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Banking began with the Exchange Bank, owned and opened by Williams & Bidwell about 1881, but discontinued in 1883. Then the Citizens' Bank was started up by W. H. Gallup, or rather removed from Nevada to Cam- bridge, but he not long after took P. T. Keller as partner. Mr. Gallup secured it again in 1887, and made H. N. Silliman cashier, who, in October, became partner. Since May, 1888, it has been owned by R. J. Silliman & Son. Their correspondents are the First National Banks of Chicago and Nevada.
On March 15, 1882, Cambridge was incor- porated and held its first council meeting. F. M. Livingston was mayor; D. W. C. Beck, recorder, and D. D. Hayes, Levi Nellis, O. M. Johnson, J. D. Breezley and George W. Waud were trustees. The following gentlemen have served as " His Honor, the Mayor:" D. D. Hayes, 1883; C. Bidwell, 1884; J. C. Kinsell, 1885; O. M. Johnson, 1886; J. M. Brown, 1887; D. W. C. Beck, 1888, and M. C. Seal, 1889-90.
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In fraternities Cambridge seems to have moved very slow at first, but has, since 1882, evidently determined to make up for lost time, for there is now in existence Masonic, Odd Fellows, Grand Army, Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans, United Workmen and Good Templar societies. Tabernacle Lodge No. 452, A. F. & A. M., was the first permanent one, organ- ized by Grand Master George B. Van Laun July 13, 1883. The first officers were G. M. Hall, W. M .; G. W. Barrows, S. W .; and M. G. Rodearmel, J. W., with charter members P. H. Ream, A. S. Aplin, M. D. Livingston, S. Bossuot, T. J. McKee, W. P. Clark, W. H. Clark, W. H. Grafton, S. and J. Flickinger. Since then they have increased to twenty-eight members, and used the United Workmen's hall. Their successive worshipful masters have been as follows: G. M. Hall, 1883; P. H. Ream, 1884; A. S. Aplin, 1885; S. Flickinger, 1886; A. P. King, 1887; A. F. Mills, 1888-89; and A. S. Aplin, 1890. About two months later, Sep- tember 20, 1883, was formed Ersland Post No. 234, G. A. R., with thirty-four members, by Capt. W. T. Wilkinson, of Des Moines. The successive commanders are R. May, 1883; A. P. King, 1884; H. R. Detwiler, 1885; P. H. Ream, 1886; H. R. Detwiler, 1887; John Jory, 1888; A. J. Hainline, 1889, and J. M. Brown, 1890. Their post property is valued at about $100, and their membership has increased to forty-three. After using the A. O. U. W. and A. F. & A. M. halls they secured one of their own. The Relief Corps was formed in 1885, with Mrs. M. Jory as president. They number about forty persons. Following this, December 10, 1885, Story Lodge No. 486, I. O. O. F., was instituted by T. B. Schmeltzer, D. D. G. M. The charter mem- bers were H. J. Maxwell, A. W. Southwick, J. S. Kies, Frank Rutan and J. E. Shafer. They use their own hall, and have cash and property
to the amount of $605, while their membership has reached fifty. These are the noble grands in order of service: J. S. Kies, 1885-86; J. E. Shafer, 1886; H. J. Maxwell, 1887; A. W. Southwick, 1887; M. M. Mason, 1888; D. W. C. Beck, 1888; K. A. Ersland, 1889; and J. M. Brown, 1890. Nearly two years after the organization of this one, Gen. J. M. Tuttle Camp No. 77, Sons of Veterans, began their career on May 19, 1887, under the direction of Capt. John H. Picket, of Ames. The first officers were Capt. J. E. Murphy; K. A. Ers- land, first lieutenant; W. S. Cronk, second lieu- tenant; Clarence King, first sergeant; W. J. Detwiler, Q. M. S .; E. A. Ersland, chaplain; M. F. King, S. of G .; J. E. Jones, color ser- geant, and other usual officers. They have doubled their first membership of thirteen to twenty-six. They used the G. A. R. hall. These are successive captains: J. E. Murphy, 1887; K. A. Ersland, 1887-88; and Clarence King, 1889-90. Besides these the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Good Templars have both built up fair societies.
