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HISTORY 


Tovx  of  Warsaw, 


N  E  AV       Y  O  Ii  Jv  , 


FROM    ITS    FIRST    SETTLEMENT    TO    THE    PRESENT    TIME: 


with    Nt  Ml  i:    '  - 


FAJVXILY    SKETCHES 


BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTES. 


B  V 

A  N  D  R  E  \Y     W!     Y  O  I J  N  G , 

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Author  of  ■■  Science  of  Government,"  "American   Statesman,"  "  Citizen's  Manual, 
"National  Economy,'"  dSc..  •( 


EMBELLISHED     WITH     PORTRAITS,    AND    VIEWS     OP 
RESIDENCES    AND    CHURCHES. 


BUFFALO : 
Pkess  of  the  Sage,  Sons  &  Co.  Litii..  Printing  and  Mam  fact  «:  Co. 


1869. 


«     </////n*r     Vr.\Jrff"</- 


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6 


INTRODUCTION. 


Oxe  year  ago  I  came  to  Warsaw  to  visit  old  friends  before 
my  departure  for  my  new  home  in  the  West.  While  here,  I 
was  solicited  to  write  a  history  of  this  town.  Having  formed 
plans  and  purposes  which  I  was  desirous  to  pursue,  I  hesitated 
to  make  an  engagement. 

It  was  suggested  that  there  was  no  citizen  of  the  town  in  a 
situation  favorable  to  his  engaging  in  such  an  undertaking; 
and,  further,  that  a  personal  knowledge  of  the  principal  events 
to  be  recorded,  and  a  personal  acquaintance  with  the  inhabi- 
tants during  a  period  of  more  than  fifty  years,  including  an 
almost  continuous  residence  in  the  town  for  forty  years,  com- 
mencing about  twelve  years  after  its  first  settlement,  would 
afford  material  advantages  in  writing  its  history.  A  number 
of  the  older  and  more  prominent  citizens  met  for  consultation, 
and  decided  in  favor  of  the  proposition.  Considering  the  pro- 
ject a  patriotic  and  a  commendable  one,  and  being  myself 
desirous  to  see  a  written  history  of  the  town,  I  consented  to 
engage  in  the  undertaking,  and  proceeded  immediately  to  the 
task. 

It  may  be  asked,  "  Why  fill  so  large  a  volume  with  the  his- 
tory of  a  single  town  ?  Why  devote  so  much  space  to  stories 
which  have  become  familiar  from  their  frequent  recital  by  our 
parents  and  grand-parents  ?  "  These  questions  admit  of  ready 
answers. 


IV  INTRODUCTION. 

There  is  scarcely  a  town  settled  for  fifty  years  that  can  not 
furnish  the  material  for  such  a  volume.  Man}-  remember  with 
what  interest  they  listened  to  the  tales  of  pioneer  life  from  the 
lips  of  their  ancestors.  Before  the  present  generation  shall 
have  passed  awa}-,  not  an  individual  will  be  left  to  relate  the 
experiences  of  the  early  settlers  which  have  so  deeply  inter- 
ested us.  This  interest  will  not  abate  with  the  lapse  of  time. 
The  written  narrative  of  the  incidents  of  "life  in  the  woods," 
will  be  no  less  grateful  to  those  who  come  after  us,  than  was 
the  oral  relation  to  ourselves. 

Hence,  to  commemorate  the  events  and  occurrences  of  the 
j)ast — to  transmit  to  our  descendants  a  faithful  and  true  histoiy 
of  our  own  times — is  a  duty.  And  many  who  shall  receive  such 
history  will  esteem  it  as  the  most  valuable  portion  of  their  in- 
heritance. AVithout  it,  little  will  be  known  except  what  shall 
have  come  down  to  them  by  tradition,  always  imperfect  and 
unreliable.  Nor  should  we  overlook  the  consideration,  that 
works  of  this  kind  will  prove  a  source  of  valuable  information 
to  future  historians. 

Some  of  the  events  noticed  ma}'  be  deemed  unimportant. 
As  isolated  facts,  perhaps,  they  possess  no  great  importance. 
A  man's  character  is  formed,  in  great  part,  by  a  combination 
of  numerous  traits  scarcely  noticeable,  separate  and  alone.  So 
the  aggregate  of  the  many  minor  incidents  constitutes  a  material 
part  of  the  most  valuable  histories.  Yet  nothing  has  been  ad- 
mitted into  this  work  that  was  not  designed  to  contribute  to 
its  interest  or  value. 

I  respectfully  invite  the  attention  of  the  reader  to  some  of 
the  chief  characteristics  of  this  work. 

This  is  not  simply  a  history  of  the  town  of  Warsaw.  A  large 
portion  of  its  matter  is  of  general  interest.  It  traces  the  title 
of  the  Holland  Land  Compairy  back  to  the  crown  of  Great 
Britain,  through  the  conflicting  claims  of  States  and  grants  of 


INiKODLCTION.  V 

British  kings.  The  early  settlement  of  this  town,  the  priva- 
tions and  hardships  of  its  first  settlers,  its  progress  in  wealth 
and  in  social  and  intellectual  improvement,  and  the  general 
character  of  its  inhabitants,  find  a  counterpart  in  nearly  every 
town  on  the  Holland  Purchase;  and  its  history  will  be  read 
with  scarcely  less  satisfaction  in  other  towns  than  in  our  own. 

Ecclesiastical  History  is  a  conspicuous  feature  of  the  work, 
and  can  not  fail  to  interest  a  large  portion  of  its  readers.  It 
comprises  historical  sketches  of  all  the  churches  and  organized 
religious  societies  in  this  town,  including  the  dates  of  their 
respective  organizations,  the  names  of  their  ministers  and 
church  officers,  the  building  of  their  houses  of  worship,  and 
other  matters  of  interest. 

The  War  History  also  occupies  a  prominent  place  in  the 
work.  It  records  the  acts  and  proceedings  of  the  citizens  in 
aiding  the  war  for  the  Union,  the  names  of  all  who  enlisted  in 
the  service  from  this  town,  the  dates  and  terms  of  their  enlist- 
ment, and  the  wounds  and  other  disabilities,  death,  imprison- 
ment, or  discharge  of  each.  jNTo  part  of  the  work,  it  is 
believed,  will  be  read  with  greater  or  more  general  satisfaction. 

Family  Sketches  and  Biographical  Notes  fill  a  large  space  in 
the  volume — larger  than  was  originally  intended.  The  limit 
prescribed  to  these  sketches  was  from  time  to  time  extended, 
until  the  number  of  families  noted — including  the  original  fam- 
ilies and  their  branches  —  is  about  fifteen  hundred,  and  the 
number  of  names  about  four  thousand.  Yet  there  are  many 
others  whose  sketches  would  have  been  cheerfully  inserted  had 
the  necessary  facts  been  communicated. 

Among  the  prominent  characteristics  of  this  history  is  the 
religious  feature.  It  has  been  my  purpose  to  present  to  our 
descendants  a  correct  view  of  the  moral  and  religious  character 
of  their  ancestors.  Many  will  regard  the  ' '  savor  of  a  good 
name  "  transmitted  by  parents,  as  the  most  valuable  portion  of 


VI  INTRODUCTION. 

their  patrimony.  Considering  a  public  profession  of  religion 
as  an  honorable  act,  and,  when  adorned  by  a  corresponding 
deportment,  as  the  best  expression  of  moral  excellence, 
I  have,  in  the  sketches  of  this  class  of  our  people,  gener- 
ally noted  the  fact  of  such  profession  and  the  name  of  the 
church  with  which  each  is  or  has  been  connected. 

The  interest  in  this  enterprise  manifested  by  the  citizens  of 
this  town,  and  by  many  in  other  towns  of  this  county,  gives 
promise  of  a  favorable  reception  of  the  work.  Many  have  long 
been  anxiously  awaiting  its  appearance.  Dependent  upon  a 
hundred  persons  for  information,  much  time  was  spent  in  col- 
lecting material.  The  statements  of  different  persons  did  not 
in  all  cases  agree ;  and  much  inquiry  often  became  necessary  to 
ascertain  the  facts.  Of  the  adult  settlers  of  the  first  three  3'ears, 
only  three  remain  in  town.  From  them  much  valuable  infor- 
mation has  been  obtained.  Among  those  who-  came  a  few  years 
later,  are  many  to  whom  my  acknowledgments  are  due  for  the 
numerous  important  facts  which  they  have  communicated,  and 
for  the  interest  taken  in  this  enterprise. 

Special  mention  should  be  made  of  the  assistance  of  Hon. 
Augustus  Frank.  His  interest  in  the  work  from  the  begin- 
ning has  been  unabated;  and  he  has  aided  essentially  in  gath- 
ering material.  His  knowledge  of  the  business  interests  of  the 
town  enabled  him  to  furnish  many  facts  relating  to  this  branch 
of  our  history;  and  many  of  the  most  interesting  subjects  have 
been  introduced  at  his  suggestion.  And  the  whole  expense  in- 
curred in  the  preparation  and  publication  of  this  work,  has 
been  assumed  by  himself  and  his  fellow-citizen,  Joshua  H. 
Darling,  Fsq.* 

There  are  many  other  citizens  who  deserve  favorable  notice. 
Regarding  the  enterprise  as  creditable  to  the  town,  and  appre- 

*  Since  the  foregoing  "  Introduction  "'  was  written.  Mr.  Darling  died  at  bis  residence, 
in  Warsaw.  March  21,  1809. 


INTRODUCTION.  VII 

dating  the  patriotism  and  liberality  of  the  gentlemen  who  were 
carrying  it  forward,  the}T  have  not  been  content  with  the  pur- 
chase of  single  copies  for  their  respective  family  libraries,  but 
have  subscribed  for  a  number  of  copies  each.  Many,  not 
among  the  more  wealthy  class  of  our  citizens,  have  given  their 
names  for  three  to  five,  others  for  ten  or  more,  for  distribution 
among  their  children  and  other  friends. 

The  work  is  unusually  well  supplied  with  Tables  of  Eefer- 
ence,  the  want  of  which,  in  many  books,  is  a  serious  defect. 
Besides  a  copious  Table  of  Contents  in  the  usual  place,  and  a 
General  Index  in  the  latter  part  of  the  volume,  there  is  an 
Index  of  Najies,  with  references  to  the  pages  on  which  each 
name  occurs.  This  enables  airy  person  whose  name  is  in  this 
Index  to  see  readily  with  what  subjects  in  the  body  of  the  work 
his  name  is  connected. 

Not  the  least  important  characteristic  of  the  work  is  the 
style  in  which  it  appears.  Its  mechanical  execution — printing, 
binding,  the  portraits,  (except  the  few  on  steel,)  the  views  of 
churches  and  residences,  and  the  Warsaw  Falls,  have  all  been 
done  by  the  Lithographing,  Printing  and  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany of  Messrs.  Sage,  Sons  &  Co.,  of  Buffalo,  and  compares 
favorably  with  similar  work  done  in  eastern  cities. 

Great  pains  have  been  taken  to  present  this  History  to  the 
public  without  errors.  Perfect  accuracy,  however,  in  works  of 
this  kind,  has  perhaps  never  been  attained ;  writers  being  ne- 
cessarily dependent  for  information  upon  others  whose  memo- 
ries are  not  in  all  cases  correct.  It  is  not  strange,  therefore, 
that,  among  the  thousands  of  names  and  dates  in  this  work, 
there  should  be  some  errors. 

There  may  be  persons  who,  on  looking  for  sketches  of  their 
families,  will  be  disappointed.  After  a  large  number  had  been 
written,  the  material  of  which  had  been  procured  only  at  the 
expense  of  much  time  and  labor,  notice  was  given  in  the  vil- 


Till  INTRODUCTION. 

lage  papers,  that  sketches  would  be  prepared  by  the  writer  for 
persons  desiring  them,  if  furnished  with  the  necessary  informa- 
tion.    No  applications  have  been  rejected. 

Xotice  was  also  given,  that  the  Portraits  of  all  who  would 
furnish  them  at  their  own  expense,  would  be  inserted.  A 
greater  number  than  was  expected  have  accepted  the  proposi- 
tion, and  thus  contributed  to  the  embellishment  of  the  work, 
and  to  the  gratification  of  their  friends  and  descendants. 

From  the  peculiar  nature  of  this  History,  its  preparation  has 
required  an  amount  of  labor,  and  been  attended  with  difficulties 
not  anticipated  at  the  commencement.  It  is  hoped  that  it  may 
meet  the  reasonable  expectations  of  its  patrons. 

A.   \Y.  Y. 

AVars aw,  March,  1809. 


CONTENTS. 


CIVIL  HISTORY. 


HOLLAND  PURCHASE. 

Preliminary  History,  17.  British  grants  to  the  Plymouth  Company,  17. 
Massachusetts  and  New  York  cede  their  western  lands  to  the  United  States, 
17,  18.  Conflicting  claims  of  these  States,  IS.  Phelps  and  Gorham's  Pur- 
chase, 18.  Sale  to  Robert  Morris,  19.  Morris's  sale  to  Holland  Land  Com- 
pany, 19,  20.  Indian  Reservations,  20,  Holland  Company's  survey  by  Jo- 
seph Ellicott,  and  the  Transit  instrument,  20-22.  Erection  and  division  of 
Genesee  county,  22,  23. 

TOPOGRAPHY  OF  WARSAW. 

Situation,  location  and  bounds  of  the  town,  23,  24.  Its  roads,  soil,  surface, 
productions,  streams,  <fec,  24,  25. 

SETTLEMENT  OF  WARSAW. 

Elizur  Webster  explores  the  township,  25.  His  purchase  and  settlement,  26, 
27.  Original  land  sales,  27-36.  Progress  of  settlement;  first  burial,  36,  37. 
Amos  Keeney's  experience,  37-40.  Five  immigrants  carried  into  the  town 
by  other  four,  38.  Seth  Gates  and  Truman  Lewis,  40,  41.  Description  of 
log-houses,  with  stick  chimneys;  pole  bed-steads,  &c,  41-43.  The  first  saw- 
mill and  grist-mill,  and  store,  43-45.  Want  of  a  physician ;  labors  of  Mrs. 
Palmer,  and  advent  of  Dr.  Sheldon,  45-46.  Town  of  Warsaw  formed,  46. 
Household  labor;  cooking,  46-48.  Making  cloth  in  families — spinning,  dye- 
ing, &c,  48.  Itinerant  tailoresses,  49.  Shoemaking  in  families,  49-50. 
Wild  animals  and  bounties,  50,  51.  Wolf  and  bear  stories,  52,53.  Artemas 
Shattuck,  who  cut  off  his  foot  to  save  his  life,  53-55.  Enjoyment  of  the 
early  settlers,  56,  57. 

POLICY  OF  THE  LAND  COMPANY. 

Settlers  charged  with  "Increase;"  cattle  received  on  contracts,  58.  Partial 
reduction  of  debts,  59.  Opinions  respecting  the  Company's  policy,  69. 
Causes  of  the  adversity  of  the  settlers,  or  the  settlers  vindicated,  59,  60. 
Partial  relief,  within  doors,  00,  61.     Ashes,  as  a  source  of  money,  61. 

ix 


CONTENTS. 


THE  VILLAGE. 


Its  condition  in  1816,  62.  Cumings'  purchase — streets  and  lots  laid  out,  62,  63_ 
Growth  of  the  village,  63-65.  Isaiah  Kenyon,  66,  67.  The  McKay  purchase, 
and  its  results,  67,  68.  Improvements  since  1841,  68.  Great  Fire  of  1867,  and 
its  effects,  69.    Frank  &,  Farman's  purchase,  and  improvements,  67,  70. 

POST-OFFICES. 

First  Post-Office  in  Warsaw,  70.  Where  and  how  mailing  had  been  done;  post- 
age then,  and  now,  70,  71.  Levi  Street,  the  mail-carrier;  first  newspapers, 
71.     List  of  Postmasters,  72. 

AGRICULTURE. 

Early  tillage  and  farming  implements;  Wood's  cast  iron  plow,  73.  Mode  of 
harvesting,  73,  74.     Stock  raising,  74,  75.     Fruit  culture,  75,  76. 

TRADE— MERCHANTS. 

The  early  stores;  purchasing  goods,  77.  System  of  trade,  78.  Warsaw  as  a 
center  of  trade,  78.  Maple  sugar,  78.  Ashes,  a  chief  article  of  trade,  79. 
Cattle  and  pork,  and  their  prices,  79.  Dry  Goods  merchants,  from  1813  to 
1869,  80-S4.  Hardware  merchants,  84.  Druggists,  85,  86.  Booksellers,  86. 
Grocers,  86. 

MANUFACTURES. 

Saw-mills  and  Grist-mills,  87,  89.  Woolen  manufactures;  Seymour  Ensign, 
first  carder  and  cloth-dresser,  89,  90.  Hough  &  Norton,  and  Norton  & 
Hough;  Conable  &  Moss  and  their  successors,  90.  Gardner,  Utter  &  Co., 
91.  Carriage  manufacture,  91,  92.  Tanneries,  92,  93.  Map-roller  factory, 
93,  94.  Foundries,  cast  iron,  &c,  94,  95.  Planing-mills,  95,  96.  Patter- 
son Manufacturing  Company,  96,  97.  Cabinet-making,  97.  Carpet  fac- 
tory, 98. 

ROADS  AND  BRIDGES. 
Manner  of  laying  out  Roads,  98.     Old  Buffalo  Road,  98.     State  Road  from 
Canandaigua,  99.     Gulf  Road,  99,  100.     Bridges,  101. 

RAILROADS. 
Warsaw  and  Le  Roy  Railroad,  102-104.     Attica  and  Hornellsville  Railroad, 
104-106.     Purchase  of  the  N.  Y.  Central  to  Buffalo,  106. 

CEMETERIES. 

Old  Ground,  how  selected;  first  burials,  106,  107.  New  Cemetery;  Associa- 
tion incorporated,  107.     Dedicated,  108. 

WARSAW  LIBRARY. 

Library  incorporated,  and  names  of  the  corporators,  108.  Names  of  Trustees; 
Dissolution  of  the  Assoc'ation.  10). 


CONTENTS.  XI 

EDUCATION— SCHOOLS. 
First  School  in  Warsaw,  110.  Description  of  early  School-houses,  110.  Course 
of  Study,  111.  Manner  of  conducting  Schools,  111,  112.  Select  Schools, 
112,  113.  Union  School  instituted,  113.  Union  Free  School  established,  114. 
Names  of  Principals  and  Assistants,  115,  116.  Sketches  of  School  Districts, 
116-122. 

PHYSICIANS. 
Names  of  Practicing  Physicians  in  "Warsaw,  and  their  respective  Terms  of 
Practice,  123,  124. 

LAWYERS. 

Names  of  Attorneys,  and  the  times  of  commencing  and  discontinuing  Prac- 
tice in  this  town,  125,  126. 

BANKS. 

Wyoming  County  Bank,  127.  Wyoming  County  National  Bank  of  Warsaw, 
128. 

NEWSPAPERS. 

First  Paper,  Genesee  Register,  by  L.  <fc  W.  Walker,  12H.  Warsaw  Sentinel, 
by  A.  W.  Young,  128,  129.  American  Citizen,  by  the  Antislavery  Society, 
129.  Western  New  Yorker,  by  Barlow  &  Woodward,  and  their  successors, 
129,  130.  Wyoming  Republican,  130.  Wyoming  County  Mirror,  130.  Wyo- 
ming Democrat,  and  the  Masonic  Tidings,  130. 

WYOMING  COUNTY. 
Formation  of  the  County,  131.     Commissioners  to  fix  the  site  for  the  County 
Buildings,  131.     Building  Commissioners,  132.     First  Courts,  where  held, 
132.     First  Election  of  County  Officers,  132.     Reasons  for  the  Division  of 
Genesee,  132.     Annexation  of  towns  from  Allegany  County,  133. 

AGRICULTURAL  SOCIETY. 

Organization  of  the  Society;  Election  of  Officers.  133,  134.  First  Fair;  Pur- 
chase of  Fair  Grounds,  134. 

OLD  FOLKS'  FESTIVALS. 

Meeting  at  Dr.  Frank's  in  1850,  136,  137.  Meeting  in  1860,  137.  Remarks  of 
Dea.  Samuel  Salisbury,  138 ;  of  William  Webster,  Elam  Perkins,  Julius  Whit- 
lock,  139;  of  Chester  Hurd,  Henry  Hovey,  Hiram  Porter,  140;  of  William 
Smallwood,  Job  Sherman,  Newbury  Bronson,  141;  of  E.  B.  Miller,  Frank 
Miller,  S.  M.  Gates,  142;  of  J.  A.  McElwain,  Eli  Merrill,  143;  of  G.  W. 
Morris,  Peter  Young,  Rev.  Mr.  Buck,  144. 

PUBLIC  MEETINGS 

OX  EXTRAORDINARY  OCCASIONS. 

Death  of  President  Zachary  Taylor,  146.  Death  of  President  Abraham  Lin- 
coln in  1865,   147-149. 


XI 1  CONTENTS. 

TEMPERANCE. 
First  Temperance  Society  in  Warsaw,  150.  Kittridge's  Address  and  Lyman 
Beecher's  Sermons,  150.  Adoption  of  Tee-total  Pledge,  150.  Drinking 
Customs,  151.  Early  Friends  of  Temperance,  151,  152,  Washingtonians, 
152.  License  Question,  153.  Decline  of  Temperance,  153.  Prohibitory 
Laws,  154.     Order  of  Good  Templars,  154,  155. 

ANT1SLAYERY. 

Antislavery  Societies  formed,  156.  Proslavery  Mobs;  Antislavery  Meeting  at 
Utica  broken  up,  156.  Antislavery  Meeting  at  Batavia,  157-160.  Meeting 
of  Batavians,  157.  Antislavery  Meeting  entered  by  citizens,  158.  Report 
of  Antislavery  Committee,  159.  Meeting  adjourned  to  Warsaw,  160.  Pro- 
ceedings of  Warsaw  Meeting,  161.  Nomination  of  James  G.  Birney  in  1839, 
for  President,  and  its  effects,  162.  Buffalo  Free-soil  Convention  in  1848. 
Nomination  of  Van  Buren  and  Adams,  163. 


ECCLESIASTICAL   HISTORY. 

PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

Organization  of  the  first  Church  in  Warsaw,  (then  Congregational,)  165. 
Early  Preachers,  165.  Installation  and  resignation  of  Rev.  Silas  Hubbard, 
166.  First  House  of  Worship,  167.  Action  on  Sabbath  Schools,  167.  Ac- 
tion on  Slavery,  169.  Death  of  Rev.  Daniel  Waterbury,  170.  Division  of 
the  Churcb,  170.  Semi-Centenary  Meeting,  171.  New  Church  Edifice; 
Laying  of  the  Corner  Stone,  172,  173.     Dedication,  174,  175, 

First  legally  organized  Religious  Society. — Formation  of  Union  Soci- 
ety, 176-178.  Objects  of  Association,  178.  Action  on  building  a  Meeting- 
house, 179.  House  built,  179,  180.  House  bought  by  the  Presbyterians, 
and  finished,  180.  First  Church  Bell,  181-183.  A  Bugle  used  for  a  Bell 
181.     Bell  purchased;  Copy  of  Subscription,  182,  183. 

METHODIST  CHURCH. 
Early  History  of  the  Church,  184.     Society  legally  organized,  185.     Houses  of 
Worship,  186.    Action  of  Quarterly  Conference  on  the  Traffic  and  Use  of 
Ardent  Spirits.  186.     Action  on  Secret  Societies,  187,  188.     Action  on  Mis- 
sions, 187.     Names  of  Presiding  Elders  and  Preachers,  189,  190. 

BAPTIST  CHURCH. 
Early  History  of  the  Church;  names  of  its  first  Members,  191.  Name  of  the 
Church  changed,  191,  192.  Dismission  of  Members  in  1827  to  Gainesville 
Church,  192.  First  house  of  worship  built.  192.  Masonic  Troubles,  and 
their  settlement,  193.  Union  with  the  Genesee  Association,  193.  Society 
legally  organized,  193.  Change  of  Site,  and  the  Building  of  a  new  House, 
194.     Names  of  Church  Officers,  195. 


CONTENTS.  Xlll 

CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH. 

Organization  of  the  Church,  196.  Constitution  and  Rules,  196.  Building  of 
a  Church  Edifice,  and  Dedication,  197,  193.  House  enlarged,  198.  Action 
on  Secret  Societies,  198.  Building  of  anew  Meeting-house;  laying  of  the 
Corner  Stone,  and  Dedication,  198,  199.  Pastors  and  Officers  of  the  Church, 
199,  200.     Quarter  Centennial  Anniversary,  200-202. 

EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 

Antecedent  History  of  the  Church,  203,  204.  Legal  Organization  of  the  So- 
ciety, 204.  Erection  and  Dedication  of  a  House  of  Worship;  bequest  of  a 
Parsonage  by  Mrs.  "Watson,  205.     Names  of  Rectors,  205. 

FREE  WILL  BAPTIST  CHURCH. 

Preliminary  History,  206.  Organization  of  the  Church;  building  of  a  Meet- 
ing-house, 207.  Names  of  Ministers,  207.  Action  on  Slavery  and  Intem- 
perance, 208.     Contributions  for  Benevolent  Purposes,  208. 

German  Protestant  and  Catholic  Churches,  208. 

GOSPEL  LAND. 

History  of  Land  Grants  by  the  Holland  Land  Company  to  Religious  Societies, 
209,  210. 


WAR  HISTORY. 

WAR  OF  1812. 

Declaration  of  War  against  Great  Britain,  211.  Names  of  Citizens  of  War- 
saw  who  served  therein,  211. 

WAR  OF  THE  REBELLION. 

Bombardment  and  Fall  of  Fort  Sumter,  212.  Proclamation  of  President  Lin- 
coln, and  Call  for  75,000  Volunteers,  212.  Meeting  in  Warsaw,  and  the 
Raising  of  Money,  212,  213.  Sums  subscribed  by  Citizens,  213.  First  Com- 
pany of  Volunteers;  their  Departure,  213,  214.  Another  Call;  Companies 
of  Captains  Stimson  and  Bentley,  215.  Call  of  1S62;  Companies  of  Cap- 
tains Knapp,  Jenks,  and  Harrington,  215,  216.  A  Touching  Scene,  (case 
of  Charley  Bills,)  216,  217.  Return  and  Reception  of  Company  K,  217, 
218.  Call  of  1863,  218.  Sanitary  Fair  and  Aid  Societies,  218,  219.  Three 
more  Calls  for  Men,  219.  Bounties  and  Taxes,  219,  220.  Close  of  the  War, 
220,  221.  List  of  Volunteers  from  Warsaw,  with  Dates  and  Terms  of  Enlist- 
ment, Casualties,  Discharges,  &c,  222-231. 


xiv  CONTENTS. 

FAMILY  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTES, 

Alphabetically  Arranged, -    -    -    -    232-361 


SUPPLEMENTARY  NOTES. 

The  Starved  Ship,  362.  Scotch-Irish  Family  captured  by  Pirates,  363.  '-Under- 
ground" Escape  of  a  Slave  Mother  and  her  Child,  364,  365.  Crystal  Brook 
and  its  Cascades,  365-367.  '"Indian  Allan,"  367.  Sketch  of  Indian  His- 
tory, 36S,  369.  Old  Modes  of  Travel,  369,  370.  Wyoming  County  Insur- 
ance Company,  370,  371.  Late  Fire,  371.  Warsaw  Gas  Works,  372.  Ad- 
ditional Family  Sketches,  372-377. 


OFFICIAL  REGISTER. 

County  Officers. — Sheriff*,   Clerks,  Surrogates,   Judges,    and  District 
Attorneys,  ------- 37^-380 

Members  of  Assembly,  and  Senators, 380 

Members  of  the  Legislature, 380 

Members  of  Congress, - 381 

Members  of  Constitutional  Conventions,  - 381 

Town   Officers, 382-387 


BUSINESS  DIRECTORY, 387 

CENSUS  STATISTICS, 390 

INDEX, 39i 

INDEX   OF  NAMES, 395 

CORRECTIONS  AND   OMISSIONS, 400 


HISTORY  OF  WARSAW. 


CIVIL    HISTORY 


HOLLAND    PURCHASE. 

PRELIMINARY   HISTORY. 

Tme  tract  of  country  called  New  England,  granted  in  1020 
by  James  L,  King  of  England,  to  the  Plymouth  Company, 
extended  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific  ocean.  This  grant 
was  substantially  confirmed  by  William  and  Mary,  in  1091, 
by  a  second  charter  specifying  the  territory  granted  as  lying 
between  12  deg.  5  min.  and  11  deg.  15  min.  north  latitude. 

Previously,  however,  to  the  latter  grant,  Charles  I.  (1003) 
granted  to  the  Duke  of  York  and  Albany  the  province  of 
New  York  extending  to  the  Canada  line.  Its  eastern  bound- 
ary was  a  line  twenty  miles  east  of  the  Hudson  river ;  its  ex- 
tent westward  was  not  definitely  stated.  Under  these  con- 
flicting grants  a  dispute  subsequently  arose  between  Massa- 
chusetts and  New  York,  as  to  the  extent  of  their  respective 
territorial  rights  and  jurisdiction.  This  controversy  was  not 
settled  until  several  years  after  the  Revolution. 

To  those  who  are  not  familiar  with  our  political  history,  it 
may  be  necessary  to  state,  that,  byway  of  aiding  the  General 
Government  in  paying  the  public  debt  incurred  during  the 
war,  the  states  ceded  to  the  United  States  their  western  lands. 
The  states  of  New  York  and  Massachusetts,  the  latter  in 
1785,  the  former  a  little  earlier,  ceded  their  right  to  all  the 

2     (17) 


18  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

lands  west  of  a  line  running  south  from  the  westerly  bend  of 
Lake  Ontario.  This  left  nearly  20,000  square  miles  of  terri- 
tory still  in  dispute.  In  1786,  the  controversy  was  submitted 
to  a  convention  of  commissioners.  In  accordance  with  their 
decision,  Massachusetts  ceded  to  New  York  all  claim  to  the 
government,  sovereignty,  and  jurisdiction  of  all  the  territory 
west  of  the  present  line  of  the  state  of  New  York,,  and  New 
York  ceded  to  Massachusetts  the  preemption  right  or  fee  of 
the  land,  subject  to  the  title  of  the  natives,  of  all  that  part  of 
the  state  of  New  York  lying  west  of  a  line  beginning  at  a 
point  on  the  north  line  of  Pennsylvania,  82  miles  west  of  the 
north-east  corner  of  said  state ;  and  running  thence  due  north 
through  Seneca  Lake  to  Lake  Ontario,  excepting  a  mile's 
breadth  along  the  east  bank  of  the  Niagara  river.  The  land, 
the  preemption  right  of  which  "was  thus  ceded,  amounted 
to  about  (6,000,000)  six  million  acres,  for  which  the  sum 
of  (8l,000,00(»)  one  million  dollars  was  to  be  paid  in  three 
annual  installments. 

In  April,  1788,  Massachusetts  sold  the  preemption  right  to 
these  lands  to  Oliver  Phelps  and  Nathaniel  Gorham  of  that 
state,  as  representatives  of  an  association  of  persons.  In  July, 
1788,  Gorham  and  Phelps  purchased  the  Indian  title  to  about 
2,600,000  acres  of  the  eastern  part  of  their  purchase  from 
Massachusetts.  The  western  boundary  of  these  lands  was  a 
line  running  from  the  north  line  of  Pennsylvania  north  to  the 
junction  of  the  Oanascraga  creek  and  the  Genesee  river ; 
thence  northwardly  along  the  said  river  to  a  point  two  miles 
north  of  Canawaugus  village ;  thence  northwardly  twelve 
miles  distant  from  the  river  to  Lake  Ontario.  This  tract,  the 
Indian  title  to  which  had  been  extinguished  by  Phelps  and. 
Gorham,  was,  in  November,  1788,  convey od  and  quit-claimed 
to  them,  and  is  that  which  has  been  designated  as  the  "Phelps 
and  Gorham  Purchase."  The  survey  of  the  tract  into  town- 
ships and  lots  was  immediately  commenced;  aad  within  the 
space  of  two  years  about  fifty  townships  had  been  disposed  of, 
principally  by  whole  townships  or  large  portions  of  townships, 


the  company's  title.  19 

to  individuals  and  companies.  In  November,  1790,  the  pro- 
prietors, reserving  to  themselves  two  townships  only,  sold  the 
remainder  of  their  tract,  embracing  about  a  million  and  a 
quarter  acres,  to  Robert  Morris,  of  Philadelphia,  who  soon 
sold  the  same  to  Sir  William  Pultney,  an  Englishman. 

THE    COMPANY'S    TITLE. 

< 
A  minute  history  of  the  acquirement  of  title  by  the  Hol- 
land Company  to  the  lands  known  as  the    ''Holland  Pur- 
chase," can  not  be  given  in  this  work.     A  few  of  the  princi- 
pal facts  must  suffice : 

Phelps  and  Gorhani,  having  paid  about  one-third  of  the 
purchase  money  of  the  entire  tract  purchased  of  Massachu- 
setts, were  unable  to  make  further  payments.  They  had 
stipulated  to  pay  in  a  kind  of  scrip,  or  "  consolidated  stock," 
issued  by  that  state.  This  scrip  they  could  buy  at  70  or  80 
per  cent,  below  par.  "When  they  had  paid  about  one-third  of 
the  purchase  money,  this  stock  had  risen  to  par,  at  which  they 
were  unable  to  fulfill  their  engagements.  An  arrangement 
between  the  parties  was  negotiated  by  which  Phelps  and  Gor- 
ham  relinquished  their  remaining  lands  to  Massachusetts,  and 
Massachusetts  relinquished  to  Phelps  and  Gorhani  their  bonds 
for  the  payment  of  the  purchase  money. 

In  March,  1701,  Massachusetts  agreed  to  sell  to  Samuel 
Ogden,  agent  for  Robert  Morris,  all  the  lands  ceded  to  that 
state  by  Xew  York,  except  that  part  which  had  been  con- 
veyed by  Massachusetts  to  Phelps  and  Gorham.  In  May, 
1791,  these  lands  were  conveyed  by  Robert  Morris,  in  five 
deeds,  in  strips  or  parcels  extending  across  the  breadth  of  the 
state  from  Pennsylvania  line  north.  The  first  deed  included 
all  the  territory  east  of  the  east  line  of  the  Holland  Purchase. 
This  tract,  retained  by  Morris  in  his  sale  to  the  Holland  Com- 
pany, took  the  name  of  the  "  Morris  Reserve."  The  second 
deed  covered  a  breadth  of  sixteen  miles  ;  the  third  and  fourth 
deeds  each  a  tract  of  the  same  breadth;  and  the  fifth  all  the 
lands  in  the  state  west  of  the  land  conveyed  by  the  fourth 
deed. 


20  HISTOKY    OF    WARSAW. 

The  reason  for  conveying  the  land  by  three  separate  deeds 
is,  that  there  were  three  separate  branches  of  the  Holland 
Company.  But  to  simplify  the  transaction  of  business  with 
the  settlers,  they  appointed  one  general  agent  for  the  whole. 
Says  Turner,  in  his  History  of  the  Holland  Purchase: 

••  Although  these  deeds  of  conveyance  were  given  to  three 
distinct  companies  of  proprietors,  their  interests  were  closely 
blended.  Several  of  the  same  persons  having  large  interests 
in  the  three  different  estates,  they  appointed  one  general  agent 
for  the  whole,  who  managed  the  concerns  of  the  tract  gener- 
ally, as  though  it  all  belonged  to  the  same  proprietors,  making 
no  distinction  which  operated  the  least  on  the  settlers  and  pur- 
chasers, but  simply  keeping  the  accounts  of  each  separate 
when  practicable,  and  apportioning,  pro  rata,  all  expenses 
when  blended  in  the  same  transaction  for  the  benefit  of  the 
whole.  The  general  agent  likewise  appointed  one  local  agent 
for  the  three  companies."  In  executing  contracts  and  con- 
veyances, however,  the  agents  used  the  names  of  the  respect- 
ive proprietors  of  each  tract. 

As  the  Hollanders,  being  aliens,  could  not  buy  and  hold 
real  estate  in  their  own  names,  the  lands  were  conveyed  for 
their  benefit  to  trustees.  They  were,  however,  afterwards  con- 
veyed,  by  sanction  of  the  legislature,  to  the  proprietors  in  their 
own  names. 

At  the  time  of  the  sale  by  Morris  to  the  Holland  Company 
and  to  purchasers  of  his  other  tracts,  the  Indian  title  to  these 
lands  had  not  yet  been  extinguished;  which,  however,  he  was 
bound  by  his  contract  to  do  as  soon  as  possible.  In  1797,  at  a 
council  of  the  Scnecas,  held  near  Geneseo,  the  Indian  title  to 
these  lands  was  extinguished,  except  the  Gardeau,  Caneadea, 
Allegany,  Cattaraugus,  Buffalo,  Tonawanda,  and  several  other 
and  smaller  reservations.     Few  of  these  remain. 

the  company's  survey. 

Joseph  Ellicott  had  been  engaged  by  the  general  agent  of 
the  Holland  Company  to  attend  this  council   as  one  of  the 


the  company's  survey.  21 

agents  of  the  Company,  and  chosen  as  principal  surveyor  of 
the  Company's  lands ;  a  business  upon  which  he  promptly 
entered,  with  his  brother,  Benjamin  Ellicott,  as  assistant-sur- 
veyor, and  the  requisite  number  of  hands.  The  first  thing 
necessary  was  to  establish  correctly  the  east  line  of  the  Pur- 
chase, starting  from  the  Pennsylvania  line.  The  way  in  which 
this  was  done  is  thus  described  by  Mr.  Turner: 

"To  run  a  true  meridian  by  the  surveyor's  compass,  Mr. 
Ellicott  knew  to  be  impracticable;  he  therefore  determined 
to  run  this  line  by  an  instrument  having  for  its  basis  the  pro- 
perties of  the  '  Transit  instrument,'  made  use  of  to  observe 
the  transits  of  the  heavenly  bodies,  improved  for  this  purpose 
by.  a  newly  invented  manner  of  accurately  arriving  at  the 
same.  An  instrument  possessing  these  qualities  was  manu- 
factured by  his  brother  Benjamin  Ellicott,  as  no  instrument 
possessing  all  the  qualities  desired  was  then  to  be  found  in 
the  United  States." 

But  in  order  to  the  successful  use  of  the  instrument,  it  be- 
came necessary  to  cut  a  vista  through  the  woods  on  the  high- 
lands and  on  the  level  ground  sufficiently  wide  to  admit  a 
clear  and  uninterrupted  view.  The  vista  so  cut  was  three  or 
four  rods  wide.  Thus  with  this  instrument,  by  astronomical 
observations,  was  a  true  meridian  line  established,  from  which 
this  line  has  derived  its  familiar  name  of  "Transit." 

Most  of  the  Purchase  has  been  divided  into  townships  six 
miles  square,  in  tiers  or  ranges,  numbered  from  east  to  west. 
The  townships  in  the  several  ranges  are  numbered  from  south 
to  north.  The  townships  were  subdivided  into  lots  or  sections 
three- fourths  of  a  mile  square,  making  eight  tiers  of  eight 
lots  each,  the  lots  being  numbered  from  south  to  north,  com- 
mencing with  the  east  tier.  The  lots,  by  an  accurate  meas- 
urement, would  contain  360  acres  each.  But  the  number  of 
acres  in  the  different  lots  varies  considerably,  a  very  few  in 
this  town  containing  more,  but  most  of  them  less,  than  360 
acres. 

The  Holland  Purchase,  at  the  time  it  passed  into  the  hands 


22  IIISTOKY    OF   WARSAW. 

of  its  foreign  proprietors,  and  for  several  years  afterwards, 
was  in  the  county  of  Ontario,  which  embraced  all  the  terri- 
tory in  the  state  of  New  York  west  of  the  line  running  north 
and  smith  through  Seneca  lake. 

ERECTION    AND   DIVISION    OF    GENESEE    COUNTY. 

Genesee  county  was  formed  from  Ontario,  March  30, 1802- 
It  comprised  all  that  part  of  the  state  lying  west  of  Genesee 
river  and  a  line  extending  due  south  from  the  point  of  the 
junction  of  that  river  and  the  Canascraga  creek,  to  the  south 
line  of  the  state.  Allegany  county  was  taken  from  Genesee 
in  1800;  Cattaraugus,  Chautauqua,  and  Niagara  in  1808; 
parts  of  Livingston  and  Monroe  in  1821;  Orleans  in  1821:; 
and  Wyoming  in  1811. 

The  town  of  Batavia  was  formed  March  30,  1802,  the  date 
of  the  erection  of  the  county  ot  Genesee,  and  comprised  the 
whole  of  the  Holland  Purchase. 

April  11,  1801,  was  formed  from  Batavia  the  town  of 
Chautauqua,  embracing  all  the  territory  now  constituting  the 
county  of  Chautauqua.  At  the  same  time  were  taken  from 
Batavia  the  towns  of  Willink  and  Erie,  the  latter,  now  called 
Newstead,  comprising,  it  is  believed,  but  a  single  township; 
the  two  comprising  all  the  territory  now  lying  within  the 
counties  of  Niagara  and  Erie. 

March  19,  1808,  Warsaw  was  formed  from  Batavia.  It 
comprised  the  present  towns  of  Middlebury,  Warsaw,  and 
Gainesville.  At  the  same  time  Sheldon  Mas  formed  from 
Batavia,  and  embraced  all  the  other  townships  of  the  Holland 
Purchase  within  the  county  of  Wyoming  at  the  time  of  its 
formation.  [The  towns  of  Eagle,  Pike,  and  Genesee  Falls, 
from  Allegany,  were  annexed  to  Wyoming  in  1810.]  In 
1811,  Attica  was  formed  from  Sheldon,  and  embraced  the 
present  towns  of  Attica,  Orangeville,  and  Wethersiield. 
Orangeville  was  formed  in  1816  from  Attica,  and  Wethers- 
field  from  Orangeville,  April  12,  1823.  Bennington  was 
formed   from  Sheldon,  March   0,  1818,  and   China,  March  6, 


TOPOGRAPHY    OF    WARSAW.  23 

1818.  On  April  20,  1832,  Java  was  formed  from  China,  and 
and  in  1866,  the  name  of  China  was  changed  to  Arcade. 

June  8,  1812,  Ridgewav,  comprising  all  the  Holland  Com- 
pany's lands,  within  the  present  county  of  Orleans,  was 
formed  from  Batavia;  also  Pembroke,  Alexander,  Bethany, 
and  Bergen,  which  are  still  a  part  of  Genesee  county;  and 
March  14,  1820,  Elba,  and  March  24,  1820,  Stafford,  in  part. 
The  last  town  mentioned  was  formed  from  Batavia  and 
Le  Roy. 

Genesee  county,  at  the  time  of  its  formation,  contained  four 
towns,  namely:  Northampton,  Southampton,  Leicester,  and 
Batavia.  The  first  three  embraced  all  the  territory  within 
the  county  lying  east  of  the  Purchase — Northampton  the 
north  part,  Southampton  the  south  part,  Leicester  the  territory 
lying  between  them,  and  Batavia  the  whole  Holland  Pur- 
chase. The  first  Board  of  Supervisors  of  Genesee  county  was 
composed  of  Simon  King,  representing  Northampton;  Chris- 
topher Laybourn,  Southampton;  John  II.  Jones,  Leicester; 
and  Peter  Yandeventer,  the  town  of  Batavia. 


TOPOGRAPHY  OF  WARSAW. 

The  town  of  Warsaw,  in  the  comity  of  Wyoming,  is  situa- 
ted in  latitude  42  deg.  and  about  45  min.  north,  and  in  longi- 
tude 1  deg.  and  about  20  min.  west  of  Washington.  Its 
center  is  about  six  miles  north-east  from  the  geographical 
center  of  the  county,  of  which  it  is  the  county  town.  It  is  a 
part  of  the  tract  known  as  the  Holland  Purchase.  It  is  six 
miles  square,  and  is  designated  in  the  Holland  Company's 
survey,  as  Township  Number  Nine,  Range  First  of  towm- 
ships.  It  is  bounded  on  the  north  by  Middlebury,  west  by 
Orangeville,  south  by  Gainesville,  and  east  by  Perry.  Its 
altitude  is  above  tide  water  about  fifteen  hundred  feet. 

This  town  is  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  miles  west  of  Al- 
bany, four  hundred  north-westerly  from   the  city  of  New 


24  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

York,  forty-five  south-easterly  from  Buffalo,  and  forty-two 
south-westerly  from  Kochester.  All  these  places  are  accessi- 
ble by  railroad.  The  Erie  Railway  passes  through  the  townj 
north  and  south,  and  crosses  the  Genesee  river  over  the  famed 
Portage  Bridge  near  the  south-eastern  corner  of  the  county. 
The  two  principally  traveled  roads  run  north  and  south  and 
east  and  west  through  the  village,  which  is  in  the  center  of 
the  town.  The  latter  of  these  roads  is  the  old  stage  road  to 
Buffalo. 

The  soil  of  this  town  is  strong  and  productive.  In  its  origi- 
nal state  it  was  heavily  covered  with  various  kinds  of  hard 
wood,  mostly  beech  and  maple,  intermixed,  in  some  parts, 
with  elm,  bass-wood,  and  in  a  few  places  with  oak,  ash,  and 
hemlock.  All  the  land,  except  what  has  been  reserved  for 
"  wood  lots,"  has  been  cleared  and  improved,  and  compares 
favorably  with  that  of  adjoining  towns  in  quality. 

The  town  is  centrally  divided,  north  and  south,  by  a  valley 
through  which  passes  the  O-at-ka  creek,  a  stream  sufficient 
to  propel  mills  and  machinery.  Owing  to  its  extensive 
water-shed  on  each  side,  it  often  assumes  great  proportions. 
The  valley  varies  from    half  a  mile  to   a  mile  in   width. 

The  surface  of  the  town  presents  gentle  slopes  from  its  east 
and  west  lines  until  they  approach  the  valley,  when  the  de- 
clivities increase  in  steepness,  descending  from  three  hundred 
to  five  hundred  feet  in  a  distance  of  one  mile. 

The  soil  is  well  adapted  to  tilling  and  pasturage.  The  bot- 
tom lands  especially  are  fertile,  producing  luxuriant  crops  of 
grass  and  grain.  There  is  little  waste  land  in  the  town. 
The  hill  sides  along  the  valley,  though  in  some  places  steep, 
are  tillable.  Wheat,  corn,  and  the  coarser  grains  of  fair  yield 
are  produced  in  all  parts  of  the  town.  The  plum,  cherry, 
pear,  and  quince  thrive  well;  and  apples  are  produced  in 
abundance,  large  quantities  being  shipped,  nearly  every  year, 
to  distant  markets.  Most  of  the  orchards  are  grafted  with 
choice  varieties  of  fruit. 

The  whole  town  is  well  watered  with  springs  and  rivulets 


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SETTLEMENT    OF   WAKSAW.  25 

tending  to  the  valley  through  numerous  ravines,  and  emptying 
into  the  O-at-ka.  The  largest  stream  entering  the  valley 
within  the  town,  heads  in  Orangeville;  its  two  principal 
branches  uniting  a  short  distance  cast  of  the  west  line  of 
Warsaw.  A- few  rods  below  the  place  where  it  is  crossed  by 
the  Erie  Railway,  it  passes  over  a  precipice  ninety  feet  in 
height  through  a  wild,  rocky  gorge,  and  enters  the  O-at-ka  in 
the  south  part  of  the  village.  These  falls  and  the  surrounding 
scenery  have  been  highly  admired  by  visitors  from  distant 
parts  of  the  country,  and  have  been  pronounced  by  many  to 
be  superior,  in  point  of  beauty  and  interest,  to  many  of  the 
more  widely  celebrated  natural  curiosities.  When  the  ravine 
below  shall  have  been  cleared,  and  a  convenient  foot  road  or 
walk  constructed,  as  is  contemplated,  this  can  hardly  fail  to 
attract  the  attention  of  travelers,  and  to  become  the  frequent 
and  favorite  resort  of  our  own  citizens. 


SETTLEMENT  OF  WARSAW. 

The  present  town  of  Warsaw  is  distinguished  in  the  survey 
of  the  Holland  Purchase,  as  Township  No.  9,  Range  First. 
The  settlement  of  this  town  was  commenced  by  Elizur  Web- 
ster, of  Hampton,  Washington  Co.,  N.  Y.,  in  1803.  Having 
duly  traversed  the  township  with  a  view  to  the  selection  of  a 
situation,  he  decided  to  settle  within  its  limits.  The  internal 
survey  and  division  into  lots  had  not  yet  been  made.  He 
wished  to  find  the  center  of  the  township;  and  having  made 
a  measuring  line  of  elm  or  bass-wood  bark,  he  started  from 
the  south  lino  of  No.  10,  at  the  point  equidistant  from  the 
south-east  and  south-west  corners,  and  run  by  a  compass  due 
south  three  miles,  and,  it  is  said,  with  such  accuracy  as  to  vary 
but  a  very  few  rods  from  the  center  afterwards  determined 
by  actual  survey.  He  then  proceeded  to  the  Land- Office  at 
Batavia  to  negotiate  a  purchase.  But  Mr.  Ellicott,  the  agent, 
refused  to  order  a  survey  to  be  made  for  his  accommodation, 


26  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

saying,  that  applications  were  constantly  being  made  for  nn- 
surveyed  lands,  when  there  was  a  plenty  of  good  lands 
already  surveyed. 

Among  the  early  settlers  there  were  very  few  who  were 
able  to  pay  down  any  portion  of  the  purchase  money.  Mr. 
Ellicott,  having  .learned  that  the  applicant  whose  importuni- 
ties he  had  for  one  or  two  days  resisted,  could  command 
about  a  thousand  dollars  in  money,  of  which  one-half  or  more 
he  was  ready  to  pay  on  the  execution  of  the  contract,  very 
readily  consented,  and  forthwith  ordered  the  desired  survey. 

Mr.  Webster's  purchase  included  nine  or  ten  lots,  contain. 
ing  more  than  3,000  acres,  lying  mostly  along  and  in  the 
valley  of  O-at-ka  creek.  The  contract  price  was  $1.50  per 
acre.  Mr.  Ellicott,  not  having  been  well  informed  concerning 
the  lands  in  this  township,  was  deeply  chagrinned  on  learning 
that  he  had  unwittingly  disposed  of  a  great  portion  of  the 
best  land  in  the  township  at  the  lowest  price.  Most  of  Mr. 
Webster's  purchase  was  made  on  credit;  or,  as  was  sometimes 
done,  the  land  was  "  booked  "  to  him  for  a  trifling  sum,  not 
exceeding  a  dollar  a  lot,  for  a  specific  term — six  months,  more 
or  less — during  which  time  he  might  sell  to  other  parties  at 
an  advanced  price.  He  sold  most  of  these  lands  to  settlers  at 
a  small  advance  of  fifty  cents  per  acre;  they  usually  assuming 
his  contract  at  the  land-office  by  taking  an  article  as  origina 
purchasers,  and  paying  him  his  additional  charge.  His 
contract  boars  date  June  20,  1803. 

Mr.  Webster  immediately  entered  upon  his  purchased  pos- 
session. He  made  a  small  opening  in  the  forest,  and  built  a 
log-house  a  few  rods  back  of  the  present  site  of  the  Baptist 
church.  Being  the  only  settler,  he  must,  it  is  presumed,  have 
gone  a  considerable  distance  for  help  to  raise  his  cabin.  The 
nearest  settlement  was  in  No.  10,  at  the  place  now  known  as 
"Wright's  Corners,"  in  Middlebury.  The  writer  has  been 
told  by  an  old  settler,  that  the  house  was  raised  by  the  help 
of  the  "  choppers  "  then  at  work  in  opening  the  "  Old  Buffalo 
Road,"  which  passes  through  the  town  east  and  west,  a  mile 


FIEST    SALES    OF   LANDS.  27 

and  a  half  north  of  the  village.  The  house  was  one  of  the 
rudest  of  its  kind.  As  usual,  the  fire-place  was  without 
jambs,  and  the  aperture  for  the  passage  of  the  smoke  was  of 
sufficient  capacity  to  give  the  house  a  tolerable  lighting  from 
above.  The  roof  was  of  elm  bark;  and  the  floor  of  split 
bass-wood  plank,  hewn  on  one  side.  There  was  neither  board 
nor  nail  in  the  whole  structure. 

Mr.  "Webster  returned  to  Hampton,  and  in  October  removed 
to  "Warsaw  with  his  family  and  effects,  having  a  wife  and  five 
children  to  share  with  him  the  privations  and  hardships 
incident  to  pioneer  life,  as  well  as  their  anticipated  rewards. 
He  came  in  with  two  teams,  one  of  them  a  team  of  horses 
driven  by  himself;  the  other,  two  yoke  of  oxen  driven  altern- 
ately by  Shubael  Morris  and  Amos  Keeney,  who  came  to 
seek  new  homes  on  the  Purchase.  They  were  either  accom- 
panied or  immediately  followed  by  Lyman  Morris,  also  from 
Hampton.  They  came  by  the  way  of  Le  Roy  and  the  new 
settlement  already  mentioned,  now  known  as  "Wright's  Cor- 
ners, in  Middlebury.  This  settlement  had  been  commenced 
the  year  previous  by  Jabish  "Warren,  who  had  opened  a  way 
from  Le  Roy  sufficient  to  admit  the  passage  of  a  team.  Be- 
sides Mr.  "Warren,  there  were  then  in  that  settlement,  (1803,) 
Joseph  Selleck,  Frederick  Gilbert,  Israel  M.  Dewey,  Reuben 
Chamberlain,  and  Amzi  "Wright. 

FIRST    SALES    OF    LANDS. 

The  following  is  a  statement  of  the  names  of  the  original  or 
first  purchasers  and  occupants  of  the  lands  in  this  town,  the 
dates  of  their  contracts,  the  numbers  of  the  lots  and  parts  of 
lots  purchased  by  each,  and  to  whom  sold,  &c.  By  purchase 
and  sale  of  lands  from  and  to  each  other  by  the  early  settlers' 
it  is  not  to  be  understood  that  the  lands  were  conveyed  by  deed 
and  mortgage.  Few,  indeed,  had  paid  for  their  lands.  Most 
of  them  held  land  only  under  articles  of  agreement  from  the 
Land  Company,  and  could  not  convey  them  by  deed.  The 
seller,  for  a  consideration  paid  him  for  his  improvements  or 


28  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

his  "chance,"  so  called,  assigned  his  article  to  the  purchaser, 
who,  by  this  act,  became  entitled  to  all  the  rights,  and  liable 
for  the  fulfillment  of  all  the  obligations,  of  the  original  con- 
tractor or  purchaser.  In  the  statement  which  follows,  the  date 
of  the  contract  is  in  many  cases  a  considerable  time  either 
before  or  after  the  settler  entered  upon  his  land.  "When  the 
intervening  period  between  such  entry  and  the  elate  of  the 
contract  is  known,  the  fact  is  stated. 

1803,  June  20,  Elizur  "Webster,  lot  25;  336  acres.  Sold  to 
John,  Jeremiah,  and  Solomon  Truesdell. 

1S03,  June  20,  E.  Webster,  lot  27;  343  acres.  Sold  to  Solo- 
mon Morris,  Jr.,  south  third,  114  acres;  John  Morris, 
middle  third,  115  acres;  Silas  C.  Fargo,  north  third, 
111  acres. 

1803,  June  20,  E.  Webster,  lot  32;  335  acres.  Sold  to 
Simeon,  Gurdon,  and  Josiah  Ilovey,  Jim.  Articles 
dated  June  20, 1S03.  Settled  on  the  land  in  the  spring 
of  1804. 

1803,  June  20,  E.  Webster,  lot  35;  349  acres.  Sold  to  Jonas 
Cutting,  south  part,  175  acres;  Wm.  Knapp,  north  part, 
174  acres.     Articles  dated  !STov.  21,  1806. 

1803,  Juno  20,  E.  Webster,  south  part  lot  36;  160  acres. 
Sold  in  parts  to  Joseph  Palmer,  101  acres;  to  John 
Munger,  50.     Articles  dated  July  22,  1806. 

1803,  June  20,  E.  Webster,  north  part  lot  36;  163  acres. 

1803,  June  20,  E.  Webster,  south  part  lot  3S;  200  acres. 

1803,  June  20,  E.  Webster,  south  part  lot  43;  182  J  acres. 
Sold  to  Joseph  Palmer;  article  dated  June  21,  1S13. 
New  article  Feb.  23,  1827,  to  Jonathan  F.  Ilibbard, 
Nathan  Scovel,  John  B.  Royce,  and  deed  to  Wm. 
Shipman. 

1803,  June  20,  E.  Webster,  north  part  lot  43. 

1801,  June  20,  E.  Webster,  lot  37  and  part  of  lot  3S;  490 
acres. 

1803,  June  20,  Jabish  Warren,  lot  26;  347  acres.  Sold  north 
third  to  Solomon  Morris.     Article  dated  June  20,1807. 


FIRST   SALES    OF   LANDS.  29 

1803,  June  20,  Jabish  Warren,  north  part  lot  28;  214  acres. 
Sold  to  Nehemiah  Fargo. 

1803,  June  20,  Jabish  Warren,  south  part  lot  28;  107  acres. 
Sold  to  Joseph  Palmer. 

1803,  July  19,  Daniel  Curtis,  lot  39;  366^  acres.  July  19, 
1813,  new  articles;  west  part,  200  acres,  to  Josiah 
Jewett;  south-east  part,  80  acres,  to  Nehemiah  Fargo; 
north-east  part,  864  acres,  to  Nehemiah  Fargo. 

1803,  August  24,  Elijah  Cutting,  lot  29;  339  acres.  Settled  on 
it  near  the  site  of  the  Brick  Hotel.  Sold  in  parts  to 
Micah  Marchant,  Elkanah  Day,  and  Nehemiah  Fargo. 
Deeds  from  the  Company,  to  Unicy  Marchant,  north- 
west part,  98  acres;  to  Daniel  Bumsey,  21  acres;  to 
Samuel  McWhorter,  73  acres;  to  Elam  Perkins,  83 
acres;  to  Anson  A.  Perkins,  17  acres. 

1803,  October  29,  Josiah  Ilovey,  Jun.,  part  lot  24;  190 h 
acres. 

1804,  January  10,  Sterling  Stearns,  south  part  lot  2;  160  acres. 
Mr.  Stearns  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Wright's 
Corners. 

1804,  April  24,  Josiah  Boardman,  north  part  lot  1;  126  acres. 

Article  renewed  April  25,  1814. 
1804,  July  31,  Josiah  Hovey,  Sen.,  south  part  lot  31;  107 

acres. 
1804,  July  31,  Josiah  Jewett,  north  part  lot  31 ;  230  acres. 

Mr.  Jewett  resided  on  his  farm  until  his  death. 

1804,  November  29,  Linus  Warner,  lot  9;  3461  acres.  He 
did  not  settle  upon  his  lot  until  1806.  A  new  article 
was  taken  Nov.  30,  1814.  Sold  in  1S20  to  Samuel 
Warner,  115  £  acres. 

1805,  Jan.  25,  Nehemiah  Fargo,  west  part  lot  30;  100  acres. 
1805,  July  15,  Parley  Chapman  and  Alden  Keith,  east  half 

lot  6;  177  acres.     New  article  July  15,  1815,  to  Jabez 
Chapman. 
1805,  September  5,  Lot  Marchant,    north  part  lot  21;  200 
acres.     He  settled  on  his  land  in  the  spring  of  1806. 


SO  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

It  was  paid  for  and  deeded  Sept.  1806. 

1805,  October  2,  Giles  Parker,  west  third  lot  22;    123  acre3. 

He  settled  on  it  the  next  spring-. 

1806,  Feb.  8,  Elizur  Webster,  lot  53;  337.  Sold  in  1  SOT  to 
Hezekiah  Wakefield.  East  part  of  the  lot  bought  by 
Zera  Tanner  in  1800. 

1806,  Feb.  8,  Elizur  Webster,  west  part  lot  18;  120  acres. 
1806,  April  1,  Eliznr  Webster,  lot  10;  311   acres.     Bought 

by  Beardsley  and  Rice. 
1S06,  April  1,  Gideon  T.  Jenkins,  lots  5  and  13;    728   acres. 

New   article  in  1810,   to  Ira  Jenkins,  Gideon   Coon, 

Daniel  II.  Throop,  Henry  L.  Brown,  Thomas  Scott, 

John  Davis. 
1S0C>,  April  15,  Isaiah  Jaycox,  south  part  lot  1;    125 h  acres. 

Bought  by  Comfort  Hayes,  1810. 
1806,  April  15,  Gideon  Thayer,  middle  third  lot  1;  120  acres. 

New  article  April  10,  1810,  to  John  Wilcox. 
1800,  June   2,  Daniel  Ferguson,  lot  52;  357  acres.     Sold  to 

Abraham  Reed,  who  sold  the  east  half  to  Isaac  Phelps. 
1806,  June   2,    Philip   Salisbury,   for   himself    and    brother 

Samuel,  lot  50;  355  acres.     New  article  June  3,  IS  16, 

to  Russel  Noble;  a  part  of  it  was  bought  in  1823,   by 

Luther  Foster,  and  forms  part  of  the  farm  now  owned 

by  his  son,  Luther  Foster. 
1S06,  June  12,  Ephraim  Gates,  lot  11;    312  acres.      Parts 

sold   to  Asahel  Barnard,  Samuel  Baker,  "Win.  Small- 

wood,  John  J.  Baker,  Wm.  Fluker. 
1S0G,  June  11,  Daniel  Knapp,  north  part  lot  31;    120  acres. 
1800,  June  10,  Elkanah  Day,  lot  01;  333  acres.     Part  sold 

to   Luther  Parker.      June   20,  181G,  new   article   to 

Thomas  Chase,  -west  part;  to  J.  Boomer,  middle  part; 

to  Ezra  Walker,  cast' part. 
L806,  July  21,  Aaron  Bailey,  lot  51;  310  acres.     Sold  in  parts: 

East  part,  100  acres,  in  June,  1816,  to  Jonathan  Young, 

a  part  of  which,  with  the  homestead,  is  now  owned  by 

Milton  D.  Hatch. 


FIRST    SALES    OF   LA>~DS.  31 

1806,  July  3,  Micah  Marcliarit,  middle  part  lot  45;  100  acres. 
He  probably  never  resided  on  this  land.  He  bought 
about  the  same  time  the  north  part  of  lot  20,  taken  up 
Elijah  Cutting,  on  which  he  settled  in  1806,  at  the  foot 
of  East  Hill,  east  of  the  residence  of  L.  W.  Thayer. 

1806,  July  3,  Elizur  Webster,  east  part  lot  45;  159  acres. 

1806,  July  3,  Peter  W.  Harris,  west  part  lot  60;  200  acres. 
Sold  to  Aaron  Bailey,  and  by  him,  in  June  1816,  to 
Jonathan  Young. 

1806,  July  3,  Curtis  Edgerton,  east  part  lot  60 ;  144  acres. 
New  article,  104  acres  to  himself;  40  acres  to  Robert 
Burdick,  which  was  afterwards  sold  to  David  Martin. 

J  806,  July  21,  Nathan  Pierce,  west  part  lot  46  ;  200  acres. 
lie  resided  on  this  lot  until  his  death,  in  1859. 

1806,  July  21,  Nathan  Pierce,  lot  62 ;  319  acres.  Sold  in 
parts,  which  have  been  owned  by  Roderick  Chapin  and 
his  sons  John,  Roderick,  Harvey,  Ebcnezer  and  Willard. 
George  Snyder  bought  of  Roderick  Jan.,  in  1834,  the 
south-east  part,  70  acres. 

1806,  July  21,  Aaron  Bailey,  west  part  lot  55 ;  255  acres. 
Sold  to  Wm.  C.  Hatch;  now  owned  in  part  by  his  son, 
Wm.  T.  Hatch. 

1806,  Aug.  22,  Stephen  James,  parts  of  lots  46,  47,  55  ;  292 
acres.  He  settled  on  lot  46  ;  sold  the  west  part  of  47 
and  east  part  of  55  to  Wm.  C.  Hatch,  the  latter  becom- 
ing the  homestead,  on  which  his  son  Walter  M.  Hatch 
now  resides. 

1806,  Sept.  23,  John  Utter,  Jim.,  part  of  lot  2  ;  100  acres. 
Sold  to  James  Beardsley,  Sept,  24,  1816. 

1S06,  Nov.  1,  Shubael  Morris,  south  third  lot  34;  112  acres. 
Sold  Nov.  2,  1816,  to  Wm.  Webster. 

1806,  Nov.  1,  Gideon  R.  Truesdell,  north  part  lot  33  ;  166 
acres.     Sold  to  Simeon  R,  Glazier. 

1806,  Dec.  31,  Nehemiah  Fargo,  west  third  lot  19;  120  acres. 

1807,  Jan.  3,  George  Densmore,  south  part  lot  -83;  164  acres. 
Sold  about  10  years  ago,  and  removed  to  Sharon,  Wis. 


32  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

1807,  May  20,  Silas  Wethy,  south-east  part  lot  30;  116  acre?. 

A  part  sold  to  Anson  A.  Perkins.  (?) 
1807,  May  21,  Lot  Marehant,  south  part  lot  21 ;    187  acres. 

Sold  to  Daniel  II.  Throop  56  acres. 
1807,  May  21,  Eliphalet  Parker,  east  part  lot  22  ;  246  acres. 

New  article,  May,  1817,  to  Samuel  Hale,  50  acres  ;  to 

Cynthia  Parker,  50  acres;  to  Lyman  Parker,  146  acres. 
1807,  June  12,  Solomon  Morris,  Jim.,  middle  part  lot  34;  119 

acres. 
1807,  June  6,  Chester  Eichards,  east  part  lot  17;  256  acres. 

New  article  to  Lemuel  Williams,  and  by  him  sold  to 

Wm.  Patterson. 
1807,  June  27,  Solomon  Morris,  Sen.,  north  third  lot  26;  116 

acres,  of  Jabish  Warren. 
1807,  July  24,  David  Keeler,  lot  44;  371  acres.     Sold  Sept, 

14,  1807,  to  Abraham  Reed  and  Absalom  Green.    New 

article,  July  25,  1817,  t<»  Russel  Noble. 
1807,  Aug.  24,  Daniel  Wing,  lot  56  ;  353  acres.     Solcl  north 

300  acres  to  Loami  Hall. 
1897,  Oct,  12,  Ebenezer  Munger,  west  part  lot  42;  100  acres. 

New  article,  Oct.  13,  1817,  to  John  Parrey. 
1807,  Oct.   12,  Ebenezer  Munger,  part  lot  42;    228    acres. 

New  article,  Oct,  13,  1817,  to  Ilezekiah    Scovel,  144 

acres. 

1807,  Oct,  12,  Simeon  Gibson,  lot  41  and  part  of  42 ;  40S 
acres.  New  article,  Oct.  13,  1817,  to  Elijah  Hurd, 
Shubael  Morris,  Ilervey  Gibson,  Ilezekiah  Scovel. 

1808,  Jan.  17,  Elkanah  Day,  lot  51 ;  333  acres.  New  article, 
to  Warham  Walker,  David  Martin,  and  Samuel  Salis- 
bury. 

180S,  April  13,  Nathan  Pierce,  part  lot  46  ;  50  acres.  New 
article,  April  14,  1818,  to  John  C.  Curtis. 

1808,  June  1,  Flavel  Kingsley,  lot  58;  367  acres.  New  article, 
June  2,  1818,  to  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon. 

180S,  June  1,  Seth  Carpenter,  south  half  of  east  two-thirds 
lot  — ;  132  acres.  New  article,  June  2,  1818,  to  Sam- 
uel Barnard  and  Lcverett  Hitchcock. 


FIRST    SALES    OF    LANDS.  33 

1S08,  Aug.  13,  Suel  Ilovey,  north  two-thirds  lot  8;  244  acres. 

New    article,   Aug.    15,    1818,   to   Alvin   Ilovey   and 

Eliphalet  Ilovey. 
1808,  Sept,  26,  Ziba  Ilovey,  east  part  10  ;  120  acres.     New 

article,  in  parts  to  Suel  Ilovey  and  Josiah  Hovey,  Jan., 

Sept.  28,  ISIS. 
1808,  Oct.  1,  Linus  G hidings,  north  half  lot  14;  166  acres. 

New  article,  to  Anson  A.  Perkins,  Oct.  2,  18 IS. 

1508,  Oct.  1,  Thomas  Sherman,  north  halt  lot  14 ;  166  acres. 
Oct.  2,  1818,  new  article  to  Lester  Giddings. 

180S,  Oct,  5,  Hiram  Hoyt,  west  third  lot 49;  113  acres.     Oct. 

6,  ISIS,  new  article,  in  parts,  to  Ichabod  T.  Murray  and 

Joel  Wethy. 
1808,  Oct.  5,  Hervey  Gibson,  middle  third  lot  49;  113  acres. 

Oct  6,  1818,  new  article,  in  parts,  to  David  Hawley  and 

Horace  C.  Sharp. 
1808,  Oct.  5,  Hervey  Gibson,  east  third  lot  49;  113  acres. 

Oct.  6,  1818,   new  article,  in  parts,  to  David  Hawley 

and  Samuel  Bedow. 
180S,  Oct,  5,  Wm.  S.  Stone,  lot  57;  375 h  acres.     Oct.  6,1818, 

new  article,  to  Isaac  Stone,  Loren  Seeley,  Benj.  Seeley, 

Jun.,  Abijah  Stearns. 

1808,  Oct.  7,  Daniel  Fuller,  Jun.,  east  two-thirds  lot  18  ;  258 
acres.  New  articles  to  Elijah  King,  Lemuel  Williams, 
Leverett  Hitchcock. 

1809,  April  22,  Noah  Willis,  lot  7;  364  acres.  Article  re- 
newed 1819,  to  Barnabas  Bice  and  Nathan  Snow. 

1809,  May  11,  Jonathan  Miller,  lot  15;  345  acres.  New  ar- 
ticle, May  12,  1819,  to  Henry  Ilibbard,  David  Hovey, 
Ebenezer  Smith,  Alvin  Ilovey. 

1509,  Oct.  23,  James  Hitchcock,  south  part  lot  20;  125  acres. 
New  article,  Oct.  24,  1817,  to  Ebenezer  Hitchcock; 
from  him  to  Elijah  Chamberlain,  182S. 

1S09,  Oct.  23,  Chester  Richards,  north  part  lot  20;  248  acres. 
New  article,  Oct.  24,  1817,  to  Jacob  Glazier,  Anson 
Richards,  Chester  Richards. 

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34  HISTORY    OF    WASSAW. 

1809,  Nov.  14,  Thos.  Morris,  lot  50;  347  acres.  New  article, 
Nov.  15,  1819,  to  Eleazer  Taylor,  David  Seymour,  Jim. 

1810,  April  7,  Stephen  James,  east  half  lot  64;  149  acres. 
1810,  March  22,  Abraham  ^Y.  Brown,  north  part  lot  4;  112 

acres.     March  23,  1820,  new  article  to  John  Sharp. 
1810,  March  22,  Stephen  G.  Brown,  middle  lot  4;  112  acres. 
March  23,  1820,  new  articles  to  Ezekiel  Hamlin,  Lot 
Marchant. 

1810,  Dec.  14,  Silas  C.  Fargo,  east  part  lot  19 ;  132  acres. 
Dec.  15,  1820,  article  renewed  to  Charles  B.  Bichards. 

1811,  Jan.  25,  Levi  Pace,  east  part  lot  2;  100  acres.     Aug. 

28,  1823,  new  articles  to  Shubael  Goodspeed,  Eldridge 
Beardsley. 

1811,  Jan.  28,  Nehemiah  Fargo,  part  lot  30;  00  acres.     Jan. 

29,  1S29,  new  article  to  John  II.  Reddish. 

1811,  March  12,  Joseph  Logan,  north-west  part  lot  48;  120 

acres.     March    13,  1819,    new  articles  to  self  and  to 

Hampton  Crandall. 
1811,  March  12,  Samuel  Spalding,  south-west  part  lot  48;  120 

acres.     March  13,  1819,  new  article  to  Nathan  Pierce. 
1811,  April  29,  (?)  1819,  new  articles  to  Ira  Craw  and  John 

Co«»k. 
1811,  Sept.  9,  Thomas  Stutson,  east  third  lot  3;    125  acres. 

Sept.  10,  1819,  new  article  to  John  Sharp. 

1811,  Sept.  9,  John  Bisby,  middle  third  lot  3;  125  acres. 
Sept.  10,  1819,  new  article  to  Peter  Sharp,  Alexander 
Stone. 

1812,  March  20,  Ziba  Ilovey,  part  lot  24;  50  acres.  Sold  to 
Josiah  Ilovey. 

1812,  March  20,  Ziba  Ilovey,  part  lot  24;  50  acres.     Sold  to 

Lyman  Morris. 
1812,  July  11,  David  Griffis,  west  part  lot  6;  75  acres. 
1812,  July  11,  David  Griffis,  part  lot  6;  102  acres.     July  11, 

1822,  new  article  to  Cyrus  Bice. 
1812,  Nov.  10,  John  B,  Knapp,  part  lot  23;  100  acres.     Sold, 

L828,  to  Julius  Whitlock,  50  acres. 


FIRST    SALES    OF    LANDS.  35 

1812,  Nov.  10,  Wm.  Knapp,  north  part  lot  23;  100  acres. 
July  2,  1823,  new  article  to  Ilarlev  and  Daniel 
Knapp. 

1813,  April  13,  Samuel  Whitlock,  south-west  part  lot  23;  100 
acres. 

1813,  June  21, 'Joseph  Palmer,  south  part  lot  43;  182  h  acres. 

1813,  July  19,  Josiah  Jewett,  west  part  lot  39;  200  acres. 
July  20,  1819,  new  articles  to  Amasa  Mynard  and  Jo- 
seph Case. 

1813,  July  19,  Nekemiah  Fargo,  south-east  part  lot  39;  80 
acres. 

1813,  July  19,  Nehemiah  Fargo,  north  east  part  lot  39;  SO* 
acres. 

1814,  -Jan.  10,  Levi  Stearns,  south  part  lot  2;  160  acres. 
Sold  to  Elijah  and  Andrew  Blackman. 

1S14,  Feh.  17,  Josiah  Boardman,  east  part  lot  40;  100  acres. 
Feb.  18,  1822,  new  article  to  Isaac  Boardman.  Part 
sold  to  Noah  Fisk. 

1814,  June  22,  Aaron  Bailey,  middle  lot  03;  100  acres. 

1815,  June  15,  John  II.  Reddish,  north  east  part  lot  30;  54 
acres.  Sold  to  John  Wilder  in  1829;  to  Harry  Keeney 
in  1834. 

1815,  Jxme  19,  Simeon  McWethy,  south  part  lot  4;  144  acres. 

Part  sold  to  Oliver  Goodspeecl  in  1828. 
1815,  July  15,  Jabez  Chapman,  east  part  lot  6;  177  acres. 
1815,  Sept.  7,  Elisha  Gay,  north  west  part  lot  40;  120  acres. 

Parts  sold  to  John  Tripp,  Shepard  Eastland,  Thomas 

Howes. 
1815,  Oct.  18,  Isaac  Luce,  west  part  lot  63;  111  J  acres.     Sold 

to  Chester  Perkins. 
1815,  Oct.  21,  Ziba  Hovey,  south  part  lot  8;  121  acres.     Part 

sold  to  Prentice  Holmes;  next  to  Hewitt  Kinney. 

As  has  already  been  stated,  the  dates  of  the  contracts,  or 

articles,  do  not  in  all  cases  show  the  times  at  which  settlers 

became  residents  of  the  town.     For  example:  Josiah  Hovey, 

Jan.,  is  charged  on  the  Land  Company's  book  with  Lot  23, 


3G  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

under  date  of  Juno  20,  1803,  being  the  date  of  the  original 
purchase  by  Judge  Webster,  though  Hovey  did  not  buy  until 
several  months  later;  and  as  the  land  was  bought  in  his  name 
for  himself  and  his  brothers,  Simeon  and  Gurdon,  the  names 
of  these  two  do  not  appear  on  the  book  as  purchasers  of  any 
part  of  the  Lot,  or  as  early  settlers.  Jonas  Cutting  is  said  to 
have  come  as  early  as  1804,  though  his  article  was  dated 
Nov.  21,  1806,  he  having  previously  contracted  with  Judge 
Webster  for  the  land.  A  number  made  purchases  in  1803, 
and  a  few — as  did  one  or  two  of  the  Hoveys — built  their  cab- 
ins in  the  fall;  but  it  does  not  appear  that  any  families  but 
those  of  Judge  Webster  and  Shubael  Morris,  became  actual 
residents  that  year. 

PROGRESS    OF    SETTLEilENT FIRST    BURIAL. 

In  1S0-4,  a  considerable  number  of  families  and  several  un- 
married men,  came  in  as  settlers.  The  three  Hoveys,  just 
mentioned,  came  early  in  the  spring,  and  were  followed,  a  few 
months  later,  by  their  father,  with  five  younger  sons,  most  of 
them,  however,  under  age;  Elijah  Cutting,  who  had  bought  the 
year  previous;  Josiah  Jewett,  JSTchemiah  Fargo,  Josiah  Board- 
man,  Jonas  Cutting,  William  Knapp,  Amos  Keeney,  Lyman 
Morris,  Sterling  Stearns,  and  perhaps  others.  Sterling  Stearns 
Avas  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Wright's  Corners,  but  removed 
from  there  early  in  the  spring  of  1804.  On  his  way  from 
Middlebury  with  his  family,  he  stopped  over  night  at  Mr. 
Webster's,  where  one  of  his  children,  an  infant  son  of  about 
two  years,  died  of  croup.  The  body  was  buried  by  Amos 
Keeney,  Elijah  Cutting,  and  Wm.  Webster,  the  latter  being  a 
youth  of  seventeen  living  with  his  brother.  They  cut  away  a 
few  trees  on  the  hill,  half  a  mile  south,  and  dug  a  grave;  and 
as  it  was  a  time  of  high  water  in  the  creek,  they  had  to  cross 
it,  single  file,  on  a  largo  log,  a  little  north  of  the  hill,  one  of 
them  carrying  under  his  arm  the  coffin  made  of  part  of  a 
wagon  box,  there  being  no  other  boards  in  the  place.  This 
was  the  first  body  buried  in  the  old  grave-yard.     There  was 


EXPERIENCE    OF   SETTLERS.  37 

no  one  to  perform  any  religious  service  on  the  occasion.  Mr. 
Stearns  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution;  volunteered  in  the 
war  of  1812,  and  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Queenston.  The 
second  death  in  town  was  that  of  a  son  of  Nehemiah  Fargo, 
five  years  old,  drowned  in  the  O-at-ka,  in  the  fall  of  1804. 

In  1805,  the  number  of  settlers  received  but  a  small  in- 
crease. Our  list  of  new  purchasers  contains  the  names  of  but 
three,  of  whom  at  least  two  did  not  bring  in  their  families 
until  the  next  year,  namely,  Giles  Parker,  and  Lot  Marchant. 
Iiezekiah  Wakefield  is  said  by  some  to  have  come  in  as  early 
as  1S05;  but  we  have  no  certain  evidence  of  his  being  here 
previous  to  the  purchase  of  Lot  53,  in  1807,  though  he  proba- 
bly came  earlier. 

In  1806,  there  was  a  large  increase  of  population,  the  num- 
ber having  probably  more  than  doubled  that  year,  if  the 
number  of  new  families  was  equal  to  the  number  of  land 
purchases,  as  it  probably  was.  For,  though  not  all  who 
bought  came  in  the  same  year,  several  are  known  to  have 
come  whose  purchases  are  not  dated  until  a  year  or  two  later. 

EXPERIENCE   OF    SETTLERS AMOS    KEENEV,    AND   OTHERS. 

For  several  years,  settlers  had  to  procure  their  grain  and 
other  provisions  at  a  great  distance.  The  nearest  accessible 
grist-mill  was  at  Le  Roy,  to  and  from  which,  by  way  of 
"Wright's  Corners,  over  a  half-opened  road,  with  an  ox-team, 
was  a  two  or  three  days'  journey.  Grists  were  also  sometimes 
taken  to  Conesus,  six  miles  east  of  Geneseo.  Most  of  the  set- 
tlers were  poor,  and  had  spent  all  their  means  in  getting  here, 
a  distance  of  more  than  three  hundred  miles.  The  experi- 
ence of  Amos  Keeney,  though  a  little  extraordinary,  conveys 
a  tolerably  correct  idea  of  the  early  struggles  in  the  wilder- 
ness. 

Mr.  Iveeney,   as   has   already   been    stated,    accompanied 
Judge  Webster  to  Warsaw  in  October,  1S03,  driving  one  of 
his  teams.     He  bargained  with  Mr.  Webster  for  fifty  acres  of 
land,  now  a  part  of  the  farm  of  Samuel  Fisher,  2d,  which  was 


3S  niSTORY  OF  WARSAW. 

to  be  paid  for  by  clearing  ten  acres  for  Webster.  The  condi- 
tion of  his  domestic  affairs  prevented  his  staying  to  build  a 
house;  and  he  traveled  back  to  Hampton  on  foot,  with  Lyman 
Morris,  who  also  had  contracted  for  a  farm.  He  returned  in 
March;  built  his  log  cabin;  chopped,  towards  paying  for  his 
land,  two  acres  on  the  north  side  of  what  is  now  Buffalo  street, 
between  Main  street  and  the  creek;  and  stalled  again  for 
Hampton,  carrying  his  provisions  in  a  knapsack.  Crossing 
Genesee  river,  he  came  near  losing  his  life.  Having  but  ten 
shillings,  and  over  three  hundred  miles  to  travel,  he  could  not 
afford  to  pay  the  ferriage  fee  of  a  shilling,  and  ventured  to 
ford  the  stream,  feeling  his  way  with  a  long  stick.  Being  a 
man  of  small  stature,  and  stumbling  over  the  stones,  he  found 
it  difficult  to  maintain  his  balance  amidst  the  deep  and  pow- 
erful current.  Getting  his  knapsack  replenished  by  a  brother 
in  Oneida  Co.,  he  was  enabled  to  reach  Hampton,  having  the 
last  day  morning  paid  out  his  last  six- pence  for  lodging. 

In  October,  he  and  Lyman  Morris  came  in  with  their  fam- 
ilies, Mr.  Keeney  having  a  wife  and  three  children,  and  Mr. 
Morris  a  wife  and  two  children.  They  had  but  one  wagon, 
which  carried  all  the  household  goods  of  both  families,  with 
the  women  and  children.  The  wagon  and  the  team  of  two 
yoke  of  oxen  belonged  to  Morris,  who  had  also  three  cows, 
and  Keeney  one.  When  within  about  ten  miles  of  Warsaw, 
the  king-bolt  of  the  wagon  broke;  and  they  had  to  camp  in 
the  woods  over  night.  The  next  morning,  a  second  trial  of  a 
wooden  bolt  having  failed,  the  company  started  for  their  des- 
tination on  foot,  leaving  the  wagon  with  the  goods  standing  in 
the  woods.  Mr.  Morris  drove  his  oxen  and  carried  Jonathan, 
then  about  two  years  old.  Stephen  Perkins  drove  the  cows 
and  carried  George,  then  nearly  five  years  old.  Mr.  Keeney 
put  on  his  overcoat,  and,  by  turning  up  the  bottom,  formed  a 
kind  of  knapsack,  in  which  he  carried  his  two  eldest  children, 
Betsey  and  Harry,  and  his  wife  carried  the  baby,  about  six 
months  old.  Mrs.  Morris,  though  she  had  no  child  to  carry, 
did  not  go  empty-handed.     This  is  probably  the  only  instance 


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EXPERIENCE    OF   SETTLERS.  39 

known  of  ten  emigrants  entering  a  place,  five  of  them  being 
carried  by  four  of  the  other  five !  Morris  having  got  through 
first  and  made  their  situation  known,  Mr.  Webster  went  to 
meet  the  others,  and  met  them  a  mile  and  a  half  north  of  the 
village,  at  the  foot  of  the  hill,  on  the  "Old  Buffalo  Road," 
then  just  opened  from  Leicester.  lie  there  relieved  Mrs. 
Keeney  of  her  burden,  and  escorted  the  new-comers  to  his 
hospitable  cabin  home. 

Mr.  Keeney1  s  hardships  had  just  begun.  He  owed  some 
ten  dollars  or  more  for  the  transportation  of  his  goods.  His 
stock  of  provisions  had  been  reduced  on  his  arrival  to  a  few 
pounds  of  flour  and  a  part  of  a  salt  fish.  His  house  was  one 
of  the  rudest  of  its  kind.  It  had  no  chimney  other  than  a 
wide  opening.  The  fire-place  had  not  even  a  stone  back -wall, 
the  fire  being  kept  at  a  safe  distance  from  the  wooden  wall. 
Their  first  night's  sleep  in  their  new  house  was  disturbed  by 
the  howling  of  wolves,  with  which  the  wilderness  abounded. 

Scanty  as  was  Mrs.  Keeney's  wardrobe,  a  flannel  skirt  was 
sold  to  Sterling  Stearns  for  some  wheat  or  flour,  and  a  chintz 
dress  to  Josiah  Hovey,  Sen.,  for  the  wTear  of  his  eldest  daugh- 
ter, for  twelve  bushels  of  corn  to  be  delivered  at  Geneseo, 
where  Mr.  Hovey  had  raised  it  the  preceding  summer.  He 
hired  an  ox-team  to  go  after  his  corn.  The  first  settlers  had 
their  "  milling  "  chiefly  done  in  Le  Roy.  But,  being,  when  at 
Geneseo,  within  six  miles  of  Bosley's  mill  on  the  Conesus 
outlet,  he  took  his  grist  to  that  mill.  He  had  now  a  tolerable 
supply  of  breadstuff;  but  where  could  he  store  it?  and  how 
preserve  so  great  a  bulk  of  corn  meal  from  spoiling?  He  cut 
from  a  hollow  bass-wood  tree  several  pieces  about  three  feet 
long,  shaved  off  the  bark,  and  smoothed  them  inside.  He 
put  the  meal  into  these  vessels  in  layers  of  about  two  inches 
deep,  separated  by  layers  of  clean  flat  stones.  In  this  way  it 
wTas  preserved,  and,  with  the  flour  previously  bought,  lasted 
nearly  a  year.  One  of  these  vessels  is  still  in  use  for  other 
purposes,  and  will  probably  be  transmitted  to  the  "  third  and 
fourth  generations"  as  a  memorial  of  pioneer  life  on  the  Hol- 
land Purchase. 


40  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Their  meat  during  tlie  first  winter  was  chiefly  venison,  fur- 
nished by  Judge  Webster,  who  was  skillful  in  the  use  of  the 
rifle.  He  killed  the  deer,  and  half  dressed  them,  which  was 
done  by  loosening  the  skin  from  the  fore  part  of  the  animal, 
and  taking  out  the  entrails.  The  carcass  was  then  cut  in  two, 
crosswise,  and  the  parts  were  fastened  to  a  sapling  bent  down, 
or  to  a  limb  of  a  tree,  which,  springing  back,  would  raise 
them  beyond  the  reach  of  wolves.  Mr.  Keeney,  guided  by 
the  track  in  the  snow,  would  find  and  bring  in  the  meat,  tak- 
ing the  two  fore-quarters  for  his  share.  For  a  part  of  one  or 
two  seasons,  Judge  Webster  supplied  some  of  the  settlers 
with  pigeons  caught  in  a  net,  they  returning  him  the  feathers. 

At  a  pioneer  meeting  in  this  village  a  few  years  since,  Hon. 
Seth  M.  Gates  presented  the  following: 

"My  father  moved  from  Litchfield,  Herkimer  County,  to 
Sheldon,  in  1806.  He  was  twenty -six  days  on  the  road,  and 
hard  driving  at  that,  Poswell  Turner,  father  of  the  writer 
of  the  History  of  the  Holland  Purchase,  started  with  a  load 
ot  provisions  from  Genesee  river  to  go  to  his  residence  in 
Sheldon,  a  distance  of  thirty  miles,  and  actually  went  back 
to  stay  the  first  and  second  nights,  and  was  five  days  get- 
ting home.  Jabish  Warren,  of  Aurora  village,  hired  sev- 
eral hands  t<>  clear  his  land  in  that  village,  so  long  the 
residence  of  President  Fillmore,  and  used  to  come  fourteen 
miles  to  Roswell  Turner's,  in  Sheldon,  to  get  his  bread  baked." 

Truman  Lewis,  in  the  spring  of  180",  came  from  Vernon, 
Oneida  county,  to  Orangeville.  He  passed  through  Warsaw 
in  the  evening;  and  in  the  middle  of  the  highway,  now  Main 
street,  he  stopped  and  counted  the  children  through  the 
cracks  of  a  house  which  stood  on  the  east  side  of  the  street. 
Before  his  marriage,  he  had  a  younger  brother,  Jason  Lewis, 
now  of  Hinsdale,  living  with  him.  It  was  a  year  of  great 
dearth.  There  was  no  grain  to  be  had;  and  although  they 
had  meat  and  milk  and  vegetables,  they  soon  felt  the  neces- 
sity of  having  bread.  Truman  started  on  horseback  to  see  if 
he  could  buy  some  wheat  or  corn.     He  continued  his  journey 


EXPERIENCE   OF   SETTLERS.  41 

and  inquiries  until,  somewhere  on  the  Genesee  river  near 
Mount  Morris,  lie  found  a  man  who  had  a  very  little  wheat. 
He  asked  the  man  if  he  would  sell  a  bushel  for  $5.  The 
reply  was,  that  he  would  not  sell  it  for  a  bushel  of  dollars. 
He  continued  his  travels  until  he  found  a  squaw  in  Caneadea, 
Allegany  county,  who  had  a  little  corn.  He  succeeded  in 
buying  a  little,  and  brought  it  home  on  his  horse.  He  had  at 
this  time  wheat  on  the  ground  ;  and  as  soon  as  it  began  to 
turn  on  the  knolls,  he  reaped  a  few  bundles,  dried  them 
around  the  fire  in  his  log-house,  threshed  them,  and,  putting 
the  wheat  into  a  pillow-case,  sent  Jason  with  it  on  foot  five 
miles  to  Vary's  mill,  at  Varysburg,  to  get  it  ground.  There 
had  been  no  wheat  in  the  mill  for  weeks ;  and,  to  use  the 
words  of  Jason,  he  was  obliged  "  to  watch  the  old  man  at  the 
hopper,  the  old  woman  at  the  bolt,  and  the  pet  lamb  at  both." 
He  got  home  with  his  flour  about  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening, 
and  had  "one  good  square  meal  of  short  cake  and  butter  " 
before  sleeping. 

UNCOMFORTABLE   DWELLINGS. 

Among  the  unavoidable  inconveniences  of  the  first  settlers, 
though  perhaps  not  the  greatest  one,  was  the  want  of  com- 
fortable dwellings,  especially  before  there  were  saw-mills,  as, 
for  the  want  of  boards,  blankets  were  used  by  many  to  close 
the  openings  left  for  doors;  and  the  chamber  floors,  as  well  as 
roofs,  were  bark.  A  more  minute  description  of  these  dwell- 
ings may  be  acceptable  to  many  readers  of  the  present  gen- 
eration, born  and  reared  in  the  "  ceiled  houses "  of  their 
fathers.  A  worthy  citizen,  responding  to  a  request  to  com- 
municate such  information  concerning  his  part  of  the  town  as 
he  should  deem  suitable  for  our  history,  gave,  with  sundry 
other  things,  a  description  of  the  style  of  house  architecture 
in  the  days  of  the  pioneers,  and  as  adopted  by  his  father  in 
1806,  which  shows  no  material  improvement  during  the  two 
intervening  years  since  the  erection  of  the  bark-covered  struc- 
tures of  Judo-e  Webster  and  his  earlier  neighbors.     The  sub- 


42  IIISTOKY   OF   WARSAW. 

stance  of  his  description,  with  such  additional  facts  as  our 
knowledge  of  log-house  architecture  enables  us  to  supply,  is 
as  follows : 

A  cabin  was  erected  by  notching  the  logs  together  at  the 
ends,  placing  one  above  another  to  the  height  of  about  a  story 
and  a  half.  The  roof  of  this  little  palace  of  the  woods  was 
made  by  framing  together  round  poles  for  rafters,  across 
which  were  placed  other  poles  to  support  the  covering  made 
of  elm  bark  taken  from  large  trees  when  they  peeled  readily. 
The  strips  were  about  four  or  five  feet  long  by  two  or  three 
feet  wide,  and  fastened  on  the  roof  in  tiers,  each  tier  lapping 
on  the  preceding  one.  The  floors  were  made  of  bass-wood 
plank  split  out  with  beetle  and  wedge.  These  planks  were 
dressed  as  well  as  time  and  circumstances  permitted.  The 
fire-place  was  made  by  cutting  out  several  logs  from  one  side 
of  the  building,  making  an  opening  seven  or  eight  feet  square, 
which  was  tilled  with  common  field  stone  laid  in  mortar  made 
of  common  earth.  The  chimney  was  commenced  at  the 
chamber  floor,  very  wide,  to  correspond  with  the  broad  fire- 
place under  it.  It  was  built  of  thin  strips  of  timber  resem- 
bling our  common  strip  lath,  laid  up  in  the  form  of  a  cob- 
house,  gradually  narrowed  in  its  progress  upward,  until 
reduced  to  dimensions  little  larger  than  those  of  an  ordinary 
brick  chimney  of  fifty  years  ago.  The  inside  of  it  was  plas- 
tered with  mortar  made  of  clay  and  chopped  straw,  the  latter 
being  used  for  the  same  purpose  as  hair  in  common  mortar. 
The  strips  were  obtained  by  riving  them  out  of  free  rifted 
timber.  This  "  stick  chimney,"  as  we  used  to  call  it,  was  far 
from  being  fire-proof,  and  was  a  source  of  much  anxiety,  as 
the  soot  would  often  ignite,  and  sometimes  communicate  fire 
to  the  wood,  and  much  alarm  the  family.  A  speedy  applica- 
tion of  water,  thrown  up  plentifully  inside,  would  soon  allay 
all  fears.  The  cracks  between  the  logs  were  filled  up  with 
timber,  and  plastered  over  with  the  same  material  as  that 
used  in  making  the  chimney. 


EXPERIENCE    OF    SETTLERS.  43 

Bedsteads  were  sometimes  made  from  saplings  cut  into 
pieces  of  the  right  length.  The  rails  at  two  corners  were  fas- 
tened to  the  wall,  by  fitting  them  into  holes  made  into  the  log 
wall  with  a  large  auger.  At  the  other  two  corners,  the  rails 
were  fastened  in  the  same  way  into  short  posts.  Or,  by  hav- 
ing three  corners  fastened  to  the  walls,  the  bedstead  required 
but  a  single  post.  It  now  wanted  only  a  cord,  which  was 
sometimes  made  of  elm  or  bass-wrood  bark. 

Living  in  houses  like  those  we  have  described,  must  have 
been  attended  with  serious  discomforts.  In  many  families 
were  six,  eight,  or  ten  children,  who,  with  their  parents,  were 
crowded  into  a  single  room.  In  one  corner  was  the  father 
and  mother's  bed,  and  under  it  the  trundle-bed  for  the  smaller 
children.  The  larger  children  lodged  in  the  chamber,  which 
they  entered  by  a  ladder  in  another  corner.  And  they  often 
made  tracks  to  and  from  their  beds  in  snow  driven  through 
the  crevices  by  the  wind.  These  houses  furnished  anything 
but  comfortable  quarters  to  their  occupants,  especially  in  win- 
ter. Nor  did  their  roofs,  made  of  bark  or  shakes,  protect 
them  from  the  rains  in  the  summer.  How  visitors  who  came 
to  spend  the  night  were  disposed  of,  the  reader  may  not 
readily  conceive.  Some,  as  their  families  increased,  added  to 
their  houses  another  room  of  the  same  size,  and  built  of  the 
same  material  as  the  former.  After  there  were  mills  to  fur- 
nish the  timber,  a  small  framed  building  was  sometimes 
attached  to  the  log  structure,  designed  to  form  a  part  of  the 
new  framed  house  in  prospect. 

FIRST   MILLS STORE PHYSICIAN DIVISION    OF  THE   TOWN. 

One  great  wTant  of  the  settlers  was  in  part  supplied  by 
Judge  Webster's  saw-mill,  which,  according  to  Turner's 
History,  and  French's  Gazetteer,  wras  built  in  1804.  This  is 
probably  a  mistake.  Mrs.  Hovey,  who  came  into  town  with 
her  late  husband,  Simeon  Hovey,  in  the  spring  of  1S04,  and 
is  still  living,  says  that  Mr.  Hovey,  in  part  payment  for  the 
land  bought  of  Judge  "Webster,  built  the  mill,  and  made  some 


44  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

of  the  gearing  in  the  winter  season  in  his  (Mr.  Hovey's)  log- 
honse,  and  in  their  only  room,  which,  though  used  already  as 
a  kitchen,  dining-room,  sitting-room,  parlor,  and  bed-room, 
became  also  a  carpenter's  shop.  The  mill,  therefore,  could 
not  have  been  running  until  1 805,  though  it  may  have  been 
commenced  the  year  before.  The  mill  was  on  O-at-ka  creek, 
near  where  that  stream  is  crossed  by  the  first  road  north  of 
South  Warsaw  running  east  by  Amos  Keeney's,  and  near 
the  spot  where  Leonard  Martin's  saw-mill  now  stands. 

Another,  and  perhaps  a  still  greater  want  was  supplied  by 
the  first  grist-mill,  which  stood  near  the  saw-mill,  and  which 
is  said  to  have  been  built  by  Joseph  Morley  or  Mauley,  in 
1S06,  and  bought  by  Solomon  Morris,  Sen.  Amos  Keener 
thinks  Mauley,  for  the  want  of  means,  was  unable  to  finish  it, 
and  though  he  sold  it  to  Morris  in  1S06,  Morris  did  not  get 
it  running  until  the  next  year.  Probably  the  idea  was  not 
then  entertained,  that  within  the  limits  of  the  village,  a  water 
power  would  be  found  sufficient  to  propel  two  large  grist- 
mills, as  is  now  done.  But  for  many  years  after  this  mill 
was  built,  and  even  until  long  after  the  village  mill  had  been 
built  by  Simeon  Cumings,  getting  "milling"  done  was  no 
small  item  of  labor.  Roads  were  uneven,  rooty,  and  miry; 
and  the  sloughs  were  bridged  with  logs  laid  side  by  side 
across  the  way.  Hence  the  vulgar  name  of  "cross way  "  given 
to  a  bridge  of  this  kind — a  name,  however,  not  sanctioned  by 
Webster,  who  gives  us  causeway  or  causey,  instead.  While 
the  bad  roads  lasted,  grists  were  carried  in  the  summer 
season,  in  great  part,  on  horseback. 

Great  inconvenience  was  suffered  also  from  the  want  of  a 
store.  The  Gazetteer  says  the  first  store  was  kept  by  Absalom 
Green  and  Daniel  Shaw,  in  1809.  A  settler  of  1801  says 
these  men  brought  with  them  some  articles  of  goods,  but  no 
general  assortment;  and  it  is  believed  that  they  made  no 
subsequent  purchases.  The  first  store,  properly  so  called,  was 
kept  by  Almon  Stevens,  agent  for  John  Dixson,  a  merchant 
in   Richmond,  Ontario  Co.     Mr.  Stevens  came  in  1813,  and 


EXPERIENCE   OF   SETTLERS.  45 

for  a  time  occupied  the  bar-room  of  the  tavern  built  by  Judge 
Webster,  who  had  discontinued  his  tavern  after  another  had 
been  built  capable  of  accommodating  the  public.  Goods 
were  very  dear,  not  only  then,  but  for  many  years  later,  espe- 
cially the  heavy  groceries,  iron,  nails,  salt,  &c.  Goods  were 
hauled  from  Albany  in  wagons;  and  it  took  three  or  four 
weeks  to  make  a  trip. 

The  settlers  also  fur  years  felt  seriously  the  want  of  a  phy- 
sician, and  were  obliged  sometimes  to  send  for  one  to  Attica, 
and  even  to  Geneseo.  Airs.  Joseph  Palmer  was  for  several 
years  accoucheuse  for  the  town.  In  the  course  of  her  practice, 
a  rather  singular  case  occurred.  She  was  called  to  the  house 
of  Sterling  Stearns,  who  has  been  mentioned  as  having  settled 
in  the  extreme  south-east  part  of  the  town.  The  visit  was  to 
be  made  in  the  night;  and  it  was  necessary  to  be  accompa- 
nied by  two  of  the  neighboring  women.  They  traveled  the 
whole  distance  (about  lour  miles)  on  foot,  most  of  the  way  by 
an  obscure  path  through  the  woods,  piloted  by  Mr.  Stearns 
with  a  torch.  After  a  stay  of  two  days,  finding  the  visit  pre- 
mature, they  prepared  to  return.  Mr.  Stearns  proposed  to 
take  them  home  on  his  ox-sled,  then  the  principal  vehicle,  in 
summer  as  well  as  winter.  But,  fearing  to  leave  his  wife 
alone  in  the  woods,  and  wishing  to  avoid  subjecting  the 
women  to  another  journey,  he  concluded  that  she  should 
accompany  them,  and  remain  at  the  center,  until  circum- 
stances should  favor  her  return.  A  churn,  with  cream  just 
put  in  to  be  churned,  was  taken  on  board,  it  being  thought 
inexpedient  to  wait  for  the  ^performance  of  the  operation. 
Tins  labor,  however,  was  saved;  for,  by  the  jostling  of  the 
sled  over  the  rough  road,  the  churn  was  suddenly  thrown 
overboard,  and  emptied  of  its  contents !  The  passengers, 
however,  reached  their  destination  in  safety.  Mrs.  Stearns 
remained  about  three  weeks;  Mrs.  Palmer  having  herself, 
in  the  meantime,  given  birth  to  a  child,  and  recovered  in 
season  to  render  her  professional  services  to  her  friend.  The 
difficulty  in   obtaining    medical   assistance   was  chiefly  re- 


4(5  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

moved  by  the  advent  of  Dr.  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  in  1808. 
The  transaction  of  public  business  was  also  attended  with 
great  inconvenience.  Both  county  and  town  business  was 
done  at  Batavia,  at  least  thirty  miles  from  the  south  border 
of  the  town,  which  then  included  Gainesville.  Traveling 
was  difficult,  and  had  to  be  done  on  horseback  or  on  foot; 
and  few  had  horses.  As  the  town-meetings  were  held  in 
Batavia,  many  failed  to  participate  in  the  election  of  town- 
officers.  But  attendance  at  courts  was  unavoidable;  and  to 
the  poorer  class  of  men,  burdensome.  Amos  Keeney  and 
Peter  W.  Harris  were  the  first  jurors  called  to  Batavia  from 
Warsaw.  They  were  gone  five  days,  nearly  two  of  which 
must  have  been  spent  in  going  and  returning.  They  tried 
three  causes,  got  seventy-five  cents  fees,  and  paid  two  dollars 
each  for  board.  As  regards  town  business,  material  relief 
was  found  in  due  time  by  a  division  of  the  town  of  Batavia. 
In  1808,  the  town  of  Warsaw  was  formed.  It  comprised  No. 
10,  (now  Middlebury,)  No.  9,  ( Warsaw,)  and  No.  8,  (  Gaines- 
ville.) The  first  town-meeting  was  held  in  the  spring  of  that 
year.  The  early  records  of  the  town  for  many  years  being 
lost,  a  full  list  of  the  officers  can  not  be  given.  It  is  known, 
however,  that  the  first  Supervisor  wasElizur  Webster;  Samuel 
McWhorter,  the  first  Town  Clerk;  the  first  Assessors,  Eichard 
Bristol,  of  No.  8,  Gideon  T.  Jenkins,  No.  9,  and  Ebenezer 
Wilson,  Jr.,  No.  10;  the  first  Overseers  of  Poor,  Jothain 
Curtis,  No.  10,  and  Solomon  Morris,  Sen.,  No.  9.  Of  these 
seven  men,  after  a  period  of  sixty  years,  one — Mr.  Bristol,  of 
Gainesville,  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven  years — is  still  living. 

HOUSEHOLD  LABOR. — COOKING. 

The  manner  of  cooking  in  those  days  would  alike  surprise 
and  amuse  persons  who  have  grown  up  since  cooking  stoves 
came  into  use.  Kettles  were  hung  over  the  fire.  A  strong 
pole  or  stick,  called  lug-pole,  was  raised  above  the  fire,  the 
ends  being  fastended  to  the  sides  of  the  chimney,  inside,  so 
high  as  not  to  be  likely  to  ignite  from  heat  or  sparks.     The 


EXPERIENCE    OF    SETTLERS.  47 

kettles  were  suspended  on  trammels,  which  were  pieces  of  iron 
rods  with  hooks  at  the  ends.  The  uppermost  one  extended 
from  the  pole  nearly  down  to  the  fire,  and  one  or  more  short 
ones  were  added  to  bring  the  kettles  to  their  proper  height 
above  the  fire.  For  the  want  of  iron,  wooden  hooks  were 
sometimes  used.  Being  directly  above  the  the  kettles,  and  in 
a  perpendicular  position,  they  seldom  took  fire. 

The  long  handled  frying  pan  was  for  a  time  in  use.  It 
was  held  over  the  fire  by  hand ;  or,  to  save  time,  the  handle 
was  sometimes  laid  on  the  back  of  a  chair,  the  pan  resting  on 
the  fire,  while  the  cook  was  "  setting  the  table."  The  pan  was 
also  used  for  baking  short  cakes.  It  was  placed  in  nearly 
a  perpendicular  position  before  the  fire,  with  coals  under  or 
behind  it  to  bake  the  under  side.  A  more  convenient  article 
was  the  cast  iron,  short  handled  spider,  which  wras  set  on  coals 
on  the  hearth.  Its  legs  were  of  such  length  and  so  adjusted, 
that,  when  used  for  baking  cakes  or  biscuit,  being  turned  up 
towards  the  fire  to  the  proper  slope,  handle  upwards,  it  would 
keep  its  position.  But  a  still  better  article  for  bread  baking, 
which  came  into  general  use,  was  the  cast  iron,  flat  bottomed 
bake-pan,  or  bake-kettle,  with  legs  and  a  closely  fitted  cover. 
Standing  upon  coals  on  the  hearth,  with  coals  on  the  cover, 
bread  and  biscuit  were  nicely  baked.  Bread  for  large  families 
was  usually  baked  in  outdoor  ovens  built  of  brick  or  fire- 
proof stone.  Turkeys  and  spare  ribs  were  roasted  before  the 
fire,  suspended  by  a  string  or  small  cord;  a  dish  or  pan  being 
placed  underneath  to  catch  the  drippings. 

Some  of  the  inconveniences  of  cooking  in  open  fire-places, 
will  be  readily  imagined.  "Women's  hair  was  singed,  their 
hands  were  blistered,  and  their  dresses  scorched.  The  hoop 
skirts  of  the  present  time  would  have  been  an  intolerable  in- 
cumbrance. It  would  have  been  necessary  to  doff  them,  at 
least  in  cooking  time.  But  framed  houses,  with  jamb  fire- 
places, measurably  relieved  our  mothers  and  grand-mothers. 
In  one  of  the  jambs  was  hung  an  iron  crane,  which  could  be 
drawn  forward  from  over  the  fire  when  kettles  were  to  be 


48  HISTOKY   OF   WARSAW. 

put  on  or  taken  off.  And  connected  with  the  fire-place  was  a 
brick  oven.  But  the  invention  of  cook-stoves  commenced  a 
new  era  in  the  mode  of  cooking;  and  none,  the  most  averse  to 
innovation,  have  indicated  a  desire  to  return  to  the  "  old  way," 
which  will  hereafter  be  known  only  in  history. 

MANUFACTURING. 

Long  after  the  country  had  passed  its  pioneer  state,  the 
farmer's  house  continued  to  be  a  linen  and  woolen  factory. 
Where  there  was  more  spinning  to  be  done  than  the  wife 
could  do  in  addition  to  her  house-work,  and  in  which  the 
daughters  were  too  young  to  help,  spinsters  were  employed  to 
come  into  families  to  spin  flax  and  tow  in  the  winter  and 
early  spring,  and  wool  in  the  summer.  The  regular  price 
paid  these  itinerant  spinsters  was  a  shilling  a  day;  a  run  and 
a  half  of  warp,  or  two  runs  of  filling,  being  counted  a  day's 
work.  This  would  not  go  far  towards  clothing  the  farmers' 
daughters  in  1868.  !Not  every  house  had  a  loom,  however. 
But  there  were  always  some  who  did  weaving  for  those 
who  could  not  do  it  for  themselves. 

Much  dyeing,  too,  was  done  in  the  family.  "Dye-woods 
and  dye-stuffs  "  formed  an  important  part  of  a  country  mer- 
chant's stock.  Barrels  of  chipped  Nicaragua,  logwood  and 
other  woods,  and  kegs  of  madder,  alum,  copperas,  vitriol,  in- 
digo, etc.,  constituted  a  large  part  of  the  teamsters'  loading 
from  the  canal.  Many,  scarcely  past  middle  age,  remember 
well  the  old  dye-tub  standing  in  the  chimney-corner,  covered 
with  a  board,  and  used  also  as  a  seat  for  children  when  chairs 
were  wanted  for  visitors,  or  when  new  supplies  of  furniture 
failed  to  keep  pace  with  the  increase  of  the  family.  Mr. 
Goodrich,  (Peter  Parley,)  in  describing  early  life  in  his  native 
town,  in  Connecticut,  speaks  of  this  "  institution  of  the  dye- 
tub  "  as  having,  "when  the  night  had  waned,  and  the  family 
had  retired,  frequently  become  the  anxious  seat  of  the  lover, 
wiio  was  permitted  to  carry  on  his  courtship,  the  object  of  his 
addresses  sitting  demurely  in  the  opposite  corner."     We  have 


EXPERIENCE    OF    SETTLERS.  40 

no  authority  for  saying  that  it  was  ever  used  in  this  town  on 
such  occasions.  This  household  dyeing;  did  not  embrace  the 
flannel  which  was  designed  for  fulled  cloth. 

Nearly  all  the  cloth  worn  was  "home  made."  Rarely, 
indeed,  did  a  farmer  or  his  son  wear  a  coat  made  of  any 
other.  If,  occasionally,  a  young  man  appeared  in  a  dress 
of  "boughten"  cloth,  he  was  an  object  of  envy  to  his  rustic 
associates;  or  he  was  suspected  of  having  got  it  for  a  "stand 
up  suit."  Few  except  merchants,  lawyers,  doctors,  and  some 
village  mechanics,  were  seen  in  cloth  that  had  not  passed  the 
hands  of  the  town  cloth- dresser.  Consequently,  merchants 
kept  very  small  stocks  of  broad-cloth.  Those  of  the  finer 
qualities  were  often  bought  in  small  pieces,  containing  a  cer- 
tain number  of  patterns — one,  two,  or  three — to  avoid  losses 
on  remnants. 

There  were  also  itinerant  tailoresses  who  came  into  families 
to  make  up  the  men's  and  boys'  winter  clothing.  The  cutting 
was  mostly  done  by  the  village  tailor,  if  there  was  a  village 
near.  "Bad  fits,"  which  were  not  uncommon,  were  of  course 
charged  to  the  cutter.  Hence  the  practice  of  tailors,  when 
inserting  in  their  bills  or  advertisements  the  announcement, 
"  Cutting  done  on  short  notice,  and  warranted  to  fit,"  to  ap- 
pend the  very  prudent  proviso,  "if  properly  made  up." 
These  seamstresses  charged  two' shillings  a  day  for  their  work. 
This  was  thought  by  some  employers  rather  exorbitant,  as  the 
common  price  of  help  at  housework  was  but  six  shillings  a 
week — "York  currency,"  the  reader  will  of  course  under- 
stand. Although  the  word  pounds,  in  expressing  money 
values,  had  given  place  to  dollars,  fractional  parts  of  a  dollar 
were  yet  expressed  by  shillings  and  pence.  Many  merchants 
and  their  clerks  still  keep  up  the  practice,  as  if  they  had  but 
half  learned  the  decimal  system  of  reckoning. 

Boots  and  shoes  also  were  made  in  many  families.  Farm- 
ers got  the  hides  of  their  slaughtered  cattle  tanned  "on  shares;" 
or,  if  their  share  were  judged  insufficient  to  shoe  a  whole 
family,  the  dressing  was  otherwise  paid  for.     Then  there  was 


50  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

in  the  neighborhood  a  circulating  shoemaker,  who  made  his 
annual  autumnal  circuit  with  his  "kit."  The  children  had  a 
happy  time  during  his  sojourn,  which  lasted  one,  two,  or  more 
weeks,  according  to  the  number  of  feet  to  be  shod.  The  boys 
who  had  doffed  their  old  shoes  when  the  winter  snows  had 
scarcely  disappeared,  to  enjoy  the  luxury  ot  going  barefoot, 
were  now  no  less  joyful  in  the  anticipation  of  new  ones  to  pro- 
tect their  feet  from  the  frosts,  or  perchance  the  early  snows 
which  had  kept  them  for  "thirty  days  "  in  close  confinement. 
Such  was  the  demand  for  the  labor  of  the  men  of  this  trade 
at  this  season  of  the  year,  that  their  own  families  were  often 
sadly  neglected ;  thus  verifying  one  part  of  the  old  adage, 
"Shoemakers'  wives  and  blacksmiths'  horses  go  barefoot.1' 

A  revolution  in  household  labor  has  been  effected  since  the 
days  of  our  mothers  and  grandmothers.  The  substitution  of 
cotton  for  flax,  and  of  the  various  kinds  of  labor-saving 
machinery  for  hand  cards  and  spinning-wheels  and  looms, 
has  vastly  lightened  the  labor  of  women.  One  of  the  results 
of  these  improvements  is  the  opportunity  they  afford  for 
mental  and  intellectual  culture.  That  the  mass  of  American 
women  duly  improve  these  opportunities  for  increasing  their 
usefulness,  will  hardly  be  affirmed. 

WILD    ANIMALS. 

The  early  settlers  of  Warsaw  were  much  annoyed  by  bears 
and  wolves.  Animals  being  permitted  to  run  at  large  to  feed 
in  the  woods,  many,  especially  swine,  were  destroyed  by 
bears.  And  great  care  Mas  necessary  to  protect  sheep  from 
the  ravages  of  wolves.  Although  we  have  no  accounts  of 
persons  having  become  victims  to  beasts  of  prey,  alarms  were 
frequent,  and  life  was  sometimes  endangered.  And  for  years 
the  sleep  of  the  inhabitants  was  disturbed  by  the  bowlings  of 
wolves.  To  rid  the  country  of  these  pests,  bounties  were 
early  offered  for  their  destruction. 

The  first  Board  of  Supervisors  elected  in  Genesee  county 
met  at  Batavia  in  October,  1S03.  Among  their  recorded 
proceedings  is  the  following : 


EXPERIENCE    OF    SETTLERS.  51 

"The  Board,  after  considering  the  necessity  and  utility  of 
destroying  wolves,  passed  a  vote  to  allow  a  bounty  of  five 
dollars  a  piece  for  the  scalp  and  ears  of  each  wolf  taken  and 
killed  in  the  county  aforesaid  since  its  organization." 

At  an  adjourned  meeting  in  November,  specified  sums 
were  ordered  to  be  raised  in  the  several  towns  for  wolves 
taken  and  killed  therein,  as  follows :  Northampton,  $100  ; 
Southampton,  $300  for  wolves  killed  and  other  contingent 
charges ;  Leicester,  $600  for  wolves  and  other  contingent 
charges  ;  Batavia,  $700  for  the  same.  The  number  of  wolves 
on  which  bounties  were  paid  that  year  was  fifty -six ;  and  the 
bounties,  at  $5  a  head,  amounted  to  $280. 

In  1801,  the  Board  "  Resolved,  That  certificates  given  to 
Indians  for  wolf  scalps,  shall  be  certified  in  the  presence  of  a 
white  person  of  suitable  age,  who  shall  also  attest  the  same." 
The  same  number  of  scalps  was  again  paid  for  the  next  year. 

A  uniform  price  of  $5  a  head  appears  to  have  been  paid 
clown  to  1813;  and  the  average  number  killed  yearly  to  that 
time  was  about  45.  In  1811,  $10  a  head  was  paid  for  36 
wolves,  and  $5  a  head  for  3  whelps.  Notwithstanding  a  vote 
had  been  taken  to  reduce  the  bounty  to  $5,  there  was  paid 
for  7  wolves  the  enormous  price  of  $15  a  head ;  for  20,  $5  a 
head;  for  13,  $10  a  head  ;  and  for  10  whelps,  $20  a  head! 
In  1S16,  69  wolves  were  paid  for,  most  of  them  at  $40  each, 
and  31  whelps,  $15  each.  In  1817,  26  whelps,  at  $15,  and 
but  13  wolves,  at  $10  each.  In  1818,  9  wolves  at  $40,  and  17 
whelps  at  $15  each.  In  1819,  7  wolves  at  $40,  and  28  whelps 
at  $15  each.  In  1820,  8  wolves  at  $40,  and  33  whelps  at  $15 
each.  In  1821,  6  wolves  at  $10  each,  and  1  whelp,  $2.  No 
bounties  appear  to  have  been  paid  after  that  year.  It  has 
been  said  that  wolves  were  taken  in  Pennsylvania,  and 
brought  into  this  county  and  killed  ;  their  scalps  carried  to 
Batavia,  and  the  bounty  drawn.  This  may  have  heen  a  rea- 
son for  discontinuing  the  bounties.  The  whole  number  ot 
wolves  and  whelps  paid  for,  was  793,  and  of  panthers,  8. 
The  amount  paid  for  them  was  $6,782. 


52  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

Many  years  later,  these  animals  had  not  wholly  disap- 
peared. Occasional  wolf-hunts  occurred  as  late  as  about  the 
year  1830,  in  some  of  the  adjacent  towns.  About  that  time, 
men  of  this  town  were  called  out  to  one  near  Hall's  Corners 
in  Orangeville,  about  three  miles  west  of  Warsaw  village. 

We  subjoin  a  wolf  story  not  entirely  devoid  of  interest. 
At  an  early  day.  Deacon  Plunger  had  several  sheep  killed, 
either  by  wolves,  or  by  a  certain  suspicious  dog  in  the  neigh- 
borhood. The  next  evening  two  large  traps  were  set  a  short 
distance  from  his  1  tarn-yard,  and  the  carcass  of  one  of  the 
dead  slice})  laid  near  them.  Late  in  the  night  the  place  was 
visited,  and  the  dog  was  found  fast  in  one  of  the  traps  ;  and 
the  person  who  went  to  see,  thought  the  other  trap  was  still 
there.  The  dog  was  suffered  to  remain  in  "  durance  vile  " 
until  daylight,  when  the  other  trap,  with  a  heavy  clog  at- 
tached, was  found  missing.  Its  track  was  followed  across  the 
field,  where  the  thief,  a  large  wolf,  was  arrested  by  a  brush 
fence,  in  which,  in  endeavoring  to  cross  it,  he  had  become 
entangled.  Of  course  both  dog  and  wolf  were  promptly  dis- 
patched. "Wolf's  scalps  bringing  at  that  time  $10  a  piece,  the 
loss  of  sheep  was  more  than  compensated.  A  singular  cir- 
cumstance connected  with  this  affair  is  vouched  for.  On 
going  out  to  look  at  the  traps,  a  sheej)  was  seen  standing  in 
or  near  the  barn-yard  on  a  large  stump,  upon  which,  in  its 
fright,  it  is  supposed  to  have  leaped  for  safety. 

In  1808,  Benjamin  Parker,  residing  on  East  Hill,  came 
near  losing  his  life  by  bears.  Between  the  Transit  and  Perry 
Center,  there  was  an  almost  continuous  forest.  Returning 
from  Elisha  Smith's,  near  Sucker  Brook,  in  Perry,  he  met,  on 
the  long  causeway,  (still  remembered  by  some  old  inhabi- 
tants,) seven  bears,  three  old  ones  and  four  young  ones.  He 
took  up  a  large  club,  his  only  weapon  of  defense,  and  struck 
one  of  them  with  such  force  as  to  break  the  club.  Having  no 
other  hope  of  saving  his  life,  he  retreated,  and  climbed  a 
small  tree  standing  near  the  road.  He  hallooed  for  some  time 
for  help;  and  although  more  than  a  mile  distant,  he  was  heard 


EXPERIENCE  OF  SETTLERS.  53 

by  Smith,  who,  with  his  gun,  axe,  and  dog,  came  to  his  relief, 
the  bears  standing  around  the  tree.  The  dog  chased  the  four 
cubs  and  two  of  the  old  bears  up  a  tree,  or  trees.  It  being 
nearly  dark,  fires  were  kindled  at  the  foot  of  the  trees,  and 
kept  up  during  the  night,  to  prevent  the  escape  of  the  bears. 
In  the  morning,  the  two  old  bears  were  shot,  and  the  four 
young  ones  were  taken  alive.  How  they  were  finally  disposed 
of,  we  are  not  informed.  It  does  not  appear  from  the  records 
of  Genesee  county  that  bounties  were  offered  for  bear  scalps. 
Such  bounties  as  were  some  years  paid  on  wolves,  would  have 
been  ample  compensation  to  the  party  defending,  for  the  fears 
and  perils  of  this  bear-tight. 

KKMARKABLE  IXCIDEXT. 

A  most  extraordinary  event  occurred  in  Middlebury,  in 
1817,  within  a  i'ew  miles  of  this  town.  We  have  read  ac- 
counts of  it  in  different  papers  and  books;  and  although 
differing  slightly,  they  agree  in  eveiy  important  particular. 
"We  copy  from  a  work  entitled,  "  Memorials  of  the  Descend- 
ants of  William  Shattuck,"  etc.,  loaned  to  us  for  this  purpose 
by  Mr.  Edward  C.  Shattuck,  of  this  village,  a  relative  of  the 
person  referred  to  in  the  following: 

Artemas  Shattuck  was  cutting  forest  trees,  and  one  fell 
upon  a  high  stump  and  became  entangled  with  other  trees. 
In  endeavoring  to  cut,  disengage,  and  bring  it  to  the  ground, 
it  suddenly  fell;  and  the  trunk  upon  which  he  stood  split,  and 
his  foot  was  caught  in  the  cleft.  As  it  fell  over  the  stump,  he 
was  raised  several  feet  from  the  ground,  and  suspended  with 
his  head  downwards,  and  in  such  a  position  that  he  could  not 
touch  the  ground,  nor  get  upon  the  top  of  the  trunk  of  the 
tree  for  support.  His  axe  in  the  meantime  had  fallen,  and 
was  not  within  his  reach;  he  was  thus  without  means  to  extri- 
cate himself.  In  this  condition  he  cried  for  help,  but  cried  in 
vain,  until  his  voice  failed  him,  and  he  could  cry  no  longer. 
He  soon  began  to  suffer  extreme  pain,  not  only  in  his  toot, 
which  remained  clenched  in  the  cleft  of  the  tree,  but  also 


54  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

from  headache  and  general  exhaustion,  caused  by  his  unnatu- 
ral position  and  the  great  exertion  he  had  put  forth  to  make 
himself  heard  and  to  obtain  relief.  He  was  in  the  woods, 
three-fourths  of  a  mile  from  any  human  being,  and  the 
weather  was  extremely  cold.  What  was  he  to  do  ?  Unless 
he  could  be  immediately  extricated,  death  seemed  inevitable. 
There  appeared  no  alternative.  Summoning  all  his  fortitude, 
he  resolved  upon  an  act  which,  if  he  should  succeed  in  per- 
forming, there  would  be  a  teeble  hope,  and  but  a  feeble  one, 
of  saving  his  life.  He  might  perish  if  he  did  it;  he  must,  if 
lie  did  it  not.  He  took  from  his  pocket  an  old  Barlow  knife, 
and  first  cut  oft  the  leg  of  his  boot  and  stocking,  and  with  a 
piece  of  quality  which  he  had  in  his  vest  pocket,  he  bound  up 
his  ankle  as  tightly  as  possible,  to  stop  the  current  of  blood. 
Then,  with  his  knife,  he  unjointed  his  ankle,  and  left  his  foot, 
cut  and  separated  from  his  leg,  in  the  cleft  ot  the  tree!  By 
the  trunk  of  the  tree  he  reached  the  ground,  and  crawled  to 
his  dinner-basket,  and  bound  up  the  stump  with  a  napkin. 
He  cut  a  stick,  and  hobbled  or  crawled  upon  his  hands  and 
knees  through  the  snow  towards  home.  When  he  had  ar- 
rived within  a  few  rods  of  his  house  he  was  discovered  by 
his  family;  and,  exhausted  and  tainting,  was  brought  to  his 
room  and  resuscitated.  A  surgeon  was  obtained  from  Bata- 
via,  a  distance  of  fifteen  or  eighteen  miles,  by  whom  his  limb 
was  again  amputated;  and  in  due  time  he  recovered.  Three 
of  his  brothers,  Josiah,  Gilbert,  and  Giles,  were  with  him 
during  his  illness.  lie  afterwards  turned  his  attention  to 
study;  emigrated  to  Xorth  Carolina  in  1819;  joined  the  Bap- 
tist church  in  1820,  and  commenced  preaching  in  1821. 

To  the  foregoing  we  find  appended  in  the  margin  of  the 
book,  the  following  note: 

Some  account  of  this  event,  unassociated  with  any  name, 
was  published  in  the  "Presbyterian,"  a  newspaper  of  Phila- 
delphia, in  the  winter  of  1850-51,  under  the  title  of  "A 
curious  fact."  The  fact  was  stated  to  be,  that  when  Mr. 
Shattuck  "became  conscious,  lie  said:    'Go  immediately  to 


EXPERIENCE    OF   SETTLERS.  55 

the  woods  and  cut  out  my  foot,  for  it  is  suffering  most  excru- 
ciating pain.'  They  did  so,  and  brought  the  foot  to  the  house. 
He  then  said  it  was  cold,  and  wished  it  put  into  warm  water. 
This  request  was  also  granted.  It  was  not,  however,  done  in 
the  room  in  which  he  lay;  yet  as  soon  as  his  foot  touched  the 
water,  he  exclaimed:  'It  burns  me;  the  water  is  too  hot.' 
And  upon  examination  it  was  found  to  be  so.  The  water 
was  made  cooler,  and  he  was  satisfied."  We  have  great 
doubts  (the  writer  adds,)  as  to  the  authenticity  of  this  state- 
ment, or  of  the  correctness  of  its  philosophy.  We  have  read 
considerably  in  medical  literature,  and  have  conversed  with 
many  scientific  surgeons  on  the  subject;  and  have  yet  to 
learn  a  well- authenticated  case  in  which  an  application  to 
an  amputated  limb  has  sensibly  affected  the  living  individual 
from  whom  it  was  taken. 

Since  the  above  was  written,  wo  have  received  ample 
confirmation  of  this  statement.  Being  informed  that  Mrs. 
Perthena  Shattuck,  wife  of  the  late  Josiah  Shattuck,  brother 
of  Artemas,  was  residing  in  Wethersfield  with  her  son-in-law, 
Y.  D.  Eastman,  Esq.,  we  addressed  her,  through  him,  inquir- 
ing into  the  truth  of  this  incredible  statement.  The  answer 
places  it  beyond  doubt.  Mrs.  Shattuck,  residing  near  the 
home  of  Artemas,  sawT  him  the  next  morning.  She  heard 
him,  and  others  who  were  present  when  the  foot  was  sent  for 
and  brought  in,  often  speak  of  the  pain  from  the  coldness  ot 
the  foot,  and  from  the  heat  of  the  water.  The  next  day,  Dr. 
John  Cotes,  of  Batavia,  wras  called,  and  amputated  the  leg. 
Dr.  Seaver,  still  residing  in  Middlebury,  was  present  at  the 
operation,  and  heard  these  statements  from  those  who  wTere 
eye  and  ear  witnesses  to  the  facts.  Hence,  though  "  philoso- 
phy "  and  "medical  science"  may  fail  to  confirm  them,  they 
are  as  well  authenticated  as  the  casualty  itself. 

There  have  been  held  in  this  town  several  meetings  of  old 
settlers,  the  proceedings  of  which  are  elsewhere  recorded. 
At  these  meetings  were  related  a  number  of  interesting  inci- 
dents of  pioneer  life,  to  which  the  reader  is  referred.  [See 
"  Old  Folks'  Gatherings."] 


00  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

ENJOYMENTS    OF   THE   EARLY   SETTLERS. 

Narratives  of  the  incidents  and  adventures  of  pioneer  life 
generally  present  only  the  dark  side  of  the  picture.  To  those 
who  subdued  the  wilderness,  their  toils  and  privations  were 
not  a  series  of  unmitigated  sufferings.  They  had  their  joys 
as  well  as  their  sorrows.  The  addition  of  each  new  acre  to 
their  "dealings,"  brought  with  it  fresh  enjoyment,  and  cheered 
them  on  in  the  pursuit  of  their  ultimate  object,  an  indepen- 
dent and  a  happy  home.  They  were  happy  also  in  their  fra- 
ternal feelings;  or,  as  one  of  them  once  expressed  it,  "the 
feeling  of  brotherhood — the  disposition  to  help  one  another;" 
or,  in  the  language  of  another,  "Society  was  rude  and  unculti- 
vated; yet  the  people  were  very  friendly  to  each  other;  quite 
as  much  so  as  relatives  are  at  the  present  clay."  We  can 
hardly  endure  the  thought  of  exchanging  the  vast  variety  of 
our  splendid  and  comfortable  vehicles  for  the  rude  ones  of  our 
fathers,  which  served  the  various  purposes  of  visiting,  and  of 
going  to  mill  and  to  "meeting" — (churches  they  had  not;)  yet 
who  doubts  that  William  Bristol  and  family,  of  No.  8,  had 
"a  good  time"  when  they  made  a  visit  to  Judge  Webster's,  a 
distance  of  seven  miles,  on  an  ox-sled  drawn  by  oxen?  Our 
mothers  were  satisfied  when  clad  in  homespun  of  their  own 
make;  and  we  well  remember  the  "glad  surprise"  when 
fathers,  on  their  return  from  market,  presented  their  faithful 
help-mates  a  six  yards  calico  dress  pattern  for  Sunday  wear. 
And  we  presume  the  wearer  was  in  quite  as  devotional  a 
frame  of  mind,  and  enjoyed  Sabbath  exercises  quite  as  well, 
as  she  who  now  flaunts  her  gorgeously  trimmed  silk  of  fifteen 
yards,  with  the  addition  of  a  few  more  for  the  indispensable 
trail. 

The  people  were  happy  in  their  families.  The  boys,  having 
labored  hard  during  the  day,  sought  rest  at  an  early  hour. 
Parents  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  their  sons  acquiring 
habits  of  industry  and  frugality — a  sure  prognostic  of  success 


EXPERIENCE   OF   SETTLERS.  57 

in  life.  The  "higher  civilization"  had  not  yet  introduced 
those  popular  institutions  now  to  be  seen 

'*  Iu  every  country  village,  where 

Ten  chimney  smokes  perfume  the  air;' — 

the  saloon  and  billiard  room,  in  which  so  many  youth  now 
receive  their  principal  training.  Fewer  parents  spent  sleep- 
less nights  in  anxious  thought  about  their  "  prodigal  sons,"  or 
had  their  slumbers  suddenly  broken  by  the  noisy  entrance  of 
these  sons  on  returning  from  their  midnight  revels.  They  saw 
no  clouds  rising  to  dim  the  prospect  of  a  happy  future  to  their 
children.  Never  were  wives  and  mothers  more  cheerful  than 
when,  like  the  virtuous  woman  described  by  Solomon,  they 
"  they  laid  their  hands  to  the  spindle,  and  their  hands  held 
the  distaff;"  or  when,  with  their  knitting  work  or  sewing,  and 
baby  too,  they  went — unbidden,  as  the  custom  was — to  spend 
an  afternoon  with  their  "  neighbor  women,"  by  whom  they  were 
received  with  a  hearty,  unceremonious  welcome.  The  "  latch- 
string  was  out"  at  all  times;  and  even  the  formality  of  knock- 
ing was,  by  the  more  intimate  neighbors,  dispensed  with. 

Nor  did  they  lack  topics  of  conversation  at  these  visits. 
Prominent  among  them  were  their  domestic  labors — their 
manifold  industrial  enterprises — and  the  anticijjated  rewards 
of  their  present  toils  and  privations.  Their  talk,  some  may 
suppose,  evinced  no  high  degree  of  intellectual  culture;  yet, 
as  an  indication  of  intellectuality,  surely  it  will  not  suffer  in 
comparison  with  the  gossip  which  engrosses  the  time  of  many 
of  our  modern  educated  ladies  at  their  social  satherinsrs. 


58  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


POLICY  OF  THE  LAND  COMPANY. 

The  Books  of  the  Company  in  the  Land-Office  show 
remarkably  slow  progress  of  settlers  in  paying  for  their  lands. 
Prom  entries  in  these  books  we  infer  that  a  large  proportion 
of  them  forfeited  their  claims.  It  appears  that,  at  the  expira- 
tion of  ten  years  from  the  date  of  their  contracts,  those  who 
had  paid  little  or  nothing  were  charged  with  "Increase,"  to 
an  amount  almost  equal  to,  and  in  some  instances  greater 
than  the  original  price  of  the  land.  And  this  increase  is 
almost  uniformly  charged  the  next  day  after  the  ten  years  had 
expired. 

For  example:  G.  T.  J.  was  charged  April  1,  1806,  "To  two 
Lots,  T2S  Acres,  $1,456,"  being  two  dollars  per  acre,  only  ten 
dollars  having  been  paid  down.  At  the  end  of  ten  years,  he 
was  charged,  "To  Increase,  $1,648,"  making  the  sum  of 
$3,104,  when  the  land  was  bought  in  parts  by  six  different 
purchasers,  who  took  new  articles.  E.  P.  was  charged  May 
21,  1S0T,  "To  part  of  Lot  — ,  246  Acres,  $615,"  on  which  was 
paid  soon  after,  thirty-five  dollars.  May  22, 1817,  "  Increase" 
was  added,  $612;  and  articles  were  given  to  three  new  pur- 
chasers, charged  with  $1,257. 

It  is  presumed  that  the  lands  reverted  to  the  Company  by 
forfeiture,  and  that  new  articles  wore  given  to  the  former  pur- 
chaser or  any  other  applicant.  The  uniformity  of  the  dates 
of  the  new  articles,  just  ten  years  after  the  elates  of  the  old 
ones,  may  be  accounted  for  by  the  supposition,  that  the  new 
articles,  at  whatever  time  they  were  issued  after  the  increase 
had  been  charged,  were  dated  the  clay  next  after  the  date  of 
that  charge. 

Some  assistance  was  rendered  the  settlers  in  making  pay- 
ments, by  the  offer  of  the  Company  to  receive  cattle  on  their 
contracts.  Agents  were  sent  once  a  year  to  certain  towns  in 
each  county  for  that  purpose.  We  find  the  first  credit  for 
cattle  in  the  year  1822  or  1823.     This  policy  was  continued  a 


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POLICY   OF   THE    LAND    COMPANY.  59 

number  of  years.  "We  see  also  some  credits  for  grain.  An 
additional  stimulus  was  given  by  a  notice  to  those  most  in 
arrears,  or  who  had  paid  little  or  nothing,  that  a  large  deduc- 
tion, in  case  of  speedy  payment,  would  be  made,  from  the 
sums  due.  This  gave  much  dissatisfaction  to  those  who  had 
been  prompt  in  their  payments,  who  regarded  it  as  a  premium 
to  their  slack  neighbors  for  their  want  of  punctuality. 

Many  have  questioned  the  wisdom  of  the  policy  adopted 
by  the  Holland  Company  for  the  disposal  and  settlement  of 
their  lands.  Probably  with  a  view  to  inviting  immigration, 
articles  were  given  to  settlers  on  the  most  easy  terms — to 
many  of  them,  on  payment  of  a  sum  scarcely  sufficient  to 
pay  for  drawing  the  contract,  which,  in  many  cases,  was  but 
one  dollar.  Many,  doubtless,  were  attracted  to  the  Purchase 
by  this  easy  mode  of  obtaining  possession  of  land.  The  early 
settlers  were  generally  poor,  and  could  scarcely  have  pur- 
chased on  less  accommodating  terms.  Yet  of  these,  not  a 
few,  after  a  short  residence  and  sundry  discouragements,  sold 
out  their  "  improvements,"  and  sought  new  homes  in  more 
favorable  locations. 

The  opinion  has  often  been  expressed,  that  the  plan  of 
selling  lands  at  a  low  price  for  cash,  after  the  manner  of  the 
General  Government,  would  have  been  better  both  for  the 
Company  and  the  settlers,  as  it  would  have  brought  in  not 
only  a  more  industrious  and  enterprising,  but  a  better  class  of 
inhabitants.  That  some  persons  of  the  lower  class,  and  shift- 
less, were  brought  hither  by  the  easy  terms  proposed  by  the 
Company,  is  probably  true.  But  we  believe  those  of  the  early 
inhabitants  still  living  will  agree  in  saying,  that  the  early 
settlers  of  this  town  were  generally  honest,  frugal,  and  indus- 
trious. 

A  recurrence  to  facts  in  their  history,  will  reveal  the  true 
cause  of  the  slow  progress  of  the  settlers  in  discharging  their 
obligations  to  the  Company.  Most  of  them  were  compara- 
tively young  men  from  the  East,  and  poor.  Wages  had  been 
low;  and  they  had  laid  up  little  more  than  enough  to  buy  a 


60  HISTORY  OF  WARSAW. 

team  and  pay  the  expense  of  their  removal.  They  had 
heavily  timbered  lands  to  clear,  and  for  a  time  had  no  sons 
able  to  help,  nor  the  means  of  hiring  labor.  And  for  the  little 
surplus  grain  which  after  a  few  years  they  produced,  there 
was  no  market  beyond  the  demands  of  new-comers.  "War 
came;  and  many  were  obliged  to  leave  their  farms  and  join 
the  army.  Peace  returned;  labor  was  again  thrown  upon  the 
land;  and  in  a  year  or  two  there  was  a  large  surplus  which 
scarcely  paid  for  the  labor  of  raising  it.  The  price  of  wheat 
in  Rochester,  then  the  nearest  and  best  cash  market,  was  2s. 
6d.  to  3s.  per  bushel,  which  would  not  pay  the  cost  of  trans- 
portation in  that  time  of  bad  roads;  of  course,  very  little  was 
sold  there.  Occasionally  a  load  was  taken  to  Albany  by 
teamsters  going  after  goods  for  the  merchants.  At  home,  a 
bushel  was  given  in  exchange  for  a  pound  of  tobacco,  or  a 
yard  of  brown  cotton  cloth. 

In  providing  means  for  prosecuting  the  war,  double  duties 
were  laid  upon  goods  imported,  which  duties  were  to  continue 
during  the  war,  and  for  a  year  after  its  close.  These  duties 
checked  importations  and  encouraged  home  manufactures. 
Many  manufacturing  establishments  sprang  into  being.  The 
period  of  high  duties  expired  in  1816.  Commercial  inter- 
course with  Great  Britain,  which  had  been  suspended  during 
the  war,  was  resumed,  and  the  country  was  again  flooded 
with  British  goods.  Our  manufactures  were  prostrated.  The 
country  was  drained  of  its  money  to  pay  for  foreign  goods; 
specie  payments  "were  suspended;  and  bank-bills  depreciated 
to  seventy  or  eighty  per  cent,  below  par,  and  in  some  states 
to  almost  nothing.  No  wonder  that  the  books  of  the  Land 
Company  show  so  few  and  so  small  credits  to  settlers.  ]STor 
is  it  strange  that  so  many  children  went  barefoot  long  after 
the  first  snows  had  fallen. 

