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The New York State College of Agriculture at Ovid (Willard) Before the Willard Asylum for the Insane was established, the site had been the New York State College of Agriculture, the first state chartered agricultural college in New York State As early as 1842, the New York Agricultural Society had been urging the creation of agricultural schools or colleges Many European countries had already established a college of agriculture to help train farmers to make better use of the new farming methods and technology developing as part of the industrial revolution In 1851, John Delafield of Fayette township, became president of the state Agricultural Society and made it a priority to get the State Legislature to create an agricultural college On April 1, 1853, Chapter 247 of state laws incorporated the New York State Agricultural College The college’s trustees selected Oaklands farm in Fayette, the home of Mr Delafield, as the site for the college Mr Delafield’s sudden death on October 22, 1853, however, led to nothing further being done for nearly two years In 1855 the idea of the state agricultural college was revived Several communities – Ithaca, Aurora, Kings Ferry, Farmer (Interlaken), Sheldrake and Ovid aspired to be the chosen site Ovid emerged victorious largely due to the promotional efforts of the Rev Amos Brown, principal of the Seneca Collegiate Institute.He raised $46,000 locally and got the New York State Legislature to grant a $40,000 loan Over six hundred acres were purchased in the towns of Ovid and Romulus on Seneca Lake near a tiny settlement called Baileytown (Ovid Landing) A large brick building was to be constructed to house students and provide classrooms for 350 students The College was opened on December 5, 1860 Major Marsena R Patrick, a West Point graduate, was the college President For $200 a year students would receive classroom instruction and practical on-the-farm experience to become familiar with “the principles and practice of the methods of clearing and cleaning land, nourishment of plants and grasses, restoration and exhaustion of the soil, rotation of crops and their adaptation to the season, gathering hay and grain, management of the dairy, gardening, fattening, rearing and breeding stock, training colts, the disease of animals and veterinary practice, preparation of timber for fences, surveying, landscape gardening, and book-keeping as applied to farming.” The timing for the opening of this college was bad Throughout the winter of 1860 and early 1861 there was constant talk of pending war Within two weeks following the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861, President Patrick was called to Albany by Governor Morgan Patrick was to draw upon his previous army experiences to devise a means for rapid enlistment and training of volunteers Believing that the “ civil war” would be of short duration, the college tried to carry on in Patrick’s absence By May so many of the approximately 40 students have left to fight in the war that the college closed for the summer The College did not reopen in the fall or in the winter In March 1862, it was officially announced that the “college doors are closed for the present.” On August 9, 1862, about 200 acres of the College land were sold because of debts owed Although the Baileytown area’s Agricultural College was short-lived, there was soon a new state