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Prior to 1854 no steps were taken to utilize the provision of the new school law of 1852. That year the first enumeration of school children was taken in Logansport and showed the number to be 1,026, and under the apportionment the city received $566, and there was but one public school building. In 1855 the enumeration showed 1,097 children, of whom 596 attended school during that year and the amount expended for instruction was $1,173. Enlarged facilities seemed to be necessary, order and system began to take shape, and the first assessment to create a public building fund was made in 1855, which amounted to $2,515.30. The following year an equal amount was raised and in 1857 a further
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assessment of $1,117 was made. During the latter year the expenses were $922, nine teachers being employed at an average of $35 per month. In 1859 the average term of school was sixty-five days; the aggregate attendance was 840, with thirteen teachers.
About 1858 or '59 two brick school houses, two stories high, were erected, one on Railroad street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, which is still standing but not used for school purposes; the other on the north- west corner of Tenth and Market, which was occupied until 1891 or '92, when it was sold for a residence purpose. In 1862-3 two additional ward schools, buildings of brick, two stories high, were erected, one on the Point at the lower end of Market street and the other at Eighth and High streets.
At this time steps were taken preparatory to the introduction of the graded system. This work was commenced under the auspices of the board of school trustees, of which Hon. D. D. Pratt was president, with S. T. McConnell and T. B. Helm, county examiners. The first term under the graded system was begun on October 19, 1863, and con-
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tinued six months, the longest term ever taught up to that date. The grades originally established were four: primary, intermediate, gram- mar and high school. The first two occupied the ward buildings, while the two latter were taught in the "Seminary" or high school building, Thirteenth and Broadway. At this time there was no other superin- tendency than that afforded by the township trustee as director. Finally, on November 2, 1865, the necessity for such an officer became manifest and T. B. Helm was appointed by the school board as the first superintendent of Logansport's schools.
From 1864-66 the schools in the Seminary building were under the management of Prof. Joseph Baldwin as principal and T. B. Helm as teacher of higher mathematics and languages. From this time on the city schools have made gradual progress, both in numbers and efficiency.
In 1874 the increased enumeration demanded larger quarters and commodious brick buildings were erected, on Horney street, known as the Mckinley school, north side; Tanguy street, named the Jefferson school, this school building being damaged by fire and rebuilt in 1893 with an outlay of $9,000; and on Bates street the Franklin school. In
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1888 the latter's capacity was increased by the erection of an additional building known as the Plum street school, situated, however, on the same lot. In 1889 the Eighth street schoolhouse was replaced by the present handsome building, containing four large rooms, now called the "Longfellow school," at an expenditure of $10,000. As previously stated, the old stone Seminary at Thirteenth and Broadway was razed in 1874 and the present large central or "Lincoln school" was erected; contract price, $47,000, which was occupied by the high school until 1894 when the present high school building at Seventh and Broadway was erected of Minnesota red sand stone at a total expenditure of $30,000. This is a beautiful structure but it has become too small to accommodate the rapid increase in attendance and the school board has arranged, during the coming summer (1913) to tear down the old Lin- coln building at Thirteenth and Broadway and erect in its stead, a large, up-to-date high school building with gymnasium, swimming pool, manual training school, reception rooms, etc., which will be kept con- stantly open to accommodate the public.
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In 1892 the Central building became overcrowded and the Tipton schoolhouse was erected on Sixteenth and Wright streets, with an outlay of $18,000. Increased accommodations on the west side being imperative in 1899, the Washington school was built on the south end of Cicott street, the total cost of which was $22,000. The north side having built up rapidly required additional school facilities and the Columbia street building was constructed during the year 1905, the contract price being $11,000. To accommodate the rapid growth of the east end the Daniel Webster building on the corner of Market and Twenty-third street was erected in 1906 with an expenditure of $22,000.
Fifty years ago the city had but one school building, now it has eleven large, substantial brick or cut stone school buildings, the small- est of which contains four rooms, with a total estimated value of $320,- 000 and still there is a demand for a larger high school building, which the trustees have arranged to build in 1913 at an expenditure of $175,000.
