04 - Village of Government - Sketches of Village of Albion

VILLAGE GOVERNMENT.

The annual Charter Election for the village of Albion is held on the second Tuesday in April, at which five Trustees, three Assessors, one Street Commissioner, one Constable and a Collector, are elected. All other village officers are appointed by the Board of Trustees. The village Constable possesses, by law, the same general powers as Constables of towns, and, although the Charter invests the Trustees with power to make certain police regulations, hitherto but few by laws of that character have been enacted by them, and the police department is mainly left to the general laws of the State, and their execution is for the main part conducted by the town authorities, of whom two Justices of the Peace have ever resided in Albion.

A Board of Health for the village has been appointed for several years, and to their exertions in preserving cleanliness, perhaps, may be ascribed, in a good degree, the fact that no Cholera or other epidemic disease, nor much general sickness, has prevailed in this village.

The following is a list of the several Boards of Trustees, to wit:

1829.
Alexis Ward, President,
Orson Nichoson
William Bradner
Freeman Clarke
Franklin Fenton

1830
Alexis Ward, President
William Bradner
Franklin Fenton
Hugh McCurdy
Harry Gilmore

1831.
Henry R. Curtis, President,
Hugh McCurdy,
Lewis Warner,
Franklin Fenton,
Philip Nichols.

1832.
Henry R. Curtis, President,
Hugh McCurdy,
Lewis Warner,
Isaac F. Benedict,
Roswell Clark.

1833,
Harvey Goodrich, President,
John Hubbard,
Freeman Clarke,
Hugh McCurdy,
Abraham B. Mills.

1834.
Harvey Goodrich, President,
John Hubbard,
Hugh McCurdy,
Rodney A. Torry,
Adlerian Butts.

1835.
Harvey Goodrich, President,
Hugh McCurdy,
John Chamberlain,
Hiram Cowles,
John B. Lee.

1836.
Harvey Goodrich, President,
John B. Lee,
Benj. L. Bessac,
Franklin Fenton,
Coddington W. Swan,

1837.
Benj. L. Bessac, President,
John B. Lee,
Abraham Cantine,
Henry R. Curtis,
Orson Nichoson.

1838.
Jonathan Elkins, President,
Benj. L. Bessac,
John Boardman,
Gideon Hard,
Truxton Burrell.

1839.
Benj. L. Bessac, President,
Abraham Cantine,
Jonathan Kingsley,
Calvin Church,
Alderman Butts.

1840.
Arad Thomas, President,
Jonathan Kingsley,
Coddington W. Swan,
David Holt, Jr.,
Elijah Dana.

1841.
Arad Thomas, President,
Elijah Dana,
Roswell Clark,
Aruna Smith,
Hiram Baker.

1842.
Arad Thomas, President,
Roswell Clark,
Jonathan Kingsley,
Asher Flint, Jr.,
Abner Sheldon.

1843.
Henry A. King, President,
Charles Baker,
John B. Lee,
Lorenzo Burrows,
John Boardman.

1844.
Henry A. King, President,
Lorenzo Burrows,
Henry J. VanDeusen,
Abraham B. Mills,
Wm. V. N. Barlow.

1845.
Henry A. King, President,
Zephaniah Clark,
Abraliam B. Mills,
Jonathan Edgcomb,
Asher Flint, Jr.

1846.
Henry A. King, President,
George H. Stone,
Lewis Warner,
Robert Lewis,
Lorenzo Burrows.

1847.
George H. Stone, President,
Seth L. King,
Roswell Clark,
Wm. G. Gardner,
Aruna Smith.

1848,
George H. Stone, President,
Benj. L. Bessac,
Aruna Smith,
William Butler,
Seth L. King.

1849.
Joseph M. Cornell, President,
Lewis Pullman,
Roswell Clark,
Charles H. Moore,
Zerah Webb.

1850.
Charles H. Moore, President,
Wm. K. McAllister,
Erastus Root,
A. R. Quimby,
Horace Washburn.

1851.
Henry J. Sickels, President,
Roswell Clark,
David Bettis,
John B. Lee,
Charles Baker.

1852.
Joseph M. Cornell, President,
Charles Baker,
Henry A. King,
Roswell Clark,
Lewis Pullman.

1853.
Joseph M. Cornell, President,
Henry A. King,
Aruna Smith,
Roswell Clark,
Charles Baker.

SOURCE:  Sketches of village of Albion : containing incidents of its history and progress, from its first settlement, and a statistical account of its trade, schools, societies, manufactures, &c. (1853); Arad Thomas; Albion, N.Y.