PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY, WITH DATES OF ELECTION 1876-D. H. Fitzhugh* 1877-D. H. Bissell* 1878-D. H. Bissell* 1879-M. H. Mills* 1895-C. K. Sanders 1896-Charles Jones* 1897-William A. Wadsworth 1899-E. W. Sears* DECEASED MEMBERS Avon-Cyrus Allen, E. H. Davis, A. Hendee, F. B. Pierson, Justus Williams, William H. Stevens, Eugene J. Whiting, Stephen Hosmer, Thomas Wiard, Hon. E. A. Nash, Wm. VanZandt, Mrs.F. E.Hovey, Joseph A. Dana, William Carter, Seymour Johnson, Lester Johnson, E. S. Sackett, Matthew Wiard. Caledonia-Angus Cameron, Bennett Gray, John D. McColl, A. H. McLean, Alex. B. Menzie, C. H. Swan, R. W. Place, William Hamilton, David Menzie, M. M. Caampbell, A. K. Fowler, Wm. J. Williams. Conesus-Ezra W. Clark, William A. Miller, Jotham Clark, Jotham Clark, Jr., A. D. Coe. Geneseo-A. J. Abbott, Samuel P. Allen, Benjamin F. Angel, Mrs. Allen Ayrault, C. O. Beach, Daniel H. Bissell, Frances Lauderdale, Wallace Mason, George Mercer, John M. Milne, H. V. Colt, George Fridd, Nelson Janes, Charles Jones, Dr. G. G. Jones, John Walls, A. J. Willard, C. H. Young, John Toole, J. O. Vanderbelt, K. M. Scott, Mrs. T. F. Olmsted, James M. Robinson, Edward Lavery, Mrs. H. L. Arnold, Mrs. J. B. Adams, Allison R. Scott, Geo. W. Jackman, Wm. W. Killip, John L. Scott, J. L. Hall, L. C. Morey, Albert Swan, J. D. Lewis, Abram Goodwin. Groveland-Samuel Culbertson, Richard Johnson, Jerome A. Lake, Geo. S. Ewart, N. B. Mann, Mrs. Michael Culbertson. *Deceased. Leicester-Alexander J. Briggs, James W. Jones, A. W. Wheelock, A. B. Cooley, Henry B. Higgins, Dr. F. H. Moyer, A. S. Eddy, J. F. Starr, Rev. E. W. Sears, Wm. B. Wooster, W. H. Clapp, W. J. Randolph, F. F. Cudebec, Richard Welch. Lima-E. S. Jenks, Richard Peck, Adolphus Watkins, Wm. R. McNair, Geo. D. Briggs, H. F. Sanger, John P. Deal, Geo. T. Warner, H. C. Gilbert. Livonia-S. Baker, William Bowen, B. Coy, F. B. Francis, H. S. Gilbert, Adna S. Gibbs, Manson F. Gibbs, J. M. Gray, H. D. Kingsbury, Ira Patchen, J. H. Prettijohn, S. T. Short, L. C. Short, Rev. E. B. Walsworth, L. P. West, S. D. Wheaton, W. W. Wheeler, B. J. Baker, R. G. Hatch, S. G. Woodruff, Arthur Patchin, John S. Beecher, J. T. Bettis, Julius C. Reed, E. R. Coy, Augustus Hamilton. Mount Morris-L. J. Ames, C. L. Bingham, L. C. Bingham, M. W. Brooks, Hathorn Burt, George S. Ellicott, Z. W. Joslyn, Orrin D. Lake, Hiram P. Mills, C. H. Moyer, John R. Murray, John Olp, H. Povall, Norman Seymour, A. O. Dalrymple, M. H. Mills, S. L. Rockafellow, F. E. VanDorn, Miles B. McNair, Mrs. O. D. Lake, W. D. Shults, N. A. Seymour, Isaac Knaappenberg. North Dansville-Z. H. Blake, A. Bradner, James Faulkner, L. B. Faulkner, G. C. Fisk, George Hyland, John Hyland, Emerson Johnson, William B. Lemen, M. McCartney, F. J. Nelson, F. M. Perine, L. B. Proctor, H. C. Sedgwick, Charles Shepard, W. T. Spinning, S. Sturgeon, Sidney Sweet, John A. Vanderlip, A. B. VanNuys, James Krein, I. F. Hampton, Geo. A Sweet, Fred W. Noyes, Dennis Foley, Bertrand G. Foss. Nunda-John F. Barber, George J. Campbell, Frank D. Lake, James Marshall, H. D. Page, E. W. Packard, B. P. Richmond, S. P. Whitcomb, J. W. Alward, H. Colton, W. Y. Robinson, H. W. Hand. Ossian-F. J. Bonner, Isaac Hampton, Wm. M. White, J. C. Scott, N. P. Covert. Portage C. D. Bennett, J. C. Bennett, John Fitch. Sparta-Hon. Jesse Roberts. Springwater-Daniel E. Dyer, Robert H. Wiley, Major H. A. Wiley. York-Senator Blakeslee, C. Cocher, Daniel McPherson, B. C. Nichols, Alexander Reid, George W. Root, Wm. W. Howe, D. J. McMillen, Wm. Stewart, A. D. Newton. Certificate of Incorporation We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Livingston County, in the state of New York, of the full age of twenty-one years and upwards, and citizens of the United States, do in pursuance of the statute in such cases made and provided, hereby associate ourselves together for historical purposes. The name or title by which such society or corporation shall be known in law is The Livingston County Historical Society. The particular business and object of such society and its general design