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 PHOEHIX. I^^.Y.ANDVicimTY 
 
 Hdlidiiy Number, IfllK. 
 
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 PHCENIX, Oswego County, one of the prin- 
 cipal inamifacturiiig villages in Northern 
 New York, and next to the chief one in 
 the county, is situated on the Oswego river and 
 cansil and on the most direct line of the New York 
 Central raih'oad from Syracuse to Oswego — only 
 sixteen miles from each. Its proximity to Lake 
 Ontario (at Oswego) , affords an advantage which 
 most manufacturing towns do not possess. By 
 means of the Oswego canal which passes through 
 Phienix manufactured products lu'e easily and 
 cheaply carried to the lake for trans-shij^ment liy 
 harge or schooner, it lieing but a few hour.s' 
 joiu-uey with the slowest canal locomotion. Then, 
 t<io, it is within a few minutes' ride of the main 
 line of the Ceulral where direct connections with 
 all the fast trains on this great east and west iron 
 road are maile by those coming from Phoenix. 
 Twelve in number daily jjass thi-ough this village. 
 
 The Prospects for Phoenix to gi'ow, both in 
 jiopulatiou and commei'cial importance, were 
 never better. This fact has been recognized by 
 the men who are to build the trolly line lietween 
 this place imd the cities to the north and south, 
 since they selected Phoenix as the best of the 
 routes that are oflered between Syracuse and the 
 lake. Across the river, virtually in Phoenix, is to 
 be a second trolley line, a competitor of the first, 
 and both lines are to cany freight and express, 
 giving to Phoenix competition in rates by rail as 
 well as by water. 
 
 The Local Field of Trade includes several 
 smiJl but thriving hamlets within a few minutes' 
 drive, both in Oswego and Onondaga counties, 
 those on the west side of the river being in the 
 latter county. Roads cutting the adjacent rural 
 districts radiate from Phoenix like spokes to a 
 wheel and bring thousands of dollars to the cof- 
 fers of her merchants every year. 
 
 .\11 kinds of produce are raised liy the farmers 
 who do their trading at Phoenix, but the chief 
 productions are potatoes, veal and toljacco; hay, 
 butter, cheese and milk. Hamblefonian horses 
 of the purest breed sue raised here where the Van- 
 derbUts have secured one of their best teams. 
 Many of the farmers are the descendants of early 
 settlers whose farms are free of incumberances 
 and who, with the pride that the "old j^lace" in- 
 spires in most men's bosoms, have imjiroved and 
 recouped their places so that the section tributary 
 to this village is a veritable garden spot, dotted 
 
 (lUUUSTRAXED.) 
 
 with farms kejit up in the best order and as pro- 
 lific as the best of tilled land. 
 
 The Boatings Facilities on the canal give 
 Phttuix a daily packet to Syracuse and tri-weekly 
 express between Oswego and Utica. The 1,000- 
 ton barge canal that is practically assured to this 
 state will benefit Phoenix considerably, since the 
 main channel has been surveyed within two miles 
 of the village, along the Oneida and Seneca rivers, 
 to say nothing of the branch -a du'ect cut of 24 
 miles to Lake Ontario— which is to follow the 
 Oswego river passing through Phoenix. 
 
 This village has the usual telephone, local and 
 long distance, that is common to eveiy advanced 
 community. 
 
 The D. L. & W. railroad passes within three 
 miles of Phoenix and the N. Y., O. & W. railroad 
 about the same distance. Shippers who emi^loy 
 teams can secure competitive rates by hauling 
 their products to Lamsons on the first named 
 road or to Pennellviile on the other. 
 
 The Manufacturing Interests are peculiarly 
 favored with unlimited water jiower and an abun- 
 dance of natural gis. The Oswego river, which 
 falls at this point over a half mile of rifts, affords 
 a head of about eight feet. Behind it are thirty- 
 seven lakes — that immense chain which stretches 
 across Central New York and which pours all of 
 its waters through the Oswego river into Lake 
 Ontario. So it is plain that the force which 
 mores the wheels of industry in this village will 
 never give out. 
 
 The Water Pow^er, abundant and capable of 
 turning several more wheels, has already been 
 improved to the highest standard. A quarter of a 
 mile of river front and mOl races on each side of 
 the river offers plenty of room as well as water. 
 Money has been liberally invested in building 
 artificial channels that divert the flood of the 
 river and harness the wheels. On the east side, 
 in the village proper, several large, modern struc- 
 tures callable of accommodating manufacturera 
 considerably more extensively than many good 
 sized cities can offer, some of them already partly 
 occupied, have conveniences ready for tenants 
 equal to the very best. Not many years ago the 
 land upon which they stand came into the pos- 
 session of a gentleman of means whose ideas of 
 what were needed prompted him to erect Isirge, 
 commodious brick structures with all modem 
 improvements. Being somewhat in advance of the 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHcENlX. 
 
 immediate needs of the town he builded more ex- 
 tensively than was necessaiy, with the result tliat 
 there is now at hand ready for occuiiauy three big 
 factory buildings which can be obtained by any 
 firm that can give assurances of a permanent and 
 profitable industry, under the most advautageons 
 terms. 
 
 Some idea of the facilities offered is oljtained 
 from the following description: Four substantial 
 buildings, three of them three stories and the 
 other two stories, occupy splendid sites on the 
 banks of the canal and river. The power hon.se 
 where the electric light and water companies are 
 located, is 60x80 feet and is connected with three 
 water wheels. The snb-structure is all st<^ne, steel 
 and Indiana oak. It is three stories and has as 
 
 offices — private and public, power elevators, auto- 
 matic sprinklers and an unusually grand system 
 of fli-e-i:)roof vaults, five in number — a vault for 
 the offices, another for finished stock, one for fine 
 tools, etc., altogether five separate vaults. 
 
 All of these building.s rest on solid rock capable 
 of sustaining the tallest sky-scraper. They sre all 
 heated by .steam and f cpiipped for electric hght 
 and natural gas. 
 
 The Dam, crossing the river at a slight angle 
 from a straight course, is 800 feet long from shore 
 to shore, with a spillway of 440 feet and including 
 200 feet of Imlkheads. Two races, one -tO and the 
 other 20 feet wide, connect with a forebay having 
 an opening of 100 feet in one end and ")0 feet in 
 the other. The retaining wall, built on bed rock. 
 
 VILLAGE HOARD OF TRfSTEF-S. 
 
 \V H.Warner. S. J. Mover, Clerk. .lolin olirien. 
 
 JcihiiWing. O. M. Hcilly, Pre.«iili'nt. E. A. Talmr. 
 
 finely'finished offices as the best city buildings, 
 done oft in natural wood, with tile floors and fire- 
 places, bronze gridiron and jdate glass partitions. 
 and large vaults and cabinets. 
 
 The largest of the buildings, three stories high, 
 ha.s 180 window^s and is 40x120 feet. It is finished 
 otl' in the interior with more elegance than that 
 already mentioned. It has jiower elevators, auto- 
 matic sprinklers, offices, vaults, etc. The thud 
 of the three-story buildings is ])artly occu])ied but 
 it has conveniences for several light manufactur- 
 ing i)limts. ~ It was built for a knife factory 
 cij)able of turning out 100 dozen per day and em- 
 ])loyiug 150 hands. Another large building has 
 two stories and is 30x90 with a detached foundry, 
 30x50, connected",by passage ways. This is also 
 fitted up in a gi'and style, incltiding elegant 
 
 is 400 feet long and 14 feet high, the base being ."> 
 feet thick and the top 3 feet. It is seldom that 
 any water power has such natural and created 
 advantages as this one. What is better still, the 
 present factories use the water wheels the year 
 round, the sui)i)ly never Itecoming too low to run 
 the machinery under full headway. 
 
 The i^ower we have descrilied does not include 
 that across the river from Phtenix, where, although 
 the imiirovements are not so great there is offered 
 an abundance of river front and the same generous 
 sujiply of water. 
 
 The Manufactured Products of PhcEnix are 
 chiefiy tissiu> pajiers and toilet rolls. Here are 
 turned out every day in the year excejjt Sunday — 
 or rather every t«enty-four hour.*, for the mills 
 run' day and night — 2,000 reams (480 sheets to 
 
 £. r 
 
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■GRIP'S" HISTOKICAL SOUVEXU? OV PH(EN1X. 
 
 the ream); and there is ahout $2lili.iiltO invested 
 in these mills. Most of the work is doiii' l).v 
 machiuerv and the number of hands eniphnecl is 
 not so large for the size of the plants, as in many 
 other lines of miiniifaeturing. Probulily there are 
 about IM men laliorinj; day and nif^lit from 1"2 
 o'clock Sunday ni^ht to 12 o'clock Saturday 
 niulit. The |)a|iei- is turned out also in lart;e 
 
 Kiver Paper Co., the Phoenix Tissue Paper Co., 
 the Phreni.'c Toilet an<l Pa])er Co., and Sweet 
 Bros. Pai)er Manufacturing Co. Other manufac- 
 tui'ing companies and tirnis in Pluenix now en- 
 gaged in shipping their products all over the 
 country, besides the above mentioned, are: DufTy 
 IJros. \' Xellis. silk: Pierce k Penderg;ust, millers; 
 the Desk and KnilV Co.: tlie Plicenix Hot Water 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Moyer, Photo. 
 
 GHOLT' OF STREETS IX PH(EXIX. 
 
 rhestmit Eapt from Cherry, 
 ranal Smith from Bridge.* 
 Lock West from Jetferson. 
 
 sheets •10x00 inches, by one of the mills. Another 
 makes the colored tissues and cuts the pajier into 
 toilet rolls and packages. There are four pajjer 
 mills supplying even- xjortiou of the world with 
 tisstie and toilet papers. They are the Oswego 
 
 Main Snntli from r.ork. 
 Cjmal North frniiil^ tiek. 
 Ciuireli. h)okiiiir West. 
 
 Heater Co.; Otts Bros, foundry; Phoenix Yeast 
 and Spirits Co. ; M. C. Ryan, berry crate fasteners 
 and hinges; the Sinclair Chair Co.; E. B. Baker, 
 machinery; F.W. Alvord, harness: J. H. Looniis& 
 Sou.iuterior wood work; Phoenix Sliding BliudCo. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 The Natural Gas Supply is unlimited, being 
 used not only for heating, cooking and lighting, 
 but for both motive power and for welding, forg- 
 ing and brazing. One well alone sujJi)hes a 
 mUlion feet eveiy tweutv-fevu' hours. Every year 
 new wells are opened and invariably they yield 
 abundantly. 
 
 The Business Men's Association, incorpo- 
 rated, is eai'nest and progressive in its efi'orts to 
 promote the interests of the village and stands 
 ready at all times to give material aid to any in- 
 dustry which has a legitimate, permanent motive 
 in view. 
 
 Phoenix has a wide reputation for its homes, 
 churches and school. The streets are well shaded, 
 broad, clean and those most largely used are 
 macadamized. The village is lighted liy arc 
 lights well distributed through the streets. 
 
 The Lightini; Plant is wired for 1,500 incan- 
 descent and thirty arc lights and has a capacity 
 for more than double that number of both hghts. 
 
 Borrowed Photo. 
 
 THE OLD ItlVEK liKlDGE. 
 
 Its power is obtained from three water wheels and 
 a fourth can be put in at any time it is needed. 
 
 The Water Supply is the Oswego river, the 
 intakes Iteiiig ab(.)ve the village where the water is 
 free of all coutamiuation. The jnimping station 
 is capal)le of supplying two and a hall' million gal- 
 lons every twenty-tour hoTirs. Since the plant was 
 instituted in 1887, no fire has ever got out of the 
 building in which it started, and there has seldom, 
 if ever, been a total loss. 
 
 History of Phoenix -The village, situated 
 three miles below Three River Point at the foot 
 of the rifts in the Oswego river known as Three 
 River rifts, was laid out in village plots in 1836, 
 having in 1828 i-eceived its name from Alexander 
 Phcenix who purchased what is known as the 
 Phoenix patent from George W. Seriba, the ori- 
 ginal proprietor of the land. The village was 
 incorjiorated in 1848. The first settler was .Abram 
 Paddock who built a log cabin in 1801 and was 
 the first white man to make a home in the town of 
 
 Schroeppel. For years he followed trapping and 
 hunting, getting his living solely through his .skill 
 with his traps and his gun until his death, which 
 occurred in 1821. He bore the soliriquet of 
 "Bear Hunter Paddock" because he s aughtered 
 large nuaibers of bears which were numerous 
 hereabouts at that time. Buried in what was 
 then an unbroken wUderness, he was for six years 
 the only white inhabitant of the territory now 
 comprismg the town. The Oneida and Onondaga 
 Indians then came down the river over two trails 
 leading to Three River Point in search of game 
 and fish. Paddock, making fre(iuent trips to 
 Oswego, then an outjiost for traders, with his 
 trophies of the chase, exchanged jjelts for rum 
 which he traded with the Indians for the fruits of 
 theii' hunts. Being slu-ewd at bargaining he was 
 able to acquire large qutntities of fur in that way 
 and realize large profits from their sale at the fort. 
 In 1822 Simeon S. Chapin secured the log 
 house of Paddock and opened the tavern, three 
 years later erecting a frame addition, the first in 
 the village. lu 1827 Walter Peck erected a saw 
 mill and a year after he 
 opened a store in a build- 
 ing near the river bridge. 
 In 1828 Seth W. Burke 
 opened a blacksmith 
 shop, where tor a few 
 years he made all of the 
 tools that were used in 
 the little settlement. The 
 next year he erected the 
 grist mill for Alexander 
 Phtenix. 
 
 Charles S. Sweet, who 
 was a clerk for Waiter 
 Peck was in business 
 with his father in a store 
 near the lock. In 1838 he 
 ei'ected another store, 
 Joshua M. Rice at that 
 time also being engaged 
 in trade. 
 Hezekiah Barnes, who bought all of the pro- 
 perty belonging to Alexander Phoenix an-ived in 
 1835 and buUt the mill race, engaging very largely 
 in clearing adjacent lauds and carrying on the 
 manufacture of barrel staves, also in conducting 
 a store. 
 
 JIarshall and Wilbur Hale also had a store on 
 the banks of the cansd at the foot of Lock street 
 where they engaged in boat building. E. G. 
 Hutchinson was another early merchant in the 
 village who also engaged in milling. E. F. Gould 
 had a heading plant where he made barrel heads. 
 Hart & BiMUley for several years, up to the time 
 they were burued out, iu 1850, carried on tanning. 
 In the early days of the canal Phcenix was an 
 imi>ortiint boat building ])lace, tlie canal being 
 lined with boat yards. In 1872 there were five, 
 owned by Harwick & Breed, Joseph Gilliert, 
 Merry it Breed, E. J. Vickery and Belts & Pierce. 
 Among the merchants at that time were Gouver- 
 neur 5l. Sweet, John C. Hutchinson, Ralph O. 
 Barnes, Drs. Davis, Conger and C. O. Lee who 
 ojjened the first drug store in the village, and Seth 
 W. Alvord, harness msvker. 
 
•GRIP'S'- HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCEXIX. 
 
 The seaond grist mill in the village was erected 
 m 185S bv Pliny F. Coiiff'T who soon after took 
 in lus partner K<linuiul Merry. G. G. Rreed after- 
 ward^ be Mine pirt owner and in liSlid it was jnir- 
 <:Uascd by II. Wetherby & Co. who were running 
 it the following year when it was burned. They 
 erected a new structure and continued the busi- 
 ness until lS7i). The property was then leased by 
 .\miisii 1'. Ihii't it Co. who were succeeded by 
 Payne ISigelow. 
 
 The Oswego River cheese factory was built in 
 18153 by Ira Gould. In 18138 A. W. Sweet estab- 
 lished the Phoenix Coffin and Casket works which 
 in 18!11 was converted into a paper mill by Frank 
 Dilts of Fulton. The Plioeuix Knife Co. was ori- 
 ginally organized, in 18S0, as the Central City 
 Knife Co., and finally took the former name in 
 18SI:i. The Ph(euix Hardware Mannfacturing Co. 
 was moved Ihmv from Syracuse in 1888. In 1892 
 the fouudrv of .John O'Brien and the Table works 
 of L. S. Wilson were started. Then, in 1894, 
 came the Syracuse Storage Battery Co., followed 
 l)v the Phtenix Hot M'ater Heater Co. 
 
 John P. Rice; Dyer, William and Samuel P\itnam, 
 M. S. Cushman, E.G. Fitzgerald, Calvin B.lNIerwiu, 
 Stephen B. Johnson, William Gilliert, E. I). Har- 
 ington, J. F. Simons, A.d. and .\masa P. Hart; 
 James H. Loorais, Charles Sherman, Simeon S. 
 and Stebbin Chapin; (Jcorge P. Withers, Estes 
 Rector; Issac and John Wing; A. B. Getty, Dr. 
 Charles M. Lee, Lewis Rowe, Samuel Foote, W. 
 
 B. Hatch; William and George Leslie; Drs. Ran- 
 dall, Williams and Rice; G. H. Xortlirup, Elman- 
 sou Clie.se.bro, Samuel Foote; Erastns, John and 
 Willard (iould; Francis David; E. G. and John 
 
 C. Hutchinson; George Wright, John C. Fuller, 
 Andrew Baird, H. W. Weeden; Sylvester and 
 Benjamin F. Jones; A. Speninberg; John I., 
 Rufus and Augustus Diefendorf ; N. ('. and Seth 
 W. Alvord; Ira Betts, John Wing; Pliilo, John 
 and Hiram Carpenter; W'ilber and Marshall Hale; 
 
 Charles W. Avery, Dr. A. P. Hammill, Viek- 
 
 ery. Dr. (ierritt Smith, C!harles W, Candee, 
 Ashley P. Northrup, W. B. Howard, Ephraim 
 ^laxtield, Stephen Cathart: Joseph and Richard 
 Fralick; Josiah, John and Hiram Fox; John and 
 
 I HK M-.u I; I \ hi; ijiillM.h. 
 
 Earliest Settlers of Phoenix.- The follow- 
 ing are among those who lived in Phienix in ISH.j: 
 Walter Peck, Hezekiah Barnes, Nathan Huntley, 
 Hugh Huntley, Dr. Brown ; Curtis and Richard 
 Hunger; Seth W. and Frank Burke ; .Tames Barnes, 
 Ed. Noyes, David Capron, Samuel Allen, Ralph 
 O. Barnes; .^din, Henry, Oliver. Charles and 
 George G. Breed; Alva and .Jonathan Wood; 
 Widow Mdes, Elijah Rice; Gen. and Samuel 
 Richardson; Frances G. Barnes; John and Frances 
 Porter; John Barnes andOiange ('hap]iel;Cuarles 
 N., Charles S., .\ddison and (iimverneur M. 
 Sweet. 
 
 The following luv among the earliest comei-s 
 after the year 18:^.5; many of them settled in 
 Phcenix before the year 1810. and the others, or 
 most of them, before the year 18)0: — William 
 Wart, Jerry Waggoner, George Cabel; Sanmel 
 and Edmund Merry; Edward Baxter;. Job. William 
 Uzzich, Davis, Pliny and Enoch Conger: .\ntliciny 
 and Peter Ijajioint; .Joseph and Dudley Fish; 
 Timothv Olmstead, .Joseph Hauehetf : .loseph and 
 Calvin A. Gilbert: Thomas R. Dutcher; Dudley 
 and .Tames Breed; Kinnev; J. M. and George 
 Williams; Chauncy B. \VaU, Hosea B. Russ, 
 Elder Gifford, Harvey Hollister; Joshua M. and 
 
 William Payne; Dr. Samuel .\very, Samuel Flynn; 
 Timothy, Jeduthen and Henry T. Sweet ; Thomas 
 Briggs and George Baxter. 
 
 The Path of the Jesuits. — In the 17th cen- 
 tury the .Jesuits three times encamjied on the 
 present site of the vil age of Phoenix. Long before 
 the English tver came here the French made fre- 
 ipient journeys from Montreal and Quebec to the 
 territo y of theOnondagas with whom they treated 
 as the diplomatic representatives of the Iroquois. 
 The .Jesuit priests being desirous of e tablishing 
 their missions among that warlike race, came up 
 the St. Lawrence river into Lake Ontario, then 
 crossed to the entrance of Oswego river following 
 that stream and Seneca river to the lake of Onon- 
 daga fiom whence they were guided to the capital 
 of that nation live mUes south. This Wius the 
 only course followed to reach the Indian country 
 during the seventeenth century. .\mong the 
 Jesuit fathers whose feet have trod this unbeaten 
 forest i)ath were Francis Joseph le >rerci('r, J. 
 Claude Dablon, Fatijer Cholonec, Father Le 
 Moyn •, Jean Quien, Paul I.e Jeune, Paul Rague- 
 neau, Jerome Lalleniant and Isiuic logues. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOm^^NIR OF PHOENIX. 
 
 The latter came through as early as 1642 and 
 returned in Mav, 1646, as an envoy from the 
 French. In 1633 Father Le Movne with one 
 companion, guided by several Indians, followed 
 the east shore of the Oswego river ou foot. He 
 has left an account of that voyage in which he 
 says that they set out on their return from the 
 Onondagas on the 15th ol August. The ne.xt day 
 he arrived -'at the entrance of a small lake" (On- 
 ondaga) where he tasted of a fountain "which the 
 Indians were afraid to drink," saying it is iuhab- 
 ted hv a demon who renders it foul. He found 
 it to V)e salt water from which he made a little salt, 
 part of which he carried to Quebec. Coutiuuiag 
 his journal, he writes of iiassing the river of "the 
 Senecas" and further beyond, that of "the Onei- 
 das." Three miles below, he reached some rapids 
 which he says "gave the name Three Kiver Rifts 
 to a village of fishermen." Here he encamped for 
 two nights and a day, resuming his journey down 
 the Oswego river on the 19th. This was where 
 the village of Phieiiix now stands. On the 18th 
 of August, 1653, this renowned French .Jesuit 
 spent the day in devotions on the bank of the 
 
 river where miw the industrial life of a bus 
 
 dl- 
 
 nho had been a caijfiveamong the Onondagas and 
 who was returning alone to the country of her 
 people. "I had," said she, "two children in my 
 captivity; but alas, they have been massacred by 
 their captors, and I have every day to dread a 
 similar fate. Death stands before me contin- 
 ually. We had to console her," relates the 
 chronicler, "and afterwards confess to her, then 
 leave her quickly, to follow our guides, who took 
 us this day to Tethiroguen (Oneida river |." Ho 
 the .Jesuits had even confessed their Indian con- 
 verts in the seventeenth century on the site of 
 moderu Ph(enix. 
 
 The next time that ^\-e have knowledge of any 
 c<msiderable expedition of the Jesuits ou this 
 track in the woods is when the large company of 
 Fathers and their .attendants set out to establish 
 their missions ou the shore of Lake Genentha 
 (Onondaga). After years of unremitting etibrt 
 thev had got permission from the Onondagas to 
 establish a French colony at Onondaga lake. 
 Fatht-rs Claude Dalilon, Le ^levcier, Rene Mes- 
 nard, .Taciues Fremeu and Brothers Ambrose 
 Broar and Bourzier left (juebec. ^lay 17, 1756, 
 accompanied by a party of Frem'hmen, under the 
 
 Mrs. S. ,1. Mo.wT, ri 
 lage has taken the place of the dark recesses of 
 that unexplored forest in which he read his brev- 
 iary while his cauoemen were engaged in repairing 
 the canoes. 
 
 Fathers Joseph Chaumout and Claude Lablon 
 journeying to the Onondagas in 1655, also made 
 their encampment on the site of the village of 
 Phtenix, or rather a few rods down the river. On 
 the 3(lth of October they left Lake Ontario to "go 
 by Land to Onondaga." The same day they met 
 several Oneida warriors led by Atondutochan 
 (Pierced Xose) who were going -to make w.ar 
 against the Xez Perces. On the evening of Nov. 
 2, they ai-rived at "a favorable camping spot" and 
 pitched their camp 
 same auspice 
 
 at the same sign, under the 
 hicli had always shown upim our 
 journey, the evening star." Here, where tlie 
 shore is now covered with factories, they laiil 
 themselves to rest under the clear cold sky of 
 November, in the midst of a wilderness solitude. 
 The devout missionaries, who thought only of 
 spre;uliug their faith audl)reparing the i)agans for 
 deatli by baptism, rejoiced over one incident 
 which occairred on the morning they lelt their en- 
 campment. There appeared among them like an 
 apparition out of the dark forest a Huron woman 
 
 THK UIVIvK. (IPPOSITE Pill K.N IX. 
 
 command of Sieur Dupuys, and several tribes of 
 Indians. They carried a white Hag with the word 
 "Jesus" jjainted on it in lai'ge letters. This com- 
 pany which occupied four mouths in reaching the 
 Oswego river nearly perished from hunger. They 
 sought rest and succor at the mouth of the Salmon 
 river, where they were so di'iven to want of food 
 that they lived on berries. Glad enough to take 
 their chances on the waves of the lake, they finally 
 got away, leaving a reminder of then- hardship.s 
 bv giving to that river the name of La Famine. 
 On July Sth th y attemjited the asceut of the Os- 
 wego river in their canoes. So disheartene<l in 
 spirit and reduced in strength were they, that they 
 actually could not make head against the current 
 of the i'ivcr and were absolutely conquor. d when 
 they tried to get up the rapids. Writes theh' 
 chronicler: "The next day we found currents of 
 water so rapid that it required all of our force to 
 surmount them. I confess that the faces of most 
 of us were haggard and worn, and we felt down- 
 cast and discouraged. Before lyuig down in the 
 evening, we had only a droj) of brandy to distrib- 
 ute among all of our company * * * In hict, 
 we only made one league this day, part of our 
 peoiJe'failmg sick and the rest losing their cour- 
 
"GKIP'S- IIIsrolurAL SOUVENIK OF i'HCEMX. 
 
 iige with tlii'iv sti'ciit;fh." Fiiialh. tlirv siiw n 
 fanoc ill tin' (listaucf ladeiu'd with [H'ovisions 
 which "seemed to Hy tDwarils us riither tlmii lif 
 rowed," und whicli had heeu sent hy Father 
 Chaumonont. who, the previous year, had re- 
 mained behind with the Ououdagas and upon 
 h'aruiug of the approach of his fone.i>,'ues hail 
 taken the first opportunity to suiror them. And 
 this event, coming down to us through the eeu- 
 tiu-ies, oeeurred only a few- miles down the river 
 from Pluenix. One' man of this i)arty that same 
 iii},'ht took from the stream twenty salmon, and 
 the next day, so plentifully does it pimr when 
 after a droutii there's rain, th.it thirty-four large 
 salmon were captured hy spearing them with 
 swords or were killed from lilows with the oars. 
 
 )f welcome to their 
 
 treachery, gave assuranc(w 
 visitors. 
 
 Three River rifts is liut a short jourTiey from tlic 
 Onondaga lake, which this i)arty reached the fol- 
 lowing day, with the sun at the meridian. There 
 the whole Onondaga nation, "a great multitud- 
 of people," were assembled to receive them, for it 
 was on the north shore of that body of water that 
 a place had been selected to est d)lish their mis- 
 sion. Three wonderful things attracted their al- 
 t<:mtion on this lake, the salt springs "with salt 
 ready made deposited upon the ground," "great 
 inas.ses of pigeons that gathered about these 
 springs" and the ai)iiearance of strange .seri)ents. 
 •■unseen elsewhere," which "we call serpent a 
 sonnettes (rattlesnake) because in creeping they 
 
 Mr?. S. ,T. MiiyiT, Pliot.i. 
 
 Main street South from Mediaiiic. 
 Canal North from Mtchanic. 
 
 This happened while "passing thi'iugh a saiilt." 
 probably in the wide waters belo-r Fulton. 
 
 That evenmg the third encampment of.Te.suits 
 from France to be pitched on the jiresent site of 
 Phoenix, capped the delights of the day by giving 
 the holy fathers a period of rest and devotion. 
 What gives greater imjjortance to this e\ent and 
 iidds interest to the history of this locality, is that 
 when they drew their canoes from the water they 
 were met by the leading chiefs of the Onondagas, 
 who had come to receive them in the sylvan 
 shades of the Oswego, who were followed by a 
 large retinue of braves. Then ensued "a big 
 talk" in which the chiefs, the better to hide then- 
 
 I'KHTTY VIl.LAtiK STKEETS. 
 
 Michanic West from Jefferson. 
 Davis looking' West. 
 
 n:ake a noise like a locust or grasshopper." The 
 next mouth the Jesuits built a chapel. The mis- 
 sion they called St. Mary's of Lake Genentaha. 
 This inis-sion continued less than two years. The 
 contemplated treachery of the (!)nou<lagas Ijecom- 
 ing known to Dnpuys. tlie military commandant, 
 he caused secretly a number of canoes to be made 
 in the garret of the mission house and on the 
 night of the I9th of March, 1658, while the Onon- 
 dagas were engaged in feasting, the entii-e colony 
 stole to its boats and retraced its way down the 
 lake and the river to ( )swego and thence to Mon- 
 treal, an-iving there in safetv. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTOPICAL SOUVEXIK OF PHCEXiX. 
 
 Golden Rule Lod^e, No. 245, 1. O. (). F., Wiis 
 instituteil, Aug. 15, LSiO, by Henry L. Davis, 1). 
 D. G. M., for Oswego coiiuty, witli the following 
 membershii] O. W. Fanilall, S. S. Baclieliler. 
 Wm. Conger, J. G. Hiill, U. Conger, (i. W. 
 Thompson, Edward Baxter, Amasa P. Hart, Dudley 
 Fish, !-^amnel Avery, Taeoli Xellis, A.sli'ey P. 
 Northr()|., E S. Chapin, W. (.i. Hat.-li, S. W. Al- 
 vord, Tiiomas Davis, Chas. Breed and Curtis 
 Munger. 
 
 The following were elfc-tedortiivrs: (). W. Paii- 
 dall, N, G. ; S. S. Bachelder, V. (i : Dudley Fish, 
 secretary: Wm. Conger, treasurer. The first 
 room the lodge occupied was in the Hanchett 
 block. Tuesday evening of each week wa- the 
 night selected for meeting and fr.mi that ti I'e 
 until the present not a meeting night has be. n 
 missrd. 
 
 In 1850. the lodge moved into the Leslie block, 
 to gain more room. 
 
 Island Tradition. Years ago a tradition ex- 
 isted relative to what was known as Baldwin island 
 in the river opposite Ph enix. At the time the 
 French Jesuits at Onondaga, it is said, fled from 
 an apprehended massacre which they feared had 
 been phmned by the Ouondagas, and at Ijreak of 
 day made their escape from the mission house by 
 means of canoes, many of them took refuge ou 
 this island. The Indians they supposed to be in 
 full pur.suit, and in order to lighten their canoes 
 they disposed of a large quantity of treasure, in- 
 cluding gold w hich they buried in the sand between 
 the islan<l and the mainland, and brass cannon 
 supi)Osed to have been sunk in the river. In the 
 early history of the settlement repeated efforts 
 Avere made to uuea th the booty but with- 
 out getting any trace of hidden tre.isures. There 
 are peo])le still living who well remember the old 
 man and his son who, year after yeai' under the 
 cover of darkness, supposing that they worked 
 
 Elsasser, Photu. GOLDEN KCl.K LdDGE, I. O. ( >. F., No. TT. 
 
 1, Deforest Crandall, 2, E. A. Gutlii.li, :i, W. S. Wallace, 1, F. W. Hakes, .5, .John Wing, B, Orville Walker, 7, S. 
 S. Waterbury, 8, Pharlep Dence, 9, Cliarl.s Cory, 10, Charles Sixburv, 11, Ed. Hansel, 13, Howard McGann, 13, Ed- 
 ward Dykeman, 14, Thorn Ma.vHeld. l."j, Anlhon.v Mickle, IB. A. B. Koss, IT, Frank Spanlding-. 1«, Kichard S.Kellar, 
 19, E. S. Patchcn. 3(1, M. S. Dutcher, 31, E. ('. X'ickery, '^-J, H. -M. Porter. 2;!, James Brazier, 34, Flojd Turpening, 
 25, Frank Kellos-'a-. 3B, W. H. Withers, 3;, WaltiT Horr, 3.S, R. Y. Allen, 3il, Albert Huntley, »\ E. .1. Drury, 31, E. 
 R. Sweet, 33, H. I). Latham, :«, ISruce Decker, 34, Archie Fuller, :«, W. S. HIake. 36, Arthur Moyer, 3T. Mose Ram- 
 bar, 38, Warren Chawjto, 3(1, Mortimer Becker, 411, George Otts, 41, Hiram McGanu, 42, Edward K. Fish, 43, W. D. 
 Thompson, 44, Ji hn ». Pajne, 4.5, T. C. Tagjjarl, 4B, George P. Breed, 47, Amos Munson, 4», L. B. Powers, 49, M. 
 M. Cartter, 50, J. E. Jones, .11, Asa M. Burgess, .-)3, F.W.Burleigh, .>!, Emory Smith, ."i4, George Heselton, 55, 
 Harlow Sixbury. 
 
 At the time of the institution of this Lodge, 
 there were two Grand Lodges in the state, known 
 as the northern and southern districts. At the 
 time of the consolidation of the two districts into 
 one Grand Lodge of the state of New York, the 
 number of this Lodge was changed to No. 77. In 
 1873 another move was made to the Betts block, 
 and in 1898 the lodge moved into its new and ele- 
 gant rooms in the Hansel block. The member- 
 ship at present is 160. Following is a list of its 
 present officers: I.. B. Pomerov, X. G. ; A. F. 
 Munson, V. G. ; J. E. Jones, R. S. ; W. D. Thomp- 
 Bon, F. S. ; T. C. Taggart, T. ; R. D. Latham, K. 
 S. N. G. ; E. R. Sweet, L. S. X, G. ; F. Hooker, 
 R. S. V. G. ; Howard McGann, L. S. V. G. : Floyd 
 Turpening, W. : .\lbert Huntley, C. : E. B. Nelson, 
 O. G. ; Geo. Sturgiss, I. G. ; Chas. Sixbury, chap- 
 lain; E. Dykeman, R. S. S. ; D. Kautz, L. S. S. 
 
 unobserved, dug in the earth at the head of the 
 island uutQ they had turned up several feet of 
 ground. Boating parties a half century ago found 
 numerous excavations on the island showing the 
 great amount <if labor in fruitless search for the 
 mythical treasures of the Jesuits of the seven- 
 teenth century; and there are still traces of digg- 
 ing to be seen <'Overed with grass and bushes. 
 
 Battle of Mann Farm. - One of the most 
 severe fights between the French and Indians on 
 one side and the English on the other, occurred 
 only a fe.v miles below Ph nix, giving to the 
 na.ne of that locality Braddock, which is a distor- 
 tion of the correct name Bradstreet. It was on 
 the morning of the 3d of July, 175(!, that Col. 
 Bradstreet. the commander of an English expedi- 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 tion that Lad safely wrivecl at ()swej;ii witli Mip 
 plies, set out on liis return to AHmny. The party 
 consisted of three hiuuhed houtuicn with a larfje 
 numl)cr of bateaux which they had Ijuinched upon 
 the Oswej^o river. Their course, the only high- 
 way then available between Alljany and Oswego, 
 was to Tliree Rivi>rs, thence through Oneida rivei- 
 into Oneida hike, and along Wood creek into the 
 Mohawk river which was followed to its junction 
 with the HudsDU, exce}it V)y small parties who 
 tramped over the hills from Schenectady. The 
 French .-md Inilians ti) tlie number of seven hun- 
 dred had been watching several days upon the 
 stream to intercept the i)arty. Seven miles up 
 the river from Oswego is a stretch of ra])ids at the 
 foot of which Ool. Bradstreet's advance was first 
 attacked with a volley tired from the woods on the 
 east side of the stream Pushing on rapidly with 
 
 lu'low, pushed on witli tlie same vigor, and there 
 encountering a still larger force made a desjierate 
 tight, tinaily driving the enemy over to the east 
 shore. In this action, which lasted more than 
 three hours, seventy of the bateau men were killed 
 or wounded, but the enemy lost more than double 
 that number, many of whom were shot in the 
 river while endeavoring to swim or wade across. 
 .\11 that saved the Bradstreet jiarty from a second 
 attack, when they would j)robably have eventu- 
 ally been overwhelmed by a suiierior foKu^, was 
 the timely arrival of re-inforcements; Col. Patten 
 with a company of grenadiers from Albany arriv- 
 ing that night, and a jiarty who had been sent out 
 from Oswego to lend a helping hand coming into 
 camp the next morning. The scene of this fight 
 is less than two miles below Oswi^go Falls where 
 now stands the fionrishing city of Fulton. 
 
 Elsass.T. IMr.tu. JuE UOrLI) I'l >ST. WciMAN S KEI.IEl' cnld'S. N.i. Is."). 
 
 1. Mrs. May Ta^rtrart, :;, Mrs. Cora Ca^e. :{. Mrs. Tottfiiliaiii, 4. Mrs. Carrier. .'> Mrs. Lizzie Mover. H, Mrs. 
 May Bennett. T, Mrs. Duboise, s. Mrs. Cariuiitcr, 9. .Mrs. Darliiiif, lu. Mrs. Deeker, 11, Mrs. Ballou, 12, Mrs. 
 Gutliph. i;i, Limbacb, U. Mrs. Woodcock. 1.'). Mrs. Uutcliir. Hi. Mrs. W. E. Sparrow, 17, Mrs. Smith, 18, Mrs. 
 Crosby. IH. Mrs. Cathart. 30. Mrs. Kciivoii. 
 
 his leading boats to itn island (Battle Island i a 
 short distance above, in order to prevent the 
 enemy from crossing the river and attacking his 
 columns which were following the west bank, 
 Bradstreet and six men landed and the rest were 
 ordered t<i secure the V)oats on the west side and 
 join in the defence. After repulsing a se<-ond 
 attack he led two hundred men a mile higher to 
 another ford where he fell upon a large body of 
 French and Indi.ins and after a .severe engagement 
 drove them pre.-ipittitely over the lihiU's on the 
 west shore, many of them being drowned. Hear- 
 ing of an attempt to cross being maie a mOe 
 farther up stream. Br.idstreet with the balance of 
 his party that had in the uieHntime come up from 
 
 Th3 Wo3ian's Relief Carps of Joe Gould 
 
 Post was organized May lli, 1899, with the foUow- 
 iiig cliarter members: Maria Richardson, Lizzie 
 Moyer, Almenia Carrier, Mary Van Horn, Laura 
 CoviUe, EmUy Dutcher, Ella Decker, Xora Hiird- 
 ing, Adahne Cornell, Lottie Crosby, Mary Sea- 
 mans, .May Bennett. 
 
 Mrs. Swartz, of Post Schenck, Fulton, officiated 
 and Maria Richardson was installed president. 
 She .served the corps in that capacity until Nov- 
 ember, IS.);), when by reason of removal from the 
 villiige she resigned. In Decemlier, 1899, Mrs. 
 Emily Dutcher was elected president, which office 
 she holds at the present time (November, 1902). 
 There are now twenty-five members. They 
 
10 
 
 "GEIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 occupy tbe G. A. R. rooms in the Fuller V)lock, 
 which they have titted up with new carpets and 
 window di-aperies, making it a very pleasant and 
 inviting place, in which they hold tlieir meetings 
 on the tirst and third Thui'sday evenings of each 
 month. As an auxiliary to the Post, the ladies of 
 this organization help in caring for the sick. 
 
 The Settlement of Schpoeppel, (pronounced 
 Skruppel) was begun in 1800. It lies in the south 
 part of Oswego county in the angle formed by the 
 junction of Oswego and Oneida rivers. The town 
 received its name from Henry W. Schnepiiel, 
 whose father George C. Schrcepi)el, was the ori- 
 ginal owner of 20,000 acres of land which he jnir- 
 chased from George Hcriba. Henry Schneppel 
 
 PennellviUe. His son who ran the mill lived at 
 Oak Orchard many years. 
 
 Archibald Cook settled at Gilberts Mills in 1818 
 and the same year Hyman and Stephen Sutton 
 bought large triicts of laud upon which they built 
 the following year. Andrus and Hiram Gilbert, 
 Israel Burritt, John Willard and a Mr. Phillips 
 were among those who arrived in 1819. 
 
 John F. Whitney, a Vermonter, settled on the 
 site of Hinmansviile in 18'21 and built a log house 
 at the east end of the river bridge. The next year 
 the families of Jonathan Hall and Samuel Merry 
 became valued additions to the settlements. An 
 early settler at Oak Orchard was "Tory" Foster, 
 who acquired the name by his connection with 
 the Torv cause of the revolution. 
 
 .J. Mny.T. I'h.itn. .\TTli.\("nVE STHEKTS. 
 
 Fulton, North from Patcht'ii's Itesi^lenci'. 
 Main, North from Mechanic. 
 
 Jefferson, North from I'iiic 
 HarTies, Locking West. 
 
 settled in the town in 1819 and lived there up to 
 the time of his death. The tirst white settler was 
 Abram Paddock who built a cabin at the foot of 
 the rifts on the present site of the village of 
 Phoenix. His death in 1821 was the first in the 
 town. Thomas Vickery, whose decendants are 
 living at Phoenix, settled at Three River in 1807. 
 followed by John Lemanier in the same year, and 
 David Winter who came soon after. The next 
 settler was \\'illiani Miles in 1808. Then came 
 John Foster in ISM. In 1818 George Scliriep])el 
 erected the tirst fr imc house in the town and the 
 following year he put up a saw mill, both at Oak 
 Orchard. He died in New York city in 182') and 
 was buried in Trinity church yard. His remains 
 wei^e afterwards removed to the cemetery at 
 
 (xeorge Waring settled in the town in 1824: and 
 the same year married a daughter of Jonathan. 
 Hall. The next two years John Curtis and 
 Stephen Grifiith became residents of the town. 
 
 Other settlers during the next three years were 
 Henrv Allen, Olestes Jewett, Frederick Shepard, 
 Asa Shepard, Jonathan Butts, Truman Baker, 
 Stephen Chati'ee, George Conrad, I. H. Dygert, 
 Samuel Flvnn. Charles Hubbs, Alonzo Utley, 
 Moses Wood, Rodney S. Gregg and Keuben 
 Sutton. Rodney S. Gregg was for several years a 
 tavern keeper at' Pennellville and was succeeded 
 by his sou Ambrose. 
 
 Stephen Sutton, the father of Reuben served at 
 Sackets Harbor in the conflict of 1812. 
 
 Deacon Turner came in 1831, Thomas E. Haw- 
 lev and Cah in Mason 1882, John Fitzgerald from 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF THCKNIX. 
 
 rr 
 
 SiinitoKii. N. Y., iiiul -loliii H;i<kin l.s:!:!, Aiitlidiiy 
 Youiimus is;i4, Diinicl I'Liillips iiiul Abial Snydor 
 1S:!5. Trior to IS 11 tin- settlers ineliided ,lohu A. 
 Younians, Charles \V. C.iudee, He/.ekiiil Harues, 
 rsaac Wiiifi, Isaae Mason, PhUo M. Carpeuter, 
 Ira Davis, OrviUe VV. Chillis, Allen Gilbert, John 
 IiifrersoU, Asa MeXainara, John Bottom, Isiuve 
 Like. John Haskin, Asn Gilbert, J. E. Gregg, 
 >ripli.iel (irillin, Wni, Dingman, Nathan Hnnth\v, 
 Jesse Page. Hnncan Conger. Elias Tliomas. (Jar- 
 ret C. Swei't ami .Innius Wood. 
 
 .\s sliowing tlie wild and uninhaMted condition 
 of the eountrv at that time the exiierienee of 
 John Haskin who got lost in a tamaraek swamp 
 while retnrning from mill at Canghdenoy is inter- 
 esting. The distance lietween his honse and the 
 mill was only three and a half miles, lint he at- 
 teni]ited to cut short through a swam]). An eu- 
 tin> night an<l day werespent in wandering around 
 absolutely lost and he was twice as long without 
 food. 
 
 Robert 1). Ellis arrived in 1813 and :M. F. Belts 
 in 1845. Other settlers during the next ten years 
 were G. H. Northrup. Wm. C. S])oouenburgh. 
 Ira Belts, R. and \. Towusend, James Crane, 
 Henrv and Iliram Fox, Hiraju Parker. Harvey H. 
 
 Early War Partie?. The site of Phii-ui.t 
 village is rich with historic as.sociations. .\11 of a 
 century before the whit(> settlers arrived, French 
 e.'cplorers followed the Osweyo river in their 
 journeyings to and from the Indian villages of the 
 six nations and Canada. Monsieur l)u|)nys is 
 known to have brought a large party up the 
 Oswego river as early ii« lti.")() and to have- 
 encamiied but a few miles from I'll eiiix near 
 what .some years ago wiis known as the White 
 Honse on the east side of the river. Connt Fron- 
 tenac ])assed a few miles east of here at IJrewcrton 
 in lliiMi when on his way to chastise the IriKpuiis. 
 Gov. Burnet traverseil the wilds of thi^ region 
 with a i)arty of English .soldiers and Indians in 
 1722. and in 1755 Gov. Shirley led 1.5(li) men 
 and Imlians along the forest path and by bateaux 
 upon the river on his way from .\lbauy to Oswego. 
 
 Three River Rifts was the name given to thi^ 
 rapids at this point although three miles al)ove 
 Ph 1 nix, the junction of the Oneida, Seneca and 
 Oswego rivers gives the same name to that locality. 
 
 The County Seat Question hius from time to 
 time agitati'd the pi-ople of Oswego county who 
 have ditlired in oiiinions respecting its locatiim. 
 
 Mrs. S.J. Movci-. Thot.i 
 
 ITI/niN STHKKT NoKlll l-l'.nM K. liKKEDS RESIDENTK 
 
 Smith, Riley 1). Price, Oliver Bree<l, Andrew P. 
 Hamill, Hosea B. Russ, Travis Porter, James H. 
 Looiuis, James N, Sweet, Wm. and Dr. Davis 
 Conger, Orrin C. Stebbins, H. W. Schrceppel, 
 Van Rensselaer Sweet, C. E. Hutchinson, M. M. 
 Carter, A. H. Brainard, Capt. Amasa P. Hart, 
 David Porter, Joshua M. Rice, Abrani Vander- 
 Benjamiu Hinmau, Setli Burke, Dyer Put- 
 
 pool, 
 
 Brooks, (Jilsou D. 
 
 W. Sweet, Hiram 
 
 .\rtemus Ross and 
 
 nam, Enoch S. and John H. 
 Carrier, H. (i. Vickery, A. 
 Norton, Eu<icli Douglass, 
 James Barnes. 
 
 A heavy growth of timber originally covered 
 the entire town, an<l its chief industries for many- 
 years were lumbering and stripping bark for 
 biuneries. Ijarge (piautities of barrel staves and 
 headings were manufactured for the Syrncuse .salt 
 and the Oswego tlour trade. In ISlll) there were 
 in the town a large number of saw miUs and 
 shingle mills. 
 
 The principal streams are Six-Mile, or Peter 
 Si'ott's creek. Fish and Bell creeks aiul Sandy 
 brook, besides the Oneida river which flows along 
 the south-ea.st Ixu-iler of the town and uniting 
 with Seneca river at Three River Point forms the 
 Oswego river. 
 
 Under the authorily of the law erecting the 
 county, enacted March 1, IHKi, provision was 
 made lor two county seats, each representing one 
 ot the two "jury districts" into w-hich the county- 
 was then divided. The naming of what was to be 
 the two half-shire villages of the county was left 
 to three commissioners named in the jtct, viz: 
 Pearley Keyes and Ethel Bronson of the county 
 of Jeti'erscui, and Stephen Bates of the county of 
 Ontario, appointed, as the law read, "for the pur- 
 pose of examining and impartially determining the 
 proper sites, in the respective (jury) districts in the 
 county of Oswego, for court houses to be erected; 
 and when said commissiiuiers, or any two of them, 
 having so determined, shall put their determina- 
 tion in writing, with their signatures and seals 
 affixed thereto, and cause tlie same to be tile(l in 
 the clerk's office of the county of Oswego, such 
 determinatiiui .shall be final and conclu.sive." 
 
 The ('(mstructiou of court houses in Osw-ego 
 and Puhiski was begun in the summer of 1818. 
 That at Oswego was a wooden .structure designed 
 solely as a court house, although itsbasenent w-as 
 snbs(''ipiently tilted up for a jail. The court house 
 at Pulaski was a more |U-itentious structure, being 
 designed to accommodate a commodious jail. 
 
12 
 
 'GBIP'S" HISTOEICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCEXIX. 
 
 In 1853 the okl stoue jail on East Second street, 
 Oswego, was t-unstructed. \\hioh answered every 
 purpose until the eonqiletion of the new jail, in 
 1.S88. 
 
 In 1858 the lioard of supervisors approjiriated 
 ^iO.OOO for the erection of a new court house in 
 Oswego and S5.IKHI for enlarging and repairing the 
 court house in Pulaski. The former wsis com- 
 pleted in September, ISliO, and its cost was S610 
 less than the approjjriation, being $29,390. The 
 improvements on the court house at Pulaski were 
 made in 18.59. 
 
 Until 1853 the records of the county were kept at 
 intervals in places which seemed the most secure 
 in Oswego and Pulaski. By common consent 
 they were transferred from one jjlace to the other 
 with the election of a clerk, once in three years. 
 
 tax. The supervisors let the contract for the 
 erection of a one-story stone buildmg to C. H. 
 Cross and it was completed in that summer at the 
 cost of $1,295, on the site next west of the court 
 house. 
 
 In November of the same year an eiibrt was 
 made to have the county seat located permanently 
 at Oswego. This led to a hot discussion between 
 those who favored and those w ho opposed the 
 proposition It became so acrimonious that the 
 supervisors attempted to compromise by adopting 
 a resolution, Xovemlier 22, for the location of the 
 county clerk's office at Mexico, it being supposed 
 liy those who favored Oswego that the people of 
 that town might in that way be won over to the 
 plan of making Oswego the ])lace for the meetings 
 of aU of the courts. 
 
 In the winter of 1853 petitions for the division 
 
 W. E. Sparrow, Photi 
 
 THE BUILDEKS OF PH(EXIX 
 Born Settled in Uieii 
 Phteni.v 
 
 -GROrC OF EARLY SETTLER.S. 
 
 1, G. H. NDFthrup 
 
 1807 
 
 184-' 
 
 
 12, Enoch S. Brooks 
 
 3, Nathan Huntley 
 
 17ai 
 
 1829 
 
 1871 
 
 13, Thomas R. Butcher 
 
 3, Samuel C. Putnam 
 
 17% 
 
 1832 
 
 
 14. E. F. Richardson 
 
 4, John Gould 
 
 1797 
 
 1829 
 
 
 1.5. Simucl Merrj- 
 
 5, Ashley Watkine 
 
 1794 
 
 184(1 
 
 
 16. Aiuasa P. Hart 
 
 6, Seth \V. Alvord 
 
 IHIH 
 
 18.39 
 
 
 17. Samuel .\very 
 
 7, M. S. Cushman 
 
 ISll 
 
 1849 
 
 
 18, A. R. Sweet 
 
 8, James Barnes 
 
 IHIH 
 
 isai 
 
 
 19. Joseph HaAehett 
 
 9, Chauncy Wall 
 
 1«U 
 
 1837 
 
 
 2r. Hi-nrv Breed 
 
 10, Samuel Allen 
 
 1794 
 
 18.37 
 
 18B7 
 
 21, Oliver Breed 
 
 U, John Wall 
 
 1788 
 
 1828 
 
 1864 
 
 22. .Joseph Gilbert 
 
 Born 
 
 Settled in 
 
 
 Phoenix 
 
 1811 
 
 1828 
 
 18(18 
 
 1840 
 
 I81fi 
 
 1837 
 
 1K01 
 
 1830 
 
 181.5 
 
 1841 
 
 1812 
 
 1846 
 
 1R18 
 
 1837 
 
 1S10 
 
 1836 
 
 180H 
 
 1836 
 
 1808 
 
 1831 
 
 1810 
 
 1828 
 
 Died 
 
 By an act of April 11, 1851, the common council 
 of Oswego was authorized to expend not less than 
 $2,000, raised by a special levy municipsil tax, 
 for the erection of a tire proof cotinty clerk's 
 office in that city, which building was shortly 
 afterward constructeil, and there the records have 
 since been kept. On .\pril (i, 18,52, the citizens of 
 the town of Kichland were also authorized to build 
 a fire proof clerk's office on a lot given for the 
 purpose by Benjamin Wright in Pulaski, pro- 
 vided tliat it be finished by September 1, 1853. 
 and the town was authorized to raise $1,500 by 
 
 1873 
 1873 
 
 of the county were presented to the legislature. 
 In December, 1852, Judge Pratt granted an in- 
 junction restraining the county clerk from mov- 
 ing the records from hia office in the city of Os- 
 wego. By a subsequent action on the part of the 
 sui)ervisors sind by an act of the legislature the 
 jiernuinent location of the county clerk was fixed 
 at ( Iswego. 
 
