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A collection is taken up every Sabbath, and a true liberality is always present. Every one contributes according to his means and without regard to show. The sums thus collected, save the slight expenses, are given to the preacher, who, the members of this independent Church declare, shall be paid for his services like the ministers of other Churches. They believe in the dec- laration that "the laborer is worthy of his hire."
This, indeed, is a wonderful Church, and in its simplicity and earnestness, excellent behavior and admirable singing, is a good example to many with far greater pretensions.
The question has often been asked, "How long will it last ? Will it not die out as soon as winter passes ?" But it enlarges and is still drawing out more and more of all classes of men, and had they a larger room more would attend.
TEMPERANCE WORK.
THE RED-RIBBON MOVEMENT.
The Red-Ribbon movement reached Keokuk in the latter part of October, 1877, under the auspices of Capt. J. C. Bontecou. The club was organized the last of November, 1877, with Lee R. Seaton as President .; Grover Hillis, First Vice President ; Charles Higham, Second Vice President, and John Fin- nerty, Third Vice President ; G. V. S. Rickards, Treasurer; J. T. Christy, Secretary ; George Robertson, Chairman of the Executive, and Erie J. Leech, Chairman of the Finance Committee. Lee Seaton resigned about the 1st of January, 1878, and C. E. Moody was elected for the balance of the year.
At the expiration of the first year, November, 1878, the officers elected were as follows : President, C. E. Moody ; First Vice President, George Estep ; Sec- ond Vice President, John Finnerty ; Third Vice President, John R. Dimond ; Secretary, J. P. Christy ; Treasurer, M. C. Sawyer.
Capt. Bontecou worked faithfully nearly four weeks, and secured about 3,000 signers to the pledge, as follows : Red-Ribbon, about 1,200; White- Ribbon, about 1,300, and Blue Ribbon, about 500.
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An excellent three-story building was secured on Main and Second streets. with an entrance on both streets, which included lecture-room, reading-room, game-room, smoking-room, gymnasium and committee-rooms. The game-room and smoking-room gradually emptied themselves into the reading-room, so that - when the club leased their present rooms, corner of Fourth and Main streets, they dispensed with the game and smoking rooms, to the entire satisfaction of the members of the club. They now have very commodious quarters. The audience-room is 40x70 feet, seating comfortably on their own chairs 550 people. The stage is 12x22 feet. The committee-room is 14x20 feet, and the kitchen is 14x20 feet, making altogether a suite of rooms of which any club may well feel a just pride. They are all well lighted and ventilated. The financial condition of the club is good, all the adornments, stoves, chairs, carpet, mattings, etc .. being paid for, and money in the hands of the Treasurer. Mass- meetings are held every Saturday night, the hall generally being full.
Every Sunday night, a member of the ministerial association addresses the club, which meetings are also well attended.
The Red-Ribbon Choir, composed of George Robertson, Leader; Mr. Vin- ton, Organist ; George Robertson and Charles Zerr, Soprano ; Dr. P. Davis and J. H. Dryden, Bass ; J. Ross Robertson. Alto, and Bert. Tracy, Tenor. furnish the music for the meetings.
Among the earnest workers, aside from those mentioned above, are Mr. and Mrs. H. Scott Howell, Mr. and Mrs. George Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Col. Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Davis, Rev. John Burgess, Rev. Thomas Stephen- son, Peter Brown, Erie J. Leech, J. A. M. Collins, Dr. A. J. Wilkinson, I. Lynch, Mrs. Stackhouse, Mrs. Ed. Vansant, Mrs. Washington, Mrs. De Pugh, Mrs. Bert Tracy, and a host of others. The work has resulted in building up many happy homes where formerly were poverty, unhappiness and distress. The work is going bravely on. The arrests for drunkenness are becoming less and less frequent. The Jail and Calaboose are both empty, and in a few months the more enthusiastic temperance workers expect to be able to have posted on the doors of the Calaboose and Jail, " To Let."
WHITE-RIBBON CLUB.