Partial  relief,  however,  was  found  within  doors.  Our 
mothers  and  their  eldest  daughters  plied  the  spindle  and  the 
shuttle  with  the  characteristic  assiduity  of  those  days,  in  pro- 
viding clothing  for  the  families;   thus  restricting  in  a  good 


POLICY   OF   THE   LAND    COMPANY.  61 

measure  the  running  accounts  at  the  stores,  and  in  many 
cases  producing  a  considerable  surplus  to  be  exchanged  at 
the  stores  for  cotton  cloth,  both  plain  and  printed.  Many  a 
farmer's  wife  have  we  seen  bringing  under  her  arm  to  the 
store  in  this  town,  a  huge  roll  of  linen  or  flannel,  and  carrying 
away  its  equivalent  in  a  score  of  articles  to  supply  the  wants 
of  her  family. 

But  for  some  purposes  money  must  be  had.  Taxes  could 
not  be  paid  in  kind ;  and  to  raise  "  tax  money  "  farmers  were 
obliged  to  sell  grain  and  other  products  of  their  farms  for 
prices  which  would  now  scarcely  pay  for  their  transportation 
to  the  place  of  delivery.  Some  relief  was  afforded  by  the 
products  of  the  forest  timber.  The  ashes  from  the  burned 
heaps  were  saved  and  sold  at  the  ashery,  which  was  an 
indispensable  appendage  to  a  country  store,  or  to  at  least  one 
store  in  a  place.  They  were  drawn  several  miles  over  rough 
roads,  and  sold  for  six  or  eight  cents  per  bushel,  and  measured 
in  a  bushel  and  a  half  basket  at  that;  and  then  they  could 
not  always  be  sold  for  money.  Or,  to  cheapen  transportation, 
the}^  were,  by  a  process  unknown  to  some  of  our  younger 
readers,  converted  into  "black  salts,"  which  would  generally 
command  money  at  any  pearl-ashery,  where  they  were  man- 
ufactured into  pearl  ashes.  Many,  to  get  money  to  pay  taxes 
and  other  cash  debts,  cut  and  burned  timber  for  this  special 
purpose,  while  their  granaries  were  well  stored  with  grain, 
which  could  not  be  sold  for  cash.  A  hotel-keeper  and  stage 
proprietor  in  this  village,  after  having  bought  a  supply  of  oats 
for  the  year,  at  twelve  and  a  half  cents  per  bushel,  had  them 
urged  upon  him  for  ten  cents,  at  which  price  he  ventured  to 
buy  more;  but  he  lost  rather  than  gained  by  the  operation. 

Thus  the  struggle  continued  until  the  completion  of  the  Erie 
Canal  in  1S25,  which,  by  opening  to  our  people  an  accessible 
market,  brought  them  speedy  and  permanent  relief.  They  at 
once  entered  upon  a  course  of  unwonted  prosperity,  and  soon 
attained  a  comfortable  independence. 


02  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


THE    VILLAGE 


Before  the  year  1S16,  the  settlement  at  the  center  of  the 
town  had  scarcely  begun  to  assume  the  appearance  of  a  vil- 
lage. The  only  framed  houses  recollected  at  present,  were 
the  following:  1.  The  tavern  house  built  by  Judge  Webster, 
of  which  the  present  dwelling  of  Nehemiah  Park  was  a  part, 
the  other  and  main  part  having  been  moved  toward  the  north- 
east, on  the  south  corner  of  Buffalo  and  Main  streets.  2.  A 
school-house  where  the  Baptist  Church  now  stands.  3.  A 
small  house  near  it,  the  residence  of  Samuel  McWhorter. 
4.  The  residence  of  Capt.  Fargo,  on  the  site  of  the  present 
dwelling  of  his  son,  Allen  Fargo.  5.  The  dwelling-house  of 
Almon  Stevens  on  the  ground  now  covered  by  the  Congrega- 
tional Church.  6.  The  dwelling  of  Dr.  Sheldon,  a  few  rods 
north  of  Mr.  Stevens's.  7.  A  small  house  which  stood  a  few 
feet  north  of  where  Dr.  Bartlett's  "  Gothic "  now  stands. 
8.  The  tavern  house  of  Eussel  Noble,  since  removed  to  make 
place  for  the  brick  hotel  built  by  J.  A.  McElwain,  and  occu- 
pied by  the  late  George  W.  Morris,  Esq.,  on  Main  street,  in 
the  north  part  of  the  village.  There  was  also  the  small  build- 
ing used  as  a  store  by  Almon  Stevens,  which  stood  on  the 
north  side  of  the  old  Presbyterian  church,  occupied  more 
recently  and  for  many  years  as  a  dwelling;  and  the  old  red 
building  occupied  as  a  store  by  C.  L.  Sheldon  &  Co.,  and 
afterwards  as  a  dwelling,  until  removed  to  make  room  for 
the  Episcopal  church.  Calvin  Eumsey  had  established  the 
tanning  and  shoe-making  business  on  the  west  side  of  the 
creek  on  Buffalo  street,  on  the  lot  now  owned  and  occupied 
by  Frank  Miller  and  his  son,  Edwin  A.  Miller,  and  lived  in  a 
part  of  the  shoe-shop. 

In  1810,  the  aspect  of  the  embryo  village  began  to  change. 
Simeon  Cumings,  of  Batavia,  had,  the  year  previous,  bought 
of  Judge  Webster  10  acres  of  land,  for  the  sum  of  $8,500. 
One  object  of  the  purchase  was  the  erection  of  a  grist-mill, 


THE     VILLAGE.  63 

and  perhaps  other  machinery.  The  employment  of  the  labor 
required  in  the  construction  of  the  mill-race  and  the  mill,  and 
in  making  the  various  contemplated  improvements,  gave  ac- 
tivity to  the  place.  Before  the  close  of  the  year  1816,  the 
grist-mill  was  in  operation;  and  a  year  or  two  later,  an  oil- 
mill  was  built  a  short  distance  south,  near  where  the  race 
crosses  Water  street. 

Mr.  Cumings  laid  out  the  streets  now  called  Water  street 
and  Court  street;  and  the  land  adjoining  them  and  Main  and 
Buffalo  streets,  was  laid  out  into  village  lots.  At  this  time, 
not  a  dwelling,  it  is  believed,  had  ever  been  erected  on  it. 
The  principal  portion  of  this  tract  Avas  in  a  square  body 
bounded  by  about  eighty  rods  on  Main,  and  nearly  an  equal 
distance  on  Buffalo  street,  excepting  about  two  acres  in  the 
south-west  corner  of  the  square  previously  sold  to  Calvin 
Rumsey,  and  adding  the  corner  south  of  Buffalo  street,  in- 
cluding the  tavern  stand. 

The  first  lots  sold  by  him  were  mostly  on  Buffalo  street. 
Among  the  first  buildings  erected  was  the  house  in  which 
Timothy  II.  Buxton  now  resides.  Its  first  occupant  was 
Edward  Putnam.  It  was  soon  after  occupied  by  Rev. 
Korris  Bull.  The  "old  cider-mill"  building  was  removed  a 
few  rods,  and  wheeled  to  its  present  site  west  of  and  near  the 
mill-race,  where,  for  a  time,  in  a  half  finished  state,  it  served 
a  greater  number  of  families  and  tradesmen  than  any  other 
building;  having  been  used  as  a  store,  cabin et-shop,  shoe- 
shop,  etc.,  and  sheltered  the  families  of  lawyers,  doctors, 
mechanics  and  others.  About  the  same  time,  1817,  John 
Iiobson,  the  first  hatter  in  Warsaw,  built  the  house  which 
constitutes  a  part  of  the  present  residence  of  H.  A.  Dudley; 
Henry  Stevens,  on  the  south  side  of  the  street,  the  present 
residence  of  Mrs.  Lawrence;  and  Benjamin  L.  Watkins,  a 
house  and  blacksmith's  shop  on  the  corner  of  Buffalo  and 
Water  streets,  west  side  of  Water  street. 

Among  the  first  buildings  erected  on  Main  street,  (in  1817, 
or  late  in  1816,)  was  a  dwelling,  built  by  Nelson  A.  Phelps, 


64  IIISTOKY   OF    WAESAW. 

and  now  the  cabinet-shop  of  E.  C.  Shattuck,  and  about 
the  same  time  two  or  more  dwellings  on  and  near  the  corner 
where  the  Methodist  church  now  stands.  Dr.  Frank,  who 
came  to  Warsaw  m  1817,  built,  either  that  year  or  the  next, 
a  dwelling  on  Main  street,  near  the  place  where  the  store  of 
A.  &  G.  W.  Frank  now  stands.  The  "  Masonic  Hall,"  which 
had  stood  for  years  in  an  unfinished  state,  on  the  south  side 
of  Buffalo  street,  and  never  occupied,  was  bought  by  Aaron 
Rumsey,  moved  across  the  way  on  the  corner  of  Buffalo  and 
Water  streets,  and  fitted  it  up  for  a  dwelling,  in  which  he 
lived  until  he  removed  to  Westficld,  in  1827.  This  house  has 
since  served  the  families  of  Silas  Kidder,  John  Crocker,  Dea- 
con Munger,  Dr.  Belden,  and  several  others,  and  undergone 
frequent  repairs.  It  was  some  years  ago  removed  west  on  the 
opposite  corner  of  Buffalo  and  Water  streets,  and  is  now 
owned  by  John  A.  McElwain,  and  occupied  by  Mrs.  Lemon 
as  a  boarding-house.  Calvin  Rumsey  built  the  house  now 
owned  and  occupied  by  Frank  Miller.  Samuel  McWhorter 
vacated  the  small  house  near  the  school-house,  having  built 
on  his  farm  the  house  next  north  of  the  present  residence  ot 
Samuel  Fisher,  2d,  and  now  owned  by  John  Ransom,  editor 
of  the  "Wyoming  Democrat." 

Elisha  Barmele,  merchant,  whose  first  sign  called  customers 
to  the  "old  cider  mill,"  in  1817,  built,  soon  after,  the  "yellow 
store,"  elsewhere  described,  and  a  two-story  dwelling  near  it; 
the  house  being  at  present  the  north  part  of  the  hotel  recently 
owned  by  the  late  ]N~.  J.  Perry,  and  for  many  years  previous 
by  the  late  Dr.  Augustus  Frank.  Dr.  Sheldon  built,  near  his 
store,  (south  side,)  his  new  two-story  dwelling,  occupied  by 
him  until  his  death,  and  thereafter  by  his  family  for  many 
years.  It  was  afterward  occupied  as  a  parsonage,  the 
property  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  then  passed  into 
the  hands  of  Dr.  J.  G.  Meachem,  and  after  a  few  years, 
removed  by  him  to  the  north  part  of  the  village.  It  is  the 
house  in  which  Dr.  M.  Baker  now  resides,  by  whom  it  has 
been  changed  into  a  beautiful  residence. 


THE   VILLAGE.  65 

In  1820,  H.  &  E.  C  Ivimberly,  merchants,  who  had  for 
two  years  occupied  the  old  Stevens  store,  built  the  "  corner 
store  "  on  the  ground  now  covered  by  the  brick  building  of 
J.  H.  Darling,  occupied  as  a  Drug  store  by  Matthews  & 
Brown,  the  present  as  well  as  the  former  bank  building 
having  been  crowded  into  the  former  narrow  unoccupied 
space  between  the  bound  of  the  street  and  the  corner  store. 
The  store  of  Sheldon  &  Frank,  now  the  property  of  Dr. 
Bartlett,  was  built,  it  is  believed,  as  early  as  1818  or  1819; 
and  in  the  spring  of  1S22,  Dr.  Frank,  having  withdrawn  from 
the  firm  of  Sheldon  &  Frank,  commenced  business  in  his 
new  store  on  the  west  side  of  the  street,  where  the  brick 
building  of  the  Franks  now  stands. 

Dr.  Daniel  Rumsey,  who  had  resided  in  this  town  in  1817 
and  ISIS,  and  who,  after  several  years'  residence  in  Alexan- 
der, had  returned  to  Warsaw,  built  a  large  two-story  dwelling 
on  the  west  side  of  Main  street,  about  midway  between  the 
corners.  After  his  removal  to  Silver  Creek,  this  house  was 
occupied  by  his  son-in-law,  George  D.  Farnham,  and  was 
afterwards  bought  by  Dr.  Frank,  and  rented  for  a  number  of 
years.  A  part  of  it  was  for  a  time  occupied  for  the  instruc- 
tion of  a  school  of  young  ladies,  by  Miss  Anna  P.  Sill,  the 
founder  and  present  principal  of  the  noted  and  popular  Young 
Ladies'  Seminary  in  Rockford,  111.  Tins  building  was  several 
years  since  converted  into  shops  or  stores  to  supply  the  busi- 
ness wants  of  the  place.  About  the  time  Dr.  Rumsey  built 
his  house,  James  Crocker  built  one  near  it,  which  he  sold  to 
F.  C.  McKay,  and  which  was  occupied  successively  by  him- 
self and  Isaac  C.  Bronson,  before  it  came  into  the  possession 
of  its  present  occupant,  Albert  Purdy.  Whether  this  dwell- 
ing is  destined  to  a  similar  change,  time  must  determine.  It 
lias  for  several  years  borne  a  powerful  pressure  on  its  south 
side,  and  it  may  soon  be  compelled  to  yield.  About  the  time 
these  buildings  were  erected,  perhaps  a  little  earlier,  Dr. 
Cyrus  Rumsey  built  the  house  now  the  residence  of  John  A. 

McElwain,  on  Genesee  street,  and  John  Crocker  the  house 

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66  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

next  west  of  it,  the  present  residence  of  Wm.  Bingham,  and 
the  first  east  of  the  Hotel. 

It  lias  been  suggested  by  several  of  our  citizens  that  our 
village  history  would  be  incomplete  without  due  notice  of  a 
certain  prominent  old  inhabitant,  well  known  through  a  wide 
region  of  surrounding  country.  There  are  many  yet  living 
who  remember  well  their  old  unfortunate  fellow-citizen,  who 
had  in  early  life  lost  the  free  use  of  both  his  lower  limbs,  and 
whose  locomotion  was  rendered  possible  only  by  the  aid  of 
wooden  substitutes.  lie  was  one  of  Warsaw's  earliest  me- 
chanics, and  for  a  time  carried  on  business  in  a  small  plank 
building,  said  to  have  been  built  by  Col.  Day,  the  first  black- 
smith in  town,  and  used  by  him  as  a  shop,  or  as  some  say,  a 
dwelling.  It  stood  on  or  near  the  spot  on  which  Dr.  Bartlett's 
brick  building  stands,  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  Genesee 
streets.  Its  exterior  fitly  represented  the  mechanical  skill  of 
its  occupant,  whose  vocation  was  thus  legibly  expressed  on  a 
sign  board:  "I.  Ivenyon,  Tailor."  Though  a  single  as  well  as 
a  singular  man,  the  income  from  his  trade  afforded  him  a 
scanty  support;  and  he  united  with  tailoring  the  sale  of  "cake 
and  beer,"  the  latter  being,  if  our  memory  be  not  at  fault,  in 
the  full  sense  of  the  term,  7iome  made,  and  having  at  least 
this  preference  over  the  modern  articles  of  that  name,  that  its 
effects  were  less  injurious.  Of  course  the  public  were  duly 
notified  of  this  extension  of  business,  by  an  additional  sign 
on  his  shop's  front.  Other  articles  were  by  degrees  added  to 
his  stock,  until  his  "  assortment "  assumed  the  title  of  "  Gro- ' 
eery."  But  adversity  came,  and  taught  him  impressively, 
that  "  disappointment  is  the  lot  of  all  men."  He  was  "burned 
out  clean!"  and,  for  a  time  at  least,  his  "occupation  was 
gone." 

But  our  neighbor  was  not  disheartened  Jjy  this  reverse  of 
fortune.  A  new  building  in  due  time  sprang  up,  Phenix 
like,  on  the  west  side  of  the  street.  This  was  by  no  means  a 
rude  structure.  It  had  one  adornment  which  is  believed  to 
have  been  entirely  original.     A  large  picture  of  a  pillar  sur- 


THE    VILLAGE.  67 

mounted  by  an  eagle,  was  painted  on  its  front,  intended,  it  is 
presumed,  to  represent  the  patriotism  of  its  proprietor.  In 
front  of  the  building  was  erected  a  high  post,  on  which  was 
fastened  a  sign  reading  as  follows;  (for  the  old  gentleman,  be 
it  known,  laid  some  claim  to  poetic  talent:) 

'<  Come  view  my  post,  and  drink  a  toast. 
For  I've  been  tried  by  fire; 
Yet  I  will  still  make  up  your  bill 
As  low  as  you  require." 

It  is  related  of  one  of  our  respectable  citizens,  (though  evi- 
dently wanting  in  respect  to  hoary  hairs,)  that  he  was  wont, 
on  passing,  to  read  in  a  loud  tone  this  inscription,  and  to 
subjoin  the  mock  reference,  "Isaiah  xvi,  19,"  (Mr.  K.'s  name 
being  Isaiah,)  well  knowing  that  he  would  thus  bring  to  the 
door  the  irascible  occupant  to  give  boisterous  vent  to  his 
indignation.  In  his  new  shop  "Tailoring"  was  never  done, 
his  last  chosen  business  alone  giving  him  a  livelihood,  such  as 
it  was.  His  grocery,  however,  became  at  length  the  haunt  of 
the  idle,  the  intemperate,  and  the  vicious;  and  such  was  its 
influence,  that  a  fate  like  that  which  had  befallen  the  old 
shop,  would  have  been  regarded  as  a  public  blessing. 

One  of  his  singularities  was  the  tenacity  with  which  he 
clung  to  the  hope,  almost  to  the  last,  of  finding  a  wife;  hence 
nothing  would  he  so  bitterly  resent,  as  being  called  an  old 
man.  Having  at  length  become  disqualified  for  business  bv 
his  infirmities  and  age,  and  being  destitute  of  other  means  of 
support,  he  was  compelled  to  spend  the  last  years  of  his  life 
where  the  wants  of  the  unfortunate  and  needy  of  every 
county  are  gratuitously  supplied. 

Although  the  village  continued  gradually  to  improve,  there 
was  no  marked  change  in  its  appearance  from  this  time  until 
after  the  purchase  of  the  "Webster  estate  by  F.  C.  D.  McKay, 
Esq.,  in  183(3.  Judge  "Webster  had  been  indisposed  to  sell 
land  in  small  parcels;  and  owning  the  land  on  both  sides  of 
Buffalo  street  west  of  the  bridge,  no  houses  could  be  built 
there.     There  were  but  two  houses  west  of  the  bridge  on  that 


68  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

street,  one  them  his  own,  near  the  hill,  now  the  residence  of 
II.  B.  Jenks;  the  other  built  by  Cabin  Bumsey,  the  present 
residence  of  Frank  Miller.  Perhaps,  also,  the  two  small, 
diminutive  houses  lately  standing  near  the  bridge.  Mr. 
McKay  laid  out  Liberty  street,  and  sold  within  the  first  year 
a  considerable  number  of  lots  on  Buffalo  and  Liberty  streets; 
and  several  dwellings  were  put  up,  among  which  was  one 
intended  by  Mr.  McKay  for  himself,  but  never  finished  by 
him.  It  came  a  year  or  two  afterwards  into  the  hands  of 
Joshua  LI.  Darling,  who  completed  it,  and  who,  by  several 
alterations  and  improvements,  has  transformed  it  into  a 
beautiful  and  tasty  mansion.  Most  of  the  lots,  however, 
wTere  sold  to  laboring  men  of  limited  means;  and  the  new 
buildings  were  generally  small  and  cheaply  constructed.  !Nbr 
did  the  population  or  the  business  for  several  years  greatly 
increase. 

In  1S41,  the  new  county  of  "Wyoming  was  formed,  com- 
prising the  southern  half  of  Genesee,  and  the  county  seat 
located  at  Warsaw.  This  gave  to  business  and  to  im- 
provements  an  impulse  such  as  they  had  never  before  re- 
ceived. The  population  has  since  been  trebled,  and  business 
has  increased  in  nearly  the  same  proportion.  Large  and 
valuable  stocks  of  goods  have  brought  purchasers  from  all 
parts  of  the  county;  and  manufactures  of  various  kinds  have 
been  established.  Many  marked  improvements  have  also 
been  made  during  this  period.  The  streets  were  at  times 
almost  impassable  with  teams;  and  the  side-walks  were  in  no 
better  condition  for  footmen,  except  here  and  there  a  few 
rods  covered  with  gravel  or  tan-bark.  The  village  was  incor- 
porated in  1843;  and  by  the  exercise  of  its  corporate  powers, 
this  and  other  difficulties  have  been  remedied.  Much  has 
been  done  to  improve  the  streets,  and  two  bridges  have  been 
built  across  the  O-at-ka,  which  are  likely  to  stand  during 
the  life  time  of  at  least  two  generations.  The  streets  have 
been  greatly  beautified  with  shade  trees.  By  turning  the 
course  of  the  west  branch,  so  as  to  unite  with  the  O-at-ka 


THE   VILLAGE.  69 

creek  some  distance  below  the  south  bridge,  the  road  is  no 
longer  liable  to  damage  from  the  former  stream:  and  several 
village  lots  of  little  value  have  been  changed  into  eligible 
locations. 

Prior  to  1841,  there  was  but  one  brick  building  in  the  vil- 
lage, (that  of  Mr.  Darling,)  except  a  small  one  on  Water 
street,  still  standing  there.  The  county  jail,  a  wooden  struc- 
ture, was  built  in  1841.  The  Court  House  and  County  Clerk's 
Office,  substantial  brick  buildings,  were  erected  in  1812,  and 
greatly  improved  the  appearance  of  wfhe  village.  Many  ele- 
gant brick  dwellings— the  first  of  which  were  those  of  Dr. 
Merrick  Baker  (now  S.  Whitchers)  and  Linns  W.  Thayer, 
Esq., — and  a  much  greater  number  of  first  class  framed 
houses,  have  since  been  built;  and  many  old  ones  have  been 
moderenized  and  beautified.  At  no  time,  for  a  similar  period, 
has  there  been  so  marked  an  improvement  as  within  the  last 
six  or  eight  years,  on  Buffalo  and  Main  streets.  Main  street 
presents  two  fine  specimens  of  church  architecture,  erected 
within  the  last  three  years,  by  the  Presbyterian  and  Congre- 
gational societies.  And  that  memorable  event  in  February, 
1867,  "the  great  fire,"  which  was  at  the  time  deemed  a  seri- 
ous calamity,  has  contributed,  more  than  any  other  cause,  to 
the  permanent  improvement  of  the  village.  Probably  not 
more  than  two  or  three  persons  have  reason  to  regret  the 
occurrence.  A  brick  block  of  three  stores  with  some  nine  or 
ten  dilapidated,  rickety  buildings  were  destroyed,  and  the 
vacant  space  has  already  been  filled  by  a  row  of  beautiful 
and  substantial  structures,  which  are  surpassed  in  few  country 
villages  in  this  section  of  the  state. 

In  1868,  George  W.  Frank  and  Elbert  E.  Farman  pur- 
chased of  John  A.  McElvain  several  acres  of  land,  lying 
north  of  Genesee  street,  and  east  of  the  lots  on  the  east  side 
of  Main  street,  which  they  laid  out  into  building  lots.  They 
have  opened  from  Main  street  to  their  grounds,  two  new 
streets:  Elm  street  running  to  the  north  corner  of  their  land; 
and  one  south  of  it,  which  is  a  continuation  of  Court  street. 


TO  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

Several  acres  have  been  set  apart  and  inclosed  for  a  Park. 
Three  fine  brick  dwelling  houses  have  been  erected  by  G.  W. 
Frank,  H.  A.  Dudley,  and  Eev.  J.  E.  Nassau.  That  of  Mr. 
Frank  is  completed.  Another  has  been  commenced  by  Mr. 
Farman,  and  will  be  completed  the  present  year.  This'will 
soon  be  one  of  the  most  attractive  parts  of  the  village. 


POST  OFFICES. 

The  first  Post-Office  in  Warsaw  was  established  in  1811. 
Prior  to  this  time,  letters  were  received  and  mailed  at  Bata- 
via.  County,  town,  and  land-office  business  being  done  there, 
the  inhabitants  had  frequent  opportunities  of  sending  to  the 
post-office  at  that  place.  But  the  early  settlers  received  many 
letters  from  eastern  friends  by  the  hands  of  "  new  comers," 
and  of  those  who  came  seeking  homes.  And  as  those  who 
purchased  returned  to  bring  in  their  families,  the  people 
probably  received  and  sent  most  of  their  letters  outside  of 
the  mails.  The  rates  of  postage  were  high;  and  few  letters 
would  have  been  written  even  if  there  had  been  a  post-office 
in  the  town.  Postage  on  letters  Mas,  tor  a  distance  not  ex- 
ceeding 30  miles,  6  cents;  over  30  and  not  exceeding  SO  miles, 
10  cents;  over  80  and  not  exceeding  150  miles,  12h  cents; 
over  150  and  not  exceeding  400  miles,  18?  cents;  over  100 
miles,  25  cents.  The  early  settlers  being  generally  poor,  they 
were  compelled  to  restrict  their  correspondence  to  cases  of 
necessity.  Coming  from  the  extreme  eastern  part  of  this 
state  and  from  the  eastern  states,  most  of  their  letters  were 
subject  to  the  highest  rates.  How  many  letters  would  our 
farmers  now  write  if  they  had  to  pay  the  price  of  a  bushel  of 
wheat  or  four  bushels  of  oats  for  a  letter?  Yet  there  was  a 
time,  many  years  after  there  was  a  post-office  here,  when  the 
quantity  mentioned  of  each  of  these  commodities  would  have 
commanded  no  more  cash  than  the  highest  rates  of  postage. 


POST-OFFICES. 


71 


And  how  would  men  have  regarded  the  prediction  that, 
within  the  life-time  of  some  then  living,  a  letter  would  be 
carried  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific  for  three  cents  f 

At  an  early  day — probably  soon  after  the  establishment  01 
the  post-office  here — a  post  route  was  established  from  Geneseo 
through  this  place  to  Lake  Erie,  which  made  a  direct  and  con- 
tinuous route  from  Canandaigua  to  that  lake,  at  a  point  eight 
miles  from  Buffalo.  Levi  Street,  of  Sheldon,  carried  the  mail 
many  years,  and,  as  is  believed,  was  the  first  contractor  and 
carrier;  but  what  year  he  commenced  his  ride,  (on  horseback, 
of  course,)  we  are  not  informed.  The  papers  chiefly  taken 
were  the  "Ontario  Repository"  and  "Ontario  Messenger," 
both  published  in  Canandaigua,  and,  at  a  later  date,  the 
"Moscow  Advertiser,"  and  were  carried  by  Mr.  Street.  Of  the 
number  he  distributed,  we  may  form  a  tolerable  estimate  from 
the  fact,  that  they  were  carried  in  a  saddle-bag,  as  lately  as 
1S16,  at  those  seasons  of  the  year  when  the  roads  were  too 
muddy  or  too  rough  for  him  to  go  with  his  vehicle,  labeled, 
"  Moscow  Stage."  Mr.  Street  was  at  length  superseded  by 
other  mail  contractors,  who  at  least  furnished  the  traveling 
public  better  accommodations.  He  removed  to  Cincinnati,  O., 
where  he  died  of  that  dreadful  disease,  hydrophobia,  caused 
by  the  bite  of  a  horse. 

The  "  Genesee  Intelligencer,"  the  first  paper  in  this  state 
west  of  the  Genesee  River,  was  published  in  Batavia  in  1807, 
by  Elias  Williams,  who  commenced  it  in  the  spring,  and  dis- 
continued it  in  October.  The  "  Cornucopia  "  was  commenced 
the  next  spring,  (1808,)  by  Benjamin  Blodgett  and  Samuel 
Peck,  and  continued  by  them  until  1811,  when  David  C. 
Miller  took  the  place  of  Mr.  Peck;  and  the  paper  assumed 
the  name  ot  "  Republican  Advocate."  The  post-office  being 
established  here  about  the  same  time,  this  paper  began  to  take 
the  place  of  the  Canandaigua  papers.  In  1819,  the  "Spirit 
of  the  Times  "  was  commenced  at  Batavia.  After  this,  few 
Ontario  papers  appeared  in  this  town. 


72  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  Postmasters  in  Warsaw, 
with  the  dates  of  their  appointment : 

Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  April  12,  1811. 
Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  January  24,  1826. 
Elias  K.  Bascom,  March  3,  1828. 
Isaac  C.  Bronson,  August  20,  1841. 
William  K.  Crooks,  March  10,  1843. 
Edwin  L.  Fuller,  July  15,  1845. 
Charles  W.  Bailey,  May  3,  1849. 
Jacob  W.  Knapp,  February  28,  1853. 
Seth  M.  Gates,  May  28,  1861. 
Seth  M.  Gates,  June  3,  1S65. 

The  amount  received  for  postage  on  letters  and  papers  dur- 
ing the  first  year  at  this  post-office  was  about  fifty  dollars. 

By  an  act  of  Congress,  postmasters  whose  compensation 
from  commissions  on  the  money  received  at  their  respective 
offices  exceeds  $1,000,  are  appointed  by  the  President,  with 
the  concurrence  of  the  Senate. 

A  post-office  was  established  at  South  Warsaw,  February, 
1850,  and  continued  several  years,  Alonzo  Choate,  postmaster. 
Also  in  the  south-east  part  of  the  town  a  post-otlice  named 
East  Warsaw  was  established  after  the  preceding — Evans, 
postmaster.     It  was  continued  but  a  few  years. 


AGKICULTUKE.  73 


AGRICULTURE 


Agkiculture  is  a  term  hardly  applicable  to  the  farming  of 
those  days.  Agricultural  papers,  if  there  had  been  any, 
would  have  been  of  little  use  to  those  just  beginning  in  the 
woods.  The  "  virgin  soil "  was  prepared  for  seed  when  cleared 
of  its  forest  burden — the  better,  however,  if  it  had  had  a 
"  good  burn,"  which  the  proprietor  was  always  anxious  to  se- 
cure. The  principal  instrument  of  tillage  was  the  triangular 
harrow,  usually  called  drag,  sometimes  made  of  a  crotched 
tree.  The  timber  was  worked  clown  to  the  proper  size,  and 
teeth  were  inserted  of  nearly  double  the  thickness  of  those 
now  used,  so  as  to  stand  the  severe  test  to  which  they  were  to 
be  put.  The  drag  bounded  along  over  roots  and  stones,  and 
among  the  stumps,  generally  drawn  by  oxen  often  driven  by 
boys — a  kind  of  driving  which  would  not  be  relished  by  the 
youthful  drivers  of  "  fast  horses  "  in  these  later  days.  And 
when  the  roots  had  become  sufficiently  brittle  to  admit  of  the 
use  of  the  plow,  an  instrument  was  used,  which  it  would 
puzzle  the  young  men  of  the  present  day  to  give  a  name. 
The  idea  of  a  cast  iron  plow  had  not  then  entered  the  brain 
of  the  inventor.  This  plow  was  invented  by  Jethro  Wood, 
of  Scipio,  Cayuga  Co.,  1ST.  Y.,  about  fifty  years  ago;  though  it 
is  a  much  less  number  of  years  since  it  came  into  general  use. 
The  improvements  since  made  in  the  plow  and  the  harrow; 
the  invention  of  cultivators,  drills  for  sowing  and  planting, 
and  other  labor-saving  implements,  have  changed  the  aspect 
of  farming,  and  increased  incalculably  the  power  of  produc- 
tion. 

In  harvesting,  the  change  is  most  striking.  Before  the  de- 
cay and  removal  of  stumps  permitted  the  use  of  the  grain 
cradle,  the  cutting  of  grain  was  mostly  done  wTith  the  sickle, 
now  a  rare  instrument,  not  at  all  used  for  its  original  purpose. 
It  was  then  a  staple  article  of  merchandise.  In  the  old  Day- 
Books  and  Journals  of  the  early  merchants,  if  they  coidd  be 


74  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

found,  might  be  seen  the  charge,  "  To  1  Sickle,"  under  the 
names  of  scores  of  customers,  followed,  in  the  cases  of  many, 
by  that  other  charge,  "  To  1  Gal.  "Whisky,"  an  article  then 
deemed  by  some  as  necessary  in  the  harvesting  operation  as 
the  instrument  itself.  The  cradle,  which  superseded  the 
sickle,  is  now  fast  giving  way — in  many  parts  of  the  country 
has  wholly  done  so  already — to  the  reaper,  an  instrument 
then  not  more  likely  to  be  invented  than  the  photographic 
art,  or  the  means  of  hourly  intercourse  with  people  on  the 
other  side  of  the  Atlantic.  Single  fields  of  wheat  of  one 
hundred  to  five  hundred  acres  each,  are  not  rare  in  some  of 
the  "Western  States.  Let  a  man  imagine  an  attempt  to  cut 
these  immense  fields  of  grain  by  handfuls  with  the  sickle, 
and  he  can  not  fail  to  appreciate  the  invention  of  the  reaper. 
Grain  was  threshed  with  the  flail,  ten  to  twenty  bushels 
a  day,  and  cleaned  with  a  fan — an  instrument  which  most 
of  our  readers  have  never  seen,  and  which  we  will  not  under- 
take to  describe.  It  was  superseded  by  the  fanning-mill, 
which,  though  not  a  new  invention,  was  not  easily  obtained 
by  the  first  settlers.  A  single  machine  now  receives  the 
sheaves  and  delivers  the  cleaned  grain  at  the  rate  of  one 
hundred  to  two  hundred  bushels  a  day.  And  a  reaper  is  in 
use  at  the  West,  which  carries  two  binders,  and  drops  along 
its  track  the  cut  grain  in  sheaves,  bound. 

In  hay  harvesting,  also,  improvements  would  seem  to  have 
reached  perfection,  when  a  lad  of  sufficient  age  to  drive  a 
team,  mows  from  fifty  to  one  hundred  acres  of  meadow  in 
an  ordinary  haying  season,  and  the  hay  is  all  raked  during 
the  same  time  by  a  single  hand. 

STOCK    RAISING. 

Early  attention  was  given  to  the  raising;  of  stock.  In  a 
large  portion  of  the  Holland  Purchase,  it  has  become  the 
principal  branch  of  agriculture.  The  first  settlers  moved  on 
writh  ox-teams,  and  each  brought  a  cow,  few  more  than  one. 
For  several  years,  their  little  "  clearings  "  were  insufficient  to 


AGRICULTURE.  75 

furnish  keeping  for  the  smallest  herds.  Before  they  had 
pastures  and  meadows,  cattle  run  in  the  woods  during  sum- 
mer, feeding  on  hei'bage  and  browse.  Leeks,  with  which  the 
woods  abounded,  and  which  appeared  almost  as  soon  as  the 
snow  was  off,  were  a  tolerable  substitute  for  hay  and  early 
pasture.  In  the  winter,  the  lack  of  hay  was  chiefly  supplied 
with  straw  and  corn-stalks  from  the  first  grain  crops,  and 
browse.  Much  of  the  chopping  was  done  in  winter;  and 
cattle  were  driven  to  the  woods  to  feed  on  the  tops  of  the 
fallen  trees.  In  process  of  time,  settlers  were  enabled,  from 
the  increase  of  their  stock,  to  supply  "  new  comers,"  who 
saved  the  expense  of  driving  cows  by  buying  here.  And 
stock  raising  in  time  became  to  many  the  most  profitable 
branch  of  farming.  "When  there  was  no  longer  a  home 
demand  for  the  surplus  grain,  nor  any  other  accessible  market, 
cattle,  thongh  very  cheap,  were  sold  to  drovers  and  driven  to 
eastern  cities,  when  grain  would  not  bear  transportation  to 
the  nearest  market. 

The  first  crops  of  grain  were  abundant  in  all  the  Holland 
Purchase.  But  when  the  land  came  to  be  plowed,  the  pro- 
ducts began  to  decrease;  and  in  large  portions  of  it,  the 
raising  of  breadstuffs  proved  a  failure.  This  was  the  case  in 
the  western  towns  of  this  county.  Farmers  continued  to  plow, 
and  kept  comparatively  poor.  They  turned  to  grazing;  and 
from  the  products  of  the  dairy  and  the  sheep-fold,  they  paid 
for  their  tarms,  and  became  rich.  The  introduction  of  im- 
proved breeds  of  cattle  and  shee}),  and  improvements  in  the 
making  of  butter  and  cheese,  have  contributed  greatly  to  this 
result.  Cheese  factories  have  been  built  in  most  of  the  towns 
in  this  county.  Twenty-four  were  in  operation  the  last  year. 
Of  the  products  of  these  factories  we  have  not  the  means  of 
forming  even  a  tolerable  estimate. 

FRUIT    CULTURE. 

Fruit  culture,  too,  has  proved  a   material  source  of  profit. 
Almost  the  first  acre  of  the  early  settler's  "  clearing,"  was 


76  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

made  the  beginning  of  a  large  apple  orchard.  The  crop  in 
time  became  abundant,  and  for  the  surplus  there  was  no 
market;  and  many  farmers  cut  down  a  large  portion  of  their 
trees.  They  soon  learned  their  mistake.  Instead  of  continu- 
ing to  contract,  they  are  now  rapidly  extending  the  area  of 
their  orchards  to  meet  the  constantly  increasing  demand  for 
this  staple  fruit.  Many  a  farmer  in  Western  New  York 
receives  a  greater  profit  from  his  orchard,  than  from  the  rest 
of  a  large  and  fertile  farm.  So  great  a  portion  of  the  "West — 
all  that  lies  in  the  more  northern  latitudes — must  ever 
remain  dependent  upon  other  parts  ot  the  Union,  that  there 
need  be  no  fear  of  an  unsalable  surplus.  And  we  may  add 
the  fact — perhaps  not  generally  known — that  the  apples  from 
Western  New  York  are  preferred  to  those  from  other  sections 
of  the  Union. 

In  view  of  the  various  modern  improvements,  by  which 
the  labor  of  farming  has  been  so  much  lightened,  and  so  well 
rewarded,  it  is  not  strange  that  the  business  has  been  increas- 
ing in  the  popular  favor.  It  is  becoming  as  attractive  as  it 
is  honorable. 


MERCHANTS.  77 


TRADE-MERCHANTS. 

Although  the  first  dwellings  and  school-houses  were  bnilt 
of  logs,  we  believe  there  was  never  in  this  town  a  log  store. 
There  have  been  many  on  the  Holland  Purchase,  however; 
and  we  have  seen  several  within  the  present  limits  of  this 
county.  Asheries  were  established  in  new  settlements,  and 
their  proprietors  kept  small  lots  of  the  more  common  articles 
of  merchandise  in  a  part  of  their  log  dwellings,  or  erected  a 
building  of  the  same  material  for  a  store.  And  we  have  seen 
in  some  of  them  good  assortments,  comprising  nearly  the 
usual  variety  found  in  stores  generally. 

The  early  stores  bore  a  striking  contrast  to  those  of  the 
present  time.  A  hardware  store,  a  drug  store,  a  book  store, 
or  grocery  store,  as  such,  was  not,  until  a  late  period,  known 
in  country  villages.  A  store  comprising  a  single  class  of 
goods  could  not,  among  a  sparse  and  poor  population,  be 
sustained.  Hence  merchants  kept,  and  would  enumerate  in 
their  show-bills  and  advertisements,  "Dry  Goods,  Groceries, 
Crockery  and  Glass-ware,  Hardware,  Iron — Bar,  Band,  Hoop, 
and  Sheet  Iron — Nails,  School  Books  and  Stationery,  Dye- 
woods  and  Dye-stuffs,"  and  sometimes  adding,  "  Drugs  and 
Medicines,"  and  not  excepting  "Brandy,  Bum,  Gin,  and 
Whisky;"  and  this  list  would  be  supplemented  with  a  string 
of  et  ceteras,or,  "  every  other  article  usually  found  in  country 
stores." 

It  will  be  readily  imagined  to  have  been  no  inconsiderable 
item  in  a  merchant's  business  to  make  his  semi-annual  pur- 
chases. Preparations  for  his  periodical  visits  to  Albany  and 
New  York  were  commenced  weeks  beforehand.  The  time  of 
absence  would  vary  from  twro  to  four  weeks,  according  to  the 
state  of  the  roads;  and  leaving  for  New  York  was  attended 
with  about  as  much  circumstance  and  ceremony,  as  is  now 
observed  on  leaving  for  a  tour  to  Europe. 


78  HISTORY   OF   WAESAW. 

Few  goods  were  sold  for  cash.  Almost  all  trade  was  on 
the  credit  and  barter  system;  as  well  that  of  the  merchant  as 
that  among  the  people  in  general.  Notes  were  made  payable 
in  grain,  lumber,  cattle,  and  other  commodities,  and  some- 
times contained  the  stipulation,  "  at  cash  price;"  for  almost 
every  country  product,  as  well  as  merchants'  goods,  had  two 
prices,  a  cash  and  a  barter  or  credit  price;  though  it  was  by 
no  means  an  easy  matter  to  ascertain  the  cash  price,  which, 
after  all,  depended  materially  upon  the  mutual  agreement  of 
the  parties.  Merchants  often  suffered  much  loss  by  this 
system  of  business.  Notwithstanding  the  high  per  centage 
charged  as  profits  on  their  goods,  losses  by  bad  debts,  (many 
customers  being  very  poor,)  and  losses  on  grain  and  other 
commodities,  which  it  was  difficult,  sometimes  impossible,  to 
turn  into  cash,  rendered  the  mercantile  business  a  precarious 
and  hazardous  one. 

Warsaw  was  for  many  years  the  center  of  trade  for  an 
extensive  region.  At  Attica,  and  Batavia,  and  Le  Roy,  were 
the  nearest  stores  in  those  directions.  Perry  was  the  only 
adjoining  town  in  which  there  was  a  store.  The  northern 
towns  of  Allegany  county,  and  the  town  of  Castile  in  our  own 
county,  (then  Genesee,)  found  here  a  market  for  large  quan- 
tities of  pine  lumber,  with  which  those  towns  then  abounded. 
It  was  here  exchanged  for  goods  and  grain.  Much  of  the 
grain  taken  by  the  merchants  for  goods  was  thus  disposed  of. 

To  the  south-west,  trade  extended  far  into  Allegany  and 
Cattaraugus  counties.  Maple  sugar,  long  an  important  arti- 
cle of  trade,  came  in  large  quantities  from  that  quarter.  But 
from  its  superabundance,  and  the  inhabitants  generally  sup- 
plying themselves,  the  price  was  at  times  as  low  as  four  or 
five  cents  a  pound.  Brown  sugars  of  the  kinds  now  used, 
were  seldom  found  in  the  early  country  stores.  Almost  the 
only  sugar  brought  from  New  York,  was  the  white,  refined 
sugar,  put  up  in  hard,  tall,  solid  loaves  of  a  conical  form,  and 
hence  called  lump  or  loaf  sugar,  and  was  wrapped  in  strong 
and  coarse  paper.     This  refined  sugar  was  sold  chiefly  for 


MERCHANTS.  70 

sweetening  medicines  and  the  liquors  of  tavern-keepers,  who 
bought  it  in  large  quantities. 

Ashes  were  a  more  important  article  of  trade.  In  every 
place  of  considerable  business,  there  was  at  least  one  mer- 
chant who  had  an  ashery  and  bought  the  ashes  made  in  the 
neighborhood,  the  lye  of  which  was  boiled  into  pot-ash.  Raw 
ashes,  of  which  large  quantities  were  made  in  the  fields  from 
the  timber  burned  in  clearing  land,  not  admitting  of  trans- 
portation a  great  distance,  it  was  necessary  to  concentrate 
their  virtue  into  smaller  bulk.  The  lye  was  boiled  down  to 
the  consistence  of  thick  mortar,  called  "black  salts,"  which 
were  brought  to  this  village  a  distance  of  twenty  or  thirty 
miles  from  the  south-west.  Hence  the  necessity  also  of  a 
pearl-ashery  for  converting  the  salts  into  pearl  ashes.  This 
was  done  by  baking,  or  rather  "burn/mg  them  in  a  large  oven 
brought  almost  to  a  red  heat.  The  value  of  this  trade  will 
readily  appear  from  the  fact,  that  pot  and  pearl  ashes,  con- 
taining great  value  in  small  weight  and  bulk,  might  be  trans- 
ported a  great  distance.  Hence  they  were  taken  by  teams  to 
G-eneseo  and  Rochester,  where  they  always  commanded  cash; 
and  sometimes,  before  the  construction  of  the  Erie  canal,  to 
Albany,  by  teams,  which  were  loaded  back  with  merchants' 
goods.  Pot  and  pearl  ashes  being  so  readily  turned  into  cash, 
the  manufacturers  would  often  pay  for  salts  and  raw  ashes  in 
part,  sometimes  wholly,  in  cash. 

To  facilitate  the  collection  of  debts,  merchants  sometimes 
received  cattle  on  accounts  from  their  customers,  and  drove 
them  to  eastern  markets,  or  sold  them  to  drovers  from  the 
east.  Cattle  were  cheap  in  those  days.  A  pair  of  good 
working  oxen  could  be  bought  for  fifty  or  sixty  dollars;  steers 
three  years  old,  for  fifteen  dollars  a  head;  steers  two  years 
old,  for  about  ten  dollars.  Pork  also  was  taken  on  account, 
at  prices  which  contrast  strikingly  with  those  paid  within  the 
last  few  years.  Well  tatted  pork,  dressed,  has  been  bought 
here  for  two  dollars  and  a  half  per  hundred. 


SO  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

STORES. 

Almon  Stevens  came  in  with  a  store  of  goods  as  agent  for 
John  Dixson,  in  Jan.,  1S13.  The  bar-room  of  Judge  "Web- 
ster's tavern,  (no  longer  kept  by  him  as  such,)  was  used  for  a 
store,  until  a  store  was  built,  which  was  the  small  building 
removed  a  few  years  since  to  clear  the  ground  for  the  new 
Presbyterian  church,  and  which  now  stands  on  Liberty  street, 
opposite  the  Fair  grounds.  After  about  two  years,  Almon 
Stevens  and  his  brother  Henry  bought  the  stock  in  trade, 
and  continued  the  business  about  two  years,  and  discontinued 
it  in  1817,  or  1818. 

In  1815,  Simeon  Cummings,  who  that  year  made  his  land 
purchase  of  Judge  Webster,  in  connection  with  Dr.  Sheldon, 
and  a  Mr.  Brigham,  established  a  store,  under  the  firm  of  C. 
L.  Sheldon  &  Co.  It  was  kept  in  the  small  red  building, 
afterwards  iised  many  years  as  a  dwelling,  and  finally  re- 
moved to  make  room  for  the  Episcopal  church.  The  store 
was  discontinued  in  1816. 

In  the  winter  of  1816-17,  Erastus  Beach,  of  Mt.  Morris, 
opened  a  store  on  the  west  side  of  Main  street,  nearly  oppo- 
site the  present  site  of  the  brick  hotel.  It  was  continued  less 
than  a  year. 

In  1817,  Elisha  Parmele  opened  a  store  in  the  building, 
elsewhere  noticed  as  "  the  cider-mill,"  a  few  rods  west  of  the 
mill-race  on  Buffalo  street,  and  occupied  it  until  he  had  built 
a  new  store  near  the  north  tavern,  afterwards  removed  to  the 
corner  opposite  to  and  south  of  the  Brick  Hotel,  and  known 
as  the  "old  yellow  store."  He  stopped  trade  in  the  winter  or 
spring  of  1824. 

In  or  about  the  year  1818,  Drs.  Sheldon  &  Frank  com- 
menced trade  on  a  small  scale,  or  added  some  family 
necessaries  to  their  Drugs  and  Medicines  in  a  small  building, 
twelve  by  sixteen  feet,  standing  east  side  of  Main  street, 
facing  Buffalo  street,  and  used  also  for  a  Post-Office.  It  may 
still  be   seen  on  Water  street,  where  it  forms  a  wing  to  a 


! 


MERCHANTS.  81 

dwelling-house.  The  compound  word,  "  Post- Office,"  thinly 
covered  with  white  paint,  may  still  be  read  on  the  frieze.  A 
larger  store  was  soon  built,  occupied  by  that  firm  for  a  few 
years,  and  afterwards  by  Dr.  Sheldon,  and  Sheldon  &  Bas- 
com.  Since  the  addition  of  a  lower  story,  and  a  change  in 
the  appearance  in  its  front,  by  its  present  proprietor,  it  has 
been  designated  as  "Dr.  Bartlett's  Gothic.15 

In  1818,  Homer  and  Ebenezer  C.  Ivimberly  opened  a  store 
in  the  building  formerly  occupied  by  Almon  Stevens,  near 
the  Presbyterian  church.  In  1820,  they  occupied  their  new 
store  on  the  north  corner  of  Main  and  Buffalo  streets,  now 
called  the  "Bank  corner,"  the  Bank  having  since  been 
pressed  in  between  the  street  and  the  spot  previously  occu- 
pied by  the  corner  building.  In  1822  the  firm  was  dissolved, 
and  the  business  was  continued  by  Ebenezer  C.  Ivimberly 
until  1828. 

In  the  spring  of  1822,  Dr.  Frank,  having  dissolved  with 
Dr.  Sheldon,  and  built  a  new  store  on  the  west  side  of  Main 
street,  near  the  ground  now  occupied  by  A.  &  G.  "W.  Frank, 
commenced  business  in  his  own  name  alone,  and  continued 
the  business  for  nearly  thirty  years  from  that  time,  and,  until 
within  a  few  years  of  his  death,  in  the  same  building. 

In  1824  or  1825,  Elias  E.  Bascom,  a  clerk  of  Dr.  Sheldon, 
became  a  partner  in  the  concern,  and  so  continued,  it  is 
believed,  until  the  death  of  Dr.  Sheldon,  in  March,  1828. 
Mr.  Bascom  continued  business  until  1832  or  1833,  alone, 
except  a  very  short  period  of  partnership  under  the  firm  of 
Bascom  &  Whitcomb. 

About  the  year  1825,  John  McWhorter  and  John  M. 
Cumings  commenced  trade  in  the  "  yellow  store,"  and  con- 
tinued business  a  year  or  two. 

In  Sept.,  1828,  A.  ~W.  Young  removed  his  goods  from 
Wethersfield,  and  commenced  business  in  the  corner  store 
building,  bought  of  E.  C.  Ivimberly.  In  Sept.,  1S30,  he  took 
in  Joshua  II.  Darling  as  a  partner;  and  business  was  con- 
tinued under  the  firm  of  A.  W.  Young  &  Co.,  until  the  next 

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82  IIISTOKY    OF    WARSAW. 

year,  when  Mr.  Young  withdrew  from  the  firm;  and  in  the 
spring  of  1832,  Mr.  Darling  sold  to  Young  &  Webster,  who 
were  succeeded  the  same  year  by  Mr.  Darling,  who  bought, 
with  the  store  and  goods,  the  dwelling-house  and  lot  now 
owned  by  Timothy  II.  Buxton. 

In  1831,  Isaac  C.  Bronson  joined  Dr.  Frank  in  trade.  In 
183G,  he  left  the  concern,  and  commenced  business  in  the 
'•yellow  store,"  and  in  1837,  he  took  into  partnership  his 
brother-in-law,  Chauncey  C.  Gates,  who,  in  1843,  sold  out  his 
interest  to  Andrew  G.  Hammond. 

In  1833  or  1834,  Andrew  G.  Hammond  came  to  Warsaw 
as  agent  for  John  Dixson,  of  Richmond,  and  after  about  a 
year,  removed  to  Ohio,  with  the  goods.  After  closing  busi- 
ness there,  and  being  employed  as  Cashier  in  Kalamazoo, 
Mich.,  and  in  Florida,  he  returned  to  Warsaw,  and  became 
a  partner  of  Isaac  C.  Bronson,  as  above  stated,  in  the 
year  1S13. 

About  the  year  1S37,  Alanson  Holly  and  James  M.  Darling 
bought  Dr.  Frank's  goods,  and  traded  one  year.  After  this, 
Mr.  Holly  bought  Joshua  II.  Darling's  stock  of  goods  at  the 
corner  store,  and  traded  alone  a  year. 

About  the  year  18-12,  Morrison  &  Faulkner  opened  a  store 
in  Warsaw.  Within  a  year  or  two  after,  Faulkner  retired 
from  the  firm,  and  Morrison  continued  business  a  year  or 
more,  sold  out  his  goods,  and  returned  to  Xew  York.  He  is 
now  one  of  the  firm  of  Lathrop,  Ludington  &  Co.,  wholesale 
Dry  Goods  dealers  in  that  city. 

In  1S13,  Boswell  Gould,  who  had  traded  fifteen  years  in 
South  Warsaw,  removed  to  the  village,  and  continued  the 
business  until  1851,  when  he  sold  his  stock  of  goods  to  Web- 
ster &  Andrews. 

In  May,  1S45,  the  Comstocks  of  Lc  Boy,  and  Elijah  W. 
Andrews,  of  Warsaw,  under  the  firm  of  A.  O.  Comstoek  A: 
Co.,  established  a  store  in  Warsaw.  In  1848,  Abel  Webster 
became  a  partner,  and  the  firm  was  changed  to  Comstoek, 
Andrews  &   Co.     In   1850,  Webster  retired.     Comstoek  & 


MERCHANTS.  83 

Andrews,  in  1851,  sold  out  to  Watson,  Murray  &  Co.  In 
1853,  E.  D.  Day  retired  from  this  firm;  and  in  1853,  Watson 
6c  Murray  sold  to  E.  W.  Andrews,  who,  in  1856,  sold  to  S.  A. 
Murray,  who,  in  1857,  sold  to  Albert  Purely,  who  continued 
business  until  February,  1867,  when  his  store  was  destroyed 
by  fire. 

In  1851,  after  Comstock  &  Andrews  had  sold  to  Watson, 
Murray  &  Co.,  Webster  &  Andrews  bought  out  Roswell 
Gould.  In  1853,  Abel  Webster  bought  the  interest  of  his 
partner,  and  continued  business  until  his  death,  in  1859. 

In  1815,  Alonzo  Choate  bought  of  Roswell  Gould  his  store 
and  goods  at  South  Warsaw,  and  continued  business  until 
1851,  when  he  sold  half  his  interest  to  Gurdon  G.  Clark,  who 
conducted  the  business;  and  Mr.  Choate  established  a  store 
in  the  village,  in  the  south  end  of  the  Gould  Block,  now 
owned  and  occupied  by  Thomas  S.  Glover,  and  continued 
business  one  year.  The  store  at  South  Warsaw  was  discon- 
tinued soon  after. 

In  1817,  Augustus  Frank,  Jun.,  commenced  trade,  which 
he  continued  alone  many  years,  when  he  admitted  his  brother 
George  W.  The  business,  under  the  firm  of  A.  &  G.  W. 
Frank,  still  continues. 

J.  M.  Darling  and  Allen  Y.  Breck,  (Darling  &  Breck,) 
commenced  trade  at  the  old  "corner  store,"  (year  not  recol- 
lected,) and  continued,  it  is  believed,  several  years.  Mr. 
Breck  subsequently,  in  different  stores,  alone,  and  with  Seth 
M.  Gates,  and  later  as  one  of  the  firm  of  Breck,  Gates  & 
Hurds,  (Chester  Hurd  and  Son,)  carried  on  the  business  for 
several  years. 

In  ISIS,  Benjamin  F.  Fargo  and  his  brother,  Francis  F., 
sons  of  David  Fargo,  commenced  the  mercantile  business  in 
this  village.  About  a  year  after,  John  M.,  son  of  Allen 
Fargo,  became  a  partner;  and  the  firm  wras  changed  to  B.  F. 
Fargo  &  Co.  In  1851,  F.  F.  and  John  having  retired,  David 
and  Allen  came  into  the  concern,  the  name  of  the  firm  re- 
maining unchanged.     In  1857,  the  firm  was  dissolved,  and 


S4  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

the  dry  goods  business  discontinued.  B.  F.  Fargo  afterward 
commenced  the  grocery  and  provision  trade,  in  which  lie 
continues. 

In  1S62,  George  L.  Foote,  B.  O.  Holdcn,  and  Thomas  S. 
(i lover,  of  Batavia,  established  a  store  in  this  village,  under 
the  firm  of  CI.  L.  Foote  &  Co.  In  1861,  Mr.  Glover  bought 
the  stock  of  the  firm,  and  still  continues  the  business. 

HARDWARE    STOKES. 

As  has  been  already  stated,  Hardware  was  for  many  years 
a  part  of  the  stock  of  country  merchants  generally.  In  Octo- 
ber, 1830,  John  Windsor,  from  Pike,  commenced  in  this  vil- 
lage the  manufacture  of  Tin  and  Sheet  Iron  ware.  In  1S42, 
Joshua  II.  and  J.  Madison  Darling  bought  the  stock  of  Mr. 
Windsor,  and  added  a  general  assortment  of  Hardware. 
They  continued  business  about  a  year. 

In  July,  1843,  Seth  M.  Gates  and  Henry  Garretsee  (Gates 
&  Garretsee)  bought  the  goods  of  J.  H.  &  J.  M.  Darling,  and 
commenced  the  Stove,  Tin,  and  Hardware  business,  and  con- 
tinued it  until  the  year  1852,  when  Mr.  Gates  left  the  concern, 
and  his  place  was  taken  by  his  brother  Chauncey  G,  (firm  C. 
C.  Gates  &  Co.)  Business  was  conducted  by  them  four  years, 
when  Miles  II.  Morris  became  a  partner,  and  the  firm  (II. 
Garretsee  &  Co.)  continued  until  1S58,  when  Mr.  Gates  left 
the  firm.  Garretsee  &  Morris  continued  the  business  until 
1863,  when  the  firm  was  dissolved.  The  business  has  since 
been  conducted  by  H.  Garretsee,  who  continues  also  the  cast- 
ing of  stoves  and  other  articles.  The  sales  of  stoves  by  this 
establishment,  commencing  with  Gates  6c  Garretsee,  have 
been  exceeded  by  few  if  any  west  of  Genesee  river,  outside 
of  the  cities.  Thousands  have  been  carried  by  teams  into 
other  counties,  especially  into  the  counties  of  Allegany  and 
Cattaraugus. 

About  the  time  Gates  &  Garretsee  began  business,  perhaps 
a  little  later,  Perry  &  Israel  Hodge  commenced  the  same 
business.     Perrv  soon  after  sold  his  interest  to  Xoblc  Morris, 


MERCHANTS.  85 

(firm  Hodge  &  Morris.)  Otis  S.  Buxton  bought  Hodge's  in- 
terest; and  Morris  &  Buxton  subsequently  sold  one- third  of 
their  interest  to  C.  &  T.  Buxton.  Morris  afterwards  sold  his 
interest  to  the  Buxtons,  who  next  sold  to  Morris  &  Lewis, 
(Simeon  D.,)  who  still  continue  the  business. 

Annul  II.  Carpenter  has,  at  different  times,  carried  on  the 
Tin  and  Sheet  Iron  and  Stove  business,  alone  and  with  partners. 

DRUG    STORES. 

Dr.  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  the  first  physician  in  this  town, 
was  probably  the  first  dealer  in  Drugs  and  Medicines.  Being 
Postmaster,  he  kept  them  in  his  Post-Otfice,  a  small  building, 
twelve  by  sixteen  feet,  standing  on  the  east  side  of  Main 
street,  nearly  opposite  the  Bank  corner.  The  building,  after 
two  removals,  may  be  seen  on  Water  street,  where  it  forms 
the  wing  of  a  small  dwelling,  and  may  be  known  now,  and 
probably  for  the  period  of  at  least  another  generation,  by  the 
compound  word,  "  Post- Office,"  painted  on  the  frieze,  in 
si i a< led  letters,  partially  obliterated  by  a  coat  of  white  paint. 
In  1817,  Dr.  Sheldon  was  joined  in  professional  business  by 
Dr.  Augustus  Frank,  and  the  building  continued  to  be  used 
for  the  same  purpose  a  year  or  two,  when  they  went  into  the 
regular  mercantile  business  in  their  new  store,  Drugs  and 
Medicines  forming  a  part  of  their  stock.  After  their  dissolu- 
tion, Dr.  Frank  also  connected  with  his  store  this  branch  of 
trade;  and  the  more  common  drugs  and  patent  medicines 
were  kept  by  merchants  generally. 

The  first  drug  store  in  the  place,  separate  from  general 
merchandise,  was  established  about  the  year  1847  or  1818, 
by  Edwin  H.  Lansing,  of  Nunda.  With  this  business,  how- 
ever, he  connected  the  sale  of  Books  and  Stationery,  of  which 
he  kept  a  more  extensive  assortment  than  other  merchants. 
Mr.  Lansing,  alone  and  in  partnership  with  Charles  J.  Judd, 
and  perhaps  others,  continued  in  business  until  1855,  when 
he  sold  out  his  interest  and  removed  to  Rockford,  111.  Mr. 
Judd  has  also  been  connected  with  James  C.  Ferris  and 
Simeon  D.  Lewis  in  this  business. 


86  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Artemas  Blake,  either  alone  or  in  partnership,  was  in  the 
Drug  and  Grocery  business  many  years,  until  he  was  burned 
out  in  the  fire  of  February,  1867. 

A  Drug  and  Grocery  store  was  kept  a  few  years  by  George 
Duryee  and  his  brothers-in-law,  Josiah.  S.  and  John  B. 
Matthews.  In  the  fall  of  1861,  Alanson  Holly  bought  the 
stock;  continued  the  business  three  years,  and  sold  his 
goods  to  Blake  &  Homer,  who  were  in  the  same  business. 
Theirs  was  then  the  only  Drug  store  in  the  town. 

April  1,  1867,  James  O.  McClure  commenced  the  Drug 
business,  which  he  still  continues. 

In  1868,  Chauncey  C.  Buxton  and  Frank  Lewis  (Buxton  & 
Lewis)  established  a  new  Drug  store,  connecting  with  it  also 
the  Grocery  business. 

BOOKSTORES. 

School-books  and  the  more  common  articles  of  stationery 
were,  until  a  quite  late  period,  sold  by  merchants  in  general. 
And  for  many  years  after  the  book-trade  had  been  concen- 
trated in  the  hands  of  those  called  "book-sellers,"  it  was 
found  necessary  to  connect  with  it  some  one  or  more  other 
branches  of  trade.  The  earliest  book-sellers,  it  is  believed, 
were  Charles  J.  Judd  and  Edwin  L.  Fuller.  In  1851,  Mr. 
Fuller  sold  his  stock  of  books  and  other  goods  to  Xehemiah 
Park. 

The  book  business,  soon  after,  went  chiefly  into  the  hands 
of  Lewis  E.  Walker,  who  confines  himself  to  the  several  de- 
partments of  this  trade. 

GROCER  T I  :s. 

The  trade  in  Groceries  has  been  abandoned  by  our  Dry 
Goods  merchants,  and  is  chiefly  confined  to  the  Grocery  and 
Provision  dealers  proper,  and  to  the  Druggists,  who  usually 
keep  groceries.  Of  Grocers,  there  have  been  many  who  have 
done  extensive  business;  but  it  would  be  impossible  to  obtain 
a  full  list  of  them.  Nor  would  its  insertion  be  compatible 
with  the  limits  prescribed  to  this  work. 


MANUFACTURES.  87 

MANUFACTURES. 

SAW-MILLS  AND  GRIST-MILLS. 

The  first  saw-mill  in  this  town  is  said  to  Lave  been  Imilt 
by  Judge  Webster  in  1804.  But,  as  has  been  shown,  it  could 
not  have  been  in  operation  before  the  next  year.  [  See  p.  43.] 
It  was  on  O-at-ka  creek,  about  a  mile  and  a  half  south  of 
the  village,  near  where  the  road  up  the  East  Hill  crosses  the 
stream,  and  near  the  sites  of  the  old  Morris  grist-mill  and  of 
the  saw-mill  now  owned  by  Leonard  Martin.  A  mill  was 
built  at  an  early  day  on  the  wTest  branch  of  the  O-at-ka,  at  or 
near  the  place  now  known  as  Frankville,  and  where  Dr. 
Frank  and  Samuel  Mc  Whortcr  erected  another  in  1825.  In 
the  year  1813,  another  was  built  by  Samuel  Hough  on  the 
same  stream  about  a  mile  east  of  the  line  of  Orangeville,  and 
afterwards  owned  or  run  by  William  S.  Stone.  There  have 
been  mills  running  on  this  site  for  many  years,  by  different 
persons.  It  was  for  a  long  time  known  as  "  Whiting's  saw- 
mill." Another  was  built  on  the  same  stream  above  the 
Whiting  mill,  three- fourths  of  a  mile  east  of  Orangeville,  by 
Amos  Picket.  On  this  site,  mills  have  since  been  owned  or 
rebuilt  by  several  different  persons. 

In  1S27,  a  sawT-mill  wTas  built  by  Jonathan  and  Andrew 
W.  Young,  on  the  farm  of  the  former,  a  short  distance  above 
the  Pieket  mill  before  mentioned.  This  mill  was  never 
rebuilt.  Another  was  built  on  a  small  stream  in  the  south- 
west part  of  the  town,  and  owned  by  different  persons,  among 
whom  was  Nathaniel  Moss. 

The  only  saw-mills  now  running  in  this  town,  are  the  mill 
of  Leonard  Martin  before  mentioned;  the  mill  connected  with 
the  Map  Poller  factory  at  Martinville,  a  mile  and  a  half  south 
of  the  village;  and  the  mill  of  the  Patterson  Manufacturing 
Company  in  the  village. 

The  first  grist-mill  in  town  was  the  Morris  mill  already 
mentioned,  left  unfinished  by  Joseph  Mauley,  a  little  below 


88  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

South  Warsaw.  This  mill  is  said  to  have  been  built  in  1806; 
but  it  is  not  certain  that  it  was  in  running  order  until  the  next 
year. 

The  third  grist-mill  in  this  town  was  built  in  the  village 
by  Simeon  Cumings,  of  Batavia,  in  1816,  on  the  land  bought 
of  Judge  Webster.  Mr.  Cumings  having  failed  to  pay  the 
purchase  money,  the  property  was  sold  in  181S,  at  Sheriff's 
sale,  to  Trumbull  Cary,  of  Batavia,  who  continued  sole  owner 
of  the  mill  until  March,  1822,  when  he  sold  one-half  of  his 
interest  in  it  to  John  Wilder,  who  then  became  a  resident  of 
the  village.  In  1837,  he  sold  his  interest  to  Ichabod  and 
Martin  Hodge,  whose  interest  afterwards  fell  into  the  hands 
of  Mr.  Cary,  who  was  then  again  sole  proprietor.  In  April, 
1842,  he  sold  one-half  to  Isaac  C.  Bronson,  and  the  1st  of 
May  the  other  half  to  Leonard  Wilkin.  January  13, 18-19, 
Wilkin  sold  out  to  Stephens  Whitcher,  and  in  September, 
1850,  Bronson  and  Whitcher  both  sold  to  George  Reed. 
April  1,  1852,  Heed  sold  one-half  to  Edwin  II.  Lansing,  and 
November  1,  1852,  the  other  half  to  Charles  J.  Judd.  In 
March,  1855,  Lansing  sold  his  half  to  James  C.  Ferris,  and 
in  March,  1856,  Judd  sold  his  half  to  Ferris.  July  IS,  1859, 
Ferris  sold  his  whole  interest  to  James  and  John  W.  Sprague. 
In  1854,  John  W.  Sprague  became,  and  is  still,  the  sole  pro- 
prietor. It  is  now  more  than  fifty  years  since  this  mill  was 
built.  Of  course  little,  if  any,  of  the  original  structure 
remains  except  the  frame,  which  has  been  considerably  en- 
larged since  the  building  was  first  erected. 

In  1811  or  1815,  a  grist-mill  was  built  by  Cyrus  Webster 
at  the  head  of  the  "Gulf1'  on  West  Hill,  propelled  by  the 
small  stream  which  there  enters  the  ravine,  and  by  an  "over- 
shot" wheel.  It  was  a  small  mill;  but  it  was  a  considerable 
convenience  to  the  people  living  west  of  the  village,  until  the 
mill  in  the  village  was  built;  after  which  it  was  run  but  a 
short  time  before  it  was  destroyed  by  fire. 

In  1826,  Abial  Lathrop  built  a  grist-mill  near  South  War- 
saw.    He  afterwards  sold  the  mill   to  Willard   Stearns   and 


MANUFACTURES.  89 

John  F.  Clark.  Stearns  sold  to  Roswell  Gould,  and  Gould 
to  John  Truesdell.  Truesdell  and  Clark  rebuilt  in  1833,  and 
run  it  eighteen  or  twenty  years.  Truesdell  bought  out  Clark, 
and  after  managing  it  a  short  time,  he  sold  back  to  Clark  a 
half  interest;  and  it  was  run  by  them  a  few  years.  Truesdell 
then  sold  his  half  to  Deacon  Eliphalet  Owen,  of  Middlebury. 
Owen  sold  to  Enoch  Ilovey;  Hovey  to  Webster  and  Andrews; 
they  to  Alonzo  Choate;  and  Choate  to  Leonard  Wilkin.  Next 
Clark  sold  his  half  interest  to  Joshua  II.  Darling,  and 
Darling  to  Wilkin,  who  was  then  sole  owner.  Wilkin  after- 
wards sold  out  his  whole  interest  to  Robert  R.  Munger  and 
his  son  Samuel.     This  son  is  now  sole  proprietor. 

A  few  years  after  the  erection  of  the  saw-mill  of  McWhorter 
and  Frank,  Dr.  Frank  built  just  below  it  a  grist-mill,  which 
was  run  a  few  years,  and  converted  into  a  wool-carding  and 
a  turning  machine,  which  were  not  long  in  operation. 

The  woolen  manufactory  erected  by  Gardner,  Utter  & 
Co.,  elsewhere  noticed,  came  into  the  hands  of  Robert  R. 
Munger,  and  was  by  him  converted  into  a  grist-mill,  which 
has  since  been  owned  successively  by  Oliver  C.  Chapman, 
Brown  (George)  &  Milliman,  Taylor  &  Milliman,  Taylor  & 
Durfee,  and  C.  K.  &  A.  Brown,  its  present  owners. 

There  are  at  present  three  grist-mills  in  this  town — the 
two  in  the  village,  and  the  one  in  the  south  part  of  the  town. 

WOOLEN   MANUFACTURE. 

For  a  long  time  previous  to  the  first  settlement  of  this  town, 
and  for  many  years  afterwards,  most  of  the  woolen  goods 
worn  in  the  families  of  farmers,  were  of  household  manufac- 
ture. Many  now  living  remember  when  carding  machines  first 
relieved  their  mothers  from  the  tedious  process  of  carding  the 
wool  by  hand.  This  labor  saving  machine,  however,  had  be- 
come common  when  this  town  was  settled ;  and  some  of  the 
earliest  settlers  were  obliged  to  send  wool  a  great  distance  to 
be  carded.  As  soon  as  the  flocks  in  this  and  the  adjacent 
towns  were  sufficient  to  warrant  the  enterprise,  a  wool-card- 


90  HISTORY  OF  WARSAW. 

ing  and  cloth  dressing  establishment  was  put  up  in  this 
town.  It  was  built  by  Seymour  Ensign,  in  the  south  part  of 
the  town,  on  the  small  stream  which  crosses  the  road  near 
Rufus  Morris's  in  South  Warsaw,  on  the  west  side  of  the  road. 
Another  was  afterwards  built  by  Simeon  P.  Glazier,  in  the 
same  neighborhood,  on  O-at-ka  creek,  which  was  destroyed 
by  fire,  and  rebuilt.  It  was  owned  at  different  times  by 
several  persons. 

In  181 G,  a  carding  and  cloth-dressing  establishment  was 
built  in  the  village  near  the  grist-mill,  by  Samuel  Hough  and 
Elijah  Norton.  After  two  years,  Orson  Hough  acquired  the 
interest  of  his  father.  Norton  &  Hough  carried  on  the  busi- 
ness two  or  three  years,  and  built  in  the  south  part  of  the 
village,  on  or  near  the  present  site  of  Garretsee's  foundry. 
After  about  two  years,  Hough  became  the  sole  owner,  and 
continued  so  until  about  the  year  1S38,  when  he  sold  to 
William  K.  Crooks,  with  whose  term  of  proprietorship  the 
business  ended;  and  the  establishment  was  converted  first 
into  a  tannery,  by  Daniel  Young,  and  next  into  a  furnace  and 
machine  shop.  It  has  for  many  years  been,  and  is  still, 
owned  and  kept  in  operation,  by  Mr.  Henry  Garretsee,  who 
has  also  connected  with  it  a  carding  machine. 

In  1825,  Conable  &  Moss  enlarged  their  business  in  South 
Warsaw,  by  the  establishment  of  a  proper  Woolen  Factory, 
which,  after  three  years,  they  sold  to  David  Seymour.  At 
the  end  of  one  year,  Conable  became  joint  proprietor  with 
Seymour,  and  soon  after,  sole  owner,  and  continued  so  three 
years.  He  then  sold  half  of  his  interest  to  Joseph  Pike. 
After  two  years,  William  Webster  bought  Conable's  remain- 
ing interest,  and  at  the  end  of  one  year  sold  to  Edward 
Naramore.  The  partnership  of  Pike  &  JSTaramore  continued 
nine  or  ten  years,  when  they  sold  to  Chester  Hurd  ifc  Son, 
who  retained  and  used  the  carding  machines  for  custom  work, 
and  attached  to  the  building  a  machine  shop.  They  run  them 
about  two  years,  when  they  were  destroyed  by  fire. 


MANUFACTURES.  91 

In  1841,  a  woolen  factory  was  established  by  ■ Gardner, 

Isaac  Utter,  Isaac  C.  Branson,  and  John  Windsor,  under  the 
firm  of  Gardner,  Utter  &  Co.  It  was  run  by  them  a  number 
of  years,  when  Gardner  and  Windsor  left  the  concern,  and 
Erastus  D.  Day  became  a  partner  with  Bronson  &  Utter. 
Utter,  Day  &  Co.,  carried  on  the  business  for  a  few  years, 
when  the  mercantile  firm  of  Comstock,  Andrews  &  Co.,  be- 
came partners;  and  the  firm  was  changed  to  E.  D.  Day  &  Co., 
and  so  remained  until  the  business  was  discontinued,  and  the 
building  sold  to  Robert  R.  Hunger,  who  turned  it  into  a 
grist-mill,  elsewhere  noticed.  An  extensive  manufacturing 
business  was  done  at  this  establishment  during  the  earlier 
years  of  its  existence.  Its  fabrics  were  sold  throughout  West- 
ern Xew  York. 

CARRIAGE    MANUFACTURE. 

For  a  number  of  years  prior  to  1824,  the  business  of  wagon 
repairing  and  the  making  of  lumber  sleighs,  was  clone  by 
Ephiiam  Beebe.  In  18^4,  the  carriage  and  sleigh -making 
business  was  established  by  Horace  Hollister,  which,  for  many 
years,  kept  up  with  the  increasing  demand  for  work  of  this 
kind.  His  shop  was  on  Water  street,  a  few  rods  north  of  the 
residence  of  Hon.  Seth  M.  Gates,  which  also  was  built  by  Mr. 
Hollister. 

In  September,  1830,  Mr.  Hollister  sold  out  his  establish- 
ment to  the  Buxton  brothers,  William,  Chauncey,  and  Timo- 
thy. At  the  end  of  the  first  year,  William  withdrew  from 
the  firm,  and  the  business  was  continued  by  C.  &  T.  Buxton 
for  nearly  thirty  years.  After  having  done  business  here  a 
few  years,  they  removed  their  shop  to  its  present  location, 
near  the  Baptist  church,  on  Main  street.  They  have  from 
time  t<>  time  made  additions  to  their  buildings  to  meet  the  in- 
creased demand  for  their  work.  They  began  with  a  capital 
of  a  few  hundred  dollars,  and  had  to  buy  almost  wholly  on 
credit.  Their  work  soon  acquired  a  high  reputation  for 
strength  and  durability,  and  their  business  continued  to  in- 


92  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

crease,  until  large  quantities  of  their  manufacture  went  out  of 
this  state  into  Pennsylvania,  Illinois,  and  California.  Nearly 
$15,000  worth  was  sold  in  Illinois  in  a  single  year.  Their 
aggregate  annual  sales  for  several  years  ranged  from  $20,000 
to  nearly  $30,000.  While  others  of  their  trade  have  had  to 
succumb  to  " hard  times,1'  their  business,  though  for  several 
years  materially  depressed,  has  always  been  remunerative. 

Having  successfully  prosecuted  their  business  until  October, 
1866,  (thirty  years,)  Chauncey  sold  his  interest  to  Ferris  W. 
Norton  and  Charles  E.  William?;  and  the  firm  was  changed 
to  T.  H.  Buxton  &  Co.  An  additional  partner,  Mr.  Crippen, 
has  since  been  admitted,  without  a  change  of  firm. 

An  establishment  of  this  kind  for  plain  work  was  conducted 
for  several  years  on  a  limited  scale  in  South  Warsaw,  by    < 
Jeremiah  Ensign. 

Another  similar  manufactory  has  lately  been  commenced 
in  this  village  by  Jacob  W.  Ivnapp,  Eli  Dibble,  and  James 
M.  Eullington,  on  Genesee  street. 

TANNERIES. 

When  and  by  whom  the  first  Tannery  was  built,  we  can 
not  state  with  certainty.  Deacon  John  Hunger  came  to  War- 
saw in  1806,  and  bought  a  farm  half  a  mile  south  of  the 
village.  He  was  by  trade  a  tanner  and  currier,  and  carried 
on  that  business  for  many  years  with  his  farming.  If,  as  is 
probable,  he  built  his  tannery  soon  after  his  coming  in,  his 
was,  it  is  presumed,  the  first  in  town.  It  was  carried  on  by 
him  about  twenty  years. 

In  1814,  Calvin  Eumscy  established  a  tannery  in  this  vil- 
lage, on  Buffalo  street,  west  side  of  the  creek.  He  was  joined 
in  1817  by  his  brother  Aaron,  who,  after  a  partnership  of  ten 
years  in  tanning  and  shoemaking,  sold  his  interest  to  his 
brother  Calvin  in  1827,  and  removed  to  Westficld.  Several  » 
years  after,  Calvin  sold  to  Miller  &  Preston,  who  con- 
ducted the  business  for  several  years.  In  or  about  the  year 
1836,  Preston  sold  out  his  interest  to  Miller,  and  moved  to 


MANUFACTURES.  93 

Illinois;  and  a  few  years  after,  Miller  discontinued  the  busi- 
ness. For  a  number  of  years,  the  establishment  was  owned 
and  conducted  by  different  persons,  when  it  was  finally  dis- 
continued. 

Abraham  "W.  Brown  built  a  small  tannery  in  the  east  part 
of  the  town,  and  continued  the  business  some  fifteen  or  twenty 
years.  Another  was  built  by  Solomon  Trucsdell  in  the  south 
part  of  the  town,  in  the  valley,  near  Gainesville.  It  was  car- 
ried on,  first  by  himself  for  a  number  of  years,  afterwards  by 
Peter  R.  Warren. 

John  Trucsdell  and  John  B.  Clark  established  a  tannery  in 
south  "Warsaw,  about  the  year  1830 — perhaps  a  little  later — 
which  was  continued  many  years. 

Henry  B.  Jenks  and  H.  A.  Metcalf  built  a  tannery  in  the 
west  part  of  the  village;  and,  after  running  it  a  short  time, 
sold  it,  January  1,  1804,  to  "Wolcott  J.  Humphrey.  In  1865, 
Samuel  B.  Humphrey  became  a  partner,  and  Lester  H. 
Humphrey  in  1867.  In  the  spring  of  186S,  this  establish- 
ment, which  did  an  extensive  business,  was  destroyed  by 
fire,  together  with  a  large  amount  of  stock,  finished  and  un- 
finished. It  was  immediately  rebuilt  by  S.  B.  Humphrey, 
who  continues  the  business. 

MAP-ROLLER    FACTORY. 

In  1851,  Leonard  L.  Martin  bought  a  water  privilege  a 
mile  and  a  half  south  ot  the  village.  The  next  year  he  built 
a  saw-mill,  and  in  1853,  in  connection  with  his  brother,  Mavor 
Martin,  started  the  business  of  manufacturing  map-rollers. 
Although  the  property  and  business  have  since  been  in  the 
hands  of  different  firms,  it  has  most  of  the  time  been  under 
the  superintendence  of  one  or  the  other  of  the  two  brothers. 
The  present  proprietors  are  Mavor  Martin,  "Washington  Martin, 
and  Henry  Sheldon,  associated  under  the  firm  of  Martin  &  Co. 

This  business  was  first  suggested  by  Mr.  Horace  Thayer, 
then  connected  with  an  extensive  map  publishing  house  in 
New  York,  and  rendered  material  assistance  in  starting  it. 


94  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

Not  only  did  this  factory  supply  the  house  for  whose  conve- 
nience and  benefit  it  was  chiefly  designed,  but  its  business 
has  been  greatly  extended,  until  it  probably  equals  any  other 
establishment  of  the  kind  in  this  country.  It  gives  employ- 
ment to  from  ten  to  fifteen  hands.  It  turns  off  work  steadily 
to  an  average  value,  monthly,  of  about  $1,000;  but  it  has,  at 
times,  much  exceeded  that  amount.  It  consumes  annually 
about  150,000  feet  of  lumber,  sawed  by  the  mill  connected 
with  it,  and  turns  out  about  125,000  rollers. 

[Since  the  above  was  written,  Washington  Martin,  of  the 
above  firm  has  died.] 

FOUNDRIES. 

The  first  Furnace  or  Iron  Foundry  was  established  on  the 
north  side  of  Buffalo  street,  between  the  corner  of  "Water 
street  and  the  bridge,  by  Dr.  Augustus  Frank  and  Benjamin 
L.  Wafkins,  about  the  year  1S21.  It  was  afterwards  carried 
on  by  Frank  &  Gregg,  who  manufactured  stoves,  plows,  ma- 
chinery, etc.,  until  1838,  when  it  was  continued  by  Dr.  Frank 
and  Nathan  Raymond,  (firm,  N.  Raymond  &  Co.,)  and  con- 
ducted by  them  three  years;  and  then  by  Dr.  Frank  alone 
for  several  years.  The  business  was  then  removed  to  a  new 
brick  building  erected  on  Main  street,  nearly  opposite  the 
Brick  Hotel,  and  continued  for  some  time.  In  1818,  it  was 
leased  to  Comstock,  Andrews  &  Co.  for  three  years.  They 
continued  the  business  two  years  and  eight  months,  and  sold 
out  to  Gates  &  Garetsee,  who,  after  four  months,  removed 
their  business  to  the  present  stand  of  Henry  Garretsee  in  the 
south  part  of  the  village. 

The  business  of  Comstock,  Andrews  &  Co.,  was  about 
$20,000  a  year  in  this  line.  The  number  of  cook  stoves  made 
yearly  was  about  one  thousand  seven  hundred,  besides  many 
box-stoves.  The  manufacturing  of  various  agricultural  imple- 
ments, and  a  general  machinery  business,  were  connected 
with  the  establishment.  The  stoves  produced  by  this  firm 
were  chiefly  made  for  Gates  cv:  Garretsee,  hardware  mer- 
chants in  this  village. 


MANUFACTURES.  95 

Since  the  business  passed  into  the  hands  of  Gates  &  Gar- 
retsee,  it  has  been  carried  on  extensively  by  them  and  the 
successive  firms  of  C.  C.  Gates  &  Co.,  Garretsee  &  Morris, 
and  II.  Garetsee,  by  whom  it  is  still  conducted,  turning  out 
work  to  the  amount  of  from  815,000  to  $20,000  annually. 

About  the  year  1837,  Hodge  &  Wilder  erected  works  on 
the  race  directly  north  of  Sprague's  grist-mill,  for  the  manu- 
facture of  scales,  box  stoves,  and  machinery.  The  business 
was  discontinued  about  the  year  1846,  and  the  buildings  were 
removed. 

In  1860,  William  Robinson,  Jim.,  erected  a  brick  Furnace 
on  Genesee  street,  and  carried  on  the  business  about  one  year; 
next,  Abraham  B.  Lawrence,  about  the  same  length  of  time; 
and  after  his  enlistment  in  the  army  in  August,  1862,  Ira 
Ilurd,  also  about  a  year,  when  it  was  discontinued.  The 
building  is  now  used  by  Knapp,  Fullington  &  Co.  as  a  wagon 
and  carriage  shop. 

TLANING  MILLS. 

The  first  settlers,  as  has  been  stated,  were  unable  to  obtain 
lumber  for  building.  Their  log  houses  were  covered  with 
bark,  and  their  floors  were  made  of  split  basswood  plank, 
hewed  on  one  side.  Saw-mills  were  soon  built,  but  they 
furnished  the  settlers  with  coarse  lumber  only.  The  pine 
lumber  used  was  brought  chiefly  from  Allegany  county.  And 
we  take  occasion  here  to  state,  that  the  pine  lumber  trade 
came  in  time  to  constitute  a  considerable  portion  of  the  busi- 
ness of  this  village.  The  people  in  the  pine  region  were  de- 
pendent upon  the  more  agricultural  and  earlier  settled  towns 
formany  of  the  necessaries  of  life;  and  vast  quantities  of  their 
great  staple,  pine  lumber,  was  brought  in  by  teams,  and  ex- 
changed for  store  goods,  grain,  and  other  commodities. 

Until  within  a  late  period,  lumber  for  the  siding  of  houses, 
for  doors,  floors,  window  sash,  blinds,  &c,  was  dressed  by 
hand.  A  great  change  has  taken  place.  The  lumber  is  now 
chiefly  brought  to  this  place  by  railroad;  and  the  dressing  is 
done  by  machinery. 


96  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

In  1835,  Chester  Ilurd  and  his  son,  C.  Paddock  Ilurd, 
erected,  a  short  distance  in  the  rear  of  the  Bnxtons'  Carriage 
Manufactory,  a  building  for  a  Steam  Planing  Mill.  They 
put  in  machinery  for  planing  lumber,  and  for  manufacturing 
all  kinds  of  wood  work  required  for  building.  They  soon 
formed  a  co-partnership  with  S.  M.  Gates  and  Allen  Y.  Breck, 
(Gates  &  Breck,)  merchants;  and  under  the  firm  of  Breck, 
Gates  &  Ilurd  the  business  was  enlarged  by  the  addition  of  a 
saw  mill  and  other  machinery. 

In  April,  1859,  Mr.  Breck  and  Chester  Ilurd  sold  their 
interest  to  Mr.  Gates  and  C.  P.  Ilurd.  On  the  night  of  the 
11th  of  October,  the  entire  establishment,  including  a  large 
lot  of  lumber,  wTas  destroyed  by  fire.  The  loss — nearly  ten 
thousand  dollars — wras  so  severe,  that  they  hesitated  about 
rebuilding.  But  the  citizens,  regarding  such  an  establishment 
of  great  utility  to  the  town  and  surrounding  country,  raised 
about  two  thousand  dollars  to  aid  in  rebuilding.  A  new 
building  of  brick  was  immediately  erected;  the  business  was 
soon  resumed,  and  wras  successfully  prosecuted  for  several 
years.  The  property  was  leased  to  Horace  Thayer,  who  added 
to  the  saw-mill  and  machinery  other  branches  of  manufactur- 
ing. He  had  carried  on  the  business  but  a  short  time  when 
the  property  was  again  destroyed  by  fire,  just  six  years,  to  a 
day,  after  the  first  fire.  The  loss  to  the  owners  was  about 
four  thousand  dollars,  and  considerable  to  Mr.  Thayer.  The 
lot  and  the  property  saved  were  disposed  of,  and  the  business 
closed. 


PATTEESOX   MANUFACTURING    COMPANY. 

In  the  spring  of  1866,  T.  J.  Patterson,  J.  E.  Ketchum,  S. 
Mentor  Howard,  Augustus  Frank,  Geo.  W.  Prank,  Chauncey 
C.  Buxton,  Timothy  II.  Buxton,  Wm.  Bristol,  B.  B.  Conable, 
Samuel  Fisher,  2d,  and  Boswell  Gould,  formed  a  partnership 
under  the  name  and  firm  of  the  "Patterson  Manufacturing 
Company,"  with  a  capital  sufficient  to  carry  on  the  planing 
and    various  other  branches  of  the  lumber  business  on  an 


MERCHANTS.  07 

extensive  scale.  This  establishment  is  on  the  west  side  of  the 
creek,  on  Munger  street.  In  addition  to  the  various  kinds  of 
machinery  which  it  embraces,  is  an  excellent  saw-mill,  all  of 
which  are  operated  by  steam.  Its  capacity  tor  business  has 
been  increased,  until  it  is  exceeded  by  few  similar  establish- 
ments in  Western  Kew  York.  The  title  of  the  firm  remains 
unchanged,  though  some  of  the  original  partners  have  dis- 
posed of  their  interest  to  others. 

To  the  manufacture  ot  building  materials  and  the  exten- 
sive sale  of  lumber,  has  been  added  the  manufacture  of  staves 
and  heading,  and  of  barrels.  This  branch  of  the  business  is 
conducted  by  Royal  T.  Howard,  under  the  firm  of  It.  T. 
Howard  &  Co. 

A  material  part  of  the  buildings  of  this  Company,  is  the  old 
Presbyterian  church  edifice,  which  was  bought  for  this  pur- 
pose, and  remeved  to  its  present  situation  on  the  west  side  of 
the  creek. 

CABINET    MAKERS. 

The  first  Cabinet  shop  of  any  considerable  consequence 
was  established  in  1817,  by  Gerard  Fitch  and  Howard  Bos- 
worth,  (Fitch  ct  Bosworth,)in  the  "old  cider-mill,"  on  Buffalo 
street.  After  a  short  time,  Mr.  Fitch  left  the  business,  and  it 
was  carried  on  for  a  number  of  years  by  Mr.  Bosworth  alone, 
who  removed  to  Le  Boy. 

George  D.  Farnham  (year  not  remembered)  commenced 
business  in  the  building  now  occupied  by  Edward  C.  Shattuck 
in  the  same  business.  Mr.  Farnham  carried  on  the  business 
for  many  years,  a  small  part  of  the  time  in  company  with 
his  brother,  Horatio  X.  Both  removed  to  Silver  Creek,  where 
the  latter  was  engaged  many  years  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness; the  former  in  the  hardware  trade. 

Of  the  many  others  who  have  carried  on  the  cabinet  busi- 
ness, we  can  do  little  more  than  simply  give  the  names  of 
some  of  them.     ~\Ve  mention  the  following:  Alanson  Bartlett, 

Pendleton,  Moses  Osgood,  Stedman,  J.  Spencer 

Bartlett,  and  Edward  C.  Shattuck.  7 


98  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


CARPET    FACTORY. 


In  18-il,  or  the  year  following,  Joseph  J.  Davidson,  of  Alle- 
gany county,  removed  to  this  village  and  erected  a  building 
near  the  south  bridge,  for  the  manufacture  of  carpets.  His 
manufactures,  in  resj^ect  to  quality  and  the  beauty  of  patterns 
and  designs,  compared  favorably  with  those  manufactured 
elsewhere.  But  the  large  establishments  at  the  East  furnish- 
ing the  article  at  lower  prices,  the  business  was  after  a  few 
years  abandoned.  Mr.  Davidson  removed  to  Wisconsin,  and 
after  a  residence  in  that  state  of  some  eight  or  ten  years,  he 
removed  to  the  territory  of  Montana,  where  he  now  resides. 


ROADS  AND  BRIDGES. 

It  seems  to  have  been  the  rule,  on  the  Holland  Purchase, 
to  have  the  roads  running  parallel  north  and  south,  and  east 
and  west,  crossing  each  other  at  right  angles,  and  to  have  at 
least  two  sides  of  every  whole  lot  bounded  by  a  highway. 
And  to  preserve  straight  bounds  to  the  farms,  the  roads  were 
kept  on  lines,  except  where  hills  or  swamps  would  render 
them  impassable.  Also  important  roads  have  been  run 
obliquely  to  shorten  distances. 

The  old  road  from  Leicester,  the  first  which  was  traveled 
from  that  place,  (the  "  Old  Buffalo  Road,"  before  mentioned,) 
entered  the  valley  a  mile  and  a  half  north  of  the  center,  and 
continued  west  along  the  line  of  lots  to  the  valley  of  the 
Tonawanda,  near  Varysburgh.  The  east  hill  being  at  that 
place  of  easier  ascentand  descent,  was  probably  one  of  the 
reasons  for  entering  and  leaving  the  valley  at  that  distance 
from  the  principal  settlement  in  the  town,  now  the  village. 
The  west  part  of  Leicester  (now  the  town  of  Perry,)  having 
become  settled,  a  more  direct  road  from  Leicester  was 
opened;  which  came  into  the  valley  three- fourths  of  a  mile 


ROADS    AND   BRIDGES.  99 

north  of  the  center,  and  was  thereafter  the  one  principally 
traveled  until  after  the  laving  out  of  the 

STATE    ROAD   FROM   CANANDAIGUA. 

In  1815,  was  passed  an  act  amendatory  of  a  previous  act, 
authorizing  a  survey  of  the  State  Road  from  Canandaigua  to 
Lake  Erie,  striking  the  lake  eight  miles  above  Buffalo.  The 
road  was  surveyed  in  1816,  by  Lemuel  Foster.  A  map  of 
this  road  through  the  town  of  Warsaw,  with  a  copy  ot  the 
"  field  notes  "  of  the  Surveyor,  certified  by  him  to  be  correct, 
is  still  in  the  Town  Clerk's  office;  to  which  is  appended  the 
following: 

"The  preceding  having  been  by  us  examined  and  com- 
pared with  the  original  minutes,  we  do  establish  the  same  as 
a  state  road  one  chain  and  fifty  links  wide  within  the  town  of 
"Warsaw. 

"  Lemuel  Foster, 
"  Salmon  King, 
"  James  Cronk, 

'•  Commissioners." 
This  is  the  road  now  traveled  from  the  Transit  line  throusrli 
the  village  of  Warsaw  to  the  west  line  of  the  town,  except 
that  part  of  it  called  the  "  Gulf  Road."  What  is  now  Gene- 
see street  was  not  opened  until  this  road  was  constructed  up 
the  east  hill.  A  few  years  later,  Livingston  street  was 
opened,  and,  partly  with  a  view  to  diminish  the  ascending 
grade,  a  new  road  was  made  from  the  head  of  this  street  to 

the  state  road,  entering  it  a  little  above  the  head  of  Genesee 
street. 

THE    GULF   ROAD. 

The  road  by  which  the  west  hill  was  at  first  ascended,  left 
the  fiats  at  the  lower  end  of  the  ravine,  near  Judge  Webster's, 
now  the  residence  of  Henry  B.  Jenks,  turning  to  the  left, 
ascending  circuitously,  and  striking  the  line  of  the  present 
road  near  the  head  of  the  ravine.  This  was  for  more  than 
thirty  years  the  only  way  of  exit  from  the  village  west.     The 


100  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

ascent  with  heavy  loads  was  difficult,  requiring  often  an  extra 
team.  This  difficulty  was  at  length  obviated  by  the  con- 
struction of  the  present  road  through  the  ravine,  or  gulf. 

A  contract  dated  June  7,  1834,  was  entered  into  between 
John  Truesdell,  Xoah  Fisk,  and  Isaac  N.  Phelps,  Commis- 
sioners of  Highways  of  the  town  of  "Warsaw,  on  the  part  of 
the  town,  and  Samuel  McWhorter,  Esq.,  a  resident  of  this 
town,  for  the  construction  of  the  said  road.  The  road  wras  to 
be  completed  by  the  1st  of  January,  1835,  for  which  Mr. 
McWhorter  was  to  receive  the  sum  of  $1,000.  The  surface 
of  the  road  was  to  average  twenty  feet  in  width,  and  to  be  in 
no  place  less  than  sixteen  feet.  In  constructing  the  wall  to 
protect  the  road  against  injury  from  the  stream,  all  the  stone 
found  in  the  ground  that  should  be  broken  were  to  be  used, 
together  with  such  as  could  be  easily  obtained  from  the 
stream.  If  the  stone  thus  obtained  should  be  insufficient,  the 
deficiency  might  be  supplied  with  timber  or  other  material. 
The  road  was  warranted  for  the  term  of  ten  years. 

McWhorter  was  to  receive  in  payment  all  the  collectable 
subscriptions  obtained  for  constructing  the  road;  $100  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1S35;  $250  in  February,  1836;  and  the  remainder  in 
February,  1837.  If  any  money  should  be  appropriated  by 
the  Board  of  Supervisors  for  constructing  or  repairing  roads 
and  bridges  in  this  town,  before  the  full  payment  of  $1,000, 
the  sum  appropriated  was  to  be  immediately  paid  to  Mr. 
McWhorter,  without  affecting  the  stipulated  payments  as  to 
time.  He  was  also  to  receive,  in  addition  to  the  $1,000,  such 
portion  of  highway  labor,  as  the  overseers  of  any  road  district 
should  see  fit  to  bestow  upon  the  road.  The  last  payment 
($142.88,)  was  made  June  21,  1837. 

Scarcely  any  single  improvement  in  this  town  has  been  of 
greater  public  benefit,  than  the  construction  of  this  road. 
Especially  will  it  be  so  regarded,  when  we  take  into  consider- 
ation the  large  amount  of  travel  to  and  from  the  Railroad  in 
the  transportation  of  freight  and  passengers. 


ROADS    AND    BRIDGES.  101 


BRIDGES. 


The  principal  bridges  in  this  town  are  those  across  O-at-ka 
Creek,  of  which  there  are  six;  two  in  the  south  part  of  the 
town,  one  just  above  and  the  other  below  South  Warsaw;  two 
in  the  village;  and  two  north  of  it.  All  of  them  have  at 
times  required  considerable  sums  to  repair  injuries  from 
freshets.  The  most  important  of  these  bridges  are  the  two  in 
the  village.  They  were  formerly  built  of  wood,  and  the 
damage  they  sometimes  received  was  such  as  to  make  cross- 
ing dangerous,  and  at  times  even  impossible.  A  recurrence 
of  such  an  event  is  not  likely  to  be  witnessed  within  the  life 
time  of  the  youngest  inhabitant.  A  few  years  since,  a  stone 
bridge  was  built,  under  the  supervision  of  Frank  Miller, 
across  the  creek  in  the  south  part  of  the  village.  It  consists 
of  a  single  arch  or  culvert,  the  foundations  of  which  are  well 
secured.  Much  of  the  difficulty  in  maintaining  a  bridge  at 
that  place,  and  preserving  the  road  on  the  south  side,  was 
caused  by  the  washing  of  the  stream  which  empties  into 
O-at-ka  creek  at  that  point.  This  difficulty  has  been  ob- 
viated by  changing  the  channel  of  the  former,  so  as  to  form 
a  junction  with  the  principal  stream,  a  few  rods  below  the 
bridge. 

In  1867,  at  an  expense  of  five  or  six  thousand  dollars,  a 
new  stone  bridge,  similar  to  the  above,  was  built  across  the 
O-at-ka,  on  Buffalo  street,  under  the  superintendence  of  the 
Commissioners,  Frank  Miller  and  Samuel  Miller,  2d,  who 
were  appointed  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors. 


102  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW, 


RAILROADS. 

Until  the  year  1852,  "Warsaw  was  without  Railway  accom- 
modations. The  Tonawanda  Railroad,  from  Rochester  to 
Attica,  was  the  first  one  built  in  this  section  of  the  state;  and 
not  long  after  its  completion,  the  Attica  and  Buffalo  road  was 
constructed.  For  a  time,  the  citizens  of  "Warsaw  made  Ba- 
tavia  the  point  of  taking  the  railroad  east  and  west.  Attica 
being  a  nearer  point,  a  daily  line  of  stages  to  that  place  was 
soon  after  established;  and  passengers  and  freight  by  rail- 
road destined  to  or  going  from  "Warsaw,  were  received  and 
delivered  at  Attica,  until  the  completion  of  the  Attica  and 
Hornellsville  road  in  1852. 

WARSAW  AND  LEROY  RAILROAD. 

Before  the  completion  of  the  roads  first  mentioned,  a  rail- 
way was  projected,  making  Warsaw  the  terminus.  Had  this 
road  been  constructed,  it  would  probably  have  increased  the 
population  of  the  village  to  several  thousand,  and  long  before 
this  time  been  extended  south — intersecting  other  roads — to 
the  coal-mines  of  Pennsylvania,  and  thence  to  Pittsburgh.  A 
brief  history  of  this  project  may  be  interesting  to  many  readers. 

By  an  act  of  the  Legislature,  passed  May  5,  1831,  incorpo- 
rating the  ""Warsaw  and  LeRoy  Railroad  Company,"  to  con- 
struct a  road  from  "Warsaw  along  the  valley  of  the  O-at-ka, 
to  LeRoy.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  notice  posted  along 
the  route: 

"  Notice  is  hereby  given  that  Books  will  be  open  to  receive 
subscriptions  to  the  Capital  Stock  of  the  "Warsaw  and  LeRoy 
Railroad  Company,  at  the  Inn  kept  by  Wm.  Bingham  in  the 
village  of  "Warsaw,  on  Monday,  the  30th  day  of  March  next, 
at  12  o'clock  at  noon,  and  at  Butler's  Mansion  House,  in  the 
village  of  Wyoming,  on  the  31st  day  of  March  next,  at  12 
o'clock  at  noon,  and  at  the  Inn  kept  by  T.  Dwight,  in  the  vil- 


RAILROADS.  103 

lage  of  LeRoy,  on  the  1st  day  of  April  next,  at  12  o'clock  at 
noon. 

H.  J.  Redfied,     John  B.  Skinner,         John  Wilder, 
Jacob  LeRoy,      Samuel  McWhorter,  Wm.  Patterson, 
Seth  M.  Gates,  Augustus  Frank,        J.  A.  McElwain, 

Commissioners." 

More  than  the  $100,000  of  the  stock  required  by  the  char- 
ter was  subscribed.  April  22d,  the  Commissioners  distributed 
the  stock,  more  than  half  of  it  being  taken  and  held  at  War- 
saw; and  ten  per  cent,  was  paid  in  on  subscribing. 

A  meeting  of  the  stockholders  was  held  at  Pavilion,  June 
4,  1831,  for  the  election  of  Directors,  and  the  following  were 
chosen: 

John  A.  McElwain,  Jacob  LeRoy, 

John  Wilder,  Miles  P.  Lampson, 

Orson  Hough,  Stephen  O.  Almy, 

Augustus  Frank,  Seth  M.  Gates, 

Isaac  C.  Bronson,  Of  LeRoy. 

Of  Warsaw. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Directors  on  the  same  day,  the  follow- 
ing officers  were  chosen: 

President — Jacob  LeRoy. 

Secretary — Seth  M.  Gates. 

Treasurer — John  A.  McElwain. 

Commissioners — Miles  P.  Lampson,  John  A.  McElwain. 

Finance  Com. — Joshua  Lathrop,  Joshua  II.  Darling. 

Jarvis  Ward,  Civil  Engineer,  was  employed  to  make  a 
survey  and  an  estimate  of  the  expense  of  the  road,  from  the 
foot  of  Fort  Hill,  in  LeRoy,  (2£  miles  north  of  the  village,)  to 
Warsaw,  accompanied  by  John  A.  McElwain  and  Miles  P. 
Lampson,  Commissioners.  He  made  such  survey  and  esti- 
mates; and  on  the  12th  of  Xov.,  1S35,  he  made  his  Report  to 
the  Directors.  By  that  Report,  now  on  file  in  the  Clerk's 
office  of  Wyoming  county,  the  route  is  declared  practicable, 


104  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

and  the  average  expense  per  mile  of  building  it  was  reported 
at  $3,334.24;  and  the  entire  cost  of  the  road,  not  including 
the  title  to  land  over  which  it  should  pass,  nor  fencing, 
$72,270.14.  Elisha  Johnson,  Civil  Engineer,  was  subsequently 
employed  to  make  surveys  and  report  on  the  practicability  of 
the  route  from  LeRoy  to  Tonawanda  Railroad  in  Bergen. 
Although  no  written  report  from  him  is  on  file,  the  recollec- 
tion of  the  commissioners  and  directors  is,  that  he  regarded 
the  difficulties  and  cost  of  making  that  part  of  the  road  as,1 
much  greater  than  the  Company  had  supposed.  This,  in  con- 
nection with  the  fact,  that  the  Directors  found  it  impossible  to 
proceed  as  rapidly  with  the  construction  of  the  road  as  the 
charter  required,  and  their  failing  to  induce  the  Legislature 
to  grant  them  an  extension  of  time,  led  to  the  abandonment 
of  the  project.  And  on  the  29th  day  of  July,  1836,  a  resolu- 
tion was  passed  by  the  Board  of  Directors,  authorizing  the 
President  and  Secretary  to  pay  back  to  the  stockholders 
$19.83  on  each  share  owned  by  them,  they  having  paid  $20 
on  each  share;  and  the  money  was  accordingly  repaid  to  them, 
and  the  enterprise  abandoned. 

ATTICA    AND    HORNELLSVILLE    RAILROAD. 

The  Railway  which  passes  through  Warsaw  and  constitutes 
a  part  of  the  main  line  of  the  Erie  Railway  from  New  York 
to  Buffalo,  was  originally  called  the  "Attica  and  Ilornellsville 
Railroad."  The  New  York  and  Erie  Railroad  was  intended 
to  run  only  from  New  York  to  Dunkirk ;  but  the  city  of  Buf- 
falo, with  its  extensive  and  increasing  commerce  and  manu- 
factures, was  not  to  be  lost  sight  of,  and  parties  at  an  early 
day  looked  for  a  connection  of  Buffalo  with  New  York  by  the 
Erie  road.  In  1850,  the  project  was  brought  forward  and 
pushed  with  vigor.  The  New  York  Central  road  was  then  in 
use  between  Albany  and  Buffalo  by  the  way  of  Attica.  The 
construction  of  a  new  road  from  Attica  to  Ilornellsville,  a  dis- 
tance of  sixty  miles,  would  make  the  desired  connection,  and 
furnish  "Warsaw  railroad  facilities  which  would  probably  never 


RAILROADS.  105 

be  otherwise  acquired.  A  public  meeting  was  called  in  Au- 
gust of  that  year.  Urgent  appeals  to  our  citizens  were  made, 
asking  for  pecuniary  aid.  The  "  Mirror  "  newspaper  persis- 
tently urged  forward  the  enterprise,  in  articles  like  the  fol- 
lowing : 

"  Warsaw,  wake  up !  If  Warsaw  will  take  $50,000  of  the 
stock  of  the  Attica  and  Hornellsville  Railroad,  it  will  secure 
the  completion  of  the  work.  Can  we  not  do  it?  We  can  if 
we  will.  The  farmers  of  this  town  are  abundantly  able  to 
take  that  amount.  Farmers,  your  lands  will  be  increased  in 
value  from  five  to  ten  dollars  an  acre,  and  you  will  always 
have  a  home  cash  market  for  your  produce.  You  can  afford 
to  subscribe  liberally.  Rouse  then  to  action!  for  your  inter- 
ests are  at  stake." 

The  "  New  Yorker "  also  urged  subscriptions,  and  their 
interest  became  general.  The  amount  of  stock  required  was 
subscribed  by  persons  along  the  route  and  at  Buffalo;  and  in 
September  an  organization  was  effected.  In  October,  a  con- 
tract was  made  with  Lauman,  Rockafellow  and  Moore,  for 
constructing  the  road,  they  furnishing  all  the  materials  except 
the  iron — the  road  to  be  completed  by  the  first  of  May,  1852. 
The  work  was  immediately  commenced,  and  rapidly  pushed 
to  completion. 

The  question  is  often  asked :  "  Why  did  not  the  road  pass 
through  the  village?"  In  getting  out  of  the  valley  south, 
there  would  be  an  ascent  of  about  three  hundred  feet,  which 
would  render  a  heavy  freight  business  impossible.  In  reply 
to  the  fault-finding  of  many  because  the  road  was  kept  out  of 
the  valley,  a  village  paper  remarked:  "  We  know  it  would  be 
more  convenient  were  the  ground  level  from  here  to  the  road; 
but  all  the  blessings  and  conveniences  are  not  centered  upon 
any  one  location.  If  we  lived  in  a  level  country,  wTe  could 
not  live  in  this  pleasant  valley;  and  it  we  prefer  such  a  valley 
for  our  residence,  with  its  beautiful  srreen  hills  forever  looking 
down  and  smiling  upon  us,  we  must  climb  the  hills  to  get  to 
the  railroad — that's  all." 


106  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

Before  the  road  was  completed,  the  New  York  Central 
company  sold  their  road  bed  from  Attica  to  Buffalo  to  the 
Attica  and  Hornellsville  company,  thus  giving  to  the  latter  a 
continuous  line  from  Hornellsville  to  Buffalo.  On  Monday, 
July  26,  1852,  the  first  train  ot  cars  arrived  at  the  Warsaw 
station.  A  large  crowd  of  citizens  had  assembled,  awaiting 
its  arrival,  and  at  its  appearance  sent  up  cheer  after  cheer. 
Although  the  road  has  been  unprofitable  to  the  stockholders, 
the  town  has  been  greatly  benefited.  A  market  has  been 
brought  near  our  farmers,  and  the  value  of  real  estate  has 
been  greatly  enhanced.  Our  citizens  contributed  much  by 
their  earnest  effort,  as  well  as  by  their  subscriptions,  towards 
the  accomplishment  of  this  important  work.  Isaac  C.  Bron- 
son,  John  A.  McElwain,  and  Augustus  Frank,  have  been  at 
different  times  Directors,  and  later  Mr.  Frank  Vice-President. 
The  road  has  since  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Erie  Railway 
Company,  and  is  an  important  part  of  the  great  line  of  travel 
from  New  York  to  the  "West. 


CEMETERIES. 

The  selection  of  the  old  ground  as  a  burial  place  for  the 
dead  in  this  town,  was  accidental,  and  not  the  result  of  pre- 
vious consultation  or  formal  action  on  the  part  of  the  citizens. 
In  the  spring  of  1804,  as  has  been  elsewhere  stated,  when 
there  were  but  two  or  three  families  at  the  center,  and  about 
as  many  in  remote  parts  of  the  town,  Sterling  Stearns  remov- 
ing from  Wright's  Corners  to  the  south-east  corner  of  this 
town,  stopped  over  night  at  Mr.  Webster's,  where  an  infant 
son  of  Mr.  Stearns,  two  years  old,  was  taken  sick  and  died. 
Amos  Keeney,  William  Webster,  and  Elijah  Cutting,  cut 
away  a  few  trees,  dug  a  grave,  and  buried  the  child.  An 
infant  son  of  Nehemiah  Fargo,  of  about  five  years  of  age, 
drowned  in  the   O-at-ka   creek  the  ensuing    fall,   was   next 


CEMETERIES.  107 

buried  in  that  ground.  The  third  burial  was  that  of  Dwight 
Noble,  the  first  adult  person  who  died  in  this  town  in  January, 
1807.  In  clue  time,  definite  bounds  were  fixed,  and  the  lot 
inclosed. 

This  being  the  principal  burial  place  in  the  town,  it  became 
necessary,  in  process  of  time,  to  enlarge  the  yard;  and  a  tier 
of  lots  was  added  on  the  south  side.  It  soon  became  apparent, 
that  in  a  few  years  a  further  enlargement  would  be  necessary; 
and  as  sufficient  adjoining  territory  could  not  be  obtained, 
ground  must  be  sought  elsewhere.  For  several  years  the 
subject  was  discussed  and  plans  proposed;  but  no  definitive 
action  was  taken.  In  March,  1850,  the  following  notice 
appeared  in  the  village  papers: 

"  Public  Notice. — The  citizens  of  the  town  of  Warsaw  are 
requested  to  meet  at  the  Court  House  on  Saturday,  the  30th 
instant,  at  one  o'clock,  P.  M.,  to  take  into  consideration  the 
subject  of  enlarging  the  present  burying  ground,  or  purchasing 
land  tor  a  new  one.  All  persons  interested  in  the  subject, 
and  especially  those  who  desire  to  purchase  lots,  are  urgently 
requested  to  attend  the  meeting. 

"  Warsaw,  March  23,  1S50. 

Many  Citizens." 

At  a  meeting  held  at  the  Court  House  on  the  day  appointed, 
Newbury  Bronson,  Chairman,  and  Alanson  Holly,  Secretary, 
the  Warsaw  Cemetery  Association  was  formed,  under  the  act 
of  1847,  "  authorizing  the  incorporating  of  Rural  Cemetery 
Associations."  Nine  Trustees  wrere  elected,  viz.:  Elijah  Norton, 
Edwin  B.  Miller,  George  W.  Morris,  Abel  Webster,  Alanson 
Holly,  John  A.  McElwain,  Joshua  H.  Darling,  Timothy  II. 
Buxton,  and  Allen  Fargo.  The  first  Monday  in  April  was 
fixed  for  holding  annual  meetings;  and  a  resolution  wTas 
adopted,  instructing  the  Trustees  to  "  purchase  the  lot,  ( being 
about  five  acres,)  of  R.  It.  Munger,  on  the  west  side  of  the 
road,  opposite  the  old  burying-ground." 

The  ground  above  designated  was  accordingly  purchased. 
It  was  laid  out  into  sections  forty  feet  square,  each  of  which 


108  HISTOEY   OF   WARSAW. 

was  divided  into  eight  lots,  ten  by  twenty  feet  each.  Carriage 
roads  also  are  laid  out,  so  as  to  admit  the  passing  of  carriage 
processions  near  every  lot. 

The  dedication  of  the  Cemetery,  with  appropriate  religious 
ceremonies,  took  place  on  the  7th  of  September,  on  the  grounds 
of  the  Cemetery.  The  services  were  participated  in  by  the 
several  clergymen  present;  the  Address  was  delivered  by 
Judge  W.  Riley  Smith.  Four  original  Hymns,  written, 
respectively,  by  A.  W.  Wood,  L.  M.  Wiles,  A.  Holly,  and  D. 
D.  Snyder,  were  sung  on  the  occasion. 


WARSAW    LIBRARY. 

In  pursuance  of  an  act  passed  April  1,  1796,  a  meeting  was 
held  at  the  house  of  Oliver  Lee  on  the  2d  Tuesday  of  January, 
1823,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  and  erecting  a  public 
Library,  and  Elizur  Webster  was  chosen  Chairman  of  the 
meeting.  It  being  required  that  more  than  twenty  persons 
should  signify  their  consent  and  desire,  and  should  subscribe 
a  sum  of  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  object,  the 
following  are  the  names  of  the  subscribers: 

James  Crocker,  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  Theophilus  Capen, 
Benjamin  L.  Watkins,  John  Crocker,  Howard  Bos  worth, 
Daniel  Rockwell,  Henry  Woodward,  John  A.  McElwain, 
Jonas  Cutting,  Aaron  Rumsey,  Lyman  Morris,  Josiah  Ilovey, 
Eli  Dibble,  Jr.,  Wm.  G.  Whitney,  Hiram  Giddings,  Allen 
Fargo,  Silas  Kidder,  Oliver  Lee,  Elisha  W.  Scovel,  Solomon 
Morris,  Jr.,  John  Feagles,  Augustus  Frank,  Cyrus  Rice, 
Elijah  Norton,  E.  C.  Kimberly,  John  Wilder,  Francis  Newton, 
Samuel  McWhorter,  Mayhew  Safford,  ISTehemiah  Park,  Jr., 
Elizur  Webster,  Samuel  Barnard,  John  Truesdell,  Francis 
Yates,  Mathew  Hoffman,  Augustine  U.  Baldwin,  Edward 
Putnam,  John  R.  Knapp. 

Tli ere  were  elected  twelve  Trustees  to  serve  for  one  year,  as 
follows: 


dt^c/c-. 


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WARSAW   LIBRARY.  109 

Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  Solomon  Morris,  Jr.,  William  Pat- 
terson, Benjamin  L.  Watkins,  James  Crocker,  Samuel  Mc- 
Whorter,  Lyman  Morris,  Elizur  "Webster,  Tkeophilus  Capen, 
Josiali  Hovey,  Aaron  Rumsey,  Jonas  Cutting. 

The  acts  and  proceedings  of  the  meeting  were  duly  certified 
by  the  Chairman,  and  sworn  to  before  Samuel  McWhorter, 
Esq.,  the  next  day,  January  15,  1825,  and  were  recorded  in 
the  County  Clerk's  office,  the  oth  day  of  February,  1S23. 

A  respectable  library  of  valuable  standard  books  was 
purchased,  and  was  kept  up  for  several  years,  when  for  reasons 
to  us  unknown,  the  organization  was  abandoned,  and  the 
books  distributed  among  the  shareholders.  Some  of  them  are 
still  to  be  seen  in  the  private  libraries  of  their  descendants. 


110  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


EDUCATION-SCHOOLS. 

The  first  school  in  town  was  taught  by  Samuel  Mc\\  horter; 
in  what  year  we  are  unable  to  ascertain — probably  in  the 
winter  of  1807-8,  though  it  may  have  been  a  year  earlier  or 
later.  It  was  kept  in  the  log  shanty  built  by  Amos  Keeney 
in  the  spring  of  1801  for  a  dwelling,  elsewhere  described.  It 
was  vacated  by  him  in  1S06,  and  had  become  the  property 
of  John  McWhorter,  father  of  Samuel,  and  stood  near  the 
present  residence  of  Samuel  Fisher  in  the  south  part  of  the 
village.  Those  who  have  read  the  description  of  this  house 
on  a  preceding  page,  need  not  be  told  that,  with  all  the  u  fit- 
ting up  "  which  it  may  have  undergone,  it  must  have  been 
poorly  adapted  to  its  new  use;  though  it  was  probably  little 
inferior  to  many  of  the  houses  built  by  the  first  settlers  for 
this  special  purpose. 

Inheriting  the  spirit  of  their  Pilgrim  ancestors,  they  desired 
to  plant  among  them  the  school-house  and  the  church  at  the 
earliest  practicable  period.  They  did  not  defer  so  important 
an  object  as  the  education  of  their  children  until  they  could 
build  more  comely  and  convenient  houses;  they  were  for  a  , 
time  content  with  such  as  corresponded  to  their  rude  dwellings. 

The  first  school-houses  were  also  built  of  logs,  and  with  fire- 
places and  chimneys  like  those  of  the  log  dwelling-houses. 
They  were  sometimes  roofed  or  shingled  with  shakes,  a  ma- 
terial resembling  staves  for  flour  barrels.  The  writing-desks 
were  made  by  boring  large  holes  in  the  sides  of  the  house, 
slanting  downwards  from  the  wall,  and  driving  into  them 
large  pins,  upon  which  the  boards  were  fastened  ;  so  that  the 
pupils,  when  writing,  faced  the  wall.  Seats  were  made  of 
slabs,  flat  side  up,  resting  on  four  legs. 

Many  of  our  citizens  remember  those  houses  in  which  they 
received  their  limited  school  education — the  ill-chinked  walls; 
the  large  open  fire-place  filled  with  a  huge  pile  of  logs  in  the 


EDUCATION SCHOOLS.  Ill 

vain  attempt  to  make  a  comfortable  place  of  study.  They 
remember  that  most  common  of  all  questions  coming  from 
the  remote  parts  of  the  house:  "  Master,  may  I  go  to  the  fire?" 
and  how  often  the  "  Master,"  annoyed  by  the  continued  reit- 
eration of  this  question,  would  respond  the  emphatic  "No  !" 
Nor  have  they  forgotten  their  peculiar  feelings  when,  their 
whole  bodies  trembling  with  cold,  they  were  compelled  to 
keep  their  seats  until  relieved  by  the  arrival  of  twelve  or  four 
o'clock,  with  the  thrice  welcome  word,  "Dismissed." 

Not  only  were  school-houses  uncomfortable;  the  course  of 
instruction  and  the  qualifications  of  teachers  were  very  de- 
fective. The  entire  course,  in  most  of  the  schools,  embraced 
only  spelling,  reading,  writing,  and  common  arithmetic.  In 
this  last  branch,  Daboll's  Arithmetic  was  used;  and  the 
mathematical  ambition  of  many  pupils  was  satisfied  when 
they  could  "  cypher  "  to  the  end  of  the  "  Single  Rule  of  Three," 
which  in  that  popular  work  came  before  Fractions.  Few 
teachers  having  a  knowledge  of  grammar,  this  was  not  in- 
sisted on  by  the  inspectors.  Geography,  now  one  of  the 
studies  in  every  primary  school,  could  hardly  be  found  in  a 
country  school.  An  atlas,  indispensable  to  the  successful 
study  of  this  branch,  the  writer  never  saw  in  a  school  until 
after  he  had  been  for  several  years  a  teacher. 

The  manner  of  teaching  and  conducting  a  school  is  also 
worthy  of  note.  Writing,  in  many  schools,  was  not  done  at 
any  fixed  hour,  nor  by  all  at  the  same  time.  None  but  goose- 
quill  pens  were  used.  A  metal  pen  would  have  been  a  great 
curiosity.  AVe  well  remember  our  surprise  some  forty  or  fifty 
years  ago,  on  being  told  that  the  president  of  a  certain  bank 
signed  its  bills  with  a  steel 'pen.  To  make  and  mend  the  pens 
and  "  set  copies  "  for  ten,  twenty,  or  thirty  pupils,  took  no 
small  portion  of  a  teacher's  time,  and  was  often  done  during 
reading  and  other  exercises,  in  which  the  worst  mistakes  es- 
caped the  observation  of  the  teacher.  To  avoid  this,  some 
teachers  did  this  work  before  or  after  school  hours.  The 
introduction  of  the  metallic  pen  and  the  printed  copy-book, 


112  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

is  justly  regarded  as  an  invaluable  improvement,  saving  much 
time  and  labor,  and  furnishing  the  pupils  with  good  and  uni- 
form copies. 

Nor  had  the  black-board  been  invented;  or  if  it  had,  it  was 
not  known  in  the  rural  districts.  Nor  were  scholars  in  arith- 
metic taught  in  classes.  They  got  the  attention  and  assistance 
of  the  teacher  as  they  could.  Voices  were  heard  from  differ- 
ent parts  of  the  room,  "  Master,  I  can't  do  this  sum;"  or, 
"  Master,  please  show  me  how  to  do  this  sum."  These,  with 
questions  asking  liberty  to  "go  out,"  to  "go  and  drink,"  etc., 
which,  on  the  "floor"  of  some  schools,  were  always  "in  order," 
the  teacher  going  from  one  part  of  the  room  to  another  to 
"  help  "the  scholars,  or  to  do  their  work  for  them;  and  schol- 
ars running  to  the  teacher  to  ask  him  how  to  pronounce  the 
hard  words  in  the  spelling  and  reading  lessons : — all  these, 
and  other  things  that  might  be  mentioned,  kept  the  school- 
room in  a  constant  bustle.  There  were,  however,  some  good 
teachers  then;  and  there  are  many  now  who  answer  too  nearly 
the  foregoing  description:  yet  a  comparison  of  the  schools  of 
fifty  years  ago  with  those  of  the  present  time,  shows  on  the 
whole  a  vast  improvement. 

The  first  school  of  a  higher  grade  than  the  district  school, 
and  in  which  classical  studies  were  taught,  was  commenced 
about  the  year  1S25,  by  Rev.  Anson  Tuthill,  Avho  had  for  sev- 
eral years  been  a  teacher  in  Middlebury  Academy,  and  was 
continued  about  two  years. 

In  1S29  or  1S30,  a  select  school  was  commenced  by  Rev. 
Julius  Steele,  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  dis- 
continued on  his  removal  in  the  spring  of  1831. 

In  1835,  Rev.  Stephen  Porter,  of  Geneva,  established  a 
school  of  the  grade  of  an  academy,  and  continued  it  about 
two  years. 

Select  high  schools  were  thereafter  taught,  successively,  by 
Mr.  Paddock,  Charles  J.  Judd,  Josiah  Ilurty,  and  others. 

A  number  of  select  schools  for  young  ladies  and  misses 
have  been  taught  in  this  town.     The  first  was  about  the  year 


EDUCATION— SCHOOLS.  113 

1822,  by  Maria  Clark,  of  Le  Roy.  Soon  after,  one  by  Lu- 
cinda  Gregg,  of  Londonderry,  X.  II.,  afterwards  the  wife  oi 
Hon.  William  Patterson. 

In  1844,  a  school  for  young  ladies  was  established,  and  for 
two  or  three  years  continued,  by  Anna  P.  Sill,  since  the  suc- 
cessful founder  of  the  popular  and  famed  Female  Seminary 
at  Rockier d,  111. 

In  1847  or  1848,  was  established  a  Parochial  School  by  the 
Presbyterian  church,  which  was  continued  twelve  or  more 
years  under  different  teachers. 

Of  primary  select  schools,  there  have  been  many.  The 
names  of  teachers  remembered  are,  Catharine  AY.  Blanchard, 
who  taught  what  was  then  called  an  "infant  school,"  an  insti- 
tution then  (about  the  year  1832,)  quite  popular.  Miss 
Blanchard  is  now  the  wife  of  Hon.  John  Fisher,  of  Batavia. 
About  the  same  time,  Emeline  Monroe,  now  the  wife  of  Eli 
Hood,  of  Wethersfield,  came  as  a  teacher,  and  taught  in  this 
village  both  select  and  district  schools,  for  seven  years. 

[JNION   SCHOOL. 

The  old  district  school-house  in  this  place  being  no  longer 
of  sufficient  capacity  to  accommodate  all  the  children  of  the 
district,  a  larger  house  was  built  on  Genesee  street,  nearly 
opposite  the  residence  of  J.  A.  McElwain.  In  the  second 
story  select  schools  were  sometimes  kept;  and  before  the 
county  buildings  were  completed,  it  was  used  for  holding 
county  courts.  After  it  was  no  longer  used  as  a  school-house, 
it  was  sold  to  Isaac  C.  Bronson,  and  removed  to  the  west  side 
of  Main  street,  and  fitted  up  for  stores.  It  was  burned  at  the 
time  of  the  great  conflagration  in  February,  18G7. 

The  increase  of  population  for  a  few  years  after  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  county  seat  in  this  village,  seemed  to  require 
a  public  school  of  a  higher  grade,  and  a  house  of  larger 
dimensions.  It  was  proposed  to  consolidate  the  districts  in 
and  near  the  village,  and  to  form  a  graded  school,  more  com- 
monly called  "  union  school."     As  this  plan  involved  a  heavy 


11  J:  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

expenditure  for  a  suitable  building,  the  proposition  was  for  a 
time  successfully  resisted.  An  affirmative  rote,  however,  was 
at  length  obtained,  and  a  large  and  commodious  stone  build- 
ins;  was  erected. 

UNION  FREE  SCHOOL. 

The  Union  School  was  a  district  school,  and  subject  to  the 
same  laws  and  regulations  as  district  schools  in  general.  It 
had  not  been  long  in  operation  under  its  new  name  before 
the  plan  was  conceived  of  ingrafting  upon  it  an  academical 
department,  which,  by  compliance  with  the  law  regulating 
seminaries,  should  become  entitled  to  share  with  them  in  the 
distribution  of  the  Literature  Fund.  A  petition  signed  by 
citizens  of  the  district,  accompanied  by  a  bill  drafted  here, 
designed  to  carry  into  effect  the  object  of  the  petitioners,  was 
presented  to  the  legislature.  This  bill,  with  some  amend- 
ments, one  of  which  made  it  of  general  application  throughout 
the  state,  became  a  law. 

In  pursuance  of  the  provisions  of  the  law,  the  Trustees,  on 
the  written  request  of  citizens  of  the  district,  gave  notice 
calling  a  "  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  District  No.  10  of 
the  town  of  "Warsaw,  entitled  to  vote  thereat,  at  the  school- 
house,  on  the  13th  instant,  ( Sept.  1853,)  at  7  o'clock,  P.  MJ 
for  the  purpose  of  determining  by  a  vote  of  such  district, 
whether  a  Union  Free  School  shall  be  established  therein,  in 
conformity  with  the  provisions  of  the  act  passed  June  18, 
1853.  The  act  provides  for  the  organization  of  an  academical 
department,  and  the  tpiestion  whether  such  department  is  to 
be  established,  will  be  determined  by  the  said  meeting." 
The  notice  was  signed  by  J.  A.  Darling,  J.  A.  McElwain,  and 
A.  Holly,  Trustees. 

A  meeting,  pursuant  to  the  above  notice,  was  held,  of  which 
Isaac  C.  Bronson  wTas  Chairman,  and  B.  F.  Fargo  Secretary, 
and  at  which  it  was  resolved,  that  a  Union  Free  School,  on 
the  plan  proposed,  should  be  established;  and  John  A.  Mc- 
Elwain,   Joshua   II.   Darling,    Alanson   Holly,   Sanford    L. 


EDUCATION SCHOOLS.  115 

Boughton,  Charles  W.  Belden,  and  Lloyd  A.  Hayward,  were 
elected  Trustees,  who  are  called  "Board  of  Education." 
Copies  of  the  proceedings,  duly  certified  by  the  Chairman  and 
Secretary,  were  deposited  in  the  offices  of  the  town  and 
county  clerks,  respectively,  and  a  copy  transmitted  to  the 
State  Superintendent, 

In  October,  1853,  the  Board  employed  Prof.  Richard  K. 
Sanford,  as  Principal  of  the  Union  Free  School,  and  his  wife 
as  an  assistant  teacher.  Horace  Briggs,  who  was  principal 
of  the  Union  School  at  the  time  of  the  change,  was  also 
continued  as  assistant  teacher;  but  in  consequence  of  ill 
health,  resigned  in  February  following.  In  the  spring  of  1851, 
Prof.  Norman  F.  Wright,  who  had  been  for  nine  years  prin- 
cipal of  Genesee  and  Wyoming  Seminary,  at  Alexander,  was 
employed  as  Principal,  and  Prof.  Simeon  D.  Lewis,  a  teacher 
in  that  institution,  was  engaged  as  an  assistant.  Prof.  Wright 
was  also  intrusted  with  the  general  care  and  management  of 
the  primary  schools  connected  with  the  Academy. 

In  August,  1857,  Prof.  Norman  F.  Wright  was  again 
employed  as  Principal;  Kate  Leland,  a  graduate  of  Thetford 
Academy,  Vt.,  teacher  of  French,  English,  drawing  and 
painting;  and  William  P.  Boughton,  educated  in  Warsaw 
Academy,  teacher  of  German,  and  the  higher  English 
branches. 

In  the  spring  of  1S60,  Prof.  Joseph  Gile,  a  graduate  of 
Dartmouth  College,  N.  EL,  became  Principal;  and  Mary  M. 
Gile,  educated  at  Franklin  Academy,  N.  II.,  and  Holton 
High  School,  Mass.,  assistant,  Mr.  Gile  taught  till  November, 
1861. 

In  the  fall  of  1861,  Prof.  O.  H.  Stevens  was  employed  as 
Principal,  and  Mary  M.  Gile  was  continued  as  assistant.  Mr. 
S.  taught  two  terms,  ending  with  the  academic  year  in -July, 
1S62. 

In  August,  1862,  Winslow  Scofield,  a  graduate  of  Hamilton 
College,  commenced  as  Principal,  and  Miss  Gile  continued  as 
assistant.     Mr.  Scofield  taught  one  vear. 


116  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

Iii  August,  1SG3,  Prof.  Charles  II.  Dann,  a  graduate  of 
Williams  College,  took  charge  of  the  school  as  Principal,  and 
has  been  continued  as  such  to  the  present  time.  Miss  Gile 
also  holds  the  place  she  took  in  1860. 

SCHOOL    DISTRICTS. 

As  a  part  of  the  school  history  of  the  town  of  "Warsaw,  we 
give  a  list  of  the  existing  districts,  with  such  facts  relating  to 
them  as  have  come  to  our  knowledge;  the  names  of  some  of 
the  early  inhabitants,  and  of  those  residing  therein  who  are 
voters  at  district  meetings,  or  liable  to  taxation  for  school 
purposes.  As,  from  time  to  time,  the  number  of  districts 
in  the  town  has  been  increased  or  diminished,  and  their 
bounds  have  been  altered,  the  number  by  which  each  district 
is  at  present  designated,  is  not  in  every  case  that  by  which  it] 
has  at  all  times  been  distinguished. 

District  !No.  1. 

The  first  school  within  the  limits  of  this  district  was  taught 
in  1S11  or  1812,  in  a  log  school-house  built  in  the  style  of 
those  times.  The  present  district  was  formed  in  1S23.  It  is  I 
a  joint  district,  a  portion  of  it  lying  in  Gainesville.  The  first 
school-house  was  a  framed  building,  on  Lot  9,  in  this  town; 
and  in  less  than  a  year  after  it  was  finished,  it  was  fired  by 
an  incendiary,  and  destroyed.  The  next  year  another  was 
built  on  the  same  site.  In  1859,  the  site  was  removed  one- 
fourth  of  a  mile  south,  into  Gainesville,  and  some  of  the 
families  were  annexed  to  District  Xo.  2,  adjoining  it  on  the 
north.  The  school-house  being  now  in  Gainesville,  it  is 
designated  as  Kb.  11,  in  that  town.  The  names  of  the 
inhabitants  of  this  town  belonging  to  the  district  are  the 
following: 

Andrew  Beardsley,  George  Brown,  John  Cummings, 

George  Dixon,  James  Fluker,  William  Fluker, 

Mrs.  Sarah  Fowler,  Job  M.  Relyea,  Linus  Warner, 

Willard  T.  Warner. 


education schools.  117 

District  No.  2. 

This  district  is  in  the  south-east  part  of  the  town,  and  is 
sometimes  designated  as  the  "  Fhvker  District."  Its  school- 
house  is  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Free  "Will  Baptist  Church. 
[The  names  of  its  inhabitants,  if  they  have  been  received, 
have  been  mislaid,  and  they  can  not  be  obtained  in  time  for 
insertion.] 

District  No.  3. 

In  1811,  a  log  house  was  built  at  the  forks  of  the  road 
about  a  mile  and  a  half  east  of  the  village.  Some  of  the  in- 
habitants then  residing  within  the  bounds  of  the  present 
district,  were  Lot  IMarchant,  Dea.  Eliphalet  Parker,  and  his 
sons,  Giles,  Eliphalet,  Ira,  Benjamin,  John  G.,  and  Lyman, 
Gideon  T.  Jenkins,  and  others.  The  house  was  burned  about 
ten  years  after  it  was  built,  and  the  present  one  erected  near 
the  place  of  the  old  one. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  present  inhabitants  of 

the  district: 

Charles  Agar,  A.  J.  Armstrong,  M.  R.  Atkins, 

David  Botsford,  Samuel  Biigham,  Michael  Burke, 

Otis  F.  Carpenter,  Charles  Chase,  Allen  D.  Fargo, 

Jeremiah  Gardner,  Luther  H.  Hill,  Sylvanus  Howes, 

Edward  McDonald,  Hugh  McDonald,  Amos  Otis,  2d, 

Orrin  Otis,  Leverett  Parker,  Sydney  Parker, 

Valentine  Parker,  William  Parker,  Aurora  S.  Perkins, 

Michael  Smallwood,  Nelson  Slocum,  Mrs,  Watrous, 

Loman  Whitlock,  Nathan  S.  Woodward,       Samuel  Woodward. 

Districts  Nos.  8,  9,  10  and.  11  were  consolidated  in  the 

formation  of  the  Union  School.     The  village  district,  into 

which  either  parts  or  the   whole  of  the  other   three  were 

merged,  was  No.  10. 

District  No.  5. 

This  district,  called,  sometimes  the  "Arnold  District," 
though  fourth  in  the  eastern  tier  of  districts,  was,  we  believe, 
at  the  last  general  numbering  of  districts,  called  No.  5,  by 


118 


HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


which  number  it  is  probably  still  designated,  though  ~No.  4 
has  been  discontinued.  The  names  of  the  inhabitants  at 
present  composing  this  district,  are  the  following: 

Comfort  Adams, 
Osmyn  S.  Arnold, 
Calvin  Bryant, 
Hezckiah  Fargo, 

Flower, 

James  W.  Kinney, 
Thomas  Scott, 
John  Walker, 


Amnii  Andrews, 
Welcome  Arnold, 
Mrs.  Bryant. 
Samuel  Fisher, 
John  Hill, 
George  Parker, 

Shepard, 

Wilkie, 

George  Wiggins. 

District  No.  T. 


Andrews, 

Stephen  B.  Barden, 
Edward  Evans, 
Samuel  Mills  Fisher, 
J.  Kane, 
Simeon  Rice, 
Jacob  Smith, 
Amnii  Wiggins, 


The  first  school  within  the  bounds  of  this  district,  (South 
Warsaw,)  was  kept  in  a  log-house,  on  the  east  side  of  the 
road,  nearly  opposite  the  residence  of  Rufus  Morris,  in  or 
about  the  year  1808.  Two  or  three  years  after,  a  framed 
house  was  built  further  south,  nearly  opposite  the  site  of  the 
present  tavern.  This  house  was  burned  about  a  month  after 
the  school  in  it  had  commenced.  Another  was  built  on  the 
opposite  (west)  side  of  the  road.  A  few  years  after,  this 
house  also  was  burned,  and  the  present  house  was  erected. 
Among  the  male  inhabitants  who  resided  in  this  district  when 
the  first  school  was  kept,  were  Amos  Keeney,  William  Web- 
ster, Moses  Stearns,  Silas  Wethy,  Daniel  Knapp,  SolomoD 
Morris,  Sen.,  of  whom  only  the  two  first  named  are  living. 
The  inhabitants  constituting  the  district  at  present  (1SGS,)  are 
the  following:: 


DeWitt  Akin, 
Elias  Baker, 

Elon  W.  Chase, 
Emerson  Conable, 
Francis  Graves, 
Eleazar  Keeney, 
Hezekiah  Lincoln, 
Luther  S.  Morris, 
Samuel  J.  Munger, 
Orson  Standish, 


■Jeremy  Allen. 
John  Bennett. 
Elijah  Chamberlain, 
Franklin  Day, 
Edward  Hayward, 
John  II.  Keeney, 
Leonard  L.  Martin. 
Rufus  Morris, 
Clarinda  Park, 
Augustus  F.  Stearns, 


Wm.  W.  Allen, 
Sylvanus  Brady, 
John  F.  Clark, 
John  Everingham, 
Amos  Keeney, 
Hairy  Keeney,  — 
Luther  Morris, 
Ambrose  Mosher, 
Philander  Rogers, 
Eugene  B.  Stearns, 


EDUCATION— SCHOOLS. 


119 


George  Stearns, 
Daniel  H.  Stark, 
Edwin  Truesdell, 
Mills  Webster, 


Willard  Stearns, 
Henry  Sheldon, 
Elon  G.  Truesdell, 
William  Webster, 

District  No.  12. 


Joseph  Stewart, 
Helon  S.  Taber, 
Philander  Truesdell, 
Almon  Wilcox. 


