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"No person shall be licensed to keep a public-house who is known to per- mit gambling, drunkenness, or any other disorders in his house, or who is known to be in the habit of permitting the meeting of his neighbors or others at his house on Sundays for the purpose of drinking or other worldly busi- ness."
On the 25th of that month, the Bridgewater and Montrose Society was formed, auxiliary to the " American Society for the
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promotion of Temperance." There was a large number present, and the merchants of the village manifested their approbation by closing their stores during the meeting. Addresses were de- livered by the Rev. D. Deruelle, J. W. Raynsford, and Eld. D. Dimock, after which a constitution was adopted, and officers chosen : D. Post, president; E. Kingsbury, Jr., secretary.
By the 3d of April of that year, the Brooklyn Society had en- rolled 104 members. Their constitution was "formed upon the principles of total abstinence." Dr. Enoch Mack and Rev. Messrs. Cook, Comfort, and Coryell made addresses at a meeting held at the Presbyterian meeting-house, April 3d.
The M. E. church, at a quarterly meeting held in the town of Springville, a little later, passed resolutions encouraging the for- mation of associations to discourage the use of ardent spirits except as a medicine.
June 2d, 1830, a meeting was held in a barn in Springville, on the farm owned by Daniel Spencer (whose distillery was the first in Springville), and a temperance pledge circulated, prohibiting the use of ardent spirits, and a society formed. The first officers were: Volney Avery, president; E. B. Slade, vice-president ; Justus Knapp, secretary ; Gideon Lyman, Thomas Lane, Jethro Hatch, Jonathan Nutt, Thomas Cassedy, Abiathar Tuttle, Daniel S. Avery, managers. The society met quarterly for a few years, but finally disbanded and passed away. Number of names-49 men, 126 women.
By the 12th of July, 1830, the Harford Society reported a membership of 41, which, with the 70 belonging to the female society, organized in June, 1829, made "111 individuals who have pledged themselves to abstinence except in cases of bodily infirmity." Their quarterly meeting, then held, was addressed by Rev. Messrs. Adams and Miller. "Resolved (by the ladies), not to associate with young men who are in the habit of drink- ing spirits."
The annual meeting of the Bridgewater and Montrose Society was held at the Baptist church, 25th October, 1830,' when it was
" Resolved, That a committee be appointed to bring in at the next meet- ing of the society a list of the families within our bounds with a view to the
! The writer does not understand why the annual meeting should have been held only eight months after the organization of the society, nor why it was made auxiliary to the "American Society," rather than to the Susquehanna County Society. It appears that at a meeting held Dec. 19th, 1831, it was re- solved to amend the constitution so as to read, " Auxiliary to the susquehanna County Society ;" and that, instead of holding the annual meeting on Tuesday evening of September court, it should be on the first Monday in January ; and that the Secretary report annually to the Secretary of the Susquehanna County Society. Officers for 1832: E. Kingsbury, Jr., president ; Jeremiah Meacham and Hubbard Avery, vice-presidents ; Wm. Foster, secretary ; and Hyde Crocker, treasurer.
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visiting of every family by the members of the society upon the subject of temperance.
" Resolved, That a committee be appointed to procure a sufficient number of the best publications on the subject of temperance as soon as practicable. " Resolved, That Dr. C. Fraser, Elder D. Dimock, Rev. D. Deruelle, D. Post, Wm. Jessup, and E. Kingsbury, Jr., Esqs., compose said committee."
Officers for the year following: Nehemiah Scott, president ; J. W. Raynsford, Nathaniel Curtis, vice-presidents; Francis Perkins, treasurer; and John F. Deans, secretary.
In the fall of that year, 37 retailers of foreign merchandise and liquors within the county of Susquehanna are reported. All were below the fifth class, that is, their annual sales did not equal $15,000.
