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 SERIES NO. 8. 
 
 DeRuyter, N. Y., 
 
 and Vicinity. 
 
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^JJescription of deruyter. 
 
 BY REV. L. R. SWINNEY. 
 
 lyTHOUGH a small village of scarce seven 
 hundred inhabitants, DeRuyter is widely 
 known for its healthful location, its educa- 
 tional advantages and for the large number of 
 men and women who have gone forth and become 
 distinguished in the various callings in life. The 
 
 ADMIRAL DERUYTER, DUTCH NAVT, 
 Borrowed Cut— Favor of " DeRuyter Gleaner." 
 
 village is pleasantly situated at the confluence 
 of four valleys from the four cardinal points, 
 forming a wide-sweeping and well-drained site for 
 an inland town. Through the midst of this plain 
 flows the east branch of the Tioughnioga, which, 
 according to one tradition, meant in the Indian 
 tongue " a Iban kief flowers. " It is surrounded 
 by rugged &nd lofty bjl)s W|l^ich stand as sentinels 
 
 over the peaceful valleyf below. The village is 
 122 miles west of the capital, on the Albany turn- 
 pike, 20 miles east of Cortland and 14 miles 
 south of Cazenovia, and charmingly situated in 
 the 'midst of green valleys and forest covered 
 hills. According to the surveys of Gov. A. E. 
 Cornell, DeRuyter is 1800 
 feet above the sea level. 
 The location of the vil- 
 lage at the confluence of 
 the four valleys, early 
 made DeRuyter a center 
 of trade and the railroad, 
 forming a part of the 
 "old Midland," running 
 east and west, and the 
 Cazenovia branch run- 
 ning north and south and 
 now forming part of the 
 Lehigh Valley system, 
 furnish excellent facili- 
 ties for trade and travel. 
 DeRuyter has one of the 
 best water systems in 
 the state. Natural springs 
 in a park-like enclosure 
 of 50 acres, two miles 
 east and 285 feet above 
 the street level, furnish 
 abundance of pure soft 
 water and at a pressure 
 sufficient to throw it far 
 above the highest build- 
 ing. It is a gratifying 
 fact that the rentals from 
 hydrants pay enough to 
 cover the interest on the 
 water bonds and all ex- 
 penses and yield a hand- 
 some balance towards 
 other corporation ex- 
 penses. DeRuyter is fav- 
 ored also with a plant 
 for the manufacture of 
 illuminating gas, which 
 furnishes light at a very 
 low cost. For many years 
 the heavy bonds of the 
 insolvent Midland rail- 
 road hung like a cloud 
 over the prosperity of 
 the town, but since their 
 adjustment in 1887 a new 
 spirit of improvement has come over its people, 
 old buildings have been removed, new and ele- 
 gant ones erected and a commendable competi- 
 tion arisen to adorn and beautify the village. A 
 marked improvement has recently been made in 
 the solid stone side and cross walks and in mac- 
 adamizing the streets, until there are few villages 
 in which pedestrians get about with more comfort. 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 HISTORICAL OF DERUYTER. 
 
 BY RBV. L. R. SWINNEY. 
 
 DeRuyter previous to 1795 was included in the 
 ancient town of Whitestown, and formed a part of 
 the famous "Lincklaen purchase." It was em- 
 braced in Cazenovia when that town was formed 
 in 1795, and CoL John Lincklaen gave it the name 
 of Tromptown ; but when an act was passed by 
 the Legislature, March 15, 1798, authorizing the 
 formation of a new town. Col. Lincklaen named 
 it DeRuyter, after his illustrious countryman. At 
 an early date Col. Lincklaen opened two roads 
 through his tract known as the east and west 
 roads. The west road was laid out first and ex- 
 tended south from Cazenovia — Col. Lincklaen's 
 liome — all the way to German. The east road 
 passed due south from Cazenovia over Crumb Hill, 
 
 the people on horseback and with ox teams had 
 to be accommodated in some way, hence the log 
 tavern sprung up, then the little store, then the 
 rude shop at the four corners. In 1805 DeRuyter 
 village could boast of six log houses and formed 
 a rude hamlet around the four corners. In 1809 
 the village had a tavern kept by Daniel Page, 
 where the Taber House now stands, and a store on 
 the southwest corner kept by Eli Spear, and both 
 of these were frame buildings. A small saw mill 
 stood where the mill of H. K. Na.sh was recently 
 burned, and a potash was located on the south- 
 east side. It is said that Daniel Watson built the 
 first frame dwelling in the village. The first tan- 
 nery was started by Ephraim Arnold. The large 
 tannery builtby Benjamin Mitchell and Job Webbs 
 back of the Merchant block, did a thriving busi- 
 ness, and another was located later below the Hay, 
 
 POINTS OF INTEREST, VICINITY OF DERUYTER. 
 l.—Tiotighnioga Lake (Benjamm, Photo). 3.— Pleasant Lake, Lincklaen (I. B. Swinney, Photo). 3.— Old Aneell 
 MiU, DeRuyter (I. B. Swinney, Photo), l.— Taylor Gnlf, Cinoinnatus (G. A. White, Photo). 5.— Snow Tunnel, De- 
 Ruyter (Fiske, Photo). 6. — Home of Methodism— deserted chapel, now on the Burdick farm, used as hay barn (L. 
 Adella Nichols, Photo). 7.— Boyhood Home of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell College (L. Adelia Nichols, Photo). 
 
 directly in front of the boyhood home of Ezra 
 Cornell, and has long been known as the "Joe 
 Road, " from Joseph Lincklaen's messenger who 
 did so much of the work. As they cut down the 
 primeval forest and cleared away the matted un 
 derbrush of the west road, they halted at the con- 
 fluence of three streams which the Indians called 
 Tioughnioga, said by one tradition to denote 
 "the meeting of roads and waters at the same 
 place," which was the natural and favorable site 
 for the village of DeRuyter. When later the east 
 and west road was built over Crumb Hill and ex- 
 tendtd to Truxton and Homer, DeRuyter was at 
 the intersection of the two important lines of 
 travel. " Burdick Settlement, "near the reservoir, 
 then had much the start and "The Benjamin Set- 
 tlement," a mile and a half north, was already 
 the scene of activity and primitive manufactures. 
 The rush to the " new country " was constant and 
 
 shop on the river. Col. E. D. Jenks kept a flour- 
 ishing store from 1814 to i860. Dr. Hubbard 
 Smith was the first, and for many years, the only 
 physician and was followed by an able company 
 of practitioners. He was the first postmaster, in 
 1810, and afterwards built the house now owned 
 by Mrs. Angeline Cottrell, which was used as the 
 " boarding house " in the palmy days of DeRuy- 
 ter institute. The first school house built in the 
 village, and for many years the only one, was 
 erected in 1812 and was the humble beginning, 
 with the Burdick school, of its educational fame. 
 For "the schools of DeRuyter have always been 
 her glory and her strength. They have nurtured 
 and sent forth into the world a class of distin- 
 guished and highly endowed spirits." In 1797 
 there was a Baptist organization meeting in the 
 schoolhouse and the first church was built in 1816, 
 on the east side of the stream, "without paint or 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 steeple " and is now occupied by Mrs. Sweetland 
 for a residence. In 1830 DeRuyter was very pros- 
 perous owing to the public spirit of its leading 
 men. The first railroad meeting held in Madison 
 county, or in the contiguous parts of Onondaga, 
 Cortland or Chenango counties, was held at the 
 hotel of T. C. Nye in DeRuyter in 1832. The 
 leading men of Central N. Y. were present and 
 Judge Yates presided and was the master spirit, 
 but his death soon after broke up their plans of 
 railroad connection to Albany. A great en- 
 thusiasm also was aroused for education in the 
 founding of DeRuyter institute in 1836 — students 
 coming from far and near, families moving into 
 the village, new stores being opened and,business 
 increasing till eleven drygoods stores did a good 
 
 THE BUILDERS OF DERUYTER. 
 Benjamin, Copies and Photos. [See Key page 61— omitted here by miatalte.] 
 
 business. In the financial crisis of 1837 DeRuy- 
 ter suffered heavily and many merchants and 
 business men had to go down, but the soil re- 
 mained just as fertile and the flocks and dairies 
 again multiplied, bringing returning prosperity 
 to the village. In the anxious days preceding 
 the Civil War DeRuyter was a principal station on 
 what was called "The Underground Railroad" 
 for the rescue and helping forward of the slaves 
 , to the free soil of Canada. The Friends were al- 
 ways advocates of freedom and many others were 
 sympathizers of the fugitive slaves and did all 
 they" could to send them north to safety and lib- 
 erty. During the great Rebellion DeRuyter fur- 
 nished a noble band who fought under the Stars 
 and Stripes, many of whom died for their country, 
 
 not a few suffered in rebel prisons and a few are 
 left to recount the hardships of camp and battle- 
 field. The building of the "Midland" railroad 
 through DeRuyter and the heavy bonding of the 
 town and corporation eventually brought finan- 
 cial difficulties, but the "Adjustment " of 1887 re- 
 lieved this anxiety and the corporation is now 
 paying off its debts and trade and prosperity are 
 coming back to the village. DeRuyter village 
 was first incorporated April 15, 1833, and again in 
 the years 1847 and 1878, and has an efficient health 
 board and an effective fire~ department. More 
 than a century has passed since DeRuyter village 
 was first located in the charming valley of the 
 Tioughnioga and its century of successes and. 
 failures have made their impress upon three gen- 
 erations of noble men and 
 women. Worthy sons and 
 daughters have grown up, 
 and many of them enjoyed 
 the excellent advantages of 
 its schools and went out to- 
 do larger work and receive 
 the larger honors and re- 
 wards that followed. Many 
 more remained at home to 
 follow the quiet round of 
 labors and sufferings, and 
 to them should be given 
 the honor largely for what 
 DeRuyter has been and is. 
 
 DeRuyter's Distin- 
 guished Sons— The early 
 settlers of the town and vil- 
 lage were of New England 
 origin, with their zeal for 
 education, and DeRuyter 
 from its beginning has been 
 conspicuous as an educa- 
 tional center. David Maine 
 was a noble teacher, who 
 trained the youth at the 
 "Burdick school," near the 
 reservoir, and Paul Chase, 
 a rare educator in DeRuyter 
 and elsewhere, with many 
 others, were conspicuous as 
 teachers in those early days 
 and prepared the way for 
 the educational facilities 
 that were to follow. The 
 DeRuyter institute inaugu- 
 rated by the Seventh Day 
 Baptists and heartily patron- 
 ized by the Presbyterians, 
 Friends and others, was 
 founded in 1836, and has done a marvelous work 
 for higher education through all this country. 
 Is it then to be wondered at, that DeRuyter 
 should have sent forth so many who have distin- 
 guished themselves — Ezra Cornell, the founder of 
 Cornell University ; Gen. Ladock T. Bently, jurist 
 and lawyer ; David J. Mitchell, lawyer • P. A. 
 Burdick, temperance orator and evangelist- Hon 
 John F. Benjamin, M. C, of Missouri-' Hon' 
 Henry C, Goodwin, M. C, N. Y.; Hon. James 
 W. Nye, U. S. Senator, Nevada; Henry D. Maine 
 editor of The Rochester Democrat and Chroni- 
 cle ; Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury" 
 Washington, D. C. ; Benjamin Enos, Canal Coin- 
 missioner and Treasurer, New York State and 
 many, many others. ' 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Tioughnioga Lake and Early Settlers— Al- 
 though this little lake is an artificial one, it suc- 
 cessfully vies in beauty with any of the numerous 
 lakelets which adorn the landscape of northern 
 and central New York. The deep valley in which 
 it is ensconsed, the splendid range of hills which 
 rises abruptly from its western edge, the more 
 undulating character of the hilly region on its 
 eastern shore, the picturesque gorge through 
 which its waters flow northwarJ; as well as the 
 fine farming country stretching southward to the 
 -village of DeRuyter, all contribute to niake this 
 sheet of water most charming. It is difiicult to 
 
 Prior to 1861-2, when this lake was constructed 
 as a storage reservoir for the supply of the Erie 
 canal, its bed and shores were parcelled out 
 into many farms. Near its southwest corner, one 
 of the earliest settlers in this part of the state — 
 Eli Colegrove — located in 1793. During the same 
 year Elias, Chester and Elijah Benjamin settled 
 within the present limits of the town ; and it was 
 the boast of Mrs. Colegrove that she and Mrs. 
 Elijah Benjamin were the first white women to 
 live within the present boundaries of DeRuyter. 
 The Colegrove farm at an early day passed into 
 the ownership of Bradley Merchant, who settled 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 PRETTY STREETS OF DERUYTER. 
 Albany Street, Lincklaen Street. 
 
 Division Street. North Bridge (Utica St.). Railroad Street. 
 
 Utica Street. 
 Seminary Street. Cortland Street. 
 
 ■find a more delightful drive in the Empire State 
 than that from DeRuyter village around this gem 
 •of a lake — a distance of about eleven miles. The 
 lake is nearly two miles in length ; about three- 
 quarters of a mile across in its widest part, and 
 covers nearly 630 acres. The average depth of 
 the water is 18^ feet, although at the center of 
 the dam, it has a depth of over 70 feet. The lake 
 a£fords excellent fishing and boating and has be- 
 gun to attract not only picnic excursionists but 
 permanent summer boarders as well. There is no 
 reason why it should not develop into a popular 
 summer resort. 
 
 near by soon after 1800, and whose son, Benjamin 
 F. Merchant, continues to occupy it with several 
 other primitive holdings, which he has brought 
 together into a large landed estate. Two other 
 sons of Bradley, J. Warren and M. R. Merchant, 
 were for many years leading business men of De- 
 Ruyter village. The former was also prominent 
 in local and state politics and affairs, holding the 
 offices of supervisor and member of assembly, as 
 well as being director of the Midland Railroad 
 company. In 1794, Thompson Burdick, at the 
 age of twenty-three, made a trip on horseback 
 from Westerly, R. I., and contracted for upwards 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 of one hundred and seventy acres to the south 
 and east of the lake. He made a small clearing 
 in the forest, and sowed some winter wheat, be- 
 fore returning to his native state ; and the follow- 
 ing year, with his young bride, settled upon his 
 new farm. They had made the journey in true 
 immigrant style, with oxen, horses, cows and 
 household goods; the trip occupying about six 
 weeks, and the last stage of it from Oneida, being 
 unusually arduous, as no road had been con- 
 structed and they were forced to find their way 
 through the forests by means of blazed trees. 
 Their primitive log cabin was built near a bounti- 
 ful spring on the west side of the present high- 
 way, and not far from the present residence of 
 his grandson, B. Franklin Burdick. A year or 
 two later, Thompson sold the north half of his 
 original farm to his brother William, who had 
 married a sister of Thompson's wife ; the latter 
 being also a sister of MrsT EH Colegrove. This 
 
 Dwight, professor of law in Columbia University, 
 whose summer residence is on the Smith addi- 
 tion to the Burdick farm; P. Adelbert, lawyer 
 and eminent temperance evangelist, who died in 
 1893, and B. Franklin, who owns and occupies 
 the old homestead. Another original settler in 
 the immediate vicinity of the lake was Jonathan 
 Coon. His first purchase, in 1798, was that of 
 the Eli Colegrove farm, already referred to. In 
 1801, he bought 'a hundred acres next adjoining 
 William Burdick on the north, a part of which is 
 now owned by DeUoyd Burdick and on which his. 
 cheese factory stands. In 1812, Mr. Coon added 
 fifty acres to the north of his farm, thus coming: 
 into possession of the land now owned by Eugene 
 E. Coon of Oneida, who returns with his family 
 to the shores of the lake for his summer outing. 
 By the construction of the lake a considerable 
 part of the large farm owned by J. Avery and 
 Dennis T. Coon, sons of Jonathan, was^flooded 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 THE BURDICK HOMESTEAD. 
 
 portion of the farm descended to Keny on Burdick, 
 a son of William, who sold it to William F. Wall, 
 its present owner. It is believed that D&vid C. 
 Burdick, the oldest son of Thompson, was the 
 first white child born in DeRuyter, his birthday 
 being May 25, 1796. The Thompson Burdick 
 farm descended to a son, Albert G., who added 
 several primitive holdings, one of which was 
 taken up by George Coon, to the north of David 
 Maine's house and another was a part of the 
 Caleb Smith farm. During his early life, he was 
 prominent in the state militia, gaining the rank 
 of captain. One of the commissions issued to 
 him — as second lieutenant of the 15th Regiment 
 of Artillery — bears the date of Oct. 12, 1835, and 
 the signature of Gov. W. Iv. Marcy. He married 
 Eunetia Y. Wheeler of Nelson, Madison Co. 
 Their children were Catharine P., wife of Leonard 
 R. Green of Adams Center, N. Y. ; Francis M., 
 
 with water. Roland Swift, a Revolutionary sol- 
 dier, drove into this section with a yoke of oxen 
 and a canvas covered wagon loaded with his 
 worldly effects. This was in 1804. He settled 
 on the east shore of the lake on the place now 
 occupied by the Clarks, and in addition to his- 
 agricultural pursuits he repaired shoes. He died 
 there, leaving the farm with his son, Herman Swift, 
 who also died there. George 1,. Swift, son of 
 Herman, afterwards settled in Marathon, where he 
 built up a large mercantile business in which he 
 and his sons have since been engaged. To the 
 north of Jonathan Coon's farm, Benjamin Enos 
 settled in 1813. He was for many years a man of 
 much prominence in state affairs, as a Member of 
 Assembly, Canal Commissioner and State Treas- 
 urer. His son, Samuel D. Enos, a graduate of 
 Hamilton College, a lawyer and state ofiBcial, died 
 in 1854, at thirty-three years of age. His daugh- 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. RESIDENCE OF MRS. MARY DeLONG. 
 
 ter married Charles H. Maxson, who, until his re- 
 cent removal from town, was an important figure 
 in DeRuyter life. For many years they occupied 
 the original Enos farm, which is now owned by 
 LeRoy Vincent. One of their sons, Charles B., is 
 president of a successful printing press manufac- 
 tory in New I/Ondon, Conn., and with him they 
 now reside. The other son, Henry D., a graduate 
 of. DeRuyter institute and Amherst college, a 
 teacher and preacher of brilliant promise, died in 
 1891. At the northeast corner of the lake settled 
 Pardon Coon, a brother of 
 Jonathan. The farm is 
 now owned by Myron W. 
 Coon of Syracus,e, who 
 with his family, returns 
 to the old homestead for 
 the summer vacation. 
 One of his sons, Percy, a 
 rising young business 
 man of Syracuse, has 
 built an attractive sum- 
 mer cottage not far from 
 his father's house ; and 
 the other son, Clarence, a 
 promising Syracuse phy- 
 sician, plans to build near 
 by in the immediate fut- 
 ure. Among the early 
 settlers on the west side 
 of the lake was Oliver 
 Crandall and Eleazor 
 Sweetland. The latter's 
 son, Ethan, still occupies 
 that part of the Sweet- 
 land farm which was not 
 submerged. At a little 
 distance to the south of 
 the lake settled David 
 Maine, Sr., a wheel- 
 wright and chair maker, 
 whose son, David Maine, 
 Jr., a teacher, surveyor 
 and local as well as state 
 official of eminence, oc- 
 
 cupied the farm until his 
 death, when it descended 
 to his sons, Henry C. 
 and Irving. Upon the 
 death of the latter, it 
 passed into the posses- 
 sion of Mrs. DeLacy Ben- 
 jamin, who still owns it. 
 Henry C. Maine, after 
 graduating from DeRuy- 
 ter institute and Hamil- 
 ton college, devoted him- 
 self to newspaper and lit- 
 erary work, in which he 
 has achieved an excellent 
 reputation. While pro- 
 prietor of the Troy Whig, 
 he employed as one of 
 his assistants Ex- Gov. 
 Black, who had just fin- 
 ished his college course. 
 For a number of years, 
 Mr. Maine has been con- 
 nected with the Roches- 
 ter Democrat. His dis- 
 cussion of the sun's 
 spots, and his weather 
 predictions, founded up- 
 on his observations of the 
 sun's surface, have dem- 
 onstrated hiscapacityasaman of original scientific 
 thought. In the year 1800, Matthew Wells, Sr., 
 took up a farm of more than two hundred acres, 
 to the southeast ot the Thompson Burdick farms, 
 being led to this locality because several sisters 
 of his wife, Mrs. Thompson Burdick and others 
 were living here. His son, Matthew Wells, Jr., 
 after a long and successful life on the farm, sold 
 it to William Hunt, whose son James now owns 
 the place. More than half a century ago Mr. 
 
 Wells built a machine shop on the branch of the. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF MRS. 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 ALICE ANNAS. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF MRS. 
 
 EMMA WARNER. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVBNIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Tioughnioga which ran through his farm and 
 which was turned from its natural course a short 
 distance below the shop to become the principal 
 source of supply for the lake when that was con- 
 structed. The shop was run by his son Welcome, 
 until his death, when the Gardner Bros, took it 
 and for many years did an extensive business in 
 manufacturing cheese boxes and horse rakes. 
 Theirs was one of the first cheese-box manufac- 
 tories in the state. They were succeeded by 
 Charles R. Maxson, a son-in-law of Mr. "Wells, 
 who in 1864 transferred the business to Kenyon 
 Muncy and Oscar Crandall. After a few months, 
 Crandall sold out to Dennis T. Coon, who with 
 his brother, J. Avery, has continued in possession 
 of the premises to the present time. The original 
 DeRuyter settlers acquired title to their lands 
 from John Lincklaen and others, who purchased 
 in 1792, for the Holland Land company, a tract of 
 120,000 acres, which included the present towns of 
 German, Pitcher, Lincklaen, DeRuyter, Nelson 
 and a part of Cazenovia. In the deed to Thomp- 
 
 Beii,1aniiii Photo. 
 
 1. — G-eorge Miner. 
 W. Kainey. 6.- 
 
 OFFICERS DERUYTER LODGE I. O. O. F. 
 
 the lake) exceeded one hundred. At present the 
 number of children of school age in the district is 
 less than thirty. In the earlier period small land 
 holdings and large families were the rule. Now 
 the tendency is towards small families and big 
 farms. Francis M. Burdick. 
 
 The Seventh Day Baptist Church— Quite a 
 
 colony of Seventh Day people came to DeRuyter 
 from Rensselaer county and on Sept. 29, 1806, a 
 council composed of Elder Henry Clark and 
 Deacon Phineas Burdick, from Brookfield, and 
 Elder William Satterlee, Deacon Jabes Burdick, 
 Stephen Maxson and Eliphaleh Johnson, from 
 Petersburg, Rensselaer Co., organized the Sev- 
 enth Day Baptist church of DeRuyter (then Caze- 
 novia) with 23 members, 14 of whom were dis- 
 missed from the Petersburg church and 9 were 
 from DeRuyter and vicinity. They then or- 
 dained David Davis evangelist elder. In the 
 many changes that followed in those early days 
 the church records are not complete, but in 1815 
 the church was reorgan- 
 ized and the minutes 
 faithfully kept and the 
 meetings regularly main- 
 tained. The Sabbath ser- 
 vices were often held at 
 the settlement at German 
 (now Lincklaen Center) 
 and at Truxton (i±ow 
 Cuyler Hill) where at 
 each place there was a 
 large and prosperous 
 Sabbath keeping com- 
 munity as early as 1815. 
 In 1827 the membership 
 had reached 177 and dur- 
 ing this year the Seventh 
 Day Baptist church of 
 Truxton was constituted 
 with members dismissed 
 from DeRuyter. During 
 the autumn of 1831 the 
 Seventh Day Baptist 
 church of Lincklaen was 
 organized with members 
 likewise dismissed from 
 DeRuyter. From 1825 to 
 1830 the mother church 
 was supplied by visiting 
 
 3.— Benjamin Eaton. 3.— M. A. Blakeslee. 4.— A. D. Baker. 5.— W. 
 -J. L. Gardner. 7.— H. B. Griffith. 8.-E. S. Newitt. 9.-H. Reed. 
 
 son Burdick, of May i, 1795, the grantors are John 
 Lincklaen of the county of Herkimer, and Her- 
 man LeRoy, of^ the city of New York. It is wit- 
 nessed by Jonathan Foreman and Samuel S. Fore- 
 man and recorded Nov. 16, 1796, in the clerk's 
 office of Herkimer county, as neither the town 
 of DeRuyter nor the county of Madison had then 
 been organized. The price for the 172 acres 2 
 roods and 16 perches conveyed was, " Two hun- 
 dred and thirty-seven pounds, twelve shillings 
 and ten pence, current money of the State of New 
 York." In Jonathan Coon's deed of 1801, the 
 price of his hundred acres is named as $300 — 
 while eleven years later he paid $300 for 50 acres 
 adjoining his earliest purchase. During the first 
 quarter of the nineteenth century the population 
 of DeRuyter increased with marvelous rapidity. 
 In 1795 there were only a few families within the 
 present limits of the town ; while from 1820 to 
 1830 the attendance of pupils during the winter 
 terms in school district No. 3, (which surrounds 
 
 to 1835 Elders Alexan- 
 der Campbell, Joel Green 
 and Ephraim Curtis followed the itinerant plan. 
 About 1835 the church edifice in the village was 
 erected at a cost of $3,000, and so substantially 
 was it built that it has stood for 65 years with 
 slight repairs, and now plans are in contemplation 
 to modernize and improve it. During the 94 
 years of the church's existence there has been 16 
 pastors and ministers, many of whom were men 
 of fine culture and signal ability. Among these 
 may be mentioned Alexander Campbell, the 
 founder of DeRuyter institute and a man of rare 
 ability and spiritual power ; Elder James R. Irish, 
 so long the principal of DeRuyter institute and a 
 giant in body, mind and heart ; Elder Geo. E. 
 Tomlinson, a brilliant, classical scholar and ora- 
 tor, and Elder Joshua Clark, so successful as pas- 
 tor and evangelist through all this section. The 
 great length of many of these pastorates speaks 
 well for the ability of the ministers and the co- 
 operation of the membership. The largest mem- 
 bership was during the prosperity of the DeRuy- 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. RESIDENCE MR. AND MRS. GEORGE MURRAY. 
 
 ter Institute from 1836 to 1870, when large num- 
 bers of students were added, being gathered in 
 during great revivals. The present membership 
 is 140, of whom quite a number live at a distance 
 and great numbers have moved west and helped 
 organize other churches. Rev. Joshua Clarke, a 
 successful preacher and evangelist, was pastor 
 nearly 17 years, from January, 1870, till into 1886, 
 and gathered large numbers into the church. 
 
 Rev. I,. R. Swinney, the present pastor, fol- 
 lowed in the autumn of that year and has con- 
 tinued till the present (1900). He was born in 
 Bridgelon, New Jersey, educated in his native 
 state and taught during the Civil War, (1860-65) 
 near Gettysburg, and en- 
 tered Union Theological 
 seminary, N. Y. city, it 
 1866, and graduated in 
 the class of 1869, making 
 a specialty of the oriental 
 languages. lu Novem- 
 ber of that year he was 
 married to Miss Sue M. 
 Black.ofBlack'sGap.Pa., 
 and settled as pastor at 
 Alfred, N. Y. , and elected 
 professor of Hebrew and 
 Cognate languages in Al- 
 fred university. In 1877 
 he went to West Virginia 
 and was pastor and mis- 
 sionary for nine years in 
 that state and Kentucky. 
 In 1886 he moved back 
 to N. Y. and settled at 
 DeRuyter on account of 
 its educational advant- 
 ages. Following a mis- 
 sionary plan he preaches 
 in many of the adjacent 
 neighborhoods and has 
 organized and for the 
 past six years conducted 
 at Sherman Park, Syra- 
 
 cuse, a mission on the 
 plan of the Young 
 Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation. He is also 
 treasurer of the County 
 Sunday-school associa- 
 tion and president of 
 the Madison Co. Bible 
 society. 
 
 Tloughnioga Lodge, 
 No. 552, I. O. O. F., 
 
 was instituted at De- 
 Ruyter, N. Y., on the 
 13th day of May, 1889, 
 by D. D. G. M. George 
 W. Chapman, of Canas- 
 tota, with six charter 
 members as follows : J. 
 R. Coye, N. G.; S. L. 
 Porter, V. G.; A. L. 
 Baker, Sec; W. J. 
 Hodges, P. S.; Giles 
 Coye, Treas.; H. J. 
 Reed, I. G. In the 
 evening seventeen 
 members received the 
 three degrees, McGraw- 
 ville lodge. No. 320, 
 working the initiatory 
 
 and second, and Pleasant Valley lodge, No. 424, 
 of Delphi, the first and third degrees. During the 
 ten years of its existence to Dec. 31, 1899, it 
 has worked the degrees on over one hundred 
 members and has paid in benefits and donations 
 in the aggregate of j56oo. The seven following 
 members have died ; E. P. Brown, B. J. Brown, 
 L. R. Grant, David Evens, G. M. Foster, Charles 
 E. Beakman, J. H. Babcock. There have been 
 four new lodges formed, taking thirteen mem- 
 bers from the lodge. The membership Dec. 31, 
 1899, was fifty-four, of which twelve are Past 
 Grands. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE WINDSOR HOTEL, J. C. HULLER, PROP. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 Rev. L. R. Swinney. 
 Rev. W. E. Darrow. 
 
