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MOULTON.
(Washington and Wells Townships.)
Elizabethtown is located on the southeast quarter of Section 15, and north- east quarter of Section 22, Town 68, Range 16. The shape of the plat resembles that of Cincinnati. Main street runs north and south, and Davis street runs perpendicular to the other. The ground fronting the western extension of Davis street on the north was appropriated for cemetery use and for a site for a Baptist Church.
Such is the abstract of the record entry of the first laying-out of this busy, flourishing town, which lies on or very near the ancient " bee-trace," described in a preceding page. But the certainty that the North Missouri Railroad was coming, induced a modification of the plat of Elizabethtown, and it was merged into Moulton.
The town plat of the latter originally contained 160 acres, consisting of the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 14, and the east half of the south- east quarter of Section 15, Town 68, Range 16. S. S. Caruthers was the grantor, who acknowledged the plat before M. H. Jones, July 4, 1867. The streets running east and west are numbered First to Eighth, and the north and south streets, beginning on the east side, arc East, Walnut, Elm, Oak, Main, Vine, Maple and West. The surveyor's name does not appear.
The North Missouri Road was completed to the town in the spring of 1869, and extended to Bloomfield in the same year. It was completed to Ottumwa
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about the last of July, 1870, and, the next day, a party of about one hundred hungry Iowa editors, accompanied by their wives, passed through Moulton on an excursion to St. Louis, where, tradition has it, they were so sumptuously enter- tained that they all resolved never to return, and it is certain the Moulton folks never saw that crowd again.
Those who were residents on the town plat in the winter of 1868-69, are said to have been as follows : Thomas McAchran, druggist; William Lowry, dry goods and groceries ; James G. West, James E. Jennings, Andrew Ogden. Levi Davis, M. V. Howell, James P. Smith, James Norris, laborers ; Joseph Jurd, John Burdett, carpenters, and two or three Irishmen. All had families but William Lowry, who is a bachelor still.
The first death that occurred in Moulton was that of Thomas Mulock, in 1869.
The first marriage was that of Wilson Nycum to Miss Norris.
The first school in the village was taught by Thomas Haughey and wife, in the Christian Church in the winter of 1869-70. Previous to this, the people sent to the district school just outside of the village.
A newspaper, the Moulton Independent, was established in 1870.
The principal growth of the town was achieved in 1872 and the year fol- lowing.
In 1872, Edwards & Davis erected a steam flouring-mill.
In 1873, the people, by a donation of about $25,000, secured the extension of the Burlington & Southwestern Railway to their town and westward, thereby rising to the dignity of a railway junction. Recently, this has been made a division terminus for the Southwestern line, and a small engine-house has been erected.
The principal manufacturing interest of the place was established in 1869, it being a steam flouring-mill and woolen-factory, by Aaron & Son, at a cost of about $25,000.
The first bank was started by A. J. Morrison. The town is soon to lose the only bank it has now, Maj. Moore, its owner, having been elected Clerk of the Courts; but it is stated that Mr. Bradley, of Centerville, will open a bank- ing office in the town at an early day.
An industrious, prudent newspaper man would no doubt find this a good field for a local paper.
An effort was made, some years ago, to obtain coal at this place, and two shafts were dug, one to a depth of 180 feet, and the other about the same depth, but without finding it. It is possible that the vein would have been found by a side-drift.
In the winter of 1872-73, a man named Martin was discovered about day- break, by Maj. West, in a dying condition near the principal street. He was carried into George D. Porter's house, and only lived about fifteen minutes. He had become intoxicated the night before, and overcome with liquor, had fallen to the ground and perished from exposure.
Moulton contains about one thousand inhabitants, and is beautifully situated on the high plateau dividing the waters flowing toward the Mississippi from those emptying into the Missouri. Its business is represented by three hotels, several dry goods stores, clothing stores, groceries, jewelry stores, millinery-shops, two flouring-mills, woolen-mill, wagon and blacksmith shops. Its people are intel- ligent, moral and attentive to their pursuits. It will be a little short of a miracle if this pushing young town-this " fiat " of the railway system-does not double its population and treble its business in the next ten years. There is no near
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neighbor to draw away the trade tributary to this town, the nearest towns of any prominence being Centerville and Bloomfield.