One striking evidence of the new life in- fused by the railway's advent was the begin- ning of the Cambridge press. The Inde- pendent headed the list, with its first issue June 7, 1881, by Lee & Rash as a five-column folio. It lasted but a few months, and was succeeded, April 27, 1882, by Dolph Brothers' (Republican) Cambridge Reporter, which be- came a six-column paper about a year later in the hands of G. Dolph. This in turn made room for its successor, the Cambridge Argus, a seven-column folio, first issued June 6, 1884, by W. B. Bachtell, a Republican. Another change occurs, and Vol. I, No. 1, of the Cambridge Herald appears on February 27, 1885, of smaller size, and under the direction of Parks & Brinkerhoff, the latter of whom withdrew a few months later. The next change
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was August 2, 1887. when Dr. J. M. Brown started the Cambridge Garland, now the only paper there, and since October, 1888, edited by H. N. Silliman, and published at Maxwell.
Cambridge was the third post-office estab- lished within the county, following Nevada and Goshen, now Iowa Center, which were both commissioned in 1854. William G. Buswell, the first postmaster, was appointed April 21, 1856. His successors were as follows: Will- iam W. Williams, August 21, 1857; Joseph H. Jones, May 10, 1859; Jairus Chandler, April 28, 1860; Samuel Bossueot, November 14, 1861; Oliver Chamberlin, August 18, 1863; Albert M. Gillett, May 25, 1865; John D. Breezley, December 2, 1872; George D. South- wick, January 2, 1880; A. W. Southwick, No- vember 5, 1883, and James B. Green, October 29, 1885.
Ames is the most widely known of the towns of Story County, as is well typified in its busy depot, where the North-Western traveler " changes cars for all points north, south, east and west " amid the clang of bells and snorts of iron-horses, or where the verdant freshmen by scores annually step off the trains and take the modest omnibus out to the beautiful acres of the Agricultural College and Farm, there to spend years in growing into the clear-minded finished graduate, who again takes the modest omnibus to the busy depot and buys a North- Western ticket into the busy world. But while these two streams of travel and student life pass through Ames, she has also a fixed popu- lation of probably 1,600, as the second town in the county. The traveler will not see this unless he leaves the broad and begrimed strip of railway grounds, which divides the town, and, taking a few steps to the north, finds himself on Onon- daga, the business street, from which extends north, Douglass Street, the Euclid Avenue of Ames, lined as it is with the finest residences
of the place. Here, too, will be found a certain mixture of the civilian and collegian tone typi- fied somewhat in the papers and social life of the Ames Social Club.
And yet but twenty-six years ago this was the site of a cluster of the much maligned "frog ponds of Story County." John I. Blair, of the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad and the Iowa Land Company, had an eye on that spot as a station for the first great trunk line across the State. The land had been entered on February 11, 1855, and December 26, 1857, by Hoyt Sherman and Sarah Weymouth, respect- ively, but Isaac Black had secured a strip of it, and when the survey in 1864 crossed his land he objected unless he should receive what Mr. Blair thought was exhorbitant terms. Mr. and Mrs. A. Duff, now of Nevada, were quietly interested by Mr. Blair's friends to purchase the land privately, which lay so near their farm. This was done, and in December of that year the plat was made north of the track, and the railway completed on through to Boone. Onondaga was the name desired by Mrs. Duff, a New Yorker, but as Mr. Blair desired to immortalize the name of his friend, Oakes Ames, the infamous or unfortunate great west- ern railway contractor, a courteous compromise gave these names to the town and the principal street. Douglass was one of the contractors also, and Kellogg Street honored Mrs. Duff's maiden name. The first house was built im- mediately by Noah Webster on the site of Mr. Greeley's present home. H. F. Kingsbury erected the first frame store on the site of the Maxwell House early in 1865, and became there the first merchant, host, railway and ex- press agent and the first postmaster September 27, 1865, while the name was still College Farm; it was changed to Ames January 15, 1866. It may be of interest to mention that while the present depot was building two wild
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deer were shot from its door. The second store was on the northwest corner of Onondaga and Douglass Streets, built by S. O. Osborne, a druggist, in 1866, and the third was on the opposite corner, erected about the same time by Samuel Miller for a hardware store. Capt. K. W. Brown soon built a grocery, and Starr & Brenneman built another drug store on the former site of the Nichols Livery Stable-all on Onondaga Street, which has ever since held the business. Gale & Son had a grocery on the site of the post-office. W. G. Wright was the first permanent blacksmith, and Dr. Carr the first permanent physician. The first teacher was Henry May. About this time Mr. Hunnyeut opened a meat-market, and Hoggatt & Erwin built a grain-house on the site of the present elevator. Kingsbury kept a boarding house, but very soon Mr. Sherwood built the present West House and Mr. Rain- bolt opened a hotel just east of the depot. Early in the seventies the first brick building was erected -the present Goble's harness shop.
