. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. c&tz:^ lost should the ark be wrecked on the passage. He sent hand-bills into all the adjoining country, offering liberal prices for wheat delivered at his mills or at his stores in Penn Yan, Pittstown, or Dansville. He received during the first winter 20,000 bushels of wheat, two-thirds of which he floured and packed in barrels at his mills, and in the winter built eisht arks at Bath and fou
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. c&tz:^ lost should the ark be wrecked on the passage. He sent hand-bills into all the adjoining country, offering liberal prices for wheat delivered at his mills or at his stores in Penn Yan, Pittstown, or Dansville. He received during the first winter 20,000 bushels of wheat, two-thirds of which he floured and packed in barrels at his mills, and in the winter built eisht arks at Bath and four on the Canisteo, and in the spring ran the flour to Baltimore and the wheat to Columbia. He cleared enough in that one year's operations to pay all the expenditures and improvements on his Cold Spring property. While operating at Cold Spring, Gen. McClure erected the first store-house at Hammondsport. He also built the first vessel on the lake, the schooner Sally of about thirty tons burden, for the purpose of carrying wheat from Penn Yan to his store-house at the head of the lake. This was in 1803. He advertised his vessel as a regular trader on. and gave the public square to the village. William Hast- ings was the first merchant, and built the first store, in 1825. Lemuel D. Hastings came in that year and entered his brother's store as clerk. He remained in that capacity till 1835, when he embarked in mercantile business for himself, and has continued in it ever since. In the fall of 1825, Ira G. Smith, of Prattsburgh, came and erected a store; and about the same time a few others put up build- ings about the public square. The construction of the Erie Canal, at this period, changed the entire route of transportation for the pro- ducts of the country,—sending them north to that great thoroughfare, and thence east to the seaboard, instead of southward by the waters of the Susquehanna. Crooked Lake became the most available route to the Eri^ Canal for the products of all th
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