agricultural college in nearby Ithaca Ezra Cornell who in 1864 had started a university bearing his name, was determined that his new university would include a new state agricultural college This had been promised to Ezra Cornell when the state In 1960, then Governor Nelson Rockefeller helped dedicate granted its charter To make this boulder with plaque commemorating the 100th anniversary the promise a reality, Ezra of the opening of the Agricultural College at Ovid Cornell secured the services of Rev Amos Brown to lobby both in Albany and Washington, D C on behalf of Cornell University The Republican-controlled Congress had passed a Morrill Act in 1862 providing for what became known as “land grant” colleges in engineering, agriculture and military science Rev Brown was instrumental in convincing the New York State Legislature to award the state’s new federally-provided for land-grant agriculture college to be part of Cornell University Soon Ovid area residents turned their energies toward getting the former Agricultural College site in Baileytown chosen as the location for a new state asylum for the insane This became reality in October 1869 when the first patients were admitted to the new Willard Asylum for the Insane The former Agricultural College building was converted and opened in summer 1870 as The Branch for 200 female patients The Agricultural College at what is today Willard was gone, but the Willard Asylum for the Insane would flourish for many years The new state Agricultural College at Cornell University thrives yet today Appendix A Timeline of Events for the New York State Agricultural College April 15, 1853—NYS Legislature passes Act chartering the New York State Agricultural College at Oaklands farm of John Delafield near Rose Hill in the town of Fayette In October, John Delafield dies suddenly and the plans for the college at Oaklands not move forward January 22, 1855—A group of Ovid citizens appoint a committee to petition the NYS Legislature to locate the college in their vicinity, instead of Fayette August 1, 1855—Citizens of Seneca County at Presbyterian Church in Ovid pledge to raise $40,000 by local subscription is raised from local and statewide subscribers March 31, 1856—NYS Legislature Act authorizes a loan to the trustees of the Agricultural College of the sum of $40,000 for the payment of the land and the erection of buildings, a mortgage upon the same being given to secure the repayment without interest twenty years later, on January 1, 1877 September 4, 1856—The College trustees choose farmland just west of Ovid village limits as the site for the Agricultural College At this same meeting, the trustees appoint Judge Samuel Cheever as the College president April 1, 1857—NYS Agricultural College trustees take possession of the properties that will make up the college farm The College farm totals about 686 acres December 15, 1857—The College trustees accept the resignation of Amos Brown as a trustee, and they adopt the plans for the college building May 1858—The College trustees authorize the erection of the south wing at a cost not exceeding $30,000 June 29, 1858—Judge Samuel Cheever resigns as the College president After several months without a president, Major Marsena R Patrick will be chosen as the College president July 7, 1859—The cornerstone for the College building is laid at a big public gathering of 3000 people December 5, 1860—The New York State