The center of business, very early, was de- termined about the corner of Douglass and Onondaga Streets, chiefly in the two blocks on each side of Douglass, which gradually built up with neat frame structures to meet the growing demands of trade, for it must be re- membered that in 1864, when the railway reached Ames, it was the farthest western rail- way terminus in Iowa. It became the source of College Farm supplies too. Since then, along with continuous improvement, there has been a steady transformation of frame into brick. This has not been entirely caused by fires, for, although Ames has had numerous isolated fires, there has been none so extensive as in Nevada, which compelled large rebuilding, and pro- voked to the use of brick. It is to be hoped that the buildings burned, from time to time,
east of Douglass Street, may soon be replaced to satisfy the need for more business room.
The present status of Ames, as to its busi- ness vitality or the most prominent features of it, is in rather striking contrast to many other towns in Story County. General merchandise, probably, leads everything else. Stock ship- ment would probably come next, while banking would intervene between that and the grain trade. At times these have taken different relations. Probably manufactures, including mill, wagons, creamery, furniture and wind- mills, would come next, while the egg, butter and poultry trade would be next. The prox- imity of the college is a feature in Ames' busi- ness that ought to be mentioned next, and the railway crossing, which makes Ames an advan- tageous home for commercial travelers, renders also the hotel and restaurant business not far behind the preceding liues. Horse importa- tion and culture should certainly come next, and be followed, probably, by the loan and real estate business. These are the essential feat- ures of her business, and other lines are more or less dependent on them, and are matters of course. Ames and Nevada lead the county in professional men, the latter having the largest number of legal, and the former probably the largest number of other professions.
In manufactures Ames has some to boast. The Wright & Childs wagon shops in the early seventies, and those of William Barnes in the early eighties, with the grist-mill, about covers the list. The Ames flour-mills, elevators, re- pair shops, wind-mill factory, and a few of this kind, complete the list. Ames' shipments for the year ending June 30, 1890, are: 205 cars grain, 113 stock, 23 general merchandise, and 1,008,055 pounds way freight, with total charges of $14,141.81; while receipts for the same time were 238 cars general merchandise, 65 lumber, and 2,614,565 pounds way freight, at $12,517 .-
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29 charges. There were 18,656 tickets sold.
Ames was incorporated in 1869, but the ab- sence of early records makes very accurate detailed information impossible. The most complete list of mayors obtainable is as follows: William West, the first; W. D. Lucas, in 1870; William Clark, 1870; C. E. Turner, 1871; Walter Evans, 1872; I. L. Smith, 1873; Will- iam Clark, 1874-76; G. A. Underwood, 1877- 78; E. R. Chamberlain, 1879; G. G. Tilden, 1880; Henry Wilson, Jr., 1881-82; John Watts, 1883; Parley Sheldon, 1884-85; M. C. Jones, 1886-87; W. M. Greeley, 1888-89; and Parley Sheldon, 1890. Little but routine busi- ness was done by the council until about 1883, when the Douglass Street drainage system was perfected, and the gutter and other improve- ments of Onondaga Street were made. About 1884 the public park was purchased, and some two years later a $2,000 city hall was erected. Aside from these, the council has two projects under arrangement, namely, an opera house on the corner of Onondaga and Kellogg Streets, and an electric motor line of two miles from the town to the college, the plant of which is expected to furnish electric lights for both town and college.
