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Welcome to
Oneida County, New York
History & Genealogy

Source:
1787
HISTORY
of
ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK
From 1700 to the Present Time

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by Henry J. Cookinham
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Illustrated
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VOLUME I
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Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1912

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. - The Indians - Iroquois - Oneidas

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CHAPTER II. - French-English-Indian War 21
CHAPTER III. - Revolutionary War 25
CHAPTER IV. - Organization and Geography 40
CHAPTER V. - Geology 42
CHAPTER VI. - Mineralogy 47
CHAPTER VII. - Botan 49
CHAPTER VIII. - Forestry 54
CHAPTER IX. - Animals, Birds - Fish 59
CHAPTER X. - Political History 1698-1812 70
CHAPTER XI. - 1813 - 1823 82
CHAPTER XII. - 1824 - 1839 87
CHAPTER XIII. - 1840 - 1859 104
CHAPTER XIV. - 1860 - 1869 118
CHAPTER XV. - 1870-1879 134
CHAPTER XVI. - 1880 - 1889 141
CHAPTER XVII. - 1890 - 1899 149
CHAPTER XVIII. - 1900 - 1912 156
CHAPTER XIX. - Public Officials and Statistics 167
CHAPTER XX. - Municipal Corporations and Statistics 208
CHAPTER XXI. - Courts, Bench and Bar 230
CHAPTER XXII. - Financial Institutions 273
CHAPTER XXIII. - Press and Publications 280
CHAPTER XXIV. - Religious Institutions 297
CHAPTER XXV. - Educational Institutions 354
CHAPTER XXVI. - Libraries 377
CHAPTER XXVII. - Medical Profession and Institutions 391
CHAPTER XXVIII. - Eleemosynary and Charitable Institutions 428
CHAPTER XXIX. - Reformatory and Penal Institutions 431
CHAPTER XXX. - Industries and Commerce 433
CHAPTER XXXI. - Transportation - Route of Travel 457
CHAPTER XXXII. - Fraternal Orders - Societies - Clubs 464
CHAPTER XXXIII. - Historic Places and Buildings 505
CHAPTER XXXIV. - Eminent Men and Women 513

