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In the Recorder of June 5, 1871, we read :
"The most noticeable feature of South Colony street is Mr. Norman Allen's Eagle Cottage and ice cream. We visited Mr. Allen's place on Saturday evening and were more than satisfied with what we saw and heard. The Rocky Mountain scene interested us more than anything else. Here a train of cars, loaded with passengers, has just emerged from the tunnel and is proceeding on its way. On the side of the mountain, a little higher than the track, a saw mill with an appro- priate sign over its entrance is seen in operation," etc. "In the museum are a large number of stereoscopic views outside there is every convenience for those who wish to test Mr. Allen's ice cream." A really surprising amount of mechan- ical ingenuity was shown by Mr. Allen in producing his different attractions. For several years the place ministered to the amusement of the people and then like the Arab he folded his tent and stole away to places where the shekels were more plentiful and the crowd of pleasure seekers more numerous. When one passes the place and sees the complete metamorphosis, one realizes how true is the saying that "the place that has known him shall know him no more." But who that ever visited the museum will forget its strange attractions, or the son of the proprietor who used to parade the streets, bell in hand, announcing in a loud voice the pro- gramme for the coming evening.
An attempt has been made to picture Meriden as a village and again as a grow- ing town that was beginning to feel that its increase in numbers had been suffi- cient to warrant the adoption of whatever dignity, position and influence would be gained by the incorporation of its central and more densely populated part into
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a city. Its rapid growth had spread abroad the feeling that Meriden was bound to become a large community and now and then estimates of future growth had been made, based on the rapid increase in importance of some of the manufacturing industries and the location and formation of new plants. As already stated, the census of 1860 showed 7,426 souls, or an increase of over 100 per cent. in ten years. As a matter of fact, the showing in 1870 was only 10,495, so that it was apparent that some of the estimates had been over sanguine.
MERIDEN A CITY.
The city of Meriden was incorporated by act of the General Assembly July II, 1867, and on July 24, 1868, an amendment to the charter was passed in order to permit the construction of a water supply or city reservoir.
The first election resulted in the choice of the following officers: Mayor, Charles Parker ; clerk, John H. Bario ; aldermen, William J. Ives, Hiram Butler, George W. Lyon, Jedediah Wilcox ; councilmen, Lemuel J. Curtis, Owen B. Ar- nold, Charles L. Upham, Charles A. Roberts, Hezekiah H. Miller, Eli Ives, Augus- tus C. Markham, Eli C. Butler, Aaron L. Collins, Isaac C. Lewis, Jared R. Cook, Jared Lewis, Horace C. Wilcox, Dennis C. Wilcox, John C. Byxbee, Walter Hub- bard ; treasurer, Asahel H. Curtis ; collector, Samuel O. Church ; auditor, Joel H. Guy.
This was certainly a selection of a very high order ; they were all men of abil- ity and although enterprising, they also possessed a great fund of business sense and sagacity that started the city under the best possible auspices.
The change seemed to inspire the community with a desire to take every meas- ure or step that could add to the genuine improvement and appearance of the city. Within a year or two the following dwellings were erected-all creditable to the city : George A. Fay,1 1868 ; Lemuel J. Curtis,2 1868 ; Julius Pratt,3 1868; Edward Miller,4 1868; Henry T. Wilcox,5 1868; Jedediah Wilcox,6 1870, considered at the time one of the finest residences in Connecticut, and now the home of Dexter W. Parker. The Corner district schoolhouse was completed and dedicated Sept. 4. 1868. St. Andrew's Episcopal church was completed in 1867, and the Methodist church was dedicated June 26, 1868, and the Main Street Baptist church was ded- icated July, 1868, and in the same year the Center district schoolhouse was built. and also the engine house and police station on Pratt street, now the property of the Turner society, and the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. began the erection in the same year of the present freight station north of Camp street, and in the following
1 144 Curtis street.
2 128 Curtis street.
3 118 Colony street, now home of Floyd Curtis.
4 360 Broad street.
5 400 Colony street.
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year after great debate and much hot discussion the city began the building of its first reservoir now known as Merimere.
