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 Descriptive and historical of marathon 
 
 ItY D. B. TRIPP 
 
 MARATHON with its classic name and 
 respectable recoi'd is situated iu the 
 southern tier of Cortland county ou 
 both sides of the Tioughuioga river 50 miles south 
 of Syracuse and 30 miles north of Binghamtou. 
 It occupies a narrow but fertile valley with hills 
 sloping gently to the east and west. Its history 
 comprises two periods. The first beginning in the 
 
 nSM'.w}j?_#_b^«;- 
 
 THE RAILROAD STATION— "4 O'CLOCK TRAIN. 
 • .Tohn.^on, Pluitu. 
 
 year 1794 is the period of settlement. The second 
 dates from about 1850 and may be termed the 
 pi'riod of development. The names most promi- 
 nently identified with the first period and the date 
 of their arrival are, Hunt 1T94, Brink 1798, Carley 
 1800, Squires ISOI, Church 180.5, Mallery 1805, Bur- 
 gess 1817. It is not to be supposed that these were 
 the only people that took up their abode here. 
 ( )thers came along and stayed for awhile and passed 
 on, some to other parts and some to the 
 other world. But tlie .seven families here 
 mentioned located and stayed and their 
 descendeuts ciimjirise a part of the pres- 
 ent population. Tlie history of the early 
 .settlement of Marathon does not differ 
 mateiially from the common experiences 
 of pioneer life. It was a life of hard 
 work and hard fare amid danger and 
 l)rivations, with little to encourage and 
 not much to enjoy. They found an uu 
 broken forest without roads or liabitn^ 
 tions or productions. The only aveiiu' 
 of appi-oach was the river. The neare-i 
 settlement where .supplies could be pre ■ 
 cured was Binghamtou. Amid sue li 
 scenes they toiled and suffered. Under 
 difliculties comuKin to first settlers they 
 struggled to provide shelter and clear 
 little patches of land whereon theycouM 
 raise the necessary material to sustain 
 life. They have left no conspicuou> 
 monuments of their heroic efforts: but 
 tliey survived. If they have left no 
 other legacy than cleared land, ordinary 
 habitations, honored graves and a re- 
 spectable, though not numerous pos- 
 
 terity, it may be tliat they wrought as great 
 a work, if not as elaborate as the generations that 
 came after them. During the first 50 years there 
 had been some concentration of business near the 
 "Corners." There were three stores, a tavern, a 
 school house, a church, a grist mill, a saw mill, 
 a tannery, a distillery, an ashery, a cabinet shop, 
 a blacksmith, a cobbler, a preacher and a doctor. 
 The Syracuse and Binghamtou railroad 
 was begun iu 1852 and completed in 1854, 
 and from that time the growth and pro- 
 gress of the village was more rapid. 
 Anson Peck and R. P. Burhans built the 
 Peck Block iu 1854. and the hotel known 
 for many years thereafter as the Carley 
 Hou.se was built the same year ou the 
 west side of the river. The Peck Block 
 was a radical innovation in business 
 nrchiteeture. It was the finest and best 
 adajited business building in the county 
 at that time and it elevated "storekeep- 
 ing" to the dignity of a mercantile pur- 
 suit. The location of the railroad on 
 „^ the west side of the river stimulated a 
 
 considerable activity in building up that 
 side, and for many years there was a 
 brisk rivalry between the " sides of the 
 river." But a better sentiment in after 
 years prevaOed. The spirit of jealousy 
 and rivah-y was supplanted by unity 
 and harmony, and it was recognized 
 that whatever benefitted one part of the 
 village benefitted all : that no one should 
 be put in charge of any department of 
 the public service who was not large enough 
 to include every section and every interest in 
 the general welfare. The village was incorpo- 
 rated iu 18R1 with Asa Hunt as the first presi- 
 dent and a population of 56(i. The first 
 iron bridge was built in lS(is, the new school 
 
 building in 1872, and in the school was in- 
 
 corporat(^d under the charge of the Regents of the 
 University as a Union graded school with au Aca 
 
 (TAMP WILLOW-DELCOX— •■ IN SLTMMER MOOD.' 
 Dellow, Piiuto. 
 
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■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 demic department. In 1876 the Baptist church 
 was built, and the same year the Methodist and 
 Presbyterian churches were removed and rebuilt. 
 In IJSTT the ground which had been vacated by 
 tlie removal of the old school building and the 
 Presbyterian church and the adjacent "Common" 
 was filled and graded and transformed into a neat 
 village park. The new Firemen's building was 
 erected in Is'il), the soldiers' monument in ISDii, 
 the Library building in 18!)4. The electric light 
 was instaile<l in lfS95 
 and tlie water system g 
 completed in 18!t9. g 
 Meanwhile new resi- 5 
 deuces were being ^ 
 built and old ones re- •< 
 paired to keep pace ? 
 with modern archi- ;^ 
 t«cture. The streets 5 
 were graded and 5 
 drained and otherwise - 
 improved. Front g 
 fences were removed. s 
 trees trimmed, curbs 5 
 and gutters defined, ^ 
 lawn mowers employ- E= 
 ed and the general ; 
 tone and dominant P 
 sentiment with few ^ 
 exceptions was in the g 
 direction of improve- S 5 
 ment, neatness and i > 
 good taste. In addi- jj s 
 tion to the expense ^ ►. 
 involved iu this cata- f 5 
 logue of events, the ^ J 
 town had voluntarily ^. „ 
 incurred a heavy in- c 5 
 debtedness to pay the ^ B 
 bounties to its soldiers g S 
 who were enlisted in 5 i 
 the war for the sup- " ^ 
 pre.ssiou of the rebel- § = 
 lion, and so the burd- S. j. 
 ens of taxation and of B i 
 voluntary contribu- S 
 tions have been about j- 
 as heavj- as the people ; 
 could conveniently ; 
 carry. Marathon has ^ 
 not profited by any ; 
 specially favorable lo- '\ 
 cation, nor enjoyed J 
 the distinction of su- : 
 pernatural scenery. It ^ 
 has no lake or cave or .; 
 nunintain or gorge or : 
 mineral soring or cata- : 
 ract. All it is or ex- : 
 j)ect8 to be depends : 
 upon the energy and '. 
 ability of its iiihabi- ; 
 taiits. It claims no ," 
 monopoly of extra- 1 
 ordinary talent or dis- [ 
 tiiK-tion of its people. r- 
 
 It ha-s furnished no candidate for tlie llimiie or 
 victim for the scaffold. Its people have not hei'U 
 excessively religious and only moderately literary. 
 There has been no aristocracy of birth or of 
 wealth. They have had tlie faculty of doing de- 
 cently well whatever they undertook, and have 
 been jiarticnlarly fortunate in always having a 
 good strong niiijority on the right side of every 
 finestion wliich involved the welfare of the 
 village. It cherishes a warm regard for those 
 
 who have once lived here and liave wou,^hx)Oor 
 and distinction elsewhere. David R. LookS, 
 (Na.sby), the humorous editor of the Toledo ^ 
 Blade; Thurlow Weed, the eminent journalist, 
 party leader, and partner in the political firm of 
 Seward, Weed and Greely ; J. Stewart Wells, one 
 (if tlie most prominent business men of Bingham- 
 ton ; Jolin Hilsiuger, a lawyer and financier in 
 Sabula, Iowa, all spent their boyhood days in 
 Marathon. Franklin Pierce a lawyer in New 
 
 York city; .1. S. Gro.'^s, a lawyer in Owego: llcr 
 b(>rt M. Lovell and Ross Lovell, lawyers in El 
 niira ; Earl Ijovell, a professor in Columbia 
 Collcfjc; D W. Whitmore an<l David Whitmor 
 (•(iiuniission men-hunts in New York, are among 
 the bright boys who fir.st .saw the liglit in Jlara 
 thon. Prof. Lewis Swift, (lie iniiiicnt astiono 
 nier, Prof. M. L. Hawley ; (iiigi' E. Tarlirll. ]ire 
 sident and director of the Eiiiiitable .\ssuraiK'e 
 Co., maintain their friendship and allegiance for 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP MARATHON 
 
 THE VILLAGE TRUSTEES. 
 O. G. Underwood. C. EnoENE Botden, Pres. Walter 
 
 Marathon. But a place caunot aloue endure on 
 the glory of the departed. Its strength and reli- 
 ance and success must finally rest upon those who 
 stay and bear the burden, assume the responsi- 
 bilities and direct the enterprises : who are not 
 looking for a chance to get out, but are content 
 to remain and put forth their best endeavoi'S to 
 make their town a desirable place to stay in. It 
 is believed that such efforts by the present genera- 
 tion have been to some degree successful, and as 
 the village enters upon the second century of its 
 existence, the business is more genei'ally diversi- 
 fied and conducted on a more prosperous and sub- 
 stantial basis than at any previous period in its 
 history. With unexcelled markets where the 
 products of the farm can be readily turned into 
 cash at tlie highest prices, with ample banking 
 facilities, with tradesmen ready to supply at your 
 door every article of necessity or luxury, with the 
 electric light and city water, with church and 
 school and library and opera house, with labor 
 fully employed and amply paid, with no strikes 
 nor riots nor earthquakes nor tidal waves nor cy- 
 clones nor simoons nor pestilence nor extreme 
 poverty nor shoddy aristocracy nor society non- 
 sense, it may be modestly said that this is a goodly 
 
 land and that a person seeking a home 
 might go further and fare worse. A 
 more detailed account of the different 
 business concerns and the persons con- 
 nected therewith will be found in the 
 subsequent pages of this book. 
 
 The Baptist Church On the 20th 
 
 day of October 1860, there met in Peck's 
 Hall in the rUlage of Marathon, N. Y., 
 a number of persons professing Baptist 
 faith, to consider the propriety of organ- 
 izing a Baptist church here. Tlie meet- 
 ing was duly organized by appointing 
 Rev. Chauncy Darby moderator and 
 Brother P. E. Stickney clerk. A short 
 time was spent in pra3-er for wisdom 
 and direction from God, after which all 
 present spoke, expressing their views 
 and convictions that the time had come 
 to unite in a church organization. That 
 conviction was emliodied in the follow- 
 ing resolution, viz: '-Resolved, That 
 we believe God requii'es us as his people 
 to form ourselves into a Baptist church 
 in this village for the glory of His name 
 and the upbuilding of his kingdom." It 
 was then voted to request Rev. Chauncy 
 Darby to identify himself with this 
 A. Brink, chiu'ch organization and become its 
 pastor. The meeting then adjourned to 
 meet in four weeks at Peck's Hall. The church 
 met on November 17, according to appointment. 
 Prayer was offered by Rev. G. H. Brigham of 
 Homer, N. Y., after which the meeting was duly 
 organized by appointing Rev. Chancy Darby mo- 
 nitor and Brother P. E. Stickney clerk. The fol- 
 lowing brothers and sisters then presented letters 
 from other churches and became the constituent 
 members of the church : Rev. Chancy Darby. 
 Joseph Conger. Electa Conger, Lucius Heffron, 
 Ann E. Heffron, Dudley Smith, Aaron White, 
 Hannah Wliite, David Shattuck, Arzelia E. Shat- 
 tuck, J. D. Huntley. Loisa C. Muiitley, William 
 (iardner. Polly Gardner, Nelson Gardner, Ange- 
 liue (iardner,' Russell Turner. Agnes Turner, 
 Philip E. Stickney, N. C. (Jlitton, Elizabeth Glit- 
 ton, Emeline Lewis, Naomi Richardson, Phoebe 
 E. Turner and Lydia M. Whitmore. It was voted 
 that the name "of the church be "The Baptist 
 Church of Marathon, N. Y." Jay E. Turner and 
 Dorcas Lovell related their Christian experience 
 and were dulj' received as candidates for baptism. 
 They were baptized the following Sabbath. 
 Heni-y Hammond related his Cliristian experience 
 and was received and baptized upon the same 
 Sabbath with the others. A council was called 
 to meet in Peck's Hall on December 20, 1860. for 
 the recognition of the church. The following 
 Baptist chm-ches were invited to send delegates to 
 
 "THE KIVEK CUTS THE VILLAGE INTO HALVES." 
 Thi- Old (Jarley Mill Daiu The Old Bridge, removed December 1900. The New Bridge, completed February li«>l 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 OFFICERS VAI^LEY REBEl.'KAH [See Sk., P. B. 
 Elsie Van Viw 
 . ; fi, Alice Sal 
 burv, K. S. X. G.: 7, Bessie ValHntiii.-, L,S. N.(;.: s, Lilli,. Me D(i 
 
 ald,"L. S. V. (i.: !l, B. S. Brink, i ii i. : m. IImi, All.-n, \V;irile 
 
 11. Phoebe Mvers, C<mdurti,i- : 1:,', Aria c • .r u in. i liai.hiiii : i:;. Ann 
 McAlpme, P."(*. ; 14. L, K. M.-Ali.m.-. lirill M;i~t.r: l.-i, Mrs. ( + . \ 
 Smith. 
 
 attend thi.s service : Uuion, Freetown, Solon, 
 Virgil, Grotou, Mc(Trawville. Cortland. Homer, 
 Triixtou and Marathon. Rev. J. S. Backus of 
 Syracuse, N. Y.. was invited to attend and preach 
 the sermon. The council met according to 
 appointment on December 20, 1860, and was or- 
 ganized by electing Rev. (t. H. Brighani modera- 
 tor and Rev. Samuel S. Day, clerk. After listen- 
 ing to the report of the organization of the 
 church, the council decided that there ought to be 
 a Baptist church in Marathon, and there is good 
 rea-son to believe that tliis church has been formed 
 by the will of God with a fair probabil- 
 ity of continuance, efficiency and in- 
 crea.se in membersliip and usefulness. 
 Tlie services of recognition were as 
 follows: After singing. Rev. G. Cross- 
 man of Virgil led in prayer. The scrip- 
 tur»^ lesstm was read by Rev. J. S. 
 Ba<-kus of Syracuse from I Corinthians 
 XII : 14-27. The text wa-s from the 14 to 
 18 vcr.ses. Rev. A. Galpin of Freetown 
 presented the Viand of fellowsliip to the 
 pasror. Rev. Chauncey Darby, who gave 
 the hand of fellowship to each member 
 ■ 'f tlie church. Rev. H. Bowen of Cort- 
 land gave the charge to the church. 
 -After prayer by Rev. (4. H. Brigham and 
 singing by the congregation, the service 
 was conclud(>d with the b('uedictioii by 
 Rev. .1, S. Backus. .loseph (jonger and 
 John Van Orsdale w"ero chosen as the 
 first deacons. During the summer of 
 ISCil a lot was purchased for $200 on tlic 
 south side of Kast Main street nciirly 
 opposite the M. E. Church, and a lious(^ 
 of worship built costing .*;(>;)0. The 
 cliurch services were lield in Peck's Hall 
 from the organizatiim of the church un- 
 til November 16, ISfU, when tlie new 
 liouse of worship was ready for nciu- 
 paiicy. The present postofHce building 
 was erected and occupit^d for several 
 years bj' the Baptist church of ]\lara- 
 thon, N. Y. The church and congrtga- 
 tiou began a healthy growth, and il soon 
 became evident that a larger luiuse of 
 worship was needed. At the annual 
 
 meeting in January 1S70, a resolution 
 was passed to appoint a committee of 
 live bretliren to look for a lot upon 
 which to build a larger house of wor- 
 sliip. Brothers Russell Turner, Tlmmas 
 Tiliiiigliast, Samuel Conger, Nelson 
 ( iardnerand R. M. Lovell wereai)poiiited 
 :is sui'li committee with instructions to 
 M'IMiii at a future meeting of the churcli 
 :nnl sdciety. On August 33, ISTO, a 
 -lii'itil meeting cif tlie iluirrh ami so- 
 ■ ntv was called tci lirar thr npiirt fnini 
 Iln- iciniiuittee. Tlicy M-iiiiif,-il I hat llie 
 liouse anil lot on East Main street known 
 as the Ira L. Little property could be 
 purchased for the new church building, 
 and in the .iudgmeiit of the committee 
 was the most suitaMr iilace to be found, 
 and they recomiiieiKicl that it be pur- 
 chased. The report ot the committee 
 was accepted and they were instructed 
 to make the purchase. In June, 1875, 
 the first steps were taken toward build- 
 ing a new church edifice. The plans 
 and arrangements were not all com- 
 pleted until the spring of IKTi;, when the 
 ■;irilen: ground Was broken and the erecticni of 
 i' iV'w" ^^^ church begun. It was completed 
 and dedicated February Vi. 1877, at a 
 total cost of $12,1111. In the winter of 1887 and 
 '88, through the efforts of Pastor A. H. Todd and 
 others, a strenuous effort was made to pay the last 
 dollar of indebtedness. The effort was crowned 
 with success, and on the loth day of April, 1888, 
 a .jubilee meeting was held to celebrate our de- 
 liverance from the bondage of debt. The mem- 
 bership at present is 85. The following brethren 
 have served the church as pastors : Rev. Chauucy 
 Darby, from November 18110 to April 18(12; Rev. 
 H. W. Barnes, from April 1862 to August 1866; 
 Rev. J. H. Sage, from December 1866 to April 
 18(;!t; Rev. E. M. Blanchard, from A\>ri\ 186!l to 
 
 isiK.Mi'.i-:i;s M.\i: \' 
 
 1, H.P. Siiuires: -, Mi-. M:n^ i "^ 
 
 Conrad' 3, Fred Sill i 111 n Mi- 1: 
 
 I'll! IN 1 .1; ANC.K |Sri 
 
 Il .;, •I'l-iiiiiali 1 -ih-h 
 
 1 Mnilli ;, Mr-. 1 .1 
 
 ■S1(.,P. 6. 
 1. Mrs. B. 
 
 Mi-: S, Mrs. 
 
 Mc(Tee: i), C S, llamiiP .ii.l : 1". 
 Hannah Smith : 1-', Seward .stanle 
 
 Ml-,. Marv lliii ii. 
 
 v; i:|, Mrs. Eliza Stanl. 
 
 il: 11, Mrs. 
 
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'GBIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 
 MAIN STREKT, 1. 
 
 April l.svl; Rev. Abner Lull, fjoiu May 1871 to 
 May 1874; Rev. B. T. Davies, from January 1875 
 to April 1877; Rev. A. Reynolds, supply, from 
 May 1877 to November 1877; Rev. J. H. Sage, 
 from January 1878 to May 1871t; Rev. J. H. 
 Harris, from July 1879 to May 1880; Rev. D. J. 
 Williauis, from January 1881 to September 188;i ; 
 Rev. A. H. Todd, from April 1884 to April 18!tO; 
 Rev. N. Richards, from June 18'.I0 to October 189! ; 
 Rev. C. J. Pendleton, from November 1891 to No- 
 vember 1892; Rev. O. L. Warren, from July 189:i 
 to April 1897; Rev. E. B. Cornell, supply, from 
 May 1897 to Augu.st 1897: Rev. E. B. Cornell, 
 from September 1897 to July 1899; Rev. E. D. 
 Hammond, from October 1899, 
 
 (Sc- Pastor's Sk., P. .S.) 
 
 Valley Rebeckah Lodge, No. is;!, I. (). O. F., 
 
 was instituted December 38, 1890, by D. V). (t. M. 
 Jennie M. (irittiths and her staff of officers from 
 Cortland. There were 
 fourteen charter mem- 
 bers. The following were 
 the first officers, viz. ; 
 Noble (iraud, Ida Ayers ; 
 Vice (Trand, Elsie- Vau- 
 Vost ; Sec'y, Elda Van- 
 Vost ; Financial Sec'y, 
 Florence Allen; Treas., 
 Anna McAlpine; War- 
 den, Phoebi' Myers; Con- 
 ductor, Minnie Spencer; 
 Inside (iuard, Atla Cor- 
 wiu: ( )utsiiie ( nuird. l)e- 
 villo.Iohnson; R.S.N. (4.. 
 Bessie Valentine: L. S. 
 N. (;., AlidaOdgeu: R. 
 S.V.(i., Alice Salisbury; 
 L. S. V. ( ;., Mary Snnth ; 
 Right Altar Support, Lena 
 Bowdisli: Left Altar 
 Supjjort, Ella Sali-sbury ; 
 Chaplin, Mary VanVost : 
 Past (Trand, Mariam 
 Mack. Seventeen new 
 members were initiated 
 the first night. The 
 meetings are held each 
 alternate Tuesday in the 
 
 I. O. of O. F. rooms in 
 the Peck Block. The 
 membership at the 
 end of the year was 
 twenty-three. Death 
 has entered our midst 
 once. Some have 
 moved away, others 
 dropped out, and the 
 membership now is 
 thirty-eight. The 
 present officers are : 
 Noble Grand, Alida 
 Odgen; Vice Grand, 
 Luella Miner; Sec'y, 
 Elsie Van Vost ; Fi- 
 nancial Sec'y, Grace 
 Smith: Treas., Deli- 
 liali Vnuk; Warden. 
 Florence Allen ; Cou- 
 dactor,Phoebe Myers ; 
 Inside Guard, Ella 
 Salisbury ; Outside 
 
 (iuard, B. S. Brink: 
 
 R. S. N. G., Alice Salisbury; L. S. N. (4., Bessie 
 Valentine; R. S. V. G., Lillie McDonald; L. S. 
 V. f4., Martha Sherwood; Right Altar Support, 
 Linnie Burgess : Left Altar Support, Mary Smith : 
 Ciiaplin, Atla (^^onvin : Past (iraud, Anna McAl- 
 pine ; (Jrganist, Myrtle Miller; Drill Master, 
 L. McAlpine. 
 
 The Marathon Orange was organized in Janu- 
 ary, 1882, at the home of John L. Smith. Fifteen 
 farmers signed the call for a (4range, Init only 
 thirteen convened, just the number required to 
 fill the offices. W. W. Salisbury, of Little York, 
 was organizer, and initiated the members in the 
 degrees of the order. John L. Smith was elected 
 Master ; Nicholas Winters, Overseer : Oi'sou Davis, 
 Secretary; Dubois Montgomery, Lecturer: Aaron 
 
 Johnson, Photo. THE PUBLIC SQUARE AND SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. 
 
■(GRIP'S- HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 A. Johnson, Photo 
 
 COKTLAND STKEET, looking north from the bridge 
 
 Philadelphia, the park 
 surrouuding the Lin- 
 coln monument, 
 Springfielfl. Illinois, 
 and the magnificent 
 National Cemetery at 
 (iettysbnr;,'. 
 
 riarathon Union 
 Fair— In 1X79 stock to 
 'the amount of !|],100 
 was subscribed for in 
 shares of $10 eacli by 
 the people of Mara- 
 thon and vicinity of 
 whicli 1250 was not 
 paid in. ( (rounds were 
 ftttcd up and at the 
 end of the first season 
 there was a small bal- 
 lance in the treasury. 
 The next season 
 twenty notes for .f2.5 
 each were given and 
 a floral hall was built. 
 
 Jennings, Treasurer. This grange has now 114 
 members. Among the benefits derived from this 
 organization I would place first its educational 
 helps. No meeting is ever conducted without the 
 Lecturer's hour when each member is given the 
 privilege of a.sking questions or reading a paper, 
 or a selection or of taking part in debate. Farmers 
 and farmer's wives, sous and daughters bring to 
 the grange the fruit of their experience, their suc- 
 cess and their mistakes, and from both many a 
 lesson has been imparted and received. Next I 
 would name the social advantage derived from the 
 (rrange. It is just what is needed to break the 
 isolation of farm life. Those who planned the 
 organization builded better than they knew when 
 they admitted women to an equal voice and vote 
 in the order, for they have proved tliiinsclves a 
 source of strength and permam mr instead of 
 discord and weakness. The tinamiiil advantages 
 are many, one of 
 these is the lower 
 rates of fire insur- 
 ance, then too, the 
 (Jrange makes possi- 
 ble organization for 
 protection, like the 
 F. S. M. P. A., and 
 the power brought to 
 bear upon legislators. 
 Tlie Patrons of Hus- 
 bandry, or (i range as 
 it is more commonly 
 known had no mean 
 origin. Its founder, 
 the late William 
 Sanders, was for 
 thirty-eight years su- 
 perintendent of the 
 experimental gardens 
 and grounds of the 
 United States Oepart- 
 meut of Agricidturc. 
 He wa.s the designer 
 of Fairmount Park, 
 
 These notes were not offered for collection be- 
 cause the proceeds of the society settled the bill. 
 In 18fe6 the society was in good condition, but 
 three years later lack of support led to a discus- 
 sion for dissolirtion of the society wliich resulte<l 
 in a meeting of the stockholders held January IS, 
 1889, to discuss the proposition. At the annual 
 meeting Februaiy 5, the reports were encourag- 
 ing and it was hoped to keep the association alive. 
 Mes.srs. Ed. L. Adams, A. M. Johnson and J. R. 
 Robinson were made a committee to solicit sub- 
 scriptions. G. P. Squires offered the society good 
 grounds for a term of years. But the society 
 never afterwards held any meetings, their lease 
 of the Brink place liaving expired. The average 
 yearly receipts from all sources was $1,.500. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 C. E. BdYDEN, President of the Village. 
 
 C. Eugene Boyden, the president of the vil- 
 lage of Maratbou. was first elected to that position 
 iu 18!"!. He was reelected in 1899 and 1900, 
 having served as a member of the Board of Trus- 
 tees in 1893, '94 and '95. During his executive 
 terms several minor but desirable improvements 
 have been made in the streets and, not least of aU, 
 the village has during the past year voted to 
 acquire an electric light plant which the president 
 and his associates on the board were instrumental 
 in getting into operation. Mr. Boyden is an active 
 republican, sharing with others tlie honors of mak- 
 ing and electing the local tickets. In recognition 
 of his services he was invited to take the position 
 of assistant postmaster in the State assemlily at 
 Albany ,which he held 
 in 1890, and afterward 
 the more important 
 post of assistant fi- 
 nance clerk in the 
 Assembly, which he 
 occupied in 1895. In 
 all mattei's which give 
 promise of advancing 
 tlie interests of the 
 community he is ever 
 a foremost advocate. 
 The fire department 
 has occupied much of 
 his time and enlisted 
 his hearty cooperation 
 in making it one of 
 the best of volunteer 
 organizations. He was 
 assistant chief two 
 years aud chief engin- 
 eer in 1897 aud '98. 
 Mr. Boyden was born 
 iu Marathon, March 
 23, 1860. His father, 
 Darius Boyden, for 
 many years engaged 
 in the village as 
 
 wagon maker, having lived there since 1856. 
 When 13 years old the subject of this sketch be- 
 gan to earn his own living by working on farms 
 and iu such other positions as were offered him. 
 In 18TS he learned the trade of a barber of Charles 
 Towl, and for sixteen months afterwards con- 
 ducted a shop at Wliitney's Point. In March 
 18S0 he bought out Towl aud for twelve years 
 carried on the business iu Brown's hotel, the suc- 
 ceeding eight years conducting a shop in the 
 building now occupied by Freeman Allen's hotel. 
 In Ajiril 190(1, liaving bought the property, he 
 opened his ]iresent place of business where iu con- 
 nection witli his trade he conducts a billiard hall 
 and cigar store. On June 29, 1882 he married 
 Agnes M. Moore of Hartford. Three children 
 are living, Ulysses H., Lulu and Gladys. Mr. 
 Boyden is a member of tlie Masonic order and 
 trea,surer of tlie Marathon lodge. 
 
 Rev. Ezra D. Hammond, pastor of the Baptist 
 cliurch, educated himself for the pulpit aud plat- 
 form and on lioth he has made an enviable repu- 
 tation. As a pul>lic speaker he has appeared iu 
 lecture courses thoroughly equipped to entertain 
 and instruct. He has also written a great deal in 
 verse for publications. Tlie Rev. Jlr. Hammond 
 was born in Venice, Cayuga county, N. Y., No- 
 vember IS, is.",,s, and was licensed by the Scipio 
 Baptist chnrcli May o. isss, where he was located 
 for tliree months "as a supply. The following 
 winter he preached in Fleming, Cayuga county, 
 N. Y., aud on May 1, 1891, was ordained at Rome, 
 Pa., where he occupied the pulpit until May 1, 
 1893, when he went to Newark Valley, N. Y., 
 and served as pastor until coming to Marathon in 
 October, 1899. (_)u .lune 28, 1899, he was married 
 to Miss .Jessie Perry of Bingha-iiton. N. Y. 
 
 The First Presbyterian Church of Marathon 
 was organized February 11, 1814, with the follow- 
 ing members: Aaron Benedict and liis wife, 
 Betsy ; Horace Sedgewick and his wife, Martha ; 
 .lames Royce aud his wife, Clarissa. The organ- 
 ization of the society was not perfected until Feb- 
 ruary 8, 11S31, at which time the follciwiug were 
 elected trustees: C. Comstock, Charles (4enird. 
 Merodeth Havens, .Jesse Storrs, Mausoii Carley 
 
 A. Jolinson, Photo. 
 
 C. E. BOVDEN'S RESIDENCE. 
 
(tRIP'S" historical souvenir of marathon 
 
 aud William Church. Tlie building as originally 
 erected stood near the south line of what is now 
 the public green. Main street then pursued a 
 more northerly course, but was later laid out as it 
 is at present. lu 187li the churrli was moved 
 back so as to stand iu line with the others aud 
 give place to the present public green. It was 
 afterwards refitted at a cost of .^4,000, and during 
 the past year beautified with new decorations and 
 is now a comfortable and attractive church home. 
 Through the ettorts of the Rev. J. G. Miller, D. 
 D., who was the pastor, the churcli iu 18S2, was 
 presented witli a most beautiful communion 
 service by Mr. aud Mrs. Hcnrj- Read of Philadel- 
 phia, Pa. The stated clerks of the church from 
 its organization : Horaci' Sedgewick, Luther 
 Keyes, Jesse Storrs, John M. Roe, Jerome Hul- 
 bert, n. E. Whitmore aud J. H. Hammond. Tlie 
 
 Session — Burgess Squires, John Taylor, Martin 
 Brooks, Edward Hayes, Harris Hammond and 
 
 Clark Mack. 
 
 The Salibath School meml)ership under the 
 efficient leadership of Siiperiiir<'iuU'nt L. McAl- 
 piue has attained a nieiiibcrshii) of 187. The 
 amount of moneys raised l\v tlie .-irhool last year 
 aggregated sometliiug like $40(1. 
 
 Rev. J. H. F. Blue, A. H., D. D., has preached 
 in Marathon with marked success for the past tliree 
 years, making many friends outside as well as 
 among his congregation. A vigorous speaker and 
 thorough with his subjects witli a pleasant address, 
 he has made a reputation as a platform as well as 
 a pulpit speaker. Dr. Blue was born in the Pro- 
 vince of Quebec, October 17, 18(i5, a descendant 
 of Highland Scotch parentage. From the district 
 schools he went into St. F'rancis college at Rich- 
 mond, Quebec, where he prepared for uuiversity 
 
 . S. Dellow, Photos. 
 Cabinet and Chairs 
 
 ('. B. BOVDKN'S BARBKK SHOI» AM> UlLi.IAliU Uo 
 Ciyar and Tohaco* l)fpt 
 
 full list of pastors and respective periods of mini- 
 stration are as follows: Rovs. John Davenport, 
 181.5 !(!; Reuben Herd. 181(;-1«; Mr. Hitchcock, 
 1818-20; Matthew Harrison, lsa:!-2'.>; Mr. Luce, 
 18:!1 ; .Tamos PJakeslee, ismnr,; Mr. Johnston, 
 18:!(>: Mr. Kinnev, I8:i7; Peleg R. Kinnc, 18:i7-.'i8; 
 William Bradford, 18:i9-4:i; J. A. Aveiy, 1844-47; 
 P. Terry, 1S4S-52; E. Scovill, 18."):i-.V): John Peck, 
 1856-(;0; H. Lyman, 1800-72; J. McMaster, 1872- 
 7:i; J. C. Smith, 187.5-70; F. H. Hiunum, 1S7S-81: 
 J. S. Miller, D. D., 1881-8;i; J. F. McLaurv, iss:!- 
 8.5; S. W. Brown, 188.5-88; J. L. Howard, 1S8'.)- 
 1)0 ; Smitli Ordway, I8'.K)-!i:!; B. B. Knapp, 1S!)4- 
 '.)(>; R. H. Merrill, 18i)7-!l8; J. H. K. Blue. D. I)., 
 IS'.IS. The following are the prest^ut officers of 
 the church: Board of Trustees — Dr. W. Spencer, 
 Harry P. Squires aud Scott Burgess; Members of 
 
 training, and after having taken the Mctiill B. A. 
 course he entered Morrin college and prepared for 
 the I'resbyterian ministry, being ordained iu the 
 city of Toronto. He preached in St. Andrew's 
 church (Churcli of Scotland), Montreal, as a 
 supply. Then followed the ]iiistorates at Balti- 
 more, Md., Haverhill, Mass., and Philadelphia, 
 accepting the call from tlii> Presbyf<'rian church 
 at Marathon while engaged in the latter city — a 
 .smaller field of labor then being desired owing to 
 poor health. While iii Philad(>lphia he was 
 iKmored by Rutherford University, North Caro- 
 lina, with the degree of Mastia- of Artsaiid Doctor 
 of Divinity. Dr. Blue was married to Annah Eg- 
 glinton in Quebi'c, November 28, 18.s;). Their 
 (Oiildren are Mildred, Malcolm, Gladys and Ma- 
 rion. 
 
10 
 
 'GKIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 The Climax Road Machine Company was or- 
 iginaJly organized as a co-partuership on October 
 14, 18.S7, A. S. Manning of Auburn, N. Y., Wil- 
 liam Clark of Union, N. Y., and O. F. Piuokney of 
 Center Li.sle, N. Y., associating themselves with 
 C. E. Kilpatrick, then of Marathon. The pur- 
 
 pose of the company was to manufactui'e and sell 
 the Climax Road Machine, a new invention, 
 possessing many advantages and meritorious fea- 
 tui-es not then known to users of road grading 
 machinery. The exchisive right to manufacture 
 this machine belonged to the company under 
 
 letters patent. Its first officers were, A. S. Man- 
 ning, president ; William Clark, secretary and 
 treasurer; O. F. Pinckuey, manager and C. E. 
 Kilpatrick, superintendent. The plant of tiie 
 Stockwell Wagon Company, just going out of 
 business, was leased and subsequently purchased. 
 On November 19, ISIIO, Mr. 
 Kilpatrick withdrew from 
 the company. In 1892 the 
 agitation for good roads had 
 fairly begun, and it was seen 
 that a broader field for road 
 building machinery was 
 opening. An opportunity 
 presented itself to acquire 
 the patents for a portable 
 crusher for crushing stone 
 for macadam roads, and de- 
 siring to add other branches 
 to its line of manufacture, 
 tile company was incorpo- 
 . rated on January 28, 18!>8, 
 . with a capital stock of $250,- 
 2; 000. Its first officers under 
 <£ the incorporation were : A. 
 C S. Manning, president ; Ed. 
 § L. Adams, vice president; 
 <; O. F. Pinckney, secretary 
 ^ and treasurer; C. A. Mc- 
 a Alpine, superintendent. On 
 ^- the 1 7th day of May, 1894, 
 W its shops were destroyed by 
 ^ fire. During that summer 
 ^ the works were rebuilt, a 
 33 picture of tlie new shops 
 p being given on this page. 
 " These sliops are equipped 
 S tliroughout with new and 
 " improved machinery, which 
 5 has been added to, as occa- 
 < siou has required until now 
 ^ the company's factory is a 
 3 model in its way. Its annual 
 O output is from 120 to 125 
 ^ stone crusiiing machines, up- 
 '^ ward of 200 road machines, 
 g besides various other road- 
 ie building and earth-handling 
 ■j tools. In 1X96 the Board of 
 S Directors was increased by 
 ^ the addition of two direc- 
 tors, making the number 
 seven instead of five; and 
 some other slight clianges 
 were made in the articles of 
 incMirporation. Its officers 
 were then: F. H. Swift, 
 presidt'Ut; W A. Brink, vice 
 president; T. R. Clark, sec- 
 retary and treasurer ; O. F. 
 Pinckney, manager. Since 
 ,-, its incorporation tlie busi- 
 s ne.ss of the company has 
 ^ greatly expanded, and during 
 ^ the past year it has slii)iiied 
 g its products to points in the 
 o United States as wide apart 
 ™ as Maine and Texas, and the 
 name of Marathon has been 
 carried upon its wares to the island possessions of 
 Porto Rico,Cuba and the Sandwich Islands. From 
 year to year it has perfected its products until to- 
 day its manufactures in the form of road ma- 
 chines, stone crushers, distributing wagons and 
 road rollers, are couceeded to be equal to, if not the 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 11 
 
 J(_)HN H. MILLER. 
 best, road niakiufj machinery iu the United States. 
 The company ofcupies two large buildings of brick, 
 one 2S0 feet in length and the other 320 feet long. 
 Beside these are a number of smaller wooden 
 buildings, detached, and used for storage of pat- 
 terns, material and fuel. The main shops are as 
 nearly fire proof as it is possible to make them. 
 A pleasant, commodious, and well-equipped office 
 building adjoins tlie works. The company occu- 
 pies a plot of nearly four acres, lying between 
 Academy street and the raOroad. Its officers dur- 
 ing 19(10 were: F. H. Swift, president: A. S. 
 Manning, vice president ; W. A. Brink, secretary; 
 T. R. Clark, treasurer. 
 
 John H Miller was born iu the town of Louis- 
 ville, St. Liiwrence county, New York, on the 7th 
 
 day of July, 1MJ!». He 
 school of his native vil- 
 lage until he was seven- 
 teen years of age, when 
 he entered the Potsdam 
 State Normal .school, 
 from which he gradu- 
 ated in the classical 
 course. He began the 
 study of law with .ludge 
 John A. Vance at Pots- 
 dam in the spring of 
 18'.I2; was special surro- 
 gate's clerk uuderJndgo 
 Vance until the full of 
 1893 when he went to 
 theUniversityof Michi 
 gan and took a two 
 yestrs' course at that 
 institution in one year, 
 graduating in 1S'.)4 with 
 the degree of LL. B. 
 Mr. Miller was admitted 
 to both the circuit and 
 supreme courts of 
 Michigan in 18".I4. He 
 taught school in Che- 
 
 attended the district 
 
 nango county during the school year 1894-5, and 
 iu January 189G was admitted to the New York 
 State bar at a regular term of the Appellate Divi- 
 sion of the Supreme Court held at Albany. He 
 came to Marathon in May of the same year, hav- 
 ing bought the law library and business of A. M. 
 Jlathewson, whom he succeede<l. He was mar- 
 ried on the 2nd day of June, 1897, to Miss Jessie 
 A. Arnold of McDonough, N. Y., who was at that 
 time principal of the senior intermediate depart- 
 ment of the Marathon High school. He was ad- 
 mitted to practice in both the district and the 
 circuit courts of the LTuited States at Utica, No- 
 vember 4th, 18SI,S. His work consists of practice 
 iu U. S., Bankruptcy and in all State courts. He 
 resides in the two story Clark house on Cortland 
 street. By strict attention to business he has 
 built up for himself a lucrative and steadily in- 
 creasing practice. 
 
 The Killowog Fire, '88 — At noon on Friday, 
 
 August 10, 18SS, while the workmen were at 
 dinner, fire was discovered in the roof of Twing 
 R. Hitts' saw mill. Sparks in showers fired the 
 adjacent residences — at one time as many as thir 
 teen dwellings and the school house — and the 
 whole village worked vigorously and etfectively 
 with buckets. The Marathon fire department 
 was hurried to the rescue, Clinton .Tolmsou's 
 double team drawing his wagon full of firemen 
 with the steamer in tow, and Mart Hyde's horse 
 and cart towing the hose cart. Large crowds of 
 Marathon peopli/ hurried to Killawog, the roads 
 being lined with tennis. The mill, machinery 
 and lumber inside were destroyed. The mill was 
 twenty-three years old and had twice before 
 caught fire, it was a terrible hot fire and that 
 the village was not destroyed was a miracle. 
 
 The First Spiritualist was Augustus, the 
 youngest son of Barnabas Wood, who settled in 
 Marathon in ISOS. Augustus claimed to hold 
 communication with unseen spirits. He died a 
 public charge. 
 
 t-Koy Wilco.x, Photn 
 
 ,T()HX H. .Mll.LKK'S LAW OFFICK. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MRS. MARY 8. HULBERT. 
 
 GEORGE A. HULBERT 
 
 George A. Hulbert, who was oue of Marathon's 
 most prominent and useful citizens, was born at 
 Trustou, N. Y., in is33 and was a son of Timothy 
 Hulbert, a prominent and wealthy farmer who 
 came to Truxtou from Massachusetts about 1810 
 and died May 20, 1848, leaving a family of six sous 
 and one daughter. George A. Hulbert received a 
 liberal education. He commenced the study of law 
 iu the office of Hon. Daniel Hawks, for- 
 merly county judge of Cortland county, 
 continuing later in the law ottices of Hon. 
 Horatio Kullard at Cortland and Hon. 
 Charles Mason, Justice of the Supreme 
 Coui't at Hamilton, Madison county. For 
 advanced legal study he was a year at the 
 law school at Ballston Spa, finishing the 
 course at the Albany Law School. He 
 was admitted to the bar in 1,S.54. For a 
 few years he engaged in the practice of 
 law,fii-.st iu New York State and later at 
 Chicago, 111. ; but later Inisiness changes 
 brought him to Onondaga county where 
 he was engaged in mercantile business 
 for a few years. In 1804 he finally lo- 
 cated at Marathon and with four of his 
 brothers engaged iu the wholesale pro- 
 duce business under the firm name of 
 William Hulbert & Brothers, witli head- 
 (|uarters in New York city, George A., 
 and his brotlier, Jerome, at Marathon 
 having charge of the purcha.sing. The 
 business prospered and the firm became 
 leaders iu the butter and cheese business 
 iu New York and each member of the 
 firm accumulated a fiue fortune. The 
 firm continued for over thu-ty years and 
 until the death of the three older broth- 
 ers. After the death of Jerome, George 
 A. discontinued the produce business 
 and resumed the practice of law which 
 he continued until his death March 12, 
 I'.lOO. George A Hulbert was a man of 
 more than ordinary ability and very 
 studious. He was honorable aud 
 straightforward iu all of Ins dealings 
 aud very courteous aud kind to all wiio 
 came in contact with him. No citizen 
 had the confidence of his fellow citizens 
 
 to a greater extent and he was often 
 called to act as executor or administra- 
 tor of the estates of deceased persons, 
 and in that capacity his integrity and 
 excellent business instincts and careful 
 management were always noticeable 
 and proved to be of great value. 
 Though not one to put himself forward 
 or ask for the suffrages of the people, he 
 was always found a safe and di.sinte- 
 rested assistant in the party councils and 
 served for many years on the town and 
 county committees. He was also chosen 
 to represent his town in the Board of 
 Supervisors aud was six times chosen 
 Justice of the Peace, serving in the latter 
 capacity twenty-three years. During 
 all that time the honesty and justice of 
 his decisions was unquestioned, and the 
 systematic and methodical manner in 
 which he kept the records of his oflice 
 and the dignity witli which he presided 
 and the order that he insisted upon in 
 his court, tended to raise the standard 
 of the office in the county at large. He 
 insisted upon the same courtes.v and de- 
 corum as is expected iu courts of record, 
 and causes were argued before him and 
 briefs submitted as in other courts. His 
 law library as well as his literay library 
 one of the best iu this section. He 
 always liberal and helpful iu church 
 and public matters and entirely without osten- 
 tati(m, but while always willing to do more than 
 his own share iu sucli matters he believed iu 
 protecting the rights of all other persons to act in 
 such matters according to tlieu- own consciences. 
 He added much to the beauty of Marathon village 
 by removing from the best business corner on 
 
 was 
 was 
 
 F. S. Dilluw, Photo. HULBERT OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, Erected 
 by George Hulbert— Improved by Mary S. Hulbert. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 THE RAILWAY HOTEL. .1. M. Lynoli, Prup. 
 
