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1890 Business Directory of Adams New York

Jefferson County / Allen, Alport, Andrus, Angell, Archer, Archibald, Arms, Armsbury, Atwater, Averill, Ayers, Babbitt, Babcock, Bader, Bailey, Ball, Banister, Bannister, Barney, Barrett, Bartlett, Bassett, Bateman, Bates, Bedford, Beedle, Belcher, Bemis, Bentley, Bersie, Blackstone, Blair, Blasier, Blount, Bond, Boomer, Bosworth, Boudiette, Bovee, Bowen, Boynton, Bradbury, Bradley, Brainard, Briggs, Brimmer, Bristol, Brooks, Broom, Brown, Brownell, Brundidge, Bryan, Bullard, Bullock, Bunce, Bundy, Burlingame, Burns, Butler, Cagwin, Cameron, Campbell, Carley, Carpenter, Carroll, Carter, Case, Casler, Castler, Cemmerman, Chafin, Chamberlain, Chandler, Chapman, Chase, Churchill, Clark, Clements, Cleveland, Clifton, Cobb, Coit, Colfax, Collings, Colton, Comins, Converse, Cook, Cooke, Cool, Cooley, Coon, Cooper, Copeland, Copland, Corey, Cosner, Coughlan, Cowles, Crandall, Crosby, Crowner, Cummings, Curry, Daily, Damon, David, Davis, Dawley, Dealing, Dekin, Delano, Deling, Delmater, Dennis, Denny, Devendorf, Dewey, Deyden, Dixon, Dodge, Dodson, Doren, Douglas, Downie, Doxtater, Dryden, Duncan, Dwight, Dyer, Edgar, Edmonds, Eggleston, Ellinwood, Elmer, Emerson, Empey, Enos, Fairbanks, Farr, Fassett, Fawdrey, Ferrin, Fish, Fisher, Fitzgerald, Foley, Fox, Franklin, Frasier, Freeman, Fuller, Gabriel, Galway, Gardiner, Gardner, Garlock, Garvin, Gaylord, Gero, Gibbs, Gilbert, Gillman, Glass, Glazier, Godfrey, Goodenough, Goss, Grant, Graves, Gray, Green, Greene, Gregory, Griffiths, Griswold, Groff, Grummon, Guess, Gurley, Gussman, Haight, Hakes, Hale, Hall, Hallett, Halley, Hammond, Hannahs, Harrington, Harris, Hart, Hathway, Haven, Hawes, Hawley, Haydn, Hazel, Heath, Heidenfelder, Hicks, Hill, Hinds, Hodge, Hodges, Hogan, Holloway, Holman, Horth, Hovey, Howe, Huestis, Hull, Hungerford, Hunniwell, Hunt, Huntington, Huson, Huson House, Hustis, Ingraham, Irons, Irvin, Isham, Ivory, Jeffrey, Jemieson, Jemmieson, Jenkins, Jimerson, Johnson, Jones, Judd, Kane, Kearns, Keller, Kelley, Kellogg, Kelly, Kenyon, Ketchum, Kirkland, Lamson, Landon, Lane, Langworthy, Larkin, Larkins, Larock, Lawrence, Leavitt, Lee, Leonard, Lewis, Linsey, Little, Littlefield, Livermore, Lockwood, Loomis, Lord, Loveland, Lovelle, Lyman, Lyon, Lyons, Magill, Main, Mainard, Maldoon, Maloney, Manville, Marriott, Martin, Mather, Maxon, Maxson, McAuley, Mccady, Mccalley, McCarty, Mccomber, McCormick, Mcdougall, Mcdowel, McGill, Mcintyre, McKee, McNeil, Medcalf, Merrick, Middleton, Miller, Mills, Miner, Mitchell, Monroe, Moody, Moore, Morgan, Moulton, Munderbach, Munson, Muzzy, Narrom, Nellis, Nelson, Newton, Niblock, Nichols, Nickelson, Norton, Nott, O'neil, Oatman, Oderkirk, Overton, Owens, Page, Palmer, Parham, Parker, Parsons, Patrick, Patten, Patterson, Payne, Pease, Peasley, Pelo, Pelsue, Penny, Perkins, Petrie, Pettit, Pharm, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Pitcher, Plumb, Pool, Poole, Porter, Post, Potter, Powers, Pratt, Prentice, Presley, Pruyne, Pryor, Puffer, Ramsdell, Randall, Ranney, Read, Reed, Remington, Rhoads, Rhodes, Rice, Rich, Richardson, Richmond, Ripley, Roach, Robbins, Roberts, Rodgers, Rogers, Rose, Ruff, Rundall, Ryder, Safford, Salisbury, Salter, Sanford, Saunders, Schram, Schrodt, Scidmore, Scriven, Seacor, Searles, Seeley, Seely, Shannon, Sharples, Shaw, Shepard, Sinclair, Sischo, Smith, Snell, Snow, Snyder, Spencer, Spicer, Squire, Stanley, Steele, Stevens, Steward, Stewart, Stillman, Stitt, Stokes, Stone, Stoodley, Strickland, Stuart, Sullivan, Swan, Tabor, Talcott, Tarbell, Taylor, Tedam, Thomas, Thompson, Thomson, Tifft, Timmerman, Titsworth, Tolls, Tomlinson, Totman, Towle, Towles, Towsley, Trowbridge, Twiss, Underwood, Utter, Van Auken, Van Schaick, Van Slyke, Van Waldick, Van Wormer, Visscher, Waggoner, Waite, Wakefield, Waldick, Walker, Wall, Walsworth, Ward, Wardwell, Warner, Warriner, Washburn, Waterbury, Weaver, Webb, Webster, Weller, Westcott, Wetmore, Wheeler, White, Whitford, Whittam, Wilbur, Wilcox, Wilder, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Wiswell, Withington, Witter, Wolcott, Wood, Woodard, Woodward, Woolworth, Worden, Wright, Wylie, York, Young

