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Acetylene gas, discovery of, 170
Adair: Fred, 91, 92; Maude (a race horse), 176; Ward (peddler), 93s
Adams: George J., 21p 194, xi; John, 126; John (farmer), 189; Sarah, 189
Adams (turkey farmers), 38s
Adaquetangie Lake. See Sexsmith Lake
Adaquitingues (Indians), 8
Adequentaga, Indian village, 5n, 182
Alcohol consumption and abuse, 131s
All, Nelson, 95p
Allen, 22s; Abial, 22n; Charles, 22n; Robert, 22n
Amadon: Bruce, 215; Douglas, 215; Robert, 215
American Revolution, 7, 8n, 17, 22s, 46, 58, 140; border warfare, 18
Angell, William (merchant), 35, 36
Anthony, Susan B., 132c
Apple cider, beverage of choice, 73
Apples and cider, 72
Archeologists, 4
Archeology: Adequentaga, 5; Davenport Center creamery site, 4; Hilltop Workshop, 4; McCulley site, 4
Arminius, Jacobus, 122n
Army Corps of Engineers, 165, 165c,166
Arnold, Francis, 26
Artsis, Dr. Nathan, 110
Asbury, Philip, Rev., 120
Ashe: Maryanne, 204; Philip, 204
Ashery (See also Potash), 13, 20, 46, 47s, 48, 58; workers in, 86
Astor, John Jacob (merchant), 33, 33n
Auditors in Davenport (1876), 28s
Auerback, John, 21c
Aunt Jewel (Sherman Lake baker), 185c
Aviation: car lights for night landing, 174; early local airfields, 173; pioneers, 174s; propeller from the sky, 174; Vern Whitlock’s airplane, 174p; Whitlock’s airflight, unpublished account, 174
Baird, Jean, 209p
Balcom, William (fireman), 115
Baldwin: Dewitt C., 94, 178; Esther (Mrs. Dewitt) (milliner), 94, 95s
Baldwin Opera House, 96
Baldwin’s Hall. See also Wade’s Hall; 11p, 85p, 100p; history of, 94; social center (description), 178; use by Union Free School, 104
Ballard: Audrey, 116n; Ben, 87p, 172c; Floyd, and firefighting (sidebar), 115s; Mike, 106p; Thomas, 209p
Bands (musical): Ernie Russ, 155; St. Onges, 155
Bangs: Heman, Rev., 121n; John S., Rev. (and blacksmith), 121; John, Rev., 121n; Nathan, Rev., 121n
Banner, 22s, 30; John, 23; Wilhelmus, 30
Barker: Clifford, 124p; Sam, 124p
Barlow: George H., 48s, 53; Martin, 48s; Mike, 116n
Barn raising: Delhi (second photo), 133p; Delhi (first photo), 139p; Delhi (last photo), 139p; Rider, at Davenport Center, 139p
Barn Yard, The, 219p
Barnes: A. W., 54; Carrie, 29, 194, 195p; Everett A., Pvt, 198p; Merritt, 217p; Roselle, 46p, 53c, 60p, 195c
Barnett: Amos, 181; Mary Wagner, 181
Barrel making, 53s
Barrett, Harry, 185
Bartholomew, Joseph, 32n
Baseball: Davenport team (1920s), 129p; end of summer softball, 204; Would-Bees vs Has-Beens, 177
Basketball: CVCS team (1985-86), 106p
Bassani, Gustave (interview with), 151s
Bathing: recent history, 211
Battershall: Charles H., 55, 56c; W. H., 55
Battershall sawmill, 56p
Baxter, Doug, 116n
Beach: W. O., 89; William C. (carpenter), 90
Beams: Ben, 29, 54s,117, 118s, 208p, 211s, 213, 219c, xi; Ben, Jr., 118s; Benjamin W., 54, 56p; Bill, 118s; Brian, 118s; Harry, 117, 196; Robert Allen, 201p, 201s; Sally (Balcom), 28, 89n,117, 118, 126, xi
Beaver Spring Farm vacationers, 180p
Beaver Spring Lake, 59, 129c, 188p, 192p; campground (early 2000s), 188; dam and campground, 187
Beaver Spring Trailer Park, 188
Becker: Abraham (and suit against Congregationalists), 123, (South Worcester businessman and lawyer), 123n; V. D., 128
Beers: Clifford (WWII gold star), 194; Lu, 127n; Ronald, 204; Ronnie, 159; Rose, xi; Tom, 106p
Beers Map, 1869, 31, 88, 88n, 90, 91
‘Bees’: corn husking, 135; in community life, 134; quilting, 134; spinning, 135s; transportation to, 135s
Bell, Bertha (teacher), 102c
Bennett: Err (water boy), 36s; Gordon, 167p; Nathan, 23
Bertucci (family), 87n
Best, Gerald M. (author), 42
Bicentennial Celebration, 179, 205; ‘Days to Remember’, 206, 206p, 209p; (program), 207; organizing groups, 206n
Bicycles: ’bone shaker’ in 2003, 139p; courting by, 139p
Binghamton: Albany & Susquehanna reaches, 88; cigar making, 48s; Davenport flood control effect on, 165; flood’s effect on Davenport, 165; Mayor John Burns wants Davenport dam, 166s