The total enumeration in the city for 1912 was 5,856. The total enrollment in the city for 1912 was 2,911. Number of teachers em- ployed in the city for 1912 was 90, of whom eight are males and eighty- two females. Number of teachers in the high school, eighteen. Num- ber of students in the high school, 462. Number of graduates in the high school in 1912, 68. This is quite a contrast with the first class that ever graduated from the Logansport high school in 1871, which was three and in 1872, five; in 1873, three; in 1874, four.
The highest daily wage paid in the city is $9.00.
The lowest daily wage paid in the city is $2.50.
The total cost of the schools in the city last year-$95,728.35. Cost per pupil, $34.05. Length of school term, 180 days. Amount paid to teachers for each day of school, $308.06.
Until the new constitution was adopted in 1852, little attention was paid to normal schools or the education of teachers, but about this time the subject of more competent teachers began to agitate educators and in the summer of 1852 a large number of eminent teachers, from this and other states, met in convention in Logansport, the first teachers' meeting ever held in this part of the state. They were in session several days considering and discussing the subject of school management and instruction, the duties and obligations of teachers and the means whereby they might be enabled to secure better and higher qualifications among the teachers as a profession. Among the eminent teachers present was Dr. Cutter, the author of "Cutter's Physiology," who delivered a number of interesting lectures. It was well attended by our local teachers and bore fruit in the development of a better educational system. It was not, however, until 1864 that any attempt was made to establish a normal school for the instruction of teachers. In that year Prof. Jos. Baldwin, together with T. B. Helm, opened a normal school, having rented the old seminary on Thirteenth street. This school was conducted for three years, when Mr. Baldwin went to Missouri. The interest, however, awakened among teachers and educators left a per- manent impress upon our schools, and since that time there has been a gradual development of our school system, from the independent district school, where each had its own text books, with no grades and no uniformity, up to our present uniform and efficient graded system, from the primary or first year on through the eight grades in the com- mon schools and four years in the high school, with uniform text books and a corps of educated and experienced teachers with school buildings furnished with all the aids to impart knowledge, such as blackboards, maps, charts, globes, etc.
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The following persons have served as superintendents of the Logans- port schools from the first establishment of the office in 1865 to 1913, with date of service :
Thomas B. Helm, 1865-6; Sheridan Cox, 1867-1873; Geo. C. Shep- herd, 1873-1874; John K. Waltz, 1874-1886; James C. Black, 1886-1889; Anna V. La Rose, 1889-1891; Albert H. Douglass, 1891-1913.
EEL TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS
Prior to 1862, when the first city school board was appointed, the township trustee had supervision over, and management of, the whole of Eel township, including the city of Logansport. About this time, however, the city took charge of its schools and the trustee managed only the schools in Eel township outside the city, which now consist of three schools. District No. 1-"Lover's Lane" school, two miles east of the city, was originally a frame house erected in 1842, but later replaced by a brick structure. District No. 2-in Dunkirk, west of town, is a brick building erected in 1877, and the Hendricks school in Shultztown on the south side, a two-story, four-room brick, erected about 1902 at an expenditure of $12,000. Seven teachers are employed in the township, who instruct 327 students in all the eight grades of the common school branches.
Over fifty years ago, schools were taught in the old frame houses in Taberville on the south side; in Browntown on the west side and Jobtown on the north side, but these old buildings have long since been razed and replaced by the present brick buildings erected in the city after these respective territories were taken into the city.
The following persons have served as trustees from 1865 to 1913: Isaac Bartlett, 1865; James Jackson, 1868; John Leffert, 1870; James Jackson, 1872; Michael Bradley, 1874; Job B. Eldridge, 1876; Michael Garrigan, 1882; H. C. Hammontree, 1884; James Jackson, 1888; Robt. M. Johnston, 1894; Chas. Ringleben, 1899; John H. Minne- man, 1900; H. C. Cushman, 1904; John A. Murphy, 1908-14.
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CHAPTER XXXV LOGANSPORT POSTOFFICE
FIRST ESTABLISHED-LIST OF POSTMASTERS-RECEIPTS-RURAL ROUTES - CLERKS - ABANDONED OFFICES - POSTAL SAVINGS BANK - FIRST STAMPS.
