The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 503

$450, which was then considered very liberal. The names appended to the subscription list to raise this amount were 135 in number, and the sums subscribed varied from fifty cents to thirty dollars. Mr Smith accepted this call and was installed January 24, 1810. Such was the importance attached to this event that the church voted to observe Wednesday, January 10th, as a day of fasting and prayer, preparatory to the solemnities of the occasion.

Mr. Smith's pastorate was a long and useful one. It continued till his death, January 30, 1849.

Mr. Smith was succeeded by Rev. N. D. Graves, who was installed September 5, 1849, and served the church five years, resigning September 5, 1854. Rev. Amos Crocker followed in the spring of 1856, and remained till May 1867. The present pastor, Rev. J. S. Jewell, commenced his labors with this church July 1, 1868, having completed the tenth year of his ministry, which with the hopeful spiritual condition of the church, is evidence of his acceptability and efficiency. Thus the shepherd's staff has changed hands but four times in the period of nearly seventy years.

The church was originally organized on Congregational principles. In 1804, on the organization of the Middle Association, it was connected with it; but on the dissolution of that body in 1811, and the formation soon after of the Presbytery of Cayuga, it became a constituent member of the latter body, and has thus remained to the present time. In 1820, the church adopted the Presbyterian form of government, electing as ruling elders, Wm. Bradley, Benjamin Close, Beriah King, Roswell Franklin and Adonijah Tillotson, who continued to exercise the functions of that office till 1831, when it again voted to become Congregational. In November 1868, it once more, without a dissenting voice, became fully Presbyterian.

The present number of members is 140. The numbr of families in the congregation is about 100. The whole amount raised during the last ten years, including benevolent objects, is about $27,000. They have an interesting Sabbath school, at which the attendance is 150.

Calvary Church, (Episcopal) at Northville, was organized in May 1862, and at a meeting of the vestry, consisting of S. S. Mosher, D. K. Underhill, James Howell, George Jackson, M. D. King, John Tillotson, James Niblo and B. F. Coleman, held Tuesday, May 15, 1862, at the house of D. K. Underhill, Q. L. Beebe and Andrew Thorpe were elected wardens. Their church edifice was erected in 1862, at a cost of about $2,000, the land--about an acre--having been given by Mr. D. K. Underhill. It was consecrated in 1863.  The first rector was Rev. J. Leach, sho was called May 22, 1863, he having resigned the pastorate of St. Paul's Church of Aurora. June 29, 1863, a call was given to Rev. W. M. Beauchamp, who served them two years, and was succeeded by Rev. George G. Perrine, who remained about a year. For sometime after Mr. Perrine left, the pulpit was unsupplied. Rev. W. A. Casey, who was then and is still rector of St. Paul's Church, Aurora, supplied the pulpit a year. After that the church had only occasional preaching till the summer of 1878. July 1st, of that year, Rev. J. Everist Cathell commenced his labors with them, and continued them during that and the two succeeding months. Rev. DeWitt C. Loop, the present pastor, entered upon this charge about the 1st of November, 1878. The church is in feeble condition, but has a hopeful and useful prospective future. The membership does not exceed a dozen, but there are some twenty who have been baptized awaiting the coming of the Bishop to be confirmed.

St. Mary of the Lake Church, (Catholic) at Northville, was organized in 1866, by Father McCool, at the house of the widow of Hugh Fallon, about a mile west of the village. It then consisted of about twenty-five heads of families, the most prominent of whom were the widow Fallon, Daniel Fallon, Patrick and Edward Reilly, Thomas and John McCormick, Michael and Edward Burns, James Britt, Patrick Dullehan, Christopher Mulligan, Nicholas and Christopher Mulvany, John Mahony and John Kenny. Their church edifice was erected in 1868, at a cost of $2,400, through the efforts of Father McCool, who labored with them as pastor from 1866-70. He was succeeded in the pastorate by Father Schmeltzer, who served them ten months; Father Eugene Pagani, who remained one year; Father Archangel Paganini, who served them ten months; and Father Hugh Francis Rafferty, who has labored with them since June 15, 1873. The present membership is about 450.

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