Biographical and historical memoirs of Story County, Iowa, Part 26

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W. Templeton or P. Hopkins, while P. O. Fenn and Burdick & Leonard burned them brick, or their houses were built by I. W. King, W. K. Smith, J. G. Tanner, Frank Bobo, C. P. Robinson, Mr. Hoel, or J. C. Burkhart. " Warm meals at all hours " was the sign of William Killen, and Mr. Yeagge advertised a " Temperance Billiard Saloon." The railway and telegraph agents were W. C. Bowers and S. Shaffer. These were the days of William H. Gallup's editorship of The Representative, the only paper of the place. These compare well with the solitary log cabin, of a score of years before, which contained the entire popu- lation and business within its walls.

A score more years has passed since the seventies began, and this has been the period of development, in which wood has given place to brick, the temporary removed for the per- manent, and an enterprising improvement and cultivation evinced in all lines. Not only this, but its business firms have increased in num- ber and extent, and become distinctly classified --- an element most indicative of growth. There are several very strong lines of business that are difficult to distinguish in relative importance. There is no doubt that the egg, butter and poultry business leads ; following this it would be difficult to decide between general merchan- (lise and the brick and tile interests ; the ship- ment of hogs, cattle and horses would, no doubt, come next; although banking, grain dealing, lumber, real estate and loans, approach it in importance from one point of view. Fur- miture, harness, market gardening and agricult- ural implements might come next, with similar difficulty in deciding between them. Foundry, blacksmithing and milling cut a smaller figure. There are many other lines of business, but they are matters of course, and naturally depend on the above.

In manufactures the first movement was made

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by Mr. H. F. Murphy in a tannery in 1859. During the seventies other enterprises arose and flourished for a longer or shorter period, such as cheese factory, vinegar works, an establish- ment for making soap, which did considerable shipping, and one for making gloves. One or two brick yards, too, have been in almost con- tinuous operation and furnished the local trade. Intermittent efforts in the manufacture of bee- hives, wagons, patent medicines, furniture, washing-machines (the Leffingwell patent), etc., have been made from time to time on a modest scale. The Nevada Foundry was estab- lished about 1870, on its present site near the depot. The firm of Hague & Heal did a good general foundry business, stove-making, etc., with few changes, except in members of the firm, in which feature the changes were numerous, James Earl and William Hansell being inter- ested at times, the latter being owner a few years since when it was burned. The plant was valued at about $6,000. In 1889 it was rebuilt by a new company with a plant val- ued at $5,000, and in January, 1890, Wright Bros. & Sellers began a general foundry bus- iness, boiler works, etc. Just west of this site is the Lockridge Tile Factory, corner of Main and Ninth Streets, started in 1883 by Lockridge & Beatty, with a plant valued at about $6,000. Mr. Beatty withdrew in 1888. They use a Nolan & Madden machine of about 400,000 annual capacity for two and a half to twelve- inch tile, and employ ten men and two teams. Their trade covers Story County. The Ly- man Tile Factory is located about one mile west of the depot, and was also begun in 1883, but the following year it was purchased by J. C. Mitchell, and was enlarged to a capacity of about 6,000 feet of tile per week. It was sold in 1885 to Lyman & Co. Their buildings are 48x140 feet, with the Ohio Brick and Tile Ma- chine and the Quaker Brick Machine, capable

of making 15,000 three-inch tile and 25,000 brick per ten hours. They employ a force of from eleven to sixteen persons, and have a trade in and beyond the county to Western Iowa. One other manufactory need be mentioned, the Nevada Flouring Mills and Elevator, at the railway crossing of East Street. It was estab- lished about 1865 by Talbott & Day, and in 1871 Mr. Day withdrew, and the present pro- prietor, Mr. Lockwood, became partner for a time, until he secured full ownership. The mill has about forty to fifty barrels daily capac- ity, while the elevator holds about 10,000 bushels. The latter is on the site of the first hand elevator ever built in Nevada. West of this is the large Silliman Elevator, wtih a capacity of 20,000 bushels, and which was built several years ago, and was successively owned by Au- moth & Co., Mr. Childs and Mr. Silliman. In this connection may be mentioned the large lumber yards near the railway, the Lockridge and the Silliman, each carrying probably $7,000 worth of stock, and having a country trade.

