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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



rough country, that they might enjoy the pleasures and 

 privilege of living and dying with their children. They 

 lived several years after this, and were, I suppose, like 

 Abraham, buried by their sons. Maj. Samuel Cady, whom 

 the old man used to call his baby, as I suppose he was the 

 youngest, lived a little farther on, upon the rise of ground 

 on the right-hand side of the way. The major stood in the 

 front rank, if not in advance of his contemporaries. He 

 was a man of a good deal of tact and energy, and had be- 

 gun to make ' the wilderness blossom and bring forth fruit 

 for the eater.' There were three other sons in this family, 

 — Peter, Curtis and Philip,— whether any daughters 1 do 

 not recollect. None of that family, I think, remain in 

 Troupsburgh. The farm owned by Maj. Samuel, soon after 

 the time of which I am speaking, came into the hands of 

 the late Hon. Samuel Griggs, who made of it a most beau- 

 tiful and desirable home. Mr. Griggs, though a few years 

 younger, was really contemporary with the earliest settlers. 

 His home, for a long number of years, was on the Cady 

 farm, though this was only a part of the large landed estate 

 of which he was proprietor. At an early period he entered 

 also into mercantile business, and kept a small, but steadily- 

 increasing stock of goods, till he became a well-known and 

 respectable merchant. He often represented his town as 

 supervisor, and was for many years an acting magistrate, 

 and was at one time one of the representatives from Steuben 

 County in the State Legislature (in 1838). He was modest 

 and retiring in his manners, and yet he was a man of ex- 

 tensive influence in the town where he lived. He was for 

 many years an esteemed and active member in the Methodist 

 Church. One of the sons of this excellent man is now a 

 prominent and successful merchant in his native town. 

 One of the daughters is Mrs. H. Reynolds. There were 

 several other children in this family, some of whom have 

 gone to the land whence none return, and some remain, it is 

 hoped, to fill the place of an honored father. 



" Andy B. Reynolds, son of Squire Reynolds, occupied 

 next to Mr. Griggs, on the opposite side of the road, and 

 only a short distance beyond. He was a man of consider- 

 able prominence in his early life, being both justice and 

 supervisor for many years. Squire Reynolds was one of 

 the settlers of 1808 or 1809, and located in the hollow, a 

 little oif the State road, on the right, upon the road now 

 running from the State road to Troupsburgh Centre. His 

 family consisted of five sons and three daughters. The 

 eldest of the daughters, Martha, married Lewis Hayes, a 

 very worthy man, and also a settler of 1809. From this 

 worthy pair sprang a numerous and respectable family, 

 many of whom are still occupying respectable and useful 

 positions in society. Another of the daughters became the 

 wife of John Simpson. She died in early life, and left 

 several children. One of the sons, I think, is a clergyman, 

 and another a man of extensive business engagements. 

 The third daughter is Mrs. Orange Perry, whose husband 

 is one of the most extensive and successful agriculturists 

 in that part of the county, and whose sons are distinguish- 

 ing themselves in the same department of usefulness.- Of 

 the sons of Squire Reynolds, the oldest, Lent Reynolds, is 

 now dead, and the place is occupied by his son, George 

 Reynolds. Of the sons of Lent Reynolds, five in number, 



two are clergymen, two have followed merchandise, and the 

 fifth is an agriculturist, and remains at the old home. A 

 daughter is the wife of a clergyman. Harry B., another 

 of Squire Reynolds' sons, was for many years proprietor of 

 the mills at Troupsburgh Centre, a man of respectability and 

 good business talents. He is still living, at an advanced 

 age. Of his family, or of his brother Frederick's, the 

 writer is unable to speak. 



" Jonathan Rogers was a neighbor of Squire Reynolds, 

 living just across the way. He was a quiet, good citizen, 

 and left a large family, some of whom are still occupying 

 the place of their father, who is gone. 



" Capt. George Martin, who was also one of the first 

 settlers, located at what is now the Centre, and a few years 

 after commenced the erection of a grist-mill on Troup's 

 Creek, which is something of a stream where it passes the 

 Centre. Martin's means were very limited, and the mill 

 was a rude structure, built of round logs. It was a lame 

 apology for a mill, but it was in good time, and certainly in 

 a good place, as any one would be likely to think who had 

 the experience of carrying a bushel of corn twenty miles on 

 horseback to get it ground. In after-years it became the 

 property of Mr. H. B. Reynolds, and was rebuilt and re- 

 modeled, and became an important fixture for the enter- 

 prising owner, and not less so for the many who had, by 

 bitter experience, learned the way to Judge Hornell's mill, 

 in Upper Canisteo. This fine property passed into the 

 hands of Mr. Mallory (son of Nathaniel), and now, with 

 steam added to the water-power, makes an establishment 

 second to few in the country. Upon this original Martin 

 farm stands the very pleasant little village of Troupsburgh 

 Centre. 



" Upon a pleasant little eminence just above the village 

 and overlooking it stood a very nice and comfortable academy 

 building, a monument of the taste, culture, and sacrifice of 

 the few for the benefit and future good of the many. Great 

 credit is due to Prof N. Reynolds, of Wellsborough, for 

 laying the foundation out of which grew this enterprise, so 

 much to the credit and honor of his native town. In his 

 first vacation after receiving his degree of A.B. he started 

 a select school near the Centre, which so increased in pop- 

 ularity and numbers that an academy became a necessity. 

 A few generous-hearted men put shoulder to the wheel and 

 consummated the enterprise. The building was burnt a 

 few years ago. 



"The Mallory Settlement was so called from the three 

 Mallory brothers, who first broke the wilderness in that part 

 of the town and made there as beautiful farms as could be 

 desired in that region. They made for themselves, and left to 

 their children, a competence of worldly goods and the better 

 inheritance of a good name. There is a place there still 

 known as Mallory's Corners, where a considerable bu.siness 

 has heretofore been done in merchandise. Mr. Lewis Biles, 

 of Bath, was about the first in that business at this point. 

 It was afterwards occupied by Lent Reynolds and later by 

 Lewis Bowen, still later by Bowen & Bassett; but I think , 

 it is now abandoned as a place of trade. 



" On the road running from the Centre to Mallory's 

 Corners lived that well-known and estimable man Zadoc 

 Bowen, father of Mr. E. Bowen, of Hornellsville. Mr. 



