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Bayles, Mason. Beatty, Alfred, lab.
Beatty, John, harness and shoe.
BEATTIE, WRAY, Professor of Natural Sciences, in the Iowa Wesleyan University ; born in Ireland Jan. 6, 1831; he came with his parents to America when only 3 years of age ; they L- 12 located in Eastern Ohio, where he re- ceived his education at the Ohio Wes- leyan University, of Delaware; graduated from that institution ; he came to Iowa in 1855; became connected with the University and has been connected with that institution longer than any of its Professors; has also studied medicine
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and is a graduate of the St. Louis Med- ical College. On the 1st day of Jan- uary, 1856, upon the occasion of a leap- year party, he married Miss Phebe J. Jenkins, of Hillsboro, Montgomery Co., Ill .; their wedding was a complete sur- prise to their friends. Prof. Hull, of Agency City, was married at the same time and at the same place. Mrs. Beat- tie was engaged in teaching in the Uni- versity when Senator Harlan was its President. Prof. and Mrs. Beattie have two children-Charles, born May 5, 1859, and Helen La Rue, born Feb. 15, 1864; lost one daughter-Jessie Irene. Becker, C. G., Professor, college.
BECK WITH, WARREN,
CAPT., contractor for masonry work on the C. B. & Q. R. R. ; born in Monroe Co., N. Y., Jan. 31, 1833, and received his education there; studied surveying civil engineering when he was 19 years of age; and in 1852-54, he was en- gaged on the Genesec Valley R. R. (now the Rochester Branch of the Erie R. R.) Went to Kansas in 1854, and came to Iowa in May, 1856; became connected with the B. & M. R. R., directly after the Land Grant Act was passed, from 1856 to 1860, then resigned and went to Texas with stock. When the war broke out, returned here and enlisted in the 4th Regt. Iowa Cav .; held the position of Battalion Adjutant; he was promoted to Captain, Jan. 1, 1863; he was in a number of severe fights and skirmishes ; in the battle of Bigler, Theodore, speculator. Guntown one-third of his men engaged Bird, N. T., druggist. were killed and wounded; he was in + Bird, Wellington, physician.
the service until August, 1865. Upon his return, was appointed Roadmaster of the B. & M. R. R., and held that posi- tion until the consolidation of this road with the C., B. & Q. R. R., when he was appointed Superintendent of the track and bridges over the whole line, which position he held until he was appointed chief engineer of the whole line. On account of his health he has recently resigned. He married Miss Louzenia Wallace Porter April 14, 1863; she is a daughter of Col. A. B. Porter, one of the earliest settlers of Henry Co. They have five children-Everett, Orville, Emily, Florence and Warren. Bedford, Lewis, laborer.
Beers, T. L., dentist.
BEREMAN, T. A., attorney at law; born in Hendricks Co., Ind., March 4, 1833 ; came with his parents, by wagon, to Iowa; arrived in Mt. Pleasant July 31, 1845; he attended school here; then entered Knox College, at Gales- burg, Ill., and completed his education ; commenced reading law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1859. When the war broke out, he was among the first to enlist; the day the news was received of the rebels firing on Fort Sumter, in April, 1861, he enlisted in the 1st Regt. I. V. C., Co. E; was elected 2d Lieutenant ; in June, 1863, he was commissioned Captain Co. E, and in January, 1865, was promoted to Major; was in the service till the close of the war, then returned. Bought out the Home Journal, and conducted that for one year, then engaged in the prac- tice of his profession. In the fall of 1865, was elected to the State Legis- lature ; was elected Clerk of the Dis- trict Court in the fall of 1866, re-elected in 1868; was elected District Attorney at the recent elections, November, 1878; was a member and Recorder of the City Council ; is now Secretary of the School Board. He married Miss Anna E. Paxson, from Columbiana Co., Ohio, May 17, 1860; they have three children -Harold A., Howard T. and Mildred A. Berry, Elias, laborer. Berrins, M. T., farmer.
Black, John B , plasterer.
Booten, Morris; laborer.