The first meeting of a society known as the Choconut and Silver Lake Society, was held on the first Saturday of January, 1830.1 To the constitution then adopted about 40 signatures were attached. Within a year, 91 were pledged to total absti- nence. Gordon Bliss, as secretary, says, January 1st, 1831 :-
"Your committee speak with confidence and pleasure of the beneficial results of the operations of our society. Within the sphere of its influence, the quantity of ardent spirits consumed during the last year is not more than one-fourth as great as in 1827. At one place where whiskey was once vended in the ratio of a barrel per week, the sale has very materially decreased. At another, where a barrel was generally retailed in three months, none is now kept for sale or use. On three or four of the largest farms in the neighbor- hood, where it was a custom to use ardent spirits plentifully in harvest time, not a drop was used during the last season. Mechanics discourage the use of it. Of eighteen within our limits, fifteen use none; and at a brickyard, where it was once thought indispensable, none was furnished during the last season-more and better brick were made than before.
"In this vicinity, there are about thirty families, consisting of at least a hundred and eighty persons, who may be said to entirely abstain from the use of ardent spirits. There are also about the same number who come near the principles and practices of the society-acknowledging its beneficial efforts, but who as yet withhold their names from our constitution. There is still another class consisting of about twenty families who regard tempe- rance societies as dangerous combinations for the ultimate union of Church and State, and for destroying the liberties of our happy Republic."
Added to the influence of Beecher's Sermons about three years previous, the secretary speaks of the circulation of Kitteridge's, Humphrey's, Porter's, and Beman's Addresses, as awakening the public mind on the subject of temperance. Certainly the march forward in the meantime had been remarkably rapid.
Refuting the prejudice against "dangerous combinations," the editors of the 'Register,' in January, 1831, remark, respecting the Susquehanna County Society : "Constituted, as this society is, of members of various denominations of Christians-united
1 So it is stated in the Annual Report, but the compiler is at a loss how to reconcile it with the fact that in March, 1829, there appeared in the 'Susque- hanna Register,' two and a half columns of poetry, being an " address delivered before the Choconut and Silver Lake Society, for the promotion of temperance."
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with many who are under no special religious obligation what- ever-it is wholly impossible that its benevolent design should be perverted to any sectarian or selfish purpose."
Early in 1831, a temperance society was formed in Lawsville, enrolling about 40 members. Its officers for the first year were Nehemiah Park, president; Ebenezer Leighton, vice-president ; Anson Smith, secretary ; and Henry B. Smith, treasurer.
To show to what extent, in 1832, the interest of the public was excited in behalf of temperance, and how thoroughly in earnest its promoters were, a list of the township committees, whose duty it was to present the constitution of the Susquehanna County So- ciety to every person therein, is here given :--
Auburn .- Edward Dawson, Daniel Cooley.
Bridgewater .- James Deans, Hubbard Avery, J. W. Hill, Na- thaniel Curtis, N. Scott, J. Meacham.
Brooklyn .- Edward L. Gere, Thomas Garland, Alfred Mack.
Choconut .- Chauncey Wright, John Mann, Eben Griswold.
Clifford .- Earl Wheeler, Dr. Wm. Terbell, B. P. Bailey.
Great Bend .- P. Catlin, Daniel Lyon, John McKinney.
Gibson .- Wm. Abel, Dr. C. Tyler, Dr. Wm. Pride. Harmony .- John Comfort, Jessie Lane.
Herrick .- Walter Lyon, Jabez Tyler.
Harford .- Joab Tyler, M. Oakley, Enos Thatcher.
Jackson .- H. Bushnell, Daniel Tingley, Simeon Tucker. Lawsville .- Nehemiah Park, Lyman Smith, H. B. Smith. Lenox .- Henry Doud.
Middletown .- J. A. Birchard, Jr., O. Mott, Jr.
Montrose .- D. Dimock, Jr., Wm Foster, A. L. Post.
New Milford .- Seth Mitchell, J. B. Bill, Col. Job Tyler. Rush .- Robert Griffis.