In 1868, after much complaint of the lack of adequate police protection, the city decided to create a force which would at least be the nucleus of a future and larger body of blue coated men, so on Monday evening, September 14th, the com- mon council elected Jared P. Parker, chief of police, and on November 17, 1868, the following men were added to the force: S. S. Wilcox, A. H. M. Pratt and George Van Nostrand. On Monday evening, December 5, Mr. Pratt having de- clined to serve, Capt. Roger M. Ford was elected to fill the vacancy.
Some of the arguments used in opposing the appointment of a police force are rather amusing. One alderman said Middletown had given up their police force because they found they bred riots; another said he didn't believe we needed a police force, for Waterbury had only one man and he had nothing to do: another who was opposed to paying a fair rate of pay, said it was a lazy sort of life any- way and he would be glad to take such a position at $2 per day.
During the year 1869 the grading and widening of the following streets was begun: Broad, Pratt, Colony, Main, Liberty, and Curtis. The great changes in the profiles and widths produced many lawsuits but they were finally adjusted by compromise or the decisions of the courts, and Meriden began gradually with her changed streets bordered by flag sidewalks, to take the appearance of the mod- ern city.
On May 9, 1870, the common council passed a by-law relating to the number- ing of houses and lots and on May 23 the same year the council adopted the names of streets that are still retained by those thoroughfares then in existence.
The really final event to convince Meriden that it was at last a city was the announcement in the Republican under date of Sept. 7, 1869 that "canvassers are now collecting the names of our citizens with a view of publishing a directory."
NEWSPAPERS OF MERIDEN.
The newspapers of the period have been frequently mentioned in the fore- going pages and they evidently played an important part in the daily life of the people.
The first newspaper printed in Meriden was called "Northern Literary Mes- senger" and published by O. G. Wilson. A copy in the writer's possession dated Feb. 3, 1849, says it is "edited by an Association of Gentlemen" and "Devoted to Literature and the Arts." This copy is No. 5 of Vol. IV., which would seem to bear out the statement in an article of The Meriden Press-Recorder under date March 28, 1883, that the first number of the Messenger appeared in September, 1844. The local news, as usual in that period, amounted to nothing but the ad- vertisements gave us a little information. The paper was printed in a building that stood just west of the Center Congregational church where the Central Hotel
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is situated, No. 297 East Main street, but the number above referred to had hardly made its appearance before its publication was suspended and on March 24, 1849, the "Meriden Weekly Mercury" made its bow to the public under the manage- ment of O. G. Wilson and Geo. W. Weeks, as successor to the Messenger and in an editorial the announcement is made that "The Messenger" "is dead ! Stark dead ! It died a natural death on the 3rd of February last, purely for want of breath (i. e. California gold) which caused its locomotion to stop." The Press-Recorder above quoted says that the paper had been run under its new name only six weeks when the building was destroyed by fire. It was then printed in the old Academy building. How long it continued no one seems to know.
The same authority says "The Connecticut Organ" was started in 1851 by Franklin E. Hinman as printer with O. H. Platt as editor, but that Mr. Hinman sold out the paper early in 1852 to James N. Phelps & Co. and this statement seems corroborated by a copy, before the writer as he pens these lines, dated May I, 1852: the name of New Britain Journal had been added to the title: how long it continued to be published is uncertain ; perhaps the Connecticut Whig was suc- cessor to it for a copy dated Mar. 30, 1854, says "New Series, Vol. 3, No. 36."
R. W. Lewis and O. H. Platt were the publishers of the Whig and Mr. Platt was also its editor. Geo. W. Rogers was afterwards associated with Mr. Platt. The paper was discontinued about 1854.
Contemporary with this publication was a journal called "Meriden Transcript," published by Lysander R. Webb & Co., begun in 1850, and after the Whig had suspended Mr. Platt became editor also of the Transcript. This paper continued to exist until August, 1856, when Mr. Platt's increasing law business compelled him to cease all connection with newspaper work.
In the early part of the same year Robert Winton, a Canadian who had been connected with newspaper work in North Adams, Mass., came to Meriden, and being encouraged and aided by the leading manufacturers and merchants, estab- lished a newspaper called the Meriden Chronicle, which was printed in Wilcox block where Griswold, Richmond & Glock are now located, although on an upper floor. This publication continued three years, and was then bought by a Mr. Still- man who established a paper called The Banner. It was Democratic in politics and lasted only four weeks.