Agricultural College at Ovid opened April 1861—Fort Sumter falls to Confederates and President Lincoln calls for a volunteer army to put down this secessionist rebellion that evolves into the lengthy Civil War November 1861—Because of the difficulties in operating the College in light of the Civil War developments, the trustees of the College dismissed the students and relieved the professors of their duties March 1862—The College trustees officially announce that the college doors were closed for the present July 2, 1862—The U.S Congress passes, and President Lincoln signs, the Morrill (Agricultural College Land Grant College) Act New York State will receive the revenues from the sale of 989,920 acres in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas, with these revenues to be used to support a college or colleges for the agricultural and mechanical arts August 9, 1862—Approximately 200 acres of the College farmland, the portion that is not covered by the State mortgage, is sold off at a Sheriff’s sale at the Waterloo courthouse September 1864—Ezra Cornell offers to the trustees of the Agricultural College a farm of 300 acres and a donation of $300,000, if the trustees would agree to the transfer of the college to Ithaca and if the state would endow this newly located college an annual income of $30,000, to be derived from the Morrill land grant April 8, 1865—The New York State Legislature passes the Willard Act, creating a State asylum for the chronic insane April 27, 1865—The NYS Governor signs the bill incorporating Cornell University as New York’s land-grant institution December 15, 1865—The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York forecloses on its $33,600 mortgage on the Agricultural College at Ovid January 1866—New York State Legislature passes an Act to locate the new Willard Asylum for the Insane on the Agricultural College at Ovid property and the Agricultural College is to give to Cornell University the college rights for New York State’s U.S Land Grant Summer 1866—The main building of the Willard Asylum is erected near Seneca Lake October 1869—The first patients are admitted to the Willard Asylum Summer 1870—The Agricultural College building is opened as The Branch for 200 female patients of the Willard Asylum Spring 1886—The upper two stories of the Agricultural College building are taken off and large addition was built to the north and east, creating the Grandview Building as it exists today Appendix B Questions and Answers When was the idea of a state agricultural college first suggested? As early as 1799, Simeon DeWitt, the Surveyor General for New York State, proposed a school “of practical instruction in the business of husbandry.” In 1819 he published a booklet on the subject entitled Considerations on the Necessity of Establishing an Agricultural College and Having More of the Children of Wealthy Citizens Educated for the Profession of Farming In his Governor’s Message of 1818, NYS Governor DeWitt Clinton expressed the hope that a chair of agriculture might be created In 1819, Elkanah Watson suggested a model farm with a professor of agriculture In 1823, as a member of the NYS Legislature, Jesse Buel brought out a committee report favoring a school of agriculture supported by the State At the urging of the NYS Agricultural Society, starting in 1833 bills were introduced in the NYS Legislature to provide for establishing a school of scientific