The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 467
Village of Moravia

1878. Two other firms are engaged in the business, though less extensively, viz: Eaton & Patterson and Levi Hoffman ; the former of whom employ eight men, and manufacture fifty carriages and wagons per annum, and the latter, who employ four or five men, make twenty wagons and twelve sleighs per annum. D. S. Eaton commenced business some five or six years ago, and in 1876 admitted Edward Patterson to partnership. Levi Hoffman commenced business in 1874.

Austin Sackett has carried on the manufacture of flag-bottom chairs, in a small way, some six years.

HOTELS. -There are two good hotels in the village - the Goodrich House, kept since May, 1877, by M. L. Brando, who previously kept hotel in Union Springs some ten years; and the Moravia House, kept by Thomas White since December 22d, 1877. The building of the former was commenced in 1849, and finished in 1850, by Lemuel C. Porter, Jr., and was first kept by his brother-in-law, Van Anden, who kept it two or three years. The latter was built in 1813, by Dr. David Annable, and kept by him a short time. It is owned by Squire Raymond.

THE PRESS OF MORAVIA - Previous to 1863, Moravia had to depend on other, chiefly the Auburn papers, for local and County news Futile efforts to establish a newspaper were made several years before ; and February 20th, 1860, H. H. Alley purchased a Jones press, which printed a sheet four by five inches in size, and soon after, one which printed a sheet twelve by eighteen inches. For several years he printed tickets for town meetings. In October, 1863, A. 0. Hicks started the Cayuga County Courier in an office in Smith's block, and continued its publication till his death, in the summer of S64, when it fell into the hands of his brother, A. J. Hicks, who, after issuing it alone a year, formed a co-partnership with Win. M. Nickols, who, shortly afterward, purchased Mr. Hicks' interest and continued it till March 10th, 1867, when A. J. Hicks and Abner H. Livingston became the proprietors and published it till December of that year, when the latter purchased his partner's interest, changed its name to the Moravia Courier, and December 3 1st, 1870, sold it to the present proprietor, M. E. Kenyon, who has greatly improved both its literary and mechanical departments, changed its name to the Moravia Valley Register, and made it a fit representative of the energy and thrift of the village.

The Weekly News was started January 25th, 1872, on the corner of Main and Cayuga streets, by Uri Mulford, who had learned the general business of a country office in the office of the Valley Enterprise in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, and was then under twenty years of age. The size of the first volume was nineteen by twenty-four inches. It was neutral in politics till July 18th, 1872, when its influence was given to the Republican party. May 15th, 1873, it was enlarged by the addition of one column to a page, and August 7th, 1873, it was again enlarged to a seven-column paper, size twenty-four by thirty-six inches. In 1874, L. & U. Mulford were interested in its publication; and in 1875, it was removed to Auburn, where it was published a few months in the interest of the Prohibition party.

The Moravia Citizen was started July 13th, 1876, by Rev. Charles Ray, the present editor and proprietor, who was previously pastor of the Congregational church in Moravia. It is published every Thursday, in a building erected by the proprietor for its accommodation in April, 1877. Its size during the first six weeks was twenty-four by thirty-six inches. It has been enlarged to eight columns, size twenty-six by forty inches. Its editor is a Republican, but the paper is independent in politics. It is devoted to local news; is an earnest advocate of temperance; and it is the aim of its publisher to make it minister to the religious needs of its readers.

SCHOOLS. - A public school has been taught within the limits of the village since 1797. Up to 1839, the village formed but one district. In the spring of that year, there being a larger number of scholars than the school-house then in use could accommodate, a division was made on the line of Mill Creek, which, after a bitter controversy between the residents of the two districts, was confirmed by the State Superintendent, Hon. John C. Spencer, in the summer of 1839.

The first school, which was also the first in the old town of Sempronius, was taught in a log dwelling, by Levi II. Goodrich, in the winter of 1797-8. In the summer and fall of 1798, the first

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