Birdsall, Ira S. (school founder), 103
Black, Dr. Peter (water resources specialist), 166
Blacksmiths, 53, 56, 57, 58, 87; Civil War mobile shop, 145p
Blakeley, David. Mrs., 132p
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks (bloomer popularizer), 131n
Bloomville, 13, 27, 92, 99; and Grange Master Cleveland, 154; and railroads, 40, 92; early Grange, 157; G.L.F. outlet, 156; Indian trail, 31; part of Delaware Circuit, 121; squirrel hunt (1851), 163; stage line, 41; volunteers for Cuba, 146
Blue, Peter (dance caller), 204n
Bluestone trade, 45
Boarding House, Beaver Spring Farm (Von Neer), 179p, 118
Boarding House Farm, 129c
Boarding houses, 179; Beaver Spring vacationers, 180p; John Frank (Von) Neer, Prof., 180; Wellington Neer, 180
Bogs: kettle hole, 182n; quaking, 187
Bolt, Dr. Frederick E., 92, 110
Boops-A-Daisy, in Davenport Center, 155p
Booth: Jesse, 21, 23, 25, 29; Selah, 21
Bostwick, David, 37
Boyes, Irene, 154
Boynton, Dr. (lumberman), 45
Brandon, Glen, 115, 115n, 116n
Brant, Joseph, 8, 18n, 18s; and Iroquois, 8n
Brant, Molly (Degonwadonti), 8n
Bree, Henry, 24n
Bresee, 22s; John, 24n; Phineas Franklin, 127s; Phineas, Rev., 121
Breitnitz, Lawrence W., Sgt., 202
Brent, H. (judge), 108
Brewer: David, 22s, 23; Elias, 22s; Francis, 22s
Briar Street. See also East Meredith; railroad routing, 39n
Brick House Hill Road, 2c, 52c
Bridges: covered; keystone, 34p; over Charlotte River, 41p, 44p, 171; over Middle Brook, 44p; Parker over Middle Brook, 36p, (interior) 44p, 170p; Iron over Charlotte, 176p; Mill Road, 52p; Mill Road bridge and car below, 176p; Van Deusen and ice jam, 1912, 176p
Briggs: Adam, 118s; Carlton, 118s; Clyde, 118s, 121n; David, 117, 118s; Earl, 118s; Ermine, 53, 92; Fern, 185; Frank, 30; Frank (and apple cider), 73n; Frank (of Pancake Day fame), 118s; Harry, 40n, 116n, 118s; Iona, 104p; Jean, 118s; Lewis, 118s, 208p; Luther, 55, 144; Luthera, 118s; Mary S., 28, 30, 95s, 125, 208p, 220, xi; Mary Selzer, 150p; Orville, 92, 118s; Oscar, 92, 144; Wilder, 56p
Brinkman, Dr. George, 109
Brockway: Arthur, 95p; Bill, 95p
Brown: Andrew; (‘banker’), 92; of many talents, 92s; Ezra, 113; John (abolitionist), 131n; John C., 54, 55; Sally Ann (pipe smoker), 92s
Brownell: Elizabeth (Lizzie), 181p; Minne L. (Mrs. Joseph), 189; William W. (tavern owner), 132
Brownson, Jennie, 143
Brownwell, Joseph, 189
Bruns, William, 151s
Bryant, Whitman, 23
Buck: Ann, xi; David, Rev., 120; Edwin H., 195c, (a modern ‘horning’), 137, (honorary Adaquetangie Club member), 191; Frederick, 194, 196p; George, 196p, 197; Orson J. (stage driver), 44p; Robert, 197p
Buck Road, 13
Buckwheat field, 84p
Buckwheat for all, 71s
Burdick: J., Mrs., 131; Kenneth, 58
Burns: Betty, 209p; Ronald, 159; W. Robert, 200
Burrell, C. G., 128
Burt, Carol, 104p
Burtis, Garrit, 123
Burton, Frank L. (jeweler), 95
Butler: Colonel William, 18s, 32; Walter (Loyalist), 18n
Butter and cheese, in Delaware County, 72
Butter for New York City, 42
Buttermilk Falls, Fergusonville, 4p
Butts: Calvin, 39p, 176, 177s; Gerald, 167p; Perry, 39p, (wagon maker), 53; Rosie (Calvin’s wife), 177s
Butts Corners, 50; early Scots in, 17; Indian trail, 31, 33; manufacturing in, 53; McDonell land reoccupied, 19
Calhoun, Effie, 154
Calvin, John, 122n
Cameron, John, 16
Campbell, Dudley M., 36
Campground, Beaver Spring Lake, 187
Camping: Sexsmith Lake, 1910 or 1911, 189p; Strader Lake, 182
Canadarago Lake, 2n
Canoe place, 7, 12, 32n, 51, 208
Cargill, Florence, 128p
Cargin: Brice, Pfc., 200; Elizabeth (Brownell), 127n, 181p, 200; Gilbert H., 116n, 166n, 181c, 200
Casein manufacturing, 51
Casey, Laura, 116n
Catskill, town of, 36
Catskills: bluestone, 3; known as Blue Mountains, 45; origin of mountains, 2; railroad routes, 39n; undiscovered Northern, 223
Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, 213
Cellar, John, 185
Cemetery: Blakely, 121n; Charlotte Valley, 89; Davenport Center, ghosts, 185
Center Creek gristmill, 13
Cereals: corn harvesting, 71p, 84p; rye and barley, 71; wheat in Davenport, 70
Cerosaletti: Charles, 165, 166, 168, 227; Paul (extension agent), 215s, 224
Chaffee, A. B., Rev., 120
Chambers: Bob, 155; remembers Ku Klux Klan, 126; Metta, 117; Robert, 58, 117
Champion, Amasa (editor), 96
Charlotte Academy, 123
Charlotte Creek, baptisms in, 124
Charlotte Creek Road, 34p, 76p; and ‘twister’ (1999), 161
Charlotte River, 1, 3, 4, 32s, 48, 228p; and eagles, 164; and eels, 69s; and hay wagons, 80p; and ice jams, 164; and lumbering, 45; and Scotch settlers, 16; and water power, 55; canoe place, 7; from Davenport village, 204p; great flood (1812), 140s, 164; Indian occupancy, 4; Indian town, 5; Indian trail, 31, 32; lands of Christopher Servoss, 13s; naming of, 8, 8s; previous Indian names, 8s; railroad routing, 31; stream bed and auto rescue, 169p
Charlotte Valley, 2p, 3p, 11p, 19, 58, 228p; and border warfare, 18; and farming, 78; and stones, 69p; description (canoeing guide), 3; earliest store, 85; geology, 2, 2n; industry in, 46; later Scotch influence, 19; railroad routing, 39; Scotch Highlanders in, 14; slow growth after American Revolution, 19; Watershed Association, 166s; Watershed Association organized, 166
Charlotte Valley Central School (CVCS). See Schools, CVCS.
Charlotte Valley Mills, 55
Cheese factory, 48, 49, 72; Orlando Coss, 52
Cherry Valley, 12, 19, 19n, 36; massacre, 18n, 18s; pearl ash works, 12n; scalps from, 18; settlers move to Harpersville, 14
Cherry Creek, 3
Chisolm, 19
Christensen: Gail, 206p; Peter, 214c; Ray (Raymond M.), 29, 80s, 159, 166, 166s, 227; Shannon, 214c
Christmas, early celebrations, 134
Churches: and Christmas celebrations, 134; and community life, 129; and the ‘enjoyment’ of religion, 122; Arminian method, 122; Baptist, West Davenport, 138p; circuit riders, 120; Congregational: anti-reformers rebuffed, 123; in Davenport, 122; precipitous downfall, 123; used by Methodists, 122; Davenport United Methodist: health center, 111; Fergusonville ecumenical service, 138p; Free Will Baptist, West Davenport (1870), 124; generally opposed to Freemasonry, 128; Gilchrist Memorial, Kortright, 125n, 125; Holiness Movement, 127s; Methodist; carbide lighting and whitewash, 170s; Charlotte Circuit, 1834, 120; Davenport Circuit (1853), 121; Delaware Circuit, 120; Fergusonville church, 1836, 123; in Davenport Center (1834), 121; plays at Baldwin’s Hall, 178; Methodist (after move and remodeling), Davenport village, 139p; Methodist Easter Egg Project (1978), 130p; Methodist youth choir (1955), 139p; Methodist youth choir (c. 1958), 124p; Methodists merge (1965), 125; Methodists, Davenport village, 1883, 124; Morrell House (Baptist), West Davenport, 138p; Nazarene, beginnings in Davenport, 127; Prebyterian, East Meredith (1894), 125; Presbyterian, account of service (1016), 123s; first Davenport church, 123; Presbyterian strawberry festival, 130; revival meetings, 121, 123, 127s, 129; St. Mary’s Catholic, 96n; St. Teresa’s Chapel (when Methodist), 138p; St. Theresa’s Chapel (1969), 125; Sunday Schools, 120; United Methodist, Davenport Center, 138p; United Methodist, Davenport village, 139p; United Methodist, West Davenport, 138p; United Presbyterian, Davenport, 138p; West Davenport Methodist (1852), 123
Churchill: A. L., 129n; Dr. Stephen E. (Stamford hotel builder), 189
Cigars and cigar-making, 48s
Citizens Committee for just Government, 226
Civil War: 144th Division and cockfight, 142p; 144th regiment on parade, 145p; after Cold Harbor, 145s; conscription (1863), 143; credit crunch after, 99; Davenport enlistees, 142; New York City riots, 144; substitutes from Canada, 143; troops assemble in Delhi, 142
