TOWN OF JASPER. 



345 



1855. 



John T. Plato.* 



1867. 



Alfred Williams. 



1856. 



Roswell B. ariffin. 





Augustus Van Orsdale 



1857. 



Jonathan K. Ketchum. 





J. M. Simpson. 



1858. 



Solomon Countryman. 



1868. 



Moses F. Whittemore. 





Oliver B. Countryman.* 



1869. 



Adam Hardy (2d). 



1859. 



Jonas Timerman. 



1870. 



Solomon Countryman. 





Moses F. Whittmore. 



1871. 



Andrew Murphy. 



1860. 



Amara Merithew. 



1872. 



Jerome M. Simpson. 



1861. 



Allen A. Van Orsdale. 



1873. 



Adrian Hardy, Jr. 





Moses F. Whittemore. 



1874. 



Edwin P. Spencer. 



1862. 



Robert Murphy. 



1875. 



Allen A. Van Orsdale. 



1863. 



Jonas Timerman. 



1876. 



J. M. Simpson. 



1864. 



Jonathan K, Ketchum. 



1877. 



Peter Drake. 



1865. 



Asa Spencer. 



1878. 



De Witt C. Amey. 



1866. 



S. Countryman. 







VILLAGE OF JASPER. 



The old business portion of Jasper, known as the Five 

 Corners, was centered around Adam Brotzman's tavern, 

 and had grown to contain besides the tavern a saw-mill, 

 two stores, or places where goods were sold, and a post-office, 

 the first in the town. William Gardner was postmaster. 

 The post-office became an object of contention between the 

 rival corners, and was changed to Marlatt's Corners, where 

 John G. Marlatt became postmaster. Previous to this 

 Harvey Phoenix came from Painted Post, bought five acres 

 of land, and opened the first store between Bath and Knox- 

 ville. Pa., near Marlatt's In 1826, Edward Craig began 

 clerking for Mr. Phoenix, and in 1834 bought him out, 

 and moved the store to the old Craig farm at the Five 

 Corners. Nelson Johnson went to Washington, and se- 

 cured the appointment of Andrew Craig, Sr., postmaster, 

 and the removal of the post-office to the new store. At 

 this time there were only the Craig house, the store, and 

 two other houses, — one a log house near the creek, where 

 Andrew Simpson lived, and a little plank house where his 

 son, Carter Simpson, sold candies and notions. 



Nelson Johnson built the first steam flouring-mill, in 

 1848, and the only flouring-mill in the town. 



The present village of Jasper contains 260 inhabitants, 

 and is a place of some business importance. There are 

 nine stores here, the proprietors of which are generally 

 descendants of the first settlers. There are also the ordi- 

 nary trades-shops, a saw-mill, two hotels, and three churches. 

 A beautiful cemetery is located just above the village. The 

 buildings are neat and modern in appearance. Mails are 

 received daily by stage from Canisteo. A post-office has 

 also been established at Talbott's Creek, under the name of 

 North Jasper, and the West Jasper post-office closed. 



The abandoned Five Corners is now a little cluster of 

 farm-houses surrounding a large hotel recently completed, 

 on the site of the old Swan tavern, and just across the creek 

 from the pioneer tavern of Abram Brotzman. The old 

 cemetery at the Five Corners contains the remains of many 

 of the old settlers of the town, among whom are those of 

 Barnabas Kinney, David Cook, Stephen Towsley, Uri 

 Merriam, and Mrs. Sally Kittle, the first child born in 

 Jasper. 



CHURCHES. 



JASPER BAPTIST CHURCH. 



On the 9th of February, 1817, there assembled in what 

 was then the town of Troupsburgh, Nathaniel Seelye, Bed- 



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* Vacancy. 



ford George, Charles Card, William and John George, 

 Rebecca Seelye, Lurena Herrington, and Phoebe Card ; 

 Charles Card was appointed clerk. Agreeing upon articles 

 of faith, they united in forming the Troupsburgh Baptist 

 Church. Such as had not been, were baptized. During 

 the month of June, 1817, Bev. Samuel Bigelow baptized 

 and received into the church 14 persons. At a meeting 

 held at Charles Card's, July 12, 1817, which was presided 

 over by Bev. Andrew Sherfarne, of the Massachusetts Mis- 

 sionary Society, the name was changed to the Jasper Bap- 

 tist Church. In 1823 the order of Freemasons became a 

 source of much trouble in the church. The present house 

 of worship in Jasper village was raised June 7, 1834, and 

 occupied, as soon as inclosed, for meetings, but was not 

 finished until 1840. The trustees were Ebenezer Spencer 

 and H. C. Simpson. There have belonged to this society 

 since its organization 275 members. In August, 1849, the 

 membership was 67 ; July, 1856, it was 32. 



Pastors, 1818, Rev. David Smith; 1819, Charles Card; 

 1826, William Moore; 1832, John B. Chase; 1837, E. 

 Murdock; 1839, Thomas W. Colby; 1841, David Smith, 

 P. Colgrove; 1842, Asa Griffin; 1844, Warren Rice; 

 1846, William Raymond ; 1847, Warren Rice ; 1848, Levi 

 Stone; 1854, Calvin Thomas; 1861, G. Crocker; 1863, 

 W. Capron ; 1866, Roswell Corbett; 1868, E. T. Mallory; 

 1872, A. H. Todd ; 1875, E. L. Garrett, the present pas- 

 tor. 



There have been licensed to preach from this church : 

 1817, David Smith; 1818, C. Card; 1835, E. Kittell; 

 1841, Asa Griffin ; Ordained: 1820, David Smith ; 1862, 

 Thomas Dunham. 



Deacons: 1820, Jesse Rowley; 1829, John Kent; 1830, 

 E. Kittell; 1837, Hinckley Spencer, Darius Simpson; 

 1844, Adrian Hardy; 1859, Benjamin Thomas; 1860, E. 

 C. June. Present Clerk, A. J. Spencer. Trustees, A. J. 

 Spencer, E. C. June. The present membership is 43. 



FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OP JASPER. 



During the summer of 1825, Enoch Ordway organized 

 the first Sunday-school in Jasper. This school met for two 

 years in Mr. Ordway's house, then in a vacant building, 

 and in 1828, in a log school-house on the present farm of 

 S. T. Dennis. In 1828 a Sunday-school society was formed 

 for the purpose of organizing Sunday-schools throughout 

 the town. Oct. 29, 1829, the First Presbyterian Church 

 of Jasper was formed with 25 members. Deacon Joshua 

 Sargent, who has taught a class of men in this Sunday- 

 school for forty- two years, was one of the first elders. 

 Enoch Ordway was one of the first deacons. Mrs. Thomas 

 Whiting and Mrs. S. Fry Dennis are the only original 

 members of the church now living. Samuel Dennis and 

 wife. Earl Stone and wife, Samuel Butler and wife, Joshua 

 Sargent and wife, Jedediah Talbot, Cloe Lawson, Parmelia 

 Whittemore, and Putnam Woodward were of the first 

 members. Wm. H. Prentice and wife added their names 

 two days afterwards. The first pastor was Rev. Mr. 

 Pomeroy. In 1830 meetings were held at Adam Fail- 

 ing's house, boards were brought in for seats. The women 

 sat in the house, and the men on the piazza and the 

 stumps about the yard, while the minister stood in the 