The Nevada Mining Company was an effort of twenty or twenty-five stockholders in 1878 to invest in western mines. It was not success- ful. A company was organized April 18, 1889, to promote Nevada industries, called the Ne- vada Improvement Company. Its first move- ment was to erect the foundry building. It began with seventeen members, and now enrolls forty-four members and firms. Its authorized capital is $20,000. The officers are William Lockridge, president; M. E. Hix, vice-presi- dent; T. J. Lyman, secretary, and J. A. King, treasurer.

Shipping of stock, grains and produce, and the importation and breeding of fine stock, to- gether with tree and shrub culture, have had their representatives at Nevada from the first, and on large scales. Among these Col. John Scott has had in this line a national reputation.

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and has exerted a large influence in scientific culture in several of these interests. In 1879 the Boardman Bros. established a large butter, egg, and poultry shipping business, with brick buildings 50x140 feet, two floors and basement, at a cost of $21,000. The first year's business amounted to $50,000, and has so increased that it reached $350,000 in 1889, the shipments being 1,000,000 dozen eggs, 400,000 pounds ladle butter, 500,000 pounds creamery butter, and 500,000 pounds dressed poultry. Their cold storage and pickling rooms for eggs have a 500,000-dozen capacity. They employ twen- ty men, and have creameries at Roland, Cam- bridge (Story County), Algona, Whittemore (Kossuth County), Emmetsburg ( Palo Alto County), Auburn, Lake City, Carnarvon (Sac County ) and Mount Carmel ( Carroll County), in connection with which are employed about sixty men and fifty teams. At Nevada, Car- roll, Odebolt and Algona are their poultry houses which employ 150 men during the win- ter months, thus making it one of the largest institutions in Iowa.

The average monthly shipments of the Nevada depot for the past year are fifteen cars live stock, pretty well divided between hogs and cattle with a few horses; thirty-three and a half cars of grain, and nine and a half cars chiefly of eggs, poultry, etc. The receipts are nine and a half cars of lumber and thirty-one cars of general merchandise.

Fires have played a considerable part in Nevada's business history, and, although caus- ing great loss, they have been the indirect cause of her substantial building. The first notable one was the burning of the court-house on the evening of December 31, 1863, as else- where mentioned in this volume. The second and most disastrous one occurred just after midnight on the 2d of December, 1880, in the row of blocks on the west side of Linn, between

Fifth and Sixth Streets. The buildings were of wood and the entire row was destroyed, ex- cepting the brick-veneered one at the north corner. The loss was estimated at $50,000, with insurance of about $15,000. Scarcely two years later and the row immediately north of this was almost entirely destroyed, between Sixth and Seventh Streets, early on the morn- ing of January 25, 1882. The loss was esti- mated at $17,300 with $5,200 insurance. Beautiful brick blocks replaced these ashes, however, very soon, and the town rested for about five years, when, on the night of Decem- ber 21, 1887, the next fire began on the east side of the street immediately south of the First National Bank Building, and cleared out six wooden structures to the south. This loss has been estimated at from $8,000 to $10,000, with some insurance. The establishment of a fire limit provides for the burnt district being replaced with brick or stone when rebuilt.

The incorporation followed the movement of business to Linn Street, and on November 23, 1869, the first council meeting was held with George A. Kellogg, mayor; aldermen, J. S. Frazier, J. H. Talbott, J. C. Mitchell, I. A. Ringheim and W. E. Waring, and John R. Hays as recorder. Excepting the ordinary routine work of a young incorporation, there was little of importance for the first ten years. In July, 1875, it was decided to buy the re- maining half of the south public square, and on April 10, 1876, $250 was appropriated for grading and setting out trees to transform the square into a city park. In January, 1879, the council established a city public library, and it is one of the very few councils of equal sized towns that have voted the half-mill tax for this purpose. There has been invested about $1,500 in books, of which fifty-two vol- umes are poetical, 190 historical, 312 miscel- laneous, and 900 of fiction, making a total of