The  first  school  within  the  bounds  of  the  present  district 
was  kept,  it  is  said,  in  the  winter  of  1807-8,  in  a  vacated  log- 
house,  on  the  east  or  Le  Roy  Road,  about  half  a  mile  below 
the  present  school-house.  After  a  few  years,  the  school  was 
kept  near  the  line  of  the  town  of  Middlebury.  In  1S17,  the 
present  house  was  built  at  the  junction  of  the  roads  from 
Wyoming  and  Le  Roy,  on  land  leased  by  Josiah  Jewett  to  the 
district,  gratuitously,  so  long  as  the  house  shall  be  occupied  as 
as  a  school-house. 

Among  the  first  settlers  of  this  district  were  Josiah  Jewett, 
Simeon  Hovey,  Josiah  Hovey,  Gurdon  Ilovey,  Samuel  Whit- 
lock,  Julius  Whitlock. 

The  inhabitants  of  the  district  in  1868,  are  the  following: 


Charles  Brown, 
Addison  Brainerd, 
Anson  H.  Owen, 
Albert  Warren, 


Jay  J.  Baker, 
Henry  Finch. 
Amos  Otis, 
Russel  Warren, 
Samuel  Whitlock. 

District  No.  13. 


John  Brown, 
S.  Alden  McCulloch. 
Elisha  AV.  Scovel. 
Harry  Whitlock, 


This  district  was  formed  and  the  school-house  built  in  1834. 
Its  inhabitants  were  Levi  Crandall,  Palmer  Fargo,  Noah  Fisk, 
George  Howes,  David  Ingersoll,  Samuel  Ingersoll,  Amasa 
Mynard,  Charles  Steele,  George  Steele,  Nathan  Warren, 
Richard  Warren,  Nicholas  Reddish,  and  perhaps  others. 

The  house  remained  until  1868,  when  a  new  one  was  built 
a  little  south  of  the  old  site. 

The  following  are  names  of  the  inhabitants  in  1868: 


J.  Bowen. 
James  Cheon, 
Palmer  Fargo, 
John  Rough, 
Alonzo  Pierce, 
Augustns  Watrous, 


Duane  Chase, 
Schuyler  Clarke, 
Palmer  Fargo,  Jun., 
Alva  Parker, 
Henry  Ryan, 
Leonard  Watrous. 


John  S.  Chase, 
Henry  Cornell, 
0.  Emery, 
Daniel  Peck, 
George  Storts, 


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HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


District  No.  14. 

This  district  is  in  the  south-west  part  of  the  town,  and  em- 
braces a  few  families  residing  in  Gainesville.  The  year  in 
which  it  was  formed,  we  are  unable  to  state.  Its  inhabitants 
chiefly  live  on  the  road  which  divides  the  two  towns,  Gaines- 
ville and  Warsaw. 

The  names  of  the  inhabitants  residing  in  Warsaw  are  as 
follows: 


James  Foot, 
Apollos  Keeuey, 
Joseph  Pike, 
Johii  Relyea, 


John  Hawley, 
Samuel  Munger, 
William  Pike, 
Edwin  Tanner, 

District  No.  15. 


Alfred  W.  Hoyt, 
Henry  W.  Norton, 
Hiram  Relyea, 
Joseph  Taylor. 


This  was  among  the  earlier  districts  laid  out  in  this  town, 
and  was  for  a  long  time,  and  is  still,  designated  as  the  "  Sharp 

District,"  one  of  the  early  settlers, Sharp,  and  his  son, 

Horace  C,  having  resided  near  the  corners  where  the  school- 
house  stands.  As  in  most  of  the  other  districts,  its  first  school- 
house  was  built  of  logs. 

The  names  of  the  inhabitants  in  1868  are  the  following: 


Marcus  Buck, 
Nicholas  Cleveland, 
William  Cleveland, 
Harry  Hatch, 
Jason  Munger, 
George  Relyea, 
Edwin  Stearns, 
Patrick  Talty, 
John  Truesdell, 


Cyrus  Capen, 


Matilda  Cleveland. 


Nicholas  Cleveland,  Jr.,    Uriah  Cleveland. 


Christopher  Hale, 
Alonzo  Hatch, 
Mrs.  Parnel  Munger, 
Eliphalet  0.  Scovel, 
Chauncey  L.  Stevens, 
George  Truesdell, 
Hiram  F.  Walker, 
Samuel  Wolcott. 

District  jS"o.  16. 


Philander  Hale, 
Henry  Munger, 
Porter  P.  Munger, 

Nathan  S.  Scovel, 
Nye  Stevens, 
Hiram  Truesdell, 
Jacob  Whiteman, 


The  school-house  in  this  district  is  nearly  three  miles  south- 
west from  the  village.  The  first  school  was  taught  by  Amy 
Martin,  now  Mrs.  Clark,  in  the  summer  of  1816,  in  a  log 
house  previously  occupied  by  Samuel  Salisbury  as  a  dwelling, 
about  forty  rods  east  of  the  present  house.     A  year  or  two 


EDUCATION SCHOOLS.  121 

after,  a  log  school-house  was  built  on  or  near  the  site  of  the 
present  house,  and  was  used  until  1823  or  1824,  when  a 
framed  house  was  built.  This  was  burned  a  few  years  after, 
and  the  present  one  erected  in  its  place. 

Among  the  inhabitants  residing  in  the  neighborhood  at  and 
about  the  time  of  the  organization  of  the  district,  were  Samuel 
Salisbury,  Warham  Walker,  "William  Shipman,  Aaron  C. 
Lyon,  David  Martin,  Newton  Hawes,  Polly  Day,  widow  of 
Col.  Elkanah  Day,  and  Elisha  Barnes.  Among  the  early 
teachers  were  Elisha  W.  Scovel,  and  Hiram  Day. 

Names  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  district  in  1S6S: 

Edmund  Buck,  John  Lary,  Henry  Buck, 

Rollin  Buck,  Ormus  Marshall.  Willard  Buck, 

David  C.  Martin,  Benj.  B.  Conable,  Jordan  Mead, 

Lorenzo  Cook,  John  P.  Mead,  Broughton  W.  Crane, 

George  Pierce,  Byron  Crane,  Jay  Scribner, 

Luther  Foster,  Andrew  J.  Seeley,  Sydney  Foster, 

Hiram  Stearns,  Jerome  Hoisington,  John  Truesdell,  Jr. 

DlSTEICT  ]STo.  17. 

The  first  school-house  within  the  present  bounds  of  this 
district  was  a  log  house;  in  what  year  built,  we  have  not  ascer- 
tained— probably  about  the  year  1807.  It  stood  at  the  four 
corners  three-fourths  of  a  mile  east  of  the  west  line  of  the 
town,  on  the  south-west  corner,  two  and  one-fourth  miles  west 
of  the  village.  Among  the  early  inhabitants  were  Peter  "W. 
Harris,  Curtis  Edgerton,  Luther  Parker,  Dea.  Ezra  Walker, 
Dea.  Abraham  Eeed,  Hezekiah  Wakefield,  Isaac  Phelps,  Zera 
Tanner,  Philip  Salisbury,  Aaron  Bailey,  Thomas  C.  Chase, 
Elder  Jabez  Boomer,  and  Jonathan  Young. 

The  first  framed  school-house  stood  about  mid-way  between 
the  site  of  the  old  one  and  that  of  the  present  house. 

The  names  of  the  present  inhabitants  of  the  district,  are  as 
follows: 

Herbert  Andrews,  Benjamin  Bishop,  James  N.  Barnett, 

Henry  Crist,  Robert  Barnett,  Samuel  Bassett, 

George  Crist,  Abraham  Dick,  Dorson  Bentley, 

Samuel  S.  Eldridge,  Christopher  Fisher,  Hiram  Melvin, 


122 


HISTORY  OF  WARSAW. 


John  Fisher, 
Silas  Norton, 
Webster  Norton, 
Philip  Gath, 
Philip  Smith, 
Henry  S.  Hatch, 
Ira  Wilcox, 


Milo  Monroe, 
Patrick  Fitz  Gibbons. 
Jacob  Gath, 
Archibald  Prentice, 
Erastua  Gill, 
Beman  Wilcox, 
John  W.  Hawley, 

District  ISTo.  18. 


Nicholas  Fisher, 
Bradley  S.  Gallett, 
Myron  Palmer, 
Tillotson  Gay, 
Stephen  Vincent, 
Sarah  Hagan, 
Albert  Jones. 


This  district  is  in  the  north-western  part  of  the  town,  the 
school-house  and  most  of  its  inhabitants  being  on  the  "  Old 
Buffalo  Koad."  Among  the  early  settlers  within  the  present 
bounds  of  the  district,  were  Isaac  Luce,  "William  Shipman, 
Nathan  Pierce,  Eoderick  Chapin,  William  C.  Hatch,  and 
David  Yonncr.  The  following  are  the  names  of  its  inhabi- 
tants  in  1868 : 


John  Bannan, 
Moses  Perkins, 
Orlando  Gay, 
Allen  Pierce, 
Seth  Ransom  Hatch, 
David  Sammis, 
William  T.  Hatch. 


Adam  Klair,  William  Bannan, 

Betsey  Gay,  Samuel  W.  Perkins, 

Samuel  W.  Perkins,  Jun.,  Lyman  Hatch, 
Milton  D.  Hatch,  Peter  Sailor, 

Collis  Sammis,  Walter  M.  Hatch, 

Walter  Hatch,  Thomas  Tanner, 


PHYSICIANS.  123 


PHYSICIANS. 

The  dates  at  which  all  the  physicians  named  in  the  follow- 
ing list  commenced  and  discontinued  practice  in  this  town,  it 
is  impossible  to  obtain.  In  cases  in  which  the  year  is  given 
Without  qualification  or  remark,  it  may  be  relied  on  as  correct, 
or  very  nearly  so.  There  are  probably  some,  however,  whose 
names  we  have  not  been  able  to  ascertain. 
1808,  Chaimcey  L.  Sheldon;  continued  in  practice  until  his 

last  illness.     He  died  in  1828. 
181 7,  Augustus  Frank;  practiced  regularly  a  few  years;  after 
which  only  occasionally,  being  engaged  extensively  in 
other  business. 
1817,  Daniel  Eumsey;  a"bout  two  years;  removed  to  Alexan- 
der; returned  about  the  year  1823;  practiced  several 
years;  removed  to  Silver  Creek,  and  engaged  in  trade. 
1822,  Cyrus  Eumsey,  brother  of  Daniel;  about  six  years;  re- 
moved to  Medina,  Orleans  Co.;  thence  to  Ohio,  and 
died. 
1827,  Peter  Caner;  practiced  until  his  final  sickness;  died  in 

1851. 
■ ,  Thomas  P.  Baldwin  came  soon  after  Dr.  Caner;  prac- 
ticed about  two  years;  removed  to  Ogden;  after  which 
he  practiced  two  short  periods;  left  finally,  and  died. 
1829,  Seth  S.  Ransom;  practiced  about  eight  years;  removed 

in  1837  to  Burlington,  Iowa. 
1831,  Ethan  E.  Bartlett;  practiced  three  years,  and  removed 
to  Georgia;  returned  to  Orangeville  in  1836;  came  to 
Warsaw  again  in  1848;  practiced  regularly  a  number 
of  years,  and  more  or  less  since. 
1834,  Jonathan  Hurlburt,  about  two  years. 
1842,  Lindorf  Potter,  about  two  years. 
1842,  1ST.  D.  Stebbins;  one  year  or  more,  and  removed  to 

Detroit,  where  he  remains. 
1849,  or  1850,  Dr.  House;  practiced  a  year  or  more. 


121  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

1850,  John  G.  Meachem;  practiced  until  1862,  and  removed 

to  Racine,  Wis. 
1850,  or  near  that  year,  Charles  W.  Belden,  having  previously 

practiced  in  town,  returned  from  Sheldon  after  several 

years'  absence,  and,  in  1855,  removed  to  Dubuque,  la., 

where  he  resides. 

1850,  Charles  A.  Date;  practiced  until  1SG7— seventeen  years, 
excepting  one  or  two  temporary  periods  of  absence. 

1S52,  or  '53,  Dr.  Blanchard;  about  six  months. 

1853,  Dr.  Day;  a  few  months. 

1854,  Dr.  Gardner;  practiced  about  two  years. 

1851,  Dr.  Wells,  with  C.  A.  Dake  a  tew  months,  and  removed 
to  Mt.  Morris. 

1851,  Dr.  West,  in  C.  A.  Dake's  office;  practiced  one  year. 

1S59,  C.  M.  Dake  came  into  the  practice  of  his  brother,  and 
remained  in  town  about  six  years. 

1862,  Milan  Baker  succeeded  John  G.  Meachem,  and  con- 
tinues in  practice. 

1S62,  E.  W.  Jenks  was  here  one  year. 

1866,  J.  C.  Pitts,  and  continues  in  practice. 

1867,  Dr.  Phelan;  continued  one  year. 

1568,  Dr.  Miller  &  Son  discontinued  practice  here  this  year, 
after  a  stay  of  several  years. 

1868,  Dr.  Maynard  commenced  this  year,  and  continues  prac- 
tice here. 

1569,  Dr.  Tibbets,  after  a  practice  here  of  several  years,  con- 
tinues. 


Sketch,  p.  2L9 


LAWYERS.  125 


LAWYERS. 

The  following  list  is  believed  to  contain  the  names  of  all 
the  Attorneys  who  have  ever  practiced  in  this  town.  There 
may  be  one  or  two  unimportant  exceptions. 

1817,  Robert  Moore  came  to  Warsaw,  and  is  believed  to  have 
been  the  first  Lawyer  in  this  town.  He  remained  a 
short  time  and  removed  to  Perry,  where  he  resided 
until  his  death,  a  few  years  since. 

1817,  Mayhew  Safford  also  came  in  this  year  from  Vermont, 
and  resided  here  until  he  died,  in  Jan.,  1831.  He 
ceased  practicing  many  years  before  his  death. 

1817,  or  1818,  "Warren  Loonhs,  a  brother-in-law  of  Mayhew 
Safford,  came  and  joined  him  in  practice.  After  a 
few  years,  Loomis  returned  to  Vermont,  where  he  died. 

1818,  or  1819,  Theophilus  Capen  commenced  the  practice  of 
law,  and  continued  a  year  or  two. 

1821,  or  1822,  James  Crocker  commenced  practice,  and  con- 
tinued until  1833,  when  he  removed  to  Buffalo,  where 
he  practiced  until  he  died,  in  1861. 

1833,  Ferdinand  C.  D.  Mc  Kay  took  the  place  of  Mr. 
Crocker,  and  continued  until  18G2,  when  he  removed 
to  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  where  he  died,  in  1866. 

1831,  or  1835,  Thomas  J.  Sutherland  came  to  this  town; 
practiced  a  few  months.  He  was  afterwards  a  General 
in  the  Canadian  Patriot  war. 

1841,  James  R.  Doolittle  and  Linus  TV".  Thayer  commenced 
a  partnership  of  four  years.  In  1851,  Mr.  Doolittle 
removed  to  Racine,  Wis.  Mr.  Thayer  is  still  in  prac- 
tice here. 

1847,  AV.  Riley  Smith,  from  Attica,  commenced  practice 
here,  being  County  Judge  at  the  same  time.  After  the 
expiration  of  his  official  term,  he  removed  to  Milwau- 
kee, where  he  died. 


126  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

1847,  Wm.  S.  Crozier  commenced  practice,  and  continued  a 
short  time. 

1818,  Leonard  \V.  Smith  commenced  practice,  and  continued 
until  1868.  From  1860,  to  Jan.,  1867,  he  was  a  part- 
ner of  L.  W.  Thayer. 

1850,  Charles  "W.  Bailey  commenced  practice.  lie  remains 
in  town. 

1850,  Harlow  L.  Comstock  commenced  practice  here,  and 
continued  until  1868.  The  first  year  he  was  a  partner 
of  James  R.  Doolittle.  He  removed  in  1868  to  Can- 
andaigua. 

1853,  Charles  Henshaw  commenced  practice  as  a  partner  of 
L.  AV.  Thayer,  and  continued  until  Oct.,  IS 55,  when  he 
removed  to  Batavia,  and  became  associated  with 
Judge  Taggart.  He  is  now  County  Judge  of  Genesee 
county. 

1853,  Alonzo  W.  "Wood  commenced  as  partner  of  Judge  II. 
L.  Comstock,  and  continued  as  such  a  few  years,  and 
removed  to  Iowa. 

1858,  Henry  C.  Page  commenced  a  partnership  with  L.  "W. 
Thayer,  and,  after  a  year  or  two,  retired. 

1857,  Byron  Healy,  commenced  as  a  partner  of  Judge  Com- 
stock, and  continued  as  such  until  January,  1866.  He 
was  elected  County  Judge  in  jNov.,  1867,  which  office 
lie  now  holds. 

1S58,  Elbert  E.  Farman  commenced  practice,  and  continues 
to  the  present  time.  The  first  two  years  he  was  a  part- 
ner of  F.  C.  D.  McKay,  and  from  1S61  to  1S65,  of  B. 
N.  Pierce.  After  an  absence  of  two  years  in  Europe, 
he  resumed  practice,  and  was  appointed  District  Attor- 
ney in  the  place  of  Byron  Healy,  elected  Judge.  He 
was  elected  to  the  same  office  in  186S. 

1860,  Myron  E.  Bartlett  commenced  practice,  and  continues. 

1863,  I.  Sam  Johnson,  commenced  with  M.  E.  Bartlett. 
Removed  to  Arcade. 

1865,  Beriah  X.  Pierce,  with  M.  E.  Bartlett  till  1868.  Re- 
moved out  of  town. 


BANKS.  127 


BANKS. 

For  many  years  after  the  first  settlement  of  the  town,  there 
was  little  occasion  to  do  business  with  banks.  When  such 
business  became  necessary,  it  was  done  chiefly  at  Canandai- 
:  gna,  nearly  fifty  miles  distant  from  Warsaw.  The  merchants 
purchased  goods  at  Albany  and  New  York  twice  a  year. 
They  bought  on  credit,  and  sold  on  credit,  few  of  them  being 
able  to  buy  for  cash.  Their  practice  was  to  pay,  as  nearly  as 
possible,  when  going  to  make  their  purchases,  for  the  goods 
last  bought.  Hence  a  general  collection  from  their  customers 
became  necessary  every  spring  and  fall.  These  collections 
commenced  several  weeks  before  "going  to  New  York." 
Failing,  as  they  often  did,  to  raise  the  necessary  funds,  they 
were  obliged  to  apply  for  bank  loans,  which  application,  how- 
ever, was  many  times  unsuccessful. 

The  establishment  of  banks  at  Geneseo  and  Batavia  was  a 
great  convenience  to  our  business  men,  especially  the  Bank  of 
Genesee  at  Batavia,  with  which  most  of  the  business  was 
done.  Stages  running  directly  through  to  that  place  daily  or 
tri-weekly,  the  driver  was  the  agent  through  whom  the  busi- 
ness was  generally  transacted.  The  increase  of  our  population 
and  consecpuently  of  business,  suggested  the  establishment  of 
a  bank  in  this  place;  and  about  the  year  1838,  a  bank,  to  be 
called  the  "  Bank  of  Warsaw,"  was  partly  organized,  but 
never  went  into  operation. 

WYOMING   COUNTY   BANK. 

In  December,  1851,  Joshua  II.  Darling,  of  this  village,  es- 
tablished, under  the  general  banking  law  of  this  state,  an 
individual  bank,  .called  "  Wyoming  County  Bank,"  with  a 
capital  of  $50,000.  This  bank  supplied  a  want  long  felt  in 
this  community,  and  was  managed  in  a  maimer  satisfactory 
to  the  merchants  and  business  men  generally.  Mr.  Darling 
was  its  President  during  the  entire  period  of  its  existence, 


12S  HISTOKY   OF   WARSAW. 

which  terminated  in  18G5.  Its  Cashiers  during  this  period 
were  E.  Maynard,  Charles  Mosher,  II.  A.  Metcalf,  J.  Harri- 
son Darling,  and  Henry  B.  Jenks.  The  building  used  for  a 
Banking  House  was  built  of  wood  on  the  ground  now  occu- 
pied by  the  new  bank.  It  was  burned  at  the  time  of  the 
great  tire  in  1867. 

In  1865,  the  present  National  Banking  system  was  estab- 
lished by  act  of  Congress,  which  virtually  abolished  the  state 
banks,  and  compelled  those  who  desired  to  continue  the 
banking  business  to  organize  new  banks  in  conformity  to  the 
provisions  of  the  national  banking  law.     Accordingly,  the 

WYOMING   COUNTY   NATIONAL   BANK   OF   WARSAW 

was  organized  in  1865,  with  a  capital  of  $100,000.  Joshua 
H.  Darling,  Augustus  Frank,  Henry  B.  Jenks,  Lloyd  A. 
Hayward,  and  Artemas  Blake,  have  been  its  Directors  from 
the  time  of  its  organization;  and  during  the  same  time  Joshua 
II.  Darling  has  been  President,  and  Henry  B.  Jenks  Cashier. 
The  new  Bank  building  on  the  site  of  the  old  one,  is  one  ot 
the  best  of  its  kind. 


NEWSPAPERS. 

The  first  newspaper  within  the  territory  comprised  in  the 
county  of  Wyoming,  was  established  in  Warsaw  in  1S28,  by 
Levi  and  Warham  Walker.  It  was  for  three  months  neutral 
in  politics.  The  Anti-Masonic  excitement  having  become 
intensified  by  the  facts  elicited  on  the  trials  of  Masons  con- 
cerned in  the  abduction  of  Willian  Morgan,  the  publishers 
turned  the  influence  of  their  paper  against  Masonry.  This 
caused  the  withdrawal  of  patronage  to  such  extent  as  to  com- 
pel them,  a  few  weeks  after,  to  relinquish  the  publication  of 
the  paper. 

In  May,  1830,  Andrew  W.  Young  commenced  the  War- 
saw Sentinel.     The  masses  of  the  settlers  being  still  deeply 


K  EWSPARERS.  120 

in  debt  for  their  lands,  and  comparatively  poor,  extra 
efforts  were  necessary  to  give  it  circulation.  Carriers  were 
employed  on  several  different  routes,  one  of  which  extended 
west  to  Aurora.  The  experiment  proved  that  the  establish- 
ment of  a  paper  in  this  place  was  premature;  and  the  Senti- 
nel was  discontinued  at  the  close  of  1S31,  and  on  the  first  of 
January,  1S32,  merged  in  the  Republican  Advocate,  of 
Batavia. 

In  the  spring  of  1836,  the  American  Citizen  was  established 
here  under  the  auspices  of  the  Genesee  County  Antislavery 
Society,  as  the  organ  of  that  Society,  and  as  an  advocate  of  the 
general  abolition  of  slavery.  A.  W.  Young  was  chosen  as  its 
editor,  and  conducted  it  during  the  first  three  months. 
Jonathan  A.  Hadley  was  employed  as  publisher,  and  con- 
tinued as  such  to  the  end  of  the  first  year.  It  was  then 
removed  to  Perry,  chiefly  for  the  convenience  of  its  editor, 
the  late  Josiah  Andrews,  who,  though  he  resided  in  Perry, 
had  been  its  principal  editor  during  the  last  nine  months  of 
its  publication  in  Warsaw.  Its  publishers  in  Perry  were  for 
a  time  Mitchell  &  Warren.  Mr.  Mitchell  continued  its 
publisher  until  January,  1811,  when  it  was  removed  to  Roch- 
ester. 

The  Western  "New  Yorker  was  removed  to  Warsaw  from 
Perry,  in  1811.  It  had  been  commenced  by  John  II.  Bailey 
in  January  of  that  year,  hi  the  ensuing  summer  it  passed 
into  the  hands  of  Barlow  &  Woodward.  The  county  oi 
Wyoming  having  just  been  formed,  and  the  county  seat  lo- 
cated at  Warsaw,  this  was  deemed  the  more  suitable  place 
for  a  county  paper;  and  it  was  accordingly  removed  by  its 
publishers,  Barlow  &  Woodward.  After  its  removal  to  War- 
saw, it  was  published  by  Barlow  &  Woodward,  Barlow  cfc 
Blanchard,  and  S.  S.  Blanchard,  and  after  his  death  by  H.  A. 
Dudley.  During  the  lingering  illness  of  Mr.  Blanchard,  and 
for  some  time  after  it  came  into  the  hands  of  Mr.  Dudley, 
(from  January  1,  1819,  to  September,  1850,)  the  paper  was 
edited  by  Charles  W.  Bailey,  Esq.     Mr.  Dudley  published  it 


130  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

from  September,  1850,  to  April,  1S58,  when  it  passed  to 
Elijah  W.  Andrews.  After  this  it  was  published  successively 
by  Andrews  &  Harrington,  Harrington  &  Farman,  Morse  & 
Merrill,  and  then  by  "William  IT.  Merrill,  until  its  union  with 
the  "Wyoming  County  Mirror  in  October,  18G1,  under  the 
present  firm  of  Dudley  &  Merrill. 

The  Wyoming  Republican  was  commenced  in  "Warsaw  in 
1S11,  by  Edwin  L.  Fuller,  and  continued  until  March,  1817. 

In  March,  1S18,  Alanson  Holly  commenced  the  "Wyoming 
County  Mirror,  as  proprietor,  publisher,  and  editor,  and  con- 
tinued its  publication  until  the  summer  or  fall  of  1819,  when 
Harwood  A.  Dudley,  his  foreman  in  the  printing  from  its  com- 
mencement, became  a  partner  in  the  concern.  The  partner- 
ship of  Holly  &  Dudley  continued  until  Septembr,  1850, 
when,  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Blanchard,  Mr.  Dudley  pur- 
chased the  Western  Xew  Yorker,  and  Mr.  Holly  became 
again  sole  proprietor  of  the  Mirror.  In  May,  1855,  Mr.  Holly 
sold  out  to  E.  L.  Babbitt  and  E.  S.  Lewis.  In  March,  1S57, 
Mr.  Babbitt  retired,  and  Mr.  Lewis  became  sole  proprietor. 
In  March,  1855,  W.  IT.  Merrill  became  a  partner  with  Lewis. 
January  1,  1859,  H.  A.  Dudley  again  purchased  the  Mirror, 
and  published  it  until  October,  1S64,  when  it  wTas  united  with 
the  "Western  Xew  Yorker,  then  published  by  W.  II.  Merrill. 
The  ~New  Yorker  continues  to  be  published  by  Dudley  & 
Merrill. 

The  Wyoming  Democrat  was  established  in  Warsaw,  by  ] 
John  Hansom,  its  present  publisher,  in  March,  18G3. 

Masonic  Tidings  was  commenced,  also  by  John  Ransom, 
in  October,  1865.  It  is  published  semi-monthly,  on  the  1st 
and  15th  days  of  each  month. 


WYOMING    COUNTY.  131 


WYOMING-    COUNTY. 

The  question  of  dividing  the  county  of  Genesee,  and  the 
formation  of  a  new  county  of  which  Warsaw  should  be  the 
county  seat,  was  agitated  at  an  early  day.  Application  was 
made  to  the  legislature  for  this  object  before  the  formation  of 
Orleans  from  Genesee.  The  first  application  contemplated 
the  taking  of  a  i'ew  towns  from  Allegany  county,  in  order  to 
give  the  county  sufficient  population. 

Prior  to  18-10,  the  project  had  slumbered  for  many  years. 
The  legislature  of  that  year  authorized  the  raising  of  money 
to  build  a  new  court-house  and  jail  in  the  comity  of  Genesee. 
Commissioners  were  appointed  to  fix  the  site;  and  Batavia 
was  again  selected. 

A  mass  meeting  of  citizens  of  the  southern  towns  was  held 
in  Orangeville  to  express  their  disapproval  of  the  act  of  the 
Commissioners.  Resolutions  were  passed  in  favor  of  remov- 
ing the  county  seat  to  a  more  central  part  of  the  county,  <  >r 
of  dividing  the  county. 

In  accordance  with  this  proposition,  a  bill  was  introduced 
in  the  legislature  of  1841,  for  the  division  ot  Genesee  county, 
with  a  provision  requiring  that  the  question  of  the  removal 
of  the  county  seat  be  submitted  to  the  vote  of  the  people  of 
the  county;  and  if  the  question  should  be  decided  affirma- 
tivelv,  the  division  was  not  to  be  made.  Fearing  the  result 
of  the  submission,  the  member  representing  the  interests  of 
the  Batavians,  preferring  a  division  to  a  change  of  location  of 
the  county  buildings,  moved  to  strike  out  the  provision  for 
submission.  The  motion  prevailed;  the  bill  passed  the  house 
with  few  dissenting  votes,  and  in  this  shape  became  a  law. 

The  law  named  as  Commissioners  to  fix  the  site  for  the 
county  buildings,  Peter  B.  Peed,  of  Onondaga,  John  Thomp- 
son, of  Steuben,  and  Davis  Hurd,  of  Niagara.  The  Commis- 
sioners  visited   every  town   in   the  county,   and   after    due 


HISTOKY    OF    WARSAW. 


deliberation,  the  village  of  Warsaw  was  agreed  on  as  the 
place  for  the  county  buildings. 

The  building  commissioners  appointed  by  the  Board  of 
Supervisors,  were  John  A.  McElwain,  of  Warsaw,  Paul  Rich- 
ards, of  Orangeville,  and  Jonathan  Perry,  of  Middlebury. 
The  ground,  except  the  small  lot  on  which  the  jail  was  built, 
was  a  donation  from  lion.  Trumbull  Gary,  of  Batavia.  The 
jail  was  built  in  1841;  the  court-house  in  1842 — all,  including 
the  clerk's  office,  for  the  sum  of  810,000.  The  contract  for 
the  erection  of  the  court-house  and  clerk's  office,  was  let  to 
Josiah  Hovey.  They  were  built  under  the  superintendence 
of  his  son-in-law,  P.  Pixley. 

The  special  election  for  choosing  county  officers  was  held  in 
June,  1841.  The  first  county  court  was  held  at  East  Orange- 
ville. Courts  were  thereafter  held,  until  the  court-house  was 
completed,  in  the  second  story  of  the  school-house,  on  the  south 
side  of  Genesee  street,  nearly  opposite  the  residence  of  J.  A. 
McElwain,  afterwards  bought  by  Isaac  C.  Bronson,  and 
removed  to  Main  street,  and  fitted  up  for  stores  or  shops, 
where  it  was  destroyed  by  the  fire  of  1867. 

The  propriety  of  a  division  of  the  County  of  Genesee, 
could  scarcely  be  seriously  questioned.  Xor  could  a  county 
well  be  in  a  better  condition  for  a  division.  Its  breadth, 
cast  and  west,  was  about  twenty  six  miles;  its  length,  not 
including  China,  thirty-six  miles,  forming  almost  a  perfect 
oblong;  which,  centrally  divided  east  and  west,  would  make 
the  two  counties  almost  exactly  the  same  in  shape  and  size, 
exclusive  of  China  in  the  western  tier  of  towns,  which 
extended  its  whole  breadth  of  six  miles  further  south  than 
the  south  towns  of  the  other  three  tiers  or  ranges.  The 
present  length  of  Genesee  is  about  twenty -six  miles,  east  and 
west,  and  its  breadth  eighteen  miles;  and  so  nearly  central 
are  the  county  buildings,  that  the  geographical  center  of  the 
county  would  probably  be  found,  by  exact  measurement,  to 
be  within  the  limits  of  the  village  of  Batavia. 


Sketch, p  260. 


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AGRICULTURAL    SOCIETY. 


133 


By  the  division,  the  town  of  Covington  was  divided;  the 
southern  portion  retaining  its  former  name.  The  northern 
part,  which  fell  to  Genesee,  was  named  Pavilion ;  but  being 
of  diminutive  size,  a  portion  of  Le  Roy  was  annexed.  The 
two   counties   were  also  nearly  equal  in  population. 

In  184(3,  the  towns  of  Eagle,  Pike,  and  the  part  of  Portage 
lying  west  of  Genesee  river,  and  now  called  Genesee  Falls, 
were  taken  from  Allegany  county  and  annexed  to  Wyoming, 
which  now  contains  sixteen  towns,  in  four  ranges  or  tiers  of 
four  towns  each.  The  town  of  Genesee  Falls  containing  less 
than  half  of  the  town  of  Portage  before  its  division,  a  tier  of 
lots  from  Pike  was  added  to  its  territory. 


AGRICULTURAL   SOCIETY. 

The  Wyoming  County  Agricultural  Society  was  formed 
soon  after  the  organization  of  the  county.  Although  a  county 
institution,  its  relation  to  this  towm  in  particular  seems  to  de- 
mand notice  in  a  "  History  of  "Warsaw."  The  society  was 
organized  in  this  town ;  and  in  it  the  annual  Fairs  have  been 
held,  with  a  single  exception,  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

In  October,  1813,  pursuant  to  previous  notice,  a  meeting  of 
the  Farmers  and  Mechanics  of  the  county  was  held  at  the 
Court  House  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a  County  Agricultural 
Society.  Calvin  P.  Bailey,  of  Perry,  was  chosen  Chairman, 
and  James  L.  Sanford,  of  Castile,  Secretary.  A  committee 
of  six  was  appointed  to  report  a  constitution;  and  a  commit- 
tee of  one  from  each  town  to  report  officers  of  the  society. 
The  following  officers  were  elected: 

President — James  C.  Ferris,  of  Middlebury. 
Vice  President — Dr.  Augustus  Frank,  for  Warsaw,  and 
one  for  every  other  town. 

Secretary — Linus  W.  Thayer,  of  Warsaw. 
Treasurer — Jonx  A.  McElwain,  of  Warsaw. 


134  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

There  was  also  chosen  one  Manager  for  each  town — New- 
bury Bronson,  for  Warsaw;  and  a  Town  Committee  of  three 
for  each  town — Isaac  C.  Bronson,  George  W.  Morriss,  and 
Elijah  Norton,  for  Warsaw. 

The  first  Fair  was  held  at  Warsaw,  September  30th  and 
October  1st,  1844.  A  large  number  of  persons  became  mem- 
bers during  the  year,  some  for  life,  and  others  yearly  members. 
The  display  of  stock  and  other  farm  products,  and  of  mechan- 
ical and  household  productions  generally,  at  each  successive 
Fair,  was  highly  creditable  to  the  county. 

It  was  believed  by  many,  that  the  objects  of  the  Society 
would  be  best  promoted  by  fixing  a  permanent  place  for  the 
holding  of  the  annual  Fairs,  and  by  procuring  suitable  grounds 
for  the  purpose;  and  at  a  meeting  of  the  Society  held  in  the 
Court  House,  September  27,  1855,  to  "propose  a  plan  for  pur- 
chasing and  fitting  up  grounds  for  the  Society,"  the  President, 
Hugh  T.  Brooks,  of  Covington,  appointed  a  committee  of 
eight  to  "  make  inquiry  as  to  the  cost  of  leasing  or  purchasing 
grounds,  and  to  report  at  the  next  meeting  in  February." 
The  committee  consisted  of  John  A.  McElwain,  Frank  Miller, 
James  C.  Ferris,  Uriah  Johnson,  Samuel  Fisher,  2d,  Newbury 
Bronson,  William  Bristol,  Jr.,  and  E.  C.  Skiff. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee  at  the  Court 
House,  February  20,  1856,  the  committee  appointed  at  the 
previous  meeting  having  in  charge  the  selection  of  the  Fair 
Ground,  reported  in  favor  of  purchasing  a  lot  in  the  south 
part  of  the  village  of  Warsaw  of  David  McWethy.  To  en- 
able the  Society  to  purchase  and  hold  real  estate,  it  was 
necessary  that  the  Society  should  be  reorganized;  and  a  com- 
mittee, consisting  of  O.  Y.  Whitcomb,  Edwin  L.  Babbitt,  and 
Truman  Lewis,  was  appointed  to  draft  a  certificate  to  com- 
plete the  new  organization.  A  report  was  made  and  adopted, 
and  the  certificate  was  signed  by  thirty  gentlemen  present 
from  all  parts  of  the  county. 


AGRICULTURAL    SOCIETY. 


135 


The  Society  at  this  meeting  elected,  as  officers  for  the  en- 
suing year,  the  following : 

President — Hugh  T.  Brooks,  of  Covington. 

Recording  Seeretary — EL  A.  Dudley. 

Corresponding  Secretary — John  L.  Clark. 

Treasurer — John  A.  McElavain. 

Nine  Directors  of  the  Society  were  also  chosen. 

On  motion  of  O.  V.  Whitcomb,  of  Pike,  seconded  by 
Alfred  S.  Patterson,  of  Perry,  it  was 

"Resolved,  That  Warsaw  be  designated  as  the  place  for 
permanently  holding  the  Fairs  of  this  Society." 

At  a  meeting  held  March  26,  1856,  to  take  final  action  in 
relation  to  purchasing  grounds,  a  proposition  from  Samuel 
Fisher,  2d,  to  sell  ten  or  fifteen  acres  of  land  lying  near  the 
corner  of  Brooklyn  and  Liberty  streets,  in  the  village  of  War- 
saw, was  submitted  for  consideration.  After  due  deliberation 
the  proposition  was  accepted.  The  land  was  purchased,  and 
the  President,  Secretary,  and  Treasurer,  were  authorized  to 
sign  the  necessary  papers  in  behalf  of  the  Society. 


13G  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


OLD  FOLKS'  FESTIVALS. 

MEETING    AT   DR.    FRANKS. 

The  first  of  these  Pioneer  festivals  was  held  in  February, 
1850,  at  the  house  of  Augustus  Frank,  who  had  previously 
issued  invitations  to  all  persons,  male  and  female,  residing 
within  the  limits  of  the  corporation,  and  not  under  fifty  years 
of  age.  The  number  of  guests  who  attended  this  entertain- 
ment was  fifty -five,  of  whom  twenty-four  were  males,  and 
thirty- four  were  females.  After  some  hours  of  refreshing 
and  exhilarating  social  intercourse,  upon  invitation  they  paid 
their  compliments  to  the  Doctor  at  his  well  provisioned  table. 
The  Rev.  A.  T.  Young  invoked  the  Divine  blessing,  and  the 
company  satisfied  themselves  with  the  rich  provisions  before 
them. 

After  the  repast,  the  company,  (remaing  at  the  table,)  were 
addressed,  successively,  by  the  worthy  host,  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Young,  and  Messrs.  Jonas  Cutting,  Silas  C.  Fargo,  Lyman 
Morris,  Julius  Whitlock,  Dea.  John  Munger,  and  Samuel 
\Yhitlock.  Some  interesting  facts  and  reminiscences  were 
given  concerning  the  early  settlement  and  growth  of  the 
town.  Mr.  Morris  came  to  this  town  in  1803;  Cutting,  Fargo, 
and  others,  the  year  following.  There  was  then  but  one  acre 
of  ground  cleared  within  the  limits  of  the  township.  The 
route  from  here  to  Geneseo,  for  wTagons,  was  by  the  way  of 
Le  Roy,  and  was  accounted  a  three  days'  journey.  Mr.  Fargo, 
with  his  father,  was  the  first  to  pass  on  the  old  Buffalo  road, 
(now  so  called,)  with  a  wagon.  A  number  of  others  enter- 
tained the  company  with  similar  remarks  on  pioneer  life. 

Dismissed  from  the  table,  the  company  amused  themselves 
and  each  other  as  they  listed,  until  the  strains  of  some  "good 
old  fashioned  music "  arrested  the  attention  of  all ;  and  all 
who  could  ever  sing,  joined  their  voices  as  if  by  a  common 
impulse.     The  harmony  of  feeling  was  not   less   conspicuous 


old  folks'  festivals.  137 

than  tlio  harmony  of  voices.  In  this  state  of  feeling,  after  an 
appropriate  prayer  by  Kev.  JVIr.  Young,  the  company 
separated.  The  oldest  male  gnest  was  Mr.  Archibald  David- 
son, a  native  of  Scotland,  who  entertained  the  company  with 
a  characteristic  song.  The  oldest  female  was  82  years.  The 
average  age  of  the  company  was  about  64  years;  not  one  of 
them  was  a  native  of  Warsaw. 

A  gnest  writing  to  the  Mirror,  said  :  "Expressions  of  grati- 
tude to  the  kind  host  were  numerous,  frequent,  heart-felt,  and 
well  deserved ;  of  which  his  excellent  lady,  who  was  so 
unassumingly  conspicuous  in  her  efforts  (efforts  which  never 
fail )  to  make  her  guests  happy,  received  her  full  share.  The 
Doctor  expressed  to  the  company  his  sense  of  the  honor  they 
.  had  conferred  on  him  in  accepting  his  invitation;  and  thus  it 
appeared  that  all  were  highly  satisfied  with  the  entertainment. 
The  occasion  was  a  serious  'caution'  to  all  abortive  attempts 
to  ape  the  fashionable  follies  of  the  day — they  can  never 
afford  such  pure  and  elevating  enjoyment." 

The  thought  would  naturally  be  suggested  to  those  present, 
that,  among  so  large  a  number  of  persons  so  far  advanced  in 
age,  deaths  would  soon  occur.  It  is  worthy  of  notice,  that 
the  first  death  was  that  of  a  member  of  the  Doctor's  house- 
hold, Mrs.  G.  P.  Barnett,  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Frank,  who  died  in 
November  of  the  same  year.  The  second  was  that  of  Dr. 
Frank  himself,  one  of  the  youngest  present.  He  died  in 
I   January,  1851,  aged  59  years. 

MEETING   IN    1860. 

This  festive  gathering  took  place  in  the  yards  of  Messrs. 

Frank  and  Edwin  B.  Miller,  in  pursuance  of  the  invitations 

■    publicly  issued.     At  2  o'clock  the  meeting  was  called  to  order 

i    by  George  W.  Morris,  Esq.,  and  was  organized  by  the  choice 

j   of  officers  as  follows: 

President — Hon.  John  A.  McElwain. 
Vice  -Presidents — Amos  Keeney,  Nicholas  Cleveland,  Joel 
Pratt,  Valentine  Parker,  Elam  Perkins,  William  Webster, 


138  HISTORY   OF   WAESAW. 

"Willard  T.  Warner,  Cyrus  Tanner,  Samuel  Salisbury,  James 
Richards,  Lorin  Seeley,  Daniel  H.  Throop,  John  F.  Clark, 
George  Snyder,  Chester  Hurd,  William  Robinson,  Willard 
Stearns,  William  Small  wood,  Elisha  W.  Scovel,  Nye  Stevens, 
Henry  Woodward,  Julius  Whitlock,  William  Walker,  John 
Munger,  Peter  Patterson,  Amos  Chapman,  Elijah  Norton, 
George  W.  Morris,  Isaac  Matthews,  Rufus  Morris,  William  T. 
Hatch,  Palmer  Fargo,  William  Fluker,  Cyrus  Capen,  Brough- 
ton  W.  Crane,  Samuel  Bedow,  Welcom  Arnold,  Elisha  Barnes, 
Ira  Wilcox,  Robert  Barnett,  Frank  Miller,  Joshua  II.  Darling, 
William  Bingham,  Robert  R.  Munger. 

Secretaries — Edwin  B.  Miller,  Seth  M.  Gates. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Rev.  J.  E.  Nassau. 

The  meeting  was  then  entertained  for  a  short  time  with 
vocal  music  by  the  united  choirs  of  the  several  churches  in 
the  village,  accompanied  by  the  voices  of  the  multitude,  and 
alternated  with  instrumental  music  by  the  O-at-ka  Band  of 
Warsaw. 

S.  M.  Gates  was  then  called  upon  by  the  President,  and 
addressed  the  meeting,  and  related  some  interesting  incidents 
of  early  life  on  the  Purchase. 

The  President  announced  a  recess  of  one  hour  for  partaking 
the  refreshments  prepared  by  the  ladies. 

After  recess,  the  President  again  called  the  assemblage  to 
order  around  the  platform. 

Deacon  Samuel  Salisbury  (aged  73)  was  called  upon,  and 
addressed  the  meeting.  lie  said  he  was  one  of  the  pioneers 
in  the  settlement  of  this  town.  He  thought  he  had  cleared 
more  land  with  his  own  hands  than  any  other  man  now  living 
in  town.  He  was  once  passing  through  some  woods  with  two 
men,  being  a  little  in  advance  of  them,  when  they  alarmed 
him  by  the  cry  of  "Bear!  Bear!"  Fie  soon  discovered  the 
bear  in  a  tree,  making  its  way  down.  Having  a  brush-hook 
in  his  hand,  he  ran  towards  the  tree,  intending  to  be  ready 
for  the  bear  when  it  reached  the  ground.  But  the  bear,  per- 
ceiving his  object,  let  go  its  hold,  and  fell  to  the  ground.   They 


-&1 


a 

Sketck.p.  552. 


old  settlers'  festivals.  130 

then  had  a  race,  (Mr.  S.,  brush-hook  in  hand,  being  the  pur- 
suer^) which  terminated  in  the  escape  of  the  bear,  and  also  ot 
the  speaker.  Mr.  S.  related  other  amusing  incidents  of  pion- 
eer life,  and  some  of  hardship  and  peril,  and  closed  with 
acknowledgments  of  the  protecting  care  of  Divine  Provi- 
dence. 

William  Webster  (aged  73)  next  addressed  the  meeting. 
He  said  he  came  to  Warsaw  in  1803,  with  his  brother  Elizur 
Webster.  In  that  year  he  and  his  brother  cut  a  road  into 
this  town.  In  1808,  he  entered  upon  the  farm  he  now  occu- 
pies, and  has  made  it  what  it  is.  He  was  not  the  oldest  man, 
but  he  believed  he  was  the  oldest  settler  of  the  town  now 
living.  Pie  had  never  been  troubled,  as  some  young  men  of 
the  present  day  seem  to  be,  to  find  enough  to  do.  He  had 
worn  himself  out,  and  would  soon  be  gone. 

Mr.  Elam  Perkins  (aged  77)  said  he  wanted  to  bring  for- 
ward a  different  subject,  although  he  had  been  interested  in 
what  had  been  said.  His  subject  was  religion,  personal 
religion.  He  related  his  conversion  in  1797,  and  his  Christian 
experience;  and  closed  with  an  exhortation  to  all  to  come  to 
Jesus. 

Mr.  Julius  Whitlock  was  called  for.  He  came  to  Warsaw 
in  1810,  and  took  up  his  farm.  War  came  on  soon  after. 
Buffalo  was  burnt,  and  the  alarm  spread.  Word  came  here 
that  the  Indians  were  coming  down  upon  us.  He  was  then  a 
young  man,  but  had  some  people  living  in  the  house  with 
him  who  were  much  frightened.  At  one  time  he  drove  his 
cattle  into  a  swamp  where  he  thought  the  Indians  could  not 
find  them;  moved  his  pork  barrel  into  the  woods;  and  all 
hands  left  the  house,  he  carrying  a  child,  and  remained  in 
the  woods  all  night.  After  that  he  belonged  to  a  company 
of  Cavalry  which  was  sent  to  Canada.  The  company  fell 
into  an  ambush  and  were  fired  upon  by  the  Indians.  His 
horse  was  wounded,  and  the  company  fled,  leaving  him  behind. 
William  Bristol  came  back  and  rescued  him.  Mr.  Bristol 
was  a  friend  indeed. 


140  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

Mr.  Chester  Hurd  (aged  68)  said  lie  came  into  this  town 
in  1811.  lie  had  not  been  accustomed  to  hunting  nor  farm- 
ing; he  had  followed  the  carpenter  and  joiner  business — had 
built  eight  churches;  and  thought  if  building  churches 
tended  to  make  people  better,  he  had  done  some  good  in 
Warsaw.  lie  had  built  many  good  houses,  but  had  himself 
always  lived  in  poor  ones.  He  well  remembered  the  Indian 
alarms.  News  came  at  one  time  that  the  Indians  would  be 
here  next  day.  Some  of  the  women  armed  themselves  with 
bush  scythes,  pitchforks,  &c.  He  was  framing  a  building 
when  Judge  Webster  came  along  and  advised  him  to  take 
the  timbers  and  build  a  fort,  saying  the  Indians  were  coming, 
and  we  should  want  it.  He  left  his  work,  went  through  the 
woods  home,  and  found  folks  abandoning  their  houses  and 
taking  shelter  in  the  woods. 

Mr.  Henry  Ilovey,  the  oldest  male  inhabitant  born  in  the 
town,  was  called  out.  He  said  he  had  never  made  a  public 
speech,  but  was  pleased  to  address  the  meeting,  and  gave  a 
few  statistics.  His  father  came  to  this  town  in  1804,  and  in 
1805  took  in  a  boarder.  I  appear  before  you  as  that  boarder. 
When  about  fifteen  years  old,  he  took  a  load  of  wheat  to 
Hoehester,  and  sold  it  for  three  shillings  and  six  pence  per 
bushel.  He  stopped  at  a  hotel  where  he  paid  as  much  for  a 
meal  of  victuals.  He  lodged  with  other  teamsters  who  Mere 
there  selling  wheat.  One  of  them  said,  if  he  had  to  give  a 
bushel  of  wheat  for  his  supper,  he  would  try  to  get  his  money's 
worth.  That  night  he  did  not  rest  well;  he  was  out  of  bed 
on  the  floor,  when  some  one  inquired,  "What's  the  matter?" 
lie  replied,  "  My  bushel  of  wheat  lies  heavy  on  my  stomach." 

Mr.  Hiram  Porter  ( aged  63)  said  he  was  not  an  old  settler, 
but  his  recollection  extended  back  about  fifty  years.  lie 
contrasted  the  past  with  the  present,  and  said  the  rising  gen- 
eration should  understand  it.  He  alluded  to  the  table  spread 
before  them  in  contrast  with  the  coarse  and  scanty  fare 
of  former  times.  lie  pointed  to  the  comfortable  and  elegant 
carriages  standing  without,  and  said  he  remembered  when  a 


OLD  folks'  festivals.  141 

certain  young  man  was  thought  to  be  rather  aristocratic 
because  he  had  got  a  lumber  one-horse  wagon,  painted  all 
over,  and  inside  with  shining  red  lead,  and  had  got  a  seat 
in  it  with  a  high  back.  lie  had  occasion  also  to  remember 
the  Indian  alarm,  for  a  ball  which  he  was  attending  was 
broken  up  by  it. 

Mr.  Wm.  Smallwood  said  he  had  been  in  town  thirty-six 
years.  lie  could  not  testify  to  the  Indian  alarms,  &c,  but 
could  testify  to  very  great  improvements  since  he  first  came 
here.  There  had  been  great  moral  improvement,  especially 
in  the  matter  of  temperance.  lie  used  to  draw  wood  down 
the  hill,  and  often  met  ten  or  a  dozen  jugs  going  up  hill;  but 
now  he  saw  no  jugs.  lie  was  much  gratified  with  what  he 
had  seen  and  heard  this  day. 

The  united  choirs  then  sang 

"  When  shall  we  meet  again  '.'" 

Mr.  Job  Sherman,  of  Middlebury,  said  this  was  the  first 
time  he  was  ever  called  upon  to  speak  in  public.  He  came 
into  this  country  at  the  close  of  the  war.  The  country  pros- 
perous— wheat  $2  per  bushel,  pork  $30  per  barrel.  But  after- 
Wards  ho  drew  wheat  to  Eochester,  and  sold  it  for  two 
shillings  and  six  pence  per  bushel,  and  took  trade  at  that. 
In  order  to  get  money,  he  had  to  haul  his  wheat  to  Albany 
all  the  way  by  team,  and  sell  it  there  for  nine  shillings  per 
bushel.  He  thought  the  present  generation  knew  little  of  the 
hardships  of  those  days,  or  of  the  feeling  of  brotherhood — 
the  disposition  to  help  one  another — which  then  prevailed, 
lie  drew  a  contrast  in  these  respects  rather  favorable  to  the 
generation  which  is  passing  away. 

Mr.  Newbury  Bronson,  after  some  interesting  remarks, 
spoke  of  the  peculiarities  and  the  cheering  and  healthful  ten- 
dencies of  this  social  gathering,  and  tendered  his  thanks  to 
Messrs.  F.  &  E.  B.  Miller  for  planning  the  design,  and  for 
so  generously  opening  and  preparing  their  beautiful  yards  for 
the  entertainment. 


142  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

At  the  conclusion  of  this  address,  on  motion  of  Hon.  S.  M. 
Gates,  it  was  unanimously 

"  Resolved,  That  the  virtual  resolution  of  thanks  to  the 
Messrs.  Miller,  contained  in  the  closing  part  of  Mr.  Bronson's 
speech,  be  adopted  as  the  sentiment  of  this  meeting." 

Mr.  E.  B.  Miller  responded.  He  desired  to  return  his 
thanks  for  so  much  of  the  compliment  in  this  resolution  as 
might  be  justly  due  to  himself.  To  a  great  number  of  others, 
and  especially  the  ladies,  without  whose  aid  in  planning,  ar- 
ranging and  executing,  nothing  of  this  kind  could  be  so  sue- 
cessfully  carried  out,  the  larger  portion  of  this  compliment 
was  due.  And  as  to  the  idea  of  an  entertainment  of  this 
kind,  he  desired  again  to  render  honor  to  whom  honor  is  due. 
The  first  and  only  one  of  this  nature  was  given  by  Dr. 
Augustus  Frank,  (now  deceased,)  at  his  house  in  1850;  and 
closed  his  remarks  by  reading  an  account  of  that  gathering  as 
published  in  the  Mirror  at  the  time. 

Mr.  Frank  Miller  followed.  He  fully  indorsed  the  senti- 
ments uttered  by  his  brother,  awarding  to  the  committee  and 
to  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  who  had  contributed  so  much  to 
this  entertainment,  the  full  measure  of  the  compliment  to 
which  they  were  so  justly  entitled.  Although  he  had  never 
offered  a  toast  in  his  life,  he  would,  if  this  were  a  fitting  occa- 
sion, be  strongly  tempted  to  toast  the  ladies.  [Voices,  "A 
toast — a  toast — let  us  have  a  toast."]  "Well,  then,  he  would 
offer — 

"  The  Ladies  of  Warsaw — Ever  ready,  with  warm  hearts 
and  liberal  hands,  to  contribute  to  the  comfort  of  others — not 
by  words  only,  but  by  deeds." 

On  the  utterance  of  this  toast,  the  President  called  for 
three  cheers  for  Frank  Miller;  and  the  call  was  heartily  res- 
ponded to. 

Hon.  S.  M.  Gates  then  presented,  in  a  short  and  appropriate 
speech,  some  resolutions  with  reference  to  the  forming  of  a 
County  Historical  Society.  The  President  remarked  that  the 
Committee  to  be  appointed  under  these  resolutions  would  be 
duly  announced  in  the  newspapers. 


old  folks'  festivals.  143 

General  McElwain  responded  to  a  call  for  a  speech  from 
the  President.  He  said  he  was  not  one  of  the  earliest  settlers 
of  Warsaw.  He  came  from  Massachusetts,  when  a  youth; 
he  was  without  protection  or  restraint,  and  was  exjDosed  to  bad 
influences;  but  he  early  formed  three  resolutions  which  had 
never  been  broken,  and  probably  never  would  be.  They 
were,  1st,  that  he  would  never  use  tobacco;  2d,  that  he  would 
not  keep  rowdy  company;  3d,  that  he  would  not  play  cards 
for  mone}7.  He  contrasted  the  manners  and  social  amuse- 
ments of  fifty  years  ago  with  those  of  the  present  day  by 
several  amusing  illustrations.    One  of  them  was  the  following: 

On  a  Fourth  of  July,  some  of  the  young  men  of  Warsaw 
attended  a  celebration  at  Gainesville,  there  being  none  at 
home.  Horse  teams  being  rather  scarce,  they  engaged  a  team 
of  two  yoke  of  oxen  and  an  ox-cart.  They  decorated  the  cart 
with  evergreens,  and  covered  it  with  a  roof  of  boughs.  At 
Gainesville  the  driver  stopped  in  front  of  the  taVern,  backed 
up  to  the  door,  and,  loosening  the  fore  end  of  the  cart  bodv, 
"dumped  "  the  jolly  load  into  the  tavern.  They  had  a  first 
rate  "  backwoods  "  celebration ;  and  some  of  the  party  returned 
the  same  night. 

After  the  singing  of  a  Hymn  by  the  united  choirs,  Mr.  Eli 
Merrill  was  called  for.  He  said  he  came  to  this  county 
thirty -five  years  ago,  and  engaged  in  teaching  school.  He 
was  glad  to  see  some  of  his  scholars  here  to-day.  He  had 
listened  attentively  to  the  stories  of  the  hardships  and  perils 
of  the  early  settlers;  but  a  fact  mentioned  by  one  of  the 
speakers  had  particularly  aroused  his  sympathies.  It  had 
been  said  that  some  of  the  early  settlers  were  obliged  to  send 
several  miles  to  Sheldon  to  get  their  bread  baked.  The  thought 
which  awakened  his  tender  sympathies  was,  that  he  could  not 
have  been  there  to  furnish  them  with  stoves,  (Mr.  M's  present 
business  being  that  of  a  stove  peddler.)  Concerning  the  Indian 
alarms  he  had  but  one  incident  to  relate :  Thirty -five  years 
ago  he  attended  an  exhibition  at  Middlebury  Academy.     A 


14:4:  IIISTOKY  OF  WARSAW. 

student  gave  a  poetical  description  of  the  effects  of  the  fright, 
one  verse  of  which  he  remembered,  and  would  repeat: 

u  And,  by  the  help  of  Providence  divine, 
Soon  they  reached  the  Warsaw  line; 
And,  to  assure  themselves  they  were  not  dead, 
Clapp'd  up  their  hand  and  i'elt  their  head.-' 

The  exercises  were  then  formally  closed,  and  the  whole 
company  rose  and  united  their  voices  in  singing  to  the  tune 
of  Old  Hundred,  the  Doxology, 

"Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow." 
The  benediction  was  pronounced  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Buck. 


After  the  formal  closing  of  the  meeting,  a  large  portion  of 
the  company  remained  upon  the  ground  more  than  an  hour, 
and  listened  to  speeches  from  George  \V.  Morris,  Esq.,  Mr. 
Peter  Young,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Buck. 

Mr.  Morris  said  experience  was  our  best  school-master,  as 
many  here  could  testily,  and  had  testified.  This  occasion  was 
to  him  one  of  great  rejoicing — he  liked  the  peculiar  features 
of  it.  He  came  here  in  1804 — had  watched  the  progress  of 
things  from  that  time  to  this,  and  could  testily  to  the  great 
contrast.  He  said  we  ought  to  be  grateful  to  Divine  Provi- 
dence for  our  present  privileges,  and  see  to  it  that  we  rightly 
improve  them. 

Mr.  Young  said  he  was  not  used  to  speech  making — related 
some  instances  of  hardship  endured  by  the  early  settlers, 
and  gave  some  interesting  items  of  the  religious  history  of  the 
town. 

Rev.  Mr.  Buck  made  a  humorous  speech.  Although  he 
was  not  yet  fifty  years  old,  he  was  here  by  special  invitation. 
He  did  not  know  but  he  would  have  a  right  here  indepen- 
dently of  the  invitation,  by  virtue  of  the  probability  that  some 
of  these  old  settlers  were  ferried  across  Genesee  river  on  their 
way  hither  by  his  father ;  and  he  would  take  occasion  to  say, 
that  if  any  of  them  had  forgotten  to  pay  the  ferriage,  he  had 


ct. 


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old  folks'  festivals.  145 

the  books,  and  would  be  ready  to  settle  with  them  at  any 
time.  He  entertained  the  company  in  a  similar  strain,  at 
considerable  length,  pronouncing  the  highest  encomiums  upon 
Warsaw  and  its  inhabitants  with  only  one  drawback,  which 
was  the  scarcity  of  marriages  and  marriage  fees. 

Thus  were  finally  closed  the  exercises  of  the  day — a  day 
long  to  be  remembered  by  all  who  were  present.  The  com- 
pany of  invited  guests  indicated  their  high  gratification  with 
the  entertainment;  and  the  entertainers  doubtless  felt  them- 
selves fully  compensated  in  the  satisfaction   which   attends 

every  successful  endeavor  to  promote  the  happiness  of  others. 

10 


140  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW, 


PUBLIC    MEETINGS, 

OX    EXTRAORDINARY    OCCASIONS. 

Several  events  of  unusual  interest  have  called  forth  public 
expressions  of  the  feelings  and  sentiments  of  our  citizens. 
Prominent  among  the  occasions  of  these  popular  demonstra- 
tions, were  the  deaths  of  Presidents  Taylor  and  Lincoln. 

DEATH    OF    PRESIDENT   TAYLOR. 

Zachary  Taylor,  President  of  the  United  States,  died  July 
9,  1850,  a  year  and  four  months  after  his  inauguration. 
What  added  interest  to  this  sad  event,  was  the  fact,  that  it 
was  the  second  death  of  a  President  at  an  early  period  in  his 
administration,  and  but  nine  years  after  the  death  of  Presi- 
dent Harrison,  which  occurred  April  4,  1841,  just  one  month 
after  he  was  inaugurated.  At  an  early  day  after  the  news 
was  received,  a  large  number  of  the  people  of  Warsaw, 
without  distinction  of  party,  assembled  at  the  Court  House, 
to  render  due  honors  to  the  deceased  Chief  Magistrate  of 
the  nation. 

At  about  one  o'clock,  a  procession  was  formed  on  Main 
street,  under  the  direction  of  the  Marshal,  Linus  W.  Thayer, 
Esq.,  and  marched  to  the  Court  House  to  the  sound  of  martial 
music;  minute  guns  firing  and  bells  tolling  during  the  time. 
After  some  appropriate  remarks  by  the  Chairman,  Isaac  C. 
Bronson,  and  prayer  by  Be  v.  K.  D.  Nettleton,  an  Address 
was  delivered  by  James  B.  Doolittle,  Esq.,  then  a  resident  of 
Warsaw,  at  present  United  States  Senator  from  Wisconsin. 
Did  our  limits  permit,  we  should  give  some  extracts  of  this 
interesting  address.  A  Doxology  by  the  Choir,  and  the  ben- 
ediction by  Bev.  James  P.  Fisher,  closed  the  services  at  the 
Court  House.  The  procession  then  formed  again  and  re- 
turned, minute  guns  firing  and  bells  tolling  as  before. 


PUBLIC    MEETINGS.  147 


DEATH    OF    ABRAHAM   LINCOLN". 


Aii  event  more  appalling,  or  of  more  pervading  interest,  is 
not  recorded  in  our  country's  history,  than  the  assassination  of 
President  Lincoln.  A  sketch  of  the  action  of  our  citizens  in 
relation  to  this  extraordinary  occurrence,  seems  to  deserve  a 
place  in  the  history  of  our  town,  and  will  be  read  with  inte- 
rest by  our  descendants.  Our  sketch  is  drawn  chiefly  from 
the  proceedings  published  in  the  newspapers. 

The  crime  was  perpetrated  on  the  evem'ng  of  Friday,  the 
14th  of  April,  1864;  and  the  news  readied  Warsaw  the  next 
morning.  In  the  language  of  the  Western  New  Yorker,  of 
Thursday  following:  " The  terrible  tidings,  which  turned  the 
nation's  joy  into  mourning,  fell  like  a  pall  upon  our  quiet 
village.  To  carry  heavy,  anxious  hearts  into  the  dull  routine 
of  daily  business,  seemed  impossible." 

Moved  by  a  common  impulse,  a  large  number  of  citizens 
assembled,  organized,  and  appointed  a  committee,  consisting 
of  II.  L.  Comstock,  Eev.  J.  E.  Bills,  Leonard  W.  Smith, 
Gideon  H.  Jenkins,  Wm.  D.  Miner,  and  Wm.  II.  Merrill,  to 
report  a  plan  for  the  proper  observance  of  this  saddest  day  of 
all  the  year.  The  committee  reported  the  following  resolu- 
tion, which  was  unanimously  adopted  : 

" Resolved.  That  in  view  of  the  terrible  and  heart-rending 
calamity  which  has  befallen  us  as  a  nation,  in  the  assassina- 
tion of  President  Lincoln — a  calamity  so  stupendous,  so 
sudden,  and  so  overwhelming,  that  no  words  can  express  its 
extent,  or  give  utterance  to  the  profound  grief  it  occasions; 
we  recommend  to  the  citizens  of  Warsawr  the  immediate 
closing  of  all  business  places,  and  the  suspension  of  all  ordi- 
nary occupations;  that  the  bells  of  the  town  be  tolled,  and 
that  the  citizens  assemble  at  the  Methodist  church,  at  two 
o'clock  P.  M.,  to  mingle  their  expressions  of  grief  at  the 
irreparable  loss  which  the  nation  has  sustained  in  this 
hour  of  the  final  triumph  of  our  arms  on  the  battle-field." 


14S  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

By  ten  o'clock  the  stores  and  business  places  were  closed. 
The  muffled  bells  were  tolled ;  stores  and  dwellings  were 
draped  in  mourning;  the  old  Flag  hung  at  halt-mast;  and 
dwellings  displayed  flags  fringed  with  black.  At  two  o'clock, 
in  pursuance  of  the  recommendation  of  the  morning  meeting, 
the  citizens  assembled  at  the  Methodist  church,  which  was 
soon  filled.  It  was  heavily  draped  with  black.  Rev.  J.  E. 
Bills  stated  the  object  of  the  meeting;  and  on  his  motion, 
Hon.  Augustus  Frank  was  called  to  the  Chair;  and  on  motion 
of  Alanson  Holly,  ¥m.  II.  Merrill  was  chosen  secretary. 

Mr.  Frank,  on  taking  the  chair,  spoke  of  the  personal  char- 
acter of  the  deceased  President — of  his  sublime  faith,  stead- 
fast purpose,  pure  integrity,  and  the  universal  gloom  occasioned 
by  his  sudden  death.  Speaking  with  the  warmth  of  a  personal 
friend  and  acquaintance,  and  as  one  who  had  enjoyed  unusual 
facilities  for  knowing  the  great  work  performed  by  the  Presi- 
dent, as  well  as  his  spotless  character  as  a  man  and  a  states- 
man, Mr.  Frank's  remarks  were  full  of  sad  interest.  After 
an  impressive  prayer  by  Rev.  Mr.  Williams,  and  the  reading 
of  scripture  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  the  large  choir,  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  Snyder,  sang  a  hymn. 

Rev.  Mr.  Nassau  then  briefly"  addressed  the  meeting.     He 

spoke  of  the  solemnity  of  this  "place  of  weeping,"  and  of  the 

occasion  as  one  where  words  can  not  do  the  office  of  grief. 

He  presented  what  he  thought  were  the  lessons  taught  hy  the 

sad  and  shocking  event — the  frailty  of  human  life — the  im- 

pressiveness  of  this  new  lesson  tha.t  "God  only  is  great,"  and 

that  no  arm  of  flesh  could  save  us — and  of  this  dispensation 

as  a  test  given  us  as  a  people  by  God,  not  necessarily"  as  a 

judgment  on  us  or  on  Abraham  Lincoln.     "Man  is  immortal 

till  his  work  is  done;  "  and  President  Lincoln's  work  was 

done.     The  veil  would  yet  be  lifted: 

'•  God  is  Lis  own  interpreter. 
And  he  will  make  it  plain.'' 

Rev.  Mr.  Williams  spoke  feelingly"  of  the  personal  charac- 
ter and  traits  of  the  lamented   Chief  Magistrate,  and  closed 


PUBLIC   MEETINGS.  149 

by  exhorting  Lis  hearers  that  this  was  not  a  time  to  despair, 
but  to  trust  in  the  God  above  and  over  all,  who  has  thus  far 
guided  and  guarded  us.  Rev.  Mr.  Horwood,  L.  W.  Thayer, 
and  II.  L.  Comstock,  also  addressed  the  meeting. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Thayer,  the  chairman  appointed  a  com- 
mittee of  thirteen  to  make  arrangements  for  the  funeral 
services.  The  committee  consisted  of  L.  W.  Thayer,  H.  L. 
Comstock,  J.  II.  Darling,  J.  A.  McElwain,  J.  E.  Bills,  J. 
Watts,  II.  A.  Dudley,  C.  W.  Bailey,  L.  A.  Hayward, 
A.  Holly,  B.  Healy,   M.  II.  Morris,   J.  Ransom. 

The  Western  New  Yorker  remarked,  in  reference  to  the 
occasion,  that  "  the  solemn  and  universal  observance  of  the 
day  was  grateful  to  every  loyal  heart,  and  reflected  honor 
upon  the  good  taste  and  sense  of  propriety  of  our  citizens.  It 
was  a  day  never  to  be  forgotten  by  those  who  particijiated  in 
its  observance." 

The  committee  of  thirteen  reported  that  the  public  demon- 
stration should  take  place  at  the  Methodist  church  at  noon  of 
the  following  Wednesday,  that  being  the  day  and  hour  fixed 
for  the  obsequies  at  Washington;  and  that  Be  v.  Joseph  E. 
Nassau,  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  should  deliver  the 
funeral  discourse.  On  that  day  the  places  of  business  were 
closed  and  hung  with  mourning.  The  church,  also  thus 
draped,  was  crowded  with  citizens  of  Warsaw  and  the  sur- 
rounding towns.  The  discourse  was  able,  appropriate,  and 
eloquent. 


150  HISTOKY   OF   WARSAW, 


TEMPERANCE. 

The  date  of  the  first  Temperance  Society  in  this  town,  we 
are  unable  to  ascertain.  According  to  our  best  recollection, 
the  Genesee  County  Temperance  Society  was  formed  in  1826 
or  1827;  and  the  society  in  this  town  was  probably  formed  as 
early. 

Where,  or  by  whom,  the  temperance  reform  was  originated, 
we  do  not  remember,  if  we  ever  knew.  The  first  temperance 
document  we  can  call  to  mind,  was  an  address  by  a  Mr. 
Kittridge,  of  Xew  Hampshire,  which  gave  to  the  cause  a 
powerful  impulse;  and  the  name  of  the  pamphlet,  "Ivit- 
tridge's  Address,"  soon  became,  throughout  the  country,  as 
familiar  as  any  household  word.  This  was  soon  followed  by 
Beecher's  "Six  Sermons  on  Intemperance,1'  which  also  ren- 
dered the  cause  essential  service.  A  portion  of  the  newspaper 
press  soon  came  to  its  support.  Meetings  were  held  in  all 
parts  of  the  country;  the  Pledge  of  abstinence  was  circulated 
in  every  town,  and  signed  by  large  numbers  of  persons  of 
both  sexes;  among  them  many  intemperate  persons.  And, 
although  a  large  portion  of  the  latter  relapsed,  many  were 
effectually  reclaimed. 

But  as  yet  spirituous  liquors  only  Avere  proscribed.  Com- 
plete success,  it  was  believed,  required  a  pledge  to  abstain 
from  all  intoxicating  drinks;  and  the  societies  soon  adopted 
the  total  abstinence  principle.  In  1836,  the  Genesee  County 
Temperance  Society  held  a  meeting  in  Warsaw,  when,  after 
a  discussion  of  two  days,  this  principle  was  adopted  with  but 
two  dissenting  votes;  and  these  were  given  by  men  who, 
though  "  tee-totalers  "  in  principle  and  practice,  opposed  the 
change  simply  from  the  apprehension  that  it  would  alienate 
many  friends  of  the  cause,  and  retard  its  progress.  These 
fears,  entertained  here  and  elsewhere,  were  soon  found  to 
have  been  ill-founded. 


TEMPERANCE.  151 

The  light  elicited  by  discussion  wrought  a  great  change  in 
the  minds  and  practice  of  men.  This  is  not  surprising.  The 
marvel  is,  that  the  opinions  and  habits  so  long  prevalent 
should  ever  have  received  the  sanction  of  wise  and  good  men. 
The  whisky  jug  was  thought  an  indispensable  help  in  the 
harvest  field.  A  man  meeting  a  friend  at  or  near  a  tavern, 
invited  him  to  the  bar  to  "take  a  drink."  A  man  was 
deemed  wanting  in  hospitality  if  he  did  not  "treat"  his 
visitors.  The  traveler  who  stopped  at  the  tavern  to  warm, 
thought  it  "  mean  "  to  leave  without  patronizing  the  bar  to 
the  amount  of  a  sixpence  or  a  shilling.  The  idea  had  not  yet 
been  conceived  that  both  parties  would  have  been  more  bene- 
fited had  the  money  been  paid  for  the  fire,  and  the  liquor  left 
in  the  decanter.  Liquor  bought  by  large  measure  was  kept 
in  many  families  for  daily  use.  Seated  at  the  breakfast  table, 
or  just  before  sitting,  the  glass  was  passed  around  to  "  give  an 
appetite."  Bittered  with  some  herb  or  drug,  it  was  used  as  a 
sovereign  remedy  for  most  of  the  ailments  "  flesh  is  heir  to," 
and  often  in  advance  as  a  preventive.  It  was  taken  because 
the  weather  was  hot,  and  because  it  was  cold.  Liquors  being 
kept  in  most  country  stores,  some  merchants  were  wont  to 
"  treat "  their  customers,  especially  when  they  made  liberal 
bills,  and  sometimes  beforehand,  to  sharpen  their  appetite  for 
trading.  Happily,  most  of  these  customs  soon  became  obso- 
lete, especially  among  the  better  class  of  society,  and,  it  is 
hoped,  will  never  be  revived. 

With  the  progress  of  the  temperance  cause,  the  manu- 
facture of  domestic  distilled  spirits  declined.  There  was  in 
nearly  every  town  a  distillery,  in  some  towns  two  or  more. 
In  a  few  years,  most  of  them  were  stopped. 

Although  active  and  efficient  friends  of  the  cause  arose  at 
once  in  every  town,  in  no  part  of  the  county  of  Genesee  was 
its  early  progress  more  rapid  than  in  the  southern  towns;  and 
in  none  of  them  was  there  a  greater  number  of  effective 
laborers  than  in  the  towns  of  Warsaw,  Perry,  and  Arcade. 
Prominent  among  the  pioneers  in  this  enterprise  in  Perry, 


152  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

were  Samuel  F.  Phenix,  Henry  Phenix,  Willard  J.  Chapin, 
and  Josiah  Andrews.  In  Arcade  were  Huntington  Lyman, 
It.  W.  Lyman,  Charles  O.  Shepard,  and  others.  In  Warsaw, 
among  those  who  united  with  the  Society  within  the  first  year 
or  two,  were  Dr.  Daniel  Rumsey,  Dea.  John  Munger,  Peter 
Young,  Frank  Miller,  Dr.  Augustus  Frank,  William  Patter- 
son, Andrew  W.  Young,  James  and  John  Crocker,  and  others; 
and  within  the  next  few  years,  Joshua  II.  Darling,  Isaac 
Preston,  Dea.  William  Buxton,  George  W.  Morris,  F.  C.  D. 
McKay,  Charles  J.  Judd,  and  Alanson  Holly.  Most  of  those 
of  the  latter  class  were  not  residents  of  the  town  until  some 
years  after  the  Society  was  formed. 

THE  WASHINGTONIAX    MOVEMENT. 

In  1810  commenced  what  has  often  been  spoken  of  as  the 
great  "temperance  revival."  A  number  of  abandoned 
men  in  the  city  of  Baltimore,  who  were  wont  to  spend  their 
evenings  at  the  taverns  and  other  haunts  of  vice  and  drunk- 
enness, resolved  to  reform,  and  at  once  became  "  tee-totalers." 
]STot  content  with  their  own  reformation,  they  started  on  a 
mission  to  reform  others.  They  traversed  a  large  portion  of 
the  country,  lecturing  generally  to  large  gatherings.  Drunk- 
ards in  large  numbers,  and  from  great  distances  attended,  and 
many  of  them  signed  the  pledge.  The  most  prominent  of 
this  band  of  reformers  was  John  Hawkins,  who,  though  unlet- 
tered, was  one  of  the  most  effective  temperance  lecturers  in 
the  country.  Although  there  was  nothing  in  their  principles 
and  efforts  to  distinguish  them  from  other  temperance  men — 
it  being  their  object  to  induce  persons  of  all  classes  to  sign 
and  keep  the  pledge — yet  these  men  and  their  converts  were 
generally  designated  "  Washingtonians."  As  the  result  of 
their  efforts,  reformed  drunkards  became  missionaries,  and 
constituted  for  a  time,  the  principal  lecturing  force  of  the 
country.  Many  drunkards  were  reclaimed,  and  many  mod- 
erate drinkers  became  thorough  temperance  men. 

Perhaps  we  shall  be  justified  in  mentioning  an  evil,  inci- 
dent to  this  movement,  for  which,  however,  the    movement 


TEMPERANCE.  153 

itself  is  not  responsible.  The  public,  to  a  great  extent,  came 
to  regard  these  men  as  the  great  champions  of  the  cause  and 
indispensable  to  its  success,  while  the  ablest  and  most  efficient 
pioneers  in  it  were  esteemed  as  of  little  account.  Often  was 
the  pulpit  surrendered,  on  the  Sabbath,  to  men  whose  vulgar, 
laughter-provoking  stories  were  wholly  unbecoming  the  place 
and  the  occasion.  It  was  by  no  means  strange  that  many 
who,  under  such  influences,  signed  the  pledge,  soon  relapsed 
into  their  old  habits.  Yet  great  good  was  accomplished. 
Probably  at  about  the  close  of  these  "  special  efforts  "  and  for 
a  few  years  thereafter,  less  ardent  spirits  were  drank  in  pro- 
portion to  our  population  than  there  have  been  at  any  time 
since  distilleries  were  established. 

LICENSE    QUESTION. 

As  incidental  to  the  temperance  reform,  came  the  question 
of  "license,  or  no  license."  Licenses  to  sell  liquors  at  retail 
were  then  granted  in  each  town  by  the  Board  of  Excise,  con- 
sisting of  the  Supervisor  and  the  four  Justices  of  the  Peace. 
For  fifteen  or  twenty  years,  men  were  elected  to  these  offices 
in  this  town,  a  majority  of  whom  were  opposed  to  granting 
licenses.  So  also  in  many  other  towns.  Although  more  or 
less  liquors  were  sold  in  this  town  in  violation  of  law,,  the 
quantity  drank  was  greatly  diminished.  For  months  at  a  time, 
a  drunken  man  was  not  seen  in  the  streets  of  this  village.  As 
one  of  the  happy  effects  of  the  temperance  effort,  a  number 
of  respectable  citizens  who,  as  yet,  became  only  occasionally 
intoxicated,  were  saved  by  taking  the  pledge;  made  a  pro- 
fession of  religion,  and  ever  after  led  an  exemplary  life. 

But  a  reverse  ensued.  The  friends  of  temperance,  not  sat- 
isfied with  the  progress  they  were  making  by  means  of  "moral 
suasion,"  henceforth  abated  their  efforts  in  this  direction,  and 
sought  the  desired  consummation  in  a  more  summary  man- 
ner, by  the  aid  of  the  strong  arm  of  the  law.  Their  mistake 
consisted,  not  in  seeking  the  aid  of  legislation,  but  in  the 
relaxation  of  effort  in  the  use  of  former  tried  and  effective 


151  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

instrumentalities,  the  diligent  appliance  of  which  was  neces- 
sary to  prepare  public  sentiment  to  sustain  and  enforce  a 
restrictive  law  if  one  should  be  enacted. 

A  stringent  prohibitory  law  was  passed  in  the  state  of 
Maine.  Authenticated  official  statements  soon  showed  a 
reduction,  in  some  districts,  of  more  than  three-fourths  of  the 
expenses  of  pauperism  and  crime.  With  some  modifications, 
the  law  remains  unrepealed.  A  similar  law  was,  in  1855, 
passed  in  this  state;  and  its  practical  working  gave  promise 
of  equally  favorable  results.  But  the  public  were  soon 
apprised  that  its  constitutionality  would  be  contested;  and 
dealers  were  encouraged  to  resume  the  traffic,  A  case  was 
carried  to  the  Court  of  Appeals,  and  a  majority  pronounced 
the  act  unconstitutional.  Many  eminent  jurists,  however, 
concurred  in  the  opinion  of  the  minority.  Since  that  decision, 
the  question  of  legislative  restriction  has  not  been  agitated  in 
this  state. 

In  1857,  a  new  excise  law  was  passed.  It  abolishes  the 
town  boards  of  excise,  and  vests  the  power  to  grant  licenses 
for  the  whole  county  in  a  board  of  three  Commissioners 
appointed  by  the  County  Judge.  Its  restraining  effect,  if  it 
has  any,  is  not  apparent.  Licenses  are  now  granted  in  every 
town.  Under  the  former  law,  they  were  in  many  towns 
refused. 

It  is  the  general  opinion  that  intemperance  has  for  many 
years  been  increasing;  and  many  believe  that  it  was  never 
more  prevalent.  The  latter  opinion  is  probably  erroneous; 
the  former  is  believed  to  be  correct.  And  it  is  equally  true 
that  due  efforts  are  not  making  to  check  the  growing  evil. 
The  only  active  temperance  organization  in  this  town  is  the 
"  O-at-ka  Lodge,  No.  168,  Independent  Order  of  Good  Tem- 
plars, organized  December  23d,  1866,  with  twenty-seven 
charter  members.  The  number,  of  initiations  to  October  31st, 
1868,  was,  Males,  135;  of  Females,  133.— Total,  26S.  Its 
officers  are  as  follows: 


TEMPERANCE.  155 

Worthy  Chief  Templars — ¥m.  D.  Miner,  Charles  "W. 
Bailey,  James  M.  Fulliugton,  Eev.  E.  E.  Williams,  ¥m.  II. 
McElwain,  Asa  P.  Lord. 

'Worthy  Vice  Templars — Mrs.  Catharine  Shattuck,  Mrs. 
Emma  C.  Homer,  Mrs.  Esther  S.  Tattle,  Miss  Mary  McCagg, 
Miss  Helen  S.  Gardner,  Miss  Alice  E.  Fisk,  Miss  Carrie  M. 
Hollister,  Miss  Eva  M.  Fargo. 

Worthy  Secretaries — Charles  ~W.  Bailey,  James  M.  Falling- 
ton,  M.  R.  Quackenbush. 

Lodge  Deputies — Seth  M.  Gates,  William  D.  Miner. 

This  association  is  pursuing  its  object  with  commendable 
diligence,  and  is  believed  to  be  doing  a  good  work.  But  it 
can  not  do  all  that  needs  to  be  clone.  Another  organization 
is  necessary  to  reach  some  which  the  former  can  not.  There 
are  those  who  would  prefer  open  associations,  though  both 
have  one  and  the  same  object — to  persuade  and  encourage 
the  people  to  avoid  the  use  of  alcoholic  poison  as  a  beverage. 
Few  of  the  pioneers  of  1830  survive.  There  are  among  us, 
however,  the  sons  of  a  number  of  them,  who  could,  perhaps, 
in  no  better  way  honor  the  names  of  their  worthy  fathers, 
than  by  renewed  effort  to  complete  their  unfinished  work. 


156  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


ANTISLAVERY. 

In  few  parts  of  the  country  did  the  antislavery  sentiment 
earlier  or  more  strongly  prevail  than  in  this  town,  and  a  few 
others  in  the  then  southern  part  of  Genesee  county.  How- 
ever widely  men  may  still  differ  in  their  views  in  regard  to 
the  merits  of  the  Antislavery  Societies,  it  will  he  generally 
admitted,  that  the  people  of  Warsaw  have  taken  so  prominent 
a  part  in  the  great  antislavery  effort,  that  our  history  wTould 
he  materially  defective  if  it  did  not  contain  a  record  of  events! 
which  have  associated  so  intimately  the  name  of  Warsaw  with 
the  cause  of  abolition. 

The  American  Antislavery  Society  was  formed  in  1S33. 
The  Warsaw  Antislavery  Society  was  formed  the  same  year 
or  the  next.  The  great  object  of  the  abolitionists  was,  by  the 
discussion  of  the  subject,  and  the  exhibition  of  the  evils  of 
slavery,  to  produce  a  public  sentiment  at  the  North  which 
should  induce  its  abolition  by  the  states  in  which  it  existed, 
they  only  having  the  power;  and  by  Congress  in  the  District 
of  Columbia,  where  Congress  only  possessed  the  power  to 
abolish  it.  Town  and  county  societies  were  soon  formed  in 
many  parts  of  this  state  and  other  northern  states.  This 
movement  alarmed  the  southern  people;  the  excitement  soon 
became  general.  A  vehement  opposition  was  raised  in  the 
North,  and  public  meetings  were  broken  up.  The  first  annual 
meeting  of  the  State  Society  was  held  in  Utica,  in  1835.  By 
a  mob,  instigated  by  leading  citizens,  and  embracing  some  of 
them,  the  meeting  was  dispersed;  and  the  delegates  were 
compelled  to  flee  to  a  neighboring  county  to  transact  their 
business.  To  that  meeting  the  town  of  Warsaw  sent  five 
delegates,  viz:  Dr.  Augustus  Frank,  F.  C.  D.  McKay,  Samuel 
Fisher,  2d,  William  Buxton,  and  Rev.  Abraham  Ennis. 

The  first  annual  meeting  of  the  Genesee  County  Anti- 
slavery  Society,  held  at  Batavia,  March  16,  1836,  was  routed 
in  a  similar  manner.     The  antislavery  sentiment  prevailed 


ANTISLAVERY.  157 

most  in  the  southern  towns,  especially  Warsaw,  Perry,  and 
Arcade,  and  in  Le  Roy,  in  the  north  part.  With  a  view  to 
the  diffusion  of  the  principles  of  the  Society,  Batavia  was 
selected  as  the  place  of  meeting.  Aware  that  there  was 
among  the  Batavians  a  strong  prejudice  against  the  aboli- 
tionists, it  was  deemed  prudent  to  obtain  from  some  of  their 
leading  citizens  an  expression  of  opinion  in  relation  to  the 
holding  of  the  meeting  in  that  place.  In  answer  to  the  appli- 
cation, the  following  statement,  dated  March  5,  1S3G,  was 
received,  signed  by  seven  gentlemen,  six  Lawyers,  and  one 
Merchant: 

"Although  we  doubt  the  policy,  in  general,  of  the  advo- 
cates of  immediate  abolition,  and  many  of  the  measures  for 
effecting  the  objects  which  they  profess  to  have  in  view;  yet 
we  are  utterly  opposed  to  any  measures,  the  tendency  of 
Avhich  would  interfere  with  the  individual  rights  of  any  citi- 
zen, or  which  should  abridge  the  expression  of  opinion  in  an 
orderly  or  quiet  manner."  Seven  other  gentlemen,  among 
the  most  eminent  citizens,  verbally  expressed  their  concur- 
rence in  the  above  sentiment.  Of  these,  two  were  Justices  of 
the  Peace,  who  said  they  should,  as  a  matter  of  course,  use 
their  official  authority,  if  it  should  become  necessary,  to  pre- 
vent a  disturbance.  Under  such  encouragement,  a  mcetino- 
was  appointed  to  be  held  at  the  Court  House  in  Batavia,  on 
the  16th  of  March. 

On  the  12th,  a  notice  was  posted  throughout  the  village,  of 
which  the  following  is  a  copy: 

"  Citizens  of  Batavia,  Attend  !  The  citizens  of  Batavia, 
without  distinction  of  party,  are  desired  to  meet  at  the  Court 
House  this  afternoon,  at  2  o'clock,  precisely,  to  take  into 
consideration  what  measures  it  is  necessary  to  adopt  with 
reference  to  the  proposed  meeting  of  abolitionists,  to  be  held 
in  this  village  on  Wednesday  next.  Let  all  opj)osed  to  fanat- 
icism, and  who  value  the  existence  and  perpetuity  of  the 
Union,  attend. 

"  March  12,  1S36.  "  Anti-F  inaticism.'  ' 


158  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

The  principal  resolutions  adopted  at  the  meeting,  were  the 
following: 

"  That,  whatever  may  be  the  object  of  the  meeting  of  the 
said  society,  we  are  utterly  opposed  to  its  being  held  in  this 
village;  and  that,  in  the  opinion  of  this  meeting,  none  but 
those  who  are  reckless  of  the  public  weal,  regardless  of  the 
common  bond  of  union  by  which  the  states  are  cemented,  and 
are  anxious  more  for  broil,  anarchy  and  insurrection  than  for 
union  and  national  quiet,  would,  at  such  a  time  as  this,  pro- 
pose so  dangerous  a  topic  for  discussion  as  that  which  involves 
the  constitutional  rights  of  the  slaveholding  states. 

"  That,  as  citizens  of  Batavia,  independent  of  the  abstract 
question  of  slavery,  and  the  avowed  objects  of  the  Antislavery 
Society,  most  sincerely  deprecating  any  disturbance  of  the 
peace  and  tranquillity  of  our  village,  we  can  not  suppress  the 
apprehensions  we  entertain  of  the  consequences  that  may 
result  from  the  holding  of  the  contemplated  meeting  of  the 
Antislavery  Society  in  this  village. 

"  That  a  committee  to  consist  of  fifty  persons  be  appointed 
to  wait  upon  the  Abolition  Society,  if  it  should  meet  in  pur- 
suance of  the  notices  given,  and  make  known  to  it  the  pro- 
ceedings of  this  meeting,  and  request  that  no  proceedings  be 
had  by  this  Society." 

The  Antislavery  Society  met,  pursuant  to  notice,  at  the 
Court  House.  Before  the  meeting  was  duly  organized,  its 
proceedings  were  interrupted  by  the  entrance  of  the  Commit- 
tee of  Fifty,  in  behalf  of  the  citizens  of  Batavia.  The  chair- 
man read  the  proceedings  of  the  village  meeting  held  on  the 
12th,  and  followed  the  reading  by  a  short  speech,  in  which  he 
stated  that  the  citizens  had  no  confidence  in  the  good  inten- 
tions of  the  abolitionists,  and  that,  therefore,  they  (the  citizens) 
could  not  be  held  responsible  for  any  flagrant  acts  which 
might  be  committed.  The  committee  then  gave  notice  that 
they  would  retire  to  a  place  named,  and  await  a  reply  from 
the  meeting.  The  greater  portion  of  the  committee,  however, 
remained,  together  with  some  fifty  men  and  boys  who  had 
come  in  with  them. 


ANT  ISL  AVER  Y.  159 

The  meeting  appointed  a  Committee  of  Five  to  prepare  a 
reply:  Henry  Brewster  and  Seth  M.  Gates,  of  Le  Roy,  Gen. 
John  D.  Landon,  of  Castile,  Wm.  Patterson,  of  Warsaw,  and 
Huntington  Lyman.  This  committee  in  their  reply  disclaimed 
a  want  of  respect  for  the  citizens  of  Batavia,  the  meeting 
having  not  been  appointed  without  previous  consultation  with 
respectable  citizens,  and  referred  to  the  statement  signed  by 
the  seven,  which  had  been  voluntarily  drawn  up  by  the  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  of  Fifty  himself,  and  to  the  verbal 
statements  of  others.  The  committee  also  asserted  "  the 
unqualified  right  peaceably  to  assemble  and  deliberate  upon 
such  matters  as  we  may  deem  important  to  the  interests  of 
our  common  country;  and  we  can  not,  consistently  with  our 
self-respect  and  the  sacred  rights  of  citizenship,  acknowledge 
the  right  of  any  persons,  or  body  of  men,  to  molest  us  when 
assembled,  or  require  us  to  cease  our  deliberations."  They 
said,  further,  that  it  was  evident  from  the  resolutions  of  the 
Committee  of  Fifty,  that  the  citizens  passing  them  did  not 
understand  the  real  sentiments  of  the  abolitionists.  The  so- 
ciety disclaimed  any  intention  of  interfering  with  the  consti- 
tutional rights  of  ainr  portion  of  the  people  of  this  Union,  or 
of  exciting  the  slaves  to  acts  of  violence,  and  stated  that  the 
publications  of  the  American  Antislavery  Society  had  no  such 
tendency.  In  reply  to  the  insinuation  that  their  motives  were 
not  what  they  professed,  they  referred  the  committee  to  their 
conduct  as  citizens  where  they  reside,  which  was  one  of  the 
safest  tests  of  motives  and  intentions.  On  the  whole,  there- 
fore, they  did  not  feel  it  their  duty  to  yield  to  the  request  of 
the  citizens  of  Batavia,  and  suggested  that  the  citizens  could 
avoid  all  possible  injury,  if  they  refrained  from  attending  the 
meeting;  and  that,  "inasmuch  as  the  committee  declared  that 
they  would  deeply  regret  any  acts  of  violence  and  discord, 
whether  they  will  not,  as  good  citizens,  feel  bound  to  exert 
themselves,  in  good  faith,  to  prevent  the  acts  of  disorder  which 
they  profess  to  deprecate,  and  thus  give  a  practical  demon- 
stration that  they  are  governed  by  good  motives,  whether  wre 


100  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

are  or  not.  Should  fifty  as  respestable  citizens  as  those  who 
have  waited  on  us  thus  act,  the  result  can  be  easily  antici- 
pated." 

This  report  was  communicated  by  a  Special  Committee  to 
the  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Fifty,  and  the  meeting  pro- 
ceeded to  complete  their  organization  preparatory  to  the 
transaction  of  business,  but  were  interrupted  by  stamping  and 
loud  vociferation,  and  various  other  noisy  demonstrations  of 
the  intruders,  not  only  without  the  least  attempt  by  any  of  the 
members  of  the  committee  who  remained,  to  suppress  the 
riot,  but  rather  with  the  approval  of  some  of  them  manifested 
by  gestures  and  other  signs.  After  several  unsuccessful  at- 
tempts, by  expostulation  and  remonstrance,  to  abate  the 
disturbance,  the  meeting  was  adjourned  to  Warsaw  one  week 
from  that  day. 

The  history  ol  events  like  this,  which  were  not  of  rare  oc- 
currence in  those  days,  will  be  read  with  surprise  by  our 
descendants.  That  men,  not  merely  those  of  the  "  baser  sort," 
but  of  moral  worth  and  high  standing,  should  countenance 
such  flagrant  infractions  of  the  right  of  free  speech,  in  a  coun- 
try professedly  regarding  this  very  right  as  among  the  most 
valuable  guaranties  of  its  constitution,  will  appear  incredible. 
The  advocates  of  the  most  absurd  and  demoralizing  senti- 
ments, not  excepting  promiscuous  cohabitation  or  "  free  love," 
open  infidelity,  and  withal  slavery,  whose  natural  concomi- 
tants were  oppression,  the  violation  of  marital  rights,  and  the 
severance  of  the  domestic  relations  by  the  sale  of  parties  at 
public  auction,  were  everywhere  allowed  free  speech,  while 
those  who  felt  it  their  duty  to  oppose  a  system  attended  with 
such  a  train  of  evils,  and  to  defend  that  fundamental  princi- 
ple of  our  government — the  inalienable  right  of  all  men  to 
"life,  liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness" — were  in  many 
places  not  permitted  to  give  a  public  expression  of  their  sen- 
timents. The  freedom  of  the  press — a  right  held  so  dear  by 
the  American  people,  that  they  demanded  for  it  an  express 
guaranty  by  an  amendment  of  the  constitution, — was  strik- 


ANTISLAVERY. 


161 


ingly  illustrated,  in  several  instances,  by  the  destruction 
of  presses  established  for  the  express  purpose  of  advocating 
the  principles  of  freedom.  In  short,  free  speech  was  tolerated 
on  every  subject  except  that  of  liberty  itself! 

In  New  York,  Philadelphia,  Boston,  Albany,  and  other 
places,  meetings  were  held  in  whose  proceedings  their  most 
distinguished  citizens  participated,  at  which  the  severest  cen- 
sure upon  abolitionists  were  passed.  At  the  Albany  meeting 
Governor  Marcy  presided ;  in  the  meeting  in  Boston,  Edward 
Everett  took  a  prominent  part. 

These  facts  are  here  alluded  to,  not  to  revive  latent  animos- 
ities, for  none  are  supposed  to  exist;  nor  to  reproach  any  for 
acts  which  they  have  themselves  since  most  deeply  regretted; 
but  because  they  are  facts  which  our  descendants  have  a  right 
to  know,  and  which  a  faithful  historian  would  not  suppress. 
They  have  a  moral,  too.  Errors  often  have  the  sanction  of 
great  names.  Their  opinions,  though  often  valuable,  and 
always  entitled  to  respectful  and  candid  consideration,  are 
not  to  be  taken  on  trust.  It  behooves  every  man  to  investi- 
gate, and  to  think  for  himself,  availing  himself  of  such  helps 
as  are  likely  to  conduct  him  to  correct  conclusions. 

Pursuant  to  adjournment,  the  Genesee  County  Antislavery 
Society  met  at  Warsaw,  March  23,  1836.  A  series  of  resolu- 
tions and  an  address  were  adopted,  together  with  a  "Declar- 
ation of  Sentiment,"  expressing,  in  brief  form,  the  principles 
of  the  abolitionists,  for  the  information  of  any  who  might 
never  have  seen  a  statement  of  them.  Measures  were  also 
taken  for  establishing  a  free  press;  and  one  thousand  dollars 
was  pledged  for  its  support  the  first  year.  Such  paper  was 
accordingly  established.     [See  Newspapers.] 

There  was  as  yet  no  political  antislavery  party.  The  aboli- 
tionists continued  to  vote  for  the  candidates  of  their  respective 
parties.  They  petitioned  Congress  to  abolish  slavery  in  the 
the  District  of  Columbia,  and  their  petitions  were  disrespect- 
fully treated.  Many  of  them  then  began  to  vote  for  candi- 
dates   for    Congress   who   were   in   favor  of  that   measure, 

11 


1<)2  HISTORY  OF  WARS  AAV. 

irrespective  of  party.  As  late  as  1837,  the  American  Anti- 
Slavery  Society  declared  it  inexpedient  to  form  an  antislavery 
party.  The  subject  of  a  political  organization,  however, 
began  soon  after  to  be  agitated.  Although  local  organizations 
of  the  kind  may  have  been  earlier  formed,  a  national  anti- 
slavery  party  did  not  exist  before  1839.  A  meeting  of  the 
Western  New  York  Antislavery  Society  was  held  at  Warsaw, 
in  the  Presbyterian  church,  Nov.  13,  1839.  The  extreme 
badness  of  the  roads  prevented  a  general  attendance.  There 
were  present  about  fifty  persons,  as  members,  nearly  all  of 
them  from  the  southern  towns  of  the  county,  then  Genesee.  A 
proposition  was  made  to  nominate  candidates  for  President 
and  Vice-President.  It  was  opposed  by  a  large  portion  of 
the  members;  but  its  advocates,  among  whom  were  Myron 
Holley  and  William  L.  Chaplin,  able  and  eloquent  men,  who 
had  come  for  this  special  purpose,  succeeded,  after  a  two  days' 
discussion,  in  carrying  the  measure  by  a  small  majority. 
James  G.  Birney,  formerly  a  slaveholder  in  Alabama,  who 
had  emancipated  his  slaves  and  removed  to  the  North,  was 
nominated  for  President,  and  Francis  J.  Lemoyne,  of  Penn- 
sylvania, for  Vice-President. 

The  result  of  this  measure  was  to  divide  the  abolitionists.  A 
large  majority  in  this  state  and  other  states,  refused  to  join 
the  new  party,  and  continued  their  connection  with  the  old 
parties;  voting  generally,  however,  for  candidates  for  Con- 
gress who  were  in  favor  of  a  respectful  reception  of  anti- 
slavery  petitions,  and  for  abolishing  slavery  in  the  District  of 
Columbia,  and  opposed  to  its  extension  into  free  territory,  by 
which  party  soever  they  had  been  nominated. 

The  antislavery  societies  were  now  composed  almost  entirely 
of  persons  who  belonged  to  the  new  political  organization, 
and  were  therefore  weak  in  respect  to  numbers.  Nor  did  the 
new  party  ever  acquire  great  numerical  strength.  In  1844, 
when  Mr.  Birney  was  again  a  candidate,  but  a  little  more « 
than  15,000  votes  were  given  in  this  state  for  the  antislavery 
electoral  ticket.     That  party,  however,  was  composed  chiefly 


AN  TISL  AVERY.  163 

of  respectable  and  worthy  citizens,  and  may,  by  its  intrinsic 
moral  power,  have  had  a  greater  effect  upon  the  politics  of 
the  country  than  has  generally  been  supposed. 

In  1S-1S,  the  Antislavery  party  was  merged  in  the  Free  Soil 
party.  Texas  had  been  admitted  to  the  Union  as  a  slave 
state;  and  a  large  territory  had  been  acquired  from  Mexico, 
which  also  was  intended  to  be  converted  into  slave  states, 
with  the  view,  as  was  supposed,  to  the  ultimate  predominance 
of  slavery  in  the  national  government.  On  the  9th  of  August, 
1848,  a  National  Mass  Convention  of  the  friends  of  free  terri- 
tory was  held  at  Buffalo.  Resolutions  against  the  extension 
of  slavery  were  adopted ;  and  candidates  for  President  and 
Yice-President  were  nominated.  The  abolitionists  had  al- 
ready nominated  John  P.  Hale,  of  ISTew  Hampshire,  for 
President;  but  he  and  his  friends  expressed  a  willingness  to 
submit  to  the  action  of  the  Convention,  which  made  choice  of 
Martin  Yan  Buren  for  President,  and  Charles  Francis  Adams 
for  Yice-President.  At  a  state  convention  in  September  fol- 
lowing, the  new  party,  called  the  "Democratic  Free  Soil 
Party,"  nominated  for  Governor,  John  A.  Dix,  of  Albany, 
and  for  Lieutenant-Governor,  Seth  M.  Gates,  of  Warsaw. 
Before  the  next  Presidential  election,  (1852,)  nearly  all  the 
"Whigs  and  Democrats  who  had  joined  this  party  returned  to 
their  former  parties;  and  thereafter  only  a  few  thousand  votes 
were  cast  for  antislavery  candidates,  until  after  the  formation 
of  the  Republican  party  in  1855. 


101 


HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 


ECCLESIASTICAL    HISTORY 


PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

The  ecclesiastical  or  religious  history  of  the  town  demands 
a  place  in  this  work.  The  salutary  influence  of  the  Christian 
religion  upon  the  character  and  welfare  of  a  community,  is 
universally  admitted.  Its  happy  effects  wherever  it  is  duly 
exemplified,  may  be  seen  in  all  the  relations  of  life.  To 
transmit  a  record  of  the  virtues  of  the  fathers,  is  due  to  their 
descendants,  many  of  whom  will  cherish  their  memories  with 
the  highest  satisfaction,  and  regard  their  good  names  as  the 
richest  portion  of  their  inheritance. 

The  early  settlers  were  generally  respectable  men  and  good 
citizens;  but  there  were  among  them,  for  several  years,  few 
professors  of  religion.  Funerals  were  attended  without  any 
religious  service.  The  first  two  were  those  of  children,  at  one 
of  which,  and  it  is  believed  at  both,  no  such  service  was  per- 
formed. The  third  death  of  which  we  have  knowledge,  was 
that  of  Dwight  Noble,  the  first  adult  person  who  died  in 
town,  in  January,  1807.  His  death  was  deeply  deplored,  and 
it  is  presumed  that  his  funeral  was  attended  by  most  of  the 
men  in  town;  yet  there  was  not  so  much  as  the  offering  of  a 
prayer  on  the  occasion,  though  there  may  have  been  among 
the  then  latest  settlers  one  or  more,  Mho,  had  they  been 
present,  would  have  performed  that  service.  In  the  year 
180T,  Dea.  Eliphalet  Parker,  of  Granville,  X.  Y.,  settled  on 
East  Hill;  and  about  the  same  time  Pea.  Abraham  Peed, 
and  Dea.  Ezra  "Walker,  both  also  of  Granville,  settled  on  the 
"West  Hill.  Whether  they  brought  with  them  their  religious 
titles,  we  cannot  say;  but  they  were  the  first,  or  among  the 


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165 


first,  who  conducted  religious  services  in  those  early  days; 
and,  as  will  be  seen,  all  of  them  became  members  of  the  first 
organized  church  in  the  town,  the  Presbyterian. 

This  Church,  when  organized,  was  in  form  Congregational. 
But  to  avoid  indistinctness  and  confusion,  we  shall  designate 
it  throughout  by  its  present  title,  by  which  it  has  been  distin- 
guished almost  from  the  time  of  its  organization,  and  long 
before  the  change  of  its  form  of  government.  It  was  organ- 
ized July  11,  1808.  Rev.  John  Lindsey,  a  missionary  in 
these  parts,  officiated  on  the  occasion,  and  preached  a  sermon. 
The  church  consisted  of  ten  members,  and  was  styled  the- 
"  First  Congregational  Church  oi  Warsaw."  The  names  of 
the  members  were,  Edward  Goodspeed,  Eliphalet  Parker, 
Luther  Parker,  Ezra  Walker,  Abraham  Reed,  Israel  Branch, 
Polly  Day,  Prudence  A.  Walker,  Martha  Parker,  and  Rhoda 
Parker. 

Eliphalet  Parker  and  Israel  Branch  were  chosen  Deacons. 
Abraham  Reed  was  chosen  Moderator,  and  Ezra  Walker 
Church  Clerk.  A  Confession  of  Faith  and  Covenant  were 
adopted.  The  singing  was  usually  led  by  Dea.  Walker  or 
Dea.  Parker. 

The  church  was  for  several  years  partially  supplied  by 
missionaries  and  occasional  ministers,  as  Messrs.  Lindsley, 
Phelps,  Parmelee,  Spencer,  and  Oliver  Ayer.  In  connection 
with  the  labors  of  Mr.  Ayer,  in  1808  or  1809,  occurred,  as 
we  are  informed,  the  first  religious  awakening  in  town. 
Passing  through  Western  !New  York  as  a  missionary  under 
the  direction  of  the  Connecticut  Missionary  Society,  Mr.  Ayer 
preached  here  one  Sabbath.  His  custom  was  to  spend  only 
one  Sabbath  and  pass  on.  But  observing  here,  as  he  thought, 
unusual  attention  and  seriousness,  he  tarried  and  spent  a 
second  Sabbath,  and  wrote  home  for  leave  to  labor  longer, 
if  the  preached  word  should  produce,  as  it  already  seemed  to 
do,  a  marked  effect.  Leave  was  granted;  and  he  remained 
three  or  four  months.  The  awakening  became  general,  and 
many  heads  of  families  were  hopefully  converted.     Among 


106  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

the  number  were,  Dea.  John  Munger  and  wife,  John 
McWhorter,  Sen.,  and  wife,  Elkanah  Day  and  wife,  and  his 
son,  Artemas  Day,  Hezekiah  Wakefield  and  wife,  Zera 
Tanner  and  wife,  Doctor  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  Giles  Parker 
and  wife,  and  many  others  whose  names  are  less  familiar  to 
our  citizens  generally.  Elkanah  Day  was  son-in-law  to  Mr. 
McWhorter;  so  that  here  was  brought  into  the  church  at  one 
time,  Artemas  Day,  the  son,  Elkanah  Day  and  wife,  the 
jmrents,  and  Esq.  John  McWhorter  and  wife,  the  grand- 
parents. 

In  1813,  Rev.  Silas  Hubbard  was  chosen  and  installed  the 
first  pastor,  at  or  about  which  time  the  church,  it  has  been 
said,  adopted  the  Presbyterian  form  of  government.  This  is 
probably  simply  an  inference  from  a  minute  on  the  records, 
under  date  of  Sept.  9,  1813,  of  the  appointment  of  Dea.  Ezra 
Walker  "  to  attend  the  Presbytery,  and  to  form  a  relation 
with  that  body."  Although  the  church  was  from  that  time 
regularly  represented  in  Presbytery,  the  records  show  the 
absence  still  of  a  church  session,  and  a  continuance  of  the 
Congregational  mode  of  disciplining  offending  members. 
The  change  was  made  on  the  recommendation  of  Rev.  Julius 
Steele,  whose  ministry  of  nearly  two  and  a  half  years,  closed 
early  in  the  spring  of  1831.  This  fact  is  distinctly  remem- 
bered, and  the  more  so  from  the  additional  fact  that  the  vote 
was  unanimous.  But  as  the  records  for  about  six  years, 
including  the  period  of  Mr.  Steele's  ministry,  are  lost,  no 
record  of  the  vote  is  to  be  found. 

In  1811,  Rev.  Mr.  Hubbard,  on  account  of  failing  health, 
resigned  the  pastorate.  In  181G,  he  was  succeeded  by  Rev. 
Hippocrates  Rowe,  who  supplied  the  churches  of  Warsaw 
and  Orangeville  on  alternate  Sabbaths.  His  pastorate  con- 
tinued about  two  years,  when  it  was  terminated  by  his  death. 
Hitherto  religious  services  had  been  held  in  the  school -house, 
which  was  one  of  ordinary  size,  and  stood  where  the  Baptist 
church  now  stands. 


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PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  107 

Although  the  need  of  a  more  suitable  and  commodious 
house  of  worship  had  been  felt,  no  active  effort  toward  the 
specific  object  had  as  yet  been  made.  The  incorporation  01 
an  Academy  had  been  authorized  by  the  legislature,  and  sub- 
scriptions toward  the  erection  of  the  building  had  been  taken; 
lumber  had  been  purchased;  and  the  architect,  James  "Web- 
ster, had  been  engaged;  when,  because  the  people  of  Middle- 
bury  also  had  procured  a  charter  for  an  Academy,  and  both, 
it  was  presumed,  could  not  prosper,  or  lor  other  reasons  not 
generally  known,  it  was.  determined  to  change  the  contem- 
plated Academy  into  a  house  of  worship.  The  subscribers 
being  principally  Presbyterians  and  Baptists,  they  soon  pro- 
cured the  whole  interest  in  the  concern;  and  in  the  spring 
and  summer  of  1817,  the  building  was  erected  and  inclosed. 
This  is  said  by  some  to  be  the  first  church  edifice  built  in  this 
state  west  of  Genesee  river.  For  several  years  it  was  used 
more  or  less  in  the  summer  season;  and  in  1821,  the  Presby- 
terians, having  bought  out  the  Baptists,  finished  it. 

May  30,  ISIS,  at  a  meeting  of  the  church,  the  subject  o± 
Sabbath  schools  was  considered.  It  was  resolved,  "That  it  is 
the  duty  of  the  church  to  begin  a  Sabbath  school  for  the 
religious  instruction  of  children  as  soon  as  practicable,  and 
that  the  Rev.  Ebenezer  Everett,  John  Munger,  and  Daniel 
Rumsey,  be  appointed  a  committee  to  draft  a  constitution  and 
present  it  to  the  church  at  their  next  meeting." 

Pursuant  to  adjournment,  the  church  met  June  0, 1818,  and 
resolved,  "That  we  will  comply  with  the  request  of  the  Gen- 
ral  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  to  have  stated 
meetings  to  instruct  the  baptized  children,  and  that  Tuesday 
next  be  appointed  for  that  purpose.'1  The  constitution  of  the 
Sabbath  school  was  presented,  read,  and  accepted.  After 
which  it  was  resolved,  "  That  Sabbath  schools  begin  in  three 
school  districts  next  Sabbath."  This  movement  was  one  ol 
the  earliest  made  toward  the  establishment  of  Sabbath  schools 
in  this  part  of  the  state. 


108  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

After  the  death  of  Mr.  Howe,  the  church  had  little  more 
than  occasional  preaching  by  Rev.  Messrs.  Parmelee  (proba- 
bly the  father  of  Rev.  Abial  Parmelee,)  Elihu  Mason,  and 
others,  and  a  few  months'  supply  by  Rev.  Ebenezer  Everett, 
until  the  summer  of  1818.  In  July  or  August  of  that  year, 
Rev.  ISTorris  Bull,  then  in  the  employ  of  the  ISTew  York  Young 
Men's  Missionary  Society,  became  the  stated  supply  of  the 
church  for  neai'ly  a  year.  He  then  returned  to  the  East,  un- 
decided as  to  his  accepting  the  invitation  of  the  church  to 
become  their  pastor.  At  some  time  between  the  fall  of  1819 
and  the  spring  of  1820,  Mr.  Bull  resumed  his  labors  in  this 
place;  and  in  the  spring  of  1821,  he  accepted  a  call  from  the 
church  at  Geneseo.  After  this  the  people  enjoyed  for  a  time 
only  occasional  preaching  by  neighboring  ministers,  as  Rev. 
Calvin  Colton,  of  Le  Roy,  Rev.  E.  Chapin,  of  Batavia,  Rev. 
Samuel  T.  Mills,  of  Moscow,  and  Rev.  Amos  Brown,  of  Perry 
Center,  and  perhaps  others. 

In  the  summer  of  1822,  Rev.  Abial  Parmelee  became 
stated  supply,  and  continued  his  ministry  about  four  years. 
By  whom  the  church  was  supplied  for  the  next  two  years  is 
not  recollected;  and  as  this  is  a  part  of  the  period  of  which 
the  records  are  lost,  the  fact  can  not  be  ascertained.  From 
December,  1828,  to  April,  1831,  the  church  enjoyed  the  min- 
istry of  Rev.  Julius  Steele.  In  the  autumn  of  1831,  James 
and  John  Crocker,  Roderick  Chapin,  and  Samuel  AVhitlock, 
were  chosen  ruling  elders.  Soon  after  the  departure  of  Mr. 
Steele,  Rev.  Isaac  Oakes  supplied  the  church  about  a  year. 
"Father  Oakes,"  though  in  consequence  of  infirmities  and 
age  he  retired  from  the  ministry  many  years  ago,  still  lives  in 
Xunda,  and  is  supposed  to  be  the  only  living  minister  in  the 
line  from  the  organization  of  the  church  to  the  close  of  his 
ministry  here,  with  the  exception,  perhaps,  of  Rev.  Ebenezer 
Everett,  who  was  not  long  since  living  in  Ontario  county. 

Rev.  Ezra  Scovel  was  installed  pastor  in  February,  1833; 
Rev.  Samuel  II.  Gridley,  of  Perry  Center,  acting  as  Moder- 
ator.     The    elders    then    acting,   and   whose    names   were 


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PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  169 

appended  to  the  call,  were  John  Frayer,  Gideon  Johnson, 
Peter  Young,  John  Munger,  Samuel  Whitlock,  William  Bux- 
ton, James  Crocker,  and  John  Crocker,  of  whom  only  Mr. 
Young,  Mr.  Johnson,  and  Mr.  Whitlock,  are  living.  Of  the 
Trustees,  the  only  one  now  living  or  acting  with  the  church,  is 
Frank  Miller.  Mr.  Scovel's  pastorate  closed  in  the  spring  of 
1835.  During  the  year  following,  the  church  was  supplied 
by  Rev.  Ward  Childs;  and  during  a  part  of  the  next  year  by 
Rev.  Stephen  Porter,  from  Geneva,  who  had  established  a 
select  school  in  the  village. 

December  28, 1831,  the  session  took  action  upon  the  subject 
of  Slavery,  and  adopted  the  following  preamble  and  resolu- 
tions : 

"  The  session  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Warsaw,  view- 
ing with  unfeigned  regret,  as  repugnant  to  the  principles  of 
the  Gospel  and  humanity,  the  practice  which  prevails  in  many 
parts  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  United  States,  of 
trafficking  in  human  flesh,  and  holding  in  bondage  their  fel- 
low-men, do  adopt  the  following  resolutions  : 

"  Resolved,  That  we  commend  in  our  southern  brethren  all 
the  laudable  efforts  which  they  are  making  to  enlighten  the 
colored  race  and  meliorate  their  condition. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  hail  with  delight  the  doings  of  the 
Synod  of  Kentucky  in  the  measures  which  they  have  taken 
to  recommend  the  entire  abolition  of  slavery  within  the  period 
of  the  present  generation. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  respectfully  request  the  Presbytery  of 
Genesee,  of  which  we  are  members,  to  act  on  a  resolution 
approving  the  doings  of  the  Synod  of  Kentucky  on  the  sub- 
ject of  slavery  as  it  exists  in  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Presbytery 
the  propriety  of  adopting  a  resolution  to  lay  this  subject  be- 
fore the  Synod  of  Genesee  at  their  next  annual  session." 

During  the  year  1837,  and  a  part  of  the  year  1838,  the 
church  was  supplied  for  short  periods  by  Rev.  Messrs.  O.  S. 
Powell,  H.  A.  Sackett,  Win.  Bridgman,  and  perhaps  others. 


170  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

In  October,  1833,  a  call  was  given  to  Rev.  Daniel  Water- 
bury,  of  Franklin,  Delaware  county,  and  by  him  accepted. 
After  Laving  preached  two  or  three  Sabbaths,  and  a  Thanks- 
giving sermon,  he  was  taken  ill,  and  died  in  about  three 
weeks.  In  the  ensuing  winter  his  remains  were  disinterred, 
at  the  request  of  his  relatives,  and  delivered  to  a  messenger 
sent  by  them,  and  conveyed  to  Franklin.  The  society  had 
paid  the  expenses  of  Mr.  Waterbury's  removal  to  this  place, 
($150;)  and  at  a  meeting  after  his  death,  a  quarter's  salary 
was  unanimously  voted  to  his  family. 

In  June,  1830,  lie  v.  Ralph  S.  Crampton  was  installed  pastor. 
In  the  winter  following,  the  church  was  divided,  nearly  one- 
half  of  its  number  leaving,  and  forming  the  present  Con- 
gregational church.  Rev.  Richard  Kay,  who  was  then 
preaching  at  Holly,  became  stated  supply  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  in  Warsaw,  and  Mr.  Crampton  took  his  place  at 
Ilolle}^.  In  the  autumn  of  1810,  Edwin  B.  Miller,  and  in 
1845,  Luther  Foster  and  Samuel  Fisher  1st,  were  added  to 
the  session,  several  of  its  members  having  united  with  the 
Congregational  church.  Mr.  Kay,  after  a  service  of  five 
years,  closed  his  labors  in  the  spring  of  1S15,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded the  same  year  by  Rev.  A.  C.  McClelland,  who  supplied 
the  church  for  a  portion  of  a  year,  who  is  at  present  Pastor  of 
the  Fourth  Presbyterian  church,  Pittsburg,  Penn.,  and  was 
followed  by  Rev.  Hugh  Mair,  D.  D.,  who  preached  one  year. 
He  has  since  died. 

In  the  summer  of  1817,  Rev.  Abraham  T.  Young  ac- 
cepted an  invitation,  and  supplied  the  church  three  years, 
in  which  time  a  parochial  school  was  established,  which  was 
continued  for  twelve  or  fourteen  years.  After  Mr.  Young's 
departure,  Rev.  John  K.  Cornyn  supplied  the  church  one 
year.  He  has  since  died.  In  1852,  Rev.  Edward  Wall 
preached  a  few  weeks,  and  was  followed  by  Rev.  Stuart 
Mitchell,  who  was  ordained  and  installed  Oct,  22, 1852.  He 
closed  his  pastorate  in  the  spring  of  1855,  after  a  service  of 
nearly  three  years.     In  September  of  the  same  year,  a  unani- 


PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  171 

mous  call  was  given  to  Rev.  Joseph  E.  Nassau,  the  present 
pastor,  who  was  ordained  and  installed,  October  241b, 
1855.  In  1856,  Harlow  L.  Comstock  was  added  to  the  session. 
In  1863,  Timothy  H.  Buxton  and  Samuel  Fisher  2d,  were 
added  ;  and  Edward  A.  Miller  the  following  April. 

SEMI-CENTENARY    OF   THE    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH. 

A  festive  gathering  of  the  Sabbath  School,  Parochial 
School,  and  congregation  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  took 
place  in  the  yards  of  Frank  and  Edwin  B.  Miller,  on  Friday, 
July  23,  1858,  to  commemorate  the  50th  anniversary  of  the 
organization  of  the  church.  Invitations  having  been  extended 
to  other  churches  in  the  village,  a  large  number  of  persons 
attended. 

Rev.  Joseph  E.  Nassau,  pastor  of  the  church  was  chosen 
President,  who,  on  taking  the  chair,  said:  "We  are  assem- 
bled, old  and  young,  on  an  interesting  occasion.  We  come 
to  render  our  acknowledgments  to  God  for  his  goodness  to 
the  'Old  Church'  of  Warsaw  during  the  last  half  century. 
We  have  not  met  to  indulge  in  self-glorification;  but  we 
assemble  to  engage  in  profitable,  rational  festivities,  and  to 
lay  our  united  votive  offerings  upon  the  altar  of  the  God  of 
our,  fathers." 

The  organization  of  the  meeting  was  then  completed  by 
choosing;  the  following  officers: 

Vice-Presidents — John  Munger,  William  Webster,  Cyrus 
Tanner,  Peter  Patterson,  Peter  Young,  David  Young, 
Timothy  Stedman,  Elijah  Chamberlain,  Amos  Keeney, 
Julius  Whitlock,  and  James  Webster,  ( architect  of  the  old. 
church  edifice.) 

Secretaries — E.  B.  Miller,  II.  A.  Dudley,  and  Augustus 
Frank. 

The  Hymn,  "  Glorious  things  of  thee  are  spoken,"  was  sung 
by  the  assemblage;  passages  from  the  46th  and  48th  Psalms 
were  read  by  the  pastor;  prayer  was  offered  by  Rev.  Lemuel 
Leonard,  Principal  of  Geneseo  Academy;    and  a  Sabbath 


172  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

school  hymn,  "Happy  Day,"  was  sung  by  the  children  of  the 
two  schools  gathered  on  the  platform. 

An  historical  sketch  of  the  church  was  then  read  by  the 
president,  embracing  an  account  of  its  organization  and  many 
incidents  in  its  history  and  progress;  and  the  hymn,  "I  love 
thy  kingdom,  Lord,"  was  sung  in  full  chorus.  The  meeting 
was  then  addressed,  successively  by  Amos  Keeney,  of  the 
Baptist  church,  Dea.  John  Munger,  Rev.  L.  Leonard,  Rev. 
Mr.  Applegate,  of  the  Episcopal  church,  Rev.  Mr.  Cormac, 
of  the  Baptist  church,  Rev.  Mr.  Willing,  of  the  Methodist 
church,  and  Frank  Miller.  The  speeches  wTere  interspersed 
with  singing,  and  with  instrumental  music. 

A  recess  of  one  hour  was  then  taken,  and  the  assembly 

repaired   to  another  part  of  the  grounds  for  refreshments. 

After  which,  the  company  again  assembled  around  the  stand, 

and  listened  to  speeches  from  Rev.  "W.  D.  Mclvinley,  of  Tus- 

carora,  Hon.  H.  L.  Comstock,   Dea.  Peter   Young,    of  the 

Congregational  church,  and  E.  B.  Miller.     The  exercises  were 

then  formally  closed  by  singing  in  full  chorus,  and  apparently 

with  full  hearts,  the  well  known  hymn, 

"  Bles-t  be  the  tie  that  binds 
Our  hearts  in  Christian  love;" 

and  the  benediction  was  pronounced  by  Rev.  ~W.  D. 
Mclvinley. 

After  the  formal  closing  of  the  exercises,  a  large  portion  of 
the  assemblage  continued  together  for  an  hour  or  two,  and 
were  addressed,  by  gentlemen  present,  and  interesting  state- 
ments were  made  by  several  speakers,  especially  by  some  of 
the  aged,  who  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  the  town.  The 
grounds  were  handsomely  fitted  up;  the  long  tables  we're 
richly  supplied;  and  the  proceedings  and  exercises  were  pro- 
nounced by  those  in  attendance  both  pleasant  and  profitable. 

THE    NEW    CHURCH   EDIFICE. 

The  building  of  a  new  house  of  worship  had  been  in  con- 
templation several  years  before  it  was  commenced;  and  Dea. 


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PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  173 

John  Munger  had  assured  to  the  Society  four  thousand  dollars 
toward  the  object.  The  work  was  commenced  in  the  spring 
of  1861.  Contracts  had  been  made  with  Ambrose  J.  Arm- 
strong, of  this  town,  as  master-mason,  and  with  James  E. 
Ketch mn,  of  Phelps,  as  foreman  of  the  wood  work.  The 
corner  stone  was  laid  with  appropriate  ceremonies,  July  14, 
1861,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  assemblage. 

The  officers  of  the  meeting  were  the  following: 

President — Hon.  Peter  Patterson. 

Vice-Presidents— "William.  "Webster,  Welcom  Arnold, 
Frank  Miller,  Julius  Wiiitlock,  Luther  Foster,  Wales 
Cheney,  David  Young. 

Secretaries — Edwin  B.  Miller,  IIarwood  A.  Dudley. 

After  singing,  Rev.  Mr.  Cunningham,  of  Gainesville,  read 
the  122d  Psalm;  and  Rev.  C.  W.  Nassau,  D.  D.,  of  Law- 
renceville,  N.  J.,  father  of  the  pastor  of  the  church,  offered 
prayer.  The  pastor,  Rev.  Joseph  E.  Nassau,  then  addressed 
the  assemblage;  and,  after  giving  a  brief  historical  sketch  of 
the  church,  deposited  in  the  cavity  cut  in  the  corner  stone  a 
galvanized  iron  box,  12x8x3  inches,  containing  the  following 
articles: 

1.  A  copy  of  the  Holy  Bible. 

2.  The  Confession  of  Faith,  the  Catechisms,  and  the  Form 
of  Government  and  Discipline  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  all 
bound  in  one  volume. 

3.  Copies  of  the  latest  numbers  of  the  Presbyterian,  New- 
York  Observer,  Home  and  Foreign  Record,  Foreign  Mission- 
ary, Sabbath  School  Visitor,  Minutes  of  the  General  Assembly 
of  1863,  and  the  local  papers,  viz.,  The  "Western  New  Yorker 
and  the  Wyoming  Democrat. 

1.  Two  Photographs  of  the  old  church  edifice,  kindly  fur- 
nished by  each  of  the  Picture  Galleries  of  the  village. 

5.  A  Photograph  of  the  present  session  of  the  church,  taken 
and  furnished  by  Coddington  &  Davidson. 

6.  Other  Photographs  of  individuals. 


174  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

7.  List  of  the  present  members  and  officers  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Warsaw  at  the  present  date,  July  14,  1864. 

8.  List  of  the  Members  and  Officers  of  the  Presbyterian 
Sabbath  School  at  this  date. 

9.  Xames  of  the  Building  Committee,  Committee  on 
Funds,  Architect,  Chief  Mason,  and  Foreman  of  Joiner 
Work. 

10.  Samples  of  the  Coin  and  Currency  of  the  United 
States. 

11.  An  unsigned  copy  of  the  Warsaw  War  Bonds,  just 
issued  from  the  press. 

12.  Karnes  of  Subscribers,  thus  far,  to  the  jSTcw  Church 
Edifice. 

In  the  course  of  his  address,  the  speaker  remarked:  "This 
service  must  not  be  understood  as  as  a  trifling  superstition — 
not  as  a  senseless  ceremony  or  a  vain  show,  but  as  an  act  of 
solemn  consecration  and  devout  homage  offered  to  the  Lord 
God  of  the  Bible,  the  God  and  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ." 

At  this  period  lie  deposited  the  box  in  the  place  prepared 
to  receive  it,  and  the  stone  was  laid  in  its  place. 

He  then  proceeded  to  conclude  his  address;  which  was  fol- 
lowed by  remarks  from  Be  v.  Joseph  R.  Page,  of  Perry;  Rev. 
Stuart  Mitchell,  a  former  pastor  of  the  church;  Rev.  Charles 
Ray,  of  Wyoming;  Rev.  John  Jones,  Principal  of  Geneseo 
Academy;  Prof.  PL  D.  Gregory,  of  Philadelphia;  Mr.  Edwin 
B.  Miller,  of  Brooklyn,  formerly  of  Warsaw;  and  Rev.  Dr. 
JSTassau,  of  1ST.  J. 

DEDICATION    OF   THE    NEW    CIIURCII. 

The  church  was  dedicated  the  21st  of  September,  1865. 
Rev.  Charles  Ray,  of  Wyoming,  Rev.  Joseph  R.  Page,  of 
Perry,  Rev.  George  P.  Folsom,  of  Geneseo,  Rev.  Mr.  Steele, 
of  Castile,  and  Rev.  E.  W.  Kellogg,  took  part  in  the  exercises. 
The  sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  P.  D.  Gurley,  D.  D.,  of 
Washington  City,  from  Gal.  vi,  14:  "God  forbid  that  I  should 


PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  175 

glory  save  in  the  cross  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ."  The 
sermon  was  listened  to  with  close  attention  by  the  crowd  of 
people  present,  and  was  regarded  as  beautiful  in  construction, 
elegant  in  diction,  and  highly  practical.  Another  hymn  was 
sung,  which  was  followed  by  the  dedicatory  services  and 
prayer  by  Rev.  Joseph  E.  Nassau,  pastor  of  the  church.  At 
the  close  of  the  services,  the  audience  separated  to  meet  at 
two  and  a  half  P.  M.,  in  a  church  reunion. 

At  two  and  a  half  o'clock,  the  congregation  reassembled; 
and  Hon.  Augustus  Frank  was  chosen  Chairman.  After 
prayer  and  singing,  Rev.  Mr.  Kassau  gave  an  Address  con- 
taining a  history  of  the  church  since  its  formation.  Other 
addresses,  interspersed  with  singing,  were  made  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Page,  Rev.  Mr.  Ray,  Hon.  John  Fisher,  of  Batavia,  Rev.  Mr. 
Lord,  of  Perry  Center,  Judge  Skinner,  of  Buffalo,  formerly 
of  Wyoming,  Rev.  Mr.  Jones,  of  Geneseo  Academy,  Elder 
E.  B.  Miller,  of  Brooklyn,  L.  A.  Hay  ward,  Es<p,  Rev.  Dr. 
Gurley,  Elder  Samuel  Fisher,  2d,  and  others. 

Dea.  Luther  Foster  offered  a  resolution  of  thanks  to  Au- 
gustus Frank,  Samuel  Fisher,  2d,  and  Timothy  H.  Buxton, 
for  the  faithful  manner  in  which  they  had  discharged  their 
duties  as  a  building  committee,  which  was  carried  unani- 
mously. Mr.  Frank,  in  behalf  of  the  committee,  responded, 
and  added  some  interesting  statements  as  to  the  cost  of  the 
building,  and  announced  that  it  was  not  only  completed,  but 
clear  from  debt.  The  whole  cost  of  the  structure  and  its 
furniture,  was  about  $18,000.  After  singing  by  the  choir,  and 
the  benediction  by  Rev.  Mr.  Jones,  the  audience  dispersed. 

In  the  evening,  an  impromptu  prayer-meeting  was  held  in 
the  church,  a  large  number  of  persons  attending;  thus  appro- 
priately closing  the  services  of  the  day  amidst  the  hallowed 
associations  of  the  mercy-seat. 

A  few  months  after  the  dedication,  an  organ  was  placed  in 
the  church  at  an  expense  of  two  thousand  dollars,  making 
the  entire  cost  of  the  sanctuary  and  furniture,  twenty  thou- 
sand dollars. 


176  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

The  style  of  architecture  of  the  new  church  edifice  is  chaste 
and  beautiful.  The  building  is  eighty-five  feet  long  by  forty- 
five  wide.  The  tower  and  spire  over  the  main  entrance  make 
a  shaft  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet.  The  spire  is  covered 
with  slate,  and  its  proportions  arc  perfect.  The  choir  gallery 
is  slightly  raised  above  the  floor  level,  and  the  pulpit  at  the 
other  end  is  in  a  recess  lighted  from  the  sky.  The  windows 
are  of  stained  glass.  The  audience  room,  which  is  seventy- 
two  by  forty-two  feet,  and  twenty-six  feet  high,  is  neatly 
frescoed.  The  pulpit  and  pews  are  of  black  walnut,  and  the 
wainscoting  of  chestnut. 

FIRST  RELIGIOUS  SOCIETY. 

The  first  religious  meetings  were  1  ' 1  '  >  private  houses. 
Afterwards  the  school-house  was  r<  iiy  nsed  for  public 
worship  on  the  Sabbath.  A  church  was  organized  in  July, 
1S0S;  but  there  was  no  legally  incorporated  society  until  1S12. 
The  records  of  the  society  from  its  organization  having  been 
preserved,  and  this  being  the  oldest  religious  society  in  town, 
we  copy  largely  from  its  recorded  proceedings. 

The  record  commences  with  the  Certificate  of  Incorpora- 
tion of 

warsaw  union  society. 

"  Genesee  County,  ss. 

"  In  pursuance  of  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  entitled,  'An  Act  to  provide  for  the  Incorporation 
of  Religious  Societies,'  passed  the  27th  of  March,  1801 — 

"  We,  the  subscribers,  certify  that  at  least  fifteen  days  be- 
fore the  fourteenth  day  of  January  last,  at  a  meeting  of  a 
religious  congregation  at  the  school -house  near  Elizur  "Web- 
ster's, in  the  town  of  Warsaw,  Genesee  county,  being  the 
house  in  which  public  worship  is  statedly  held  by  said  con- 
gregation, public  notice  was  given  by  the  officiating  minister, 
that  on  the  said  fourteenth  day  of  January,  a  meeting  would 
be  held  at  said  school-house  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a  re- 
ligious society  and  choosing  trustees  for  the  same,  according 


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PKESBYTEEIAN    CIIUECII.  177 

to  the  above  named  act,  which  notice  was  afterwards  publicly 
given  by  a  member  of  said  congregation  two  Sundays  imme- 
diately preceding  said  fourteenth  day  of  January,  at  the  place 
aforesaid. 

"  We  further  certify,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  male  persons 
of  said  congregation,  of  the  full  age  of  twenty-one  years,  con- 
vened in  pursuance  of  said  notice,  at  the  time  and  place 
aforesaid,  Ezra  Walker  and  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  members' 
of  said  society,  were  nominated  and  chosen  by  a  majority  oi 
the  members  present,  to  preside  at  said  election,  (there  being 
no  Elders  or  Church  Wardens  attending  said  meeting;)  like- 
wise, that  by  a  plurality  of  voices,  it  was  determined  that  the 
society  should  be  known  and  distinguished  by  the  name,  style 
and  title  of  '  The  Trustees  and  Associates  of  the  Union  So- 
ciety.' 

"  Given  under  our  hands  and  seals  this  17th  day  of  Jan- 
uary, A.  D.,  1S12. 

"  In  the  presence  of   "i      (signed)  Chauxcey  L.  Sheldox,  L.  ?. 

Ebexezeu  Mix.      J      (signed)  Ezra  Walker,  L.  S." 

The  following  is  from  the  recorded  proceedings  of  the  meet- 
in  2;  referred  to  in  the  foreo-ohio-  certificate: 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Warsaw, 
No.  9,  1st  Range,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a  religious  so- 
ciety, previous  notice  being  given  according  to  law: 

"  1st,  Chose  Ezra  Walker,  Moderator  of  said  meeting. 

"2d,  Chose  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  Society  Clerk. 

"  3d,  Yoted  that  Union  shall  be  the  name  of  the  Society. 

"4th,  Chose  Isaac  Phelps,  Abraham  Reed,  John  Munger, 
William  Bristol,  Zera  Tanner,  and  Slmbael  Goodspeed,  trus- 
tees of  said  society. 

"Voted  that  this  society  be  adjourned  sine  die. 

"Waesaw,  January  11th,  1S12. 

"  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon, 

"  Society  Clerk.'' 
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ITS  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  official  record  of  the  forma- 
tion of  the  society: 

"  Whereas,  In  pursuance  of  an  act  of  the  Legislature  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  entitled,  '  An  Act  for  the  Incorporation 
of  Religious  Societies,'  passed  March  27,  1801,  a  number  of 
persons  have  associated  themselves  together  and  formed  a 
society  under  the  name,  style,  and  title  of  'The  Chairman, 
Trustees  and  Associates  of  the  Union  Society,'  the  objects  of 
which  are: 

"  1.  To  promote  and  extend  the  knowledge  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  as  taught  by  our  blessed  Lord  and  Savior,  Jesus 
Christ,  and  the  principles  of  religion  as  found  in  the  Holy 
Scriptures. 

"  2.  To  promote  and  encourage  Divine  worship  and  the  re- 
ligious observance  of  the  Sabbath,  and  to  discountenance  all 
acts  of  immorality. 

"  3.  To  promote  harmony,  good  understanding,  and  social 
intercourse  with  all  men,  more  especially  with  the  members 
of  this  and  other  religious  societies. 

"  1.  To  promote  charity  and  relief  to  the  poor  and  dis- 
tressed in  a  Christianlike  manner,  and  to  see  that  charity  is 
not  bestowed  on  unworthy  and  undeserving  objects. 

"  It  is  to  be  observed,  that  the  government  and  regulations 
of  the  society  will,  agreeably  to  the  statute,  be  vested  in  trus- 
tees to  be  chosen  by  the  members  of  the  society,  who  will  have 
the  superintendence  of  making  such  rules  and  regulations  as 
shall  be  meet  and  proper  for  the  government  of  the  same, 
and  for  superintending  and  managing  all  real  and  personal 
estate  which  shall  belong  to  the  association,  and  such  other 
business  as  the  society  from  time  to  time  shall  direct  to  be 
done. 

"Warsaw,  January  11,  1S12." 

Abraham  Reed,  Ezra  Walker,  Isaac  Phelps,  Eliphalet 
Parker,  Eliphalet  Parker,  Jun.,  Chaunc'ey  L.  Sheldon,  Enoch 
Merriman,  John  Munger,  Giles  Parker,  Joseph  Palmer,  Hez- 


PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH.  179 

ekiali  Wakefield,  William  Stone,  Samuel  McWhorter,  Zera 
Tanner,  Chester  Richards,  Newton  Hawes,  William  Webster, 
William  Bristol,  (  £To.  8,)  Warham  Walker,  Micah  Marchant, 
Slmbael  Goodspeed,  Ebenezer  Hitchcock,  Leverett  Hitchcock, 
Jonathan  Wright,  Jan.,  Philip  Salisbury,  Luther  Parker, 
Ebenezer  Smith,  Jun.,  Caleb  Woodworth,  John  Eddy,  Arte- 
mas  Day,  Nehemiah  Paine,  John  Frayer,  Henry  Woodward, 
Silas  Walker,  Roderick  Chapin,  Edward  Putnam,  Almon 
Stevens,  Elisha  Parmelee,  Daniel  Rumsey,  Mayhew  Safford, 
Warren  Loom  is,  Augustus  Frank,  Isaac  Preston. 

The  foregoing  names  appear  on  the  record  as  having  been 
promiscuously  signed  to  the  foregoing  proceedings  at  the  date 
of  the  meeting.  The  last  eleven  named  persons  are  known 
to  have  come  into  the  town  since  the  society  was  formed,  and 
consequently  they  must  have  signed  afterwards.  The  other 
thirty-two  are  presumed  to  have  signed  their  names  on  or 
near  the  day  of  the  meeting.  The  association,  though  called 
"Union  Society,"  is  generally  known  to  signify  the  Presbyte- 
rian church  and  cono-reo;ation. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  Society  was  held  on  Tuesday,  Feb. 
9,  1813,  at  the  house  of  John  McWhorter,  wdiich  stood  near 
the  present  residence  of  Samuel  Fisher,  2d. 

In  the  proceedings  we  find  the  following :  "  Voted  that  the 
Trustees  procure  a  sufficient  piece  of  land  for  the  purpose  of 
setting  a  house  for  public  worship,  and  the  expenses  to  be 
paid  by  subscription."  This  wras  the  first  record  of  an  attempt 
to  build  a  church  edifice. 

Feb.  8th,  1811.  Warsaw  Union  Society  met  at  the  Center 
School  House.  At  that  meeting  it  was  "Yoted,  that  the 
Trustees  of  this  Society  be  vested  with  power  to  fix  a  site  for 
a  meeting-house,  and  that  it  shall  be  their  further  duty  to  call 
a  special  society  meeting  for  making  a  purchase  of  the  said 
site  of  land." 

At  the  annual  meetings  in  1815  and  1816,  the  Trustees 
were  vested  with  the  same  authority.  The  records  show  no 
farther  action  on  the  subject.  A  house  was  built,  however,  at 
the  time  and  in  the  manner  already  stated.     [Page  167.] 


