First Families of Corning, New York

Date: Aug 1848
Location: Corning, Steuben, New York, United States

The "First Families of Corning" are considered to be the 284 households in the census of August 1848, taken by Henry E. Badger in preparation for the incorporation of the village of Corning, New York. ^[1] However, the larger households may contain several families within them, and even smaller household often contained boarders, so this list of last names is not complete. If available, please add details on who was in a household.

PETITION FOR INCORPORATION, To the Honorable, the Court of Sessions of the County of Steuben : The Undersigned, Your Petitioners, respectfully show that they are residents of the territory hereinafter mentioned and described, and were such residents at the time of making the survey, map and census hereunto attached ; and your petitioners further show that they caused the said map, census and survey to be made for the purpose of procuring the said territory to be incorporated as a village. [description of village boundaries]... And your petitioners further show that the resident population contained within the bounds of said territory, according to the said census, was one thousand seven hundred and twenty -six.

And your petitioners therefore pray that the said territory may be incorporated as a village, by the name of the Village of Corning, and your petitioners will ever pray. -Dated, the 31st day of August, 1848. H. G. PHELPS, JAMES C. DAVIS, JOSEPH HERRON.

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The Court of Sessions "took favorable action on the petition." Village officials were elected on 12 January 1849.

About the Census The population total is 1726. The number of people in the household in shown in parentheses. Average household size is 6 people. The largest household (Wheelock and Sons) has 35 people.

Black families include Marcus Lucus and Nimrod Rowley.

Please add links to existing Wikitree profiles and bold the names.

