The Town of Cazenovia!

Cazenovia is one of the five cities, which was held earlier in the construction of Madison. It was formed from Whitestown and Paris, 5 March 1795, which was initially very large area that contains the area of what now is urban Georgetown, German, Lineklaen, Otselic and Pitcher, taken in 1798, Sullivan, so particular Lenox, taken in 1803, Smithfield in 1807, and a part of Fenner in 1823. The city is on the western border of the county and is bounded. north of Sullivan, east of Fenner and Nelson, south of De Ruyter, and west of Onondaga County. The surface is high and rolling, through which extend valleys Chittenango and Limestone creeks. Cazenovia Lake is a beautiful body of water in the north, four miles long and from half mil to one kilometer in width. Chittenango Falls is a picturesque cascade on the river where the water falls 136 meters. Gravelly soil is clay in the northern and central parts, and clay loam under Laid with hardpan in the south. Most of the city is under Laid with stones by Hamilton Group of Onondaga limestone found in the northeast, where it has been extensive quarrying for lime and building purposes.

There are three post offices in the town of Cazenovia, a village of Cazenovia, one in New Woodstock, and one of Chittenango Falls, in Cazenovia village population was 1918 in 1880, and in 1890 it was 1987, shows a slight increase.

Cazenovia village is beautifully situated on Chittenango Creek and the foothills on the east coast of the lake with the same name. It is a little northeast of the center and is a station on both railways listed below give part of Canastota, with Syracuse and Cortland and Elmira. The village was founded February 7, 1810, the first company meeting on 10 May the same year in the house of Eliphalet S. Jackson. Elisha Farnham, a justice of the peace, as President, and AD Van Home served as clerk. The following were elected the first officers: Elisha Farnham, PG Childs, Jonas Fay, ES Jackson, and Samuel Thomas trustees; JNM Hurd, Treasurer, Jacob A. Dana, bailiff and collector. Jonas Fay was elected the first president of the village, and Caleb Ledyard, clerk.

The following is a list of supervisors in Cazenovia from 1806 to today:

1807, Lemuel Kingsley, 1808-11, Eliphalet Jackson, 1812-13, Samuel S. Forman, 1814, ES Jackson, 1815, AD Van Home, 1816, Samuel Thomas, 1817, William Sims, 1818-24, ES Jackson, 1825 -28, Samuel Thomas, 1829-31, Newell Wright, 1832-33, Elihu Severance, 1834-38, John F. Hicks, 1839-45, Talcott Backus, 1846-50, Albert Card, 1851-52, Charles Stebbins; 1853-54, Lewis Raynor, 1855, John C. Loomis, 1856, Albert Card, 1857, John F. Fairchild, 1858-59, John Stebbins, 1860-62, Silas L. Loomis, 1863, Haskell, 1864-66, CH Beckwith, 1867, Charles Stebbins, jr., 1868-69, Silas L. Loomis, 1870, Charles Stebbins, jr. , 1871-72, Marcus L. Underwood, 1873-78, Willard A. Crandall, 1879-81, J. Harvey Nourse, 1882-83, John Stebbins, 1884-91, William C. Sherman, 1892-97, Chauncey B . Cook.

According to government census in 1892 Cazenovia town has a population of 3803rd The census of 1890 gives the number as 4182, shows a loss of nearly '200 in the previous decade. The city is divided into fifteen school districts with school houses in each, which were employed in 1897 twenty-four teachers, all schools is booming and particularly well done. Whole number of children being taught in 1897 was the 718th

The Chenango Valley branch of the West Shore railroad crossing Cazenovia from northwest to southeast, and the branch of the Lehigh Valley Road, formerly the Cazenovia and Canastota Railroad crosses the town in a southerly direction, the two form an intersection a few miles south of Cazenovia village. This branch was extended to De Ruyter in 1877 and then continued on to Cortland, Ithaca and Elmira. The city was tied up in support of this road at a cost of $ 160,000. The current bonded debt is $ 111,000.

The part of Cazenovia included in Gore, which was more than half in the southern part consisted of purchases from Holland Land Company of approximately 120,000 acres of land, through the agency, John Linck Laen, in 1792-3. Mr. Linck Laen purchased survey of Township Road (so called from the fact that proceeds from land sales would be used for road construction), and in 1794 built the mills in the vicinity of the place of Cazenovia village. Other settlers in the city in 1793 were Archibald Bates, Day Fay, William Miles, Noah Taylor, Isaac Nichols, Ira Peck, Nathan Webb, Shubael Brooks, Samuel Tyler, and an Augur. In the next year David Smith and Lewis Stanley settled in the city and was quickly followed by Jonathan Smith, David's brother, William Sims, Isaac Morse, Chandler Webber, Abraham Tillotson, Walter Childs, Jacob Ten Eyck, Jeduthan Perkins, James Francis Norton Covell, Hendrick De Clercq (from Holland), Levi Burgess, Joseph Holmes, Caleb Van Riper, Edward Parker, Phineas Southwell, Robert Fisher, Isaac Warren, John Savage, Samuel Thomas, Deacon Isaiah Dean, William Moore, Christopher Webb, Ebenezer Knowlton who all settled before or during the years of the formation of Madison County, located in different parts of the city. After that date, had come very quickly, many of the newcomers to get established in the previous chapters and in Part III of this work.

