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Dr. Harris Otis, a native of Scituate, Mass., came to Danby in 1793. Al- though a finely educated physician, he withdrew by degrees from the practice of medicine and devoting himself entirely to farming, accumulated a handsome property in land and became especially noted as a dairyman. He resided where his son William now lives; the farm is carried on by Harris F. Otis, his grandson. He was a leading Quaker. He died on the 8th of August, 1847, in the seventy-third year of his age.
In 1795 Jacob Bartlett, from Rhode Island, settled near the present farm of Michael Cunningham, his birch-pole house then being on the old road, since discontinued. He was a blacksmith and a member of the Quaker society. His death occurred in Granville, N. Y., in 1837. Caleb Buffum came here in 1797, from Providence, R. I., and after carrying on the blacksmithing business until 1806, purchased the trip-hammer and shop of Samuel Dow, and remained there about twelve years. From 1818 to 1841 he resided in Mount Tabor. Then he returned to Danby and kept the tavern several years. He died in 1857, at Rutland, being seventy-six years of age. Elkanah Parris, a Quaker from Pembroke, Mass., came in 1797, to the west part of the town and re- mained until his death, in 1813. Abner Bartlett, of Rhode Island, came in 1798, and built a log cabin on the hill a little east of Erastus Kelley's, and in 1799, a framed house still farther east. He worked at blacksmithing part of the time with his brother, Jacob, until 1801, when he died of small-pox. Dr. Adam Johnson, of Norton, Mass., established a residence near the site of the old Quaker meeting-house, and afterwards bought out Dr. Tolman about a quarter of a mile west of the Corners, as before noted. He had formerly been physician on board a privateer ; had been a prisoner six months in the tower of London, and when liberated found that he had been robbed of all his earn- ings. He died in 1806, in the fifty-fifth year of his age.
The most prominent arrivals in 1800 were Elisha Brown, Asa Brown, Ru- fus Bucklin and William Green. There were, of course, in the interim between the first settlement in Danby and 1800 a great many homes founded here which have not been mentioned. Among these other immigrants were John Allen, who settled where Michael Carley now lives; Gideon Barnum, Benja- min Brownell, John Brock, Captain John Burt, Dennis Canfield, Joshua Col- vin, Jonathan Crandall, Jacob Eddy, Dr. Ira M. Frazer, John Hart, Roger Williams, Henry Herrick, sr., Henry Herrick, jr., Abel Horton, sr., Nicholas Jenks, Benjamin Kelley, William Lake, Jesse Lapham, Henry Lewis, Peter Lewis, James Lincoln, Elisha Lincoln, Darius Lobdel, Rev. Jared Lobdel, James McDaniels, Gideon Moody, Lieutenant John Mott, John Palmer, Ca- leb Phillips, Benjamin Phillips, Israel Phillips, John Priest, William Roberts, Nathan Saulsbury, Daniel and Elihu Sherman, Henry Signor, Wesson Sowl, Rowland Stafford, Abraham Staples and Elisha Tryon.
Meanwhile the population had grown to the number of 1,487 souls, over
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two hundred more than the town possesses to-day. The forests had not, it is true, been felled as they have been since. The houses, many of them, were still built of logs, and everything presented the aspect of a new and opening country. The town had been organized about thirty-one years, the first town meeting having been held at the house of Timothy Bull on the 14th of March, 1769. The first officers were : Timothy Bull, moderator; Thomas Rowley, town clerk ; Stephen Calkins, Seth Cook and Crispin Bull, selectmen ; Daniel Vanolendo, constable ; Nathan Weller, treasurer ; Peter Irish, collector; John Stafford, surveyor; Joseph Earl, Stephen Calkins and Seth Cook, committee to lay out highways. In the fall of that year it was voted to lay out five new roads, the first being from the Notch in the mountain to Joseph Earl's (near the site of John Hillard's present residence) ; this was the first road in town ; thence it was to continue to the house of Micah Vail. Two roads were to start at Micah Vail's, one to lead north and the other east. The fifth road was laid out from the house of Jesse Irish, in the northern part of the town, to the house of Nathaniel Fisk, in the eastern part.
