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Osceola. Dr. J. G. Boardman was elected president : Augustus Hul- sizer, W. II. Barrett. Revs. W. 11. Jordan and Ingraham and B. G. Hall, executive committee. Among the new vice presidents were M. Snare. 11. 1. Baldwin. Chas. Grivits, L. P. Hlimes and Geo. Rutherford. The fifteenth annual meeting was held in the Presbyterian Church. Elmira, in June, 1883. Dr. J. G. Boardman and B. G. Hall were reflected. A. P. Miller was added to the executive committee, and A. S. Thomp- son was chosen vice president for Osceola, the other vice presidents being reflected. The sixteenth meeting was held at Toulon, June. 1×84. when T. C. Thomas was elected president ; Dr. JJ. G. Boardman. secretary. and these with W. II. Barrett, JJ. W. Stevens and Goo. Rutherford, executive committee. The vice presidents were Revs. V. B. Ingraham, W. Il. Jordan and Messrs. T. F. Fate, Gus. Hulsizer, W. (. Henry. A. C. Himes, Henry F. Blood and Joseph Chase. In 1885 Rev. W. H. Jordan was elected president, and in June. 1586, the fol- lowing named officers were chosen: President. J. W. Stephens, vice presidents, A. S. Thompson. E. R. Boardman, W. Reagan. Morris Smith, Joseph Chase, Gus. Hulsizer, W. C. Henry and E. G. Hill : executive committee, Osceola and Elmira. T. F. Fate : Penn and Valley. W. H. Jordon : Toulon and Essex, D. G. Stouffer: West JJersey and Goshen, J. F. Rhodes; J. G. Boardman, secretary and treasurer. The seventeenth meeting was held in Inne, 1853, with Augustus Hulsizer. presiding. The officers elected were Rev. W. H. Jordan, president : Dr. J. G. Boardman, secretary; J. W. Stephens, H. F. Blood, A. S. Thomson. Gus Hulsizer, executive committee; Robert Thompson, W. Reagan, Wm. Simpson, J. F. Rhodes, Joseph Chase, C. R. Wilson, W. (. Henry and Robert Armstrong, vice presidents.
Cump-meeting Association, as noticed in the history of Wyoming, may be said to date back to 1840, when Elder Newton G. Berryman presided over a meeting held on or near the site of the present M. E. church at Wyoming. Revs. Enos Thompson and Wilson Pitner, as- sisted. The meeting at Fraker's Grove, near Lafayette, in 1842, over which A. E. Phelps presided, ontdone the first camp completely, while the third, held at Wyoming in 1543, surpassed its predecessors in number attending and spiritual work performed. Rev. lohn Morey presided. with Rev. H. J. Humphry, assisting. Year after year the Moth- odists and others carried on such meetings until a regular campmeeting association was formed. This band of gospel workers claim a com- plete organization, with groves, tents, buildings. ete. The meeting of August t1, 1886, continued for several days. During the session good board can be obtained on the camp ground at the following prices : One day, $1 ; two or more days. 25c. per meal ; for the week, $4; on Sunday, transient, 50c per meal.
Bible Society .- The Stark County Bible Society elected the fol- lowing officers for 1856-7: Norman Butler, president : C. M. John- son, vice-president ; T. B. Starrett, secretary: Davis Lowman. treas- urer; Rev. R. C. Dann and Rov. Mr. Ransom, executive committee ; Samuel Halsted. Benjamin Packer, Hopkins Shivers, local agents: Mrs. N. Butler and Miss Sarah Armstrong, collectors. The traveling agent reported that only thirteen families in the county were without
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Bibles. This orgamzation may be said to have lost its occupation since the organization of branch or township Bible societies.
Temperance League .- The Citizens Temperance League was organ- ized March 6. 1883, with president. A. P. Miller: vice-president. W. I. Barrett : secretary, B. F. Thompson : treasurer. P. P. Johnson ; execu- tive committee. Charles Girvits. West Jersey : A. G. Hammond, North Essex : Henry Blood. Valley : Pant Newton, Penn : A. F. Stickney. East Toulon : Win. A. Dewey, West Toulon; Wm. Nowlan, Goshen : Robt. Armstrong. Elmira: E. P. Wright. Osceola: J. M. Jones. Lafayette: D. Murchison, Toulon Village: B. G. Hall. Wyoming Vil- lage. and 11. 1. Baldwin, Bradford. The Stark County Temperance I'nion, of which J. il. Quinn was last president, preceded the Citizens I'nion. For the past forty years this temperance organization has been carried on under one form or another, and is as justly aggressive today as it was when the saloonkeeper and distiller and brewer placed the whisky shop within easy access of every citizen. How soon the question of regulating morals will be introduced into temperance work is uncertain. There are many crimes, not always bred of strong drink, against society and the home, which call for prompt denunciation and punishment.
