Olmsted, Arthur George b. 30 Sep 1827 Masonville, Delaware, New York, USA d. 18 Sep 1914 Pennsylvania, USA: WETZEL Extended Family & More

Olmsted, Arthur George

1827 - 1914 (86 years)

Name	Olmsted, Arthur George [1]
Birth	30 Sep 1827	Masonville, Delaware, New York, USA [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Male
Settled	1836	Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	age 9
Occupation	1855	Eulalia Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [4]
	Councilman
census 1880	17 Jul 1880	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [2]
	Age: 51; Head NY Mass NY Lawyer;
	20180211 RVA- Mary W. Mann in the 1880 United States Federal Census date: 17 July 1880 enumerator: D.W. Butterworth Name: Mary W. Mann Age: 60 Birth Date: Abt 1820 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1880: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA Dwelling Number: 61 Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House:Self (Head) Marital Status: Widowed Father's Birthplace:England Mother's Birthplace:Pennsylvania Occupation: Keeping House Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age 68 A. G. Olmsted 51 Head NY MA NY lawyer Ellen Olmsted 43 wife PA MA NY keeping house Nellie Olmsted 18 dau PA NY PA Robert Olmsted 2 son PA NY PA Elizabeth Mitchell 21 Servant NY 69 Mary W. Mann 60 Head PA Eng PA keeping house M. S. Thompson 38 son-law NY druggist Cora M. Thompson 33 dau PA PA PA 81 Arthur Olmsted 24 Head PA NY NY Hardware-Mer. Litta M. Olmsted 22 wife PA PA PA keeping house Source Citation Year: 1880; Census Place: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1165; Page: 439C; Enumeration District: 102 Name Parent or spouse names Home in 1880 (City, County, State) Birth Date Birthplace Relation to Head of House A. G. Olmsted Ellen Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1829 New York Self (Head) ? Ellen Olmsted A. G. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1837 Pennsylvania Wife ? Nellie Olmsted A. G.,Ellen Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1862 Pennsylvania Daughter ? Robert Olmsted A. G.,Ellen Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1878 Pennsylvania Son ? Elizebth Mitchell Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1859 New York ? Mary W. Mann Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1820 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? M. S. Thompson Cora M. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1842 New York Son-in-law ? Cora M. Thompson Mary W.,M. S. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1847 Pennsylvania Daughter ? James Johnson Mary Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1848 New York Self (Head) ? Mary Johnson James Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1851 New York Wife ? Emma Johnson James,Mary Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1869 Pennsylvania Daughter ? Lizzie Johnson James,Mary Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1870 Pennsylvania Daughter ? Rena Johnson James,Mary Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1876 Pennsylvania Daughter ? Michael Kline Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1851 Pennsylvania ? John Mccartee Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1859 Pennsylvania ? Henry Collar Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1861 Pennsylvania ? Lottie Westkate Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1855 New York ? Rose Anton Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1860 Pennsylvania ? Benjamin Rennells Maria Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1822 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? Maria Rennells Benjamin Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1827 Pennsylvania Wife ? W. C. Rennells Benjamin,Maria,Ella Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1852 Pennsylvania Son ? Ella Rennells W. C. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1853 Pennsylvania Daughter-in-law ? Cora Rennells W. C.,Ella Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1878 Pennsylvania Granddaughter ? C. S. Jones Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1820 New York ? Z. J. Thomas J. A. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1820 New York Self (Head) ? J. A. Thomas Z. J. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1821 New Jersey Wife ? W. W. Thomas Z. J.,J. A. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1850 Pennsylvania Son ? D. F. Glassmir Sofia Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1847 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? Sofia Glassmir D. F. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1846 Pennsylvania Wife ? Samuel Glassmir D. F.,Sofia Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1873 Pennsylvania Son ? Harry Glassmir D. F.,Sofia Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1876 Pennsylvania Son ? Maria Miles Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1812 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? Emerson Miles Maria Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1842 Pennsylvania Son ? J. O. Merrill Sarah Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1832 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? Sarah Merrill J. O. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1850 Pennsylvania Wife ? Arthur Merrill J. O.,Sarah Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1878 Pennsylvania Son ? W. E. Womelsdorff M. E. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1849 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? M. E. Womelsdorff W. E. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1853 Pennsylvania Wife ? D. W. Butterworth Lizzie Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1852 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? Lizzie Butterworth D. W. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1857 Canada Wife ? Kent W. Butterworth D. W.,Lizzie Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1878 Pennsylvania Son ? Joseph Moore Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1845 Canada ? Fanny Moore Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1850 Canada ? Aaron Robinson Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1841 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? Zala Robinson Aaron Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1876 Pennsylvania Son ? Jacob Brietling Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1829 Prussia Self (Head) ? Arthur Olmsted Litta M. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1856 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ? Litta M. Olmsted Arthur Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1858 Pennsylvania Wife ? John Absom Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1853 New York ? Addie Absom Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1860 Pennsylvania ? Source Information Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Death	1914 [1]
	Age: 87
Death	1914 [1]
	Age: 87
biography	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	A.G. Olmsted- by Robert K. Currin, From the "Hill Country Wanderings" Vol. 2 Issue 10, Submitted by Frankie Stonemetz
	http://www.paintedhills.org/POTTER/agolmsted.htm A. G. Olmsted Home A.G. Olmsted From the "Hill Country Wanderings" Vol. 2 Issue 10 Written by Robert K. Currin Submitted by Frankie Stonemetz Mr. & Mrs. Olmsted Man's worth is most often determined by what he accomplished during his lifetime. He may have risen in the Haratio Alger fashion from rags to riches or what he did may have been a positive affect upon those who lived in the home area then and now. Few individuals are blessed with the qualities 5that raise him above the ordinary man. Arthur George Olmsted, as his obituary written in the September 23, 1914 issue of "The Potter County Journal" stated, rose above the ordinary. Quote "He was no ordinary man and the qualities that distinguished him above the common men were so varied and so blended that the writer finds words inadequate to express the true estimate of his worth and influence. He received profound respect from all by a life of consistent consideration for human rights in all relations." Who was A. G. Olmsted and what did he do to demand the respect of his contemporaries? His earliest American predecessor was Richard Olmsted who arrived in America in 1632, and was among the first settlers to move to Connecticut in 1636. Here he took part in the development of Hartford and the organization of the colony, until he moved sixty-eight miles farther west and aided the settlement of Norwalk. At age of sixty-three he became a captain of militia in King Philip's War. His descendents served in several offices and continued to open new lands in Connecticut. When the American Revolution began in New England, Daniel Olmsted was one of the six hundred Continentals who resisted the British invasion of the western Connecticut in 1777. He was the Paul Revere for the villages of Fairfield, Bedford and Norwalk. It was during the Revolution that Daniel moved his family across the Hudson River to Masonville, Delaware County, New York. Daniel's great grandson and namesake was born there on August 2, 1799. This Daniel married Lucy Scofield, who bore two children before the family decided to make the one hundred-ten mile migration to Ulysses, Pennsylvania. One of those making the journey was Daniel's son Arthur George Olmsted who was nine years of age. A. G. Olmsted was born at Masonville, New York on September 30, 1827 and moved to Ulysses when the area was virtually unsettled. No School was taught in the vicinity until one year after his arrival, and this was for only a few months each year. For the next twelve years he worked on his father's farm while attending school during the winter. There were few opportunities for education but young Arthur tried to take advantage of every opportunity to learn. For several terms he would walk sixteen miles to Coudersport to take classes at the academy. During the week he would stay near the school and work for his board, but he made the trip to his home and back every weekend. He persevered, read and studied whenever possible, and soon gained a reputation for being one of the best-informed individuals in the county. In 1848, Mr. Olmsted entered the office of John S. Mann, Esq. As a law student and was admitted to the Potter County Bar on January 12, 1850. Later that same year he became District Attorney, a position that he held for three years. As a lawyer he was described as being keen, analytical, tactful and resourceful. His ready wit and keen insight into human character made him a formidable opponent and a successful trial lawyer. He was strong with the court and before the jury. According to a biographer, " He never mad a statement to either judge or jury that he hadn't convinced himself was strictly true. He appealed to reason rather than to passion." Mr. Olmsted was a natural orator and enjoyed debate and lecture. As a young lawyer and student he participated in a library course and chose "Science, Its Origin and Progress" as the subject for his lecture. The carefully prepared lecture was delivered to a large crowd at the old courthouse and brought to the public's attention an orator of great intellectual quality. His power of expression and gravity of thought astounded his peers from the back wood of Potter County. He continued to take part in the lyceum lectures during his studies in the office of John Mann. The temperance movement had been inaugurated in the county and A.G. became on outspoken critic of strong drink. He worked with the Sons of the Temperance and his powerful eloquence became a potent factor for the cause. At about the same time, Mr. Olmsted became active in another cause, that of anti-slavery. With the Free Soil Party, he worked for the abolishment of the Fugitive Slave Law, and he supported the Wilmot Proviso. Mr. Wilmot's brother-in-law was a member of the local bar and his father operated a store in Coudersport, so his work was not foreign to the local Free Soilers. David Wilmot himself delivered a speech at the courthouse on July 10, 1854, and Olmsted responded with a stirring speech that ended with the sentence, "If slavery has any rights under the Constitution, let them from this day forward be ignored." The Free Soil party was soon to be absorbed by the new Republican Party, and Potter County immediately took up the new banner for the old cause. The problems in Kansas remained a concern and they continued to carry letters and articles about the struggle there. In 1856, James Buchanan, a native son of Pennsylvania won the presidential election but Potter's sentiment and vote went to John C. Fremont the Republican standard bearer. A pro-slavery President and Congress had prevailed but the sentiment would change during the next four years. When Lincoln was elected in 1860, Mr. Olmsted was ready to carry the banner. His law practice along with national and community affairs had occupied Mr. Olmsted's time for ten years, but he did take time to court a local girl. On May 8, 1860 he married Ellen Ross, the daughter of David and Mary Ann Ross. They moved into the home, which A.G. had purchased from Dr. Heath that was located on North Main Street next door to John Mann's residence. It was on the site of the present Bell Telephone building. Here their daughter Nellie was born on July 19, 1861. A son Robert joined them on June 2, 1877. The day after Christmas, 1893, Nellie married William F. DuBoise, a teacher who later became a lawyer. Robert also became a lawyer and practiced with Mr. DuBoise. His avid support for the Union cause brought Mr. Olmsted to the forefront as a potential leader of the new administration in Pennsylvania. His eloquent appeals to the area's young men sent many to the front with a feeling that they were fulfilling their patriotic duty. Being elected to the General assembly in the fall of 1862 brought him to a new level of political activity and he excelled. During his third and last term in 1865 he was chosen Speaker of the House which put him in an influential position where he could work for a pension bill for disabled veterans, but his real interest was with the law practice back home. He retired and was replaced by his neighbor and former mentor, John Mann who would serve four terms. The retirement was short lived and in the fall of 1868, Mr. Olmsted was elected to the State Senate representing, Potter, Tioga, McKean and Clinton counties. He was well known and was named to the Federal Relations, Judiciary and Educational Committees and was made chairman of the Committee Library. Throughout Senator Olmsted's tenure in the senate he worked for a railroad across his home area to connect Pennsylvania coalfields to Buffalo. He also supported legislation that would aid in labor and several bills that aided in the upbuilding of his district. He was one of the Senators who worked for the legislation, which was necessary to set up the Constitutional Convention of 1873. The close of the session in 1871 left the Senator in the leadership of the Republican side but he did not wish to continue in politics. Once again he hoped to retire to his law practice, but again it would not happen. He was persuaded to fill an unexpired term of a judge in Bucks and Montgomery counties. This term lasted until December 1872 when he was asked to seek election for the succeeding term, but he declined, to return to Coudersport. The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1873 created the office of Lieutenant Governor and Mr. Olmsted was the first Republican nominee for the position. The Panic of 1873 and the poor showing of the Grant Administration nationally gave the Democrats an advantage which they used nation wide. States that had been staunch Republican strongholds went to the Democrats. These included Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The voters of the Commonwealth elected a Democratic Senator and both house of the United States Congress passed into Democratic control. Again he thought he would spend his time tending to his professional and business interests. Early in his law career, he entered into oil operation suits in McKean and Warren counties. This gave him an opportunity to display his legal learning and ability. He became involved in much important litigation during the development of the oil fields. It was a prosperous time for good lawyers. Olmsted also entered into the real estate business, buying and selling land. Since the area was still being settled this enterprise also proved to be profitable. He had an interest in bringing the railroads to Potter County. While a Senator, he had pushed the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo line, which was actually surveyed in 1874 but was never built. It remained the primary project in his mind when he returned home and some grading on the line between Coudersport and Port Allegany was completed but work had ceased. The only railroad in the county was the few miles at Keating Summit. Since the future of the J.S.P.C and B.R.R. looked pretty bleak, local businessmen including Mr. Olmsted attempted to secure the right-of-way from Coudersport westward without success until 1881. That year George Magee came into control of the right-of-way and a local group known as the Coudersport and Olean Railroad Company was formed to make the purchase. This was consummated and Mr. Olmsted was chosen one of eight directors who soon changed the name to Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad Company. Within a year the road was completed and on September 26, 1882 the first passenger train steamed into town from Port Allegany. The county seat was now out of the woods. It had a railroad to the outside world and progress could not be far behind. During the next thirty years the population of Coudersport would increase almost five times. Three years before the railroad reached town, the telegraph line came in conjunction with the Tidewater pipeline, which was another business interest. Tidewater was the first pipeline to carry oil overland from the Bradford field. Its ultimate goal was to take oil to the Atlantic to be shipped overseas. A pumping station was constructed a few miles west of Coudersport and the railroad station that served was named Olmsted. In 1883 he worked for the Citizens Water Company, and a few years later saw opportunity in the development of the newly discovered natural gas that would bring comfort to the people. As a shrewd businessman Mr. Olmsted prospered, but so did the citizens of Potter County. In 1882, Mr. Olmsted became an extra law judge in the fourth judicial district, which was composed of Potter, Tioga, McKean and Cameron counties. As the result of reappointment the following year he was appointed president judge of the forty-eighth district composed of Mckean and Potter counties. This term expired in 1902 and Judge Olmsted retired after twenty continuous years on the bench. Furthermore, he had served his community for over fifty years, holding local, county and state positions. In every position he had an enviable record. Judge Olmsted's private affairs now demanded his undivided attention. His investments had become large, varied and wide spread, and he had also made many loans to farmers and businessmen here at home. There was enough to keep him busy but he continued to broaden his horizons. On August 17, 1905, he presented the Coudersport Fire Department with a new fire station, which he had constructed and equipped. He aided with the organization of the Citizens Trust Company, which is still an important financial firm in the community. A condensed milk factory was organized in 1900 with Judge Olmsted as president. The railroad continued to be one of his chief interests, as well as the public library, which had been moved many times since its early establishment. He saw fit to give the books a permanent home almost directly across the street from his residence. Today this building is the headquarters of the Potter County Historical Society. Arthur George Olmsted was a unique individual, who coming to Potter in 1836 at the age of nine years had the opportunity to grow up with the county. He took advantage of every opportunity to learn and to improve his own station. With only a common school education and a few terms at the Coudersport Academy, he advanced rapidly. As the boy orator from Ulysses and a student lecturer for the library, he quickly gained a reputation as a master of the English language. His oratory made him a leader for or against causes of the era. Perhaps his earliest speeches were for the cause of the prohibition. He denounced the liquor license as he did the institution of slavery. His support of the Free Soil movement brought him to the front as a leader of the newly formed Republican Party. His genius in politics and business mad him a leader in the development of his community. ORATORY Biographers did not dwell upon or even mention any shortcomings in the character or actions of Mr. Olmsted. His family came to recognize early that he was above temptation and his eagerness to learn would give him an outlet to occupy his time. His only flaw mentioned was not of character but was physical. He was not able to serve during the Civil War because of a disability. No matter his knowledge and ability to speak on most subjects overshadowed any blemishes, which if they existed were few. He chose by his own convictions to champion most of the popular causes of his time. His first public oration of a note at a library course was based upon knowledge of science, a subject he used on several occasions. Christianity and Temperance were also favorite subjects during the early part of his career as were the slavery and the rights of man. These were important subjects for debate for any person who was interested in the politics of the Free Soil Abolition and Civil War eras. No matter what the occasion most of the orations brought out his interest in ancient and classical history. Facts about great events of ancient and medieval history were used for the American Republic. His response to the speech delivered by David Wilmot at the Courthouse in 1854 shows a man who is willing to take an extreme stand on the Kansas question. He may have stood in awe of one of the great leaders of the Free Soil movement but his reply left no question as to where he stood on the problems. I quote part of the reply, "We had a mission to accomplish once, and every American was inspired by its grandeur, and every free heart throbbed quick and strong with emotion at the name of the young nation in the west, upon which broad banner was inscribed in letters of living light, 'The right of the people, ' and eternal opposition to the blood-red wrongs of aristocrats and kings...let every man swear that the mountain gorges and vast plains of Kansas shall be free, not by the force of compact broken and trampled in the dust, but free by the force of strong arms and brave hearts...Now let the dumb speak, let the indignant North proclaim that slavery propagandism is forever at an end. Aye, let slavery herself be dethroned, I speak for no man but for myself. If slavery has any rights under the constitution let them from this day forward be ignored." I used the last sentence for the second time purposely. Imagine if these words had been spoken in the Halls of Congress instead of in the courthouse of Coudersport, Mr. Olmsted would have been labeled as one of the fire-brand leaders of the Abolitionists. I am sure that this would have pleased him as much as the results of the election of 1856 displeased him. His speeches for the next ten years ring with the words freedom, liberty and patronism as he becomes a leader within the government of the Commonwealth, but after 1865 the tone changes. He now argues for the railroads, trade and commerce. His appeal for the building of the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railroad shows his interest in the development of the rural areas of Northcentral Pennsylvania. In part i quote, " Build this road through that region now totally undeveloped and you bring forth this hidden treasure and haste it onward to the markets of the West, add untold millions to local values, create new objects of state revenues, and furnish employment for thousands of the hardy sons of the toil."...For dairying purposes the counties crossed are not equaled by any counties in the Commonwealth...Its citizens have hitherto been treated as aliens and strangers for Pennsylvania. They have born the burdens without the benefits of citizenship...Pass this bill and it will bring our people into connection and sympathy with the balance of this great Commonwealth." In addition he attempted to influence legislation that will aid the people at home but he advocated probation for the south. Here he returns to the use of more patriotism in his themes and tries to rally support for a strong Republican Party when he states, "The country, therefore, must be governed either by the party that fought for the Union, or by the party the majority of whom fought against the Union. Choose ye between the two. Are you willing as Republicans, are you willing as citizens, that this great and mighty change should occur in the administration of state or nation affairs?" He also showed concern for the condition of the Negro and in the same speech made a plea for their security and equality. He thought that here was a movement to crush the black man and that his condition would become worse than it was under slavery. He stated that, "The Negro stood faithful to his country's blue and when he went down into the thick of the battle with you and your sins on behalf of a government that had previously done him wrong, the people of the country swore, as by inspiration from the great source of all justice, that the tongue should cleave to the roof of the mouth, and the right hand forget its cunning, yet the Negro should have his right forever; and will keep the oath." Judge Olmsted presided over the court with dignity but at times his courtroom was enlivened by his quaint sense of humor. As one term of court when a grand juror begged to be excused because of deafness in one ear, the Judge replied: "You will do. You are only to hear one side of the case." A. G. Olmsted was a contemporary of Galusha Grow from Tioga County who is credited with the Homestead Law of 1862. As a leader of the Potter County Free Soil Convention, Olmsted made a similar plea for "land reform, " and the group declared in its favor. After his retirement the number of orations by the Judge diminished, but many were made in his honor by those who knew him, but one of the greatest tribute was made by his Biographer Rufus Barrett Stone in one of the last paragraphs in his book. Quote- "If in the years to come another generation shall turn these pages and gather from their imperfect record some inspiration toward an upright and effective life, a citizen of a high order, a superb patriotism, an undeviating devotion and conscientious discharge of public duty, then to the children of Arthur George Olmsted and his children's children, it will as the years go by, be the most gratifying memorial." Information for this story came from his biography: "Arthur George Olmsted" by Rufus Barrett Stone, John C. Winston Co. Philadelphia, 1919, excerpts from original manuscripts of speeches. Thanks to Robert W. Olmsted of Butler, Pennsylvania, The Historical Society has diaries, records and original documents of Judge Olmsted's work. Thanks also go to the members of the Olmsted Family who have given the Historical Society a clear deed to the property which now is part of our society. Back To Potter County Main Page If you have anything of genealogical or historical interest to add to this site, or if you are interested in becoming a member of the Painted Hills Genealogy Society, please contact me at: Painted Hills This page is maintained by the PHGS Last Update January 05, 1999 © 2002 - 2005 by The Painted Hills Genealogy Society Main \| Email Us \| Look-Ups \| Members Family Pages Chat and Meeting Room \| Disclaimer _____________________ photo- 20171107 RVA- Lanny Nunn?Roulette Remember when.... November 5 · 2017 Like Comment Share 8 You and 7 other GHOST TOWN OF MINA, PA DuBois Schutt and Christopher E. Lewis purchased land from A.G. and Marlin E. Olmsted at this place in 1883 and built a saw mill. In 1889 they deeded the property to the Lackawanna Lumber Co., of Scranton, PA, who built a large saw mill. This burned in June, 1894. ... Presented to the Potter County Historical Society by the Rev. Howard I. Lehman and wife, Ada, retired missionaries of M.E. Church, Caixa, Postal 4948, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America. Rev. Lehman, son of Lewis Lehman, was born on a farm about one mile from Mina. The family lived there a number of years and he attended school and church at Mina. __________ 20200120HAv- A.G. Olmsted- by Robert K. Currin, From the "Hill Country Wanderings" Vol. 2 Issue 10, Submitted by Frankie Stonemetz Written by Robert K. Currin
Race	White [2]
Name	A. G. Olmsted [2]
Name	Arthur G Olmsted [1]
Name	Judge Arthur George Olmsted [3]
Occupation	Eulalia Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	lawyer
Death	18 Sep 1914	Pennsylvania, USA [3]
Burial	Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [3]
Person ID	I41105	WETZEL-SPRING

