TOWN OF MORAVIA.
458
living, viz : James, who is a hardware
merchant at Kelloggsville,
Eliza, wife of John
Cuykendall, in Michigan, and Allen and Philetus,
dren
Village
are
in Moravia.
Rogers
this
time,
or
the
commenced
He
Moravia.
yards at
manufacture
therefor over a
While
he
inventor
the
of
credited
and
demonstrated
Jethro
by
iron plow, to
invention, for
him for
by
creek
mill
dam
he
privilege,
furnace
side
difficulty
little
land
two, from
the
a
furnace
west side of
the road, near the
of
and
the
north-west of
Expe
to the water
Montville,
built
a
grist-mill,
commenced, in company with Isaac Watts
Skinner, his brother-in-law, the manufacture of
This
was soon
was erected near
few years,
falls,
A
junction
kettle
potash
blasts,
they
when
the
at
the
burned
same
to the
removed
Mill
of
which were conveyed
into
and another
and
site,
occupied a
foot
Pierce
and
was still used
trough and emptied
down,
of
the
means of an open
tube, without
September ist,
an upright
the aid of
any other machinery.
1 8 19, Jethro Wood patented an improvement on
his plow, and December 8th, 1821, Messrs. Rog
ers
to
& Skinner
manufacture
the plow
of which
they
were
ly
They
1824.
the
destroyed
dam
contract with
under
his
great
him
consideration
contract was canceled
June
continued
freshet
of
and other property.
partnership
to any
patent
each
one
July,
the works, together
before the
May
the
furnace there
1833, completely
with
the
factory
13th, 1833,
short
freshet, Rogers had formed
with
him
dollar for
to pay
This
set of castings.
until
a
they deemed advisable, in
extent
24th,
into
entered
Geo. C.
Lathrop
for
Catholic,)
free,
department,
an excellent
two printing
various
kinds,
two
Geo. W. Gifford
1863,
the
a co
pur
making and vending cast iron plows and
iron castings. Rogers died December 20th,
aged 75.
two National
offices, twenty-nine
hotels,
Paul &
and
stores of
(kept
two markets,
Childs,)
&
Hopkins,)
two tailor shops,
Alleeand T. J.
three
by
har
and
marble
flouring-mills,
by
Benjamin
photographer, (T. T.
one
Hinman Bros',
Tuttle.)
tom
Green,)
(kept
works,
two
cus
two carriage
blacksmith shops, (kept
shops, six
R. T. Mc Geer, C. W.
by
Brigden, G. H. McGeer, Albert Morse, G. W.
Boardman and Seth Loomis,) two lumber yards,
(Lowe & Pulver
foundry and
and
Foster &
machine
a
shop,
a
was
incorporated
population
of
May
a
chair
ist, 1837,
factory,
The
1,500.
about
a
saw-mill, three
one
factory,
cheese
and
Barber, props.,)
village
and reincorpo
March 15th, 1859.
Merchants. The first
merchant in the
His*
lage was Cotton Skinner.
store stood
rated under a special act
Church
church.
He formed
business
cantile
a
with
vil
on
Congregational
the
opposite
street,
co-partnership in the mer
Jabez Bradley, of Genoa,
February 14th, 1804. He
dising within a few years
town, buying his goods at
commenced merchan
moving into the
Utica.
after
Hon. Rowland Day, father of W. H. Day,
opened a store in 1810, in the west end of Amos
Stoyell's old house, which stood on the corner of
Church
which
Main streets, in the back part of
he lived.
Artemas Cady was clerk.
In
18 12 or
wards
and
'13
he
erected
known
as
the
frame
the "old
was
succeeded
William H.
about
Day,
1835
his brother
building,
after
He
store."
yellow
pose of
other
graded union
shops, (kept by D. C. Brown, Geo. D. Foot,
agent for F. A. Tallman of
Syracuse, and Line
planing-mills,
creeks.
for reducing their
by
banks,
eighteen
five churches, (Baptist, Con
Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal and
with academic
school,
here for the last
erected
contains
gregational,
Roman
It
twenty buildings
is distant from Auburn
It
It
miles.
is increas
village
an average of
have been
years.
its
to
business importance.
and
that
estimated
The
prosperity.
population
largely
contributed
S.
the
on
ness
and
plows.
in
and
furnish Wood
to
with regard
to
is
five
the village,
south of
the purpose, on
removed
a
and
per annum
on
Deacon John Stoyell, Sr.
of
some
riencing
trial made
a
or
a year
ing
has
which
which
finished,
plow was
Adams,
north
and
C. R. R.,
Auburn,
south of
make
July ist, 1814.
incredulity which
an arrangement
for
in the County,
tion
patent
by
success,
Abel
castings
the
log
a
into
entered
the
after
by
now owned
built
importuned
cast
letters
received
consented,
with
purpose.
sharing in the general
Wood with being visionary, reluctantly
Rogers,
he
in
the
that
patterns and castings of
Wood had
used
growth
was
from the lake, a little south-west
the town.
It is the principal sta
miles
of the center of
blacksmith's
for
prepared
thus engaged
the
four
steel
of
iron
the
melted
casting the weights
forge, in a kettle
Wood,
Elias
shortly previous,
Moravia.
Moravia is pleasantly situated on the flats,
near the junction
of Mill Creek and the Inlet,
about
About
of
by
Samuel E.
and son.
and
After four
w
s"<
QjjliAXju^^C^'
Hon. William Titus,
eldest child of Zadock and Anna Titus, was
Sempronius, Cayuga Co., N. Y., July 21st, 1803. His father
was born in Stillwater, Saratoga
County, N. Y., November f3th, 1776,
and in the winter of 1795, emigrated to the town of
Sempronius,
then in Onondaga County, with an ox team, bringing with him his
born in
mother and
two sisters.
miles north-east of
north-west part of
acres a
half
thereto 50
Moravia,
the
first'
settled
town
of
he
and one-half
in 1797 to lot
Sempronius.
Sayles Corners,
May 29th, 1801,
Anna Greenfield,
about one
and removed
present
mile north of
acres.
[Hinckley]
He
and
56,
in the
He took up 127
subsequently added
in marriage with
was united
her parents, William and Prudence
the latter's mother from the town of Gal
who came with
Greenfield
and
way, Saratoga County, N.Y. Zadock and Anna Titus were the parents
of ten children, seven sons and three
daughters, all of whom were
born upon the farm upon which Zad ock settled in 1797. Zadock died
November 6th, 1836, and his wife August 3d, 1860.
William Titus, the subject of this sketch, remained upon his
man of
young
his own
good
He was
age.
bye, believing
that he
bed in
placed on a
His friends bade
wooden springs.
him,
as
a wagon with
they supposed,
He
would never return.
a
final
first to
went
Saratoga
Springs, thence to Troy, N. Y., where, his health having
improved, so that he could walk two or three rods, he
took passage on the sloop Thames, commanded
by Capt. Underhill,
and in seven days arrived in New
York, about six weeks after leav
ing home, weak and emaciated. As soon as he was able, and before
somewhat
thought he was, he
others
continuing this
with
health
In June,
fished
sea and
September,
he
when
and
bathed,
home
returned
restored.
1824, he
the
entered
store of
There be learned to
ville, as clerk.
sell merchandise on
ing the
to
went out
practice until
germs of a
L. & I.
make
credit, the current
maturing genius,
Fuller,
whiskey
and
medium of
at
Kelloggs
potash,
the day.
and somewhat
and
to
develop
astonishing his
father's farm till the spring of 1822. May 6th, 1812, when a little less
nine years old, he went to Auburn, fifteen miles, on
horseback,
by his successful innovations upon established customs.
November 2d, 1825, the junior partner died. In September, 1824, he
joined Kadiant Lodge F. & A. 31., of Sempronius. He was imme
diately made secretary and remained such during his stay in the
to purchase
place, three
than
in the
stone
a
jug
of
molasses, the
to balance it
other end
jug in
across
one end of a
bag
and a
his horse.
On returning
Gen. Van Rensse
he had the distinction of riding in company with
laer and staff. The General, his aids and two others
rode
leisurely
associates
April
dise
years.
1st, 1826, he formed
with
fcflade &
Luther Fuller
Titus,
which continued one
along in a carriage, accompanied by four others on horseback, all
in full uniform, with sharp hats, red-faced coats and white
vests,
to the late Daniel R. ftooks.
and
was
riding and
driving
eight white
occupied with this unusual
miles out of
his
It
horses.
His
mind was so much
display that he unconsciously went
five
four
in the afternoon, and
as he
of home, father and
mother, and the distance to be
traveled (12 to 14 miles) through a district he had never before
seen,
way.
was now
o'clock
bought
and
in
a
copartnership for the sale of
William Slade, under the title
a
and
lot
and
he
progress
built
May 4th, 1827,
a store.
commenced
extreme prostration and caused
partner
his brother
John,
year,
under
when
he
he
sold
removed
While the
merchan
of
Fuller,
his interest
to Ira Center
building
of
the store
raising blood. This resulted in
him to associate with himself as
the
name of
W. & 3. Titus.
They
thought'
with
threatening
rain, it caused the tears to flow.
through darkness
miles
tern
and
from home he
of
his
the tale
of
father,
on
and when within about one and one-half
rain,
was overjoyed
with whom
his sight-seeing
But he kept
he
and
by
a
arrived
his
flash
home
aches
of
light from the lan
ten o'clock, to tell
from fatigue.
at
In the spring of 1822 young Titus commenced the study of med
with Dr. Silas N. Hall, then of Sempronius
; but failing health
compelled him to relinquish it.
The doetors having given up all
icine
hopes
visit
of
to
his recovery he resolved to seek restoration to health by a
In this determination we see the ambition and
salt water.
resolute
energy
useful.
May 10th, 1823,
r
which made
his
subsequent
he left home in
life
so conspicuous and
charge of
Otis
Burgess,
a
filled their
store
in September.
January 22d, 1828, Mr. -Titus was united in marriage with Clarissa
J., eldest daughter of Thomas and Fanny [Johnson] West, who was
born in Sempronius (now Moravia) in Cayuga County, October 28th,
1805. They commenced keeping house at Ira Center, March 4th,
Mrs.
1828.
father
was
Titus'
parents
were
natives
of
Massachusetts.
1/
Her
born in New
Sempronius,
now
Bedford, August 1st, 1779, immigrated to
Moravia, in 1800, and died on the farm on which
he then settled, in the present town of Moravia, March 9th, 1868,
Her mother was born
aged 88 years, seven months and eight days.
in Bucklin, June 28th, 1788, and died in Moravia, March 29th, 1856,
aged
67 years, nine months and four days.
March 15th, 1804, and had two
Sempronius,
and
They were married in
daughters, Clarissa J.
Minerva M.
#
HON. WILLIAM TITUS.
Mr.
Titus'
Mrs.
and
tember
only child, Thomas West Titus, was born Sep
He followed farming with the exception of a few
29th, 1829.
in
years spent
business
mercantile
December
York.
House, New
in the Custom
and
residing in Ira, he
born March 2d, 1834. He died in
29th, 1857,
Josephine
Tyler, who was
May 11th, 1873, aged 43 years,
two children, Mary I., born
born May 29th, 1864.
while
married
Moravia,
seven months and twelve days, leaving
November 14th, 1859, and Grant W.,
in company with William Ful
the business in that time from 8,000 to
Owasco,
where
ler
increasing
During this period they
one
sold merchandise
year,
$15,000.
1833 Mr. Titus bought
Hiram
of
Miller
Becker,
in
grist mill
business
and
the Erie Railroad
their
sold
22d, 1836,
to Isaac
goods
an
his
and
partner
the
of
of
acre
in
the
Milan,
at
mercantile
interest in the
did
They
goods.
In
of pork.
ground
half
a
gave
produce and
May 24th. 1839,
until
heavy
a
Cady
supplying contractors on
they dissolved. They
when
Grover Stoyell. to
and
whom
Mr.
While in company with Hiram
liecker, in 1837, Mr. Titus imported two thoroughbred Devon cattle
from Devonshire, England, a bull and heifer. These cattle proved
Titus
also
to be
of extra size and
the
sold
growers of stock
real
estate.
very fine and weie of great
in Cayuga County. This importation,
value
to the
while
adding
greatly to the improvement of the cattle of Cayuga County, was
also a profitable financial venture on the part of Mr. Titus.
He at
this time
also
combing
wool
In the fall
Leavitt
imported to Leicestershire sheep noted for their long
and heavy weight.
These after trial proved to be
for this
undesirable
Elondo
and
the
south end of
milling
and
heavily
of
Milan
business
produce
1847.
until
this time Titus & Greenfield had
together
and a
with
half
the flouring-mills
June 10th.
years.
merchandise as agent
did
Nathaniel
store
in
the
merchandising,
In 1840 the firm bought
this
and
in
store
a
discarded.
Dr.
a general
that place,
at
were
with
another
opened
and
butter in Ohio
and
and
in company
Greenfield,
village of
pork
the country
of
section
Mr. Titus,
1839,
of
1849, Mr. Titus
nibal
they
managed
the
$23,000.
about
to Ira
1st,
and sold
In 1855 he
1852.
Moravia,
1874.
farm
a
of
1865,
swept
together
and
the
feet
with
which
for the
He
1865.
also
to Moravia in
feet deep,
Creek
that stream,
on
built
Mill
was
into the
cut
solid
$5,400.
the dam.
Immediately
17th,
Moravia,
and
mill
a
shed
Mr. Titus in
150 feet
long,
rock, to
seven
afford an
during freshets and
dams from the
off a number of
whole cost
by
purchased
at
and
rebuilt
a waste weir
surplus water which accumulated
had taken
same
site.
The
of earth were used in making
supporting the earth is a stone
about 100 feet long, making a sub
About 13,000 loads
below
and
dam 10 feet wide, 22 feet high and
stantial improvement.
In this year
in the Southern Central Railroad
company
and moved
on
The dam
80 feet.
of
wide and eight
escape
mill
dam
the bridges
all
summer of
high
the
away
stabling
his
sold out
where, August 29th, 1864, he had
property.
The freshet of March 16th
mill
that
organization of
he
of
in the interest
the former
scribed
of
and
$17,00)
Moravia
also
(1865) he became interested
project and was a
year and until
director in the
the fall
of
1870.
and
were assigned
and
its
bonded for $84,000.
The
and the whole valley, with
Locke
aid
$100,000 in
Moravia
subscribed
his
and of
$2 500
sub
and
its
great
benefit to
characteristic perseverance
others, labored
was secured.
and continued
till
ditching.
and
He
farm
remained on the
sum
returning to Moravia winters.
proposed and assisted in buying a lot
During this period, in 1871, he
and building upon it a Baptist
meeting house in Moravia. In January, 1877, he traded the farm
with John
Seymour, of Meridian, for his steam tannery, saw
and feed mills at that place.
Mr. Titus has largely increased
that business
and
is
in it.
now engaged
Charles G.
associated with
Alward.
It is thus
that Mr. Titus has been actively aad variously
seen
and
gaged,
business
each
enterprise with which
he has been
en
con
nected has felt the
energizing impulse of his vigorous intellect,
indomitable will, well-directed energy and perseverance. In nearly
every instance he has been at the head and the moving spirit of the
enterprise.
Titus'
Mr.
life has been
political
He has
one.
a conscientious and conspicuous
than the Democratic ticket.
The energy, ability and probity which characterized his business
career soon brought him
prominently before the public and made
him the honored recipient of many responsible civil trusts. In 1829.
at
the
was
26, he
age of
the
elected
was elected
was made assessor of
following
delegate to
Herkimer. In that
of
other
any
then engaged in mercantile
also
he
never voted
same year
in
and
of
1832,
he
11
office
the town
held the
also
measures,
Ira,
where
which
he
he
was
years of age>
offices of commissioner
and road commissioner
In 1830 he
that of town clerk.
postmaster at
held that
and
of
Democratic State Convention held at
sealer of weights and
schools,
Barry,
year.
the
the town
business, an office to
In 1831, when but 28
Milan,
or
12
In 1844 he
years.
the
received
Postmaster Ganeral
under
was elected
Locke, and served on the committees on
8 Bills. Equalization, Cow-tuhi'e 's Bills, a special committee,
and Mill Tax, of all of which, except the last, he was chairman.
The following year he represented this County in the Assembly,
supervisor of
of
serving as chairman of the Committee on Trade and Manufactures.
In 1850 and '51 he was again elected town clerk in Ira, holding also
April
When the
ing
incessantly till
split
factions
Titus
of
delegate
settle
H.
the
designated
with
Texas,
to
Seymour for
warden of
in the Democratic party
himself
State
the
right
to
a
Barnburners
the slavery
from
was
the
on
in 1842, the
and.
Mr.
the
opposed
In 1S52
nominated
he
was
Horatio
commitee appointed
between John VanBuren
County.
Albany
oppos
Hunkers,
which
clause.
Convention that
and
seat
Peckham, delegates
as
Auburn State Prison.
occurred
the former party,
with
Governor,
highways in that town.
of overseer o
was appointed
being
allied
annexation
a
the office
year
1st, 1852, he
and
In 1854 the
to
Rufus
opposite
party had a majority in the Board o Prison Inspectors, and in Jan
uary of that year Mr. Titus was superseded in the office of warden
by Col.
Levi
Lewis,
the
choice of
retiring that the discipline was
appointed by Heman J. Redfield
York
and placed
in
failing, his
it
over
Hunkers, but
better.
a clerk
charge of the
son received
the
never
in the Custom House
books
the
was assured
In 1854 Mr. Titus
of
the
on
was
at
Xew
ocean steamers.
His
appointment
to that
place and
four years, Mr. Titus retiring to Hannibal Center.
cacvass
money and the opposition to the
hopeless. Hence Mr. Titus, with a
accomplishment
with
junior partner,
as
his interest in the business to Hiram Graves for
212 acres in Venice, which he operated three years from
mers,
health
want of
chances quite
untiring energy,
the undertaking
to him to
that road, and he was expected to raise
firm belief in its final
Moravia
Locke
$50,000 in the latter town in its
bonded for $47,500.
road rendered
and
his interest in it in the spring of 1S74.
coal, sash and blind trade in
of
lumber,
sold
1874, building, fencing
retained
The towns
in the
David H. Foster
with
when
the former
stone
the Union block'
following
the
sheriff'
same year.
the
year and
He disposed
engaged
appointment
currying in 1856, blacksmithing in 1858, he continued
The tannery was burned January 6th, 13c S, and rebuilt
June, 1864, he
the winter of 1865,
In this
built. It is a
fine brick structure, 78 by 80 feet, on the corner of Main and Church
streets.