The first merchant in the village of Cazenovia was Samuel S. Forman, who came to the place of John Linck Laen in 1793, for the sake of Holland Land Company. The shop was a time employed by Mr. Forman with Mr. Linck Laen, representing the company as a partner. Mr. Forman subsequently took the company alone.

Other early merchants were Jabish NM Hurd, who came around 1800, Jesse Kilborn, William M. and JosephBurr, Benjamin T. Clarke, EB and ED Litchfield, brothers, William Greenland and his son, William S., William Mills, Charles Crandall and Frank Moseley formed a partnership, and conducted a bookstore in 1834, John C. Reymon, LG Wells, Henry Grof, John Hobbie, and others. The business of LG Wells was transferred in 1878 to his sons, Dwight W. and Edward G., and are now implemented in the latter. George Morse, negotiating with the drugs, the company began in 1847 with John F. Irons, and bought his partner's interest two years later, the company is now George Morse & Son. Ebenezer Knowlton began the jewelry business around 1848 and continued with more than thirty years, the company is now run by CM Knowlton. EA Blair bought and saddlery shops TS Whitnall in 1863 and continues to exist; Bowman Stanley, grocer, started in 1863 in company with his brother, Benjamin F.; Tillotson & Nichols, who succeeded JD Beach around 1861 in a mixed shop, HB Thomas, an early pioneer and harness maker; Jesse W. Hall, grocery, etc. that have sold in 1869 to David P. and James C. Dean; Will H. Cruttenden, goldsmith, began in 1870, Nichols & Covell, Clothier , began in 1871; Colton & Webber, hardware, began trading in 1877, after Colton, Johnson & Co., Wells Bros., general merchants since 1872, JWT and William Rice, druggists, began in 1873, Henry A. Rouse, general grocery, Samuel T. Jackson, hats and caps, started in 1877, with his cousin, Frank E. Jackson, and others who have been noticed in the past the city's history.

The current merchants and business men Cazenovia village is as follows: EG Wells, furniture and undertaking; HB Thomas, safety belts and the tribes; Curtis Brothers, drugs, George Morse & Son, drugs; JW Howson, coal, FE Wilson, baker; GH Atwell & Son, flour and feed Mrs. FD Hoidridge, and Mrs. LM White, Millinery, Marshall & Bumpus, Aikman & Norton, Driscoll & Marshall, HH, and Colton, hardware; Hoidridge & De Clercq, musical instruments, SB, Allen, newsroom and cigars William Watkins, and HF Greenland, books and stationery, was Charles R. Parkinson, bakery, WW Rice, drug Greenland & Son, merchant tailors, JW Hall, goldsmith, HN Clark, goldsmith, CF Phelps, save and HH Hamilton, meat , WW Rainey, harnesses, RA Niles & Co., clothing, EL Riggall, meat, FE Richardson, grocer, CW Covell, boots, shoes, clothes, etc. B. Voilmer, general store, DS Reidy, harnesses, Nichols & Loomis, general grocers, JD Warner, meat, HA Rouse property, general store (managed by CH Rouse); Tillotson & Needham, house furniture Wells Brothers, dry goods and groceries, PH Donnelly, groceries, Clark & Mulligan, dry goods and general merchandise , Enright & Barrett, furniture and undertaking Jackson Brothers, meat, John Wilson, is.

The early manufactures established in hydropower in Cazenovia was the trip hammer forging of Luther Bunnell, established as early as 1811; Nehemiah White chair shop, a woolen mill built by John Linck Laen and Elisha Starr, soon to Matthew Chandler & Son, a tannery in Started by Thomas Williams and his son, John, sold to R. & RG Allen; sawmill by David B. Johnson, the Fulling mill Sidney Roberts, a tannery established by Elisha Farnham, the Cazenovia paper mill built about 1810 by Zadock Sweet Land that were burned in 1859 and rebuilt, Cedar Grove woolen mill, the Fern Dell mills originally built for a woolen mill, but not used for this purpose; Crawford mower and Reaper Works, removed from Ilion in 1875, Lake Mills, built by Dr. Jonas Fay at an early stage, a mill operated by Edward Knowlton, a saw and planing mill operated by SF Chaphe and Reuben Parsons, all of which are fully described.