On Aug. 29, 1863, Luther G. Riggs started the Meriden Literary Recorder, the printing house being located in what is now known as Circle Hall building on Colony street. His associate was a Mr. Dorman.
Mr. Riggs had talent and ability but lacked balance and his course here was a stormy one, and the controversies he engaged in brought him only great adversity and more than one personal chastisement.
All these various publications so far described were weekly sheets and there was no daily newspaper until the Weekly Visitor begun on March 21. 1867, by
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Monroe Eaton commenced a daily issue on Jan. 1, 1868, On March 16 it was merged into the Weekly and Daily Republican which was at first under the edi- torial control of Marcus L. Delevan and George Gibbons and later of William F. Graham. The publication was continuous until March 1, 1899, when it was con- solidated with the Morning Record, a newspaper established on Oct. 8, 1892, by the same publishing house, so that since March 16, 1868, it may be said that this same newspaper has been printed by this establishment. The editor at present is Thomas H. Warnock.
There were various other short lived newspapers which may be briefly named, viz : "Daily News," "Evening Recorder" and "Morning Call," under the leader- ship of Luther G. Riggs. "The Penny Press," established by J. H. Mabbett in De- cember, 1881, soon changed to the Evening Press and on Oct. 16, 1882, consolidated with Riggs' Daily and Weekly Recorder, and was called the Meriden Press-Re- corder and continued until 1884. For a brief period in 1872 William F. Gra- ham published a newspaper called the evening Monitor which was soon merged with the Republican.
On March 4, 1886, The Journal Publishing Company was incorporated with Francis Atwater, president; T. L. Reilly, secretary ; F. E. Sands, treasurer, and Lewis Allen, editor. They immediately began the publication of The Meriden Journal, a newspaper which has a wide circulation and which has steadily grown in influence as the years have rolled by.
The publication of The Evening Times began May 22, 1905. The moving spirit of the enterprise was Henry C. L. Otto, whose untimely death on November 7, 1905, took away the mainspring of the organization, and the paper was discon- tinued on March 2, 1906.
EARLY LAWYERS OF MERIDEN.
The first full fledged lawyer resident in Meriden seems to have been Benajah Andrews whose homestead stood where the present residence of Mrs. T. F. Breese is located, 501 East Main street. For several years he was judge of probate in this district and his name appears many times on legal documents drawn up dur- ing the first half of the nineteenth century, but the writer has been unable to learn many facts relative to his life.
Dexter R. Wright came to Meriden immediately after graduating from Wes- leyan College in 1845 and took the position of principal of the Meriden Academy. In 1848 he graduated from Yale Law School and began the practice of his profes- sion in this town the same year.
After Franklin Hall was built his office was in that block. His influence was felt in many directions for he was a man of energy and resource. He attained political honors while living here. In 1862 he enlisted in the 15th regiment and
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was made colonel but ill health compelled him to retire in 1863. He returned to Meriden and sold out his business here and removed to New Haven where he had an active practice.
Tilton E. Doolittle was located in Meriden several years after graduating from Yale Law school in 1846. The map of Meriden made in 1851 shows that his of- fice was located on West Main street just west of the Guy residence.
Hon. Orville H. Platt, senior U. S. senator from Connecticut, came to Meriden a young man in 1851 : he had studied law in the office of Judge Hollister of Litch- field and was admitted to the bar in 1849. His many activities and resources were constantly in evidence during the early years of his residence in this town, out- side of his profession as a lawyer, and those who were best acquainted with him knew how great his abilities were and it is safe to say that none of them was sur- prised by the eminence he attained in the service of the government as senator during his career of twenty-six years in that distinguished body. It is not the pur- pose to give his biography here as it has been printed in another part of this book.
IN CONCLUSION.
There comes a year in the cycle of time embraced in an historical narrative sketching the growth of a present day community, even though the story be of so unpretentious a nature as the chronicles of a town like Meriden, when the rapid accummulation of facts and multiplicity of details, render perspective distorted, and prepare one to recognize the homely truth contained in the remark, that one "couldn't see the woods for the trees that were in it."