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Aborigines of New York 4
Rome - Academy (old) 372
Rome - Academy (new) 372
Utica - Academy (old) 378
Utica - Academy (new) 344
Alden, Gustavus R. 298
Alden, G. R., Mrs. 546
Assumption Academy 344
Bacon, William J. 236
Bailey, Alexander H. 168
Bailey, E. Prentiss 292
Bagg, M. M., Dr. 400
Bagg's Hotel 510
Baptist Church, Rome 348
Barn of Colonel Sanger 300
Barneveld Library 380
Battle of Resaca, Georgia 526
Beach, Bloomfield J. 274
Beardsley, Samuel 244
Beecham, William, Rev. 304
Bentley, Henry W. 168
Bethune, George W., D.D. 334
Bill, Dr. Earl 396
Bissell, Daniel P., Dr. 392
Bleecker Street Baptist Church 312
Brant, Joseph (the Great Mohawk Chief) 14
Brigham, Amariah, Dr., 422
Brown, E. D. 542
Brown, Matthew, Jr., Dr. 391
Bussy, Mary, Mrs. 546
Butler, J. Milton 278
Butterfield, Daniel, Major General 526
Butterfield, John 458
Butterfield House 510
Campbell, Samuel 434
Forestport - Canal at 112
Carnahan, James 334
Caswell, H. A. 228
Rome - Central New York Institute for Deaf Mutes 96
Chamberlain, Ephraim 550
Utica - Chancellor Square 502
Childs, Silas D. 460
Christ Reformed Church 308
Utica - Church of the Redeemer 308
Church of Reconciliation 308
Churchill, Alonzo, Dr. 400
Rome - City Hall 108
Utica - City Hall 104
Utica - City Hospital 414
Rome - City Hospital 420
Clarke, H. S. N. 304
Cleveland, Grover 513
Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth 546
Coggeshall, Henry J. 236
Comstock, Calver 226
Comstock, Edward 226
Conkling, Roscoe 240
Conkling, Roscoe, Mrs. 556
Cookinham, Henry Jared 1
Corey, Daniel G. 304
Utica - County Clerk's Office (old) in 178
Rome - Court House (before it was rebuilt) 232
Rome - Court House (after it was rebuilt) 232
Utica - Court House (first) 212
Utica - Court House (second) 212
Utica - Court House (third or last) 216
Coventry, Alexander, Dr. 392
Coventry, Charles, Dr. 392
Coxe, Alfred C. 266
Daggett, Rufus, Gen. 126
Dauphin of France 12
Davis, John C. 236
De Angelis, Pascal C. J. 266
Delta Dam (the Great) 462
Denio, Hiram 244
Dering, N. H. 400
Devereux, John C. 552
Remsen - Didymous, Thomas Library 380
Doolittle, Charles H. 236
Douglass, I. H., Dr. 400
Elmer, O. E. 70
Boonville - Erwin Library 380
Ethridge, Alfred 274
Farwell, Samuel 460
Faxton, Theodore S. 460
Utica - Faxton Hospital 416
Utica - First Methodist Episcopal Church 308
Utica - First Moravian Church 312
Utica - First Presbyterian Church 308
New Hartford - First Presbyterian Church 297
Fisher, Samuel W. 304
Flandrau, t. M., Dr. 422
Floyd, William, Gen. 520
Ford, Willis E., Dr. 422
Fort Bull (site of) 24
Fort Schuyler 24
Utica - Fort Schuyler Club 500
Fort Stanwix (map of) 505
Fort Stanwix (site of ) 22
Foster, Henry A. 246
Foster, Henry A., Mrs. 556
Fowler, Philoman H. 304
Frazier, Robert, Dr. 408
Furbish, Edward B. 298
Ga-ka-ah, or skirt 18
Gansevoort, Colonel 28
Gaynor, William J. 516
Utica - Genesee Street 510
Gibson, William, D.D. 304
Gillette, Samuel 226
Glass, James H., Dr. 422
Golden, David V. W. 550
Utica - Grace Protestant Church 312
Gray, John P., Dr. 392
Gridley, Philo 266
Grindley, J. G., Gen. 126
Group of Ministers of the first church organized in Oneida County 298
Grove, Dewitt C. 292
Guiteau, Luther, Dr. 391
Guiteau, Luther, Jr., Dr. 400
Halleck, H. W., Major General 524
Hamilton Academy 358
Hamilton College, 1912 362
Herkimer, Nicholas, General 522
Historic Stone of the Oneida Nation or their altar 8
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 318
Home for Aged Men and Couples 96
Home for the Homeless (for women) 428
Homeopathic Hospital 416
New Hartford - Homestead of Gen. Collins 82
Hopper, Thomas 552
House of the Good Shepherd 428
Hunt, Montgomery 278
Hunt, Ward 246
Huntington, Edward 274
Huntington, Henry 278
Hutchinson, Edwin, Dr. 422
Iroquois Indian Young Man Da-ah-de-a in Costume 18
Iroquois Girl Ga-hah-no in Costume 18
Iroquois Indian House Ga-no-sote 18
Iroquois Ornamental work Gos-to-weh or Headdress 18