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1,454 volumes of a character that shows careful of No. 1, Ed. T. Alderman, has served continu- ously to the present, while that office in No. 2 has been filled successively by John Mc- Cutchen and F. A. Flach. A select running team has been formed from the two companies, and officered by the foremen above mentioned. No very serious fires have given the depart- ment an opportunity to test its full strength. The force has given occasional aid to Ames. The new water-works system grew from the desire for better fire protection, and after a committee, composed of Mayor Boardman and Messrs. Thompson, Gates and Capt. Smith, had investigated several systems suited for places of Nevada's population, the elevated tank system was adopted, and a proposition to bond the cor- poration for $12,000, was submitted to the people on January 9, 1888. The result was 237 for and but twenty-four against it. The plans of a Batavia ( Ill. ) company were adopted, and the contract given to Fremont Turner, of Ames, for $11,600. A tank 20x39, with 100,- 000 gallons capacity, was placed on a 75-foot tower in Stewart's Addition, and 2,550 feet of 8-inch and 3,600 feet of 6-inch mains were laid, with 18 fire hydrants. A 25-foot wind- mill was placed at the corner of Fourth and Linn Streets, on a 70-foot tower and with force pumps. It was completed by September, and on trial 150 feet of hose threw a stream over the court-house, while 1,000 feet gave a stream selection. It was re-organized in 1886, and has been removed from the court-house to its present brick room adjoining the city hall. 1 The building is 18x30 feet, and cost $500. The successive librarians have been Wilbur Hunt, H. B. Blanchard, Miss Mattie Kellogg, and Miss Flora Emmons, the present incumbent. In 1881 the " city fathers " determined to have a home of their own, and erected the present two-story brick on the corner of Fifth and Oak Streets, at a cost of $2,800. The first floor is used for the fire department, and the second as the council room. This had been agitated in 1877, as also had the fire department. Fires prompted the organization of a force of about twenty men, into two companies, A and B, with Frank Bishop and S. S. Statler as foremen. One was supplied with a hand en- gine, and the other with hook and ladder out- fit. Among the fire marshals were Messrs. Rodearmel, Bishop and Statler. This company resigned in 1885, and a reorganization took place in April, with H. F. Murphy, fire marshal; S. E. Armstrong, foreman of engine, and C. W. Wood, of hook and ladder company. A force pump was put in at the corner of Linn and Sixth Streets. The officers in 1886 were T. P. Worsley, F. M .; John Peterson, F. E .; George Brady, F. H. and L .; and those of 1887 were W. H. Jones, F. M .; John Peterson, F. E., and J. H. Boyd, F. H. and L. A third re- . 20 feet above the well-known Central House. organization took place in October, 1888, under The excellent water is furnished by a well of 10,000 gallons daily capacity. The absence of wind during several weeks in 1889 made a steam-pump necessary for such emergencies, and a double-acting Dean pump was planted, with a brick engine-house 20x22, of one story, near the wind-mill. This has a capacity of 10,000 gallons per hour. The system gives perfect satisfaction, and is a marvel of cheap- ness in current expense, the entire cost for the new water-works system, with two hose companies, under Fire Marshal A. K. Banks, who was succeeded by the present incumbent, J. H. Ridelsberger, in November, 1889. Each company is composed of fifteen men, and the apparatus embraces two hose carts, 1,200 feet of three-inch hose, one hook and ladder outfit, and two full suits of rubber clothing, the total value of which is over $1,900. The foreman

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1889 being but $142. There are other enter- prises of the councils of the last few years that deserve mention, and among these are the complete drainage system, embracing over three miles of tile, stone arches over Main and Linn Streets slough crossings, and a sewer of twelve- inch size, laid about eleven to thirteen feet below the middle of Linn Street, between Fourth and Seventh Streets. The council's energy shown in capturing the State road- grader contest, mentioned elsewhere in this volume, indicates the public spirit which has given Nevada such excellent and remarkably clean and shaded streets, which are surpassed by no other town of its size in the State of Iowa. The Nevada Cemetery Association, organized about 1865, transferred its beautiful cemetery to this city in 1871.

The successive mayors have been George A. Kellogg, 1869; E. B. Potter, 1870; J. H. Talbott, 1871-72; D. H. McCord, 1873; J. L. Dana, 1874; James Hawthorn, 1875-76; George A. Kellogg, 1877; William Lockridge, 1878-80; E. D. Fenn, 1881; J. A. Fitch- patrick, 1882; H. M. Funson, 1883; F. D. Thompson, 1884-85; William Gates, 1886-87, and H. C. Boardman, 1888-90.

Banking generally begins in money loaning of a private character, and Nevada had its share of this until a New York firm, controlled by T. Cree, established the Story County Bank abont 1867, with a Mr. Parker as cashier. This ran but a couple of years or more until a creditor, John Hall, secured it long enough to close it up. In 1870 O. B. Dutton opened a private bank on the present site of the First National Bank, and later on built that block. In 1881 be sold out to W. F. Swayze, who proceeded to organize the First National Bank, with an authorized capital of $50,000. The officers chosen were R. J. Silliman, president ; J. A. Fitchpatrick, vice-president, and W. F.

