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10. Richard Saunders 45. John Ornduff.
II. Samuel Robb
46. Solomon Cassel
12. David Sears
13. John W. Rodgers
14. Aaron Felty
49. Thomas W. Gobble
50. Warren M. Seay
16. Hazael Wycoff
51. Michael Cassel, Jr.
17. Jonathan Dawson
52. Frederick Boysee
18. Thomas I. Robison
53. Isaac H. Bush
19. John Linder
54. Christopher Ellmaker
21. Michael Cassel, Sr.
56. William Marlow
22. Samuel Henderson
23. Thomas B. Fleenor
24. William Mathews
25. William P. Holmes
26. John Sperry
27. William Vinson
62. John A. Ireland
28. John Smails
63. Henry Gregg
29. Agrippa Henderson
30. Harvey T. Laughlin
31. George W. Troy
32. Elijah Collins
67. James W. Seay
68. George Huffstutter
69. Daniel Imbler
35. Joseph McCorkle
70. James McMains
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20. William M. Wells .
55. Andrew Erskine
57. Henry Mite
58. William Dillinger
59. James Gow 60. H. D. Gibson
61. Jonathan Ireland
64. Andrew Gregg 65. John Woods 66. Jesse Seay
33. Jacob Collins
34. David Collins
75. Isaac Campbell 76. John Paton
73. Archibald Stewart
74. William F. Lattin
47. Cyrus Carson 48. John Gillogly
15. William Smith
237
71. William Stilwell
105. John M. Seay
72. Samuel Beets
106. Robert Smails
73. Seth Hayes
107. Andrew Emerick
74. Seth W. Hayes
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108. James Q. Vilett 109. Joseph Sears
76. William H. H. Ramey
IIO. Henry Emerick
77. William Judd
III. William Freeman
78. Joseph Scott
112. Sampson Smith
79. Samuel McMains
113. Sawyer Robinson
80. William McVay
114. Samuel C. Kercheval
81. James Lathers
115. Barton W. Caldwell
82. Jacob L. Sears
116. John F. Ingram
83. John W. Cooper
117. Charles Ingram
84. Miles Burrus
118. William C. Robison
85. Joseph Linder
119. Alexander Laughlin
86. John Lewis
120. Joseph Gosnell
87. F. T. Humphreys
121. Thomas Gosnell
88. Jefferson Ellmaker
122. Robert D. Caldwell
89. Jacob Ellmaker
123. George W. Gobble
90. Jacob Sears
124. Martin Byerly
91. C. C. Tinsley
125. Daniel Fouts
92. John Sears
126. Samuel Whitmore
93. Morgan Wells
127. Thomas Mowerton
95. David Imbler
129. William A. Orrill
97. Jesse Eller
131. Moses Remine
98. Harrison Gilmore
132. N. R. Greenwood
99. David Eller
133. James McCahan
100. Charles Grayless
134. John A. Sloan
IO1. Thomas Rigg
135. Samuel Armstrong
102. Nathaniel Bailey
136. William H. Smith
103. William Johnson
137. Thomas Clarke
104. Martin Kness
138. Tinley M. Brooks
These voters cast 70 ballots for the democratic electors and 68 ballots for the whig electors.