These were times, indeed, "that tried men's souls." Perpetual struggle, unremitting warfare, from year to year. First the bitter hardships that had to be endured, the obstacles that had to be surmounted or removed, in gaining a livelihood in the wilderness; then, the strife between the inhabitants, who al- most universally claimed under New Hampshire grants, and the "haughty land-jobbers of New York," as Ethan Allen described them. While at the same time, for years, raged the battles between tyranny and independence, be- tween the British invaders, with their hireling Hessians, and their blood-thirsty Indian allies on the one side, and the sturdy resisters of oppression on the other ; a people whom Burgoyne described as being the most active and most rebellious race on the continent, which " hangs like a gathering storm on my my left." The citizens here felt the most bitter hatred against the Tories, who were found here in some numbers, and who were sometimes shot down at their own doors or hanged on the nearest tree. During Burgoyne's invasion a company of militia was organized here. Some of the residents participated in the battle of Bennington.
Thirty years of peace intervened between the close of the Revolutionary War and the breaking out of the War of 1882. Twenty-two of the citizens of Danby took an active part in this war, of whom thirteen were drafted, while there have been forty-seven of its citizens who served in the Revolution.
Among the curious customs of these times may be mentioned that of warn- ing the inhabitants who were exposing the town to cost, without owning real estate, by the service of a mandate upon the constable commanding the unwel- come residents to leave the town within a specified time. According to the records, twenty-one families were warned out of town during the eight years following 1778. It was a custom initiated by the passage in 1779 of a law
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requiring it, for each town to elect annually a "horse brander," whose duty it was to brand every horse belonging in town. The letter for Danby was " I." But this custom fell into disuse when horses became a subject of general specu- lation and trade as much as a beast of burden. In 1784, at a special town meeting held on the 26th of January, it was voted to erect a whipping-post and stocks near the house of Abraham Chase. This was done in pursuance of an act passed by the Legislature in 1779, for the purpose of punishing delinquents and exhibiting notifications, warrants, etc.
In 1791, when the population was 1,206, framed houses had been erected largely in the place of the rude log cabins of earlier days, in consequence of the building by Stephen Calkins of a saw-mill; schools had been started in the several parts of the town, and roads had been opened sufficiently to render travel to and from any part of the town an easy matter. By 1800, when the population had increased two hundred and eighty-one persons, great progress had been made in the clearing of the land, and nearly every farm in town was under cultivation. Three saw-mills had been built, two churches erected, while two stores and three hotels were in operation. At that time, and, indeed, un- til the opening of the railroad through the " borough," the "Corners " was the most thickly-settled part of the town. " Dutch Hill," " Ox-Bow," "Bromley Hollow " and " South America " had all been settled. In 1810 there were at the " Corners " two stores, kept respectively by James McDaniels and James Weeks.
Danby suffered in common with a hundred other towns in New England and New York from the cold season of 1816, and the famine that followed in the ensuing year. Grass and the grains were a complete failure. Many of the inhabitants were reduced to the last extremity, and but for the succor of will- ing and more able friends must, perhaps, have perished of want. The popula- tion diminished after 1810 until 1840, when a slight increase was shown over the previous census report, which, in 1830, was 1,362, and in 1840, 1,379. The next ten years witnessed a very decided growth, but since 1850 the num- ber of inhabitants in town has gradually fallen off. The condition of the town in 1840, as given in Thompson's Gazetteer, was as follows: A society of Friends or Quakers had then a meeting-house in the east part of the town, while the Separatists, or Orthodox Friends, had another in the north part. A society of Methodists, one of Baptists, and one of Universalists, owned, jointly, three houses of worship, in the central, south and east parts respectively. There were several marble quarries in the southeast part, and in the east village three mills for sawing marble. The town was divided into thirteen school districts. There were two grist-mills, five saw-mills, five stores, two taverns, two tanner- ies, and one trip-hammer in town.