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC): and white pine blister, 151s; camp in Kortright-Davenport, 152p, 152
Clark, 19; Ellen, 132p; Ezekiel, 20; Frances M., 109; Richard, 106p
Clarke, John, Rep. (congressman and Davenport nephew), 177
Clergymen in Davenport, 85, 88
Cleveland, Wilbert L. (Grange Deputy Master), 154, 158
Climate change: Davenport benefits?, 222; inevitable, 221; weather extremes ahead, 222
Clinton, General James, 18s, 33
Cold War, 199; and Great Fear, 200; and Joe McCarthy, 200s
Cole, Jack (photographer), 205
Collas, Jennifer, 116n
Colliersville: railroad routing, 39; stage line, 40
Commercial development: Able Equipment Co., 213; Central Tractor Farm & FamilyCenter, 213; Falls Mills Motors, 213; Ford-Lincoln-Mercury dealership, 213; Golden Rule Building Supply Center, 213; Greene Lumber Co., 216; Holiday Inn, 213; J. R. Frazier & Sons., 215; John Deer, 213; Latham Modular Homes, 213; Leatherstocking Timber Products, Inc., 216; Pickett Building Materials, 213; Raynor Overhead Door Co., 213; Taylor Rental, 213; Volkswagen dealership, 213
Commercial properties: west end concentration, 213n
Commissioners of Excise, 27, 85
Concerned Citizens of Davenport, 226
Conklin, Robert, Mrs., 200
Consler, Chris (stained glass), 205
Cook, 49: Eloise, 104p; John, 140; Mac, 155; Ruth, 128p
Cooper, Raymond, Grange Master, 155
Coopers, trade and apprentices , 53s
Cooperstown Junction, 40
Cooperstown Medical Transport, 116
Copley, Herman (tanner), 48, 49s
Corn for lease payments, 51n
Cornell: D. W. (of Worcester, father of William H.), 96; William H. (newspaper owner), 96
Cosco, Richard, 27
Coss, Orlando, 52
Coulter: (family), 181; John (shoemaker & merchant), 29, 89, 91; Susan, 91
Country Crock, The, 221
Courting, by carriage, 136p
Covered Bridge Road, bridge lost to floods, 164
Cowley, Mr., 89
Coxe: Daniel (Grand Master), 127n; Tenche (early economist), 12
Coyotes in Fergusonville, 164s
Crabbe, Buster, 187
Crafts, rebirth in Davenport and E. Meredith, 205
Craig: Dr. Thomas L. , 85p, 96n, 109, 110p, 113, 151, 177; auto owner (1907), 169; country doctor and tooth-puller, 110s; county coroner, 110; school health officer, 110; house of, 228p
Crandall: Caleb, 23, 24, 24n; Norman, 92, 174
Crawford: John, Capt., 143; Robert, 24n
Creamery: evaporator, 52p; jobs in 1905, 87; Sheffield Farms, 42, 51, 55, 58; Slawson-Decker, 51, 52p
Crispell, Anthony, 22s
Croquet, at Fergusonville Academy, 106
Crosby, Rev. Aaron, 7
Culture gaps, old & new, 220
Culver, John, lumber yard, 60p
Currie, George, 89
Dairying: and coming of railroads, 42, 68; baleage replaces silage, 214; dairy inspections, 93s; Dairymen’s League, 152; Great Depression milk strikes, 152; milk strikes, 152; ongoing revolution, 214, 215; slow emergence after 1830, 69; today’s bottom line, 215s
Dairymen’s League: creamery in Davenport Center, 157; Grange offshoot, 156; milk strikes (early 1900s), 157; on milk strikes, 152
Dales: (family), 118s; Ralph, 116n
Dams: Beaver Spring Lake, 187; Charlotte River and road improvements, 172; Davenport Center; 70,000 opposed, 166; becomes ‘multi-purpose’ and second dam added, 166; Davenport lobbyists in Washington, 167p; deauthorizing took clout, 168; effect on Binghamton flood control, 165; first proposed, 165; mobilization against, 166s; opposition begins, 165; some residents favor, 165; East Sidney, 165; High Point, Davenport (proposed), 166; Mill Road, 169c; Otsego Lake, 33n; questions about effectiveness, 165, 168; Susquehanna, support for, 168; Whitney Point, 165
Dances: Baldwin’s Hall, 178; continuing popularity of, 135; high school graduation, 155; Sherman Lake, 184; source of contention, 122; square, 136; square at Grange Hall, 155; square, round & contra, 204n