 The Rebekahs— At 
 
 a special meeting call- 
 ed at Odd Fellows hall 
 on the evening of Feb. 
 23, 1894, for the pur- 
 pose of instituting a 
 lodge of Rebekahs in 
 DeRuyter, N. Y,, D. 
 D. G. M. Mrs, Emma 
 J. Moody of Oneida 
 instituted Violetta No. 
 II, D. of R., with the 
 following charter 
 members : A. Iv. Bak- 
 er, Mrs. Sarah E. Bak- 
 er, John Snell, Mrs. 
 Addie Snell, B. F. Ea- 
 ton, Mrs. Sarah A. 
 Eaton, E. W. Schel- 
 inger, Mrs. Pol ley 
 Kelley, W. J. Hodges, 
 T. T. White ; after 
 which seven candi- 
 dates received the de- 
 gree. The member- 
 ship on Dec. 31, 1899, 
 was fifty-three with 
 the following officers : 
 Presiding N. G., Mrs. 
 Mary Swind ; V. G., 
 Mrs. Ella J. Griffith ; 
 Sec, A. I,. Baker; 
 Treas., Mrs. Sylvia S. 
 Hodges ; Past Noble 
 Grands, Mrs. Emily 
 Brown, Mrs. Addie 
 Snell. 
 
 CLERGY. 
 
 Rev. David W. Bull. 
 Rev. George W. Rosenberry. 
 
 The First Congregational Church— 
 
 During the month of June, 1896, Rev. D. 
 W. Bull, a missionary in the employ of the 
 Home Mission society of the State of New 
 York, visited DeRuyter, at the request of a 
 number of friends, who wer6 desirous to 
 know more fully the polity of the Congre- 
 gational church. As a result, on August 6, 
 1896, the First Congregational church and 
 society was organized and incorporated by 
 Dr. Bull. Nineteen members united with 
 the church, thirteen on confession and six 
 by letter. The following trustees were 
 elected: I. E. Smith, W. H. Hardie and 
 W. J. Hodges. The new organization met 
 for divine service in Russell's hall. The 
 pulpit was supplied by Rev. D. W. Bull, 
 Rev. Ethan Curtis, secretary New York 
 State Home Mission society and Rev. I/em- 
 uel Jones, state missionary, until November 
 of the same year, when Rev. D. W. Bull 
 was called to the pastorate in connection 
 with the Home Mission society. Meanwhile, 
 a subscription had been started with the 
 view of building a suitable church in which 
 to worship. The result of this effort far 
 exceeded the expectation of the committee 
 in charge. A prominent lot on the south 
 side of Cortland street was purchased. M. 
 E. Tallett, H. P. Mitchell and E. Nash 
 were elected the building committee, with 
 B. S. Bryant treasurer. Plans were adopt- 
 ed, and the work on the church edifice be- 
 gun early in the winter of 1896. The 
 building committee pushed the work rap- 
 idly to completion. In the afternoon of 
 July 21, 1897, the beautiful church, with 
 its rich exterior, its elaborate furnishings, 
 was dedicated. The dedicatory sermon was 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 Congregational. 
 
 THE CHURCHES. 
 
 First Baptist. 
 Seventh Day Baptist. 
 
 Methodist. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 ir 
 
 RESIDENCE OF JOHN R. WILSON. 
 Benjamin Photos. RESIDENCE OF H. I. NEWITT. 
 
 delivered by Rev. Wm. E. Griffis, D. D., of Ithaca, 
 N. Y. Rev. Edward Evans, of Camden, N. Y., 
 preached in the evening. The church complete 
 cost nearly f4,ooo. At the close of the dedica- 
 tory service, about 
 $i,ooo remained un- P 
 provided for. The 
 Church Building so- 
 ciety of the Congrega- 
 tional church gave 
 I500. The balance 
 was assured by the 
 Ladies' Aid society. 
 The church is now 
 free of all encum- 
 brance. The church, 
 at present, is fostered 
 by the Home Mission 
 society. With its va- 
 • r i o u s organizations, 
 it has steadily pros- 
 pered. Fifty-one 
 have united with the 
 church since it was 
 formed. Dr. Bull is 
 still the missionary 
 pastor. The Sunday- 
 school has a member- 
 ship of seventy-five. 
 W. H. Hill is the ef- 
 ficient superintend- 
 ent. Miss Blanche 
 Beekman, secretary, 
 Mrs. M. E. Tallett, 
 treasurer. 
 
 The pastor, David 
 W. Bull, was born in 
 London, Eng. When 
 nine years of age, he 
 was sent to the Higate 
 boarding school. His 
 thoughts were early Benjamin Photos. 
 
 inclined towards the pro- 
 fession of a medical mis- 
 sionary. With this end 
 in view and to prepare 
 himself for that work, he 
 entered Morlay college^ 
 graduating from that in- 
 stitution in 1874. After 
 his theological course, 
 he took a special course 
 in medicine and was 
 made a licentiate in May, 
 1878 ; was ordained in 
 London, March 19, 1877. 
 Soon after graduation. 
 Dr. Bull came to Ameri- 
 ca, visiting the Eastern 
 and Middle states. The 
 result of this visit was the 
 means of changing, 
 somewhat, his purpose 
 in life ; he concluded to 
 make his home in the 
 New World. With the 
 exception of one year 
 spent in the practice of 
 medicine he has held pas- 
 torates in Illinois and 
 New York State. Since 
 1890 he has been a mis- 
 sionary pastor in the em- 
 ploy of the Congrega- 
 tional Home Missionary 
 society. 
 
 Village of Log Houses — DeRuyter was a vil- 
 lage of six log houses in 1805 and one store which 
 was kept by a man named Gray. 
 
 THE VILLAGE CEMETERY. 
 
12 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAIv SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 The DeRuyter Banking Co. was organized un- 
 der that name — or rather re-organized as a bank- 
 ing institution-^Jan. i, 1899. It was established 
 as private enterprise on Nov. i, 1889, by P. S. 
 Mitchell with a capital of jS5,ooo. At once it be- 
 came apparent that such an institution was needed 
 in the community, and on April i, 1890, it was re- 
 organized as The Individual Banking Co. with a. 
 capital of |io,ooo comprising 100 shares. The 
 bank has proved a pronounced iinancial success, 
 having a loan and discount business of approx- 
 imately 140,000 and paying big dividends. There 
 has been but one change in the original share- 
 holders, the death of Henry Hill (No. 8), whose 
 interest is now held by his widow, Josie E. Hill. 
 The present stockholders are residents of DeRuy- 
 ter except Charles H. Maxson, who lives in West- 
 erly, R. I., and A. R. Bryant, of Truxton. The 
 
 OFFICERS, INCORPORATORS AND STOCKHOLDERS DERUYTER BANKING 
 Benjamin Photos. CO. 1899—1900. LSee Key numbers in the article. 
 
 officers and shareholders are as follows : ( i ) Pres. , 
 B. S. Bryant; (4) Vice Pres., Morell Tallett ; (3) 
 Cashier, F. S. Mitchell; (6) Chas. H. Maxson, (5) 
 H. Benjamin, (2) H. P. Mitchell, (11) A. R. Bry- 
 ant, Mrs. Josie Hill, (9) Henry Howes, (10) W. E. 
 Burdick and (7) E. H. Lee. The last statement, 
 made June i, 1900, is as follows: 
 
 Resources : — Loans and discounts, 139,488.37 ; 
 bonds and mortgages, $21,070.22; furniture and 
 fixtures, fooo.oo; premium, $90.00 ; cash and due 
 from banks, $47,109.10; total 1108,257.69. 
 
 Liabilities: — Capital, f 10,000.00; surplus $2,- 
 000.00 ; undivided profits, i$3,3ii.27; due banks, 
 I313.05; due depositors, 192,633.37; total $108,- 
 257.69. 
 
 First Day Baptist Cliurcli— The First Day 
 Baptist church of DeRuyter had its beginning in 
 meetings under the leadership of Elder Joel But- 
 ler, during the year 1798. It was formally recog- 
 
 nized December 26, 1798. by a council called for 
 the purpose. The first house of worship was 
 erected on the piece of ground owned by Eli 
 Spear, which lay east of the saw-mill pond, and 
 was completed in 1818, a building 30x40 feet, one 
 and one-half stories in height and without paint 
 or steeple. Later in the years from 1839-1842, 
 another house was built on the present site and 
 was dedicated in June, 1842. The building was 
 remodeled and rededicated March, 1889, Rev. A. 
 K Fuller preaching the sermon. Seven have 
 been licensed to preach and five have been or- 
 dained to the fuller work of the ministry:— 
 Richard H. Benedict, July 10, 1816 ; Lewis T. 
 Seaman in 1822 ; L. W. Webster in 1833 ; J. B. 
 Pixley in 1841 and George B. Bradley m 1898. 
 About fifty-four ministers have served the church 
 as pastor, of whom we may mention the names 
 Joel Butler, R. H. Bene- 
 edict, J. B. Pixley, 
 Thomas Fisher, L. L. 
 Gage, L. B. Day, S. P. 
 Way, W. C. Phillips, A. 
 K. Fuller, F. M. Hun- 
 gate, Judson Davis, S. 
 S. Utter, G. D. Adams, 
 F. H. Richardson, G. 
 B. Bradley and H. T. 
 Procter. The present 
 pastor is W. E. Darrow. 
 Thirteen men have act- 
 ed as deacons. There 
 have been ten clerks in- 
 cluding the present in- 
 cumbent, A. P. Spicer. 
 The church was repre- 
 sented in 1806 in a con- 
 ference at New Wood- 
 stock incipient to the 
 formation of the Madi- 
 son Baptist association, 
 which,was formally or- 
 ganized in German 
 (now Pitcher) August 
 31, 1808. On Novem- 
 ber 26, 1831, ten mem- 
 bers of the church were 
 dismissed by letter to 
 form the Georgetown 
 Baptist church. The 
 centennial of the chuirch 
 was appropriately ob- 
 served on December 26, 
 1899. 
 
 Rev. W. E. Darrow 
 was born in New York 
 City on September 2, 
 1864, and received his 
 early education in one of the public schools of the 
 city. In 1879 he united with the East Baptist 
 church, a church in the lower part of the city and 
 about two years after he began study preparatory 
 to the work of the ministry. The necessity of 
 earning a livelihood kept him from any system- 
 atic course of study until the fall of 1888, when he 
 entered the Theological seminary at Hamilton and 
 was graduated in 1892, the First Baptist church, 
 Brooklyn, B. D., helping him to the attainment 
 of this end. On the first of April preceding his 
 graduation, he became pastor of the Fort Plain 
 Baptist church and continued as such until Octo- 
 ber, 1894, when he left to take charge of the 
 church at Mechanicville, where he remained until 
 April, 1896. During his pastorate at Fort Plain 
 a new church edifice was erected and dedicated' 
 and at Mechanicville, a divided church organiza- 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP DERUYTER. 
 
 13 
 
 tion was brought into harmony. Conscious of 
 lack in his preparation for the full work of the 
 ministry and anxious to realize the hopes of 
 earlier years for a regular collegiate training, he 
 attended Cook academy from September, 1896, to 
 his graduation, June, 1899, serving as pastor of 
 the Reading Baptist church, which was about 8 
 miles distant, during his attendance at the school. 
 In the summer of 1899, he removed to Hamilton 
 for study in the college department of Colgate 
 university, and since then he has supplied the De- 
 Ruyter Baptist church, coming on Saturdays and 
 returning to Hamilton on Mondays. On June 16, 
 1892, Mr. Darrow was married to Miss Hattie 
 
 E. Burdick and remained with him until the fall 
 of 1882, when he began business for himself, erect- 
 ing the building he now occupies and where he 
 established a drug and grocery business. In the 
 fall of 1889 he closed out his grocery business to 
 make room in his store for the banking business 
 of which he is now cashier. He was married 
 Feb. 22, 1882, to Florence L., daughter of Horace 
 and Ann M. Benjamin. Mrs. Mitchell has al- 
 ways assisted in the store and bank and is greatly 
 interested in her husband's success. Mr. Mitchell 
 is treasurer of the village, also the school board, 
 having held the position for several years. Al- 
 though taking no active part in politics, he is a 
 Democrat of the old Jackson school. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 F. S. MITCHELL'S RESIDENCE AND DRUG STORE. 
 
 Mills of Durhamville, of which union there are 
 three children, two boys and a girl. He was or- 
 dained at Fort Plain, June 28, 1892. 
 
 Prank S. Mitchell, the druggist, and cashier of 
 the DeRuyter Banking Co., is quite largely inter- 
 ested in the affairs of the village, being the owner 
 of considerable valuable real estate and is also 
 concerned in the business future of the village by 
 reasons of his large business interests. Frank S. 
 Mitchell was born in DeRuyter July 11, 1859, the 
 son of Aaron and Mary Sears Mitchell. He was 
 educated in the DeRuyter schools. When a mere 
 boy he learned telegraphy and waslater given the 
 position of telegrapher at the DeRuyter station. 
 At the age of 19 he entered the drug store of M. 
 
 The Junior Endeavor, Seventh Day Baptist 
 church, was organized Jan. 8, 1898, with the fol- 
 lowing officers : Pres., Lilla Murray; Vice Pres., 
 Lillian Stillman ; Sec, Lois Holmes ; Treas., Cora 
 Coon. The church is very fortunate in having a 
 goodly number of boys and girls who are bright, 
 active workers in the society. The social and 
 floral committees have done very efficient work. 
 The society gives yearly for benevolent purposes 
 at home and abroad. This year the money for 
 foreign work was sent to starving India. The 
 present officers are : Pres., Leslie Swinney ; Vice 
 Pres.,- Melvin Coon; Sec, Daisy Miles; Treas., 
 Raymond Burdick ; Supt., Bertha Annas. 
 
14 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. BOARD OF EDUCATION 1808-'9— 1900-'1. 
 
 1— Henry Howes (President '98-1900). 2.— F. S. Mitchell, Treasurer. 3.— Wm. 
 H. Hill, Secretary. <.— H. P. Mitchell, President 1900-'l. 5.— L. R. Swinney. 
 6.— Hartwell Ames. 7.— Charles Hayes. 8.— Ira B. Smith (appointed vice Hen- 
 ry Howes resigned 1900). 9.— Frank Gardner (elected to succeed H. Ames 1900) . 
 
 The DeRuyter Public School— The pioneers 
 who first interested the people of this vicinity in 
 educational work were Rev. Alexander Campbell, 
 Deacon Henry Crandall and Dr. Ira Spencer. 
 After several conferences these three men called a 
 meeting of the citizens of DeRuyter. A com- 
 mittee was appointed to draft resolutions and 
 plans to be presented at 
 another meeting. Elder 
 Campbell was chairman 
 of this committee. At 
 an adjourned meeting 
 ■called by the chairman, 
 Lebarion Goodwin, it 
 was resolved that the 
 citizens of DeRuyter 
 and vicinity shall sub- 
 scribe the sum of three 
 thousand dollars, upon 
 condition, that the Sev- 
 enth Day Baptists erect 
 a suitable building for 
 a school in or near the 
 village, which shall cost 
 ten thousand dollars. 
 At this meeting they or- 
 ganize d a board of 
 twelve trustees and 
 elected Rev. Campbell 
 chairman and general 
 agent. He visited 
 Rhode Island, Connec- 
 ticut, New Jersey, Penn- 
 sylvania, Virginia and 
 Ohio and raised the 
 amount needed. Then, 
 Tie, as general agent, 
 purchased about one 
 iundred acres of land 
 
 of Dr. Hubbard Smith, the inten- 
 tion being at the time to institute 
 an agricultural department in con- 
 nection with the school. The 
 original deed given by Dr. Hub- 
 bard Smith to Elder Campbell and 
 Deacon Henry Crandall — as cus- 
 todians — is still in my possession. 
 Elder Campbell, Deacon Crandall 
 and Lebarion Goodwin were ap- 
 pointed the building committee. 
 They let the stone work by con- 
 tract and the wood work by the 
 day. Work was commenced in 
 the spring of 1836. The stone 
 were obtained from five different 
 points, viz: The farm known as 
 the Ely farm, now owned by Henry 
 Howes, the James Nye farm occu- 
 pied by the late David Wilcox, 
 the farm known as the Benjamin 
 I. Burdick farm, now owned by 
 his heirs ; the cap stones over the 
 doors and windows from a quarry 
 on the Joseph Fairbank farm, now 
 owned by Mrs. Geo. F. Annas, and 
 the front steps from Manlius, all 
 cut and ready to set. The sand 
 was taken from the Deacon Par- 
 don Coon farm, five miles north 
 of the village, now owned by 
 Myron W. Coon. The timber and 
 lumber were cut in the surround- 
 ing country and mostly sawed in 
 the old Red mill. The house now 
 occupied by Rev. L. M. Cottrell 
 and Blanche GriflSth was moved 
 from the grounds and used as a boarding hall 
 in connection with the school. The beauti- 
 ful line of maple trees surrounding the school 
 grounds were bought and set by contract, for 
 eighteen cents apiece. In the spring of 1837, the 
 building not being completed, a primary school 
 was started with a Miss Robinson as teacher. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 THE SCHOOL FACULTY. 
 
 1.— I. S. Sears, Principal, 
 mediate. 4. — Imo^ene Lewis, 
 
 -Jennie Sheehy, Assistant. 3.— Nettie Wilson IntBP 
 . Intermediate. 5.-M. Cassallne Coon, Primary h- 
 Agnes Post, Trainmg Class. 7.— Edna Fellows, Assistant. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 15 
 
 The building was completed the following fall, at 
 an expense of $32,000, this amount including the 
 interior furnishings, library, chemical apparatus, 
 furniture, etc. The academy was opened the 
 same fall (1837) with Prof. Rollo as principal and 
 Miss Bonney as preceptress, with several assist- 
 ants. One hundred and forty students were regis- 
 tered the first term. The next year Prof. Solomon 
 
 ►0 
 
 two years. The institute continued to prosper, 
 and a large number of our young men were now 
 receiving their education within its walls, pre- 
 paratory to the ministry, and other important po- 
 sitions in our denomination and in the world. 
 At one time the Regents of the University of the 
 State of New York recognized DeRuyter institute 
 as next to the first class of academical institutions 
 
 
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 Carpenter and wife were installed as principal 
 and preceptress, which positions they held for 
 several years. Mr. Carpenter was a graduate of 
 Brown university, Providence, R. I. Prof Giles 
 M. I,angworthy, principal, and Miss Caroline 
 Wilcox, preceptress, occupied the positions one 
 year succeeding Prof. Carpenter, after which Prof. 
 Wood and Miss Severance were installed as heads 
 of^the school. They occupied the positions about 
 
 in the state. About the year 1845, Rev. J. R. 
 Irish was chosen principal and Mrs. Solomon 
 Carpenter preceptress. Elder Irish held the posi- 
 tion some ten or twelve years, with the exception 
 of one year, when Prof. Guerdon Evans acted as 
 principal. During the time that Elder Frist was 
 principal the following ladies occupied the posi- 
 tion of preceptress : Mrs. Jacob Stillman, Miss 
 Orrillo Rogers, Mrs. Ambrose Spicer, Miss Jose- 
 
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 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP DERUYTER. 
 
 phine Wilcox and Miss Miranda Fisher. Prof. 
 Henry 1,. Jones held the position for a while with 
 Miss Josephine Wilcox as preceptress part of the 
 the time and Miss Ella Weaver the balance. The 
 next principal was Prof. Ford, with Prof. H. C. 
 Coon as assistant and his wife as preceptress; 
 after which Rev. L. E. Livermore, with Prof. 
 Coon and wife, was at the head of the school 
 until its close as an academy. 
 
 On March 24, 1874, at a meeting of the citizens 
 of the two districts known as districts No. I and 
 11, it was resolved that the school district No. i 
 of the towns of DeRuyter and Cuyler and dis- 
 trict No. II of the town of DeRuyter be consol- 
 idated by the establishment of a Union Free 
 school. At this meeting the following board of 
 education were elected : J. B. Wells for one year ; 
 Gilbert Taber and B. G. Stillman for two years and 
 Horace Benjamin and Joseph Crumb for three 
 years, commencing the second Tuesday of Octo- 
 ber, 1874. On March 28, 1874, the board elected 
 B. G. Stillman president, and J. B. Wells secre- 
 tary, and purchased the present building and site 
 for $2,535.00. Between the closing of DeRuyter 
 institute as a school and the date of this pur- 
 chase, Mr. HoUister 
 — now living in Cort- 
 land — taught a select 
 school. The first 
 teachers were Miss E. 
 Reynolds of Clock- 
 ville, and Miss Sarah 
 E. White of Sheds 
 Corners, at a salary of 
 Jig per week each. 
 Sept. 7, 1874, Mr. A. 
 M. Wright of Cort- 
 land was secured as 
 principal at a salary 
 of |i8o. At the end 
 of winter term, 1875, 
 Miss Reynolds be- 
 came preceptress and 
 Miss White assistant. 
 Oct. 12, 1875, Miss S. 
 Marie Stillman was 
 hired as an assistant. 
 At the annual school 
 meeting, October, 
 1875, Dr. Silas S. Clark was elected to succeed J. B. 
 Wells on the board and E. B. Parsons was elected 
 treasurer and J. W. Annas collector. Oct. 19, 
 1875, J. H. Crumb was elected president and 
 Dr. Clark secretary. Miss Mary W. Kiem was 
 hired to teach the primary department com- 
 mencing Jan. 3, 1876. Jan. 5, 1876, a resolution 
 was passed that an academical department be 
 established. March 'lo, 1876, Rev. Joshua Clark 
 was appointed a member of the board in place 
 of J. H. Crumb, resigned. Elder Clark was 
 elected president March 11, 1876. E. B. Wood- 
 worth was next hired as principal and S. Marie 
 Stillman to teach the primary department. At 
 this meeting E. B. Parsons resigned as treas- 
 urer of school and at the next meeting G. F. 
 Annas was elected in his place. At the annual 
 school meeting, Oct. 10, 1876, Elder Clark was 
 elected president and E. B. Parsons and George 
 Lewis succeeded Gilbert Taber and B. G. Still- 
 man. Nov. 23, 1876, Miss Marion Mitchell was 
 hired as teacher in the intermediate department. 
 April 19, 1877, Miss S. Marie Stillman succeeded 
 Mr. Woodworth as head of the school with Miss 
 Mitchell assistant. June 27, 1877, Prof. E. C. 
 Wheeler of Cincinnatus was hired as principal. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. A GROUP OF BUDDING BELLES. 
 
 Lena Foster, Marguerite Howes, Margarette GrifBth (seated) 
 Miriam Messenger. 
 
 Jan. 10, 1878, Miss Lizzie Ager became an assist- 
 ant teacher. At the annual school meeting Oct. 
 14, 1879, W. E. Burdick was elected trustee for 
 three years in place of E. B. Parsons. Ata meet- 
 ing Oct. 12, 1880, George Annas was elected trus- 
 tee in place of Horace Benjamin. Oct. 25, 1880, 
 Miss Grace Griswold was hired as the fourth 
 teacher. Sept. 21, 1881, Miss Ettie Mitchell took 
 her place. Oct. 17. 1882, George F. Annas was 
 elected president and W. E. Burdick secretary. 
 Oct. 23, 1882, Miss Mary Hanchett was hired as 
 one of the teachers. In the fall of 1883 E. W. 
 Dow of Hamilton tecame principal. Miss Mary 
 E. Tilton, assistant. Oct. 9, 1883, R. P. York was 
 elected trustee in place of George F. Annas. At 
 the following boa'rd meeting George Lewis was 
 elected president and W. G. Weed, secretary. 
 Aug. 30, 1887, C. H. Maxson was elected a mem- 
 ber of the board. In the fall of 1885 Mr. Lins- 
 day became principal, Mr. Lansingand Miss Link 
 assistants. The following fall Prof. E. A. Winch- 
 ell was hired as principal. Miss Myrtie Andrews 
 assistant, Miss Hattie Graves in the intermediate 
 and Miss Jessie Link in the primary department. 
 August, 1888, George S. Mason and Dr. E. N. 
 Coon were chosen 
 trustees in place of 
 Geo. Lewis and W. 
 E. Burdick. At the 
 following board meet- 
 ing C. H. Maxson was 
 elected president and 
 George S. Mason, sec- 
 retary. Aug. 6, 1887, 
 Rev. L. R. Swinney 
 was elected trustee in 
 place of W. G. iX^eed. 
 Aug. 3, 1891, H. K. 
 Nash was elected in 
 place of Dr. E. N. 
 Coon, and in 1892, H. 
 P. Mitchell in the 
 place of L. R. Swin- 
 ney. Prof. Hermon 
 C. Woodworth was 
 principal during 
 school year of 1892- 
 '93, Miss Sherman, 
 Miss Graves, Miss 
 Miss Thompson, assistants. The 
 the school year i893-'94 were : 
 Miss Luttendon, assist- 
 Miss Graves, 
 
 Maltby and 
 
 instructors for 
 
 Prof. Lang, principal 
 
 ant ; Miss White, intermediate ; 
 
 primary. Instructors i894-'5 — Irving S. Sears, 
 principal ; Flora M. Sears, assistant principal ; 
 Mary L. White, Junior department ; Jessie L. 
 Maltby, intermediate ; Belle A. Stillman , primary. 
 Board of education — Charles H. Maxson, presi- 
 dent ; George S. Mason, secretary ; Rev. L. R. 
 Swinney, Horace Benjamin and Henry K. Nash. 
 Instructors i895-'97 — Irving S. Sears, principal ; 
 Grace L. Rugg, assistant principal ; Agnes C. 
 Post, training class; Mary L. White, junior de- 
 partment ; Jessie L. Maltby, intermediate ; M. 
 Cassaline Coon, primary. The DeRuyter Union 
 school and academy was placed on the list of per- 
 manent training class schools Sept. 16, 1895, and 
 maintained a class of sixteen members during 
 that year. In i897-'98 Miss Jennie Sheehy taught 
 in the place of Miss Rugg, and Miss Janette Wil- 
 son in the place of Miss Maltby. In the board 
 of education Rev. L. R. Swinney became presi- 
 dent while Henry Howes and Charles Hayes were 
 elected in the place of Charles H. Maxson and 
 Horace Benjamin. June 29, 1897, the board were 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 17 
 
 Benjamin Photo. MISS MA.RY HOLLENBECK. 
 
 granted a union high school charter. In iSgS-'g, 
 the board of education was Henry Howes, presi- 
 dent ; William H. Hill, secretary ; Rev. Iv. R. 
 Swinney, Byron S. Bryant and Charles Hayes. 
 In the junior department. Miss Helen Robinson 
 was the teacher that year. In the spring of 1900 
 Hartwell Ames was appointed on the board to 
 succeed B. S. Bryant, retiring. Miss Imogene 
 Lewis began teaching in the fall term in the place 
 of Miss Robinson. At the annual school meet- 
 ing, 1900, Frank Gardner was elected trustee to 
 succeed Hartwell Ames and Ira E. Smith was ap- 
 pointed in the place of Henry Howes, who re- 
 signed. H. P. Mitchell was chosen president of 
 the board for the ensuing year, William Hill secre- 
 tary, and Frank Mitchell treasurer. 
 
 H. Jerome Crandall. 
 
 Miss Mary Hollenbeck 
 
 entered the store of J. 
 H. Delamater as sales- 
 lady in 1865. Being the 
 first lady to sell goods 
 in the village, it created 
 not a little talk, some 
 criticising and others de- 
 fending her. For twenty- 
 two years she has served 
 in this capacity. All of 
 this time, with the ex- 
 ception of one year in 
 Syracuse for T. C. Dillay, 
 and three in Buchanan, 
 Mich., has been spent in 
 this beautiful village. 
 Her success as a sales- 
 lady, and the progressive 
 spirit she has shown in 
 business, justified her 
 course. Her childhood 
 home was Cuyler, Cort- 
 land county. Being one 
 of a large family, she was 
 early, forced to leave 
 school and she has made 
 her way in life, winning 
 many friends and a large 
 
 number of acquaintances who would sincerely re- 
 gret her retirement from mercantile life. 
 
 The n. E. Church— The history of DeRuyter 
 Methodism begins with the year 1830, when meet- 
 ings were held from time to time in the old De- 
 Ruyter chapel, which is now used as a hay barn 
 [see view, page 3] two miles north of the vil- 
 lage. As early as 1837, DeRuyter chapel was 
 made one of the regular appointments of the 
 Truxton circuit and was served at that time by 
 Rev. Zetto Barnes, with Wesley Fox as local 
 preacher. The Rev. Zachariah Paddock was then 
 presiding elder of this district. Prominent among 
 those who helped to establish Methodism in De- 
 Ruyter were the Rev. L. J. Wheelock who still 
 resides in the village, being upwards of 88 years 
 of age, John S. Morse, Morris House, Isaac Fos- 
 ter, Jason Burdick, Abner Brown and John Culver. 
 In 1838, the Methodists began to hold meetings in 
 DeRuyter village at the different homes of the 
 members of the church. A little later these meet- 
 ings were held in the old Presbyterian church, 
 which stood on the site now occupied by the 
 Methodist church, and DeRuyter chapel was 
 abandoned. In i860, on the 27th of December, the 
 Methodists dedicated a church situated on the 
 north corner of Cortland and Division streets, 
 and now occupied by Benjamin's photograph gal- 
 lery, Burdick'slaw office and Newitt's store. The 
 present site was secured from the Presbyterian 
 church and the church home now occupied by 
 the Methodists was built, largely through the 
 perseverance and energy of the Rev. James Stan- 
 ton. In iSgstheformer home of Colonel York was 
 purchased by the church and fitted up for a par- 
 sonage. In 1896, through the efforts of the Rev. 
 A. E. Hall, a Methodist church was built in 
 Quaker Basin, near the tormer site of the old 
 Quaker church and has since been connected with 
 DeRuyter Methodism. At the present time the 
 entire property of the church is practically free 
 from indebtedness and the church is stronger in 
 numbers and in a better condition generally than 
 ever before. Among the faithful members of the 
 past who have helped make the present conditions 
 possible were Trowbridge Allen, Joseph Lyon, 
 
 Benjamin Photo. RESIDENCE OF MISS MARY HOLLENBECK. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 E. D. BENJAMIN, SOUVENIR ARTIST. 
 George Newitt, George Hayes and many others 
 who with these have passed on before. Among 
 the pastors who have served the church since 
 1837 we give the following names : Zetto Baroes, 
 S. B. Yarrington, L. Hi Reddington, D. Fancher, 
 A. Johnson, E. Hoag, I. D. Warren, John Craw- 
 ford, F. C. Winslow, Wesley Fox, I. Crop, E. 
 House, George Boughton, V. I/. Torry, A. C. 
 Bowdish, R. H. Clark, William Adams, James 
 Stanton, Henry Meeker, H. W. Williams, O. A. 
 Retan, Charles Haynes, Frank Hamilton, A. E. 
 Hall, G. W. Rosenberry. The history of DeRuy- 
 ter Methodism would not be complete without 
 the history of its local preachers, first and fore- 
 most of which stands L. J. Wheelock, who came 
 to DeRuyter in 1836 and was licensed to preach 
 in 1838. Since that time he has been a part, and 
 a strong factor in the Methodism of DeRuyter. 
 