It contains three stories and was erected at a cost of
in that town ;
and
In
half interest in tbe first grocery store in
Chas. A. Hinman, and the firm name,
was the projector and prime mover was
which,
in the milling business,shoemaking and farming at Han
Center, Oswego County. This business, to which was added
till 1864.
he
for two
Northville,
moved
for Juda Pierce till April
During
county.
was engaged
tanning
Hifiman & Titus.
of which
a
being
partner
Titus & Becker in merchandising,
of
name
selling
600 barrels
packed
and
part payment
the
under
buying
milling,
store
became
who
September
business
a
his
In 1870 he
In 1830 Ihey associated with themselves in the business. Dr. Allen
Benton, and the firm built a distillery and ashery and continued
until William Titus sold his interest to his partners and removed to
he
In 18GS he acquired
Moravia,
success
to
In 1856 Mr. Titus
Campbell
years.
of
was
postmaster
He
secured
at
the
appointed
establishment of
the State Legislature in 1S45.
mail
there in 1859.
by Postmaster General James
Hannibal Center
In 1860 he
and
and
that
held the
office six
office while a member
the establishment
of a
was appointed marshal of the-
daily
L". S.
County, X. Y. In 1862 he was put in
nomination for Congress in the 22d District, then embracing Oswego
and Madison Counties, in opposition to D. C. Littlejohn, who was
Census for
elected.
Hannibal,
Oswego
HON. WILLIAM TITUS.
his
During
active
devoting
and
for the
has
politics
much
hickory
County
he took
a strong and
in many conventions
Stephen A. Douglass
as chairman
serving
time in the interest
He
presidency.
now a
in Oswego
residence
interest in
of
was president of
cane presented
him
the Douglass
Club,
during
on one occasion
and
that
pronius, December 3d, 1815, in his thirteenth year and remained
In 1858 he took a letter of commendation
with them thirteen years.
to the Baptist Church
the
and
In
1866,
the second
of that
year of
village,
and
urated a system of village
his
residecce
in
Moravia, he
its
the
by
Board,
improvements, which, by
president.
was elected
He
reason
inaug
of
the
they involved, created an opposition to his policy ; but he
was sustained by the
enterprising portion of the citizens and
reelected, on a test question, the following year to the same posi
(the
same
member
When
this
character
Masons,
day.
about
to
his letter to
offer
some utterances of a
fall from the lips
of whom
He has
he was
always
He
one.
been
a
very dis
of a prom
paused
firm believer
in sustaining the cause. He
St. John the Baptist Chapter No. 30, of Moravia,
religion and generous
now a member of
also of
Cato.
towards the
has his letter to
in the Christian
is
of
day) he heard
unchristianlike
courteous,
inent
canvass.
trustee
church
the Lodge
of
Master Masons No.
41,
of
Moravia.
expense
tions.
On the
organization of the
Board
of
Education in the
school
district embracing Moravia, December 29th, 1868, he was elected one
of its members, an office he held
continuously for seven years, till his
removal
Board,
of
to his farm in
to
the Board
the
site and
In 1869 he
Venice,
which position
during
the
the
he
erection of
in 1872.
the Union School
was reelected village
position more
years as
chairman
He
selection and purchase of
of
the
was a member
the
building
additions
to
in Moravia.
trustee
was again president of
that
three
was elected
by an increased majority and
he being the only one having held
the village,
than two terms.
Thursday, February 7th, 1878, Mr. Titus lost his
She had
suffered several years
a member of
the First Baptist Church
of
Sem
by
death.
She lived to
ripe age of 72 years, having survived every member of her
father's family and her only son ; her parents and only sister, Mrs.
Elondo Greenfield, having died many years before. She was a
the
woman of great
esteemed
by
personal
those
through life to the
of
her parents,
house,
the
religious
predecessor of
by Mr.
trust in the Redeemer
with
any
the
of
and
charitable,
She clung
and highly
tenaciously
faith imbibed from the early training
and worshiped in the old log
Friends,
the Quaker Meeting-House, located
Hector Tuthill.
views of
church.
worth, kind
knew her best.
who
who were
place now owned
accord with
Mr. Titus became
wife
from impaired health.
men, her
her early
She
need of
"
on
the
clearly her
his saving blood, but in
religious
expressed
training never
united
"
VILLAGE OF
or
five
years
Sheldon C. Pritchard
was admitted
to partnership, and continued two or three years,
they
when
A
DeWitt
in Aunt Cady's
north
in 1810,
opened a store
room,
and soon
after
pur
nearly all the land lying east of Main,
between Church and Congress streets, and ex
chased
to the foot
east
tending
he
few feet
put
the
few
Masons
the
by
and
floor
second
of
a space of a
Lake,
together
Soon
years after.
his
with
lodge
a
as
business till his death
continued
a
on
He built
through the center east and west, which
in Cayuga
ily,
hill.
bins, leaving
grain
up
was occupied
He
the
building,
occupied a stone
which
of
room.
by drowning
fam
wife and
after
commencing,
four
and after
his
came
Mill
corner of
built
C. L. Jennings
house
the
L. O.
by
now occupied
lot.
and soon after a store on
the same
tinued till the
spring
1830,
his
Pennyville, in Niles.
to
goods
Jewett
in
on
the
streets, in 1821,
kept
also
an
goods
he
8 17,
1
and
a
pearling
kept it two
to Artemas
Cady,
the spring
occupied
in the
of
or
He
The
works.
the
tavern
old
Rice
In 185 1,
they
having
the
Roch
to
built
the brick store
and
on
the
resumed mercantile
nery,
sold
his
Mass.
He
clerk.
and
of
Thomas L.
of
Main
shop,
Church
by
occupied
the first grocery, in
streets.
bought the
afterwards
south-east corner
erected
Cayuga
building on
the
Main streets,
George W. Bowen as
and
August 19th, 1824,
1821.
Knapp bought the
store on
the
corner
Mill streets, together with the shoeWilliam Lotridge was
and tannery.
and
mill
Josiah
foreman in
the
worth, late
Auburn, was foreman
of
shoe
and
store,
of
Letch
the harness
business.
Orsamus Dibble
a
store about
1832,
1866
firm
and
in
May,
an
1869,
ed under the name of
furnished
previous
by Henry
interest
has
He
to
Guernsey Jewett,
in
in
in
1841
the
with
1838
about
and
to
sold
they
been
re
conduct
did business
year or
in the
commenced
a
Sem
business
in
Bros,
A. B. Hale
the
two after.
a native of
clerk
opened
he
year
which
mercantile
exception
or
C. S.
during
Everson
who was
1844.
was
war"
a
George W. Jewett in 1831,
for himself in
Bros.,
and
which
since
to 1840,
and closed
sold
C.
Jennings & Parker.
engaged
was
of
which
May, 1867,
for the "egg
eggs
pronius,
time
Jennings
Hewitt, from New York,
here.
interest
Marvin, from Butternuts,
some years
Pittsfield,
to
business,
the
who, in
G. & H. M. Jewett
John
Henry
his interest to his
transferred
in August, 1864,
purchased
territory.
of oil
the
of
in
and engaged
removed
purchased
the
Jennings, brothers,
came
1855.
store
of
business
in from
hardware store,
of one
kept
a
short
'39, by Wm. B. Ray,
who
kept nothing but tinware, was the first of its
Hale sold his stock in the
kind in the village.
had
spring of 1875 to Webb J. Greenfield, who
been his partner since April ist, 1870, and who
admitted
spring.
Fred. B. Heald to partnership the same
In the spring of 1877 Greenfield sold
his interest to J. H.
has
since
been
Holden,
conducted
and
under
the
business
the name
of
Heald & Holden.
G.
opened
in
son, C. A. Parker ;
which,
and
in
and
immediately
begun
In 1863, he
purchased a stock of goods of
S. Jennings,
and
to
In 1871, he
Richmond filled up the store occupied by Ward,
and Wm.
C. Beardsley, of Auburn, was his
Main
trade.
Willson
Henry
business.
W. D. Bennett,
business and the sale
goods
In 1865, he
Scipio
of
ready-
the block to
Wm. A.
corner
stores,
E. P. K. Smith, and purchased
the Moravia tannery of Wm. H.Harrington. In
1857, C. E. Parker, having disposed of the tan
and
H. B.
after
their goods to
sold
when
it, in
three
and as successors
Col. O. M. Welch, added the hat and
made clothing business to their general
Tyler campaign,
continued
or
Knapp
old
Main streets,
and
some
put
three yeafs,
who
1846,
meantime
store
Factory
and
company with his son, Stoyell Cady,
latter became of age, till their removal
ester, in
a
and
till about 1828.
named
man
removed
opened
store next north of
and
into it
sold
and
ashery
Cadys built the
about
kept it
and
con
George W.
Church
south-east corner of
Aiken,
same store
Eli Palmer
1831.
He
He
he
when
Ward in the
succeeded
closed out
of
lives.
now
two
to
Cutler, Jr.,
where
Nathan Robinson be
years
Mrs. Hamilton the
chased of
George Ward, who had previously become
Ward was from Durham, Conn.
his partner.
He lived
five
April, 1849, Dibble sold to Charles E.
and Norman
Parker, brothers, from Billerica,
in
the fall of the same year, pur
Mass., who,
real estate
to
or
partner and continued such
Jesse Millard became his partner, and continued
the business till his removal to Milan, when he
sold
459
In
years.
closed.
man named
MORAVIA.
Jewett
merchant
in
commenced
1839.
business
In 1847 he
as
general
admitted
D. L.
TOWN OF MORAVIA.
46o
In i860, Capt. Jo
siah
P. Jewett, a nephew, became a partner.
He entered the army in September, 1862, and
Wood,
in
who retired
taken
was wounded and
in
March,
thirty
He
1863.
days'
1854.
was
ten
days
Louisiana,
after
paroled
imprisonment
but lived only
in
prisoner
and
after
about
home,
returned
arriving
In
there.
August, 1864, Mr. Jewett sold to C. S. & Henry
Jennings, and in March, 1867, he and his son,
Henry M. Jewett, bought an interest in the
business, and the firm became Jewett, Jennings
In May, 1869, the Jewetts sold to the
& Co.
Jennings, and, in company with Theo. C. Jewett,
formed
the
firm
present
Morgan L. Everson
of
Everson,
1865, B.
F.
Hector H.
Tuthill,
when
merchandise
business.
Tuthill,
four
pronius.
who
resided
Co.,
After
Isaac
sold
and
a general
are
na
Orange
a native of
in this town
five years, and prior to that in Sem
In 1872, Morgan L. Everson bought
or
John L. Parker's interest in the firm
&
do
The Eversons
Tuthill is
Moravia.
firm became
the
county, but had previously
some
In
his interest to the remaining
1871, M. L. sold his interest to
Everson &
tives
Everson Bros.
the name of
still remains
of
B.
with
months, Warren
six
Butler,
who,
Warren
became Warren & Everson.
then
which
of
his interest to
sold
the expiration of one year,
at
L. Everson, who con
year, when he took in as
to his partner, M.
business
tinued the
partner
a
Capt. E. C.
expiration of a
Pulver,
who
since which
year,
retired
at
the
time Mr. Ever
grocery business alone.
J. D. Clark commenced the boot and shoe
son
has
conducted
business in
Downing
the
In
1858.
1868
he
admitted
to partnership, and,
after
Marshal
twenty-two
his remaining interest to Downing,
months,
who continued three or four years. About a year
sold
after
Downing, Clark resumed business
in company with Gideon F. Morey, who sold his
interest September ist, 1876, to J. J. Moore,
selling to
who remained some eighteen
bought his interest
tello
S.,
name of
who
since
months,
Clark
his son, Pardone business under the
admitted
J. D. Clark & Son.
Andrew
business
have
and
when
Perry
about
Irving, bought
commenced
July
1858.
a
back to his father
half
at
in
and
shoe
ist, 1868, his son,
interest,
which
he
sold
the expiration of two and
A.
ist,
father,
goods,
Irving
1872,
which,
January
who
again
ist, 1877,
still
continues
dealer in groceries,
Colony,
fancy
and
notions
commenced
business
1861.
Downing came in from Milan and com
menced the
jewelry business in September, 1864.
May 13th, 1868, he added boots and shoes to his
stock, and took in as partner John D. Clark, whose
M.
interest he bought two
later.
years
In 1871,
Downing, his father, became a partner
continued till his death, July
28th, 1874,
Benjamin
and
time
Mr.
Downing
has
carried
on
alone.
Fred Small
commenced
the
hardware business
in the spring of 1870.
He was associated as
partner with David
Barney six months of that
John A.
and with
year;
Jennings,
the
and
1871,
Knowlton
of whom
each
nection about
remained
and
C.
in that
S.
con
former from January,
latter from December ist, 1871.
year, the
a
December ist,
1872, Lodawick H. Adams be
came a
and
partner,
still remains
and
business
as
boots
shoes, in
and
sold a
firm
third
firm then became
his son, F.
clothiers
and
and
W.,
commenced
dealers in
hats,
caps,
August 3d, 1876, they
interest to M. O. Jennings, and the
1871.
became
then
the
Small & Adams.
M. P. Collins
Jennings.
L.
furnishing
goods,
and
still
Collins &
remains
M.
Townsend, dealer in books,
stationery and frames, commenced business in
December, 1871. L. Black, dealer in clothing,
business in
hats
still
doing
caps,
was
of
business.
admitted
Harris &
commenced
commenced the
February
1873.
Geo. A. Edmonds
under the name
and
J. M. Harris
1873.
business in
drug
12th, 1877,
to partnership,
Edmonds,
S. M. Warren
who
are
commenced
crockery business in 1874. In
January, 1877, S. L. Tice became a partner, and
the name has since been Warren & Tice. 0. E.
the
grocery
and
Armstrong, jeweler, came in from Coudersport,
Pennsylvania, and commenced business in July,
1875.
Brown Bros., (L. W. & F. B.,) bakers
and
confectioners,
ist, 1876,
the boot
to his
business.
the
the business
dry goods
F. & Terry
interest,
again reverted
the
sold
In
partners.
half
a
since which
business in 1855, in company
under
bought
G. Jezvett & Sons.
commenced
July
one-half years.
commenced
at which
time
business October
they bought
out
James
S. Wolsey, who carried on the business several
years.
G. A. Shimer, dealer in fancy and fur
nishing goods,
1876.
commenced
business October 20th,
VILLAGE OF MORAVIA.
/.
Amerma7i &
vS.
Son, (W. J.,) general mer
business in May, 1877. W. J.
commenced
chants,
in from Syracuse.
came
I. S. is
a resident of
M. L. Jennings & Bro., general
commenced business June ist, 1877.
Skaneateles.
merchants,
Geo. B.
Clary, jeweler, a native of Auburn, came
in from Cairo, Illinois, and commenced business
John P. Wood & Co., (Grace
in June, 1877.
dealers in books
Wood,)
stationery ; John
V. Peacock, furniture dealer, from Corning, Steu
ben county ; and E. F Buiterfield & Co., (Fred. S.
and
Hawley,) druggists, commenced business in Sep
Butterfield is
tember,
1877.
ester.
Hawley
in from Syracuse.
came
Goodwin, druggist,
a resident of
Roch
ber ist, 1877, in company with G. F. Butler,
whose interest he bought after about six months.
John Wood, jeweler, from Venice, commenced
business, which he carries on under the name of
in
E. R. Wands,
February,
Wood,
confectioner, from Madison county, and J. J. &
Austin
1878.
boot
C. P. Moore,
ham ton, commenced
DeWitt C
from
Henry,
Auburn,
and
and
1800,
business April
The first
Sr.,
held the
the
99
business in
commenced
John Stoyell.
from
dealers,
proprietor of
Postmasters.
con
shoe
office
Bing
till
about
ceeded
when
he
his
took
in the
ceeded
who
Stoyell to the
held it
seat
office
during
in
Congress,
and was suc
Day,
his brother's Congressional
master
years
Tyler's administration, and
Orsamus Dibble, who held it
by
Isaac
Cady
Hale
A. B.
years.
next
held it
was appointed
held it till 1853, when Rowland
ed.
Wm. Wade held the office
was
by
succeeded
Tourtellotte held
was succeeded
1869,
Chas. R.
the office
by
about six years.
April,
when
Hiram
Henry
Day
about
in 1849,
four
and
was appoint
time, and
Wright
Aiken.
from
a short
1856 to
'60,
and
H. Alley, who held it
Cutler next held it till
Elias Mead
has held it continuously
78-z
post
under
was succeeded
one year.
was
O. Aiken held
Leonard
Tyler.
under
it two
Henry Day
several years.
since.
was
appointed and
five
or
He
years, then
six
died there.
and
in from Orange county
came
and settled
two
about
Moravia,
miles east of
on a
him for military services, where he
till his death, about 1841, at the age of
granted
remained
He
92.
twelve
in difficult
practiced
but
years,
cases some ten or
received
no
compensation
therefor.
Silas Holbrook
licensed to
by
the
County Judge in September, 1797, and joined
County Medical Society, August 7th, 1806.
the
settled upon a
the
was
farm
few
practiced a
one mile north of
He
years.
Sand Beach
practice
the
at
Moravia,
He
and
afterwards removed to
foot
of
Owasco Lake,
in
Moravia, in
and
died there.
Annable
David
joined
and
settled
County
the
that
7th of
Medical
He had
year.
till about 1830,
an
he
when
Society
the
to Beards-
removed
Corners, in Tompkins
county,
and
Hewitt
Thos. L.
May,
by
1808,
of
that
month
practice
in
County Judge, and became a
County Medical Society the 8th
the
the
member of
licensed to
was
died
He built
apoplexy not long afterwards.
north brick tavern in 18 14.
old
1806,
August
extensive practice
there of
The
term, till 1825, when the latter was reelected.
He was succeeded by Samuel E. Day, who held
the office
lot
ley's
his brother Frank
by
1795,
1878.
held it till 1823,
and
office
Horseheads
He
army.
July,
carried
mails were
of
here
by Jabez Long Bottom,
and from
1817 to 1825, by Bliss Furbush, on
horse-back, once a week. Rowland Day suc
first
Amos Stoyell.
and
practiced
James
was
Wood, father of Ex-Gov. John Wood,
Illinois, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary
store,
1812.
John
of
physician
Daniel
cent
appointed about
in 1790,
removed to
1878.
Dea
The first
brother
Stoyell,
came
1st,
postmaster was
who was
Physicians.
W. A.
business Octo
commenced
461
and year.
Lemuel
Powers, broth
ers, and uncles of Dr. Cyrus Powers, of Moravia,
studied medicine with Dr. Annable, and joined
the County Medical Society, the former August
Royal N. Powers
they did
latter August
the
and
4th, 1808,
not practice
to Mississippi
moved
Lemuel
practiced
Corners,
then
12, but
re
died there
about 1825.
at
Beardsley's
several
removed
18
Royal N.
here.
long
and
6th,
to
years
Ohio,
where
he died
1833.
about
Ichabod Benton
81o
1
about
with
and
Dr.
studied.