and practical agriculture In 1836, the NYS Legislature finally passed such a bill to incorporate a New York State Agricultural School but no group came forward to raise the necessary locally-subscribed funds to meet the conditions set forth in this Act With John Delafield as the new president of the NYS Agricultural Society, in 1853 the Society secured the passage by the NYS Legislature of an Act to incorporate the New York State Agricultural College This idea had been strengthened by the fact that several agricultural colleges had already been established by various European countries Was the state agricultural college at Ovid the first state agricultural college in the United States? Maybe The NYS Legislature on April 15, 1853, passed an Act to incorporate this New York State Agricultural College This College, however, did not open until December 5, 1860 By that date at least three other states—Michigan, Maryland and Pennsylvania—already had functioning state agricultural colleges The Agricultural College at Ovid was the first chartered (incorporated) state agricultural college in the United States It was not the first state agricultural college to have students Was the state agricultural college at Ovid the “beginnings” of Cornell University? No The New York State Agricultural College at Ovid (Willard) had closed in March 1862, because students and staff had left to fight in the Civil War During the Civil War, the U.S Congress in 1862 had passed a Morrill Land Grant Act (signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862) In August 1865, the NYS Legislature passed a bill that the federal appropriation from the Morrill Act should go to Cornell University unless the People’s College at Havanna (Montour Falls today) could meet the conditions set forth in that bill When the People’s College couldn’t come up with the funds to meet the conditions, the federal appropriation and NYS support went to the newly-established Cornell University in Ithaca Another part of the confusion is that both Ezra Cornell and Andrew D White had been trustees of the State Agricultural College at Ovid and were founding trustees of Cornell University Why does the history of New York State refer to our State Agricultural College as having been located at Ovid when we local people know that it was really Willard? The name of the hamlet of Willard didn’t really come into use until after the opening of the Willard State Mental Institution in 1869 That facility was named after Sylvester Willard who had done a study on the need for another state institution for the insane poor Prior to the area being called “Willard” it had been known as Ovid Landing and Baileytown The State Legislation passed in 1853 to create this state agricultural college provided that it would located at or near to Ovid Interestingly, the actual property purchased for the farm and buildings of the state agricultural college are partially in the town of Ovid and the town of Romulus The mailing address for the state agricultural college was Ovid, New York Appendix C – Stockholders in the NYS Agricultural College at Ovid Alphabetical Listing of Recorded Stockholders in the Agricultural College LAST NAME ALLEN ARNDT ANDERSON ASPENWALL AYRES ANDREWS FIRST NAME ISAAC JOHN PATRICK WM H A.D LORING PLACE VARICK, NY ELMIRA, NY OVID NEW YORK ROMULUS P.O NEW YORK $ AMOUNT 50 250 50 100 50 100 BANKER BONNIE BLOOMER BODINE, & STONE BROWN BUELL