Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and history of Warren County, Volume II, Part 34

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913; Church, Charles A., 1857-
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 620

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Others of the early settlers of the '30s were Jacob L. Buzan, John Shehi, Roariff N. Allen, Hezekiah Davidson, J. C. Osborne, William F. Smith, Samuel Webster, William Laferty, Ivory Quinby, Thos. Ellet, A. C. Harding, E. S. Swinney, Azro Patterson, Daniel Klauberg, J. P. Hogue, William Gibson, William Cowan, Marsham Lucas, William Black, Robert Black, William H. Young, D. T. Denman, Morton McCarver, James L. Estes, Alpheus Russell, James M. Garrison, Mordecai McBride, E. T. Cabanis, Robert Ellifret, Ferdinand Van Dyke, W. B. Stapp, W. S. Berry, William Tracy, Jo- seph Crandall, Milo Holcomb, Max Haley, C. W. Vaughn, Anthony Rosenbum and Samuel Brazelton.

The first school in the town was opened in the summer of 1832 in the old court house, with Robert Black as teacher. It was a sub- scription school, and but one of its pupils remains in Monmouth, Mrs. Martha Kendall Jones. The next year the county commission- ers set apart the lot on which the Young Men's Christian Association building now stands for a public school lot, the deed to be made when the people of the district should pay $4 for

the lot. In 1835 a small school house was erected on the lot, and for many years a public school was maintained there. A more extended history of the schools is given elsewhere.

The first preaching according to some au- thorities was conducted by a Cumberland Pres- byterian minister and held in the home of Joel Hargrove. Others say it was in the home of Daniel McNeil. The first church organ- ized was the Presbyterian in 1837, and the first Sabbath school was started by Daniel McNeil in 1832.

There were two oak trees on the quarter section when the townsite was located and surveyed. They were each about six inches in diameter. One of them stood near the res- idence of E. S. Swinney on South Fourth street, but the location of the other is not now remembered. Both have been gone for a long time. Daniel McNeil planted the first trees after the location of the town, one a black locust with roots, and the other two Lombardy poplar sticks which took root and grew to be trees.

Very few of the early landmarks of the town now remain. Among the old buildings are a small frame cottage in the rear of the Joel block that once stood on the square where Joel's store now is. It is still inhabited, but ought not to be. Two other buildings stand on North Main street just north of the Douglass livery barn, the date of whose building is be- yond the remembrance of "the oldest inhab- itant." Garrison's inn, built in 1833, and used in recent years as a blacksmith shop, was torn down in 1898 to make room for Dr. J. C. Kil- gore's residence and office. Other buildings re- cently removed were two that stood in the northwest corner of the square which were torn down in 1890 to make way for the Patton block. The oldest buildings now standing on the square are Speakman's candy kitchen and the McQuiston building, both in the southwest corner.

The second brick building erected on the square (the old brick court house being the first) was the Thompson block, which still stands on the west side and just south of Broadway. It was built in 1846. Dates of some of the other buildings now standing about the square are: Rankin building, now occu- pied by Spriggs & Sons, 1854; Claycomb ( Pills- bury) block, 1855; Emerich House (now Hotel Leader) 1854; George Babcock residence, 1857;

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Hardin building, now occupied by Van Valken- burg & Sons and Hogue & Jamieson, 1865; Woods block, on the west side of Main street from the square south, 1865; Wallace building, occupied by Mccullough Hardware and Imple- ment Co., 1866; Library block, 1870; Sol Schloss & Co. building, 1871; Monmouth Na- tional Bank building, 1874; Second National Bank building, 1873; Cornell building, 1873; Kingsbury building, occupied by McClung Bros., 1875; Arlington Hotel, originally the City Boarding House, 1868; Maple City Cigar factory block, 1868; Daily Review block, 1882; the Patton block, 1891; the Quinby block, 1891; the Martin block, occupied by Schussler and Scott Bros. & Co., 1891; the Brown block, occu- pied by E. B. Colwell & Co., 1893; the H. B. Smith block, occupied by J. C. Dunbar, 1896; the Douglas livery barn, 1899; the City hall, 1868, remodeled in 1900.

CHAPTER XXII.