 Seth 'W. Burke, "the village blacksmith, " ran 
 a shop on the site now occupied by the printing 
 office of the Phoenix Register. He was the first 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTOKIOAL H0U\T:NIR OF PHOENIX. 
 
 m 
 
 bliiekstuith in the village niul his tiiule wivs grent<»r 
 than he couUl utteml to. He was ii skilled 
 mechanic of the times when all iron work was 
 (lone by hanil. Also a huililer he wascalleil npon 
 when a large struetiiie was to he erected, the 
 Alexander Plupnix mill being put \\\i by him. 
 Bnrke's peculiar characteristic l)j- reason of which 
 he never secured oue-hulf of the fruits of his la- 
 bors, was never to dun a man. In fact those who 
 hail large running accounts with him, if they were 
 in his debt had the greatest ditTiculty to obtain a 
 settlement. James Barnes tells of one occasion 
 when his father, who was largely indebted to 
 Burke made several attempts covering a period of 
 several years to get his account irom the easy go- 
 ing blacksnuth and, finally, was able to olitain a 
 settkmeut and pay the large balance which he 
 knew he owed Burke, only after he had sent to 
 him a friendly summons issued by a justice. On 
 the other hand Burke was never diliatory in set- 
 tling accounts against himself. His was that rai'e 
 good nature backed by a sterling honesty that 
 made him many friends. While hammering iron 
 he studied law and in 1851 went to California 
 where he died rich. 
 
 county I, which lay on the ea.st s de of the Oswego 
 river. 
 
 On March 1, 18U), the ))resent county of ( )swego 
 was organized taking in all of Onondaga county 
 west of the O.swego river, excejjt a small strip on 
 the north shore of the Seneca river which the lat- 
 ter county still retains, and including within its 
 present limits that section west of the river origi- 
 nally taken from Oneida county. 
 
 Till' town of Sehnepiiel, pas.sing from the juris- 
 diction of one county to another, was for some 
 years a jiart of tbe town of Mexico, which was 
 originally created, AprU 10, 1792. The latter wa» 
 of tremendous dimensions, being over a hundred 
 miles long, from Lake Ontaiio to Tioga county, 
 und tifty or more miles wide, including the gieater 
 part of Oneida lake (west of the mouth of Chitte- 
 nango creek) and the military tract west of Os- 
 wego river. For some years, as fast as the country 
 became settled north of Oneida lake, the juris- 
 diction of the town wa.sexl ended, and on Feb. '2<'>, 
 1796, the legislature annexed to it the country in- 
 cluding the present town of Constantia and that 
 part of the counties of Jefferson and Lewis lying 
 south of the Black river. 
 
 In the spring of 1795, George Scriba erected 
 
 Mrs. S. .1. Mover. Plioto. 
 'BALDWIN- 
 
 ?LAND-THE LA.ND I >F THE .TESC'ITS' BURIED TREASURES. 
 
 Org-anization o£ the Town of Schroeppel — 
 
 As the settlements, following the rt volutionary 
 war, sprung up farther and farther west from the 
 Hudson river, the organization of counties and 
 towns bec.ime more frequent and more and more 
 restricted in ten-itory. 
 
 In 1781 the name of Montgomery was given to 
 all of that territory west of Albany county, which 
 prior to the revolution had borne the name of the 
 tory governor, Tryon. 
 
 In 1791, Herkimer county, including all of the 
 country west of the Mohawk valley, was orgiinized. 
 
 On March 5, 1791, the county of Onondaga was 
 created from Herkimer and included the present 
 counties of Onondsiga, Cortland and Cayuga and 
 that part of Osnego lying west of the Oswego 
 river, a strip that was set apai't as a "military 
 tract" to be apportioned among the surviving sol- 
 diers of the revolution. 
 
 On March 15, 179S, Oneida county wai erected, 
 comprising iJl of the jjresent counties of Oneida, 
 .TeU'erson and Lewis and that part of Oswego 
 coivnty, (then a part of the original Herkimer 
 
 twenty- four townships out of his purchase of sev- 
 eral thousands of acres and the east two-thirds of 
 what is now Schroeppel was inchided in his town- 
 ship of Erlaug, No. 24 and the west third in that 
 of Georgia, No. 16. 
 
 In 1806, the settlers of this town became resi- 
 dents of the town of Fredericksbnrgh, and in 1811 
 they were included in the town of Volney. 
 
 The present town of Schrieppel was organized, 
 April!, ls',i>. 
 
 Reminiscences related by Gouverneur Sweet 
 date back to the early "thirties," Seventy years 
 ago, when he was ten years of age, he trudged 
 along the tow-path of the canal, a barefooted 
 urchin sent to the only grocery then in Pheenix, 
 Walter Peck's, with a b;isket of eggs to exchange 
 for groceries. The store stood where Russ's now 
 is on the -southwest corner of Canal and Lock 
 streets. Sweet's home was nearly a mile south- 
 CHst of Three River Point. ".\11 of what was then 
 Canal street from Lock north was a low swamp, 
 grown up with flags," said Mr. Sweet. "Along 
 the east side, now lined with stores, an embank- 
 
14 
 
 TtEIP'S" historical souvenir of PH(ENIX. 
 
 ment rose up to hard ground which gradually 
 ascended to what is now Miiin street. The low 
 ground was bordered with elder and scoke bushes. 
 A spring bubbled out oi' the emliankment where 
 the coruer drug store is, and there we obtaiued 
 fine water from a barrel which had been sunk in 
 the earth. During the periodical freshets water 
 covered the low ground along the canal and there 
 were times wheu we had to cross from the heel 
 path of the canal to the east side of Canal street 
 on fallen timber. A young chap in these days, 
 my principal business, when I was not shaking 
 with ague, was to go to the store as I have related 
 and to hunt cows in the woods. Partly cleared 
 ground extended east from the swamp hole. The 
 bank corner was a water hole. Bridge street was 
 a barely ojien track leading up pa-^t Richardson's 
 tavern -isliich stood where the Windsor House is. 
 Samuel Merry l)uilt a home where Dr. Drury 
 lives, and resided there some time. In the base- 
 ment was a store and tinshojo. Fai-ther up Bridge 
 street, on the hill. Dyer Putnam built a hoase 
 (now the site of Widow Betts' home). Charles S. 
 Sweet, my brother, built the Sparrow house; Wal- 
 ter Peck's house stood where Postmaster Merriam 
 
 and where Fitzgerald's store is was a cooperage 
 shop. The shavings were spread out on each side 
 of it to make the miry ground ijassable to pedes- 
 trians. Putnam and Loomis built the corner 
 brick liliick which was succeeded by Hutchitison's 
 building It stood idle for about a year and I 
 then took the corner store and ran it several years. 
 E. G. Hutchinson who built the second brick 
 block, with P. F. Conger and myself bought the 
 steam stave mill which had been erected and 
 operated by Gouid. He wsuited to go to Saginaw, 
 Mich., and persuaded me to purchase a third 
 interest and carry on the mill in his absence. 
 Later, when he wauted to sell out his share 
 Hutchinson and Conger liought in. When we 
 dissolved Hutchinson took the store and I the 
 mill. Then Titus E. (iilbert bought a half inter- 
 est in the mill and I took a halt' interest in his 
 boat. Finally we sold both, Hosea Eu.ss buying 
 the tuill. I sold him the gi-ounds, mill pond and 
 all the privileges going with it. 
 
 "Gould mauufactured staves and jiine lumber 
 in MicLiigan and bought aud sold Michigan lands, 
 tiually becoming a millionaire. He died in At- 
 lanta, Ga., a few years ago. John Wall, Sr., 
 bought lands at the west end of the dam and 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Moyei , Photo. 
 
 MAIN STREET SOUTH FROM CULVERT. 
 
 lives and J. M. Rice put up the building which is 
 now in part the home of Harvey Wandell, erecting 
 a store alongside of it. He sold the store to 
 Thomas Dutcher. 
 
 "My i-ecollections of 18)32," continued Mr. 
 Sweet, "are first of the new jiine shanty which my 
 father, Charles N. Sweet, had on the canal at the 
 lock where he sold .supplies to the boatmen and 
 laborers. He and my brother, Charles S. Sweet, 
 were employed on the canal work of constructiou, 
 the latter teaming, ^^^len it was completed my 
 father and he tended the lock. In 1838 
 Charles built the Sweet store on Canal street 
 where he and a younger brother, Addison, ciu'- 
 ried on business together. Charles had been in 
 Walter Peck's employ in the corner store(Russ's) 
 as salesman and also had chiu'ge of his sawmdls. 
 In 18i9 I bought Charles' interest in the Sweet 
 store and Addison and I conducted it together for 
 five years. We sold out to -J. M. Rice. 
 
 "My father bought the Hubbard building (site 
 of the Howard house) in 1833. It jjassed into the 
 possession of Oliver Breed and Orange ChappeU 
 about 1836. WTien my father was in the Hubbard 
 building, as well as I can remember. Canal street 
 was the sedgy slash that I have described. There 
 ■were two canal barns farther down the street, 
 
 built a series of saw mills, with ujiright saws, 
 where he did a large business sawing out ship 
 spikes from hickory and rock elm. As the lands 
 were cleared uji the timber gradually disappeared 
 until it no longer became profitable to carry on 
 the industry. Gardener Northrup, Wall's son in- 
 law, manufactured lumber aud staves for some 
 time. 
 
 "Peck's mills were bought by Russell Stuigis of 
 New York, who sent a young man named t'ush- 
 man to riui them. Capt. Amasa P. Hart wanted 
 to own the water power and held tor a big price. 
 Cu.shman, Dr. Avery, myself and others bought 
 of Sturgis the water power and shut down the 
 miUs. We wanted to offer an inducement for 
 manufacturers to come here. Hart, who owned 
 one-half of the power, refused to join us in a .sale, 
 and so we advertised for some time and finally 
 made an auction of our half, which took jjlace at 
 the Phopnix hiuise, which stood on the Baptist 
 chui-ch site and was at that time, I think, run by 
 Warren Snedecker. The jjurchaser was a man 
 from the first ward of Syracuse. The transaction 
 was consummated without wasting any time and 
 he at once obtained the deed. Before the end of 
 the week Hart was owner of the property. This 
 was about 1S56. 
 
"GKIP'ri" HISTOKICAL HOUVENIH OF rH(JiNiX. 
 
 15 
 
 "AniDUg the ciiilif.st houses iu my reeolleetion 
 were Squire Chiiiiin's <iu Main street, a ilwelliiifi 
 ou a lot now owne.l 1)_y EiIk'H" Viekerv — iu front 
 of wliieh stood ii liieUory and a chestnut tree; uud 
 the Barnes liouse then occupied by Mr. and Airs. 
 Clements. 
 
 "Iu the days ol my e.irly childhood this country 
 was scarcely opened. At certain seasons, the 
 roads which wound in and out of the woods 
 amoHfj; stumps were impassi'iU>. 
 
 "'I'lie burial of my grandmother, (Jerritje Swcel, 
 has Idt a strouf^ im])ression on my mind and it 
 illustrates the condition of the conn ry iu those 
 days. Her son Caleb had l)o\ip;ht a hundred acres 
 of land along the cane! near llinmaiisville and be- 
 fore he had got settled he took her down there to 
 see it. Walking over to a knoll she said to her 
 son that when she died she desa-ed to be buried 
 there. A short time after she returned to her 
 daughter's at Three I livers she expired iu her 
 eightieth year. In accordance with her wish, her 
 remains were taken to the site she had chosen and 
 there buried. They were placed upon a wood 
 boat and loi-ked through the canal, the roads l)e- 
 ing impas-sible. My father was in Nch- York on 
 business anil mv brother .\ddisou and T wei'e in 
 
 tract WHS divided into (U) townships containing 
 100 lots of ()00 acres each, or G0,000 acres, as 
 nearly as possible square; the average dimensions 
 of a town.shi]) being 9? miles square. The further 
 rccpiirenient was ihat in default of a settlement on 
 each tiOO acres within seven years the land should 
 revert to the state. In each townshi]i the state 
 reserved six lots, two for schools, two for idiurches 
 and two for the tilling out oi_the quota of commis- 
 sioned otiicers. Fifty acres of each lot, calle<l the 
 "survey fifty," was subject to the charge of forty- 
 eight shillings ($0.00), to i)ay for surveying, and 
 if that were not paid iu two years the "survey 
 lifty" was to be sold. Com|)liance with these two 
 main conditions gave the ]iatent,(c full title to the 
 whole 1)00 acres. 
 
 The distribution of lots occurred July .'!, 1790, 
 under the direction of the governor, lieutenant- 
 governtn' and four state ofhcers. The names of 
 the claimants of the lands were placed on ballots 
 iu one bo.x and numbers corresiionding to the al- 
 lotments were placed on ballots in another I)ox. 
 
 The per.son appointed by the commissioners 
 first drew the ballot containing a name and then 
 the ballot containhig the nuud)er of the lot; in 
 which manner each claimant's allotment was de- 
 termined. lUost all of the veterans in the drawing 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Moyer, Photo. 
 
 .M.VIX A.NI) liltllKiB STREETS LOOKING NORTH. 
 
 charge of his shack, the store at the lock, which 
 •was attended by a man employed by my father. 
 We were small boys, but we assisted to lock 
 through the boat carrying the remains of my 
 gi'audmother to interment. Her ashes were after- 
 wards taken up and buried at Pine Plains near 
 Three Hirers l)y her daughter Ann. Gerritje was 
 the widow of Dr. Caleb Sweet who was on Wash- 
 ington's nullitary stall' during the revolution. 
 The great meteoric shower which startled all of 
 this section of the country occurred the night of 
 her burial. " 
 
 The Military Tract was laid out by the legis- 
 lature of the state in 1782 to be aj>portioned among 
 the soldiers of the revolutionary war. Those who 
 chose to settle in the west had been provided with 
 land by the federal government and the state de- 
 siring to keej) as many of them here as jjossible 
 offered as a sjiecial inducement a bonus of a hun- 
 dred acres to privates who would relinquish their 
 western claims. The tract following the west 
 shore of the Oswego river from Lake Ontario, ex- 
 tended south across the state. It was required 
 that idl claims should be presented before July 1, 
 1790. The allotments were to be made by draw- 
 ings which took jdace a few days later. The 
 
 of the Oswego lands had sold their 
 Vance of the drawing. 
 
 claims in ad- 
 
 Pirst Town Officers. — The first town meeting 
 was held at the house of James B. Richardson in 
 the village of Phoenix, March .5, ls:33. The fol- 
 lowing officers, who served the ensuing year, wei-e 
 chosen: Suijervisor, Samuel Merry; town clerk, 
 James B. Richardson; justices of the peace (three 
 years) Ai'temus Ross, (four years') Orville W. 
 Childs; assessors, Andrus Gilliert, Walter Peck 
 and Stejdien Griffith; overseers of the poor, Hiram 
 Gilbert and James B. Iii<-hardson; commissioners 
 of highway, Samuel C.. I'utnam, Abram Vander- 
 jjool and Lemau C'arrier ; commissioners of schools, 
 Dyer Putnam, ArtemusKoss andSfeiihen Griffith; 
 inspectors of schools, George W. Turner, Abram 
 Vanderpool and Orville VV. Cllulds; collector, 
 Jo.shua M. Rice; constaldes, Joshua M Rice, 
 Thomas R. Hawley, Leman Carrier and Alexander 
 Ross; sealer, Charles S. Sweet; ovenseers of high- 
 ways, di.strii^t 1, Walter Peck, 2, John Dale, 3, 
 Jesse Page, 4, Milton Fuller, ">, John Porter, 6, 
 Allen Gilbert, 7, Iceman ('arrier, 8, Andrus Gil- 
 bert, 9, George W; Davis, 10, Patten Parker, 11, 
 Levi Pratt, 12, Asa Sutton, 13, John Cm-tis, Jr., 
 14, Lawrence Seymovir. 1."), Henry W. Schroeppel 
 
16 
 
 "GEIP'rf" HISTORICAL SOUVEXIR OF PHtENIX. 
 
 BoriDwccI I'liotii. 
 
 UEV. li. M. (Ldll). 
 
 The Phoenix Free Baptist Church wjis or- 
 gauized, Sept. :2, l.SiG, uucl the Kev. JnLu B. Page 
 was chosen as its first pastor. The following offi- 
 cers were also elected at thi.s time ; Walter Peek, 
 deacon; Harvey HoUi^ter, treasurer, and J. G. 
 Hull, clerk. The church was orp-ani^ed by a 
 council from the Gilljert's Mills church. On May 
 11, 1850, an act of incorporation wa.s obtidned. 
 At that time, also, a committee was ai)pointed to 
 take chai-ge of building a church edifice. Thi.s 
 committee consisted of the following named per- 
 sons: Rev. W. W. Stericker, H. L. Hollister, W. 
 Lesley, J. :\I. Rice and J. W. Peck. The church 
 was dedicated May 29, IH.ol, the Rev. D. Fullon- 
 ton, of Whitestowu, N. Y., preaching the dedi- 
 cation sermon. Since the organization of the 
 church, the following persons, in the order named, 
 have served as pastors: Revs. John B. Page. Oliver 
 W. Smith, W. W. Stericker, Stephen Bathrick, B. 
 H. Damon, Charles Patnam, B. H. Damon, 
 Charles Cook. Daniel Jackson, Schuyler Aldrieh, 
 Ezra Crowell, William 
 McKee, J. H. Duikee, G. 
 P. Linderman, A. H. 
 Hanscom, W. H.Ward and 
 A. F. Bryant. The dea- 
 cons have been: Walter 
 Peck, Josiah Chaffee 
 (who served for 41 years), 
 John P. Rice, Asa Gilbert, 
 Joshua P. Burleigh, 
 Stephen ^I. Parsons, 
 W Jliam Blakem an , H enry 
 J. Burleigh and Elmer 
 Patchin. Stephen M. 
 Parsons and Henry J. 
 Burleigh serve at the 
 present time. The pre- 
 sent meiubershii^ of the 
 church is about 120. In 
 the spring of 1878, dur- 
 ing the pastorate of the 
 Rev. J. H. Durkee, the 
 church building, a wood- 
 en structure, having be- 
 come dilapidated and in- 
 sufficient for chiu-ch pur- 
 
 p<ises, a site was jiurchased on Main street, the 
 buildings which occupied it removed, and the 
 erection of a new lirick edifice; was commenced. 
 This building, as shown in the cut. was dedicated 
 March lit, 1879, the Rev. D. W. C. Durgin, D. D., 
 of Hillsdale, Mich., preaching the dedicatoi-y ser. 
 nion. The estimated i^resent value of the church 
 property is about .'810,000. Rev. A. F. Bryant 
 became i)astor in the spring of 1889. Under his 
 labors the church was greatly blessed and 
 strengthened. He served the church as ])astor 
 three and a half years. The ne.xt ])astor was Rev. 
 E. Morrell, who served for one year. He was fol- 
 lowed by Rev. T H. Smither.s' who was pastor 
 for eight mouths; his succes.sor was Rev. S. S. 
 Schnell, who was jiastor of the church for a year 
 and a half. Rev. R. M. Cloud, the present pastor, 
 began his labors with this church, Jan. 9, 1898. 
 The church has had reverses but is now in a fair 
 state of lu-o.-^jierity. We predict for it a future of 
 great usefulness and blessing. During the i)ast 
 two ye-.rs a great deal m the way of rei)airs has 
 been accomplished, such as the construction of a 
 .steel ceiling, imju-oving the basement, etc. More 
 than .$1,200 has been expended including the cost 
 of a new pipe organ. 
 
 The State Reservation at Oswego Falls was 
 a .section of ground reserved from the militsiy 
 tract for public utility, such as a fort, barracks, 
 etc, which was intended to atlbrd }irotec(i(i a 
 what was known as the "great cairying place.'' 
 The original description of its boundary was that 
 the line should begin im the bank of the river ten 
 chains below where the jjortage begins and should 
 follow the river uj) to a point ten chains above 
 where the portage ends, keeping ten chains away 
 from the river. 
 
 The First Store in the village of Ph(i nix was 
 opened by AVHlter Peck in 1828. The old build- 
 ing repaired and added to still staiuls and is still 
 occujiied for a store. Russ Brothers being the 
 present proprietors. 
 
 Borrowefl Plioto. 
 
 THE FREE WILL BAPTIST CHriiCH. 
 
•ClUrs" HIHTOKIOAL SOUVENIK OF PHUiNIX. 
 
 17 
 
 Borrowed I'liotii 
 
 REV. HERBERT y. SOUTHALL. 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church.— The history 
 of Methodism iu Ph(fiiix, X. Y., commenced iu 
 the year liS-t2, when the Kev. Moses Lyon heU 
 re\'iviil services in the viHage school house. A 
 class of thirteen members was gathered as the 
 unclens of a new chui'c-h. In the year ISul) the 
 society was legally c)rganizcd into a church nnder 
 the name of the First Methodist Fpiscopal church 
 of Phil nix, X. Y., with twenty-four mem- 
 bers, the Rev. D 1). Parker being the first 
 IHistor. Dui'iug the next two years land on 
 the comer of Lock and Jefl'evson streets 
 was jiurchased and a church building and 
 parsonage were erected. The conference 
 of 18.5li appointed the Rev. S. F. Kcnyon as 
 the next pastor of the church which had 
 by that time increased to seventy members. 
 During the subsequent years the church has 
 continued to develop with varied success. 
 By the year 1884 the church buildings had 
 become too small for the increasing congre- 
 gation and Sunday school and under the 
 vigorous generalship of the Rev. Loren East- 
 wood at that time jiastor a new edifice was 
 erected at a cost of §10,000. In the year 
 1897 the sei-vices of th<> church were euri<hed 
 by the addition of a vocalion organ. The 
 property of the society was further in- 
 creased in value in the year 189!l by the 
 purchase of the attractive and commodious 
 dwelling house on the corner of Lock and 
 Cherry streets to be used as a Jiarsonage. 
 The present membership of the church is 
 two hundred and sixteen with a Sunday 
 school of one hundred and sixty members. 
 The young people's society of the Epworth 
 League numbers eighty members the 
 Junior's thirty-five members. The jiresent 
 pastor is the Rev. Herbert S. Southidl who 
 was appointed to this church OctoV)er 1902. 
 
 Capture of a Fugitive. — .Vn incident 
 related by one of tlic elderly citizens of 
 PluBuix illustrates a characteristic hai)pen- 
 ing of old times. Andrew Young and his 
 I irother-in-law who was known as "Ethan 
 Allen" because of liis gigantic stature and 
 niugli and ready ways, were engaged in 
 nmning the Wall saw mill on the west side 
 cif tli<' river. Oiu- day the constable CiiUed 
 (111 ".Xllen" and telling liim that the arrest 
 I if a fugitive from jii.stice was desired, urged 
 him to assist, adding that the party was at 
 lii<diardsou's tavern where he defied the 
 whole town and that owing to his size 
 uiibody dared ta<'kle him. ",\llen" followed 
 till' constable and upon entering the bai- 
 room had a large, muscular looking fellow 
 — a giant who was boasting of his prowess 
 — ])ointed out to him. •'.\llen", coming U|i 
 from behind, got his arms wra))ped around 
 the man's liody ]nniouiug his arms and a 
 severe struggle ensued. It is said that 
 they whirled arouml closely pressed together 
 like a l)ig whirl wind, banging against walls 
 and bar and clearing out everybody. Finally 
 ".Allen" succeeded in getting the ironsupon 
 his man, but not until there had been ten 
 minutes of the liveliest tunes the old Rich- 
 ardson tavern ever saw before or after. 
 
 The First Flag made in Phcenix was the 
 work of several ladies who thought the vil- 
 lage should have the national colors to display on 
 special occasions. The names of those who assisted 
 in the work are not on record except that an 
 elderly lady a few years ago who was one of them 
 remembered that three of the ladies were Mrs. 
 Edward Richardson, Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. 
 Amasa P. Hart. The flag was used for some time 
 at Sunday school picnics and other "doings." 
 
 Mis. :s. 
 
 . Mover. IMiofo. 
 THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 
 
18 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTOBICAX, SOUVENIK OF I'HCEXIX. 
 
 Underground Station at Phoenix.- During 
 
 slavery times in tlie south, when runaway slaves 
 were making for the north over the several routes 
 which the abolitionists opened to them, seeking to 
 reach Canada where they were safe, many 
 found shelter and food in Ph T^nix where there was 
 what was then called an "underground station." 
 (iouverneur ;M. Sweet, whose house many times 
 harbored the fugitives, then lived on Main street 
 opposite Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Duteher. "It 
 was to their house, " said Mr. Sweet, "that the 
 slaves were directed upon leaving Syracuse. 
 They usually reached the village in the night, 
 coming by cine of two routes, from Peterboro or 
 Syracuse," and they had no difHculty in finding a 
 hiiven of rest here' where they sijent the following 
 day getting refreshed liy sleeji and food and then 
 proceeded north the ensuing night. The people 
 of Phcenix a-s a rule, could be trusted not to make 
 a hidden slave's whereabouts known or put iiny 
 obstruction in his path. When Dutcher's folks 
 had more than could be accomodated with safety to 
 the fugitives, they were sent over to om- house 
 and we were glad to entertain them. They would 
 be admitted with as little trouble as jiossible and 
 
 lake vessels dared not venture, since, as is well 
 known to this day, a ship getting into those waters 
 rarely gets out, if at all, without siistaining more 
 or less loss. 
 
 The Newspapers — The first newspaper was 
 started in 1850, and was called the Phoenix 
 Gazette, the founder being Jerome Duke who 
 finally took as a partner, George E. Williams to 
 whom he later sold out the entire liusiness. In 
 1853 the latter moved the paper to Fulton and 
 changed its name to the Oswego County Gazette. 
 The Phoenix Democrat was started by a company 
 of citizens in Nov. 1852. Shortly after, Capt. 
 Amasa P. Hart bought the plant and in 1851 dis- 
 posed of it to James H. Fields. In 1855 the name 
 was changed to the Phtenix Banner and a few 
 months later to the American Banner and Oswego 
 County Times. Before the end of the year its 
 jiublication was discontinued. In 185ij it was re- 
 vived by Mary Frances Tucker Tyler under the 
 name of" the American Banner and Literary Gem 
 which eight months later, when it passed into 
 the hands of Levi Merrill, was shortened to the 
 American Banner. Publication ceased in 1857. 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Mo.ver. Photo. 
 
 put into a room where they were safe. When they 
 were ready they took their departure without 
 bothering us about it. Sometimes arriving early 
 in the evening, so anxious were they to reach the 
 end of their journey, they would be gone when we 
 got up m the morning, taking only part of a 
 night's rest. " 
 
 From Phienix the "underground railroad," as 
 it was called, ran north (at this point tiu-ning 
 away from the river to avoid Oswego where officers 
 of the law were always on watch) and passed 
 tlu-ough the towns of Mexico, Richland and Sandy 
 Creek. The last "station" before reaching the 
 lake shore where there were craft ready to carry 
 the slaves across the lake, was at the home of Mr. 
 Geo. Bragdeu a mile and a half northeast of Sel- 
 kirk in the town of Richland. Reaching there the 
 second night after leaving Phoenix, the slave was 
 taken in a lumber wagon (usually covered with 
 sti-aw in the bottom of the box) to Big Sandy Pond 
 in the town of Sandy Creek where by previous ar- 
 rangement a sailing boat was ready to convey him 
 across into Canada. It was necessary to avoid all 
 the considerable jjorts on the lake; and Big Sandy 
 Pond was especially favorable for small craft whose 
 owners, watching their opportunity, were able to 
 g3t out of an anchorage into which the ordinary 
 
 CHEKRY AND LOCK STREETS. 
 
 The next year the material was secured by Joshua 
 M. Williams and the Phcenix Reporter was es- 
 tablished by him. It was afterwards purchased 
 by Dr. M. M. Carter who enlarged the paper, 
 changed its name in 18(>5 to the Phcenix Register 
 and sold it Feb. 17, 1870, to J. M. WilUams the 
 present editor. The Register is issued weekly on 
 
 Thursday. 
 
 In 1885 The Phcenix Chronicle was started by 
 Han-ison Bros. This ])aper was published until 
 1891 . The Phcenix Progress was published for 
 three months durmg the year of 1894 by Wm. T. 
 Baggerly. 
 
 In 1899 the Phoenix Press was established by a 
 stock company. This paper is now published 
 weekly on Thursdays. 
 
 The Young People's Society, Baptist 
 Church, was organized during the jiastorate of 
 Rev. A. H. Hanscom under the name of Advocates 
 of Christian Fidelity, and was a great help then, 
 as it is now, to the chm'ch, spiritually and financi- 
 allv. It was conducted as the A. C. F. for eleven 
 years, and during these years the society placed 
 "quite a sum of money in the bank toward pur- 
 chasing a pipe organ. During the pastorate of 
 Rev. Edwin Morrell, in 1891, the society was re- 
 
"GBIP'S" HIsroRTOAL SOUVENIK OF IMKKXIX. 
 
 19 
 
 organized under the name of Cliristiiiu Endeavor, 
 and elected the followit^g oHicers: President, 
 Edwin ^lorrell; vice president, Mabel Von Wor- 
 mer; secretary, Marie L. Smith: treasurer, Lena 
 M. Ray. Its meetings are held regularly at (!;:!(> 
 p. ni. Sundays; consecration meetings the first 
 Sunday evening of each month. Tt pays ijlia an- 
 nually on the pastor's salary and it ])aid (|uiti' a 
 sum on the new pip^ organ when it was purchased, 
 besides purchasing an Ksty organ for the jirayer 
 room. The present oflicers are; President, 
 Mrs. Eva L. {."ady; vice president, Laura B. 
 Emeigh; secretary, Mabel L. Wyant ; treasurer, 
 Alice yi. Kinnie. 
 
 Town Clerks — James B. Richardson, 1833-5; 
 Otis W. Randall, 1836-9; Solomon Jndd, 1840; 
 William Conger, ISl! •_>; Setli W. Burke, 1S4:!'; 
 
 The Woman's Missionary Society of the 
 
 First Congregational churcli of I'lio'nix was 
 organized May 2!), 1877, during the jiastorate of 
 Rev. H. P. BiiUe. Ofticera were; President, Mrs. 
 E. G. Hutcliins<m; secretary, Mrs. Oliver Breed; 
 treasurer, Mrs. iMlmund Merry. In February, 
 ]8i)l, the society was re-organized and the Home 
 Mission work was combined with the Foreign 
 under the following oflicers: Pre.sident, Mrs. E. 
 (i. Hutchinson; vice president, Mrs. (1. L. Van 
 Doren; secretary, Jlrs. M. M. Cartter; treasurer, 
 Mrs. Edmund Merry. The society is auxiliary to 
 the Woman's Board of Missions and the Woman's 
 Home ]\ri.s.si()nary Union, dividing eipially be- 
 tween the two organizations the money raised. 
 
 The jiresent oflicers are; President, Mrs. C. E. 
 SteVibins; vice jtrcsident, Mrs. L. J. Carrier; sec- 
 retary, i\Irs. J. S. Fox; treasurer, ^frs. E. J. 
 Drury. Tiie present membership numbers 40. 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Moy.T, I'tiolo. 
 
 STREETS OF THE VILLAGE. 
 
 ('ulvert. West from >rain. 
 Mechanic, West from M:uti. 
 
 Joshua M. Rice, 1844; E. W. HuU, 1845; Oliver 
 Breed, 184t;-7; Edwai-d Baxter, 1848-9; E. G. 
 Hutchinson, 1850; Harv-ey Bigsby, 1851; Jerome 
 Duke, 18.52; John C. Hutchinson, 18.53; James M. 
 Clark, 1854; George W. Thompson, 18.55; Edmund 
 Merry, 185(>-7 ; Lewis C. Rowe, 18.58-61: Alfred 
 Norton, 1862; Stephen A. Brooks, 1803; A. M. 
 Spoonenburgh, IStU; James L. Breed, 1865; S. A. 
 Brooks, 1866; William M. AUen, 1867-8; James 
 McCarthy, 1869; Harvey Wandell, 1870; R. A. 
 Diefendorf, 1871; Martin WandeU, 1872-7: A. E. 
 Russ, 1878-80; N. G. Vickerv,1881 ; Edward Baker, 
 1882-;^; W. H. Conrad, 1884; H. S. Withers. 
 1885; (appointed) 1890; C. K. Williams, 18S6-7; 
 W.H.Jennings, 1888 ;W.O.DLngman, 1889; Richard 
 Latham, 1891-2; H. C. Russ, 1893-5; T. C. Sweet, 
 1896-99; C. D. Ash, 1900 to present time. 
 
 Lock, West from tlie Railroad. 
 Main, South from Cliuroli. 
 
 The meetings are held on the fir.st Tuesday of 
 each month, the prograins alternating between 
 the Foreign and home work. Six tea meetings 
 are held during the year. 
 
 The society has been served by faithful officers, 
 who have maintained it through many discourage- 
 ments. Many of these, of previous memory,have 
 been promoted to the better life. Among them 
 should be mentioned Mrs. >[. T. Butts, Mrs. J. 
 M. Williams, Mrs. J. I. Van Doren, Mrs. Mont- 
 gomery and Mrs. G. H. Northrup. 
 
 The Training Field where in early days the 
 militia annually gathered to practice the man- 
 oeuvers, was on the high rise of ground near the 
 upper end of Canal street. Capt. Hart was the 
 captain for some time. 
 
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 "GRIP'S" HISTOEICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Captain Barnes' Recollections. — Probiil)l_v 
 the oldest settler of Phtenix, to-day, is Captain 
 James Barnes, now liviiif; with his daughter, Mrs. 
 F. C!artter, on Main street. Said he:- -"My 
 father, who was Hezekiah Barnes, moved into 
 this house in the sjiring of 1835. I was then 
 nineteen years old; I was born in IHKi in the town 
 of Charlotte, Vt. He had lionght six or seven 
 hundred acres of Alexander Phcenix comprising 
 the present site of the village of Phienix with the ex- 
 ception of a few lots which had already lieeu sold and 
 built upon, and which were scattered around the 
 village. John G. Forbes, a prominent attorney 
 of Syracuse and a personal friend of my father, 
 acted as the agent in the transfer of the property. 
 It was either in the fall of 18134, soon after my 
 father made the purchase, or in the early part of the 
 spring following, before we took up our home here, 
 that he and I came through from Salina on horse- 
 back. The road led 
 through woods all of the 
 way, and we found here a 
 little hamlet clustered 
 close to the banks of the 
 river and canal and ent ire - 
 ly surrounded by woods. 
 The timber then standing- 
 consisted largely of 
 beech, maple and hem- 
 lock, although the site of 
 the village had been 
 covered with pine which 
 had l)een entirely cleai'ed 
 away when we got hei'e. 
 Heavy woods came uj) to 
 where the school house 
 now IS on the east, and 
 on the north to the forks 
 in Main street. (,)n the 
 south the river road (lead- 
 ing into the business 
 street in the village) came 
 out of the woods on the 
 I'ise of ground south of 
 Lock street. 
 
 "We took up our resi- 
 dence in this hoiise which 
 since then has been considerably enlarged and 
 improved. Here has always been my home al- 
 though really a small part of my time was spent 
 in Ph'pnix until late years, my connection with 
 engineering work for the government taking me 
 away during all excepting the winter season. In 
 coming to Phoenix we passed throixgh the village 
 of Liverpool and, here and tliei-e, a few clearings 
 where settlers had begun to open up their lands. 
 
 "The Pluenix interests which my father bought 
 include<l all of the water power on this side of the 
 river except two saw mills owned by Walter Peck. 
 Four mills were enclo.sed in one building, two of 
 which were Peck's and the others my father's. 
 This building stood on the j)resent site of the 
 brick power house between the canal and the 
 river. The canal as yo>i know was completed in 
 1828, and that was what started the little settle- 
 ment of Phoenix. The Phcenix [jroperty which 
 my father bought also comprised a grist mill 
 •which stood on the site of the Glass & Breed mill 
 
 Boirowud Photo. CAl'T. JAMES ISAKNEy, 
 (_)ne of the Oldest Residents of Plueni.x 
 
 just north of the saw mill. It was built for four 
 run of stone but contained only two run. Between 
 the grist and saw mills was a stave mill where 
 barrel staves were manufactured for the Walina 
 salt trade. North of these three structures after- 
 wards stood Hart's fuUing miU, on the Pendergast 
 lot. My father built the race within a few yesirs 
 after he came here and sold power to other i)arties. 
 In addition to his gi'ist, saw and stave mills he en- 
 gaged in selling goods, opening a store in a build- 
 ing standing where Russ's now is. 
 
 ' 'There were at the time we moved here a num- 
 ber of small stiuy-aud a-half wooden buildings on 
 the east side of Cmial street at its junction with 
 Bridge street. As far as my recollection goes, 
 Mrs. Baxter occupied the building where the 
 furniture store now stands or close to it, with 
 millinery goods. Frank Potter's barber shop, 
 just south of it, was then a dwelling which was 
 occupied by widow Miles who afterwards married 
 Jonathan Wood, one of 
 my father's saw3-ers. 
 Ai'ound on Lock street, 
 where Postmaster Mer- 
 riaui lives, was the resi- 
 dence of Walter Peck. 
 On the Loomis planing 
 mill corner was a two- 
 story liuilding painted 
 white, in which John 
 Sharp conducted a store. 
 My memory is not the 
 best and I may have over- 
 looked some of the place* 
 of business but I do not 
 think there were any 
 otheis except those I have 
 mentioned, including my 
 father's, below Lock 
 street. 
 
 "The liichardsou hou.se 
 was a small hotel which 
 stood on the site of the 
 jn-esent Windsor. It was 
 the only tavern in the 
 village at that time. Aden 
 Breed came later and 
 kept hotel. Oliver Breed, 
 who must have come here before 1810, kejit a 
 grocery which stood where the Howard house is 
 and his partner Orange Chappel lived in the same 
 building. 
 
 Subsequently he liought the Conger grist mill, 
 which afterwards became the mill run by Glass & 
 Breed, and during his life time ai-ipiired consider- 
 able of a fortune. The report of the death of his 
 grandson, ten years old, reached here this morn- 
 ing (Nov. 8) from Syracuse. C!harles Sweet 
 opened a .store where Vickery's is, some time be- 
 tween IHW and 18iO. There are no families in- 
 tact living here now that were here when we came, 
 although there are a few descendants. Amasa P. 
 Hart came afterwards, and l)uilt the fulling mill I 
 have described and, later, the tannery which was 
 known as Hart & Bentley's. He also built an- 
 other saw mill. He subsequently owned several 
 farms and speculated a good deal. Other mer- 
 chants who followed us here were Edmund 
 Hutchinson and Marshal and Wilber Hale. 
 Marshal Hale is now somewhere in the west. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOIVENIK OF PHCENIX. 
 
 21 
 
 "The plivsiciiiiis who were beiv about that time 
 vere Drs, \V Ihanis, lliindall ami Hrown. Setli 
 AV. Uui'ke, who has ehildivii living in California, 
 wliere he went in Isl'.l, hveil aenis-i tlie roail from 
 us. 
 
 "The only school in town, a s'uall district 
 jiehool, stood at the junction of Fulton anil Vol- 
 uey striets. Keli^ious services were held in that 
 liuildiuj:; fm- some time, there being noclniivh 
 ♦"diliee. There was a small society called close 
 communion IJaiitists, and there were several Uni- 
 versalists, the njost prominent of whom I can re- 
 member beiufj Steiihen Brook^i who had a large 
 family and who resided where Mrs. I'atrick now 
 live-s. Soon after we came here the Congrega- 
 tional society was organized at a meeting held in 
 this room (front room in the Cartter hou.se). My 
 father was one of the first deacons. 
 
 "John Wall owned four saw mills on the other 
 side of the river. His residence stood on the top 
 of the hill: the old building is still sbindiog. 
 Wall was instrumentiJ in 
 the construction of the 
 bridge across the rivei' 
 which was built by acoui- 
 ]>any organized to main- 
 tain the structure by col- 
 lecting toll. He was the 
 ])rincipal owner. The 
 toll house stood at this 
 end of the bridge just op- 
 jiosite my father's store, 
 on the north side of Lock 
 street. John Eice had a 
 drug store in it. My 
 father at the time he died, 
 in 18-19, owned a farm of 
 about a hundred acres in 
 the east i>art of the 
 village. 
 
 "The constniction ol 
 the canal made Ph'vnix 
 all that it ever was. Prior 
 to that time trade from 
 Sidiua north was carried 
 on liy means of bateaux 
 which were jn-opelled uji 
 stream on the river with 
 poles which with the cur- 
 rent also moved the boats 
 down stream. They usually carried wood to 
 S:dina' and returned with salt ami merchandi.se. 
 The earliest canal boats that were in use were 
 calculated to carry about 180 barrels of salt to a 
 load, as much as several bateaux would carry, so 
 that people then considered the cauiil as a great 
 improvement overriver navigation, as undoubtedly 
 it was. 
 
 "My father in those days every year cut on the 
 average abimt a thousau I cords of wood and an 
 immense quantity of saw logs which were piled on 
 the bank of the canal. During the winter of 
 18:iG-7 he cleared the ridge where the railioad 
 station now stands. That winter was noted for a 
 large fall of snow, which contiuiied almosi un- 
 interruptedly for forty days. Meas\uemenls on 
 the level showed more than live feet, fu order to 
 get out the trees as they were felhnl we had to dig 
 trenches in the snow where the men wiu'kcd and 
 into which we backed the teams, so that the tim- 
 ber could be rolled upon the sleighs. That sea- 
 son was fatal to deer which up to that time had 
 
 li.nr< 
 
 Till 
 
 I'lKil... \V. K. 
 Vi-ti-nlM I'liiitn 
 
 lieen numerous in all of this surrounding country. 
 .\fter that, deer were not seen in this locality. 
 The last one I saw came down the road at the U]>- 
 jier end of Canal street, crossed Lock street and 
 jumiied over the low rail fence which enclosed 
 our yard. It was a large doe which jiassed but a 
 few feet from where I was cutting wood, close to 
 our kitchen door, and turning oflfr.cross the lotiu 
 a lo]>e vaulted the fence and disappeared in the 
 woods at about wheie the school house now 
 stands. The deer smiw'bound in their winter 
 parks from which they could not extricate them- 
 selves except to perish from want of food or 
 freeze in the drifts, were slaughtered in large 
 numbers liy hunters who searched out their ]iarks 
 iind as they huddled together iu fright, cut them 
 down with knives or shot them. I knew one man 
 who alone that winter killed twenty-one by means 
 of a knife tied to a long pole. Crossing the drifts 
 on smnv shoes he had no difticulty in reaching a 
 yard of deer where they 
 had gathered for self 
 l>ii-servation from the 
 storm and as they 
 bunched together he 
 I cached out with his pole 
 and stabbed them one by 
 line. That winter yards 
 nf deer could be found 
 i 11 the towns of Lysander, 
 Schr.fpjiel, Granby and 
 \'olney. In Peter Scott's 
 ^wamj) just east of the 
 \ illage were to be found 
 M'veral deer in yards." 
 
 Scriba's Purchase. 
 
 ( ieorge William Augus- 
 tus Frederick Scriba's 
 purchase of lands from 
 the Roosevelts was 500,- 
 iiii;) acres for which he 
 agreed to pay $80,000, a 
 great jiart of which was 
 spvKKiiw never paid. The tran- 
 
 rnriiliei-'siil'l r.iviiijf. sactiou occurred in 1791. 
 
 The Veteran Photographer, whose long 
 experience connects the eiii of primitive photog- 
 rajiliv with that of the modern school, is W. E. 
 Sjiarrow, now in his Tlind year. 
 
 On his 71st bii-thday. :\larch 1."), 1902, he sus- 
 tained a paralytic shock, which <'onipelled him to 
 give up his business. When he was seven yeai'S 
 old his father's family located on the Parker fiu-m 
 northeast of the village and seven years later 
 moved to the Burnet farm across the river. The 
 young man had seven terms at the Fulton academy 
 iiud for a time worked in a nursery down the 
 river Then he travelled in the south selling ])at- 
 ent medicines and finally kejit books iu a drug 
 store. In 18.38 hereturued to I'hipuix and learned 
 to make ambrotypes of Fred iSlorris at Fulton, 
 He opened a gallery in Phieiiix in 18i;i, then went 
 to Illinois and iu 180:5 enli.sted in the union army. 
 Coming back to Phcenix in ISO."), this place has 
 since been his home. Daguerrotypes, ambrotypes. 
 meleniotypes,the wet plate process and finally drj- 
 
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 "GBIP'S" HISTOBICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Old PbDto. 
 
 C. K. WILLIAMS. 
 
 lilates were all in their turn, as the advance in 
 the profession introduced them, one after the other, 
 subjects of his skill. He was born in ITtica 
 and was three years old when his jjareuts moved 
 to this county.' Mrs. Sparrow, who was Sarah 
 Grant, of Syracuse, became his wife in 1866. 
 
 The W. C. T. U. of Phoenix was organized 
 Nov. 125, 1877, whea the following officers were 
 elected:— President, Mrs. J. I. VanDoren; 1st vice 
 president, Mrs. J. M. Williams; 2ud vice presi- 
 dent INIrs. R. Simjjson; 3d vice president Mrs. 
 H. A. Willar<l; ith vice president, Mrs. E. G. 
 Hutchiu.son; secretary, Jlrs. D. Thompson; treas- 
 urer, Mrs. Herbert Vick- 
 ery. But two of these are 
 now left here. The first 
 two in the list are dead; 
 others moved from town. 
 We now have fifty mem- 
 bers of the Union also six 
 honorary members and 
 six junior members. Our 
 pi-esent corps of officers 
 are piesident, Mrs.W. H. 
 Wilson; 1st vice presi- 
 dent, Mrs. C. E. Steb- 
 bins; 2nd vice president, 
 Mrs. J. Smith; 3rd vice 
 pi'esident, Mrs. G. Par- 
 sons; corresponding sec- 
 retary, Mrs. C. E. Steb- 
 bins; recording secretary, 
 Mrs. H. S. Butts; treas- 
 urer, Mrs. H. S. Van 
 Vormer. The dejjart- 
 ments of work we have 
 taken up are the Press, 
 Sunday School, Evangel- 
 istic and Flower Mis.sion 
 work. We have had verj' 
 helpful and interesting 
 meetings the secondTues- 
 day afternoon of each 
 month. Mrs. S. J. Moyi-r, Plioto, 
 
 The Ship Canal which the government sur- 
 veyed to connect Lake Ontario with the sea wiU 
 start from the Oswego river at the mouth of 
 Brandy Creek, in the northern suburbs of the vil- 
 lage of Phoenix, and run almost due east, crossing 
 the north part of the village and running in a 
 direct line to Oneida lake. The distance is be- 
 tween four and five miles. The canal strikes the 
 Oneida river at the head of the big bend, near the 
 mouth of Peter Scott creek and follows it to Fish 
 creek, wLere the river turns .south and the canal 
 continues east to the north end of Pleasant lake, 
 passing through that body of water and running 
 du-ect to Oneida lake, crossing the Oneida river 
 a second time. A curious fact brought ovit by the 
 engineers, who ran the line, is that Pleasant lake 
 is the highest l)ody of water between Oswego and 
 Troy on the line of the canal, being four feet 
 higher than Oneida lake. 
 
 Gilbert's Mills was settled in 1818 by Archi- 
 bald Cook and the next year Andrus and Hiram 
 Gilliert arrived and put up a grist mill. 
 
 In 1801 drilling for salt was prosecuted to the 
 depth of 340 feet. Some salt, but not in paying 
 quantities was obtained, 
 
 In 1823 Andrus Gilbert sold his share in the mill 
 to his brother Hiram and in 1844 the latter sold 
 out to Jared Shepard who was succeeded by 
 Josiah Chaffee and he in turn by Amos Mason. 
 
 The first store in the town was opened at Gil- 
 bert's JNIiUs in 1821) by Ambus Gilbert, who two 
 years later received Samuel Merry as a partner. 
 The store was burned in 1848. Mr. Gillnn-t manu- 
 factured large quantities of pot and pearl ashes 
 and carried on a large trade in merchandise. He 
 was a justice of the ])eace for twelve years and was 
 also supervisor and postmaster. 
 
 C. K. WILLIAMS' HESIDENI'K. 
 
•cnUP'o" HISTORICAL, SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 23 
 
 OM I'liuti) 
 
 SAM I" EL AVKUY. 
 
 Samuel Avery was born in Pomi^ey, Fel> l.S, 
 ISl-J, iiud died in Ph. nix, Sep. 20, 1891, in his 
 eightieth year. He was descended from Christo- 
 pher Averv, who hmded in Saleoi, Mass., in KiSO. 
 Mr. Avery in his youth sjjent most o£ his time on 
 the farm attending district school during the win- 
 ter and indulging his taste tor mechanics at every 
 oiijiortunity. He married before he attained his 
 majority Miss Lucinda Jones, and continued to 
 cultivate his father's farm for .several years and 
 finally went to assist his V)rother, William, who 
 had a contract for canal work in Illinois. When 
 the state of Illinois became bankrupt, he returned 
 to Pompey and commenced the study of medicme 
 in IS-li. He graduated from Castleton College, 
 Vermont, in LSll. and began the practice of medi- 
 cine and surgery in Rochester, X. Y., He stayed 
 in Rochester several years, but thinking it might 
 be lietter to gro«' up with some thriving village, 
 he removed to Ph mix where, with the exception 
 of a few months in Syracuse and a year in Rald- 
 ■wiusviUe, he resideil till his death. His wife died, 
 leaving him two children, and in 1S19 he married 
 Miss Eliza Flynu. uf Half moon. Saratoga Co., by 
 whom he had tsvo scms, both dying in their child- 
 hood. His second wife died November, ISSil. 
 His inventive faculties were of no mean order and 
 several of his patents issued by the United States 
 go\ernment give proof of their originality and 
 usefulness. He can'ied on the business of cigar 
 box making for several years.also the manufacture 
 of a mailing machine. After he disposed of that 
 his time was ])artially occupied with an interest 
 in the Ph rnix factory, as president at times, also 
 as one of the du-ec'ors. The Doctor was a man of 
 unbounded generosity, a passionate lover of chil- 
 di'en and had a great desire to make them hajipx'. 
 He w;xs posses.sed of great originahty of thought 
 and expression and had an inexhaustible fund t)t 
 blunt humor. His life wa.s a useful one and he 
 tilled the measure bountifully. He united with 
 the M. E. church about twenty years before his 
 death and was a faithful and consistent member. 
 
 Samuel Flynn was born ill Halfnioou, Sara- 
 toga county, N. Y., June 21, IHIH. Porn and 
 reai-ed on a farm, he obtained his education at a 
 district school, attending school winters and help- 
 ing with the farm work summers. By making 
 good use of his time for study he was enabled to 
 prejiare himself for a t(>aclier and accejitably filled 
 the position. In IS')! he came to Schnuppel and 
 that winter he and Mr. Samuel Avery engaged in 
 felling trees, finally clearing oil' one hundred acres 
 of timber land. In 18o:5 he married Miss Melissa 
 Avery, daughter of Samuel Avery, and with his 
 father-in-law built a comfortable farm house on 
 the farm jointly owned by them, now owned by 
 Mrs. William Wiggins, but afterwards purchased 
 by Mr. Flynn for a hoin(>, where he resided till 
 the death of his wife in ISti."). He was then left 
 with four small children; one died in childhood, 
 the others grew to maturity. A son, Charles H. 
 Flvun, is a ])hysicinn in Postville, Iowa. A 
 daughter, Mrs. C. K. Williams, resides in Phcenix, 
 and the youngest daughter, Mrs. W. J. Scales, 
 died at her home in Glens Fidls, in 1.S91. On the 
 death of his wife Mr. Flynn s-old his farm and 
 moved on the farm he nowoeciipies, in ISti.S. He 
 has been a successful farmer, always willing to 
 advance with the times and avail himself of mod- 
 ern implements and modern ideas. He at one 
 time tilled the office of poonnaster, but his life 
 has mostly been spent in farm pursuits. Mr. 
 Flynn is kind and generous to the ue<-<ly. His 
 latch string always hangs out and tlie stranger is 
 always made welcome. He is a kiu<l and obligmg 
 neighbor. t;enial in manner— a man of strict in- 
 tegrity and respected by his friends, he has lived 
 to a good old age and is still hale and hearty. 
 
 The First Ladies' Aid Society of the Free 
 Baptist church was organized in 1S77 during the 
 pastorate of Rev. J. H. Durkee under the name of 
 "Willing Workers," for the express puri)ose of 
 raising money to helj) decorate and furnish the 
 new church. The "sociables," as they were called 
 
 1)1(1 Plioto. 
 
 SAMri:i. FI,VXN. 
 
24 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Old Pholu. ()LI\'i:i! nUEEl). 
 
 held from bouse to bouse, were gi-eatly eujoyeJ, 
 and resulted in raising large sums of money for 
 tbe object intended. The first officers vera for 
 president, Mrs. J£. M. McCarty; secretary, Mrs. 
 K. Sadelmycr; ti'ea.sui-er, Mrs. B. Diugman. A 
 I'rw years later tbe name was changed to Ladies' 
 Aid Society. Last vear the total receipts were 
 S187.93. The amount expeaded was $180.93. The 
 following are the jireseut offictrs: President !Mrs. 
 \. J. Cbattee: -s-ice presideut, Mrs. (). M. Eeilly: 
 .secretary and treasurer. 'Sirs. .1 . Wing. 
 
 Oliver Breed, who for more than half a cen 
 tury was engaged in business in Pbcenix, was 
 spoken of in local papers at the time of his death 
 as "an old fashioned type of character — quiet in 
 his lite, plain in his tastes; sincere, sti ong and 
 loyal iu his attachments 
 to his priuciplts and his 
 friends. He went oa his 
 way steadily and cheer- 
 fully, living accoiding to 
 jiermanent convictions, 
 rather than to pas.^ing 
 fashions, and trying to 
 do his duty in the light 
 of the broad religion 
 which recognizes the uii- 
 vei-sil fatherhood of God 
 and brotberliood of man. " 
 
 Ifc was on Jan 2, 1898, 
 that alter a few days' 
 confinement to his liouse 
 he expired while sitting 
 compoi-edly in his easy 
 chair. Although he was 
 in his 90th year he was 
 still an active jiartner in 
 the grist mill of Breed & 
 Conger, a firm that was 
 organized soon after Mr. 
 Bri ed came to Phcenix, 
 which was in 18i0. For 
 the first few years he was 
 
 in the grocery business where Wood's meat mar- 
 ket now is. In politics he was a strong repubhcan, 
 a warm partisan and an influent inl adviser in local 
 aft'airs, iu which he took gi-ea1 interest, usually 
 being the first to move in carry iiig out a public 
 project and 'n any philanthropic enterjirise. 
 
