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The payment of dues on a series of stock shall commence at the date of issue of the same.
Each Stockholder, for each and every share of stock held in this corporation, shall be entitled to receive a loan of not more than one hundred dollars; such loan to be disposed of to the highest bidder for priority of right, and shall pay one-half per cent. per month inter- est upon the whole loan, including the premium.
The repayment of such loan to the Association shall be secured by bond and mortgage on real estate, which shall be clear of all incumbrance (except in case this Association shall hold the previous incumbrance) together with a policy of fire insurance, if upon improved property, assigned to the Association ; such security to be approved by the Board of Directors.
Officers and Directors are as follows:
President-Chas. W. Keyes. Secretary-C. H. Morton. Treasurer-Geo. F. Jasper.
Vice-President-F. W. Menke.
Attorney-Rufus L. Miller.
Directors.
H. A. Williamson, W. B. Larkworthy, J. M. Smith, W. S. Flack,
Peter H. Meyer, Ceylon Smith,
C. H. Morton,
Thomas Austin, F. W. Menke, Jas. Inghram,
Herman Moecker.
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The last report shows the receipts and disbursements of the association to be as follows:
To Dues received.
$107,206 50
" Interest.
17,439 81
Fines.
880 40
" Transfers. 195 30
" Premiums.
58,071 80
" Repaid Loans.
38,700 00
" Rents.
46 00
" Sale of Real Estate ..
2,905 00
By Loans to Stockholders.
$165,600 00
Stock withdrawn ..
32,211 00
" Interest on Stock withdrawn.
5,949 96
" Premium on Repaid Loans.
12.510 65
" Cost of Real Estate.
5,204 47
" Expenses
3,162 20
" Taxes on Real Estate.
92 63
Cost of Safe ..
131 30
" Balance-Cash on hand.
582 60
$225,444 81 $225,444 81
GAS-ITS INTRODUCTION INTO QUINCY.
Those who daily receive the benefits of illuminating gas no doubt will be interested in an account of its introduction. Like other new enter- prises of equal importance it was long talked of and agitated before active measures were adopted for its introduction. In the year 1853, a company was organized, and a contract entered into by the corporators, John Wood, Lucius Kingman, Samuel Holmes, Thos. Redmond, Jas. D. Morgan, Samuel W. Rogers, Thos. C. King, Robert S. Benneson and Win. H. Car- lin with Messrs. A. B. Chambers and Thos. Pratt of St. Louis, who in con- sideration of $75,000 of the stock of the Quincy Gas Light and Coke company agreed to purchase suitable grounds, furnish all the materials and construct works of sufficient capacity to manufacture and store 55,000 cubic feet of gas daily, lay 32 miles of street mains, provide the necessary meters and erect 50 public lamps. At the same time a contract for fifty additional lamps, and the right of way in laying street mains was entered into. On the first of December, 1856, the contract for the erection of the works hav- ing been completed, and Messrs. Chambers & Pratt having purchased and erected 14 more lamps and furnished meters, seven pipes and other materials not specified in the contract, they were allowed an additional $5,100 in stock for extra labor and material. The whole stock of the company thus amounted to $80,100, and it commenced operating with one bench of three retorts, 64 public lamps and 139 private consumers. With the growth of the city the demand for gas has rapidly increased. and the company is now working eight benches of three retorts each to their full capacity, lighting 334 public lamps, supplying 750 private consumers, and has over eight and one-half miles of street mains. In 1867 a new gas holder, 60x22 feet, with a capacity of 62,000 cubic feet, was completed at a cost of $21,516.58. Since then the retort capacity of the company has been doubled, consisting of twelve benches of three retorts each, the old purifiers five feet six inches square, have been replaced by new ones ten by fourteen feet, and the old center seal of six inch capacity has been replaced with a new seal of ten inch capacity. The six inch street mains have been replaced by ten inch pipe, and the change has added materially to the pressure and flow of gas.