BOWMAN, H. M., of the firm of Bowman & Kaufman, elevator and grain business, coal and seeds ; born in Lan- caster Co., Penn., April 24, 1844 ; he came to Iowa and located in Mt. Pleas- ant in 1866; he engaged with J. W. Castor, afterward with Castor & Far- well, in the grain business; associating with Mr. Kaufman, he engaged in the grain and coal business. He married Miss Amanda Cleaver, from Washing- ton Co., Penn., in 1871 ; they have two children-Gertie and Florence.
Bradrick, I. A. minister.
Bratton, H. L., peddler.
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Bratton, R. H., peddler.
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Brentholts, Josiah, boots and shoes.
Brooks, A. T., ex-Mayor.
Brooks, Stephen, hotel.
Brown, J. B., railroad man.
Brown, J. L., pumpmaker.
Brown, N. H., sexton.
Brown, R. C., editor.
Buddee, John G., confectioner.
Burger, J. W., clerk.
Burk, Charles J., clerk.
Burket, M. F., tinner.
Burmaugh, H. H. and A., laborers.
Burmaugh, Samuel, laborer.
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BURNETT, HIRAM, REV., bet- ter known as "Father Burnett," was - born in Georgia, Feb. 19, 1799; in bis infancy his parents moved to East Ten- nessee ; when he was ten years of age, they removed to Ohio, fifty miles east of Cincinnati ; his father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died soon after bis return from the war, leaving a wife and six children, of whom Hiram was the oldest, and he had to provide for the support of his mother and family ; they removed to Highland Co., Ohio, where on the 7th of June, 1821, he married Miss Ann Hixson, a native of Virginia ; four years after his marriage, in 1825, he was converted, and very soon after, began preparing himself to preach the Gospel; he soon began preaching from houes to house ; four years after his con- version, he was licensed to preach, and the year following was ordained minis- ter of the Gospel in the Baptist Church; for fifteen years, it is doubtful if there was a single Sabbath that he did not preach one or more times, and dur- ing that time baptized over six hundred persons ; four years of that time, he preached on an average one sermon every day. They came to Iowa by wagon, and arrived in Mt. Pleasant Oct. 1, 1842, among the early settlers; in February, 1843, he established the Bap- tist Church here; it was organized at his own house with eight members; he was the father of the Church, and served as its Pastor for many years. He bought the place where he now lives, and moved there April 10, 1843, and began holding meetings in his own house ; he has been Pastor of several churches, and actively engaged in preach-
ing until within a few years past ; he has now reached his fourscore years, and has spent a long life of great usefulness to the Church and to his fellow-men. Father Burnett and his wife, have been married over fifty-seven years; they have two children living- David L., of Washington, D. C., in the Government Post Office Department ; William H., of Washington, D. C., in the War Department; they have lost one son-Joseph. Sa
Burton, J. W., clerk. Burton, W. S., wagon-maker.
Butler, George I., minister.
BYRUM, WILL H., bakery, res- taurant and fancy groceries; born in Knox Co., III., Aug. 13, 1857; when 10 years of age, came to Iowa; he was employed in the State Hospital for the Insane for five years ; he engaged in his present busin. ss Aug. 1, 1876, and since then has built up a good trade ; beside his business, he owns 160 acres of land in Kansas. '
YAHAIL, EDWARD, laborer.
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Campbell, A. J., clerk.
Carmichael, T., cooper.
Carpenter, M. S., expressman.
Carrigan, C., railroad laborer.
Carroll, G. B., retired.
Carter, J. J. A., laborer.
Carter, R.,,cabinet-maker.
Cary, J., painter. Casey, J., laborer.
Castleton, James, Sexton school.
Cauffman, D. W., merchant.
Caughran, Simon, laborer.
Cavanee, Eli, shooting-gallery.
Clark, F. J., Justice of the Peace.
Clark, H. S., Cashier First National Bank.
Clark, H., bill-poster.
Clark, Thomas, laborer.
Clawson, John R., tinner.
Chronister, John, laborer.
Coat, J. B., speculator.
Coates, Calvin, carriage-maker.
Coates, Rodney, blacksmith.
Cobb, George, laborer.