• Abbey, Calvin (6)
• Abbott, Hiram (7)
• Arnold, Oliver (7)
• Arnold, William J (6) - 1849 Village Treasurer
• Bacon, William (4)
• Badger, Henry E (7)
• Ballentine, James (2)
• Barber, Edmund (5)
• Barnard, Robert (7)
• Bedfield, J. A (6)
• Beebe, Alfred (8)
• Bennett, John (5)
• Bertholf, W. W (4)
• Bostwick, H. W (10)
• Brewer, Riley (8)
• Broomhall, Thomas (6)
• Brown, D. F (5)
• Brown, John (2)
• Brown, Mary (4)
• Brown, Thomas (9)
• Buck, John (6)
• Buttock, Allen (5)
• Calkins, E. (3)
• Callahan, Thomas (5)
• Campbell, Jesse (3)
• Card, C. H (4)
• Carn, Daniel (11)
• Carr, Azaph (3)
• Carr, John (6)
• Chitester, Adolphus (3)
• Chitester, Samuel (4)
• Churcher, C. (5)
• Clark, Alfred (10)
• Clark, Charles (5)
• Clark, Harvey (5)
• Clark, Jacob (14)
• Clark, John (1)
• Clark, Somers (34)
• Clark, William (11)
• Clark Jr., Jesse (13)
• Clute, I. S (2)
• Cobb, J. S (3)
• Cochran, John (5)
• Cole, James (5)
• Cole, Philander (3)
• Cole, Rufus (2)
• Coleman, William H (5)
• Comstock, Daniel (6)
• Conger, Roxany (5)
• Conley, Barry (3)
• Cooper, C. (4)
• Cooper, James (4)
• Coriell, J. (3)
• Curtiss, William L (8)
• Dascom, A. J (6)
• Davenport, Levi (5)
• Davis, Charles (7)
• Davis, George (7)
• Davis, James C (6)
• Davis, Joshua (4)
• Degroat, Jedediah (5)
• Delamater, Isaac (9)
• Delamater, Stephen (2)
• Denton, Shubel (10)
• Dickinson, G. W (5)
• Dickson, Robert (5)
• Divine, Charles (4)
• Dobbs, Jsaac (6)
• Dodge, L. D (4)
• Dolph, John (3)
• Doolittle, Hannah (4)
• Dunevan, Cornelius (5)
• Dunevan, Timothy (5)
• Dunham, Charles (2)
• Eaton, Thomas (4)
• Edson, H. L (5)
• Edwards, Alanson (2)
• Edwards, H. D (4)
• Egbert, R. (3)
• Ellis, E. H (4)
• Emmans, John (8)
• Falkner, Phebe R (11)
• Farr, John (5)
• Filkins, Nelson (10)
• Filkins, Peter (3)
• Foster, A[aron]. H (5) - 1849 Village Trustee
• Fuller, D. A (7)
• Fuller, L. T (10)
• Gager, N. W (3)
• Ganley, Charles (12) - Charles and Margaret Ganley had five children in 1848, so the other five people in the household are likely boarders.
• Gilbert, William (10)
• Gillett, Albert (3)
• Goodrich, M. (5)
• Goodwin, Patrick (10)
• Gorton, William (7)
• Graves, Joshua B (13)
• Graves, Reuben (10)
• Gray, Isaac (3)
• Greeman, E. G (5)
• Greenfield, Jerome (8)
• Harrison, John (6)
• Hart, Peter (2)
• Hathaway, G. W (5)
• Havens, William P (7)
• Hawley, James (14)
• Hayt, J. C (8)
• Hayt, James A (6)
• Hazelton, John (7)
• Head, James (4)
• Heath, Hiram (9)
• Heath, Perry (7)
• Herrington, Nelson (3)
• Herron, Joseph (6)
• Hicks, Wm. (2)
• Hinds, J. P (8)
• Hodgskin, Jonas (7)
• Holden, Patrick (4)
• Hollenbeck, Jacob (4)
• Hollenbeck, Joseph (4)
• Hood, U. D (3)
• Horton, S. D (8)
• Houghtailing, William (3)
• Howell, C. G. (4)
• Howell, M. C (5)
• Howse, G. W (5)
• Howse, O. A (7)
• Hubbell, Philo P (13)
• Hudson, T. B (3)
• Hunt, Lemuel (5)
• Hunter, J. W (11)
• Huntington, A. (3)
• Huntington, Albert (3)
• Jackson, Henry (4)
• Jackson, J. S (5)
• Jacobs, Jesse (4)
• Jeffrey, E. A (4)
• Johnson, Benjamin (4)
• Johnson, David (11)
• Johnson, Thomas A (9)
• Jones, Israel (7)
• Kelly, J. (20). Household may include John Kelley, his wife Bridget, her mother (Eliza Fitzpatrick), brother-in-law Daniel Fitzpatrick, sister-in-law Margaret Fitzpatrick, sister-in-law Elizabeth Fitzpatrick McGrath and her husband Patrick McGrath and their daughter Bridget, sister-in-law Julia Fitzpatrick, sister-in-law Ann Fitzpatrick, brother-in-law Edward Fitzpatrick and 9 boarders or other relatives.
