History of Clarendon from 1810 to 1888

Preface

The preparation of this work for publication has been one of years, and the author has traveled, generally on foot, over the greater portion of Clarendon — over her highways and across her fields, through groves and swamp, on the summits of her hills and in her meadows and dales. He has visited houses in all parts of the town, from the logcovering to the fine mansion, and has held converse with the young and the old, the father and mother just ready to say '' Grood-by ! " to this life, and the laughing boy and girl gaily entering upon the stage of action.

In some parts of the town he has found individuals with good memories of other days, and in many instances has been debarred this privilege by the silent touch of the past. In every case he has taken down the statements of living witnesses when this was possible, and, by comparing one with the other, did all in his power to arrive at the truth. He found that many records had been burnt up that should have been preserved in the town's history, and even those in being are not as full and complete as they should be, having, in many instances, been kept by those who never looked one year ahead of their office or troubled their minds about the future. All this could be remedied by appointing in every town a local historian, whose duty would be the compilation of events as they pass over the dial of Time.

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We have visited the homes of many who no longer are to be seen in our company, and to the departed we are chiefly indebted for the mass of information which we are enabled to present to the public. If in so doing we have been so fortunate as to perpetuate and hand down to coming days somewhat of the labor, energy, spirit and love of those who once lived in Clarendon, then v/e have finished a task which fills our soul with the thought that two years on the Atlantic and Indian cjoeans, in Asia and Africa, in Cuba, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, in Zanzibar, Cape Town, Havana, New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Saratoga, Great Bend and Albion, we have never forgotten our loved Clarendon, and have endeavored to leave behind us a history that time and eternity will not suffer to fade away.

DAVID STURGES COPELAND.

Clarendon, December, 1888.

Chapter I

Boundaries and General Appearance as to Soil and Formation — Natural Productions — The Old Elm Tree — Church's Meadow — Mill Fall — Church's Hill — Rain Supply — Fruits — Maple-sugar — Cider and Vinegar — Dried Apples — Cereals — Creameries and Stock Growing — Highways — Fuel — Butchers — Petrifaction — Indians — Pests — Birds — Island Sports — Bees — Improvements — Area — Population — Families and Fashion, 1

Chapter II

First Settlement — Eldredge Far well and Family — Home— Mail Route — Postoffice — Pettifoggers — Old Saw-mill and Grist-mill — Water-pipes — Tannery — Other Saw-mills — New Grist-mill — Engine — Evaporators — Red Store — Proprietors — Benjamin Copeland — David Sturges — Piatt — Ainsworth — Eldredge Farwell, Jr. — George M. Copeland — Julius H. Royce — Shoemakers — Tailors — Libraries — Distillery — Ashery — Coffins — Furnaces — Blacksmiths — Red Shop — Wagon-shops — Turning-shop — Hardware — Dressmakers and Milliners — Food Supplies — Barbers — Houses — Lime — Lower Store — Hotels, 14

Chapter III

Farwell's Mill School — Village Schools — John B. King — Malvina Vandyke — Whipping — Instruction — Minerva Curtis — Flowers — Anecdotes — Henry A, Pratt — Exhibitions — Luther Peck — Hood School— Bennett's Corners School — Elviraette Lewis — Robinson School — Cook School — Picnics — Mudville or Manning School — Hubbard School — Brown School — New Guinea School — Root School — Cowles School — Glidden School — Scholars — Books — Wages — Decay — Rolls — Elviraette Lewis — Malvina A. Vandyke — John B. King — Clara B. Newman — William E. French — Visitors Teachers, 44

Chapter IV

Education — Universalist Society — Formation — Trustees — Ministers — Christian Society — Building — Ministers — Incidents — Protestant Methodists — School-services — Abandonment — Methodist Church — Foundation — Growth — Ministers — Trustees, .... 78

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Chapter V

Holley Road — Hood Road — Curtis' Road — Sawyer Road — Inhabitants, Past and Present — Orchards — Fences — Shade-trees — Road Bed — Improvement, 94

Chapter VI

Brockport Road — Smede's Road — Bartlett Road — Bennett's Corners Road — Butterfield Road — Williams' Road — County Line Road — Taylor Road — Warren Road — Waite Road — Storms Road, . 103

Chapter VII

Byron Road — Matson Road — Tousley Road — Floyd Storms Road — Glidden Road — Coy Road — Andros Road — Crossett Road — Stevens Road — Root Road — Bird Road — Barker Road — Carver Road — Templeton Road — Cowles Road — East Glidden Road — Lusk Road —Hill Road— West Sweden Road— Reed Road, .... 122

Hulberton Road — Sawyer Road — Allen Road — Cantine Road — Surveys — Condition — General Remarks 195

Chapter XI

Stories : Mrs. Curtis Cook — Mary Ann Cook — William S. Glidden's Canal Story — Mrs. William S. Glidden — Horatio Reed — Asa Glidden — William S. Glidden — Beniamin G. Pettengill — Sarah Jane Vincent — Edwin Bliss — Alvah Morgan — J. C. Weller — George W. Reynell — J. A. Bryan — Stephen North way — Dr. Robert Nicker- 6on, 205

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Chapter XII

Reflections— Companies of 1814, 1818. 1824, 1825. 1833— List of Officers at Gaines, 1838 — Training of 1841— Incidents, . . 228

Chapter XIII

Dr. Bussey — Dr. Carter — Dr. Howard — Dr. Noyes — Dr. Keith— Dr. Soutliwortli — Dr. Lewis — Dr. Watson — Dr. Dutton — Dr. Badlan — Dr. Pugsley— Dr. Crabbe— Dr. O'Brien— Dr. Brackett— Dr. Gertrude Farwell — Dr. Taylor — Dr. Cook — Dr. Coleman — Dr. Armstrong — Dr. Townsend — Dr. Gleason — Dr. Woodhull, . . 237

Revolution — 1812 — Mexican "War — List of Boys in Blue — Draft — Orleans County Veterans, 281

Chapter XVII

James T. Lewis — Henry C. Lewis — Luther Peck — George Matson — Andrew Knickerbocker — Joseph F. Glidden — Jared Hopkins — Pratt Nelson — Lewis Darrow — Charles Sturges — Charles J. Martin — Zina Richey — Darwin Inman — Clarence Akeley — Jules Andros — H. A. Pratt — Willis Whipple — George Riggs — Copeland Brothers and many others, 300

CHAPTER XVIIL

Almira Baldwin — Adelaide Church — Nancy Tousley — Lydia Patterson — Cynthia A. Copeland — Ellen Farwell — Emily Grennell — Emma Cook — Clara King — Mary Potter — Emma Sturges — Artists, etc., 316

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Chapter XIX

Agricultural Implements — Horses — Water — Steam — Wind — Man — Houseliold Progression — Reflections 328

Chapter XX

Village Graveyard — Robinson Graveyard — Christian Graveyard — Root Graveyard — Glidden Graveyard — Polly Graveyard, . 344