180  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

The  paper  containing  the  subscriptions  for  building  the 
church,  which  can  not  now  be  found,  was  signed  by  a  consid- 
erable number  of  the  people  of  the  town.  Many  being  unable 
to  pay  in  money,  subscriptions  were  made  payable  in  grain, 
lumber,  labor,  &c.  Yet  it  was  with  great  effort  that  enough 
was  obtained  to  raise  and  inclose  the  building. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  February,  1819,  it  was  resolved, 
as  the  sense  of  the  meeting,  that  it  was  expedient  to  dispose 
of  the  meeting-house  to  "  one  or  the  other  society  being  prin- 
cipal owners,"  and  the  Trustees  were  instructed  to  cany  the 
measure  into  effect.  And  on  the  9th  of  March,  a  meeting  of 
the  "  proprietors  of  Warsaw  Meeting- House  "  was  held,  at 
which  it  was  voted  "  that  the  house  be  sold,"  and  that  Simeon 
Cumings  be  the  auctioneer.  Mr.  Cumings  declining,  Oliver 
Lee  was  appointed  ;  and  the  sale  was  ordered  to  take  place  in 
the  evening.  The  house  was  struck  off  to  the  Presbyterian 
Society  at  seventy-six  cents  on  the  dollar  of  its  nominal  value 
or  cost.  The  Baptist  Society  being  the  only  other  "  principal 
owner,"  a  number  of  the  members  of  that  Society,  at  the  same 
time  and  place,  executed  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Union  Society 
an  assignment  of  their  individual  rights,  and  a  bond  of  indem- 
nity against  all  claims  of  any  member  of  the  Baptist  Society 
to  any  interest  in  the  house. 

October  24th,  1820,  a  special  meeting  was  held  at  which  it 
was  "  voted  that  the  Society  proceed  to  complete  the  meeting 
house;"  and  "that  any  sums  signed  and  paid  towards  the 
completion  of  said  house,  to  bo  paid  in  grain  or  any  other 
article,  may  be  paid  at  an  average  price  equivalent  to  Avhcat 
at  seventy-five  cents  per  bushel." 

February  13th,  1821,  at  the  annual  meeting,  "the  Trustees 
of  the  Society  having  made  a  report  of  their  proceedings,  in 
making  a  contract  with  Nathan  B.  Lee  for  completing  the 
meeting-house,  the  present  season,"  the  report  was  approved. 

The  building  was  used,  as  completed  by  Mr.  Lee,  except 
the  lowering  of  the  pulpit  at  different  times,  until  1811,  when 
the  old  square  pews  with  their  straight  backs  gave  way  to 


PRESBYTEEIAH   CHURCH.  181 

modern  improvements,  and  the  inside  was  painted,  never  hav- 
ing had  a  coat  of  paint  before.  Thus  improved,  it  remained 
unaltered  until  it  was  removed  from  the  spot  where  it  had 
stood  for  nearly  fifty  years,  to  give  place  to  the  present  edifice. 
A  picture  of  the  "  Old  Church  "  is  inserted  in  its  proper  place. 

FIRST    CHURCH   BELL. 

Previous  to  1825,  there  was  no  church  bell  in  Warsaw.  At 
the  meeting  of  Union  Society  that  year,  it  was  voted  to  "  cir- 
culate a  subscription  for  the  purpose  of  raising  funds  to  pur- 
chase a  bell  for  the  meeting-house." 

The  movement  for  procuring  a  bell  may  have  been  promp- 
ted, in  part,  by  a  rather  amusing  incident.  The  year  of  its 
occurrence  we  can  not  determine.  Deacon  Munger,  then 
carrying  on  the  tanning  business  half  a  mile  south  of  the 
village,  had  in  his  service  a  nephew,  John  F.  Clark.  lie  was 
a  harmless,  "  clever "  young  man,  and  remarkably  facetious 
withal,  bearing  the  familiar  soubriquet  of  "  funny  fellow." 
He  had  a  bugle,  which  was  his  favorite  companion,  and  with 
which  he  gave  many  an  evening's  entertainment  to  the  in- 
habitants for  several  miles  along  the  valley.  The  only  meeting 
house  in  town  was  that  of  the  Presbyterians;  but  it  had  no 
bell.  It  was  suggested  that  the  want  of  one  might  be  supplied 
by  John's  bugle;  and  it  was  done.  He  would  take  his  stand 
at  the  brink  of  the  hill  near  the  old  burying-ground,  and  give 
for  the  "  first  bell  "  one  or  two  of  the  old  tunes  sung  in  those 
days,  Mear,  Coronation,  Sherburne,  Exhortation,  etc.  The 
call  to  worship,  or  "  second  bell,"  was  given  from  the  steeple, 
within  the  railing  of  the  belfry.  Such  was  his  love  of  playing, 
that  his  services  might  probably  have  been  had  gratis;  but  he 
had  been  encouraged  to  expect  some  compensation.  He  played 
a  long  time;  but  no  pay  came.  He  was  at  length  advised  by 
a  friend  to  play  from  the  steeple  a  piece  of  secular  music, 
either  as  a  mild  expression  of  resentment,  or  as  a  means  of 
bringing  the  Trustees  to  a  sense  of  justice.  Accordingly,  John, 
the  next  Sabbath,  struck  up  the  tune  of  a  popular  song.    The 


182 


HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


Deacon  happened  to  be  within  hailing  distance,  and,  by  signs 
and  words,  ordered  the  music  stopped.  John  complied,  came 
down,  and  took  his  seat,  as  usual,  with  the  choir  in  the  gallery. 
After  their  arrival  home,  the  subject  was  introduced  by  the 
Deacon,  who  wished  to  know  the  reason  for  playing  so  im- 
proper a  tune.  John  promptly  answered,  but  was  told  that 
his  services  were  no  longer  wanted. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  original  subscription: 
"  We,  the  subscribers,  being  anxious  that  a  good  church  bell 
should  be  procured  for  the  Meeting-House  in  Union  Society, 
in  the  village  of  Warsaw,  and  in  consideration  that  the  Trus- 
tees of  said  Society  have  agreed  that  such  sums  as  shall  be 
paid  towards  procuring  a  Bell  for  said  Meeting-House,  shall 
be  appropriated  and  applied  in  payment  for  a  slip  or  seat  in 
said  Meeting-House,  in  the  same  manner  as  if  the  same  money 
had  been  expended  in  building  said  house,  do  therefore  prom- 
ise to  pay  John  Manger,  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  Augustus 
Frank,  Gideon  Johnson,  William  Webster,  and  Peter  Young, 
Trustees  of  said  Society  and  their  successors  in  office,  the 
sums  of  money  annexed  to  our  names  respectively  for  the  pur- 
pose of  procuring  a  Bell  for  said  Meeting-House. 
"  Dated  December  25,  1824." 


Augustus  Frank,     . 

$25 

Gideon  Johnson,     . 

i>9 

V- 

A.  Stevens,     .     . 

$10 

C.  &  A.  Rumsey,    . 

25 

John  Truesdell,  .     . 

5 

A.  C.  Lyon,  .     . 

5 

John  Mtinger,    .     . 

10 

Orson  Hough,     .     . 

5 

Jonas  Cutting,    . 

5 

Daniel  Rumsey,  .     . 

20 

C.  Z.  C   Leonard,   . 

2 

Hiram  L.  Norton, 

2 

SeOi  G.  Bodritch,     . 

5 

Cyrus  Tanner,    .     . 

1 

Luther  Foster,     . 

5 

Peter  Young,      .     . 

10 

John  Frayer,      .     . 

5 

Leonard  Rich,    . 

2 

Andrew  W.  Young, 

5 

Francis  Newton, 

2 

James  Crocker,  . 

5 

Matthew  Hoffman,  . 

10 

Hezekiah  Wakefield, 

3 

Timothy  Whiting, 

1 

Lyman  Morris,    .     . 

5 

B.  Shaw 

2 

Levi  Walker, 

.       1 

Isaiah  Kenyon,    .     . 

3 

Silas  Kidder,       .     . 

5 

Zera  Tanner, 

2 

Ephriam  Beebe, 

3 

C.  L.  Sheldon,    .     . 

25 

Welcom  Arnold, 

1 

Lot  Marchant,    .     . 

10 

Elijah  Norton,    .     . 

10 

S.  McWborter,    . 

10 

Elizur  Webster,   .    . 

30 

Cyrus  Rumsey,   .     . 

15 

E.  C.  Kimberly, 

5 

Wm.  Patterson,  .     . 

10 

B.  Shaw,    .... 

5 

Paul  Richards,    . 

2 

John  Wilder,       .     . 

10 

Wm.  Walker,       .     . 

5 

Frank  Miller,      . 

1 

Linus  Warner,    . 

2 

Nehemiah  Fargo,     . 

5 

David  Martin,     . 

2 

Ira  Wilcox,     .     .     . 

1 

J.  A.  McElwain,     . 

5 

Josiah  Marchant, 

2 

James  Gregg,     . 

.       2 

Hiram  Giddiugs, 

.   50c 

Cyrus  Rice,    .     . 

.       5 

Win.  Fluker, 

.    50c 

B.  L.  Watkins,  . 

2 

Owen  Marchant, 

.    50c 

J.  L.  Palmer, 

.       1 

PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  183 

John  Crocker,  .  .  5 
A.M.  &W.D.Barnett.  12 
R.  A.  Kidder,  .  .  2 
Nathaniel  Moss,  .     .       3 

The  amount  subscribed  being  insufficient,  Dr.  Frank  pur- 
chased the  bell  on  his  own  responsibility,  a  few  individuals 
having  promised  to  assist  in  making  up  any  deficiency  there 
might  be. 

Of  the  sixty-four  persons  whose  names  are  embraced  in 
this  list  of  contributors,  eighteen  only  are  believed  to  be  liv- 
ing. The  number  may  be  still  less,  as  some  of  these  eighteen 
long  ago  removed  to  western  states,  and  have  not  been  lately 
heard  from.  Of  those  who  in  1825  resided  within  the  pres- 
ent limits  of  the  village,  only  four  remain  in  it,  viz.:  E.  Norton, 
J.  A.  McElwain,  Win.  Walker,  Frank  Miller. 

For  a  long  time  this  was  the  only  bell  in  the  village,  and 
rendered  partial  service  to  other  congregations.  Each  of  the 
five  churches  here  has  now  a  good  bell  of  its  own. 

The  old  bell,  after  about  thirty-five  years'  service,  failed. 
A  new  one  of  nearly  double  its  weight  was  put  in  its  place, 
and  is  now  suspended  in  the  belfry  of  the  new  church  edifice. 


184  IIISTOKY   OF    WARSAW. 


METHODIST    CHURCH. 

Of  the  organization  of  this  church  and  society,  no  record 
is  to  be  found.  Nor  is  there,  probably,  one  of  its  early  mem- 
bers living  to  give  any  information  respecting  it,  except  Mrs. 
llovey,  (now  eighty-three  years  of  age,)  widow  of  the  late 
Simeon  Hovey.  Her  recollections,  and  a  brief  sketch  commu- 
nicated by  the  late  Josiah  Hovey,  son  of  Josiah  Hovey,  Sen., 
to  the  Hon.  Seth  M.  Gates,  at  the  time  of  the  formation  of  a 
county  Historical  Society,  are  the  only  sources  from  which  we 
have  been  able  to  get  any  knowledge  of  the  early  history  of 
this  church.'  And  of  its  later  history,  there  has  been  found  a 
record  of  only  ten  or  twelve  years,  from  and  after  the  year 
1833.  The  list  of  circuit  preachers  was  obtained  from  the 
records  of  the  Genesee  Conference. 

Mrs.  Hovey  says,  that  in  1808  or  1809,  Key.  Mr.  Ness, 
(probably  Tan  Nest,)  an  itinerant  missionary,  formed  a  class 
in  the  south  part  of  the  town,  among  the  members  of  which 
were  Solomon  Morris,  Sen.,  and  John  Morris  and  their  wives, 
and  others.  About  a  year  afterwards,  John  Kimberlin,  from 
Baltimore  Conference,  formed  a  class  in  the  north  part  of  the 
town,  of  which  Mrs.  Josiah  Hovey,  Sen.,  Simeon  Hovey  and 
Josiah  Hovey,  Jun.,  and  their  wives,  and  several  others,  were 
members.  A  year  or  two  afterwards,  Anson  A.  Perkins  and 
his  wife,  and  after  another  year  or  two,  Elam  Perkins  and  his 
wife,  Lyman  Parker  and  others  united.  She  thinks  the  first 
regular  preachers  on  this  circuit  were  Loring  Grant  and  Mar- 
mad  like  Pierce,  each  preaching  once  in  four  weeks,  thus  giving 
the  people  a  preacher  once  in  two  weeks.  The  extent  of  the 
circuit  was  such  as  required  about  a  month's  time  to  compass 
it.  Elder  Grant's  circuit  was  about  three  hundred  miles 
round,  extending  from  some  place  in  Pennsylvania  into  Can- 
ada. Mrs.  Grant,  also  on  horseback,  sometimes  accompanied 
him  as  co-laborer.     Her  horse  was  a  gift  from  her  tather. 


(S  bCsr&Csp^f. 


METHODIST    CHURCH.  185 

The  sketch  by  Josiah  Hovey  gives  some  additional  facts, 
but  does  not  conflict  with  the  statements  of  Mrs.  Hovey.  He 
says:  "The  first  Methodist  preachers  in  Warsaw  were  Cyrus 
Story,  Joseph  Gatchell,  and  James  Mitchell,  as  early  as  1805 
or  1806,  and  before  a  church  was  organized.  In  1809,  Wm. 
Brown  and  John  Kimberlin  organized  a  Methodist  society; 
and  I  believe  my  brother  Simeon  was  the  first  class-leader 
appointed  under  that  organization.  Shortly  after,  myself  and 
Shubael  Morris  were  appointed  class-leaders,  and  held  our 
meetings  at  my  house  in  the  north  part,  and  at  the  house  of 
Solomon  Morris,  Sen.,  in  the  south  part  of  the  town." 

Mr.  Hovey  mentions  the  following  as  among  the  early  mem- 
bers of  the  church:  Josiah  Hovey,  Jim.,  Simeon  Hovey,  John 
Morris,  Shubael  Morris,  Elam  Perkins,  Anson  A.  Perkins, 
Solomon  Morris,  Sen.,  Carl  W.  Flower,  Simeon  Gibson,  and 
the  wives  of  all  of  them ;  the  wTife  of  Josiah  Hovey,  Sen., 
Moses  Perkins,  Joseph  Miller,  Lyman  Parker,  and  the  wives 
of  Kehemiah  Park,  Simeon  P.  Glazier,  and  Daniel  Ivnapp. 
He  presumed  there  were  others,  whose  names  he  did  not 
recollect.  As  the  Perkinses  did  not  come  into  the  town  until 
some  years  after  the  year  in  which  the  church  or  society  is 
said  to  have  been  organized,  they,  though  "early  members," 
could  not  have  been  among  the  earliest. 

The  Methodist  Society  was  not  legally  organized  until  about 
the  year  1820,  at  the  time  of  the  proclamation  of  Paul  Busti, 
general  agent  of  the  Holland  Land  Company,  announcing 
that  in  every  township,  six  miles  square,  with  a  legally  organ- 
ized church  and  society,  such  society  should  be  entitled  to  one 
hundred  acres  of  land.  "The  First  Methodist  Episcopal  So- 
ciety of  "Warsaw  "  was  accordingly  organized  in  compliance 
with  the  requirements  of  the  act  of  the  legislature;  and  the 
papers  were  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  County  Clerk. 
Union  Society,  formed  by  the  Presbyterian  church  and  con- 
gregation, had  been  organized  in  1812;  and  the  land  was 
divided  equally  between  the  two  societies. 


186  mSTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

The  first  Trustees  of  the  Methodist  Society  were,  Simeon 
Ilovey,  Chester  Hiird,  John  Morris,  Anson  A.  Perkins, 
Nathan  B.  Miller,  Lyman  Parker,  Josiah  Hovey,  Roderick 
Chapin,  Jim.,  Eleazar  Smith. 

The  first  Methodist  house  of  worship  was  built  in  1824:,  at 
the  corners  three-fourths  of  a  mille  north  of  the  center  of  the 
village,  on  the  south  corner.  Chester  Hurd  was  the  architect. 
In  1835,  it  was  removed  to  the  place  where  the  present  house 
stands.  And  in  1853,  to  make  room  for  a  new  and  larger 
one,  it  was  sold  to  Rev.  J.  W.  Hines,  and  by  him  removed  to 
the  south  side  of  Buffalo  street,  near  the  bridge,  to  be  fitted 
up  for  dwellings.  It  was  sold  by  him  to  George  TV.  Morris, 
by  whose  heirs  it  is  still  owned.  The  new  church,  which  was 
completed  in  1854,  was,  in  1868,  thoroughly  repainted  out- 
side, and  tastily  frescoed  and  otherwise  improved  inside,  at  an 
expense  of  about  $1,300.  It  is  now  probably  the  largest 
and  best  framed  church  edifice  in  the  county. 

"We  present  here  the  views  of  the  churches  in  this  District 
concerning  certain  subjects  which  have  at  times  been  intro- 
duced in  the  Quarterly  Conference: 

At  a  Quarterly  Meeting  Conference  for  the  Warsaw  and 
Wyoming  District,  held  at  Wyoming,  December  17, 1836,  the 
following  resolutions  were  adopted: 

"  Whereas,  Alcohol  is  a  poison,  and  is  always  injurious  to 
persons  in  health;  and  whereas,  it  is  the  fruitful  source  of 
crime,  disease,  and  death;  therefore, 

"Resolved,  J.  That,  in  the  judgment  of  this  Conference,  to 
manufacture,  vend,  or  use  the  article,  except  for  mechanical 
or  medicinal  purposes,  is  immoral. 

"  2.  That,  since  such  is  the  nature  of  the  traffic  in  and  use 
of  ardent  spirits,  and  since  its  direful  effects  are  so  numerous 
and  so  great,  extending  to  life,  death,  and  eternity,  we,  the 
members  of  this  Conference,  feel  ourselves  called  upon  by  the 
high  impositions  of  patriotism,  humanity,  and  religion,  to  give 
our  precept  and  example  against  its  manufacture  and  use  as 
a  beverage;  and  we  feel  ourselves  further  called  upon  to  use 


METHODIST    CHURCH. 


187 


all  lawful  means  to  bring  its  manufacture  and  sale  into  dis- 
grace and  disuse. 

"  3.  That  a  copy  of  the  above  resolutions  be  sent  by 
Eev.  M.  Seager  to  the  editor  of  the  Christian  Advocate  for 
insertion. 

"  Levi  Mason, 

"  Secretary." 

At  a  Quarterly  Meeting  Conference  held  at  Warsaw,  July 
12th,  1845,  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted: 

"  1.  Resolved,  By  the  members  of  the  Quarterly  Conference 
of  Warsaw  Station,  that  the  connection  of  church  members 
and  ministers  with  secret  societies  or  associations,  is  incompati- 
ble with  their  Christian  and  ministerial  relations  and  duties. 

"  2.  Resolved,  That  we  seriously  regret  that  any  of  our  trav- 
eling preachers  have  become  members  of  the  society  of  Odd 
Fellows. 

"  3.  Resolved,  That  we  respectfully  request  the  presiding 
elder  of  this  District  to  present  a  copy  of  the  above  resolu- 
tions to  the  ensuing  Genesee  Annual  Conference. 

"  It.  Jackson, 

u  Secretary.1' 

At  the  same  place,  October,  1845,  the  Conference  adopted 
the  following  resolutions  on  the  subject  of  Missions: 

"Resolved,  That  there  be  a  committee  of  five. on  missions, 
and  that  A.  H.  Tilton,  Hiron  J.  Eeddish,  George  Snyder, 
James  Gilmore,  and  Lyman  Parker,  be  said  committee. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  deem  it  our  duty  to  engage,  at  the 
earliest  convenience,  in  the  work  of  forming  a  Missionary 
Society,  and  carrying  out  the  design  of  the  Discipline  on  the 
subject  of  Missions." 

At  the  Quarterly  Meeting  Conference  of  Warsaw  charge 
and  station,  July  22,  1848,  the  subject  of  Odd  Fellowship  was 
again  acted  upon,  and  resolutions  were  adopted,  of  which  the 
material  part  is  as  follows: 


188  HISTORY  OF  WARSAW. 

"Whereas,  we  believe  that  secret  societies  are  contrary  to 
the  gospel,  the  practice,  and  the  teaching  of  our  Savior,  that 
they  have  a  tendency,  or  may  be  used,  to  subvert  govern- 
ment, and  that  it  betrays  a  want  of  Christian  fidelity  and  of 
a  firm  reliance  upon  the  promises  of  God  in  the  members  of 
the  church  who  unite  themselves  to  such  societies ;  and 
whereas,  many  of  our  brethren  in  the  ministry  belonging  to 
the  Genesee  Conference  have  united  with  the  Society  of  Odd 
Fellows,  and  have  not  heeded  the  resolution  of  Conference 
advising  them  to  withdraw  and  not  become  members  of  said 
society,  and  our  presiding  elder,  by  his  own  confession,  retains 
his  membership  in  that  society,  thereby  giving  his  influence 
to  the  societies  of  Odd  Fellows;  and  although  he  stated  that 
he  did  not  meet  with  them,  and  did  not  know  anything  about 
their  proceedings,  but  belonged  to  them  only  to  secure  a  fund 
that  might  be  available  in  time  of  want;  yet,  believing  that 
the  reason  here  urged  is  insufficient  when  it  comes  in  contact 
with  the  gospel  ministry;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  we  request  our  presiding  elder  to  withdraw 
from  the  society  of  Odd  Fellows. 

Upon  what  other  subjects  than  those  mentioned  the  Quar- 
terly Conference  has  taken  action,  we  have  no  means  of 
knowing,  for  the  reason  already  stated,  the  absence  of  later 
records  of  the  society. 

After  a  long  and  unceasing  effort  to  procure  a  list  of 
preachers  and  presiding  elders  in  the  District  and  Circuit  to 
which  this  church  has  belonged,  and  after  this  sketch 
had  been  written,  we  have  obtained  such  list,  furnished  by 
Rev.  Carlos  Gould,  of  Parma  Centre,  and  Rev.  S.  Hunt,  now 
preacher  at  Batavia.  Mr.  Gould  is  son-in-law  of  the  late 
Simeon  Hovey,  of  this  town.  His  letter  supplies  some  omis- 
sions in  the  account  of  the  early  history  of  the  society,  given 
from  recollection  by  Mrs.  Simeon  Hovey  and  Josiah  Hovey, 
and  corrects  some  slight  errors.     He  wTrites  as  follows: 

"  I  have  the  bound  '  Minutes '  of  all  the  Conferences  from 
the  first,  (held  in  1773,  10  preachers,  and  1160  members  in 


METHODIST   CIIUKCII.  180 

all,)  till  1857;  so  that  I  can  give  you  all  the  information  that 
can  he  gathered  from  the  Minutes;  but  as  there  was  no  Gene- 
see Conference  till  1810,  or  no  "Warsaw  Circuit  or  Station  till 
1827,  I  have,  with  the  help  of  my  wife,  (who  remembers  all 
the  Warsaw  preachers  since  1810,)  gleaned  the  names  of  all 
the  presiding  elders  and  preachers  as  correctly  as  possible. 

"The  first  and  only  appointment  in  this  state  west  of  the 
Genesee  river,  was,  in  1807,  in  Philadelphia  Conference, 
Genesee  District,  J.  Jewell  Presiding  Elder;  Holland  Pur- 
chase Circuit,  P.  Yan  ISTest  and  A.  Jenks,  Missionaries. 
Doubtless  these  were  the  first  regular  Conference  preachers 
in  Warsaw. 

"  I  now  give  you  a  list  of  all  the  Districts,  which  are  fre- 
quently changed;  all  the  Circuits,  which  are  more  frequently 
changed;  all  the  Presiding  Elders  and  Pastors,  till  1850." 

*/  The  names  in  the  following  list  are  the  names  of  Preachers  in  Warsaw 
in  the  Circuits  mentioned.  Presiding  Elders  of  the  Districts  are  distinguished 
by  the  initials,  P.  E. 

1808.  Warsaw  was  in  Susquehanna  District,  of  which  James  Herron  was 
Presiding  Elder.  In  Holland  Purchase  Circuit,  George  Lane  was  Mis- 
sionary; in  Caledonia  Circuit,  Thomas  Elliott.  Missionary.  Although 
there  was  in  1812  a  change  of  District,  Mr.  Draper  was  retained  as 
Presiding  Elder  until  1815. 

1809.  Holland  Purchase  and  Caledonia  Circuit,  James  Mitchell  and  Joseph 
Gatchell,  Pastors.  These  are  believed  to  have  been  the  first  regular 
preachers  in  this  Circuit. 

1810.  Genesee  Conference  was  formed  this  year.  Holland  Purchase  Cir- 
cuit; only  appointment  west  of  Genesee  river,  John  Kimberlin, 
William  Brown,  Preachers. 

1811.  Loring  Grant,  Elijah  Metcalf. 

1812.  Genesee  District,  Caledonia  Circuit,  Renaldo  Everts. 

1813.  Elijah  King,  Ebenezer  Doolittle. 
1811.     William  Brown,  Elijah  Warren. 

1815.  James  II.  Harris. 

1816.  Jonathan  Huestis,  P.  E.  Caledonia  Circuit,  Robert  Menshall,  Thomas 
McGee. 

1S17.  Eden  Circuit,  James  Hall. 

1818.  Clarence  Circuit,  Aurora  Seager,  Jetar  Foster. 

1819.  Gideon  Draper,  P.  E.     Ava  Williams. 

1820.  Batavia  Circuit,  James  Hall,  Zachariah  Paddock. 

1821.  James  Gilmore,  Jasper  Bennett. 


100  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

1S22.     Goodwin  Stoddard,  P.  E.     John  Arnold,  Asa  Orcutt. 

1823.  Asa  Orcutt,  John  Beggarly. 

1824.  Andrew  Prindle,  J.  B.  Roach. 

1825.  Buffalo  District,  Loring  Grant,  P.  E.  Benajah  /Williams,  Andrew 
Prindle. 

1826.  Benajah  Williams,  Asa  Abell,  Jonathan  Huestis. 

1827.  Warsaw  Circuit,  (formed  this  year,)  Morgan  Sherman,  Robert  Parker. 

1828.  Warsaw  and  Batavia  Circuit,  Glezen  Fillmore,  Micah  Seager,  Chester 
N.  Adgate.  [G.  Fillmore,  it  is  believed,  was  stationed  at  Batavia, 
and  did  not  preach  at  Warsaw.] 

1829.  Asa  Abell,  P.  E.     Warsaw  Circuit,  John  Cosart,  Joseph  Atwood. 

1830.  Hiram  May,  Joseph  Atwood. 

1831.  Mifflin  Havker,  George  Wilkinson. 

1832.  Genesee  District,  again,  Mifflin  Harker,  Sheldon  Doolittle. 

1833.  Sheldon  Doolittle,  Merritt  Preston. 

1834.  1835.     Reeder  Smith. 

183G.  Warsaw  and  Wyoming  Circuit,  Micah  Seager,  P.  E.  Richard  Wright, 
E.  O.  Hall. 

1837.  Warsaw  Circuit,  Richard  Wright. 

1838.  John  B.  Alverson,  P.  E.     James  Hall. 

1839.  Hiram  May. 

1840.  Nelson  Hoag. 

1841.  Salmon  Judd. 

1842.  John  Copeland,  P.  E.     Salmon  Judd. 

1843.  Israel  Chamberlayne,  P.  E.     Chauncey  S.  Baker. 

1844.  Joseph  Pearsall. 

1845.  John  B.  Jenkins. 

1846.  Buffalo  District,  Samuel  C.  Church,  P.  E.     John  B.  Jenkins. 

1847.  Charles  D.  Burlingham. 

1848.  John  B.  Alverson,  P.  E.     David  Nichols. 

1849.  1850.     Thomas  Carleton,  P.  E.     King  David  Nettleton. 

1851.  Philo  E.  Brown,  P.  E.     J.  W.  Hines. 

1852.  Wyoming  District,  P.  E.  Brown,  P.  E.     J.  W.  Hines. 

1853.  Zenas  Hurd. 

1854.  Richard  L.  Wait,  P.  E.     B.  F.  McNeil. 

1855.  Griffin  Smith. 

1856.  1857.     William  C.  Willing. 

1858.  Sumner  C.  Smith. 

1859,  I860.     Allen  P.  Ripley,  P.  E.     E.  M.  Buck. 

1861.  Schuyler  Parker. 

1862.  E.  E.  Chambers,  P.  E.     Schuyler  Parker. 

1863.  1864.     J.  H.  Bayliss. 

1865.  G.  DeLaMatyr,  P.  E.     Rollin  C.  Welch. 

1866.  H.  H.  Lyman. 
1S67.     M.  II.  Rice. 

1868.     O.  S.  Chamberlayne. 


BAPTIST    CIIUKCII.  191 


BAPTIST    CHURCH. 

The  people  of  this  religious  organization,  like  the  Congre- 
gationalists,  have  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  the  greater 
portion  of  their  records.  The  portion  lost  covers  nearly  the 
entire  period  of  the  church's  existence.  Consequently  our 
history  of  it  must  necessarily  be  brief  and  imperfect.  The 
facts  given  are  chiefly  gathered  from  a  "History  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church  of  Warsaw,"  by  its  late  pastor,  Rev.  Abner 
Morrill,  presented  at  the  annual  session  of  the  Genesee  Baptist 
Association,  held  at  Wyoming  in  June,  1867. 

The  members  of  this  church,  at  the  time  of  its  formation, 
resided  chiefly  in  the  south  and  south-eastern  part  of  the 
town.  Yery  naturally,  therefore,  that  place  was  for  several 
years  the  center  of  the  society  and  the  place  for  holding  its 
meetings  for  worship,  which  were  held  much  of  the  time  in 
John  Truesdell's  barn.  The  first  convert  in  town  among  the 
Baptists,  Mr.  Amos  Keeney  says,  was  Hannah  Stearns,  a 
daughter  of  Sterling  Stearns,  and  afterwards  the  wife  of  Jacob 
Hurd,  brother  Chester  Hurd. 

The  first  preacher  mentioned  in  the  sketch  before  us,  is 
Elder  Irish,  a  missionary,  who  visited  these  people  in  1810, 
and  on  the  25th  of  November,  organized  a  church  of  fourteen 
members.  A  list  of  the  names  of  the  first  members,  obtained 
from  another  source,  makes  the  number  eighteen,  as  follows: 
Joseph  Porter  and  wife,  Josiah  Boardman  and  wife  and 
daughter,  ISToah  Wiseman,  John  Truesdell,  Levi  Stearns, 
Hannah  Stearns,  John  Brown,  Wm.  Brown,  Miriam  Brown, 
Levi  Bice,  Hannah  Rice,  Jeremiah  Truesdell,  Elijah  Ham- 
mond, Bhoda  Heed,  Joanna  Beardsley.  A  Baptist  church 
having  been  formed  in  Middlebury,  then  a  part  of  Warsaw, 
this  church  was  called  the  "  Second  Baptist  Church  of  War- 
saw." After  the  town  of  Middlebury  had  been  formed  into 
a  separate  town,  this  church  was  called  the  "  First  Baptist 


192  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Church  of  Warsaw."  The  first  Deacon  of  the  church  was 
Joseph  Porter,  chosen  in  April,  1811. 

The  church  soon  received  large  accessions  to  its  member- 
ship; and  in  the  autumn  of  1S11,  Elder  Jeremiah  Irons  was 
engaged  to  preach  one-quarter  of  the  time  for  one  year. 
After  him,  Elder  David  Hurlburt  served  the  church  one  year, 
and  was  succeeded  by  Elder  Jabez  Boomer,  who  was  the  first 
settled  pastor  of  the  church.  lie  was  ordained  August  19th, 
1816,  and  labored  acceptably  for  several  years.  The  next 
year  ( 1817,)  a  house  of  worship  was  erected  in  the  village, 
principally  by  the  joint  efforts  of  the  Baptists  and  Presbyte- 
rians. It  was  only  inclosed,  however,  and  could  be  occupied 
only  in  the  summer  season.  In  March,  1S19,  the  Baptists 
sold  out  their  interest  to  the  Presbyterians,  by  whom  it  was 
finished  in  the  spring  of  1821. 

In  ISIS,  the  Bcv.  William  Pattison  became  pastor  of  the 
church,  and  served  several  years.  During  his  pastorate,  the 
number  of  members,  which  had  been  greatly  reduced  was 
largely  increased.  Among  the  members  added  wTas  Robert 
E.  Pattison,  son  of  the  minister,  who  has  since  become  highly 
distinguished  as  a  scholar  and  a  preacher.  After  Elder  Pat- 
tison had  closed  his  labors,  Rev.  Leonard  Anson  supplied  the 
church  a  short  time,  and  was  followed  by  Eev.  Anson  Tuthill, 
who  labored  with  the  church  a  number  of  years. 

In  1S27,  Eev.  David  Bernard  became  pastor,  and  con- 
tinued three  years.  A  large  number  of  members  were 
dismissed  this  year  to  form  the  church  in  Gainesville.  We 
give  from  Elder  Morrill's  sketch,  the  following  extract,  ver- 
batim: 

"  During  the  pastorate  of  Elder  Bernard,  the  church  dedi- 
cated its  first  house  of  worship,  which  they  occupied  twenty 
years.  Previous  to  this,  the  church  had  worshiped  in  barns 
and  in  school-houses.  Here  were  achieved  some  of  the  most 
glorious  victories  of  Divine  grace  recorded  in  its  history;  and 
the  memories  of  these  humble  sanctuaries  of  the  Lord  are 
cherished  by  many  hallowed  associations. 


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"  During  his  pastorate,  too,  the  church  was  greatly  agitated 
by  the  Masonic  troubles,  with  which  many  of  the  churches  in 
this  region  were  disturbed.  The  difficulty,  however,  was 
finally  Settled  by  the  adoption  of  the  article  on  Free-Masonry 
inserted  in  the  Minutes  of  the  Genesee  Association  for  1828. 

"In  1828,  the  church  having  withdrawn  from  the  Holland 
Purchase  Association,  united  with  the  Genesee. 

On  the  9th  of  June,  1S28,  members  of  the  Baptist  church 
and  congregation  met  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  a  legal 
organization.  They  accordingly  organized  under  the  name  of 
"The  Baptist  Church  and  Society  of  Warsaw."  Rev.  David 
Bernard  and  Deacon  Samuel  Salisbury  were  chosen  as  pre- 
siding and  returning  officers  of  said  meeting.  The  Trustees 
elected  were  David  Fargo,  Samuel  Salisbury,  and  Seth 
Higgins.  The  proceedings  were  duly  recorded  in  the  County 
Clerk's  office,  July  7,  1828. 

"  In  1830,  Rev.  Peter  Freeman  became  pastor  of  the 
church,  and  sustained  this  .relation  three  years.  His  was  a 
useful  and  successful  pastorate.  The  Lord  greatly  blessed 
his  labors."     To  this  we  add: 

He  was  not  only  "useful  and  successful  "  as  a  pastor;  but 
he  was  diligent  in  every  good  work.  His  coadjutors  in  the 
cause  of  temperance  especially,  can  not  hare  forgotten  his  self- 
den}7ing  efforts  during  the  very  inclement  winter  of  1S31-2, 
when,  in  pairs  they  visited  the  school  districts  in  this  town 
and  the  towns  adjacent,  to  advocate  the  cause  and  present 
the  pledge.  He  was  preeminently  a  Christian  and  philan- 
thropist, never  "  weary  in  well  doing."  He  ceased  from  his 
earthly  labors  a  few  years  since,  and  has  entered  into  the 
"saints'  everlastino-  rest." 

From  1833  to  183T,  Rev.  Abraham  Ennis  served  the  church 
faithfully  and  successfully.  He  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  G. 
V.  Walling,  who  served  one  year.  In  1838,  Rev.  Joseph 
Elliott  became  pastor  and  served  two  years.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Rev.  B.  Wilcox. 

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lUdt  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

From  1841  to  1S45,  Rev.  II.  K.  Stimson  was  pastor.  It  was 
during  this  time  that  Hon.  James  R.  Doolittle  became  a  mem- 
ber of  this  church. 

The  church,  as  the  Methodists  had  done,  had  found  their 
mistake  in  building  their  house  of  worship  too  remote  from 
the  center  of  the  population,  it  being  half  a  mile  south  of  the 
village,  near  the  old  cemetery.  This,  together  with  the  fact 
that  they  needed  a  more  commodious  house,  induced  them  to  ' 
sell  the  old  one,  which  had  been  occupied  about  twenty  years, 
and  build  a  new  one  in  the  village,  being  the  one  now  occu- 
pied. The  former  was  taken  down  and  removed  to  the  village 
in  pieces,  which  were  worked  into  a  dwelling  which  stands 
near  the  Methodist  church. 

In  1S15,  Rev.  J.  L.  Richmond  became  pastor,  and  served 
three  years.  In  1818,  Rev.  A.  C.  Barrell  commenced  his 
labors  as  pastor,  and  remained  two  years.  He  was  followed 
by  the  Rev.  H.  Leavenworth,  who  served  one  year.  The  next 
two  years  the  church  had  no  pastor,  but  was  supplied  a  part 
of  the  time  by  Mr.  "W".  C.  Hubbard,  a  candidate  for  the 
ministry.  In  1853,  Rev.  Philander  Shedd  became  pastor, 
and  labored  two  years.  He  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  II.  Smith, 
whose  pastorate  continued  two  years. 

During  the  years  1857  and  1858,  Rev.  William  Cormac 
was  pastor.  In  1S59  the  church  had  no  pastor.  During  this 
year,  the  church  was  again  agitated  on  the  subject  of  secret 
societies;  but  the  difficulty  was  amicably  adjusted  by  repeal- 
ing the  resolution  relating  to  secret  societies  passed  in  1S2S, 
and  adopting  another  more  conciliating  in  its  expressions. 
Rev.  II.  K.  Stimson  served  the  church  a  second  time  in  1S60, 
and  soon  after,  as  Captain  of  a  company  of  Cavalry,  joined 
the  army  of  the  Union  in  the  late  civil  war. 

During  the  next  four  years,  Rev.  J.  B.  Pitman  and  Rev.  J. 
Hough  served  as  pastors.  After  these  Rev.  "W.  I.  Crane  sup- 
plied the  church  one  year.  In  December,  1865,  Rev.  Abner 
Morrill  became  pastor,  and  remained  until  November,  1S67. 


BAPTIST   CHURCH.  195 

Those  who  have  held  the  office  of  Deacon  in  this  church, 
are  as  follows:  Joseph  Porter,  Elijah  Hammond,  William 
Wiseman,  Jonathan  F.  Ilibbard,  Samuel  Salisbury,  Abial 
Lathrop,  David  Fargo,  Broughton  W.  Crane,  John  Starks, 
Samuel  L.  Iveeney,  Simeon  Holton.  Mr.  Crane  and  Mr. 
Holton  still  hold  the  office. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  have  served  as 
Clerks:  Elijah  Hammond,  Noah  Wiseman,  Hezekiah  Scovel, 
Edwin  L.  Fuller,  Ransom  B.  Crippen,  Samuel  L.  Kinney,  Jere- 
miah Watts,  Wilber  G.  Bentley,  Simeon  Holton,  Albert  W. 
Palmer,  the  present  Clerk. 


196 


HISTORY   OF    WARSAW, 


CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH. 

This  church  was  organized  February  16,  1S10.  Those  who 
were  instrumental  in  its  organization  had,  with  one  or  two 
exceptions,  been  connected  with  the  Presbyterian  church  in 
this  place,  and  requested  letters  for  the  purpose  of  consti- 
tuting a  new  church.  The  request  was  presented  in  a  written 
statement  of  their  views  and  motives;  in  which  they  said: 
"  We  believe  that  by  withdrawing  from  our  present  connec- 
tion, and  uniting  under  a  system  consonant  with  our  views  of 
duty,  we  shall  be  able  to  do  far  more  to  promote  the  interests 
of  religion  than  now;  and  not  only  so,  but  our  brethren  and 
sisters  who  differ  from  us,  will  be  free  to  pursue  those  plans 
of  usefulness,  without  let  or  hindrance  from  us,  which  their 
own  views  of  duty  may  dictate/'  This  statement  and  request 
was  dated  Jan.  27,  1840,  and  signed  by  thirty-nine  individu- 
als, of  whom  thirty-four  met  on  Sabbath,  February  16th, 
when  the  church  was  duly  constituted  by  Rev.  Samuel  Gris- 
wold.  Soon  after,  twenty-two  others  wTere  added;  so  that, 
at  the  end  of  the  year,  the  church  consisted  of  fifty-six 
members. 

In  the  "  Constitution  and  Rules  "  of  this  church,  are  the 
following: 

"No  person  shall  be  admitted  to  membership  in  this 
church,  who  does  not  wholly  refrain  from  the  use  of  all 
intoxicating  drinks  as  a  beverage,  or  who  in  any  way  gives 
countenance  or  support  to  the  manufacture  or  traffic  in  such 
drinks  for  that  purpose. 

"No  person  shall  be  admitted  to  this  church,  who  is  a 
slaveholder,  or  holds  security  in  slaves  as  property,  or  traffics 
in  the  persons  of  men." 

The  views  of  the  church  on  the  subject  of  slavery,  are  more 
fully  stated  in  a  "Declaration  of  Sentiments,"  adopted  March 
6,  1811,  as  follows: 


CONGREGATIONAL   CHURCH.  197 

"  1.  We  believe  slavery  to  be  a  most  flagrant  sin  against 
God,  and  that,  like  every  other  sin,  it  should  be  immediately 
forsaken. 

"  2.  As  the  slaveholder's  right  originates  in  usurpation,  and 
is  continued  only  by  force,  so  he  can  not  sell  or  delegate  to 
another  any  authority  over  the  slave;  and  every  person  who, 
under  pretence  of  purchase,  hire,  or  appointment,  shall  exer- 
cise the  authority  of  a  master  over  a  slave,  does  thereby 
become  a  partaker  in  the  slaveholder's  sin. 

"  3.  We  believe  that,  should  we  invite  slaveholders  to  preach 
to  us,  or  commune  with  us,  or  in  any  way  recognize  them  as 
Christians,  while  they  refuse  to  confess  and  forsake  their  sin 
of  slaveholding,  we  should,  in  so  doing,  make  ourselves  parta- 
kers in  their  iniquity. 

"  4.  "We  believe  that  those  who  justify  or  apologize  for 
slavery,  whether  as  a  settled  system,  or  for  a  limited  time,  to 
terminate  by  a  system  of  gradual  abolition,  do  thereby  com- 
fort and  defend  a  system  most  abominable  to  God  and  holy 
men. 

"  5.  We  believe  it  is  inconsistent  with  a  good  conscience 
and  the  word  of  God,  which  says,  He  '  hateth  robbery  for 
sacrifice,'  to  mingle  our  religious  contributions  with  those 
societies  that  send  their  agents  among  slaveholders,  to  solicit 
contributions,  or  who  knowingly  receive  into  their  treasury 
such  contributions." 

The  first  house  of  worship  occupied  by  this  church  was  a 
small  building  known  as  the  "Baptist  Vestry  Room,"  stand- 
ing over  the  mill-race  on  the  south  side  of  Buffalo  street,  on 
the  lot  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Nehemiah  Park,  and 
which  had  also  been  occupied  as  a  school-house.  They 
immediately  purchased  the  lot  on  which  their  brick  church 
now  stands,  and  commenced  the  building  of  a  meeting-house. 
In  the  fall  of  1840,  they  were  able  to  hold  meetings  in  the 
lecture  room  attached  to  the  church  edifice.  The  building 
was  completed  early  the  next  year.  Its  dimensions  were  36 
by  45  feet;  the  cost  of  house  and  lot  a  little  less  than  $3,000. 


198  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

On  the  13th  of  January,  1S41,  it  was  dedicated  to  the  wor- 
ship of  Almighty  God.  Rev.  Mr.  Ward,  of  Bergen,  Genesee 
county,  preached  the  dedication  sermon.  Five  years  there- 
after it  was  enlarged  by  the  removal  of  the  east  end,  and  the 
insertion  of  sixteen  new  slips.-  Some  years  later,  it  was  again 
similarly  enlarged  by  putting  in  twenty-eight  new  slips, 
doubling  the  original  number  of  sittings. 

In  1852,  an  organ  was  put  in  the  house.  In  1S55,  its  inte- 
rior was  remodeled  by  transferring  the  pulpit  from  the  west 
to  the  east  end  of  the  building,  reversing  the  slips,  and 
making  other  important  alterations. 

On  the  3d  of  March,  1855,  the  propriety  of  members  of  the 
church  belonging  to  Secret  Societies,  was  brought  up  for 
consideration  in  a  church  meeting.  The  subject,  after  con- 
siderable discussion,  was  referred  to  a  committee,  consisting 
of  Seth  M.  Gates,  Charles  J.  Judd,  Amos  M.  Barnett,  N.  T. 
Yeomans,  and  Joshua  II.  Darling.  The  committee,  May  5, 
1855,  reported  a  series  of  resolutions,  declaring  it  improper 
for  members  of  Christian  churches  to  belong  to  secret  oath 
bound  societies,  to  continue  in  fellowship  with  their  members, 
and  attend  their  meetings.  The  resolutions,  after  full  discus- 
sion, were  unanimously  adopted  by  the  church,  and  placed  on 
file  with  the  church  clerk,  Mr.  Gates.  In  1860,  his  office  was 
forcibly  entered  in  the  night,  and  these  resolutions,  with  the 
church  record,  stolen  therefrom. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Society,  Feb.  16,  1866,  the 
Trustees  reported  that  they  were  unable  to  furnish  seats  for 
all  who  desired  them;  and  a  special  meeting  was  called,  to  be 
held  on  the  26th  of  the  same  month,  to  consider  the  propriety 
of  building  a  new  meeting-house;  at  which  meeting  it  was 
resolved  to  build;  and  a  building  committee  was  appointed, 
consisting  of  the  following  named  persons:  Artemas  Blake, 
Joshua  II.  Darling,  Lloyd  A.  Hay  ward,  "Wolcott  J.  Humphrey, 
"William  D.  Miner,  Simeon  D.  Lewis,  Lewis  E.  "Walker,  and 
Elisha  S.  Hillman.  The  old  church  was  sold  to  Dr.  Ethan  E. 
Bartlett,  the  Society  reserving  the  privilege  of  occupying  it 


CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH. 


CONGREGATIONAL   CHURCH.  199 

until  the  new  church  should  be  completed.  The  old  bell  and 
organ  were  sold  to  other  parties. 

The  corner  stone  of  the  new  church  edifice  was  laid,  with 
appropriate  services,  by  Rev.  Edwin  E.  Williams,  the  pastor, 
on  the  6th  of  July,  1866;  sermon  by  Rev.  Mr.  Bennett,  of 
Lockport.  A  brief  history  of  the  church  and  its  labors  in 
building  and  enlarging  its  house  of  worship,  with  a  descrip- 
tion of  the  new  house  to  be  built,  was  read  by  Seth  M.  Gates, 
Esq.,  the  Church  Clerk.  The  following  articles,  in  a  sealed 
tin  box,  were  deposited  in  the  corner  stone: 

A  list  of  the  names  ot  the  Pastor  and  officers  of  the 
church. 

Names  of  the  Building  Committee. 

Name  of  the  Architect. 

Names  of  the  Master  Mason  and  the  Builder. 

The  Roll  of  the  Sunday  School. 

A  copy  of  the  subscription  for  building  the  church. 

A  sketch  of  the  History  of  the  church. 

A  copy  of  the  Report  of  the  church's  celebration  of  its 
quarter-centennial  anniversary,  February  16,  1865. 

The  architect  who  finished  the  plan  of  the  building  was  Mr. 
A.  J.  "Warner,  of  Rochester.  The  style  of  architecture  is 
mainly  Norman.  It  has  two  towers  of  unequal  height  in 
front;  the  highest  of  which,  to  its  extreme  point,  is  64s  feet. 
The  dimensions  of  the  main  building  are  91  by  58  feet.  The 
audience  room  is  77  by  55,  exclusive  of  the  orchestra,  and 
contains  128  slips,  seating  660  persons;  the  walls  and  towers 
are  of  brick.  The  mason  work  was  done  by  Ambrose  J. 
Armstrong,  of  Warsaw;  the  wood  work  by  V.  Hodge  &  Son, 
of  Buffalo.  A  new  organ,  at  a  cost  of  about  $2,000,  was  given 
by  Joshua  H.  Darling,  Esq.  The  house  was  completed  with- 
out a  serious  accident.  It  was  dedicated,  free  from  debt,  by 
the  pastor,  Mr.  Williams,  August  7, 1867;  sermon  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Yermilye,  of  Hartford,  Conn. 

The  first  pastor  of  this  church  was  Rev.  Huntington  Lyman. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Lyman  P.  Judson,  who  was  fol- 


200  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

lowed  by  Rev.  Reuben  H.  ConMin,  since  deceased.  Next, 
Rev.  P.  H.  Myers,  whose  health  soon  failed,  and  he  was  called 
to  his  rest.  He  was  followed  by  Rev.  Corban  Kidder.  Rev. 
1ST.  T.  Yeomans  ministered  to  the  church  at  various  times  as 
stated  supply.  The  Rev.  Zachary  Eddy,  now  of  Brook- 
lyn, ]S"..Y.,  was  pastor  for  several  years;  next,  Rev.  John 
Vincent;  and  since  1S57,  the  present  pastor,  Rev.  Edwin  E. 
Williams. 

Those  who  have  been  Deacons  in  the  church  are,  Ezra 
"Walker,  Peter  Young,  Hanover  Bradley,  Charles  J.  Judd, 
Lloyd  A.  Ilayward,  Stephen  Ilurd,  Edward  C.  Shattuck,  John 
Matthews,  and  Elisha  S.  Hillman. 

F.  C.  D.  McKay,  Charles  J.  Judd,  and  Seth  M.  Gates,  have 
been  Church  Clerks. 

The  first  superintendent  of  the  Sabbath -school  was  F.  C.  D. 
McKay,  who  held  the  position  for  three  or  four  years.  Charles 
J.  Judd  wTas  superintendent  one  year,  and  Lloyd  A.  Hay  ward 
one  year.  Seth  M.  Gates  was  superintendent  fourteen  years, 
and  resigned  January,  1S61.  He  was  succeeded  by  Simeon 
D.  Lewis,  the  present  superintendent. 

There  have  been  in  all,  five  hundred  and  twenty  members 
of  this  church.  About  half  of  that  number  having  died  or 
been  regularly  dismissed  to  the  fellowship  of  other  churches, 
the  present  number  is  two  hundred  and  fifty. 

THE    QUARTER    CENTENNIAL   ANNIVERSARY 

of  the  organization  was  celebrated  on  the  16th  of  February, 
1865.  The  Committee  of  Arrangements  consisted  of  Rev. 
Edwin  E.  Williams,  and  thirteen  others.  A  Committee  of 
Invitation  was  also  appointed,  consisting  of  Joshua  H.  Dar- 
ling, Seth  M.  Gates,  Peter  Young,  and  Lloyd  A.  Ilayward. 
A  letter  of  invitation  was  sent  to  all  former  pastors  and  mem- 
bers of  the  church;  to  all  absent  members;  to  pastors  of  Con- 
gregational churches  in  the  county;  to  the  pastors  of  all  the 
churches  in  the  village,  and  others. 

At  half  past  ten  o'clock  on  the  day  appointed,  a  large 
audience  assembled  at  the  church.     The  exercises  were  com- 


CONGREGATIONAL   CHTJKCH.  201 

menced  by  singing  the  Doxology,  "  Praise  God  from  whom 
all  blessings  flow,"  by  the  choir  and  congregation;  followed 
by  an  invocation  by  the  pastor,  closing  with  the  Lord's  Prayer, 
in  which  the  congregation  audibly  joined.  The  choir  sang 
the  anthem,  "  When  the  Lord  shall  bnild  np  Zion."  Pev. 
Mr.  Nassau,  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  this  village,  read 
the  Scriptures;  and  Rev.  1ST.  T.  Yeomans,  of  Fowlerville, 
formerly  a  member  of  this  church  and  its  stated  supply,  of- 
fered prayer;  and  Rev.  Mr.  Blake,  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  in  Gainesville,  read  the  first  Hymn, 

Rev.  Mr.  Williams,  the  pastor  of  the  church,  then  pro- 
ceeded to  deliver  the  discourse  prepared  for  the  occasion;  the 
text  of  which  was,  Deut.  i,  31:  "Thou  hast  seen  how  the 
Lord  thy  God  bare  thee,  as  a  man  doth  bear  his  son,  in  all 
the  way  that  ye  went,  until  ye  came  into  this  place." 

After  the  sermon,  the  pastor  announced  Seth  M.  Gates, 

Esq.,  as  Chairman  of  the  meeting,  and  called  for  the  reading 

of  a  letter  from  Rev.  R.  H.  Conklin,  a  former  pastor  of  the 

church,  who  was  sick,  and  apparently  near  his  end,  in  the 

city  of  Detroit.     As  the  letter  closed  with  a  request  for  the 

prayers  of  the  church,  Rev.  Mr.  Kidder  being  called  on  by 

the  Chairman,  led  the  congregation  in  prayer  for  Mr.  Conklin. 

After  sinsnnor,  the  mornino;  exercises  closed  by  the  Benedic- 
ts      ?~>  o  J 

tion  by  Rev.  Mr.  Blake. 

At  two  o'clock  p.  m.,  the  meeting  was  again  organized,  and 
Messrs.  E.  E.  Farman  and  Wm.  II.  Merrill  were  appointed 
Secretaries. 

The  Chairman  briefly  addressed  the  meeting,  reviewing 
the  progress  of  the  world  during  the  past  twenty-five  years, 
in  the  arts  and  sciences,  in  civil  liberty,  the  spread  of  the 
gospel,  and  particularly  in  the  deliverance  of  the  oppressed, 
the  overthrow  of  slavery,  and  the  practical  recognition  of 
human  rights,  closing  with  a  fraternal  welcome,  in  behalf  of 
the  church,  to  all  former  members  and  pastors  who  had  re- 
turned to  mingle  in  these  scenes  of  reunion  and  these 
commemorative  exercises. 


202  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Brief  addresses  were  then  made  by  Rev.  Mr.  Kidder,  and 
by  Rev.  George  W.  "Walker,  formerly  a  member  of  this 
church,  now  a  minister  of  a  church  in  Ohio;  and  prayer  was 
offered  by  Rev.  Mr.  Crane,  of  the  Baptist  church  in  this 
village.  Addresses  were  then  made  by  Francis  F.  Fargo, 
formerly  a  member  and  a  chorister  of  this  church,  and  for 
many  years  past  a  resident  of  San  Francisco,  Cal.;  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Yeomans,  Rev.  Mr.  Cunningham,  pastor  of  the  Congre- 
gational church  of  Gainesville;  Rev.  Mr.  Nassau,  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  of  this  village;  Hugh  T.  Brooks,  Esq.,  of 
Pearl  Creek,  and  by  Professor  N.  F.  Wright,  of  Batavia,  for- 
merly a  member  of  this  church  and  of  the  choir,  and  a 
teacher  in  the  Sabbath  school. 

Letters  in  reply  to  invitations  to  be  present,  were  read,  from 
Rev.  James  A.  McKay,  of  Michigan,  and  Dr.  N.  D.  Stebbins, 
of  Detroit,  former  members;  and  the  closing  address  was  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Lord,  of  Perry  Center.  All  then  united  in  singing 
the  hymn, 

'•  Lo  what  a  glorious  sight  appears,"  &c. 

In  the  evening,  the  commemoration  was  concluded  by  a 
social  reunion  at  the  house  of  the  pastor,  on  which  occasion 
letters  responsive  to  invitations  were  read  from  Mr.  Arden 
"Woodruff,  Rev.  Huntington  Lyman,  and  many  others,  for- 
mer members  of  the  church. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH. 


203 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH. 

Of  the  religions  societies  and  church  organizations  in  War- 
saw, the  one  latest  formed,  except  the  Free  Will  Baptist  in  the 
south-east  part  of  the  town,  is  the  Episcopal.  The  "  Parish  of 
Trinity  Church,"  was  organized  May  12,  1852.  The  germ  of 
this  organization,  however,  was  planted  at  a  much  earlier  date; 
and  its  friends  had  been  for  many  years  favored,  for  short 
}3eriods,  with  the  services  of  ministers  of  their  own  order. 
From  a  "  History  of  the  Church  of  Warsaw,  compiled  from 
Official  Documents,  1854,  by  the  Rev.  Robert  Ilorwood,"  the 
following  sketch  has  been  prepared: 

The  Rev.  Richard  Salmon,  missionary  at  Geneseo,  in  his 
report  to  the  New  York  Convention  of  1826,  wrote  that  he 
was  engaged  for  the  ensuing  year  conditionally  to  preach  at 
Wethersfield  and  Warsaw  alternately,  for  one-half  the  time. 
To  the  Convention  of  1828,  he  reports,  that  he  had  moved  to 
Warsaw,  the  center  of  the  station;  that  he  had  here  given 
nineteen  Sundays  and  thirty -two  lectures;  that  the  service 
was  performed  with  great  zeal  and  propriety;  and  that  sev- 
eral additions  had  been  made  to  the  communicants.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1828,  Bishop  Hobart  confirmed  six  persons. 

In  1829,  Rev.  Mr.  Salmon,  who  appears  to  have  moved  to 
Medina,  reports  to  the  Convention,  that  the  congregation  at 
Warsaw,  and  also  those  at  Wethersfield  and  Sheldon,  not" 
withstanding  their  destitute  circumstances  during  the  past 
year,  are  evidently  flourishing;  and  the  labors  of  a  mission- 
ary would  unquestionably  be  greatly  blessed.  He  wrote  also 
that  the  Sabbath-school  at  Warsaw,  formed  during  his  location 
there,  of  about  twenty-five  scholars,  had  been  increased  to  an 
average  attendance  of  between  eighty  and  ninety. 

Rev.  Mr.  Salmon,  again  missionary  at  Warsaw,  reports  to 
the  Convention  of  1831,  that  during  the  thirteen  months  past, 
lie  had  officiated  half  the  time  at  Warsaw,  quarter  at  Sheldon, 


204 


HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


and  quarter  at  Wethersfield ;  and  occasionally  on  Sunday 
evenings  and  on  week  days  at  Wyoming.  And  Bishop  Onder- 
donk,  in  Aug.,  1832,  baptized  one  adult,  and  confirmed  eleven. 

Rev.  Alexander  Fraser,  missionary  at  Warsaw,  reports  to 
the  Convention  of  1834:  "When  I  came  to  Warsaw,  I  found 
it  to  be  the  day  of  small  and  feeble  things  indeed.  *  *  ^ 
I  have  labored  the  greater  part  of  the  time  at  Warsaw.  The 
congregations  are  good,  and  the  prospects  of  the  church  are 
more  pleasing  than  at  any  former  period."  To  the  Conven- 
tion of  1835,  Rev.  Isaac  Garvin  reports  that  he  had  labored 
at  Warsaw  half  the  time,  and  divided  the  rest  between 
Wethersfield  and  Aurora. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Tullidge,  missionary  at  Wethersfield,  re- 
ports to  the  Convention  of  1839:  "I  have  occasionally 
preached  a  third  service  at  Warsaw.  I  have  preached  at 
Warsaw  several  times  in  the  Methodist  and  Presbyterian 
houses  to  very  respectable  congregations.  *  *  *  I  am 
not  without  hope  that  the  church  may  again  be  revived  there. 
There  are  still  remaining  some  who  love  the  church,  and 
would  do  all  in  their  power  ibr  its  support.  In  1843,  Bishop 
De  Lancy  preached  one  Sabbath  in  the  Baptist  house  of  wor- 
ship, and  baptized  one  child. 

We  come  now  to  the  organization  of  the  Society  under  its 
present  title. 

On  the  12th  of  May,  1S52,  in  pursuance  of  a  notice  pre- 
viously given  on  two  successive  Sabbaths,  the  following  named 
persons  incorporated  themselves  under  the  act  of  the  legisla- 
ture, as  a  religious  society,  to  be  known  in  law  by  the  name 
and  title  of  "The  Rector,  Wardens,  and  Vestrymen  of  Trinity 
Church  in  the  Town  of  Warsaw  in  the  County  of  Wyoming." 
John  A.  McElwain,  John  G.  Meachem,  jSToble  Morris,  Ran- 
som S.  Watson,  Xehemiah  Park,  Jun.,  Richard  M.  Tanks, 
Alonzo  W.  Wood,  Charles  W.  Bailey. 

The  Rev.  A.  D.  Benedict,  Rector  of  the  church  and  con- 
gregation, was  called  to  the  Chair;  and  Charles  W.  Bailey 
was  appointed  Secretary. 


EPISCOPAL    CHURCH.  205 

The  meeting  then  proceeded  to  elect  two  Church  Wardens 
and  eight  Vestrymen.  John  A.  McElwain  and  John  G. 
Meachem  were  elected  Church  Wardens;  and  A] ouzo  W. 
Wood,  Nehemiah  Park,  Jim.,  Linus  W.  Thayer,  Noble  Morris, 
Ransom  S.  Watson,  Charles  W.  Bailey,  Richard  M.  Tanks, 
and  Abel  Webster,  were  elected  Church  Vestrymen. 

A  certificate  of  incorporation  having  been  prepared,  it  was 
signed  by  the  officers  of  the  meeting,  and  caused  to  be  re- 
corded. 

In  June,  1853,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Vestry,  it  was  voted  that 
a  lot  be  purchased  for  a  house  of  worship;  and  a  building 
committee  was  appointed,  consisting  of  John  G.  Meachem, 
K  Park,  and  A.  W.  Wood.  And  on  the  25th  of  May,  1854, 
the  building  was  in  due  form  consecrated  "to  the  worship  and 
service  of  Almighty  God,  the  Father,  the  Son,  and  the  Holy 
Ghost,  by  the  name  of  Trinity  Church." 

In  March,  1861,  by  the  will  of  the  late  Mrs.  Laura  S.  Wat- 
son, the  church  came  into  possession  of  a  house  and  lot,  to  be 
held  as  a  parsonage,  "  so  long  as  the  church  shall  remain  an 
organized  body,  and  shall  have  a  regularly  established  rector 
or  clergyman  therein." 

Since  the  date  of  the  present  organization,  Rev.  A.  D.  Bene- 
dict had  the  pastoral  charge  of  the  church,  from  May  12, 
1852,  until  April,  1855. 

Rev.  Wm.  White  Montgomery  became  rector  June  8, 1S56, 
and  resigned  April  3,  1858. 

Rev.  Thomas  Applegate  became  rector  June  1,  1858,  and 
resigned  June  1,  1859. 

Rev.  Wm.  O.  Gorham  became  rector  December  25,  1S59, 
and  resigned  July,  1862. 

Rev.  Noble  Palmer  became  rector  November,  1S62,  and 
resigned  October,  1863. 

Rev.  Robert  Horwood  wras  called  October  10,  1863,  to  sup- 
ply the  parish  for  one  year.  In  October,  1861,  the  call  wTas 
renewed  for  another  year.     lie  resigned,  June,  1865. 

Rev.  John  V.  Stryker  became  rector  March  1,  1866,  and 
continues  in  charge. 


206 


HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


FREE   WILL  BAPTIST   CHURCH. 


There  is  probably  no  part  of  this  town  where  the  salutary 
influence  of  religious  institutions  has  been  more  signally  illus- 
trated, than  within  the  bounds  of  this  society.  To  this  fact, 
many  of  the  older  inhabitants  will  bear  witness.  To  form  a 
just  idea  of  the  change,  one  must  have  a  knowledge  of  the 
character  of  the  neighborhood  at  an  earlier  period.  A  candid 
and  worthy  citizen,  who  has  resided  there  from  childhood,  a 
period  of  more  than  fifty  years,  has  furnished  us  a  brief  his- 
tory of  that  part  of  the  town,  including  an  account  of  the 
formation  of  the  church.  We  copy  from  his  letter  the  fol- 
lowing : 

"The  morals  of  this  settlement  were  rather  lax;  little 
regard  was  paid  to  the  demands  of  religion  at  that  early  day. 
The  Sabbaths  were  spent  in  various  ways.  Some  worked, 
some  fished  or  hunted;  others  visited  or  strolled  about  the 
woods  or  fields.  Yet  the  people  were  generally  upright  and 
honest  in  their  dealings  with  each  other.  Almost  all  the 
settlers  were  fond  of  whisky,  which  was  considered  at  that 
time  a  necessary  article  by  all  classes  of  people;  and  I  have 
thought  the  Scripture  declaration,  '  I  will  visit  the  iniquities 
of  the  lathers  upon  the  children  to  the  third  and  fourth  gen- 
erations,' has  been  strikingly  fulfilled  among  us."  We  add 
here  a  fact  from  personal  knowledge.  In  a  school  district 
near  the  corner  of  the  town,  a  Sabbath  school  was  established 
in  the  summer  of  1832,  and  manned  by  teachers  from  the 
village.  After  a  few  weeks'  peaceable  occupation  of  the 
school-house,  a  few  rowdy  young  men,  encouraged  by  their 
seniors,  disturbed  the  exercises  of  the  school  for  several  Sab- 
baths, and  succeeded  in  breaking  it  up. 

Our  friend  continues:  "  There  has,  however,  been  a  great 
improvement  since  then.  The  first  settlers  in  this  part  of  the 
town   are    all    gone.     Some  have  moved  away,  but  most  of 


fkee  will  baptist  church.  207 

them  lie  in  the  grave-yard  on  lot  No.  2.  Of  the  names  of  the 
early  inhabitants,  but  one  remains — that  of  two  Warner 
brothers. 

"  Religion  has  shed  its  saving  influence  upon  this  neighbor- 
hood. The  little  Free- Will  Baptist  church,  organized  in  1833, 
has  proved  a  savor  of  life  unto  life  to  many.  The  number  of 
members  at  its  organization  was  four.  During  the  year  183-1, 
there  was  a  revival,  and  some  thirty  were  added.  Elder  H. 
Jenkins  was  the  officiating  minister  at  that  time,  and  may 
well  be  called  its  father.  Emery  D.  Albro  and  Alden  Keith 
were  chosen  deacons. 

"  October  13,  1831,  the  sum  of  $157  were  obtained  on  sub- 
scription to  build  a  meeting-house.  The  timber  was  got  out, 
and  the  frame  put  up,  by  volunteer  labor,  superintended  by 
Dea.  Albro  and  other  leading  spirits  of  the  church.  The 
house  was  then  let  to  John  Blighton  to  finish,  which  wTas  done 
in  1835,  and  was  dedicated  to  the  Lord  the  same  season. 
Elder  H.  1ST.  Plumb  preached  on  the  occasion.  Dea.  Albro 
was  truly  a  'nursing  father'  to  the  church.  Elder  Jared 
Miner  and  William  Moses  preached  to  the  church  until  1S36, 
when  Elder  Reed  became  its  pastor.  Elder  Hiram  Whitcher 
succeeded  him  in  1S37,  and  held  the  pastorate  two  years. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Elder  H.  X.  Plumb,  who  preached  one 
year,  and  was  succeeded  by  Silas  IT.  Davis.  Elder  William 
Moses  became  pastor  in  1813,  and  served  as  such  two  years, 
and  was  succeeded  by  Elder  A.  Hopkins,  who  preached  two 
years,  and  was  followed  by  II.  M.  Abbey,  who  preached  one 
year,  half  the  time.  In  1S19,  Elder  Luke  Hitchcock  accejited 
a  call  from  the  church,  and  was  its  pastor  two  years.  After 
him,  Elder  II.  II.  Strickland  was  pastor  one  year,  and  then 
Elder  S.  R.  Evans  the  next  two  years.  In  the  fall  of  1857,  he 
wTas  succeeded  by  Elder  Levi  Kellogg,  who  labored  two  years, 
and  then  Elder  II.  X.  Plumb  one  year,  who  was  succeeded 
April  1,  1861,  by  Elder  W.  W.  Holt,  who  was  pastor  two 
years,  and  then  Elder  Rollins  one  year.  Elder  J.  C.  Steele 
became  pastor  in  1S65,  and  remained  two  years. 


208 


HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


"The  amount  of  salary  paid  lias  ranged  from  $100  to  $500 
a  year. 

"This  church  has  ever  been  against  Slavery;  and  has  upon 
its  records  some  very  strong  resolutions  against  it.  It  has  been 
equally  decided  in  favor  of  Temperance.  It  has  contributed 
considerable  for  benevolent  purposes.  A  few  years  ago,  several 
of  its  members  gave  as  high  as  $100  each  to  help  endow  a 
college  at  Hillsdale,  Mich.,  and  in  1867,  it  raised  $330  to  aid 
in  establishing  a  Normal  School  at  Harper's  Ferry,  to  educate 
teachers  to  instruct  the  people  without  regard  to  color,  in  the 
Southern  States." 


Besides  the  churches  whose  histories  we  have  sketched, 
there  is  a  church  organization  composed  chiefly  or  wholly  of 
Germans,  residing  in  the  west  part  of  this  town,  and  in 
Orangeville.  It  is  of  recent  date,  and  in  character  Protestant; 
but  its  distinctive  name  we  have  not  learned.  Their  house  of 
worship  is  in  this  town,  about  three-fourths  of  a  mile  east  of 
Orangeville. 

There  was  also  formed  in  this  village,  a  few  years  since,  a 
Catholic  Church,  whose  house  of  worship  is  in  the  north  part 
of  the  village. 


'/&PUyisi  (o^^7 


Sketch,  p  2U2. 


GOSPEL    LAND.  209 


GOSPEL    LAND. 

In  the  year  1S20,  it  was  announced  by  the  Agent  of  the 
Holland  Land  Company,  that  one  hundred  acres  of  land  in 
every  town  would  be  given  to  religious  societies.  The  man- 
ner in  which  this  grant  of  land  was  obtained  is  related  by 
Mr.  Turner  in  his  History  of  the  Holland  Purchase. 

In  the  fall  of  1820,  Paul  Busti,  the  General  Agent  of  the 
Company  at  Philadelphia,  while  on  a  visit  at  Batavia,  was 
importuned  by  a  Presbyterian  minister  from  a  neighboring 
town,  for  a  donation  of  land  to  every  society  of  that  persua- 
sion then  formed  on  the  Holland  Purchase.  Mr.  Busti  was 
for  a  long  time  indisposed  to  grant  the  request.  But  the 
Rev.  gentleman  having  urged  his  suit  until  the  Agent's 
patience  was  exhausted,  the  latter  firmly  replied  :  "  Yes,  Mr. 
P.,  I  will  give  a  tract  of  one  hundred  acres  to  a  religious 
society  in  every  town  on  the  Purchase;  and  this  is  finis" 
But  he  was  unwilling  to  give  preference  to  any  particular 
denomination.  "But,"  said  he,  "to  save  contention,  I  will 
give  it  to  the  first  religious  society  in  every  town."  Mr.  P.,  it 
is  said,  lost  no  time  in  communicating  the  information  to  the 
Presbyterians  in  the  several  towns  in  his  vicinity.  Mr.  Turner 
proceeds,  as  follows: 

"  The  land-office  was  soon  flooded  with  jjetitions  for  land 
from  societies  organized  according  to  law  and  empowered  to 
hold  real  estate,  and  from  those  that  were  not,  one  of  which 
was  presented  to  Mr.  Busti  before  he  left,  directed  to  '  Gen. 
Poll  Busti,'  on  which  he  insisted,  that  it  could  not  be  from  a 
religious  society,  for  all  religious  societies  read  their  Bibles, 
and  know  that  P  o  double  /,  does  not  spell  Paul.  Amidst 
this  chaos  of  applications,  it  was  thought  unadvisable  to  be 
precipitant  in  granting  these  donations,  the  whole  responsi- 
bility now  resting  on  Mr.  Ellicott  to  comply  with  the  vague 
promise  of  Mr.  Busti.     Therefore  conveyances  of  the  '  gospel 

14 


210  HISTORY   OF   WAESAW. 

land '  were  not  executed  for  some  space  of  time,  notwith- 
standing the  clamor  of  petitioners  for  'deeds  of  our  land;' 
during  which  time  the  matter  was  taken  into  consideration 
and  systematized,  so  far  as  such  an  operation  could  be.  Pains 
were  taken  to  ascertain  the  merits  of  each  application;  and 
finally  a  tract  or  tracts  of  land,  not  exceeding  one  hundred 
acres  in  all,  were  granted,  free  of  expense,  to  one  or  more 
religious  societies  regularly  organized  according  to  law  in 
each  town  on  the  Purchase,  where  the  company  had  land 
undisposed  of,  which  embraced  every  town  then  organized  on 
the  Purchase,  exceyjt  Bethany,  Genesee  county,  and  Sheldon, 
"Wyoming  county;  the  donees  being  in  all  cases  allowed  to 
select  out  of  the  unsold  farming  land  in  each  town.  In  some 
towns  it  was  all  given  to  one  society;  in  others,  to  two  or 
three  societies,  separately;  and  in  a  few  towns  to  four  societies 
of  different  sects,  twenty-five  acres  to  each."  And  it  is  said 
the  proceedings  were  so  judiciously  managed  by  Mr.  Ellicott, 
that  partiality  was  in  no  case  charged  against  the  agent  or 
his  assistants. 

The  Union  Society,  (Presbyterian,)  had,  at  the  time  of 
the  Agent's  proclamation,  been  the  only  legally  organized 
society  in  the  town  for  eight  years,  and  was,  it  would 
seem,  entitled  to  the  land.  We  have  noticed  the  incorpora- 
tion of  the  Methodist  Church  and  Society,  [p.  18,5.]  An  old 
member  of  that  society  says,  that  when  the  Agent's  procla- 
mation appeared,  the  Methodists  hastened  to  effect  their 
organization  and  to  get  their  papers  on  record,  to  secure  the 
land.  "Whether  the  Presbyterians  had  previously  applied  for 
the  title,  we  are  not  informed;  nor  do  we  know  how  the 
Agent  came  to  divide  the  land  between  the  two  societies. 
Having  never  heard  of  any  dissatisfaction  on  the  part  of  either 
society,  it  is  presumed  that  the  division  was  satisfactory  to 
both  societies. 


WAR    HISTORY. 


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WAR    HISTORY. 

WAR  OF  1812. 

The  first  war  for  which  troops  were  raised  in  Warsaw,  was 
the  war  of  1812,  declared  by  the  United  States  against  Great 
Britain.  The  difficulty,  if  not  impossibility,  of  obtaining  a 
complete  list  of  all  who  enlisted  in  that  war  from  this  town, 
forbids  our  going  beyond  the  recollection  of  some  of  our  old 
settlers,  still  living.  Dea.  Samuel  Salisbury,  who  was  in  the 
war,  and  a  non-commissioned  officer  of  a  company  of  Light 
Infantry,  which  was  called  out,  and  who,  after  the  war,  be- 
came its  Captain,  recalls  the  names  of  nearly  two-thirds  of 
the  Company.  A  few  of  them — four  or  five,  perhaps — were 
from  that  part  of  the  town  which  is  now  Gainesville,  and  one  or 
two  from  Middlebury.  A  few  also  have  been  named  who 
were  of  the  ununiformed  Militia  and  Cavalry;  the  latter 
being  commanded  by  Isaac  "Wilson,  of  Middlebury,  after- 
wards Judge  "Wilson. 

LIGHT    INFANTRY. 

Russel  Noble,  Captain,  — -Levi  Rice, 

Absalom  Green,  Lieutenant,  John  R.  Knapp, 

John  Seymour,  Ensign,  Elijah  Hammond, 

Chester  Warriner.  Sergeant,  Samuel  Spalding. 

John  G.  Parker,  Sergeant,  Seymour  Ensign, 

George  Densmore,  Sergeant,  Absalom  Carpenter, 

Alexander  Stone,  Fifer,  Edmund  Curtis, 

Chester  Hurd,  Drummer,  Almerin  Curtis, 

Wm.  L.  Blanchard,  Drummer,  Timothy  Miller, 

Samuel  Salisbury,  Thomas  Stetson, 

Wm.  S.  Stone,  Daniel  W.  Bannister, 

Alanson  Cutting,  Ezra  B.  Warriner, 

Nathan  Snow,  John  Bisby, 

Giles  Parker,  Isaac  Boardman, 

Philip  Salisbury,  Levi  Stearns, 

Robert  Burdick,  Anson  Richards, 

Leverett  Hitchcock,  Lewis  Richards, 

Levi  Walker,  Green, 

Jeremiah  Truesdell,  Solomon  Truesdell, 

Timothy  Truesdell.  Colegrove. 


212 


HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


MILITIA   AND    CAVALRY. 


Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  Surgeon,  Simeon  Hovey,  Teamster, 

Daniel  Knapp,  Adjutant.  Suel  Hovey, 

Almon  Stevens,  Serg.  Major.  Simeon  R.  Glazier,  Cavalry, 

AVru.  Knapp,  Jun.,  Quar.  Master,  William  Bristol,  Cavalry, 

Josiah  Hovey.  Captain,  Gurdon  Hovey,  Cavalry, 

Samuel  McWhorter,  Julius  Whitlock,  Cavalry. 
Warren  Webster, 


AVAR  OF  THE  REBELLION. 

No  history  of  Warsaw  would  be  complete  without  a  record 
of  the  part  borne  by  her  citizens  in  sustaining  the  Government 
in  its  efforts  to  preserve  the  Union  by  suppressing  the  Great 
Rebellion.  Pains  have  been  taken  to  present,  as  nearly  as 
possible,  the  names  of  all  who  volunteered  from  this  town, 
together  with  the  dates  of  their  enlistment,  time  of  service, 
death  or  discharge,  and  other  facts  relating  thereto;  also  a 
statement  of  the  part  taken  by  our  citizens  in  furnishing  vol- 
unteers, and  an  account  of  the  moneys  raised  by  tax  in 
payment  of  bounties. 

The  first  rebel  gun  fired  at  Fort  Sumter,  on  the  morning  of 
April  12, 18C1,  summoned  the  startled  nation  to  arms.  Three 
days  thereafter,  President  Lincoln  issued  his  Proclamation,  in 
which  he  called  for  T5,000  volunteers.  A  public  meeting  was 
immediately  called  by  the  prominent  citizens  of  Warsaw,  to 
be  held  at  the  Court-IIouse.  The  following  was  the  call, 
signed  by  large  numbers  of  men  of  all  parties: 

"  Patriots,  Pally  !  Our  Country  is  in  danger.  War  is 
upon  us.  Let  Wyoming  County  do  her  duty.  The  time  has 
come  when  all  persons,  without  respect  to  former  political 
opinions,  should  unite  in  a  common  effort  to  maintain  our 
national  honor  and  integrity.  There  will  be  a  meeting  at  the 
Court-IIouse  in  Warsaw,  on  Tuesday  evening,  the  23d  inst., 
at  7  P.  M.,  to  take  into  consideration  such  measures  as  the 


WAK    HISTORY. 


213 


exigencies  of  the  times  and  a  due  regard  for  the  preservation 
of  our  dearest  and  cherished  institutions  demand." 

Such  was  the  patriotic  zeal  of  the  young  men  of  the  village 
that,  without  waiting  for  the  action  of  the  meeting,  ten  of 
them  Avent  to  Buffalo  and  enlisted  in  a  Regiment  there  form- 
ing. On  the  evening  of  the  day  named  for  the  meeting,  the 
Court  House  being  too  small  to  contain  the  crowd  there 
assembled,  the  meeting  was  adjourned  to  the  Court-House 
yard.  Thirty  responded  to  the  call  for  volunteers,  and  en- 
rolled their  names  for  service.  A  Committee  was  appointed 
to  solicit  subscriptions  for  the  support  of  the  families  of  vol- 
unteers. At  the  close  of  the  meeting  the  Committee  reported 
the  following  contributions: 


Augustus  Frank, 

.  $250 

C.  &  T.  Buxton,    . 

$200 

C.  W.  Bailey,      . 

$  50 

H.  L.  Cornstock, 

.     100 

B.  F.  Fargo,     .     . 

10 

E.  E.  Farman,    . 

50 

George  W.  Frank, 

50 

Manlius  Gay,    . 

20 

R.  A.  Crippen,    . 

20 

A.  B.  Lawrence, 

50 

J.  H.  Barling,  . 

500 

S.  C.  Allis,    .     . 

100 

George  Buryee, 

.       50 

Amos  Otis,  .     . 

100 

B.  B.  Conable,    . 

100 

F.  &  E.  B.  Miller, 

100 

Alonzo  Cleveland, 

25 

Artemas  Blake,  . 

150 

James  A.  Webster 

10 

B.  F.  Homer,  .     . 

20 

Henry  Garretsee, 

100 

C.  C.  Gales,       . 

2.3 

Miles  H.  Morris, 

.       25 

Hiram  Stearns,   , 

10 

Edmund  Buck,  . 

10 

O.  A.  Shaw, 

10 

Godfrey  Gates,   . 

10 

A.  Y.  Breck, 

.       25 

Benj.  Bisby, 

.       10 

.).  Walts,  .     .     . 

25 

Wm.  Bingham,  . 

.       50 

L.  W.  Smith,    . 

25 

S.  Holton.      .     . 

10 

E.  Cook,  .     .     . 

25 

B.  Healy,     .     . 

25 

E.  C.  Shattuck,  . 

20 

Uriah  Johnson, 

50 

J.  A.  McElwain, 

100 

Morris  &  Lewis, 

100 

L.  W.  Thayer,  . 

.      100 

R.  H.  Miller,    . 

50 

M.  L.  Rice,     .     . 

15 

R.  E.  Munger,   . 

.       50 

N.  Park,       .     . 

25 

N.  J.  Perry,  .     . 

52 

Wm.  Woodward, 

.       10 

James  Wilkin, 

25 

S.  A.  Murray,     . 

25 

Geo.  W.  Parker. 

.       10 

C.  L.  Seaver,    . 

10 

H.  C.  Edgerly,  . 

10 

Philander  Truesdc 

11,      10 

E.  K.  Smith,    . 

10 

W.  T.  Warner,    . 

10 

Geo.  Brown. 

.       10 

S.  Benedict, 

15 

When  Harwood  A.  Dudley,  publisher  of  the  Wyoming 
County  Mirror,  was  asked  to  subscribe,  lie  arose  and  said  he 
intended  to  subscribe  another  paper,  which  he  held  in  his 
hand.  He  read  an  enlistment  paper  which  he  immediately 
signed,  he  being  the  first  man  to  enlist,  Gideon  H.  Jenkins 
followed,  and  then  others,  to  the  number  of  thirty,  in  all,  as 
before  stated.     There  was  some  difficulty  in  getting  orders  for 


214  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

marching.  After  several  days'  delay,  Mr.  Dudley,  who  had 
been  elected  Lieutenant,  went  to  Albany,  and  obtained  orders 
from  the  Adjutant-General.  He  telegraphed  Mr.  Jenkins, 
who  had  been  chosen  Captain,  and  who  hurried  off  his  men 
in  the  short  time  elsewhere  stated. 

FIRST    COMPANY   FROM   WARSAW. 

In  less  than  a  week,  a  full  company  was  raised  and  organ- 
ized, with  Gideon  H.  Jenkins  as  Captain,  and  Harwood  A. 
Dudley  as  Lieutenant.  Warsaw  furnished  forty-eight  men, 
and  the  adjoining  towns  twenty-nine.  The  preparations  for 
"  marching  to  the  wars,"  were  at  once  commenced  with  all 
the  earnestness  and  enthusiasm  that  characterized  the  citizens 
throughout  the  country.  The  ladies  of  the  village  met  in 
large  numbers  to  prepare  clothing  for  the  volunteers.  The 
company  remained  anxiously  awaiting  marching  orders  for 
some  days,  and  the  following  incident  from  the  Mirror,  of 
May  22d,  illustrates  the  spirit  in  which  orders  were  finally 
received : 

"  Quick  Time. — The  marching  orders  for  the  Warsaw  Com- 
pany reached  here  by  Express  about  4  P.  M.,  on  Monday. 
At  5  o'clock  Capt.  Jenkins  had  all  his  men  mustered  in  line, 
ready  for  service. 

"  Capt.  Jenkins — '  Boys,'  how  long  time  do  you  want  to  get 
your  baggage  ready  for  a  start?'  A  voice — 'Ten  minutes!' 
Another  voice  said,  'Two  minutes  !'  Capt.  Jenkins — 'I  will 
give  you  fifteen  minutes,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  I  want 
every  man  in  his  place !' 

"The  company  then  broke  line,  some  to  refresh  themselves 
with  the  good  things  that  our  kind  hearted  and  thoughtful 
citizens  passed  to  them  in  baskets  through  the  crowd;  some 
to  gather  their  baggage,  and  some  to  say  'good  bye.'  Within 
twenty  minutes  they  were  on  their  march  to  the  railroad,  pre- 
ceded by  the  village  Band,  and  attended  by  a  large  crowd  of 
our  citizens. 

"At  the  station  there  was  a  large  assemblage  gathered  to 
see  the  volunteers  off.     Here  a  beautiful  and  substantial  copy 


WAR    HISTORY.  215 

of  the  New  Testament  was  presented  to  each  one,  and  appro- 
priate remarks  were  made  by  Rev.  Mr.  Nassau,  Rev.  Mr. 
Stimson,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Williams,  of  this  village." 

The  company  went  to  New  York,  and  were  attached  to  the 
17th  Regiment,  and  did  valiant  service  on  many  hard -fought 
fields.  The  names  are  omitted  here,  as  they  are  given  in  full 
elsewhere. 

MORE  MEN  CALLED  OUT. 

During  the  summer,  enlistments  were  made  from  "Warsaw 
for  different  regiments,  but  no  active  measures  were  taken  to 
raise  another  company  until  September  of  the  same  year. 
More  men  had  been  called  for  by  the  President,  and  again 
they  came  from  all  sections,  Warsaw  being  up  with  the  fore- 
most. Rev.  TI.  K.  Stimson,  and  Lieut.  Asa  B.  Merrill 
recruited  a  full  company  of  Cavalry,  with  their  headquarters 
here.  Warsaw  furnished  twenty  men,  and  the  company  was 
attached  to  the  famous  9th  Cavalry,  and  re-enlisted  as  "Vete- 
rans" at  the  end  of  its  three  years,  participating  in  half-a- 
hundred  battles.  Capt.  W.  G.  Bentley,  and  Lieut.  W.  L. 
Ivnapp,  also  recruited  a  company  of  Cavalry  for  the  same 
Regiment,  Warsaw  furnishing  its  full  proportion.  Lieutenant 
Merrill  was  soon  promoted  to  a  Captaincy,  and  lost  his  life 
in  the  service.  (See  Sketch.)  Capt.  Bentley  served  with  dis- 
tinction through  the  war,  losing  a  leg  in  battle,  and  being 
promoted  to  a  Colonelcy  for  his  gallantry. 

THE  CVLL  OF  1802. 

In  the  summer  of  1862,  another  call  for  troops  was  made, 
and  Warsaw,  with  the  other  towns  of  the  county,  was  at  once 
aroused.  Warsaw's  quota  was  ninety- three  men.  A  town 
bounty  of  $60,  in  addition  to  national,  state,  and  county 
bounties,  was  pledged  by  subscriptions.  In  August,  Capt.  J. 
W.  Ivnapp  commenced  recruiting  a  company  for  the  130th 
Regiment,  afterwards  the  historic  ,(,lst  Dragoons,"  and  made 
rapid  progress,  securing  thirty  in  one  day.  His  ranks  were 
soon  filled,  and  contained  six  officers  and  thirty  privates  from 


216  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

Warsaw.  Capt.  Knapp  served  faithfully  to  the  end  of  the 
war;  was  promoted  to  be  Major,  and  afterward,  deservedly, 
breveted  Colonel.  Captains  II.  B.  Jenks  and  Augustus  Har- 
rington, also  speedily  recruited  companies  for  the  136th  Regi- 
ment. The  former  contained  seven  officers  and  thirty  men 
from  Warsaw,  and  the  latter  three  officers  and  seven  men. 
In  furtherance  of  these  efforts,  large  and  spirited  meetings 
were  hold  at  different  times,  and  the  town's  quota  was 
speedily  filled.  The  women  were  equally  active  with  the  men, 
especially  in  aiding  the  soldiers  already  in  the  field,  as  will 
be  seen  by  the  following  extract  from  the  Mirror  of  Sept.  1862: 
'The  ladies  and  children  of  our  town  have  been  quite  indus- 
trious the  past  week,  in  preparing  and  sending  off  hospital 
stores.  Six  large  boxes  have  gone,  filled  with  comforts  for  the 
sick  and  wounded." 

A  TOUCHING  SCENE. 

Several  of  those  who  went  from  Warsaw,  had  lost  their 
lives;  and  their  bodies  had  been  sent  home  for  burial.  One 
of  the  most  touching  incidents  of  the  war  is  related,  by  a 
fellow-soldier,  of  Charles  E.  Bills,  a  member  of  Capt.  Jen- 
kins' Company.  Although  it  has  been  widely  published,  we 
give  it  a  place  in  our  record.  It  was  written  for  the  press  by 
a  gentleman  to  whom  it  was  related  by  the  soldier  above 
alluded  to,  after  his  return: 

"I  was  in  the  hospital  as  nurse  for  a  long  time.''  said  the  soldier,  "and 
assisted  in  taking  off  limbs  and  dressing  all  sorts  of  wounds;  but  the  hardest 
thing  I  ever  did  was  to  take  my  thumb  off  a  man's  leg." 

••Ah!"  said  I,  ••  how  was  that?"     Then  he  told  me. 

"It  was  a  young  man  who  had  a  severe  wound  in  the  thigh.  The  ball 
passed  completely  through,  and  amputation  was  necessary.  The  limb  was  cut 
off  close  up  to  the  body,  the  arteries  taken  up.  and.  he  seemed  to  be  doing 
well.  Subsequently  one  of  the  small  arteries  sloughed  off.  An  incision  was 
made  and  it  was  again  taken  up.  '  It  is  well  it  was  not  the  main  artery,'  said 
the  surgeon  as  he  performed  the  operation;  'he  might  have  bled  to  death 
before  it  could  be  taken  up.*  But  Charley  got  on  finely,  and  was  a  favorite 
with  us  all. 

'•I  was  passing  through  the  ward  one  night,  about  midnight,  when  suddenly 
as  I  was  passing  Charley's  led  he  spoke  to  me:  'II ,  my  leg  is  bleeding 


WAR   HISTORY.  217 

again.'  I  threw  back  the  bed  clothes,  and  the  blood  spirted  in  the  air.  The 
main  artery  had  sloughed  off. 

"  Fortunately  I  knew  just  what  to  do,  and  in  an  instant  I  had  pressed  my 
thumb  on  the  place  and  stopped  the  bleeding.  It  was  so  close  to  the  body  that 
there  was  barely  room  for  my  thumb,  but  I  succeeded  in  keeping  it  there,  and 
arousing  one  of  the  convalescents,  sent  him  for  the  surgeon,  who  came  in  on 

the  run.     '  I  am  so  thankful,  H ,'  said  he  as  he  saw  me,    'that  you  were 

up  and  knew  what  to  do,  for  he  must  have  bled  to  death  before  I  could  have 
got  here.' 

•*  But  on  examination  of  the  case  he  looked  exceedingly  serious,  and  sent  out 
for  other  surgeons.  All  came  who  were  within  reach,  and  a  consultation  was 
held  over  the  poor  fellow.  One  conclusion  was  reached  by  all.  There  was  no 
place  to  work  save  the  spot  where  my  thumb  was  placed ;  they  could  not  work 
under  my  thumb,  and  if  I  moved  it  he  would  bleed  to  death  before  the  artery 
could  be  taken  up.     There  was  no  way  to  save  his  life! 

''Poor  Charley!  He  was  very  calm  when  they  told  him,  and  requested 
that  his  brother,  who  was  in  the  same  hospital,  might  be  called  up.  He  came 
and  sat  down  by  the  bed-side,  and  for  three  hours  I  stood,  and  by  the  pressure 
of  my  thumb  kept  up  the  life  of  Charley,  while  the  brothers  held  their  last 
conversation  on  earth.  It  was  a  strange  place  for  me  to  be  in,  to  feel  that  I 
held  the  life  of  a  fellow  mortal  in  my  hands,  as  it  were,  and  stranger  yet,  to 
feel  that  an  act  of  mine  must  cause  that  life  to  depart.  Loving  the  poor  fel- 
low as  I  did,  it  was  a  hard  thought;  but  there  was  no  alternative. 

"The  last  words  were  spoken.  Charley  had  arranged  all  his  business 
affairs,  and  sent  tender  messages  to  absent  ones,  who  little  dreamed  how  near 
their  loved  one  stood  to  the  grave.  The  tears  tilled  my  eyes  more  than  once 
as  I  listened  to  those  parting  words.     All  were  sad,  and    he   turned    to  me. 

'Now  H ,  I  guess  you  had  better  take  off  your  thumb.'  '0,  Charley!  how 

can  I?'  said  I.  '  But  it  must  be,  you  know,'  he  replied  cheerfully.  'I  thank 
you  very  much  for  your  kindness,  and  now,  good  b3'e.' 

"  He  turned  away  his  head,  I  raised  my  thumb,  once  more  the  life  current 
gushed  forth,  and  in  three  minutes  poor  Charlie  was  dead." 

RETURN  OF  VOLUNTEERS. 

The  men  of  Company  K.  Laving  enlisted  for  two  years, 
their  time  expired  in  April,  1863.  In  anticipation  of  their 
return,  the  citizens  of  Warsaw  met  at  the  Court- House  to 
make  arrangements  for  a  proper  reception  of  the  company. 
A  committee  of  reception,  a  committee  to  provide  entertain- 
ment, a  marshal  and  an  assistant,  a  speaker  to  pronounce  the 
welcome,  and  a  chaplain,  were  appointed.  Delay  in  obtain- 
ing their  discharge  papers  and  other  causes,  prevented  their 
return  until   the  10th  of  June.     The  committee  of  reception 


21S  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

met  them  at  Portage.  On  their  arrival  at  the  Warsaw 
station,  they  were  greeted  by  the  multitude  there  assembled, 
with  great  enthusiasm.  The  soldiers  soon  formed  in  line,  and 
a  procession  and  escort  were  formed,  and  led  by  the  "Warsaw 
Band  through  the  Gulf  and  Buffalo  and  Main  streets,  to  the 
Court-Honse,  where  a  still  larger  number  awaited  their  arrival. 
They  were  appropriately  addressed  by  the  speaker,  who  was 
responded  to  by  Capt.  A.  M.  Whaley,  who  had  succeeded 
Capt.  Jenkins  in  command,  the  latter  having  previously 
returned  with  seriously  impaired  health.  After  the  exercises 
were  closed,  the  soldiers  and  their  friends  repaired  to  the 
table  bountifully  supplied  by  the  committee  of  entertainment. 

The  company  had  at  different  times  on  its  rolls  about  one 
hundred  names.  Only  thirty  or  thirty-five  of  its  members 
were  left.  Fifteen  had  died  on  the  field  or  in  hospitals;  and 
many  had  been  discharged. 

In  the  summer  of  1863,  seventy -five  more  men  were  recniired 
from  Warsaw  under  the  call  for  300,000.  By  the  law  of 
Congress  they  were  permitted  to  secure  exemption  by  the 
payment  of  8300  commutation,  or  by  furnishing  a  substitute. 
Volunteering  and  substitution  reduced  the  number  to  ten  at 
the  time  the  draft  was  enforced,  and  this  number  was  made 
up,  so  that  there  are  no  records  of  any  drafted  men  going  to 
the  war  from  this  town. 

SANITARY   FAIR. 

In  February,  1864,  the  citizens  held  a  Festival  for  the- 
Sanitary  Commission.  The  large  show-rooms  of  the  Messrs. 
Buxton's  Wagon  Manufactory  were  cleared  out,  decorated 
and  fitted  up  for  the  occasion.  On  the  lower  floor  refresh- 
ments were  served,  and  in  the  second  story  an  exhibition  of 
tableaux  and  a  concert  by  home  musical  talent  were  given. 
The  amount  realized  for  aiding  the  noble  work  of  the  Com- 
mission, was  Seven  Hundred  and  Fifty  Dollars. 

Our  citizens,  during  the  entire  period  of  the  war,  con- 
tributed greatly,  in  various  ways,  to  the  comfort  of  the  soldiers 


WAR.   HISTORY.  219 

in  the  field  and  in  the  hospitals.  Boxes  filled  with  provisions 
and  clothing,  snch  as  the  government  was  not  required  to 
furnish,  were  frequently  sent.  The  ladies  especially  were 
active  in  the  good  work.  They  held  frequent  meetings,  and 
by  their  "Aid  Societies  "  did  much  to  mitigate  the  sufferino-s 
of  the  brave  defenders  of  the  Union,  and  to  cheer  them  on  in 
the  sanguinary  conflict. 

In  the  winter  of  lS63-'6-±  President  Lincoln  issued  calls  for 
500,000  men,  ordering  a  draft  if  the  required  number  should 
not  be  furnished.  The  draft  was  postponed,  and  at  a  special 
town  meeting  held  June  21,  1801,  it  was  voted  to  pay  a  town 
bounty  of  from  $300  to  $500,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Super- 
visor to  all  volunteers  enlisting  during  the  remainder  of 
the  year.  Only  six  votes  were  cast  against  the  proposition. 
Recruiting  was  kept  up  steadily  for  the  old  regiments  in  the 
field,  and  before  the  day  of  the  draft,  Warsaw's  quota  was 
filled. 

On  the  18th  day  of  July,  1864,  President  Lincoln  issued 
his  call  for  500,000  more  volunteers,  and  ordered  a  draft  to 
be  made  on  the  5th  day  of  September,  for  the  deficiencies. 
The  commutation  clause  had  been  repealed.  Warsaw's 
quota  was  seventy-one.  Twenty-five  citizens,  some  of  them 
exempt  under  the  law,  at  once  put  in  personal  substitutes — • 
paying  from  8600  to  $1000  each.  Before  the  day  set  for  the 
draft,  the  town's  quota  was  again  full. 

One  more  call  was  issued  by  the  President  for  300,000 
men  for  one  year.  But  to  this  number  Warsaw  was  not 
required  to  contribute.  An  unusually  large  proportion  of  her 
men  had  enlisted  for  three  years;  and  the  average  term  of 
their  enlistments  so  far  exceeded  that  of  the  enlistments  in 
other  sections,  as  to  exempt  her  from  further  requisitions. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  war,  enlistments  were  made 
without  the  offer  of  bounties.  As  the  rebellion  became  more 
formidable  and  the  calls  for  men  frequent,  it  became  neces- 
sary not  only  to  pay  bounties  in  order  to  raise  men,  but  to 
increase  their  amount  at  each  successive  call.     From  fifty  to 


2-20 


HISTORY   OF    WARSAW, 


four  hundred  dollars  per  man  was  paid  by  our  citizens,  in 
addition  to  the  sums  paid  by  the  county,  the  state,  and  the 
general  government.  Yet  every  call  of  the  government  was 
answered;  and  the  largest  sums  that  had  to  be  raised  were 
obtained,  and  in  most  cases  cheerfully  paid,  whether  by  vol- 
untary contribution  or  otherwise. 

The  following  sums  were  levied  upon  the  taxable  property 
of  the  town: 

1864,  March— Special  County  Bounty  Tax $  9.331 

1864,  Nov.— Annual        "             ';           «' 7,540 

"         "        Town  War  Bonds                  " 8,125 

1865,  May — Special  County  Bounty          •• 17,155 

"      Nov.— Annual    «'             "                " 3,300 

1866,  May— Special       "            "                •' 15,359 

$60,810 
In  addition  to  the  above  amount  raised  by  taxation,  the 
town  paid  810,956  as  town  bounties,  which  was  refunded  by 
the  state.  Considerable  sums  were  also  paid  by  voluntary 
subscriptions  for  bounties,  and  for  the  support  of  volunteers' 
families.  By  thus  "  paying  as  they  went,"  the  authorities 
brought  the  town  free  from  debt  shortly  after  the  war  closed. 
The  same  was  true  of  the  county — something  that  scarcely 
any  other  town  or  county  in  the  state  could  boast  of. 

CLOSE  OF  THE  WAR. 

On  Monday  morning,  April  10,  1S05,  the  news  of  the  sur- 
render of  the  rebel  army  under  Lee  to  the  Union  forces  under 
Gen.  Grant,  reached  Warsaw.  The  "Western  New  Yorker  of 
Thursday,  thus  described  the  celebration  of  the  event  by  the 
citizens: 

"  The  celebration  over  the  news  of  Lee's  surrender  was  an 
occasion  never  to  be  forgotten  by  those  of  our  citizens  who 
joined  in  it,  or  who  witnessed  its  varied  proceedings.  The 
news  was  received  at  an  early  hour  Monday  morning,  and 
soon  every  bell  was  ringing,  the  cannons  roaring,  two  large 
flags  were  hung  across  the  street,  and  smaller  ones  from  nearly 
every  building,   as  the  joyous  news  passed   rapidly  around. 


WAR   HISTORY.  221 

Main  street  soon  grew ,  crowded  and  noisy,  men  and  boys 
rushed  up  and  down  cheering  and  shouting.  A  procession 
was  formed — impromptu,  like  everything  else — and  marched 
up  and  down  the  principal  streets — bringing  everybody  to 
the  open  doors  to  wave  flags  and  join  in  the  general  jubilee. 
Halting  in  front  of  Bingham's  Hotel,  brief  and  appropriate 
speeches  of  congratulation  were  made,  interspersed  with  the 
readiest  and  heartiest  cheers.  Proceedings  of  this  character 
proceeded  uninterruptedly  until  noon.  But  the  evening's 
jubilee  eclipsed  anything  ever  witnessed  in  our  town.  In 
accordance  with  a  printed  notice  circulated  in  the  afternoon, 
an  immense  meeting  assembled  at  the  Court-House  at  7 
o'clock,  and  was  addressed  in  an  appropriate  and  stirring 
manner  by  Judge  Comstock,  Hon.  Augustus  Frank,  L.  ~W. 
Thayer,  Esq.,  Hon.  Byron  Healy,  Bev.  Joseph  E.  jSTassau,  F. 
F.  Fargo,  Esq.,  L.  W.  Smith,  Esq.,  and  Bev.  J.  C.  Bills. 

"Patriotic  airs  were  sung,  and  after  an  hour  and  a  half 
the  crowd  adjourned  to  mingle  with  the  larger  gathering  in 
the  streets.  A  huge  bonfire  blazed  on  the  corner  of  Main 
and  Buffalo  streets.  In  addition,  there  was  a  splendid  gen- 
eral illumination.  The  Main  street  fronts  were  decked  out  in 
red,  white  and  blue,  and  radiant  with  candles  and  lamps. 
Most  of  the  dwellings  were  illuminated— many  with  brilliant 
effect.  Rockets  were  streaming  skyward,  and  the  celebration 
of  the  great  national  victory  was  participated  in  by  all." 

Although  the  war  was  considered  closed  at  or  soon  after 
Lee's  surrender,  several  months  elapsed  before  the  soldiers 
were  all  regularly  mustered  out  of  service.  Many  did  not 
return  to  their  homes  until  July. 

The  following  list  contains  the  names  of  all  who,  at  the 
time  of  their  enlistment,  were  residents  of  "Warsaw,  though 
they  enlisted  elsewhere.  Those  from  other  towns,  who  en- 
listed here,  are  not  included.  Although  great  pains  have 
been  taken  to  make  the  list  full  and  correct,  a  few  names  may 
have  been  omitted;  and  it  may  be  found  to  contain  some 
slight  inaccuracies : 


900, 


HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


Charles  Agar,  Private,  17th  Reg.,  .Company  K,  Vol.  Enlisted  May  21, 
1861;  2  years.     Discharged  in  July,  1861,  on  account  of  sickness. 

Jesse  Albro,  Private,  1st  Reg.  N.  Y.  Dragoons,  Aug.  15,  1862;  3  years. 
Taken  prisoner  May  11,  1863;  7  months  in  prison;  served  2  years  and  10 
months. 

George  Armstrong,  Private,  17th  Reg't  N.  Y.  Infantry,  Co.  K;  enlisted 
May  20,  1861;  2  years;  served  2  years;  died  from  disease  acquired  in  the 
army. 

John  Aikin,  Private,  8th  Reg't,  N.  Y.  Artillery;  enlisted  Jan.  4,  1864;  3 
years;  served  16  months. 

Algeroy  Aikin,  Private,  104th  Reg't  X.  Y.  Volunteers;  enlisted  Feb.  7, 
1862;  3  years;  served  14  months. 

James  Allen,  Private,  9th  Reg't  N.  Y.  Cavalry;  enlisted  Oct.,  1861;  3  years; 
died  at  Washington,  of  wounds,  Aug.,  1S63.     Buried  at  Warsaw. 

Frank  S.  Austin,  Corporal,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861;  2  years. 

John  J.  Baker,  Jr.,  Private,  106th  Reg't  N.  Y.  Infantry;  enlisted  Aug.  16, 
1862;  3  years.     Discharged  after  7  months  for  disability. 

Henry  Baker,  Private,  136th  Reg't  N.  Y.  Infantry;  enlisted  Aug.  26,  1862; 
3  years.     Discharged  June  13,  1865.     In  a  number  of  battles. 

Riley  R.  Baker,  Private,  17th  Reg't  Co.  K;  enlisted  May  21,  1861;  re-en- 
listed Oct.  10,  1861,  in  the  same  company,  and  served  3  years.  Discharged 
Oct.  18,  1864. 

Robert  Barnett,  Jr.,  Private,  1st  Reg't  N.  Y.  Dragoons,  Co.  D;  enlisted 
Aug.  11,  1862;  3  years.  Lost  a  leg  at  the  battle  of  Strasburg,  Oct.  14,  1864. 
Discharged  Aug.,  1865. 

George  Baker,  Private,  17th  Reg't  N.  Y.  Infantry,  Co.  K;  enlisted  May, 
1861 ;  2  years. 

James  Baker,  Private,  136th  Reg't  X.  Y.  Infantry,  Co.  D;  enlisted  May  12, 
1862;  3  years.  Promoted  to  Corporal,  then  to  Sergeant,  then  to  1st  Sergeant. 
Discharged  with  the  Regiment. 

John  Bannan,  1st  Sergeant,  136th  Reg't  X.  Y.  Infantry;  enlisted  Aug.  7, 
1863;  3  years;  served  2  years  and  9  months.  Was  twice  wounded,  once  se- 
verely. 

Cosam  Tallyrand  Bartlett,  Xavy,  Aug.  1862;  promoted  to  ordinary  seaman; 
discharged  Sept.,  1863. 

Myron  E.  Bartlett,  1st  Lieutenant,  136th  X.  Y.  Infantry,  Co.  D;  enlisted 
Sept.  2,  1862;  3  years.     Discharged  from  hospital  Dec.  26,  1862. 

Wallace  Alexander  Bartlett,  Sharpshooters,  Xov.,  1862;  3  years;  wounded 
in  the  Seven  ©ays'  Battles  in  the  Wilderness;  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Freder- 
icksburg; taken  prisoner  at  Weldon  Railroad;  sent  to  Salisbury  and  other 
prisons;  paroled  and  exchanged.  Re-enlisted  as  Lieutenant  in  United  States 
service,  Co.  R,  May  1865,  and  served  in  Texas. 

George  M.  Bassett,  enlisted  for  2  years  in  Co.  C,  21st  Reg't  X.  Y.  Volun- 
teers, May  7,  1861;  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Antictam,  Sept.  17,  1862; 
discharged  May  18.  1863. 


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223 


William  R.  Benchley,  17th  Infantry,  May  1861;  2  years.  Died  at  Savage 
Station. 

Jared  M.  Bills,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862;  3  years.  Promoted  to  2d 
Lieutenant,  then  to  1st  Lieutenant.  Resigned  January  1861:,  on  account  of 
disability. 

C.  W.  Bisby,  1st  Sergeant,  7th  N.  G.,  Co.  H.  June,  1863,  1  month. 

Galusha  W.  Blowers,  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  A,  Sept.,  1861,  3  years.  Served  10 
months.    Died  Aug  7,  1862,  of  disease  acquired  in  the  army. 

Edwin  H.  Beardsley,  2d  Sergeant,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861;  2 
years.  Promoted  to  Quarter-Master  Sergeant,  Sergeant  Major,  2d  Lieutenant, 
1st  Lieutenant.     Commander  Ambulance  of  Corps  the  last  year. 

William  W.  Bartlett,  Private,  136th  Reg't  N.  Y.  Infantry,  Aug.  11,  1862;  3 
years;  served  2  years;  discharged  for  disability,  Sept.  12,  1864. 

Charles  S.  Bassett,  Private,  136th  Reg't  N.  Y.  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Sept.,  1S62; 
3  years.  Discharged  Jan.  1863  for  disability;  re-enlisted  in  1st  Reg't  Veteran 
Cavalry,  Sept.  15,  1863,  3  years;  was  at  the  battle  of  Newmarket;  discharged 
July  20,  1865. 

Willard  W.  Beardsley,  Private,  13th  Reg't  U.  S.  Infantry,  Oct.  11,  1861; 
3  years;  served  31  months. 

Edward  R.  Benedict,  Private,  9th  N.  Y.  Cavalry,  Co.  A,  Sept.  20,  1861;  3 
years;  discharged  April,  1862. 

Charles  C.  Bishop,  Corporal,  8th  N.  Y.  Artillery,  Jan.,  1864;  3  years;  died 
at  Washington  from  wounds  in  battle. 

James  D.  Bishop,  Corporal,  1st  N.  Y.  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862;  3  years; 
wounded  June,  1863;  promoted  to  Sergeant  July,  1861;  discharged  June  30, 
1865.     In  service  2  years  and  10  months. 

Norton  C.  Bradish,  Private,  1st  N.  Y.  Dragoons,  Aug.  11,  1S62;  3  years; 
discharged  for  disability  at  Suffolk,  Va.,  Dec,  1863.  Served  1  year.  5  months. 
Health  impaired. 

Michael  Burke,  2d,  Private,  8th  N.  Y.  Artillery,  Co.  M,  Jan.  5,  1864;  3 
years.     Transferred  to  10th  N.  Y.  Veterans;  served  1  year  and  8  months. 

Edward  W.  Burns,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862;  3  years.  Served  2 
years  and  9  months.     Discharged  June  13,  1865. 

James  Campbell,  Private,  N.  Y.  Colored,  Dec,  1863;  3  years. 

Martin  Carpenter,  Private,  136th  N.  Y.  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862; 
Discharged  June,  1865. 

Daniel  S.  Carroll,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1S62;  3  years.  Promoted 
to  3d  Sergeant,  then  to  2d.  Served  2  years  and  10  months.  Discharged  June, 
1865. 

Robert  J.  Cochran,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Dec,  1863;  3  years.  Discharged, 
and  re-enlisted  in  the  same  regiment.     Discharged,  May,  1865. 

John  Crist,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862;  3  years.  Promoted 
to  Corporal.     Discharged,  June,  1863. 

Alexander  R.  Chichester,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  H,  Oct.,  1861.  Dis- 
charged, April,  1S62. 


224  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Lewis  E.  Clement,  Private,  8th  Artillery,  Co.  M.  Jan.,  18G4,  3  years.  Dis- 
charged, July,  1865. 

Charles  Coffee,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E.  Sept.,  1862.  Discharged, 
May,  18G3. 

Patrick  Henry  Cofield,  Private.  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  A,  Sept.,  1861;  3  years. 
Discharged,  Dec,  18G4. 

Abner  Cole,  Corporal,  9th  Cavalry,  Sept.,  1864;  1  year.     Served  8  months. 

Francis  T.  Colt,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Feb.,  1864.     Served  through  the  war. 

Homer  G.  Curtis,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861;  2  years. 
Wounded  at  Cold  Harbor,  June  3,  18G3.  Served  2  years:  re-enlisted  in  8th 
N.  Y.  Artillery,  Dec,  1863;  promoted  to  Sergeant,  and  to  2d  Lieutenant. 
Discharged,  June  12,  1865. 

Spencer  Cronkhite,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  A,  Sept.,  1861,  3  years— pro- 
moted to  Sergeant,  and  to  1st  Sergeant;  wounded  at  Beverly  Ford,  Jan..  1863; 
discharged  Oct.  27,  1864. 

Charles  B.  Darling,  Sergeant  1st  Dragoons,  Co.  D,  Aug.  1862,  3  years- 
promoted  to  Quarter-master  Sergeant;  was  in  31  battles;  died  of  disease  in 
camp  near  Winchester,  Ya.,  Dec.  14,  1864. 

James  M.  Davidson,  Musician,  14th  Heavy  Artillery,  Jan.  1S64,  3  years- 
served  1  year  and  4  months. 

Benj.  F.  Draper,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  18G3;  served  1  year  and  9 
months;  enlisted  in  1st  Veteran  Cavalry,  Oct.,  1863;  2  years. 

Myron  Draper,    Private    136th    Infantry,    Aug.,    1862;    discharged    June 

30,  1865. 

Paul  P.  Draper,  Sergeant  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  discharged 
June  or  July,  1865. 

Charles  Dresher,  Private  136th  Infantry,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  wounded  at 
Averysboro,  N.  C,  March,  1865;  discharged  from  hospital  at  Rochester,  June 
29,  18G5. 

Harwood  A.  Dudley,  1st  Lieutenant  17th  Infantry,  May,  1861;  resigned 
Dec,  1861;  honorably  discharged. 

William  Everiugham,  Private  17th  Infantry,  Co.  E.  Aug.,  1862,  3  years; 
promoted  to  Corporal,  then  to  Sergeant;  was  in  23  battles;  discharged  June, 
is  (-.:>. 

Carlos  Evans,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years.  Died  at  Suffolk,  Ya., 
Nov.,  1862. 

Eugene  Edson,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1862,  2  years.  Discharged,  date 
not  known. 

Edwin  P.  Fanning,  Private  21st  Buffalo  Infantry,  April,  1861;  discharged 
after  7  months'  service;  re-enlisted  Aug..  1862,  in  1st  Dragoons,  Co.  D;  dis- 
charged July.  1865. 

Wm.  H.  H.  Fargo,  Private  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  II,  Feb.,  1864.  3  years;  pro- 
moted to  Sergeant;  taken  prisoner  near  Woodstock;  discharged  Sept.,  1865. 

Leonard  Filkins,  Private  199th  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  Sept.,  1864,  3 
years;  re-enlisted. 

Dennis  Finnegan,  Private  24th  Battery,  March  30,  1SG4;  3  years. 


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Henry  H.  Firman,  Private,  1st  Veteran  Cavalry,  Co.  D,  Aug.,  1SG3;  re- 
enlisted  Oct.,  1863;  discharged  Aug.  1,  1865. 

Horace  Firman,  Private,  21st  Veteran  Cavalry,  Aug.,  1861,  3  years;  served 
3  years;  re-enlisted  April  12,  1864. 

Christopher  Fisher,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862;  slightly 
wounded  at  Resaca,  and  taken  prisoner  March,  1864;  discharged  June,  1865. 

Wm.  H.Fisk.  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  served  2 
years;  wounded  severely. 

Samuel  Mills  Fisher,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  transferred 
to  V.  R.  Corps  Feb.,  1865;  served  2  years  and  10  months. 

Milton  E.  Foskett,  Private,  130th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Sept.,  1862,  3  years; 
wounded  at  Gettysburg  July  2.  1863;  discharged  June  13,  1865. 

Frederick  Franklin,  Private,  100th  Infantry,  Jan.,  1865,  1  year;  served  as  a 
substitute  5  months. 

Charles  Gath,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Aug.,  1862,  Co.  E,  3  years;  killed  at 
Resaca,  May  IS,  1864;  buried  at  Kingston,  June  24,  1864. 

Henry  M.  Gay,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Co.  D,  August,  1862,  3  years;  killed 
at  Trevallion  Station,  June  12,  1864. 

Manlius  Gay,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Aug.,  1862,  2  years;  died  in  Canada, 
Dec,  1864;  buried  in  Middlebury. 

John  Geyer,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  promoted  to  Cor- 
poral Oct.  1,  1864,  at  Atlanta;  discharged  June  13,  1865. 

George  Gibson,  Private,  8th  Artillery,  Co.  B,  Dec.  1.863,  3  years;  wounded 
in  the  hip  at  Petersburg;  discharged  April,  1865;  health  impaired. 

Sullivan  Gibson,  Private,  104th  Wadsworth  Guards,  Co.  D,  Oct.,  1861,3 
years;  discharged  after  8  months'  service;  re-enlisted  in  1st  Dragoons. 

Andrew  J.  Gliss,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.  1862,  3  years;  served  IS 
months;  discharged  from  hospital,  date  unknown. 

Joseph  Gliss,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  June,  1S62;  killed  in  2d  Bull 
Run  battle. 

Alexander  Granger,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  was  in  all 
the  battles  of  the  regiment;  discharged  June  30,  1S65. 

Reuben  Gray,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  dis- 
charged March,  1863. 

Thomas  B.  Guard,  Sergeant,  9th  Cavalry,  Oct.,  1861,  3  years;  served  1  year. 

Wm.  T.  Graves,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Co.  D,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  dis- 
charged Jan.  27,  1864,  on  account  of  disability. 

John  Hannegan,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Feb.,  1864,  3  years;  served  1  year 
and  6  months. 

James  Hannegan,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  pro- 
moted to  Corporal,  then  to  Sergeant;  killed  in  battle  of  Gettysburg,  July, 
1S63,  and  buried  there. 

Robert  Harty,  Corporal,  26th  Battery,  Oct.,  1862,  3  year^-  served  2  years. 

Daniel  Hermann,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Sept.,  1862,  3  years; 
served  2  years  and  4  months. 

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226  HISTORY   OF   WARS  AAV. 

John  Hermann,  Private,  1st  Dragoons.  Co.  D,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  slightly 
■wounded;  discharged  July  17,  1865. 

Henry  Hibbard,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  promoted  to  Sergeant; 
date  of  discharge  unknown. 

Homer  0.  Holly,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862.  3  years;  promoted  to 
Com.  Sergeant;  served  nearly  3  years;  discharged  July,  1865. 

Augustus  Harrington,  Captain,  13Gth  Infantry,  August,  1862;  3  years. 
Resigned. 

Marquis  F.  Holton,  Private  1st  Dragoons,  Co.  D.,  August,  1S62;  3  years. 
Discharged  June  30,  1SC5. 

Henry  H.  Holton,  Private,  13th  Heavy  Artillery,  Sept.,  1864;  1  year.  Dis- 
charged June,  1865. 

Alfred  W.  Hoyt,  Sergeant,  8th  Heavy  Artillery,  Co.  M.,  Dec.  29,  1863;  3 
years.  In  battles  of  Spotsylvania.  North  Ann,  Cold  Harbor,  <fcc.  Discharged 
from  hospital  June  13th,  1865;  health  impaired. 

Edwin  T.  M.  Hurlburt,  Corporal,  Rock.  Battallion,  Aug.  1861;  3  years. 
Hospital  Steward  and  Ass't  Surgeon.     Discharged  April,  1865. 

Milton  W.  Hurlburt,  Musician,  8th  Heavy  Artillery,  Co.  M.,  Jan.  1,  1864; 
3  years.     Discharged  June,  1863. 

William  Hutton,  Private,  5th  Cavalry.  Co.  F.,  Sept.  1861;  3  years.  Dis- 
charged Nov.  20,  1861. 

ii,  Edward  Harty,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years.     Served  about  6 
months;  discharged  for  disability. 

Willard  L.  Hitchcock,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years. 

Gideon  H.  Jenkins,  Captain,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May  1861;  2  years. 
Served  7  months;  health  impaired,  and  honorably  discharged. 

Adelbert  H.  Jenkins.  3d  Sergeant,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May,  1861 ;  2  years. 
Discharged  June,  1863. 

Charles  V.  Jenkins,  1st  Sergeant  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K..  May.  1861;  2  years. 
Discharged  Nov.  1861,  for  disability. 

Henry  B.  Jenks,  Captain,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E.,  Sept.  18G2;  3  years.  Re- 
signed March  13,  1863,  and  honorably  discharged. 

Prank  II.  Johnson,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  May  1861;  2  years.  Served  2 
years. 

Jason  M.  Johnson,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May  1861;  2  years.  Discharged 
at  Fort  Ellsworth ;  sick  with  fever;  since  dead. 

Willard  Joslyn,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E.,  Aug.,  1862;  3  years.  Served  10 
months. 

Abraham  Ennis  Keeney,  Corporal,  Sth  Heavy  Artillery,  Dec.  1863;  3  years. 
Died  in  Warsaw  while  on  a  furlough,  Nov.  8,  1864,  of  sickness  acquired  in  the 
army. 

Jeremiah  Keeney,  Private,  75th  Infantry,  May,  1862;  3  years.  Served  2 
years,  6  months. 

J.  L.  Kendrick,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K..  July  1861;  2  years.  Served 
15  months,  hospital  clerk. 

Jerome  Kimball,  1st  Dragoons,  March  1864;  3  years. 


WAS   HISTORY.  227 

Jacob  W.  Knapp,  Captain,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.  1862;  3  years.  Served  2 
years,  9  months.  Promoted  to  Major,  and  since,  by  brevet,  to  Colonel.  He 
was  in  the  battles  of  Deserted  Farm,  Todd's  Tavern,  Shepardstown,  Tra- 
vellion  Station,  Hanover  Junction,  Smithfield,  Cedar  Creek,  Winchester, 
Somerset,  Five  Forks,  Dinwiddie,  Appomattox,  and  others.  Captain 
Knapp' s  Company  belonged  to  the  I30tk  Regiment  of  Infantry  when  enlisted 
in  Aug.,  1862;  was  changed  to  Cavalry,  Aug.,  1863;  and  to  1st  N.  Y.  Dra- 
goons, Nov.,  18C3.  In  this  record  they  are  designated  only  as  the  1st  Dra- 
goons. 

Augustus  F.  Knapp,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Feb.,  1864;  3  years.  Promoted 
to  Corporal;  discharged  Juno  30,  1865. 

Lucien  P.  Knapp,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May,  1861;  2  years. 
Served  out  the  term;  re-enlisted  Aug.  1864,  1  year,  and  served  9  months. 

Thomas  E.  Knapp,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May,  1861;  2  years. 
Served  7  months. 

Frank  Lamphere,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May,  1861;  2  years. 
Served  G  months. 

Reuben  B.  Lane,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E.,  Sept.,  1862;  3  years.  Discharged 
April,  1863;  cause,  loss  of  wife. 

Edwin  M.  Lemon,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Oct.  1S61;  3  years.  Discharged 
April  10,  1862. 

Ira  Lounsbury,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May  1861;  2  years.  Served 
out  the  term,  and  died  since. 

Austin  "W.  Lathrop,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E.,  Aug.  1862;  3  years. 
Discharged  June  13,  1865. 

Abraham  B.  Lawrence,  Quarter  Master,  Aug.  28,  1862;  3  years.  Twice 
promoted  in  Quarter-Masters  department;  present  rank  Lt.  Colonel. 

Asa  Luther,  Private,  5th  Cavalry,  Co,  F.,  Sept.  1861;  3  years.  Promoted 
to  Sergeant;  taken  prisoner  and  confined  at  Andersonville  9  months;  dis- 
charged Feb.,  1865. 

Ellis  Luther,*  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May,  1861;  2  years.  Discharged  in 
about  1  year. 

Henry  Lamphere,  (not  on  book.) 

Mills  "W.  Marchant,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  May,  1862;  3  years.  Promoted  to 
Corporal;  wounded  at  Five  Forks  April  1,  1865;  discharged  June  19,  1865. 

John  Mack,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  July  1861;  2  years.  Served  out 
term,  and  discharged. 

Wm.]  D.  Martin,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May,  1862;  2  years.  Served  out 
the  term;  re-enlisted  in  8th  Artillery,  December  25,  1863,  3  years,  and  dis- 
charged July  11,  1865. 

George  F.  Martin,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May,  1S61 ;  2  years. 
Killed  at  2d  Bull  Run  battle,  Aug.  30,  1862. 

Hector  C.  Martin,  24th  Bat.,  Oct.  1861;  3  years.  Died  at  Anderson- 
ville, Aug.  7,  1864,  and  buried  there. 

Adelbert  Mosher,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.,  May,  1861;  2  years. 
Health  impaired,  and  discharged. 


22S  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

John  P.  Murray,  Private,  136th  Infantry.  Co.  E.,  Sept.,  18G2;  3  years.  Dis. 
charged  Dec.,  1S62,  for  disability.  Enlisted  Aug.  1863,  in  1st  Veteran  Cav- 
alry; discharged  June  14,  1865. 

Samuel  K.  Munger,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  H.,  Oct.,  1861;  3  years.  Dis- 
chagred  after  3  months  for  disability. 

Porter  B.  Munger,  Private,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1882;  3  years.  Mustered 
out  May  22,  1865,  at  Washington,  in  compliance  with  a  telegram  from  the 
War  Department,  dated  May  5,  1865. 

Silas  C.  Maynard,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Jan.  30,  1861;  3  years. 

Wm.  G.  Meacham,  Ass' t  Surgeon,  162d  Infantry,  Aug.,  1864;  3  years. 
Served  7  months. 

Asa  B.  Merrill,  9th  Cavalry,  Oct.,  1861;  3  years.  Promoted  to  Captain, 
May,  1862;  was  at  the  seige  of  Yorktown;  and  died  of  typhoid  fever  at  the 
Patent  Office  Hospital,  June  23,  1861;  buried  at  Warsaw. 

Jesse  J.  Mattocks,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years.  Served  about 
6  months.     Discharged  for  disability. 

Oscar  Nicholson,  Corporal,  17  th  Infantry,  Co.  K.May,  1861;  2  years.  Pro- 
moted to  Hospital  Steward,  December  6,  1861.     Discharged  June  6,  1863. 

Edward  O'Maley,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1863,  3  years.  Pro- 
moted to  Corporal;  discharged  June  13,  1865. 

William  Parker,  Private,  17lli  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years.  Dis- 
charged, June  22,  1863. 

Timothy  Peasley,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years.  Died  of  disease  at 
Suffolk.     Date  unknown. 

Augustus  C.  Parker,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  A,  Sept.,  1861,  3  years.  Dis- 
charged April  8,  1862. 

Jobn  Parkins,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862.  3  years.  Died  of  wounds  received 
in  battle  at  Winchester. 

Cyrus  0.  Peck.  Sergeant,  9th  Cavalry,  Oct.,  1S61,  3  years.  Served  1  year 
and  7  months.     Health  impaired;  since  died. 

Daniel  W.  Peck,  Private,  2d  Mounted  Rifles.  Served  about  1  year  and  6 
months. 

Elisha  S.  Peck,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Oct.,  1861.  Died  in  hospital  of 
wounds  received  in  battle. 

Charles  A.  Partridge,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1863,  2  years. 

William  Poland,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years.  Re- 
mained in  service  2  years;  in  Hospital  10  months. 

Marvin  Preston,  Private,  2d  Mounted  Rifles,  Jan.,  1863. 

John  F.  Putney,  136th  Infantry,  1862,  3  years;  discharged  after  peace. 

Lucien  H.  Post,  Corporal,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years.  Pro- 
moted to  1st  Sergeant.  After  being  wounded  at  Bull  Run,  promoted  to  2d 
Lieutenant. 

David  P.  Rood,  63d  N.  Y.  Volunteers,  Co.  F,  Feb.  29,  1864,  3  years.  Pro- 
moted to  Sergeant,  then  to  2d  Lieutenant.  Wounded  at  the  battle  of  Cold 
Harbor;  discharged  Sept.  14,  1864. 


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Charles  E.  Relyea,  Private,  179th  Infantry,  April,  18G3;  3  years. 

George  M.  Relyea,  Private,  179th  Infantry,  April,  1864,3  years;  discharged 
Sept.,  1865. 

Edwin  Relyea,  Private,  May,  18(54;  died  at  Andersonville,  Oct.  31,  18£4. 

John  T.  Renyck,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  wounded  at  2d 
Bull  Run  battle;  did  not  serve  afterwards. 

Jerry  Robetoy,  1st  Dragoons,  March,  1864,  3  years;  discharged  July  17, 
1865. 

Hopkins  Salisbury,  Private,  1st  Dragoons.  Co.  D,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years. 
Wounded  at  the  battle  of  Deserted  House,  Jan.  31,  1863,  and  discharged. 

Augustus  Sattyr,  Private.  17th  infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  served 
2  years,  and  discharged.  Re-enlisted  in  147th  Pennsylvania  at  Philadelphia, 
and  discharged  July  15,  1865.     In  Sherman's  campaign. 

Alburtis  Samruis,  Private,  8th  Artillery,  Jan.,  1864,  3  years;  died  at  David's 
Island,  of  sickness  in  the  army. 

Thomas  J.  Scribner,  Private,  8th  Artillery,  Dec,  1863,  3  years.  Served  8 
months. 

Jacob  Sherwin,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Wagoner,  Sept.,  1861,2  years;  served 
6  months. 

Andrew  J.  Simons,  Private,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years; 
served  7  months. 

Warren  A.  Simons,  Private,  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  II,  Oct.,  1861,  3  years;  served 
6  months. 

James  H.  Smith,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  served  1  month* 
and  enlisted  in  1st  Veteran  Cavalry,  Oct.,  1863,  3  years. 

John  J.  Smith,  136th  Infantry,  Sept.,  1864,  1  year;  served  9  months. 

William  D.  Smith,  136th  Infantry,  Sept.,  1864,  1  year;  served  9  months. 

Anson  J.  Smith,  Sergeant,  1st  Dragoons,  Co.  D,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  served 
2  years  and  10  mouths. 

Henry  Snyder,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May  16,  1861,  2  years;  served 
2  years;  was  wounded  in  2d  Bull  Run  battle. 

WilberH.  Snyder,  Private,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  died 
in  Hospital  at  Alexandria,  Va.,  of  disease  acquired  in  the  army. 

George  D.  Slocum,  Surgeon,  U.  S.  Navy,  Nov.,  1861;  resigned  and  dis- 
charged about  Feb.,  1866. 

Arthur  L.  Spoor,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  went  into  Hospital. 

Augustus  F.  Steele,  1st  Dragoons,  Co.  D,  Aug.,  1862;  discharged  June  30, 
1865. 

Byron  L.  Stearns,  9th  Cavalry.  Co.  G,  Oct.,  1861,  3  years;  served  1  year 
and  6  months;  discharged  for  disability. 

Augustus  Stearns,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  II.  Aug.,  28,  1862,  3  years;  dis- 
charged  after  4  months;  wounded  in  wrist  while  on  picket  guard  at  Fairfax. 

William  W.  Stearns,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K.  May,  1861,  2  years;  discharged 
April  9,  1863,  for  disability;  enlisted  Dec.  29,  1863,  in  Sth  Heavy  Artillery; 
promoted  to  2d  Lieutenant;  discharged  Jan.  21,  1865,  by  reason  of  wounds  at 
Cold  Harbor, 


230  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Charles  Stevens,  136ch  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  promoted  to 
Sergeant,  Sept.,  1862;  discharged  at  Atlanta,  Oct.,  1864,  for  disability. 

Hosea  Stewart,  5th  Cavalry,  Co.  F,  Sept.,  1861,  3  years;  discharged  Nov. 
20,  1864 ;  slightly  wounded. 

James  A.  Stow,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.  22,  1862,  3  years;  wounded  at 
Gettysburg,  July  3,  1863;  discharged  May,  1865. 

Alfred  Standish,  Corporal,  9th  Cavalry,  Sept.  30,  1861,  3  years;  died  in 
Warsaw,  Aug.  28,  1864,  of  sickness  acquired  in  the  army. 

Hiram  K.  Stimson,  Captain  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  A,  Sept.,  1861,  3  years;  raised 
a  company,  served  a  year  or  two,  and  resigned. 

Wm.  Thompson,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  transferred  to  2d  U.  S. 
Artillery,  Sept.  20,  1862;  served  2  years  and  9  months. 

John  Streamer,  2d  Mounted  Rifles,  Jan.,  1864,  3  years;  served  1  year  and 
6  months. 

John  J.  Streamer,  2d  Mounted  Rifles,  Jan.,  1864,  3  years. 

John  Tuite,  136th  Infantry,  Co.  E,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  wounded  at  Re- 
saca,  May  15,  1864;  served  2  years  and  10  months;  discharged  from  hospital, 
Sept.  4,  1865. 

America  X.  Truair,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  served  6 
months;  re-enlisted  Dec.  29,  1863;  served  1  year.  Lost  an  arm  at  the  battle 
of  Cold  Harbor,  July  3,  1864;  discharged  Dec.  6,  1^64. 

James  M.  Tyler,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years.  Promoted  to 
1st  Sergeant;  served  full  time. 

John  West,  9th  Cavalry,  Co.  H,  Feb.,  1864,  3  years;  discharged  Sept.,  1865. 

Wm.  II.  Walker,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  promoted  to 
Sergeant  and  Sergeant-Major;  served  out  term. 

Morris  Warren,  1st  Sergeant,  2d  Mounted  Rifles,  May,  1861,  2  years;  re- 
enlisted  Dec,  1863;  served  1  year  and  6  months;  slightly  wounded. 

Alfred  Watrous,  Sergeant,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  served 
out  term;  re-enlisted  Sept.,  1863,  3  years,  and  served  1  year  and  9  months. 

Arthur  II.  Watts,  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  transferred  to  non- 
commissioned Regimental  Staff,  Sept.,  1862;  appointed  2d  Lieutenant  of 
Co.  F,  Jan.  1,  1864;  promoted  to  Reg.  Quarter-Master,  Aug.  20,  1864;  dis- 
charged June  30,  1865. 

Charles  B.  Wbitcher,  9th  Cavalry,  Sept.,  1864,  3  years;  died  at  Hampton 
Hospital,  Nov.  1S64,  of  sickness  acquired  in  the  army.     Buried  in  Warsaw. 

Charles  E.  Whittam,  Sergeant,  8th  Artillery,  Dec.  1863,  3  years.  Not 
heard  from  after  going  into  battle  at  Cold  Harbor,  June,  1864. 

Zelotes  C.  Wiggins,  136th  Infantry,  Sept.  1,  1862,  3  years;  died  July  4, 
1864,  of  wounds  received  in  battle  at  Gettysburg,  and  buried  there. 

Leonard  Wilkin,  1st  Lieutenant  1st  Dragoons,  Aug.,  1862,  3  years;  served 
13  months;  resigned,  and  honorably  discharged. 

Libbeus  Wright,  31st  N.  Y.  Volunteers,  Dec,  1S63,  3  years;  served  13 
months;  lost  an  arm. 


WAE    IIISTOKY. 


231 


Mortimer  Wright,  31st  X.  Y.  Volunteers,  Dec,  1864,  3  years;  served  13 
months;  lost  an  arm  near  Petersburg. 

Alfred  Wright,  31st  Colored  Infantry,  Co.  A,  Dec.  25,  1863,  3  years;  died 
of  wounds  received  in  battle  near  Petersburg,  about  a  year  after  enlisting. 

Oliver  Wright,  31st  Colored  Infantry,  Co.  A,  Dec.  25,  1863,  3  years;  died 
of  sickness  near  Petersburg,  about  a  year  after  enlisting. 

Charles  T.  Watkins,  Corporal  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years. 
Promoted  to  Sergeant;  served  2  years,  and  was  discharged. 

Wm.  B.  Young,  17th  Infantry,  Co.  K,  May,  1861,  2  years;  served  13  months; 
health  impaired,  and  discharged. 


In  the  list  of  Volunteers  of  Wyoming  county  who  were  mustered  into  the 
service  in  1862.  and  received  the  county  bounty  of  $50,  are  the  names  of  82,  of 
whom  5  are  designated  as  residents  of  other  towns;  and  12  as  residents  of 
Warsaw,  of  whose  enlistment  or  service  there  is  no  other  record. 

Besides  the  194  men  included  in  this  list,  there  were  employed  outside 
of  the  limits  of  the  town,  by  citizens  of  the  town,  more  than  200  men  to  fill 
cpiotas  from  time  to  time. 


232  HISTORY  OF   WARSAW. 


FAMILY    SKETCHES 


BIOGRAPHICAL    NOTES. 


WELCOM  ARNOLD  was  born  in  Granville,  Feb.  23, 
1705,  and  lived  most  of  the  time  in  Poultney,  Vt.,  until  1815, 
when  he  removed  to  Middlebury.  In  January,  1817,  he 
married  Manila  Stearns,  of  Sudbury,  Yt.  They  removed  in 
1833  to  the  north-east  part  of  this  town,  where  they  now 
reside.  They  united  with  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Wyo- 
ming,  of  which  he  was  an  elder  before  his  removal  to  this 
town.  Thev  had  three  children:  Osmyn  S.,  Anna  M.,  and 
Alfred  P.,  (inf.) 

Osmyn  S.,  born  in  1817,  married  Martha  M.  Paskow,  of 
Cayuga  Co.,  in  1850,  who  died  in  1856.  The}T  had  two  daugh- 
ters, Emma  C,  and  Mary  M. 

Anna  M.,  unmarried;  resides  with  her  parents. 

HORACE  P.  AKIX  was  born  in  Dutchess  county,  Oct.  28, 
1791.  He  married  Maria  Wisemore,  and  removed  to  this 
town  in  1S35,  and  died  in  1868.     They  had  ten  children: 

Morgan  married  Caroline  Burrell,  and  resides  in  Perry. 
They  have  four  children. 

DeWitt  married  Polly  Bush,  of  Gainesville,  by  whom  he 
had  three  children:  Adolphus,  Irvin,  and  Maria.  His  wife 
died  in  1S62.  He  married  for  his  second  wife,  Almedia  La- 
throp,  by  whom  he  has  two  children,  Frederick  and  Florence. 
He  has  been  frequently  elected  to  the  office  of  Assessor. 

John  A.  married  Mary  Jane  Conable,  who  died,  leaving 
two  children  :  Julia,  who  married  Augustus  Steele,  and  "Wal- 
lace. Mr.  Akin  married  for  his  second  wife,  Lucy  Ann 
Stearns.     Served  in  the  war. 

Lewis  married  Betsey  Pice,  who  died;  and  Mr.  Akin  mar- 
ried Hannah  Wood,  who  also  died;  he  married  his  third 
wife  in  Michigan. 

James,  Miltox,  A:sibrose,  Charles,  Melissa,  and  Hiram 
are  married;  Albert  is  unmarried. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  I06 

CHAELES  W.  BAILEY  was  born  in  Perry,  March  9th, 
1820,  and  married,  June  30,  1S49,  Jane  M.  Stevens,  of  War- 
saw, who  was  born  at  Albion,  Orleans  county.  He  is  a  grad- 
uate of  Meadville  College,  Pa.  He  pursued  the  study  of 
Law,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1S50.  He  was  elected 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  this  town  in  1860,  and  Clerk  of  the 
County  in  1861,  after  having  been  for  several  years  Deputy 
Clerk,  which  office  he  still  holds;  thus  having  served  as  Clerk 
and  Deputy  ten  or  eleven  years.  He  also  held  the  office  of 
Postmaster  in  this  town  during  the  administration  of  Presi- 
dents Taylor  and  Fillmore. 

EDMUND  BAINBRIDGE  was  born  in  Lawrence,  K  J. 
Dec.  31,  1799.  He  married  Dorcas  Wiggins,  of  Oneida  Co. 
!N".  Y.  They  removed  to  Warsaw  in  1834,  and  settled  in  the 
north-east  part  of  the  town.  They  now  reside  in  the  village. 
They  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  They  have 
had  twelve  children,  as  follows  : 

William  W.,  who  married  Eliza  Crocker,  and  has  several 
children.     They  reside  in  Ohio. 

