TOWN OF URBANA. 



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1841. 

 1842. 

 1843. 

 1844. 

 1845. 

 1846. 

 1847. 

 1848. 

 1849. 

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 1851. 

 1852. 

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 1868. 

 1869. 

 1870. 

 1871. 

 1872. 

 1873. 

 1874. 

 1875. 

 1876. 

 1877. 

 1878. 



Supervisors. 

 Obediah Wheeler. 

 Peter Houk. 



Obediah Wheeler. 

 William Baker. 

 Aaron Coggswell. 

 John J. Poppino. 



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John W. Davis. 

 John J. Poppino. 

 John Randel. 



A. S. Brundage. 

 M. Brown. 

 Orlando Shepherd. 



John Randel. 

 John W. Taggart. 

 Joseph A. Crane. 

 John W. Taggart. 



Benjamin Myrtle. 



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Absalom Iladden. 



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Benjamin Myrtle. 



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Absalom Hadden. 



a. W. Nichols. 

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R. Longwell. 

 Charles L. Bailey. 



Town Clerks. 

 Barnum T>. Mallory. 

 Stephen S. Havens. 

 H. L. Comstock. 



Augustus Moody. 

 Samuel L. Garey. 

 William Randel. 

 Melkiah S. Fenton. 

 Stanley B. Fairchild. 

 Melkiah S. Fenton. 

 Charles E. Halsey. 



Benjamin Bennitt. 

 B. Franklin Drew. 



Collectors. 

 E. A. Sweet. 

 Daniel W. Wheeler. 



Philip J. Velie. 



Archibald Jones, Jr. 

 Aaron Coggswell. 

 Ira Van Ness. 

 N. P. Williams. 

 James Covert, Jr. 



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Lewis Wood. 



Charles F. Kingsley. 



Hubert D. Rose. 

 G. W. Elwell. 

 J. S. Tobias. 

 Reuben L. Seeley. 

 Frank L. Kingsley. 

 Oliver H. Babcock. 

 De Witt Bander. 



William Wright. 

 James Donnelly. 

 Trevor Moore. 

 James Laughlin. 

 N. W. Bennett. 



Frank E. Hastings. 

 John Q. Brown. 

 Robert 0. Laughlin. 

 John Frey. 

 Hobart J. Moore. 



Orson C. Mattison. 



B. M. Coggswell. 



Dugald Cameron, Jr. 



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R. Longwell. 

 Clark H. Bronson. 

 Addison Damoth. 



Trevor Moore. 



Clark H. Bronson. 

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Charles G. Wheeler. 

 Charles B. Crane. 



JUSTICES ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE.'- 



1827. 



1830. 

 1831. 

 1832. 

 1833. 

 1834. 

 1835. 

 1836. 

 1837. 

 18^38. 



1839. 

 1840. 

 1841. 

 1842. 

 1843. 

 1844. 

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 1846. 

 1847. 



1848. 

 1849. 

 1850. 

 1851. 



1852. 

 1853. 

 1854. 



Isaac Noble. 

 Obediah Wheeler. 

 John Powers. 

 Matthew Brink. 

 John J. Poppino. 

 Obediah Wheeler. 

 Morgan L. Schermerhorn. 

 Stephen S. Havens. 

 Abraham Brundage (2d). 

 Jacob Larrowe. 

 Jacob Larrowe. 

 Dryden Henderson. 

 John Randel. 

 Meredith Mallory. 

 Peter Houk. 

 Jacob Larrowe. 

 Abraham Beales. 

 John Randel. 

 Obediah Wheeler. 

 Monroe Gillett. 

 Harlowe L. Comstock. 

 Dyer Cranmer. 

 Anson Coggswell. 

 Joseph S. Finton. 

 Joseph S. Finton. 

 Harlow L. Comstock. 

 Dryden Henderson. 

 James Ennis. 

 Dyer Cranmer. 

 Thomas White. 

 Dyer Cranmer. 

 Delanson Latimer. 



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. 



Matthias Clark. 

 Benjamin Bennitt. 

 Ephraim Sanford. 

 Stanley B. Fairchild. 

 Dyer Cranmer. 