The Town in the Civil War .- When the war of 1861-65 was ended, Dan- by's war debt was wholly paid, notwithstanding that her bounties aggregated
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$18,625, ranging each from $100 to $1,200. The quotas required under the several calls of the president were promptly filled. Under the president's call for 500,000 men on the 18th of July, 1864, the town has the following record : Number enrolled, 137 ; quota, 24; excess of credit from previous calls, 18 ; number to be raised on July 31, 1864, only six.
The town furnished the following named soldiers in the last war: Aaron H. Baker, first and second enlistment, co. E, 5th regt .; Albert A. Baker, co. E, 5th regt .; Henry J. Baker, co. F, 6th regt .; Holden D. Baker, Joel C. Baker, co. B, 9th regt .; Elias S. Baker, John F. Baker, co. B, 14th regt .; Luman A. Ballou, co. G, 7th regt .; William H. Bond, first and second enlistment, co. A, 2d regt .; Chester Bradley, first and second enlistment, co. D, 7th regt .; James W. Bromley, first and second enlistment, co. B, 2d regt .; Erwin E. Bromley, co. E, Ist cav .; Henry Bromley, co. B, 14th regt .; P. A. Broughton, co. I, 7th regt .; George A. Bucklin, co. H, 10th regt .; Elisha Bull, first and second en- listment, co. B, 7th regt .; Bernice M. Buxton, co. D, 7th regt .; Thomas Bur- nett, U. S. N .; Job H. Colvin, co. C, 10th regt .; Alonzo N. Colvin, co. K, 14th regt .; Charles A. Cook, George M. Cook, first and second enlistments, Co. D, 7th regt .; William S. Cook, co. E, 2d s. s .; Morris H. Cook, co. I, 7th regt .; John Cook, co. B, 14th regt .; William Corey, co. C, 10th regt .; Albert Cran- dall, co. H, Ist cav .; his second enlistment, co. B, 14th regt .; Evarard Cran- dall, co. I, 7th regt .; William Crandall, co. H, Ist cav .; Francis E. Crapo, co. K, 14th regt .; Daniel V. Croff, co. B, 14th regt .; Ezra Croff, co B, 14th regt .; Israel T. Croff, co. H, 10th regt .; Alonzo E. Doty, co. H, Ist cav .; Henry Den- ver, co. D, 7th regt .; Benjamin F. Dawson, co. K, 14th regt .; Gary H. Emer- son, Orange G. Emerson, Hiram R. Edgerton, first and second enlistments, co. E, 2d s. s .; Caleb P. Fisk, co. B, 14th regt .; James Fitzpatrick, U.S.N .; Mar- tin Flanagan, co. D, 7th regt. ; Edwin M. Fuller, George Gardner, William Gardner, first and second enlistments, co. F, 6th regt .; Warren Gifford, co. B, 2d regt .; Danforth B. Gilmore, co. 1, 7th regt .; Spencer Green, co. B, 9th regt .; Smith Green, Gardner F. Griffith, co. B, 14th regt .; Hiram P. Griffith, co. I, 7th regt .; Julius C. Griffith, co. B, 14th regt .; John E. Hagar, co. F, 6th regt .; Henry M. Hall, co. F, Ist s. s .; Enos Harrington, jr., co. B, 14th regt .; Sewall T. Howard, co. E, 2d s. s .; George E. Kelley, co. B, 7th regt. ; John Kelley, first and second enlistments, co. F, 6th regt .; David H. Kelley, Isaac W. Kelley, co. B, 14th regt .; Daniel H. Lane, co. B, 14th regt .; second enlist- ment, co. E, 17th regt .; Lysander B. Lord, co. B, 14th regt .; John Maker, co. F, 6th regt .; John McIntyre, co. H, Ist cav .; John Mylott, first and second enlistments, co. D, 7th regt .; James C. Moore, co. F, 6th regt .; John Murphy, U. S. N .; Joel T. Nichols, first and second enlistments, co. D, 7th regt .; Jared L. Parris, co. H, 2d s. s .; John J. Parris, co. E, 2d s. s .; Foster J. Parris, co. B, 14th regt .; Isaac Porter, co. F, Ist regt .; George W. Potter, co. G, 7th regt .; Gustavus Reed, co. B, 2d regt .; George P. Risdon, co. H, 10th regt .; Charles