 Rev. Geo. W. Rosenberry, A. M. , pastor of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church of DeRuyter since 
 October, 1897, was born in MifHin county, Pa., in 
 1869. He spent the early years of his life on his 
 father's farm and later taught in some of the dis- 
 trict schools. He then prepared for college at 
 Dickinson seminary, Williatnsport, Pa., and was 
 graduated from that school with the highest 
 honors of his class. In 1856 he finished the class- 
 ical course in Syracuse university, being elected 
 to membership in Phi Beta Kappa and the key of 
 that noted society he now wears. He is also a 
 member of the Greek letter college fraternity, 
 Delta Upsilon. In 1896 he was married to Esther 
 Linter of Syracuse, N. Y. His first appointment 
 after completing his college course was DeRuy- 
 ter, N. Y., where he still resides. 
 
 E. DePorest Benjamin, who made the views 
 and pictures for this work, demonstrated his art- 
 istic skill and excellent taste in a manner which 
 proves that he ranks first among photographers. 
 Painstaking and conscientious he counts results!* 
 as of more importance than anything else, and 
 invariably secures the best work whatever time 
 or expense may be required. Ezra Benjamin, his 
 father, was a farmer in Cuyler, his native town, 
 and it was there that Mr. Benjamin was born, 
 June 17, 1851. He was educated in the district 
 schools and the DeRuyter institute, add in 1881 
 entered the gallery o£ I. Page at Cortland, where 
 he learned the profession. In December, 1883, 
 he opened a gallery in the building in the rear of 
 the Merchant block, on lyincklaen street, and in 
 1886 moved to his present quarters in the Jones 
 block. On Dec. 10, 1872, he married Emogene, 
 the daughter of Simeon Rider. His facilities are 
 all that is necessary for every line of the work of 
 an artist and his business is quite large. 
 
 Surrogates — [Merged with County Judge in 
 1847] : T. H. Hubbard, Hamilton, app. March 
 26, 1806 ; Dr. Asa B. Sizer, Madison, app. Feb. 26, 
 i8i6;John B. Slower, Hamilton, Feb. 19, 1821; 
 Otis P. Granger, Morrisville, April 13, 1827 ; 
 James B. Eldridge, Hamilton, Feb. 18, 1840; 
 James W. Nye, Hamilton, February, 1844. 
 
 From Old Photos. 
 
 HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF DERUYTER. 
 
 1.— Albany Street, 40 years ago (Ooon, Photo). 2.— Ruins of Merchant Corner. 3.— Truxton Coach Club 4 —Mer- 
 chant Coiner Before Fire. 5.— Utica-LlnoMaen Streets, 40 years ago (Coon Photo), ti.— Crumb Buildi'nBa hof^™ 
 the Are of April 26, 1899. ^^ oeiore 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 19 
 
 Benjamin Pholo. A. W. FRANCIS. 
 
 Adelbert W. Francis came to DeRuyter from 
 Preble, in 1883, and worked for H. E. Hill in the 
 village mills for three years. In 1887 he started 
 the feed business at the railroad station and con- 
 tinued the same until March 6, 1899, at which 
 time he sold out to E. M. Stanton and retired 
 from actual business pursuit. At the time a vil- 
 lage water supply was the mooted question, Mr. 
 Francis took an active part in behalf of the prop- 
 osition. He was made president of the first water 
 board which it was found necessary to create in 
 order to carry the question after it had been lost 
 on a tie vote, and he not only worked hard for 
 the success of the scheme, but as a member of 
 the board for several years and its president it 
 was largely by his efforts that the details were 
 carried out. He was member of the Republican 
 county committee a number 
 of years, was always ready 
 to put his shoulder to the 
 wheel on every public pro- 
 position. In local Masonic 
 circles he is prominent, be- 
 ing a member of the De- 
 Ruyter lodge, F. & A. M., 
 and is a member of the A. 
 O. U. W. and W. E. Hunt 
 post, 352, G. A. R. He was 
 born in Vernon, Oneida 
 county, N. Y., Sept. 12, 
 1840. In 1851 his parents 
 moved to Georgetown, 
 where his father bought the 
 village grist and saw mill, 
 which he ran for about eigh- 
 teen years. Mr. James 
 Francis was a farmer in the 
 town of Oneida for a great 
 many years. When the 
 widely known Oneida com- 
 munity decided to locate in 
 that section, Mr. Francis 
 sold them the farm. Their 
 tnain buildings stand on the 
 site of the old Francis home- 
 stead. At the time the 
 
 abolitionists under the leadership of Gerrilt 
 Smith started the "underground road " for help- 
 ing the slaves of the South to freedom, Mr. James 
 Francis' home was made a station and he devoted 
 himself to assisting the negroes in their flight. 
 His son, A. W., enlisted in the 117th New York 
 Infantry in August, 1862, and served until the 
 regiment was mustered out in June, 1865. Upon 
 his return home he entered the milling business 
 in company with his father, but in 1871 formed a 
 co-partnership with Elisha Green and the two 
 under the firm name of Francis & Green con- 
 ducted the stone grist mills at Lebanon. In 1877 
 Mr. Francis engaged in the same business at 
 Truxton and in 1881 and '82 was a member of the 
 firm of Crofoot & Francis, millers at Preble. His 
 mother died in 1871 and his father in 1874. On 
 Jan. I, 1867, Mr. Francis married Sarah M.,the 
 daughter of William and Charlotte (Way) Pierce 
 of Otselic. Mr. Francis has one sister, Mrs. 
 Adelia Stewart of Durhamville. His father was 
 the son of Job Francis, an officer in the Revolu- 
 tionary war. 
 
 The W. C. T. U.— In February, 1888, after a 
 series of temperance meetings, held in DeRuy- 
 ter by Joe English, the outcome was the organi- 
 zation of the Reform club and the Woman's 
 Christian Temperance union, the first only re- 
 maining in existence about four years. But dur- 
 ing that time the two societies jointly sustained a 
 reading room. One of the most important de- 
 partments of the W. C. T. U.,for about five years, 
 was conducting the Juvenile work under the or- 
 ganization of Loyal Temperance Legion, and fora 
 number of years the constantholding of monthly 
 gospel temperance services, which have always 
 been largely attended. The following ladies have 
 served as presidents: Mrs. S. W. Fiske, Mrs. E. 
 M. Wilcox, Mrs L. R. Swinney and Mrs. E; A. 
 Warner. The officers for the present year : Mrs. 
 Bert Hills, Pres.; Mrs. S. W. Fiske, Vice Pres.; 
 Mrs. L. R. Swinney, Cor. Sec; Mrs. E. A. 
 Warner, Rec. Sec; Mrs. Geo. H. Hayes, Treas. 
 The regular meetings are held Wednesday after- 
 noons, semi-monthly. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE RESIDENCE OF A. W. FRANCIS. 
 
'URIF'S" HISTORICAL, HUUViSMiK Utf UU K U y 1 «K.. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 1. -JAMES HUNT. 2.— MRS. JULIA A. HUNT. 3.-CHARLES A. HUNT. 
 
 4.— GEO. M. FOSTER. 5.— MRS. NELLIE M. FOSTER and LENA J. 6.— FRANK 
 
 U. COON. 7.-MRS. BERTHA M. COON. 
 
 James Hunt, in the spring of 1867, bought the 
 Mathew Wells farm and for twenty-three years it 
 has been the home of himself and wife, where 
 their children were born and where year after 
 year the family have improved and cultivated it. 
 The farm lies on the Shed's road two and a half 
 miles northeast of DeRuyter, the buildings stand- 
 ing on a sitely knoll where they overlook the 
 whole property and have a perfect drainage. 
 Wells and streams provide an abundance of pure 
 water. It is an ideal dairy farm upon which Mr. 
 Hunt keeps a herd of from twenty-five to thirty 
 dairy cows, including very fine young cattle. 
 Orchards and shade trees, berries and garden 
 truck thrive abundantly. Mr. Hunt, the son of 
 William Hunt, a prominent and active resident 
 
 of the town of DeRuyter 
 ^^^ ■M^^^^m fo"" a great many years, 
 
 ^^^^ i^^^^l was born at Quaker Basin, 
 Sept. 2, 1842. Leaving 
 the farm when nineteen 
 years old he went to Wis- 
 consin and enlisted for 
 three months in the 
 Fourth Wisconsin Infan- 
 try, at the expiration of 
 which time he received 
 an honorable discharge' 
 
 and returned east to re- 
 
 i i^R?**^B ' enlist, Aug. 5, 1863, in the 
 
 15th New York Cavalry, 
 in which he served to 
 the close of the war ac- 
 companying his regiment; 
 through the camgaigns 
 of the Army of the Poto- 
 mac and receiving a sec- 
 ond honorable discharge 
 June 28, 1865. Mr. Hunt 
 is a prominent Mason, 
 Odd Fellow and member 
 of the G. A. R. On 
 November 22, 1865, he 
 married Julia A. Gager of 
 DeRuyter. She was born in Binghamton Oct. 6, 
 1843. Her father, Abram Gager, is now a resi- 
 dent of that city. After farming in Georgetown 
 one year Mr. and Mrs. Hunt settled in their 
 present home. Three children were born to them, 
 Nellie M., Feb. 16, 1870, Bertha M., March 27, 
 1873 and Charles A., Aug. 2, 1877. During recent 
 years the active part of the farm duties has de- 
 volved upon the latter which has greatly re- 
 lieved his father. Nellie was married Sept. 26, 
 1894, to George M. Foster, the son of John and 
 Jane Foster of I/ittle York. Mr. Foster was born 
 in Homer Aug. 17, 1857, and came to DeRuyter 
 in i8go where for five years he engaged in the 
 meat business with R. L. Miller. The March fol- 
 lowing his marriage Mr. Foster bought out his 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 THE FARM OF JAMES HUNT. 
 
 View on the West. 
 
 Blrdseye View on the East. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 21 
 
 Benjamin Photo. C. E. MAXSON. 
 
 partner and continued the business alone to the 
 time of his death which occurred after an illness 
 of two weeks. Lena J., their only child, was 
 born Feb. i, 1896. Mr. Foster's death was a loss 
 to the community, where his prominence in the 
 Masons and Odd Fellows gave him a strong hold 
 on a large circle of friends. He was treasurer of 
 the DeRuyter Lodge, F. & A. M., when he died. 
 Bertha M. Hunt was married to Frank U., the son 
 of Dr. E. N. Coon of DeRuyter Oct. 6, 1897, and 
 they have a pleasant residence on Cortland street. 
 On Oct. 26, 1872, he was born in DeRuyter, where 
 he attended school. At sixteen years of age he 
 began as a moulder in Cortland and worked at 
 that trade four years, returning to DeRuyter in 
 1893 and working for Miller & Foster in the 
 meat market one year 
 
 and for George Foster in WMtStKM ..'■"^SCC 
 
 the same business three 
 years. In the fall of 1897 
 he started in the meat 
 business at Marathon and 
 in April, 1899, formed a 
 co-partnership with Vir- 
 gil at DeRuyter. 
 
 DeRuyter Orange, No. 
 
 651, P. of H., was or- 
 ganized at the school- 
 house at Quaker Basin, 
 March 14, 1890, by State 
 Organizer J. B. Whiting, 
 with twenty-two charter 
 members. On April 10 
 a home was established 
 in the Old Friends' meet- 
 ing house, where it re- 
 mained until the house 
 was removed in June. 
 Temporary quarters were 
 taken up in the old Shep- 
 pard ballroom until Oct. 
 9, when it moved to its 
 present home in the Rus- 
 sell block. Many of the 
 best farmers of the com- 
 
 munity have taken an active interest in its work. 
 On Dec. 21, 1892, the Grange brought the first 
 farmers' institute to DeRuyter, and have main- 
 tained them each year since, not only furnishing 
 means, but supplying quite an array of local tal- 
 ent. That these institutes have been profitable, 
 can be best seen by a visit to some of the up-to- 
 date rural homes. The Grange is at present under 
 the management of W. M. , Howard Muncy. The 
 present secretary, B. E. Wood, has held that 
 office since its organization in 1890. The follow- 
 ing is a list of the first officers elected : A. D. 
 Warren, W. M.; E. S. Newitt, O.; H. I. Newitt, 
 L.; F. Connell, S.; Mrs. S. W. Cone, Chap.; B. E. 
 Wood, Sec; F. Maxson, Treas.; D. C. Wood, A. 
 S.; F. Warren, G. K.; Mrs. F. Connell, L. A. S.; 
 Mrs. D. C. Wood, Pom.; Mrs. B. E. Wood, Ceres ; 
 Mrs. F. Warren, Flora. 
 
 Charles E. Maxson came to DeRuyter eight 
 years ago and bought the old school house on 
 Cortland street which had previously been con- 
 verted into a residence. He remodeled and reno- 
 vated the house, raising the roof and adding a 
 porch so that it is now one of the most convenient 
 and desirable of dwellings. On the west side he 
 constructed an addition which he occupies as a 
 store. He at once opened a jewelry store equip- 
 ping it with the best lines as well as everything 
 in the way of ammunition and camera supplies. 
 In the rear is the workshop in which he carries 
 on bicycle repairing and manufacturing of all 
 kinds, keeping a man especially for that work. 
 It is the only sportsmen's and bicycle headquar- 
 ters in DeRuyter. Mr. Maxson was born in Rich- 
 burg, Alleghany county, Dec. 26, 1868. His par- 
 ents moved to Kansas when he was quite young 
 and he spent his boyhood days in that state, re- 
 turning to New York state when twelve years of 
 age. Subsequently he spent six years in the oil 
 regions where he had charge of a lease and he 
 came here directly from the oil country. On 
 Jan.. 31, 1894, he married Nellie Taylor of DeRuy- 
 ter, who died May 21, 1896. On March 21, 1897, 
 he married Rose Crumb of DeRuyter. 
 
 Benjamin Photo.. RESIDENCE AND STORE OF C. E. MAXSON. 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTBR. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. HENRY HOWES. 
 
 Henry Howes, for two years president of the 
 DeRuyter board of education but recently re- 
 signed, and a large dealer in wool and live stock, 
 is very largely known among state politicians as 
 one of the most active of Cortland county Repub- 
 licans. Although his home is in the town of Cuy- 
 ler, Cortland county, it is adjoining the Madison 
 county line. He is located on one of the pleas- 
 antest farms in Cortland county, comprising fifty- 
 eight acres, once known as the Joseph Lyon place. 
 It was there he located in March, 1895, and sub- 
 sequently increased the property limits by the 
 purchase of 100 acres of the Spencer farm across 
 the road. In Nov. 1899, fire swept away his barns 
 and during the following year he completed a 
 new structure 34 x 60, with a half basement for 
 stables and wagon house on the main floor and 
 the second story for wool and hay. It is a large 
 modern building with 
 accommodations for 
 several cattle and 
 horses and storage 
 room for 50,000 lbs. 
 of wool, besides room 
 for considerable hay, 
 grain and harnesses. 
 Mr. Howes' business 
 in wool averages as 
 high as f6o,oooa year. 
 Besides he is a natural 
 speculator in real 
 estate, cattle, horses, 
 etc. During the year 
 he employs a dozen 
 or more wool buyers 
 who gather in the 
 product for miles 
 around from several 
 adjacent counties. In 
 farm ventures he has 
 usually been success- 
 ful, engaging and 
 holding agricultural 
 property, improving 
 it and selling it. Be- 
 sides his home prop- 
 erty he owns a very 
 excellent farm of 272 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 acres in the town of Cuyler on the road from 
 Cuyler village to Lincklaen, where he lived 
 from 1882 to 1895, when he took up his present 
 residence. The dairy herd shown in the accom- 
 panying engraving is on that place. It is in the 
 corner of Chenango, Cortland and Madison coun- 
 ties, lies conveniently near to three villages and 
 is well watered. About 1886, Mr. Howes began 
 speculating in cattle and in 1892 took up hand- 
 ling wool, in the course of which he has gained a 
 wide circle of acquaintances with all of whom his 
 fair and open dealings have made him very popu- 
 lar in Onondaga, Chenango, Madison and Cort- 
 land counties. As a resident of the latter he has 
 been prominently identified with the successes of 
 his party. During the Morton campaign he was 
 chairman of the county committee and during 
 the years of 1890, '91 and '92 represented Cuyler 
 on the board of supervisors. In his hoine village 
 of DeRuyter across the county line he is among 
 the first to agitate for public improvement and is 
 considered a resident in effect if not fact. His in- 
 terest in school matters led to his selection as 
 one of the village school board. In DeRuyter he 
 gets his mail, purchases all of his supplies and 
 ships extensi^ ely of the products he buys. Mr. 
 Howes was born in DeRuyter June 6, 1857, and 
 attended the district school and DeRuyter insti- 
 tute. At eleven years of age he went into a book 
 store for I. N. Smith and four years later left 
 school to engage in teaching at Lincklaen. Alto- 
 gether he taught three winter terms. Then he 
 bought the book store of P. A. Burdick, the 
 noted temperance lecturer — when about eighteen 
 years of age — and shortly after sold out at a profit 
 to start a general store on a much larger scale. 
 His success in these two ventures, which occu- 
 pied about six years of his time, encouraged him 
 to engage in speculation and led him into the op- 
 erations he has since followed. On Jan. 21, 1878, 
 he married M. Delphine Baker of Lincklaen. 
 They lost two children, both boys, and have two 
 girls living, Miss Maud A., a student in the Classi- 
 cal course in the Cortland Normal school and lit- 
 tle Helen Marguerite, a bright, pretty girl five 
 years of age. Mr. Howes is identified with sev- 
 
 RESIDBNCE OF HENRY HOWES. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 23 
 
 eral public orders including the Masons, in -which 
 he is a member of Ihe DeRuyter lodge and the 
 Cortland Commandery and Chapter; of the De- 
 Ruyter A. O. U. W. and the Cuyler grange. His 
 father, LeRoy H. Howes, was a prominent buyer 
 of real estate and bops and was well known in 
 Madison and Cortland counties ior years. He 
 was born in Peterboro, Madison county, and in 
 1835, when sixteen years old, located in DeRuy- 
 ter going to work for John R. Rider in the har- 
 ness trade. Subsequently he went to Jamestown, 
 Chautauqua county, but returned to DeRuyter 
 soon after. On Sept. 10, 1840, he married Jane, 
 the daughter of Zenas Rider. He was a strong 
 Republican and held the office of assessor for 
 twenty-four years. During his lifetime he 
 acquired considerable property. His death oc- 
 curred Sept. 20, 1882, and that of his wife Sept. 
 12, 1874. Both were buried in a pleasant lot in 
 the village cemetery. Their children are Emma 
 
 of the church. This present year funds are being 
 raised to support and educate a boy in India. 
 The regular devotional services are held one hour 
 previous to the preaching service on Sunday 
 evening and the business meeting occurs the first 
 Tuesday evening of each month, and at present 
 the Literary department has arranged for a short 
 literary program at each monthly meeting. The 
 Epworth league celebrated the eleventh anni- 
 versary. May 15, 1900, by holding a "Birthday 
 Party," to which a large number of former 
 members and friends kindly responded. Only 
 two deaths have occurred during the nine years, 
 the first was the president, Mrs. Frances Wells, 
 who died at Plainfield, N. J., and the recent loss 
 of George H. Hayes, for whom the league held a 
 "Memorial service" on Sunday evening, April 
 29, 1900. The present officers are : Pres., Frank 
 Connell ; First Vice (spiritual), Mary Hollen- 
 beck; Second Vice (mercy and help), Millie 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 HEMRY HOWES' FARM AND STOCK. 
 
 Mr. Howes and Favorite. 
 
 Home Farm near DeRuyter. 
 
 F. (Mrs. James E Rouse) deceased, Fred W., of 
 Cortland, Frank L., Charles H. and Judson of 
 DeRuyter and Henry of Cuyler. 
 
 The Epworth League, Chapter No. 6374, M. 
 E. church, was organized Aug. 18, 1891. Miss 
 Frances P. Draper (afterward Mrs. Dr. Wells of 
 Plainfield, N. J.,) was the first president and was 
 largely instrumental in the forming of the Ep- 
 worth league from, the former Young People's so- 
 ciety, which had been sustained in the church for 
 a number of years. The Epworth league is one 
 of the strongest pf the church societies, the work 
 being thoroughly planned and carried out by an 
 efficient corps of officers. Financially it has been 
 one of the strong arms of the church. In 1896 
 the league became responsible for the securing 
 and paying the sexton for the year. In 1897, 
 through the personal effiarts of the president, 
 Mrs. S. W. Fiske, nearly one hundred dollars was 
 raised for the thorough renovating of the interior 
 
 Dairy Herd, on Liacklaen Road Farm. 
 
 The Splendid Matched Pair. 
 
 Preston; Third Vice (literary), Jessie White; 
 Fourth Vice (social), Mrs. S. W. Fiske ; Sec, 
 Anna Lyon ; Treas., J. O. Griffith. 
 
 The Ladies' Aid Society, First Baptist church, 
 was organized in the early forties. On July 10, 
 1884, the society was reorganized, under the name 
 of the Ladies United Aid Society, taking in ladies 
 from other denominations. At this time a great 
 deal was accomplished by the society, the church 
 was remodeled, newly furnished and in March, 
 1889, was re-dedicated. The officers were Mrs. E. 
 D. Reed, president ; Mrs. I. Highley, vice-presi- 
 dent ; Miss Jennie Spear, secretary and Mrs. N. 
 T. Coleman, treasurer. In December, 1896, the 
 society was again reorganized under the name of 
 the Ladies Aid Society of the First Baptist church. 
 The present officers are Mrs. Monroe Cone, presi- 
 dent; Miss Ella Vincent, Mrs. Duane Benjamin, 
 Miss Nettie Ellis, vice-presidents ; Miss Alice 
 Clark, secretary; Mrs. James Carrington, treas- 
 urer. 
 
24 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAIv SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. HENRY HOWES' PET ROADSTER. 
 
 District Attorneys [Appointed] : — Daniel Kel- 
 logg, Sullivan, Feb. 30, 1809; Thomas H. Hub- 
 bard, Hamilton, Feb. 26, i8i6; William K. Fuller, 
 Chittenango, March 26, 1821 ; Philo Gridley, 
 Hamilton, 1829; Justin Dwinnelle, Cazenovia, 
 1837; Charles Mason, Hamilton, 1845. [Elected]: 
 — Henry C. Goodwin, Hamilton, 1847 ; W. E. 
 Lansing, Chittenango, November, 1850; D. J. 
 Mitchell, Hamilton, 1853; A. C. Stone, Peterboro, 
 1856; A. N. Sheldon, Hamilton, 1859; D. W. 
 Cameron, Cazenovia, 1862 ; Lambert B. Kern, De- 
 Ruyter, 1865 ; A. Cramphin, Morrisville, 1868 ; G. 
 A. Forbes, Canastota, 1871 ; S. B. Daboll, Brook- 
 field, 1874; John E. Smith, Morrisville, 1877; 
 Henry Barclay, Morrisville, 1880 ; John E. Smith 
 vice Barclay resigned, 1882 ; Edgar N.Wilson, 
 Cazenovia, 1883 ; Henry M. Aylesworth, Leonards- 
 ville, 1889 ; J. D. Senn, Morrisville, 1893 ; Michael 
 H. Kiley, Cazenovia, 1894. 
 
 Woman's Home Missionary Society, M. E. 
 
 church, was organized by the conference secre- 
 tary, Mrs. W. H. York, of Oneida, Sept. 1892, 
 Mrs. O. A. Retan being elected the first presi- 
 dent. The conference in October took Mrs. Retan 
 away, and at the first regular meeting Mrs. S. W. 
 Fiske was elected president, which office she 
 filled for three years. The regular meetings are 
 held on the first Thursday of each month and 
 tea meetings held quarterly. The present officers 
 are : President, Mrs. G. W. Rosenberry ; 
 vice-president, Mrs. Geo. Hayes ; secretary, 
 Mrs. W. B. Burdick ; treasurer, Mrs. E. A. 
 Warner. 
 
 The Y. P. S. C. E., Seventh Day Bap- 
 tist church, was organized Jan. 28, 1890, 
 after a series of special meetings held in 
 the First Baptist church. The first officers 
 elected were : President, Rev. L. R. Swiu- 
 ney ; secretary and treasurer, Etta J. Phil- 
 lips. A constitution was drawn up by the 
 president and adopted by the society. After 
 a short time the "Model Constitution" 
 was adopted. The money derived from 
 entertainments has been devoted yearly 
 to missionary work and other benevolent 
 purposes both at home and abroad. The 
 officers at the present time are : President, 
 Frank Phillips ; vice-president, Bertha An- 
 nas ; treasurer, Neil Annas; organist, Ber- 
 tha Annas. 
 
 Fire of '99.— In the afternoon of April 
 26, 1899, fire destroyed the shops and sheds 
 of the Cazenovia Coal and Lumber Co., 
 the furniture store of I. E. Smith and the 
 barns and ice house of Mrs. S. M. Crumb, 
 located in a group on the north side of 
 Albany street next to the creek. The Pool- 
 er house and barn, the building occupied by 
 I. E. Smith and Mrs. A. Burdick, and J. 
 E. Rouse's house were damaged, all of 
 these buildings being saved only by the 
 efficiency of the firemen and the splendid 
 water system. Mrs. Crumlj's residence 
 was badly damaged. The buildings occu- 
 pied by the lumber company were a story 
 and a half building with the gable end to 
 the street, once used as a foundry, detached 
 lumber sheds and an old machine shop 
 used for storing sash, blinds and lath. 
 Dense clouds of black smoke first gave 
 evidence of the fire. For a time residences 
 across the street were threatened and the 
 occupants moved out. It was a Ji2,ooo fire. 
 
 The Sewing Society, Seventh Day Baptist 
 church, was organized in 1853. The membership 
 fee was one shilling and the weekly contributions 
 one penny. The society met at i p. M. and ad- 
 journed at 5 p. M. to give its members oppor- 
 tunity to prepare supper at home. Later, persons 
 in poor health and those living at a distance, 
 were invited to remain to tea. Mrs. Chas. H. 
 Maxson and Mrs. B. G. Stillman were elected 
 presidents. Miss M. M. Peasley secretary and 
 Mrs. J. R. Irish, treasurer. Mrs. H. C. Coon, 
 Mrs. Horace Burdick, Mrs. S. M. Burdick, Mrs. 
 Arza Coon and Mrs. L. H. Babcock were directors. 
 Of the sixty-seven whose names appear on that 
 roll, only six are living at the present time. In 
 1869 the society was reorganized under the name 
 of the Mite society, and Mrs. Joshua Clarke was 
 chosen president. This organization raised 
 money for the purchase of a bell for the church, 
 for repairing, refurnishing and painting on the 
 outside, besides helping to pay for a new organ, 
 and making a yearly payment on the pastor's 
 salary. In 1896 the constitution was again re- 
 vised and the name, Woman's Benevolent So- 
 ciety, adopted as being more expressive of the 
 nature of the organization. In addition to look- 
 ing after all the interests before mentioned it 
 aims to contribute a stated sum for tract, mis- 
 sionarv and educational work. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. HENRY HOWES' CRACK ROAD TEAM. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP DERUYTER. 
 
 25 
 
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 Copied Photos. SARAH HUNT. JOHN HUNT. 
 