Silver Lake .- Lewis Chamberlin, Edward White, Edwin Bliss. Springville .- Dr. J. Hatch, Jairus Day, Daniel B. Avery.
Wm. Jessup was appointed to represent this society at the an- nual meeting of the Pennsylvania Society.
Of the training days, May 29th and 30th, of the same year, the 'Volunteer' reported thus: "On neither of those days was there to be seen any drunkenness, rioting, or disorderly conduct what- ever."
The Young Men's Society of Montrose and vicinity, was organ- ized June 9, 1832.
On motion of R. B. Gregory, it was
Resolved, That the following gentlemen be officers for the ensu- ing year, viz., Albert L. Post, president; George Williston, and Ezra S. Park, vice-presidents; F. M. Williams, secretary ; H. J. Webb, treasurer; Isaac Fuller, D. C. Warner, and A. G. Dim- ock, committee of vigilance.
The Montrose Temperance Hotel is announced in September
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Benjamin Sayre, proprietor ; who states : " A variety of whole- some and refreshing drinks will be kept as a substitute for ardent spirits." About the time he signed the pledge, in 1829, persons could be accommodated at his restaurant with pies, oysters, etc., and " a cup of hot coffee;" and though his house had then been recently fitted up for the use of the public, no mention was made of liquors for their refreshment.
Benjamin Taylor, of Great Bend, notifies the public that no ardent spirits will be sold at his house after the 1st of January, 1833.
At the meeting of the County Society the preceding January, on motion of O. Collins, it was
" Resolved, That duty to the public demands from the patriot, the moralist, the philanthropist, and the Christian, that, all other things being equal, he should promote the cause of temperance by patronizing those who cease to manufacture, vend, or use ardent spirits, in their common and usual forms."
At the next annual meeting, February 4, 1833, it was stated that the adoption of this resolution being by many members deemed inexpedient, the society without expressing any opinion as to the principle therein contained, deemed it best to rescind the same. The Choconut and Silver Lake Society approved the resolution.
The American Temperance Society had recommended through the State Society, that on the 26th of February, 1833, meetings of temperance societies should be held simultaneously in all the cities, towns, and villages of the United States; it was recom- mended by the Susquehanna County Society, that the township societies hold meetings in accordance with this action of the American Society (composed of twenty-one State societies).
March 4, 1833, the Young Men's Society became a county affair : C. F. Read, secretary, in place of F. M. Williams, resigned.
In 1833, the Second Annual Report of the Choconut and Silver Lake Society (Almerin Turner, president; Lewis Cham- berlin, secretary), stated that " nine-tenths of the hay and grain that was cut and secured within the limits of the society, the summer past, was done without the aid of ardent spirits ; and three-fourths of the mechanics perform their business without using it themselves or furnishing it to their workmen."
April 29, 1833, the Susquehanna County Society and the Young Men's Society, met in conjunction at the court-house, and their united thanks were offered to the Grand Jury for the pre- sentment that day made, in which "the Jury respectfully suggest to the court the policy of suppressing rather than increasing the present number of tavern licenses;" and in which they "con- template with great satisfaction and deep personal interest the laudable efforts in progress by the patriotic citizens of this county, for the suppression of the prolific and destructive vice of intemperance. JAMES NEWMAN, Foreman."
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Hon. D. Dimock, Rev. S. Marks, John Mann, and Wm. Jessup, were appointed delegates to represent both societies in the State Convention the following May, at Philadelphia.
On Thursday evening of the same week, the Young Men's Society elected officers for the ensuing year, making C. L. Ward, president, and Geo. Williston and Ezra S. Park, vice-presidents.
At a meeting in Lawsville, at the Presbyterian meeting-house, May 24, the constitution of a Young People's Society was adopted and signed. Wm. Greene was elected president; S. Park, Jr., and J. Smith, vice-presidents ; and N. Leighton, secre- tary. The following resolution was unanimously passed :-
" Resolved, That we highly approve of the formation of the Young Men's County Temperance Society, but do not deem it expedient to become aux- iliary thereto, so long as its constitution precludes young ladies from mem- bership."