Before the organization of Cass county in 1829, all the territory now composing this county was attached to Carroll county and the first postoffice in this region was Eel River, Carroll county, established in 1820, with James Athy, postmaster, appointed March 20, 1820; suc- ceeded by Hugh B. McKeen, January 9, 1828. The following spring Logansport was laid out and named and the name of the postoffice was changed to Logansport and the following persons have occupied the position of postmaster with the date of appointment:
Hugh B. McKeen, January 9, 1828; Chauncey Carter, May 15, 1829; Jordan Vigus, May. 31, 1841; Chauncey Carter, January 11, 1845; Robt. F. Groves, March 16, 1848; Jordan Vigus, March 21, 1849; Samuel A. Hall, April 26, 1856, presidential; Robt. F. Groves, August 9, 1856; Wm. Wilson, April 6, 1861; Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, April 26, 1866; Alexander K. Ewing, April 28, 1874; Mrs. Louise F. Ewing, . October 24, 1874; E. N. Talbott, December 18, 1878; B. F. Louthain, June 8, 1885; D. W. Tomlinson, August 20, 1889; V. C. Hanawalt, January 31, 1894; Jehu Z. Powell, March 4, 1898; Wm. W. Moss, June 19, 1902; John M. Johnston, June 28, 1906.
To show the growth of the local office in recent years we give the total receipts for the following years :
Receipts of postoffice in 1884, $14,942.06; 1888, $14,322.16; 1892, $20,144.11; 1896, $25,030.26; 1900, $27,919.32; 1904, $34,707.00; 1910, $45,498.53; 1911, $47,536.21.
In the year 1856 the Logansport office was raised to the third class, or what is known as a presidential office, the postmaster being appointed by the president and confirmed by the United States senate, and Samuel A. Hall was the first Logansport postmaster to be thus appointed, as prior to that time it was a fourth class office (the receipts being less than one thousand dollars) and the postmaster general made the appoint- ment. Since that time the postoffice has been located at the following places : At 416'Broadway, then at 317 Pearl street; 301-3 Third street and 216 Market street, where it remained until it was moved to its present quarters owned by the government. In 1902 Hon. Geo. W. Steele, then congressman from this, the eleventh district, secured an appropriation of $75,000 for the erection of a government building in Logansport. Steps were at once taken to secure a location and erect a building. The present site located on the southeast corner of Sixth and Market streets and extending south to Erie avenue, was bought of Geo. C. Taber for $15,000 and the remainder of the appropriation was used to erect the present massive brick and stone building, which was
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completed ready for occupancy on August 5, 1905; W. W. Moss being then postmaster. The building is only one story in height, but has a high, airy and well lighted basement under the entire structure, and affords ample accommodations for the postal officials.
The first rural mail route in the county was established in 1898, under the administration of J. Z. Powell and since then the whole of Cass county has been systematically covered by rural mail delivery, there being at this time 34 different routes within the county, 12 of which radiate out from the Logansport office, they being Nos. 1 to 11 inclusive and No. 34.
The routes from Galveston are Nos. 12, 13, 14; from Lincoln, No. 15; from Walton, Nos. 16, 17; from Onward, No. 18; from New Waverly, No. 19; from Hoovers, No. 20; from Twelve Mile, Nos. 21, 22; from Lucerne, Nos. 23, 24, 25; from Royal Center, Nos. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30; from Lake Cicott, Nos. 31, 32; from Clymers, No. 33.
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livery, many fourth class postoffices with their star route mail service have been discontinued and only the offices mentioned above, together with the Young America office, now remain in the county and the latter is served by a rural route carrier from Galveston. . The rural mail service has been not only a great convenience to the farmer, but has also proved to be a great educator, by putting him in daily touch with the outside world and the daily newspaper has very largely supplanted the weekly or monthly papers formerly so generally read by our rural population.
In the year 1910 the receipts of the Logansport office ran above $40,000, thus bringing it within the first class grade. The office now employs 13 clerks, 15 regular city carriers, 12 rural carriers, to which add the substitutes, specials and janitors, making a total force of 45 employees in the office besides 25 railway .postal clerks that are paid from the Logansport office.
It may be of local historical interest to name all the former post- offices located within the county and served by star-route service, all of which are abandoned and better service given by the daily rural mail delivery.
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The following postoffices have been discontinued :
Adamsboro, Anoka, Big Indian, Curveton, Crittenden, Deacon, Dow, Georgetown, formerly called Amsterdam; Fords Crossing, Meta, Montez, Pine, Dego, Twin Corners, Fitch, Gebhart, Spring Creek. The latter was kept by Joseph Rohrer in a log cabin on his farm in Clay township, about 1850, and was on the Perrysburg star route, the mail at that time was carried on horseback by Stephen Conrad.