Cobb, Lyman, laborer.
Coffin, J. R., laborer.
Cole Brothers, pumps and lightning rods.
Cole, R. S., firm Cole Bros.
Cole, W. R., firm Cole Bros.
Coleman, A., traveling agent.
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COLE BROTHERS, manufactur- ers, wholesale and retail dealers in pumps and lightning-rods. Among the enterprising business men of Mt. Pleas- ant is the firm of Cole Bros., composed of R. S., J. W., J. J. and W. R. Cole. The pumps and lightning-rods sold by this house are manufactured by them at their extensive works, which are located at Greencastle, Ind., under the supervis- ion of J. W. Cole, who resides there. J. J. Cole lives in St. Louis ; R. S. and W. R. Cole reside here. The firm do a large and extensive business, which ex- tends over Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas. William R. Cole, who has the management of the busi- ness here was born in Dearborn Co., Ind., Aug. 12, 1828; he came to Iowa and located in Henry Co. in the fall of 1840, attended school here, and entered Lombard University, at Galesburg, Ill. where he went through his college course, he completed his education at the Harvard Divinity School, at Cam- bridge, Mass ; he was in the ministry of the Universalist Church from 1864 to 1874, when he became connected with the active management of the business of the firm here. He married Miss Cordelia Throop, of New York, in the fall of 1857; they have six children- E. C., Ralph G., H. A., Clara, Ollie and Arthur; lost one daughter. Colston, A. M., laborer.
Colston, George W., laborer.
COMSTOCK, A. W., Vice Presi- dent of the Comstock Scale Works, born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, near Cincinnati, Dec. 23, 1827; his parents came to Iowa when he was 7 years of age and located in Des Moines Co., near Burlington ; after reaching manhood he was engaged in the nursery business for a number of years; he came to Mt. Pleasant in March, 1870; engaged in the lumber business. Previous to coming here he was connected with the Scale Works in Burlington, and became familiar with the imperfections of the scales in use, and, in 1874, he invented what is known as the Comstock Scale, and began the manufacture of them in 1876; the Comstock Scale Works were organ- ized, and he was elected Vice President
of the company-which is doing a good business. He was Captain of a com- pany of militia in Des Moines Co., and was afterward elected Colonel of the regiment and was commissioned by Gov. Stone. He married Miss Sarah Ann Avery, July 4, 1849 ; she was a daugh- ter of Robert Avery, of Macoupin Co., Ill .; she came to Iowa in 1835; they have six children-Laura (now Mrs. H. Clark), Stella (now Mrs. D. Saunders), Henry W., Jennie, Mary and Alice. The parents of Mrs. Comstock are still living near Burlington and are both over 80 years of age.
Corkhill, T. E., minister.
Corkhill, W. H., retired.
Cooper, Ezeakel, retired.
Cooper, George, merchant.
Cosgrove, Pat., laborer.
Coulter, David, retired.
Cowles, N. M., janitor school.
COZIER, BEN L., Superintendent of the Public Schools of Mt. Pleasant ; born in Clark Co., Ohio, near Spring- field, March 14, 1839; he attended school in the Academy under Dr. How- ard, afterward President of Athens University ; then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio ; after completing his education, he taught for one year at the Delaware Female College ; also taught in Springfield, and afterward in the Pittsburgh Female Col- lege for two years; came to Iowa in 1860, and located in Mt. Pleasant. After the breaking-out of the war, he enlisted in the 4th Iowa Battery, was commissioned Lieutenant, and served in the Ordnance and Quartermaster's De- partments until the close of the war. Upon his return here in 1866, he was elected Superintendent of Schools of the city of Mt. Pleasant, and he has been re-elected to this position every year for the past twelve; he occupies a high position as an educator. He mar- ried Miss Augusta L. Flory, from Ohio, July 28, 1869.
