Daniel Sammis

Served in the War of 1812. Enlisted in Capt. John Satterley's Co. Cameto Dallas, Oregon to visit his daughter Cordelia and her husbandHudson in July 1853 and stayed to live. Had an interesting experiencefighting indians in Oregon. Occupation: school teacher. Went back toLong Island and died there. Buried in Babylon Rural Cemetery.

"The War of 1812.
Among the citizens of this town who rendered military service to theircountry during the war of 1812 may be mentioned the following: RichardDingee, captain, at Sag Harbor; Silas Tooker, at Sag Harbor andBrooklyn; John Tooker, Daniel Sammis, Israel Sammis, Jesse Sammis andJesse Abbott, at Sag Harbor; Jesse Whit-
man, on the frontier, in the United States army; Silas Cooper, in theprivateer and naval service. "

Records of Men Enlisted in the US Army Prior to the PeaceEstablishment May 17, 1815
No. 44, Sammis Daniel, Seaman, Regiment SF, Co. Commander Captain NoahTerry, Height 5'5", dark hair, light eyes, light complexion, 19 yearsold, occupation yeoman, born Shelter Island, Suffolk Co., NY,Enlistment July 20, 1814, Sag Harbor, Captain Terry, Period 1 year, MRDec. 31, 1814, DR Feb. 16 and JR April 3, 1815, present BK 551,discharged at Sag Harbor April 5, 1815.

Listed in the Long Island forum, Volumes 39-40-Daniel Sammis' sawmill1825

1826 Daniel Sammis advertised in the Portico newspaper for his newventure, a saw mill in Babylon, Long Island.

1840 Census Huntington, LI, NY
Daniel Sammis-1 male 15-20, 1 male 50-60, 2 females 15-20, 1 female40-50

1850 US Census Huntington, Suffolk Co., NY p.188
Daniel Sammis-76 years old, male, white, no occupation, value realestate 4000, personal estate 1000, born NY

Arrived Oregon July 14, 1853 according to Oregon Land Claim, Polk Co.

1869 listed as school teacher from New York in Shasta Co., Californiavoter reg.

From the Oregon Pioneer Book 2
Daniel Sammis, born 1794 Suffolk Co., NY, died 2 Oct 1873 Babylon,Long Island, NY; married 21 June 1816 Babylon, NY Maria Ketcham,daughter of Peleg Ketcham, born 1793 Suffolk Co., NY, died 1883Babylon, NY. Daniel and Maria Sammis, with their son, Edward, werelured to the state of Oregon by word from their daughter, Cordelia andher husband, Dr. Nathaniel Hudson, who came to Polk Co in 1850. DanielSammis arrived in Polk Co. from New York on 14 July 1853. They madetheir home near Dallas in Polk Co. Daniel taught school until 1871when he and his wife returned to New York. Their sons Oliver and Daviddo not emigrate to Oregon.

1850 Gallia County, Ohio applied for bounty land based on his servicein War of 1812 (Warrant #21496) for 80 acres and was issued anadditional grant of 80 acres under the Act of March 3, 1855 on Warrant#31986. In 1855 he was residing in Polk County, Oregon Territory. Itwas stated that he visited his daughter there but her name was notgiven. Daniel Sammis was allowed pension on account of his service inthe War of 1812 on his application executed Nov. 1871 at which time hehad returned to Babylon, Long Island, NY. He was then age 79; thedate and place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.He had returned to said Babylon only a short time previous to 1871.He died there Oct. 2, 1873. He was married July 20 or 21, 1814 or1815 in Brooklyn, NY to Maria Katcham; the names of her parents arenot shown. Neither party had been married previously. Maria Sammis,the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executedFeb. 25, 1879 at which time she resided in Babylon, NY. She was thenage 86 years old, date and place of her birth are not shown. Danieland Maria had 6 children, five of whom were living in 1878, four thenresidents of Babylon, NY. In June 1879, their son, Edward M. Sammis,age 45 of Babylon, stated that he was proprieter of Dominy House, FireIsland on Long Island, NY. His brother David SS Sammis, aged then 61,was the proprieter of the Surf Hotel on said Fire Island. In 1879,Richard K. Diossy, a Methodist Episcopal Minister, then located aBayport, Suffolk Co., NY, stated that he married a daughter of Danieland Maria Sammis in 1860, but did not state her name. One Addison S.Diossy was an attorney at 29 Nassau Street, NY in 1879; norelationship to the soldier's daughter was stated. In 1871, one EzraSammis resided in Babylon, NY but no relationship to the soldier wasstated. For info on location of land in Ohio you should apply ot theCommissioner, Gen. Land Office, NY and give warrant numbers, etc.Very truly yours, AD Killer, Exec. Asst. to the Administrator.