The Twin Corner postoffice was located five and a half miles north of Logansport, on the Michigan road. It received its name from the fact that a pair of twins was born into the families of Henry Barnett and Ira Tilton, who lived on opposite corners of the road. This office flourished during the Civil war, but when the twins were large enough to walk, they walked off with the postoffice and it has never been found or reestablished.
A Postal Savings Bank was established in the Logansport office Octo- ber 21, 1911, and the total deposits for the first year amounted to $21,- 324.00, on which the depositors drew two per cent and if converted into government bonds, which the depositors have the privilege of doing, they draw two and one-half per cent interest. As yet the postal savings deposits is in the experimental stage, but the indications are that it will become more popular as time progresses and the people become familiar with its workings.
Postage stamps were first used in the United States in 1847. Prior to that time the postmaster at the mailing office wrote on the corner of the envelope or paper, paid so much, giving the amount.
Envelopes were not invented until in the fifties and it is interesting to scan old letters which were written on one side of the paper and then folded neatly in the shape of an envelope, and much tact was required to make the missive into a neat and handsome appearing packet. Official instructions from the postoffice department and other government business were all thus folded, which may seem odd to this progressive age.
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CHAPTER XXXVI
OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF LOGANSPORT FROM ITS INCORPORATION IN 1838 TO 1912
MAYORS
Jordan Vigus, 1838; Nicholas D. Grover, 1839; John S. Patterson, 1840; John Lytle, 1841; Spier S. Tipton, 1844; J. H. Kintner, 1845-6; Jacob Bemisdarfer, 1847; Jordan Vigus, 1848; J. H. Kintner, 1849; Wm. Culbertson, 1850; John W. Wright, 1851-52; T. H. Bringhurst, 1853-5; Geo. E. Adams, 1856; S. A. Hall, 1857-60; S. L. McFaddin, 1861-4; James W. Dunn, 1865-6; R. F. Groves, 1867-8; S. L. McFaddin, 1869-70; Amos C. Hall, 1871-2; S. L. McFaddin, 1873-4; J. B. Shultz, 1875-6; Samuel Jacobs, 1877-1882; C. B. Lasselle, 1883-4; T. H. Bring- hurst, 1885-6; J. C. Nelson, 1887-8; W. F. Cullen, 1889-90; B. C. D. Reed, 1891-2; Geo. P. McKee, 1894-1902; S. A. Vaughn, 1902-04; G. P. McKee, 1905-09; D. D. Fickle, 1910-14.
CITY CLERKS OR RECORDERS
J. S. Patterson, 1838; Wm. R. Wilson, 1839; Wm. Hubbell, 1840-41; John Lytle, 1844; Jay Mix, 1845; Thos. Jones, 1846; J. F. Dodds, 1847- 50; Isaac Bartlett, 1851-53; C. S. Vigus, 1854-5; L. M. Landes, 1856-7; N. D. Grover, 1858-62; G. W. Cummings, 1863-4; John G. Meck, 1865-8; Thos. McGloin, 1869-72; Wm. Flynn, 1873-4; Jos. G. Barron, 1875-8; J. Schwerdman, 1879-82; M. R. Wolf, 1883-4; Robt. Humphreys, 1885-6; J. J. Taggart, 1887-90; A. Swadener, 1891-2; J. B. Winters, 1894-8; A. D. Fansler, 1898-1904; C. F. Hammontree, 1905-9; Wm. Pickett. 1909-1913.
CITY TREASURERS
R. S. Stevenson, 1838-41; Wm. C. Barnett, 1844; Jordan Vigus, 1845; John Yopst, 1846-7; T. J. Cummings, 1848-9; J. P. Berry, 1850; Wm. Wilson, 1851-2; J. B. Eldridge, 1853-5; J. M. Keep, 1856; T. W. Archer, 1857; Thos. Richardson, 1858-62; Thos. W. Archer, 1863-8; Allen Richardson, 1869-70; A. E. Taylor, 1871-4; J. B. Messenger, 1875-8; John Donaldson, 1879-82; C. S. Peckham, 1883-6; H. Brook- meyer, 1887-90; G. W. Hoffman, 1891-2; Geo. E. Barnett, 1894-1902; F. M. Boerger, 1902-4; Benj. Porter, 1905-09; Louis H. Ritter, 1910-14.