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The last mentioned improvements have cost the company $20,729.14, most of the work being done by Quincy mechanics.
The improvements at the works this year have been the introduction of new ten inch condensers with an exhauster and engine, at a combined cost of $6,610.76. The old gas holder was also repaired at a cost of $1,153, and is to be replaced the coming year by a new and improved one. Other improve- ments during the same period, including building, &c .. aggregated $1,- 741.10.
The annual consumption of coal at the gas works is 77,763 bushels, and of lime 2,957 bushels. The pay roll proper amounts annually to $14,- 000. This company has now been in operation thirteen years, and although a majority of the stock is held in St. Louis, it has always been managed by Quincy men, who, while they have an interest in the pecuniary success of the company, have still a larger interest in operating it to the satisfaction of our citizens. Thus, while they have acted in good faith as directors and managers, they have never failed to add such improvements as seemed in their judgment demanded by the city and their patrons.
In this particular, therefore Quincy, has a decided advantage. The capital stock now amounts to $101,550.
The enterprise exhibited by the company the past two years in laying new street mains and increasing its manufacturing capacity, is an earnest that they are determined to keep pace with the wants of the community, and supply our citizens with an article of gas not excelled any where. In this connection it is proper to state . that there has been decided improve- ment.
The present officers of the company are: President, Jas. D. Morgan ; secretary. H. R. Corley; treasurer, C. M. Pomroy; superintendent, August W. Littleton.
CEMETERIES.
The Hebrew cemetery is in the northwestern part of the city, near what is known as Sunset Hill.
The Roman Catholic cemeteries are located. on Maine near the corner of Eighteenth; on Broadway just east of Thirtieth, and on State east of Twentieth.
The Woodland cemetery is located in the southern portion of the city, and is bounded by Jefferson street on the north, and Van Buren on the south, and by Fifth street on the east and the river bank on the west. The city hospital occupies a position in the southeastern portion of the cemetery grounds.
Woodland cemetery is beyond question one of the most beautiful in the country. Its situation on the bluff is such that from it is secured one of the finest and most extended views to be found on the Mississippi river. Fronting on Fifth street is the tomb of Timothy Rogers, Esq., of Quincy. The work of building was in progress for more than a year, and was com- pleted about twelve months ago. During the past season thousands of persons have visited the cemetery for the purpose of viewing this magnifi- cent work of art.
Mr. Rogers determined, several years ago, to erect the tomb, his inten- tion being to make it the finest in the United States, and equal to any in the world. The vault is located on Fifth street fronting Adams, one of the prettiest spots in the cemetery. The lot fronts forty feet on Fifth and
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runs back sixty feet. The front of the tomb is of Vermont marble, and including the tower is forty feet in height. The front is from four to six feet in thickness, the blocks being handsomely carved and ornamented with wreaths and other tasteful and appropriate designs. The tower which sur- mounts the front contains on its four sides a bust of Mr. Rogers, and is a handsome piece of work. The design is by the well-known architect, Mr. Bunting, of Indianapolis. Over the door the name of "T. Rogers" is cut in the marble, and above the name appear the figures 1876, cut and bronzed.
The vanlt itself is of brick, laid in imported English cement, which was also used in the marble front. An idea of its dimensions may be obtained when it is stated that 112,000 bricks were used in its construc- tion. The brick wall is covered with soil, and then sodded. The entrance is through massive double doors of solid marble. Inside the marble doors are doors made of iron slats, which are used when the heavy doors are left open. The floor of the corridor is of marble blocks, with a black border running around the side and ends. On each side of the corridor, running the whole distance of the tomb, are the vaults or places for caskets, which number 112. The caskets rest on a marble slab, and marble slabs are placed in the openings after the caskets are deposited, and cemented. The arrangements for ventilation are such that the tomb will always be free from foul air. A hollow wall connects with each vault and carries the air into a ventilating flue which runs above the tomb. As the vaults, as fast as occupied, are sealed np, there never can be any bad air in the corridor. Drilled holes through the marble doors admit fresh air when they are closed.