 Main street an old aud unsightly building and in 
 place of it erecting in lsS6 a fine three stoiy brick 
 business block of 70 feet front aud 55 feet depth. 
 The lower floor has three roomy aud pleasant 
 stores aud the second floor was in part Mr. Hul- 
 burt's residence aud the rest was made iuto 
 pleasant offices. The third tioor was a public hall 
 with a fine stage and scenery aud otherwise well- 
 equipped. The use of this hall has beeu given 
 free for all public entertainments in recent years. 
 He al.so on Main street in 1898 in place of a ruin- 
 ous dwelling erected one of the handsomest resi- 
 dences of the village. Pictures of the block and 
 ri'sidence appear in this book. There are also 
 other dwellings in town whicli were improved by 
 him. Mr. Hulbert married Mary, only daughter 
 of liichard and Mary Hinkley Smith, formerly of 
 Fabius, N. Y., but also of Massachusetts stock, 
 Richard Smith liaving formerly been one of the cel- 
 elirated sea captains of New Bedford, Mass. Mrs. 
 Hnlliert, who survives her husband, occupies the 
 residence jMirtion of the block. She is one of the 
 finest musiiiaus in Central New York. Her 
 taste for music was given wide range divring Iku- 
 husband's life and 
 their devotion to each 
 otlier's comforts aud 
 ha])piness during his 
 life was beautiful. 
 Tlieir home was al- 
 ways a pleasant spot 
 for people of refine- 
 ment and connois- 
 seurs in music, and 
 both workcfi togetlier 
 in tlie interest of the 
 Methodist church of 
 which they were re 
 gular attendants aiiH 
 where Mrs. Hulbert 
 was the organist for 
 several years. Mrs. 
 Hulbert is continuiriL'' 
 liiT husband's jilaiis 
 I'nr iiiiiirovemcnt nl 
 the property aud 
 tlierchy ndding'ld tlie 
 priispiTity and a))i)ear- 
 aiire nf the village. 
 The recent improve- 
 ments made by her in 
 lowering the floors of 
 
 the block and other 
 changes contemplated 
 by him, liave not only 
 added to the value 
 and appearance of the 
 property but will rank 
 as public improve- 
 ments. 
 
 The Fire Depart- 
 ment— [By J.W. Liv- 
 ingston ] — Early in the 
 year ISfiT, G. L. Swift, 
 one of the most active 
 promoters of the fire 
 department, with sev- 
 eral other business 
 men of the village, 
 arranged and success- 
 fully carried through, 
 an entertainment by 
 which the sum of |350 
 was raised to create 
 a funrl to buy some 
 Itiud of a nuichine 
 
 for fire protection. A .special election was held on 
 the ITth day of May, 18(57, at which time a resolu- 
 tion was adopted, authoriziug the village of Mara- 
 thon to raise by tax in tlie year 1867 the sum of |350 
 to add to the fund already provided by the citizens, 
 for the purpose of buying a fire engiue. It was 
 ascertained that a hand fire engine aud hose cart 
 were for sale in the city of Syracuse, and on Octo- 
 ber 3, 1867, by the authority of a resolution of the 
 board of trustees, the president of the village of 
 Marathon made the purchase. On the 10th day of 
 October, 18G7, a company was duly organized to 
 be known as ''Eagle Fire Co. No. i, of Marathon, 
 N. Y." The following officers were elected: 
 Foreman, A. H. Barber ; Asst. Foreman, R. R. 
 :\Iaybury ; Sec'y, F. I. Maybury. On the 15th 
 day i)f the same month the following named 
 pi-rsous were appointed as members of the new 
 company: A. H. Barber, L. S. Burch, R. E. Ed- 
 w:irds. Corwin Burgess, C. H. Ford, Wiuslow 
 Mavnard, Buruham Hunt, W. M. Griffith, A. L. 
 Burgess, E. B. Husted. J. H. McDoweU, F. F. 
 Tompkins, D. D. Hunt, M. L. Hawley, Jas. S. 
 Burgess, Ed. H. Barnes, B. T. 'Wright, Ed. O. 
 Carley,W.'W. Powers, D. B. Tripp, J. Q. Adams, 
 
 / 
 
 mw 
 
 F. S. DcUow, Photo. KESIDENCE OWNED BY MRS. MAKY HLH^BEKT 
 
 Tlie Old Corner Store Removed and Altered into a residence and oflice aeconi- 
 niodations by George A. Hulbert. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 
 KUIN8 OP THE CLIMAX BUILDINCtS. Burned May 17. 1894, 
 Photo loaned by E. L. Adams.] 
 
 R. D. Mack, E. B. Burgess, Theo. H. Roe, Duauo 
 Burgess, Jas. Liviug.stoii, Jr., F. I. Maybury, (). 
 H. Smith, R. R. Mavburv, Chas. Huut, Chester 
 Nichols, J. H. Tripp", C. C. Adams. G. L. Swift, 
 John Liviugstou, J C. Gray, J. W. Sc-houteu, 
 Jas. Liviugstou, Sr., D. A. Mack, Smith Sher- 
 wood, D. O. Lynde, Hiraui Coue, Geo. R. Bur- 
 gess, Jerome PoHard, E. D. Baker, C. G. Briuk, 
 F. M. Taylor. 
 
 (_)u the authority of a special election of the vil- 
 lage of Marathon, held on the 9th day of Novem- 
 ber, 1867, at which the sum of $(>00 vyas voted for 
 the purpose, additional hose and otlier equip- 
 ments were purchased for the fire engine and hose 
 cart. A resolution was also adopted authorizing 
 the trustees to provide a suitable building for the 
 use of the Are company and the tire apparatus. 
 Accordingly a lot was secured where M. H. Allen's 
 blacksniitli shop now stands, and a two story 
 building was erected, Nichols Brothers seciu-ing 
 the contract for building it. The lower floor was 
 used for the hand engine, hose cart and e(iuip- 
 ments, and the second story was fitted up for the 
 use of the company. It was afterwards moved 
 across the street where it is now owned and occu- 
 pied by Ed. L. Adams. 
 
 The early liistory of Eagle Fire Company No. 1 
 called for a great deal of tact, energy and perse- 
 verance in meeting and overcoudug the many dis- 
 Cduragcnients wliicli presented fhemsclves. By 
 persistent and united efforts on tlie part of officers 
 and Miembcrs a strong and successful organization 
 was established and 
 
 has been maintained ■ — ^j- 
 
 for many years. By a 
 resolution of the board 
 of trustees of the vil- 
 lage of Marathon, a 
 parade and inspection 
 of the fire company 
 wasappointed for Fri- 
 day, Septcmlier 15. 
 1871. New uniforms 
 consisting of cap, l)elt 
 and red jacket had 
 been recently ])urchas- 
 ed by the company. 
 and the hand engine 
 and liose cart had been 
 uewly painted. At a 
 meeting of the board 
 of trustees held Octo- 
 ber :i, 1S71, the fol- 
 lowing report was 
 adopted : ' 'In accord- 
 ance with a resolution 
 
 passed by the trustees, a. .lolinson Photo. BIRDSEYE OF MARATHON, Fro 
 the fire company pa- (See Birdseyes on pages Sands 
 
 raded for in.spectiou 
 on the 15th day of 
 September, 1871. Ow- 
 ing to the foul weather 
 the program intended 
 could not be fully car- 
 ried out, but the com- 
 pany came out and 
 paraded the streets a 
 short time, sliowiug 
 good discipline and 
 numerical strength. 
 Then they set their 
 'machine' and showed 
 theirphysical strength 
 by throwing a splen- 
 did stream of water 
 195 feet. It give.s us 
 great pleasure to re- 
 port to our townsmen 
 that we have a fire 
 company numbering about 60, which in point of 
 well built, nmscular and intelligent men, many 
 a town of greater pretentions than ours might 
 be justly proud to obtain. Their uniforms are 
 new and combine elegance and utility. * * * 
 In a word, the company, engine and e(iuipment 
 are all a discriminating public ought reasonably 
 to desire." 
 
 In 1874, to the Eagle Fire Company No. 1, was 
 betjueathed the sum of |200 for their use by Mrs. 
 William Wiles of Marathon, N. Y. Being in 
 need of a fire bell tlie company at once appropri- 
 ated the money for the purchase of a bell which 
 was placed in position the first of December, 1n74, 
 in a tower recently built on a comer of the fire- 
 men's building. In bssi) it was transferred to the 
 new Corporation building where it is still in ser- 
 vice. On December 1, 1X74, the board of trustees 
 of the village of Marathon, passed the following 
 resolution, viz : "Resolved, that the fire organ- 
 ization of this village now known as Eagle Fire 
 Company No. I. shall be known as Maratlum Fire 
 Department and the officers of the de])artment 
 shall consist of a chief engineer and an assistant 
 engineer, who shall be appointed annually by the 
 board of trustees upon the recommendation of the 
 companies composing the department." 
 
 A. H. Barber was appointed Chief Engineer. 
 Wallace Kelley was appointed Assistant Chief 
 Engineer. 
 
 Among the many fires at which the hand en- 
 gine was the only means of protection, might be 
 
 1 East Hill, looking a 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 15 
 
 uoticed: Tlie burning of Phillips & Bentley's 
 tanutTvon October .">, 1S74; the ilestnictiou of the 
 Burgess block, the Central market and Brown's 
 hotel. August 7, IfSTT: the burning of the Hazeu 
 block, the Smith block and Mack's hardware 
 store, September, 4, 1884; and the fii'e at John 
 Duuphy's tannery, October 1, 188"). 
 
 In the summer of 1889, the year which witnessed 
 several improvements in the village a Clapp & 
 Jones steam fire engine was purchased, wliich lias 
 done good service for the village. The Corpora- 
 tion building not be- 
 ing large enough to 
 accommodate the new 
 steamer, thenewbuild- 
 ing was erected, the 
 third floor being fitted 
 up for the company 
 rooms. It was also 
 during thisyear(188i)) 
 that Eagle Fire Com- 
 pany No. 1 , whicli had 
 so successfully main- 
 tained an organization 
 since 18()7, was dis- 
 banded. It had faith- 
 fully and successfully 
 fulfilled its mission 
 and demonstrated u))- 
 on many occasions the 
 truth of its motto, en- 
 graven upon the sides 
 of the hand engine : 
 "We fight to conquer, 
 for the public good." 
 But few volunteer fire 
 departments, especi- 
 ally in the smaller 
 villages, can show a 
 better record than 
 they did for faithful 
 and efficient service 
 to I he call of duty. A 
 number of prizes in 
 the posses.siou of the 
 tire department today 
 iiidicatethat thatcom- 
 1 )any was as successful 
 in competing in hand 
 engine contests as in 
 fighting fire. 
 
 In place of EagleFire 
 Company No. 1, two 
 separate companies were organized, known as .A . 
 H. Barber Hose Company No. 3, and Steamer 
 ( Company No. 2. These companies have continued 
 the good work of fighting fire and have been (^ver 
 l)rcimpt and faitliful in the discharge of their 
 duties. 
 
 The steamer continued to be our chief fire pro- 
 tection until 1897, when it seemed that another 
 advanced step in the line of improvc^ment in fight- 
 ing fire was necessary, and a system of water 
 works, owned by the village was b(^gun, and com- 
 plcti'd 111 till- spring of 1898. This has pnictically 
 
 taken the place of the hand engine and the 
 steamer and tlieii- services are no longer needed. 
 The companies comprising the Marathon Fire De- 
 partment at the present time are, A. H. Barber 
 Hose Company No. 3, composed of twenty- five 
 men and organized in November, 1889, and Cli- 
 max Ho.se Company No. 3, (are-organization of 
 Steamer Company No. 2), organized in April. 
 1900, composed of twenty-five men. The depart- 
 ment is .succf^ssfully performing its duties under 
 the leadership of C. S. Myers, Chief Engineer. 
 
 
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 i 
 
 TWO GREAT FLOODS. 
 N(i 1— Flciod Fell. 14. INIB, from east shore ( loaned bv C. E. Boyde 
 
 . platfoi-i 
 
 flood, lo 
 
 . "Burgess i 
 
 1 House (I). B. Trilipl. 
 
 Livingston Fire, '66 — Th(^ saw mill of James 
 Livingston, wliich stood on Hunt creek a ([Uiirter 
 of a mile east of thii village, was burned ou the 
 night of May '2, ISGIi. Daniel E. Green made 
 cheese bo.xes in one part of the building. The loss 
 was complete, about $:!,">00. Eleven years later 
 Mr. Livingston's saw mill at Messengerville was 
 burned. 
 
 The First Butter iiuide at the Marathim cream- 
 ery was <-liurned May 13, 1884 The creiimery 
 ojiened May (i when milk was received from 135 
 cows. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 AMY BRINK. 
 
 CHESTER BRINK 
 
 Abraham Brink asceudedthe Tionghnioga river 
 with his wife aud oue child and their effects in 
 cauoes in the spring of 1799 aud found oue family 
 near where he settled, John Hunt, who came 
 three years earlier. There were no direct roads 
 leadiug from Binghamtou to this place theu. Mr. 
 Briuk had a squatter's title to 109 acres, a part of 
 a claim which his father had purchased and given 
 to him. [See "Marathon Squatter" on the uext 
 page]. In the fall of that year Abraham se- 
 lected a site for a dwelling which is now 
 near the centre of Broome street in front 
 of the Briuk homestead, very close to the resi- 
 dence of D. B. Tripp (1900), aud within a few 
 rods of the principal business corner of Marathon 
 village. It was there that he aud Zechariah 
 Squires built a double log house. The latter 
 nian-ied Mr. Brink's sister. In 1801 Zechariah 
 Squires moved his 
 effects into the house 
 with the Brinks where 
 he lived untd he had 
 prepared the home- 
 which he shortly after 
 moved into on tln' 
 west side of the rivrr. 
 In 1814 Mr. Brink au.l 
 five or six neighbors — 
 the heads of all tli>' 
 Marathon families- 
 journeyed to Albany 
 to confirm their "pos- 
 session purchases, "the 
 land having then been 
 placed in the market. 
 His grandson, J. L. 
 Brink, has the patent 
 wliich was granted tn 
 Abraham Brink, in- 
 cluding a small piece 
 of two or three acres 
 in additionto his origi- 
 nal holdings which he 
 had taken to insure a 
 site for his buildings, 
 iu case otlier claims 
 should be foTjnd to 
 precede the original 
 
 holdings. This patent is dated March 
 31, 1814 for "sub-division No I, lot 
 No. 82, township of Cincinnatus, Mili- 
 tary tract," aud gives clear title to 109 
 acres. It is signed by Daniel T. Tomp- 
 kins, governor, aud Archibald Camp- 
 bell, .secretary of state. As settlers 
 began to arrive public house conven- 
 iences were desirable, and so Abraham 
 Briuk opened his home to the weary 
 traveler. This was the only tavern 
 in Mai-athon until 1883, when David 
 Peck built one aud Abraham Brink's 
 son, Chester, closed the old house for 
 public entertainment. In 1818, when 
 the township of Harrison was erected 
 (now Marathon), Abraham Brink 
 acted as postmaster. His commission 
 from President Mouroe, received 
 later, is dated December 27, 1822. 
 Abraham Brink lived iintil March 2, 
 1S24, when he died in his 52nd year. 
 His wife was Ruth Lyons, whom he 
 married in Binghamtou and who died 
 May 36, ls44, aged 68 years. Their 
 children were: Sarah, who died Jan- 
 uaiy 14, IS.'ie, 36 years of age; Mer- 
 sena, wedded to George E. Peck, who 
 moved to lUinois in 1836 and died at Greenwich, 
 O., in 1891, in her 92ud year; Chester died Oc- 
 tober 1. 1X74, beiug 72 years of age August 17th 
 of tha;t year; Auu, who married Washington G. 
 Johnson and died November 2, 1842, aged 37 years ; 
 Alzina, wedded to Marvin Atwater, who died in 
 Greenwich, O., March 16, 1S86, 74 years old; Ab- 
 
 ram, died July 27, , aged 12 years; Clarissa, 
 
 who married Philander Peck and died in Chicago, 
 December 22, 1884 aged 68. 
 
 Chester and Amy Brink lived aud died in 
 the Briuk homestead, uow o\vned and occupied 
 by their son, J. Lawrence Brink — the place which 
 Chester's father, Abraham, settled and where he 
 lived up to the time of his death. The latter had 
 seven children (see Abraham Brink's sketch) of 
 which Chester was the third. When Chester and 
 
 OFFICERS MARATHON TENT, KNIGHTS OP MACCABEES. 
 1. L. B. M(! Alpine, Sir K P. C. 2. Z.S. Pierce, Sir K. C. 
 
 [See Sk., P. 17. 
 
 . Watrows, Sir K. 
 
 H. H Turner, Sir K. R. K. v,. Earl Butterfield. Sir K. Chap. (i. E. E. MiUer, 
 
 Sir K. Sere. T. R. I,. Smith. Sir K. Phy. s. F. E. Youngs, Sir K. M. at A. 9. Leolin 
 
 Braman, Sir K. 1st M. nt t.i. 111. Arthur Hall. Sir K. 2nd M. of G. 11. George Berger, 
 
 .Sir K. S. 12. Walter Braman, Sir K. P. 13. L. F. Valentine, D. G. C. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 liis wife succeeded to the home they foimd it to 
 be a popular public hostelry, having been opeu to 
 tnivelers for more than twenty years. They con- 
 tinued to cater to the public until David Peck 
 liad built his hotel in lsy;i. although botli were 
 reluctant to "keep tavern'' on account of tlieir 
 opposition to the sale of liquor. Chestrr Brink 
 w;is an excellent farmer, careful and choice of his 
 stock, orderly in and about his premises and very 
 particular to give the farm the best sort of culti- 
 vation. He was a strong admirer of honses. No 
 man raised and sold better ones in those da\ s. 
 His farm was liis pride — liis best monument. He 
 was upright and of a sunny disposition. Amy 
 was tlie daughter of Charles Gerard and was an 
 attectiouate and good hearted woman — a kind 
 mother and helpful wife. They had seven cliild- 
 ren of whom the survivors are: Abram L. Brink 
 of Warren, 111., born January i, ls->'.); Mrs Bur- 
 gess (Caroline) Squires, born February 'ii, 1.S3I ; 
 
 surveyed by the State, William Brink, whose 
 farher was a captain at the Wyoming, Pennsyl- 
 vania, massacre bouglit the 'possession' or 'squat- 
 ter's' rights to this tract. Tlie State had not 
 then begun to put its lands in the market and uo- 
 biidy kiirw the real value of a '.scjuatter's right.' 
 Tills purchase was made in IT'JS, the price paid 
 being iifW. :Mr. Brink sold SO acres off the south 
 end which was part of what was afterwards the 
 Mallory farm to Mr. Alford for $->0 00 and the 
 balance of the same farm he gave to his son, 
 Abraham in ITS'.i. The remainder of the squat- 
 ter's tract he gave to his youngest sou, John 
 Brink, in 1.S14. It was upon this piece where 
 every year William Brink made maple sugar, 
 coming up from Bmghamton and returning with 
 Ills cargo of sugar in a canoe. All of these sales 
 were of course purely possession sales. This 
 meant that the purchasers paid for the option on 
 the laud when it should be placed in the market 
 
 Mtss^^^sm-' 
 
 A. Johnson, Photos. 
 
 Brink, liis 
 
 Mrs. Albert (Antoinette) Carter, born July '.^4, 
 18;SS, and J. Lawrence Brink, born November 1, 
 18411. of Marathon, and Charles G. Brink of Port 
 Dickinson, N. Y., bom January 17, 18:i(;. J. Law- 
 rence Brink, who still retains the old homestead 
 to which he succeeded his father, was born No- 
 vember 1, 184!). He was first married to Alice 
 Mulvihill of, Marathon, and to his second wife, 
 Martha Sheldon, nf Dryden, August 21, 188S. 
 
 The Marathon "Squatter"— William Scpiires, 
 one of the tildest settlers who became bliiul before 
 his death related the following, which was written 
 down by J. I;. Brink : "An old trai)per from Union 
 (near Binghamton) in 17(12 put a 'ixissession' fenc(! 
 around :!00 acres of State land between the 'salt' 
 road (one-half mile ea.st) and the river including 
 what is now the greater part of the vUIage on the 
 east side of the river. Soon after the county was 
 
 H\M HIMNK liuMKSTEAD— Now the Property and Ki' 
 : ^Tandson. 
 
 by the State. .John Brink settled on this trad 
 the year he received the gift of possession from 
 his fatlier." 
 
 Marathon Tent No. 582, K. O. T. M., was in- 
 stituted .January 1), 1899. by Deputy Great Com- 
 mander W. E. Spangle, assisted by Sir Kniglit 
 William Schoolcraft. After a few mrinths for 
 various reasons the membership had decreased 
 until it was found necessarv to rtnirganize. On 
 July 2Sth, J)(!puty Great ('(imniaiKUu- R. W. Mur- 
 ray reorganized tlie tent witli tlie following offi- 
 cers: Sir Knight (!om., L. F. Valentine: Su- 
 Knight Lieu. Com., H. H. Robin.son ; Sir Knight 
 Pfust Com., L. B. McAlpine : Sir Knight R. & P. 
 K., H. H. Turner; Sir Kniglit Physician, R. L. 
 Smitli, M. D. : Sir Knight M. at A., J. R. Bow- 
 man; Sir Knight Sargeant. J. C. Watrous ; Sir 
 Knight 1st M. of (;., Isaac Borger ; .Sir Knight 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MKS. CAROLINE BRINK SQUIRES. BURGESS SQUIRES, 
 ;2ufl M. of (t., George Berger; Sir Knight Senti- 
 nel, O. M. Grain; Sir Knight Picket, Clyde Con- 
 rad. The tent is in a flourishing condition at tlie 
 present writing with a membership of tliirty-one 
 who know that in times of sickness or distress 
 they will be amply provided for. A new and 
 beautiful paraphernalia is aboiit tobe purcliased for 
 the degree team to exemplify tlie impi'essive aud 
 beautiful ritualistic work of the order. The re- 
 views are held every alternate Friday evening at 
 G. A. R. Hall, where a cordial invitation is ex- 
 tended to all Sir Knights to meet with them. 
 The officers for the present term are : Sir Kniglit 
 Com., Z. S. Pierce; Sir Knight Lieu. Com., J. ('. 
 Watrous; Sir Knight Past Com., L. B. Mc Alpine ; 
 Sir Kniglit R. & F. K., H. H. Turner; Sir Knight 
 Physician, R. L. 
 
 store and a tavern and all the rest of the 
 village comprised the few homes of farm- 
 ers or those employed by farmers except- 
 ing of course the old saw and grist mills 
 and the blacksmith and wagon shop. 
 Tlieir grandfathers came to Marathon 
 by canoe and their fathers helped clear 
 away the forests, as is fully described 
 elsewhere on these pages. Both were 
 born on the property their grandparents 
 reclaimed from virgin woods, Mr. 
 S(iuires on the hill a mile west of the 
 village, the original home of Zachary 
 Squii'es, and his wife in the farm house 
 which is still the Brink homestead, 
 standing within a few rods of the cross- 
 ing of the two main streets of the vil- 
 lage. This was taken up by Abraham 
 Brink and occupied by his children who 
 lived and died there and his grand- 
 children, one of whom is still the occu- 
 pant and possessor of the place. From 
 childhood they have been active in 
 local doings, and now in the ripeness 
 of years they display none the less en- 
 ergy in social and church affairs. On 
 January 6, IfSfiS, Burgess Squires aud 
 Caroline E., the daughter of Chester 
 and Amy Bi'ink, were wedded. Five 
 years earlier, with his j)arents, who 
 had moved from the farm, Mr. Squires had 
 taken up his residence in the village. They 
 settled in a home on the west side of the river, 
 where Mr and Mi-s. Squires have ever since lived. 
 Although born (March 12, 182.S) and reared on a 
 farm he hail early gone into speculation which 
 turned in tlie direction of operations in real estate 
 and comprised largely his occupation down to with- 
 in a few years past when Mr. Squires retired from 
 active business pursuits. During this period he 
 was for awhile engaged in the pork business with 
 Samuel Conger, who had previously built a pork 
 packing house, the firm being known as Conger & 
 Squires. In late years considerable property has 
 accrued to Mr. and Mrs. Squires in addition to that 
 wliich includes tlie Pennoyer farm of 165 acres, a 
 
 Smith, M. D.; Sir 
 Knight M. atA.,F.E. 
 Youngs ; Sir Knight 
 Sargeant, E. E. 
 Miller: Sir Knight 1st 
 M. of G., Leolin Bra- 
 mau ; Sir Knight 2iid 
 M. of G., Arthur Hall; 
 Sir Knight Sentinel, 
 George Berger ; Sir 
 Knight Picket, Wal- 
 ter Braman. 
 
 Hr. and Mrs. Bur- 
 gess Squires have 
 irrowu up with Mara- 
 thon, as it were, and 
 their memories talce 
 them perhaps as far 
 in the background of 
 local affairs as any 
 others of the present 
 time. [See " Earliest 
 Recollections," next 
 page. ] When they 
 were children the 
 small frontier school 
 house was in iise. 
 There was but one 
 
 --TIES^ 
 
 A. .Tolinson, Plioto 
 
 ,n [KKS" i;ksii)knci-:. 
 
'GRIP\S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 SOUTHWEST CORNER MAIN AND BRINK STREETS 
 "Old Carley Corner." [Photo, May kSSl. loaned hy F. H. Swift. 
 
 PKitsoss IN THE ABOVE PICTURE From left tci nu'lit : .Ttsse Courtney (deceased) 
 
 onthesteps; Moses Adams (dec. ^ : George Hulbert ideiM : Crittenden ; L. C. 
 
 Ball idec.i: DeWitt Miller: : Martin Br..,)ks: T.u.-ien Hazen (dec i. The 
 
 stores were Isaac Stevens*, Hlilbert Br 
 
 mile north of the village, aud a place of 1-iO acres 
 iu the towu of Willet. Mrs. Squires was boru 
 FehruarT -'2, is:'!. Her first marriage was with 
 O. J. Roe when she was 21 years old. He died in 
 1X64, leaving (me sou, Charles N. Roe now a resi- 
 dent of Salt Lake City. Four years later she 
 wedded Mr. Squires. Botli are diligent aud zeal- 
 ous members of the Presbyterian churcli of which 
 Mr. Squires has been an elder since uniting with 
 it. 
 
 "The Earliest Recollections I have,'" said Mrs. 
 Burgess Squires, "was the old frame story and a 
 half building wliich stood on my father's farm 
 next to the four corners, where the Peck block 
 now is. It was used as a store and afterwards as 
 a residence and was burned down I think 
 about 1846. It seems to me that it was 
 in ':i6 or '37 that the second store was 
 liiiilt on the opposite corner, where the 
 Hulbert block stands. It was put up by 
 my father, Chester Brink, and Alanson 
 Carley. This was then talked of as the 
 time when wheat was higli, selling for 
 twenty shillings. My father boarded 
 tlic lielp at work on the building. The 
 new store impressed me as being larger 
 than that across the street where George 
 Peck, my uncle, did business. His wife. 
 Mersena Brink Peck, was my fatlier's 
 sister, the daughter of Abraham Brink, 
 who first settled at that place. The 
 latter came up the river in a canoe and 
 bought tlie rights of a squatter, putting 
 np a log building almost on the site of 
 the present Brink liomestead. and wliich 
 stood near the center of what is now 
 Broome street. All around him were 
 State lands, and when they were placed 
 in the market he huiTied to Albany with 
 fivK or six others on the same mission 
 and secured title to what he had taken. 
 Tlie party traveled across country on 
 foot for days through forests, having but 
 one horse to carry their arms and food. 
 There was then the .salt road which ran 
 iiortli and south about a mile east of the 
 river which intersected with the State 
 road four miles north and intersected 
 the road following the east shore of the 
 river on the Mallory farm about a 
 mile south of the village. Another store 
 
 I recollect was that 
 put up by John M. 
 Roe on the present 
 site of the Tarbell 
 building. At that 
 time, I remember, 
 there were two saw 
 mills, one ou each side 
 of the river, and a 
 grist mill on tlie west 
 side. Tliere was a 
 blacksmith shop ou 
 the east side. As long 
 back as I can recall 
 Horace Dickinson run 
 a tannery There was 
 a shop connected with 
 it where boots and 
 shoes were made. 
 The ruins of the Hil- 
 singer mill now stand 
 on the site of that 
 tannery. I also re- 
 call an ashery on the 
 east side. Long before 
 I remember there was 
 an ashery ou my father's farm. It stood near the 
 foot of the gorge a short distance south of the vil- 
 lage. A creek came down there and afforded it 
 water. My earliest recollections include the old 
 yellow school building which stood on the present 
 site of L. F. Ward's residence ou the boundary of 
 my father's farm. When I was fourteen years 
 old a school building was erected on the site of 
 the present school. Luther Brusie and Charlotte 
 Roe were the first to teach in this building. D. 
 E. Whitmore taught school in both buildings. 
 The diagram which you publish represents as near 
 as I can remember liow the inside of the yellow 
 school house was laid out. Three rows of pine 
 seats extend along the two sides of the building. 
 Tlie back row was fitted into tlie wall and ran 
 
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 PLAN OF THK INTEKIOR OK OLD YELLOW SCHOOL HOUSE. 
 T>rHwn by "(Jrip" from the recollections of Mr. and Mrs. Squires. 
 (See " Earliest Recollections "). 
 A. Main street. B. West side. 0. East aide. D. Entrance. E. 
 Schoolitiaster's seat. V. Schoolmaster's d<'sk. (t. Seat against the 
 wall for the older Hoholars. H. Seat for next voimper scholars. L 
 Seat for vounk'est scliolars, without desks. M. Scholar's plain board 
 desks. I^. Water pail. P. Stove. X. Windows. Dotted Hues en- 
 close seats; full lines enclose desks. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP MARATHON 
 
 .•!^!as'*%«w 
 
 Wn.LIAM SgriRE8. LUCY (.'HURCH SQUIRES, 
 
 [Borrowed Photos.] 
 
 clear around the building. You had to step upon 
 a narrow platform to reach that seat. A plain 
 board fitted to the back of the two rows of seats 
 ahead made a counter to serve the purpose of a 
 desk. The front seat for small children, who 
 were not old enough to write or draw, had no 
 counter. The teacher sat behind a desk resting 
 upon the counter in the rear of the room, taking 
 his place with his older scliolars on the seat 
 against the wall. A large box stove set in the 
 center of the room and at the right of the door as 
 you entered stood the water pail and dipper. My 
 husband and I both attended there and among 
 our school mates were J. Stewiu't Wells aufl David 
 R. Locke ("Petroleum V. Nasby"). How well I 
 remember the latter, a chunk of a lad with a 
 shock of tow colored hair, barefooted with 
 his pants rolled part way up to his knees and 
 dressed in a sheep gray roundabout suit. 
 How da-oU he was. too, and full of pranks, 
 often bringing upon himself punishment for 
 his mirthfulness." "I remember", said 
 Mr. Squires, "hearing my father tell of his 
 going to school on the driving floor of an 
 old barn standing north of the creek nearly 
 opposite to the Livingstons. Wlien time 
 came to draw in hay ne had to go to schonl 
 in the stable part. Afterwards, the tirst 
 school I have heard of in Marathon stood on 
 the bank of the creek on the present site of 
 the Tarbell building. Then tlie creek ran 
 through there and where the Maratlion 
 House now stands. This building toppled 
 out into the creek and was sold to Abraham 
 Brink who made a hog pen of it. Then the 
 yellow school house was built by James 
 Burgess." "The first church was built the 
 year I was born, 1S31," said Mrs. Squires. 
 "It was occupied for a few years by all de- 
 nominations. The site was taken from my 
 father's farm and the deed was after%vards 
 conveyi'd to the Presbyterian church by 
 Abraham Brink's heirs. Mr. Kinney was 
 the first pastor of this church, whom I can 
 recollect. He came here from McGrawville. 
 The first Metliodist church was erected here 
 when I was eleven yeai's old. Tlie flood 
 which occurred in Jnly 18(58 is clear in my 
 mind. Tlie farmers were liaying. People 
 rowed out in boats over standing corn. 
 
 A great deal of hay was damaged and large 
 fields of corn washed out. I remember in 
 January l.S.")T when the flats east of the 
 river below the village were covered. One 
 of the old barns on the flats had some hay 
 in it and to save colts which were in the 
 field a hole was knocked in the side of the 
 barn and they were led up into the hay. I 
 recall that during high water in 1S6.5 Giles 
 Wood earned the mails to Biughamtou with 
 horses the railroad being washed out." ''I 
 believe," said Mr. Squires, "that Edward 
 Moore had the first mowing machine 
 brought to Marathon, which was in 1S.">(), 
 and that the next one was bought next year 
 by my fatlier." "In ls3o and "^li," said 
 Mr. Squires, "a distillery stood a little west 
 of George Webster's residence in the edge 
 of the %voods, and I used to go there for 
 emptyings for bread. It was run by George 
 Parker. And that reminds me.'' con- 
 tinued Mr. Squires, "that in those days 
 whiskey was iudispensible to labor and 
 that the tii-st house probably erected in Ma- 
 rathon where the jug of whiskey was not 
 passed around was that which in late years 
 was the residence of Nathaniel Bouton. 
 Joseph Benedict buUt it about Ln31 for a 
 cabinet shop and residence and he declared that 
 the building would never be raised if it could not 
 be done without whisky. I remember hearing 
 my father tell about going to school witli Tluirlow 
 Weed," said Mr. Squires. "The home of Weed 
 was on the Clay Carley farm, on the hill a lialf 
 mile west of the river. Father told of apple trees 
 that stood around the house, all traces of which 
 have disappeared. He also told how Weed when 
 a boy, desiring to have a crop of his own. piled 
 upon a hemlock stump a heap of dirt in wliich he 
 planted corn that grew quite large presenting a 
 really laiighable appearance. The first postman 
 I recall was Isaac Johnson who strapped tlie mails 
 behind his saddle and came into town with a 
 flourish of horsemanship and a trumpeting of his 
 horn whicl) brought every body to the door. I 
 
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 ^■'?iw 
 
 SOME OF THE BUILDERS OF MARATHON. 
 
 James Burcess. Dr. Samut-l Hunt, Anson Peck. 
 
 Lydia Hunt, Hannah Maller.v, Mrs. C. C. Brink, Mer.sena Brink Peck 
 
 D. R. Lo<'ke i"P«*troleuni V. Nasby" t, Cephas Comstock, 
 
 [Borrowed photos.] Charles Gerard. 
 
'(tRip's" historical souvenir of marathon 
 
 U. B. TRIPP. Historian, "Grip's" Souvenir. 
 
 was quite a young man when the first stage coacli 
 came aloug. I remember the day well. I wa.s 
 cutting oats. The stages then c<iunectefl with 
 other lines at Lisle. I have been informed that 
 David Wing wa.s the first man who carried mail 
 to and from Marathon." 
 
 William Squires and his wife, Lucy, were 
 descendants of families who were among the 
 earliest settlers of Marathon, who by their perse- 
 verance and indu.stry opened and improved one of 
 the best farms in this locality. With united and 
 untiring zeal tlicy also labored to promote the so- 
 cial and churcli interests of tlir comiNiuiity and 
 were the first to endorse any proji^cr that promised 
 to advance the growth of the village. To the 
 State militia he gave twenty-two years of active 
 service in which he took considerable pleasure and 
 interest, and was re- 
 warded with the com- 
 missions of captain, 
 lieutenant-colonel and 
 colonel, the latter title 
 being ever afterwards 
 attached to his name. 
 (joI. .Squires was horn 
 in ninghumton, No- 
 viMiibcr -Jli, IT'.tS. In 
 isoi hisparcnt.u, Zach- 
 ary and Catharine 
 Squires, .iourneyf^d up 
 the Tionghnioga in a 
 canoe as far as the site 
 of the present village 
 wheri! they found 
 three other families 
 who had already lo- 
 cated thert!. Thfiy 
 settled on a farm in 
 the town of Lapeer, 
 then Virgil, and si.\ 
 years later removed to 
 the farm a half mile 
 west of t he river l)ridge 
 where William lived, 
 workingtlie placewitli 
 his fatlier until Is.M. 
 when lie mcivi-d on 
 
 to the farm at Coiisin's Corners wliicli he 
 Ijurchased of his father when he had attained 
 ills majority. The preceding year, (182;i), iie 
 married Lucy, the daughter of Malachi and 
 Lucy Church, who was born in Brattleboro, Vt., 
 March 4, 1S02, and whose parents moved to Mara- 
 thon in 180(1. At the age of I.") years she began 
 teaching which she continued until she was mar- 
 ried. She was a woman of rare Christian virtues, 
 thoroughly in sympathy with her hu.sband's olans 
 and purposes; a warm hearted, atlVrtn mate wife 
 and mother and a person of great litins oli nee. 
 In all homes of suffering she was to lie lound la- 
 boring to alleviate pain and console those in 
 trouble. Besides becoming the mother of eleven 
 children to whom she gave the most zealous care 
 and attention she took into her home children 
 who were found to be destitute, and oftentimes 
 grown people who were unable to care for tliem- 
 selves. In 1829 Col. Squh-es moved onto the farm 
 one half mile south of the village which was tlien 
 a tract of 60 acres of uncleared, and largely 
 swampy, river bottom covered with fallen trees 
 and brush, and 72 acres of hill land growing 
 dense, heavy timber. Here he and his boys 
 wrought diligently cutting, clearing and draining 
 until before he died he had the pleasure of behold- 
 ing as tht^ fruits of his wisdom and industry a 
 farm in all respects equal, and in many, better 
 than any other in the county — now the property 
 and home of one of his sous, G. P. Squires. He 
 was among the most fearless advocates of prohibi- 
 tion and abolition. In ls(i3 Mr. and Mrs. Squires 
 moved into the village where William died 
 March 1.5, 1885, and Lucy .lanuaiy Hi, 1.S.S8. He 
 represented the town on the board of supervisors. 
 He was one of the incorporators and the manager 
 of the Marathon Cemetery association. Of the 
 large f amilyof children whom they reared three are 
 living; Burgess S(iuires, George Peck Squires 
 and Mrs. D. B. Tripp. Three died before obtain- 
 ing the age of maturity and three died, respect- 
 ively at the ages of 24, IV.) and :!3 years. 
 
 D. B. Tripp, the assistant cashier of the First 
 National bank of Marathon, of which he is one of 
 th(^ original stockholders and directors, positions 
 he still occupies, has always been among the most 
 active business men of the village in giving eoun- 
 
 I). K. TRIPPS RKSIDENCE 
 
KIRIP'S" HIST(miCAL SOUVENIR OP MARATHON 
 
 Borrowed Photo.] J. STEWART WELI.S. 
 teuauce to looal improvement. The handsome 
 public library, au iustitutiou which is in uo way 
 beliind the best of them, may be said to be largely 
 of his creation, since he is the president of the 
 library board and has been from the beginning : 
 he also having full control of the new opera 
 house, a very commodious and pretty place for 
 public entertainment in the upper story of the 
 librai-y building. Mr. Tripp was president of the 
 village board in 'i)3, '94 and '95; also a trustee in 
 1.S78. His wife, Margaret, is the daughter of the 
 late William Squires. They were married June 
 15, 1S70. Mr. Tripp was born in Harford, Cort- 
 land county, October 7, 1X4','. He was educated 
 in the Harford public school and Dryden academy 
 and taught school in the latter village two terms, 
 ls(i3 and 1X64. He came to Marathon in 
 ls()4 and accepted a clerkship with Tripp 
 & Adams, where he remained until the 
 organization of the bank. Mr. Tripp is 
 a student of history and a fluent public 
 speaker. The souvenir owes him very 
 much for his clear, concise and compre- 
 hensive sketch of the description and his- 
 tory of Maratlion. 
 
 Col. J. Stewart Wells of Binghamton 
 early in the thirties, at the age of 7, came 
 to reside with the family of William 
 Church, one of the early families of Ma- 
 rathon, Mrs. Church being his aunt. For 
 nine years he dwelt with them as one of 
 the family, and the training and care 
 which lie received at their hands he re- 
 cognizes and credits as the toundation 
 for the measure of success he has achieved 
 in a long, busy, useful life. At the age 
 of Hi he ceased to be a resident of Mara- 
 tlion, and started on foot for the then 
 village of Binghamton, where he became 
 anajiprrntice to a carpenter and builder. 
 Thoronglily mastering liis trade he soon 
 went into luisiiiess for liiiii^elf, and with 
 zeal and sound judgiueiit lie has reaped 
 a substantial reward. For many years 
 he had charge of the construction of the 
 best edifices in that and neighboring 
 places. He also found time to embark in 
 
 other branches of industry, and there, too, he 
 prospered until he is one of the most substantial 
 citizens of the Parlor City. A little more 
 than fifty years ago he married Miss Hannah 
 Barnes and they began house keeping on 
 the same spot where they now reside on First 
 street in that city. During all these years 
 that have passed since Mr. Wells left Marathon 
 his interest in the place has not flagged. He has 
 been a frecjuent visitor here and has kept in touch 
 with its history. When the Peck Memorial 
 library was rstaiilislied liis interest in that insti- 
 tution early iiuiiiifisted itself, both on account of 
 his long acciuaiutance witli the noble lady who 
 made it possible, as well as his regard for the 
 place itself. And so when he realized that an 
 addition to its endowment fund would greatly in- 
 (•re:ise its iutluenc-e for good he sent tn the trustees 
 his check for $1,000, and has since annually i-on- 
 triliuted $l2b to the fund for the jnirchase of 
 books. In sending his check for the $1 .000 he said : 
 
 BiN<;nAMTON, Sept. 2. 189."i. 
 Tlie Peck Memorial Library Association of the 
 Village of Maratlion, N. Y. 
 At the age of seventy-three I look back 
 over the scenes of a busy life to my lioyhood ilays 
 spent in Marathon from the age of six to seven- 
 teen, and as a token of respect and devotion to the 
 friends of my youth I enclose my check for one 
 thousand dollars, the income to purchase books to 
 be placed in your library, hoping their contents 
 will benefit my friends and the publi<-. 
 Yours Truly. 
 
 J. Stewart Wells. 
 
 The Peck Memorial Library was founded by 
 Mrs. Meri-ena Peck. She was the daughter of 
 Abraham Brink,one of the pioneer settlers of Mara- 
 thon. She was an exceedingly amiable and be- 
 nevolent lady, and had an earnest desire that a 
 paa-t of her property should be used for the benefit 
 of her native town. Accordingly she caused to 
 be inserted in her last will which was executed on 
 the 12th day of January, 1NS5, the following pro- 
 vision : "I give to James H. Tripp, Daniel B. 
 Tripp and Daniel E. Whitmore, all of Marathon, 
 
 I'KCK MKMnKIAL LIKRAKY. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 the sum of ($20,000) twenty thoiisaurt dollars in 
 trust for till- orKiiuizatiou. furnishing and main- 
 tenance of ii tin- (jiililic library iu Marathon afore- 
 said. The (irtails for said orsauizatiou and for 
 the purchase of l)0(>ks, fitting up and support of 
 said library I am obliged to leave entirely to the 
 discretion of the said trustees with the hope that 
 they will exercise their best judgment and so 
 manage it that it shall be of the greatest possible 
 benefit to the people of Marathon." At the time 
 of ht-v dinrh which occurred in June, 181)1, her 
 neiiri~t r. hit ims were neices and nephews. Some 
 of tliise (■(iiiiiiieneed an action to set aside her 
 will. A settlement 
 was finally made 
 whereby the specific- 
 legacies were paid 
 over according to tlic 
 terms of the will iu 
 the latter part nf tlu- 
 j-ear is<.):i The trus- 
 tees took iiiiiucdiate 
 steps to carry into 
 effect the be(iuest re- 
 lating to the library. 
 An association was in- 
 corporated, a site pro- 
 cured, plans for a 
 building were made, 
 contract awarded and 
 building commenced 
 in May, lSi)4, com 
 pleted and di'dicatcd 
 iu May. 180."), and li- 
 brary opened to tin- 
 public on January 1st, 
 ls'.)i;. The building is 
 4Sx8(; feet, i)uilt (if 
 ])ressed brick witli 
 grey stone trimmings. 
 The arched entrance 
 is supported by pol- 
 ished granite colunnis 
 
 surmounted by carved Corinthian capi- 
 tals. The windows are plate glass with 
 ornamental transoms. The interior is 
 finished with oak. About one foiu-th of 
 the first floor is occupied by the First Na- 
 tional bank, and the other three fourths 
 by the library. There is an Opera house 
 on the secimd floor with seating capacity 
 for (iOO, lighted by electricity, with large 
 stage and all necessary scenery and 
 equipments. The lilirary contains 3,000 
 volumes exclusive of pamphlets and 
 public documents. The circulation for 
 the year ending June ;iO, 1900, was '.l,;!"."). 
 There is also a reading table provided 
 with papers and magazines. Iu addition 
 to the gift of 120,000 Ijy Mrs. Peck, J, 
 Stewart Wells of Binghamtou has given 
 f 1,000 besides an annual gift of .fl-J.") for 
 five successive years for the purchase of 
 books. D. B. Tripp gave a Decker Bros, 
 grand piano, Mrs. D. B. Tripp, a grate 
 and mantle. Mrs. Burgess Squires a me- 
 morial window and G. L. Swift $3.50. 
 < )ther parties have made liberal contri- 
 butions of liooks. The trustees are James 
 H. Tripp, Daniel B. Tripp, Ed. L. Ad- 
 ams, D. Barnard Willson and Burgess 
 Squires. The executive oflicers are : D. 
 B- Tripp, president ; D. B. Willson, sec- 
 retary; Lyman Adams, treasurer; J.W. 
 Livingston, librarian. 
 
