The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 356
Cayuga Village -- Churches / Town of Aurelius
tuted and continued for a year or more in connection with Montezuma.
The clergymen who were the first in this field were Amos G. Baldwin, Charles
G. Acly, Rufus Murray, Benjamin W. Whichers, Malcolm Douglas and Walter Ayrault,
in about the order named. Their work was followed up by visitations of Rt.
Rev. William Heathcote DeLancey, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Western New York,
resident at Geneva. From 1860 to 1866, the church mission work in Cayuga
was directly under the supervision of Rev. John M. Guion, Rector of Trinity
Church, Seneca Falls. In the autumn of 1866 a joint mission was instituted
between Cayuga and Union Springs, in response to the appeal of Rt. Rev. Arthur
Cleveland Coxe, D. D., Bishop of Western New York, by the communicants resident
in the two places. Rev. W. W. Raymond, ordained a deacon September 23d, 1866,
was placed in the field as missionary in charge, and entered upon his duties
Sunday, October 14th, 1866. Regular services were held every Sunday thereafter,
at Cayuga, in the morning and Union Springs in the evening, till January
31st, 1869, when Mr. Ryamond was transferred by Bishop Coxe to Rochester.
The first Sunday School was organized November 4th, 1866, with six teachers
and twenty-four scholars, and has since continued without interruption. The
average attendance thereat is twenty-five. The holy communion was first publicly
celebrated in Cayuga December 16th, 1866. The first convocational service
was held May 6th, 1868, Cayuga being in the Onondaga convocation. After the
departure of Mr. Raymond, regular services were suspended for a time.
THE FIRST M. E. CHURCH OF CAYUGA was organized about 1830, by Rev. Mr. Moore, a local preacher, who filled the pulpit about a year. They had no stated supply till about 1838, when Ross Clark became the first pastor, and remained two years. The present pastor is Wm. Reynolds, who commenced his labors with them in the fall of 1875. In 1845 they bought the village school-house, erected in 1804, and rebuilt it to adapt it to their use, nothing but the frame being used. It is now owned by Cyrus H. Davis, and is used as a public hall. Their present house, which is a fine brick structure, was built in 1868, at a cost of $9,000, during the pastorate of I. Harris. Their parsonage was built about 1870, at a cost of $3,000, including land. The present membership is about 100.
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, (R. C.,) was organized in 1853, by Rev. John Touhey, the first pastor, with some ninety members. Touhey remained eight years, and was succeeded by Bernard McCool, who remained a like period, when Eugene Pagani became their pastor and served them six years. Their next pastor was the present one, Thomas Hendricks, of Springport, who has served them three years. Their house of worship, a neat wooden structure, was built in 1870, at a cost of $2,200. The present membership is 175. Occasional meetings were held previous to the organization of the Society.
SOCIETIES.--Salem Town Lodge No. 326, F. & A. M., was instituted
September 16th, 1853. The first officers were: John Morse, W. M.; John Barrett,
S. W.; and Samuel Townsend, F. W. The present officers are: D. S. Titus,
Jr., W. M.; John H. McIntosh, S. W.; Clarence Shank, F. W.; John M. Freese,
S. D.; Hiram Titus, F. D.; James A. Bailey, Secretary; Wallace Shank, Treasurer;
Jacob Knorr, Tiler; John Hungerford, S. M. D.; Wm. Dumont, F. M. C. They
meet every second and fourth Saturday in each month. Present membership,
forty-two.
FOSTERVILLE.
FOSTERVILLE, named from the Fosters, who were early settlers there, is situated near the north line, and contains a Methodist Episcopal church, a district school, a store, a blacksmith shop, kept by E. R. Crippen, a paint shop, kept by W. R. Fisher, and about seventy-five inhabitants.
MERCHANTS.--The first merchant at Fosterville was Isaac Foster, who opened a store in 1819, which he kept to within three years of his death, about 1838. Lorenzo and Albert Lombard opened a store soon after Foster's was closed, but they kept it only a short time. Orin Foster kept a store some four years and closed it in 1860. D. R. Forest opened a store in 1868. In 1870, he was associated as partner with Joseph M. Watson. They sold after a year to J. M. Cole, who did business two years, and sold to H. A. Chamberlain, who sold to the present proprietor, I. T. Farmer, in October, 1876.
POSTMASTERS.--The first postmaster was Isaac Foster, who kept the office till his death, about
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