George Seigley, of Moulton, though not the oldest resident of the county, is undoubtedly the " oldest inhabitant." He was born March 28, 1772, and is consequently nearly 107 years old. His birthplace was in Lawrence County, Penn., where he resided till fifty-seven years old. He then removed to John- stown, in the same State, where he remained eleven years, and thence removed to Ohio. In 1840, he removed to Lee County, residing there until 1854, when he removed to Appanoose County, which ever since has been his home. He visited California in 1874, remaining about a year, but preferred to return and spend the remainder of his days in Iowa.
MUNICIPAL.
The notice of election to choose officers for the inchoate city of Moulton was dated May 3, 1869, and was signed by the Commissioners for the petition- ers for the incorporation, Samuel Leerburger, Peter Fees, Jacob Neal, Tom McAchran, Wilson Nycum. The election was ordered by them to be held at the dry goods store of A. Hart, May 18.
At the election, Jacob Neal, Thomas McAchan and Wilson Nycum acted as Judges, and S. Leerburger and Peter Fees sat as clerks. Of the seventy-five votes polled, the first was cast by Green Hazelwood, and the last by J. B. Smith. C. H. Walker was elected Mayor; S. B. Thompson, Recorder ; O. Gillett, Marshal; M. V. Howell, J. C. Thompson, G. Farus, J. Q. Lane, A. Harter, Councilmen.
The preliminary action on which the above proceedings were based was had January 25, when an election was held at the drug store of Thomas McAch- ran, and the proposed incorporation was carried by a vote of 26 to 19. The territory incorporated was one mile square, described as follows: The south half of the northwest quarter of Section 14, southwest quarter of same section, south half of the northeast quarter and southeast quarter of Section 15, north half of northwest quarter of Section 23, and the horth half of the northeast quarter of Section 22. The whole is attested by K. P. Morrison, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Owing to the first record-book having been mislaid, the date of the first meeting of the Council cannot be given. The first ordinance, however, was to define the town boundaries, which would seem to have been an act of surplusage.
A calaboose was built in the spring of 1871, at a cost of $112.
Levi Davis was elected Mayor in 1873, and S. B. Thompson Recorder.
A cemetery corporation appears to have been formed about 1870, but had become nearly disorganized. The management of the grounds was accordingly transferred to the Town Council, and, June 23, 1873, the Mayor was authorized to appropriate such money as might be needed to put the grounds in order, and $320.33 were expended for that purpose.
Provision was made for electing a Town Assessor in February, 1874, and, in October of that year, six Babcock portable extinguishers were purchased.
The sidewalk system is very complete in Moulton, having been begun in 1871.
The present town officers are as follows: Levi Davis, Mayor; James G. West, Recorder; A. J. Morrison, Thomas Morrison, S. Bulger, Eli Simpson, R. Gleason, Trustees; A. P. Berry, Marshal and Street Commissioner; A. J. Morrison, Treasurer; G. T. Pulliam, Assessor.
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EDUCATIONAL.
The first meeting of the Board of the Independent District of Moulton was held July 22, 1869, at which time the record shows that James G. West was Presiden ; John Q. Lane, Vice President ; Jacob Neal, James Sutton, S. G. Haughey, Directors ; John Potts, Secretary ; Aaron Harter, Treasurer. A com- mittee of two was appointed at this meeting to confer with the officers of the Chris- tian Church, with regard to buying the building owned by that society, and, on the 7th of August, the question was submitted to a popular vote, and rejected almost unanimously.
The same evening the Board held a meeting and resolved to levy as large a tax for schoolhouse purposes as the law would admit. September 30, the Christian Church was rented for a school-room. October 2, the Board pur- chased two acres of ground for a building-site, the price being $300, as offered by Mr. Singley, the land being situated in the northeast part of the town. Octo- ber 21, an election was held on the question of issuing $3,000 in bonds for con- struction purposes, which was carried unanimously. The bonds were to run ten years and bear 10 per cent interest.