Davenport: Anna (John’s wife), 20; genealogy on CD-ROM, 20s; John, 20, 21, 23; and Congregational Meeting House, 122; and distillery, 47n; Harpersfield ashery, 46; store of, 85; John (offices held), 23, 29, 25c; John and whiskey, 47; John Jr., 20s; John, home of, 21p; Loren (jeweler), 95; Noah, 20, 20s; sofa, 20s; writing table, 20s
Davenport Center, 27, 40n, 56; 1880 factories, 54p; and stage line, 41; businesses in, 90, 91; C&CV RR reaches, 40; Dairymen’s League creamery, 157; dam proposed, 165; dissatisfied Methodists, 121; gains post office, 111n; Grange Hall, and dances, 118; Grange Hall dedication (1937), 155; heavy traffic (1925), 176p; last freight train, 42; manufacturing in, 53; population (1860 & 1875); railroad depot, 41; railroad routing, 39n; schoolhouse, 102p; Sheffield plant in milk strike, 152; tent shows, 176; tollhouse, 36, traffic bottleneck and viaduct, 171; turnpike route, 36; U&D station and new viaduct, 171p; vaudevillian ghosts, 185; viaduct, 176p; WCTU, 131; Whitlock-Rider airstrip, 173, 174
Davenport Fair, 176; music, 177s
Davenport Historical Society (DHS), 93; annual picnic at Fergusonville Academy, 181; barn paintings, 205; meeting, 53s; new home, 159p; research on schools, 101; scrapbooks, 114; taped interviews, 54s; volunteers, xi
Davenport Inn, history of, 93s
Davenport Old Home Days, 177, 206
Davenport Town Board, 151
Davenport Town Planning Board, 225
Davenport village, 11p, 85p: and CVCS in 1938, 105p; as seen from Graig’s pasture, 1999, 161p; businesses in, 92, 94, 95; Dr. O’Connell’s block, 94; first fire district, 113; first fire hydrants, 113; first water company, 112; ice cream social, c. 1904, 139p; Main Street early 1900s, 228p; manufacturing in, 51; Methodist youth choir, c. 1958, 124p; new firehouse, 116p; Presbyterians replace Congregationalists, 1859, 123; subdivisions (2001; map), 213m; WCTU, 132
Davenport Water Company, 210
Davenport, town of, 107, 117, 160, 164; ‘average’ farm (1865), 79n, 80, 81; ‘labors’ of Free Will Baptist Church, 124s; ‘Old Mack’ fire truck, 114p; ‘qualification’ of officials, 28n; election dispute (1899), 29s; property reassessment (2003), 214; absorbed by Oneonta?, 221; acquires a Town Hall, 159; affect of outside events, 140; airfields in, 173; and Bassett Healthcare, 111; and Catskill Turnpike, 35; and Charlotte Turnpike, 35, 36, 37; and Church of Nazarene, 127s; and competition from outside, 77; and early fires, 111, 112; and early religion, 122; and funerals, 138; and Great Depression, 149; and modern firefighting, 114, 115; and motor vehicles, 169; and Peter and Gerrit Smith, 131n; and pot production, 47s; and railroads, 39, 42m, 87; and school vacinations, 109; and store credit, 99; and temperance movement, 133; and water for firefigfhting, 115; and waterpower, 55; and World War I, 146; annual Memorial Day parade, 118; anti-dam lobbyists in Washington, 167p; appearance 150 years ago, 162; Bicentennial Celebration, 179, 205; boarding houses, 179; businesses in, 90; butter production, 72; buys Grange Hall, 159; Catholic Church, 125; CCC camp, 151s; cereal yields (1835), 71; (1855), 71n; change, & more change, 204; cheese factory, 72; Civil War, 3-son families, 144; Civil War, affect on, 144; bonusses, 142; enlistees, 142; soldiers and officers, 143; substitute soldiers, 144; concensus a possibility?, 225; culture gaps yesterday & today, 220; Democrats win, 28; District #7 schoolhouse, 103p; earliest organized religion, 120; earliest settlers, 22s; earliest telephones, 168n; early steamroller, 172p; effect of motorcars and trucks, 168; elections, 28; environmental change, 161; family interrelationships, 133; farm characteristics by size (1865; table), 82; farming and crop variety, 68; farming and resiliancy, 69, 78; farming (1865), 79; farming share of Delaware County, 69n; farming, a difficult life, 68; farming’s future, 78; few Reds and subversives found, 200; field crop acreage, 81; fire insurance companies, 