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| | History of Geneva, New York |
 | | THE original town of Seneca was composed of township 9 and the south half of township 10, range 1, of the Phelps and Gorham tract; also so much of the “Gore “as was east of the same and which lay between the old and new pre-emption lines. |
 | | The present principal town officers of Geneva are: Walter A. Clark, supervisor; John W. Mellen, town clerk; Stephen Coursey, D. Colvin and Robert Bilsborrow, assessors; George W. Nicholas, William P. O’Malley, Edward N. Squires and John G. Farwell, justices of the peace. |
 | | Geneva being located at the northwest corner of Seneca Lake, it may here be stated, that the only thorough survey of the lake was made by triangulation during the summers from 1878 to ‘83, under the direction of Prof. |
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