Medical
which
'
or
1 1
,
came
in from Ulster county
and practiced some
he previously
Levi S. Goodrich joined the County
Annable,
Society
time
he
with
whom
November
came
2d, 18 15, about
here from Vermont. He prac
ticed about three years with
Howard, Steuben
moved
to
about
1870.
Annable,
three years
Dr. Annable,
county,
Gershom Jayne
and was
licensed to
where
and re
he died
studied
with
Dr.
practice
May
7th,
TOWN OF MORAVIA.
462
After
18 1 2.
a short practice
he
removed
to
Ohio,
he became successful, and died there a
few years ago.
Richard S. Satterlee commenced
where
Dr. Annable
practice with
he
tinued till 1824, when
Mich.,
to be
he became
where
a surgeon
in the
to
1820
miles
north
menced
'24.
of
ten years,
about
to Green
now
Dr. Chatterton
He lived two
when
and
Surgeon
practiced
one-half
Chas. E. Ford
here in
com
and
continued
went west.
Jeremiah
1820,
he
Bay,
since continued
He is
Moravia.
practice
has
and
and con
1820,
removed
army.
General in New York.
from
about
B.
Whiting joined the County Medical Society
February 2d, 1826, and practiced in the north
1832, when he removed to
was
from Dutchess county.
the town till
part of
Michigan.
He
Grove Gage, from
and
1822,
Annable,
practiced
with whom
three
some
came
in
years
with
he finished his
about
studies.
Dr.
He
Chautauqua county, near Fredonia,
he is now living. Jared Wheeler joined
to
removed
where
the
DeRuyter,
County
Medical
and practiced
joined the
Society November ist, 1821,
here a year or two. Lucius
Lilley
Medical
County
August 7th,
Society
practiced
died
after
of consumption.
Wm. W.
county
ing
Alley
his
with
prepared
the practice
ing
his
practice
which system
Hilem
Fleming,
year,
to
in 1828, hav
study, he commenced
to the principles
he
of
conform
homeopathy,
still practices.
who
continued
where
till
he
1845,
County
Medi
residing in
in Moravia in that
while
he
when
practiced
removed
his death.
till
early convert to homeopathy. Silas
N. Hall became a member of the County Medi
cal
Society November 5th, 1818, and commenced
was an
practice
about
in Moravia
1840,
Tompkins
when
county.
about
1835, continuing till
he
removed
He
came
to
McLean,
where
Society
June 6th, 1844,
to '49, when he
practiced
removed
here from
to
about 1836
Mount Morris.
He
came
in
lives.
now
the-
Dr.
second convert to
Cator,
homeopathy
in Cayuga County, came in from Sempronius and
from 1839 till the fall of 1842, when he
to Syracuse and introduced the new
practiced
removed
in Onondaga
system of
medicine
K. Smith,
a student
the
Bennett's, being left, by
latter to Rochester, without a
the
removal of
homeopathy,
four
some
to the study
attention
he
which
he
i862,when
E.P.
county.
of
preceptor, turned his
from
practiced
Auburn,
to
removed
till
1841
where
of
he died
years ago.
Cyrus Powers, a native of Sempronius, settled
in Moravia and commenced practice in 1845, in
which year he became a member of the
County
He has
Medical Society.
the
with
exception of
since practiced
four
and
here,
in Ameri
two years spent
foreign travel,
can and
years'
service as
Dr.
army surgeon in the war of the Rebellion.
Powers is a gentleman of culture, good scholastic
attainments, and a skillful physician.
Charles C.
County
the
Jewett,
a
native of
Moravia, joined
Society October 12th, 1864,
during the late war. He died
Medical
here
and practiced
Van Dyke
here in 1870, universally lamented.
Tripp, who now resides in Onondaga county,
here in
practiced
Medical
came
Moravia,
January, 1869,
here. Wm. T. Cox, a native
Society
He is
Frank H. Putnam
here.
joined the
He
Locke,
where
removed
came
was clerk
Bench
Society May
any
and
and
is
came
who
Bar.
had
connected with
ern
Cayuga.
quite
in
1876
to
J. H. Syl
in from Butternuts
practicing here.
still
prominence
Hussey,
and
10th,
Washington, D. C, where he
Pension Office, in 1876, and still
The bar
embraced men of good ability.
of
in
practicing
now practicing.
Wm. Cook
1875,
practice
from
in the
remains.
about
he is
Moravia,
of
still
Venice,
to
since
here in 1875, and
came
Medical
County
1876.
vester
is
an allopath and
County
has
and
and commenced
pres
here from
practiced
in
in from Milan
1873.
Mead, the
A. B. Aiken joined the
i865-'9.
about
Elias
i863-'4.
at
ent postmaster
here from Mont
he had previously practiced.
Dr.
Derbyshire moved in from Montville about 1828,
and practiced some three
years.
George W.
Branch, who joined the County Medical
ville,
he
practiced
joined the
commenced practice
and
and
1805,
August 7th, 1828,
Rochester,
He
by
from Sullivan
medicine, subsequently
Bennett,
Society
cal
father, in
himself
of
to Moravia
came
Elias Branch
Nunda.
at
from Venice in 1838, and practiced some three
years, when he removed to Mount Morris, where
till about
1832, when he re
moved to Monroe county, which he represented
in the Assembly in 1841, and where he soon
1828,
and
now resides
a
large
was
successful; but he
Moravia has
The first lawyer
in the town
the titles
He
of
was
Jonathan
lucrative practice,
real estate in south
and
of
a
careful
relied
less
manager,
upon
and
his own,
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V=fc
v'-l
M.cCr\EA;
Thomas
Thomas McCrea
born
was
January
Delaware
/
2d, 1810, in
he
County, N. Y. At an early
County, where he resided until the
death, which occurred in July, 1873, after
age
came
to
Cayuga
time of
his
intense
suffering
house
of
He left
a wife and
for many years connected
Messrs. Miller & Co. and also with
He
eleven children.
with the
illness.
and a prolonged
was
in New York city ; later he
business in Auburn. He was
other mercantile pursuits
was engaged
in
the coal
highly respected citizen and one whose
deeply felt by a large circle of friends. In
a
loss
was
1848,.
She
Miss Caroline Parmele, of Auburn.
born in Sufheld, Conn., June 9th, 1828.
married
was
Mr. McCrea belonged
to
the
Republican party,
quietly performing his duty, never aspiring to
ical honors.
He served as Alderman several
and
is
remembered
and generous
as
impulses.
him many friends
qualities gained for him
won
of
those with
whom
a
gentleman
His
and
the
he
of
warm
polit
terms
heart
genial and social nature
his
excellent
respect
and
business
confidence
he had business intercourse.
JOSEPH HENRY SYLVESTER, M. D.
Joseph Henry Sylvester was born in Vinolhover, Hancock
county, Maine, January 26th, 1838. He was the oldest of nine
children.
His father, Joseph W. Sylvester, was a well-known sea
captain in the eastern part of Maine ; and his grandfather, a mer
chant and farmer and a prominent politician of Hancock county.
His mother, Martha A. Burgess, was the daughter of Jonathan
Burgess, a sea captain and a lineal descendant of Rev. Thomas
Burgess, one of the earliest Puritan ministers of Massachusetts.
Dr. Sylvester was a lineal descendant of Captain Joseph Sylvester,
famous as an Indian fighter under the more famous Major Church,
of Massachusetts.
His early education was directed with a view
of his entering the ministry; but he early exhibited a strong inter
est in philosophical and medical studies, and at the age of sixteen
At the age of nine years he
years he began the study of medicine.
went to sea and followed that business until the breaking out of
OSEPH
J1/3 YLVESTER, JA.p.
in 1861, having advanced during that time through every
from cabin boy to captain.
He
pursued.his medical
and scientific studies, and during this period he also learned to
speak the French. Spanish and Italian languages, taking up Latin
and Greek later in life.
At the age of eighteen years his father proposed to send him to
college, on condition of his becoming a Congregational preacher.
This he declined for conscientious reasons; when bis father told
him he must fight his own battles through life and acquire an edu
This was the turning point in his life.
cation as best he could.
Nothing daunted he adhered to his determination of some day be
coming an M. D.
In 1861 Mr. Sylvester was among the first to offer his services to
the government, and on the 25th of April he enlisted in Company B,
Second Maine Volunteers. He was soon promoted to color bearer
of the regiment and served as such at the battle of Euli Run and
during the Peninsula campaign. He was severely wounded at the
battle of Banover Court House, Virginia, May 27th, 1862; and was
publicly commended by Brigadier-General J. H. Martindale, and
favorably mentioned in the report of the regimental commander,
His wounds being of such a
for gallantry on the field of battle.
nature as to disable him for active service, in February, 1864, he
was appointed by President Lincoln a Second Lieutenant of Volun
He was promoted
teers and assigned to prison duty at the capital.
the following year on recommendation of Secretary Stanton for
his executive ability and attention to duty. During the excitement
following the assassination of President Lincoln he was detailed
for several
on several important and confidential duties; and
months he commanded the guard over the residence of Secretary
Seward, on whose recommendation, in 1866, he was appointed First
Lieutenant in the regular army, in which capacity he served till
1S71, when he was honorably discharged.
During all this time his studies had been continued. In 1866 he
learned telegraphing and also became an accomplished mechanical
He prepared drawings for several parties whose
draughtsman.
invention? have become famous, among them the Miller coupler
In 1867 he matriculated
and bumper now used on many railroads.
in the medical department ef Georgetown College, D. C, from which
he graduated with honors.
After leaving the army he settled in Washington, D. C, and com
The failure of Jay Cooke &
menced the practice of his profession.
Co. swept away his accumulated earnings, and failing health com
In July, 1876, he settled in Moravia,
pelled a removal to the north.
Cayuga County, N, Y., and entered upon a successful practice of
his profission.
In 1877 he helped to organize Company A, Forty-ninth Regiment,
N. Y. S. X. G., which has gained such an enviable notoriety in the
contest for the Nevada badge; and not a little of the credit for its
reputation is due to the soldierly experience and judgment of Dr.
the
war
grade
still-
Sylvester.
In 1867 Dr. Sylvester was united in marriage with Miss Sarah V.
Veili, daughter of the late Nicholas Veili, and a cousin of General
Egbert Veili. of this State. Her grandfather, John Veili. was a
Colonel in the Revolutionary army; and her grandmother Veili was
Katherine Knickerbocker. Her mother's people, the Rogers, in the
eastern part of the State were well-known and highly respectable.
Dr. Sylvester has always been a staunch Republican. He is a
Mason of high degree ; and himself and wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He is also a member of several tem
perance organizations and an active worker
in that cause.
M,
=
*4m
M.RS
M.A.I\Y
-flUf^LBUTT.
Amos Wuf\lb UTT,
AMOS HURLBUTT.
Amos
butt,
a
very early
County,
from
In
Hurlbutt,
to
spent the
farming.
village of
in
In
part of
1878
Moravia,
beautiful home
a
he
where
on
riage with
This
union
dren,
only
one
of
and
two
whom
1808.
engaged
to
removed
he
has been blessed
three
life,
now
who
1798
died, Amos
the
resides,
street.
was united
Mary Handley,
son, Amos J.,
Genoa,
his
Aurora
In 1833 Mr. Hurlbutt
in
born in
was
father
his
where
greater
Genoa, Cayuga
town he removed
Groton, Connecticut,
Hurl-
Amos
of
in
settler
which
Genoa,
in
son
is
still
with
are
in
living.
five
now
who resides on the
mar
chil
living,
farm in
daughters.
[Photo
Jj.
3L
?-
jM.
by C. C. Tuthill.]
puFvjis, JA. p.
VILLAGE OF MORAVIA.
the
than
He
of
opinion
born in
was
to
he
He
1787.
Judge Walter
admitted
others, in
of
Wood,
read
difficult
cases.
law in the
office
Montville,
at
and
was
in 1817, about which time
himself at Moravia.
He died
October 9th, 1852,
Utica Insane Asylum.
at
the
Leonard O. Aiken
was
born
Antrim, New
at
Hampshire, September 14th, 1805. The follow
ing March, his father, James Aiken, removed
his
trict
family
the age
at
ard,
school
the
menced
of
he
Jewett,
little less
Homer,
of
Edward C. Reed
He formed
year.
Townsend
mained
and
Walter
Wood,
ioville.
edged
He
was
ability,
letter,
to whose
the
for
a
30th
was
that
of
Judge
with
read
of
more
a
about
year,
Scip
in partnership
lawyer of acknowl
a short time
a
him,
Stephens
1850.
"I
a
his father's in
to
Stephens,
methodical
am
He
partnership
grandson of Judge
who studied with
preparation
trial I
formed
continued
removed
California in
cent
Don-
Judge
of
place.
partnership
which
Nelson T.
with
then spent
Augustus
Court, July
Tallman,
Tallman
when
his
Common Pleas in 1828,
after
soon
Charles D.
with
year,
pursued
in that
same
of
a
Hussey,
one
Ross, of Homer, with whom he re
August, 183 1, when he removed to
till
Moravia,
to
the
Supreme
the
to
and
he
He
of
another
of
com
Hon. Freeborn G.
where
office
Court
to the
admitted
remained
than a year.
and
in the dis
Jonathan
the office of
Skaneateles,
of
1, Leon
182
to teach
with
he
whom
in study in the
a year
elly,
with
entered
studies a
law
of
In
17th, 1823, he
February
study
Moravia,
when
16, began
of
and
;
Hill.
to Summer
law
in
writes
a re
L. O. Aiken, Esq.,
and careful habits in
with
ways
his
and removed
and
pleadings
indebted for any
causes
for
success which
may have been mine, than to any other part of
Mr. Aiken's practice was, to a
my
partner
he
Jonathan Hussey.
with
deared himself
practice
established
with
time
4^3
by kindly
to
acts
all
He
en
with whom
in contact, and died May 23d, 1846.
William H. Price was born in Falmouth,
came
Mass., in 1820.
Ithaca, in July,
five
remained
but is
He
returning to Moravia,
He is now living in Utica,
years.
profession.
Hon. John L. Parker
1825,
at
and
1848,
practicing his
not
bar
to the
was admitted
born March 28th,
was
chiefly at the Moravia Insti
law with Jared M. Smith, and af
and educated
He
tute.
read
latter's removal, with L. O. Aiken.
He
was admitted to the bar July 4th, 1848, and has
continued practice since.
He was justice of the
ter the
twelve
peace
schools
lage in
ing
years
in 185
;
and president of
In 1863 he
1870.
held the
following
Assembly in 1865,
displayed
and
'7,
vil
as
in
He
of
body
that
tactician
a
debater.
an effective
also
Member
was
and
qualities
superior
himself
He
he
office
which
year.
'6
the
was appointed engross
in the Assembly,
clerk
proved
'52;
land
of common
superintendent
and
was
ap
the U. S. Pension Department
pointed agent of
Service Division in 1873, which
Since 1874, he has been in
holds.
the Special
of
office
he
still
Greenfield,
S. Edwin
deceased,
Day,
in
Moravia, January
20th,
He
Moravia Academy.
educated at
study of the law with his uncle, L.
from April, 1858, till his admission to
O. Aiken,
the bar June 6th, 1861,
partnership
him,
with
He has
since
exception of one year
was
Day,
the
pursued
he
Samuel
of
son
younger
born
was
and
1869.
the
under
Parker & Greenfield.
name of
1840,
Hull
with
partnership
the
with
he formed
continued
which
practiced
alone,
a
till
John L.
Parker,
of
exception
two
law
July,
with
from April ist, 1870,
associated with
Moravia,
when
the
when
in
and
or
three
education."
great
extent,
from defective
titles to
adjoining towns,
tions
with
and
various
practice,
offices
with a
real
involving
laborious
litigations arising
property in this and
with
connected
intricate legal
research.
of
trust,
He
and
fair competence,
was
ques
honored
retired
from
about 1875.
years
1869, '72
ticket,
He
and was put
20th,
1875 ;
November,
at
one
of
and
was
ahead
He
of
of
in
his
generally defeated.
the village in 1868,
that year
nomination
by his
was admitted
the
elected
party
to prac
U. S. September
County
Judge in
1877.
Erastus E. Brown
father,
and commenced prac
was
otherwise
for District Attorney.
Millard Fillmore in Buffalo,
He
in
supervisor
was
largely
running
was elected president
ber 27th,
1842.
was
which
ilton College, standing high in his class, of which
He studied law with Hon.
he was valedictorian.
here in September,
'72,,
and
tice in the Circuit Court
Jared M. Smith, son of Ezekiel Smith, was
He graduated at Ham
born March 17th, 18 15.
tice
He
in Buffalo.
spent
1836.
was
born in
Before he
was
Jordan, Octo
a
year old
Brown, removed with his family
LaGrange county, Indiana, where Erastus
Russel
his
to
re-
TOWN OF MORAVIA.
464
attaining his majority, when he re
turned to this State, and in the fall of 1858, com
the study
menced
continued with
of
Poughkeepsie,
of
he
year
also
Wade,
he
been
Having
till December
remained
and opened an
and
in that
with
R. D.
was
his
till
which continued
to practice,
admitted
Supervisor in 1868;
he formed a partnership
He
office.
he
Moravia in June, 1861,
to
came
he
which
interruptions till the spring
school
at
entered the law
where
that year.
Auburn,
some
when
i860,
law in
of
in
removal
the
spring of 1 870 to Lincoln, Nebraska, of which city
he was subsequently elected mayor, and where
he is
head
the
now at
of
the firm
of
Brown, Eng
land & Brown.
He
the army, and
entered
July
commenced
22cl, 1862,
February
21st,
returning home
the study of law with
on
John T. Pingree,
Auburn.
He was admitted
to the bar June 7th, 1867, and in 1868, formed a
of
with
co-partnership
tinued till the
in
being
1871,
E.
Justice
was elected
the
only
Brown,
which
the latter to
removal of
He
1870.
E.
candidate
of
con
Nebraska,
Peace in
the
elected upon
his
ticket.
A. Wright
and
educated
law
studied
with
Waverly,
he
where
he
when
Waters,
bar June
to the
with
Moravia
of
6th,
alone,
Institute.
He
and
till
Moravia,
J. L. Parker,
and
to
afterwards
He
was ad
and removed
1864,
ist, 1846,
was
born
educated
and
and a year
Auburn,
prac
justice
of
of
at
Aurora, September
Cayuga Lake Acad
thereafter removed with
he
continued
his
when
he
was admitted
studies
to the
him to
till
bar.
June
July
following he became Mr. Aiken's partner,
remained two years, when he removed to Le
15th
vanna,
he
where
removed
mained,
ga
he
practiced
to
Ithaca,
having
R. R. Co.
July
where
charge of
at
till
ist, 1874, when
he has
the affairs
that terminus.
of
since re
the Cayu
offices of
In September
two
remained
to New York
his father
of
that
year
He
years.
then went
Messrs. Wingate
and engaged with
& Cullen, attorneys, and remained with them till
June 15th, 1875, when he removed to Buffalo,
where
January 6th,
thence
and returned
he is
1877, to Mora
now practicing.