111n; first airflight, 173; first combatants on foreign soil, 146; first female firefighters in, 117; first Fire District, 114; first ‘millionaire’, 49s; First Responders, 111; first road grader, 170p; floods in, 164; fraternal organizations (early 1900s), 157; Freemasonry, 128; Golden Age of agriculture, 79; government evolution, 24; Grange Masters, 156p; Granger Movement, 154; greatest all-time ‘flood’, 162; greenhouses in, 78; health center, 111; Historical Archives vault, 160; hop farmers, 75; hop picking, 75p; hops, 74, 75; house materials, 46; ice harvesting in, 59; ice-jam and flooding solution, 168; industries (1835), 48; informal medical practicioners, 110; IOOF and Rebekahs, 126; iron bridge over Charlotte, 176p; issue of alcohol consumption, 130; jobs in, 86, 88; land loss, 21, 23s, 212n; land regulation history, 225; last revival meeting, 121p; lay preachers, 120; lighting before electricity, 170s; little interest in war (pre-1941), 193; loss of firehouse, 117s; Main Street looking west, 100p; medical services, 107, 108, 111; Methodists largest denomination, 123; migration from, 23; militia, 141; milk strikes, 152; milk tanker shooting, 153; naming, 20s; newspapers, 95; newspapers and advertising, 96; no WWI record of enlistees, 147n; numbers of farms, 79n; numbers serving in two World Wars, 148; occupations (1845), 85; occupations (1850), 86; occupations of males (1850; table), 86; officers, long-serving, 28; Oneona shapes Davenport’s population, 212; organization, 20, 21; origin, 19n; paved roads, 171; Poor Fund, 151; population, 21n, 23s, 35, 36, 36n, 86; population (1800-2000; table), 212; population and farming, 68; population decline, 88; population growth to continue, 222; population in Great Depression, 149, 150; population included, 68n; population of hamlets (1860, 1875), 95; preservation vs. development, 224; pressure for central school, 105; private schools in, 102; public assistance in Great Depression, 151; public works in Great Depression, 151; Railroad Commisioners, 40, 89; recent commercial change, 213; religious conflict, 122, 125; Rescue Van, 116; rival Granges, 157; rural malaise?, 223; sawyers (1850), 86; schools, 101; secret societies, 125; service activities, 85; stage lines, 41; stagecoaches, 39p, 38; subdividing the land, 213; suburb of Oneonta?, 212; suit against tavern owner Brownell, 132; temperance lodges, 131; town meetings, 22, 24; town meeting on poor support, 27s; transportation in, 31; trash disposal & controversy, 211; turnpikes, 34; Union Free School (first high school) , 104p, 104; unique in Delaware County, 227n; Urwin & Donovan road improvement plans, 173; vote for Seymour & Grant, 88; War of 1812, 140; what remains constant, 203, 221; wolves in, 162; WW II, 150 in military, 194; WW II, selective service, 194; WW II, unmentioned in Town Board minutes (Dec. 29-30, 1941), 194; WWII, air rair sirens, 195; WWII, civilian participation, 196; WWII, upside for Davenport, 199
Davenport’s ‘quiet beauty’, 221p, 228
Davidson H. Fletcher (historian), 19s, 19n, 33
Davis, 22s: Almira, 90s; Ephraim, 24n; Ervin (photographer & cabinetmaker), 53c, 90s, 183c, 205; Ervin (house), 228p; Ervin (parlor), 228p; Joel, 90s; Marrion (Mrs. William), 178; Mr. (1899 telephone entrepreneur, 168n; Peter, 168n; Sandra (woodcarver), 205; Seymour, 147p; William, 4c, 178
Dayton: E. B., 27, 150, 151; Rensellaer, 55
de Marrais, Caroline Meek, xi, 92s
Dean, James (interpreter), 7
Dexheimer, Mr. (Grange Hall mover), 159
Deer: closed season on hunting, 1788, 162; disappearance of, 162; reappearance after WWII, 163
DeForest (vaudevillian) See also Mabel Sherman, 183, 185; Lottie, 185