In Fairfield Township, the election was held at the courthouse. The judges were John A. Pitzer, Franklin Meek and Isaac Blakely. The clerks were John Snook and W. E. Groff. The voters were recorded in the following order :
. I. William H. Lyons 8. R. P. Titford
2. Alex. Fulton
9. Samuel H. Bradley
3. Henry Carns
IO. John McClery
4. C. W. Slagle
II. Henry Huffman
5. William Baker
12. Barnet Ristine
6. W. W. Williamson
13. William K. Alexander
7. Ezra Drown
14. Jacob Myres
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94. Elen Snipes
128. Andrew Smith
96. Daniel Burrus
130. Charles Abraham
HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
75. Robert Morriss
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
15. John Thompson
63. John Strong
16. Samuel M. Evans
64. Arthur Bridgeman
17. A. H. Stevens
65. Peter Andrew
18. B. B. Tuttle
19. John Q. Thompson
20. Daniel Chesson
68. Peter Bates
21. J. M. McKenney
69. Dorastus Johnson
70. Tho. Dickey
22. David Tweed
23. William A. Hendricks
71. Henry Keltner
72. William Shelley
25. John W. Culbertson
73. Elijah Deen
26. George Acheson
74. David Laughery
27. James Kenyon
28. George W. Jenkins
76. Jonathan Switzer
77. George W. David
78. Jeremiah Kendall
31. Jesse Byrkit
79. John Boyl
32. Jesse B. Winn
33. William L. Orr
81. John R. Reaser
82. A. W. Walker
83. James W. Messick
84. Caleb Baldwin
36. David Switzer
37. Anson Ford
38. William Whitaker
39. Thomas D. Evans
40. Charles Negus
41. A. R. Sparks
89. V. P. Van Antwerp
42. E. S. Rann
90. Bernheart Henn
43. A. M. W. Langdon
44. Daniel McDaniels
92. Anson Belldon
45. R. W. Steel
93. Daniel McLean
46. Philip Huffman
94. Mathew Clark
47. Benja Goodrich
95. Warren Shedd
48. William Patrick
96. Benja Milligan
49. Amon Stuver
97. Reuben Dill
50. Daniel Mendenhall
98. John Shields
51. Horace Gaylord
99. Joseph Dole
52. William S. Todd
100. William McLean
53. Samuel G. Fonney
101. Jesse Woolard
54. E. C. Hampson
102. John Rider
55. Joel Thorn
103. Jacob Snook
56. William J. Cooper
104. William Alston
57. M. R. Barker
105. John T. Rogers
58. William Huffman
106. John Shuffleton
59. George D. Temple
107. Jacob Huffman
60. Hiram Chandler
108. John McComb
109. Leroy Garthrie
62. William G. Beck
110. J. C. Wear
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35. Adam Ware
85. John Brooks
86. James A. Cunningham
87. Mathias Owens
88. Daniel Rider
29. James N. Bell
30. John Fee
80. James Woods
34. William Barnwell
75. Richard W. Irwin
24. James Mahood
66. George Crain
67. A. T. Shoup
61. Samuel J. Bayard
91. C. S. Shaffer
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
III. Peter Snook, Sr. 112. Thomas W. Titus
159. N. Lawrence
160. Archibald Kerr
161. Alf. Humphries
162. James Anderson
115. Stephen Dill
163. Marion Shelton
164. William Bartholomew
165. David Phillips
118. H. W. Anderson
166. John Young
119. Jacob Plough
· 167. Joseph Hazelwood
120. Amos Barker
168. Mongo Ramsey
121. Lot Abraham
169. Alexander Wheeler
122. Wyley Jones
170. Peter Burgess
171. Adam Stever
172. Abner Cotes
125. Sol Dill
173. Neri Broant
126. John Clinton
174. A. R. Sullivan
127. Charles Clinton
175. John Kerr
128. Samuel Feigler
129. Robert Plough
177. Jesse Kime
130. Peter G. Snook
