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Note: Our County and Its People A Descriptive and Biographical Record of Madison County New York Edited by John E. Smith CHAPTER XV. PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENT IN TOWNS CONTINUED --- HAMILTON The settlement about 1810 of Abijah Pool and his sons, Abijah and Isaac, on the east branch of the Chenango and a little southwest of the center of the town, formed a nucleus around which ultimately gathered the hamlet and village of Poolville. The actual settlement of the Pool family was made about midway between Earlville and Poolville, where the son Isaac established a wool-carding and cloth-dressing business. A few years after this settlement was made, Gideon Randall Pool, a cousin of Isaac, came from near Plainfield, Mass., the former home of all this family, and took an interest in the business with Isaac. About 1825 they removed it to Poolville, where a few families had gathered. In 1830 the post-office was established. After the death of Gideon R. Pool, in 1827 the business was carried on by Amos and Isaac Pool, who were also cousins, under the firm name of A. & I. Pool. They established also an extensive shoe manufactory, and a few years later Caleb Lowd succeeded to both industries which he continued until 1835 under the name of Thaxter Pool, when they were discontinued. Nathan Eaton revived the carding mill, opened a store, and established an ashery and during a few years did an extensive business; but he failed about 1850. The building of the woolen mill was originally a grist mill and soon after Eaton's failure it was converted to its former use by Elihu Thompson and William G. Brainard. James Jackson purchased the property about 1859 and sold it to the present proprietor, George W. Berry; the mill has been remodeled and improved as a yarn mill. A saw mill was built which took water from the same dam; this came into possession of Damond Richmond before the war. The site is now owned by Mr. Berry, the mill having been demolished.
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