 John W. Livingston, librarian of the 
 Peck Memorial library, an appointment 
 which he received December 1, ISOI), 
 and superintendent of the water system since 
 May, 1890, is a machinist, a trade which he 
 and his brother learned in their father's foun- 
 dry, a business which the latter, James Liv- 
 ingston, carried on for .several years. When 
 the contractors, who put in tlie water works, 
 abandoned the work when it was ouly par- 
 tially completed James Livingston and his sous 
 finished laying a large quantity of the pipe, 
 which, though entirely out of their line, was com- 
 pleted iu a finished and entirely satisfactory 
 manner. Jolm Livingston's well known aptitude 
 for compiling and preserving records naturally left 
 
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'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP MARATHON 
 
 to his appoiutment as clerk of the village in Feb- 
 ruary 189S, as well as clerk of the Baptist church 
 society, of which he is a member, au appoint- 
 ment received ten years ago, both of which posi- 
 tions he has continued to till in au acceptable 
 manner. Tlie post of librarian, to which he suc- 
 ceeded upon the death of his wife which occurred 
 November 34, 1899, is au important position be- 
 cause it entails the responsibility for the care of 
 one of the largest and best public libraries that is 
 to be found in any village in the State. As a 
 member of the fire department from the time he 
 was twelve years of age, in which he has been 
 honored by election to most of the offices includ- 
 ing cliief engineer, he has ever been active in pro- 
 
 Jerome liulbert, deceased, the subject of this 
 sketch, was bnrn in Truxton, N. Y., February 2:i, 
 1829 and died in Marathon, December 17, 1884. 
 His father, Timothy Hulbert. was born in Pitts- 
 field, Mass., October 2, 1789. Mr Hulbert was 
 for many years a prominent business man of 
 Marathon, being largely engaged in the produce 
 business in connection with his brothers in New 
 York city. His business relations were most 
 happy, all having confidence in his judgment and 
 feeling he worked for their interest as well as 
 his own. He was energetic and quick in his de- 
 cisions and was rarely deceived in the true value 
 
 .TEROME HULBERT AND HIS LATE RESmENCE, now the property and home of his widow. 
 3r irse, Conservatory and Grounds ( A..Tohnson,Photo ) . Arch of Vines at the Entrance ( Ernest Hulbert . Photo 1 . 
 A Nook in the Music Room (Ernest Hulbert, Photo). 
 
 moting its efficiency. He was born in Marathon, 
 June :iO, 1859. Being compelled to relinquish the 
 higher branches of study owing to failing eye- 
 sight he chose the trade of machinist which he fol- 
 lowed until about a year and a half ago. He 
 selected one of Maratlion's accomplished daugli- 
 ters, Hattie Hamlin, for a life partner and their 
 nuptials were celebrated July 2b, 188:i. Her 
 deatli sixteen years later deprived himself and one 
 daughter, Miss lone, of a devoted wife and loving 
 mother whose early demise was mourned by the 
 community. Mr. Livingston, au active republi- 
 can, has been made inspector of elections and 
 cliairman of the board for years. 
 
 of things and seldom relinquished an undertaking 
 until brought to a successful completion. His in- 
 fluence was felt in every phase of society. He 
 was deeply interested in all that pertained to the 
 welfare of his town, religious, educational or sec- 
 ular. He was au elder in the Presbyterian church 
 of Marathon, superintendent of the Sunday 
 school and president of the Y. M. C. A., to all of 
 which he gave his earnest enthusiastic service. 
 His home life was beautiful, loyal, loving and 
 true, his family home holding the first place in 
 his heart and life. He left a wife, daughter of 
 the late S. M. Roe of Cortland, who has always 
 remained in the old home, and one child, Mrs. 
 
■•(JRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 JAMES HICKEY. 
 
 MRS. N. E. HICKEY. 
 
 Ernest M. Hulbert of Cortland. Ou the day of 
 his bimal at the time of the funeral all the places 
 of business were closed, all seeniins to feel they 
 had lost a personal friend. The beautiful white 
 horse seen in the picture is one Mr. Hulbert gave 
 as a present to his wife and is one of the land- 
 marks of the town. 
 
 John Jay Hickey came to Marathon to live in 
 October, 1^6.5, and for twenty-five years was en- 
 gaged in the village iu building and general re- 
 pairing, a trade which he took up when ](i years 
 of age, with Friuck & Russell at McOrawville, 
 afterwards working for oiney (i. Perkins of Cin 
 cinnatus and William Alvord of Cortland, each 
 three years. In 18<il he enlisted iu the TGth regi- 
 ment at Cortland but was taken sick in the re- 
 cruiting camp and was not mustered in. Subse- 
 <iuently he enlisted 
 iu the 157th regi- 
 ment but was re- 
 jected because of 
 trouble with one of 
 his limbs. How- 
 ever, he engaged in 
 the recruiting serv- 
 ce at Cortland and 
 afterwards re- 
 ceived the commis- 
 sion of first lieu- 
 tenant in the Na- 
 tional (Guards from 
 (rovernor Fen ton. 
 Having a pen- 
 cliant for leading 
 in military display 
 Mr. Hickey has 
 been several times 
 selected by his 
 townsmen as mar- 
 slial in local pa- 
 rades. The first 
 three years he was 
 iu Marathon he 
 worked as building 
 forcnian for Minor 
 < irant and the fol- 
 lowing tlu-ee years 
 wtis engaged in 
 
 building by the .iob or day with INIe.ssrs. 
 Underwood and Borthwick. In com- 
 pany with Mr. Underwood he bid ou the 
 plans for the new Union scliool and the 
 two were awarded the julj for $s,()00, a 
 price since considered ndiculiously low 
 and a job then regarded as the largest in 
 the towu. These two gciitleiucu were 
 for several years in parlncrsliip in l)uild- 
 iug operations, which occupation Mr. 
 Hickey followed until 1890, when he 
 turned his entire attention to the manu- 
 facture of an ointuieut known as Jersey 
 Balm, the secret for which his wife had 
 evolved and patented, and a remedy 
 which has been made known all over 
 the country. Mr. Hickey took the busi- 
 ness managemeut of the business, which 
 together they started in a small way and 
 which they have enlarged until now it 
 has become an important industry, pro- 
 moted through general agencies iu all 
 sections of the union. In I.S94 Mrs. 
 Fitz Boyuton of Cortland purchased a 
 half interest, which since her death has 
 been controlled by Mrs. Hickey as trus- 
 tee for Mrs. Boynton's two sons. The 
 greatest part of the remedy is handled 
 through headi|uarti'rs in New York and 
 Miinieapolis, wliich deal directly with lo- 
 cal agencies iu the east, west and south. Mrs. 
 Hickey (Nancy E. Stone) was born iu McOraw- 
 ville aud afterwards lived in Solon. Mr. Hickey 
 was born in Hoboken, N. .1,, SeptemVier 1, 18;i4. 
 They were married at Cortland, October 11, 1864. 
 His father, John O. Hickey, who came from Ire- 
 land when 21 years old, was a builder and had 
 charge of the construction of the Elysium fields, 
 the well known pleasure grounds across the river 
 from New York and several large Imildiugs iu 
 Hoboken, where he became a prominent politi- 
 cian. In 1839 in company with two others he 
 bought laud in Solon and Truxtou where he con- 
 structed a log house and cleared a farm, later ou 
 bringing his family and children hither by means 
 of a packet to Syracuse and a coach from that 
 point across the country. Mr. .John Jay Hickey 
 lia.s served four years as justice of the peace. 
 
 lorrowi-d Plujtd. I MRS. .lEROME HULBERT'.S C-I,.\S.S, PRE.S. S. .S. 
 
 Mildred Blue, Francis I^ewis, Mttleulm Hlue, (Ja^o Swift, 
 AuKUstine Burgess, Gladys Blue, Marion Blue, Louise Bradford, Maxwell Mile 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORinAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MRS. ANN ELIZA SyUIRES. 
 
 4E()R(tE p. squires. 
 
 He has for years been promiueut iu the 
 local order of Odd Fellows, having served the 
 Marathon lodge as Past Grand, having gone 
 tlirough the encampment and having assisted in 
 instituting other lodges. He was one of the early 
 members of the order of (rood Templars after the 
 revival in the seventies, having served as Chief 
 Templar and having assisted iu instituting many 
 lodges. Mr. and Mrs. Hiokey are members of the 
 Baptist church, in which society Mr. Hickey has 
 served as trustee and chairman of the building 
 committee. Mr. Hickey has always been an 
 active republican, taking part in caucuses and 
 conventions, many times as chairman, and has re- 
 presented the town on the county committee. 
 He is an experienced licensed auctioneer. 
 
 George P. Squires, one of Marathon's largest 
 farmers and daiiymen, is also extensively known 
 as a breeder of Red Polled cattle. His was the 
 third herd of this breed started in the United 
 States. In ISx'S he imported four head, three 
 heifers and a bull, wliich laid the foundation for 
 the herd, which by additional purchases and 
 breeding he built up to the number of 76 to 
 100. For a number of years his son, Harry P. 
 exhibited them at 
 many of the leading 
 fairs in the eastern 
 and southern states, 
 being awarded in one 
 season over 11,300 in 
 preniinuis. In the 
 Vfiir l^'.M the herd was 
 atiiirkcd w itli an epi- 
 demic which lasted 
 for three years and 
 greatly reduced the 
 number. Mr. Squires 
 is still a great admirer 
 of these cattle and he 
 thinks them the best 
 general purpose breed 
 he knows of and hopes 
 to be able to build up 
 another herd when 
 tlie conditions are fa- 
 vorable for so doing. 
 Mr. Squires has also 
 won some distinction 
 through the large and 
 commodious barn lie 
 has planned and 
 caused to be built on f. S.Dellow, l'hut._ 
 
 his home farm. When he came in 
 possession of the farm it had a number 
 of barns all disconnected and fast coming 
 to need repairs. He began to study the 
 situation and decided not to repair but 
 to build one barn which should be ample 
 for the accommodation of the whole 
 farm. This structure, which is the 
 liandiest, the most substantial and the 
 most compact the writer has ever seen, 
 was built ill 18^3 and consists of a main 
 building Kit feet long, 44 feet wide is 
 three stories high a 10- foot basement and 
 24-foot posts above the basement with an 
 L S2x'M and 20ft posts. The basement 
 has an entry at each end and also iu the 
 end of the L. It has stancheons for 
 forty-two liead of cattle, five stalls for 
 horses, commodious box stalls for young 
 stock and other purposes The base- 
 ment has accommodations for seventy 
 to seventy-five head of stock. The floor 
 is mostly cement and the whole is 
 supplied with pure running spring 
 water. Every part of the barn is access- 
 from the basement by inside stairs 
 driving inclines. The hay and straw 
 is delivered iu the basement by shutes conven- 
 iently arranged, and the grain and mill feed is 
 spouted down from bins overhead. Two tub silos 
 of 12ft. diameter and 40ft. high, iuclosed by a 
 building 24x2s feet, stand at the southeast corner 
 of the barn where they are filled from the bank 
 above and are connected below with the base- 
 ment. So that the ensilage car, which holds 2.5 
 bushels and runs on a steel track overhead 
 delivers it to all parts of the liasement. Three 
 driveways lead into the barn overhead, by earth 
 approaches within 24 feet of the barn, and the 
 last 24 feet is by iron bridges. Two of these 
 bridges connect with the driving floors in the 
 thii'd story which are tlaukeil by haymows, which 
 have a capacity of about :)()0 tons. The hay is 
 delivered iu the mows by grapple forks which 
 run on tracks overhead and deposit it at any de- 
 sired point. The grain bins and feed bins are 
 directly under the rU'iving floors and are filled 
 through trap doors for the purpose. In the west 
 end of the barn is a scaffold bay :iGx44 feet, which 
 is used for storing untlu-eashed grain. The L of 
 the barn is directly opposite the end of one driv- 
 
 able 
 and 
 
 i;ksidence. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVKNIR ()F MARATHON 
 
 F. E. Yumit;, Photo 
 
 BIRUSEYE VIEW OF (iEoliUE P. SQUIRES' FARM. 
 
 iitioiis, workiiifj the 
 home farm of :ilO 
 acres themselves and 
 superinten(Uufr and 
 repairiug the Oom- 
 stalk farm of 255 
 acres wWch they owu 
 located about one- half 
 mile south of the home 
 farm. In the spring 
 of liino Harry bought 
 a one-half interest in 
 the Marathon Cream- 
 ery. Since that time 
 he has devoted his en- 
 tire time to that. 
 The home farm is let 
 on shares and (J. P., 
 now spends his time 
 superintending and 
 keeping the farms in 
 repair. Mr. Squires 
 has been assessor and 
 supervisorof his town, 
 but does not court po- 
 litical oftice He was 
 one of tlie incorpora- 
 tors of the National 
 bank and has been 
 a director and vice 
 
 ing floor. In threashing time the machine is set 
 on this floor. The straw is delivered in the loft 
 of the L and the grain spouted into bins directly 
 under the floor. Directly under the grain loft 
 (or mow) and connecting with the driving floor, 
 is a room :!().\44 feet, used for storing tools and 
 implements. Tlie third driveway leads into the 
 <-arriage room in the second story, which is :!()x:i4 
 feet, and accessable to the basement by means of 
 an incline. Mr. Squires says his greatest care 
 and study in planning this structure was to have 
 it convenient for filling and caring for stock. In 
 this we think he has succeeded, (reo. Squires is 
 the sou of William and Lucy Siiuires and was 
 born August 2v!, ISHli, on the same farm where he 
 now lives. His boyhood days were spent attend- 
 ing scliool and helping liis father on the farm. 
 .Tanuary 7, l^H'- he was married to Ann E. Pen- 
 noyer, daughter of (lan-ett and Eliza J. Peu- 
 noj^er, who lived on a 
 farm about a mile 
 )iorth of Marathon. 
 In March of tlie same 
 year Mr. Sciuires 
 bought and moved 
 onto Mr. Pennoyer's 
 farm, living there 
 two years. In the 
 spring of )s(;4 he 
 moved onto his 
 fatlier's farm and 
 worked it on shares 
 during his father's 
 life. Then by paying 
 off the other lieirs he 
 came in possession of 
 it and has lived there 
 since. Thus his whole 
 life excepting two 
 years lias been sjient 
 on the farm where he 
 was born. Hehiusbut 
 line child, Harry 1^ , 
 born November '.'."i, 
 ISdfi. Sinc(! he at- 
 tained his majority he 
 liiis been an erpial part- 
 ner with his father in 
 all their farming oper- 
 
 president since its incorporation. He is interested 
 in the growth and prosperity of the village and 
 takes a special interest in the school. He has 
 been a trustee of the Board of Education about 
 thirty years and president of the board over 
 twenty years. But his best efforts and energies 
 have been spent in the pursuits of agriculture and 
 his greatest ambition is to attain the reputation 
 of being a good farmer and an honest man. 
 
 Horeau D. Burgess, whose parents came to 
 Marathon when lie was four years old, in 1817, 
 was a skillful carpenter and millwright, and like 
 his father, James Burgess, a natural mechanic. 
 Long past eighty years at the time of this writing, 
 his period of activity has been a long and busy 
 one, and many productions of his own hands form 
 a part of tlie structral work which makes IMa- 
 rathon a thriving village. James Burgess was 
 
 H. P. SyUlKES' KKSIDEM'E. 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
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 p. E. YnunK, Photo. (4. P. S(,11'1KE8 HAKN 
 
 not ouly a mechauie aud builder, who put up 
 several buildings, but was a man of considerable 
 business interests aud at one time conducted the 
 principal taA'ern in the village. He died iu 1848. 
 Moreau Burgess was born iu Litchfield, Ct., April 
 4, isi:i. He was married to Jane, the daughter 
 of William Chm-ch, oue of the early land owners 
 iu Marathon. Ho was a whig early iu his life, 
 but in later years became a stauuch Jeffersonian 
 democrat. He has two sons who still live iu 
 Marathon although his wife has long since been 
 dead. They are Duane Burgess aud Corwiu Bur- 
 trggs. [See portrait P. 30] 
 
 Elizur H. Barnes, M. D., was born June 21, 
 1S1-, in Ti-iangle, Broome county, formerly the 
 town of Lisle. In December 1S34 he commenced 
 reading medicine with his uncle. Dr. Enos Barnes 
 at Rock Stream, N. Y., which he continued three 
 and oue half years, then attended the Geneva, 
 N. Y., Medical Col- 
 lege in 183T-S, where 
 he graduated with 
 distinguished lionors. 
 In .\pril. l^H^i he was 
 1k'i'iisimUi\ tlii'Broome 
 Cduniy Slc'dical So- 
 ciety and began prac- 
 tice" at Great Beud, 
 Pa., oue year later re- 
 moving to Marathon 
 where lie resided until 
 his decease, bcroming 
 a mi-mber of the Cort- 
 land County Medical 
 Society iu li~;40. He 
 was appointed by 
 Hon. William H. 
 Sewai'd surgeon of the 
 IHTth Regiment of In- 
 fantry of N. Y., in 
 188'.t. In isdti he 
 joined the Masonic 
 lodge of which he was 
 a valued member until 
 his death. He tilled 
 several responsible 
 offices in the com- 
 munity to the entire f. e. Younj;, Photo 
 
 satisfactiou of his con- 
 stituents. He had an 
 extensive aud exceed- 
 ingly successful prac- 
 tice for over forty 
 years, then gradually 
 retired from the busi- 
 ness. He died Febru- 
 ary (!, lK9i». Dr. 
 Bai'nes was twice 
 married. His first 
 wife was Nancy Car- 
 ley, daughter of Alan- 
 son Cai'ley, whom he 
 married in 1S40. She 
 died in 1«4(!. His 
 second wife, Merseua 
 Carley, sister of the 
 first, he married iu 
 1847. Her death oc- 
 curred January 4, 
 1874. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church to 
 the interests of which 
 he was thoroughly de- 
 voted and held most 
 of the principal offices 
 iu that society. He 
 
 held the office of coroner for several terms. [See 
 
 portrait P. 30. ] 
 
 Patrick Hallery, who spent his life in the 
 town of Marathon where he was born, June 5, 
 isoti, and died November 1, 18S7, was several 
 times elected to the Board of Supervisors and in 
 other ways was an active, much respected, pro- 
 gressive citizen. His was one of the earliest 
 births in the town and he assisted in cleariug 
 some of the woods which covered a large portion of 
 the present higlily cultivated farm a mile north of 
 the village. Afterwards his father took the Mall- 
 ery place south of the village which the son owned 
 at the time of his death, aud where the father died 
 March N, 1X38. At the time of the son's death he 
 was living iu the village, the present home of his 
 surviving widow, whom he married September 
 13, 1S7S, and whose maideu name was Frances A. 
 
 THE TENANTS' HOUSES ON (t. P. SQUIRES' FARM, 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 A. E. DOANE. 
 
 H. P. SyUIBES 
 
 Phelps. Mr. Mallery's first wife was Avis How- 
 laud to whom he was married in 1830. Her death 
 occurred December l(i, 1876. [See portait P. 30]. 
 Squires & Doane, when they purchased the 
 milk station in Marathon from the New York 
 owners and took possession April 1, I'.lOO, placius 
 the business on a co-operative basis, gave to the 
 dairymen of Marathon a home market, which tln^ 
 ffrowth of tlie business shows is appreciated since 
 about si.xty dairies deliver daily from 70 to 175 
 cans of milk. In the meantime the facilities are 
 being increased to handle a great deal more, al- 
 tliough at least ■2.5,000 pounds of milk can be 
 accommodated. At least one half of the present 
 receipts are converted into butter and cheese. 
 The fact that Mr. Doane is an expert butter and 
 cheese maker and Mr. Squires enjoys a wide repu- 
 tation as a dairyman 
 lias inspired confi- 
 dence in tlie enter 
 prise in a measure 
 wliich promises abun- 
 dant success At the 
 time the plant 
 
 changed hands new 
 macliinery was added, 
 but it was not until 
 tlie last of the preced- 
 ing year that Mr. 
 DoaiK^ was able to 
 give personal atten- 
 tion to the butter and 
 (■heese making, so that 
 since then tlie i)ro 
 spects for e.\pansion 
 have become flatter- 
 ing and the proceeds 
 of the business do not 
 dt'iicnd alone upon the 
 niarkrt value of milk, 
 lliury P. Scpiires was 
 born in Marathon, No 
 vcndier 2."). IWifi. He 
 was educated in the 
 higher studies taught 
 at the Aurora Higli 
 
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 IflLKDEPOT. 
 
 school and at the Utica Business college. 
 In 1877 lie was married to Mi.ss Kate 
 Stalker of Upper Ijisl(\ Brought up on 
 a large and productive farm Mr. S(iiiires 
 has spent all of his time as a dairyman. 
 For several years in company with his 
 lather he bred and niarlietid thorough- 
 bred cattle from iniiicirtc<l stock. Taking 
 an active part in lociil pulitics lie has 
 served as highway conniiissioner and 
 participated in local <'i)nvcntiiins. He- 
 is also prominently identitiid with tlic 
 loc'al grange. Albert K. Doane since a 
 boy has been engaged in butter and 
 cheese making and is widely known in 
 Cortland, Clicnango and Broome coun- 
 ties as an expert butteraiid cheese maker. 
 For many years he owned and managed 
 the Upper Lisle factory which he dis- 
 l)Osed of two years before he came to 
 Marathon and whicli he operated for 
 sixteen years. He was born in Ceres, 
 .\llet;aiiy county, April 3, ISlil, and on 
 December 2."), 1884. was married to Miss 
 Emma Tice of German Flats. 
 
 George Carter, who was born in 
 Colesville, N. Y., in 1828, left home at 
 l(i years of age and made his way to 
 Cortland with 2."> cents in his pocket, 
 where he learned the cabinet makers trade of F 
 J. McFarland. In is-ts he came to Marathon and 
 entered the employ of Nathaniel Bouton In 18.50 
 he ( le.ii'il a store and shop at the west end of the 
 brhl;;e wlieie for many years he carried on a busi- 
 ness ill furniture and burial cases which he made 
 by hand, his workmanship, well known business 
 integrity and high social character bringing to 
 him a large patronage. He was ever planning 
 for the improvement of the village as well as 
 his own property. On December 2(i, is.50. he 
 man-ied Cornelia Hoff, and two children, Elric 
 and Maggie C, blessed the union. On (October 
 21, 1S73, he was wedded to Lydia Burlingham 
 and by this marriage two more children came 
 to brighten his home, L. Maud and Elsie M. He 
 died at the advanced age of 7 1 years and 1 1 mouths, 
 survived by the widow and three daughters, Mnggie 
 C.. L. Maud and Elsie M. (See portrait P. :io). 
 
 MARATHON URXDEm 
 
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 .\. .Inlmson, Plieti). »yi:iHKS A: DO.VNKS (THE MARATHON i ('KE.\MKUY. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 r' 
 
 E. H. BARNES, Village Treasurer. 
 
 Edwin H. Barnes, treasui'er of the village, be- 
 gan to solicit iusiirauce in June, ls84, for oom- 
 pauios taking fire risks, and meeting with a gen- 
 erous response from the public he from time to 
 time enlarged his held and increased the number 
 of companies he represented until at the present 
 writing he obtains the exclusive agency in his 
 territory of ten first ehiss companies which com- 
 mand an aggregate capital equal to that of any 
 other ten in the country. These are all doing lire 
 insurance business except the Travelers' which 
 enables him to write life and 
 accident policies. His office 
 is at his residence, a pleas- 
 antly located and comfort- 
 ably fitted home on the west 
 shore of the river, which 
 was the home of his la- 
 mented father, one of Ma- 
 rathon's noted physicians. 
 For that reason the place 
 possesses rare value in the 
 affections of Edwin Barnes. 
 The latter was born in Ma- 
 rathon, May i;i, 1S4S, and 
 was educated in the Mara- 
 thon academy. Espousing 
 the principles of the repub- 
 lican party, Mr. Barnes be- 
 came one of its most aggres- 
 sive workers, a fact which 
 was recognized by the Grant 
 administration by appoint- 
 ing him postmaster when he 
 was ai years of age. He 
 could fairly claim on the 
 merits of the case to be in 
 line for the appointment 
 since he had served as a 
 clerk as soon as he was able 
 to get out of school, or from 
 the time he was i;S years of 
 age, holding the position 
 under the po.stmasterships 
 of Alanson Oarley, Lucius 
 Davis and G. L. Oakley. 
 About two years after his re- 
 tirement from the post office 
 
 he was on the staff of railway postal clerks which 
 equipped the celebrated fast (white) mail trains 
 flying between New York and Chicago When 
 a young man he indulged his fancy by compos- 
 ing verse and a great many of his compositions 
 have been publisliert in the compilations of 
 poetical authors circulated in this country. ( )u 
 Aprils;*, 1S79, he married Ella, the only daughter 
 of William O. and Sarah J. Butler of Lyons, N. 
 Y. Mr. Barnes possesses considerable western 
 projierty, the care of which occu])ies no small part 
 (if his time. But lie is active in public matters 
 and fraternal organiziitidns, being file serrefary 
 and treasurer of llie Marathon Fire 1 )eparhiieiit, 
 of wiiieli he isa charter member, and tht^ secretary 
 of file Maratlioii Cemetery associaticm. He is a 
 member (if the Masonic lodge and the Masonic 
 Vefcraus association of Central New York. 
 
 iV\arathon--How Named-Mrs. Burgess Squires, 
 the granddaughter of Abraham Brink, who was 
 the first postmaster of Marathon, has tliree docu- 
 ments of value relating to family history and also 
 giving a brief glimpse of a political complication 
 having a Ijeariug on local history. One document 
 is tlie appdiutment of Abraham Brink as post- 
 master, signed by "Return J. Meigs, Jun., Post- 
 iiuister General", and dated December 27. 1N31. 
 It made him postmaster of "Hanison." James 
 Monroe was then President. The second docu- 
 ment is a letter written by Congressman E. tl. 
 Reed to George E. Peck, dated February 21, 1832. 
 Tliis contains an interesting bit of history in 
 which it seems to have appeared that James Bur- 
 gess, who was not expected to favor the appoint- 
 ment of George E. Pei^k on account of the form- 
 er's anti-Mason proclivities, had surprised tlie 
 friends of the latter by resigning in favor of Mr. 
 Peck. The e(inniiissi("iii Mr. Peck received made 
 him postmaster (if Marathon, and was dated Feb- 
 ruary l(i, 1«82. It was signed by William T. 
 Barry, Postmaster General. An(h'ew Jackson 
 
 ■^tai, "S^ 
 
 EARLY PROMINENT RESIDENTS (Deceased). 
 Georjie Carter [See Sk. P. 29]. P»f'a.<^k MaUery [See Sk. P. 2S]. 
 
 Moreau Burgess [See Sk. P. 27] "' ~ 
 
 Dr. Blizur H. Barnes [See Sk. P. 28]. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOtiVKNIR OF MARATHON 
 
 was Pri'sident. The fact is thiit .lames BurRess 
 Slice ■t'l'ded Abraham Brink as postmaster and Peck 
 sui-cefdrd Burgess. The first named held the 
 place and presumably made the rec(Mnmendatiiin 
 at the time tlie ITnitril St;il.s ]i.i>|al anthcirities 
 changed tlie name. if the post. .Hi,-,. :iiid Kiwiiship 
 from "Harrison" to "iMarathim". This ehanf:e 
 was made beca\ise there was already a town in 
 the State naxned Harrison. 
 
 The First National Bank of Marathon, K. Y., 
 was orfrauized and commenced l)usiness June 1, 
 1NN4, with a paid up capital of .s.",o,(ioo. The lirst 
 
 ever commanded and continues to command the 
 confidence of the people. The present directors 
 are: Jas. H. Tripp, Geo. P. Squires, Lyman 
 Adams, D. B. Tripp, Ed. L. Adams, F. K. Whit- 
 more, H. P. Squires. 
 
 The Landlords — Abraham Brink kept the first 
 and only public house from 1800 to 1824, the time 
 of his death. Chester Brink, his sou, continued 
 it until is;!.'!. David Peck, having the assurance 
 tliat Chcsti^r Brink would cease keeping tavern, 
 imrchased a small house on the present site of the 
 
 
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 iniinrtxioni t« . < I " l a; 
 
 ■'. S. II..1I..W, Pli..t..s. THE FIRST NATIONAL HANK. 
 
 James H. Tripp, President, Georirc^ h. Swift (deci-asccl), late Dire 
 
 G. P. Siiuires, Vice President, Rd. L. Adams, Director, 
 
 Lvman Adams, Director and (Cashier, Prank E. Whitmore, Directt 
 
 1). B. Tripp, Director and Asst. C'asliier. H. P. Squires, Dir(!ctor. 
 
 directors were Jas. H. Tripp, Lymiin Adams, Geo. 
 P. Squires, D. B. Tripp, Daniel K. Whitmore, 
 Willsou Greene, Wm. A. Beutley. Jas. H. Tripp 
 was elected president, (tCO. P. Squires, vice presi- 
 dent, Lyman Adams, cashier and D B. Tripp. 
 asst. ciushier. The .same officers have been contin- 
 ued up to the present time. While the bank has 
 lieen conducted in the interest of the stockholders 
 it has been the aim of the management to a.ssist 
 every legitimate business and industry in Mara- 
 thon and vicinity and to favor all ])ersons who 
 were in need of bank accommodations. It has 
 
 Marathon liouse which had been used as a resi- 
 dence and small store, and building an addition, 
 opened tln' first regular public house, which is 
 now fill' Marathon hovise. He was succeeded as 
 landlord down to the present writing as follows: 
 Fred Reese, William Miller. James Burgess, 
 
 Robert Travor. Walpol(\ James Tarbell, 
 
 Sam Tarbell, Gideon Messenger. Lewis Hazen, 
 Lucien and Perry Hazen. John Bixby. Cornelius 
 Brown. Zena Hawley. Andrew Howland Lewis 
 Hazen. Clarke and Root Pierce and Lewis Hazen, 
 Melvin W. Conger. C. J., and A. A. Tarbell. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 JAMES H. TRIPP. Pr 
 tlinard, Ph.>to 
 
 <ident First Natiniial Bimk. 
 
 James H. Tripp, the president of the Mara- 
 thon National Bank, began his xiniuterrupted ca- 
 reer as a banker when, in partnership with Ly- 
 man Adams the firm of Tripp & Adams opened a 
 private bank in connection with their mercantile 
 business in tlie Tripp & Adams, generally termed 
 the Peck, block. This firm was organized to run 
 a general store which they conducted for eighteen 
 years, but both members, a few years earlier, had 
 had experience as cashier or manager for H. J. 
 Messenger in his Marathon and Canaudaigua 
 banks and were widely known among the bankers 
 of the State, so they were commissioned to do a 
 sort of accommodation business by different banks 
 in the absence of a local institution, as well as to 
 accommodate Marathon people. This grew to 
 the extent that required special quarters which 
 they provided by par- 
 titioning a part of the 
 south side of their 
 store and launching 
 forth as the banking 
 firm of Tripp & 
 Adams. Responding 
 to a strong sentiment 
 for a national bank 
 that later manifested 
 itself in the commun- 
 ity, these gentlemen 
 undertook to organize 
 a national bank and 
 the result of their 
 efforts wivs the incor- 
 poration of the First 
 National Bank of Ma- 
 I'athon, which opened 
 for business in June 
 1SS4, and of which 
 these two gf'utlemeu 
 and their friends own 
 and still liold the con- 
 trolling interest. Mr. 
 Tripp was made presi- 
 dent, the position he 
 still occupies. He is 
 also (me of the incor- 
 porators and a director 
 
 of the Homer National bank and a member of 
 the American Bankers' association in which he 
 represented the State of New York as vice presi- 
 dent. Mr. Tripp's position is really the head of 
 the financial interests of the community and that 
 fact in connection with large property interests 
 he controls gives him a considerable influence in 
 local afl'airs. For years he has been an active re- 
 publican with an effective voice in local politics, 
 and lie was a member of the State Assembly in 
 is9a and ''.):3, which widely extended his personal 
 acquaintanceship among the State politicians. 
 Mr. Tripp was born in Ancram, Columbia county, 
 N. Y., .January 17, IS^S. In ISHT his father, Dan- 
 iel Tripp, moved his family to Dryden, Tompkins 
 county, and in 1S3'.) to Harford, Cortland county, 
 wliere he died in issy. His mother, Loritta Hav- 
 iUiud, died in Ix'iH. The schooling of Mr. James 
 Tripp was that of the district schools and the 
 Cortland academy. During five winter tenns he 
 taught school, working his father's farm the rest 
 of the year until is.-ili, when he secured the posi- 
 tion of clerk in the store of Peck & Adams. In 
 1S.51I he was taken into partnership, the firm name 
 being changed to Peck, Adams & Tripp. His 
 partners were Anson Peck (deceased! and Lyman 
 Adams. An interesting fact is that the mutuality 
 of the business interests of J. H. Tripp and Ly- 
 man Adams beginning at that time have almost 
 without interruption continued since then. The 
 firm of Peck, Adams & Tripp was dissolved 
 in I.sCil and .Tames Tripp was induced to 
 enter the Messenger bank as cashier which he did 
 late in the fall of that year. In August l.S(i3, Mr. 
 Messenger having opened a bank in Canaudaigua, 
 Mr. Tripp was prevailed upon to remove hither 
 and take charge of it, where he remained tliree 
 years, being a business companion there also a part 
 of the time with Lyman Adams. Both gentlemen 
 there met ladies who became their wives. Mr. 
 Tripp, October •"), isd"), the month following his re- 
 turn to Marathon wedded Sarah Remington of 
 Canaudaigua who died in IN? 1. In September 1S(;.5 
 Mr. Tripp, in company with Mr. Adams, entered 
 upon mercantile life in Marathon under the firm 
 name of Tripp & Adams, which as has been stated 
 continued for eighteen years. On November 11, 
 1S7S, Mr. Tripp wedded Mrs. Louisa Bogardus, 
 the daughter of Edward Farriiigton of DeRnyter. 
 
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 JA.MKS II. iKill' S KKSlUENi E 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MAXWELL MILES. 
 MRS. MARY ANNA MILES. MRS. MARIA LOUISA TRIPP. 
 
 From "(Irip's" Hist Souvenir of DeRuyter]. 
 
 Farrington Place, the country home of Mr.*;. 
 Maria Louisa Tripp, the deed of which came to 
 her from her uucle "William Farriiigtou who died 
 a bachelor, is oue of the most eligible aud delight- 
 ful country seats in JIadison county. It is situ- 
 ated a mile north-east of DeRuyter and comprises 
 150 acres entirely level almost entirely under 
 cultivation. To the south, in plain \aew are 
 tlie spires of the village churches partly hidden 
 by a piece of woodland. Near the huose flows a 
 clear, cold trout stream. To the north, less than 
 a mile, lies that picturesque body of water known 
 as DeRuyter reservoir , hemmed in by high hills 
 partly cultivated and partly forest, and entirely 
 encircled by a level, shady drive of more than five 
 miles in extent. The residence, originally colo- 
 nial, has been improved by Mrs. Tripp by the 
 
 erection of a porch, gables and con- 
 servatory, and tlie enlargement of 
 those windows wliich afford tlu; west 
 outlook. The work was neatly done 
 by Mr. Oreen of Marathon, a skillful 
 carpenter. The colonial arrangement 
 of halls and interior apartnicnts has 
 been retained but modernizrd with 
 decorations. Mrs. Triijp. largely with 
 her own hands, laid out and lirought 
 into cultivation a large flower garden 
 which greatly improves the lieautyof 
 the place. The homestend rnnii' into 
 tlie family in ISJii), wlini Ivlmund 
 Farrington, Mrs. Tripp's grandfather, 
 made the purchase and brought liis 
 family from Long Island to make it 
 their liome. Tlie only survivor of his 
 eight children is Mrs. Powell of Skan- 
 eateles. 
 
 A Chautauqua Literary Society 
 
 was organized in Marathon in 18H3 
 with about twelve members. Meet- 
 ings were held once in two weeks at 
 the homes of the members. Several 
 of the society attended the annual 
 Chautauqua Assembly at Tully Lake 
 aud contributed to the exercises of 
 the Round Table. Most of them graduated and 
 received their diplomas at that place. The so- 
 ciety continued until IS'.t.s when it was merged 
 into the University Center with some change in 
 membership. This latter society met once in two 
 weeks in the reception room of the Libraiy build- 
 ing for the study and discussion of history. The 
 members are D. B. aud Mrs. Tripp, Mrs. E. W. 
 Seamans, Mrs. A. Hillam, Mrs. H. E. Miles, Mrs. 
 Geo. W. Swift, A. C. Baker, and Mrs. A. C. 
 Baker, Miss Alice Jones, Miss Margaret Kilella. 
 D. B. Tripp has been President of the society 
 from the commencement. 
 
 A Noted Scout in the Madoc war was H. 
 Wallace Atwell who about ISoO lived at Upper 
 Lisle and was well known in Marathon. 
 
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 Hinjainiii, 1 icKuyl.r, I'ltut...-. FAKlilNCiTON PLACE, DERUYTKR. N. Y— Country Place uf Mrs. Maria 
 Kroni "(Tri])'s" tlisl. Souvt-nir of DeliuyttT]. Louisa Tirpp. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 A. G. SMITH. 
 
 Alfred U. Smith was oue of the reliable busi- 
 ness men of Mai'athon wlio in the early part of 
 the last half of the centirry just closed built up a 
 reputation for the place which gave it a standing 
 foremost among the towns of Cortland county. 
 He was a thorougli business man, energetic and 
 reliable and hopeful of bright prospects for the 
 village whicli at one time he sei-^^ed as president. 
 Before the \'illlage was iucorporatad he was a 
 member of the school board. Although he met 
 with many adversities his progressiveuess enabled 
 him to keej) his bearings and close a career of 
 usefulness October 'J-', l.sii4, survived by a loving 
 and helpful wife and mourned by many friends. 
 He was born in London, England, March 5, 1S24, 
 and was educated at a select school near that city. 
 After employment in a jewelry store there for a 
 time he at 32 years of age came to New 
 York, locating at Syracuse. For about 
 three years he was employed in the boot 
 and shoe store of William Jordan and on 
 June 34, 1850, was married to Annie, the 
 daughter of Thomas Kimber, one of the 
 old families of Syracuse. Six months 
 afterwards he started the boot and shoe 
 business on Salina street. In July, Is.jS, 
 he went to Homer and entered the em- 
 ploy of Benedict & Corey as foreman in 
 charge of the manufacture of boots and 
 shoes, and in July 18()1, removed to Ma- 
 rathon where he started the same business 
 in the Carley building at the corner of 
 Main and Broome streets. Three years 
 later he bought the building next to 
 S\vift's hardware store where he carried 
 on business for several years. This build- 
 ing he moved to Cortland street next 
 south of the creek bridge at the time he 
 took possession of the uew three storv 
 block which he erected on the east side 
 of Cortland street. This building lie 
 moved into in lf~i7s or 'T9, taking the 
 north store and there continuing his busi- 
 ness until burned out by the fire of Sep- 
 tember 4, 1SS4. After leasing the old 
 building for awhile he sold it. In the 
 south store his ^Yiie conducted the milli- 
 nery business from 1S71 up to the 
 time of the fire. Although the loss a. Johnsdu. Piic.tn 
 
 from the fire seriously crippled him. In March, 
 1885, Mr. Smith opened in the new building whicli 
 is a handsome, substantial three story block with 
 brick front with two stores on the ground floor. 
 Here he continued business up to the time of his 
 death. Mrs. Smith the first year the new block 
 was opened carried on her business on tlie second 
 floor and leased the Smith store which slie had built 
 The following three seasons she did business in the 
 store aud afterwards, up to the time of Mr. 
 Smith's death, up stairs. She then took charge 
 of his affairs and conducted his business until tlir 
 spring of l^^'.t") when she sold out to 5Ir. Foster. 
 Since then she lias carried on the millinery in 
 tlie same store. Mr. Smith was for over forty years 
 an active member of the Marathon lodge of Odd 
 Fellows. 
 
 The Fire of '84 — At 11 o'clock on the night of 
 Tliursday, September 4, 1884, Bert Adams dis- 
 covered fire bursting from the floors around the 
 chimney in the Hazen block. An attempt had 
 been made during the day to burn out the chim- 
 ney wliich had become foul. This building stood 
 on the northeast corner of Cortland and Main 
 streets. Only a hand engine was available, but 
 re-inforced by a bucket brigade, etfec-tive work 
 was accomplished. Tlie fire burned rapidly and 
 caught under the eaves of the Peck block on the 
 southeast corner, in the residence of W. C. Sand- 
 ers east of the Hazen block, an<l in the roof of the 
 Marathon House on the northwest corner. The 
 Hulbert block and the residences of John C. Davis 
 aud George Peck were scorching. It looked like 
 destruction for the town. A steamer was brought 
 from Whitney's Point on a special train and 
 aiTived in time to be of service. With great chtti- 
 culty the fire was confined to the east side of Cort- 
 land street north of Main, burning down the 
 Hazen building and the Smith and the Mack 
 blocks north in the order named and the Sanders 
 residence. The loss was estimated at $20,000. 
 Every person in town able to be present worked 
 hard, and under the personal efforts of President 
 of the Village Coi-wiu and Acting Chief Engineer 
 Corwin Burgess, did their work in a systematic 
 and orderlv manner. Goods were stacked in the 
 
 ■IMITH BLOCK. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 A. P. GREENE. 
 streets and placed iu charge of watchmeu. The 
 ladies served hincheou aud coffee prepared iu the 
 Marathon house and G. L. Swift opened his store 
 inviting the ladies to take what they required to 
 feed the firemen. Water was taken from tlie river 
 at Hilsinger's dam. Tlie supply was about to give 
 out wheu Mr. Dellow opened his dam above aud 
 a plentiful supply came opportunely. Those 
 burned out were : Hazen block — L. A. Hazen, 
 building and store; L. C. Ball, dry goods store; 
 V. R. Wilber, saloon aud residence ; L. L. Hazen, 
 residence; Smith block — A. G. Smith, building 
 and shoe .store ; Mrs. A. G. Smith, millinery ; C. 
 E. Boyden, residence; Odd Fellows and G. A. R. 
 who occupied the same hall. Mack building — R. 
 D. Mack, building, hardware store and dwelling. 
 Residence, Mrs, A. G. Smith owner, W. C. Sand- 
 ers occupant. Before people had time to wasli 
 off the grime the enterprising editor of the 
 Independent liad au 
 "e.xtra" on the street. 
 