 Mr. Breed was boru in Halifax, Vt., Nov. 23, 
 1809, and when he was fifteen years old his par- 
 ents moved to Onondaga Valley. Two yea'S later 
 they located on a farm in Schro-ppel, then the 
 town of Viihiey. His boyhood was spent in farm 
 work and it was not until he was past thirty years 
 old that he entered iipon that active business life 
 that engaged his tme for .so many years and even- 
 tually led him into many successful ventures that 
 l>roved profitable to him. One of his pet jjrojects 
 was to make the water power at Phoenix contrib- 
 ute to the future greatness of the commercial in- 
 terests of PI I mix, believing, as he did, that it 
 would become immensr-ly valuable and wouM in 
 time attract hither large luaoufacturing institu- 
 t ons. Early a'' d late be closely a])j5lied himself 
 to busiuf.ss and although frequently imjiortuned 
 to take public otHce he declined to ])Iace hims-elf 
 in the iiosition Mliere public duties would uiter- 
 fere with his private busintss afl'au-s. only once 
 acceiitiog election to any cons-queutial position 
 and that a\ hen for three or four years he served as 
 supervisor. Mr. Breed, in 18i8, was married to 
 Miss Juliett-- Alvord, who died in 1851, leaving 
 four sons, three of whom are still Hving. O. C. 
 Breed, a siu'veyor, whose home is in Fulton; 
 Frank M. Breed, the jjresent clerk of Oswego 
 county, resi'ling in Phrenix, and Charles Breed, 
 living iu Fulton. On Nov 2fi, 18.57, Mr. Brned 
 married Cordelia Bradley, to whom two sous were 
 born, one dying iu infancy and the other. Dr. 
 William B Breed, being a practicing physician 
 iu Syracuse. .Mrs. Hreed still occupies the old 
 home at the corner of Main and Bridge streets, a 
 pleasant and comfortalile residence. 
 
 The Fire which occurred Jan. 29, 1872, started 
 iu the Boomer A- Bosehart press foundry early in 
 the morning when the man who started the fires, 
 having got them going, was at breakfast. The 
 
 ( 11(1 Photo loaucil by W. E. SnarniH-. 
 
 CONSTRfCTlOX OF THE NEW HlilUGE, 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PH(ENIX. 
 
 olil photo loiini'il liy \V. E. Sixirviiw. 
 
 WALLS SAW MILLS AN D A VKKYS (A lilN KT WciUKS 
 SIDE i)K THE 11I\'EK, A HALF (Uv.NTlHV Alio 
 
 structure, a two storv frame buildiug between tlie 
 canal anil river, was built of large and heavy tim- 
 bers which occasioned a hot fire. The "boys" 
 brought out the old hand engine and worked 
 faithfully but they could not prevent the spread 
 of the flames, which fanned by a stift' west breeze, 
 crossed the canal into the Betts buiding. From 
 there the tire swept into V'ickery's next to the cor- 
 ner store, then into Hanchett's three-story block 
 ■where the postofliee was located; wiping out two 
 smaller buildings it crossed Canal street, and the 
 thi-ee-story block occu])ied by S. W. Alvord stand- 
 ing partly on the j)reseut site of Hakes' furniture 
 and undertaking store, was soon destroyed. The 
 roof of the linilding next south was scorched but 
 that was as far as tlie tire spread. The citizens 
 aided the vohmteer firemen, all of whom worked 
 faithfully realizing that all the business section 
 was in great danger of being destroyed. There 
 was no village ^^'ater 
 system then and the 
 water had to be pumped 
 out of the canal or river. 
 The Enterprise company 
 was then in full working 
 force l)ut with such a Are 
 on a cold windy morning 
 a hand engine wa> almo.st 
 riseless. 
 
 A Revoluti o n a r y 
 Relic which the late E. 
 C. Fitzgerald jjrized and 
 often made the theme of 
 an interesting story de- 
 scriptive of how it was 
 obtained, is now in the 
 possession of his son-in- 
 law. Jlr. D. Burleigh. 
 It is a plank which is al- 
 leged to have Vieen the 
 death bed of the British 
 officer, Brig. -Gen. Frazier 
 when he was mortally 
 wounded at the battle of 
 Saratoga. The stains 
 caused bv tlie tlow of his 
 
 blood from the gaping wounds are still 
 pointed out. Mr. Fitzgerald used to tell 
 how it was that some of his ancestry who 
 were jiatriot residents of Saratoga county 
 at that time, succeeded in sawing the 
 plank out of the floor and ))lacing it in 
 safe keeping lieyond the reach of relic 
 hunters; also how years afterwards there 
 was a large reward offered for its re- 
 covery by some histori<'al society. It is 
 a i)icce of i)itch oryeHow pme sawed out 
 of the original timbin- before the use of 
 j)Ower saw mills — a hand sawed jilaiik — 
 and one or two hand wrought nails stUl 
 cling in the jilaces where they were 
 driven. The plank is about three feet 
 long, eight or nine inches wide and an 
 inch tliick. An inscriijtion, yellow with 
 age has been pasted on one end. It is 
 to the eftect that "On October 7, 1777, 
 1{rig.-Gen. Frazier, mortally wounded 
 ■ ill tlie battle of Saratoga by' a liall from 
 
 the gun of one of Morgan's men, 
 Timothy Murphy, lieing carried to the house 
 of which this board was a part, he died on the 
 morning of the 8th at eight a. m. On the evening 
 of his fall when it was rendered certain that he 
 could not recover, he sent for Gen. Burgoyne and 
 requested that he might be buried at six a. m. the 
 following morning in the great redoubt on the 
 hill." The granting of this request, the in.scrip- 
 tiou goes on to say, was a cause of complaint 
 among the friends of Burgoyne who thought that 
 in order to comply with the reiiuest the (ieneral 
 lost the British army. 
 
 The Phoenix Trottinsf Association which 
 at one time was composed of lovers of fast horses 
 constructed the half mile track which is now a 
 liart of the gi-ouuds of the Phcenix Union Agi-icul- 
 tural Society. It is one of the best tracks in this 
 jiart of the state and is kept in good order. As 
 
 Old Plioto loam-d by W. E. Sparrow. ^ ^..^ ,-„„. ,. , „ 
 
 COXSTUlCTrnX OF THE NE« IJAM. 
 
26 
 
 'GEIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHOENIX. 
 
 LOKIIKITA :l;KSSK,(;rii:; HAKT 
 
 the name implies, the present society is com- 
 posed of life memberships at a cost of .flO, 
 organized PVbruary 6, 1873, and managed by 
 a board of directors consisting of two from each 
 of the three towns, Schrceppel, Clay, and 
 Lysander. On .January '22. 1889, it was re- 
 organized and incorporated with the issue of 150 
 shares at SIO each. The society has the rejmta- 
 tion of jiaying all premiums in full no matter 
 whether there is a loss or gain from the iinnnul 
 meetings. The officers for 1902 are: President, 
 John O'Brien; Vice-Presidents, W. M. Abbott 
 and Barney Martin; Secretary, V. K. Williams; 
 Treasurer, N. A. Hughes; General Superintend- 
 ent, E. R. Sweet; Chief of Police, .Tames B. 
 Kinslow. 
 
 Amasa P. Hxrt, fr.r several years a large 
 land owner in Schrieppel and at one time proprie- 
 tor of the water power on the Oswego river, east 
 side, in Phcenix, was born on a farm in the town 
 of Van Buren, Onondaga 
 county, N. Y., Sept. 28. 
 1814. His grandfather, 
 Eber Hart, a revolution- 
 ary soldier, came there 
 from Providence, R. I., 
 in 1800. He died m 181:2 
 or '3 and was burieil at 
 Sorrdl Hill near his 
 home. Eber Hart, jr., 
 father of Amasa P., was 
 born at Providence in 
 1787, and came to New 
 York with his jjarents. 
 In 1812 he married Miss 
 Betsey Howe, with whom 
 he lived in wedded life 
 for oi) years, her death 
 occurring in 18(i7. He 
 died at the home of Ad- 
 niram Hart, Aug.l, 1873. 
 Eber was a soldier in the 
 war of 1812, serving in 
 
 the state militia at Sacketts Haibor. There 
 were eleven children, of whom Amasa was 
 the oldest. Eber was reared in the society 
 of Friends. From the farm Amasa Hart, 
 when 16 years of age, went into a shop to- 
 learn wool carding, a trade which he master- 
 ed, but which he carried on only a few 
 years. On Jan. 1. 1839, he was married to 
 Loretta, the daughter of Belden and Lucy 
 (Avery) Resseguie, and the ensuing spring 
 they moved to Sterling, Caynga county, N. 
 Y., where he engaged in carding wool until 
 ]8il,when he sold out and moved to Phienix. 
 Here he bought a tract of laml from Hezekiah 
 Barnes, enclosed by the river and canal, 
 and built and equii)ped a carding null with 
 water power which he obtained by cutting 
 a race through to the mill which stood oji- 
 jiosite to where Pierce & Pendergast's gi-ist 
 mill now stands. The building was after- 
 wards moved to the east side of the race 
 and for years us-ed as a storehouse. Shortly 
 after his arrival he bought the property at 
 Bridge and .Jefters<m streets and erected a 
 house where he lived for more than fifty 
 years. Mr. Hart had very little disposition 
 for restraint in business transactions and he 
 engaged quite largely in buying and selling 
 property of any kind in which he thought he saw 
 an opi)ortunity to make money. 
 
 Mr. Hart's first venture outside of his carding 
 mill was in 1817, when he bought of Addison B. 
 Lewis, F. Phillips and Wm. H. JIai-vin the land 
 upon which he in company with Wm. Bentley and 
 Hamilton Clougli afterwards built the tannery. 
 Aliout the same time these three gentlemen also 
 engaged in the meri-autile liiisiness on what is now- 
 known as the Russ corner. The tannery was 
 liurnedin IS'iO and the same year rebuiltby Messrs. 
 Hart and Bentley who afterwards sold out to 
 Messrs. Joseph B. and Daniel Hubbard. Mr. 
 Hai't repurchased the property in ISTO and the 
 building again burned down. Then he rebuilt for 
 Sinclair chair factory and later sold out. The 
 property is now occujned by Sweet Bros. 's paper 
 mill. Mr. Hart, during all these years, carried 
 on mercantile business, moving from the Russ 
 
 .\MA.*,\ P. HART 
 
 1 ■^ 
 
 I'- ' 
 
 m 
 
 r WKm Www a 
 
 W' 
 
 
 
 ppH|lipilillll!pilllllllll|||il 
 
 iflffi'i: 't mBBi 
 
 A. P. HARTS OLD HOME. 
 
"GKIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCEMX. 
 
 27 
 
 which had charge of it» 
 loustnictiou. During the 
 latter part of the fifties. 
 he f;ot hoM of the Plia'uix 
 lie|)iirter wliicli lie .sohl 
 t,> M. M. Cartterin IHGO. 
 He WHS also a ti'ustee of 
 the Congregational 
 church for several i ears, 
 and assisted in building- 
 the new structure. In 
 1S58 he was named by 
 the legislature as com- 
 missioner to erect the- 
 wooden bridge at Pha-uix, 
 the contract for the con- 
 struction of which he let, 
 Aug. 13, of that yc^ar. 
 The amount appropriated 
 was .Si), 000. He was also, 
 in 18(i(5, the commis- 
 si(mer who constructed 
 the Oak Orchard bridge. 
 
 On Ja 
 
 ISO."), Mr. 
 
 Old Photo loaiiL-d by J. M. Williams. vScc otlicr groups old settlers iiajjes 12 and K) 
 
 A POPUL.AK HOSTELRY IN EAKLY DAYS; GROUP OF CITIZENS OF 1852. 
 
 1. H. \V. Weedfii. 2, Patrick Murpliv, 3. D. A. Fo.x, 4, Emory Smith, '\ J. Warren 
 Williams, ll Willard Gould. S, Michael liuffv. 10, William Ash. 12. H. D. Fo.\. U. Jidin 
 Fo.t, Hi, Ira Uiirsress, H, Wm. Miinger. lil, Bert Cathcart. 21, H. S. IMiiMps. 22, Evert 
 Hubbard, 3). Will Davis.2il. Ward Horr.2T, Enoch DeloDjj, 2s.Edward Miuifrer. 2fl. Hud- 
 son Davis, ai. Cash Peck, :il, James Tobin. 32. Charlie Williams, 34, Eddie Cathcart, 
 35, George Willet, rK James Pitcher, at, Johnny Fox. 
 
 corner farther down the street into the Iniilduig 
 ■which stood on the ground adjoining the present 
 Fitzgerald store and which burned down in 1890. 
 It -was there that his son, Adelbert. after his re- 
 ttu-n from the war went into partnership with his 
 father; and when the latter retii'ed in 188.3, C. P. 
 Kimball liecame a part owner of the business 
 after that to be carried on under the name of Kim- 
 ball k Hart. 
 
 It was not long after his tannery 
 property deal that Mr. Hart, in 
 company with K. Williams.erected 
 a saw miU. The latter died before 
 the mill was in operation and on 
 Jan. 23, 1852, TMr. Hju-t bought his 
 interests of the estate. In 1854- 
 '9 Mr. Hart served the town and 
 county as superintendent of the 
 poor, during a jjart of which time 
 the two ottices were combined in 
 one. Another enterjirise in which 
 Mr. Hart was engaged was in the 
 ■woolen mill which stood on the 
 upper end of Bridge .street, jiro- 
 perty which he bought of .Mr. 
 Barnes. He ■was also a director of 
 the Oswego and Syracuse Plank 
 Road company and was at one time 
 vice president of the Oswego & 
 Onondaga Insiu-auce Co. He was 
 vice president of the Ruiiil Ceme 
 tery association in 1877 and was 
 one of the incorporators of the 
 Phoenix bank in 18tJ9. When the 
 new public school was erected he 
 ■was a member of the committee 
 
 Hart was appointed su- 
 perintendent of the Os- 
 wego and Baldwinsville 
 canals a'ad the Oswego 
 and Oneida rivers im- 
 jirovement work. Mr. 
 Hart was largely interest- 
 ed in boats which plied 
 on the canal and river, 
 being the owner, among- 
 others, of Island Queen 
 and the City of Buflalo. In 1872 he bought the 
 steamer Lewis Lawrence of Chauncy Mackey, then 
 sold a part interest to R.A.Prichard whomhe after- 
 ■n-ards bought out. This boat made alternate 
 trips between Syracuse and Phtcnix and Phoenix 
 and Utica. When the Em])ire Iron Works 
 burned in 1871 it was rebuilt by A. P. Hart who 
 old it to J. I. Van Doren. In 1868 Hart & Car- 
 
 lioiiowcd Pholo. THR PIKEXIX B.\SE IJALL TE.\M. 
 
 1. ("apt. Waller Peiidergast. 2. Irving Wood. 3. T5r\iee Decker. 4, Glenn 
 
 Ward, ^'. Harry Dunham, li, Arthur C. Mover. 7, Harold Hanscom. S, Leo 
 Miller, 9. Henry Pendergast, in. Charles Ralph. 
 
128 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHOENIX. 
 
 Ohl Photos. 
 
 MRS. JEDl THKN 
 
 ;\VEKT 
 
 jKDrTHEX swEbyr 
 
 rier bought the cheese factory which iii 1ST5 they 
 sold to Kimball .V Martin. Iii 1S.S5 Jlr Hart 
 bought property north of theLoomis planing uiill 
 and erected a building for the accommodation of 
 an oil stoue factory which was to be conducted by 
 a man named Gillette who was from Syracuse. 
 The industry Wivs never a success. The Imilding 
 was burned two years later. Mr. Hart had un- 
 bounded contidHnce in the future of tin water 
 power on the river at Phnenix. In company with 
 others he bought all of the rights and e(piities,his 
 own interest being one half of the whole. When 
 the others sold out the other half he succeeded iu 
 getting that, also, an I w;ls afterwards sole owoer 
 until he sold out, from time to time to indiWduals 
 small interests, finally 
 disposing of the last of 
 his holdings to J. I. Van 
 Doi'en. Capt. Hart ol)- 
 tained his military title 
 because m the days of the 
 old state militia — the time 
 of general training days 
 and ginger bread — he was 
 captain of a com]>any. 
 His death occurred Se]).. 
 11, 189t). after an illness 
 of about four weeks. His 
 widow died nearly four 
 years later, Aug. 4, HlOd. 
 They had seven children, 
 three of whom me living: 
 Lucy B. and Cordelia C, 
 the latter the widow of C. 
 P. Kimball, at Ph i-nix; 
 and Charlotte .\nn, the 
 wife of Albert HojAins, 
 whose home is at Buti'alo, 
 N. Y The other chil- 
 di-on were Adelbert P., 
 Betsey Evelyn, Frances 
 Adebe and Ama.sa P., jr. Mrs. s. J. .Mo.vii- Pli..t. 
 
 Jeduthen Sweet was V>urn on a farm on 
 Pompey Hill, March 21, 1826, and, now 
 living in the village of Phoenix, is in his 
 77th yeai-. For several years, dating from 
 l.S!i7, he was engaged largely in farming in 
 the tosvu of Schriepjtel. His father, Darius 
 T. Sweet, who came from ( anad.i, was 
 among the early settlers in the town of 
 Pompey, a section from which sjirung many 
 distinguished men. One of his daughters, 
 Mary, who is now dead, married Llmansou 
 Chesebro and they owned and managed a 
 farm a few miles north of Phoenix at the 
 time .lediithan moved here. The other 
 daughtei-, Mrs. Charlotte Cable, is now a 
 resident of Oneida, N. Y. Henry T. Sweet, 
 one of his sons, resides at Mexico. N. Y. 
 Thei'e were aliout 200 acres which Jeiluthen 
 t-weet pureha.sed of Janes Brown, located 
 on the Penuellville road a mile and a hidf 
 from Ph 1 nix. It was there that he engaged 
 largely in dairying and his careful manage- 
 ment of the place was rewarded with suc- 
 cess. Five years later, after li\-iug in the 
 village of Phtenix a year, he pu)chased the 
 fann of his Vn'otI.er-in-law, \.i: Chesebro 
 where he resided and, as had been his 
 custom, maintained a large dairy, iintil 
 lS7(i when he bought a home in this village 
 and .settled down here intending to engage in 
 some occui)atiou. Leasing a plot of groiuid he 
 established a coiil liusiness which engaged three 
 years of his time, until the owners required it for 
 their own use, when he retired from active occu- 
 j>ation, except such as tiirued his attention to the 
 improvement and care of village real estate which 
 for a lime he bought quite largely, erecting new 
 houses and fitting up ■ Id ones on Spring and 
 Volney streets. During recent years Air. Sweet 
 has indulged in that leisure which a busy and pro- 
 fitable life has earned, but which only his ad- 
 vanced years would impose ui)on him. He has 
 not been active in politics, although in 1S77-S1 he 
 served as overseer of the poor. Mrs. Sweet, whom 
 
 .ii;i>rTiii:x sweets kesidexce. 
 
"GRrrs- HISTORICAL SOUVENIR Of I'HCKNIX. 
 
 •1» 
 
 111' niarriod n( Pompey, .Tan. 1, 1S19, nmi who 
 wiis his cherished eoiupaniou luul hclimiect for al- 
 most 11 hiilf a century, was a devoted lueiiiber of 
 tlie Methodist chiiroli, with which she united 
 while they were residents of that town, in l.Sl>(). 
 She was horn in I'onipey, July "2:!, l,Sil), her 
 maiden uanie heiun' Mary Bush. Her death oc- 
 curred in this village Aug. 1>S, IS'.l.S. Had she 
 lived four months longer the couple would have 
 celebrated their "golden wedding." Three of 
 their five children m'e now living, Mrs. C. E. 
 Rector at .lersey City with whom Mr. Sweet 
 sjiends most of the winter seasous,.Tudsi)n H. Sweet, 
 also a resident of that place, ami William A. 
 Sweet of Syracuse. The other two are dead. 
 
 Y. P. S. C. E. - In Sept. 188."), through the in- 
 fluence of Rev. G. F. Montgomery, ])!istor, the 
 
 sent it is giving an average of ^'{."i.OO a year, 
 through the regular hoards. Mr. Geoi-ge Hiust- 
 ings, one of the nieuihers, is at present working as 
 missionary in Santiago, Chili. The society has al- 
 ways been rei>resentcd at county, state and na- 
 tional c<mventions. The inend)er.shi]) is 77, of 
 whifdi 70 are active, 1 associate and (i honorary. 
 The orticers are as follows: I'resident, Sumner 
 M. Smith; vice luesident, Jay Hughes; recording 
 secretiu-y, Lena E. Patchen; corresponding 
 secretary, Mrs. S. J. Mover; treasure'. Mark 
 Ward. 
 
 The Schroeppel Homestead stands on a rise 
 of ground facing the road as it climbs from the 
 Oneida river after crossing Schroej)])el bridge, at 
 Oak Orchard. The highway leading north from 
 Syra<'use forks in the tillage of I^iverpool, 
 
 Tftl-; Ynrxc I'RDPLK.^ SOCtETY CHRISTIAN KNDEAVdU. CUXGKEGATK IXA I, (HrKCH. 
 
 1, r. E. (iinilec. J, Ella Holi, :i. Leonard E. DotlKc. 4, Mark O. Ward, .">, Mrs. S. .1. M<im r. il, Cliailie M. 
 CaiiUpo. T, I.eila Meniain. s. Oavric linli. !i, Kiitli E. (andec. HP, Sumner M. Smith. 11. I'.iicv E. Hiitts 1-' 
 Mrs. P. IK- liiise. i:f, Edna M. Ward. H. Maude A. Fialiek, !.">. Nannie M. Dvsrart, Hi. Emma A. Welch ' 17 
 Clara D. Kay, is, Charles E. DeLons-, IH. Mrs. C. D. .Vsh, ii\. Fannie A. Kafar, -'1, Kutli E. Can,1ee 22 Eva 
 Kimball, as, Ada L. Withers. 24. Martha .1. Sweet, 2.'i, Nellie E. Larkin, 2i;. Lena E. I'atehen. 27 Kiv T W 
 Harris, 2s M. Aljrenia Uhodes. 2fl. Nearinsr L. Emmons, :!0, Helen ISreed. :il. Eein l!utts.:)2. Sarah K Hhudes' 
 *i, Charles G. Kalph. 
 
 young people of the First Congregational chiucli 
 organized the Young People's Sooiety. In Sept. 
 1887 they were changed to Y. P. S. C. E. adopt- 
 ing the pledge and model constitution. The or- 
 ganization has been a strong one since its birth. 
 The co-operation ami energy of its membei-s have 
 restilted in much good. The society has materi- 
 ally aided the church. Among many things it has 
 contril)uted regularly to the expenses of the church. 
 It ha-s redecorated the chap.^1. furnished it with a 
 ciu'pet and piano, provided a water motor for the 
 pipe organ, paid for the building of ii chimney, 
 fireplace and setting of a tine mantel, the gift of 
 J. I. A'an Doreii. This summer it h-.is jnit a jiort- 
 land cement floor in the cell.ar of the ijarsonage. 
 A missionary library has been secured. The so- 
 ciety paid the expenses of a colored boy in At- 
 lanta University, (ia.. for several years. .Vt pre- 
 
 the left hand road running off to Belgium iind 
 Three River Point and that at the right hand to 
 Euclid and Oak Orchard. Belgium and Euclid 
 are connected by the road riiuniug between Bald- 
 winsville and Brewerton, crossing the two north 
 and south roadsat right angles at those two villages. 
 When the roads and weather are favorable the 
 drive to the Schroeppel mansion from Syracuse is 
 interesting. The old home is now owned and 
 occupied by A. W. Schrcepjiel, the grandson of 
 the original Schrceppel who built the house and 
 was the ju-oprietor of a very considerable tract of 
 hmd. When he died the two daughters, Mrs. Dr. 
 Peniiell and Mrs. .lohn K. Hinmau, to whom he 
 left all of his property, burned the will and then 
 divided the ])roperty, giving to their brother, 
 Henry W. Schneppel, father of the present owner, 
 the old home embracing ti considerable tract 
 of land. The husband of Mi-s. Dr. Pennell 
 prominent New York practitioner iui<l :\Ir. Hinman 
 
30 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 -was an attorney at Utiea. Pennellville ami Hin- 
 manviUe -were the summer homes of the two 
 families after ^vhom the two villages were named. 
 
 The Enterprise Fire Co. No. 1 was orj^an- 
 ized in .Tanuarv, is'i'l. The officers at that time 
 were: Foreman. T. J. Davis; Ist asst. foreman, 
 O. H. Smith; 2nd as=it. foreman, Enoeh Conger; 
 secretary, Jerome Diike; treasurer. E, F. Eiehai-d- 
 son. There was no chief fireman for a number of 
 years. When T. .T. Davis was made chief the 
 equipment was a small hand engine of good 
 capacity which served the village for many years 
 and won many trophies, some of which are still 
 in possession of tlie company, as is also the old 
 engine. On the introduction of the gravity 
 system of water works the old engine was laid 
 aside and two handsome hose carts jnirchased and 
 the comjiany was reorganized and incorporated 
 July IJth 18H5 retaining the old name. At the 
 present time it has a membershi]) of Sti men. 
 The officers at the present time are: Chief, W. 
 
 Frances David has acceptably filled the office of 
 ))resident. The club has a membershiji of twenty- 
 five members whose names ajipear as fnllows: — 
 Mrs. .Jennie Alvord, Mrs. Luella Butts, Mrs. 
 Genette C'arrier, Mrs. Mary Cartter, Mrs. t'ornelia 
 Cartter, Mrs. Frances David, Mrs. (iraceDutcher, 
 Mrs. Fanny Fox, Mrs. Louise Gillette, ^Irs. Cora 
 Hakes, Mrs. Margaret Harris, Mrs. Ella Hawks, 
 ;\Irs. Emergene Isham, Mrs. Leah Merriam, Mrs. 
 Kittie ]\Iurphy, Mrs. ]\Iayme Parker, Mrs. .\lmeda 
 Reiily, Mrs. Mjiry L. R'ichards, Mrs. Southall, 
 Mrs. Lena Sweet, Mrs. Alice Vickery, Mrs. 
 Harriet VauDoren, Mis. Mary Williams, Miss 
 Isabel Williams, Mrs. Nelle Young. The work 
 taken u]i during the earlier years included Am- 
 erican authors and Shakespeare readings. In 1900 
 the club was admitted to the Home Education 
 Department of the Uuiversity of the State of New 
 York and in that year took up the study of Holland 
 with readings from Shakesjjeai'e, each member 
 res)>onding to roU caU with a current event. This 
 study ])roved very interesting and instructive. 
 
 Borrowed Photo. THE FIRE DEP.^RTMENT OF PHOENI.K- 
 Standing— Thorn Maxfleld, Capt. Top Row— E. J. Hansel, 
 
 -ENTERPHISE CO. NO. 1. 
 .\i-thur Kirby, Frank Burjross, .Tohn A. 
 Booth, C. C. Kinslow, Eii^rene Emniuns, E..T. N'iokery, Frrd \'eal, Floyd TvirptMiiny-, Albert Meil, William 
 Warner, Hfrman McGann. Lower Row— Fred Ketchiim; Adelbert Waldroni, Charles Si.vbvn-y, C. K. Wil- 
 liams, Henry Shultz. Edward Dj-keman, E. B. Nelson, Lewis Henle.v, John Kellar, E. K. Sweet, Wm. 
 Turner, W. S. Spauldinj^, Chief. 
 
 S. Spaulding; 1st a.sst. chief, C!has. Sixbury; 2nd 
 asst. chief, Wm. Blake; foreman, D. C. Heming- 
 ton; Ist asst. foreman, E. S. Patcheu; 2nd asst. 
 foreman, F. Gilbert: secretary, F. E. Hooker; 
 treasurer, H. S. Van Wormer; president, E. A. 
 Taber; captain of di'ill company, Thorn Maxfield. 
 
 The Topics Club is the outgrowth of a literary 
 society organizad by the Ladies' Aid Society of 
 the Congregational church about the year 1882. 
 The following ladies were among the original 
 members: — Mrs. E. G. Hutchinson, Mrs. .1. M. 
 Williams, Sirs. Julia Boothby, ]Mrs. G. M. 
 Sweet, Mrs. Sarah Carrier-Wiggin, Mrs. Edmund 
 Merry, Mrs. Milton Butts, Mrs. Francis David, 
 Mrs. S. A. Brooks, Mrs. Alfred Morgan, Mrs. 
 Fred .\. Cartter, Mrs. Caroline Brainerd, Miss 
 Mary Flynn, Mrs. W. H. Carrier. After awhile 
 it merged into a "Chautaqua Circle" but was after- 
 wards revived by Mrs. Louise Benson and re- 
 organized wiih Mrs. J. M. Williams as President, 
 who successfully conducted it until her death, 
 ■which occurred in 1900. Since that time Mrs. 
 
 In 1901-1902 American history was selected and 
 great interest is taken in this subject also. This 
 year one person has charge of current events and 
 the responses at roll call are from some poet 
 selected at the previous meeting. The club meets 
 every Friday afternoon from three to five except- 
 in the summer months when a vacation is taken, 
 at which time a picnic is also planned for and 
 enjoyed by all the members. In October the 
 work is taken uj) with renewed zeal. Each mem- 
 ber of the club acts as hostess, taking her turn in 
 alj)habetical order. The membership is hmited 
 to twenty -five, each member being elected by ballot; 
 a majority of threefourthsof the members present 
 being required. An extremely friendly social 
 feeling prevails among the members and the club 
 is regarded as an important means of home im- 
 provement and culture. The officers are: — Presi- 
 dent, Mrs. Frances David; Vice-President, Mrs. 
 Alice Vickery; Secretary, Mrs. Emergens Isham; 
 Treasurer, Mrs. Kittie Murphy; Critic, Mrs. 
 CorneUa Cartter; Librarian, Mrs. Grace Dutcher. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF I'HCKNIX. 
 
 31 
 
 Borniwiil Photo. 
 (). M. HKll.I.V, PRESIDENT OF VILLAGE. 
 
 Owen M. Reilly was bom at Middlebm-g, 
 Schoharie .•o\iiit.v. N. Y., March 15, 1857, of 
 Irish paroutage. When he was about one year 
 old his parents luoved to the village of Sand Bank, 
 Oswego eonutv (nowAltmar) where his father Wiis 
 engaged in the tanning business; and when he was 
 eight years of age the family moved on to a farm 
 about two miles soiith of that village. Here he 
 worked in summer and attended the district 
 school in the winter until seventeen years of age 
 when he left school. In the spring of 1877 he en- 
 tered Pulaski .\cademy and was gi-aduated from 
 there in the spring of 1881. In the meantime he 
 bad commenced to teach school and in the fall of 
 1881 he accepted a posi- 
 tion as principal of the 
 WiUia m s t o w n High 
 school and taught there 
 one year, when he re- 
 signed his position and 
 entered the law office of 
 J. W. Shea, of Pulaski, 
 where he remained for 
 one year and then entered 
 the law office ot the late 
 Don A. King, of Pidaski. 
 In October, 18S4. he was 
 admitted to the bar. In 
 December 1884 he opened 
 a law office in the \'illage 
 of WiUiamstown and at 
 once engaged actively in 
 the jiractice of his pi-o- 
 fession, remaining there 
 until July 18S8 when he 
 moved to the village of 
 Phoenix where he has 
 since resided. His practice 
 extends to all the courts 
 and he has a large pi'ac- 
 tice in both Oswego and 
 Onondaga counties. His 
 ambition has always been 
 to succeed in his chosen 
 
 profession and he has ])laced that oliject above all 
 others. He is an indefatigabh' worker and is al- 
 ways k>yal to the cause he chaminons. In politics 
 he has always been an uncomju'omising Democrat, 
 lie has attended almost every state convention of 
 his party since 1879, on a great many occasions as 
 a delegate. He has repeatedly declined nomina- 
 tions tendered him by his party. In the fall of 
 1901), after much urging, he was prevailed upon to 
 accei)t a ])o.sition on the board of education of 
 which he is still a member. In tlie spring of 1901 
 without his knowledge or consent his party jilaced 
 him in nomination for president of the village, 
 and although the vOlage has about one liun<lred 
 Republican majority and he was pitted against 
 one of the strongest men in the Republican |)arty, 
 after one of the most exciting campai^s ever 
 waged in the village he was elected l)y tifty-nine 
 majority; renominated in the spring of 1902, and 
 luu-ing to opjiose an equally strong adversary and 
 engage in an eqTially exciting campaign he was re- 
 elected liy ninety-seven majority the largest 
 ever given a candidate in said village for that 
 office. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. ReUly married AlmedaR. House, of 
 Parish, N. Y., also a .school teacher and an old 
 school mate of his. They have no chiidren. 
 They have a beautiful home on Cherry street. 
 Both :Mr. and Mrs. ReUly are very fond of books 
 and he has one of the best law libraries in Oswego 
 county also an excellent jirivate library. 
 
 The First County Officers were commis- 
 sioned by a council of appointment and were as 
 follows: Fii-st jiidge, Barnet ^Mooney; associate 
 judges, Henry WiUiams, Smith Dnnlap, Peter D. 
 Hugunin, David Eastou and Edmund Hawkes; 
 assistant justice, Daniel Hawkes, jr. ; suiTOgate, 
 EUas Brewster; county clerk, James Adams; 
 sheriff, John S. Davis. 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Moyer Photo. O. JI. KEILLYS RESIDENCE. 
 
32 
 
 'GKIP'S" HISTOKICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 n.in-owc.l I'll. 
 
 ito. 
 Hl".\'. 
 
 I'. H. IIKKCHA.M. 
 
 St. Stephen's Catholic Cbuieh stiucture, 
 while located ou the west side of the river, is ii 
 Phoenix society, the greatest part of its member- 
 ship being residents of the village. It was origi- 
 nally a mission attached to the Baldwinsville 
 jjarish and in cbai'ge for many years of such well 
 known priests as Fathers Samuel Miilley, William 
 McCallian, James Smith, P. F. Smith, "P. B. Mc- 
 Nulty, Rev. Mr. O'Keefe, G. S. Lynch and F. 
 Fransus 
 
 As far back as 1S.")1 the Baldwinsville 
 pastor rode over to West Phrenix where he 
 was entertained by the Pendergast famOy 
 who had la'ely come to the country and 
 were staunch Cathohcs, and at their farm 
 home said mass to the members of the family 
 which was a large one. Then, as Catholic 
 families liecame more numerous in the 
 neighborhood the priest occasionally cro.s.sed 
 the river and held services in a hall in the 
 village. Among the places which were 
 utilized as session rooms were the haU over 
 Fitzgerald's store and those hi the Hutchin- 
 son and Hanchett blocks. 
 
 When Stephen Pendergast died, iu Fel>- 
 ruary, bSTi), he left .Sli.rMM) to lie used in the 
 erection of a church besides a large plot of 
 ground for the site. The surviving mem- 
 bers of his family, eight in numbei", con- 
 tributed .$2.j() apiece, making ."fi,!.)!)!) more; 
 and with the .'Ji.oOO thus raised the Catho- 
 lics were enabled to erect the handsome 
 structure in which they now worship at- 
 tended regularly by a priest; It is a brick 
 buOding \vith an ornamental tower entrance 
 surmounted with the customary spu'e and 
 cross and with stone trimmings. The 
 church was erected with that ])romptness 
 for which the Pendergasts are noted in 
 doing their own l)usiues.s, being completed 
 and I'eady for occupancy the summer fol- 
 lowing their father's death. What was 
 better, the congregation had a home that 
 
 was free from debt. The first service held in 
 the building Wiis the funeral service of Mrs. 
 Ann Pendergast, the widow of Stephen I'eu- 
 dergast, whose death followed that of her husband 
 inside of a year. Since the church was built a 
 pretty vestry has been erected adjoining it. The 
 building is now complete in all modern appoint- 
 ments with a congregation of about 150 and is in 
 charge of Rev. Father P. H. Beecham, whose 
 charge a'.so includes the Baldwinsville parish. 
 The Revs. Father Bayard and Kelley are among 
 the former pasters who were here. Father Bee- 
 cham has been in charge about sixteen years and 
 during thiit time he has iafused his parishoners 
 with vigor and devotion to their church. 
 
 Supervisors — Samuel Merry, 1833, '35; Andrus 
 Gilbert, 1831; James B. Richardson, 183(5-7; 
 Patten Parker, 1838-9; Barzil Candee, 1810-1; 
 .Joseph R. Brown, 1812; Garret C. Sweet, 1813; 
 Samuel Foot, 1811; William Conger, 1815-fi; 
 William Hale, 1817-50; Ohver Breed, 1851-1; Ira 
 Betts, 1855; Seth W. Alvord, 1856-7; John P. 
 Bice, 1858-(50; Frederick D. VanWiigoner, 1859; 
 Edmund Merry, 18(il-3, '65-8; Charles W. Can- 
 dee, 181)1; Moses Melviu, 186'.l; John C. Hutchm- 
 son, 1870-1; Hiram Fox, 1872-5, '79; William 
 Patrick, 1876-8; Burton Betts, 1880; A. E. Buss, 
 1881-1; W. E. Sparrow, 188.5-6; John D. O'Brien, 
 1887-91; Albert P. Merriam, 1892-6; F. L. Smith, 
 1896 (present incumlient). 
 
 The Fire of July 23, 1891, destroj'ed the 
 Chiquita paper mill, the saw mill of A. P. Hart, 
 Kimliall's cider mill and the Smith ^Murgittroyd 
 machine shop. 
 
 Mrs. S. .1 
 
 Mover Plioto. 
 ST. STEPHEN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTOKICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 33 
 
 Phoenix Lodge, No. 101, I. O. G. T. was 
 
 ortJiuiiz.Ml Fell, lit, VMM, liy Mrs. J. C. Ktoiie. of 
 Oliiii, with fourteen eliiirter members uuil luia since 
 initiated one hundreil mul eleven. Fuller's hull 
 WHS seeiireil when' the meeting's were lieM until 
 the j)liice wius found too smiill to aeeonunodate the 
 members, and the hall iu the Belts bUx-k was then 
 engaged where on Feb. 14, 1901, the lodge took 
 11]) its quartei-s and where the nieetings are now 
 held caeh Tluir.-iday levelling. ('. E. CaiKlee has 
 the honor of being the first jiresiding oHicer anil 
 K. A. Taber the first seoretarv, ofKees which are 
 now heUl liv Douie Turner an<l Bertha Smith 
 (iarrisou. Last February a degree team, whose 
 picture ai)i>ears in this book, was organized and it 
 lias been a great helj) in the initiation of candi- 
 dates. It is the only Ciood Templars degree team 
 in the county and at the last session of the county 
 lodge it gave an exhibition of the tloor work and 
 
 '/,. McC'arty, Pulaski, Jan. 1, IKtl; John Carpen- 
 ter. Oswego, Jan. 1. 1841; Jabez H. (Hlbert, Pu- 
 laski, Jan. 1, 1847; Philander Uathbun, Oswego, 
 Jan. 1, 18.")0; Edwiu M. Hill, Pulaski, Jan. 1, 18.W; 
 Henry S. Con<le, Ha-stings, Jan. 1, 18.")t;; Samuel 
 R. Taylor, Oswego, Jan. 1, bSV.t; Kdward N, 
 Ualhbiin, Oswego, Jan. 1, 18 )2; Benuce L. Doaue, 
 Pulaski, Jan. 1, 1835; Mannister Worts, Oswego, 
 Jan. 1, 18(i8; John J. Stephens, Oswego town, 
 Jan. 1, 1871; Brainard Nelson, Oswego, Jan. 1, 
 1874; Daniel E. Taylor, (Iranby, Jan. 1, 1877; 
 Merrick Stowell, Oswego, Jan. 1, 1881); John (iar- 
 deuier, Oswego, Jan. 1, 188); John H. Oliphant, 
 Oswego, Jan. 1, 188); Thomas M. Costello, Al- 
 bion, Jan. 1, 1880; William J. Pentt'low. Fulton, 
 Jan. 1, 18:)2;E. E. Frost, Oswego, Jan. 1, mX,; 
 John S. Parsons, Oswego, Jan. 1, 181)8; Frank M. 
 Breed, Phceuix, Jan. 1, 11)01. 
 
 I!< 
 
 .N(i. nil, I. U. li. T. 
 linson. Nellie lirwin, Lettie 
 LaunilVv,.li-iMiieHijr!fs, Lemuel li"ss. Middle K»w-,Iessic .lolinson, William riiapin, 
 Helen .rcihnson, Ell(?t ni- Enunons. Susie R. ss. Diaries .Maiidell. Itottom Uow-fteplien 
 Diiiiii, Chaile.-* liuid -e. .Ir., Frank Wliitniy, Kiissell P.iiker. 
 
 nowedCul. THE IJEG UEE TEAM. PHiKNIX I.llDCE, 
 Ti)|> Row (from riMrlit to li-lt) — Lewis Tiiriur. Aiiiia .!( 
 
 won great applause. The lodge each week has a 
 progi-am both interesting and instructive in the 
 great work of moral reform. Earl Hooker, whose 
 death occurred Nov. 29, is the first one lost by 
 death and he will be greatly missed in the lodge 
 room where hi; was ever ready to work for the 
 cause of temperance. The meniliers of the Order 
 attended the funeral in a body and conducted the 
 services at the grave. 
 
 County Clreks. — James Adams jajipointedl, 
 Oswego town, March 21. IHlti; .Joseph Davis faj)- 
 pointed), Oswego, March 19, 1818; Smith Dunlap, 
 (api)ointed), Sandy Creek, Feb. 19, 1821; Hiram 
 Hubbell, Pulaski, term began Jan. 1. 1823; T. S. 
 Morgan. Oswego, Jan. 1, 1821); Thomas C. Baker, 
 Pulaski, Jan. 1, 1829; Erie Poor, Oswego, Jan. 1, 
 1832; Marinus W. Mathews, Pulaski, Jan. 1, 1835; 
 Daniel H. Marah, Oswego, Jan. 1, 1838; Andrew 
 
 County Treasurers. -Peter Pratt, Mexico, 
 181(5; Ehas Brewster, Mexico, 1820: Aveiy Skin- 
 ner, Mexico, 1827; Robert A. Stitt, 1839; Starr 
 Clark, 1840; Hu-am Walker, 184G; Samuel H. 
 Stone, Mexico, 1849; Henry C. Peck, Mexico, 
 1855; Luther H. Conklin, Mexico, 1858; John 
 Dowdle, Oswego, 1879; George Goodier, Oswego, 
 1882 (died in office in 188!;, the first year after his 
 re-election); E. Eugene McKinstry, Oswego, (ap- 
 pointed bv the sii])ervisors in (ioodier's place) 
 February,' 1886; Thomas Moore, Oswego, 1886, 
 re-elect eil 1889 and again every term since. 
 
 The First Tavern in the ^-illage of Phoenix 
 was that of Simeon S. Chapin, who in 1822 pur- 
 chased the log house of .\aron Paddock and iu 
 1825 erected a log addition and opened what be- 
 came popularly known as the "Double Log House 
 Tavern." 
 
34 
 
 "GRIP'S" HLSTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Old Photos. ANTDINETTE FHAMKXE CHEEVEK 
 
 CHAKLES WILSD.N TANUEK. ANN H. 
 
 Charles Wilson Candee, now m his S6tli 
 year, was boru Sept. lit, 1S17, iu the town of Vol- 
 uey, on the farm which his father, Barzil Caulee, 
 then owned and occupied, Ij miles north of 
 Gilbert's MiUs. The family came from Litch- 
 field, Ct., in the i)receding spring, dri%'ing a 
 yoke of oxen with a single horse hitched in 
 the lead, all of the way. Snow was on the 
 gi-oitnd and they travelled with a fleigh. The 
 Tear liefore, in the spring of ISlC, Barzil Candee 
 "had come to this section prospecting, and 
 lieing pleased with the country had purchased 
 the land upon which he made a home for his 
 family — a farm of KiO 
 acres covered with vu- 
 gin forests and afterwards 
 tilled to the highest state 
 of cultivation. Then he 
 returned east and married 
 
 Huldah Wilson, brinfjin^ 
 
 her back to thenew home 
 
 where she at first found a 
 
 domicile in a log house 
 
 situated in a dealing of 
 
 only five acres. Her 
 
 sister married Judge 
 
 Stoddard, who became 
 
 a pioneer settler in the 
 
 town of Camden, Oneida 
 
 Co., and was afterwards 
 
 a distmguished man. 
 
 Seven childreu were born 
 
 to them, besides Charles 
 
 W. One of them. Gay 
 
 Candee, lives in (iranby 
 
 Knd the other, Augusta, 
 
 the widow of Henry 
 
 H. Gilbert, resides iu 
 
 Phoenix. The three are 
 
 all that are living. The 
 
 oldest sister, Julia, mar- 
 ried Charles S. Sweet. 
 
 Artinicia and Artaniinta 
 
 were twins. The former married 
 Constance B. Chapman and the 
 other Rufus Do-mis who was a 
 tanner at Mexico. In 18:$5 the 
 farm was sold and the family 
 moved to Mexico. In Marc-h, 
 18 57, they moved to the farm of 
 l."jO acres one-half mile east of 
 Phoenix, which is still in the 
 family, now being owned by a sou 
 of Mr. Candee, Charlfs E., who 
 l)oaght the place of his father 
 twenty years afio. The Intter is in 
 holies' that the place which has 
 been only five or six years out of 
 the family since 1837.' shall pass 
 down to fixture generations. 
 
 Charles \V. Caudee divided his 
 childhood days between working 
 on the farm and attend ng the 
 distr ct school. On Feb. 3, 18-47, 
 he married Ann H. Marsh of 
 Whitesboru. X. Y., and in 18W he 
 bought the farm his father had 
 owned near Phieuix. The latter 
 M ;vKSH Aied in August, 18(i2, 71 years old, 
 
 and his wife in Dec. 1877, 81 years 
 old. In ISll and 'i2 Charles W. was in the grocei-y 
 business in Phoenix with Orange Chappel, their 
 store t landing on the site of the Howard house. 
 His tir.st wife died Oct. 29, 18;)3, and on Dec. 31, 
 18!)(;Mr. Candee married Mrs. Antoinette Francene 
 Cheever, the daughter of Alien Hicks of Seneca 
 Falls. ^ATien Mr. Candee sold the farm to his son 
 he moved into the village, and built the house in 
 which he now resides, his purchase containing 
 fortv acres which he had surveyed and largely cut 
 up i'nto village lots, ojieniug Bridge street through 
 from Barnes to Lock street, and erecting addi- 
 tional dwellings on Bridge and Lock streets. ^Nlr. 
 
 .Mrs. S. J.Moyer, Photo, r. \V. CANDEE ;* KESIDENCE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 35 
 
 Ciindee served as super\-isor in 1864 and Las also 
 served as commissioner of liiglnvays imd poor- 
 master. He was one of the iueorporators of the 
 Oswego and Onondaga Insurance Co., and for 
 many years Iius been an active member of the 
 ("ongregatioiial chureli, of which he is the ohlest 
 deacon now living', having been such since lS.">-i. 
 During the war Mr. ('andee was chairman of the 
 town committee to fill the town quota requh-ed 
 under several calls of the president for troops, of 
 which D. D. McKoon and Edmund MeiTv were 
 members. He was also called to sit with Judge 
 Tyler at Oswego to enforce the drafts of ISliii, 
 which to him, as to all good union men, was a 
 trying time. The children by his first wife are 
 ^lary (Mrs. .T. W. Loomis) of Phienix. who was 
 married in LS7H, Chai-les E., who married Eliza- 
 beth P.oli in l.ssi and Huldah (deceased) who 
 
 Historic Earhtworks. — Remains of old earth- 
 works which ai'e not definitely accounted for in 
 history were once .scattered along both .shores of 
 tlie Oswego river for two or three miles below Os- 
 w ego Falls. They generally consisted of embank- 
 ments with ditches, and many of them were over- 
 grown with large timber. At the present time 
 there is scarcely a trace of these works left. Oji- 
 posite the city of Fnlton, or rather on land now 
 included within its limits, standing on the east 
 bank of the river, was an old fort, traces of which 
 were plainly discernable fifty yeiu's jigo. This 
 fort was built in August, 17.')S, by Col. Rradstreet 
 to iitlbrd protection against attacks wliili- carrying 
 around the rapids at that place, then known to all 
 jiarlies traveling between .\lbany and the western 
 frontiers !us the Great C'arrying Place. During 
 tlic war of 1SV2 this fort was made a depot for 
 
 Taken by W. E. Spanow, 1^TL^ (See othi'i- gniup,* ohi settlers pages 12 and 27.) 
 
 EARLY SETTLERS IN FRONT OF EDWARD CATHCART'S STOKE. 
 1, .\ndrew Frolick. 2. Ed. Mcrai-tliv, 3, "Bob" Davidson, bntcher for Ed. Hansel, 4, ,Iohn Darling, .5, Selic Wilson, 
 (i. Will Siri-ett. 7. Charles Bioker, .s. Alt xander Moyer, 9, "Stub' Drury, 10, Dr. A. P. Hamill. 11, (shadowy) 12, Wm. 
 
 (irey, cheese maker, IS. — , U, Charles .lackson. 1.5, , Hi, Edward Cathoart, the storekeeper, 17, 
 
 IK, ,19, , 20. Pat Miirphv, 21. John Dodge, 22, , 23, Charles Rector, 24, .Jim Elms, 25, 
 
 Frank Richnioml. 2ii, A. Rice, 27, Will Warner, (now in the West) 28, Alfred Carter, 29, Avery Wing, 30, Wm. Lapoint, 
 31, , 32, ^shadowy). 
 
 married Fred W. Lyons in 1879 and lived in Jer- 
 sey City until her de.ith. 
 
 The Reminiscences of Charles W. Candee 
 
 are interestuig as relating to the period when the 
 chief product of the farms along the Oneida and 
 Seneca rivers was wood which was carried to Salt 
 Point (Salina) on crafts thatjdied on those streams. 
 The hard wood, chierty heudock, beech and majile, 
 was requu'ed for making salt. The farmers miles 
 away from the rivers leased such frontage as they 
 needed where they could cord up their wood as 
 convenient as possible for loading on tlie boats. 
 The winter season was occupied in getting tlieir 
 wood to the river, where it was piled up usually 
 ll> feet high and sometimes in as many as twenty 
 tiers. The wood brought from Si to S3 a cord at 
 S ilina. Several farms Avere cleared with consider- 
 able profit to their owners. 
 
 supplies intended for Oswego and Sacketts Har- 
 bor. In 1828 the Oswego canal was completed 
 and that channel cut oft' a ])ai t of the old fort, but 
 for more than forty years afterwards the remainder 
 although plowed over, was in a fair state of )ire- 
 servation. Fifty rods below this fort was a line 
 of works, semi-circular in shajie which was sup- 
 jjosed to have Iteen of aboriginal origin. Across 
 the river was an elevation long known a.s Bone 
 Hdl, in which large quantities of human bones 
 were found. 
 
 Four miles down the river from Ph jnix, in the 
 town of (iranby, were found two distinct earth- 
 works each of which enclc sed about two acres. 
 They formed nearly a comjilete circle, a trifle 
 elongated but laid out witli regularity Large o.ak, 
 maple, j>iue and other trees covered the site of 
 these curious specimens of rude engineering. 
 Historians say that the time of their construction 
 is tar back of the j)eriod known to men of today. 
 
■MJ 
 
 'GRIP'S" HtSTOBICAL SOUYENItl Of PHCENIX. 
 
 The Epworth League of the M. E. church 
 ■was organized about I'J years ago. Our Chapter 
 number is 1379. We have a membership of H8, 
 66 being active and 22 associate members. The 
 regular devotional meetuiffs are held each Sabbatli 
 one hour before the prea<?hing service and are 
 usually well attended. The regular business meet- 
 ing of the League is held the second Tuesday 
 evening of each month. The election of otKcers 
 occurs in Miu-ch ami September. The Leagiie is 
 a great power in the church, assisting financially 
 as well as spiritually. Our present cabinet is: 
 President, E. E. Spencer; 1st vice president, Mrs, 
 B. D. Latham: 2 ad vice president, Frances Ash: 
 3rd vice jjresideut, Lenora Dutcher; -tth vice 
 president, Mrs. W. I). Thompson: secretary, Car- 
 rie Denton ; treasurer. Earl Spencer. 
 
 Doyle, Oswego, Jan. 1, 187(): Henry H. Lyman, 
 Pulaski, Jan. 1, 1873: Frank S. Low, Pulaski, Jan. 
 1, 187ti: J. Lyman Bulkley, Sandy Creek, Jan. 1, 
 18711; Edwin L. Huntingt(m, Me.\ico, Jan 2, 1882: 
 .\lrred N. BeaiUe, Pnla.ski. Jan 1. 1883; John Van 
 Bnren, New Haven. Jan. 1. 188S; Amos .\llport, 
 Scriba, Jan. 1, 18.U; Wilbur H. Stlleck. William - 
 town, Jan. 1, 18:i4; Wm. H. Enos, Scnba, Jan. 1, 
 181»7: Albert Warren, Jan. 1, 1;>0 I. 
 