 John and Sarah Hunt, who were married Dec. 
 9, 1869, went to live on the old Hunt homestead 
 at Quaker Basin that same year. There they re- 
 mained- about eighteen years, a happy, prosperous 
 and greatly respected couple. In October, 1887, 
 they bought a place in a very pretty part of Utica 
 street, DeRuyter, where they died about two 
 months apart, John's death occurring Sept. 5, 
 1899, and his wife's Nov. 28, 1899. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Council who went to live on the farm in 1884 
 took up their residence in the village of DeRuy- 
 ter in Feb. 1899, in order to care for Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hunt, who were Mrs. Connell's parents. After 
 the death of the elderly couple their two farms 
 and the Quaker Sasin butter factory, in which 
 Mr. Hunt owned a controlling interest, but which 
 had been largely managed by Mr. Connell for 
 some time before that, were left entirely in his 
 control. Both farms are 
 at Quaker Basin, the 
 homestead at the west 
 end and the other place 
 at the east. The latter 
 was the Adams place 
 bought by Mr. Hunt 
 shortly before he died. 
 The former came into 
 the family in 1841, the 
 property of William 
 Hunt, his father, who 
 disposed of it in i865 
 when he moved to Pom- 
 pey Hollow. Mr. Charles 
 Hunt, a brother to John, 
 afterwards bought it and 
 it has since passed down 
 in the family to Mrs. 
 Connell, thepresentown- 
 er. Mr. and Mrs. Connell 
 were married Nov. 21, 
 1883, and their only child 
 is Bessie S. , who was born 
 Sept. 20, 1887. They are 
 accustomed to large 
 farming and there will 
 be no change in the de- 
 
 tails of the late Mr. Hunt's interests. Mr. 
 Connell was born in DeRuyter Nov. 5, 
 1862, and Mrs. Connell's birth was in the 
 same town on June 3, 1859. Both enter- 
 tain a deep interest greater than property 
 values command, in the old family home 
 and the associations that cluster about it. 
 Mr. Connell is a member of the DeRuyter 
 Lodge P. & A. M. and the grange. Both 
 are prominent members of the M. E. 
 church. Mr. John Hunt, while not an 
 avowed Quaker himself, was a descend- 
 ant of a line of Quakers reaching back 
 to the arrival in Massachusetts of seven 
 Quaker brothers. The son of one of them 
 was James Hunt, the paternal grandfather 
 of John, who settled in DeRuyter in 18 13, 
 coming here from Cambridge, Washing- 
 ton county, where William Hunt, the 
 next to the youngest of his eight chil- 
 dren was born Jan. 30, 1801. William was 
 twelve years old when his father hewed 
 out of the dense forests on Quaker Hill a 
 home for his large family. He married 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Zephaniah and 
 Hannah Breed, then living in Harford, 
 Cortland county. They lived on Quaker 
 Hill a short time before William bought 
 the farm at Quaker Basin. A few years 
 later he rebuilt the house — that which is stand- 
 ing to-day. He was a prominent supporter 
 of the old Quaker Basin church and widely 
 known. He died at Pompey Hollow Peb. 10, 
 1888, surviving his wife for more than twelve 
 years, her death having occurred Dec. 29, 1875. 
 John Hunt was born in the town of DeRuyter 
 March i, 1826, and was the oldest of nine chil- 
 dren. Those who survive him are Chanles of 
 Delphi, James of DeRuyter, (see sketch of James 
 Hunt), Mary (Mrs. Prank Drake) of Georgetown, 
 N. Y. , and Hannah (Mrs. Henry Carpenter) of 
 Manlius, N. Y. William Edwin met his death on 
 the battlefield in "the war of '61." On Sept. 23, 
 1852, John Hunt married Sarah, the daughter of 
 David and Elizabeth Wright of DeRuyter. Mr. 
 Hunt's two daughters came from this marriage. 
 She died at Pompey Hollow July 19, 1868. The 
 
 Copied Photos. RESIDENCE OP F. CONNELL. THE HUNT HOMESTEAD. 
 
26 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. J. H. POOLE. 
 
 second wife who accompanied Mr. Hunt to 
 the end of his journey — a period of thirty 
 years — but who gave him no children, was the 
 widow of Milan Harrington, who died at Rich- 
 ford, Tioga county, and the daughter of Seneca 
 and Margaret Howard who settled in Harford, 
 Cortland county at an early period. 
 
 James H. Poole was admitted to the practice 
 of law at the general term in Syracuse Nov. 20, 
 1891, after taking a regular law course at Cornell 
 university where he was graduated with honors 
 in June of that year. During the period subse- 
 quent to his admission to the bar from 1891 to 
 Jan. 1896, he was located atDeRuyterin the office 
 of Lambert B. Kern. Then he opened his pres- 
 ent office in the old Par- 
 sons bank building on 
 Utica street and has fol- 
 lowed a general practice 
 of law ever since. He 
 was born March 20, 1866, 
 in the town of Fabius, 
 Onondaga county, and 
 attended the district 
 schools in Cortland and 
 Madison counties. Later 
 he was a student at the 
 DeRuyter institutewhere 
 he was graduated in June, 
 [889. During the time 
 he attended that institu- 
 tion he served as clerk in 
 the postoffice at DeRuy- 
 ter, taught school one 
 term and studied law. 
 In politics he is a thor- 
 ough, active Democrat, 
 being a member of the 
 town .committee with 
 which he has been ident- 
 ified six or seven years. 
 On June 12, 1895, he was 
 married to Irene Samson 
 of DeRuyter. He is a 
 member of the Masonic Benjamin Photo. 
 
 order. William H. Poole, his father, has been a 
 resident of the town of DeRuyter and vicinity 
 all of his life and is prominent in agricultural 
 societies. For several years he was engaged in 
 business in this village. He is also .well known 
 for his life-long, sterling Democracy. 
 
 Christian Endeavor Society, Congregational 
 church, was organized Jan. 15, 1897, by Mrs. C. 
 Bull, wife of our pastor, Rev. D. W. Bull, with 
 fifteen active and seventeen associate members. 
 Mrs. C. Bnll, president; Miss C. Mitchell, vice- 
 president; Miss Dora Bull, secretary ; Miss Maud 
 DeLong, treasurer. The work which has been 
 encouraging and helpful to the church from the 
 beginning is carried on through six departments 
 with their several committees. Devotional meet- 
 ings are held every Sunday evening, one hour 
 before the regular' preaching service. Regular 
 business is conducted once a month. The officers 
 for the year igoo are: Mrs. Ida Hill, president; 
 Miss Josephine Mitchell, vice-president ; Mrs. M. 
 A. Ford, secretary; Miss Louis DeLamaterJ 
 treasurer. The society has contributed in many 
 ways in helping to furnish the church and assist- 
 ing to pay the pastor's salary and by placing three 
 fine windows in the church parlors, also by help- 
 ing to support our foreign missionary, Mr. Taylor, 
 in Africa ; also bearing their share of all church 
 work, fully realizing their dependence on Divine 
 Providence and the support of their pledge — Trust- 
 ing in the Lord Jesus Christ, and are endeavoring 
 to lead a Christian life encouraged by the support 
 and co-operation of their pastor. Rev. D. W. Bull. 
 
 Early Fires — Five conflagrations are on record 
 in the history of DeRuyter. In other places will 
 be found descriptions of the " Fire of '58, " "Fire 
 of '90" and "Fire of '99." In about '60 or '61 
 Mathew Williams' store and J. W. Clark's hotel 
 barn were burned. On the morning of Dec. 26, 
 1878, fire destroyed G. F. Annas & Co.'s hard- 
 ware store, A. N. Annas' dwelling, the town 
 building, J. P. Russell's store and L. B. Kern's 
 law office. This loss was JS20,coo. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF H. P. MITCHELL. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 27 
 
 P. MITCHELL AND STAFF, 
 Clarence Mitchell. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. POSTMASTER H 
 George Burdick (now at school). 
 
 Henry P. Mitchell, the postmaster of DeRuy- 
 ter, received his commission by the appointment 
 of President McKinley Dec. 20, 1898, and took 
 possession of the office January i, 1899. He was 
 town clerk one term and at the present time is a 
 member of the school board, an office which he 
 has held nine years. He has been for three terms 
 a village trustee. He is prominently identified 
 with the Republican party in the town. During 
 the first year of his incumbency the postoffice did 
 a business of over two hundred dollars in excess 
 of any previous year. Daniel Q. Mitchell, his 
 father, represented the Home Insurance company 
 for twenty years and upon his death which oc- 
 curred Feb. 4, 1881, the agency for the company 
 went into the hands of his son, so that next 
 February this agency will have been in the family 
 forty years. Mr. Daniel Mitchell was born in 
 DeRuyter, his father, Oliver Mitchell, being one 
 of the early settlers in the village and a large 
 land owner. The site of the Seventh Day Baptist 
 church was donated by him for that purpose. 
 Daniel Mitchell was a prominent lawyer, 
 a leading man of the town and during the 
 war was in the enlistment office at Oswego. 
 His brother, D. J. Mitchell, was a promi- 
 nent lawyer at Syracuse. Aaron aud 
 George H. Mitchell were his brothers. 
 The latter, who is in the wholesale house 
 of Dunham, Buckley & Co. of New York, 
 with whom he has been for several years, 
 is the sole survivor of the brothers. Lydia 
 Manchester of Hamilton is a sister. Mr. 
 H. P. Mitchell, has been succe.ssful in the 
 insurance business, having worked up a 
 large business from a small beginning and 
 from time to time has added new com- 
 panies to his agency until now he rep- 
 resents seven of the leading fire companies, 
 including the Hartford, which he has had 
 for eighteen years, and one life insurance 
 company. He has always been among 
 those who are identified with local enter- 
 prises. He was one of the organizers of 
 the DeRuyter driving park and agricultural 
 
 society and during the past seven 
 years has been its secretary. He 
 was one of the reorganizers of 
 the cemetery association which 
 took the institution when its af- 
 airs were at low ebb and bought 
 and laid out new grounds and 
 placed it on a paying basis. Mr. 
 Mitchell was born March 24, 
 1854, in DeRuyter and was edu- 
 cated in the schools of this vil- 
 lage. During the six years pre- 
 ceding his father's death he trav- 
 eled for a Rochester nursery firm 
 and during the earlier period of 
 his life he clerked in different 
 places including two years in 
 New York. He was also in bus- 
 iness in Chicago for awhile. On 
 Dec. 23, 1879, he married Elsie V., 
 the daughter of Charles W. Brown , 
 an old resident of DeRuyter. 
 They have one son, Clarence D., 
 who is the assistant postmaster. 
 
 Fireof '90 — On the morning of 
 April 24, i8go, fire was discovered 
 in the rear of Smith & Fiske's 
 store on the southeast corner of 
 Albany and Lincklaen streets 
 in the Merchant block. In six 
 minutes the firemen had a stream directed on the 
 blaze. Water was then taken from small cisterns 
 built for fire purposes. The flames were appar- 
 ently under control when the reservoir gave out, 
 and the engine had to be moved elsewhere. 
 This gave time for a revival of the flames with 
 the result of the complete destruction of three 
 business blocks, three residences and a barn. 
 The fire was discovered by Mrs. W. W. Ames, 
 wife of the editor of the Gleaner and the latter 
 clad only in his night garment ran to the firebell 
 and gave the alarm. Besides the business firms 
 who suffered from the fire eight families were 
 turned into the street, viz.: G. A. Spaulding, J. 
 H. Babcock, Geo. Samson, James Burtis, Silas 
 Stillman, Henry Nott, L. C. Coon and Jashup 
 Weaver. The list of sufferers and losses are as 
 follows: Smith & Fiske, general store, J22.200; 
 C. J. York, store, |io,ooo ; Rider & Blye, |i,400 ; 
 H. C. Miner, $3,000; J. Carrington, |i,50O ; G. A. 
 Spaulding, |8oo ; H. S. Walker, $1,025 I H. J. 
 Reed, $200; F. E. Tallett, $175; Mrs. J. Spear, 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE POSTOFFICE. 
 
28 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. M. B. TALLETT. 
 
 $200; F. & A. M., f6oo; A. O. TJ. W., ^280 ; E. H. 
 Lee, j!4oo ; J. E. Rouse, jSroo ; R. F. Clark, f 100 : 
 W. W. Ames, $200 ; O. M. Blanchard, I25 ; Jesse 
 Stillman, I500 ; Dr. S. S. Clark, $1,000 ; Henry 
 Nott, 5275. 
 
 Morell E. Tallett is one of the largest buyers 
 of potatoes and apples in this part of Madison 
 county. His interest in the development of the 
 village and the expansion of local trade has led 
 him to support any legitimate proposition in- 
 tended to foster local enterprise. In March, 
 1879, he came to DeRuyter, accepting the posi- 
 tion of agent for the Lehigh Valley railroad. He 
 hought the coal business then carried on by J. H. 
 Crumb and erected a building with trestle to 
 accommodate it. To secure the required accom- 
 modations for his pro- 
 duce business he con- 
 structed a storehouse op- 
 posite the railroad sta- 
 tion which has a capacity 
 for the storage of 7,000 
 bushels of potatoes and 
 two or three carloads of 
 apples. Atone timethis 
 business was increased to 
 the extent that he han- 
 dled yearly more produce 
 than had previously been 
 handled in the village. 
 A good deal of his ship- 
 ments are made at adja- 
 cent railroad stations. 
 In addition to coal he 
 sells lime, plaster, ce- 
 ment and brick. He has 
 dealt in and is a great 
 admirer of high bred 
 horses ; and he is the 
 owner of a fine team 
 which he highly values. 
 When the DeRuyter 
 Banking company was 
 organized, of which he 
 was one of the incor- Benjamin Photo. 
 
 porators, he was chosen the vice-president and 
 a director, which positions he has held since 
 then. He is also high in masonry, being a 
 member of the DeRuyter lodge, the Cortland 
 Chapter and Commandery and the TJtica shrine. 
 Being a staunch and unwavering supporter of the 
 Republican party, he is closely affiliated with the 
 leaders throughout the county and was one of 
 the organizers of the party symposium known as 
 the Madison County Social club of which he is 
 one of the directors. Mr. Tallett was born in' 
 Otselic, Chenango county, April 10, 1850, where 
 he resided until his removal to DeRuyter. John 
 ]. Tallett, his father, who came to that town from 
 Brookfield, Madison county, lived and died a^ 
 farmer, greatly respected by all who knew him. 
 Morell E. Tallett received his education in the 
 district sciool and the DeRuyter institute. After- 
 wards taught several terms. In 1872 he accepteiffl 
 the position of agent for the Norwich and DeRn^ 
 ter branch of the old Oswego Midland (N. Y,, O.5 
 & W.) railroad, and it was then he began the 
 business of buying and selling produce and coal. 
 On March 4, 1873, co-incident with the inaugura- 
 tion of President Grant for a second term, he was 
 united in marriage with Nellie A. , the daughter 
 of Alden Mason of Otselic. Mr. and Mrs. Tallett' 
 own and occupy the large residence formerly the 
 property of Lambert B. Kern, a charming village 
 home. 
 
 The Fire of '58 [for other conflagrations see 
 " Early Fires ;" also " Fire of '90 " and "Fire of 
 '99"] started in the Annas hotel barn which, to- 
 gether with three other buildings, was destroyed. 
 Those burned out were : Three story brick block, 
 Mathew Williams' grocery and saloon and Frank 
 Taylor's harness shop and residence ; three story 
 stone double building — Lafayette block — W. J. 
 Ayer, hardware, and George and Deloss Sears, 
 general store ; Gage residence. While the goods 
 were being removed a lumber wagon drove up 
 and the men were told to place the goods in it. 
 When this was done the wagon and goods dis- 
 appeared, and were never seen again. The total 
 loss was about jfis.ooo. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF M. E. TALLETT. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 .29 
 
 Benjamin Photo. COAL WAREHOUSE AND TRESTLE OF M. E. TALLETT. 
 
 Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell university, 
 grew up a tall, lean, bashful country boy, on 
 Crumb Hill, town of DeRuyter. The old home 
 which he built with his own hands, stands on the 
 brow of the mountain in plain view from the 
 streets of DeRuyter, four miles distant, a wrecked 
 deserted building. The pottery which stood near 
 the door-yard entrance when in use years ago, is 
 now a part of the tumble down barns. The 
 grandest prospect and dearest associations im- 
 press the visitor. The old place should be pre- 
 served by the county historical society. Rev. Iv. 
 R. Swinney writing to the Souvenir says that 
 Ezra's parents, Elija,h and Eunice, followed 
 through life the style and speech of the Society 
 of Friends. Also that after marriage, (July 4, 
 1805) Elijah engaged 
 in ship building for 
 awhile, then moved to 
 DeRuyter and settled 
 on Crumb Hill. Sub- 
 sequently he lived at 
 Westchester Lauding, 
 Westchester county, 
 where Ezra was born, 
 Jan. II, 1807, and in 
 1819 returned to 
 Crumb Hill locating 
 on the place still 
 known as the "Cor- 
 nell place." Here 
 Elijah made pottery 
 which he sold in the 
 adjacent section and 
 the neighboring vil- 
 lages. On the brow of 
 the hill, with a charm- 
 ing view ot Quaker 
 Basin and the valley 
 south, was a log dwell- 
 ing and there Mr. 
 Cornell put up a lar^e 
 log building for his 
 extensive pottery 
 trade. When Ezra 
 was seventeen years Benjamin Photo. 
 
 old he planned the frame 
 of a dwelling house 
 which was so admirably 
 done, to the astonish- 
 ment of the neighbors, 
 that he was henceforth 
 looked upon as the "com- 
 ing man" of the whole 
 community. This house 
 when completed was the 
 best in the town of De- 
 Ruyter and the first frame 
 house on the hill. In the 
 old schoolhouse south 
 of the present one and in 
 the devout meetings at 
 Quaker Basin, Ezra re- 
 ceived his intellectual 
 and religious training. 
 He was a very apt schol- 
 ar with a fondness for 
 mathematics and skillful 
 in all mechanical contri- 
 vances and through life 
 an upright, noble man. 
 He was strong and mus- 
 cular, standing six feet 
 high and seemed to have 
 a prodigious capacity for 
 hard work. While still 
 a boy he took and cleared four acres of heavy 
 beech timber so he could go to school one whole 
 winter and pay his own expenses. With a worthy 
 ambition at eighteen he went to the hamlet of 
 Syracuse and cut timber for the canal trade, then 
 worked in Homer and finally went to Ithaca on 
 foot, which was his usual way of traveling. Here 
 he labored and saved and helped build up the 
 village till the financial crisis of 1837 threw him 
 out of employment. He was married to Mary 
 Ann Wood in Dryden, N. Y., March 19, 1831, and 
 henceforth his wife was his worthy helpmeet and 
 companion. His wife not being of the Friends 
 persuasion his name was excluded from the So- 
 ciety of Friends, but Ezra continued through life 
 a quiet believer in the faith of his parents. 
 
 LEHIGH -VALLEY R. R. STATION. 
 
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 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAIv SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR, DERUYTER. 
 
 Copyrighted by " Grip," 1900. 
 
 "Grip's" Gazette— Vol. VIII. No. 3— December, 1900. 
 No. 107 Oxford Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 The State Gazette of Social Events and Public AlTairs 
 in tba Empire State. ' 
 
 Contemporaneous History andRealLife. 'The Only Pub- 
 lication of this Character in Print. A Valuable 
 Publication for Reference. 
 
 CONTRIBUTORS TO THE DE RUYTER SOUVENIR. 
 
 Annas, H. Bertha Cone, Mrs. Monroe 
 
 Ames, W. W. Clark, Lizzie 
 
 Bull, Rev. D. W. Darkow, Rev. W. E. 
 Benjamin, Mrs. Delancy Fiskb, Mrs. S. W. 
 
 Babbitt, CHAnNOEY Howes, Henry 
 
 Baker, A. L. Lewis, Mrs. Cornelia L. 
 
 BuRDicK, Luke Messenger, H. D. 
 
 BuRDicK, W. E. Mitchell, H. P. 
 
 Benjamin, E. D. Mitchell, Frank S. 
 
 BunBicK, Francis M. Rosenberry, Rev. G. W. 
 
 Crandall, H. Jerome Rainey, W. W. 
 
 Coon, Mrs. H. C. Swinney, Rev. h. R. 
 
 ■CoNNELL, Frank Tallett, Mrs. F. A. 
 
 "Orip's" Historical Souvenir of DeRuyter 
 
 fulfills several missions. It carries the news and 
 perpetuates the scenes and historical data, which 
 instruct and entertain a community. It records 
 the approximate value to the village of the busi- 
 ness and professional man. It introduces him to 
 the men and women who are leaders in profes- 
 sional, financial, commercial, manufacturing and 
 social circles. It names the enterprising and suc- 
 cessful resident of DeRuyter. Itplacesin durable 
 and permanent form a valuable compilation of 
 personal and general information which in years 
 to come are prized beyond value. It does not 
 lay to the soul unctious flattery. It caters not to 
 vanity. The man of " sterling integrity " does 
 not learn in this Souvenir that he possesses a jewel 
 ■of such rare price. "Our leading," "genial," 
 "affable" citizen are phrases unknown to its pages. 
 
 Tlie Contributors to this Souvenir, have — per- 
 liaps unconsciously in some cases — rendered the 
 people of DeRuyter a great service. Accuracy in 
 writing is an important end to be obtained and it 
 is only by a member of the society that its history 
 can be intelligently and accurately written. We 
 are sure that every member of the several socie- 
 ties which are historically presented in this Sou- 
 venir will join us in expressing thanks to the 
 writers of these most valuable and interesting 
 sketches. Their work will long outlast them. 
 
 Tlie Views in this Souvenir were made by E. 
 D. Benjamin, who is a first-class photographer. 
 A great amount of work and considerable care 
 was exacted, and the gentleman was especially 
 painstaking, recognizing the fact that the char- 
 acter of The Souvenir depended a great deal on 
 his workmanship. In towns the size of DeRuyter, 
 too little attention is paid to photography ; but 
 liere the rule is the reverse. This is undoubtedly 
 owing to the fact that the photographer under- 
 stands his business, and generally gets excellent 
 results. 
 
 DeRuyter, Harathon and tlie Telegraph— 
 
 The three pioneers in electrical development for 
 commercial purposes went out to preach the gos- 
 pel of telegraphy from two villages less than fifty 
 
 miles apart. Ezra Cornell of DeRuyter, N. Y., 
 and G. L. Swift and Lewis S. Swift of Marathon, 
 N. Y., went to Chicago to form a stock company 
 for establishing a telegraph line. Cornell carried 
 the stock books and Lewis and G. L. Swift 
 lectured. The two latter were known as broth- 
 ers although they are really cousins. Com- 
 mercial interests declaring the scheme imprac- 
 ticable, were invited to witness the demonstra- 
 tions. At each end of a temporary line a hundred 
 or so rods long sat the demonstrators. The capi- 
 talist wrote a message at one end, then walked 
 over to the other and watched the demonstrator 
 receive it, reading the message as he wrote it 
 down and declaring that it was correct. But it 
 "would not pay." To the Chicago Tribune the 
 suggestion was made that a correspondent in 
 New York could send that paper news over the 
 wire. But the Tribune had no use for teleg- 
 raphy. "It wouldn't pay. " To-day the Tribune 
 building is alive with clicking machines. Lewis 
 Swift is now the world famous astronomer of the 
 Lick observatory. G. L. Swift is at the head of 
 the leading business interests of Marathon. Ezra 
 Cornell is dead. Central New York bears the 
 honor of making the first appeal to capital in the 
 interest of commercial electricity. 
 
 The Ladies' Aid Society, M. E. church, was 
 organized in the winter of 1885 for the purpose of 
 aiding and assisting in the work and expenses of 
 building the present church. The present con- 
 stitution was framed and adopted Feb. 16, 1890. 
 The present officers, 1900, are : Mrs. Chas. Hayes, 
 president ; Mrs. H. D. Preston, first vice-presi- 
 dent; Mrs. Bert Hill, second vice-president ; Miss 
 E. D. Bugbee, secretary; Mrs. W. E. Burdick, 
 treasurer. 
 
 H. M. Ooran, the hustling salesman for the 
 Souvenir, was born at Belvidere, 111., Dec. 13, 1866, 
 and is a baker by trade. For many years he fol- 
 lowed the life of a newspaperman. Experience!; 
 gained while with the Cortland Saturday Review 
 and other papers including the DeRuyter Ameri- 
 can during the life of that journal, proved of value 
 in his work on the Souvenir. 
 
 M. E. Sunday School.— Pioneer work in De- 
 Ruyter began on May 17, 1850, when Nelson A. 
 Smith and L.J. Wheelock assembled the people, 
 regardless of sect or creed, in the old union church. 
 Elder Irish, then principal of the DeRuyter semi- 
 nary, made a stirring address, after which the De- 
 Ruyter Union Sabbath School was organized, 
 with about forty members. Its first officers were : 
 L. J. Wheelock, superintendent, Nelson Smith, 
 assistant; Jonathan Vail, librarian; Noah O. 
 Coleman, assistant. This little company labored 
 together until the approach of winter, when they 
 were obliged to close on account of a large num- 
 ber of children being unprovided with clothing. 
 Early the following spring committees made a 
 house to house canvass soliciting funds and 
 clothing and their appeals were not in vain. The 
 report made by the superintendent at the close of 
 the summer, (Nov. 9, 1851) showed best the prog- 
 ress of the work :— " Our school commenced May 
 25 and to-day is the twenty-fifth school. We 
 commenced with about forty pupils and now have 
 about 130 enrolled. Our average attendance has 
 been over seventy." The spring of '52, by mutual 
 consent, the Methodist part of the .school separ- 
 ated themselves from the rest and founded a 
 school which now ranks high with institutions of 
 Its kind, having a membership of nearly 150 under 
 
 M^ nf r' ■ '?,f^ ^"P*- J- °- ^"ffitl^- Miss Lettie 
 McAllister is the secretary, Mr. Eugene McAllis- 
 ter the treasurer and Jennie Shapley?he librarian: 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 31 
 
 Henjamin Photos. MRS. HARRIETT HELEN J. VINCENT. 
 MISS ELLA J. VINCENT. 
 
 rirs. Harriett Helen Vincent, one of the fairest 
 and noblest of the many splendid women for 
 ■which DeRuyter has always been noted, gave 
 society and church that radiance of personal 
 charm which entitles her to recognition in local 
 annals. Her father was Dr. Hubbard Smith, the 
 first practicing physician in this village, a practi- 
 tioner of sterling qualities widely known in this 
 section. His home at the time of the birth of his 
 daughter Harriett stood on ground now included 
 in the Union school green. It was due to him as 
 much as most others that DeRuyter became 
 known as a progressive, wide awake community. 
 Harriett Helen was born on March 31, 1809. She 
 was blessed with that rare feminine beauty which 
 together with her lovely qualities inherited from 
 her parents, attracted 
 much attention and won 
 her popular admiration. 
 She was greatly devoted 
 to charity, always seek- 
 ing those to whom she 
 might administer com- 
 fort and render material 
 assistance. When nine- 
 teen years old she mar- 
 ried Cornelius D., the 
 son of Judge Vincent of 
 Cortland county, whom 
 she survived many years. 
 At twenty-one years of 
 age in the course of a re- 
 vival she embraced Chris- 
 tianity and united with 
 the First Baptist church, 
 in which society she ever 
 after to the time of her 
 death, which occurred 
 April 23, 1892, was per- 
 sonally active, giving 
 much of her time and 
 means to its welfare. 
 Above all else, home had 
 in store for her the rich- 
 est blessings. She raised 
 
 •a large family, nine children, and gave to 
 them a mother's loving care. At the same 
 time she in no wise neglected her social 
 duties which were abundant. That her 
 death was mourned by the whole com- 
 munity was evidenced by the sincere ex- 
 pressions of sorrow and offerings of -respect 
 that were evoked at the time of that sad 
 event. In old age she retained that re- 
 markable beauty which too often departs 
 as time creeps on. The last sad offices 
 were paid to her memory by the two 
 clergymen who officiated at the funeral, 
 the Rev. Judson Davis and the Rev. L. R. 
 Swinney. As the latter wrote of her "all 
 through her life shone those quiet Chris- 
 tian graces, patience, gentleness and hu- 
 mility, which made her a rare mother and 
 radiant Christian." Miss Ella J. Vincent, 
 her daughter, still lives in DeRuyter, and 
 carries on a successful millinery business. 
 The rest of her children now living are 
 Eunice J. (Mrs. 'Waite Risley) of Cuyler, 
 and Edlie G. (Mrs. A. P. T. Beniteau) of 
 Detroit, Mich. Those of her children de- 
 ceased are Ellen J. (Mrs. Lyman J. CarterX 
 Oscar F. , P. Westerman Vincent, Randolph 
 J., DeForest D. and Theron L. 
 
 Tlie Junior Endeavor, Seventh Day Baptist 
 church, was organized Jan. 8, 1898, with the fol- 
 lowing officers : President, LiHa Murray ; vice- 
 president, Lillian Stillman ; secretary, Lois 
 Holmes ; treasurer, Cora Coon. The church is 
 very fortunate in having a goodly number of boys 
 and girls who are bright, active workers in this 
 society. The social and floral committees have 
 done very efficient work. The society gives 
 yearly for benevolent purposes at home and 
 abroad. This year the money for foreign work 
 was sent to starving India. The present officers 
 are : President, Leslie Swinney ; vice-president, 
 Mel vin Coon ; secretary, Daisy Miles ; treasurer, 
 Raymond Burdick ; superintendent, Bertha An- 
 nas. 
 
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 Benjamin Photo. E. M. STANTOX. 
 Edwin n. Stanton succeeded A. W. Francis to 
 the flour and feed business in March 1899. By 
 pursuing modern business methods, such as keep- 
 ing up stock to the fullest capacity which the 
 large warehouse will accommodate, making 
 tempting prices with small margins and sys- 
 tematically reaching the dairymer: by personal 
 correspondence, he has enlarged his circle of pat- 
 ronage over a large dairy region. During the 
 first six months of the present year his business 
 has doubled that of the corresponding months of 
 last year, although during the first twelve 
 months of his incumbency he sold 125 cars of feed 
 besides handling other supplies required by far- 
 mers such as flour, fertilizers and poultry sup- 
 tjlies. The warehouse, having track connections 
 with the Lehigh railroad, with shed accommoda- 
 tions for teams, is favorably situated and con- 
 veniently constructed. 
 It is a story and a half 
 building 36x92 feet with 
 a storage capacity for 
 twelve or fifteen car 
 loads. The business has 
 grown so rapidly, how- 
 ever, that Mr. Stanton 
 contemplates enlarging 
 by building additional 
 floor space and doubling 
 his warehouse capacity. 
 On March i, 1896, he 
 came to DeRuyter and 
 bought the general mer- 
 chandise business of E. 
 B. Irish, the store now 
 occupied by Mr. Frank 
 Gardner. By hustling 
 methods, wide advertis- 
 ing and close prices he 
 worked up a trade which 
 reached as high as J25,- 
 000 a year. Mr. Stanton 
 is the son of J. A. Stan- 
 ton, a large farmer near 
 New Woodstock, where 
 the former was born, 
 
 Nov. 2, 1871. Upon leaving the Cazenovia semi- 
 nary, he took a course in Eastman's business coU 
 lege at Poughkeepsie, then entered a clerkship 
 with his uncle, C. H. Stanton at Westerly, R. I. 
 In April, 1892, he went into the general merchan- 
 dise business for himself at Truxton, which he 
 sold out in October, 1895. During a brief ensuing 
 period— until March i, 1896, when he began busi- 
 ness in DeRuyter — he sold goods on the road for 
 D. D. Winston & Co. of Utica. On Dec. 8, 1892, 
 he married Blanch H., the daughter of D. F. 
 Gardner, a prosperous farmer near Sheds. He is 
 a member of the local lodge of Masons of which 
 he is the senior warden and is a Knight Templar 
 belonging to the Cortland Commandery. 
 
