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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CAMPBELL. 



This church was first organized as a branch of the Savona 

 Baptist Church, 1870, in the old school-house of district 

 No. 2. The following 14 persons constituted the original 

 membership : Daniel Clark, Samuel Strait, Mulford Wallino-, 

 Joanna Walling, Mary A. Clark, M. B. Horton, Evelyn 

 Morse, Boraldus D. Fisk, Benjamin Abel, Emmons Abel, 

 Octavia Abel, Fanny Abel, and Harrison Abel. 



Rev. J. C, Mallory was pastor of the church at Savona, 

 under whose ministry the organization was effected. It 

 remained in connection with the Savona Church till 1873. 

 Simon Bixby, George K. Bennett, and Josiah T. Burrows 

 were the first trustees ; Boraldus D. Fisk, Emmons W. 

 Abel, and Samuel Strait, first deacons. Mr. Strait has 

 served as deacon continously ever since ; Mr. Abel, after 

 serving several years, resigned, and Simon Bixby was chosen 

 in his place. 



In 1873 a lot was purchased and the present neat church 

 edifice erected. Rev. Dr. Clark, of New York, preached 

 the dedicatory sermon. Rev. E. F. Hard, licentiate of the 

 Bath Baptist Church, officiated as pastor about a year and a 

 half, and was succeeded by Rev. E. T. Mallory, the present 

 pastor. The present membership is 51. 



VILLAGE OF CAMPBELL. 



This village, which is the chief place of business for the 

 town, lies on the Conhocton River, and on the Corning and 

 Rochester branch of the Erie Railroad. It contains three 

 general stores, four churches, three boot- and shoe-shops, 

 one tannery, one saw- and grist-mill, one planing-mill, one 

 wagon- and carriage-shop, three blacksmith-shops, one 

 harness-shop, one hardware-store and tin-shop, one post- 

 office, two millinery-stores, one meat-market, one jeweler- 

 shop, three physicians, and two clergymen. It has an ex- 

 cellent graded school, and some very fine residences, among 

 which may be mentioned those of John Runner, L. W. 

 Stevens, L. Sutherland, John D. Hamilton, C. H. Bemis, 

 and Col. J. S. McKay. 



UNION FREE SCHOOL, DISTRICT NO. 2, 



in the village of Campbell, is graded as primary, interme- 

 diate, junior, and senior departments. T. F. Fangburn, 

 Principal; Miss Kate Bockus, Junior; Miss H. Augusta 

 Hubbs, Intermediate ; Miss A. R. Hubbard, Primary. 



The number of children of school age in the district is 

 260 ; attendance, 175. The house is a two-story frame 

 building, surmounted by a cupola which contains a bell. 



The building is sixty feet square, with a rear extension, 

 and the property valued at $4500. Trustees, C. H. Bemis 

 (President), A. B. White (Secretary), J. D. Hamilton. 



Campbelltown Mills, Bemis & McKay, proprietors 

 (C. H. Bemis and James S. McKay).— These mills stand 

 on the Conhocton River, on the site of the former mills of 

 the proprietors, which were erected in 1865, and burned 

 June 20, 1875. The new mills were built by the firm in 

 1876-77. They are merchant and custom flouring-mills ; 

 three run of stones, with a capacity of about 300 bushels of 

 grain per day. 



Mr. Bemis is a native of Massachusetts, and came to 

 the town in 1851. He has ever since been enga^-ed in 



lumbering and milling. Col. McKay came to this country, 

 when a young man, from Ireland. He has resided in the 

 county of Steuben since 1836, and came to this town from 

 Corning in 1866. 



The Bemis Steam Saw-Mill was built by Charles H. 

 and J. M. Bemis in 1861. It has a capacity of 10,000 

 feet of lumber per day. The logs are chiefly hemlock, and 

 brought down the river. The partnership between Charles 

 H. and J. M. Bemis was several years ago dissolved, and 

 the latter, now residing in the city of Buffalo, owns and 

 operates the mill. 