178. Daniel Trullinger
179. John Denmark
180. M. T. Shelton
18I. P. M. Troxell
182. John Huffman
183. Henry B. Mitchell
184. William Hutchenson
185. Even L. Crain
186. John T. Huey
187. James Fagen
188. Randall Rice
189. Peter Snook, Jr.
190. George Coughman
191. David C. Brown
192. Robert Hill
193. James Richeson
194. Nelson J. Herrington
195. George W. Wilkinson
196. Samuel Bonnifield
197. James Hall
198. Christopher Cannaday
199. Benja Parker 200. Isah Hoskinson 201. Peter Eckley 202. Edward Todd
203. William Leach
204. David J. Evans
205. Milton Russell
206. John Gilbert
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131. Henry R. Warren 132. Tho. Morrison
133. H. S. Snook
134. Joseph Snook 135. A. B. Young
136. Hial A. Spicer
137. J. M. Strong
138. Nicholas Notson 139. J. Duane Stark
140. Andrew J. Ogden
141. George Anderson 142. A. Wyley
143. William Maxson 144. James S. Parrot 145. James Charlton
146. Addison Wheeler
147. Morgan Keltner
148. William Reager 149. Arch R. Wood 150. M. B. Case 151. John W. DuBois 152. Nelson Chew
153. Samuel Thrash
154. Cris. Noble
155. William McComb 156. C. B. Webb 157. William W. Noble 158. N. M. Bright
113. Charles Anderson 114. F. M. Allen
116. Samuel Noble 117. Casper Snook
123. Nathaniel Steel 124. James W. Cole
176. John Downey
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
207. William Lyons
245. Peter Gough
208. George Fowler
246. William G. St. Clair
209. Nelson Green
247. Charles Rogers
210. Joseph Furgeson ·
248. Henry Evans
211. D. P. Ray
249. David Leech 250. John T. Cottingham
212. Joseph Gorden
213. Jacob Wycoff
251. George Oles
214. Aaron B. Downs
252. David Thompson
215. Samuel Dickson
253. Parish Ellis
254. William L. Hamilton
217. Neffel Leech
255. Isaac Sharp
218. D. B. Knight
256. Thomas Bartholomew
219. John Workman
257. A. H. Brown
220. Robert Hopkins
258. James Hollis
221. Samuel Warwick
259. Henry Snook
222. Abraham Brennahan
260. William A. Woodside
223. Jehue Carr
261. S. D. Shirts
224. William Smith
262. Nathaniel Marlow
225. William T. Winner
263. William H. Houghland
226. John Ely
264. J. C. Smith
227. Ruben Lanman
228. Anthony Downey
266. William Thompson
267. John A. Pitzer
230. Robert Shaw
268. Isaac Blakeley
231. Arvin White
232. James Morrow (sworn)
270. W. E. Groff
233. B. B. Kenady
271. John Smock
234. James Chandler
272. L. G. Bell
235. John Hutchens
273. Reuben Fenstermaker
274. E. H. Wetmore
237. David Hanna
275. Joseph Workman
238. Joshua Leamer
276. Richard Vandoren
239. John Robison
277. W. T. Shamp
240. John R. Shirabels.
278. Isaac Brown
241. William Myres
279. William Pritt
242. Reben Carpenter
280. William B. Ogden
243. Samuel Herr
281. Alexander Colwell
244. James Graham
These voters cast 152 ballots for the democratic electors, 127 ballots for the whig electors, two ballots each for William Penn Clark and William Miller, free soil electors, and one ballot each for D. M. Kelsey, Franklin M. Street, J. H. Daton and J. M. Robertson.
In Lockridge Township, the election was held at the house of Joseph Berry. The judges were Sullifand S. Ross, Wilson Green and Joseph Berry. The clerks were B. M. Allinder and Frederick F. Metzler. The voters were recorded in the following order :