Jenkins, Timothy 168
Jervis, John B. 534
Rome - Jervis Library 380
Johnson, Alexander B. 552
Johnson, Alexander S. 244
Kellogg, Spencer 552
Kelly, Jane, Preceptress of Utica Female Academy 546
Kernan, Francis, U. S. Senator 250
Kernan, Francis, Mrs. 556
Kessinger, A. R. 228
Kimball, Charles C. 298
Kingsbury, Oliver A. 298
Kingsley, W. J. P. 228
Kirkland, Samuel, D.D. 354
Knox, William E., D.D. 304
Laird, Frank F., Dr. 422
Lawrence, Lewis 460
Lynch, Dominick 554
Lynch, Dominick, Mrs. 554
McCall, John, Dr. 392
McMillan, Andrew 370
McQuade, James, Brigadier General 126
Boonville - Making Charcoal 56
Map of Oneida County showing Land Grants 40
Matteson, Orsamus B. 168
Maynard, Isaac 460
Merwin, Milton H. 266
Middleton, Robert 550
Millar, Charles 550
Miller, Addison C. 552
Floyd, William, General - Monument of 520
Mohawk River at foot of Genesee Street near old Ford 144
Mohawk River at foot of Genesee Street as it now exists 144
Morse, Jonathan B. 542
Murphy, Aloysius, D.D. 304
New Century Club 500
Utica - New York Central Railroad Station, 156
New York State Hospital (approach) as it now appears 404
New York State Lunatic Asylum as Originally Built 404
Ninde, W. X., Bishop 334
Nock, Thomas G. 228
Odd Fellows Temple 428
Old Fashioned Surgical Instruments 396
Utica - Old Horse Car of 457
Olmstead, Charles T., Rt. Rev. 334
Rome - Oneida County Hospital 96
Oneida County Jail 431
Utica, Oneida Historical Building 506
Oriskany Monument on Day of Dedication 34
Oriskany Monument Tablets 74
Utica - Orphan Asylum 428
Payson, Elliot H. 298
Peabody, H. H., D.D. 304
Utica - Police Office 100
Pope, H. H., Dr. 400
Rome, Postoffice 108
Utica - Postoffice 136
Westernville - Presbyterian Church and Cemetery 530
Rome - Presbyterian Church 348
Prescott, Cyrus D. 168
Utica - Presidents and Mayors of 220
Conkling, Roscoe, Senator - Residence of 508
Floyd, William, General - Residence of 82
Kernan, Francis, Senator - Residence of 150
Root, Elihu, Senator - Residence of 82
Seymour, Horatio, Governor - Residence of 508
Sherman, James S., Vice President - Residence of 150
Steuben, Baron - Residence of 88
Fraser, Robert - Store 118
Roberts, Ellis H. 292
Rogers, P. V. 278
Rome Club 22
Rome in 1802 224
Root, Elihu 514
Utica - Rutger Street 502
Scripture, William E. 266
Scudder, Samuel O., Dr. 408
Seiboth, Joseph 542
Seymour, George, Dr. 392
Seymour, Horatio 260
Seymour, Horatio, Mrs. 556
Sherman, James S. 256
Sherman, James S., Mrs. 538
Sherman, Richard U. 292
Sicard, Montgomery - Rear Admiral 530
Skenandoah 8
Skinner, Adolphus, D.D. 334
Snowdon, E. H., Rev. 298
Rome - Soldier's Monument 130
Utica - Soldiers' Monument 130
Verona - Soldiers' Monument 130
Waterville - Soldier's Monument 130
Sprecher, Samuel P. 334
Spencer, Joshua A. 168
Spriggs, J. Thomas 168
Utica - St. Elizabeth's Hospital 412
Rome - State Custodial Asylum 96
Rome, State Custodial Asylum 428
State Masonic Home 96
Rome - Statue of Colonel Gansevoort in park at 30
Steuben, Baron 10
Steuben, Baron (monument) 88
Stevens, Edward L. 226
Stevens, James 226
Stevens, S. B. 226
Sutton, Harry, Dr. 420
Sutton, R. E., Dr. 408
Talcott, Charles A. 168
Taylor, James H. 334
Terry, M. O., Dr. 426
Thorn, John 460
Townsend, S. E. 228
Trenton Falls 44
Trenton Gorge 44
Utica - Trinity Church 312
Van Deusen, Edward M., D.D. 334
Walcott, William D. 434
Walker, Benjamin, Colonel 78
Walker, Edyth, Opera Singer 546
Waterville Library, interior view 380
Watson, W. H., Dr. 426
Wells, John B. 552
West, M. C., Dr. 420
Wetzel, Andrew, D.D. 334
Wheelock, Charles, General 126
White, A. S. 228
Wiley, George 550
Willett, Marinus - Lieut. Col. 28
Williams, Eleazer, Rev. 12
Williams, E. Stuart 226
Williams, Robert S. 278
Williams, Stalham 278
Wilson, Claude, Dr. 408
Wolcott, Samuel, Dr. 408
Wood, Thomas 502
Rome - Young Men's Christian Association Building 496
Utica - Young Men's Christian Association Building 496
Rome - Zion Episcopal Church 348