Two years before this, in an address delivered by F. Lusk, A.B., before the Young People's Society, Binghamton, N. Y., he said :-
" Respecting the practicability of soliciting the names of females to our subscription, the only ground of objection, wearing the least shadow of plausibility, consists in the suggestion that by publicly obligating themselves ' to abstain from the use of distilled spirits,' they are in danger of impairing the usual confidence in their acknowledged purity and firmness of character." But he added : "Rather than dampen their zeal in this worthy cause, or diminish their solicitude for a ruder sex, we would heartily solicit their signi- fied approbation, too well convinced of their deep and direct interest in the success of this important undertaking, to reject their kindly proffered assistance."
In May, 1833, the Bridgewater and Montrose Young Men's Society was organized. D. A. Lathrop was elected president ; George V. Bentley and Philander Lines, vice-presidents ; J. H. Dimock, secretary ; Wm. J. Turrell, treasurer ; Chapman Bald- win, James Stout, Elias West, Jr., examining committee. Harris W. Patrick and Silas Perkins were afterwards added to this committee for the purpose of obtaining the names of all the young men in the township and borough, to present them to the society at the next annual meeting. D. Wilmot, Philip Fraser, Benj. Case, and H. W. Patrick were invited to speak.
During the first six months of 1834, a newspaper controversy was maintained with much spirit, respecting the question, Is the making, vending, and using of ardent spirits a moral evil? Per- haps it is not too much to say that from this, in part, arose the distinction afterwards drawn between temperance and total ab- stinence men. The question was originally brought up Dec. 1833, at a quarterly meeting of the County Temperance Society on motion of Wm. Jessup, seconded by J. W. Raynsford, and we find it still open to discussion in November, 1835. At the annual meeting of the Bridgewater and Montrose Young Men's
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Society, the young ladies within the bounds of the society were invited to subscribe their names to the constitution.
In the programme of a 4th of July dinner that year, it was stated that "light wines, lemonade, etc., will be furnished, but ardent spirits wholly excluded from the table."
Early in 1835, the ladies of Montrose were solicited to write essays on the subject. Mrs. L. C. Searle and Miss Lucretia Loomis, each obtained a ten dollar prize.
At the annual meeting of the Harford Society, February 26, 1835, statistics were given, showing that, attached to the consti- tution of the three societies in that town, were 312 names-86 added the previous year.
October 20, 1835, the Bridgewater and Montrose Young Men's Society question thus: " Would it be policy for this society to adopt the principle of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks ?"
New Milford, in the mean time, had been active, holding meet- ings at Haydenville, Moxley's school-house, and even at the Episcopal church.
In 1836, the rise of abolitionism occasioned apparently a lull in the excitement on the subject of temperance; though a pro- position was broached to sustain in Montrose a periodical devoted to its interests, it was never established.
REVIEW OF SOCIETIES FOR FIVE YEARS.
Susquehanna County Society, organized December 1, 1828.
Harford Society, April, 1829.
Harford Ladies' Society, June, 1829.
Brooklyn Society, 1829.
Gibson Society, organized August, 1829.
Choconut Society, January, 1830.
Bridgewater and Montrose Society, February, 1830.
Springville Society, June, 1830.
Lawsville Society, early in 1831.
Susquehanna County Society, auxiliary to State Society, January, 1832.
Young Men's Temperance Society, June, 1832.
Middletown Society, 1832.
Young Men's Society-a county affair-March, 1833.
Lawsville, " don't become auxiliary for cause," May, 1833.
New Milford Society, May, 1833.
Bridgewater and Montrose Young Men's Society, May, 1833.
Young Men's Society (independent), Harford, September, 1834.