The social life of Ames affords what is called the Ames Club, organized in 1889, by about fifty gentlemen of the town and college. They have a suite of four rooms, all joined by double doors, and well furnished, lighted and heated, with newspapers and periodicals open to the casnal visitor who may drop in at any time in the day. The rooms are in the Stephens Block. On Thursdays ladies are in charge, and on oc- casions the club listens to lectures, papers, etc.
The fraternities are also represented. The first was Arcadia Lodge No. 249, F. & A. M., which was formed under dispensation, October 15, 1868, and chartered the subsequent June, with the following members: M. J. Bundy, W.
M .; W. D. Lucas, and L. Q. Hoggatt, P. L. Porter, I. P. Miller, E. I. Carr, D. A. Bigelow, John Hancock, W. G. Wright, A. J. Graves, S. L. Lucas, A. McFarland, S. J. Starr, B. B. Selby, Barr Scott, O. Eddy, D. W. Gage, E. Kendall, S. B. Farwell. Their worshipful mas- ters have been M. J. Bundy, 1869; W. D. Lucas, 1871; S. L. Lucas, 1872; W. D. Lucas, 1873; A. H. Duckworth, 1874-80; G. A. Underwood, 1881; E. D. French, 1882; A. H. Duckworth, 1883-84; M. C. Jones, 1885, to death, on May 28, 1887; L. M. Bosworth, 1887-88; M. J. Smith, 1889; and C. E. Hunt, 1890. They have a large membership of ninety persons, and a fine hall in the Tilden Block.
Some ten years later was organized Ames Lodge No. 166, A. O. U. W., on May 9, 1878, by a Mr. Ellsworth. The first officers were: H. H. Robinson, P. M. W .; J. M. King, M. W .; G. W. Lamberston, G. F .; J. W. Durgee, O .; F. W. Booth, Rec .; G. H. Maxwell, Fin .; C. B. Russ, Receiver; C. M. Soper, G .; M. E. McMichall, I. W .; G. B. Robinson, O. W., with a charter membership of eighteen persons. The lodge is prosperous, but is not increased in membership at present. The hall above the post-office is the only one used. A list of master workmen seems not obtainable. Only three years later, on February 16, 1881, Ells- | worth Post No. 30, G. A. R., was formed, and named in honor of the famous zonave colonel who tore down the rebel flag of the Jackson House, at Alexandria, Va. There were eight- een charter members and the following officers: D. A. Bigelow, C .; D. S. Bosworth, S. V. C .; W. M. Greeley, J. V. C .; A. H. Thayer, Q. M .; E. B. Cramblit, S .; Charles Barston, Chaplain ; W. D. Lucas, O. D .; M. Hemstreet, O. G .; Henry Wilson, Jr., Adj. (acting); S. P. O'Brien, Q. M. S., and Benjamin Brenneman, S. M. They began in the Masonic, then used Cook's, and finally located in Odd Fellows'
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hall, while their numbers have increased to seventy-two. The post commanders have been D. A. Bigelow, 1881; D. S. Bosworth, 1882; Henry Wilson, Jr., 1883; M. Hemstreet, 1884; Thomas J. Miller, 1885; George G. Tilden, 1886; C. E. Haverly, 1887; J. E. Duncan, 1888; D. A. Bigelow, 1889, and S. P. O'Brien, 1890. Gen. James L. Geddes and Col. (by brevet) D. A. Bigelow are two deceased mem- bers who should be honorably mentioned. It was in honor of the former that the next soci- ety, J. L. Geddes Camp No. 58, S. of V., was named and formed November 2, 1885. It be- gan with thirty-one charter members, and officers-J. H. Pickett, captain; George M. Pitson, first lieutenant; E. L. Loughran, sec- ond lieutenant. The General presented them with a fine silk flag, which they prize highly. The successive captains are J. H. Pickett, to August 3, 1887; Henry Wilson, Jr., to 1889; S. G. Hamilton, to Angnst, 1889, since which time L. C. Tilden has been the incumbent. It was February 4, 1887, that the Woman's Re- lief Corps was organized, by Gen. Geddes, with thirty-four members, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ged- des as president. On October 20, 1887, Ames Lodge No. 309, I. O. O. F., was chartered, with these members and officers: C. Diehl, N. G .; W. F. Chevalier, V. G .; H. MeDaniels, Treas .; E. B. Albright, Sec .; W. West and G. H. Gates. This number has since increased remarkably to 102, with property and cash covering about $2,000. The noble grands fol- lowing Mr. Diehl are J. J. Dayton, 1887; W. F. Chevalier, 1888; H. P. McLain, 1888; M. Hemstreet, 1889; C. E. Hunt, 1889, and C. M. Soper, 1890. They lease their hall in the Tilden Block to six other societies. A lodge of Knights of Pythias was formed with the title Champion Lodge No. 150, with J. L. Stevens, P. C., and the other usual officers, but its charter was surrendered January 24, 1888.