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236. William Uttz
269. Franklin Meek
229. Ed. Alston
265. Jerome Gossage
216. Calvin Williams
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
1. Bartley Travis
2. Urias Horton
3. Joseph Sage
4. Samuel Brooks
52. William Kerr
53. William Sage
6. Henry Overhultzer
7. John Charlton, Sr.
8. James Collins
9. John Landers
57. John Cox
58. Nathan Harris
59. Thomas White
60. Francis Conley
61. Ephraim Bates
14. John Long
62. John Dunlap
63. Silas Garrett
64. David Cowan
65. Joseph Hickenbottom
66. Philander Snow
67. Stephen Hickenbottom
68. Alson Hart
69. Charles McGuire
70. Admiral Harris
71. Gustavis Jocknik
72. Granville Akes
73. Dempsey, Massingale
27. David Long
28. Joseph Austin
76. John Mathews
77. Elias Weigart
78. John Crenshaw
79. John Cowen
80. Robert Parsons
81. John Fore
82. Daniel Vanwinkle
83. Isaac Berry
84. John R. Parsons
37. Joseph Graber
85. Daniel Parke
86. Daniel B. Clapp
39. William Edwards
87. Lewis Gaunchbaugh
40. Hosea Stout
88. Caleb Cooper
89. William D. Clapp
90. William R. Simmons
91. John Gow
92. Otho Cooper
93. Abraham Vanwinkle
94. John McCrillis
95. Richard Allinder
96. Homan Humphrey
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47. Stephen Akes 48. Adam Gynn Vol. I -16
49. Martin Meeker
50. Ansley H. Sage
51. Sylvester Green
5. Samuel Biddinger
54. Nelson I. Meeker
55. Samuel Berry
56. Nathan Smothers
10. James Padgit
II. William I. Ross
12. John Rocke
13. Josiah Rocke
15. Richard B. Allinder
16. Archer Green
17. Jacob K. Fore
18. Waltus Collins
19. John C. Kyle
20. Henry Weeks
21. Ethan Chilcott
22. Charles Kyle
23. Abraham Barger
24. Abraham Inglass
25. James Barger
26. John Barger
74. William Massingale 75. David Stam
29. I. George Shmitline
30. Thomas R. Barger
31. Frederick Grabb
32. Anderson Travis
33. Louis Roeder
34. Andrew Stotger
35. James B. Bailey 36. Peter Graber
41. James M. McClellon
42. Asa Chilcott
43. Christian Graber 44. George Parke
45. Henry Knerr
46. Frederick Knerr
38. Ludwick Cunningham
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
97. Andrew McCormick
119. William Frazer
98. James Frazey
120. Edward Vohries
99. Alfred Green
121. William Montgomery
100. Baker M. Allinder
122. Jackson Spark
IOI. Nathaniel Green
123. Robert Lynn
102. Lauren Rose
124. Samuel T. Berry
103. Wesley C. Green
125. Frederick Goens
105. Samuel G. Sage
106. Samuel White
128. Joseph Berry
107. Jacob Fore
129. Frederick F. Metzler
108. Enoch Frazey
130. Andrew C. Stevens
109. Wilkes Cooper
131. Alson G. Howard
110. John Shelly
132. Vinson Turner
III. David Keltner
133. Jonathan Turner
112. Thomas Allender
134. James H. Freeman
113. Daniel I. Travis
135. John R. Vance
114. William Hindman
136. George W. Vance
115. John Toothaker
137. William Downing
116. William C. Whitlock
138. Benjamin Archibald
117. Jacob Webb
139. Robert Archibald
These voters cast 76 ballots for the democratic electors and 63 ballots for the whig electors.
In Round Prairie Township the election was held at Glasgow. The judges were James O. Kirkpatrick, William J. Stout and Ezekiel Gillham. The clerks were William S. Lynch and James R. Westfall. The voters were recorded in the following order :
