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From that point he removed to a store next to the lot where now the opera house stands, and in 1828 he again moved into a store which he had built near the residence of Harvey Baker. His late residence and the stone store recently destroyed by fire were built in 1839-40. Dr. Samuel H. Case settled in the village of Oneonta in 1829.
The first white child born in this town, or the first known to have been born in town, was Abram Houghtaling. He was born in 1786. John and Nicholas Beams were early settlers to the east of the village. Elisha Shepherd came from New England at an early day and settled at Oneonta Plains.
Also, a good assortment of Chairs, will be kept constantly on hand, and all other articles generally found at an establishment of this kind. N.B. Most kinds of Lumber and grain will be received in payment. Oneonta, Sept. 17, 1840. A Card Executed at the office of the Oneonta Weekly Journal with neatness and dispatch and on reasonable terms, Job Printing of every description.
Armitage had made some inroads upon the wilderness, on what is now known as the Losee farm; Asel Marvin had made a clearing on the James Sheldon farm, and there were others on Mrs. Richardson's farm, and where Peter Yager lives. The settlers along the Oneonta Creek, after Mr. Marvin, moved in slowly.
He built the first school house on the Oneonta Creek road, and when the first church edifice was built in town, he was one of the trustees of the church society. When Mr. Marvin moved into the valley of the Oneonta Creek, the country across the hill from Oneonta to Laurens, was almost an unbroken wilderness.
There was but little money and the merchant's trade was carried on mostly in the way of barter, the tradesman exchanging his merchandise for grain, lumber and shingles. Early in the history of the town, a Mr. Walling, the grandfather of J.R.L. Walling, located to the east of Oneonta creek, near where his descendant above named now lives.
Among the early inhabitants of Oneonta, whose enterprise contributed to the development of the resources of the town, was William Angell, who soon after his settlement here became the most prominent inhabitant of the village. He built the Oneonta House, where he acted as host for a number of years.
9th, That the annual town meeting shall be held on the first Thursday of March. The following officers were then elected for the town: Supervisor, William Richardson. Town Clerk, Adam Brown. Collector, Hiram Shepherd. Sealer of weights and measures, Eliakim R. Ford. In 1835, five years after the organization of the town, the whole tax-paying population of Oneonta was 261.
After the farmer had sold or bartered away his wheat or other produce, he generally returned with a load of goods for the village merchant. Prominent among the early settlers of Oneonta was Jacob Dietz, who removed into the settlement from Schoharie county about the year 1804. Mr.
Perhaps the word Oneonta may have the same derivation or a like derivation as Onondaga perhaps not. The reader is left to follow up the query. Among the Hurons who had been conquered by the Iroquois, a tribe is mentioned under the name of Ti-onnonta-tes.
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