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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 





Supervisors. 



Town Clerks. 



Collectors. 



1838. 



William Stewart. 



Aden J. 



Pratt. 



Selah Hammond. 



1839. 



a a 



a 





ii ii 



1840. 



S, A. Campbell. 



ii 





ii ii 



1841. 



li ii 



it 





Miner Campbell. 



1842, 



a a 



a 





ii ii 



1843. 



William Stewart. 



a 





a ii 



1844, 



ii a 



John P. 



Knox. 



ii ii 



1845. 



Willis McNeil. 



<( 



a 



Charles T. Horton. 



1846, 



iC il 



Walter Tousey. 



E. S. Millard. 



1847. 



J, p. Knox, 



ii 



ii 



Elijah Dawley. 



1848. 



ti a 



Aden J. 



Pratt. 



Charles T. Horton. 



1849, 



S. A. Campbell, 



ii 





Henry Van Curen. 



1850. 



Joibn P, Knox. 



ii 





a a 



1851, 



Willis McNeil, 



ii 





Orville Sharp. 



1852, 



ii a 



a 





Joseph Hammond. 



1853, 



Joseph Hammond. 



it 





Z. W. Woodward. 



1854, 



S, J, Teeple, 



ii 





Joseph S. Pratt. 



1855. 



Alson Pierce. 



ii 





S. M. Quimby. 



1856. 



Daniel Curtis. 



it 





Sidney Thornton. 



1857. 



Samuel Balcom. 



a 





Edward S. Millard. 



1858, 



ii a 



ii 





A. J. Pratt. 



1859, 



ii ii 



a 





S. N. Everett. 



1860, 



ii ii 



ii 





A. J. Pratt. 



1861. 



Geo. W. Campbell. 



ii 





Saml. H. Thompson 



1862, 



a ii 



ii 





Z. W. Woodward. 



1863, 



a a 



a 





i( ii 



1864. 



a a 



a 





Robert B. Dawson. 



1865. 



ii ii 



ii 





Philo Campbell. 



1866. 



Charles Cass. 



Charles 



T. Horton. 



Byron Pierce. 



1867. 



. U ii 



ii 





Ralph Stevens. 



1868. 



ii ii 



a 





a a 



1869. 



ii ii 



ii 





a ii 



1870. 



Charles H. Bemis. 



ii 





Josiah T. Burrows. 



1871. 



ii ii 



a 





Isaac T. Bullard. 



1872. 



a ii 



Ralph Stevens. 



Josiah T. Burrows. 



1873. 



E. J. Armstrong. 



Jacob Clawson. 



John Wilcox. 



1874. 



ii ii 



Solomon A. Coss. 



J. T. Quimby. 



1875. 



G. R. Sutherland. 



Jacob Clawson. 



J. T. Burrows. 



1876. 



ii ii 



ii 



(( 



N. S. Jaynes. 



1877. 



a il 



ii 



a 



ii ii 



1878. 



Elias A. Overhiser. 



a 



ii 



Jerome T. Quimbv. 



JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 



1832. 



Parley Seamans. 



1854. 



John Tomer. 





Alvin Corbin. 



1855. 



J. S. Drew. 



1833. 



Selah Hammond. 





Daniel S. Whittenhall 



1835. 



Plyna Cobb. 



1856. 



Joseph Hammond. 





Daniel Clark. 





Miner C. Nute. 



1836. 



Seth Hammond. 



1857. 



John P. Knox. 



1837. 



Daniel Horton. 



1858. 



Charles Cass. 





William Stewart. 





Joreah Devendorf. 



1838. 



Plyna Cobb. 



1859. 



Miner C. Nute. 



1839. 



Daniel Clark. 





John Tomer. 



1840. 



Ebenezer Leavenworth. 



1860. 



Henry J, Wagner. 



1841. 



Miner C. Nute. 



1861. 



Charles T. Horton. 



1842. 



Alson Pierce. 



1862. 



John Tomer. 



1843. 



Daniel Clark. 



1863. 



Orr Smith. 





Seth Hammond. 



1864. 



Henry J. Wagner. 



