Skaneateles: history of its earliest settlement and reminiscences of later times

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CHAPTER I. The Earliest History

The earliest known history of the lands comprising the town of Skaneateles. These lands were allotted by law to the soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Detailed explanation of what were known as the ■ .Military Lots." Portions of the land of the State of New York were surveyed into townships. Each township was ten miles square, and contained one hundred Military Lots. The town of Skaneateles was not an original township. A portion of the original township of Marcellus, consisting of thirty-nine Military Lots, was laid ofT to establish this town of Skaneateles. How each soldier became the owner of a Military Lot. The names of the Revolutionary soldiers who were the original owners of all the lands comprising the town of Skaneateles. A comparison of the limited age of this town with past ages, during wliirh tlu>f I.mds have existed unknown to the nations of the civilized world.

CHAPTER IL How THE Pioneers Came

Their hardships. The difficulties of keeping fire on the hearth. A description of the original tinder-box. How it was used to originate fire. The first friction-matches, which were introduced in the year 1827. Tallow dips were an early luxury. Next were introduced the whale-oil lamps. Account-books of early merchants. Explanation of the common currency first used after the Revolutionary War. Its legal tender character was. by Act of Congress of 1795, enacted to be the divisions of the Spanish milled dollar: Halves, Quarters. Eighths, and Sixteenths. This legal tender character of the Spanish coin continued until the Act of Congress passed in the year 1855 repealed the Act of 1795. Since the year 1855 no Spanish coin has been in circulation as legal tender. An old one-cent piece. The pioneer's life. " Bees." Log houses, log barns, and log schoolhouscs. The early missionaries held their religious services in the barns and schoolhouscs. The women of those early days deserve especial notice. They hatchcled all the flax, spun all the linen thread, spun all the wool, wove all the tow cloth, knit all the stockings of the household, made all the clothing of the pioneers, did all the cooking, tended to garden to supply the viii COh'TENTS.

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table with vegetables, together with some flowers to beautify their home, and did all the other household work, which was continuous from daylight to the hours of needed rest late at night.

CHAPTER III. Early Pioneers '. n

Pioneers who came within the first twenty years. The first actual original settler in this town was Abraham A. Cuddeback. John Thompson was not a resident settler until 1810; proof shown of this fact. Elijah Bowen, another very early settler; account of his family. His son Almeron was the first child born of parents who settled and lived in this town. The peculiar circumstances of his birth. • Bowen's home was headquarters for emigrating families. Benajah Bowen. David Kingsley. Amasa Smith. Winston Day. the first merchant in this town. Henry Root ; his recollections. Asa Mason. Nehemiah H. Earll ; his history, recollections, and obituary notice. Nathan Kelsey, the brickmaker who stamped his name on every brick. His bricks are often found in old large chimneys and ovens of this town. The Cuykendalls. The Van Ettens. David Welch. Samuel Welch, and his recollections. Benjamin Nye, who made the first bricks. Mrs. Nye's journey through the wilderness for assistance. Hezekiah Earll. Abijah Earll. Chester Par.sons. Silas Bush. Amos Pardee.

CHAPTER I\'.

Continuation of the History of the Pioneers 25

Alanson Benson. Charles J. Burnett, Sr. Daniel Kellogg. Jedediah Sanger. Isaac Sherwood, together with the details of his contract with the Government for the transportation of the mails between Albany and Buffalo and intermediate places. Mrs. Cody, grandmother of Hiram Reed; her experience in the journey from Massachusetts on horseback to this town in the year 1800 through the forest. Copy of a bill of merchandise purchased at .Albany by a firm of early merchants of this town in the year 1806. William J. Vredenburg. A legend concerning a jug of gin. Who were here when Williain J. Vredenburg first came in the year 1803. Nathaniel Miller, who settled in the village in 1S07; his recollections. The interesting history of Amos Miner, an early inventor. Remarkable history of a journey through the forest in the year 1799 by John R. Kellogg.

CH.XPTRR V.