Judge Boise and Ellendale
By R.P. Boise

ELLENDALE
Ellendale and the O’Neil-Nesmith Mill history are so interwoven thatit is well to briefly to tell first of the O’Neil-Nesmith Mill whichwas erected at the spot where O’Neil creek, now called Ellendalecreek, flows into the Rickreall river. The mill and a small storebuilding were built in the winter of 1844-5 by James A. O’Neil. Whohad come to Oregon in 1834 as a member of the Nathaniel j. Wytheparty. This was the second grist mill to be built on the west side anddrew its patronage from all that country stretching from the northernend of Yamhill county to as far south as Oregon was then settled.
J.W. Nesmith and Henry Owens purchased the mill from O’Neil in 1849,they selling in spring of 1856 to John H. and William P. Lewis. InNovember 1857, Lewis Brothers ceased to operate the mill, sold itsmachinery and moved their store to Dallas. In December 1863, they soldthe mill site, water power and adjacent land to Judge Reuben P. Boisewho donation land claim adjoined the property.
The old dismantled grist mill building remained standing until thesummer of 1865 when it was torn down to make way for the erection onthe same spot of the woolen mill building.
For several years following the purchase of the grist mill and storeby Nesmith and Owens there was located in the latter a post officeunder the name of Nesmith Mill.
In December 1864, for the first time comes Ellendale as the name ofthe woolen mill and surrounding village, so named after the wife ofJudge Boise; her given name being Ellen.
The Articles of Incorporation of the Ellendale Mill Company were filedwith the Secretary of State December 19, 1864. The incorporators were:John Worsley, Reuben P. Boise and Joseph Watt. The capital stock ofthe company was first priced at $10,000, afterwards it was increasedto $20,000 then to $30,000 and finally to $100,000. The names of thefirst stockholders were: Reuben P. Boise, John Worsley, BenjaminSimpson, Mary E. Hallock, F.W.P. Huntington, T. McF. Patton, FranklinYocom, Isaac Levens and John Taylor. In addition to the names abovewritten the following were at various times stockholders in theenterprise: Asa Shreve, M.L. Robbins, S.M. Cooke, Albert O. Yates, B.McAlpin, E.G. Bolter and James T. Wortley. During the entire existenceof the corporation Judge Boise was its president. The following werethe secretaries elected in the order in which their names appear: JohnWorsley, Charles Moor and E.G. Bolter. The superintendents of the millwere John Worsley, Charles Moor and James T. Wortley.
The stockholders and the officers mentioned all have passed awayexcept Albert O. Yates, who is now living in Portland.
The mill, the fourth one to be erected in Oregon, did not get inoperation until late in 1866 owing to a lot of hard luck. The firstshipment of part of the machinery was lost in the sinking of thesteamer Brother Jonathan on its run from San Francisco to Portland.Then there was a great delay in getting this lost machinery replaced.
The writer hereof has in his possession letter received by Judge Boisefrom J.W. Nesmith, who looked after the purchase of the machinery,written from Washington D.C. and College Hill, Ohio, at which latterplace, Mr. Nesmith’s family resided part of the time he was in theUnited States Senate, telling the story of the delay by the BridsburgManufacturing Company in getting the machinery made. It seemed thatthis company was more anxious to hurry up the orders of easternmanufacturing than it was to get out comparatively small orders for afar away Oregon concern.
The mill had one set of cards, four hundred spindles and ten looms,employed twenty operators, turned out two hundred and fifty yards ofcloth a day and consumed eighty-thousand pounds of wool annually.
Part of the time that the woolen mill was in operation a school wasconducted at Ellendale; the first teacher being Daniel Sammis followedby Mary Woodward, afterwards Mary Harrington.
Most of the employes of the factory were Englishmen who had receivedtheir training in the old country. They understood their business, anda good quality of cloth was turned out. Among those who worked in thefactory were Thomas Kay Sr., Jonathan Hill, Jim Kennedy, TomRichardson, Tom Graves, Ensley M. Dawson, William Blanchard, WilliamWorsley, George Medley, Tom Burrows and Ben S. Worsley. The last twonamed are the sole survivors of this band of millmen who worked at onetime or another in about all of the pioneer woolen mills of Oregon.Mr. Burrows resides in Salem, and Ben S. Worsley in Astoria.
On account principally of the limited market at that time, andcompetition of the more centrally located factories, the Ellendaleventure did not prove to be much of a success in a financial way. Themill was operated until destroyed by fire in the latter part of May1871.
Such, in brief, is the story of endeavor by some of Oregon’senterprising pioneers to advance at an early day the manufacturinginterests of this state.