Alpha  A.,  who  married  Nancy  Morland,  and  resides  in 
Missouri. 

Minerva  F.,  who  married  Dwight  Pnrdy,  of  Warsaw. 
They  have  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 

Freelove  Jennett,  who  died  March,  1867,  aged  12. 

Milton  G.  married  Martha  Hughes,  and  resides  in  Colum- 
bia City,  Ind. 

Mary  married  Robert  Pease,  and  has  two  daughters. 

Ellen  A.  married  Wallace  Randall,  and  resides  in  Iowa. 

Juliet  married  Fayette  Holton,  and  died  in  1S65,  two 
months  after  marriage. 

James  P.  resides  in  Rochester. 

Jennett,  Francis,  Eunice,  and  Nancy  E.,  died  young. 

ELISIIA  BARNES  was  born  in  Bennington,  Yt.,  and 
married  in  1783,  Anna  Martin,  of  Granville.  They  removed 
from  Granville  to  this  town,  and  settled  in  the  south-west  part 
of  the  town  about  1S20.  Mr.  Barnes  died  March  10,  1864. 
They  were  members  of  the  Baptist  church.  They  had  six 
children : 

Elisha,  who  married  Electa  Furman,  of  Warsaw. 

Chauncey  married  Jane  Alderman,  and  died  in  Eagle. 

Anna,  unmarried,  lives  in  Middleburv. 

Gamaliel  married  Maria  Freeman,  daughter  of  Rev.  Peter 
Freeman,  formerly  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  this  town. 
They  have  a  daughter,  and  live  in  Illinois. 

Samuel  died  at  the  age  of  4  years. 


231  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

Solon  W.,  married  Susan  E.  "Warren,  of  Orangeville,  and 
has  four  children:  Theodore  R.,  Cora  E.,  Arietta,  and  Arthur. 
They  reside  in  Middlebury. 

DAVID  BARNETT  was  born  in  Londonderry,  N.  II.,  in 
1769.     He  was  several  years  a  merchant  in  Vermont.     He 

married  Grisey  Patterson,  of  Londonderry,  a  sister  of  Mrs. 
Frank  and  "William  and  Peter  Patterson.  They  removed  to 
"Warsaw  about  the  year  1S30,  and  resided  on  East  Hill  until 
his  death,  Sept.  28,  183S.  His  occupation  was  that  of  a 
farmer.  Mrs.  Barnett  died  Nov.  13,  1850,  in  her  75th  year. 
She  was  a  person  of  vigorous  mind,  retentive  memory,  warm 
attachments,  and  decided  Christian  principle.  She  had  no 
children.  Mr.  Barnett  had  by  a  former  wife  two  daughters, 
now  residing  in  Vermont. 

JONATHAN  BARNETT  was  born  in  Londonderry,  N. 
II.,  Sept.  13,  1767,  where  he  was  married,  to  Ruth  Merrill. 
He  was  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  Scotch  Irish  immigrants 
from  Londonderry,  Ireland,  who  settled  in  the  former  town 
about  the  year  1720.  He  removed  to  this  town  in  1821, 
having  been  preceded  by  two  of  his  sons,  Amos  M.  and 
William  D.  He  died  Aug.  27,  1812.  Mrs.  Barnett  died 
March  29,  1S55.  They  had  nine  children,  all  born  in  Lon- 
donderry. 

John  was  born  July  6,  1795;  died  Oct.  20,  1S05. 

Amos  M.  was  born  March  5,  1797.  He  married  Laura 
Dunham,  of  Orangeville,  by  whom  he  had  six  children,  of 
whom  two  only  passed  infancy:  1.  Mary.  2.  Martha,  who 
married  Augustus  Harrington,  a  practicing  lawyer.  They 
reside  in  this  village.  Mr.  Barnett  was  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  church,  as  is  also  Mrs.  Barnett.  He  died 
Jan.  20,  1856. 

Robert  was  born  Nov.  8,  1798,  and  married  for  his  first 
wife,  before  his  removal  to  Warsaw,  Sally  Nevins,  by  whom 
he  had  a  son,  James  N.,  who  married  Sarah  Painter,  and  has 
two  children,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  and  Edwin  P.  Mr.  Barnett 
married  for  his  second  wife,  Hetty  S.  Foster,  by  whom  he  had 
a  son,  Robert,  who  served  in  the  late  war,  and  lost  a  leg  in 
battle.     [See  War  History.] 

William  D.,  born  Sept.  8,  1800,  married  Elizabeth  Young, 
of  this  town,  in  1830.  They  resided  in  Clarkson  until  1837, 
when  they  removed  to  Gainesville;  and  in  1819  to  Attica, 
where  he  died,  Aug.  2,  1865,  and  where  Mrs.  Barnett  still 
resides.  They  had  no  children.  He  was  a  ruling  elder  in 
the  Presbyterian  church  in  Attica. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  235 

James  was  born  March  25,  1S02.  lie  removed  from  "War- 
saw to  Ohio.  He  had  three  children,  of  whom  one  died  in 
the  war. 

Oilman  was  born  Feb.  11,  1801.  He  married  Mary  Ann 
Davis,  who  died  without  children.  He  married  for  his 
second  wife,  Laura  Stewart,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons: 
1.  Benjamin  Franklin,  who  married  Sylvia  Doty,  of  Attica, 
where  they  reside.  They  have  a  son.  2.  Augustus,  who 
married  Laura  J.  Bassett.  Lie  is  a  merchant  in  Albion. 
Oilman  Barnett  and  his  wife  now  reside  in  this  village. 

Jonathan  was  born  Aug.  1,  1807.  Lie  removed  to  Will 
Co.,  111.,  where  he  was  married.     He  died  June  13,  1860. 

David  was  born  March  9,  1810.  He  also  removed  to  Illi- 
nois, and  died  at  Wilmington,  Sept.  4,  1838.  He  was  at  the 
time  of  his  death  an  elder  in  the  church  of  which  he  was  a 
member.     He  was  unmarried. 

Maria  was  born  Oct,  18,  1813;  died  Jan.  0,  1859. 

ALAXSO^"  BARTLETT  was  born  in  Bath,  X.  II.,  Dec. 
31,  1802.  He  came  to  Warsaw  about  the  year  1820,  with 
his  father,  who  settled  in  the  north-west  part  of  the  town. 
He  removed  to  the  village,  and  carried  on  the  Cabinet 
Making  business  about  forty  years.  He  married  Maria 
Turner,  who  died  July  26,  1857.  He  died  Feb.  23,  1867. 
Both  were  members  of  the  Methodist  church.  They  had 
ten  children: 

Ann  Eliza,  who  died  at  the  age  of  37. 

Mary  E.,  who  married  O.  C.  Gero,  and  lives  in  ]S"ew 
Jersey. 

Martha  M.,  married  James  Dayton;  removed  to  Michi- 
gan, and  died. 

James  Spencer,  born  Feb.  9,  1833;  married  Aug.  23, 1859, 
Mary  P.  Hitchcock,  of  Arcade.  They  had  three  children, 
Charles  A.,  Frank  Lewis,  and  Clayton  S.,  died  in  infancy. 

Sarah  Maria,  married  Henry  Everson;  they  reside  in 
Chicago. 

Phideli.v  IT.,  died  in  infancy. 

Delia  D.,  married  Horace  Kimball,  of  Colden;  died  in 
1861,  leaving  a  daughter. 

Wallace  A.,  born  ~Kov.  5,  1811;  served  1  years  in  the 
war,  was  in  Salisbury  prison  7  months;  now  resides  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

Clara  C,  born  Aug.  7,  1852. 

Mr.  Bartlett  married  Henrietta  Roberts,  Jan.  23,  1858. 


230  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

ETHAN  E.  BARTLETT  was  horn  in  Bath,  K  H.,  Dec. 
17,  1804:,  and  came  to  Warsaw  in  December,  1821.  He 
graduated  at  the  Western  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
in  the  State  of  Xew  York,  and  commenced  practice  in  the 
village  of  Warsaw  in  the  Summer  of  1831.  In  the  Fall  of 
1S31,  lie  removed  with  his  family  to  the  State  of  Georgia. 
In  1S36,  he  "sought  again  the  land  of  the  free,"  (as  he  ex- 
presses it,)  and  settled  in  Orangeville,  and  practiced  in  that 
and  the  adjoining  towns  until  1848,  when  he  again  located  in 
Warsaw,  where  he  has  continued  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, more  or  less,  though  for  the.  last  several  years  his 
attention  has  been  bestowed  chiefly  on  other  business. 

Dr.  Bartlett  married  Elvira  A.  Tanner.  They  had  five 
children:  Nancy  Ellen,  who  died  Jan.,  1869,  Mary  Tabitha, 
Sarah  A.  Aphia,  Thomas  Rush,  who  died  April  23,  1867, 
aged  26,  and  George.  Mary  T.  married  Mr.  Smith,  and 
resides  in  this  town. 

Mrs.  Bartlett  died  in  Orangeville,  Dec.  11,  1816,  aged  33 
years. 

Dr.  Bartlett  married  for  his  second  wife,  Phebe  Foster. 
They  had  eight  children.  Only  Celinda  E.,  Lowell  D.  K., 
and  Julius  F.  H.,  are  living. 

WILLIAM  K.  BAKTLETT  was  born  in  Bath,  Grafton 
Co.,  1ST.  II.,  June  12,  1706.  He  married  Elmina  McLaugh- 
len,  and  removed  from  Chelsea,  Vt.,  to  Attica,  and  settled  the 
next  year  in  Orangeville.  In  1817  or  1818,  they  removed  to 
the  north-west  part  of  this  town,  where  both  died:  Mrs.  Bart- 
lett, July  lit,  1857;  Mr.  Bartlett,  June  9,  1867.  They  had 
eleven  children,  of  whom  three  died  in  infancy. 

Columbia  C.  married  Hiram  Mclvin,  of  Attica.  They  re- 
side in  this  town.  They  had  four  children:  two,  Emmet  and 
Ida,  are  living. 

Emmet  L.  resides  in  Chihuahua,  Mexico. 

Aurora  Adelaide  married  Homer  Melvin,  of  Attica.  Their 
children  are  Seth  H,  Elmina,  Aravesta,  Flora,  Charles. 

Myron  E.,  born  May  7,  1831;  married  Cordelia  McFar- 
land,  of  Ohio.  Children:  Eugene  M.,  Jennie  E.,  Edith  E., 
and  an  infant  daughter,  living.  Mr.  Bartlett  has  for  several 
years  been,  and  is  now,  a  practicing  attorney  in  this  village. 

Iork  resides  in  Liverpool,  England. 

Cosam  T.  was  born  April  3,  1837,  and  married  Hettie, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Smith,  of  Attica.  He  is  a  practicing  lawyer 
in  Attica. 

William  M.  and  Stephen  B.  live  in  Warsaw,  unmarried. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  237 

ELIAS  R.  BASCOM  was  born  in  Newport,  K  II.  He 
came  from  Benson,  Yt,  to  Warsaw,  in  the  autumn  of  1821, 
and  engaged  in  teaching  vocal  music.  In  the  spring  follow- 
ing, he  engaged  as  a  clerk  in  the  store  of  Dr.  Sheldon.  In 
1824,  he  married  Lucy  Hinman,  at  Castleton,  Yt.  About  the 
same  time  he  became  a  partner  of  Dr.  Sheldon  in  trade.  The. 
partnership  continued  until  it  was  dissolved  by  the  death  of 
Dr.  Sheldon  in  March,  1828.  Mr.  Bascom  continued  the 
business  until  1832  or  1833.  He  succeeded  Dr.  Sheldon  as 
Postmaster,  which  office  he  held  until  1841.  He  also  held 
the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  a  term  of  four  years, 
and  other  town  offices.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bascom  were  members 
of  the  Presbyterian  church.  In  184S,  he  removed  with  his 
family  to  Lansing,  Mich.,  where,  a  few  years  after,  he  died. 
Mrs.  B.  resides  with  a  daughter  in  Iowa.  They  had  eight 
children,  as  follows: 

James  A.,  who  married  in  Michigan,  and  resides  there. 

Elizabeth,  who  married  Horace  Roberts,  of  Detroit,  who 
was  a  Colonel  in  the  late  war,  and  was  killed  in  battle. 

Lucy  Jane  married  Mr.  Lauman,  of  Burlington,  Iowa,  and 
resides  in  that  city. 

Rollin  was  married,  and  died  two  or  three  years  since, 
leaving  a  wife  and  one  child. 

Anson  learned  the  printer's  trade,  and  went  to  the  West. 

Louisa  is  supposed  to  reside  in  Burlington,  Iowa. 

Lemuel  Haynes  and  Hoeace  died  young  in  Lansing. 

WILLIAM  BIXGHAM  was  born  in  Lempster,  K  II., 
Aug.  7,  1799.  He  married  Elizabeth  Roe,  and  after  her 
death,  Betsey  Knapp,  who  was  born  Dec.  8,  1808.  He  re- 
moved to  this  town  in  1830,  where  he  has  since  resided,  with 
the  exception  of  two  intervals,  the  first  from  1S3S  to  1839; 
the  second  from  1845  to  1850.  He  retired,  Jan.  1, 1865,  from 
what  had  been  the  principal  business  of  his  life,  Hotel-keep- 
ing, in  which  he  had  served  the  public  for  thirty-six  years  in 
succession.  He  was  widely  known  and  liberally  patronized, 
having  acquired  the  reputation  of  keeping  a  first  class  house. 
Mr.  Bingham  had.  by  his  first  wife  two  children:  Mortimer, 
who  died  in  infancy,  and 

Matilda  M.,  who  married  Daniel  A.  Knapp,  and  died 
Sept.  2,  1S64,  leaving  three  children,  Charles  M.,  William  B., 
and  James  B. 

His  children  by  his  second  wife  are 

William  M.,  living  in  Warsaw,  unmarried. 

Lucien  W.,  who  married  Lucy  A.  Bangs,  of  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  who  died  Aug.  15,  1867. 


23S  HISTOJRY   OF   WARSAW. 

IlrLDAii  married  James  O.  McClure,  and  lias  two  children, 
Ida  and  Frederick  W.  Mr.  McClure  commenced  the  Drug 
business  in  this  village,  April  1,  1867,  in  which  he  still  con- 
tinues. 

Maryette  A.  is  unmarried. 

BENJAMIN"  BISHOP  was  born  in  Lancaster,  X.  H., 
Nov.  25,  1806.  He  came  to  Warsaw,  West  Hill,  in  1824J 
He  taught  school  winters  for  a  few  years,  and  worked  at  farm- 
ing summers,  which  last  business  he  has  continued  to  the 
present  time.  He  married  Lydia  B.  Wakefield,  by  whom  he 
had  eleven  children:  Laura,  Lucy  E.,  John  W.,  infants,  John  F., 
James  D.,  Etta,  Antoinette,  died  at  3,  Flora  A.,  Charles  C, 
Addis  E.,  Minnie. 

James  D.  and  Charles  C.  served  in  the  late  war. 

SAXFORD  L.  BOUGHTOX  was  bom  August  27,  1810, 
and  married  Maria  A.  Roberts.  He  came  to  this  village  in 
the  year  1810.  He  was  highly  esteemed  for  his  social  and 
moral  qualities.  He  ever  manifested  a  deep  interest  in  our 
public  schools;  and  had  been  at  the  time  of  his  death,  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Education  in  this  village,  from  the 
time  of  the  incorporation  of  the  Union  School  in  1853.  He 
died  Sept.  26,  1859.  He  had  three  children :  William  P., 
Ardelissa  C,  and  Henry  C. 

William  P.  was  born  May  S,  1840.  He  completed  his 
school  course  in  the  Academy  in  this  village,  and  was  em- 
ployed as  one  of  its  instructors.  His  duties  as  teacher  were 
faithfully  and  ably  discharged  until  compelled,  by  failing 
health,  to  relinquish  his  chosen  pursuit.  He  died  July  5, 1851', 
soon  after  he  had  completed  his  nineteenth  vear. 

Ardelissa  C,  born  Jan.  19,  1811;  died  Sept.  28,  1862. 

Henry  C,  served  an  apprenticeship  at  printing  in  the  office 
of  II.  A.  Dudley,  and  resides  in  Missouri. 

WILLIAM  BRISTOL  was  born  in  Canaan,  Columbia  Co., 
X.  Y.,  Aug.  19. 1775.  He  came  to  Gainesville,  (then  Batavia) 
in  1S05,  and  assisted  Wm.  Peacock,  a  surveyor  for  the  Hol- 
land Company,  in  surveying  that  township.  He  also  cut 
open  the  north  and  south  center  road  through  the  town.  He 
settled  at  '•'The  Creek,"  where  he  resided  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  He  was  appointed  in  1S09,  and  again  in  1811,  by 
the  Council  of  Appointment,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  for  the 
town  of  Warsaw,  before  the  formation  of  Gainesville.  He 
served  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  was  Lieutenant  in  Capt.  Isaac 
Wilson's   company  of  Cavalry.     He   was   elected   the   first 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  239 

Supervisor  of  Gainesville,  in  1814,  to  which  office  he  was 
elected  at  different  times  for  live  years;  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Assembly  in  1823.  He  married  Martha  Stevens,  of  Wor- 
cester, Mass.  Mr.  Bristol  died  Jan.  4,  1859.  Mrs.  Bristol 
died  Oct.  17,  1865.     They  had  six  children : 

Francis  S.,  who  married  Merab  Stone,  and  died  in  War- 
saw, July  5,  1845.  They  had  three  children,  Martha  M., 
Sarah  C,  and  Martin. 

Benjamin  F.,  born  June  17,  1811,  married  Margaret  A. 
Davis.  They  have  six  children :  Joel  W.,  James,  Theodore, 
Corydon,  Martin  F.,  and  Benjamin  F.,  all  living  in  Gaines- 
ville. Mr.  Bristol  has  been  Supervisor  of  Gainesville  two 
years;  Justice  of  the  Peace  twenty  years,  and  elected  for 
three  terms  (nine  years)  County  Superintendent  of  the  Poor. 

Mary  S.  married  John  M.  Lawrence.  Their  children 
were,  Wm.  B.,  who  died  in  the  war  in  18(33,  and  George  D. 

Lamira  married  George  Harrington,  and  died  Sept.  14, 
1849.  Their  children  are  Augustus,  a  lawyer  in  Warsaw; 
George  S.,  who  resides  in  Lockport;  Charles  H.,  in  Arizona 
Territory;  and  Francis  S.  B.,  in  Nevada  Territory. 

William.     [See  Sketch.] 

Laura  married  Corydon  Doolittle,  and  died  April  19, 1853. 

WILLIAM  BRISTOL,  son  of  Wm.  Bristol,  previously 
mentioned,  was  born  in  Gainesville,  March  7,  1821,  and 
resided  on  the  homestead  of  his  father  until  the  year  1868,  his 
principal  business  having  been  that  of  a  farmer.  He  has 
been  live  years  Supervisor  of  Gainesville;  several  years  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  Postmaster,  and  Deputy  Sheriff;  and  in 
1S67  and  1S68  represented  this  county  in  the  Assembly.  He 
removed  in  1867  to  this  village,  where  he  is  engaged  as  a 
dealer  in  produce,  of  the  firm  of  Hibbard  &  Bristol.  He 
married,  Jan.  12,  1843,  Adelia  M.  Lockwood,  and  had  three 
children,  Laura  L.,  Belle,  and  Caroline  L.  Mrs.  Bristol  hav- 
ing died,  he  married,  Jan.  8,  1857,  Martha  J.  Jewett,  by 
whom  he  has  a  son,  William. 

ISAAC  C.  BEOXSOIST  was  born  Sept.  6,  1803,  in  Onon- 
daga Co.,  whither  his  father  removed  from  Connecticut  in 
1800,  and  thence  to  Ontario  county  in  1804.  In  1823,  he 
removed  with  his  lather  to  Sheldon,  where  the  latter  died  the 
same  year.  He  commenced  the  mercantile  business  in  Shel- 
don, 1S25,  which,  with  the  exception  of  two  brief  intervals,  he 
has  carried  on,  in  partnership  or  alone,  to  the  present  time; 
having  been  interested  in  establishments  in  Sheldon,  Weth- 
ersfield,  Warsaw,  and  other  places.     In  1832  he  removed 


240  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

from  Sheldon  to  Warsaw,  and  associated  himself  with 
Dr.  Augustus  Frank  in  trade.  [See  Merchants.]  After 
his  removal  to  Warsaw,  he  became  interested  also  in  the 
Leather  and  Shoe  trade,  which  he  carried  on  about  ten  years. 
He  was  one  ot  the  company  who,  in  1840,  established  the 
Woolen  Factory  in  the  south  part  of  the  village.  [See  Manu- 
factures.] He  was  for  several  years  Postmaster  in  this  town. 
He  was  for  many  years  joint  owner  of  the  grist-mill  in  the 
village.  He  took  an  active  part  in  securing  the  construction 
of  the  Attica  and  Ilornellsville  railroad,  and  was  a  Director 
and  one  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Company.  In. 
1854  he  removed  to  Rockford,  111.,  where  he  has  since  been 
in  the  Dry  Goods  and  Hardware  trade,  and  is  still  interested 
in  the  latter,  besides  being  engaged  extensively  in  the  cattle 
trade  and  farming.  He  married,  Oct.  24,  1826,  Calista  Gates,, 
daughter  of  Dea.  Seth  Gates,  of  Sheldon.  They  had  eight 
children,  as  follows,  besides  Delia  C,  Maria  E.,  and  Charlotte 
E.,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Seymour  Gates,  born  Oct.  1,  1S2T,  married  MaryE.  Gates, 
and  is  a  Hardware  merchant  in  Rockford,  111.  He  had  five' 
children:  Mary  C,  Charlotte  E.,  d.  inf.,  Frances  E.,  Helen  M., 
Willard  S. 

Augustine  Y.,  born  Jan.  G,  1S30,  married  Helen  E.  Aus-. 
tin.     Children:  Ada  and  Inez,  twins,  d.  inf.,  and  Henry  A. 

Arthur  M.,  born  Dec.  9,  1831,  died  May  2,  1801. 

Henry  C,  born  Feb.  20,  1830,  died  Dec.  14,  1850. 

Calista  J.,  born  Dec.  2,  1836,  married  George  M.  Smith, 
of  Pike.  Children:  Frederic  A.,  Mary  C,  Fannie  G.,  Mabelle 
B.,  and  Allen  A. 

Theodore  W.,  born  Feb.  27,  183S. 

Mary  Jexxette,  born  Feb.  2,  1844,  married  George  W. 
Pratt,  and  has  a  son,  Richard  Bronson. 

Emma  Elizabeth,  born  Oct.  10,  1840,  married  Arthur  D. 
Parker. 

NEWBURY  BROXSON  removed  to  this  town  from 
Winchester,  Conn.,  in  183S,  and  settled  on  West  Hill,  on  the 
farm  known  as  the  Lyon  farm.  In  1855  he  sold  his  farm, 
and  removed  to  the  village,  where  he  resided  until  the  time 
of  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,  an  exemplary  Christian,  and  diligent  in  efforts  for 
the  abolition  of  slavery  and  the  promotion  of  temperance 
and  other  objects  of  benevolence.  He  died  June  6,  1861. 
He  was  born  in  Winchester,  Conn.,  April  13,  1804,  and  mar- 
ried Lucy  Tillotson,  May  9,  1831.     They  had  two  children: 


FAMILY    SKETCHES    AXD    NOTES.  241 

Lucy  Maria,  who  married  Harlow  Belden.     They  reside 
in  Waterloo,  Iowa,  and  Lave  a  daughter,  Anna  Florine. 
Tillotson  Newbury,  who  lives  in  Warsaw. 

EDMUND  BUCK  was  born  in  Arlington,  Vt.,  Feb.  7, 
1S04.  He  married  Nov.  15,  182S,  Ane  Noble,  who  was  born 
June,  1806.  They  resided  in  Vermont  until  1831,  when  they 
removed  to  Warsaw.  Mr.  Buck  purchased  a  farm  in  the 
south-west  part  of  the  town,  on  which  he  still  resides.  He 
has  been  frequently  elected  to  responsible  offices  in  the  town. 
They  had  five  children: 

Mary,  who  married  John  Kane,  of  Eagle.  They  reside  in 
this  town,  and  have  had  four  children:  Charles,  Ane,  Cynthia, 
and  John,  infant. 

Ransom,  who  married  Chloe  Foster,  of  Wethersfield,  who 
died,  having  had  one  child,  (inf.)  He  married  for  his  second 
wife,  Helen  Shipman,  by  whom  he  has  a  daughter,  Virginia. 

Marcus  married  Eliza  Maranville,  and  has  a  son,  Elmer 
Ellsworth. 

Rollin  married  Pamelia  Maranville. 

Carrie  is  unmarried. 

N  ORRIS  BULL,  D.  D.,  an  early  minister  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  in  this  town,  was  born  in  Harwinton,  Conn., 
Oct.  21,  1790.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in  1813, 
and  graduated  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in  1818. 
He  came  in  the  summer  of  that  year  to  Warsaw,  under  the 
patronage  of  the  New  York  Young  Men's  Missionary  Society. 
Early  in  1821,  he  was  called  by  the  Presbyterian  church  ot 
Geneseo,  of  which  he  continued  pastor  eleven  years.  In 
1S32  he  became  pastor  of  the  church  at  Wyoming,  and 
during  the  greater  part  of  his  pastorate  there,  he  was  also 
Principal  of  the  Academy.  In  1836,  he  was  invited  to 
Clarkson,  where  also  he  had  charge  of  a  church  and  an 
Academy.  At  the  end  of  six  years  he  chose  to  retire  from 
the  school;  and  in  1846,  he  resigned  his  pastoral  charge.  In 
the  autumn  of  the  same  year,  he  accepted  an  invitation  from 
the  church  at  Lewiston,  where  he  died,  Dec.  7,  1847.  In 
1845,  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from 
Union  College.  It  is  believed  by  those  best  acquainted  with 
him,  that  few  abler  men  have  ever  lived  in  Western  New 
York.  His  mind,  richly  endowed  by  nature,  was  improved 
by  thorough  cultivation  and  rigid  discipline.  His  extraordi- 
nary ability  as  a  debater,  though  seldom  displayed  except  in 
ecclesiastical  bodies,  is  universally  acknowledged  by  all  who 
have  heard  him. 

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242  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

He  married,  June  9,  1810,  Mary  Ann  Henry,  of  Sauga- 
tuck,  Conn.     They  had  four  children. 

WILLIAM  BUXTOX  was  born  in  Belchertown,  Mass., 
Nov.,  1783.  In  1804,  he  was  married  to  Lydia  Smith,  who 
was  born  Oct.  18,  ITS".  In  1811,  he  removed  with  his  family 
from  Belchertown  to  O  ran  Seville,  then  Attica.  About  the 
year  1821,  he  removed  to  Warsaw,  (West  Hill,)  thence  to 
Wethersfield.  After  about  two  years'  residence  there,  he 
came  to  the  village  of  Warsaw,  in  1831  or  1S32,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death.  He  had  tor  several  years  previously 
to  his  last  removal  to  Warsaw,  made  a  public  profession 
his  faith  in  Christ;  and  soon  after  his  return  to  this  town  he 
united  with  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  was  soon  chosen  as 
a  Billing  Elder,  which  office  he  held  during  the  rest  of  his 
life.  Dea.  Buxton  was  ever  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  reli- 
gious duties.  He  possessed  an  equable  temper  and  a  contented 
mind.  Though  industrious  and  frugal,  his  acquisitions  were 
small;  scarcely  less,  however,  than  his  desires.  And  though 
he  had  no  worldly  possessions  to  bequeath,  he  has  transmitted 
to  his  children  what  they  regard  as  of  incomparably  greater 
value,  a  good  name.  Dea.  Buxton  also  held  for  several  years 
the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  this  town.  He  died  Jan. 
28,  1851.  Mrs.  Buxton  died  Aug.,  1865.  They  had  nine 
children,  of  whom  two  died  young. 

Harriet,  who  married  David  Bun-.  They  removed,  several 
years  after,  to  Conneautville,  Pa.,  where  Mr.  Burr  died  in 
1853.  Their  children  were,  1.  James,  who  married  Julia 
Ann  Andrews,  in  Warsaw,  where  he  died  in  1854.  2.  Alan- 
son,  who  married  Betsey  Chadwiek,  and  has  three  children. 
3.  Mabel,  who  married  Mr.  Peabody,  and  resides  in  Con- 
neautville, Pa.  They  have  a  daughter.  4.  William,  who 
died  in  1855,  aged  about  21.  5.  Achsah,  who  married  Mr. 
Dibble,  and  has  two  (laughters  and  a  son. 

Pamelia  married  William  Eddy,  of  Orangeville,  where 
they  have  ever  since  resided.  Their  children  are,  1.  Lydia, 
who  married  Mr.  Lockwood.  Children,  Hattie  and  Flora. 
2.  Hortensia,  who  married  Charles  Griffin.  3.  Chauncey  B., 
who  married  Miss  Lockwood,  and  had  two  children;  one  died 
in  infancy. 

William  S.  married  for  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth  Smith,  by 
whom  he  had  a  son,  Henry,  who  married  Sarah  Gardner,  of 
Wethersfield,  and  has  two  children.  He  married  a  second 
wife,  by  whom  he  has  three  sons.  Mr.  Buxton  is  a  Methodist 
preacher,  and  resides  in  Michigan. 


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FAMILY    SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  243 

Chauncey  C.  was  born  in  Orangeville,  April  3,  1S13.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Adams,  and  had  seven  children:  1.  Helen, 
who  became  the  second  wife  of  Hon.  Harlow  L.  Comstock, 
and  died,  leaving  a  daughter,  Helen  E.  2.  Hattie,  who  died 
at  13.  3.  "William,  now  Druggist  in  Warsaw.  4.  John  A. 
5,  6,  7,  Marian,  Charles,  and  Julia,  all  of  whom  died  infants. 
Mr.  Buxton  was  long  associated  with  his  brother,  Timothy,  in 
the  carriage  making  business,  and  has  held  the  office  of  Super- 
visor and  other  responsible  town  offices.  He  is  now  engaged 
in  the  Drug  business,  of  the  firm  of  Buxton  &  Lewis.  Him- 
self and  wife  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 

Timothy  H.     [See  T.  H.  Buxton.] 

Otis  S.  married  Charlotte  T.  Sheldon,  daughter  of  the  late 
Dr.  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon.  Children:  1.  Florence,  who  mar- 
ried Eugene  Andrews,  of  Perry,  and  has  a  son,  Clinton. 
2.  Gertrude,  died  an  infant.  3.  Charlotte.  4.  Herbert,  died 
in  infancy.  5^Carrie.  .  6.  Clarence.  7.  Lilian.  Mr.  Buxton 
is  Door-keeper  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  in  AVashing- 
ton. 

Franklin  married  Martha  Clark,  of  Batavia.  He  died  in 
1857,  leaving  a  daughter,  Hattie,  who  died  in  her  8th  year. 
Mrs.  Buxton  resides  in  Batavia. 

TIMOTHY  II.  BUXTOX,  son  of  Dea.  ¥m.  Buxton,  was 
born  in  Orangeville,  July  9,  1815.  His  advantages  for  edu- 
cation were  limited;  but  his  native  energy  and  business  talent 
enabled  him  to  overcome  more  than  ordinary  obstacles,  and, 
in  connection  with  an  elder  brother,  to  establish,  and  for  many 
years  to  carry  on,  an  extensive  and  successful  business.  [See 
p.  91.]  He  has  also  attained  an  honorable  and  influential 
position  in  society.  He  has  several  times  been  elected  Super- 
visor of  the  town.  He  was  for  many  years  a  Director  of  the 
Wyoming  County  Insurance  Company.  In  1849  he  was 
elected  Sheriff  of  Wyoming  county,  and  discharged  the 
duties  of  the  office  with  the  greatest  promptness  and  fidelity. 
For  his  efficiency  as  a  peace  officer,  he  was  often  called  "  a 
terror  to  evil  doers."  Himself  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
the  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  he  is  also  an  Elder,  and 
has  been  for  nearly  thirty  .years  continuously,  and  is  still,  one 
of  the  Trustees  of  that  Society.  Ho  has  also  actively  coope- 
rated in  efforts  for  the  suppression  of  intemperance,  the 
maintenance  of  good  order,  and  the  promotion  of  the  interests 
of  morality  and  religion.  He  married  Juliann  Clark,  of  Ba- 
tavia.    Their  children  were  as  follows: 

Mary  C,  who  married  Hon.  Byron  Healy,  County  Judge. 

Lucy  M.,  Frances  Julia,  Joseph,  Edward  T.,  and  Homer 


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S.  and  Harlow  W.,  twins;  the  latter  of  whom  died  in  infancy; 
the  former  at  the  age  of  8  years. 

Dr.  PETER  CANER  was  born  in  Herkimer  Co.,  Dec. 
15,  1800.  He  graduated  at  the  Fairfield  Medical  College  in 
1825,  and  practiced  two  years  in  partnership  with  Dr.  Delos 
White,  of  Cherry  Yalley,  with  whom  he  had  studied  medi- 
cine. In  1827,  lie  came  to  Warsaw,  and  soon  acquired  mi 
extensive  practice,  which  he  retained  until  disabled  by  sick- 
ness a  short  time  before  his  death.  lie  died  April  2,  1854. 
He  married  Harriet  Holt,  o±  Cherry  Yalley,  by  whom  he  had 
eight  children,  as  follows: 

Edward  II.,  a  physician,  married  Elizabeth  C.  Gregory,  and 
and  had  three  children.  He  died  near  New  York,  May  20, 
1855. 

Mary  E.  died  March  10,  1851,  aged  21. 

II.  Nelson,  married  in  Rockford,  111.,  and  is  a  physician  in 
Freeport,  111.     lie  has  two  children. 

George  W.  died  aged  20;  John  A.,  1857,  aged  21. 

Robert  Johnson  is  in  the  U.  S.  naval  service,  in  the  North 
Pacific  Squadron. 

Lucien  W.,  died  in  infancy.  Henry  C,  died  Jan.  31, 1862, 
aged  17. 

CYRUS  CAPEN  was  born  in  Windsor,  Yt,  April  19, 
1708;  married  Delilah,  daughter  of  Hezekiah  Scovel,  for- 
merly of  Warsaw.  He  still  resides  in  this  town.  He  had 
five  children:  1.  Matilda  M.,  who  married  Alonzo  Cleveland, 
and  had  three  children,  Charles  II.,  died  an  infant;  Cyrus  N., 
and  Samuel  A.  2.  Luman  II.,  who  married  Theresa  J. 
Lowry,  and  died  at  Shortsville,  Ontario  Co.  3.  Am}7  R.,  died 
at  11.  4.  Samuel  S.,  married  Ida  L.  Fearing,  at  Santa  Anna, 
111.,  and  has  one  child. 

ERASMUS  D.  CARPENTER  was  born  in  Eridgewater, 
Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.,  July  13,  1807.  From  Le  Roy,  where  he 
had  resided  for  a  time,  he  removed  to  this  village  in  1831, 
and  commenced  the  Grocery  and  Provision  business,  which 
he  has  continued,  with  the  exception  of  one  brief  interval, 
until  the  present  time.  He  married  Lucy  M.  Knapp,  of  this 
town,  who  died  Dec.  5,  1834.  He  married  for  his  second  wife 
Eliza  A.  L.  Fargo,  who  died  Feb.  0,  1854,  and  by  whom  he 
had  four  children: 

Francis  M.,  who  married  Dexter  C.  Webb,  and  has  three 
children. 

Lucy  Ann  E.,  married  James  E.  Davis,  and  resides  at  Rich- 
mond Hill,  Canada. 


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245 


Henry  II.,  married  Love  Luce,  and  resides  in  Lindon, 
Michigan. 

Sarah  J.,  married  Charles  E.  Cornwell,  and  resides  in  Iowa. 
They  have  one  child. 

Mr.  Carpenter  married  for  his  third  wife,  Mrs.  Kate  Moslier, 
of  Warsaw. 

AMMI  II.  CARPENTER  was  born  in  Oneida  Co.,  Feb. 
15,  1813.  He  married  Eliza  Yan  Densen.  They  removed  to 
Warsaw  from  Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  in  1839.  He  was  by  trade 
a  tin-smith;  and  during  a  large  portion  of  the  time  of  his 
residence  in  this  village,  he  was  engaged  in  the  Stove  and  Tin 
business.     He  now  resides  in  Aurora,  Erie  Co. 

He  had  nine  children:  Myron  B.,  Helen  M.,  Mary,  George, 
Buena  Y.,  Herri  ck  II.,  Gertrude,  Julia,  and  Carrie,  who  died 
March,  I860,  at  the  age  of  8  years. 

OTIS  F.  CARPENTER  was  born  in  Westmoreland, 
Oneida  Co.,  1ST.  Y.,  Jan.  16,  1810.  He  was  married  to 
Margaret  Yan  Allen.  He  came  to  Warsaw  in  1831,  and 
in  connection  with  his  brother,  Erasmus  D.,  commenced  the 
Grocery  and  Provision  business,  in  which  he  continued  ten  or 
twelve  years.  He  subsequently  engaged  in,  and  still  contin- 
ues, the  farming  business,  on  East  Hill,  about  two  miles  from 
the  village.     He  has  five  children: 

Walter  S.,  unmarried. 

Franklin,  who  married  Abigail  Nichols,  of  Perry. 

Ella,  who  married  Frank  Adams,  merchant  in  Tioga,  Pa., 
and  has  a  son,  Walter. 

Albert,  who  lives  in  Geneseo;  and  Eddy. 

ELIJAH  CHAMBERLAIN  was  born  April  13,  1783, 
and  married  Ruth  Googins.  They  removed  from  Ludlow,  Yt., 
to  Warsaw,  in  1S2S,  and  settled  on  the  East  Hill,  where  they 
lived  until  the  time  of  their  death.  Mrs.  Chamberlain  died 
October  20,  1849.  Mr.  Chamberlain  died  June  23,  1860. 
They  were  connected  with  the  Presbyterian  church.  They 
had  nine  children,  as  follows: 

Betsey,  who  married  Asa  Bryant,  and  had  six  children. 
The  family  removed  many  years  ago  to  Wisconsin. 

Sarah  married  Thomas  'Bliton.  They  removed  some  years 
since  to  Machias,  Cattaraugus  county.  They  had  nine  chil- 
dren. 

Polly  died  in  her  18th  year. 

Olive  married  Thomas  Kelly,  and  removed  to  Michigan. 
They  had  six  children. 


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HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


Ruth  married  Sheldon  Bryant;  lives  in  Great  Valley,  and 
Las  four  children. 

Elijah,  Jim.,  born  April  11,  1S20,  married  Betsey  Trues- 
dell.  Their  children  are,  1.  Adelia  Y.;  2.  Alia  A.,  who 
married  James  H.  Wing,  and  resides  in  Warsaw;  3.  JohnT.; 
4.  Cora  Isabel.  , 

Nancy  M.  married  Elon  W.  Chase.  They  live  in  "Warsaw, 
and  had  four  children:  Edgar  Adelbert,  who  married  Lucy 
McWethy,  and  three  who  died  young. 

William  J.  married  Jennet  Lake,  of  Perry,  and  resides 
there.     They  had  four  children. 

Gardner  H.  married  Jane  Lake  of  Perry,  and  died  March 
18,  1857,  aged  29  years.  They  had  two  children.  Gardner  IL. 
died  March  18,  1857,  aged  29. 

RODERICK  CHAPIN  was  born  in  Wilbraham,  Mass., 
in  1766.  He  married  Hephzibah  Smith.  They  removed  from 
Hampton  to  this  town  in  1815,  and  settled  on  West  Hill,  on 
the  farm  since  owned  by  David  Sammis.  Having  previously 
made  a  profession  of  their  faith,  they  united  with  the  Presby- 
terian church  in  this  place;  and  for  several  years  Mr.  Chapin 
wTas  one  of  its  ruling  elders.  He  died  in  Busti,  Chautauqua 
county,  August,  1842.  His  wife  died  in  this  town  in  March, 
1810.     They  had  ten  children  : 

Roderick,  who  married  Sarah  Clough.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  Methodist  preacher,  and  was  subsequently  at  different 
times  connected  with  Cumberland  Presbyterians  and  Wes- 
leyan  Methodists.  He  died  in  Chautauqua  Co.,  in  1857;  his 
wife,  in  Jan.,  1856.     They  had  seven  children. 

John  married,  first,  Betsey  Waters,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 
who  is  dead.  He  married,  second,  Lucy  Wheelock,  by  whom 
he  had  eight  children.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church  in  Warsaw.     He  has  removed  West. 

Harvey  married  Martha  Smith,  who  died.  He  married, 
second,  Jane  Hare,  who  died,  leaving  three  children.  Mr. 
Chapin  was  a  Presbyterian  minister;  had  preached  at  Alden 
and  other  places  in  Western  New  York.  He  perished  in  the 
flames  of  his  dwelling-house  in  Tipton,  Missouri,  July  28th,. 
1866. 

Ebenezer  married,  in  Carroll,  Chautauqua  county,  Maria 
D.  W.  Cadv,  by  whom  he  had  seven  children.  They  are  by 
profession  Presbyterian. 

Willard  married  Mrs.  Adaline  Brooks  in  Ohio.  He  died 
in  Olivet,  Mich.    He  had  two  children. 

Parmelia  married  Bela  Bartlett,  and  died  at  Belmont,  Al- 
legany Co.     They  had  seven  children. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES   AND    NOTES.  247 

Mary  IT.  married  Isaac  Hemmingway,  and  resides  in 
Jamestown,  N.  Y.     They  had  nine  children. 

Oliver  iST.  married  Sarah  Hobart,  by  whom  he  had  nine 
children.  Mr.  Chapin  is  a  minister  ol  the  gospel,  and  has 
long  been,  and  is  now,  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in 
Spartansbnrg,  Pa. 

Rebecca  married  John  Lyon,  of  Busti.  They  had  two 
children. 

STEPHEN  CHASE  was  born  in  Poplin,  K  H.,  Jan.  7, 
1702,  and  married  Lois  Ely.  They  removed  to  Warsaw 
about  the  year  1814,  and  settled  in  the  north-west  corner  of 
the  town,  where  they  resided  until  they  died.  Their  children 
were: 

Abial,  who  married  John  Bean,  and  removed  to  Warsaw. 
They  had  seven  children. 

Thomas,  born  July  3,  1782,  married  Rhoda  Smith,  and  re- 
moved to  Warsaw.  They  had  five  children:  1.  Xancy. 
2.  Sally,  who  married  Elias  Judd,  of  Middlebury.  3  John, 
who  resides  on  the  Reddish  farm  two  miles  north  of  the  vil- 
lage, and  who  married  Bathsheba  Marsh.  Lie  married,  sec- 
ond, Mrs.  Elvina  Marsh,  and  had  by  her  two  children,  Duane 
and  George,  who  is  dead.  lie  married,  third,  Mrs.  Alvina 
Smead,  of  Bethany.  4.  David,  who  married  Elizabeth  Sam- 
mis,  and  had  two  children,  both  dead.  He  married,  second, 
Matilda  Taylor,  who  also  is  dead.  5.  Jefferson,  who  married 
Sophia  Porter,  of  Middlebury,  since  removed  to  Iowa.  They 
have  two  children. 

David  married  and  died  in  XewT  Hampshire. 

Sarah  married  John  Smith  and  removed  to  Warsaw. 

Hannah  married  Benj.  Bodge,  and  died  in  Batavia.  They 
had  four  children. 

Stephen,  born  July  6,  1796,  married  Betsey  Hogle.  Their 
daughter,  Anna,  married  Enos  Ingersoll,  and  died  in  Michi- 
gan.    They  had  two  children. 

Elizabeth  married  Almerin  Curtis.  They  had  fourteen  or 
more  children.  Both  parents  and  all  but  two  or  three  of  the 
children  are  dead. 

JOHX  F.  CLARK  was  born  in  Pawlet,  Vt,  April  5, 
1799.  He  came  to  Warsaw  in  1811,  and  married  Lydia 
Hatch,  who  died  Dec.  22,  1825.  He  married  for  his  second 
wife,  Paulina  Truesdell,  by  whom  he  had  six  children:  Eber, 
Carlos,  Sybil,  Ozias,  Horace,  who  died  in  his  8th  year,  and 
Walter. 

Eber  married  Eleanor  A.  Bates,  Jan.  1,  1857. 


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Sybil  married  Ferris  W.  Norton.  She  died,  leaving  a 
daughter,  Cora. 

Ozias  married  Fidelia  Richards,  May  14,  1856. 

Mr.  Clark  married  for  his  third  wife,  Rachel  Richards,  hy 
whom  he  had  a  daughter,  Alta  E.,  who  married  Eugene 
Stearns. 

ALONZO  CHOATE  was  born  in  Middlebury,  June  1, 
1814.  In  1836,  he  engaged  as  a  clerk  for  his  uncle,  Roswell 
Gould,  then  a  merchant  at  South  Warsaw.  After  a  clerkship 
of  three  years,  he  was  a  partner  in  the  business  two  years. 
In  1815,  Mr.  Choate  bought  of  Mr.  Gould  the  store  and 
goods  at  South  Warsaw,  and  continued  in  trade  there  until 
1851,  when  he  removed  to  the  village  and  traded  one  year. 
He.  was  elected  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  1816,  for  the  term 
ot  four  years,  and  reelected  in  1850;  and  in  1851,  Supervisor. 
On  the  establishment  of  the  Post-Ofrice  at  South  Warsaw, 
Feb.,  1850,  he  was  appointed  Postmaster,  which  office  he  held 
several  years. 

Mr.  Choate  married  Lucinda  Truesdell,  who  died  Aug.  11, 
1812,  aged  21.  They  had  two  children:  Annua,  who  died  at 
12;  and" Eliza  Jane,  who  married  George  M.  Bassett,  a  printer 
in  this  village,  and  has  a  sou,  Hubert  Alonzo. 

Mr.  Choate  married  for  his  second  wife,  Lucretia  C, 
daughter  of  Silas  C.  Fargo.     They  reside  in  Warsaw. 

NICHOLAS  CLEVELAND  was  born  in  Fairhaven,  Vt, 
June  26,1793.  He  married  Sarah  Morris,  of  Hampton.  He 
removed  to  Warsaw  in  1825,  and  settled  in  the  south-west 
part  of  the  town,  where  he  died  in  Jan.,  1869.  He  served  in 
the  war  of  1812.  Both  himself  and  wife  in  youth  made  a 
profession  of  their  faith  in  the  Savior,  and  united  with  the 
Methodist  church.  He  has  for  many  years  been  a  local 
preacher.  Mrs.  Cleveland  died  many  years  ago.  They  had 
nine  children: 

William,  who  married  Amanda  Henris.  They  had  a 
daughter,  Sarah,  who  married  Dr.  Waldron,  who  died  in  this 
town  in  1866. 

Josiaii  married  Mary  Rogers.     Both  have  died. 

Alonzo  married  Sally  Truesdell,  who  died.  He  married, 
second,  Matilda  C.  Capen,  by  whom  he  had  three  children: 
Charles  H.,  d.  inf.,  Cyrus  N.,  and  Samuel  A. 

Betsey  married  Chauncey  L.  Stevens.  They  had  two 
children:  Ann  Janette,  who  died  at  about  11,  and  George 
Henry. 


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Uriah  married  Hannah  Loretta  Munger,  by  whom  he  had 
three  children,  only  one  of  whom,  Charlotte,  is  living.  Mrs. 
Cleveland  died  in  1863.  Mr.  Cleveland  married,  second, 
Arsino  Jenison,  of  Gainesville. 

Chester  H.  married,  in  Ohio,  Miss  Niles.  They  reside  in 
Middlebury,  and  have  one  child,  John. 

Laura  L.  married  Nelson  Baker,  of  this  town.  They  re- 
side in  Wethersfield,  and  have  three  children,  Alida,  Emma; 
and  Carrie. 

John  M.  married  Orissa  Shipman,  and  died. 

HAKLOW  L.  COMSTOCK  was  born  in  Groton,  Tomp- 
kins Co.,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  22,  1822.  He  removed  to  Warsaw  in 
1S50;  formed  a  partnership  in  the  practice  of  law  with  James 
E.  Doolittle,  now  Senator  in  Congress  from  Wisconsin.  The 
partnership  continued  one  year.  He  continued  the  practice 
of  his  profession  here  until  1868.  He  was  elected  District 
Attorney  for  Wyoming  County  in  November,  1850,  and  re- 
elected 'in  November,  1863.  In  November,  1855,  he  was 
elected  Comity  Judge  for  the  constitutional  term  of  four 
years;  was  re-elected  in  1859,  and  again  in  1S63,  having  held 
the  office  during  a  period  of  twelve  years.  He  was  a  Lawyer 
of  decided  ability,  and  had  a  successful  practice.  He  also 
acquired  a  high  reputation  as  a  Judge.  He  and  his  wife 
were  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  he  was 
an  elder.  In  the  spring  of  1868  he  removed  to  Canandaigua, 
where  he  continues  in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He 
married  for  his  first  wife,  Jane  O.  Ives,  by  whom  he  had 
three  children  :  Martha  Jane,  Catharine,  and  Anna  Laura. 
He  married  in  Warsaw,  for  his  second  wife,  Helen  Buxton, 
daughter  of  Chaimcey  C.  Buxton.  She  died,  leaving  a  daugh- 
ter, Helen  Elizabeth.  He  married  for  his  third  wife,  Cor- 
delia Shepard. 

BENJAMIN  B.  CONABLE,  son  of  Eufus  Conable,  was 
born  in  Gainesville,  April  21,  1821.  He  remained  at  home, 
Avorking  on  his  father's  farm,  and  enjoying  only  ordinary 
educational  advantages  afforded  by  the  district  school,  until 
he  was  fifteen  years  of  age.  He  then  engaged  with  his  uncle, 
Samuel  Conable,  of  South  Warsaw,  at  the  Woolen  Manufac- 
turing business,  in  which  he  continued  four  years.  He  was 
next  employed  by  Wm.  Iv.  Crooks,  in  his  Carding  and  Cloth 
Dressing  establishment  in  this  village;  and  after  one  year's 
service,  he  became  a  partner,  and  continued  as  such  for  one 
year.  In  the  spring  of  1813,  he  bought  a  farm  in  Gainesville, 
and  pursued  the  farming  business  with  good  success  for  about 


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twelve  years,  Laving  also,  for  several  seasons,  bought  and  sold 
considerable  quantities  of  wool.  In  1855,  he  purchased  the 
farm  of  Newbury  Bronson,  formerly  known  as  the  Lyon 
farm,  two  miles  south-west  of  the  village,  on  which  he  still 
resides.  However  others  of  his  vocation  may  complain,  he 
has  made  farming  profitable,  having  acquired  more  than  a 
comfortable  independence.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebel- 
lion, he  was  among  the  first  to  engage  in  measures  to  aid  in 
its  suppression.  Although  unable,  from  physical  disability, 
to  take  the  field  himself,  he  gave  liberally  to  the  volunteers 
and  their  families.  He  came  forward  promptly  at  every  call, 
and  at  a  later  day,  when  the  authorities  had  to  raise  large 
sums  ot  money,  he  allowed  his  name  to  be  used  for  that  pur- 
pose. He  was  married,  Feb.  1,  1843,  to  Salvira  Morris, 
daughter  of  the  late  Solomon  Morris,  Jim.  They  have  a 
daughter,  Helen  S.,  who  married  Hiram  D.  Truesdell,  son  of 
John  Truesdell,  (not  the  late  John  Truesdell,  of  South  War- 
saw.) They  have  two  children,  Barber  C.  and  Hiram  Walter, 
and  reside  near  the  residence  of  Mr.  Conable,  on  the  farm 
formerly  owned  by  the  late  Nathan  Scovel. 

^ESEK  COOK  was  born  in  Middlebury,  Vt,  Sept.  26, 
1797,  and  removed  when  young  to  Wallingford,  where  he 
married  Lucinda  White,  born  in  1801.  He  removed  to  War- 
saw about  thirteen  years  ago.     He  had  six  children: 

_  Cordelia  married  Gilbert  Clark,  and  resides  in  Gaines- 
ville.    Their  children  are,  Edwin,  Oscar,  James,  and  Lucinda. 

Sophia  married  Jerome  Hoisington.  Their  children  are, 
Burdette,  died  at  18,  and  Mary. 

Melinda  married  James  R.  Smith,  and  has  a  son,  Frank. 

Laura  Ann  married  Eli  Peck.  Children:  1.  Helen,  2.  Alvin, 
who  married  Amanda  Shipman,  and  has  two  children. 

Arabel  married  James  Fullington,  who  is  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Knapp,  Fullington  &  Co.,  Carriage  Makers  and  Black- 
smiths in  this  village.     He  has  a  son,  Henry. 

Lorenzo  married  Lucy  Jane  White,  and  lives  in  Warsaw. 

Mrs.  Cook  died  July  15,  1851,  and  Mr.  Cook  marrried  Ce- 
lestia  Macklem,  and  resides  in  this  village. 

BROUGHTON  W.  CRANE  was  born  in  Richmond, 
Cheshire  Co.,  N.  II.,  Dec.  16,  1797.  He  removed  from  Ham- 
ilton, N.  Y.,  to  Warsaw,  in  1833,  in  the  south-west  part  of  the 
town,  on  the  farm  formerly  owned  by  Newton  Hawes.  He 
married  Asenath  Martin,  of  Richfield,  N.  Y.  Early  in  life 
he  united  with  the  Baptist  church  in  Hamilton,  and  has  held 
the  office  of  Deacon  in  the  church  in  Warsaw;  of  which  his 
wife  also  is  a  member.     They  have  two  children: 


FAMILY    SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  251 

Byron,  who  married  Marjie  Foster,  of  Wethersfield,  and 
resides  in  this  town.  They  had  five  children :  Broughton 
Wm,  died  at  10;  Ida,  (inf.,)  Frank  F.,  Asenath  Ann,  and 
Charles  Byron. 

Mary  Ann  married  Ormus  Marshall,  of  Wethersfield, 
who  purchased  a  farm  on  West  Hill,  where  he  now  resides. 

RANSOM  B.  CRIPPEN  was  born  at  Fort  Ann,  K  Y., 
Dec.  28,  1804,  and  married  in  1S29,  Harriet  Demell.  He 
resided  successively  at  Batavia,  Wyoming,  and  Wethersfield. 
In  ]NTov.  1848,  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  this  county  for  the 
term  of  three  years.  After  a  residence  here  of  about  twelve 
years,  he  engaged  in  August,  1861,  as  a  Clerk  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Interior,  at  Washington,  where  he  died,  Feb.  26, 
1868.  He  was  for  many  years  an  esteemed  member  of  the 
Baptist  church.  Mrs.  Crippen  and  the  younger  children  still 
reside  in  Washington.  They  had  four  children:  Hansom  A., 
Arthur  Willis.  Mary  Elizabeth,  and  Ellery  Hicks,  of  whom 
only  the  eldest  is  married. 

RANSOM  A.  CRIPPEN  son  of  Ransom  B.  Crippen,  was 
born  Dec.  18,  1830,  in  Middlebury,  and  married,  Sept.  10, 
1851,  Ruth  D.  Hicks,  of  Perry,  who  was  born  Jan.  27,  1829, 
in  Palmyra,  Wayne  county.  He  was  several  years  engaged 
as  clerk  and  as  proprietor  in  the  mercantile  business  in  this 
village;  and  in  1864,  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  County,  which 
office  he  held  for  the  constitutional  term  of  three  years.  He 
is  at  present  (1869)  a  Fire  Insurance  Agent  and  a  Real  Estate 
Broker.  He  has  three  children:  Arthur  W.,  Mary  E.,  and 
Ellery  H. 

JAMES  CROCKER  was  born  in  Vermont.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  practice  of  Law  before  his  removal  to  War- 
saw. He  came  to  this  town  about  the  year  1820.  After  a 
residence  here  of  a  few  years,  he  married  Emma  Lane,  of 
Pawlet,  Yt.  They  had  a  number  of  children,  all  of  whom, 
except  one,  died  in  infancy.  In  1833  or  1834,  they  removed 
to  Buffalo,  where  he  lost,  by  death,  first  his  daughter,  Mary 
Electa,  aged  8  years,  and  Sept.  11th,  1849,  his  wife.  Mr. 
Crocker,  although  never  highly  distinguished  in  his  profession, 
was  one  of  the  safest  of  Counselors,  and  was  universally 
regarded  as  an  "honest  lawyer."  He  was  for  many  years  in 
Warsaw,  and  afterwards  in  Buffalo,  an  exemplary  member 
and  Elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  died  in  Buffalo, 
Feb.  4,  1861.  His  body,  as  had  been  those  of  his  wife  and 
children,  was  buried  in  Warsaw. 


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HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


JOIIX  CROCKER  was  born  in  Vermont,  May  31,  1797, 
came  to  Warsaw  in  or  about  tbe  year,  1818,  and  established 
himself  in  business  as  a  Hatter.  He  here  married,  Ardelizza 
Dryer.  Soon  after  he  came  to  Warsaw,  he  made  a  profession 
of  his  faith  in  the  Savior,  and  manifested,  during  the  remain- 
der of  his  life,  the  genuineness  of  that  faith,  by  a  life  of  active 
piety.  He  was  an  efficient  supporter  of  the  instutions  of  the 
church,  and  a  member  of  the  various  benevolent  and  reform- 
atory associations.  He  was  in  1S31  chosen  a  ruling  elder  in 
the  Presbyterian  church,  which  office  he  exercised  until  his 
removal  from  "Warsaw.  He  relinquished  the  business  of  his 
trade,  and  removed  to  Arcade,  where  he  died  June  31, 1844. 
His  widow,  an  exemplary  Christian  lady,  is  still  living.  They 
had  four  children: 

William,  who  spent  a  few  years  in  the  South,  in  teaching. 
After  his  return  and  a  short  residence  in  Warsaw,  he  went  to 
Buffalo,  where  he  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Aaron  Rum- 
sey.  She  died,  leaving  two  children,  William  and  jSTellie. 
He  married  a  second  wife,  who  also  is  dead.  He  married  a 
third  wife,  who  died  in  1868.     He  still  resides  in  Buffalo. 

James  married  Charlotte  Parmele,  daughter  of  the  late  Rev. 
Abial  Parmele.  His  health  failing,  he  visited  the  south  in 
the  vain  hope  of  its  recovery.  He  died  soon  after  his  return. 
Mrs.  Crocker  resides  in  Westfield. 

Harriet  married  Dr.  James  L.  Enos,  of  Cedar  Rapids, 
Iowa.  They  had  two  daughters,  Lucy  Amelia  and  Lucy 
Fisher,  both  dead. 

John  Jermaix  resides  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa. 

^JOXAS  CUTTING  was  born  in  Shaftsbury,  Vt.,  Aug.  19, 
1782.  He  came  to  Warsaw  in  the  year  1804,  and  married 
Li  ivina  Fargo,  who  was  born  April  23, 1791.  They  were  mar- 
ried in  Warsaw,  and  settled  on  his  farm  a  mile  and  a  fourth 
south  of  the  village,  where  Helon  S.  Taber  now  resides.  They 
had  six  children. 

David  Parker,  who  married  Sarah  A.  Smith,  and  removed 
to  Erie  county,  Pa.,  where  he  was  killed  by  the  fall  of  a  tree. 
He  had  four  children. 

Ciiauxcey  Z.,  married  Sally,  daughter  of  Simeon  Gibson. 
They  had  five  children:  Romanzo  B.,  Mary  L.,  who  died  at 
18;  Ellen  M.,  Chauncey  G.,  who  died  in  the  hospital  at  Yicks- 
burg,  Nov.  1864;  and  Sarah.  Mrs.  Cutting  died,  and  Mr. 
Cutting  married  a  second  wife,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter, 
Carrie.     He  died  Sept.  1,  1867. 

Mary  L.,  married  James  R.  Doolittle.  [See  J.  R.  Doo- 
little.] 


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FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  253 

Jerome  B.,  married  Louisa  Moss,  and  resides  in  "Wisconsin. 
Children:  Nathaniel  M.,  died  at  5;  Jonas,  and  Jared. 

Marquis  F.,  married  Delia  Doolittle,  and  resides  in  Racine, 
"Wis.  Children:  Corydon  D.,  Delia,  Myraette,  died  at  8;  and 
Sarah. 

Jonas  Cutting  died  in  1S60  at  Racine,  "Wis.,  where  Mrs. 
Cutting  still  resides. 

JOSHUA  H.  DARLING  is  a  native  of  Henniker,  KB., 
and  a  son  of  the  late  Judge  Joshua  Darling  of  that  place.  At 
the  age  of  16,  he  engaged  as  a  clerk,  and  soon  after  as  a  part- 
ner, with  a  brother-in-law,  in  the  mercantile  business.  In 
1830,  he  left  New  Hampshire  for  the  "West;  and  calling  on  a 
friend,  the  Hon.  G.  "W.  Patterson,  then  residing  in  Leicester, 
with  whom  he  visited  "Warsaw,  he  made  a  temporary  engage- 
ment as  a  clerk  for  Dr.  Augustus  Frank.  In  the  tali  of  that 
year,  he  became  a  partner  with  A.  AV.  Young — then  in  the 
mercantile  business — under  the  firm  of  A.  AV.  Young  &  Co. 
After  the  dissolution  of  this  firm  in  1831  or  1S32,  he  contin- 
ued the  business,  single,  with  the  exception  of  one  or  two  brief 
periods,  for  about  twenty  years.  He  maintained  the  reputa- 
tion of  an  "  honest  dealer;  "  and  his  success  is  to  be  attributed 
mainly  to  his  close  attention  to  business  and  prudent  manage- 
ment. The  necessity  of  a  Bank  in  AVarsaw  having  long  been 
felt  by  the  citizens  of  this  county,  Mr.  Darling  established,  as 
an  individual  banker,  the  "Wyoming  County  Bank,  under  the 
general  banking-law  of  this  state,  and  managed  its  operations, 
with  great  financial  skill,  during  its  existence  as  a  state  insti- 
tution. [See  Banks.]  He  is  universally  esteemed  as  a  citizen. 
He  has  been  associated  with  the  earliest  friends  of  the  tem- 
perance and  antislavery  causes,  and  has  steadily  co-operated 
in  efforts  for  the  promotion  of  good  morals,  and  the  interests 
of  education  and  religion,  and  the  general  improvement  of 
society.  He  united  with  the  Presbyterian  church  in  this 
place,  and  was  one  of  the  number  from  that  church  who,  in 
1810,  formed  the  Congregational  church  and  society.  To  the 
objects  and  enterprises  of  this  organization  he  has,  from  his 
ample  means,  been  a  large  contributor. 

Joshua  H.  Darling  was  born  Sept.  5,  1S0S;  and  was  mar- 
ried, Feb.  23,  1832,  to  Lucretia  Frank,  daughter  of  John 
Frank,  of  Granville,  by  -whom  he  had  seven  children:  Mary  E., 
"William  Henry,  John  Harrison,  Julia  L.,  James  B.,  Emily  M., 
Frances  I. 

Mary  E.  married  Henry  B.  Jenks,  late  Cashier  of  "Wyo- 
ming County  National  Bank.  They  have  three  children: 
Edward,  Laura,  Harrison. 


254  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

William  Henry  died  at  Amherst  College,  Dec.  5,  1853, 
aged  18  years. 

J.  Harrison  was  for  several  years  Cashier  of  the  "Wyoming 
County  Bank,  and  died  Jan.  24,  1864,  in  his  27th  year. 

Julia  L.  married  Dr.  Edward  W.  ,Jenks,  and  died  April, 
1866.  Dr.  Jenks  is  a  Professor  in  the  Detroit  Medical  Col- 
lege, Mich. 

James  B.  died  in  infancy. 

Emily  M.  married  Gerard  Bills,  who  served  in  the  late  war, 
and  is  now  a  practicing  attorney  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Frances  I.  married  John  W.  Curtis,  a  graduate  of  Roches- 
ter University,  and  resides  at  Grand  Haven,  Mich. 

Mrs.  Lucretia  Darling  died  Dec,  IT,  1844.  Mr.  Darling 
married  for  his  second  wife,  Laura  E.  Mosher,  a  daughter  of 
Rev.  Mr.  Mosher,  of  Ontario  Co.,  June  19,  1845,  by  whom 
lie  had  seven  children:  Margaret  A.,  who  married  James  W. 
Chapman,  and  resides  in  Warsaw;  Laura  E.,  Edward  M., 
Grace,  Kate,  Alice,  Frederick  W. 

Mrs.  Laura  E.  Darling  died  Jan.  1,  1862.  Mr.  Darling 
married  for  his  third  wife,  Clara-  B.  Beebe,  of  Litchfield,  Conn., 
Aug.  4,  1862. 

ALBERT  G.  DAYIDSO^  was  born  in  Springfield, 
Bucks  Co.,  Pa.,  Dec.  2,  1803,  and  was  married  to  Cynthia 
Clark.  They  removed  from  Friendship,  Allegany  Co.,  to 
this  town,  in  March,  1841.  Mr.  D.  is  of  Scotch  parent- 
age, and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  as  is  also 
his  wife.  They  had  six  children:  Susan,  died  in  infancy; 
Mary  Jane,  Emma  Louisa,  died  at  3;  James  M.,  Emma  Isa- 
bella, died  at  3;  and  Franklin  Clark. 

Mary  Jane  married  Wm.  W.  Patterson,  and  has  a  daugh- 
ter, Jennie  M. 

James  M.  served  in  the  late  war.  He  was  Sergeant,  Co.  I., 
14th  Regiment,  1ST.  Y.  Heavy  Artillery;  enrolled  at  Rochester, 
Dec.  16,  1863;  discharged  May  12,  1865,  by  special  order, 
!No.  210  of  War  Department.  He  was  all  through  Grant's 
campaign  in  Virginia,  from  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness  until 
after  Lee's  surrender.  His  Regiment  belonged  to  Burnside's 
Corps. 

DxVVIDSOX,  JAMES  J.,  was  born  in  Quakcrtown,  Hun- 
terdon Co.,  X.  J.,  Xov.  29,  1807,  and  married  Lucy  M.  Can- 
stock.  They  removed  to  Warsaw  from  Friendship,  in  1841. 
They  belong  to  the  Presbyterian  church.  They  had  eight 
children:  Calvin  G,  William  M.,  Laura  A.,  Rowena,  Thomas 
C,  Eliza  Jane,  Charles  C,  and  James  Clarence. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES   AND    NOTES.  255 

C  vlvin  C.  married  Mary  Hurd  of  Cairo,  111.,  and  lias  a 
daughter,  Alice  L.     lie  is  a  wholesale  grocer  in  that  city. 

William  M.  married  Ann  Ilelby,  of  Cairo,  and  has  a  son, 
William  II.     They  reside  in  Cairo. 

The  others  reside  in  Warsaw  with  their  parents. 

ELKA1STAH  DAY  was  born  in  Attleborough,  Mass., 
Feb.  3,  1761;  and  married  Polly  McWhorter,  in  Granville, 
March  IT,  1788.  He  removed  from  Granville  with  his  family 
to  this  town  in  1806,  and  settled  near  where  the  Brick  Hotel 
now  stands.  He  was  by  trade  a  blacksmith,  and  was  the  first 
in  town.  He  subsequently  bought  a  farm  on  West  Hill,  to 
which  his  family  removed  after  his  death.  He  was  a  worthy 
man  and  a  highly  respected  citizen.  In  1810  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  an  assistant  justice  of  the 
county  court,  which  offices  he  held  for  several  years.  He 
joined  the  Presbyterian  (then  Congregational )  church  soon 
after  its  organization;  his  wife  was  one  of  the  ten  of  which  it 
was  formed,  in  1808.  He  had  attained  the  rank  of  Colonel, 
though  he  was  not  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  died  Jan.  23, 
1813,  of  the  epidemic,  elsewhere  noticed.  Mrs.  Day  died  in 
1819.     They  had  twelve  children: 

Chloe  married  Newton  Hawes,  who  settled  on  the  farm  on 
which  Dea.  Crane  now  resides.  Mrs.  Hawes  died  March  26, 
1S21,  aged  35  years.  Mr.  Hawes  removed  with  his  family  to 
Ohio.  His  children  were,  Isaac,  Polly,  John,  Horace,  Elka- 
nah,  Lydia,  and  Enoch.  Horace  studied  law  with  the 
well-known  Alvan  Stewart,  of  Utica;  was  District  Attorney 
of  Erie  Co.,  Pa.,  and  under  President  Polk,  Consul  at  the 
Sandwich  Islands.  He  afterwards  settled  at  San  Francisco, 
Cal.,  and  lias  acquired  a  very  large  fortune.  He  visited 
Warsaw  a  few  years  since,  and  procured  the  erection  of  a  fine 
monument  to  his  grand  parents  and  their  children — the 
family  of  Col.  Day. 

Lydia  married  Wm.  Webster,  and  died  without  children. 

Bethiaii,  born  Feb.  20,  1793,  married  David  Fargo.  [See 
D.  Fargo.] 

Artemas,  born  Dec.  5,  1791;  died  Oct.  12,  1823,  un- 
married. 

David  removed  to  Olean,  where  he  married  twice,  and 
had  several  children.  He  held  there  the  offices  of  justice  of 
the  peace,  associate  judge  of  the  county  court,  and  postmaster. 
He  died  there  a  few  years  since. 

Hiram,  born  Jan.  7,  1799;  died  in  1820. 

Elipiial,  born  Sept,  28,  1801,  died  in  1824. 

Isabel,  born  Aug.  8,  1803;  died  in  1821. 

John,  born  March  25,  1806;  died  in  1827. 


256  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

Elkaxaii  went  to  Olean,  married,  resided  at  and  near  that 
place  for  many  years,  and  Lad  several  children.  He  now 
resides  in  Minnesota. 

Polly  married  John  A.  McElwain.  [See  John  A.  McEl- 
wain.] 

JAMES  K.  DOOLITTLE  was  born  in  Hampton,  Wash- 
ington Co.,  X.  Y.,  Jan.  3,  1S15,  and  removed  with  his  father 
to  Orangeville  (now  Wethersfield,)  in  1810.  He  is  a  graduate 
of  Hobart  College,  Geneva,  and  studied  law  with  Hon.  Addi- 
son Gardiner,  of  Rochester,  Judge  and  Lieutenant-Governor. 
In  1841,  after  the  formation  of  the  county  of  Wyoming,  and 
the.  location  of  the  county  seat  at  Warsaw,  Mr.  Doolittle 
having  formed  a  partnership  with  Linns  W.  Thayer,  Esq.,  in 
the  practice  of  Law,  they  settled  in  Warsaw.  In  1815,  the 
partnership  was  dissolved.  In  1317,  Mr.  Doolittle  was 
elected  District  Attorney  for  the  term  of  three  years.  In 
1850,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Harlow  L.  Comstock, 
Esq.,  and  in  1851,  he  removed  to  Racine,  Wis.  He  was  soon 
elected  a  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  state;  and  be- 
fore the  expiration  of  his  term,  lie  resigned  his  office,  and 
resumed  his  practice  at  the  bar.  lie  was  subsequently 
elected  by  the  Legislature  senator  in  Congress,  and  took  his 
seat  in  March,  1S57;  and  was  reelected  for  a  second  term, 
which  will  expire  in  March,  1860.  Mr.  Doolittle,  during  his 
residence  in  Warsaw,  united  with  the  Baptist  church  in  this 
place,  and  has  since  that  time  continued  his  connection  with 
a  church  of  that  order. 

Mr.  Doolittle  married  Mary  L.  Cutting,  of  Warsaw.  They 
had  six  children:  Henry  J.,  who  died  in  the  late  war;  Anson 
O.,  who  married  Bessie  Jones,  and  resides  in  Kew  York  city; 
James  R.,  Silas  W.,  Mary  M.,  and  Sarah  L. 

IIARWOOD  A.  DUDLEY  was  born  at  Union  Tillage, 
Washington  Co.,  !N".  Yr.,  April  5,  1825,  and  removed  with  his 
father  to  Perry  in  1831.  In  1848,  he  came  to  Warsaw,  and 
engaged  as  foreman  in  the  printing  office  of  the  Wyoming 
County  Mirror,  of  which  he  subsequently  became  a  joint 
proprietor.  He  afterwards  sold  his  interest  in  the  Mirror, 
and  bought  the  Western  ISTew  Yorker  establishment;  and  a 
few  years  after  became  sole  proprietor  of  the  Mirror,  which, 
in  IS 64  was  merged  in  the  New  Yorker,  then  published  by 
Wm.  II.  Merrill,  and  from  that  time  to  the  present  by  Dudley 
&  Merrill.  He  has  held  the  several  offices  of  Loan  Commis- 
sioner, Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  and  Secretary  of 
the  Wyoming  Agricultural  Society,  many  years.     In  Kovem- 


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ber,  1SGS,  lie  was  elected  County  Treasurer.  lie  is  a  member 
of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  a  friend  and  supporter  of 
the  various  benevolent  and  Christian  enterprises  of  the  day. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  first  Company  raised  in  Warsaw  to 
suppress  the  rebellion.  He  was  elected  Lieutenant.  [See 
War  History.]  He  was  after  his  return  from  the  army 
Deputy  Provost  Marshal  for  this  District. 

He  married  Sarah  Jane  Hogarth,  of  Geneva.  They  have 
had  six  children:  Edward  II. ,  who  was  born  June  8,  1851, 
and  died  April  8,  1860;  William  P.,  Jennie,  Mary,  Martha, 
Anna,  and  Elizabeth,  of  whom  Jennie  and  Anna  died  in 
infancy. 

NEHEMIAII  PAEGO  was  born  in  Bozra,  Conn.,  Jan.  10, 
17(51.  He  was  married,  June,  1783,  to  Mary  Chapman,  born 
Dec.  25,  1764.  They  resided  there  about  ten  years;  then, 
successively,  at  Colchester  and  Hebron,  in  Connecticut;  San- 
disfield  and  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  and  at  Green  River  and 
Geneseo,  N.  Y.;  and  came  to  Warsaw  in  1804,  and  settled  on 
the  place  where  his  son,  Allen,  resides,  and  where  he  contin- 
ued to  reside  until  his  death,  Oct.  13,  1828.  His  wife  died 
Dec.  12,  1839.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church. 
They  had  eight  children:  Silas  C,  David,  Lovina,  Martha, 
Palmer,  Alpheus,  (drowned  in  1801,  aged  4  or  5  years,)  Allen, 
Polly,  who  die  1  at  3.  Lovina  married  Jonas  Cutting;  Maria 
married  John  II.  Reddish.     [See  Sketch.] 

SILAS  C.  FARGO  was  born  in  Montville,  New  London 
Co.,  Conn.,  June  15, 1784.  lie  married  in  Warsaw,  March  2, 
1806,  Catharine  Whiting,  born  Peb.  4,  1786.  This  was  the 
first  couple  married  in  this  town;  and  the  marriage  was  sol- 
emnized by  Elizur  Webster,  Esq.,  the  first  settler  and  the  first 
justice  of  the  peace  in  this  township,  then  a  part  of  the  town 
of  Batavia.  Mr.  Fargo  came  in  with  his  father  in  1804,  and 
continued  to  reside  here  until  1867,  when  he  removed  to  Fond 
du  Lac,  Wis.,  where  Mrs.  Fargo  died,  Dec.  5,  the  same  year. 
They  were  for  many  years  connected  with  the  Methodist 
church  in  Warsaw.      They  had  ten  children: 

Irene  A.  was  born  Dec.  5,  1S06;  died  April  3,  1831. 

William  1ST.  married  Sarah  A.  Rich,  and  removed  many 
years  ago  to  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  and  has  six  children. 

Alpheus  W.  married  Rebecca  Freer,  and  has  removed  to 
Chatfield,  Minn.     lie  had  two  children. 

Angeline  H.  married  Smith  Bebens.  They  live  in  Illinois, 
near  the  city  of  Beloit,  Wis.,  and  had  eight  children. 

Caroline  F.  married  John  Morgan,  who  is  dead.  She  lives 
in  Mt.  Morris,  and  has  two  children.  17  ■ 


25S  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

Lucretia  C.  is  second  wife  of  Alonzo  Choate.  [See  A. 
Choate.] 

Eliza  Ann  L.  married  Erasmus  D.  Carpenter.  [See 
Sketch.] 

Allen  D.,  born  Jan.  24,  1S19,  married  Isabel  Perkins,  and 
has  two  daughters,  Helen  and  Julia. 

Silas  T.,  born  May  5,  1821,  married  Bhoda  Cochran. 
After  her  death  he  married  Charlotte  Ilinman.  They  have 
a  son,  Charles. 

DAVID  FAEGO  was  born  in  Montville,  Conn.,  Oct.  31, 
1786.  He  came  to  Warsaw  with  his  father  in  3  804,  and  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  town.  For  many  years  he  re- 
sided on  his  farm,  about  one  and  a  half  miles  north  of  the 
village.  He  was  a  Deacon  of  the  Baptist  church,  lie  after- 
wards united  with  the  Congregational  church.  The  last  years 
of  his  life  were  spent  in  the  village,  having  retired  from  busi- 
ness, lie  married  in  Warsaw,  Sept.  0, 1810,  Bethiah  Day, 
who  was  born  Feb.,  1703,  and  who  died  May  11, 1814.  They 
had  two  children:  David  W.,  born  Aug.,  7,  1811,  died  Feb. 
10,  1814,  and  Polly. 

Polly  married  Chauncey  Kimball,  in  this  town.  They 
have  since  resided  in  Springville  and  Boston,  Erie  county,  and 
now  reside  in  Baraboo,  Wis.  They  had  eight  children,  of 
whom  seven  are  living.  Mr.  Fargo  married  for  his  second 
wife,  Phebe  Mason,  Oct.  9,  1S64,  by  whom  he  had  ten  chil- 
dren; two  died  infants. 

David  Mason,  who  married  Sarah  Ann  Wilson,  and  now 
resides  in  Saginaw,  Mich.     The}7  had  eight  children. 

Benjamin  Franklin,  who  married  Maria  Bloomfield,  in 
Springfield.  They  have  three  children:  Helen,  Charles,  and 
May.  He  was  for  many  years  a  merchant  in  Warsaw,  and  is 
now  engaged  in  the  produce  and  grocery  business. 

Darius  C.  married  Harriet  Perkins,  and  resides  in  Califor- 
nia.    They  had  two  children;  one,  Le  Roy,  is  living. 

Myron  E.  married  Mary  Smith,  daughter  of  Henry  W. 
Smith,  of  Middlebury,  and  has  a  son,  Henry.  He  is  a  farmer 
in  that  town. 

Francis  F.  married  Mariett  Perry,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Perry,  of  Middlebury.  They  removed  to  California,  where 
Mr.  Fargo  was  lor  some  years  editor  of  a  newspaper,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  legislature.  He  has  returned  to  this  state. 
He  has  two  children  living:  Eva  and  Gertrude. 

Adaline  S.  married  Norman  J.  Perry,  of  Middlebury, 
many  years  the  keeper  of  the  North  Hotel  in  this  village. 
He  died  in  1807.  Their  children  were  Ada  Blanch,  who  died 
at  G  years,  and  Sebert  Courtney. 


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Harrison  and  Harriet,  twins.  Harrison  married,  first, 
Maria  Briggs ;  second,  Laura  Whalon.  He  lias  one  child. 
Harriet  married  Charles  L.  Seaver.     [See  Sketch.] 

David.  Fargo  died  May  16,  1855.  Mrs.  Fargo,  his  wife, 
died  Jan.  21^  1850. 

PALMER  FARGO  was  born  in  Sandisfield,  Mass.,  Sept. 
21,  1796,  and  came  to  this  town  with  his  father  in  1801.  He 
married  Caroline  W.  Scovel.  In  1818  he  settled  on  the  farm 
on  which  he  now  resides,  in  the  north  part  of  the  town.  They 
had  twelve  children;  two  d.  inf. 

Mary  A.  married  Burton  French  and  lives  in  Bennington. 
Their  children  are,  1.  Palmer  O.,  who  married  Nancy  Melvin, 
and  now  resides  in  Chicago.  2.  Ira,  who  married  Huldah 
Clapp,  of  Bennington,  and  has  a  son.  3.  Sylvia,  who  mar- 
ried Mr.  Wade,  and  resides  in  Burton,  Mich.  1.  Franklin  B. 
5.  6.  Romanzo  and  Romine,  twins. 

Adoniram  J.  married  Eliza  Waterman,  and  resides  in 
Gainesville.  They  had  four  children:  1.  2.  Orinda  and  Cla- 
rinda, twins.  Orinda  died  at  9.  Clarinda  married  Dorson 
Bently.  They  reside  in  Warsaw,  and  have  a  son.  3.  Anson, 
died  at  3.     4.  Judson. 

Hezekiah  S.  married  Henrietta  Hill.     They  reside  in  Perry. 

Nehemiah  married  Jane  Green,  of  Michigan.  He  died  at 
the  age  of  26.  She  married  James  Adams,  of  Marion,  and 
died  in  Michigan. 

Lovina  C.  married  Robert  Snow,  now  a  practicing  lawyer 
in  Belfast,  Allegany  county.  They  had  four  children:  De 
Lamont,  who  died  young;  Helen,  Laura,  and  Scott  F. 

Clarinda  D.  died  at  the  age  of  11  years. 

Florilla  O.  married  x\lbert  Green.  They  live  in  Howell, 
Mich.,  and  have  had  eight  children. 

Wealthy  L.  married  Wm.  J.  Parsons,  a  lawyer  at  St. 
Cloud,  Minn.,  and  have  had  five  children;  three  are  living. 

Palmer  C.  occupies  the  homestead  with  his  father,  in  the 
north  part  of  the  town.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Wm. 
Coburn.     They  had  two  children:  Luella,  d.  inf.,  and  Ada  C. 

Romanzo  II.  died  in  Warsaw,  at  the  age  of  19. 

Mrs.  Caroline  W.  Fargo  died  Nov.  26,  1819.  Mr.  Fargo 
married  for  his  second  wife,  Mrs.  Lurana  Barber,  of  Gaines- 
ville, who  died  Aug.  18,  1861.  For  his  third  wife  he  married 
Lorenda  Cady,  of  East  Otto,  K  Y. 

ALLEN  FARGO  was  born  in  Barrington,  Mass.,  April  1, 
1802,  came  to  Warsaw  with  his  father,  in  1801,  and  married 
Polly  Marchant,  Oct,  30,  1822.  Their  children  were,  1.  John 
M.,  who  married  Betsey  Throop,  and  removed  to  Iowa.  They 


260  HISTOKY   OF   WARSAW. 

have  one  son.  2.  Marvin  X.,  who  married  Hannah  Dewins. 
They  have  three  children.  3.  Lucia  Amelia,  who  married 
Chester  A.  Cole,  and  has  four  children:  Mary,  John,  Charles, 
Emma.  1.  Wheeler  II.  who  married,  first,  Miss  Sombeer, 
and  had  a  son  who  died  at  the  age  of  5  or  6.  He  married, 
second,  Phila  Wilkin,  by  whom  he  had  two  children:  an 
infant  and  Florence.  lie  died  April  27,  1803.  5.  Walter 
Bailey,  who  married  Sarah  Covell,  and  lias  three  children: 
Adelhert,  William,  and  a  daughter.  6.  Mary  Jane,  d.  inf. 
7.  Polly,  who  died  in  her  11th  year. 

ELBERT  E.  FARMAN  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Oswego 
county,  April  23,  1831,  and  removed  to  Gainesville  in  ISIS. 
He  graduated  at  Amherst  College  in  1S55,  having  "worked" 
his  way  through  his  educational  course.  He  came  to  War- 
saw the  same  year,  and  commenced  the  study  of  law  with  F. 
C.  D.  McKay,  Esq.,  and  has  from  that  time  to  the  present 
resided  in  this  village,  continuing  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. In  1S59  and  I860,  he  was  joint  proprietor  and  editor 
of  the  Western  New  Yorker.  From  1S65  to  1807,  he  was  in 
Europe;  a  large  proportion  of  the  time  being  spent  in  the 
Universities  of  Ileidelbnrg  and  Berlin  in  the  study  of  the 
law  and  the  language  of  the  country.  His  letters  from  Europe 
written  for  the  New  Yorker,  were  read  with  interest.  After 
his  return,  he  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Fenton,  District  Attor- 
ney in  the  place  of  Byron  Healy  elected  County  -fudge;  and 
was  elected  in  November,  1868,  to  the  same  office  which  lie 
now  holds.  On  becoming  a  resident  of  this  town,  he  trans- 
ferred his  relation  to  the  church  in  Amherst  to  the  Congrega- 
tional church  of  Warsaw,  with  which  himself  and  wife  are 
still  connected.  He  married  Lois  Parker,  of  Gainesville, 
Dec.  21,  1855,  who  was  born  in  June,  1832. 

JAMES  C.  FERRIS  was  born  in  Rensselaer  county,  March 
4,  1791,  and  was  married  in  Albany,  March  5,  1818,  to  Alida 
Wynkoop.  He  removed  thence  to  Wyoming  in  1821,  and 
established  himself  in  the  mercantile  business.  His  was,  it  is 
believed,  the  second  store  kept  in  that  place,  and  the  first 
which  comprised  a  stock  adequate  to  the  wants  of  the  people 
of  that  village  and  vicinity.  After  a  large  and  prosperous 
trade  there  for  nearly  31  years,  he  removed  to  Warsaw,  in 
1855,  and  became  proprietor  of  the  grist-mill  in  the  village. 
He  was  for  some  time  a  partner  in  the  Drug  business  in  War- 
saw; also  in  the  Dry  Goods  business.  In  1866,  he  sold  his 
property  in  this  village,  and  removed  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.; 
thence  to  Buffalo,  in  1S67,  and  in  1868  he  returned  to  this 


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place,  having  purchased  a  residence  on  Buffalo  street.  He 
held  for  several  years  the  office  of  Supervisor  of  the  town  of 
Middlebury;  and  in  1843,  was  appointed  an  associate  Judge 
of  the  County  Court.     He  Lad  ten  children: 

James  W.  married  Emily  Stoddard,  and  resides  in  Wyom- 
ing.    He  has  seven  children. 

Andrew  J.  died  at  Wyoming,  at  the  age  of  25. 

Charles  Edward  married  Matilda  Jane  McNulty,  of 
Elmira,  and  resides  in  Attica.  He  has  one  child  living, 
Tillie. 

Eobert  D.  married  Justine  B.  Kathbone,  of  LeRoy,  and  is 
in  the  hardware  business  in  New  York.  He  has  two  children: 
Lucy,  and  Kate  R. 

Elizabeth  married  Charles  M.  Tyrrell,  of  Wyoming.  They 
removed  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  she  died.  They  had 
three  children;  one,  Frank,  is  living. 

Martin  V.  B.,  unmarried,  lives  at  Spencerport,  Monroe 
county. 

Mary  married  John  I.  Black.  They  live  in  Minneapolis, 
and  have  had  four  children:  Jessie  Isabel,  John  Ferris, 
Thomas,  died  at  3,  and  James  Charles. 

Isabel,  unmarried,  resides  in  Warsaw. 

Alida  married  John  R.  Blodgett,  and  lives  in  Buffalo. 

Dea.  JOHN  FISHER  removed  to  Warsaw  from  Lon- 
donderry, 1ST.  H.,  in  the  year  1834.  He  was  a  descendant  of 
one  of  the  earl}7  settlers  of  that  town,  emigrants  from  London- 
derry, Ireland,  about  the  year  1720,  and  of  the  class  of  people 
usually  distinguished  as  the  "Scotch,"  or  "Protestant  Irish." 
He  was  born  in  Londonderry,  Jan.  9,  1700,  and  married,  Oct. 
24,  1708,  Betsey  Dean,  who  was  born  June  24,  1776.  Dea. 
Fisher  settled  on  the  farm- previously  owned  by  Samuel  Mc- 
Whorter,  in  the  south  part  of  the  village,  and  at  present  by 
Samuel  Fisher, '2d.  He  died  Oct.  13,  1838.  Mrs.  Fisher 
died  Nov.  20,  1858.  They  had  nine  children,  all  born  in  Lon- 
donderry, as  follows: 

Lucy  C,  and  Betsey,  who  are  unmarried. 

Nathaniel  Dean,  born  March  15,  1804,  married  Alnhra 
Gage,  of  Londonderry.  He  removed  to  Warsaw,  and  was  for 
several  years  engaged  in  the  1  >oot  and  shoe  trade.  He  removed 
to  Gault,  Canada,  and  established  a  foundry  for  the  manufac- 
ture of  stoves  and  other  castings.  He  subsequently  removed 
to  Hamilton,  and  for  several  years  carried  on  the  wholesale 
leather  trade.  In  1866,  he  returned  with  a  competence,  and 
purchased  a  residence  on  Buffalo  street,  where  he  now  resides. 
He  has  two  children:  Armina  E.,  and  William  P.,  a  graduate 


262  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

of  Amherst  College,  and  now  studying  for  the  ministry  in 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York. 

John.     [See  Sketch.] 

Samuel  was  born  May  18,  1808,  and  removed  to  this  town 
in  1828.  He  married,  June  10,  1834,  Armina  Dryer,  who 
died  Aug.  27,  1835.  He  married  for  his  second  wife,  March 
8,  1838,  Lucy  S.  Woodward,  by  whom  he  had  three  children: 
1.  James  Ellis,  resides  in  Hannibal,  Missouri.  2.  Phineas  D. 
3.  John  C.  Mrs.  Fisher  died  Sept.  17,  1853.  Mr.  Fisher 
was  married  March  20,  1855,  to  Mrs.  Lucy  M.  Phillips,  of 
Baton  Rouge,  La.,  whose  first  husband  was  Phineas  D.  Fisher. 
She  was  for  many  years  Principal  of  a  Young  Ladies'  Semi- 
nary in  that  city.  Mr.  Fisher  has  been  a  Justice  of  the  Peace 
in  this  town  eight  years,  and  held  other  town  offices.  He  has 
been  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
and  is  one  of  its  ruling  elders. 

Phineas  D.  was  born  Dec.  6,  1810.  He  went  from  "War- 
saw to  Baton  Rouge,  where  he  married,  Dec.  25,  1838,  Lucy 
M.  Woodruff!  He  died  there  in  1813,  leaving  two  sons,  John 
P.  and  George  A.,  both  of  whom  died  in  this  town. 

James  P.,  born  Jan.  1,  1813,  was  a  graduate  of  Union  Col- 
lege and  of  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  and  was  licensed 
as  a  minister  by  the  Presbytery  of  Philadelphia,  in  1840  or 
1841.  He  married,  May  il,  1841,  Anna  Van  Santvoord,  of 
Schenectady.  He  labored  as  pastor  or  stated  supply  at  Johns- 
town, Westfield,  and  other  places.  After  the  termination  of 
his  pastorate  in  Westfield,  and  before  the  close  of  the  war,  he 
went  to  Virginia  in  the  employ  of  the  Christian  Commission. 
In  the  second  year  of  his  service  there,  he  was  compelled  by 
his  exhaustive  labors  to  retire  from  the  field,  and  return  to  the 
North  for  recuperation.  Stopping  at  Little  Britain,  Orange 
Co.,  1ST.  Y.,  with  a  relative,  he  wTas  prostrated  by  sickness,  con- 
tracted, probably,  at  the  South,  from  which  he  did  not  recover. 
He  died  Aug.  30, 1865.  His  son,  and  only  child,  Samuel  Y.  S.r 
has  lately  graduated  at  Oberlin  College,  O. 

Caleb  E.  was  born  May  13,  1S15;  is  a  graduate  of  Oberlin 
College,  and  is  also  a  minister  of  the  gospel.  lie  has  minis- 
tered to  Congregational  churches  in  Arcade  and  West  Bloom- 
field  in  this  state,  and  in  Andover  and  Lawrence,  Mass.  He 
is  now  in  the  place  last  mentioned.  He  married,  Aug.  29, 
1844,  Mary  Ilosford.  They  have  had  four  children:  John  M., 
Mary  Elizabeth,  Catharine  Almira,  and  Alice  G.,  who  died 
young. 

Mary  A.  was  born  May  14,  1817;  married  John  S.  Peck,, 
of  West  Bloomfield,  whence  they  removed  a  few  years  since 
to  Oberlin,  O.,  where  they  now  reside.  Their  children  are 
Emily,  Mary  Anna,  John  F.,  and  Edward  AY. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  263 

Having  enjoyed  the  advantages  of  religions  training,  and 
been  instructed  in  the  faith  of  their  ancestors,  the  children  of 
Deacon  Fisher  all  became  members  of  the  Presbyterian 
church. 

JOHN  FISHER,  son  of  Dea.  John  Fisher,  was  born  March 
13, 1806,  and  removed  to  Warsaw  in  1827.  After  a  few  years' 
residence  in  this  town  and  elsewhere,  he  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  at  LaGrange,  in  this  county,  then  Genesee,  in 
which  business  he  continued  about  two  years.  In  1835,  he 
removed  to  Hamilton,  Canada,  and  established  himself  in  the 
Cast  Iron  Foundry  business,  which  he  carried  on  very  exten- 
sively and  successfully  for  many  years.  He  was  for  some 
time  Mayor  of  that  city.  In  1855,  he  returned  to  this  state, 
with  an  ample  fortune,  and  settled  in  the  village  of  Batavia, 
where  he  now  resides.  While  he  is  actively  employed  in 
works  of  usefulness  and  Christian  benevolence,  he  is  no  less 
distinguished  for  the  liberality  of  his  pecuniary  contributions. 
He  is  an  exemplary  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and 
one  of  its  ruling  elders.  He  was  one  of  the  Committee  ap- 
pointed by  the  legislature  to  superintend  the  building  of  the 
State  Asylum  for  the  Blind,  recently  erected  at  Batavia.  And 
at  the  last  election,  (1868,)  he  was  chosen  a  Representative  in 
the  Forty-first  Congress.  He  married,  Sept.  18,  1833,  Cath- 
arine W.  Blanchard,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Abijah  Blanchard, 
well  known  to  many  of  the  early  settlers  of  Western  New 
York.  He  had  eight  children:  1.  John  B.,  who  died  in 
Canada,  at  the  age  of  21;  2.  William  P.,  who  married  after 
the  return  of  the  family  to  this  state,  and  soon  after  his  mar- 
riage removed  to  Hamilton,  Canada,  and  died  there.  Of 
the  other  six,  five  died  in  infancy.  A  son,  Henry,  only  sur- 
vives. 

SAMUEL  FISHER,  son  of  Ebenezer  Fisher,  was  born  in 
Londonderry,  N.  H,  Dec.  1,  1801.  He  married,  April  15, 
1831,  Caroline  Pillsbury,  and  removed  to  this  town  in  Nov., 
1831,  and  for  several  years  carried  on  the  manufacture  of 
Fanning  Mills.  He  then  purchased  the  farm  in  the  north- 
east part  of  the  town  on  which  he  now  resides.  Mr.  Fisher 
and  wife  belong  to  the  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  he  is 
also  an  elder.  They  have  five  children:  Caroline,  Samuel  M., 
Mary  W.,  Helen  A.,  and  Frank  M. 

Caroline  married  Stephen  B.  Barden,  and  has  one  child 
living.     They  reside  in  Batavia. 

Samuel  M.  resides  with  his  father  on  the  homestead.  He 
served  in  the  late  war.     [See  War  History.] 


264  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

Helen  A.  married  Willard  Barden,  and  resides  in  Brook- 
lyn.    They  have  two  children,  Fanny,  and  an  infant,  living. 

WILLIAM  FLUKER  and  Elizabeth  Wood,  Ins  wife,  were 
born  in  Ireland.  They  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1820,  and 
removed  to  Warsaw  in  1824,  and  settled  in  the  south-east  part 
of -the  town,  where  Mr.  Fluker  died  Aug.  28,  1866.  They 
had  eight  children: 

Jane  married  Nicholas  Beach,  and  removed  to  Indiana. 
Tliev  had  ten  children,  of  whom  ten  are  living.  He  died  in 
1865. 

Sarah  married  Matthew  Warner,  of  Castile.  They  have 
a  daughter,  Esther,  who  married  Mr.  Beach,  a  merchant  in 
that  town. 

James  married  Sarah  Jane  King.  They  had  six  children: 
James  Willis,  Elizabeth,  Walter,  and  three  died  infants. 

William  married  Ellen  Glazier.  Their  children  are:  Alice, 
who  married  John  Gregg,  and  lives  in  Castile;  William,  Frank, 
Jennie. 

Samuel  married  Margaret  Parker,  of  Lima,  and  has  a 
daughter,  Margaret.     They  reside  in  Lima. 

Maria  married  Linus  Warner,  and  lias  three  children: 
Marion,  who  married  Sarah  Nash;  Romaine,  and  Willard. 

Elizabeth  married  Thomas  Sourby,  and  has  two  children, 
George  and  Clark. 

George  married  Miss  Madison,  and  has  two  children. 
Madison  and  Mary. 

LUTHER  FOSTER  was  born  in  Southampton,  Long 
Island,  Sept.  1,  1770;  and  was  married  to  Ruth  Hedges,  in 
1791.  They  lived  successively  in  Montague,  N.  J.,  in  Owego, 
and  Danhy,  N.  Y.  He  came  with  his  family  to  Warsaw  in 
1823,  and  settled  on  a  part  of  Lot  59,  in  the  west  part  of  the 
town,  where  his  son  Luther  now  resides.  Lie  died  Nov.  16, 
1846.  Mrs.  Foster  died  March  7,  1860.  They  were,  as  were 
most  of  their  children,  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
They  had  ten  children,  as  follows,  besides  three,  d.  inf. 

Silas  II.  married  Fanny  Smith  before  their  removal  to 
Warsaw.  Their  children  were,  1.  Harriet,  who  married  Dr. 
Rowley  Morris,  and  removed  to  Wisconsin.  She  died  with- 
out children.  2.  Esther,  who  married  Lucien  Putnam,  of  this 
this  town.  She  died  in  Freeport,  Illinois.  [See  Family  of 
Edward  Putnam.]  3.  Celinda,  who  died  at  the  age  of  26, 
unmarried.  4.  Alfred  J.,  is  married,  and  resides  in  Cherry 
Valley,  111.  5.  Mary,  who  graduated  at  Mt.  Holyoke  Semi- 
nary, Mass.,  and  has  been  for  many  years  a  teacher  in  Ohio. 


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6.  Laura,  who  married  Wm.  B.  Manley,  of  Hebron,  111.  7. 
Elizabeth.  8.  Helen,  who  married  George  G.  Wheeler,  of 
Flora,  111.  9.  Susan,  who  married  Mavnard  M.  Howe,  of 
Cherry  Valley,  111. 

Mr.  Foster  died  in  Warsaw,  Dec.  1,  1840,  aged  53.  Mrs. 
Foster  resides  in  Cherry  Valley,  111. 

Josiah  H.  married,  first,  Hannah  Maria  Barbara;  for  his 
second  wife,  Sarah  Skeer. 

Elizabeth  Mary  married  Ira  Gilmore,  and  removed  to 
Wethersfield  in  1826,  or  1827.     They  had  four  children. 

Hetty,  second  wife  of  Robert  Barnett.  [See  Barnett 
Family.] 

Jabez  died  in  Boch ester,  many  years  ago,  of  cholera. 

Julius  graduated  at  Hamilton  College  in  1833,  and  Prince- 
ton Theological  Seminary  in  1836  or  1837.  In  Nov.,  1837,  he 
became  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  Towanda,  Pa., 
which  office  he  held  until  his  death,  Jan.  16,  1865.  He  mar- 
ried Priscilla  Brunette,  Oct.  19,  1840. 

Luther  married  Lamira  Maria  Lyon,  by  whom  he  had  two 
children,  Casson  A.,  and  Roxie.  Mrs.  Foster  having  died, 
Mr.  F.  married  Calista  Smith,  by  whom  he  had  nine  children: 
Lamira  Maria,  who  died  July  27,  1851,  in  her  18th  year; 
Samuel,  Josiah  H,  Sydney,  Charles  H.,  Eliza  Jane,  Mary  D., 
Fanny  Parthenia,  and  Hetty  Sophronia.  Mr.  Foster  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  he  is 
also  an  elder. 

Solon  resides  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah  Territory;  is  married, 
and  has  several  children. 

Ruth  married  Zera  Tanner,  who  died  Nov.  27, 1836.  They 
had  a  son,  Zera.  [See  Sketch.]  Mrs.  Tanner  married  for  her 
second  husband,  Deacon  John  Munger;  and  for  her  third, 
Oliver  Cleveland,  with  whom  she  now  resides,  in  this  village. 

Phebe  married  Dr.  Ethan  E.  Bartlett.  [See  Sketch  of  Dr. 
Bartlett] 

Dr.  AUGUSTUS  FRANK  was  born  in  Canaan,  Conn., 
Jan.  12,  1792.  He  was  eight  years  of  age  when  his  father 
died.  In  early  life  the  family  emigrated  to  Granville,  in  this 
state,  where  he  completed  his  education.  lie  studied  medi- 
cine at  Dorset,  Vt.,  and  after  the  completion  of  his  course,  he 
removed  to  Victor,  Ontario  county,  where  he  practiced  in  his 
profession  three  years.  In  1817,  he  came  to  this  village,  and 
formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  Sheldon  in  professional  prac- 
tice, and  soon  after  in  the  mercantile  business.  The  latter 
being  to  him  the  more  congenial,  its  chief  supervision  was 
consigned  to  him.     In  1822,  the  partnership  having  been  dis- 


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HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


solved,  he  commenced  business  in  his  new  store  on  the  west 
side  of  Main  street,  on  or  near  the  site  of  the  new  brick  store 
of  his  sons,  Augustus  and  George  W.  Frank.  He  continued 
in  the  mercantile  business,  either  single  or  in  partnership, 
until  the  time  of  his  death,  not  only  in  this  town  but  in  other 
towns.  He  was  also,  during  the  greater  part  of  this  time, 
engaged  in  other  branches  of  business.  He  was  interested  in 
building,  alone  and  in  partnership,  saw-mills,  grist-mills,  fac- 
tories, and  furnaces,  and  was  concerned  in  several  other 
manufacturing  or  mechanical  establishments.  He  bought 
village  lots  and  erected  buildings  on  them  for  sale  or  to  rent. 
In  this  variety  of  business  he  gave  employment  to  a  large 
number  of  mechanics  and  laborers.  Probably  so  large  an 
amount  of  village  property  has  passed  through  the  hands  of 
no  other  citizen;  nor  has  any  other  rented  to  occupants  so 
many  stores,  shops,  and  dwellings.  He  took  an  active  part 
in  measures  designed  to  promote  the  prosperity  of  the  town, 
and  the  moral  and  intellectual  improvement  of  its  citizens. 
He  possessed  a  vigorous  mind,  and  was  firm  alike  in  his  prin- 
ciples and  his  purposes.  He  pursued  an  object  with  unwearied 
assiduity  until  it  was  attained,  or  its  attainment  was  found 
impracticable.  His  efforts  in  the  cause  of  temperance  were 
unremitted  to  the  last,  and  contributed  largely  to  its  advance- 
ment. He  was  also  among  the  first  to  enlist  in  the  antislavery 
cause,  and  aided  in  the  formation  of  the  society  in  this  town. 
He  was  one  of  the  five  delegates  (elsewhere  mentioned,)  from 
this  town  to  the  first  annual  meeting  of  the  Xew  York  State 
Antislavery  Society,  held  at  Utica  in  the  fall  of  1835.  Al- 
though not  indifferent  to  the  good  opinion  of  others,  his 
conduct  was  uninfluenced  by  a  desire  for  popular  applause. 
In  public  as  well  as  in  private  discussion,  he  spoke  his  senti- 
ments frankly  and  fearlessly:  and  although  they  often 
conflicted  with  those  of  the  majority,  he  ever  retained  the 
respect  of  those  with  whom  he  differed. 

In  1842,  he  was  appointed  an  Associate  Judge  of  Wyom- 
ing county,  which  office  he  held  until  the  office  was  abolished 
by  the  constitution  of  1846.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church,  which  shared  in  large  measure  his  fostering 
care.  But  his  charities  were  not  circumscribed  by  its  interests. 
He  contributed  liberally,  by  personal  effort  and  pecuniary 
means,  to  the  support  of  religious  and  benevolent  institutions 
in  general.  We  may  add,  he  was  happy  in  his  domestic  rela- 
tions. His  first  wife,  though  possessing  a  feeble  constitution, 
was  a  lady  of  deep-toned  piety.  To  the  excellence  of  his 
second,  many  in  this  community  will  bear  testimony.  His 
family  furnishes   a  striking  instance  of  parental  faithfulness 


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and  care,  requited  by  filial  obedience  and  esteem.  In  few 
families  has  the  observance  of  the  duties  enjoined  in  the  fifth 
commandment  been  more  happily  exemplified. 

"We  subjoin  the  following  extract  from  a  letter  written  soon 
after  his  death,  by  an  intimate  acquaintance  of  him  and  his 
family,  to  us  well  known: 

"It  was  not  until  1827  that  he  became  the  subject  of  renew- 
ing grace,  so  as  to  be  satisfied  that  he  had  passed  from  death 
unto  life.  Then  did  he  see  in  the  light  of  their  preciousness 
and  divine  consistency,  the  truth  of  those  doctrines  in  which 
he  had  been  early  instructed;  and  the  services  of  religion 
became  so  agreeable  and  increasingly  important  in  his  esteem, 
that  he  turned  to  them  with  unwonted  satisfaction,  walking  in 
the  commandments  and  ordinances  of  the  Lord.  The  genu- 
ineness of  the  work  in  him  became  apparent,  not  only  in  his 
life  and  the  public  profession  of  his  faith,  but  also  in  the  in- 
struction of  his  household.  The  morning  and  evening  knew 
their  appointed  services  almost  as  uniformly  as  'the  sun 
knoweth  his  going  down.'  The  Bible  and  Shorter  Catechism 
were  familiar  to  all  the  members;  the  first  book  in  their 
acquaintance  and  not  the  last  in  their  esteem.  *  *  *  * 
The  idea  of  frcmkness  was  so  associated  with  his  person, 
that  every  one  felt  that  he  was  rightly  named.  If  it  made 
him  some  enemies,  it  gained  him  many  friends.  His  funeral 
was  attended  by  a  large  concourse  of  people." 

Dr.  Augustus  Frank  was  married  to  Jerusha  H.  Baldwin, 
at  Dorset,  Vt,  Sept.  12,  1816.  She  died  March  15,  1825. 
They  had  three  children  :  Henriett,  and  two  who  died  in 
infancy. 

Henriett  was  born  Sept.  12,  1817;  married  Edward  A. 
McKay,  a  lawyer  in  Naples,  Ontario  county,  and  since  186-1 
connected  with  the  National  Bank  Department  in  "Washing- 
ton. They  have  three  children  :  Jennie  Frank,  Alida,  and 
Augustus  Frank.     Jennie  F.  and  Alida  are  married. 

Dr.  Frank  married  Jane  Patterson,  of  Londonderry,  N.  IT., 
at  the  residence  of  her  brother,  William  Patterson,  in  "War- 
saw, Aug.  25,  1825.  She  was  born  in  Londonderry,  Aug.  30, 
1705.     They  had  seven  children: 

Augustus.     [See  Sketch.] 

Elizabeth  W.  married  Rev.  Joseph  E.  Nassau.  [See 
Sketch.] 

George  Washington.     [See  Sketch.] 

Jennie  P.  was  born  March  1,  1833,  and  married  Edward 
K.  Greene,  a  wholesale  merchant  in  Montreal,  Canada.  They 
have  three  children:  Eleanor  O.,  Jennie  F.  and  Edward  K. 


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HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


Mary  A.  was  born  Sept.  9,  1835,  and  married  Philo  D. 
Brown,  a  banker  in  Montreal,  Canada.  They  have  three 
children:  Augustus  Frank,  Frederic,  and  Evelyn  H. 

Dr.  Frank  died  Jan.  20,  1851,  aged  59  years.  Mrs.  Jane 
Frank  died  Feb.  19,  1867,  aged  71  years. 

JANE  FRANK,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Dea.  Thomas 
Patterson,  of  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  was  born  Aug.  30,  1795. 
She  was  in  early  life  surrounded  by  those  influences  which 
tend  to  ennoble  and  refine,  and  by  which  she  was  prepared 
for  the  sphere  she  was  afterwards  called  to  fill.  It  was  her 
good  fortune  to  have  a  mother  who  not  only  instructed  her 
daughters  well  in  house-keeping,  but  taught  them  that  life 
had  higher  and  nobler  ends.  To  her  they  were  largely  in- 
debted for  those  qualities  which  fitted  them  so  well  to  render 
their  own  homes  happy,  and  to  make  themselves  a  blessing 
to  the  world.  Mrs.  Frank,  though  not  one  of  those  usually 
termed  "  the  old  settlers,"  was  an  early  inhabitant  of  War- 
saw. During  a  sojourn  with  her  brother  William  in  this 
town,  in  1825,  she  was  married  to  Dr.  Augustus  Frank.  From 
that  time  until  her  death,  she  resided  in  this  village.  Here 
the  greater  part  of  her  life  was  spent;  and  it  is  believed  that 
among  the  great  number  who,  during  this  long  period,  made 
her  acquaintance,  there  are  none  who  do  not  delight  to  cher- 
ish her  memory.  Possessing  a  highly  social  nature  and  a  mild 
and  cheerful  temper,  her  presence  was  welcome  in  every  social 
gathering.  No  trait  in  her  character  was  more  conspicuous 
than  her  large-hearted  benevolence.  Her  generous  deeds  are 
yet  fresh  in  the  recollections  of  those  who  witnessed  them,  and 
of  those  upon  whom  her  gifts  were  bestowed  by  her  own  hands. 
Put  the  most  numerous  recipients  of  her  charities  knew  not 
by  whom  they  were  bestowed.  Many  a  young  heart  in  the 
*'  Home  of  the  Friendless  "  has  been  gladdened  by  the  labor 
of  her  hands  and  by  her  liberal  purse.  Many  a  missionary 
in  the  "  Far  West  "  will  never  know  to  whose  sympathizing 
heart  and  assiduous  efforts  he  was  indebted  for  all  his  winter 
comforts.  Nor  did  she  wait  tor  appeals  for  aid  from  the  suf- 
fering in  person.  She  sought  out  the  worthy  objects  of  her 
charity.  It  was  to  her  a  pleasure  to  '''•visit  the  widow  and 
the  fatherless  in  their  affliction,"  as  well  as  to  administer  to 
their  necessities.  More  than  once  has  she  had  the  pleasure  of 
rejoicing  the  hearts  of  young  men,  by  the  "  material  aid  "  she 
rendered  them  in  their  preparatory  course  for  the  ministry. 
She  had  learned  by  experience  what  too  few  ever  learn,  that 
" it  is  more  blessed  to  give  than  to  receive."  But  she  had 
been  too  well  instructed  in  the  truths  of  revelation  to  consider 


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true  religion  as  consisting  wholly  in  generous  deeds.  She  had 
been  taught  that  it  comprised  a  Knowledge  of  the  Divine  char- 
acter and  a  living  faith  in  an  atoning  Savior,  from  which  faith 
all  truly  good  works  proceed.  She  rejoiced  at  the  prosperity 
of  the  Church  universal,  and  felt  a  special  interest  in  that 
branch  with  which  she  was  connected,  and  contributed  liber- 
ally to  its  support.  She  was  happy  in  her  family  relations, 
and  had  the  satisfaction,  before  her  departure,  of  having  seen 
all  her  children  making  a  public  profession  of  their  faith. 
She  terminated  her  earthly  labors  on  the  19th  of  February, 
1867. 

AUGUSTUS  FRANK,  son  of  Dr.  Augustus  Frank,  was 
born  in  Warsaw,  July  IT,  1820.  At  an  early  age  he  entered 
his  father's  store,  and  soon  took  an  active  part  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  mercantile  and  the  various  other  branches  of  his 
father's  extensive  business.  In  1817,  having  attained  his  ma- 
jority, he  commenced  the  mercantile  business  for  himself. 
Aided  by  his  energy,  persevering  industry,  and  native  cour- 
tesy, he  prosecuted  his  business  with  unusual  success;  acquir- 
ing in  a  few  years  a  large  and  prosperous  trade.  While  his 
business  was  pursued  with  assiduity,  he  took  a  deep  interest  and 
an  active  part  in  matters  of  public  concern,  and  gave  a  ready 
support  to  measures  designed  to  promote  the  general  good. 
His  practical  knowledge  of  business  brought  him  early  into 
favorable  notice.  He  was  chosen  to  aid  in  the  organization 
and  management  of  several  chartered  business  associations, 
one  of  which  was  the  "  Buffalo  and  New  York  City  Railroad 
Company,"  of  which  he  was  a  Director  and  Vice-President. 
In  1856,  he  was  chosen  a  Delegate  to  the  first  National  Con- 
vention of  the  Republican  party,  held  in  Philadelphia.  In 
1858,  he  was  elected  to  Congress  from  the  District  then  com- 
prising the  counties  of  Allegany,  Wyoming,  and  Genesee — 
the  first  political  office  he  ever  held.  Having,  however,  for 
many  years  directed  his  attention  to  questions  of  state  and 
national  policy,  he  was  not  unprepared  for  the  responsible 
trust  assigned  him;  and  he  soon  attained  an  influential  posi- 
tion in  the  House.  In  1860,  he  was  returned  to  the  37th 
Congress  by  a  'majority  of  nearly  eight  thousand.  In  1802, 
he  was  elected  to  the  3Sth  Congress,  the  District  being  then 
composed  of  the  counties  of  Wyoming,  Genesee,  and  Niagara. 
He  closed  his  third  term  in  March,  1805.  His  Congressional 
career  was  an  honorable  one.  Though  he  never  made  him- 
self prominent  as  a  speaker,  his  readiness  of  utterance  and 
the  candor  of  his  statements,  secured  a  degree  of  attention 
which  many   of   the  leaders   in   debate    failed   to   receive. 


270 


HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


His  propositions  commended  themselves  to  the  judgment 
of  the  House,  and  were  generally  adopted.  He  was  in 
Congress  previous  to  and  during  the  whole  period  of 
the  civil  war,  taking  an  active  part  on  all  financial  ques- 
tions, and  giving  a  hearty  and  unwavering  support  to  every 
measure  tor  suppressing  the  rebellion,  lie  participated  in  all 
the  legislation  relating  to  the  abolition  of  slavery  in  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia  and  the  Slave  States,  faithfully  representing 
the  strong  antislavery  sentiment  ot  his  district.  On  no  ques- 
tion did  he  render  more  important  service  than  that  of  the 
constitutional  amendment  forever  prohibiting  slavery  in  the 
United  States.  The  efficiency  of  his  efforts  on  that  occasion 
were  conceded  by  the  press  throughout  the  country.  In  1867, 
he  was  elected  on  the  State  ticket  as  one  of  the  thirty-two 
delegates  at  large  to  the  convention  for  revising  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  State  of  New  York.  At  home  he  has  co-operated 
with  his  fellow-citizens  in  measures  for  promoting  public  im- 
provements and  the  moral  and  intellectual  elevation  of 
society.  Himself  and  wife  are  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church;  and  while  he  contributes  largely,  by  personal  effort 
and  pecuniary  means,  to  its  various  objects,  he  renders  a  like 
support  to  educational,  benevolent,  and  reformatory  institu- 
tions generally.  He  married  Agnes,  daughter  of  Win.  TV. 
McNair,  of  Groveland,  Livingston  Co.,  New  York. 

GEORGE  TV.  FRANK,  son  of  Dr.  Augustus  Frank,  was 
born  Nov.  20,  1830,  and  has  always  been  a  resident  of  this 
town.  He  was  engaged  in  his  father's  store  and  in  other 
business  until  the  death  of  his  father  in  1851.  He  soon  after 
engaged  with  his  brother,  and  in  1851  became  a  partner  in 
the  Dry  Goods  trade,  the  firm  taking  the  name  of  A.  &  G.  TV. 
Frank,  under  which  the  business  is  still  continued  on  an  en- 
tensive  scale.  He  is  also  a  partner  in  the  Patterson  Manu- 
facturing Co.,  of  this  village.  He  is  an  energetic  business 
man,  and  is  active  in  promoting  the  interests  of  the  village. 
His  influence  is  also  exerted  in  advancing  the  moral  enter- 
prises of  the  day.  He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  lie  married  Phebe  T.,  daughter  of 
William  TV.  McNair,  of  Groveland.  They  have  had  four 
children:  Sarah,  died  an  infant,  Augustus,  Jennie,  and 
George  W. 

BRADLEY  S.  GALLETT  was  born  in  Saratoga  Co., 
Sept.  8,  1S15.  He  married  Emma  Peck,  in  1837,  and  re- 
moved to  Warsaw  the  same  year.  He  is  a  farmer,  and 
resides  west  of  the  village,  near  the  Railroad  Station.  He 
has  three  children: 


FAMILY  SKETCHES  AND  NOTES.  271 

Anna,  who  married  Franklin  Willard,  and  resides  in  Iowa. 
Bradley  1ST.,  and  Wallace  O. 

HENRY  GARRETSEE  was  born  in  Niskayuna,  Sche- 
nectady Co.,  ~N.  Y.,  June  1,  ISIS.  After  a  brief  residence  in 
several  towns  in  Western  New  York,  he  removed  to  Le  Roy 
at  the  age  of  14  years.  In  1S43,  he  came  to  Warsaw,  and 
formed  a  partnership  with  Seth  M.  Gates  in  the  Hardware 
business,  in  which  he  has  continued,  in  company  and  single, 
until  the  present  time.  His  business  has  been  during  this 
time  conducted  on  an  extensive  scale,  embracing,  in  addition 
to  the  ordinary  Hardware  business,  the  casting  of  stoves  and 
other  wares.  [See  Hardware  Merchants.]  He  married  in 
this  town,  Sept.,  1847,  Elizabeth  Orr,  by  whom  he  had  four 
children:  Henry,  Elizabeth,  John,  and  Walter,  all  living. 

Dea.  SETH  GATES  became  a  resident  of  Warsaw  in  the 
Spring  of  1834.  He  was  born  in  Preston,  Conn.,  March  7, 
1775,  and  married  Abigail  Merrill,  Jan.  1,  1800.  In  March, 
1S06,  he  removed  to  Sheldon,  in  this  county,  his  being  the 
third  house  built  in  that  town.  In  180S,  he  made  open  pro- 
fession of  religion;  was  active  in  organizing  the  Baptist 
church  in  Sheldon,  and  was  soon  elected  one  of  its  Deacons. 
He  was  always  active  in  sustaining  the  Gospel,  schools,  and 
all  benevolent  and  charitable  enterprises.  Dea.  Gates  com- 
manded a  company  of  Light  Infantry  on  the  frontiers  in  the 
war  ot  1812,  until  the  battle  of  Queenston  had  so  thinned  its 
ranks,  that  it  was  annexed  to  another  company.  He  died 
Nov.  9,  1847.  Mrs.  Gates  survived  him  about  4  years.  They 
left  4  children,  Seth  M.,  Chauncey  C,  Calista,  and  Delia. 

Seth  M.     [See  sketch  of  Seth  M.  Gates.] 

Chauncey  C.  was  born  June  16,  1810,  in  Sheldon,  and 
removed  to  Warsaw,  in  1836,  where  he  was  a  clerk,  and  then 
a  partner  of  Isaac  C.  Bronson,  in  the  Dry  Goods  trade.  In 
1843,  he  sold  out  his  interest  to  A.  G.  Hammond.  From  that 
time  to  this,  he  has  been,  either  as  a  partner  or  as  a  clerk,  en- 
gaged in  the  Hardware  and  Stove  business,  carried  on  under 
the  firms  of  Gates  &  Garretsee,  and  C.  C.  Gates  &  Co.,  and 
others.  He  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Butler,  a  niece  of  Joshua 
H.  Darling.  Their  children  are,  William  Walter,  Willarcl, 
Harriet,  and  Julia. 

Calista  married  Isaac  C.  Bronson.     [See  sketch.] 

Delia  married  Rev.  A.  II.  Stowell,  and  has  four  children, 
Harriet,  Eliza,  Henry,  and  Emma. 


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HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


^  SETH  M.  GATES  was  born  in  Winfield,  Herkimer  Co.,  BT. 
Y.,  Oct.  16,  1800.  He  came  to  Sheldon  in  1806;  worked  on 
a  farm  until  1S20;  was  then  three  years  in  Middlebury  Acad- 
emy, teaching  school  winters,  his  first  trial  at  teaching  being 
in  South  Warsaw,  in  1821.  He  commenced  the  study  of  Law 
with  Hon.  Heman  J.  Redfield,  of  LeRoy,  in  1823,  and  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  1S2T,  and  formed  a  partnership  with 
Hon.  A.  P.  Hascall,  in  the  practice  of  law,  which  was  con- 
tinued eleven  years.  During  his  clerkship  he  was  Inspector 
of  Common  Schools,  and  Deputy  Sheriff.  In  1830,  he  was 
Supervisor  of  LeRoy,  and  in  1832,  Member  of  Assembly 
from  the  county  of  Genesee,  elected  by  the  Anti-Masonic 
party.  By  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Gates  and  his  colleagues,  the 
act  authorizing  the  construction  of  the  Tonawanda  Railroad, 
from  Rochester  to  Attica,  was  passed  at  that  session,  this 
being  the  first  railroad  in  Western  New  York.  In  1S38,  he 
purchased  the  Le  Roy  Gazette,  and  for  nine  months  was  its 
editor.  In  Nov.  1838,  he  was  elected  to  Congress  as  an  Anti- 
shivery  Whig,  and  re-elected  in  1810,  serving  four  years. 
His  letter  to  Gerrit  Smith,  written  just  before  taking  his  scat 
in  Congress  in  1839,  defending  the  Antislavery  Whigs  in  ad- 
hering to  their  party  against  the  attacks  of  Mr.  Smith,  found 
great  favor  with  the  party,  and  was  published  by  Whig  Jour- 
nals throughout  the  North.  During  his  four  years  service  in 
Congress,  he  co-operated  actively  with  Messrs.  Adams,  Gid- 
dings,  and  Slade  in  the  memorable  struggle  for  the  riirht  of 
petition  and  freedom  of  speech,  and  did  much  to  arouse 
public  attention  to  the  plans  and  efforts  of  the  South  to  extend 
and  strengthen  slavery.  By  transmitting  the  Address  of  the 
World's  Convention  held  in  London  in  1810,  under  his  frank, 
to  the  Governors  of  the  Southern  States,  he  so  exasperated  the 
slaveholders  that  no  less  than  five  of  the  Governors  mentioned 
the  fact  in  their  next  messages;  and  a  rich  planter  in  Savan- 
nah offered  a  reward  of  8500  for  the  delivery  of  the  offend- 
ing Member  of  Congress,  dead  or  alive,  in  that  city.  At  the 
close  of  the  27th  Congress,  at  the  request  of  Mr.  Adams,  he 
drew  up  a  Protest  against  the  annexation  of  Texas,  proving 
that  it  was  a  project  of  the  slaveholders  to  extend  the  area  of 
slavery.  The  paper  was  signed  by  many  of  the  members  of 
Congress.  At  the  close  of  his  service  in  Congress,  in  1813, 
having  formed  a  law  partnership  with  F.  C.  D.  McKay,  he 
removed  to  Warsaw,  where  has  since  resided.  Having 
become  interested  in  the  Hardware  trade  with  Mr.  Garretsee, 
he  gave  up  his  practice.  He  afterwards  engaged  in  the  Dry 
Goods  and  Lumber  trade,  continuing  it  until  the  loss  of  his 
planing  mill  the  second  time  by  fire,  in  1S65.     In  May,  1S61, 


^/&^ w^£Sc/ &£i<r. 


Taken   1843. 


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he  was  appointed  Postmaster  by  Mr.  Lincoln ;  and  in  May, 

1866,  was  reappointed  by  Mr.  Johnson.  In  1848,  he  was  the 
Free  Soil  candidate  for  Lieutenant-Governor  on  the  ticket  with 
Gen.  John  A.  Dix  for  Governor.  For  about  forty  years  he 
has  been  a  temperance  man,  and  has  been  active,  with  his 
voice  and  his  pen,  in  opposing  the  traffic  in  all  that  can  in- 
toxicate, as  well  as  its  use  as  a  beverage.  In  1831,  he  joined 
the  Presbyterian  church  in  Le  Poy.  In  Warsaw  he  united 
with  the  Congregational  church,  and  was  for  thirteen  years  in 
succession  the  Superintendent  of  its  Sunday  School,  and  has 
been  for  many  years  its  church  clerk.  Mr.  Gates  was  married 
to  Eliza  Keyes,  of  Le  Poy,  in  1827,  by  whom  he  had  seven 
children: 

Henry  K.,  who  was  born  Sept.  16,  1S2S,  married  Miss 
Johnson,  of  Fredonia,  and  is  a  broker  in  New  York. 

Mary  E.,  who  married  Seymour  G.  Bronson,  of  Warsaw, 
now  a  Hardware  merchant  in  Pockford,  111. 

Frances  A.,  who  resides  with  her  sister  in  Pockford. 

Harriet  C,  born  June  3,  1831,  died  Nov.  1,  1850. 

John  A.,  born  Aug.  9,  1836,  is  unmarried. 

Seth  M.  and  Eliza  K.,  (twins,)  both  died  in  infancy. 

Mr.  Gates  married,  in  Sept.,  1811,  for  his  second  wife,  Fanny 
Jennett  Parsons,  of  Lisle,  Broome  Co.,  1ST.  Y.  By  her  he  had 
five  children: 

Sarah  1ST.,  who  died  in  May,  1865,  at  the  age  of  22,  when 
ready  to  graduate  at  Ingham  University. 

Eliza  Jennett  was  born  in  Warsaw,  Nov.  1,  1S15. 

Merrill  E.,  born  April  6,  ISIS,  is  now  in  College. 

Erastus  Parsons  was  born  April  16,  1850. 

Lewis  Eddy  was  born  March  23,  1860. 

Mr.  Gates'  second  wife  died  June  8,  1866;  and  July  11, 

1867,  he  married  Mrs.  A.  C.  Bishop,  widow  of  the  late  Hon. 
William  S.  Bishop,  of  Rochester,  and  daughter  of  the  late 
Col.  Nathaniel  Rochester. 

SIMEON  GIBSON  was  born  in  Poultney,  Vt,  May  18, 
1779.  He  married  for  his  first  wife,  Sally  Morris,  of  Hamp- 
ton.    They  had  two  children: 

William,  who  married  Clarinda  Park.  Their  children 
were:  1.  Nelson,  who  died  at  19.  2.  Lora,  who  died  at  IS. 
3.  Sarah,  who  married  George  Robinson,  of  Michigan.  4.  Ara- 
bella, who  died  at  8.  5.  Clara  P.  6.  Marcus  E.  William 
Gibson  died  Oct.  21,  1860. 

Sally  married  Chauncey  Z.  Cutting.  [See  Jonas  Cut- 
ting.] 

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271  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

Simeon  Gibson  married  for  his  second  wife,  Miriam  Mun- 
ger,  by  whom  he  had  six  children: 

John  S.,  who  married  Caroline  Awmuck.  They  removed 
to  Batavia,  111.  They  had  four  children:  Porter,  Charles,  Ar- 
thur, Ellen.     Mr.  Gibson  died  a  few  years  since. 

Daniel  II.  married  Laura  Morris.  They  had  nine  chil- 
dren: Sullivan  W.,  George  G,  Clayton  K.,  died  an  infant; 
Wilber  II.,  John  F.,  Adelia  E.,  Lora,  and  Cora,  d.  inf. 

Marcus  married  Catharine  Bntterfield,  and  had  three  chil- 
dren: Helen,  Elbridge,  and  Frederick.  Mr.  Gibson  was  killed 
accidentally  by  a  gun  in  his  own  hands. 

Simeon  K.  is  married,  and  resides  in  Southern  Illinois. 

Stillman  S.  married  Mary  Hopson,  and  lives  in  Center- 
ville. 

Jasper  B.  is  married,  and  resides  in  Illinois. 

Simeon  Gibson  married  a  third  wife,  Elizabeth  Worden,  by 
whom  he  had  two  children:  Christopher  C.  and  Miriam  A., 
both  dead.     Mr.  Gibson  died  [Nov.  29,  1849. 

NILES  GIDDINGS  was  born  in  Hartland,  Conn.,  in 
1760.  He  married  Naomi  Hale  in  1788.  They  removed  to 
Warsaw  in  1810,  and  settled  on  East  Hill,  where  they  died; 
Mrs.  Giddings  in  1S23;  Mr.  Giddings  in  1812.  They  had 
ten  children: 

Linus,  who  married  Electa  Parsons,  and  lives  in  Ve- 
nango, Pa. 

Lester  married  Speeda  Miller,  and  removed  to  Michigan. 

Lypia  married  David  Myers,  and  resides  at  Cherry  Crock. 
Children:  Adaline,  Naomi,  Rachel,  Lydia,  David,  Oliver, 
and  John. 

Betsey  married  Thomas  Scott;  they  reside  in  Le  Boy,  111. 

Hiram  married  Ethana  Holmes;  removed  to  Michigan. 
Children:  Naomi,  Henry,  Hibbard,  John  B. 

Piieise  married  Ohauncey  Bice,  and  had  eight  children, 
and  died  at  the  age  of  38  years. 

Celinda  married  Abram  Hollister,  and  had  two  children; 
married,  second,  David  Hollister,  and  had  five  children. 

Baciiel  married  David  Botsford.  Children  living:  Sarah 
Jane  and  George  W.     Three  died  infants. 

John  married  Mindrel  Wilcox;  died  at  35;  had  two  sons. 

Jane  Elmira  died  at  the  age  of  3  years. 

SIMEON"  R.  GLAZIER  was  born  April  11, 1780;  married 
Catharine  Perkins,  in  Hampton,  and  removed  in  1810  or  1811 
to  this  town.  He  soon  after  built,  in  South  Warsaw,  a  Card- 
ing and  Cloth  Dressing  Shop,  which,  a  short  time  after,  was 


FAMILY    SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  275 

destroyed  by  fire.  It  was  rebuilt,  and  owned  thereafter  by 
different  individuals.  He  died  Sept.  29,  1848.  Mrs.  Glazier 
died  April  20,  1851.  They  had  nine  children,  of  whom  three 
died  young. 

Caroline,  who  married  James  F.  Pettengill,  and  after  his 
death,  Dr.  Forrest  Harkness,  of  Eushville,  X.  Y.,  who  also 
died  soon  after  marriage.     She  resides  in  this  town. 

Mary  Ann,  who  died  at  the  age  of  IS. 

Jane  M.,  who  married  Milo  E.  Munger,  lives  in  Iowa,  and 
has  nine  children. 

Sarah  A.  married  Andrew  Pettengill,  who  died  in  Warsaw, 
Jan.,  1867,  They  had  five  childrem  Mary  A.,  who  married 
"Wm.  F.  Purdy;  Charles  F.;  both  reside  in  "Warsaw;  John  E., 
and  two  dead. 

Laura  married  William  Annis,  and  died  at  23. 

Aurelia  A.,  who  died  at  24. 

EOSWELL  GOULD  came  into  this  town  from  Middlebury 
and  established  a  store  in  South  Warsaw,  and  continued  busi- 
ness there  about  fifteen  years.  In  1843,  he  removed  to  the 
village,  where  he  pursued  the  same  business  until  1851,  when 
he  discontinued  the  dry  goods  trade,  and  was  afterwards  most 
of  the  time,  either  alone  or  as  a  partner,  a  produce-dealer.  He 
has  held  the  offices  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Supervisor; 
and  in  1853  he  was  elected  County  Treasurer  for  the  term  of 
three  years.  He  was  in  sentiment  and  action  a  temperance 
and  antislavery  man.  He  was  born  Sept.  2, 1806,  and  married, 
Feb.  7,  1833,  Marilla  Beekley,  born  Mary  9,  1810.  Their 
children  were  Helen  L.,  who  died  at  10;  Caroline  E.,  who 
died  at  6;  Frank  C,  born  Nov.  8,  1817;  and  Alice  F.,  born 
Dec.  6, 1851.     Mr.  Gould  died  Dec,  1868. 

CALEB  HATCH  was  born  in  Hanover,  Mass.,  whence  he 
removed  to  Bennington,  Vt.,  where  he  married  Anna  Palmer. 
He  came  to  Warsaw  in  1811,  and  settled  in  the  south  part  of 
the  village,  wdiere  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  His 
wife  died  June  17, 1825,  aged  56.  He  married  for  his  second 
wife,  Mrs.  Pike,  who  died  in  this  town,  Oct.  25, 1868,  aged  S7 
years.  He  died  June  15,  1810,  at  the  age  of  79.  His  child- 
ren wrere: 

Stephen,  who  married  Thankful  Truesdell,  by  whom  he  had 
four  children,  three  of  whom  died  young.  Bumsey  married 
Alta  Jackson,  and  removed  to  Bockton,  111.,  where  he  died. 
The  wife  of  Stephen  Hatch  died  May  2, 1827,  aged  26.  He 
married  for  his  second  wife  Gratia  Hughes,  and  died  July 
29, 1818,  aged  56  years.  His  wife  married  Rev.  Mr.  Jackson, 
of  Clyde,  Ohio. 


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HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


Simon  married  Electa  Francis,  and  removed  to  Cuba,  N".  Y., 
where  he  still  resides. 

Harry  married  Maria  Richards.  They  reside  in  Warsaw, 
and  have  eight  children:  Lydia  A.,  Emily  J.,  Sarah  S.,  Lyman 
L.,  Randall  D.,  Eurana  R.,  Adelbert  F.,  Alonzo  M. 

Clara  married  Philander  Hale.  They  reside  in  the  south- 
west part  of  the  town.  Their  children  are:  Nancy  Ann,  who 
married  Daniel  Clark,  and  resides  in  Hume.  Mary,  who 
married  Edwin  Bannister,  and  lives  in  Hume.  Clarissa,  who 
married  James  Jones.     Caleb,  who  married  Ruth  Ann  Foote. 

"WILLIAM  C.  HATCH  was  born  in  Colchester,  Conn.,  and 
married  Jernsha  Deming,  of  Westfield,  Conn.  They  came  to 
Warsaw  about  the  first  day  of  January,  1815,  and  settled  in 
the  north-west  part  of  the  town,  where  his  sons,  Wm.  T.,  Mil- 
ton D.,  and  Walter  M.  now  reside. 

William  T.  married  Betsey  Sturdevant.  Their  children 
are:  1.  Henry,  who  married  Lydia  Smith.  2.  Amelia,  d.  inf. 
3.  Amelia,  who  married  Reuben  Brackett,  and  lives  in  Nia- 
gara county.  4.  Jerusha,  who  married  Horace  Choate,  of 
Middlebury,  and  has  a  son.  5.  Wm.  C,  who  married  Esther 
Webb,  ot  Covington,  and  has  two  children,  Channcey  and 
Helen.     6.  Ransom,  who  married  Emma  Tanner. 

Milton  D.  married  Mrs.  Amanda  Swift.  They  have  two 
daughters.  1.  Harriet,  who  married  Theodore  Aikin.  2. 
Emily. 

Walter  M.  married  Sally  Sherwin.  Their  children  are  :  1. 
Lucy  M.,  who  married  Oscar  H.  Ilibbard.  2.  Lyman.  3. 
Walter,  who  married  Lois  Bentley,  and  has  a  son.  4.  Elvira. 
5.  George.     6.  Albert,     7.  Flora. 

LLOYD  A.  HAYWARD  was  born  in  Winthrop,  Maine, 
Dec.  6,  1S16.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Amherst  College,  and  of 
the  Law  School  at  Harvard.  He  was  for  a  time  a  Clerk  in 
the  Treasury  Department  at  AVashington,  and  came  to  Perry 
in  1841,  where  he  married,  Oct.  8,  1S44,  Mary  Jane  Dudley, 
who  was  born  at  Union  Village,  Washington  county,  !N".  Y., 
May  18,  1S27.  In  1853,  he  removed  to  Warsaw,  where  he 
still  resides.  He  was  Secretary  of  the  Wyoming  County  Mu- 
tual Insurance  Company  for  many  years,  and  for  six  years 
Treasurer  of  the  County.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  and  is  one  of  its  Deacons.  He  has  had  three 
children;  two  daughters  and  a  son :  Melicent,  who  died;  Mary 
Kate,  and  Edward  D. 


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HENRY  HIBBARD  was  born  in  Canterbury,  Conn.,  Feb. 
16,  1784.  He  married  Sarah  Palmer,  Jan.  27,  1814.  They 
removed  to  Warsaw  in  1816,  and  settled  in  the  north-east  part 
of  the  town,  where  he  resided  at  the  time  of  bis  death,  March 
21,  1820.     They  had  four  children;  two  living. 

Sarah  E.,  who  married  John  II.  Keeney.  [See  Keeney 
Family.] 

Oscar  IT.,  born  Nov.  2,  1818,  married  Lucy  Ann  Hatch, 
daughter  of  Walter  M.  Hatch,  and  has  two  children:  Wal- 
ter II.,  and  Uberto  Banks.  Mr.  Hibbard  was  from  1854  a 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Gould  &  Hibbard  in  the  Produce  trade, 
until  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Gould  in  1867.  He  is  at  present 
associated  with  Wm.  Bristol;  firm,  Hibbard  &  Bristol. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Hibbard  married  for  her  second  husband,  John 
Alverson,  by  whom  she  had  five  children;  three  living,  as  fol- 
lows: 

Cordelia  P.,  who  married  David  K.  Lowell,  now  a  produce 
merchant  at  Nunda  Station. 

Phebe  C.  married  Morgan  Cronkhite,  of  Middlebury,  and 
resides  in  Lawrence,  Kansas. 

Sarepta  W.  married  Ashbury  Stevens,  and  lives  in  Kansas. 

John  Alverson  died  April,  1840. 

ICHABOD  HODGE  was  born  in  Connecticut,  Oct,  1, 
1786.  He  married  Welthy  Martin,  who  was  born  Nov.  20, 
1784.  The  removed  to  this  town  in  1831.  He  was  for  sev- 
eral years  employed  in  the  grist-mill  in  this  village,  of  which 
he  subsequently  became  for  a  time  joint  owner.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  had  held  the  office  of 
Deacon  before  he  removed  to  this  place.  Mrs.  Hodge  died 
June  6,  1847.  Dea.  Hodge  died  Oct.  18,  1857.  They  had 
six  children: 

Martin,  born  Oct.  4,  1800,  married  Orpha  Plant.  They 
had  nine  children:  Ellen  M.,  Edwin,  Harriet,  Arabel,  Orpha, 
Marcus  M.,  Caroline,  Perry,  and  Alice.     They  reside  in  Pike. 

Sylvinia,  born  April  16,  1812,  married  Hiram  E.  Adams, 
being  his  second  wife,  and  died  Aug.  4, 1845.  They  had  two 
children. 

Perry  married  Sarah  Yates.  They  now  reside  at  Seneca 
Falls.  They  had  eight  children;  three  are  living:  Alida  S., 
Martin,  and  George. 

Israel,  born  Jan.  16,  1817,  married  Sally  Morris,  of  this 
town.  He  wTas  for  several  years  in  partnership  with  his 
brother,  Perry,  in  the  Hardware  business  in  Springville,  and 
in  this  village.  He  wras  elected  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  this 
town,  in  1845,  and  reelected  in  1840.     He  died  Aug.  7, 1852. 