Greenfield, only son of Hiram Greenfield,
born in Locke, August 7th, 1850, and edu
Hull
was
cated at
Moravia Institute.
study law
1869,
New
and remained with
York, in
November 24th,
Moravia,
turned to
a
with
partnership
At his
continues.
first in
admitted
ist,
during that
and
Man & Par
office of
May
1871.
John L.
to practice
1874, he
month
Parker,
re
formed
which
still
in Syracuse he
examination
a class of over
to
December ist,
his removal to
him till
been
having
commenced
Day
1872, to the
sons, attorneys,
He
S. Edwin
with
twenty.
Joel Bradford
Jennings, son of the late Brad
ford Jennings, of Venice, was born October nth,
He attended school at Moravia, and
1843.
finished his
Michigan
education
been in
in April
in the Law Department
University,
then came to
at
where
7th, 1869,
and
a co
May ist, 1866, he entered
emy in that village.
the law office of Oliver Wood, of Cayuga, as stu
and
father
formed
continued
summer of
he became Mr. Aiken's partner, and continued
such till April, 1872, when he again joined his
of
at
Ann
attendance
Moravia
and
Arbor, in
1875,
there since 1873.
commenced
of
He
practice
that year.
The First National Bank of Moravia.
The project for establishing a bank in Moravia
Banks.
having
Elias M. Ellis
his father.
with
having
the peace.
dent,
tice
1868,
which
office
to
law in the
and
Parker & Day, and was admitted to practice
June 9th, 1 87 1.
He at once commenced prac
April,
he has been in
has held the
and
1838,
Cortland.
till 1870, since which time
tice
4th,
remained
returned
partnership
May
E. E. Brown,
with
Wright &
mitted
the
at
born
was
13th, 1849,
Moravia Institute in the
studied
Parker,
and
stood
James
He
1867.
Hon. John L.
son of
Moravia, December
at
graduated at
Wade, de
Moravia Institute.
the
at
graduated
and
1840,
William
in Moravia,
born
was
ceased,
son of
born
was
via,
Rowland D. Wade,
T. Parker,
Wing
till
mained
been
B. Hale
and
canvassed
by
Wm.
B. F. Everson,
a
Keeler,
call
was
Austin
issued
April 6th, 1863, and signed by Hector C. Tut
hill, James Thornton, Rufus W. Close, P. D.
Livingston, Lucius Fitts, Thompson Keeler, S.
D. Tabor, Wm. Keeler, Lyman Card, A. B. Hale,
Lauren Townsend, Charles Chandler, B. F.
Everson, E. E. Brown, W. W. Alley, Jr., W. C.
Cramer, B. C. Goodridge, Joseph Dresser,
Nathan Robinson, B. D. King, P. R. Robinson,
S. B. Young, M. L. Wood, David Wade, Jr.,
Whitman Brockway, H. H. Alley, E. Hopkins, J.
S. Paul, H. H. Tuthill, J. C. Odell, Reuben
Rounds and_C. E. Parker.
VILLAGE OF MORAVIA.
A meeting
Tuthill,
was
the
by
organized
held
was
At
capital
stock
Everson, A. B. Hale
ap
capital
by-laws,
and
those
by
and
prepare
Williams
and
ker is the
present
occupied
The
the
posits
For 1864,
1
Wade, Jr., Whitman Brockway, E. Hopkins, J.
S. Paul, Reuben Rounds, and additionally by
Daniel Goodrich, Daniel J. Shaw, Cordial S.
Jennings, Jeremiah Hunt, Benjamin Atwood,
Franklin Goodrich, John L. Parker, Hiram Hunt,
Wm. R. Richmond, Elizabeth Barney, M. M.
Greenfield, Wm. Selover, Terry Everson, Alvah
The
follows
as
average
For
"
84.389-93
90,766.
"
29
"
123,823.76
1868,
1869,
91,491.20
1870,
69,515.68
yearly de
87 1,
$ 68,604.31
1872,
61,123.79
1
94,288.25
866,
the
by
:
"
1867,
the call,
the bank is indicated
74,380. 18
1865,
25th,
Close, P. D. Livingston, Lucius
Fitts, Lyman Card, W. C. Cramer, B. C. Good
ridge, Nathan Robinson, S. B. Young, David
$
he has
a position
years.
statistics.
have been
Wm. J. H. Par
book-keeper,
success of
M. L.
Brown, Julius Fitts,
L. H. Edmons.
last two
the
following
after
Rufus W.
except
Elijah E.
Tuthill,
report
May
signed
who
H.
were
which,
adopted
amendment, were
and signed
1863,
to
committee
revision and
the
to
Franklin Goodrich
and
association
of
articles
was
meeting held April 25th, all the
having been subscribed, B. J.
a
a
the Na
committee
a
It
clerk.
organize under
and
and
Hon. H. C.
Hale,
subscriptions
obtain
stock.
appointed
to
advisable
to
pointed
A. B.
and
Banking Law,
tional
to the call,
appointment of
chairman,
deemed
pursuant
4^5
"
"
1873,
79,267.48
1874,
127,084.98
1875.
1876,
146,120.67
159-495-43
i877
I39.4I7-99
Average yearly deposits during the
fourteen years,
$ 100,697. 85-f
Government taxes paid during the
fourteen years
22,336.53
Dividends paid to stockholders
139,100.00
during the fourteen years
which is 1 2.42 per cent, on a cap
ital of $80,000.
.
.
.
80,000.00
Present Capital
"
Surplus
"
Undivided Profits
20,800.00
5>44*-00
H. W. Lockwood.
Fitch, Smith Hewitt and
The first directors, as named in the articles of
association, were, Hector C. Tuthill, Daniel J.
Shaw, Beriah D. King, Alvah Fitch, Austin B.
Hale, Wm. Keeler, Charles E. Parker, Thomp
Keeler
son
and
organization
May
was perfected
meeting of the Board
5th, Austin B. Hale was
year
H. Tuthill
was
till
the
December,
was
and
he has
when
elected
Hector
since
when
F. Everson
1864,
its
February,
directorship
1872,
year
B.
president.
Leander Fitts
the
position
which
exception of
was
to
elected
opened
till
director,
resigned as a
the presidency,
and
and
1863.
president
as
acted
he
when
cashier
May
president,
The bank
to $80,000.
A. B. Hale
Hale
and at
elected
doors for business October 5th,
the
2d, 1863,
The capital
Everson, cashier.
fixed at $50,000, and was increased the
stock was
with
The
F.
Benjamin
1864,
Everson.
Directors held
of
a
following
F.
Benjamin
position,
he has held continuously since, with the
exception of the year 1872, when John Thomas
The bank has
the Moravia House
a
lease
The
since
which extends
present
Silas Phelps, Joseph
occupied rooms
its organization,
in
under
to 1893.
Terry Everson,
Wm.
Selover, H.
Dresser,
directors
are
organizing
a second
via seems
to have
the
per cent,
in
The idea
of
institution in Mora
banking
originated
with
Wm.
Keeler,
broached ^e subject to a
who, in January, 1877,
few gentlemen whom he deemed most likely to
be interested in
such
a
project, among others,
Green, Thompson
Keeler, Capt. Edwin C. Pulver, Wm. E. Keeler,
Webb J. Greenfield and S. Edwin Day, and after
Elondo Greenfield, James T.
it
consultation
be
$100
currency
at
application
bank,
19th
successful, and on the 21st
the
office of
the Comptroller
Washington.
was
made
which
was
organization
was
correspondence
thereafter,
association were made
day.
to the
subscriptions
placing the amount
to be divided into shares of
proved
effort
opened with
the
effort
bank,
such
$50,000,
February
such
secure
an
each.
The
of
to
of
stock
determined than
was
made
thereof at
he resigned,
to that
from five
reduced
The Moravia National Bank.
capital
as
been
deposits,
paid on
1876.
held,
acted
interest is
per cent,
having
rate
should
which
was cashier.
Four
and
A. B.
$106,241.00
Total
On
the
28th
of
the
formal
for authority to establish
granted March 6th, and on
certificates
and articles of
in duplicate, dated
on
that
TOWN OF MORAVIA.
466
The first meeting
March 26th, 1877,
tors
of
the
and
was
stockholders
following
held
direc
nine
S. Edwin Day, Wm. Keeler,
Cady, Chas. H. Wilcox, Elondo
were elected :
Jeremiah P.
Greenfield, Thompson Keeler, Edwin C. Pulver,
James F.
same
Green,
directors
The
the
remain
in
6th,
and
1877,
Alley
and
bank
the
building
in
was
that
authorized
consideration
the
year
May
erected.
opened
deposits the first
the
stands,
and
structure
the bank first
Two
was
April 30th, 1877, H.
deeded the lot on which
wife
being $1,000,
brick
26th
business.
to commence
H.
the
on
present
22d,
dividends
have been declared.
Four
two
of
per
The
$50,000.
per cent, each
cent,
interest is
deposits.
paid on
via, though varied,
The
manufactures of
is
important
embrace no
located,
the
special
to
tom and
when
the
and
flouring-mill,
(H. Eugene Waldo
present
100
about
fire in 1856,
by
excellent
for
motor
most of
was estab
in full operation, gave
men. It was destroyed
following
It
Waldo & Selover
Newell Selover,) are the
was
of stone and
four
contains
pelled
built
the
upon
by
the
stands
run
of
Alley
flouring-mill,
in 1857,
Alley,
by
and
him till
which
on
is
proprietor
Mill
W. W.
cousin
1866.
April ist,
street.
of
of
Joseph
mill
street.
are
pro
from
year
Potter,)
and
John S.
,
factory
in
Allen,
and
August,
the
Alley,
and run
After passing through
by
several
and
and
John S.
Allen,
15 to 25 hands.
The
of
thirty horse-power
a
The
1877.
and
occupy
Mr. Allen is also
works
those
a
of
en
part
blind
sash and
business
commenced
planing-mill,
same engine as
Co.,
are
of
Charles Johnson &
of
the
proprietor
building.
same
of a
con
saw-mill,
Walker & McCredies employ ten men,
sometimes
house
during
more,
building
business
was
Lowe &
the
summer
and
season, in
operating a planing-mill. The
commenced in 1874
by William V.
and
who, in 1877,
Walker,
admitted
John
and
Daniel
partnership.
Pulver, (J. H. Lowe
proprietors of steam
ver,)
by
operated
one circular saw.
taining
E. C. Pul
and
planing-mill,
manufac
doors, sash and blinds, and dealers in
lumber, water-lime and plaster, near the de
turers of
coal,
J. H. Lowe bought
pot.
business
in
and
of
half interest in the
a
David H. Foster in
1877, E.
February,
February,
1875,
C. Pulver bought
Mr. Foster's remaining interest.
The present
proprietors put in the
machinery in the winter
of
1877.
The Moravia Association
February,
1869,
for the
The
capital stock
paid
in,
and
is
was
incorporated in
purpose of
making cheese.
$1,200 of which was
$2,500,
the remainder
paid
The first
mulated profits.
from the
officers
were
accu
Elijah
Parsons, President ; Joseph Alley, Secretary
Treasurer.
E.
Dr. W. W.
fourteen feet.
polishing
September 10th,
proprietor
The
present officers are
organization; Jacob
son of
by
gine.
of
built
to
by
sons,
mill was
contains
propelled
of
fluting
lease the property
works are operated
was
and machinists and man
employment
give
fall
business
commenced
They
are
It
Co., (Wm. B. Johnson
founders
possession
1877.
which
Johnson's
of
ufacturers
half interest
and a
the creek, with a
Charles Johnson &
N. H.
the present
of
to Heber Waldo.
stones,
of
a
possession
1st, 1876,
fall
with
the custom and
The
Alley, Jr.,
same
The
Factory
stones,
from the creek,
It came into
feet.
present proprietors
Joseph
on
water
twenty-two
water
the cus
year
foundation, by Keeler & Southwick.
is built
its
of which
and
proprietors,
water
An important
Moravia Cotton Mill
lished in 183 1, and,
employment
an
establishments.
manufacturing
industry
affords
furnishes the
and
power,
of
Mora
ties, being confined mostly to the natural demands
of its other industries.
Mill Creek, upon which
village
run
McCredie to
Manufactures.
the
three
1877,
its doors for business.
year aggregated about
semi-annual
first
1878.
Bank of Auburn, to be invested in 4% per cent.
U. S. bonds.
The bank was incorporated April
1
the
same as at organization.
deposited in the First National
and
rented
irons,
April 4th, 1877, John A. Thomas was employed
as cashier.
April 5th, the entire capital stock
was paid
July
officers
vice-president.
into
came
proprietor
The
C. Chandler.
the
James F
and
Ira
and
first meeting of directors was held,
Edwin Day was elected president and
day
S.
and
Green
it
hands
President,
which office
cheese are made per
The
Messrs.
thirty
he has held from
About 600
Wolsey
men
important
most
&
in this
and
the
Wm.
pounds
of
day.
manufacture of carriages
Moravia's
Elijah Par
Adams, Secretary ;
Keeler, Treasurer.
and
has been
recent
one of
industries.
Brown, who employed about
business, failed August 29th,
/
Judge Cyrus
the father
Powers,
Dr. Cyrus
of
Powers,
was
born in Stillwater, Saratoga county, N. Y. in 1770. At the age of
21 he
married
Lydia
Stow,
and next year
pronius, Cayuga County, N. Y.
which Dr. Cyrus Powers is the sole
Judge for 20
County,
Abigail,
in Cayuga
in Tompkins
afterwards
Cayuga
years
was
the
They
County,
had
children
He
was
Judge
of
County
for five
died in
Powers'
into Sem
six
and also
He
Millard
wife of
moved
survivor.
county.
in 1843.
he
years
Kelloggsville,
younger
sister,
President of the
Fillmore,
United States.
Dr. Cyrus Powers
ty, July 18th,
was
born in
He
1814.
Sempronius,
studied
Moravia,
tice
of
of
Cayuga
his
County,
In
profession.
Ledyard,
who
is
where
still
he
of
through
tion
of
all
still
1846, he
in the
resides
married
Cornelia
in
prac
Carter,
visited
He passed the
traveler.
extended
the remaining Southern States
In 1 853 he
his
trip
as well as a por
California
and
Oregon,
returning by way of Panama, and again in 1870,
after the Pacific Eailroad was opened, he revisited Califor
nia, going by way of Montreal and Lake Superior, stopping
going
and
awhile at
Salt
Lake,
and
returning
by
way
of
the Mammoth
1873, he went to Europe, visiting
England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Switzerland and Italy ;
Syria and Palestine, going overland from
thence to
Cave in Kentucky.
In
Egypt*
Damascus to Jerusalem.
Suez Canal he
went
Eeturning
up the Nile in
far
as
this
Philae
as
long trip,
make
a
urged
has
a
to Egypt
dahdbedh,
by
way
of
or native
the
boat,
the First Cataract.
at
him to
Very
refused, saying that
always
many
them in book
reprint
His letters
in the Moravia
published
good-sized volume.
of
were
would
his friends have
form, but
they
during
Register,
not
the Doctor
worth
the
trouble.
When the
war of
the Rebellion broke
joined the 75th Begt.
Fort
Pickens,
Fla.
out
Assist. -Surgeon,
as
Next
year
he
was
in 1861, Dr. Powers
and accompanied.it
promoted
to
to the Sur
geoncy of the 160th Regiment and remained with it in Lou
isiana two years. During the ill-starred, and badly managed
Red River Expedition
charge of
ing
at
the
over
army
of
he
and
later
about
was on
the
in the
return
duty
was on
Board for the
C. ,
the
hospitals
or
Banks, the Doctor had
Alexandria, La. hav
at
rather
fifteen hundred sick and
of a
vice
General
under
consolidated
the time
Subsequently
a
1851-2, chiefly in Texas, but
Mexico.
and settled
living.
The Doctor has been something of
winter
Cayuga Coun
medicine and graduated at
Geneva Medical College in February, 1845,
%
<&*,
,
the
retreat of
his
wounded under
about six months as
President
Portland, Maine,
Hospital, Washington, D.
examination of recruits at
duty
at
Stanton
same period of
time,
making four
years
forty
of ser
war.
The Doctor has probably the largest and most
private library in the western part of the State ; the
over
the
care.
years careful selection.
He has
also a
valuable
result of
large
and
autographs, which he has been assidu
for
over
thirty years. Another of his tastes
ously collecting
is for coins, of which he has about a thousand, some of them
valuable collection of
issued
by
the
old
Greek
engraved portraits
and
and rare
Boman Emperors ;
and of
steel-
engravings, he has many thous
ands.
"4*
VILLAGE OF MORAVIA.
Two
1878.
firms
other
in the busi
are engaged
both its
less extensively, viz : Eaton & Pat
Levi Hoffman ; the former of whom
ness, though
terson and
eight
employ
men,
employ four
who
twelve
ons and
in
make
five
some
car
latter,
twenty wag
D. S. Eaton
or six
years
Edward Patterson to
Levi Hoffman
ago,
part
business in
commenced
1874.
y
Austin Sackett has
ture
carried
flag-bottom chairs, in
of
the
on
a small
manufac
some
way,
six years.
There
Hotels.
L.
M.
by
1877,
Brando,
hotel in Union Springs
December
1850,
kept
was commenced
in 1849,
ar)d
him
18 1
a
Dr. David
by
3,
short
the
of
was
first
Van Anden,
The latter was
Annable,
It is
time.
since
finished in
and
three years.
or
the
and
building
by Lemuel C. Porter, Jr.,
by his brother-in-law,
built in
by
ten years;
The
1877.
22d,
kept it two
who
previously kept
who
some
May,
since
House, kept by Thomas White
Moravia
former
hotels in the
two good
Goodrich House, kept
the
village
are
owned
and
by
kept
Squire
Raymond.
burn papers, for local
before;
Alley
purchased a
four
town
County
Futile
news.
For
the
20th, i860, H. H.