 French Refugees.— Madison county early in 
 the century became the home of two exiles from 
 France, who sought security in America during 
 the troublesome periods of the French revolution 
 and Napoleon's rule. Angel DeFerriere, a noble- 
 man, sought an asylum first in Holland, then in 
 America when the throne of Louis XVI was over- 
 thrown. In company with Mr. Lincklaen he set- 
 tled in Cazenovia and later met and wedded Polly, 
 the daughter of Lewis Dennie at Canaseraga. 
 His wife brought him a farm near Wampsville to 
 which he added land until he became the owner 
 of 3,oooacres. He returned to France in 1817 and 
 received his heritage which he brought back with 
 him. At the age of 63 years, Sept. 17, 1832, he 
 died on his Wampsville estates. The fortunes of 
 Louis Anathe Muller, known as the "French 
 Count" in the tales of old residents of the town 
 of Georgetown are more fully described on an- 
 other page (see Muller Chateaux, p. 60). But it is 
 interesting to note that the estates of the two 
 French exiles were separated by only a few miles 
 of virgin forests ; that it is not probable that 
 either was aware of the fact, although both were 
 distinguished in the court of Louis XVI and prob- 
 ably knew one another, and that they returned 
 to France to secure legal claim to their heritage 
 only two or three years apart and then came back 
 to America, one to settle upon his Wampsville 
 estates and the other to dispose of his deserted 
 chateaux. Muller was only six years older than 
 DeFerriere. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. FLOUR AND FEED STORE OF E. M. STANTON. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 33 
 
 of Syracuse, and Arthur A. of TuUy, N. Y. 
 Their only daughter Alice, a lovable 
 and accomplished woman and a skilled 
 musician who was very popular with all 
 who knew her, especially in DeRuyter 
 where she was in considerable demand as 
 an organist in the churches, died at the 
 age of twenty years, the wife of B. J. Brown. 
 Mr. O. L. Stillman was a recruit in the 
 114th New York infantry. His enlistment 
 was in August, 1864, and he served in some 
 of the hottest of Sheridan's campaigns, be- 
 ing wounded at Winchester. He was mus- 
 tered out June 19, 1865. Before leaving 
 to go into the army he purchased the farm 
 he now occupies. This has since then 
 been his home, except for about seven 
 years during a part of which time he was 
 engaged in making cheese at Cuyler. Mrs. 
 Stillman, his second wife, to whom he was 
 married August 11, 1888, was Diantha San- 
 ders, afterwards Mrs. Burdick. Her home 
 was in Lincklaen at the time of her mar- 
 riage and she was born in the town of 
 DeRuyter. Her father was a farmer but 
 the latter part of his years he was a grocer 
 in DeRuyter. 
 
 MR. AND MRS. O. L. ^TILLMAN. 
 
 MR. AND MRS. B. I. BROWN. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Orville L. Stillman have a de- 
 lightful home on the west shore of Tioughnioga 
 lake, in the town of DeRuyter, four miles north 
 of the village. Forty-five acres of fertile soil in- 
 cluding the summit and eastern slope of a range 
 of hills parallel to the lake and having a rise 
 above the normal level of about 400 feet and com- 
 prising a broad strip of level shore land, have 
 mostly been brought to a high state of cultiva- 
 tion by hard work and close attention. Remark- 
 able success has been achieved in raising berries 
 and small fruits. The buildings standing at the 
 head of a gradual rise of about fifty feet above 
 ttie lake, afford an outlook of water and hill scen- 
 ery that is not surpassed in this locality. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Stillman have many friends who 
 deem a visit to this beautiful home a rare treat. 
 Mr. Stillman was born in Lincklaen, Chenango 
 county, N. Y., Jan. 14, 
 1836. His father, San- 
 ford B., when a young 
 man, came from Ston- 
 ington, Ct., and settled 
 in Lincklaen, where be- 
 sides taking land he 
 worked as a carpenter 
 and builder. He died in 
 Lincklaen about 1866. 
 Of a family of six chil- 
 dren two girls are dead. 
 George R. lives in De- 
 Ruyter and Frank La- 
 Floyd is a resident of 
 Cortland. Mrs. Emma 
 Poole, their survivin g 
 sister, resides in Linck- 
 laen. Orville L. attend- 
 ed the DeRuyter acade- 
 my in i8s6-'6o and on 
 January 4 of the latter 
 year he married Adeline 
 E. Ackley of Lincklaen 
 who died in 1888. By 
 this marriage there were 
 two sons, D. L. Stillman 
 
 The Y. P. S. C. E., First Baptist church, 
 was organized on Nov. 26, 1889, to meet 
 the needs of the young people. Its first o£5cers 
 were : President, Jennie Spear ; vice-president, 
 Frank Clark ; recording secretary, Carrie Mitch- 
 ell; treasurer, Merton Nicholas. In the year 
 1895, this society entertained the county con- 
 vention of Y. P. S. C. E. Merton Nicholas of 
 this village acting as president of the county 
 convention. Its present ofiicers are : President, 
 C. E. Babbit ; vice-president, Nettie Ellis ; 
 recording secretary, Grace Nicholas ; corre- 
 sponding secretary, Nettie Ellis ; treasurer, , 
 Alice Clark. The Comniittees : Prayer Meeting : 
 Carrie Mitchell, Lena Rizley, Bessie Wakley, 
 Chas. Clark. Music : Grace Utter, Rena Lee, 
 Gertie Applegate, Alice Clark, Lettie Baker. 
 Lookout : Merton Nicholas, Jennie Spear, Alice 
 Clark, John Green. Social : Jessie Lane, Grace 
 Utter, Lettie Baker. Sunday-school: Delia Baker, 
 Matie Root, Rena Lee. Temperance : Frank 
 Clark, Grant Rizley, Channing Babbit. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE FARM OF O. L. STILLMAN, west shore Tioughnioga Lake. 
 
34 
 
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 MRS. AGNES E. RAINEV. 
 
 W. W. RAINEY. 
 
 W. W. Rainey located in DeRuyter in 1894 
 and has since engaged in the harness business. 
 Having an experience in trade covering many 
 years and extending over wide fields, he pos- 
 sesses a capacity for broad liberal dealings which 
 has given him an extensive acquaintanceship 
 among prominent men in the business circles of 
 the state. As an auction salesman he enjoys a 
 reputation which he has been years in building 
 up, both in city and country. At a rural fair or 
 in a large commercial house he is equally at home. 
 In the former case bantering with a customer who 
 is looking for " bargain whips thrown in" or in 
 the latter instance deftly displaying to wealthy 
 patrons articles in broad- 
 cloth and other rich tro- 
 phies of a business that 
 is to be wound up, his 
 proverbial originality 
 and humor are entertain- 
 ing and eflfective. No 
 man in his profession is 
 better known in Syracuse 
 where he followed it for 
 many years. He is also 
 
 widely known among 
 
 the Odd Fellows and 
 
 Masons in both of which 
 
 orders he has taken the 
 
 higher degrees. In the 
 
 latter he is a member of 
 
 the uniformed ranks, the 
 
 Cortland Commandery 
 
 and Chapter ; also the 
 
 Patriarch Militant fourth 
 
 regiment of which he is 
 
 the chaplain, department 
 
 of New York, I. O. O. P., 
 
 and the subordinate 
 
 lodges. His early years 
 
 were spent on a farm in 
 
 Madison county. John 
 
 Rainey, his father, was 
 
 a merchant at I,eonai:ds- 
 
 ville, Madison county, 
 
 early in the century and 
 
 afterwards resided iu the 
 
 town of Pitcher and at Cincinnatus. His 
 death occurred at Truxton. W. W. Rainey 
 was born in Pitcher Aug. 14, 1837. At 
 seventeen years of age he entered the gen- 
 eral store of John Rider at DeRuyter and 
 four years later went to work for Mertiam 
 & McCracken as a clerk in Syracuse. On 
 Aug. 27, i860, he married Agnes E. , the 
 daughter of Noah T. Coleman of DeRuy- 
 ter, and one year later entered upon a 
 clerkship in the drygoods house of D. Mc- 
 Carthy & Co., Syracuse, where he held 
 profitable positions as a salesman in dif- 
 ferent departments ty promotion for nine 
 years. In 1870 he began his career as an 
 auction salesman by opening an auction 
 house in Syracuse with R. P. York under 
 the firm name of Rainey & York. The 
 firm was dissolved three years later, but in 
 1880, he opened Rainey 's auction rooms 
 in the Bastable block where in the course 
 of the several years he carried it on, every- 
 thing from a peanut to a province was sold 
 under the hammer. This occupation he 
 also followed in many eastern and western 
 cities where he often went under contract 
 to dispose of large stocks of goods. Since 
 locating in DeRuyter he is often called out 
 for the same service. 
 County Judges — Isaac Foote, 1800-1806; Peter 
 Smith, Peterboro, appointed June 10, 1807 ; Justin 
 Dwinnelle, Cazenovia, app. Feb. 7, 1823 ; James 
 B. Eldredge, Hamilton, app. March 16, 1833; 
 John B. Yates, Chittenango, app. March 16, 1837; 
 Thomas Barlow, Canastota, app. Jan. 24, 1843. 
 Elected— James W. Nye, Hamilton, June, 1847; 
 Sidney T. Holmes, Morrisville, November, 1851 ; 
 Joseph Mason, Hamilton, 1863 ; Charles L. Ken- 
 nedy, Morrisville, 1867; B. Franklin Chapman, 
 app. vice Kennedy, deceased, Jan. 24, 1883 ; Al- 
 fred D. Kennedy, Nov. 6, 1883 ; John E. Smith, 
 app. 1899, vice Kennedy, deceased— elected No- 
 vember, 1899. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. RESIDENCE OF W. W. RAINEY. THE DRIVE 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 35 
 
 MRS. EMILY OTIS COLEMAN. 
 
 Photos— Favor of Mrs. Rainey. NOAH T. COLEMAN. 
 
 rir. and Ilrs. Noah T. Coleman were among 
 the most prominent of the early residents of De- 
 Ruyter, who have passed away, the first named 
 in 1888 and his wife, Aug. 6, 1895. Mr. Coleman 
 was born in Otsego county Dec. 30, 1809 and 
 came to DeRuyter when thirteen years old and 
 entered the store of Col. Jencks, where he soon 
 rose from position to position uptil he managed 
 the business including the annual purchase of 
 goods in Albany and their transportation hither 
 by teams. Thrifty and enterprising he soon 
 acquired a business of his own and for many years 
 he was one of the merchants of the village who 
 made it a prominent center of trade. His father, 
 Noah H. Coleman, was a pioneer in Otsegocounty 
 and later engaged in the drug business at Caze- 
 novia. He and his wife, Mary, the daughter of 
 John Tunnicliffe, spent their last years at Exeter, 
 Otsego Co. Emily Otis, the wife of Noah T. Cole- 
 man and the daughter of Jacob Otis, was born in 
 Truxton Aug. 26, 1809, and lived to the venerable 
 age of 86 years. She was a woman of rare and 
 excellent qualities, a fond mother and a favorite 
 in social circles. Her 
 father came from Col- 
 
 chester, Ct., first settling 
 in Saratoga county where 
 he began his mercantile 
 career and afterwards in 
 the early part of the cen- 
 tury in Truxton, bring- 
 ing with him his wife, 
 Agnes Austin, whom he 
 married in Massachu- 
 setts. Mrs. Coleman was 
 the third of a family of 
 seven children, the oth- 
 ers being Austin W., Au- 
 gusta, Ann Eliza, Will- 
 iam H., Charles and Ma- 
 ria. She was educated 
 in the Cortland female 
 seminary. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Coleman had two sonsand 
 two daughters: Noah Otis 
 
 who married Emma Carpenter by whom there 
 was one son, Frederick A.; Agnes, the wife 
 of W. W. Rainey; William H., who wedded 
 Carrie Murphy and had one son, Noah T., 
 a young man who gave up his life in the 
 United States naval service during the late 
 Spanish-American war; and Mary T., the 
 wife of Dewitt DeLong, by whom she has 
 two children, Otis, living in Syracuse, and 
 Maud, living at home. Noah T. Coleman, 
 the young cadet, an ensign on the Iowa, 
 died at San Francisco Sept. 21, 1899, the re- 
 sult of exposure during the Spanish war. 
 His remains were buried at Oakwood, Syra- 
 cuse, with military honors on Memorial day, 
 1900, having been placed in a vault during 
 the interim following his death. 
 
 Erection of Towns.— DeRuyter, March 
 iSi 1798; Sullivan, Feb. 22, 1803; Nelson, 
 March 13, 1807; Smithfield, March 13, 1807 ; 
 Fenner, April 22, 1823 ; Eaton, Lebanon and 
 • Madison, Feb. 6, 1807 ; Lenox, March 3, 1809 ; 
 Georgetown, April 7, 1815 ; Stockbridge, 
 May 20, 1836 ; Oneida and Lincoln, 1896 ; 
 Cazenovia, Brookfield and Hamilton, March 
 5. 1795. 
 
 NOAH T. COLEMAN. 
 
 The First Store in DeRuyter township was kept 
 by Samuel Bowen a short distance north of the 
 village. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. W. W. RAINEY'S STORE. NOAH T. COLEMAN'S STORE. 
 
36 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAI/ SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. W. E. BURDICK. 
 
 Wallace E. Burdick, president of the village, 
 is warmly interested in all improvements tliat 
 advance the interests of the village and is fore- 
 most among those who seek to promote its growth 
 and well being. For several years he was at the 
 head of the fire department in which he was 
 zealously engaged in making it an effective 
 branch of the local government. As a member of 
 the board of education he was an active supporter 
 of modern methods in public education and the 
 enlargement and greater efficiency of the DeRuy- 
 ter schools. The profession of law, to which he 
 was admitted in Binghamton in 1868, and in 
 which he has an extensive practice as well as his 
 activity in politics, has given him a wide circle of 
 acquaintances in Central New York. Being an 
 ardent and earnest worker in the Democratic 
 party and a leading mem- 
 ber of the county com- 
 mittee he has a large per- 
 sonal following at home 
 and a close acquaint- 
 anceship with the state 
 leaders. Mr. Burdick is 
 a native of New England, 
 born in Burlington, Vt., 
 in 1847. In his child- 
 hood his parents moved 
 to Onondaga county, re- 
 siding at Brewerton 
 where he attended 
 school. He afterwards 
 completed his education 
 in the DeRuyter insti- 
 tute. Subsequently he 
 spent a few years in busi- 
 ness in New York city 
 but in the early sixties 
 came to DeRuyter where 
 he studied law with Miner 
 & Kern, one of the most 
 prominent law firms of 
 the county. Upon his 
 admission to the bar, he 
 practiced in company 
 with Messrs. Kern & 
 
 Miner until 1882 when he opened an office of his 
 own. In 1885 he received the appointment of 
 postmaster from President Cleveland and served 
 one term. This recognition of his leadership 
 in local Democracy gave him a standing at 
 the head of his party in his town which he 
 has since maintained. Through his personal 
 influence it has been made possible to fill some 
 of the offices in this Republican town and vil- 
 lage with Democrats — Mr. Burdick leading the 
 way through his own election as a justice of the 
 peace. His law practice comprises and supple- 
 ments that enjoyed for years by Miner & Kern 
 and has proven lucrative. Mr. Burdick has a 
 pleasant home on Cortland street. His son 
 George, who at the time the compilation of this 
 work began, was a clerk in the postoffice at De- 
 Ruyter, is now a student at the Syracuse univers- 
 ity. Many village improvements are due to the 
 foresight and enterprise of Mr. Burdick, as presi- 
 dent, who has the utmost confidence in the future 
 growth and commercial expansion of DeRuyter. 
 
 Ladies' Aid Society, First Congregational 
 Church — On the evening of July 6, 1896, a small 
 circle of ladies met at the home of Mrs. F. A. 
 Tallett and organized the society, Mrs. H. C. 
 Blanchard acting as chairman and Mrs. I. E. 
 Smith secretary. There was then no church of 
 that denomination in DeRuyter but it was hoped 
 and believed that with the aid of friends there 
 would be one. Our first officers elected were: 
 President, Mrs. Emmett Nash ; first vice-presi- 
 dent, Mrs. F. A. Tallett ; second vice-president, 
 Mrs. M. C. Godfrey ; secretary, Mrs. I. E. Smith; 
 treasurer, Mrs. H. C. Blanchard ; mite gatherers, '■ 
 Mrs. Mary DeLong, Mrs. H. P. Mitchell, Mrs. 
 W. H. Hill. After appointing committees for 
 different purposes, the little circle adjourned to 
 hold its first social at the home of Mrs. Sarah 
 Mitchell July 16, 1896, at which time several new 
 members joined us. We have at present nearly 
 fifty members and are prospering finely. Our 
 present officers are : President, Mrs. DeLacy Ben- 
 jamin ; secretary, Mrs. I. E. Smith; treasurer, 
 Mrs. A. W. Francis. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. RESIDENCE OF W. E. BURDICK. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 37 
 
 MRS. BLANCHE M. SMITH. 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 I. E. SMITH. 
 
 Ira E. Smith, the largest furniture dealer and 
 undertaker in the town of DeRuyter, has been en- 
 gaged in the business in this village since Dec. 6, 
 1886. Actively interested as he has been in all 
 improvements which promise to help in creating 
 business activity and growth of population in the 
 -village, Mr. Smith is generally among the first to 
 ■devise and promote public improvement. As one 
 of the village trustees in 1896 he helped plan and 
 ■carry into efiFect measures which secured to the 
 village the present adequate and indispensable 
 -water supply system (See sketch, "The Water 
 ■Supply," on another page). On April 26, 1899, 
 Mr. Smith's business 
 place was destroyed by 
 £re, but with that enter- 
 prising spirit for which 
 le is noted he rebuilt in 
 a style of architecture 
 and at an expense which 
 sets an example worthy 
 of emulation a business 
 block of three stories with 
 a massive store front and 
 a very pretty connecting 
 residential structure that 
 are an ornament to the 
 ■village. It is a spacious 
 store well filled with an 
 assortment of furniture 
 and accessories aHove 
 comparison with any oth- 
 er stock in the same line 
 in this county or adja- 
 cent villages in Cortland 
 county. Mr. Smith is 
 an active and enthusias- 
 tic Republican in politics 
 and a member of the De- 
 Ruyter Lodge, F. & A. 
 M. The business is the 
 outgrowth of a chair 
 factory connected with a 
 large planing mill, ma- 
 chine shops, lumber yard 
 and a general business in 
 
 agricultural implements, which was estab- 
 lished about fifty years ago by Joseph 
 Crumb, who succeeded A. S. & H. A. 
 Gardner who for several years were en- 
 gaged in the carriage and cabinet manu- 
 facturing business in connection with a real 
 estate and undertaking business. Adjoin- 
 ing were old buildings which were occu- 
 pied by the Cazenovia Lumber company 
 and were burned (see sketch "Fire of 1899" 
 on another page). Mr. Smith was born in 
 Lincklaen, Chenango Co., N. Y., Aug. 29, 
 1855. His father, Richard P. Smith, a nat- 
 ive of Chatham, Columbia Co., N. Y., set- 
 tled on a farm in Lincklaen early in the 
 twenties and there he died Oct. 6, 1883, in 
 his seventy-eighth year. Ira Smith left 
 the farm when he came to DeRuyter in 
 1886. On Oct. 2, 1889, he married Blanche 
 M., the daughter of Frank D. and Nancy 
 (Angell) Wire. • 
 
 Death Penalty The first execution in 
 
 Madison county was that of Alpheus Hitch- 
 cock, who was tried and convicted at the 
 first term of oyer and terminer which con- 
 vened in a school house in the town of 
 Sullivan on July 3, 1807. Hitchcock was 
 hanged at Cazenovia Sept. 11, 1807, for 
 the murder of his wife by poison, near Madison 
 village on April 6, 1807. Mary Antone was 
 hanged at Peterboro Sept. 30, 1814, for the mur- 
 der of an Indian girl who had won her lover. 
 Abram Antone killed John Jacobs who was the 
 principal witness against his daughter Mary, in 
 1815. For several years he was in hiding, but he 
 was executed at Morrisville Sept. 12, 1823. 
 Lewis Wilber was hanged at Morrisville Oct. 3, 
 1839, for the murder of Robert Barber, August 
 30, 1837. John Hadcock was hanged at Morris- 
 ville, Feb. 24, 1854, for the murder of Mrs. Mary 
 Gregg. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. BESIDENCE AND STORE OF I. E. SMITH. 
 
38 
 
 ' GRIP'S " HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 is in theyellow building opposite the Presbyterian 
 church. Terms, |2.oo a year in advance. To good 
 responsible post riders a handsome deduction 
 will be made. " Its columns were wellj filled with 
 advertising, and a glance at them may be inter- 
 esting. Miss H. M. Rice announced the opening 
 on April i, 1835, of her "Select school for Young 
 Ladies ;" Mrs. Mason offered her services as mil- 
 liner, Miss M. Fish as milliner and dressmaker, 
 Z. T. Bentleyas attorney, Ira Spencer as druggist ;• 
 J. N. Elmore, Israel Smith, E. D. Jencks and 
 Grandall & Walker offer for sale general' mer- 
 
 Borrowed Cut. W. W. AMES, 
 
 Ed. & Prop. DeRuyter ftleaner. 
 
 Warren W. Ames, proprietor of the DeRuyter 
 Gleaner, was born in DeRuyter, February 25, 
 1850, being the third of the eight sons of Fordyce 
 W. and Electa E. Ames. He was educated in the 
 district schools and at DeRuyter institute. In 
 the fall of 1868 he went to Coffee county, Tenn., 
 where he remained a year as teacher ; the follow- 
 ing winter he taught in Liberty ville. 111., and for 
 the two succeeding winters in his native state. 
 After working a year in the DeRuyter New Era 
 ofiSce he founded, April 18, 1872, (in connection 
 with Sackett Hart, who retired three months 
 later) the Cape' Vincent (N. Y. ) Eagle, which he 
 published five years ; in 1876 he purchased the 
 Clayton Independent, publishing both papers 
 one year. In 1878 he sold the Independent, re- 
 turned to DeRuyter and established the Gleaner, 
 which he still publishes. He is also the patentee 
 of the Ames addressing machine, which is used 
 in several hundred printing oflSces throughout the 
 country. Mr. Ames was married February 17, 
 1872, to Miss Ella M. Wil- 
 cox of Lincklaen, N. Y. 
 They have one son, Clif- 
 ford W., born September 
 17, 1878 ; three children, 
 born in Jefferson county, 
 died of diphtheria in the 
 fall of 1877. Politically, 
 Mr. Ames is a Republi- 
 can. In 1887 he served 
 as town clerk ; in 1894 
 he was elected supervi- 
 sor, which office he held 
 for six years, declining 
 a renomination in the fall 
 of 1899. 
 
 The Newspapers of 
 DeRuyter.— The first 
 paper we can find trace 
 of was the DeRuyter 
 Herald, established No- 
 vember 5, 1834, by C. W. 
 Mason. It was a weekly, 
 with four pages of five 
 columns each, and con- 
 tained little or no local 
 news. The publisher an- 
 nounces that the "office 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE GLEANER BUILDING. 
 
 Borrowed Photo. FIVE GENERATIONS. 
 
 Mrs. Celma (Atkins) Ames-Briggs; the elderly gentle- 
 man, Fordyce W. Ames. The other gentleman, Henry 
 R. Ames ; the lady his daughter, Mrs. Fred Coon ; the 
 babe, Howard Coon. 
 
 chandise; Sutton, Sears & Co. advertise as tan- 
 ners, with boots and shoes for their customers ; 
 LeBaron Goodwin and J. 
 R. Rider & Co., offer 
 saddles, harnesses and 
 trunks; C. & P. Judson 
 are announced as hotel 
 keepers, S G. & G. Sears 
 as wool buyers, and 
 Brainard & Gage (father 
 of the present Secretary 
 of the Treasury ) as hat- 
 ters. George Sears was 
 postmaster. A. F Bunk- 
 er advertised the "De- 
 Ruyter Springs," some 
 two miles north of the vil- 
 lage, in those days a pop- 
 ular resort. The Herald 
 lived but a year and was 
 succeeded in 1836 by the 
 Protestant Sentinel, 
 which was moved here 
 from Schenectady ; its 
 office was in the school 
 building until the spring 
 of 1837, when it moved 
 into the Stillman block. 
 In the fall of 1837 the pro- 
 prietors, J. & C. H. Max- 
 son, sold it to W. D. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OK DERUYTER, 
 
 39 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE DERUYTER GLEANER STAFF. 
 1.— C. W. Ames, foreman. 2.— J. W. Howes, compositor. I 
 Harry B. Frink, compositor. 4.— Clare Murray, compositor. 
 — A. W. Cone, pressman. 
 
 Cochran, who changed its name to the Protestant 
 Sentinel and Seventh-Day Baptist Journal ; in 
 1840 it passed into the hands of Greene, Camp- 
 bell & Burdick, who rechristened it as the Sev- 
 enth-Day Baptist Register and sold it the follow- 
 ing year to James Bailey, who continued its pro- 
 prietor unil 1845. The paper subsequently moved 
 to New York, thence to 
 Westerly, R. I., thence 
 to Alfred Center, N. Y. 
 and a few years since to 
 Plainfield, N. J., where 
 it is still published as 
 the Sabbath Recorder, 
 the organ of the Seventh- 
 Day Baptists. For near- 
 ly two years DeRuyter 
 was without a local paper 
 when, in 1847, appeared 
 the National Banner, a 
 monthly devoted to liter- 
 ature, temperance and 
 news. Its founder, A. C. 
 Hills, was a gifted young 
 man ; after some two 
 years he moved to De- 
 posit and started the 
 Back- Woodsman, with 
 which he filled out the 
 unexpired subscriptions 
 of the Banner. In Sep- 
 tember, 1848, E. F. & C. 
 B. Gould commenced the 
 publication of the Cen- 
 tral New-Yorker, over 
 the store of Williams & Benjamin Photo. 
 
 Coon, in the Lafayette block (corner of 
 Cortland and Division streets, on site of 
 the store now occupied by E. S. Newitt). 
 The Students' Mirror, a semi-monthly es- 
 tablished by the students of DeRuyter in- 
 stitute in February, 1849, gave the place 
 three papers for a time, but all were 
 short lived. The field was vacant when, 
 in 1851, C. P. Walker and A. C. Hills 
 started a weekly paper entitled the Banner 
 of the Times. This lingered for four years, 
 and following its demise the people of De- 
 Ruyter were for nine years without a local 
 journal. The field seems to have been 
 very barren. It was not until the country 
 was in the throes of civil war, in the fall 
 of 1862, that a printer again attempted to 
 eke out an existence here. At that time J. 
 E. N. Backus founded the DeRuyter Week- 
 ly News and a little later a monthly, the 
 Sabbath-school Gem. Both died in 1864, 
 and for six years DeRuyter was again with- 
 out a paper. In September, 1870, John R. 
 Beden commenced the publication of the 
 DeRuyter New Era, a Republican week- 
 ly. I. N. Smith was for a time associated 
 with him as editor, and A. V. Bentlej-, 
 Esq., the veteran postmaster, attorney and 
 justice, contributed forcible articles to its 
 editorial page for many years. The New 
 Era suspended early in 1880. May 6th of 
 that year C. E. Beekman and L. D. 
 Blanchard purchased the plant and re- 
 sumed the publication of the paper ; June 
 4, 1884, it was consolidated with the week- 
 ly Gleaner. The weekly Gleaner was es- 
 tablished September 18, 1878, by W. W. 
 Ames. It was a six column folio, at f i.oo a 
 year, issued from the Stillman block. The 
 plant consisted of a Washington hand press, a 
 Novelty hand inking jobber and about J250 worth 
 of other material. To this constant additions 
 have been made until to-day the Gleaner plant is 
 one of the best to be found in a village of.similar 
 size in the state. A cylinder press was purchased 
 in January, 1883, and the paper enlarged to a seven 
 
 5. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF C. W. AMES. 
 
40 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 E. H. COON. MRS. IDA A. COON. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 column folio ; in December of the same year 
 the office was moved into the Gleaner building, 
 shown herewith. April 26, 1894, the paper was en- 
 larged to a six-column quarto, the price remain- 
 ing at $1.00 a year. Since July 12, 1894, the sub- 
 scription business has been conducted on the cash- 
 in-advance plan, which has proved very satisfac- 
 tory to both publisher and patrons. The equipment 
 of the Gleaner office is complete and up-to-date. 
 It occupies the entire lower floor of the large 
 building, which is heated by a Kelsey furnace, 
 lighted throughout with gas and piped for hot 
 and cold water on every floor. A Pelton water 
 motor . drives the Babcock Standard press, the 
 10x15 Golding duplex and large-eighth Prouty 
 jobbers and the Golding 
 folder. The outfit of 
 type is very large and it 
 is nearly all on the self- 
 spacing or point sys- 
 tems. The regular weekly 
 issue of the DeRuyter 
 Gleaner for the past six 
 years has averaged about 
 1,600 copies. 
 