This 1890 Business Directory of Brownville New York is transcribed from Child’s Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890. Adams Collegiate Institute, D.A. Dwight, pres.; James G. Kellogg, vice-pres.; A.K. Hale, M.D., sec’y; T.T. Carter, treas.; Orlo B. Rhodes, prin.; Mrs. Helen Butterworth Coughlan, prec. Adams Laundry, Hodge & Potter, props., Church. Adams Lumber Co., John A. Cameron, manager, manufs. of and dealers in lumber, sash, doors, blinds, moldings, builders’ hardware, paints, oils, and glass, contractors and builders. Allen, Herbert a., (Smithville) r22, farmer 100. ALLEN, W.J., editor and publisher Jefferson County Journal, job printer. Alport, Clarence C., resident, h …

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Adams New York Biographies – Part 8

Biographies, Jefferson County / Allen, Andrus, Arthur, Atridge, Babcock, Ballou, Barney, Betts, Boomer, Buckley, Chase, Crandall, Crosby, De Voe, Delong, Dwight, Ecla, Eddy, Frith, Glass, Green, Greenley, Grout, Hamilton, Hatch, Hinman, Huson, Ingalls, Jones, Killy, Landon, Lanphere, Lapham, Lockwood, Loomis, Maxon, Osborne, Parmlee, Perry, Place, Prentice, Ramsdell, Randall, Ransom, Reynolds, Rhodes, Rice, Roach, Sherman, Smith, Stillman, Taylor, Waldo, Warner, Watkins, Weatherbee, White, Woodward

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: Albert G. Glass; Luftus J. Landon; Lorenzo Green; Elihu Allen; Asa B. Prentice; Abner L. Ramsdell; Hiram Taylor; Alvin Parmlee; Orlo B. Rhodes; and Christopher Huson.

Adams New York Biographies – Part 6

Biographies, Jefferson County / Aldrich, Avery, Ayres, Bennet, Brandt, Briggs, Brown, Bullock, Burdick, Butterfield, Butterworth, Carr, Clark, Coughlan, Crane, Cronk, Frasier, Freeman, Furgerson, Gardner, Given, Gleason, Green, Grover, Henry, Hodges, Hungerford, Jennings, Johnson, Lamson, Marriott, Mesick, Moulton, North, Northrup, Nunn, Perkins, Pitcher, Potter, Putnam, Rhodes, Rice, Root, Sedgewick, Sherwin, Sherwood, Steadman, Stearns, Stillman, Sullivan, Thornton, Tracy, Twadell, Van Wormer, Waite, Watkins, White, Wilder, Witter, Wood

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: George Potter; Mark Marriott; Matthew White; Jonathan Lamson; George Frasier; Austin H. Coughlan; Alfred A. Hodges; Joseph Bullock; Seymour H. Pitcher; and George D. Sullivan.

