History of Seneca County, New York

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Location: Seneca, New York, United States

History of Seneca County, New York

with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, palatial residences, public buildings, fine blocks and important manufactories from original sketches by artists of the highest ability

• published by Everts, Ensign & Everts, Philadelphia, 1876

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Table of Contents

Biographical Sketches

Erastus Partridge, Seneca Falls

Le Roy C. Partridge, Seneca Falls

Colonel Halsey Sandford

Samuel Birdsall, Waterloo

Hon. Elisha Williams, Waterloo

Charles Bonnel, Waterloo

Edwin R. Dobbin. Waterloo

Rev. Samuel H. Gridley, D.D., Waterloo

Gardner Welles, M.D., Waterloo

Daniel S. Kendig, Waterloo

Henry Bonnel, Waterloo

Jedediah Peirson, Waterloo

Hon. Samuel Clark, Waterloo

Hon. Jesse Clark, Waterloo

Abraham Van Doren, Ovid

The Wilson Family, Ovid

Hon. William Johnson, Seneca Falls

Jacob P. Chamberlain, Seneca Falls

David B. Lum, Seneca Falls

Rev. John M. Guion, S.T.D., Seneca Falls

Henry Moses, Sencoa Falls

Robert L. Stevenson, Tyre

David Odell, Tyre

Thomas H. Arnold, Tyre

William Kline, Tyre

Jason Smith, Tyre

Hartwell B. Compson, Tyre

Judge Silas Halsey, Lodi

Judge James DeMott, Lodi

General John DeMott, Lodi

Colonel Ralph Smith, Lodi

The Townsend Family, Lodi

Israel Brown, Romulus

Deacon John Boorom, Covert

Historical and Descriptive

Chapter I.— Pre-Columbian Discovery— National Claims to Territory of Kew York, and Bases of Claims

Chapter II.— The Indians of Central New York— Their Treaties, Wars, Character, Civilization, and Fate

Chapter III.— Land Purchases— Character of Country- Terms and Manner of Disposal to Settlers — Course of Travel — Course of Migration — Localities first Settled —Classic Nomenclature— A Broad Domain awaiting Owners— Dissimilarity of its People to all previous Precedent

Chapter IV.— Line of Organization— Events connected therewith- Progress of Settlement West- Reduction of Area and Gradual Changes from a General to a Local Character

Chapter V.— The Pioneer- Seneca, while a part of Herkimer, from 1791 to 1794 — Cayuga Bridge— Grist-Mills-Public Meeting— Au Old-Time Article— The Old Pre-emption Lino— The Albany Turnpike

Chapter VI.— 1794 to Organization of Seneca County in 1804— The State's Hundred —Courts and Officers— Migratory Hardships— The Cayuga Reservation— The Bayard Company— A Reminiscence of Waterloo in its First Decade .

Chapter VII. — A New Country — Kinds of Trees, Game, Houses, and Furniture — Climate and Dress— Character of Settlers— Manners and Customs, and Contrast with the Present Day

Chapter VIII.— Clearing Lands— Products — Resorts- Tavern-keeping- Trade- A Settler's Recollections

Chapter IX. — Early Preachers and Churches — Schools and Teachers — Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Cemeteries

Chapter X.— The Boys of 1800— The Panther, Bear, and Deer— The Casualties of Cayuga Lake

Chapter XI.— Line of Organization— Seneca in 1810— County Seats— First County Officials— Present Boundaries and Towns— Poor Farm

Chapter XII.— Town Meetings— Celebrations— Early Manufactures— Schools for Singing and Dancing — Visitors, Joseph Smith, La Fayette, Lorenzo Dow, and Andrew Johnson— Raising Mills and Churches— Burning a Whale

Chapter XIII.— Militia Musters— War of 1812— An Incident of that Period

Chapter XIV.— Geographical— Towns— Villages— Surface— Soil— Products— Watercourses — Water-power — Lakes — Natural History — Trees — Animals — Reptiles — Fish

Chapter XV.— Agriculture— Trade— Routes for Markets— Grains— Agricultural Society— Statistics-Agricultural College— Patrons of Husbandry

Chapter XVI. — Geology — Onondaga Salt Group — Gypsum Group — Marcellus Shale — Seneca Limestone — Hamilton Group — Tully Limestone — Genesee Slate and Drift Deposits

Chapter XVII Political Legislation— Parties— Population— Popular Vote and Civil List