Good Templar and Modern Woodmen fraterni- ties have also been organized.
Scarcely four years after Ames was laid out banking was begun by W. D. Lucas, in a pri- vate bank, in 1869. He occupied various rooms until in 1873 he built the rooms of the Union National Bank. In 1879-80 W. M. Greeley was his partner, but they dissolved and Gree- ley & Rainbolt (N. A.) opened a second bank ; in 1881, however, a new company was formed under the State banking laws, called the Union Bank of Ames, into which were merged the other banks, W. M. Greeley, president, with E. R. Chamberlain, cashier, being its offi- cers. The capital of the new bank was $50,- 000. A complete reorganization occurred July 1, 1883, by the formation of the Union Na- tional Bank of Ames, with the same capital and the following directory: W. M. Greeley, president; G. G. Tilden, vice-president; E. R. Chamberlain, cashier; D. McCarthy, D. A. Bigelow, J. L. Stevens and E. W. Stanton. The only changes made have been the succes- sion of D. A. Bigelow (decease.l in 1890) to the office held by G. G. Tilden, on January 1, 1887, and the substitution of D. G. Ives for Mr. Chamberlain in the directory. The bank's condition is as follows: Undivided profits, $7,500, and surplus, $8,000.
Their corre- spondents are: Atlas National Bank, Chicago; Third National Bank, New York; and Valley National Bank, Des Moines. On the opposite side of Onondaga Street, on Block 13, was es- tablished a private bank, in 1888, by Arm- strong & Robinson, with the title of the Story County Bank. Its capital from the first, has been about $20,000. In May, 1890, it was pur- chased by Sheldon & Shelden, the officers be- ing Parley Sheldon, president, and B. J. Shel- den, as cashier. The First National Banks of Chicago and Marshalltown are their corre- spon dents.
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The newspapers of Ames from the first issue 1862; A. J. Travis, June 17, 1864, and H. F. Kingsbury, September 27, 1965. On January 15, 1866, the name was changed to Ames, and the following postmasters have been appointees under it: H. F. Kingsbury; L. Q. Hoggatt, April 13, 1869; S. L. Lucas, June 2, 1871; Mrs. Hattie Lucas, February 25, 1876; John Watts, February 4, 1884; Parley Sheldon, Oc- tober 19, 1885, and John E. Duncan, January 9, 1890. The report of the week ending May 12, 1890, shows its growth in capacity-first- class matter mailed, 2,636 letters and 460 cards; second-class, 713 pieces; third-class, 105, and fourth-class, 18. of the Ames Reflector, early in 1868, to the present, have all given way to the clean, and well edited pages of the Intelligencer. The Reflector was the first, although it was pub- lished at Montana, Iowa, by J. White & Co., and issued by Rev. S. Gilbert, of Ames, now a well-known religious editor of the Congrega- tional Church. Vol. 1, No. 21, was issued June 15, 1868, and is the earliest date obtain- able. Its career closed abont a year later, and another Republican paper made its ap- pearance very soon after March, 1868, when Mr. A. McFadden, its editor, located at Ames. This was the Intelligencer, the first paper pub- Colo, with its wagons of produce backed up at the depot, its busy grain and stock ship- lished in Ames. It began as a seven-column folio, and has ever since preserved that form, , pers, its creamery and its lumber yard, was in- with slight change, varying from seven to nine , tended for business from the first. It had the columns at times. In 1875 W. O. Robinson became a partner, but the following year it passed into the hands of John Watts, who was associated at intervals with Messrs. Gilliland and Alexander for the next two years, and about 1882 disposed of the entire outfit with steam-power press, to J. E. Duncan. On Jan- uary 1, 1890, the present owners and editors, H. and S. K. Wilson, assumed control. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson still preserve its Republican tone, and furnish another example of the emi- nent fitness of the feminine pen in the weekly press of Story County. The Intelligencer had a short-lived rival in the Ames Monitor, a Re- publican paper, whose first number was issued Angust 20, 1885, by E. W. Clark. It passed into the hands of H. R. Crenshaw & Son, in April, 1886, and expired in July, following. 1 During this year, also, the Message, a religious monthly, issued by Editor Everly, published a few numbers.
