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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



in the southeast, where is also a post-office ; at Haskinville, 

 on the farm of John M. Kelly, near Stephens' Mill, and 

 in the southwest part of the town, on Harding Hill. 

 There are two Grange organizations in the town, and one 



Odd-Fellows' society. The main business of the town 

 centres at Fremont Centre. Elisha G. Stephens, w^ho re- 

 sides here, has been a leader in public affairs of the town 

 since its formation, and for twenty-four years has been a 

 magistrate. He and Morrison Harding were prominent in 



support of the government and furnishing volunteers during 

 the war of the Rebellion. 



Among the leading men of the town are William E. 



Rathbun, J. Jolly, L. H. Benjamin, Daniel Wainright, 

 D. M. Page, L. N. Rider, and William B. Stephens. 



FREMONT CENTRE. 



Fremont Centre contains one store, the Methodist Epis- 

 copal and Advent church, a hotel, shoe-, blacksmith-, and 

 wagon-shops, cheese-factory, flouring-mill, and thirty-five 

 residences. 



Mails are received Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 

 by stage from Wallace Station, in Avoca, and by stage 

 from South Dansville to Hornellsville, and return Wed- 

 nesdays and Thursdays. 



ORGANIZATION. 



At the first annual town-meeting of the town of Fremont, 

 held in E. G. Stephens' hotel, at Fremont Centre, Feb. 13, 

 1855, the following officers were elected : Elisha G. Steph- 

 ens, Supervisor; Franklin Dartt, Town Clerk ;. Jason Ranger, 

 Salmon Gates, Ebenezer H. Mason,* Justices of the Peace; 

 Randal F. Beecher, Isaac P. Haskin, and Morrison Hard- 

 ing,! Assessors ; Hiram Culver, Norman Eldredge, William 

 Haskin,J Commissioners of Highways; James R. Babcock, 

 Collector; Cornelius Conderman, Overseer of the Poor; 

 Derick Goes, Joshua W. Palmer, Caleb Bullock, Inspectors 

 of Election ; John Eldredge, Henry J. Pawling, George 

 Bartholomew, Thomas McAdams, Constables; J. S. M. B. 

 Green, Town Sealer. George Collins, Jr., was appointed 

 Commissioner of Schools, March 6, 1855. 



LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS. 





Supervisors. 



Town Clerks. 



Collectors. 



1855. 



Elisha G. Stephens. 



Franklin Dartt. 



James R. Babcock. 



1856. 



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a a 



a a 



1857. 



Lorenzo N. Rider. 



Wm. B. Stephens. 



Henry J. Pawling. 



1858. 



a a 



Franklin Dartt. 



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1859. 



a a 



Wm. B. Stephens. 



John B. Cummins. 



1860. 



Jason Ranger. 



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Stephen B. Haskin. 



1861. 



a a 



Samuel B. Hendee. 



John Sternburgh. 



1862. 



Othniel Preston. 



Daniel Wainright. 



Almond T. Allis. 



1863. 



a a 



ii (I 



Henry Pickle. 



1864. 



Samuel E. Haskin. 



Samuel B. Hendee. 



Syphoras Gates. 



1865. 



Wm. B. Stephens. 



Daniel Wainright. 



Milo Canfield. 



1866. 



a a 



Dwight ManAvaring 



. Orrin L. Rider. 



1867. 



W. B. Rathbun. 



W. A. Chapman. 



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1868. 



Wm. B. Stephens. 



Calvin Bullock. 



Alpheus Harding. 



1869. 



Esek Page. 



Orrin L. Rider. 



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1870. 



a a 



Daniel Wainright. 



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':• Elected in Howard. 

 f Elected in Hornellsville. 



X L. M. Rider, elected in Howard, also held over the balance of his 

 term one year. 



Supervisors. 



1871. Esek Page. 



1872. " " 



1873. Ira Carrington. 



1874. '' " 



1875. D. Merville Page. 



1876. Calvin Bullock. 



1877. L. H. Benjamin. 



1878. " " 



Town Clerks. 