The interior is so arranged that in the future, if it should become necessary, 100 vaults can be added in the corridor, commencing at the west end. Mr. Rogers intends it for a family tomb, and expecting it to be used for hundreds of years, so designed it that a century hence vaults for his descendants may be erected there. It has been visited by citizens from all portions of the country, who pronounce it far superior to any work of the kind they ever saw. It is perfectly safe to say that it is by far the largest, finest and most costly ever built in America. As stated above, the marble was obtained from Vermont, and was dressed and finished ready to be placed in position before it was shipped. The marble filled twelve freight cars, each carrying 20,000 pounds.
The entire work cost $20,000. Mr. Rogers is entirely satisfied with it, and takes pride in showing to his friends the marble temple, prepared by him for the resting place of his family and descendants. His enterprise has given Quincy a tomb finer, costlier and grander than can be found in any other city in the United States, and is deserving of high praise. Strangers in the city will find that a sight of the tomb of Mr. Rogers will repay them for a visit to the cemetery.
The Soldiers' cemetery is located the same as Woodland; a portion of the latter's ground being set apart for this purpose.
James Richardson. Fr- BEVERLY TOWNSHIP
BENJAMIN KINNEY DECEASED) BEVERLY TOWNSHIP
John & Robertson BEVERLY TOWNSHIP
Peter Vander Waal ELLINGTON TOWNSHIP
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TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.
CHAPTER XVII.
BEVERLY - BURTON - CAMP POINT - CLAYTON -- CONCORD - COLUMBUS- ELLINGTON - FALL CREEK - GILMER - HOUSTON --- HONEY CREEK- KEENE-LIMA-LIBERTY -- MENDON-MELROSE-Mc KEE-NORTHEAST -PAYSON-RICHFIELD-URSA.
BEVERLY TOWNSHIP.
The township of Beverly is situated thirty-one miles southeast of the city of Quincy, in the southeast corner of Adams county, the county of Pike lying south and east. The first permanent settlement was made by Azeriah Mayfield, in 1832, on section 21, and was the only settlement until 1834, when James Sykes, Jr. (now deceased) and John B. Robertson, with their families, from New York, settled here, and in 1835 James Rich- ardson, Sr., Samuel Cutter, Wm. Raymond, Hon. Archibald Williams, Jacob Stafford, and others, and from that time the accessions to their pop- ulation were more rapid. These, mainly, entered Congress land, and soon it was mostly taken up, leaving nothing but the military land open for pur- chasers; but for lack of confidence in the titles it was not purchased until 1840, when it began to sell rapidly, and the best of it was early taken by those who still continued to come into the township. At the present time the population is about 1,300. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Sykes died on the same section where they first located; Mr. Robinson and wife are still living on the same section, he aged 89 and she 81.
In this township are two small villages, Beverly and Kingston. Beverly derives its name from Beverly, Massachusetts; Kingston was named after one of its founders, Mr. James King. Beverly village was laid out in 1836, on section 21, by an association composed of John B. Robertson, Wm. Raymond, Chas. W. Billington, Samuel Reynolds and Archibald Williams. It contains a large and commodious school-house, a Union Methodist and Congregational church, and also a Town Hall for holdingelections and other respectable meetings. This Town Hall was built in 1850 for a church. The present church was built in 1864 by public subscription. The first school-house was built in 1237, and was destroyed by a tornado in 1844. The first teacher was Henry Benson, who taught two quarters, and was em- ployed by the trustees at $23 per month, the citizens agreeing to pay one-third by subscription, the balance from the school fund. Beverly post- office was established in 1837, and Mr. John B. Robertson appointed post- master by President Martin Van Buren. For thirty-four years Mr. Rob- ertson kept the post-office at his house, and then six years in the village, and at the age of 86 resigned on account of deafness. The first mill was built in 1843, on section 20, by Wm. Raymond and Ben Kenney, and was run by ox-power. The first blacksmith shop was run by Edward L. Grosch.