We have followed the story of the development of Meriden until we have seen the struggles of the early pioneers succeeded by a dawning of the consciousness that there was a future full of hope and promise for all who would energetically continue the labors of those gone before. The town of 1806 has been succeeded by the city of 1867, the spirit of enterprise is everywhere, factories are growing and new ones springing up, and the year 1870 seems a fitting period in which to write the word FINIS to this part of the "Centennial Book."
And so at last, notwithstanding all that has been left untold, the end of these annals is here, and at a very much later date than was anticipated when the work was undertaken some ten months ago. Begun with the idea of writing a sketch of some thirty or forty pages this story has grown in a most surprising manner until with dismay page 300 has been seen and passed and courage is lacking to set a limit to that one on which these final words will appear.
The writer, as much as any one who may chance to read these annals, is in- pressed by the sins of omission and commission that are to be found both in style and construction. He can only plead in apology that the material has had to be collected in great haste, and then digested with such a rush as to produce the nu-
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merous examples of literary dyspepsia that the printed pages render only too fre- quently apparent.
The great storehouses of information on which the writer has constantly relied are contained in the land records of Meriden and Wallingford and the probate rec- ords of these two towns reinforced by the earlier ones of New Haven. The wealth of facts there found, has been largely supplemented by the memories of those whose age enables them to give reminiscences that would otherwise be utterly lost, or whose associations in the various localities have caused them to treasure up the traditions and stories of the past that are handed down from generation to gen- eration.
To give a list of the names of those who have patiently submitted to question after question and who have voluntarily given information not sought for because the writer had no clue to such sources, or who have assisted in ways too numerous to mention would require almost another chapter. But although these names are omitted the writer's gratitude is no less profound.
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APPENDIX
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM MERIDEN.
COMPILED BY HERMAN HESS.
1806 Oct. session, Brenton Hall.
1829 Walter Booth.
1807 May session, Amasa Curtiss.
I830 Titus Ives.
1807 Oct. session, Theophilus Hall. 1831 Ashbel Griswold.
1808 May session, Amos White. 1832 Noah Pomeroy.
1808 Oct. session, Nathaniel Yale.
1833 Enos H. Curtis.
1809 May session, Nathan Yale.
1835
Hezekiah Rice.
1810 Oct. session, Solomon R. Hall.
1837
Horace R. Redfield.
18II
Oct. session, Partrick Clark.
1839 James S. Brooks.
1812 May session, Samuel Paddock.
1840. Eli C. Birdsey.
1812
Oct. session, Samuel Paddock.
1841.
Tie vote-no election.
1813
May session, Theophilus Hall.
1842
Ira Couch.
1813
Oct. session, John Hall.
1843 Henry Stedman.
1814
May session, John Hall.
1844 James S. Brooks.
1814
Oct. session, William Yale.
1845 Tie vote-no election.
1815
May session, William Yale.
1847 Ashbel Griswold.
1815
Oct. session, James Baldwin.
1848 Isaac C. Lewis.
1816
Oct. session, Stephen Bailey.
1849 James A. Frary.
1817
May session, Stephen Bailey.
1850 William J. Ives.
1818 Oct. session, Elisha Curtis.
1819 William Yale.1
1854 Albert Foster.
1820 Ashbel Griswold.
1855 James S. Brooks.
1821 Levi Yale.
1856 Levi Yale.
1822 Partrick Clark.
1857 James S. Brooks.
823 Samuel Paddock, Jr.
1858
Asahel Curtis.
824 Amos Curtis.
1859 William W. Lyman.
1825 William Yale.
1860 Andrew J. Coe.
1826 Ashbel Griswold.
1861 Owen B. Arnold.
1827 Gershom Birdsey.
1862 Isaac C. Lewis.
1828 Ashbel Griswold.
1863 Dexter R. Wright.
1 Until 1819 there were two elections annually.
2 Three elections ; first two resulted in tie.
1851 Hiram A. Yale.
1817 Oct. session, Othniel Ives.
1818 May session, Othniel Ives.
1852 Julius Pratt.
1853 Isaac C. Lewis.
1816 May session, James Baldwin.
1838 Walter Booth.2
18II May session, Partrick Clark.
1834 Eli C. Birdsey.
1809 Oct. session, Solomon R. Hall.
1810 May session, Jared Benham.
1836 Asahel Curtis.
1846 Elias Howell.
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1864 Orville H. Platt.