 

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

VOLUME II

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Ackler, Manuel 179
Adams, Frederick Blanchard 123
Agne, Jacob 215
Allan, Robert * 176
Allen, Chauncey Loomis 7
Anderson, George T. 157
Applegate, Octavius, Rev. 143
Armstrong, Wheeler 84
Auld, James Robert 180
Bailey, William * 210
Baker, Edwin Carlos 105
Baker, James Kraus * 66
Bayless, Frank Perrin, M.D. 51
Beach, Samuel H. 181
Becker, C. Edward 318
Becker, Daniel P. 190
Beebe, Henry Rumrill 116
Bogert, Peter * 218
Bosworth, Frank A. * 74
Bowes, Henry Lambert 42
Brayton, Merrill Jess 21
Breen, John Arthur 41
Brewer, James Edward 65
Brokaw, Ralph Watson, Rev. 159
Brower, Abram Giles 5
Brown, Jerome M. 153
Burke, Arthur Michael 152
Butcher, Charles M. 304
Butler, Israel * 118
Byam, Willis Winfield 95
Byington, Charles Abram * 102
Cagwin, Ward J. 100
Camden Library Assn. 99
Camelo, Nicholas 252
Candee, Kate L., Miss * 186
Canfield, Robert H. * 248
Capron, Winfield B., D.D.S. 214
Cardamone, Angelo & Sons 319
Carroll, Jeremiah H. * 254
Centolella, Joseph 130
Champion, John C. 135
Childs, Charles H. 307
Clarabut, George G. 43
Clark, Arthur Preston, M.D. 213
Clark, Wilbur S. 42
Coakley, Frank A. 14
Coakley, John J. 47
Comstock, Edward 91
Conant, Eugene Henry 259
Conant, George Freeman 109
Coombs, Morton Burget 175
Cooper, Apollos 200
Copeland, Morris C. 139
Corcoran, James Dominick 121
Coughlin, Edward M. 161
Cox, John 26
Cross, Theodore La Mont 158
Curran, George Langford 115
Curtiss, Byron A. 93
Daiker, George 149
Dana, George Silliman 78
De La Fleur, Frederick 306
De Long, Faust S., M.D. 194
Dean, Louis W. 55
Decker, Harry Mallery 114
Dellecese, Frank A. 136
Dorrance, Daniel G., Jr. 106
Dorrance, Daniel J. 239
Dorrance, John G. 238
Douglas, Fred J., M.D. 61
Dowling, William F. 71
Duckrow, Luke 296
Durrenbecck, William Ezra 200
Ethridge, Alfred 144
Evans, John Clark 172
Eynon, David Slade, M.D. 268
Fairbank, Roswell Lee 228
Findlay, Alexander, V.S. 72
Fitch, Lauren M. 15
French, William Morgan 173
Frisbie, George Albert * 8
Gayde, Earle Appleton, M.D. 39
Gaynor, Keiron K. * 320
George, Rich A. 86
Goodier, Wadsworth L. 284
Gouge, Frederick Hamilton 257
Graham, Edmund A. 201
Graham, George H. 117
Graham, Joseph Emerson 182
Graves, Hudson S. 129
Gray, William C. 209
Green, Walter Jerome * 232
Griffith, Abram, Senior 40
Gubbins, James P. 114
Guernsey, James J. 195
Hackett, Charles W. * 30
Hamlin, Varney Bernard, M.D. 229
Harris, Albert Stanley 303
Harrison, Dean Samuel, M.D. 86
Hart, Merwin K., Hon. 299
Harter, Richard * 240
Haselton, Jonathan Sawyer * 58
Hayes, Cory David 270
Hayes, E. N. 145
Hazard, Frederick H., Hon. 207
Hendrick, George F. 269
Hesse, Albert Otto 48
Hollingworth, Walter George, D. V. S. 13
Hopple, Frank J. 131
Howarth, John W. * 110
Howe, Denis Francis 123
Hubbard, George M. * 168