January 1, 1870, contract was made with Henry Hayes to lay the founda- tions, and on the 4th, Wax Bros. & Co., contracted to frame, line and sheet the building for $985. In the following July, the electors voted a further issue of $3,000 in bonds; and contracts were made for brick, with various par- ties, at $12.50 a thousand. November 16, it was agreed to accept Lock- wood's job of laying the walls, provided he would clean off the walls, and the building was soon after put in condition for receiving the teachers and pupils.
May 20, 1871, the people refused to vote for a further issue of $3,000 in bonds. Another election was held July 5, when the measure was carried by a large majority.
The main building is 26x70 feet in size, with a wing in the rear 22x30 feet, and vestibule in front 14x20, all two stories high, surmounted by a belfry con- taining a large bell. On the ground floor there are three schoolrooms, the main part containing two, divided by a wide hall, and the other being in the wing. The second story is reached by a stairway on each side of the vestibule. The main part is divided into two rooms by folding doors, one of the rooms being used for recitation purposes. The wing contains one room.
The present School Board is as follows: A. P. Berry, President; R. B. Carson, Samuel Jennings, W. A. Davis, A. J. Morrison, James G. West, Directors; B. B. Burchett, Treasurer; George T. Pulliam, Secretary.
The teachers for 1878-79 are as follows: T. C. Campbell, Principal ; Mary E. Berry, Assistant ; Miss Clara Ethell, Third Primary ; Miss Mary E. Hale, Second Primary ; Miss Nadie Crump, First Primary.
Normal Department .- This originated in 1875, with a proposition from A. Matthews, who offered to employ four teachers, and receive a total tuition of $1,500 from the district, together with such sums as he could obtain from the tuition of pupils from abroad, and he was to have the privilege of admitting 150 addi- tional pupils. Mr. Matthews abandoned the field without teaching a day; but Mr. Campbell, the present Principal, offered to carry out the same offer, which was accepted, and, it is said, only realized about $240 for his year's work. The following year, the Board increased the compensation to $2,200, and a consider- able attendance being obtained from surrounding neighborhoods, the venture proved tolerably remunerative. In 1877-78, his compensation was reduced to
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$1,500, and in the present school year all the teachers are employed by the Board, and the tuition is paid into the district treasury.
RELIGIOUS.
Methodist Episcopal .- This society was formed in 1869, and the first class composed of John Couch and wife, D. M. Norwood and wife, E. M. Carpenter and wife, Jonas Sutton and wife, Aaron Moore and wife, with a few others.
The different Pastors have been Rev. Messrs. Kirkpatrick, Smith, Smith, Morve, Carmine, Freeland and E. Roberts.
A house of worship was erected in 1870, at a cost of about $2,400. The build- ing is 40x60 feet in size, and has a steeple and bell. It was dedicated in 1875; but through the stress of hard times, it was sold for about an $850 indebtedness in the following year, and would have been lost to the society, but for the stirring efforts of Rev. Mr. Freeland and W. R. Marshall. Their labors not only resulted in saving the church, but in clearing off its entire indebtedness.
The society has now 116 members. Mr. Marshall is Class-Leader. The Stewards are William Marshall and A. S. Downs, and the Trustees are Dr. Doom, H. L. Marshall, E. D. Cullison, Charles Montgomery and A. J. Morri- son.
A. J. Morrison is Superintendent of the Sabbath school; A. S. Downs, Assistant ; E. D. Cullison, Secretary. The teachers are H. L. Marshall, A. S. Downs, David Thompson, Miss Mary Berry, Jane Collen and Mrs. Leffingwell. The pupilage is about seventy.
First Presbyterian .- This Church was formed by Rev. William. Kendrick, and dates from February 7, 1869, the constituent members being L. R. Buck and his wife Elizabeth, Mrs. Sarah Cox, George and Elizabeth Singley, George W. and Mary Ann Singley, Jennie Singley, Dr. A. and Elizabeth Barker, Mrs. M. E. Kendrick, L. R. Buck and G. W. Singley were the first Elders ; C. B. Caldwell was added in 1870, and Dr. Bean in 1872.