I. E. A. Harbor
19. William Andrew
2. Lincefield Grady 20. Smith Ball
3. Calvert A. Gillham
21. James M. Whiteaker
4. James McCullough 22. William Stuart
5. Charles W. Anderson
6. Thomas Miller
24. Eli Spears
7. William W. Cottle
25. John J. Stout
26. James A. Sears
27. James M. Hemnons
28. John Whiteaker
10. Eli Jones
II. Elijah Billingsly
12. Luther Lemmons
30. James Gilmer
13. James Telford
31. Peter Bartles
14. Alfred Wright
32. Robert Moore
15. Richard Stewart
16. Joseph Telford
17. George S. Whiteaker
35. Cager Litton
18. John Cochran
36. Thomas Howel
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23. T. T. Rogers
8. Job Henry.
9. Andrew Abrams
29. Daniel Hider
33. James Baker 34. Samuel Carver
118. William Parker
127. Wilson Green
104. Samuel Allender
126. Sullifand S. Ross
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
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37. James F. Howel
83. Daniel Sears
38. Peter Howel
84. David Woodard
85. Herrod Leonard
86. John Leonard
41. John Jamison
87. Alexander Kirk
42. Albert Smith
88. Stephen Crowder
43. David M. Sears
89. Philip Carrel
44. James Willson
90. Jacob Kirk
45. William Bonnifield
91. Henry Lee
46. J. C. Walker
92. Henderson Howel
47. Joshua Bell
93. J. N. Gillham
48. John S. Ball
94. John Mulvany
49. Squire Ridgeway
95. Daniel Chezum
50. John Dearduff, Sr.
96. Washington Litton
51. James Harten
97. John Abrams
52. Henry Sincoe
98. John Hall
53. Selas Woodward
99. George Cole
54. Robert T. Gillmer
100. William D. Sturgess
55. Arthur Conder
IOI. Finley Strong
56. Daniel Russel
102. Elvis Stout
57. Joseph M. Parker
103. George Moffit
58. Alexander Dunlavy
104. John C. Ridgeway
59. Burton Litton
105. John Price
106. Newton Stout
61. John Dearduff, Jr.
107. George Snoe
108. Alexander Jamison
63. Jesse Thomas
109. Frederic Price, Sr.
IIO. Frederic Price, Jr.
65. B. D. Workman
66. Lambeth Morgan
112. Peter Price
67. James Buchanan
113. George Cochran
68. Charles Stout
114. Thomas Etherage
115. John Baker
70. Gregory Bonnifield
116. William Cline
71. Samuel Carrel
117. William L. Layton
72. Henry Leonard
118. Otho Davis
73. John Howel
119. William H. H. Lee
74. Stephen Williams
120. George Riley
75. Frederick Schenoving
121. William S. Lynch
76. Albert Howard
122. E. J. Gillham
77. Henry Woodard
123. George Chapman
78. John Woodard
124. James O. Kirkpatrick
79. William M. N. Campbell
125. William Stout
126. James R. Westfall
127. Thomas Lamberth
80. John Huff 81. John F. Moore
82. Alexander Moore
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60. Andrew Burdet
62. Nathaniel Templeton
64. Richard Jones
III. Benjamin Litton
69. Levi Morgan
39. Matson Howel 40. John Elliot
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
These voters cast 75 ballots for the democratic electors and 51 ballots for the whig electors. One ballot is not accounted for.
In Cedar Township, the election was held at the house of Micajah B. Rowland. The judges were Samuel Moore, Joel Bradshaw and William Templeton. The clerks were William C. Jones and John B. Roland. The voters were recorded in the following order :
