[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the polling-place of the election district was at Sarles' Corners, some four miles distant. It was his custom always to vote, both at general and local elections, and it was usual for him to spend the whole day at the polls when the election was important, discussing public questions with those who would gather about him for the purpose. His relations with his neighbors here were of the pleasantest nature, and the days that he spent at Chappaqua were doubt-less the happiest of his busy life. Sarles' Corners was long the name of a small hamlet on the Sing Sing and Somerstown turnpike, a little west of the centre of the town, and about four miles from Sing Sing. For many years the town meetings were held here, and it is still one of the polling-places. There is a large hotel built of gran-ite, which is abundant in the neighborhood. The quarry from which the stone for the Crotou Dam was obtained is near by. The place of late years has been called Merritt's Corners, and has given its name to the station on the New York and Northern Rail-road, a short distance to the east. There are at the station two or three places of business. Schools.— At a meeting held September 26, 1S14, the town voted to comply with the act of the Legisla-