2(8  HISTORY    OF   AVARSAAV. 

His  wife  died  April  21,  1S53.  They  bad  three  children: 
1.  Solomon,  who  married  Josephine  Smith,  and  is  iioav  a  mer- 
chant in  Chicago.  2.  Albert  I.,  who  resides  in  Iowa.  3.  Edith, 
who  married  Frank  Mitchell,  of  Brodhead,  Wis. 

Maryette,  born  April  4,  1822,  married  Hiram  E.  Adams,, 
being  his  first  Avise,  and  died  1845.     They  had  two  children. 

Eliza  Ann,  born  April  16,  1S24,  resides  in  Warsaw. 

HOE  ACE  HOLLISTER  was  born  in  Pawlet,  Vt,  Jan.  10, 
1798.  He  married,  Nov.  24,  1824,  Julia  Smith,  born  April 
14,  1799.  He  came  to  Warsaw  in  1824,  and  established  the 
carriage-making  business.  His  was  the  first  establishment  in 
which  the  various  branches  of  that  business  were  carried  on' 
to  any  considerable  extent.  He  sold  the  establishment  in 
1839,  and  purchased  a  farm  in  Westfield,  where  he  resided 
many  years.  In  1805,  he  returned  to  Warsaw,  where  he  now 
resides.  Mrs.  Hollister  died  in  Warsaw,  Dec.  5,  1837;  by 
whom  he  had  five  children,  ot  whom  two,  John  C.  and  Delia. 
Ann,  d.  inf. 

Laura  Elizabeth,  who  married  George  Niles,  of  Michigan,. 
Avhere  she  died  Jan.  30,  1846. 

Wm.  Hara'ea*,  avIio  married  Margaret  Wilcox,  in  Westfield,. 
and  resides  in  Manchester,  Iowa. 

Julia  Maria  died  at  the  age  of  6  years. 

.Mr.  Hollister  married  Sept.  17,  1838,  Caroline  McWhorter,. 
daughter  of  Samuel  McWhorter,  Est].,  of  Warsaw,  by  whom 
he  had  six  children;  one,  Mary  Annis,  d.  inf. 

John  Quinct  A.,  who  graduated  at  Hamilton  College,  en- 
listed in  the  Avar  as  a  private,  and  Avas  promoted  to  the  office 
of  Captain.  He  married  Emily  F.  Barker,  since  deceased. 
He  has  since  graduated  at  Cincinnati  Medical  College,  and  is 
in  practice  at  Brocton,  IS".  Y. 

Horace  H.  graduated  with  his  brother  at  Hamilton  College, 
and  has  since  been  Principal  of  East  Pembroke  Academy, 
and  taught  elsewhere.  41  e  married  Ada  A.  Ellinwood,  and 
is  now  a  teacher  in  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute  at  Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 

Carrie  Maria,  Mary  Isabella,  and  Samuel  A.  live  in 
Warsaw. 

ALANSON  HOLLY  was  born  in  Granville,  K  Y.,  July 
21,1810.  He  was  a  son  of  Silvanus  Holly.  In  1822,  his 
mother,  with  her  three  youngest  sons,  John,  Milton,  and 
Alanson,  removed  to  this  town,  and  settled  on  West  HilL 
Alanson  was  at  this  time  12  years  of  age.  The  two  succeed- 
ing summers  he  worked  for  his  neighbors  at  farming,  his- 


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accustomed  labor,  and  the  next  three  summers  at  the  car- 
penter and  joiner's  trade.  His  school  privileges  had  been 
very  limited;  and  with  a  view  to  teaching,  he  attended  Elder 
TuthilPs  select  school  at  Pike  six  weeks,  which  completed  his 
school  course,  not  exceeding,  in  all,  twenty  months.  In  the 
winter  after  he  was  sixteen,  he  commenced  teaching,  and 
taught  five  consecutive  winters.  In  1830  or  1831,  he  worked 
three  months  at  printing  for  A.  W.  Young,  in  the  office  of  the 
Warsaw  Sentinel,  and  in  his  store  for  a  time  as  clerk.  After 
which,  he  was  clerk  for  Joshua  II.  Darling,  five  years,  and  as 
a  principal  in  the  mercantile  business  two  years.  In  1838,  he 
was  elected  on  a  temperance  ticket  a  Justice  of  the  Peace. 
He  has  from  his  youth  been  a  thorough  temperance  man,  and 
has,  during  his  manhood,  thus  far,  employed  his  voice  and 
pen  in  support  of  total  abstinence.  He  has  been  equally  dil- 
igent in  promoting  the  cause  of  education.  He  held  the  office 
of  School  Inspector  and  Town  Superintendent  eighteen  years. 
In  1818,  he  established  the  Wyoming  County  Mirror.  Though 
before  and  since  that  time  a  firm  advocate  of  the  distinctive 
principles  of  the  Whig  party,  yet,  feeling  himself  morally 
bound  to  support  no  man  tor  President  or  Member  of  Con- 
gress who  was  not  opposed  to  the  extension  of  slavery,  he 
refused  to  support  the  nomination  of  Gen.  Taylor,  made  but 
three  months  after  the  establishing  of  the  Mirror.  In  1855, 
he  sold  out  his  paper,  and  removed  to  Kilbourn  City,  Wis., 
where  he  started  the  Wisconsin  Mirror,  literally  l*  in  the 
woods,"  there  being  but  one  dwelling  within  a  mile  from  the 
printing-office.  After  the  election  of  1860,  he  discontinued 
the  paper,  and  became  joint  proprietor  of  the  Loekport 
Journal,  daily,  and  Niagara  County  Intelligencer,  weekly. 
In  the  fall  of  1861,  he  removed  to  Warsaw,  and  engaged  in 
the  Drug  and  Grocery  business,  which  he  continued  three 
years.  In  the  spring  of  1866,  he  returned  to  Kilbourn  City, 
and  in  June,  1868,  he  revived  the  Wisconsin  Mirror  after  a 
sleep  of  nearly  eight  years,  and  is  now  publishing  it  with  his 
son  Homer  O.  Holly  as  a  partner.  The  principles  which 
have  guided  his  course  of  life,  he  ascribes  chiefly  to  maternal 
training.  Mr.  Holly  was  married,  Oct.  5,  1836,  to  Lucretia 
E.  Wakefield,  who  was  born  July  22,  1816.  They  have  had 
ten  children,  as  follows: 

Morton  A.,  who  died  in  Kilbourn  City,  Wis.,  March  11, 
1857,  by  falling  from  a  high  perpendicular  or  prejecting  rock 
upon  the  ice  on  the  Wisconsin  river,  in  his  20th  year. 

Geraldine  Lucretia,  who  married,  in  Warsaw,  N.  Jack- 
son Morris.     They  reside  in  Chicago,  and  have  a  son. 


2S0  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

Josephine  Lophelia,  who  married  Robert  Scofield,  in  Kil- 
bourn  City,  where  they  reside. 

Homer  Orlando,  who  served  three  years  in  the  late  war, 
in  the  various  offices  of  Regimental  Brigade  and  Division 
Postmaster;  Clerk  of  Regimental  and  Brigade  Quartermaster, 
and  Regimental  Quartermaster's  Sergeant.  Discharged,  Ju- 
ly, 1865. 

Isabella  Jane,  Howard  Frank,  who  died  at  5;  Willie 
Elwood,  Lewie  Lloyd,  d.  inf.;  Ella  May,  Arthur  Wake- 
field. 

SIMEON  IIOLTOX  was  born  in  Piscataway,  X.  J.,  Feb. 
2, 1810,  and  married  in  LeRoy,  in  1831,  Olive  S.  Spring,  who 
was  born  Jan.  20,  1816.  lie  came  to  Warsaw  about  1812. 
He  is  by  trade  a  mason.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  and  is  at  present  one  of  its  deacons.  He  has  had 
nine  children: 

Milton  E.,  who  married  Sarah  M.  Milliner,  resides  in 
Rochester,  and  has  three  children:  Joel  P.,  Jessie,  and 
Sarah  L. 

Reliance  M.,  who  married  Arthur  IT.  Watts,  Jeweler  in 
Shelbina,  Mo.     Children:  Olive  E.  and  Myra  J. 

Marquis  F.,  who  married  Julia  Bainbridge,  who  died  after 
two  months.     He  was  in  the  war.     [See  War  History.] 

Walter  S.,  who  died  at  19. 

Henry  Harrison,  who  lives  in  Shelbina,  Mo.  Served  in 
the  war  a  year. 

Junius  R.,  Clara  D.,  Myra,  and  two  d.  inf. 

SAMUEL  HOUGH  was  born  in  the  year  1708.  He  had 
by  his  first  wife  four  children:  Rebecca,  Samuel,  who  died 
young,  Orson,  and  Hiram. 

Rebecca  married  in  Warsaw,  Ira  Jenkins,  by  whom  she 
had  a  son,  Gideon  II.     [See  G.  H.  Jenkins.] 

Orson  married  in  Warsaw,  Clorinda  Webster,  daughter  of 
Elizur  Webster.  They  had  seven  children:  1.  Elizabeth;  2. 
Horace,  who  died  in  a  Western  State;  3.  Clarissa,  who  died 
in  Westfield;  4.  Ardelizza;  5.  Augustin,  who  married  and 
resides  in  Westfield;  6.  Amelia;  7.  Geddes,  who  resides  in 
Nebraska.     The  family  resides  in  Westfield. 

Hiram  was  married,  and  had  several  children.  He  died 
at  Lockport,  Erie  Co.,  Pa. 

Samuel  Hough  married,  in  Granville,  for  his  second  wife, 
Mrs.  Clarissa  McWhorter,  widow  of  John  McWhorter,  and 
daughter  of  Isaac  Phelps,  Sen.  lie  removed  with  his  family 
to  Warsaw,  in  1813,  where  he  died,  Sept.  4.  182G.  He  had 
by  this  wife  eight  children: 


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Hannah,  who  married  Augustin  U.  Baldwin,  and  had  three 
children:  1.  Vincent,  who  is  a  merchant  in  New  York;  2. 
Jernsha,  who  married  George  Farnsworth,  and  died;  3.  Mel- 
Yin.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baldwin  died  in  "VVestfield. 

Clarissa  married  Daniel  Rockwell,  and  removed  to  "West- 
field.  They  had  four  children:  1.  Lansing,  d.  inf.;  2.  Rollin 
D.,  who  married  Helen  E.  Mann,  and  has  three  children : 
Alice  B.,  Clarence,  d.  inf.,  and  George  D.  3.  Walter.  4. 
Frederick  A.,  who  married  Alice  Magrath,  of  New  York. 
Mrs.  Clarissa  Rockwell  died  Feb.  12,  1868,  aged  63  years. 

Melissa  married  Ackley  Carter.  They  removed  to  Wis- 
consin, thence  to  Iowa. 

Louisa  married  Elnathan  Scranton,  of  Covington,  she 
being  his  third  wife,  and  had  two  children,  Rebecca  and 
Albert. 

Miriam  married  W.  R.  Morse,  and  had  three  children: 
Frances,  who  died  about  25  years  of  age,  and  two  sons  who 
died  young. 

Mariett  married  Edwin  Buck,  and  had  five  children:  1. 
Edwin  D.,  who  married  Jennie  Osgood;  2.  Mary  Ann,  who 
married  Herman  Sixby;  3.  Augusta,  who  is  married  and  re- 
sides in  Pennsylvania;  4.  Frederick;  5.  Carlton. 

Samuel,  who  married,  and  lived  many  years  in  Erie  Co., 
Pa.     He  had  several  children. 

Sophia  married  Zera  Col  burn.  They  live  in  Westfield,  and 
have  no  children. 

Samuel  Hough  died  Sept.  4,  1826,  aged  nearly  58  years. 

JOSIAII  HOVEY,  Sen.,  was  born  in  Mansfield,  Conn.,  in 
1747.  He  married  Theodora  Downer.  Having  resided  suc- 
cessively in  Whitestown,  !N".  Y.,  Tioga,  Pa.,  and  Leicester,  1ST. 
Y.,  he  came  to  Warsaw  in  May,  1804,  and  settled  in  the  north 
part  of  the  town.  He  was  one  of  the  number  of  whom  the 
Methodist  church  wras  composed  at  its  formation.  [See  Meth- 
odist church.]  He  died  April  24,  1820,  aged  73  years.  They 
had  thirteen  children : 

Orre  married  Azuba  Root,  and  had  several  children. 

Simeon.     [See  Simeon  Hovey.] 

Gurdon  wras  born  in  Lebanon,  N".  II.,  June  6,  1778;  mar- 
ried Anna  Starkweather,  and  settled  in  the  north  part  of  this 
town.  His  is  believed  to  have  been  one  of  the  first  three 
houses  built  in  the  town.  It  was  built  by  him  and  a  brother, 
in  the  autumn  of  1803;  and  in  March,  1804,  occupied  by 
himself,  and,  for  a  short  time,  together  with  his  two  brothers, 
Simeon  and  Josiah.  He  removed  many  years  ago  to  Michigan 
with  his  family,  where  died.     He  had  eight  children. 


2S2 


HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


John  married  Elizabeth  Brooks,  of  Tioga,  Pa.,  by  whom 
lie  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters.  His  wife  died,  and 
he  married  a  second  wife;  removed  to  the  West  and  died. 

Suel  married  Lucinda  Holmes,  and  removed  to  Michigan. 

Theodora  married  Noah  Willis.     They  moved  to  Missouri. 

Ziba  married  Sophia  Metcalf,  Bethany,  and  removed  to 
Eandolph.     They  had  eight  children. 

Eliphalet  married  Sally  Knapp.  Their  children  were,  1. 
Salvira,  who  married  Wright  Blaekmer.  2.  Bleeker,  who 
married,  and  practiced  medicine  in  Rochester.  3.  Maria, 
who  married  Mr.  Mowry.  1.  Juliet,  who  married  Jedediah 
Gordon,  ot  Rushford.  5.  Louisa,  who  married  Mr.  Crane,  of 
Dansville.  6.  Mina  who  married  Ira  Gifford.  7.  Spencer, 
who  lives  at  Linden.     8.  Alpheus,  lives  in  Rushford. 

Eliphalet  Hovev  died  Dec.  18,  1843,  aged  52  years.  Mrs. 
Hoveydied  ]NTov.  18,  1818,  aged  56  years. 

Alvin  married  Calista  Roberts,  and  removed  to  Michigan. 
They  had  nine  children. 

Laura  married  Nathan  Snow,  and  removed  to  Randolph, 
New  York. 

Fina  married  Lewis  Alverson,  of  Perry;  moved  to  Mich- 
igan. 

Melinda  married  Richard  Jackson,  for  many  years  a  resi- 
dent of  Warsaw.  Their  children  were  Adelia;  Z.  Paddock, 
who  married  in  Steuben  county;  James,  who  married  and 
went  to  Michigan;  Sally  Ann;  Almina,  who  married  in  Mich.; 
Calvin;  Emery,  who  was  in  the  war,  was  taken  sick  and  died 
at  home  in  Michigan. 

^SIMEON  HOYEY  was  born  in  Lebanon,  K  IL,  July  6, 
1776;  married,  Aug.  31,  1800,  Jerusha  Lamb.  He  bought, 
with  his  two  brothers,  Gurdon  and  Josiah,  lot  21,  in  the 
autumn  of  1803,  and  built  a  house,  into  which  they  removed 
in  March,  1804.  The  house,  it  is  said,  was,  until  the  others 
had  had  time  to  build  for  themselves,  occupied  by  the  three, 
neither  having  as  yet  any  children.  Simeon  resided  in  this 
town,  near  the  place  where  he  first  settled,  until  within  a  few 
years  before  his  death.  He  built  for  Judge  Webster,  1805, 
the  first  saw-mill  in  this  town.  Both  he  and  his  wife  wTere 
among  the  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of 
which  it  was  composed  at  the  time  of  its  organization.  A  few 
years  before  his  death  he  removed  to  Monroe  county,  and 
died,  April  25, 1862.  His  widow,  at  the  advanced  age  of  81, 
resides  with  a  son  in  this  village.  They  had  nine  children  : 
Harry  was  born  Sept.  1,  1801,  being  the  first  male  child 
born  in  this  town.      He  married   Lydia  M.  Maher.     Their 


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2S3 


children  were,  1.  Henry  L.  2.  Francis,  who  died  at  22.  3. 
Eugene.     L  Laura  Bell.     5.  Wilber. 

Martha  E.  married  Eev.  Carlos  Gould,  and  resides  in 
Parma.  Their  children  are,  1.  LeEoy  H.,  who  married 
Amelia  Standish;  resides  in  Michigan.  2.  Mary.  3.  Frances, 
who  is  married. 

Deloss  married  in  Ohio,  and  is  a  practicing  physician. 

Le  Boy  married  Deborah  Smith,  and  died  two  months  after. 

Simeon,  born  February  7,  1813,  is  unmarried,  resides  in 
Warsaw. 

Eunice  married  Daniel  P.  Newell,  of  Middlebury.  They 
reside  in  Parma,  and  have  two  children,  Charles  and  Mary. 

Mary  A.  married  Gideon  IT.  Jenkins.  [See  Gideon  IL 
Jenkins. 

Laura  J.  died  at  22,  unmarried. 

Enoch  W.  married  Amelia  A.  Merrell.  They  removed  to 
Janesville,  Wis.,  and  have  live  children  :  Frederick,  Charles, 
Laura,  LeRoy,  Edward. 

JOSIAH  HOVEY,  Jun.,  was  born  in  Lebanon,  1ST.  H., 
Jan.,  1780,  and  married  Sally  Lamb.  They  removed  to  War- 
saw in  1804,  as  elsewhere  stated.  [See  Simeon  and  Gurdon 
Hovey.]  They  resided  on  the  farm  on  which  they  first  settled 
until  a  late  period  in  life,  when  they  removed  to  the  village, 
and  after  a  few  years  to  Buffalo,  where  they  died.  They  were 
members  of  the  Methodist  church  in  this  town  at  the  time  of 
its  formation.     They  had  thirteen  children: 

Alfred  married  Polly  Cleveland,  and  had  five  sons  and 
two  daughters.     He  died  in  Warsaw. 

Horace  died  in  Warsaw  at  the  age  of  19. 

Julia  Ann  married  Linus  Chittenden. 

Amanda  and  Lois,  unmarried,  reside  in  Buffalo. 

Justus  married  Sarah  Smith,  in  Canada,  and  died  in  Cali- 
fornia. She  died  at  the  West.  They  had  a  daughter,  Ma- 
rian. 

Adaline  married  Philander  Pixley.  They  reside  in  Buf- 
talo,  and  had  a  daughter  and  three  sons. 

Dwight  R.  married  twice,  and  resides  in  Kansas. 

Almon  married  in  Nevada,  and  is  now  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Nancy  married  Mr.  Brown,  and  lives  in  Buffalo. 

Sally  married  in  Buffalo,  and  removed  West. 

Clarissa  married  Boswell  Gardner,  of  Attica,  where  she 
died. 

Darius  is  married,  and  lives  in  Buffalo. 


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HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


CHESTER  HUED  was  born  Aug.  10,  1702.  He  came  to 
Warsaw  in  1811;  married  Sally  Wiseman,  March  4,  1813. 
He  was  by  trade  a  carpenter,  though  at  times  engaged  in 
other  mechanical  business.  A  large  portion  of  his  labor  at 
his  trade  was  bestowed  on  the  building  of  churches  in  War- 
saw and  the  surrounding  towns,  eight  in  number,  of  which 
there  were  three  in  Warsaw — two  for  the  Methodists,  and  one 
for  the  Baptists.  Mr.  Hard  was  by  profession  a  Methodist. 
He  died  Aug.  24,  1866.     They  had  ten  children: 

Lucinda,  who  married  William  Barber,  and  had  ten  chil- 
dren :  1.  Eliza  Ann,  who  married  Edwin  R.  Conable. 
2.  Sarah  M.  3.  Amelia  J.,  dead.  4.  Dolphus  S.,  who  mar- 
ried Julia  E.  Stevens.  5.  Lucia  E.  6.  Mary  S.,  who  married 
John  West.  7.  Flora  C,  who  married  Wm.  D.  Lucas.  S. 
Emma  O.,  (d.  inf.)     9.  William  F.     10.  Jesse  Edwin. 

Laura  married  Lewis  Boardman,  and  died  in  1856. 

Betsey  married  Reuben  A.  Howard.     They  reside  in  Iowa. 

Chester  P.  was  for  several  years  engaged  in  the  lumber 
and  manufacturing  business.  He  married  Theodosia  Gay, 
and  has  a  daughter,  Minnie. 

Mary  P.  married  Edwin  Carr. 

Franklix  D.  married  Ann  Hosiel,  and  has  three  children: 
Franklin,  Ida,  and  Adelaide. 

Nicholas  married  Betsey  Bassett,  and  died  in  Wisconsin. 

Ira  married  Rachel  Richards,  and  lives  in  Warsaw. 

Polly  married  James  Allison,  in  Indiana. 

Sarah,  who  was  drowned  at  Arcade,  aged  2  years. 

GIDEON  II.  JENKINS,  son  of  Ira  Jenkins,  an  early 
settler  in  the  east  part  of  this  town,  was  born  in  Warsaw, 
Sept,  4,  1815.  He  married,  Oct.  17,  1838,  Mary  A.  Ilovey, 
a  daughter  of  Simeon  Ilovey.  In  the  early  part  of  his 
business  life,  he  was  two  years  a  clerk  in  the  Canal  Superin- 
tendent's office  at  Ilindsbnrg,  Orleans  Co.  He  was  afterwards 
a  merchant  in  Covington  one  year.  In  1846,  he  removed  to 
Centerville,  where  he  was  in  the  mercantile  business  nine 
years,  and  was  in  1854  a  representative  of  Allegany  county 
in  the  Assembly.  He  returned  to  Warsaw,  and  in  1856, 
commenced  the  mercantile  business  in  the  village,  and  con- 
tinued it  until  1861,  when  he  enlisted  in  the  Avar,  taking  the 
command  of  a  company  of  volunteers,  the  first  that  Mas 
raised  in  this  town.  After  a  service  of  seven  months,  his 
health  having  become  seriously  impaired,  he  was  honorably 
discharged.  He  has  held  the  office  of  supervisor  in  Center- 
ville and  Warsaw.  In  the  spring  of  1868,  he  bought  a  farm 
near  Pearl  Creek,  where  lie  now  resides.     He  had  two  sons, 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   YOTES.  2S5 

Charles  Y.  and  Adelbert  II.,  both  of  whom  were  in  the  war. 
[See  War  History.] 

Charles  V.  married  Frances  Mallow,  in  Ontario,  Ind., 
where  he  resides.  He  is  a  practicing  Physician,  and  has  a 
daughter. 

Adelbert  II.  is  unmarried,  and  resides  with  his  father. 

CHARLES  J.  JUDD  was  Lorn  in  Cornwall,  Yt.,  Sept.  25, 
1807.  He  removed  in  1813  to  Onondaga  county  with  his 
father,  who  resided  first  at  Onondaga  Hill,  and  afterwards  in 
Marcellus,  in  the  same  county.  He  was  marred  to  Jane  Ann 
Moseley,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Daniel  Moseley,  of 
Onondaga  Hill.  He  removed  to  Warsaw  in  the  spring  of 
1836,  and  in  connection  with  James  S.  Moseley,  his  brother- 
in-law,  commenced  the  mercantile  business.  He  was  subse- 
quently engaged  in  the  various  occupations  of  teacher, 
bookseller,  dealer  in  drugs  and  medicines  and  groceries,  and 
was  for  two  years  a  joint  proprietor  of  the  grist-mill  in  this 
village.  In  his  commercial  transactions  he  was  scrupulously 
honest  and  upright.  He  Avas  a  good  man.  Kor  was  his  a 
mere  negative  goodness;  it  was  of  a  positive  character,  mani- 
festing itself  in  acts  of  usefulness.  The  antislavery  cause 
and  the  various  other  benevolent,  reformatory,  and  religious 
enterprises,  received  from  him  a  hearty  and  efficient  support. 
His  duties  in  the  several  relations  of  life,  domestic,  social, 
civil,  and  ecclesiastical,  were  promptly,  faithfully,  and  consci- 
entiously performed.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  from  its  formation,  and  for  several  years  one  of  its 
deacons.  He  died  suddenly  in  this  village,  March  8,  1863. 
Mrs.  Judd  died  Sept.  1,  1852.  They  had  four  children: 
Frances  J.,  Charles  Moseley,  Flora  A.,  and  "Win.  T. 

Frances  J.  married  Edwin  L.  Babbitt,  and  had  a  son, 
Harry,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Babbitt  was  admitted  to 
the  practice  of  Law,  but  was  engaged  most  of  the  time  until 
his  death  in  the  editing  and  publisning  of  newspapers  in  this 
village,  and  in  Waukon,  Iowa.  He  died  in  Orleans  Co., 
Oct. "31,  1862,  aged  31  years. 

Charles  M.  married  Jessie  Smith,  of  Chicago,  where  he 
now  resides.  He  served  through  the  war  as  Lieutenant  of 
Artillery  in  the  Western  armies. 

Flora  A.  married  Wm.  H.  Merrill.     [See  W.  II.  Merrill.] 

Wllliam  T.,  unmarried,  resides  in  Xew  York. 

Mr.  Judd  married  for  his  second  wife,  Aristeen  Breck,  of 
Warsaw,  by  whom  he  had  two  children,  Charles  J.  and 
Jessie,  d.  inf. 


286  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

AMOS  KEENEY  was  born  in  East  Hartford,  Conn.,  April 
8,  1778.  "While  young,  he  became  a  resident  of  Hampton, 
]S\  Y.,  where  he  married  Martha  Brooks.  As  has  been 
already  stated,  he  came  into  Warsaw  in  1803,  driving  one  of 
the  teams  of  Elizur  Webster,  with  whom  he  then  contracted 
for  fifty  acres  of  land,  which  is  now  a  part  of  the  farm  of 
Samuel  Fisher,  in  the  south  part  of  the  village.  He  brought 
in  his  family  in  1801.  In  1806  or  1807,  he  sold  out  and  set- 
tled in  the  south  part  of  the  town.  Few  of  the  settlers  had  a 
harder  experience  than  he.  Some  of  the  incidents  of  his 
struggle  "  in  the  woods  "  are  elsewhere  narrated  in  this  his- 
tory. He  succeeded,  however,  in  gaining  a  competence  for  a 
long  life,  not  yet  closed,  though  protracted  beyond  fourscore 
years  and  ten.  But,  though  he  never  acquired  great  earthly 
possessions,  he  is  "  rich  in  faith,"  and  has  an  earnest  of  the 
*'  inheritance  of  the  saints  in  light."  He  has  been,  during  the 
most  of  his  life,  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  in  this  town. 
His  wife  died  Jan.  6,  1S50.     They  had  nine  children: 

Betsey,  born  March  6,  1800,  died  in  her  11th  year. 

Henry  II.,  born  Dec.  3,  1801,  married  Maria  Albro.  They 
Lad  four  children:  Matison,  Isadore  and  Zelotes,  who  died 
young,  and  Niles. 

Almira,  born  March  18,  1801,  married  David  Seymour. 
Children:  Pamelia,  Ann  Eliza,  Austin,  and  three  d.  inf. 

Ciiloe,  born  Nov.  27,  1806,  became  the  second  wife  of  Da- 
vid Seymour,  and  had  two  children,  both  d.  inf. 

Apollos,  born  Dec  6,  1808,  married  Adaline  Ivnowlton, 
and  had  four  children:  1.  ximelia,  died;  2.  Jasper;  3.  Samuel; 
1.  Daniel. 

Eleazar,  born  April  11,  1812,  married  Adaline  Murray. 
Their  children  are:  1.  Michael;  2.  Helen;  3.  Oscar;  1.  Adelia; 
5.  Josephine;  6.  James;  7.  Calista. 

Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  born  March  1,  1815,  married  Ann 
Ennis.  Their  children  were:  1.  Ivendrick;  2.  Abraham  Ennis, 
who  was  in  the"  war,  was  taken  sick,  returned,  and  died  at 
home;  3.  Mary. 

John  H.,  born  Nov.  1,  ISIS,  married  Sarah  E.  Hibbard. 
They  have  two  children:  1.  Castern  Gertrude;  2.  Bruce  M. 

Calista,  born  May  25,  1821,  married  William  Webster, 
Jim.     [See  Family  of  Wm.  Webster.] 

MATTISON  KEENEY,  son  of  Henry  II.  Keeney,  was 
born  Oct.  29,  1829,  and  married  Martha  Bristol,  who  died 
Jan.  25,  1867.  He  married  for  his  second  wife,  Sarah  Bris- 
tol. Both  were  daughters  of  Francis  S.  Bristol.  Mr.  Keeney 
has  three  children:  Frank,  Fred,  and  Martha. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES   AND   NOTES.  287 

ALDEN  KEITH,  from  the  state  of  Vermont,  came  to 
Warsaw  about  the  year  1809.  He  married  Rebecca  Chap- 
man, and  settled  in  the  north-east  part  of  the  town.  Four  or 
five  years  after,  he  removed  to  the  south  part  of  the  village, 
and  set  up  the  business  of  making  chairs  and  spinning  wheels. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  chair-maker  in  the  j)lace,  and 
was  probably  the  only  maker  of  the  obsolete  article  of  spin- 
ning-wheels. He  removed,  after  a  long  residence  in  this  town, 
to  the  state  of  Michigan,  where  he  died.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren: 

Alden  C.  is  married,  and  is  a  practicing  physician  in  Or- 
leans Co. 

Polly,  Sophrona,  Susan,  and  John,  reside  West. 

Rollin  married  Ellen  Baldwin,  daughter  of  the  late  Dr. 
Thomas  P.  Baldwin.     They  reside  in  New  Jersey. 

JAPJED  KXAPP  was  born  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  July  25, 
1755.  He  removed  to  this  town  about  1826,  and  settled  on 
the  East  Hill,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  Oct.  22,  ISIS, 
in  his  91th  year.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution,  and  de- 
lighted in  relating  his  experiences  in  that  trying  and  eventful 
conflict.     He  had  nine  children: 

Sophia  married  Harmon  Munger  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  and 
had  eight  children. 

Mary  married  David  Gibbs;  removed  to  Warsaw,  and  then 
to  Michigan,  where  she  died. 

William  married  Eleanor  Bishop,  in  Perry,  and  removed 
to  Byron,  Mich. 

Charles  II.  married  Poxcynthia  Worden,  of  Orangeville. 
They  have  but  one  child  living,  Eva,  who  married  Alva  Man- 
son,  and  lives  in  Harlem,  X.  Y.;  has  no  children. 

Catharine  married  Nathan  Lamkins,  and  moved  to  Michi- 
gan. 

George  married  Lucy  Tripp,  and  removed  to  Michigan. 

Jine  married  Dr.  Hinman,  of  Allegany  Co. 

Lucy  married  E.  D.  Carpenter.  [See  Erasmus  D.  Carpen- 
ter.] 

Julius  married  in  Michigan;  his  wife  died  there,  and  he 
married  a  second,  Catharine  Snyder,  and  lives  in  Coldwater; 
has  one  child. 

WILLIAM  KNAPP,  Sen.,  was  born  in  Canaan,  X.  Y., 
Jan.  4,  1758.  Lie  married  Olive  Powley.  He  came  to  this 
town  some  years  later  than  some  of  his  children,  and  settled 
in  the  north  part  of  the  town.  He  had  ten  children.  The 
first  five  were  born  in  Canaan;  the  others  in  Orwell,  Yt. 

Daniel,  William.     [See  Sketches  of  their  Families.] 


2S8  HISTOKY   OF   WAKSA.W. 

Olive  married  Dwight  Noble.     They  came  t<~  

1806.  He  died  Jan.  25,  1S07,  and  was  the  first  adult  person 
who  died  in  the  town.  She  was  in  1810  married  to  Solomon 
Morris,  Jim.  She  had,  by  her  first  husband,  two  children: 
1.  Electa,  who  married  Luther  Watrous,  of  Perry.  2.  Dwight, 
who  married  Eunice  Watrous,  sister  of  Luther. 

Justus  married  Hannah  Smith,  and  removed  to  Michigan. 
They  had  five  children:  1.  Lucien.  2.  Enoch.  3.  Watson. 
4.  Emeline.     5.  Electa. 

Mima,  unmarried. 

Sally  married  Eliphalet  Hovey.     [See  Hovey  Family.] 

Esriiee  married  Abel  Taylor.  Their  children  were:  1.  Cook, 
who  lives  in  Attica.  2.  Juliett,  who  married  Horace  Glad- 
ding, and  resides  in  Attica.  3.  Olive,  who  married  James 
Doty,  merchant,  in  Attica.  4.  Phidello,  who  married  Harriet 
Baker,  of  Attica,  was  a  Captain  in  the  late  war,  and  was  killed 
in  battle. 

Betiiia  married  Comfort  Curtis,  of  Middleburv.  They  have 
a  daughter  who  married  Mr.  Bliss,  and  who  lives  in  Kalama- 
zoo, Mich. 

Hakley,  born  Sept.  26,'ISOO,  married  Fanny  Morris;  had 
five  children:  1.  George,  who  died  early.  2.  Dwight,  who 
married  Miss  Stedman.  He  has  fur  many  years  been  con- 
nected with  the  Central  Railroad  at  Rochester.  3.  Rowley, 
who  is  married,  and  lives  in  Livonia.  4.  William,  who  went 
AVest,  and  died.  5.  Olive,  who  married  Hiram  Ray,  and 
lives  in  Livonia.  Mr.  Knapp  was  a  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist church,  and  died  Sept.  23,  1842. 

DANIEL  KNAPP,  son  of  William  Knapp,  Sen.,  was  born 
in  Canaan,  Columbia  Co.  He  came  from  Orwell,  Yt,  to  this 
town,  in  1S06,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  Sept.  13, 185S, 
aged  79  years.  He  was  for  many  years  a  justice  of  the  peace, 
having  been  appointed  by  the  council  of  appointment  in  1S12, 
1814,1815,  1818,  1821,  and  1823.  He  had  by  his  first  wife, 
a  son,  William  S.,  for  a  long  time,  and  now,  a  resident  of 
Gainesville. 

William  S.  was  born  in  Orwell,  Vt,  Oct.  24,  1S05,  and 
married  Amy  Pike,  by  whom  he  had  eight  children:  1.  IIul- 
dah  Jane,  who  married  John  Leffingwell,  and  has  four  chil- 
dren. 2.  Betsey  S.,  who  married  William  Russell.  3.  Sarah 
Sophia,  who  married  Nyrum  Evans.  4.  Amelia  Maria,  who 
married  George  Reynolds.  5.  George  Daniel,  who  married 
Elizabeth  A.  Allen.  6.  Amy  K.,  who  married  Richard 
Dewey.  His  first  wife  having  died,  Mr.  Knapp  married 
Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Smith. 


FAMILY    SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  289 

Daniel  Knapp  married  for  his  second  wife,  Lydia  Morris, 
a  daughter  of  Solomon  Morris,  Sen.,  by  whom  he  had  eight 
children: 

Olive,  who  married  Geo.  Babcock,  a  farmer,  near  Dans- 
ville. 

Sally,  unmarried,  resides  in  Gainesville. 

Lydia,  who  married  James  Morris,  and  removed  to  Aurora. 

Solomon  married  Miss  Truesdell,  and  removed  to  Indiana. 

Louisa  married  Mr.  King,  and  removed  to  Iowa. 

Iveziah,  unmarried,  resides  at  Dansville. 

Daniel  A.  married  Matilda  M.  Bingham,  by  whom  he  had 
five  children.     Mrs.  Knapp  died  Sept.  2,  1S64. 

Mary  married  Mr.  Knapp,  of  Aurora.  They  reside  in 
Iowa. 

Daniel  Knapp  married  for  his  third  wife,  Polly  Wiseman, 
by  whom  he  had  one  daughter,  Betsey. 

WILLIAM  KNAPP,  son  of  William  Knapp,  Sen.,  was 
born  in  Canaan,  N.  Y.,  July  4,  1781.  Lie  removed  to  Hamp- 
ton, where  he  married  Clorinda  Warren.  He  removed  to  this 
town  the  same  year,  and  settled  on  a  part  of  Lot  35,  about  a 
mile  south  of  the  village.  He  came  the  year  previous,  and 
purchased  his  land,  lie  removed  to  Perry,  where  he  died, 
March  31,  1859.  His  wife  died  in  Moscow,  Dec.  4,  1853. 
They  had  six  children: 

William  W.  died  in  Michigan,  in  1834,  aged  27. 

Betsey  married  William  Bingham.  [See  Sketch  of  his 
Family.] 

Rhoda  married  Daniel  Cross,  of  Perry,  July  18,  1855. 

Maeyette  married  Oliver  Atherton,  of  Moscow,  where  she 
still  resides.     Mr.  Atherton  died  there  several  years  ago. 

Eunice  C.  married  S.  C.  Smead.  They  have  two  children: 
Ella  and  Walter  II. 

JOHN  R.  KNAPP  was  born  in  Canaan,  N.  Y.,  July  7, 
1787,  and  married  Melinda  Wilson.  He  removed  with  his 
family  to  Warsaw  in  1812.     They  had  nine  children: 

Elvira  C.  married  Miles  W.  Yanfleet,  and  died  in  1837, 
leaving  two  children. 

Jacob  W.  married  Elvira  Putnam.  They  had  seven  chil- 
dren: Caroline  Elvira,  Augustus  F.,  Harriet  Celinda,  Lucien 
P.,  Thomas  E.,  John  P.,  Margaret  E.,  d.  inf.  Mr.  Knapp  has 
been  several  times  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace,  which  office 
he  now  holds;  was  Postmaster,  1853-61;  and  Captain  of  a 
company  in  the  late  war.  His  sons,  Augustus,  Lucien,  and 
Thomas,  were  with  him  in  the  service.     TSee  War  History.] 

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290  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

Orson  S.  married  Jane  P.  Lomax,  of  Columbus,  O.,  and 
died  in  that  state.     They  had  six  or  seven  children. 

William  L.  married  Betsey  A.  Brockway;  had  a  son,  Theo- 
dore, who  married  a  daughter  of  Walter  R.  Keith.  lie  mar- 
ried, second,  Miss  Green.  Children:  Florence,  William  J., 
Elizabeth,  Alvah. 

Margaret  E.  married  Thomas  J.  Worthington,  in  Ohio. 

Harriet  Celinda  married  Joshua  S.  Batch,  who  died  in  the 
army.     She  died  soon  after. 

John  R.  married  Ann  Kennedy,  in  Ohio.  Their  children 
are:  Melinda,  John,  Harry.  He  served  four  years  as  Quar- 
termaster in  the  4th  Reg.  O.  Volunteers.  lie  is  now  Clerk  in 
the  Treasury  Department,  2d  Auditor's  office. 

Russel  A.  married  Caroline  Overdeen,  in  Ohio;  died  in 
Marion,  Ohio,  Jan.  30,  1848.     They  have  a  son,  Edward. 

John  R.  Knapp,  Sen.,  removed  to  Marion,  O.,  1864:.  His 
wile  died  in  ISIS.     He  had  by  a  second  wife,  a  son,  James. 

AVERY  LATHROP  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  Nov. 
19,  1788;  married  Alvira  Wood  worth,  in  Le  Roy,  in  1826; 
and  removed  to  Warsaw  in  1828.  Tie  settled  in  the  south- 
east part  of  the  town,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist 
church,  of  which  he  is  a  member.  Tie  has  ten  children:  Ar- 
temisia, who  married  Milton  S.  Webb,  and  moved  to  Ashta- 
bula, O.,  and  has  two  children,  Mary  and  William;  Achsah, 
who  married  Dewitt  Akin;  Angeline,  who  married  Henry 
Webster;  Alvira,  who  married  John  Cummings;  Cornelia, 
Esther,  Austin  W.,  Mary,  Charles  A.,  and  Lucy  A. 

ABRAM  B.  LAWRENCE,  son  of  Albert  and  Mahala  B. 
Lawrence,  was  born  in  Warsaw,  May  18, 1834.  Several  years 
of  his  youth  he  served  as  merchant's  clerk  in  this  village.  At 
the  age  of  19,  he  engaged  as  accountant  in  the  publishing 
house"of  Phinney  &  Co.,  Buffalo;  and  after  about  two  years 
he  established  a  Drug  Store  at  Niagara  Falls.  In  1859,  in 
company  with  H.  A.  Metcalf,  he  erected  and  put  in  operation 
the  Gas' Works  in  this  village.  In  1802,  he  was  commissioned 
by  Gov.  Morgan,  Quartermaster  of  the  130th  Reg.  N.  Y.  Vol- 
unteers, afterwards  the  1st  N.  Y.  Dragoons,  the  duties  of  which 
he  discharged  with  great  energy,  promptness  and  fidelity. 
In  recognition  of  his  meritorious  services,  he  was  promoted, 
and  by  President  Lincoln  commissioned,  Captain  and  1  . 
Q.  M.,  and  assigned  to  the  staff  of  Major-General  Wm.  F. 
Smith,  and  his  successor,  Major-General  E.  O.  C.  Ord.  He 
was  next  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major,  and  made  Chief 
Quartermaster  of  the  famous  18th  Army  Corps.     Upon  the 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  291 

consolidation  of  the  18th  and  10th  Corps,  and  creation  of  the 
21th  Corps,  notwithstanding  the  various  influences  employed 
by  aspirants  holding  older  commissions,  he  obtained,  unex- 
pectedly, the  assignment,  by  the  Secretary  of  War  and  order 
of  President  Lincoln,  of  Chief  Quartermaster  of  the  21th 
Army  Corps,  with  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel.  In  the  final 
struggle,  ending  in  the  surrender  of  the  rebel  General  Lee,  he 
was  placed  in  charge  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department  of 
the  Army  of  the  James  in  the  field,  and  afterwards  by  special 
order  from  General  Grant,  received  the  surrender  from  Gen- 
eral Lee,  and  disposition  of  the  property  of  the  rebel  army  at 
Appomattox  Court  House.  After  closing  the  duties  of  his  de- 
partment at  Richmond,  lie  was  sent  by  the  War  Department 
to  the  vicinity  of  the  Rocky  Mountains  on  special  service 
under  Lieut.-General  Sherman,  after  declining  many  tempt- 
ing positions.  Upon  retiring  from  military  service,  he  received 
brevets  "for  faithful  and  meritorious  services  during  the  war.'' 
He  is  now  one  of  a  large  Canadian  Incorporated  Company 
engaged  in  slate  manufacturing,  mining,  etc.,  in  the  Province 
of  Quebec,  the  business  of  which,  as  Secretary,  Treasurer,  and 
Managing  Director,  he  is  conducting  with  success.  He  was, 
in  Warsaw,  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church.  He 
married,  in  1857,  Elizabeth  Faulkner,  of  Wheatland,  and  has 
twro  children,  George  and  Winnie. 

TRUMAN  LEWIS  was  born  in  Farmington,  now  Avon, 
Connecticut,  Nov.  5,  1T81.  When  a  small  boy,  he  removed 
with  his  father  and  family  to  New  Marlborough,  Mass.,  and 
afterwards  to  Vernon,  N.  Y.  In  the  spring  of  1807,  he  came 
on  foot  from  Vernon  to  Orangeville,  then  Genesee  county. 
He  bought  a  part  of  Lot  No.  28,  on  which  he  settled  several 
years  before  his  marriage,  a  younger  brother,  Jason,  living 
with  him.  He  married  Lucy  Porter,  a  woman  worthy  and 
qualified  to  aid  a  pioneer  in  the  struggles  incident  to  the  set- 
tlement and  development  of  a  new  country.  He  was  in  the 
army  in  the  wTar  of  1812,  holding  a  commission  as  Ensign 
from  Gov.  Tompkins.  He  was  called  out  just  as  his  crops 
were  getting  ripe,  and  he  was  obliged,  as  were  many  others, 
to  go  and  leave  the  women  to  secure  the  harvest.  He  was 
frequently  elected  to  the  most  important  town  offices.  He 
was  a  member  of  Assembly  for  Genesee  county  in  the  years 
1831  and  1835.  He  was  appointed  Treasurer  of  Wyoming 
county  in  1811.  He  was  also  about  15  years  agent  for  Wyo- 
ming county  of  the  Farmers'  Loan  and  Trust  Company, 
successors  of  the  old  Holland  Land  Company;  also  agent  for 
the  town  of  Orangeville,  for  the  Trustees  under  the  will  of 


202  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

James  Lloyd,  of  Boston,  Mass.  The  last  seven  years  of  bis 
life  were  spent  in  Warsaw,  with  a  son.  He  was  a  member  of 
tbe  Presbyterian  church  in  Orangeville  from  the  elate  of,  or 
soon  after  its  formation,  and  of  tbe  Congregational  church  in 
Warsaw  at  the  time  of  bis  death,  during  which  period  be 
exemplified  tbe  character  of  a  Christian.  He  died  in  War- 
saw, Sept.  15,  1865.  Mrs.  Lewis  died  in  Rockford,  111.,  Dec. 
13,  1866.     They  bad  ten  children: 

Charlotte  married  Rev.  Ebenezer  II.  Stratton.  They 
reside  at  Canoga,  Seneca  Co.,  N.  Y. 

David  married  Mrs.  Emeline  Morton,  and  resides  in  Or- 
angeville. Their  children  are:  Francis,  Edwin  M.,  Judson 
R.,  William  M.,  Lucy,  and  Mary  Stratton. 

Julia  married  Edwin  Snow.     They  reside  in  Avon,  O. 

Eliza,  born  Feb.  20,  1820,  married  Harvey  Stone,  who 
was  born  Feb.  14,  1818.  Their  children  are:  i.  Almira  A.,. 
Avbo  married  George  Parker.  They  reside  in  Auburn.  2. 
Maurice  L.,  who  married  Frances  E.  Stanley.     3.  Truman  L. 

Corinna  married  Eli  T.  Cleveland;  resides  in  Rockford,  111. 

Pamelia  married  Geo.  T.  Cleveland;  resides  in  Seward,  111. 

Jane  married  Frederick  Shoemaker;  lives  in  Rural,  Wis. 

Laura  married  Samuel  Seymour;  lives  in  Rockford,  111. 

Simeon  D.  married  Sarah  L.  Canfield,  and  resides  in 
Warsaw.  lie  completed  his  school  course  at  Genesee  and 
Wyoming  Seminary  at  Alexander;  after  which  be  was  assist- 
ant teacher  in  the  institution  two  years,  and  subsequently  one 
year  in  Warsaw  Academy.  In  March,  1855,  be  became  a. 
partner  in  the  Drug  and  Grocery  business  with  tbe  late  C.  J. 
Judd,  and  continued  in  the  business  three  years.  In  185S,  he 
went  into  tbe  Hardware  trade  with  Noble  Morris,  in  which 
business  the  firm,  Morris  &  Lewis,  still  continues.  He  is  a 
man  of  irreproachable  character,  and  a  supporter  of  religious 
institutions.  He  is  an  influential  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  and  has  been  for  the  last  five  years,  and  is  at 
present,  superintendent  of  its  Sabbath-school. 

Frank  married  Julia  Bristol,  and  resided  on  tbe  homestead 
of  bis  father  in  Orangeville,  until  1867,  when  he  removed  to 
Warsaw,  and  formed  a  partnership  in  tbe  Drug  and  Grocery 
business  with  Chauncey  C.  Buxton. 

ASHLEY  MANVILLE  was  born  in  Whitehall,  Jan.  6r 
1800,  and  married  Sabrina  Gallet.  They  removed  to  Warsaw 
in  1835,  and  settled  in  tbe  south-west  part  of  tbe  town,  on  tbe 
farm  on  which  be  resided  until  bis  death,  Feb.  10,  1S60. 
He  bad  held  tbe  office  of  Supervisor  and  other  offices  in  the 
town.     Mrs.  Manville  died  Aug.  15,  1863.     They  bad  three 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  293 

children;  Martha,  who  married  Joseph  Ashley,  and  has  two 
children,  Mary  and  Ella;  and  two  died  young. 

JOSIAIT  MARCHANT  was  born  in  Barnstable,  Mass., 
and  married  Polly  Cammet.  They  removed  to  Granville,  1ST. 
Y.,  and  thence  to  Warsaw  in  1822.  He  settled  on  East  Hill, 
where  he  died  Nov.  19, 1840,  aged  68  years.  Mrs.  Marchant 
was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  ;md  died  Nov.  4, 
1855,  aged  78  years.     They  had  nine  children: 

Owen,  born  in  1796,  married  Amanda  Brown;  removed  to 
Warsaw,  where  he  resided  many  years,  and  removed  to  At- 
tica, where  he  now  resides.  He  had  five  children:  1.  Esther, 
who  married  Henry  Finch.  2.  Rodney,  who  married  Miss 
Seeley,  served  in  the  war,  and  has  a  second  wife.  3.  Landon, 
wdio  died  at  18.  4.  Jane,  who  married  Mr.  Brewer.  5.  Polly. 
Mr.  Owen  Marchant  has  a  second  wife. 

Polly  married  Allen  Fargo.     [See  Allen  Fargo.] 

Lydia  married  William  G.  Whitney  in  Granville;  came  to 
Warsaw  in  1821;  lived  here  many  years;  removed  to  Mix- 
ville,  where  Mr.  Whitney  died.  They  had  three  sons: 
Edwin,  Allen,  Graves,  all  married  and  living  in  Mixville. 

John  married  Adeline  Marchant.  Children:  Harriet;  Jane, 
married  Wm.  A.  Murray,  of  Greece,  1ST.  Y.,  and  Marvin  C. 

Orrin  married  Juliet  Alverson,  and  resides  in  Mixville. 
His  children  are  Eleanor,  William,  Polly,  and  Mary. 

Betsey  married  James  Richards,  who  was  born  in  Goshen, 
Conn.,  and  came  with  his  father's  family  to  Warsaw  in  1806. 
They  had  eight  children:  Warren,  Ammi,  both  of  whom  died 
at  14;  Sarepta,  Rachel,  who  married  Ira  M.  Hard;  Angeline, 
Marshal,  Elizabeth,  and  Charley. 

Deborah  married,  first,  Warren  Wait,  and  had  by  him  two 
children,  Alonzo  and  Henry.  She  married,  second,  Elisha 
Gates,  and  had  by  him  a  son,  Francis. 

Allen  married,  first,  Olive  Barnard,  and  had  a  son,  Wesley. 
He  married,  second,  Lucy  A.  Bryant,  and  had  by  her  three 
children:  Olive,  who  died  about  12;  Helen,  and  Edwin. 

Elezar  married,  first,  Clorinda  Hitchcock,  and  had  two 
children:  1.  Mills  W.,  who  was  in  the  war.  [See  War  His- 
tory.] He  married  Miss  Ilawley,  and  has  a  son.  2.  Arabel, 
who  married  Mr.  Buckout.  Elezar  Marchant  married,  sec- 
ond, Mary  Rogers,  by  whom  he  has  a  daughter. 

LOT  MARCHANT  was  born  in  Barnstable,  Mass.,  and 
married  in  Granville,  Talitha  C.  Foote.  He  removed  to  this 
town  in  1806,  on  East  Hill,  a  mile  east  of  the  village,  where 
Wm.  Parker  and  Sylvanns  Howes  reside,  and  where  he  died, 
Aug.  8,  1828,  aged  45  years.     He  had  nine  children: 


294 


HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


Orrin,  who  married  Loclema  Sanborn,  and  removed  to- 
Michigan,  where  he  died.     They  had  several  children. 

Clarissa  married  Milo  Allen.     Children,  Mary  and  Lot. 

Adaline  married  John  Marchant. 

TTaebiet  married  Mason  "Wait.  They  removed  to  Illinois, 
and  reside  there.     They  have  several  children. 

Warren  married  Mary  Osborn,  and  died  in  Cleveland. 

Mary  married  Austin  Lowell,  and  removed  to  Janesville, 
Wis.     They  have  two  children,  Wallace  and  Eugene. 

Alta  married  Gardner  E.  Throop.     [See  D.  H.  Throop.] 

Maria  married  Leonard  Bartlett,  lives  in  Middlebury,  and 
had  four  children:  Hartwell,  who  died  in  Andersonville 
prison;  Wilber,  who  died  at  about  12;  Charles,  Frederick. 

Cyrus  married  Mary  Bryant,  and  has  live  sons:  Manville, 
Martin,  Alfred,  Warren,  Frederick. 

Mrs.  Marchant  married  for  her  second  husband,  William 
Parker,  by  whom  she  had  two  children:  1.  Ellen  E.,  who 
married  Sylvester  Howes,  and  has  a  daughter,  Alice  C,  who 
married  Wesley  Marchant.  2.  Eliza  A.,  who  married  Aurora 
S.  Perkins,  and  has  a  daughter,  Mariett. 

MICAH  MARCHANT  married  Unicy  Lewis,  of  Gran- 
ville, Oct.,  1806,  and  settled  in  this  town  in  the  north  part  of 
this  village.  He  died  Jan.  6,  1813.  They  were  early  mem- 
bers of  the  Presbyterian  church.     Their  children  were: 

Ammi,  an  early  merchant  in  Silver  Creek,  who  died  after  a 
few  years'  residence  there,  unmarried. 

Piiebe,  who  married  Horatio  N.  Farnham,  who  succeeded 
Mr.  Marchant  in  business,  at  Silver  Creek,  where  they  still 
reside.  Their  children  are:  1.  Ann  Amelia,  who  married 
Charles  Wells,  merchant,  Silver  Creek.  2.  Mary  Adelaide, 
who  married  Asa  G.  Talcott,  and  lives  at  Bellefontaine,  Ind. 
3.  Unicy  L.,  who  married  Rev.  Augustus  C.  Shaw,  now  at 
Clayville,  N".  Y.  4.  Horatio  K.,  Jim.,  who  married  Maria 
Shiels,  and  lives  in  Buffalo.     5.  Ammi  M.     0.  William  L. 

DAYID  MARTIN,  Sen.,  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  in 
1746.(?)  lie  married  Elizabeth  Kingsley,  and  soon  after 
removed  to  Granville,  1ST.  Y.,  whence  he  came  to  this  town  in 
1813,  and  settled  on  West  Hill,  lie  died  a  few  months  after, 
in  July.  Mrs.  M.  died  Aug.  10,  1835,  aged  75  years.  They 
had  nine  children: 

Anna  married  Elisha  Barnes.     [See  Family  of  E.  Barnes.] 
David,  Jim.,  was  born  April  24,  1785,  and  married  Eliza- 
beth Munger.      He  removed    to   Warsaw  in    1813,  after  a 
period  of  service  in  the  war  of  1812.     They  had  two  children: 


FAMILY   SKETCHES   AND   NOTES.  295 

1.  David  Clark,  who  was  Lorn  Sept.,  1818,  and  resides  on  the 
homestead  of  his  father  on  West  Hill.  He  married  Nov.  17, 
1868,  Sabra  C.  Lawson,  of  this  town.  2.  Emeline,  born  March 
28,  1820,  married  Daniel  Peck,  in  1862.  They  now  reside  in 
the  north  part  of  this  town.  David  Martin  died  Sept.  10, 
1860.     His  wife  died  June  12,  1823. 

Betsey  married  Dr.  Jabez  Ward,  of  Perry. 

Amy  married  James  Clark.  They  removed  to  Kensington, 
Mich.,  where  he  died  in  1838.     She  resides  in  this  town. 

Abigail  died  at  the  age  of  13. 

Alfred,  born  Oct.  10, 1794,  went  to  sea  and  never  returned. 

Charlotte  married  Amos  Kingsley;  had  eleven  children. 

Orpah  married  Erastus  Wells,  of  Wethersfield,  and  had 
nine  children. 

Sarah  is  unmarried,  and  lives  in  this  town. 

Mrs.  LYDIA  MARTIN,  wife,  afterwards  widow  of  Dr. 
Levi  Martin,  and  daughter  of  Isaac  Phelps,  came  to  this  town 
from  Washington  county.  Their  children  were:  Horace,  Ma- 
yor, Helen,  Adalaide,  Diantha,  and  Leonard  L. 

Horace,  born  Nov.  30,  1805,  married  Drusilla  German. 
They  came  to  Warsaw  in  1851.  They  had  a  son,  Washing- 
ton, born  Feb.  22,  1832,  and  died  Aug.  20,  1868. 

Mayor  was  born  in  Granville,  May  15,  1809.  He  married 
Mary  Frasier,  of  Orangeville,  by  whom  he  had  five  children: 
1.  Henry  F.,  Mho  married  Editha  Arnold,  and  resides  in  this 
town.  2.  Hector  C,  a  soldier  in  the  late  war,  was  taken 
prisoner  at  Newbern,  N.  C,  and  died  in  Andersonville  prison, 
Aug.  7,  1864.  3.  William  Dexter,  who  served  during  the  last 
three  years  of  the  war.  4.  George  F.,  who  also  enlisted  in 
the  army,  and  was  killed  in  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run. 
5.  Ellen  Jane,  who  died  in  her  11th  year.  Mrs.  Martin  died, 
and  in  1850,  Mr.  Martin  married  his  second  wife,  Yirena  Ar- 
nold, of  Warsaw.     They  reside  in  this  village. 

Helen  married  George  Howard,  of  Buffalo,  and  died. 

Adalaide,  unmarried,  resides  in  Warsaw. 

Diantha  married  Henry  Sheldon.  They  reside  in  this 
town.  They  had  five  children:  1.  Anna  Maria,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  12.  2.  George  Clarence.  3.  Ella  Sophia.  4.  Flor- 
ence Adalaide.    5.  Hattie  Clark. 

Leonard  L.  married  Charlotte  Woodward,  daughter  of 
Henry  Woodward.  They  have  three  children:  Lois,  Emaret, 
and  Lewis.     He  resides  two  miles  south  of  the  village. 

ISAAC  MATTHEWS  was  born  in  Yarmouth,  Mass.,  Aug. 
1, 1784.  He  married  Anna  Leonard,  who  died  Dec.  11, 1819. 
He  married  for  his  second  wife,  Mrs.  Hannah  Savage,  whose 


296  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

name  before  her  first  marriage  was  Hannah  Beach.  He  re- 
moved from  "Whitehall  to  Pavilion  in  1S33,  and  in  1844,  to 
Warsaw.  He  died  June  24,  1866,  universally  esteemed  as  a 
citizen  and  Christian.  Pie  was  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  and  had  held  for  a  number  of  years  the  office 
of  deacon.     He  had  by  his  first  wife,  four  children: 

Salmon  L.,  who  was  born  Nov.  IS,  1808,  and  died  in  1825. 

Isaac  Vincent  was  born  Aug.  IT,  1810,  and  married  E.  E. 
Bliss,  who  died.  He  married  a  second  wife,  Phebe  Ann 
Brooks,  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Benedict  Brooks,  of  Covington, 
by  whom  he  had  five  children:  Martha,  Henry,  Charles  B., 
Hugh,  and  "Willie,  who  died  at  5. 

Mrs.  Phebe  Ann  Matthews  died  Jan.  31,  1859  Mr.  Mat- 
thews married  Cynthia  Clute.     He  resides  in  Genesee  Falls. 

Laura  A.  married  Philander  F.  May.  They  reside  in 
Nashua,  Iowa,  and  have  had  five  children:  1.  Alonzo  M. 
2.  Mary.     3.  Isaac.     4.  Miranda.     5.  Frank. 

George  L.,  born  Oct.  13,  1S18,  and  married  Elizabeth  C. 
Hannum,  of  Pavilion.  He  is  a  prominent  citizen  and  mer- 
chant in  Dubuque,  Iowa. 

Mrs.  Hannah  Savage,  by  her  former  husband,  had  a  son, 
Luther  W.,  who  resides  in  Springfield,  Erie  Co.,  Pa.  He 
married  Harriet  Pussell,  and  had  two  children.  Mr.  Savage 
was  for  main7  years  a  teacher. 

Mr.  Isaac  Matthews  had  by  his  second  wife  three  children: 

Josiah  S.  married  Charlotte  D.  Strong,  who  died  Jan.  22, 
1856.     He  married  II.  Elizabeth  Collins"  May  16,  1860. 

John  B.,  born  Feb.  1,  1835,  married  Elizabeth  S.  Case,  and 
has  a  son,  Walter  C.  Mr.  Matthews  is  one  of  the  firm  of 
Matthews  &  Brown,  Druggists,  in  Warsaw. 

Mary  E.,  born  Oct.  14,  1836,  married  George  Duryee. 
They  had  three  children:  Edward,  Charles,  d.  int.,  and  John 
M.  Mr.  Duryee  was  for  several  years  in  the  Drug  and  Gro- 
cery business  in  this  village,  and  now  resides  in  New  York. 

FERDINAND  C.  D.  McKAY  was  born  in  Skaneateles, 
Onondaga  Co.,  N.  Y.,  in  1811.  From  an  early  period  in  his 
life  he  wTas  dependent  mainly  upon  his  own  exertions  for  the 
means  of  education,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  engaged  in 
the  occupation  of  school  teaching  to  earn  the  means  tor  prose- 
cuting the  study  of  law.  He  studied  in  the  office  of  Daniel 
Kellogg,  of  Skaneateles;  and  in  1833,  he  married  Angelina 
J.  Judd,  and  removed  to  Warsaw  the  same  year.  He  suc- 
ceeded in  the  practice  of  law,  James  Crocker,  Esq.,  whose 
residence  he  bought.  lie  practiced  with  marked  success 
about  two  years,  when,  in  the  fall  of  1835,  he  made  a  contract 


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with  Judge  Webster  for  all  his  real  estate  in  this  town,  about 
640  acres  of  land,  possession  to  be  taken  in  April,  1836.  This 
change  of  property,  though  it  resulted  in  no  benefit  to  the 
purchaser,  proved  advantageous  to  the  village.  [See  p.  67.] 
His  purchase  and  sale  of  real  estate  caused  an  interruption 
of  a  few  years  in  his  professional  business,  which  he  resumed, 
and  continued  until  his  removal  from  the  town.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  McKay  were  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church  until 
the  formation  of  the  Congregational  church,  which  they 
joined  at  the  time  of  its  organization.  In  promoting  the 
cause  of  temperance,  he  was  a  prominent  and  efficient  actor, 
and  was  one  of  its  ablest  advocates.  In  the  formation  of  the 
Antislavery  Society  in  this  town,  in  1833  or  1831,  he  took  a 
leading  part,  and  was  to  the  last  in  sympathy  and  cooperation 
with  the  friends  of  immediate  emancipation.  At  the  meeting 
(  elsewhere  alluded  to,)  held  in  this  village  in  November,  1839, 
he  was  one  of  the  majority  who  nominated  James  G.  Birney 
the  first  time  for  the  Presidency.  He  wTas  a  lawyer  of  ac- 
knowledged ability.  He  was  appointed,  in  1856,  District 
Attorney  for  "Wyoming  county  in  the  place  of  Harlow  L. 
Comstock,  elected  County  Judge,  and  was  afterwards  elected 
to  the  former  office..  In  the  winter  of  1860-61,  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  Des  Moines,  the  capital  of  Iowa.  He  de- 
voted himself  to  the  prosecution  of  his  profession  for  about  a 
year,  when  he  received  the  appointment  of  Agent  for  Iowa, 
by  the  American  Emigrant  Company,  in  whose  service  he 
continued  until  his  last  sickness,  having  gained  the  warmest 
commendations  and  substantial  rewards  of  the  corporation. 
He  had  ten  children,  as  follows: 

Ferdinand  C.  D wight,  who  married  Julia  Carpenter,  and 
resides  in  Elmira.     He  has  three  children. 

E.  De  Cost  is  a  graduate  of  Yale  College.  He  engaged  for 
n  time  in  the  mercantile  business,  which  he  relinquished  and 
removed  to  the  city  of  New  York,  where,  as  agent,  he  is 
prosecuting  the  Life  Insurance  business  with  extraordinary 
success.  He  married  Susie  E.  White,  of  Worcester,  Mass., 
and  has  a  daughter,  Cora. 

Angelina  J.  married  Charles  Mosher,  formerly  Cashier  of 
Wyoming  County  Bank.  They  reside  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
and  have  three  daughters,  Grace,  Florence,  and  Maud. 

Eudoea  A.  married  J.  B.  Stewart,  Esq.,  of  Des  Moines,  and 
has  two  children,  Mary  and  Cecil  McKay. 

Augusta  Maria  d.  inf.,  in  Warsaw,  Jan.  11,  1811. 

Theodore  E.,  unmarried,  resides  in  New  York  city. 

Charlas  J.,  Florence  E.,  Jennie  M.,  and  William  L., 
reside  at  Des  Moines. 


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HISTORY   OF   WARSAAV. 


JOHN"  A.  McEL WAIN  came  to  this  town  in  1817,  in  the 
employ  of  Simeon  Cumings,  of  Batavia,  who  had  recently 
built  the  grist-mill  and  the  oil-mill  in  this  village,  which  were 
subsequently,  at  times,  either  wholly  or  in  part"  conducted  by 
him.  In  1821,  he  purchased  of  Oliver  Lee  the  north  tavern 
stand,  which,  many  years  afterwards,  he  improved  by  erect- 
ing the  present  spacious  three  story  brick  structure  in  the 
place  of  the  old  wooden  building.  Soon  after  he  commenced 
this  business,  he  became  interested  in  the  running  of  stages,, 
and  in  the  transportation  of  mails.  In  this  business  his  inter- 
est increased,  until  his  stages  were  run,  and  carried  the  mails 
on  every  route  passing  through  or  terminating  at  Warsaw. 
This  business  he  continued  until  his  horses  and  coaches  were 
superseded  by  the  more  expeditious  "  iron  horse,  whose  sinews 
are  steel,  and  whose  provender  is  fire."  He  was  elected 
Sheriff  of  Genesee  county  in  1831.  He  was  a  representative 
of  that  county  in  the  Assembly  in  1837;  and  a  senator  from 
the  district  including  Wyoming  county,  in  1852  and  1853. 
He  was  also  chosen  Treasurer  of  Wyoming  county.  He  has 
been  a  friend  and  promoter  of  public  improvements;  and  he 
rendered  efficient  service  in  procuring  the  new  county,  and  in 
the  erection  of  the  public  buildings.  By  diligent  attention  to 
business  and  prudent  management,  he  was  enabled,  many 
years  since,  to  retire  upon  an  ample  competency  from  the 
active  pursuits  of  life. 

John  A.  McElwain,  born  in  Palmer,  Mass.,  Sept.  21,  1701, 
married,  March  25,  1830,  Polly  Day,  who  was  born  in  this 
town,  March  10,  1S11,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Col.  Elkanah 
Day.  She  died,  Aug.  21,  1831,  leaving  a  daughter,  Mary 
Isabel,  who  married  Dr.  Edward  II.  G.  Meachem. 

Mr.  McElwain  married  for  his  second  wife,  Lomira  Suther- 
land, a  daughter  of  Isaac  Sutherland,  Esq.,  of  Batavia,  Aug. 
12,  1839.  She  was  born  Dec.  12,  1811.  They  have  six  chil- 
dren: John  S.,  William  Henry,  Laura  L.,  James  Frank,  Chip- 
man  Warren,  and  Frederick  F. 

JOHN  McWHORTEPv  removed  from  Granville  to  War- 
saw in  1807,  and  settled  on  that  part  of  Lot  36  now  owned 
by  Samuel  Fisher,  in  the  south  part  of  the  village.  His  wife, 
whose  name  before  her  marriage  was  Bethia  Hall,  died  before 
his  removal  to  this  town.     Their  children  were: 

Polly,  who  married  Elkanah  Day.  [See  Sketch  of  E. 
Day.] 

John  married  Clarissa  Phelps  and  died  in  Granville. 
They  had  two  children,  who  came  to  Warsaw  with  their 
mother,  then  the  wife  of  Samuel  Hough,  her  second  husband. 


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1.  Poll j,  who  married  Calvin  Kumsey.  [See  Sketch  of  C. 
Bumsey.]  2.  John,  who  married  Betsey,  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel Cumings,  of  Warsaw.  lie  was  a  merchant  in  War- 
saw and  in  Westfield,  and  afterwards,  for  several  years,  ticket 
agent  of  the  Central  Kailroad  in  Buffalo.  His  services  in 
this  employment  were  unfortunately  terminated  by  the  total 
loss  of  his  eye-sight.  He  died  a  few  years  since.  He  had 
several  children. 

Jennett  married  Zera  Tanner,  in  Granville.  [See  Zera 
Tanner.] 

Patience  married  Hezekiah  Wakefield.  [See  II.  Wake- 
field.] 

Ciiloe  married  Joel  Phippeny,  in  Warsaw.  -They  removed 
to  Sheldon,  where  Mr.  Phippeny  died.  She  returned  to  War- 
saw, removed  to  Belvidere,  111.,  and  died  there. 

David  died  in  1809,  at  Manlius,  K  Y.;  and  Samuel. 

SAMUEL  McWHOBTEB,  son  of  John  McWhorter,  was 
born  in  Hebron,  Washington  Co.,  IN .  Y.,  Nov.  17,  1786.  He 
removed  to  this  town  with  his  father  from  Granville,  in  1807. 
He  taught  the  first  school  in  Warsaw.  At  the  first  town 
meeting  after  the  formation  of  the  town,  in  1808,  at  the  age 
of  21,  he  was  elected  Town  Clerk,  to  which  office  he  was  sev- 
eral times  reelected.  He  was  for  many  years  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  and  for  a  term  an  Associate  Judge  of  the  County 
Court.  And  in  1822,  he  was  a  Member  of  Assembly  from 
the  county  of  Genesee.  In  1831,  having  sold  his  farm,  he 
removed  to  the  town  of  Portland,  Chautauqua  Co.;  thence  to 
Westfield,  where  Mrs.  McWhorter  died.  He  subsequently 
removed  to  Belvidere,  111.  In  1856,  he  removed  to  Kilbourn 
City,  Wis.,  thence  to  a  farm  a  few  miles  distant,  where  he 
died  in  1865. 

Judge  McWhorter  married  in  Warsaw,  for  his  first  wife, 
Annis  Brown,  of  Mass.,  a  sister  of  the  wife  of  Dr.  Sheldon. 
They  had  eight  children: 

Caroline,  who  married  Horace  Hollister.  [See  Horace 
Hollister.] 

Isabel  married  Joseph  Eiddel,  in  Westfield,  and  removed 
to  Cherry  Valley,  111.,  where  he  died  in  1864.  They  had  six 
children:  Annis,  Samuel,  Gertrude,  William,  Caroline,  and 
one  d.  inf. 

John,  who  died  young,  in  Warsaw. 

Milo,  who  is  married,  and  lives  in  Wisconsin. 

Matthew  was  a  soldier  in  the  Mexican  war,  and  died  at 
New  Orleans,  at  the  age  of  25. 


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Samuel  is  married,  and  lives  on  the  farm  on  which  his 
father  died,  in  Wisconsin. 

William  IT.  died  in  Belvidere,  111.,  at  the  age  of  22. 

John  A.  is  a  graduate  of  Beloit  College,  Wis.,  is  married, 
and  has  several  children.  He  is,  and  has  been  for  several 
years,  instructor  in  the  State  Institute  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb, 
at  Delavan,  Wis. 

Whilst  residing  at  Belvidere,  Judge  McWhorter  married, 
(1849,)  for  his  second  wife,  Susan  Phelps,  of  Warsaw,  who 
lives  with  his  son  Samuel,  in  Wisconsin. 

JOHN"  P.  MEAD  was  born  in  Morristown,  X.  J.,  March 
12,  1806.  He  was  a  son  of  Dr.  Leonard  Mead,  who  Mas  a 
graduate  of  Yale  College.  He  married  Phebe  Ferris,  and 
removed  to  Warsaw  in  1837.     He  had  eight  children: 

William  J.,  who  married  Ilenriett  E.  Graves,  of  Eagle, 
and  has  three  children,  Emma,  Willis  F.,  and  Lemuel. 

George  W.,  who  married  Gussie  Wise,  of  Troy,  111.  Chil- 
dren: George  W.,  Lewis  M.,  and  Ada  M. 

Mary  E.  married  George  M.  Pierce,  and  has  two  children: 
Martha  D.  and  Mary  D. 

Milford  A.  married  Mary  C.  Whitney,  and  has  three  chil- 
dren: John  P.,  3d,  Nelly  A.,  and  Mary. 

John  P.,  Jr.,  and  Samuel,  reside  in  Warsaw. 

Martha  and  Martha  A.,  both  died  young. 

ELI  MERRILL  was  born  in  Litchfield,  Oneida  county,  in 
1804.  He  came  to  Sheldon  in  1821,  where  he  married  Mi- 
nerva Humphrey,  daughter  of  Dea.  Theophilus  Humphrey. 
She  died,  leaving  a  daughter,  Minerva,  who  married  William 
Hewett  for  her  first  husband,  and  for  her  second,  John  II. 
Rogers.  They  live  in  Java.  Mr.  Merrill  came  to  Warsaw 
in  1832,  and  taught  school  on  West  Hill.  In  1834,  he  mar- 
ried Ann  M.  Burr,  of  Perry.  He  taught  school  some  time  in 
Tennessee,  and  removed  to  Chautauqua  county,  where  he  re- 
sided until  1847.  He  returned  to  Warsaw  in  that  year,  and 
resided  here  until  his  death,  April  20,  1861.  He  had  by  his 
second  wife,  five  children:  Asa  Burr,  William  Henry,  [see 
Sketches,]  Chauncey  Gates,  Cynthia  L.,  who  married  Charles 
II.  Huntley,  and  lives  in  Jamestown,  and  J.  Milton,  now  in 
Oberlin  College. 

Mrs.  Ann  M.  Merrill  married,  June,  1866,  Asa  Cady,  of 
Collamer,  O.,  where  she  resides. 

ASA  B.  MERRILL,  son  of  Eli  Merrill,  was  born  in  Perry, 
Aug.  6,  1836.  He  came  to  Warsaw  with  his  parents  in  1847 
and  received    here  a   thorough    academical   education.      In 


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September,  1861,  after  the  second  call  for  volunteers,  he  was 
among  the  first  to  enlist  in  a  Company  of  Cavalry,  and  en- 
tered at  once  into  the  work  of  raising  volunteers;  and  by  the 
combined  labors  of  Capt.  Stimson,  Lieut.  Lapham,  and  him- 
self, the  Company  was  raised,  and  started  for  Camp  on  the 
3d  of  October.  He  was  elected  and  appointed  First  Lieuten- 
ant. In  the  spring  of  18G2,  his  Regiment,  9th  1ST.  Y.  Cavalry, 
was  ordered  to  join  the  army  of  the  Potomac,  as  part  of  the 
reserve  in  McClellan's  siege  of  Yorktown,  during  which  he 
had  command  of  the  Company.  In  May  the  Company  was 
ordered  back  to  "Washington,  and  he  was  commissioned  as 
Captain.  A  fever,  brought  on  by  over-exertion  and  exposure, 
prostrated  him,  and  he  died  on  the  23d  of  June.  The  body 
was  embalmed,  and  sent  home.  Funeral  services  were  held 
at  the  Congregational  church,  which  was  draped  with  em- 
blems of  mourning.  He  was  the  only  officer  from  here  who 
lost  his  life  in  the  service;  and  his  was  the  first  public  funeral 
of  a  volunteer  from  this  town.  He  was  a  true  soldier,  and  an 
efficient  officer.  His  future  was  radiant  with  promise;  and 
in  the  midst  of  labors  but  just  begun,  and  plans  which  his 
talent  and  energy  fitted  him  to  prosecute   with  success,  he 

closed  his  earthly  career.     His  loss  was  deeply  deplored. 

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WILLIAM  H.  MERPJLL  was  born  in  Stockton,  Chau- 
tauqua county,  July  3, 1810,  and  came  with  his  father  to  War- 
saw when  seven  years  old.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
common  school  and  "Warsaw  Academy.  He  entered  the 
office  of  the  Wyoming  County  Mirror  as  an  apprentice,  in 
1855;  and  became  one  of  the  proprietors  in  1857.  In  the 
spring  of  1860,  he  went  with  E.  L.  Babbitt  to  Waukon,  Iowa, 
where  they  established  the  North  Iowa  Journal,  of  which  he 
was  joint  editor  and  proprietor,  until  the  spring  of  1861.  Lie 
returned  to  Warsaw,  and  in  company  with  J.  P.  Morse,  pur- 
chased the  Western  New  Yorker.  In  Sept.,  1862,  he  bought 
the  interest  of  his  partner,  and  conducted  the  paper  alone 
until  October,  1864,  when  the  New  Yorker  and  the  Mirror 
were  consolidated  under  the  firm  of  Dudley  &  Merrill;  Mr. 
Merrill,  editor.  From  1863  to  1866,  he  was  Clerk  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors.  In  1864,  he  was  appointed  Loan  Com- 
missioner, and  was  re-appointed  in  1866.  He  was  appointed 
Executive  Clerk  of  the  State  Senate  in  1866,  and  served 
through  two  sessions  of  the  legislature.  In  1867,  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention,  and  served 
on  the  Committees  on  Suffrage  and  Printing.  He  married,  in 
1863,  Flora  J.  Judd,  daughter  of  the  late  Charles  J.  Judd,  and 
has  two  sons,  Charles  J.  and  Wm.  Henry. 


302  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

EDWIN   B.  MILLER  was  born  in  Rutland,  Yt,,  Aug.  1, 

1809.  After  a  brief  apprenticeship  at  the  printing  business 
at  Royalton,  Yt.,  he  established  the  Weekly  Register  at  New 
Bedford,  Mass.,  in  1831,  and  continued  its  publication  nearly 
two  years.  In  1S35,  he  went  to  Bangor,  Maine,  as  managing 
agent  of  a  branch  of  a  Hardware  house  in  New  Bedford,  which 
position,  after  about  one  year,  he  resigned.  He  next  engaged 
in  the  Corn  and  Flour  trade  in  Bangor,  which  he  relinquished 
in  1S37,  and  removed  to  Warsaw.  Here  he  soon  became  in- 
terested with  his  brother  in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
Frank  Miller's  "Oil  Blacking;"  which  business,  under  the 
firm  of  Frank  Miller  &  Co.,  is  still  continued.  [See  Frank 
Miller.]  In  1862,  he  removed  to  Brooklyn,  1ST.  Y.,  to  superin- 
tend the  business  of  the  firm,  which  had  been  removed  to  the 
city  of  New  York.  In  1810,  himself  and  wife  united  with 
the  Presbyterian  church  in  Warsaw.  He  was  soon  after 
elected  an  elder  of  the  church  and  clerk  of  the  session,  which 
oftices  he  held  until  his  removal  to  Brooklyn.  He  has  several 
times  been  a  delegate  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church.  The  institutions  of  the  church  and  the 
interests  of  religion  in  general,  receive  his  cordial  and  active 
support.  Mr.  Miller  married,  May  17,  1836;  at  Pittsford,  Yt., 
Rebecca  C.  Moulton,  who  was  born  at  Castlcton,  Yt.,  May  29, 

1810.  Their  children  were :  William  Moulton,  who  died  at 
2s  years;  Frances  S.  and  Martha  II.,  who  are  both  living. 

FRANK  MILLER  came  from  Granville  to  this  town  in 
1819,  then  a  youth  of  about  fifteen,  fatherless,  and  without  a 
relative  here.  Having  no  trade,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
no  regular  employment  at  any  one  kind  of  business,  he  asso- 
ciated himself  with  Samuel  Munger  in  the  Tanning  and  Shoe 
business,  in  the  old  establishment  of  Deacon  Munger,  a  half 
mile  south  of  the  village,  in  which  business  he  continued  one 
year  or  more.  Having  acquired  some  knowledge  of  the  busi- 
ness, he  formed  a  connection  with  Isaac  Preston;  and  they 
purchased  the  tannery  of  Calvin  Rumsey  in  this  village. 
About  the  year  1835,  Mr.  Preston  withdrew  from  the  concern; 
and  Mr.  Miller  became  sole  proprietor,  and  after  a  year  or 
two  discontinued  the  business.  He  soon  after  invented  his 
"  Water  Proof  Oil  Blacking."  Fortunately  he  early  ibrmed 
a  partnership  with  his  brother,  Edwin  B.  Miller,  a  systematic 
business  man.  Their  capital  was  small,  and  for  years  their 
business  was  quite  limited.  But  by  energy  and  perseverance 
it  has  been  extended,  until  "Miller's  Blacking"  finds  sale  in 
nearly  every  state  in  the  Union.  The  annual  sales  of  his  dif- 
ferent kinds  of  blacking,  and  his  "Prepared  Planless  Oil," 


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FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  303 

Lave  reached  an  amount  not  dreamed  of  by  the  inventor 
when  he  commenced  in  this  village  the  sale  of  his  single 
original  article  from  a  basket.  During  his  long  residence  in  " 
this  town,  Mr.  Miller  has  not  only  maintained  a  good  charac- 
ter in  the  common  acceptation  of  that  term,  but  has  been  a 
useful  citizen,  ever  ready  to  engage  in  efforts  for  the  suppres- 
sion of  vice  in  its  various  forms,  and  for  the  improvement  of 
the  moral  and  social  condition  of  the  community.  He  has  for 
nearly  forty  years,  and  his  wife  for  a  longer  period,  been  a 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  this  town.  He  has 
ever  been  liberal,  according  to  his  means,  in  contributing  to 
the  support  of  the  institutions  of  religion.  He  has  also  been 
an  active  coijperator  in  making  public  improvements.  He  has 
contributed  materially  to  the  improvements  of  the  streets  and 
the  building  of  the  principal  bridges  in  this  village;  and  many 
of  the  trees  which  ornament  and  shade  our  streets,  have  been 
gratuitously  brought  into  the  village  by  his  teams,  and  set 
with  his  own  hands.  He  is  at  present  President  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  village.  Frank  Miller  was  born  in  Wal- 
lingford,  Yt.,  March  23,  1804.  Lois  Savage,  whom  he  mar- 
ried in  this  town,  Nov.  20, 1827,  was  born  in  Granville,  1ST.  Y., 
July  12,  1807.  They  had  six  children:  Edwin  A.,  Delia  S., 
James  Franklin,  d.  inf.,  James  Lovejoy,  Frank  C,  and  Hen- 
rietta L. 

Edwin  A.  was  born  [Nov.  18, 1828.  He  married  Rebecca 
McKay,  of  Caledonia.  He  has  ever  been  a  resident  of  War- 
saw, and  has  for  many  years  past  been  in  the  Boot  and  Shoe 
trade.  They  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  of 
which  he  is  also  an  elder.  He  is  also  and  has  been  for  sev- 
eral years  Superintendent  of  the  Sabbath-school.  He  had  six 
children:  Estelle  C,  Frank,  Alida,  Robert  D.,  "William  E., 
and  Charles  L.,  d.  inf. 

Delia  S.,  born  April  5,  1831,  married  Rev.  Washington  D. 
Mclvinley,  a  graduate  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
who  lias  been  for  many  years  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  at  Tuscarora,  Livingston  Co.,  and  is  at  present  pastor 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Moscow.  They  had  four 
daughters,  all  of  whom  d.  inf. 

James  L.  was  born  Oct.  15,  1837,  and  married  Fanny  L. 
Savage,  daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  Amos  Savage,  of  Connecti- 
cut. They  have  had  two  children,  a  daughter,  Alice,  d.  inf., 
and  Frank.     They  reside  in  Brooklyn. 

Frank  C,  born  Jan.  11,  1840,  died  Sept.  16,  1855. 

Henrietta  L..  born  Dec.  30,  1845,  married  Dr.  Jacob  K. 
Smith,  of  Moscow,  where  they  reside. 


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HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 


SOLOMON"  MORRIS,  Sen.,  was  born  Sept.  5,  1755.  He 
married  Keziah  Moss,  October  1,  1770.  He  removed  from 
Hampton  to  Warsaw  in  1807,  and  settled  on  the  north  part  of 
Lot  26.  He  purchased  also  the  grist-mill  built,  and  nearly 
completed  by  Joseph  Manly.  This  was  the  first  grist-mill  in 
the  town.  Mr.  Morris  was  an  upright  man,  and  a  good 
citizen.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  is 
said  to  have  been  a  member  of  the  first  Methodist  class 
formed  in  this  town,  about  the  year  1800.  He  had  twelve 
children:  Lyman,  Salmon,  d.  inf.,  Sally,  who  married  Simeon 
Gibson,  Nathaniel,  died  at  ten,  Solomon,  Jun.,  Lydia,  who 
married  Daniel  Knapp,  Rufus  and  Lucy,  d.  inf.,  Rufus, 
Luther,  who  died  at  16,  Lucy,  and  Mary  who  married  Nye 
Stevens.  [The  families  of  the  adult  children  are  noticed  in 
separate  sketches  under  the  names  of  the  sons,  and  the  names 
of  the  husbands  of  the  daughters,  except  Lucy.] 

Lucy  married  Carl  W.  Flower.  They  removed  to  Beaver, 
Pa.,  where  he  died.  They  had  seven  children:  Jared,  Estherr 
Ann,  Hiram,  Wheat,  Wylie,  and  Lomelia. 

LYMAN"  MORRIS  was  born  June  24,  1780,  and  married 
Resina  Hotchkiss  in  Hampton,  Nov.  1708.  He  removed  to 
this  town  in  1804,  and  settled  a  mile  north  of  the  village, 
where  he  resided  until  his  death,  Jan.  16,  1854.  His  wife 
died  Jan.  23,  1820.     They  had  five  children: 

George  W.,  who  was  born  Jan.  12,  1800,  and  married 
Minerva  M.  Scovel  in  1S23.  He  settled  in  the  north  part  of 
the  town,  where  he  resided  many  years,  and  removed  to  the 
village,  where  he  died,  Nov.  1865.  He  was  a  highly  esteemed 
citizen.  He  was  elected  in  1831,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for 
the  term  of  four  years,  and  again  in  1830.  He  was  a  man  of 
strict  integrity,  and  firmness  of  principle.  He  was  a  thorough 
temperance  man,  and  a  friend  of  universal  freedom,  and 
lived  to  rejoice  in  the  entire  abolition  of  slavery  in  the 
United  States.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church, 
and  one  of  its  main  pillars.  His  wife  and  a  part  of  the  family 
still  reside  in  the  village.  They  had  seven  children,  of 
whom  five  are  living,  two  having  died  young:  1.  Harriet  A., 
2.  Resina;  3.  Mariett,  who  married  James  II.  Sperbeck,  and 
had  two  children;  4.  Nathan  Jackson,  who  married  Geraldine 
L.  Holly,  daughter  of  Alanson  Holly,  is  a  druggist  in  Chicago, 
and  has  a  son;  5.  Marvin  S.,  who  married  Loduski  Blair,  and 
has  a  son,  George  E. 

Jonathan  F.,  born  Dec.  11, 1S02,  married  Emeline  B.  Otis. 
Their  children  are,  1.  William  T.,  who  married  Harriet  Em- 
mons, and  resides  in  New  Lisbon,  Wis.;    2.  Justin  O.,  who 


FAMILY   SKETCHES   AND   NOTES.  305 

married  Elizabeth  Lewis,  and  has  three  children,  Frank  J., 
Eva,  and  Lewis.  3.  Miles  II.,  who  married  Mary  Smith.  He 
was  formerly  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Garretsee  &  Morris  in 
the  Hardware  trade  in  this  village,  and  is  now  in  the  same 
business  in  Chicago,  one  of  the  firm  of  Morris,  Hodge,  & 
Homer.  4.  David  G.,  who  married  Elizabeth  Weter,  and  is 
a  physician  in  Sharon,  Wis.  5.  Julia  Minerva,  who  married 
Morton  Post,  a  Captain  in  the  late  war.  They  reside  in 
Chicago.  6.  Mary  E.,  who  married  Lncien  II.  Post,  publisher 
of  the  Elgin  Gazette,  Elgin,  111. 

Fanny  K.,  born  July  24,  1805,  married  Harley  Knapp. 
[See  Family  of  Wm.  Knapp,  Sen.]  She  married  a  second 
husband,  Abel  Pay,  and  resides  in  Livonia. 

Maria,  born  Nov.  16,  1808,  married  David  Otis,  and  re- 
moved to  Henrietta.  They  have  three  children:  Lyman, 
Harrison,  and  David.  Mr.  Otis  died  in  1S3T.  Mrs".  Otis 
married  a  second  husband,  Alfred  Williams.  They  have 
three  children:  Maria,  May,  and  Frances. 

Hiram,  born  Aug.  16,  1809,  married  Sophia  Gay.  Their 
children  are,  1.  Solomon,  who  married  Miss  Bradt,  and  re- 
sides in  Middlebury.  2.  Maria,  who  married  John  West, 
and  hod  two  children,  Mary  and  Zella.  Mrs.  W.  died,  and 
Mr.  W.  married  Mary  S.  Barber.  3.  Lavira,  who  married 
Edward  Benedict,  of  Perry.  They  have  three  children,  and 
reside  in  Chicago. 

SOLOMON  MORRIS,  Jun.  was  born  Aug.  9,  1787,  and 
came  from  Hampton  to  Warsaw  in  1806.  He  married  Mrs. 
Olive  Noble,  widow  of  Dwight  Noble,  and  settled  on  the  farm 
on  which  his  son  Luther  now  resides,  a  mile  and  a  halt  south  of 
the  village.  He  was  conscientious  and  upright  in  his  inter- 
course with  his  fellow  men,  and  enjoyed  in  a  high  degree  the 
public  confidence.  He  was  for  many  years  the  principal  sur- 
veyor of  lands  in  this  town;  and  he  was  eleven  times  elected 
Supervisor,  which  office  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
returned  home,  ill,  from  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  at  Batavia,  and  never  recovered.  He  died  Nov. 
20,  1839,  aged  52  years.  His  wife  died  Sept.  22,  1852,  aged 
69  years.     They  had  seven  children: 

Rowley  was  born  Dec.  30,  IS  11,  and  commenced  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  this  town.  He  married  Harriet 
Foster,  and  removed  to  Brodhead,  Wis.,  where  he  is  still  a 
practicing  physician.  After  a  residence  there  of  ten  or 
twelve  years,  his  wife  died.  He  married  a  second  wife,  by 
whom  he  has  several  children. 

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306  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Luther  M.  was  born  Jan.  3,  1815;  married  Lucy  Bradley 
of  Middlebury,  and  resides  on  the  homestead  of  his  father. 
They  have  a  son,  Charles  L.,  who  married  Emma  A.  Trues- 
dell,  and  resides  in  this  town. 

Noble  was  born  March  21,  1817;  married  Betsey  A.  Doo- 
little,  of  Wethersfield,  and  had  by  her  three  children:  Ann 
Janett  D.,  d.  inf.;  Edward  Herbert,  and  Emma  Charlotte. 
Mrs.  Morris  died  Aug.  10,  1863.  Mr.  Morris  married  for  his 
second  wife,  Mrs.  Helen  L.  Benedict,  daughter  of  Chauncey 
Doolittle,  of  AVetbersheld.  He  has  been  lor  many  years  en- 
gaged in  the  hardware  trade  in  this  village,  commencing  with 
Israel  Hodge,  firm  Hodge  &  Morris.  Otis  S.  Buxton  having 
bought  out  Hodge,  the  firm  was  Morris  &  Buxton.  They 
sold  a  third  interest  to  C.  &  T.  Buxton ;  and  Morris  subse- 
quently sold  his  interest  to  the  Buxtons;  and,  in  connection 
with  Simeon  D.  Lewis,  bought  out  the  Buxtons.  The  busi- 
ness is  still  continued  under  the  firm  of  Morris  &  Lewis. 

Sally,  born  Nov.  30,  1S10,  married  Israel  Hodge.  [See 
Hodge  Family.] 

Salvira,  born  Nov.  14,  1821,  married  Benjamin  B.  Cona- 
ble.     [See  Sketch.] 

Emeline,  is  unmarried,  and  resides  in  Warsaw. 

Solomon  was  born  Sept.  20,  1827,  and  married  Pamelia 
J.  Ensign,  of  this  town. 

EUF17S  MOEPJS  was  born  April  15,  1704;  married 
Lucy  Bebens,  and  settled  in  the  south  part  of  the  town,  where 
he  now  resides.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church  in  this  town  from  an  early  period  of  its  existence  to 
the  present  time.     He  lias  had  nine  children,  one  d.  inf. 

Laura,  who  married  Daniel  H.  Gibson.  [See  Gibson 
Family.] 

Nerissa  married  John  Keith,  and  had  six  children. 

Luther  S.  married  Elizabeth  Glazier,  and  had  three 
children. 

Thomas  W.  married  Jane  Patterson,  and  has  a  son, 
Clinton. 

Euphrasia  E.  married  Alva  Baker.  Children:  Lucv  and 
Ella. 

Mary  E.,  Eliza  A.,  and  Sarah  K.,  are  unmarried. 

Mr.  Morris  married  a  second  wife,  Mrs.  Ann  Blaisdell. 

JOHN  MOEPJS  was  born  May  17,  1786,  and  was  mar- 
ried at  "Whitehall,  N.  Y.,  to  Alma  Morgan.  They  removed 
to  this  town  in  June,  1810,  and  settled  about  one  mile  south 
of  the  village.     Mr.   Morris  and   his   wife  united  with  the 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  307 

Methodist  church  at  the  time  of  its  organization,  and  retained 
their  connection  with  it  until  their  removal  to  Aurora.  Both 
are  dead.  They  had  seven  children,  all  born  in  Warsaw,  as 
follows: 

John  A.,  horn  Aug.  3, 1810,  married  Levirah  Hatch.  Their 
children  were,  1.  Carissa,  d.  inf.  2.  George  Wesley,  who 
married  Sarah  Woodward,  of  Batavia,  and  is  a  merchant  in 
Troy.  3.  Clarissa  Jane,  who  married  Orville  L.  Howard,  of 
Brockport,  and  removed  to  Michigan.     4.  Charles  William. 

David  James  married  Lydia  Knapp,  and  had  five  children; 
three  are  living:  Lucia,  who  married  William  Baker;  Ellen, 
and  Udelmer. 

Geoege  Clinton  married  Abigail  Leach,  and  moved  to 
Michigan;  had  two  children;  George,  died  at  10;  and 
Viletta. 

William  married  Caroline  Boyce,  and  died  in  18G5.  They 
had  two  children:  one,  Ilarland,  is  living. 

Z.  Paddock  married  Lucy  Bedow,  of  Warsaw',  and  died, 
Dec.  27,  1864,  of  sickness  contracted  in  the  army. 

Lafayette  married  Amanda  Graves,  and  has  three  chil- 
dren, Jennie,  Charles,  and  William. 

Linus,  born  March  23,  1827;  died  Nov.  5,  1846. 

Dea.  JOHN  MUNGER  was  born  June  12,  1781,  in  Con- 
necticut. Having  there  served  an  apprenticeship  at  the  tan- 
ner's trade,  he  went  to  Granville,  N.  Y.,  and  worked  as  a 
journeyman  several  years  for  Abraham  Dayton.  He  married 
Irene  Clark,  of  Pawlet,  Vt.,  who  was  born  Jan.  17, 1785.  In 
1806,  he  removed  to  Warsawr,  and  settled  half  a  mile  south 
of  the  village,  where,  for  many  years,  he  carried  on  the  busi- 
ness ot  farming  and  that  of  manufacturing  leather.  He 
united  with  the  Presbyterian  (then  Congregational)  church 
at  an  early  period  after  its  organization,  and  was  soon  after 
chosen  a  Deacon,  and  after  its  change  of  form  to  Presby- 
terian, a  ruling  elder,  which  office  he  held  until  his  death. 
Though  he  was  not  one  of  the  ten  of  whom  it  was  first  com- 
posed, he  was  justly  regarded  as  one  of  its  fathers,  being  ever 
mindful  of  its  interests.  While  most  of  its  members  were 
poor,  he  furnished  no  small  proportion  of  the  requisite  funds 
for  its  support.  And  having  no  heirs  to  provide  for,  he  be- 
queathed to  the  church  and  society  four  thousand  dollars  to 
be  applied  to  the  building  of  a  new  house  of  worship.  He 
sold  his  farm  and  removed  to  the  village  in  1S52  or  1853. 
His  wife  died  April  30,  1854.  He  married,  second,  Susan 
Ranger,  who  died  April  22,  1861,  aged  79.  June  26,  1S62, 
he  married  Mrs.  Ruth  E.  Tanner.  He  died  Oct.  23,  1S64, 
aged  83  years. 


308  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

SAMUEL  MUNGER  was  born  in  Boxbury,  Conn.,  in 
1784.  He  married  Olive  Lyon.  They  removed  to  Warsaw 
in  1816,  and  settled  in  the  south-west  part  of  the  town.  They 
had  five  children: 

Annis  married  Hiram  F.  Walker.  [See  Warham  "Walker 
Family.] 

Morgan  M.  married  Parnel  Kingsley.  Their  children, 
living,  are:  1.  Jason,  who  married  Elizabeth  Yanderwerken, 
and  resides  in  Warsaw.  2.  Porter  B.,  who  married  Maria 
Hoisington,  and  served  in  the  Avar.  3.  Samuel,  who  married 
Martha  Dutton,  and  resides  in  Warsaw.  4.  Henry.  5.  Annis, 
who  married  Marion  Baldwin.  6.  Elmira.  7.  Julia  Florence. 
8.  George  W.     9.  Eugene.     10.  Charles  M. 

Bobert  B.  married  Charlotte  Wethv.  Their  children  are: 
1.  Mary  J.,  who  married  George  W.  Seeley,  who  died,  leav- 
ing a  son,  Charles  Delos.  2.  Clark  D.,  who  married  Martha 
Pettibone,  and  removed  to  Kilbourn  City,  where  he  died. 
They  had  four  children;  only  one,  Ellis  D.,  is  living.  3.  Han- 
nah  Loretta,  who  married  Uriah  Cleveland,  and  had  three 
children,  of  whom  one,  Charlotte,  is  living.  Mrs.  Cleveland 
died  in  1863.  4.  Cordelia.  5.  Eliza,  who  married  Irvin  W. 
York,  and  resides  in  Kilbourn  City,  Wis.  They  have  two 
children,  Eugene  and  Uattie  Mary. 

B.  B.  Munger  married  a  second  wife,  Mrs.  Eliza  Wads- 
worth,  by  whom  he  had  three  children:  1.  Samuel  J.,  who 
married  Nancy  Judd,  and  has  a  daughter,  Cora  Bell,  and  a 
son.  Mrs.  Munger  died  in  1868.  2.  'De  Witt  C,  who  mar- 
ried Fanny  Felch,  of  Castile.  3.  Ellen,  who  married  Addi- 
son Brainerd,  of  Gainesville. 

Mr.  Munger  now  resides  in  the  village.  He  has  been  a 
large  owner  of  real  estate,  in  town  and  village,  at  different 
times. 

Samuel  married  Cornelia  Clark,  and  removed  to  Gowanda. 
Their  children  were:  Jennett,  Charles,  AVilliam,  dead,  Samuel 
Clark,  and  three  d.  inf. 

Caroline  married  Bobert  Austin,  of  Perrysburg. 

SAMUEL  E.  MUBBAY  was  born  in  1707;  married  Cyn- 
thia Beebe,  and  removed  from  the  eastern  part  of  the  state  into 
this  village,  where  he  carried  on  the  Boot  and  Shoe  Making- 
business  until  disabled  by  the  sickness  which  terminated  his 
life.  May  IS,  1814.     He  had  ten  children,  as  follows: 

Dean"  E.  married  Samantha  Andrews;  is  a  Physician  in 
Bergen. 

Samuel  A.  married,  first,  Cynthia  Beebe;  and  for  his  sec- 
ond wife,  Mrs.  Augusta  Parker. 


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Mary  J.  married  Elijah  W.  Andrews,  for  many  years  a 
prominent  business  man  in  Warsaw.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren, Anna  J.,  Frank,  and  Louis. 

Donald  A.  married  Jane  Wright;  has  two  children,  Blanch 
and  Charles. 

John  P.  served  in  the  late  war.     Married  in  186S. 

Cynthia  married  Newton  Ten  Eyck;  has  a  son,  James. 

Caroline,  twin  sister  of  Cynthia,  married  Chauncey  L. 
Sheldon  Hammond,  cashier  of  a  Bank  at  Clinton,  Mass. 

Kate  married  Henry  Barras.     They  reside  in  Rushford. 

Robert,  unmarried,  lives  in  Rnshford. 

Araminta  married  Shipman  "White,  and  has  a  son,  Willie. 

Rev.  JOSEPH  E.  NASSAU  was  born  in  Norristown,  Pa., 
March  12,  1827.  He  is  the  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  C.  W. 
Nassau,  D.  D.,  now  of  Lawrenceville,  N.  J.  In  his  sixteenth 
year  he  united  with  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Easton,  Pa. 
He  graduated  at  La  Fayette  College,  at  Easton,  1S46.  He 
was  for  nearly  two  years  thereafter  Tutor  in  the  College;  and 
subsequently  classical  instructor  in  the  Literary  Institute,  at 
Lawrenceville,  N.  J.  He  entered  the  Theological  Seminary 
at  Princeton  in  1849,  and  graduated  in  1852.  He  had  been 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Newton  in  1851.  In 
1853,  he  established  the  Female  Institute  at  Wilkesbarre,  Pa. 
After  two  years,  he  resigned  the  principalship,  desiring  to  en- 
ter more  fully  on  the  work  of  the  ministry.  In  August,  1855, 
he  commenced  his  ministry  in  Warsaw;  was  unanimously 
chosen  pastor  of  the  church  in  September,  and  installed,  Oct. 
21,  by  the  Presbytery  of  Genesee  River.  During  his  pastor- 
ate, the  church  has  shared  in  several  revivings,  and  has  stead- 
ily grown  in  numbers  and  usefulness.  He  is  at  present  in  the 
fourteenth  year  of  his  ministry  over  his  first  and  only  charge 
— the  longest  continuous  pastorate  in  Wyoming  County. 

Mr.  Nassau  was  married,  Oct.  16,  1856,  to"  Elizabeth  W., 
daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Augustus  Frank.  She  was  born 
Sept.  21,  1820.  They  had  three  children:  Jennie  Frank, 
Charles  J.,  who  died  at  2  years  of  age,  and  Isabella  II. 

RITSSEL  NOBLE  was  born  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.  He  mar- 
ried Cynthia  Palmer,  at  Orwell,  Vt.  They  removed  to  this 
town  and  settled  on  West  Hill  in  1811.    He  had  three  children: 

Achsa,  born  Feb.  1,  1797,  married  Samuel  Salisbury.  [See 
S.  Salisbury.] 

Anna  C.  was  born  Sept.  27,  1803;  married  Isaac  Shaw, 
and  settled  in  Westfield,  where  Mr.  Shaw  recently  died.  They 
had  three  children,  of  whom  two,  Melvina  and  Mertilla,  are 
living. 


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HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 


ELIJAH  NORTON  was  born  in  Hebron,  Washington  Co. 
July  2,  1700.     He  came  to  this  town  from  Granville  in  1815 
He  was  by  trade  a  Cloth  Dresser;  but  has  been  engaged  in 
other  pursuits,  chiefly  farming.     He  married  Lncinda  Web- 
ster, a  daughter  of  Elizur  Webster,  and  had  by  her  eight 
children,  as  follows : 

Eleanor  C,  who  married  John  Wiser.  They  had  six 
children:  Frances,  who  died  at  1G;  Elias,  Ann  Amelia,  John, 
Cary  T.,  Cora,  d.  inf. 

Elizur  W.  married,  first,  Isabel  Tanner,  by  whom  he  had 
two  daughters,  Elsie  and  Isabel.  He  married  for  his  second 
wife,  Yiola  Whiting,  by  whom  he  has  two  children,  Mary  and 
Adelia. 

Sylvester  B.  married  Mary  Morey,  and  had  five  children, 
Emma,  Frank,  Alice,  d.  inf.,  George  M.,  and  Bertha.  He 
resides  in  Warsaw. 

Henry  W.  married  Mariett  Stevens,  daughter  of  Nye 
Stevens.     They  have  a  son,  Charles,  aged  14. 

Ferris  W.  married,  first,  Sybil  Clark,  daughter  of  John  F. 
Clark,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter,  Cora.  He  married  a 
second  wife,  Mrs.  Helen  Pierson,  by  whom  he  has  two  sons, 
WilJe,  and  Eddie  Ferris. 

Cary  T.  is  unmarried,  and  lives  in  Warsaw. 

Amelia  M.  married  Alfred  W.  Hoyt.  They  have  two 
children,  Frank  and  Elbert.  Mr.  Hoyt  served  in  the  late 
war.     [See  War  History.] 

Webster  married  Mary  Donohue,  and  resides  in  this  town. 

THOMAS  PAINTER  was  born  in  Roxbury,  Conn.,  and 
was  married  to  Sarah  Packard.  They  removed  from  Con- 
necticut to  Paris,  N.  Y.;  thence  to  Perry;  and  in  1834,  to 
Warsaw.  Mr.  Painter  died  in  this  town,  June  23,  1S45,  aged 
72;  Mrs.  Painter,  Jan.  4,  1852,  aged  72.  Both  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Presbyterian  church.     They  had  a  son. 

Edwin,  sou  of  Thomas  Painter,  was  born  in  Roxburv,  Conn., 
Jan.  24,  1804,  and  married  in  Perry,  Nov.  12,  1826,'llannah 
Burke,  who  was'  born  in  Barre,  Vt,  March,  1802.  They  had 
four  children  :  1.  Thalia,  born  Aug.  24,  1827;  died  Aug.  11, 
1850.  2.  Sarah,  born  Oct,  7,  1832,  married  James  N.^Bar- 
nett,  and  has  two  children,  Sarah  Elizabeth  and  Edwin  P.  3. 
Mary,  born  Aug.  27,  1837,  married  Mr.  Benedict.  4.  Jane. 
Mr.  Painter  was  for  many  years  an  assessor  of  the  town  and 
village.     He  died  two  or  three  years  since. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AXD   NOTES.  311 

1STEHEMIAH  PARK,  Sen.,  became  an  early  resident  in 
South  Warsaw,  where,  for  many  years,  he  kept  a  public  house. 
He  retired  from  the  business  a  long  time  before  his  death. 
He  died  in  South  Warsaw,  March  11,  1838,  aged  85  years. 

NEHEMIAH  PARK,  Jim.,  son  of  the  above,  was  born  in 
Tyringham,  Mass.,  in  or  near  the  year  1779.  He  had  by  his 
first  wife,  two  children,  Archibald  and  Caroline. 

Archibald  married  in  Ashtabula,  O.,  and  was  for  many 
years  a  printer  and  publisher  of  a  newspaper  in  Elyria,  O., 
where  he  now  resides.     He  had  four  children. 

Nehemiah  Park,  Jim.,  married  for  his  second  wife,  Miss 
Hill,  of  Canaan,  1ST.  Y.  He  purchased  land  in  Gainesville, 
in  1806,  and  settled  there  in  1800.  In  1814,  he  settled  at 
South  Warsaw,  and  kept  a  tavern  and  a  store — the  latter  for 
a  year  or  more.  This  was  the  first  store  in  that  place.  His 
attention  was  thereafter  given  chiefly  to  farming.  He  was 
several  times  chosen  Supervisor  of  the  town,  and  to  other 
town  offices.  He  died  June  16,  1852,  aged  73  years.  He 
had  by  his  second  wife  four  children :  Alvira,  Clarinda, 
Kehemiah,  and  Edwin. 

Alvira  married  Lyman  Parker,  and  lives  in  Yorkshire. 
Their  children  are  Wilber,  Clarissa.  Cynthia,  Lyman  and 
Edwin. 

Clarinda  married  William  Gibson.    [See  Gibson  Family.] 

Nehemiah,  born  !Nov.  2,  1S16,  married  Ann  Janett  Doolit- 
tle,  of  Wethersfield.  He  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
in  Gainesville,  in  1839,  in  which  he  continued  nine  years.  In 
1851,  he  removed  to  this  village,  and  traded  in  Books  and 
Stationery,  and  Crockery,  and  has  since  been  a  dealer  in 
various  kinds  of  goods.  He  has  had  three  children  :  I.Ellen, 
who  married  E.  P.  Harris,  of  Amherst,  Mass.,  and  has  a  son, 
Edwin  Park.     2.  Frederick  J.,  d.  inf.    3.  Harry  Nehemiah. 

Edwin  married  Olive  Osborn,  of  Cuba,  and  died  there  Sept. 
1863.  He  had  three  children,  George,  Emma,  and  William 
Nehemiah.  f 

JOSEPH  PALMER  was  born  in  Pennington,  Yt.,  and 
married  Polly  Swap,  in  Hampton,  X.  Y.  He  came  to  this 
town  in  1804,  and  settled  near  the  burying  ground.  About 
the  year  1822,  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Cuba,  Allegany 
county,  where  lie  resided  until  his  death.  He  had  fourteen 
children,  of  whom  seven  died  in  infancy  and  early  child- 
hood. 

Joseph,  who  married,  first,  Maria  Francis.  He  married  a 
second   wife  in  Yirginia,  by  whom  he  had   six  children,  of 


312  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

whom  tour,  Jasper,  Joseph,  Charlotte,  and  George  are  living. 
He  resides  in  Cuba. 

Hannah  married  Horatio  Slayton,  who  died  in  Ohio. 

Maria  married  John  Slayton,  and  died  in  Chicago. 

Polly  married  John  Murray,  and  moved  to  Clarksville. 

George  is  married,  and  lives  in  Clarksville,  Allegany  Co. 

Harriet  married  Johnlzenerin  Clarksville,  and  died. 

Alta  married  John  Jackson,  in  Cuba;  died  in  Michigan. 

ELIPHALET  PARKER  came  to  this  town  in  1807,  and 
settled  on  the  East  Hill,  on  Lot  22.  He  had  six  sons,  all  of 
whom  settled  in  the  same  neighborhood.  Mr.  Parker  Mas 
one  of  the  ten  persons  who  composed  the  Presbyterian,  then 
Congregational  church,  at  its  formation  in  1808,  and  was  one 
of  the  two  Deacons  then  chosen.  His  sons  were,  Eliphalet, 
Benjamin,  Ira,  Giles,  John  G.,  and  Lyman.  The  father  and 
three  ot  the  sons,  Eliphalet,  Benjamin,  and  John  G.,  died  of 
the  memorable  epidemic  of  1812-13. 

Eliphalet  had  six  children:  1.  Phebe,  who  married  Kil- 
bourn  D.  Smith,  and  resides  in  Wethersfield.  They  had 
three  sons  and  four  daughters;  of  the  latter,  one  is  dead.  2. 
Valentine,  who  married  Phebe  Ann  Gould,  and  has  no  chil- 
dren. 3.  Sydney,  who  married,  first,  Harriet  Gardner; 
second,  Clarissa  Gardner,  and  has  no  children.  4.  Lyman, 
who  married  Elvira  Park,  and  had  three  sons  and  two 
daughters.     5.  and  6.  Leverett  and  Cynthia,  both  unmarried. 

Benjamin,  died  unmarried. 

Ira  married  Sylvia  Norton,  of  Granville,  and  had  two 
sons:  1.  Harvey,  who  was  born  April  10,  180-1,  and  married 
Charity  Morgan,  lie  removed  with  his  family  to  Wisconsin. 
lie  had  six  sons  and  three  daughters.  Of  the  six  sons,  five 
served  in  the  late  war.  2.  Harry  J.,  who  was  born  Jan.  20, 
1806,  and  married  Emily  Kellogg,  and  removed  to  Attica, 
where  he  still  resides.  He  has  had  twelve  children;  seven 
are  living:  Edward  H.,  Albert  J.,  Libbie,  Etta,  Nellie, 
Robert  G.,  and  Harry  J. 

Giles  married  Rhoda  Norton,  in  Granville.  He  settled  in 
Warsaw  in  1806.  He  had  six  sons:  1.  William,  who  married 
Mrs.  Talitha  C.  Marchant,  widow  of  Lot  Marchant,  [See  Lot 
Marchant.]  2.  Giles;  3.  Lafayette;  4.  Wicks;  5.  Ledyard;  6. 
Trumbull.  All  the  sons,  except  William,  removed  to  Craw- 
ford Co.,  Pa.,  the  three  youngest  of  whom  died  in  the  late 
war. 

John  G.  married  Joanna  Whitlock.  He  served  in  the  war 
of  1812,  ami  died,  soon  after  his  return,  of  the  prevailing 
epidemic,  Nov.  10,  1812.  He  left  a  son,  John,  who  is  mar- 
ried, and  resides  in  Buffalo. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  313 

Lyman  married  Ivaty  Goo-gins;  lived  many  years  in  this 
town,  and  removed  to  Wisconsin.  His  children  were  Tamma, 
Aurilla,  Siberia,  dead;  Eveline,  dead;  Jennett,  dead;  Erastus, 
and  John. 

WILLIAM  PATTEESOX  was  born  in  Londonderry,  K 
IT.,  June  4,  1789.  He  left  Londonderry  in  1815,  and  resided 
in  Kensselaerville,  Albany  Co.,  about  one  year.  From  that 
time  until  April,  1822,  he  resided  in  Lyons,  "Wayne  Co.,  and 
in  Groveland  and  Sparta,  Livingston  Co.  During  these  years 
he  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  fanning  mills. 
In  the  winter  of  1821-22,  he  purchased  a  farm  in  the  south- 
east part  of  this  town,  and  took  possession  of  it  in  April 
following.  He  remained  there,  conducting  the  farming  and 
mill  making  business  until  1S37,  when  he  removed  to  the 
village,  occupying  the  premises,  now  the  residence  of  John  A. 
McElwain,  on  Genesee  street.  Though  favored  with  a  com- 
mon school  education  only,  he  acquired,  by  extensive  reading, 
aided  by  a  retentive  memory,  a  large  fund  of  practical  infor- 
mation, which  enabled  him  to  give  ready  and  satisfactory 
answers  to  the  numerous  inquiries  for  information  which  he 
received.  He  was  an  early  and  active  friend  of  the  temper- 
ance and  antislavery  causes.  Possessing  an  amiable  temper 
and  a  highly  social  nature,  his  presence  was  always  accept- 
able, and  his  conversation  agreeable  and  instructive.  Taking 
a,  deep  interest  in  public  aifairs,  he  made  himself  familiar 
with  all  questions  involving  the  welfare  of  the  state  and 
nation;  and  although  qualified  for  offices  of  high  responsibility, 
he  never  sought  or  asked  for  one.  He  however  occasionally 
received  a  town  office,  the  duties  of  which  were  faithfully 
discharged.  In  1836,  his  name  was,  without  his  knowledge, 
proposed  in  the  Whig  Convention  for  nominating  a  member 
of  Congress  to  represent  this  district,  then  composed  of  the 
county  of  Genesee;  and  he  was  nominated  and  elected.  In 
September,  1837,  he  took  his  seat  in  Congress  at  an  extra 
session,  and  attended  also  the  first  regular  session  which 
closed  in  July,  1838.  He  returned  somewhat  indisposed,  and 
was  soon  prostrated  by  the  disease  (bilious  fever,)  of  which 
he  died,  Aug.  1-1,  1838.  He  was  one  of  our  most  worthy  and 
highly  esteemed  citizens.  His  death  was  deeply  deplored, 
and  his  funeral  attended  by  a  large  concourse  of  people  from 
this  and  other  towns.  On  the  reassembling  of  Congress  in 
December,  Hon.  Millard  Fillmore,  of  the  House,  appropri- 
ately announced  his  death,  speaking  of  his  "  untiring  assiduity 
in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,"  of  his  honesty  and  his  firm- 
ness of  purj)ose,  &c;  and  at  the  conclusion  of  his  remarks, 


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HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


offered  the  usual  resolution  for  testifying  the  respect  of  the 
members  for  the  memory  of  the  deceased. 

William  Patterson  was  married,  Feb.  5,  182S,  to  Lucinda 
Gregg,  of  Deny,  ]ST.  H.  She  was  ill  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
and  died  a  week  after,  suddenly,  while  seated  at  the  break- 
fast table.     Their  children  were: 

Mary,  who  died  in  "Warsaw  at  the  age  of  three  years. 

William  W.,  born  Feb.  11,  1831.  He  resides  in  Minne- 
sota, and  is  at  present  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of  that 
state.  He  served  in  the  late  war;  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
Regular  Army,  and  was  in  several  battles. 

Jennie  Frank,  who  was  born  Oct.,  1S32,  and  married 
Eev.  Stuart  Mitchell.     She  died  March  13,  1861. 

Thomas  James,  who  died  in  Warsaw,  aged  two  years. 

Washington  Jarvis,  who  died  in  Warsaw,  aged  two  years. 

PETER  PATTERSON  was  born  in  Londonderry,  X.  II., 
Nov.  11,  1770.  In  1806,  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness, and  won  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow-citizens, 
which  he  retained  to  the  end  of  his  life.  He  held  various  town 
offices,  and  served  several  years  in  the  legislature  of  his  na- 
tive state.  In  J  820,  he  removed  to  this  place,  and  the  next 
year  to  Perry.  In  1832,  he  was  elected  to  the  legislature,  and 
reelected  the  following  year.  After  the  organization  of  this 
county,  he  was  appointed  one  of  its  associate  judges,  and  for 
sixteen  years  held  the  office  of  justice  in  Perry.  During  hi* 
residence  in  that  town,  he  was  engaged  in  farming,  and  was 
actively  interested  in  agricultural  associations  and  all  public 
enterprises.  In  1S52,  after  a  few  years'  residence  in  Leicester, 
he  again  made  Warsaw  his  home.  A  friend  thus  notices  his 
death:  "He  possessed  a  familiar  knowledge  of  the  history  of 
the  country  and  its  public  men.  He  was  a  man  of  command- 
ing presence,  bland  and  refined  manners  and  dignified  bear- 
ing, scrupulously  honest,  kind,  liberal  and  generous  to  a  fault, 
illustrating  daily  all  the  amenities  of  life.  Asa  husband, 
father,  and  neighbor,  he  was  affectionate,  kind,  and  greatly 
beloved.  In  public  life  he  was  much  esteemed- — was  firm, 
fearless,  and  courteous.  His  patriotism  flowed  from  a  peren- 
nial stream,  and  to  the  day  of  his  death  he  was  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  perpetuity  of  our  institutions.  In  the  social 
circle  he  was  highly  appreciated  —  of  rare  conversational 
powers,  his  intellect  blended  with  those  virtues  which  adorn 
the  genial  heart.  He  was  a  gentleman  of  the  old  New  Eng- 
land school,  and  largely  shared  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
all  with  whom  he  was  associated."  Mr.  Patterson  married 
Mary  Wallace,  Nov.  8,  1811.     They  had  five  children: 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  315 

Robert  W.,  who  was  born  Sept.  3,  1815,  married  Eliza  T. 
Bunnell;  died  May  22,  1803. 

Elizabeth  J.,  born  Sept.  11,  1817,  married  George  AY.  Mc- 
Entee,  who  died,  Sept.  1844.  She  afterwards  married  Hugh 
Harding,  editor  of  the  Mt.  Morris  Union,  June  18, 1846.  They 
have  one  child. 

Mary  AY.,  born  April  26,  1820;  died  Xov.  1,  1866. 

Susan  B.,  born  Sept,  25,  1821;  married  John  C.  "Woods, 
Sept.  25,  1848,  and  has  three  children. 

William  C,  born  March  20,  1826;  married  Phebe  C.  Cal- 
kins, who  died  July  1,  1853.  He  afterwards  married  Bettie 
S.  Dolbeer,  May  20,  1857. 

Judge  Patterson  died  Feb.  17,  1865,  aged  85  years. 

JOHN"  D.  PATTERSON,  a  son  of  Col.  Robert  Patterson, 
was  born  in  Londonderry,  N.  II.,  May  1,  1S16.  He  removed 
with  his  father's  family  to  Warsaw  in  June,  1820,  and  in  1830, 
engaged  with  Dr.  Augustus  Frank,  with  whom  he  remained, 
as  clerk,  until  March,  1835,  when  he  engaged  as  clerk  in  the 
store  of  Joshua  H.  Darling.  Sept.  1,  1838,  he  formed  a  co- 
partnership with  Mr.  Darling,  (firm,  Darling  &  Patterson,) 
which  continued  three  years.  In  April,  1842,  he  went  to 
AYestheld,  Chautauqua  county,  as  a  clerk  in  the  Chautauqua 
Land  Office,  with  which  he  was  connected  several  years. 
AVhile  in  Westfield,  he  became  extensively  engaged  in  im- 
porting, breeding,  and  selling  the  pure  Merino  sheep;  to 
which  enterprise  he  has  since  devoted  himself  uninterruptedly 
until  the  present  time.  Probably  no  other  person  has  done  so 
much  as  he,  to  disseminate  these  valuable  sheep.  By  their 
introduction  into  the  AYestern  and  Southern  States,  many 
millions  of  dollars  have  probably  been  added  to  the  wealth  of 
the  country.  In  1S59,  he  extended  his  business  to  the  Pacific 
coast,  shipping  a  large  number  of  sheep  to  California  by 
steamers  and  the  Panama  railroad,  at  a  cost  of  one  hundred 
dollars  per  head.  In  1860,  ho  purchased  a  farm  of  about 
300  acres  in  Brooklyn,  Cal.,  which  he  stocked  with  the  most 
valuable  breeds  of  cattle,  sheep,  swine,  &c,  that  could  bo 
found  in  Europe  or  America,  and  has  since  resided  in  that 
state.  This  farm,  which  cost  less  than  $40,000,  he  sold  last 
year  (1868)  for  $120,000  in  gold  coin.  lie  still  owns  large 
tracts  of  land  in  California;  one  of  which  contains  18,000 
acres,  on  which  he  has  about  10,500  sheep,  of  which,  upwards 
of  2,000  are  pure  Merinos,  which  is  said  to  be  a  much  larger 
number  of  the  kind  than  is  owned  by  any  other  individual 
in  the  United  States.  His  market  for  them  is  not  limited  to 
California,  Oregon,  and   Washington  Territory;  but  he  sells 


316  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

large  numbers  to  go  to  British  Columbia,  Mexico,  Central  and 
South  America,  Australia,  and  New  Zealand.  One  of  his 
farms  in  Southern  California,  he  is  preparing  for  the  cultiva- 
tion, on  a  large  scale,  of  the  orange,  lemon,  lime,  olive,  and. 
other  semi-tropical  fruits,  the  almond,  Madeira  nut,  &c,  all 
of  which  are  said  to  grow  to  great  perfection  in  that  part  of 
the  state. 

Mr.  Patterson  married  Caroline  Glover,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

MOSES  PERKINS  removed  from  Cheshire,  Conn.,  to 
Hampton,  N.  Y.,  in  the  year  1785.  lie  had  fourteen  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Sylvester,  Elam,  Anson  A.,  Laura,  Orilla,  and 
Catharine,  settled  in  Warsaw.  The  lather  himself,  after  the 
death  of  his  wife,  came  from  the  East,  and  spent  the  last 
years  of  his  life  with  his  sons  in  this  town.  He  was  a  Meth- 
odist, a  man  of  fervent  piety,  and  had  been  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  war.  He  died  Nov.  17,  1S36,  in  his  90th 
year. 

Sylvester,  Elam,  and  Anson  A.     [See  their  Sketches.] 

Laura,  daughter  of  Moses  Perkins,  married  Joseph  Miller. 
Lie  settled  on  East  Hill,  on  the  farm  afterwards  sold  to  Anson 
A.  Perkins.     Mrs.  Miller  died  in  1812,  leaving  a  son,  Levi. 

Orilla,  twin  sister  of  Laura,  became  the  second  wife  ot 
Joseph  Miller,  who  removed  with  his  family  to  Oakland  Co., 
Mich.,  where  he  was  elected  to  the  territorial  legislature.  He 
had  by  this  wife  three  children. 

Catharine  married  Simeon  R.  Glazier.     [See  his  Sketch.] 

SYLYESTER  PERKINS  was  born  in  Cheshire,  Conn., 
Feb.  21,  1779,  and  removed  to  Hampton,  N.  Y.,  with  his 
father  in  1785.  He  married  Ruth  Hooker,  born  Nov.  2, 178-1. 
In  1821  they  came  to  Warsaw,  and  settled  on  West  Hill.  In 
1851,  they  removed  with  a  son,  Moses  S.,  to  Cortland,  111., 
where  he  died  Oct,  24, 1801,  and  his  wite,  Sept.  28,  1S6L 
She  was  a  descendant  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  one  of  the 
Puritan  immigrants  on  the  Mayflower  in  1620.  He  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Colony  of  Connecticut,  whither  he 
removed  with  his  people,  in  1636.  All  the  family  of  Mr. 
Perkins,  except  two  of  his  children,  were  members  of  the 
Methodist  church.  He  was  for  many  years  a  local  preacher. 
He  had  nine  children  : 

Eliza,  who  married  Ilezekiah  Lincoln.  They  reside  in 
Warsaw. 

Lizana  married  George  A.  Johnson,  and  died  July  18, 
1840. 

Mary  married  Isaac  N.  Phelps.     [See  Phelps  Family.] 


FAMILY   SKETCHES   AND    NOTES.  317 

Philomela  married  Peter  "White,  of  Orangeville;  lives  in 
Iowa.     Children  :  Sylvester  P.,  Mary  J.,  Lucia  Jane. 

Thomas  Ii.  married  A.  L.  Eolandson,  of  Orleans  Co.;  lives 
in  Minneapolis,  Minn.    Children  :  Edward  R.,  and  Frank. 

Abigail  married  J.  Royal  Crosset.  Thev  reside  in  Illi- 
nois.    Children  :  Ellen  R.,  Martial  B.,  Elzy  T. 

Betsey  married  Moses  W.  Jordan;  has  a  son,  Edward  F. 

Moses  S.,  born  Dec.  7,  1818,  married  Sarah  Shaw,  of  Le- 
Roy.  In  1851,  they  removed  to  Cortland,  111.,  and  in  1865, 
to  Montague,  Muskegan  Co.,  Mich.,  where  they  now  reside. 
They  had  nine  children,  four  only  are  living  :  Corodon  U.> 
Carlos  L.,  Moses  De  C,  and  Viletta  Belle.     Five  died  young. 

Daniel  F.,  born  Aug.  31,  1820,  died  Sept,  7,  1838. 

ELAM  PERKINS  was  born  in  Cheshire,  Conn.,  Dec.  1, 
1782,  and  removed  *to  Hampton,  1ST.  Y.,  with  his  father.  He 
married  Lydia  Wheat,  and  removed  to  AVarsaw  with  four 
children,  Feb.,  1S11,  and  settled  on  East  Hill,  about  a  mile 
from  the  village.  Both  himself  and  wife  were  members  of 
the  Methodist  church.  He  made  a  profession  of  his  faith  in 
early  life,  and  was  to  the  end  of  his  life  an  active  and  zealous 
Christian.  He  died  in  May,  1868.  His  name  will  be  held 
in  lasting  remembrance  by  many  in  this  town.  Flis  wife  died 
Dec.  16,  1861.     They  had  nine  children: 

Chester,  who  was  born  Jan.  26,  1807,  married  Asenath 
Sanford,  and  resided  long  in  this  town.  He  now  resides  in 
Gainesville.  They  belonged  to  the  Methodist  church  in  this 
town.  They  have  four  children:  1.  Elam,  who  married  Maria 
Divine.  2.  Newton,  who  married  Sarah  Benson,  lives  in 
Gainesville,  and  has  a  son.  3.  Althamina,  who  married  Ly- 
man Johnson,  and  has  three  daughters.  1.  Romanzo,  who 
married  Julina  Jenison,  and  has  a  daughter. 

Samuel  W.  was  born  Jan.  22,  1809,  and  married  Mary 
Densmore,  by  whom  he  had  six  children:  1.  Rosetta,  who 
married  Sydney  Spring,  of  Attica,  and  has  a  daughter.  2.  An- 
geline,  who  married  Albert  Warren.  Children:  Alice,  Mary, 
and  Edie.  3.  Sarah,  who  married  Leander  Gay.  Children: 
Mary,  Rosetta,  Melissa,  and  Elvira.  1.  Samuel  W.  married 
Eliza  Knapp,  of  Attica,  and  has  a  son,  Albert.  5.  Phebe. 
6.  Alice. 

Moses,  born  March  6,  1811,  married  Betsey  Wilson,  who 
died  March  29,  1851.  They  had  three  children:  1.  Wesley, 
who  married  Elizabeth  Kinney,  and  has  a  daughter,  Betsey. 

2.  Franklin,  who  married  Elizabeth   Hagaman,  in   Illinois. 

3.  Lewis,  who  married  Elizabeth  Shepard,  of  Java,  and  has 
a  daughter,  Florence.  Mr.  Perkins  married  a  second  wife, 
Mary  M.  Buck. 


318  HISTORY   OF   W ASSAM. 

Salmon,  born  April  23,  1813,  d.  inf. 

Mary  Melissa,  second  wife  of  Levi  Silver,  of  Perry. 

Lydia  married  WUlard  Silver,  brother  of  Levi,  and  bad  two 
children,  Wilder  and  Homer. 

Lucy  B.  was  the  first  wife  of  Levi  Silver,  and  died,  leaving 
four  children:  Eleanor,  Eliza,  Horace,  and  Flora. 

Isabella  married  Allen  D.  Fargo.  Their  children  are, 
Helen  and  Flora. 

Aurora  S.,  born  Sept.  19,  1832,  married  Eliza  A.  Parker, 
and  has  a  daughter,  Mariett. 

ANSOjST  A.  PERKINS  was  born  in  Cheshire,  Conn., 
Sept.  21,  1784,  and  removed  with  his  father  to  Hampton. 
He  married  Betsey  Worden,  and  removed  to  Warsaw  in  the 
winter  of  1811-12,  and  settled  on  East  Hill,  a  mile  and  a  half 
from  the  village.  He  went  from  Warsaw  as  a  volunteer,  in 
the  war  of  lb  12,  under  Captain  Wilson.  He  served  as  a 
drummer,  and  was  at  the  battle  of  Erie.  Mr.  Perkins  and 
his  wife  were  both  members  of  the  Methodist  church.  The 
influence  of  his  example  was  felt  in  his  neighborhood  during 
his  residence  in  this  town.  In  May,  1819,  they  removed  to 
Beloit,  where  their  sons  resided,  and  where  they  both  died; 
Mrs.  Perkins,  May  23,  1857,  and  Mr.  Perkins  the  next  day. 
They  had  nine  children,  the  first  three  of  whom  d.  inf.  The 
living  are: 

Lanson  W.,  who  married  Prudence  S.  Jernegan,  and  re- 
moved to  Beloit,  Wis.  They  have  six  children:  Elbridge  B., 
who  was  2i  years  in  the  late  war;  Lanson  W.,  Augusta  v.  J., 
Willie  L.,  Hattie  I.,  Henrietta  A. 

Luther  S.  married  Sarah  H.  Taylor,  and  removed  to  Beloit 
in  1815.  They  have  a  son,  Wayland  G.,  who  resides  in  Chi- 
cago. 

Eliza  Ann,  born  Feb.  10,  1821,  died  March  11,  1838. 

Harriet  Ann  married  Darius  C.  Fargo.  They  live  in 
California. 

Anson  Abieam  married  Clarissa  A.  Wiggins,  and  removed 
to  Beloit  in  1819.  Mrs.  Perkins  died  in  Prairie  du  Chien. 
Children:  Julia  A.,  Addie  C,  and  Cary  A.  He  married, 
second,  Helen  M.  Pad  way,  whose  children  are  Frank  and 
JNTellie  M. 

Julia  Ann  died  in  Beloit,  April  3,  1S£0,  aged  21. 

ISAAC  PHELPS  was  born  in  Connecticut,  and  married 
Lydia  Case,  of  Simsbury,  Conn.  He  removed  to  this  town 
from  Granville,  in  1809,  and  settled  on  West  Hill,  where  he 
resided  until  a  few  years  before  his  death,  when  he  removed 


FAMILY  SKETCHES  AND  NOTES.  310 

to  the  village.  He  died  Jan.  11,  1839,  aged  about  S4  years. 
His  wife  died  April  7,  1841,  aged  85.  She  was  a  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  church.     They  had  six  children: 

Clarissa,  who  was  born  Nov.  15,  1778,  married,  for  her 
first  husband,  John  McWhorter,  Jim.,  of  Granville,  and  for 
her  second,  Samuel  Hough.  [See  Families  of  John  McWhor- 
ter  and  Samuel  Hough.] 

Lydia,  born  Dec.  17,  1781.  [See  Levi  and  Lydia  Martin.] 
Isaac  was  born  April  4, 1783.  He  married  Nancy  Mahar, 
and  settled  in  Aurora,  Erie  Co.  He  represented  in  the 
Legislatures  of  1818  and  1819,  the  counties  of  Niagara,  Cat- 
taraugus, and  Chautauqua,  which,  together,  elected  but  one 
member  ot  Assembly.  He  also  held  the  office  of  Associate 
Judge  of  the  County  Court,  He  and  his  wife  died  in  Aurora. 
Their  children  were,  1.  Ledyard  R.,  who  married  Betsey 
Scott,  and  resides  in  Aurora.  2.  Warren,  who  married  Eliza 
Haines.  3.  Isaac  N.,  who  married  in  Warsaw,  Mary  Per- 
kins, and  had  by  her  four  children:  Dexter  R.,  d.  inf.,  Nancy 
C,  Eugene,  Douglas  P.  His  wife  died  in  Warsaw,  and  he 
married  Mariette  Taller.  They  now  reside  in  Attica.  4. 
Charlotte,  who  married  Lewis  Conklin.  5.  Henry  H.  mar- 
ried Sally  Brown.  6.  Edmund  B.  married;  died  in  1S65.  7. 
Minerva.     8.  Eliza,  who  married  Guy  C.  Martin. 

Susannah  was  born  June  18,  1786.     [See  S.  McWhorter.] 
Charlotte  was  born  April  28,  1788.     [See  Wm.  Webster.] 
Sophia  was  born  Sept.  11,  1796.     [See  Aaron  Pumsey.] 

NATHAN  PIEPCE  was  born  in  Pehoboth,  Mass.,  March 
11,  1781,  and  came  to  this  town  in  1806,  and  settled  in  the 
north-west  part  of  the  town.  He  married  Hannah  Hall,  by 
whom  he  had  six  children: 

Mary  Ann,  who  married  Edmund  Curtis,  of  Middlebury, 
and  had  six  children:  1.  Sophia  M.,  who  married  D  wight 
Watrous,  of  Perry.  2.  Dexter  C,  who  is  married  and  lives 
in  Perry,  and  has  three  children.  3.  Lorenzo  C,  Mho  mar- 
ried Ella  Brundage,  has  a  daughter,  and  lives  in  Perry.  4. 
Adelaide.    5.  Alleroy.    6.  Frederick,  who  died  at  4. 

Alonzo,  who  married  Emeline  D.  Belknap,  by  whom  he 
had  three  children:  1.  Beriah  N.,  who  was  for  several  years  a 
practicing  lawyer,  and  now  resides  in  Middlebury  on  the 
Avell  known  Cornwell  farm.  He  married  Kate  Cormac,  and 
has  two  sons.  2.  Melford  J.,  d.  inf.  3.  Melford  A.,  who  is  a 
partner  of  Beriah  N.  Mrs.  Pierce  died  June  19,  1867,  and 
Mr.  Pierce  married  a  second  wife,  Helen  M.  Peck,  of  Mid- 
dleburv. 


320  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Jane  married  David  Judd,  and  has  two  children:  1.  Nancy 
Jane,  who  married  Samuel  Munger,  and  died  in  1868.  2. 
Clark. 

Hannah  married  Jacob  Sherwin.  [See  Family  of  Bissel 
Sherwin.] 

Clarissa  S.  married  George  Bnmdage,  of  Middlebury,  and 
had  two  children:  one  of  whom,  Ella,  married  Lorenzo  Curtis, 
of  Perry.  Mrs.  Clarissa  Brundage  married  for  her  second  hus- 
band, Beman  Wilcox. 

Allen   married  Susan  Whaley,  and  had  three  children. 

Nathan  Pierce,  after  the  death  of  his  wife  above  men- 
tioned, 'married  Mrs.  Warren,  and  after  her  death,  Olive 
Belknap,  who  died  Nov.  1,  1861,  aged  75.  Mr.  Pierce  died 
Sept.  11,  1859,  aged  78. 

EDWARD  PUTNAM  was  born  in  Grafton,  Yt.,  Aug.  18, 
1782.  -He  settled  at  an  early  day  at  Wright's  Corners,  in 
Middlebury,  where  he  kept  the  first  store  in  that  town.  He 
removed  soon  after  to  Warsaw,  where  he  resided  until  near 
the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  twice  appointed  by  the  Coun- 
cil of  Appointment  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  of  this  town.  He 
married  Rachel  Hutton,  and  had  by  her  nine  children: 

Elvira  married  Jacob  W.  Knapp.  [See  Family  of  J.  R. 
Knapp.] 

Yallona  married  David  Shedd.  They  reside  in  Rockford, 
111.  They  had  four  children:  1.  Henry  C;  2.  W.  Irving,  d. 
inf.;  3.  Helen  Irene,  who  married  Abner  Sherman,  and  lives 
in  Rochester;     1.  Julia  A. 

Eliza,  who  lives  in  Rockford,  111.,  unmarried. 

Edward  died  in  1838,  aged  19. 

Julia,  unmarried,  lives  in  Perry. 

Lucien  married  Esther  Foster,  in  Warsaw,  and  now  resides 
in  Rockford,  111.  They  had  four  children;  one  d.  int.  Mrs. 
P.  died,  and  Mr.  P.  married  Cynthia  Smith,  who  has  a  son. 

Henry  Clay  married  Miranda  Wilcox,  and  has  had  three 
children;  two  are  living. 

Rachel,  wife  of  Edward  Putnam,  died  June  6,  1S38;  and 
Mr.  Putnam  married  Huldah  Eldred,  by  whom  he  had  a 
daughter,  Agnes.  He  died  at  Rockford,  in  1865,  in  his  83d 
year. 

WILLIAM  RAYMOND  was  born  in  Norwalk,  Conn., 
Aug.  10,  1777.  He  removed  with  his  father's  family  to  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  in  1790;  was  clerk  in  a  store  there  until  1800.  He  re- 
moved to  Granville,  where  he  held  the  offices  of  supervisor, 
town  clerk,  and  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace  from  1S0S 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  321 

until  1824,  when  he  removed  to  Bethany.  In  1825,  lie  re- 
moved to  Warsaw,  where  lie  was  clerk  and  hook-keeper  for 
Dr.  Augustus  Frank  until  1S39,  when  he  went,  with  his  wife, 
to  live  with  his  son  at  Pine  Hill,  (Elba,)  where  he  died  May 
5,  1817.  Mr.  Raymond  was  a  correct  and  systematic  busi- 
ness man,  an  estimable  citizen,  and  a  consistent  professor  of 
religion.  He  and  his  wife  were  from  an  early  period  in  life 
members  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  married,  June  20, 
1805,  Mary  Kellogg,  who  was  born  Dec.  24,  1785,  and  lives 
at  Pine  Hill  with  her  son.     They  had  eleven  children: 

Maey,  who  married  Jefferson  Henshaw.  They  resided  in 
Aurora,  Erie  Co.,  where  both  died  in  1855.  They  had  four 
children:  Cornelia  Frances,  who  married  John  C.  Long; 
Theodore  A.  and  William  R.,  both  married,  and  Henry  C, 
killed  in  the  war. 