 The First Settlers in 
 
 Madison County. — 
 Brookfiei,d, Capt. Dan- 
 ielBrown, near Leonard s- 
 ville, 1 79 1. Cazenovia, 
 John Lincklaen and 
 Samuel S. Foreman, 
 southern shore of Cazen- 
 ovia lake, 1793. Eaton, 
 John and James Salis- 
 bury, 1792. Fbknek, Dr. 
 Enoch Leonard, 1797. 
 Georgetown, Ezra Sex- 
 ton, 1803. Hamilton, 
 Mr. and Mrs. John Wells, 
 Abner Nash, Patrick 
 Shields and John Muir, 
 near Earlville, 1792. 
 
 Lenox, Conrad Klock and three sons, 
 Clockville, 1792. Lebanon, Joshua Smith, 
 Smith's Valley, 1791. Madison, Solomon 
 Perkins, head of MadisOn lake, 1792. NEL- 
 SON,- Jedediah Jackson and Joseph Yaw, 
 1794. Sullivan, Jacob Seber, Garrett and 
 George Van Lyke, John Paisley, John Free- 
 myer, James and Joseph Picard, Jacob 
 David and Yost Schuyler, 1790, at Cana- 
 seraga, the next year removed to near 
 Chittenango. Smitheield, Jasper Ayles- 
 worth, Peterboro, 1795. Stockbridge, 
 Rev. John Sergeant, Cook's Corners, 1784. 
 
 E. H. Coon, blacksmith and manufac- 
 turer of wagons, came to DeRuyter and 
 built the shop where he now carries on 
 business in 1891. Centrally located and 
 fully equipped for all kinds of blacksmith- 
 ing and iron work and having experience 
 in the most difficult as well as all branches 
 of his trade, Mr. Coon has achieved success 
 in DeRuyter. He has learned and adopted 
 many new ideas which are of value to his 
 trade. In 1899 he constructed a pretty .resi- 
 dence, a view of which adorns these pages. 
 Mr. Coon was born in Cazenovia July 8, 
 1855, attended school until fifteen years of 
 age and subsequently worked on a farm. 
 He learned his trade at Fayetteville where 
 he worked two or three years and was employed 
 in other shops until 1887, when he started the 
 business for himself at Cazenovia. In 1877 he 
 was married tcf Ida A., the daughter of Henry 
 Poole of DeRuyter and they have two daugh- 
 ters. Bertha May and Mable N. In politics he 
 has always been a Republican. He has the 
 reputation of being one of the best general 
 ironers and horse shoers in this section, and his 
 patronage comes from a long distance. 
 
 Madison County Social club has many mem- 
 bers in DeRuyter. It is a close Republican or- 
 ganization, organized in 1899, and every fall in- 
 dulges in a clam bake and elects officers. The 
 membership is about 400. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF E. H. COON. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 41 
 
 Orlffith Bros,, one of the leading and enter- 
 prising firms of DeRuyter, are up-to-date and 
 foremost in thedrygoods trade. They are young 
 men who have had experience in the trade where 
 modern methods prevail and they have come here 
 to give the residents of this vicinity the benefit of 
 that experience. Their store occupies two floors 
 and is fully stocked with everything in the line 
 of dry goods, dress goods, hosiery, ladies' and 
 children's wear, boots and shoes, house furnish- 
 ings, tapestries, silks, underwear, linens, wash 
 goods, notions and groceries. Their department 
 
 married Dora Humphrey of Utica, Feb. 9, 1888. 
 David GrifiBth clerked for John A. Roberts & Co., 
 Utica from June, 1884, to Sept. 1891, and for Hugh 
 Glenn & Co. until he and his brother came to 
 DeRuyter. This was on Sept. i, 1899. They 
 bought out the large store of E. H. Lee, who had 
 carried on the business for twenty-five years and 
 newly stocked it with the best styles. Mr. David 
 R. Griffith married Mary A. Evans of Plainfield 
 Centre in 1884. 
 
 Sheriffs.— [Appointed] :— Jeremiah Whipple, 
 Cazenovia, 1806; William Hatch, Cazenovia, 1810; 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 JOHN O. GRIFFITH. 
 
 GRIFFITH BROTHERS' GENERAL STORE. 
 
 DAVID R. GRIFFITH. 
 
 for oil cloths, carpets, wall paper, draperies, lace 
 curtains is on the third floor. The firm comprises 
 John O. and David R. Griffith. Both were born in 
 Plainfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., the former Nov. 3, 
 1861, and the latter June 4, 1867. Both attended 
 school at West Winfield and David R. took a 
 course in the Utica business college. John Grif- 
 fith lived on a farm until he was twenty-four 
 years old, when he went into the grocery of E. N. 
 Norton at Utica as a clerk. Afterwards he 
 clerked for a year for Hugh Glenn & Co. and was 
 thirteen years with J. B. Wells, Son & Co. He 
 
 Jeremiah Whipple, 1811 ; Elijah Pratt, Smith- 
 field, 1814; John Matteson, Nelson, 1815 ; Moses 
 Maynard, Madison, 1819 ; Ezra Cloyes, Morris- 
 ville, 1821 — elected, 1822. [Elected]: — Ezekial 
 Carpenter, Cazenovia, 1825 ; Pardon Barnard, 
 Lenox, 1828; J. S. Palmer, Lenox, 1831 ; Thomas 
 Wylie, Lebanon, 1834; J. M. Messenger, Smith- 
 field, 1837 ; Isaac Brown, Brookfield, 1840 ; 
 Samuel French, Sullivan, 1843 ! William B. 
 Brand, Brookfield, 1846 ; Francis F. Stevens, 
 Eaton, 1849 ; Stephen M. Potter, Cazenovia, 1852 ; 
 Milton Burnett, Smithfield, 1855 : S. P. Chap- 
 
42 
 
 GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. H. D. MESSENGER, 
 man, Letiox, 1858; W. F. Bonney, Eaton, i85i ; 
 A. Stone, Smithfield, 1864; A. J. French, Sulli- 
 van, 1866 ; Edwin R. Barker, Madison, 1869 ; 
 Milton DeLano, Canastota, 1872; W. M. Hender- 
 son, Madison, 1875 ; Milton De Lano, 1878 ; P. C. 
 Brownell, Hamilton, 1881 ; C. K. Underwood, 
 Cazenovia, 1884; L. W. Burroughs, Morrisville, 
 1887 ; C. E. Remick, Oneida, 1890 ; E. M. Perry, 
 Georgetown, 1893 ; A. M. Carpenter, Cazenovia, 
 1896. 
 
 H. D. Messenger has practiced law in DeRuy- 
 ter since 1897. He was admitted to the bar at 
 Ithaca in May, 1882, and was married to Kather- 
 ine J. Niver of Cazenovia June 30, 1886. They 
 have three daughters : Madge, Miriam and Meli- 
 cent. Mr. Messenger 
 was born in the town of 
 DeRuyter Dec. i, 1857, 
 and was the youngest of 
 three brothers : Manson 
 K., Andrew C. and Isaiah 
 Iv. His parents were 
 Isaiah and Catherine 
 Messenger. His mother's 
 name was Burdick, and 
 her parents were among 
 the early settlers of 
 Ivincklaen, Chenango 
 county, as were his fath- 
 er's family of Otselic, 
 Chenango county, and 
 subsequently DeRuyter. 
 His father was quite an 
 extensive farmer in the 
 '50's, and at an earlier 
 date was a large sheep 
 grower. Mr. Messenger 
 took a scientific course in 
 the DeRuyter academy 
 where he was graduated 
 in 1879. He began the 
 study of law with the late 
 Iv. B. Kern in DeRuyter 
 in 1879 ^"'i completed 
 his studies with D. W. Benjamin Photo. 
 
 Cameron of Cazenovia, N. Y., where after his ad- 
 mission to the bar he practiced from Aug. i, 1882, 
 up to about May i. 1889. He then formed a co- 
 partnership with Donald McLennan of Syracuse, 
 which continued under the name of McLennan 
 & Messenger for two years. Then for one year 
 he practiced alone and for two years afterwards- 
 with W. A. Palmer, then returning to DeRuyter. 
 
 The nissionary Society, Congregational 
 church, was formed May 3, 1898, at a meeting of the 
 Central Association of Congregational Churches, 
 held at DeRuyter with Mrs. M. E. Tallett as its 
 first president. It was organized as an auxiliary 
 to the Women's Board of Missions, and has de- 
 voted the money raised to the work in both home 
 and foreign fields. It has also sent supplies to 
 needv missionaries in our own land, and now con- 
 tributes to the support of a missionary in South 
 Africa. The business meetings are held on the 
 last Friday of each month, and the time spent in 
 sewing for worthy objects, together with a 
 literary program. Occasionally light refresh- 
 ments are served. The present ofl&cers are : Mrs. 
 D. W. Bull, president; Mrs. E. M. Stanton, sec- 
 retary and Mrs. F. A. Tallett, treasurer. 
 
 Henry Jerome Crandall, the school historian 
 for the Souvenir was born in Cazenovia Nov. 11, 
 1831, but has lived in DeRuyter since he was two 
 years old. He possesses a remarkable memory 
 for historical incidents. Deacon Henry Crandall, 
 his father, located in DeRuyter in 1833, coming 
 from Rhode Island, and in 1835, as one of the 
 firm of Crandall & Alvord he constructed the 
 brick block where they carried on a business for 
 many years and which burned in 1878. Henry 
 Jerome married Mary L. Maxson Jan. 9, 1854. 
 Four children were born, viz : Henry Maxson, a 
 resident of Cortland, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Yapp 
 of Allegany Co., Frank Everett, who lost his life 
 by an accident in a foundry at Cortland, and Es- 
 ther Arabel who lives at home. 
 
 F. D. GARDNER'S STORE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 43 
 
 The Gardner Homestead was one of the earliest 
 settled farms in the town of DeRuyter. It is 
 located one half mile westof Sheds Corners and at 
 present consists of two hundred and eight of as fine 
 acres of land as there is in Madison county, being 
 most altogether level and fertile and in a high 
 state of cultivation. From the time this farm was 
 occupied including the present it has always been 
 in the Gardner family. The present owners, 
 Frank D. Gardner of DeRuyter and his sisters, 
 Blanche H. (Mrs. E. M Stanton) of DeRuyter, 
 and Ella M. (Mrs. F. J. Westcott) ofTruxton, 
 inherited the place from their father, the son of 
 the original settler. The latter, Dwight Gardner, 
 came to DeRuyter from Brimfield, Mass., about 
 the year 1818 and settled on this same place, 
 where he died. D. Foster Gardner, who was 
 born March 5, 1838, 
 succeeded his father 
 in the ownership of 
 the place. He became 
 one of the most suc- 
 cessful and respected 
 farmers of the town. 
 His whole time and 
 effort were devoted to 
 bringing the farm up 
 to the very best condi- 
 tion so that it is large- 
 ly due to his intelli- 
 gence, industry and 
 thorough knowledge 
 of agriculture that the 
 Gardner place ranks 
 second to few if any 
 farms of Madison 
 county. D. Foster 
 Gardner and Clarissa 
 A. Smith of Cazeno- 
 via were married Jan. 
 28, 1864. By this un- 
 ion there were born 
 the three children 
 above mentioned. 
 The death of Mr. 
 Gardner occurred 
 Nov. 28, 1899. He 
 was deeply mourned 
 by a large circle of 
 friends. The farm is 
 cultivated wholly for 
 dairy purposes and at 
 the time of the writ- 
 ing of this article it 
 svipported thirty-five 
 head of fine Holsteins. 
 The buildings and 
 fences are kept up in excellent order and the 
 accommodations for live stock are far in excess of 
 what they are usually taxed. Mr. Frank Gard- 
 ner worked the farm for some time before his 
 father's death, but he subsequently moved to De- 
 Ruyter and bought out his brother-in-law, E. M. 
 Stanton's grocery business, which he is now con- 
 ducting. He was born on the homestead May 
 19, 1865. On April 7, 1887, he married Inez I. the 
 daughter of A. E. Dewey, of Lebanon Madison 
 county. In 1891 he conducted a general store at 
 Delphi and from March, 18^2, until he moved to 
 DeRuyter in 1899 he carried on the mercantile 
 business now conducted by Mr. Wood at Sheds. 
 
 The First Physician in the town of DeRuyter 
 was Dr. Hubbard Smith, also first postmaster. 
 
 A. N. Annas, (see portrait "Builders of De- 
 Ruyter) a native of Cazenovia, came to DeRuyter 
 in 1834 and opened a stove and tin store. He 
 was one of the firm of Elmore, Annas & Ayer, 
 who erected in 1841 the stone stores known as 
 the Lafayette block, on Cortland St., which was 
 burned about the year 1855. He also built the 
 hotel known as the Annas House, afterwards 
 called Tabor House, and erected and repaired a 
 great many dwelling houses and buildings of 
 various kinds. He was a man of good judgment, 
 and had been honored by his townsmen with the 
 ofiSce of supervisor and other positions of public 
 trust, the duties of which he ever discharged with 
 fidelity. During his last years he was confined to 
 a wheeled chair, suffering from the loss of both 
 limbs. He died February 5, 1889, aged 79. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 THE GARDNER HOMESTEAD, 
 
 View from the road. 
 Herd of Milchers. 
 
 The Residence. 
 
 D. Foster Gardner. 
 Mrs. Clarrissa A. Gardner. 
 
 Abram Hart settled in DeRuyter prior to 1813 
 and was a prominent business man from that time 
 until his death at the age of 80 years. He held 
 at different times the ofi&ces of town clerk, con- 
 stable, collector, was justice of the peace nearly 
 thirty years and president of the village in 1840. 
 He commenced business in DeRuyter as a cabinet- 
 maker and was later a grocery man. Mr. Hart 
 was born in Conn., March 30, 1784. His parents 
 were Thomas Hart, who was a Revolutionary 
 soldier, and Ruth Payne, sister of Elisha and 
 Samuel Payne, the founders of Hamilton, Madi- 
 son Co., N. Y. 
 
 The First Farm Deed given in the town of 
 DeRuyter was dated May 1, 1795, a4id it covered 
 the Thompson Burdick farm. 
 
44 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. (Gage Place.) E. F. COON'S FARM. 
 
 The Qage Parm comprises 200 acres and lies 
 a mile and a half from the village on the east 
 side of the Cazenovia road. It is a picturesque 
 and well cultivated farm with plenty of water 
 flowing from springs, shaded lawns and large 
 buildings. It is one of the prettiest farms and 
 the house is one of the best of farm residences in 
 the town . It was the old Gage homestead occu- 
 pied by the family about seventy years. Mr. Ed- 
 win F. Coon, a young man with progressive 
 ideas, bought the property in Feb. 1900, and at 
 once began making several improvements which 
 he will carry on with the idea of completely 
 modernizing the place. 
 
 R. Avery is a breeder of fine thoroughbred 
 Holstein cattle. One of the best farms in the 
 north part of the town 
 of DeRjiyter belongs to 
 him, and it is there 
 where he has a pleasant 
 home, that he raises 
 thoroughbreds. He has 
 lived in Sheds, Madison 
 county, his postofiBce, 
 thirty-two years. He was 
 born in Pharsalia, Che- 
 nango Co., Jan. 3, 1853, 
 but five years ago he pur- 
 chased the farm of sev- 
 enty-eight acres he now 
 lives on. His dairy herd, 
 in which are some very 
 promising young cattle, 
 are worth going to see. 
 
 The First School in 
 
 DeRuyter was made of 
 logs and stood near the 
 old Messenger tavern 
 about two miles north of 
 the village, on what has 
 since been known as the 
 Gage farm. The first term 
 was taught by Eli Gage 
 in the winter of 1799. 
 
 Col. Elmar D.Jencks, 
 
 the first merchant in De- 
 Ruyter and during his 
 time the best known, 
 opened a store on the 
 northeast corner of Cort- 
 land and Utica streets in , 
 1814 which he conducted ; 
 until i860. His practice 
 was to give credit during 
 the year and offset the 
 account by buying up live 
 stock in the fall if the 
 farmer had any, and drive 
 them to Albany. Farm- 
 ersand their families trad- 
 ing at the store were usu- 
 ally invited into his hos- \ 
 pitable home for dinner. 
 Mrs. E. D. Fox of De- 
 Ruyter, his daughter, 
 well remembers her moth- 
 er setting table for twenty . 
 unexpected guests. A 
 mahogany sideboard al- 
 ways catered to the colo- 
 nel's friends. He trust- 
 ed almost without limit 
 and in spite of the losses 
 this naturally incurred, which mounted into 
 the thousands, he left a fortune to his heirs and a 
 priceless reputation. He first appeared in DeRuy- 
 ter in 1809 and started a distillery on what is now 
 known as the Burtiss place, a mile and a half north 
 of the village. In all matters of public improve- 
 ment he was an earnest worker. His second wife 
 was Widow Wallace whom he courted at her home 
 in Keeney's Settlement riding to and firo on horse- 
 back. She was a courtly, fine looking woman, re- 
 markable for her personal graces and charming, 
 highly- bred manners. Her portrait on page 4 is a 
 copy of an elegant painting now in the possession 
 of Mrs. Fox. 
 
 The First Death in the town of DeRuyter was 
 that of Gideon Foster which occurred in 1796. 
 He was buried on the farm of Elijah Benjamin. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. (Young Cattle.) K. AVERY'S FARM. 
 
 (Sheds.) 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 45 
 
 P. L. DWIGHT. RALPH DWIGHT, 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 P. L. Dwight, founder and proprietor of the 
 DeRuyter Marble and Granite Works, bought the 
 place formerly owned by Daniel E. Stillman, on 
 Mar. I, 1886. His dwelling house burned Jan. 20, 
 1897, and a new house nearly completed occupies 
 the same site. The marble and granite works 
 was built in the spring of 1886, and his trade ex- 
 tended into some of the adjoining towns where 
 he had not previously solicited their patronage. 
 Having been in the marble and granite business 
 for twenty years he has perhaps as large a circle 
 of acquaintances as any dealer in Central New 
 York. While he is always ready to instruct his 
 customers what is best for them to buy, he never 
 nr6;es them to go beyond their means ; and he is 
 too sensitive to ever beg a job. The work and 
 the price must sell the goods. Mr. Dwight has 
 always been an active worker at the bench and 
 no dealer in his time can show more work wrought 
 by his own hands than this man. While he has 
 always gfiven close attention to the monumental 
 business, he has had a particular ambition to 
 study, raise and care for bees, poultry, horses 
 and cattle. Nothing but full bloods are worth 
 his time and attention. He is the owner of 
 General Grant, the full blood Percheron stallion, 
 and Elbert Junior, the inbred Hamiltonean stal- 
 lion, both of which have many fine colts to rec- 
 ommend their stock. He also breeds registered 
 
 Guernsey cattle. His son, Ralph Dwight, 
 is now associated with him in business 
 and he has bought the Philo Burton farm 
 to further develop and improve their horses 
 and cattle. Mr. Dwight was born in Ger- 
 man, Chenango Co., N. Y. , Oct. 6, 1856. 
 He was educated at the Cincinnatus acade- 
 mv, taught school about five years and com- 
 menced the marble and granite trade in 
 partnership with H. L. Bentley, in his nat- 
 ive town, in 1880. He moved to Cincinna- 
 tus in 1881, and ran a marble and granite 
 shop there till he moved to DeRuyter in 
 1886. He was married to Lovisa Breed of 
 Pharsalia, N. Y., May 31, 1878. She died 
 Jan. 21, 1882, leaving one son, Ralph 
 Dwight, who was born Mar. 22, 1879. Mr. 
 Dwight married, Jan. 6, i885, Ettie J. Coon, 
 of Lincklaen, N. Y. To them were born 
 four children : Clarence T., born Dec. 28, 
 1889, died Feb. 19, 1891 ; Baby Dwight, 
 born Apr. 16, 1891, died May 6, 1891 ; I,eon 
 Clyde, born Oct. 17, 1897 and Ruth Alina, 
 born July 18, 1899. 
 
 The Water Supply of DeRuyter is be- 
 yond question unsurpassed in volume and 
 purity, being absolutely pure spring water 
 with its sources at the head of a notch in 
 the hills east of the village and protected 
 by ownership to forty acres enclosing the springs. 
 The fall to Cortland street is 428 feet, the water 
 having a continuous circulation and fills a storage 
 reservoir on South Hill, 190 feet above the 
 village, which has a capacity for 750,000 gallons. 
 The feed will maintain for ten hours for fire 
 purposes five iX inch streams. The entire 
 plant cost $17,000. The contract price for the sys- 
 tem including twenty-eight hydrants, was $14,000, 
 but the right of way costing |i,20o, and the forty 
 acres surrounding the springs increased the cost 
 to the above stated figure. Formerly a number 
 of wells furnished water for fire purposes. They 
 consisted of tanks in the ground which had to 
 to be filled by hand. In the fall of 1896 the board 
 of trustees finding it necessary to spend $200 or 
 $300 in repairs, decidpd to start a movement for a 
 water system. They were president J. E. Preston; 
 trustees, I. E. Smith, O. M. Blanchard and H. K. 
 Nash. They found a cluster of springs on Everett 
 Rolls' property. The trustees were enthusiastic 
 over the project and after appointing themselves 
 water commissioners, ordered a special election, 
 the result of which was a tie vote. They then ap- 
 pointed a water board consisting oi A. W. Francis^ 
 chairman ; W. W. Owens, H. C. Blanchard, E. H. 
 I,ee and Dr. E. N. Coon. A second election was 
 held and the proposition was carried by a majority 
 of three. On March 25, 1897, bids were advertised 
 
 Benjamin Photos. RESIDENCE AND MARBLE WORKS OF PORTER DWIGHT. 
 
46 
 
 ■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 MRS. SARAH ELIZABETH CONE. MONROE CONE. 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 and on April 14, sealed proposals were opened, 
 Birdseye & Son of Fayetteville being awarded the 
 contract. The present water board is B. S. Bryant, 
 chairman ; E. S. Newitt and Wm. G. Weed. 
 
 Monroe Cone is one of the largest buyers of 
 eggs in DeRuyter, and his shipments to New 
 York and other cities are very extensive, they 
 amounting as high in a single year as 65,000 
 dozen. The eggs are all carefully handled, as- 
 sorted and boxed by him personally, so that what- 
 ever he guarantees as to quality and grade can be 
 relied upon. Some years ago he was engaged in 
 manufacturing cheese boxes at Quaker Basin, 
 having started in the business in the spring of 
 1867. On June 6, 1884, this business, which then 
 consisted largely of .the manufacture of furniture, 
 was cleaned out by fire 
 by which he suffered a 
 total loss. Resuming the 
 business elsewhere he 
 continued it with success 
 until four years ago when 
 he began buying eggs. 
 He owns a valuable place 
 at Quaker Basin and a 
 pretty residence in this 
 village. Mr. Cone's fa- 
 ther, Daniel Cone, came 
 from Connecticut and lo- 
 cated in Ivincklaen, Che- 
 nango Co., early in the 
 twenties. When Monroe 
 Cone was born, April i, 
 1843, his parents were 
 residents of that town. 
 The latter attended dis- 
 trict school and in the 
 fall of 1863 was employed 
 in the rake factory of 
 Charles R. Maxson in 
 the town of DeRuyter. 
 the following year he 
 worked in the cheese 
 box factory of Thomas 
 Johnson at Quaker Basin. 
 
 On Jan. 15, 1867, he married Sarah Eliza- 
 beth, the daughter of Chapin Wood at 
 Quaker Basin. She was born March 21, 
 1846. Her grandfather, Levi Wood, was 
 one of the earliest settlers at Sheds and 
 her mother, Louisa, was the daughter of 
 Elijah and Sally Forbes Benjamin. The 
 latter was one of the two first white 
 women who settled in DeRuyter. Ada 
 Bertha, the lovely daughter of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Cone, died in her fourth year. Their 
 son, Anda Wood Cone, who resides on the 
 homestead at Quaker Basin, is a printer 
 by trade and is one of the employes in the 
 DeRuyter Gleaner. He was born Dec. 
 27, 1875, and married Alice Winifred, the 
 daughter of John Dickinson of Chenango 
 Forks, March 10, 1898. They have one 
 child, Donald Monroe Cone, born Nov. 
 23, 1899. 
 
 Early Business Hen — ' ' I think Col. 
 Jencks should be recognized as the earliest 
 in DeRuyter," says an old resident. "Then 
 come the Dillays, Henry and Fred, who 
 succeeded their father, Israel T. Smith, 
 Alvord & Crandall and Squire Abram Hart, 
 who were all in business about the same 
 time. Ephraim Arnold conducted a tan- 
 nery and carried on a boot and shoe business. 
 He was succeeded by Sears & Sutton who con- 
 tinued the business for a number of years. Sim- 
 eon Rider ran a tannery over by the north 
 bridge where Hayes' blacksmith shop is now. 
 This water privilege was previously owned by 
 William Cochran, who run the old style of 
 cloth manufactory and who was succeeded by 
 Willard Wilcox. Jonathan Brainard employed a 
 half dozen men in the manufacture of hats. The 
 first postmaster I remembr was George Sears. At 
 that time there were five four-horse coaches being 
 run on the turnpike between Ithaca and Albany. 
 Two of these coaches passed through DeRuyter in 
 thedaytimeand three atnight — all daily. Thiswas 
 the point where they changed teams. The old 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE RESIDENCE Off MR. AND MRS. MONROE CONE. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 47 
 
 Borrowed Cut. 
 
 B. S. BRYANT. 
 
 Mansion House on the present site of Mrs. Gilbert 
 Taylor's block, was the stage house, run by Thomas 
 Nye. The building still stands and is cut up into 
 separate stores. The old stables were long ago 
 burned up. Stephen G. Sears, grandfather of F. 
 S. Mitchell, succeeded George Sears, and was 
 postmaster for several years. He sold the princi- 
 pal part of the flour then sold in the town of De- 
 Ruyter, all of which was carted from Manlius. It 
 was sold principally by the pound and in pailsfnl. 
 Succeeding him as postmaster was 'Squire Vernon 
 Bentley, who held the position for, I think, twen- 
 ty-four years. Elmore, Annas & Ayre conducted 
 a dry goods, tin and hardware store in the stone 
 block which stood on the present site of Newitt's 
 store. ' ' 
 
 Byron S. Bryant, the president of the village 
 water board and the supervisor of the town of 
 DeRuyter, is serving his fifth year in the latter 
 position, having occupied it four years in succes- 
 sion and being now on a 
 new term of two years. 
 His election has been 
 insured by majorities 
 which went as high one 
 year as 155. Mr. Bryant 
 is a Democrat and the 
 town has a normal Re- 
 publican majority of over 
 200. His period of super- 
 visorship covers i888-'9i; 
 and igoo-'oi. He has 
 served as president of 
 the village seven years 
 and on the water board 
 two years. Mr. Bryant 
 is one of the incorpora- 
 tors of the bank of which 
 be is the president and 
 has been from the open- 
 ing of that institution. 
 Isaac S. Bryant, his fa- 
 ther, a farmer in Trux- 
 ton, Cortland Co., and a 
 native of New England, 
 married Catharine Ben- 
 nett, who was born in 
 Vermont, and they had 
 four children, two of 
 whom are living, Rodor- 
 
 pha (the widow of Augustus Perry) born July 
 2, 1838, and now a resident of McGrawville, and 
 B. S. Bryant, born June 6, 1846. The latter at- 
 tended district school in Truxton and worked 
 on the farm until eighteen years old and dur- 
 ing the following five years clerked successively 
 for Record & Purdy, Boardman & Smith and 
 George Bliss of that village, and the next two 
 years worked in a cheese factory. On Dec. 24, 
 1868, he married Mary Ardale, the daughter of 
 Austin Iv. Pomeroy of Truxton and in the spring 
 of 1869, they located in DeRuyter, where Mr. 
 Bryant at once began buying produce, a business 
 he has since followed up with success. He is a 
 member of the A. O. U. W. 
 
 A. Q. Richmond — A curious fact is that one 
 house in DeRuyter was the birthplace of layman 
 J. Gage, once secretary of the treasury and Mr. 
 Richmond. When Gen. Breckenridge crossed the 
 upper Potomac Mr. Richmond, who was paying 
 teller in the United States treasury — 1862-'5 — and 
 an assistant were locked up all night in the vaults 
 placing gold and greenbacks in leather bags so that 
 in case of an emergency the vast government 
 treasure might be readily moved to- a tug which 
 Gen. Spinner had in waiting and carried down the 
 river. In one day Mr. Richmond and two assist- 
 ants paid out over the counter $7,000,000. Mr. 
 Richmond at the time of his death — at New 
 Woodstock, Nov. 12, 1899 — had in his Canajoharie 
 home the finest collection of American Indian rel- 
 ics known, containing 20,000 specimens. 
 
 Census Sixty Years Back— The " Carrier's Ad- 
 dress ' ' issued by the Seventh Day Baptist Register, 
 January i, 184 1: "Statement of the Number of 
 Inhabitants in the Village of DeRuyter, June 1st, 
 1840, taken by Stephen G. Sears, Assistant Mar- 
 shal — No. of heads of families, 121 ; males, 258 ; 
 females, 260 ; whole No. 518 ; whole No. 1832, 325; 
 increase, 193." 
 
 The First Born in the town of DeRuyter was 
 David Burdick, born on the Thompson Burdick 
 farm at the head of the lake. May 25, 1796. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 RE8IDENCE-0F B. S. BRYANT. 
 
48 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photos and Copies. FOUR GENERATIONS. 
 
 Abram Lewis. Deles Lewis. 
 
 Perry D. Lewis. Ray G. Lewis. 
 