 State Senators from Oswego county — .Vhin 
 Brou.son, 1823-4, '3(1-3; .\very Skinner, Mexico, 
 1838-41; Enoch B. Talcott, Oswego, 1815-6 (his 
 ttrm was cut short by an amendment to the con- 
 stitutiouK Thomas H. Bond. Oswego, 1848-0; 
 Moses P. Hatch, Oswego, 18-)1 ; James Piatt, Os- 
 wego, 18.')2-3: M. LiniUey Lee, Fulton, 1856-7; 
 Chenev .\mes, Oswego, 18j8-9: '64-3: Andi-ew S. 
 Warner, Pulaski, 1860-1; Richard K. Sanford, 
 
 THE EPWdKTH LEA(U"E. M. E. CHIKCH. 
 
 Sheriffs. — John S. Davis (appointed), Pnla.ski, 
 Mia-ch 21, 1816; Peter Pratt (appointed), Mexico, 
 Feb. 4, 1820; Orris Hart (appointed |, New Haven, 
 Feb. 13. 1821; elected from Oswego, Jan. 1, 1823; 
 Asa Dudley, Oswego town, Jan. 1, 1826; Hastings 
 Curtiss, Hastings, Jan. 1, 1829; William Hale, Pu- 
 laski, Jan. 1, 1832; Jonathan Case, Fulton, Jan. 1, 
 1835; Jabez H. (Wbert, Orwell, Jan. 1, 1838; Nor- 
 man Eowe, New Haven, Jan. 1, 1841 ; second term, 
 Jan. 1, 184'.l; M:amus W. :Matthews, Pulaski, Jan. 
 1, 1844: Horace J. Carey, Oswego, appointed 1o 
 fill vacancv bv death of Matthews, Dec. 5, 1844; 
 Alvm Lawrence, Mt-aco, Jan. 1, 184ti; (ieorge W. 
 Stillman, Onvell, Jan. 1, 1852; Rnfns Hawkins, 
 Oswego, Jan. 1, 1855; Charles A. Perkins, Con- 
 stantia, Jan. 1, 1858; Sidney M. Tucker, I'ulaski, 
 Jan. 1, 1861; re-elected from Oswego, Jan. 1, 1867; 
 Robert D. Gillispie, Richland, Jan. 1, 1864; James 
 
 Fultou, 1862-3; John J. Wolcott, Volney, 186(^7: 
 Abner C, Mittoon, Oswego. 1868-9; William Fos- 
 ter, Coustantia, 1872-3; Benjamin Doolittle, Os- 
 wego, 1876-7; George B. Sloan, Oswego, 1886-'91; 
 Nevada N. Stranahan, Fulton, 1896-1902. 
 
 The Phoenix Purchase, lands bought of 
 (ieorge Soriba, included all of that part of the 
 town of Schri ppel lying along the Oswego river, 
 beginning about a mile down the river from Brandy 
 brook and foUowing the east shore south to what 
 is now the southern boundary of the village of 
 Phcenix; the boundary then followed a direct 
 course to the Oneida river striking the stream at 
 the head of big 1>end, and following it to the mouth 
 of Peter Scott creek. Then it turned diie north. 
 Alexander Ph tnix. the i)roprietor of this large 
 grant, was never a resident, but he was well in- 
 
•GRIPS" HISTORICAL SOUVENIK OF PHUJXIX. 
 
 :t7 
 
 formed of the advantages for water power at the 
 
 present f<ite of Phii-uix. iiiul there l)e>;uii to utilize 
 it l>y liuililiiif;' ii xaw mill. 
 
 The Woman's Home Missionary Society 
 
 of the M. K. ehurch. — Wheu future generations 
 read the history of the Phienix Auxiliarv of the 
 Woman's Home Missionary Society, the historian 
 asks them to recognize the fact tliat the society 
 was not yet a year ohl at the time this history was 
 written. There is much praise due 5Irs. Bass, the 
 founder of our auxiliary, for the address given 
 .Tan. 12. li)0.', in which she lironght fortli facts so 
 vital that (!() women on that day responded to her 
 apjjeal and organized. Since then the number 
 Las been increa.sed to seventy. The first otKcers of 
 the auxiliary were: President. Mrs. E. C. Spencer; 
 1st vice president, Mrs. W. S. Wallace; 2nd vice 
 ])resident. Mrs. J. B. Huntley ; corresponding sec - 
 retarv. Mrs. D. W. S. Hooker; recording secre- 
 tarv.'Mrs. E. E. Crandall: treasurer. :\Iis. W. D. 
 
 ability as an elocutionist. Two of our officers 
 found it necessary to resign and Mrs. T. K. Hiver 
 was elected to fill the ottice of recording secretarr, 
 made \acant by the resignation of Mrs. E. E. 
 Crandall. Miss Olive Vick ry was elected treas- 
 urer in place of Mrs. W. "l>. Thompson. On 
 account of the removal of Mrs. Hooker from 
 Phcenix we were obliged to elect a new corres- 
 poniling secretary and Mrs. Joseph Sniitli was 
 selected Onr pur]>o.se is to become a society so 
 st<'adfast and patient, so simple and obedient, so 
 grave and serious and so dee])ly and inteusely re- 
 ligious that the organi/atioii may be the medi- 
 um through which His Message may be carried to 
 every darkened heart in America. 
 
 Oswego Forts. -Tlie earliest English trading 
 luiu.se at Oswego was constructed by (iov. Burnet 
 in 1T22 on the west .side of the river. The Colon- 
 ial As.sembly in 172li granteil 'M).) pounds to con- 
 struct a fort which was reported eoiniileted Aug. 
 1727. It was described as a stone building 8(1 
 feet squai'e. the eastern face semi-circular in shape 
 
 \V(i.\t.\Xf; HdME MISSION' S.lCt ETY. M. E. CHI'KCH. 
 .*tiindin" liom left to rifrhtl -Mrs. E. R. Fisb. Mrs. C W. Hiintle.v. Mrs. .Julia Morton. Mr.>i. W. D. 
 Thoini>son. .Mrs. (). Walk.-r. Mrs. P. Burliss. Mrs. E. Pai ki-r. Mrs. A. E. Kusf. Mrs. H. S. Soutliai:. Mrs. 
 C. J. ?'ulli-r. Mrs. Louisa Guflipli. Sittiujr— Mrs. ,7. Smith. Mrs. T. R. Siver. Mrs. T. C. Tafrfrart, Mrs. K. 
 C. Spencer. Mrs. A. W. Hawks. Mrs. W. S. Wallace. Miss Olive Viekery. 
 
 Thompson. Theri> is a legend that the primal 
 laws of Spain wire written in verse and framed 
 6,(100 years before tlie beginning of time. Our 
 laws were written in prose and in "lime" and were 
 framed liy Mrs. Hooker, Mrs. Thompson and 
 Mrs. Huntley. The society's chief aim and ob- 
 ject is to render assistance, both material and 
 spiritual, to tlie needy ones at home, and miicli 
 assistance has been rendered the ])oor and suli'er- 
 ing in our own town. On May 2(1, it was decided 
 to correspond with parties in either Xew York or 
 Washington to ascertain what line of work our 
 atixiliary might follow. As a result of this I'om- 
 munication we were asked to help a clergyman 
 and his w.fe who were working in a mission in 
 Oldahoma. and a barrel was packed and sent to 
 tliem. In .Tune Mrs. Hand, of Baldwinsville, gave 
 an interesting talk on Home Missions and the pro- 
 gram which W.1S rendered by home talent we be- 
 lieve is worthy of no'e in this bistory. Each par- 
 ticipant deserves much praise, but especially so 
 Mrs. Hooker, then our pastor's wife, who gave a read- 
 ing from "The Wayside Inn," which proved her 
 
 and the walls four feet thick, having jiort holes 
 and provided with water from a deep well. It 
 stood on the crest of a knoll on the west side of 
 the river, forty feet from the waters of the lake 
 and Was reached from the south side by a flight of 
 stone steps. An embankment and ]>jilisades sur- 
 rounded it. The first garrison consisted of a lieu- 
 tenant ami 2.") men. 
 
 (lovernor Shirley, reaching 0.swego in 17.5.5 
 with 1.500 nun including sevei al Indians.contemp- 
 lated a descent on th - Erench at Niagara. After- 
 wards, deciding to abandon the exiiedition and 
 ]i!ace Oswego in 1>etter sha]>e for defense, he re- 
 turned to .Vll)any, leaving plans f r the construc- 
 tion of new works. Th se consisted of two forts. 
 One, named Eort Ontario, was built on the east 
 side of the river so as to command the other across 
 the stream. It was 801) feet in circumferance, 
 made of logs 2(1 and 30 inc-hes in diameter, and 
 surrounded by a ditch H feet wide and 10 feet 
 deep. Within the enclo-ure were a square log 
 house and Viarracks for 300 men. The outside 
 walls were II feet high, 100 vards from the lake, 
 
38 
 
 •GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOITV'ENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Uyder.Phoio. J. M. WILLIAMS. 
 
 and the fort was cajiable of luounting 16 caunon. 
 Oswego New Fort was the name given to the 
 second structiu-e that was built at this time. It 
 stood on the west side of the river ou the hill 
 afterwaids cros.sed by VanBuren street, near 
 Sixth street, and was subsequently known as the 
 old French fort. It was a square of 170 feet with 
 bastions and ramparts of earth and masonrv 
 which, besides the jjaraix-t, was twenty feet thick 
 and twelve feet high; suiTounded by a ditch 
 fourteen feet «'ide and ten feet deej5, and mounted 
 eight cannon. The Ijarracks were capable of 
 accommodating 2l>ll men. 
 
 Clark, the historian, says that it is suppo.sed 
 that there was another fort, all traces of which 
 have been lost, and that it stood on the east side. 
 He says that when in 1818 
 
 the court house at East 
 Oswego was erected stone 
 was taken out of old 
 Fort Ontario. One of 
 them had a builder's name 
 (Craunel) upon it. Be- 
 sides, he says, E.W. Clark 
 had an old map in which 
 two forts are laid down 
 on the east side of the 
 river, -l.jll yards apart. 
 
 The First Grist Mill 
 
 in Phcenix (the old red 
 mill) was erected tor Al- 
 exander Phcenix by S. W. 
 Burke in 1829. Hezekiah 
 Barnes beean:e the owner 
 in 1835. Subsequently it 
 passed into other hands, 
 ■\nz: — Job C. Conger 1837, 
 Wm. Conger (one half in- 
 terest) 1841, Rensselaer 
 Northrup (one-quarter 
 interest) 1843, Solomon 
 Judd (same interest)1844, 
 
 ( )liver Breed (one-half interest) 1853, Joseph 
 Breed (one-third) 1856, WiLUam Sprague (same) 
 1858, Joseph G. Glass (Sprague's interest) 1861), 
 Edwiu P. Hopkins (J. Breed's interest) 1863, 
 Charles J. Ghiss i Hopkins' interest) 1867. That 
 vear it was burned and rebuilt, and was for years 
 afterwards conducted by Gla.ss, Breed i- Co. 
 
 Joshua, Moody Williams, publisher of the 
 I'hcenix Register, was born in the town of Clay, 
 Onondaga county, Sej)t. 22, 1836. He was the 
 >on of Kinne Williams and Nancy Rice Williams. 
 His early life was spent on his father's farm, the 
 family removing to Pha?nix in 1840. After several 
 yeiu's in the mercantile business in which he was 
 ;issociated with his uncles, J. Mooay and John P. 
 Rice, he entered the office oF the Phcenix Gazette 
 which was published by his brother, George E. 
 Williams, and there acquired his knowledge of 
 printing. In 1858 Mr. WUliams purchased the 
 I lutfit of the defunct American Banner. Phoenix- 
 like from the ashes of its predecessors, he estab- 
 lished the Phtnix Reporter whi<'h, as the Phcenix 
 Register, has withstood the usual vicissitudes of 
 newsi>aper ventures and has grown steadUy until 
 it is now not only one of the oldest, but one of the 
 most prosperous and best equii>i)ed of country 
 weeklies in Central New York. Independent m 
 pontics, and outspoken an<l fearless in all matters 
 touching public welfare, for nearly half a century 
 the Register has been a welcome visitor in the 
 homes of its patrons. Its standard is an impartial 
 and accurate report of current news and itstidehty 
 to this aim has made its place secure among the 
 citizens of the town. 
 
 In 18v16 his sou, Mr. Charles K. Williams be- 
 came associated with his father as partner. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. WiUiams assisted his brother, 
 George E. Wilhams in estabhshmg the Fulton 
 Times which is now published ami is among the 
 prominent ])apers of the county. Mr. Williams is 
 pulilic sitirited and has always been identified w ith 
 projects which promised improvement of town and 
 
 ^^^ 
 
 Mrs. S. J.MoycT, I'hoti). .1. M. WILLIAMS' KESIDEXCE. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENER OF PH(EN1X. 
 
 39 
 
 village. He is a stimnch Republican and has held 
 the i)iil>lic offices of president of the village and 
 postmaster. Socially he is a member of CaUi- 
 maeliiis Lodge 8()i> of the Masonic fraternity, of 
 the Central City Lodge, Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and' of the Central City Commanderj- 
 Kinghts Templar. 
 
 lu 18.58 he married Andersna Potts, daughter of 
 Thomas Pt)tts Esij. Mr. Williams has four child- 
 ren, Charles Kiuue, Mary Helen, Isabel X. WU- 
 lianis and Mrs. Alexander Oberlander. 
 
 Sunshine Society.— The Phinix branch of 
 the International Sunshine society was organized 
 Jan. 11, 190l!. For some time i)re\-ious to this 
 date the Epworth League of the Methodist chiu'ch 
 felt the need of a society which would care for the 
 young l)oys and guls who had outgrown the Jun- 
 ior League but whom they failed to receive as 
 Leaguers. After some consideration a reception 
 was given to ;dl who were not enlisted elsewhere. 
 
 The society started with thirteen members; in 
 four months it had twenty-two. and at the preeen' 
 time thu-ty-one are enrolled. 
 
 In the eleven months of its existence there have 
 been ten regular and fourteen special meetings; 
 liave made .seventy-tive calls and sold ten holders 
 for an old lady at the Syracu.se "Home," who 
 supports herself in ihis way. The society has 
 ])ieced and given a quilt to a jjoor lady ninety-two 
 years of age, made and sent beautiful i-crap-liooks 
 t ) the Orphanage and Children's Ho.sjiital, made 
 ]iretty coverlets for the hospital beds, helped the 
 Traveler's Aid with gifts of clothing and sent a 
 box of papers, a barrel of clothing and t'hristmas 
 boxes. It has distributed plants, ice cream, 
 tiowers and fruit to the sick and needy. In short, 
 its motto, "Good Cheer. " is amplitted in the daily 
 life of its menjliers. who believe in "Passing On" 
 the sunshine which comes to them from the one 
 lo^-ing P'ather of all. Mwny a lonely heart will 
 never cease to ihank (iod for the "vellow and 
 
 THE SUNSHINE MISSION 
 
 11, Olive Vickery, Supt.. 1. IJelK- Viekeiy, 2. flam 
 liutts, 6. Willie Jennings, T, Lois Hawkn, .•*, Grace 
 
 12, Eva Spencer, 13, Frauces Ash. 14, Edna Walker 
 Saaford, 
 
 At this reception the pastor, Rev. 1). W. S. 
 Hooker, suggested that a Sunshine Society be 
 formed as an auxiliary to the League. The result 
 was that over halt of those present joined the 
 League at the following initiatory service. They 
 elected their own oHicers and a ter fully (organiz- 
 ing they joined themselves to the Intei-national 
 Sunshine Society and ever since have si-rved a 
 two fold mission. Loyal to home interests: true 
 to their "Look Up and Lift Up ' pledge, they 
 have sent sunshine far away into hearts and homes 
 that were lonely and sad, poor and miserable. 
 Theii- kindness has been felt by the imigrant 
 girls landing on our shores, the jioor Italians of 
 Philadelphia, the sailors away fioni the "Lome 
 land,'' invalids, inmates of charitable in.stitutions; 
 and on Christmas many a litt'e heart beats high 
 with jov because of a box of beautifully dreste I 
 dolls going from these little people of Phoenix to 
 the general otKce to aid the 20,000 empty stocking 
 fund. 
 
 H.\NI), M. E. CHrRCH. 
 ,1 1 Mies. :i. Aaron .Jones. 4. Kittic Hooker, 5, Ethel 
 Jolin.-on, », Edna Tliompson, 10, Sadie Huntle.v, 
 . 1"), Kreda Kinme. Hi, Carrie D,-nton.l", Florence 
 
 white ' (Sunshine colors) — yellow, typical of the 
 golden sunshine and white, emblematic of purity. 
 
 L'Homtnedieu's Purchase, made in 1807, in- 
 cluded all of the land lietween the Oneida and Os. 
 wego rivers extending along both streams to that 
 of Alexander Phxnix which enclosed it within the 
 junction of the two rivers. A map of the town of 
 Sclira>ppel of 18:32 gives the f;a-ms in this joatent 
 as follows: — W. Leslie, a sni.all three-cornered 
 piece in the north-eail corner: then to the souih 
 was that of G. M. Sweet, abutting the eastern 
 boundary; next up the river were ICphriam Max- 
 well, Joseph Gilbert and James F. Simons, long 
 strips reaching from the river to the opposite 
 boundary: sliil farther up the river were A. P. 
 Hart and coa.ers Morehouse, the former skirting 
 the river and the latter exteuding from river to 
 river. Kno and Diefendorf had a small piece in 
 the junction of the rivers and Samuel Belong and 
 
M) 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Borrowed Photo. G(_ll' VENEU li M. SWEET, 
 
 MARY ANN (MILLIMAX) SWEET. 
 
 Amos Huntley .^triiis almtting the Oneida river. 
 Levi Carrier's liind extended from the river road 
 to the nortliern bound.s, next south of Simmons: 
 and t'yrus Jewett abutted the northern bunndarv 
 Vjetweeu Huntley and Carrier. 
 
 Gouverneur Morris Sweet, today ripe in 
 vigor, eighty years of age, exceeding by ten the 
 measure ordained by the scriptures — and living a 
 more acti\"e life than many younger men, a peace- 
 ful, rural existence sirpported by the tender com- 
 panionship of his wife; Gouverneur Sweet, one of 
 tlie liest known of the public men in the history 
 of Oswego county thirty ye:U's ago, was born in 
 the town of Clay, Onondaga county. X. Y., Aug. 
 7. IS'22. The home whifh his father, Charles 
 Newkirk Sweet, planted but three miles from 
 Phcenix was such as the average American pioneer 
 occupied- 
 
 Os- 
 
 -a lodge iu the wilderness. The 
 wego canal was then building and Charles N. was 
 engaged tirst in the .survey and finally in its com- 
 pletion. Charles S., his olde.st son drove team (ui 
 the cimstruction. Tlieu the father who had lo- 
 cated a provision and 
 s ipply store on the bank 
 of the canal at Pluenix 
 to .serve "the canalers.'' 
 was placed in charge of 
 the o23eratiou of the lock 
 at that place, and his sou 
 for a time assisted him. 
 A little later the elder 
 Sweet moved his place of 
 business into a structure 
 standing w here the How- 
 ard house is. After a 
 few years he I'ttired; 
 and it was in his 63d 
 yearthathedied. Charles 
 S. and later Addison 
 Sweet, became successful 
 merchants in Phteuix. 
 The former acquired a 
 consiilerable conipelence 
 and it was he that Iniilt 
 one of tile earliest stores ijoii-mv,-.! I'iinti 
 
 of the village, standing where ^'ickery's 
 store is now and for years known as "the 
 Sweet store." He also bought consider- 
 able tracts of land. Gouverneur Sweet 
 as a small boy tramped about the country 
 near home, at times going to school, and 
 then again assi.sting his father, running 
 on errands or chasing after cows. He 
 was 1() yearsold when liis brother, Charles 
 S. put up the .store and went into busi- 
 ness with Addison, and for some years 
 Gouverneur clerked for them: alf-o dur- 
 ing his early years attended the Mexico 
 academy. In l.Sill he bought ('harles' 
 interest in tlie stoi'e and succeeded him 
 as the partner of the younger lu'other. 
 .\ddison. After five years both of them 
 sold out to J. il. Rice, (iouverneur 
 afterwards carried on a store in tlie old 
 Washington block at the corner of Canal 
 and Bridge streets. He wiis also induced 
 til engage in manufacturing staves and 
 lumlierand subsequently had an interest 
 in the water jiower on the river at this 
 point. Always alert for business oppor- 
 tunities, and especially active in forwarding such 
 l)rojects as impressed him with their practicability 
 and public advantage, Mr. Sweet was commonly 
 consulted by those who had plans of any public na- 
 ture. When, aftor years of service the river bridge 
 was condemned, 'Sir. Sweet was <ine of the first 
 men to whom the public looked for a remedy. 
 The sentiment of taxjiayers in those days was for 
 the cheapest public utility. A wooden bridge was 
 popularly thought to be good enough for anybody, 
 and it required tajt and influence to secure any- 
 thing else. But Mr. Sweet, named as the com- 
 missioner from Schr<eppel. agreed with the others 
 on an iron structure. Their influence first at Al- 
 bany in getting an appropriation and then at home 
 with the supervisor's of Lysander and Schixeppel 
 in securing consent to an extra aUow ance from 
 tlio.se towns for conij>leting the work as it should 
 be done, resulted iu securing the present sub- 
 stantial iron structure. 
 
 It was about the time lie began business with 
 Addison that Mr. Sweet married Mary Ann Milli- 
 man, who came from an old family well known in 
 
 .\l. SWKKTS KE.SIDF.XrE. 
 
'(JKlP'ri- HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PH(ENIX. 
 
 41 
 
 the eastern part of the stiite ; their Iiouie being 
 netiT Hoosac, X. Y. — a young lady retineil uuii 
 (Hlucatod who li»8 borne three eliililren: Van 
 Rensselaer Sweet, a traveling salesman whose home 
 is in Pluenix, Cerelle E., the widow of VVm. Smith 
 and a teacher in the public school of lUnenix. and 
 Carnill Lincoln Sweet, a practicing jjliysician of 
 <-onsidi'rable skill both in medicine anil surgery at 
 Boise City. Idaho, who fovu'teen years ago married 
 Mm-y Dniibar, of (irand Hapids. Alic^h., the cere- 
 mony being p<'rfoiiued at Salt Ijjike City. Van 
 Rtmsselaer lias five bright children: Afilliman who 
 is teaching at Aknm, (_).. Earll who is in New 
 Haiui)shirf. Eva at school at Obcrlin. ().. Martlia 
 in the I'll iiiix high school and Carrol) HI years ol 
 age. 
 
 At the home of her parents resides Mrs. Smith, 
 her dau^jlitfr Winifred wlio is at Rochester fitting 
 herself to teach domestic science and her .son, 
 Sumner, a young man of ability who stands high 
 in his school and is a favorite of his grandparents. 
 
 Mr. Sweet was elected to ihe state legislafnic 
 
 in the .suburbs of the village, the pla<e foims a 
 pif^ture of rural si^enerv that is very utiractive. 
 Across the road are large liarns, erected in 1H()1. 
 The place now comprises fifteen acres, includmg 
 buildings of course. It was bought by the pre- 
 sent owner in April, ISIil). and then had 3H acres. 
 (!hestnnt street coming east from the village was 
 extiMided through the land to ojien up the IMuenix 
 Rural cemetery, the new burial ground which Mr. 
 Sweet was largely instrumental in pi-omoting and 
 for which he i'uniished three or four aci'esof land. 
 He was active in the construction of the public 
 school of I'll 1 nix and was a member of the first 
 school lioard. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of (iouverneur Sweet, 
 |)r Caleb Sweet, was a surgeon in the 1st N. Y. 
 regiment during the revolutionary war and w'as a 
 member of General Washington's stall' when the 
 coiinnander's headquarters were at Newburgh, 
 N. Y. In 178^ he married (ierritje the (hiughter 
 of Dr. Conr id Newkirk a physician of Holland 
 descrnt and at that tiiiii' a resident of Ulster 
 
 IdlKT EICIJJ) 
 9. K. Latliaiii, Chief K imrer; .">. V, Burgess. Recoiil 
 W. Halter. 3. W. G. Hcillenheck. a, .lohn T. Wyaiit. 4. K 
 11, .lolin Muipliy, 1^'. Vert B.iker. i:i, Eriii-sl (iiitlipli, 1 
 
 two terms,lSSl, and "o, and in the performance of 
 his duties at Albany became well acquainted with 
 the poHticians and theii' methods; and also greatly 
 versed in legislation. His col iborers in the as- 
 sembly were men whose names were distinguished 
 in state ati'airs in later years including Theodore 
 Roosevelt, now president of the United States and 
 Francis Hendricks state superintendant of insur- 
 ance. Those were sturing times, when the lobby 
 was in absolute control of legislation and when 
 stern integrity was essential to the sil'ety of a 
 member's honor. One of the most loudly jiro- 
 claimed "job.s" of that day is s.aid to havi' borne 
 the name of « gigantic railroad corporation but 
 Mr. Sweet withstood the charms of the lobby and 
 at the end of his jmblic service in Albiny came out 
 clean handed. 
 
 The home of Mr. Sweet, in a lovely j)art of the 
 vil'age consists of the bric'i residence which he 
 built in LSoS and which todav presents as good 
 appearance ii.s the more mo.lern dwellings. Stand- 
 ing back from the highivay and surrounded by an 
 orchard with vistas of meadow, timber and gardens. 
 
 1(171. I i). !•■. 
 in<r Sfcretaiv, 8. D. F. Yoiiiij;-. Cinirt Ph.vsician; 1, 
 ;. Hvirsess. H, "John Schiiltz, T, C. Baker, ill, H. Schiilt/., 
 1, K,)l)ort Nelson. 1.5. Amlcrson Hliiom. 
 
 county, X. Y. Maiy Xewkirk, her sister mar- 
 ried James Clinton, a brother of Gov. George 
 Chnton and father of Hon. DeWitt Clinton, and 
 she was one of the group in the historical painting, 
 "American Court" by Huntington. Dr. Caleb 
 Sweet on Dec 10, ITSo, was made a memlier of 
 the society of the Cincinnati. His pari'hnient, 
 I'ertifying to this fact, and bearing the names of 
 Washington and Gen. Knox, is in the possession 
 of his grandson Charles A. Sweet of Syracuse. 
 
 Dr. Sweet through his services in the revolution 
 bei':!me ]iossessed of extensive a<'res of virgin land 
 in Herkimer. Ulster, Tompkins and Om.ndaga 
 counties It is said that of all this land that 
 whicdi has piissed down to his grandchildren con- 
 sists only of the small tract in the town of Lysan- 
 der repurchased by the youngest of his children, 
 Caleb. Dr. Sweet dieil and was buried at Salis- 
 b try, Herkimer couniy. His widow, who sur- 
 vived him several years, died at the home of her 
 daughter. Anil Eno, in the town of Clay. 
 
 ■J heir children were Conrad Xewkirk born in 
 
42 
 
 "GBIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PH(ENIX. 
 
 UlilPhotus. I>YMAN I'l.AIS'l'liLI. 
 
 CAKOLINE MILLKU I'LAISTBU. 
 
 17S5, JoLn James lionssau 1787, Charles Newkivk 
 1789, Elizalieth Joues 1790, Benjamin Newkirk 
 1792, Sarah BaU 1795, Ann Newkivk DeWitt 
 179(! and Garret Caleb 1798. 
 
 Court Euclid, No. 1071, Independent Order 
 Forresters, was organized, Jlay 19, 1892, by Geo 
 ^Miitworth, state organizer, with the following 
 charter memliers; E. .1. Pappa, G. A. Gutliph, Dr. 
 I). F. Yonng, Raymond E. DiblJe, F. 1). Bnrge.ss, 
 W. J. Emigh, A." J. Wilson, Geo. Blake, Robert 
 T. Nelson, Chas. Keller. The I. O. F. is one of 
 the most substantial insurance comi)anies known, 
 and during its ten years existen(>e in Ph(pni.\, it 
 has not lost a member; 
 due to the careful examin- 
 ations of our physician. 
 Dr. Young. The present 
 officers are: R D. La- 
 tham, C. R. ; H. Shultz, 
 V. C. R. ; F. D. Burgess, 
 R. Sec. and F. Sec. ; .1. 
 Keller, treasurer; E. A. 
 Gutliph, CQurt dejjuty; 
 Dr. Young, physician ; J. 
 Shultz, P. C. R.; Fred 
 Welch and Mart Allen, 
 woodards; W.Holleubeek 
 and Chas. Bnker.beadles. 
 
 Distance from Syra- 
 cuse on the Oswego 
 canal are as follows: Sa- 
 lina 2 miles. Liverpool o 
 mDes, Mud Lock 7 miles. 
 Cold Spring 8 miles. New 
 Bridge 13 miles. Three 
 River Point 15 miles, 
 Phoenix 17 miles. Sweet's 
 Lock 20 miles. Ox Creek 
 28 miles,Fulton 27 miles, 
 Braddock's Rapids 31 
 
 miles, Tittany's landing 35 miles. High dam 
 3(5 miles, Oswego 38 miles. Feet above 
 tide: Svracuse 400, Liverpool 368, Phoenix 
 358, Fulton 345, Tiffany's lauding 300, 
 Osweg) 243. 
 
 Lyman Plaisted was born in 1818 in 
 the town of Clay, at that time a part of the 
 town of Cicero, and came to Phoenix in 
 1853. He conducted a hotel here for 
 several years, then established a cooperage 
 which he carried on for twenty-one years. 
 Since 1899 he has resided in the Borough 
 of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Caroline Miller, to whom Lyman Plaisteil 
 was married in 1849, was born in Dul chefs 
 ciiuntv, N. Y., in 1831, and died in Pluenix 
 in 1899. 
 
 Two of thoir children reside in Phcenix, 
 Mrs. Arthur Frazee and Mr.Edi-on PlaLsted. 
 ^Irs. \V. Huestis at Syracuse, Mrs. James 
 R. Dawson, Elizabeth Plaisted and Howard 
 Plaisted at New York, and William Plaisted 
 at Buffalo are the other cliildren living. 
 
 The River Bridge. — This structiue 
 which crosses the river at Phoenix was 
 erected under the following circumstances 
 — related by Gouverneur Sweet: — "James Frazee 
 of Baldwinsville, John Pardee of Lysander and 
 myself were the commissioners. It was during 
 the term of James Lascher, assend>lymau from 
 this county, that three or four of us went to 
 Albany to see what we could do towards 
 getting a bill through for a new bridge. Two 
 pine structures had rotted and it had been 
 found necessary to build a good ore. We secured 
 the enactment of a law for the exjjeuditure of 
 .416,000 a quarter of which was to be paid, each 
 by the two counties, of Onondaga and Oswego, 
 and the two towns, of Lysander and Schroejipel. 
 After the excavation of the Seneca river at Jack's 
 
 Mrs. S.J. Moyer, Photo. \V. H Hl,.\ k KM ANS HB.si UK.NCli. 
 
'GKIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUTENnt OF PHCENIX. 
 
 43 
 
 reefs the annual floods had poured down upon us 
 worse than ever and it had been necessary to raise 
 the al)utuients of the old structure. It was found 
 desirable to raise them between four and five feet 
 for the new bridge. But to do all of that out of 
 the amount appropriated was impossible, if we 
 were to have a durable structure. Howard Soule 
 came to our relief. He wrote us that he had all 
 the i^atterus for the Whipjile iron bridge and a 
 foundry, and that for the appropriation we had 
 secured he wt)uid give us an iron bridge an<l put 
 in oak needle beam.s. It was finally agreed that 
 he .should go ahead and put in irmi needle beams 
 for a small additioual sum which we arranged with 
 the supervisors of our town to have audited when 
 the bill was presented. I believe the extra cost 
 was ab<iut $1,200 for each town." 
 
 P Bridges.— On April 30, 18:50, John Wall ob- 
 tained the authority of the legislature to build a 
 toU bridge across the Oswego river near Three 
 River dam. On May 25, ISSli, the Schrcejipel & 
 
 placed by an iron structure. On April 6, 1869, 
 the legislature named (iouvernenr M. Sweet of 
 Schrceppel and John Pardee and James Frazee of 
 Lysander oommi.ssioners to rebuild the bridge at 
 Phoenix. The contract was let to Howard Soule 
 and the cost aggregated §18,400 one-fourth of 
 which was borne each by the two towns ami the 
 two counties. 
 
 Phoenix Business Men of '62. — Campbell 
 & Co. grocers, P. T. 'Jnuger c^anal collector, E. J5. 
 Ferguson jeweler. Hart, Pish & Co. dry goods and 
 groceries, Cashman & Sijaneuberger hardw.ire, 
 W. H. Shumway lawyer, Chapman & Candee dry 
 goods and groceries, James Pratt shoe store, 
 Charles Tnbbs restaurant, W. F. Dewitt barber 
 shop, S. E. Shares harness, W. (iould saloon, Ira 
 Gould billiard saloon, E. C. Hutchinson dry 
 goods and groceries, J. Durston meat market, A. 
 P. Fish boot and shoe store, Phccnix Reportw', 
 Dr. A. P. Hamill, Wm. Ward grocer, T. Bm'thck 
 saloon, John Daidy lumber, J. H. Dygert groc- 
 
 PHlENIX GE.VNCi;. 
 14, John O'ltricn, \V. M.; i:), Mrs. H. S. Hutts, Secretary; 17. ('. E. Hurcliiusion, Treiisurer; 11, Ira P. Ilftfs, 
 Lecturer; 1;;, Elmer H. Hazard, Assistant Steward; Hi. Mrs. .M. O, Hess. Lady Assistant Steward; 1. Mrs. E. 
 Parl£er, 2. C. D. Ash. :i. Mrs. B. H. Hazard, 4, E. Uriltin. .'>, Mrs. I'licebe lietts. 6. W. H. Carrier, 7, Mrs. E. Griffin, 
 8, S. PenderKast, a. Ehn,;r Benedict, 10, .John Itisliop, l.i, Charles E. He-s. Is. \V. S. Wallace, V. S., ID, Mrs. E. 
 Benedict, ai, Mrs. Charles E. Hess, ~'l, Mrs. C. n. Ash. S. Mrs. S. PendrrK-ast. 3;i, Mrs. M. P. Dnnn. 
 
 Granby Bridge Co. was incorporated to build and 
 maintain a toll bridge over the Oswego ri%-er at 
 HinmansviUe. On May 11, 181R, a commission 
 was appointed to erect a free bridge across the Os- 
 wego river and canal at Phoenix, on the site of 
 Wall & Peck's bridge, to cost not more than 
 ifljOOO a iJart of which cost was to be borne by the 
 town of Lysander. In Aug. 1858, a contract was 
 let to Coburn & Hurst for .$7,835.68 to build a 
 wooden bridge of eight spans at Phceuix, which 
 was duly finished. In 1859-60 the bridge at 
 HinmansviUe was rebuilt by the towns of Schrtep- 
 pel and (iranby. On May 26, 1866, Amasa P. 
 Hart of Schr eppel and Mason Rice of Clay were 
 appointed commissioners to rebuild SeliiTeppel's 
 bridge over the Oneida river above Three River 
 Point at a cost not exceeding .$7,.500 of which the 
 two counties and the towns of Schrceppel and 
 Clay were each to bear one-fourth of the expense. 
 This was provided with a draw which is stiU main- 
 tained bv the state. This bridge has been re- 
 
 eries, M. Wandell groceries, P. Duket shoes, (i" 
 M. Sweet it Co. dry goods and groceries, S. W. 
 Alvord harness, B. Conger books and drugs, I)r. 
 S. Avery, W. M. Avery jeweler, David & Names 
 law, H.'W. Weedeu law, A. Morton law, E. Ack- 
 ron tailor, N. J. Jliller daguerrean artist, S. MeiTy 
 hardware, R. Sturgess saw mill, Breed, Glass & 
 Co. millers. Breed & Merry millers, E. F. Gould 
 stave and headmg mill, D. Hubbard tannery, A. 
 P. Hart sawmill. 
 
 The Railroads of the County.— The Oswe- 
 go & Utica Railroad Company was chartered. May 
 13, 1836, but it did nothing for several years. On 
 April 29, 1839, the Oswego & Syracii.se RR. Co. 
 was incorporated, the road being comjileted in 
 October, l.St8. The Rome \- Watertown Railro d 
 Company was chartered in 1.SH2. Work was be- 
 giin at Rome in November, 1848, and in May, 
 1851, the road was constructed as far as Pierre- 
 pout Manor. The Oswego ct Rome Railroad 
 Company constructed a roa<l from Oswego to 
 
44 
 
 "GRIPS" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHffiNIX. 
 
 Richliiud station via Pulaski and Mexico in the 
 fall of 186."). The Oswego Midland Railroad Com- 
 jiany was incori)ora(,ed Jan. 11, ISWi. The road, 
 extending from Oswego to Jersey City, a distanee 
 of 325 miles, Wiis completed in 1872. It is now 
 known as the Xew York, Ontario & Western rail- 
 road. The Syracn.se Northern Railroad Company 
 was chartered in 1870 and on the 18th of .May in 
 the same year constniction was begun. The road 
 was ojieued, Nov. 9, 1.S71. It is now a j) irt of the 
 Rome, Watertown it Ogdensburg sy.stem, leased 
 liy the \e\v York Central A: Hudson River Railroad 
 Comjiany, and extends from Syracuse to Pulaski, 
 Avnere it connects with the Oswego and Mexico 
 branch of the same system. The Lake Ontario 
 Shore railroad also a i)art of that system, was con- 
 stnieted in 1871,connecting Oswego with Lewistou 
 on the Niagara river. A l)raneh road, extending 
 from Woodard.a station on the Syracuse Northern 
 railroad to Fnlton and there connecting with the 
 New York, ( )utario & Western railroad, gives the 
 New I'ork Central entrance t > Oswe.yo direct from 
 
 The Junior Christian Endeavor of the Con- 
 gi-egational church whs (U'ganized May, 1891, 
 through the efforts of Mrs. M. M. Cartte', who 
 was for several years the superintendent. During 
 the years many have graduated iuto the Y. I'. S. 
 C. E. and al.so united with the church. Yearly, at 
 Thanksgiving time, they distribute lja.skets of 
 provi-ion to pier families. For several years they 
 partly supported a colored girl in Atlanta Univer- 
 sity, nnd later money was sent to the school in 
 Mackentosh, Ga., in remembrnnce of which a 
 room in that institutio i was named after them. 
 Now their contributions are sent through the reg- 
 nlar boards with no choice of tielils. A committee 
 of live fr .m the Y. P. S. C. E. superintend this 
 work. Miss Lucy Butts is chairman. The mem- 
 bership is 56, of which 32 are active and 24 asso- 
 ciate. The president is John Ray; secretary, 
 Marion McOormick; treasurer. Bernard Porter. 
 
 Gen. James Burr Richardson one of the 
 
 JUNIHR CHRTSTI.VN ENOEAVOK, Ci INGUEfi.ATIUN AL rHriiCH. 
 1 Beriierd Porter. 2. Si'th Canrlfc, :i. .Intfcrv Harris. 4. Morfian lliirris. ."i. I'arcill Swi-ct. fi. John Manning, 7, 
 John Ray 8 Asa rnnrlef, d. Miss Kutli Candcc, lu. Foster Mo.ver. II. Alici. Ward, U', Curtis Hams, 13, Anto- 
 nette Dutcher 14 Dorris Wood, lo. Miss Lucy liults. 16, Kutli Tabor. 1", Marion McCormick, 18, Marjorj' 
 Baker li) Donald Williams, 20, Kinnic Williams, :;i, Alice DeBnse, 2L', Theron Tabor, :«, Vivian MeGann. 
 
 Syracuse. The R., W. & O. system was leased to 
 the New York Centi-al in .March, 1801. 
 
 The Old Wooden Bridge for which was .sub- 
 stituted the present iron structure, was erected 
 under an appropriation of .$9,000 to be i)aid pro- 
 portionately by the counties of Oswego and On- 
 ondaga and the towns of Lysander and Schrceppel, 
 which was authorized by an act of the legislature 
 on Mai-ch 27, 1858. The actual cost of the bridge 
 as shown by a table of figures written iipou jiapers 
 now in possession of 3Iiss Lucy Halt, in the hand 
 of her father, was .•if8,055.20. The commissioners 
 named in the act were James Little of the tow n of 
 Clay and William L. Fuller of Lysander, Onon- 
 daga county, and Amasa P. Hart of Schr-rppel, 
 Oswego county. Contract was entered into be- 
 tween the commissioners and the contracters. 
 James C^oburn and (ieorge Hurst, of Syracuse, on 
 August 13, 1 .^58. The contract price was $7,835.03, 
 to which was added as subsequent expenses, in- 
 cluding pay of ( ■ommi'sio.'iers, etc., $219.57. 
 
 early residents of Phcenix, was for more than 
 seven years the Brigadier General in the 48th bri- 
 gade, 18th division of infantry, the militia of this 
 state, with his headquarters at Phcenix. A tran- 
 scrii)t of his resignation, dateil at Phrnix, March 
 23, 1838, which is on tile at Albany has been 
 furnishid by a granddaughter, EllaL. Richardson 
 at Albany. It sets forth that on account of poor 
 health, and representing "that he is not under ar- 
 rest or returned to court martial for any deficiency 
 or dehnquency, and that he has delivered over all 
 monies, books and other property of the state," 
 * * • "your petitioner re.sjiectfuily solicits that 
 you (Gov.' Marcy) wiil l)e pleased to accept this 
 his said resignation," etc. 
 
 Gen. James Burr Richard.son is buried in the 
 Phipuix Rural cemetery and his father. Dr. Samuel 
 Richardson, a .surgeon in the war of 1812 lies in 
 the old cemetery at Phcenix. The latter was 
 prominent in the Masonic frattrnity and his de- 
 cendants have an old Ma.'onic n.edal belonging to 
 him whicli is over a hundred vears old. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PH(ENIX. 
 
 45 
 
 Joe Gould Post. No. 145, G. A. R.- On Jan. 
 
 ]."i, ISSi, at u im^ctniK (if liononililv (listrhiirKed 
 siildicrs iuiil sailors, held in the oflicf of diilit. 
 .liuii.'s Riinies in I'luFiiix, ('apt. K. (). llowaiil 
 «H8 elected rlijiiiinnn and H. A. Rvainard secre- 
 tary of llic ]>rolimiuary organization, having in 
 view till' organization of a Post of the Orand Army 
 of the Hejiublie in Pluenx. It was then that an 
 a)i|illeation was made for a eh irter, which was 
 granted and an order issued for a muster of the 
 I'ost, On March li>, ISSIl. m pursuan c of an order 
 of the Depiirlment Commander, Comrade C. A. 
 Weaver of Syracnsi' i Po.st Lilly i, a.ssisted by 
 Comrade Fred Tallmau, proceeded t ) mu.ster in 
 the Post to which was assigned the number, 145. 
 The following comrades were enrolled: James 
 Rarnes. James Hpaulding, Adelbert P. Hart, W. 
 E. Sparrow, Henry A. Brainard, Peter Lapoint, 
 E. L. Arnold. Wm. ^y. Osborne. Ira Purges-, 
 Chas. W. Sherman, 0.scar O. Howard. J. A. Hen- 
 ley. Milo WelJer, (ieorge W. Howard, Austin 
 Case, Kev. James Dean. James Rarnes Wiis made 
 
 gart, 188;i and 1885; W. E. Spai-row, 1884; Oeorge 
 Heselton, 1880; H. L. Rush, 18H7; John (^nrrier, 
 1S8S, T. C. Taggart, 1881), 'i)4; 1). Stewart, 1800; 
 W. S. Burks, IHIU: (ieorge Henderson, ]8i)2,''.l7, 
 itS; J). W. Nelson, LSim: J. A. ('oville, lH;»r);W. 
 W. Sinehiir, 1S9G: J. Carrier, 18;nt; (i. lletelton, 
 I'.IOll; \V. v.. Sparrow, 19(11; Wm. Rlakenuin,l!)l)J. 
 
 Three Rivers, what is now called Three River 
 Point, in the early days of the country long be- 
 h)re the time of railroads, Wiis an important ham- 
 let with three groceries, an hotel, a blacksmith 
 shoj), a potash reduction jilant. a boat yard anda 
 dry dock. It was here that boats passing through 
 the Oswego canal bound east on the Erie, were 
 taken in tow by small steanieis or tugs, which 
 took them through the Oneida river and lake ami 
 into the Erie at Higgnisvillc. where a tow of boats 
 from the east was made up for the return journey. 
 This was considerable of a cut-ott' from following 
 the Oswego canal through to Syracuse. Along 
 the shores of the Oneida rivtr farmers were en- 
 
 ,)()1-: GiiLLU ruST. Ml. U.'). G. A. 1!. 
 1. A. I!. Itiiss, :;. T. Harnuiii. :i, Otis Fitclicr. 4. Cliarles Allen, .">. IsaiK- Visclici 
 HeiidcTsdii, s, Ili-Mi-v LlnilKCk. il. .Inscph Tof li nham. 10. Geovse Hi'SSeltiiii. 11. 
 Tag-ifart. i:i..lcssi-.lnne.s. U..l.T-SeH!iiaiis, l.">. Martin Cliesebro, Hi. Frank H. Potter 
 Decker. IH. Peter l.apoint, 20. W. E. Spanow. -^i. ('liarli'S Spencer. 
 
 . li. .lolin Darlins. T, Gi'Ortrc 
 Wnrri'ii Willii.ms. 12. T. ( '. 
 , 17. ( ).>.car l.awreni-c. Is., lames 
 
 Post commander. One week later at the second 
 meeting the name of Joe Ciould was adopted, m 
 honor of Jo.seph Gould, the first soldier to be 
 buried in Phteuix cemetery. .\t this meeting it 
 wa-s voted to secure rooms in the Belts block and 
 to meet every Friday night. Later the place of 
 meeting was changed to the Fitzgendd Uock and 
 again back to the Betts block. Finally, on May 
 l."j. 18SSI, they rented the rooms up stairs in the 
 Fuller block and there the meetings are held on 
 the second and fourth Monday nights of each 
 month. 
 
 There have been mustered into tliJs Post one 
 hundred and eighteen members, but at the present 
 time there are only thirty -six names on our roll. 
 Some have moved away tmd taken their transfer 
 to other Posts, some have droiiiied out from other 
 causes, anil not a few have been "innstered out" 
 by death. Since its organization the following 
 veterans have been elected and served as com- 
 mander: James Barnes, 18,80; James Dean, 1881; 
 Adel P. Hart and J. A. Carrier, 188.!; T. C. Tag- 
 
 gaged in clearing their land, and the timber cut 
 up into cord wood was loaded onto boat-s for shij)- 
 ment to Salina where gi-eat quantities were con- 
 sumed in boiling .salt a-s well as for general fuel 
 jmrposes. 
 
 Three Rivers. the junctum of the Seneca. Oneida 
 and Oswego rivers, was the jilace where the boat- 
 men with their barges, or running with pa<'kets, 
 carrying products of the country and merchandise 
 to tl'ie coui.try .store keejiers, siojiped to get their 
 b lats repaired and for refreshments. Here the 
 boatmen, returned from their season's engage- 
 ment, gathered nbout the tavfin st.'re in the long 
 winter nights and discussed their exiieriences ami 
 prospects, exchanged stories and engaged in idle 
 banter. The hospitality of the inn was taxed t • 
 its utmost. The hum of imlustry was hearil 
 where now during the winter there is almost a 
 solitude and <luring the summer the ])leasure 
 seeker or the occasional ti.sherman comprises all 
 of the life of the place. Years ago the>e rivets 
 ab(utnded with salmon a common article of diet 
 
46 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 and salmon fry was one of the attractions at the 
 table of the hotel. Large (inautities too were 
 shipped to Saliua which was then the most im- 
 portant point on the Oswego canal. The greatest 
 prosperity at Three Rivers was prior to the con- 
 struction of the canal, when the only means of 
 reaching Oswego with supplies from Albany was 
 by water coming through Oneida lake from the 
 Mohawk river. Batteaumen witli their long poles 
 or at the end of a towline, as occasion required, 
 iisually drew up at the landing where they were 
 to exchange cargoes or secure supplies. The 
 country was thmly jioiralated and the news that 
 filtered in from the outside world was generallv 
 obtained here from l>oatmen coming through from 
 the lakes in either direction. The few settlers 
 rode or tnidged through the woods, sometimes 
 coming from long distances in the interior to get 
 the few necessaries which they requii-ed and re- 
 turn to sjjread among their neighbors the latest 
 items of intelligence thev had gleaned at (he 
 
 Nov. 5, 18.50: Horatio Seymour (Oneida), Nov. 2, 
 18.52; Nov. 4, 18(i2; Myron H. Clark (Ontario), 
 Nov. 7, 185i; John A. King ((Queens), Nov. 4, 1856; 
 Edwin D. Morgan (New York), Nov. 2, 1858: 
 Reuben E. Fenton | Chautauqua), Nov. 8, 1864; 
 John T. Hofl'man (N'ew York), Nov. 3, 181)8; John 
 A. I)ix (New York), Nov. 5, 1872; Samuel J. Til- 
 den (New Y'ork), Nov. 3, 1874: Lucius Robinson 
 (Chemung), Nov. 7, 1876; Alonzo B. Cornell (New 
 York), Nov. 4, 1879; Grover Cleveland* (Erie), Nov. 
 7, 1882:DavidB.Hill(Chemung),Lieut.-Gov., Jan. 
 6, 1885; eUcted November, 1885 and re-elected 
 November 1888, Ro.sweU P. Flower (New Y'ork), 
 Nov. 3, 1891 ; Levi P. Morton (Dutchess). Nov. 6, 
 1894; Frank S. Black ( Hensselaer), Nov. 3, 1896; 
 Theodore Roosevelt (Queens), Nov. 8, 1898; Ben- 
 jamin B. Odell, jr., Nov. 6. 1900; Nov. 7, 1902. 
 
 •Only New York governor elected to and occu- 
 pying the Presidential chair before the exjjiration 
 of liis term as governor. 
 