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The first store was kept by Thomas Thompson. The first preacher in the township was a Mr. Browning. In 1848 Mr. James E. Frink began the manufacture of furniture, and is now compelled to substitute steam for horse-power to meet the demand. Blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, har- ness-makers, coopers and other mechanics find ready employment.
The village of Kingston is situated very finely in the northwest corner of the township, has two churches-the Baptist and Methodist-one large school-house, and two stores-dry goods and groceries-kept by Thos. Polk and Mr. H. B. Apsley, the latter also being post-master. Kingston also has the finest Masonic hall in the county outside of Quincy, with a very respectable lodge of well-posted members. It also has a drug-store and harness shop kept by E. W. Ridgely. There is also a steam flouring mill successfully run by Mc Vay & Bimson. This township is almost equally divided between timber and prairie, and is classed among the best town- ships in the county.
SCHOOLS.
Richardson School- House District, No. 1, is situated in the northeast corner of the township. It was built about 1840, and has been replaced by a new one. The school is well regulated and in good repute. The present board of directors is, Perry Frame, Jerome Ferry, Evans Noyers, clerk. The last teacher was George Browning. The number of children on which tax is based is eighty-five.
Oak Grove District, No. 2, was organized in 1840, and a frame build- ing put up which was used for a number of years, giving place to a new building which is now being replaced by the third, which is under head- way, and will cost about $600. The district has seventy-eight children subject to taxation, with an average number of scholars per month of thirty. Present teacher is Elsa Hart; present board of directors is Henry Weber, Francis Wells and John M.Browning.
Lone Oak District, No. 3, is located in the southwest corner of the township. The present school building is worth about $600, fully insured. The district has seventy-nine children subject to taxation, with an average school attendance of thirty-five. The present teacher is L. S. Climer, and the present board of directors is S. R. Hall, Matthew Orr, and Charles Morgan.
Mound District, No. 4, is situated near the southeast corner of the township, close to the "mound farm," known as the Archibald Williams place; it is the highest point in Adams county, over seventy-five feet above the average surface of the township. The school is well patronized by the citizens of the township. The present board of directors is Geo. Stauffer, John Insley, John Leighty, and the number of children in the district is fifty-five. The present teacher, Miss Katie Robertson, is highly esteemed.
Kingston District, No. 5, is located in the village of Kingston. The school-house was erected at the same time the Masonic hall was built, and is a fine building. The present board of directors is Lloyd Kinney, Wm. F. Bacon, O. P. Buffington. The school tax is levied on a basis of 115 scholars. The last teacher was E. C. Green.
Beverly District, No. 6, is situated in the village of Beverly. The /school-house is a good, substantial, well-constructed building, and rather excels the other school buildings in the township. It cost $1,600. The
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district has 119 children. Present board of directors, Wm. Robertson, James Richardson, Jr., and John Convey.
Beverly township has also three Union Districts, two connecting Pike county, and one McKee township, which contain sixty-three children sub- ject to taxation. This is a material help to the school fund of the town- ship, as it draws proportionately from the State fund.
CHURCHES.
The first Sunday-school was formed in Beverly, May, 1850, and was the " John the Baptist " of the church. It was formed by the influence of Mrs. McCoy, mother of Robert McCoy, and was superintended seven years by G. W. Williams.
The M. E. Church .- The first society of the M. E. Church was formed in 1852 by Rev. John Kirkpatrick, embracing three families.