Jones press,
which printed
five inches in size,
by
In
Cayuga
he
October,
County
and soon
twelve
sheet
a
several years
meetings.
started
and
February
and
one which printed
inches.
other, chiefly the Au
on
establish a newspaper were made several
years
sheet
Previous to 1863,
Moravia.
of
Moravia had to depend
to
by
printed
a
after,
eighteen
tickets
for
into the hands
issuing
Courier in
an office
in
it
of
brother, A. J. Hicks,
his
alone a
year,
formed
who,
a co-partner
Wm. M. Nickols, who, shortly after
interest and con
ward, purchased Mr.
tinued it till March 10th, 1867, when A. J. Hicks
with
ship
Hicks'
Abner H. Livingston became the
and
tors
and published
when
the latter
changed
its
it
purchased
name
prietor, M. E.
proprie
till December of that year,
his
sold
Kenyon,
it to the
who
interest,
Courier, and
partner's
to the Moravia
December 31st, 1870,
79-2
ter,
thrift
The
present
pro
has greatly improved
it
1872,
by Uri
the
representative of the
was
of
Cayuga streets,
had learned the general
who
then
under
It
twenty
Republican
party.
the
in its
terested
twenty-four
publication
Auburn,
to
removed
a
en
page,
by
to
it
where
was
in
were
was
published
a
Prohibition
the
of
a
thirty-
in 1875, it
and
;
in the interest
months
was
to
In 1874, L. & U. Mulford
inches.
to the
given
was
July
was again enlarged
size
paper,
till
politics
one column
August 7th, 1873, it
twenty-
by
15th, 1873, it
May
addition of
seven-column
in
The
age.
nineteen
its influence
when
by
was
of
years
was neutral
18th, 1872,
few
25th,
and
a
four inches.
and
energy
January
started
Main
corner of
the first volume
size of
six
fit
Regis
Valley
country office in the office of the
Enterprise'in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania,
and was
larged
to the Moravia
News
Mulford,
business
Valley
a
departments,
mechanical
the village.
of
Weekly
on
and
name
and made
and
party.
The Moravia Citizen
proprietor, who
and
Congregational
the
Its
for its
by
larged to
eight
July
13th,
present
editor
previously pastor of the
in Moravia.
It is pub
Thursday, in
a
building
first
the
by
erected
in
accommodation
during
size
twenty-four
was
church
proprietor
1877.
started
was
Rev. Charles Ray, the
by
1876,
April,
six weeks
was
inches. It has been
thirty-six
columns, size twenty-six
en
by forty
inches.
Republican, but the paper
It is devoted to local
is independent in politics.
Its
news
is
;
minister
its
limits
of
the
of scholars
could
line
Mill
Creek,
troversy between
tricts,
was
a
confirmed
was made
of
in
use
the
on
bitter
a
after
residents
by
In
being a larger num
division
which,
the
Up
district.
one
than the school-house then
accommodate,
of
readers.
village since 1797.
the spring of that year, there
ber
its
it
make
has been taught
formed but
village
to
publisher
school
public
temperance ;
of
advocate
religious needs of
A
1839, the
a
of
aim
to the
the
within
is
earnest
an
Schools.
to
editor
it is the
and
1863, A. O. Hicks
Smith's block, and continued its publication till
his death, in the summer of 1864, when it fell
after
its
lished every
The Press
efforts
literary
changed
the
and
annum,
sleighs per annum.
1876 admitted
nership.
fifty
manufacture
five men,
or
business
commenced
and
per
wagons
and
riages
and
467
con
the two dis
State Superinten
the
dent, Hon. John C. Spencer, in
the
summer
of
1839.
The first school,
old
town
of
which was also
Sempronius,
was
the
first in the
taught
Levi H. Goodrich, in the
dwelling,
by
1 797-8.
In the
summer and
fall
of 1
in
a
log
winter
of
798, the first
TOWN OF MORAVIA.
468
school-house
built.
was
It
was
a
substantial
frame structure, and stood on the site of Andrew
Perry's dwelling, to make room for which it was
torn down
It
about 1859.
in
school-house
18
13,
for
various
the
first teacher in the
of
and
the
was
and was
afterwards
used
was
the
a
also
winter
Miss
by
there
succeeded
in
health,
Goodrich
house, in
new
1799; David
17991800.
Mr. Good
summer
winter of
taught
in ill
being
as
Mr.
Emma Skinner in the
rich again
abandoned
purposes.
i798-'9,
Wright, in
was
of
the winter of
i8oi-'2, and,
William Wat
by
was assisted
tles, Jr.
brick
a
school-house was
erected
Masonic building, by the joint
school district, the Congregational
the site of the
the
efforts of
Society
the
and
the expense
and
of
building
building the
that
and repair of
Mr. Goodrich
two
bore
first story,
the
while
a joint expense.
the roof was
first teacher in this
the
winter of
the
walls of
the second ;
of
was also
in the
The former
Masons.
Masons,
the
house,
At the first
i"8i3-'i4.
district meeting, held in the school-house
in July, 1813, after the division of the town into
school
districts
school
ized in
1
the school
under
1840, the
of
to the
Masons for $500.
building
poses,
and
fall
the
Masonic
The lower
for
was afterwards used
the
building on
make
wood school-house was
built
the spring
job
1840, the
of
down in
A
street.
Cayuga
on
On the division
of
erecting it
who built the
poses
trict
was
a
These buildings
till the
No. 1,
of
spring
built
cost,
1870,
in
being
house,
for school
that
when
of
pur
in Dis
lot leased for
$5 per
year, was sold at auction to Ezra Reynolds, for
$125, and, having been moved to Keeler Avenue,
was
torn
of 1876
lot,
site,
the
which stood
down
; that
was
part of
It was
preceding fall and winter.
incorporated by the Regents January 23d, 1840.
sold
the
and
W. G.
Wolsey
in the
summer
in District No. 2, together with the
to Peter Decker, for $475.
One
building
the
Catholic
by
on a
still
other on
church
stands
on
Grove street,
; both
the original
next south of
are used as
the
purpose
It
was supported
students
entirely
the
and
by
tuitions
paid
by
the
drawn from the Re
moneys
In
conformity to its charter its affairs
managed
by a board of twelve resident trus
gents.
were
tees,
held
who
they
vacancies
to
continued
duties,
to their
attended
during
office
in their
their pleasure, pro
in the town
reside
and
had
fill
to
power
and
The first board
number.
all
of
Hon. Rowland
Day, President;
Calvin Whitwood, Dr. Hilem Bennett, Deacon
John Stoyell, Leonard O. Aiken, Hon. Ebenezer
Smith, Artemas Cady, Chauncey Wright, Orsamus Dibble, Robert Mitchell, Daniel Goodrich
trustees were
Loyal Stoyell.
and
Elbridge Hosmer
Sabin.
Carr
They
The first teachers
and
were
wife,
were
Rev.
assisted
by Elizabeth
by
Samuel D.
succeeded
wife; Watts C.
Livingston, in 1850;
William Parett, assisted by his sister Rachel
Parett, 185 1; Sanford B. Kinney and Eunice
and
Knapp,
send
by Julius TownMerrill, assisted by Matilda A.
in the
assisted
; Andrew
classics
Goodrich, in fall of 185 1, one term ; Rev. John
Leach, assisted by Etta Hoskins, 1854-5 > Rob
ert Mitchell,
1856; Westel Willoughby, 1857;
C. Squires, assisted by Amy Frost, 1859^60
John G.Williams, 1860-2; Rev. C. A. Conant
including lot,
were used
for the
erected
new
School street,
on
building
a wooden
Rev. Martin
into two districts
the village
in 1839, a school-house
by District No. 2, at
$275.
1839, in
of
new
street
of
by Amasa Dunbar,
furnishing all the material, for $100.
taken
of
various pur
for the
room
North Main
portion
torn
whole structure was
1876, to
of
of
Society for $400, and, in the
location being too public, sold
spring
the
system organ
8 12, the district bought the interest
Congregational
the
higher education, the Moravia Institute was pro
jected and commenced operations in the spring
vided
In i8i2-'i3,
on
In the meantime, the district school then exist
ing in the village not meeting the demand for a
dwellings.
Moody
and
C. W. Holbrook ; Wat
son
Wm. P.
Goodell,
1863-4; J- M.
Proctor,
1864-6
Lyon ; J. P. Dysart ; David A. Burnett,
assisted
by L. M. Townsend and Martha J. At; Miles G.
wood
Rogers
stitute
1866-7; Alexander H.
Sophronia Lowe, 1867-8.
The In
and
had twenty-three
Mr. Hosmer
years.
a
little
more
of each of
than
the
Regents.
ported as
The
for
State
been
in
twenty-nine
five years,
for the
leaving
average time
twenty-two.
annual reports were
made
to the
aggregate number of students re
classical or
least thirteen
at
for the instruction
the
remained
having pursued
studies
from
principals
one year
other
Twenty-nine
lish
Hyde,
of whom
higher
weeks was
the trustees
Regents $4,953.63.
Eng
2052,
received
Eleven
annual
classes were reported as
having
teachers'
instructed,
each class
for
a term of thirteen
VILLAGE OF MORAVIA.
weeks.
In these
structed,
for
business
done
have
men
credit
and
Alma Mater.
and their
year
to
Prominent among these are Hon. Andrew D.
White, of Syracuse, President of Cornell Uni
lage,
as
legal
the
of
members
Minister to
present
and
Germany,
in
profession
Eesidents.
Sept. 30, 1869,
"
30, 1870,
30, 1871,
30, 1872,
"
"
"
"
vil
"
mentioned.
previously
"
"
The Institute
of
the
year, the legal
tence
urgent
or
necessity
of either
thoroughly repairing
19th of
the two
had
which
twenty-nine years,
of
December
voters of
districts in the village,
the end
existence at
term of 1868,
summer
which
its
closed
school
a separate exis
the
confronted with
the
old
buildings
new
erecting
at a
ones, voted,
meeting held for the purpose, to reunite,
thus forming the Moravia Union Free School dis
public
it
trict as
a
Union School
of
building on
formal
a
ravia
and
the
of
former
the
and
public
secretary,
department
legal
board
the Moravia In
1869, the
president
property to the trustees
Union Free School.
the
of
fall
school
new
It
of 1869.
tial brick
the
old
front,
three and a
and commodious
school
grounds,
schools of
prepared
this
for
studies
Six
college.
a
full term
ceived therefor
with
for
school
the
to the Regents
academic
usually
are
annual
depart
of classical
pursued
from
the
The increase in the
in
thoroughly
State
and
130
$1,540
re
Regents.
number
of
137
85
726.00
121
728.00
158
855.00
1876,
743- 00
30, 1877,
528
863.00
30, 1878,
381
134
167
The
large for the
school
plan
become too
accommodation,
a committee
the last
was appointed at
to report a
having
of students
number
1059.32
for the
annual school
meeting
the build
enlargement of
ing.
There have been
and chemical
philosophical
in the
expended
$700,
several
courses of
lectures
containing 612
1
the Union School
Institute
9th,
was
were
4th, 1869,
Brokaw, a
is
school
a
library
classical
the
of
new
the school
principals
two
houses
during
that
terms, from
the
department, by Rev. E.
pastor of
the
Congrega
; and Rev. Manson
School was
the Institute.
village
April 25th, 1870, and
have been, Hosea Cur-.
building
the
principals since
tis,
seven
ent
one,
terms,
and
who was assisted a part of
graduate of
begun in the
means of
school entertain
English,
who was then
Church
school
868, to A pril 25 th, 1 870,
held in three buildings,
The
Fannie M.
the
and
1
building
in the two districts.
period
by
of
volumes.
From December
old
and
the
with
$876,
three
all of which was raised
Connected
ments.
purchase
apparatus
purchase of a good piano and
organs,
the
in the
then
Chas. O. Roundy, the pres
The assistants in the
terms.
and
eighteen
academic'department
have been Grace A.
Wood,
fifteen terms ; E. Bertha Smith, six terms ; Fan
nie M.
English, Cyrus A. Wood, three terms ;
R. Frost, Eda E. Ainsley, Rev. Ezra D.
Shaw and Sarah Barnes, one term each, and Miss
Peck, who taught a part of a term, while Miss
Amy
Wood
was sick.
teachers
In the
other
have been Sarah M.
departments the
Cole,
seven
terms ;
students
B. Willie, seven terms ; Euphemia A. Paul,
Carrie C. Fries, five terms ; F.
nine terms ;
Adele Roundy, three terms ; Mrs. C O. Roundy,
Mary
in this department
weeks,
221.00
985.00
teachers'
an aggregate number of
of thirteen
re
five large
value of
branches
instructed
students, have been
for
used
The
Students
grade.
classes, containing
hall,
the
various
higher English
high,
two recita
as reported
In
taught the
are
rooms,
lectures.
in 1877, is $14,200.
and
There
and an excellent
and
stories
substan
61
l2>7
time, in
building thoroughly
wooden
exercises and public
ment are
half
addition.
paired as a rear
building
plain, but
279
131
Benedict,
was
consists of a
Institute
tion rooms,
building
20.00
5
481
Moravia
in the
$
228
449
tional
The
1874,
Tuition of
Non-Residcnts.
1875,
January
erected
state
930.00
their
conveyance of all
school
Mo
the
of
School, in March,
Institute, through their
made a
new
meeting,
Free
Union
trustees
the
at
grounds owned and
vote adopted
stitute as the academic
voted
erect
Institute,
elected at a
education,
having by
the
the Moravia
by
been
having
meeting to
public
subsequent
occupied
It
now exists.
following
Non-P.esidents.
373
333
427
464
1873,
30,
30,
30,
30,
and
this
from the
seen
ment :
"
versity,
is
year
and
from its halls
graduated
to themselves
from the
received
of professional
number
in
students were
$2,080 were
which
A large
Regents.
216
classes
469
from
L. Anna Brownell, five terms ;
Adelle Cuyketidall, seventeen terms; Stella A.
Burlingham, two terms ; and Anna B. Waldo, one
twelve
terms ;
TOWN OF MORAVIA.
470
term ; those
in italics
marked
being
the present
Churches.
Many
miles
deep
of
preaching
to
12th,
village
school-house,
a
1806,
of covenant
nu
most numer
a
Church Society.
number
held in the
was
the
and
faith
of
and
First Congre
with
the
Stoyell,
Cotton Skinner, John Phelps, Sarah Warren,
Elizabeth E. Morrow, John Locke, Jacob Spafford, Sarah Stoyell, Justus Gibbs, Levi H. Good
ing
was
Cotton Skinner
meet
Abraham Brokaw
Levi H.
and clerk
Goodrich
and
;
John
Levi H. Goodrich
and
minister
Brokaw
was
Stoyell,
were
the
installed
regularly
Phelps,
ruary 20th, 1816,
Stoyell
when
he
unanimously
Levi H.
Goodrich,
that office till
Rev.
was
was
held April
meeting
was
Royal
his death in
dismissed.
At
1808, John
deacon in place
2d,
chosen
who
Feb
resigned,
1842.
and
he held
Meetings
were
held variously in Cotton Skinner's barn, the long
room of Aunt Cady's tavern, John Stoyeli's
house,
the
frame,
and afterwards
in the latter
est
for
a
when
of which
short
society did
their
time.
not own a
the
brick, school-house,
society held an inter
With this exception, the
the
house
of
worship
till 1823,
present church edifice was erected at
$7,000, on land donated for
by John Stoyell, Sr. The first pul
an estimated cost of
the
pit
pit,
purpose
used,
or rather
in
the
was a carpenter's
afterwards
1852.
thing first used for
work bench.
The
a pul
pulpit
It was lowered
very high.
The first seats were moveable and
built
were replaced
Mr. Phelps
ply,
try
was
by
slips
was
in
1828-9.
succeeded
in
of
by
Rev.
it
gave
thirty-three
when
impulse
an
first
the
was
In
report of
in 1825,
min
the mem
when
the
and
the
eighty-three,
that year the services of
were secured
he
led to
and
In the
church edifice.
members
and though
as a stated
sup
installed, his minis
his death, June 30th, 1842.
was never
was continued till
In 183 1, forty persons united with the church.
September ist, 1842, Rev. S. P. M. Hastings
was
as
acting
His ministry
pastor.
During
till 1845.
the second
was
ate an extensive revival
in the
resulted
year of
continued
his
pastor
which
experienced,
to the mem
addition of sixty-five
bership.
Rev. A. N. Leighton
who commenced
Luther
many
this
churches
church
slavery, an^ resolutions
by
unanimous
vote,
the church,
records of
were
neutral,
decided stand
were drafted and
and
this
upon
upon
spread
One of these resolutions,
brief but pointed, is as follows :
important
all of which
subject.
are
and
took a
passed
the
Conklin,
1850.
against
a
in 1846,
his labors April 12th, 1847,
when
or undecided,
the pastor
Rev.
April 12th,
till
In 1846,
was
by
succeeded
was
and
While church censures for unchristian con
duct must be in the light of the circumstances
"
connected with each
particular
the
determined
persevering
principle of
nor
nor
slavery,
enormities connected
erated
in any
was
followed
ton,
ing
mously
with
was
merged
teries.
of
to
Cayuga
came connected
ciation,
ought-
of
to be
the
any
tol
the pastor
by
in
1852
;
and
Egles-
Rev. R. S.
till 1854, at a
21st,
resolved
the
neither
commission
therewith,
the same year
July
yet
practice of
church
who remained
held
the
case,
communion."
Rev. A. Austin
which
quarterly meet
year it was unani
discontinue the
Presbytery,
in r8n,
when
connection
with which
the
it be
Middle Asso
it originally belonged, was
into the Cayuga and Onondaga Presby
to
which
September 14th, 1859, tne
withdrew
teen to
18 16
till 1822,
this church appears
Rev. Geo. Taylor
of
Williston, Abraham
Higgins; but the first
them half the time till
who served
church
to the spiritual wants
pastor
This
pulpit was vacant.
"
Revs. Seth
David
and
numbers
Presbytery
of
continued
this people were
of
The
trustees.
The first to
a
Lois Stoyell.
Revs.
Higgins.
first deacon
chosen
first
and
by
attended
David
and
Spaf-
Locke, Mary Curtis, Abigail
Joseph Butler
18 18
he remained, nor who succeeded him
to 1825.
The church had but four ad
the
utes of
bership
Church of Sempronius formed,
following as its first members : John
ford,
previous
faith
that
persons of
gational
rich, Esther
long
were added.
confession
adopted,
of
traveled
many
Rev. Mr.
by
they enjoyed the ministra
Rev. Isaac Eddy, but it does not appear
ditions to its
was
meeting
a
how
followed
was
who
the erection of the
church
the
tions
In
to support the
locality
organize
March
convictions,
sufficiently
they
in
settlers
worship.
and
ously represented,
were
the first to
were
the word,
divine
attend
earlier
religious
settlements
The Congregational
form
the
in their immediate
merous
stated
of
were men of
before the
and
Porter,
Brown.
teachers.
Moravia
Reuben
from the
eleven.
Presbytery
It
Presbytery by
was
received
June 22d, 1864;
and
church again
a vote of seven
Cayuga
by
the
by
the Central
VILLAGE OF MORAVIA.
New York Association December
October 29th, 1855, the trustees
employ Rev. U.
to
May
1857.
4th,
invite Rev.
to
was
A.
that
employed
following
the
and
A
proved satisfactory.
