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Title: Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908
Subjects: Onondaga County (N.Y.) -- History Onondaga County (N.Y.) -- Biography
Publisher: (Boston) : The Boston History Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hadsprung up in the vicinity of what is now Mandana. David and vSamuelWelch, the latter the father of Samuel, jr., and a soldier in the war of1812, very early located in the neighborhood. A log school house waserected on the subsequent tavern site, and in it Daniel G. Burroughswas the first teacher. Later teachers were Misses Hall and Gleason.John G. Garlock, who served in the war of 1812, built and opened astore, in which he was followed by John P. Miles, Jacob Van Houten,Seth Morgan and others. Other early settlers in the vicinity wereIsrael Sabins (a blacksmith), Tunis Van Houghton, James Gardner,Samuel Robertson, Edward Greenman, and William Watts. JosiahGarlock was a tavernkeeper here as early as 1835, and in his houseand at the taverns of W. H. Mershon at Mottville and Isaac W. Perryin Skaneateles elections were held in 1836, one day in each, suc-cessively. On March 2, 1806, the Skaneateles Library Company was incorpo-rated with Elnathan Andrews, Thaddeus Edwards, Warren Hecox,
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WILLIAM MARVIN, THE TOWN OF SKANEATELES. !)87 Samuel Porter and Daniel Kelloj^g, trustees. Mr. Edwards was chair-man and Mr. Kellogg was treasurer and librarian, the latter holdingthese offices till 181G, when he was succeeded by Alexander W. Beebe,who served until 1824. He was followed by Phares Gould from 1824to 1834, by James G. Porter in 1834-35, and by E. H. Porter in 1835-41, when the library collapsed. No less than 115 subscribers joinedthe (organization during its existence, and the first manuscript cataloguecontained the titles of 308 volumes. On October 20, 1877, the Skane-ateles Library Association was incorporated by Joel Thayer, E. Nor-man Leslie, Henry T. Webb, John H. vSmith, Charles S. Hall, E. B.Coe, John C. Stephenson, George T. Campbell, S. D. Conover, P^dwinL. Parker, C. W. Allis, Prof, A. M. Wright, Joseph C. Willetts, JohnHumphryes, and William Marvin. Rooms were opened in the LeggBlock, and in 1880 the present handsome and commodious stone libra-ry building was

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