BACON BLOOMER BASSETT BROWN BARRICK BODINE BROWN BULL BARCLAY BOCKOVEN BURROUGHS BODINE BACON BROOKS BARREY BARTLETT BASSETT BASSETT BASSETT BROWN BROWN BOLTER BOLTER BRAMBLE BOGART BRAMBLE BRANDED BODINE B ? ? BOOROM BLACKWELL BLACKWELL BLISS JOB A SAMUEL ABRAHAM AMOS WILLIAM JOCH W HIRAM E.S AA B GEORGE ROGER JULIUS THOMAS C GEORGE W THOMAS LEWIS BENJAMIN JAMES SL BENJAMIN JARED B PIERPOINT B.E ISAAC JACOB DR ALFRED DR ALFRED LEWIS MARTIN S RILEY H.D THADDEUS DAVID JERRE? JOHN JV JV JOHN B OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID ROCHESTER WATERLOO OVID ROMULUS ROMULUS VARICK OVID SEARSBURGH SENECA FALLS ROMULUS SENECA FALLS EAST VARICK OVID WATERLOO OVID OVID OVID FARMER FARMER FARMER FARMER VARICK OVID OVID LODI LODI LODI LODI OVID OVID OVID FARMER OVID OVID OVID 500 500 200 200 500 200 200 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 150 50 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 LAST NAME BURNETT BURNETT BROOKS BROKAW FIRST NAME HORACE H JAMES ELLIS JOSEPH PLACE OVID OVID OVID LODI AMOUNT 50 50 50 50 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 51 76 221 269 26 222 183 16 223 107 48 143 144 94 210 52 148 54 178 181 179 114 206 129 290 149 180 53 271 102 273 96 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 274 161 BROKAW BURLEW BANNISTER BOARDMAN BRYANT BRYANT BOMAN BROWN BUCKLIN & CRANE BUNN JAMES GEORGE TRUMAN H.C ANDREW JR JAMES EAST VARICK SHELDRAKE MICHIGAN TRUMANSBURGH EAST VARICK OVID NEW YORK NEW YORK NEW YORK 50 50 50 50 25 25 250 250 100 103 101 COOK CHELLBORG CHAPMAN CORNELL CORNING JR CONGER CHAPMAN COVERT COVERT COON COON COVERT COVERT COVERT CHRISTOPHER CHRISTOPHER CLEVELAND CHRISTFIELD COLEMAN COLEMAN COVERT COBB CRISTOPHER COUERT COUERT COUERT COLE COUERT CROWELL CLAWSON CLAWSON CHURCH CHRISTFIELD CHARLES ALB HUGH JOHN J ERASTER A.B JOSIAH B DR PETER DR PETER WILLIAM F WM F ABRAM B JOHN J ABRAM A DAVID AARON ER JOHN MAHALON B IRA H ISAAC S.S JOHN A TENNIS R PETER COUCHIS V GEORGE W DAVID H LYMAN A GARRETT ISAAC JL FILLITE HAVANA GENEVA OVID OVID ALBANY HAVERSTRAM OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID FARMER OVID OVID EAST VARICK EAST VARICK LODI LODI LOURNDENSVILLE FARMER FARMER GENEVA EAST VARICK FARMER FARMER COUERT LODI OVID SENECA FALLS LODI LODI WATERLOO LODI 500 500 500 500 500 500 250 250 100 100 50 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 77 250 280 LAST NAME COLE JR CAYWOOD COUERT COMPTON CLARKSON COUERT COUERT CORNBY COLE COLE CORYELL FIRST NAME DAVID AUGUSTUS W PETER H CORNELIUS JOHN B BURGUN ALPHEUS LEWIS MR&MV IRA H WM B PLACE LODI LODI OVID FOURISENDVILLE LODI LODI LODI OVID COVERT COVERT WATERLOO AMOUNT 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 224 49 61 73 216 79 91 44 207 64 104 90 146 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 160 55 65 106 112 138 207 196 219 10 COE CLARK CARRELL CHAMBERLIN CLARK COMPSON CONOVER JOHN D DEXTER JOHN JP EDWARD S GEORGE S ROMULUS OVID OVID SENECA FALLS OVID SENECA FALLS VARICK 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 31 85 136 DUNLAP DUNLAP DENLOU DOIG DELAFIELD DELAFIELD DE MOTT DUNLAP DUNLAP DUNLAP DUNLAP DUNLAP DUNNEH DUNNEH DONALDSON DOREMUS DE PUE DEY DUNLAP DOBBIN DAVIDSON DOWERS DUNLAP DEY DILMAR DATER ANDREW ANDREW ELIJAH PETER JOHN TALMADGE JAMES JOHN WM C WILLIAM WILLIAM JOSEPH DAVID DAVID ANN GARRETT PETER RICHARD V JOSEPH E.R SOPHRONIA THEODORE GEORGE S.V.R ABRAHAM PHILIP OVID OVID OVID