CITY ATTORNEYS
Henry Chase, 1838; D. D. Pratt, 1839; Geo. W. Blakemore, 1841; J. S. Patterson, 1844; H. P. Biddle, 1845; Wm. Z. Stuart, 1847-8; D. D. Pratt, 1849; Wm. Z. Stuart, 1852; H. P. Biddle, 1853; D. D. Dykeman, 1856; D. D. Pratt, 1858-68; L. . Chamberlain, 1869; Frank Swigart, 1870; D. H. Chase, 1871; F. S. Crocket, 1872; M. Winfield,
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1873; J. C. Nelson, 1874; D. C. Justice, 1875-6; M. Winfield, 1877-80; J. C. Nelson, 1881-4; Q. A. Myers, 1885-6; J. C. Nelson, 1887-8; M. D. Fansler, 1889-90; T. J. Tuly, 1891-3; Geo. C. Taber, 1894-8; F. M. Kistler, 1898-02; M. Winfield, 1902-04; John W. McGreevy, 1905-9; John C. Nelson, 1910-13.
COUNCILMEN
1838-Cyrus Taber, Job B. Eldridge, Philip Leamy, Wm. H. Wright, Spier S. Tipton.
1839-John Lytle, Robert F. Groves, John Green, John S. Patterson, Benjamin Ganson.
1840-John Lytle, John Green, E. B. Strong, S. B. Linton, Isaac Hines.
1841-E. B. Strong, J. Green, I. Hines, Israel Johnson, Horace P. Biddle. In the years of 1842 and '43 no elections and no meetings were held.
1844-Elijah Booth, Joseph Willis, Marshall Patterson, B. O. Spen- 1 cer, Geo. Clymer.
1845-Israel Johnson, Thos. Richardson, John L. Miller, Geo. Stal- naker, Thos. R. McElheny.
1846-Israel Johnson, John N. Adair, John M. Ewing, Thos. Mc- Elheny, Graham N. Fitch.
1847-First ward, John Burns; Second ward, Geo. E. Adams; Third ward, G. Weirick; Fourth ward, Wm. Conrad; Fifth ward, J. Me- Gaughey; Sixth ward, J. Bemisdarfer.
1848-First ward, John Green; Second ward, Wm. Culbertson; Third ward, T. R. McElheny ; Fourth ward, Philip Pollard; Fifth ward, Benj. Green ; Sixth ward, T. Richardson.
1849-First ward, Alex. McMasters; Second ward, Wm. Culbertson; Third ward, Geo. Weirick; Fourth ward, Ashbel Tuttle; Fifth ward, David Johnson; Sixth ward, Alex. Rogers.
1850-First ward, John Evans; Second ward, J. H. Warren; Third ward, Jos. Green; Fourth ward, A. M. Higgins; Fifth ward, D. John- son ; Sixth ward, Benj. Purcell.
1851-First ward, D. M. Dunn; Second ward, J. W. Warren; Third ward, T. R. McElheny ; Fourth ward, P. Pollard; Fifth ward, D. John- son; Sixth ward, A. M. Goodwin.
1852-First ward, A. H. Barnett; Second ward, J. M. Warren; Third ward, T. R. McElheny ; Fourth ward, Geo. E. Adams; Fifth ward. Benj. Green; Sixth ward, A. M. Goodwin.
1853-First ward, R. V. Flory; Second ward, J. H. Tucker; Third ward, T. R. McElheny ; Fourth ward, G. E. Adams; Fifth ward. D Johnson ; Sixth ward, D. H. Mull.
1854-First ward, R. V. Flory; Second ward, H. Barker; Third ward, J. Fitzgerald; Fourth ward, Wm. L. Brown; Fifth ward, D. John- son ; Sixth ward, W. T. S. Manly.
1855-First ward, R. V. Flory, J. A. Taylor; Second ward, Jos. Culbertson, N. G. Scott; Third ward, D. Johnson, Dan Redd; Fourth ward, J. M. Ewing, D. H. Mull; Fifth ward, M. W. Gossett, L. M. Landes.