Delaware County, 1; ‘Two stones for every dirt’, 69p; 150 year flood (1996), 164; industries (1835), 48; Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board, 2n, 203, 227n; agriculture’s Golden Age, 79; alcohol consumption in, 130n; almhouse for Davenport poor, 151; and federal agricultural censuses, 69n; anti-rent war (1845), 141, 142; apples and cider, 73, 74; aviation (1927), 174s; butter production, 72; CCC recruitment, 152; cereals, 70; Civil War; Sanford relative, 144p; coroner Thomas Craig, 110c; dairying, 71; distilleries (1810), 130; farms in Great Depression, 149; flax and wool, 72; Freemasonry, 128; geological survey humbug, 1s; geology, 12; Granger movement, 156; greenhouses and nurseries, 78n; history by Munsell, 122; hops, 74, 75; hops, 75c; hops (rise and fall), 74; in Civil War, 142; in the American Revolution, 17; Indian occupancy, 4; land grants, 9n; land lost to Otsego County, 23n, 23s, 34n; Landfill Committee, 211s; maple sugar industry collapse, 76; militia, 140; milk strikes, 152; no WWI record of enlistees, 147n; Official Directory and History, Granges, 156c; oil and gas possibilities, 3; origin, 19; patents and towns, 10; Planning Board, 213n, 226; potato production, 72; poultry, 76; railroads in, 38, 39, 42; recent change, 203; road improvements, 172; roads in, 34
Delaware County Agriculture and Farmland Protection Board, 2n, 203, 227n
Delaware County Poultry Commission, and broiler barbeque, 76n
Delaware Geological Society, 1s
Delaware River, whiskey rafts, 38
Delhi: Civil War troops assemble at, 142; early Grange, 157; high school, 104; militia training at, 140; War of 1812 rendevous, 141
DeNatale, Douglas (author), 68
Denend. See also Denning and Denio; Ezra, 20n, 22s, 85, 107n; Humphrey, 22n, 107
Dent: Irwin, 28, 113; Irwin (postmaster), 94; Jane, 124p; Joseph M., 94c, 124s; Marybelle, 124p; Myrtle Barber, 150p
Depression (Great): a downward spiral, 149s; abundant wild berries, 149; and stock market crash, 149; Civilian Conservation Corps in Davenport, 151; CWA & WPA in Davenport, 151; Davenport equipment purchases, 173; Delware County’s farms and population, 149; milk strikes, 152; public assistance in Davenport, 150; store credit in, 99; tramps and ‘travelers’, 150
Devine, Zan (merry-go-round operator), 176
Dezell: Freddie B., 143s; James T. (Civil War Diary), 143, 143s; Jennie, 143s; Mary, 143s
Dibble: Daniel M. , 49s, 55, 88; as businessman, 90; Everett, 209p
Dillon, Robert, Rev., 120
Dimmick, Perry, 126
Distillery, whiskey, 20, 38, 47
Dodge,Widow Hannah (schoolteacher), 24
Donnelly: Dr. Henry H., 109; Dr. James More, 109
Doonans Corners, Indian trail, 31, 33
Doroski, Ronnie, 159
Douglas, B. K., Rev., 131
Douglass: Dr. Crawford S., 81p, 108, 194; Dr. Crawford, errant driver, 169c; Dr. George C., 24s, 28, 81p, 96n; George, Dr. & Mrs., 169p; Thomas, 128
Douglass House (gift shop), 96, 96n, 205
Downtown Oneonta Improvement Task Force, 222
Doyle, Henry, 164
Dunham, Horace K. (WWII prisoner), 194
Dutch: High, 7, 14, 17; in New Amsterdam, 6; Low, 14, 17
Dwight, Timothy (President of Yale), 35, 37
Eagles, sighting now common, 164
East Davenport, 14, See also Davenport village; mail delivery, 37
East Meredith, 38, 39, 53, 55, 67m, 117, 137; and Ku Klux Klan, 126; and modern firefighting, 114, 116; and Pindars Corners fire station, 117; and water for firefighting, 115; blacksmith, 134; businesses in, 91, 92; churches, 125; economy and railroad, 42; fire stations, 117; first electricity, 57; First Responders, 116n, 117; land owned by Andrew Brown, 92s; lumber for Davenport Grange Hall, 155; Maccabee parade, 1903, 126p; manufacturing in, 56; name changed from Briar Street, 91; Pleasant Valley Grange, 157; railroad routing, 39n; school, 102p; stained glass work, 205; WCTU, 132
East Meredith Grange in, 157
Eaton, Theophilus, 20s
Eckert, John, 219c
Edick: Clarence, Pfc., 194, 198p; Howard, Cpl., 194, 198p; Nellie, Pvt., 194, 198p; Nina, Cpl., 194, 198p; Ray, 194
Edsall, Dr. James, 190
Eggs: ‘double elker’, xi; Easter project, 130p; housewife barter, 89; housewife barter, 95s