is to discover, procure and gather up and preserve whatever may relate to Western New York, and the respective towns and villages of Livingston county in particular, whether it relates to the pre-occupancy of the country by the red man or the white race, and to gather such statistics of population, education, manufacture and business of the county as shall be of public utility and of use to the society. The officers of such society shall be a president, a vice-president, a secretary and a treasurer, and nine councilors, who shall constitute a board of managers of said society as aforesaid, and their names for the first year of existence as follows: D. H. Bissell, president. M. H. Mills, vice-president. Norman Seymour, secretary and treasurer. L. B. Proctor, L. J. Ames, D. H. Fitzhugh, G. W. Root, S. P. Allen, B. F. Angel, Richard Peck, J. F. Barber, E. H. Davis, councilors. The principal office and place of business of such society shall be located at Geneseo, the county seat of Livingston county, but nothing herein contained shall prevent the society from holding its meetings as provided and specified in its by-laws. We, the undersigned members, officers and managers of such society do hereby certify the matters above stated, to the end that we, our associates and successors may, pursuant to the statute of the state aforesaid in such case made and provided, to be a body politic, and incorporated, by the name stated above, and in witness whereof we have severally hereunto subscribed our names, the thirteenth day of Febru ary, 1877. Livingston County, Mt. Morris, N. Y. On the thirteenth day of February, 1877, personally appeared before me M. H. Mills, Norman Seymour, Loren J. Ames, Levi Parsons, D. H. Bissell, A. O. Bunnell, L. B. Proctor, severally known to me to be the persons described in and who executed the above instrument and they severally acknowledge the execution of the same. REUBEN WALLACE, Justice of the Peace in and for Livingston county. Dated, February, 1877. Filed in the office of the secretary of state of the state of New York, and in the office of the clerk of the county of Livingston. CONSTITUTION Section 1. This society shall be called the Livingston County Historical Society. Section 2. The general object of this society shall be to discover, procure and preserve whatever may relate to the history of Western New York in general, and Livingston county and its towns in particular, and to gather such statistics of education and population, growth and prosperity, and business of this region as may seem advisable or of public utility. Section 3. The society shall consist of resident, corresponding and honorary members who shall be elected by a majority of ballots; and of life members as hereinafter provided. Resident members shall consist of persons residing in Livingston county, N. Y., corresponding and honorary members of persons residing elsewhere. Section 4. The officers of the society shall consist of a president, a vice-president, a secretary and treasurer, and nine councilors of administration, who shall constitute a "Board of Managers," and shall be elected annually on the third Tuesday in January in each year by a majority of ballots. Section 5. None but residents and life members shall be eligible to office or qualified to vote. Section 6. Members shall pay an admission fee of one dollar and also an annual due of one dollar, which shall be paid on or before the first day of July in each year following their election. The election of a resident member shall confer no privileges of membership until his admission fee shall be paid. The payment of the annual dues shall be a condition of continued membership. In case any member neglects to pay his annual dues before the first day of July next after it becomes payable, he shall thereby forfeit all his privileges of membership. Resident clergymen are exempt from annual dues. Section 7. The payment of ten dollars at any time, for that purpose, shall constitute a life member, exempt from all annual dues. Section 8. The society shall meet annually on the third Tuesday |