Organization of Monmouth as a Village- Twenty Voters Take Part in the First Elee- tion of Trustees-The First Ordinance- Organization as a City Under the Charter. of 1852 and Under the General Law in 1882-List of the Mayors.

Until 1836 Monmouth had no corporate exist- ence. Late in that year, in accordance with a general demand for a town government, a public meeting was called to be held at the school house November 29. Ten days prior notices had been posted in different public places as required by law, and twenty-three voters assembled at the time specified. Elijah Davidson was chosen chairman of the meeting and Harry Jennings clerk. The proposition to incorporate the town of Monmouth received twenty-three affirmative votes, none opposing. Those who attended the meeting were:

William F. Smith, Alexander Ritchie,

Mordecai McBride,

Yost Huffman,

G. W. Vaughan,

Samuel Brazelton,

Alamon Hoag, James McCallon,

Thomas Butler,

Thos. C. Hogue,

Daniel McNeil, Jr.,

B. F. Berry, Jas. P. Hogue, F. Vandyke, Andrew Robison,

George H. Wright, Stephen T. McBride, Peter I. Dodge,

Elijah Davidson.

The first board of trustees of the town was elected December 5, 1838. The election was viva voce, and the records show the names of the twenty voters present, and for which of the nineteen candidates each expressed his preference. At this election Daniel McNeil, Jr., Elijah Davidson, James McCallon, Alex- ander Ritchie and George H. Wright were chosen. The number of votes received by each candidate was as follows:

Elijah Davidson 16

Daniel McNeil, Jr. 18

James McCallon 13

Alexander Hoag 6

Alexander Ritchie 15

George H. Wright

George W. Vaughan 1

Wyatt S. Berry 2

Joseph Crandall 1

B. Hoacheniter 4

L. S. Olmsted.

Yost Huffman 2

Samuel P. Brazelton

James P. Hogue

Andrew Robison 1

Mordecai McBride 1

R. W. McMillan

J. M. Garrison 2

H. B. Bruce 2.

The successful candidates were sworn in by Gilbert Turnbull, justice of the peace, and at once entered on the duties of their office.

The first meeting of the board was held Dec. 24, 1836, at the residence of Alexander Ritchie. All the members were present. Dan- iel McNeil, Jr., was elected president of the board; Harry Jennings, clerk, and also treas- urer; Yost Huffman, collector and constable; and F. G. Kendall, assessor.

The first ordinance was passed Dec. 26 at a meeting at James McCallon's. It was as fol- lows:

Be it ordained by the President and Trus- tees of the town of Monmouth, in council con- vened :

Frank Kendall, Harry Jennings, R. W. McMillan, I. I. Caldwell,

Mr Hanna

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That the corporation and jurisdiction of the offices of the town of Monmouth be one-half mile east, one-half mile west, one-half mile south, and one-half mile north from the center of the public square, containing one mile square.

April 11, 1839, another ordinance was passed making the town comprise only the quarter section on which it was originally located- the southwest quarter of Section 29. April 24, 1841, the limits and jurisdiction of the town were extended to include one-half mile in each direction from the public square. Two years later the town was divided into three wards, the first ward being west of Main street; the second between Main and Water (now Second) streets; and the third east of Water street.

The first ordinance with a penalty was also passed December 26, 1836. It forbade gambling, keeping tippling house or grocery without a license, keeping tippling house open on the Sab- bath day; being drunk or intoxicated; making loud or unnatural noises between 9 p. m. and 4 a. m .; riot, assault and battery; discharging a gun or pistol or other firearm, "except by ac- cident, or on a muster day, and then by order of the commanding officer;" galloping or rac- ing a horse along the streets, etc.

The first liquor license law in Monmouth was passed by the Board of Trustees December 31, 1836. It ordained:

"That any person wishing to keep a grocery or tippling shop within the limit of the corpor- ation of Monmouth, shall pay into the town treasury the sum of twelve dollars, and upon presenting the treasurer's receipt for the same to the president and trustees shall obtain a license to keep said grocery for the term of one year from and after the date of such li- cense."

The first city order was issued April 9, 1838, to the firm of Loan & Jennings. The amount was $2.25, but the records do not show what the payment was for.