Adams New York Biographies – Part 3

Biographies, Jefferson County / Arnold, Boyden, Brimmer, Brown, Bull, Close, Coon, Davis, De Lancey, Dwight, Eggleston, Eygabroad, Fox, Fuller, Furguerson, Gilbert, Gould, Green, Hall, Heath, Jones, Keep, Kellogg, Kent, Kimball, Le Valley, Mann, Maxson, Millard, Muzzy, Packer, Parker, Peckham, Phillips, Rhodes, Rice, Robbins, Sanford, Saunders, Sheldon, Smith, Snell, Stillman, Totman, Trafton, Wardwell, Washburn, Whipple, White, Wilder, Williams, Withington

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: John C. Fox; Robert Muzzy; Henry B. Whipple; Newton M. Wardwell; Albert Rice; Samuel Fuller; Jesse Maxson; Calvin C. Totman; Jacob Brimmer; and Giles Parker.

The Hungerford Collegiate Institute

Jefferson County / Beebee, Blackstone, Bond, Brimmer, Brown, Butterworth, Chatfield, Cheeseman, Chittenden, Clark, Clarke, Cleveland, Cooper, Coughlan, Dwight, Eddy, Fisher, Frasier, Gardner, Gaylord, Gilbert, Grenell, Gunther, Harmon, Hastings, Hobart, Hoffman, Holbrook, Houghton, Hungerford, Hunt, Ingraham, Jackson, Jewell, Johnson, Kenyon, Mackie, Martin, Mason, Maxson, Mendell, Mullen, Mullin, Niblock, Overton, Randall, Rhodes, Rosa, Salisbury, Smith, Stearne, Taylor, Vandercook, Waldo, Watkins, Webb, Wheeler, White, Whitford, Williams, Withington, Woodward

This thriving institution of learning is located at Adams village, whose inhabitants early felt the need of better facilities for education than the common schools afforded; accordingly efforts were made at different times to found an institution of learning of a higher grade; but, owing to local jealousies and the powerful opposition of the friends of the Black River Institute, located at Watertown, and Union Academy, at Belleville, they were not successful. In the year 1852 an effort was made to establish a graded school, but it resulted in failure. In the year 1859, Captain Sidney J. Mendell, filled with …

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The Greene Settlement of Adams New York

Jefferson County / Adams, Bell, Brown, Clark, Crosby, Greene, Marot, Rhodes, Sills, Whitford

The ancestry of the numerous Greene families, now residing in Adams, whose members number more than three hundred, belonged to Rhode Island, where one of them, Charles Greene, served during the Revolution, and afterwards removed to Rensselaer co., N. Y. Here he reared a family, which, in 1805, immigrated to Lewis co., and in 1810 several of them became citizens of Adams, at a place which has since borne their name. Of the elder Greenes, Charles was prominent in securing the settlement of a large number of his friends from the eastern part of the State, he served as an …

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Brownville New York Biographies – Part 1

Biographies, Jefferson County / Allen, Ayer, Babcock, Baker, Berry, Bonney, Bronson, Brown, Carpenter, Clark, Cobb, Cole, Cristie, Dunham, Ely, Emerson, Ferguson, Freeman, Gould, Green, Hamblin, Hamilton, Hawley, Hildreth, Horr, Hungerford, Irwin, Kane, Keith, Kilborn, Knapp, Knox, Langworthy, Lee, Martin, Moffitt, Morse, Newton, Paddock, Peck, Plumb, Prior, Rhodes, Robinson, Stacey, Starr, Steele, Taylor, Trapett, Waters, Welbon, White, Wilder, Wilson

The following 10 biographical sketches were extracted from the Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, N.Y., 1685-1890: Samuel Plumb, John Cole, Jonathan Emerson, Benjamin Prior, Jacob Kilborn, Josiah Bonney, William Stow Ely, Cyrus Allen, Jacob Carpenter, and William Berry.

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