 A. P. Oreene came 
 to Marathon to reside 
 iu IS74 and pursued 
 liis calling as a builder 
 until 1^96 when he 
 accepted the position 
 of stationary engineer 
 for the Adams Manu- 
 facturing Company, 
 wliicli he has con- 
 titmed to occupy. Mr. 
 Greene was born in 
 Willet, N. Y., June 
 14, 1X45, his father, 
 JohnD. Greene, being 
 a carpenter, who mar- 
 ried Emily Eaton. 
 Mr. Greene attended 
 school at Willet until 
 November 7, lNCr.i, 
 wlien he enlisted in 
 the United States ser- 
 vice as a private in 
 Company II, .")Oth. N. 
 Y., Volunteer Kn- 
 giTieers, under Capt. 
 Edwin O. Beers aud A. .lohnson, Photo. 
 
 Col. C. B. Stuart to serve tliree years or during tlie 
 war. The regiment was assigned to the :!d Brigade, 
 Fit/, .Tolin Porter's division and was with the Vol- 
 unteer P.rigMdc of lOngiuetTS, Army of the Poto- 
 mac, during tlie leiuaiiKler of tlio war, which 
 coustruc-tcil the fortifications around Petersburg 
 and Richmond and built most of the pontocm 
 briilgrs used liy the army during the campaigns 
 of McCli'lland and Burusides. Mr, Greene was 
 wifli his iTgimeut in tlie engagements of F-rede- 
 rickslnirg, ( 'hancelloi-ville, Wilderue.ss, Spotsyl- 
 vania anil Petersburg aud was honorably dis- 
 rliargrd .Tune i:i, isd."), at Fort Barry, Va, On 
 his return to Willet he took up the carpenter's 
 trade and iu l.stjfS manned Helen Tripp of DeRuy- 
 ter, whose death occurred August 25, IsnO, (in 
 .Tune '20. iss,"), he wedded his present wife, Alber- 
 tine Phetteplace, widow of Augustan L, Burgess. 
 Clayton B. Greene, his sou, is connected with 
 til.' rdiiorial staff of the Syi-acuse Journal. Mr. 
 ( liiTjii is a prominent member of the local G. A. 
 R. post and is serving his tliird term on the school 
 boar<l. He is a thorough loyal republican. 
 
 Benjamin Adams — Beu,iamiu Adams was born 
 in Stevenstown, Rensselaer county. New York, 
 July 23, ISOS. His wife, Deidami Losey, was born 
 in Oxford, Chenango county, N, Y., April 5, INia. 
 They were married at Abial Losey's, father of 
 Mrs, Adams, in the town of Owego, Tioga county. 
 New York, on December 4, 1IS3S. Mi-. Adams 
 operated mills iu different places until 1S4:^, when 
 he settled at Marathon, purchased aud repaired 
 an old mill aud operated it a number of years, 
 subsequently abandoning it, and erecting another 
 farther down the stream. Mr. and Mrs. Adams, 
 with one son, afterwards remained on a farm in 
 Cinciunatus for a period of twelve years, when 
 they removed to Marathon. 
 
 Population, Cortland county, towns, Federal 
 census, 1900 — Cinciunatus, 913; Cortland\alle, 
 3,907; Ouyler, 991 ; Freetown, 610; Harford, 763; 
 Homer, 3,<S64; Lapeer, 038; Marathon, l,(i()4; 
 Preble, 1,092; Scott, 852; Solon, 623; Taylor, 
 7i;2; Truxton, 1217; Virgil, 1,326; Willett, 687. 
 Incorporated: Cortland city, 9,014; Homer, 
 3,381: Marathon, 1,093; McGrawville, 750. 
 
 A. P. GREENES RESIDENCE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 .1, W. HciWDISH 
 
 Joseph William Bowdish is the third sou aud 
 fourth child of a family of eight children boru to 
 Johu S. aud Euiily Bowdish. His father's family 
 came from Erie county to this section, his moth- 
 er's family from Tompkins eoiiuty, settling in the 
 vicinity of Freetown. It was at this place that 
 the subject of our sketch was born, and where he 
 lived until eighteen years of age. He attended 
 school at Cinciunatus, after which he became 
 salesman in a store at Willet. At the conclusion 
 of his engagement there, he went into mercantile 
 business for himself at Texas Valley. He was 
 married September 8, 1875, to Miss Emma J. 
 Punderfiird, whose home was at Cinciunatus. 
 Her graniU'atlicr was Gen. James B. Punderford. 
 a man of distinction in his day throughout all this 
 region. Her father was James B. Punderford, Jr. , 
 aud her mother Cornelia J.Barnes. Mr. Bowd- 
 ish and his young wife 
 remained in Texas 
 Valley three years, 
 when they removed 
 to Sayre, Pa., to 
 better accommodate 
 him iu business ven- 
 tui'es. Mr. Bowdish 
 next engaged with the 
 Hitchcock Manufac- 
 turing Company of 
 Cortland, with whom 
 he remained three 
 years, being general 
 salesman for their wa- 
 gons and other man- 
 ufactures in the west- 
 ern states. Other in- 
 terests recalled him 
 to Texas Valley for 
 a period of three years, 
 at the close of which he 
 removed to Marathon, 
 engaging in mercan- 
 tile pursuit six years 
 there. Since that time 
 he has been in the pro- 
 duce commission busi- 
 ness, aud has built up 
 one of the widest aud 
 
 most lucrative trades in his line iu this 
 section. His judgment on property values is 
 much sought and relied upon. He has a neat 
 little office on Main street iu Marathon, just be- 
 tween the Hulbert block and the store of G. L. 
 Swift. Mr. Bowdish finds time outside of luisi- 
 ness for church and society. He is the eftiiient 
 su]ieriutendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sun- 
 day .school, and an honored official in other de- 
 ]iartments of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Bowdish 
 liavc had three children, Mrs. Gertrude, wife of 
 Earl E. Mack, of the firm of Swift & Co., of Mar- 
 athon, Harris J., a promising young man, who 
 died three years since, and Nellie C, who resides 
 with her parents in their lovely home on Warren 
 street. 
 
 The Y. P. S. C. E. of the First Presbyterian 
 cliurch was organized during the montli of 
 August, 1.S98. At this time there were fourteen 
 young people who pledged themselves as active 
 members aud the following were elected officers 
 of tlie society : Pres., Ernest Conrad ; Vice-Pres.. 
 L. Maude Carter: Rec.-Sec, Elsie M. Carter: 
 Cor.-Sec., Edna M. Smith; Treas. Wilber Spencer. 
 Since the organization there has lieeu a gradual 
 growth of the society until now there is a total 
 membership of 6s. This membership consists of 
 31 active, 24 associate aud I'i honorary members. 
 The endeavorers are willing workers and generous 
 contributors for benevolences. Their meetings 
 are well attended and full of interest, life and the 
 spirit. They assemble in the lecture room of the 
 church every Sunday, one hoiu- before evening 
 service. All visitors receive a cordial welcome. 
 The present officers are : Pres., L. Maude Carter: 
 Vice-Pres., Ernest A. Conrad; Rec.-Sec, Dora 
 Stevens: Cor.-Sec. Anna Hammoud; Treas. 
 Eulalie Leach ; Pianist, Lulu Spencer. 
 
 The Tannery Fires— PhUlips & Beutley's tan- 
 nery built in 1S60 was burned to the ground Oct- 
 ober ."), 1S74. In 1ST7 it was rebuilt on the same 
 site and started up by Johu Duuphy (deceased) . 
 In the early morning of March 2(i, 1883, the store- 
 house and office were destroyed. Early in the 
 moruiug of October 1 , 18S;j, flames were discovered 
 by the niglit watchman, Edward (xaffuey, iu the 
 
 
 .1. W . B<i\\ KISH .-^ KK.-'lUliiM I'- 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 ^ «^ 
 
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 ROBACHER. 
 
 MRS. A. C. RDBACHER, 
 
 third story iu the "setting" room. By the active 
 e.Kertions of the firemeu the office and store room 
 and a large <iuantity of bark were saved. The loss 
 was about $liO,ono. 
 
 A. C. Robacher, who was born at Marathon, 
 was the son of Joliu and Clarissa Robaclier. At 
 the age of 8 years he went to Elmira and resided 
 with an uncle and received his education there. 
 Later he spent four years at Painesville, Ohio. In 
 1858 he learned the marble trade at Erie, Pa., re- 
 maining there until the spring of 1862 when lie 
 first enlisted in the 16th Pennsylvania cavalry. 
 In November, 1862, he was transferred to the 15th 
 U. S. infantry, the regular army and served until 
 the close of the war. He was promoted to or- 
 derly sergeant and participated iu all the battles 
 from Stone river to Atlanta with Rosccraus, 
 Grant and Sherman. 
 At the close of the 
 war he was on the 
 detective force in Mo- 
 bile, Alabama. He 
 speut a year in Can- 
 ada. At (Syracuse and 
 Rochester he was a 
 partner with his 
 brother in the Wil- 
 cox & Gibbs sewing 
 macliini' businei-s and 
 three yiars with Fran- 
 ces & Dutt'v, niarV)le 
 dealers of Syracuse. 
 For the past thirty 
 years he has been en- 
 gaged in the nionu 
 mental business in 
 Marathon. Mr. Ro- 
 bacher is seniordeacon 
 iu tlie Masonic lodge : 
 past commander of 
 Hiram Clark post No. 
 154, (;. A. R., and for 
 tlie past eight years 
 its quartermaster; 
 iind twenty years a 
 member of Maratlion 
 Fire department. Mrs. a. Johnson. Phot.. 
 
 A. C Robacher, the daughter of Henry 
 and Abbie Ann Williams, was born at 
 Killawog, N. Y., and was married to 
 Mr. Roliarhcr.lini.' IS, Iss). Herfathcr, 
 wh()s.'birthi.hir,'\\;i,s Steel; I ind^;c. Mass., 
 among flic plraNiiii lulls i.f lamcil Berk- 
 shire, was a ileseeiidant of Hubert Wil- 
 liams and Rol)ert Ashley iif ICOU. Mrs. 
 Roliacher's great graml ])areuts were 
 ( 'olouel Thomas Williams and Brigadier- 
 (Jeiieral Moses Ashley of the Revolu- 
 tiniiarv war. The late Right Rev. .Tulin 
 Williams, D. D., LL. D., head of the 
 Kpiseopal church of America, was a 
 cousin of her father's. She is a member 
 of the O.K. S., the W. R.C., the Grange, 
 a life member of the State Agricultural 
 society and devotes much time to the 
 raising of flowers. She has recently 
 beeu appointed National Aide in the W. 
 R. C, by Mrs. Can- of Colorado. 
 
 Rev. Benjamin P. Ripley, pastorof the 
 Methodist ehureh. a capable and instruc- 
 tive preacher and a man of broad, lilieral 
 views, responded to the call of the Marti- 
 thon chui-ch comparatively recent and 
 during his pastorate has aroused a whole- 
 some interest by many originalities in his 
 methods. He w^is born at Murris, Ot- 
 sego county, N. Y., July 18, 1^5:^ After 
 four years of applicatiou to his theological studies 
 he was graduated at Fairfield, N. Y., in 1872. At 
 the Oueonta session, April 14-20. that year, he 
 was admitted to the Wyoming conference, being 
 ordained to Deacon's orders by Bishop Merrill at 
 Honesdale, Pa., April 15, 1877, and to, Elder's 
 orders by Bishop Harris at Scrantou, Pa., April 
 18, 1880. Having a keen relish for .iournalism and 
 a desire to obtain the valued exjierience which 
 newspaper work offers he conducted the Unadilla 
 Times from .lanuary 1892 to April 1893, at the 
 same time occupying the pulpit as the regular 
 pastor of the Methodist cliurc^h iu that village, a 
 charge which he held from April 1891 to April 
 1894. He has also served in the order named the 
 churches at Laurens, Garrettsville, Fly Creek, 
 Westford, Windsor, Cooperstown and Marathon. 
 On .January 29. 1876, he married Miss Helen 
 
 A. C. ROBAC'HERS RESIDKNCE. 
 
38 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 appropri- 
 
 LEWIS SWIFT, the noted Ast 
 
 Laura Collins of Uuadilla, a union productive of 
 three children, LeRoy Orniond, a gi-aduate of 
 Union university, Schenectady, class of 1900, 
 Leua Claire and Eva Mabel. 
 
 Lewis Swift, Ph. D., F. R. A. S., the 
 eminent astrououier, was born iu the village of 
 Clarkson, Monroe county, N. Y., on the 39th 
 day of February, 1820. Hence his 
 ate remark that his birthday is like a 
 four year periodic comet, and, only 
 recurring each fourth year he is now, 
 1901, astronomically, only 19 years 
 old, terrestially, 81 years. Nothing 
 of note merits chronicling until he 
 reached the age of thirteen, when he 
 had the misfortune (or good fortune) 
 to break his hip, which, from defec- 
 tive surgery, left him slightly lame 
 the balance of his life. This eveut 
 caused an entire change in his life. 
 Being unable to work on his father's 
 farm, he was sent to school, thereby 
 receiving a better education than 
 would have probably resulted had he 
 been able to continue actively at his 
 duties. His thirst for knowledge is 
 evidenced by the fact of his walking 
 a distance of over a mile on crutches 
 every day not deterred by any in- 
 clemency of the weather. At school, 
 physics, with special reference to 
 magnetism and electricity, were tin- 
 chief attractions to the growing lad. 
 He later attended the Clark.son acad- 
 emy. In 1846, he in company with 
 O. L. Swift of Marathon, New" York, 
 took up the sub.iect of electricity, 
 magnetism and tlie comiiien-ial tele- 
 graph anil traveleil extensively lectur- 
 ing upon these sub.iects. wliiih at tliat 
 time Were little understood. He fol- 
 lowed this for a period of three and 
 one half years. In 1851 he embarked 
 in the mercantile business at Hunt's 
 Corners, Cortland county, N. Y. It 
 was at this place that the eveut occur- 
 red which was the means of his taking 
 
 up the subject of astronomy. Previous to this 
 time his interest in the science had been very 
 great on account of the thoughts excited by wit- 
 nessing the great star shower of 1833 and the 
 great comet of 1843, but at this time he deter- 
 mined to take up the study of astronomy as a life 
 work, the decision being the outcome of the fasci- 
 nation which Dr. Dick's Works on astronomy 
 had for him. His first telescope was a three inch 
 glass for which was paid the small sum of five 
 dollars, the price being low on account of a seri- 
 ous optical defect. In a little while the object 
 glass met with disaster and was broken. Nothing 
 daunted by this accident he, in 1860, purchased a 
 four and one half inch comet-seeker from Henry 
 Fitz of New York which he still has and with 
 which all of his comets, except three, were dis- 
 covered. He built a small observatory for the 
 glass and continued his studies, observing nightly 
 when the weather wcmld permit. Here it was 
 that his first comet was discovered. About this 
 time, 1858, Donati's comet blazed into sight. 
 This mysterious wanderer in the regions of the 
 planets, strange, marvelous, wonderful, fasci- 
 nated and enthralled him, and he studied un- 
 wearyingly the singular habits of this, to him, 
 astounding ol.iject. He published the results of 
 Ills study, and from that day to this, comets and 
 the equally wonderful nebulae, have received al- 
 most the whole of his attention. In 1860 he 
 moved to Marathon, N. Y., where every minute 
 outside of business hours was devoted to his 
 science. He discovered the great comet of July 
 16th, 1862, which had a tail twenty-five degrees 
 long. This was the beginning of his fame. On 
 April 15, 1871, he independently found the Wiu- 
 necke comet, which, at the time of discovery, he 
 supposed to be new. Shortly afterward word was 
 received that tlie comet had been seen by Dr. 
 Winnecke of Germany eight days earlier. ( )n April 
 
 "1 r*^^^ 
 
 
 otu. ] LEWIS SWIFT, making Observatiuiis iu th 
 Lowe Observatory. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUTENIU OF MARATHON 
 
 r.'th, 1872, he removed to Rochester tonducriiix his 
 reseivri-hes on the lawu adjoining the lioiise, and 
 later in a dark alley adjacent. His horizon was 
 iiecessai'ily limited on account of the low eleva- 
 tion of the telescope and he therefore gratefully 
 accepted an otter of the free use of the fiat roof of 
 Duft'y's cider null, situated a half nnle from his 
 residence. He made this old building famous, di.s- 
 coveriug there in five years, six coniets. The hard- 
 ships endured during these years form one of the 
 most interesting eluipters of liis life. Nothing but 
 an in mci institution and an indonutalile will curried 
 him through. Alrea<ly tired from his application 
 to business diu'ing the day, he was compellid to 
 walk over half a mile, climb three ladilers 
 where a single misstep would have prei-ipi- 
 tated him to the ground forty feet below. It was 
 often necessary to shovel away the snow to make 
 a plac'e for telescope and observer, and here he 
 would work until dawn with the thermometer fre- 
 quently below zero, a 
 target for the cutting 
 winds of the eastern 
 winter. For these ra- 
 pid discoveries of co- 
 mets he was award- 
 ed tliree gold medals 
 by foreign astronomi- 
 cal societies, and one 
 silver medal by a 
 French society. One 
 of the comets dis- 
 covered there was the 
 fiimous Coggia comet 
 which he was the first 
 in the world to see. 
 On .Tuly ■,".), ISTS, he 
 observed the totalsolar 
 eclipse at Capitol Hill. 
 Denver, and electrified 
 the world by his an- 
 nouncement of the dis- 
 covery of two iutra- 
 Mercurial planets. In 
 1S79 he was honored 
 by the University of 
 Rochester which con- 
 ferred upon him the 
 degree of Doctor of 
 Philosophy. Honors 
 began to shower uijon 
 him and in ISSi the 
 citizens of Rochester, 
 feeling the reflected 
 glory and realizing 
 wliat honor he was 
 bringing upon their 
 city an<l also tlie difti- 
 cid ties under which he 
 was working, pre- 
 sinted to him a mag- 
 nificent Hi inch refractor 
 
 directorship of the Mt. Lowe ob.servatory at Kcho 
 Mountain, California. The 16 inch refractor was 
 mounted in a suitable ob.servatory at an elevation 
 of ;i,.')00 feet above the sea, and during his si.\ 
 years of active work there discovered two hun- 
 dred and sixty-four new uebulat^ and six comets, 
 and added greatly to his previous honors. The 
 famous lost Drexel comet was refound liy him 
 there, a discovery of great importance and whicli 
 attracted much attention all over the world. He 
 lias discovered in all fifteen comets and over 1,800 
 new nebulae, the number of the latter ranking 
 him next to the famous Herscholls and second in 
 the world. He was first married on June 2(>, 
 IN.")0, to Lucretia Hunt by wh(mi he had two 
 children, a sou and a daughter, Charles H. Swift 
 and Maiy L. Brink now surviving, his wife dying 
 September 5, 1863, at Maratlion, N. Y. On Aug. 
 2-t, 1 804, he was married to Caroline Doane Topping 
 of East Moriches, Long Island, who bore him three 
 
 * J 11 r 
 
 mm 7111111 ^ 
 
 Baptist Clim-cli (Uelln 
 
 THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS, 
 v. Phnto), Catholic Church, Methodi-st Church (LeKciy Wile 
 cKntioiiiU Churdi and Town Hall iDellow, Photo.s). 
 
 , Photi; 
 
 fa- 
 
 ide by the 
 
 mous Clarks at a cost of $13,000. This was 
 housed ni a beautiful observatory built by H. H. 
 Warner. Dr. Swift now turned his att(Mitiou to 
 the dis('overy of neluilae, and <luring the twelve 
 years' occupancy of the observatory, found with 
 the great refractor, eleven huiulred, beside two 
 conuits, whicli were detected with the c^omet- 
 seeker In 18!)() he observed the total eclipse of 
 the sun at Nelson, California, and made observa- 
 tions of much value. In IkSH he independently 
 discovered a comet and later (le\ . lopments i)rov<'d 
 that this lia<l been seen fifteen iiiiiiutes earlier by 
 an American astronomer named Brooks. The 
 failure of H. H. Warner necessitated the closing 
 of the oli.scrvatory, and on April 14. 18'.)4, he bade 
 farewell to tlm city where nearly all of his fame 
 as an iistrononu^r had been made, to assume the 
 
 sons, two now surviving, Lewis Swift, Jr., and Ed- 
 ward 1). Swift. She was a woman of rare attain- 
 ments, a writer of great ability and was constantly 
 spurring him oti to greater etforfs and ai'hieve- 
 ments. She died March 8, l.S',)T. He has had be- 
 stowed upon him nine medals, a larger number 
 than any other astronomer in the world: three 
 large medals of )iur(> gold awarded by the Imperial 
 .\cademy of Seieners. Vieiiiui, for discovery of a 
 comet each in 1^;;. :s;s and bSTl); the Lalaude 
 silver medal awarded in 1S81 together with a cash 
 jirize of .")()0 francs by the ]<'rench .\cadeiny of Sci- 
 ences, lie being the fliirdone in the United States 
 to receive it. This was for rapid discovery of co- 
 m(^ts. Fdu]- lironze medids awarded by the Astro- 
 nomical Siieiei\- of ihe I'ai-ilic for discovery of co- 
 mets in IMi-.', IS'.i.'j, is'.iiiaiid INiMI. By far the great- 
 est honor of all was his biung the recipient in 1 Si»7 of 
 
40 
 
 'GRIP'S'- HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 OFFICERS THEBMtlPYLAB LODCtE, F. & A. M. 
 
 1, M. Ashley Williams, W. M. : 2, F. S. Dellow, S. W. : 3, 8. B. Jameson, J. 
 
 W.; 4, C. A. Brociks, Sec-.; 5, ('. E. Bovden, Treas. : 6, A. C. Robacher, S. D. ; 
 
 7, J. E. Lombard, J. D. ; X, H. G. Talmage, 8. M. S. : !i, E. Miner, .T. M. S. : 
 
 10, P. N. Gray, Tyler. 
 
 the Jacksou-Gwilt bronze medal awarded by 
 the Royal Astromical Society of Euglaud. This 
 medal was struck from a fund left by Mrs. 
 Jackson -G wilt for that purpose some years ago 
 with the Royal Society, and the inference may be 
 drawn from the fact that it has been awarded but 
 once. Dr. Swift is a Fellow 
 Royal of tlie Astronomical So- , „, 
 
 ciety, a member of the Amen- ; N; 
 
 can Association for the Ad- | 
 
 vancement of Science and also 
 of the Astronomical Society of 
 the Pacific. Heisof amechani- 
 cal and inventive turn of mind 
 and among his numerous in- 
 ventions may be mentioned the 
 improved Automatic Riglit As- 
 cension Circle. Dr. Swift is a 
 man of exemplary habits, of a 
 quiet, even, genial nature, and 
 it is safe to say he has not an 
 enemy in the w'orld. Ho lias 
 never used tobacco or liquor in 
 any form, but is a great believer 
 in coffee as a drink, having used 
 it all his life. He is today nearly 
 eighty-one years of age, vigor- 
 ous and healthy with full 
 possession of his faculties, but 
 retired fi-om active work, hav- 
 ing sold his instruments, his 
 intention being to spend the re- 
 mainder of his life witli liis 
 children. He has left behind 
 him a starry, imperishable 
 monument which will shine for 
 untold ages to come. 
 
 Marathon Lodge, F. & A. 
 
 M., No. 4:!8, was organized and 
 instituted June 14, 1S58, with 
 Elias W. Seymour,W.M. ; Sam- 
 uel M. Hunt, S. W. ; E. Clark 
 Carley, J. W. It ceased work 
 and was reinstated June 4, l.S(i6, 
 with the following otticers: 
 
 Eli B. Husted, W. M. ; William H 
 Craine, S. W. ; Albertus A. Carley, 
 J. W. The following are the Past- 
 masters : Elias W. Seymour, Eli 
 B. Husted, William H. Craine, H. 
 P. Bryant, L. A. Hazen, James H. 
 Tripp. Moses B. Aldrich, Ira L. 
 Little, L. F. Ward, W. R. Pollard, 
 Frederick Tarble, John H. Bovd, 
 Ashley Wilhams, Henry E. Wil- 
 son, C. A. McAlpine, and Louis H. 
 Atwood. They have occupied 
 rooms for the last twenty-tive 
 years in the Mansard building at 
 the west end of the river bridge 
 and meet the first and third Mon- 
 day evenings in each month. On 
 June, 18116. its name was changed 
 to Thermopylae. Tlie membership 
 is over seventy and tlie lodge is in 
 a very prosperous condition. The 
 following are tlie otticers for lilOO ; 
 Ashley Williams, W.M.: Fred S. 
 Dellow, S. W. : S. B. Jameson, J. 
 W. ; Charles A. Brooks, Sec. ; C. 
 Eugene Boyden. Treas. ; A. C. Ro- 
 bacher, S. D. ; JamesE. Lumbard, 
 J. D. ; H. (4ranvilleTalniadge, S. M 
 S. : E. R. Miner, J. M. S. ; Peter N 
 Gray, Tyler; E. W. Hays, Organ 
 ist ; S. H. Bouton, Marshall ; D. C 
 Lyude, Alfred Leach, S. B. Jame 
 son. Trustees. 
 
 riarathon Chapter, Order Eastern Star, No. 
 
 101, was instituted November 10, 1893, by Most 
 Worthy Grand Matron, Elizabeth Raymond of 
 Syracuse, and consisted of twenty-five members. 
 It has now enrolled one hundred members who are 
 
 (il'l l( K,l;s .M.\i;.\ riloN CHAPTER EASTERN STAR. 
 1, Helen N, Pii),-e, W. M. ; :.', V.. A. Bi-ooks, W. P. ; 3, Cassie ^Y. Robacher, Sec. ; 
 4, Maria Cole, Treas. ; 5, Marv Conrad, Conductress; 6, Elsie Van Vnst. Asst. 
 Cond. ; 7, Ella Miller, Warder ; 8, Hattie Watrous, Adah ; !i, Eva Burs;ess, Ruth ; 
 10, Lucy Allen, Esther; 11, Linnie Burgess, Martha; 12, Frances Lombard, 
 Electa ; 13, Ella M. Williams, P. D. D. G. M. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOITV^ENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 OFFICERS HIRAM l^LARK POST, G. A. R., ^SeeSk. P. 53). 
 1, C. H. Bouton, Commander; J, A. P. Greene, S. V. C. ; 3, O. Courtney, Adj 
 Rdbai-her, Q'm. ; 5, (J. W. Webster, Chap. ; ti, B. F. Greene, Officer of tlie Day 
 Minard, Surgeon: 8, T. Diggs, Color Bearer ; !', Israel McGee. 
 
 residents of Marathon, Cortland, Scott, Whitney's 
 Point, Triangle, Lisle, LTpper Lisle and Killawog. 
 Death has broken the golden chain in five places. 
 The Chapter lias prospered since the organization 
 and has received honors by appointments from 
 the Grand Chapter: Ella M. Williams, as D. D. 
 G. Matron, and C. A. Brooks Assistant (i. L. of the 
 7 districts of New York. The Past Matrons are 
 Hattie E. Wilson, Ella M. Williams, Permelia 
 Leach and Velma Tarble. The Chapter has lieeu 
 represented at the Grand Chapter by Ella M. Wil- 
 liams, C. A. Brook.s, Velma Tarble and 
 Cassie W. Robarlier, and is now in a 
 tlonrishing condition financially and so- 
 cially. The meetings are held in Ma- 
 sonic Hall the first and third Friday even- 
 ings in each month. The present odicers 
 are ; Helen L. Page, \V. M. ; Charles A. 
 Brooks, W. P.; Matie L. Dellow Assn. 
 M. ; Cassie W. Robacher, Sec. ; Maria 
 Cole, Treas. ; Mary Conrad, Con. ; lOlsie 
 Van Vost, Asso. Con. ; t;ila Miller, War- 
 der ; Alfred Leach, Sentinel; Hattie 
 Watrous, Adah ; Eva Burgess, Rutli ; 
 Lucy Allen, Esther; Linnie Burgess, 
 Martlia ; Frances Lombard, Electa. 
 
 Hiram Clark Relief Corps, No. 103. 
 
 At the close of the summer in 1887 in tlui 
 beautiful month of August oxir Woman's 
 Relief Corps Auxiliary to that noblest of 
 all organizations of brave men, tlu' 
 ( Irand Army of the Republic, was orgnn- 
 ized by Mrs. Emma J. Carpenter-, i.f 
 Syracuse, N. Y., department se( reiiii\ 
 with only eleven charter members, which 
 number increased to 1 T members at the 
 close of 18S7. The otticers elected were : 
 President, ("a8.sieW. Robacher; S. V. P., 
 Albertine L. CJreene ; J. V. P., Julia 
 Pierce; Treas., Maria Webster; Chap- 
 lain, Rhoda Keys ; Conductor, Francis 
 A. Greene ; ( Uiard, Vida Smith. In Fcb- 
 niary IKKs through the President, tlu' 
 Corps began their hard and active work 
 to procure funds for a soldiers' monu- 
 ment by giving entertainments, which 
 they worked steadily at for five long 
 years and were assisted by their 
 
 noble comrades, who 
 ever stood ready to aid 
 in tlie glorious work, 
 and by the donations 
 of citizens and friends. 
 A fine granite monu- 
 ment was erected by 
 Comrade A. C. Ro- 
 bacher, Past Com- 
 mander of Hiram 
 Clark Post 154. On 
 decoration day, ISiKJ, 
 the monument was 
 dedicated, and on that 
 daj- long to be remem- 
 bered by the W.R.C.. 
 many were present 
 from all suiTounding 
 towns. The monu- 
 ment is an ornament 
 in beauty and work- 
 manship and adorns 
 ciur village park in 
 remembrance of our 
 noble dead who served 
 their country and lost 
 their lives on Southern 
 battle fields. Hiram 
 Clark Corps has not 
 been idle since 
 that eventful day, but she has kept up in the 
 workings of the order, and relief work has been 
 quite extended and now the order numbers 41. 
 "Though a small corps the organization has done 
 remarkably well. Since the organization, the 
 corps has been called to mourn the loss by death 
 of four earnest and faithful members. The fol- 
 lowing Presidents have served: Cassie W. 
 Robacher, Albertine L. Cireene, Frances Mitchell, 
 Rosa Hamlin, Hattie E. Bentcm, Maria Webster, 
 Hattie R. Fish, and Frances A. Greene. Thepre- 
 
 W. E. 
 
 Ill' I'll l',li> lllli.X.M ( I..\1:K \\.i.\1K.\ ^ KKI.IKl CORPS. 
 1, Fnim-es Meaclunn,.!. V.P.: :.', ( ■a-ir \V. Ui>liac-lH-r. S,,-. ; :l. Al- 
 hi-rlinc L. (4re,iui, Trciis.: I. Ella Sali>l.\u-v, Conductor; .I, Maria 
 Cole, (iuard; il, Ella Hilsiiit;cr, Asst. ('(.nil.: T, .lulia PiiTcc, Guard : 
 M, Hattie E. Bouton, Color Bearer, No- 1 ; ii. Hattie K. Fi.sh, ('. B. No. 
 2; 10, Mary Smith, C.B. No. 3; 11, Maria Webster, C. B. No. 4. 
 
42 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MRS. GEORUE L. SWIFT. GEORCtE L. SWIFT. 
 
 seut officers are: President, France.^ A. Greeue ; 
 S. V. P., Mary A. Ball; J. V. P., Frances A. 
 Meacham : Secretary, Cassie W. Robaeher : 
 Treas., Albertine L. Greene; Chaplain, Sarah L. 
 Stone; Conductor, Ella E. Salisbury; Guard, 
 Maria Cole; Asst. Cou., Elsie A. Hillsiuf^er; 
 Guard, Julia Pierce; Color Bearers, No. 1, Hattie 
 E. Benton; 3, Hattie R. Fish; 3, Mary Smith; 
 4 Maria Webster; Organist, Mary Keys. The 
 meetings are held each alternate Tuesday evening 
 in G. A. R. Hall. 
 
 George Lucien Swift, the late senior member 
 of the firm ol^ (i. L. Swift & Sons, was at the time 
 of his death the oldest active biisiness man of 
 Marathon, who for forty-five years a leading 
 tradesman and merchant, impressed the com- 
 munity with an individuality which will endure 
 for all time — an example of steadfast adherence 
 to progressive, broad-guaged business lines and 
 citizenship that never fades from the view of pos- 
 terity. During the summer of 1900 that tenacious, 
 unconquerable will power which prompted him 
 when a youth to leave home and measure his skill 
 and courage with shrewd and experienced busi- 
 ness men. pulled him 
 through a serious ill- 
 ness while he was visit- 
 ing his daugher, Mrs. 
 (Tage Tarbell in New 
 York, and he returned 
 home enfeebled and 
 greatly reduced in 
 flesh, but with that 
 buoyancy of spirits 
 truly characteristic of 
 him . As cold weather 
 approached his health 
 gradually declined but 
 he persisted in getting 
 out up to Thanksgiv- 
 ing day, after which 
 he was wholly con- 
 fined to the house. 
 About a week before 
 he died he took to liis 
 bed and although 
 steadily failing re- 
 tained consciousness 
 until the day preced- 
 ing his death. On 
 December 15, 1!)00, at 
 G P. M., he quietly and 
 peacefully passed 
 away in the presence 
 
 of a weeping family. Possessing a fine, tall, 
 commanding figure, an open and intelligent 
 countenance, attractive, manly featui-es 
 and an agreeable presence backed up with 
 the far-sightedness and grit of the true type 
 of an American, he was fully equipped for 
 that success which he achieved. He began 
 life and made his way througli it entirely 
 on his own resources. Wlieu finally he set- 
 tled in Marathon his love for the town and 
 his desire to see the village grow and prosper 
 ever kept him on the watch for opportuni- 
 ties to open the way. Even when his busi- 
 ness affairs were tne mostpressing, he turned 
 away no proposition without giving it <-are- 
 f ul consideration. One could not ajjproach 
 him for the fiist tiiue without cxptTicncing 
 a responsive glow of gond will and t'riend- 
 sliip, such was the kindly welcome he hiid 
 for all. He engaged quite largely in erect- 
 ing village residences, in his eagerness to 
 give an impetus to the growth of the town. 
 Kindness and liberality found many wavs 
 of lightening the burdensof poverty without herald- 
 ing his genernsity thrnugh the community and his 
 death is a loss which will be felt in many poor fami- 
 lies. He greatlyenjoyedrecreation,po.ssessed ahos- 
 pitable and sociable disposition and was an ardent 
 admij-er and connesseur of the arts and sciences. 
 His long business career in Marathon had made 
 him widely known in Central New York. But it 
 is perhaps that he as a missionary of the Morse 
 gospel of electro-telegi'aphy became prominently 
 known elsewhere and deserves from the stranger 
 more than a passing reference. Before he had 
 reached a score of years he had learned the prin- 
 ciples of the new science and, guided by the 
 fullest light of a conviction that it had come to 
 revolutionize the business world, he Joined the 
 baud of promotors who toured the United States 
 in the "forties" expounding and demonstrating 
 the use and potency of this new "agent" in civi- 
 lization and amazing crowds of the incredulous 
 with exhibitions of its utility and power. Associ- 
 ated with Ezra Cornell, the great philanthropist 
 who founded Cornell University, G. L. Swift 
 and his cousin Lewis Swift, the distinguished 
 astronomer, accompanied him on his first trip to 
 the west where in the city of Chicagu then liaving 
 
 ,E'il;eiE L swu." 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 FREDERICK H. SWIFT, 
 a populatiou of about ten tliousaud — a city about 
 the size of Cortland of the present day — tliey 
 argued the cause of tlie commercial telegraph in 
 counting room, sanctum and office, with bankers, 
 editors, business men and capitalist whom they 
 desired to interest financially, and backed up their 
 opinions with practical demonstrations on short 
 distance wires and exixTimcnts and lectures in 
 public halls. (Quickly stringing a wire on tem- 
 porary supports across the street aud connecting 
 it with the instrument at each end resting on a 
 dry goods box Messrs. Cornell and the Swifts 
 invited capital to step up aud behold the wonder- 
 ful demonstration. Capital stood at the elbow 
 aud dictated a message, then walked over to the 
 opposite corner and at 
 another elbow gi-a vely 
 watched the ribbon of 
 paper reel out its 
 length, bearing the 
 cabalistic symbols of 
 the Morse alphabet 
 which bore tlie mes- 
 sage silently conveyed 
 over the wire and read 
 alond to its woiidi'ving 
 author by the operator 
 But capital was slow 
 and sure and wliile the 
 community welcouK^d 
 the party as apostles 
 of a decidedly valu- 
 able, interesting and 
 great discovery, mon- 
 ey hungered yi^t re- 
 fused to be tempted. 
 George Lucifsn was 
 then 19 years of age 
 aud his cousin eight 
 or nine years older. 
 The opportunity for 
 figuring in a great his- 
 torical invention was 
 golden V)ut gain was 
 elusive, so they re- 
 turned east. A con- 
 spicuous instance of 
 how capital shied when 
 approached, illustrat- 
 
 ing one iKiiut of view taken at that time, is related 
 of the visit made by Mr. Swift to the Chicago Tri- 
 bune where he urged the marvellous possibilities of 
 news service by means of the Morse telegraph. 
 This Kreat Cliicago daily of today with rooms 
 filled with clicking instruments and spending vast 
 sums every year for the service of tlie invention, 
 declared that the expense would be prohibitive. 
 Later improvements, such as tlie "([uad," etc., 
 combined with ingenidus slirl. ionizing and mani- 
 foli.ling of news dis]i:it(li> s. ivmovi-d I lii' barriers 
 and still later large .•apldizalinn n<lured the cost 
 .-^o that now the use of tlie wires for fully written 
 dispatches is the rule in the large daily newspaper 
 otti<-os, aud the use of the mails the exception. 
 (t. L. Swift on a visit to Chicago during the 
 world's fair was interviewed by a Tribune re- 
 porter, and this is what he said : " Wlien we got 
 to Chicago we were all pretty liard up; (.'ornell, 
 the future millionaire, as l)ad as tlie rest. He 
 couldn't pay us any salary for exiiloiting the tele- 
 grapli, so it was decided that we should hire a 
 hall and charge admission to our lectures. So we 
 went to see the mayor and the other authorities 
 and we pointed out to them how at some future 
 day the electric telegraph might make a great 
 metropolis of Chicago. The outcome of it was 
 that we were given the iise of the court house 
 free of charge for a month. The court house was 
 crowded at oT'-i cents a couple. We made money 
 enough to jmy all of our expenses and to buy a 
 new suit of clothes apiece besides. Ezra Cornell 
 needed a new suit more than any of us. He was 
 really looking pretty shabby. But though the 
 lectures were siiccessful Mr. Cornell did not have 
 very good luck in getting subscriptions to the 
 stock of the New York aud Chicago Telegraph 
 Co. He got a few hundred dollars in Chicago and 
 about the same amount in New York. You see 
 we had to go at the capitalists in this way : 'Now 
 here's a new invention, w'e want to build a tele- 
 graph line between New Y'ork and Chicago. If 
 the invention works how much will you subscribe?' 
 On our way back east I stopped at Loudon, Can- 
 ada West, and received the first message over the 
 
 F. H. SWIFT'S RESIDENCE. 
 
44 
 
 "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 <tE()Rge w. swift. 
 telegi'aph liue then building west from Niagai-a 
 Falls. The great trouble in those days was to get 
 power. We used acid batteries and over a long 
 distance they failed to generate a sufficiently 
 strong cun-ent. So two of us learned to receive 
 messages by feeling the wu-es with our fingers. 
 In this way we could make out a very faint shock. 
 After leaving Chicago Mr. Cornell held on to a 
 great deal of the stock of the telegraph company 
 and it made liim a very rich man. I staid in the 
 lecture field for years and have often visited 
 Chicago since that early day. but I never come 
 here that I do not remember our first meeting in 
 the little old court house." Tlie hand bill in 
 which ]Messrs. Cornell and the Swifts announced 
 that first meeting to the public was ;i stirring 
 specimen of the art of advertising witli its glar- 
 ing headlines announcing the sevcnil ixpcrinients. 
 At the head is de- 
 claimed in bold tyiie : 
 "(tREAT WONDER • . 
 
 OF THE WORLD! — 
 The M.\(iXETK^ Tele- 
 gr.vph will be ex- 
 hibited in the coukt 
 House Saturday 
 EvENiNc July 81, 
 1H47! At the solicita- 
 tion of many ladies 
 and gentlemen Mr. 
 Swift has consented 
 to give one more lec- 
 ture, and positively 
 the last one he will 
 be able to give in this 
 city. The entire tele- 
 gi-aph including the 
 galvanic battery wires 
 and three registers 
 will be erected in the 
 room and messages 
 transmitted back- 
 wards and forwards 
 on the wires in the 
 twinkling of an eye! 
 The audience can see 
 both ends of the liue ! 
 It will be seen how 
 two persons thou- 
 
 sands of miles apart can converse as freely 
 as if face to face. Any communication which any 
 person in the room \vill hand to the operator will 
 be sent on the wires and instantly read at the 
 opposite end." (4. L. Swift spent the best part of 
 ten years in the field of demonstrating electricity, 
 magnetism and kindred natural forces which were 
 so little known twenty years before the rebellion 
 and which greatly interested the popular mind. 
 Many hiiudreds of people gathered in pubHc hallsin 
 large and small towns in the east, marvelled at 
 the then wonderful experiments which G. L. and 
 Lewis Swift and others with whom they were at 
 ditferent times associated wrought with strange 
 agents — electro-magnetism, galvanism, oxygen, 
 gun cotton and phosphoric lights. Undoubtedly 
 more than one gi-eat mind that has opened to the 
 world auxiliary inventions or improvements in 
 the use and development of these agents, first be- 
 came interested in student days by witnessing 
 some of these very spectacular proceedings given by 
 Messrs. Swift. Among Mr. Swift's papers wliicii 
 are preser\"ed are hand bills published during 
 that time, annoiuieing the lectures and experi 
 ineuts. In the light of modern science they pre- 
 sent curious as well as historical reading and are 
 in many respects prophetic. Some of the larger 
 bills are filled with pictorials of tlie apparatus 
 which was then new and very little understood 
 but now is in every day irse. The electro-fire 
 alarm is announced as one of the attractions to be 
 operated, the public being assm-ed that one man 
 rings 19 bells in Bo.stou. The experiment will 
 show how twice that number may be rung. The 
 public is informed that it will be shown liow elec- 
 tricity is used to protect buildings from burglars : 
 also the principles of sub-mai'ine batteries and 
 torpedos with which it is announced, this nation 
 may defy the powers of the earth ; the purposes 
 of gun cotton "a recently discovered invention 
 intended to supercede powder:" and the latest 
 plan for building a telegraph line across the At- 
 lantic ocean, all of which as forerunners of po- 
 tential agents now generally in use, was proplietic 
 of wluit wa.s to follow. It is quite proliable that 
 Mr. Swift and his cousin the astronomer were 
 among the very last if not the last of the survivors 
 of Prof. Morse's band of disciples who introduced 
 for commercial purposes electro-magnetism. 
 