Father	Olmsted, Daniel, b. 2 Aug 1799, Providence, Saratoga, New York, USA d. 2 Oct 1882, Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 83 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Schofield, Lucy Ann, b. 18 Aug 1807, Bennettsville, Chenango, New York, USA d. 17 Feb 1865, Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 57 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	1823 [3]
	20200805HAv- Daniel Olmsted Photo added by June Howard Picture of Added by June Howard Daniel Olmsted BIRTH 2 Aug 1799 Saratoga County, New York, USA DEATH 2 Oct 1882 (aged 83) Ulysses, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA BURIAL Ulysses Cemetery Ulysses, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA MEMORIAL ID 68734616 · PHOTOS 2 FLOWERS 0 Family Members Parents Seneca Olmsted 1774-1860 Spouses Lucy Ann Schofield Olmsted 1807-1865 (m. 1823) Jane Robertson Bennett 1818-1898 (m. 1869) Siblings Gardner Hicks Olmsted 1805-1895 Children Henry Jason Olmsted 1825-1906 Arthur George Olmsted 1827-1914 Daniel Edward Olmsted 1832-1900 Seneca L. Olmsted 1838-1856 Flowers Leave a Flower
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Family Ross, Ellen, b. 5 Nov 1836, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Jul 1915, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 78 years)

residence jt 1860 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA

North Main Street; A.G. Olmsted (Nellie's father) purchased this home from Dr. Heath and moved into it with his new bride Ellen (nee Ross) in 1860. This house was destroyed when the present Bell Telephone building was constructed. William & Nellie Olmstea

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North Main Street; A.G. Olmsted (Nellie's father) purchased this home from Dr. Heath and moved into it with his new bride Ellen (nee Ross) in 1860. This house was destroyed when the present Bell Telephone building was constructed. William & Nellie Olmstead DuBois Home, Later owned by Charles & Emma Kortz Welfling .-- Photo Courtesy PCHS

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His law practice along with national and community affairs had occupied Mr. Olmsted's time for ten years, but he did take time…

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William & Nellie Olmstead DuBois Home
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North Main Street, Coudersport, PA

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Marriage 8 May 1860 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1]

(I think, in Coudersport -jcw20170727)

Children

	1. Olmsted, Nellie, b. 19 Jul 1861, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. Olmsted, Robert, b. 2 Jun 1877, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

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	Birth - 30 Sep 1827 - Masonville, Delaware, New York, USA
	Settled - age 9 - 1836 - Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Occupation - Councilman - 1855 - Eulalia Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	residence jt - North Main Street; A.G. Olmsted (Nellie's father) purchased this home from Dr. Heath and moved into it with his new bride Ellen (nee Ross) in 1860. This house was destroyed when the present Bell Telephone building was constructed. William & Nellie Olmstea - 1860 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Marriage - 8 May 1860 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	census 1880 - Age: 51; Head NY Mass NY Lawyer; - 17 Jul 1880 - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	biography - A.G. Olmsted- by Robert K. Currin, From the "Hill Country Wanderings" Vol. 2 Issue 10, Submitted by Frankie Stonemetz - - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Occupation - lawyer - - Eulalia Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Death - 18 Sep 1914 - Pennsylvania, USA
	Burial - - Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA

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Photos » Slide Show		http://www.paintedhills.org/POTTER/agolmstedcar.jpg His law practice along with national and community affairs had occupied Mr. Olmsted's time for ten years, but he did take time to court a local girl. On May 8, 1860 he married Ellen Ross, the daughter of David and Mary Ann Ross. They moved into the home, which A.G. had purchased from Dr. Heath that was located on North Main Street next door to…
		http://www.paintedhills.org/POTTER/agolmstedhome.jpg [20191022HAv- A.G. Olmsted purchased this home from Dr. Heath and moved into it with his new bride Ellen in 1860. this house was destroyed when the present Bell Telephone building was constructed. -- Photo Courtesy PCHS] His law practice along with national and community affairs had occupied Mr. Olmsted's time for ten years, but he did take time…
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		census 1880 USA PA Potter Coudersport 102_439C Mary Mann 20180211 RVA- Mary W. Mann in the 1880 United States Federal Census date: 17 July 1880 enumerator: D.W. Butterworth Name: Mary W. Mann Age: 60 Birth Date: Abt 1820 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1880: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA Dwelling Number: 61 Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House:Self (Head) Marital…
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A. G. Olmsted Home

A.G. Olmsted
From the "Hill Country Wanderings"
Vol. 2 Issue 10
Written by Robert K. Currin
Submitted by Frankie Stonemetz

Mr. & Mrs. Olmsted

Man's worth is most often determined by what he accomplished during his lifetime. He may have risen in the Haratio Alger fashion from rags to riches or what he did may have been a positive affect upon those who lived in the home area then and now. Few individuals are blessed with the qualities 5that raise him above the ordinary man.

Arthur George Olmsted, as his obituary written in the September 23, 1914 issue of "The Potter County Journal" stated, rose above the ordinary. Quote "He was no ordinary man and the qualities that distinguished him above the common men were so varied and so blended that the writer finds words inadequate to express the true estimate of his worth and influence. He received profound respect from all by a life of consistent consideration for human rights in all relations." Who was A. G. Olmsted and what did he do to demand the respect of his contemporaries?

His earliest American predecessor was Richard Olmsted who arrived in America in 1632, and was among the first settlers to move to Connecticut in 1636. Here he took part in the development of Hartford and the organization of the colony, until he moved sixty-eight miles farther west and aided the settlement of Norwalk. At age of sixty-three he became a captain of militia in King Philip's War. His descendents served in several offices and continued to open new lands in Connecticut.

When the American Revolution began in New England, Daniel Olmsted was one of the six hundred Continentals who resisted the British invasion of the western Connecticut in 1777. He was the Paul Revere for the villages of Fairfield, Bedford and Norwalk. It was during the Revolution that Daniel moved his family across the Hudson River to Masonville, Delaware County, New York. Daniel's great grandson and namesake was born there on August 2, 1799. This Daniel married Lucy Scofield, who bore two children before the family decided to make the one hundred-ten mile migration to Ulysses, Pennsylvania. One of those making the journey was Daniel's son Arthur George Olmsted who was nine years of age.

A. G. Olmsted was born at Masonville, New York on September 30, 1827 and moved to Ulysses when the area was virtually unsettled. No School was taught in the vicinity until one year after his arrival, and this was for only a few months each year. For the next twelve years he worked on his father's farm while attending school during the winter. There were few opportunities for education but young Arthur tried to take advantage of every opportunity to learn. For several terms he would walk sixteen miles to Coudersport to take classes at the academy. During the week he would stay near the school and work for his board, but he made the trip to his home and back every weekend. He persevered, read and studied whenever possible, and soon gained a reputation for being one of the best-informed individuals in the county.

In 1848, Mr. Olmsted entered the office of John S. Mann, Esq. As a law student and was admitted to the Potter County Bar on January 12, 1850. Later that same year he became District Attorney, a position that he held for three years. As a lawyer he was described as being keen, analytical, tactful and resourceful. His ready wit and keen insight into human character made him a formidable opponent and a successful trial lawyer. He was strong with the court and before the jury. According to a biographer, " He never mad a statement to either judge or jury that he hadn't convinced himself was strictly true. He appealed to reason rather than to passion."