1881
William W. Lyman, G. H. Wilson.
865 Oliver S. Williams.
1882 John Morse, Reuben T. Cook.
1866 Isaac C. Lewis.
1883 George O. Higby, William H. Golden.
1884 Chas. H. S. Davis, William Wallace Lee.
1885
William Wallace Lee, Chas. H. S. Davis.
1871 Joseph J. Woolley.
1886
William H. Barbour, Louis H. Hart.
1872 H. Wales Lines.
1888 James H. Chapin, E. D. Castelow.
1873 Chas. H. S. Davis.
1890 E. D. Castelow, Joseph H. Potts.
1892 Oscar L. Bradley, Timothy M. Crow- ley.
1894 Benjamin Page, Jacob S. Morrill.
1896 William G. Gallager, Geo. W. Couch.
1898 Geo. W. Couch, Geo. L. Ellsbree.
1900 August Maschmeyer, George E. Bick- nell.
1902
George E. Bicknell, Willis I. Fenn.
1904 Willis I. Fenn, Fred'k L. Huntington.
LIST OF STATE SENATORS FROM MERIDEN.
COMPILED BY W. D. W. PARKER.
From 1806 to 1818 we lived under the original King Charles Charter of 1662. During the period mentioned there was no office of state senator, those occupying that relative position being called "assistants." No authentic information indi- cates that any of the "assistants" were residents of Meriden, they being taken from the state at large.
From 1818 (when the October sessions of the General Assembly were abol- ished) "Senators" came into vogue, but not districted.
1833 Ashbel Griswold.
1834 Walter Booth.
1837 Noah Pomeroy. 1876 Joel H. Guy.
1848 Fenner Bush.
1879 H. Wales Lines.
1849 Dexter R. Wright, speaker of the House, 1879.
1885 Wm. H. Golden, Jr.
1887 Edgar J. Doolittle.
1854 Julius Pratt.
1861 Orville H. Platt, clerk of the Senate,
1855 ; secretary of state 1857.
1862 Orville H. Platt, speaker of the
House, 1869; United States senator, 1879-1905.
1871 George A. Fay.
1874 H. C. Wilcox.
1889 George N. Morse.
189I Seth J. Hall, "Dead lock year."
1893 Seth J. Hall.
I905 George E. Bicknell.
1867 Andrew J. Coe.
1868 William A. Hall.
Orville H. Platt.
1869 1870 John Parker.
1874 Owen B. Arnold.
1875 Wallace A. Miles, Asahel H. Curtis.1
April 1876 Wallace A. Miles, Asahel H. Curtis.
Nov. 1876 Wallace A. Miles, A. Cham- berlain, Jr.
1877 James P. Platt, George R. Willmot.
1878 James P. Platt, Samuel Dodd.
1879 Emerson A. Merriman, G. H. Wilson.
1880 E. A. Merriman, W. W. Lyman.
1 Beginning in 1875 Meriden was entitled to two representatives.
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TOWN CLERKS OF MERIDEN.
COMPILED BY HERMAN HESS.
1806 Amos White.
1844 Joel Miller.
1806 Isaac Lewis.
1845 Lyman Butler.
1823 Partrick Lewis.
1849 Hiram Hall.
1826 Amos Curtis.
1854 Linus Birdsey.
1830 Partrick Lewis.
1854 John Ives.
I865 Levi E. Coe.
1834 Albert R. Potter, appointed Feb. 9, 1834. 1834 Eli C. Birdsey.
1866 John H. Bario.
1878 Selah A. Hull.
1843 James S. Brooks, appointed Oct. 9, 1843.
1886 Herman Hess.
FIRST SELECTMEN OF MERIDEN. .
COMPILED BY GEO. W. MILLER.
1806
Ezekiel Rice, John Hall.
1836
Calvin Coe.
1807 Theophilus Hall.
1837 Noah Pomeroy.
1808 Marvel Andrews.
1838 Stephen Atkins.
I809 Marvel Andrews.
1839 James S. Brooks.
1810 Partrick Clark.
ยท1840 Moses Andrews.
18II Partrick Clark.
1841 Noah Pomeroy.
1812
Partrick Clark.