 . Di-Uuw, Photo 
 
 L. SWIFT \- SONS' GENERAL STORE. 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 lu tlie coiu'se of his tours Mr. Swft readied 
 Hunt's Coriiers where he met his future wife, 
 Louisa, the tlaufihter of Asa Hunt and on Feb- 
 ruary 20, is.'io tliey were married ami at once 
 settled iu Maratlion. The Huuts afti'r wlioiii the 
 locality was named were one of tlie oldest families 
 in the town of Lapeer who altliouf^li curiously of 
 the same name were not of the same family as 
 the first settlers of the town of Marathon. Mr. 
 
 years old went to live with his uncle on a farm in 
 Clarkson. Monroe county, N. Y., the father of 
 Lewis Swift the famous astronomer, with wliom 
 he lived as a brother, the two together studying 
 tli<' luMvens, wliicli Lewis Swift became as a boy 
 tliorouKlily interested in, and such crude works 
 as scliool books then afforded ou gravitation, 
 magnetism and electricity. At last, when George, 
 the youngest, was eighteen the two went out to- 
 
 MAKATiloN AND KILIJ )W( 
 
 1, Killowog Bridfte ("Grip," photo) ; 2, "Twenty Yfiirs Aro, Dear Tom," (snap-sliot on Killowog school ground 
 by "Grip"): 3, TiouKhnioga River, south from KillowoK bridne ("{}np,"Dhotol : 4, Birdseye of Marathon from 
 B. F. Green's res. : Moon Hill in the hackRround I'Grip,"^ photo i : n. Cable Ferry, e.xtemporized when Main street 
 bridge, Marathon, was earried away. November, lilOO I Mrs. E H. Barnes, photo) : (i, A F'ishernmn— who is he r 
 7, M. E. Chureh, Killowog, i-ri-eted Is'OT (A. .Johnson, photo) : s, Hehool house, Killowog, lA. .Johnson, photo). 
 
 Swift was born in the town of DeRuyter, Madi- 
 son county, N. Y., September 3. 1k2T, his fatlur 
 Herman Swift, who was a farmer, is buried in 
 the DeRuyter cemetery. His mother lies in tlic 
 Marathon ciuueterv. G. L. Swift when fittecm 
 
 getlieras has been stated. While deep in business 
 atlairs in Maratlion Mr. Swift never forgot the 
 ob.iec-t of his early labors and it was for a time 
 tliat, Marathon liaving no local paper, lie pub- 
 lislied a monthly newspaper, the first in the vil- 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL, SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 lage, which though printed iu Homer was well 
 and thoroughly edited at home as was shown by 
 the many originalities published in its columns, 
 especially on local topics. It was appropriately 
 called the Marathon Telegraph. Mr. Swift was 
 one of the original stockholders and incorporators 
 of the First National Bank and a director from 
 its beginning to the time of his death. He was 
 one of those who procured the location of the 
 Stockwell Wagon Works in Marathon at a time 
 wlieu this enterprise gave promise of becoming a 
 large manufacturing establishment. The organ- 
 ization of the volunteer fire department appealed 
 forcibly to him and he became one of the most 
 powerful friends of that branch of public service. 
 
 Q. L. Swift & Sons, who conduct one of the 
 largest general retail mercantile establishments in 
 the county, occupy three connecting stores 
 in East Main street, in one of which G. L. Swift, 
 the senior partner, began business in Marathon 
 forty-five years ago. This firm handles at this 
 place — the oldest business in the village — grocer- 
 ies, drugs, hardware, stationary, etc. It also does 
 a large tin, roofing, plumbing and general house- 
 hold supply business, at the same time having the 
 controlling interest in the firm of S^vift & Co., in 
 the Tarbell building, a co-pai-tnership with C. A. 
 Mack and Gage E. Tarbell, which was formed 
 two years ago and which carries on a large busi- 
 ness in groceries, diy goods, notions, boots and 
 shoes and kindred lines. When G. L. Swift took 
 up his residence in Marathon in 1S55 he bought 
 the drug business of Reed & Fletcher, then being 
 conducted in the middle one of the three stores. 
 At that time a part of the west store was occupied 
 by the Messenger bank which a few years later 
 vacated the premises when G. L. Swift removed 
 the partition and took possession of the whole of 
 it. He afterwai-ds added harness goods which 
 were manufactured and sold in the second story. 
 In 1856 he in company with Lewis Swift and Asa 
 Hunt bought the hardware business of Newell & 
 Taft in the adjoining store on the east, but a short 
 time later he retired from the firm, continuing 
 however, in the original business. Tlie hardware 
 store afterwards passed into tlie hands of Robin- 
 son & Swift, and E. Robinson & Son, from whom 
 the firm of (4. L. Swift & Son, fifteen years ago, 
 repurcha.sed it. Since then the firm has occupied 
 the three stores. On September 1, 1S81, Fred H. 
 Swift, the eldest son, became a partner with his 
 father and on January 1 , 1894, George W. Swift 
 was admitted to the firm giving it the present 
 name of G. L. Swift & Sons. Messrs. Fred H. 
 and George W. Swift, like their father, take spe- 
 cial interest in promoting the welfare of the vil- 
 lage and giving encouragement to public improve- 
 ment. The former upon leaving school at about 
 18 years of age, entered liis father's store as a 
 clerk. Recognizing the advantages of a prosper- 
 ous manufactiiring enterprise to a community 
 they interested themselves in securing the loca- 
 tion here of William Stockwell & Sou. some years 
 ago engaged in manufacturing wagons at 
 Hunt's Corners. A stock company was formed 
 in which the Swifts were the most largely inte- 
 rested and commodious buildings were erected 
 and fully equipped. The wagons which the com- 
 pany turned out were conceded to be the best that 
 could be made. The cost of production was above 
 what the market could stand and the company 
 was consequently forced out of busLuess, the 
 buildings afterwards being taken by the Climax 
 Company and a few years later burned. Fred 
 Swift, who is the president of the Climax Road 
 Machine company, and Gage Tarbell on Septem- 
 
 ber 20, 18S3, bought out the jewelry business of 
 L. Crittenden, the latter selling out to F. H. 
 Grain, who later bought out the remaining inter- 
 est. 
 
 The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian church of 
 Marathon has been a faithful and efficient Auxil- 
 iary of tlie church for many years. It was organ- 
 ized sometime in the forties. Mrs. Wm. Bradford 
 was the first President and Mrs. John M. Roe 
 Secretai-y. Both of these ladies are still living, 
 Mrs. Bradford in her 'J5th year and Mrs. Roe over 
 80. Its work has been varied and in channels too 
 numerous to mention all, and whatever it has un- 
 dertaken it has carried to a successful completion. 
 Many hundi'ed dollars have passed through their 
 hands. Mainly through their efforts the annex 
 was built (consisting of parlor and kitchen) and 
 nicely furnished for the purpose for which it is to 
 be used, consisting of chairs, tables, dishes, cook 
 stove &o. , and more recently were purchased a fine 
 piano sold by A. Mahan for |300, besides helping 
 on pastor's salary, paving organist and organ, 
 and paying chm-ch debts; and in ways too 
 numerous to mention have always been will- 
 ing to lend a hand where most needed. For 
 several years every autumn a box or barrel of 
 new and serviceable clothing was sent by the 
 Ladies Aid to homes for the friendless in New 
 York City. Many have been the transformations 
 wrought and good accomplished by this same old 
 fashioned but faithful Ladies' Aid Society, who 
 have not wearied in well doing but are still at 
 work, under the leadership of Mrs. A. P. Greene 
 as President; Mrs. G. H. Smith, Secretary ; Mrs. 
 Clark Mack, Treasurer. The renovating, newly 
 carpeting, papering of the church to which it is 
 an Auxiliary, assisted by the Bethalouians, prove 
 it is not past its usefulness, though rather 
 ancient. All honor to the more recently formed 
 society in connection with the Sabbath school, 
 namely ; the Bethaloniaus, composed of Dr. Blue's 
 class, also the Loyal Circle who have wrought 
 efficiently and nobly : but for persistent, steadfast, 
 persevering work, overcoming many obstacles 
 and discouragements, the members of the Ladies' 
 Aid Society of the Pi'esbyterian church of Blara- 
 thon may well feel proud of their time honored 
 name and record. 
 
 The Water Supply of Marathon are everflow- 
 ing springs piped into a reservoir on East Hill 
 which has a capacity for 700,000 gallons and cost, 
 including pipes and hydrants $35,000. There are 
 .55 hydrants, 235 taps and 9 miles of pipe. The 
 pressure is sufficient to throw as much water as 
 may be required over any building iu the village. 
 In 1878, $500 was appropriated for a reservoir on 
 Grove street in the west end of the village. This 
 in a measure answered for a reservoir for fire pur- 
 poses onlj-. On June 14, 1884, a committee of citi- 
 zens appointed by the board of trustees recommend- 
 ed a resen-oir on Cemetery Hill to be filled from 
 wells by a windmill, or from springs on Abram 
 Young's farm. The former was reported to cost 
 $2,220. and the other $3,590. The trustees adopted 
 the windmill plan, whicli in IMarch 1884 was lost 
 at a special election, the vote standing a tie, 44 to 
 44. At the election of June 30, 1884, it was car- 
 ried, 51 ayes, 28 nays. In 1890 $400 was approp- 
 riated to lay additional pipes to hydrants, which 
 in 1894 were extended to the west end of the vil- 
 lage green. In 1897 the village voted $2s,000 to 
 construct the present system, on which work was 
 begun in September that year. The old pipes in 
 the Cenietery Hill system were made a part of the 
 modern system, the Cemetery Hill and Grove 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 street reservoirs bein;? abnudoiiert and filled up. 
 The api)ropriiitiou of *2S,0()0 was iiisutticieiit to 
 complete the works and au extra appropriation of 
 !5!o,000 was made. Two thousand dollars more 
 was required before the works were finished. 
 
 Gage E. Tarbell, the second Vice President of 
 the Equitable Life Assurauce Co., of New York, 
 is one of the distinguished meu of the present 
 time who began life in Marathon at the foot of 
 the ladder and tlirough his own exertions, dis- 
 playing rare executive ability and high bu.siuess 
 (|ualities, worked liis way from position to 
 position until he attained next to tlie highest 
 place of respnnsil)ility in one of the greatest finan- 
 cial corpiiratioMs in this country. He was born in 
 Smitlivillc, Clicnango Co., N. Y., Sept. 30, l.S.jG, 
 and was graduated in early youth from the col- 
 legiate department of the Clinton Liberal 
 Institute. He then took up the study of 
 law and with the pluck and determina- 
 tion to make his way in the world which 
 are characteristic of American youth, 
 obtained means to educate himself in 
 tliat profession by teaching school. Upon 
 liis admission to the barin 18s0, lie came 
 to Marathon to engage in practice, open- 
 ing an office in the Peck building and at 
 <iMce gaining the confidence of all classes 
 in the community. At about this time 
 he became acquainted with Miss Ella, 
 the daughter of G. L. Swift, the leading 
 lueichaiit in the village, an acquaintance- 
 sliip wliich ripened into love and was 
 followed on Dec. 21, ISSl, in the celebra- 
 tii)n of their nuptial engagement. To 
 them were born two cliildren, Swift 
 'I'arbell, Nov. :!(), 18.S2, anil Loui.se, Feb. 
 IS, issc. Kiigagingashedid in a general 
 law practice, such as is re<|uired in a 
 rural locality Mr. Tarbell, during the four 
 years of his residence in Marathon, 
 became especially informed and well 
 fitted in a legal sense wliich has been 
 of great advantage in many ways in the 
 
 higluir position which he subsecpiontly attained. 
 While his success as a lawyer was assured and his 
 practice remunerative his inclinations were for a 
 more extended field of personal effort and so \u' 
 began writing insurance for the Eiiuitable and in 
 18S4 moved to Binghamton, N. Y., as manager of 
 the Southern New York State department. Two 
 years later he was transfered to the West as gen- 
 eral agent for Wisconsin and Northern Michigan, 
 with headquarters at Milwaukee. There his 
 great ability obtained full sco])e and his success- 
 ful manjigemcnt of tliat department was rewarded 
 with a partnersliip mterest in the Northwestern 
 Department which brought about his removal in 
 1S8H to Chicago. During the following four 
 years he controlled the business in that large field. 
 It was increased to such an extent by his vigor- 
 ous, fruitful efforts that the business written by 
 that agency alone exceeded the entire business of 
 more than two thirds of all the old line companies 
 operating in the United States. In addition to 
 liis i)urely executive work he wrote up personally 
 an average of over two million ibillars of business 
 per annum, a record that has probably never been 
 lieaten in the history of life insurance business. 
 The rare and valuable qualifications as well as 
 the hustling iiirthuds displayed at that time 
 recommended Mr. Tarbell to the shrewd, business 
 head of the company, the late President, Henry 
 B. Hyde, who called him to a higher and more 
 responsible position, that of third Vice President. 
 So in is'.ci he removed to New York and was 
 placed in full charge of the agency force, a greater 
 field of ojierations wherein he has succeeded in ac- 
 quiring that high reputation as a "business 
 getter" which has made him widely known in 
 the insurance world and has advanced him to the 
 highest subordinate position in the society, the 
 second Vice Presidency, an appointment which 
 he received in May, I'siiit. While a resident of 
 Jlarathon Mr. Tarbell constiucted the handsome 
 three story brick building known as the Tarbell 
 block, the most imposing structure in town con- 
 taining stores with flats overhead. Mr. Tarbell 
 still holds a large circle of friends in Marathon 
 who welcome his periodic return among them 
 every year. 
 
 S. Dellow. I'hoto. THK TAKBELI- HllLUlNG. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 NATHANIEL BoUTON. 
 
 MKS. JULIA A. BOUTt)N 
 
 Nathaniel Bouton, sou of Nathaniel and Lydia 
 Stevens Bouton, was born in Virgil, N. Y.. May 
 28, 1818. His boyhood years were spent on his 
 father's faiin, with such educational advantages 
 as were to be obtained from the district schools of 
 that day. At the age of nineteen, preferring a 
 mechanical trade to farming, he came to Mara- 
 thon to learn cabinet making from his brother-in- 
 law, Joseph Benedict. Two years later he 
 purchased the shop and business which he con- 
 ducted till failing health compelled a change to 
 out door pursuits. A few years were spent in 
 farming and house painting, when he engaged in 
 insurance business which he continued until his 
 deatli. As a young man he took an active inter- 
 est in military affairs and served for a considera- 
 ble time as Captain in the "Old Militia." In 
 politics he was one of the early Abolitionists, but 
 united with the Republi- 
 can party when that was 
 organized. Public spirit- 
 ed in the highest degree 
 he was always deeply 
 interested in all that 
 affected the welfare of 
 his village, town or 
 country. Though never 
 offensively partisan and 
 ever courteous to oppon- 
 ents, he was agressive, 
 fearless and firm in de- 
 fense of what he con- 
 sidered right. He never 
 sought office, but was 
 many times called to 
 serve inofficial capacities. 
 During tlie twenty-four 
 years in which he per- 
 formed the duties of a 
 Justice of tlie Peace, sn 
 equitable were his deci- 
 sions that rarely, if ever, 
 was one of them reversed 
 by the higher courts. 
 For more than thirty 
 years he led the choir of 
 the M. E. church, besides 
 
 assisting from time to time in the choirs 
 of other churches. His enthusiastic love 
 of music and his refined taste led him 
 to labor earnestly and unselfishly to raise 
 its standard of excellence, not only in 
 his own choir but also in the community 
 at large. He married Julia E. South- 
 worth, of Hillsdale, Columbia County, 
 Sept. 3, 1834. Their children are C. H., 
 Bouton and EleanorC.Mackellarof Mara- 
 thon, and Julia E. Hyatt, Jane M. Purvis, 
 Amanda G. Smith and Mary A. Smith 
 of Cortland. Mr. Bouton died February 
 •-'. 1886,and his wife October 19, 1899. 
 
 Hannah Perry Mallery, wife of Cap- 
 tain Patrick Jlallery.Sr. , was the daughter 
 of Stephen and Lucy Hatch Olmsted of 
 Stockbridge, Mass., and was born April 
 17, ITiS'J. During her girlhood days she 
 was privileged to en.ioy the society and 
 friendship of the Edwards, Sedgwick, 
 Dwight and Williams families, names 
 that have since made Stockbridge fa- 
 mous. Later the famUy removed to 
 Columbia county where she married a 
 Mr. Winchell. About 1823 she came to 
 Marathon as the second wife of Captain 
 IMallery whose first wife was her 
 sister, and whose untimely death had 
 left the children motherless. To these children 
 she gave a mother's care and received in return 
 the affectionate regard that her unselfish labor 
 for them had earned. After the deatli of Captain 
 Mallery, which occurred March ls38, she remained 
 on the farm three years and then took up her 
 residence with her youngest daughter. Here she 
 was for thirty-three years, and until her death, 
 unlike the proverbial mother-in-law, an lionored 
 and welcome member of the family. Her active 
 life was spent for those she loved. No labor was 
 too heavy, no sacrifice too great for them. Her 
 sunny, cheerful and unselfish nature, her youth- 
 ful spirit that never grew old, ner ready sym- 
 pathy with and interest in young people made 
 her societj" sought for by friends of all ages. The 
 trials and sorrows that came to her were liorne 
 bravely, .silently, uncomplainingly. She was for 
 
 A. Johnson Photo. RESIDENCE OP LATE NATHANIEL AND JULIA BOUTON. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 CHARLES H. BOUTON. 
 
 many years a cousisteut member of i\v Baptist 
 cluirch. Her childreu who had followed their 
 mother to her uew home and established homes 
 of their owu. were Emiline, who man-ied Isaac T. 
 Lewis, and Julia, wife of Natliauiel Boutou at 
 whose house hiT death oociin-ed May 23, 18?:!. 
 
 Charles H. Bouton has been engaged in the 
 pork and produce business in Mai'athon for thirty 
 years, an enterprise in which he is recognized as 
 the leading dealer in this section. His building 
 stands fm Broome street in the rear of his resi- 
 dence fully equipped with all the necessary appa- 
 ratus for cutting up and packing pork and con- 
 verting it into the many taUe commodities whicli 
 he supplies to the community. Greatly interested 
 as he is in tine horses he has tm'ned his attemion 
 in that direction whenever on many occasions he 
 has found that he could become the possessor of 
 a swiftly gaited or 
 proudly bred animal. 
 Mr. Boutou has ope- 
 rated in trade vent- 
 ures quite largely, in 
 which he has both 
 iiuide and Inst miitiev. 
 He was one of those 
 whoas.sisted ingettiug 
 the Stockwell Wagon 
 works here and wlio 
 investedinit. His de- 
 sire has always been 
 to lend a liel()ing hand 
 if by so doing he rould 
 awaken the town to 
 commercial and man- 
 ufacturing activity. 
 At one time he in- 
 vested largely in cut- 
 ters, to finish up and 
 sell to the consumer. 
 Mr. Bouton as the 
 coninumder of the lo- 
 cal (irand Army Post 
 takes considerable in- 
 terest in tlie welfare of 
 his old comrades and 
 is a fuitlif\d and reg- F. 8. DcUow, Plmti). 
 
 ular attendant at all camp fires and conventions 
 of vets that are within reasoiuible traveling dis- 
 tance, with the result that he lias received nuiiiy 
 honors at the hands of his old army companiims. 
 His father. Narhuniel Bouton, came from a Virgil 
 farm to Marathim when lit years old (in islii) and 
 was a prominent citizen to the time of his death. 
 Charles Bouton was born in Marathon, A\igust 
 23. is4fl, and up to the time of tlie breaking out of 
 the Civil war followed the trade of painting. On 
 August 23, 1803, he enlisted in the l.oTth regiment 
 and was with his command at Fredericksburg, 
 Chancellorville. Gettysburgh, Hagerstown and 
 the bombardment of Sumter, being mustered out 
 .July ;iO, 1865. He returned home and started in 
 tlie produce business at the depot and on October 
 1."), lx()7, married Harriet E., the daughter of 
 Alanson and Harriet Ben.iamin of Marathon. 
 Their daughter is Mrs. Mary (George W.) Swift 
 of Marathon. In 1873 Mr. Bouton bought the 
 produce liusiuess of Burch & Burgess and selling 
 out in lsT:j purchased the agricultural implement 
 business of .Samuel Conger, which he has since 
 carried on. Mr. Boutou is a democrat and has 
 served the town seventeen years as constable. 
 
 The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. Church, 
 of Marathon, was organized July i), 1879, when 
 the following officers were elected: President, 
 Mrs. O. C. Carley ; Secretary, Miss Jennie Bou- 
 ton. This society was reorganized as the Ladies' 
 Tlnion Nov. !l, Jsss. Officers: President, Mrs. 
 Joseph Limbergher; 1st. Vice President, Mrs. 
 Delos .Johnson ; 2nd. Vice President, Mrs. Charles 
 Adams; Secretary, Mrs. (Jrsou H. Smith; Assist- 
 ant, Mrs. (rusta White ; Treasurer, Mrs. Patrick 
 Mallery ; ami seven dii-ectors. Following are the 
 present officers : President, Mrs. F. J. McFarland ; 
 1st Vice President, Mi-s. B. P. Ripley ; 3ud Vice 
 President, Mrs. Fannie Livingston; 3d Vice 
 President, Mrs. A. A. (3gden; Secretary, Mrs. 
 Geo. Miller; Treasurer, Mrs. James Lombard; 
 Assistant, Mrs. D. McKellar, and nine directors. 
 Object of this organization is to plan and carry 
 forward much, which will, with the blessing of 
 God, jiromote the interest of the church. 
 
 The Hilsinger Mill, now in ruins, is the site 
 of the lii'st saw mill built by .Tohn Chamlier- 
 lainin 1808. 
 
 CHARI,KS H. B(HIT(IN'8 RESIDENCE 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MRS, SALLY CARLEY. 
 
 Alanson Carley was boru iu Uuadilla, Otsego 
 county, New York, June («, 1797. He reared a 
 large family of children four of whom are living, 
 two sons and two daughters: — A. A. Carley of 
 Cortland, C. C. Carley of Homer, Mis Sarah Jane 
 Adams of Marathon and Mrs. Esther A. Hunt, 
 who still lives on the same premises where her 
 father spent his entire life. E. Clark Carley, the 
 oldest son and a life long resident of the town, 
 died six years ago. Alansou Carley was for many 
 years a prominent and influential citizen of Mara- 
 thon and did much to advance the interests of the 
 town and county iu which he resided. He was 
 the sou of Ebenezer and Joharma Carley, who 
 came to Maratlion then a dense and rugged wild- 
 erness when Alauson was two years of age and lo- 
 cated on the west side of the river, being the same 
 premises where Mrs. Esther A. Hunt now resides. 
 His father was the first captain of a military com- 
 pany organized in this section of the country 
 which probably in- 
 cluded a territory 
 equal toabout one-half 
 of the present county 
 of Cortland. For many 
 subsequent yearsthere 
 were no schools in 
 Marathon except dur- 
 ing a few months of 
 the year. The child- 
 ren of sufficient age 
 were kept at home to 
 assist in the labors of 
 the farm, and to per- 
 form such other ser- 
 vices as they were able 
 to do to gain a liveli- 
 hood and help support 
 the family. Mr. Car- 
 ley, conseiiuently, had 
 but very limited ad- 
 vantages for acquir- 
 ing an education ; but 
 in spite of all adverse 
 circumstances, he 
 managed by close ap- 
 plication of the means 
 at his command to ob- 
 tain such a practical 
 
 knowledge of the ordinary branches 
 of education as to qualify him for the 
 public duties he was afterward called 
 upon to discharge. He was the recip- 
 ient of many civil offices of trust and 
 responsibility, serving as justice of 
 the peace and supervisor of the town 
 for a number of years. In 1828 he 
 was elected a member of Assembly 
 and represented the county creditably 
 in the State legislature. He was 
 elected sheriff of the county iu 1840 
 and served in that capacity for one 
 term. He was oue of the promoters 
 (if tlie Syracuse and Binghamtou rail- 
 roail, and took an active part iu its 
 coustruetiou, serving on the board of 
 directors until it was completed and 
 in successful operation. He pur- 
 chased the most of the riglit of way in 
 the southern part of Cortland and the 
 northern part of Broome counties, 
 and built tlie present depot building 
 at Marathon from his own private 
 funds. He also built the hotel now 
 known as the Hotel Lynde. He was 
 one of the original stockliolders of the 
 )N CARLEY' First National bank of Cortland, and 
 
 a member of its board of directors un- 
 til his death. He was oue of the earliest merchants 
 of ISIarathon and secured a large and lucrative trade 
 for many years. He was for a long time tlie owner 
 of thr Maratlion Flouring mills and iu company 
 with liis son .\. A. Carley, did a large and profitable 
 business. During the stirring scenes of tlie civil 
 war he was the postmaster at Marathon, and at 
 that time he, with others, exhibited their patriot- 
 ism by pledging themselves to support the widows 
 and families of the volunteers who enhsted from 
 Marathon, during their absence. In this pledge, as 
 in all others, he was as good as his word. He 
 was possessed of a kind heart, an amiable and 
 benevolent disposition, and made strong friends 
 with nearly everybody. Before the war in politics 
 he was a Whig, but on the disrupticm of that 
 party on the questiou of slavery, he cast liis for- 
 tunes vrith the Republican party, and was always 
 active and prominent in its councils. In religion 
 he was a Universalist in his belief, and was al- 
 ways a true christian gentleman, giving support 
 
 Dellow, Photo. 
 
 MANSARD BLOCK, erected by Alan.- 
 and Mrs. C. M. Chapman. 
 
 Carley ; owned by Mr 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MRS. E8THER HUNT 
 
 D. DELOS HtrNT 
 
 not only to his own but to all of the churches 
 where he resided. He died April S, IsTi). His 
 wife was Sally, daughter of Tlionias and Hester 
 Oourtright, of Union, Broome county. She was 
 a very amiable wonuin, and was greatly respected 
 and beloved by all fur her kind, benevolent and 
 christian virtues. Shi' died ( )ctober •">, 1872, aged 
 seventy-three, in posv, >-inii nf a strong faith and 
 a firm hope of bliss licyond rlie grave. 
 
 Dr. Japeth Hunt, the tirst settler took up laud 
 south of tlie present village and built a log hut 
 in 1796, which stood on laud now owned by G. P. 
 Squires between the river and the highway. He 
 served in the French and revolutionary war as 
 surgeon and died March 7, 179M, ninety-seven 
 years old. His remains are in the Marathon burial 
 ground. His son William married Ainiie, tlii^ 
 flaugliter of Matthew- 
 Cole ; John died iu 
 Genoa ; Nancy mar- 
 ried Abram Smith and 
 died December 28, 
 1 80S. She had two 
 sons Cyrus and Na- 
 than, (tlie latter was 
 the father of ex- Judge 
 A. P. Smith of Cort- 
 land) ; Betsey married 
 Oliver Mack and lived 
 in Genoa; Hannah 
 marriedNathau Thorp 
 of the same place. 
 John, the eldest son, 
 married Lydia, daugh- 
 ter of Maj. Samuel 
 Mallery of Hillsdale, 
 Columbia c()unt.y, N. 
 Y., and moved to Ma- 
 rathon in 17".)7 with 
 his wife and a daugh- 
 ter three years old and 
 a sou six months old. 
 He bought 10(l acres 
 and built the first 
 dwelling in the pre- 
 sent limits of Mnra- 
 tlion— a log hut. A. .7oliiison, Pliotd 
 
 Here Dr. Samuel M. Hunt, John's son, 
 was born (the first wlute birtli in Mara- 
 thon townsliip) October ;iO, 17118; John 
 held the office of Justice of the Peace up 
 to his death — about fifteen years — which 
 occurred August 8, ISlo. His widow died 
 in herninety-si.xth year, May 7, I8(i(!. 
 
 D. Delos Hunt pursued a business 
 career in JIarathon of nearly forty years 
 and left behind him a record of probity 
 and integrity that has engi-aven his 
 name high among the men who made 
 Marathon a busy hive of industry. Per- 
 sonally and socially he was of an agree- 
 able and pleasant nature; kind and 
 charitable ; ever willing to lend a help- 
 ing hand and zealous of his good name 
 and business ability. The news of his 
 death came upon the community like a 
 shock, though Ins long illness had pre- 
 pared his friends to expect the worst 
 His death was mourned by all who knew 
 him and who realized, many of them, 
 that they had not only lost a dear per- 
 sonal friend, but that his departure from 
 among them would be a serious loss to 
 the community. His long, last illness 
 was a rare example of patience, hopeful- 
 ness and fortitude. Mr. Hunt was the 
 descendant of the original first white settler in the 
 valley ,.Japeth Hunt, whowas hisgreat-grandfather. 
 Dr. Samuel M. Hunt, his father, who was the first 
 white child born iu the town, passed most of his 
 days in that vicinity, an esteemed phj'sician, an 
 honored citizen and a man of rare literary attain- 
 ments. D. Delos Hunt was born in Ui)per Lisle, 
 Broome county, N. Y., March 12, 1S2S, and was 
 <)2 years of age at the time of his death. From 
 the farm he went into trade in the capacity of 
 clerk in different places and coming to Marathon 
 in his 24th year went into the dry goods business 
 on Cortland street, in the second building stand- 
 ing at the north end of the bridge. On Jan. 24, 
 18.");!, he married Esther A., the daughter of Alan- 
 son Carley rif Marathon, by whom there were two 
 children, Mrs. O. M. Chapman and J. Warren 
 Hunt, all of whom survive him. For many years 
 
 HKSIDKNCK OF MRS. ESTHER HUNT iCarIfy Homestoad). 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 SAKAH J. ADAMS. 
 
 CHARLES C. ADAMS, 
 
 he was engaged in business on the west side of 
 the river, where at the end of the bridge in 1869, 
 he built the Mansard block, then considered an 
 innovation in local structures aud now the largest 
 office building in the village aud moved into it 
 taking into partnership Oscar Wildey, who retired 
 from the business in 1X75. lu 1SS2, C. M. Chap- 
 man, his son-in-law, became his partner which 
 continued up to Mr. Hunt's death. He was re- 
 garded as one who favored local improvements, 
 a successful progressive business man and was 
 elected to fill different public offices including 
 president of the village and village trustee. 
 
 Charles C. Adams is of English decent. He 
 has a full and clear trace of liis ancestry back for 
 three hundred years or to Heni-y Adams, his 
 great ancestor who came from England about 
 l(i82 and settled at Braiutuer near Boston, Mass. 
 Charles O. Adams is a 
 son of the late Moses 
 Adams of Marathon 
 and was born on liis 
 father's farm at Kill- 
 owog, N. Y., May 30, 
 1S33. He is of a fam- 
 ily of seven children 
 all living at this date 
 (November 20, 11)00), 
 the oldest, Lyman, be- 
 ing T5 and Walter, the 
 youngest, (iO. His 
 father died at the age 
 of S8 and his mother 
 at Si). Very few f;iiu- 
 ilies are equal in loug- 
 e%aty. He was mar- 
 ried October 6, 185(i 
 to Sarah J. Carley. 
 They have tliree child- 
 ren: A. Carley Ad- 
 ams, Helen Adams 
 and Mai-y B. Adams 
 McKee. Charles was 
 educated at the dis 
 trict school and Ho- 
 mer academy . His 
 first work was on his 
 father's farm which 
 
 continued until he was about twenty 
 years of age. His next work was that 
 of a clerk in the general stores of H. 
 J. Messenger at East Virgil, N. Y., 
 better known as Gridley Hollow ; then 
 in the store of Richardson & Mess- 
 enger at Canandaigua, N. Y. ; then in 
 the store of R. P. Burhans & Co., at 
 Marathon, N. Y., also in the store of 
 Peck & Adams. In the fall of 1855 
 he engaged in a general mercantile 
 business with A. A. (^'-arley at Mara- 
 thon, N. Y., under the firm name of 
 Carley & Adams. After two years 
 he retired from the business and en- 
 gaged with D. D. Hunt in a general 
 grocery and provision business at Ma- 
 rathon, N. Y., which continued about 
 two yeai's when he succeeded E. C. & 
 A. A. Carley in the business of a 
 general store at Marathon, N. Y., and 
 for many years continued in that 
 business having for a short time as 
 partners Capt. A. H. Barber, also Levi 
 S. Burch. About 18(;4 he engaged in 
 building dwelling houses and selling 
 building lots, having purchased land 
 of the late Alauson Carley in the 
 village of Marathon for that purpose 
 through which he laid out Grove street 
 and Centre street and extended Academy street to 
 South street. In 1890 he commenced the manufac- 
 ture of school aud family blackboards aud has con- 
 tinued in that business to the present time. The bus- 
 iness is carried on under the firm name of The Ad- 
 ams Manufacturing company of Marathon, N. Y. , 
 C. C. Adams being manager and A.C.Adams secre- 
 tary and treasurer. The business is yearly increas- 
 ing, the goods being sold throughout the United 
 States. Some of the goods ai-e also exported toEur- 
 ope and South America. Sarah J.Adams, wife of C . 
 C. Adams, was born at Marathon, N. Y., March 3, 
 11S3T. She is the daughter of the late Alanson 
 Carley of Marathon. She was educated at the 
 district scliool at Marathon and at a ladies' .semi- 
 nary at Binghamtou. Her residence is located on 
 the homestead land of her father, being land on 
 which her grandfather, Ebenezer Carley, settled 
 at an early day. 
 
 1 UB ii 
 
 
 MK. AND MRS. C. ADAMS' RESIDENCE. 
 
'(JRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 Hiram Clark Post, — [see "Soldiers' Moim- 
 meiit," p. i\\. Hiram Clark Post, No. 154, Dept. 
 of N. v., G. A. R., was organized April ■>4, 1880, 
 iu ( )dd Fellows Hall, theu located in the Smith 
 block, which was subsequently burned. The In- 
 spector General, B. T. Wright, and comrades A. 
 Seager, J. D. Frederick, J. L. Corbin and H. M. 
 Kellogg from Post Grover, No. '.»8, of Cortland, 
 unistercd iu the charter members as follows: 
 M. B Aldrich, C. ; A. C. Robacher, S. V. ( '. : 
 
 shot on picket duty. One of the last killed in the 
 army of tlie Potomac. Of the charter members 
 tliree are still active members, six liave moved 
 away, one has died and two have been dropped 
 from tlie roU. Since its organization ninety-nine 
 comrades have been mustered in ; of them there 
 are at present but twenty-four members in good 
 standing: — A. C. Robacher, (Jeo. W. Webster, 
 Oscar Courtney, C. H. Bouton A. P. Greene, A. 
 G. Keyes, Peter Rackmeyer, Thad. Diggs, Wm. 
 K. Minard, Duane Burgess, Seymour Hults, John 
 P.. Richardson. E. P. Johnsou, F. R. Greene. 
 
 A. .lolinson, Photos. liKdlP nF I'l, 
 
 K.\ST STREET, north from tlii> Ih'IkI. 
 BK.\DLKY STKKKT, south from near the ccmctcrv 
 WARRKN STHEKT, lookini; east. 
 
 (4eo. W. Webster, J. V. C. ; J. G. Matteson. 
 Chap. ; O. G. Underwood, C^. M. ; Oscar Court- 
 ney, S. N. R. G.; H. R. Rider, O. D. ; Wm. 
 Dellow, O. G. ; A. D. McDougal, Lieut.; H. R. 
 Butman, Adjt.; H. O. (Jusley, S. M. ; Wm. (i. 
 Bennell, Q. M. S. Hiram Clark Post took its 
 name from a lieutenant of the 185th regiment 
 who bravely lost his life before Petersburg, being 
 
 (il;d\ h, S'IKKKT south from W. Main. 
 ACADEMY STREET, south from W. Main. 
 WEST MAIN STREET, cast from Academy. 
 
 ( Icorge I\Ierrick. Clark Pierce, Chas. H. Miner, 
 Henry Youngs and Wm. McGee. The following 
 have officiated as Past Commanders : M. B. Al- 
 drich, 18.S0, 1S81 and 1887; A. C. Robacher, 1882; 
 O. Mitchell, 188.3. 1889; W. E. Stockwell, 1.S84-5- 
 (1; A. P. Greene, 1888, 1896-6-7-8; Wm. Dellow, 
 1890; Albert Wheat on, 1891 ; O.Courtney, 1892- 
 3-4; C. H. Bonton, 18S9-1900. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 ^ 
 
 been a member and the secretary of the 
 school board. In 1894 and 1895 he was presi- 
 dent of tlie village and has served in the 
 A. H. Barber Hose company as president 
 for three years. He is an active member of 
 the JIasonic order. Politically Mr. Adams has 
 attiliated with the democratic party, and in 1893 
 declined a nomination for county treasurer. In 
 1894 he accepted the nomination for member of 
 Assembly. In his paper Mr. Adams maintains a 
 
 EIXiAR L. ADAM8, Editor Marathon Independent. 
 
 Edgar L. Adams, the proprietor and editor of 
 the Marathon Independent, also a stockholder in 
 the First National bank of Marathon and in the 
 Climax Road Machine company, being a director 
 in the former and one of the incorporators of the 
 latter, is an active promoter of local improve- 
 ments using the influence of his paper to advance 
 projects which clearly promise the welfare and 
 prosperity of the town. As a journalist his ViTit- 
 iugs liave been extensively copied. During seve- 
 ral years he did considerable literary work. En- 
 tering the fiehl of humorists in about 1879 he 
 gained considerable celebrity for his droll and 
 pungent wit and obtained a flattering review of 
 his work from the pen of "Brick Pomcroy," the 
 keenest of American humorists in his production 
 concerning 'The Humorous Writers of America." 
 The paragraphs that week after week brightened 
 the columns of the Independent gave the paper a 
 wide circulation. Local subjects often afl:'orded 
 him the best of material for the most widely 
 copied paragr;iphs. When "the city fathers'' 
 proposed street lamps Mr. Adams facetiously 
 wrote that he who causeth two lamp posts to 
 appear where there is only one is greater than the 
 vice president of a po- 
 litical meeting — a rare 
 hit in two ways. Mr. 
 Adams' connection 
 with the New York 
 State Editorial associ- 
 ation has made him 
 widely acquainted 
 among the newspaper 
 men of the State with 
 whomhe has been affil- 
 iated for years. In- 
 creasing business and 
 public interests com- 
 pelled him to with- 
 draw from the para- 
 grapher's arena, but 
 his natural vein of 
 good humor fretpient- 
 ly makes appt'arance 
 in his writings and as 
 an after dinner talker 
 lie is most entertain- 
 ing. His personal ac- 
 quaintanceship in- 
 cludes many noted lit- 
 erary geniuses of the 
 present time. For ten 
 years Mr. Adams has 
 
 MARATHON INUKPENDENT BLUI.DlNef. 
 F. S. Uellow. Plioto. 
 
 strict neutrality. Mr. Adams, the son of Lyman 
 and Ruth Adams, was born in Marathon April '27, 
 1N57, where he received his education. The Ma- 
 rathon Independent was established in 1870 and 
 in April 1871 he entered the office to learn the 
 practical side of the publishing business. After a 
 brief clerkship which proved unciingenial he in 
 1874 ri'lurricd to tlii^ tudfiicndi'iit and in April 
 ix7i; lieciime iittaclicd to the ( 'ortlaiid Democrat, 
 where he remained but a short time, returning to 
 Marathon to take charge of the Independent for 
 
 ELiUAl; L. ADAMS' RESIDENCE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 55 
 
 Wallace Kolley. When ou November 1, 1MT6, the 
 paper was sold Mr. Adams was employed as editor 
 by Brooks & Day. which position he held until 
 May 1, ls7s, when he purchased the interest of 
 Mr. Day and the following year obtained full 
 ownership l)y buying out Mr. Brooks. For a 
 sliort time Mr. Adams was editor of the Syracuse 
 Sunday Times. ( )u May 13, 187il, he was married 
 to Miss Klla v., the daughter of Oscar Courtney. 
 
 The Catholic Church. — In the days when cacli 
 pioneer missionary had for his field of lalior a 
 territory extending over many counties Marathon 
 was attended from Norwich and afterwards from 
 
 was converted into a chapel capable of 
 seating 300 where until 18'J.S the Catholic 
 people of Marathon held their devotions 
 under the successive pastorates of the 
 Revs. McRenchau, his brother, J. J. McRenchau, 
 Wm. Dougherty, P. J. Brady, J. L. Meagher, B. 
 A. Smith, J. P. Herrick, and the present incum- 
 bent. Rev. Father C. V. McGuire, who came here 
 May -'4, 1S!»3. The old church was a long dis- 
 tance from the street and not easy of approach on 
 account of the grade. The new building com- 
 menced iu 1897 is more conveniently situated and 
 easy to reach. Mr. Archimedes Russell of Syra- 
 
 Newspaper ('i)mposing Room iF. S Dellow, Photo) 
 
 Cortland. Soon after the civil war a resident 
 prie.st. tlie Rev. McRenchau was sent here by the 
 Bishop of Albany. Iu Peck's Hall he commenced 
 liis labors. In a sliort time he secured the Aca- 
 demy property which extends from Academy St. 
 toCirove St. flic former so called from tlie name 
 of the builfiing and the latter from the beautiful 
 grove then flourishing in its rear. It was built 
 for c<liicMti(>Mal puri)oses, the new Pariuissus of 
 modern Maraflion, wlierein the rising gt^neration 
 were faiight "to scan learning's page and Cod 
 ;id<jrc." In I lie north end the large study luill 
 
 rHK MAHATHciN INDEPENUKNT. | Photos i-opi.'d by I>i-I(oy Wile 
 
 .fob Pi-pss Room ( R. L. Sniitli, M. D., Plioto). 
 (R. Ti. Smith, M. D., Photo). 
 
 Newspaper Press (F. S. Dellow, Photo). 
 
 cuse designed it and F. .\. Nichols erected it. It 
 is of Gothic design and measures 80 by 40 feet. 
 The pews, altar railing, vestment case, etc., 
 were made in Grand Rapids, Mich. Tlie win- 
 dows which are of opalescent art glass were made 
 by C. P. Rowland in Richmond, Va. Its capacity 
 is" 400 and it cost $.5,000. The grounds around 
 are beautifully graded. The labor, long and 
 arduous, was accomplished by .John Lynch, .John 
 Regan, Tony Andre, .lohu Burke and others 
 whose untiring and gratuitous efforts ai'(> grate- 
 fully acknowledged by the congregation. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 WY mmm mm\i haraihoh. 
 
 "Gkip's" Soi'VENih-Gazette— Historical Series IX- 
 Mav. VMl. 
 
 No. 107 Oxford Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 The State Gazette of Social Events and Public Affairs 
 in the Empire State. 
 
 Contemporaneous History and Beal Life. The Only Pub- 
 lication of this Character in Print. A Valuable 
 Publication for Reference. 
 
 WRITERS FOR MARATHON SOUVENIR 
 
 Adams, Edgar L 
 Bai-ues, E. H. 
 Boutoii, C. H. 
 Bowdish, J. W. 
 Brink, J. L. 
 Carley, Mrs. E. C. 
 
 Adams, CO. 
 Blue, Rev. J. H. F. 
 Bouton, Mrs. C. H. 
 Brink, B. S. 
 Courtney, O. 
 Coou, W. A. 
 
 Carter, IMiss L. Maud Dellow, Mrs. Mary L. 
 Dellow, Fred (rreeue, Mrs. A. P. 
 
 Fish, Rev. J. E. Hulbert, Mrs. Jerome 
 
 Hammond, Rev. C. D. Livingstone, J. W. 
 Hyatt, Mrs. Julia E., Cortland, N. Y. 
 Johusou, Arvine McDonald, Mrs. A. G. 
 
 Mack, C. A. McGuire, Rev. C. V. 
 
 McFarland. Mrs. F. J. Ripley, Mrs. Helen Laura 
 Miller, :\rrs. liuth L., Toledo, O. 
 Page, Miss Helen S. Robacher, A. E. 
 Ripley, Rev. B P. Smith, Mrs. G. K. 
 
 Robacher, Mrs. A. E. Squires, Biu-gess 
 Smith, Mrs. J. L. Squires, G. P. 
 
 Squires, Mrs. Burgess Tripp, Mrs. D. B. 
 Swift. E. D., Buffalo N. Y. 
 Tripp, D. B. Turner, Dr. H. H. 
 
 Tripp, J. H. Van Yost, Mrs. O. 
 
 Valentine, L. F. Whitmore, Mrs. D. E. 
 
 Vunk, A. H. Ward, L. F. 
 
 Williams, Ashley, Killowog. 
 