Swayze, cashier. The directors included these officers and Frank Curtiss, D. W. Read, Will- iam Lockridge, J. C. Mitchell and J. A. Fitch- patrick. The only change made officially is the substitution of James Hawthorn for D. W. Read, deceased, in the directory. Their cor- respondents are the Bank of New York (N. B. A. ), Union National Bank of Chicago, and banks at Des Moines and Marshalltown. Another gentleman, Otis Briggs, added bank- ing to other business in 1870, with a capital of $20,000. He soon turned his whole atten- tion to it, and in 1882 Jay A. King became a partner. It has been a private bank from the first, with the name Farmers' Bank. Its corre- spondents are the Bank of New York (N. B. A.) and Commercial National Bank, Chicago.

The press of Nevada, besides being news- papers, have represented the Republican and Democratic parties, the Anti-Monopoly move- ment and religious life. It began early, too, in that first paper of the county, the Story County Advocate, of which No. 4 of Vol. I was issued January 29, 1857, the first issue now obtainable, and owned by the Representa- tive, a lineal successor to it. It was published at Nevada by R. R. Thrall, its editor. In the early winter of 1862-63 it was succeeded by another Republican sheet, or rather, simply changed its name to the Republican Reveille, under the editorship of one of the most inde- pendent writers in the list of Story County editors, George F. Schoonover. Vol. I, No. 26, was issued on December 4, 1862. Late in 1863 its name was changed again to the Story County Aegis, of which No. 19, as Vol. II, was issued November 25, of that year. Mr. A. Keltz owned the plant then, and its editor was John M. Brainard, a Republican, now of the Boone Standard, and who became proprie- tor in July, 1866. In November, 1868, its policy became Independent Republican, under

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the management and ownership of V. A. Bal- lou, now editor of The Watchman, but in 1870 the full-blooded Republicans captured it again through a new editor, W. H. Gallup, who gave it the name the Nevada Representative. Its first issue was made May 5, 1870, as Vol. XIII, No. 46. Its form and part of its name were changed for a time early in the seventies. Prof. W. P. Payne secured it and, on Septem- ber 6, 1882, assumed control, with his wife, Mrs. A. M. Payne, as an accomplished asso- ciate editress. The firm has been Payne & Son since August, 1883, and under this manage- ment the clean, reliable pages of The Repre- sentative have achieved a leading place. Their foreman, J. T. Stone, has had continu- ous charge for twenty-three years. For a time in 1887-88 it issued a real-estate monthly, and is now publishing a weekly of the same nature for Smith & Son.

The next paper was a short-lived one, pub- lished for a time during 1862 by Potter, Fra- zier & Hawthorn, under the title, the Nevada Democrat. Its name indicates its policy, and its chief editor was Mr. E. B. Potter, now of Denver, Colo.

It was on November 3, 1874, when Vol. I, No. 9, of the third Nevada journal was issued, bearing the name Story County Watchman, and holding Anti-Monopoly and "Greenback " principles. It was established by Vaughn & Stoddard, but passed through several hands during the next six years, among whom were J. A. Fitchpatrick and R. H. Rodearmel. It was purchased in 1880 by Mr. V. A. Ballou, who assumed control on April 2, and after a few issues of an independent nature, it. boldly took its stand for Democracy and has since continued the only editorial champion of that party in Story County. Since 1880 its form has been that of an eight-page seven-column weekly.

The Highway began its career in 1975 as a

twenty-four page monthly magazine devoted to Christian holiness, and purposing to be un- denominational and evangelical. In January, 1879, it became a weekly, and about 1886 as- sumed its present eight-page form. Its circu- lation has spread through the Northwest, where it has become the successful organ of this class. From its office are issued Gospel Arrows, a semi-monthly tract, established in March, 1888, and Apples of Gold, a booklet quarterly for daily Bible reading and commentary. The Sunday-school Reporter, a two-column sixteen- page monthly, edited by E. J. G. Reid, is also printed by them, besides a large amount of pamphlets, tracts, etc., the number of tracts in 1889 reaching over a million and a half. They have steam-power press and stereotyping foundry in well-equipped rooms on the first floor of the Odd Fellows' Block. Their mailing list is such that the post-office department furnishes them with from fifteen to twenty extra mail sacks. The editor and proprietor is Rev. Isaiah Reid, formerly a Presbyterian pastor at Nevada.

The Nevada Opera House was completed in December, 1877, at a cost of $9,000. It was erected by a company with S. Balliett, president, but afterward fell into the hands of Otis Briggs, and finally sold to foreign parties. It has two stories, is of brick, and is 50x96 feet. The as- sembly hall is well arranged and decorated.

