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HISTORY OF STEUBEN COtFNTY, NEW YORK. 



drained, and the supply of water-power failed except for a 

 few months during each year. 



Mr. Wombough has also built five saw-mills, three of 

 them being in Tuscarora. There is no finer view to be 

 had in the valley than that of Addison as seen from this 

 point. Standing at the old Wombough homestead and 

 looking north, the most prominent object which presents 

 itself to the vision across the mile of perfectly-level farm- 

 land is the high round point of the hill, through which the 

 Canisteo River breaks as it enters the valley above the 

 village of Addison. To the right of this bluff the village is 

 plainly visible, with its white walls and tall steeples, behind 

 which rises the sloping side of a hill covered with broken 

 patches of young timber and green meadows. A steep 

 point of woods near by, on the right, shuts off" the view of 

 the lower part of the village down the river. To the left 

 of the Tuscorara Valley rise cultivated fields, sloping gently 

 back from the valley till lost . to view at a distance of half 

 a mile from the lower level. 



The old plank-road between Addison and Elkland, which 

 runs through this valley, was opened in 1851, and aban- 

 doned in September, 1878, but a regular daily stage still 

 runs over the route through the town, a line branching ofi* 

 at Rowley's for Woodhull. South Addison, whose post- 

 ofiice is at Rowley's, is two miles north, on the one shelv- 

 ing street between Wombough's and Rowley's, and contains 

 two stores, a hotel, and some twenty dwellings. Near by, 

 on the flat, is an old cemetery containing the remains of a 

 few of the early dead of the valley, marked by stones taken 

 from the hill-side, and rudely lettered. 



ORGANIZATION. 



On the 13th of December, 1859, Mr. Williams pre- 

 sented a bill to the Board of Supervisors for the erection 

 of the town of Arville, from that part of the town of 

 Addison lying south of a line running east from the 

 southeast corner of the town of Rathbone, to the east line 

 of the town of Addison. The name Arville was changed fur 

 that of Tuscarora, the name of the adopted tribe of the 

 Five Nations, and the new town was formed, the first 

 town-meeting being held at the house of Oliver Moore, Feb. 

 14, 1860, Joseph Manley, Stephen Coon, and Charles W. 

 Robinson being the inspectors of election. The first ofii- 

 cers of Tuscarora were Jesse W. Rowley, Supervisor; 

 George W. Webb, Town Clerk ; Philip W. Perkins, Com- 

 missioner of Highways ; Lorenzo Wettenhall, Joseph Oak- 

 den, Lansing Hand, Assessors ; Archibald Manley, Albert 

 W. Wells, Charles Hill, Inspectors of Election ; Myron M. 

 Manley, James Lemunyan, Charles W. Robinson, Justices 

 of the Peace ; G. H. Freeman, Collector ; Cicero Wetten- 

 hall, Amos Tobias, and George Thomas, Constables. 



LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS. 



Supervisors. 



1860. Jesse W. Rowley. 



1861. Nehemiah Manley. 



1862. Jesse W. Rowley. 



Town Clerks. 

 Georore W. Webb. 



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Collectors. 

 George H. Freeman. 

 George C. Aldrich. 

 Jason McMinds. 



1863. William Wombough. Geo. N. Wettenhall. Daniel Albee. 



1864. " '^ Stephen T. Albee. Orin C. Manley. 



1865. " '^ " '^ Samuel Hitchcock. 



1866. " '' John Orr. Robert Orr (2d). 



1867. 

 1868. 

 1869. 

 1870. 

 1871. 

 1872. 

 1873. 

 1874. 

 1875. 

 1876. 

 1877. 

 1878. 



1860. 



1861. 

 1862. 

 1863. 

 1864. 

 1865. 

 1866. 



1867. 

 1868. 

 1869. 



Supervisors. Town Ck^rks. 



William Wombough. Jesse W. Rowley. 





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Jesse W. Rowley. Stephen T. Albee. 

 Get). H. Freeman. Jesse W. Rowley. 



Collectors. 

 Robert B. Orr. 



Jesse W. Fenton. 



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George C. Aldrich. 

 Willard D. Rouse. 

 Daniel Albee. 

 Zalmon W. Smith. 

 Loren M. Webb. 

 Albert V. Wells. 

 Edward Young. 

 Stephen T. Albee. 

 Robert B. Orr. 



JUSTICES OF 



Myron M. Manley. 

 James L. Lemunyan. 

 Charles W. Robinson. 

 Henry Dininny. 

 Myron M. Manley. 

 George Webb. ' 

 Jason McMinds. 

 Haviland G. Cornell. 

 M. M. Manley. 

 Samuel Hitchcock.* 

 George H. Freeman. 

 Jason McMinds. 

 Samuel Hitchcock. 



THE PEACE. • 



1870. Orin C. Manley. 



1871. George H. Freeman. 

 Solomon C. Smith.* 



1872. Jason McMinds. 



1873. Joshua C. Smith. 

 Hienry Dininny.* 



1874. Willard D. Rouse. 



1875. George H. Freeman. 

 Jesse W. Fenton.* 



1876. Jason McMinds. 



1877. Jesse W. Fenton. 



1878. Willard D. Rouse. 



CHURCHES. 

 THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH 



of Addison was formed in Tuscarora before it became a 

 separate town. As early as 1829 Elder Orcutt preached 

 in the house of Ambrose Owen, which was the first house 

 between Daniel Strait's and Addison, on the east road, two 

 miles and a half north of Strait's, where Thomas Smith 

 afterwards lived. Although meetings were held much 

 earlier, it was not until 1833 that a class was formed con- 

 sisting of seven members, among whom were Richard 

 Finch and wife, Seth Wixon and wife, Stephen Coon and 

 wife, and William Wixon, who was made class-leader. 

 Rev. Asa Smith was pastor at that time. In 1831, a lot 

 of 50 acres of Pulteney land was set aside for the benefit 

 of the society, Justus Wright, Jared Ketchum, and Jacob 

 Cole, Jr., being made trustees. Rev. Thomas Wheat 

 preached in 1832, in the old log school-house near where 

 the present church stands, on Mine Creek. Meetings were 

 held in the school-house for several years. Revs. eToseph 

 Chapman, Mr. Kinney, Joseph Pearsall, and Mr. Bronson 

 preaching. Rev. J. Landreth, an enthusiastic Irishman, is 

 well remembered as having preached when meetings were 

 held at the house of Solomon C. Smith, father of Joshua 

 C. Smith, before the old church was built on East Hill. 



George Cook and George Bonam built the first church 

 in 1849. This church has since been abandoned for a new 

 one at Addison Hill, which was dedicated Oct. 15, 1874. 

 The trustees were J. C. Smith, Edson Wright, and Dennis 

 Beers. Revs. David Smith, Mr. Newcomb, G. H. Cole, 



J. C. Stebbins, Gould, George Sherer, and William 



M. Bartle have since been pastors. The present officers 

 are Rev. 0. B. Weaver, Pastor; Spencer Mather, Isaac 

 Wright, John Orr, Sr., and George Wettenhall, Class- 

 Leaders in difibrent parts of the town ; John Street, Grant 



* Vacancy. 