The organization of the White-Ribbon Club dates with that of the Red Ribbon Club. It is under the management of lady temperance workers, and has been the direct means of much good. The Club has a large and hand- somely arranged and handsomely decorated hall and reading-room, on Fifth street, between Main and Johnson, which is open every day, Sundays excepted, from 2 to 10 o'clock P. M. Since the organization of the Club, it has been the practice to assign three of its members to the care of the hall each week, but it is now proposed to employ a permanent Librarian, to whom its management will be confided.
At the time of the organization of the Club, the membership numbered 853. It subsequently increased to over one thousand, but since, from various causes, the number has decreased to about the original number. The officers of the Club consist of a President, one Vice President from each church rep- resented and one Vice President at large, Treasurer and Secretary.
First officers : President, Mrs. H. Scott Howell ; Vice Presidents, Mrs. O. Clemens, Mrs. D. Collier, Mrs. Libbie Leighton, Mrs. Dr. Collins, Mrs. Washington, Mrs. O. S. Conklin, Mrs. L. B. Cowles, Mrs. Thomas Allyn, from the churches, and Mrs. W. A. Patterson, at large; Secretary, Miss Sadie E. French ; Treasurer, Mrs. S. P. Pond.
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Present officers : President, Mrs. H. Scott Howell ; Vice Presidents, Mrs. A. M. Steele, Miss Mary, McCormick, Mrs. William Graham, Mrs. Dr. Col- lins, Mrs. A. E. Guinn, Mrs. O. S. Conklin, Mrs. J. A. M. Collins, Mrs. Thomas Allyn, Mrs. Col. Sullivan, Mrs. John Finnerty, Mrs. Bowden from the churches, and Mrs. W. A. Patterson, at large; Secretary, Miss Ellen Mar- tin ; Treasurer, Mrs. Frank Rickards. Mrs. Rickards declined to serve, and Mrs. Iowa Stackhouse was appointed to the vacancy.
EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS.
CITY SCHOOLS.
Since Jesse Creighton, the shoemaker. wielded the birch at " The Point," in 1834, a wonderful progress has been made, both in the system of imparting instruction and the magnitude of the buildings erected for the accommodation of the hundreds of youth who, in this year of our Lord 1879, daily assemble to receive .instruction. Keokuk may well be proud of her present school organization, which, for efficiency and able management, is unsurpassed by any city in the West.
Until 1853, the school-buildings of Keokuk were of the old-fashioned, primitive kind, generally one-story, and a single room large enough to accom- modate a single teacher and twenty to thirty scholars.
John McKean, one of the first schoolmasters of Keokuk, taught in a round- log house, 16x18 feet square, which stood in the hazel-bushes on the ground now occupied by the T., P. & W. Railroad offices, at the corner of Third and Johnson streets. This schoolhouse, when first built, had a log cut out for a window.
The Central Building, now occupied as a high school, was built in 1853, and the location was selected with a view to the accommodation of all the inhabitants of the small city, and answered the purpose for several years.
The Wells School Building, situated on the corner of Fifth and Timea streets. was the first of the present series of ward-schools. It was built in 1865, and cost about $18,000. In 1867, the Carey Building, on Des Moines street, was erected, costing in the neighborhood of $17,000. The Torrence Building, on Fifteenth and High streets, came next, in 1869, at a cost of near $20,000, and the First Ward Building, in 1874, with an expenditure of about the same amount.
In addition to these fine brick structures, it has been found necessary to establish schools at four other different-points, viz .: On Concert street, between Eighth and Ninth streets ; on Thirteenth, between High and Morgan, in Reid's Addition : and on Grand avenue, near the northern limits of the city.
The total receipts by the Treasurer of the School Board for the year ending February 22, 1879, including $15,262.82 of borrowed money, was $56,617.32.
The total expenditures were as follows : To teachers, $25,511,34; other expenses, $7,192.38 : paid borrowed money, $22,758.80 ; total, $55,462.52.
NAMES AND LOCATION OF TEACHERS IN KEOKUK PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
W. W. Jamieson, Superintendent.
High School .- N. C. Campbell, Principal ; X. X. Crumm, Sadie French, Mary Jewell and Florence Backus, Assistants.