Fraternities and other social organizations had their beginning in Nevada Lodge No. 99, F. & A. M., the first-born of Story County lodges, organized January 15, 1857, with these charter members: John Scott, W. M .; E. Schoonover, S. W .; T. B. Kelly, J. W .; James Hawthorn, Treas .; W. H. Richardson, Sec .; Charles Schoonover, S. D .; Henry F. Mur- phy, J. D .; William McGuire Tyler; B. J. Dunning, T. J. Adamson, John A. Miller, William E. Aldridge and Ephraim Bowen.

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They began using T. J. Adamson's hall in the building then standing on the corner west of Dr. Hoag's present residence. It is unfortu- nate that their records have been destroyed. A Chapter was organized February 28, 1881, with nine charter members and these officers: S. F. Balliet, H. P .; James Hawthorn, K .; W. D. Lucas, scribe. They now have seventy- eight members. Mr. Balliet has been suc- ceeded as high priest by Jay A. King and I .. T. Weld, the present incumbent.

Central Iowa Lodge No. 104, I. O. O. F., was instituted a few months later on October 15, 1857, by D. G. M., Samuel Noel, at Neva- da. The charter members were S. S. Statler, N. G .; James Hawthorn, S. S. Webb, R. J. Dunning and J. S. Blickensdiffer. In 1859 they united with the Masons in securing a hall on Linn Street. This was used until Decem- ber, 1880, when it was burned with a loss to the lodge of over $1,000. They then used the A. O. U. W. hall, Ringheim's and Bamberger's, until December, 1877, when their fine brick block on Linn Street was completed-a two- story one, 27x80 feet. Their representatives to Grand Lodge have been J. S. Blickensdiffer, J. R. Hays, D. E. McKim. They have fifty- three members. Their Nevada Encampment No. 94 was organized February 1, 1877, by J. G. Weatherby, with charter members S. S. Statler, C. F. Edwards, D. S. Snyder, J. R. Hays, W. F. Vinson, J. M. Gates and D. E. McKim, whom together with F. D. Thompson constituted the officers. They now have thirty- five members.

The next lodge was organized May 2, 1877, by Deputy Grand Master Kerns. It was Nevada Lodge No. 115, A. O. U. W., and its first officers were: J. R. McDonald, P. M. W .; D. E. McKim, M. W .; J. F. Gillespie, G. F .; A. C. Sheldon, O .; H. D. Ballard, recorder; M. L. Kahn, financier; O. B. Alderman, re-

ceiver; George E. Smith, G .; J. Kirkendall, I. W .; William Hansell, O. W. Their first rooms were in the second story of the old court-house. afterward in the Bamberger Block and finally in the new Odd Fellows' temple. Their mem- bership has been as high as seventy, but now enrolls not more than twenty-five. Their pay- ments have reached $10,000. Their successive master workmen have been A. C. Sheldon (1877), George E. Smith aud D. W. Ballard (1878), I. L. Smith and D. L. Stevens ( 1879), L. Irwin and H. L. Swofford (1880), John Kirkendall and P. W. Farrar (1881), J. F. Gillespie and H. H. Boyce (1882), O. B. Al- derman and James Hawthorn (1883), O. I. Spencer and P. D. Dale (1884), N. Simzer (1885), John Beatty (1886), A. C. Elliott (1887), John Kirkendall to the present. In September, 1877, following this organization, the Nevada W. C. T. U. was formed by Mrs. Aldrich, of Cedar Rapids, with Mrs. M. A. Al- len, president, and eighteen members. The so- ciety existed for about six years and reached a membership of forty. They secured a Mr. Drew, who organized a blue ribbon club, and an effort was made to secure temperance instruction in the public schools. About the same time a Y. M. C. A. existed for a brief period. It was not until May 25, 1882, that the Knights of Pythias formed a society in Nevada. Its title is Samson Lodge No. 77, and the charter membership embraced: O. B. Alderman, V. C .; Frank S. Bishop, M. at A .; W. K. Boardman, A. D. Bishop, W. W. Stockwell, H. M. Funson, E. W. Gifford, K. of R. & S .; H. L. Swofford, M. of F .; I. L. Smith, Jay A. King, P .; A. L. Thornblom P. C .; Seth Humphrey, A. F. Win- gert, J. A. Mills, C. G. McCarthy, C. C .; N. Simzer, John A. Stone, S. F. Balliett, E. H. Monk, D. E. McKim, C. E. Hoag, J. A. Fitch- patrick, M. of E .; M. G. Rodearmel, H. C. Boardman, J. W. White and O. A. Lyssand.