June 13th, 1865,
June
His
October 2d,
cepted
became the
Sophia Jewett tendered the
bell,
toned
Charles
Ray
continued
having
During
his
the church
He
Sherrill,
May,
members
is
1873,
The
175.
thanks. Rev.
an
by
where, for
Moravia,
present
May
March,
doubled,
April 2d,
a
time, they
building
was afterwards used
no other
has been
erected.
ally held meetings, but
no church
his
M. E. Church
occasion
has been
estab
About
1818 or
preacher,
visited
brick
school
were
made
two
weeks
the
house.
flats
and
Methodist
preached
in the
Subsequently arrangements
services were
whereby
; but it does
not appear
held
once
that a
in
church
before 1847, when a neat chapel was
built, sufficiently large at that time, but which,
as the society increased in numbers, proved too
was organized
small,
ern
a
and
in 1871,
architecture,
a new
brick
an ornament
building
to the
of mod
village and
lasting monument to the liberality of the people,
and adapted
gregation,
to the
was
wants and comfort of
erected, at
a cost of
the
$20,000.
who made
day
his first
1822,
visit
and
in
officiated and preached
house.
school
23d,
and one of
The
by
church was
built
Rt. Rev. John Hen
November 30th, 1823, when Orsamus H.
Smith became the rector.
He had charge also
till
the
of
Churches in Genoa
1829,
his
ministry till
was
Locke, and con
The
August, 1828.
and
then without a rector till the
at which
a
time Rev.
few
1830,
till
by Rev.
May of
Amos G. Baldwin
He
weeks.
fall
was
David
succeeded
Huntington,
of
of
in
who
Rev.
that year.
Henry
Gregory became rector May 2d, 1830, remaining
till February nth, 1833.
The church was then
for nearly a year, till Rev. Timothy Minor
became the rector, and remained about six
closed
months.
He
was
succeeded
December 26th,
1836, by Rev. Seth W. Beardsley, who continued
his pastoral labors till January, 1 840. The church
Moravia.
'19, John Ercanbrack, a
Auburn,
the Diocese of New York,
ry Hobart, Bishop
September 10th, 1826.
Rev. Lucius Smith held occasional services
January,
and
that
or
of
in
The
of
Monday, June
and consecrated
ficiated for
house in
a
dwelling,
of
in 1823,
of
lished.
The First
in the brick
remained
have
They
of
Church
worshiped.
a
the evening
tinued
1874.
as
on
was
Rev. Lucius Smith,
by
14th, 1823,
Moravia,
to
Rev. S. B.
number
July
ganized
expense of
church was repaired
Universalists built
15, the
18
The
1877.
and rededicated
In
fine-
heavy,
a
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
the Diocesan missionaries,
con
the present pastor, who commenced
labors in
l874-'7;
time.
ac
1867, Mrs.
membership
was succeeded
Kenyon, 1873-4; A. Roe,
B. W. Hamilton, 1877 to the present
Rector of St. Peter's Church
the publication
at
ministered to this socie
the
1876, he resigned.
repaired
was
$9,000.
about
the
ar)d
pastorate
commenced
pastorate
was
his labors till
Moravia Citizen in
the
upon as
15th,
the
have
named pastors
:
to him
Presbytery
1867,
Society
to
succeeded
He
1877, when,
and
3d,
spiritually and tem
Its membership is large.
The follow
1870-72; Andrew J.
pastor,
E. Benedict
which was accepted with
1872.
ist,
the
Rev.
March
C.
trial
fixed
December
till 1872.
tinued
by
condition
months'
resignation
1866.
pastor
chosen
prosperous
The Church is
1872.
David Cobb, 1849; Sylvester Brown,
185 1 ;
E. C. Curtis, 1853; A. B. Gregg, 1863
; J. B.
Hyde ; A. M. Lake, 1863-5 ; Hiram Gee, 18657; William Jerome, 1867-70; Daniel W.Beadle,
ty
remained
call was extended
31st was
for installation.
ing
February
three
a
and approved
August
25th.
time
was
a
porally.
served
Rev.
year.
to settlement, if
with a view
till
empowered
1862.
and
in
October 5th, 1858,
ist, 1865, Rev. J. B. Morse
of
were
March 12th, 1863,
Conant became the pastor and
till
them
2
remained
dedicated March 7th,
was
were empowered
who
they
1858,
Mr. Hall.
P. P. Bates
Rev.
Powell,
1870.
14th,
47i
con
It
was again without a pastor
Beardsley Northrop
The
till
March,
1842,
when
officiated.
destroyed
by
fire
May 13th,
in 1843; an(^ consecrated October
14th, 1843, by Rt. Rev. Heathcote DeLancey,
1842;
D.
church
rebuilt
1845,
Diocese
of
Western New
Northrop was succeeded
by Rev. Chas. E. Phelps,
August 15th,
D., Bishop
York.
was
of
the
who
remained
December, 1848, and was followed by Rev.
Geo. C. Foot, who remained about six months.
till
Rev. E. W. Hager
was rector one
and
by Rev. John Leech, who
'6, removing in the spring
was
officiated
succeeded
from
1852
year, in 185 1,
TOWN OF MORAVIA.
472
of
the latter
succeeded
ately
immedi
was
Rev. Martin Moody,
who re
October, 1858. Beardsley Northrop was
temporary supply about three months in i860.
the
Rev. Chas. E.
Beardsley
took
the
charge of
parish
via was
original
June 22d, 1864,
Rev. Alex. H. Rogers became rector and
tinued
April ist, 1868, when he
Rev. Peyton Gallagher,
such till
ceeded
by
mained
five
F. Taylor
church
October 5th, 1869,
till
closed
The
months.
took charge, and
re
who
again
Rev. Benj.
when
again
was suc
was
June 22d,
resigned
Rev. Alex. H. Rogers
1870.
con
became the
November 20th, 1870, and continued his
ministry till April 4th, 1873, when he was suc
ceeded by Rev. John B. Colhoun, who resigned
rector
June ist,
the
of
Rev. E.W. Hager had the
1874.
from that time till December ist,
parish
1874; Rev. C. C.
to
charge
April,
and
from
Adams,
January, 1875,
Bowman, from
Rev. Jno. A.
1875 ;
June 13th, 1875 to April ist, 1878.
They have
had no rector since.
Hon. Jno. L. Parker was
appointed
lay
in that capacity
them
to the church,
repairs
during
pairs
July,
till
The
is thirty-five.
The
at
Sabbath School is
about
is
made conspicuous
have become
ber
of
the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
members who
by
the
num
clergymen of
Following
is
James Selkregg, Joseph G.
Knapp, Spencer M. Rice, Julius S. Townsend,
Smith Townsend, George W. Dunbar, Lyman
a
list
of
their
names :
Fayette
Phelps,
Royce,
John G. Webster
and
Thomas Bell.
Michael
ganized
June 22d,
denomination
Milan.
and
when
was
with
a
or
of
this
members
having
in the Congregational church, till
their house of worship was erected,
though the original
It is
1870, the
was
previously worshiped at
Meetings were held in the public hall,
latterly
1873,
Moravia
of
plain
brick
plan
not
structure.
Rev. M. H. Perry,
yet
completed.
The first
who continued
them till 1874, when
Rev. Mr.
is
Blakeman, who
he
was
remained
pastor
his labors
succeeded
till
by
February,
The
street.
ninety, the most
Daniel
were
$5 1 1,
Edward
and
Fitzpat-
The first
McGloughlin.
pastor
was
Rev. Father Archangel Paganinni, who served
them ten or eleven months.
He was succeeded
by
the
officiated
also
He
resides.
day.
The
The
in the
held
here every
by
Sun
alternate
members of
Father
by
he
of which places
membership is
present
were
former
the
at
preaches
500.
about
this denom
Burns, from Auburn,
1858.
Sylvan
Societies.
The first
1
June 15th, 1873, ar>d
churches at Scipio Center
earliest meetings
ination
Raf-
Francis
took the charge
Northville,
and
in
pastor, Rev. Hugh
present
who
erty,
regular
held
on
8 10, in
the
the
attic of the
few doors
south of
following
on
Church street,
and
officers
of
building
which stands
beginning of the
41, F. & A.M.
this
Lodge
December 25th,
of
evening
Huff,
the
Lodge, No.
communication
Gershom
Main street,
a
and was erected
The
present century.
members
by
occupied
were
present :
M., Cyrus Powers, S. W.,
Zenas St. John, J. W., Dr. David Annable,
Secretary, Peleg Slade, 6". D., John Mooney, J.
D., Abel Marsh, Tiler, Joseph Pierce and David
St. John, Stewards, Ithiel Piatt, Benjamin Ben
John Newcomb, W.
nett, Jesse Millard
and
R. N. Powers.
Its
char
November 27th, 18 13, at which
time Ithiel Piatt was Master, Elias Hall, S. W.,
ter
The Baptist Church
about
sum of
so
Ryan, Patrick and Thomas
rick, John Curtin, Owen McSweeny, Thomas
McMahon, Patrick La my, David Duggan, James
Ennis, Cornelius Reilly, Michael Bruton and
about
church
the Methodist
Grove
on
the
and
1878,
872, for the
1
were
of whom
of
Mora
of
John
Kelly,
twenty.
This
members
prominent
was
rectorship.
Mr. Roger's first
attendance
1878,
in
to a lot
removed
by
occupied
was purchased
ciety
the
when
in progress,
expended in re
were
present number of members
average
and served
which are now
About $500
begun.
were
Bishop,
the
by
reader
supplied.
in the fall
organized
building formerly
and
till
pastor, though
no
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
The
church was closed
had
since
has been
pulpit
December 16th, 1861, and retained it till July
2 ist, 1862, but officiated till his death soon after.
when
have
They
1878.
till
mained
a
by
He
Aurora.
to
year
and
are
was granted
Jesse
Millard, J. W.
E. L.
Harmon,
W.
M.,
The
present
officers
M. G. Mead, S.
W.,
Royce, J. W., A. B. Hale, Treasurer, M.
E. Kenyon, Secretary, J.A.Bowman, Chaplain, C.
W. Brigden, 5. D., B. F. Frair, J. D., George
Ferguson, 5. M. C, Frank Foltz, J. M. C, C.
The original number of this
L. Beitz, Tiler.
Tyler
lodge
was 229.
masonic
It
troubles,
dered their
was changed
the
anti-
many lodges surren
Meetings are held in Ma-
when so
charters.
during
MONTVILLE.
sonic
ing
Temple, a handsome
St. John
and
1810,
its
1876-7.
November
its Dispensation
charter
in the
officers named
build
Baptist R. A. Chapter No.
the
received
30,
lodge in
the
by
erected
and commodious
February 6th,
charter are
John
R.; Lucius H. Waldo, Rec. Sec'y ; Wm. Brown,
F. Sec'y; Geo, McGeer, Treas. ;-j\ Fitch Walker,
P. C. R.
Moravia Grange No.
23d,
The
1811.
Newcomb,
Mead, High Priest; Fred. B. Heald, King; J.
H. Wood, Scribe ; J. I. Horton, Treas. ; C. A.
;
Rev. John A.
Bowman, Chap
Tuthill, C. H ; Tyler Royce,
;
P. S. ; Chas. W. Brigden, R. A. C. ; Geo. Fer
2d D.;
guson, M. of^dD.; G. F. Morey, M. of
M. O. Jennings, M. of ist. D.; Charles Beitz,
Hector H.
lain
Tiler.
January
organized
W.
was
W.
Townsend.
20th,
1866.
was
Sec'y,
L. M.
were
W. W.
M. Townsend, J. M.
Nichols, A. J. Hicks, L.
Frost, Roswell Brown, O. R. VanEtten, H. H.
Parker, W. F. Brownell, T. B. Brown, C. Dean,
J. Brown, H. Gee, C. Brigden, A. D. Lee, W.
T.Parker, Sarah Cady, Augusta Robinson, Laura
Margaret
Lee,
Sabin
and
Mary
Helmer, P. J.
Davenport.
Slocum, Cornelia
The
present
offi
cers are J. M. Frost, W.
C; Mrs. Mary Benja
W. Secy;
min, W. V. T; Miss Jessie Langdon,
Lucius H. Waldo, W. F. Sec'y; Mrs. Mary Ba
Royce, Marshal; Mrs.
ker, Treas.; Miss Mary
Wm. Westfall, Chaplain ; Thos. Benjamin,/. G.;
H. H. Baker, O. G.; James Chandler, P. W.
C. T.
It
January
27th, 1875,
ter October 1 2th, 1875.
was organ
and
received
The
charter
its
char
members
Rev. L. D. Turner, Day Brokaw, M. T.
BrisMead, Frank Curtis, J. M. Frost, C. W.
were
ter, G.W.Baker, J. Fitch Walker, W. R.Corey
J. K.
Day Lester, Chas. Fitts, A. J. Chandler,
Chandler, H. Davenport, A. P. Morey, B. J.
Lombard, R. D. Wade, B. S. Townsend, F. A.
A.
Covey, M. B. DeVinney, W. E. Nye, W.
W.
Nye, G. W. Spafford, J. A. Townsend, A.
G. Hin
Hudson, H. H. Barber, C. H. Lakey, I.
The first officers were, J. M. Frost, C. R.;
man.
R. D. Wade, D. R.; H. H. Barber, Rec. Sec;
W. E. Nye, F Sec'y; J. Fitch Walker, Treas.;
Spafford, P. C R. The present offi
C. R.; Stoyell Alley, D.
are, J. M. Frost,
contains
the junction
one-half mile east of
grist-mill,
blacksmith
Stephen
Smith,
cooper
two
James White,
White
and
also a
planing,
Moravia.
cider
and
Moravia
the
by
Chas.
by
factory,
mill, which,
gives employment
by
now owned
shops, kept
spoke
kept
saw-mill, barrel
a
matching
in operation,
when
shop,
Mill
of
district school, woolen-mill,
a
factory,
to 15 or 20
Bank,
brick
a
170.
yard and a population of about
Montville, now a comparatively deserted village,
Moravia in
once outshone
Its
portance.
that respect,
it
Wood,
in
while
desirable
a
181
a
Quaker
of
Montville,
in
which
inn
his
by
site corner
in
18
Judge Walter
and
growth
prosperity
nearly the whole
there in 181 2 the house
hotel
also a
a scythe
kept
afterwards
was
which
14,
makes
owned
Isaac,
son
location
here from Aurora
came
and erected
he died,
in
advantage
an
residence.
He
under
privilege,
picturesque
lawyer,
chiefly due.
were
an
its
him its
to
it
gives
place of
and
1,
water
business im
of
point
excellent
development,
proper
on
factory,
as
the oppo
factory,
nail
tannery, trip-hammer, store, oil-mill and school
house ; and at his death, September 8th, 1827,
he
his large
willed
half
not
be divided,
ing
his
rented
property, whose
a million
except
the
children
sequence
dollars,
estimated
it
that
so
could
his grandchildren,
by
it
use of
simply.
The
giv
con
property was unimproved and
could be got for it, and much of
was, the
for
what
It
it lapsed into decay.
was
about
until
not
property here began to be saleable.
The first merchant at Montville
Merchants.
1850 that the
was
Isaac
Wood,
a
who opened
succeeded
Ruel
1830,
about
which
who
cers
A
man
and
13
or
'14,
and
was
who
sold
to
his
name
to
many years, till about
time he sold to Henry B.
and
subsequently
named
Wood,
a good
four years, when he
married into the Beach
kept it three
to Port Byron
family,
about 18
afterwards changed
kept it
Hewitt,
Judge Walter
of
his brother Thomas,
and
Hobert,
went
by
son
store
Hoar, who
Geo. H.
80-2
situated at
Pierce creeks,
and
value was
Moravia Tent N. O. I. R. No. 47
ized
Montville is
The first W. C.
Nichols ; the first
The charter members
July
chartered
was
Montville.
men,
Rising Star Lodge No. 29, I. O. G. T.
201
1874.
9th,
High Priest ; Cyrus Powers, King ; David An
The present officers are Elias A.
nable, Scribe.
Hinman, Secy.
473
or
removed
Galloup kept
a
few
to New
York.
groceries
and
TOWN OF MORAVIA.
474
drugs
has
a short
time
been
not
a
first
a
and
here for brief periods, but
no settled physician here.
Judge Walter
in
Wood,
latterly
He
practiced
former
ty June 7th,
February
came
Thomas,
and
Many
in his office, besides his
of
held
and
14th, 1821.
he
whence
is
here till his death. Three
Surrogate
1820,
was
mention
sons
were
him. The
and practiced somewhat with
was appointed
has been
Cayuga Coun
that
till
read
law
students
; among
them
Mil
by
Judge Elijah
Miller,
who
Jonathan
with
for
the
Judge
several
Moravia,
Aurora, and
Hussey
Morgans
the
with
afterwards
so
in Auburn ;
who, after his
Dennis,
worked with and
years, then
became
;
profession
Alexander Hamilton
admission,
profession
afterwards
distinguished in the legal
and
legal
the
adopt
of
at
finally, for many years, in the State Banking De
partment at Albany, where he died, more noted
for his beautiful
liancy
lawyer.
as a
The Montville Woolen-Mills
M an u f a ctures.
were erected
by Daniel Goodrich, an
Montville,
at
and
were
Montville's industries.
of
the
They
present
They
Jacob K.
The
power, the
fall
not
been in
previous
to
possession
in
Erb,
works
being
ten
are propelled
widow of
1873.
Williamson had
water
feet.
by Mrs.
Horace Selover.
It has
the
spring of 1878,
time Wm. Selover and Frank
it
some
giving employment to
Some fifteen persons
some
run
were
There is
forty
a saw-mill
fall
a
of which are
point of 100
M. C.
Connected
years.
containing two
this
at
five
and
circular saws.
feet, only about
used.
The Montville
Mills, custom and flouring, are
owned and run
by Otis G. Parker, who built
them in 1870.
They contain three run of stones.
The motive power is supplied by a fall of fourteen
feet, which could easily be doubled.
John Cully's brick
yard
ten persons.
eight or
About three
Moravia is
and
a cheese
E. Greenfield,
a
half
north-east
miles
who erected
the
are
making 65,000
pounds
of
J. P. Folts
factory owned by
building
commenced the manufacture of cheese
They
to
gives employment
in
and
1868.
of cheese
per
The Moravia Agricultural
ized September
The first
1
8th,
1858,
officers were
at
Society
was
organ
the Moravia House.
President
Sidney Mead,
James
Thomas, James Thornton
Webb,
Vice-Presidents ; M. K.
and
;
David
Alley, Secretary ;
The present officers
E. P. K. Smith, Treasurer.
are Elondo Greenfield, President, which office he
has held
since
dent ; W.
1866
; Wm.
Selover,
Vice-Presi
J.
Greenfield, Secretary ; Wm. E.