 Delos Lewis is one of the oldest and best 
 known farmers in DeRuyter, where he has been 
 actively engaged in agricultural pursuits all of his 
 life. The rich, fertile farm of 125 acres, which is 
 generally conceded to be the most valuable farm- 
 ing tract in the town, has been his property since 
 1864 — his home for nearly forty years. It lies two 
 miles north of the village, is almost entirely level 
 and is in the highest 
 stage of cultivation. This 
 farm was taken up in a 
 crude state, hearly cover- 
 ed with forest, in 1806, 
 by Russell Walker, being 
 at that time a part of the 
 Holland land grant. 
 From his hands it passed 
 into the possession of 
 Dyar Sexton, who after- 
 wards served ic the war 
 of 1812 as a lieut-com- 
 mander in the American 
 army. He was born in 
 Chatham, Ct., Jan. 14, 
 1785, and died on his 
 farm Sept. 17, 1862, his 
 remains being buried in 
 the DeRuyter village 
 cemetery. His son, 
 Joseph Sextpn, who suc- 
 ceeded to the ownership 
 - of the property and from 
 whom Delos Lewis made 
 the purchase, married 
 Jane, the latter' s sister. 
 
 They removed to Canandaigua, where she 
 still makes her home, having survived 
 her husband by several years. Lewis Sex- , 
 ton, their son, who was brought up on 
 the farm, left DeRuyter when a young 
 man and distinguished himself in science, 
 manufacturing and developing the micro- 
 scope in Troy, and becoming widely 
 known as a leading member of the Ameri- 
 can Society of Microscopists. He was 
 also interested in the publication of the 
 Troy Whig, in which he invested consid- 
 erable money, and was a professor of 
 sciences in several schools. One of the 
 most prominent of the early settlers of 
 DeRuyter who did much to turn the wild- 
 erness into a garden, was Abram Lewis, 
 the father of Delos, who was born in the 
 town and county of Fairfield, Ct., in 1786, 
 where he lived until nine years of age, 
 when his parents moved to Springfield, 
 Otsego county, N. Y. Abram, when sev- 
 enteen years old, trudged alone through 
 the pathless regions intervening, with an 
 axe and hoe over his shoulder and settled 
 upon land which he purchased by con- 
 tract on South Hi'.l. The summer (1803) 
 he spent in clearing land, putting up a 
 log hut for his accommodation and pack- 
 ing his supplies from Salina on foot. In 
 the winter he returned to Springfield, 
 walking the distance 60 miles, in twenty- 
 four hours, but came back the following 
 spring to resume the labor of making 
 himself a home. In May, 1814, he mar- 
 ried Salona, the daughter of a prominent 
 family named Pier, after whom was named 
 Pierstown, Otsego Co., N. Y. The male 
 members of this family participated in 
 Shaw's rebellion. Abram had six chil- 
 dren : George, deceased in 1891 ; Edwin, 1896; 
 Jane (Mrs. Sexton) ; Ephraim, deceased in 1897 ; 
 Cornelius, who lost his life by accident on a ves- 
 sel in 1847, and Delos. Through industry and 
 economy Abram and his wife acquired 400 acres, 
 which they brought to a high condition of culti- 
 vation and when they died, Abram in 1864, sur- 
 viving his wife by seventeen years, they were 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE FARM OF DELOS LEWIS. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 49 
 
 D. M. SCHELLINGER, (Benjamin, Photo). 
 
 A. R. BRYANT, (Harris, Cortland, Plioto). 
 
 greatly honored and beloved. George, their 
 eldest sou, settled on the farm now owned and 
 occupied by his son Delavan. Perry D., his 
 other son, married Cornelia, the daughter of A. 
 N. Annas, a prominent merchant of DeRuyter, 
 and located in the village. He died in 1891, sur- 
 vived by his wife and their son Raymond G., 
 who is in business in this village. Delos was 
 born on the homestead March 18, 1826. When 
 quite young he and his brother bought 150 acres — 
 a part of the old farm — which they worked to- 
 gether until Delos sold out his interest and after- 
 wards purchased the Sexton farm. He then mar- 
 ried Rocelia, the daughter of James Carey, and 
 they have since lived where they first went to 
 keeping house. They had one son, Judson, who 
 was born in 1866 and died in 1888, being cut down 
 with the best prospects a young man could have 
 had. Mrs. Lewis' father was a successful farmer 
 in the early days of the town. 
 
 The Bryant Furniture Company was organ- 
 ized by Mr. A. R. Bryant on Sept. 15, 1894, at 
 Truxton, for the purpose of manufacturing furni- 
 ture and lumber. At DeRuyter the company has 
 
 a branch carrying on exclusively the manu- 
 facture of lumber. The Truxton plant 
 comprising four buildings, produces bed- 
 steads and suites of the cheaper grades 
 made of maple and birch and requires a 
 half million feet annually. These goods 
 . are sold principally in New York, Penn- 
 I sylvania, and the eastern states. In the 
 summer of 1899 the company erected at 
 DeRuyter large lumber sheds and added 
 a full line of lath, shingles, doors, sash 
 and blinds and hard and soft pine for the 
 retail trade. A great; quantity of lumber is 
 made up in the DeRuyter mill where hard 
 wood is manufactured for the Truxton fac- 
 tory and one grade of wood used in man- 
 ufacturing piano action 'is shipped east. 
 The company, or partnership is composed 
 of A. R. Bryant, president, Peter D. Muller, 
 A. R. Muller, O. D. Patrick and F. L. Hil- 
 ton, all of Truxton. Mr. D. M. Schel- 
 linger is the manager of the DeRuyter 
 branch, having come here in 1882 to take 
 charge of Mr. Bryant's business. There 
 is about f5o,ooo invested in the business 
 at both places which makes it the largest 
 industrial enterprise in this locality. Mr. 
 A. R. Bryant started the lumber business at 
 DeRuyter Dec. i, 1880. On Dec. i, 1889, he 
 opened a furniture factory in a building which he 
 erected in DeRuyter for that purpose, and ran it 
 five years, or until the plant was consumed by fire 
 which occurred on Sept. 6, 1894. He was born in 
 Truxton Aug. 19, 184.S, and was educated at that 
 place. He conducted a hotel at Phoenix in 1868 
 after which he was engaged for three years in 
 manufacturing butter tubs and firkins at Truxton. 
 In 187 1, in company with M. C. Skeele, Jerome 
 McAllister and Freeman Schermerhorn, he put 
 up a sawmill and lumber business, flour and feed 
 mill and butter tub and firkin factory. Three 
 years later that was burned. During the ensuing 
 six years he was engaged in butchering. He is a 
 member of the F. & A. M. and the A. O. U. W. 
 
 Rake Factory — In 1863, 2,500 wooden rakes 
 were manufactured at Charles R. Maxson's factory 
 in the town of DeRuyter, three miles north of 
 the village. Twenty-five men were then em- 
 ployed. Kenyon Munsey and Oscar Crandall 
 bought the plant the next year and sold out to 
 Dennis Coon. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 4: 
 
 THE BRYANT FURNITURE CO.'S BUILDINGS AND YARDS AT DERUYTER. 
 
HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 MAXWELL MILES. 
 MRS. MARr ANNA MILES. MRS. MARIA LOUISA TRIPP. 
 
 Farrington Place is one of the older home- 
 steads in the town of DeRuyter which lies one 
 mile northeast of the village in one of the pret- 
 tiest localities and most eligible of sights in the 
 valley of theTioughnioga. The farm comprising 
 150 acres is entirely level including broad, fertile 
 meadows and cultivated fields which give a wide, 
 unobstructed view of the towering hills to the 
 east and west and the village partly hidden in 
 dense foliage farther to the south. The residence 
 is a typical country home, much of the colonial 
 style, with spacious halls on the two floors open - 
 ing out into the flower gardens on the east. All 
 of the rooms, among which is the very pleasant 
 diningroom in the southeast, have attractive out- 
 looks over the open country for long distances. 
 This is the country home of Mrs. Maria Louisa 
 Tripp, wife of Mr. James H. Tripp, the banker at 
 
 Marathon, N. Y., who with her 
 daughter, Mrs. Mary Anna Miles, 
 and the latter's little son. Max- 
 well Miles, enjoy the comforts of a 
 surburban home with all the con- 
 veniences that the best provided 
 country place can afford, during 
 the hot months of the summer. 
 An improved turbine windmill, 
 drawing water from an artesian well 
 fills the tanks from which the lav- 
 atories in the house are supplied, 
 and furnishes an abundance of 
 cold, pure water both for the tables 
 and general farm purposes. Since 
 Mrs. Tripp decided to make this her 
 summer home where she might dur- 
 ing the hot spell get quiet and se- 
 clusion and rest from social duties, 
 she has, at a considerable expense, 
 made many improvements. Hav- 
 ing a natural sentiment for pre- 
 serving as near as possible the old 
 colonial features of the home that 
 has so long been in her family, 
 she has built on to the original 
 house in a manner which has 
 greatly beautified as well as enlarged its conven- 
 iences. A covered piazza eight feet wide has been 
 run across the east and north sides giving seventy- 
 eight feet of piazza from which the admirable 
 range of rural scenery is within view. The piazza 
 is crowned with gables over the entrances on the 
 east and north. At the southeast corner of the 
 house, where the direct rays of the sun enter dur- 
 ing almost the entire day Mrs. Tripp has had con- 
 structed a conservatory in which the family take 
 much pleasure in caring for choice flowers and 
 plants. The grounds surrounding the house af- 
 ford shady grass plots swept by cool breezes. A 
 half mile north reached by a level and pleasant 
 drive is Tioughnioga lake with its islands and 
 promontories and its deep, clear waters having a 
 stretch of three miles from the head to the foot. 
 Mrs. Tripp seems to have displayed admirable 
 
 Benjamin Photo. FARRINGTON PLACE— COUNTRY PLACE OF MRS. LOUISA TRIPP. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 51 
 
 taste in deciding upon making thisplace her sum- 
 mer home, for no prettier spot could be found, so 
 well fitted for rest, with so many excellent drives 
 and strolls and with mountain and water scenery 
 surrounding it. The homestead came into the 
 family in 1839 when Mrs. Tripp's grandfather, 
 Edmund Farrington, a native of Long Island, 
 came to DeRuyter and purchased the place. The 
 country hereabouts was then comparatively new 
 and partially settled. Since then the place has 
 been in the family having passed from the father 
 to the son and then to granddaughter. Edmund 
 Harrington had a family of eight children, the 
 ■ only survivor being Mrs. Powell of Skaneateles, 
 N. Y. Edward Farrington, Mrs. Tripp's father, 
 married Mary Hills, Oct. 21, 1852, at Fabius, N. 
 Y. They had two children, Alfred who died in 
 infancy, and Maria Louisa. For a time Mr. and 
 Mrs. Edward Farrington lived on a farm a short 
 
 who at home is an influential worker in his party, 
 witnessed some stormy scenes. Mary Anna, the 
 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tripp, finished her ed- 
 ucation by taking lessons in painting and drawing 
 in which she followed a three years' course in the 
 Art Students' league in New York. On June 21, 
 1893, she was married at Marathon to Warner 
 Miles, a distinguished young physician of Hemp- 
 stead, L. I., to which place they moved two years 
 later, and where he entered upon a promising 
 practice which was cut short by his death on Sept. 
 I, 1898. By this marriage there was born a son. 
 Maxwell Miles, at Marathon, on June 4, 1895, a 
 bright, promising boy, the only grandchild of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Tripp. 
 
 Great Bells, the weight, viz;— "Great Bell," 
 Moscow, 443,732 pounds ; St. Ivans, Moscow, 
 127,830 pounds ; Pekin, 120,000 pounds; Vienna, 
 
 Borrowed Photos. 
 
 INTERIOR VIEWS OF FARRINGTON PLACE. 
 
 'distance west of the old place. Upon the death of 
 Edward Farrington the homestead passed into the 
 hands of his son William who lived and died a 
 bachelor on the old place. Although he was born 
 on Long Island he was quite young when the 
 family came to Farrington Place and he spent 
 most of his life — about 60 years— there. His 
 death occurred May 12, 1892, and heleft the home 
 to his niece who had long before that been mar- 
 ried to Mr. Tripp. Her father died on his farm 
 in November, 1892. Maria Louisa Farrington in 
 1869 married Martin Bogardus. Her marriage to 
 James H. Tripp occurred Nov. 11, 1873. Mr. 
 Tripp was then a merchant at Cuyler, N. Y , but 
 he subsequently went to Marathon where he has 
 since successfully engaged in banking. In 1892 
 and '93 he represented Cortland in the state as- 
 sembly and as that body was in both years Dem- 
 ocratic, Mr. Tripp, a member of the minority, 
 
 40,200 pounds ; Olmutz, Bohemia, 40,000 pounds ; 
 Rouen, France, 40,000 pounds ; St. Pauls, Lon- 
 don, 38,470 pounds; "Big Ben," Westminister, 
 30,350 pounds ; Montreal, 28,560 pounds ; St. 
 Peters, Rome, i8,6oopounds ; Liberty Bell, Phila- 
 delphia, cast in London in 1752, weighs 2,000 
 pounds. It was cracked the first time it was used 
 in 1753 and was recast in Philadelphia the same 
 year. A few years after the Revolution it was 
 cracked again while being rung. 
 
 Population, the Earth and Area :— Africa, 
 127,000,000 pop.; ii,5i4,6oo.sq. miles. America, 
 North, 89,25o,ooopop. ; 6,446,000 sq. m. America, 
 South, 36,420,000 pop.; 6,837,000 sq. m. Asia, 
 850,000,000 pop.; 14,710,000 sq. m. Australasia, 
 4,730,000 pop.; 3,288,000 sq. m. Europe, 380,200,- 
 000 pop.; 3.555,000 -sq. m. Polar regions, 300,000 
 pop., 4,888,800 sq. m. 
 
52 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAIv SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. C. P. MONROE, M. D. 
 
 Charles P. Monro, M. D., located in DeRuy- 
 ter, Oct. 17, 1896, taking the offices vacated by 
 Dr. A. W. Truman. He has acquired a large and 
 arduous practice during the comparative short 
 time he has been here. Dr. Monro, the son of 
 Charles D. and I/ydia Monro, was born in Caze- 
 novia April 29, 1867. His early education was 
 acquired in Cazenovia seminary. He began the 
 study of medicine in the office of Dr. E. C. Bass 
 of Cazenovia, preparatory to entering the Albany 
 Medical college, where he spent the years of 1888 
 and 1889. Continuing his studies he entered the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, 
 Md., from which institution he took his degree 
 April 14, 1892. Subsequently he took a special 
 practical course in physical diagnosis with the 
 late Dr. George Thomas in the wards of the Bal- 
 timore City hospital and also Bay View, the state 
 hospital tor the insane. Shortly after he formed 
 a co-partnership with one of the most eminent 
 physicians in Madison county, Dr. Levi P. Green- 
 wood, then engaged inErieville. Upon the death 
 of Dr. Greenwood he succeeded to his entire prac- 
 tice, which he pursued until the favorable open- 
 ing in DeRuyter invited him to remove here. 
 Since locating in DeRuyter Dr. Monro has taken 
 post graduate work in the Johns Hopkins uni- 
 versity keeping abreast of recent advancement in 
 medical science. The doctor is a Mason and is 
 the local medical examiner for many of the old 
 line life insurance companies. While practicing 
 in Erieville he served a term as coroner for Madi- 
 son county, being the first Democrat in forty years 
 to fill that position in this county. 
 
 The Hills— Quaker Hill, east of DeRuyter, 
 afibrds a view of forty miles north. A highway 
 leads to the summit. Arad Hill, west shore of 
 the lake, commands a splendid view through the 
 valley into Manlius, Onondaga county, with 
 Delphi in the foreground. Crumb Hill, 2 miles 
 east, reached by publie road, oflfers a grand view 
 of rugged country. Parson's Hill, to the north- 
 east, is the best birdseye point of the village. 
 South Hill is reached by easy walking from the 
 highway, a mile south of the village. Prom the 
 summit, the range of vision extends to a great 
 distance. 
 
 M. A. Blakeslee, local manager of the Caze- 
 novia Coal and Lumber Co. came to DeRuyter in 
 April, 1895, and entered the employ of Burr & 
 Webster, who were at that time sawing and hand- 
 ling large quantities of hard wood lumber. At 
 the time of the dissolution of the firm of Burr & 
 Webster in June, 1895, they were succeeded by the 
 first named company and Mr. Blakeslee has since 
 been in their employ as foreman and manager. 
 Mr. Blakeslee was born at Perryville, N. Y., and 
 was educated in the district schools and Cazenovia 
 seminary. He married Amelia J. Smith and they 
 have two sons and two daughters living. Is a 
 member of Tioughnioga lodge. No. 552, the Cort- 
 land Encampment, No. 127, and the Cortland 
 Canton, No. 27, I. O. O. F. , Has taught many 
 terms of school. During the Justin Projectile 
 trials at Perryville he had charge of the experi- 
 ment grounds there. 
 
 DeRuyter Sixty Years Ago— Under date of 
 May 30, 1849, the Central New-Yorker, published 
 in DeRuyter, says: " DeRuyter village was incor- 
 porated in 1832, and now contains about 1,000 in- 
 habitants, and is gradually increasing in popula- 
 tion and business. In the village there are eight 
 dry goods stores — each doing a good business — one 
 hardware store, one hat store, one drug store, sev- 
 eral grocery stores, two large tanneries, one iron 
 foundry, two carriage shops, two cabinet shops, 
 three harness shops, two clothing shops, three shoe 
 stores, one printing office, two excellent hotels, 
 two livery stables, etc., and many branches of me- 
 chanical industry which we have not room to 
 mention. Our public buildings consist of three 
 churches, the DeRuyter institute, and two very 
 pretty district schoolhouses." 
 
 Distances from Cortland — Homer 1% miles;. 
 Scott, 10; Preble, 10; East Homer, 6; Truxton, 
 11; Cuyler, 16; McGraw, 4; Solon, 8; Cincinna- 
 tus, 16; Taylor, 18; Union Valley, 23; South 
 Cortland, 3; Virgil, 6; Harford, 12; Blodgetts 
 Mills, 4 ; Marathon, 14 ; Freetown, 8 ; Lapeer, 12 ; 
 DeRuyter, 20; Norwich, 40; Binghamton, 50; 
 Ithaca, 22 ; Syracuse, 33 ; Little York, 7. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. M. A. BLAKESLEE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 53 
 
 Borrowed Cut. 
 
 A. B. KINGSLEY. 
 
 Adelbert B. Kingsley, instructor on the piano, 
 lias been giving weekly lessons in DeRuyter for 
 six years, beginning October, 1894, and his success 
 has been flattering. It is greatly to his credit 
 that Mr. Kingsley has had large classes here and 
 has brought out the musical talent for which 
 DeRuyter has become so widely known. His 
 monthly recitals as well as his semi-annual public 
 concerts have become features in musical and so- 
 cial circles which are looked forward to with in- 
 terest. Since coming here the Beethoven musi- 
 cal society has been organized and so well has it 
 succeeded that it has attracted the attention of 
 the Syracuse papers 
 which have given it the 
 distinction of being the 
 best of musical organiza- 
 tions in this section . Mr. 
 Kingsley's home is in 
 Cortland where he has 
 regular classes through- 
 out the year, and is prom- 
 inent in musical circles, 
 and where he has not a 
 few scholars who come 
 from the adjacent locali- 
 ties as well as in the 
 city. 
 
 The Beethoven Musi° 
 cal Society was organiz- 
 ed by the piano pupils of 
 Adelbert B. Kingsley in 
 1896. It is customary to 
 hold private recitals at 
 regular periods during 
 the year at the homes of 
 the members, at which 
 time the lives of famous 
 composers are studied 
 and some of their works 
 performed. After the 
 regular program musical 
 games followed by light 
 refreshments are in or- 
 der. The first meeting 
 
 was at the home of Miss Gertrude Samson, 
 Feb. 20, 1896, and not long after the society 
 was named after the great master Beethoven, and 
 Mr. Kingsley was chosen president and Miss 
 Bertha Annas the first secretary. This organiza- 
 tion has made it a point to interpret the best of 
 music and uplift the cause through this section. 
 Besides the private recitals, they have conducted 
 five public recitals and have been associated with 
 two musical festivals given at Union hall, which 
 consisted of four concerts assisted by noted musi- 
 cians from Syracuse, Ithaca and Cortland. The 
 Syracuse Standard says : ' ' Considering the age of 
 the society and the number of members it is un- 
 doubtedly one of the strongest and most talented 
 organizations in the country." The officers and 
 members are : Mr. Adelbert B. Kingsley, Cort- 
 land, president; Miss Cassalene Coon, DeRuyter, 
 secretary; Miss Bessie Connell, Miss Blanch Beek- 
 man, Miss Ethel Williams, Miss Gertrude Hill, 
 Miss Maud DeLong, Miss Clara Green, Miss Lettie 
 McAllister, Miss Cora Coon, Miss Doris Gardner, 
 Miss Gertrude Samson, Mr. Neil Annas of DeRuy- 
 ter ; Miss Nina Morse, Miss Clemina Elmore, Miss 
 Ethel Moffett and Miss Florence Hindes of New 
 Woodstock ; Miss I/ulu Potter, Miss Mabel Brown 
 and Mrs. A. D. Theobald of Cuyler ; Miss Jose- 
 phine Patrick, Miss Gladys Wescott and Miss 
 Jennie Goddardof Truxton. 
 
 Cities of China— Population:— Canton, 2,500,- 
 000; Pekin, 1,300,000; Siang-tan, 1,000,000; 
 Singan, 1,000,000 ; Su-chow (Soochow) 1,000,000 ; 
 Tiensin (Tientsin) 1,000,000 ; Chang-chow, 800,- 
 000; Wo-tchang, (Woo Shang) 800,000; Hang 
 Chow, 700,000; Fuchan, 650,000; Shanghai, 
 586,000 ; Han-yang, 400,000 ; San-chow, 400,000 ; 
 Chang-Sha, 300,000 ; Choong-King, 300,000 ; 
 Ning-po, 255,000; Monkden (Mukden) 300,000; 
 Hongkong, 221,000. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 BEETHOVEN SOCIETY, 189B. 
 
 1 —A. B. Kingsley. 2.— Florence Hendee. 3.— Rena Lee. 4.— (Jeorge Bui'diok. 5.— 
 Cassalene Coon. (1.— Maud Howes. 7.— Otis DeLong. 8.— Lelia Emory. 9.— Lettie 
 McAllister. 10.— Bessie Connell. 11.— Grace Jaquitli. 12.— Maud DeLong. 13.— Win- 
 ifred Ames. 14.— Ethel Mofllett. 15.— Gertrude Hill. 16.— Ethel Williams. 
 
54 
 
 ' GRIP'S " HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 DR. E. N. COON. MRS. SARAH J. COON. 
 
 Benjamin Photos. 
 
 Edwin N. Coon, n. D., was born in Brookfield, 
 N. Y., Sept. 6, 1838. His boyhood days were 
 passed on the farm and he received his early edu- 
 cation at the Brookfield academy and DeRuyter 
 institute, commencing his studies in the last named 
 institution in the fall of 1859. At the breaking 
 out of the civil war he enterd the U. S. service as 
 a member of Battery A, First N. Y. Light Artil- 
 ery, enlisting at Utica, Aug. 11, 1861, and being 
 mustered in Sept. 12, 1861, served with that com- 
 mand through the Peninsula campaign and took 
 part in the battles of the seige of Yorktown, Va., 
 Williamsburg, Pair Oaks, Seven Pines, Malvern 
 Hill, Harrison Landing, White Oak Swamp and 
 Seven days battle before Richmond. After that 
 he was transferred to the 
 Medical Department of 
 the army by order of 
 Maj. Gen. B. F. Butler 
 for meritorious services 
 in the field and placed 
 in charge of a hospital 
 at Norfolk, Va., and he. 
 continued in that branch 
 of the service until hon- 
 orably discharged after 
 having served over three 
 years. Dr. Coon had an 
 uncle, John P. Usher, 
 who was secretary of the 
 Interior at the time Lin- 
 coln was assassinated. 
 The doctor was married 
 to Sarah J. Campbell of 
 Lebanon, N, Y., in No- 
 vember, 1864, and they 
 have four children, Lot- 
 tie J., S. DeWitt, Frank 
 U., and M. Cassaline. 
 He attended medical col- 
 lege at the Hahnemann 
 Medical college of Phil- 
 adelphia, and the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, re- Benjamin Photo. 
 
 ceiviug his diploma from the Homoeo- 
 pathic department of the university in June, 
 1872. In the fall of 1872 he located in De- 
 Ruyter and soon found himself engaged in 
 an extensive practice which he has main- 
 tained for twenty-eight years, during which 
 time he has held several oflSces of trust 
 and responsibility, among which were pres- 
 ident of the village, member of the board 
 of education, president of Madison County 
 Medical society, member of water commis- 
 sion, special U. S. pension examiner, ex- 
 amining surgeon for several life insurance 
 companies, health o£Scer for the town and 
 village and commander of the G. A. R. 
 post. 
 
 Imperial United States— Acquisition of 
 foreign soil :— War of Independence ; war 
 expenses, 168,000,000 ; 1783; 820,680 square 
 miles, (thirteen original states. ) Louisiana, 
 from France by treaty ; 1803 ; 899,570 sq. 
 m.; treaty price, $15,000,000. Florida 
 from Spain by treaty ; 1819 ; 66,900 sq. m., 
 treaty price, {3,000,000; Texas, an inde- 
 pendent republic ; admitted 1845 I 318,000 
 sq. m.; debt assumed f 7,500,000. Oregon 
 from England by treaty ; 1846 ; 308,052 sq. 
 m. California and New Mexico from 
 Mexico by war, 1846 and 1848; 522,955 sq. m. ; 
 war expenditures, $15,000,000. Alaska from 
 Russia by treaty ; 1867 ; 580,107 sq. m.; treaty 
 price, $7,200,000. Hawaii, an independent re- 
 public admitted by treaty ; 1898 ; 6.740 sq. m. 
 Porto Rico from Spain by war ; 1898 ; 3.600 sq. 
 m. Phillipines from Spain by war ; 1898 ; pur- 
 chase price $20,000,000 ; 120,000 sq. m. 
 
 Famous Qiants— Goliah, Palestine, 11 feet 
 high ; Galbara, Rome, 9 feet, 9 inches ; John Mid- 
 dleton, England, 9 feet, 3 inches ; "Frederick's 
 Swede," Sweden, 8 feet, 4 inches ; Cujanus, Fin- 
 land, 7 feet, 9 inches ; Gilly, Tyrol, 8 feet, i inch; 
 Patrick Cotter, Cork, 8 feet, 7 inches ; Chang 
 Gow, Pekin, 7 feet, 8 inches. 
 
 DR. E. N. COON'S RESIDENCE. 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 55 
 
 lords and was finally, in 1849, rebuilt by Abijah 
 Annas. Two years later it was rented to Guest & 
 Harris and two years after that to Gilson & War- 
 field. The latter was succeeded by Henry Marsh, 
 each occupying the house three years. In 1859 it 
 was sold to J. W. Clark who disposed of it in 
 1864 to Gilbert Tabor. Then the name was 
 changed from the Annas to the Tabor House. In 
 1879 it passed into the hands of I. M. Judd and 
 three years ago became the property of Mr. Coye. 
 This is a favorite house for parties who desire to 
 enjoy the excellent bass, pickerel and trout fish- 
 ing near by. They are well taken care of and 
 placed on the best fishing grounds fully supplied 
 with all of a fisherman's paraphernalia. 
 
 Great Waterfalls— Krimbs Falls, upper Priuz- 
 gan river, 1,148 feet high; Verme Foss, Scanda- 
 navia 984 feet ; Vettis Foss, Scandanavia, 853 
 feet ; Rjuken Foss, Scandanavia, 804 feet ; Velmo 
 
 Borrowed Photo. JOHN COYE. 
 
 The Tabor House is owned and conducted by 
 John Coye, whose popularity as a landlord has 
 given it a high reputation and a large business 
 among the commercial men. For several years 
 Mr. Coye conducted a cafe and became widely 
 acquainted in DeRuyter and vicinity as well as 
 with the traveling public so that when it was an- 
 nounced that he had taken the Tabor House the 
 traveling public had reason to be well pleased. 
 A Imrge livery is conducted in connection with the 
 house. Mr. Coye has a very promising pacer 
 which has developed surprising speed at private 
 trials on the DeRuyter track and which there is 
 reason to believe, from an actual test in a mile 
 heat, will score an exceptionally fast record. The 
 Tabor House occupies the site of the first hotel in 
 the village, which was built of logs by Daniel 
 Page in 1800, who was succeeded by various land- 
 
 p»>^^-'.'^'- -^iidZ 
 
 Benjamin Photo. THE TABOR HOUSE, John Coye, Prop 
 
 ELDORADO, John Coye's Pacer. 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 Falls, 591 feet ; Tessa Falls, 541 feet ; Gastein 
 Falls, 469 feet ; Skjaggedal Falls, 424 feet ; Vic- 
 toria Falls, Zambezi 
 river, 391 feet ; Niagara 
 Falls, 177 feet. 
 
 Tioughnioga Lake is 
 
 one of the best fishing 
 waters in central New 
 York. Black bass and 
 pickerel are caught in 
 abundance. It is an arti- 
 ficial reservoir made to 
 feed the canal system. 
 The dam at the north end 
 is a splendid piece of ma- 
 sonry which compares 
 favorably with the larg- 
 est. The lake, at high 
 water, covers an area of 
 600 acres and encloses 
 two pretty islands which 
 are favorite summer 
 camping places. Some 
 of the DeRuyter people 
 own cottages built on the 
 lake shore. The short 
 ride from Syracuse makes 
 it a desirable place for 
 fishing parties. At De- 
 Ruyter Coye's hotel will 
 furnish conveyances to 
 the shores of the lake. 
 