OVID ROSE HILL ROSE HILL OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID ROMULUS ROMULUS VARICK OVID WATERLOO OVID OVID OVID VARICK FARMER NEW YORK 500 500 500 500 500 500 200 200 150 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 100 253 LAST NAME EASTMAN ELLIS EASTMAN EVERETT EASTMAN EDDY ELLIS EARLE FIRST NAME DR JOHN L N.P CHESTER CALVIN HERMAN D DR H.L DANIEL DAVID S PLACE LODI OVID OVID OVID LODI CANOGA OVID SALINA AMOUNT 200 500 125 100 50 50 50 100 FURMAN FERGUSON FRELIGH FENNER FOLWELL FAUSETT FEAGLY FOSTER FULKERSON A.L JAMES G.W JACOB THOMAS J GEORGE WM B H.L.E T.S OVID OVID OVID COVERT ROMULUS LODI LODI GENEVA FARMER 500 500 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 18 78 41 260 202 175 225 225 35 35 32 110 42 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 36 75 140 226 81 157 117 227 257 120 228 68 11 FOSTER FRAMITER? FULLER FOLWELL FANCHER FATRINGER FALE FRASER FALE A.P JACOB S ISAAC NATHAN W WM S T&L EDWARD G THOMAS T HALL FARMER CANOGA SENECA FALLS ROMULUS WATERLOO WATERLOO NEW YORK NEW YORK NEW YORK 50 50 50 50 50 100 250 100 250 GROVE? GORTON GARNER GIDDINGS GILMORE GENTRY GRAYPHEMISA JOHN V DANIEL CYRUS WM D AUGUSTUS RICHARD WILSON SHELDRAKE OVID CANOGA ROMULUS OVID GEORGETOWN M OVID 500 150 100 50 50 50 50 SHELDRAKE 500 HARRIS THOMAS & CO HUNTINGTON HENRY HOWELL HARRIS HUNT HUNT HUFF HARRIS HERROW HUFF BENJAMIN N GEORGE Y E.C JOSEPH F JOSEPH H HENRY PETER N GEORGE DAVID PETER ROME OVID OVID OVID ROMULUS ROMULUS OVID OVID OVID TOWNSENDVILLE 500 200 100 100 100 50 50 50 100 50 LAST NAME HINMAN HALSEY HOWELL HAND HORTON HORTON HUNTINGTON HOLLISTER HOWE HINKLEY HENRY HOSTER HOSTER HEIGLE HUNT FIRST NAME L HERMAN W NEAL C OVID ALMON ORLO JAI A P.P ELIJAH PETER Y MICHAEL JOHN G B RICHARD P PLACE FARMER LODI LODI COVERT COVERT COVERT STARKY STARKY WATERLOO OVID OVID SENECA FALLS SENECA FALLS WATERLOO WATERLOO AMOUNT 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 100 INGERSOLL INGERSOLL INGERSOLL JOHN M.H C.W LODI LODI OVID 50 50 50 JOY JOHNSON JOHNSON JOHNSON ARAD STEPHEN DANIEL D IRA OVID OVID ROMULUS OVID 500 300 200 200 17 255 205 218 256 176 40 163 87 29 59 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 195 204 211 109 99 10 166 23 74 184 268 170 279 12 JOHNSON JOHNSON JOHNSON JOHNSON JOHNSON JOHNSON JACACKY JONES JONES JR JOHNSON JONES JONES JOHNSON JEWELL JACKSON ISAAC N B.P WILLIAM T JOSEPH EDWARD CHARLES SAMUEL CLEMENT CLEMENT IRA DR SAMUEL JAMES LUKE JOHN W CHARLES B OVID ALBANY OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID WATERLOO OVID LODI FARMER OVID OVID 200 250 150 100 50 50 100 100 100 50 100 50 50 50 50 KING KELLY KINNE KINNE KIDDER KINNE KINNE JOHN A WILLIAM SILAS M SILAS M N.B MORRIS E WILLIAM JAMAICA RHINEBECK OVID OVID CHICAGO OVID OVID 1000 1000 500 100 500 200 200 LAST NAME KINNE KINNE KNIGHT KNIGHT KING KING KINNE KING JR FIRST NAME DAVID W CYRUS JAMES C J.J JOHN G GEORGE JOHN JOHN A PLACE OVID OVID FARMER TOWNENDVILLE ROMULUS OVID OVID JAMAICA NY AMOUNT 200 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 LEONARD LAWRENCE LOCKHART LOTT LOTT LOURETTE LANE LUDLUM LENOX LORILLARD BENJAMIN R.H RICH B PHILIP S ELIJAH A LA A.D STEPHEN JAMES PETER OVID GENEVA SHELDRAKE LODI LODI SOUTH LODI WATERLOO VARICK NEW YORK NEW YORK 200 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 1000 1000 MAGIE MAXWELL &BROTHE MANNING MILLER MARTEN MURRAY MEEKER MESSELLER MILLER MYERS JOHN T.C BATH GENEVA 