Mr. Olmsted was a natural orator and enjoyed debate and lecture. As a young lawyer and student he participated in a library course and chose "Science, Its Origin and Progress" as the subject for his lecture. The carefully prepared lecture was delivered to a large crowd at the old courthouse and brought to the public's attention an orator of great intellectual quality. His power of expression and gravity of thought astounded his peers from the back wood of Potter County. He continued to take part in the lyceum lectures during his studies in the office of John Mann.

The temperance movement had been inaugurated in the county and A.G. became on outspoken critic of strong drink. He worked with the Sons of the Temperance and his powerful eloquence became a potent factor for the cause.

At about the same time, Mr. Olmsted became active in another cause, that of anti-slavery. With the Free Soil Party, he worked for the abolishment of the Fugitive Slave Law, and he supported the Wilmot Proviso. Mr. Wilmot's brother-in-law was a member of the local bar and his father operated a store in Coudersport, so his work was not foreign to the local Free Soilers. David Wilmot himself delivered a speech at the courthouse on July 10, 1854, and Olmsted responded with a stirring speech that ended with the sentence, "If slavery has any rights under the Constitution, let them from this day forward be ignored."

The Free Soil party was soon to be absorbed by the new Republican Party, and Potter County immediately took up the new banner for the old cause. The problems in Kansas remained a concern and they continued to carry letters and articles about the struggle there. In 1856, James Buchanan, a native son of Pennsylvania won the presidential election but Potter's sentiment and vote went to John C. Fremont the Republican standard bearer. A pro-slavery President and Congress had prevailed but the sentiment would change during the next four years. When Lincoln was elected in 1860, Mr. Olmsted was ready to carry the banner.

His law practice along with national and community affairs had occupied Mr. Olmsted's time for ten years, but he did take time to court a local girl. On May 8, 1860 he married Ellen Ross, the daughter of David and Mary Ann Ross. They moved into the home, which A.G. had purchased from Dr. Heath that was located on North Main Street next door to John Mann's residence. It was on the site of the present Bell Telephone building. Here their daughter Nellie was born on July 19, 1861. A son Robert joined them on June 2, 1877. The day after Christmas, 1893, Nellie married William F. DuBoise, a teacher who later became a lawyer. Robert also became a lawyer and practiced with Mr. DuBoise.

His avid support for the Union cause brought Mr. Olmsted to the forefront as a potential leader of the new administration in Pennsylvania. His eloquent appeals to the area's young men sent many to the front with a feeling that they were fulfilling their patriotic duty. Being elected to the General assembly in the fall of 1862 brought him to a new level of political activity and he excelled. During his third and last term in 1865 he was chosen Speaker of the House which put him in an influential position where he could work for a pension bill for disabled veterans, but his real interest was with the law practice back home. He retired and was replaced by his neighbor and former mentor, John Mann who would serve four terms.

The retirement was short lived and in the fall of 1868, Mr. Olmsted was elected to the State Senate representing, Potter, Tioga, McKean and Clinton counties. He was well known and was named to the Federal Relations, Judiciary and Educational Committees and was made chairman of the Committee Library. Throughout Senator Olmsted's tenure in the senate he worked for a railroad across his home area to connect Pennsylvania coalfields to Buffalo. He also supported legislation that would aid in labor and several bills that aided in the upbuilding of his district. He was one of the Senators who worked for the legislation, which was necessary to set up the Constitutional Convention of 1873.

The close of the session in 1871 left the Senator in the leadership of the Republican side but he did not wish to continue in politics. Once again he hoped to retire to his law practice, but again it would not happen. He was persuaded to fill an unexpired term of a judge in Bucks and Montgomery counties. This term lasted until December 1872 when he was asked to seek election for the succeeding term, but he declined, to return to Coudersport.

The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1873 created the office of Lieutenant Governor and Mr. Olmsted was the first Republican nominee for the position. The Panic of 1873 and the poor showing of the Grant Administration nationally gave the Democrats an advantage which they used nation wide. States that had been staunch Republican strongholds went to the Democrats. These included Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The voters of the Commonwealth elected a Democratic Senator and both house of the United States Congress passed into Democratic control. Again he thought he would spend his time tending to his professional and business interests.

Early in his law career, he entered into oil operation suits in McKean and Warren counties. This gave him an opportunity to display his legal learning and ability. He became involved in much important litigation during the development of the oil fields. It was a prosperous time for good lawyers.

Olmsted also entered into the real estate business, buying and selling land. Since the area was still being settled this enterprise also proved to be profitable.

He had an interest in bringing the railroads to Potter County. While a Senator, he had pushed the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo line, which was actually surveyed in 1874 but was never built. It remained the primary project in his mind when he returned home and some grading on the line between Coudersport and Port Allegany was completed but work had ceased. The only railroad in the county was the few miles at Keating Summit. Since the future of the J.S.P.C and B.R.R. looked pretty bleak, local businessmen including Mr. Olmsted attempted to secure the right-of-way from Coudersport westward without success until 1881.

That year George Magee came into control of the right-of-way and a local group known as the Coudersport and Olean Railroad Company was formed to make the purchase. This was consummated and Mr. Olmsted was chosen one of eight directors who soon changed the name to Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad Company.

Within a year the road was completed and on September 26, 1882 the first passenger train steamed into town from Port Allegany. The county seat was now out of the woods. It had a railroad to the outside world and progress could not be far behind. During the next thirty years the population of Coudersport would increase almost five times.

Three years before the railroad reached town, the telegraph line came in conjunction with the Tidewater pipeline, which was another business interest. Tidewater was the first pipeline to carry oil overland from the Bradford field. Its ultimate goal was to take oil to the Atlantic to be shipped overseas. A pumping station was constructed a few miles west of Coudersport and the railroad station that served was named Olmsted.

In 1883 he worked for the Citizens Water Company, and a few years later saw opportunity in the development of the newly discovered natural gas that would bring comfort to the people. As a shrewd businessman Mr. Olmsted prospered, but so did the citizens of Potter County.

In 1882, Mr. Olmsted became an extra law judge in the fourth judicial district, which was composed of Potter, Tioga, McKean and Cameron counties. As the result of reappointment the following year he was appointed president judge of the forty-eighth district composed of Mckean and Potter counties. This term expired in 1902 and Judge Olmsted retired after twenty continuous years on the bench. Furthermore, he had served his community for over fifty years, holding local, county and state positions. In every position he had an enviable record. Judge Olmsted's private affairs now demanded his undivided attention. His investments had become large, varied and wide spread, and he had also made many loans to farmers and businessmen here at home. There was enough to keep him busy but he continued to broaden his horizons.

On August 17, 1905, he presented the Coudersport Fire Department with a new fire station, which he had constructed and equipped. He aided with the organization of the Citizens Trust Company, which is still an important financial firm in the community. A condensed milk factory was organized in 1900 with Judge Olmsted as president. The railroad continued to be one of his chief interests, as well as the public library, which had been moved many times since its early establishment. He saw fit to give the books a permanent home almost directly across the street from his residence. Today this building is the headquarters of the Potter County Historical Society.

Arthur George Olmsted was a unique individual, who coming to Potter in 1836 at the age of nine years had the opportunity to grow up with the county. He took advantage of every opportunity to learn and to improve his own station. With only a common school education and a few terms at the Coudersport Academy, he advanced rapidly. As the boy orator from Ulysses and a student lecturer for the library, he quickly gained a reputation as a master of the English language. His oratory made him a leader for or against causes of the era. Perhaps his earliest speeches were for the cause of the prohibition. He denounced the liquor license as he did the institution of slavery. His support of the Free Soil movement brought him to the front as a leader of the newly formed Republican Party. His genius in politics and business mad him a leader in the development of his community.

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Biographers did not dwell upon or even mention any shortcomings in the character or actions of Mr. Olmsted. His family came to recognize early that he was above temptation and his eagerness to learn would give him an outlet to occupy his time. His only flaw mentioned was not of character but was physical. He was not able to serve during the Civil War because of a disability. No matter his knowledge and ability to speak on most subjects overshadowed any blemishes, which if they existed were few. He chose by his own convictions to champion most of the popular causes of his time. His first public oration of a note at a library course was based upon knowledge of science, a subject he used on several occasions. Christianity and Temperance were also favorite subjects during the early part of his career as were the slavery and the rights of man. These were important subjects for debate for any person who was interested in the politics of the Free Soil Abolition and Civil War eras. No matter what the occasion most of the orations brought out his interest in ancient and classical history. Facts about great events of ancient and medieval history were used for the American Republic. His response to the speech delivered by David Wilmot at the Courthouse in 1854 shows a man who is willing to take an extreme stand on the Kansas question. He may have stood in awe of one of the great leaders of the Free Soil movement but his reply left no question as to where he stood on the problems. I quote part of the reply, "We had a mission to accomplish once, and every American was inspired by its grandeur, and every free heart throbbed quick and strong with emotion at the name of the young nation in the west, upon which broad banner was inscribed in letters of living light, 'The right of the people, ' and eternal opposition to the blood-red wrongs of aristocrats and kings...let every man swear that the mountain gorges and vast plains of Kansas shall be free, not by the force of compact broken and trampled in the dust, but free by the force of strong arms and brave hearts...Now let the dumb speak, let the indignant North proclaim that slavery propagandism is forever at an end. Aye, let slavery herself be dethroned, I speak for no man but for myself. If slavery has any rights under the constitution let them from this day forward be ignored."

I used the last sentence for the second time purposely. Imagine if these words had been spoken in the Halls of Congress instead of in the courthouse of Coudersport, Mr. Olmsted would have been labeled as one of the fire-brand leaders of the Abolitionists. I am sure that this would have pleased him as much as the results of the election of 1856 displeased him.

His speeches for the next ten years ring with the words freedom, liberty and patronism as he becomes a leader within the government of the Commonwealth, but after 1865 the tone changes. He now argues for the railroads, trade and commerce. His appeal for the building of the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railroad shows his interest in the development of the rural areas of Northcentral Pennsylvania. In part i quote, " Build this road through that region now totally undeveloped and you bring forth this hidden treasure and haste it onward to the markets of the West, add untold millions to local values, create new objects of state revenues, and furnish employment for thousands of the hardy sons of the toil."...For dairying purposes the counties crossed are not equaled by any counties in the Commonwealth...Its citizens have hitherto been treated as aliens and strangers for Pennsylvania. They have born the burdens without the benefits of citizenship...Pass this bill and it will bring our people into connection and sympathy with the balance of this great Commonwealth."

In addition he attempted to influence legislation that will aid the people at home but he advocated probation for the south. Here he returns to the use of more patriotism in his themes and tries to rally support for a strong Republican Party when he states, "The country, therefore, must be governed either by the party that fought for the Union, or by the party the majority of whom fought against the Union. Choose ye between the two. Are you willing as Republicans, are you willing as citizens, that this great and mighty change should occur in the administration of state or nation affairs?"

He also showed concern for the condition of the Negro and in the same speech made a plea for their security and equality. He thought that here was a movement to crush the black man and that his condition would become worse than it was under slavery. He stated that, "The Negro stood faithful to his country's blue and when he went down into the thick of the battle with you and your sins on behalf of a government that had previously done him wrong, the people of the country swore, as by inspiration from the great source of all justice, that the tongue should cleave to the roof of the mouth, and the right hand forget its cunning, yet the Negro should have his right forever; and will keep the oath."

Judge Olmsted presided over the court with dignity but at times his courtroom was enlivened by his quaint sense of humor. As one term of court when a grand juror begged to be excused because of deafness in one ear, the Judge replied: "You will do. You are only to hear one side of the case." A. G. Olmsted was a contemporary of Galusha Grow from Tioga County who is credited with the Homestead Law of 1862. As a leader of the Potter County Free Soil Convention, Olmsted made a similar plea for
"land reform, " and the group declared in its favor.

After his retirement the number of orations by the Judge diminished, but many were made in his honor by those who knew him, but one of the greatest tribute was made by his Biographer Rufus Barrett Stone in one of the last paragraphs in his book. Quote- "If in the years to come another generation shall turn these pages and gather from their imperfect record some inspiration toward an upright and effective life, a citizen of a high order, a superb patriotism, an undeviating devotion and conscientious discharge of public duty, then to the children of Arthur George Olmsted and his children's children, it will as the years go by, be the most gratifying memorial." Information for this story came from his biography: "Arthur George Olmsted" by Rufus Barrett Stone, John C. Winston Co. Philadelphia, 1919, excerpts from original manuscripts of speeches.

Thanks to Robert W. Olmsted of Butler, Pennsylvania, The Historical Society has diaries, records and original documents of Judge Olmsted's work.

Thanks also go to the members of the Olmsted Family who have given the Historical Society a clear deed to the property which now is part of our society.

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GHOST TOWN OF MINA, PA

DuBois Schutt and Christopher E. Lewis purchased land from A.G. and Marlin E. Olmsted at this place in 1883 and built a saw mill. In 1889 they deeded the property to the Lackawanna Lumber Co., of Scranton, PA, who built a large saw mill. This burned in June, 1894.
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Presented to the Potter County Historical Society by the Rev. Howard I. Lehman and wife, Ada, retired missionaries of M.E. Church, Caixa, Postal 4948, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America.
Rev. Lehman, son of Lewis Lehman, was born on a farm about one mile from Mina. The family lived there a number of years and he attended school and church at Mina.