The trustees on April 18, 1839, ordered the construction of a set of ladders and hooks for use in case of fire, Yost Huffman being given the contract for making them.

The report of the assessor June 5, 1840, showed a total valuation of real estate in the town of $75,030, and the tax on the same $187.8216.

Hord & Smith were given permission March 9, 1841, to place a hay scale in the northeast

part of the square, subject to any rules or regu- lations the council might afterward see fit to adopt. Some time later the town, together with Samuel Wood, James Thompson, E. C. Babcock, Samuel Claycomb and E. A. Paine, put in a Fairbanks scale son the square, the city owning five-ninths of the same. The total cost was $225. James Thompson was appointed the first weighmaster, and allowed 33 per cent. of his receipts. He was authorized to charge ten cents for each draft on the scales.

MONMOUTH UNDER THE CHARTER.

Monmouth was organized as a city in 1852. Previous to that year it had been only a town, but it had grown to such a size that a more formal organization, and one which would per- mit of greater powers and privileges, was needed. Consequently a movement was set on foot which resulted in the passage of a special charter by the Legislature, approved June 21, 1852.

Section 1 of this charter provided "that the inhabitants of the town of Monmouth, in the county of Warren and State of Illinois, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of 'The City of Monmouth,' and by that name shall have per- petual succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure." Section 2 fixed the boundaries at one mile from the center of the public square in each direction, making the city cover four square miles of territory. Section 3 directed the President and Trustees of the town to divide the town into two wards, as nearly equal in population as practicable. Other sections re- lated to the officers of the city, and their duties and powers. The charter also provided that an election be

held on the first Monday in September, 1852, to vote for or against the adoption of the charter. If adopted, it was to take immediate effect as law.

An amendment to the charter was passed and approved February 16, 1859, curtailing the limits of the city to all of Section 29, the east half of Section 30, the northeast quarter of Section 31, and the north half of Section 32. Another amendment changing the manner of the management of the public schools was ap- proved February 21, 1863; and another, in 1865, gave to the council the power to "tax, regulate, prohibit and suppress tippling houses, dram

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shops, gambling houses, bawdy houses and other disorderly houses, within the city and within one mile thereof." It, however, forbade the licensing of any house or place for the sale or giving away of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.

The election to vote upon the charter was held as provided, on September 6, 1852, 139 votes being cast in favor of its adoption and only one against. This made Monmouth a city, and its limits were extended to include one mile in each direction from the public square- four square miles in all. October 4, 1852, the trustees divided the city into two wards, as re- quired by Section 3 of the charter. The first ward composed all that part of the city east of East street (now First street), and the sec- ond ward all west of that street. The voting place in the First ward was at the school house, and the voting place in the Second ward at the court house.

The election of officers was held October 23. Samuel Wood was chosen mayor; E. S. Swinney and William E. Rodgers, aldermen in the first ward; and N. A. Rankin, alderman in the sec- ond ward; James Thompson and Elijah Dav- idson being tied for the other aldermanship in the second.

The first session of the city council under the charter was held November 3. The first action was to appoint James G. Madden as clerk pro tem. An ordinance was then presented and adopted providing for the settling of tie votes on mayor or aldermen by drawing from a hat or box. At the next meeting the tie in the Second ward was settled and James Thompson declared elected. This first council elected B. F. Corwin, clerk; James Thompson, treasurer; George W. Savage, city attorney, and James Finney, city marshal.

The first city order issued under the charter was for $20. Armsby & Patterson got it for one- half cost of two and one-half rods of sidewalk. The first tax levied under the charter, in 1853, was at the rate of three-eighths of one per cent. on all the real and personal property in the city subject to taxation.

An early action of the city council pertained to the city printing. December 6, 1852, the printing was let at public auction at the court house, to Ashton & Hosea of the Monmouth Democrat, that firm agreeing to pay the city one-half cent per thousand for the privilege of doing it.

MONMOUTH UNDER THE GENERAL LAW.

Along in 1881 and the early part of 1882, and in fact before those dates the question of abandoning the special charter and reorganiz- ing under the general law was agitated. Feb- ruary 22, 1882, a petition, signed by 180 legal voters, was presented to the council asking that the matter be submitted to a vote of the people at the next municipal election, April 3. The petition was granted, and the result of the election was in favor of reorganization, the vote being 566 yeas and 541 nays.