Keeler, Treasurer ; C. S. Jennings, J. H. Holden,
J. O. Snider and M. Rooks, of Moravia, J. H.
Grant, of Locke, B. S. Richardson, of Sempro
nius, and Capt. John Tifft, of East Venice, Direc
tors ; Wm. Selover, General Superintendent.
Town
present
Officers.
(1879)
Supervisor
officers of the town of
Ilenry
Justices of the
M.
following
are
the
Moravia
:
John A. Thomas.
Town Clerk
ren
The
Cutler.
Peace James
A. Wright, Lau
Townsend, Lyman H. Edmonds,
Lorenzo
D. Sayles.
owned
operation since
which
by
it is
or
William
put
of
5,000 pounds of wool
The Montville Spoke Factory is
Mary Selover,
in
earliest
four persons, in the
fulled cloth, flannels and stocking
and consume about
per annum.
came
up for
spoke fac
old
and
of
settler
to
employment
give
early
the
among
proprietor,
manufacture of
yarns,
chirography than bril
and rapid
the site
occupies
annum.
lard Fillmore, who, while learning the trade of
cloth dressing in a Montville factory, was induced
Judge Wood to
building
tory by William Titus
Selover, who run it four
and
office
The
ago.
Stoyell mill, and was originally
It was converted into a
grist-mill.
the
with
practiced
Montville
at
Aurora,
his sons, Seneca, Isaac
lawyers,
Mora
to
there
further
of whom
connection with
181 1.
practiced
removed
The first lawyer
Lawyers.
made
was
time, and removed also to Moravia
A few others may have practiced
short
1835.
about
He
Montville.
to 1828,
Quaker,
a
Hall, from Sempronius,
Silas N.
here
of
consequence
any
Derbyshire,
physician at
about 1826
via.
in
of
years
a
Physicians. Dr.
from
here
store
Hewitt left.
since
the
There
several years afterward.
four
half
five years,
dozen men.
or
employed
fifteen
Assessors
Henry Cutler,
John
M.
Fowler,
Charles Chandler.
Commissioner of Highziays Lyman Card.
Overseer of the Poor William M. Westfall.
Collector
Cassius M. Dean.
W.J. H. Parker, Joseph
L. Bassett, John B. Benjamin.
Inspectors of Election
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[Photo
by Geo. W. Moore.]
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Constables
Knowlton, J. Fitch Wal
ker, LeRoy Ferguson, Lyman B. Welton, Chas.
John A.
D. Shaff.
Game Constable
Excise Commissioners
J. Drake, David Webb.
Village Officers.
village of
Thomas J.
that place.
The fire
Green, Chas.
List
of
of
officers
the
of
home,
took up his
the 3d
and on
in
residence
he has since,
where
with
he
July following
of
in this county,
Moravia,
his
practiced
success,
Theo. C, Jewett.
desolated that beautiful village
May, 1874, induced him to seek
which
the 1 2th
on
a new
Moravia, N. Y. :
President
March he settled in Butternuts, Otsego
county, N. Y., where, November 27th, 1872, he
was united in marriage with Miss Ella G. Rice,
lowing
of
Edward B. Barton.
475
exceedingly gratifying
ho
profession
chosen
meopathy.
C. Pulver, Hector H. Tuthill,
Lauren M. Townsend, George H. McGeer.
E.
Trustees
Treasurer
Dr. Cooke
the Methodist Episco
united with
pal church at
in
Butternuts,
April,
1868.
Benjamin Allee.
Clerk Wm.
J. H. Parker.
AMOS HURLBURT.
Amos Hurlburt, son of Amos Hurlburt, a
very early settler in Genoa, Cayuga County, to
which town he removed in
1798 from Groton,
Connecticut, was born in 1808. In Genoa, where
his father died, Amos spent the greater part of
In 1878 he re
his life, engaged in farming.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
W. H. CURTIS, M. D.
to the
moved
Moravia,
village of
he
where
now
W. H. Curtis, M. D,, was born in Portage
In his early childhood
county, Ohio, in 1851.
his parents removed to Moravia, Cayuga Coun
ty, New York, where he was nurtured and edu
a beautiful home on Aurora street.
In 1833 Mr. Hurlburt was united in marriage
with
Mary Handley, who is still living. This
union has been blessed with five children, only
three of whom are now living, one son, Amos J.,
cated.
who
resides, in
At
he entered the
& Brown, where
the age of twenty-one years
carriage shops of
Messrs.
he
carriage-ironer's
mastered
the
Wolsey
farm in
the
on
resides
Genoa,
and
two
March
9th,
daughters.
trade.
In March, 1876, Mr. Curtis entered the office
W. C. Cooke, M. D., of Moravia, and pur
He spent the inter
sued the study of medicine.
college terms at the Hahnemann Medical
vening
College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
of
April 20th, 1879, Dr. Curtis opened an office
at Owasco, New York, and commenced the prac
His success is adding
tice of his profession.
daily
to his
future of
vite him.
a
reputation as an able
CHAPTER L.
Town
SEMPRONIUS
practitioner, and
promise and usefulness
from
William C.
COOKE, M. D.
Cooke, M. D.,
was
New
November
his father's
born
at
Lisbon Center, Otsego county, N. Y.,
2d, 1847, and spent his boyhood upon
farm and in attendance at the district school.
In 1863 he entered the Butternuts Collegiate
Institute to prepare for college ; and in Septem
ber, 1868, he entered the New York State Nor
completed the
mal School at Albany, where he
course
of
in
May,
1870.
He then
Dr. W. M. Gwynne,
at
the
entered
Throopsville,
He
the
graduated
February
29th, 1872,
and on
the 10th
of
at
College,
the fol
was
of
one
the
original
Onondaga county,
Marcellus,
annexed
to that town March 24th,
present
town of Moravia and
taken off
March 20th,
east part of
Lake,
Preble, in
the
eles
Cortland
the
together
county,
It is bounded
south
by
Summer
1804,
Niles,
head
the
at
which was
on
Hill,
with
the
the south
of
Skaneat
the
form
the
and
which were
It lies in
1833.
County,
which,
boundary.
on
town
military tract and derived its name
It originally embraced
Roman General.
a part of
the
north
and on
town
of
eastern
by Niles,
by
the west
Moravia.
and pur
study of medicine.
the New York Homeopathic Medical
sued
office
a
formed
was
the
ships of
WILLIAM C.
It
1799.
to in
seems
Sempronius.
of
rises
is
rolling and hilly upland, which
of 800 to 1,000 feet
abruptly to the height
The
above
surface
the
a
valley formed
by
the
lake
and
its inlet.
TOWN OF SEMPRONIUS.
476
The highest point, both
the town
within
lots
Kehoe
67, 68, 77 and 78,
Bear Swamp Creek
is 1,700 feet above tide.
flowing to the north, Fall Brook, to the south,
and Mill Brook, to the west, all rising within the
County,
which
exists
on
ham,
the
north-east
partly in
and
rods
ninety
is
Niles,
its
at
lying
part,
about
It
in
out
farm,
the south-west corner,
been
for
quarried
covers a
it has
where
It
been
also appears
lot 96,
on
where
it has
stone, but the quarry
flagging
the streams
along
sandy loam
shale and
and
in the low-lands is
and
the
upon
clerk and
.town
a
clusive,
branch
hills it is
butter
cheese and
Sayles
1873,
its
a
year
200 cows per season,
an
average
makes
and
held that
office
at
and
town meeting,
"the
observes,
Mr.
census of
1875, it
appears
that the
to
factories
number of cows whose milk was sent
; the
was 291
in
number of
families, 194,435
cheese
made
of
gallons
number of
The
in
sold
milch
420
area
was
1875
65, foreign;
acres
18,347
;
4,398 woodland
and
all,
775
otherwise unimproved.
The
settlement
1793, in
which
the
of
year
Ezekiel
Stillwater, Saratoga
Pompey Hill, and settled
from
the
north part of
bought
of
*The first
the
town
town,
begun in
moved
Sayles
on
Judge Thompson,
Corners,
lot 56,
.of
in from
which
Saratoga.
in
he
His
Company were : Barton Slade, President ;
Kenyon,
Lee, Treasurer. The following
named
elected
were
officers
January 7th, 1878 : Ira Chandler,
President; A. D. Lee, Treasurer and Collector; George Clark,
Chairman; J. M. Slade, Clerk.
H.
officeis of the
Clerk;
Anna,
in
was
held
and
in all,
six
of
of
made
up
to
no
to
services as
elected
the time that
at
town
viz :
pound
roads,
public
April,
lots.
1821,
a
clerk,
master,
At
a
town
resolution
Mr. Sayles for his
during
clerk
of
able
a period
of
is residing in Pennsylvania, is the
his children living.
Lorenzo D.
who
one
of
born in Sempronius in
181
8,
and
is
living
now
in
Kelloggsville, are grand-children of his.
Salathiel Taylor, son of Eri Taylor, and Phebe,
daughter of Ezekiel Sayles, who was born in
April, 1794,. was the first child born in Sempro
nius.
Sayles, originally
county,
at
was
was
Sayles, who carries on the harness business in
Moravia, and Almira E., daughter of Benjamin
Sayles, and wife of Abraham Howland, who was
of which
;
James A. Wright
of
1,123 5
and
was clerk.
only
the
and
exception of the
of
10.
native;
improved ;
number
a period
twenty-two years.
made
of pounds
; the
the town in
was
butter
market, 150;
cows, J, 5
1,058 were
were
number
families,
milk
The
white.
13,174
; the
population of
whom
of
in
pounds of
.
1820,
ticket
who
was presented
faithful
and
first
the
was
Sayles,"
commissioner
meeting held
pounds
till
second
commissioner
assessor,
of
He
Cyrus Powers
justice, making
of
thanks
From the
farm,
continuously from
town
cheese.*
of
J.
1828.
mostly
less than five offices,
ist,
number
60,000
of
one
January
was organized
from
milk
almost ex
in the town, located
factory
about
when
1804,
At the
gravelly
There is
agriculture.
Corners, which
receives
indeed
the chief, and
of
acres
Wilcox
the
on
twenty-three years, with the
of
facetiously
Dairying
twenty-five
now
the organization of the
loam.
forms
her hus
who came with
father,
homestead
the old
disintegrated
mixed with
muck,
lime-stone ;
north of
Ezekiel, Jr.; Jemima, after
wards wife of Nathaniel
Palmer; Amy, afterwards
wife
of Ira Rooks ;
Lydia, afterwards wife of
Orrin Willis; and Benjamin, who was born herein
June, 1794. Sayles was a surveyor, and died on
lies principally in Moravia.
Limestone exists in
detached masses, but has not been utilized. The
soil
little
a
settled
lives ; Ahab; Eleanor,
afterwards wife of John Titus
; David ; Sarah,
who was demented ;
Anna, afterwards wife of
the -town,
north edge of
quarried somewhat extensively.
in
lives,
and settled on
Dwight Heald
and
child,
Abra
Ebenezer Wooster ;
the
Thos. Walker
the
on
crops
consisted of
one
now
Phebe,
her
by
family
and
Dennis O'Shea
her
where
tract of some 500 acres.
Slate
a wife
Timothy
south of where
His
Sayles Corners ;
band, Eri Taylor,
partly in this town
five miles long and
greatest width.
lives.
had
who
given
little
stood a
now
where
town, have worn deep and generally narrow val
leys in the drift deposits and shales. Bear Swamp
in
house
log
and
Judge Nathaniel
Averys,
to
who settled
whom
tled
and
his
Gallup
came
in Ledyard
wife was
and
related, in
died in Sempronius.
in
with
Venice,
the
and
1795,
and set
He had
no chil
dren.
There does
to the settlements
Burgess
47,
on
have been any addition
before 1796, in which year Seth
not appear
Joseph
came
to
in from Stillwater
the north
line
of
the
up lot
he died
and took
town,
wheie
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
in
1
His house
8 13.
Benjamin Heustis
where
Joel,
consisted of
homestead,)
old
Byron
to
on
and
his
None
father,
his children, and
are living, Byron
of
children
now
but few
his
of
Burgess,
and
a
moved
his death.
till
and
1800,
as
in
Jotham
1798.
about
and
that
year
Huggins
sett
built
a
year moved
log
in his
family,
his
Daniel
afterwards wife of
his father
Sayles
lot 66,
on
Corners,
and
one
Rooks,
child,
mile
Chas. Sawyer
south
other children who
Jotham
He died
the
all
with
and
was a cabinet maker
coffins
used
here
at
the
fall
Berleu
Jersey.
is
line
of
the town,
Everson,
where
Berleu
about
near
on
moved
the
Tuttle
the
he died.
1802,
and
north
now
the town ;
on
old
adjoining
None
of
his
with
his
died
there.
line
lives.
and
the
lot 66,
the
of
near
His death
marriage of
was
his
to
Norris
he
removed
sold
to
to Matthias
widow of
his
Lloyd Slade
an
February
up
son
followed
1827,
his
He
and
living.
now
was a
settled
way
Theo.
then
the first in
'
He
98th year.
farmer
latter business in
hatter,
and
connection
years.
He
.
took
and
with
was a
was
the Electoral
poor-master
wife
county
still
of
the town
twenty
superintendent of
survives
is remarkably
From her
physically.
98th
and
Kelloggsville, where
lives, and where he died
operations several
and was also
His
Solomon Morse,
College in 1837, which
Martin Van Buren to the presidency.
member of
the west
to
of
south
He
the
farming
elected
wife
12th, 1869, in his
200 acres.
moved
Stillwater, in Feb
Betsey, and daughter,
now
miles
Lane
in from
came
Mary Ann,
Samuel,
moved
1840.
by trade,
where
who
town.
them.
Springport
son
Slade
the
two
Samuel Rice
Sempronius,
left
his
the west,
to
18 12
with
farm
family
in
and
ruary, 1800,
farm,
Root
Michigan.
Huggins,
settled
children are
to
They
Kenyon
on
family
out
and
Peleg
in company from New
settled on
bought
his
Wayne county in
his wife, in the spring of 1828, both well ad
Berleu
and Everson
were
in years.
vanced
and came
from
were
and
with
county,
and
brothers-in-law,
Norris
Lane, a Dutchman, from Charleston, Montgomery
of
Revolu
of
Thos.
and
Steuben county,
early
Massachusetts.
was
on
in
French
originally from
the old homestead in
He
day.
He
wars.
and made
not come
through the
served
tionary
did
then
lives ;
is now
and
1798.
settlement
removed
now
Betsey, widow of Maj. Peleg Slade, who
living in Sempronius in her 98th year,
the only one of the family left ; and Joel.
had
John,
Mary,
and settled with
one-fourth
where
and
which consisted of
wife
The
county.
First Baptist Church hi
the
of
Erie
Norris, who each
took up fifty acres, sold to John Briggs, uncle of
Dr. Lansingh Briggs of Auburn, who came in from
North East, Washington cojnty, and afterwards
following
the
and
to
crossing of the State roads.
Mentz about 18 10.
He and
Jotham Bas
year.
in 1798,
cabin
with
came
who
came
that
about
'7
Lesuer
and
here, though two sons, Dr. Pruyn and
Bartholomew, did at a late day, the former a half
mile north of Sempronius, and the latter at the
Bassett, Abraham
Samuel Root, Thomas Norris
and
;
Everson
John
and
defective,
proved
or
but the title to the
settled
in that year;
Samuel Rice, Elder John Lesuer and his son
Nathan, and Jonathan Rogers came as early as
Berleu
Jonathan Rogers
by Maj. Bartholomew VanValkenburgh, a Revolutionary soldier, who drew
three lots, including 78 in Sempronius, but never
induce
kept
to the settlements
additions were made
marriage
Huggins, from Aurelius. The
former two settled on lot 67, where Chas. How
land now lives, and Huggins, where Abraham
Bush lives, on fifty acres on lot 78, given him to
Connecticut,
an ash'ery.
Several
pastor
Samuel Root
grand
also
and
Swamp ;
1806
Sempronius in
grandson,
He
about
elder was
only one of his name living in the
Seth Burgess kept the first tavern as
State.
first
the
from
on
the
being
early
son
The Lesuers
lot 59, in Bear
land they took up
south-east
was
Patridgefield, Mass. Nathan Lesuer
Rogers, both of whom had families, settled
were
lives,
where he died in April,
1807 '> Jonathan, who
came with his wife and daughter, Sally, after
wards wife of Elias
Miller, and settled where
Barton Slade now lives ; Seth, Jr., Harvey, Reu
ben and Olive, afterwards wife of Stephen Carr.
of
where
Summerston,
in the town.
and
died
Matilda
with
family
wife
who
little
and settled a
his
His
his
with
Betsey,
and
opposite
lives.
now
came
who
two children, (Charles
the
directly
stood
477
year,
him,
and
years,
the poor.
though
in her
both mentally and
learn that, on their
active
we
county they stopped at Utica, which
boasted of only one house, a tavern kept by
to this
Indians.
From
designated
by
Skaneateles
marked
trees.
their
route
was
TOWN OF SEMPRONIUS.
478
Six
their
of
Mary Ann,
eight
Kelloggsville ;
wife of
William
Sempronius,
This
family
living
six
Lloyd, Barton, Betsey,
Moseman, and Mason B., in
two
years
and
homestead.
the
on
exceeds
children
seventy
and
of
son-in-law,
her
which was
The
years.
five generations,
of
representatives
Mrs. Slade
age of
females,
all
living in Sempronius, viz : Betsey, widow
Peleg Slade, in her ninety-eighth year ; Mary
are now
of
Ann,
years
Rachel,
;
of
wife
of
wife
Edward
Covey
Carrie
Covey,
ward and
learn.
Solomon
of
widow
Peleg
and
a soldier
in
daughter
a
did
whose name we
lived together
little
a
by
owned
first.
was the
in from Still
came
acres,
and where
log
school-house on
He
was
north
second
wife,
by
came
in the
was a
that winter
of
part
Richardson,
now
wards
now
removed
up
occupied
the
was
built.
execution
born
who was
resides
of
in Sempro
his, and the only child by his first
Olive, widow of Samuel Ploward,
by
whom
his first
nine
father
the
at
in Niagara county, is
living
He
he
his house
56 till
and
house
took
where
east,
lot
on
a son of
living.
wife
the
In 1804, he
guards
John
August 24th, 1795,
of
he died.
lot
the
of
one
Major Andre.
nius, is
site
Robert Walker.
one and one-fourth miles
100
oc
who served seven years as
the
of
north
man
as
in March, 1801, and settled a little
His log house stood
Sayles Corners.
56,
not
death
without a
His
Ed
of
water
of
a
he had
daughter
seven
Judge
wife.
same year
from
by
his
children,
and
Cyrus Powers
Sul|waterr
where
his
Baptist minister, and taught school
and for two years.
He occupied a
George Richardson's house.
bought the farm
now
owned
He
after
Hozial
by
Howland in
Kelloggsville, where he died in 1841.