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Record for Ellen Ross (18) facts ....... (25)
Record for Nellie Olmsted (12) facts . (29)
Record for Mary Knight (18) facts .... (35)
Record for Selinda House (18) facts . (45)

Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 063 : 1907

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vol 063 1907 p. 218
62655 MRS. NELLIE OLMSTED DuBOIS
Name: Thomas Ross
Gender: Male
Spouse: Deborah Bond
Child: David Ross

Name: David Ross
Gender: Male
1st Marr: 1827
Father: Thomas Ross
Mother: Deborah Bond
Spouse: Mary Knight
Child: Ellen Ross

Name: Ellen Ross
Gender: Female
Age: 79
Birth: 1836
1st Marr: 1860
Death: 1915
Father: David Ross
Mother: Mary Knight
Spouse: Arthur G Olmsted
Child: Nellie Olmsted

Name: Nellie Olmsted
Gender: Female
Father: Arthur G Olmsted
Mother: Ellen Ross
Spouse: William F DuBois

Name: Mary Knight
Gender: Female
Age: 90
Birth: 1810
1st Marr: 1827
Death: 1900
Father: William Knight
Mother: Selinda House
Spouse: David Ross
Child: Ellen Ross

Name: Selinda House
Gender: Female
Age: 68
Birth: 1790
Death: 1858
Father: Jonathan House
Mother: Mary Smith
Spouse: William Knight
Child: Mary Knight

Source Citation
Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 063 : 1907

Source Information
Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

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Name: Thomas Ross
Gender: Male
Spouse: Deborah Bond
Child: David Ross

Name: David Ross
Gender: Male
1st Marr: 1827
Father: Thomas Ross
Mother: Deborah…

[S88] census 1880 USA PA Potter, Year: 1880; Census Place: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1165; Page: 439C; Enumeration District: 102. Record for Mary W. Mann. Mann, Mary HoH daughter, son-n-law Thompson Year: 1880; Census Place: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1165; Page: 439C; Enumeration District: 102.
Record for Mary W. Mann (34) facts
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Mary W. Mann in the 1880 United States Federal Census
date: 17 July 1880
enumerator: D.W. Butterworth
Name: Mary W. Mann
Age: 60
Birth Date: Abt 1820
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1880: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Dwelling Number: 61
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House:Self (Head)
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace:England
Mother's Birthplace:Pennsylvania
Occupation: Keeping House
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Name Age
68
A. G. Olmsted 51 Head NY MA NY lawyer
Ellen Olmsted 43 wife PA MA NY keeping house
Nellie Olmsted 18 dau PA NY PA
Robert Olmsted 2 son PA NY PA
Elizabeth Mitchell 21 Servant NY
69
Mary W. Mann 60 Head PA Eng PA keeping house
M. S. Thompson 38 son-law NY druggist
Cora M. Thompson 33 dau PA PA PA
81
Arthur Olmsted 24 Head PA NY NY Hardware-Mer.
Litta M. Olmsted 22 wife PA PA PA keeping house

Source Citation
Year: 1880;
Census Place: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania;
Roll: 1165;
Page: 439C;
Enumeration District: 102

Name

Parent or spouse names

Home in 1880 (City, County, State)

Birth Date

Birthplace

Relation to Head of House

A. G. Olmsted Ellen Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1829 New York Self (Head) ?
Ellen Olmsted A. G. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1837 Pennsylvania Wife ?
Nellie Olmsted A. G.,Ellen Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1862 Pennsylvania Daughter ?
Robert Olmsted A. G.,Ellen Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1878 Pennsylvania Son ?
Elizebth Mitchell Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1859 New York ?

Mary W. Mann Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1820 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
M. S. Thompson Cora M. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1842 New York Son-in-law ?
Cora M. Thompson Mary W.,M. S. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1847 Pennsylvania Daughter ?

James Johnson Mary Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1848 New York Self (Head) ?
Mary Johnson James Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1851 New York Wife ?
Emma Johnson James,Mary Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1869 Pennsylvania Daughter ?
Lizzie Johnson James,Mary Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1870 Pennsylvania Daughter ?
Rena Johnson James,Mary Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1876 Pennsylvania Daughter ?

Michael Kline Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1851 Pennsylvania ?
John Mccartee Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1859 Pennsylvania ?

Henry Collar Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1861 Pennsylvania ?

Lottie Westkate Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1855 New York ?

Rose Anton Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1860 Pennsylvania ?

Benjamin Rennells Maria Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1822 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
Maria Rennells Benjamin Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1827 Pennsylvania Wife ?
W. C. Rennells Benjamin,Maria,Ella Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1852 Pennsylvania Son ?
Ella Rennells W. C. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1853 Pennsylvania Daughter-in-law ?
Cora Rennells W. C.,Ella Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1878 Pennsylvania Granddaughter ?

C. S. Jones Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1820 New York ?

Z. J. Thomas J. A. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1820 New York Self (Head) ?
J. A. Thomas Z. J. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1821 New Jersey Wife ?
W. W. Thomas Z. J.,J. A. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1850 Pennsylvania Son ?

D. F. Glassmir Sofia Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1847 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
Sofia Glassmir D. F. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1846 Pennsylvania Wife ?
Samuel Glassmir D. F.,Sofia Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1873 Pennsylvania Son ?
Harry Glassmir D. F.,Sofia Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1876 Pennsylvania Son ?

Maria Miles Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1812 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
Emerson Miles Maria Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1842 Pennsylvania Son ?

J. O. Merrill Sarah Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1832 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
Sarah Merrill J. O. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1850 Pennsylvania Wife ?
Arthur Merrill J. O.,Sarah Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1878 Pennsylvania Son ?

W. E. Womelsdorff M. E. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1849 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
M. E. Womelsdorff W. E. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1853 Pennsylvania Wife ?

D. W. Butterworth Lizzie Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1852 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
Lizzie Butterworth D. W. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1857 Canada Wife ?
Kent W. Butterworth D. W.,Lizzie Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1878 Pennsylvania Son ?

Joseph Moore Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1845 Canada ?
Fanny Moore Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1850 Canada ?

Aaron Robinson Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1841 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
Zala Robinson Aaron Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1876 Pennsylvania Son ?

Jacob Brietling Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1829 Prussia Self (Head) ?

Arthur Olmsted Litta M. Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1856 Pennsylvania Self (Head) ?
Litta M. Olmsted Arthur Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1858 Pennsylvania Wife ?

John Absom Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1853 New York ?
Addie Absom Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania Abt 1860 Pennsylvania ?

Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.
Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

census 1880 USA PA Potter Coudersport 102_439C Mary Mann
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Mary W. Mann in the 1880 United States Federal Census
date: 17 July 1880
enumerator: D.W. Butterworth
Name: Mary W. Mann
Age: 60
Birth Date: Abt 1820
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1880: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Dwelling Number: 61
Race: White
Gender: Female
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BIRTH 2 Aug 1799 Saratoga County, New York, USA
DEATH 2 Oct 1882 (aged 83)
Ulysses, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Ulysses, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Parents Seneca Olmsted 1774-1860
Spouses Lucy Ann Schofield Olmsted 1807-1865 (m. 1823)
Jane Robertson Bennett 1818-1898 (m. 1869)
Siblings Gardner Hicks Olmsted 1805-1895
Children Henry Jason Olmsted 1825-1906
Arthur George Olmsted 1827-1914
Daniel Edward Olmsted 1832-1900
Seneca L. Olmsted 1838-1856

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Lucy Ann Schofield Olmsted
BIRTH 18 Aug 1807 Saratoga County, New York, USA
DEATH 17 Feb 1865 (aged 57)
Ulysses, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Jane Robertson Bennett
BIRTH 27 Sep 1818 Bennettsville, Chenango County, New York, USA
DEATH 5 Jul 1898 (aged 79)
Bennettsville, Chenango County, New York, USA
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Bennettsville, Chenango County, New York, USA
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Jane Married Ira Bennett in 1839,
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Daniel Olmsted 1799-1882 (m. 1869)
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BIRTH 1817 New York, USA
DEATH 1869 (aged 51-52)
Bennettsville, Chenango County, New York, USA
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Eugene E. Bennett
BIRTH 1840 Bennettsville, Chenango County, New York, USA
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Bennettsville, Chenango County, New York, USA
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[S202] J.H.Beers & Co, Publishers, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania with Biographical Selections 1890, (Name: PA-Roots; Date: 1890;), IX Eulalia & Coudersport, 24238? http://www.pa-roots.com/index.php/pabooks/24-historymecp.
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History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890

CHAPTER IX EULALIA TOWNSHIP- BOROUGH OF COUDERSPORT

EULALIA TOWNSHIP- GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY- OIL WELLS, ETC.- POPULATION- ASSESSORS' STATISTICS- ELECTIONS IN FEBRUARY, 1890- LAYING OFF OF ROADS- EARLY TAX- PAYERS- MISCELLANEOUS.
BOROUGH OF COUDERSPORT- SURVEY- SOME FIRST THINGS- REMINISCENCES OF MRS. MARY A. ROSS- POST- OFFICE AND POSTMASTERSSCHOOLS, ETC.- RESIDENT TAX- PAYERS IN 1848- MUNICIPAL MATTERS- THE GERMANS- EARLY EVENTS- THE GREAT FIRE OF 1880- LUMBERING- CHURCHES- SOCIETIES, ETC.- BUSINESS.

EULALIA TOWNSHIP, named in honor of John Keating's daughter is, marked by the picturesque canon of the Allegheny, which flows in a general course from the northeast to the southwest, through this division. The walls of the valley, are mountains of Catskill, capped with Pocono sandstone or conglomerate. Immense masses of this conglomerate grouped here and there, a formidable group existing just east of the Coudersport limits. Almost within the limits the grey sandstone is developed, and also on the Homer road, while southeast is the brown sandstone with its rare, fossils. Up Dingman's run, 7,000 or 8,000 feet, and, in fact, in all the valleys around Coudersport, great conglomerate boulders are scattered, while on the hill tops the remnants of coal beds may be found, particularly where the mines of 1839 were opened, but the bed does not average more than fourteen inches, while on the east side of Nelson run a trial shaft was put down, only to find a twelve- inch vein separated by flag rock from a three- inch vein, and, of course, unprofitable to work. On the hills west of Dingman's run coal' deposits have been found, but time has worn away, not only the tops of the old hills, but also the underlying rocks, the coal beds and some of the strata on which they rested.
Mr. Sherwood, in his geological report, says: "The topographical feature of most interest in the geology of northern Pennsylvania is exhibited in this township, namely: the drainage in opposite directions inward toward the anticlinal axis. This involves the striking phenomenon- nowhere better exhibited than here- of the branches of a stream all heading in broad anticlinal valleys, and breaking into a central mountain mass through gates, and flowing through the center of that mass in a common stream." In the Coudersport neighborhood, glacial moraine material shows itself, and also some peculiar detachments of rock foreign to the district. Sherwood's collections, on the road to Homer, one and three-quarter miles from Coudersport, on top of the mountain, in "Catskill grey," comprise stigmaria? stem 18" long, 2 1/2" wide; plant stems, rugose; plant stems, slender, straight, rugose; stigmaria? impressions of long narrow stems, and lepidodendron.
In July, 1885, the Nelson oil well, five miles west by south of Coudersport, was drilled to a depth of 1,460 feet, when thirty- five feet of oil sand was struck, and another well drilled on Dingman's run, both by Watson. In January, 1886, the 2,200-feet well at Coudersport was drilled. Joe Tait found oil in the most improbable places in McKean county, but when he came to Potter county, fortified with his former success, he was stranded, so to speak, among the unlucky crags, and found a well so dry that it blew dust in his face. He was not contented, and grappled with another well in 1881, which proved as profitless as any of the numerous failures which marked nearly every township in the county. Jim Chambers, for the Germania Oil Company, drilled one well about eight miles from Coudersport, in 1881. This company drilled about a half a dozen wells in various parts of the county without success. Olmsted station, No. 2, Tide Water Pipe Co., is located three miles south of Coudersport, thirty miles from the Rixford pump station. The tornado of March 20, 1834, won from the pen of Burrel Lyman seven verses descriptive of the storm, which were published in Hiram Payne's Forester at Smethport. One verse, in particular, deals with the force of the hurricane at Lymansville thus:
The mill- pond, full forty rods it was thrown;
Large logs from their old beds were blown;
They were rolled to and fro like cobs on a floor,
Like the power of a god in the days of a Noah.

The population in 1880 was 554, while in November, 1888, there were 92 Republican, 68 Democrat, 1, Prohibition and 11 Union Labor votes cast, representing 860 inhabitants. The number of taxables in 1889 was 224, and the assessed valuation $195,318. The assessor's statistics of 1889 give Coudersport 458 resident tax- payers, 150 horses, 4 oxen, 80 cows. Seated real estate was valued at $68,349, and moneys at interest $286,311. The population in 1880 was 677, while in November, 1888, there were 296 qualified voters (179 Republicans, 86 Democrats, 3 Prohibitionists and 28 Union Labor), representing a population of at least 1,480.
The officers elected in February, 1890, are as follows: Justice of the peace, Alva Taggart; supervisor, J.D. Earl; constable, Fred. Schadenberger; collector, L.R. Toombs; treasurer, Charles Benning; town clerk, Julius Colcord; auditor, T.B. Abbott; school directors, Henry Reeves, J.P. Lehman, Wm. Frink; overseer of the poor, George Shelden; judge of election, Sherman Baker; inspectors of election, F. Gage, Justice Mehring.
In 1810 a petition to open a road from Coudersport to Ceres was granted by the court of quarter sessions of Lycoming county, when John King, Sampson Crawford, Isaac Lyman, Wm. Ayers, Josiah Furman and John Lyman were appointed viewers. The return of this road, or report thereon, was made May 7, 1812. In September, 1811, a road from Lymansville, near Coudersport, southeast to Tioga county line, was authorized.
Eulalia township originally included within its boundaries the whole of the southern portion of the county, from which new townships were from time to time carved out, until the township was left in two disconnected parts (one of which the map-makers, without any authority, labeled Oleona), this part being as much a portion of Eulalia as the part which is marked Eulalia. At the time the legislation for the Coudersport graded school was obtained, leading citizens of Eulalia were consulted, and that part of the township marked Oleona was attached to Coudersport school district, with the understanding that the people of Eulalia should have the same privileges in the graded schools to be established as the people of Coudersport would have; and in accordance therewith many of the children of Eulalia have been educated in this school, and all of them attend whenever they wish to do so. In addition to this the directors erected a house prior to 1882, on the East fork, and supported a school there the proper number of months in each year. On December 5, 1810, the Lycoming court, in answer to a petition of residents of Potter county complaining of the inconveniences arising from being attached to Dunstable, established Eulalia township within the boundaries of Potter. The name was given in honor of a daughter of John Keating. In 1828 the Cartee House was made a polling- place. A pane of glass was taken from one of the windows, through which the tickets were passed. Mrs. M.A. Ross thinks that elections were held at the Cartee House prior to this date. There were but three families in Coudersport this year- the Hinckles, Timothy Ives' and the Cartees.
William Bingham paid to the county and State, for taxes of 1834, the sum of $1,466.59 on unseated lands in Potter county. John H. Rose was his agent at that time. John Keating & Co. paid through their agent, O.A. Lewis, $467.10 State and county taxes on their lands in Eulalia township, $163.82 on lands in Roulette, $75.55 on lands in Sharon, $8.83 on lands in Sweden, and $135.81 on lands in Wharton; Robert and Jesse Waln paid $271.81 State, county and road tax on their lands in Eulalia for 1834; the De Neuvilles, $3.92, Vaux & Stewartson, $151.44; David Lewis, $46.72; Henry Drinkes, $22.24; Thomas Stewartson, $151.36; William Waln, $53.24; Dan. Knight, $8.41; F.R. Wharton, $19.74; Moses Levy, $149; George Kress, $11.22; Jane Humphrey, $68.50; Fred Bavissee, $9.21; A.B. Deschapelles, $6.96; Theo. Gouzaud, $13.36; Louis H. Doubigney, $13. 36; Peter Provencher, $6.67; John Cole, 68 cents; Nichtin Griffith, $29.39; Samuel Webb, $112.45; Jacob S. Waln, $29.69; Barney Duffy, $14.85; Brewster Freeman, $33.10; George Cleadin, $6.90; James Hopkins, $88.28; Robert E. Griffith, $37.08; Thomas I. Wharton, $23; Hannah M. Wharton, $16.70; J.R. Smith, $30; Ketland, Yard & Co., $22.26.
Eulalia township, in 1836- 37, claimed the following named resident tax- payers: Seth, George and John Taggart, Joshua Vincent, Betsy Van Etter, A. Woodcock, William, James and George Ayers, the colored freeman (Peter Asylum), Moses Strong's saw- and grist- mills, Leonard Taggart, Alanson Andrews, David Brooks, Thomas and Isaac Bellows, Hezekiah Bentley, Thomas Booth, John L. Cartee, Strait & Benson's saw- mill, L. Strong, Joseph Surong (blacksmith), L.D. Spafford, William Crosby, Reuben Clark, Nelson Clark (saw- mill), L.B. Cole, C. Chantabarger, Versal Dickinson (tavern, store, tan- yard), William and Josiah Earl, John Earl (merchant), Jason and John Wadsworth, Jonathan Edgecomb, Dr. D.N. Hunt, Denis Hall, B.F. Hoxsie, Hilyer & Boswick, F.B. Hamlin (freeman), T.J. Ives (merchant), B.H. Ives, B. Lull, C. Lyman,. P. Lyman, Ed. Lyman, Eben. McDougall, James and John Nelson, Jr., Cephas Lilas, Horace Nelson, H.A. Nelson (grist- mill), E. Prouty, C. Prouty, John Peal, H.I. Payne, Ezra Reynolds, George C. Reynolds, David Ross.
The first store built in Potter county was erected in 1826 at Lymansville by Dr. Harry Lyman. Noble lowland, father- in- law of A. Rounseville, of Coudersport, came from Lisle, Broome Co., N.Y., that year. His wife lived until the summer of 1887, dying at the home of her son, Perry lowland, near Lymansville. John Dingman* built his second grist- mill on the Turner place, about five miles below Coudersport, in 1828. He built his third grist- mill the following year on what is now the Benson place, above Lymansville. Henry Nelson died July 2, 1888. Sixty- eight years before, when he came to this section with his parents, there were only twenty- one families within the boundaries of Potter county. Some twelve or fifteen years prior to his death, farm work being too hard for his advancing years, he removed to Coudersport.

