The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 500
Town of Genoa
Northville

on the site of the building built for a steam mill, and continued till his death in 1812. From August 1809, to the summer of 1810, Darius Adams then bought him out and in December of that yearentered in copartnership with Henry Bradley, under the name of Adams & Bradley. They built in 1819 the store now occupied by Dr. Ball, and continued business till April 1823, whrn Mr. Bradley sold his interest. He subsequently moved to Penn Yan and was a leading merchart there for many years. Mr. Adams continued the business till 1846, when he retired, having been associated in the summer of 1831 with S. G. Pomeroy, when the firm name was Adams & Pomeroy; from 1837-40, with Samuel C. Lyon, under the name of Adams & Lyon; and from 1840-46, with his son Samuel, when the firm was known as D. Adams & Son. In 1835 he built the store now occupied by Adams & Ogden. From 1846-51, Samuel Adams was associated with his brother Darius W. Adams, under the name of S. & D.W. Adams. After 1851 Samuel Adams conducted the business alone until April 1, 1857, when Newell Lyons became his partner, and the firm became S. Adams & Co. February 10, 18644, Mr. Adams bought his partner's interest and in April 1867, he sold to Darius W. Adams and Weston A. Ogden, who hae since carried on the business under the name of Adams& Ogden.

During these years many other persons have been engaged in mercantile business for short periods with vried success. Among them were Jesse Atwater, Samuel and Ansel Chadwick, Gay & King, Harvey Andrews & Horace Atwater, Sidney Avery & Theron Seymour, Wail H. Davis & Theron Seymour, Richard Brownell, seneca G. Pomeroy & Walter G. Bradley, titus,Greenfield & Co., Lewis Seymour, Pierce & Co., Sauel & Lewis Atwater, Andrew Thorp, Union Store, Allen C. Purdy & Son and James C. King.  

Philo Clark, druggist, commenced business in 1865, and still continues it.  L. B. King, general merchant, commenced business in 1866, in company with B. F. Coleman, with whom he did business about a year. In 1874, James A. Greenfield became his partner and continued with him one year. King bought out Ansel Chadwick in 1866. G. W. Crocker  commenced the hardware business in 1866, in company with Thomas Underhill and W. A. Purdy, whose interests he bought at the expiration of two years. In 1870, he was associated with S. C. Bradley, under the name of Crocker & Bradley. In 1871, Bradley sold to John Starner, who after two years, bought Crocker's interest and continued in company, a part of the time, with Edwin Perry, until March 1877, when he sold to Crocker & Peckham, who still carry on the business.

POSTMASTERS -- King's Ferry post-office was established at Ogdens Corners, in 1807, with Capt. David Ogden, Sr. as postmaster. The office was kept in a wing on the north side of his house, one mile west of  Northville, until 1822, when it was moved to Northville. In the first year sixty-two letters were received, of which three were paid, thirty-nine unpaid and twenty free. The gross amount received during the first year for letters and papers was $18.99 1/2, of which the government received $12.63 1/2. Mr Ogden was succeeded by Henry Bradley, who was appointed January 1, 1823. Daruis Adams received the appointment in December 1823, and held the office as late as 1842. G. W. Gunn, Lewis Seymour, (who held the office in 1846), Darius Adams, Lewis Seymour, Samuel Atwater, (who held it in 1851) and Walter G. Bradley succeeded each other at short intervals. Bradley held the office as early as 1854 and as late as 1859. He was succeeded by Allen C. Purdy, B. F. Coleman and Samuel Adams, the latter whom was appointed in 1869, and still holds the office.

PHYSICIANS -- Prior to the settlement of any physician at Northville, Drs. Thomas Lyon , who was the first physician in the section, and was located at Five Corners, Nathaniel Aspinwall, who came in 1803, and settled three miles south of Northville, where J. F. Baker resides, and Consider King, who settled at Capens Corners, (Ledyard) in 1805, extended their practice to this locality. Aspinwall was one of the original members of the County Medical Society, and he and King were intelligent and conscientious men.  

Dennison R. Pearl, a native of Oneida county, commenced practice here in May, 1828, and continued six years. He resumed practice in 1843,

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