1856-First ward, James H. Kitner, James A. Taylor; Second ward, A. Vanness, Benj. H. Smith; Third ward, Geo. Cannon, Daniel Redd; Fourth ward, E. T. Stevens, B. Z. Burch; Fifth ward, Joseph Sellers E. H. Brown.
1857-First ward, J. A. Taylor, Adam Smith; Second ward, H. W. Bachman, S. Levine; Third ward, Horace Coleman, David E. Bryer, Fourth ward, T. C. Mitchell, T. Tomlinson; Fifth ward, C. Ward, W. Hankee.
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1859-60-First ward, J. A. Taylor, Adam Smith; Second ward, H. W. Bachman, David Patrick; Third ward, Horace Coleman, G. W. Miles; Fourth ward, Robt. Reed, Geo. Bevan; Fifth ward, David Smith, Chas. Ward.
1861-62-First ward, Peter Smith, J. A. Taylor; Second ward, Sam- uel A. Hall, Jacob J. Puterbaugh; Third ward, Daniel Redd, W. T. S. Manly ; Fourth ward, E. T. Stevens, Geo. Bevan; Fifth ward, Ira S. Miller, J. M. Justice.
1863-64-First ward, J. A. Taylor, J. H. Kintner; Second ward, J. J. Puterbaugh, S. A. Hall; Third ward, A. M. Higgins, W. T. S. Manly ; Fourth ward, E. T. Stevens, J. M. Justice; Fifth ward, Rich- ard Richardson, H. H. Barnheisel.
1865-66-First ward, Peter Anheir, J. A. Taylor; Second ward, Geo. Kuns, J. J. Puterbaugh; Third ward, W. T. S. Manly, A. M. Higgins; Fourth ward, E. T. Stevens, H. H. Barnheisel; Fifth ward, J. M. Justice, S. B. Richardson.
1867-68-First ward, David Patrick, Peter Anheir; Second ward, James McTaggart, Geo. Kuns; Third ward, Eli Steckle, W. T. S. Manly; Fourth ward, T. H. Bringhurst, E. T. Stevens; Fifth ward, Jos. Sellers, Dr. J. M. Justice.
1869-First ward, Patrick Gorman, Peter Anheir; Second ward, J. A. Taylor, Jos. Culbertson; Third ward, Dr. J. T. Brown, Eli Steckle; Fourth ward, L. H. Hicks, D. M. Dunn; Fifth ward, O. S. West, D. P. Weirick.
1870-First ward, Patrick Gorman, James Finegan; Second ward, D. D. Dykeman, Jos. Culbertson; Third ward, Dr. J. T. Brown, Eli Steckle; Fourth ward, Robert R. Reed, D. M. Dunn; Fifth ward, A. S. West, Joe W. Henderson.
1871-First ward, Chas. Randall, John Medland; Second ward, D. D. Dykeman, J. T. Brown; Third ward, Patrick Gorman, James Fine- gan; Fourth ward, R. R. Reed, Chas. F. Thompson; Fifth ward, Dr. H. Z. Leonard, J. W. Henderson.
1872-First ward, Chas. Randall, Daniel Laughlin; Second ward, D. D. Dykeman, William Wilson; Third ward, Patrick Gorman, A. Grusen- meyer; Fourth ward, Dr. J. M. Justice, C. F. Thompson; Fifth ward, H. Z. Leonard, A. B. Crampton.
1873-First ward, John Medland, Daniel Laughlin; Second ward, D. D. Dykeman, M. McCaffrey ; Third ward, Hugh Ward, Anthony Gru- senmeyer; Fourth ward, J. M. Justice, D. A. Rudolph; Fifth ward, John Freckleton, A. B. Crampton.
. 1874-First ward, J. W. Weffel, John Medland; Second ward, J. R. Stevens, M. McCaffrey; Third ward, Jos. Green, H. Ward; Fourth ward, D. W. Tomlinson, D. A. Rudolph; Fifth ward, A. B. Crampton, J. C. Crawford.
1875-First ward, J. E. Barnes, J. W. Wefel; Second ward, J. H. Tucker, Jos. Culbertson; Third ward, H. Ward, Jos. Green ; Fourth ward, A. R. Shroyer, D. W. Tomlinson; Fifth ward, Jos. W. Henderson, A. B. Crampton.
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