CRANE, B. H., merchant, dealer in hardware, stoves, tinware and agricult- ural implements ; horn in Portage Co., Ohio, Nov. 20, 1838; came with his parents to Iowa and located in Mt. Pleasant in 1853; he completed his education here. Enlisted in the 25th
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Regiment I. V. I., Co. B ; was promoted through all the non-commissioned offices of his company ; then commissioned Second Lieutenant, and detailed as Lieutenant and Aide-de-camp on Staff duty ; was in twenty-seven distinct en- gagements ; wounded in the battle of Chattanooga, and was in the service three years. After the war, he returned and has been engaged in business for the past ten years. He married Miss Abbie E. Mellen, from Quincy, Ill., Jan. 2, 1866; they have six children- Anna M., Bert W., Laura E., Fred B., George and Julius H.
Crane, Eber, minister. Crane, H. N., jeweler.
Craig, John S., City Marshal.
Crawford, J., teamster.
Creal, Joseph, mason.
CULLUM, R. H., dental surgeon ; born in Franklin Co., Ind., May 30, 1848 ; he studied dentistry and practiced there until coming to lowa; located in Mt. Pleasant in 1876, succeeding Dr. Hildreth in the practice of his profession. He married Miss Sarah E. Beeson, from Indiana, in June, 1872 ; they have one daughter-Mary R.
Currin, Mike, laborer.
D AILEY B. F., railroad employe. Danaho, Mike, laborer.
Daniel, S. S., mail agent, railroad.
Davis, William, pork packer.
DAVIDSON, JAMES R., Sheriff of Henry Co .; born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., Jan. 26, 1832; in 1856, he removed to Ohio; lived there two years ; came to Iowa, and located in Van Buren Co. in 1858 ; to Henry Co. in 1866, and since then has lived here. He has held office of Justice of the Peace for ten years ; has been Town Clerk, and filled other town offices; was elected Sheriff of Henry Co. fall of 1877, He married Miss Rachel J. Jordan, from Fayette Co., Penn., Oct. 7, 1852 ; they have five children-Lavina (now Mrs. Pope, of this Co.), John C., Roger A., Anna, Johnson W. ; Lottie B., a daughter, died Nov. 25, 1876.
DAWSON, ELIAS, of the firm of Elias Dawson & Co., meat market ; was born in Springfield, Ill., Jan. 9, 1844; came with his parents to Iowa when 10 years of age; they
located in Mt. Pleasant in July, 1854. Enlisted in the 4th I. V. C., Co. C; was musician in the brass band. He has been engaged in business for the past ten years. He married Miss Sarah E. Davis, from Marietta, Ohio, in Oc- tober, 1867; they have one son- Frank A. ; lost one daughter-Susie.
Dawson, James M., butcher.
Day, R., carpenter.
Deal, A. B., farmer.
Devol, C. F.
Dickey, Benjamin, farmer.
Dickey, Samuel, sexton cemetery.
Dougherty, D., merchant.
Dongherty, E., sewing machine agent.
Dougherty, James, merchant.
Dougherty, W. F., cabinet-maker.
DRAYER, JOHN BREITEN-
BACH, Circuit Judge of the First Judicial Circuit ; was born in Lebanon, Lebanon Co., Penn., on the 7th of April, 1823 ; his parents were Joseph Drayer, watchmaker, and Henrietta Breitenbach, both of German descent; the families were among the early emigrants from the old world to Pennsylvania; the grandfather of John B. spelled his name Dreher ; Joseph changed the orthogra- phy, but retained the German pronunci- ation ; the family removed to Hamilton, Ohio, when Joseph was 10 years old, and there he learned the trade of his father, and worked at it until in his 19th year, with no literary education except what he obtained in a common and high school ; at 19, he commenced reading law with Hon. John Woods, since a member of Congress from Ohio, and was admitted to practice in April, 1844, when just 21 years old ; he practiced at Hamilton about eight years; then at Eaton, Preble Co., until March, 1858, when he removed to Mount Pleasant. In 1862, he entered the service as Captain of Co. H, 30th I. V. I., and, after seven months, was obliged to resign his com- mission on account of ill-health. He was elected County Judge in 1863, and served from January, 1864, to Jannary, 1869, when he went on the bench; has been re-elected twice, the last time with- out opposition, and his third term will not expire until of Dec. 31, 1879 ; as a jurist, he is scrupulously conscientious and painstaking, studying each case