William  C.  married  Sarah  A.  Southworth,  in  Elba,  July 
11,1837.  They  had  seven  children:  Charles  Henry,  d.  inf., 
William  Henry,  who  was  taken  prisoner  in  the  war,  and  ex- 
changed in  March,  1865;  George  S.,  Walter  H.,  Mary  Ada- 
line,  James  G.,  and  Charles  Lewis.  Mr.  Raymond  has  for 
more  than  thirty  years  been  a  merchant  at  Pine  Hill. 

Julia  A.  married  Caleb  T.  Gifford,  of  Bethany,  where  they 
now  reside.  Their  children  are:  William  P.,  James,  Mary, 
and  Frances. 

Coenelia  married  James  M.  Darling,  and  died,  leaving  a 
daughter,  Helen. 

Henry  K.,  a  graduate  of  Union  College,  and  many  years  a 
teacher,  removed  to  Oshkosh,  Wis.,  and  now  resides  at  Ne- 
braska City,  unmarried. 

Lucia,  second  wife  of  James  M.  Darling,  is  also  dead.  She 
had  two  children:  1.  Jane,  who  married  B.  F.  Hamilton,  and 
resides  in  Champaign,  111.  2.  Charles,  who  died  in  the  war. 
[See  War  History.] 

James  H.  went  to  Texas  in  1S39,  where  he  married  Mar- 
garet Johnson,  formerly  of  Kentucky.  He  was  Clerk  and 
Chief  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  Texas  before 
her  admission  into  the  Union,  and  State  Treasurer  many 
years  after  the  annexation.  He  is  now  a  broker  and  banker 
in  Austin,  Texas. 

Alanson  1ST.  married  Emily  Wilson,  and  resides  in  Chi- 
cago.    His  children  are:  Katy,  Lucia,  and  Harry. 

Samuel  M.  married  Mary  Porter.  He  was  a  printer,  and 
died  at  Lima  in  1857. 

John  C.  married  Frances  Wilson,  and  resided  several  years 
at  Oshkosh,  Wis.  He  went  to  Austin,  Texas,  where  he  is  now 
-  a  druggist  and  bookseller.  He  had  four  children,  of  whom 
two  are  livine;.  21 


322  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW 

Augttstus^II.  married  Helen  Chandler,  of  Fond  du  Lac, 
Wis.,  and  has  two  children,  William  and  Arthur.  He  is  now 
Clerk  in  one  of  the  Departments  at  Washington. 

^JOHN  IT.  EEDDISH  was  born  in  Maryland,  Feb.  IS, 
1787,  and  came  to  this  town  when  a  youngman.  lie  married 
Martha,  a  daughter  of  Nehemiah  Fargo.  Their  children, 
besides  five  who  died  in  infancy,  were  as  follows: 

Mary  Ann  married  Isaac  Blair,  and  now  resides  in  Wis- 
consin. They  had  seven  children:  1.  Derleski,  who  married 
AVm.  Town,  and  lives  in  Illinois.  2.  Loduski,  who  married 
Marvin  Morris.  3.  Harriet,  who  married  John  J I  ill.  4.  Jere- 
miah B.  5.  Adelaide,  who  married  in  Wisconsin.  6.  Bo- 
manzo.     7.  Mary. 

Hiron  J.  married  Eliza  Watkins.  Their  children  are: 
1.  Mary,  who  married  George  Holbrook,  of  La  Grange.  Mr. 
Holbrook  having  died,  she  married  James  Thomas.  They 
removed  to  Wisconsin,  and  have  two  children.  2.  Allen, 
who  married  Emily  Lighthall,  has  two  sons,  and  resides  in 
Nebraska.  3.  Ortaville,  who  married  Marna  Barrass,  of  Lin- 
den. They  have  a  daughter,  Lillie.  4.  Adelbert,  who  mar- 
ried Marian  Banney,  and  resides  in  Middlebnry.  5.  Edgar. 
6.  Ellen,  who  died  at  10.  7.  Charlie.  8.  Frank.  9.  Flor- 
ence.    10.  Eugene. 

Allen  J.  married  Mary  Throop,  and  had  a  daughter,  Mil- 
lie, who  died  at  15.  Mr. 'Reddish  died  March  21, 1SG4,  aged 
48  years. 

Nancy  married  Eldridge  Stannard,  of  Le  Boy.  They  have 
a  son,  Egbert,  who  married  Florence  Tillotson. 

Eleanor  married  David  D.  Snyder.     [See  Snvder  Fam- 

Elizabeth  married  James  Wilkin,  and  has  six  children: 
George,  Clarence,  d.  inf.,  Alice,  Arthur,  Frank  and  Dean  R. 

John  H.  Beddish  died  May  30,  1841.  Mrs.  Reddish  died 
Oct.  30,  1852. 

JOB  M.  BELYEA  was  born  in  Lee,  Oneida  Co.,  Dec.  12, 
1S18;  removed  to  Warsaw  in  1S33,  and  settled  in  the  south- 
east part  of  the  town,  where  he  afterwards  purchased  a  farm, 
on  which  he  still  resides.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Free  Will 
Baptist  church,  to  whose  interests  he  renders  cordial  support. 
He  married  Harriet  Warner,  Oct.  15,  183G.  They  have  two 
children: 

Emma,  who  married  William  B.  Hntton,  and  resides  in  this 
town;  and  Alice,  unmarried. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  323 

CYEUS  EICE  was  born  March  24,  1792,  and  married 
Mary  Harrington.  In  1819,  (?)  they  settled  in  the  north-east 
part  of  the  town.  In  1822,  they  removed  to  this  village, 
where,  for  many  years,  lie  carried  on  the  Coopering  business. 
His  shop  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  in  the  village;  and  his 
house,  yet  standing  on  Water  street,  the  first  brick  house  in 
the  village;  in  which  house  was  held  the  first  Methodist  prayer 
meeting  held  in  the  village,  of  which  meeting  Elam  Perkins 
was  the  leader.  Mr.  Eice  and  his  wife  were  members  of  the 
Methodist  church.     They  had  ten  children: 

Alma,  who  is  unmarried. 

Norman  P.  married  in  Michigan;  resides  in  Paw-Paw. 

Eoxa  D.  married  Erastus  Truesdell,  and  removed  to  Mich. 

Alvin  died  at  the  age  of  18. 

Ciiauncey  married  in  Louisville,  Ivy.,  where  he  resides. 

Delos  E.  is  married,  and  lives  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

Laura  A.  is  a  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  Female  Semi- 
nary, and  has  been  for  many  years  engaged  in  teaching.  She 
married,  in  Detroit,  E.  J.  Eice.  They  are  both  employed,  at 
present,  in  conducting  a  seminary  in  Baldwin  City,  Kansas. 

Cyrus  Eice  died  June  10,  1832.  Mrs.  Eice,  now  the  wife 
of  Albon  G.  Cross,  still  resides  in  this  village. 

Dr.  DANIEL  EUMSEY  came  to  Warsaw  in  1817,  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Unicy  Marchant,  widow  of  Micah  Marchant,  and, 
after  a  brief  residence  of  one  or  two  years,  removed  to  Alex- 
ander. About  the  year  1823,  he  returned  to  Warsaw,  and 
continued  the  practice  of  his  profession,  until  about  the  year 
1830,  when  he  removed  to  Silver  Creek,  and  became  a  part- 
ner in  the  mercantile  business  with  Ammi  Marchant,  the  son 
of  his  wife  by  her  first  husband,  and  after  Mr.  Marchant's 
death,  with  Horatio  N.  Farnham  for  several  years.  He  was 
a  man  of  fervent,  active  piety,  of  most  exemplary  deportment, 
and  faithful  and  prompt  in  the  discharge  of  duty  in  all  the 
concerns  and  relations  of  life.  To  him,  chiefly,  was  the  Pres- 
byterian church  and  Society  of  Silver  Creek  indebted  for  its 
early  organization,  and  largely  for  its  support,  for  many  years. 
He  died  in  Buffalo,  in  1864,  aged  85  years.  He  had  in  Ver- 
mont, by  a  former  wife,  Tryphena  Eansom,  three  children : 
Amelia,  and  two  who  died  young;  and  by  his  second  wife, 
five  children :  Daniel  Lewis,  Cyrus  E.,  Laura  J.,  Maria  Try- 
phena, and  Lucy  Ann. 

Amelia  married  George  D.  Farnham  in  Warsaw,  in  1826. 
They  removed  a  few  years  after  to  Silver  Creek,  and  after- 
wards to  Buffalo,  where  Mr.  Farnham  died  in  Aug.,  1853. 
They  had  seven  children  :  1.  Tryphena  E.,  who  married  Clark 


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HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


B.  Albee,  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  where  they  reside.  2. 
Daniel  II.,  d.  inf.  3.  Mary  Ann.  4.  Daniel  R.,  who  was 
killed  in  battle  at  Shiloh,"Tenn.,  April  6,  1862,  aged  28.  5. 
Amelia,  who  married  John  D.  Stowell,  and  lives  in  Chicago. 
6.  Horatio  S.,  d.  inf.     7.  Louisa. 

Daniel  Lewis  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  College;  died  at  30. 

Cyrus  Ransom  died  in  Warsaw,  at  the  age  of  5  years. 

Laura  J.  married  Rev.  Dr.  James  B.  Shaw,  of  Rochester, 
and  has  a  daughter,  Mary. 

Maria  Tryphena  married  Winfield  Shaw,  at  Silver  Creek, 
and  now  resides  in  Buffalo.  They  have  two  children,  Isabel 
and  Clark. 

Lucy  Ann,  unmarried,  resides  in  Buffalo. 

CALVIN  RUMSEY  was  born  in  Hubbardton,  Vt,  Feb. 
24,  1703,  and  removed  from  that  place  to  Warsaw  in  1814, 
where  he  married,  Jan.  7,  1S16,  Polly  McWhorter,  who  was 
born  in  Granville,  Jan.  27,  179S.  Mr.  Rumsey  established 
himself  in  the  Leather  and  Shoe  manufacturing  business  on 
the  premises  on  which  Frank  Miller  now  resides,  on  Buffalo 
street.  In  1817,  he  was  joined  by  his  brother  Aaron.  [See 
Aaron  Rumsey.]  In  1833,  he  sold  his  property  in  Warsaw, 
and  removed  to  Buffalo,  and  in  1834  to  West-field.  In  1850, 
ho  removed  to  Randolph,  Cattaraugus  Co.,  where  he  died 
Marcli  19,  1853.  Mrs.  Rumsey  lives  with  a  son-in-law,  Har- 
vey T.  Rumsey,  La  Crosse,  Wis.  They  had  eight  children,  as 
follows: 

Mary  Ann,  born  Jan.  7,  1817,  died  at  the  age  of  17. 

Fayette,  born  Aug.  12,  1818,  married  Matilda  Bradley,  of 
Buffalo.  They  had  five  children  :  Bradley,  Martha,  Mary, 
Fred,  and  Willie,  the  last  oidy  is  living.     Mr.  Rumsey  died. 

Oliye,  born  June  9,  1820,  married  James  Danforth,  and 
had  a  daughter,  Mary.  Mr.  Danforth  died  in  Buffalo,  of 
cholera,  Aug.  1S52.  Mrs.  Olive  Danforth  married  in  March, 
1857,  Harvey  T.  Rumsey,  and  removed  to  La  Crosse,  where 
they  reside.  Her  daughter  Mary  here  married  Win.  Supplee, 
and  had  two  children,  William  and  Olive,  who  are  settled  in 
Philadelphia, 

Harriet,  born  Feb.  1,  1822,  d.  inf. 

Lorette,  born  May  20,  1823,  married  Joseph  H.  Plumb,  of 
Gowanda.  Their  children  are,  Ralph,  Fayette,  Josephine, 
and  George. 

Dana,  born  Aug.  14,  1S25,  went  to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  mar- 
ried Amanda  Hamlin,  and  has  two  children. 

John,  born  Feb.  2,  1S28,  married  Charlotte  Barrows,  of 
Olean;  has  a  daughter,  and  resides  in  Wisconsin. 


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Ellen,  born  Dec.  27, 1829,  married  Benj.  McLeanr  a  native 
of  Canada.     They  reside  at  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

AAROX  RUMSEY  was  born  in  Hubbardton,  Vt.,  May. 
16,  1797.  At  the  age  of  twenty  years,  without  capital  other 
than  a  knowledge  of  his  trade,  he  came  to  Warsaw,  having 
performed  a  journey  of  four  hundred  miles  on  foot,  with  a 
bundle  in  his  hand,  comprising  his  whole  property.  He  joined 
his  brother  Calvin,  who  had  a  few  years  previously  established 
himself  in  the  Shoe  and  Leather  business.  Alter  a  partner- 
ship of  ten  years,  in  1827,  he  sold  his  interest  in  the  concern 
to  his  brother,  and  removed  to  Westfield,  Chautauqua  Co., 
where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business.  In  1831,  lie 
removed  to  Buffalo,  and  again  commenced  the  Leather  busi- 
ness, which,  however,  was  soon  arrested  by  the  general  and 
severe  commercial  convulsion  of  1837,  which  operated  so  dis- 
astrously in  that  city.  A  few  years  after,  having  made  the 
necessary  arrangements,  he  started  anew  in  his  former  busi- 
ness; and  by  his  energy  and  business  talent,  he  succeeded  in 
gaining,  in  a  comparatively  short  period,  a  trade  of  vast  mag- 
nitude, in  which  two  of  his  sons,  Bronson  and  Dexter  became 
partners.  But  the  large  gains  of  his  extensive  business  were 
not  his  most  valuable  acquisitions.  He  had  previously  found 
the  "pearl  of  great  price,"  which  he  prized  above  all  the 
treasure  of  the  world.  To  promote  the  interests  of  religion 
was  to  him  a  favorite  object.  He  several  times  transferred 
his  church  relations  from  the  stronger  to  the  more  feeble 
churches  of  his  denomination,  which  were  in  greater  need  of 
his  assistance.  And  the  institutions  of  religion  and  benevo- 
lence in  general,  found  in  him  a  liberal  patron.  Both  himself 
and  wife  were  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He 
married  in  Warsaw,  in  1819,  Sophia  Phelps,  who  was  born 
Sept.  11,  1796.  They  had  six  children  :  Rollin,  Bronson  C, 
Eleanor,  Dexter  P.,  Earl  D.  and  Rollin  D.,  of  whom  three 
died  young. 

Bronson  C.  married  Evelyn  Hall,  and  had  four  children: 
Lawrence,  Mary,  Burt,  and  Eva. 

Eleanor  married  William  Crocker,  died,  and  left  two  chil- 
dren, AVilliam  and  Nellie. 

Dexter  P.  married  Mary  Coburn,  who  had  two  daughters, 
and  died.  He  married  for  his  second  wife,  Mary  Bissell,  by 
whom  he  had  a  son  who  died  at  the  age  of  3  years. 

MAYHEW  SAEFORD  was  born  in  the  year  1783  or 
1784.  He  married,  in  Vermont,  Maria  Fi'ch,  and  in  1817 
removed  to  this  town.  He  was  by  profession  a  lawyer,  the 
second  one  in  Warsaw,  and  resided  here  until  his  death,  Jan. 


326  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

10,  1831,  aged  47  years.  We  are  unable  to  give  a  complete 
sketch  of  the  family.  The  names  of  four  of  his  children — 
which  are  perhaps  all — are  recollected:  James  M.,  Mason  F.y 
George,  and  Lucia. 

James  M.  went  many  years  since  to  Madison,  Ind.;  mar- 
ried, and  probably  resides  there  still. 

Mason  F.  went  to  the  South  West,  and  died. 

George  was  many  years  a  practicing  attorney  in  Norwalk, 
O.,  and  has  since  removed  to  Cleveland. 

Lucia  resided  lately  in  Milwaukee,  unmarried. 

PHILIP  SALISBURY  was  born  in  Scituate,  K.  L,  Sept., 
1780.  In  1807,  he  came  to  Warsaw  from  Granville,  and  with 
his  brother  Samuel,  both  then  unmarried,  settled  on  Lot  59, 
where  now  Luther  Foster  resides.  In  1810,  he  married 
Clarissa  Curtis,  of  Granville.  In  181G,  he  settled  on  the 
center  road,  where  he  died,  Jan.  13,  1822.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  had  six  chidren,  as 
follows: 

Emily  A.  married  Daniel  Weaver,  and  removed  to 
Michigan. 

Armena  A.  married  in  Michigan;  and-  died,  leaving 
children. 

Julia  Alma  married  Mr.  Millett,  in  Michigan;  had  chil- 
dren. 

Rebecca  Melissa  married  Peleg  Cornell.  They  reside  at 
Linden;  had  five  children,  four  living. 

Orisa  Allen  died  in  Michigan,  unmarried. 

Philip  Franklin,  married,  resides  in  Michigan. 

Clarissa,  widow  of  Philip  Salisbury,  married,  in  1824,  Paul 
Richards,  of  Orangeville.  Their  children,  besides  one  d.  inf., 
were  James,  Henry,  Clarissa,  Lois,  and  John.  Mrs.  Richards 
died  in  Orangeville,  Jan.  23,  1S57,  aged  07. 

SAMUEL  SALISBURY  was  born  in  Londonderry,  Vt, 
Feb.  11,  1787.  He  came  to  this  town  in  1807,  from  Pawlet,. 
Yt,,  and  settled,  with  his  brother  Philip,  on  lot  59,  as  stated 
above.  He  married,  Dec.  29,  1812,  Achsa  jSToble,  born  in 
Orwell  Yt.,  Feb.  4,  1797.  He  sold  out  in  1S16,  and  soon 
after  removed  about  a  mile  east,  and  subsequently  to  the 
center  road,  a  mile  and  a  half  west  of  the  village,  whence  lie 
removed  to  the  village,  where  he  now  resides.  He  was  in 
the  war  of  1812,  a  non-commissioned  officer  in  Capt.  Russel 
Noble's  company  of  Infantry,  and  was  present  at  the  taking 
of  Fort  Erie,  and  since  the  war  was  Captain  of  the  same 
company.     He  is  one  of  the  only  three  men  remaining  in  the 


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town  who  purchased  land  in  it  prior  to  1S08.  Dea.  Salisbury 
and  his  wife  were  early  members  of  the  Baptist  church,  which 
relation  they  still  retain.     They  had  four  children:  one  d.  int. 

Cynthia  "A.,  who  married  Peter  Eichards,  and  removed  to 
Ashville,  Chautauqua  Co.,  where  he  died.  They  had  two 
daughters,  one  of  whom  died  at  14. 

Melvina  A.  married  Eli  Dibble.  They  reside  in  Warsaw. 
Their  children  are,  Ellen  Euclora,  and  Lelia  Agnet. 

Hopkins  married  Antoinette  Conable.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  late  war,  was  wounded,  and  discharged.  [See  War 
History.] 

DAYID  SAMM1S  was  born  in  Huntington,  Suffolk  Co., 
N.  Y.,  Feb.  3,  1803.  He  married  Harriet  Gibbs,  by  whom 
he  had  four  children:  Henry  G.,  Elizabeth,  Walter,  and 
Amelia,  who  died  at  1.  He  married,  after  the  death  of  his 
wife,  Mary  Huntington,  in  Torrington,  Conn.,  by  whom  he 
had  three  children:  Collis,  Alburtis,  and  Charles.  He  re- 
moved from  Torrington  to  Warsaw,  in  1811,  and  settled  on 
West  Hill,  on  the  farm  previously  owned  by  Roderick  and 
Ebenezer  Chapin.  He  has  for  several  years  resided  in  the 
village. 

Henry  G.  married  Hannah  Lincoln;  lives  in  Michigan. 

Elizabeth  married  David  Chase.     [See  Chase  Family.] 

Alburtis  was  in  the  war.     [See  War  History.] 

HEZEKIAII  SCOYEL  was  born  in  1777;  married  in 
Yermont,  Amy  Thompson,  and  in  1811  removed  with  his 
family  from  Orwell,  Yt.,  to  this  town.  He  was  by  trade  a 
carpenter.  He  was  an  early  member  ot  the  Baptist  church, 
and  was  for  some  time  its  Clerk.  He  subsequently  removed 
to  Otto,  1ST.  Y.,  where  he  resided  until  his  death.  He  had  ten 
children: 

Roderick  R.,  born  1708,  married  Minerva  Sharp,  and  had 
five  children:  Silsby,  Esther,  Jerome,  Adelia,  and  a  daugh- 
ter, d.  inf. 

Caroline  married  Palmer  Fargo.     [See  Palmer  Fargo.] 

Nathan  married  Sarah  Hull,  in  East  Otto.  They  had 
four  children,  besides  one  d.  inf.:  Sarah,  Caroline,  Azariah  C, 
and  Adelia,  all  married  at  the  West.  Sarah  is  dead,  and 
Azariah  removed  to  California. 

Delilah  married  Cyrus  Capen.     [See  Capen  Family.] 

Lorenda  married  Sydney  Larabee  in  Otto. 

Amy  married  Albert  Larabee,  and  removed  West. 

Lodema  married  Hiram  Sykes,  of  Otto. 

Polly  married  Theron  Perkins,  of  Otto;  has  four  sons. 

Palmer  married,  and  removed  West.     He  was  in  the  war. 


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NATHAN  SCOVEL  was  born  in  Meriden,  Conn.,  March 
26,  1772.  lie  married,  in  Orwell,  Vt.,  Seviah  Owen,  born 
Feb.  13,  1778.  They  removed  from  Orwell  to  Warsaw  in 
1819,  and  settled  in  the  south-west  part  of  the  town,  where 
lie  resided  until  his  death,  March  23, 1849.  Mrs.  Scovel  died. 
Feb.  5,  1S56.  Both  were  members  of  the  Baptist  church. 
They  had  five  children,  besides  one  d.  inf.: 

Elisiia  W.,  who  was  born  Sept.  28,  1795;  married  Eliza- 
beth Merriman,  and  had  three  children:  1.  Annis  W.,  who 
married  Rev.  Joseph  W.  Spoor,  and  had  a  son,  Arthur,  who 
served  in  the  war.  Mrs.  S.  died;  Mr.  Spoor  resides  in  Roch- 
ester. 2.  Mary  S.,  who  married  Darwin  0.  Warren,  who  is 
dead.  They  had  two  children,  Stimson  M.  and  J.  Volney. 
3.  Cornelia  Ann,  who  married  Abel  G.  Northrup,  of  Penfield, 
where  they  reside. 

Esther  married  Jabez  B.  Noble,  and  had  five  children: 

1,  2.  Esther  and  Delano,  who  married  in  Wisconsin.  3.  Ed- 
mund B.,  who  married  Nancy  Throop,  and  removed  to  Albany, 
Wis.,  where  he  resides.     1.  Eugene. 

Eliphalet  O.  married  D.  A.  Clark,  and  has  a  son,  Nathan 
Smith,  who  married  Eliza  Rood,  of  Wethersfield. 

CHARLES  L.  SEAYER  was  born  in  Middlebury,  April 

2,  1828.  He  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Robert  and  Hannah  Seaver, 
who  are  among  the  oldest  residents  of  that  town;  Dr.  Seaver 
having  removed  from  Vermont  in  1808.  He  was  engaged 
with  his  father  on  the  farm  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age, 
when  he  went  to  Michigan,  where  he  taught  school,  and  was 
afterwards  engaged  in  the  Insurance  business.  He  removed 
to  Warsaw  in  1850,  and  has  since  been  most  ot  the  time  en- 
gaged in  the  store  of  A.  &  G.  W.  Frank.  He  married  Har- 
riet P.  Fargo,  daughter  of  David  Fargo,  and  has  a  daughter, 
Fanny. 

CHAUNCEY  L.  SHELDON,  of  Rupert,  Vt,  came  to 
Warsaw  in  1808,  being  the  first  physician  in  this  town.  He 
was  what  is  usually  termed  a  u  popular  "  man;  and  having 
secured  the  public  confidence  in  his  professional  skill,  he  ac- 
quired an  extentensive  and,  as  it  was  in  that  early  day.  a 
laborious  practice.  He  was  in  1817  somewhat  relieved  by 
taking  into  partnership  Dr.  Augustus  Frank.  Their  profes- 
sional partnership  was  soon  followed  by  a  partnership  in  the 
mercantile  business,  which,  being  more  congenial  to  the  taste 
of  Dr.  Frank  than  his  professional  practice,  was  chiefly  de- 
volved upon  him.  Dr.  Sheldon,  however,  found  material 
relief  a  few  years  later  bv  the  coming  in  of  Drs.  Daniel  and 


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Cyrus  Pumsey.  Dr.  Sheldon  was  a  gentleman  of  good  char- 
acter, and  a  professor  of  religion.  He  was  an  early  member 
of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  retained  his  connection  with 
it  until  his  death.  He  was  also  the  first  Postmaster  in  this 
town.  He  was  appointed  to  this  office  April  12,  1811,  and 
held  the  same  until  Jan.  24,  1826,  when  he  was  reappointed, 
after  which  he  held  it  only  until  March  3,  1828,  when,  his 
recovery  from  protracted  illness  having  become  hopeless,  and. 
he  having  resigned  the  office,  Elias  Ii.  Bascom,  his  partner  in 
trade,  was  appointed  his  successor.  He  was  also  Clerk  of 
Genesee  county  about  five  years.     He  was  appointed  Feb.  14, 

1821,  by  the  Council  of  Appointment.  The  office  having  been 
made  elective  by  the  Constitution  of  1821,  he  was  in  Nov., 

1822,  elected  to  the  office  for  three  years,  the  term  commenc- 
ing Jan.  1,  1823.  He  died  March  28,  1828,  aged  about  45 
years.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mima  Brown,  died 
Nov.  23,  1834,  aged  54.  Their  children,  besides  Chauncey 
B.,  and  Alphonzo  T.  and  Alonzo  C,  twins,  all  of  whom  d.  inf., 
were: 

Benjamin  F.,  who  married  Lydia  Ann  Bently,  and  removed 
to  Illinois,  where  he  died. 

Adaline  B.,  unmarried,  died  Dec.  21,  1840,  aged  33. 

Hikam  F.  married  in  Ohio,  and  died  in  Ohio  City. 

Angeline  F.  married  Andrew  G.  Hammond.  After  a  brief 
residence  in  Ohio,  Michigan,  Florida,  and  a  second  time  in 
"Warsaw,  they  removed  to  Massachusetts,  where,  after  a  few 
years,  she  died.  He  has  since  died.  During  his  residence  in 
Michigan,  Florida,  and  Massachusetts,  he  was  Cashier  or 
President  of  Banks.  Their  children  were,  1.  Granville,  who 
resides  in  Illinois.  2.  Chauncey  L.  Sheldon,  who  married 
Caroline  Murray,  of  Warsaw,  and  is  Cashier  of  a  Bank  in 
Clinton,  Mass. 

Chauncey  P.  established  at  Chicago,  then  a  village,  the 
Cabinet  Making  business,  and  died  there,  unmarried. 

Philo  C.  was  for  some  years  a  merchant  in  Chicago,  and 
removed  to  California,  where  both  he  and  his  wife  died. 

Caroline  C.  married  Nathan  S.  Woodward,  and  died  Sept. 
30,  1842.     Children:  Melville,  died  at  18,  and  Caroline.  _ 

Charlotte  T.  married  O.  F.  Bnxton.    [See  Buxton  Family.] 

Harriet  N.  married  Mr.  Goodrich;    removed  to  Illinois. 

CHAUNCEY  SHELDON  was  born  Jan.  10,  17S6,  and 
married  Lucy  Whiting,  Oct,  8,  1806.  They  removed  in  1811 
or  1812,  from  Rupert,  Yt.,  to  Genesee  Co.,  and  resided  in 
Warsaw  and  Orangeville,  (now  in  Wyoming  Co.)  In  Warsaw 
he  kept  for  a  time  the  tavern  on  the  present  site  of  the  Brick 


330  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

Hotel.  In  1821,  he  was  appointed  Justice  of  the  Peace. 
After  the  death  of  Mrs.  Sheldon,  which  occurred  in  1832,  he 
removed  to  Michigan.  In  the  winter  of  1837-8,  he,  with 
many  others,  crossed  at  Detroit  into  Canada,  to  take  part  in 
the  Canada  Eebellion,  generally  called  the  "  Patriot  War." 
A  number  of  them  were  captured,  tried  by  a  Court  Martial, 
and  sentenced  to  be  shot.  They  were  led  out,  one  by  one, 
and  ordered  to  face  to  the  rear  and  kneel.  When  Sheldon's 
turn  came,  he  refused  to  obey  the  order,  and  replied,  that  he 
had  never  bowed  the  knee  to  Great  Britain,  nor  did  he  think 
he  ever  should;  and  that  when  they  shot  him,  they  would 
shoot  him  standing,  and  in  the  face,  but  never  in  the  back. 
These  firm  and  resolute  responses  caused  a  sufficient  delay  for 
the  arrival  of  Col.  Airey,  the  officer  in  command,  when  Mr. 
Sheldon,  as  his  last  hope,  gave  the  Masonic  grand  hailing 
sign  of  distress,  which  was  recognized,  and  the  order  for  his 
execution  countermanded.  He  was  afterwards  tried,  and 
sentenced  to  Van  Dieman's  Land,  at  hard  labor  for  life.  He 
was  pardoned  in  1811,  and  returned  across  the  Pacific  in 
1816.  A  brother-in-law,  Nathan  Whiting,  shared  a  similar 
fate.  [See  Whiting  Family.]  Mr.  Sheldon  died  two  or  three 
years  ago,  in  Ray,  Mich.     His  children  were: 

Orson,  who  lives  in  Burlington,  Wis.,  with  a  second  wife. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of  the  Territory  of  Wis- 
consin, in  1810. 

Horace  married  at  Attica,  and  died  there. 

Sybil  married  Daniel  Duncan,  and  resides  in  Michigan. 

William,  unmarried,  resides  in  Oregon. 

Sophrona  .married  Giles  Pettibone,  and  resides  in  Darien. 

Harriet  married  in  Utica,  Mich.,  Rev.  Ransom  R.  Rich- 
ards, formerly  of  Warsaw.     She  died  Feb.  8,  1819. 

James,  married,  resides  in  Waterloo,  Wis. 

Hiram  died  in  1831,  in  Michigan,  aged  13. 

Maryette  married  in  Detroit,  and  resides  in  Texas. 

Amelia  is  married,  and  resides  in  Ray,  Mich. 

CHARLES  O.  SHEPARD  was  born  in  Lancaster,  K  IT., 
in  August,  1806,  and  while  yet  a  youth,  emigrated  to  Mount 
Morris,  1ST.  Y.  In  1827,  when  about  21  years  of  age,  he 
removed  to  Arcade,  and  served  as  clerk  in  a  store.  He 
afterwards  carried  on  the  mercantile  business  for  himself 
many  years.  In  early  manhood  he  engaged  with  activity 
and  zeal  in  efforts  to  promote  the  moral  and  intellectual  im- 
provement of  society.  He  was  from  the  beginning  an  earnest 
and  devoted  friend  of  temperance,  both  advocating  and  prac- 
ticing;  total   abstinence    from    all    intoxicatino;    drinks.      A 


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FAMILY   SKETCHES   AND    NOTES.  331 

greater  amount  of  labor  in  promoting  this  cause  was  proba- 
bly never  performed  by  any  person  in  this  county.  In  1836 
and  1837,  he  was  a  member  of  Assembly  from  the  county  of 
Genesee,  and  discharged  the  duties  of  that  office  faithfully 
and  ably.  lie  was  also  among  the  first  to  engage  in  asso- 
ciated effort  to  hasten  the  abolition  of  slavery.  And  when, 
at  a  later  period,  (1810,)  the  antislavery  political  party  was 
formed,  he  took  a  leading  part  in  its  organization,  and  gave  it 
his  earnest  support  during  its  existence,  and  was  twice  its 
candidate  for  Lieutenant  Governor.  In  1855,  he  aided 
largely  in  the  construction  of  the  Republican  party,  whose 
object  was  to  prevent  the  extension  of  slavery.  In  1859,  he 
wTas  elected  County  Clerk  of  "Wyoming  county;  and  during 
the  last  year  of  his  life  he  was  Deputy  Revenue  Collector  for 
this  county.  He  died  at  Arcade,  May  19, 1867.  He  married 
in  1836,  Rhoda  II.  Lyman,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Lyman, 
D.  D.,  who  died  in  1859.     They  had  two  children: 

Mary  C,  who  married  J.  B.  Parke,  and  resides  in  Buffalo. 

Charles  O.,  who  served  during  the  late  war,  and  is  Clerk 
of  Niagara  Frontier  Police,  Buffalo. 

BISSEL  SHERWIN  was  born  July  13,  1777,  and  married 
Experience  Whitnev.  They  removed  to  this  town  about  the 
year  1822.  Mrs.  Sherwin  died  Oct.  3,  1855;  Mr.  Sherwin, 
Sept.  16,  1860.     They  had  eleven  children,  as  follows: 

Lydia,  born  Oct.  21,  1807,  married  Isaac  Perry;  died  in 
Chautauqua  Co.,  leaving  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

Lyman,  born  Aug.  8.  1809,  married  Miss  Champion,  in 
Bethany,  March  26,l"1813.     They  had  six  children. 

Amanda  married  Thomas  R.  Jones.  They  reside  in  Wis- 
consin, and  have  four  children. 

Sally  married  Walter  M.  Hatch.     [See  Wm.  C.  Hatch.] 

Jacob,  born  June  18, 1814,  married  Hannah  Pierce.  Their 
children  are:  1.  Mary  Ann,  who  married  Allen  T.  Covel,  and 
removed  to  California.  2.  Wallace,  now  in  the  regular  army. 
3.  Annie  Bell. 

Horace  married  Tirza  Butler,  who  had  two  children,  and 
died.  He  married  a  second  wife,  Mary  Ann  Curtis.  They 
reside  in  Holland,  Erie  Co.,  and  have  three  children. 

Clarissa  married  Sebra  Tripp.  They  removed  to  Michi- 
gan, where  she  died,  Jan.  3,  1860. 

Betsey  married  Sylvester  Curtis.  They  reside  in  Holland, 
X.  Y.,  and  have  a  son,  Herman. 

Bissel  married  in  Wisconsin,  Marv  Scolo.  He  died  at  the 
battle  of  Fair  Oaks,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864. 


332  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Elvira  married  Person  P.  Draper.  Their  children  are : 
Dell,  George,  and  Carrie. 

Loventa  married  Squira  Austin  Tripp.  They  now  reside  in 
Westfield,  K.  Y.,  and  have  two  children. 

WILLIAM  SHIPMAX  was  born  in  Saratoga  county,  in 
1771.  He  married  Mary  Brown,  who  was  born  in  Connecti- 
cut, in  1778.  He  came  to  this  town  in  1815,  and  resided  here 
to  the  time  ot  his  death,  in  1810.  His  wife  died  in  lSlL 
They  had  seven  children: 

Timothy,  who  married  Pebecca  Koble,  and  now  resides  in 
Wisconsin.  They  had  five  children:  Curtis,  Polly,  William, 
died  at  17,  Delos,  and  Mary. 

Rachel,  unmarried,  lives  in  Wisconsin. 

Stephen  married  Mary  Hanna,  and  resides  in  Orangeville. 
They  had  five  children:  1.  Lorett,  who  died  at  about  17.  2. 
Charlotte  Orissa,  who  married  Martin  Latson.  3.  Ann.  -1. 
Olivia,  who  married  Miltord  Lawton.  5.  James  William 
Wallace. 

Charles  married  Lucina  Center.  His  children  vTere,  1. 
Helen,  who  married  Pansom  Buck,  and  has  a  child.  2.  Mar- 
tha. 3.  George,  who  died  at  7.  4.  Emma.  Mr.  Shipman  is 
dead. 

Charlotte  married  John  Burt,  of  York;  moved  to  Mr. 
Morris,  where  he  died.     They  had  four  children. 

Barbara  married  Samuel  Xash,  and  resides  in  Michigan. 

Benjamin  married  and  lives  in  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin. 

WILLIAM  SMALLWOOD,  with  his  wife  and  five  chil- 
dren, emigrated  to  this  country  from  Yorkshire,  England,  in 
1819,  and  settled  in  the  town  of  York,  Livingston  county.  In 
1823,  he  removed  to  this  town,  on  East  Hill,  where  he  resided 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  died  May  21,  1867,  aged  90 
years.  Few  persons  possess  in  a  higher  degree  than  he  did, 
those  virtues  which  command  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the 
good.  He  ever  aimed  to  do  right.  From  this  purpose  he 
could  not  be  swerved  by  any  considerations  of  mere  expedi- 
ency. He  was  long  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and 
adorned  his  profession  by  an  exemplary  and  a  consistent 
walk.  He  had  a  heart  to  sympathize  with  the  needy  and 
suffering,  and  a  hand  ever  ready  to  administer  to  their  relief. 
He  was  a  steadfast  friend  of  temperance  and  other  reforms. 
Xo  class  of  suffering  humanity  had  a  stronger  hold  upon  his 
feelings  than  the  bondmen  of  the  South.  Xo  man  rejoiced 
more  heartily  than  he  at  their  deliverance,  an  event  for  which 
he  had  long  labored  and  prayed.    And  it  was  a  dying  request 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  333 

of  his,  that  the  inscription  on  his  tomb-stone  should  tell  that 
he  had  been  a  friend  of  the  slave.  His  wife  died  Dec.  9, 
1864,  at  the  age  of  89.     They  had  seven  children: 

Mary,  who  married  Charles  Clapp,  who  died  at  the  at  the 
age  of  26.  They  had  a  daughter  who  married  Dr.  Sweet. 
She  also  died  at  the  age  of  26. 

Michael  married  Elizabeth  Beeden,  of  Perry.  Their  child- 
ren are,  1.  John  JB.,  a  graduate  of  Genesee  College,  a  local 
preacher,  residing  in  this  town,  who  married  Octavia  J. 
Atkins,  and  has  a  daughter,  Mabel.  2.  Charles  Henry,  d.  inf. 
3.  Mary  Harriet,  who  married  Seymour  Sanford,  and  lives  in 
Castile,  and  has  a  son,  William  S.  1.  Frances  Ann.  5.  Wil- 
liam Walters.  6.  Sarah  Elizabeth.  7.  Margaret  Ella.  8. 
Jennie  Maria. 

John  married  Harriet  Jennett  Webster,  a  daughter  of 
Judge  Webster.  They  removed,  after  their  marriage,  to  Rip- 
ley, where  they  now  reside.  They  have  six  children :  1. 
Adelia,  who  married  Rev.  John  T.  Brownell,  a  Methodist 
preacher,  and  has  a  son,  John  Yeranus.  2.  Clementine.  3. 
Lorette.     4.  Emma.     5.  Wilber.     6.  Henry. 

Sarah  married  Walter  W.  Griffith.  They  reside  at  Tecum- 
seh,  Mich. 

William  T.  married  Florilla  Roberts,  in  Gowanda,  where 
they  now  reside. 

Ann  married  William  Terry,  of  Middlebury,  where  they 
reside.     They  have  four  daughters. 

Betsey  married  Edmund  C.  Skiff,  of  Hume,  Allegany  Co., 
where  they  reside. 

GEORGE  SNYDER  was  born  in  Worcester,  Otsego  Co., 
and  removed,  when  young,  to  Cherry  Yalley,  where  he  was 
married  to  Agnes  Price.  They  removed  to  \Yarsaw  in  1818. 
They  had  five  children,  as  follows: 

Silas  W.  who  married  Esther  Buckle,  and  removed  to  Illi- 
nois, where  he  died  in  1865. 

Amanda,  who  married  Henry  Conklin.  They  removed  to 
Michigan.  She  had  several  children,  all  of  whom,  and  her- 
self are  dead. 

David  D.  married  Eleanor  Reddish.  Their  children  were: 
1.  Wilber  H.,  who  died  in  1S62,  aged  IS  vears.  [See  War 
History.]  2.  Wm.  Wallace,  and  3.  Davis  Wesley,  both  died 
at  3.     4.  Omer  C,  d.  inf.    5.  Herman  C.  6.  Agnes  Elizabeth. 

George  W.  married  Elizabeth  Tattle.  Mrs.  Snyder  died, 
and  he  married  a  second  wife. 

Daniel  II.,  born  March  11,  1832.  Mrs.  Snyder  died  in 
April  following.     Daniel  died  at  20. 


334  HISTORY   OF   AVARS  AW. 

George  Snyder  married  for  his  second  wife,  Philomela 
Hooker.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church ;  she,  of 
the  Presbyterian.     They  reside  in  the  village. 

Gen.   PHWEAS    STAOTON    was   born  in   Stonington, 

Conn.,  May  21,  1780,  and  married,  Dec.  1,  1803,  Polly 
Thomas,  born  Sept.  12,  1785.  They  removed  to  Skaneateles, 
in  1805;  to  Attica,  in  1808;  to  Middlebury,  then  a  part  of 
Warsaw,  in  1810.  He  settled  near  the  line  of  this  town.  He 
was  an  active  participator  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  entered 
the  army  as  an  Ensign  of  Militia,  from  which  post  he  was, 
for  his  bravery,  soon  elevated  to  that  of  Brigade  Major  in 
Porter's  Brigade  of  Volunteers.  He  was  in  the  bloody  battles 
of  Chippewa  and  Bridgewater.  In  the  latter,  he  was  sur- 
rounded, in  the  darkness  of  the  night,  by  a  party  of  British 
soldiers  and  captured,  conveyed  as  a  prisoner  of  war  to  Hali- 
fax, and  there  detained  for  nearly  a  year.  He  subsequently 
received  a  commission  of  Major-General,  which  he  had  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  generally  esteemed  for  his  moral 
worth  and  Christian  character.  He  and  his  wife  were  both 
members  of  the  Presbvterian  church  in  AVyoming.  He  died 
March  31,  1842;  Mrs.  Stanton,  Jan.  28,  1860.  They  had  ten 
children,  as  follows: 

Maria,  who  married  David  Scott,  an  early  merchant  of 
Attica.  Their  children  were:  1.  Winfield  S.,  who  married 
Sarah  Cameron,  and  had  eight  children.  2.  Walter,  unmar- 
ried, and  died  in  Virginia,  aged  22.  3.  Ellen,  married  M.  C. 
Bigelow,  merchant,  in  Attica,  and  has  two  sons,  Arthur  and 
"Walter.  4.  John,  d.  inf.  5.  John,  unmarried,  resides  in  New 
Orleans.  6.  Jennie,  who  married  C.  C.  Dike,  of  Brooklyn, 
and  has  two  children,  Norman  S.  and  Miriam.  7.  Thomas. 
8.  d.  inf. 

Esther  G.  married  "Wales  Cheney,  a  graduate  of  West 
Point,  subsequently  a  teacher  in  Middlebury  Academy,  and 
now  a  resident  of  AVarsaw. 

Elias  T.  married  Julia  M.  Collar,  of  Wyoming,  and  died 
April  27,  1812.  Their  children  were:  1.  Mary,  who  married 
Henry  Milliman,  who  was  killed  at  the  second  battle  of  Bull 
Run. 

Abigail,  who  died  at  the  age  of  30. 

Persis  T.  married  Edward  Peck,  who  died  Jan.  16,  1854. 
Their  children  were:  Eugene,  Edward,  who  married  in  Wash- 
ington, and  resides  there;  Emma,  Elora,  Phineas,  and  one  or 
two  d.  inf. 

Phineas  married  Emily  E.  Ingham,  of  the  Ingham  Univer- 
sity, at  Le  Roy,  June  3,  iS47.     Being  by  nature  an  artist,  his 


FAMILY   SKETCHES   AND   NOTES.  660 

life  was  chiefly  devoted  to  the  use  of  his  pencil,  which  has 
produced  pictures  scarcely  surpassed  in  this  country.  Many 
years  ago  he  visited  Europe  for  the  perfecting  of  his  profes- 
sional skill.  Impelled  by  a  pure  patriotism,  he  volunteered 
his  services  in  the  late  war,  and  retired  with  the  rank  of 
Colonel.  On  the  1st  of  July,  1867,  he  sailed  from  New  York 
with  a  party  of  scientific  gentlemen  under  the  auspices  of 
"Williams  College  and  the  Smithsonian  Institute,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  exploring  parts  of  South  America,  and  of  gathering- 
treasures  of  science  and  art  for  the  institutions  they  repre- 
sented. And  on  the  5th  of  September,  he  died  at  Quito,  aged 
50  years.  He  was,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  Yice  Chancelor 
of  the  University,  founded  by  the  sisters,  Marietta  and  Emily 
E.  Ingham.  The  latter,  who  became  the  wife  of  Col.  Stan- 
ton, survives  him;  the  former  died  a  month  before  his  depart- 
ure for  the  South.  He  was  distinguished  for  all  the  qualities 
which  adorn  the  citizen  and  the  Christian. 

Eliza  Ann  married  Dr.  Merrick  Baker,  of  Wyoming.  He 
removed  to  Warsaw  in  1853,  having  several  years  previously 
relinquished  practice.  He  subsequently  removed  to  Attica, 
where  he  died  Aug.  18,  1861.  They  had  three  children,  of 
whom  Ella  only  is  living. 

Maky  Jane  married  Rev.  R.  H.  Dexter,  Nov.  29,  1854. 
Their  children  are,  Mary,  William,  and  Lucy. 

Geokge,  born  July  31,  1825. 

Amelia  married  Julius  A.  Hayes;  lias  one  child  living, 
Emma  A. 

MOSES  STEARNS  was  born  in  Massachusetts  in  1771. 
He  removed  in  early  life  to  Chesterfield,  Vt.,  where  he  mar- 
ried Susan  Clark.  After  a  short  residence  in  Hampton, 
N.  Y.,  he  removed  to  Warsaw  in  1806,  and  settled  in  the 
south-east  part  of  the  town,  where  his  son,  George  Stearns, 
now  resides.  He  resided  in  this  town  until  his  death  in  1859, 
at  the  age  of  88  years.  His  wife  died  July  30, 1847,  aged  76 
years.  They  had  nine  children:  Willard,  George,  Hiram, 
two  sons  who  died  young,  Melinda,  Harriet,  Matilda,  and 
Betsey  K. 

Willaed,  born  Dec.  3,  1799,  married  Caroline  Glazier. 
Their  children  were:  1.  Marquis  La  Fayette,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  30,  unmarried.  2.  Mary  Jane,  who  married  Rus- 
sel  Cornwall.  3.  Augustus  F.,  who  married  Olive  Seeley,  and 
served  in  the  war.  4.  William  W.,  who  married  Augusta 
Blowers,  and  who  also  was  in  the  Avar.  [See  War  History.] 
5.  Eugene  B.,  who  married  Alta  Clark. 


336  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

George,  born  May  31,  1802,  married,  Sept.  27,  1S27,  Ase- 
nath  Webster,  of  Hampton.  They  bad  eigbt  children:  1.  Lucy 
Ann,  who  married  John  Aiken,  and  resides  in  Warsaw. 
2.  Henry,  who  married  Sylvia  Ann  Smith,  of  Castile,  and 
and  resides  in  Omro,  Wis.  3.  Cordelia,  who  married  Chaun- 
cey  Smith,  of  Castile,  where  they  reside.  They  have  three 
children.  4.  Emily,  who  married  Sylvester  Hitchcock,  and 
lives  in  Gainesville.  5.  Betsey,  who  married  Edward  Mar- 
shall, in  Omro,  Wis.  6.  George,  d.  inf.  7.  Washington,  who 
died  April  16,  1864,  aged  22.     8.  Julia. 

Hiram  was  born  March  19,  1810;  married  Marriett  Mix, 
of  Gainesville,  who  died  Nov.  24,  1868.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren: 1.  Juliett,  who  died  at  3.  2.  Edwin  0.,  who  married 
liattie  Burch,  and  has  a  daughter,  Ada.  3.  Byron  L.,  who 
served  in  the  war.  [See  War  History.]  4.  Willis  II.  5.  Car- 
oline. 

TRUMAN  STEVENS  was  born  in  Canaan,  Conn.,  July 
21,  1770.  He  married  Lydia  Johnson,  who  was  born  Aug. 
20,  1767.  They  removed  to  Warsaw  from  Avon,  Livingston 
county,  in  1818,  and  settled  on  West  Hill,  near  the  village, 
where  Peter  Young  now  resides.     They  had  seven  children : 

Almqn,  who  married  Tammy  B7ackmer.  He  was  at  the 
time  in  the  mercantile  business,  in  Warsaw,  as  agent  for  John 
Dixon,  of  Richmond,  which  business,  as  agent  and  principal, 
he  conducted  many  years  in  this  town.  He  died,  Jan.  31, 
1836.  He  had  four  children :  1.  Albert  L.,  Mho  married 
Lorett  Campbell,  and  has  been  for  many  years  a  merchant  in 
Lima.  2.  Eliza,  who  married  Daniel  Dnsenbury,  and  died 
in  Le  Roy.  3.  Harriet  L.,  who  married  Wm.  Galpin,  and 
lives  in  Rushford.  4.  Jane  M.,the  wife  of  Charles  W.  Bailey, 
who  resides  in  Warsaw. 

Henry  married  Rebecca  Lewis;  was  in  trade  with  his 
brother  Almon  in  this  town  in  1815  and  1816.  He  has  since 
then  been  in  the  same  business  in  Ripley,  N.  Y.,  Jonesville, 
Mich.,  and  other  places.  He  died  several  years  since  in  Illi- 
nois. His  children  were,  1.  Gustavus,  who  was  a  merchant  in 
Rochester,  and  died  several  years  since.  2.  Ellen,  who  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  King,  Lawyer,  of  Jonesville,  since  dead;  married, 
second,  Dr.  A.  S.  Griswold,  who  resides  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.  3. 
Lucy,  who  married  Thomas  W.  Stockton.  4.  Adelia,  who 
married  Mr.  Thomas,  wTho  died  in  Texas. 

Arva,  unmarried,  died  in  Warsaw. 

Lydia  Adelia  married  Peter  Young.  [See  Family  of  P. 
Young.] 


FAMILY    SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  337 

Sarah  A.  married  John  Wright,  formerly  of  Lima.  They 
reside  in  Rochester.  Their  children  are,  1.  Alfred,  who  mar- 
ried Maria  Gould,  of  Rochester,  who  died  leaving  a  sod, 
Alfred  G.  Mr.  Wright  married  a  second  wife,  Jennie  Hunter, 
by  whom  he  has  a  daughter.  2.  John,  who  is  married  and 
lives  in  Leavenworth,  Kansas.     3.  Amelia  N.     4.  Frank. 

NYE  STEVENS  was  born  in  Rochester,  Mass.,  Jan.  14, 
1797,  and  came  to  Warsaw  in  1815;  married  Mary  Morris, 
and  settled  in  the  south-west  part  of  the  town,  where  he  now 
resides.  Mrs.  Stevens  died  Feb.  15. 1862.  They  had  three 
children  :     Chauncey  Luther,  William  Nye,  and  Margaret. 

Chauncey  L.,  born  Nov.  5, 1823,  married  Betsey  Cleveland, 
and  has  two  children:  1.  Ann  Janett,  who  died  April  24, 
1861,  aged  14.     2.  George  Henry. 

William  N.,  born  March  17,  1825,  married  Margaret 
Seeley. 

Makyett,  born  March  30, 1820,  married  Henry  W.  Norton, 
They  have  a  son,  Charles  Henry. 

HELON  S.  TABER  was  born  in  Scipio,  Cayuga  county, 
March  31,  1808,  and  when  about  ten  years  old,  removed  with 
his  father  to  Perry.  He  married  Cornelia  Allen,  of  Middle- 
bury.  He  removed  to  Warsaw  in  1839,  having  bought  the 
farm  then  owned  and  occupied  by  Elisha  Barnes,  on  West 
Hill.  In  1851,  he  removed  to  the  valley  a  mile  south  of  the 
village,  on  wThat  is  known  as  the  Cutting  farm,  where  he  now 
resides.  He  had  six  children:  Susan  M.,  who  died  at  5;  Lucy 
Ann,  who  married  Wm.  Luce,  who  removed  to  Linden,  Mich.; 
Jennett  A.,  who  married  Wm.  Walker.  Henry  S.,  who  mar- 
ried Ellen  Webster,  of  Pavilion,  and  lives  in  Warsaw  with 
his  lather;  Mary  C,  and  Charles  L.  who  died  at  5. 

ZERA  TANNER  was  born  in  Connecticut;  removed  to 
Granville,  N.  Y.,  where  he  married  Jennett  McWhorter. 
About  the  year  1705,  he  removed  to  Cooperstown,  and  in 
1800  to  WarsawT,  and  settled  on  West  Hill,  on  the  east  part 
of  lot  53,  where  he  resided  at  the  time  of  his  death,  Nov. 
1837,  at  the  age  of  67.  He  died  suddenly,  sitting  at  the 
supper  table.  His  wife  died  January,  1838,  aged  67.  They 
were  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  They  had  eight 
children: 

Polly,  who  married  Lewis  Wood.  They  resided  in  Port- 
age, also  at  and  near  Olean,  and  last  at  Sharon,  Potter  Co., 
Pa.  She  died  about  the  year  1S60;  he  died  about  the  year 
1866.     They  had  eight  children. 

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338  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

Cyrus,  was  born  Dec  11,  1797,  and  married  Ann  Spencer, 
May  11,  1826.  He  died  in  May,  1S68,  suddenly,  as  did  his 
father,  of  a  disease  of  the  heart.  He  was,  as  is  his  wife,  a 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  They  had  five  children: 
1.  Isabel,  who  married  Elizur  W.  Norton.  2.  Laura,  d.  inf. 
3.  Cordelia,  who  married  Hiram  Rich,  and  had  two  children: 
Charles  and  William.  1.  Edward,  who  married  Charity 
Maranville;  had  two  children:  Isabel  and  Marian.  5.  Mary 
A.  married  Artemas  Benson.     Children:  Charles  and  Libbie. 

Rebecca  married  Warren  Webster.  [See  Webster  Family.] 

Ira,  born  Nov.  9,  1802,  died  11  years  of  age. 

Eliza,  born  July  4,  1805,  married  Eli  Rood.  Their  chil- 
dren were,  1.  Zera,  who  married  Rosetta  Brown.  Their  chil- 
dren were,  Elijah,  Lora,  Clara,  Frank.  2.  David  P.,  who 
married  Elizabeth  Boddy,  who  died,  leaving  a  son,  Eli.  He 
married,  second,  Nancy  Truesdcll,  by  whom  he  has  a  daugh- 
ter, Mary.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  late  war.  [See  War 
History.]  He  resides  in  Wethersfield.  3.  Helen,  who  married 
Warren  Morgan,  and  died  about  1S53.  Children  :  Charles, 
and  Emma,  d.  inf. 

Clarissa,  born  October,  1S07,  married  Lemuel  Smith,  of 
Portage.     Their  children  are,  Sarah,  Hiram,  Jane,  Emeline. 

Zera,  born  Aug.  9,  1810,  married  Ruth  E.  Foster,  and  died 
Nov.  27,  1836,  leaving  a  son,  Zera  L.     [See  Sketch.] 

Emeline,  born  December,  1812,  married  Willis  Pettibone, 
and  died  Jan.  20,  1S32.  Mr.  P.  also  died  early.  They  had 
a  daughter,  Martha,  who  married  Clark  D.  Munger.  [See 
Family  of  Samuel  Munger.] 

ZERA  L.  TAXXER,  son  of  Zera  Tanner,  Jun.,  was  born 
in  Warsaw  in  1S36.  In  the  spring  of  1S55,  he  went  on  busi- 
ness to  England,  where  he  remained  about  one  year,  when  he 
was  employed  on  a  British  merchant  vessel,  trading  between 
Liverpool  and  Bombay,  in  which  service  he  continued  about 
two  years.  He  then  returned  in  an  American  vessel  to  New 
York,  where  he  engaged  in  the  American  merchant  service. 
The  vessel  in  which  he  sailed,  after  her  arrival  at  the  English 
port  to  which  she  was  destined,  was  chartered  by  the  British 
to  carry  supplies  to  the  English  army  in  China,  at  the  time 
of  the  war  between  those  two  countries.  In  this  service  he 
was  engaged  about  two  years.  Next  he  was  employed  at 
Hong  Kong,  China,  on  board  the  King  Fisher,  in  which  he 
sailed  across  the  Pacific,  by  way  of  California,  to  New  York. 
He  sailed  on  this  vessel  about  one  year.  The  war  having 
commenced,  he  engaged  on  board  an  American  merchant 
vessel  employed  by  the  government  to  carry  supplies  to  the 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  339 

Union  arm)",  in  which  service  he  continued  one  year  or  less. 
lie  then  engaged  in  the  blockade  service  a  year  or  two,  and 
assisted  in  the  capture  of  the  British  blockade  runner,  Vixen, 
and  took  Command  of  her  to  JSTew  York.  Desiring  to  take  a 
more  direct  and  active  part  in  suppressing  the  rebellion,  he 
enlisted  on  board  the  war  vessel,  Rhode  Island,  and  assisted 
in  the  capture  of  Fort  Fisher.  He  remains  in  the  navy,  in 
the  service  of  the  government. 

WILLARD  THAYER  was  born  in  Windham,  Mass., 
March  3,  1784,  and  married  Phebe  Harris.  They  removed 
to  Gainesville,  (then  Batavia,)  in  1807,  where  they  resided 
until  they  died,  lie  was  several  times  elected  Supervisor  of 
his  town,  and  three  times  Justice  of  the  Peace.  Only  once, 
however,  was  lie  induced  to  be  sworn  into  office.  It  is  re 
lated  of  him  that  ho  was  so  averse  to  litigation,  that  he  never 
tried  a  contested  suit.  This  he  avoided  by  bringing  about  a 
settlement,  which  lie  sometimes  effected  by  relinquishing  his 
fees.     Mr.  Thayer  had  by  his  first  wife  three  children: 

Isaac  IT.,  who  married  Mary  Parks,  and  removed  to  Can- 
ada, where  he  was  a  practicing  physician,  and  died  about  the 
year  1860.     He  had  several  children. 

Linus  "W.     [See  Sketch.] 

Mercy  married  Peter  V.  Lucas;  settled  in  Castile,  and  had 
four  children:  Eliza,  Phebe,  Samuel,  and  Delia. 

Mrs.  Thayer  died  March  19, 1817;  and  Mr.  Thayer  married 
a  second  wife,  Rebecca  Thomas,  by  whom  he  had  seven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  but  two  are  living:  1.  Stephen  D.,  who  married 
first,  Catharine  Spencer,  and  had  by  her  a  daughter,  Caroline, 
who  married  Cass  Kendall.  He  married,  second,  Lucretia 
Streeter,  and  resides  in  Wisconsin.  2.  William  F.,  who  mar- 
ried Jane  Brown.  After  her  death,  he  married  Mary 
Brownell,  by  whom  he  has  three  children  living:  Delia  Belle, 
Clayton,  Jennie. 

LINUS  W.  THAYER,  son  of  Willard  Thayer,  was  born 
in  Gainesville,  May  23,  1811.  Until  the  age  of  seventeen,  he 
worked  on  his  father's  farm  summers,  and  attended  the  dis- 
trict school  winters.  From  this  time  he  taught  winters  and 
labored  on  the  farm  as  before.  Having  commenced  the  study 
of  the  French  language  under  the  private  instruction  of  the 
late  Hon.  John  W.  Brownson,  ot  Gainesville,  and  the  Latin 
under  a  graduate  of  Geneva  College;  and  having  attended  a 
select  school  at  Lima,  during  the  summer  of  183JL,  he  entered 
the  Seminary  at  that  place  in  the  spring  of  1832,  with  the  in- 
tention of  preparing  for  college.     From  tins  purpose  he  was 


340  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

diverted  by  the  kindness  of  his  father,  who,  unsolicited,  con- 
veyed to  him  a  part  of  his  farm,  subject,  however,  to  a  claim 
due  at  the  land-office.  To  cancel  this  claim,  he  found  it  ne- 
cessary to  work  his  small  farm  in  the  summer,  and  teach  in 
the  winter.  Though  he  had  now  given  up  going  to  college,  he 
adhered  to  the  purpose  of  becoming  a  lawyer.  Unable,  as 
yet,  to  enter  a  law-office,  he  purchased  Blackstone's  Commen- 
taries and  Cowen's  Treatise,  to  the  study  of  which  he  devoted 
his  leisure  time  while  farming  and  teaching.  He  taught  his 
last  school  in  Perry  village,  in  the  winter  of  1836-7,  spending 
his  evenings  in  the  office  of  I.  N.  Stoddard,  Esq.,  who,  in  the 
spring,  offered  him  a  co-partnership.  This  had  hardly  gone 
into  effect,  when  a  more  liberal  offer  was  made  him  by  Levi 
Gibbs,  Esq.,  who  had  just  commenced  practice  in  Perry.  Mr. 
Thayer  had  not  at  this  time  been  regularly  in  a  law-office 
three  months,  nor  been  admitted  to  practice  in  any  court. 
With  a  view  to  his  settlement  where  the  new  county  seat 
should  be  located,  he  dissolved  his  connection  with  Mr.  Gibbs, 
and  formed  a  partnership  with  James  P.  Doolittle,  Esq.,  at 
present  senator  in  Congress  from  Wisconsin;  and  both  came 
to  this  village  in  1841.  This  partnership  continued  about  four 
years.  He  has  for  more  than  twenty-seven  years  enjoyed  a 
successful  practice  in  this  place;  and,  without  the  advantage 
of  a  liberal  education,  but  with  the  more  important  aid  of  a 
discriminating  mind  and  a  sound  judgment,  he  has  attained 
a  prominent  position  among  the  members  of  the  bar  in  AVest- 
ern  New  York.  In  1866  or  1867,  he  took  into  partnership  his 
son,  Linus  L.  Thayer,  with  whom  he  is  still  associated. 

Linus  \V.  Thayer  married,  Oct.  28, 1810,  Caroline  M.  Lock- 
wood,  who  was  born  Jan.  12, 1823.  They  had  seven  children: 
Linus  Lockwood,  who  married  Emma  A.  Hurlburt;  Luclla, 
who  died  at  16;  Clara,  -\vho  died  at  6;  Carrie  A.;  Gertrude, 
died  at  3;  Lillie  d.  inf.;  and  Florence  Louisa. 

DANIEL  II.  TIIROOP  was  born  in  Franklin,  Conn.,  Oct. 
14,  1791;  went  to  Granville,  N.  Y.,  in  1811,  and  thence  to 
Warsaw.  He  married  Mary  Curtis,  Sept.  21,  1815,  and  set- 
tled on  East  Hill,  where  he  lived,  on  different  farms,  until  he 
removed  to  the  village.     lie  had  six  children: 

Gardner  E.,  who  married  Alta  Marchant.  Their  children 
are:  Nellie,  J.  G.  Whittier,  Minnie,  and  Charles. 

Simeon  S.  married  Adelia  Jackson;  lives  in  Illinois. 

Miry  married  Allen  J.  Reddish,  who  died  March  21, 1864, 
aged  48.     They  had  a  daughter,  Millie,  who  died  at  15. 

Betsey  married  John  M.  Fargo,  and  resides  in  Iowa.  They 
have  a  son,  Frank. 


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FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  341 

Henry  E.  married  Ellon  Johnson,  and  removed  to  Ne- 
braska. 

Nancy  13.  married  Edmund  B.  Noble.  They  reside  in 
Albany,  Wis.,  and  have  two  children  living,  Henry  and  Flora. 

JOHN  TRUESDELL  was  born  Sept,  8,  1784;  married 
Betsey  Webster,  Jan.  16,  1806,  and  removed  the  same  year 
from  Hampton  to  Warsaw,  and  settled  in  the  south  part  of 
the  town,  where  their 'son,  Philander  Truesdell,  now  resides. 
Mr.  Truesdell  was  an  upright  man  and  a  good  citizen.  He 
enjoyed  the  confidence  of  his  lellow-citizens,  and  was  fre- 
quently elected  to  town  offices.  He  was  an  early  member  of 
the  Baptist  church.  He  had  thirteen  children,  of  whom  three 
died  young. 

Paulina  married  John  F.  Clark.     [See  Sketch.] 

Philander.     [See  Sketch.] 

Lucinda  married  Alonzo  Choate.     [See  A.  Choate.] 

Calista  married  Thomas  W.  Blowers.  They  had  two  chil- 
dren: 1.  Galusha  W.,  who  served  in  the  war,  was  taken  sick, 
returned  home,  and  died,  Aug.  2,  1362,  aged  22.  [See  War 
History.]     2.  Paulina,  who  died  Nov.  22,  1865,  aged  24. 

Melvina  married  Cyrus  D.  Blowers,  who  died  in  1866. 
They  had  seven  children:  1.  Augusta.  2.  Ellen,  who  mar- 
ried Edwin  Curtis.  3.  Josephine,  who  married  Albert  Luther. 
4.  Lucia,  who  married  William  W.  Allen.  5.  Sally,  who  mar- 
ried John  Relyea,  Jun.    6.  Frank.    7-  Elmer. 

Betsey  married  Elijah  Chamberlain.  [See  E.  Chamber- 
lain.] 

Elon  Galusha  married  Lucy  Popple.  Their  children  are: 
Marian,  John  Wallace,  and  Frank  Earl. 

Sally  married  Alonzo  Cleveland,  and  died  childless. 

Eleanor  married  Gurdon  G.  Clark,  and  removed  to  Mich- 
igan. 

Isabel  married  Mortimer  M.  Clark,  and  had  two  children. 
He  died,  and  she  married  Stephen  McCulloch,  by  whom  she 
has  two  children. 

PHILANDER  TRUESDELL,  son  of  John  Truesdell,  was 
born  in  Warsaw,  April  15, 1815,  and  lives  on  the  homestead 
of  his  father,  in  the  south  part  of  the  town.  He  has  been  six 
times  elected  to  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  which  office 
he  still  holds.  In  addition  to  his  farming  business,  he  was  for 
many  years  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  matches.  He 
married  Eliza  Lincoln,  of  this  town,  by  whom  he  had  four 
children:  1.  Edwin  G.,  who  married  Mary  Atwell  and  has 
two  children,  Charles  and  Fanny.  2.  Emma  A.  3.  Edith 
Frances,  d.  inf.     4.  Ida  Maud,  who  died  at  7. 


312  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

EZRA  WALKER  was  born  in  Becket,  Berkshire,  Co., 
Mass.,  Feb.  6,  1773.  lie  married  Prudence  Allen,  and 
removed  from  Granville  to  Warsaw,  in  1807,  and  settled  on 
West  Hill.  They  were  two  of  the  ten  persons  composing  the 
Presbyterian  church  at  the  time  of  its  formation.  He  was' 
early  chosen  a  Deacon.  He  removed  about  the  year  1818  to 
Leicester,  and  after  his  return  to  Warsaw,  about  the  year 
1834,  he  was  elected  an  elder,  which  office  he  held  until  he 
united  with  the  present  Congregational  church.  He  lived  to 
see  all  his  children  professors  of  religion.  He  died  at  the 
residence  of  his  son-in-law,  Stephen  D.  Alverson,  in  Michi- 
gan. Mrs.  Walker  died  in  Warsaw,  April  11,  1837.  They 
had  ten  children: 

Zebuixxn  C.  was  born  in  1703;  died  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  in 
1819. 

Parmalee  A.  removed  to  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana;  was  one 
of  the  first  to  organize  the  first  Presbyterian  church  in  that 
city,  of  which  he  has  been  an  elder  over  forty  years.  He 
was  also  several  years  Mayor  of  the  city.  He  married  there 
Mrs.  Sarah  Gardner,  who  died  in  1801"). 

Truman  W.  removed  to  Evansville,  Ind.,  and  died  in  1818, 
unmarried. 

Elam  II.,  was  educated  for  the  ministry;  was  a  missionary 
to  the  Choctaws  in  East  Tennessee;  preached  successively  at 
Brooksgrove  and  Fowlerville,  X.  Y.,  and  was  finally  settled 
at  Dansville,  where  lie  died  of  a  tumor  on  his  throat.  His 
wife  was  Alice  P.  Bacon,  sister  of  Rev.  Dr.  Leonard  Bacon, 
of  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Palmyra  married  Thomas  II.  Jeffers,  of  Perry,  where  she 
died  in  1852.  They  had  nine  children:  Christopher,  Betsey, 
John  II.,  Delia,  Ann,  Elam,  Ezra,  Eugene,  and  Frances,  all 
living  but  one.  Elam,  ;i  Methodist  minister,  died  at  or  near 
jSTewstead,  Erie  Co.  John  II.  is  a  practicing  Lawyer  in 
Rochester.     Ezra  is  a  merchant  in  Geneseo,  111. 

Eliza  married  Stephen  D.  Alverson,  of  Perry.  About  the 
year  1850,  they  removed  to  Meridian,  Mich.  Their  children 
were,  Henry,  (dead,)  Lovina,  Minerva,  Thomas,  (dead,)  and 
Gary. 

Ebenezer  married  Frances  D.  Blanchard,  was  many  years 
a  merchant  in  Geneseo  and  Rochester,  and  afterwards  at 
Okemos,  Mich.,  where  he  now  resides.  He  has  two  children: 
1.  Henry  W.,  who  married  Jennie  B.  Adams,  and  lives  in 
Lansing,  Mich.  2.  George  X.,  who  was  married  and  had  two 
children,  and  is  a  merchant  in  Okemos.  His  wife  died  in 
1867. 


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FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  343 

Lovena  P.  married  Stephen  D.  Alverson,  of  Perry,  after- 
wards the  husband  of  her  sister  Eliza,  as  above  stated.  They 
had  two  children,  Elizabeth,  (dead,)  and  Edward. 

Minerva  married  Pev.  Merritt  Harmon;  removed  to  Mich- 
igan; thence  to  Iowa.     They  have  a  son  and  two  daughters. 

Ann  Irene  married  Josiah  Hurty,  a  teacher  in  Western 
Xew  York.  They  have  since  resided  in  Ohio  and  Kentucky, 
and  now  reside  in  Paris,  111.  They  have  two  sons  and  two 
daughters. 

WARHAM  WALKER  was  born  in  Massachusetts,  Jan. 
21,  1769.  He  married  Freelove  Hatch;  removed  to  this  town 
in  1810,  and  settled  on  West  Hill.  Mr.  Walker  died  April 
6,  1840;  his  wife  Sept.  7, 1857.     They  had  nine  children. 

Levi,  who  married  Laura  Capen.  Their  children  were,  1. 
Royal  C,  who  married  in  Pike,  and  resides  there.  2.  Edson, 
who  married  Miss  Metcalf,  of  Pike,  where  they  reside.  3. 
Henriett,  dead.  4.  Arvilla,  dead.  [6.  Sybil.  7.  Jane,  who  is 
married,  and  lives  in  Pike.  8.  Newbury.  9.  Ezra,  who  mar- 
ried Miss  Raymond,  resides  in  Gainesville. 

Orley  married  Betsey  Jaquish,  and  removed  to  Cattarau- 
gus Co.,  and  had  four  children:  Franklin,  dead;  Lucien,  dead; 
Freelove,  and  Francis. 

Hiram  F.  married  Almira  Munger,  and  had  seven  children: 
1.  Elzever,  who  married  Ann  J.  Packard,  and  lives  in  Wells- 
ville,  X.  Y.  2.  Cornelia.  3.  Samuel,  who  married  Esther 
Seely,  lives  in  Ivilbourn  City,  Wis.  4.  Luzerne,  who  married 
Christiana  Macomber,  in  Ivilbourn  City.  5.  Parmaly,  who 
married  Harriet  Hoisington,  and  resides  in  Kilbourn  City. 
6.  Fayette.  7.  William,  who  died  at  11.  Mrs.  Walker  died 
in  1867. 

Piiidelia  married  Alva  Sherman,  of  Cohocton,  who  is 
dead. 

Polly  married  Timothy  Whiting;     [See  Whiting  Family.] 

Olive,  born  Dec.  25,  1808;  died  March  7,  1842.' 

Salem  H.,  born  July  28,  1812;  lives  in  Michigan. 

Patience  Aemexa,  married  Mr.  McKean,  who  died  in 
Brady,  Mich. 

WILLIAM  WALKER  was  burn  at  St,  Albans,  Vermont, 
March  13,  1793.  He  came,  when  a  young  man,  to  Pavilion, 
(South  Le  Roy.)  After  four  years  he  removed  to  Middlebury, 
near  Wright's  Corners,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade,  (saddle 
and  harness  making,)  three  years;  and  then,  1823,  came  to 
this  place,  where  he  still  resides.  He  married  Abigail  En- 
sign, of   Middlebury.     He  continued    his  business  here  for 


344  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

many  years,  until,  by  industry  and  prudence,  lie  Lad  acquired 
a  competence,  upon  which  he  retired.  Ilis  wife  died  March 
8,  1854.  She  was  at  the  time  of  her  death  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  church.     They  had  seven  children: 

Lewis  E.     [See  Sketch.] 

Mary  A.  is  a  graduate  of  Mt.  Holyoke  Seminary,  and  has 
taught  in  the  Seminaries  at  Rockford  and  Petersburg,  111. 
She  married  Wm.  M.  Cogswell,  teacher,  of  Petersburg,  who 
has  since  died. 

Charles  B.  w*ent  to  California,  and  settled  in  Washington 
Territory,  and  was  shot  by  the  Indians  in  1855,  while  em- 
ployed as  one  of  an  exploring  party  in  search  for  gold.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  24. 

Adelia  C.  is  a  graduate  of  Mt.  Holyoke  Seminary,  and 
taught  in  that  institution;  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  and  in  Oxford 
and  Rockford,  111. 

Albert  married  M.  M.  Silsby,  of  Rockford,  111.,  and  is  a 
Hardware  merchant  in  Petersburg,  111.  He  has  two  children 
living,  Flora,  and  Henry. 

George  W.  is  a  graduate  of  Oberlin  College.  He  married 
Emily  E.  Gilman,  and  is  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church 
in  Wauseon,  O.     He  has  a  son,  Lewis  Calvin. 

William  H.  married  Jennette  A.  Tabor.  He  was  in  the 
war,  [See  War  History,]  and  is  at  present  a  Druggist  in  West- 
field.     He  has  a  son,  Charles  Taber. 

LEWIS  E.  WALKER  was  born  in  Warsaw,  July,  1826. 
He  received  his  education  in  this  village,  and  commenced 
teaching  in  this  town.  He  afterwards  taught  four  years  in 
Vermont,  and  four  years  in  Ohio.  He  married  in  Ohio, 
Susan  A.  Brown,  also  a  teacher,  and  for  a  time  his  assistant. 
He  returned  to  Warsaw,  and  in  July,  1804,  commenced  the 
Book  trade,  having  bought  the  stock  of  Nehemiah  Park;  in 
which  business  he  still  continues.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  church.  lie  has  had  four  children:  William 
A.,  John  F.,  and  Henry  L.  d.  inf.,  and  Fanny  E. 

HEZEKIAII  WAKEFIELD  was  born  Feb.,  1774,  and 
came  to  this  town  in  1S05  or  1806,  and  settled  on  West  Hill, 
where  Tillotson  Gay  now  resides.  lie  married  in  180S, 
Patience  McWhorter,  a  daughter  of  John  McWhorter,  and 
sister  of  Samuel  McWhorter,  Esq.  Mr.  Wakefield  and  his 
wife,  early  became  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church;  and 
his  house  was  for  many  years  a  stated  place  for  religious 
meetings  in  that  part  of  the  town.     He  died  Oct.  31,  1830,  in 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  315 

his  57th  year.  Mrs.  Wakefield  died  Oct.  31,  1861,  in  her 
88th  year.     They  had  five  children: 

Lydia  B.  married  Benjamin  Bishop.     [See  Sketch.] 

Lophelia  married  Willis  Pettibone,  who  died  leaving  two 
children:  1.  Martha,  who  married  Clark  D.  Mimger,  who  died 
in  Kilbonrn  City,  Wis.  2.  Hezekiah  W.,  who  married  Delia 
Ellis  and  lives  in  Attica.  Mrs.  Pettibone  married  for  her 
second  husband,  Tillotson  Gay,  by  whom  she  had  five  chil- 
dren :  Helen,  Edwin  T.,  Flora,  who  died  at  4  or  5,  Walker, 
and  Charles.     They  reside  on  the  homestead  of  her  lather. 

Lucretia  E.,  married  Alanson  Holly.     [See  A.  Holly.] 

Laura  and  John  died  in  infancy. 

LINUS  WARNER  was  born  in  New  Canaan,  Columbia 
county,  in  178-1,  and  removed,  when  young,  to  Lima,  where 
he  married  Hopey  Thayer.  In  1806,  he  removed  from  Lima 
to  this  town,  and  settled  in  the  south-east  part  of  the  town, 
where  he  resided  until  his  death,  Feb.  26,  1816.  Mrs.  War- 
ner died  Sept.  5,  1816.  They  had  eight  children,  of  whom 
three  died  infants. 

Willard  T.  was  born  May  24,  1808;  married  Roxana 
Dixon,  and  had  four  children:  Harriet,  and  three  who  died 
infants.  Mr.  Warner  lives  on  a  part  of  the  farm  on  which 
his  father  settled  in  1806,  and  on  which  himself  was  born. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Free-Will  Baptist  church,  and  a  lib- 
eral contributor  to  its  support;  and  is  a  decided  friend  of 
temperance  and  other  reformatory  and  benevolent  associa- 
tions. 

Matthew  married  Sally  Flnker,  and  had  two  children: 
Esther,  and  another,  infant. 

Linus  married  Maria  Fluker,  and  owns  and  occupies  the 
homestead  of  his  father.  He  has  three  children:  1.  Marion, 
who  married  Sarah  Nash,  of  Perry.  2.  Bomaine.  3.  Wil- 
lard. 

Emily  married  William  Seymour,  of  Castile,  who  is  dead. 
They  had  a  daughter,  Harriet. 

Harriet  married  Job  M.  Belyea.     [See  Sketch.] 

JABISII  WARREN  was  born  in  Windham,  Conn.,  March 
29,  1775.  He  removed  to  No.  10,  now  Middlebury,  just  north 
of  the  present  line  of  Warsaw,  where  he  purchased  a  farm 
on  which  he  resided  until  his  death,  July  11,  1819.  He  mar- 
ried Rosamer  Owen,  who  died  Aug.  16,  1851.  They  had 
eight  children: 

Alvixa  married  Wm.  Havens,  and  resides  in  California. 
They  have  eleven  children. 


346  HISTOEY   OF   WARSAW. 

Paulina  married  Horace  Watkins.  They  reside  in  Illinois, 
and  have  six  children:  Almeron,  Blighton,  Arthur,  Eliza,  Car- 
oline, and  Annis. 

Eliza  married  Job  Hill,  Jan.  24,  1828.  They  reside  in  War- 
saw, and  have  three  children:  1.  John  "W.,  who  married 
Harriet  Blair,  and  after  her  death,  Mary  Curtis,  and  resides 
in  Warsaw.  2.  Lucius  JL,  who  married  Clara  Hibbard,  and 
resides  in  Warsaw.  3.  Henrietta,  who  married  Hezekiah 
Fargo,  and  lives  in  Perry. 

Eosamee  married  S.  S.  Poppino.  They  reside  in  William- 
son, Wayne  Co.,  and  have  two  children:  1.  Belle,  who  mar- 
ried George  Nichols,  ot  New  York  city.  2.  Franc,  who 
married  Bev.  S.  S.  Bemer,  who  was  a  chaplain  in  the  army, 
and  died  in  the  service. 

Polly  married  Gad  Case.     Both  are  dead. 

Jabish,  born  May  4,  1816,  married  Mary  B.  Lathrop,  of 
Bethany,  Dec.  25,  18-40.  He  has  been  a  farmer  and  an  ex- 
tensive produce  dealer  in  Genesee  and  Wyoming  counties. 
He  was  in  the  regular  army  one  year.  In  1862,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Colonel  of  the  61st  National  Guards.  He  resides  in 
Warsaw;  has  one  daughter,  Pose  E.,  who  was  born  June  12,. 
1846,  and  married,  Dec.  18,  1868,  George  C.  Otis,  and  resides 
in  Middlebury. 

Yolney  O.,  born  Jan.  26,  1818;  married  Elizabeth  Curtis, 
of  Wayne  Co.,  Feb.  2,  1842,  and  resides  in  Warsaw.  They 
have  a  daughter,  Martha  E.,  who  married  E.  C.  Upton,  of 
Spencerport,  Monroe  Co. 

Darwin  C.  married  Mary  Scovel,  June  5,  1841.  He  died 
June  20,  1850.  They  had  two  children,  Stimson  and  Yolney 
O.,  both  living. 

LEONARD  WATSON  was  born  1 804,  in  York,  England, 
where  he  married  Mary  Brough.  He  came  to  Warsaw  in 
1830,  and  purchased  a  farm  on  East  Hill.  He  settled  on  his 
farm,  where  he  resided  until  he  removed  to  the  village.  Mr» 
Watson,  when  he  bought  his  farm,  offered  in  payment  or  part 
payment  several  sovereigns,  which  the  seller,  not  knowing  their 
value,  refused.  He  then  tried  in  the  village  to  get  them  ex- 
changed for  current  money;  and  failing  in  this,  he  was  com- 
pelled to  make  a  journey  to  Canandaigua,  where  he  had  no 
difficulty  in  making  the  desired  change.  [Who  doubts  that 
a  similar  exchange  might  be  made  in  Warsaw  now,  at  par?] 
Mr.  AY.  has  a  daughter, 

Mary,  who  married  Thomas  Agar,  who  resides  in  the  vil- 
lage, and  is  in  the  marble  business.  They  have  a  son,  Leon- 
ard W. 


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347 


ELIZUR  WEBSTER  was  born  in  Connecticut,  Aug.  24, 
1767.  He  went,  when  a  youth,  to  Hampton,  K  Y.,  where  he 
was  married  to  Elizabeth  Warren,  who  was  born  May  15, 
1774,  and  where  he  resided  most  of  the  time  until  he  came 
to  this  town  in  1803,  and  commenced  its  settlement,  of  which 
an  account  has  been  given.  [See  pp.  25-27.]  In  1808,  at 
the  first  town  meeting  for  the  election  of  town  officers,  he  was 
chosen  Supervisor,  which  office  he  held  by  successive  elections 
for  seven  years.  lie  also  held  for  many  years  the  office  of 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  to  which  he  was  several  times  appointed 
by  the  Council  of  Appointment,  [See  Council  of  Appoint- 
ment, elsewhere  described.]  He  was  averse  to  litigation,  and 
discouraged  it  in  others.  He  often  incurred  displeasure  by 
refusing  to  issue  precepts  when  the  applicants  were  under  the 
influence  of  passion  or  a  spirit  of  retaliation.  In  1S13,  he 
was  appointed  one  of  the  Associate  Judges  of  the  County 
Court,  In  1816  and  1817,  he  was  a  representative  of  the 
county  of  Genesee  in  the  Assembly;  and  in  1821,  a  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention.  His  labors  in  that  Con- 
vention terminated  his  public  career.  He  was  in  an  unusual 
degree  exempt  from  political  aspirations.  He  enjoyed  him- 
self best  in  private  life,  which  afforded  him  opportunity  for 
gunning  and  hunting,  a  favorite  employment.  Few  men  have 
discharged  important  public  trusts  with  so  limited  an  educa- 
tion. His  school  learning,  if  the  writer's  memory  is  not  at 
fault,  was  acquired  in  only  one  or  two  terms'  attendance  at  a 
common  school.  His  common  sense  and  discriminating  judg- 
ment more  than  supplied  the  meagerness  of  his  literary 
acquirements.  He  has  been  heard  to  say  that,  when  acting 
as  a  Justice,  he  paid  little  attention  to  the  "  pettifoggers,"  and 
seldom  looked  into  a  law-book;  but  law  being  said  to  be 
founded  on  reason  and  the  principles  of  justice,  he  had  made 
these  the  guide  of  his  decisions,  not  one  of  which  had  ever 
been  reversed.  He  possessed  an  independent  mind,  being 
generally  guided  by  his  own  judgment  in  forming  his  opin- 
ions. Although  he  acquired  a  good  property,  he  never 
seemed  in  haste  to  be  rich.  He  made  no  ventures  in  hazard- 
ous enterprises  or  speculations.  In  1836,  he  sold  his  real 
estate  in  Warsaw,  consisting  of  640  acres  of  land,  to  F.  C.  D. 
McKay,  Esq.,  and  about  500  acres  in  a  single  body  within 
the  [owns  of  Orangeville  and  Wetherslield,  near  Wethersfield 
Springs,  to  David"  McAVethy.  In  the  winter  of  1837,  he 
removed  to  Ripley,  Chautauqua  Co.,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  March,  1854,  in  the  87th  year  of 
his  age.  His  wife  died  Dec,  1848.  Judge  Webster  had 
twelve  children,  eight  sons  and  four  daughters,  all  of  whom 
were  living  at  the  time  of  his  removal  from  Warsaw. 


348  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

Arvin  was  born  Nov.  28, 1702,  and  married  Sylvia  Nichols, 
by  whom  he  had  several  children.  In  or  about  the  year  1818, 
lie  removed  to  Illinois,  where,  after  the  death  of  his  wife,  a 
second  marriage,  and  the  birth  of  a  number  of  children,  he 
died. 

Warren  was  born  Nov.  11,  1795,  and  married,  Dec.  29, 
1819,  Eebecca  Tanner,  who  Mas  born  Oct.  31,  1800,  and  re- 
moved to  Orangeville,  near  Wethersfield  Springs,  on  the  farm 
on  which  David  McWethy  recently  resided.  In  1833  or  1831, 
he  removed  to  Franklin,  Erie  Co.,  Pa.,  where  he  resided  five 
or  six  years,  and  removed  to  Ripley,  and  after  a  few  years' 
residence  there,  to  Gowancla,  where  he  died  Jan.  27,  1864. 
He  was  buried  in  Ripley,  where  his  widow  and  only  surviv- 
ing daughter  reside.  He  held  in  Orangeville,  several  years, 
the  office  of  justice,  and  was,  both  in  Ripley  and  Gowanda, 
an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church.  His  children  were: 
1.  Walter,  who  for  many  years  carried  on  the  leather  and 
shoe  manufacturing  business  in  Gowanda,  and  in  1862  re- 
moved to  Illinois,  where  he  now  resides.  lie  married  in 
Gowanda  Mary  Johnson,  and  has  had  five  children:  Charles, 
d.  inf.,  Mary  L.,  Helen  R.,  died  at  5,  Carlton  W.,  died  at  2, 
and  Walter.  2.  H.  Jennette,  who  married  Dwight  Dickson, 
in  Ripley,  and  had  four  children:  Walter  EL,  Warren  W., 
Ada  J.,  d.  inf.,  and  Carlton  A.  Mrs.  Dickson  died  July  30, 
I860,  aged  31.  3.  Martha  A.,  died  at  5.  4.  William  P.,'  who 
married  in  Gowanda,  Lucy  F.  Perry,  and  died  March  21, 
1864,  aged  30,  having  a  son,  yet  living.  5.  Martha,  who  mar- 
ried A.  Milton  Miniger,  of  Riplev,  where  they  now  reside. 
6.  Albert  S.,  d.  inf.  "  7.  Albert  H.,  who  died  at  10.  Mrs. 
Rebecca  Webster  lives  with  her  daughter  and  son-in-law  in 
Ripley. 

Chipman,  born  Dec.  26, 1797,  went  to  Illinois  when  a  young 
man,  where  he  married  twice,  and  had  a  numerous  family, 
and  where  he  now  resides. 

Lucinda,  born  May  26,  1800,  married  Elijah  Norton,  in 
Warsaw,  where  they  reside.  She  is  the  only  one  of  her  fa- 
ther's family  remaining  in  this  town.  [See  Family  of  Elijah 
Norton.] 

Clorinda,  born  May  3,  1802,  married  Orson  Hough.  [See 
Family  of  Samuel  Hough.] 

Eliza,  born  June  9,  1801,  married  Andrew  W.  Young.  [See 
Family  of  A.  W.  Young.] 

Lemuel  was  born  March  6,  1806,  and  went  to  Gowanda, 
where,  for  several  years,  he  carried  on  the  tanning  and  curry- 
ing business,  and  where  he  was  married  to  Miss  Hall,  and 
after  her  death,  to  her  sister,  Lois  Hall.     They  removed  to 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  349 

Perrysburg,  and  thence  to  the  town  of  Westfield,  where  he 
lived  several  years.  In  1855,  he  removed  to  Walworth  Co., 
Wis.  He  had  nine  children  :  Franklin,  Lois,  Francis,  Harri- 
son, Mary,  Sarah,  George,  Jane,  Eva.  Lois  married  Levi 
Hall,  of  Portland.  The  others  went  to  Wisconsin,  where  the 
three  sons  died  within  two  years,  and  his  wife  soon  after.  Lie 
married  a  third  wife,  and  lived  but  a  short  time.  Mary  lives 
with  a  second  husband. 

Horace  was  born  Jan.  3,  1808,  married  Mehitable  John- 
son, and  removed  to  Erie  Co.,  Pa.,  where  he  resided  many 
years,  and  where  his  wife  died.  Since  his  second  marriage, 
he  resided  several  years  in  the  town  of  Westfield.  Two  of  the 
sons  of  the  former  wife,  Wesley  and  Clark,  served  in  the  late 
war,  the  elder  of  whom,  Wesley,  died  in  the  army  of  sickness, 
leaving  a  wife  and  child.  Besides  these  two  sons,  he  had  four 
or  five  daughters  by  his  first  wife.  By  the  second  he  had  sev- 
eral daughters  and  a  son.  He  removed  with  his  family,  in 
1867,  to  Kentucky;  his  son,  Clark,  married,  having  preceded 
him  one  or  two  years. 

Elizur  was  born  Nov.  19,  1S09.  He  went  to  Ripley  in 
1837,  where  he  married  Frances  Averill,  by  whom  he  had 
eleven  children  :  Caroline,  Walter,  d.  inf.,  Ellen,  Ann,  Jack- 
son Averill,  Henry  Douglas,  Clarence  Vernon,  Lydia,  Jo- 
sephine, Blanch  and  Bell,  twins.  His  wife  died  Sept.  21, 
1S62.     He  resides  in  Ripley. 

Gideon  was  born  April  27,  1812.  He  commenced  the  shoe 
and  leather  manufacture  in  Gowanda,  and  continued  it  many 
years,  and  engaged  in  mercantile  business,  which  he  contin- 
ued a  number  of  years,  having  in  this  time  lost  his  store  and 
goods  by  tire.  After  continuing  business  a  short  time  longer, 
he  settled  on  his  farm  near  the  village,  wrhere  he  now  resides. 
He  married  in  Gowanda,  Maria  Spencer,  daughter  of  Judge 
Spencer,  and  had  by  her  two  children:  Marcus  B.,  who  was 
killed  on  a  railroad  near  Chicago;  and  Spencer,  d.  inf.  Mrs. 
Webster  died,  and  Mr.  Webster  married  Abigail  Grannis,  by 
whom  he  had  four  children:  1.  Peyton  R.  2.  Elizur  S.,  who 
died  Feb.  1,  1863,  aged  14  years.     3.  Nellie  M.     4.  Belle  E. 

William  H.  Harrison  was  born  Dec.  11,  1813,  and  mar- 
ried Mary  Dickson,  of  Ripley.  They  had  four  daughters: 
1.  Clarissa,  who  married  Wm.  A.  Coombs,  now  a  merchant 
in  Coldwater,  Mich.  2.  Adalaide.  3.  Aristeen.  4.  Anna, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  11  years.  The  family  removed  to 
Coldwater  from  Ripley,  in  1867. 

Harriet  Jennett  was  born  Oct.  22,  1815,  and  married 
John  Small  wood,  formerly  of  this  town.  [See  Family  of  Win. 
Smallwood.] 


350  HISTORY   OF   WAKSAW 

WILLIAM  WEBSTER  was  bora  May  4,  1T87;  and  in 
1803,  at  the  age  of  16,  he  came  to  this  town  with  his  brother, 
Elizur,  and  lived  in  his  family  several  years,  and  settled  on 
the  farm  where  he  now  resides.  He  has  had  a  longer  resi- 
dence in  this  town  than  any  other  person,  except,  perhaps, 
Amos  Keeney,  who  came  in  with  him,  but  did  not  bring  in 
his  family  until  the  next  year.  Mr.  Webster  also  was  absent 
a  year.  He  married  Lydia  Day,  who  died  childless.  He 
married  Charlotte  Phelps,  daughter  of  Isaac  Phelps,  April 
30,  1812,  who  was  bora  April  28,  1T8S.  Both  of  them  have 
from  an  early  date  been  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
They  had  eleven  children: 

Lydia  D.,  who  married  Joseph  Pike.  They  had  rive  chil- 
dren: A  daughter,  d.  inf.,  Mary  A.,  Walter  Webster,  Julia 
Armina,  and  William  W.  Mrs.  Pike  died  Aug.  25,  1855, 
aged  42.  Mr.  Pike  married  Elsie  Van  Liew,  by  whom  he 
has  no  children. 

Charlotte  P.,  who  married  Jeremiah  Ensign.  He  carried 
on  for  many  years  the  blacksmithing  and  wagon-making  busi- 
ness in  South  Warsaw,  and  removed  to  Hudson,  Wis.  He 
now  resides  a  few  miles  distant,  on  his  farm.  His  children 
are:  William  S.,  Elizabeth.  Ellen,  Delight,  Frederic  D.,  Cla}'- 
ton,  Charles,  Eliza  Jane,  Myrta. 

Susan  married  Titus  L.  Hitchcock.  They  reside  in  Coving- 
ton. 

William  married  Calista  Keeney.  Their  children  are:  Jay, 
Martha,  Flora,  Eugene  Day.     They  reside  in  Gainesville. 

Emily  X.  married  Peter  P.  Warren.  Their  children  are: 
Melissa,  Celestia,  Frank  Johnson. 

Julia  married  James  G.  Hovev,  removed  to  Indiana,  and 
died  March  8,  1850. 

Rollin  P.  married  Laura  Baker.  They  had  six  children: 
Erline,  Alice,  Ada,  Elmer,  Charles,  d.  inf.,  and  Mertou. 

Henry  W.  died  at  5.     Delight  d.  inf. 

Phelps  Mills  married  Jane  Seeley,  and  has  three  children, 
Milton,  Julia,  Effie. 

Henry  D.  married  Angeline  Avery.  Their  children  are, 
Wilson  and  Henry  Pomaine. 

WILLIAM  WIIITIKG,  Sex.,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.; 
in  171S  or  '49,  and  married  Abigail  Flower,  of  the  same  place. 
They  removed,  with  several  children,  to  Granville,  ]ST.  Y.; 
thence  to  Hampton,  and  from  there  to  Warsaw  about  the 
year  1820.  Mr.  Whiting  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  a 
good  citizen,  and  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  His  wife 
died  Aug.  25,  1832,  aged  73  years.     After  her  death  he  was 


FAMILY    SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  351 

married  three  times.  His  second  wife  was  Mrs.  Lucinda 
Whiting,  a  brother's  widow,  who  died  Sept.  10,  1838,  aged 
07;  Ins  third,  Mrs.  Phebe  Rich,  widow  of  Peter  Rich;  his 
fourth,  the  widow  of  Lyman  Noble,  who  also  is  dead.  He 
died  March  22, 1840,  aged  00  years.  He  had  eight  children, 
all  by  his  first  wife,  viz.: 

Lucy  married  Channcey  Sheldon.     [See  his  Sketch.] 

Catharine  married  Silas  C.  Fargo.     [See  his  Sketch.] 

William  was  born  Sept.  17, 178S,  and  married  Elsie  Scrib- 
ner,  in  Hampton,  in  1812.  He  removed  to  Warsaw  about 
the  year  1823  or  1821.  He  removed  a  few  years  after  to 
Napoleon,  Michigan,  where  his  wife  died  in  1863.  They  had 
nine  children :  William,  Price,  Lizana,  Bethana,  Ruana, 
Channcey,  Alexander,  Philander,  Christalana.  Mr.  Whiting 
returned  from  Michigan,  about  two  years  since,  and  settled 
in  Castile. 

Abigail  married  David  M.  Truair,  in  Granville,  and 
removed  to  Oswego,  and  thence  to  Warsaw,  where  they  died. 
Their  children  were,  Carrie  P.,  Cordelia  D.,  died  at  21,  Ame- 
rica 1ST.,  who  served  in  the  war,  [See  War  History;]  David 
IL,  died  at  40;  Cortez  F.,  died  at  34;  and  Ara  W.;  and  four 
who  died  in  infancy. 

Nathan  married  Rhoda  Towle,  near  Syracuse,  and 
removed  to  Warsaw,  thence  back  to  Onondaga  or  Oswego 
county.  They  had  eight  children :  Malkin,  Loren,  Ahnerin, 
Ellen,  Lucy,  Nathan,  Abigail,  Mary. 

At  the  time  of  the  insurrection  in  Canada,  called  the 
"Patriot  War,"  in  1837,  Mr.  Whiting,  with  many  other  citi- 
zens of  the  United  States,  joined  the  patriots  in  Canada;  was 
taken  prisoner  near  Prescott,  taken  to  London,  tried  and  con- 
victed, and  banished  to  "Van  Dieman's  land.  After  a  resi- 
dence there  of  seven  years,  he  escaped  in  an  American  vessel 
and  returned.  He  was  brother-in-law  to  Channcey  Sheldon, 
who  shared  a  similar  fate.     [See  Chauncey  Sheldon.] 

Sopheona  married  Eliphalet  Petty,  in  Hampton.  They 
have  resided  in  Warsaw  and  Buffalo. 

Demmon  married  Amanda  Warren.  Their  children  were, 
Abby,  who  married  Mr.  Mo]-se,  and  resides  at  Batavia;  Irene 
A.,  Silas,  Mary  J.,  Frank  D.  Mr.  Whiting  died  Jan.  10, 
1857;  Irene  A.  and  Mary  J.,  in  February,  and  Frank  D.  in 
November — all  in  the  same  year.  Only  Mrs.  Whiting  and 
Abby  are  living. 

Timothy  married  Polly  Walker,  of  Warsaw.  They  re- 
moved many  years  since  to  Michigan.  Their  children  were 
Russel,  died  at  30;  Adna,  d.  inf.;  Samuel,  died  at  20;  Tru- 
man, D wight,  Yiola,  Salem,  died  at  24;  Zeno,  Isabel,  Arthusa 


352  IIISTOKY   OF   WARSAW. 

and  George.     Mr.  Whiting  died,  Nov.  2,  1865,  at  Brady, 
Kalamazoo  Co.,  Mich.,  aged  61  years. 

JULIUS  WHITLOCK  was  born  in  Warren,  Litchfield  Co., 
Conn.,  Feb.  20,  1785.  At  the  age  of  14,  he  removed  with 
his  father  to  Granville,  X.  Y.;  thence,  in  the  spring  of  1810, 
to  Warsaw.  He  served  in  the  war  of  1812,  in  a  company  of 
Cavalry,  under  Capt.  (afterwards  Judge,)  Isaac  Wilson,  of 
Middlebury.  He  married  Thankful  Lewis,  Sept.  19,  1816, 
who  was  born,  Jan.  12,  1795.  They  lived  during  the  remain- 
der of  their  lives  on  the  farm  on  which  they  first  settled,  about 
two  miles  north  of  the  village.  He  was  a  member  the  Pres- 
byterian church;  she  was  an  Episcopalian.  They  had  three 
children  :  Emily  L.,  Harry  W.,  and  Mary. 

Emily  L.  was  born  July  11, 1817;  married  Amnion  Wilson, 
and  died  Feb.  11,  1813.  " 

Harry  W.  was  born  "Nov.  29,1818,  and  is  unmarried.  He 
resides  on  the  homestead  of  his  father. 

Mary  was  born  Ang.  29,  1836,  and  married  George  W. 
Hamlin,  Oct.  16,  1866. 

SAMUEL  WHITLOCK  was  born  in  Warren,  Conn.,  Sept. 
2,  1787.  He  removed  to  Granville,  at  the  age  of  12,  and 
thence,  with  his  brother  Julius  to  Warsaw,  in  April,  1810. 
He  married,  Feb.  10,  1813,  Polly  Blowers,  of  Bethany.  They 
still  reside  where  they  first  settled,  two  miles  north  of  the 
village.  He  united  with  the  Presbyterian  church  in  1817, 
and  was  for  many  years  a  ruling  elder.  He  had  seven  chil- 
dren : 

Polly,  born  Feb.  IS,  1813,  died  in  infancy. 

Maria,  born  March  8,  1816,  married  Oliver  C.  Chapman. 
Their  children  are,  Polly,  Chloe,  Emily,  Caroline,  Laura, 
Frank,  Benjamin,  and  Willie. 

Ann  Eliza,  born  Dec.  28,  1818,  died  Nov.  11, 1853. 

Trumbull,  born  July  3,  1821,  d.  inf. 

Samuel  Norris  was  born  Feb.  28, 1821.  He  married  Emily 
L.  Benedict,  of  Perry.  He  is  a  Grocery  and  Crockery  mer- 
chant in  Warsaw,  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church. 
They  have  had  three  children  :  Samuel  Benedict,  Charles  E. 
who  died  at  six,  and  George  X. 

Lydia,  bom  July  11,  1827,  died  at  the  age  of  29. 

Loman,  born  Oct.  30,  1829,  married  Lucinda  Otis.  He  is 
a  farmer,  and  resides  on  the  East  Hill. 


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JOHN  WILDER  was  born  in  New  Hampshire,  Feb.  11, 
17S7.  He  married  Sally  Andrews,  Jan.  1,  1808.  In  1800, 
before  his  marriage,  he  came  to  Attica,  and,  being  a  mill- 
wright, worked  for  several  years  at  building  mills  in  Attica 
and  the  adjacent  towns  and  counties.  From  1807,  he  had  an 
interest  with  his  brother  Joseph,  in  the  grist-mills  in  Attica 
until  1818,  when  they  sold  out  to  Parmenio  Adams  and  John 
Peabody.  In  1822,  he  removed  from  Batavia  to  this  village, 
having  become  part  proprietor  of  the  grist-mill,  in  which  he 
had  an  interest  until  within  a  few  years  previous  to  his  death. 
He  was  several  times  elected  to  the  office  of  Supervisor,  and 
other  town  offices,  and  twice  to  the  office  of  Sheriff  of  Gene- 
see county,  before  the  formation  of  Wyoming.  He  died  July 
5,  1819,  by  the  running  away  of  his  horse  with  a  carriage. 
He  had  seven  children: 

Aretas  A.,  who  married  Juliet  D.  Strong,  and  after  several 
years  removed  to  Detroit,  where  he  now  resides.  He  had 
three  children:  Edwin  A.,  Sarah  M.,  and  Eleanor  D.  All  arc 
married,  and  reside  in  Detroit. 

Lucy  married  Joshua  Q.  Leonard.  They  resided  many 
years  in  this  county,  and  removed  to  Michigan,  where  she 
died,  Sept.  22,  1864.  They  had  a  son,  James  W.,  who  is 
living. 

Eliza  A.  married  Robert  Paddock,  of  Middlebury,  Avhere 
she  died,  June  11,  1837,  aged  21.  She  left  a  daughter,  Eliza 
A.,  who  lives  in  Nebraska. 

P.  Ripley  died  in  Warsaw,  May  12,  1837,  aged  22. 

John  married  Elizabeth  Robinson,  and  lives  in  Detroit, 
Michigan.     He  has  a  son,  John  Ripley. 

Helen  married  Samuel  S.  Blanchard,  who  was  born  at 
Saratoga  Springs,  Aug.  13,  1S1G.  He  was  for  many  years 
before  and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  publisher  of  the  Western 
New  Yorker,  in  this  village.  lie  died  Sept.  5,  1850  Mrs. 
Blanchard  married  for  her  second  husband,  H.  P.  Stevens, 
who  has  since  resided  in  Rochester  and  Cleveland,  and  now 
resides  at  Elmira. 

Sarah  died  June  23,  1831,  aged  7  years. 

Rev.  EDWIN  E.WILLIAMS  was  born  in  Clinton,  Oneida 
Co.,  N.  Y.,  April  8,  1817.  He  graduated  at  Hamilton  Col- 
lege. He  was  for  several  years  a  teacher  in  Springville 
Academy,  Erie  Co.,  and  for  a  time  at  Mineral  Point,  Wis. 
He  was  licensed  as  a  preacher  by  the  Mineral  Point  Presby- 
terian and  Congregational  Convention  in  1848,  and  ordained 
at  Clinton  by  the  Oneida  Association  in  1851.  He  was  pas- 
tor of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Waterville,  Oneida  Co., 

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354  HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 

from  1850  to  1S57,  when  lie  was  called  to  the  pastorate  ot 
the  Congregational  church  in  this  village,  to  which  he  con- 
tinues to  minister  with  acceptance  and  success.  He  married 
at  Springville,  April  4,  1841,  Eunice  L.  Ingalls,  who  was  born 
Oct.  6,  1823.  They  have  rive  children,  as  follows:  Florence 
N.,  a  teacher  of  music  at  Houghton,  Mich.  Charles  A.,  who 
resides  in  Buffalo;  Mary  S.,  at  present  a  teacher  of  freedmen 
in  Wilmington,  S.  C;  Clinton,  and  Alice  Lane. 

JOHN  WINDSOR  was  born  Feb.  2,  1804.  He  married 
Lucetta  Green,  and  removed  from  Pike  to  this  town  in  Oct., 
1830,  and  established  the  Tin  and  Sheet  Iron  and  Hardware 
business,  which  he  continued  until  1842.  In]  844,  he  re- 
moved to  his  farm  on  West  Hill,  where  he  died,  June  18, 
1846.  He  was  also  one  of  the  firm  of  Gardner,  Utter  &  Co., 
in  the  Woolen  manufacture.  [See  Woolen  Factories.]  Mr. 
Windsor  and  his  wife,  soon  after  they  came  to  this  town, 
united  with  the  Baptist  church,  of  which  he  was  a  member  at 
the  time  of  his  death.     They  had  six  children: 

J.  Russel,  who  died  in  his  seventh  year. 

A.  Judson,  who  married  Mary  Lary,  and  had  two  children. 
He  died  of  wounds  received  in  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge. 

William  Green  married  Sarah  Jane  Thorp,  of  Warsaw. 

John,  Norton,  and  Samuel  are  unmarried. 

AKDEN  WOODRUFF  came  to  Warsaw  in  1818,  at  the 

age  of  24.  For  several  years  he  worked  summers  at  shoe- 
making,  and  taught  school  winters  in  this  town  and  in  other 
places.  In  the  spring  of  1823  he  was  married,  and  soon  after 
settled  at  Wethersfleld  Springs,  and  commenced  the  Tanning 
business,  which,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  short  intervals, 
he  continued  until  1830.  In  1832,  he  bought  the  farm  of 
Aaron  C.  Lyon,  on  the  West  Hill,  and  settled  on  it  in  1S33. 
In  1838,  he  sold  one-half  of  his  interest  in  his  farm  to  his 
brother-in  law,  Newbury  Bronson,  and  they  carried  on  the 
dairy  business  until  April,  1840,  when  he  sold  his  remaining 
interest  to  his  partner,  and  purchased  a  farm  near  Strykers- 
ville,  on  which  he  lived  until  1865,  when  his  age  and  physical 
•condition  indicated  the  necessity  of  retirement  from  active 
employment.  He  sold  his  farm,  and  in  1S67  selected  a  home 
in  West  Bloomfield.  He  was  a  zealous  friend  of  education 
and  the  various  social  reforms.  He  held  at  different  times 
and  places  the  several  town  offices  of  School  Inspector,  Super- 
visor, and  Justice  of  the  Peace;  and  in  1846  and  1847  he 
was  a  Member  of  Assembly  from  the  county  of  Wyoming. 
He  has  been  for  nearly  forty  years  a  member  of  Congrega- 


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tional  churches  in  Connecticut  and  this  state,  and  for  several 
years  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Warsaw,  in 
which  he  was  an  elder  and  clerk  of  the  session.  And  for 
more  than  forty  years  he  has  been  teacher  or  superintendent 
of  Sabbath-schools  and  Bible  classes.  He  was  born  in  Far- 
mington,  Conn.,  March  17,  1794.  He  married  Sophia  Tillot- 
son,  in  Avon,  Conn.,  April  17,  1823.  They  had  four  chil- 
dren, as  follows : 

Columbus  and  Emma  Luceetia  both  died  infants. 

Clinton  D.  was  born  June  25,  1832,  and  married  Miss 
Tillotson.  He  is  a  druggist  and  practicing  physician  in  Kil- 
bourn  City,  "Wis.  He  has  had  three  children:  Lillie  Belle, 
Arden  Bertrand,  and  Clinton  Fredie,  d.  inf. 

Edward  Payson,  who  was  born  Feb.  26,  1840. 

HENRY  WOODWARD  was  born  in  Guilford,  Conn., 
Dec.  16,  1787.  He  married  Anna  Savage,  in  Granville, 
1ST.  Y.;  removed  to  "Warsaw  in  1815,  and  settled  on  West 
Hill,  a  mile  and  a  half  west  of  the  village.  He  sold  out  a 
few  years  after,  and  purchased  a  farm  a  mile  south  of  the 
village.  For  several  years  after  lie  came  to  this  town,  he 
carried  on,  in  addition  to  farming,  the  manufacture  of  earth- 
enware. A  few  years  before  his  death,  he  sold  his  farm  and 
removed  to  the  village.  He  died  Dec.  3,  1864;  Mrs.  Wood- 
ward, April  23,  1867.  They  united,  first,  with  the  Presby- 
terian church.  On  the  formation  of  the  Congregational 
church,  they  changed  their  relation,  and  became  members 
of  the  latter.  They  had  three  children:  Maria,  William  H., 
and  Charlotte. 

Maria,  born  in  1815,  died  at  the  age  ot  34. 

William  II.  married  Mary  Ann  Gregg,  of  Warsaw.  In 
Jan.,  1852,  he  started  for  California,  and  died  at  sea,  of  chol- 
era, after  leaving  the  Isthmus,  aged  33.  He  had  two  children, 
Luther  and  Myron. 

Charlotte  married  Leonard  Martin,  of  this  town.  [See 
Family  of  Lydia  Martin.] 

SAMUEL  WOODWARD,  brother  of  Henry,  married 
Charlotte  Savage,  a  sister  ot  his  brother's  wife;  and  in 
1832,  they  removed  to  this  town  from  Granville.  They  be- 
long to  the  Congregational  church.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren: William  F.,  Mary  Ann,  Lucy,  Nathan  S.,  and  Samuel 
Mills. 

William  F.  married  Charlotte  Gibbs,  of  Livonia;  lived  in 
this  town  many  years,  and  now  resides  in  Boston,  Mass.  His 
children  are:     1.  Edward  Payson,  married,  has  a  son  and  a 


356  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

daughter.  2.  Mary  A.,  who  married  Edwin  Hill,  of  Geneva. 
3.  Miranda  Gibbs.     4.  Mills.     5.  Charlotte. 

Mary  Ann  died  in  Warsaw,  Dec.  2,  1841,  aged  27  years. 

Lucy  married  Samuel  Fisher,  2d.     [See  Fisher  Family.] 

Nathan  S.,  formerly  a  printer  and  newspaper  publisher, 
now  a  farmer,  resides  in  the  east  part  of  the  town.  He  mar- 
ried Caroline  C,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  C.  L.  Sheldon. 
They  had  two  children:  Melville,  who  died  at  18,  and  Caro- 
line.    Mrs.  "Woodward  died  Sept.  30,  1842,  aged  21  years. 

Samuel  Mills  died  in  Ohio. 

AMZI  WPJGHT  was  born  in  Lenox,  Mass.,  Oct.  24, 1781. 
He  removed  in  Feb.,  1803,  to  Batavia.  Later  in  the  same 
year,  he  settled  at  the  place  since  known  as  Wright's  Corners, 
where  he  married  Huldah  Kellogg.  Mr.  Wright  resided  in 
Middlebury  to  an  advanced  period  of  life,  and  was  exten- 
sively known.  He  has  ever  maintained  the  character  of  an 
upright  man  and  a  good  citizen;  and  for  many  years  both 
himself  and  wife  were  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church 
in  Wyoming.  Since  their  removal  from  Middlebury,  Mrs. 
Wright  died  in  Attica. 

Mr.  Wright,  at  the  age  of  87,  resides  in  the  village  of  At- 
tica, and  retains  his  faculties  of  body  and  mind  in  a  degree 
unusual  at  that  age.     They  had  ten  children: 

Enos  Iv.  married  Louisa  Newell,  and  resides  in  Middlebury. 
They  have  three  children:  1.  Sarah  E.,  who  married  Dr.  D. 
K.  Town,  of  Batavia,  111.  2.  Frances  A.,  who  married  Eben 
Sharp,  of  Indianapolis.     3.  Mary. 

Harry  married  Mary  Ann  Pierson,  of  Bethany;  had  four 
children:  William,  Louisa,  married;  Frank,  Frederick,  who 
died  at  IS  or  19;  and  Mary. 

Alvina  married  Nelson  Wolcott,  who  was  the  first  Clerk  of 
Wyoming  coimty.  He  was  afterwards,  for  several  years,  a 
merchant  in  Attica,  whence  he  removed  to  Batavia,  111.,  where 
he  now  resides.  Their  children  are:  1.  Ellen  II.,  who  mar- 
ried Rollin  Baker,  of  Attica.  2.  Robert  N.,  who  married 
Agnes  Swain,  and  resides  in  Illinois.  3.  Henry  K.,  who  mar- 
ried Helen  Newton,  in  Batavia,  111.  4.  Laurens.  5.  Mary 
L.  D.     G.  Seymour  A.     7.  Willie  W.     8.  Frank. 

Sophia  married  Ephraim  Brainerd,  of  Attica.  Their  chil- 
dren are,  1.  Henry  A.,  who  married  Libbie  Phenix;  2.  Jose- 
phine E.,  who  married  Edward  D.  Tolles;  3.  Alice  J.,  who 
married  B.  G.  White;  4.  Alvina  E. 

Allen  married  Charlotte  Newell,  and  lives  on  the  old  farm 
of  his  father  at  Wright's  Corners.  They  have  three  children, 
Jesse  N.,  Huldah,  and  Henry. 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND   NOTES.  357 

Francis  E.  married  Charlotte  T.  Putney.  They  had  six 
children:  1.  Ellen,  d.  inf.;  2.  Emma;  3.  Martha  W.,  married; 
4.  Ella;  5.  Amelia,  d.  inf.;  6.  Jennie. 

Emily  married  Mr.  Hanvey,  of  Middlebury.  Children: 
Yioletta  E.,  married;  Esther  married  Charles  Melvin,  of 
Bennington;  Adelaide,  died  at  17;  Daphne  A.;  Thomas,  and 
Henry.  Mr.  Hanvey  died,  and  she  married  B.  S.  Brownell, 
and  has  a  son,  Laurens. 

Yioletta  died  at  the  age  of  6  years. 

Seymour  K.  married  Sarah  Ellis,  and  resides  in  Missouri. 

JONATHAN  YOUNG  was  born  in  Dutchess  county, 
July  15,  1767,  where  he  was  married  to  Nancy  Beck,  who 
was  born  in  the  northern  part  of  Ireland,  and  came  in  early 
childhood  to  this  country.  In  1790  or  1791,  they  removed  to 
Schoharie  county;  and  thence,  in  1816,  to  Warsaw,  and  set- 
tled on  West  Hill,  near  Orangeville,  where  he  lived  until  the 
death  ot  his  wife,  who  died  Sept.  29,  1818.  He  died  May 
14,  1855,  aged  nearly  88  years.  They  were  both  members  of 
the  Presbyterian  church,  as  were  all  their  children,  ot  whom 
there  were  six: 

David  was  born  Nov.  9,  1786;  married  Lucy  Snyder,  and 
removed  to  Warsaw  in  1816.  His  wife  died  Aug.  10,  1846, 
aged  51  years.  He  married  in  1848,  Miranda  Roberts.  He 
sold  his  farm  on  West  Hill,  and  removed  to  the  village, 
where  he  died  Feb.  1,  1865,  aged  78  years. 

Hannah  married  Andrew  Guffin,  in  Schoharie  Co.  They 
had  twelve  children,  all  of  whom  attained  to  full  age,  except 
one,  who  died  in  infancy.  Seven  are  living.  Both  parents 
have  died. 

Peter  was  born  Sept.  24,  1797.  He  was  married  in  War- 
saw, to  Lydia  Adelia  Stevens,  by  whom  he  had  seven  chil- 
dren: 1.  Harriet,  wrho  died  Aug.  14,  1859,  aged  34  years.  2. 
Henry  S.,  who  married  Letitia  Willard,  lives  in  the  village, 
and  has  a  son,  Frank  W.;  3.  Martha;  4.  Mary  Elizabeth;  5. 
Abraham,  d.  inf.;  6.  William  B.,  wTho  went  to  the  war.  [See 
War  History.]  He  married  Miss  Matthews,  and  resides  in 
Rochester;  7.  James  C.  The  family  resides  on  West  Hill, 
near  the  village.  Both  parents,  who  were  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  now,  with  several  of  their  children,  be- 
long to  the  Congregational  church.  Mr.  Young  held  for 
many  years  the  office  of  ruling  elder  in  the  former,  and  that 
of  deacon  in  the  latter.  He  made  a  public  profession  of  his 
faith  in  1817,  and  has  maintained  the  character  of  a  consist- 
ent, zealous,  and  active  Christian.  All  religious  and  benevo- 
lent enterprises  have  received  his  cordial  and  unfaltering 
support. 


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IIISTOKY   OF    WARSAW. 


Elizabeth,  born  Sept.  2,  1799,  was  married  in  1830,  to 
William  D.  Barnett,  formerly  from  Londonderry,  !N\  II.,  and 
removed  to  Clarkson;  thence,  in  1837,  to  Gainesville,  and  in 
1848  or  1849,  to  Attica,  where  lie  died  Aug.  2,  1865,  and 
where  she  still  resides.  He  was  a  ruling  elder  in  the  church 
in  Attica,  and  faithfully  discharged  the  duties  of  that  office. 
He  died  of  a  linjrerino-  disease,  August  2,  1S65.  [See  Bar- 
nett  I  amines.] 

Andrew  TV".,  and  Abraham  T.     [See  Sketches.] 

ANDREW  TV.  YOUNG  was  born  in  Carlisle,  Schoharie 
Co.,  N.  Y.,  March  2, 1802.  His  ancestry  on  the  paternal  side 
is  traceable  to  Holland.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  Ireland, 
though  reared  from  early  childhood  in  this  country,  and  was 
one  of  those  people  who  are  often  distinguished  as  the  "Prot- 
estant" or  "-Scotch  Irish."  His  vernacular  language  was 
that  which  had  been  introduced  in  this  country  by  the  Van 
Winkles,  the  Diedricks,  and  the  lvnickerbackers,  and  their 
fellow  immigrants;  though,  from  its  having  been  for  two  cen- 
turies in  contact  with  other  languages,  it  had  suffered  material 
adulteration.  His  educational  course  comprised  a  few  years' 
instruction  in  common  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  a 
half  term  in  Middlebury  Academy.  His  youth  was  spent  in 
farm  labor  and  teaching.  He  closed  his  first  term  of  teach- 
ing at  the  end  of  his  thirteenth  year.  Without  any  know- 
ledge on  his  part,  consent  had  been  given  by  his  father,  and, 
it  is  believed,  without  any  specific  agreement  as  to  wages. 
The  people  of  the  district  acknowledged  themselves  satisfied 
with  their  teacher,  for  whose  three  months'  services  and 
board,  his  father  received  the  sum  of  $15!  The  teacher 
himself  felt  amply  compensated  by  the  pleasure  of  partici- 
pating, as  usual,  with  his  former  school -fellows  in  their  plays, 
and  the  pride  of  having  so  early  attained  to  the  honors  of  the 
schoolmaster's  degree,  the  highest  object  of  his  youthful  am- 
bition. He  ended  his  labors  as  teacher  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
one.  After  this,  he  was  engaged  for  several  years  as  clerk 
and  as  principal  in  the  mercantile  business.  In  May,  1830, 
he  commenced  the  publication  of  the  Warsaw  Sentinel,  which 
he  continued  nearly  two  years,  when  he  purchased  the  Repub- 
lican Advocate,  at  Batavia,  in  which  the  Sentinel  was 
merged,  Jan.  1,  1S32.  He  continued  the  publication  and 
editorship  of  the  Advocate  until  April,  1835,  when  he  sold 
his  interest  in  it  to  D.  D.  Waite,  its  present  proprietor.  In 
the  course  of  his  editorial  labors  in  Batavia,  he  became 
deeply  impressed  with  the  importance  of  a  more  general 
diffusion  of   a  knowledge  of   the  principles  of  government, 


FAMILY    SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  359 

which  lie  deemed  essential  to  the  national  prosperity  and  the 
security  of  our  liberties.  Since  that  time  his  labors  have  been 
directed  to  this  object.  In  October,  1835,  was  issued  from 
his  press  in  Warsaw  the  first  edition  of  his  "  Science  of  Gov- 
ernment." The  book  was  literally  an  article  of  "home 
manufacture."  It  was  written,  printed,  and  bound  in  War- 
saw. The  type  setting  was  done  chiefly  by  Seth  Lewis,  since 
a  partner  in  the  publication  of  a  paper  in  Perry,  and  for  more 
than  twenty-five  years  proprietor  and  publisher  of  the  Mar- 
shall Statesman,  in  Marshall,  Mich.  Among  those  who  for 
short  periods  assisted  in  this  work,  was  the  Hon.  William  IT. 
Kelsey,  now  of  Geneseo,  a  representative  in  the  present  and 
former  Congresses.  Assistance  at  press  work  was  rendered 
by  Levi  Spencer,  without  any  previous  experience  in  the 
business,  who  since  became  a  devoted  minister  of  the  Gospel, 
and  died  in  Illinois.  The  "  Science  of  Government  "  was  the 
first  work  of  the  kind  brought  into  general  notice  in  this  state 
and  several  other  states.  Though  coarse  in  its  appearance,  it 
met  with  a  favorable  reception.  Its  defects,  more  apparent, 
perhaps,  to  the  author  than  to  others,  induced  him  to  re-write 
and  thoroughly  revise  it.  It  appeared  in  an  improved  form 
early  in  1840.  This  work  was  followed,  in  1843,  by  "  First 
Lessons  in  Civil  Government,"  adapted  to  the  capacities  of 
younger  learners,  and  designed  especially  for  use  in  the  state 
of  New  York.  In  1845,  he  wrote  a  similar  work,  adapted  for 
use  in  the  state  of  Ohio,  of  which  many  thousand  copies  were 
sold.  About  this  time  his  labors  in  his  chosen  pursuit  were 
temporarily  suspended.  By  successive  elections  he  was 
chosen  to  represent  the  county  of  Wyoming  in  the  Legisla- 
tures of  1845  and  1840,  and  in  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1846.  The  happiest  reflection  associated  with  this  brief 
public  service  is,  that  these  offices  were  spontaneously  be- 
stowed. In  1852,  ho  commenced  the  "American  Statesman, 
a  Political  History  of  the  United  States,"  which  appeared  in 
the  spring  of  1855.  This  is  believed  to  be  the  only  work  of 
its  kind,  being  a  purely  political  history,  or  history  of  govern- 
ment in  this  country,  during  the  whole  period  of  our  colonial 
existence,  of  the  government  under  the  Confederation,  and  of 
the  government  under  the  Constitution.  In  1858,  appeared 
his  "  Citizen's  Manual,"  containing  a  compendium  or  digest 
of  constitutional,  common  and  statutory,  and  international 
law,  designed  more  especially  for  adults;  and  in  1860,  his 
"  National  Economy."  His  latest  works  for  schools  are  the 
"  Government  Class  Book,"  first  issued  in  1859;  and  in  1867, 
"First  Book  on  Civil  Government,"  being  a  simplified 
abridgment  of  the  former  work,  and  intended   for  younger 


360  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

learners.  A  controlling  motive  to  these  labors  lias  been  a 
desire  to  be  in  some  degree  instrumental  in  preparing  Ameri- 
can citizens  for  a  more  intelligent  discharge  of  the  duties  of 
citizenship.  This  end  will  be  secured  when  political  know- 
ledge in  this  country  of  free  institutions  shall  be  duly  appre- 
ciated by  the  people  generally,  and  when  those  to  whom  the 
interests  of  education  are  especially  committed  shall  have  a 
proper  sense  of  their  official  responsibilities.  There  are  other 
objects  to  which  the  subject  of  this  sketch  has  not  been  in- 
different. Impressed  with  the  sentiment  that  virtue  is  essen- 
tial alike  to  the  happiness  and  well-being  of  society  and  the 
safety  of  the  state,  he  has  given  his  encouragement  and  aid  to 
measures  for  the  suppression  of  immorality  and  vice,  in  its 
various  forms,  and  for  the  promotion  of  what  the  founders  of 
our  free  institutions  deemed  of  vital  importance  in  a  commu- 
nity— "True  religion  and  good  morals." 

He  came  to  Warsaw  with  his  father  and  family  in  1816, 
and,  with  the  exception  of  two  brief  intervals,  resided  in  this 
town  until  1856,  when  he  removed  to  Ripley,  Chautauqua 
Co.,  and  in  1868  to  Red  Wing,  Minn. 

He  married,  Oct.  4,  1827,  while  residing  at  Wethersfield 
Springs,  Eliza  Webster,  of  Warsaw,  who  was  born  June  9, 
1804,  and  was  the  first  child  born  in  this  town.  They  have 
had  five  children:  David  A.,  Lucy,  Elizabeth,  William,  and 
Mary  E. 

David  A.  was  born  Aug.  IT,  182S;  married  in  Red  Wing, 
May  30,  1861,  Ada  Augusta  McGlashan,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren, Herbert  A.,  and  another  son. 

Lucy  was  born  Nov.  8,  1862;  married  in  Ripley,  N.  Y., 
Nov.,  1866,  Emery  Purdy,  of  Red  Wing,  Minn.,  where  they 
now  reside. 

Elizabeth  was  born  Oct.  3,  1834;  resides  in  Red  Wing. 

William  was  born  March  26,  1841;  died  July  12,  1842. 

Mary  E.  was  born  May  14,  1846;  married  Nov.  26,  186S, 
E.  K.  Sparrell,  of  Red  Wing. 

ABRAHAM  T.  YOUNG  was  born  in  Carlisle,  N.  Y, 
May  10,  1806,  and  came  to  Warsaw  in  1816.  His  employ- 
ment was  farming  until,  in  his  25th  year,  he  engaged  as  clerk 
in  the  store  of  Joshua  II.  Darling,  where  he  remained  about 
two  years.  Having  decided  to  prepare  himself  for  the  min- 
istry, he  commenced  his  studies  preparatory  to  entering  col- 
lege at  Middlebury  Academy,  in  1832,  and  completed  them 
at  Geneva  in  1835.  He  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1839. 
He  took  his  first  year's  course  in  Theology  at  Union  Theolo- 
gical Seminary  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  the  remainder 


FAMILY   SKETCHES    AND    NOTES.  361 

of  it,  the  two  succeeding;  years,  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  and  grad- 
uated in  May,  1S12.  He  had  determined  to  enter  the_  field 
of  Foreign  Missions;  but  causes  unforeseen  induced  him  to 
change  his  purpose.  He  commenced  his  ministry  with  the 
Presbyterian  church  at  East  Aurora,  Erie  Co.,  in  1S12.  In 
1847,  he  was  invited  to  "Warsaw,  where  lie  remained  three 
years.  He  has  since  ministered,  as  stated  supply  or  pastor, 
to  the  churches  at  East  Bethany,  five  years;  Charlotte,  two 
years;  Sacket's  Harbor,  five  years;  and  Oaks  Corners,  the 
last  five  years.  He  was  married  in  July,  1811,  to  Ann  Ho- 
garth, of  Geneva.  They  had  four  children  :  1.  Edward  Sey- 
mour, recently  admitted  to  the  practice  of  Law;  2.  3.  Frank 
H.,  William  P.,  wTho  both  died  in  infancy;  1.  Richard  Ho- 
garth. 


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HISTORY   OF  WARSAW. 


SUPPLEMENTARY  NOTES. 


Among  the  families  who  came  to  Warsaw  from  Londonderry, 
N.  H. ,  were  the  Pattersons  and  Fishers.  Sketches  of  all  the 
latter  have  been  given  on  page  261.  Of  the  eleven  branches  of 
the  Patterson  family,  eight  have  resided  in  this  town.  William 
came  in  1821,  and  George  W.,  now  of  Westfield,  the  same  year 
or  the  next.  He  resided  with  his  brother  several  years,  and 
gave  his  first  vote  in  this  town.  In  1829,  Peter  and  Robert, 
with  their  families,  made  Warsaw  their  home  for  a  time.  Also 
four  sisters  have  resided  in  this  town :  Mrs.  Barnett,  Mrs.  Tay- 
lor, Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Baker,  still  living,  and  Mrs.  Frank. 
Presuming  that  the  two  following  incidents  relating  to  the  an- 
cestors of  these  families  will  be  read  with  interest  by  their 
numerous  descendants  and  by  our  readers  generally,  we  insert 
them  in  this  place : 

THE    STARVED    SHIP. 

[Froin  the  History  of  Londonderry.] 

Dea.  Samuel  Fisher,  father  of  Dea.  John  Fisher,  noticed 
on  page  261,  was  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  in  the  year  1722, 
and  was  of  Scottish  descent.  He  came  to  America  in  1740,  in 
the  nineteenth  year  of  his  age.  The  ship  in  which  he  came  was 
usually  spoken  of  as  "The  starved  ship."  The  vessel  was  so 
scantily  supplied  with  provisions,  that  long  before  the  voyage 
was  completed,  one  pint  of  oat-meal  for  each  individual  on 
board,  and  a  proportionate  allowance  of  water,  was  all  that  re- 
mained. Mr.  Fisher  once  went  to  the  mate  with  a  tablespoon 
to  obtain  some  water,  which  was  refused  him,  there  being  but 
two-thirds  of  a  junk-bottle  full  on  board.  Mr.  Fisher's  cus- 
tom was  to  take  a  tablespoonful  of  meal  daily,  and  having 
moistened  it  with  salt  water,  to  eat  it  raw.  The  passengers 
and  crew,  having  subsisted  in  this  manner  for  fourteen  days, 
were  at  length  reduced  to  the  necessity  of  eating  the  bodies  of 


SUPPLEMENTARY   NOTES. 


363 


those  who  died.  Even  this  resource  failed  them,  and  at  length 
Mr.  Fisher  was  selected  to  give  up  his  life  to  preserve  the  lives 
of  the  rest.  Providentially,  however,  a  vessel  hove  in  sight, 
and  their  signals  of  distress  being  observed,  they  obtained  re- 
lief and  were  saved.  So  deep  an  impression  did  the  horrors  of 
that  passage  make  upon  the  mind  of  Mr.  Fisher,  that,  in  after 
life,  he  could  not  see,  without  pain,  the  least  morsel  of  food 
wasted,  or  a  pail  of  water  thrown  carelessly  on  the  ground. 


A    SCOTCH-IRISH    FAMILY. 

[From  an  Eastern  Paper.] 

In  the  year  1726,  an  emigrant  ship,  laden  with  a  band  of 
Scotch-Irish  adventurers,  sailed  for  the  American  continent, 
While  proceeding  on  their  way  across  the  broad  Atlantic,  they 
had  the  misfortune  to  fall  into  the  hands  of  a  band  of  pirates, 
who  boarded  the  emigrant  vessel,  placing  her  unhappy  inmates 
on  board  their  own.  Among  the  emigrants  was  a  Mrs.  Wilson, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  Fulton,  who,  excited  by  the 
events  of  their  capture,  gave  birth  prematurely  to  an  infant 
daughter.  The  Captain  of  this  pirate  band,  himself  being  a 
father,  was  induced  to  tender  to  the  unfortunate  lady  every 
assistance  in  his  power,  allowing  her  to  occupy  the  cabin  of  the 
vessel,  granting  her  every  comfort  their  situation  afforded;  and 
the  pirates  were  constrained  to  release  their  hold  upon  the  un- 
fortunate adventurers,  and  suffered  them  to  proceed  on  their 
voyage  with  all  their  effects,  save  a  few  muskets  and  some 
ammunition,  which  the  pirates  retained.  The  Captain  gave  her 
several  valuable  presents  and  relics,  (some  of  which  are  now  in 
possession  of  the  family  of  Mrs.  Frank,  in  this  village,)  with 
the  promise  from  the  family  that  the  child  should  be  named  for 
the  Captain's  wife — Mary.  The  anniversary  of  this  remark- 
able deliverance  was  devoutly  commemorated  as  a  day  of 
annual  thanksgiving  by  the  early  settlers  during  the  whole  of 
that  generation. 

This  little  band  settled  in  the  good  old  town  of  Londonderry ; 
and  from  this  mother  and  this  ocean-born  daughter  may  be 
traced  the  genealogy  of  many  of  the  worthy  citizens  of  that 
and  the  neighboring  towns,  as  well  as  some  whose  names  are 
among  the  illustrious  of  our  countrymen.  Mary  "Wilson,  the 
child  that  was  born  upon  the  pirate  ship,  having  survived  to 
grow  up,  married  James  Wallace,  of  Londonderry.  They  were 
the  parents  of  a  numerous  family,  remarkable  for  intelligence 
and  enterprise.  Their  only  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married 
Thomas  Patterson,  of  Londonderry,  and  thus  became  the 
mother   of  the    Patterson    family,   known  to    most  people  in 


364 


HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


that  vicinity  as  possessing  strong  intellect  and  a  large  share  of 
native  eloquence.  In  olclen  time,  when  the  early  settlers  were 
grouped  together,  and  spoke  of  the  place  of  their  nativity, 
some  would  say  it  was  on  this  side  of  the  water,  and  some  on 
that;  but  Mrs.  Wallace  would  say:  "Indeed,  I  was  born 
neither  on  this  side  o'  the  water  nor  on  that  side  o'  the  water, 
nor  anywhere  else  on  God's  earth,"  to  the  no  small  astonish- 
ment of  the  younger  ones. 


AN   "UNDERGROUND"  ESCAPE. 

Ix  the  year  1851,  there  occurred  an  incident  worthy  of  record, 
as  illustrating  the  fame  of  this  town  as  an  antislavery  commu- 
nity. About  the  year  1848,  there  removed  to  the  District  of 
Columbia,  two  brothers  from  Connecticut,  who  had  previously 
become  acquainted  with  some  of  our  citizens  who  had  a  "per- 
fect hatred"  of  the  Fugitive  Slave  Law.  They  engaged  in 
market-gardening;  and  among  their  help  was  one  very  compe- 
tent female  servant,  owned  in  the  District,  and  hired  out  by 
her  master.  This  slave  had  two  children,  one  son  whose  ser- 
vices were  also  sold,  and  a  little  daughter  about  seven  years  of 
age.  She  was  very  intelligent  and  faithful,  and  became  a 
favorite  with  her  employers.  One  day  she  came  to  them  with 
tearful  eyes,  and  told  them  the  old  story — she  was  to  be  sold 
"down  south,"  away  from  her  children  and  friends.  Our  free- 
dom-loving Yankees,  acting  on  "  the  higher  law"  some  years 
in  advance  of  Mr.  Seward's  proclamation  of  it,  resolved  to 
save  her  from  the  fate  she  so  dreaded.  One  of  them  caused  to 
be  made  a  large  box,  just  the  size  of  the  broad  market  wagon 
in  which  they  took  their  vegetables  to  the  city.  Putting  into 
this  some  bedding,  a  jug  of  water,  and  a  supply  of  food,  and 
leaving  at  the  sides  near  the  bottom  holes  for  ventilation,  he 
nailed  the  cover  down  over  the  slave  woman  and  her  little 
child,  and  one  line  night  drove  leisurely  by  the  National  Capi- 
tol, intent  on  giving  practical  effect,  in  one  more  instance,  to 
the  "self-evident  truth"  proclaimed  by  its  founders : — that  "all 
men  are  endowed  by  their  Creator  with  the  inalienable  right  to 
"life,  liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness."  The  morning 
sun  found  him  forty  miles  away  in  Maryland.  He  left  his 
wagon  in  front  of  a  village  tavern,  to  prevent  suspicion,  and 
fed  and  rested  his  horses.  On  and  on  he  went,  following  the 
Northern  Star  whose  light  was  guide  and  compass  to  many 
fleeing  fugitives  in  Southern  swamps  and  friendly  forests.  In 
the  solitude  of  night  he  would  attend  to  the  wants  of  his  pas- 
sengers, and  at  stopping-places  by  day  evade  curious  questions, 
correct  answers  to  which  Avould  have  brought  down  upon  him 
a  United  States  Marshal,  with  the  penitentiary  for  his  reward. 


WARSAW  FALLS. 


SUPPLEMENTARY  NOTES.  365 

Across  Maryland  and  Pennsylvania  he  drove,  over  the  difficult 
mountain  roads  of  the  Alleghanies,  into  New  York.  On  the 
evening  of  the  tAventy-seconcl  day  he  reached  his  journey's  end 
at  Warsaw.  Driving  to  the  residence  of  his  acquaintance,  Mr. 
Isaac  N.  Phelps,  an  earnest  friend  of  the  slave,  the  box  was 
quietly  opened,  and  for  the  first  time  the  poor  woman  was 
taken  out  of  quarters  so  cramped  that  she  could  scarcely 
straighten  her  form  therein.  Mother  and  child  were  found  to 
be  enfeebled,  but  in  good  spirits; — indeed,  nothing  but  the 
instinct  of  Liberty  would  have  sustained  the  courage  of  the 
mother,  and  restrained  the  betraying  prattle  of  the  child, 
through  that  long,  dark  ride  of  three  weeks.  They  were 
secreted  a  few  days,  a  part  of  the  time  in  Arcade,  until  it  was 
found  that  their  whereabouts  were  not  known,  when,  by  the 
assistance  of  a  few  citizens  who  were  privy  to  their  history, 
the  mother  began  to  live  on  her  own  services,  and  proved  valu- 
able help.  In  three  or  four  months  she  gave  birth  to  a  son, 
and  in  about  a  year  thereafter  died  of  quick  consumption.  The 
little  girl  was  taken  and  carefully  reared  in  the  family  of  Allen 
Y.  Breck,  becoming  a  skillful  worker  and  an  exemplary  young 
woman.  She  is  now  the  wife  of  a  well-to-do  colored  citizen, 
Win,  Burghardt,  and  is  mistress  of  a  nice  house.  The  babe  was 
taken  and  cared  for  by  the  family  of  D.  C.  Martin,  of  this 
toAvn,  and  has  repaid  the  kindness  by  growing  up  an  industri- 
ous, faithful  farmer-boy.  Many  other  fugitives  from  slavery 
found  here  a  helping  hand  in  their  flight  to  Canada,  but  few 
episodes  occurred  so  purely  local  as  the  escape  and  harboring 
of  the  woman  who  was  known  here  by  the  name  of  Mrs.  Jones. 


CRYSTAL  BROOK  AND  ITS  CASCADES. 

In  our  description  of  the  Topography  of  this  town,  [p.  25,] 
we  made  a  brief  allusion  to  the  principal  cascade  on  Crystal 
Brook.  Not  being  sufficiently  familiar  with  the  several  falls 
to  give  them  a  proper  description,  the  following  has  been 
kindly  furnished  by  a  citizen  of  Warsaw  : 

The  hill-range  that  bounds  the  valley  of  the  O-at-ka  on  the 
west,  in  the  town  of  Warsaw,  is  here  and  there  broken  by  ra- 
vines and  glens  where  the  gathered  waters  of  the  hills  make 
their  way  into  the  valley.  Some  of  them  are  of  great  pictur- 
esqueness  and  beauty.  Maple  Glen,  just  south-west  of  the 
village,  is  the  equal  of  them  all  in  the  variety  and  luxuriance 
of  its  scenery. 

