TOWN OF HARTSVILLE. 



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well-sweep beside some roadside well. The valley holds 

 a continuous width of a quarter of a mile, and opens above 

 the village into a beautiful little flat at the mouth of 

 Donaldson Creek. Ascending Purdy Creek nearly south- 

 west the hills gradually disappear, until the level of that 

 stream is reached near the south line of the town. A road 

 to the east ascends Call Hill, so named from Othniel Call, 

 the first settler in this part of the town, who came from 

 Tompkins County in 1828, and located at the crossing of 

 the old road between Greenwood and Purdy Creek. His 

 brothers-in-law, Micab and Francis Kennedy, came the next 

 year, and located west of Call. Aaron Y., son of Micab 

 Kennedy, occupies the old farm, and both the Kennedy 

 brothers are still living. Joseph Alma and David Alger 

 came next, and settled east, near where Mr. Alma still lives. 

 This ridge contains some fine rolling farms, and is generally 

 well settled. 



South of this hill, on Slate Creek, — a stream running east 

 half across the town, — Thomas Stout settled in 1832, on 

 an abandoned chopping made in 1829. The settlement on 

 this creek was first induced by lumbering. Two mills are 

 still running on that stream a portion of the year. Daniel 

 M. Stephens was an early settler on this stream. 



There are six saw-mills in the town, — three on Purdy 

 Creek, two on Slate Creek, and one on Fall Brook. A 

 mile above Hartsville Centre is a cheese-factory, feed-mill, 

 and shingle-mill. There are post-ofiices and trading-points 

 near each side of the town, which absorb much of its 

 products ; this town also furnishes the main support of two 

 cheese-factories in adjoining towns. 



HARTSVILLE CENTRE. 



This, the principal settlement and business centre, com- 

 prises some forty residences, scattered along the valley of 

 Purdy Creek, near the centre of the town. Two saw-mills, 

 two stores, a fine new Methodist Episcopal church and parson- 

 age, school-house, and the usual trades comprise the balance 

 of the improvements. Most of the buildings are old, among 

 which are scattered later and more modern ones, the finest 

 of which are the Methodist Episcopal parsonage and the 

 residence of R. F. Allison, one of the leading business men 

 of the town. The lumbering of the two mills is confined 

 to the few straggling hemlocks, oaks, and scrubby pines 

 left as worthless by the lumbermen of thirty years ago. 

 Mail is received daily from Canisteo by private conveyances 

 according to opportunity, there being no contract for its 

 regular carriage. 



ORGANIZATION. 



The town of Hartsville was formed from the southern 

 part of Hornellsville, comprised in township No. 3, on 

 Feb. 7, 1844, and named Hartsville, in honor of Charles N. 

 Hart, one of the leading men of the town. A town-meet- 

 ing was called at the house of Erastus S. Beard, on the 

 first Tuesday in March of that year, and ihe poll opened 

 by Christopher C. Purdy, Sidney Frisby, and Calvin Withy. 

 The ofiicers there elected were Charles N. Hart, Supervisor ; 

 Erastus S. Beard, Town Clerk ; James Beard, Jonathan Pet- 

 tibone, Elizur Sage, Assessors ; Silas Palminter, Jonathan B. 

 Purdy, Reuben W. Millard, Henry Acker, Justices of the 

 Peace ; Israel Adams, Edmond Cook, Levi C. Henry, Com- 



missioners of Highways ; David S. Whiting, Russell Ami- 

 don, Overseers of the Poor ; Silas Palminter, Superintendent 

 of Schools ; John Van Buskirk, Collector ; Robert Hemp- 

 hill, Calvin Withey, Inspectors of Election ; Samuel H. 

 Burdick, Barney Hinckley, Chester F. Whiting, Con- 

 stables ; Casper Buskirk, Sealer of Weights and Measures ; 

 William Allison, David S. Whiting, Uriah F. Stephens, 

 Oliver Pettibone, Nathan Nefi^, Peter Hinckley, Elisha 

 Potter, David Call, Reuben U. Millard, Burton H. Saun- 

 ders, Ebenezer Martin, Benjamin Hall, Silas Tolls, David 

 Alger, John Holt, and Shubad S. Fenton were elected 

 Pathmasters. 



LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS. 



1844. 

 1845. 

 1846. 

 1847. 

 1848. 

 1849. 



1850. 

 1851. 

 1852. 

 1853. 

 1854. 

 1855. 

 1856. 

 1857. 

 1858. 

 1859. 

 1860. 

 1861. 

 1862. 

 1863. 

 1864. 



1865. 

 1866. 

 1867. 

 1868. 

 1869. 

 1870. 

 1871. 

 1872. 

 1873. 

 1874. 

 1875. 

 1876. 

 1877. 

 1878. 



1844. 



1845. 



1846. 

 1847. 

 1848. 

 1849. 

 1850. 

 1851. 

 1852. 

 1853. 

 1854. 



1855. 



Supervisors. 

 Charles N. Hart. 



(( 



it 



Town Clerks. 



Erastus P. Beard. 



Sidney Frisbey. 



ii (I 



Richard F. Allison. 

 Michael A. Howell. 



Joseph Henry. 

 Sidney Frisbey. 



F. H. Reynolds. 

 Jonas Goodno. 

 Jacob H. Stryker 



James Beard. 

 Edmund Cook. 



Erastus Beard. 



Francis Kennedy .^^^ 



u a 



James Beard. 



Edmund Cook. 

 James Beard. 

 C. C. Purdy. 

 James M. Cook. 



Shepherd Amidon. 



Richard F. Allison. Sidney Frisbey. 



U i( ii ii 



ii ii ii ii 



ii ii 



ii ii 



ii ii 



Silas Palmer. 

 Richard F. Allison. 



Lyman A. Cook. 



a a 



R. F. Allison. 



a ii 



James A. Almey. 



Joseph Vickers. 



ii a 



James B. Hendee. 



ii a 



Langford Whitford. 



A. A. McGraw. 

 Dennis McGraw. 

 Deforest Crane. 

 Dennis McGraw. 

 Jacob H. Stryker. 

 Henry L. Farnham. 



Joseph Vickers. 



ii a 



J. H. Stryker. 



a a 



Albert Amidon. 



a ii 



Jacob H. Stryker. 



a a 



Jonas Goodno. 

 George R. Corbett. 



Collectors. 

 John Van Buskirk. 

 Barney Hinckley. 



a ii 



Kingsley Amidon. 

 Barney Hinckley. 

 James W. Corbitt. 



Samuel Woolever. 

 Aaron V. Kennedy. 

 James Moore. 



a a 



ii ii 



a ii 



John A. Farnham. 



James M. Henry. 



ii ii 



Micah Kennedy. 



ii a 



Allen C. Henry. 



a a 



Tisdale A. Puffer. 



a a 



William Hamilton. 



ii a 



Samuel Woolever. 

 Alanson W. Almey. 

 A. W. Almey. 

 Dura Martin. 



Wesley Langs. 



ii ii 



John A. Farnham. 

 Cas. M. C. Stephens. 

 M. S. Amidon. 

 Langford Whitford. 

 Levi 0. Henry. 

 W. W. Langs. 



JUSTICES OF 



Silas Palmeter. 

 Jonathan B. Purdy. 

 Reuben W. Millard. 

 Henry Acker. 

 Reuben W. Millard. 

 Jonathan B. Purdy. 

 David S. Whiting. 

 Silas Palmeter. 

 Christopher C. Purdy. 

 Luther King. 

 Reuben Millard. 

 Jonas Goodno. 

 Robert Hemphill. 

 Luther King. 

 C. C. Purdy (v.). 

 C. C. Purdy. 



THE PEACE. 



1856. Shepherd Amidon. 



1857. Robert Hemphill. 



1858. Luther King. 



1859. C. C. Purdy. 

 Jonas Goodno. 



1860. Shepherd Amidon. 



1861. Silas Palmeter. 



1862. S. C. Watkins. 



1863. James M. Henry. 



1864. M. A. Cass. 



1865. Silas Palmeter. 

 P. D. Hinckley. 

 William Gay. 



1866. W. W. Wilber. 



1867. Phileman Tuller. 

 Barney Hinckley. 



* Special meeting to fill vacancy. 



