A Gowanda Timeline

1820s - The first lawyer to practice in Lodi is Albert G. Burke.

1829-1830 - The first school in Lodi, with 57 students, employs Mr. Leland to teach a five-month term at $13 per month. The next term of three months is taught by Chester Howe at $6 per month.

1830s - Amasa Chaffee sells his interest in the Chaffee & Camp Wool Carding Factory to Ralph Plumb. Plumb & Camp construct a three-story woolen factory, the largest business in town at that time.

1835 - Married in Perrysburg: Charles Near of Hanover to Maranda Nash.

1840 - Lodi population of about 200.

1842-1843 - Gowanda Postmaster - Ralph Plumb.

1844 - Esek B. Nash is elected Persia town supervisor, Amasa L. Chaffee is elected town clerk and D.C. McMillen is elected justice.

1845 - K. Webster establishes a tannery at the corner of Jamestown and Hill streets.

1850s - Porter Welch opens a new road through the Dayton Valley to Dayton Summit. A stagecoach makes daily trips from Gowanda to the railroad station at Dayton.

1851 - Marriages: Leonard Bartlett and Sally Lumbard; John Bartlett and Mary B. Kelly; Julius A. Parsons and Louisa Wheeler; John J. Gurnsey and Eunice N. Palmerton, daughter of Joshua Palmerton; Chauncey M. Grannis and Mary J. Neal.

1860 - Gowanda Lyceum, a debating society, names the Hon. Levi Strope as its first president. Well-known members included JudgeWoodbury, the Rev. Dr. Lord, C.C. Torrance, Elisha Henry, A.C. Tefft, Samuel and William Stuart, Col. Hickox, D.W. Huntley, Alonzo Olcutt, Charles Benton and Leonard Allison.

1861 - Marriages: Charles W. Woodruff and Lorenza Bement, Henry F. Allen and Lucy E. Woodbury, Albert C. Taft and Maria I. Brown, Frank G. Stebbins and Mary M. Holmes, Joseph Savage and M.E. Wadsworth, William F. Munger and Rachael Sisson, E.S. Griswold and Rebecca Rollinson, Silas H. Arnold and Hattie Davis, George Dailey and Rachael Bastedo, Harvey Foster and Emily Newcomb.

February 1862 - Sgt. W.W. Roller, recruiting officer, advertises for a few able-bodied men to join Col. T.J. Parker’s 64th Regiment. Pay is from $13 to $21 per month and a bounty of $100 in gold.

1880 - Gowanda Village Board: J.E. Van Deusen, president; John Kammerer, Amand Fischer, F.C. Vinton, trustees.

1882 - Gowanda Village Board: B.L. Kimble, president; John P. Romer, A.C. Stafford, M.T. Hill, trustees.

1897 - E.C. Countryman purchases The Gowanda Leader newspaper.