Moke Pioneers 52

History of early settlers. Eli Clark. Elias Merrell. Alanson Edwards, Jr. S. Porter Rhoades and family history. Names and location of early settlers, farmers, and others who caine here before 1803. Another list of early settlers who caine here before 1815. Ministerial items. Old receipt for dressing deer skins. Daniel Briggs. John S. Furman and Alexander Bebee. Aaron Austin. Dorastus Lawrence. William Clift. Elijah Parsons. The town of Skaneateles. Hardships of the pioneers. "Through the Wilderness," a poem. John Legg. History of the Shepard family and the " Shepard Settlement." Recollections of Mrs. Charles J. Burnett, Sr. John Bristol. Abner Bates. Simeon Edwards. Solomon Williams. Samuel Briggs. Colonel Samuel Bellamy. Daniel McKay. Business men here in 1834. The First Cuddeback.

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CHAPTER VI.

FACE

Interesting Sayings and Doings of Olben Times 70

Samuel Edwards, an old resident, tells of olden times. Dr. Nels. Flink. Nate Bennett. Josh Wilkinson. Sol Foster. Frank Barker. Ives Parsons. Harrison B. Dodge, editor of the Skaneateles Democrat. The defeat of the dangerous •' Malby Bill " in the Legislature. Comparison of early real estate values in Syracuse and Skaneateles. James Sackett. Has Skaneateles retrograded? The first steamboat on the Lake, "The Highland Chief." Rossville was in the year 1831 the name of the head of the lake. An old log tavern. Early business in Skaneateles. Early artists and their rudimcntal practise in painting the backs of the old style of sleighs. These artists were Elliott and Thayer. Winston Day and wife's sale of land to Freeborn G. Jewett. The Pettis House. The brother of Benedict Arnold, the traitor of Revolutionary notoriety, was once a resident in the village. Condensed fragments of early history.

CHAPTER Vn.

Miscellaneous Fragments of Early History 79

The early merchants of the village. Daniel Talcott. Jonathan Weston. Moses Loss. James Turnure, the miller in 1828. Ezra & Benjamin. Ingham & Hccox. Isaac Sherwood. Colonel Warren Hecox. Letter from Lafayette Cuddcback on our first settler, Abraham A. Cuddeback. The Leonard family. Nathan Leonard's Inn. The first actual settler in this county. The first mail carried through Onondaga County in the years 1792-98. Old-time servants. Farmers' daughters. Daniel Kellogg's gardener. Description of the village in 1809. The Skaneateles Religious Society. First excitement among the early settlers; the mill-dam breaks. A forest on the lake-shore in 1796. Village plots. The original village lots, which were laid out by Judge Jedediah Sanger, were termed " Village plots on the north end of Skaneateles Lake." An order for bricks in 1814. John C. Noble, school teacher in 1825. The original forests in this town. First roads laid out in the town. The first graveyard. This settlement (the site of the village) an attractive trading-place in early times. Subscription for Jonathan Weston, sexton of the old original church on the hill. The old colored man's plaint, in connection with William J. Vredenburg's experience as a judge. Home-made drays. The Hamilton and Skaneateles Turnpike. Wheel-head manufactory. Militia. Elections in 1836. Ezra Lee. William Clift. James Porter came here in 1797, and opened the first tavern in town. The early records. Old-time caterpillars, which destroyed the tree-leaves and garden vegetables in the year 1798. Cold summer in 1816. Open winter in 1823-24. Severe winter in 1836. Water-lime. Division of Marcellus.

CHAPTER VIII.

E Cardiff Ciiant

Full and complete history of this remarkable fraud. Skaneateles very much interested in viewing it. All the particulars of its discovery. Detailed opinions expressed of its authenticity by prominent professors of colleges, Egrypfologists. archeologists, archbishops, clergymen, physicians, and theorists of all degrees. " The Stone Man," a poem. Names of Syracuse speculators who finally purchased the big

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fraud. The unfortunate error which was made in not allowing Professor Boynton • to purchase an interest in the giant. The owners made another mistake in not allowing P. T. Barnum to purchase an interest. The Cardiff Giant and the Indians. Early newspapers in Cayuga County. Charles Goodall, a former resident of this town; some particulars of his eventful life. Presentation to the Skaneateles Library Association. Old accounts.

