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settlers who came into the township. The meeting-house was erected on section 8 about 22 years ago. Jacob Studebaker, Daniel B. Studebaker, Jacob Leer, Andrew Bigler, have been preachers to the Church, and Moses Hess is the present pastor.
CITY OF GOSHEN.
The history of this city and the township to which it belongs is so peculiarly identified with that of the county, that many subjects pertaining specially to Goshen have been noticed in the second part of this work, which is devoted to the county history. There the survey of the original town plat by George Crawford and the subsequent sale of many of the lots by Oliver Crane in July, 1831, is recorded. The original plat contained 301 lots; but from time to time the village extended its boundaries until toward the close of the first half of the century no less than 964 lots were built upon, and left about 100 in the market. Those additions comprised Allbright's, containing 36 lots; E. M. Chamber- lain's. 114; Walsh's. 5; Purl's, 35; McAllister's, 9: Freeman and Hattel's. 5; Wilson and Beyerle's. 32; Kendig's, 18; Hahn's. 13; Rowell's, 22; Mayfield's, 17; Wilson & Bartholomey's. 44: Mercer, Latta and Copeland's, 182; Wm. Crane's, 127; Oliver Crane's. 50; J. H. Barnes', 160: L. Mercer's, 51; and Wilson and Hawk's, 44. Those valuable little town sections have passed in great part from the hands of the original owners into those of over 900 householders, and the tract, once a prosperous hunting ground of the red man, has been converted into one of the neatest little cities in the union. The streets are very regular, and with the excep- tion of that portion of Main and Market streets devoted to business houses, give place to a double line of thrifty shade trees; while ranked on either side are the neat, and in many instances, magnifi- cent, residences of the people. The roadways are graded, the side- walks broad and in good order. and the utmost effort of good taste displayed everywhere.
The first house erected on the town plat was erected by William Bissell at the corner of Sixth and Washington streets, where the Baptist church is now located. Dr. King built the second house. Singer constructed the first frame building in 1831, and eight years later E. N. Chamberlain built a brick structure of quite a preten- tious character.
The first mill was erected on Rock Run creek, near its confluence with the Elkhart. This was a mill of the olden time indeed; but
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yet it was quite in keeping with the enterprise of the period. John Carpenter erected this mill in 1831, but found a competition the same year a short distance np the stream. In 1835-'36 the patron- age formerly extended to these little milling establishments was transferred to the Waterford mill, erected by Elias Baker in 1835. His interest in this concern was purchased immediately after by Hawks Brothers, and thus the manufacturing era was entered upon in the township.
The first settlers were Wm. Bissell, Wm. Singer, Edwin Martin, Wm. Waugh, Abner Stilson, John Carpenter, R. Blackmer, Abraham Gallentine, Samuel Modi, Moses Mercer, Henry White, Elias Carpenter, the Replogle family, George McCollum, John- son Latta, Joseph H. Defrees, Luke Ilulett, James S. Defrees, E. M. Chamberlain, James Cook, John Fitzpatrick, H. W. Bissell, - Jackson, John Cook, Joseph D. Knox, Dr. Bemhisel, Fred A. Harris, John L. Meredith, Leonard G. Harris, Milton Mercer, James R. McCord. John Winder, -- Ruck, T. Gregory, Isaac Hagle, Dr. Kling, Wm. P. IIagle, Wm. Chance, Peter L. Runyan. Charles Irwin, Wm. K. Beck, Thomas Thomas, W. A. Thomas, Levi Beck. Henry Duseubury, John Powers, John Jenks, Phillip Matthews, Wm. Barbee, T. Morrison. S. O. R. Harris, Wmn. Kellison, Mahlon Davis, Samuel T. Young and Major J. W. Vio- lett. Wmn. Bissell died within a short time after he erected his house; the progressive character of those early settlers who survived him is to-day evidenced in the beantiful little city they have added to the union.
The first merchants were Wm. Bissell, Singer. James McCord, Wm. Barbee, John Cook, James Cook, J. II. Defrees, James S. Defrees, S. O. R. Harris, J. Barnes, F. A. and L. G. Har- ris, John Winder, Jackson & Fitzpatrick, Ruck & Gregory. Henry Davis and Jacob Studebaker were the first building con- tractors, having erected the old court-house at a cost of $4,500.