250 500 JOHN G HIRAM K WILLIAM HAMILTON JACOB DENNIS GILBERT T DAVID OVID NEW YORK ROMULUS OSWEGO LODI OVID TOWENSENDVILLE OVID 500 250 250 250 100 100 100 100 212 135 58 100 54 215 246 21 189 289 229 262 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 150 155 43 105 102 62 137 52 217 203 123 122 50 165 276 93 63 13 MALLORY MANDEVILLE MOORE MCCURDY MILLER J COR H.G ROYAL PRINCE AXTALE & ROBERT L DAVID B MILLER MARSH ? ? ? MILLER VAN RUSSCLAN MILLER AARON 2ND MENAUGH ELISHA MYERS MARGARET MINER S.V MCNAIR DAVID MONDAY H.O PENN YAN SHELDRAKE GENEVA WATERLOO GENEVA 100 100 100 50 50 NEW YORK ROMULUS WATERLOO LODI LODI LODI LODI LODI LODI LODI FARMER 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 139 230 265 92 167 154 125 252 162 14 151 126 CERTIFICATE NUMBER LAST NAME MCLAFFERTY MCDUFFY MCLAFFERTY MYNDERSE MCLAUGHLIN MCLAUGHLIN MALONE MALONE MCGIGGEN MCDONALD MCCARLE MILLER MORGAN MORRIS FIRST NAME LIMEON JAMES HENRY C.D HUGH WM JAMES BARNEY BARNEY F.H PETER HENRY S GOV E.D L.G PLACE ROMULUS EAST VARICK ROMULUS SENECA FALLS OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID NEW YORK NEW YORK AMOUNT 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 250 250 NEAL NEAL NOBLE IRA BENJAMIN NELSON LODI LODI COVERT 100 50 50 185 OGDEN OSGOOD CHARLES HIRAM ROMULUS OVID 100 50 35 PRIME PATRICK PROUTY POST PURDY PRICE PURSELL POMEROY PRENTICE PEAR PURSELL PLATT PETERSON PETERSON RUFUS MAJ R.M JOHN S ABRAM A A.S GEORGE THOMAS F.B E.P RICHARD H JOHN H.D JACOB CORNELIUS NEW YORK OVID GENEVA FLINT CREEK OVID ROMULUS OVID OVID ALBANY ALBANY OVID GENEVA CANOGA CANOGA 300 250 200 200 150 100 100 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 66 232 145 174 164 231 127 20 14 PETERSON PETERSON PRALL PORTER JR PACK PARTIDGE PIERCE PALMER PORTEUS PIERSON PIERSON AMOS CORNELIUS CHANNEY LEWIS JOHN V ERASTUS ABEL HORATIO PETER L.R J.H LODI COVERT COVERT COVERT OVID SENECA FALLS NORTH READING SHELDRAKE FAYETTE WATERLOO WATERLOO 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 LAST NAME FIRST NAME PLACE AMOUNT CERTIFICATE NUMBER QUICK JAMES FARMER 50 131 REYNOLDS ROOK RAPPLEYE RAPPLEYE RAPPLEYE RAPPLEYE RAPPLEYE RAPPLEYE RAPPLEYE RAPPLEYE RORESON RORESON REDFIELD ROGER READER ROONEY RUSSELL ROBT L F.B ANSEL ABRAM J.W TERNIS S HARRISON J.M & H PETER JOHN P ALEXANDER A JAMES JAMES D DR HENRY THOMAS CHARLES H OVID SWEDEN FARMER FARMER FARMER FARMER FARMER FARMER FARMER FARMER FAYETTE FAYETTE WATERLOO FAYETTE VARICK OVID NEW YORK 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 100 SANDFORD SEELEY SACKETT BAILEY SMITH SHELDON SACKETT SWEREY SULTON SMITH SHEPPARD SHEPPARD SCHUYLER SEARY SUTTON SMITH SMITH SMITH SMITH HALSEY JOHN E CORI L GEO W W.J & E JAMES O GARRIE V J.H CYRUS J WILLIAM S CHARLES C GEORGE A JOHN R JONATHAN ARTEMUS A.L HAN L ISAIAH RALPH ALEXANDER FOLKARD NATHANIEL OVID OVID OVID 500 500 500 GENEVA GENEVA SENECA FALLS OVID OVID OVID PENN YAN PENN YAN VARICK ROMULUS OVID CANOGA CANOGA SEARSBURGH LODI OVID 500 250 200 250 250 200 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 150 100 100 SEELEY OVID 187 173 147 142 11 86 124 71 72 69 45 201 248 249 251 233 144 121 272 235 236 28 30 234 119 118 47 199 228 213 15 SAYRE SCOTT SEELEY SEELEY EDWARD DAVID D HEZEKIAH WILLIAM P ROMULUS OVID OVID OVID 100 100 100 100 LAST NAME SPADER SPENCE SWARTHOUT SMITH STEEL SCHOOLEY STEVENSON SWEET STEIGLE SMITH SHOEMAKER SEYMOUR STONE JR STONE SWAN SUYDAM SMITH SMITH SMELZER