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Early Reminiscences

Celebration of Fourth of July in 1831. First Skaneateles newspaper: its advertisements. General Training Day. An affair of honor. First mail-carriers. Early history. A brother of Benedict Arnold. The dark day in 1806, when there was an eclipse of the sun. Incident of the War of 1812. Repulsing the British in 1812. British prisoners. Samuel Francis, Sr. History of the Edwards family in this town. Origin of the Doctors Porter family. Thaddeus Edwards. Alanson Edwards. Copy of a bill of goods purchased in the village in 1806. Celebration of Fourth of July, 1835. Stages and stage-drivers. Riding-horses. Mrs. Cody's remarkable journey. Full history of the original Skaneateles Library Company, organized March 2, 1806. List of subscribers. Merchants and mechanics here in 1828, who advertised in the first newspaper, Tlie Telegraph. James Sackett, a remarkable character in his time. Winston Day's sale of his village lot to Freeborn G. Jewett, in 1822. Charles J. Burnett's sale of three acres in what is now (1902) the center of the village, in 1820, for $250 to F. G. Jewett. Seth and James Hall, early carriage manufacturers. Skaneateles business men in 1830.

CHAPTER X.

Early Burial-Places and General History 131

Earliest burial-places in this town. The second burial-place. The Mottville burying-ground. The succeeding burial-ground in the village of Skaneateles. Various items of early history. Phares Gould. Dr. Samuel Benedict. Names of the vestry of St. James' Church in 1816. Vestry of St. James' Church in 1824. Business men in the village in 1841. \ sensational burglary in Skaneateles. Archibald Farr. Chester Parsons. Daniel Kellogg. Jr. Captain Benjamin Lee. Sea letter by George Washington. Captain Nash De Cost. Reuel Smith. The Three Sisters. William Fuller. History of the John Lcgg village lot.

CHAPTER XI.

The Potashery and Other Manufactures 144

Winston Day's potashery and distillery in the village before 1816. Joseph Tallcot. Nicholas J. Roosevelt. First steamboat trials. Archibald Douglass. William G. Ellery. Daniel T. Moseley. Augustus Kellogg. Dr. John Snook. Dyer Brainerd. Charles B. Isbell. Joel Thayer. Dorastus Kellogg. John Kellogg. William M. Beauchamp. Richard Talcott. Captain Rishworth Mason. John Legg. Merchants in 1813. Peter Thompson. Taverns. Philo Dibble. William H. Jewett. Obadiah Thome. Thome Hill. William H. Pattison. Dr. Charles F. Merrill. Ezckiel B.

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Iliiyt. Gcorgi; F. U-ilcli. I"recl.orn G. Jcwett, Sr. Spencer Hanniim. The Dicfeiidorphs in llie town. James Cannings Fuller. Edward B. Coc. Abner Lawton. Edwin Osborne Gould. A traveler's visit to Skaneateles in 1811, while on his way to Niagara, with description of the village. Description of Skaneateles in 1830. Skaneateles Lake. Early recollections of Thaddeus Edwards, in his boyhood days, 1810. The Packwood carriage manufactory. The " Shcpard Settlement."

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The First Industries in Tow.x and Villale, Cu.m.mencuvg with the V'iu,-

.\ retrospect of past business of both town and village. Industries in the village. Industries in the to%vn of Skaneateles outside of the village. Mabbitt's mills. Industries at Mottville. Below Mottville— Long Bridge. Hart lot. The rise and fall of mercantile and industrial prosperity in both town and village. The earliest industry in this town. .-\n incident during the War of 1812. Community Place and John A. Collins. Early prices. The sign of the Indian Queen Tavern.

CHAPTER XIII.

;ainst "Protracted Meetings/' and Other Reminiscences.

Report of the proceedings of a public meeting, held February 15, 1832, at the Indian Queen House of Isaac W. Perry, in the village of Skaneateles. An address to the public, with the signatures of prominent citizens, published in an extra of the Skaneateles Columbian. Daniel Webster's visit to Skaneateles in May, 1825. General Lafayette's visit to Skaneateles in 1824.. while on his return to New York from a visit through the Western States. The great fire which occurred in the village of Skaneateles in 1835. Buildings destroyed, losses, and sufferers. Notice of an application to the Legislature for the passage of a law to prevent the erection of frame buildings in certain parts of the village. Sir James Nurse, a remarkable Skaneateles fraud. Copperplate engraving of the village seventy-two years ago (1830), together with a description of both town and village, and an enlarged folding illustration, rnlcrcsting items.

CHAPTER XI\-.