Grammar School in Central Building .-- 2d Room, Misses Mary Hoagland and Cora A. Cooley ; 1st Room, Misses S. V. Conklin and Carrie Medes.
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Torrence School .- N. Messer, Principal. 4th Room, Miss Cora Higgins ; 3d Room, Miss M. I. Taylor ; 2d Room, Miss Annie E. Gage; 1st Room, Miss Flora Bronson.
Wells School .- William Fulton, Principal ; 7th Room, Miss Tillie McKee; . 6th Room, Miss Nettie Fletcher; 5th Room, Miss Kittie McCulloch ; 4th Room, Miss Agnes McCulloch ; 3d Room, Miss Hattie Solomon ; 2d Room, Miss Dora Bradford ; 1st Room, Miss Alice Crowell.
Carey School .- Miss Cora H. Pittman, Principal ; 6th Room. Miss Emma Estis ; 5th Room, Miss Fannie Malby ; 4th Room, Miss Lizzie Hartt; 3d Room, Miss Annie Taylor ; 2d Room, Miss Lucy Cowley ; 1st Room, Mrs. S. Hicks.
First Ward School .- Miss M. S. Madden, Principal ; 6th Room, Miss Helen Lloyd; 5th Room, Miss Minnie White; 4th Room, Miss Annie Camp- bell ; 3d Room, Mrs. H. M. Kenyon ; 2d Room, Miss Cora McCrea ; 1st Room, Mrs. L. A. Stanton.
Concert Street School .- 4th Room, Miss Emma Madden ; 3d Room, Miss Eliza Amery ; 2d Room, Miss Laura Jones; 1st Room, Miss. Helen R. French.
Reid's Addition School .- Miss S. M. Batty, Principal : Miss Rosa Slaugh- ter, Assistant.
Thirteenth Street School .- Miss M. A. Gilbreath and Miss Maggie Dollery. Grand Avenue School .- Miss Lizzie Rubicam.
Special Teachers .- C. H. Pierce, Professor of Penmanship ; S. P. Osgood, Professor of Vocal Music; and H. C. Bechtold, Teacher of German.
Board of Education .- John H. Craig, HI. W. Rothert, W. F. Shelley, Samuel M. Clark, Guy Wells and C. P. Birge.
NATURAL HISTORY.
There are, in Keokuk, some gentlemen who have occupied their leisure hours in making collections of objects of natural history belonging to this region. This has not been done from mercenary motives, but for the love of the subject. Mr. L. A. Cox has devoted much time to collecting the crinoids of the Keokuk Limestone. His collection of fossils, including fish teeth, is very rare and valuable. Mr. Thomas Fletcher has worked in the same direc- tion, and has accumulated a number of fossils that have been the admiration of scientists who have seen them. Col. S. S. Curtis is also in the same line of thought and research. His cases of specimens are beautiful, and extend over a wide range. Rudolph Heiser is a taxidermist, and has very many birds and mammals, insects, etc., mounted and beautifully displayed. Hon. C. F. Davis and Dr. J. M. Shaffer have, probably, the most extensive and varied collection. It embraces over 1,000 stuffed birds, 50 cases of insects, 200 mammals, 300 ser- pents, and several tons of geodes and other rock formations found in this imme- diate vicinity. These collections occupy several large rooms, fitted up for the purpose of their display, and form the nucleus of the most desirable cabinet of objects of natural history in the Northwest. These gentlemen do not make any pretensions to accurate scientific knowlege of the collections they are making. They are actuated by a desire to benefit others who may follow them, and are enthusiastic in the search for everything that belongs to the domain of natural history. The array of geodes is of remarkable beauty and value. They have made numerous exchanges with persons in New York, Iowa, Michigan, Kentucky
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and elsewhere, and the geological department is assuming large proportions. In all respects. the collection is unsurpassed in the Northwest.