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with the utmost diligence, and his de- cisions are rarely reversed ; as a Probate Judge, it is doubtful if he has a supe- rior in the State ; in all the relations of life, he has shown himself a man of the strictest integrity. Judge Drayer has been a member of the M. E. Church . since 1846, and at one time, since locat- ing in Iowa, he preached for two yersa, resigning a pastorate in the Brookville Circuit to go into the army ; his Chris- tian record, as well as the ermine which he has worn so long, is unsoiled. The Judge was originally a Whig, and on the demise of that party promptly, and with hearty sympathy, cast in his fortunes with the noble party of freedom ; before becoming Judge, he was an active poli- tician ; he has lost none of his attach- ment to the principles of the Republican party, but in his official position his in- nate sense of propriety deters him from active partisanship. He has taken the second degree in Odd Fellowship. Judge Drayer has a third wife ; his first, Miss Mary M. Withrow, of Butler Co., Ohio; married Jan. 5, 1847, died July 22, 1852, leaving two children, both now deceased; his second wife, Miss Mary J. McCabe, of Eaton, Ohio; married Feb. 21, 1854, had one child, and died Oct. 13, 1871; his present wife was Miss Amanda Baird, of Butler Co., Ohio ; married Dec. 24, 1872 ; she has one child ; of the two children by his first wife, a son, Samuel J., died at 6 years of age; the other, Marietta, was the wife of Dr. George W. Curfman, of Fairfield, died March 9, 1873; the child by his second wife, Anna, is the wife of William R. Sullivan, Secretary of a scale company of Mount Pleasant. Judge Drayer had a hard struggle in early life, but overcame all obstacles and pushed manfully forward until he reached his present position ; should his life be prolonged, he has more history, equally honorable, to make.
Drummond, D., retired.
Drummond, J. T., retired farmer.
Dugdale, J. A., retired.
Dugdale, J. D., liveryman.
E ARHART, C. E.
EDWARDS, MARTIN LUTHER, was born in New Mil-
ford, Litchfield Co., Conn., Nov. 6, 1810 ; the eldest of seven children ; father was the same name; his grandfather was Ed- ward Edwards, of Welsh descent, emi- grated from London, K'ng., just before the Revolutionary war, and settled in New Milford; mother, the daughter of Na- than Hoyt, of same place. The family removed to Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., in 1821, residing there until 1826 ; lived several years with Grandfather Hoyt, including part of the time the family was in New York, working on the farm ; in 1826, the whole family, father, mother and seven children, moved to Ohio, going all the way in a two-horse wagon ; settled permanently in Canfield ; then Trumbull, and since Mahoning Co., where some of the family have resided ever since, excepting one year in Boardman, in the same county, and one year in Steubenville, Ohio; received only a common-school educa- tion ; mostly in Connecticut ; learned the trade of chairmaker and painter with his father ; taught school several terms in Canfield, Boardman and Poland, Ohio ; also, afterward in Switzerland Co., Ind .; read law some in the offices of Seldon Haynes, in Poland, and of Messrs. Whittlesey & Newton, in Can- field; having taken the silk and mul- berry fever, with two others, lefc home in the spring of 1837; never afterward returning, except on visit ; located at Patriot, Switzerland Co., Ind., and en- gaged in raising mulberry-trees, morus multicanles, etc. ; made a little money raising and setting trees ; none in rais- ing silk; left the business after a year or two; lost what was so made through unwise investments and fall of property, following the crash of 1837; was a minister of the Gospel, of the Univers- alist Church, for about ten years, from 1841 to 1851; laboring in Washington and adjoining counties, Ohio, and Henry and adjoining counties in Iowa. Was
married June 5, 1844, to Lucy Rebecca, daughter of Hon. O. R. Loring, of Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio; in No- vember, 1847, removed from Belpre to Iowa, and located at Mt. Pleasant ; soon after arrival, purchased and moved into the house he now occupies ; was chosen Judge of Henry Co., August, 1851 ;
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serving as such four years; was after- ward Justice of the Peace; Mayor of the city; at different times a member of the City Council ; for many years a member of the School Board, or other- wise connected with it; was admitted to the bar of Henry Co. in November, 1864; engaged in other business ; has practiced at the bar but little, excepting a few of the first years, and then mostly in connection with probate matters ; has been connected with the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Mt. Pleasant ever since August, 1857, as Secretary of the Board of Building Commissioners and Accountant, to July, 1862 ; as Trustee and Secretary of the Board of Trustees from July, 1862, to July, 1874; as Treasurer of the institution from July, 1866, to the present date ; in all over twenty-one years. As to politics, strongly Antislavery from early youth ; always supporting some party having that aim ; a Republican from the first organization of the party; afterward supporting for the Presidency, Horace Greeley and Peter Cooper. In relig- ious faith, Universalist. Mrs. E. died in May, 1870 ; has since remained un- married ; has no children living; since 1870, the family has consisted of self and widowed sister, Emma E. Curtiss, whose husband had previously deceased in California, and her daughter, Alice G. Curtiss.