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A. Roberts, co. G, 7th regt .; Elbert Sherman, co. C, 9th regt .; William W. Stimson, co. B, 14th regt .; Richard Stone, co. G, Ist cav .; George Stults, co. I, 7th regt .; Elisha Sweat, co. K, 14th regt .; Francis Sylvester, U. S. N .; Charles H. Tarbell, first and second enlistments, co. F, 6th regt .; Abner W. Tarbell, James M. Tarbell, first and second enlistments, co. E, 2d s. s .; George F. Taylor, co. B, 9th regt .; John C. Thompson, co. B, 14th regt. ; James Thompson, U. S. N .; Thomas Van Guilder, co. D, 7th regt .; Henry H. Vaughan, co. B, 14th regt .; Orsemus W. Weaver, first and second enlistments, co. D, 7th regt .; Merrick G. Wilkins, co. C, 11th regt .; Moses O. Williams, co. F, 5th regt .; Martin V. Williams, co B, 14th regt., second enlistment, 6th regt .; John C. Williams, William Wightman, co. B, 14th regt .; Moses O. Wheeler, co. I, 7th regt .; Alonzo White, co. E, 2d s. s .; Harvey S. Woodard, co. I, 7th regt .; Daniel Woods, co. C, 10th regt .; three unknown men.
The following persons who were drafted in August, 1863, paid commuta- tion, $300 each : Oliver G. Baker, Joseph Fisk, Lyman Fisk, jr., Lemuel Har- rington, Simeon E. Harrington, Erastus Kelley, Jeremiah Ragan, Edward J. Reed, and Henry G. Thompson. Procured substitute : Oratus Kelly. En- tered service : Isaac Porter.
The earliest manufactured products of the town were maple sugar and potash. Woolen factories, grist-mills, saw-mills and tanneries have also been erected and operated at various times. Jonathan Barrett built the first woolen factory about the year 1810, a mile and a half south of the Corners. He op- erated a carding-machine in connection with it. Barrett failed and the factory closed forever in 1821. That same year David Youngs built another in the East village, or "the Borough," which he ran until it burned in 1837. A third one was built about the same time at Scottsville and operated by Joseph Brownell. John Bishop ran a cloth-dressing and fulling mill at an early day, just west of the site of Erastus Kelley's saw-mill. This business has been ex- tinct in town for nearly forty years. The first grist-mill in town was erected and operated by Stephen Calkins as early as 1780, and continued many years. Andrew White built one near the east village, in 1795. The first saw-mill was built about 1790, by Stephen Rogers, near the George F. Kelley place. Soon afterward Stephen Calkins erected one on the site of Erastus Kelley's present mill. Still another one was built at a very early day by Henry Frost, near the residence of Mrs. Mary Ann Bull, and afterwards rebuilt by Jazaniah Bar- rett. The first tannery was built by Micajah Weed near the present farm of Mrs. W. M. Parris. Daniel Sherman erected one about the same time (1800) where Albert Mathewson now lives, and Isaac Nichols operated another for a long time on the site of the present residence of Isaac J. Nichols. In 1810 Peleg Nichols, Hosea Williams and Bradford Barnes built a tannery at the east village. Two years later Daniel Healy started one at Scottsville, which he subsequently sold to Job Scott. It remained in Scott's hands nearly thirty
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years. Adin Green built the next one at the east village and was succeeded by Amasa Bancroft, and he by O. B. Hadwin, who four or five years ago con- verted it into a grist-mill and runs it as such now. Joseph, Jesse and Elisha Lapham built a tannery in 1821, on the site of D. E. Gorton's place. Others of a smaller capacity have been at various times operated by John Vaughan, Anthony Colvin, Thomas Nichols. There is no tannery in town now. There have been in town two trip-hammers used in the manufacture of edged tools. Samuel Dow built the first one at the east village, in 1795, and Savid Bartlett and Isaac Southwick built the other in 1810, near the residence of Henry B. Kelley. Benjamin Phillips also erected a furnace very early near the present residence of Edwin Staples, and carried on the business many years.