Ladona post-office (Lymansville) was established in December, 1889, with L.R. Toombs, postmaster.

H.J. Olmstead, writing in 1889 on the question of constitutional prohibition, gives a few points relating to the township and borough of a historical character. He says: "My acquaintance with Coudersport and vicinity commenced in 1848, forty- one years ago this last March. At that time there were three licensed hotels; all the stores in town, sold liquor except one. In one place was a rectifying establishment, and that one establishment prepared more whisky at that time for consumption in this county than all that is used in the county at this time. I do not hesitate to emphasize this. Then the population of Coudersport and vicinity was not more than one- fourth what it is now, possibly not that. And within the limits of the township of Eulalia (perhaps a little beyond the limits in some direction) there were twelve to fifteen confirmed inebriates at the time."
In July, 1876, the Enterprise published a story connected with a well- known family, which, like the foregoing reminiscence of forty years ago, is too interesting to omit: "Seth Taggart, the well- to- do farmer whose death we recorded last week, a short time ago requested Mr. Colcord, his son- in- law, to take a pick and shovel and dig in a certain part of the cellar, and without telling him the purpose. Mr. Colcord did as requested, but, after excavating a considerable space, found nothing. He was then directed to another place. After digging in the second place as directed he came upon a black and partially decayed package, and to his utter astonishment found it to contain coin. It was then removed, washed and cleaned and found to be just $1,000 in gold and silver. It seems this was deposited by Mrs. Taggart, who has been dead nearly nine years, long years ago for her daughters, and Mr. Taggart, with religious reverence, left it undisturbed for years. Her wish was carried out, and the coin was there divided. Little did these daughters dream that mother earth was the safe deposit bank' of their long, ago deceased parent. A portion of the coin we have seen, and none bears date later than 1854, and one piece is dated 1782, the year the war of the Revolution closed, and without doubt is among the few coins to be found of that date, now near one hundred years old. Some of this money, it is understood, was placed in a like strange deposit under the old house forty or fifty years ago, and removed to its recent resting place when the family removed from the old to the new house. The pieces we saw, although of great age, now that the mold of years is washed away, seem as bright as the coin of 1876."

