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HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. 



JUSTICES ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. 



M. 



1848. 



1849. 

 1850. 

 1851. 

 3852. 

 1853. 

 1854. 

 1855, 

 1856. 

 1857. 



1858. 



1859. 



1860, 

 1861 



M. Patchen and Amos 



Chauncey Moore. 

 Gardner Pierce. 

 Gardner Pierce. 

 M. M. Patchin. 

 James G. Bennett. 

 Melvin D. Strickland. 

 S. Holliday. 

 M. M. Patchin. 

 James G. Bennett. 

 M. D. Strickland. 

 M. M. Patchin. 

 S. Holliday. 

 M. D. Strickland. 

 Nicholas Zimmerman. 

 John H. Carpenter. 

 N. J. Sommers. 

 James H. Begole. 

 James E. Adams. 

 Nicholas Zimmerman. 



Knowlton, Justices previously elected. 



1862. H. S. Rosenkrans. 



1863. William R. Hill. 



1864. Nicholas Zimmerman. 



1865. James E. Adams. 



1866. H. S. Rosenkrans. 



1867. Aaron Saxton. 



1868. William Shutz. 



1869. James E. Adams. 



1870. Nicholas Zimmerman. 



1871. Franklin E. Holliday. 



1872. Peter Didas. 



1873. James F. Wood. 



1874. Nicholas Zimmerman. 



1875. F. E. Holliday. 



1876. Peter Didas. 

 H. S. Rosenkrans. 



1877. Harvey B. Rice. 



1878. James F. Wood. 



ACTION OF THE TOWN IN RAISING BOUNTIES. 



At a special town-meeting held in the house of the late 

 Jacob Kirch, at Perkinsville, in the town of Wajland, on 

 the 29th of December, 1863, for the purpose of taking 

 into consideration the subject of raising bounties for volun- 

 teers, pursuant to the resolutions passed by the Board of 

 Supervisors, it was voted whether or not the town would 

 raise and pay a bounty of $300 to each volunteer who 

 should enlist under the call of the President for 300,000 

 men. The vote stood as follows : whole number of votes 

 cast, 225 ; for the bounty, 208 ; against it, 17. 



A special town-meeting was convened at the same house 

 as the above, on the 5th day of March, 1864, to consider 

 and vote upon the question of liaising a bounty of S300 

 for each volunteer who should enlist in the service and be 

 accredited to the town under the call of the President for 

 500,000 men. At this meeting the vote was unanimous 

 for the bounty, 101 votes being cast, and not a dissenting 

 vote. 



A similar unanimous vote was also taken on the same 

 question at a special meeting held at the same house, on 

 the 2d of April, 1864 : 



*^At a special town-meeting held in the Town Clerk's office, on the 

 31st of April, 1864, it was unanimously agreed that the Supervisor of 

 this town should see that the family of every volunteer soldier ac- 

 credited to the town, and in the service of the United States, which 

 should be proven to be in indigent circumstances, should be relieved 

 to the amount of $15 at a time, by virtue of Chapter 8 of the Laws of 

 New York, entitled, ^ An Act to authorize the levying of a tax upon 

 the taxable property of the difierent counties and towns in this State,' 

 etc., passed February 9, 1864. 



"James P. Clark, Supervisor. 



"Nicholas Zimmerman, J. P. 



"James E. Adams, ./. P. 



" September 20, 1864, at a meeting of the Town Board at the office 

 of the Town Clerk, 'on motion, it was resolved unanimously to pay 

 to all volunteers accredited to this town, either personally or as sub- 

 stitutes, previous to the draft, the sum of $600. 



" Resolved, That the Supervisor is empowered to raise the bounty 

 to any amount less than $1000, as in his best judgment he shall see 

 fit, to save the town from a draft, provided he can legally obtain the 

 bonds upon longer time than those now issued. 



" Resolved, That the Supervisor be empowered to draw bonds over 



and above the $600 to the amount of $25 to cover costs and expenses 

 to each volunteer accredited to this town. 



"James P. Clark, Supervisor. 



"NiCH. Zimmerman, Town Clerk. 



" H. S. Rosenkrans, 1 r ^- ^ 

 ' [ Justices of 



"James E. Adams, > ^r n 



' [ the Peace. 



" W. R. Hill, ) 



"At a meeting of the Town Board, held October 6, 1864, in the 

 office of the Town Clerk, for the purpose of authorizing the Super- 

 visor to make a contract for a sum not exceeding $700 in bonds to any 

 person or persons responsible for such sum, as contracted by him, 

 the said Supervisor, to obtain volunteers or substitutes to exonerate 

 this town from the draft under the late call of the President for 

 500,000 men, it was unanimously agreed upon to give him, the said 

 Supervisor, full power to enter into any such contract as above 

 specified. 



"James P. Clark, Supervisor. 



" NiCH. Zimmerman, Town Clerk. 



" W. R. Hill, 



" J. E. Adams, 



" H. S. Rosenkrans, 



Justices of 

 the Peace. 



"On the 14th of November, 1864, it was decided by the Town 

 Board of the town of Wayland, in full meeting at the Town Clerk's 

 office, that the local bounty of $700, as formerly decided upon, be 

 paid to each individual of the town having furnished a substitute to 

 serve for three years in the United States service under the last call 

 of the President for 500,000 men, which substitute has been duly ac- 

 credited to the town of Wayland. 



"James P. Clark, Supervisor. 



" NiCH. Zimmerman, Town Clerk. 



"James E.Adams, \ Justices of 



" H. S. Rosenkrans, i the Peace." 



January 11, 1865, James P. Clark, Supervisor, pre- 

 sented the provost-marshal's certificate showing that the 

 quota of the town of Wayland (55 men under the call of 

 July 18, 1864) was filled. 



VILLAGE OF WAYLAND. 



The village of Wayland is situated upon the Corning 

 and Rochester branch of the Erie Railway, fifty miles east 

 of Rochester and thirty-six miles west of Corning. It con- 

 tains two churches, five hotels, two dry-goods and stores of 

 general merchandise, two drug-stores, two hardware-stores, 

 one harness-shop, six groceries, one clothing and merchant- 

 tailoring establishments, two boot- and shoe-shops, two 

 furniture and undertakers' warerooms, two meat-markets, 

 one jeweler-store, two millinery-stores, two printing-offices 

 and weekly newspapers, two wagon- and carriage-shops, four 

 blacksmith-shops, one plaster-mill, sash- and blind-factory 

 and planing-mill, two saw-mills, one furniture-manufactory, 

 one steam-power cider-mill, two grain -warehouses, one cigar- 

 manufactory, and one gun-shop. 



The post-office handles a large amount of mail matter for 

 a country village. The fire department has a chartered 

 hook-and- ladder company. The place supports a brass 

 band, two justices of the peace, three physicians, and one 

 dentist. The district school is graded, and employs three 

 teachers. We give the statistics as follows : 



DISTRICT NO. 1 — WAYLAND. 



Principal^ John P. Brown ; Intermediate^ Miss C. N. 

 Ferguson ; Primary^ Miss Jennie Carr ; Trustees^ B. M. 

 Morris, James 0. Cook, Andrew A. Granger. 



Children in the district, 248 ; average attendance, 147 ; 