The Congregational Church of Beverly was organized by Rer. G. W. Williams, December 13, 1859, composed of eighteen members; was recognized as such December 27, by a council from the following churches, viz: Quincy, Payson, Hannibal, Mo., Macomb, Griggsville, and Barry, Ill. Ministers present were Rev. S. N. Emery, Quincy; Rev. C. A. Leach, Payson; Rev. N. P. Colvin, Griggsville, Ill .; Rev. Z. R. Hawley, Macomb. Officers of the church; Rev. G. W. Williams, pastor; John F. Godfrey, Edward Williams, Geo. W. Robertson, deacons; Joseph P. Wood, clerk; Lewis Hubert, treasurer.
There was an Ecclesiastical society formed by members of both churches, and duly incorporated for the purpose of acquiring and holding property in order to build and hold a meeting house for the joint use of both churches. They have worshiped in the house ever since as peaceably as mortals usually do. The Congregationalists have not had a pastor for several years, but unite with the Methodists in worship and the conduct of the Sunday-school.
Kingston Methodist Church .- John Piper was the first preacher that ever ministered in the township. He held meetings at the houses. In 1854 the present church was built, and used many years as a Christian Church. After struggling a long time it declined to a small number of members, and in 1862 sold out to the Methodists for $350. They organ- ized by electing the following board of trustees: Benjamin Fahs, Jacob Buffington and W. M. Eidson. The Rev. Mr. Dake, of Beverly Circuit, is now ministering to the society, and the church has now forty-five members.
BURTON TOWNSHIP.
The first white settler in Burton township was Elias Adams, a native of New York State, and a soldier of the war of 1812, in Capt. Forsythe's rifle company. After serving for five years, part of the time as an orderly sergeant, he was discharged, and coming to Illinois in 1824 or 1825, located on the land granted him by the Government for his services, being the north- west corner of section 28. Thaddeus Pond and family came to the town- ship in 1829; located on the southwest corner of section 15.
John Wigle was living in the year 1831, on section 28, near where the town of New Liberty now stands, and had for his neighbor Joseph Ferguson, who resided about two miles west from him, near where the old Dunkard meeting-house stood. Dennis P. Meacham had located near the southeast
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corner of the northeast quarter of section 20. Abraham Hunsaker, Jno. Hughes, and Geo. Wolfe, with their families, were located along the west line of section 18. Lewis Simpson, Jacob Hunsaker, and Eli Littleton were located along the west line of section 19. Old Samuel Hunsaker on the northeast of section 30. Long Davis on the northwest of section 30. Joseph Rhodes and Andrew Hunsaker on the southwest of section 30. Jno. Mc- Bride on southwest of section 31, which is now the west part of Liberty township. As most of these settlers had large families quite a little
settlement was formed. At about the same time Sam'l Ferguson had located near the southwest corner of section 2, in Burton township, Jacob Sharp, at the southwest corner of northwest of section 3, and Win. Richards on northwest of section 7. Win. Medford, the first school teacher in the township, andwho was also a Methodist preacher, was living on the south- east of section 8. During the fall of the same year, Abram and Alvin Conger, with their mother, Joseph H. Childers, the widow Norton, Henry C. Davis, with their families, arrived from the State of Kentucky, and located on sections 5 and S. Mr. Franks and family, who came with the same party, settled on the northwest of section 6, in Richfield township. Henry Clingingsmith and family, with his single brothers Daniel and John, and his brother-in-law, Jno. Strader, were located on section 18, near the Burton spring. Henry and John Doty, both single, were located on the southwest of section 17. Other settlers who came to the township about this time, including Layston, Ray, Reuben Wright, McNab, James and Elijah Thompson, from some cause or other soon pulled up stakes and journeyed to other lands, some to Texas, others to Iowa. Elijah Thompson returned from Texas in 1834, and settled on the southeast of section 12, where he resided until a few years ago when he was gathered to his fathers.
There were coal beds worked on sections 25 and 36, from forty to fifty years ago, by blacksmiths and others who hauled it to Quincy, but the con- struction of the C., B. & Q. railroad effectually crushed the enterprise by furnishing cheaper transportation from the beds at Colchester.