On the same day, I. P. Pillsbury was elected mayor; A. P. Hutchinson, police magistrate; W. A. Robison and W. C. Norcross, aldermen from the East ward; N. S. Woodward and H. H. Pattee, aldermen from the West ward; and C. A. Dunn and C. W. Gilbert, aldermen from the South ward. After the canvassing of the vote April 4, the city council called a special elec- tion for May 8 to elect a mayor, ten aldermen, a clerk, a treasurer, an attorney and a police magistrate.

Soon after this, in a similar case at Spring- field, Judge Lane rendered a decision that the election of a new set of officers was unneces- sary, but that the officers elected at the time reorganization was voted on, were entitled to take their seats and hold office until the next regular election in 1883. Consequently, the council at its meeting May 1, revoked the call for the special election, then adjourned and gave way to the council elected April 3.

Many thought this latter notice illegal, and Mayor-elect Pillsbury and Aldermen-elect Nor- cross and Robison refused to qualify. The other aldermen-elect, Messrs. Dunn, Woodward, Pattee, and Gilbert, took their seats, however, and proceeded to transact the business of the city. Alderman Dunn was elected mayor pro tem, and a special election was called for June 5 to fill the vacancies. Fred E. Harding was elected city treasurer; W. A. Grant, clerk; Silas W. Porter, city attorney; O. D. Wilcox, city marshal, and T. B. Keedle, sexton.

Meanwhile the temperance party had nomi- nated candidates for the special election called for May 8, and although the call for it had been revoked, they held an election anyhow. They selected their own judges and clerks of election, and cast their ballots. Six hundred and fifty-three votes were polled, the candidates

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meeting with no opposition whatever. They were:

Mayor-I. P. Pillsbury.

Clerk-W. A. Grant.

City Attorney-Wm. C. Norcross.

City Treasurer-W. B. Young. Aldermen-

D. Graham, J. R. Hanna,

Robert G. Horne,

T. O. Hamsher,

T. P. Perry, J. C. Kilgore,

W. A. Robison, L. Roadhouse,

J. B. Sofield, J. C. Robison.

The next day, on petition of the gentlemen who claimed to have been elected to the coun- cil at this special election, Judge Glenn is- sued an injunction, which was served the same evening, restraining the acting council from further proceedings. The "council of ten" then took possession under the injunction and were sworn by I. M. Kirkpatrick. Present, David Graham, W. A. Robison, Robert G. Horne, J. B. Sofield, J. Ross Hanna, J. C. Kil- gore, T. O. Hamsher and T. r. Perry. David Graham was chosen mayor pro tem. The re- turns of the election of May 8 were canvassed and the result declared. I. P. Pillsbury then presented his official bond as mayor, which was approved, and he assumed the duties of the office. J. W. Smith .was appointed city mar- shal. May 16 the injunction was dissolved, and the bill dismissed. It was decided to take the case at once to the Supreme Court of the state for decision on a writ of quo warranto, the "Big Four" being left in charge of the city affairs in the meantime. A pro forma decision was given in the lower court, and in order to gain time the case was taken at once to the Supreme Court, which docketed it and set it for hearing at the September term. The "Big Four" resumed business at the old stand May 18, and on June 5 the special election was held as ordered, I. P. Pillsbury being again elected mayor, and W. A. Robison and J. B. Sofield aldermen for the East ward. They qualified June 5. In October the Supreme Court dismissed the case before it, on the ground that it had not come through the Appellate Court, as it should have done, and the matter was dropped for good.