BOROUGH OF COUDERSPORT.
The survey of Coudersport was begun in 1807. In King's survey notes, he states: "Left home to commence surveying and lodged at 14 1/2 mile tree 22d of the 7th mo. 1807. On 23rd went to where our provisions were left and built a camp, it being rainy we proceeded no further. 24th, went down the Allegheny to the Forks, and began to build a camp at Coudersport. 25th, finished the camp. 26th, went for remainder of our provisions and. marked the road to the camp. 27th, split a number of stakes for the corners of lots in the town and altered some of the lines of the town. 28th, began to measure and stake out the lots of the town." On the 18th of the eighth month of 1807 the survey was completed, the Indians went home and the surveying tools were taken to Ceres by Sampson Crawford. It appears that Thomas Lightfoot had made a survey here prior to this, in 1805, and that there was a small island in the river in 1807.
The deed by John Keating & Co. to the trustees of Coudersport (recorded p. 94, Vol. A Deeds, dated June 3, 1808), conveys two- thirds of the lots in Coudersport, then surveyed, two public squares, one for court- house and one for academy, together with 150 acres adjoining the town site to the county. He also donated $500 for the erection of a school building, and asked that the name he had given the location, in honor of a friend, Judge Couder, should be retained. In 1822 John Dingman and John Lyman contracted to clear the public square. In April, 1823, Isaac Lyman was granted $27 for clearing land at Coudersport, and in June $10 for clearing town plat. Peter Knickerbocker continued the clearing in 1824. In 1835 the first court- house was erected. In 1849 work on the present court- house was begun by Contractor Bell (who completed the McKean county court- house in 184748), and the building was completed in 1851. Eli Rees had the contract for carpenter work, which he completed in 1852. June 26, 1888, remodeling was commenced, and the work finished in May, 1889, Architect Hall and' Commissioner Wilber being the superintendents. The moneys then appropriated amounted to $17,000, to which liberal additions were made to complete the work. The following reminiscences of the early days of Coudersport are contributed by Mrs. Mary A. Ross, for sixty- five years a resident of the borough:
"John L. Cartee (Cartier), my stepfather, came to Potter county from Massachusetts in June, 1824, for the purpose of selecting a home, locating same year in Coudersport, where he bought for $16, a village square, whereon the jail now stands. Here, in the fall of the same year, he commenced to build a house, but scarcity of lumber, and the early setting in of cold weather, compelled him to discontinue operations. The county commissioners had cleared three or four squares, which they leased to Mr. Cartee, who sowed them to wheat. In the spring of 1825 he moved his family, consisting of wife, stepdaughter and little son, together with two hired men, and on May 10 they reached Coudersport, a desolate looking place, no house or building of any kind, except a small commissioners' office, which had been erected the year before.
"On what is now called the south side, the Keatings had a few acres cleared with a barn erected thereon, and apart from this clearing the place was a dense wilderness, our nearest neighbor being nearly a mile west of us. The Eulalia Keating Farm, as it was called until recently, is a body of land' on the south bank of the Allegheny river; a portion of the village known as the South Side, and containing nearly one- half of the population of the whole town, is built on this farm, and on lands belonging to the Ross estate on the eastern part of this division of the village.
"Ere we reached Coudersport we stopped for a short time at Lymansville, a thriving village founded by Isaac Lyman, who located at the place in 1809. His daughter, Eulalia was the first white girl born in Potter county. Isaac Lyman had the then best house in the county, and John Keating and his general agent, John King, used to make it their stopping place on their annual visits, and the county elections were held there for a long time. Mr. Lyman died in 1827. In September, 1825, the elections were held at the residence of John L. Cartee, and in 1826 (and many years thereafter) John Keating and his agent made Mr. Cartee's house their headquarters in this section.
"But to return to my original narrative of the Cartee family. We had a late dinner with Cephas Nelson (son- in- law of Isaac Lyman), who had been in the county about eight years, and we reached Coudersport late in the afternoon, and set about arranging for our first night in our wilderness home, which at that time consisted of a cluster of board tents erected in the course of a few hours, and a shanty built the previous fall. There were plenty of boards and shingles on hand, but scantling, joists and rafters had to be hewed out of logs and small timber. In ten days we moved into the addition erected by the side of the large frame. We had to cook out of doors; but Mrs. Cartee being a Yankee woman could not get along without an oven, so soon after a stone oven was built, and then a fireplace, although there was neither brick nor lime nearer than a distance of from forty to sixty miles.
"Our neighbors west of us, John Peet and family came to Potter county from New Jersey in 1811, and settled about a mile below Coudersport, then a dense wilderness. Two miles north of Coudersport there were two or three families. Daniel Clark, an Eastern man, settled with his family on a farm owned and still occupied by his son Nelson, and died in 1829. Two miles west there was another prominent family- the Taggarts. Squire' Taggart located in. Potter county in about 1817, four sons and three daughters coming with him. In 1825 he had a large farm well cleared, and some of his sons and daughters settled around him.
"Mr. Cartee soon began making arrangements for erecting a grist- mill, succeeding in constructing a dam across the Allegheny river, and in 1826 he erected a frame building for the mill. In the fall of the same year a flood carried away the dam, and the mill was never completed. One of the millstones brought from Jersey Shore for the proposed industry is now in Mrs. Ross' grounds. Mr. Cartee was public spirited, but, trying to do more than he could accomplish, he became discouraged and dissatisfied with the country; so in 1838 or 1840 he went west, only occasionally revisiting the scenes of his pioneer labors; he died in the far west about 1863. Mrs. Cartee died at Coudersport in 1858, at my house.
"When we came to Coudersport in 1825, people could, if they were industrious, live comfortably. Bread was the hardest article of food to get. After the first two or three years, Mr. Cartee gave up raising wheat, but grew vegetables abundantly. Game was plentiful, and the river and creeks swarmed with trout. For many years much of the necessaries of life was brought from Jersey Shore, Lycoming county.
"In 1825, and for several years thereafter,. Moses Haney, a lad of eighteen or nineteen years of age, brought the mail once in two weeks on horseback from Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, through Coudersport, to Olean, N.Y., and back again through Coudersport, and from Ayers' Hill, Potter county, through to Jersey Shore, then a dense wilderness, there being only one house in the entire distance. Letter postage was twenty- five cents.
"In 1825 Timothy Ives, the second inhabitant, was elected treasurer of Potter county vice Dr. Harry Lyman. Mr. Ives built a store for general merchandise, and a dwelling house in Coudersport the following year. In 1827 Michael Hinkle came to the place, built a house where he carried on blacksmithing. Mrs. Hinkle died early in the ensuing winter- the first death at Coudersport. In the fall of 1827 or 1828 Versal Dickinson put up a building and partly finished it for tavern purposes, where the Coudersport House now stands. Capt. Strong came about 1828, and in three or four years succeeded in clearing a few acres, erecting a grist- mill, a saw- mill and a comfortable dwelling house. Dennis Hall came with his family in the winter of 1829, and built his residence in following summer; he had some rooms plastered, the first in, the village; the building is still standing, occupied as a tenement house, and is the property of' the Ives estate. Maj. McDougall came to Coudersport early in the thirties; he had a general store, and built several houses. Same year came also a family by the name of Bishop. Dr. Pratt, the first physician in the village, stayed a few months, and then left. Dr. Gifford, the next physician, died in 1834, and Dr. Hunt succeeded him, but remained only a short time.
"C.S. Jones, a prominent merchant and resident of Coudersport for over forty years, had been associate judge, a member of the legislature, and from its first organization a deacon of the Presbyterian Church; he died in March, 1879.**
"In 1834- 35 the first court- house was' built, and the first court was held in September, 1835, Judge Eldred or Judge Herrick being the first president judge to officiate in the county, with Timothy Ives as one of the associate judges. Previous to this, from 1826 or 1827 Potter county was attached to McKean, and before that period to Lycoming, court being held at Williamsport, about seventy- five miles distant. About the time of holding courts at Coudersport, lawyers began to settle here, among them being Crosby W. Ellis, L.F. Maynard, Arch. McDougall, F.B. Hamlin and others, all long since gone. About the year 1839 John S. Mann, a lawyer, came to the place, and here lived until his death in 1879. A brother, Hon. Joseph Mann, lived in Potter county forty years or more, and in Coudersport twenty or twenty-five years; he was associate judge at one time, and died in 1885 or 1886, leaving a large estate to his only daughter, Mrs. P.A. Stebbins. The Olmsteds, three brothers, came late in the forties, and became very successful, prominent men in their several vocations.
"The county commissioners moved their office in 1835, and the old office was used for several years as a school- house, and a new building was erected for the district school in 1842- 43. At present there is a fine brick building for the graded school. After 1835, when the first court- house was built, it was not only used for courts of justice, but for many religious purposes, for lectures, political meetings, conventions, etc., and so continued to be used occasionally until the new court- house and earlier churches were built.
"In 1852- 53 the present court- house was erected, the builder being Mr. Bell; in 1888- 89 it was rebuilt at more than the original cost.
"In 1831 a Mr. Babcock, from the Smethport Methodist circuit, came to Coudersport on missionary work, continuing through the summer, and, when Conference met, itinerant ministers were sent here.
"The first church built in Coudersport was a Presbyterian house of worship, in about 1850, erected mainly through the persevering energy of the pastor, Rev. David Brown, who had been with the people several ears. The first Presbyterian clergyman, in the place was Rev. Mr. Bliss, who came here in 1832, remaining, however, only a few months.
"The Protestant Episcopalians commenced as early as 1842- 43, when they formed a small communion of members under the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Pratt, but he soon became discouraged and left. One or two other attempts were made to support a clergyman, but failed after a short trial. Rev. William Marshall, the present rector, has been here some seven or eight years, during which time the congregation have succeeded in building a stone church. Other church organizations in Coudersport were formed later, and the Episcopal, Lutheran and Catholic Church buildings have been put up within the past ten years."
The first post- office in this district was at Lymansville, Isaac Lyman being first postmaster. Later Cephas Nelson filled the office for several terms. The post- office at Coudersport is said to have been established May 14, 1818, with Isaac Lyman, postmaster, who held the office until April 21, 1827. His successors were appointed and served as follows: Timothy Ives, Jr., from April 1, 1827, to July 1, 1832. William McCall, from July 1, 1832, to September 1, 1832. Dennis Hall, from September 1, 1832, to October 1, 1834. Isaac Strait, from October 1, 1834, to January 1, 1836. Benajah H. Ives, from January 1, 1836, to January 1, 1838. Samuel Haven, from January 1, 1838, to April 1, 1839. Wales C. Butterworth, from April 1, 1839, to April 1, 1840. A.H. Butterworth, from April 1, 1840, to June 30, 1841. William McDougall, from June 30, 1841, to March 20, 1845. Charles B. Cotter, from March 20, 1845, to January 5, 1849. William T. Jones, from January 5, 1849, to July 5, 1849. Frank L. Jones, from July 5, 1849, to November 1, 1850. Abiather Rounseville, from November 1, 1850, to April 18, 1853. John M. Judd, from April 18, 1853, to September 9, 1859. Samuel Haven, from September 9, 1859, to March 13, 1861. Lewis Mann, from March 13, 1861, to September 9, 1861. John S. Mann, from September 9, 1861, to January 4, 1866. Don C. Larrabee, from January 4, 1866; to August 29, 1866. Eli O. Rees, from August 29, 1866, to March 29, 1869. M.S. Thompson, from March 29, 1869, to March 15, 1887. Edward N. Stebbins was appointed March 15, 1887, and is the present incumbent. In March, 1883, Coudersport was created a presidential office.
In 1838 the county was startled by the suicide of John Rose, who was a clerk in the Bingham estate office. Daniel Cobb was at that time the agent of the Binghams. The suicide was committed by shooting, in a barn belonging to Timothy Ives. This barn is still standing in Coudersport, on the north side of Third street, near the river, directly opposite the barn of H.J. Olmsted.
In 1828 Versal Dickinson taught one of the first schools in Coudersport. The legislature appropriated $2,000 toward the building of an academy at Coudersport in 1838. John Snow was the contractor who erected the building upon the side hill west of West street, between Fifth and Sixth streets. The first term of school was held in this academy in September, 1840, Prof. Maxwell being principal. A school was taught in Coudersport in 1838, by Charles Taylor, of Smethport, but could not have been taught in the academy building. Land had been given for school purposes (one square) as early as 1807, by John Keating, together with $500 in money. The grant was accepted by an act of the assembly. The district school building was at the corner of West and Fourth streets. At this time a great deal of the ground upon which Coudersport now stands, west of Main street, was a swamp, composed of pools of water, willows and bogs. Many people, not much past the middle age, can remember poling their rafts, constructed of loose boards, where the residences of Z.J. Thompson, R.L. Nichols and D.C. Larrabee now stand. The old district school- house is now the property of Hon. A.G. Olmsted, and used as a tenant house. As late as 1841 there were but five or six dwelling- houses in the borough. There could have been, certainly, no more in 1838, at the time the academy was built, as there had been no fires to destroy the place.
Mrs. Mary T. Kent came to Coudersport from Delaware county, N.Y. in 1843; she taught a select school in 1845; taught the district school for eighteen months; made an extended visit to her old home in New York State; returning to Coudersport in 1852, she has since resided here. In
1868 she was appointed agent of the H.H. Dent property in Coudersport, and has retained that position until the present. Mrs. Kent is a well- informed woman, of much more than ordinary ability. Her mind is exceedingly clear upon the happenings in the county during her life here, not only of a minor nature, but also of those things which have acted the part of important factors in the growth of the county and State, political and otherwise. Mrs. Kent is still an active woman, with a step as springy as many maidens, although her locks are white with the rime of age.
In the pages devoted to borough elections the names of school directors are given. The cost of the new school building, according to a report prepared in April, 1888, by C.L. Peck, W.F. Junge and A.B. Mann, was $12,452. 22. O.H. Crosby is president and A.B. Mann secretary of the school board, while the teachers are John C. Silsely, principal; Miss Jennie Thomas, preceptress; Miss Lettie Palmer, grammar department; Miss Jennie White, A primary; Miss Belle Haskell, B primary; Miss Rosa Crane, C primary; Mrs. C.L. Peck, music. The present principal succeeded Mr. Walter T. Palmer.
The Coudersport Library Association was organized in 1840, by a few women, who at first held sewing circles to raise money for the purpose of buying books. Several years ago a literary society was formed in connection with this association, since when it has been called the "Coudersport Library and Literary Association." The literary society has not held meetings for many years. Miss C.A. Metzger has the library at her ladies' furnishing store, in Coudersport, and has been the librarian for a long time. This was the only circulating library save Sunday- school libraries, in the county until quite recently. One was started as a private enterprise at Galeton about a year ago, but has, been recently sold out. During the last summer M.S. Thompson & Co. started a circulating library at their drug and book store in Coudersport, this is still in active life. H.H. Dent, late of Brookland, Penn., was president of the board of trustees of the Coudersport Academy, and took much interest in its welfare. On January 18, 1854, he presented to each of the students a fine volume.
Abiather Rounseville came to Coudersport, in 1841, the place at that time being merely a huddle of five or six houses besides the court- house and jail. Mr. Rounseville describes Coudersport at this time as one of the worst places he ever saw for its dimensions. At the old Hickory House a daily orgy of drunkenness was enacted, and fighting was of almost daily occurrence. One of the first things he did after his arrival at the county seat of Potter was to assist in arresting a local pugilist, who was full of liquor at the time. The capture was finally affected by throwing a noose over the arms of the bully, and several men dragging at the end of the rope, drawing their prisoner through the mud face down, so that it was necessary to relieve the prisoner's nose and mouth of the mud with a, chip. Soon after he came he took the job of making a cell in the crazy old jail which would hold a prisoner. He built this cell of two- inch maple planks thickly bolted. Two prisoners, however, escaped from it by the use of tools. He was for many years a commissioner of State roads in this section. He was at this time an "Old- line Whig" in politics. He speculated in land and securities, but his trade was that of carpenter and joiner. Mr. Rounseville has the keystone of the first court- house of Potter county, under the porch of his East street residence.
Archibald F. Jones' late residence was built in 1841, and at the time was looked upon as one of the finest residences in the county.
The resident tax- payers of Coudersport in 1848 were: C. Aylesworth (millwright), A. Aldrich (mason), A.T. Aldrich (blacksmith), S.E. Alvord (a single freeman), George Ayers, A.H. Butterworth (shoemaker), W.C. Butterworth (attorney), L. Bell, Jr. (wheelwright), G.A. Barclay, D.R. Bennett, L.M. Benson (attorney), Isaac Benson (attorney), E.W. Bishop, Daniel Clark, Seclinda Cartee, C.B. Cotter (said to be the first newspaper publisher here), John Crittenden, L.B. Cole, I.R.C. Coe (tailor), N.L. Dike, Dan. Dewey. William Dikeman, Versal Dickinson, D.F. Ellsworth (assessed $50 for a gold watch), Amos French, W.C. Gray (blacksmith), D.T. Hall, Haskin & Smith (merchants), John M. Hamilton (agent for Bingham estate), Lysander Herring (shoemaker), James Hawley, Samuel Haven (prothonotary), William Haven, C.B. Haven, L.M. Howard, Noble lowland, Edward F. Jones (cabinetmaker), F.L. & C.S. Jones, E.A. Jones, C.S. Jones (artist), A.F. Jones, W.T. Jones & Brother (merchants), Timothy Ives, Jr., Horace Leet, Joseph Mann, John S. Mann (attorney, agent for Keating estate), W.G. MeLelland, John Mann, W.W. McDougall (printer), William McDougall, R.W. Niles, L.F. Maynard (attorney), Maynard & Knox (attorneys), H.J. Olmsted, J.M. Packer (printer), C.R. Pradt and N.H. Peck (joiners), David Ross (tanner), Sobieski Ross (surveyor), C.D. Rogers (harness-maker), Jacob and John B. Reckhow, Benjamin Rennells (blacksmith), John Reckhow (wheelwright), A. Rounseville (joiner), D.W. Spencer, H.L. Simons, F.H. Smith, C.W. Strong (cabinet- maker), G.M. Smith (assessed $25 for a silver watch), A.W. Smith (teacher), Isaac Thompson, Samuel Thompson, Nathan Woodcock, James William Casey (joiner, was assessed $75 for a gold watch), Woodcock & Strait, Miles White (sheriff), Brown and A.G. Olmsted.
Municipal Matters.- The borough of Coudersport was chartered by an act of legislature in 1848. The first record of an election of officers is dated February 18, 1848. Isaac Benson received 32 votes for burgess, and was elected. For councilmen, L.F. Maynard received 31 votes; W.T. Jones, 14; N.L. Dike, 29; W.C. Butterworth, 16; W.G. McClelland, 12; C.B. Cotter, 12; Amos French, 4; John S. Mann, 3; Horace Leet, 1; C.D. Rogers, 2, and Samuel Haven 1. For justice of the peace, George A. Barclay received 23 votes, Versal Dickinson, 18, and D.F. Ellsworth, 14. L.M. Howard was elected constable, and A.H. Butterworth street commissioner.
In 1849 Isaac Benson was re- elected burgess, with Jones, Butterworth, Hamilton and Reckhow councilmen; John S. Mann, W.W. McDougall, J.W. Smith, H.J. Olmsted, I. Benson. and Abel Aldrich school directors. In 1850 David Ross was chosen burgess; L.B. Cole, justice of the peace; C.S. Jones, A.F. Jones and J.M. Hamilton, councilmen, and W.C. Butterworth and D.F. Ellsworth, school directors. Miles White was elected justice in 1851; Berak Niles, burgess; William Crosby, I. Benson, Ch. Jones, N.L. Dike and W.S. Raymond, school directors; J.W. Smith, C.. Ellis, Lucas Cushing, J.M. Hamilton, Nathan Woodcock and J.M. Packer, councilmen. In 1852 L.B. Cole was chosen burgess; F.B. McNamara, Amos French, Sobieski Ross and C.B. Pradt, school directors; Eli Bees, Benjamin Rennells, J.W. Smith and L.F. Minard being among the councilmen.
