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- HISTORY of POTTER County 1073
to use the church building, but in May, 1887, the question of joint ownership was raised.
The Union Church society of Allegheny was incorporated in 1888, with B.
F. Bishop, C. E. Tucker and W. A. Gardner, managers. The object was to build
a house of worship for the use of the Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists and
Universalists of Andrews Settlement, to be controlled by the Methodists.
There were fifteen members at organization in March, 1888. The building
was dedicated January 24, 1889, B. F. Bishop, C. E. Tucker and W. A. Gard
ner being the managing committee. Andrews Settlement Cemetery Association
was incorporated in February, 1888, with B. F. Bishop, Charles Coats, D. W.
Rogers. R. A. Andrews, R. Ellis and E. H. Estes directors. At Raymond
is the general store of Consble Bros. (W. E. Freeman kept the general store
here in the seventies), at Colesburg is A. Veley’s general store, and at Andrews
Settlement is the store of W. H. Matteson. John C. Cavenaugh, one of the old
settlers who has been for thirty-five years a tipstafl’ of the court, and is now
living with his son, James Cavenaugh, in Coudersport, came into the county
in 1836. He settled in this township on the farm now occupied by Warren
Gardner. At this time there were not more than twelve or fourteen voters in
the township. The elections were held at the house of Levi Andrews, the only
dwelling house at the time where now stands Andrews Settlement. The elec
tions were held at that time for Allegheny and Genesee townships together.
There was a log school-house at Andrews Settlement. The school was taught
by a Mr. Cannon.
In July, 1889, the Sons of Temperance of Andrews Settlement elected the
following named oificers: Lena Andrews, Clara Scoville, Almond Scoville,
Charles Bishop, Ella James, Allen Gardner, John Bishop, W. Simons, Mrs.
Hall, Lewis Dwight and Lulu Burch.
The officers of this township elected in 1890 are the following named:
Supervisor, R. A. Andrews; constable, W. E. Weaver;
collector, W. E. Weaver; town clerk, E. A. Haskell;
auditor, D. L. Raymond; treasurer, W. B. Perkins;
overseer of the poor, B. F. Bishop; school directors, E. Miller and H. Stebbins;
judge of election, M. A. Veley; inspectors of election, M. Hattenstein, F. P. Leet,
and for the Woodville independent district the following named school directors were chosen:
James Bird and Philo Stonemets.
CHAPTER XI.
BINGHAM TOWNSHIP.
G1-:o1.oer or ran TOWNSHII’-TORNADOE8-I’OPULATION AND VALUES--NA)!ES or
SETTLERS--A NUMBER or Fiasr TlIINGS-EDUCA'1‘IONAL AND RELIGIOUS
Miscellaneous
BINGHAM is the second in the northern tier of townships. The Catskill
claims this township almost totally, surrendering a small space in the
northwest and southwest to the Pocono, and at the mouth of Turner’s creek to
the Chemung. The Genesee river, Turner’s creek and small streams, with
Marsh brook and other heads of the Cowanesque, drain this territory. Near
the southwest corner on the middle branch of the Genesee, at the old Lyon,
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d. 15 Aug 1901, Allegany Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA 