The mayors of the city of Monmouth from its incorporation to the present time have been as follows:

Under the old charter-Samuel Wood, 1852;

George W. Palmer, 1853; E. S. Swinney, 1854; Robert Grant, 1855; W. H. Young, 1856; I. Quinby, 1857; J. H. Holt, 1858; N. A. Rankin, 1859-1860; H. G. Harding, 1861-1862; Samuel Wood, 1863; William Cowan, 1864-1865; George Babcock, 1866; John M. Turnbull, 1867; Samuel Wood, 1868; J. A. Templeton, 1869; S. Douglas, 1870; W. B. Boyd, 1871; W. M. Buffington, 1872; D. Babcock, 1873; J. H. Holt, 1874-1875; J. L. Dryden, 1876; J. H. Holt, 1877; J. M. Mc- Cutcheon, 1878-1879; William Hanna, 1880-1881. Under the general law-Ithamar P. Pills- bury, 1882; Henry Burlingim, 1883-1884; W. B. Young, 1885-1886; Ithamar P. Pillsbury, 1887-1888: Henry Burlingim, 1889-1890; War- ren E. Taylor, 1891-1892; William B. Wolf, 1893- 1894; Reimer Lahann, 1895-1896; Frank L. Hall, 1897-1898; William A. Sawyer, 1899-1903.

THE CITY SEAL.

The seal of the City of Monmouth is in cir- cular form, with the words "City of Monmouth" on the outer circle, and the words "Warren County" and a flying eagle in the center. It was adopted by ordinance passed May 2, 1857.

CHAPTER XXIII.

Matters Pertaining to the City-Fire Depart- ment. City Waterworks, Parks. City Build- ings, Sewerage System. Street Paving. Po- lice Department, Additions to the City, Telephone Exchanges, Electric Railways, Population, Etc.

The Monmouth Fire Department has few su- periors among the volunteer fire-fighting or- ganizations of the country. As at present con- stituted it includes Engine Company No. 1, the Rough and Ready Hook and Ladder Com- pany, Hose Company No. 1, and Hose Company No. 3. Most of the apparatus is housed on the first floor of the City Hall on First avenue east of Main street, including the chemical en- gine of which George Claycomb is custodian; a hook and ladder wagon of which T. O. Wil- cox is custodian; and a hose wagon of which

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W. H. Sloan is custodian. Stables in the rear accommodate the three teams belonging to these wagons. At the Hose House No. 3, in the southwest part of the city, in the factory dis- trict, is a hose cart manned by Hose Company No. 3. The "William Hanna" fire engine, now little used, is kept at the city scale building on North First street and Archer avenue.

The department had its beginnings in the purchase of a small fire engine by the city in November, 1855. It was made by Cowan & Co., of Seneca Falls, N. Y., and cost $200 at the shop. The purchase of this engine was fol- lowed December 26, 1855, by the organiza- tion of the Monmouth Fire Company. A con- stitution and by-laws were adopted, and the following officers elected: Carlos Gamble, cap- tain; Joseph A. Boynton, first foreman; Orrin Gamble, second foreman; Nathan Carr, Jr., treasurer; W. M. Gregg, clerk. The records of this company have been lost and the names of the other original members can not now be learned.

A fire during the night of January 14, 1868, which destroyed a row of business buildings extending along Broadway from First street to the alley east of the present Lahann block, had the effect of waking the city up to the need of a better fire department and more efficient apparatus. At a meeting a few days later the council appointed Joseph A. Boynton chief fire marshal, Samuel Claycomb first assistant, and W. A. Robison, second assistant. It also au- thorized the fire marshal to organize a hook and ladder company of thirty men as early as practicable, and ordered the sale of city bonds to the amount of $10,000 for the purpose of purchasing a new fire engine. The mayor was authorized to purchase the engine, and se- cured one, a combination of a Holly pump and rotary engine, with Clapp circulating boiler, and manufactured by H. C. Silsby & Co., Seneca Falls, N. Y. A public trial of the ma- chine was held May 21, 1868, and was very sat- isfactory. Less than a week later Richard Per- rott lost his life through this engine. The machine was being drawn to a fire in the south part of town, and Mr. Perrott attempted to get hold of the rope by which it was being hauled, but stumbled and fell, and one of the wheels passed over his chest. He died within a couple of hours.