Earlv Mercha.nts 194

Briggs & Hall. Hall & Pynchon. Richard Tallcot. R. Tallcot & Co. C. W. Allis & Co. Allis & Morgan. Allis, Moses & Hu.xtablc. Allis. Rhoades & Hall. Morgan & Daniels. J. Gurdon Porter. Wolcott & Porter. Hall, Porter & Co. Butler S. Wolcott. B. S. Wolcott & Co. Phares Gould. Spencer Parsons. Parsons & Rust. Stephen Horton. Jonathan Booth. Booth & Ingham. Booth & Horlon. Gibbs & Horton. S. Horton & Co. N. Hawley & Co. Nelson Hawlcy. George P. Morgan. Edward G. Ludlow. John Meeker. Charles J. Burnett, Jr. Rhoades & Burnett. S. Porter Rhoades. William G. Slade. Charles Pardee. Porter & Pardee. C. Pardee & Co. Isom & Hall. E. Pardee & Co. Aaron Brinkerhoff. Brinkerhoff & Willetts. Brinkerhoff & Porter. Jonathan Booth. John Meeker. George Francis. Phares Gould. Rev. .\. C. Patterson. Jacob W. Van Ellen. David Seynmur. Earlv settlers.

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CHAPTER XV.

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Recollections, Business, and Inventions 213

The cooper-shops of Thaddeus Edwards. Recollections of Thaddeus Edwards. Definition of the pounds, shillings, and pence used in the old account-books of early merchants and traders. Letter from Superintendent of Philadelphia Mint. Recollections of Charles J. Burnett, Jr. Boy life on a farm in Skaneateles. The patent knocker. Expedition to Australia in 1852 in search of gold. The Hecox brick house on the lake-shore, opposite the Packwood House, in 1872. Smallpox in the village in 1851. Offhand sketch of the village and of its people fifty years ago, by George H. Ellsbury. Sam Francis and his comical story about four hundred chipmunks in the old brick schoolhouse on the hill. Young fish placed in Skaneateles Lake. Old Burdick, the soap man. The Erie Canal, and its effect on this town. Charles Oxley, the egg man. The Powell brothers and their peculiarities. Peter Pell and his bass drum always the prominent figure in all public processions. Retail prices in the village in the year 1825. Grant Bramble and his reported wonderful inventions. Village property rather low in 1820. Sherwood's house. The Indian Queen Hotel. Before photographs were known. The propeller Ben Porter.

CHAPTER XVI.

Educational Sources and Early Schools 229

The first school in the town of Skaneateles. Succeeding schools. Thomas Allis. Miss Graham's school and the names of her scholars in 1829. Location of the first schoolhouse in the village. State street in the village first opened. Subscription by enterprising citizens to purchase a lot whereon to build a schoolhouse in 1828. That lot is now whereon the Academy is located. The Skaneateles High School. Select schools. Lydia P. Mott, being the early history of a prominent promoter of female education, comprising a compilation of some of the principal events of her life in this town, and embracing some incidents of her youthful life as a schoolgirl when she was seventeen years old, in the year 1791. " The Maples of Mott Cottage," a poem. The history of the life and missionary work of the Rev. Samuel Kirkland. The Iroquois deputation to Philadelphia, and its reception at Bethlehem. The earliest recorded traveler's visit to Skaneateles, while on his way to Niagara in the year 1804. His description of tlie settlement and Lake. Historical collections.

CHAPTER XVIL

The Teasel Industry, Various Corporations, and Banks 248

The teasel industry. The term teaseling explained. Further description of the teasel and its peculiar use. Mode of cultivation. Gathering of the crop. Drying the teasels. The business of the teasel merchants. The growth of the teasel plant in the United States. The difference between teasels cultivated and uncultivated. The Skaneateles Water Works Company. The Skaneateles Iron Works. Certificate of Incorporation. Meeting of stockholders to increase its capita! stock. The Skaneateles Wood-Working Company. The Skaneateles Lake Park Company. The Dryden, Grolon, and Moravia TeiiKraph Company. The Central New York Electric Light and Power Company. The Lake Bank. The First National Bank.- The Bank of Skaneateles. Skaneateles Savings-Bank. Detailed history of the old burying-ground before the incorporation of the Rural Cemetery Association of Lake View.

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CHAPTER XVlli.

Lake View Cemetery and Skaxeateles Lake.