The office of burgess has been filled as follows, since 1852: John M. Hamilton, 1853; Thomas B. Tyler, 1854; Frank L. Jones, 1855; Isaac Benson, 1856; A.F. Jones, 1857, decided by drawing lots with J. Ives; D.F. Glassmire, 1858; G.B. Overton, 1859; A.G. Olmsted, 1860; F.W. Knox, 1861; John S. Mann, 1862- 63- 65; Collins Smith, 1864; D.C. Larrabee, 1866- 67- 68- 78; Benjamin Rennells, 1869; Joseph Mann, 1870- 71- 72- 73; P.A. Stebbins, Jr., 1874- 75; Charles S. Jones, 1876- 77; A.F. Jones, 1879; W.K. Jones, 1880; F.W. Knox, 1881- 82- 83- 86; J.W. Allen, 1884; David White, 1885; N.J. Peck, 1887; M.S. Thompson, 1888- 89. The vote cast for burgess in 1888, was 170 for M.S. Thompson and 69 for John B. Groves. Mr. Thompson was elected in 1889 without opposition, as were nearly all the other officers, only 78 voters polling.
Councilmen.- F.W. Knox, 1853; A.F. Jones, 1853- 74; Ben. Rennells, 1853- 66- 72; Eli Rees, 1853- 57; Collins Smith, 1854- 67; H.J. Olmsted, 1854- 78; D.F. Ellsworth, 1854; William Crosby, 1854; A.G. Olmsted, 1855; S.M. Mills, 1855; Jacob Reckhow, 1855; Cyrenus S. Jones, 1855- 70; Lewis Mann, 1856- 61; J.M. Hamilton, 1856- 58; N. Schoomaker, 1856-- 60; D.F. Glassmire, 1857- 59- 62- 64- 81; D.W. Spencer, 1857; W.H. Metzger, 1857- 59; Z.J. Thompson, 1857- 62- 67- 75; D. Ross, 1858; G.B. Overton, 1858; A.B. Goodsell, 1858; S.D. Kelly, 1859; George Manley, 1860- 61- 63; S.P. Minar, 1863; W.B. Gordnier, 1864; C.H. Warriner, 1864; C.H. Armstrong, 1865- 68- 73- 79; L.A. Ensworth, 1865; M.W. McAlarney, 1865- 67; P.A. Stebbins, Jr., 1866; N.H. Goodsell, 1868- 74- 85; Charles Beissmann, 1869- 72- 78; James Pearsall, 1869; Charles Kernan, 1870- 77; A.B. Mann, 1873; John S. Ross, 1875; John Ormerod, 1876; O.H. Crosby, 1876- 79; D.Y. Stevens, 1877; Earle Cram, 1878; Abram Jones (vacancy), 1879- 80; M.L. Gridley, 1880; P.A. Stebbins, 1880- 83; D.C. Larrabee, 1881; Isaac Benson, 1882; Charles Armstrong, 1882; H.A. Scoville, 1885; Charles S. Jones, 1883; James L. Knox, 1884; W.K. Jones, 1884; J.R. Groves, 1886; W.B. Bees, 1886; E.J. Fickler, 1887; P.E. Kendig, 1887; John Denhoff, 1888; Watson T. Dike, 1888; W.W. Thompson, 1889; A.S. Olmsted, 1889. The officers elected in February, 1890, are: Burgess, P.A. Stebbins; councilmen, O.E. Armstrong, C.D. Keihle; school directors, A.B. Mann, C.C. Breunle; high constable, W.H. Rounseville; collector, Ed Gillon; constable, Ed Gillon; overseer of the poor, E.G. Crane; auditors, Harry Snyder, T.J. Gilbert; judge of election, H.A. Scoville; inspectors of election, D.W. VanWegen, Patrick Gorman.
School Directors.Eli Rees, 1853; C.W. Ellis, 1853; W.C. Butterworth, 1853; A. Rounseville, 1853- 56- 57- 59- 62- 65- 68- 70- 74- 77; A.G. Olmsted, 1854- 57; P.A. Stebbins, 1854; J. Reckhow, 1854; J.M. Hamilton, 1854- 63- 66; S.P. Goodsell, 1856; D.B. Brown, 1856- 59; N. Schoomaker, 1857; C. Smith, 1857; J.S. Mann, 1858- 60- 68- 72; Ben. Rennells, 1858; Z.J. Thompson, 1858- 61- 62- 65- 69- 78; Jacob Jenkins, 1858; C.S. Jones, 186064; J.B. Smith, 1860; G.C. Manley, 1861; A.F. Jones, 1861- 67; A.S. Armstrong, 1862; H.J. Olmsted, 1862- 64- 67- 76- 79; O.H. Crosby, 1863- 66- 69-- 81- 84- 87; E. Starkweather, 1864; P.A. Stebbins, Jr., 1873- 88; D.C. Larrabee, 1869- 73- 76- 79- 85; W.B. Gordnier, 1870- 74- 77- 80; W. Shear, 1872- 75- 80; C.A. Doerner, 1875- 78; A.B. Mann, 1881- 84- 87;W.H. Rounseville, 1882; C.L. Peck, 1882- 85- 88; O.A. Stebbins, 1883; W.F. Young, 1883- 86- 89; J.W. Allen, 1886- 89.
Justices.- Lewis B. Cole, 1855- 60- 65- 75- 80; Lucas Cushing 1856- 61- 67- 72; J.C. Davidson, 1874; John Ormerod, 1877; O.J. Rees, 1878; Miles White, 1882- 87; Daniel Baker, 1883; John R. Groves, 1888- 89; Z.J. Thompson, 1888- 89.
Water Company.- The Citizens' Water Company was originated by A.G. Olmsted, F.W. Knox and R.L. Nichols. Early in 1882 the company bought five acres of land on Dent's run, northwest of the town, north of the Niles road, and right of way through Miss Kate Dent's land, for $1,000. William Bassett built the dam, sixty feet long, and twelve feet high, and cleans pool, for the contract sum of $175. A four- inch main was laid from the reservoir to Main street, this being the size of mains throughout the town. The first purchase was sixty tons of this pipe (2,240 pounds to the ton), costing $46 per ton. The first fire plug was tested at Coudersport, April 20, 1885, the hydrant with two others being placed by the water company.
Fire Company.- The first fire company was organized in May, 1885, with P.A. Stebbins, president; C.L. Peck, secretary; J.L. Knox, treasurer; W.K. Jones, engineer; B.A. McClure and W.I. Lewis, assistant engineers. In April, 1889, the following named officers were elected: President, A.B. Mann; treasurer, J.L.. Knox; secretary, Charles Nelson; chief engineer, W.K.
Jones; first assistant engineer, Clarence Kiehle; second assistant engineer, A.S. Olmsted.
Hook and Ladder Department.- President, N.J. Peck; secretary, Earnest Wentworth; foreman, W.C. Rennells; first, assistant foreman, E.B. Tracy; second assistant foreman, Daniel Monroe.
Hose Department.--- President, D.E. Kendig; secretary, C.H. Nelson; foreman, M.L. Gridley; first assistant foreman, W.T. Dike; second assistant foreman, E.M. Gillon.
The Germans.- The first Germans who settled about Coudersport came in 1854. Christian Breunle, Sr., being among the first to come. He had thought of going to Germania with the first colony there, but, not liking the terms of organization, he came, on to Coudersport, and settled upon the mountain south of the town, where he lived until his death, which happened a few years ago, a much respected citizen, leaving a large and respectable family. Mr. Fourness was among the original colony in 1854. Many others followed, so that at present the Germans living in and about Coudersport form a considerable community. They are frugal and economical, accumulating money and increasing in possessions. They are generally good citizens, and accommodating neighbors. In their dealings with the world at large they are honorable. There are some who cannot speak English, and do not try to; but the majority, from their constant mingling with the people, speak the language of the land fluently. A Lutheran Church was organized in 1886, by Rev. H.C. Grossman; the number of the membership reaching to nearly one hundred. This organization is in a prosperous condition. There are a number of Catholics among the Germans here, though the majority of them are of the Lutheran faith.
Early Events. - In 1852 the first brick house in the county was erected by Collins Smith, who built a brick store on the same lot, in Coudersport. This lot is now the property of Hon. Isaac Benson, the house being used by him as his residence until 1887, when it was torn down to make way for a residence of the modern style. In 1854 Sobieski Ross erected his house. Charles S. Jones, who died October 27, 1889, came with his brothers, Frank and Edwin, to Coudersport in 1847, and established a store where is now H.J. Olmsted's residence. William T. Jones, who in 1842 opened a store near the corner of 5th and Main Streets, and in 1844 built a store where P.A. Stebbins & Bro.'s store now stands, died at Costello September 17, 1889. At that time goods were hauled from Dansville, N.Y., the nearest point on the Erie Canal.
On July 4, 1855, while celebrating the nation's birthday at Coudersport, a canon, planted near where the Presbyterian Church now stands (this church being at this date on West street), bursted. By this accident E.D. Halbert had a leg so mangled that it was found necessary to amputate it. But we see by the People's Journal, issue of August 16, 1855, that the unlucky man was so far recovered from his injury as to be able to ride out the day before (August 15). By the bursting of this cannon, a piece was hurled across West street, and sent crashing through the side of the house where C.A. Doerner now lives. A window now occupies the site of the damage.
Great Fire of 1880.- The Coudersport fire, May 18, 1880, destroyed the business portion of the town, including the Glassmire House, H.J. Olmsted and Norton & Doane, hardware; N.M. Glassmire, sewing- machine office; M.S. Thompson & Co. and Dr. Amos French, drug stores; K.N. Stebbins, C.S. Jones and P.A. Stebbins & Bro., dry goods stores; Charles H. Armstrong, Edward Forster and Andrews & Olmsted, grocery stores; E.O. Rees, jewelry store; Pierce & Lovell and Charles Reissmann, furniture stores; D.F. Glassmire, Sr., dry goods; M.B. Gordnier, foundry; Z.J. Thompson, L.B. Cole, wagon shops; Dr. E.S. Mattison, office; Abram Jones, restaurant and bowling alley; Carl Zimmermann, meat market; W.W. Thompson, Potter Enterprise; A.C. Perkins, George Brehmer, blacksmith shops; I. Griesel, harness shop, Arch. F. Jones & Son, bankers; Olmsted & Larrabee, law office; Mrs. Samuel Havens, dwelling house; F.E. Neefe, wagon shop; Rose Anton, millinery; L.B. Cole & Son, insurance office; D.F. Glassmire, Jr., livery stable; Charles Beissmann, old dwelling house. The fence about court- house square and fine shade trees were burned, all entailing a loss of $140,000, while the insurance was about $75,000. In. December, 1880, M.S. Thompson's new store took the place of the old building which stood there for almost fifty years before the fire. P.A. Stebbins, Jr., & Bro. had their new building completed about this time, on the site of their old frame, which, after almost a half century's use, was the first to fall in the fire of 1880.
This great fire may be said to have ended the old town of Coudersport. As stated, the work of rebuilding was soon entered upon, and to-day two sides of the public square are covered with modern commercial buildings, while toward the depot the street is well built up.
Lumbering.- In 1881 Benjamin Rennells purchased the hardwood, hemlock and small pine on the grounds south of where the Commercial Hotel, the depot and Catholic Church now stand, for $1,600, from the Keating estate. Out of this tract he took about 12,000 feet of pine, 1,300 cords of hemlock bark and about 2,000,000 feet of hemlock lumber, which was sawn at a mill that was built that year, about one- fourth mile south of the town, by Van Wegen, Quimby & Co. This mill was moved two miles down the river in 1886. P.A. Stebbins purchased about 200 acres of this and adjoining lands from the Keatings, except the square donated to the Catholic Church, and the town lots surveyed. The building of the Coudersport & Port Allegany Railroad played no small part in the drama of re- establishing the town, and introducing the new era of progress.
Churches.- James B. Roach, of the Tennessee Methodist Conference, was sent to Coudersport in 1823, his circuit extending 18 miles down the Allegheny river to Canoe Place; thence up the Allegheny portage 10 miles to the dividing ridge; thence to the Portage settlement, 14 miles down the Sinnemahoning portage to its confluence with the main creek, an unbroken wilderness of 24 miles, if we except the primitive houses of Hiram Sizer and Brewster Freeman, 6 miles up the portage. (Mr. Chadwick tells that the road was very Tough, with 27 fordings, some of them troublesome when the water was high, wild animals very abundant, and it was not uncommon to meet a pack of hungry wolves in close pursuit of a tired deer, or to find the carcass of a deer covered up in the leaves after a panther had killed and taken a meal out of it). From the portage 3 miles to the mouth of North creek, back 2 miles to the mouth of West creek; thence by bridle- path 7 miles up West creek to the mouth of Big run; thence by bridle-path over the mountains, 23 miles to the Jersey settlement, now Centreville- in all 30 miles by bridle- path, through an unbroken wilderness; thence 12 miles to Brockway's settlement, near Bennett's branch; thence 23 miles to the confluence of Bennett's and Driftwood branches; thence 16 miles to the mouth of the Sinnemahoning; thence 15 miles to Young- woman's Town (North Point); returning to Bennett's and Driftwood branches, up the Driftwood 18 miles to Portage (Emporium) settlement; thence by North creek bridle- path 17 miles to Potatoe creek; thence 10 miles to Smethport; thence over the mountains 10 miles to Canoe Place, and thence to Coudersport, or 249 miles. James Hazen succeeded Roach on the circuit in 1824; Nathan Mills (succeeded by John Bowen) came in 1825. There were no appointments from 1826 to 1830, when John P. Kent came. In 1831 Samuel E. Babcock, and, in 1832, William Butt and Samuel Gregg were the circuit preachers. The circuit was extended to Farrandsville, on the Susquehanna, in 1833, with T.J. Jennings, B. Preston and Joseph Hallock, preachers. They were succeeded, in 1834, by J.H. Tackitt, S. Hill, Bryan Auren and Gazee Smith. John Dunning, of Erie Conference, had sole charge in 1835, but in 1836 L. Whipple and John Hanna assisted him. During this year the class of the old school- house at Smethport claimed 150 members, the revival of that year being the cause. This class at once entered on church- building, but, undertaking a house much larger than their subscriptions, the building could not then be finished, and many fell away from the church. The Rev. Burrows was the first presiding elder, and the first quarterly meeting of this denomination was held in Lymansville in 1832, and this year (1832) saw the regular organization of both the Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal Churches. In 1839 Mr. Crandall came here, since which time the following named have had charge of the circuit.
In 1845- 46 Coudersport was detached from Smethport, and Rev. Horace Harris, the former circuit preacher, appointed preacher in charge of the new station. He was followed, in 1847, by E.B. Pratt; in 1848, by B. Williams; in 1849, by Joseph Latham, and in 1850, by W.B. Slaughter, then principal of academy. In 1851- 52 S.Y. Hammond was here, and presided at the dedication of the church, February 21, 1855. In 1852 J.B. Wentworth, principal of the academy, had charge, followed by J.H. Delamater in 1853; S.C. Smith, in 1854, and W.H. Shaw, in 1855. The preachers in and since 1857 were as follows: A.M. McIntyre, 1857; M.H. Rice, 1858; Charles Strong, 1860; H.H. Lyman (L.P.), 1861; J.J. Roberts, 1862; L.A. Stevens, 1864; T.S. Hartley, 1867; Edwin Wildman, 1868; C.B. Sparrow, 1869; E. Williams, 1810; O.M. Leggett, 1872; S. Milward, 1875; Elijah Wood, 1876; T.R. Stratton, 1879; Cornelius Dillenbeck, 1881; A.A. Craw, 1882; J.W. Wright, 1884, and Mr. Jervis, 1887- 89.
The Presbyterian society built the first church edifice at Coudersport, in 1850, on the side- hill on West street south of the academy, where George Olmsted now resides. Rev. David Brown, who recently resided near Ceres, was the pastor at the time, and for some years before and after presided here. This is said to be the first church building in the county. The Presbyterian society was incorporated February 25, 1854, on petition of P.A. Stebbins, A.G. Olmsted, F.W. Knox, H.J. Olmsted, N.L. Dike, M.R. Gage, F.L. Jones, C.W. Ellis, D.F. Ellsworth, L.T. Maynard, Charles S. Jones, A.F. Jones, A.L. Bird, William H. Metzger and William Crosby, presented in December, 1853. The trustees elected in 1853 were William H. Metzger, C.S. Jones, H.L. Bird, O.H. Butterworth and W.W. McDougall. Rev. Mr. Crumrine has served this church for some time.
Christ Church, English Protestant Episcopal, was reorganized under act of incorporation of February 22, 1855, on April 18, 1881. The vestrymen then elected were Miles White, Isaac Benson, P.A. Stebbins, Jr., W.K. Jones, M.S. Thompson, Charles A. Stebbins, E.N. Stebbins, A.G. Olmsted, W.E. Womelsdorf, John S. Ross, James L. Knox and H.R. Whittaker, some of whom were members. On May 1, services were held in the Knights of Honor hall. In 1883 the question of building a house of worship was considered, work commenced, and the present house was opened November 9, 1884. Rev. William Marshall is rector.
The Baptist Church was erected upon the south side of the river, on Allegheny avenue over forty years ago. The chief promoter of the erection of this edifice was John M. Hamilton, who died here in 1887. Mr. Hamilton was a man of fine mental endowments and of good education; a strong supporter of liquor prohibition, and promoter of morality in general. Although somewhat eccentric, he was a good citizen, whose loss was felt. He was for a number of years a clerk in the land office of Fox & Ross.
The Allegheny River Baptist Association was organized in October, 1887, with A.D. Bush, of Coudersport, moderator; C.H. Dodd, clerk; D. Simpson, of Turtle Point, treasurer; A.N. Peck, of Coudersport, C.S.; and E.H. Hovey, of Annin creek, J. Jack, of Eldred, and the moderator, missionary committee; Annin creek, Coudersport, Port Allegany, Roulette and Turtle Point, regular Baptist Churches, were represented.
The Roman Catholic Church dates back to the "forties." Among the early members, prior to 1858, were John Sullivan and son, Thomas Lenahan, James and M. Sullivan, John Ryan, Widow Scholard (now Mrs. Shannon. of Roulette), Patrick Carey, J.J. Carey, Calahan and Jerry McCarthy, Michael Fitzpatrick and several others, who are not remembered by Mark Gillon, who came that year. Rev. John L. Madigan, who then resided at Sartwell creek, in McKean county, visited the village occasionally, and also attended the church in Genesee township, taking in Bradford, Kane, Alton, Emporium and other old settlements, having been a resident priest at Coudersport during the building of the church, and, until succeeded by Father Flood, who is resident priest at Genesee. The congregation numbers 200. In May, 1883. it was resolved to erect a church building on the lands donated by the Keatings years ago. The plan adopted was that of the church at Port Allegany (which was dedicated August 26, that year). Not, however, until August 9, 1885, was the building dedicated by Bishop Mullen.
The Universalists of Coudersport were attended by Rev. L.F. Porter, in 1856.
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized, May 16, 1886, with seventy- one communicant members under the Rev. Grossman, the work of ingathering having been done mostly by the Rev. J. Sanders, of Ridgway, Penn. Services were held in a hall, and conducted in the German and English languages. After a pastorate of six months (April to November, 1886), Rev. Grossman resigned. The present incumbent, the Rev. E.J. Meissner took charge of the field, composed of Coudersport, Olmsted and Roulette, in May, 1887. A lot was purchased on Allegheny avenue, and September 18, 1887, the cornerstone was laid for a chapel; the neat edifice, semi- gothic in style, was dedicated the year following August 5, with solemn ceremonies, the pastor being assisted by the Rev. L.M.C. Weichsel, of Renovo, Penn.
Societies, Etc.- Eulalia Lodge; No. 342, A.Y.M., was chartered March 4, 1861, with Timothy Ives, master; B.S. Colwell, S.W.; Joseph Williams, J.W.; Samuel Havens, secretary; Dr. Joerg, treasurer; C.H. Warriner, J.C. Cavenaugh, G.W.G. Judd and D.C. Larrabee, unofficial members.
Prior to the fire of May 18, 1880, the room was in the Temperance hall. In September, 1880, work on the present building was begun, the site being formerly the location of C.S. Jones and F.E. Lyon's store. On September 9, 1880, the cornerstone was placed, among the souvenirs enclosed being a copy of the Potter Pioneer, of February 4, 1848, and one of a small temperance journal published here in 1849. The past masters were D.C. Larrabee, William Shear, J.W. Allen, N.H. Goodsell, R.L. White, W.A. Crosby, O.H. Crosby, W.W. Thompson, C.A. Stebbins, W.K. Jones, N. Pinney, James L. Knox, Milton S. Winfield and Willis I. Lewis, the present master. W.W. Thompson is secretary. The officers for 1890 in the order of lodge rank are Harry A. Scoville, D.W. Van Wegen, S.A. Phillips, William W. Thompson, Benjamin Rennells, Rev. A.D. Bush, G.H. Grabe, A.R. Buck, C.L. Peck, L.R. Bliss, Levi S. Quimby and W.G. Wilber.
Coudersport Chapter, No. 263, R.A.M. was chartered Oct. 17, 1882, by D.D.G.H.P. Joseph Simonds, of Bradford. The first officers were L.W. Crawford, D.C. Larrabee, W.K. Jones, David White, W.W. Thompson, J.L. Knox, C.A. Stebbins, R.L. White, W.I. Lewis, A.S. Lyman and W.J. Brown. The numbers refer to Past High Priests to which the name of Peter A. McDonald must be added. In 1889 Burton A. McClure was H.P. with Willis I. Lewis, secretary. This chapter elected the following named officers December 4, 1889: Samuel A. Phillips, H.P.; N.H. Goodsell, K.; N.A. Pinney, scribe; W.J. Brown, treasurer, and James L. Knox, secretary.
A dispensation was issued in March, 1890, by the right eminent grand commander of Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, granting the right to certain Knights Templar here, to open a new ommandery here to be known as Potter Commandery, No. 69. This dispensation holds only until the first of May. The Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania will meet in May, when the members will apply for a charter which, if obtained, will put them upon a permanent footing. The present officers are W.K. Jones, eminent commander; James L. Knox, general; Willis I. Lewis, captain- general. There are twelve members, and over twenty petitions for membership were presented at first meeting.
Knights of Honor.- This society was organized May 6, 1879, with twenty charter members. First officers were: C.L. Peck, P.P.; M.L. Gridley, P.; J.L. Knox, V.P.; L.F. Andrews, Asst. P.; H.C. Olmsted, B.; F.J. Norton, F.R.; E.N. Stebbins, T.; W.W. Thompson, Chap.; W.R. Rees, G.; A.F. Hollenbeck, G.; W.C. Rennells, Sent.
Knights of the Maccabees, Coudersport Lodge, No. 49, was chartered November 11, 1887, with Harrington, J. Moran, M.J. Wolcott, William Schutt., W.H. Palmer, Frank Gordnier, F.M. Ashcraft, J. Ryan, W. Wilson, J. Griesel, Ora Nichols and Elmer Gaylord, officers in the respective positions from S.K.C. to S.K.P. D.B. Neefe was P.S.K.C. at time of organization.
Coudersport Lodge, No. 815, I.O.O.F., was chartered August 9, 1888, with H.C. Dornan, N.G.; E.H. Ashcraft, V.G.; K.R. Hodskin, secretary; A. Zacharias, A.S., and J.E. Forster, treasurer. The lodge grew into importance rapidly, and now has about one hundred members, the past vice- grand now presiding. The present officers are H. B. Whittaker, N. G.; Carl Breunle,
V.G.; H.T. Nelson, secretary; C.J. Marble, treasurer.
A.F. Jones Post, No. 20, G.A.R., was charted April 20, 1881. The muster roll contains the following names:

Adams, N.B., 136th N.Y.V.
Haskins, Leroy, 199th P.V.
Ayers, S.F., 46th P.V.
Havens, John P., 211th P.V.
Abbott, John, 58th P.V.
Haskins, Ira, 99th P.V.
Allen, Wesley, 188th N.Y.V.
Hewitt, Jefferson, 131st P.V.
Bassett. Byron,(5*)66th N.Y.V., 11th P.R.C.
R.O. Haynes, R.H., 16th P.C.
Boyer, G.W.,(5*)21st P.V.C.
Hurst, Thomas,(4*)106th P.V.
Buck, F., 3d B. 9th C., 1st P. Rifles, and hospital steward 207th P.V.
Hurlburt, Harvey,(4*)85th N.Y.V.

Hazen, Wm. H., 149th P.V.
Brine, W.S., 1st P. Art.
Haynes, B.A., 53d P.V.
Baker, Hiram, 187th P.V.
Hall, Philander, C., D, 7th P.C.
Bridges, Hiram, 141st N.Y.V.
Hall, M.E.,(4*)58th P.V.
Barrett, C.N.,(4*)46th P.V.
Hartwick, Adam, 17th P.C.
Barr, C.H.,D, 53d P.V.
Harrington, Thomas, U.S. Navy.
Boniwitz, Wm., 143d P.V.
Hoyt, Harvey, 164th N.Y.V.
Bundy, James, 48th P.V.
Haskins, Pardon, 99th P.V.
Bates Richard,(4*)2d N.Y.C.
Hollenbeck, G.W., 76th P.V.
Bishop, E.M.,5th N.Y.V.
Jackson, Merrick, 46th P.V.
Baldwin, George, 149th P.V.
Johnston, James, 144th P.V.
Blodgett, Merrit, 171st P.V.
Jordan, Allen, 46th P.V.
Brine, Jesse, 77th P.V.
King, L.C.,(5*)161st and 68th N.Y.V.
Barnes, C.H., 189th N.Y.V.
Kline, Valentine,(5*)65th N.Y.V.
Butler, Chas. A., 86th N.Y.V.
Knowlton, Aaron, 149th P.V.
Boyer, Andrew, 34th N.Y.V.
Luckey, Emanuel, 46th P.V.
Babcock. Benj. F., 151st P.V.
Lamont, C.A., 46th P.V.
Butler, Wm. A., 46th P.V.
Larrabee, Cyrenus,(4*) 85th N.Y.V.
Card, Orrin M.,(5*)199th P.V.
Lewis, Almon,(4*)45th and 99th P.V.
Courtright, Orrin, 46th P.V.
Lent, Wm B., 149th P.V.
Colcord, Amos D.,***, 5th U.S.C.
Lane, R.B., 136th N.Y.Y.
Covey, John M.,***, 89th N.Y.V.
Lewis, George C., 5th N.Y.C.
Clinton, Geo., 171st P.V.
Lyman, A.S., 12th N.Y.C.
Colcord, Albert, 76th N.Y.V.
Lewis, Wm. H.H., 16th N.Y.H.A.
Cunningham, M.F., 168th P.V.
Lillie, Harrison, 143d N.Y.V.
Carr, E.D., 149th P.V.
Marble, C.J.,107th N.Y.V.
Chappel, F.H., 11th P.V.C.
Mann, R.L., 49th P.V.
Clark, Porter, 8th P.C.
Metzger, John, 186th and 207th P.V.
Calkins, D.J., lst P. Art.
Mattison, Wm. H., 18th N.Y.V. and 50th N.Y. Eng.
Clark, Thomas, 56th N.Y.V.

Cornell, Hiram, 149th P.V.
Mitchell, George W., 86th N.Y.V.
Calkins, John P., 4th N.Y.H.A.
Marsh, Miles, 53d P.V.
Coykendall, Philo H., 1st P.C.
Moore, W.W., 93d N.Y.V.
Duel, Henry L., 1st P. Rifles
Meyers, H.L., 93d and 50th P.V.
Dolway, John B., 100th N.Y.V.
Morris, John, 1st N.Y. Dragoons.
Dingman, Henry, 53d P.V.
Mattison, John,D, 48th P.V.
Davidson, J.B., 161st N.Y.V.
McNamara, F.B., 61st P.V.
Dingee, E., 53d P.V.
McKinney, Philander, 53d P.V.
Davenport, Fred., 89th N.Y.V.
McNeil, John T.(4*) 5th N.Y.C.
Davis, Leonard, 16th P.C.
Nesbit, John, 46th P.V.
Dingman, William, 46th P.V.
Norton, Seymour,(5*) 171st P.V.
Earl, John D., 53d P.V.
Owens, A.H.(4*) 199th P.V.
Everett, D.A., 1st P. Art.
O'Neil, Wm.,(4*) 69th N.Y.V.
Everett, D.D.,(4*) 171st P.V.
Pearsall, John B.,(5*) 11th Maryland.
Fox, George H., D, 51st P.V.
Pearsall, G.W.,(5*) 46th P.V.
Fournes, Edward, 76th P.V.
Presho, D.L.C., 149th P.V.
Foster, C.E., 1st P.C.
Palmatier, C.A., 46th P.V.
Fickler, E.J., 65th N.Y.V.
Quimby, L.S., 141st N.Y.V.
Freeland, Samuel, 42d P.V.
Rees, O.J., 46th and 171st P.V.
Frame, Arthur, 56th N.Y.V.
Rees, W.W., 99th P.V.
Gridley, M.L.,(5*) 12th P.V.C.
Rennells, A.L., 149th P.V.
Grodevant W.M.,(5*) 57th P.V.
Ruscher, C.H., 46th P.V.
Green, S.R., 46th P.V.
Reer, C.H., 9th Ind. V. and Invalid Corps.
Green, B.A., 58th P.V.
Roberts, John, 149th P.V.
Gordnier, John, 2d Iowa V.
Rossman, O.W., 46th P.V.
Green, Ephraim, 58th P.V.
Rhone, Wm. F. 178th P.V.
Grossman, H.C.(4*) 188th and 65th P.V.
Reed, Luther, 97th P.V.
Groves, John B., 5th P.C.
Reed, Albert, 53d P.V.
Hyde, Edson,(5*) 53d P.V.
Rennells, George W., 149th P.V.
Hosley, W.T.,(5*) 2d U.S.S.S.
Snyder, Hiram, 53d P.V.
Simmons, W.C., 76th N.Y.V.
Thompson, S., 102d N.Y.V.
Schauss, C., 41st N.Y.V.
Traver, Wm. H., 154th and 86th N.Y.V.
Stillman, A.R., 46th P.V.
Thompson, G.W., 12th N.V. Ind. Batt.
Sheldon, Chas., 93d P.V.
Van Ammon, Richard, 1st P.R.C.
Snyder, Jacob, 53d P.V.
Wallace, John L., 86th N.Y.V.
Staysa, I.C., 46th P.V.
Wallace, James, 85th N.Y.V.
Sinsabaugh, Thos, L., 46th P.V.
Whitman, L.D., 2d Mass. C.
Smock, Samuel, 160th and 78th N.Y.V.
Wright, Ernest. 141st N.Y.V.
Story, William, 102d N.Y.V.
Weimer, John V., 149th P.V.
Stickle, Andrew, 143d N.Y.V.
Whitney, E.A., 99th P.V.
Tuttle, George N.,(5*)1st P.L.A.
Weimer, Michael, 99th P.V.
Taylor, Edwin,(4*) 161st N.Y.V.
Williams, Allen E., 7th P.C.
Thomas, L.B., 86th N.Y.V.
Wright, John W., 175th P.V.
Tuttle, J.N., 46th P.V.
Willoughby, Elisha, 149th P.V.
Toombs, Lyman B., 126th N.Y.V.
Younglove, Geo. F., 46th P.V.

The commanders of the post are named as follows: C.J. Marble, John B. Pearsall, John M. Covey, A.S. Lyman and John B. Groves, in 1889. John P. Earl has been adjutant for some years, and I.C. Staysa, quartermaster. The post elected the following named officers in January, 1890: L.S. Quimby, C.; L.R. Toombs, S.V.C.; Ed. Fielder, J.V.C.; J.R. Groves, chaplain; Sydney Lyman, Q.M.; W.H. Grodevant, surgeon; John D. Earl, adjutant; E.M. Bishop, O. of G.; G.S. Baldwin, O. of G., and John Metzger, Q.M.S.
Amos D. Colcord Camp, No. 121, Sons of Veterans, was chartered July 1, 1887, with J.B. Colcord, W.J. Norton. J.S. Colcord, A.J. Quimby, E.H. Ashcraft, T.N. Quimby, M.J. Potter, W.M. Quimby, W.M. Staysa, E.N. Bridges, H.E. Taxbox, N.R. Buck, J.A. Quimby, C.W. Marble, Arthur Gordnier, Almond Bridges, John Colcord, Jesse Rogers, Burton Roberts, J. McCann, Burton Snyder, Wm. Snyder and Isaac Dingman, members.
A.F. Jones Woman's Relief Corps, No. 72, was chartered July 4, 1887, with the following named members: Mesdames Charlotte E. Groves, Mary Lyman, Martha Bees, Helen Smock, Keziah Baker, Sarah Davis, Della Griesel, Vina Lilly, Sophia Viley, Louisa Marble, and Rose Bishop. Misses Sarah Lyman, Carrie Presho, Nellie Perkins, Matilda Deemer, Eda Doerner, Nealia Marble, Lettie Palmer, Mary Palmer, Kate Kernan, Inez Metzger, Nora Metzger, Florence Mattison, and Isabella Crane. The first officers were installed March 10, that year.
In 1849 the temperance movement came into notice, and the advocates of this virtue established a little newspaper here. In November, 1853, there were nine Good Templar lodges in the county. Like the greater number of such societies they disbanded, and others with a similar object were organized. Eulalia Division, Sons of Temperance, celebrated its eighteenth anniversary June 22, 1867, being a portion of the veteran reserve corps of temperance in the State. Forest Division of Sons of Temperance was organized' March 25, 1887, with thirty-five charter members. List of officers: O.J. Rees, W.P.; Lettie Gordnier, W.A.; W.H. Rounseville, P.W.P.; J.E. Rounseville, R.S.; Carrie Presho, A.S.; L.R. Bliss, F.S.; P.W. Butterworth, T.; Rev. Bush, Chap.; Frank Gordnier, C.; Mary McCormic, A.C.; Ora Nichols, I.S.; Lewis Reissmann, O.S., and C.L. Peck, D.D.
The Coudersport Prohibitory Amendment Club was organized April 30, 1889, with Isaac Benson, president; J.W. Allen, vice- president, and C.L. Peck, secretary. The call for the mee

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