• Khumals, John (6)
• Kimball, Jonatham (8)
• King, Hannah (8)
• King, J. C (9)
• Kingsman, Nelson (3)
• Land, Robert (8)
• Landhart, Benjamin (1)
• Leary, Ann (7)
• Leary, Dennis (3)
• Linderbury, James (2)
• Lirry, Mrs. (7)
• Little, Moses P (9)
• Lovejoy, William (4)
• Low, Thomas (4)
• Lower, Jerry (9)
• Lucas, M. F. (5) - Household includes Marcus and Catherine and their 5-year-old son William, plus probably two boarders.
• Lucas, William H (4) - In 1850, William (born in CT) and Elizabeth Lucas (born in England) lived in Corning. Not related to M. F. Lucas.
• Lyon, Asa (12)
• Madden, John (4)
• Mallory, Lauren (12) - 1849 Village Trustee
• Maloney, John (4)
• Manehan, Edward (5)
• Manning, Cyrus (2)
• Martin, Israel (5)
• Martin, Jacob (6)
• May, Jesse (5)
• McBumey, Thomas (7)
• McCaffrey, John (7)
• McCarty, Daniel (6)
• McCarty, Dennis (8)
• McCarty, Patrick (4)
• McCormick, Ann (2)
• Mclnrow, Lawrence (7)
• McNeal, Peter (4)
• Mean, Nelson (4)
• Messenger, Thomas (8) - 1849 Village Clerk
• Mix, Thomas (3)
• Montgomery, William H (3)
• Morris, Sarah (2)
• Mumford, Deloss (3)
• Mumford, Orville (9)
• Murphy, Patrick (8)
• Narsh, Cornelius (6)
• Newton, George (4)
• O'Neil, John (2)
• Osbom, Charles (12)
• Pace, Michael J (10)
• Pattengill, Horatio (5)
• Payne, B. W (10)
• Pearce, S. P (4)
• Perrington, David (3)
• Pew, Bertine (9)
• Phelps, Horace G (6) - 1849 Village Trustee
• Pierson, Mr. (5)
• Porcell, John A (5)
• Potter, Bradford A (3)
• Pratt, George W (2)
• Pratt, J. B (2)
• Preston, 0. W (4)
• Preston, Charles (4)
• Pritchard, Hiram (6)
• Rhodes, Timothy (11)
• Ridor, Isaac (13)
• Robinson, J. S (6) - 1849 Village Trustee
• Robinson, James (3)
• Robinson, Joseph (14)
• Robinson, L. N (9)
• Robinson, Millen (4)
• Rogers, E. P (4)
• Rose, E. S (9)
• Rowley, Levi (6)
• Rowley, Nimrod (9) - Household probably included Nimrod, his wife Dorothy, their infant son Franklin Rowley, and six of her children from her first marriage to Peter Lush.
• Ryan, John (9)
• Sanford, S. (6)
• Scoville, T. S (4)
• Sergeant, John (2)
• Seymour, L. (13)
• Shaw Jr, D. J (4)
• Shepard, Silas (6)
• Simmons, D. (6)
• Skinner, J. (5)
• Smith, Elias H (6)
• Smith, James E (6)
• Smith, Thomas (9)
• Snook, William (4)
• Somers, Charles (6)
• Somers, James (6)
• Southwick, G. W (7)
• Spaulding, Jason (5)
• Spencer, G. (9)
• Spencer, George T (5) - 1849 Village Trustee
• Stanley, S. (5)
• Steele, Edward (4)
• Stevens, Betsey (2)
• Stewart, Mrs. E (15)
• Stillson, Polly (2)
• Stockwell, Leman (3)
• Sturdevant, L (3)
• Sturtevant, Estus (9)
• Sullivan, James (5)
• Sumner, Lewis (3)
• Taber, Edmond (4)
• Talliday, John (3)
• Taylor, Orrin (8)
• Terbell, William (5)
• Thomas, L. S (7)
• Thorn, Lawrence (8)
• Thurber, S. L (3)
• Thurber, William (5)
• Tidd, Nathan (8)
• Todd, L. (5)
• Tombs, Norman (5)
• Tomlinson, B. (5)
• Townsend, Nehemiah (3)
• Traverse, Nicholas (5)
• Tulip, Lake (3)
• Uhl, H. P (6)
• Vancampen, Henry (9)
• Vanest, Jacob (5)
• VanValkenburg, Peter (3)
• Weeks, David (8)
• Weeks, Josiah (3)
• Welch, Philip (6)
• Welden, Henry (7)
• Wells, Temperance (3)
• West, Richard C (6)
• Wheeler, Eliza (9)
• Wheelock, David (7)
• Wheelock, Marcus (11)
• Wheelock & Sons (35)
• White, Constant (4)
• White, John L (10)
• Whitford, C. G (3)
• Whitmarsh, Azaniah (7)
• Whitney, W. B (12)
• Wicks, James (7)
• Williams, George (5)
• Williams, George D (6)
• Williams, Henry (2)
• Williams, Levi (4)
• Williams, William (5)
• Wolcott, John (5)
• Wood, William (5)