The post-office established at the college in 1862 was called College Farm, its postmasters being W. H. Fitzpatrick, appointed April 23,
honor of inaugurating railway trade in Story County and so beginning a new epoch in her history. It was the most western finger-tip of the railway iron-hands that reached out into Iowa in the winter of 1863-64, and with it John I. Blair, the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railway town-maker, pointed to this spot as the first station in Story County, with which to first dump that hungry crew of speculators who follow close upon the wheels of the last construction train. It was intended for busi- ness, and, as the terminus lay here winter- locked, he began to lay out a town on his rail- way swamp-lands, secured a post-office, and, it seems, named it affectionately after a pet ca- nine, which his new railway had cruelly crushed. The new office was established May 18, 1864, with Oscar F. Gear as the first postmaster, and a depot on the site of the present one was the first building. These arrangements however, did not count on a counter-claim to this land held by Hon. J. L. Dana, now of Nevada, and the re- sult was that defective title stopped everything until Mr. Dana's claim was made good, in 1865,
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and a new plat was made and recorded in May, James Dayton, April 9, 1867; J. H. Vorhees, with the old as Blair's Addition. Lots were at July 15, 1867; Samuel L. Bailey, March 23, 1869; M. J. Hanks, July 8, 1872; John W. Kinsell, September 11, 1874; John R. McCoy, November 3, 1885; and W. A. Miller, April 9, 1889. Dr. White was the first physician, and among others who followed him were Drs. Fra- zee, Daugherty, McTavish and J. I. Hostetter, the last only being left. once sold, and C. H. McIntosh built the first house and store on Front Street, northwest of the depot, in the original plat. J. W. Bishop followed, as the first mechanic, merchant, black- smith, wagon-maker, and painter, who built on Main Street, southeast corner of Fourth. With- in a year or so, J. W. Kinsell became a mer- chant, also William Sellers located, and Bald- Incorporation became necessary March 2, 1876, and the list of mayors from the first to present reads thius: S. L. Bailey, 1876-77; P. E. Granger, 1878; Leroy Wilkins, 1879; I. S. French, 1880; W. S. Morgan, 1881; P. E. Granger, 1882; A. T. Bartlett, 1883; W. A. Miller, 1884-85; and Henry Yeager, 1886 to the present. The council has built several small slough bridges and done a great deal of drainage, while in 1880 a town hall was erected at the cost of $700. win & Maxwell of Iowa Center, put a branch house just south of the depot. County Super- intendent J. H. Franks lived there, and C. Gross opened a store too. J. H. Vorhees opened a hotel just north of the depot on Front Street. On account of the larger population to the country south of the track, business seemed inclined to settle on Main Street, and from that time on-early seventies-it has clung to a couple of blocks on that street. While the population has not reached but about 400, the Their fraternity inclinations first took form in June, 1870, when a dispensation was granted to Columbia Lodge No. 292, F. & A. M., and amount of business as a shipping point has grown to the proportions of many larger towns in the county. For 1889 the average monthly | a charter granted June 8, 1871.
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