I. C. T. C. The Women's Christian Temperance Union dates back to May. 1>>4. In this month Mrs. Smith. of Elmwood, district organizer, canvassed the county and formed three local societies, one at Wyoming, one at Toulon, and one at Lafayette. In February, 1585, a convention was held at Wyoming, when Miss Me Dowell organized a county society. In April. 1886. a branch was established at Stark Vil- lage, and on the Isth of that month the second convention. in which the four societies were represented, was held at Toulon. Mrs. R. A. Turner has been president since organization. Mrs. Harriet M. Blair treasurer, and Mrs. (. P. Mccorkle are the present officers.
Musical Society .- On August 25. 1965, the Stark County Musical Union elected A. J. Wright, president : D. J. Walker, secretary and treasurer : N. J. Smith, conductor: O. Whitaker, John F. Rhodes. S. M. F. Farrar. Theo. Nowell. P. V. Blanchard, and Miss Jennie Hay- wood. vice-presidents. For many years this excellent society has not existed as a county organization. but in its place a hundred musical societies have grown up. so that no church and very few homes are without their own musical circle. All such societies are referred to in the township and village histories, and this one, too, should find its place there, had it not something to do in founding many of our church choirs of the present time.
The Masonic and Odd Fellow societies and Grand Army Posts are treated in the chapters devoted to local history.
CHAPTER XH.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.
B BEGINNINGS of all mutual protection and progressive or- ganizations date back to the settlement of Elmira town- ship and neighborhood, when the pioneers banded them- selves together to protect their claims until their lands could be purchased and entered under the laws. Following came the anti-horse-thief and anti-gambling association, then the underground railroad conductors' association, and following a number of local agricultural organizations. In the fall of 1848 a meeting of famers was held in the old court house, which is now the Virginia House stable, to discuss means and ways for the organization of an agricul- tural society. Capt. Henry Butler delivered an address : Jonathan Mmer presided, with Henry Butler secretary. W. Il. Henderson was elected president : Lawrence Dorrance, vice-president: J. Emery. R. S .: Oliver Whitaker, secretary; Jonathan Hodgson, treasurer; J. Holgate, Sylvanus Moore and Cyril Ward, ex- ecutive committee. On November 25, 1843, the constitution was signed by the following named members: James Holgate, Syl. Moore, Samuel Camp, Dexter Wall. S. Strouss, Asher M Smith, Amza Newman. Joseph Newton, L. C. Avery, Nehemiah Merritt. John A. Williams, AAbner Camp, William F. Thomas, Henry Butler, L. Dorrance.
The Wyoming committee comprised Syl. Moore. William Thomas and James Holgate. The central committee was composed of Benjamin Turner, W. Miner and Cyril Ward. The Massillon commit- tee comprised Moses Boardman, Stephen Trickle and George Eckley. The Lafayette precinct committee comprised Joseph Emery, Barney Jackson and Henry McClenahan. The Osceola committee comprised James Moore. James Buswell and Henry Sturms. The committee on constitution comprised Charles H. Miner, Henry Butler and Oliver Whitaker: and the corresponding committe, Captain Butler, M. G. Brace, B. M. Jackson, W. Il. Henderson and Moses Boardman. For some years this association existed only in name.