I. John Templeton, Sr.
42. Joel Bradshaw
2. Micajah B. Roland
43. John B. Roland
3. Andrew Thompson
44. Addison Parker
4. Joel Bates
45. William C. Jones
5. Mathias Gumes
46. Grinder Wilson
6. Greenburg Bunch
47. Thomas L. Strong
7. Andrew Loudon
48. John Harper
8. Dolphin Gumes
49. Josiah McLain
9. Orville O. Sheldon
50. George Fell
51. John Templeton, Jr.
II. Joseph Clark
52. Thomas Gorsuch
12. John Penegar
53. Jesse Shamp
13. Jeremiah Bates
14. Samuel W. Langdon
15, Samuel Walker
16. James A. Gallaher
57. James Hibbs
58. William Daugherty
59. Eli Cox
19. James B. Evans
60. Frederick Highland.
20. Joshua Wilson
61. William Elliott
21. William McNealy
62. William McCulloch
22. James S. Scott
63. John McCullough
23. Aaron Greenland
64. Archibald Gilleland
24. Micajah Bunch
65. Sabret Scott
25. William M. Bradshaw
66. William Withrow
26. Daniel Greenland
67. Joseph Graham
27. Charles Hutton
68. Michael Wiseman
28. James Patterson
69. Nathaniel Loomis
29. George Moffatt
70. Enos C. Powell
30. Jesse Long
71. John Graber
31. John S. Harper
72. Philip Bonnett
32. Andrew Gunt
73. Daniel Rodth
74. Joseph Rodth
34. Samuel Moore
75. James Spear
76. John Fell
36. Hiram Moore
37. Charles L. Cox, Jr.
38. Henry Pinegar
39. Eli Kirk
40. Newby Smith
.41. William Templeton
77. Jacob Wright
78. Joseph Fell
79. Alexander Patterson
80. Simeon Greenland
81. Noah Wright
82. John R. Kirk
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17. Samuel McNealy
18. Samuel S. Walker
54. Jacob Harmon
55. William R. Kirk
56. Henry Harmon
10. Joel J. Bradshaw
33. Reuben Madden
35. John Aykrom
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
83. Hosea Hall
84. Henry Gimple
90. John Babbs
85. William Taylor
91. John Whitten
86. David Fry
92. Alexander W. Scott
87. Mahlon Fell
93. Nathaniel Simmons
88. John W. Doughty
94; Joseph Lee
These voters cast 60 ballots for the democratic electors, 33 ballots for the whig electors, and one ballot for the free soil electors.
In Liberty Township, the election was held in a schoolhouse. The schoolhouse is neither designated nor located. The judges were Thomas O. Wamsley, A. Hemp- hill and John J. Smith. The clerks were John W. Sullivan and Hiram Smith. The voters were recorded in the following order :
