut, New Milford, Jackson, Gibson, and other townships within the bounds of the contemplated new county, send memorials to the Legisla- ture against a division of the county. Susquehanna County Mutual Insur- ance Company ; J. C. Biddle, president, I. Kellum, treasurer, J. W. Rayns- ford, secretary.
1840 .- February 27th. "Snow is quite a stranger in this mountain land ; lilacs begin to bud; at least one farmer has cast in his spring wheat. C. D. Cox in Montrose Hotel. Thomas Jackson, physician. Drs. E. S. Park and Ezra Patrick in partnership.
1841 .- February 5th. Parting supper to Judge Conyngham, by the Sus- quehanna bar. "Festival conducted on temperance principles ;" Judge Conyngham said :-
"Disclaiming every intention of making invidious comparisons, and par- ticularly of speaking one word in disparagement of the county where my residence is located (Luzerne), and over whose courts I am called to preside ; there is no county in Pennsylvania that stands so high in the scale of mo- rality as the county of Susquehanna. This fact, so honorable to the inhabi- tants, is not only established by the records of her courts; it is conceded by all ; and if it had been my lot to have had my residence within her limits, no considerations would have induced me to make the separation." Refer- ring to this, the ' United States Gazette' styles Susquehanna the " Banner County." At this supper, J. T. Richards referred to Horace Williston, Esq., as "Our absent father-in-law." He was one of the most prominent of the
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early non resident lawyers who practiced here. The village cemetery, of one and a half acres, with right of way, purchased for $300.
1842 .- Daguerreotypes taken in Montrose (first time) by Edwin Foot. Montrose procures a cannon. May 21st. Revival of military honors. In June, frosts, the mercury nearly to 0 F. October. Animal magnetism attract- ing attention. 31st. Public meeting to form a fire company (the present No. 1); organized in November. "General Taylor was then hewing his way to the 'Halls of the Montezumas,' and from his mode of fighting had won the sobriquet of Rough and Ready. This name was suggested and adopted."
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