 Daniel Wainright. 



a a 



Albert Goodno. 



Collectors. 

 Nathan Razey. 

 Orrin L. Rider. 

 J. R. Conderman. 



Meldon J. Harding. 



Daniel Wainright. Cameron Cotton. 



1855. 



1856. 

 1857. 

 1858. 

 1859. 

 1860. 

 1861. 

 1862. 



1863. 

 1864. 



1865. 



JUSTICES 



Jason Ranger. 

 Salmon Gates. 

 Ebenezer H. Mason. 

 L. M. Rider. 



E. H. Mason. 

 George Collins, Jr. 

 John Cole. 



William B. Rathbun. 

 Charles Bullock. 

 Esek Page. 



Elisha G. Stephens. 

 Hiram Culver. 

 Joseph J. Burnhara. 

 James Timmerman. 



F. G. Allis. 

 Esek Page. 

 Finley McColum. 



OF THE PEACE. 



1865. P. S. Burdett. 



1866. Elisha G. Stephens. 



1867. Martin E. Hamlin. 



1868. Paul S. Burdett. 

 Harrison Russell. 



1869. George Collins. 



1870. Elisha G. Stephens. 



1871. Tcherick P. Vankeuren. 



1872. Paul S. Burdett. 



1873. George Collins. 



1874. Elisha G. Stephens. 



1875. Byron C. Hurlbut. 

 Harrison Russell. 



1876. Tcherick P. Vankeuren. 



1877. James S. Brownson. 



1878. Elisha G. Stephens. 



CHURCHES. 

 METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



The first meetings of this society were held by Rev. 

 David Dunham, in Byron Harlow's house, in 1828, and in 

 the Harlow school-house on Big Creek, in 1830, by Revs. 

 John Arnold and Levi B. Castle. In 1831, Rev. Cyrus 

 Story formed the first class. Ambrose, David, and John 

 Dunham, and their wives, Byron Harlow and wife, Zilum 

 Pratt and wife, Dexter Pratt and wife, John Mason and 

 wife were first members. The first class-leader was David 

 Dunham ; first steward. Dexter 'Pratt. The pastors have 

 been Revs. Cyrus Story, John Shaw, and Andrew B. Pickard, 

 E. Dowd ; 1864-65, M. Fillmore, Asa Story, Robert Packer, 



Israel Kellogg, and Cage, Ira Bronson, Nelson Hoag, 



Samuel P. Gurnesey, M. D. Jackson, C. G. Lowell, J. J. 

 Turten, Daniel D. Van Allen, Eliza F. Bliven, A. S. Baker, 

 John H. Perry, Delos Potter, L. R. Crippin, Geo. F. Cole; 

 1876, E. Batchelder; 1877, Aaron Sornberger; 1878-79, 

 John Irons. 



The Methodist Episcopal Church of the town is com- 

 prised in three separate classes, located on Big Creek, in the 

 southeast, on Briar Hill, in the west, and at Fremont 

 Centre. 



WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH. 



The first meetings were held by Rev. Stephen D. Trembley, 

 who organized a class in the Gulf school-house, in the south- 

 east part of the town, in 1831. Jacob Winnie and wife, 

 Jesse Bartholomew and wife, and John Pauling and wife 

 were among the first members. The Haskinville circuit 

 was formed in 1855, by Rev. S. D. Trembley. A church 

 was built by J. W. Farden, Geo. H. Sprague, and Isaac R. 

 Rathbun, trustees, at an expense of $1000, and dedicated 

 Dec. 23, 1876, by Rev. L. N. Stratton. List of pastors: 

 1855, S. D. Trembley ; 1858, C. C. Reynolds ; 1860, G. W. 

 Scudder; 1861, M. Q. McFarland ; 1862, G. L. Payne; 

 1867, P. S. Stratton ; 1868, Henry W.Bixby; 1873, John 