1. William Hackney
35. Ralph R. Mills
36. Joseph Junkin, Sr.
37. Cyrus N. Teter
38. William Cassiday
39. Seymore Seeley
40. Carlile Smith
41. Jacob Holsizer
42. Leroy Spence
43. William Peebler
44. Nelson Ely
45. Thomas B. Shamp
46. Humphrey Roberts
13. Josiah Stanley
14. Noah Bivens
15. William Pitkin
49. Mathew Harris
16. Elijah Smith
50. A. T. Robinson
17. William Duston
51. Silas Young
18. Michael S. Bever
52. Samuel Torrence
19. Henry Campbell
53. Michael Woods
20. James H. Burns
54. George Humphrey
55. Joseph Junkin, Jr.
21. George W. Johnson 22. Hannibal Sutten
56. Joseph P. Robb 57. Elias Smith
23. John Stafford
24. Mace Claridge
58. James Wishard
25. Hugh Harrison
59. Abner Fitzgeralds
26. William Loomis
60. J. J. Randall
61. James P. Reynolds
62. Daniel Carter
63. John Duston
30. Jonathan Parsons
64. Owen Mason
31. Peter Shepler
65. Robert Waters
66. James Orr
67. Job Clinkenbeard
68. Jonathan Welgamott
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32. George Crolus
33. John Dennis
34. Clabourn C. Teter
89. John C. Bradshaw
2. John Wilmington
3. M. C. Shamp
4. Lloyd Jenkins
5. Robert Lindsey
6. William F. Dustin
7. James Cline
8. Lemuel Clark
9. James Spencer
10. Isaac McCleary
II. Daniel. Hankins
12. Michael Peebler, Sr.
47. George Fox
48. Joseph McClintick
27. Greenup Smith. 28. John F. Robb 29. Samuel Noble
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
69. William A. McClain
115. Jacob Chilcoat
70. James Saunders
116. Hugh Johnson
71. John Cassiday
117. John J. Smith
72. William Donaldson
118. Thomas O. Wamsley
73. George Leach
119. Adley Hemphill
74. B. R. St. John
120. Hiram Smith
75. John Swoop
121. John W. Sullivan
76. Woodard Donaldson
122. Jacob T. Hackney
77. Jonathan B. Evans
123. James McGuire
78. Rolla Taylor
124. Joseph B. McClain
79. Job Saunders
125. Richard C. Houston
80. Rezen R. Prather
126. Thomas Poulson
81. Moses N. Reynolds
127. David Lindsey
82. Andrew J. Stanley
128. Johnathan Taylor
83. Fielden Clinkenbeard
129. Hiram Norton
84. John Saunders
130. Michael Peebler
85. Greenberry Taylor
131. John Garber
86. John Gorden
132. John A. McCoy
87. Jonathan Dyer
133. William Clark
88. Henry Davis
134. Hugh R. Skinner
89. Joseph Stanley
135. Jefferson Beard
90. Wesley Hall
136. Henderson Polson
91. Charles Dyer
137. Nehemiah Davis
138. Abraham Rhodabaugh . -
139. David Sens
94. William H. Slavins
140. William Love
96. William Teach
142. Jonathan C. Prather
97. Jacob N. Guinn
143. Gilbert Loomis
98. Charles Fox
144. Jackson Cline
99. William P. Wamsley
145. Louis Dennis
100. Thomas H. Prather
146. Nicholas Clopfenstein
IOI. Jackson Taylor
147. Abram Schwartz
102. David Smith
148. Samuel Kirkpatrick
149. Ezekiel Reynolds
104. George W. Dyer
150. Jackson Clinkenbeard
105. Austin L. Shepler
151. Campbell Rankin
107. Daniel Chambers
153. Jacob Wells
108. John McQuirter
154. Samuel H. Whitson
109. Nathan Saunders
155. Gideon Chubb
156. James Jenkins
157. John Steel
158. Andrew J. Gibbs
113. F. B. Smith
159. David Goughnour
160. Albert N. Bissel
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92. Thompson Turner
93. Lloyd Prather
95. John Berry
141. Leonard Jenkins
103. James R. Prather
106. Samuel Taylor
152. Samuel Eshelman
IIO. Joseph H. Teale
III. Martin T. Miller
112. John Clark
114. Jesse Gilleland
247
HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
These voters cast 58 ballots for the democratic electors, 91 ballots for the whig electors, and II ballots for the free soil electors.
In Des Moines Township, the election was held at the house of Nicholas L. Bonnett. The judges were James Hull, Samuel Brown and William H. Copeland. The clerks were George W. Hoover and Samuel Jacobs. The voters were recorded in the following order :