Dr. Cyrus Powers, of Moravia, is a son of his.
Lemuel Powers, now living in St. Marcus, Texas,
is
a son
his
by
Jeremiah
Col. Zadoc Rhodes
county in
ster
where
mills
the
built
time the
day
elder
by
and
his
came
1801,
son
settled
Sabin bought the
John Stoyell.
He
Montville.
He
whole of
to Skinner
& Bradley,
Jeremiah,
and
in company from Ul
and
dren
are
at
Montville,
grist and saw
owned
at
sold at an
and removed
to
one
early
Ohio.
Sempro
on
by his brother, Joseph, who
during the Revolution, but
His brother had previously
bought
then
fifty
lot,
the same
on
tried
who
was
acres
finally
Three
his death, about 1844.
living in Sempronius, viz
the
of
he
on which
till
resided
chil
Betsey,
:
wife
Orlin
Hathaway, Susan, widow of Joseph
Another son, Zadoc
Richardson, and Jeriah.
L, died in Sempronius October 19th, 1878.
Sabin was a large, powerful man, the strongest
in Sempronius, and he is the hero of many sto
of
illustrative
ries
his
of
feats.
muscular
here August
6th,
daughter, the
Sempronius,
wife
of
and
another, Mrs.
1847,
aged
Clark
75
He died
One
years.
Fowler, is living in
in
Greenfield,
Moravia.
A
at
man
Hanchett
named
He
Dresserville.
built
a
permanent
petuates
made a small
there,
his
He
name.
in
It
house.
now
and a grist-mill
or
was
active
growth of
his
here
mer
till
and
1806,
first
of
in
continued
his death.
Three sons,
living, Otis, at Sum
and
Harvey
mortar
prominent
the village and
White, are
Hill, Joseph, at Moravia,
Dresserville.
the
to the primitive
promoting the
Joseph
was
which
resorted
He
pestle.
residence
Each
1827.
in
saw-mill
a
had previously de
neighboring villages for these con
pended upon
and
Nelson Ritchmyre
where
its kind in the town,
veniences,
his
with
first in Hanchett's
settled
stood
in
per
and
He built there
lives.
the village
first
Joseph, he and
families, from Massachusetts,
Artemas
1805.
old
their
with
made the
in company
came
brothers, Harvey, James
Harvey
and
settler
clearing and
his wife's fear
of
Artemas Dresser
settlement
first
the
was
but left because
house,
of the wolves.
Otis,
second wife.
Sabin,
He
given
after about
to
removed
lot for $50, and the Colonel,
to hold it notwithstanding this sale,
State's hundred
and
; but
the
sold
Carrie,
Revolution,
the
in the army
settled here.
Daniel White ;
years,
George Richardson,
taken up
eighty
their roof.
under
curring
now
served
never
acres
lot 86, in the south
town, where Clark Fowler, his
lives, and Rhodes, on lot 77,
the
ejected.
;
Rhodes
and
aged
Betsey
and wife seventy-two
Morse,
he
settled, Sabin
nius and
fifty
on
settled
father, in Montville
his
west part of
instance
presents a wonderful
Sabin
younger
by
Theaverage
longevity.
The
him
former
the
viz :
Solomon Morse ; William,
widow of
in
living,
are
children
settled
and
where
White,
at
Wm. Con
lives, and died there.
His children living are Appleton, at Summer
Hill, Eliza, wife of Merrick White, Horace, in
Venice, and the wife of Wm. Conway, on the
way, his son-in-law,
now
James
was
homestead.
killed
by
the
fall
of a
SETTLEMENTS.
EARLY
Joseph
tree.
died
and
Matthews
farm
in
came
mont,
Matthews
Albert
Mattison,
Perry
to Pennsylvania.
Marion Johnson
died
He
Matthews,
John
prominent
viz :
and
He
Jehiel, Albert, Eliza, wife
Aletha, wife of John Alcott.
1
8 10,
is
and
now
in
came
Dress
of
the
town,
Jacob
Hall,
in Sempronius in
Howland,
born in
was
who
February
Kelloggsville,)
at
eighteen
the age of
His son, Samuel
Stonington, Connecticut,
his
removed with
August 28th, 1807,
set
county,
at
parents
to Madison county,
months
scarcely
he
business,
purchased a
per
cents
has taken
his
course and
induced
and
the
filling
his
second
term
James
five children, four of whom are living.
O., the eldest, died in 1872. He was
cal
School in
nected
in
a
He
army.
Europe
and
Vienna,
James
of
Assembly.
The
Henry Burnett,
Owasco, is
of
mental
notice.
there
in
in
town,
He
was a native of
a thorough
agriculture.
He
and acquired a
came
farm
though
of 200
a
very
instru
to
merit
Goshen, N. Y.,
and
education
to Sempronius
now
in
in 1827,
acres, which, like the
it brought but
an
butter,
second-rate
Tut-
Mr.
established customs of
ridicule at
first ; but his
the
this
until
Early
building
56, in
the
on
wisdom
the busi
his
neigh
section of
owned
of
by
the
ers
years.
lot
log building
meeting-house.
and
taught two years,
afterwards
named
building in
in
this
first
which
build
new
Jenkins, from Little
individual,
succeeded
Pow
two or three
teacher, in 1804, and taught
In 1805, a frame school-house was built on
Burgess'
of
on
First Baptist Church of
and used for the double
next
an eccentric
Byron
chard,
the
log
a
the
by
A Scotchman
as
in
in Sem
Meach, in
the old Titus farm,
1801-2, in the
and
school
Abel
school-house
winter of
Britain,
seat
years.
In 1802,
was erected
a
79
The first
Judge Cyrus Powers
in
aged
1801.
1800 and
purpose
by a
'49, where he displayed
an honest, practical and cautious
1856 he removed to Moravia,
taught
Sempronius
marketed.
1848 and
which stood on
land
butter
was rewarded
Schools.
was
pronius
of
quality
resides,
ing.
Owasco.
as
he
married
largely
practical
where
Meach taught,
not
interests
In
legislator.
married
youngest
also of
was so
developing its dairy
received
81-2
the
The
Owasco.
Orin Howland,
married
Member
a
daughter is
eldest
Hon. Hector C. Tuthill,
early
Turkish
the
with
Another daughter
D. Swartwout.
settler
time con
a
traveled
residing in
O.,
daughter
way
for
extensively in
Africa. Wm. Leslie Noyes, a brother
afterwards
of
to
was
and
professional
Cambridge Medi
of
graduate
nent physician, a
an emi
it to New York
profitableness of
Mr. Tuthill's sagacity
He had
justice.
as
qualities of
one after another of
excellent
qualities of
now
mer
become famous for its large dairies
country has
the
1
The
overcome.
bors to follow his example,
827, he married Catharine R., daugh
ter of Asa Jackson, of Fleming, an early settler;
and in 1846, h*e removed to Owasco, where he is
5th,
the
was
or eight
six
prosperity demonstrated
Assembly in
1
the
upon
neighbors provoked
ness,
for
different
for
to
years
hitherto
for Western New York
and gained
hill's innovation
of
dairy
that
and
that.
at
where
market,
the
ruary
pay
an unenviable reputation
increasing
the
neighbors
store-keeper
together the
and
and
his
thus gathered and shipped
which
with
vogue
number of
of
store
pound,
some nearer
or
in
but little butter,
nearest
chant packed
butter
then
cows, and
butter for the New York
make
to the
sold
arduous
convinced
soon
Being familiar
making
The practice
had been to
live,
to
able
commenced
market.
and
economy
agricultural methods
in Chenango county till
thirteen years of age, when he accompanied his
Feb
parents in their settlement in this town.
there
and resided
rigid
were not profitable.
his
18 14.
1821.
were
inferior price,
Noyes, from Chenango
John B.
tled
living
in Sempronius in
settled
in
Abraham
of
Illinois.
born in Washington county
who was
6th,
him that the
which
settled at
living
are
Paul Howland (father
B.,
living in
most
log
millwright and a
a
was
children
on
the
labor,
removed
Buckley,
of
in the town.
man
Four
erville.
He
the war.
soon after
farm
the
on
brother
a
a
by
the
lot 88, where
Both he and his
One son, Ozias, is
settled.
they
buried
and are
built
and
lands in that section, had been used for grazing.
The heavy indebtedness of most of his neighbors,
who,
settled on
lives.
now
on
settled
house beside the spring thereon.
wife
1812,
Ozias Perry, from Ver
and
1806.
by
owned
war of
after of consumption.
soon
Buckley
in the
served one year
479
and
in
his time.
ers, brother of
of Cyrus and
Johnson,
land, opposite
Barton Slade's
this Jenkins taught the
He
was succeeded
Cyrus,
Gershom
by
time the
part
David Pow
Powers,
David, Orrin Willis
about which
latter
or
and
a cousin
Russel
school system of
TOWN OF SEMPRONIUS.
48o
into operation, and the town was dis
In 1815, a school-house was built at
free church, which was built about 1870,
district school, a grist-mill, (built in 1870 by
1812 went
a union
tricted.
a
Sayles
Corners,
in the town
school
that act.
sage of
surveyor,
and
Sempronius, after the pas
John Richardson, who was a
for four
Town Officers.
at
the
house
Messrs. Merchant & Campbell, on the site of one
erected about 1828 by Artemas Dresser, contain
the first district
was
of
years a
taught in the district
held
that
and
of
justice
ing three run of stones and owned by H. H.
Johnson,) a saw-mill, (which is owned by John
White Dresser, son of Artemas Dresser, contains
a set of log saws, two lath saws and a wood saw,
which are operated
by the creek, which has a fall
the peace,
of
schools several years.
The first town meeting was
Ezekiel Sayles, on Tuesday,
April 3d, 1798, John Stoyell, justice of the peace,
presiding.
The following officers were elected :
of eleven
feet,
the
of
Stoyell, Supervisor ; Ezekiel Sayles, Clerk ;
Moses Little and James Brinkerhoff, Assessors ;
Jacob L. DeWitt, Ezekiel Sayles and Moses
Artemas
John
Road Commissioners
Cole,
;
Amos Stoyell
five
He
L
of Public Lots.
Officers in 1879 are :
Supervisor Thomas D. Comerford.
Town Clerk
Rey
nolds.
Abram
Westfall, James A. Jones,
John M. Slade.
1866,
who run
it
and
Hi's
Overseer of the Poor
Inspectors of Election
Nooning,
Collector
Dorr Smith.
Curtin, Jere
Sylvenus Finch.
Constables
Francis M.
Ferguson, Joseph R.
Hobert Holcomb.
Game Constable
Commissioners of
Adney Eaton,
S.
bought
continues
wife
long
town,
on a
branch
nishes a moderate water
of
Fall
south part of
Brook,
which
fur
power, and is distant about
six and one-half miles east of Moravia.
It
Robinson
about
about a month
and
the
contains
store
died
it
about
a
year
James Campbell,
Campbell sold to
Robinson to
and
1875,
about
a
three years to
when
year,
1865.
time.
same
Allen
interest October nth, 1878,
James H. Camp
the business.
The first
he held the
office
he
four
held
appointed,
and
the
in
the
when
to
how
succeeded
was
by
each of whom
Joseph Dresser
before Jehiel Mather
till 1861,
were unable
was appointed or
Mather,
years.
but
we
He
Jehiel
store
postmaster at Dress-
Swift, but
office.
and
then appointed,
again
in the
who
store
or
continued
what year
and continued
Dresserville.
to Ver-
death, in
opened
two
sold after
Arnold
determine in
month
situated
sold
a stock of goods.
business till his
Postmasters.
held the
Sawzer,
A. D. Lee.
Dresserville is
in
put
and
about a
J. G. Rhodes
James Douglas.
Excise Daniel
Rhodes
when
Simmons'
erville was
John Dennis.
by
years
bell, from McLean, opened a second
April, 1878, which he still continues.
Calvin O. Mattison.
David D.
two
about
from Groton,
Manly
S. Allen,
/John
and
Commissioner of Highways
the
the
Henry Herring,
to
opened a store
Arnold Swift bought the
few years,
and sold
Kenyon,)
Mather & Dresser did business
Chas. Simmons,
Assessors
Ellison,
two years,
afterward.
M. T. C. Brown.
having
re
E. A.
by
kept
was
Smith, from Niles,
Justices of the Peace
Julius Fitts, James
Douglas, Orson L. Richardson, Daniel D.
miah
and
carried on
about
by
been
Artemas Dresser
or six years.
a
1816,
Perry, who sold to J. G.
Artemas Dresser, by whom it was
Mather.
after
about
Franklin
Benjamin
nam
on
since,) two blacksmith
Fowler and Theo. Rey
family
by Bela
which
1836,
continued
1840,
ever
Merchants.
Rhodes
property
about
and a population of 101.
two stores
about
the
tannery, (operated
a
nolds,)
first built,
one
Dresser,
shops, (kept
Isaac
ers
the
in the
tained
and
Selover, Constables and Collectors ; John
Summerton, Poormaster; John Stoyell, Seth
Burgess and Jacob L. DeWitt, School Commis
sioners ; Ezekiel Sayles, Pound Master ; Abra
ham Johnson, Henry Cuykendall, John Summerton, Winslow Perry, and Peleg Allen, Fence View
ers ; Moses
Tuttle, Winslow Perry, Jonathan
Eldridge, Zadoc Titus, George Parker, Henry
Osterhout, James Brinkerhoff and Peleg Allen,
Commissioners of Highways ; Gershom Morse,
Cornelius Burlew and John Abbott, Commission-
site
built
and which was
office
was
one
only
reappointed,
Arnold Swift
office was
was
held
by
was
him
his death in 1865, and by his family till 1869,
when Lyman M. Robinson was appointed, and
till
was succeeded
ent
incumbent.
in 1875
by
Lucius Fitts, the
pres
1
SEMPRONIUS.
The first
Physicians.
Dr.
ville was
Robbins,
Dresser
physician at
who came
from Cortland
county in 1844 and practiced ten or twelve years.
Several physicians have stopped here for short
periods, but
The
not
long
gain a residence.
is W. A. Terry,
present physician
in from
to
enough
who came
in the spring of 1S78.
The first and only lawyer at Dress
Kentucky
Lawyers.
is J. G. Rhodes, who was born at Marl
boro, Ulster county, January 19th, 1801 ; edu
cated in the district schools of Sempronius and
erville
Niles;
Jared M.
Smith,
he has
where
One-half
mill,
turner,
water
of
Moravia;
mile west
practice
Dresserville,
of
Dresserville is
tub-cover
a
fall
by
propelled
fourteen feet.
of
failed
during
Moseman
Sempronius is
town,
about
seven
miles
Baptist church,
store, one hotel, kept
a
and contains a
a general
Moravia,
of
district school,
by Nathan Cow
kept by Wm. Whit
ell, two
blacksmith shops,
field
Charles Cutler, and a population
The place is locally known as
and
three.
such,"
a name given
Merchants.
nius, the first
by
The
also
the
center of
north-east
of
"
sixty-
None
Dwight Kellogg.
first
Sempro
merchant at
in the town,
was
John
Histed,
from
Stillwater, who opened a store in 18 10, in a
log building, which occupied the site of the pres
tavern,
store, both
ent
of
him
Niles,
logg
where
tavern
a
He
him.
in the
John C.
1818-20,
he died.
his
Derby
and
About
now
Bell,
removed
18
who went
west,
which
they kept
Erie, Pa.,
19, Judge Chas. Kel
and opened
a
more
till 1834,
Histed,
pretentious
when
they
sold
Ilobert & Perry, who did business about two
years.
Austin & Sumner, from Homer, suc
ceeded Hobert & Perry, but staid only a year
to
or
two.
William
store about
years.
1837,
Philip
mercantile
Slade
and
Barton
and
did business five
H. Van Schoick
business here from
opened
or
was engaged
i850-'6.
Kenyon,
a
six
in
William
bought
to
sold
he
when
Dorr Smith,
in
year
James
to
sold
com
Wm.
about
year and
a
James Bell, who kept it till
June 22d, 1874, when he sold to Edmond C.
Mott, who is a native of the town, and still car
with
the business.
Postmasters.
The
Sempronius, about
name
sion of
office a great
H. Van Schoick, who
Walter W. Sabin held
many
succeeded
was
held it but
time.
1824,
probably changed after the divi
Abel Heald was the
the town in 1833.
the
and
Sempronius
post-office at
East
was established as
a
by
short
the office as early
1857, and probably in 1856, about which time
Marcus
Van Schoick removed to Moravia.
as
Brown
Sabin
succeeded
held
and
till
1861,
about
He
appointed.
was
three years,
about
after
it two years,
James Bell
of
James
when
1878,
cumbent,
was
The first
Hiram
Stoyell,
Dr. Abel Baker
here from
ris came
before
succeeded
the
spring
the present in
was again appointed.
Physicians.
nius
Douglass,
when
was succeeded
by James Douglass, who was in turn
by James Bell, who held the office till
in
out
1864
lirovvn's
Moseman
Moseman kept it
traded back
came
sold
At
1862.
1863,
and about
Allen
Moseman.
ticed
to
in
Win.
and
who after some two years traded with
an
lives. He
of
portion
David Brown
war.
opened a store
with
pany
kept
the town
of a
did business two years, the last
who
with
also
the
interest,
as well as a
north part of
his son, Dwight, bought
and
store,
by
for
brother, Deacon Histed,
and settled
out about
where
kept
being
His
ashery.
with
and was used
possession
death, November 8th,
Philip
the
in
came
first postmaster, and held the
He
years, as late as 1854.
Sempronius.
situated near
who
Van Schoick's goods, did business a short time.
William Atwatcr did business a few years and
a grist
three saws,
with
wood,) shingle-mill,
by Lucius Fitts, and
with
Adams,
ries on
and
owned
in
admitted
at
feed run, saw-mill,
and
power,
was
and
resided.
since
with one
(log, lath
Leonard O. Aiken
with
commenced
and
1845,
law
studied
48 1
in
at
a
and prac
Dr. Har
1834.
about
Dr. Cole shortly,
and
latter
The
left.
Stoyell
medicine
studied
who
year,
Sempro
at
Kelloggsville,
1828 till
about
physician
staid
about
a
year.
Silas N. Hall
He
town.
studied
Dr. Consider
practice
King
here
1818.
County
Medical
Hall
the
physician
war of
Venice,
of
and
Enos
1812 with
commenced
5, remaining till 1827.
Medical Society, Novem
Bradley,
who
joined
Society, August 7th,
Hall
in the
181
County
ber 5th,
out
the first
during
about
He joined the
bought
was
practiced
and
about
the
1828,
a year.
settled one and one-half miles north-west of
Sempronius, on the farm
way, and Bradley, in the
Churches.
The
owned
by Henry
Hatha
same place.
First
Baptist
Church
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