The origin of Lake View Cemetery. How it was finally established under the most adverse opposition, and through whose personal exertions and loans of large sums of money it became finally established. The original Trustees who were appointed at a public meeting, which the statute required to be held. Unfortunately a majority of the iweh'e thus appointed were adherents of the owner of the old burial-ground, and, of course, were not interested in the new organization. Skancateles Lake as it appeared when this part of the country was visited by the pioneers. Modern description of its shores. Mile Point. Effect of the first dam which raised the surface of the water in the Lake. The original building on the shore of the Lake in the village. Aboriginal name of Skaneatcles Lake. Another and more modern description d the Lake. The peat-bog speculation. Another peat-bog operation reported. Pork Point. Skaneateles Lake, and how its name originated. The original mail and the improved stage-coach.

CHAPTER XIX.

Bonding Skaxeateles Defe.vted. — Early Missions and Religious Dexo.minatioxs. . . . 274 Defeat of the attempt to bond Skaneateles on behalf of a railroad. Another speculation which was intended to force on the town of Skaneateles a bonded debt of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in behalf of the New York Western Midland Railroad. After the town had been actually bonded under the forms of the railroad law, the scheme of its promoters was fortunately defeated by the discovery of the defection of the County Judge. Another attempt to bond. Consequences of bonding. Early missionaries in this section of the State. The Episcopal missions. Religious denominations in this town. The first religious body, the Schaneateles Society, was not denominational, as all the residents attended its services. In the year 1818 its attendants adopted the Presbyterian form of government, and has ever since been distinguished as the Presbyterian Society. The Protestant Episcopal Church. The Society of Friends. Origin of the First Baptist Society in the village. The Methodist Episcopal Church. The Skaneatcles Falls Methodist Episcopal Church. The Methodist Episcopal Church at Mottville. The Congrtpational Church. The Roman Catholic Church.

CHAPTER XX.

^'ACHTING, Skaxeateles, anu Official History 2S0

The first real yacht built. A visit by the Chief and a delegation of the Onondaga tribe of Indians, when Colonel William J. Vredenburg's grand Colonial mansion was begun in 1804. The appropriate name given to this yacht, and why it was named "The Four Sisters." Regattas on the Lake fifty years ago. A notable yacht, "The Wild Wave." Years Ago: a highly polished descriptive communication, published in the Skaneateles Columbian, written by Dr. H. R. Lord, and signed " Secretary of the Navy." Charles L. Elliott, the artist. Sketches of the town of Skaneateles in 1865. Official history of the village, its incorporation, and the names of its various officers. Description of the village at the present time. Its attractiveness as a residence for all who appreciate health, beauty, cleanliness, and quiet enjoyment, and particularly its freedom from those insidious insects mosquitoes. There is not a village in the State of New York which offers more attractions to either resident or visitor than Skaneateles. Town meetings held in various taverns.

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CHAPTER XXI.

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Ch.\nges i.v Proi'erty-Ownership and Establish.ment of Libraries 309

History of the James Ennis-Ludlow-Talcott-De Zcng-Whittlesey-Lapham-Padelford-Roosevclt property, on the west shore of the Lake, from the ownership of the soldier to whom it was allotted in 1791. History of the haunted tavern, which was located on this property at an early period. The legend of the haunted tavern and the yellow dog with red eyes. Remarkable history of Daniel Ludlow, who purchased this property in 1811, and died here in 1814. His remains rest in the old burial-ground on the hill. Names of the various owners of this property after the death of Ludlow, and the consideration each gave when purchased. The ownership of Richard L. De Zeng, who built the present Colonial mansion in 1839. The Skaneateles Library Association incorporated. A circulating library in the village in 1832-33. Description of a remarkable snow-storm in the village in 1891. Subscription to pay for the first organ to be constructed for St. James' Church. .\n effort to establish a Free Public Library in 1875, which effort was defeated.

CHAPTER XXH.

Early Physicians and Local History 326

Original and later physicians in town and village. Sale of Military Lot No. 35. Thayer, the artist. Fragments of history. How Harrison B. Dodge first became editor of the Skaneateles Democrat. Origin of the village Fire Department. Valuable files of local newspapers. Memorial Tablet in St. James' Church, in memory of six members of the Church who gave up their lives in the Civil War. Presbyterian Sunday-school celebration of Fourth of July, 1832. " Columbia," an ode. John W. Livingston, United States Marshal, a resident in this town. History of the Jerome family. Addison Jerome and his brother Leonard H. Jerome have been residents of this village. Leonard H. Jerome the father of Lady Randolph Churchill. She, however, never was in Skaneateles. The Lake House, its former names and various landlords. Mrs. Elizabeth T. Porter Beach, her celebrity. " The Last Broadside," a poem.