1844. 



E. Leavenworth. 



1865. 



Charles T. Horton. 



1845. 



Miner C. Nute. 



1866. 



John Tomer. 



1846. 



Seth Hammond. 



1867. 



Orr Smith. 



1847. 



Orrin B. Chapin. 



1868. 



Zatter W. Woodward. 



1848. 



David Curtis. 



1869. 



Charles T. Horton. 



1849. 



Henry L. Griffith. 



1870. 



John Tomer. 





Plyna Cobb. 



1871. 



Orr Smith. 



1850. 



Vincent M. Shoemaker. 



1872. 



Zatter W. Woodward. 



1851. 



Orrin B. Chapin. 



1873. 



Charles Cass. 





Seth Hammond. 



1874. 



Charles T. Horton. 



1852. 



Orlando Comstock. 



1875. 



Orr Smith. 



1853. 



E. S. Millard. 



1876. 



Harmon Stevens. 





J. D. Hamilton. 



1877. 



Charles Cass. 



1854. 



Plyna Cobb. 



1878. 



Charles T. Horton. 



EARLY POPULATION OF CAMPBELL. 



Rev. S. M. Campbell, D.D., of Rochester, who was born 

 and spent his early life in this town, preached the dedication 

 sermon of the new Presbyterian church, Feb. 4, 1868. In 

 the course of his preliminary remarks he spoke as follows, 

 in regard to the early population of this town and vicinity : 



" When the more permanent population of this place 

 began to settle here, it embraced several valuable families ; 

 but, as often occurs, it was divided into several Christian 

 denominations. One of the families, that of Zalmon 

 Tousey, quite marked among the surrounding population 

 for literary taste and intellectual culture, preferred the Epis- 

 copal mode of worship ; at a later day another household of 

 the same preference and peculiarities also appeared, that of 

 David Curtis, Esq. In the lower part of the town dwelt 

 another influential family, that of Robert Bonham, em- 

 bracing several very energetic women, whose sympathies 

 were with the Methodists ; and they too were soon strength- 

 ened by a second household, that of Samuel Cook, who 

 pitched their tent hard by, and who were of like religious 

 feeling. Coming farther up the valley, we encountered 

 still another household, that of Daniel Clark, the head of 

 which, time out of mind, held the very lucrative office of 

 justice of the peace among us, where the principles of the 

 Baptists prevailed ; and this household, too, had its mate a 

 little farther still up the valley, where another justice of 

 the peace, Daniel Horton, held his court, who was also a 

 Baptist. In our Methodist families the denominational 

 preferences were mostly seen among the women ; in our 

 Baptist families it was much the stronger with the men. 



'' It will be seen, singularly enough, that thus far the 

 denominational households came among us, as the living 

 creatures went into Noah's ark, just two of a sort, and in 

 a general sense the same statement will be found true as 

 we turn to the Presbyterians. One of our Presbyterian 

 households was more a tribe than a family, but the two 

 names Stevens and Campbell, in some of their out-branch- 

 ing relations, for a time embraced them all. 



" Such was the material out of which to build a church. 

 It seems unpromising, perhaps, broken into so many frag- 

 ments, but the hearts of the people were far better united 

 than might be supposed. If they were unlike in denomi- 

 national preferences in another thing they were agreed, — 

 a willingness to forego such preferences for a common good. 

 If there was a Baptist meeting in those early days, all went 

 in ; if a Methodist, it was the same ; and in some respects 

 the people of God here were at the time like those of a 

 still more primitive period, when ' the whole multitude of 

 them that believed were of one heart and one soul, neither 

 said any among them that aught of the things which he 

 possessed was his own, but they had all things common.' 



'' Suffer a word also here upon the early industrial pur- 

 suits of the town. Work is an educator, and the kind of 

 work which men follow sometimes has great influence on 

 the characters they form. In this place, besides the usual 

 business of a new country, there were great inducements to 

 engage in the manufacture and sale of lumber. 



" All over these hills, and up and down this valley, God 

 had planted great forests of pine, and directly past our 

 doors He had made a stream to flow, swift enough to turn 



