TOWN OF SENNETT
Pages 344

Constables-Clare Sheldon, David H. Wiggins, and George W. Delafountain.
Collectors-Edgar J. Robinson.
Game Constable-T. H. Smith.
Excise Commissioners-F. Emerson Webster, John Relph, and Lambert V. Gonsolus.

At an election held November 5th, 6th, and 7th, 1827, the following votes were cast:

For William Thompson, for Senator 		155 
For George B. Throop, " 			101 
For Consider King, for Mem'r of Assembly 	159 
For Elijah Austin, " 				159 
For Israel Phelps, " 				150 
For Asa N. Burnham, " 				158 
For Henry R. Brinkerhoof, " 			107 
For William H. Nobles, " 			105
For Philo Sperry, " 				106 
For Gardner Kortright, " 			107 
For Edward Root, for Justice of the Peace 	159 
For Chester Treat, " 				151 
For Howard Soule, " 				144 
For Stephen Dwindell, " 			110 
For Daniel Sennett, " 				103 
For Benj. Horton, " 				101
For Lyman Doty, " 				98 
For William G. Gofford, " 			100

County Poor House. -The county poor house is located on a farm of ninety-six acres, all of which is under cultivation, about a mile and a quarter south-west of Sennett and three and one-fourth miles north-east of Auburn. It is built of brick, is four stories high with the basement, is one hundred front, with two wings, each seventy feet, and with the farm, is valued at $20,000. It was built about twenty years ago. The stock on the farm consists of eleven cows, two heifers, two horses, six hogs and fifty fowls. The present number of inmates is eighty, which is the average number, and about equally divided as to sex. About thirty are capable of manual labor, but not of earning a livelihood. The present keeper, B. K. Murphy, was appointed March 1st, 1878. The whole expense in and about the house, for the year ending November 1st, 1877, including the keeper's salary, pay of hired men and women, physician, insurance on buildings, repairs of buildings, fences, &c., together will all necessary food and clothing for inmates, was $7,741.99. The house is provided with a beautifully-shaded and well-kept lawn, and the whole external appearance of the premises presents an air of neatness.

Sennett Village.

Sennett is situated in the north part of the town, on the New York Central Railroad, by which it is distant six miles from Auburn, and is surrounded by a splendid farming country. It contains two churches, (Baptist and Methodist Episcopal,) a district school, with two departments and two teachers, (the building, which is of brick, was erected in 1871, and is an unusually fine one for a vlllage of its size,) one hotel, (kept by Loren Tyler, a grandson of Gideon Tyler, who settled in Auburn at an early day and gave to Tyler's spring in that locality its name, who bought the property of Samuel Green, April 5th, 1869,) a cheese factory, two blacksmith shops (kept by Sideny Wright and Matthew Relph,) three stores, and a population of about 200.

Merchants. -The first merchants were Rufus Sheldon and Chauncey Lathrop, who opened a store in 1795, and also kept a distillery, and did business till 1817, when they dissolved, Sheldon going out. Lathrop continued alone about two years, when he admitted James White to partnership, and after two or three years he sold out to White and went to Victory. White did business alone three or four years, and sold his goods to a man named Wright, who added to his stock of goods brought from Skaneateles, where he formerly kept a store. Dr. Curtis C. Cady bought out Wright about 1829, and continued until 1833, when he sold to Winslow Kenyon, from Venice, who, in 1861, transferred his stock to his daughter, Mrs. C. L. Sheldon, who still carries on the business. Jacob Bagley opened a store about 1837, and kept in four or five years. A man named Isham, from Auburn, opened a branch store in 1843, which he kept about two years. John Freeman opened a store about 1851, and kept it four or five years. He died here March 10th, 1862, aged seventy-seven years. A man named Lilly, from Onondaga county, kept a store one year, in 1860. Wm. Bluff came in from England some twenty years ago, and in 1873, opened a store, which he still keeps. Lewis H. Bradley, who opened a store in 1872, removed to Auburn in 1875, and returned here in April 1878. He was associated with Peter Hood during his first stay, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Bradley & Hood.

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