Among the mercantile and professional men in that locality, in 1837, were Barnes & Defrees, Harris & Co., Barbee & Gilmore, merchants; Abner Stilson, jeweler; P. K. & J. R. Price, saddlers; Steward & Garner, tailors; D. Parrett, furniture dealer, with W. H. Rector and the Defrees Brothers, merchants of Benton. Dr. S. A. Latta, Attorneys Cooper and Jernegan, Editors Murray and Defrees represented the professions.
Goshen markets, March, 1837 :-
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Flour, per bbl., $7.50; wheat, per bu., $1.50; buckwheat flour, per bu., $3.00; corn meal, per bu., 62}c; corn, per bu., 50c; oats, per bu., 37gc; potatoes, per bu., 37}c; chickens, per pair, 25c; eggs, per doz., 12}c; beef, per Ib., 6}c; pork, per 1b., 12}c; butter, per 1b., 25c; lard, per lb., 16c; tallow, per lb., 15c.
SOCIETIES.
A club known as the "Elkhart Hickory Club " was organized at Goshen Nov. 25, 1843, with George Taylor, President; Henry White and Patrick Higgin, Vice-Presidents, with H. B. Defrauce and E. W. H. Ellis as Secretaries. It had for its object the promotion of Democratic interests, and boasted of an influential roster.
Members of the Goshen Lyceum assembled in regular meeting February, 1841, and passed the following resolution: "That it is right and expedient for Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia." This Lyceum has rendered much good to the people. An essay on " National Characteristics," by John W. Irwin, read before that institute in January, 1874, was very accurate, very extensive, and so arranged as to fully elucidate his subject.
CEMETERY.
On Aug. 21, 1846, the old graveyard, as it was then termed, was surveyed and staked off into lots. The ground was heavily tim- bered then, and the " two acres " unfenced, but since, owing to the salutary action of the old journalists of the town of Goshen and the hearty co-operation of the people, it has been turned into a beauti- ful home for the dead; and the prophetic language of the journalism of the period has become a reality. "Years hence," said the editor of the Democrat, "it may be, when we, who are now busy on the stage of life, shall be slumbering there in our narrow homes; those who bear our names and who are bound to us by ties of consan- guinity, may come to drop a tear over our silent resting place, to exalt our virtues, and draw the mantle of charity around our frail- ties." The first house-builder on the site of the village of Goshen was Wm. Bissell, who, dying in 1831, was buried on the banks of Rock Run, now north of the railroad, not very distant from Oak Ridge. The record of burials has been fairly kept from 1836 to 1860, during which time 100 persons were buried there. From 1860 to 1878 there is no record; but from 1878 to 1880 it is complete and shows the interment of 156 persons.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The Goshen chalybeate springs have been referred to by State Geologist Cox and Editor H. J. Beyerle. The former gives the prop- erties of the water, while the latter points them out as sources of health to the people generally, and of wealth to the enterprising man who would improve the immediate neighborhood and render the approaches to the springs fit for traffic. The chemical analysis of the water is as follows: Solid matter, per ten pounds, 23.8 grains, composed of bicarbonate of lime, bicarb. of magnesia, bicarb. of iron, chloride of sodium, sulphate of soda, sulphate of lime and sulphate of magnesia. The water varies little in taste from that produced by the artesian well in Central Park, Chicago, but evidently is of higher gravity.
Twenty years after the village was first settled the population was 780, including 11 colored persons. Ten years later, in 1860, the number increased to 2,053; in 1870 it was 3,133, and in 1880 it reached about 3,968, with every prospect of advancing, for years to come, in the same ratio.
The advent of the Air Line of the Michigan Southern, and the subsequent completion of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan railroad, in 1870-'4, with its northern terminus at Goshen, aided materially in rendering the progress of the city remarkable.
July 22, 1856, 20 lots were vacated by order of the Commission- ers, and in acquiescence with the prayer of a petition, presented on behalf of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad Company, asking for a right of way.