Tannery of J. D. Hamilton & Co. — Manufacturers 

 of hemlock sole-leather. The yearly capacity of this estab- 

 lishment is 36,000 sides. The buildino; was erected in 

 1857. Since then 670,000 sides have been tanned, valued 

 at $3,000,000. The company use 4000 cords of bark per 

 year, and employ 25 men. They have another tannery of 

 nearly twice this capacity at Emporium, Pa., established rn 

 1866. 



Mr. Hamilton is a native of Tompkins County, and came 

 to this place with his parents in 1836. His father, Corne- 

 Hus Hamilton, carried on shoemaking till his death, in 

 1850, to which occupation his son was brought up, and 

 naturally became familiar with the leather business in which 

 he has now so large an interest. 



CURTIS. 

 Curtis is a post-office and station on the railroad, about 

 two miles east of the village of Campbell. About 1835, 

 Col. Balcom, fiither of Eri Balcom, built a saw-mill on the 

 Conhocton at this point. The site is occupied by the 

 present mill of Daniel B. Curtis, which was built by his 

 uncle, Daniel Curtis, about 1850. A post-office was estab- 

 lished here in 1875; Orr Smith, postmaster. District No. 

 3, at this place, employs two teachers, and there is a tan- 

 nery owned by Allen Bros., of Rochester, which employs 

 15 hands. 



MILITARY RECORD OF CAMPBELL. 



John Forest Koox, 2d lieut., Co. F, I07th N. Y. Inf.; enl. Aug. 5, 1862; pro. to 



1st lieut. and to capt. ; wounded at Dallas, Ga., May 25 ; died May 29, '64. 

 John M. Clawson, Co. F, 107th N. Y. Inf.; enl. Aug. 6, 1862; pro. to corp., to 



sergt., to 1st sergt., and to 2d lieut., June 8, 1864 ; disch. June 8, 1865. 

 John Eccles, 1st sergt., Co. E, 141st Inf. ; enl. Aug. 21, 1862 ; pro. to lieut. ; disch. 



June 15,1865. 

 John R. Austin, 141st N. Y. Inf.; enl. Aug. 8, 1862; died May 22, 1864. 

 sterling Austin, 15tli N. Y. Regt. ; enl. Aug. 31, 1864; disch. June 15, 1865. 

 Monroe Ames, 161st Inf. ; enl. Aug. 22, 1862 ; taken prisoner. 

 Thomas Rl.yth. 

 Wm. 0. Bowers, Co. F, 107th Inf. ; enl. Aug. 7, 1862; pro. to corp. ; disch. July 



7, 1865. 

 Charles E. Buck. 



Amos C. Barrett, 86th Inf.; enl. Aug. 12, 1862; disch. July 5, 1865. 

 George A. Bemis, Co. F, 107tli Inf : enl. Aug. 6, 1862 ; pro. to sergt. ; disch. June 



8, 1865. 

 Edward Brown, 188th Inf.; enl. Aug. 15, 1864; died Dec. 18, 1864. 

 Isaac F. Bullard, Co. E, 141st Inf.; enl. Aug. 14, 1862; disch. June 8, 1865. 

 S. C. Bassett, 142d Inf. ; enl. Sept. 7, 1864; disch. June 19, 1865. 

 .John M. Blackman, corp., Co. I, 86th Inf.; enl. Oct. 1, 1861; killed July 2, 1862. 

 Andrew Blackman, 86th Inf. ; enl. Oct. 16, 1861 ; disch. Nov. 17, 1864. 

 Jacob Baf'sel. 



Rolbert T. Bonham, Co. F, 107th Inf ; enl. Aug. 5, 1862 ; wounded May 3, 1863. 

 V. Benedict. 

 Loran Barnes, 34th Inf. ; enl. May 10, 1861 ; died from wounds received July 



24, 1862. 

 Samuel J. Cornell, Co. F, 107th Inf.; enl. Aug. 6, 1862; disch. July 30, 1865. 

 F. Devillo Cooper, Co. B, 107th Inf. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864 ; wounded May 25, 1864. 

 Harris Devolso Cooper, Co. B, 107th Inf. ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864 ; died July 7, 1864. 

 William R. Christler, 107th Inf.; enl. Aug. 9, 1862 ; wounded, and died March 



16,1865. 

 Helmus Christler, 107th Inf. ; enl. Aug. 8, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 9, 1865. 