Chapter XVIII.— Traces— Roads— Turnpikes— Bridges— Seneca Lock Navigation and Erie Canals— Navigation

Chapter XIX.— First Railroads— The Auburn and Rochester Railroad, Pennsylvania and Sodus Bay Railroad, and the Geneva and Ithaca Railroad- Old Tracks— Incidents

Chapter XX. — Banks: State, National, and Savings; their History in Seneca

Chapter XXI.— The Leading Manufactures of Seneca County

Chapter XXII.— The Insane Poor and the Willard Asylum

Chapter XXIII.— Religious Denominations and Church Statistics

Chapter XXIV.— Religious, Literary, and Benevolent Societies

Chapter XXV.— The Press and its Publishers in Seneca County

Chapter XXVI.— Academics and Public Schools— The Pioneer Ovid Academy— "Seneca Collegiate Institute" — The Seneca Falls Academy — Waterloo Academy — Public Schools of the County

Chapter XXVII.— Seneca in the War of the Rebellion— Statistics—The Nineteenth New York Volunteers— The Fifteenth Engineers— The Thirty-third New York Volunteers

Chapter XXVIII.— Battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, and Return Home

Chapter XXIX.— The Forty-fourth New York Volunteers, and the Fiftieth Engineers

Chapter XXX.— The Seventy-fifth New York Volunteers

Chapter XXXI.— The One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers

Chapter XXXII.— The One Hundred and Forty-eighth New York Volunteers

Chapter XXXIII— The One Hundred and Sixtieth New York Volunteers

Chapter XXXIV.— The First New York Cavalry

Chapter XXXV.— The Eighth New York Cavalry— The First Battery New York Light Artillery

Chapter XXXVI.— The Third New York Volunteer Artillery

Chapter XXXVIL— Seneca County Medical Society- First Physician in Seneca County— Biographical Sketches of the Profession in the County

Chapter XXXVIII.— Conclusion

History of Towns and Villages

Waterloo.— The Original Town of Junius— Organization of Waterloo— Waterloo Village— First Cars, First Bridge— Water-Power and Manufactures— Fire Department— Churches—Education—Waterloo in the Rebellion, etc

Ovid. — Organization — Early Settlement — Early Marriage— Ancient Fortification — Church History— Civil History— Ovid Village— Societies— Population— Military Record, etc

Seneca Falls.— Taverns— Stores— Town Settlements— Bridgeport in 1820— Seneca Falls in 1823— Old Mills and Early Manufactures— History of the Churches- Military Record, etc

Tyre.— Early Settlement— First Improvements— First Death. and Marriage- Silk Worm Nursery— First Storehouse— Tyre City- The Oldest Resident- First Schools —Tyre in the Rebellion, etc

Fayette.- Organization— Red Jacket— "Joe Smith"— First Baptism- First Settlement — Bearytown named — Canoga — Pioneer Mills — Documentary and Civil History— The Churches- Military Record, etc

Junius.— Formation of Town— Roll of Pioneers— First School— Meetings, First Church —Cemetery, First Deaths— Post-Office established- Initial Trade and Manufactures — First Saw-mill — Early Justices— Final Organization — List of Town Officers —Junius Soldiers in the Civil War, etc

Lodi.— Organization— Indian Orchard and Burial-Place— First Settlement— First Physician— Village of Lodi— Civil History— Societies-Church History— Population— Military Record, etc

Romulus- Primitive Settlement— Postal Service in 1806— First Native White Birth — Old-Time Tavern — Short-Lived Hamlet — Pioneer Farmer-Mechanics — First Saw-Mill— Founding of Baleytown-Villages and Post-Offices—Highways— Early Records — Emancipation of Slaves— Schools — Romulus Baptist Church — Rebellion Record, etc

Varick.— Early Settlers— First Frame House— Home Manufactures- A Pioneer Preacher-" Buys's Tavern"— The Cayuga Reservation— East Varick— First Post-Office— Early Teachers— Religious Services— First Frame— First Store— Varick Inns and Inn-keepers- Births, Marriages, Deaths— Religious Societies - Churches — The Records— Varick Soldiers in the Civil War, etc

Covert Organization— Pioneers— Farmer Village— Cemetery— Farmer Lodge, No. 357, F. and A. M.— Farmer Village Grange, No. 160, P. of H.— Church History —Population, etc

Errata

List of Patrons