Stark County Agricultural Society was organized October 29, 1853 and hold its first fair at Toulon, September 20, 1554. In 1568 the society purchased the fair grounds of twelve acres from the county for ST20, and the same year purchased three acres more for $330, Mr. Nowlan negotiating the purchases. The original members were : Henry Butler, senior, John B. Atherton, William W. Wright, s. Hugh Rhodes, Benjamin Turner, Thomas JJ. Henderson, Jacob Jami- son, B. F. Boughn, S. M. Curtis, Bushrod Tapp, Joseph Cox and
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William Chamberlin. 'General Thomas was appointed President ; Captain Butler, Wm. W. Wright, Jacob Jamison and David MeCance were appointed a committee on constitution. The first election under the constitution took place in November 1853, when Hugh Rhodes was chosen president, Martin Shallenberger and Jacob Jamison, vice- presidents, John R. Atherton, treasurer : David MeCance, recorder; and Captain Butler correspondent. The first fair was held in Septem- ber 1854, and annually since that time, with the exception of 1862. Mrs. Shallenberger in her reminiscences of that meeting says : " Some still remember that first fair in 1854, when the stock was quartered in Mr. Whitaker's yard, and exhibited on the public square, while the products of the dairy, kitchen and loom were disposed of within the old court house. the table containing a few fancy articles which a gentleman lifted up, one by one, that they might be seen by the assemblage." Many, if not all the members of the society of 1843 were interested in this fair.
The presidents of the society prior to 1863 were : Hugh Rhodes, Jacob Jamison, Isaae Spencer, Charles Myers, W. W. Wright and James Holgate. The old secretaries were David McCance, G. A. Clifford. Oliver Whitaker and W. II. Butler, with JJ. R. Atherton and Oliver Whitaker treasurers. The names of presidents elected since 1863 are given as follows : 1863. J. H. Quinn ; 1864, James M. Thomas : 1865, James II. Quinn ; 1866. Davis Lowman : 1867, William Nowlan : 1868, Oliver Whitaker ; 1869, Mark Blanchard; 1870, Joseph D. Rhodes; 1872. Mark Blanchard: 1873, IL. HI. Oliver; 1874, Henry Colwell; 1875, William Holgate; 1876, Winfield Scott : 1877, Dennis Mawbey : 1878. Joseph D. Rhodes: 1879. Sammel Wrigley; 1880, Andrew Oliver: 1881, James M. Rogers: 1882; Henry Colwell : 1884, Cyrus Boeock ; and 1855-7. Henry Colwell.
In 1863 Patrick Nowlan was elected secretary, served until 1872 when William Lowman was chosen, and he gave place to Il. M. Hall, in 1873. James Nowlan was elected in 1874, served until 1879, when B. J. Hall was elected secretary. In 1880 Charles Myers was chosen and he served until 1884, when JJames Nowlan, the present incumbent, was elected. The treasurers were O. Whitaker, 1863; William Low- man. 1864-71; Geo. W. Nichols, 1871 ; Sammel Burge, 1873-87. The corresponding secretaries since 1863 are named as follows: William Nowlan, P. M. Blair, Charles Myers, Il. M. Hall, Benjamin C. Follett. 1872, Willam Nowlan and James M. Thomas, in 1875-7.
The following were elected without opposition at the close of the fair of 1886; Henry Colwell. president : Perry Winn and C. W. Brown, vice presidents: W. W. Buswell, manager for Osceola and Wilson Triekle, manager for Essex. For secretary JJames Nowlan received 236 votes and R. A. Diekinson 61. Managers for Goshen. J. H. Quinn received 149 votes and Fred Rhodes, 144. Manager for Elmira, Thomas Oliver received 229 votes and II. H. Oliver 68. Edward Col- gan. Valley ; E. B. Lyon, Tonlon; A. J. Johnson, West Jersey ; and ('yrus Boeock, Penn, were reflected. The field officers of the fair of 1886 were: Col. William Jackson, Marshal: Cora Moore and Frank Berfield, Assistant Marshals; Oliver Whitaker, Judge of Election ;
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Will Nicholson and Joseph Nowlan, Clerks of Election : and E. B. Lyon, Superintendent of Grounds.
The question of removing the fair to Wyoming was mooted early in 1873, and in January. 1874, took a definite form. The history of this movement is best related in the following official documents :
WYOMING. ILL., January 22, 18;4.
We. the citizens of Wyoming. pledge ourselves that we will hant the lumber from the fair grounds at Toulon. free of expense. to the Stark County Agricultural Society, to Wyoming ; provided, the society locates their grounds at the latter place. Signed, James Holgate, F. F. Brock- way. W. F. Thomas. Alfred Castle, Perry Stancliff, Samuel Thomas, Isaac Thomas.
WYOMING, ILL., January 22. 1874.