 Photoeraphy, Auld Lang Syne.— "When 
 
 you stop to consider the ditiV-rence between the 
 wet and the iliy jilute proce.ss." said Photographer 
 
 THE ORFGINAL WHIST CLUB. 
 T J' P.' • ^- ■'• Driiry, -', Mrs. Geoi-friil Wright, :i. Dr. R. A. Wilco.x, 4. Mrs. K:ilpli Di< kir, .">. lia P. Uelts 6 Ur 
 .J. E. Hatnill 7, l-rank L. Smith, 8, Mrs. H. A. Wilcox, 9, K. D. M. Decker, 10, Mrs. E.J. Drurv. H, Mrs j e' 
 Haniill, li, Mrs. M. C. Murtriltroyrt, 13. M. C. Murgittroyd, U, Mis. F. L. Smith, 15, Mrs. Ira P". Belts Hi J l' 
 \anDorcn, 17. Miss Stella MurfTittrova. . . . ■. 
 
 river. Great expectations for the future of that 
 burgh were naturally entertained by those who 
 thought only of the river r avigation. ' 
 
 Governors of New York.- George Clinton 
 (Ulster Co.), elected July 9, 1776; April, 1801; 
 John Jay (New York), April, 1795; Jlorgan Lewis 
 (Dutchess), April, 1804; Daniel D. Tompkins 
 (Richmond), April, 1807: John Taylor Lieut. Gov. 
 (Albany), March, 1817; DeWitt Clinton (New 
 Y'ork), November, 1817; Nov. 8, 1824; Joseph C. 
 Y'ates (Schenectady), Nov. 6, 1822; Nathaniel 
 Pitcher, Lieut. Gov. (Washington), Feb. 11, 1828; 
 Martin Van Buren (Columbia). Nov. 5, 1828; Enos 
 T. Throop, Lieut. -Gov. (Cayuga), Miuch 12, 1829; 
 William L. Marcv (Rensselaer), Nov. 7, 1832; 
 William H. Seward (Cayuga), Nov. 7, 1838; WOl- 
 iam C. Bouck (Schoharie), Nov. 8, 1842; Silas 
 Wright (St. Lawrence), Nov. 5, 1844; John Young 
 (Livingston), Nov. 3, 1846; Hamilton Fish, (New 
 York), Nov. 7, 1848; Washington Hunt, (Niagara), 
 
 W. E. Sjiarrow, "you can appreciate what giant 
 strides i)hotography has taken in the ])ast few 
 years. We formtrly took a clear ])late of glass 
 and soaked it in lye, wa.shing thoroughly in clear 
 water. Then we passed it through diiuted nitric 
 acid, and after washing again, passed it through 
 diluted ammonia and then again washed it. W^e 
 prejiared oiu' own albumen, taking the white of 
 an egg and l)ealing it thoroughly in water by 
 shaking it with broken glass in a bottle. Then we 
 flowed the plates by hand and ))Iaced them in a 
 dust proof closet. When we were to make a sitting 
 we took one of the plates from the closet and 
 flowed the albumenized side with collodion. The 
 plate was then placed in a solution of silver, rest- 
 ing edge up. This ga-\-e us about three-qujirters 
 of a minute and we hurried out and seated the 
 subject and focused the instrument. Think of 
 posing a sitter now days in three quarters of a 
 minute! The imblic would not tolerate it. They 
 would say the sitter had been slighted. But the 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 47 
 
 ])late must not be permitted to stand in the silver 
 iiuy longer and wlieii <in('(' taken ont we had no 
 time to waste. A wet |)liitr would dry in ten 
 minutes, and when ih\v would he of no use. Some 
 limes it mit;hf he longer drvinf; and other times 
 shorter, aeeording to the eonditioii of the atnui 
 sphere. But you remember how the photograi)lKr 
 in those days went to and from the diu'k room on 
 a .jump and how, after makinp the .sitting, he de- 
 veloped the negative while tlie sifter waited and 
 then eame out and .showed it to the latter for his 
 approval or disapjiroval. Xo proofs were then 
 shown. The photographer held the negative 
 against a dark luu'k ground — his sleeve, the tla)i 
 of his coat or something else for the customer to 
 look at. But I left the i)]ate in the sih>r bath. 
 It was ti.shed out with a dipper and jiluced in an 
 (lid fashioned ]ilafe holder, which had a swing 
 iloor. It was wet and dripping w hen it came from 
 the silver and we always wet the edges and back 
 
 their i)atron8 to wait for a sunny day. Now, as 
 good results can be obtained at one time as another. 
 Then it was not a rule to s-ave negatives. Plates 
 ha\ing answered the purjjose once were washed 
 clean with lye and used over again," 
 
 The State Legislature ecmsi.sts of a senate 
 with til'ty niruiliers and an assembly with 150 
 members. Botli houses lu-e required by the con- 
 stitution to meet annually on the first Wednesday 
 in January, the legislative term and political 
 year to begin January 1. The senators serve two 
 years and the as.semblyraen one year. No restric- 
 tion is placed on the duration of the annual sessions. 
 The annual salary of senators and assemblymen 
 is the same, .$ I ,.500, with an e.\tra allowance of 
 ten cents a mile going to and returning from the 
 capital over "the mo.st usual route" once during 
 the session. Xo member of the legislature shall 
 receive a n\i\ apiioiutnient of any character, ex- 
 
 CALI-IMAriir.s LdDCE. No. Hii'.i, F. \- A. M. 
 Top Row (left to ritflit):— Fitd T. Disse. F. L. Sinitii, .laincs Doyle, I. N. Vischer, Willis Dutclier. IJavid 8. 
 H\irlei)fli. Hunter L. Betls. Itruce I>ef kci-, David licnuililscm. .Scemici Row (same): — Allicrt Schlocow. Alfred 
 Morgan, Mortimer Stevens, Frederick L. Hnkcs, ,]ohM l!;iy, WilliMin H. .lenninfrs. riiarli's .1. Fuller. William 
 ,1 Forsvth, Erasllis r. Herrick, llerbeit D. Woods. Tliirrl Row:-. I. T. .loTiis. CliaiUs I''. Lciomis, liicliard 
 Latbani, H. A. D.vgert, Ira P. Hetts, Hiram D. Fo.v, Irviiijr S. Wood,,lolui W. Dytti-rt, K. H. Sweet. Dr. E. ,J. 
 IJrury. Bottom Row:— Frank Spaiilding, Wesley Mader, W. H. Warner, Richard Kellar. 
 
 with liiJbulous paper and allowed the plate to drain 
 on a blotter. Still it dripped silver until dry and 
 as silver is not to be wasted we had a trough in 
 the bottom of the plate holder which caught the 
 dri]iping which we emptied into a biittle. It was 
 also necessary to develoj> quickly and this we did 
 by flowing the plate in the hand instead of in a 
 tray as is done now; that is holding uj) the plate 
 by one corner and turning it about so as to du-ect 
 the flow of the solution to all parts of the siu-face. 
 This was not easily acquired by an ajiprentice. 
 The plate was dried by artificial heat. In those 
 days a sitting occupied from ten seconds to three- 
 quarters of a minute; now from one-quarter of a 
 second to three or four seconds, depending not 
 <mly upon the light lait upon the color of the 
 <lrapery to be taken. But in those days a jihoto- 
 grapher was not exjiected to make a sitting in very 
 cloudy weather, and many jihotograjihers advised 
 
 ce])t that by an omission to embrace within the 
 constitutional prohibition the words "from a state 
 commission or department," a loop-hole has been 
 left by which members of the legislature are 
 almost constantly drawing .salaries from tlie state 
 for acting as "attorneys" for various state legisla- 
 tive commissions or committees which tbey, them- 
 selves, caused to be created. The constitutional 
 convention of 1894 undoubtedly intended to 
 prohibit any legislator from drawing two salaries 
 from the state. Holding a civil or military office 
 under the United States, tir any office under a 
 city government, within 100 days of election, 
 disqualifies the party for election to the legislatui-e. 
 A majority of either house constitutes a quorum 
 for doing liusiness, exc'-jjt on the final pa.ssage of 
 bills carrying appropriations, creating debt or 
 imjjosing a tax, when it is necesswy for three- 
 fifths to be jnesent, and has the exclusive right to 
 
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 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCEXIX. 
 
 make its own rules and be tlie judge of the elec- 
 tions, returns and qualifications of its own mem- 
 liers. Either house has the rlRht to close its doors 
 against the pulilic aud may at any (ime shut out 
 the whole or auy i>art of the jiress from getting 
 the proceedings. Neither house (Un adjouru for 
 more than two <lays without t'le consent of the 
 other. For auy spee'h or deljate the members 
 shall not be qudstioned by any outsider; and all 
 members are exempt from arrest. 
 
 What Is It Worth?— The growth of a town 
 increases property valuations, enlarges the cir- 
 cumference of local trade and expands rental val- 
 ues. It increases church and school attendance. 
 It provides more mouths to be fed, more bodies 
 to be clothed, more people to be amused. Com- 
 petition between communities is to-day as stirring 
 
 Kieft, Maich28, KIJS; Peter ituyvenant. May 11, 
 1(717; Richard Nicall.s, Sept. 8, 1631; Francis 
 Lovelace, Aug. 17, 1688; Conelis Evertse, jr. 
 Aug 12, 1673; Anthony Colve, Sept. 1673; Ed- 
 moud Andros, Nov. 10, lil71; Anthony Brock- 
 hcdles, commander-in-chief, Xov. 16, 1677; Jan. 
 1:^, 1681; Sir Edmond Andros, Knt., Aug. 7, 
 1678; Aug. 11, 1688; Thomas Uongan, Aug. 27, 
 168':5; Franci-i Nicholson, lieutenant-governor, 
 •Oct. 9, 1688; Jacob Leisler, June 3, 168J; Henry 
 Slonghter, *March 19, 1691 ; Richard Ingoldesby, 
 commander in chief, July 2fi, 1695; lieutenant- 
 governor, .Mav 9, 17(19, lieutenant-governor, June 
 1, 1709; Benj'. Fletcher, Aug. 30. 1692; Earl of 
 Bellomont, April 13, l(i98; July 24, 1700; John 
 Naufan,lieutenaut-goveruor.May 17,1699; May 19, 
 1701. Col. \Ym. Smith. C'ol. Aliraham DePeyster 
 and Col. Peter Schuyler, (administrators of the 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Mover. IMlDtci. 
 THE DAM THAT SUPPLIES A.N IMMKNSE WATER POWEK, A\D FACTORY lUII.UINCi. PHIT.NIX SHORE. 
 
 as between tradesmen. The latter dis])lays his 
 goods and advertises their ^'alues. Why may not 
 the former? The Historical Souvenir is the show 
 window for a community. The character of its 
 public institutions, its scenery, its enterprises, 
 and its places of business and recreation displayed 
 to the world in half tone engravings « ill do for 
 the community what the show window and the 
 local newspaper advertising columns does for the 
 merchant. If every famUy iuPhieuix has mailed 
 one of these Souvenirs, who can doubt what the 
 |iublication is worth to Phtenix. 
 
 Colonial Governors of Ne-w York. — Adrian 
 Joris, term began 1623; Cornelius Jacobzen, May, 
 l(i2-l; Wm. Verhulst, 1625; Peter Minnit, May 4, 
 1626; W.iuter Van Twiller, April lfi33; WiU'iam 
 
 state government on the death of the Earl of Bel- 
 lomont and absence of the lieutenant-governor), 
 May ;") to May 19, 1701 ; Lord Cornlniry, :\Iay 3, 
 1702; Lord Lovelace, Dec. 18, 1708; Peter Schuy- 
 ler, president. May 6, 1709; May 25, 1709; July 21, 
 1719; (ieraidns Beekman, president, April 10, 
 1710; Robert Hunter, June U, 1710; Wm. Burnet, 
 Sept. 17, 17211; John Montgomerie, April 15, 1728; 
 Rip Van Dam, president, July 1, 1731; William 
 Cosbv, Aug. 1, 1732; tJeorge Clai'ke, president, 
 March 10, 1736, lieutenant-govennor, Oct. 30,1736; 
 George Clinton, Sept. 2. 1743; Sir Danvers Os- 
 borne, Bart.. Oct. 10, 1753; James DeLancey,Heu- 
 tenant-governor, Oct. 12, 1755; lieutenant-gover- 
 nor, Jnue 3, 1757; Sir Charles Hardy, Knt, Sept. 
 3, 1755; Cadnallader Colden, jircsident, Aug. 4, 
 
•«RIP'S" HISTORICAL, SOU^^CNIK OF PHCKNIX. 
 
 49 
 
 lJorr4)\vecl Photos. 
 
 S. PEN I) K KG AST. 
 .MHS. K 
 C. VEDMAXS. 
 
 MliS. A. E. PEXDEKGAST. 
 -SIE YEOMAXS. 
 
 \V. STAFFOKD. 
 
 ]7()0; lieutenant govei'nor, Aug. 8, 1761; Jieutea- 
 iiut governor, Nov. 18, 1761; lieutenant-governor, 
 June 28, 1763; lieutenant-governor, Sept. 12, 1769; 
 lieutenant-governor, April 7, 1774; Robert Monck- 
 ton, Oct. 26, 1761; June 14, 1762; Sir Henrv 
 ^Iiiore, ]5art., Xov. 13, 1765; Earl of Dunniore, 
 Oct 19, 1770; William Tryon, July 9, 1771; June 
 28, 177'); James Roherisou, (military governor 
 during the war not recognizetl l>y the state), March 
 23, 1780; Andrew Elliott (acting military governor 
 during the war), lieutenantgoveruor, April 17, 
 1783; Peter Van Brngh Livingston, May 23, 177."). 
 Pjo\Tncial Congress (rulers) — Xathuniol Wood 
 hull, president pro tern, Aug. 28, 1775; Dec 6, 
 1775; Abraham Yates, jr., president pro tern, Nov. 
 2, 1775; president pro 
 tem, Aug. 10, 1776; presi- 
 dent pro tem. Aug. 28, 
 1 776; John Harding, pres- 
 ident pro tem, Dec. Hi, 
 1775; Peter Livingston. 
 Sept. 26, 1776; Abraham 
 Ten Broeck, March 6, 
 1777; Leonard Ganse- 
 voort, 2'resident pro tem, 
 April 18, 1777; Pierre 
 Van Cortlandt, president 
 councU safety, Mav 14. 
 1777. 
 
 ♦This f^overnor's nami* is 
 down to this da.v used as a 
 term of rein-oacli in thf 
 siiif^ie county of 8clioliaric. 
 To apply tilt* tfrin "a 
 Sloughter," in that county 
 is regarded as a In nious 
 insult. 
 
 The First Child born 
 in the vUlage of Pluenix 
 was Jane, the daughter 
 of .Aaron Paddock, whose 
 birth occurred in 1821). 
 
 Stcpben Pendergast, the proprietor of the 
 Oswego River Stock Farn; — the son of Stephen 
 I'tiidcrgnst who at the tin;e of his death was 
 among the largest farmers and one of the bi st 
 known residents of the tovn of Lysander, ivas 
 born in the county of Wexford, Ireland, .Aug. 25, 
 1848. Three yesirs later, in Julj', 1851, his par- 
 ents came to this country, his father having 
 bought a farm of his brother, Nicholas on the 
 west side of the Oswego river, a mile above the 
 I'hu nix bridge. Stephen was next to the young- 
 est of nine children, the others being Mrs. John 
 Denioiig of Syracuse, Nicholas J., Patrick, Law- 
 rence, Walter, Mary, James and John. .\11 who 
 aienowliviugareNicholas, Mrs. Dcmoug, Patrick 
 and Lawrence. Nicholas, the brother of Stephen, 
 the elder, travelled in the United States consider- 
 ably and bought landexten.sively. From the three 
 or four hundred acres which Stephen jmrchased 
 of him the former gradually extended his hold- 
 ings until at the time of his death, February, 1879, 
 he owni d an extent of about twelve hundred 
 acres. This was cut up into farms and went to 
 his children, the O.swego River Stock Farm now 
 owned by his son Stejihen being one of them. 
 The latter when a young man attended Seton Hall 
 college in New Jersey and also took a business 
 course in Syracuse. He then went into the Syra- 
 cuse City Bank where he was employed for a 
 while Acting under tlie advice of his father he 
 returned to the f.irm to assist in looking after the 
 considerable agricultural interests that demanded 
 attention from himself and his brothers. 
 
 Thirty-tive years ago Walter brought to the 
 farm the famous Hambletoniau, "Lysander, " the 
 sire of many distinguished lior.ses. That was the 
 beginning of a long line of thoroughbreds which 
 this farm jiroduced iu later yenrs. While at pres- 
 ent there is not so much doing in the breeding of 
 horses on the place, ;\Ir. Pendergast maintains a 
 considerable stable of finely bred animals, as the 
 strings which annually go from the farm to the 
 fairs attest. What esi)ecially attracted public at- 
 tention here was the sale of the ])air, Lysander 
 Bov and Emma, to William H. Yanderbilt. the 
 
 Tiorrowed I'hoio. 
 
 OSWEGO KIVEK STOCK FAU.M. KESIDENCE OF S. PENDEKGAST. 
 
50 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAl, SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 first named alone costing liim $10,0(10. ( )thei- of 
 tlie famous horses from this farm were Lysander 
 Wilkes and Pilot which were shipped to (iermany. 
 At one time the three brothers John W. , Walter 
 and Stephen had a hundred fine-bred head 
 which with their produce were shipped all over 
 the United States. One of the latest procured by 
 Stephen Pendergast is Matchless a very large 
 English four year old which breeds for draft pur- 
 poses. Dictator, one of the present stables is a 
 fine, large horse which for i)oints in breeding 
 maintains the reputation of the fiirm. Of late 
 years Mr. Pendergast has gone more extensively 
 mto raising jiotatoes and dairying, V)etween forty 
 and fifty co ws being kept on the place. The potato 
 crop is usuallv very large. During one of the 
 
 company ing Mr. Pendergast and his family when 
 they came to this country, Mr. Stafford located 
 in Syracuse where for several years, until 1870, he 
 was employed in the hardware house of McCarthy 
 & Eedtield and the firms that succeeded them. 
 Although in his VI >th year Mr. Stafford is quite 
 active mentally and preserves more than the 
 average good health for one of his years. He de- 
 lights in fishing during the season and his success 
 might well make the younger fishermen envious. 
 For a couple of years he kept score of his seasons' 
 catches and they averaged from l.SOO to 2,300 
 fish of all kinds, each year. 
 
 Capt. Calvin Yeomans for some years the 
 captain <f tugboats that plied on the Oneida 
 river, and later prcmiinent as a lioat V)uilder at 
 
 Lillian Davis, Howard 
 Lindsley, Marsrueriie Gregsf, 
 
 jrXIOR EPWORTH LEAGl^E, M. E. CHURCH. 
 
 T(Mi Row (Ifft to riglit)-Erama Yerton. Llo.vd Walker. Clara Davis, Mrs. Southal 
 Wood ■RiitliTliompson. Harlow Fuller. MitWlu Row (same directionj-JuneLinds .. r.„.i v„„f, 
 
 Ralph Youn-, Gerald Uregsf. Lloyd Jones, Ella Gutliph, Anna Burgess. Bottom Row isame>-Carl Yoim 
 Robert Young, Marie Mills, Dwifflu Thompson, Bessie Mickle, Lisle Kice. 
 
 Coxsackii 
 
 best se;isons there were harvested and loaded on 
 to the oars by him and his men four thousand 
 bushels in twelve days. In 1880 new barns were 
 erected gi\'ing to the place the best stabling and 
 grainery facilities. There are three separate 
 groups' of barn buildings all put uj) in the most 
 • hirable and attractive style and well supplied 
 with water and other comforts. 
 
 Mr. Pendergast was married to Alice, the 
 daughter of Calvin an^l Elsie Warner Yeomans, 
 Dec. 1, 1874. Of their six children, five are liv- 
 ing, viz: X. Walter, a graduate of the Syracuse 
 Medical college and a practicing iihysician in that 
 city, Stephen C, Henry J., Emma .\. and -TohuY. 
 
 Walter Stafford, a lu'other-in-law of the elder 
 Stephen Pendergast who is now li\-ing with his 
 nephew, the younger Stejihen, was born in the 
 county of Wexford, Ireland, July 7, ISVi. Ac- 
 
 Phoenix, was born at Coxsackie, Greene Co., 
 N. Y., Feb. 14, 1820. When he was fourteen 
 years old his parents, John and Olive (Titus) 
 Yeomans, moved to a farm on the bank of the 
 Oneida river in the lown of Schrteppel, which was 
 located lietween Schro'ppel Bridge ard Caugh- 
 denov. Calvin married Elsie H. Warner of Clay 
 in March. 184o, and they had three children, Mrs. 
 Alice E Peutlergast of Phienix and Byron Yeomans 
 ()f Lincoln, Neb., who are still living, and Malisa 
 who married Leonard J. Evans and died in Ne- 
 braska. Mrs. Calvin Yeomans, who was born in 
 the town of Van Bureu, May 17, 1819, was the 
 daughter of Cvriis and Susan Hart Warner. Mr. 
 Yeomans ran ttie first steamer towing canal boats 
 between Three River Point ami Higgiusville— the 
 short route for lioats ijassing through the Oswego 
 and Erie canals. In 1860 he traded the Oneida 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOOVENIR OF PHtENIX. 
 
 51 
 
 liver farm and located at Phoenix on the west side 
 of the river. For some years he was a pai'tner of 
 Ii-ii Betts in a boat vard. He was also one of the 
 incorporators of the PhiBnix bank. He was eon- 
 .sidered something of a mining expert, liaviug 
 si)eculated in the Pennsylvania oil fields and in 
 mining operations. In LS7-1 he went west ta ex- 
 amine oertain mining claims of the Colorado Silver 
 Mining Co., and upon his adverse report as to 
 their value the company was gni<led in its subse- 
 quent action relative to those claims. Mr. Yeo- 
 uians died in 1898. 
 
 Hi^h School Base Ball. — Xn athletic asso- 
 ciation was organized at tlie High school March, 
 1S;H1, and a baseball team was formed with George 
 D. Withers as manager and captain. The tirst 
 game was played April 22, 1839, at Pendergast 
 
 the history of the school. This season seven 
 games were played the local boys winning all of 
 them. On Ai>ril :50 they defeated Pulaski High 
 school at Parish by a score of l-l-O, winning the 
 county championship. On ^lay 22 the locid boys 
 met and defeated the strong Syracuse High school 
 by the score of 5-1 and by so doing jilaceil them- 
 selves among the stnjngest High school liaseball 
 teams in New York state. 
 
 High School Athletes.— Ph mix High school 
 has had many good athletes. Among the most 
 prominent who have defended the orange and 
 black are the following: Arthur (Chick) Chapin, 
 right end on the 19i)() footl)all team and pitcher of 
 the baseball team for four seasons; Cartter, right 
 guard on the I'ootljall team lor three years and 
 now with Colgate University; Frank Decker, 
 
 WOMAN'S FOREIGN MI.'<SIONARY SOCIETY, M. E. CHURCH. 
 
 I. Mrs. H. G. Vickory. :;, Mrs. E. Parker, 3, Mrs. Walter.s, 4, Lindslay, .5, Mrs. C. J. Fiilkr, li. Jlr.*. Win. 
 
 (iutliph, T, Mrs. IMias. Biirleigli, S, Mvs. H. S. S latlial, B Mcs. T. C. Ta jjrert. 10, .\Ir.s. H. WamliMI, U, Mrs. M.G. 
 Rke, 12, Mrs. A. W. Hawks, l;j, Mr.s. Marton, 14, Mis. Wallace. 1.'), Earil Spencer, Ki, Lucy Campliell, 17, — Russ. 
 
 Driving park against Oswego High school and the 
 local boys were defe ited l)y the score of 22 to 7. 
 The boys were not discouraged by this defeat and 
 played through the season winning seven games 
 and losing two. The season of 1899 gave the 
 boys some much needed experience and when 
 they began again in the spring of 1900 they jilayed 
 like a team of veterans and succeeded in winning 
 aU but one of the games j)layed, being defeated 
 by St. .John's Academy in a 12 inning game. The 
 t^-am was fortunate in losing oidy one player 
 when school clo.sed and was able to' put a teani of 
 experienced men on the diamond in 1901 and al- 
 though they lost the same numlier of games that 
 they did in 1901) they played stronger games and 
 the only team who defeated them was the strong 
 Syracuse High school team. When school closed 
 the team lost two men. but theh places were filled 
 by good substitutes and when they opened the 
 •season of 19i)2 they had the bjst baseball team in 
 
 captain of the 1901 football team and left half 
 l)ack for three years, also left fielder on the base- 
 ball team for three seasons; Chas. Walters, left 
 guard on the football team for three years; B. T. 
 Mason, short stoji on the baseball team for four 
 years — a fast intielder; Hemy Pendergast, cajitaiu 
 of the baseball teim for three years — a good third 
 baseman and a fine b.itter; \Valter Pendergast, 
 firs' b.isemau for thre? seasons — a heavy hitter; 
 Charles Eal|>li, Catcher on the baseball team for 
 four years and center on the football team in 
 1901 — a good back stujj and a fair batter; Harry 
 Maider, right half l)ack on the football team for 
 two years. May m my mo e good athletes be de- 
 veloped in the old scho J and may those colors 
 that are dear to the hearts of all former students 
 never b? disgraced. 
 
 The First School in the town of Schrieppel 
 was ojiened in 1813 at Three River Point, Horatio 
 Sweet being the schoolmaster. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTOEICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 TWEiNTlETH CENTURV WHIST CLIB. 
 Top Row- E. T. Jiiups. Mrs. ('. D. Vickeiv, W. H. Jennings. Mrs. C. J. Fuller. H 
 A. Dygert. Second Row— Mrs. VV. H. Jenninifs, O. M. Reilly, Mrs. E. J. Jones. C. J 
 Fuller. Third Row— Mr.s. O. M. Reily, C. D. Viekrey. 
 
 Phoenix Hij^h School Football Team.— 
 
 Wheu scbiH>l opened iu the I'all of l.Si)9 the atten- 
 tion of the Pli mix Hijjh school Athletic Associ- 
 ation was turned to football and a team wsis 
 organized with Chas. (t. Ralph, manager, and 
 John Bresnaham, captain. The team, although 
 winning but one game, developed some men that 
 afterwards made a i-eputation for the school. The 
 season of llt(H) found Phoenix High school with 
 some tine football material. Among the men who 
 reported for practice -nas Hauscom (quarterback), 
 who had played the season before with Boston 
 Latin school. It was due lui-gely to the line 
 manner in which he handled the team that it did 
 .such good work. During 
 the annual game with 
 Fulton Hanseom kicked 
 a goal from the thirty- 
 tive-yard line and won 
 the game for the home 
 team. This team was 
 defeated only once during 
 the season and then by 
 the strong Syracu.se High 
 school team, score 22-:2. 
 
 When the men came 
 out for iiractice in Sep 
 tember,l!IUl, it was found 
 that several of the old 
 men were alisent — Cha- 
 ]iin, I.e.: Hauscom, q.b. : 
 Dann, c. : Withers. 1. t.. 
 and Bresnaham, f. b. It 
 was hard work to till 
 their places but the men 
 went at it with a will and 
 under tlie leadership of 
 Decker, their captain, the 
 team made a very cred- 
 itable showing, winning 
 four of the five games 
 Ijlayed, being defeated by 
 
 Fidtou, the first time ia 
 the history of the school, 
 by the score of 11-5. 
 
 When school opened 
 in l',»()2 it was found that 
 the team would have to 
 be made up of nearly all 
 new men as there wei'e 
 only two of the last year's 
 team who reported for 
 practice. This condition 
 made very hard work for 
 the caiitain, Joseph 
 Maider, but he went at 
 it with a determination 
 and succee<led in develop- 
 ing a very good team, 
 alth( lugh the average 
 weight of the men was 
 only 132 ixmnds. At the 
 beginning of the season, 
 the home school joined 
 the Oawego Countv 
 League comi)Osed of Ful- 
 ton, Mexico and Ph(»nix 
 High schools. The pen- 
 nant, a silk banner, was 
 won by Mexico, Fultou 
 being second and Phtenix 
 thii-d. Although the Phoenix team finished hist it 
 received more benefit than it would if it h.id 
 formed an independent schedule, as everythiu'.;' 
 was run in a business like manner; and too mucli 
 praise cannot be given to Prof. George E. Ed- 
 munds of Fulton, who was the organizer of the 
 League. 
 
 The Tallest Man in the town of Schrjei>pel is 
 George Deforest Henderson of Pli mix who is (5 feet 
 6 inches high and weighs '248 pounds. Mr. Hen- 
 derson is a veteran of the civU war and he appears 
 in the grouj) of Joe Gould post, of which he is an 
 ex-commander, printed ou page -15. He was born 
 in Syracuse Aug. 27, 1845 and was 17 years old 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL FOOT BALL TEAM. 
 Top How (left to rijcbt) -Hiiiilon, lionstfd. Breed, Ralph. Mer.. Jones, Fuller. 
 Middle Row (same)— Mailer, Cant.. Kinslow, Emmons, Hallenbeck, Dodge. Bottom 
 Row— Hawks, Larkin, Watson, DeLonyr. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 53 
 
 Unnowiii riiciti 
 
 K. Y. ALLEX. 
 
 when he eulisted, Aug. 9, 18G2, sen-ing three 
 years to the day, being discharged Aug. 11, 18().j. 
 Participating in some of the bloodiest contests, 
 he was at Antietam, ChancellorsviUe, South 
 JMountain, second fight of Fredericksburgh 
 (Mai-y's Heights), Gettysbiirgh, The Wilderness, 
 Spottsylvania Court House, Cokl Harbor, Win- 
 ■chester. Cedar Creek, Waynesboi-o and Richmond 
 (Petei-sburgh camjiaignl. Xotwithstanding his 
 commanding stature, which one might suppose 
 "nould have been an easy mark for the enemy, he 
 was struck only once, then losing part of his foot 
 but not any of his height; and he returned home 
 to subsecpiently become a resident of Phcenix 
 where he has served the community faithfully as 
 constable, the position he now occupies and to 
 which he was elected several times — in 1877 for 
 three years; in 18U4, '96. 
 '98, 1900 and 1902. 
 
 The Phoenix Press. 
 
 — During the summer of 
 1899 a stock comjiauy was 
 organized to publish The 
 Phoenix Press, and the 
 following officers elected : 
 President, M. C. Mur 
 gittroyd; vice president. 
 A. D. jMeiTv; secretary. 
 E. C. Scott; treasurer, F. 
 M. Breed. The i om- 
 pany is known as The 
 PhceuixPiiblishing Com- 
 pany. 
 
 On July 27, 1899, The 
 Press made its first ap- 
 peai'ance under the edi- 
 torship of B. R. Ketche- 
 son,a well known Oswego 
 county uewspai)er man. 
 It grew in popular favor 
 at once. In July, I'JOl. 
 a change occurred in the 
 editorship of the siime, Boirow.ri pilots 
 
 !\Ii-. 11. H. Wallace, formerly with the Mexico 
 I ndependent, assuming the chair made vacant 
 by Mr. Ketaheson. In November, 1902, the 
 editorshi]) passed from Mr. Wallace to George B. 
 Hoyt. 
 
 Dm ing the existence of The Press it has gained 
 many admirers throiighout the county and is 
 recognized as one of the I'ounty j)ai)ers. It is in 
 an excellent condition financially, its circulation 
 steadily gains and I lie company is determined to 
 Uec)! it in its high standard. 
 
 R. Y. Allen, the monument dealer, began busi- 
 ness in the old Phi nix Register building about 
 1885, the year after he came to this village. Since 
 then he has become one of the most active citizens 
 of Pluenix and his business hivs gi-o\\ai to that im- 
 portance that practically, he has no comiietition 
 in this section: and as the further evidence of his 
 l)rosperity he at the time of this writing con- 
 structed and occupied a building in the best locality 
 on the business street of the village which com- 
 pares most favorably with the other structures in 
 the village and which is a model of convenience, 
 especially adapted for a mimument manufacturer 
 and seller. The building is a steel covered, 
 stoiy-and-ahalf structtire with galvanized steel 
 front, and a platform for outside display of work 
 having 1.400 square feet of surface. The entrance 
 is of glass and steel Hanked with large show 
 windows, and the othce, finished m hard maple, 
 extends across the front jiart with the work 
 rooms in the rear. Mr. Allen is himself an ex- 
 j)erienced sculjjtor in granite and marlJe having 
 taken three years' instruction from Thomas 
 McComb at Hamilton, Ont., after having served 
 four years apprenticeship with Charles X. Sheriff 
 at Trenton, Ont., He expects with the conven- 
 iences that the new building gives him that he 
 will be alile in the course of time to display some 
 very fine work — sujierior to anything ever seen in 
 this section. His accomodations will be gi'eatly 
 improved from the fact that he will have a large 
 
 \. A, HI I. MI'S H.\l!ll\V.\l!r, sriii;i. 
 
'GEIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Borrowed Pbotos, THE TOWN linAlil) 
 
 C. J, FuUei-, Justicf ot I'cuec K. I). L; 
 
 F. L. Smitli, .Supervisor. 
 W. E. Conrad. Justice of Peace. W. H. >ri 
 
 C. D. Asli. Cleik. 
 
 storage house fur stock ami tools iu the i-ear. 
 The beginning of l'M)'i witnesses the opening oi 
 his new place with satisfaction to the coninmnity. 
 Two-thirds of his patrons come from the adjacent 
 towns, including the cities of Syracuse, Oswego 
 and Fulton wLtre he sells many expensive monu- 
 ments. The material he uses consists of the in-o 
 duct of the Vermont Marl>le Co's. quarries, of 
 which Senator Proctor is the head, and other of 
 the best granite qiiarries of the Xew England 
 states, including the Qnincey, Barre, Milford and 
 Concord. Several years prior to coming to Ph i ni.v 
 Mr. Allen hnd exptrience iu the liest shops iu the 
 towns of Caniida, including London, Guclph, 
 Brantford, Chatham, St. Catharines. His steadily 
 increasing lju.siness here re(piires the employment 
 of travelling agents the whole year. 
 
 Mr. Allen was born at Cousecon, Prince Edward 
 Co., Ont., March 2S. }H')'>, and attended the pub- 
 lic school until he was si.\teen years old «hen he 
 began an apprenticeship as jjreviously mentioned, 
 being taught the tine branchi.s of the trade. 
 On Jan. -lli, 188:5, he was married to Aiiss Harriett 
 E. Share. They ha\e one child, a daughter, 
 Madalon H. who is attending school at the Con- 
 vent of the Sacred Heart, Kenwood, neai- Albany, 
 N. Y. >!r. Allen is a jiast i>r:ind iu the (lolden 
 Rule Lodge Xo. 77, I. O. <). F. of Ph mix. 
 
 Richard D. Lathan is an active and enthusi- 
 astic secret society man, who in 1882 became a 
 member of CaUimachus Lodge, Xo. 300, F. k A. 
 M., of which he served three years as master, and 
 the following year joined the chapter, siui'e then 
 holding jiositions of honor and trust in the local 
 organizations and several times representing them 
 in the State Temple. Since 1881 lie has been a 
 
 irhiun, .lustice i 
 ■rriani. ,T,istiee 
 
 member of Golden Rule 
 Lodge, No. 77, I. O. O. 
 F., and has worked every 
 degree in the order being 
 also a member of the 
 Ph mix encampment. In 
 1891-2 he served as dis- 
 trict deputy grand master 
 of Oswego district. He 
 is also a member of Court 
 Euclid Xo. 1071, I. O. 
 F., serving as Chief 
 Ranger for seven years 
 and a term as district 
 deputy High Chief Ran- 
 ger. Mr. Latham was 
 born in Cleveland, Oswe- 
 go county, N. Y., Oct. 9, 
 18.51. A few weeks later 
 the famUy moved to Ful- 
 ton, their former home, 
 where he was educated 
 in the public schools and 
 Falley seminary. His 
 fathei'. Richard, came to 
 Fulton from Franklin 
 county in 1815 or '6. His 
 mother, Mercy A. Hub- 
 bell was liorn there. Both 
 died there. Their family 
 consisted of four children 
 of whom the subject of 
 this sketch is the only one 
 
 ''■ living. The latter upon 
 leaving school, in 1868, 
 
 IS a tin, sheet u'on and copper 
 
 if I'eaei 
 .r I'eaci 
 
 was a]i])reiiticed 
 worker to C. T. Wood & Co. of Fulton and was in 
 the emi)loy of that firm until it weutout of liusiness 
 and afterwards was with Scheuck Bros, ct Co., his 
 connection with both houses ccmtinuing eight or 
 nine ye.U's. Afterwards he worked at his trade in 
 v.irious jiaits of t!ie country until March, 1880, when 
 he cime tn Ph:eQix in the ernploy of Albert Hop- 
 kins, with whom Mr. Lathaiji was engaged until 
 Hopkins went out of business, when the former 
 
 ]il)rTOW< <1 i'h'itn. 
 
 K. 1). L.VTHAM. .lustii'c of Peace. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Iii>rn>wiil Pliotii. 
 
 DK CHARLES W. KHHAKDS. 
 
 went into the employ ot X. A. Hughes ami was 
 with him seven years. In 1887 he went into 
 business for himself in the old knife factory build- 
 ing, where he is still located at the corner of 
 Canal and Lock streets. Mr. Latham is also a 
 jjlumber and gas fitter and his recognized cai)aeity 
 keeps him liusy all of the time. He is an active 
 republican worker, as his father ^^■as, and has 
 served both as vill.ige and county committeeman. 
 In 1891-2 he served as town clerk. At the 
 jjresent time he is one of the justices of the 
 town having received appointment in >;'ei)- 
 tember 1'M)'2, to till an unexpired term. 
 'Sir. Latham is a vigorous worker in the M 
 E. church society, being a past presideut of 
 the Ejiworth League and the superiuten 
 ilent of the Sunday school. 
 
 Dr. Cha.rles Willard Richards opened 
 an ofliee in I'honix, taking qiiaiters in the 
 Han.sell block, in August, 19i)l, where he 
 jn'actiee.l dentistry until, after being mar- 
 ried, July 22, 1902, when it wa.s deemed 
 desirable to make a change, the growth of 
 his practice reipiiring larger and vaore 
 convenient dental jiarlors. So in August, 
 19112, he located in the large house known as 
 the Haight residence at the coimer of Lock 
 and Jetl'v'rson streets, where he has fitti d up 
 I^kasant as well as commodious rooms, 
 giving his patrons most desirable accommo- 
 datiims in a quiet, desirable section of the 
 village. Jlrs. liichards was Miss ^farv L. 
 Hohues from Dugway; but she had been, 
 prior to their marriage, a teacher in the 
 Phtenix sc1k)o1 and regarded as her home 
 the village of I'hcenix. Pr. Richards 
 was born in Holley, Mich., June 1(', 
 1875. and when 18 years old he entered 
 the military academy at Mexico where 
 he and his wife were class mates, and 
 where he was graduated in the cla.ss of 
 189.^. He was engaged in his chosen 
 profession with l;r. JJavey at Parish at 
 
 the opening of the Spanish American war and ho 
 promptly offered his services whicli were ac- 
 ce]ited. he being enlisted in the (l.'th regiment, 
 N. V. v., at Bnllald. I'c was phued in the 
 liiispital corps and served luitli at ('iim|is Alger 
 and Black. Upon the return of the regiment to 
 HulValo, while waiting there to be njustered out, 
 |)r. Richards matriciiliiti'd in the Uni\ersity of 
 RnH'alo and was graduated from that institution 
 in 19(11. 
 
 Oswego and Oneida Rivers, 1757. — The 
 
 French [ParisJ document [No. XIII J describes 
 the ascent of these streams, in 1757, as follows: 
 " The entrance of the river Chouegen is ea.sy ; the 
 harbor is formed of a cove. The English had a 
 fort on each side of this river by which this on- 
 trance was defemled. From Chouegen to the 
 Great [Oswego] fall is an ascent of four leagues. 
 In this space the navigation is intricate, the river 
 r.ii)id and encumbered by rocks. Good pilots, 
 familiar with the shoals, are requisite to be able 
 to jjass through it. Bateaus must be unloaded at 
 the (ireat fall where a ])ortage occurs of about 40 
 or .")() paces. The bateaus are dragged along the 
 ground. It i^ estimated to lie about four leagues 
 from the Fall to the mouth of the river o: the five 
 nations [Seneca], which mouth is called the Three 
 Rivers; its navigation is good. About a cprarter 
 of a league before commg to the Three Rivers 
 there is, however, a current [Three River Rifts at 
 PlKenix] where precaution is requisite. From 
 the Three Rivers to Lake Oneida is computed 
 eight leagues; the navigation is good; the river is 
 about ()0 jiaces wide; it is at all times passable 
 with loaded vessels. This river is the outlet of 
 
 
 Mis. S. .1. 
 
 Miivir. I'lxito. 
 
 THK CONGIiF.GATloXAI, (HUHI H. 
 
56 
 
 "GEIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Lake Oneida. There is neither fall or rapid at 
 its eulranee. Lake Oneida is twelve leaRueslorig 
 by about one leaf;ne wide. Its navigation is 
 beautiful and practicable at all times, unless there 
 is a strong c ntrary wind. It is the best t)n the 
 lake which is the north side." 
 
 Oswego River Tent No. 622 Knights of the 
 Maccabees was instituted Sept. 18, 18',>9 by Dept. 
 Commander W. W. White. The following gentle- 
 men made application tor charter membership 
 and were accepted and obligated as Knights of the 
 Maccabees: A E. Riiss, W. H. Jenniug.s, E. R. 
 Sweet, Dr J A. Peudergasl, A. M. Donnelly, 
 Hiram McGann, F. W. Burleigh, F. X. Si)aulding. 
 
 Tent it has been steadily growing until at the pre- 
 sent time it has over forty members in good stand- 
 ing. The memliership roll contains the names of 
 some of the most conservative jieople of Phcenix 
 who are looking for the insurance protection and 
 the social part of a large and prosperous fraternal 
 organizitiou. The tent is about to organize a de- 
 gree team to exemplify the beautiful ritual work 
 of the order. The present otticers are: Sir Knight 
 P. Com., O. 1). Walker; Sir Knight Com., H. D. 
 Crandall; Sir Knight Lieu. Com., F. C. Thomas; 
 Sir Kniglit R. K. and F. K., W. H. Jennings; Sir 
 Knight Chaplain, Herman Mc(iann; Sir Knight 
 Sargent, Frederick Veal; Sir Knight Physician, 
 Dr. R. A. Wilcox; Sir Knight Master at" Arms, 
 J. E. Jones; Sir Knight 1st Master of (i., F. W. 
 
 OSWEGO mVER TENT, No. (123. K. o. T. Jt. 
 1 Mavmi- Miivtii-M. 2. CharlrR R. rnic.v. :!. E. K. Sweet, 4. .Trtmes liia/.ier, .\ Isaac -^Ht;". "• -'"'""^vF' /JiSIf.l' 7' 
 Tbc/m D SaxH Yl. s. Ilira.n McGann. n, Horace ISeno.li.t. KJ. ^'n, .^.lilake 11 Arhnr>I Donnelly. U Anh L- 
 Tlioma= K Georjie H liinniict. U, J. I. VanDoien. l.V Di-. K. A. \ViU-o\. 10, Oi-ville U, \\alkei 1.. H. Del-oiest 
 Crandari 18 WHj"n.,inss. 19. Herman McGann. 2(1. Fred G. liowe.ins, 31. Kiehard .1. Y,.unf:-. ■£!. > rank W. Bnr- 
 Jeigh, 2.3,'Fnmk N. Spanlding, 24. R. S. Kellar, 2.->. Frank C. Thomas. 
 
 Burleigh; Sir Knight 2nd Master of G., R. J' 
 Young ; Sir Knight Sentinel, O. Watson ; Sir Knight 
 Picket, R. S. Kellar. 
 
 French Claims. - Early in the eighteenth cen- 
 turv Three Rivers, three n'liles above Phtenix, was 
 claimed as the boundary between the French and 
 English lands. Gov. Burnet having ordered the 
 erection of a stone redoubt at Oswego which was 
 placed under the command of -Mr. Bancker, the 
 Mar(iuis of Beauharnois, governor of New France, 
 sent a summons that the posi should be abandoned 
 and tliat the English should retire from the 
 countrv extending as far south on Oswego River 
 as the Oneida River, the English being granted 
 the jjrivilege to establish trading posts on that 
 river. This summons was dated Montreal July 
 1-i, 1727, but was never obeyed. 
 
 F. W. Hakes, W. S. Blake, A. P. Jlerriam, Dr. 
 E. J. Drury, Frederick Veal, K. N. Sweet, Isaac 
 Allen, Chas. Corey, Wm. B. Clark, J. I. VanDoren, 
 E. G. Hutchinson and Joseph Hinch. The fol- 
 lowing officers were elected and installed for the 
 1st term: Sir Knight P. Com., W. H. Jenumgs; 
 Sir Knight Com., A. E. Russ; Sir Knight Lieut. 
 Com., E. R. Sweet; Sir- Knight R. K. and F. K.. 
 Dr. J. A. Pendergast; Sir Knight Chaplain, A. M. 
 Donnellv; Sir Knight Sargent, Hiram Mc(ianu; 
 Sir Knight 1st Master of G., F. W. Burleigh; 
 Sir Ivnight 2nd Master of G., F. N. Spanlding, 
 Sir I^ight Master at Arms. A. P. Merriam;Sir 
 Knight Phvsician, Dr. E. J. Drury; Sir Knight 
 Sentinel, F. W. Hakes; Sir Knight Picket, W. S. 
 Blake. Since the institution of Oswego River 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTOUICAL SOUVENIK OF I'HtKNIX. 
 
 Phoenix Chapter No. 172. Oiilor of the ICiist- 
 •oni Stur, was <'niistitiitcil !it ^[usouic HiJl, I'lici'iiix, 
 N. v.. on Mmvli i. 18il!>, by Friink Kayiiioiicl, 
 M. W. (i. P. mul Eliziibotli Kiiynioiul M. W. 1'. 
 (i. M. There were eighteen ohaitei- nieiiibers 
 with tlu" foHowiiij^: ofHoei's: Xellie S. Hinning W. 
 M.: Jolm OlJiien W. P. ; Olive J. Mason A. M. : 
 (ieorgie K. Wright CouJ. ; Jennie Viekery Asst. 
 Cond.; Mary A. Looniis treasurer; Rinnie Fuller 
 St cretary ; Ada Ueniiugton, Adah ; Antoinette 
 Eooiuis, Kuth; I'Jizabeth Plaisted, I'isthcr; Cora 
 R. Hakes, ^larl ha: Carrie Fox, Kleota: Kliza Kin- 
 slow. Warder: John Dygait, Sentinel: Cordelia 
 Xnnball, Organist: Kessie N. Avery. Eva Wood, 
 Ella Wood and F'annie Knss, members. On the 
 ■occasion of till' (iiuini/ation of tlic chaiitcr. the 
 
 the meetings of Phcenix Chapter have been held 
 ill the Masonie Lodge rooms. The members of 
 I'hoMiix C'hapter have always been ready to lend 
 a.ssi.sfancc to tlieir bx'othei' Masons and were especi- 
 ally helpful to them during the JIasonic Fair, 
 held during the week of Jan. li.i, lilOl), wliich was 
 a tinanciid success. Callimachiis Lodge presented 
 Phanix (!hapter in token of its services, with 
 .^1(10 which was quite an aildition to the ti'easury. 
 On May IS, VMM, it was the ha])])y privilege of 
 Ph 1 nix ('liaj)ter to exemplify tlu" work on the oc- 
 casion of the organization of Haldwinsville (Chap- 
 ter at Haldwinsville, N. Y. 
 
 At the :!:!d annual .session of tlie (irand (!hai)- 
 ter of the state of New York which met at .Masonic 
 Tem|>le, Now York City, Oct. 14. 1.'.. IC. l!)l)2, 
 
 THE EASTERN STAK, AXTXILLARY TO CALLIM.\CHUS LODGE. No. 
 1. Mis. - Writrtit. 2. H. ^f. Dvpcrt. -■). Mrs. Dr Drurv. i. Mik. C. J. Fuller. .".. >frs. Dr 
 !■ w. 7. Mrs. H. If. Ko.\. .\ Mrs. [. P. lii-tls. !i. I. P. Hi-tts. In. Miss I,. .)i-miinvrs. 11. Mrs. C. V 
 i:i. .7. W. nvj-'crt. 14. Mr?. Gcorpre Womi, 1;">. Mrs. Itiirton liftls, Hi, Mrs. Wm. Stewart. 17. 
 i:. llaiiimii. lil. Mrs. V. P. Kimball. 2H. Mrs. H. I). Wiiod, 21, Mrs. — .loiies, 22. Mrs. \V. 
 Kimball. 24. .\Irs. Torcy. 25. Miss Mo.vcr. 2(i, .Mi-s. E. C. N'ickery. 
 
 ■Mt. F. \- A. M. 
 Wik'iix. 11. Mrs. .1. li. Kin.s- 
 . l.Duuiis. 13. Mrs. M..l.Kico, 
 lohii oHriin. Is.Mrs. Dr. J. 
 H. .liMiiiiiifrs. 2:i. .Miss Eva 
 
 work was exemplified by Elizabeth Caldwell 
 Chapter, O. E. H. of Central Square, X. Y.. with 
 the following officers: Mrs. Emma A. Low W. ^I. : 
 M. Van Auken W. P. ; Flora C. Boyington A. M. : 
 Minnie A. Low treasurer; A. W. Woodin .secre- 
 tary; Xellie IjOw Wilcox Cond.; Mrs. J. M. Snow 
 .\sst. Cond. : Mary \. Lancaster, .Vdah : C'arrie 
 .Ames. Kuth: .\bigail Madison, E.sther: Ida Ben- 
 uitt, Mai'tha; Flora Van .\ukeu. Electa; Minnie 
 ^Ii'Intyre, Warder; Ella A. Wood, organi.st: P. L 
 Woodin. sentinel. 
 
 Phienix Chapter received its charter July 21), 
 1SJ9. It was presented by Frank Raymond of 
 Syracuse Chapter. A rec?i)tion an<l banquet fol- 
 lowed the presentation. Through the eourtesv of 
 Callimachus Lodge Xo. :?i;il, F. .t A. M. of Phceiiix, 
 
 Xellie S. Binning. Past Matron of Plaenix Cliap- 
 ter was appointed R. W. ii. U. (i. JL of the 24th. 
 distri<-t, which the Chapter considers an honor. 
 The membershiii of Pli i nix Chapter has increased 
 to 74. 
 
 The ])resent otiicers are: Olive J. Mason W. M. ; 
 Ira P. P.etts W. P.; :Mary Morton A. M. ; Oeorgie 
 K. Wright Cond. ; Jennie Viekery Asst. Cimd. ; 
 Carrie Hamil treasurer; Rinnie Fuller secretary; 
 H. Amenzo Dygert chaplain : Edna Ward, .Vdah; 
 Ltiella Mover, Ruth: (irace Dutcher. Ivsther; 
 Emma Slieldon, Martha; Harriet Jennings, Electa; 
 Coi-delia Kimball, marshall: Ca'rie Hazard, 
 warder: John Dygart, sentinel: .\nn;i .May Belts, 
 organist. 
 
o« 
 
 •GRIP'S" HISTORICAI. SOUVENIR OF PHOENIX. 
 
 TtoTTOwetl T*.i >1' 
 
 Hi A liETTS, 
 
 Ira Belts was Ijomat CiiX5ackie,(Treen coiiuty, 
 N. Y., ou Jan. 1, 1830. In 1849 be started for 
 California liy way of the Istbmus of Panama, but 
 went no farther than Accapulco, Jlexico. .\fter 
 three ye.irs he returned home and went to Albany 
 wliere he purchased and eoudu'^ted the Marble 
 Pillar Hotel. A few years later he bought a farm 
 at Hininauville and soon after came to Ph i nix 
 and oomuienced the liusiness of Vnrilding canal 
 boats, lu ISSII he went to Buliah) and enj>;aged in 
 canal fdVvvarding. He was apjjointed under Gov. 
 Hill, i-uperintendent of the western division of 
 the Erie canal. In 1890 he retnraed to Ph nix 
 where he lived nntd his death ou .\pril 127. I'.)!)l. 
 In 18.J3 he uiarried Cornelia Peed, wh > died in 
 186ti leaving three child- 
 ren Franklin, Noi'a and 
 Ella. In 1869 he mim-ied 
 Anna Loorais, by whom 
 he had four c-hiidren, 
 Doothie, Lena, Hunter 
 and Homer. In jjolitics 
 he was a democrat. He 
 was a me ■ berof Calliiua- 
 chus Lodge, F. & A. M., 
 and Oswego Kiver Chap- 
 ter, R. A. M., of that 
 village, the Knights 
 Templar Central City 
 Commandery of Syracuse 
 and American Lodge. 
 No. 32, I. O. O. F., at 
 Albany. 
 
 Os^pego to Albany 
 
 in the l!-'th century is 
 described in Fieiich doc- 
 uments as follows: Os- 
 wego to gn at fall four 
 leagues, and great fall to 
 Three Rivers the saun 
 distance; the river of the 
 Oneidas to Oneida lake 
 eight leagues; through 
 
 Oneida lake twelve ]eague.s ; the river Vilcrick to 
 Fort Bull on the summit level of the right bank 
 nine leagues; from Fort Bull to For I William ] One- 
 ida carrying place] on the right bank of the Mo- 
 hawk river is estimated at a league and a quarti r; 
 from Fort William following the right bank of 
 the Mohawk to Fort Kotiiiri |op])osi e West Can- 
 ada creek] twelve leagues; to Fort Caunatchooary 
 [Canajoharie] four leagues; to Fort Hunter is 
 twelve league.'-; Fort Hunter to Chenectedi [Sclie- 
 neetady) is seven leagues; from Chenec'edi to 
 Fort Orange [.Albany] is six or seven leagues. 
 
 Pioneer Roads in 1700 ii-s described by the 
 French, led to the interior both from Oswego and 
 River La Fatnine [Salmon]. "Leaving Chouegen 
 [Oswego],'" says one of the French documents of 
 1757, "there is a road over which the English 
 us d to drive cattle and horses. This road fol- 
 lows the border of the left [west(V)] bank of the 
 ri\-tr ClKjUi^gen. The Five Nations river is passed 
 at a f-dl ne.ir its entrance into the river Chouegen, 
 after which the road pro<'eeds along the edge of 
 the right bank of Five Nations river to the village 
 of the t)nnontegues [<_)uoudagasJ whence it pro- 
 ceeds across the country to the village of the 
 Caskarorius [Tuscarora-] and the Oneidas, whence 
 we can go to Forts Bull and Williams. M. de 
 Belhetre in his expedition against the village of 
 the Palatines went from the mouth of the Famine 
 river, ascended this river Un- the ilistance of four 
 leagues and leavirg it on the left followed the 
 path leading to Oneida lake ou his right and came 
 to the summit level at Fort Williams — the dis- 
 tance of 21: to 3d leagues." 
 
 Phoenix Bank Robbery. - On the morning 
 
 of Oct. 2.S, l.s;t2, 'he otticers of the bank discov- 
 ered that it had been entered during the night 1 ly 
 a window, and some .$3,001 in money had been 
 taken from the safe. The doors had been opened 
 either by resoi-ting to the combination or, a-< was 
 then thought, because it had been left without lie- 
 
 M.\lfrH.V .MC KIXI-EYS RESIDENCE. 
 
"GRIP'S" HTSTORTCAL SOUVEXIK OF PHOENIX. 
 
 59 
 
 lioiTowed Phcto. 
 
 T. SEAMAN'S. 
 
 ijQg thrown oft". Parties who hart been seen about 
 the village the previous night were followed to 
 Baldwinsville, a rtark lantern aart black cloth be- 
 ing discuverert under a bridge ou the road. 
 James Spauldiug shadowed a suspect lor some 
 time and a Fulton hardware dealer recognized 
 lum as t'le piu'chaser of the lantern. The evi- 
 dence, however, was never considered sufficient 
 to convict. Yahiable Ijut uunegotiable papers 
 taken from the safe were found by some boys 
 under one of the buildings ou the fail- gr.iinds. 
 