 "Grip's" Historical Souvenir of narathon 
 
 fulfills several missions. It carries the news and 
 perpetuates the scenes and historical data, which 
 instruct and entertain a community. It entices 
 the stranger within our gates It records the 
 approximate value to the village of the business 
 and professional man. It acts as a guide to the 
 visitor, directing him into this and that man's 
 place of business, piloting him through the streets 
 and public S(iuares. pointing out this and that 
 scene — this and that historic spot. It introduces 
 him to the men and women who are leaders in 
 professional, financial, commercial, manufactur- 
 ing and social circles. It names the enterprising 
 and successful resident of Marathon. It places in 
 duralile and permanent form a valuable compila- 
 tion of personal and general information and local 
 reminiscences which in years to come are prized 
 beyond value. It does not cater to the gnawing 
 hunger for compliments, and eulogistic common- 
 places, and generalities which are too commonly 
 used in Souvenirs, and are never used in Histori- 
 cal Souvenirs. It does not lay to the soul unc- 
 tions flattery. It caters not to vanity. Tlie 
 man of "sterling integrity" does not learn in this 
 Souvenir that be possesses a jewel of such rare 
 price. • 'Our leading, ' ' ' 'genial , ' ' "affable" citizen 
 are phrases unknown to its pages. 
 
 The Contributors to this Souvenir have — per- 
 haps unconsciously, in some cases — rendered the 
 l)eople of Maratlion a great service. Accuracy in 
 writing is an important end to be obtained and it 
 is only by a member of the society that its history 
 can be intelligently and accurately written. We 
 are sure that every member of the several societies 
 
 which are historically presented in this Souvenir 
 will join us in expressing thanks to the writers of 
 these most valuable and interesting sketches. 
 The names of the contributors which in the ma- 
 jority of cases do not appear in connection with 
 the sketches, are printed at the head of the first 
 column on this page. Their work will long out- 
 last them. 
 
 DR. LEWIS SWIFT. 
 One of the most interesting sketches in this 
 serial is that of Dr. Lewis A. Swift, the eminent 
 astronomer, who at the venerable age of 81 years, 
 lias retired from the active pursuits of that 
 science, the study of which lias made him famous 
 all over the world. The article, as is the case 
 with all others published in •■Grip's" works, is in 
 every line authentic. With pleasure the publisher 
 is able to announce that it is the first complete, 
 revised biography of the noted astronomer to be 
 printed. It is interesting to observe that the pub- 
 lication of the article apropos, because of the publi- 
 cation of the historical souvenir of his native 
 town, is co-incident to the withdrawal of Prof. 
 Swift from public life. May many years bless 
 and prosper him is the wish of "Grip." 
 
 Syracuse, March 11, 1901. 
 
 GEORGE L. SWIFT. 
 When the project of compiling this publication 
 was started, G. L. Swift was among the first to 
 take considerable interest in it. His companion- 
 ableness, disinterested advice and overflowing 
 spirit of good will towards the publisher afforded 
 the latter much comfort and encouragement. His 
 was an enlarged horizon possibly expanded by the 
 experience of his younger years when, as the asso- 
 ciate of Ezra Cornell and his cou.sin. Dr. Lewis 
 Swift, he went out into the world to preach the 
 gospel of commercial telegraphy [See sk. P. 42]. 
 Tliis work had but fairly begun when his life 
 drew to a peaceful and honored close. His per- 
 soualitv was commanding, magnetic and impress- 
 ive, and in his death the community suffered a 
 severe loss. "Grip." 
 
 Impressions of Maratlion. — [By the Rev. Benj. 
 P. Ripley, pastor First Methodist Ejiiscopal 
 Church.] My coming to Marathon was under 
 circumstances rendering me specially susceptible 
 to impressions which might spring out of the 
 scenes and people greeting me. I had just been 
 assigned by the Wyoming M. E. Conference to 
 this field of ministerial labor. How is the town 
 situated? What sort of residences and public 
 buildings has it? How are its streets kept? What 
 about tiie business, intelligence, and manners of 
 its people? Tliese were the queries which kept 
 running through my mind as the train swept 
 alimg, bi-aring me to my destination. I was 
 cliarmed with the valley. The silver river, with 
 its shoreline fringed with willow and sumach, 
 graced at intervals with clusters of stately locusts, 
 elms, and maples, and ever now and then arseu- 
 aled by abrupt and stately hills, from whose sum- 
 mit I could imagine some local spiritual soldiery 
 keeping guard over the quiet villages below, was 
 a som'ce of constant interest and pleasure to me. 
 The beautiful, broad plains, appearing as we 
 neared the village, suggested the not impossible 
 likeness to that plain of ancient Marathon where 
 the forces of Miltiades deployed in their three - 
 sided square to engage and overcome the Persian 
 invaders. My impresssons were of the people 
 first. Warm, direct, straight-forward: in manners 
 simple, in speech sincere— I was drawn toward 
 tliem immediately and iiTesistibly. Of the town 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 itself, it seemed to me to be midway iu a sort of 
 pniod of tiausitiou from an old form of life to a 
 new aud hifjher epoch, for the early attaiumeut 
 of which there was splendid promise aud potency. 
 The town appeared to me to excel iu business 
 more than anything else. It was all business — 
 with little time for sentiment or pleasure, only as 
 these could be turned to account in business. 
 And yet the people were not insensible to the 
 amenities of life, nor devoid of true refinement of 
 feeling. What perhaps was better than as though 
 it had been all "propriety," was the evident 
 characteristic that the people strove first to lay 
 substantial foundations, afterwards giving atten- 
 tion to embellishments. I know of no village 
 where the determination to make progress is so 
 (■\ideut as here. And this progress is no one- 
 sided ideal. Bu.siness, education, morality, re- 
 ligion, village and residential pride, all receive 
 their share of attention. Herr is a good place for 
 theiiian who wants tube respet-ted for his opinions, 
 provided they are high onus; here is a good place 
 to set up a home ; and here is the spot where a 
 man who knows how to and will do something is 
 given a chance. 
 
 jiaper. The next school l)viil(liiig was located on 
 the south bank of Hunt's Creek wliiiOi at that 
 time ran about where the Tarliell block and Mara- 
 thon House now stand. Tlie building is now 
 thought to have been located something near 
 where the Tarbell block is. In time this building 
 was undermined by the a<3tion of the water and 
 careened over into the creek aud was then sold to 
 Abram Brink who moved it ou to his farm where 
 it was used for a pig-pen. The writer is now un- 
 able to give dates of the erection of either of these 
 houses. But they must all have been prior to 
 1S24 as Abram Brink died that year. The 
 next school house [see "Earliest Recollections" ; 
 also diagi-am page 19] appeared at the foot of east 
 hill, very near where L. F. Ward's brick resi- 
 dence now stands. This was a one-story building 
 and had a sort of entry way in front. From this you 
 entered the main room, iu fa<?t the only room of 
 the building, which as I now remember must have 
 been a)iout ■.'lixiio ft., and had three rows of seats 
 extending nearly around the room, each one being 
 elevated eight or ten inches as you weut back. 
 The two back rows had desks in front while the 
 front row had none and was always occupied by 
 the small children who did not have to write in 
 those days. This formed a terraced centerfield or 
 sort of arena, where there was quite frequently 
 
 1. William A. Coou, Prii 
 
 THE SCHOOL FACULTY. 
 
 ■ip;\l; 2, Mrs. Frances Ct. Weeks ; ii. Miss Margaret Killcla 
 
 .5, Miss Margaret Walsh ; t>, Miss Stella J. Sears. 
 
 4, Miss HelcTi E. Pa 
 
 The School. — [By (i. P. Squires.] — Very early 
 in the nineteenth century there was a public 
 school held in tlie barn of John Hunt, located ou 
 the north side of Hunt Creek, somewheres neai' 
 the residence of .Tames Li\angston. The late Mar- 
 cena Peck once told her niece, Mrs. Caroline 
 S(iuires, she remembered attending school in this 
 barn. It was taught liy Miss Marriam ('owdry. 
 During spring and early summer lliey occupied 
 the barn floor, but in haying time they moved 
 into the adjoining stable, while Mr. Hunt was 
 drawing in hay. There can be very little doubt, 
 if any, but this was the first school ever taught in 
 the town. The first school building erected was 
 locateil about one-half mile south of the present 
 village very near where (x. P. Scjuires' residence 
 now staiuls. The late Dr. S. M. Hunt, in some of 
 his writings of tlie early history of Marathon, 
 makes uK^ntion of this school house and says it 
 was built of logs and the windows of greased 
 
 some rather exciting times, as those were days 
 when the teacher was expected and required to be 
 nuister of the room and was often forced to dem- 
 onstrate his physical superiority in the arena or 
 mak(^ an exit through the window. This was the 
 nuinuer of teaching athletics at that time. This 
 building served the purpose of thi^ district by 
 occasionally renting a room outside for the smaller 
 pupils until 1S4.5, when a new building was 
 erected on the site of the present school but 
 standing just iu front of where the present edifice 
 now stands. This was a one-story building con- 
 taining two rooms with a hallway running cross- 
 wise and separating the rooms. In lS(i!S this 
 building was raised to a two-story one, Ijut this 
 soon proved too small for the accommodation of 
 the district. In the spring of 1873 they voted to 
 raise $10,000 to build the present structure, which 
 was completed in the fall of ISTS, and opiuied for 
 school with Prof. M. Tj. Hawley as principal. 
 This building is 4r)x(il ; with wing I('>x:i7 feet, 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP MARATHON 
 
 aud at that time coutaiued foiir rooms, one large 
 hall on the second floor which was intended for 
 chapel exercises, exhibitions, etc. ; a primary, in- 
 termediate and principal's rooms. It was run in 
 this way until 1S71S, when it was organized into 
 a Union School and Academy with Prof. C. O. 
 Dewey as principal. Since that time the buildiuK 
 has been rearranged and now contains six de- 
 partnumts, first and second primaries, first and 
 second intermediate, the preceptress and the prin- 
 cipal's rooms. Tlie principals following Prof. 
 Hawley, until the organization of the Union 
 School' were: W. H. Hall, M. E. Chapin, .1. L. 
 Lusk, .John Courtney, Jr., J. T. Corlew and 
 Elbert Place. 
 
 The school trustees aud their time of election, 
 since beginning of Union school aud academy, to- 
 gether with clianges in officers when made, are as 
 follows: — 1S7S, D. E. Whitmore (3 year's term). 
 
 retary. ls;)3, A. P. Greene. 189.S, O. Courtney 
 elected collector. 1895, Dr. W. Spencer. ISlKi, 
 H.E.Wilson. 1897, G. N. Valentine: William 
 Esmay elected collector and C. B. Trafford re- 
 signed as trustee. 1899, Myron N. Pierce and A. 
 C.Baker. The present board is as follows: G. 
 P. Scpiu'es, president; E. L. Adams, secretary; A. 
 P. (rreene, H. E. Wilson, W. Speucer, Myron N. 
 Pierce, A. ('. Baker. 
 
 The Faculty since the beginning of the Uniou 
 School aud dates of appointment are as follows : 
 
 1S78 — C. O. Dewey, principal, June 19; Mary 
 E. Lee, resigned as principal's assistaut June 12, 
 app. intermediate department June 34; Carrie 
 Wood from intermediate to primary, July 39 ; 
 Nellie Pearne, preceptress, July 39. 
 
 1x79 — Hamilton Terry, principal, July ; Grace 
 Lee Sherwood, primary, and Sarah Buell pre- 
 ceptress, August II. 
 
 Cut loAiird by Ed. L. Adam; 
 
 THE prui.ii 
 
 president ; J. H. Tripp ( 1 year), secretai'y ; A. G. 
 Smith (1 year), Daniel Barry and W. A. Beutley 
 (2 years), John L. Smith aud G. P. Squires (3 
 years); D. D. Hunt, treasurer; H. R. Shattuck. 
 collector. 1IS79, (ieorge W. Miller and J. W. 
 Shaver, issi. Clay C. Carley, O. H. Smith and 
 L. A. Hazen ; William Mack elected collector. 
 1883, Du Ray Hunt (appointed by the board) ; C 
 C. Carley elected secretar-s'. IKX'i, W. E. Stock- 
 well; H. R. Shattuck elected collector. 1884, R. 
 M. Lovell ; L. A. Hazen elected president and 
 Du Ray Hunt, secretary. 1S8,1, L. P. Ball and 
 W^alter A. Brink ; G. P. Squires elected president 
 and Adam Hilsinger collector. l.S.S(i, Fred H. 
 Swift ; Lyman Adams elected treasurer and 
 George W. Copeland collector. 1887, C. A. Mack 
 aud R. D. Mack; W. A. Brink elected secretary. 
 1888, F. W. Craiu. 1889, D. B. Tripp elected 
 treasurer. 1890, F. A. Pulford, C. B. Tratford 
 aud O. G. LTnderwood. 1891, Edgar L. Adams 
 and D. B. Wilson ; Edgar L. Adams elected sec- 
 
 18X0 — Roweua Dean, preceptress, Juue 3(i. 
 
 1881 — Hattie Hamlin, primary, June 14. 
 
 18S3 — Nellie Bevere, preceptress, July; Sarah 
 Reycroft, intermediate, and Miss M. A. Knapp, 
 preceptress, Nov. 1.5. 
 
 I ss;^— Hattie Kinney, intermediate, March 19, 
 preceptress July 2(i ; Miss E. D. Gardner, inter- 
 mediate, July3(i; Miss Genie Luntman (no date 
 of appointment ) resigned Nov. l-i. 
 
 1SS4 — H. F. Ludlow, principal, June 6; Hor- 
 tense Hodges, Jan. 31 ; Mrs. J. W. Livingston, 
 (Hattie Hamlin) primary, June 6 ; Mrs. Warren 
 Hunt, 3nd primary, Nov. 31. 
 
 iss.") — Charles H. Hulbert, principal, July 18; 
 Alice Jones (fill vacancy during Miss Adams' 
 sickness), May 16; Nellie Adams, preceptress, 
 July IS. 
 
 1.S.S7 — W. Y. Foote, principal, June 30; Miss 
 H. I. Sessions, primary, June 13. 
 
 18SN — Mary Bouton, intermediate, August 7 ; 
 Libbie Cox, primary, Nov. 22. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 1880 — W. C. Fisher, principal, Nov. 1 ; Jessie 
 M. Beardsley, preceptress, March 27 ; Libbie 
 Johusou, Jan. 2(> : Nettie Clark, sr. int., Nov. U. 
 
 1890 — U. (t. Weatherly, principal, August 14; 
 Carrie R. Fisher, preceptress, Feb. S. 
 
 1891 — C. V. Coon, principal, Jan. 12; Sarah S. 
 Lyman, sr. int., Jan. io ; Marion A. Hinds, jr. 
 int., Jan. '21). 
 
 1N92 — LeonaD. Burgharrtt, Sndprimary, May 13. 
 
 is'.i:^ — Willis A. lugalls, principal, June 8; Miss 
 Iv M. Davern, preceptress, June M. 
 
 1S94 — W. A. Coon, principal, March S; Mar- 
 garette B. Love, drawing and primary, Aug. 1 ; 
 Miss M. KiUela, preceptress, Sept. i;i. 
 
 1S9.") — Jessie Arnold, .jr int., July :) ; Helen M. 
 Hubbard, preceptress, July 3. 
 
 189ti — Roy A. Baum. asst. principal, Aug. 4. 
 
 1S97— Bertha R. Day, sr. int., June 11; Kate 
 A. Cosad, preceptress, June 11. 
 
 1S9N — L. Claude Carter, sr. int.. Helen L. Page, 
 jr. int.. Stella J. Sears, primary, and Miss H. W. 
 Pennev, sr. int., .Ian. 13; Marietta Davis, sr. int., 
 July 14. 
 
 ls9'.i — Florence G. Best, preceptress May 23. 
 
 lllOO— Margaret Walsh, Sept. 13. 
 
 See present faculty in grouii of portraits on 
 page 57. 
 
 Center Lisle, I )rtons s<4ioolhouse, Caldwells Set- 
 tlemint, and Cantield Hollow. This circuit was 
 served by two pastors, Benjamin FUis and George 
 W. Leach and was then in the bounds of the old 
 Oni'ida conference. .\s these several ]ioints in- 
 creased in membership the circuit was divided 
 until now this same territory lias become several 
 cliarg<'S, Mild is now the Wyoming confen^nce, the 
 Oneida <-onferenci' having been dissolved many 
 years ago. On Feb. 17, 1840 a meeting was held 
 in the school house of District No. 2. to take into 
 consideration the propriety of building a house 
 for public worship. At. this meeting Uriah 
 Sessions and ( 'ah^b Newton were chosen to pre- 
 side, and Hiram Smith was chosen clerk. Caleb 
 Newton, Jes.se Johnson, (h-rin Carley, Uriah 
 Sessions, Ambrose Taylor, and Nathaniel Bouton 
 were elected trustees, and empowered by the 
 society to secure a suitable site on which to build 
 a house of worship. A meeting was held in the 
 school house Feb. lis, 1841, at which it was voted 
 t(i piiri'liiisc the present site of the church from 
 Clirsti r I ;mik, for wliirli the sum of $75 was paid. 
 ('a!el> Newton, Jesse .lohnson and Uriah Sessions 
 were appointi^d building committee and instructed 
 as soon as sutticient money was raised to warrant 
 the procedure, to enter into contract for the build- 
 
 Tiiiiii: JMi iii_'"'iT"in 
 iTTfir I nri 
 
 A. E. WATKOUS' RESIDENCE 
 
 W. S. BURCiESS' UESIDENCK. 
 
 E, E. l.AIHD'.S HESIDEXCE. 
 
 First Methodist Episcopal Church. This so- 
 ciety was founded sometime during the year 
 183(1, when four persons — Orrin Carley, Caleb 
 Newton, Mary Newton and Mrs. (iriffin 
 formed themselves into a class with Orrin Carley 
 as leader. Others, through tlie labors of these, 
 soon united. The class held meetings in school 
 houses and at private residences. Having no 
 pastor they had preaching only occasionally as 
 they could be i-eached by some preacher from sur- 
 rounding charges, or by "local preachers" who 
 did iiiueli to open new fields. In 1S47 Marathon 
 first became an api«iiiil ment on the Lisle circuit 
 which eonsisled at tliat time of ten pn-aching 
 places : Marathon, Union Village, North Lapeer, 
 Hunt's Corners, Whitney's Point, Lisle Village, 
 
 ing of a church. A plan was drawn up with di- 
 mensions as follows: 4ox3t; feet, 22 feet Iiigh at 
 the eaves, with suitable sfeei)le. The money was 
 raised by the selling of "slips" or pews before the 
 work was begun. After the laying of the foun- 
 dation, the building of the house was let by 
 contract to .lames P.iirgess for the sum of $1,200. 
 To this was adiled by voluntary subscriptions .l!50 
 to have a swinging jiartition to the gallery. The 
 building was linished in Octolx'r, 1.S42, and the 
 nu'mbers were assessed ' according to their ability, 
 or the interest they had in tlie house, to build 
 steps for the church and level oft" the ground, said 
 as.sessment to be paid in work or nuiterial." The 
 committee ptirchased stoves and pipe and the 
 ladies bought material for cushions, a large Bible, 
 three chairs, two candle sticks and siiutfer. The 
 
60 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 ..J*^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 M. T. WOOSTER. 
 
 MRS. M. T. WOOSTER 
 
 house was dedicated Nov. 13, 1842, by the Rev. 
 Mr. Rowe. After thirty- four years use of thi.s 
 house it was swung on its foundation so as to 
 front squarely witli Main street, and rebuilt, 
 making practically a new building with furnish- 
 ings. The following committee carried forward 
 the work : Johu Freeman, Nathan Lombard, O. 
 H. Smith, John Moore, Granville Talmadge, A. 
 A. Carley, E. D. Baker, J. B. Vandyke, Wm. 
 Tarble audC. C. Adams. The contract was let to A. 
 C. Green for .|4,()()0. During the yeai- 1891 the 
 church was repaired, papered and furnished with 
 new carpets, at a cost of about $800. A fine new 
 vocaliou organ was also purchased this year. 
 The edifice has had two quite serious casualties 
 during its history. In ISl).") the steeple was in- 
 jured by lightning. Repaired at a cost of $125. 
 Covered by insurance. On the night of Sept. 29, 
 1896, a cycloue which passed over the village 
 swept the steeple and 
 chimneys off the ^ 
 church and badly dam- ""^ 
 aged the roof. Rf^- 
 pairs were at once 
 made by a committee 
 appointed for tlie pur- 
 pose, consisting of G. 
 N. Valentine, .1. E. 
 Fish, and Rev. F. D. 
 Hartsock. Mr. Hart- 
 sock solicited subscrip- 
 tions for the reiniirs, 
 people outside as well 
 as in the society re- 
 sponding cheerfully 
 aud liberally. Repairs 
 costing about $700. 
 Among the ministers 
 who have served this 
 church are Benjamin 
 Ellis, G. W. Leach, 
 A. G. Burlingame, H. 
 Pilbearn, H. (Jee. O. 
 L. Torrv, W.N. Burr, 
 .1. H. Barnes, O. Hes- 
 ler, W.R.Cobb, D. D. 
 Lindsley, A. C. Bow- 
 dish, George Comfort. 
 Hubbard Fox, Asa f. S. Dellow, Photo 
 
 Brooks, WilUam Bixby, H. V. Talbot, O. 
 Martin. O. H. McAnulty, J. F. Warner, 
 J. L. Race, E. N. Sabin, L. B. Weeks, D. 
 0. Barnes, E. R. D. Briggs, F. D. Hart- 
 sock, Beuj. P. Ripley. This church has 
 given to the ministry of the denomina- 
 toiu two efficient and honored men : 
 The Rev. O. L. Torry and Rev. W. H. 
 Bunnell. The latter died a few years 
 since. The former is still living in happy, 
 beautiful and resj^ected old age. The 
 chiu-ch enjoys the advantage of fine loca- 
 tion of its edifice, and the building is 
 kept in excellent repair and in neatness 
 and order interiorally. The service 
 which is followed is an adaptation of the 
 "Wesley Sunday Service" and is very 
 dignified and worshipful. Altogether 
 the society is in a very flourishing con- 
 dition. 
 
 M. T. Wooster, the druggist, who has 
 been in his present location since coming 
 to Marathon in 1891, is a registered phar- 
 macist iu the states of Kansas and New 
 York, who tlirough partnership or associ- 
 ations has been constantly with a 
 practicing physician and has by his 
 Qiwa efforts obtained proficiency and 
 success in his profession. Recognizing 
 his qualifications and public spirit the town 
 elected him town clerk six years ago, a position 
 he has since held acting fully in conformity with 
 his best judgment in all public questions. The 
 drug business he is now conducting, the firm 
 of Wooster & Bosworth purchased from T. L. 
 Corwin & Sou. The firm subsequently became 
 Wooster & Crofoot and later Wooster & Ayers, 
 M. T. Wooster afterwards succeeding to the en- 
 tire ownership of the business. Mr. Wooster is a 
 member of the K. of P., the A. O. U. W., and the 
 Baptist church. He was born in Tully, Onondaga 
 county, N. Y., February 5, 1N49. His father, 
 Murray Wooster, who had lived there many years, 
 was a pronounced abolitionist who during the 
 anti-slavery excitement was associated iu what 
 was known as the "underground railroad" enter- 
 prise by which slaves were assisted to freedom. 
 Mr. Wooster at 14 vears of age was a clerk in the 
 
•GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 K. L. SMITJI, M. ]l. 
 
 rlrug store of Dr. N. Trowbridge for two years 
 aud later for three years with Coue Williams aud 
 three years more with A. R. Timby. lu ISfis he 
 was graduated from the Ames Business college iu 
 Syracuse aud in 1809 was married to Flora D., 
 the daughter of (4eo. W. Crofoot of Tully, N. Y., 
 afterwards removiug to Coming, la., where he 
 represented one of the partners in the di'ug busi- 
 ness of Rightmyer & Eai'll. He subsequently 
 went to Wymore, Neb., where he spent three 
 years in caiTying on a drug business aud from 
 which place lie went to Council (4rove, Kansas, 
 wlicre fur ten years he was a member of the firm 
 of Trowbridge & Wooster. Upon retiring from 
 tliat firm lie came to Marathon. Homer W. and 
 Frank M. Wooster, his two brothers, are dead. 
 The latter served in the campaigns of the Army 
 of the Potomac entering in lK62as second lieu- 
 tenant of Co. K V22ud N. Y., raised in Syracuse 
 aud serving actively 
 up to the first fight 
 at Cold Harbor, June 
 1, 1S64, when he was 
 killed in a charge. He 
 was a messmate of 
 Theodore Ij. Poole of 
 Syracuse and lost his 
 life at the siinie time 
 Mr. Poole lost his 
 arm. By promotion 
 he reached the com- 
 mission of captiiiu and 
 being a lawyer served 
 as judge advocate . His 
 sisters are Mrs. K. C. 
 Trowbridge of Tully 
 and Mrs. Dr. N.Trow- 
 bridge of Kansas. 
 
 R. L. Smith, n.D., 
 
 who came to Mara 
 thon in January, 1X!)3, 
 was at once recog- 
 nized as deserving 
 of liberal patronage 
 and his practice in 
 
 c()use<iui'iice thereof has proven to be lucrative 
 and fruitful of the most satisfactory results from 
 ■A professional point of view. The doctor and his 
 wift^ caiiK^ from Owego where they wore socially 
 inoniiniiit. She was Miss Edna Brant of that 
 village. They were married in the September 
 following the doctor's location here and came at 
 once to Marathon, the ensuing year occupying a 
 handsome residence which he had constructed at 
 the corner of Broome and Brink streets. Dr. 
 Smith is an active member of the Masonic^ order 
 and the Maccabees and is enrolled in the local lodge 
 of the I. O. O. F. He has studied electricity and 
 experimented with it considerably for professional 
 purposes and has taken up the study for recrea- 
 tion. Although an aggressive republican his pro- 
 fessional obligations have given him no occasion 
 to devote any time to politics. Yet in I'.tOO he 
 accepted tlie nomination aud election to fill the 
 liosition of coroner. He was born in Richford, 
 Tioga county, N. Y., December 27, 1S71. His 
 tatlicr, William L. Smith, was for many years a 
 ]n-omineiit merchant in that place. After attend- 
 ing the schools at Richford and Drydeu the doctor 
 began the study of medicine with Dr. G. B. Lewis 
 of ( iwego, afterwards entering the University of 
 A'ermont to prepare himself for the profession he 
 had chosen by a year's study there, then taking a 
 three years' course in the College of Medicine, 
 University of the City of New York. Subse- 
 quently he pursued a hospital practice in that 
 city among out-of-door patients and was for some 
 time attached to the Dewitt dispensary. In Jan- 
 uary, is;i-.'. Ill' purchased the practice of Dr. Levris 
 at ( iwego, which he disposed of when he came to 
 Marathon. He is a member of the Cortland 
 County Medical Society, which he served as vice 
 president in 18!tS) and as president in 1900. 
 
 rialachi Church reached Marathon iu IsOS and 
 ten or twelve years later built a blacksmith shop 
 near tlie present site of the railroad station where 
 he and his sons carried on blacksmithing for seve- 
 ral years. For many years he was justice. His 
 death occurred November, 184(i. 
 
 1)1 llcivv. Photo. OFFICK AND KKSIUENCE OF R. L. SMITH, M. 1» 
 
'GRIP'S" HIST(3RICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 HENKY FIELD, M. D. 
 
 Henry Field, fl. D., enjoys a profitable prac- 
 tic'e which he 1ms built up siuce July, 1896, when 
 he came to Marathon. Secui-iug an eligible hoitse 
 on Main street where he is comfortably located 
 with residence and office connecting, the doctor 
 is agreeably sittiated for enlarging his practice. 
 Wedded to Emma L., the daiighter of William 
 Theobald of Annsville, Oneida county, N. Y., 
 November 27, lss9, the union has been blessed 
 with two children, Henry, three years old, and 
 Mary E., one year old. Both he and his wife are 
 communicants of the Methodist church of which 
 he is trustee : and tlie doctor Is a member of 
 the Marathon Lodge, F. &. A. M., and Marathon 
 Lodge, I. < ). O. F. Dr. Field was born in Betch- 
 worth, Surrey county, England, April 21, iswi, 
 and at 21 year.s of age came to America to accept 
 a position with his uncle. William Field in the 
 lumber business at Poland. Herkimer county, N. 
 Y. In 1S90 he entered 
 the Cazenovia Semi- 
 nary and one year 
 later the Potsdam 
 Normal scliool. After 
 studying in the office 
 of Dr. Miles Long- 
 shore at Oold Brook, 
 Herkimer county, lie 
 entered the Albany 
 Medical school in 1893. 
 where he was gradu 
 ated tliree years later. 
 Being afforded aiupL- 
 hospital experieiHi- In- 
 began his profession 
 equipped with the 
 necessary experience 
 and energy to obtain 
 success. He is the 
 medical examiner for 
 s e V eral insurance 
 companies and is a 
 member of the Ameri- 
 can Medical associa- 
 tion and the New 
 York' State Medical 
 society. 
 
 Reminiscences — [See "The Marathon 
 Squatter" on another page]. William Squires 
 thinks that the first wagun was brought to Jlara- 
 thon in 1806 and that the first frame building was 
 put up the same or the following year. The first 
 regular postoffice, he says was established in 1814, 
 although prior to that time a mail carrier came 
 along. [It is probable that Abram Brink acted 
 as postmaster during that time in lieu of any ap- 
 pointment as he was the first postmaster to receive 
 a commission . His home was nearest the traveled 
 road, the salt road, and by mail being left there, it 
 was accessible to the Carleys and others living over 
 the river who had to cross in a boat or by the ford 
 — '(Trip"]. The first mail carrier, Mr. Squires 
 thinks was named Gazlay. "Salt." continues 
 Mr. Squires, "was carried between Syracu.se and 
 Biugliamton over the road which on that account 
 was called 'the salt road' and on horseback in 
 bags. The conditions admitted of no overland 
 travelling except on foot or liorseliack. There 
 were in 1800 a few wigwams standing on the 
 knoll a short distance south of Mr. Brink's house 
 which were inhabited by Onondaga Indians who 
 came here to hunt and trap during the winter and 
 in the spring returned to Salina loaded with furs. 
 There were plenty of deer and a few bear. 
 Wolves were so numerous that the settlers had to 
 corrall their sheep near their houses. Hogs were 
 occasionally killed by bear. Now and then a 
 panther would be heard of, one being killed about 
 that time in the town of Lapeer. The Indians 
 killed a great many deer with rifles. They were 
 very friendly with the settlers and usually upon 
 killing a deer left the fore quarters with some 
 white family. The early settlers were obliged to 
 go to Salina or Binghamton to trade and procure 
 their seed. The first meal produced here was 
 made by pounding corn with a pestal in a stump 
 dug out for that purpose. The nearest mill that 
 did any grinding was at Chenango Forks. The 
 chief reliance in the earliest days was black salts 
 and maple sugar. The summer of 1S16 was very 
 cold, the 6th day of May being s(]ually with snow 
 and the corn crop being entirely destroyed by 
 freezing on the night of July 4th." 
 
 A. Jolmson, Photo. EESLDENC.'E AND OFFICE OF HENRY FIELD, M. D. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORirAT, SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 (i:i 
 
 B. K. PARSI.iNS. M. U. 
 Bert R. Parsons, M. D., was bom iu Tomp- 
 kins oouuty, N. Y., August -'. l^T"^. He received 
 his early education in the Candor Free academy 
 and the Waverly High School, after which he 
 followed the vocation of bookkeeper for several 
 years. During the years of 1S94 and 181)5 he 
 studied iu the ofWce of Dr. Gamble of Waverly, 
 and in IsiHi entered the Eclectic Medical Institute 
 of Cincinnati, O., from which he was graduated 
 with houors in May. is'.iy. Returning to New- 
 York he pas.sed a successful examination in the 
 I 'niverslty of the State of New York. In August. 
 ISDH, he located in Marathon, occupying the .same 
 office with Dr. A. Bishop, who afterward removed 
 to Binghamtou, Dr. Pars(ms assuming the form- 
 er's practice. October 4. 1^99. he married Miss 
 Rosa B. Springer of Lockwood. N. Y. Since 
 coming to this village 
 Dr. Parsons has en- 
 .ioyed a successful 
 practice which is ra- 
 pidly increasing. He 
 is a member of the 
 Tau Alpha Epsilon 
 fraternity of liis Alma 
 Mater, and also a 
 iiieudierof theKnights 
 of the Maccabees. 
 
 Marathon Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F., No. 167, 
 of .Marathon, N. Y., 
 was instituted Janu- 
 ary 2. 18.")2, by District 
 Deputy (irand Master 
 G. .1. .1. Barber, assi.s- 
 tcd by his (irand Offi- 
 cers. The following 
 were charter niem- 
 bens: J. H. Taft, C. 
 B. Newel, Lewis Bur- 
 gess, .lohn S. Preston, 
 .Tohu Wheaton, Nel- 
 son Roe, French 
 Leach, 1'liomas Phet- 
 taplace. Tlie follow- 
 ing were the first offi- 
 cers installed : Noble 
 
 Grand, Nelson Roe : Vice (4rand. .1. H. Taft : .Sec- 
 retary, Lewis .\. Burgess; (all of whom arc di- 
 ceased). The lodge continued with varying suc- 
 cess until August 7, IST4, when their hall, furni- 
 ture, charter, books of all kinds and regalias 
 were destroyed by fire. Again in September 
 1!S84, fire destroyed their hall and everything 
 except their books and charter which Past 
 Grand William Dellow saved at the expense 
 of his health and came near losing his life. 
 He was nearly suffocated by smoke and flame. 
 Bro. William Esmay is the oldest living mem- 
 ber, having joined the order Aug. 8, 18.52. He 
 has served several terms as N. (4. and was D. D. 
 (t. M. five terms. In 18(;9 the ( Jrand National 
 Celebration of the .")Oth anniversary of the Grand 
 Lodge Encampment I. O. O. F., of Philadelphia, 
 Pa., presented Bro. Esmay with a medal. Aug. s 
 1902, Bro. Esmay will have been an Odd Fellow 
 M years. The present officers were installed by 
 District Deputy Grand Master, P. M. Chatfee :— 
 N. G., A. Vunk; V. G.. W. Smith; Rec. Sec.,F 
 lugraham; Fin. Sec, A. McDonald; Treas.. E. 
 L. Salisburv: Warden, V. B. Mudge; Cond., F. 
 Pierce; O. G., A. Miller; I. (t., G, Smith; R. S. 
 N. (t., .1. Parker; L. S. N. G., A. Lester; R. S. 
 V. G.. H. Alvord; L. S. V. G., C. A. Mack; R. 
 S. S., .1. Carrigan; L. S. S., H. Burrell: Chaplain, 
 .T. H. Taylor; P. G., B. S. Brink. The meetings 
 of the Lodge are held every Wednesday night in 
 Ihi' Peck block, where they have (luarters, said by 
 visiting Brothers to be the finest in the District, 
 consisting of Lodge hall, reception rnoni, kitchen, 
 l)araphernalia and ante-rooms. The membership 
 .Tulv 1. 1900 was 04. The branch of the order is 
 Valley Rebekah Lodge l.s3. 
 
 Dr. S. n. Hunt was born in Marathon October 
 :iO, 1 798, and was educated in the Homer academy. 
 He studied medicine with Dr. Pelatiah Brooks 
 and after receiving his diploma practiced at Kill- 
 owog. Maine and Slarathou having also filled the 
 offices of justice of the peace, judge of the court 
 of common pleas and justice of the sessions. 
 
 BiR'irair 
 
 UKSIDKXCK AND oKKU'K OF H. It. PARSONS. M. U. 
 
 (Mrs. Ella Bftkor's Residence). 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 JAMES BURIiESS. MHS. LILLIE SMITH BURGESS 
 
 James S. Burgess, the proprietor of the lumber 
 sawiug and plauiug mills in Marathon, began to 
 work for his father in the mill in 1852, when he 
 was seventeen years old, so that he has been con- 
 tinuously in the business nearly a half century — 
 a business which was foumled at the begin- 
 ning of the present century and had been 
 carried on by his father for twenty years 
 prior to the time his son became old enough 
 to work at it. The old mill was then a 
 much smaller plant the machineiy comprising 
 simply an old fashioned upright saw with pitman 
 and horizontal shaft which was adequate, how- 
 ever, for cutting the lumber re(]uired for the build- 
 ing operations which the elder Burgess was then 
 engaged in. The latter. Lewis A. Burgess, came to 
 Marathon from Litchfield, Ct., an expert car- 
 penter, builder and millwright. He and his 
 brothers were progressive and did much to fmrtlier 
 the interests of the 
 village. James Bur- 
 gess was born in Ma- 
 rathon February 24. 
 1884. After consider- 
 able experience in 
 carrying on the lum- 
 ber business and run- 
 ning the mill he took 
 a partnership interest 
 with his father — July 
 1. 1861 — and when the 
 railroad was put 
 through they extend- 
 ed their field of trade 
 so that they shipped 
 large quantities of 
 manufactured lumber 
 to diiferent markets. 
 A few years later Mr. 
 Lewis Burgess leased 
 one-half interest in 
 the mill to Stephen 
 Bonton and retired 
 from active business 
 life, his sou and Jlr. 
 Bouton running the 
 mill until the latter 
 was succeeded bv 
 Walter A. Brink. The 
 
 firm of Burgess & Brink improved the power 
 by putting in a better wheel, which added 
 considerably to the improvements made by 
 Burgess & Son who had supplanted the up- 
 right with a circular saw and otherwise 
 gi-eatly increased the facilities cjf the mills. 
 In the meantime the property had been 
 improved by the piu-chase by Burgess & Son 
 of the Taylor saw mill which stood on the 
 east side of the river and later on when 
 James Burgess had assumed sole proprietor- 
 ship he bought the water right which had 
 belonged to the Carley grist mill on the west 
 side of the river which had burned down. 
 At one time the old mill cut and marketed 
 as high as a million and a half feet of lum- 
 ber, but now 500,000 feet annually is about 
 the maxium, although the business is rela- 
 tively greater tliau at that time because the 
 entire product is now marketed at home 
 whereas considerable of it was then ship- 
 ped. It also then consisted of turning out 
 raw lumber which is now cut and manu- 
 factured for building purposes. The mill 
 has an excellent water power which never 
 fails, but runs the machinei-y throughout 
 the entire year. It also runs the plant for 
 the electric light company that is doing 
 business in Jlarathon. Mr. Burgess mar- 
 ried Mrs. Lillie Smith, Pec. 9, 18'.»7. He is a republi- 
 can in politics and a member of the ( )dd Fellows. 
 The Burgesses are one of the old families of 
 Marathon. Lewis Burgess who was born Decem- 
 ber 25, 1809 was one of the three brothers who 
 located in Marathon. He married Catharine S., 
 the daughter of William Squires, March 1, 18.i2, 
 and they had several children. Catharine was 
 born August 15, isll. Mr. Burgess died April 
 1(5, 1886, and Mrs. Burgess July 31, 1878. The 
 family record is as follows: .James S., born Feb- 
 ruary 24, liS34; Frances, born April 4, 1886, died 
 October 27, 1x36; Henry W., born May 4, 1888, 
 died September l(i, 1868; Augustine L., born 
 August HI. 1S40, died April 28, isr5; George R., 
 of Marathon, born May 26. 11S42; Frances (the 
 widow of A. Smith), Marathon, born Dec. 10. 1845; 
 Edmund B. .farmer of Marathon, born May 28, 1 848 ; 
 Winfield Scott, painter, Marathon, born Feb. 19, 
 1850: Mary L.,bornFeb. 29,1852, died Sept.24,i8.55. 
 
 JAMES BUKl+ESS' KESIDEN( E. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 F. S. D,-1I() 
 
 Early 
 
 buililiiiL' 
 
 , Photo. JAMES BlTiGESS' SA\Y AND PLANING MILL 
 Business Developments — The first 
 in Marathon coustructed and used ex- 
 clusivt'ly fcir a store was erected by Mr. Brink 
 on what is now the site of Seamaus Bros, store, 
 the tavern kept by Mr. Brink standing just south 
 of it. William Suyder rented the building but 
 never opened the store. Luther Keyes took it and 
 carried on a general merchandise business in a 
 small way at the same time serving as .lustiee of 
 the Peace. A small trade in a few groceries had 
 previously been carried on iu a dwelling at the 
 corner where the Marathon house stands, but had 
 been given up. David 
 H. Manrose succeed- 
 ed Keyes and both 
 were unsuccessful. 
 James Burgess next 
 conducted the store 
 for a few years and 
 was succeeded by 
 John M. Roe who 
 built a store on tlie 
 site of Swift & Com- 
 pany's in IsaT where 
 he carried on busi- 
 ness for several 
 years. William 
 R i c li a r d .son and 
 a f t erw a rds Ira 
 Ijynde were in part- 
 nership with him, 
 the latter purclias- 
 ing tlie business en- 
 tu'e and condiu^fing 
 it until he sold out 
 to L. A. Hazen. 
 Messrs. Carley & 
 Peck i)ut up a build- 
 ing on the pre.sent 
 site of th(^ Hulbert 
 block in which 
 Messrs. Carley & 
 .\nson Pe(!k carried 
 on a ineriantile busi- 
 ness until the former 
 purchased the lat- 
 t(^r's interest and did 
 business there alone 
 
 for several years. 
 This building faced 
 the ea.st. It was sub- 
 seiiuently used lus an 
 office by J. & (;. A. 
 Hulljert and later 
 moved across Main 
 street and converted 
 into a dwelling. It is 
 now owned liy Mrs. 
 (;. A. Hiilbert wlio 
 calls it tlie green 
 house being painted 
 fliat color. (A view is 
 shown on page 13]. 
 The original Brink 
 store across the way 
 was run by (reorge 
 Peck and his Imitlier- 
 in-law. A. Ilil.bard, 
 ;ind afterwards under 
 tlic firm name of Peck 
 -•.-■- i.^.^'^'^' iV- Dickson. Some 
 •V'.' .^t' years later tlie build- 
 " , > ■'■;-.! iiig was occupied for 
 ■ 1,* '■ tlie manufacture and 
 ' f ,-Si- j^i^f ■ sale of hats and while 
 thus used was de- 
 stroyed by fire. In 
 18."):3 E. 0. Carley 
 erected the first building for a store on the west 
 side of the river. He subsequently sold out that 
 bu.siness to A. A. Carley and O. C. Adams and 
 built a store adjoining it. A. A. Carley iu 1854 
 erected a tavern on the site of the Lynde house 
 which was known as the Carley house. While in 
 course of construction the frame work was blown 
 down. This hotel was occupied for years by 
 Moses Rogers. 
 
 Charles A. Burr, deputy collector of the port 
 of New York was a Marathon boy. 
 
 
 THE CLERGY OB^ MARATHON. 
 1, Rev.C. V. Mi(iuiri,('atlioIic; a, Rev. .T. H. F. Blue, Presbyterian ; H, Mrs. Annie E 
 tonBhic; I, Rev. B. F. Riplev, Methodist: .5, Mrs. Helen L. Ripley ; (i, Rev. Ezra D. 
 mond, Baptist ; 7, Mr-s. Je.ssie Perry Hammond. 
 
66 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 Borrowed Ph.ito. UANIEI. E. \VHITM( iRE. 
 