The Pastors have been Rev. William Kendrick, Rev. W. J. Ballman, Rev. O. J. King; Rev. Austin Warner and Rev. R. Hahn.
The house of worship was built in 1871, and is 30x45 feet in size, with steeple and bell.
There are now about forty members. The Elders are L. R. Buck, August Post and C. B. Caldwell ; the Trustees, L. R. Buck, J. W. Moore, S. N. Isen- berg, R. B. Carson, W. A. Davis.
J. W. Moore is Superintendent of the Sabbath school ; C. B. Caldwell, Assistant; August Post, Secretary; Mrs. Isenberg, Treasurer; the teach- ers are John Caldwell, L. R. Buck; C. B. Caldwell, August Post, Miss Irena Isenberg, Mrs. L. E. Hahn. There are about fifty pupils.
Baptist .- This Society was organized in 1874, by Rev. W. H. Lurton, Rev. A. Salladay and Rev. Mr. Redburn, and the first members were as fol- lows: A. P. and Harriet Berry, T. C. Campbell and wife, James May and wife, Rebecca Long, Mr. Mrs. Lull, Mrs. Gale, Mrs. Davenport.
The Pastors have been Rev. Messrs. Redburn and. A. P. Berry.
The society has now about thirty members, and T. C. Campbell is Deacon. The meetings are held in the schoolhouse.
Six additions were made to the Church as the result of a union revival held in the winter of 1877-78.
Christian .- When the removals from Orleans began to Moulton, on the prospect that the railroad would be built to the latter place, several families, members of the Christian Church at Orleans, decided to remove also. Soon
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after, Samuel Jordan and wife, G. W. Nash and wife, Jacob Neal and wife, J. G. West and wife, John Burdett and wife removed, they resolved to have a house of worship at Moulton, and a Building Committee was appointed at Orleans for the purpose. The construction was begun in 1868, and the house was completed and dedicated in the following year, the sermon being preached by Elder Jordan. The building is 24x60 feet in size, and cost of $1,000. It has a steeple and bell.
There are now 152 members. The Elders are J. G. West, Samuel Jordan, B. B. Burchett, M. Y. Sellers ; the Deacons are J. L. Hughes, J. L. Lamb, R. Nyswinger ; J. G. West, Samuel Jordan and J. L. Lamb are the Trust- ees.
F. E. Haughey is Superintendent of the Sunday school; M. Y. Sellers, Assistant. The teachers are Ida Haughey, J. Q. Lane, M. Y. Sellers, G. T. Moore, Martha Gale, M. D. West, Nancy Manson, J. E. Irwin. The average attendance of pupils is about sixty.
Catholic .- The first celebration of mass in Moulton was by Father Craigle, in 1870, who found the following Catholics : Andy Dugan, James Callanen, Michael Doyle, John Cavanaugh, Michael Johnson, Michael Welch, all of whom had families, and a few unmarried men.
The Pastors have been Fathers Craigle, Moran, Harvey, O'Brien and King.
There are about fifteen families in the congregation. Services are held every fourth Sunday, and a Sabbath school is maintained. The society hope to build a chapel in the course of a year or two.
ODD FELLOWSHIP.
Moulton Lodge, No. 297, I. O. O. F .- This fraternity formed October 27, 1874, with J. P. Atkinson, W. W. Maddux, E. N. Hills, Ithamar Moore and G. W. Walker as charter members.
The only death since the formation of the Lodge was that of Benjamin Archibald, late in 1874.
A. Wells is now N. G .; G. W. Blosser, V. G .; J. G. West, Secretary ; A. J. Cowell, Treasurer.
The Lodge has seventy-eight members, and meets on Saturday evening of each week in Moore's Hall. The society's treasury is in excellent condition, and it is intended to build a hall during the coming year.