In May, 1839, a meeting was held at the court-house, in favor of the proposition before the Legislature, submitting to the people the decision in regard to the sale of intoxicating drinks ; Joab Tyler, chairman.
In July following, great interest was excited in the temperance cause, by a series of lectures from Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, of Wilkes-Barre.
Early in 1840, the court judges at an adjourned session, took
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up the subject of licensing taverns. All manifested a disposition to go to the extent of the law in restraining tippling. One of them stated, "No man may expect to obtain a license who knowingly sells a glass of grog to a person who is in the habit of getting intoxicated."
Temperance meetings were regularly maintained.
Early in 1842, a great impetus was given to them by the rise of the " Washingtonians," or reformed inebriates, and the Sons of Temperance.
For the last fifteen or twenty years, special activity in the temperance cause has been mostly confined to the Good Tem- plars. There have been forty lodges in the county, but at present (April, 1872) there are only twenty-five.
Susquehanna County Good Templars' Lodges.
No. 4. Great Bend. No. 549. Glenwood.
66 92. Crescent, New Milford.
551. Dundaff.
93. Brooklyn.
555. Lathrop, Hop Bottom.
556. South Harford, Harford.
66 439. Lanesboro'.
557. Lenoxville.
441. Thomson Center, Thom- son.
565. Silver Creek, Lawsville
Center.
443. South Gibson.
66 444. Harford.
456. Susquehanna Depot.
460. No Compromise, Gibson.
" 463. Montrose.
66 499. Olive Leaf, Harford.
512. Brackney.
568. Reform, New Milford.
592. East Bridgewater.
618. Cambrian, Uniondale.
632. City, Dundaff.
720. Earnest, West Lenox.
763. Brookdale.
Political action on the subject is now commanding attention
HON. SIMEON B. CHASE .
Was born at Gibson, Susquehanna County, April 18, 1828, and has always resided in this county. By teaching school in winter to earn the means, and studying industriously at all times, he prepared himself to enter Hamilton College, New York, where he graduated with honors in 1851. The expenses of his collegiate course were partially defrayed by his acting as deputy pro- thonotary. Industrious and thrifty, he has paddled his own canoe, as most of our best men have done. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1852; and for four years, commencing with 1851, he edited and published the ' Montrose Democrat' in connection with E. B. Chase.
Politically, he acted with the Democratic party until 1856, when he united in the formation of the Republican party, of which he became a leading and influential member. He was chairman of the State Convention of 1856, which nominated David Wilmot for Governor, and was chairman of com- mittee on nominations in one convention since. In the same year he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, and re-elected in 1857, '58, and '59. Here he took a high rank, occupying the position of chairman of the ways and means, judiciary, and other important committees. He was a prominent candidate for speaker one term, and though not elected, he occupied the speaker's chair most of the session, on account of the protracted illness of the speaker elect. Thoroughly familiar with parliamentary law, self-possessed, firm, an excellent speaker, and of commanding and agreeable address, he makes a good presiding officer.
97. Regulator, North Jackson.
OB Chuse
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He continued the practice of law in addition to his public duties until August, 1868, when he was employed by the Good Templars to give his entire time to the temperance work.
He has worked earnestly with every organization formed to resist the in- crease of intemperance, and more especially with the Sons of Temperance, from 1850 till 1853, and with the Good Templars since that time.
He has been presiding officer of either State or National lodges almost continuously, from 1856 till the present time, sixteen years, and has attended every session of the R. W. G. L. of North America, over which he presided for five consecutive years. He is now the honored W. C. T. of Pennsylvania, a position he has filled for seven years with ability and dignity.
He is a polished writer, and has written much that has exerted an influence at the time and since.
He has written more or less on the rituals, platforms, etc,, of the order, largely shaping the policy and purposes of the Good Templars of Pennsyl- vania and the Union.
He has resided at Great Bend for the last twenty years.
CHAPTER XLIV.
SECRET SOCIETIES AND THE CENSUS.