Can all these private museums be amassed in one general exhibit, for the public good ? What would be a more potent educator for young and old, and. at the same time. be attractive to everybody ? And the man who wants to erect a monument-" Perennius aere "-might expend $25,000 in the erection of a suitable building for the reception and classification of these specimens, and thus leave a heritage of knowledge and incentive to growth that could be part of the life of every citizen and every sojourner. . No city in Iowa has such a number of private collections of objects of natural history ; no city anywhere would more appreciate their consolidation ; no people would be more proud of the fact of having the best museum in the country. Let some man build the house. The rest will take care of itself.
KEOKUK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
Prior to the organization of this Association, two different attempts had been made to establish a public library in Keokuk, both of which had proved total failures.
The necessity of such an institution continued to be felt by a majority of the leading citizens, and kept constantly in mind.
Pursuant to a call made on the 26th of November, 1863, through the Daily Gate City, a meeting was held at the Court House, two days later, with Rev. W. G. Craig in the chair, and William Thompson acting as Secretary.
The object of this meeting was " to establish a library and reading-room, and promote, by means of lectures and otherwise, the diffusion of knowl- edge.
The result of this meeting was the incorporation of the Keokuk Library Association, the articles of which were filed December 10, 1863.
A. J. Wilkinson was elected its first President ; George W. McCrary, Vice President ; George C. Thompson, Recording Secretary, and Howard Tucker, Treasurer. .
The first Board of Directors consisted of A. Hagny, William Fulton, R. F. Bower, Patrick Gibbons, Rev. George Thatcher and J. L. Rice, the latter of whom was, on December 14, appointed Corresponding Secretary.
According to the plans adopted, the following were the terms of member- ship : The payment of $10 constituted a stockholder. On this was levied an annual tax of $2, the payment of which gave the privileges of the library and reading-room, and one vote at the annual election of officers.
The payment of $50 constituted a life membership. This gave the right of the library and reading-room and one vote, but they were absolved from the payment of annual dues.
The payment of $3 per annum, or $1 for three months, constituted a sub- scriber. They were privileged the use of the library and reading-room, but had no vote.
The revenues from these sources, together with fines, proceeds of lectures and contributions, were the means relied upon to support the Association.
The library was first opened for the delivery of books on the 1st of June, 1864, in the hall over Younker & Bro.'s store, on the south side of Main street, between Third and Fourth. This hall was 39 feet long and 20 in width, and was rented for $75 per annum.
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The total value of the library when first opened, including books, fixtures, etc., was estimated at $5,000. At the second annual meeting of the stock- holders (May 1, 1865), the Association numbered Il life members, 196 stock- holders and 153 subscribers. There were 3,500 volumes of books, 200 pam- phlets and magazines, 4 plaster busts, 6 engravings and 2 maps, together with a large collection of minerals, fossils and curiosities, estimated, with the fix- tures, to be worth $7,000.
The greater part of these were contribuied by the citizens of Keokuk, from their private collections. A list of these friends of the library, with their donations, might be given, but it would require a larger space than can be given to this article.
The Association was already a success, and from the rapid increase of the library and readers, a larger room and better accommodations had become a necessity.
In May, 1865, the Directors secured the hall over George C. Anderson's bank, which they leased for five years at an annual rent of $240. This hall, in which the library is still located, is 79x25 feet, with windows at both ends, affording ample light and ventilation, and is a comfortable and attractive apart- ment.
The first Librarian was Mr. Otto Lyman, who served until October 1, 1864, when he resigned and was succeeded by Mr. Andrew Lefever. He continued until April 14, 1865, and was succeeded by Miss Ellen J. Martin. The latter has been succeeded by Mrs. Col. Baker, Miss M. A. Parsons, Miss Emma Hart, Miss Sadie Graham-the latter acting as Librarianduring the absence of Miss Hart, who for the past year has been in personal attendance.
The number of volumes in the library, at this date, numbers 6,200. There are eleven life members and nearly one hundred and twenty stockholders ; some of the latter, however, by reason of non-payment of annual dues, are not entitled to the privileges of the library and reading-room.
The present officers of the Association are: L. C. Ingersoll, President : Mrs. Howard Tucker, Vice President; Ed. F. Brownell, Treasurer; William Fulton, Recording Secretary; and J. H. Westcott, Corresponding Secretary ; Directors, B. B. Jewell, J. II. Westcott, H. Scott Howell, A. J. McCrary, John Gibbons and Samuel M. Clark.