 J. T. Ssamans, a veteran of the civil war, and 
 one of the older residents of Ph eui.x, was born in 
 Otsego county, June 11, 1825, his home being 
 near the villiige of East Winfield, Herkimer 
 county, where he attended the district school un- 
 til he was fifteen years old. His father wius a 
 fai-mer who settled in that 
 region in the early jiart 
 of the century. Tlieir 
 home was ou what was 
 the old Cheny ^■alIey 
 turninke which was then 
 the only available means 
 for the farmers to get their 
 products to the market 
 at Albany. It was com- 
 mon to see large droves 
 of stock pass the house, 
 being driven to Albany 
 and youi g Seanians 
 earned his tirst quiU-ters 
 assisting in driving them 
 as far as he C(jnld go and 
 return home before dark. 
 When he was eighteen 
 years old his parents 
 moved into the town of 
 Albion, Oswego county, 
 where his father bought a 
 small piece of land which 
 he helped to cle.ir up and 
 assisted in cultivating, .Mrs. s. .J. M,i.\ , r. rii^ 
 
 working on the farm until he was manned, which 
 was in April, 1814, the oljject of his (choice being 
 Nancy JeweU. She died in 18(!(! »nd his second 
 wife was .\ddie Barker, of .\ll)ion, whose devotion 
 and companionship hi' enjoyed until September 
 I'.lll], when she dit d. His chihlreu, all by liis first 
 wife, were Stukley Seamans of Norwich, an en- 
 gmeer ou the Ontario and Western railroad; Le- 
 Roy, an engineer on the New York Central (de- 
 ceased i; Bora who is in Oswego; Jennie (Mrs. 
 Hinckley) of Syracuse and Nellie (Mrs. Nichols, 
 decea!-ed.) .V year or t >o after liis tirst marnage 
 Mr. Seamans built a .saw and shingle mill at 
 Centerville whicli he oijerated successfully until 
 his enlistment in the federal service. During tliat 
 time he bouffht timlier lots and finally cleared up 
 130 acres of laud upon whii-h he erected farm 
 buildings and which he rendered highly pro- 
 ductive. On August 7, l.Sl>:2, he enlisted in the 
 llllth N. Y. v., at Pineville, the regiment which 
 was officered and mustered in at Oswego and 
 which w.as placed under the command of T). C. 
 Littlejohu. ^ir. Seamans w.is made corporal and 
 (he ren'iuent, tirst go nar to Baltimore, was finally 
 sent to New Orleans where it served under the 
 command of Banks who had succeeded (ien. But- 
 ler. Huring his service in that city .Mr. Seamans 
 was pr.)mote<l to first duty sergeAUt and after- 
 wards did duty US orderly sergeant He was also 
 in the B.mks expedition to the Red River country 
 and twice to Port Hudson where he was present at 
 the capture of that strouglioll. In LSiJl he was 
 discharged for disibility a^d upon returning home 
 went back upon the farm near CentervOIe. Two 
 years later he sold the property and Ijought a farm 
 near Penuellville where he carried on farming 
 ui til 1898 when he moved into tlie viUage of 
 Ph i ni.x. purchasing a pla<-e at No. 31 Fulton 
 street, where he spends much time in gardening 
 in which lie takes considerable [ileasure. He still 
 owns the farm where dairying is the principal part 
 of the work, his dairy being considered one of the 
 best in the town. Duriug the jwst yearhereahzed 
 from the milk alone ,*8l)l>. Xt his vill ige home 
 he enjoys the care of his granddaughter, Nora, 
 who was recently marred and is now Mrs. C. 
 
 .1. 'i'. .--lo.VMANs uf..sii)i:.\i;e. 
 
60 
 
 'GRIP'S' HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Ttorrowed Pliotn 
 
 U. F. YOU.Nti, M. 1). 
 
 Corey. Mr. Seamans is a member of Post Joe 
 Gould and the Pennellville gi-ange and has served 
 in the latter orgrtnization »■< trustee and treasurer 
 and secretary. At the age of 25 he was elected 
 highway commissioner of the town of Albion serv- 
 ing three years. 
 
 D. F. Young, M. D,, began practice in Phcenix 
 on January 23, 18SJ, and shortly afterwai-ds, Febu- 
 ary 6, 1 889, was married to Nellie, the daughter of 
 Jos. Chillingworth. He bought the Dr. Rice pro- 
 perty on Lock street, one of the best locations for 
 his home and office ami fitted it up in a manner 
 befittini;' the needs of his family, so that it isgreatlv 
 improved and presents an inviting appearance. 
 DUigent and capalile, as his success in his prac- 
 tice has proven he has found a wide field of jiro- 
 fessional work and is re- 
 garded as one of the 
 biLsiest physicians in the 
 community. John R. 
 Young his father, is a 
 practicing jihysician at 
 Li ver jiool, O n o u d a g a 
 county, N. Y., to which 
 place the family removed 
 when D. F. Y'ouug was 
 six years old, coming 
 from Shell Rock, la., 
 where he was born April 
 5, 1866. His father and 
 mother were both desceii 
 dants of families whii 
 early settled in the town 
 of Schrceppel and cleared 
 laud for their farms. 
 The latter, Sojihia, was 
 the daughter of Daniel 
 Umbeck who came tn 
 this country from Oer 
 many. The Youngs were 
 a famUy that originally 
 settled in Utica. Fred- 
 erick Young was born Mis. s. .1. .Mnjir, Phdto. 
 
 in Germany March 22, 1803. Sarah Hawthorn, 
 his wife, was bom in the north of Ireland, May 
 11, 1811, of Scotch parents. Her father was a 
 cousin to Nathaniel P. Hawthorn. Botli came to 
 the city of Utica wheu chddren and were married 
 there in 1832. In 1853 they went to Syracuse and 
 at once ])roceeded to the farm at Y'oungs Corners, 
 town of Schrceppel, where they erected a log cabin 
 and soon after built the farm house now occupied 
 by Caleb Umbeck. They were the parents of 
 twelve children, four of whom are now living, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Cook of Granby, Dr. J. R. Young 
 iif Liverpixil, Mrs. Jennie Scriber of Rapid City, 
 Dakota, and E. J. Young of Cedar City, Iowa. 
 Frederick Young died at Shell Rock, Iowa, in 1881, 
 and his wife, Sarah Hawthorn Young, died at the 
 .same place in 18S."). 1). F. Young attended .school 
 at Liverpool until he was about fifteen or sixteen 
 when he was sent to the Syracuse Univei-sity where 
 lie was graduated in 1SS2. He then took a course 
 in the Hahnemann college of jihysicians and .sur- 
 geons and was graduated there in 1888. He be- 
 gan practice with his father at Liverjiool and a 
 year later came to Phoenix He is a member of 
 the Central New York Medical and Chirurgical 
 societies. 
 
 Size of Large Bodies of Water.— Oceans — 
 
 Pacific 80.00lt,0()0 sq. miles; Atlantic 40,000,000; 
 Indian 20,000,000; Southern 10,000,000; Arctic 
 5,000,000. Seas — Mediterranean 2,0(10 miles long; 
 Caribbean 1,800; China 1,700; Red 1,400; Japan 
 1 , 000 ; Black 932 ; Caspian 640 ; Baltic 600 ; Okhatsk 
 601); White 450; Aral 250. Lakes— Superior 380 by 
 120 miles in area; Michigan, 330 by 60 mUes; On- 
 tario 180 by 40; Erie 270 by 50; Huron 250 by 
 90;Chami)laiu 123 bv 12; CaVuga36 by 4; George 
 36 by 3; Baikal 3i;0 I'ly 35; Great Slave 300 by 45; 
 Winnipeg 240 l»y 40; Athabasca 200 h\ 20; Mara- 
 caybo 150 by 60; Great Bear 150 by 40; Ladoga 
 125 by 75; Constance 45 by 10; Geneva 50 by 10; 
 Lake of the Woods 70 liy 25. 
 
 Ulf. I). K. Ydl-NGS KP'SIDEXt'E. 
 
•GRIP'S" HLSTORK'AL SOIVKNIU OK l'H(EMX. 
 
 f.l 
 
 ii..riu«c>ii I'liiitci.-i. i(. c. itrss. 
 
 A. K. lil'SS. ami Ills jri-Hiidnirc-i-, TENA JOS 
 (siniuiiiUuijrIitcr of H. ('. Hiiss, 
 
 Hosea B. Rviss for more thau thirty years 
 was a leadinj; Imsiuess man of Phipuix, who en- 
 fjaged largely in industrial as well ivs commercial 
 enterprises. Havinp; a vigorous constitution, 
 though small iu stature, an iron will and n resolute 
 purpose to accomplish every undertuJsing he had 
 hegun, his life was cut short by hard — almost un- 
 ceasing — work. Up at break of day and steadily 
 employed untO late at night, often going without 
 his meals, and measuring his capacity for work 
 with the hardiest of his employes, Mr. Knss often 
 said he never foviud days long enough to suit his 
 jiurpose. Rigidly temperate in his food and 
 drink, an uncompromising foe to all forms of 
 stimulant, he might have lived many more years 
 had he been as temjierate in his devotion to busi- 
 
 ness. He was one of the iuHueulial citi- 
 zens whose 'advice was sought and accepti'd 
 and who was kind to the needy and dis- 
 tiessed. 
 
 Mr. Russ was born in I'ompcy, Onondaga 
 Co., N. Y., Nov. 1, ISiil: Hli/.abetli Mux- 
 (ield to whom he was married Dec. IH, 18-1."), 
 was born in Stark, Herkimer Co., March 
 21), 1S24. She died .Ian. 28, 18!)1. They 
 had nine children, of whom four are living, 
 Henry L. at Syracuse, .la'ii' s R.at Palermo, 
 and A. E. and Hinim O. at PlKcnix. Henry 
 I lie eldest was born Dec. 4, 18)(! ami Sarah 
 M. July 12, LSI;), both at (iranbv, N. Y. : 
 Philo X., Xov. 24, ]S-)(I. James B'., Oct. lo, 
 1S.-)1, A. E. May 2:^, 18.>i and H. C. Nov. 1. 
 lS.-)4, at Phinix: Hosea D., March 11, 18."i.S 
 at Ly.sander N. Y.; Cliarhs P., Dtc. 4. 
 bS.")8,"and Eva Louise, June 12, 18(i;J at 
 Ph . nix. 
 
 Ho.sea B. Russ in 18.")() came to Phcenix 
 from Hinmanville, havnig jireviously lived 
 in Salina and some years before that con- 
 ducted a store at Pompey. At Phienix he entered 
 into a saw mill and lumber business witli Aniasa P. 
 Hart, which continued until 18.")") when he formed 
 a partnership with Enoch S. Brooks and Titus E. 
 Gilbert to carry on a general mercantile business; 
 and they also engaged in cutting and drawing- 
 wood from the Peter Scott swamp. Two 
 years later he purchased and moved on to the 
 farm now owned l>y the heirs of ^V!dter Pender- 
 gast which he occupied until 1859 when he 
 moved over the river into the village of Phoenix, 
 and conducted a store until, in 1864, when he 
 went to East Saginaw, Mich. , to take charge of 
 the mill and lumber busines^s of E. F. Gould. < )n 
 account of the unhealthy condition of the sur- 
 roundings he remained there liut a year. In 
 
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 Borrowed Photos. 
 
 A. E. RUSS" GKOCEKY, STOVE AM) I'EED STOUE. 
 
 HOSEA B. KLSS. 
 
 MUS. H. B. Kl'SS. 
 
62 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTOEICAL SOU\^NIE OF PHCENIX. 
 
 1867 lie sgain entered into partnership with Amasa 
 P. Hart iu the mill and lumber business. The 
 next year he purchased the gi'ocei'v business of 
 Leslie it Co. at the place where he carried it on 
 untU 187(; when it passed into the hands of his son, 
 
 business methods were made to succeed to a flat- 
 tering degree. His milling- interests which he 
 personally conducted to the time of his death, 
 ]March 5, 1883, were among the largest in that line 
 in this part of Ihe state. From time to time they 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Moyer, Pliof:i. SEVERAL DESIRABLE RESIDENTIAL STREETS. 
 
 View in West PlinMiix. View in West Pliu'ni.x. 
 
 Jefferson Sontli fr.ini ISriilffi- Stn-ft. Lock Street approach to the l)rici;;e 
 
 Locli East from Jetterson. Cdestnut East from Main. 
 
 Chestnut West from Mdin. Fulton looking North. 
 
 .\. E. Euss who is stdl running it. In 1872 he 
 bought out Mr. Hart's iuter^■^t iu the mills and 
 during the ensuing four years his hands were full 
 in the maungement of the two separate lines of 
 business, both of which by reason of his careful 
 
 were extended until when he died he had mills in 
 operation at Phoenix, Pennelholle, Ea.st Palermo 
 and Moss's Corners. At the last he ^^■as also in- 
 terested in the Phoenix Foundry and iManulacttu-- 
 ing Co. He was twice elected justii'e of the peace 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENffi OF PHfENIX. 
 
 m 
 
 Itiirrowed Pbot*!?. 
 MKS. CHARLES W. 
 
 TUBES. CHARLES W. TX"BBS 
 
 and helcl other offices of trust, at one time serving 
 as excise commissioner. He took an active inter- 
 est in tlie welfare of Phoenix. 
 
 A. E. Euss, the grocer at the corner of Canal 
 and Lock streets — a business which he purchased 
 from his father and which today is being carried 
 on in the oldest business place in Phoenix, began 
 working in his father's mOls at PennellviUe in 
 1872 and in the sjuing of 1875 went into the store 
 of which he liecame the jiroprietor the following 
 year. On Jan. 28, 1880, he married Carrie 8. 
 .Tohnson of Phinix. Mr. Paiss, besides other 
 business interests, has stock in the Phcenix 
 >Iiding lilind works and the Phtenix Dis- 
 tillery and Yeast Co. He held the office of vil- 
 lage ti-easiirer three or four yeai-s, ton n clerk four 
 or five years and super- 
 visor four years. 
 
 H. C. Kuss, a clerk for 
 his brother, with the ex- 
 ception of a sliort sojourn 
 in the west has always 
 resided in Phienix, hav- 
 ing been with his Ijrother 
 ahuost constantly since 
 his father's death. He is 
 a member of the Odd Fel- 
 lows and Masonic lodges 
 and Chapter of Phcenix 
 and Harmonv Lodge, A. 
 O. L". W. ^Xo. 2 of 
 Moliae, m. 
 
 Oswego Falls Fort. 
 
 — \ stockade fort was 
 constructed at this place 
 in the mouth of ^lay, 
 17.>!. by the command of 
 Col. Mercer, the com- 
 mander of the port at Os- 
 wego for the purpose of 
 defending the passage of 
 the tails where all canoes 
 
 and bateaux had to be dragged overland. 
 The l)oats were taken from the water on the 
 last .shore a quarter of a mile below the 
 falls, ojiposite an island, 
 
 C. W. Tubbs, one of the oldest citizens 
 ui Pho'iiix engaged in active occupation, 
 was l)orn in the town of Essex, (!liilteiidcn 
 Co., Vt., Feb. Tj, 182C. In 183^ he moved 
 to Utica, N. Y., and a year later returned 
 to Vermont, his home afterwards being suc- 
 cessively in the towns of Underhill, Essex, 
 Winoo.ski and Burlington. On July 10, 
 1841, he came to Scriba. Oswego county, 
 where he lived two _-\ ears, and on .June II, 
 ' 811), moved to Phcenix, taking passjige on 
 the packet, St. Lawrence, Caj)tain Wm. 
 Stewart. On Nov. 29, 1817, he was ri arriod 
 and on Dec. 16, 1847, began keeping house 
 at the corner of Bridge and .Tett'erson streets. 
 On April 1. 184!(, he laiilt the house on Jef- 
 erson street, his present home, where he 
 lias lived 55 years. When he came to I'hccnis 
 he learned blacksmithing of David S. 
 Capron. During his residence here he 
 has witnessed the erection of three bridges 
 on the river and the construction of the 
 railroad, on which he purchased one of 
 the first tickets that were sold. From 1865 
 to 1869 he was employed by Avery & North- 
 ruj3 in the bedstead factory on the west side of 
 the river, where he ran the first sliaper machine 
 In the village. Then he worked in A. W. Sweet's 
 casket factory, next for Dr. Aveiy making cigar 
 boxes and afterwards for the Phcenix Knife Co. 
 On !March 1, 1832, he joined the Enterprise Fire 
 Co. as charter member and was elected 2d assist- 
 ant foreman, then the first assistant and finally 
 the foreman in which position he served six years. 
 He was chief of the departuicnt for several years. 
 He was one of those who organized, in 1852, the 
 first brass band in Phcenix of which A. Diefen- 
 dorf was the leader. In 1867 he became an Odd 
 Fellow and was noble grand and secretaiy, each 
 two terms, and served as treasurer nearlv twenty 
 
 CHARLES W. TIBBS- RESIDENCE. 
 
64 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Borrowed Plioto. 
 F. L. 
 
 SMITH, Siipervis.)!-. 
 
 years. In 1868 he joined the masonic lodge of 
 which lie is the seci-etary, elected as such in 1897. 
 He held the offices of junior and senior deacon 
 and was elected master in 1873, '74, '77 and "81. 
 In Oct. 18S'2. he became a member of Oswego 
 River Chajiter, R. A. M. He was also trustee of 
 the village for three years. 
 
 Supervisor Frank L . Smith of the town of 
 Schripppel was first nominated by his party, the 
 republicans of the town, and elected in the spring 
 of 189(), town meetings l)eing held at that time in 
 the spring of the year. Although Schrieppel is 
 normally rejtublican by a large majority the suc- 
 cess of the ticket that year was jeopardized thi-ough 
 an oversight in which 
 there was a neglect to 
 comply with legal techni- 
 calities in placing the 
 nomination of one of the 
 candidates in the field. 
 The others came to his 
 rescue and the entire 
 ticket lost the use of the 
 party emblem. All of 
 the resources of the local 
 organization were taxed 
 to insure the success of 
 the ticket.andthe burden 
 of ojiposition was naln- 
 raUy directed against the 
 head of the ticket. Since 
 then Mr. Smith has been 
 successively returned to 
 the county legislature by 
 majorities at and aliove 
 normal figures. Serving, 
 year after year, on the im- 
 portant committees such 
 as ways and means, mis- 
 cellaneous and equaliza- 
 tion, he hits been in the po- 
 sition to render excellent Mr?. S. J. Moyir. I'hotn 
 
 service in securing an economical administration. 
 
 of affair's. Recognizing his fitness for the office 
 the boai'd in 19(tt) made him chairman and during- 
 that year the verdict of the Oswego newspapers 
 was that the session had established a precedent 
 for harmony, close application to work and prompt 
 adjournment when its obligations had lieen per- 
 tcjrmed. This year Mr. Smith is chairman of 
 ways and means, the leading committee of the 
 board and as such has in the course of the past 
 session maintained his reijutation as a legislator 
 having economy ujjpermost in his imrpose. He 
 has always been an active rejHililican worker, 
 participating in the plans of the local organization 
 and rendering service as a delegate to county and 
 state conventions and contributing freely of his 
 time and means in sujjpurt of the candidates and 
 policies of his party. In 1888 he went to Albany 
 where he served during the legislative session of 
 that vear, in charge of the assembly committee on 
 general laws. j\Ir. Snjith was reared on a farm, 
 and his occupation is still farming, he being the 
 owner of the old homestead, a farm of over 120 
 acres, besides other agricultural lands in the town 
 of Schrieppel; jirojjerty in which he takes great 
 pride personally directing its cultivation and mak- 
 ing it yield abundantly. Harvey H. Smith, his 
 father," who was born near Richfield Springs in 
 1821, came to tliis county and located in Palernjo 
 alraut 1850. There he married Lavina Jennings 
 and they finally bought land a mile and a half 
 north of Phrmis where Frank L. Smith was born 
 May 21, 1858, making that their home until the 
 death of Mr. Smith, which occurred there in 
 January, 1888. Mrs. H. H. Smith who survived her 
 husband over three years, died in this village Nov. 
 30, 1891. 
 
 Frank L. Smith attended the district school in 
 his early years and at 19 years of age closed his 
 school days in the Phoenix High school, and re- 
 turned to the farm where he lived until he was 
 m:u-ried, Sept. 27, 1900, toAdelaine, the youngest 
 daughter of Judge Charles W. Avery. The couple 
 then took up their residence in this village oc- 
 
 F. L. SMITHS RESIDENCE. 
 
•(JKIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIK OF PHCENIX. 
 
 65 
 
 Olil I'iiol .. r. W. AVKIi V. 
 
 cupying the bmiilsome bouse on iLe c-orner of 
 Maiu auil Bridge streets, one of the many com- 
 fortable au<l hospital homes for which Phrenis is 
 noted. 'Sir. Smith's fraternitv connections com- 
 prise only the Masonic lodge and chapter and the 
 Grangei's. 
 
 Charles W. Avery, who for some years was 
 a lesdmg citizen of Pluenix and a prominent law- 
 yer and jurist of Oswego county, was a gentleman 
 of broad intellect and liberal sentiment; an able 
 and sueces^^ful lawyer, a large lauil owner, a cour- 
 teous and dignified gentleman, an upright citizen 
 and a kind and accommodating neighbor. Char- 
 itiible deeds quietly jierformed with a liberal hand 
 were characteristic of his everyday life. His was 
 a strong personality with frank manners and deep 
 convictions. His professional associates in the 
 county Viar association, at a special meeting held 
 at the time of his death, when many high encomi- 
 ums were passed ujion 
 him, declared him to be 
 "a legal giant who in his 
 long legal and judicial 
 career discharged his 
 manifold duties with wis- 
 dom and satisfaction." 
 At that time in a special 
 meeting of the board of 
 education of which he was 
 20 years a member > nd 
 17 years its jaesident. at 
 which .strong and highly 
 eommendatory resolu- 
 tions weie adopted, there 
 were expressed highly 
 eulogistic opinions of 
 hira.it being declared that 
 he had been of great help- 
 fulness to the school and 
 that his legal services had 
 been of considerable 
 value to the public in 
 that connection. In fact. 
 
 no one in the village was ever considered for a 
 moment as the man wanted to fill Judge Avery's 
 place in school matters. His thorough legal 
 knowledge and wise judgment made him invalu- 
 able in the administration of educational affairs. 
 The village owes much to his public spirit whether 
 it be from his well known active jiartieipation in 
 public movements or from his private invest- 
 ments directed in cluuna'ls tiiat were admitted to 
 lie of general advantage to the community, 
 such as industrial eut<'r|irises or the improv(^ment 
 i>f private property. When li,' cleared away the 
 ma.ss of unsightly structures at Bridge and ^lain 
 streets and erected in their place a liands<nne and 
 imposing residence, now the home of liis daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. F. L. Smith, the peojile gave thanks 
 " ith rejoiceful hearts, as the result was to beau- 
 tify the most conspicuous residential section of 
 the village. The Judge, as he was commonly 
 called, had a wide aciptaintance through the state 
 and wherever his practice called hini his ability 
 and legal learning were recognized. His opinions 
 on all im])ortant issues appealed to all as emi- 
 nently fair and just. In his death which <^ame 
 after a few months of declining health, the village 
 recognized its great loss and united to jiay his 
 memory respect, the stores of the village being 
 closed during the funeral services. Born in the 
 town of DeWitt, Onondaga county May 21), ISrJI, 
 and his death occurring at Phoenix JIarch 12, 
 1899, he was therefore in his Ooth year; and uj) to 
 within a short time of his demise he still engaged 
 m<u-e or less in his practice. His father, liuss II 
 Avery, who was a descendant of Ohristophir 
 Avery who came to America early in the 17tli cen- 
 turv, was a farmer w ho, when the Judge was ten 
 years old, moved into the town of Hastings and 
 there coulinned farming, sending the lad fir.st to 
 the district school and later to the Mexico Acad- 
 emy. Upon his return froai that institution he 
 resolved to study law and went to teaching to 
 assist himself in acquiring the necessary mean~, 
 in the meantime pursuing his studies and tinaUy 
 entering the law office of J. B. Kandall at Central 
 Square. So well did he take advantage of his op- 
 portunities that upon the spur of the moment, a 
 conqiaratively short time after, he took the ex- 
 aminatioi'S and was admi'ted to the bar. This 
 was in l.S."i9. Before entering u]ion his (iracticc — 
 
 \V. E. Spari-DW. Plioto. THK (>[,!) LAMSON-PHrKNIX STACK. 
 
m 
 
 "GRIP'ri" HISTORICAL, SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Old Photci 
 
 DR. ANDREW P. HA.MII.I.. 
 
 in the same yeai', June 21, he married Miss Har- 
 riet E., the clanghter of Kev. Peter Woodin, of 
 Central Square, where he at once opened an office 
 and jiractieed during the following ten years. By 
 this union there were three children, Mrs W. H. 
 Carrier and Mrs. F. L. Smith, of Phoeuix and 
 Frank K. Avery, deceased. Mrs. Avery died in 
 Phoenix Nov. 8, 1895. She wa.s born in Hannibal, 
 Oswego county, .\pril 1, 183G. Upon taking up 
 his residence in Phoenix, in 1869, Mr. Avery 
 turned his attention to the jiromotion of several 
 industries, besides carrying on his law practice, 
 in which he was for yeiu's a partner with A. D. 
 Men-y. He was instnrmental in establishing the 
 Agricultural Society, the Oswego and Onondaga 
 Insurance company, the Phienix Knife Co. and 
 the Phoenix Paper company, and took a promi- 
 nent i^art in securing to the village a bank. He 
 was an active democrat, influential in the councils 
 of his party, and in 188^ wius appointed county 
 judge by (jovernor Cleveland, to Jill the unex- 
 jjired term of N. W. Nutting who had resigned. 
 In 1890 he was elected district attorney for the 
 county of Oswego, one of the few democrats to be 
 honored with that office, and served one term. 
 He was chosen a commissioner of the city of Syra- 
 cuse to determine the damages for which the city 
 was liable in taking Skeneateles lake tor a water 
 siijjply, and was made the jjresident of the com- 
 mission. 
 
 Dr. Andrew P. Hamill was born at Troy, 
 N. Y., Nov. 28, 1809. His parents moved to the 
 village of BaldwinsviUe, N. Y., when be was a 
 small boy. He received his early education at 
 the village schools, and at the age of seventeen 
 years was teaching district school in that vicinity. 
 At the age of twenty he went to Sterling, N. Y., 
 and began the study of medicine with his uncle 
 Dr. Alexander Proudflt, and in 1832 was gradu- 
 ated at the Medical College at Fakfleld, N. Y. In 
 1833 he located at Jacksonville, N. Y., and soon 
 secured a lucrative yet laborious practice. The 
 first seven yeai's of his jiractice lie visited his 
 patients on horseback. The roads in those days 
 being poor and his circuit large, he spent the 
 most of his time in the saddle. 
 
 In 183") he married Penelope Baker, the daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Ezra Baker, of Jacksonville, N. Y. 
 
 Oki Phijtd. HOME OF TflE LATE JOSEPH GILBERT. 
 
 Old Photo. .JOSEPH GILBERT. 
 
 They resided there untO 1856, when they moved 
 to Phoenix where his reputation as a successful 
 physician had preceded him. Here he soon be- 
 came the leading physician of the village and was 
 called very frequently in consultation by other 
 physicians in ueighVioring vUlages because of his 
 weU known medical ability. He continued in 
 active jiractice until 1886 when he practically 
 retired. Dr. Hamill died 
 Oct. 9, 1890, and was 
 buried at Jacksonville, 
 beside his wife who died 
 in 1861. 
 
 Joseph Gilbert was 
 
 burn July 17, 1810, at 
 Paris (now Sauquoit), 
 Oneida Co., N. Y. His 
 father, Allan Gilliert, 
 moved to the town of 
 Schroepjiel when he was a 
 small boy. He secured 
 his education in the Plne- 
 nix schools of those davs. 
 On Jan. 1, 183i, "he 
 married Louisa Haight of 
 Clay. He commenced his 
 business career by run- 
 ning a packet boat on the 
 Erie and Oswego canals. 
 All of his life he was in- 
 terested in the shipping 
 
'GRIP'S" lllsroKU'AL SOUVENffi OF PH(KNIX. 
 
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 Mrs. Muvir. I'hoto. MRS. JOHN ItlSHliPS ItESIDEN'CE. 
 (Old Photo.) FARM RESIDENCE OF JOHN lilSHOP. 
 
 business and for a number of years had an office 
 in New York every summer. His winters were 
 spent in Plicenix and lie occupied his time super- 
 intending the building of canal boats, of which he 
 was the owner of sevenxl which he utOized in his 
 forwarding business to Xew York. 
 
 Mr. Gilliert was held in high esteem in the 
 community for his integrity and high business 
 ability. He was always one of the first men to 
 famish means or do anything to enhance the in- 
 terests of the village. He built the family resi- 
 dence in 18i9. He died from the effects of a rail- 
 road accident at Potsdam Junction, X. Y., Aug. 
 20, 1873. His wife survived him twenty years, 
 dying Aug. 2.5, 1893. 
 
 Fred W. Hakes, the 
 
 undertaker and furniture 
 dealer, movedto Plici^nix 
 from C'anastota Oct. 15, 
 18',1.5, and went info busi- 
 nt!ss as a member of the 
 firm of Halbert Ar Hakes, 
 fn January, 1901, he 
 bought the interest of his 
 partner and started an 
 entirely new "ousincss, in 
 whicli he greatly en- 
 larged the scope of the 
 old one and added several 
 important lines, such as 
 carpets and general house 
 furnishing goods. .\lso 
 reaching out to extend 
 his field in performing 
 the last services for the 
 dead, he procured the 
 latest, modern apiiaratus 
 commonly used liy the 
 up-to-date undertaker. 
 Occupying double 
 stores and two floors in 
 the Dean block, with 
 stable and carriage house 
 in the rear, 5Ir. Hakes possesses accommodations 
 second to no other in his Hne in the county. Having 
 taken a course and been graduated at the Cham- 
 pion College of embalming, he holds a certificate 
 that entitles him to rank with the best in the pro- 
 fession. As a member of the New York State Un- 
 taker's and the New Y'ork State Embalmer's As- 
 sociations he comes in contact with men in his 
 l>rofession having a wider field of worK which en- 
 ables him to obtain new- ideas calculated to im- 
 ]n-ove his methods and service. Mr. Hakes was 
 born at Perryville, Madison Co., N. Y., March 
 31, 18(59 and when 17 years old he entered the 
 Canastota academy, a year later finding emijloy- 
 
 F. \V. HAKES. I NDERTAKER AM) KLIi.MTIRE DEALER. 
 
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 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUV'ENIK OF PH(KNIX. 
 
 .1. A. Hawk 
 
 A. W. Hiuvks, ("ashier 
 
 OFFICERS PlIlKNIX HANK. 
 Prcsiiient. C. E. Hutchinson. Divectoi- 
 
 E. G. Hutchinson. Assittant Cashiv'i 
 
 meat with J. H. McMiibon of that vi]lage in his 
 fui'nitiire iind undertaking establishment. For 
 eight years he elosely applied himself to the busi- 
 ness nntil he felt competent to make it his own 
 
 life study. On July li, 18il2 he man-ied t'ora B 
 
 Bortles of Oanastota. 
 
 Mr. Hakes is a Mason, 
 
 Odd Fellow, Macoabee 
 
 and a member of the 
 
 I. O. O. T. 
 
 The Phoenix Bank 
 
 was organized Mareh 1, 
 1869, with a capital of 
 $100,000, 50 per cent, of 
 which was i)aid in as the 
 requirement of the busi- 
 ness demanded. There 
 were thirteen directors 
 fleeted who named as 
 their ofKcers: Samiiei 
 Avery, president ; Ed- 
 mund O. Hutchinson, 
 vice president : Edmund 
 Merry, cashier. The 
 rooms occnjiied wi-re 
 those on the second floor 
 of the block umw known 
 as Tivola. Increasing 
 business seemed to re- 
 quiie more commodious 
 apartments and on Jan. 
 121, 1873, the bank was 
 juoved to the Betts block. 
 
 into the roon:s now occtipied by O. M. 
 Heilly and John O'Brien. On Jan. !;'•. 
 bS7-i, (ieorfic (i. Breed succeeded Samuel 
 Avery to the presidency the latter ha\ing 
 resigned the position to accept the manage- 
 ment of the Oswego and Onondaga In.sur- 
 ance Co. On Sept. 7, 1874, tlie vacant lot 
 at the corner of Canal and Bridge streets 
 was purchased by the bank and during the 
 next six months there was erected the sub 
 .stantial and convenient building where the 
 liauk opened for busine-s Ajiril id, 1875. 
 The death of Mr. Breed, which occuiTed 
 Dec. 7, 187;i, rendered vacant the position 
 of president. At the next annual meeting 
 .Ian. 13, 1S8.1, the i)lace was tilled by elect- 
 ing Edmund (i. Hutchinson, who in turn 
 was succeeded liy Amos Dean Jan. Ill, 1888. 
 Mr. Dean served until his death which oc- 
 curred on Dec. 10,1893. Addison D. Merry 
 was elected president Jan, '23, 181*.t and 
 lesigned Oct. 31, 1894 at which time Ed- 
 mund Merry, who bad served the bank as 
 c-ashier .since its organization, a period of 
 more than '2') years, likewise ottered his 
 resignation. On the following day, Nov. 1. 
 1894 the l)auk was reorganized and the fol- 
 lowing officers elected: Charles W. Avery, 
 president; Constant E. Hutchinson, vice 
 ]ire.sident: Arthur W. Hawks, cashier; 
 Kdmuud Ct. Hutchinson, assistant cashier. 
 On Jan. Iti, 1899 J. Addison Hawks suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Avery to the presidency. The 
 complete list of stockholders and directors 
 now, are J. Addison Hawks, Constant E. 
 Hutchinson, Arthur W. Hawk.s. Edmund 6. 
 Hutchinson and .John C'. Hutchinson. The 
 last named is a brother, Constant E. a son and 
 Edmund G. a grandson of the late tdmund G. 
 Hutchinson, one of the prime movers in organiz- 
 ing the bank. J. Addison and Arthiu' W. Hawks 
 
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'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIU OF I'HtENIX. 
 
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 HAWKS- KKSIDKNCK. 
 
 (1. Breed, each of wlioiii was Lirgeh- instrunu'iita 
 111 meeting the reiiuirements of a gi'owiug vilhige 
 liy organizing the hunk which is now nearly 34 
 years old. J. A. Hawks, president of the Pha nix 
 liank, is a veteran of the civil war — serving with 
 the 3rd X. Y. Ijight Artilei-y. For a time he was 
 confined in Lilihy jirisDU. Beside his holdings 
 here the presiilent lias large property interests in 
 the states of Illinois and W«shington. The vice 
 president is a retired merchant and ca])italist. 
 John C. Hutchinson at the age of 
 75 is still actively engaged in 
 mercantile life. The cashier and 
 assistant since reorganization, as 
 now, have bad entile mauagen;ent 
 of tlie bank. Since Decenilier 1H73 
 —29 years iigo— Mr. A. W. Hawks 
 has been in a<'tive emijloy of the 
 liank, holding successively the 
 ))ositions of clerk, bookkeeper, vice 
 jiresident, assistant cashier and 
 cashier. Before engaging with the 
 bank Mr. Hutchinson had been an 
 enterprising :ind tlirifty druggist. 
 
 Callimachus Lodge, No. 3(i9. 
 
 F. & A. M.. was organized and 
 held its first meeting .January lli, 
 1856, with the following oftioers. 
 who were the charter niembei-s: A. 
 B. Simons. W. M.; J. C. Fnller.S. 
 W. ; Ira Betts, J. W. ; H. B. Ru.ss, 
 trea.sui'er ; Samuel Allen, secretary ; 
 J. F. Simons. S. ]). ; Reuben 
 Chapman, tyler. Tlie meetings 
 
 were held at Odd Fellows Hall in tlie 
 third story of tlie building now occujiied 
 by E. C. Fitzgerald's hardware store. 
 From there they went to the third story 
 of the Leslie block, now oceuiiied by 
 R. I). Latham as a tin shop and from 
 (licrc to their present location in the 
 Hutchinson block. The first proposition 
 for member.ship was witlidrawn on ac- 
 count of pliysical disability. The second 
 was acce])ted March III, lS")li, but for 
 some unaccountable reason the candidate 
 did not get his "third" until Oct. 15, 
 ISliO. The third was .Vmbrose (iregg 
 who was elected Sept. 10, l.S5(), and 
 \ rai.sed Dec. 21 the same year, being the 
 
 ^ " first person raised to the •'Sublime 
 Degree." At tliis the annual meeting 
 the officers named above were elected 
 willi the addition of I'aiiloii Austin (who 
 had affiliated from Mihtary Lodge \o. 
 215) who was made junior deacon and A. 
 (iregg elected steward. Of the seven 
 charter members not one remains. Bro. 
 Ciregg, the first meml)er received after 
 organization, is still alive and well and 
 his genial smile is occasionally seen in 
 our lodge room. There have been 288 
 persons raised to the ".Sublime Degree" 
 and there are now about UK) members in 
 g(Hid standing. The lodge room is second 
 to none in a country village of our size. 
 It occTipies the entire third floor of the 
 Hutchinson block. The banquet haU 
 and kitchen adjoinmg occupy the entii'e 
 third rioors of the .\lvord block and the 
 north half of the Diefendorf A: Allen 
 The rooms are lighted by electricity and 
 heated by natural gas. The main hall furniture 
 is black walnut upholstered with blue plush. 
 The room is wainscoted in white, above which is 
 a handsome blue ingrain paper surmounted by a 
 wide blue and white border. It has a steel ceil- 
 ing painted in tints harmonizing witli the side 
 wails and furniture. In the east is an electric 
 "(i" composed of twenty incandescent ground 
 glass bulbs. The regular meetings are held the 
 
 1 block 
 
 i>lil I'hoto. K. i;. m iriiiNsiiNS HKfSrDF.XrE. 
 
70 
 
 'GRIPS" HISTORICAIi SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 first Wednesday in each montli, The officers for 
 1902 were: H. D. Fox, W. M. ; Ira P. Betts, S. W. ; 
 Irving 8. Wood, J. W. ; H. A. Dygart, treasurer ; 
 Chas. W. Tubbs, secret.irv; Chas. F. Loomis, H. 
 D.; Geo. C. Wood, J. D.; J. W. Dvgert, tvler: 
 E. T. Jones, S. M. O. ; E. R. Sweet, J. M. C. ; 
 Rev. T. W. Hai-ris, chaplain; R. S. Hofl'man, 
 marshaU: H. C. Russ, E. C. Scott and E. R. 
 Sweet, tmstees. The past masters are: A. B. 
 Simons, Ii-a Betts, W. B. Howard, H. H. Smith, 
 
 Crumb of Utioa and the Syi-acuse School of 
 Optics where he took a post-graduate course in 
 1898. He is also a member of the American As- 
 sociation of Opticans. The result of the work 
 anil expenilitixres of money which he has put mto 
 bis chosen profession are shown in the fact that bis 
 patrons are people living in the adjacent towns as 
 well as those in the village, all of whom testify to 
 the value of his services and his skill in the treat- 
 ment of their eyes. 
 
 V. .1. iri.LERS .lEWELUV fiTORE. 
 
 ('..). Fuller, (inlician. 
 
 R. O. Barnes, Ira (iould, G. C. Withers, Chas. 
 W. Hnblis, Nathan Perry, Jas. L. Breed, J. W. 
 Loomis. Will Smith, Alfred Gould, R. D. Latham, 
 H. C. Br.ed. 
 
 Charles J. Fuller, the man to whom the peo- 
 ple of Phoenix and vicinity go when they want 
 their eyes fitted with glasses, holds certificates of his 
 capability from the Geneva school of Refraction 
 where he took a course in automatry under the 
 famous W. McCaw in 189(j, and from Dr. Wm. 
 
 Mrs. ('. J. FullcT, Eusrravei-. 
 
 Mr Fuller was born in South (Jranby, Oswego 
 coimty, March 7, 1858. His mother died when 
 he was five weeks old and he was given to an 
 aunt, Mrs. A. B. Fuller by whom he was reared 
 and educated and \\ hose name he took. When 
 they sold their farm iu 1873, Mr. Fuller began 
 life on his own responsibility, working by the 
 month and attending the district school after 
 which during a part of three years lie attended the 
 academy at Baldwinsville, in 1877 going to work 
 for H. Howard of that village, to learn the trade 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PH(ENIX. 
 
 71 
 
 >lrs. S. ,1. Mr.y.r. I'holu. 
 .1. L. DECkEUS VILLAGE HOISE. 
 
 .1. 
 
 wrXGS KESTDENCE. 
 
 of jeweler. In 18S1 lie i-amo to Plueiiix ami 
 rented one of the Betts stoies where he did busi- 
 ness until ISSS, when he erected the store where 
 he is now located, which is ;22x')0, two stories high 
 and has light and accomodations for two stores. 
 It is built after modern idea.s with jilate glass 
 show windows steel ceiling and jnuvale offices and 
 rooms whei'e he keeps the ajiparalns and tests his 
 pati'ons' eyes. The store contains all lines of jen- 
 eby including plated and the (iorham Whiting ster- 
 ling silver ware, theC. Bruno musical instruments, 
 and extensive lines of jewelry of all sorts with sou- 
 venirs as special features. He also deals in the Ea.st- 
 mau kodak and Hochester Ojjtical Go's, cameras and 
 supply goods. Tht> engraving is done by Mrs. 
 Fuller, whose caiiability is shown by the fact that 
 she took a prize in a competition with several en- 
 gravers located elsewhere. She does the clock 
 repairing and Mr. Fullerthe wntch work. Included 
 in theii" line of Imsiuess which ought not to be for- 
 gotten is that of s. wing machines, Mr. Fuller hav- 
 ing since he began, placed nearly a hundred of 
 the l>avis and New Domestic. 
 
 They were married in 1881, Mrs. Fuller, who 
 was the daughter of Stephen Mercer of Onondaga 
 Viillev was brought up by her sister, Mrs. (ieorge 
 Monis of Baldwiiisville. They have two 
 children, Morris L. and Harlow M. Fuller. 
 
 Mr. Fuller is a justice of the peace, elected 
 in 1S;I5 and again in 1808. Of the suits he 
 has tried, one only was carried nj) and 
 another settled. He has also served as 
 assessor two terms. He is a member of the 
 Odd Fellows with which he has been con- 
 nected twenty yeius and the Masons. Mrs. 
 Fuller is the secretary of the local lodge, 
 Eastern Star. 
 
 George Collier Withers, who for 
 
 mjiny years wsia engaged in the cabinet ami 
 undertaking business in this village wa- 
 born in Greenbu.sh. Rensselaer county, N. 
 Y., July iT), 18;^1, and in the fall of 18.-.(i 
 came to PhcTenix and started the business 
 on the present site of the 01i\er Breed 
 house, corner of Main and Bridge streets. 
 Afterwards he was lo>-ated on Canal street, 
 at one time in the jilacs now occupied liy 
 Fred Hakes and at another up stairs in the 
 old Himsell liuildiug. When he first began 
 business here he manufactiu-ed melodious, 
 and it is said that his instruments were of 
 the best kind for that day. During the 
 several yeai-s of his busy life he had many 
 partners iimong whom were E. B. Baker, 
 
 W. H. Withers, his son, 
 Constant Chapman, Mrs. 
 Richard F'ralick and 
 .Tames Otts. On June 
 'J(i, ]8;t:i, on account of 
 failing health lie sold out 
 his interest — his partner 
 at that time being Mr. 
 < )tt.s — to his son-in-law, 
 Mr. !•:. B. Baker. His 
 death occurred in this 
 village Aug. l:^, 18'.t4. 
 
 He was the son ofDavi<l 
 aud Elizabeth Withers 
 and spent his early days 
 in New York City. From 
 there he went to Cooperstown, Otsego county, 
 where he mai'rieil Louisa, the daughter of Wil- 
 liam and Phoebe Cooper, July 25, 1852. Slie was 
 born at Coojierstown, Jan. -1, 1831. Her father 
 and J. Fenimore Coojjcr, the famous novelist, 
 were own cousins. She is still living in this vil- 
 lage with her eldest eliild. Mrs. E. ]i. Baker. 
 From Coojierstown Mr. Withers moved to Phu - 
 nix. His marriage resulted in the birth of foui- 
 children. The three who are li'S'ing are .\iina 
 May (Mrs. E. B. Baker), born May 4, 185:!. Wil- 
 liam H., born October 28, 185-1, and Horatio 
 Seymour, born Nov. 18, 18(;2, all of whom are 
 residents of Phcenix. Emma Jane, deceased, diett 
 May 27, 1872, U years of age. 
 
 Mr. Withers was h respected and esteemed citi 
 zen and was repeatedly elected to positions of 
 trust and resiionsibility, among which were presi- 
 dent, trustee and assessor of the village. He was 
 a lifelong and unswerving democrat and was 
 among the foremost in the <-ouucils of his )iartv. 
 He was an entausiastic Mason, and was active in 
 jiromoting the welfare of that order. He was re- 
 peatedly advanced to preside over Callimachus 
 lodge and ( )swego Biver Chapter, which he did 
 with wisdom aud sagacity. 
 
 .Coutimu-d <tii i)a>f(^ 74.) 
 
 GEoKGE COLLIEIJ WITHEUS. Lot l.sA Cnol'Eli WITItEK.s 
 LLOYD niLLIER BAKER. 
 ANNA WITHERS H.\KER. EOWIX 1!. BAKER. 
 
•(iKIPS" HISTORICAL, SOUVENIK OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Mr.- 
 
 . .1. Moy, 
 
 r. PluitM. 
 
 MHS. 
 
 H. A. YdlNGS KKSIIIKNCE. 
 
 W. H. Je lain^^s, tli ■ (inly exi'lusive boot and 
 shoe tlealei- in Phijpuix. lit'nan business in this 
 \'illage in ihe spring ot lSS(i, as a partner with H. 
 I). Meniaui in the clothing trade in the building 
 now occupied by the post ofKce. In the spring of 
 1S87 Mr. Jenuiogs sold out his interest and 
 opened a shoe store in the Sjiarrow block. This 
 was then as it is now the only place of business 
 dealing exclusively iu that line, and was consid- 
 ered a doubtful venture until its success was 
 demonsrate 1 by Mr. Jennings. Trade increa.sed 
 to the extent that better quarters were demanded 
 and ten ye ii-s later, IS. 17. Vr r. Jennings bought 
 the Wolf hotel projierty, a two story building on 
 Canal -street, and by remodelling the premises se- 
 cured not only a conimodiou- store with plate 
 glass front but suites of living rooms on the 
 second door and in the rear for the use of tenants. 
 In July, bs;)7, he moved into tne new store and 
 from that time on he has been iible to give the peojile 
 111' the village a large and coniiirehensive line of 
 foot wear. 
 
 Mr. Jennings was born in Palermo, Oswego 
 Co., JS. Y., June 27. ISill. His father, Oliver 
 
 Jennings, came to this county 
 from Connecticut, in 181ti, 
 when l(j years old and as- 
 sisted in clearing land on 
 which his father, Thomas 
 Jennings, a farmer settled. 
 In ]8:^ti he married Louisa 
 Smith wild was born in 
 C'obleskill, Schoharie Co.,X. 
 Y., in ISIS, and theii- child- 
 ren were Orlev, OrviUe, 
 Mniy J., W. H.'. George I. 
 and Arthur, (ieorge I. is a 
 resident of Clifton Springs, 
 Ontario Co., N. Y. The 
 others reside in P.alermo, 
 With the exception of W. H. 
 The latter alter he was 
 thirteen years old attended 
 school winters working on a 
 farm maimers including 
 three teims in the Mexico 
 acidemy. When IS years 
 old he began teaching in 
 Palermo which continued 
 over the period ot twelve 
 vears during winter terms 
 'only. ( )n Dec. 27, 1870 he 
 married Augeline Ackley, of Pai'ish, by whom 
 there was one child, Rosa R., and who died two 
 years after her marriage. ( )ii March 15, 187i, he 
 married Hattie C. Morse of Hastings, a union 
 which has been blessed with three children, Lulie 
 L. (Mrs. Rice) of Washington, X. J., Lina C, iu 
 the Junior year at the Syracuse L^niversity and 
 W. H. Jennings Jr. 
 
 Soon after his second marriage Mr. Jennings 
 bought a farm in Hastings which he sold in the 
 spring of 1882 to engage in mercantile pursuit at 
 that village. Iu the spring of 1885 he sold out 
 and went into business.at MunnsviUe, Madison Co., 
 N. Y., where remained until the following Novem- 
 ber, moving from that place to Phoenix. The 
 same year he came here he liought a lot on Main 
 street and erected the dwelling — his present home. 
 Mr. Jennings has been clerk of this town a yeai', 
 justici of the peace four years and notary for IS 
 years. He has made a specialty of drawing uji 
 pension ]upers and has aided many a deserving 
 veteran to secure a ]ieusion. He has also en- 
 gaged largely in drawing up conveyances, <leeds 
 and mortgages. He is a member of the Ma-sonic 
 
 \V. H. .tcTininys. 
 
 W. II. .ll';.\MNi;s- SHliK .sTiiHF,. 
 
 W. H. .liTiniiij-^. .Iv. 
 
(lUii's iiisTOKicAi, s()r\i:Nii; of imkkmx. 
 
 7;i 
 
 nri'i'v sii.K 1(1. i!ii i.i)ix(; A.sii watihi powkk. 
 
 lodge, of wliioli li;^ i-i the seeretary, of the Miu-- 
 cabees where he occvipies the jjosition of record 
 and fiuanoe keejier and of the Tribe of Ben Hur, 
 Xatioual Protective I^pf^ion. 
 
 The Duffy Silk Co., with mills at Fort Phiiu, 
 BiiU'alo and Ph 1 nix. was organized in lSi)2 and 
 incorporated in 1902. The memliers of the com- 
 pany are Charles G. Dufiy, Bernard Duti'y, A. F. 
 Xellis and (Jeorge Dully. A. F. Xellis, the secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the coaipany, is the resident 
 member and manager of the Phoenix mill. The 
 work is light, clean and healthful andem])loyment 
 is given to a large number of girls and l)oys. It 
 is one of the bright and liusy ))laces in Phcenix 
 and i.s well wortli a visit, which 
 owing to the rule excluding visitors 
 in the day time, can be made pe"" 
 arrangement almost any evening: 
 This factory is a model for lighjj 
 and cleanliness. Broad, hig 
 windows and very high ceilings 
 atlbrd an abundance of fresh air 
 and ventil.itio'i. The young peo- 
 ple who work here never need to 
 lo.se time. The factory runs day 
 and night. It is a splendid place 
 for the emjiloyment of young 
 women as the cheerful faces of 
 those who are here attest. It is 
 one of the institutions which a 
 community most highly values. 
 
 The unwinding of silk from 
 cocoons dates liack to from KmO to 
 1700 B. C, when the wife of the 
 Chinese emperor introduced ailli 
 loth made from tlie filament spun 
 by worms, for the otiicial robes of 
 the royal family. Tlie Chinese 
 guarded the secret thousands of 
 
 yews and it was not until ."jOO A. 1). that 
 tlie worm was introduced in Europe. The 
 silk worm when first hatched from the egg 
 weighs aliout one oiieliuiidredth grain. 
 .\l'ter about ISO days feasting on the mul- 
 berry leaf followeil by a fast of ten days it 
 is supi)o.sed to be full grown, w<'igliing 
 about SO or 90 grains. Fts silk glands are 
 then tiUed with a clear viscous lluid whurli 
 upcm being e-xjiosed to the air iiiiiiiediately 
 liai-dens into a very fine silken filament 
 which the worm spins to the length of about 
 :{r)00 feet occuj>ying about three days in 
 this task. Then it changes to the ])apa 
 which under suitable conditions develops 
 the moth, whose eggs in turn ])roduce tue 
 silk worms, thereby completing the circle of 
 evolution. The silk filament can be usefl 
 only by unwinding it from the cococm and 
 it is douliled many times to form even the 
 very finest threads — such as are received at 
 the mills of the Dully Silk Co., where the 
 threads are w,)uiid, twisted, d Miblel and 
 reeled preparatory to being sent to the 
 dyers, after which they are ready for the 
 manufacturer. Four tliousand worms are 
 rei|uired to make a ])ound of silk. The 
 Duli'v company in the three mills uses over 
 .'i.OOO pounds a week so that to sujjply this 
 iinii alone 24,000,000 worms .are sacriKced 
 weekly. 
 
 Drivinjsr Distances of Phienix from 
 points in the county in miles and tenths over most 
 natural routes: AmboyCenter 2:^.2; Bernhwdts Bay 
 29.2; Caughdenoy 6.7; EedtieldStiuire38; Central 
 Squm-e 10; Cleveland 24.3; Colosse 19.2; Con- 
 .stantia 18.:^; Fulton 9.."); Gilbertsville (5.8; Granby 
 Center 12.2; Hannibal 18; Hannibal Center 1(!.4; 
 Hastings l(i; Hinmanville 8.2; Holmesville 2:i; 
 Hulls Corners 15, Mexico 17.:^; New Centreville 
 31,3; New Haven 14; Orwell vUliige 3H.3; Oswego 
 22; Oswego Falls 9.2; Palermo 9.9; Parish 19.1; 
 Pulaski 27.8; Sand Bank (Altmar) 30.8; Seneca 
 Hill 15.7; Hcriba Corners 19.5; Texas 20.8; Ver- 
 milhcm 18.(i; Volney Center 8.1); Sandv Creek 
 35.8; West Amboy 23.2; Williamstown 28.8. 
 
 1>I'F1-'V Sir.K (1).- SIMNNIN<; DI.I'.VlCr.MK.N T. 
 
74 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 H. D. FUX. 
 