1842 Noah Pomeroy.
1813 Partrick Clark.
1843 Noah Pomeroy.
1814 Partrick Clark.
1844 Calvin Coe.
1815 Othniel Ives.
1845 Levi Yale.
1816 Othniel Ives.
1846
Levi Yale.
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Elisha Curtis.
1847
Levi Yale.
1818
Elisha Curtis.
1848
Levi Yale.
1819
Ashael Merriam.
1849
Calvin Coe.
1820
Ashael Merriam.
1850
Joel Miller.
1821 Ashael Merriam.
1851
Joel Miller.
1822
Seth D. Plum.
1852 Levi Yale.
1823 Seth D. Plum.
1853 Levi Yale.
1824
Seth D. Plum.
1854
Levi Yale.
1825
Seth D. Plum.
1855
Levi Yale.
1826
Moses Baldwin.
1856 Joel I. Butler.
1827
Moses Baldwin.
1857
Othniel Ives.
1828
Moses Baldwin.
1858 Othniel Ives.
1829 Elisha Curtis.
1859 Othniel Ives.
1830
Elisha Curtis.
1860 Othniel Ives.
1831 Elisha Curtis.
1861 Humphrey Lyon.
1832 Orrin Hall.
1862 Bela Carter.
1833 Eli C. Birdsey.
1863 , Bela Carter.
1834 Benj. Upson.
186 Bela Carter.
1835 Calvin Coe.
1865 Othniel Ives.
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I866 Othniel Ives.
1887
LeGrand Bevins.
1867 S. C. Paddock.
1888 LeGrand Bevins.
1868 George Gay.
1889 LeGrand Bevins.
I869 George Gay.
1890 LeGrand Bevins.
1870. George Gay.
1891
LeGrand Bevins.
1871 George Gay.
1892 LeGrand Bevins.
Oliver Rice.
1894 Geo. L. Ellsbree.
1873 1874 E. D. Castelow.
1895 Geo. L. Ellsbree.
1875 E. D. Castelow.
1896 Geo. L. Ellsbree.
1876 E. D. Castelow.
1897
Ernest A. Leigh.
1877 E. D. Castelow.
1898 Geo. W. Miller.
I878 D. S. Williams.
1899 Geo. W. Miller.
1879 D. S. Williams.
1900
Geo. W. Miller.
1880 D. S. Williams.
1901
Geo. W. Miller.
I881
D. S. Williams.
1902
Geo. W. Miller.
I882
Geo. W. Miller.
1903
Geo. W. Miller.
1883 C. C. Kinne.
1904
Geo. W. Miller.
1884 C. C. Kinne.
1905
Geo. W. Miller.
1885 C. C. Kinne.
1906
Geo. W. Miller.
1886 H. E. Hubbard.
LIST OF JUDGES OF PROBATE FOR DISTRICT OF MERIDEN.
COMPILED BY HERMAN HESS.
James S. Brooks, appointed by Legislature.
Benajah Andrews, appointed by Legislature.
John Parker, appointed by Legislature.
Hiram Hall, elected 1851.
Orville H. Platt, elected 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856.
Hiram Foster, 1857, 1858, 1859.
George W. Smith, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1873, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1888.
Levi E. Coe, 1867.
Emerson A. Merriman, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1880.
John T. Pettee, 1876.
Wilbur F. Davis, 1890, 1892.
John Q. Thayer, 1894 to date.
MAYORS OF THE CITY OF MERIDEN.
Charles Parker, elected August 12, 1867. Russell S. Gladwin, elected June 7, 1869. Isaac C. Lewis, elected June 6, 1870. Chas. L. Upham, elected Dec. 17, 1872. Horace C. Wilcox, elected Dec. 15, 1874. H. Wales Lines, elected Dec. 19, 1876. George R. Curtis, elected Dec. 15, 1879.
E. J. Doolittle, Jr., elected Dec. 20, 1881. Chas. H. S. Davis, elected Dec. 21, 1886. Wallace A Miles, elected Dec. 18, 1888. Benjamin Page, elected Dec. 17, 1889. Andrew W. Tracy, elected Dec. 15, 1891. G. Herrick Wilson, elected Dec. 15, 1892. Amos Ives, elected Dec. 19, 1893.
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