CHAPTER XXI Enrolment List of Skaneateles

Enrolment list of all the men in this town liable to military duty, together with the age of each individual, in the year 1863: First class, ages from 20 to 35, 362; Second class, ages from 35 to 45, 212; number enrolled, 594. List 'of drafted men in 1863. Skaneateles Roll of Honor. Names, rank, company, and regiment of three hundred and seventy-four volunteers from this town in the War of 1861-65. This Roll of Honor is the most complete that was ever collected. It is. therefore, a portion of the history of this town. Names of the soldiers who gave up their lives in defense of the Union who belonged to the town of Skaneateles. Albert De Cost Burnett, the youngest volunteer from Skaneateles. The Skaneateles Educational Society. The Skaneateles Anli-Slavery Society. F.lnalhan S. .Xndrows. James Sackelt. Bethuel Cole. An early carpenter and contractor.

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CHAPTER XXIV.

PACE.

Introduction of Merino Sheep.— Early Merchants and Steamboat Excursions 362

Corrcl Humphreys' life and experiences, written by himself, by request, purposely for this History. The massacre in Florida. One of his ancestors first introduced the famous Merino sheep into this country. An interesting account of its accomplishment. Early merchants in the village whose places of business were all on the north side of the Seneca Turnpike Road as late as 1816. Names of the original millwrights who built all the grist-mills about this section of the State. Justice of the Peace Elijah Price. Isaac Mills. Church diversion in old days among the gentlemen of the congregation of St. James' Church. Recollections of Thaddeus Edwards. History of the Daniel C. Robbins place, now the Mingo Lodge. Arthur Mott, from whom Mottville took its name. The first excursion up to the head of the Lake in the first steamboat, with the names of the excursionists, sixty in number. Matches. Peat, or muck. Abraham Cuddeback. Elijah Manley. John Briggs.

CHAPTER XXV.

The Skaneateles Water Works Co.mpany and Local History 371

History of that remarkable organization, " The Skaneateles Water Works Company," which acted as an agent of the American Pipe Manufacturing Company of New Jersey. It applied for a franchise, and got it, from the village Trustees, without due consideration. Its value has been demonstrated since by the litigation the Pipe Company has cost the village. " Municipal Ownership of a Water Plant," an article from the Skaneateles Democrat. Scraping the snow from the village sidewalks in winter; how it originated. Dr. Jonathan Kneeland. Samuel C. Wheadon. The Ladies' Aid Society during the Civil War. An illustration of the uncertainty of human life. Names of one hundred well-known citizens of the village of Skaneateles who signed a remonstrance against a bill pending in the Legislature in the year 1862, forty years ago. Only nine are now living. The village officers have passed away. The closing century. Early accoimt-books procured. Over twelve hundred names alphabetized. See Decision of Supreme Court of the United States against the Water Works Company, March 3, 1902, on page 454.

CHAPTER XXVI.

The Churches and the Library 389

Engraving of St. James' Church and description of memorials placed therein. The Leslie memorial windows. Engraving of the New Brick Presbyterian Church, with description of its memorials. Mud Lake. A Tourist's observations. Erastus M. Beach, a former resident of the village. His experiences while a resident. The Skaneateles Library Building and Sphinx, illustrated with six half-tone engravings. Items of interest.

CHAPTER XXVII.

A Great Century's Ending 406

The Nineteenth Century and its discoveries. Other subjects of general interest,

none of which have any relation to the special history of Skaneateles or to the

general subjects of this volume. The wonderful transmission of meridian time by telegraph. Predictions for the year 2000.

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CHAPTER XXVIII.

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Local History as Elaborated by the Newspaper Press of Syracuse

Extracts are presented from the various newspapers of Syracuse, giving interesting information concerning the village of Skaneateles in 1898.

CHAPTER XXIX.

An Inside History of Lake View Cemetery, which has never before been- made

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Preliminary action to organize an incorporated public cemetery. Election of twelve Trustees. A certificate of indebtedness. Want of interest. Prosecution of the work by the author. Criticism of public functionaries. Trust funds. Facsimile of document discovered by the author. Cemetery lands conveyed to the Trustees. of the village. Portrait of Dver Brainerd. History of Alfred Champ.