Prairie Gem Encampment, No. 80, I. O. O. F .- This collateral Order was instituted very soon after the establishment of the Lodge, with J. H. Mitchell as C. P .; J. G. West, H. P .; J. P. Smith, Treasurer ; A. Wells, Scribe. The other charter members were E. W. Walker, James May, J. W. Moore and G. D. Porter.
The Encampment has now thirty-four members, and meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. E. N. Hills is C. P .; T. C. Camp- bell, H. P .; J. G. West, Scribe: A. J. Cowell, Treasurer; J. Q. Lane, O. G.
Welcome Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 91 .- This body was instituted in the fall of 1876, and the lady charter members were Mrs. M. D. West, Mrs. T. C. Campbell, Eliza Nash, Nancy Jane Cowell, Rebecca Wells.
Mrs. T. C. Campbell is the present N. G .; Mrs. M. D. West, V. G .; G. T. Moore, Secretary; Mrs. Alice Moore, Treasurer.
The Lodge has twenty-three members, and meets on the first Monday even- ing of each month.
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MASONIC.
Sincerity Lodge, No. 317, A., F. g. A. M .- The dispensation for this Lodge was issued June 7, 1872, by O. P. Waters, then Grand Master, and appointed Thomas McAchran, W. M .; A. P. Berry, S. W .; P. H. Callen, J. W.
The first meeting was held June 20, at which time there were present, in addition to the three named above, C. B. Caldwell, M. Hughes, A. H. Griffin, J. Bell, John Novinger, F. S. Van Patton, J. W. Cary.
The first " work " was the initiation of J. C. Thompson, July 17.
The charter was granted in June, 1873, and the officers elect were publicly installed at the Presbyterian Church, June 20. After the installation ceremo- nies, a beautifully bound Bible, bearing the principal Masonic emblems, was presented by F. C. Overton in behalf of the Masonic ladies of Moulton.
The officers for 1878-79 are as follows: R. B. Carson, W. M .; S. R. Mace, S. W .; Thomas Morrison, J. W .; M. L. Doom, Treasurer ; L. C. Kil- lam, Secretary ; A. P. Berry, S. D .; J. Bell, J. D .; S. Jennings, Tiler.
There are about forty-five members. Lodge meets Friday evening, on or before full moon, in their hall in a brick building.
CINCINNATI. (Pleasant Township.)
Cincinnati was the project of Samuel Holbrook, Daniel McDonald and John McDonald, who caused the plat to be surveyed by J. F. Stratton, January 5, 1855. The plat lies on Sections 3 and 4, Township 67, Range 18. The orig- inal plat contained four blocks, including twelve lots each. Pleasant street runs east and west, and Liberty street north and south. The plat was acknowledged March 7, 1855.
The first settler in the township in which this village is located was Jack Vinton, who made a claim near a spring, a little over a mile south west of where Cincinnati now stands. This cabin was built near the Mormon trail, which is described elsewhere. Dr. Sturtevant, who has been at considerable pains to collect information regarding the first settlement of Appanoose, considers Vinton to have been the first settler in the county. This subject will be found discussed more fully on a preceding page. Vinton was very little of a farmer. He was a Kentuckian by birth, and loved hunting, trapping and "lining" bee-trees better than the laborious details of agriculture, and but little attempt was made by him to subdue the prairie soil near his cabin. He occupied his claim till about 1854, when he removed to Missouri, having sold his claim to Mr. Putnam.
Other pioneer settlers were a man named Stotts, Mr. Skipton and Mr. Blair. The second child born in the township was probably in the Vinton family, and the first marriage is thought to have been Thomas Skipton to a daughter of Mr. Blair. The next marriage was a son of Mr. Wood to a young woman named Barker.
Luther P. and Solomon Holbrook, with their families, settled near the cen- ter of the township in 1850, and the permanent settlement may be said to date from that year.
The first religious effort in the township was the organization of a Wesleyan Methodist Church by the inauguration of a series of prayer-meetings in June, 1851, which were held alternately at the houses of Solomon Holbrook and S. B.
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Stanton, and were transferred to the schoolhouse the following winter. The first preaching was by Rev. Joseph Welch, a M. E. minister, at the house of S. Stanton, in August, 1851.