Elliott, John, physician.
Emmerson, S., tailor.
Eoff, Leonard.
ESHELMAN, CHARLES B.,
merchant, dealer in clothing and gents' furnishing goods ; born in Mt. Pleas- ant, in July, 1853; his father was an early settler, and one of the oldest merchants in Henry Co. Charles B., attended Howe's Academy ; then went East and completed his education at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Andover, Mass .; he has been connected with the clothing business since a boy, except when in school ; the past two years has been in business for himself.
ESHELMAN, JOHN, of the firm of Eshelman & Humphrey, dealers in clothing and gents' furnishing goods ; born in Union Co., Penn., in 1821; when 12 years of age, removed to Lebanon
Co., where he learned the trade of merchant tailor ; came to Iowa and located in Mt. Pleasant October, 1845, being one of the early settlers ; en- gaged in merchant tailoring; has been in the clothing trade over twenty- five years ; orly two or three merchants here have been engaged in business as long. Has held office of City Councilman. Married Mrs. Maria P. Elkins, from Vermont, Oct. 11, 1847; she died June 7, 1874, leaving two children-Emma L. (now Mrs. Hum- phrey, of Chicago), and Charles B., en- gaged in the clothing business in this city. Mrs. E. died June 7, 1874.
ESHELMAN, REUBEN, dealer in clothing and gents' furnishing goods ; born in Lebanon Co., Penn., July 10, 1829; learned the tailor trade when 19 years of age; came to Mt. Pleasant in September, 1848; has been engaged in the clothing trade for the past twenty- five years. He had nothing when he came, and by industry and good management, has built up an extensive business ; he also established a house in Fairfield and carried on business there for some time and sold out his interest. Married Miss Annie B. Hildebrand, of Pennsylvania, in January, 1866; she came to this State when only 3 years of age; they have one son-Daniel Fred, and twin daughters, Annie May and Hattie Maple ; lost one son.
JAGAN, MIKE, laborer.
FARR, LEONARD, retired farm- er; born in Chittenden Co., Vt., April 1, 1814 ; at the age of 18, moved to Ohio and engaged in teaching for about five years ; then removed to Vir- ginia, and engaged in teaching there for nine years. While in Virginia, he be- came acquainted with Miss Margaret D. Bush, from Augusta, Va., and they were married Feb. 22, 1848; they came to Iowa the same year, and ar- rived in Mt. Pleasant on Christmas Day, 1848; the snow at that time was thirty inches deep, and Mrs. Farr says that she did not see the ground for three months. Mr. Farr engaged in teaching for sever- al years, and in improving his land ; he taught the Seminary at Salem for two years. He has held the office of Su-
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perintendent of Schools of Henry Co. When he commenced life, he had noth- ing, and now owns 1,400 acres of land in Henry Co. They have no children. Faucett, Isaac J., ex-County Recorder.
Fergueson, J. S., minister.
Ferriss, George E., carpenter.
Ferris, T. E. V., Sr., physician.
Feshe, Fred, wagon-maker. Fiddler, Ira, carpenter.
Fisher, Peter, retired.
Flora, G. W., miller.
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