SMITH SWARTHOUT SMITH SMITH SMITH SMITH SMITH SMITH SUTTER SHARP SCOTT STEWART STOWELL SNIPPIN SPENCE SEELEY SCOTT SCOTT SIMPSON STEWART SMALLEY SMALLEY STRINGHAM SKOATS SENTELE SAYRE STRUBLE SMALL FIRST NAME WILLIAM JOHN R COE JARED H R.R ASALIAH ROBERT L A.L B JASON JOHN HORATIO JOEL J.R ROBT J H.L J.W DR A.B PHILIP JOHN T JOSEPH STEPHEN B WILLIAM B DANIEL B OLIVER O H.D H.W BENJAMIN B CHARLES JAMES B DAVID WILLIAM JOHN JOHN M DANIEL DANIEL DANIEL JOHN CORNELIUS JAMES SCHRING F SYLVESTER L DAVID L CHARLEY JOHN H.W THOMAS PLACE LODI LODI ROMULUS ROMULUS ROMULUS WATERLOO WATERLOO WATERLOO WATERLOO TYRE SENECA FALLS UTICA CLEVELAND O ROSE HILL GENEVA GENEVA GENEVA GENEVA LODI LODI LODI LODI OVID NORTH HECTOR COVERT ROMULUS WATERLOO OVID VARICK OVID OVID FARMER FARMER OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID OVID FAYETTE WATERLOO WATERLOO ROMULUS OVID NEW YORK AMOUNT 100 100 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 100 LAST NAME SHERMAN FIRST NAME BENJAMIN B PLACE NEW YORK AMOUNT 100 67 60 84 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 203 267 13 182 237 238 239 83 186 197 214 39 240 46 264 70 241 37 263 275 241 134 177 153 259 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 16 TOWNSEND THOMAS TERRELL THOMAS TRAPHAGEN TUNISON TRACY TOWNSEND TOWNSEND TOWNSEND TIBBET TEAL THORN JEREMIAH SAMUEL DOUGLAS SYLVESTER D PETER PETER H.C JOHN JEDEDIAH GILBERT S.M GEORGE C.P JONATHON OVID FAYETTE LODI OVID LODI COVERT KIDDERS TOWNSENDVILLE TOWNSENDVILLE TOWNSENDVILLE SHELDRAKE GENEVA NEW YORK 200 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 500 VAN LIEW VAN DOREM VAN TRYL VAN VLEET VAN LIEW VAN LIEW VAN LIEW VAN BERGER VAIL VAN D MARK VOORHEES VOORHEES VOORHEES VAN VLEET VESCELIUS ELHANAM ABRAHAM ISAAC PETER J RICHARD HENRY F PETER ANTHONY ABRAHAM S GEORGE W STEPHEN PETER ISAAC CASPER B OVID OVID ROMULUS ROMULUS LODI FARMER FARMER WATERLOO WATERLOO WATERLOO OVID LODI LODI LODI LODI 200 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 100 50 50 50 50 WAGER WILLIAMS WHITING WHEELER WILLIAMS WARING WOODWORTH WILSON WILSON WILSON HENRY J.B FRANKLIN JOHNATHAN JAMES SAMUEL F AUGUSTUS JOHN N JOSEPH ABRAHAM ROME ITHACA ROMULUS FAYETTE EAST VARICK FAYETTE LODI OVID OVID OVID 500 WILSON WILSON WILSON WOODWORTH JOHN G CHARLES W WILLIAM NESTER OVID OVID OVID COVERT 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 LAST NAME WAKEMAN WARN WARNE WARNER WILLIAMS WYCKOFF WYCKOFF WYCKOFF FIRST NAME NATHAN SCOBIE BENJAMIN SIDNEY F.C ABRAHAM ABRAHAM 2ND WILLIAM M PLACE COVERT ROMULUS ROMULUS WATERLOO OVID LODI LODI LODI AMOUNT 50 50 100 50 50 50 50 50 258 15 22 156 254 194 113 80 200 33 243 34 245 167 270 132 116 265 292 27 98 104 152 24 188 130 88 25 171 158 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 111 159 12 291 95 97 198 17 WEED WRIGHT WHARTENBY WILKINSON WOODEN WALBRIDGE WOODWORTH WOOD WHITE WILSON WILLIAMS WHITLOCK IRA B JOSEPH BENJAMIN F O.W ROBERT H.D ALANSON MICHAEL THOMAS HARRISON J.B BENJAMIN OVID WATERLOO WATERLOO FAYETTE WATERLOO GENEVA FAYETTE OVID OVID OVID ITHACA NEW YORK 50 500 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 25 100 250 128 247 244 18 Appendix D – Some Miscellaneous Pieces of Information 19 Basement walls and supports in the original Ag College section of the Grandview Building 20 Basement floor tiles as they looked in Jun3 2008 Postcard picture of the Grandview Building of the Willard Asylum for the Insane 21