The  crystal  clearness  of  a  small  spring  that  bubbles  from 
the  earth  in  the  north-east  corner  of  the  town  of  Orangeville, 


366  HISTORY   OF   WAESAW. 

has  given  the  name  of  Ciystal  Brook  to  the  stream  that  flows 
from  it.  Gathering  in  volume  from  the  runnels  of  the  mead- 
ows and  the  water-courses  of  the  hollows,  it  enters  the  town 
of  Warsaw,  and  there  receiving  a  tributary  from  the  west, 
bends  sharply  towards  the  east.  In  the  earlier  days  of  the 
town,  when  the  forests  were  denser  than  at  present,  it  industri- 
ously toiled  here  for  the  neighborhood  in  turning  the  wheels  of 
saw-mills. 

As  the  stream  flows  onward,  it  enters  the  cleft  of  the  hill- 
side, and  grows  in  attractiveness  and  beauty.  In  one  charming 
spot  it  spreads  itself  in  glassy  pools,  whose  surface  mirrors,  in 
shifting  photographs,  the  woods  around  and  the  skies  above. 
The  dell  grows  lovelier  and  deeper.  A  low  cascade,  where  the 
waters  pitch  over  a  bench  of  rock,  ripples  an  unceasing  hymn, 
and  again  and  again  the  brook  nestles  and  lingers  in  the 
hollows  of  the  rocks.  The  banks  are  fringed  with  the  under- 
growth of  the  woods,  Avhere,  in  summer  time,  the  rich  emerald 
of  the  green  enlivens  the  silveriness  of  the  waters.  The  rocks 
around  are  hoary  with  the  years  they  have  seen.  Here  is  the 
first  of  the  three  sister  cascades. 

It  is  a  walk  of  but  a  moment  to  reach  the  second  cascade. 
The  rocks  that  form  it  are  rifted  and  worn.  Where  the  crumb- 
ling slate  has  yielded  most  readily  to  the  friction  of  the  waters, 
the  brook  has  grooved  its  way,  and  falls  into  a  miniature  gorge 
wret  with  spray  and  hung  with  mosses.  The  glen  has  not  yet 
grown  rugged  and  grim,  as  below.     It  is  all 

"  So  wondrous  wild,  the  whole  might  seein 
The  scenery  of  a  fairy  dream." 

This  little  cascade,  scarcely  twent}^  feet  in  height,  is  the  beau- 
tiful idyl  of  the  woods. 

As  the  eye  looks  down  stream,  it  follows  the  current  until  a 
bank  of  forest  bounds  the  vision,  and  seems  to  block  the  way 
of  the  wandering  waters.  A  sudden  turn  of  the  glen  brings 
one  upon  the  railway  culvert,  above  which  rises  the  embank- 
ment, cutting  off  the  view. 

Below  the  culvert,  where  the  glen  suddenly  deepens,  is  a 
sloping  precipice,  sixty  feet  in  height,  over  which  the  brook 
falls.  In  summer,  when  the  heats  are  most  fervid,  and  the 
drouth  3-et  lingers,  it  flings  itself  over  the  ledge — a  long, 
streaming  scarf  of  snow-white  foam,  projected  against  the 
dark  back-ground  of  the  rocks.  In  winter  the  congealed 
mists,  slowly  gathering  from  day  to  day,  form  an  irregular 
slope  from  the  bottom  to  the  top.  Icy  columns  support  icy 
stair-cases;  opaline  domes  hang  on  slender  shafts,  defiant  of 
all  principles  of  gravitation;  grotesque  images  leer  out  of  the 
icy  berg,  and  white  snow-wreaths  and  steel-blue  caverns  inter- 
mingle in  vivid  contrast.  A  sheer  precipice  of  a  hundred  feet 
on  the  south,  a  wooded  steep  on  the  north,  and  a  wintry  sky 
overhead,  form  the  massive  frame-work  of  this  frost-picture. 


SUPPLEMENTARY   NOTES.  367 

The  hill,  for  a  quarter  of  a  mile  to  the  east,  is  rifted  apart 
nearly  a  hundred  feet  in  depth.  The  boughs  of  the  forest  trees 
interlace  luxuriantly  overhead;  sometimes  stooping  low,  and 
then  lifting  themselves  upward  in  gothic  archways  and  great 
vernal  domes.  The  summer  embroiders  the  floor  of  the  glen 
with  wild  roses  and  flowering  grasses.  The  bed  is  rough  and 
stony  where  the  brook  makes  its  way,  and  it  winds  and  loops 
itself  in  many  a  graceful  curve  as  it  flows.  When  it  emerges 
from  the  glen,  it  subsides  into  a  very  hum-drum,  matter-of-fact 
kind  of  stream,  and  steals  along  the  level  of  the  valley  to  rest 
its  waters  at  lenq-th  in  the  turbid  bosom  of  the  O-at-ka. 


"INDIAN    ALLAN." 

It  is  generally  known  that  the  stream  in  this  valley  took  its 
former  name  from  the  fact  that  a  man  called  ' '  Indian  Allan  " 
lived  a  short  time  near  the  entrance  of  the  stream  into  Gene- 
see river.  He  was  a  white  man,  however,  and  his  true  name 
was  Ebenezer  Allan.  He  was,  during  the  Revolutionary  war, 
allied  with  the  British  and  the  Indians,  and  vied  with  the  latter 
in  deeds  of  cruelty  and  bloodshed.  Before  the  close  of  the  war, 
he  sought  a  home  with  his  war  associates  at  Gardeau,  and  made 
the  residence  of  Mary  Jemison*  his  home,  whose  lands  he  worked 
until  after  the  peace  of  1783.  He  then  got  goods,  traded  at 
Mount  Morris,  and  seemed  to  be  disposed  to  peace.  He  after- 
wards displeased  his  former  allies,  who  determined  to  punish 
him.  They  pursued  him,  but  he  escaped.  In  a  second  pursuit 
he  was  captured,  and  again  escaped,  and  was  again  sheltered 
by  Mrs.  Jemison.  He  was  again  captured,  taken  to  Montreal, 
for  the  crime  charged,  which  was  his  having,  by  an  unauthor- 
ized presentation  of  the  wampum  as  a  token  of  peace,  induced 
the  Indians  to  ' '  bury  the  hatchet. "  He  was  acquitted,  on  the 
ground,  as  is  supposed,  that  there  was  no  law  making  the  car- 
rying of  wampum  to  the  enemy  a  crime. 

Allan  married  several  wives.  His  first  was  a  squaw,  named 
Sally,  by  whom  he  had  two  children.  He  married  two  or  three 
white  women,  the  husband  of  one  of  whom  he  probably  mur- 
dered while  he  lived  near  the  mouth  of  the  creek.  He  again 
removed  to  Mount  Morris,  where  his  wives  gave  him  trouble. 
The  Seneca  Indians  deeded  to  him  in  trust  for  his  two  daugh- 
ters, a  tract  of  four  miles  square,  including  the  present  village 
of  Mount  Morris.  The  deed  provided  that  he  should,  from  the 
proceeds  of  the  land,  cause  the  girls  to  be  instructed  "  inread- 

*Mrs.  Jemison  was  familiarly  called  "  The  White  Woman."  When  a  child,  she  was 
carried  away  bjr  Indians,  with  whom  she  spent  the  remainder  of  her  life.  She  had  mar- 
ried an  Indian,  and  was  now  living  iu  widowhood  on  her  extensive  tract  of  land  at 
Gardeau.    She  died  at  a  very  advanced  age. 


368  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

ing  and  writing,  sewing  and  other  useful  arts,  according  to  the 
custom  of  the  white  people."  Provision  was  also  to  he  made 
for  Sally  while  she  "  remained  unjoined  to  another  man."  The 
girls  were  sent  to  school  at  Philadelphia.  He  removed  to  Can- 
ada ;  and  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  of  1812,  he  was  charged 
with  being  friendly  to  the  Americans,  arrested,  confined  in  jail, 
and  bailed  out.  He  died  in  1814.  As  there  was  nothing  in  his 
life  or  character  to  justify  the  application  of  his  name  to  this 
stream,  it  is  hoped  that  it  may  hereafter  be  designated  only  by 
its  aboriginal  name,  O-at-ka. 


SKETCH  OF  INDIAN  HISTORY. 

A  few  facts  relating  to  Indian  history  in  Western  New 
York,  are  deemed  appropriate,  and  may  be  interesting  to  many 
readers.  Prior  to  the  settlement  of  this  town,  few  white  men 
had  ever  set  their  feet  upon  its  soil,  and  for  many  years  after 
the  white  settlements  in  this  section  had  been  commenced,  the 
territory  was  a  part  of  the  extensive  hunting  grounds  of  the 
Indians.  Though  they  had  sold  their  claims  to  most  of  their 
lands,  and  though  they  confined  their  settlements  to  their  re- 
served lands,  they  were  not  restricted  to  these  reservations  in 
procuring  the  means  of  subsistence.  Many  a  deer  was  slain 
within  the  bounds  of  this  and  the  adjacent  towns,  by  missiles 
from  the  hands  of  Indians,  before  these  animals  became  marks 
for  Judge  Webster's  rifle.  And  although  few  white  men  had 
traversed  this  valley  and  these  hill  ranges,  this  town  was,  not 
only  before,  but  long  after  its  first  settlement,  a  part  of  the 
common  thoroughfare  of  the  Indians  passing  between  the  Buf- 
falo Reservation  and  the  reservations  along  the  valley  of  the 
Genesee  river,  especially  those  at  and  above  Mount  Morris. 

As  white  settlements  sprang  up  around  them,  the  Indians, 
who  had  originally  lived  chiefly  by  hunting,  began  to  procure 
supplies  of  food  and  clothing,  in  part,  from  the  whites,  in  ex- 
change for  their  own  products,  as  venison  and  other  game, 
baskets,  bead-work  and  various  other  kinds  of  trinkets.  The 
main  road  from  Buffalo  to  Genesee  river,  passing  centrally 
through  this  town,  before  it  was  ever  tracked  by  the  peddler's 
wagon,  was  a  daily  line  of  travel  of  Indian  peddlers,  carrying 
back-loads  of  baskets  and  other  wares,  exchanging  them  for 
products  of  farm  and  household  labor. 

Allusion  has  been  made  to  Indian  alarms  during  the  war  of 
1812.  It  may  be  inferred  by  some  that  the  Indians  were  ene- 
mies of  the  whites.  Such  was  not  the  fact.  They  took  no 
part  with  Great  Britain  in  the  war.  If  there  were  any  hostile 
Indians,  they  were  those  of  Canada.  And  if  there  was  any 
ground  for  the  fears  of  the  people  here,  it  was  that  the  British 


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360 


Canadians,  with  their  Indians,  might  cross  the  lines  and  de- 
vastate our  settlements. 

In  our  sketch  of  the  Holland  Purchase,  mention  is  made  of 
the  fact  generally  known,  that  the  title  of  the  lands  was  origin- 
ally in  the  Indians,  and  that  purchases  made  were  subject  to 
their  claims.  And  it  is  stated,  (p.  20,)  that,  in  1797,  the  In- 
dian title  was  extinguished,  except  to  certain  reservations 
there  named.  The  principal  of  these  was  the  Buffalo  Reserva- 
tion, which  embraced  a  large  portion  of  the  present  county  of 
Erie,  extending  east  from  Buffalo  ten  to  fifteen  miles.  It  will 
be  readily  imagined  that  so  large  a  tract  of  wild  lands  around 
that  place  must  have  greatly  retarded  its  growth.  For  a  large 
part  of  the  year,  access  to  the  city  with  teams  was  all  but 
impossible.  This  obstruction  to  the  trade  of  Buffalo  continued 
to  a  late  period.  This  reservation  was  at  length  sold  by  the 
Indians  and  vacated;  and  the  lands  have  been  settled  and 
brought  into  a  state  of  cultivation.  The  Cattaraugus  reserva- 
tion is  still  peopled  by  Indians,  and  has  long  been  missionary 
ground.  A  large  portion  of  them  have  been  Christianized, 
have  abandoned  their  Indian  customs,  and  adopted  the  habits 
of  civilized  life.  The  Indians  of  other  reservations  also  have 
been  more  or  less  affected  by  surrounding  civilization.  Besides 
those  of  the  Cattaraugus,  there  are  still  some  on  the  Tona- 
wanda  reservation,  and  along  the  Genesee  valley.  But  these 
are  said  to  be  gradually  diminishing  in  numbers,  and  we  may 
reasonably  presume  that  their  existence,  as  nations  or  tribes, 
will  ere  long  cease,  and  the  few  who  may  remain  will  be  swal- 
lowed up  in  the  society  of  the  surrounding  white  population. 


OLD  MODES  OF  TRAVEL. 

Ix  nothing  has  time  wrought  more  marked  changes  than  in 
modes  of  travel.  Many  remember  when  it  was  common  for 
men  to  perform  journeys  of  hundreds  of  miles  on  foot,  carry- 
ing well-filled  knapsacks ;  or  on  horseback,  with  their  baggage, 
consisting  of  a  valise  with  a  change  or  two  of  underclothes,  on 
a  pad  fastened  to  the  back  end  of  the  saddle.  Women  rode 
behind  men  on  horseback  "  to  meeting,"  and  not  unfrequently 
to  balls,  sitting  on  a  blanket  as  a  substitute  for  the  pillion  of  a 
hundred  years  ago,  which  we  have  so  often  heard  of,  but  have 
never  seen.  Occasionally  was  seen  a  side-saddle  for  women's 
use ;  but  this  was  a  luxury  beyond  the  means  of  the  mass  of 
men,  whose  wives  and  daughters  were  obliged  to  ride  on  men's 
saddles. 

Quite  as  common  a  mode  of  conveyance  was  by  the  two-horse 
lumber-wagon,  with  the  ancient  "wagon  chair,"  made  for  two 

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370  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

persons.  The  comfort  of  riding  thus  without  springs  under 
either  the  box  or  the  seat,  over  long  and  rough  roads,  with  fre- 
quent corduroy  bridge  accompaniments  breaking  the  monotony, 
can  be  best  appreciated  by  those  who  have  enjoyed  it.  Now 
and  then  was  seen  a  one  horse  chaise  carrying  a  fortunate  cou- 
ple envied  by  the  "  common  people."  This  was  the  only  one- 
horse  vehicle  we  ever  saw  in  our  childhood,  except  the  old 
"pung,"  a  plain,  one-horse,  high-back  sleigh,  sometimes  im- 
proved in  appearance  by  a  coat  of  paint.  Buggies  were  un- 
known. Next  appeared  the  one-horse  wagon,  with  a  paneled 
square  box  set  solid  on  the  axletree,  but  with  a  wooden  spring 
seat.  This  vehicle  probably  exhibited  what  was  then  deemed 
the  acme  of  improvement  in  wheel  carriages.  An  idea  of  the 
use,  by  so  large  a  portion  of  the  people,  of  the  easy  and  splen- 
did carriages  of  the  present  day,  was  not  entertained. 

Four-horse  post-coaches  were  run  on  turnpikes  and  other 
principal  thoroughfares ;  but  the  poor  man's  purse  was  too  lean 
to  bear  a  draft  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  stage  fare  and  meals 
from  Buffalo  to  Albany  before  the  reduction  of  these  high  rates 
by  competition.  Allusion  has  elsewhere  been  made  to  the  first 
plain,  two-horse  carriage,  the  "Moscow  Stage,"  run  through 
this  town  by  Levi  Street,  and  to  the  improved  coaches  of  our 
old  fellow-citizen  yet  among  us,  Gen.  McElwain.  Many  still 
remember  the  sound  of  the  stage  horn  announcing,  from  East 
Hill,  the  approach  of  the  coaches  on  their  "winding  way"  down 
the  steep  descent,  and  giving  signal  to  the  hotel-keeper  and  the 
postmaster  to  prepare  for  their  reception.  Stage  horns  were 
heard  for  many  years  from  all  directions.  But  stage  traveling- 
was  not  always  agreeable.  A  full  week  was  sometimes  too 
short  for  a  passage  to  Albany-  Coaches  have  stuck  in  the  mud, 
and  have  been  got  out  by  the  help  of  the  passengers ;  and  often 
have  drivers,  with  all  due  care,  been  unable  to  keep  them  "right 
side  up."  Our  canals,  in  process  of  time,  furnished  a  cheaper, 
and  at  times  a  more  easy  and  agreeable  mode  of  travel.  But 
even  these  have  been  happily  superseded  by  railroads.  What 
improvement  remains  to  be  made  in  the  speed  and  comfort  of 
traveling,  awaits  the  disclosure  of  time. 


WYOMING  COUNTY  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

In  the  3'ear  1851,  the  Wyoming  County  Mutual  Insurance 
Company  was  formed  and  a  charter  obtained,  authorizing  a 
working  capital  of  $100,000.  Its  founders  were  among  the 
leading  men  of  Warsaw,  possessing  probity  of  character  and 
business  capacity.  Its  principal  olHce  was  located  at  AVarsaw, 
and  the  following  persons  composed  the  first  Board  of  Direc- 


SUPPLEMENTARY   NOTES.  371 

tors:  John  A.  McElwain,  Isaac  C.  Bronson,  Elijah  W.  An- 
drews, George  Reed,  Augustus  Frank,  Seth  M.  Gates,  F.  C. 
D.  McKay,  Israel  Hodge,  Charles  J.  Judd,  Timothy  II.  Bux- 
ton, E.  II.  Lansing,  W.  Riley  Smith,  and  Joshua  H.  Darling. 

J.  A.  McElwain  was  elected  President;  Seth  M.  Gates, 
Vice  President;  J.  H.  Darling,  Treasurer,  and  C.  J.  Judd, 
Secretary.  In  1853  Mr.  Judd  retired  from  the  office  of  Sec- 
retary, and  was  succeeded  by  L.  A.  Hayward,  who  was  after- 
wards also  elected  Treasurer. 

The  Company's  field  of  operations  was  restricted  to  the 
western  counties  of  the  state,  in  which  it  very  soon  secured 
a  good  position.  Its  risks  for  the  first  few  years  embraced 
both  a  merchants'  and  a  farmers'  class;  but  in  1856  the  former 
class  was  dropped,  and  all  the  risks  afterwards  confined  entirely 
to  the  latter.  Its  reputation  as  a  prudently  managed  and 
secure   company  was  maintained  throughout  its  entire  career. 

The  following  named  persons,  in  addition  to  the  above,  were 
elected  Directors  of  the  Company  at  different  periods  during 
its  existence:  James  G.  Hoyt,  James  C.  Ferris,  John  B.  Hal- 
sted,  W.  J.  Chapin,  Joel  S.  Smith,  L.  A.  Hayward,  Nelson 
Wolcott,  Linus  W.  Thayer,  Wm.  Bristol,  Ezra  Bishop,  Peter 
Patterson,  Ira  F.  Pratt,  James  H.  Loomis,  Jedediah  S.  Walker, 
Noble  Morris,  and  Alanson  Holly. 

The  Company  continued  to  do  business  until  the  latter  part 
of  1865,  making  no  assessments,  paying  all  its  losses  with 
promptness,  steadily  accumulating  a  surplus  fund,  and  gaining, 
year  by  year,  in  the  confidence  of  the  community.  In  the 
meantime  rival  companies  had  multiplied,  and,  in  the  intense 
competition  that  had  sprung  up,  the  rates  of  insurance  were 
forced  down  below  the  point  at  which  a  company  could  safety 
do  business.  The  Directors  therefore  prudently  resolved  to 
cease  the  further  issue  of  policies,  and  take  measures  to  close 
up  the  affairs  of  the  Company.  A  re-insurance  of  all  the  exist- 
ing risks  of  the  Company  was  accordingly  effected  with  the 
Home  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  for  the  sum  of  $5,000. 
Its  risks  have  all  expired;  and  it  is  now  without  liabilit}'  or 
indebtedness  of  any  kind.  Its  financial  record  has  but  few 
parallels  in  the  history  of  Insurance  in  this  state. 


LATE    FIRE. 

The  great  fire  of  1867,  and  the  speedy  covering  of  all  the 
vacant  ground  with  new  and  elegant  buildings,  have  been  men- 
tioned, [p.  69.]  Since  the  writing  of  that  item  of  our  history, 
three  of  those  buildings,  owned  and  occupied  by  Palmer  and 
Brininstool,  James  Wilkin,  and  E.  Weisenbeck,  were  destroyed 
by  fire,  October,  1868. 


372  HISTOKY   OF   WAESAW. 


AVARS  AW    GAS    WORKS. 

These  works  were  built  in  1859  by  Abram  B.  Lawrence  and 
Horace  A.  Metcalf;  and  buildings  on  the  principal  streets  of 
the  village  were  lighted  with  gas  about  three  years.  The  price 
of  resin,  a  material  used  in  the  manufacture  of  gas,  was  in  New 
York  less  than  two  dollars  a  barrel.  Being  a  product  of  the 
South,  the  price  advanced  during  the  war  to  sixty  dollars/  Be- 
fore the  price  of  this  material  had  reached  this  point,  the  con- 
sumers of  gaslight  being  indisposed  to  pay  compensatory  prices 
for  it,  the  proprietors  shut  up  their  works.  Since  the  close  of 
the  war,  they  were  sold  to  parties  in  Rochester,  by  whom  they 
were  operated  successfully  about  a  year,  when,  for  a  certain 
cause,  they  were  again  stopped.  They  have  recently  been 
leased  to  our  fellow-citizen,  Mr.  James  O.  McClure,  by  whom 
they  are  soon  to  be  again  put  in  operation. 


ADDITIONAL  FAMILY  SKETCHES. 

[The  facts  from  which  the  following  sketches  have  been  prepared,  were  received  too 
late  to  admit  of  their  insertion  in  their  proper  places.] 

GEORGE  W.  BATES  came  from  Gainesville  to  this  town, 
where  he  pursued  his  trade  as  a  tin-smith  and  the  Hardware 
business,  for  about  twenty-five  }'ears.  He  married  Jane  E.  Tay- 
lor, daughter  of  Samuel  Taylor,  of  this  town.  He  removed  from 
this  town  in  1866,  and  now  resides  in  Albany,  Wis.,  where  he 
is  engaged  in  the  Hardware  business.  Newton  Taylor,  a  bro- 
ther of  Mrs.  Bates,  married  a  daughter  of  Hugh  Harding,  of 
Mount  Morris,  and  is  a  merchant  in  Chicago. 

HOWARD  BOSAVORTII  came  to  this  town  in  is  17,  and 
with  Gerard  Fitch,  established  the  Cabinet  Making  business  in 
the  old  "Cider-mill"  building,  [p.  97.]  This  is  believed  to 
have  been  the  first  shop  in  the  town.  He  married  in  this  town 
Elizabeth  Fitch,  formerly  from  Vermont,  and  a  sister  of  Mrs. 
Mayhew  Safford.  After  many  years'  residence  here,  he  re- 
moved to  Le  Roy,  whence  he  removed  to  Milwaukee.  He  there 
engaged  in  the  Drug  and  Medicine  trade,  in  which  he  was  highly 
successful.  The  wholesale  house  of  II.  Bosworth  &  Sons  was 
one  of  the  most  widely  known  in  the  West.  The  firm  was  a  few 
years  ago  broken  up  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Bosworth  and  one  of 
the  sons.  Mr.  B.  was  an  active  and  devoted  Christian.  Mrs.  B. 
and  the  other  son  of  the  firm  reside  in  Milwaukee. 


ADDITIONAL  FAMILY   SKETCHES.  373 

JAMES  M.  DARLING  was  born  in  Henniker,  N.  II. ,  and 
removed  to  this  town  about  the  year  1832,  and  was  for  many 
years  engaged  in  the  Dry  Goods  trade,  and  afterwards  in  the 
Hardware  and  Grocery  business.  In  1862,  he  removed  to 
Washington,  where  he  has  since  been  employed  in  the  Treasury 
Department.  He  has  been  twice  married,  both  of  his  wives 
being  daughters  of  William  Raymond.  [See  Sketch  of  Mr. 
Raymond.]  His  son,  Charles,  died  in  the  war.  [See  AVar  His- 
tory-] 

Rev.  TIMOTHY  DARLING,  brother  of  Joshua  H.  and 
James  M. ,  was  a  resident  and  practicing  lawyer  in  this  town. 
He  soon  entered  the  ministry,  and  is  now  a  Congregational 
clergyman  residing  in  Bergen. 

Rev.  ZACHARIAH  EDDY  commenced  his  ministry  at  an 
early  period  of  life,  and  preached  at  Springville  and  several 
other  places.  He  was  afterwards,  for  several  years,  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  Church  in  this  village.  He  has  since 
preached  in  Northampton,  Mass.  ;  and  is  now  pastor  of  a 
church  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Dr.  Eddy  has  written  a  work, 
lately  published,  —the  "Life  of  Christ." 

ANDREW  FRANK,  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Frank,  was  for 
several  years  a  member  of  his  family  and  engaged  in  his  busi- 
ness, and  was  afterwards  a  merchant  in  Sheldon.  In  1835  he 
removed  to  Hadley,  111. ,  where  he  now  resides.  He  is  a  farmer, 
is  married,  and  has  several  children. 

BYRON  HEALEY  was  born  in  Dansville,  Steuben  Co., 
Jan.  10,  1830.  He  graduated  at  the  State  and  National  La-fr 
School  at  Ballston,  N.  Y. ,  and  practiced  his  profession  in  Ar- 
cade, in  this  county,  from  1854  to  1857,  when  he  removed  to 
Warsaw  and  formed  a  partnership  with  Harlow  L.  Comstock, 
which  continued  until  after  his  election  as  District  Attorney. 
In  1863  and  1864  he  represented  this  county  in  the  Assembly, 
and  in  November,  1867,  he  was  elected  County  Judge.  He 
married,  in  1868,  Mary  C. ,  daughter  of  Timothy  II.  Buxton, 
of  this  town. 

WOLCOTT  J.  HUMPHREY  was  born  in  Canton,  Conn., 
in  1818.  He  was  the  son  of  Dea.  Theophilus  Humphrey,  one 
of  the  early  settlers  of  Sheldon.  He  was  engaged  in  the  farm- 
ing and  mercantile  business  in  Sheldon  and  Java,  during  which 
time  he  held  various  town  offices.  He  was  also  Postmaster. 
In  1850  he  was  elected  to  the  Assembly,  and  was  reelected  in 
1851.  In  1864  he  removed  to  Warsaw  and  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  leather.  In  1865  he  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate,  and  reelected  in  1867.  He  married,  in  1841,  Amanda 
Martindale  of  Dorset,  Vermont. 


ciii  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

CYRUS  JEFFERSON  was  born  in  Douglass,  Mass.,  June 
8,  1805,  and  removed  with  his  father  to  Gainesville  at  the  age 
of  12,  where  he  resided  until  1865,  when  he  removed  to  War- 
saw, where  he  now  resides.  lie  married,  first,  Eunice  Conable, 
and  had  four  children:  Sophia,  who  married  James  Bristol; 
Willard.  who  died  at  3;  Rufus,  who  married  Genevieve  Church, 
of  Woodstock,  111. ,  and  resides  there ;  and  Dora,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  20  years.  He  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, and  subsequently  in  the  purchase  and  sale  of  wool  exten- 
sively, and  in  other  business ;  and  has,  by  industry  and  prudent 
management,  attained  a  rank  among  the  most  wealthy  citizens 
of  "Wyoming  county. 

GIDEON  JOHNSON  was  born  in  Sudbury,  Mass.,  and 
settled  on  East  Hill  about  1818.  He  was  for  many  years  an 
elder  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1833  he  removed  to 
Erie  Co.,  Pa,,  where  he  lived  33  years,  and  where  his  wife 
died,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons  and  a  daughter.  He  married 
a  second  wife,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  who  lost  an  arm  in  the 
late  war.  Dea.  Johnson  died  at  Saybrook,  O. ,  Jan.  8,  1869, 
aged  76  years.  Many  in  this  town  remember  him  well  as  a 
faithful  laborer  in  the  Lord's  vineyard.  He  was  an  active 
and  a  zealous  friend  of  sabbath  schools,  temperance,  and  other 
religious  and  benevolent  institutions. 

REV.  RICHARD  KAY  was  for  five  years  minister  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  in  this  town.  He  afterwards  preached 
successively  in  Groveland  and  Oakland,  Livingston  Co.,  and 
now  .resides  in  AVocdhull,  Mich.  Two  of  his  sons  served  in  the 
late  war.  Mr.  Kay  was  born  in  Ireland,  well  educated  and  a 
thorough  biblical  scholar,  and  a  man  of  decided  character  and 
ability. 

SILAS  KIDDER  came  to[this  town  about  1818.  He  was  a 
carpenter  and  joiner,  having  served  his  apprenticeship  with 
James  Webster,  then  living  in  this  town.  He  made  a  profes- 
sion of  religion  in  early  manhood,  and  united  with  the  Presby- 
terian church,  of  which  he  was  an  elder.  He  also  held,  for 
several  years,  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace.  He  married 
in  this  town  a  niece  of  Dr.  C.  L.  Sheldon,  and  had  by  her  seA'- 
eral  children.  He  removed  with  his  family  to  Westneld.  He 
has  since  removed  to  the  West,  where  he  married  his  third  wife. 
His  two  eldest  children  married  in  Chautauqua  county. 

RICHARD  ALLEN  KIDDER,  brother  of  Silas,  married 
Eleanor  Rumsey\  daughter  of  Dr.  Cyrus  Rumsey.  He  re- 
moved with  his  father-in-law's  family  to  Medina,  Orleans  Co. 
He  died  in  Westneld.  The  family  of  Dr.  Rumsey  removed  to 
the  West,  and  are  all  believed  to  have  died. 


ADDITIONAL   FAMILY   SKETCHES.  375 

SAMUEL  LADD,  from  Granville,  was  for  mairy  years  a 
member  of  the  family  of  his  uncle,  Dr.  Augustus  Frank.  He 
married  Elizabeth  McNeil,  a  niece  of  Mrs.  Frank,  and  about 
1833  removed  to  Michigan.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  in 
Utica,  in  that  State,  and  has  a  large  family  of  sons. 

JOHN  H.  MORRISON,  removed  from  the  City  of  New 
York,  in  1841,  and  carried  on  the  mercantile  business  about 
four  years,  and  returned  to  New  York,  where  he  has  since 
been  connected,  most  of  the  time,  with  the  firm  of  Lathrop, 
Ludington  &  Co. ,  in  the  wholesale  dry  goods  trade.  He  mar- 
ried Catharine  Gibson,  daughter  of  a  prominent  citizen  of  that 
city,  and  has  four  children : 

John  Gibson,  who  was  born  in  Warsaw;  John  Hamilton, 
Augustus  F. ,  and  Catharine,  all  residing  in  New  York.  Of 
Mr.  Morrison's  regard  for  the  place  and  its  inhabitants,  he  has 
given  evidence  in  a  substantial  manner,  on  several  occasions, 
since  his  residence  here. 

FREDERICK  NICHOLSON  was  born  in  Whitestown,  Oc- 
tober 15,  1806.  He  married,  Feb.  11,  1830,  Sally  Green,  who 
was  born  at  Fairfield,  Sept.  10,  1808.  He  removed,  in  1835, 
from  Westfield  to  Warsaw,  where  for  manj^  years  he  carried  on 
the  Tailoring  business.     His  children  were  as  follows: 

Joseph  Marion,  who  married  Nellie  Reed,  and  resides  in 
Galesburg,  111.  He  had  three  children:  Freddie  R.  and  Fanny, 
who  both  died  young,  and  Jennie  May. 

Granville,  who  married  Susan  Clark,  of  the  city  of  New 
York,  where  they  reside.  Their  children  are  Florence  and 
Fanny  W. 

Oscar,  who  was  in  the  war,  and  resides  in  New  York. 

George,  who  died  in  Ohio,  at  the  age  of  21  3-ears. 

GEORGE  W.  PATTERSON,  of  Westfield,  came  to  this 
town  with  his  brother  William,  in  1821,  (as  has  been  elsewhere 
stated,)  and  resided  here  four  years.  He  settled  in  Leicester, 
where  he  resided  many  3rears.  He  was,  within  nine  years, 
elected  eight  times  a  member  of  Assembly,  of  which  he  was 
the  last  two  years  chosen  Speaker.  He  removed  the  next  year 
(1841)  to  Westfield  to  take  charge  of  the  Chautauqua  County 
Land  Office.  He  was  elected  in  1840  a  member  of  the  Conven- 
tion to  revise  the  Constitution  of  the  State.  In  1848,  he  was 
elected  Lieutenant-Governor;  and  has  held  several  other  offices 
of  responsibility.  He  married  Hannah  Dickey,  formerly  of 
Londonderry,  N.  II.  He  has  two  children:  George  W. ,  Jun., 
a  Banker  in  Corning,  who  is  married,  and  has  several  children; 
and  Hannah  W. ,  residing  with  her  parents  in  Westfield. 

ISAAC  PRESTON,  came  from  Granville  to  Warsaw  about 
1818.     After  a  short  residence,  he  removed  to  Hanford's  Land- 


376  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 

ing,  and  carried  on  the  tanning  and  shoe  business.  He  returned 
to  Warsaw;  and  daring  his  second  residence  here,  in  company 
with  Frank  Miller,  bought  the  tannery  of  Calvin  Rumsey.  In 
1835  or '36,  he  sold  out  to  Miller,  and  removed  to  Illinois.  He 
was  one  of  Warsaw's  best  citizens — a  working  Christian  and 
an  active  promoter  of  social  reforms.  His  wife  was  a  sister  of 
Deacon  Ezra  Walker. 

His  eldest  son  was  John  B. ,  whose  death  by  drowning  in  the 
canal  near  his  father's  residence  at  Lockport,  111.,  in  April,  1805, 
was  noticed  in  our  village  papers.  He  had  been  an  engineer 
during  the  construction  of  the  Illinois  canal.  He  held,  under 
President  Fillmore,  the  office  of  Surveyor  General  of  Oregon ; 
and  after  his  return  was  Superintendent  of  the  Canal  about 
ten  years,  when,  in  1864,  he  resigned,  and  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
where  he  resided  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  married 
and  had  several  children.  Another  son,  Josiaii,  married,  re- 
sides at  Lockport,  111.  There  were  also,  three  daughters :  Eliza- 
beth, who  married  Mr.  Daniels;  Maria,  who  married  Mr. 
Codding,  in  Illinois,  (Mr.  C.  lately  deceased;)  and  Julia,  all 
residing  in  Illinois. 

HENRY  SILLIMAN  was  born  in  Newport,  R.  I.  He  re- 
moved to  Perry  in  1836,  where  he  married  Mary  H.  Noyes. 
lie  removed  to  Warsaw  in  1841,  and  was  for  many  years 
Deputy  County  Clerk.  He  died  in  July,  1867,  aged  56  years. 
lie  had  a  daughter,  Mary  A.,  who  resides  with  her  mother  in 
this  village.  Mr.  Silliman  was  a  nephew  of  the  late  Benjamin 
Silliman,  long  a  distinguished  Professor  in  Yale  College. 

HORACE  THAYER  removed  to  this  village  from  Sheldon 
in  March,  1845.  In  September  following,  he  removed  to  New 
York  and  engaged  in  the  Map  Publishing  business.  In  1854, 
he  returned  to  Warsaw,  having  purchased  the  farm  of  Dr. 
Caner,  including  the  old  homestead  of  Judge  Webster,  the 
present  residence  of  Henry  B.  Jenks,  where  he  resided  until 
1850.  After  a  second  residence  in  New  York,  he  returned  to 
Warsaw  in  1864,  and  in  1866  removed  to  Johnsonsburg,  where 
he  resides.  He  procured  a  survey  of  the  village,  and  published 
a  map  of  the  same,  in  1861.  The  land  for  W3roming  street 
was  given  by  him,  and  forms  part  of  the  highway  from  Buffalo 
street  along  the  foot  of  West  Hill  to  the  ''Old  Buffalo  Road." 
Mr.  Thayer  has  for  a  long  time  been  a  member  of  Congrega- 
tional and  Presbyterian  churches.  He  was  born  in  Hartwick, 
Otsego  Co.,  June  29,  1811.  He  married  Mary  M.  Dodge,  who 
was  born  in  Delhi,  N.  Y.  The}*-  have  two  children,  Charles 
M.  and  Harriet  Newell. 

WARREN  THORP  was  born  in  Connecticut,  and  in  1819, 
at  the   age  of  24,  he  removed  with  his  mother  to  Gainesville. 


ADDITIONAL   FAMILY   SKETCHES. 


377 


He  married  Lucy  Pattison,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Pattison. 
His  occupation  has  been  and  is  that  of  a  farmer.  In  1856  he 
purchased  the  Deacon  Munger  farm  near  this  village,  where  he 
now  resides.  He  has  four  children :  Juliet,  who  married  John 
TV.  Hawley;  Julia  Ann,  who  married  Leander  L.  Chaffee; 
Laura,  who  married  Edward  Wood,,  and  lives  in  Joliet,  111.  ; 
Sarah,  who  married  William  Windsor,  and  lives  in  Detroit,  and 
Lydia,  unmarried.    All  hut  Laura  and  Sarah  reside  in  Warsaw. 

ABEL  WEBSTER  was  for  many  years  a  resident  of  Weth- 
ersfleld,  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business.  In  1846  he  was 
elected  clerk  of  Wyoming  county,  and  removed  to  Warsaw. 
He  soon  after  engaged  in  trade,  in  which  he  continued  until  his 
death  in  1861.  He  was  twice  elected  Supervisor  of  War- 
saw. He  married  Caroline,  daughter  of  Ormus  Doolittle,  of 
Wethersfielcl.     They  had  seven  children : 

James  A.,  who  married  Martha,  daughter  of  David  Mc- 
Wethey,  and  is  now  a  merchant  in  Nashua,  Iowa. 

Caroline  O.,  a  teacher  of  music  in  Burlington,  N.  J. 

IIelex  E. ,  a  teacher  in  Mary  Institute,  Carlisle,  Pa. 

Lydia  Lucelia,  a  teacher  also  in  Mary  Institute,  Carlisle. 

Ormus  M. ,  now  residing  in  Nashua,  Iowa. 

Charles  Abel,  attending  Lehigh  University,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

George  Edward  resides  with  Mrs.  Webster,  in  Wethersfleld. 


378 


HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


OFFICIAL  REGISTER. 


COUNTY   OFFICERS. 

The  county  of  Wyoming  was  formed  from  Genesee  in  1841 ;  and  a  special 
election  for  choosing  county  officers  was  held  in  June.  The  regular  triennial 
election  of  Sheriffs,  Clerks,  etc.,  throughout  the  state,  had  occurred  in  Novem- 
ber, 1840 ;  and  the  official  terms  of  persons  elected  at  the  special  election  were 
by  law  made  to  expire  with  the  terms  of  those  who  had  been  elected  in  other 
counties  at  the  last  preceding  election. 

As  the  people  of  Wyoming  county,  before  its  formation  in  1841,  were  for 
nearly  forty  years  politically  associated  with  those  of  Genesee,  living  under 
the  administration  of  the  same  officers,  and  having  assisted  in  the  election  of 
many  of  them,  we  give  the  names  of  the  officers  of  Genesee  county  prior  to 
the  organization  of  Wyoming.  Under  the  first  Constitution,  county  officers 
were  appointed  by  the  Council  of  Appointment,  composed  of  the  Governor  and 
four  Senators,  one  from  each  of  the  four  districts  into  which  the  state  was  then 
divided.  Since  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  of  1821,  Sheriffs  and  County 
Clerks  have  been  elected  by  the  people  at  the  elections  in  November,  going 
into  office  the  1st  of  January  following. 

SHERIFFS  OF  GENESEE  COUNTY. 

Richard  M.  Stoddard. .  .April  4,  1803  Worthy  L.  Churchill Nov.,  1822 

Benjamin  Barton March  17,  1807  W.  R.  Thompson Nov.,  1825 

Asher  Bates Feb.  4,  1808  John  Wilder Nov.,  1828 

Nathan  Marvin March  7,  1810  Earl  Kidder Feb.,  1831 

Aaron  Van  Cleve Feb.  21,  1811  John  A.  McElwain Nov.,  1831 

Parmenio  Adams March  16,  1815  Nathan  Townsend Nov.,  1833 

William  Sheldon March  1,  1816  John  Wilder Nov.,  1837 

Parmenio  Adams March  16,  1818  Ruftts  Robertson Nov.,  1840 

Worthy  L.  Churchill... Feb.  12,  1821 

SHERIFFS  OF  WYOMING  COUNTY. 

William  R.  Groger June,  1841  Newcomb  Demary,  Jr Nov.,  1855 

Roswell  Gardner Nov.,  1843  Mills  L.  Rice Nov.,  1858 

Abraham  Smith Nov.,  1846  William  D.  Miner Nov.,  1861 

Timothv  II.  Buxton Nov.,  1849  John  Ren  wick Nov.,  1864 

Jairus  Moffett Nov.,  1852  William  AV.  Davis Nov.,  1867 

CLERKS  OF  GENESEE  COUNTY. 

James  W.  Stevens April  4,  1803  Ralph  Coffin Nov.,  1825 

Josiah  Babcock March  7,  1810  David  C.  Miller Nov.,  1828 

Simeon  Cumings Feb.  21,  1811  Timothy  Fitch Nov.,  1831 

John  Z.  Ross March  1,  1816  Timothy  Fitch Nov.,  1834 

Simeon  Cumings March  16,  1818  Horace  U.  Soper Nov.,  1837 

Chauncey  L.  Sheldon  ..Feb.  14,  1821  Horace  U.  Soper Nov.,  1840 

Chauncey  L.  Sheldon Nov.,  1S22 


COUNTY   OFFICERS.  379 

CLERKS  OF  WYOMING  COUNTY. 

Nelson  Wolcott June,  1841  John  H.  Bailey Nov.,  1855 

Walter  Howard Nov.,  1843  Charles  O.  Shepard Nov.,  1858 

Abel  Webster Nov.,  1846  Charles  W.  Bailey Nov.,  1861 

Ransom  B.  Crippen Nov.,  1849  Ransom  A.  Crippen Nov.,  1864 

Nathan  P.  Currier Nov.,  1852  John  P.  Robinson Nov.,  1867 

SURROGATES  OF  GENESEE  COUNTY. 

Jeremiah  Munson April  2,  1804  Andrew  A.  Ellicott... April  17,  1815 

RichardSmith April  8,  1805       EbenezerMix Feb.  14,  1821 

Andrew  A.  Ellicott... March  23,  1811       Harvey  Putnam May  20,  1840 

Richard  Smith March  10,  1812      Timothy  Fitch May  25,  1841 

SURROGATES  OF  WYOMING  COTNTY. 

Harvey  Putnam March  25,  1841       William  Mitchell Jan.  14,  1843 

Surrogates,  prior  to  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  of  1846,  were  appointed 
in  the  same  manner  as  Judges.  By  that  constitution,  the  duties  of  Surrogate, 
in  counties  whose  population  does  not  exceed  40,000,  are  devolved  upon  the 
County  Judge.    In  counties  having  a  larger  population,  a  Surrogate  is  elected. 

TREASURERS  OF  WYOMING  CONNTY. 

County  Treasurers,  formerly  appointed  by  the  Boards  of  Supervisors,  are, 
under  the  Constitution  of  1846,  elected  by  the  people  for  three  years,  at  the 
general  election.  The  first  election  for  Treasurers  took  place  in  November, 
1848. 

Truman  Lewis 1841      Peter  Caner,  appointed  to  fill  va- 

William  Bingham 1842  cancy Sept.  18,  1850 

William  Bingham 1843      John  A.  McElwain 1850 

Roswell  Gould 1844      Roswell  Gould 1853 

Roswell  Gould 1845       Lloyd  A.  Hayward 1856 

John  A.  McElwain 1846       Lloyd  A.  Hayward 1859 

John  A.  McElwain 1847      Leonard  W.  Smith 1862 

Samuel  S.  Blanchard 1848      Leonard  W.  Smith 1865 

Harwood  A.  Dudley 1868 

FIRST  JUDGES  OF  GENESEE  COUNTY. 

Under  the  first  Constitution,  all  Judges  were  appointed  by  the  Council  of 
Appointment.  Under  the  Constitution  of  1821,  they  were  appointed  by  the 
Governor  and  Senate  for  the  term  of  five  years.  Under  the  Constitution  of 
1846,  a  County  Judge  is  elected  for  four  years  in  each  county,  except  New  York. 

Joseph  Ellicott March  22,  1806  William  H.  Tisdale Jan.  18,  1827 

Ezra  Piatt June  9,  1807  Isaac  Wilson Feb.  2,  1830 

John  H.  Jones June  10,  1812  Phineas  L.  Tracy Jan.  23,  1841 

John  Z.  Ross Feb.  10,  1823 

FIRST  JUDGES  OF  WYOMING  COUNTY. 

Paul  Richards May  25,  1841  Harlow  L.  Comstock Nov.  1855 

John  B.  Skinner May  25,  1846  Harlow  L.  Comstock Nov.  1859 

W.  Riley  Smith June,  1847  Harlow  L.  Comstock Nov.  1863 

Marvin  Trail Nov.  1851  Byron  Healy Nov.  1867 

ASSOCIATE  JUDGES. 

Under  the  Constitution  of  1821,  in  force  when  Wyoming  county  was  formed, 
the  County  Court  was  composed  of  a  First  Judge  and  four  Associate  Judges, 
appointed  by  the  Governor  and  Senate.  Below  are  the  names  of  Associate 
Judges  appointed  for  this  county  before  the  Constitution  of  1846  went  into 


3S0  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

effect,  (Jan.  1,  1847.)     The  dates  show  the  days  when  they  took  the  oath  of 
office. 

Alonzo  B.  Rose June  29,  1841  Dr.  Augustus  Frank May  3,  1842 

Joseph  Johnson Aug.  28,  1841  (In  place  of  Johnson,  resigned.) 

Peter  Patterson June  21,  1841  Nyrum  Reynolds Feb.  19,  1845 

James  Sprague,  2d June  21,  1845  Moseley  Stoddard Feb.  25,  1845 

By  the  Constitution  of  184G,  the  office  of  Associate  Judge,  by  that  name,  was 
abolished.  Two  persons  are  chosen  at  the  general  election,  from  the  Justices 
of  the  Peace  in  the  county,  who  sit  with  the  Presiding  Judge. 

DISTRICT  ATTORNEYS. 

By  an  act  passed  in  1801,  the  office  of  District  Attorney  was  created,  though 
not  as  yet  in  every  county.  In  1818,  each  county  was  made  a  separate  district. 
Under  the  Constitution  of  1821,  District  Attorneys  were  appointed  by  the 
Court  of  General  Sessions  in  each  county.  Since  1846,  they  have  been  elected. 
Before  1821  they  were  appointed  by  the  Council  of  Appointment. 

GENESEE    COrXTY. 

Daniel  D.  Brown June  11,  1818      Daniel  H.  Chandler 1834 

Heman  J.  Redtield Feb.  14,  1831      Isaac  A.  Yerplanck 1838 

Levi  Runisey 1829 

WYOMING  COTJNTY. 

W.  Riley  Smith June  21,  1841       Thomas  Corlett Nov.  1859 

James  R.  Doolittle June,  1847      Byron  Healy Nov.  1865 

Harlow  L.  Comstock Nov.  1850      Elbert  E.  Farman Nov.  1868 

F.  C.  D.  McKay Jan.  12,  1856 

MEMBERS  OF  ASSEMBLY  FROM  WYOMING  COUNTY. 

The  years  in  which  they  loere  elected,  and  the  towns  in  which  they  resided 

when  elected. 

1841  Eleazar  Baldwin Sheldon  1853    Alonzo  B.  Rose Castile 

John  W.  Brownsou. Gainesville  1854    John  C.  Paine Covington 

1842  Eleazar  Baldwin Sheldon  1855    John  C.  Paine Covington 

Truman  Benedict Perry  1856     Cyril  Bawson Eagle 

1843  Truman  Benedict Perry  1857    Cyril  Rawson Eagle 

Leverett  Spring China  1858     Elias  C.  Holt Bennington 

1844  Leverett  Spring China  1859  Geo.  G.  Hoskins.. Bennington 

Andrew  W.  Young Warsaw  1860  John  J.  Doolittle.  Wetherslield 

1845  Andrew  W.  Young Warsaw  1861     Lucius  Peck Java 

Arden  Woodruff Sheldon  1862     Byron  Healy Warsaw 

1846  Arden  Woodruff Sheldon  1 863    Byron  Healy Warsaw 

1847  PaulRichards Orangeville  1864  Geo.  G.  Hoskins.. Bennington 

1848  PaulRichards Orangeville  1865  Geo.  G.  Hoskins.. Bennington 

1849  James  Sprague Covington  1866     William  Bristol Gainesville 

1850  Wolcott  J.  Humphrey. Sheldon  1867  William  Bristol  ...Gainesville 

1851  Wolcott  J.  Humphrey. Sheldon  1868     Marcus  A.  Hull Pike 

1852  Alonzo  B.  Rose Castile 

SENATORS  FROM  WYOMING  COUNTY, 
Elected  for  the  Senatorial  District  of  which  this  county  is  apart. 

The  term  of  office  of  Senator,  under  the  Constitution  of  1821,  was  four  years, 
and  one  Senator  was  chosen  in  each  of  the  eight  senatorial  districts  every  year. 
Under  the  Constitution  of  1846,  one  senator  is  chosen  every  two  years  in  each 
of  the  thirty-two  senatorial  districts. 

1842  Harvey  Putnam,  4  yrs Attica    1855  John  B.  Halsted,  4  yrs.  ..Castile 

1S47  J.W.  Brownson,  2y.  .Gainesville    1865  W.  J.  Humphrey,  4yrs.  .Warsaw 
1851  John  A.  McElwain,  2  y.  .Warsaw 


CONGRESSMEN    AND    DELEGATES.  381 


MEMBERS  OF  CONGRESS, 

Residing  at  the  time  of  their  election  within  the  Congressional  District 
of  which  Wyoming  was  a  part. 

A  "  Congress,"  so  called,  commences  tbe  4th  of  March  next  after  the  elec- 
tion of  Representatives,  and  ends  the  3d  ol  March  the  second  year  thereafter. 
The  numbers  of  the  years  show  the  beginning  and  the  end  of  the  term  of  office, 
and  not  the  time  of  election. 

15th  Congress,  1817 — 1819     Benjamin  Ellicott.  Batavia. 
Parmenio  Adams,  Batavia. 
Parmenio  Adams,  Batavia. 
Phineas  L.  Tracy,  Batavia. 
Phineas  L.  Tracy,  Batavia. 
Phineas  L.  Tracy,  Batavia. 
George  \V.  Lay,  Batavia. 
George  W.  Lay,  Batavia. 
William  Patterson,  "Warsaw.* 
Seth  M.  Gates,  Le  Roy. 
Seth  M.  Gates,  Le  Roy. 
Albert  Smith,  Batavia. 
Albert  Smith,  Batavia. 
Harvey  Putnam,  Attica. 
Harvey  Putnam,  Attica. 
Augustus  P.  Hascall,  Le  Roy. 
Benjamin  Pringle,  Batavia. 
Benjamin  Pringle,  Batavia. 
Judson  W.  Sherman,  Angelica. 
Augustus  Frank,  Warsaw. 
Augustus  Frank,  Warsaw. 
Augustus  Frank,  Warsaw. 
Burt  Van  Horn,  Lockport. 
Burt  Van  Horn,  Lockport. 
John  Fisher,  Batavia. 

MEMBERS  OF  CONSTITUTIONAL  CONVENTIONS 
From  the  Town  of  Warsaw. 

Elizur  Webster,  a  Delegate  from  Genesee  County,  in  the  Convention  for 
revising  the  Constitution  of  New  York  in  the  year  1821. 

Andrew  W.  Young,  the  Delegate  from  Wyoming  County,  in  the  Conven- 
tion of  1846. 

Augustus  Frank  and  William  H.  Merrill,  Delegates  in  the  Convention 
of  1S67. 

Besides  the  number  of  Delegates  usually  elected  to  such  Conventions,  equal 
to  the  number  of  Members  of  Assembly,  (128,)  there  were  chosen,  by  general 
ticket,  thirty-two  Delegates  of  the  State  at  large,  corresponding  in  number  to 
the  number  of  State  Senators.  Mr.  Merrill  was  nominated  as  one  of  the  local 
delegates,  and  Mr.  Frank  as  one  of  the  delegates  at  large,  without  regard  to 
location.  Thus  Warsaw  happened  to  furnish  two  of  the  Delegates  to  the  last 
Convention. 

*  Mr   Patterson  died  August,  1838.    Harvey  Putnam  was  chosen  for  the  unexpired 
year  of  the  term. 


18th 

do 

1823- 

-1825 

19th 

do 

1825- 

-1827 

20th 

do 

1827- 

-1829 

21st 

do 

1829- 

-1831 

22d 

do 

1831- 

-1833 

23d 

do 

1833- 

-1835 

24th 

do 

1835- 

-1S37 

25th 

do 

1837- 

-1839 

26th 

do 

1839- 

-1841 

27th 

do 

1841- 

-1843 

28th 

do 

1843- 

-1845 

29th 

do 

1845- 

-1847 

30th 

do 

1847- 

-1849 

31st 

do 

1849- 

-1851 

32d 

do 

1851- 

-1853 

33d 

do 

1853- 

-1855 

34th 

do 

1855- 

-1857 

35th 

do 

1857- 

-1859 

36th 

do 

1859- 

-1861 

37th 

do 

1861- 

-1863 

38th 

do 

1863- 

-1865 

39th 

do 

1865- 

-1867 

40  th 

do 

1867- 

-1869 

41st 

do 

1869- 

-1871 

382  HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


TOWN  OFFICERS. 

It  was  our  purpose  to  give  a  full  list  of  town  officers  from  the  organization 
of  the  town  in  1808.  The  town  records  down  to  1830,  inclusive,  being  lost, 
a  complete  list  can  not  be  given,  except  of  Supervisors  and  Justices  of  the 
Peace.  The  names  of  these  officers  from  1808  to  1830,  were  obtained  from  the 
records  of  Genesee  County. 

JUSTICES  OF  THE  PEACE. 

Under  the  Constitution  of  1777,  Justices  of  the  Peace,  as  well  as  all  the 
higher  Judicial  officers,  were  appointed  by  the  Council  of  Appointment.  By 
the  Constitution  of  1821,  the  Board  of  Supervisors  were  required  to  nominate, 
at  their  annual  meeting,  men  for  the  office  of  justice  in  each  town,  and  the 
Judges  of  the  County  Court  were  also  required  to  make  such  nomination.  If 
their  nominations  agreed,  the  persons  -thus  nominated  were  duly  declared 
elected.  In  case  of  disagreement,  the  choice  was  to  be  made  from  the  two  by 
the  Governor.  This  mode  did  not  prove  satisfactory;  and  at  the  general  elec- 
tion in  November,  1826,  an  amendment  of  the  constitution  was  adopted,  mak- 
ing the  office  elective. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  persons  who  have  held  the  office  of  justice  in 
this  town.  After  the  office  became  elective,  justices,  though  elected  at  the  town 
meetings,  did  not  go  into  office  until  the  1st  of  January  following: 

1806  March  22,  Elizur  Webster. 

1808  April  4,  Elizur  Webster. 

1808  Jotham  Curtis. 

1809  March  11,  William  Bristol. 

1810  March  15,  Elkanah  Day.     r 

1811  March  23,  William  Bristol,  Jotham  CurtisJ 

1812  March  10,  Samuel  McWhorter,  Daniel  Knapp,  George  W.  Fox. 

1813  March  30,  Elizur  Webster.  Judge  and  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

1813  March  30,  Edward  Putnam. 

1814  April  7,  Elizur  Webster,  Judge  and  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

1814  April  7,  Samuel  Hough,  Edward  Putnam,  Daniel  Knapp. 

1815  March  16,  Elizur  Webster,  Judge  and  Justice  of  the  Peace. 
1815    March  16,  Samuel  Hough,  Samuel  McWhorter,  Daniel  Knapp. 

1818  Samuel  Hough,  Samuel  McAVhorter,  Daniel  Knapp,  James  Webster. 

1819  Edward  Putnam. 

1820  Zera  Tanner,  Elizur  Webster. 

1821  Daniel  Knapp,  Mayhew  Safford,  Chauncey  Sheldon,  Shubael  Goodspeed. 
1823  Samuel  McWhorter,  Daniel  Knapp,  Shubael  Goodspeed,  Lyman  Morris, 

on  nomination  of  the  supervisors  and  judges.  The  two  bodies  having 
disagreed  on  James  Crocker  and  Mr.  Morris,  the  latter  was  appointed 
by  the  Governor. 

There  were  several  elections  by  the  people  before  our  record  of  town  elections 
commences.  Justices  were  elected  for  four  years.  Some  of  them,  however,  did 
not  serve  a  full  term,  as  will  be  seen  from  elections  to  till  vacancies. 

JUSTICES   ELECTED. 


1830 

James  Crocker. 

1837 

Elias  R.  Bascom. 

1831 

George  W.  Morris. 

1838 

William  Webster, 

1832 

Orson  Hough. 

Alanson  Holly. 

1833 

James  Crocker. 

1839 

George  W.  Morris. 

1834 

William  Webster. 

1840 

William  K.  Crooks 

1835 

Silas  Kidder. 

1841 

William  Buxton. 

1836 

Timothy  Darling, 

1842 

William  Webster. 

George  W.  Morris. 

1843 

Jacob  W.  Knapp. 

TOWN   OFFICERS. 


3S3 


1844 

Roswell  Gould. 

185S 

1845 

Israel  Hodge. 

1859 

1846 

Alonzo  Choate. 

I860 

1847 

Samuel  Fisher,  2d. 

1861 

1848 

Leonard  W.  Smith. 

1862 

1849 

Israel  Hodge. 

1862 

1850 

Alonzo  Choate. 

1863 

1851 

Samuel  Fisher,  2d. 

1852 

Leonard  W.  Smith. 

1*64 

1853 

Jacob  W.  Knapp, 

1865 

J.  W.  Knapp,  (vacancy.) 

1866 

1854 

Philander  Truesdell. 

1855 

Ransom  B.  Crippen. 

1867 

1856 

Erastus  D.  Day. 

1868 

1857 

Leonard  W.  Smith. 

CT- 

1869 
DT7r)TrTcr» 

The  intervals  between  the  successive  dates 

by  each. 

1808 

Elizur  Webster. 

1844 

1815 

Chauncey  L.  Sheldon. 

1S45 

1817 

Solomon  Morris,  Jun. 

1847 

1S24 

Samuel  McWhorter. 

1S48 

1S26 

Nehemiah  Pai'k,  Jun. 

1849 

1S27 

Solomon  Morris,  Jun. 

1850 

1830 

Samuel  McWhorter. 

1851 

1831 

Paul  Richards. 

1852 

1832 

Elijah  Norton. 

1S54 

1833 

Paul  Richards. 

1856 

1S34 

John  Wilder. 

1857 

1S35 

John  A.  McEhvain. 

1858 

1837 

John  Wilder. 

1S60 

1838 

Nehemiah  Park,  Jun. 

1864 

1839 

Solomon  Morris,  Jun. 

1865 

1840 

Elijah  Norton. 

1866 

1841 

Allen  Fargo. 

1867 

1842 

Elijah  Norton. 

1868 

Philander  Truesdell. 

Jacob  W.  Knapp. 

Charles  W.  Bailey. 

Gideon  H.  Jenkins. 

Philander  Truesdell. 

Myron  E.  Bartlett,  (vacancy.) 

Erastus  D.  Day. 

Philander  Truesdell,  (vacancy.) 

Leonard  W.  Smith. 

Jacob  W.  Knapp. 

Philander  Truesdell. 

Lawrence  Mix,  (vacancy. ) 

Lawrence  Mix. 

Daniel  N.  Jincks. 

Jacob  W.  Knapp. 


show  the  number  of  years  served 


John  Wilder. 
William  Webster. 
Andrew  W.  Young. 
Ashley  Manville. 
Timothy  H.  Buxton. 
Abel  Webster. 
Allen  Fargo. 
Chauncey  C.  Buxton. 
Alonzo  Choate. 
Jacob  W.  Knapp. 
Alonzo  W.  Wood. 
Abel  Webster. 
Henry  Garretsee. 
Roswell  Gould. 
( Hdeon  H.  Jenkins. 
William  D.  Miner. 
Roswell  Gould. 
John  W.  Sprague. 

TOWN  CLERKS. 

Our  preserved  records  commence  with  the  year  1831.     The  first  Town  Clerk 
is  stated  from  the  recollection  of  the  old  settlers. 


1808 
1831 
1832 
1833 
1834 
1835 
1836 
1838 
1839 
1841 
1842 
1844 
1846 


1S0S 


1S31 


Samuel  McWhorter. 
Andrew  W.  Young. 
Almon  Stevens. 
Abner  A.  Fisher. 
Orson  Hough. 
Abner  A.  Fisher. 
Alanson  Holly. 
Edward  Cornwall. 
Elias  R.  Bascom. 
Nathaniel  D.  Fisher. 
Linus  W.  Thayer. 
Andrew  G.  Hammond. 
Chauncey  C.  Gates. 


Richard  Bristol.  Gideon  T.  Jenkins,  Ebcnezer  Wilson,  Jun. 

[Records  of  the  next  22  years  lost.] 
William  Webster,  Amos  M.  Barnett,  Allen  Fargo. 


1847 

Eugene  Z.  Stow. 

1848 

Ransom  S.  Watson. 

1849 

Francis  F.  Fargo. 

1852 

Benjamin  F.  Fargo, 

1853 

Samuel  A.  Murray. 

1855 

Erastus  D.  Day. 

1856 

Samuel  A.  Murray. 

1857 

Benjamin  F.  Fargo. 

1859 

Samuel  A.  Murray. 

1860 

N.  Jackson  Morris. 

1862 

Wales  Cheney. 

1S69 

Daniel  N.  Jincks. 

SESSORS.  ' 

3S4 


HISTORY   OF    WARSAW. 


1832  Nehemiah  Park.  Jun.,  Calvin  Runisey,  Lyman  Morris. 

1833  Abial  Lathrop.  Jun.,  Amos  M.  Barnett,  Silas  Kidder. 
1831  Andrew  Blackman,  Amos  M.  Barnett,  Allen  Fargo. 

1835  Andrew  Blackman,  Walter  M.  Hatch. 

1836  Andrew  Blackman,  Walter  M.  Hatch,  John  Windsor. 

1837  John  Wilder,  Walter  M.  Hatch,  George  W.  Morris. 

1838  William  Webster,  Walter  M.  Hatch,  George  W.  Morris. 

1839  Lyman  Morris,  Jacob  Tillou,  Jonas  Cutting. 

1 840  Lyman  Morris,  Ashley  Manville,  Allen  Fargo. 

1841  John  A.  McElwain,  Ashley  Manville,  Edwin  Painter. 

1842  Ashley  Manville,  Newbury  Bronson,  Cyrus  Tanner. 
•1843  William  Walker,  Willard  T.  Warner,  Cyrus  Tanner. 
1S44  Edmund  Buck,  Willard  T.  Warner,  Allen  Fargo. 

1845  Edmund  Buck,  John  A.  McElwain.  Palmer  Fargo. 

1846  Welcom  Arnold,  for  1  year,  Ashley  Manville,  2  years,  Timothy  H.  Bux- 

ton, 3  years.     Hereafter  one  Assessor  to  go  out  and  one  to  be  elected 
every  year. 

1847  Welcom  Arnold.  1859     Edwin  Painter. 
1S48  Isaac  Matthews.                              1860    Benjamin  Bishop. 

1849  Allen  Fargo.  1861 

1850  Henry  Cummings.  1862        [not  recorded.] 

1851  Walter  M.  Hatch.  1863    Benjamin  Bishop. 

1852  Isaac  C.  Bronson.  1864    De  Witt  Aikin. 

1853  Philander  Truesdell.  1865    Simeon  Hoi  ton. 
1S54  Walter  M.  Hatch.                           1866     Benjamin  Bishop. 

1855  Jacob  Wiggins,  Samuel  Holton,  (vac.) 

1856  Edwin  Painter.  1867    Silvanus  E.  Brady. 

1857  Benjamin  Bishop.  Timothy  H.  Buxton,  (vac. ) 
Willard  T.  Warner,  (vac.)            1868    J.  Ashley  McCulloch. 

1858  Willard  T.  Warner.  '  1869     Ormus  Marshall. 

COLLECTORS. 

1816  Jonas  Cutting.  1  or  2  years.  1851     Simeon  Holton. 

1823  John  Truesdell,  5  years.  1852     G.  H.  Truesdell. 

1828  Elijah  Norton,  2  years.  1852    John  C.  Holcomb. 

1831  Elijah  Norton.  1854    Frederick  Van  Liew. 

1832  William  Bingham.  1855     Gardner  B.  Johnson. 

1833  Ackley  Carter.  1 856     Miles  H.  Morris. 

1834  Samuel  Hard.  1857     Chester  A.  Cole. 
1839  Chauncey  Z.  Cutting.  1859     Elon  G.  Truesdell. 

1841  Alonzo  Choate.  1860    Stephens  Whitcher. 

1842  Chauncey  Z.  Cutting.  1862     Allen  Y.  Breck. 
1845  Philander  Truesdell.                      1864    Gardner  B.  Johnson. 
1847  Erasmus  D.  Carpenter.  1866     S.  Hopkins  Salisbury. 

"  Eli  Dibble,  (app'd  to  till  vac.)      1867     David  P.  Rood. 

1S48  Eli  Dibble.  1868    Robert  Barnett,  Jr. 

1849  Allen  Y.  Breck.  1S69    James  Wilkin. 

COMMISSIONERS  OF  HIGHWAYS. 

1831  David  Ensign,    Richard  Jackson,  Daniel  H.  Throop. 

1832  Samuel  McWhorter,  Cyrus  Tanner,  Daniel  H.  Throop. 

1833  Andrew  Blackman,  Allen  Fargo,  Richard  Jackson. 

1834  Isaac  N.  Phelps,  John  Truesdell,  Noah  Fisk. 

1835  Isaac  N.  Phelps,   Cyrus  Tanner,    Allen  Fargo. 

1836  William  Webster,  Benjamin  Bishop,  Allen  Fargo. 

1837  Benjamin  Bishop,  Allen  Fargo,  Elijah  Norton. 

1838  Ashley  Manville,  John  A.  McElwain,  Oliver  C.  Chapman. 

1839  John  A.  McElwain,  Samuel  Wilson,  Cyrus  Tanner. 

1840  John  A.  McElwain,  Willard  T.  Warner,   Samuel  Wilson. 

1841  John  A.  McElwain,  Otis  F.  Carpenter.  Edmund  Buck. 

1842  Jacob  Wiggins,  Hezekiah  Lincoln,  Silas  C.  Fargo. 


Edmund  Buck. 

1859 

John  A.  McElwain. 

I860 

Samuel  L.  Kinney. 

1861 

Francis  Luce. 

'    1862 

Welcom  Arnold. 

1863 

Edward  Painter. 

1864 

Hiram  Stearns. 

Merrick  Brigham. 

Samuel  L.  Kinney, 

(to  fill  vac 

•) 

Elijah  W.  Andrews. 

1867 

Luther  Foster. 

1868 

William  F.  Woodward. 

1869 

Frank  Miller. 

TOWN    OFFICERS.  385 

Jacob  W'iggins,  Hezekiah  Lincoln.  Silas  C.  Fargo. 

Ashley  Manville,  Walter  M.  Hatch,  Samuel  Fisher,  2d. 

Alvah  Bartholomew,  Walter  M.  Hatch,  Samuel  Fisher,  2d. 

Edmund  Buck,  1  year,  Samuel-Fisher,  2  years,  Palmer  Fargo,  3  years. 
[Hereafter  one  to  be  elected  every  year  for  3  years.] 

Luther  Foster. 
Robert  R.  Munger. 
Frank  Miller. 
Hiram  Stearns. 
Robert  R.  Munger. 
Warren  Thorp.  ***" 

[Hereafter  none  to  be  elected  un- 
til after  3  years ;  then  one  eve- 
ry year  for  one  year  only.] 
Robert  R.  Munger. 
Edmund  Buck. 
Benjamin  Bishop. 

OVERSEERS  OF  THE  POOR. 

William  Patterson,  1842  Stephen  Hatch, 

Samuel  Salisbury.  Jonas  Cutting. 

Jonas  Cutting,  1843  Stephen  Hatch, 

Lyman  Morris.  David  Fargo, 

William  Webster,  1845  David  Fargo, 

Sylvester  Perkins.  George  Stearns. 

Anson  A.  Perkins,  [After  1846,  but  one  elected.] 

David  Fargo.  1847  George  Stearns. 

David  Fargo,  18-19  George  W.  Morris. 

Silas  C.  Fargo.  1850  George  Stearns. 

David  Fargo,  1852  Edmund  Buck. 

WTilliam  Webster.  1853  Silas  C.  Fargo. 

William  Webster,  1854  Edmund  Buck. 

William  Walker.  1855  Elijah  Norton. 

William  G.  Whitney,  1856  Elijah  Chamberlain,  Jun. 

Silas  C.  Fargo.  1857  Edmund  Buck. 

David  Fargo,  1863  Rollin  R.  Webster. 

Anson  A.  Perkins.  1869  John  Truesdell. 

COMMISSIONERS  OF  COMMON  SCHOOLS. 

1831  Abial  Lathrop,  Jun.,  Horace  Hollister,  Paul  Richards. 

1832  Abial  Lathrop,  Jun.,  William  Walker,  William  G.  Whitney. 

1833  William  Patterson,  Horace  Hollister,  Noah  Fisk. 

1834  Horace  Hollister,  Arden  Woodruff,  Nathaniel  Moss. 

1835  Broughton  W.  Crane,  William  Patterson,  Benjamin  Jewett. 

1837  Broughton  W.  Crane,  Charles  J.  Judd,  Alanson  Holly. 

1838  Orson  Hough,  Alanson  Holly. 

1839  Arden  Woodruff,  Alanson  Holly,  Charles  W.  Belden. 

1840  Peter  Caner,  George  W.  Morris,  Cyrus  Tanner. 

1841  Broughton  W.  Crane,  Alanson  Holly,  Benjamin  Bishop. 

1842  Luther  Foster,  Jun.,  Samuel  Wilson,  Alanson  Holly. 

1843  Luther  Foster,  Jun.,  James  R.  Doolittle,  Francis  S.  Bristol. 

[Office  abolished.] 

INSPECTORS  OF  COMMON  SCHOOLS. 

1831  James  Crocker,  Seth  S.  Ransom,  Andrew  W.  Young. 

1832  Almon  Stevens,  Isaac  C.  Bronson,  Joshua  H.  Darling. 

1833  Ethan  E.  Bartlett,  Alden  C.  Keith,  James  Crocker. 

1834  Ethan  E.  Bartlett,  Alden  C.  Keith,  Joshua  H.  Darling. 

1835  Not  recorded. 

25 


■386  HISTORY    OF    WARSAW. 

1836  Andrew  W.  Young,  Arden  Woodruff,  Alanson  Holly. 

.1837  Arden  Woodruff,  Alanson  Holly,  Timothy  Darling. 

1838  Andrew  W.  Young,  Alanson  Holly,  Charles  J.  Judd. 

1839  Charles  W.  Belden,  Alanson  Holly,  Thomas  P.  Baldwin. 

1840  Thomas  P.  Baldwin,  Nathan  Raymond,  Daniel  H.  Gibson. 

1841  Alanson  Holly,  Sanford  L.  Bough  ton,  Joab  Streeter. 

1842  James  R.  Doolittle,  Daniel  H.  Gibson. 

1843  Rowley  Morris,  Daniel  H.  Gibson. 

[Offices  of  Commissioners  and  Inspectors  of  Common  Schools  abolished,  and 
the  office  of  Town  Superintendent  substituted.] 

SUPERINTENDENTS  OF  COMMON  SCHOOLS. 

1X44     Alanson  Holly.  1852     Harlow  L.  Comstock. 

1847  Francis  F.  Fargo.  1854    Andrew  W.  Young. 

1848  Alanson  Holly.  [Office  abolished,  and  duties  de- 
tenu extended  to  2  years.]  vol ved  upon  District  Commis- 

1850     Charles  J.  Judd.  sioners.] 

CONSTABLES. 

1831  Elijah  Norton,  John  A.  McElwain,  Roswell  Gould. 

1832  David  Seymour,  Harry  J.  Parker.  William  Bingham. 

1833  Ackley  Carter.  Samuel  Hard,  Daniel  W.  Bennet. 

1834  Harry  J.  Parker,  Samuel  Hard,  AldeV  Keith,  Jun. 

1835  Samuel  Hard,  Abel  Webster,  Eber  Inglesby. 

1836  Samuel  Hard,  Eber  Inglesby,  Elizur  Webst'er.  Jun. 

1837  Samuel  Hard,   Eber  Inglesby,  Ethel  V.  Bronson. 

1838  Samuel  Hard,  Eber  Inglesby,   Corbin  Allen. 

1839  Cbauncey  Z.  Cutting,  Martin  Kingsley,  Hiram  C.  Smith. 

1840  Channcey  Z.  Cutting,  Daniel  II.  Gibson,  Robert  M.  Buck. 

1841  Alonzo  Choate,  Erasmus  I).  Carpenter,  Samuel  Fisher. 

1842  Cbauncey  Z.  Cutting,  Erasmus  D.  Carpenter,  Allen  D.  Fargo. 

1813  ChaunceyZ.  Cutting,  Allen  D.  Fargo,  Hiram  E.  Adams. 

1814  Cbauncey  Z.  Cutting,  Philander  Truesdell,  David  Shedd. 

1845  Philander  Truesdell,   Erasmus  D.  Carpenter,  Robert  M.  Buck. 

1846  Philander  Truesdell.  Erasmus  D.  Carpenter.  William  Morris. 

1847  David  M.  Fargo,  Peter  R.  Warren,  Eli  Dibble. 

1848  Eli  Dibble,  Albert  Lincoln,  Peter  R.  Warren. 
ISJ'.i  Allen  Y.  Breck,  Albert  Lincoln,  John  F.  Clark. 

1850  John  M.  Fargo,  Albert  Lincoln,  John  C.  Holcomb. 

1851  Simeon  Holton,  John  C.  Holcomb,  George  H.  Truesdell. 

1 852  George  H.  Truesdell,  John  C.  Holcomb,  John  M.  Fargo. 

1853  John  C.  Holcomb,  Albert  Lincoln,  Frederick  Van  Liew. 

1854  Frederick  Van  Liew,  Jeremiah  Ensign,  Luke  Putnam,  Allen  D.  Fargo. 

Samuel  A.  Ban-ass. 

1855  Frederick  Van  Liew,  Jeremiah  Ensign,  John  C.  Holcomb,  Ira  N.  Hurd. 

Gardner  B.  Johnson. 
185G     Frederick  Van  Liew,    Elon  G.  Truesdell,    Henry  S.  Young.  John  C. 
Holcomb.  Lafayette  Stearns. 

1857  Chester  A.  Cole,    William  F.  Morris,    Jacob  Sherwin,  Moses  Chandler. 

Elon  G.  Truesdell. 

1858  Chester  A.  Cole,    Jacob  Sherwin,    Elon  G.  Truesdell,    Samuel  Fluker, 

George  W.  Seeley. 
1S59     Elon  G.  Truesdell,"  Frederick  Van  Liew,    Orville  B.  Wiggins,    Robert 

M.  Buck.  Stephens  Whitcher. 
1850    Stephens  Whitcher,  Myron  E.  Bartlett,  Nelson  Slocum,  Jacob  Sherwin, 

Isaac  T.  Carr. 

1861  Stephens  Whitcher,   William  II.  II.  Fargo,   William  J.  Cochran,    Mills 

Webster,  Alfred  W.  Hoyt. 

1862  Wm.  H.  H.  Fargo.    James  W.  Cochran,    Gardner  B.   Johnson,    Mills 

Webster,  Allen  Y.  Breck. 


BUSINESS    DIRECTORY. 


387 


1863  Allen  Y.  Breck,  Gardner  B.  Johnson,  Mills  Webster,  George  W.  Root. 

Jacob  Sherwin. 

1864  Gardner  B.  Johnson,    Mills  Webster,  Byron  L.  Stearns,    Ransom  S. 

Hatch,  George  W.  Root. 

1865  Gardner  B.  Johnson,    Byron  L.  Stearns,    Almon  Cnmmings,    William 

M.  Stearns,  Henry  Hovey. 

1866  S.  Hopkins  Salisbury,  Gardner  B.  Johnson,  Byron  L.  Stearns,  Eugene 

Stearns. 

1867  David  P.  Rood,    Edwin  G.  Truesdell,    S.  Hopkins  Salisbury,    Gardner 

B.  Johnson,  George  W.  Root. 

1868  George  W.  Root,  Robert  Barnett,  Jun.,   Dewitt  C.  Munger,    Edwin  G. 

Truesdell,  George  Scranton. 

1869  George  W.  Root.  S.  Hopkins  Salisbury,  Robert  Barnett,  Jr.,  Edwin  G. 

Truesdell,  William  W.  Stearns. 


BUSINESS  DIRECTORY. 

Names  of  Persons  engaged  in  the  several  Occupations,  Professional  and 
Mechanical,  in  Warsaw,  January  1st,  1869. 


Academy. 
Charles  H.  Dann,  Principal. 

Artist. 
Miss  Lizzie  Slade. 

Bank. 
National  Bank  of  Wyoming  Co. 
Joshua  H.  Darling,  President, 
Horace  A.  Metcalf,  Cashier. 

Barber. 
William  Burghart. 

Barrel  Manufacture  us. 
R.  T.  Howard  &  Co. 
Baker. 
Sylvester  B.  Norton. 

Blacksmiths. 
T.  H.  Buxton  &  Co.. 
Knapp,  Fullington  &  Co.. 
J.  Hohenstein, 
Joseph  Turner, 
Almon  Wilcox. 

BOARDING-HOUSE. 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Lemon. 

Boot  and  Shoe  Stores. 
Edwin  A.  Miller, 
R.  Justison, 
John  Curry, 
Smith  cfe  Hurlburt. 

Bookseller. 
Lewis  E.  Walker. 

Biuck  Manufacturers. 
Ethan  E.  Bartlett. 
Farman  cfc  Frank. 


Broom  Manufacturers. 
Calvin  L.  Fuller. 

Builders. 
James  E.  Ketchum, 
Patterson  Manufacturing  Co., 
Eli  W.  Bradish. 

Cabinet  Makers. 
Edward  C.  Shattuck, 
Moses  S.  Osgood, 
J.  Spencer  Bartlett. 

Carpenters. 
James  E.  Ketchum, 
William  Barber, 
Eli  W.  Bradish, 
J.  Lee  Chapman, 
R.  B.  Clark, 
C.  Paddock  Hurd, 

E.  Church. 

Albert  G.  Davidson, 
James  J.  Davidson, 

F.  L.  Haine, 

M.  H.  McClintock, 
M.  M.  McConnell, 
Seth  Moore, 
James  Richards, 
George  Webber, 
Charles  Whittam. 

Carriage  Makers. 
T.  H.  Buxton  &  Co., 
Knapp,  Fullington  &  Co. 
Clergymen. 
Joseph  E.  Nassau,  Presbyterian, 
Edwin  E.  Williams,  Congregational. 
0.  S.  Chamberlain,  Methodist, 
J.  V.  Stryker,  Episcopal, 
C.  A.  Wiessmann,  German  Prot. 


3S8 


HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


Clerks. 
Chauncey  C.  Gates, 
Samuel  A.  Murray, 
Charles  L.  Seaver, 
0.  W.  Emery, 
Phineas  D.  Fisher, 
C.  E.  Dewey, 
William  C.  Buxton, 
Henry  Garretsee,  Jun., 
M.  C.  Joiner, 
Thomas  Kerr, 
George  W.  Lemon, 
George  McCagg, 
John  W.  Montgomery, 
II.  E.  Pond, 
II.  N.  Silver. 

Clothing  Stores. 
J.  A.  Hubbell, 
William  W.  Holmes, 
Oettinger  &  Levi, 
A.  Oppenheimer. 

Cooper. 
Asa  Hunt. 

County  Clerk. 
J.  P.  Robinson, 
Charles  W.  Bailey,  Deputy  Clerk. 

County  Judge  and  Surrogate. 
Byron  Healy. 

County  Treasurer. 
Harwood  A.  Dudley. 

Crockery  Store. 
Nehemiah  Park. 

Dentists. 
W.  C  Barrett, 
Gates  &  Lord. 

District  Attorney. 
Elbert  E.  Farman. 

Dress  Maker. 
Eliza  Barber. 

Druggists. 
Brown  cfc  Matthews, 
Buxton  &  Lewis, 
James  O.  McClure. 

Editors. 
William  H.  Merrill, 
John  Ransom. 

Foundry. 
Henry  Garretsee. 

Gardener. 
Thomas  O'Maley. 

Grist-Mills. 
John  W.  Sprague,  ■ 
C.  K.  &  A.  Brown, 
Samuel  J.  Miinger. 


Grocers. 

Erasmus  D.  Carpenter, 
Benjamin  F.  Fargo, 
Handy  &  Lamberson, 
John  W.  Hawley, 
S.  Norris  Whitlock. 

Hardware  Stores. 
Henry  Garretsee, 
Morris  &  Lewis. 
H.  W.  Mann  &  Son. 

Harness  Makers. 

L.  E.  Clement, 
H.  Howe, 
Richard  M.  Tunks, 
Barzillai  Barnard. 

Horticulturist. 
Wales  Cheney. 

Hotels. 
W.  T.  &  L.  C.  Smith, 
Jasper  Keeney, 
J.  II.  Wilkin, 
E.  Hayward. 

Insurance  Agents. 
Ransom  A.  Crippen, 

D.  N.  Jincks. 

Lawyers. 

L.  W.  &  L.  L.  Thayer, 
Byron  Healy, 
Elbert  E.  Farman, 
Leonard  W.  Smith, 
Charles  W.  Bailey, 
Lloyd  A.  Hayward, 
Myron  E.  Bartlett, 
A.  Harrington. 

Livery  Stable. 
Moses  Rowe. 

Lumber  Yard. 
Patterson  Manufacturing  Comp  any 

Machinists. 
Ira  N.  Hard, 
C.  Paddock  Hurd, 

E.  R.  Benson. 

Map-Roller  Factory. 
Sheldon  &  Martin. 

Marble  Works. 
Thomas  Agar. 

Masons. 
Simeon  Hoi  ton, 
Alson  Hurlbut  &  Sons, 
Hugh  Curry, 
Orrin  Fisk, 
Alfred  W.  Hoyt, 
Norman  Spencer, 
Henry  Bush. 


BUSINESS   DIRECTORY. 


389 


Meat  Markets. 

D.  C.  Barnard, 
Agar  &  Burr, 
John  McGee. 

Merchants,  (Dry  Goods.) 

A.  &  G.  W.  Frank, 
Thomas  S.  Glover, 
A.  &  S.  D.  Purely. 

Milk  Dealer. 
Henry  McElwain. 

Milliners. 
Miss  E.  Iago, 
Miss  E.  Conable  &  Co., 
Mrs.  Cornelius  Clow, 
Mrs.  Harvey  Tuttle. 

Newspapers. 

Western  New  Yorker, 
Wyoming  Democrat, 
Masonic  Tidings. 

Painters. 

Charles  A.  Williams, 
J.  W.  Hill, 

C.  Kimball, 
James  H.  Wing, 
Charles  C.  Kline. 

Physicians. 
Milan  Baker, 
Burt  B.  Roberts, 
J.  C.  Pitts, 
John  C.  Tibbitts, 

D.  A.  Maynard, 
O.  B.  Adams. 

Photographer. 
C.  W.  Buell. 

Planing  Mill. 
Patterson  Manufacturing  Company. 

Postmaster. 
Seth  M.  Gates. 


Printers. 
Harwood  A.  Dudley, 
John  P.  Morse, 
George  N.  Bassett. 

Produce  Dealers. 
Hibbard  <fe  Bristol. 

Publishers. 
Dudley  &  Merrill, 
John  Ransom. 

Real  Estate  Agents. 
Ransom  A.  Crippen, 
Maurice  R.  Quackenbush. 

Saw-Mills. 
Patterson  Manufacturing  Company, 
Leonard  L.  Martin, 
Ira  Wilcox. 

Sheriff. 
William  W.  Davis, 
William  D.  Miner,  Deputy. 

Shoemakers. 
G.  W.  Thomas, 
Harvey  Tuttle, 
Thomas  Askin. 

Tailors. 
Thomas  Holmes, 
John  Canty, 
James  Brown. 

Tanner. 
S.  B.  Humphrey. 

Telegraph  Operator. 
Albert  Brown. 

U.  S.  Assistant  Assessor. 
Lawrence  Mix. 

Watches  and  Jewelry. 
J.  A.  Main, 
L.  B.  Walker. 

Wood  Turner. 
Hiram  E.  Adams. 


390 


HISTOKY    OF    WAKSAW. 


CENSUS    STATISTICS. 

1830  Population  of  Warsaw,.. 2, 474  1855    Population  of  "Warsaw,.  .2,794 

1835  "                       "        ..2,686  1860              "                       "        ..2,958 

1840  «                     "        ..2,841       1865     Males, 1,399, 

1845  "                      "        ..2,659       Females 1.432, 

1850  "                      "        ..2,654                  Total, 2,831 

The  village  has  steadily  increased.  The  farming  population  of  the  town  has 
decreased,  owing  to  constant  removals  West;  many  farmers  selling  their  lauds 
to  their  more  wealthy  neighbors. 


Acres  of  land  improved,  1865,  17,144 

"  "     unimproved, 4,569 

Number  of  dwellings, 592 

Families, 604 

Children  taught  in  the  schools,      724 

Horses  and  Cattle 2,250 

Neat  cattle,  other  than  cows, . .      572 

Cows, 1,008 

Swine, 876 

Sheep  and  Lambs, 16, 058 

Bushels  of  "Winter  Wheat, 2,032 


Bushels  of  Spring  Wheat, 49,080 

Tons  of  Hay, 6,140 

Bushels  of  Potatoes, 25,700 

Bushels  of  Apples, 33, 000 

Pounds  of  Butter, 86,820 

Pounds  of  Cheese, 93,517 

Pounds  of  Wool 58, 0S5 

Yards  of  Domestic  Manufacture,  1,1 98 

Pounds  of  Pork  made, 121,911 

Miles  of  Public  Road, 74 


DISTANCES, 


From  Warsaw  to  the  several  Post-Offices  in  Wyoming  County, 
figure  signifies  tenths  of  a  mile. 


The  fractional 


Arcade, 24. 6 

Attica, 13.5 

Bennington  Center, 18.4 

Castile, 11.2 

Covington 11.1 

Cowlesville, 21. 5 

Eagle...... 16.2 

Eagle  Village, 19.0 

East  Gainesville, 6.8 

East  Pike, • 10.6 

Gainesville, 6.8 

Hermitage,  9.6 

Java  Center, 17.8 

Java   Village 18.8 

Johnsonsburgh, 9.7 

La  Grange, 9.2 

North  Java, 13.5 


Orangeville  Center, 6.1 

Pearl   Creek, 8.9 

Peoria, 13.6 

Perry, 8.3 

Perry   Center, 6.5 

Pike, 13.2 

Portageville 14.6 

St.  Helena,  ' 14.0 

Sheldon  Centre, 13.2 

Smith's  Corners, 11.8 

South  Warsaw, 2. 0 

Strykersville, 18.5 

Varysburgh,  9.9 

West  M  iddlebury, 6. 4 

Wethersfield  Springs, 6. 9 

Wyoming, 6.7 


INDEX. 


Agriculture,  early,  73:  progress  of,  74;  products  of,  and  prices,  79. 
Alexander,  town  of,  formed  from  Batavia,  23. 
Allan,  Ebenezer,  biographical  sketch  of,  368. 
Allegany  county  formed,  22;  part  of  annexed  to  Wyoming,  22. 
Animals,  wild,  50;  wolf  bounties,  51;  wolf  and  bear  stories,  52. 
Antislavery,  history  of,  156-63;  societies  formed,  156;  meeting  of  state  socie- 
ty in  1835,  156;  meeting  of  Genesee  County  Society,  156,  161. 
Arcade,  name  of  China  changed  to,  23. 
Ashes,  as  an  article  of  trade,  61,  79. 
Assembly,  members  of,  from  "Wyoming  county,  380. 
Assessors,  names  of,  and  dates  of  their  election,  383,  384. 
Attica,  formed  from  Sheldon,  22. 
Attorneys,  list  of,  and  terms  of  practice,  125,  126. 

Bake-kettle,  description  and  use  of,  47. 

Banks,  in  Warsaw,  history  of,  127. 

Baptist  church,  history  of,  191-195. 

Batavia,  when  fornied.  22;  extent  of  its  territory,  22. 

Bears  and  wolves.    [See  Wild  Animals.] 

Bedsteads,  early,  description  of,  43. 

Bennington,  town  of,  formed  from  Sheldon,  22. 

Bergen,  town  of,  formed,  23. 

Bethany,  town  of.  formed  from  Batavia,  23. 

Bimey,  James  G.,  nomination  of  lor  President,  162. 

Black  salts,  as  an  article  of  trade.  61,  79. 

Booksellers,  86. 

Boot  and  shoe  making,  in  families,  49. 

Bridges,  over  O-at-ka  creek,  101. 

Buffalo  Mass  Antislavery  National  Convention,  for  nominating  President,  163. 

Cabinet-making,  and  list  of  manufacturers.  97. 

Carding  and  cloth  dressing  establishments,  89,  90. 

Carpet  manufactory,  98. 

Cattaraugus  county,  formation  of,  22. 

Cattle  paid  on  land  debts,  58;  prices  of,  61,  79. 

Cemeteries;  first  burial,  36;  new  cemetery  established,  106. 

Chautauqua,  town  and  county  of,  when  and  of  what  formed,  22. 

China,  formed,  22 ;  name  of,  changed  to  Arcade,  23. 

Churches,  history  of,  164-208. 

Collectors  of  the  town  taxes,  names  of,  384. 

Commissioners  of  highways,  names  of,  384. 

Congregational  church,  formed,  196;  constitution  and  rules  of,  196;  action  on- 
secret  societies,  198;  church  edifice^  197-8;  quarter  centenary  celebrat'n,  200. 

Congress,  members  of,  from  Genesee  and  Wyoming  counties,  381. 

Constables,  list  of,  and  dates  of  their  election,  386. 

Constitutional  Conventions,  delegates  to,  from  Warsaw,  381. 

Cooking,  mode  of,  in  log  houses,  46 ;  cook-stoves,  48. 

County  Officers:  Sheriffs,  Clerks,  Surrogates,  Treasurers,  Judges,  District  At- 
torneys, 378-380. 

Crystal  Brook,  and  its  cascades,  description  of,  25.  365. 

Cumings,  Simeon,  his  Warsaw  purchase,  62;  builds  mills  and  lays  out  streets 
and  lots,  63. 


392 


HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


Drug-stores  and  druggists,  85. 

Duties  on  imports;  double  duties  during  war  of  1812,  60. 

Dwellings,  early,  described,  26,  27,  41. 

Ecclesiastical  history,  161-208;    [See  the  several  churches] 

Elba,  formation  of  the  town  of,  23. 

Ellicott,  Joseph,. agent  of  Holland  Land  Company,  and  surveyor,  20,  21. 

Episcopal  church,  history  of,  203-5. 

Erie,  town  of,  formed,  22.     [Name  since  changed  to  Newstead.] 

Family  Sketches  and  Biographical  Notes,  232-361;  372-377. 
Fires  in  Warsaw,  66,  69,  90,  96,  112.  116,  118,  371. 
Foundries,  cast  iron,  94. 
Frying-pans,  use  of  in  log-houses,  47. 
Fruit,  culture  of,  75. 

Gas  Works,  their  erection  and  suspension,  372. 

Gates  Seth,  settles  in  Sheldon.  40. 

Genesee  county,  erection  and  division  of,  22;  of  what  towns  composed;   first 

board  of  supervisors,  23. 
Gospel  land,  history  and  distribution  of,  209. 
Grist-mills,  44,  87,  88. 
Gulf-road,  construction  of,  99. 

Holland  Purchase,  history  of,  17;    Land  Company's  title,  19;  survey  of,  20, 

21;  "  Transit  instrument."  21. 
Household  labor,  cooking,  46;  manufacturing,  48;  dyeing,  48. 

Indian  reservations,  20. 

Indians,  historical  sketch  of,  368. 

Insurance  Company,  of  Wyoming  county,  history  of,  370,  371. 

Java,  town  of,  formed  from  China.  23. 

Justices  of  the  Peace,  appointed  and  elected,  list  of,  3S2,  383. 

Keeney,  Amos,  first  visit  to  Warsaw,  27;  his  removal  and  privations,  37. 
Kenyon,  Isaiah,  sketch  of,  66. 

land  Company.  (Holland,)  policy  of,  58. 

Lawyers,  list  of,  and  terms  of  practice  in  Warsaw,  125,  126. 

Leicester,  original  town  of  Genesee  county,  23. 

Lewis,  Truman,  settles  in  Orangeville,  40. 

Library,  incorporation  and  history  of,  108. 

Lincoln,  Abraham,  meeting  on  the  death  of,  147. 

Livingston,  county  of,  date  of  formation,  22. 

Log-houses,  construction  of,  26-7;  Keeney's,  39;  general  description  of,  41-2. 

Manufactures,  household,  48,  60;  mills,  87;  woolen,  89;  carriage,  91;  tan- 
neries, 92;  map  rollers,  93;  foundries,  94;  planing  mills.  95;  Patterson 
Manufacturing  Company,  96;  cabinet  making,  97;  carpet,  98. 

Massachusetts  cedes  her  western  lands  to  the  general  government,  17. 

McKay,  F.  C.  D.,  land  purchase  of,  67;  effects  of,  68, 

3Iembers  of  Assembly  from  Wyoming  county,  380. 

Merchants  and  trade,  dry  goods  merchants,  80-84;  hardware  merchants,  84: 
druggists,  85;  booksellers,  86. 

jnils:  first  saw-mill,  43;  saw-mills  and  grist-mills,  87. 

Morris,  Bobert,  his  purchase  and  sale  of  lands,  19. 

New  England,  grants  of  land  of,  17. 

Newspapers,  early,  71;  list  of  county  papers.  128. 

New  York,  territory  of,  17;    controversy  with  Massachusetts,  17;  cedes  her 

western  lands,  17. 
Niagara,  county  of,  formed  from  Genesee,  22. 
Northampton,  original  town  of  Genesee,  23. 


INDEX.  ^93 

O-at-ka  Creek,  and  its  tributaries,  24-5;  name  changed  from  Allan's,  368. 

Old  Folks'  Festivals:  meeting  at  Dr.  Frank's,  130;  meeting  in  1860,  137. 

Orangeville,  town  of,  formed  from  Attica,  22. 

Orleans  county,  formed  from  Genesee,  22. 

Overseers  of  the  Poor,  list  of,  and  dates  of  their  election,  385. 

Palmer,  Mrs.  Joseph,  services  as  physician  ;  attendance  at  Sterling 
Stearns's,  45. 

Parker,  Benjamin,  his  encounter  with  bears,  52. 

Patterson  Manufacturing  Company;  its  business,  96. 

Pembroke,  town  of,  formed  from  Batavia,  23. 

Phelps  and  Gorham'1  s  purchase,  18,  19;  sale  to  Robert  Morris,  19. 

Physicians,  want  of,  45;  Dr.  Sheldon's  advent,  46;  names  of,  126. 

Planing-mills,  history  of,  95-97. 

Plymouth  Company,  grant  to  by  James  I.  of  England,  17. 

Post  Offices  in  Warsaw,  and  appointments  of  post-masters,  72. 

Presbyterian  church,  history  of,  164-76;  action  on  sabbath  schools,  167;  on 
slavery,  169;  parochial  school,  170;  semi-centenary,  171;  new  church  edi- 
fice, 172;  dedication  of,  174;  Union  Society  organized,  176;  chh.  bell,  181. 

Public  meetings:  on  the  death  of  President  Taylor,  146;  on  the  death  of  Presi- 
dent Lincoln,  147. 

Pultney,  Sir  William,  lands  sold  to,  19. 

Pailroads:  Warsaw  and  Le  Roy,  102;  Attica  and  Hornellsville,  104. 
Peservations  of  Indian  lands,  20. 

Roads  and  Bridges,  98;  state  road  and  gulf  road,  99;  bridges,  101. 
Ridgeicay,  town  of.  formed  from  Batavia,  23. 

Saw-mills,  the  first,  when  and  by  whom  built,  43;  saw-mills  and  grist-mills,  87. 

Schools,  early,  and  school-houses,  and  manner  of  teaching,  110-12;  select 
schools,  112;  union  school,  113;  union  free  school,  114;  present  school  dis- 
tricts, 116-22. 

Scotch  Irish  Family,  captured  by  pirates  and  liberated,  363. 

Senators,  in  state  legislature,  elected  from  Wyoming  county,  380. 

Settlers,  early,  enjoyments  of,  56;  their  slow  progress  in  wealth,  and  causes,  59. 

Shattuck,  Artemas,  remarkable  incident,  53. 

Sheldon,  town  of,  formed  from  Batavia.  22. 

Slaves,  mother  and  child,  escape  of,  364. 

Southampton,  an  original  town  of  Genesee  county,  23. 

Spinsters,  itinerant,  in  families,  48. 

Stafford,  town  of,  in  Genesee  county,  formed.,  23. 

Starved  ship,  remarkable  rescue  of  crew  and  passengers,  362. 

State  road,  from  Canandaigua,  99. 

Stearns,  Sterling,  child  of,  death  and  burial  of,  36. 

Stock-raising  and  dairying  in  Wyoming  county,  74. 

Stores:  the  first  in  town,  44;  description  of  early  stores  and  trade,  77;  mer- 
chants in  Warsaw,  from  1813  to  1869,  80-86. 

Street.  Levi,  the  early  mail  carrier,  and  the  "  Moscow  Stage,*'  71,  370. 

Supervisors,  of  Warsaw,  appointment  and  election  of,  383. 

Tailoring,  household,  itinerant  tailoresses,  49. 

tanneries,  92.     [See  Manufactures.] 

Taylor,  President  Zachary,  meeting  on  the  death  of.  146. 

Temperance,  early  history  of,  150;  Washington  societies,  152;  license  ques- 
tion, 153;  prohibitory  laws,  154;  organization  of  Good  Templars,  154. 

Topography  of  the  town  of  Warsaw,  23. 

Town  Clerks,  names  of,  and  dates  of  their  election.  383. 

Trade,  and  merchants,  77;  nature  of  in  early  times,  78;  trade  of  Warsaw; 
barter  and  credit  system,  78. 

Transit  instrument,  made  by  Ellicott,  description  of,  21. 

Traveling,  modes  of,  in  former  times,  369. 

Union  Society,  legal  organization  of,  176.     [See  Presbyterian  church.] 


394  HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 

Village  of  Warsaw,  history  of,  02;  incorporation  of,  68;  growth  and  improve- 
ment of,  since  1841,  6S-70. 

War  History,   211-231;  war  of  1812,  211;  war  of  the  rebellion,   212;    first 

company  from  Warsaw.  214;  other  calls  for  men,  215,  219;  touching  scene, 

(Charley  Bills,)  216;  return  of  volunteers,  217;  Sanitary  Fair,  218;  close  of 

the  war,  220;  list  of  volunteers  from  Warsaw,  222-31. 
Warren,  Jabish,  settles  at  Wright's  corners,  27;  buys  land  in  Warsaw.  28,  29; 

removed  to  Aurora,  40. 
Warsaw,  town  of,  formed  from  Batavia,  22;  topography  of,  23;  settlement 

of,  23;  first  sales  of  lots,  27-35;  progress  of  settlement  of,  36,  37;  some  of 

first  year's  town  officers,  46. 
Webster,  Elizur,  the  first  settler  in  Warsaw,  incidents  of  bis  setlement,  25-27. 
Wether sfield,  town  of,  formed  from  Orangeville,  22. 
Willink,  town  of,  formation  and  extent  of,  22, 
Wool,  product  of,  75;  manufacture  of  woolens,  89-01. 
Wyoming  county,  when  formed,  22,  68;  annexation  of  towns  from  Allegany 

county,  22,  133;  history  of  its  formation,  131;  Agricultural  society  of,  133. 
Wyoming  County  Insurance  Company,  history  of,  370,  371. 


INDEX   OF   NAMES. 


Names  of  Persons,  and  the  numbers  of  the  Pages  on  which  they  occur. 

Persons  whose  names  are  in  the  Family  Sketches,  but  are  not  in  the  follow- 
ing List,  will  find  them  in  the  sketches  of  the  heads  of  the  families  to  which 
they  belong,  or  into  which  they  have  married. 


Abbey,  H.  M.,  207. 
Adam's,  Charles  Francis,  1U3. 
Allis,  Silas  0.,  213. 
Andrews,  Elijah  \Vr.,  82,  83.  230. 
Andrews  <fc  Harrington.  130. 
Andrews,  Jnsiah,  129,  152. 
Applegate,  Thomas.  172.  205. 
Armstrong,  A.  J.,  173,  199. 
Arnold,  Wei  com,  232. 

Babbitt,  Edwin  L.,  130,  134. 

Bailey,  Calvin  P.,  133. 

Bailey.  Charles  W.,  72, 126,  129, 155,  204,  205, 

213,  233. 
Bailey,  John  IL,  129. 
Bakef,  Merrick,  M.  IX,  69. 
Baker,  Milan,  M.  D.,  64,  124. 
Baldwin,  Augustine  TJ.,  108,  281. 
Baldwin,  Thomas  P..  123. 
Barnes,  Elisha.  138,  233. 
Barnett,  Amos  M.,  183,  198.  234. 
Barnett,  William  B.,  183,  234. 
Barnett,  Mrs.  G.  P..  137.  234. 
Barnett,  Robert,  13S,  234 
Barlow  &  Woodward,  129. 
Bartlett,  Alanson,  97,  235. 
Bartlett,  J.  Spencer,  97.  235. 
Bartlett,  Ethan  E.,  CO,  123,  198,  236. 
Bartlett,  William  K..  23S. 
Bartlett,  Mvron  E.,  126,  236. 
Bascom,  Elias  R.,  72.  81,  237. 
Bates.  George  W.,  372. 
Bedow,  Samuel,  33, 13S. 
Beebe,  Ephraim,  91,  1S2. 
Beach,  Erastns,  80. 
Belden,  Charles  \V..  64,  115,  124. 
Benedict,  Samuel,  213. 
Benedict,  Rev.  A.  B..  204,  205. 
Bennett,  Rev  Mr.,  199. 
Bentley,  Wilber  G.,  195,  215. 

Bernard,  David,  192,  193 - 

Bills,  James  E  ,  147,  148,  149,  221. 
Bills,  Charles  E.,  216. 
Bingham,  William.  138,  213,  237. 
Birney,  James  G.,  162. 
Bisby,  Benjamin,  213. 
Blackman,  Andrew,  35. 
Blake,  Rev.  Mr.,  201. 
Blake,  Artemas,  86, 128. 
Blanchard,  Samuel  S.,  129. 
Boomer,  Jahez,  30, 121.  192. 
Bosworth,  Howard,  372. 
Botsford,  David,  274. 
Boughton,  Sanford  L.,  115,  238. 
Houghton,  William  P.,  115,  2E8. 
Bradley,  Hanover,  200. 
Breck.  Allen  Y.,  83,  96,  213. 
Breck,  Gates  &,  Hurd,  83. 
Brewster,  Henry,  159. 
Briggs,  Horace,  115. 


Bristol,  Richard  46. 

Bristol,  William,  Sen.,  56.  139,  177,  239. 

Bristol,  William,  96.  134,  239. 

Bronson,  Isaac  C,  65.  72,  82,  88,  91,  103,  106, 

113,  114,  132, 134,  146,  239. 
Bronson,  Newbury.  107.  134,  141,  240. 
Brooks,  Hugh  T..  134,  135,  202. 
Brown,  George,  89. 
Brown,  Rev.  Amos,  168. 
Brown.  C.  K.  &  A..  89. 
Buck,  Edmund,  213,  241. 
Buck.  Rev.  E.  M. ,  144. 
Bull,  Rev.  Norris.  63.  211. 
Busti,  Paul,  185,  209. 
Buxton,  Chauncev  C,  86,  91,  96,  213,  243. 
Buxton,  Timothy  H.,  63,  82,  91,  96,  107,  171, 

175.  213,  243. 
Buxton,  T.  H.  &  Co.,  92. 
Buxton,  Dea.  Wm.,  152,  156,  169,  242. 
Buxton,  Wm.  S.,91,  212. 

Caner,  Peter,  123,  244. 

Capeu,  Cyrus,  138,  244. 

Capen,  Theophilus,  10S.  109,  125. 

Carpenter,  Amrai  H  ,  85,  245. 

(  arv,  Trumbull.  88,  132. 

Chamberlain,  Elijah,  33,  171,  245. 

Chapin,  Rev.  E.,  168. 

Chapiu,  Ebenezer.  31,  216. 

Chapin,  John,  31,  246. 

Chapin,  Harvey.  31,  246. 

Chapin,  Koderick,  31,  122,  168,  246. 

Chapin,  Roderick.  Jr..  31,  186,  216. 

Chapin,  Willard,  31,246. 

Chapin,  Willard  J.,  152. 

t'haplin,  Wm.  L.,  162. 

Chapman,  Amos,  138. 

Chapman,  Jabez,  29,  35. 

Chapman,  Oliver  C,  89,  352. 

Chase,  Thomas,  247. 

Cheney,  Wales,  173,  334. 

Childs,  Rev.  Ward,  169. 

Choate.  Alonzo,  72,  83,  S9,  248. 

Clark,  John  F.,  89.  93,  13S,  181,  247. 

Clark,  John  L.,135. 

Cleveland,  Alonzo,  213,  218. 

Cleveland,  Nicholas,  137,  248. 

Coddington  &  Davidson,  173. 

Colton,  Calvin.  168. 

Comstock,  Harlow  L.,126, 147,  149,  171,  172, 

213,  221,  249. 
Comstock,  Andrews  &  Co..  82,  91,  94. 
Conable,  Benjamin  B.,  96,  213,  219. 
Conable  &  Moss,  90. 
Conable,  Samuel,  90. 
Conklin,  Reuben  H,  200,  201. 
Cook,  Esek,213.  250. 
Cormac,  Rev.  William,  172,  194. 
Cornyn,  John  K.,  170. 
Cotes,  Dr.  John,  55. 


396 


HISTORY   OF   WARSAW. 


Crampton,  Ralph  S.,  170. 

Crane,  W.  I.,  194,  202. 

Craue,  Broughton  W.,  138,  105,  250. 

Crippen,  Ransom  B.,  105,  251. 

Crippen,  Ransom  A.,  213,  251. 

Crocker,  James,  05,  108,  109,  125,  152,  169, 

182,  251. 
Crocker,  John,  64,  65.  10S,  152.  168,  169,  252. 
Crooks,  William  K  ,  72,  90. 
Crozier,  William  S.,  126. 
Camings,  Simeon,  -14,  62,  63,  80,  88,  ISO. 
earnings,  John  M.,  81. 
Cunningham,  Rev.,  173,  202. 
Curtis,  Joi.ham,  4ti. 
Catting,  Elijah,  29,  31,  36,  106. 
Cutting,  Jonas,  28,  36,  108,  109,  136,  1S2,  252. 

Dake,  Charles  A.,  124. 

Dake,  Charles  M.,  124. 

Dann,  Charles  H.,  116. 

Darling,  James  M  ,  82,  S3,  S4, 103,  373. 

Darling,  J.  Harrison.  12s,  253. 

Darling,  Joshua  H.,  65,  6S,  81,  82,  84,  89,  107, 

114,  127,  138,  149,  152,  198,  199,  200,  213,  253. 
Darling,  Timothy,  373. 
Davidson,  Albert  G.,  254. 
Davidson,  James  J.,  254. 
Davidson,  Joseph  J.,  98. 
Day,  Artemas,  166.  255. 
Day,  Elkanah.  29,  31,  32,  66,  106,  255. 
Dav,  Erasmus  1).,91. 
Day,  Hiram,  121. 
Day,  David,  255. 
De'Laucy,  Bishop,  204. 
Dibble,  Eli,  92. 
Dix,  John  A.,  163. 
Dixson,  John,  44,  80,  82. 
Doolittle,  James  R.,  125,  146,  194,  256. 
Dudlev.  Harwood  A.,  63,  70,  129,  130,  135, 

149,  213,  214,  256. 
Duryee,  George,  213,  296. 

Eddy,  Zachary,  200. 
Eagerly,  Henry  C,  213. 
Ellicott,  Joseph,  20,  25,  209. 
Ellicott,  Benjamin,  21. 
Elliot,  Rev.  Joseph,  193. 
Ennis,  Abraham,  150, 193. 
Ensign,  Jeremiah,  92. 
Evans,  Rev.  S.  K.,  207. 
Everett,  Edward,  161. 
Everett,  Rev.  Ebene/.er,  167,  16S. 

Fargo,  Allen,  62.  83,  107,  108,  259. 

Fargo,  David,  83,  193,  195,  258. 

Fargo,  Benjamin  F.,  83,  84,  114,  213,  258. 

Fargo,  Francis  F.,  S3,  202.  221,  258. 

Fargo,  Nehemiah,  29,  31,  34,  35,  36,  37,  62, 

106,  182,  257. 
Fargo,  Palmer,  119,  138,  259. 
Fargo,  Silas  C,  34,  136,  257. 
Farman,  Elbert  E.,  69,  70,  128, 130,  195,  201, 

213,  260. 
Farnham,  George  D.,  97,  323. 
Farnham,  Horatio  N.,  97,  294. 
Ferris,  James  C,  85,  88,  133,  134,  260. 
Fillmore,  Millard,  40. 
Fisher,  Dea.  John,  261. 
Fisher,  Nathaniel  D.,  261. 
Fisher,  John,  113,  175,  263. 
Fisher,  Samuel,  2d,  37,  64,  96,  110,  134,  135, 

156,  171,  175,  262. 
Fisher,  James  P.,  146,  262. 
Fisher,  Samuel,  2(58. 
Fisk,  Noah,  35,  loo,  119. 
Flower,  Carl  W.,  1>'5. 
Fluker,  William,  30,  1S3,  264. 
Foote,  G.  L.,  &  Co.,  84. 
Foster,  Luther,  30,  182,  264. 


Foster,  Luther,  Jun.,  173,  175,  265. 

Frank,  Dr.  Augustus,  64,  65,  87,  89,  94,  136, 

156,  182,  265. 
Frank,  Augustus,  83,  106,  128,  14S,  213,  221, 

269,  381. 
Frank,  George  W.,  69,  96,  213,  270. 
Frank,  A.  &  G.  W.,  83. 
Frank  &  Gregg,  94. 
Fraser,  Alexander,  204. 
Frayer,  John,  169,  182. 
Freeman,  Peter,  193. 
Fuller,  Edwin  L.,  72,  86. 
Fullington,  James,  M.,  92,  155,  250. 

Gardner,  D.  D.,91. 

Gardner,  Utter  &  Co.,  89,  91. 

Garretsee,  Henry,  84,  90,  94,  95,  213,  271. 

Garretsee  &  Morris,  84. 

Garvin,  Rev.  Isaac,  204. 

Gates  &  Garretsee,  94. 

Gates,  C.  C,  82,  84,  213,  271. 

Gates,  C.  C.  &  Co.,  84 

Gates,  Seth  M.,  40,  72,  83,  84,  91,  96,  103.  138, 

142,  155,  159,  163,  19S,  199,  200,  201,  272. 
Gibson,  Simeon,  32,  1S5,  273. 
Giddiugs,  Niles,  274. 
Giddings,  Hiram,  108,  183,  274. 
Gile,  Joseph,  115. 
Gile,  Mary  M.,  115,  116. 
Gilmore,  James,  187. 
Glazier,  Simeon  R.,  31,  90,  274. 
Glover,  Thomas  S.,  S3,  S4. 
Goodspeed,  Edward,  165. 
Goodspeed,  Shubael,  34,  177. 
Gorham,  Rev.  William  O.,  205. 
Gould,  Carlos-,  188. 
Gould,  Roswell,  82,  83,  84,  96,  275. 
Grant,  Loring,  184. 
Green,  Absalom,  32,  44. 
Gridley,  Rev.  S.  H,  168. 
Gurley,  Rev.  P.  D.,  174. 

Hale,  John  P.,  163. 

Hammond,  A.  G.,  82. 

Hammond,  Elijah,  191,  195. 

Harrington,  Augustus,  126,  216,  234. 

Harrington  &  Farman,  130. 

Hatch,  Caleb,  275. 

Hatch,  Milton  1).,  30. 

Hatch,  Walter  M.,  31. 

Hatch,  William  C,  31.  276. 

Hatch,  William  T.,  31, 138,  270. 

Hawes,  Newton,  121. 

Hayward,  Llovd  A.,  115,  128.  149,  200,  276. 

Healy,  Byron,  126,  149,  213,  221,  373. 

Henshaw,  Charles,  126. 

Hibbard,  Jonathan  F.,  28.  195. 

Hibbard,  Henry,  33,  277. 

Hillman,  Elisha  S.,  198,  200. 

Hines,  J.  W.,  186. 

Hitchcock,  Ebenezer,  33. 

Hitchcock,  James,  33. 

Hitchcock,  Levtrett,  32.  33. 

Hitchcock,  Rev.  Luke,  21)7. 

Hodge,  Ichabod,  88,  277. 

Hodge,  Israel,  84,  217. 

Hodge,  Martin,  88,  277. 

Hodge,  Perry,  84,  277. 

Hodge  &  Wilder,  95. 

Hoffman,  Matthew,  1S2. 

Holden,  R.  U.,84. 

Hollister,  Horace,  91,  278. 

Hollev,  Myron,  162. 

Holly,  Ala'nson,N2,  86,  107,  114,  130,  lis,  278 

Holt;  W.  W.,207. 

Holton,  Simeon,  195,  213,  2S0. 

Homer,  B.  F.,  213. 

Hopkins,  A.,  207. 

Horwood,  Robert,  149,  203,  205. 


INDEX   TO   NAMES. 


397 


nough,  Samuel.  S7,  2S0. 
Hough,  Orson,  00,  1S2,  330. 
Hough,  Rev.  J.,  194. 
House,  Dr.,  123. 
-  Hovey,  Alvin,  33,  282. 
Hovey,  Eliphalet,  33,  2S2. 
Hovey,  Enoch,  SO.  — 
Hovey,  Gurdon,  28,  36,  117,  281. 
Hovey,  Harry,  140. 
Hovey,  Josiah,  Sen.,  34,  30,  281. 
Hove'v,  Josiah,  Jim.,  28,  29,  33,  132, 184, 185. 

2S3." 
Hovey,  Simeon,  28,  43,  184,  186,  282. 
Hovey,  Suel,  33,  282. 
Hovey,  Ziba,  33.  31,  35,  2S2. 
Howard,  R.  T.,  97. 
Hubbard,  W.  C,  104. 
Humphrey,  Lester  H.,  03. 
Humphrey,  S.  B.,  93. 
Humphrey,  Wolcott  J.,  03, 108,  3T3. 
Hunt,  Rev.  S.,  18S. 
Hnrd,  Chester,  &  Son,  S3,  00. 
llurd,  Chester,  96,  140,  186,  284. 
Hurd,  C.  Paddock,  96. 
Hurlburt,  Dr.  Jonathan,  123. 

Irish,  Rev.  Mr.,  191. 
Irons,  Rev.  Mr.,  192. 

Jackson,  Richard,  187,  2S2. 

Jefferson,  Cyrus,  374. 

Jemison,  Mary,  367. 

Jenkins,  Gideon  T.,  30,  46. 

Jenkins,  Gideon    !l.,  213,  214,  2S4. 

Jenkins,  Rev.  H  .  2J7. 

Jenks,  Henry  B.,  H3,  128,  216. 

Jewell,  Rev.  J.,  189. 

Jewett,  Josiah,  20,35,  36. 

Johnson,  Gideon,  169,  1S2,  374. 

Johnson,  1.  Sam,  126. 

Johnson,  Uriah,  134,  213. 

Jones,  John,  175. 

Judd,  Charles  J.,  85,  86,  88,  200,  285. 

Jtidson,  Lyman,  190. 

Kay,  Richard,  170,  374. 

Keeney,  Amos,  27,  36,  40,  171,  172,  191,  2S6. 

Keeuey,  Henry,  35,  38,  286. 

Keeney,  Matison,  1S6,  2S6. 

Keith,  Alden,  29,  287. 

Kellogg,  Levi,  207. 

Kenyon,  Isaiah,  66,  182. 

Ketchum,  James  E.,  96,  173. 

Kidder,  Rev.  Corban,  200,  202. 

Kidder,  Richard,  A.,  183,  374. 

Kidder,  Silas,  64,  102,  374. 

Kimberlin,  John,  184,  1S5. 

Kimberly,  H.  <fc  E.  C,  65,  81. 

Kimberly,  Ebenezer  C.,  182. — — • 
Kinney,  Samuel  L.,  195. 
Knapp,  Win.,  Sen.,  35,  287. 
Knapp,  Daniel,  30,  35,  288. 
Knapp,  William,  36,  289. 
Knapp,  John  K.,  34,  28S. 
Knapp,  Harley,  35,  28S. 
Knapp,  Jacob  W.,  72.  215,  216,  2S9. 
Knapp,  William  L.,  215. 
Knapp,  Fullingtou  &  Co.,  92. 

Ladd,  Samuel,  375. 

Lansing,  Edwin  H.,  85,  88. 

Lathrop,  Abial,  88,  105,  290. 

Lathrop,  Avery,  290. 

Lawrence,  Abram  B.,  95,  213,  200,  372. 

Leavenworth,  H.,  194. 

Lee,  Oliver,  ISO. 

Leland,  Kate,  115. 

Lemon,  Mrs.,  64. 

Lemoyne,  Francis  J.,  162. 


Leonard,  C.  Z.  C,  182. 

Leonard,  Lemuel,  171,  172. 

Lewis,  Truman,  40,  134,  291. 

Lewis,  Simeon  D.,  115,  108,  200,  292. 

Lewis,  Frank,  86. 

Lewis,  Robert  S.,  130. 

Lincoln,  Abraham.  147,  210 

Lindsley,  John,  165. 

Loomis,  Warren,  125. 

Lord,  Rev.  Mr.,  175,  202 

Lord,  Asa  P.,  155. 

Lyman,  Huntington,  152,  159, 100. 

Lyman,  Ralston  W.,  352. 

Mair,  Rev.  Hugh,  170. 

Manville,  Ashley,  292. 

Marchant,  I'nicv,  29. 

Marchant,  Lot,  27,  32,  34,  37, 1S2,  293. 

Marehant,  Micah,  20.  31.  294. 

Marchant,  Josiah,  182,  203. 

Marchant,  Owen,  183. 

Marcy,  William  L..  161. 

Martin,  David,  31,  32,  181.  294. 

Martin,  Amy,  120. 

Martin,  Mavor,  03. 

Martin,  Leonard  L.,  87,  03. 

Martin,  Washington,  u3. 

Mason,  Elilm.  168. 

Mason,  Levi,  187. 

Matthews,  Isaac,  205 

.Matthews,  John  B.,  86,  200. 

Matthews,  Josiah  S.,  86. 

Matthews  &  Brown,  65. 

Mauley,  Joseph,  44,  87. 

Mavnard,  Dr..  124. 

Ma'vnard,  E.,  128. 

McClelland,  A.  C,  170. 

McClure,  James  O.,  86. 

McElwain,  John  A.,  62,  64,  65,  107,  132.  134, 

135,  137,  143.  140,  182,  204,  205,  213,  208. 
McElwain,  William  Henry,  155. 
McKay,  F.  C.  D.,  67,  68,  125,  2J0,  296. 
McKay ^  James  A.,  202. 
McKinlev,  W.  P.,  172. 
McWethv,  David,  134. 

McWhorter,  John,  Sen.,  110,  166,  29S.  -" 

McWhorter,  Samuel,  .20,  46,  87,  100,  110,  182, 

209. 
McWhorter,  John,  81, 
Meachem,  John  G  ,  64,  124,  204,  205. 
Merrill,  Eli,  143,  300. 
Merrill,  AsaB..  215,  301. 

Merrill,  William  H.,  130,  147,  148,  201,  301. 

Miller,  David  C  ,  71. 

Miller,  Frank,  101,  134,  137, 142, 172. 182, 183, 
213.  302. 

Miller,  Edwin  B.,  107,  137,  138,  142,  171,  172, 
175,  302. 

Miller,  Edwin  A.,  (12.  171,  303. 

Miner,  Rev.  Jared,  207. 

Miner,  William  P..  147. '155,  198. 

Mitchell  &,  Warren,  120. 

Mitchell,  Stuart,  170,  174. 

Montgomery,  William  W.,  205. 

Morrill,  Ab'ner.  101.  101. 

Moore,  Robert,  125. 

Morris,  Solomon,  Sen.,  28,  32,  44,  1S4, 185, 
304. 

.Morris,  Lyman,  27.  34,  38,  136.  182.  304. 

Morris,  Solomon,  dim.,  32,  1^9,  305. 

Morris,  Rufus,  00.  138,  306. 

Morris,  George  W.,  107,  134,  144.  152,  304. 

Morris,  Noble,  84,  85,  204,  205,  306. 

Morris,  John,  28,  184,  185.  186,  306. 

.Morris.  Shubael,  27,  31,  32,  36, 185. 

Morris.  Miles  H.,  149,  213. 

Morris  &  Lewis,  213. 

Morris,  Robert,  10. 

Morrison,  John  H.,  82,  375. 


398 


HISTORY    OF   WARSAW. 


Morrison  &  Faulkner,  82. 

Morse  &  Merrill,  130. 

Moses,  Rev.  William,  207. 

Mosher,  Charles,  ]28. 

Moss,  Nathaniel,  87,  183. 

Monger,  Ebenezer,  32. 

Mnnger,  John,  52,  92,  13'i,  107,  173,  181,  182, 

307. 
Munger,  Samuel.  308. 
Manger,  Kobeit  R.,  89,  91,  138,  213,  308. 
Manger,  Samuel  J.,  89. 
Murray,  Ichabod  T.,  33. 
Murray,  Samuel  A.,  83,  "213,  30S. 
Myers,  P.  H.,  200. 
Mynard,  Amasa,  35,  119. 

Nassau,  C.  W.,  173,174. 

Nassau,  Joseph  E.,  133,  14S,  171,  173,  175, 

201,  215,  221,  309. 
Nettleton,  K.  D.,  146. 
Newton,  Francis,  108,  182. 
Nicholson,  Frederick,  375. 
Noble,  Dwight,  164. 
Noble,  Russell,  30,  32,  62,  309. 
Norton,  Elijah,  90,  107,  182,  310. 
Norton  &  Hough,  90. 

Oakes,  Isaac,  168. 

Onderdonk,  Bishop  Benjamin  T.,  204. 

Osgood,  Moses.  97. 

Otis,  Amos,  213. 

Owen,  Eliphalet,  S9. 

Pac;e,  Henry  G,  126. 

Paw,  Joseph  R.,  174,  175. 

Painter,  Thomas,  310. 

Painter,  Edwin,  310. 

Palmer,  Joseph,  28,  29,  35,  311. 

Palmer,  Mrs.  Joseph,  45. 

Palmer,  Albert  W.,  195. 

Palmer,  Noble,  2)5. 

Palmer,  Jonathan  L.,  183. 

Parmele,  Abial,  16s. 

Parmele,  Elisha,  64,  80. 

Parmele,  Rev.  Reuben,  168. 

Park,  Nehcmiah,  Sen.,  311. 

Park,  Nehemiah,  Jun.,  108,  311. 

Park,  Nehemiah,  3d,  86,  204,  205,  213,  311. 

Parker,  Eliphalet,  32,  164,  165,  312.     ' 

Parker,  Eliphalet,  Jun.,  178,  312. 

Parker,  Lyman.  32,  185,  187,  313. 

Parker,  Rhoda.  165. 

Parker,  Cynthia,  32. 

Parker,  Valentine,  137. 

Parker,  Giles,  30,  166,  312. 

Parker,  John  <:.,  211,  312. 

Parker,  Benjamin,  52,  312. 

Parker,  Ira,  312. 

Parker,  George  \V.,  213. 

Parker,  Luther,  30,  121,  165. 

Patterson,  William,  32, 103, 113, 152,  159,  182 

313. 
Patterson,  Peter,  38,  171,  173. 
Patterson,  George  \\\.  362,  375. 
Patterson,  Alfred  S.,  135. 
Patterson,  Thomas  J..  96. 
Pattison,  Rev.  William,  192. 
Pattison,  Robert  E.,  192. 
Perry,  Jonathan,  132. 
Perry,  Norman  J.,  64,  213. 
Perkins,  Anson  A.,  29,  32,  33,  185,  1S6,  318. 
Perkins,  Elam,  29,  139,  184,  185,  317. 
Perkins,  Chester.  :;."">. 
Perkins,  Moses,  185,  316 
Phelan,  Dr.,  124. 
Phelps,  Isaac,  30,  177,  178,  318 
Phelps,  Isaac  N.,  100,  319,  365. 
Phenix,  Samuel  F.,  152. 
Phenix,  Henry,  152. 


Pierce,  Beriah  N.,  126.    ■ 
Pierce,  Nathan,  31,  32,  34,  S19. 
Pierce,  Marmaduke,  184. 
Pike,  Joseph,  90. 
Pike  &  Naramore,  90. 
Pitman,  J.  B.,  194. 
Pitts,  J.  C,  124. 
Pixley,,  Philander,  132. 
Plum  I),  Rev.  H.  R,  207. 
Porter,  Hiram,  140. 
Porter,  Joseph,  192. 
Porter,  Stephen.  112,  169. 
Potter,  Lindorf.  123. 
Powell,  O.  S  ,  169. 
Pratt,  Joel,  137. 
Preston,  Isaac,  152,  375. 
Purdy,  Albert,  65,  S3. 
Putnam,  Edward,  63,  320. 

Quaekenbush,  Maurice  R.,  155. 

Ransom,  John.  64,  130, 149. 

Ransom,  Seth  S..  123. 

Ray,  Rev.  Charles,  174,  175. 

Raymond,  Nathan,  94. 

Reddish,  John  H,  34.  35,  322. 

Reddish,  Hiron  J.,  187. 

Reddish,  Nicholas,  119. 

Reed,  Abraham.  30,  32,  104,  105,  177. 

Reed,  George,  88. 

Reed,  Peter  B.,  131. 

Reed,  Rhoda,  141. 

Reed,  Elder,  207. 

Rice,  Barnabas,  32. 

Rice,  Cyrus,  34,  108,  183,  323. 

Rice,  Levi,  34,  191. 

Rice,  Mills  L.,  213,  378. 

Richards,  Anson,  33. 

Richards,  Charles  B.,  34. 

Richards,  Chester,  32,  33. 

Richards,  James,  13s,  293. 

Richards,  Ransom  R.,  339. 

Richards,  Paul,  132,  182,  379. 

Richmond,  J.  L  ,  194. 

Roberts,  Burt  B.,  3S9,  400. 

Robinson,  William,  Sen.,  138. 

Robinson,  William.  Jun.,  95. 

Rockwell,  Daniel,  108,  281. 

Rollins.  Rev   .Mr.,  207. 

Rood,  Eli,  113,  338. 

Rowe,  Rev.  Hippocrates,  160,  168. 

Rumsey,  Calvin,  62,  6  4,  92,  182,  324. 

Rumsev,  Aaron,  64,  92,  109,  182,  325. 

RumseV,  Cyrus,  65,  123,  182. 

Rumsey,  Daniel,  29, 65, 123, 152, 167, 1S2,  323. 

Sackett.  H.  A.,  169. 

Snllonl,  Mavhew,  123,325. 

Salisbury,  Philip.  3  1.326. 

Salisbury.  Samuel,  31,  32,  138.  193,  195,  211, 

326. 
Salmon,  Richard,  203. 
San  lord,  Richard  K.,  115. 
Scotield.  Winslow,  115. 
Scovel,  Rev.  Ezra,  168,  169. 
Scovel,  Nathan.  28,  328. 
Scovel,  Elisha  W.,  121,  138,  328. 
Scovel,  Hezikiah,  32,  195,  327. 
Seager,  Micah,  187. 
Seaver,  Charles  L.,  213,  328. 
Seeley.  Loren,  33,  138. 
Selleck,  Joseph,  27. 
Seymour,  David,  34,  90. 
Sharp,  Horace  C,  33,  120. 
Sharp,  John  and  Peter,  34. 
Shattuck,  Artemas,  53. 
Shattiuk.  Edward  C,  63,  64,  97,  200,  213 
Shaw,  Binnui,  1S2. 
Shaw,  Bezaleel,  182. 


INDEX   OF    NAMES. 


399 


Shaw,  Oscar  A. .  213. 
shaw,  Daniel,  44. 

Shedd.Kev    ^^46^64  IS   80,81,85, 
Sheldon.  Ohauncey  L.,  46,  64,  .-,  w,  °*,      . 

109,  123,  171,  182,  » 
Sheldon,  Ohauncey,  329,  ^- 
Sheldon  &  Frank,  bo,  W. 
Sheldon  &  Bascom,  81. 
Sheldon,  Henry,  93. 
Shepard,  Charles  O  ,  lo2,  33J. 
Sherwin,  Bisael,  «J1. 
Sherman,  Job,  141. 
Shipman,  ^  llliam,  23,  611.    - 
Sill,  Anna  P.,  65,  113. 

Smallwood,  William,  30,  138, 141,  33-. 
Smith,  Eleazar,  186. 

Smith,  Edgar  K.,  213. 

Smith,  Kev.  H.,  194. 

Smith,  Leonard  W;,12b,  14.,  m, 

Smith,  W.  liiley.  lf>,  I*'- 

Snyder,  George.  Jod. 

Sprague,  John  VV  .,  88. 

Starka,  John,  195. 

Steams,  Hannah,  1»1. 

Stearns,  Levi,  35 i,  191. 

Stearns,  Moses   335 

Stearns,  Willard,  83, 138,  33o. 

Stearns,  George,  33b,  3t>o. 

Stearns,  Hiram,  326. 

Stearns,  Sterling,  29,  3b,  4o,106. 

Stebbin3,N.D.,12i,2U2. 

Stedman,  Timothy,  97,  ill. 

Steele,  Charles,  119. 

Steele,  George  119. 

Steele,  Kev.  Julius,  112,  lbs. 

Steele,  Kev.  Mr.,  174. 

Steele,  Rev.  J.  C,  207. 

Stevens,  Truman,  33I-. 

Stevens,  Almon,  44,  62,  W.  182,  33b. 

Stevens,  Henry,  03,  80,  33b. 

Stevens.  Nye,  138,  sat. 

Stevens,  O.  H.,  115. 

Stimson,  Hiram  K.,  194,215. 

Stone,  Williams.,  33,  b7. 

Street,  Levi,  71. 

Strickland,  Kev.  H.H.,  20.. 

Stryker,  John  v.,  215. 

Sutherland,  Thomas  J.,  i~o. 

Taber,  Helon  S >.,  337. 

Tanner,  Zen,  3:    10b,  11 ,  1  82.  337. 

Tanner,  Cyrus,  133,  1.1,  -S2,  333. 

Taylor,  Zachary,  146. 

Thayer,  Horace,  i  3,  9b,  a.b. 

Thayer,  Willaru,  339. 

Thayer,  Linus  \\  .,  31,  b.>,  i~o,  *<*>,  ""' 

205,  213,  221,  339. 
Thayer,  Gideon,  30. 
Thompson,  John   131. 
Tbroop,  Daniel  H.,  30,  32,  133,  34U. 
'libbius,  Jolm  C.,  121. 
^!^i,^!/;,nn;728,  89,93   100,  182, 191 
Truesdell,  Jeremiah,  38,  191. 
Truesdell,  Philander.  213.  311. 
Truesdell,  Solomon,  25,  93. 
Tullidge,  Henry,  204 
Tunks  KicharaM.,  204,  205. 
Tuthill-  Anson,  112.192. 

Utter,  Isaac,  91. 
Utter,  John,  31. 

Van  Buren,  Martin,  1C3. 
Van  Nest,  Kev.  P.,  184. 
Vermilyc, Kev.  Dr.,  m 

Vin.ent.  Kev.  John,  200 


Wakefield,  Hezekiah  »i«;  *M^wa. 

Walker,  Ezra,  30,  164. 165,  lbb,  1m,  UB.  - 

Walker,  Hiram  F.,  3-6. 

Walker,  Levi,  182,  3d3. 

Walker,  Warham,  32,  313 

Walker,  William,  «»,  1W,  *w. 

Walker,  Lewis  E.,  8b,  198,  344. 

Walker,  George  \\.,  -02. 

Walker,  L.  &  W.,  12*. 

Wall,  Edward,  1.0. 

Walling,  Rev.  G.  V.,  193. 

Ward,  Rev.  Mr.,  198. 

Warner,  Linus,  29, 182,  345. 

Warren,  Jabish,  27,  2N,  j.i,  a-,  *"•„., 

Warren,  Jabish,  [not  the  above,]  345. 

Warren,  Jabish,  Jr.,  316. 

Warren,  Volney  C,  34b. 

Warren,  Peter  R..  93. 

Waterbury,  Daniel,  1.0. 

Watkins,  Benjamin  L.,  63,  94,  lua.ioa. 

Watson,  Leonard,  346. 

Watson,  LanraS.,  205. 

Watson,  R.  S.,  204,  205 

Watson,  Murray*  Co., ,83. 

Watts,  Jeremiah,  119,  l'.io,  -  a. 

wlK,  Abel,  82,  83, 107,  205,  377. 

Webster  &  Andrews,  S2 ,83,  .  X 

Webster,  James,  167,171. 
Webster,  James  A.,  213.  „,, 

Webster,  William,  31,  36,  90,  10b,  161,  to.., 
171,173, 1S2,  347. 
-—Wells,  Dr.,  124. 
West,  Dr,  124* 
Wethv,  Silas,  32  118. 
Whaley,  A.  M.,  218. 
Whitcomb,  O.  V.,  131,  13o. 
Whitcher,  Hiram,  207. 
Whitcher,  Stephens,  69,  88. 
Whiting,  William.  Sen,  3o0. 
Whiting,  Nathan, 351. 
Whiting,  Timothy,  182. 
Whitney,  William  G.,  108.  -, 

Whitlock,  Julius  136,  HB,  130,  171,17.|,  *>... 
Whitloek  Samuel,  3o,  13b,  lbb,  16J,  6o£. 
Wilcox,  Ira,  138,  182. 
w{K'jKohn,35,8M08,182,353. 
Wilkin,  James,  213. 
Wilkin,  Leonard,  88,89. 
Williams,  Charles  A,  92. 
Williams,  Edwin E,  148,  15o,  199,  2J0,  -ji, 

215,  353. 
Williams,   i  emu  el.  32,  66. 
Willing,  Wm.  C,  172. 
Wilson,  Ebenezer,  40. 
Wilson,  Isaac,  211. 
Windsor,  John,  84,91,  3_>1. 
Wiseman.  Noah,  191.  195. 
Wi-cman,  William,  194. 

Jwooa;iloroW.,126,204,205. 

Woodward,  William.  213,  3o5. 
Wrieht.  Amzi,  27,  356. 
Wright!  Norman  P.,  115,  202. 

V^mu::^^S,^0,201,20, 
Young.  Jonathan.  3o.. 

Young,  Daniel,  90. 


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100  IIISTOKY   OF   WARSAW. 


CORRECTIONS 


Page  92.    The  name  "  Charles  E.  Williams  "  should  be  Charles  A.  "Williams. 

Tage  101.    "Samuel  Miller,  2d,"  should  be  Samuel  Fisher,  2d. 

Page  130,  11th  line  from  bottom,  the  date  of  ''March,  1855"  should  be 
March,  1858. 

Page  147.  President  Lincoln  was  assassinated  April  14,  18G5,  not  1864,  as 
there  stated. 

Page  165.     For  "  Lindsey  "  read  LindsUy. 

Page  171,  5th  line.      ■*  Edward  A.  Miller  "  should  be  Edicin  A.  Miller. 

Page  221.     For  "  J.  C.  Bills  "  read  J.  E.  Bills. 

Page  251,  Sketch  of  Ransom  B.  Crippen.  He  is  said  to  have  had/ow  chil- 
dren; and  the  names  purporting  to  lie  the  names  of  these  children  strangely 
happen  to  be  the  names  of  his  eldest  son  and  his  three  children.  The  Sketch 
should  end  thus: 

They  had  ten  children,  besides  one  who  died  in  infancy:  Ransom  A.,  whose 
sketch  is  given;  Charles  EL,  who  married  Grace  Crawford,  and  lives  at  Varys- 
burg;  Harriet  A.  F. ;  Mary  A.  R.,  who  married  E.  J.  Story,  and  resides  in 
Syracuse;  William  H.,  in  Detroit,  married;  Martha;  Ellen  E.,  who  died  Dec, 
1866,  aged  26;  Rosina  and  Rosalie,  twin  sisters,  the  latter  died  Jan.,  1865, 
aged  22;  Alvira  V.,  who  married  H.  V.  Colton,  Washington.  The  three  un- 
married daughters,  Harriet,  Martha,  and  Rosina,  reside  in  Washington. 

Page  274,  line  5.     For  '-Mr.  Gibson  "  read  Mrs.  Gibson. 

Page  292.  Sketch  of  Ashley  Manville.  For  "  Joseph  Ashley  "  read  Joseph 
Ashley  McCulloch. 

Page  338.  The  children  of  Warren  Morgan  should  have  been  thug  men- 
tioned: Charles,  Emma,  and  one  who  died  in  infamy. 

Page  344.  Mary  A.  Walker  married  William  M.  Cowgill,  not  "  Cogswell." 
Nor  was  he  a  teacher. 

Immediately  after,  for  "  Charles  B."  read  Charles. 

Lewis  E.  Walker,  same  page,  born  May  15,  not  July. 


OMISSIONS  SUPPLIED. 

MERCHANTS. 

Ix  the  List  of  the  Merchants  of  this  town,  [pages  80-84,]  the  names  of  the 
following  were  omitted : 

Nehemiah  Park,  Jun.,  father  of  Nehemiah  Park,  of  this  village,  established 
a  store  in  South  Warsaw,  in  1814,  or  the  year  following,  which  was  continued 
a  year  or  more. 

Judd  &  Moseley  commenced  trade  in  1836.    [See  Sketch  of  Charles  J.  Judd.] 

Of  the  following  merchants  and  firms,  all,  except  the  last  four,  and  perhaps 
one  or  two  others,  were  merchants  here  twenty  to  thirty  years  ago: 

John  H.  Bailey,  by  his  agent,  Elias  K.  Bascom;  Sheldon  &  Norton;  Benja- 
min F.  Sheldon;  Theron  Fisk;  Nathan  Raymond,  partner  of  Dr.  Augustus 
Frank;  Ethel  V.  Bronson;  C.  B.  Carrington;  James  Wadsworth;  Lansing  & 
Crippen;  Day  &  Crippen;  Ransom  A.  Crippen;  Selden  C.  Allis. 

PHYSICIANS. 

In  copying  the  List  of  Physicians,  [pages  123,  124,]  the  name  of  Dr.  Burt 
B.  Roberts,  at  present  a  practicing  Physician  in  this  village,  was  inadvertently 
omitted. 


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