The first schoolhouse was built three-quarters of a mile west of the public square in Cincinnati in the fall of 1852. This was a pretentious structure- quite "tony " in fact. It was about 20x24 feet in size, built of hewed logs, had glass windows and was heated by a stove. The seats and desks were of sawed lumber. In short, it was a gorgeous structure for the county at the time. A school was taught the following winter by Richard Conkright, which was attended by pupils from the families of L. P. Holbrook, J. H. B. Armstrong, Mr. Fulcher, David King, Nathan Stanton, S. B. Stanton, Joseph Welch and B. Blair.
A store was built during this year by Joseph Welch, who used sometimes to preach there, as well as at other houses in the neighborhoodl.
In the spring of 1853, a Sabbath school was established at the schoolhouse, of which David King was Superintendent. A library was bought and paid for, and when king subsequently removed to Oregon, he was allowed to take part of the books with him.
Dr. Ball was the first physician to settle in the township. He came in 1853, and taught the school in the following winter.
In 1855, occurred the tragic death of a child of John McDonald. The family were living east of Cincinnati, preparatory to removing to the farm just bought from Mr. Matkins. During the temporary absence of its mother, the child set fire to a lot of clothing, which caught on its own apparel, with fatal results.
Some time in 1856, the wife of John Kimmery, who lived about a mile south of Cincinnati, became insane from the result of a badly-managed case of child- birth, got out of bed during the husband's temporary absence and wandered away. When the husband returned and failed to find his wife, he at once gave the alarm. A search was at once instituted, but no trace of the wife could be found for several hours. At last, several knowing ones started the suggestion that Kimmery had murdered the woman, and proceeded to investigate on that basis. Kimmery was placed under guard, and the premises were searched to ascertain where the remains had been secreted. So sure were the crowd that a murder had been committed that even the well was emptied to discover the body. The assemblage were now ripe for summary measure, when the intelli- gence came that a party had found the woman in the woods a mile or so south- west of the house, alive, but entirely insane. It was probably a fortunate dis- covery, for the affair might have had a bloody termination for the poor husband.
A child of James King was drowned in Mr. Patterson's cistern in 1860.
CINCINNATI ITSELF.
The first buildings erected in Cincinnati were those of Walter Johnson and Dr. Sayres, in 1855, followed during the same year by the building now used by Mr. Leseney as a hotel, and one or two others. Mr. Johnson opened the first store in his building.
A schoolhouse was built within the town limits in 1857, and the first teacher was a Mr. Brown.
The growth of the town was rather slow for several years, but it became the trading center for a large neighborhood from the first. Solomon Holbrook built a steam flouring-mill before the war, which helped the business of the town very much. This was recently burned down.
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In November, 1863, a stirring episode occurred in the history of the town. Archibald Brown, a citizen of the town, was a member of the Board of Super- visors, and in that capacity had voted against canvassing the votes of soldiers in the field, taken at the election in the previous October. Mr. Brown was undoubtedly conscientious, and may have been right from a constitutional point of view, but his vote was regarded by his neighbors as a stab at the backs of the soldiers and an insult to his constituency. Accordingly, a public meeting was held, which was by no means Quaker-like in its character. Some of the more hasty and injudicious were for proceeding to use summary measures at once-which might have been tarring and feathering, burning in effigy, or a manifestation of indignation more hurtful still. But the older and more judi- cious citizens in attendance suggested that a committee be sent out to wait upon their representative and obtain a statement of the reasons that had induced him to cast the obnoxious vote. This was carried, and a committee composed of David Green, Moses Robinson and J. Leseney were deputed to wait upon Mr. Brown. The latter had by this time heard of the meeting, and its objects, and fled to Dr. Sturtevant for protection. That gentleman and Elijah Skipton forced him to return to his house with them, where the committee met them and stated their errand, which was, in substance, to demand an apology for the obnoxious vote. The committee were quiet but firm, and after a short inter- view, aided by the judicious counsels of Dr. Sturtevant and Mr Skipton, the visitors obtained suitable pledges of "indemnity for the past and immunity for the future."
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