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Role in HistoryBy Cecilia B. Jackson [Town Historian)(Article No. 22 in a series on 150th anniversary of the Town of Arcadia)Throughout the 150 . years of Arcadia's history the name of husk has been among the foremost in the various offices of the town.The limited histories of the town reveal that Philip Lusk was an early storekeeper and also had an ashery exchanging goods for ashes and. shipped potash eastward, according to McIntosh’s History of Wayne County written in 1877.The sons of Philip operated an early vday furnace on the north bank of the Erie Canal near the Bank and a little west of the Newark Hotel,■ Daniel Lusk was an early postmaster. The first school house in Newark was a cheap frame building on a site donated by Jacob Lusk.not a young man, but probably 35 years old. The family was. very prominent in commercial and community activities for a long period in the 1800s.The Board of Supervisors in thaiyear of 1873 were largely involved with the railroads and the county and towns indebtedness. However the meeting in November ^went on for 18 days and evenings and ran over in December before adjournment. They could not seem to get the matter of the County Clerk’s office settled. The contractor, Mr, Agett, presented a claim for $2,700 for labor and materials ftirnished. The Board declined to allow any of the bills as they concluded that the county was notlegally liable. I,ater, however, I they reconsidered and -agreed-to make a partial payment on bills for definite claims. They paid the amount of $2,576 after ail the days of protest.Mr. Lookup’s notes also show that a J. Lusk in the 1874 atlas had a cabinfet shop Just north of the canal and north of the Newark Hotel on the west side of N, Main St. The atlas under Arcadia states that Jacob Lusk was a manufac* turer and dealer of furniture and aa undertaker on Willow Ave., which is new, North Main St.E. K. Burnham, a prominent’ Newark' attorney, was supervisor in the years 1874 and 1883-84, His story will be told next week.Henry Lusk was named collector it toe Incorporation of the-vmage in 1853. Jacob Lusk served as village president. Isaac M. Lusk served as a first lieutenant Co, M, 17th- Infantry in the Civil War. L, D. Lusk was a captain in the 17th Infantry and Lycurgus D. Lusk was a sergeant in Co. I, 17th Infantry.The road to Phelps was underbrushed to the creek through the Influence of Jacob Lusk. Philip Lusk owned a large farm near the “Corners” and had a general store. The corners were knownin the early days as Hichams’ Corners, later Groat’s Corners and today, the South End.Lockville (east village) was a busy, thriving place and it was expected to be the business center. The Lusks were old and well known families, in East Newark. The house later occupied by-Perry Price, on the hill, was the home at Peter Lusk, Imogen Russell reyeals in her “Oldtime Days of Newark.”Jeremiah Lusk was one' of the builders of the Methodist Church near the heme of John Wesley Benton on N. Main St.Christopher Lusk was overseer of the poor in 1894,Among early settlers south of Mud Creek were W’-illiam Stan-seli, Lewis Jessup, Enoch DeKay, a miller, Wesley Benton, a Methodist Minister and a man of excellent character and Jeremiah Lusk, whose sons, Jacob, Isaac and Philip were the original owners of the site of Newark Village.Just why Jacob P. Lusk is credited with selling the 100 acres of land in the center of what becameNewark, is not' known since his brothers were owners with him of the site. It was in May 1820 that Joseph Miller of Herkimer County took contract for one and a quarter miles of the Erie Canal and purchased the 100 acres, a portion of which at Mr. Miller’s direction was surveyed and platted by the local canal engineer, Hiram Tlbbett.George Lookup’s notes frenj e Supervisor’s proceedings show that Jacob Lusk was elected supervisor in 1873, While various members of the Lusk family are mentioned throughout these limited histories it is difficult to find any direct line.Jacob Lusk was a pioneer, a .farmdr, a land baron when Newark Was developing and in 1873 when he became Supervisor of the Town of Arcadia, he was
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