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The lodge has increased in membership to post commanders have been I. L. Smith (1884), sixty-five, and has used the rooms of the A. O. Jay A. King (1885), J. F. Gillespie (1886), J. D. Ferner (1887), Charles A. Schermerhorn (1888), John Beatty (1889) and James Dillin (1890). On March 3, 1888, was also formed The Woman's Relief Corps No. 147. Three years after the formation of the post, there was organized The Nevada Driving Club, on Feb- ruary 19, 1887, to promote the " speed, style, and docility of trotting, running, carriage and single horses." Their work influences from twenty to thirty speed horses, and an effort is being made to enter the National Association. They have leased the fair grounds, and hold occasional shows at their fine half-mile track. Their first officers were W. Gates, president: Charles E. Smith, secretary ; Jay A. King, treas- urer; with Messrs. Banks, Simzer, Lockwood and Boardman as directors. Mr. Gates has been succeeded by Mr. Boardman as president. About the same time (January 28, 1887) was organized Frontier Camp No. 296, Modern Woodmen of America, with twenty-one mem- bers for insurance purposes, and their chief rendezvous have been the A. O. U. W. halls and Dr. Chamberlain's office. Their first officers were: W. H. Gallup, C .; O. B. Ingalls, 1 Adv. : Jay A. King, B. ; Charles E. Smith, C. ; Dr. H. D. Chamberlain, Exam .; E. W. Gifford, Esc. ; A. K. Banks, W., and Z. Presnell, S. George W. Dyer succeeded Mr. Gallup in 1887. About the same time too was formed New Hope Lodge No. 140, I. O. G. T. on March 2, 1887, at the Methodist Episcopal Church, with the following officials: Mr. Shugan, C. T .; Mrs. W. R. Kirk, V. T .; D. V. Thrift, chaplain; John Beatty, Sec .; C. P. Robinson, Fin. Sec .; Cora Groat, Treas .; E. Silliman, marshal, and others -- in all twenty-two charter members. They have increased in numbers to seventy, and are in a U. W. and Odd Fellows. The successive chancellors have been: O. B. Alderman, C. G. McCarthy, W. K. Boardman, O. O. Rce, C. E. Hoag. J. T. Stone, O. A. Lyssand, H. L. Car- roll, E. T. Alderman, H. D. Chamberlin and U. S. Alderman. On the following July 7, 1882, another fraternity arose, Enterprise Lodge No. 13, I. L. of H., organized by J. H. Helm, D. G. P. and with the following officials: J. F. Gillespie, P .; T. J. Ross, V. P .; J. W. White, C. S. ; R. J. Silliman, F. S. ; L. E. White, Treas .; William Lockridge, chaplain; I. K. Larue, U .; T. H. Stephens, D. K .; 1. L. Smith, O. S. These with D. J. Bunce, H. H. Boyes, E. H. Murrie, F. L. Ogden, O. O. Roe, G. W. Boyd, J. A. Fitchpatrick, G. W. Dyer, P. W. Farrar, E. S. Bamberger and H. D. Fitch em- braced the charter membership. The society has paid about $4,000 insurance. Their suc- cessive presidents have been: J. F. Gillespie (1882), J. D. Ferner (1883), I. L. Smith (1884), and D. J. Bunce since 1885. They have twenty-three members and use the I. O. O. F. hall. This society was followed on Jan- uary 7, 1884, by the formation of Jason D. Ferguson Post No. 31, G. A. R., as a re-organ- ization of a defunct society-the A. B. Miller Post No. 31. There were fifty-six charter members and the following officers: I. L. Smith, C; O. W. Wilson, S. V. C .; Guilf Mul- len, J. V. C .; F. D. Thompson, Q. M .; P. W. Farrar, surgeon; Rev. A. K. Bone, chaplain; C. W. Wood, O. of D .; H. H. Boyes, O. G .; M. C. Allen, Adj .; George Childs, Q. S .; A. W. Davis, S. M. The post has used the Odd Fellows' halls since they began and in member- ship have increased to sixty-nine. They have exerted a great influence in the community in the observance of Decoration Day and in other- prosperous condition. They use the Odd Fel- wise stimulating public patriotism. Their lows' hall. Their successive chief templars

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Biographical and historical memoirs of Story County, Iowa, Part 26

Author: Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Chicago : Goodspeed Number of Pages: 484

Author:
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago : Goodspeed
Number of Pages: 484