I hereby guarantee the payment of $800 for the purpose of fencing and improving the Stark County Agricultural Fair Grounds: providing. the said grounds be located within the corporate limits of Wyoming, to be paid by .Inne next. Signed, Winfield Scott.
Torrox. January 24, 1874.
We. the undersigned, do hereby tender the Stark County Agricultural Society five acres of grounds, adjoining their present grounds on the cast. upon the following conditions : 1st. The fairs of said society shall be held on the present fair grounds and the grounds hereby tendered for ten years next ensuing. 20. The said society will give the right of way for a road across the north side of the present fair grounds. 3d. We do further ten- der to said society a bona-fide subscription of 200 days labor to improve and fence said fair grounds, upon the conditions above specified. Signed. B. C. Follett, F. Bacmeister. J. D. Rhodes.
On January 24, 1874, the propositions were discussed. Win. Now- lan's resolution to postpone consideration of the matter until after the fair, was lost. Win. Holgate moved that the Wyoming proposal be accepted, to which JJ. H. Anthony moved an amendment, providing for a vote on the two propositions by the agricultural board. This amendment was carried, and the vote on the question taken with the following result : For the proposition of Toulon, John H. Anthony. Samuel Burge. Henry M. Hall. Davis Lowman. A. S. Murchison, Henry HI. Oliver, and James II. Quinn. 7; for the proposition of Wyoming. Henry Colwell. A. J. Finley, Win. Holgate, Win. Nowlan, James M. Rogers and 1. W. Searls. 6. Thus Wyoming lost - and the old organi- zation of 1553 continues meeting on the ancient hunting grounds near Toulon.
The Wool Growers' Association of Stark County was permanently organized December 2, 1865, with J. H. Quinn. president. and Wm. Nowlan, secretary.
Central Agricultural Society .- The first meeting at Wyoming to form a second agricultural society was held October 23, 187S. A. G. llammond presided, with F. B. Wall, secretary. A committee to solicit subscriptions was then appointed. consisting of W. Scott, James Holgate, John Wrigley, Sam. Wrigley, Edward Colgan, A. J. Sheets. Monroe Cox, Win. Pettit, Sylvester Wilkinson, E. J. Griffin and JJ. M. Thomas. For over two years the subject was discussed, but not until
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1881 did plans for the establishment of fair grounds at Wyoming materializo.
A meeting to consider the question of establishing a society with headquarters at Wyoming was held February 5, 1881, on a call issued by Winfield Scott. W. II. Holgate, Samuel Wrigley and A. J. Sheets. This meeting was held with A. G. Hammond presiding, and T. B. Wall, secretary. A constitution was reported. adopted and signed by Benjamin Bunnell. John Monier, John Speers, James McKean, Geo. W. Scott, Winfield Scott. T. B. Wall, James M. Thomas, Sr., and Samuel Wrigley. The officers then elceted were Winfield Scott, president ; Samuel Wrigley, vice president ; T. B. Wall, secretary ; J. M. Thomas. recording secretary; G. W. Scott, treasurer. The society purchased from Mrs. M. A. Markham a tract of 393 acres at $100 per acre, in April, Iss1, and the work of building and laying out grounds, entered upon. All was ready in July, and on September 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1881. the first fair was held-premiums amounting to $4,000 being offered. the highest premium, $200. being won by James McKean's 2:283 trotters. The highest premium was $50 for short horns, won that year and since that time, with one exception. 1884, by W. Scott & Son. In October. 1851, the election resulted as follows: W. Scott, president ; A. W. King. secretary : R. Davison, vice president ; Wmn. Holgate. treasurer ; James McKean. Il. B. Harris. Samuel Wrigley, Geo. W. Scott, directors. At the fair of 1582. two $100 premiuns were offered. The officers elected in 1852 were Wm. Holgate, president ; R. Davison, vice president ; T. B. Wall, secretary; JJ. M. Thomas, corresponding secretary : A. W. King, treasurer: W. Scott. R. Davison, S. Wrigley. G. W. Scott and J. M. MeKean, directors. The elections of 1883 re- sulted as follows: R. Davison, president ; Samuel Wrigley. vice presi- dent ; A. G. Hammond, recording secretary ; J. M. Thomas. corres- ponding secretary ; Jacob Graves, treasurer; W. C. Decker, John Monier, C. W. Brown, Joseph Cox, directors. The officers for 1884 were Winfield Scott. president; JJohn Monier, vice president : C. P. Mc- C'orkle, treasurer : T. B. Wall. secretary: D. S. Burroughs. A. W. King, A. Il. Mallory. Michael Colgan. A. J. Sturms, directors. The officers of 1585-56 are Winfield Scott, president : JJohm Monier, vice president : C. P. MeCorkle, treasurer: W. A. Scott, corresponding and recording secretary. with John Monier. C. P. MeCorkle, J. A. Klock. Samuel Wrigley. W. A. Scott. Winfield Scott. T. J. Bocock. lames Mckean E. II. Mallory, directors. The society was incorpo- rated in October, 1879. Winfield Scott. W'm. Holgate, Samuel Wrig- ley and Andrew 1. Sheets are named in the certificate, and the capital stock placed at $10,000. The roll of members comprises 231 names of stockholders owning 1.000 shares valued at $10 each, all paid up. The debts of the society in 1855 amounted to $138, while against this. the grounds and buildings, counted among the finest in the State. stand to credit. This property is now declared free from taxation.