Electricity, arrival in Davenport, 169
Elk: in Davenport, 162s; proposed for Catskills, 164n; reintroduced in Pennsylvannia, 164
Ellerson, David, 13s
Ellis, Rev., 123
Elwell: Joseph, 189; William N., 51
Elwell’s gristmill, 51, 51p, 60p
Embury: Philip, Rev., 120
Emmons: Asa, 23, 45n, 48, 141, 141n; Carlton, 45n; Ira, 45n; turnpike to, 36s
Emory, Alan, 4c
Ennis: Byron, 167p; Marian, 130p
Epsom Salts (a.k.a. Crazy Crystals), 184
Erie Canal, 38
Evans: (family), 181; Emory, 228p; James (blacksmith), 90; Silas, 55; Silas (rake maker), 90; Silas, factory, 54p
Evans & Britts rake factory, 55
Every, 195; John, 209p; Ralph S., 164, 174, 174n, 194
Factory: cradle and rake, 48, 53; sash and blind, 48, 55; shingle, 49
Farm prices, War of 1812, 140s
Farm sizes in 1865, Davenport, 81
Farmer, how to tell, 80s
Farming: dairying revolution, 214, 215; Davenport’s greenhouses, 78, 215, 216; hill farms disappearing, 163; omitted from 1920s boom, 149; silage, haylage & baleage, 214; success lies in details, 224s; support services, 85, 101
Farming and global warming, 79, 222
Farnsworth, Daniel, 22n
Fay: Will, 91c; William H., 91
Feed store, Terrell & Rice, 51
Feminine fashions (c. 1840), 137s
Fenn, Stephen, Rev. (unrepetant Mason), 129s
Ferguson: Bursley, 116n, 167p; Bursley C., 166n; Dr. John, 108, 128; John (Davenport School Commissioner), 99n; John S(tanley), 99, 99n; Samuel D., Rev., 99, 106, 180; Sanford I., 26, 99, 106; Davenport Superintended of Schools, 99n
Fergusonville, 49, 60m, 95, 164; ‘Howling Terror’ (1945), 164s; affected by Davenport Center dam, 165; businesses in, 98, 99; cheese factory, 72; coal traces found, 3; early Scots in, 17; horse training, 78s; Indian trail, 32; manufacturing in, 49; Methodist parsonage sold (1895), 124; Methodist Sunday School, 120; Mike Hawley barn fire, 115s; origin of, 99; population (1860); revival meetings, 121; street (early 1900s), 228p; summer city folk, 180, 181; summer cottage names, 181
Fergusonville Academy, 98, 113, 144; ‘a quiet family school’, 108s; and croquet (1848 photo), 106p; as ‘export service industry’, 98n; baseball (c. 1850), 119p; building moves to Sherman Lake, 185; closed (1881), 104, 107; formation of, 106; in 1987, minus school wing, 119p; opened (1848), 104; originally Charlotte Boarding Academy, 104; students at Sexsmith Lake, 189
Fero, 123; Anna, 89; E. B., 127s; Eliha B., 89; Ira W., 124; Ira W. (unrepentant), 124s
Fields, A. C., Rev., 125
Filibusters to Cuba, 146
Filmore, Millard (presidential candidate), 125n
Finne, Mark, 115n
Fire Departments: and community, 118; Davenport, 114; Davenport First Responders, 115; East Meredith, 115, 118; East Meredith, 117s; in UFS basement, 104c; Ladies Auxiliaries, 118; Oneonta, 116; Pindars Corners, 115, 117, 117s
Fires: ‘Find Water’, 115s; death of doctor, 109; forest, impact on landscape, 161; local insurance companies, 111n; South Hill, 1908, 111
First Responders: Davenport, 115; East Merideth, 116n; Pindars Corners, 116n
Fish: Frank J., 145; Mabel, 127n, 150p
Fisher: Charles, 87p, 95p, 98p; Lee (coach & teacher), 106p
Fitzpatrick, George, 164s, 194, 195p
Fletcher, Michael (drover), 37
Floods: Charlotte Creek (1812), 164; Davenport Center (1935), 165p; Davenport (1930s), 165n; great flood (1996), 164; legislation after 1936 flood, 165; Susquehanna River, and new legislation (1936), 165
Flower: John (undertaker & cabinetmaker), 92; Will, 56, 138, 205; William (undertaker & cabinetmaker), 92
Flue epidemic, 53c
Follett, Jacob, 53; factory, 54p
Ford: Aaron, 88, 89; William, 88
Ford, E. R. (merchant), 35
Forman: Eunice (mail catcher, photo), 43; Merton, 43c; Ursil, 43c
Fourth of July, excitement at Sherman Lake, 184s
Fox, Edmund, 93
Foyer, (Mr.), 93
Francis, Col. (of militia), 141
Francis, 22s
Frank, Louis, 159
Frank Briggs Pancake Day, 118
Franklin, Benjamin, 127,