 Daniel E. Whitmore was born in the town of 
 Columbus, Chenango Co., N. Y., January 6, 182"). 
 He was educated in the district and academy 
 schools and graduated at the age of 21 years from 
 the Albany Normal School September, 184(i. He 
 commenced teaching at the early age of 15 and 
 thereby from time to time earned sufficient funds 
 to support himself at school, amounting in all to 
 upwards of $600. In 1872 Hamilton College con- 
 fered upon liim the degree of master of arts. 
 After graduating Mr. Wliitmore was engaged in 
 teaching eight years as follows : Three years as 
 principal of Marathon village school ; between 
 two and three years as principal of the English 
 departments of Cortland academy at Homer ; and 
 as principal of Orleans and Cauaudaigua village 
 schools for nearly three years. Prom ls,58 to 
 1857 he was successfully engaged in the mercan- 
 tile business at Marathon. In the fall of 1857 Mr. 
 Whitmore was elected 
 
 school commissioner •- — 
 
 assuming the duties of 
 the office January 1, 
 1858, which he held 
 for fifteen years hav- 
 ing been elected five 
 terms of three years 
 each. He represented 
 Cortland county as 
 member of Assembly 
 in 1875 his opponent 
 being Daniel S. La- 
 mont, private secre- 
 tary to President 
 Grover Cleveland. He 
 has held various town 
 offices including Jus- 
 tice of Peace and Su- 
 pervisor three years 
 and chairman of the 
 Cortland County 
 Board of Supervisors. 
 Mr. Whitmore was 
 president of the Board 
 of Education of Mara- 
 thon union school and 
 academy eight years 
 and for three years 
 was com missioner a. Johnson, Photo. 
 
 and examiner of Auburn theological seminary. 
 For twenty-five years he was engaged in the 
 wholesale produce business connected with the 
 wliolesale produce house of his brother, the Hon. 
 George B. Whitmore, of George B. Whitmore 
 & Company of New York which is now D. 
 W. Whitmore & Company. He has in the 
 past forty years built up quite a valuable fire in- 
 surance business. Mr. Whitmore was united in 
 marriage July 9th, 1850 to Lydia M. Shattuck, a 
 daughter of David Shattuck. To them were born 
 the following children : Daniel Webster, Frank 
 E. and David L. True to the teachings of his hon- 
 ored father he always adhered to the republican 
 party, and during his middle and after life was a 
 valued counsellor and leader of that party. Mr. 
 Whitmore found time to look to religious affairs 
 and was a devoted and active member of the 
 Presbyterian church where he regularly per- 
 formed the duties of clerk of the session for a 
 uunilirr of years, and was superintendent of the 
 Sunday school nineteen consecutive years. He 
 was secretary of the county Sunday School Asso- 
 ciatiim which he usually represented at the State 
 Association. He was appointed by Mrs. Peck as 
 one of the trustees of the Peck Memorial Library 
 Association, was one of the organizers and direct- 
 ors of the Fir.st National Bank of ^Maratlion. and 
 one of the organizers of the Cortland Savings 
 Bank. On the 14th day of March, I'.iOO, he con- 
 tracted a severe cold whUe attenfling the farmers 
 institute and died the 20th of March, 1900, sur- 
 vived by his widow and three sons. He was 
 com-teous and agreeable, and benevolent com- 
 mensurate with his means. His hospitality was 
 of that elegant kind which always makes its 
 recipients at ease, and gives them an assurance of 
 welcome peculiarly agreeable to guests. 
 
 "The First Train of Cars that came into Ma- 
 rathon I well recollect," said Lyman Adams. "It 
 was an excursion of notables going over the new 
 Syracuse & Biughamtou road. On board were the 
 railroad officers and the principal stockholders. 
 Among the latter in this vicinity were Alansou 
 Carley and Dr. E. H. Barnes and G. L. Oakley of 
 Merrill's Creek. At the station crowds were 
 gathered. Edward Tompkins delivered an ad- 
 dress in which he alluded to the peaceful con- 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^m^P 
 
 .^-A^-f. 
 
 MRS. D. E. W Hir.MuKK > Uh^llirv.Ni h. 
 
•'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 67 
 
 -lu September, 1892, 
 
 LeRoy Wilcox, photo. S. B. JAMISON'S RESIDENCE 
 
 quests at Marathon, N. Y., and the military cou- 
 quests at ancient Marathon. The year before, 
 Marathon people anticipated the completion of 
 the railroad by building up Main street on the 
 west side of the river. About that time the 
 Lynde hotel at the depot was built. I recollect 
 that in 18(i:! we had a small epidemic of smallpox, 
 tive cases iu all — all in one house — and tlu-ee 
 deaths. But people were frightened and for a 
 time tlie street was closed. The local physicians 
 in attendance were Drs. E. H. Barnes, S. M. Hunt 
 and Maynard. Tlie board of healtli were. J. M. 
 Roe, A. H. Barber and E. C. Carley." 
 
 An Adirondack Voyage 
 
 "Grip" headed a party 
 over the following 
 course — a most inter- 
 esting North Woods 
 journey. At Saranac 
 Imi, at the breakfast 
 table, ex-President 
 Cleveland, (a defeated 
 candidate four years 
 prior, then up for re- 
 election, and two 
 months later to swamp 
 the opposition with 
 unprecedented major- 
 ities) was encount- 
 ered. After assuring 
 liimselt that the sud- 
 den appearance of 
 newspaper men was 
 not yet to disturb his 
 privacy [although 
 tht'y returned later] 
 the ox-president went 
 into a hunting camp. 
 The trip — part of 
 whidi is unfamiliar 
 to tourists except 
 those who travel in 
 small boats — is as fol- 
 low." : Saratoga to 
 North creek, Warren 
 county, by rail; to 
 Blue Mt. lake by tally- STEPHEN M. BOUTON'S KESidence. 
 
 ho; to Ra(inette lake 
 by steamer ; tliere se- 
 cure guides and trust 
 yourselvesfortwodays 
 to row boats, in wliich 
 you pass up Haquette 
 lake tlience tlirougli 
 Fork-ed lake; Little 
 Fork-edlake; liy carry 
 toCorev Fund. Sutton 
 Pond, " I Sot tie Fond, 
 Rock Pond and Rock 
 Stream (the Necklace 
 route) ; througli Little 
 Tupper lake ; Bog 
 stream ; Round Pond ; 
 Tupper stream; Tup- 
 per lake ; Racket (not 
 Kaciuette) river; Up- 
 ]ier Saranac lake to 
 .Saranac Inn, where 
 yiiu dispense witli the 
 guides and proceed by 
 water to Saranac lake 
 village ; thence by rail 
 to Lake Placid ; from 
 there by private con- 
 veyance to St. Hu- 
 bert's Inn, starting at 
 sunrise so as to breakfast on trout at Tlie Cas- 
 cades, and yet have a half hour in which to make 
 a couple of miles detour and take a look at John 
 Brown's grave. From the Cascades you pass 
 through the "Garden of Eden" (Keene valley), a 
 section whicli for beauty of verdure vies with the 
 fauious Lennox (which the writer has also seen) 
 presenting an esplanade miles in extent adorned 
 with magnificent summer residences of foreign 
 notables wlio are delegated to repres(mt their re- 
 spective governments at Washington. While at 
 St. Hubert's you visit tlie famous Adirondack pre- 
 serve with its grand fh-ives and ice caves. At St. 
 Hubert's send back your private rigs and take 
 conveyance for Elizabethtowu, and Westport on 
 
 G. M. BLISS' RESIDENCE. 
 
••(tRips" historical soutexir of marathon 
 
 F. S. DeUow, Phut^.. TH£ TuWX BOAKD, 1!<W. 
 
 1. Cecils. Meacham,. Justice: 2. EdsonR. Miner, Highway Comml-i 
 sioner; 3. Georse Deland, Jnsriee: 4, J. Harris Hammond. Supervisor 
 5. Dnane Burgess, .Tusrice: 6, John H. Miller. Jusrice : 
 ter. Town Clerk. 
 
 _. MiloT.^Voos- 
 
 Vnnihers begin at top, from left to right i . 
 
 Lake Champlain where you board the D. & H. 
 trains for Albany. At Lake Placid yon clunb 
 4,000 feet by an easy road to the summit of 
 "VVhiteface mountain where you can see Plans- 
 bnrg 3-5 miles northeast in a bee-line and count 
 "at your feet." sixty bodies of wat*r. 
 
 Fred S. Dellow, whose viewing in this Sou- 
 venir adorns many pages, was bom in Willett, 
 N. Y.. Oct. S, ls59, the second child of William 
 R. and Elvira Danforth who at present are resi- 
 dents of Marathon. His brother Frank is in 
 business with his father and his sister 
 Mrs. Hattie Hamblin resides in Bing- 
 hamton. Fred Dellow completed hi? 
 education in the Cortland Xormal 
 school, and afterwards learned the 
 trade of turning in his father's ftimi- 
 tnre factory. As a workman with 
 the lathe and chisel Mr. Dellow is su- 
 perior to the average, having turned 
 out much excellent work in Cortland. 
 Homer and CoblestOl. He piossesses 
 natural qtialifications for first-class 
 outside work with the camera. On 
 September 2". l>tio he was wedded to 
 Miss Mary L. the only daughter of 
 James and Fanny Peebles Living- 
 ston, an alumnus of the Marathon 
 High school and the "Worthy Matron 
 of Marathon Chapter Order of the 
 Eastern Star. Mr. Dellow is a mem- 
 ber of Thermopylae Lodge NTo. -tSS. 
 F. & A. M. of Marathon, of which he 
 is Senior Warden having occupied 
 every office in the lodge except that 
 of Master. 
 
 "The Flood of i865 filled Main street 
 to a depth of l-l feet between the livery 
 stable on the north side of Main street, 
 near the east end of the bridge, and the 
 Methodist church," said James S. Bur- 
 gess. '-The water was awash of the 
 bridge and covered the flats east of the 
 river above and below Main street. 
 The stable was swept away and carried 
 down on to Brinks flats. James Bur- 
 gess' shop floated down under the bridge. 
 A warm spell came on and rapidly 
 melted the snow and the water was two 
 days in raising. About March loth or 
 ITth as near as I can recollect it reached 
 the highest point. Duane Btirgess and 
 myself rowed my boat from my mill 
 across the flats to John M. Roe"s hotise 
 about an eighth of a mile. Richard 
 Webb and Trepenning in attempting to 
 save a cow and some hides in a bam in 
 the rear of the livery were swept again s t 
 the bridge, the boat capsizing. Trepen- 
 ning caught the bridge but Webb got 
 aboard of a tree and was carried down 
 the river a quarter of a mile before being 
 rescued." 
 
 Killawog at one time took precedence 
 over Marathon and adjacent villages as 
 a trading place for farmers in this section. Cook, 
 Wattles & Thompson conducted the principal 
 store for uules arotmd. Col. Cook conducted a 
 large tannery and not only manufactured leather 
 but boots and shoes. Making and repairing edge 
 tools of all descriptions was an important indtis- 
 try there. This was about the time the Chenango 
 canal was opened. The schools were considered 
 of a higher grade than any others and studies not 
 taught in the neighboring sch<x)ls were liberally 
 supported there. A public library was also pat- 
 ronized by people from miles around. 
 
 MRS. M.\KY L. DKI.I.OW. > KED S. DELLljW. souvenir Viewer. 
 
"GRIPS" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 ARVINE JOHNS! )X. Souvenir Viewer. 
 Arvine Johnson one of the artists who made 
 the views iu this souvenir is the cashier and book- 
 keeper in Seamans Bros., a place he has occupied 
 since March 13, 1899. He was born iu IMarathnn 
 Dec. 3, 1878, was graduated from the Lowell 
 Business college Binghamton, May 5, 1898, and 
 on Sept. 22, 1898, started a camera and supply 
 business, first ^\-ith a counter in H. H. Clark's 
 then iu Wooster's. Ou 
 January 10, 1899, he 
 sold out to H. Guy 
 Palmer but on Sep- 
 tember 12. 1900, re- 
 purchased the busi- 
 ness. He was mar- 
 ried to Jennie Granger 
 of Syracuse February 
 (!, 1900. On January 
 3, 1900, he purchased 
 the house and lot ou 
 West Main street 
 which he and his wife 
 occupied on April 17, 
 following, and wlicre 
 they now have a very 
 pleasant home. 
 
 Cephas Comstock, 
 
 who was born October 
 17, 1785, at New Ca- 
 naan, C(mu., and who 
 was maiTied to Nancy 
 Waring, October 12. 
 1807, moved to Mara- 
 thon (theu Hanisoui 
 in 1SI.5, purclia.sed the 
 farm where Arvine 
 Johnson now resides, 
 and lived there until 
 1S41I, then purchasing 
 the farm ad.ioining on 
 tlie south wlure he 
 resided until !>Sn('i, 
 after wliicli he moved 
 to Dean's Pond about 
 two miles east of 
 Maratlion village, a. .lulmson, Photn 
 
 where he resided up to the time of his death, Feb- 
 ruary 11, 1N6S. In 1834 he built the highway 
 from Messengerville on the east side of the Ti- 
 oughiiioga river to Cortland known iis the Nar- 
 rows ; was supervisor from 1821; to 182.S, from 1830 
 to 1834, and iu 1837, 18(!1 and 18C>2. He was a mem- 
 ber of assembly from Cortlanil county in 1^27 and 
 1N3{;. In the earlier years of the Cortland county 
 association he was the president. It is churned 
 that he selected the name for the town when it 
 was changed from Hanisoii to ^laratlion. He 
 was a thoroughly I'ead man iu amieiit as well as 
 modern history, and his children possessed the 
 same taste. Oue of his sons could read page after 
 page of history and repeat it. Mr. Comstock's 
 family consisted of himself, wife, five girls and 
 two boys all of whom are dead with the exception 
 of Mrs. Sarah Root Carley, widow of the late E. 
 Carley, who is still eu,ioying good health. 
 
 The Soldiers Monument.— The first suggestion 
 for a soldiers mouument in Marathon was made 
 at the close of the War of the Rebellion by Rev. 
 Hnutingtou Lyman but no action which accom- 
 plished auy results ensued until in 1892 '3 when 
 tlie ladies of the Woman's Relief Corps under- 
 took to raise sufficient fuuds for the ])urpose. 
 Early in the year 1N'.)3 tlii> president of the Relief 
 Corps informed the Post that then' was sufficient 
 fuuds pledged whereby the monumeut could be 
 purclias.-d and jiut in place by May 30. A com- 
 mittei' was appdinted consisting of the comrades, 
 O. Courtuev, A. P. t4reeu(^ and Wm. Dellow of 
 the Post, Mrs. C. H. Bouton, Mrs. Geo. W. Web- 
 ster and Mrs. A. E. Watrous of the Relief Corps 
 and D. B. Tripp, W. A. Brink and Ed. L. Adams 
 of tlie citizens. After examining the various de- 
 signs submitted, that of A. ( ". Robaclier was 
 approved and the monument ordered of him. It 
 
 ARVINK .loHNSoN-S RESIDENCE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 HENRY E. WILSON. 
 was dedicated Jlay :iO, 18'J3. Its dedicatiou was 
 attended by Grover Post, No. 98, the Womau's 
 Relief Corps, No. 90, Kellogg Camp, No. 4.s, S. of 
 v., the 45th Sep. Co., N. G. S. N. Y. aud the 
 Cortland City Baud, who joined with the local 
 fire department. Grand Army Post Relief Corps 
 and the citizens iu one of the lunst impressive 
 parades and ceremonies that Marathon has ever 
 seen. Music was furnished by a ([uartette, Dr. C. 
 B. Trafford, Messrs. A. E. Watrous, Clayton 
 Greene and C. H. Bouton. Miss Florence Brain- 
 ard Wiis the organist. Prayer was offered by 
 Rev. E. R. D. Briggs. The mouument was then 
 unveiled by D. B. Tripp, chairman of the 
 monument committee, assisted by officers of the 
 Post aud Corps. The dedicatory address was de- 
 livered by the late Col. E. S. Jeuney of the 185th 
 regiment. The cost of the monument which is 
 located in the public 
 park in front of the 
 Baptist church was 
 11000. Oscar Court- 
 ney chairman of the 
 Post committee de- 
 livered a brief wel- 
 come to visiting dele- 
 gati o u s who were 
 served with dinner in 
 the Methodist church. 
 
 Henry E. Wilson, 
 
 the corporation coun- 
 sel aud a member of 
 the Board of Educa- 
 tion began the practice 
 of law iu Marathon in 
 the spring of 1885. As 
 a leading democrat he 
 received the appoint- 
 ment of postmaster 
 by President Cleve- 
 land in 1893, serving 
 his term of four years. 
 He is regarded as a 
 lawyer of sound judg- 
 ment aud excellent at- 
 tainments aud as a 
 strong aud forcible 
 
 platform speaker who has been called upon to fill 
 appointments in the local lecture course. Mr. 
 Wilson was born in Cheuango Forks, the town of 
 Greene, Cheuango Co., N. Y., Jan. 14, 18(52. He 
 studied law with E. J. Ai-nold at Greeue in ls81 
 and 1NN4 inclusive, and was admitted to the bar 
 of the State of New York at the General Term iu 
 Biughamton, May 8, 1884. He has also been ad- 
 mitted to practice in the United States courts. 
 His activity iu politics has made him on several 
 occasions a delegate to the county and state con- 
 ventions. He is a member of the local Masonic 
 lodge of which he is at present Past Master and 
 in 1895 received the honor of the appointment of 
 Grand Steward by the (rrand Master of the Grand 
 Lodge of the State of New York. (Ju Oct. 3, 
 1889, he was married to Miss Hattie I. Sessions 
 aud thev have one child, Marjorie .Janet, born 
 April it'; 1891. 
 
 David Ross Locke ('Petroleum V. Nasby") 
 spent some of his earliest childhood days in Mara- 
 thon. From 7 to 12 years of age he attended 
 school iu the old yellow school house, where his 
 natural humor made itself knowu iu many child- 
 ish ways. It is related that Henry S. Randall, the 
 first county superintendent of schools remarked 
 at an examination, "That boy is going to make 
 his mark in the world. I shall hear from him." 
 
 Mrs. Ruth L. MiUer of Toledo, O., sent the 
 picture used on page 20. He was born in Vestal, 
 Broome county, N. Y., in 1833. His parents 
 moved to Killawog and from there to Marathon 
 in 1840. Having access to few books he read 
 RoUin's Ancient History, Josephus and the 
 United States History. Having an excellent mem- 
 ory he became an historian. At 12 years of age 
 he went into a printing office in Cortland to learn 
 the trade, taking the place vacated by Ogden 
 Squires. Afterwards he worked at Corning iu 
 company with "Brick Pomeroy," aud it is said 
 that between them were hatched capers which 
 were talked of for years afterwards. He drifted 
 to (Jhio where at the beginning of the war he 
 began the Nasby letters. Then he purchased the 
 Toledo Blade of which he was the editor at the 
 time of his death in 1880. He traveled extensively 
 in Europe. 
 
 HENRY E. WU^SONS KESUJENUE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON. 
 
 E. J. Bowdish fluring the sumnipr of ls8'.) built 
 a moflerii sale stable nu a lot haviup a froiitat^e on 
 Brink street anil an entrance through to 
 Main for the purpose of enlarging his operations 
 in buying and selling horses. For some years lie 
 has been engaged in this trade, picking up car 
 loads of the best and shijiping them to New York 
 to be sold for carriage teams. During a part of 
 tlie year he handles farm and draught horses 
 such as are wanted near home, but his largest 
 dealings are in stylish horses. Mr. Bowdish was 
 born in Freetown, Aug. 7, IWil. His first venture 
 was as a merchant in that place, buying the store 
 of Dearman and after conducting it three years 
 selling out to Woods & Deubowich and conung 
 to Maratlion. Here he opened and conducted a 
 livery stable for nine or ten years wlien he bought 
 Peck's in Main street, but in tlie spring of 18il!t 
 sold out for the purpo.se of opiiiinir tlie .sale stable. 
 On Dec. 9, ISs."), he married Lena, the daughter of 
 Henry Saunders of Georgetown, Madison county. 
 He is a member of the Odd Fellows and a repub- 
 lican, having represented the town of JIarathon 
 on the county committee for four years. 
 
 both in St. Petersburg and Moscow. King 
 (Jeorgeand Queen Olga of Greece are of course 
 the head of the Orthodox Greek church . Nicholas 
 ruler of Montenegro, King Carl of Roumania, 
 Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and King Alexander 
 of Servia are worshippers in the Greek church. 
 Tile Sultan of Turkey who worships in state in 
 the Mosciue at Constantinople on Friday, accom- 
 panied by 1000 soldiers, the Khedive of Egypt, 
 the Shah of Persia and the Sultan of Morrocco 
 are Mohammedans. Menelik II, King of 
 Abyssinia worships in the native Abyssinian 
 church. The King of Siani is a Buddhist. The 
 Kniperor of .lapan is a devout worshiper of 
 Shintoism. The Emperor of China is the chief 
 High Priest of Confucianism. President McKin- 
 ley is a regular worshiper at the Metrnpulitan 
 M. E. Church in Washington and is a member of 
 the M. E. Church at Canton. 
 
 Pan=American Stamps for the Exposition at 
 Buffalo (1901) in two colors are furnished by the 
 government, viz: 1-cent, 71,000,000; 3-cent, IC.O,- 
 000,000; 4-cent, 5,000,000; Scent, s,000,000; 8- 
 
 A. Johns 
 
 , Plicto 
 
 E. .1. BoWDISH'S SALB STABLE. 
 
 B. J. Bowdish. 
 
 Religion of Rulers of the World: — Queeon Vic- 
 toria and King Edward VII are membars of the 
 church of England. Wilhelni, Emperor of Ger- 
 many is a Lutheran and himself administers 
 spiritual comfort to his soldiers. Queen Wilhel- 
 miua of Holland is a regular worshipper in the 
 Dutch Reformed church. King Christain, a 
 liberalist, is an attendant of the I>utheran church. 
 King < )scar II of Sweden, a student of the I'.ible, 
 is a Protestant. (!ol. Edward JIuller, President of 
 Switzerland, attends the Protestant church of 
 Berne in company with his family as any private 
 citizen. Presiclent Kruger of South Africa is a 
 devout member of the Dutch Protestant. Em- 
 peror Francis Joseph of .\ustria is a devout 
 Catholic, attending rigidly to the worship of his 
 churi-h. ['resident Loubet of France thoroughly 
 di'inocratic in his customs, is a dev<mt Catliolic, 
 attending church regularly with his family. King 
 Victor lOtnanuel of Italy, Charles O of Portugal, 
 .\lfoiiso. King of Spain and Leapold, King of 
 Belgium are Catholics. The Czar of Russia of tli(^ 
 Orthodox Russian church has a private chapel 
 
 cent, 3,000,000; 10-cent, 4,000,000; total 251,000,- 
 000. The designs are as follows : l-<ent, a steam- 
 er, representing fast lake navigation: 2-cent, an 
 express train at full speed, depicting land rapid 
 transit; 4-cent, an automobile in front of the 
 capitol in Wa.shingt(m; 5-cent, Niagara Falls in 
 all its glory; s-cent, the great canal locks at 
 Sault Ste. Marie; 10-cent, an ocean liner. 
 
 The Lightinji; System comprises an electric 
 plant put in by the village early in the present 
 year, the village at a special election held in 
 October 1900 voting |s,.")00 for that purpose. The 
 capacity is 1200 lights including H5 arc lights of 
 the latest pattern, alternating current. Credit 
 for the plan is due to tlii' board of trustees, Messrs. 
 Boyden. Brink and Underwood, who devoted 
 iiHicli of their per.sonal time in getting the plant 
 installed. 
 
 The Hirst Schoolmaster in Marathon was 
 William Cowdrey who taught in 180:(. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 L. F. WARD. 
 
 L. F. Ward was born at New Milford, Sus- 
 quehauna county. Pa., September 19, l.s26, and 
 resided iu his native place until between 17 and is 
 years of age when he located iu Cortlaud working 
 for Samuel Woodruff custom tailor. One year 
 later learning that Marathon was a good place for 
 one of his profession to locate he started in busi- 
 ness there, being then 20 years of age. Conse- 
 quently he has been a resident of the village over 
 half a "century being engaged in the clothing and 
 merchant tailoring business most of the time. 
 Having caught the western fever Mr. Ward felt 
 obliged to take three trips west of the Mississippi 
 to rid himself of the complaint. This was years 
 ago when the west was thinly settled. Some 
 time afterward he was seized with a similar 
 malady which sent him to New York ( the writer 
 is now using tlie uni(iui- phraseology employed by 
 him in reiiting his i-xpirii-iices) where he con- 
 tracted with a clothing and cloth and trimmings 
 jobbing house. It was foiu' years before Mr. 
 Ward convalesced and became convinced that 
 Marathon was a very 
 good place to live and 
 die in. Accordingly 
 he proceeded to build 
 a residence and re- 
 sume the clothing 
 and merchant tailor- 
 ing goods business in 
 Marathon. On the 
 completion of the Tar- 
 bell building Mr. 
 Ward moved his busi- 
 ness in till' north jiart 
 of that building and 
 rented liis own store 
 to Mrs. Martha Cope- 
 land for the millinery 
 business. After re- 
 maining two years in 
 the Tarbell building 
 he rented a store iu the 
 Hulbert block where 
 he remained until he 
 sold out to Jay Web- 
 ster, and retired from 
 the business. Mr. 
 Ward belongs to the 
 Marathon Lodge F. & 
 A.M. where he filled 
 tlie post of W. M. for 
 
 two years. He is a Jeffersonian democrat, believing 
 those principles to be the best for a republican 
 form of government When Mr. Ward came to 
 Marathon it contained 350 inhabitants. The first 
 two years he boarded at the Marathon House, 
 owned and kept by James Burgess, paying for a 
 time SI. 2.) per week and aftenvards JJl.SOper week. 
 
 Epidemics. — Marathon never suffers from 
 epidemics though like all rules which hold good 
 there is an exception. In the spring of 1863 a 
 lady who died from small pox on a farm in Lapeer 
 was nursed by a man from this village. It was 
 confined to few and the mortality was light, 
 lasting l)ut a short time. 
 
 The Town of Marathon was formed from the 
 town of Cincinuatus April 21, 1818, and was 
 named Harrison which in 1838 was changed to 
 Marathon. The central point of the old town of 
 Oincinnatus which comprised what is now the 
 towns of Marathon. Freetown, Willet and Cin- 
 cinuatus was at Texas Valley. The Tioughnioga 
 river flows through the western part of the town 
 and Merrill creek in the eastern part. Tlie to- 
 pography is rugged though the soil is generally 
 productive of all gi-ains and products. 
 
 They Dared. — "We dare you to play a game of 
 croquet for the championship at 2 o'clock Wed- 
 nesday afternoon." The above challenge, dated 
 Aug 15, 187 1 was issued by four of Marathon's 
 well known citizens to their respective wives 
 who " dared " and defeated them. The par- 
 ticipants were Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Adams, Mr. 
 and Mrs. L. A. Hazen, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. 
 Wright and Mr. and Mi-s. H. F. Bryant. 
 
 The First Death in the town was that of Joseph 
 Hunt iu March ls08. 
 
 The First Wedding in Marathon was that of 
 Nicholas Brink and Polly Alford. 
 
 The First Saw Hill in Marathon was run by 
 John Hunt. 
 
 A. .lohnson. Photo. L. F. WARD'S RESIDENCE, Main street. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 F. S. Dcllo 
 
 , Phuti; 
 
 L. F. WARD'S EAST STREET HdUSE. 
 
 L. P. WARD'S OFFICE. 
 
 The First Store in Marathon — Abraham Brink 
 built the first structure uscfl for a store where the 
 Peck block uow stands. First it was rented to 
 William Snyder who was the first merchant in 
 Marathon, then to Luther Keyes, a peace justice, 
 followed by David Maurose, then James Burgess, 
 afterwards George Peck, and his brother-in-law, 
 A. Hibbard and finally Peck & Dickinson. The 
 building was used for the manufacture and sale 
 of hats and was l>urned down. 
 
 First County Officers — Assemblyman, Eph- 
 raini Fish, elected ISIO; County Judge, John 
 Keep, appointed April IslO: Augustus A. Don- 
 nelly (no earlier record to be found), isli) ; Coun- 
 ty Treasurer (only record found), J. Depew 
 Freer, 18;^2; School Commissioner, Noah C. 
 Dad}-, appointed lSo6, first district^ — second dis- 
 trict, Dauu C. Squires; Surrogate. John Mc- 
 Wharton, appointed April, 1808; SheriflF, Ashel 
 Minor, appointed 1808. 
 
 Town Officers, elected Feb. 19. 1901 : Super- 
 visor, James K. Robinson (dcnu; Town Clerk, 
 W. P. Tyler, (rep) ; 
 Justices, George N. 
 Valentine, (rep) and 
 Winslow J. Maynard, 
 (dem). Two .iustices 
 hold over. Commis- 
 sioner of Highways, 
 John B.Reagan, (dem) 
 (Collector, Alonzo H. 
 Vunk. (repi ; Asses- 
 sors, Clark Haiuinniid, 
 V. K. Wliitmiire an. I 
 Ed. Davis, (all rcpsi ; 
 Oversi'cr (if the I'nor, 
 Eugeiii' VVatrousd'i'pi 
 Constables, .\(lani llil 
 singer, Wm. David- 
 son, Alonzo Vunk, H. 
 J. Rounds and Frank 
 Pierce (all reps) ;John 
 H. Miller and Dnanc' 
 Burgess justices, held 
 over. 
 
 The Last i'atriot 
 
 killiid in the final 
 pitched battle of the 
 civil war, Appomatto.x 
 was Lieutenant Hi- 
 
 ram Clark of ^Marathon, who was in tlie IS.jth 
 Reg. N. Y. Vols, under the command of (4ustavus 
 Sniper. He was struck by a shell a-s the rebel 
 flag of truce came into the Union lines. The G. 
 A. R. post of Marathon is named after him. 
 
 The Taverns — Abraham Brink opened his house 
 for the accoumiodatiou of travellers early in 1800, 
 the first in Marathon, which he maintained until 
 his death in 18'24. David Peck in 1S3:5 purchased 
 a small house and built an addition, which was 
 the first public inn standing on the site of the 
 present Marathon House. Alansou Carley erected 
 the hotel which bears his name in 1S,54. Moses 
 Rogers was the landlord for seventeen years. 
 
 Early School Teachers in the County — Joshua 
 BuUard, taught north of Homer, 1T9S; P^beuezer 
 Luce, Lapeer, 1814; Betsey Carver, Harford, 
 1806; Mrs. H. Beebe, Ciuciunatus, ITllT; Wil- 
 liam Cowdrey, Marathon, 1803; Ruth Throop, 
 Preble, l.SOl ; Roxana Beebee and Lvdiauna Stew- 
 art, Salon, 1804; Mr. Beers, Taylor", IMO; A. W. 
 Baker, Truxtou, 1799; Don A. Roliertson, Free- 
 town. 
 
 •|'HK I'CIS'I'OFFICE ^tiulUllut,'Ow^.•li bv L. I. Ward*. 
 
"GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MRS. MATTIE L. FISH. 
 
 VINNIE (Mrs. Charles Morgan). 
 
 Rev. James E. Fish, a student iu medicme 
 during tlie early years of his life experimented 
 until he discovered the foi'mula which for the 
 past thirty years he has had on the market under 
 the trade title of Wormwood Ointment. This 
 enterprise has become one of Marathon's reliable 
 industries as the result of pushing the sale of 
 the remedy all over the country, and because it 
 has proven what it has been represented to be, an 
 effective remedy. From is8s to IS'.ti!, Mr. Fish 
 devoted his time to evangelistic work and by hard 
 study fitted himself for the ministry, so that in 
 1S97 he was ordained iu the Congi-egational 
 Church at Lester, Broome county where he ac- 
 cepted the pastorate which he is now filling. Mr. 
 Fish was born in the town of Solon August 38, 
 1842, where his father, a farmer, had lived since 
 1820. Prof. E. E. Fish, his brother, is an ortho- 
 nologist of considerable reputation, who pos- 
 sesses wide literary attainments and ranks high 
 as a teacher. Rev. Mr. Fish attended school at 
 Solon and McGrawville until ls(iO spending 
 two and one-half vears in tlie study of medicine. 
 On April !t, 1 Mil, "he 
 was mustered into 
 Company A, lOthNew 
 York Cavalry and 
 served in the Army of 
 the Potomac, partici- 
 pating in the battles at 
 Fredericksburg, Bran- 
 dy Station, Middle- 
 burg, Gettysburg and 
 other important en- 
 gagements. He was 
 discharged for disa- 
 bility in October ls64. 
 By his first man-iage 
 in 18(i4 there were four 
 children all of whom 
 are now living. Edwin 
 who resides iu Butfali i, 
 Fred U. , a well kii. iwn 
 artist living at Caiia 
 stota, Yinnie, the wife 
 of Charles Mc irgan 
 who is the son of Gen- 
 eral Morgan and 
 Bessie M., who resides 
 witli her parents. On 
 March 27, 1888, Mr. 
 
 Fish was married to Mattie L., the 
 daughter of WilUam and Charlotte 
 Pierce of Otselic Centre, Chenango 
 
 county. 
 
 nountains, highest in the world. — 
 Mt. Everest, (highest in the Hima 
 layas), Thibet, 29,002 feet; Kumcha 
 inyunga, Himalayas, 28,178; Sorato, 
 (highest in America), Bolivia, 21,284 
 Illimauia, Bolivia, 21,145; Chimba 
 rozo, Ecuador. 21,423 ; Hindoo-Koosh 
 Afghanistan, 20,<iOO; Demavend 
 (highest in Elbnrz mountains). Per- 
 sia, 20,000 ; Mt. Roa, (highest in OcB' 
 aula). Hawaii, 1(5,000; Mt. Brown 
 (highest in the Rockies), Brit. Amer 
 ica, 15,900; Mont Blanc, (highest in 
 the Eui'opean Alps), Savoy, 15,732 
 Mowna Roas, Ouhyhee, 15,700; Mt 
 Ro.sa, Savoy, 15,1.50; limit of perpe 
 tual snow at the Equator, 15,207 
 Piehinca, Ecuador, 15,924; Mt. Whit 
 nev, California, 14,887; Mt. Fair 
 weather, .\laska, 14,500; Mt. Shasta 
 California, 14,442; Mt. Rauier, Washington, 14, 
 444; Long's Peak. (Rockies), Colorado, 14,271 
 Mt. Ararat, Armenia. 14,320; Pike's Peak, Colora 
 do, 14,21(!; Mt. Ophir, Sumatra, i;S,800; Free 
 mont's Peak, Wyoming, 13,570 ; Mt. St. Helens 
 Washington, 13,400; Peak of Teneriflfe, Canaries 
 12,182; Simplon Alps, 11,542; Miltzin, (highest 
 of Atlas), Morocco, 11,5(X); Mt. Hood, Oregon, 11, 
 225; Mt. Lelianou, Syria, 10,533; Mt, Perda, 
 (highest of Pyrenees), France, 10,950; Monte Corno 
 (highest of Appenines) Naples, 9.523; Snerhattan 
 Norway, 8,115; Pindus, Greece, 7,677; Mt. Sinai 
 Arabia, (),541 ; Black Mountain, North Carolina 
 6,71)0; Mt. Washington, (highest in White Moun 
 tains). New Hampshire, 6,285; Mt, Mai'cy, (high 
 est in Adirondacks),New York, 5,402; Whitefaee 
 ( Adirondacks I , New York, 4,871; Ben Nevis 
 (highest in Great Britain), Scotland, 4,406 
 Mansfield, (highest in Green mountains), Yer 
 mont), 4,280; Peaks of Ottor, Yirginia, 4,2G0 
 
 SSflflfEl 
 
 luL_ 
 
 RESIDENCE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 Mt. Vesuvius, Naples, 4,253 ; Parnassus, Greece, 
 3,950; Round Top, (highest in the Catskills). 
 New York, 3,.S04 ; Suowden, England. 3,500; Ben 
 Lomond, Seotland, 3,3S0 ; Gibraltar, 1,470. 
 
 F. J. McFarland opened his large general bus- 
 iness in Marathon in company with liis brother, 
 (ieorge W. McFarland, in the same ([uarters he 
 still occupies, April 1, lsi)0. The latter retired 
 October In. 1891, but with his characteristic energy 
 and good judgment in selecting and buying 
 goods, F. J. McFarland has steadily increased 
 the scope of his business and the size of his 
 
 Winfield academy. In lS.S.5-'7 h(> was a clerk iu 
 W. M. Owen & Co.'s wholesale and provision 
 store in Utica and subsequently, to the time he 
 came to Marathon, was with Whiting & Sons of 
 that city. The Mcl-'jirlands an^ among the early 
 settlers of (Otsego Co. Levi P., the fatlicr of F. 
 J. was born in the log house which his fatlier 
 reared in the solitudes of a sparsely settled and 
 uncleared country. He is still living on the same 
 farm at the age of 83 years. He reared six chil- 
 dren. Edwin P., who runs a general store and 
 Mrs. Libbie Nichols, of West Winfield, Herkimer 
 Co., N. Y. ; George W., the superintendent of the 
 
 A. .Johnson, View.s. 
 
 Fred J. McFarland. 
 
 F. .1. McFARLAND'S GENERAL STORK. 
 Mrs. Hattie McFarland Don McFarland 
 
 Fred E. Lainhart. 
 
 stock uutil he is able to serve liis patronage 
 with a charming variety of staple and fancy 
 articles in tlie lines he carries ; such, for 
 example, as gi'oceries. dry goods, ladies" and 
 gentlemen's furnishing goods, paints, oils, wall 
 paper and fruits and vegetables in season. Mr. 
 McFarland and Mrs. Hattie Swart of Harford, 
 f'ortland Co., were married Mardi 14, 1N9(). 
 They liave one son. Don A. McFarland. Mr. and 
 Mrs. McFarland are active supporters of the 
 Methodist clnirch. He was born in Plainfield, 
 Otsego (!o., X. Y.. .\ugust 10, Is.'iS, and acquired 
 his education at the district schools and the West 
 
 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of Auburn, N. 
 Y. ; Herbert .1.. occupying the sami! position at 
 Nvack, N. V. ; Charles who is still on the farm 
 and F. .1. 
 
 The Population of narathon.—lS20. KOT; 1X25, 
 S73; IN;i(). N95; Is.!."). 9s(;; IslO, 10G3 ; 184.), 1080; 
 18.50, 1149: INo.5, i:!41; 18t!0, l.';02; ISi;,-), 14S5; 
 1S70, Kill : 1875. 1630; 1S90, 1092. 
 
 Wool-carding was once a staple industry. .\ 
 shop built early in the century by Allen Rice stood 
 near Hillsinger mill. Another waslocatedat Killo- 
 wog. 
 
76 
 
 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 (\ A. BRdOKS, Postmaster. 
 Charles A. Brooks, a resident of Maiathou 
 siuce 11ST4, came to this village wheu 17 years of 
 age aucl euteriug actively iu local affairs became 
 cue of the republican leaders of the tovvu. his 
 party services being three times rewarded by the 
 appointment of postmaster, the first time by the 
 authority of a commission from President Arthur 
 in Ifssj, when he served three years, the second 
 time by the appointment of President Harrison 
 Dec. -il, 18S9, for the full term, and May 17, 1897, 
 by the appointment of President McKinley for 
 the term he is now serving. The location of the 
 postoffice at the present time was settled in liiOO 
 and was then newly outfitted as more iu keepiujj 
 with the reiiuirenieuts of a village the size of Mara- 
 thon. The service and appointments, the former 
 so far as arrival and departure of mails will per 
 mit, are entirely up-to-date and reflect credit on 
 the postmaster and his 
 deputy, W. J. Lynde. 
 Mr. iSrooks is presi- 
 dent of the board of 
 trustees of the Metho- 
 dist church, secretary 
 of Marathon Lodge, 
 F. & A. M., and pa- 
 tron of the Eastern 
 Star Chapter, and lias 
 served as chief of the 
 fire department in 
 which organization be 
 has been very active. 
 He has held the posi- 
 tion of assistant post- 
 master in the assem- 
 bly one year and the 
 following three years 
 postmaster of the 
 same body. When the 
 Peck Memorial li- 
 brary was opened he 
 was appointed libra- 
 rian, which place he 
 helduutil.Tunel.ls;t7, 
 wheu he resigned to 
 enter the postoffice 
 under President Mc- 
 Kinley's administra- 
 
 tion. Mr. Brooks was born in Danby, Tompkins 
 county, N. Y., August 1, 1857. Asa Brooks, 
 his father, was an active and pi-omineut Method- 
 ist, who devoted forty years in the service of the 
 Wyoming Conference of which he was a charter 
 member. Mr. Brooks has five sisters and a 
 brother living. They are IVIrs. R. H. Morey of 
 Nichols, N. Y., Mrs. Parmelia Horton of Elmira, 
 Mrs. Frances Beebe of Binghamton, Mrs. Hattie 
 Bloomfield and Miss Ella Broolcs of Owego, 
 Edward H. Brooks of Sus(iuehanua, Pa., and W. 
 L. Brooks of Syracuse. Mr. Brooks learned the 
 printer's trade in the Marathon Iiidi-penilent 
 office and afterwards iu company with Andrew 
 H. Day bought the paper. Mi'. Day sulisequently 
 sold his interest to E. L. Adams who afterwards 
 bought out Mr. Brooks. The latter was in the 
 mercantile business with hislirother W. L. Brooks 
 for two years iu the Gardner block and they 
 then sold out to T. E. Chapman. On September 
 5, 1877, he married Mary Squu-es, the widow 
 of Deloss Mack of Marathon. Mrs. Brooks by 
 her first maiTiage has one daughter, Irene, the 
 wife of Dr. H. H. Turner. Mrs. Brooks' father, 
 the late Daniel C. Squires, was a prominent far- 
 mer in the town of Lapeer, a well known and 
 highly esteemed citizen of prominence in the 
 county. 
 
 The First School taught in this vicinity. Mr. 
 William Cowdrey teacher, was first conducted in 
 a log barn in 1S03. The first school house was 
 built of logs on land on Broome street. The 
 windows were constructed by tacking slats across 
 openings cut tlu-ough the logs and covered with 
 oiled papers. Miss Swift was one of the early 
 teachers in that building. A few years later a 
 frame school house was built about on the site of 
 Swift & Co's store. The creek tiowid close by its 
 northern wall and during high water the wall 
 was undermined so that for several days school 
 was conducted on a slanting floor. It was about 
 1818 when Squire Biu'gess built a "modern" frame 
 school house and received in payment rye and 
 corn. 
 
 Population Cortland Co.— 1840, 24007; 1845, 
 2.J081 ; 1850, 25140; 1855, 24575; 1860, 26294; 1865, 
 •i4S15; 1870, 2.T173; 1875,24885; 1900,27.576. 
 
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'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOirVENIR OP MARATHON 
 
 DH. H, H, 11 i:m;k 
 Dr. H. H. Turner, tlic deutist, opeued his office 
 iu the prescut locaticni, the Peck block iu LS96, 
 where he has built up a profitable practice. His 
 marriage to Miss Ireue M., the daughter of C. A. 
 Brooks the postuiiister was celebrated on June 
 18, 1895, an event which led him to settle defin- 
 itely upon Marathon as his future home. Dr. 
 Turner has interested himself largely iu promot- 
 ing local athletic sports and as a musician associ- 
 ated with others has devoted much of liis efforts 
 in organizing local talcut, the fruit of which is a 
 well organized mandolin and guitar cluli com- 
 
 posed of talented musicians. The local order of 
 Maccabees appeals strongly to him and enlists his 
 most zealous services. Dr. Turner was born in 
 Athens, 111., July 19, 1871. Wlien he was !:> years 
 of age his parents mov(>d to Emporia, Kansas, 
 wliere he wjis graduated from tlie high school iu 
 1889. The same fall he engaged in the study of 
 dentistry, his chosen profession, in Dr. Murray's 
 office at that place, entering tlie dental college at 
 Kansas City in the fall of 1S90 aii<l graduating 
 from that institution in 1893. For >ix mnuths he 
 practiced in Emporia. Kansas, and for two years 
 he had charge of Dr. Spcnr. rV ulliic at Whitneys 
 Point, N. Y. The year ini 'idiMi; his removal to 
 Marathon he engaged in hi^ pi oi. s^ion at Lester- 
 shire, N. Y. On January 1, 1901. he opened an 
 office in Greene, Chenango Co., which he runs in 
 connection with his Marathon practice, having 
 office days at Greene on Tuesdays, Wednesdays 
 and Thursdays. Mrs. Turner who is largely 
 interested in the study of dentistry has become 
 (inite a jiroficient assistant. 
 