BAYLIES' COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.
Baylies' Commercial College, at Dubuque, is the oldest now in existence in the State, and perhaps one of the oldest in the Northwest. It was founded in 1858, by Mr. Aaron Baylies, a gentleman of large and practical experience as an educator and business man, and one of the pioneers in the commercial college enterprise. Mr. A. Baylies died in 1863, and was succeeded by Mr. C. Baylies.
The Keokuk branch was established in this city during the fall of 1866, in charge of William H. Miller, formerly one of the Faculty at Dubuque. The Keokuk College has proven a success, and is now regarded as one of the per- manent institutions of the Gate City.
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons, chartered in 1849, and by act of the Legislature-session of 1849-50-was made the Medical Department of the Iowa State University, being the first department organized.
The College was located at Davenport, but finding the location unsatisfac- tory, it was, in 1850, removed to Keokuk, where it has been growing in useful-
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ness and influence until to-day it occupies a prominent position among the reg- ular medical schools of the country.
The Faculty, in its organization at Keokuk, was composed of the following gentlemen, viz. : John F. Sanford, M. D., Professor of Surgery and Dean of the Faculty ; D. L. McGugin, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, and President of the Faculty ; Samuel.G. Armor, M. D., Professor of Physiology and Pathology ; Nicholas Hard, M. D., Professor of Anatomy ; George W. Richards, M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine; A. S. Hudson, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; S. Mathews, M. D., Professor of Chemistry; J. C. Hughes, M. D., Demon- strator of Anatomy.
In 1851, by the death of Prof. Hard, then occupying the Chair of Anat- omy, J. C. Hughes, M. D., Acting Demonstrator of Anatomy, was appointed during the session of 1852-53, to fill the vacancy.
At the close of the session of 1852-53, John F. Sanford, M. D., then Pro- fessor of Surgery, withdrew from the Faculty, and the vacancy caused by his- resignation was filled by the appointment of J. C. Hughes, M. D., who has been connected with the institution as Professor of Surgery and Dean of the Faculty ever since, and is, at this time, the only member of the Faculty who has been associated with the College since its organization at Keokuk.
The College held its legal connection with the State University until the adoption of the new Constitution, in 1858. By constitutional enactment, the University was located at Iowa City and its Medical Department, not wishing to change its location from Keokuk to an interior city, continued a nominal connection until 1870, when the new Medical Department at Iowa City was organized.
Since then, the Medical College at Keokuk, under its original name-the College of Physicians and Surgeons-with a renewal of its charter, has continued to prosper, until its building and appliances, with its able corps of teachers, equal any of the colleges, East or West. Over five thousand students have received instruction in her halls, and her Alumni, now numbering over thirteen hundred, occupy respectable and influential positions in the profession wherever located.
Faculty .- E. J. Gillett, M. D., D. D., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Materia Medica ; J. C. Hughes, M. D., Professor of the Insti- tutes and Practice of Surgery and Surgical Clinics ; A. M. Carpenter, M. D., Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine and Medical Clinics ; J. J. M. Angear, A. M., M. D., Professor of Physiology, Pathology and General Therapeutics; H. T. Cleaver, M. D., Professor of Obstetric Medicine and Dis- eases of Women and Children ; J. C. Hughes, Jr., M. D., Professor of Anat- omy ; John North, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology, Materia Medica, and Demostrator of Anatomy ; J. M. Shaffer, M. D., Lecturer on Insanity ; John Fyffe, A. M., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence and Forensic Toxi- cology-chair vacant ; G. North, D. D. S., Lecturer on the Principles of Dental Science ; Otto Von Tesmer, Taxidermist and Curator of Museum ; J. C. Hughes, M. D., Dean.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
MASONIC.