In November, 1831, Laris Pulman and wife arrived in Burton town- ship, from the State of New York, having come the entire distance in a two- horse wagon, drawn by horses which were nearly old enough to vote, being each eighteen years old. Mr. Pulman located on the northwest of section 26, where he still resides.
The list below gives all the supervisors, town clerks, assessors, col- lectors, and justices of the peace since the first year the township was organized under the township organization act:
SUPERVISORS.
Wm. H. Tandy. 1850-51
Abraham Vickers. 1852
Joseph A. Pulman. 1853
Wm. V. Humphrey 1854-56
Laris Pulman. 1857
Wm. Richards. 1858
Thomas Tripp, '60 to "75, a period of 16 yrs.
A. M. Samuels. 1876-77
Reynard Cook.
1878-79
TOWN CLERKS.
J. A. Pulman 1850-53
C. M. Morton 1853
I. N. Enlow 1854, 55, 57, 69, 70
Wm. Landon 1860, 63
TOWN CLERKS.
T. H. Richards
1861, 62, 73, 74, 75
W. H. Leach. 1864-65
L. Pulman. .
1866-67
J. P. Richards 1868
G. R. Stewart.
1871
T. J. Enlow. 1872
Edmund Wells. 1876
Willis Enlow 1877-78
ASSESSORS.
A. F. Price 1850, 52
B. S. Stevenson
1851
J. W. Richards.
1853, 55, 65, 75
Andrew Thompson.
1854
T. Tripp
1856, 58, 59
J. G. Humphrey
1856
Wm. Richards.
1857,60
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ASSESSORS.
COLLECTORS.
John Aton. 1858
John M. Samuels 1859
Wm. H. Leach. 1859
L. Pulman. 1861, 67, 68
David Howe. 1860
L. D. Thompson. 1862
Alex. Hunsaker. 1862
John McVey 1863, 69
Geo. W. Dean 1864
Leonard Hoffman 1866
Jas. O. Lytle. 1870, 72, 73
S. S. Nesbit. .1871
A. M. Samuel. 1874
T. H. Richards 1876-78
COLLECTORS.
Jos. Leverett .. 1850
A. F. Price. . 1851
J. W. Richards. 1852
Wm. V. Humphrey 1853, 61
John Cavalt ..
1854
Nelson Birdsall. 1855
Wm. Richards. 1856
Jno. A. Proctor. 1877
James I. Pulman 1878
BURTON VILLAGE.
The village of Burton was laid out and located on the southwest quarter of section 7, by Elijah M. King, Esq., about the year 1836. Paris T. Judy kept the first store, E. S. Beardsley the first tavern, and David Karnes the first blacksmith shop, which were located on section 18. The first wagon-maker was Samuel Cooper. Since its organization there has been one addition made to the town consisting of one tier of blocks south of Maine street, which is on the section line and the main road to Quincy. S. S. Meacham, who was justice of the peace and post-master for nearly twenty years, commenced keeping a general store in 1840, which he con- tinued until his death, a period of about thirty-five years. After his death J. H. Pulman succeeded to the store and the office of justice of the peace. The village contains about twenty-five buildings, and about one hundred and thirty inhabitants. It has two blacksmith shops, one hotel, a school house and one church.
SCHOOLS.
Livingston School District, No. 1 .- Prior to the division in 1843-44, it comprised a piece of land two miles in width, lying on the north side of Burton township extending from the east to the west line, the school house being situated on section 3. The building surrendered to the fire-king (supposed to be the work of an incendiary) about the year 1845. In Octo- ber, 1843, the district was re-organized, and now comprises nineteen quar- ter sections in the northeast corner of Burton township. The prime actors in succession were Joseph Leverett, John Mitchell, Parker Goding and A. M. Foster. The name Livingston was proposed by C. F. Foster, in honor of Edward Livingston, Prime Minister to the Court of France dwing Presi- dent A. Jackson's first administration, which name was unanimously adopted.
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