CHAPTER XIII.
PHYSICIANS OF THE COUNTY.
HIE first resident physician of Stark county was Dr. Elipha- let Ellsworth, who practiced here before the Black Hawk war, and made a permanent settlement here in 1-84. In 1835 a Dr. Pratt settled in Elmira township, and in 1837 came Dr. Thomas Hall, a man identified closely with the county up to the period of his death. He was followed by Dr. William Chamberlain. in 1840. When dysentery and typhoid prevailed here they traveled on horseback for nine weeks, making eighty miles one day and fifty-six the next. Six years later he and Dr. Chamberlain attended 1.500 patients and dispensed eighty ounces of quinine or Peruvian bark. Dr. E. R. Board- man. Dr. Bacmeister. Dr. Curtiss. Dr. King, and others, to whom full references are made in the township histories, must be classed as pioneer physicians. Many of the physicians who have practiced in this county are named in the following review : In May, Iss1. Dr. Baldwin sold his office. lot and practice at Toulon to Dr. Pratt, of Galva. Charles W. Wright, a medical student, died at Toulon. March 9, 1884. On June 28, 1883. Dr. L. L. Long moved to Toulon from Orion. Dr. Gilman. dentist. settled at Wyoming in July, 1870. Dr. Thomas Motter, who was found dead in his office at Wyoming, January 6, 1885 : practiced in that town for twelve years. Dr. J. G. Greene died in August, 1879. He was an old resident of Wyoming. Dr. A. Swen moved to Canton. McPherson county. Kansas, from Wyoming in March, 1886. Dr. Gar- field, who practiced at Toulon from 1544 to 1848, then residing in a log cabin opposite Benj. Turner's house, moved to LaSalle. III. Dr. C'urtiss, referred to in a former page, was one of the early physicians here. In 1865 S. S. Kaysbier began the practice of medicine here. lle is now in Kansas. Dr. W. J. Adams, dentist of Tonlon, was pro- hibited from using rubber dental plates in September, 1869. Dr. Kitchen, a dentist, was here in 1569. Dr. Dunn. brother of Rev. R. C. Dunn, who served in the 112th Ilinois Infantry, died at Chicago. Cook county, in March, 1869. Dr. Walter T. Hall opened his officeat Toulon in March, 1869, moved to Bradford in October of that year, but subsequently returned to Toulon. Dentist Hoover was at Tonlon in 1×80. Dr. Clark Demuth. of Plymouth, Mich., practiced at Toulon prior to 1881. Dr. I. C. Copestake. of Wyoming. practiced at West Jersey. and here also were the following named physicians: West. Barnett. Upshaw. Perry. W. A. Hampton, Claybangh. R. W. King. W. S. McClenahan. Dr. Lamper practiced some years at Bradford. In 1870 his son was appointed receiver for Washington Territory. Dr. Swazey, the organizer of the first base ball club in the county, was at
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Toulon about 1866. In the fall of 1860 one Dr. Hayden, of Wyoming. was taken to the timber by the people and there shaved, tarred. feathered and pelted with rotten eggs. His alleged assault on the danghter of the pastor of the M. E. Church there was the cause of this popular punishment. R. O. Phillips, of Cal .. practiced at Lafayetteupto the time of his emigration to the Pacific slope. Dr. D. F. Chamberlain. a member of the first company sent from Stark Co. to the war, is now proprietor of a hotel at Eagle Rock, Idaho. Dr. Joseph S. Kohn died at Dorrance, Stark Co., March 29, 1885. He was born in Union Co., Pa. in 1809, but for years practiced in Stark and Burean Counties. Dr Chas. E. Jordan, formerly principal of the Castleton school, is now a dentist at Red Cloud. Neb. Dr. Pinnev. of Kewanee. an old settler of the county, who visited Texas, served in the rebel army, returned in April, 1983, is now in Texas. His wife is a sister of Mrs. G. Laurence's