 Hiram D. Fox the ))roi3rietor of the Windsor 
 House, liought tlie hotel from Leivis Ostrander 
 and took possession in September, 1885. Since 
 then several hundreds of dollars have been ex- 
 pended in enlarging and improving the property, 
 and the character of the hotel and the manner in 
 which it is conducted are on a plane corresponding 
 ■with that of the liest in the county. The liuild- 
 iug to begin with, has been raised from two to 
 three stories. Ihe rooms throughout are newly 
 decorated and furnished in the best manner. A 
 steam heating (.ilant and hot and cold water, to- 
 gether witli electric lights and natural gas heaters, 
 have been installed. The office and bar are fitted 
 uj) in a modem way. The opera house adjoining 
 the hotel has also been renovated and the stage 
 enlarged to double its former capacity, a second 
 stoi'v corridor having been constructed to connect 
 the stage and dretsing rooms with the hotel. The 
 cuisine and care of the rooms are under the per- 
 sonal (liiectiou of Mrs. 
 Fox whose skill and ex- 
 cellent management have 
 proven indispensdJe. 
 Mr. Fox, the son of John 
 Fox, was born in Clay, 
 Onondaga county, X. Y.. 
 Aug. 21!, 18]3, and until 
 he was 22 years of age 
 he followed farming. 
 About a year later, in 
 May 1867, he was married 
 to Mary Eno of Belguini 
 by nhom there are two 
 children, John I), of 
 Seattle, Washington, and 
 Hortense (Mrs.Hnrsbolz) 
 now living in Oswego. 
 Leaving the farm Mr. Fox 
 engaged in boating on 
 the Erie canal, drawing 
 gi'ain f rimi Buffalo to Xe\\' 
 York. This he followed 
 for eight years, when he 
 
 and his brother-in-law, I. L. Eno started in the 
 coal business in Phoenix which they carried on 
 six or seven years. They then constructed in this 
 village the jjassenger and freight packet, .1. I. 
 Van Doren, which Mr. Fox for seven years ran 
 daily between Fulton and Syracuse. In May, 
 1887, he married Carrie E. Payne of Phienix, and 
 they have one son, Ira P. Fox, who is bookkeeper 
 in a bank at Sil)Iey, la. Mr. Fox is one of the 
 democratic workers of the town who has attended 
 county and district conventions as a delegate; and 
 who has .served two terms as assessor, four years 
 as justice of the peace and in 1878 as su])ervisor of 
 the town. He is an active member of Callima- 
 chus Lodge, No. 369, F. & A. M., with which he 
 has been connected 2(1 years, having oci'upied the 
 offices of Junior and Senior Warden and for the 
 ])ast six years that of Master. 
 
 (( 'tuil iniH'i] rrnni I'ajrc 71.) 
 Edwin Boyd Baker, manufacturing machin- 
 ist and contractor, has been engaged for several 
 years in the perfection and production of various 
 protected hardware speciiilties and machinery, 
 among which is a complete line of cigar box 
 machinery. Recently he has perfected an attach- 
 ment for a hot air furnace, which by practical 
 operation has shown that the volume of heat is 
 increased by 2") percent, without any additional 
 consumption of fuel. This is one of the crowning 
 productions of his mechanical genius which he is 
 preparing to ])lace in the market all over the 
 union and which will be of incalculnble value. 
 Mr. Baker was born in Jacksonville, Onondaga 
 county, June 23, 18r)3, the son of Truman and 
 Clarissa Beckworth Baker. When he was four 
 years old his parents moved to the town of Han- 
 nibal, Oswejo county, where they resided nine 
 years, when they again bei'ame residents of Jack- 
 sonville, two years later locating on the (iilbert 
 farm in the town of Schr.i ppel. Then, at the 
 age of 15 years, Edwin entered the academy in 
 this village. In the fall of 1873 he enterecl the 
 employ of A. W. Sweet & Co., casket manufac- 
 turers. On Feb. 24, 1875. he married Anna M. . 
 the daughter of (ieorge Collier Withers and the 
 following year he went into the furniture and 
 
 THE WINDSOH HnTEL. 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OV PHCENIX. 
 
 undertaking business with his father-in-law and 
 liroth(>r-iii-la\v, William H. Withers. On Jan. 1, 
 1880, he withdrew from the tirm and entered the 
 emi)loy of the late Dr. Samuel Avery, making 
 cigar boxes and eifiar box machmery. During 
 the time he was with Dr. Avery, he also filled the 
 position of travelliug salesman, visiting nearly 
 every town of any ('(msiderable size this side of 
 the ^lississipjii river and jdacing the maehinery 
 that was manufactured at this |ilace. On Jan. 15, 
 1887, he formed a co-iiartnersliip with t'harles H. 
 Denuison and the two pureha.sed the cigar box 
 machinery business of Dr. Avery. They rc^noved 
 the plant to the building in which Mr. Baker is 
 at present located wln're they continued the man- 
 \ifacture and sale of this machinery until .Vi>ril 1, 
 ISiUl. when he ]iurclia,sed the interest of Mr. Den- 
 uison and after that carried on the business alone. 
 On Jan. 2t!, IH'.Ki, he bought the interest of his 
 father-in-law m the 
 business of (i. C. 
 Withers & Co., and 
 the firm name was 
 then changed to 
 Baker i Otts. He 
 retired from the tirm 
 April 8, 1895, selling 
 out his interest to 
 Fred Marvin of Syra- 
 cuse. During the 
 time that he was in 
 company with Mr. 
 Otts he was one of 
 the trustees of the 
 New York state un- 
 dertakers' associa- 
 tion, taking an active 
 jjart in the delibera- 
 tions of that body 
 where he represent- 
 ed the county as- 
 sociation. Mr.J3aker 
 until the last admin- 
 istration of President 
 Clcvehmd, when the 
 party's positi(m on 
 the taritl' question 
 was not in accord 
 with his own con- 
 victions, was a dem- 
 ocrat, holding the 
 otlice of town clerk 
 in 1881 and after- 
 wards th-it of assessor. He is a member of the 
 local masonic order being the present secretary 
 of the chapter. 
 
 Lloyd Collier, the only child of JNIr. and Mrs. 
 Edwin Baker, was born in Phoenix July 7, 1877, 
 and attended the public schools of that village. 
 Mr. Baker has been engaged in compiling 
 county histories and is at the present time a trav- 
 elling .salesman. 
 
 Frontenac Was Here in l(i9(i and camiJed 
 on the site of the present village of Phcenix. On 
 July 31, ascending the river with over a thousand 
 French and five hundred savages from beyond 
 the great lakes, Ottawa and Michimillimack, the 
 Marcpiis la Comte de Frontenac found his pro- 
 gress arrested at the foot of rifts over which the 
 river tumbled for a quarter of a mile. Here were 
 traces of Indian encampments which he was 
 
 UFFlCKliS I'MIKM.X H( 
 F. W. Hakis, l)in-.-t(ir 
 A. E. Kuss, Tn-iis. A. P. .Men- 
 
 assured by his gviides were occupied twice a year 
 by the six nations who came here for fish. A 
 half cent\u-y before, the Jesuits had found an In- 
 dian village of fishermen here. Frontenac 's party 
 consisted of four battiJions of niilita from Quel>ec. 
 Beaupre, Tliree Rivers, Canada and Montreal, 
 with two battahons of i-egular troops in advance 
 and two in the rear. On the river was a flotilla 
 of (^anoes carrying stores and amnniuitiou. The 
 Indians thronged the cam]) like evil birds of pas- 
 sage, beating the woods on all sides seeking signs 
 of the Inxpiois whom the Flench desired to at- 
 tack and destroy. Then there were the French 
 trai)pers of the interior, dr(.s.sed in skins, as much 
 to be feari>d as the savages. The <lecorated pavil 
 ions of the Frem-h commander and his officers 
 rose from the midst of the temporary l)ark cover- 
 ings of the militia, on high ground "covered with 
 large pines several yards from the east bank of 
 the river. The same ground is now a beautiful 
 
 residential part of 
 the village of Ph(eni\ 
 crossed north and 
 south bvMain street. 
 The Marquis had 
 lieen advised that 
 here was to be found 
 an abundance of tisli 
 and less than a league 
 distant he would 
 come to the forks in 
 the stream [Three 
 Rivers] where his 
 l)rogress might be 
 disputed by the 
 ( )ueida and Ononda- 
 ga Indians. So he 
 had ordered a halt 
 here, encamping the 
 advance truoijs un- 
 der Monsieur de 
 Callieres on the west 
 side of the river and 
 (u-deriiig uj] from the 
 falls| Oswego] below, 
 the rear guard under 
 Monsieur de Yau- 
 dreuil. The ascent 
 of the river had 
 been made with 
 gi-eat difficulty. "It 
 would be useless," 
 wr tes the chroni- 
 cler, "to attempt to 
 describe the rapids of this river. The difficulties 
 could not lie understood, since by marching from 
 morning until night five leagues only [from lake 
 to falls] could be made in two days." One night 
 was spent here in camp and on .^ug. 1 the regulars 
 wei'e advanced u]) stream, with M. de Yandreuil 
 anil most of the officers at their head, being -'de- 
 tatched beyond the river which goes to Oneida" 
 and making "more than five leagues in roads u|) 
 to the knee. " Tlien the main body struck cam]) 
 and followed. "Nothing was met during this 
 day's march excei)t the descri])tion of our army 
 drawn on bark after the manner of the .savages. 
 and two bundles of cut rushes which signified 
 that 1 18-1 men a-companied us.' The battalion 
 commanders of the troo]>s were Sieurs de la Dur- 
 antaye, de May, de tirays and Dumesnil 
 and of the militia, Sieurs de Saint Martin, 
 de Grandville, le Grandjiere and King's At- 
 
 I.VKI) 1)1' TKADK, \gia. 
 
 H. 1). Mirriam, l)ii-i-itoi- 
 iam. Prcs. A. I", i'aikei-, Sro. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PH(ENIX. 
 
 tomey Deschaml)aux of Montreal. The expe- 
 dition readied Onondaga lake and effected a laud- 
 ing witbont meeting the Iroquois. ( )n the highest 
 Iioint of ground near the present village of Liver- 
 pool thev erected a fort used as a base from which 
 the French moved against the Onoudagas and 
 Oneidas, driving t)Oth from their villages which 
 they destroyed, and compelling them to make 
 peace. The army returned down the river on 
 .\ugiist 10 and 11 reaching the lake on the 12th. 
 
 The Kinjar's Ddu^hters Society of the Con- 
 gregational church consists of thirteen members; 
 Miss Marie L. Gerhardt, jjresident; Lula ^lerriam, 
 vice jiresident; M. Algeuia Rhodes, secretary; 
 Lena E. Patchen, treasurer; Feme Buttes, Rhoda 
 Hazard. Gertrude Wilson. Sarah K. Rhodes, Fan- 
 ny Kalar, Eva Ostrauder, Laura Manning, Louise 
 Manning, Huldah (!andee. The society was or- 
 ganized in the year 1900 for the purpose of cheer- 
 
 the junction of the Seneca, Oneida and Oswego 
 rivers with Oneida lake described by Cliam])laiu 
 to the east, and Salt lake to the south. The coun- 
 try l.ying between these two lakes is marked on 
 this maj) "Hu'scois," intended for Iroquois. As 
 will appear further on Champlain's own descri])- 
 tion veriti'-'S this interpretation of this map. 
 
 t'harajilain in lliO;t had discovered and exjilored 
 the luke which bears his name. Six years later, 
 following the unbeaten tracks north of the Cireat 
 Lakes he jienetrated the then unknown regions 
 westward into the country of the Hurons striking 
 the .shores of the lake bearing that name. Then 
 he returned east accomjianied by a considerable 
 force of that nation who were then at wjir with the 
 Senecas, the most western of the Five Nations of 
 Indians. Skirting the north shores of the lakes 
 as far as the jjreseut site of Kingston, lie embarked 
 at that ])oint and crossed Lake Ontario, "proceed- 
 ing southward, " as he writes, • 'towards the enemies 
 [Iroquois] country. ' His passage across what he 
 
 THE KING'S DAUGHTEltS. 
 1. Miss Miirit' Gcrlieat-dt. L^^ader; 2. Miss Leila Merriam. 3, Mips Huldaii I'andee, 
 4, Miss Lena Patolirn. .">. Miss Klioda Haziird, 0, Miss Geitnide Wilson. 7. Miss Eva 
 Ostraudor, H, Miss ."^avali Rhodts. !i. Miss F.rin- DviltJ, III. Miss .\lgenia Itbodes. 
 
 ing the sick and aged in Phteuix by visiting and 
 can'ying fruit and flowers to them; aKo for re- 
 lieving the poor in numerous ways, and for send- 
 ing flowers to the hospitals. They bear the royal 
 colors of juirjile and white; then' motto; "In His 
 Name." 
 
 Champlain on Oswrego River, 1315 — That 
 this remarkable expedition led by the French 
 courtier Champlain when he was governor of New 
 France in 1615, crossed the Oswego river going 
 into the Iroquois country, and even encamped ou 
 its shores ujion its return not far from, if indeed 
 not exactly u])ou, the site of the present village of 
 Phoenix, is a fact which few historians will dispute. 
 
 The authority for this .statement isChami-ilain's 
 map of New France, published in 1()32, upon 
 which the route he pursued is plainly traced by a 
 dotted line. While no names appear to designate 
 the rivers and interior lakes, the Oswego river is 
 clearly markc-d conn cting Lake Ontario with the 
 cliain of New York's western lake-;, even showing 
 
 calls lake of the Entouhonorous [ Huron term for 
 Ontario], during which he noticed "some beauti- 
 ful and very large islands," he estimated to be 14 
 leagues [-12 miles], which corresponds to the dis- 
 tance from Kingston to Salmon river. "We con- 
 tinued our journey overland," he writes, "some 
 25 or 30 leagues, " the distance, following the dot- 
 ted line on his map, from Salmon river to lake 
 Canandaigua, where he attai'ked an Iroquois fort 
 and after.six days was comjielled to retreat. Land- 
 ing at Salmon river "the Indians concealed all of 
 their canoes in the woods near the banks." Then 
 the party directed their course southwesterly, 
 travehng "four leagues over a sandy plain." They 
 were crossing the heart of what is now Oswego 
 county, which Champlain describe-s as follows; 
 "[ observed a very jileasing and tine country, 
 watered by numerous small stre^mls, and two little 
 rivers which empty into the slid lake [Little Sal- 
 mon and Grindstone creek. Had he landed north of 
 Salmon river he would have crossed more rivers 
 worthy of mention]; ami a number of ponds and 
 
•tiK[l''.S' HISTORICAL SOUVENIK OF PHCKNIX. 
 
 imiirii s wliere there \vn< an infinite ipumtitv i>f 
 (if pinie. ii fireat many vines, and ti e trees, vast 
 iininliers iif ciiesfnnts. tlie fruit of wliieli was yet 
 in tlie sliell. It is ijiite small ami well tlavoleil." 
 He evidently refers tu lieeebu'its [unknown to 
 Kuropeuns] .1 large ij lantity of whieli were once 
 fonnii ill Oswofjo county. It was in September, 
 Ifili"), that he reached and crossed the Oswego 
 river. He writes that he "traversed one river is- 
 suiufj from a lake whicli empties into th-it of the 
 Entoulionorons" [plainly Oneida lake [which he 
 writes "is ^'i to :ill leaj^nes 'li circuinfeivnce, with 
 nniiiy beautiful islands and is the Iro(]iiois tishing 
 gl'ound, tish beiiifi in aliundance there." 
 
 Some historians have located the fort he attacked 
 in the Oneidas' country, others in that of the 
 
 camps. The next day thoy reached SalnMiu nvcr 
 and embarked for Canada. 
 
 Alpha Theta is a literary society anionj; the 
 yoiinj; ladies of the High school. Only those who 
 have completed the first year's work are eligible. 
 The society was organized in the fall of l!l();) for 
 the purpose of jjromoting the social interests of 
 the school and to help its members along literary 
 lines. One of the great benefits is that most es- 
 sential acquirements, self-possession when one is 
 called upon to s])eak in imblic. The programs 
 consist of debates, plays, i-ecitatious, essays, char- 
 ades, music, etc. The society entertains the 
 young people of the village several times a year. 
 
 ALIH.V THET.\ .S()( lETV. l'H(K.MX HltiH SCHooJ,. 
 1, Francis .Vsli. President: 3. Lena Palolieu,Vicf-Presuliiit: :!, HIanclie Sweet, Secretar.v: 4, Nora Ktjran, 
 Treasiirei" 5. Sarali Ubodes, ti, Floiv nee Hous*-. 7, Gertnidc Wilson, s, Etbel Walters, !», Winifred Sinitli, 
 10, Lney Butts, II, .Martha Sweet. 12, Maiy Pendeisrast. l.i, Etiii'l Butts, U, Edna (urev, l."i. Fern Butts, 
 Itf, Leila Mirriman, IT, Anna Andrews, IS. Louise Vicki'iy, 1», Xiva Diury, 3U. Ulioda ila/.aril, L'l, Jessie 
 Butts, 3"-', F.inma Penderjfa.st, Si. Anna Tial. :i4, ISissif Clrei-'ir. 3.'), Carrie Benton, 3i;. tJoldie Catluait, 37. 
 Aljrenia Rliodes, 3s, Lois Hawks, 3W. Minnii- ,Io)inson, :nt, .lennie N'anDusen, -tl. May Grvifix, :£i, Satie 
 Huntley, 
 
 Onondaj^as'. .\fler stndyuig his ma)> no (Uie can 
 reach such cciiiclusiou except on the theory that 
 he has incorrectly located the lakes which he 
 passed — a theory not tenable since he properly 
 locates both Oneida and Onondaga lakes and marks 
 the courte he followed as leadi"^!,;; westward beyond 
 the chain of Western Xew York lakes. 
 
 On the 16th of October, Iieing unable to capture 
 the fort he started back, badly wounded and car- 
 ried most of the di.stimee in b iskets made by the 
 Indians. Ketracing its <-ourse to the Oswego river 
 which was reached (m the 18th in a blinding snow 
 storm, "the snow melting," he writes, "as fast as 
 it fell," the parly crossed the stream and went 
 into camp. This must have been right here where 
 Pufenix is now located, and where the Jesuits and 
 other parties of the French years after made their 
 
 The ollicers are Frances Ash, luesident; Lena 
 Pat<'hen, vice president : Blanche Sweet, .secretary. 
 
 The Post Office was established Jan. 29, 1830, 
 with Seth W. Burke as postmaster. His successors 
 were: Joshua M. Rice, appointed July 3, 1841; 
 Joseph R. Brown, Dec. 19, IH^tl; Edward Baxter, 
 Dec. 14, 1848; Joshua M. Rice, June it, 1849; 
 Wilbnrn Hale, Mav HI. bSoS; Uziah Conger, Mav 
 21, IS.-,.^: .\iidrcw Baird, Dec. 14, 18").'): Francis 
 David, June 2, l8.j(;: Joseph Haiich<-tt, March 12, 
 18()1; Davis Conger, Mav 1(1, 18C.9:C. E. Hutdiin- 
 sou, Xuv. 2.S, ISTl; H. A. Dvgert, Ajiril 21, 1874; 
 Fred \V. Alvord, Sej.t. 21, bSH.j; J. M. Williams, 
 June 21, 1889; Frank K. Avery, Feb. 21, 1895; A. 
 V. Merriam, Mav 10, 1898; reai>iiointed June 12, 
 1902. 
 
78 
 
 •GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 MRS. JANE GILLETTE MERRIAM. ALLEN MERRIAM 
 
 Allen Merriam was born in Delaware county, 
 N. Y., Oct. -i, 1823. In hi.s younger years bis 
 parents, Harvey and Polly JMerriain descendants 
 of the original English family of Merriiuns who 
 settled in Connecticut, moved to Cicero, Onondaga 
 county, which was the home of Allen Merriam 
 until the fall of 1845 when he went to Cliftbrd, 
 N. Y., to engage in mercantile business which 
 from 1861 to that time he had been carrying on in 
 Cicero. He engaged in a prosperous business at 
 Cliflbrd for upwards of twenty years and then sold 
 out to his son-in-law, Mr. Frank Young, after- 
 wards living a retired life at Clif- 
 ford, -with the exception of a year 
 and a half at Ph(i nix, iintil his 
 death, which occurred May 9, 
 1900. He was a great reader, es- 
 pecially of occult and scientific 
 works ' and was naturally of a 
 modest and retiring disposition but 
 fearless in advocating what he 
 thought -was right. His integrity 
 was never questioned and he en- 
 joyed the esteem of all. On Sept. 
 I,"l851, he married Jane S. Gillette 
 who gave him nine children, eight 
 of whom are living — Mrs. Celinda 
 M. Young of Clifford, N. Y., Mrs. 
 Ida J. Moore of Palermo, N. Y., 
 Mrs. Belle P. Jennings of Clifton 
 Springs, N. Y., Albert P. and 
 Herman D. of Phcenix, N. Y., 
 Watson H. of PenneUville, N. Y., 
 "William D. of Syracuse, N. 1"., and 
 
 Edward A. of 'Springfield, Mass. 
 
 ^Irs. Allen Merriam, a w^oman of 
 
 liigh character, strongly devoted 
 
 to her family and ever ready to 
 
 assist the sick and needy, had .-i 
 
 large circle of friends who found 
 
 her a true friend, i>rompt to re- 
 spond to many calls night and 
 
 dav, and a skillful nurse. She was 
 
 the daughter of Watson and Milic- 
 
 ent Gillette and was born in Cicero, 
 
 N. Y., March 18, 1833. Her death 
 
 occurred April 28, 1902, and she was laid to 
 rest beside her husband in Phoenix Rural 
 cemetery. 
 
 Albert P. Merriam, the postmaster of 
 Ph enix, appointed by President McKinley 
 May 10, 1898, and reappointed by President 
 Roosevelt June 12, 1902, is also president 
 of the Phcenix Board of Trade, two years 
 ago elected to that position in recognition of 
 his pul ilic spirit and zeal in behalf of local 
 growth and imijrovement; and on Dec. 16, 
 191)2, re-elected l)ecause of his liberal con- 
 ribution of personal effort to secure new 
 industries for Phusnix. He was born in 
 Cicero, Onondaga Co., Sept. 6, 1853, and 
 was twelve years old when his parents, Al- 
 len and Jane Merriam, moved to Clifford, 
 N. Y. In the spring of 1876 he went to 
 Mexico, N. Y., to learn cheese making and 
 two years later returned to Clifford and 
 there Iniilt a factory which he conducted five 
 years, selling it to his brother Watson H. at 
 the time he came to Phcenix, in the spring 
 < f 1883. Then he bought the Phoenix cheese 
 factory which he has since managed with 
 success. Mr. Meriiam served as village 
 trustee 1889-90 and was president of the 
 village in 1895. In 1892-'5 he represented 
 the town of Schroeppel on the board of 
 supervisors and made au enviable record in his 
 work as legislator, especially in exercising his in- 
 fluence for economy in public expenditures. On 
 Sept. 6, 1875, Mr. Merriam was married to Emo- 
 gene, the daughter of Sylvester Auringer, an old 
 resident of Palermo who lost his hfe in the battle 
 of Gettysburgh. Her maternal grandfather was 
 Garrett Blankman, an old sea captain from Hol- 
 land who finally became one of the early settlers 
 in Oswego county. Mr. and Mrs. Merriam have 
 
 MRS. EMOGE.VE AURI.NCEH MEKRIAM. 
 
 A. W. MERRIA.M. 
 
 ,\L11KI!T P. MERRIAM. 
 
'CIKIP'S" HIST()RIC.\I. SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 79 
 
 HERMAN n. MEHKIAM. 
 
 one son, A W. ^Merriam who is engaged as a trav- 
 eling salesman. 
 
 Herman D.Merriman, the well known Phosnix 
 clothier who has carried on that business continu- 
 ously in this village since April 1, 1881, when he 
 came here to make it his home, was for the five 
 years prior to that time a teacher, coming here 
 from Oswego Falls where he was jiriucijjal of the 
 graded school. Thus it was that he acquired the 
 more than ordinary knowledge res))ecting school 
 methods which has been of service to the present 
 board of education, of which he is a member. 
 Mr. Merriam from the beginning, has taken an in- 
 terest in such matters as in his opinion would 
 l)romote the growth of the community and suli- 
 s^quently being chosen as one of the directors of 
 the Board of Trade has 
 shared with the others the 
 work of pressing the 
 claims of the village upon 
 outside capital. He 
 served as village trustee 
 from March 1901) to 
 March I'Mti. Mr. Mer- 
 riam was born in Cicero. 
 X. Y., Sept. 21, 1861), and 
 his early .school days were 
 in attendance at district 
 and select schools, he 
 completing his studies in 
 the Mexico academv. On 
 Feb. 12, 188:) he was 
 man-ied to Leah M. Sweet 
 and they have one sou 
 and a daughter, Wayne 
 and Leah, both attending 
 the public school here. 
 
 The Junior Epworth 
 League of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal church of 
 Phoenix received its 
 charter May 19, 1893. 
 5Irs. Wesley Mason was 
 
 the elKcient superintendent for several years. She 
 was succeeded by Mrs. D. W. Hooker. The pre- 
 sent officers are: Superintendent, Mrs. H. S. 
 Southal; president, Ealph Young; first vice presi- 
 dent, Lloyd .Tones; second vice president, Jlar- 
 guerite Oregg; third vice president, Klla (iutliph; 
 fourth vice jiresident, June Lindsley; secretary, 
 (ierald (iregg; treasurer, Jessie Butts; librarian, 
 Ruth Thou]])Son. The society numbers about 
 twentytive. The regular devotional meeting is 
 held on Sunday afteruoous at four o'clock. 
 
 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. — 
 
 On May 18, 1888, through the eflbrts of Jliss A. 
 F. Noble, city missionary of Syracuse, a society 
 to be known as the Woman's Foreign Missionary 
 society of Phcenix M. E. church was organized 
 with Mrs. Silas Ball, president; Mrs. A. W. Hawks, 
 tir.st vice president; Mrs. Robert Simjisou, second 
 vice ju-esideut; Mrs. Wm. Joslyn, third vice presi- 
 dent: Mrs. F. H. Fox, recording and correspond- 
 ing secretary; and Mrs. Mary Breed, treasurer. 
 This society continued for nearly two years when 
 it lap.sed. On May 12, 1S9."), through tlie influence 
 of the pastor Rev. Wesley Mason, Mrs. Easter 
 secretary of the C. N. Y. Conference W. F. M. S. 
 occupied the pulpit during the morning service 
 after which she reorganized the present society 
 with Mrs. W. Mason, president, and thhty-four 
 members. This society still exists with growing 
 interest and increased numbers. The present 
 officers are: Miss EUa Gregg, president; ^Irs. H. 
 S. Southal, first vice president; Mrs. A. W. Hawks, 
 second vice president; Mrs. T. C. Taggart, record- 
 ing secretary; Mrs. J. Smith, corresponding 
 secretary; Mrs. C. J. Fuller, treasurer. 
 
 The First Wedding in Schroepjiel was that of 
 Josei)h Lamanier and Sally, the daughter of 
 David Winter, which occurred the year they came 
 here, 1807. A justice of the peace from Onon- 
 daga tied the knot. Learning that he had no 
 authority to act he the next day got the cou])le to 
 cross the river into Onondaga county where he 
 again i>erformed the ceremony. 
 
 il. D. -MlililtlAM .-> ( Ll.HHINU SruKi;. 
 
80 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIK OF PHCENIX. 
 
 The Union Free and High School of Phoe- 
 uix is one of the leading eduoatioual iustitiitious 
 of Os-n'ego coiiuty, liaviug a competeut faculty 
 and a lioai'd of education comprisrug the business 
 men of the village who are especially interested 
 in givmg to Pluenix and vicinity the best facilities 
 for instructing the youth in all branches of secon- 
 dary iustruction. The school has seven teachers 
 in the grades and six doing high school work. 
 The board consists of H. S. \'an Woruier, presi- 
 dent, and O. M. Reillj, H. T>. Merriaui, A. W. 
 Hawkes, W. H. :\Iurphy and E. A. Tabor. The 
 secretary, F. M. Pierce, and treasurer, E. 
 
 G. 
 
 F. M. 
 
 Hutchinson, are not memljers. The members of 
 the boiU'd are each chosen tor the term of three 
 vears, two going out eveiy thinl year. 
 
 The faculty for 1902-'.i' is as follows: J. Schuy- 
 ler Fox, A. B., Priucijial, Brown University, Latin 
 and science; Ruth L. Ward, A. B., Preceptress, 
 Syracuse University, English and mathematics; 
 Gertrude M. Walker, Albany Normal College. 
 
 The library contains about a thousand dollars 
 w(U'th of books and the laboratories apparatus of 
 about the same value. 
 
 A training cla>-s is being maintained in the 
 school with excellent results, the demand for 
 its graduates to be employed as teachers being 
 greater than the sujijily. The course in the high 
 school deiiartment is outlined to meet the requh'e- 
 ments of the I'egeuts of the university, the basis 
 of graduation being the a<'ademic dijiloma of the 
 Regents which is granted upon the comjiletion of 
 the required courses of study. These iU'e so ar- 
 ranged as to fully jjrejiare students for college and 
 normal school. The faculty gives due attention 
 to the selection of studies for the student who de- 
 sires to complete his educati(m here and at once 
 enter upon a practical business life. The work of 
 drawing and writing in all de])artments of the 
 school is under the supervision of an experienced 
 teacher who gives her entire time and attention to 
 thai subject. The opiiortnnity is here given to 
 the stucU'ut to pursue Greek and Latin four years 
 
 THK PIKKXIX fXIUN I- 
 
 history and modern huiguages; Adelaide E.Launt, 
 Boston Art School, drawing and penmanship; 
 Vera H. Beaman, A. B., Syracuse University, 
 United States history, civics and physical geog- 
 raphy; Mary Dugau, Albany Normal College, 
 Teachers" Training Class. (iramnar Depart- 
 ment — Minnie Jones, Potsdam Normal School. 
 Senior Intermediate — Alice C. Kitts, Potsdam 
 Normal; E. May Gregg, Assistant, Phienix Train- 
 ing Class. Junior Intermediate — Isabel N. Wil- 
 liams, Cortland Normal; Eva M. Kimball, Assist- 
 ant, Phunix Training Class. Senior Primary — 
 (irace A. Hn)>l)ard. Oswego Normal. Junior Pri- 
 mary, CereUe E. Smith, Phcenix Training Class, 
 riom the time the present school \\a3 organized 
 it has been the jjolicy of the members of ihe sev- 
 eral boards, and the taxpayers, to spare no means 
 for bringing the institution up to the highest 
 standard, and to bring in a large attendance from 
 out of the district, for which j)urpose all of the 
 latest apijliances have been ol)tained as fast as the 
 means at the disposiJ of the Boards warranted. 
 
 UEE AMI HIUH .srHuOI,. 
 
 each and German, Engli.sh, History and mathe- 
 matics three years each, together with the regu- 
 lar high school work in the diflerent sciences. 
 
 The building, con.structed in 18(12, is a three- 
 story brick structure equijiped with new and 
 modern school fm-uiture. he;ited with a combina- 
 tion plant of steam and hot aix and ventilated in a 
 jieriect manner by a system recently installed. 
 In IS.Sl, at the cost of about S."i.(H)l),'an addition 
 was ere<-ted in the rear so as to accommodate all 
 of the deiiartnicnts on two floors, saving a good 
 deal of climbing stairs. This has left ample ac- 
 commodations lor a gymnasium or additional lab- 
 oratories on the third floor as may lie desired. 
 The grouud floor rooms are devoted to the 
 grades and on the second floor are the high school 
 proper, the principal's oflice and the laboratories. 
 The library and four recitation rooms occujiy the 
 second floor of Ihe wing. The board and faculty, 
 appreciating the Viilue of pleasant and attractive 
 surroundings lor the scholars, are elaliorating the 
 plan of beautif\ ing the interior with mural deer- 
 
•ORir'S" HISTORICAI. SOU^'ENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 81 
 
 Tin; noAiii) uF eui cation. 
 
 \V. H. Miiipliv. K. M. IMeivi'. E. A. Talior. 
 U. M. HiiJly. H. S. VaiiWoriiui-, Piesitient. 
 
 I'iitious lis liiiaiu'ial conditions permit appropria- 
 tions for that purpose. 
 
 The first school in Phoeni.x of which there is a 
 record was in 1827, which was taught by Miss .\1- 
 frira Knapp. The biiilcliug occnjued the jireseut 
 site of H. D. Wood's residence. About 1.S40 or 
 '44 two districts, coinjirised in whole or part in 
 the village, and divided by Bridge sti-eet were 
 oi'ganized early in the history of the village. Miss 
 Payne taught select 
 .school on the second 
 rtoor of what is now A. E. 
 Ituss's store. By special 
 enactment of the legisla- 
 tiu'e, April 19, IHli"), the 
 Phoenix Union Free 
 school was formed taking 
 in both old districts, and 
 this law iianu'd the follow- 
 ing as the tir.st board of 
 education : Enoch S. 
 Brooks, Alfred ^lorton. 
 .T. X. Gillis, Edmund 
 Merry, M. H. Cushman 
 and Gouverncur !M. 
 iSweet. William B.How- 
 ard was the first ))rLnci- 
 pal. His successors were 
 Jj. F. Stiinley. B. G. 
 Clapp, A. J. Robb, Robert 
 Hirnpsou, I). A. Preston. 
 Alliert W. Dyke and E..T. 
 Howe. The first librarian 
 was Samuel O. Putnam 
 «ho was succeeded by 
 his willow. Successive 
 boards of education have 
 included many jiromi- 
 uent men in the %-illage 
 among whom are E. C. 
 Fitzgerald. Dr. Conger, 
 Ira IJetts, Addison Sweet, 
 Hiram Fox, E. G. Hutch- 
 
 inson, C. W. Avery, Dr. 
 .1 Mamil, C. F. Loomis, 
 M. (!. Murgittroyd, X. J. 
 Peiidergast, G. (t. Breed, 
 T. Gilbert, E.H.Hastings, 
 lie. Breed, Dr. W. H. 
 bice, W. .1. Dougail. H. 
 I >. Wood. Samuel Flynn. 
 John O'Brien. !•' K. 
 .\v,iy and 1". David. 
 
 The law (of lSii")J under 
 winch the school was 
 established imposed upon 
 the Hist board the duty 
 of cstablishingaiid organ- 
 i/.iiig **a classical schfutl 
 to be known by the name 
 of the Phieuix .\cademy.'" 
 The academic dejuirt men t 
 was organized and ac- 
 cepted by the shite re- 
 gents Xov.:23, lS75,under 
 the name of the Phieuix 
 Union School and .Acad- 
 emy. In l'.)lll the legisla- 
 ture passed an act, C'hap. 
 "23(5, by which the school 
 became Union Free 
 
 school, Dist. No 1, under the provisions of the 
 
 consolidated school law of the state. 
 
 Salary of State Officers.— Governor §10,000, 
 lieutenaut-governor .5.5,(1(10: .secretary of state 
 So,00(); comptroller .S(>,0()0: state trea.surer $.5,000: 
 attorney general .§5,000: state engineer and sur- 
 veyor $5,000; suijerintendeut of public instruction 
 $5,000; superintendent of iral'hc works .$(),OO0; 
 superintendent of insurance $7,000; superintend- 
 
 H. I». Merriam 
 A. W. Hawks. 
 
 FACl'LTY PHfKXIX rXIO.V FKEE ANT) IlKJH SCHOOL. 
 1. .1. ?>fhu.vler F<)x. Principal; 2, Miss Mar.v Dii^an. Traininjr Class: -J. Miss Itiitli 
 L. Ward. Precept rcss: 4. Mi.ss GiTtnide M. Walker, Assistant I'rta-eptress; h. Miss 
 \'era H Beamaii. .Assistant Pri'frptrrss aud Librarian; tJ. Miss Adciaiile E. Laiiiit, 
 DrawinjJT and Writing?; 7. Miss Minnie .lones, "tli andStli (Iradc; 8. Miss .-Vlice C.Kitts, 
 ."itli and Otli Grade; », Miss Isaliel X. Williams. :M and 4tli Grade; 10, .Miss Grace A. 
 Hutibard, 1st and 2nd Grade; II, Mrs. Cerelle E. Smith, Kiuderirarten; 12, Miss E.Mav 
 Greg^'. Assistant ."ith and (itliGrndr; Ti.Miss n.Eva Klmhall..\ssistatil :!dan(Mlli Grade-. 
 
82 
 
 "GRIP'S" mSTOBICAL SOUVENIE OF PHOENIX. 
 
 ent of banks, $17,000; superintendent of prisons 
 S6,0()0: excise conniiissioner $5,000; state cliaritv 
 (•ommissionei-s, SIO [ler day actual duties (limited 
 to $500); superintendent of state prisons, $6, 
 (100; railroad commissioner $8, 000; judge of court 
 of claims, $5,000; tax commissioner $2,500; com- 
 missioner of agriculture, $4,000; commissioner of 
 fisheries and game. $2,500 (president .$:^.000); 
 state factory inspector $;3,000; laborai-bitrator$3,- 
 000; ci^-il service commissioner $2,000; commis- 
 sioner of lalior statistics $3,000. 
 
 Indian Village; Traces.- Mr. W. W. Mer 
 
 edifb of Euclid writes as follows:— "In response 
 to your re(piest for iuformatiou of Indian villages 
 on the Oneida river, my only knowledge is that of 
 personal observation. I have located several In- 
 dian villages or camps along the Oneida river 
 from Brewerton to Three River Point. The largest 
 (if these IS at Candee Hill. From their size and 
 the depth of burnt 
 gi-ound and stone 
 they must have been 
 ))ermanent villiiges. 
 There are other rea- 
 sons for that suppo- 
 sition. From this 
 point it is but a mile 
 and a half to the Os- 
 wego river along 
 which as we know 
 the Indians were 
 continually traveling 
 from place to jilace. 
 Besides, this place 
 furnished a good lo- 
 cation for a camping 
 ground, being ]5ro- 
 tected from the west 
 winds by the hilis 
 and from the north 
 winds by a dense 
 swamp. Also at this 
 point the river can 
 lie seen a long dis- 
 tance both up and 
 downstream. As the 
 river here is quite 
 shallow and two 
 large creeks emjjty 
 into it a short dis- 
 tance above, it was 
 the best fishing 
 ground on the Onei- 
 da. There are ex- 
 tensive huckleberry 
 
 marshes in this vicinity and Indians were great 
 lovers of berries." 
 
 The Oswego Rum Traffic (17541 by traders 
 in the middle of the eighteenth centiu-y had be- 
 come so considerable that great quantities were 
 carried on batteaux over the Mohawk river Oneida 
 lake and Oswego river route from Albany to the 
 frontier trading jiosts. This occasioned great 
 trouble with the Indians which is described in a 
 remonstrance dated Oswego June 1, 1754, to 
 which 47 names were signed and sent to Albany ; 
 viz: "In passing the Mohawks and Canajohary 
 castles the Indians board our batteaux with axes, 
 knives, etc., and by force take what rum they 
 think proper hooping and yelping as though they 
 
 gloiied in their depredations and threatening 
 murder to any that oppose them : and on our ar- 
 rival at the great carrying place, the Oneida In- 
 dians force our goods from us at pleasure to carr.v 
 over, and not content with making us ]>ay a most 
 exorbitant price for each freight but rob us of our 
 rum, stores and other goods with a great deal of 
 invective threatening language, and are generally 
 so numerous that we are obliged to submit to those 
 impositions or run the risk of being murdered and 
 roblied of everything we have : and to put their 
 schemes the better in execution they force away 
 the high Germans who generally attend %\ith their 
 horses, that we may be under the necessity of em- 
 ploving them and paying whatever they please to 
 demand." 
 
 First Lords of the Soil. - Cadwallader Colden 
 in his history of the Five Nations speaks of them 
 as a "poor and generally called barbarous pe(ii)le. 
 
 bred under the darkest 
 A 
 
 DIAGRAM OF FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE IN PH(12NM.K 
 [This building stooil on the g-round now occupied by H. I>. 
 
 Wood's residence— The above diagram was drawn fiutni its 
 
 descrijitioii in an old jrazeteer.] 
 
 A, Main street; B. North side; r. East side; D, entrance: E. 
 schoolmaster's seat; F, schoolmaster's desk; G. seat fastened to 
 the wall running: around the four sides, used b.v the oldest 
 scholars; H. seats for the next youngest scholars; I. seats for 
 the youngest scholars, without desks; M, scholars' plain board 
 desks; N, water pail; P, stove; X, wimlows; dotted linis en- 
 close seats, full lines enclose desks. 
 
 Ignorance; and yet a 
 bright and noble 
 genius shines from 
 in under these black 
 clouds. None of the 
 greatest Roman 
 heroes have dis- 
 covered a greater 
 love to their country, 
 or a greater con- 
 tempt of death than 
 these peojjle, called 
 liarbar ians, have done 
 when liberty came in 
 competition. In- 
 deed. I think our In- 
 dians have outdone 
 the Romans in this 
 piU'ticiilar. If sent 
 with any message, 
 though it dem»nd 
 the great st dis- 
 patch, or thougli 
 thev bring intelli- 
 gence of any i'nmi- 
 nent danger, they 
 never tell it at their 
 tir.stapproach.but sit 
 down for a minute 
 or two, at least, in 
 silence to reflect be- 
 fore they speak, tliat 
 they may not .'•ho« 
 any degree of sur- 
 prise or fear. Every 
 sudden repartee in a 
 puldic treaty leaves 
 
 with them an impression of a light inconsiderate 
 mind; but in private conversation they use and 
 are delighted with brisk, witty answers." 
 
 Three Rivers in 1790.— In the last ten years 
 of the eighteenth century Three Rivers was the 
 junction of the great channels of traffic through 
 the state. A writer thus describes this route: — 
 "The outlets of Seneca lake, Canadarqua lake and 
 Mud creek join together and form the Seneca 
 river. * * .\t Three River Point it is met by 
 the outlet of Oneida lake, and after passing 
 Oneida lake the boats ascend Mud [Wood] creek, 
 from which there is a canal to unite its water with 
 the Mohawk river. * * Considerable quantities 
 of flour, potash and salt, are every year sent down 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAIi SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 83 
 
 .KIHN n IIHIKN. V,. f. Ml"KGITTl(n Vli. 
 
 liy tliis uavigation. In the beginning uf the set- 
 tlement of this eountry families moving in these 
 liciats [made to carry tons] suft'ered much from 
 want of shelter in the night." Salt was for years 
 carried to Three Kiver where it was transhipjied 
 north, east or west liy water. 
 
 The Oswego River Paper Atills, where are 
 manufactured tissue ])aper iu reams and cut into 
 toilet rolls, were huilt in ISHO by Edmund Merry, 
 John O'Brien and M. ('. Murgittroyd. The for- 
 mer is now dead, but his estate, together with 
 Mrs. J. O'Brien and M. C. Murgittroyd are the 
 owners of the mills and business. Mr. Murgit- 
 troyd IS the active business manager. What was 
 at first the production of tissue paj^er in reams de- 
 veloped a few years ago, into the catting of the 
 paper into toilet I'olls 
 which today constitutes 
 the main part of the pro- 
 duction, sold andshij)ped 
 in large (inautities to 
 jobbers in all parts of 
 the United States from 
 Maine to California. The 
 plant, representing an in- 
 vestment of S'")!',!"!!!, com- 
 prises a three story build- 
 ing with additions, 1411 
 feet long and -11 feet wide, 
 equi{)ped with all modem 
 machinery and stan<liig 
 on the west bank of the 
 river, where it commands 
 one-fourth of the water 
 power of the river and 
 where there is room and 
 power enough to build 
 another mill of the same 
 dimensions. The present 
 structure has the capacity 
 for turning out in mau- 
 ufactured rolls two and 
 a half tons of pa])er a 
 day. Under the personal 
 
 attention of Mr. Murgittroyd the business 
 has steadily ex])anded until at the present 
 time the mill is run nearly to its full 
 capacity. The structure is designed aftfr 
 modern plans and is e<pii]ii)ed with electric 
 light. Owing to the great amount of orders 
 received daily as well as the nature of the 
 plant llie machinery is run day and night. 
 The styles of goods manufactured com- 
 l)r('lieiid the best of the line including a 
 number of brands ]irodiiced by this mill 
 alone. Mr. Mui'gittroy<l, to whose business 
 ability the .success of the plant is due, was 
 in the earlier years of his life a merchant at 
 Mcridan, Cayuga Co., X. Y., who came to 
 riKenix for the ex|)ress j)urpose of taking u 
 part ownershi]! of the |)lant and handling 
 tlie business. 
 
 John O'Brien was born in Cork,Ireland, 
 .\pril 27, 1.S4(». When he was 13 years old 
 his parents came to this country and lived 
 in New York awhile. They then moved to 
 California and Mr. O'Brien iu IH.j") located 
 in Syracuse where he learned the trade of 
 harness maker, residing in that ])lace until 
 1.S60, during the summer of which year he 
 lived in Troy and in the autumn following 
 moved to Springfield, Mass. From the spring of 
 18(11 to the summer of 18()3 he was emjjloyed in 
 the arsenal at Watervliet and during the ensuing 
 two yeai'^, from 18(53 to 18ti5 was in the arsenal sit 
 Washington. On April 3, 18()T, he married Jose- 
 phine, the daughter of W. Bailey, at Caughdenoy, 
 Oswego Co., where for ten years he was j)ost- 
 master. In 1875 he moved onto a farm in the 
 town of Schi-oeppel and followed farming until 
 1884 when he took up his residence in Phuenix. 
 After locating here he built the Phienix foundry 
 whu-h he still carries on. For the past 25 years 
 Mr. O'Brien has practiced as a pension claim 
 agent and is still in active practice in that line, 
 having been very successful. 
 
 In 1887 he was elected supervisor and held that 
 office five years. He has served as justice of the 
 
 rHK n.sWKCiJ l!|\ l:H I'.M'Kli .Mll.l.. 
 
81 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOITVENIK OF I'HffiXIX, 
 
 peace four years. Mr. O'Brien is an active coun- 
 sellor in the democratic party of Oswego county 
 and is the chairman of the county committee of 
 Mhich he has served as secretary two or three 
 years. He is a member of sevei'al fraternal soci- 
 eties in which he is (juite active. His son, Robert 
 !■'.., is assistant sn])erintendent in the Oswego 
 Itiver Paper Mill. 
 
 The Roosevelt Patent was granted by the 
 state to •Tohii and Nicholas Roosevelt in Aug. 1791. 
 It contained 500,000 acres and the jirice jmid was 
 77,0(S3 ])ounds, () shillings and S pence. The tract 
 was then de.seribed as being bounded northerly by 
 the .Alexander Macomb purchase, ea.sterly by Oot- 
 houdt's patent and Canada creek, southerly by 
 Wood creek, the Oneida lake and ( )nondaga 
 [Oneida] river and westerly by the Onondaga 
 I Oswego I river and Lake Ontario. The islands 
 lying ofl'-shore ["in front"] of the patent were to 
 be included at 8 shDlings and 1 penny for each 
 acre. The boundary line began at the mouth of 
 the Salmon river and ran .southeast, genei'ally 
 north of the stream and east of Altmar village; 
 
 into the iiew town of Mexico. Then the settlers 
 began to come in from the east, tramping along 
 l>esid(> the ox teams which they u.sually emplnyed 
 til bring along su<'li household necessaries and ini- 
 ])lenients as could not be disjjensed with. Leav- 
 ing Fort Stanwix for the north they )ilnnged into 
 the woods and after bS miles journeying renclieil 
 the little hamlet of Camden. There they entered 
 a mere path through the woods and traveling nine 
 miles without .seeing any habitntion crossed the 
 Salmon river at Redtield. a small collection of 
 huts, where they were oli'ered land at $'^ an acre. 
 The "new road" opened up to the Lake in ihe 
 summer of 18112, invited them to iiroceed thmugh 
 a stretch of 2.") miles of heavy timber, where tliey 
 hid the whole of the eastern end of Lake Ontario 
 at their <lis]iosal — the land of promise. There .-i 
 "manna" in the wilderness fed them merely by 
 gathering it during the season — berries, currants, 
 nuts. A writer who visited that section in 1802 
 writes that "there were found growing wild 
 in great jjlenty hops, grapes, cranberries, plums, 
 stra^^•berries, gooselierries, blackberries, nispber- 
 ries, currants, plantain, sarsaparilla, English ]iar- 
 
 I. >anod by C. J. F\iller. THE OSWEGO CANAL AND LOCK AT PHfENIX. 
 
 Since this picture was taken lar^e raanufacturinK buildings have been erected between tlie canal and tlie river 
 wliicli is at the left of the picture— The business street of the village runs at the riyht hand parallel with the canal 
 and T'iver. 
 
 thence followed the northern line of Oneida 
 county to Fish Creek; thence to Canada creek and 
 Wood Creek; thence along the north shore of 
 Oneida lake and river; along the east shore Os- 
 wego river and the south shore of Lake Ontario, 
 comprising two-thirds of Oswego county and a 
 thu-d of Oneida county. 
 
 Pioneers in Oswego County in 1800 did 
 nut necessarily sutler frum lack of sustenance. 
 The road was long and arduous but led into a 
 land of plenty, abundant in wild berries and fruits. 
 The traders and settlers then came in from the 
 south. Three Rivers being the only gateway 
 whether their course was by water or land. Pass- 
 ing through Oneida Lake by craft with sail or 
 drawn by horses, and down the Oneida river to 
 Three River Point, there they found batteaux be- 
 ing freighted to descend to Lake Ontario or 
 ascend the Seneca river to the great west beyond 
 that lake. In traveling liy land they followed a 
 mere track skirting the water route. 
 
 Two years later a rough road was opened from 
 Camden to Redtield and then on to Lake Ontario 
 
 sley, French sorrel, peppermint, common mint' 
 catnip, thorn apples, Indian corn, potatoes, oats 
 and tlax. Peas, beans and all kinds of ])roduction 
 grow rank." 
 
 Oswego is a corruption of Ochouegen (Ocli- 
 we-gen), the original name given to the locality 
 now occupied by the city of Oswego by the Iro- 
 quois Indians. At the foot of the bluffs on both 
 sides of the river the Indians pitched their lodges 
 and drew in large quantities of fish. There they 
 exchanged goods or met in treaty with the tribes 
 from the north of Lake Ontario; and later, after 
 the French had found their way up the St. Law- 
 rence river from the sea to the lake and had 
 sought the villages of the li'ocpiois, they came to 
 this point whence they could follow the river, 
 when it was found to accord better with their 
 plans not to ask for Iroquois guide. Oi'houegen, 
 pronounced in tlie Indian gutteral gave to the 
 French the term Chouyen, which was the nauie 
 they used for that locality. The English, hoiv- 
 ever, caught the entirely different pronunciation, 
 Oswego. The river itself did not V)ear that name. 
 
'GRIP'S" HIsroUICAL SOUVENIR OF I'HCENIX. 
 
 85 
 
 PH(KN1X TOILET AND PAl'KI! M ANIFACTIKINU to 
 
 Ollk-i- Biiiliiiiiu- iind Toilet I'apcr Mill. 
 
 liiit rather it was Ouonttigvie which the En<;iish 
 tinally prouounced Ouonclaga, 
 
 The Phoenix Toilet and Paper Manufac- 
 turing Company was established iu 1875 under 
 the name uf the Phcenix Paper Manufacturing 
 company which was founded by the late Judge 
 Avery and a jiartner named John Waugh, late of 
 the iJranby I'aper Mills at Fulton. They erected 
 a building on the west side of the river, the 
 structure w Inch is now one of the two buildings 
 occupied by the present company. Mr. Waugh 
 soon after i-etired. selling out his interest to ]\Ir. 
 H. D. Wood, a jiractical man in the business, who 
 together with Mr. R. S. Hott'man today jiractically 
 own all of the stock of the company. Judge 
 Avery later on sold out to George B. Davis, who 
 in turn sold to George 
 "Wells, now of the Victoria 
 Paper Mills of Fulton. 
 The latter was succeeded 
 first by George Palmer, 
 next bv W. H. Hort.nan 
 and tinally by R. S. Hotl- 
 Mian. Then followed the 
 incorporation which was 
 ett'ected in ISlC). In the 
 following year LS'.K; it was 
 decided to greatly en- 
 large the scope of the in- 
 dustry and the company 
 jiurcliased the large, 
 three-story building ou 
 the east side of the river 
 owned by the I'hcenix 
 Toilet Paper company 
 which it equii)ped exclu- 
 sively with machinery for 
 manufacturing t o i 1 !• t 
 pajjer. This building is 
 .")llxl25 feet, with ample 
 dockage on the I'anal and 
 is e(iuip]>ed with all 
 modeiTj improvements. 
 The company has its 
 
 offices hi ic. Inn, as being 
 llie licst arranged and 
 most convenient. 'I'he 
 building across the river 
 which is the phu'e where 
 the ]>aper is manufactnrecl 
 — tlie ])ai)er mill — is Kill 
 xl"J5 feet, three-stories 
 liigli, liaving been from 
 the liegmning several 
 times enlarged. Roth 
 are eiiuipped with steam 
 and water jiower ami 
 with electric lights and 
 automatic sprin k I e r s. 
 Tlie two water powers 
 owned by the com])any, 
 one on each side of the 
 river, represent an aggre- 
 gate of (ion horse ])ower. 
 U]) to the time the com- 
 l)any jiurchased the new 
 Imililiug it had manufac- 
 tured only ream tissue 
 pai)er, but now the de- 
 mand for its toilet i^'odnc- 
 tions hius swelled to su' h 
 proj)ortions that it had 
 to give u)) the first altogether; and had in addition 
 to its owTi plant secured the output t)f the Kauciuoit 
 mills. The capitalization of the company is 
 .$100,000, fully paid up. The officers are W. H. 
 Hofl'man, president; H. 1). Wood, vice president; 
 R. S. Hort'miin, seci-etarv and trensurer; Irving S. 
 Wood, bookkeejjer. The amount of the bu.siness 
 done yearly is $1.50,000; the amount of daily ju-o- 
 dviction is about l.")0 cases of toilet pajier, or 
 equivalent to about .'ii;500 a day, the mills running 
 seven days in the week and shutting down once or 
 twice a year for repairs. 
 