56 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. H. C. BLANCHARD. 
 
 H. C. Blanchard, the only exclusive dealer in 
 men's and boy's apparel in DeRuyter, founded 
 the business in 1894 in company with W. P. 
 Campbell, of Wolcott, in the store whereheis now 
 located, but he bought him out two years later 
 and has since conducted the business alone. Mr. 
 Blanchard carries a much larger and better stock 
 than is customary in such a store located in a place 
 the size of DeRuyter, as he has not only a widely 
 distributed patronage but he sells largely to a 
 class who demand the best and latest clothing, 
 underwear, hats and caps, boots and shoes and 
 gentlemen's furnishings. His father, Levi Blanch- 
 ard, was born in the town of Cuyler, May 21, 1816, 
 and was engaged for years int the manufacture of 
 wagons in that village, 
 and in speculation in but- 
 ter and cheese. In t86o 
 he moved to DeRuyter 
 where he constructed a 
 wagon repair shop and 
 carried on that work 
 down to the time of his 
 death, in the spring of 
 1886. Prominent as he 
 was in local matters, he 
 was more particularly 
 active in keeping up an 
 efficient fire company of 
 which he was foreman for 
 many years. His chil- 
 dren were Ella J. (Mrs. 
 Charles Beekman,) Or- 
 rington M. and Harry C, 
 at present residents of 
 DeRuyter, DeForest 
 Blanchard, proprietor of 
 the Cincinnatus Times, 
 and Silas D., telegraph 
 operator at Brockwav- 
 ville. Pa. The Blanch- 
 ards were one of the old- 
 est families in Cuyler. 
 Early in the present cen- 
 tury William, the grand- 
 
 father of the above named, came from the east- 
 ern states and cleared a farm on the hill above Kin- 
 ney Settlement in what was then the town of Fa- 
 bius, and is now a part ol Cuyler, but some years 
 later he moved down into the valley and located on 
 a farm on the Truxton road about a mile south of 
 Cuyler village. He was born in Windham, Ct., 
 Nov. 13, 1772, and was married to Hannah Whit- 
 marsh Feb. 22, 1797, which was the titne he set- 
 tled in this section. He died Sept. 16, 1854, and 
 his wife, Oct. 21, 1844. Harry C. Blanchard was 
 born in Cuyler Feb. 7, 1840. In 1859 he entered 
 a commission store in New York City where he 
 remained but a few months. For twenty-two 
 years he followed the trade of a barber, most of 
 which time he conducted a shop in DeRuyter. 
 On Jan. 9, i856, he married LouesieM., the daugh- 
 ter of Archibald Griffiths, of DeRuyter. Mr. 
 Blanchard has been successful in business, and 
 has invested considerably in village property. In 
 his younger years he interested himself in ama- 
 teur dramatic companies and became well known 
 • in this section of the state in connection with the 
 several different local traveling organizations in 
 which he was interested. He is a Republican in 
 politics and a member of the F. & A. M., the lodge 
 and chapter, the A. O. U.W. and the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows. The building in 
 which his store and residence are located he pur- 
 chased in 1893. 
 
 Well Known DeRuyter People, (living or 
 dead) — Lyman J. Gage, once secretary of the 
 treasury ; A. G. Richmond, paying teller in the 
 U. S. treasury, i862-'5 ; Bzra Cornell, founder of 
 Cornell University ; "Thomas Nye, ex-state sena- 
 tor; Dennison York, "father of patent medi- 
 cines;" Frederick Worth, teller of the Park 
 National Bank, N. Y'.; Ira Gage Barnes, banker, 
 Syracuse; Henry C. Main, editor Rochester Dem- 
 ocrat and Chronicle ; Daniel Scott, showman ; 
 Henry Bentley, lawyer, Booneville ; Frank Wells, 
 dentist, Plainfield, N. J.; Charles Farrington, 
 druggist. New York ; Dr. Ira Spencer, physician ; 
 Dr. Russell Ballon; Charles H. Maxon, Presby- 
 terian school board. 
 
 Benjamin Photo. RESIDENCE AND STORE OF H, C. BLANCHARD. 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 57 
 
 THE WAGON SHOP OF O. M. 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 BLANCHARD. 
 
 THE RESIDENCE OF O. M. BLANCHARD. 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 O. M. Blanchard has been engaged in the man- 
 ufacture of all kinds 
 of wagons since 1883, 
 at which time he suc- 
 ceeded to the business 
 his father had carried 
 on for years at the 
 same place. In 1884 
 he bought the black- 
 smith shop adjoining 
 of L. M. Vincent. 
 There are wagons now 
 in use all over this sec- 
 tion which were man- 
 ufactured several 
 years ago by Mr. 
 Blanchard and they 
 have shown by wear, 
 durability equal to 
 any wagon in the mar- 
 ket. Mr. Blanchard 
 was born Feb. 14, 
 1850, in Cuyler. He 
 was first engaged in 
 house painting and af- 
 terwards wagon making, 
 was married to Sarah E. , 
 Schellinger of Truxton, 
 are George Blanchard 
 Grace D. (Mrs. W 
 
 B., of DeRuyter. Mr. Blanchard is a Re- 
 publican and occupies the position of con- 
 stable, which he has held for twenty years. 
 He was one of the trustees of the village 
 who are entitled to credit for putting in the 
 water system. 
 
 Old Time Lawyers — So far as is learned, 
 Abram Payne was the first lawyer in De- 
 Ruyter, coming here in 1823. Martin P. 
 Sweet next opened an office here, and Lor- 
 enzo Sherwood, afterwards a practicing 
 lawyer here and later in Hamilton, fin- 
 ished his studies in Sweet's office. The lat- 
 ter was succeeded by Zadock T. Bentley 
 and George W. Stone — Bentley & Stone — 
 Lorenzo Sherwood about the same tithe 
 forming a business connection with his 
 brother Luman. Both firms broke up about 
 1840, the first by the death of Stone, and 
 
 On Aug. 21, 1870, 
 daughter of Rial 
 Their children 
 of New York, and 
 H. Hardie) and Harry 
 
 the other by the removal of Lorenzo Sher- 
 wood to Hamilton. Bentley became a briga- 
 dier general in the New York state militia 
 in 1850, and was a prominent supporter of 
 the Union cause during the rebellion. He 
 moved to Morrisville, then Oneida, where 
 he died in 1870. A. V. Bentley, his brother, 
 became prominent as an adviser. His 
 health broke down and he became a justice 
 of the peace, which office he held for twen- 
 ty-five years, doing considerable lawoffice 
 work and but little active practice. David 
 J. Mitchell and Henry C. Goodwin, who, 
 upon their admission to practice, entered 
 into co-partnership at Hamilton, were stu- 
 dents in A. V. Bentley's office. A. Scott 
 Sloan and H. C. Miner next appear as the 
 best known lawyers in DeRuyter. D. O. 
 Mitchell, father of our present postmaster, 
 studied with Miner & Sloan. The latter 
 firm afterwards became Miner & Kern, Mr. 
 Sloan moving west and Lambert T. Kern 
 coming to DeRuyter from Morrisville. 
 Messrs. Miner and Kern later on separated, and 
 both practiced law 
 in DeRuyter to the 
 time of their deaths. 
 Sidney T. Holmes be- 
 gun, practice here 
 about 1864. 
 
 The Spring House 
 
 — Two miles north of 
 DeRuyter, was once a 
 favorite resort. It 
 was owned by John 
 Comstock. A part of 
 the building now 
 forms a section of 
 John Carey's farm 
 house. Sulphur wa- 
 ter and huge swings 
 once offered attrac- 
 tions for many vis- 
 iorts. Nothing now 
 remains of the grand- 
 
 ^^ eur that once made this a favorite summer resort. 
 
 THE RESIDENCE OF S, 
 Benjamin Photo. 
 
 A. SEAMAN. 
 
58 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Wm. H. Hardie, who carries on the oldest dry 
 goods store in DeRuyter, started the business in 
 March, 1894, at which time he located in his pres- 
 ent quarters, the corner storein the Russell block. 
 Mr. Hardie came to DeRuyter in 1894 from Cam- 
 den, N. Y., where he was head salesman for a. 
 large dry goods house for a number of years. In 
 equipping his store he made the best selections in 
 staple and fancy lines and has since kept up the 
 character and variety of goods for which the busi- 
 ness is noted. It comprises everything in the 
 dry goods branch of trade including dress goods. 
 
 Greatest Fires— London, Sept. 2-6, .1666, 13,200 
 residences and 89 churches and public buildings 
 destroyed. New York, Dec. 16, 1835, 600 build- 
 ings ; loss |2o,ooo,ooo. Pittsburg, April 10, 1845, 
 1,000 buildings ; loss |6,ooq,ooo. Philadelphia, 
 July 9, 1850, 350 buildings; loss |i, 500,000; St. 
 Louis, May 4, 1S51, loss |i5,oco,ooo. San Fran- 
 cisco, May 3-5, 1851, 2,500 buildings ; loss I3,- 
 500,000. Santiago, Spain, Dec. 8, 1863, 2,000 per- 
 sons killed. Portland, Me., July 4, 1866; Joss 
 |i5,coo 000. Chicago, Oct. 8 and 9, 1871, 1745. 
 buildings destroyed; three and one-half squaie 
 
 Benjamin Photos. W. H, HARDIE. 
 
 W. H. HARDIE'S DRY GOODS STORE. 
 
 hosiery, everything in ladies' and children's wear, 
 carpets, wallpaper, boots and shoes and rubber 
 goods, upholsteries, etc. The store is large and 
 roomy and well lighted. It is peculiarly well ar- 
 ranged to display goods. Mr. Hardie was born at 
 Johnstown, N. Y., and educated in the common 
 schools in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
 He was engaged in mercantile trade in Antwerp 
 and afterwards in Camden, N. Y., coming from the 
 latter place to DeRuyter as has been stated. On 
 Feb. 9, 1898, he was married to Grace, the daugh- 
 ter of O. M. Blanchard of DeRuyter. He is a 
 member of the Rome Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plars, No. 45, and the Camden lodge, P. & A. M. 
 
 miles of ruins ; 200 persons killed ; 98,500 made 
 homeless. Boston, Nov. 9-11, 1872, 800 buildings; 
 loss 73,000,000; 15 persons killed. St. Johns, N. 
 B., June 21, 1876, loss |e2,50o,ooo. Brooklyn 
 theatre, Dec. 5, 1876 ; 300 lives lost. Seattle and 
 Spokane, Wash., 1881 ; loss f 10,000,000 each. 
 
 Mountains, New Yorlc— Altitude and locality, 
 viz : — Adirondacks : — Marcy, 5,467' feet, Mcln- 
 tyre, 5,183, McMartin, 5,000, and Dial (Nipple), 
 4,600 in Essex county ; White Face, 4,855,. Clinton 
 county; Seward, 4,000, Fratiklin county. Cat- 
 SKii,i<S :— Round Top, 3,804, High Peak, 3,718, 
 Pine Orchard, 3,000, Greene county ; Shawangunk, 
 1,866, Orange county. Highlands, Orange and 
 Putnam counties : — New Beacon (Grand Sachem) 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 59 
 
 1,685, Butter Hill, 1,520, Old Beacon, 1.471, Break- 
 neck, 1,187, Anthony's Nose, 1,128. Isoi<a.ted: — 
 Defiance, (near Ticonderoga) 750, Essex county; 
 Palisades, 550, Rockland Co.; Fort Putnam (near 
 West Point, 500, Orange Co.; Harbor Hill, 319, 
 Long Island ; Richmond Hill, Staten Island, 307. 
 
 Prank M. Russell, one of the leading mer- 
 chants of the village, bought out David Ding- 
 man's stock of groceries and drugs which were 
 then in the Merchant building on the southwest 
 corner of Cortland and Lincklaen streets, May 7, 
 1887. The stock was put in about a year before 
 that by J. W. Stillman, who in turn had sold out 
 
 the same spring (see "Fire of '90" on another 
 page), by E. R. Smith, from whom the present 
 owner bought it. Both stores accommodate a 
 large stock of goods. Mr. Russell, who occupies 
 the east store, carries a complete line of general 
 merchandise — groceries, silverware, jewelry, 
 crockery, hardware and fancy goods and his trade 
 comes in from a wide stretch of adjacent country. 
 It is largely on a cash basis and in the success he 
 has achieved, is demonstrated the flourishing con- 
 dition of the village and farming community, as 
 well as the thrift and business acumen he pos- 
 sesses. Mr. Russell was born in Lincklaen, N. 
 Y., July 23, 1854, and was the son of a farmer. 
 
 F. M. RUSSELL. 
 THE RUSSELL BLOCK. 
 
 to Mr. Dingman : and Mr. Russell had been in the 
 employ of the latter five or six months when he 
 bought him out. Mr. Russell bought the Russell 
 block in February, 1894, and moved into it with 
 his business in March of the same year. It is the 
 largest business block in the village, a frame 
 structure, two stories and mansard, occupying the 
 central business location of the town . By makin g 
 some changes in the interior plans of the building 
 it is made to accommodate two large stores with 
 spacious and attractive dwelling apartments, the 
 home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell, on the second 
 floor, and lodge rooms on the third. The build- 
 ing was constructed in the summer of 1890 on the 
 site of the old Merchant block, which was burned 
 
 F.M. RUSSELL'S RESIDENCE. 
 F. M. RUSSELL'S GENERAL STORE. 
 
 Allen J. Russell, who moved to DeRuyter whett 
 his son was 5 years old. He was born at Quaker 
 Basin and was descended from Quakers. His- 
 mother, Wealthy Russell, was a ministering Friend 
 of considerable renown. Mr. Russell attended 
 the district schools and DeRuyter academy, and 
 when 18 years of age went into the store of Annas 
 & Lewis, where he remained for one year, and af- 
 terwards was engaged in different mercantile es- 
 tablishments up to the time he went into business 
 for himself. He was married to Achsah Brown, of 
 DeRuyter, in 1882. During the present year he 
 bought the Spear property, next north of the 
 Tabor House, and erected a large and pretty- 
 residence. 
 
€o 
 
 ■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Huller Chateau— Inhabited, but rusty with 
 age and needy in repairs, clapboards black and 
 weather-worn, loose and broken and gashed and 
 -patched, stands in one of the most isolated spots 
 of Madison county, the former chateau of King 
 Charles X, of France. When the revolutionists 
 cut oflFthe head of I^ouis XVI, his younger broth- 
 er, Compte d'Artois, fled to Holyrood, where his 
 plottings against Napoleon ended in his pursuing 
 the flight to New York. There, as Louis Anathe 
 Mullei", he wedded a Stuyvesant with whom he 
 resumed his journey to the interior, accompanied 
 by a retinue of attendants including his personal 
 friend and physician, Pietrow, and his body-serv- 
 ants whom he brought from Prance. From 
 
 Borrowed Cat— Favor of DeRuyter "Gleaner." 
 
 KING CHARLES X'(FRANCE) ALIAS MULLER. 
 
 Hamilton the supplies were carried back into 
 Georgetown over bridle tracks. In that manner 
 were brought in the bricks for the chimneys and 
 the marble mantels, as well as costly furniture, 
 tapestries and bric-a-brac with which the chateau 
 was abundantly furnished ; also immense andirons 
 and marble slabs for seven great fireplaces. On 
 the wopded heights overlooking the village of 
 •Georgetown, then a huddle of slab houses, Muller 
 divided his time between supervising the work of 
 artisans and laborers employed to make a clear- 
 ing, erect the chateau and build parks, drives and 
 fish ponds, and hunting or riding about accom- 
 panied by his wife, Adaline, looking over an 
 estate of 2.700 acres and superintending the con- 
 
 struction of saw and grist mills and a village a 
 a mile below the chateau, all of which have now 
 disappeared. In May, 1814, he sailed for France, 
 returning two years later to sell the estate which 
 in his absence had been despoiled and stripped of 
 its costly furnishings. Then he deserted his 
 family in New York and a few years later, 
 ascended the throne of France as King Charles X. 
 In 1836, he died at Goritz, Austria, an exiled 
 monarch. 
 
 After standing empty for years, the house is 
 again occupied by George Shaw and his son, 
 Frank, who in 1899, bought the place including 
 600 acres, for fi,ooo. On the cleared plateau, 
 standing broadside 300 yards above the highway, 
 in 300 acres of clearing 
 surrounded by woods, is 
 the old chateau with its 
 wide, easy-sloping roof 
 and embrasured win- 
 dows. The interior plan 
 is unchanged, except 
 that only one fireplace 
 remains. The building 
 is remarkable for its size 
 and the massive timbers 
 used in constructing the 
 frame work. The length 
 between walls, by meas- 
 urement in the second 
 story where there are no 
 partitions is 70x30 feet 
 6 inches. The height 
 from the same floor to the 
 peak is 1 1 feet and to 
 the unceiled timbers, 7 
 feet. The frame consists 
 of black cherry timbers 
 dovetailed together and 
 fastened with wooden 
 pins. It feet high and 
 8}i inches thick. The 
 supporting timbers are 
 hemlock and the joists 
 beech. The first floor is 
 hard wood finish and the 
 second pine. No part of 
 the construction is 
 changed except where 
 the clapboards have been 
 renewed. The main hall 
 is 9 feet wide and 30 feet 
 long. The height of the 
 lower rooms is 8 feet 10 
 inches. The rooms are 
 all large, the kitchen 
 being 21x20 feet. 
 
 Hundreds of visitors 
 call annually , and greatly 
 enjoy the grand prospect 
 of valleys and summits 
 to be seen from the house, 
 carrying away pieces of timber, and uails for 
 relics. People yet living, whose fathers were em- 
 ployed by Muller, tell of his strange midnight 
 vigils and his eager yearning for foreign news, 
 which he frequently received in huge packets 
 brought by mounted messengers. They repeat 
 wierd and tragic tales connected with the mysteri- 
 ous disappearance of a peddler, and a well in the 
 cell^, which is still intact and which was supposed 
 to be connected with underground passages. 
 
 The First Tavern was buUt in 1795 on the 
 farm now owned and occupied by Dell Lewis. It 
 known as the Messenger house, after the 
 proprietor, Joseph Messenger, 
 
 THE REFUGEE. 
 
 was 
 builder and 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAIv SOUVENIR OP DERUYTER. 
 
 61 
 
 1. 
 
 The Builders of DeRuyter. 
 
 [Key to Plate on Pago 4.] 
 
 —Elmer D. Jencka 
 —Mrs. Col. Jenoks. 
 — Abram Hart. 
 —George Hull. 
 —Simeon Rider. 
 ,— J. R. Rider. 
 ,— Zenas Rider. 
 .—Daniel Q. Mitohell. 
 .— LeRoy H. Howes. 
 .—A. N. Annas. 
 
 11.— Aaron Mitchell. 
 12.— Allen Rnaaell. 
 13.- Wealthy Ruasell. 
 U.-Col. R. P. York. 
 15.— Levi Blanchard. 
 16. Jason B. Wells. 
 IT.— Wm. Delamater. 
 18.-H. C. Miner. 
 19.— Lambert B. Kern. 
 20.-H. I. Newitt. 
 
 Inventors— Air gun, Marin, 1595 ; air pump, 
 Otto VanGuericke, 654 ; anchor, Anacharsis, 594 
 B. C. ; barometer, Evangelista Torricelli, 1783 1 
 bellows, Anacharsis the Scythian, 593 B. C; cam- 
 era obscura, Roger Bacon, 1297 ; camera lucida. 
 Dr. Hooke, 1635-1703 ; cannon, Chinese, 618 B. C; 
 clock, first erected in Padua, nth century ; com- 
 pass, Chinese, 1115 B. C; cotton gin, Eli Whitney, 
 1793; dial, Anaximander, 550 B. C; electric 
 light, Sir Humphrey Davy, 1813 ; electrotype, 
 Spencer and Jacobi, 1837 ; engraving, Chinese, 
 1000 B. C ; fire engine, Hautsch, 1657; gas, Van 
 
 Helmont, 1600-1625 ; glass, Phoenicians ; gunpow- 
 der, Barthold Schwarz, 1320 ; kaleidoscope, David 
 Brewster, 1814 ; lightning conductor, Benjamin 
 Franklin, 1752 ; lithography, Alois Senefeider, 
 1798; locomotive. Watt, 1759; matches, Walker, 
 1827 ; Microscope, Zacharius Jansen, 1590 ; organ, 
 Archimedes and Cetesibius, 220-100 B. C; phono- 
 graph, Thomas A. Edison, 1877 ; photography, 
 Thomas Wedgewood, 1802 ; piano forte, Barta- 
 lommeo Christofall, 1714; pneumatic railway, 
 Henry Pinkus, 1835; stocking frame, William 
 Lee, 1589; printings 
 fohann Guttenberg, 
 1438 ; railroad, Beau- 
 mont, 1672; ruling 
 machine, by a Hol- 
 lander, subsequently 
 improved by Paine, 
 Woodmason and 
 Brown, 1782 ; steam- 
 boat, Robert Fulton, 
 1807; steam engine, 
 James Watt, 1763 j 
 sewing machine, Elias 
 Howe, 1841 ; tele- 
 graphy Samuel F. B. 
 Morse, 1837 ; tele- 
 phone, Elisha Gray, 
 A. Graham Bell, A. C. 
 Dolbear, and Thomas 
 A. Edison, 1877; tor- 
 pedo, David Bushnell, 
 1777 ; telescope, Hans 
 Lippersheim, Jacob 
 Adriansz, 1608 ; thet- 
 mometer, Dredbell 
 Sanctorus, 1609; watch 
 said to have been first 
 invented at Nurem- 
 burg, 1477, although 
 it is affirmed that 
 Robert King of Scot- 
 land had a watch 
 about 13 10; spring 
 watches have been 
 ascribed to Dr. Hooke 
 and by some to Huy- 
 ghens about 1658, 
 original watch to Gra- 
 ham about 1724, and 
 the repeating watch 
 to Barlowe, 1676. 
 
 Distances from 
 New Yorlt by Water, 
 
 viz — Amsterdam, 
 3,510; Athens, Greece, 
 4,540; Batavia, Java, 
 i2,i8o; Bremen, 3,800; 
 Bermuda, 660 ; Bom- 
 bay, 11,574; Boston, 
 310 ; Buenos Ayres, 
 7,110;. Calcutta, 12,425; Cadiz, 3,120; Canton, 
 14,090; Cape Horn, 8,115; Cape of Good Hope, 
 6,830; Cape Race, 1,000; Cape Town, 6,800; Con- 
 stantinople, 5,140; Charleston, 750; Columbia 
 River, 15,965 ; Cronstadt, 4,662 ; Dublin, 3.225 ; 
 Gibralter, 3,300; Genoa, 4,065; Greenland, 1,780; 
 Halifax, 612; Havana, 1,170; Hamburg, 3,775; 
 Havre, 3,2(0 ; Hong Kong, 14,015 ; Honolulu, 
 13,530; Key West, 1,107; Kingston, Jamaica, 
 1,640; Lima, 11,310; Lisljon, 2,940; Liverpool, 
 3,210; London, 3,375; Madras, 11,850; Manilla, 
 13,700; Marseilles, 3,900; Melbourne, 12,720; 
 
62 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Mexico, 2,150; Nassau, W. I., 957 ; Naples, 4,330; 
 New Orleans, 2,045 i Panama, 2,358 ; Pensacola, 
 1,591 ; Port au Prince, 1,460; Pekin, 15,325 ; Phil- 
 adelphia, 240; Quebec, 567; Rio Grande, 1,938; 
 Rio Janeiro, 3,840; Shanghai, 14,500; Sitka, 
 Alaska (ss. from San Francisco) 1,500; Smyrna, 
 4.93s; Stockholm, 4,272; Sidney, 12,910; San 
 Francisco, 15,858; St. Domingo, i,4?5; St. Pet- 
 ersburg, 4,420; Tahita. 11,244; Trieste, 4,960; 
 Valparaiso, 8,720; Venice, 4,950; Vera Cruz, 
 1,965 ;' Washington, 400. 
 
 Famous Dwarfs — Count Borowlaski, Warsaw, 
 39 inches high; Tom Thumb ( Charles S. Stratton) 
 New York, 31 inches. Mrs. Tom Thumbj New 
 York, 32 inches ; Che-Mah, Chiqa, 25 inches ; 
 iyucia Zarate, Mexico, 20 inches ; General Mite, 
 New York, 21 inches. 
 
 Water, Size of Large Bodies— PaciEc Ocean, 
 80,000,000 sq. miles ; Atlantic, 40,000,000; In- 
 dian, 20,000,000; Southern, 10,000,000; Arctic, 
 5,000,000. Sbas (length)— Mediterranean, 2,000, 
 Carribean, 1800; China, 1,700; Red, 1,400; Japan, 
 1,000; Black, 932; Caspian, 640; Baltic, 600; 
 Okhotsk, 600 ; White, 450 ; Aral, 250. Bays, 
 (length) — Hudson, 1,200 ; Baffins, 600 ; Chesa- 
 peake, 250. Lakes — Superior, 380 long, 120 wide; 
 Baikal, 360 by 35 ; Michigan, 330 by 60 : Great 
 Slave, 300 by 45; Huron, 250 by 90; Winnipeg, 
 240 by 40 ; Erie, 270 by 50 ; Athabaska, 200 by 20 ; 
 Ontario, 180 by 40 ; Mara cay bo, 150 by 60 ; Great 
 Bear, 150 by 40 ; Ladago, 125 by 75 ; Champlain^l 
 125 by 12 ; Nicaragua, 120 by 40 ; Lake of the 
 Woods, 70 by 25 ; Geneva, 50 by ,10 ; Cayuga, 36 
 by 4; George, 36 by 3. 
 
 ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 ■jp^ STIXiLZMZ-A-lSr,. 
 
 ..DEALER IN.... 
 
 ....Fresh and Salt Meats 
 
 Opposite the Bank, DeRuyter, N. Y. 
 
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 Tj^e ^Uyler JHOUSe, Cuyler, Cortland Co., N.T 
 
 PATRICK CONNERS, Prop. 
 
 A Fully Stocked Bar. Sheds and Stabling. 
 Rigs to Let to Commercial Men. 
 
 •GRIP'S" Historical Souvenirs. 
 
 10,000 Copies. 
 
 Circulation 1899, 
 All over the world. 
 Correspondence solicited, 
 
 E. L. WELCH, 'GRIP," 
 
 107 Oxford St., Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 DeLanney. 
 
 Vapor Baths — Massage, 
 
 MAGNETIC and SWEDISH. 
 Hospital Graduate. 
 
 321 Montgomery— side entrance. Office hours: 10 to 
 10; Sundays 2 to 9. SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
 
 f^ R. VOOB,- 
 
 DEAI/EB IN 
 
 FINE GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, 
 
 H ?t R D Sn^n F?B . 
 
 BooljS, SItLoes, Eijo. 
 
 Also dealer in Fresh Eggs. 
 
 .SHEDS, N. Y. 
 
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 63 
 
 QLDEST DENTAL OFFICE 
 
 IN COHTLKND, 
 
 -^ SPECIAL PRICES. JV- 
 
 Artificial Teeth 
 
 Artificial Teeth with Gold Fillings 
 
 Artificial Teeth with a Gold Tooth 
 
 jj5 5.00 per plate. 
 10.00 per plate. 
 15.00 per plate. 
 
 TEETH FILLED WITHOUT PAIN. 
 
 SMITH'S DENTAL ROOMS, 
 
 WALLACE BUILDING. 
 
 0ORri2ANB STEAM l2AaNDRY. 
 
 Work from out of the city receives as careful and prompt 
 attention as local laundering. 
 
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 Laundry delivered with the local agent, not later than Tuesday, 
 
 Returned in First-Class Order Wednesday. CORTLAND, N. Y. 
 
 Jpie Cazenovia Coal and Lumber Co.,- 
 
 OB7^I..BRS IN 
 
 LUMBER, MOULDINGS, SHINGLES, LATH, 
 
 WINDOWS, DOORS, BLINDS, 
 
 LIME, PORTLAND CEMENT, SEWER PIPE. 
 
 M. A. BlakesleE, Manager, DeRuyter, N. Y. 
 
64 ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF DERUYTER. 
 
 Steam Feed Mill. 
 
 Large and Modern with Adequate Capacity. 
 Eligibly Situated in a Large Dairy Section. 
 The Only Mills in the Valley. 
 The Best Prospects for a Large Business. 
 
 Address, 
 
 J. B. Whitmarsh, 
 
 CUYLER, Cortland Co., N. Y. 
 
 A. D. THEOBALD, 
 
 ....DEALER IN.. 
 
 Hardware, Stoves, Paints, Oils, 
 Farming Implements, Ktc. 
 
 Manufacturer of and Dealer in.... 
 
 CUVLER, N. Y. 
 
 J. W. BABCOCK. A. HOLMES. 
 
 BKBCOCK 5^ HOLTV^ES. 
 
 ....DEALER IN.... 
 
 GENEEAL MEE0HANDI8E, 
 
 Boots and Shoes, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 Staple and Fancy Groceries. 
 
 Also Dealers in all Kinds of ^^gOnS, CutterS and SkighS. 
 
 '^Ara^z?o-uL s . 
 
 HI-L I=OOD, 
 NO STVLE. 
 
 VISITORS TO CORTLAND 
 
 Stop at the Wagon corner Main and Clinton streets, opposite the Cortland House. 
 QUICK LUNCH OR PULL MEAL. 
 Open Day and Night. _ WATROUS. 
 
 FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP, opposite Tabor House, DeRuyter. 
 
 The only shop in the centre of the business district. Close attention given to my patrons. 
 Absolutely perfect service. The usual prices without deviation. 
 
 H, B. GRIPF5ITHS. 
 
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