The Rough and Ready Hook and Ladder Company was organized by Fire Marshal Boyn-

ton, February 22, 1868, in pursuance of instruc- tions given him by the council. The officers elected were: John E. Alexander, foreman; William A. Grant, assistant; T. H. Lee, secre- tary; Charles Brown, treasurer. The constitu- tion and by-laws were adopted a week later and the company fully organized. Among the names of the early members of the company were: John E. Alexander, Wm. A. Grant, D. S. Hass, Jacob Krollman, Charles E. Wolfe, Charles Brown, T. H. Lee, D. D. Randall, Wm. Milliken, M. H. Holliday, C. D. Shoemaker, M. L. Standsbury, D. Williams, S. Burns, Jas. Tarbell, E. E. Webb, E. B. Miles, L. D. Robin- son, R. H. Randall, J. W. Berger, Hampton Mackey, R. Wagstaff, W. B. Young, Chias. Smilie, J. B. Weir, J. M. Campbell, A. W. Fluke, J. A. Montgomery, G. L. Mitchell, W. C. Shoemaker. The Rough and Ready Com- pany won quite a reputation throughout the state in its early history, and of later years it has been equally well known. In 1876 it won the championship at the first annual meeting of the Illinois State Firemen's Association at Decatur; won it again at Galesburg in 1877, and a third time at Chicago in 1878. By these three victories the company secured a solid silver belt, which it still owns and cherishes. The company also won first prize and belt and second national prize, a lantern, at the Na- tional Firemen's tournament at Chicago in 1878. A team from this company and the Alerts, under the name of the "Nip and Tucks," won another championship and belt at the state tournament at Quincy in 1881, and at Monmouth in 1880. They also won a fine lantern and a billiard table at Quincy. In 1894 the Rough and Ready team won the champion- ship at Edwardsville, took it again at Decatur in 1895, but lost the third of the series at Naperville in 1896. The company now consists of sixteen members, with the following officers: E. L. Hamilton, foreman; John McMillan, first assistant; George Dickey, second assistant; T. O. Wilcox, secretary. The hook and ladder wagon to which this company is assigned was purchased from the Wayne Manufacturing Company, of Decatur, in 1899 and cost $1000.

February 27, 1868, five days after the pre- liminary organization of the Rough and Ready Hook and Ladder Company, the Little Giant Fire Engine Company No. 1 was organized. A committee appointed at a previous meeting presented a constitution which was adopted,

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and the following officers were elected: Orrin W. Gamble, foreman; L. C. Nott, first assist- ant; D. C. Brady, second assistant; Hugh Henry, chief engineer; Geo. H. Nye, first as- sistant; A. R. Cannon, second assistant; Hugh Robison, third assistant; L. S. Stansburg, fore- man Hose Company No. 1; B. H. Smith, first assistant; Thos. Shoop, second assistant; W. C. Bake, foreman Hose Company No. 2; F. A. Allen, first assistant; J. A. Gettemy, second as- sistant; A. H. Swain, secretary; John Porter, treasurer; G. A. Scott, George R. Barbour, rep- resentatives. In addition to these the following were charter members of the company: Wy- man Perry, T. H. Alexander, N. A. Scott, H. W. Dredge, W. H. Armsby, Isaac Leeper, J. W. Berger, R. M. Campbell, J. S. Spriggs, R. H. Greenleaf, E. C. Johnson, D. D. Earp, W. A. Cannon, B. H. Neff, Jonathan Mackey, Dennis Streeter, Geo. H. Dennis, A. J. Patterson, S. A. Gibson, Wm. Cecil, Steve Gamble, Jas. W. Beard, A. R. Kingsbury, J. Sullivan, Chas. Jamison, George Butler, Lem. M. Lusk, John T. Reichard, I. A. Palmer. At a meeting of the company July 8, 1868, the name was changed by unanimous consent to the Monmouth Engine Co. No. 1, and by this name has since been known. Of the original company only L. M. Lusk and F. A. Allen remain in active connec- tion with the company. No new members have been enrolled since 1890, and the company itself has not taken an active part in fire fighting since the establishment of the present water- works plant and the relegation of the steam fire engine to the shelf. The present roll bears the names of fifteen active and eleven honorary members. The company was incorporated un- der the laws of the State of Illinois November 16, 1892. L. M. Lusk is foreman; Win Scott first assistant; Sam S. Clark, second assistant; O. D. Wilcox, treasurer; Eugene W. Stevens, secretary; N. S. Woodward, steward.

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Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and history of Warren County, Volume II, Part 34

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913; Church, Charles A., 1857- Publication date: 1916 Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 620

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913; Church, Charles A., 1857-
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 620