CHAPTER XXX.

The Author's Adventures with the Legal Fraternity 440

Commencing with the highest authority in the State, the Attorney-General. Criticism of his opinion. Legal right to criticize a public officer. Judge Folger's opinion with reference to the right of newspaper criticism. Lawyers generally. What the Bible says of lawyers. Characterization of lawyers by Shakespeare. Another adventure with a different variety of the legal fraternity— the official stenographer of a court of record.

Conclusion

Summary or the Work on this Volu.me 45°

The concluding remarks to the gentle reader by Mr. Clark in his " History of Onondaga County." Experiences of the author. A remonstrance by one hundred citizens of the village. Defeat of the attempt to bond the town. Franchise granted to a trolley road. An excellent cemetery secured to the town. Municipal ownership of the water works. Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States against the Skaneateles Water Works Company, March 3, 1902. System of clearing the snow from the sidewalks in winter by tlie village. Individual history.

INDEX OF NAMES 46s

INDEX OF SUBJECTS 47i

INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Allis, C. \V., Merchant and Banker 196

Braincrd. I )ycr 419

Burnett, Albert Dc Cost, Youngest \'oluntcer of the Civil \\ .ir 359

Burnett. Charles J.. Jr 201

C.

Coe, Edward B 161

Coe's. Edward B., Daughter and her Children . . 164

Collins Point, Skancateles Lake, East Shore 295

Colonial Residence of Daniel Kellogg 26

Cooper Shops, Thaddcus Edwards' Old, Built Eighty Years Ago 213

Document Discovered by the Author.

Five- Mile Point, on East Shore of Lake.

Francis, George

Genesee Street and St. James' Church.

Goodall, Charles

Hall. David, more familiarly known as Deacon David Hall 194

Hall, Captain James, Early Prominent Citizen and Manufacturer 311

Hawley, Nelson, Early Merchant 199

Head, or South End, of Skaneatelcs Lake, showing " Glen Haven " Hotel 329

Highlands, The, near South End of Lake, showing both sides of the Lake 271

Humphreys, Corrcl, a well-know 11 Early Resident 365

Kellogg, Daniel

Lake House, built in 1824, destroyed by fire July 19, 1870 ,137

Leslie, Edmund Norman Frontispiece

Leslie, Mrs. Edmund Norman Frontispiece

Leslie, Mrs. Edmund Norman, copy of Daguerreotype taken in 1846 324

Leslie, Mrs. Edmund Norman, copy of Portrait painted by Charles L, Elliott in 1846, .. . 325 Leslie Memorial Windows in St. James' Church 391 xviii IXDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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One-Mile Point, West Shore of Lake 263

Oxley, Charles (Died 1888, aged ninety years) 225

P.

Pardee, Charles » 203

Picnic on the Wooded Shore of Skaneateles Lake 315

Presbyterian Church, Old Brick, erected in 1830 283

Presbyterian Church, New 394

R.

Regatta on Skaneateles Lake Forty Years Ago (On the dock stands Philander Williamson ; on his right is Captain Eckhardt; on the corner of the dock is George Rawlins) . 220

Regatta, Skaneateles— The Start, 1850 292

Regatta, Skaneateles— The Start, 1851 293

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St. James' Church, Original, erected 1827-28 283

St. James' Church, New 390

Skaneateles Lake and St. James' Church 233

Skaneateles Lake, East Shore, near Village 266

Skaneateles Lake Yacht, sailing " in-the-eye-of-the-wind " — St. James' Church and surrounding Scenery 380

Skaneateles Library Building and Sphinx — Six Illustrations. .. .397, 398, 399, 401, 403, 404

Skaneateles Savings Bank 255

Skaneateles, N. Y., Village of, in 1830 (Copperplate Engraving from the Ariel) 190

Enlargement of the above Engraving (Folding Plate), opposite 192

Skaneateles Village, Mirrored by Water of the Lake 37;^

Skaneateles, Village of. View from the Lake in 1856 x^i

Society of Friends, as illustrated by two of its early members, Mrs. Ahner Lawton and

Mrs. Russell Frost 285

Stage-Coach, Original Mail and Passenger 259

Stage-Coach, An Improved (designed for wealthier travelers), and a Roadside Tavern.. 273

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Taber. Mrs. William -R., illustrating the Simplicity of Attire oi liie .■Micieiy of Friends. .. . 287