The marble industry has been prominent in Danby until within a few years, but owing to the inferior quality of the product, as compared with the Rutland marbles, the business has gone down. Previous to 1840 James Lincoln and others gained a livelihood here by hewing gravestones out of the native marble. The first mills were erected at the east village, one by William, Alfred and Albert Kelley, and the other by Moulton Fish, Elisha Fish and Allen Congor. In 1841 Aaron and Elisha Rogers and Seth Griffith built the third. In 1845 John T., George and Gardner Griffith built one, and continued it for a number of years. In 1848 another mill was built and operated by William Haskins and Hiram Kelley. Aaron Rogers, jr., William Stimpson and Hannibal Hop- kins began sawing marble in 1850. The opening of the railroad stimuluted this industry, as it did all industries in the east village. George F. Kelley erected a mill soon after the road was completed, which was subsequently op- erated by Albert and Alfred Kelley. John H. Vail, who acquired the prop- erty, disposed of it to the present owner, James Connor. The mill is disused. Other firms and corporations were organized, but lasted only a short time.
The first tavern in town was kept on the site of the poor-house as early as 1775 by Captain John Burt. Abraham Chase kept an inn from about 1778 to 1800 about a mile south of the Corners, near the house of the late Alvah Risdon, and was followed until 1810 by Henry Frost. The building was then converted into a store. About the year 1800 Elisha Brown built the first tavern at the Corners, and remained there for years. He was followed by Henry Herrick, jr., who kept tavern in town, in all, twenty-one years. He built and for several years attended the famous " Red House," being succeeded by Nicholas Jenks, who remained until 1823. The old Red House still stands, though unoccupied. Barton Bromley built a public house at the west end of the Corners about 1830, out of the old Methodist meeting-house. Arwin Hutchins first ran it, and Nicholas Jenks followed him. The first inn at the east village, or Borough, was built by Rowland Stafford in 1795, near the site of the present hotel, and was followed in 1802 by Samuel Dow. Bradford Barnes kept one just north of the village, on the farm now owned by Austin
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Baker, in 1800. Abraham Anthony also kept tavern at an early day where where the Phillips brothers now live. The hotel which stood on the site of the present hotel was built in 1804, by William Webber, who was followed, four years later, by Dr. McClure. Elisha Southwick then kept it a short time and was succeeded by Augustus Mulford, during whose proprietorship it burned, in 1812. Mulford immediately rebuilt on the same ground the present hotel. Hosea Williams followed him, and was succeeded by Rufus Bucklin, jr., who remained until 1820. Caleb Buffum kept the house from 1841 to 1847, and then Levi Barrett until 1851. For a number of years after that the landlords remained only a year. The present proprietor, William H. Bond, succeeded Lytle Vance about the year 1869.