I. Samuel Brown
42. Stephen V. Jackson
2. James Hull
43. Jesse B. West
3. George W. Hoover
44. Adam Winsell
4. Samuel Jacobs
45. David Peebler
5. Benjamin Bevans
46. John Croft
6. Simpkin McCleary
47. Jacob Reprogle
7. Andrew W. Peebler
48. Hugh Wilson
8. John J. Smith
49. Marcus Cool
9. Robert Brown
50. John T. Gwin
10. John H. McCleary
51. John Rumford
II. Benjamin McCleary
52. James F. Wilson
53. S. P. Majors
13. Reuben Ellmaker
54. Samuel Good
55. Josiah Donnelson
56. George Leigh
57. Samuel Shipler
58. James Cool
59. Elias Fisher
60. Moses Black
61. George Fisher, Jr.
62. David Laughlin
63. Serene C. Pumphrey
64. Israel Young
65. Nathan West
66. Thomas J. Harrison
67. James Young
68. David Coleman
69. John Winsell
70. Samuel Williams
71. James Copeland
72. Joseph Walker
73. Samuel Walker
74. Isaac Vinson
75. Henry C. Fisk
76. Alfred Cool
77. Samuel Mehaffy
78. John L. Prather
79. Henry Cloke
80. John Adams
81. William C. Young
82. John Fishell
Digitized by
23. W. H. Copeland
24. Lewis H. Finney
25. Enos Ellmaker
26. William C. Morrison
27. William Miller 28. John Tanner
29. Joseph Hutton
30. Nicholas L. Bonnett
31. Joseph Ingersoll
32. Robert Wilson
33. Thomas Walker
34. Samuel Imbler
35. Robert B. Jamison
36. Lewis S. Young
37. Johnson J. Lee
38. Jacob Brown
39. Joseph Sketoe
40. James C. Turner
41. Alexander Wilson, Jr.
14. Philip Allbaugh
15. Henry Gilman, Jr.
16. George Fisher, Sr.
17. Jacob Harmon
18. Peter G. Bradshaw
19. John H. Croft
20. Abraham Teeter
21. Abner Hill
22. John Casebeer
12. Henry Gilman, Sr.
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83. George Harmon
112. John D. Chester
84. John Harmon
113. Samuel Cassiday
85. Henry Harmon
114. John Harley
86. John W. Brown
115. Moses Pitman
87. Jacob Brown, Sr.
116. George W. McMullin
88. George Brown
117. Coleman Graves
89. Daniel Shafer
118. Alexander Wilson, Sr.
90. John Grisell
119. Ural Nimmocks
92. William Brown
121. Loman Black
93. Samuel A. Hull
122. Isaac K. Teeter
94. David B. Teeter
123. John B. Conger
95. Peter Lutz
124. Archibald Birdsell
96. Jacob Fisher
125. Edon Cramer
97. Benjamin F. Brown
126. Henry Fishell
98. David S. Glenn
127. George Byerts
-99. John Young, Sr.
128. Jacob Blosser
100. Cornelius Prather
129. Aaron O. Edwards
IOI. Thomas Glenn
130. John Simmons
102. Macklin Copeland
131. Sidney Loveless
103. John Rush
132. Archibald Black
104. Burton Carver
133. Robert Poland
105. James Dunn
134. Columbus Lafferty
106. George Hatch
135. Abraham Landers
107. Johnson Birdsell
136. Peter Bowers
108. Epernetus Birdsell
137. Samuel Hughell
109. David Beech
138. Christian Burger
110. Andrew Skaggs
139. David Sollenbarger
III. Henry More
140. Casper Kump
These voters cast 83 ballots for the democratic electors, 52 ballots for the whig electors, and five ballots for the free soil electors.
Digitized by
91. Amos Vandever
120. Goodman Graves
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C.W. Slagles
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CHAPTER XXXII
COMMON SCHOOLS
The evidences are many that the education of their children lay near the hearts of the settlers. It appears that as early as 1838 a settlement in the west part of Round Prairie Township and another in the southeastern part of Lib- erty Township built themselves schoolhouses. These of course were primitive round log cabins, but they clearly expressed the spirit of the people of these neigh- borhoods. Of the Round Prairie School Thomas Johnson was the teacher; of the Liberty School John Beck was the teacher. In this year Andrew Simmons also taught a school in the Town of Lockbridge.
One of the first legislative enactments of the territory, approved on Jan- uary 1, 1839, provided that county commissioners should form a district when- ever a petition was presented for that purpose by a majority of its resident voters. The voters then had authority to levy a tax "either in cash, or in good merchant- able produce at cash price," limited however to "one-half per centum" and to "$10 per annum on any one person" upon its inhabitants for the establishment and support of a school.
C. W. Slagle in a public address referred to this statute "as a New Year's gift to the people." "I doubt," he exclaimed, "if the heroism of this good-merch- antable-goods-at-cash-price clause has been equalled by any of the legislation that has occurred in behalf of our schools from that day down to this year of grace, 1881." Assuredly, it reflects alike their necessity and their sincerity.
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