Hughes, John F. * 300
Huntington, Edward * 278
Ireland, George 191
Jewett, James Grove 285
Johns, Miles Wendell, M.D. 63
Jones, Herbert Gordon, M.D. 94
Jordan, Edward Peter 125
Jordan, Edward Peter 127
Kelsey, Adeline D. H., M.D. 56
Kendrick, Francis Martin 107
Kernan, William 230
King, Harold Mason 174
Kingsley, Willey J. P., M.D. * 44
Kinne, Linn 245
Klages, Herman August 50
Law, John Merix 204
Leahy, James Francis * 36
Lee, Adrian * 146
Lehr, Gilbert N., M.D. 27
Lindsley, Smith M. * 22
Lowery, Joseph Stuart, Colonel * 272
Lynch, James S. M., Right Rev. 222
Marks, Thomas William 216
Matt, Frank X. 87
McLean, John M. 160
McNamara, Thomas J. 79
Mercurio, Antonio 244
Mercurio, Blase 108
Merwin, Milton H. 166
Morris, William Seymour, M.D. 85
Mott, Otis Webster 56
Munson, Edmund G. 271
Nichols, Charles W., M.D. 92
O'Donnell, Edward L. 100
Ogden, Frank C. 231
Owens, T. James, M.D. * 124
Paddock, Ellsworth Elmer 69
Palmer, Harold Lucien, M.D. 83
Palmer, Henry C., M.D. * 140
Payne, Fred Elton 193
Pellettieri, Salvatore 128
Perretta, Rocco 137
Perry, Josiah 246
Porter, Joseph 261
Powers, Michael H. 138
Preston, H. Frank, M.D. 208
Quinn, William Vincent, M.D. 113
Rathbun, Charles 243
Rayhill, John Wayland, M.D. 105
Reid, Robert Henry 13
Reusswig, Fred G. 28
Rice, J. B. * 96
Roberts, Elihu Frank 101
Roberts, James 283
Ross, John McCombs 227
Rowland, Eugene Andrews, Hon. * 16
Rushmer, Herbert D. 307
Russo, Vincent 247
Sanborn, George Wells 27
Sayre, Charles H. (See Note below) 323
Schantz, Samuel E., M.D. * 204
Scharff, Louis Julius 48
Scheehl, Walter H., M.D. 316
Scothon, Charles A. G. 223
Seavey, William E. 258
Sheldon, Artemus Barnard 11
Shelley, Frederick Morris 57
Siemers, John Henry 35
Smith, Albert H., M.D. 216
Smith, Charles Edward, M.D. 228
Snyder, Daniel G. 192
Somers, James T. 165
Spaulding, Phil S. 175
Stewart, Victor Bill * 88
Stone, Benjamin Hosley 237
Stone, Walter Chester 276
Stryker, Thomas Hubbard 251
Sullivan, Daniel J. 315
Sweet, W. H. Seward 298
Teller, Howard J., M.D. 49
Terry, Israel Newton, Rev., D.D. * 153
Tharratt, Brinckerhoff C. ** 308
Thomas', Philip Sons * 196
Thorn, James Edward Bennett * 132
Vedder, Nicholas Francis * 52
Walker, George 73
Walling, Alonzo B. ** 262
Watson, William Henry * 286
Watson, William Livingston * 295
Watters, Francis A. 62
Weaver, Van Rensselaer * 80
Westcott, Addison Harvey 64
Westcott, Frank D. 12
Wetmore, William E., M.D. 184
Whaley, James Higgins, M.D. 34
Wheeler, Thomas, Hon. 183
Whiffen, B. Allen * 162
White, Henry Draper, M.D. 70
White, Moses Taft 221
Wiley, William James 297
Willson, Merritt N. 137
Wingenbach, Julius Frederick, M.D. 29
Wolcott, Samuel Gardner, M.D. * 224
Woodland, George 151

NOTE:
Charles H. Sayre's biography has been X'd out by pencil or pen for some unknown reason.
 

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