The first store in town was opened by Henry Frost in 1790, in connection with the tavern. Jazaniah Barrett, his successor, remained until about 1810. Elisha Tryon opened a store in 1805, and about the same time Isaac Southwick kept one near the present residence of C. G. Herrick. James McDaniels suc- ceeded the former and contemporaneously with James Weeks engaged in the first mercantile business at the Corners in 1810. They were followed by many others. S. & N. J. Smith built a large store in 1830 and conducted the business many years. Miner Hilliard built one soon after, and some time later was followed by Croff & Bates, Mr. Brown, and finally by P. Holton & Co. Mr. Holton is now in New York, and the only store at the Corners is kept by William F. Otis. The old McDaniels store, after being occupied by various merchants, came at last into the hands of Bucklin & Vail. Three or four years ago it was destroyed by fire. There is no store at present at Scottsville, though Jobb Scott started one there about 1825 and remained in the business more than thirty years. S. E. Harrington was the last merchant there. The first store at the east village was built and opened by Oliver Arnold in 1803, near the site of Frank Bromley's residence. His successors were Robert Green and David Youngs. About the same time Elisha and Jesse Lapham built a store on the farm now owned by D. E. Gorton. Hosea Williams built one in 1808, on the site of the present hotel, and which forms the ell of that building. Jesse. Lapham, who followed him, remained until 1812, when he erected a new store on the site of James Fullom's house. Isaac and Platt Vail afterwards kept it. Jesse Lapham erected the store now kept by William Pierce in 1836 and con- ducted the business for years. Since then H. G. Lapham, R. J. Vail, R. A. Vail & Co. (about 1840), William Sperry, C. M. Bruce (about ten years), A. Smith and J. B. Lapham have kept there. William Pierce followed Bruce about 1868. Since 1810 Eggleston & Youngs, Seth Griffith, Caleb Buffum and others have kept store in the east village. About 1855 a union store was established, Daniel Bromley and J. C. Thompson being agents. W. H. Bond afterwards occupied it as a tin and hardware store. It burned in about 1867. The store building west of the east village, occupied by L. S. Waldo, was erected soon.
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after the opening of the marble industry by William Kelley. The store now occupied by C. H. & W. B. Griffith was built by S. L. Griffith in 1862. The present occupants, brothers of the builder, went in there about 1865. The store now occupied by O. A. Adams was built in 1867, by C. M. Bruce, who was succeeded by J. C. Griffith ; after he went out the building remained va- cant a short time. Then A. S. Adams & Co. occupied it four or five years, going out in the spring of 1880. After a vacancy of five years O. A. Adams occupied it in the spring of 1885. The hotel store, now occupied by McIn- tyre & Griffith, was built by Wm. H. Bond in the spring of 1880 and leased at once to A. S. Adams & Co. On the first of April, 1885, Eugene McIntyre and S. L. Griffith succeeded them. The first hardware store in town was kept by Nichols & Button, and afterward by J. B. Nichols. In 1865 William H. Bond succeeded Nichols and still remains in the business. W. D. Smead opened his tin shop four or five years ago.
The grist-mill now owned and operated by Henry B. Jenkins was built in 1846 by Nathan L. Baker, and Joseph Bartlett. The latter soon sold his in- terest to Mr. Baker, who in 1864 transferred it to H. B. Jenkins. The saw- mill of Erastus Kelley was built by Stephen Calkins, probably before the year 1800. Mr. Kelley succeeded his father, Nelson, more than ten years ago and rebuilt the mill in 1878, the old one having burned. E. Minett manufactures cheese boxes in connection with wagon-making. He succeeded his father, Henry, about 1866. S. L. Griffith started a wagon shop here in 1880, in which he manufactured most of the wagons for his own use, and did work for others. (See History of Mount Tabor.)
The Otter Creek News was started at the Corners about 1865 by John C. Williams, the author of an exhaustive and excellent history of Danby. He published the paper only two or three years ; the printing being done in Rut- land. About 1868 A. S. Baker & Son (Charles S.) took the paper and had the printing done in Bennington. The enterprise was abandoned about 1872.
The first postmaster at the east village is not positively known. Adin H. Green kept the office as early as 1836. Joseph R. Green and A. R. Vail then held it about four years each. Andrews Eggleston was postmaster eight or ten years. A. R. Vail, S. L. Griffith, C. M. Bruce, James Fish and J. C. Griffith, have all had the office here for a time, the last named holding it nearly twelve years. He was succeeded by the present incumbent, O. A. Adams, in the summer of 1885. The present postmaster at the Corners, William F. Otis, succeeded J. C. Williams about ten years ago. P. Holton held the office seven or eight years before that, having succeeded G. J. Locke. Locke's predecessor was Jeptha Frost.
The Professions. - There are at present no lawyers in Danby. The med- ical profession is ably represented by Drs. E. O. and F. E. Whipple. Dr. E. O. Whipple was born at Athens, Windsor county, Vt., on the 20th of June, 1820.
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