 The product is all sold by correspondence and 
 it goes all over the United States, Mexico, Cuba 
 and Europe and is sold ))rinci[)ally to i>aper job- 
 bers. This ranks second or third largest of the toilet 
 liaper manufacturing concerns in the counti-y. 
 
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 •GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 of his early years in this 
 county aud whose "Path- 
 tiniler" is framed with 
 acciu'ate descriptions of 
 localities.says of the spot 
 where the party took to 
 the boats: "The Oswego 
 I river) just at this place 
 was a deep, dark stream 
 of uo great width, its still 
 gloomy looking current 
 windiug its way among 
 overhanging trees, which 
 in particular sjjots, almost 
 shut out the light of 
 heavens." Ghdingdowu 
 stream they soon reach 
 the falls where through a 
 natural shute which 
 Cooper says is worn out 
 of the cliffs in mid-stream 
 the party "shoot the 
 rapids. " The rest of the 
 stoi-y is laid at the lake. 
 
 The Oswego River 
 
 E. liAliCocKS MEAT MARKET. is the outlet for the waters 
 
 hands. Its pro- of eleven lakes in New York state, which pour into 
 
 employing altogether aliout 75 
 duct is accepted by the trade as the best quality 
 of toilet paper put on the market. Jlessrs. Wood 
 and Hoti'man have demonstrated the value of 
 energy and good business management which 
 they "have introduced in this entei-prise, in push- 
 ing' it to remarkable success — the former one of 
 the most practical men in the business being in 
 charge of the mechanical end and Mr. Hoffman 
 having control of the correspondence and financial 
 part of the busmess, he being especially fitted for 
 that end of the work through his experience with 
 the Standard Oil Company before t-oming here. 
 
 "Pathfinder," the hero -frontiersman of the 
 American novehst Cooper, is first introduced to 
 the reader only two or three miles below Pluenix, 
 where ' 'Magnet" the Mable Dunning of that story. 
 while being escorted to 
 the fort at Oswego by 
 Arrowhead theTuscarora, 
 and her uncle Charles 
 Cap, first meets the title 
 character (La Longue 
 Carabine, Hawkeye,Path- 
 tinder) and his compan- 
 ion Big Serpent, the 
 Delaware. Both parties 
 with a small retinue meet 
 in a vast expanse of wil- 
 derness, brought together 
 by "signs" of each others 
 presence. The girl and 
 her companions came 
 "up" from Albany while 
 Pathfinder has followed 
 the Otsego aud Sclioharie 
 trail. Being convinced 
 that then- safety lies in 
 reaching the river they 
 join forces and, threading 
 the trackless forest, are 
 soon embarked in their 
 canoes, with Hanking 
 parties beating the woods. 
 Cooper, who spent some 
 
 its channel both from the east and the west, 
 through, respectively theOneida aud Seneca rivers, 
 giving the name Three Rivers to the locality 
 where they unite. The lakes are Canandaigua, 
 Crooked, Seneca, Cayuga, Fish, Otisco, Cross, 
 Owasco, Skaneateles, Onondaga and Oneida. The 
 river but 24 miles in length, from its junction 
 with the other two to Lake Ontario, has a total 
 fall of I'il feet, 97 feet of which is on the stretch 
 of less than 12 miles of river emptying into the 
 lake, including the Oswego Falls where the water 
 drojis 10 feet. An area of 7,000 square miles is 
 drained by this river, which has the greatest 
 width of not more than 800 feet. 
 
 Early Steamboats on Oneida lake had side 
 wheels. There were four pretty well known, the 
 
 ""^li 
 
 A SNOW TUNNEL DURING A HEAVY FALL OF SNOW THIRTY TEARS AGO. 
 
'ORIP'8" HISTORTOAL SOUVENTR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 87 
 
 Onondagii, the Oswi'go, tho Mudisou aud tho 
 ( )neida. The Madison wius ttnally taken to New 
 York where it was used nuiuy yeiirs towiiiK' in the 
 liarlior. The Oswejj;!! was the hist one tliat was 
 used, lieiuf; ehanged to tlie Manhattiin uiidei- 
 wliii-li name it was run as an excursion lioat ami 
 frcifjhter. The first excursion ixirty who chartered 
 it was a eotupany of youii^' nuui. who took their 
 party ahoard at tlie head of ()nei(hi l>end and went 
 to Three Rivers. Oeorge Hawley low livinf>: in 
 Syracuse suggested the excursion on tliis lioat of 
 tlie fanners of Centrid New Yor];. the first of 
 regular aniunil excursions they hold every year. 
 
 Three Rivers Fort. — On the east side of the 
 Oswego river near its junction with the Oneida 
 (though not generally known or scarcely men- 
 tioned in historyi there was erected in the sjiriug 
 of ]7.")l! a scpiare fort or redoubt, about 20 .square 
 yards in line of defence and provided with four 
 bastions. On the inside were three log store- 
 houses. It was one of a chain of temporary forti- 
 tications or stations which ('ol. Bradstreet threw 
 >ip in his rear at the time he engaged in the ex- 
 jiedition against the French at Niagara. Com- 
 ing from Albany he found Gen. Stanwix erecting 
 a fort at ''the Oneida can-ying place" (Rome). 
 Ijauding at Three Rivers he threw up these works 
 aud left a small guard. Reaching Oswego Falls 
 he threw up another work of the same kind, then 
 proceeded to Oswego. He had simply jirovided 
 a line of communication extenduig through a 
 country then swarming with enemies — the French 
 and Indians. 
 
 An Emigrant in Oswego, 1828.— Some ob- 
 servations from a letter dated C'onstantia, Dec. 2, 
 1S28, to the children in old Eugliiud, will be in- 
 teresting as showing what Oswego county was in 
 that day: "We can liny good land for IS shillings 
 per acre: but buying land is not one-quarter part 
 I of our troubles], for the land is as full of trees as 
 yoiu' woods are of stubs; and they are from 4 to 
 10 rods long, and from i to 5 feet through them. 
 
 * * * You may Imy beef for I'jd per pound aud 
 mutton the same; salt butter 7d, cheese 3d, tea 
 4s, (id, sugar 7d, candles 7d and soaj) 7d per 
 ]ionnd. Wheat Iniugs 4s, (id, and corn and rye 
 2s per bushel. * * • I get 2s, 4d a day and 
 mv Ijoard and have iis much meat to eat three 
 times a day as F like. * * But clothes is dear; 
 .shoes, os; half-boots His; calico from ;id to Is, 4d 
 per yard: stockings 2s, Dd; tlannel 4s per yard; 
 superfine cloth from 4s, (id to It per vard; uowall 
 this is counted in Knglish money. * * We 
 have two or three miles to carry our grist and four 
 miles to go to the store; another thing is we have 
 no l>rewhouse near so we cannot get any yeast to 
 Iwke with, so we are obliged to make risings * • we 
 sometimes have heavy bread ♦ * but with all 
 inconveniencea 1 l)less God for sending me to 
 .Vmerica. • * Let me know whether you will 
 come to America or not. * ♦ You will want 
 I £, 10s to get nil where I am, both old and j oung. 
 
 • ♦ And when you get to the quarentine ground 
 
 ♦ • the best way for you to come is to come up 
 to Alliany in a tow boat: when you get to Syra- 
 cuse call for ent«Ttainnieut at the sign of the Far- 
 mer's Accommodation ; aud there you will find us 
 out." 
 
 Phoenix was incorporated in 1848 and the first 
 election was held in Man'h of that year but the re- 
 cords have been burned and the names of the 
 oflScers cannot be given. 
 
 The Stanwix Line.— The original cessicm of 
 lands by the North American Indians to the Eng- 
 lish crown was se<;ured at a treaty at Fort Stan- 
 wix, Nov. ], ]7()S. The dividing line between the 
 white and red men's countries, the fornuT la.ving 
 to the east thereof, for years afterwards known as 
 the "Stanwix Line," was as follows: Megiuning 
 at the mouth of the Teiniessee river it followed 
 the Ohio and .\lleghany rivers to Kittaning; 
 tlience in a direct line to the nearest fork of the 
 west branch of the Suscitiehanna river; thence fol- 
 lowing that stream through tlii^ .Alleghauys. it 
 l)asied by the way of Burnett's Hills and the 
 eastern l)rancli of tiie Sus(|uehaMiiah and the Del- 
 aware, into New Y^ork, having its northern termi- 
 nus at the continence of Canada and Wood creeks, 
 Oneida county, a few miles from Kome. 
 
 The First Road and Stage Coach inC(!ntral 
 New York are thus described in documentary his- 
 tory of New Y'ork "by a gentleman to a friend": 
 "To remedy this in(V)nvenience as to roads, the 
 legislature of tlie state had, l)y an act pas.sed in 
 the session of 1797 taken the road from Fort 
 Schuyler [now Rome] to Geneva under their pat- 
 ronage" [granting a lottery ]. The inhabitants of 
 the country through which the road pas.sed sub- 
 .seribed four thou.sand days of work, "which they 
 perfornieil with tidelit.v and cheerfidness." This 
 road 118 miles long, ()4 feet wide and "paved with 
 logs aud gravel in the moist jiarts of the low 
 country through which it passed," was so far im- 
 jiroved' beginning in the month of June 1797, 
 that a stage started from Fort Schuyler on the 
 30th of Sejitember [1797] and arrived at the hotel 
 in Geneva in the afternoon of the third day with 
 four passengers. This line of road liavnug been 
 estal)lislied by law," cimtinues the writer, "not 
 less than fifty families settled on it in the space of 
 four months after it was opened." 
 
 Two or three years afterwards two coaches were 
 running weekly over this road between .\lbaiiy 
 and Geneva; and the foUowiug t iverns, at imli- 
 cated distances apart, between Fort Schu.yler and 
 Geneva wereopen: From Fort Schuyler to Laird's, 
 10 miles; Van Epps', near Oneida Reservation, ti; 
 Wemp's in Oneida Reservation, [Castle], (!; Sill's, 
 at the Deep Spring, [Chittenaugo|, 11; Keeler's, 
 Junior, 12; Tyler's, Onondaga Hollow, 10; Rice's, 
 Nine Mile Creek, 10; Cayuga Ferry, j^Cayuga 
 Bridge [, 20; Powell's Hotel, Geneva, 13. 
 
 Commerce on the Oswego river in the early 
 part of the past century was one of the main ele- 
 ments of 2U'os))erity for the frontiersmen of the 
 Oneida country as it was called. Hundreds of 
 tons of im-rchandise besides thousands of barrels 
 of salt were handled all along the rivers that unite 
 at Three River Point. Farmers' boys always 
 found emi>loyment boating, the first thing most of 
 them did upon leaving the farm, and the founda- 
 tion for more than one fortune was laid by the 
 wages paid the young man driving, poling or 
 steering. Boats ascending from Oswego usuiUly 
 reciuired two teams at Phmnix and some times 
 three teams to make head. From there to the 
 brick ywd a mile and a half above the point it wius 
 easier "pulling." Usually extra horses were kej>t 
 at these jdaces. In later years the state has spent 
 largo sums of money on the Oswego canal, the 
 substitute for the old river chanuel, and conditions 
 are much lietter now. Division superintendents 
 with their force of men keep the channel in con- 
 dition. 
 
88 
 
 ■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 Frenchman's Island Tradition. — Several ac- 
 counts agree tbat in 1792 anil afterwards there 
 lived on an island in Oneida lake, now known as 
 Frenchman's Island, a Frenchman named l)es- 
 vatines, his wife and two children, who were 
 .sqnatters. The tradition of the locality which the 
 old inhahitaut has told his children is tbat Coviut 
 St. Hilary, a refugee from the French revolution, 
 had sought to hiile himself from the terrorists. 
 They arrived on the island in the spring of 1791. 
 The ensuing whiter he passed with the Oneida 
 Indians at the east end of the lake ; having neither 
 shelter nor provisions on his island. In the s[)ring 
 of 1792 they returned hither, where in a few days 
 their child. Caniille.tht finst birth in the settlement 
 of Oswego I'oiinty of a white child, was born. He 
 that siunmer finished clearing six acres.and erected 
 a pretty cottage with a neatly kept garden enclosed 
 liy lime trees. The cottage was roofed with bark 
 and a few paces distant was an open shed used as 
 a kitchen. The garden was divided by a walk, on 
 both sides of which were Hower beds made and 
 kept by Madame Desvatines, in which were grow- 
 ing that summer sweet Williams, lady slip})ers and 
 hyacinths. The garden beyond the house con- 
 tained bu.sh and kidney beans, cabliage. turnijis. 
 peas, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers. ])ersil. 
 string peas and potatoes. Behind the garden was 
 a small apjile orchard enclosed by a tlonrisliing 
 potato patch. The interior of the cabin contained 
 a few trunks and chau-s, an oval table, two small 
 beds, a doulile barrelled gnu and several books. 
 The following year, the spring of 1793, the family 
 was compelled to leave its island home, and Des- 
 vatines bought from George Scriba, who that same 
 year founded the city of Rotterdam (Constantia), 
 l,t)Oll acres "on easy terms " on the mainland neiU' 
 that place, where tlie last accounts rejiresented the 
 Frenchman and his family as living in a cottage 
 with fullest enjoyment of life. 
 
 Pioneer Lost in 1792. — The perils braved by 
 the early pioneers of the town of ^Mexico were 
 many. Oliver Stevens, living at Fort Brewertou 
 in 1792, started one morning in the spring of that 
 year to attend a town meeting for the town of 
 Mexico which was to have been held m a house 
 on Scriba's road near the jn-esent village of ;Mex- 
 ico. Instead of taking the usual course — follow- 
 ing the beaten path by the way of the river or 
 going east to Scriba's ro.ad by the lake shore, he 
 struck boldly into the woods headed north carry- 
 ing his gun and a lunch for mid-day. .\long late 
 in the afternoon he was beset l)y wolves. They 
 were not bold liut were persistent, dri\en forth 
 by hunger after a long winter, and followed him 
 doggedly. Finally one got uncomfortably close 
 , and he shot it. .\ftcr dragging the carcass some 
 distance he built a tire and removed the pelt. 
 Here he bivouacked all night, keeiung awake with 
 great effort by walking round and round the tire 
 and suffering considerably from cold, .-^t day- 
 light he turned, as he su])posed, toward home. 
 But all of that day he wandered in the woods, 
 again a second night intending to keep vigdaut 
 watch for fear that if he slejit he would be attacked 
 by the wolves. But nature rebelled ,ind he at 
 last fell lusleep, but awoke at daylight considera- 
 bly refreshed. In a few hours, after wandering 
 aimlessly, he reached the fort at Oswego, where 
 he resteil that day and night and retiu'ued home 
 the next. The wolf pelt jji-oved his claim to the 
 bounty of $10, besides being of considerable value 
 in itself. 
 
 Block Houses in Oswego County. — In May, 
 17")9, Gen. Amherst at Albany designed thi'ee mil- 
 itary posts on Oneida lake and Col. James Mont- 
 resor, C'hief Engineer in America, was ordered to 
 make plans for them. At the same time there wjis 
 made the drawing for a post at Oswego for 101)11 
 men. The Oneida lake ])osts were to lie located, 
 one at the north-east end for 50 men. ime at the 
 west end for l.")0 men and one at Oswego Falls for 
 100 men. There were to be intrenchmeuts en- 
 closing a block house and surrounded l)y a ditch. 
 A swival gun was to be mounted at each angle oi 
 the fort. Clajit. John Mimtresor, son of Col. 
 James Montresor, spoke of being at these jiosts 
 in April, 17li4, when he accompanied Col. John 
 Bradstreet on his exiiedition to Oswego and up 
 the lake to Niagara where Cajit. ^lontresor also 
 planned and executed military works He I'eached 
 the "Royal Block House," on the ea.st end of 
 Oneida lake on April 27, ]7()4. having ridden his 
 horse from F<n-t Schuyler. He stopped over night 
 at Fort Stanwix on the 2i>th and delivered dis- 
 patches to Col. CamplieU. At 9 o'clock the next 
 morning he set off on his horse reaching the hike 
 at 2 M) p. m. There he was detained until the 
 :!Oth waiting for boats to return from Fort Brew- 
 erton, when he proceeded "in a batteau," experi- 
 encing in the passage down the lake squally 
 weather and rain, which "drove us on shore in a 
 flurry" arriving at Fort Brewerton in the night. 
 On May 1st he arrived "by water at the Onon- 
 daga Fall [Oswego Fall]. Hea\-y rains, very high 
 w.aters and the banks overflowed and much land 
 drowned." He proceeded by water and in "one 
 and one-half hours arrived at Ontario." 
 
 Original Oneida Reservation. — That nation 
 si'cured to itself by treaty with the state of New 
 York at Fort Schuyler Sept. 22, 1788 in perpetuity 
 the tract of land including a large jiai-t of the pre- 
 sent counties of Madison and Oneida and a strij) 
 along the eastern line of Onondaga county. This 
 treaty followed that made with the Onondagas in 
 about ten days, the same commissioners serving 
 in lioth cases. The Oneidas received "cash down" 
 .'8;2,O00 in money, $2,000 in clothing and other 
 goods, $1,000 in provisions and .S'jOO to be used 
 in building a grist and saw mill at their village. 
 The Oneidas were also to receive .•JlilM) in cash or 
 goods annually. The northern half of then- re- 
 servation the Oneidas were prohibited fi-oni leas- 
 ing or .selling; Ijut the other (southern) portion — 
 a strip four milts wide — could be Iciused in part or 
 the whole not lo exceed twenty-one years. The 
 state further reserved to the Indians and others to 
 laud and encamp upon, viz: "One-halt mile square 
 at the distance of every six miles of the lands 
 along the nothern banks of the Oneida lake; one- 
 half mile in breadth of the lands on each side of 
 Fish creek; and a convenient piece of land at the 
 fishing place in the Onondaga river about three 
 miles from where it is^,ues out of Oneida lake." 
 
 Oswego Geography in 1818. —During the 
 war of 1812 the war department at Washington is- 
 sued an order which caused a good deal of merri- 
 ment in Oswego and Onondaga counties, .says the 
 historibU, Clark. Commodore Chauncey, com- 
 mander (in the lakes, was directed "to proceed 
 forthwith with an armed vessel via the Oswego 
 river to Onondaga Hollow to remove a quantity 
 of ammunition from that [ilace to O.swego." An 
 ofHcial ordering "an armed vessel" 4 or 5 miles 
 inland was evidently at fault in its geography. 
 
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 89 
 
 HISTORIC PHOENIX 
 
 An Indian Village, 1653 
 
 Careful resoixrches ninoug the historiciil docu- 
 ments of the state and reference to the writings 
 of the Jesuit ^lissioniiries [See page 5] who came 
 to the country of the Ouondagas as early as 1642, 
 and aftor that continued to come nud go from year 
 to year during the bidance of that century, prove 
 that the site of the present village of Phoenix was 
 one of three chosen fishing grounds in Oswego 
 county upon which stood Indian villages, more 
 than a half century prior to the first settlement of 
 whites. The other two localities were the mouth 
 of the Salmon river and the outlet of Oneida 
 river on the shore of that lake. The Indians, as 
 has been shown in fact, located theu- villages all 
 along the Oneida river, very plain evidences of 
 one of their favorite spots being at Candee Hill 
 (described on page 82). 
 
 So clear are the historians with respect to the 
 Indian fishing village at Phienix that they give its 
 name, which wa.s QUI-E-HOOK-GAH, meaning 
 sui)plied with fish. The historian Beaucbamp 
 says it was located here as eiu-ly as lfi,')4. Father 
 LeMoyne, the Jesuit [see in his account top of 
 first column, 6 page] found a fishing village here 
 a vear earher, when he stopped here two davs, 
 Aug. 17 and 18, 1653. 
 
 Place of the Tall Pines 
 
 In fact this locality was regarded by the Indians 
 as the most favored of any on the river. On ac- 
 count of the liu'ge grove of tall pines which cover- 
 ed the east shore they gave to the spot the name 
 KAH-NE-WO-XAH, "place of the taU pines." 
 
 Captain Barnes in his "Recollections" on page 
 20 speaks of the fact that the first settlers had to 
 clear a considerable tract now occupied by nearly 
 all of the village of Phoenix, of almost entu-ely 
 pines. He clearly remembers the large jjine 
 stumps scattered about the little frontier settle- 
 ment at the time he came here, as late as 1835. 
 Yet, like an island surrounded by sea, this slope 
 of pines which the Indians found so attractive, 
 was completely envii-oned by dense woods of 
 Vieech, maple and hemlock. Oswego county is 
 spoken of by many of the earhest French visitors 
 — or the teiTitory now comprising that county — 
 as a land of large and thick forests. 
 
 Junction of Indian Trails 
 The foot of Three Kiver Rift, the name which 
 was applied here by the Jesuits, was then, before 
 the river had been dammed up or had changed in 
 its topogi-aphy, attractive for the natives not 
 alone Viecause of its great fishing but for the rea- 
 son that it was at the junction of three extensive 
 Indian trails, res])ectively as follows: Following 
 the river north to Ochougen and south to the 
 Onondaga's council fire, was the main traD over 
 which the war parties for years engaged with the 
 French travelled; toward the east was that which 
 led to the Oneidas' villages at the east eml aud 
 south of Oneida like, striking favored fishing 
 spots on the diflerent bends of the Oneida river 
 and at the outlet of the lake where it crossed a 
 trail running from Salmon river to the Onond gas 
 
 and continuing east in two liranches skirting re- 
 spectively the north and south shores of that lake. 
 The thu'd trail, sejjarated from that leading to 
 Ochougen after fording the little stream nortli of 
 the village ot Phmuix and turning to the north- 
 east struck into the town of Mexico where it 
 crossed the Little Salmon river above the present 
 village of Mexico, then bent a trifle south in a 
 long curve to the north-east, crossing Grindstone 
 creek at the foot of the lower pond where it turn- 
 ed directly north terminating at the north of 
 Salmon river. This was the trail which the 
 Chevalier Chami)lain with a few hiU'dy French- 
 men and a train of savage Hurons followed in 
 1616 [See page 7()]. 
 
 Butler and Brant Camped Here 
 
 Few places north of the Oneida river arc as rich 
 in Indian and Colonial history as is the lieautiful 
 slope upon which stands the villiige of Phcenix. 
 In several places in this work are described the 
 various camping jjarties at this ])lace. But in a 
 later period, not previously mentioned here, was 
 that of the liloodthirsty Tories and Indians under 
 the Mohawk Brant and the notorious Butler when 
 they led a large pia'ty of English Hessians under 
 the ct)mmand of Sir John Johnson on a raid 
 through the Schoharie and Mohawk valleys. It 
 was in the last of Septemlier, 178(1, that having 
 anived at Oswego they disembarked from vessels 
 which brought them from Niagara. After a day's 
 rest they began the ascent of the river, starting at 
 midnight and reaching their first camjuug place 
 at the foot of Three River Rift before dark. Here 
 they left the river the next morning, striking 
 camp before dayhght and following the trail over 
 to the liig Oneida bend, theuce to the lake which 
 they crossed to the mouth of Chittenango creek. 
 Retm-ning, they ambushed a pursuing party near 
 Oneida lake which they crossed pursuing the same 
 coui'se to Oswego they had taken in coming. 
 Sir William Johnson Was Here 
 
 Prior to the revolution this «as the camping 
 l)lace of the renowned Sir William Johnson who 
 mentions camping here on July 18, 1761, and 
 reaching Oswego the next day to hold a "lug 
 talk" with all of the Indian tribes in America who 
 could l)e induced to send representatives. 
 
 On the night of July 7, the preceding year, 
 1761), the largest colonial militia mustered in the 
 American colonies after the French and Indian 
 war, boiled tht-ii' pots over tires among the jjines 
 at this place. They consisted of men from Massa- 
 chusetts, Rhode Island, New Hanqishire, Con- 
 necticut, New Jer.-ey and New York, under the 
 command of Col. WoodhuO, who was liound for 
 Oswego. They followed the sinuous course of the 
 streams from Fort Brewerton going into camp 
 here on the evenmg of the same day. 
 
 Baptists in Oswego County. — In 1836 there 
 were fourteen churches, eleven clergymcQ and 
 1339 communicants in the Baptist association of 
 Oswego coimty, viz: Colosse, C. Marshall, pastor, 
 161 members: Hannib.al, P. Woodin, 257; Hast- 
 ings, S. 1). Dean. GS; Mexico, W. Frary, 109; 
 
 New Haven, \V. iVary, 72; Orwell, , -13; 
 
 Oswego, J. Waterman, J. llalliubeck, C. W. Den- 
 nisou, 237; Palermo, A. Keith. 38; PhceuixviUe, 
 N. Camp, 52: Pulaski, C. B. Tavlor. 89; Parish. 
 D. Martin, 30, Richland, E. Burdick, 84; Sandy 
 Creek 62;yohiey, , 39. 
 
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 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF PHCENIX. 
 
 ANCIENT CITIES IN OSWEGO COUNTY 
 
 Acconling to several autliorities all of the coun- 
 try now comprised in Oswego county was, long 
 before Columbus discovered America, occupied 
 by a large colonization of Finns, Danes and 
 Welshmen, who in the eighth and nmth centuries 
 gradually moved south from Iceland, Greenland 
 and Laborador to the St. Lawrence, and crossing 
 that river spread themselves out along the south 
 .shores of Lakes Ontario and Erie. 
 
 Antipodal Races Met Here 
 
 Dr. Mitchell (Archie. Amer.) calls the country 
 of the Ontario, that region especially described by 
 him at the east end of the lake and a few miles 
 to the west on its southern slopes, as the Anti- 
 podal Regions of the eighth and ninth centuries, 
 where the Scandinavians crossing from Europe to 
 north-eastern America and migrating southwest, 
 and the tierce Tartars crossing from Asia to north- 
 western America and migrating to the south- 
 east met in bloody conflict which resulted in the 
 extinction of the Scandanavians. Seven centuries 
 later, the French sent their Jesuits do^vn into this 
 country and found the American Indian, who had 
 descended from a race of Malays, which they in a 
 sense resemble, who occupying caves in Ohio and 
 Kentucky, were finally destroyed by the Tartars, 
 who then moved into the south-west. 
 
 Found in Several Tovpns 
 While the original occupants of the Ontario lake 
 region had become extinct, plainly discerned 
 traces of their presence were apparent as late as 
 1820 and 1830. Remains of what are considered 
 as traces of hu-ge cities and fortifications were, be- 
 fore the agriculturist Ijegan to plow the soil, found 
 m the towns of Sandy Creek, Richland, Mexico 
 New Haven, Volney, Granby, Hannibal and 
 Oswego. 
 
 One Work Covers Fifty Acres 
 
 "Eastward these fortificatians have been traced 
 18 miles east of Manlius Square," says Antiquities 
 of New York, 182i, "* * * and' north as far 
 as Sandy Creek, 14 miles from Saekets Harbor 
 near which is one that covers 50 acres and con- 
 teuis unusually large fragments of strange pottery. 
 There is one in the town of Onondaga (Pompey) ; 
 one in Scipio; two near Auburn." 
 
 That Near Phoenix 
 
 The tracings of earthworks in the town of 
 Granby, four miles from Phoenix, [described on 
 page 35] is undoubtedly one of this vast system of 
 works for defen.se ascribed to the 9th century. 
 But these are not to be confounded with other 
 tracings such as the old fort at Fulton which were 
 the works of the English war parties in the 18th 
 century. Large trees covering the .sites of the 
 former a century ago distinguished them from 
 what were then forts of comparatively recent 
 origin. 
 
 Defences at Cross Lake 
 
 "The remnant of ancient defences on the east 
 bank of the Seneca river (i mile.s south of Cross 
 lake," says Antq. of N. Y., 1824, "and 40 mOes 
 south of the fort at Oswego was discovered as 
 eai-ly as 1791. * * The i)rincii)al fort was des- 
 cribed to be 220 yards in length and 55 yards in 
 breadth. The banks and corresjionthng ditches 
 were remarkably entu'e, as were two aperatiu'es 
 ojiposite each other in the middle of the paraUel- 
 
 logram, one opening to the water and the other 
 facing the forest. About a half a mile south of 
 the gi-eater fort was a large half-moon. The 
 banks and ditches of both were covered with 
 trees that exhibited extremity of age." 
 Pre-Historic Ruins 
 
 In 1 802, when a fringe of settlements lav along 
 Oneida lake and river while in the eastf rn'part of 
 the county there was only the small hamlet of 
 Redfield— west of which to LakeOntario there was 
 not a house— the interior of the county, an un- 
 beaten wilderness, was penetrated bv a missionary 
 from the state of Massachusetts, the Rev. John 
 Taylor, a gi-aduate of Yale who entered this sec- 
 tion from Redfield— comhig in via Rome and 
 Camden— where he was entertained by one named 
 Johnson who, he says, "married a Pomroy." 
 From that place he pushed west on horseljack and 
 crossed "a wildernessof 24 miles without a house," 
 traveling over a road which he says was "cut out 
 this summer— and is a tedious, hihy, rooty, muddy, 
 stumpy, solitary road," to Lake Ontario where 
 he stopped with a Mr. Hockley on the north 
 branch of Sandy Creek four and one-half miles 
 from LakeOntario and there made his observations. 
 Evidences of Great Cities 
 
 "This is as fine a tract of country," he write:*, 
 "as I think I ever saw. It is heavy timbered; but 
 the land is as rich as land can be. This town, 
 and undoubtedly all of this country, has been, in 
 some ancient period, thickly inhabited. In many 
 places there are evident marks of houses having 
 stood as thick as to join each other. The remains 
 of old firejjlaces built of stones — wells evidently 
 dug and stoned to a considerable depth; and the 
 remains of old forts and entrenchments — are all 
 evidences of this fact." 
 
 Work of Iron and Powder 
 
 Speculating farther on the remarkable number 
 of old forts and entrenchments which he found 
 close to the two branches of the Sandy Creek- 
 seven altogether— some of which were constructed 
 in solid rock, he became lost in wonderment. 
 Such works, he declares, could be constructed 
 only with u-on tools and in some cases only with 
 a powerful explosive. He found trees of great di- 
 mensions (of equal size with others surrounding 
 them) growing out of the toixs of these forts— in 
 .some cases large trees were found laying in the 
 trenches to the forts nearly decayed showing they 
 had lain there a considerable time anterior to the 
 1 )eginning of American history. Pipes and earthen 
 ware of a peculiar form, and curious coins 
 "which," he writes, "cannot be read by the 
 ignorant jieasants and which I am fearful will be 
 lost," were jjloughed up in this .section ; a two- 
 edged sword was also unearthed near the south 
 branch of Sandy Creek, three and one-half miles 
 from the lake. Pieces of broken brick, he was 
 informed, were found "in all the lands" that were 
 ploughed. As an "ewdence of this country hav- 
 ing been formerly settled lieyond what hiis lieen 
 mentioned," he speaks of proituctions "left by an 
 improved people," as currants, black and red, 
 angelica, plantain, Enghsh pursely [parsely], high 
 balms and pe]>periniiit. 
 
 Was This of Nazareth 
 
 "By whom were these works wrought," he con- 
 tinues. "Not by the natives, .surely; because in 
 various ])arts of this county iron implements are 
 <lug and ploughed up. And if the natives ever 
 had the art of working iron, it is not probable 
 they would lose an art so useful. Further, noth- 
 ing Qver appeared in the natives which indicated 
 
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 91 
 
 so much improvement in the art of self defence, 
 as to build forts so regular as those are found to 
 be. Again, the fort near (Sandy Ci-eek wliicli is 
 cut in the rook, must liuve been a work too stuijen- 
 dous for uutaufj;ht siiviif,'os to etlect; and it is 
 dinil)tful if it could be done without the use of 
 powder. And there is a ditliculty attending this 
 fort — on condition, oi- suppose it to have been done 
 by any Euro])ean nation |as a defence against tlio 
 light arms of savages], they would not have un- 
 dertuken a work so arduous, when .so little benefit 
 could have been deriv<>d from it, in proportion to 
 the work. * * What has become of this jjeopleV 
 .\nd why have wo no history of siu-h a nation as 
 must have inhabited this part of the world? Were 
 these the works of the iinte-diluviaus — or is this 
 the laud of Xazaretli, to which Esdras says the 
 ten tribes traveled, and were an hundred and 
 twenty days on their journey? Or is it the Vine- 
 laud of the emigrant Swedes, who returned to 
 their native country l)ut once? Or are they ye 
 works of Spaniards in searching for gold? Or was 
 this land inhabited by the emigrant Mexican after 
 the Spanish conquest? That these works were 
 not done by French or English is beyond a doubt 
 from various i-easons too numerous to mention." 
 
 Original Names in Oswego County. — 
 
 Caugh-de-uoy, viUsige — [Iroquois], Eel laying 
 down; vast numbers of fish are said to have been 
 caught here by the Indians who had a village at 
 this place. 
 
 Brewerton (Oneida outlet) — Oh-.sa-hau-ny-tsih 
 [Onon.], Here the waters nin from the lake. .Se- 
 ugh-kah [Oneida], Lake pours out. 
 
 Deer Creek — Gah-teh-nah [Iroq.], Small stream 
 in the rushes ; it tiows through marshes. 
 
 Orindstone Creek — He-haw-ha-kee [Iroq.], 
 Where there are nuts. 
 
 Little Salmon River — Kah-na-ta [Onon.], Place 
 to find bark. Che-go-hage [Oneida], Large bark 
 ready to be picked up. 
 
 Lake near Fulton — Ne-at-a-want-ha [L-oq. ], 
 Lake hiding from the river. Fish lake [Early 
 Settlers]. 
 
 Mexico Bay — Teh-no-ha-hah [Iroq.], Wide 
 waters in the land. 
 
 New Haven Creek — Kah-dah-ko-gah [Iroq. ], 
 Plac« of low wet ground. 
 
 Oneida Lake — Sa-ugh-ka [Onon.], Strijied 
 waters (from the Manlius and Pompey hills 
 when the sun is right the surface of the take ap- 
 pears striped blue and white). Lac Techtroguen 
 des Onneiouts [Fr. Jes. ] On-ha-do-ho-go [Oneida]. 
 Teshiroque [Mohawk and Dutch]. 
 
 Oswego (the port) — Osh-wa-kee [Iroq.], See 
 everywhere see nothing. Ochougen [Fr. Jes. J. 
 
 Oswego Falls — Kah-heh-.sa-hegh [li-oq.]. Place 
 of the falls. 
 
 Oswego River — Swa-geh [Iroq.], Flowing 
 out of two rivers. Riviere de la Onnontogues 
 [Fr. Jes ], River of the Onondagas, leading to 
 that nation. 
 
 Oswego Falls Indian Village — Kjig-ne-wag-roge 
 [Iroq.]. 
 
 Peter Scotts SwamiJ — Ka-nugh-wa-ka [Onon. J, 
 Where rabbits mn. 
 
 Ontai-io Lake — En-tou-no-ho-rons [Huron], 
 Big water of the Hiu'ons. Ska-nau-da-reh [Irocj. ], 
 Beautiful lake. Lac Ontario on des Iroquois 
 [Fr. Jes. ], Lake of the Ontario over of (on to) 
 which are the Ii-oquois. Lac St. Francis [Cham- 
 jilains map, 1632.] Catlaraqui [Mohawks and 
 eai-ly English]. 
 
 Phoeni.x — Kah-ne-wo-nah [Iroq.], Place of the 
 Tall Pines. 
 
 Phcenix, Indian Fishing Village — Qui-o-Hook- 
 Gah I Ii-oq. I, Sup]>ly with ti.sh. 
 
 Salmon River — Heh-hah-wa-gah | Onon. ], Where 
 swim the sweet (delicious) lish. Ka-hi-agh-haghe 
 lOneidas], Plenty to eat of fishes. La Famine 
 [Fr. Jes. I, Where (xov. Barre's troops famished. 
 
 Sandy Creek — He-kah-na-go-gah [Iroq. |, Where 
 there is much sand. Riviere de la Blanche [Fr. 
 Jes.]. 
 
 Scribas Creek — Gah-teh-nah [Iroq. |, Falling 
 creek. Hegh-ka^nagh-hagh [Oneida], Creek danc- 
 ing in the sun. Bruce creek [Early Settlers]. 
 
 Three River Point — Te-u-nug-hu-ka [Iroq.], 
 Where all of the rivers meet. 
 
 Towns of Oswego County. — Date of their 
 erection and towns from whence they were taken; 
 tracing each back successively to the original 
 territory : 
 
 Amboy, March 25, 1830; from Williamstown; 
 which was taken from Mexico. 
 
 Albion, March 21, 182.5; from Richland; from 
 Williamstown; from ^lexico. 
 
 Constantia [Rotterdam], April 8, 1808; from 
 Mexico; from Steuben Patent. 
 
 Boylston, Feb. 7, 1828; Orwell; Richland; Wil- 
 liamstown; Mexico. 
 
 Granby, April 20, 1818; Hannibal; Lysander, 
 Onondaga Co. ; Mexico; MUitary tract. 
 
 Hastings, April 20, 1825; Constantia; Mexico. 
 
 Hannibal, Feb. 28, 1806; Lysander; Mexico; 
 Military tract. 
 
 Mexico, April 10, 1792 — re-organized Feb. 25, 
 1796;"^Tiitestown, Herkimer Co. 
 
 New Haven, April 2, 1813; Mexico. 
 
 OrweU, Feb. 28, 1817; Richland; Williamstown; 
 Blexico. 
 
 Oswego, April 20, 1818; Hannibal; Lysander; 
 
 Mexico; Military tract. 
 
 Palermo, AjirU -1, 18;ii2; Volney; Mexico. 
 
 Parish, JIarch 20, 1828; Mexico. 
 
 Redfleld, March 14, 1800; Mexico. 
 
 Richland, Feb. 20, 1807; WrUiam-stown; Mexico. 
 
 Scriba, April 5, 1811; Fredericksbm-g [see Vol- 
 ney]; Mexico. 
 
 Sandy Creek, March 24, 1825; Richland; Wil- 
 liamstown ; Mexico. 
 
 Schroeppel, AprU 4, 1832; Volney; Mexico. 
 
 Volney, Ajml 5, 1811; erected first lus the town 
 of Fredericksburg, March 21, 180(5; from Mexico. 
 
 Williamstown, March 24, 1804; Mexico. 
 
 West Monroe, March 21, 1839; Constantia; 
 Mexico. 
 
 The First American Flag was accepted by 
 congress and adopted I)y resolution by that body 
 June 14, 1777. It was made by Betsey Ross in 
 1776 at No. 239 Arch street, Philadelphia, where 
 she was visited by Robert Morris and George 
 Ross, a committee of congi-ess appointed to see 
 the colors when they were completed that they 
 might report upon the design. They were accom- 
 panied by (Jeorge Washington who had just been 
 made comuiiinder-in-chief of the American army. 
 
 The Phoenix Rural Cemetery Association 
 was incori)orated April 27, 1863, with the follow- 
 ing officerer—M. S. Cushman, president; D. 1). 
 McKoon, secretary; OUver IJreed, Charles W. 
 Candee, William Leshe, G. (J. Breed, Edmund 
 Merry, Ama-sa P. Hart, Davis Conger, Gouvemenr 
 M. Sweet, Samuel Avery and William Hart, 
 trustees. 
 
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 •GKIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP PH(ENIX. 
 
 Block Houses near Phoenix were erected in 
 1759, from jilans drawn by Col. James Montressor, 
 "Chief Engineer of America, " as he signed him- 
 self, in May of that year. They were located, one 
 at the nortiieiist end^of Oneida lake, for a gaiTison 
 of 50 men [Wood creek], one at Brewerton for 150 
 men and the third at Oswego Fixlls for 100 men. 
 There were intrenchments enclosing a block 
 
 house surrounded by a ditch. A swival gun was 
 mounted at each angle of the redoubts. Caj^t. 
 John Montressor, son of the designer of these 
 works, visited them with Bradstreet's exiiedition 
 in Api'il, 1764. 
 
 The First Tax Payers on the Oswego river 
 at or near Phoenix, as shown by the records of 
 1798, were Stephen Lush and Daniel Phcenix. 
 
 OfScial and Profeasional 
 
 Towss — Supervisor, F L 
 Sraiih, Phcsni.v; Clerk, C D 
 Ash, Phoenix; Justices, C J 
 Fuller and R D Latham of 
 Phcenix, W H Merriam or 
 Pennellvillcand WEConrad 
 of Gilberts Mills. 
 
 Village— President. O M 
 Reilly; Clerk, S J Moyer; 
 Trustees, John O Brien, EA 
 Tabor, W H Warner, John 
 Wing:. 
 
 Chief of Police — G F 
 Henderson. 
 
 Postmaster — Arthur P 
 Merriam; Ass't, Miss Pen- 
 dergast. 
 
 School— Pi-esident, H S 
 Van Wormer; Secretary, F 
 M Pierce; Treasurer, E G 
 Hutchinson; Trustees, A W 
 Hawks, OMReilly.HD.Merri- 
 am.EATabor, W H Murphy. 
 
 Faculty — Princijial, J 
 Schuyler Fox: Preceptress, 
 Kuth' L Ward; Assistants, 
 Gertrude M Walker, Vera H 
 Beaman; Drawing:, Adelaine 
 E Launt; Training Class, 
 Mary Du^an; tiradeB, Minnie 
 Jones, Alice C Kitts. E May 
 Gregg. Isabella W Williams, 
 EvaMKimball, GraceAHub- 
 bard, Cerelle K Smith. 
 
 FiRB— President, EATabor 
 Secretary, F E Hooker; 
 Treasurer, H S Van Wormer; 
 Chief Eng.. Wm Spaulding; 
 
 PHCENIX D 
 
 Ass'ts, ESPatchin, C C Kins- 
 low; Foreman, D C Reming- 
 ton. 
 
 Board of Trade— Presi- 
 dent, Arthur P Merriam; 
 Secretary, A C Parker; Di- 
 rectors, FW Hakes, HDMer- 
 riam, A E Russ. 
 
 Phcenix Bank— Pres.. J A 
 Hawks; Cashier, AWHawks; 
 Ass't Cashier. E G Hutchin- 
 son; Directors. C E Hutchin- 
 son. J C Hutchinson. 
 
 Phcenix Kkgister— J M 
 Williams, Editor & Prop. 
 
 Phcenix Ppblishing Co., 
 publi.shers of The Press; 
 MCMurgittroyd, Pres., Geo. 
 Hoyt, Editor. 
 
 Phceni.x Eleciric Light 
 & WaterCo.,— JIVanDoren 
 
 Clergy- Baptist, RevRM 
 Cloud; Methodist, Rev H S 
 SouthaUCongregationalRev 
 TWHarris; Catholic, Rev P 
 HBeacham. 
 
 Physicians- JEHamill, E 
 J Drury, R A Wilcox, D F 
 Young. 
 
 Lawyf.ks — O M Reilly, 
 Francis David, A D Merry, 
 Ira Betts. 
 
 Optician— C J Fuller. 
 
 Dentist— CWRichards. 
 
 In-urance— H A Dygert, 
 H W Vischer. 
 
 Pension Chim Agents— 
 John O'Brien, WHJennings. 
 
 Hotels — Windsor, H D 
 Fox; Kirk,MDingman; How- 
 
 IRECTORY. 
 
 ard. M Carev: Tivola, Jas. 
 Otts. 
 RR Bus— R D M Decker. 
 
 Slanufacturing 
 
 and Mercantile 
 
 BAKERY' — E J Denton. 
 
 Barbers— FLPotter.Mark 
 Miller. 
 
 Bekhy- Crate Fasteners 
 and Hinges, M CRyau. 
 
 Bicycle Repairing — Wil- 
 liam Turner 
 
 Blacksmiths— D C Rem- 
 ington, John Becker. 
 
 Boots and Shoes— W H 
 Jennings. 
 
 BuiLUEKS— H S Van Wor- 
 mer, W H Warner. 
 
 CHEESEMfg.— APMerriara 
 
 Cigar — AC|Moyer. Frank 
 Spaulding. 
 
 Clcjthieks— H DM rriam, 
 Moses Rambar. 
 
 Coal— A C Parker. 
 
 Coal ano Lumber— J H 
 LoomisiSon. William Blake. 
 
 Desk & Knife Co.— E A 
 Tabor. O M Sherman. 
 
 Drugs-R S Kellar, H A 
 
 Dygert. 
 Dr* " 
 
 Y Goods— J C Hutchin- 
 son & Co., FACartter,Vick- 
 ery & Spencer, M Katz. 
 
 Flour \- Feed— A C Par- 
 ker, Pierce cIl- Pendergast 
 
 FouNDav — Phcenix, John 
 O'Brien; Arthur Otts. 
 
 Fukniturk & Und.— F W 
 Hakes, H S Withers. 
 
 Groceries- A E Russ, CD 
 Ash, J C Hutchinson &- Co. 
 
 Hardw.^re— K A Hughes. 
 Murphy Bros., E EBurleigh'! 
 
 Hardware Specialties— 
 Geo A Colton & Son. 
 
 Harne-s— Wm Stewart, F 
 W Alvord. 
 
 Jewelers-C J Fuller, OE 
 Ward. 
 
 Machinery— E B Bakery. 
 
 Meat Market— C £ Bab- 
 cock, George Wood. 
 
 Monumknts— K Y Allen. 
 
 PapekMills— OswegoRiv- 
 er, MCMurgittroyd; Phcenix 
 Toilet i- Paper M"fg. CO.. R S 
 
 Hotfman. H D W 1; Sweet 
 
 Brus.T C A: K N Sweet; Phce- 
 nixTissue Paper Mills, Smith 
 Murgittrovd; Pluenix Tissue 
 Mills, L J Carrier, 
 
 PHcENix-HofWaterHeat- 
 ing Co. Smith Murgittroyd; 
 -Sliding Blind Co.— Yeast 
 & Spirits Co. Fred A Bosse; 
 Hunter L Betts. 
 
 Planing Mill— J HLoom- 
 is lie Son. 
 
 Plumber— R D Latham. 
 
 Poolroom— D Donaldson 
 
 Printing — S J Moyer. 
 
 Shoe Repairer — Fred 
 Veal. 
 
 Silk Mills— Duffy Bros. 
 & A f Xellis. 
 
 Tin Shop— R D Latham, 
 Fred Ketcham. 
 
 Variety Store — Amice 
 Archambo. 
 
 INDEX TO 
 
 Avery, DrSamuel ^i 
 
 Avery,CW 6.5 
 
 AverysCabinet shoii 2.5 
 
 Alpha Theta 77 
 
 Allen, RY 53 
 
 Ancient Cities, Os Co aO 
 
 Board of Trade i, 75 
 
 Baptist church 16 
 
 Baptists in Oswego Co 89 
 Barnes Recollections 30 
 
 Breed, Oliver 2i 
 
 Battle Mann's farm 8 
 
 Bank,Phcenix68-Rob'ry 58 
 Betts,lra 58 
 
 Baker,EB&LC 71 
 
 BurkcsSW 13 
 
 BusMenPhcenix 1862,4.3; sk 43 
 Bridge 5— construction 'M — 
 
 —old 4; sk 44 
 
 Bridges, County 43 
 
 Base Ball Team 27; sk 51 
 Baldwins Island 13 
 
 Beccham. KevPH 32 
 
 Bishops Res & farm 67 
 
 Balioock Market 86 
 
 Block Houses 88 
 
 County officers. First 31 
 
 Candee, C W 34— Reminis- 
 cences 35 
 Catholic church 33 
 
 Countv Seat Question 11 
 Clerks". Countv 33 
 
 Child. First born 49 
 
 Cloud.RevRM 16 
 
 Champlain's Expedition 76 
 Congregational church 55 
 Deckers Res, J L 71 
 
 Driving Dist 73 
 
 Distances Oswego canal 43 
 Dam, construction, 25 
 
 —Supplies power 48 
 
 Epworth League 36— Jun- 
 
 [lor 50; sk 79 
 Eastern Star 57 
 
 Earthworks, Historic 35 
 Emigrants, Oswego 87 
 
 Flynn, Samuel 23 
 
 Firemen 30 
 
 Flag, 1st in Phcenix 1" 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL 
 
 Flag, 1st Amei'ican 
 
 Forresters 41; 
 
 Fuller,CJ 
 
 Football Team 
 
 Fox,HD 
 
 Fort S.Oswego 
 
 Fire of 1872, 34-of 1894 
 
 Frontenac Expedition 
 
 French Claim Territory 
 
 Fugitive, Capture of 
 
 First Lords of Soil 
 
 Fu'St Road & Coach 
 
 FTenehmans Island Tra- 
 
 [dition 88 
 GAR 
 Good Templars 
 
 SOUVENIR OF 
 
 91 Odd Fellows 8 
 
 sk42 ()swego&All>anyl8thCent .58 
 
 70 Oswegii&llneida R,1757 
 
 .52 Oneidas Keserv 
 
 Oswego River, size, 
 
 —commerce 
 
 Oswegc), how named 
 
 Oswego RiverPaperMilli 
 
 Oswego Canal \: Lock 
 
 Oswego Geography 1812 
 
 Phcenix, Descrip 1— Incorp 
 
 87-Trotting 25-Purchase 
 
 36 -Press .53— History 4 — 
 
 —Register ; 
 
 45 Plaisted, Lyman 
 
 33 Pendergast, Stephen 
 
 37 
 32 
 75 
 56 
 17 
 82 
 
 PHCENIX. 
 
 Sweet, G M 40 — Reminis- 
 cences 13 
 Sunshine Society 39 
 
 Sweet, Jeduthen 38 
 
 Street views 3, 7, 10, 11, 14, 
 
 [15, 18, 19, 62. 83 
 Settlers, Old 12, 27, 35 — 
 
 — Earliest 
 SouthalRevHS 
 Ship canal 
 
 Steamboats. Oneida Lake 
 Snow Tunnel 
 Slate officers. Salary 
 Three Rivers 45— Fort 
 in 1790 
 
 17 
 
 32 
 86 
 86 
 81 
 87 
 .82 
 
 Grist Mdl,'lst in Phcenix 38 Postoffice 
 Gilberts Mills 22 Pioneer Roads, 1700 
 
 Governors NY 46— Colon'l 48 Phottigrapher, veteran 
 
 Grange 
 Gilbert, Joseph 
 Hart, A P 
 Hakes,FW 
 Hamill.AP 
 High School Athletes 
 Henderson, GD 
 Hawks Res,AW 
 Hutchinson Res, EG 
 Historic Phoenix 
 Hughes.NA 
 Island Tradition 
 Indian Villages 
 Jesuits,Path of 
 Jennings,WH 
 Kings Daughters 
 
 43 Photography 
 
 66 Pioneers Oswego 
 26 Phcenix T & P Co 
 
 67 Pathfinder 
 66 Pioneer Lost 
 
 51 Revolutionary Relics 
 
 52 Railroa'ls. Countv 
 69 Rlcliardson,.IB 
 
 69 Richar.ls.DrCW 
 89 Russ,HIi\-AEi:HC 
 
 53 Heilly.OM 
 
 8 River opposite Phoenix 
 83 Rum traffic, Oswego 
 
 5 Roosevelt Piirchase 
 72 Ruins, Pre-Historic 
 76 Rural Cemetery 
 
 L'Hommedieus Purchase 39 Sparrow. WE 
 
 Ladies Aid Baptist ch 
 Latham, RD 
 Legislature 
 Lamson Coach 
 Military Tract 
 Masons 57; 
 
 Maccabees 
 MECburch 
 
 Merriam, A&AP&AW 
 Merriam, HD 
 Newspapers, Phoenix 
 Names, Original Os Co 
 
 Oswego Falls Res 16— Fort 63 Smith, FL 
 
 33 Silk Mill 
 
 .54 Schroeppel Settlement, 
 47 —Org 13— Homestead 
 65 Store. 1st Phcenix 
 15 School 80— Faculty 81 — 
 sk 69 Board 81-diagram 82— 
 56 — 1st Schrceppei .51 
 
 17 Scriba. Purchase 21 
 
 78 Supervisors 32 
 
 79 P nators, Oswego 36 
 
 18 j.neritfs, Oswego 36 
 91 Seamans,JT 59 
 
 Town Clerks 19— officers 15 
 77 Board 54 
 
 .58 Tubbs.CW 63 
 
 21 Training Field 19 
 
 46 Tonic Club 30 
 
 84 Tavern.lst inPhoenix 33 
 
 85 Trustees, Village 2 
 8B Treasurers, Co\inty 33 
 88 Taxjiavers.lst Schneppel 93 
 2.5 Towns (d 1 isweyci Cnunty 91 
 4^J Cuderground Station 18 
 44 Wings Res JF 71 
 .55 Withers.GC 71 
 01 Wedding, 1st 79 
 31 Water. Large Bodies 60 
 
 6 What is it worth 48 
 
 82 War Parties, Early 11 
 
 84 W C T U 22 
 
 90 Womans Mission Cong ch 19 
 
 91 W R G 9 
 21 Williams.JM 38 
 73 Williams.CK 22 
 10 Womans Home Mission 37 
 29 Walls Saw Mill 25 
 16 W F M, M E ch 51, sk 79 
 
 Whist Club 20th Cent 52— 
 
 -Grig 46 
 
 Y P S C E 29— Jr 44 
 
 Young.DrDF 60 
 
 Young People. Bap ch 18 
 Yo.inans.CaptC 49 
 
 Youngs ResHA 72 
 
 64 
 
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