mother. Dr. Gihnan G. Shaw, a graduate of the Eclectic College of Pennsylvania, settled in Lombardville about 1876. Dr. Emigh, of Bradford, left for Red Cloud, Neb., 1883. Dr. A. V. Forgay located at Bradford in February, 1880. Mrs. Dr. Henrietta K. Morris, formerly of Bradford. was elected vice-president of the State Eclectic Medical Association in May, 1856. Dr. Annie L. Green removed from Bradford to Princeton in August, 1876. Dr. James Culbertson studied medicine. but has not practiced here. Dr. Azra Lee. a surgeon in the war of 1812, connected with the village of Duncan. died in August, 1576. Dr. L. T. Sprague settled at Lafayette in the fall of 1851, and opened a drug store there. Dr. Thomas. a physician of Duncan in 1881. Dr. Daniel Tyrrell is an old settler here, but long since retired from active profes- sional work. Dr. S. T. C. Washburn died at Bradford in 1862, aged 40 years. Dr. Young was also here that year and here his wife died.
The official hst of physicians registered in Stark county since 1877 includes the following names: T. Bacmeister. Germany, December 4. 1877: 11. M. Ilall. now of Kansas: W. T. Hall, U. S., December 19, 1877: L. L. Long. Pennsylvania, April 5. 1844; A. W. Peterson, Ger- many. December 31, 1877. all registered at Toulon. The physicians registered at Wyoming since 1877 are named as follows: J. C. Cope- stake. England, February 1. 187; Harvey N. Fox, Ohio, January 9. 1650: D. W. Magee, Pennsylvania. December 20, 1881; N. B. Morse. U. S., February 6, 157>. In the other villages throughout the county are found the following named registered physicians (all natives of the Union, with the exceptions of J. Fieldhouse, of Camp Grove, a native of England): E. O. Boardman. Osceola: E. R. Boardman, Elmira: James G. Boardman. Bradford : W. W. Claybangh. West Jersey; John R. Crawford, Lafayette ; O. C. Darling, Bradford: S. A. Davison, Bradford: A. Seth Farrell. Duncan: I. Fieldhouse, Camp Grove: J. R. Holgate. Castleton; W. S. McClenahan. West Jersey : John B. MeDee. Camp Grove: S. T. W. Potter, Wada Petra: G. G. Shaw, Lombardville : Loyal T. Sprague. Dr. Nicholls. Lafayette. Many of the above named physicians are members of the Military Tract Medical Society, and a few of them are eminent in scientific circles.
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CHAPTER XIV.
RAILROADS.
HE Western Air Line Railroad, or a road over the route subsequently surveyed under this name, was mentioned as early as 1850; but not until 1853 did the idea take practical shape. In that year the Western Air Line Railroad Com- pany appealed to the county for aid, and this appeal was liberally responded to, as shown in the following abstract from a supreme court judgment. The case of Olaf John- son r. Stark county was tried before the State supreme court in April, 1860. From the facts, as understood by the cont, the following are given: On August 13, 1853, 534 votes were cast in favor of aiding the Western Air Line Railroad, while 141 votes were recorded against. In 1855. six per cent bonds were issued for $1,000 each, signed by W. W. Webster, chairman of the supervisors' board, and Miles A. Fuller, clerk, for which they received $50,000 stock in return. In the evidence of Johnson it is said that the Swedish, or Bishop Hill colony, graded sixteen miles of the road from Wyoming to Galva. It appeared fur- ther that Webster, at the election of railroad officers held at Lacon in 1856, cast the vote to which Stark county was entitled, and that in 1857 Isaac Thomas cast a representative vote. The judgment of the circuit court was reversed, and Stark county was ordered to pay both the principal and interest.
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