Eagle Lodge, No. 12 .- This, the first Lodge organized in Keokuk, was instituted May 2, 1846, under dispensation granted by James R. Hartsock, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Iowa Territory, to the following-
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named persons : Peter Kinleyside, Lyman E. Johnson, John C. Ainsworth, William A. Clark, B. Tinsley, C. S. Moore, Justin Millard, E. H. Spinning and Joseph Welch. The first officers under dispensation were : Peter Kinley- + side, W. M .; Lyman E. Johnson, S. W .; John C. Ainsworth, J. W .; B. Tinsley, Treasurer ; Joseph Welch, Secretary; W. A. Clark, S. D .; and C. S. Moore, J. D. The first meeting was held "in the brick house of J. Mackley, on Main street." The Lodge worked under dispensation until July 8, 1847, when, at a called meeting held that day at 9 o'clock A. M., Grand Master Ansel Humphreys, who was present and presided, approved the work of the Lodge and presented it with a charter, numbered 12. At 2 o'clock P. M. of the day, the Lodge marched in procession to the Baptist Church, on Third street, where Grand Master Humphreys installed the following officers : Peter Kinleyside, W. M. ; Lyman E. Johnson, S. W .; John C. Ainsworth, J. W .; B. Tinsley, Treasurer; A. V. Put- man, Secretary ; J. W. Patterson, S. D .; E. M. Brooks, J. D .; and S. Haight, Tiler.
John B. Knight, still living in Keokuk, was the first member initiated. This was on July 8, 1846. The first lodge-room was in a brick house adjoining Ainsworth & Co.'s store, for which a rental of $7 per month was paid. In July, 1847, James Dougherty's building, on Johnson street, was rented for one year for $100.
The present membership of Eagle Lodge is 146. The present officers are as follows : John R. Carpenter, W. M .; David W. Swartz, S. W .; Solomon S. Vail, J. W .; Harry Fulton, Treasurer ; James L. Wilson, Secretary ; Charles F. Bassett, S. D .; and Nicholas Gill, J. D.
Past Masters of Eagle Lodge : Peter Kinleyside, Lyman E. Johnson, Harry Fulton, John W. Patterson, O. S. Conklin, S. E. Carey, Dr. R. H. Wyman. L. W. Huston, Joseph W. Stimson, George R. Parsons, S. L. Hagny, H. W. Rothert, S. W. Wakefield and James L. Wilson.
Hardin Lodge, No. 29 .- Instituted under dispensation December 15, 1851. The following were the charter members: J. M. Shelley, Dr. J. F. Sanford, D. W. Pressel, Lyman E. Johnson, C. Garber, Friend P. Cox, William Holli- day and A. Hamlin.
The first officers were: Dr. J. F. Sanford, W. M .; D. W. Pressel, S. W .: J. M. Shelley, J. W .; A. Hamlin, Treasurer; S. G. Armor, Secretary ; C. Garber, S. D .; W. P. Shartz, J. D., and William McKee, Tiler.
Present membership of the Lodge, 102. Present officers : L. Matless, W. M .; Henry Banks, S. W .; Frank Allyn, J. W .; E. H. Wickersham, Secretary ; George E. Kilbourne, Treasurer ; E. N. Agnew, S. D .; George Stobbard, J. D .; A. J. Smith, S. S .; H. Vogel, J. S .; William Lowrie, Tiler.
Gate City Chapter, No. 7 .- Instituted under dispensation granted Decem- ber 25, 1854, to the following named persons : George Russell, J. M. Shelley, John A. Graham, H. W. Beers, W. H. Wooster, C. Garber, D. W. Pres- sel, G. St. Clair Hussey, C. F. Conn, William Lamb, J. T. Arthur, O. S. Conk- lin, William T. Day and Dr. John F. Sanford.
The first officers were : George Russell, H. P .; J. M. Shelley, King; J. A. Graham, Scribe; G. St. Clair Hussey, C. of H .; O. S. Conklin, P. S .; D. W. Pressel, R. A. C .; J. K. Hornish, Third Veil ; J. F. Arthur, Second Veil; W. T. Day, First Vail ; J. F. Sanford, Secretary ; Thomas Heaight, Treasurer, and Thomas E. Bruce, Guard.
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