MASONRY IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
THE following is a list of the lodges, chapters, and command- eries :-
1. A masonic lodge in Clifford was installed January 24, 1811. Its officers were David Taylor, Jonathan Wilber, Joseph Potter, Oliver Granger, and Abel Kent. The sermon on the occasion was preached by Rev. E. Kings- bury.
2. Nothing further is known of this lodge, but it is possible, that as Gib- son was then a part of Clifford, the " NORTH STAR" Lodge, No. 119, installed at Gibson in 1816, may have superseded the former.
3. The "RISING SUN" Lodge, No. 149, in Montrose, was chartered Decem- ber 2, 1816 ; Jonah Brewster, W. M. ; Perez Perkins, S. W .; Wm. C. Turrell, J. W. B. T. Case, Isaac Post, and George Clagget formed a committee in this lodge, and at its installation Eld. Davis Dimock preached a sermon. Mason Denison, and Hiram Finch were later officers. It closed its working in the year 1825. [There is incidental mention of "Franklin" Lodge in the year 1824, as not remote; but its location is not given.]
4. The " EVENING STAR" Lodge, No. 206, in Middletown (at Bostwick's- now in Forest Lake), was chartered September 5, 1825 ; Wm. C. Turrell, W. M .; Seth Taylor, S. W .; Jonathan C. Sherman, J. W. It ceased its work in 1827.
5. The " MORNING DAWN" Lodge, No. 207, in Brooklyn, was chartered June 5, 1826 ; Ebenezer Gere, W. M .; Charles R. Marsh, S. W .; Joseph Lines, J. W. Closed in 1827.
6. "MONTROSE" Lodge, No. 213, in Montrose, was chartered September 23, 1827 ; Jonah Brewster, W. M. ; James W. Hill, S. W .; Daniel Lathrop, J. W. Closed in 1828.
7. " WARREN" Lodge, No. 240, in Montrose, was chartered June 4, 1849 ;
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Robert C. Simpson, W. M .; Ezra S. Park, S. W .; James W. Chapman, J. W.
8. "GREAT BEND" Lodge, No. 338, at Great Bend Borough. Chartered March, 1860 ; John H. Dusenbury, W. M .; R. T. Stephens, S. W .; George W. Orange, J. W.
9. A lodge was installed at Clifford three or four years ago ; Ezra Lewis, Dr. Gardner, and M. C. Stewart, officers.
10. "CANAWACTA" Lodge, No. 360, at Susquehanna Depot. Chartered December 18, 1865 ; Wm. M. Post, W. M .; George N. Brown, S. W .; H. P. Moody, J. W.
11. " HARFORD" Lodge, No. 445, is held in Harford.
12. A lodge is also at work, it is believed, in New Milford.
1. WARREN CHAPTER, No. 180, at Montrose, was chartered February 19, 1855; George L. Stone, H. P. ; Braton Richardson, K .; Samuel S. Benjamin, Scribe.
2. GREAT BEND H. R. A. CHAPTER, No. 210, at Great Bend. Chartered May, 1866 ; J. H. Dusenbury, J. P .; C. P. Bigelow, M. D., K. ; T. D. Hays, Scribe.
1. GREAT BEND COMMANDERY, No. 27, at Great Bend. Chartered June, . 1867; J. H. Dusenbury, Commander ; T. D. Hays, General; G. F. Thompson, Cap. Gen.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. Subordinate Lodges.
MONTROSE, No. 151. Instituted at Montrose, March, 1846. Present members 150
CANAWACTA,
207.
66 New Milford, Dec. 1847. Surrendered charter.
BROOKLYN, 313.
Brooklyn, July, 1848. Present members 60
STARUCCA, 66 423. Susquehanna Depot.
Present members 105
FRIENDSVILLE, 471. Friendsville.
Surrendered charter.
HURON, 66 483.
Jackson.
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LIVE OAK, 635.
Harford. 30
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