The current producer of Cazenovia includes transportation shop of JH O'Neil, creation of Cazenovia Wool and Felt company, employing more men sash, door and blind factory in TW Thayer & Co., Albert Chaphe's flouring mill, the foundry and mechanical workshop in Marshall & Card, the planing mill established by SF Chaphe, recently partially burned and rebuilt, blacksmith shops in PH Calhoun, Charles Bord Well, Martin McCabe and Barney Oiley and Brooklyn Creamery.

A private bank was created by JH Ten Eyck Burr in 1880 and is still in prosperous existence.

The town has three hotels-the Linck Laen house, built in 1835, is now conducted by Walter H. Young, Cazenovia house, built many years ago, now is undertaken by Charles E. Pratt, and Stanton House, formerly until 1879 Lake House, conducted by CM Stanton.

The Cazenovia Republican is an accomplished country weekly newswaper, established in 1854 by WH Phillips, and now performed by JA Loyster, which bought the company in 1890.

There are five churches in Cazenovia, as follows: Presbyterian, founded in 1798, with Rev. Joshua Leonard first pastor, the church was built in 1806 and extensively repaired in 1834. Present pastor, S. E. Persons. The Methodist Church formed as a part of Cortland Circuit in 1816 and incorporated in 1830, the first meeting house built in 1833 and the present in 1873. Baptist church, built in 1817, organized in 1820; church extensive repairs in 1868, burned in 1871 and rebuilt in brick in 1871 at a cost of $ 15,200, which was completed in 1880. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, organized in 1844 and incorporated in 1845, church built in 1848. St. James's Catholic Church, organized in 1849 by Rev. Michael Hayes; brick church built in 1849-52. The universalist church was organized in 1853, and after many years with little weak existence, fell, and ceased to exist.

Cazenovia is the seat of the famous seminary, which had an existence of about seventy-five years and is fully described in Chapter XXIV of this work. In the same chapter will be found an explanation for the EU's school in the village, which was established in 1874.

The first physician to settle in the village was Dr. Isaac Lyman, who continued in practice from 1799 until his death in 1854. Dr. Theophilus Wilson settled in the village in 1814, and Dr. Jonathan Silsby in about 1816, about which time Dr. David Mitchell located at.

The first lawyers in the village was Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Samuel Sidney Breese, who settled before the end of last century, Van Rensselaer lasted only a short time. David Dearborn, David B. Johnson, and possibly others were only for short periods, settled in the village during the first decade of this century. Perry G. Childs situated in the village around 1807, and was prominent in the profession. Charles Stebbins was a settler in 1810, and Justin Dwinelle and William J. Hough later. Later, lawyers Charles HS Williams, Levi Gibbs, Sidney T. Fairchild, Calvin Carpenter, Richard Thomas and Robert G. Paddock. The current lawyers in the village is Burr Wendell, MH Kiley, and AE Fitch.

Post Office at Cazenovia was probably established and maintained by John Linck Laen at his personal expense until there was sufficient revenue to support it. Records of its early history is flawed. It was kept for a time in Mr. Forman's store, and that his successor, JNM Hurd, who was postmaster until 1821, when he was succeeded by Jesse Kilborn, who held the office nineteen years.

The first fire engine in Cazenovia was purchased in 1810 at a cost of $ 100, and a company was organized in the same year composed of twelve members. The usual village rules on retention of fire buckets, as people were adopted, and as years went apparatus slowly increased. The first hooks and ladders were purchased in 1827 at a cost of $ 20. Old companies were from the other dissolved and new organized as fully described in earlier chapters. Prior to the establishment of the existing waterworks, which had two engines companies and one hose company maintained in the village, with enough extra equipment. The department now existing, established in 1893, consists of two hose companies and one hook and ladder company, with appropriate equipment for fire purposes. Alarms sounded on the bell of the Baptist church with buttons in different parts of the village, by means of electrical connections.

The Cazenovia waterworks was established in 1890 and to date has cost around $ 42,000. A reservoir is built with a capacity of 8000000 gallon, closed 178 meters above the lake. This is fed by springs and a pumping station with a capacity of 280000 gallon a day, taken from driven wells. The water is clean and plentiful supply for public purposes.

Cazenovia village supports an excellent public library, which contains about 5,000 volumes. It was previously maintained by private subscriptions. Building where it is situated, was given to authorities by RH Hubbard.

New Woodstock .- This is a nice village situated in the southern part of town, and a station on the Lehigh Railroad. Early merchants were Harvey and Alvin Smith, brothers who were in trade from around 1816 to 1830, and also operated a distillery. Joseph F. Clark was while Smith. Jesse B. Worden was an early merchant, and Harvey Morris opened a shop around the 1834th

The village now contains two churches, the Baptists and Methodists. The former was organized in 1800, with Elder James Bacon, a priest, a log meeting house was built in 1802, and a little latter united with the Presbyterians in the building of a framework structure. Baptists built a larger church of their own in 1816. This ancient community has ever since maintained its existence. The Methodist Church was organized in 1830.