 Oliver D. Tobias. 

 John R. Brown. 

 Benjamin Bennitt. 

 Obediah Wheeler. 

 Oliver D. Tobias. 

 David Wortman. 

 Daniel B. Garlenhouse. 

 Edmund P. Smith. 

 Azariah C. Younglove. 

 M. M. Clark. 

 Andrew A. White. 

 Edmund P. Smith. 

 Benjamin Bennitt. 

 Oliver H. Wheeler. 

 William Wright. 

 Benjamin F. Drew. 

 Abijah Palmer. 

 Jacob W. Wheeler. 

 Benjamin Bennitt. 

 Samuel C. Haight. 

 Charles L. Bailey. 

 Benjamin F. Drew. 

 Orin E. Loveridge. 

 David Casterline. 

 Benjamin Bennitt. 

 Benjamin F. Drew. 



* Law passed April 7, 1827. 



YILLAUE OF HAMMOJSTDSPORT. 



This village is situated at the head of Crooked Lake, or, 

 as the Indians called it, Lake Keuka. This lake is a beau- 

 tiful sheet of clear water, fed by springs and the rain which 

 falls upon the surface of the slopes and surrounding hills. 

 It has no streams of any considerable importance entering 

 it, except Cold Spring Brook, at Hammondsport, and La- 

 zalier Creek, at Branchport. The valley in which this lake 

 is situated is an excavation of more than three hundred feet 

 in depth, through the shales and grits of the Erie group of 

 rocks. The hills rise on the west shore from three to four 

 hundred feet above the water, and on the east shore from 

 two to three hundred feet ; the surface of the lake itself 

 being two hundred and seventy-one feet above that of Seneca 

 Lake. It is navigable for steamboats and barges from Ham- 

 mondsport to Penn Yan, a distance of twenty miles, and 

 also, on its west branch, to Branchport, in Yates County. 

 One of the most singular features of Lake Keuka is its 

 division into two branches by a bold and beautiful promon- 

 tory, called Bluff Point, which thrusts itself like a blunt 

 wedge between its beautiful, clear waters, and is itself an 

 object of attraction amidst the surrounding scenery. The 

 soil upon this bluff, and upon the highlands on either side, 

 extending far away into the surrounding country, is pro- 

 ductive farm-land, and well cultivated, while along the 

 slopes and abrupt declivities which border the lake are the 

 finest vineyards to be found in the country. 



The fruit of this pecuHar region, as well as that of Pleas- 

 ant Valley, at the head of the lake, has received appropriate 

 attention in an earlier part of this work. 



The importance of Lake Keuka for navigation, and for 

 the transportation of the products of a large extent of 

 country to market, attracted attention to Hammondsport at 

 an early day. Before the construction of the Erie Canal, 

 most of the products of the Genesee country passed south- 

 ward, by the Susquehanna and its tributaries, to markets in 

 Harrisburg, Columbia, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. They 

 were hauled to the nearest places accessible by arks on the 

 Canisteo, Tioga, and Conhocton, loaded aboard of these 

 rude crafts, and when the rivers were at a suitable pitch in 

 the spring, run down to the markets along the Susquehanna 

 and on the sea-board. From the first settlement of the 

 country till 1825, or during the first quarter of a century, 

 these arks were the only means of transportation to market, 

 except by teams, over long and almost impassable roads. 

 Wheat, flour, pork, venison, staves, and lumber of all kinds 

 found their way to market in this manner. 



Col. Williamson, during his administration at Bath, was 

 indefatigable in having the streams cleared of their ob- 

 structions and opened to this kind of navigation. Mud 

 Creek was explored and made navigable to its confluence 

 with the Conhocton, and arks were first run down from 

 Bath and Bartles' Hollow, and then from Arkport on the 

 Upper Canisteo. It was ascertained that, by improving the 

 streams, the produce of the country could be carried to 

 Baltimore, a distance of three hundred miles, in the spring 

 of the year, for a mere trifle. Gen. Geo. McClure was one 

 of the earliest and most enterprising men in demonstrating 

 the practicability of this kind of transportation for grain 

 and lumber. In the spring of 1795 he ran the first ark 



