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Title: Cape Vincent and its history
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Casler, Nelie Horton
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Publisher: Watertown, N.Y. : Hungerford-Holbrook Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ndfirst class business for many years. The draymen are Giles Kilborn and W. F. Bailey. Tailoring is done by Patrick Walshe. Dress-making is done by Miss Minnie Whittcmore, )MissHelena Nicholson and Miss Kate B. Walshe. Boarding houses are kept by Mrs. Stumff, Mrs. Mc-Kinley, Miss Dunning and H. H. Fish. The postmaster is F. J. Shafer, assistants Misses Ettaand Maud Woolever. A system of water works was installed in 1895, and theelectric light system completed in May, 1903. W. S. Par-ker, S. S. Block, J. R. Kilborn, Commissioners. St. Lawrence. This village was first called St. Oars Corners, later Rog-ers Corners, then Gorham Corners and finally Cranes Cor-ners, until the establishment of a post office in 181<8, when itreceived its present name, St. Lawrence. Among the earlysettlers were Jacob St. Oars, James Rogers, Horatio Hum-phrey, C. B. Carey, Dr. Dyer Pierce. The first religious services here were under the direction ofElder Warren and continued until 1868, when the second 166
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Cape Vincent and its History-Methodist Episcopal cluirch in the town of Cape Ninccnt was;organized. The trustees were Samuel Dillen, Edward R.Farr, Alonzo Walrath for three years, A. E. Hire and Alanson Abbey for two years, and Samuel Swartwout and RussellWright for one year. The present church was erected inthe summer of 1869 and dedicated on the fifteenth of Decem-ber of the same year. The memory of Dr. Dyer Pierce, foryears an eminent physician here, and his wife, has been per-petuated by the generous gift of their son, Mr. H. ClayPierce, of St. Louis, Missouri, president of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company. He has recently presented to thissociet)^ a parsonage completely furnished, a gift of moneyfor repairing the church, and a massive and elegant stonewall surrounding the cemetery. The Reverend HarveyCasler succeeded the Reverend D. L. Phelps as pastor ofthe church in April of this year. The business places of St. Lawrence are the General Storeand Post-Office, conducted by F. A. Mil

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