 The Mandolin Club.— In the fall of 1S98, a 
 nuuidolin club of three mandolins and three 
 guitars was organized under the leadership of Dr. 
 Turner. The following were the original mem- 
 bers:— Mandolins. H. H. Tm'uer, Chas. Roe and 
 Louis Boyd ; Guitars, Frank Stevens, Mark Smith 
 and Will Crandell. They furnished music for 
 local entertainments diu-ing the winter. The 
 orchestra continued with this same instrumenta- 
 tion until the fall of 1N99 when it was organized 
 with the following; Mandolins, H. H. Turner 
 and J. C. Watrous ; Piano, Miss Lena Ripley; 
 Flute, R. H. Mack; Cello, B. V. Strait; Guitars, 
 Frank Stevens and John Bowman. The orchestra 
 have a large repertoire of nmsic and have furnished 
 music for all kinds of entertainnieuts, including 
 banquets, socials, pai'ties, concerts, etc. They 
 have played concerts at neighboring towns and 
 their praises have been highly sounded . 
 
 Till''. M.\NI)l)TiIN rJA'H. 
 .I.ilui K. Bowman, (iuilar. Frank Stevens, (iuitar. H, H. Ma<'k, KUU 
 
 Dr. H. H. Turner, l.^it Mandcilin. Mis.'i Lena Ripley, Piano. 
 
 .Ia.son ('. WatrouH, 2nd Mandolin. K. V. Stran 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OP MARATHON 
 
 DR. W. SPENCER. 
 
 Dr. W. Spencer begau the practice of deutistrj- 
 by openiug an office in Lisle iu 1877. The fol- 
 lowing year he purchased the old established 
 business of Eli Sweet, at Whitney s Point, at the 
 same time closing his Lisle office, and has con- 
 tinued it since then as one of his regular dental 
 establishments. In 1892 he enlarged his field of 
 practice by coming to Marathon and buying the 
 office and equities of Mr. M. B. Aldridge. a prac- 
 tice which the latter had maintained for eighteen 
 years as the successor of Dr. Bryant who was at 
 one time located iu the Mansard Block. Making 
 Marathon his home office Dr. Spencer has since 
 July, KiOO, when he opened a place of business at 
 South Ot.selic, continued to keep up an office 
 practice in four neighboring villages. Marathon, 
 Whitneys Point, Cinciuuatus and South Otselic. 
 The Cincinuatus brancli he opened in 1897. Hav- 
 ing in Dr. M. W. Wright an experienced assist 
 ant. Dr. Spencer is al>le to accommodate a pat- 
 ronage extending over the adjoining portions of 
 Cortland, Broome and 
 Chenango c n u n ties 
 which contribute to 
 the trade that reaches 
 tlie four points aliove 
 mentioned, by liaviug 
 stipulated office days, 
 visiting Cincinuatus 
 every Monday, South 
 Otselic the first and 
 third Mondays of the 
 month and Whitneys 
 Point every Friday. 
 The doctor has en- 
 larged his Marathon 
 house so that he has 
 a suite of dental rooms 
 done otf inside in oak 
 and hard wood floors, 
 prettily decorated and 
 fully up to the stand- 
 ard in every respect. 
 in keeping with the 
 best village dental 
 parlors. His assistant 
 is a graduate of the 
 Buffalo dental college 
 and capable of gi\-ing 
 Dr. Spencer's patients 
 
 the best work. The doctor was bom in Virgil, 
 June 13, 1855, and by diligent study under prac- 
 tical instruction with Dr. S. W. Adamy of Union, 
 N. Y., he pushed his way into a wide field of 
 successful practice. On .January 1. 1S78, he was 
 married to Minnie, the daughter of Josiah Christ- 
 man of Virgil, to whom was born three chilrlren, 
 Harold. Lulu and Frank, the first deceased. Dr. 
 Spencer has many interests in the progressive 
 way in Jlarathou outside of his profession, both 
 iu educational, fraternal and religious circles. 
 Being an active member and a trustee of tlie 
 Presljyterian church he has taken an earnest part 
 in the work of the Sunday school and of the 
 Christian Endeavorers, occupying for the past 
 year and a half the presidency of the Marathon 
 society and holding the same executive post dur- 
 ing 18(i9 in the county organization of Endeav- 
 orers. As he is fully m svmpathy with advanced 
 education he was elected member of the preseut 
 school board calling upon him to serve for a 
 second term. He has passed into the highest 
 circle of Odd Fellowship and is a member of the 
 orders of Red Men and Maccabees. 
 
 Presidents of the United States, age, native 
 state, party represented and dates of inaugura- 
 tion. George Washington, (57), Va., April 30, 
 1789 (unanimous); .John Adams, (62), Mass., 
 March 4. 1797. Federal: Thomas Jefferson, (58), 
 Va.. March 4, IsOl, Democrat; James Madison, 
 (5K), Va., March 4, 1809, Dem. ; James Mom'oe, 
 (59), Va., March 14, 1817, Dem.; John Q.Adams, 
 (.")8), Mass., March 4. 1825, Federal; Andrew 
 Jackson. (02), N. C, March 4, 1829, Dem.; 
 Martin Van Biiren, (55), N. Y.. March 4, 1837, 
 Dem. ; Wm. Henn- Harrison, (68). Va., March 4, 
 1841, Whig: John'Tvler. (51). Va., April, 6,1841, 
 James K. Polk, (50|. N. C, March 4, 1845, Dem. ; 
 Zacharv TavLir, (65|, Va., March 5, 1849. Whig; 
 Millard Filmore. (50), N. Y.. Julv 9, 18.50, Whig; 
 Franklin Pierce, (49 1, N. H., March 4, 1853, 
 Dem.: .James Buchanan, (66), Pa.. March 4, 1857, 
 Dem.: Abraham Lincoln. (52), Ky., March 4, 
 1861. Republican: Andrew Johnson, (57). N. C, 
 April, 16. 1865. Rep.: U. S. Grant, (47 1, O., 
 March 4, 1869. Rep,; R. B. Haves, (.54), O. March 
 5, 1877. Rep. : James A. Garfield, (49). O., March 
 4, 1S81. Rep. : Chester A. Arthur. (51), Vt.. Sept. 
 
 -■i i.;m hiv .-- KI>~ii<liNili AND OFFICE. 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOITYENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 Borrowed Plioto 
 
 DR. SPENCER IN THE OPERATING ROOM. 
 
 ler, 29; Messeugerville 
 
 20, lfS81. Rep.: Grover Clevelaufl, (48), N. J., 
 March 4, 18.S.5, Dem. ; Benjaniin Harrison, (.56), 
 C, March 4, 1889, Rep.; Grover Clevelaiicl. (.o6), 
 N. J., March 4, 1898, Dem.; Win. McKiuley, 
 (53), O., March 4, 1897, March 4, 1901, Rep. 
 
 Planets— Sin, diameter, 822,000 miles ; re- 
 volves once in 2.5 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes. Mer- 
 cury, diameter, 3,1.50 miles; Revolution about 
 the Sun in 8.S d. ; diurnal revolution (length of 
 daj') 1 d, Oh, 5 m; distance from the Sun, 35 
 million.^ of miles. Veni's, diameter, 7,- 
 718; revolution 225 d; diurnal, 23 h, 21 
 m; distance, 66 millions. Eakth. di- 
 ameter, 7,916 ; revolution 365I4 d ; di- 
 urnal, 23 h, 56 minutes; distance, 91 
 millions. Moon, diameter, 2,160 miles; 
 revolution about the earth in 27 d, 7 h, 
 43 m ; distance from earth 237.000 miles : 
 the lunar month, from one conjunction 
 to the Sun to anotlwr is 29 d. 12 h. 44 m. 
 2 s. Mars, diameter. 4,093 ; revolution. 
 687 d ; diurnal, 1 d, h, 37 m. distance, 
 139 millions. Flora, diameter not given ; 
 revolution, 1,139 il ; diurnal not given; 
 distance, 201 millions. Hyi;ei.\, diame- 
 ter not given; revolution, 2,041 d; diur- 
 nal not given; distance 288 millions. 
 JlPiTER, diameter, 85,968; revolution, 
 4,332 d ; diurnal. 9 h, .55 m ; distance, 475 
 millions. Satvkn, diameter. 79,013; re- 
 volution, 10,7.59 d ; diurnal, 10 h, 16 ni ; 
 distance, 871 millions. Urani's, diame- 
 ter, 34,292; revolution, 30,687 d; diurnal 
 not known ; distance 1 ,752 millions. Nep- 
 tune, diameter, 37.000; revolution. 60, 
 127 d; diurnal not known ; distance, 2.7 13 
 millions. Asteroids, a system of up- 
 wards of a hundred planets tlius far dis- 
 covered ranging in diameter, eacli, so far 
 as is known from .50 to 230 miles, iiecu- 1 i ■ 
 
 pying a belt about 200 million miles wide ,i,.',',t ir Mrs' 'I' 
 and averaging in distance from the Sun (in-.n.-. s.. i,-ti 
 from 200 millions to 300 millions of rann n.n. Scj 1. 1 
 miles. The four largest are Ceres, Pallas, ijjn," [uj'ji'rs. - 
 .luno and Vesta. Dickinson. 
 
 Distances From 
 riarathon — Killowog, 
 3 miles; Lisle, 7 ; Cen- 
 tre Tjisle, 7; Upper 
 Lisle, (1; Whitneys 
 Point, 9; Triangle, 11; 
 Castle Creek, 13; Bar- 
 ker 14; Chenango 
 Forks, I.N; Bingham- 
 ton, 27 ; Hunt's Cor- 
 ners, 5; Harford, 11; 
 iM' ^ '^Hi Harford Mills, 11; 
 
 ^^^ ..^ih3P Richford, 15; Berk- 
 shire, 21 ; Newark 
 Valley , 20 ; Owego, 
 30; Virgil, 11; Dry- 
 den, 16; Ithaca, 29; 
 Texas Valley, 5 ; Wil- 
 let, 9; Lake"View, 11; 
 Smithville Flats, 13: 
 ( Jrcene, 20 ; Cincm- 
 natus, 12; Taylor, 15; 
 Pitcher, 15 ; North 
 Pitcher. 20 ; South Ot- 
 selic, 22; DeRuyter, 
 28; Norwich, 35; 
 Freetown, (!; East 
 Freetown, 10; Solon, 
 14; Tru.xton, 33; Cuy- 
 4; Blodgett Mills, 10; 
 McGrawville, 12; Cortland, 14; McLean 17; 
 Homer, 18; Little York, 20; Preble 23; Tully, 
 26; Apulia, 31; Onativia, 3s ; .lamesville, 42; 
 Syracuse, 50; Groton, 24. 
 
 Population vicinity villages : Lisle, 392 ; Whit- 
 ney Point, 807; Moravia, 1142; Greene, 1236; 
 New Berlin, 1156; Norwich, 5776; O.xford, 1931: 
 Diydeu, 699; Freeville, 440; Groton, 1344. 
 
 OFFICERS W. C. T. V. 
 t)i. Pri'siricnt: ->. Mrs. Kllii .Mc-Ki'll.r, 1st Viri> I'ri'si- 
 -a Hamlin, Jtlil Vi.-.- I'r.sicl.-.il : 4. .Mrs Allirrtine 
 .■ .■.. Mrs. W. I' -IM. r. I'r.iisiirrr; lI, Mrs. I.,,ttie 
 'V ..1 -Y ■ w..rl; : r, Mrs. Anna l^tjulinton Ulu.-. Suner- 
 nbution: s. Mrs. .1. E. Fisli ; '.1. Mrs. Ilattic Mi-Far- 
 ■ Spencer; II, Mrs. \V. S. BurKess; VI. Miss Emcline 
 
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 'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 
 W. E. SEAMANS. 
 
 Seamans Bros, succeeded W. A. Beutley to the 
 general merchandise business in the Peck block 
 on the site of the oldest place of business in Mara- 
 thon, on February 7, IsO.S. The original building 
 by George Peck in the late twenties and after- 
 wards by Peck & Hibbard was bui'ued down. 
 After being rebuilt in 1854, it was occupied by 
 R. P. Burhaus & Co. until 1856, then by Peck & 
 Adams until IS-"")".) ; then by Tripp & Adams until 
 1884; afterwards by W. C. Sanders and others 
 down to the time Mr. Beutley took it. When 
 Seamans Brothers became the owners of the busi- 
 ness only one-half the room of what is now re- 
 quired was then needed. What is now a double 
 store was then occupied by Bentley on the north 
 side and the Bank on the south. Under the pres- 
 ent form the two stores have been connected and 
 are devoted entirely to boots and shoes. The 
 basement has been 
 fitted up and theoflices 
 in the second floor 
 taken out giving the 
 firm three floors and 
 two large stores, so 
 that now the business 
 is conducted on a scale 
 equal to that of a large 
 department store. The 
 firm has added, not 
 only boots and shoes 
 but ladies' cloaks and 
 men's clothing. In 
 addition to the large 
 retail business they 
 carry on a wholesale 
 trade with merchants 
 in adjacent villages. 
 During the seven years 
 this enterprising firm 
 has been in Marathon 
 the business has ex- 
 panded to four times 
 what it was when 
 
 they took it. Seamans Brothers desiring to 
 supply the Marathon trade with every line of 
 goods needed formed a copartnership with A. H. 
 Jlain in April iNyit, and bought the hardware 
 business of Randolph Mack. Mr. Main is a prac- 
 tical plumber and steamfitter who for several 
 years was employed by G. L. Swift & Sous, and 
 Seamans Bros. & Main do a large plumbing and 
 steamfitting business in connection with a general 
 hiirdwari' trade. Both members of tlie firm have 
 engaged in trade from boyhood and are practical 
 iu all di'partments. John O. Seamans, the senior 
 partner, was born in Virgil, Dec. 15, 1855. In 
 ISTCiaud '78 he was a clerk for W. A. Holtou at 
 Virgil and in April, 1881 he bought the business 
 of E. B. Lincoln & Co., at Messengerville, the 
 following year taking iu his brother as a partner 
 only for three years. This he conducted up to the 
 time he and his brother entered the ^Marathon 
 store. Mr. Seamans married Eva M. Shevalierof 
 East Virgil, in April 1881. They have one son, 
 Ray Seamans. W. E. Seamans was born in 
 Drydeu. August 27, 186.3. At 19 years of age he 
 beguu a clerkship with S. K. Jones of Virgil, 
 previous to which time he taught school and 
 clerked for a while for C. W. Stoker of Cortland. 
 Iu 1882 he bought a half interest in the Messen- 
 gerville business with his brotlier which he sold 
 out three years later and started a wholesale notion 
 store at Cortland which he carried on for three 
 years taking the road as his own salesman. This 
 gave him an acquaintanceship which proved most 
 advantageous iu the connections he lias since 
 made. In 1888 he entered the employ of D. Mc- 
 Carthy & Sous of Syracuse and continued for that 
 house as travelling salesman until ls97 when the 
 firm withflrew from the wholesale trade. In 1890 
 Mr. Seamans bought out the boot and shoe busi- 
 ness of A. R. Peck at Cortland which lie subse- 
 quently sold to Baker & AngeU. As an incorpor- 
 ator he helped organize the Syracuse Dry Goods 
 Company in 1897 of which he is one of the mana- 
 gers and since then has represented that company 
 on the road. On January 21, 1885, he married 
 Addie L. Robinson of Marathon. They have two 
 sous, Harold and Carletou. Mr. Seamans is a 
 republican and a member of the ^larathon lodge 
 F. & A M. and the K. of P. 
 
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 \S . K. SKAMANS' UKSILiKNl'E. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 J. O. SEAMANS. 
 
 The First Newspaper published iu IMarathon 
 villaKi' was issued in May, 1X50. Its editor aud 
 publisher was (4eorge L. Swift, theu aud for many 
 years since iu the drug aud hardware business iu 
 Marathon village. It was an issue of four pages, 
 each pag(^ being about 10x12 inches. It was pub- 
 lished monthly and the occasional copies which 
 still exist show many items of local interest, to- 
 gether witli articles and sketches of more than 
 ordinary merit, contributed by the now noted 
 astrouomer, Dr. Lewis Swift, who theu resided at 
 Hunt's Corners, Horace L. Greene, now a well- 
 kuown editor and lawyer iu the city of Chicago, 
 the late Ira L. Little, Esq., aud others. The 
 paper was established by Mr. Swift especially to 
 advertise his business and had a circulatiou of 
 between three aud four hundred copies. It was 
 published for a year or two only. The first print- 
 ing ottice in Mai-athou was started by the late 
 .John B. Bedeu, who 
 started the Tioughui- 
 ogiau. and a few 
 weeks later in con- 
 junction with E. S. 
 Weld, who was then 
 principal of the acad- 
 emy, clianged it the 
 first number of the 
 Peoples' Journal, 
 "Devoted to the var- 
 ied interests of all," 
 oil Thursday, Januarj' 
 10, IKC.l, a sliort time 
 prior to the breaking 
 out of the civil war. 
 This was a seven-col- 
 umn folio and was 
 printed upon a Wa-sli- 
 ington hand press. 
 Some of tlie material 
 used upon this |)ap(^r 
 is still iu existence. 
 Its price was one dol- 
 lar per year, and it 
 never could liavebeen 
 profitable. Mr. Weld, 
 at the breaking out of 
 the war entered the 
 army leaving Mr. Bed- 
 
 eu to conduct the Journal alone, which he did for a 
 short time ouly. Mr. Bedeu subse(iueiitly pub- 
 lished a newspaper at DeUuyter and in a nunilier 
 of other pliices. In |.S(!:!,"two years later, on 
 Thursday, February \2, tlie Maratlioii Mirror was 
 issued by (i. A. Dodge, wlioalso published a paper 
 known as the Br(X)me (tazetteat Wliitiie.vs Point. 
 Mr. Dodge subseipiently disiX)se<l of tlie Mirror to 
 Mi'ssrs. P. D. and C. .\. Van Vradeiiburg who 
 changed its name to the Marathon Leader. Theirs 
 was n ally the first successful newspaper venture 
 in Marathon. In ISCi? the firm was dissolved, the 
 senior member going to IMMghanitmi in the otlice 
 of the Biiighaiutoii Kei)ulili<-aii, of wlm-li y.\\n:T 
 he was local and a.ssociate editor fcir many years. 
 The Leader was coutiuned by his brother Chet, 
 but owing to his ea.sy, good nature aud procras- 
 tinating methods, the busiuess fell oft' and he 
 gave up the printing plant to a mortgagee. Sub- 
 se(iueiitly in IsCi) the plant Was leased by one I'. 
 Dwi^'ht Smith who collected some three or four 
 hundred advanced subscriptions on his Marathon 
 News and departed between two days, leaving 
 uiil)leasaiit recollections iu his wake. Marathon 
 had theu become a village of enough imiiortauce 
 to iu.sure its inhabitants a weekly newspaper and 
 iu 1870 Wallace Kelley. who had been employed 
 as foreman by the late Benton B. Jones of the 
 Cortland Deniocrat, purchased for Mr. Jones at 
 mortgage sale, the press and materials used in the 
 News ottice, aud on July lit of that year the first 
 number of the Marathon Independent was issued 
 by Mr. Kelley. Mr. Jones retained the ownership 
 of the plaut ouly a year when Mr. Kelley became 
 by purchase its owner. By industry, good judge- 
 ment and thrift Mr. Kelley laid the foundation of 
 a successful business. 'Too close application to 
 work undeniiiued his health and in June ISTO he 
 was obliged to give up active editorial work into 
 the hands of Ed. L. Adams, then a lad of lit years 
 who has since had editorial charge of its columns. 
 
 Mr. Kelley's death occurred aud just 
 
 prior to that time his business was purchased by 
 Rev. Asa. Brooks and Andrew H. Day who sub- 
 se(piently disposed of their interests iu 1S78 to 
 Charles A. Brooks aud Ed. L. Adams. In isso 
 Mr. Adams purchased the interest of his partner 
 and has since conducted the Independent). Iu 
 1!S7T for one week the Independent was pub- 
 lished as a daily. Arrangements had been made 
 
 A. .lolmsun, l^lioto. 
 
 .1. O. SEAMANS- RESIDENCE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 iMn4a 
 
 A. Johnson, Photo. SEAMANS BEOS'. GENEKAL STOKE. 
 with a New York house whereby three pages of 
 latest telegi-aphic uews was f m-nished aud sent to 
 Marathou by express, the local page beiug put in 
 type at the lionie office and ready for printing 
 upon the arrival of the afternoon train, but at the 
 end of the first week the great railroad 
 strike of tliat year went into effect aud the 
 daily Independent was snuffed out. 
 
 M. E. Church, Killowog, N. Y. — No 
 data are in existence from which to 
 determine .iust when Methodism began 
 in Killowog ; but it is known that eaidy 
 in the history of that community, people 
 of this faith and order lived there. 
 There being no organized class the Meth- 
 odists united witli the class at Marathon, 
 and went tliither to worship. In 1843 
 the Rev. Levi Pitts organized a class of 
 tliirty members, with David Locke as 
 leader. (.)f this class three members 
 are still living, Mary Caul, Parmelia 
 Hoyt aud Merritt Hoyt. The class roll 
 of 1847 contained twenty names with 
 Moses Livermore leader, but as there was 
 no regular preaching service held here, 
 the class was discontinued for a time. 
 The class was reorganized in 1860, with 
 Merritt Hoyt as leader. It consisted of 
 the following memliers: Merritt Hoyt, 
 Parmelia Hoyt, Hezekiah Crain. Eliza- 
 beth Crain, Mary Crain, Cynthia Wheat 
 on, Ann Hitt, and Mary Muckey. The 
 tirst class met in the school house on the 
 west side of the river, but the school 
 trustees compelled them to seek another 
 place for tlieir meetings. For a while 
 they worshipped in the Baptist church, 
 but on account of a conflict as to the 
 hour of service Mr. Hoyt invited the 
 society to worship in his house, and 
 
 arranged the rooms and made seats to 
 accommodate all who would meet vrtth 
 them. From the place where the preacli- 
 er stood four rooms opened wliich were 
 well filled with interested listeners. It 
 was now evident that Methodism had 
 come to stay, and its supporters were 
 determined to have a permanent place 
 of worship. So the members of the class 
 met at Mr. Hoyt's May 20, 1867, to effect 
 a complete organization, and to take steps 
 to build. The Rev. A. C. Bowdish pre- 
 sided at this meeting, and C. H. Phelps 
 was chosen secretary. They named 
 themselves The First Methodist Episco- 
 pal church of Killowog, and elected the 
 following named persons trustees : Eras- 
 tus John.son, Calvin Wheaton, William 
 Lynde, Caleb Newton, Samurl Phelps, 
 John Ballard aud Arcliibald Sessions. 
 The trustees were authorized to circu- 
 late a subscription paper and to proceed 
 to build a house for public worship. A 
 site was secured from John LaGrange 
 for $12.5. Plans were drawn for a house 
 40x33 feet with posts iOfeethigh. Erec- 
 tion of the building was let to William 
 Gowdy for 11,03.5. The total cost with 
 painting, furnishings and lot was $2,247. 
 Siiii-e its erection the edifice has received 
 careful attention and now presents a neat 
 and kept-up appearance, all the interior 
 a))pointments being modern and showing 
 enterprise on the part of tlie members. 
 Since its beginning the chm-ch has had 
 steady prosperity. For many years it has 
 been connected with Marathon under the 
 same ministerial supply. It is composed 
 of sterling men and women whose 
 influence in the conununity is most potent. The 
 congregation whicli fills the house the afternoon 
 of every Lord's day is one of the most intelligent, 
 appreciative and iuspiring of any in the region 
 round about. 
 
 A: MAIN'S HARDWARE STORE. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOLn'ENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MRS. T. L. ('(iKWIN. 
 MISS CATHAKINE I.. CORWIN. 
 
 T. L. C(JRWIN. 
 FRANK T. CORWIN. 
 
 T. L. Corwin was twice elected president of 
 the village of Marathon and has .served two terms 
 on the lioard of trustees. It was during one of 
 liis terms as president that it was considered 
 necessary to providi- better protection against fire 
 than was possible to obtain by depending upon 
 wells and the river, so the storage reservoir on 
 tlie liill west of the village was constructed and 
 an adequate supply of 
 water was secured. 
 This improvised plan 
 answered every pur- 
 pose for the west side 
 of the river until tlie 
 present larger and 
 more comprehensive 
 system of water supply 
 was constructed. It 
 was also during one of 
 his terms as president 
 of the village that the 
 unsightly plot of 
 ground in front of the 
 churches was maiir 
 into a pretty and vast- 
 ly improved public 
 green. In lS(;-.)-4 in- 
 clusive, Mr. Corwin 
 and nis fiitlier, C. L. 
 Corwin, were engsigcd 
 in the harness business 
 over Swift's drug 
 store which (t. L. Cor- 
 win established in 
 I Sol. Tlic son was n 
 member of the firm of 
 Carter & Corwin who 
 for a year carried on 
 
 the grocery tra<le in a 
 building next to tlie 
 railroad. The latter 
 retired to go into the 
 harness business and 
 until 1!S74, wlien he 
 sold out to Smith & 
 Robinscm, he enjoyed 
 a large and lucrative 
 trade in the building 
 next west to tlie post- 
 office which he erect- 
 ed especially for the 
 business and which 
 has been used for it 
 ever since. The build- 
 ing ni!xt west of it now 
 occupied by M. T. 
 Wooster was also built 
 by Mr. Corwin for his 
 di'ug business at th(^ 
 time he moved out of 
 tile Tiffany building. 
 .\rter selling out he 
 m;u le a trip west where 
 he spent the greater 
 part of a year. On his 
 return to Marathon he 
 formed the copart- 
 nershipof Robinson & 
 Corwin which for a 
 year carried on the 
 flour and feed business 
 where tlie grist mill 
 near the depot now 
 stands. Then he em- 
 barked in the drug 
 business opposite 
 Swift & Son's store 
 which he followed 
 for seventeen years, 
 retiring therefrom in order to engagein the business 
 of a broker in flour, grain and feed which he has 
 since carried on with marked success. Taking as 
 the staple line the products of the Fall Creek Mill- 
 ing company, Ithaca, N. Y., Mr. Corwin went 
 upon tlie road, where he places his own orders, 
 and gradually extends his trade from year to year 
 until now he and his sou Ira, who represents 
 western mills, cover a territory of fifteen lumdred 
 
 IRA I. coKWIN. 
 MRS. ELSIE M. PARKINSON 
 
 T. I.. CORWIN'S RESIDEN(;E. 
 
'GRIP'S" HIST(1RICAL SOm'ENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 MRS. MARY E. TARBELL. 
 
 A. A. TARBELL. 
 
 mile.s exteucUug east, south and west. Mr. Cor- 
 wiu is promiueutly iclHUtified with the Masonic or- 
 der aii<l lias been for thirty- three years. He was 
 born at Mt. Hope, Orange county, N. Y., Anfjnst 
 2. 1.S40, iinil was eleven years old when his parents 
 moved to Marathon. At In years of ii^e he en- 
 tered upon a clerkship for Rout & Shaver, a. crock- 
 ery liouse at Newburgh, N. Y., where he re- 
 mained until four years later when he came to 
 Marathon to enpage in business with his father. 
 Mr. Corwin was alwnys n'a<ly t(i endorse any i)ro- 
 positiou which hi' iciiisidircd for the best interests 
 of the villat,'e and I he iiinveuKait wliicli led to the 
 construction of the present commodious school 
 buihlint; owes much for its success to the board of 
 trustees who were convinced of the great needs 
 for such a building and therefore used the author- 
 ity which they pi )ssessed to cari-y out the plan in 
 the best possil lie iiiainier, the result of which has 
 proven the wisdom of their action. Mr. Corwin 
 was chairman and his associates were J. H. Tripp 
 and C. C. Adams. The cost of the building and 
 its equipment was 
 $8,000 and it is to the r - 
 credit of these gentle- 
 men that it was kept 
 within the appropria- 
 tion. Mr. Corsvin mar- 
 ried Arminda B. 
 Johnson of Marathon 
 July 4, ISGl, and they 
 had seven children of 
 whom there ai'e living 
 Mrs. Elsie M. Parkin- » , 
 
 son of Camden, N. J., 
 and Frank, Ira L. and 
 Miss Catharine Cor- 
 win of Marathon. 
 Frank Corwin mar- 
 ried Ella B., the 
 daughter of Darius 
 Hoyden of Marathon 
 and Ira wedded (t. 
 Atla, the daughter of 
 Harry Clnugh of 
 Upper Lisle, N. Y. 
 Mr. Corwin indulges 
 
 in literary work in which his family enjoys 
 the best advantages, and has corresponded for 
 literary periodicals. 
 
 The Marathon House — A. A. Tarbell, the 
 proprietor of the hotel business conducted as 
 the Marathon House, with his cousin C J. 
 Tarbell bought out Melvin W. Conger, Febru- 
 ary 1, 1SS4. The first tavern opened in Mara- 
 thon was in the residence of Ahram Brink 
 who conducted it until his death in 1824, and 
 was succeeded by his sou Chester who a few 
 years later closed his house as a place of 
 public entertainment. In 183:j David Peck 
 purchased a small dwelling wliich stood on 
 the site of the present Marathon House, and 
 erected an addition which he opened as an 
 hotel and which through successive landlords 
 has been altered and improved until it now 
 stands as the Marathon House. Since Messrs. 
 Tai-bell took control of the business under 
 a lease which has since been continued they 
 have built the addition on the west side, 
 occupied by G. K. Smith as a barber shop, 
 and also a connecting apartment in the 
 rear of the north side so as to enlarge their 
 kitchen facilities and afford a private dining room. 
 From time to time Mr. Tarbell has decorated and 
 brightened the interior so that it presents a pleas- 
 ant and welcome appearance throughout. It is to 
 the credit of Mrs. Tarbell that the table is pro- 
 vided in a manner which has given the house 
 excellent repute among traveling people. The 
 menu and the cooking are far aliove the average, 
 served in a manner wholly satisfactory. A. A. 
 Tarbell was born in Lisle, Broome county, N. Y., 
 April 2, 1887, and followed the calling of a farmer 
 up to the time he took possession of the hotel. 
 He owns the farm which his grandfather cleared 
 and which is located in the town of Lapeer about 
 two miles west of the village of Marathon. Mr. 
 Tarbell and his wife, who was Miss Mary Preston 
 of Killowog, were mai-ried February 8, 18(i!). 
 They are to be commended for the agreeable 
 manner in which they entertain their guests, a 
 reputation they have fairly earned and which no 
 doubt contriliutes to keeping up the large patron- 
 age the house enjoys. 
 
 A. Johnson, Photo. THE MARATHON HOUSE, A. A. TARBELL, I'Li il'KI i: I'l i|; 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOIIVKNIR ( )F MARATHON 
 
 85 
 
 "^^Pw^ 
 
 G. K. SMITH. 
 Q. K. Smith who lias always been anioug the 
 most active ineiiibers of tlie fire departmeut of 
 which he is the secretaiy, a position he has held 
 two years, and of the Marathon lodge of Odd 
 Fellows, was born in Marathon, Aug. 25, 18(i4, 
 and is widely known in the county, as well as the 
 village. He is tin- proprietor of the Marathon 
 House barber sho]i and cigar store situated in the 
 annex of the hotel which was built for his purpose 
 seven or eight years ago. Prior to that time for 
 a year he worked for Eugene Boyden, and before 
 that for two years w;is with Charley Towl. Then 
 Mr. Smith bought the sliop of Archie Stevens in 
 the Smith block whence he moved into his 
 present location. His father, ( ). H. Smith, whose 
 death occiuTed in 18!I2, came to Marathon from 
 Delaware county more than forty years ago. He 
 has occupied tlie ofiico of village trustee and a 
 place in the roll of 
 volunteer fireman and 
 has served as trustee 
 of the M. E. churcli 
 for thirty years. It 
 was lie who built the 
 Methodist parsonage 
 for his own residence 
 and where he lived 
 several years. His oc- 
 cupation was that of 
 wagon making, re pair- 
 ing and general black- 
 sinithing. His widow 
 now living in ( jortland 
 isasi.ster of Mr. Cliiis 
 H. Houton. (t. K 
 Smith was married 
 October."), 1SS-.) to Miss 
 Heftie Earley of l)e- 
 ])osit. Their children 
 are Kdiia aged 1 7 years 
 and ( 'lara, I .'i years old. 
 Mr. Smitli is a republi- 
 can of thi^ strongest 
 type, an active jiarty 
 worker anrl for three 
 years a deputy slieritV. 
 
 American Wars. — King Phillip's, K'u.'i : King 
 Williams, H)S9 ; Dutch, 1(>93; Queen Aunes, 1744; 
 French and Indian, 17.i5; Revolution, April I.s, 
 1775 (Lexington fight) to January 20, iss:! 
 (treaty at Paris) 3f;8,41() men in service; North 
 West Indian wars, September lit, I7il0, extending 
 5 years, 8,!)8;! men ; French war, .Inly 9, 1798, 
 lasting 2 years, 4,. 593 men ; Tripoli, June 10, 1801, 
 4 years, 3,330 men; Creek Indian, July 27, IS13, 1 
 year, 13,781 men; Great Britain, June 18, 1812, 2 
 years, 8 months, 576, (>23 men; Seminole Indian, 
 November 20, 1817, 1 year, 7,911 men; Black 
 Hawk Indian. April 20, 1831, 1 year (i months, 
 fi,4li5 men; Cherokee Indian, 183(i, 1 year, 9,494 
 men ; Creek Indian, May 5, 183(), 1 year, 5 mouths, 
 13,418 men; Florida Indian, December 23, 1835, 8 
 years, 41,122 men ; Aroostook Indian, l!S38, 1 year, 
 l.'iOO men; Mexican, April 14, 1846, 2 years, 3 
 moiitlis, l(il,2.s2 men; Apache, Navajo and Utah 
 Indian, 1S49, 6 years, 2,501 men; Seminole In- 
 dian, 18.")6, 2 years, 2,687 men; Civil war, April 
 12, IS61, 4 years, 2,772,408 men; about 800,000 
 confederate troops. 
 
 Don't Marry. — According to a table printed in 
 a King James bible, bearing the date 1796, the 
 scriptures prohibit a man or woman from marry- 
 ing: — "grandmother or grandfather; grand- 
 mother's or grandfather's husband or wife ; wife's 
 or husband's grandfather or grandmother ; moth- 
 er's or father's sister or brother; mother's or 
 father's brother's or sister's wife or husband; 
 wife's or husband's father's or mother's sister or 
 brother ; mother or father ; stepmother or step- 
 father; wife's or husband's mothi^r or father; 
 daughter or son; wife's or husband's daughter 
 or son ; daughter's or sou's husband or wife ; 
 sister or brother; wife's or hu.sband's sister 
 or brother ; sister's or brother's husband or wife ; 
 daughter's or sou's daughter or son ; daughter's or 
 sou's son's or daughter's wife or husband ; sister's 
 or brother's daughter or son ; sister's or brother's 
 son's or daughter's wife or liusband ; wife's or 
 husband's sister's or brother's daughter or son. 
 
 SMITH'S CKIAK STORK AND HAHHEH SHOP. 
 
'GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 to Miss Rose A., the daughter of Edward Spargur 
 of Eaton, N. Y., iu 1869, aud they have the fol- 
 lowing children : LUlie ( Mrs. J. E. Albro of Ma- 
 rathon), Grace, a teacher of the public schools 
 and music, Tina (Mrs. Robert J. Miller of Cort- 
 land), Alice and Harriet. Mr. Pulford's brother 
 Charles, who is a prominent politician, lives iu 
 Elmira : Arthur is dead and Emily resides in Mc- 
 Lean, N. Y. Mrs. Rose A., the wife of Frank 
 Pulford, was born iu Eaton. Madison county, N. 
 Y.. where her mother's family were among the 
 earliest settlers, the latter's father being a veteran 
 of the war of 1S12. Her father in 1X0.5 came to 
 Eaton from Stoniugton Pt., Conn., where still 
 
 F. A. PULFORD. 
 Frank A. Pulford was in the drug aud grocery 
 Viusiness in Marathon about twenty years, a 
 business which was regarded as among the largest 
 in the village. Mr. Pulford was popular and 
 possessed a geniality which was wholly character- 
 istic of him. He was personally active in public 
 matters where opportunitj' ottered. Upon coming 
 to Marathon he started alone but afterwards took 
 in Dr. Tiffany as a partner and the business was 
 conducted about six years as Tiffany & Pulford 
 after which it was carried on as F. A. Pulford. 
 During the time lie was cliief of the fire depart- 
 ment the members were inspired to engage in 
 contests of etticieucy at the State conventions, a 
 movement he entered into zealou.sly with the 
 result tliat to Marathon came one of the excellent 
 prizes, a hose cart which stimulated the volunteer 
 flremeu of the State 
 to excel, aud gave 
 Marathon firemen a 
 prominent place at 
 State conventions. 
 Mr. Pulford has served 
 on the village board 
 of trustees aud as a 
 member of tlie school 
 board. In 1884 he 
 built the first resi- 
 dence on Brink sti'eet 
 which is still his 
 home. He was born 
 in Liucklaeu aud after 
 finishing his educa- 
 tion he learned the 
 trade of miller in his 
 father's mill at Trux 
 ton. Then he engaged 
 in jiutting up mill 
 macliinery and gi't tint; 
 the mills started until 
 the spring of IsT'.i 
 whenhe came to Mara- 
 thon. He was married f. s. Dellow, Photo. 
 
 BoiTowi-dcut]. MRS. ROSE A. PULFORD 
 
 stands the residence of his father — a revolutionary 
 soldier — an old revolutiouai-y land mark. Mrs. 
 Pulford is today the only lady pharmacist in Cort- 
 land county who has passed the required exami- 
 nation and taken the degree of Ph. G. At an 
 early age she went to boarding school and was 
 
 ^^3l(®*»S&ssa«»**i*-~-=- 
 
 MRS. PULFORD'S KKSIDBNCE. 
 
■GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOXn'ENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 A. Jolinson, Photo. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF CHARLES ADAM 
 
 afterwards a teacher, haviug received the advan- 
 tages of higher education. (Jn account of her 
 husband's fsiiliug health she took a position in his 
 drug store in 1888 and continued to assist in the 
 business and take care of the books and at the 
 same time to study for the profe.ssion for which 
 she liad taken a fancy, often when her liu.sband 
 was unalile to assist, running tlie store alone. 
 The hitc William Spargur, a well known lawyer 
 iif Allcgaiiy rouiity, who once prarticed in Cort- 
 land county, Edwaid, who died in Pennsylvania 
 and the late Mrs. Mary Mills of Auburn, (>., and 
 Mrs. Sabriua J. Sheppard, the postmistress of Che- 
 mung are Mrs. Pulford's brothers and sisters. 
 
 Wars of the world — Cost in lives and money ; 
 1S.5.-)- 1880:— Crimean, 1.50,000 lives; $1,700,000,000. 
 Italian, 45,000 lives; ij;i00,000,000. Sohleswig- 
 Holsttin, 3,000 lives, 135,000,000. American, 
 Civil, Union, 280,000 
 lives; .|:4, 700,000,000. 
 American, Civil, Con- 
 federate, 520,000 lives : 
 12.300,000,000. Prus- 
 sia-.^ustria, Italian, 
 45.000 lives; $330,000,- 
 00. Expeditions in 
 Mexico, Cochin- 
 ("hina, Morocco, Par- 
 aguay, 65,000 lives; 
 .-ii^oO.'ooO.ooO. Pranco- 
 (iernian, France 155, 
 1)00 lives; Germany. 
 till.ODO; total cost, *2,- 
 (IdO, 00(1,000. Russia- 
 Turko, 225,000 lives ; 
 $1,100,000,000. Zulu- 
 and-Afghan, 40,000 
 lives ; $.50,000,000. 
 
 Fire '89 at Killo- 
 
 wog — Alioiit eleven 
 o'clock at night, .Tuh" 
 2SI, 188!), Henry Bra- 
 man's grist mill was 
 discovered on fire and 
 all that could be saved f. s. DcUow, photo. 
 
 were the dam and the 
 bulkhead. The mill 
 had been on tire twice 
 before. 
 
 Early Roads.— In 
 
 the town of Maratliou 
 aroad was cutthrougli 
 from the South about 
 1794 following tlie 
 river to a point south 
 of and diverging east 
 from the village, term- 
 inating at the salt 
 works at Salina. The 
 state road then ran 
 westerly along the 
 north lineof the town, 
 crossed the river at 
 State bridge and con- 
 tinued throxigh the 
 county. 
 
 Lakes, Area — Su- 
 perior, 3(i0 miles long ; 
 32,000 square nnles. 
 jj Y Barkal, 370 long; 17,- 
 
 750 sq. m. Michigan, 
 Great Slave, 300; 8,000. 
 8,500. Huron, 2i50; 21,000. Erie. 
 240; !l,(i00. Athabasca, 230; 4,f>00. Ontario, 100; 
 6,300. Nicaraugua, 110 ; 2,830. Maracaybo, 100 ; 
 7,500. Great Bear, 1.50; 14,000. Ladoga, 120; 
 6,804. Champlaiu, 126; 1,500. Lake of the 
 Woods, 85; 7,6.50. (rreat Salt Lake, HO; 2,2i)0. 
 Constance, 44 ; 200. Geneva, 53 ; 490. George, 
 36; 110. Cayuga, 38 ; 104. Utah, 24 ; 130. 
 
 Organization of Cortland Co. — Montgomery 
 county was formed from Albany, March 12, 1772; 
 Herkimer from Montgomery February, 1791; On- 
 ondaga from Herkimer March o, 1794; Cortland 
 from Onondaga April 8, 1808, which was named 
 in honor of General Pierre Van Cortlandt the 
 first Lieut. -Governor of the State of New York. 
 
 KILLoWOCi, 
 
 340 ; 22,400. 
 Winnipeg, 264 ; 
 
 RESIDENCE OF C. W. BLISS, KILLOWOG, N. V. 
 
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT "GRIP'S" HISTORICAL SOUVENIR OF MARATHON 
 
 OLDEST DENTAL OFFICE IN CORTLAND 
 
 --=7ffi) SPECIAL PRICES ©£»-' — — 
 
 ARTIFICIAL TEETH, S5 PER PLATE ARTIFICIAL TEETH WITH GOLD FILLINGS, Sio PER PLATE 
 
 ARTIFICIAL TEETH WITH GOLD TEETH, Si 5 PER PLATE 
 
 zz=iz:^^==^= TEETH FILLED WITHOUT PAIN 
 
 SMITHS DENTAL ROOMS, Wali^ce Building 
 
 v. li. ML'DGt, 
 
 Terms Reaioiiable. 
 
 WORK TAKEN ON CONTRACT FOR 
 
 CHIRCHES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND 
 . . . RESIDENCES. . . 
 
 ^ 
 
 Work Guaninteed, 
 
 Correspondence Solicited. 
 
 E. p. JOHNSON. 
 
 Marathon, N. 7'. 
 
 .TE¥: 
 
 THE BOSS INSURANCE MAN, 
 
 SXEVENSON, 
 
 Before the Fire Burnetii, 
 Before the Cyclone Bloweth, 
 Before thnu Slip and Fallcth, 
 Before the Death Bell Tollcth, 
 -INSURE WITH 
 
 OFFIC'K, 11'-2 ?^I AIN STREKT. 
 
 C\ JRTLAND, ISJ, Y. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS FOR_ 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 
 
 A FULL LINE OF CAMERAS AND 
 SUPPLIES ALWAYS ON HAND... 
 
 -PUMO CAMERAS A SPECIALTY^ 
 
 Call and be convinced. 
 
 Mv Prices are Right. 
 
 ARVINE C. JOHNSON. 
 
 — ="^M. H. ALLEN ^^^^^^^^ — 
 Horseslioeiia^' and Repairing 
 
 OPPOSITE INDEPENDENT OFFICE. 
 
 H. GUY PALMER 
 
 MARATHON, N. Y. 
 
 Scientific :. Optician 
 
 — ^ EX a:mi i^ a Tio^s frke: 
 
 LofC. 
 
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