June, 1858, a rain storm swept over the county which did much damage to buildings and crops. The Hawk's block in the town of Goshen suffered most, the tornado causing the abutments to give way.
During the progress of excavating the foundation for Beyerle's block, on Main street, in April, 1875, a Spanish coin, under date 1775, was found.
ORGANIZATION OF THE VILLAGE.
An election of trustees for the town of Goshen was held Nov. 23, 1839, under the presidency of Jolin Cook, with E. G.
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Chamberlain, Clerk of Election, when the following votes were recorded for each of the trustees: John Cook, 37; D. Parrett, 33; Abner Stilson, Jr., 35; A. Galentine, 35; J. S. Rayme, 31. These trustees and their successors administered the government of the village until 1854, when it was incorporated as a town. The action of the villagers of that period was salutary. Neither premature nor late, Goshen was exalted at the precise time that circum- stances called for reform in municipal government, and it may, perhaps, be said, that to the well-timed action of the people in this matter much of this prosperity is due.
VOTING ON THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.
· June 7, 1854, M. M. Latta, Jos. H. Defrees, Samuel Geisinger, C. S. Hascall, James II. Barnes and D. M. Ilenkel presented a petition to the Board defining the limits of a town, and asking that it be incorporated under the name of Goshen, the commis- sioners appointed the 28th of June for an election. This appeal to the people resulted in a total vote of 102, 97 votes being recorded in favor of incorporation, 4 in opposition, and 1 not counted. The following names appeared upon the voters' list: John Hunt, A. A. Norton, T. L. Wilbarger, C. K. Hoops, George W. Myers, T. L. Powell, A. B. Grubb, James Blair, B. A. Grubb, Erwin Vin- son, Eb. Raymond, John Gortner, Thomas Todd, L. H. Noble, F. Voiral, S. E. Davis, Jos. Lauferty, Jr., J. D. Devor, Joseph Aslı- brook, Michael Weybright, Joseph Silver, W. A. Thomas, C. S. Hascall, Hiram Whittaker, A. L. Hubbel, M. M. Latta, A. C. Jack- son, F. M. Denny, B. G. Crary, Norman Teal, A. P. Frink, S. C. Brainard, J. W. Irwin, Michael Murry, Sam. Bottomfelt, Smith Chamberlain, Elias Gortner, W. L. Bivins, G. W. Richards, G. W. Fosdick, Leander Sherwin, S. Geisinger, Henry Cook, J. L. Crary, W. W. McVitty, Melvin Hascall, F. Jackson, William Bean, John Cook, Jr., T. R. Albright, Jolın Keck, P. M. Henkel, J. H. Defrees.
Among the names are the following whose owners have passed away from the scenes of their well-directed labors: Lee Sander- son, E. L. Ball, T. G. Harris, George Howell, D. S. Trapp, Jacob McFadden, L. B. Parmalee, Ben. Mikesell, Henry Pierce, J. Hahn, J. S. Freeman, C. P. Jacobs, J. H. Taylor, Norton Brown, Sam. Lauferty, W. J. Matchet, I. F. Tiedman, Daniel Coffin, Harvey Shepherd, A. Connell, J. F. Maxfield, A. W. Clark, Wm. Waugh, Wm. Dodge, J. Banning, Peter Kerstetter, W. H. Lane, M. Miles, J. H. Barns, J. R. McCord, David Myers, J. H. Mather.
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The possessors of the following names, who were residents of Goshen in 1854, may possibly still reside in that city, but the un- certainty regarding them requires that they be given a third place in this list: Wm. T. McConnell, Alex. McConnell, Austin Wheeler, G. W. Baringer, John Zimmerman, F. M. Denny, F. W. Taylor, Ch. Arnold, J. J. Stone, J. W. Zuver, Wm. Grandy, Oscar Dunn, M. Myers, G. Williamson, Theo. Hunter, W. M. Roe, T. K. Park, W. N. Hively. The commissioners acknowledged the legality of the vote within three months, and in September declared Goshen an incorporated town.
EXTENSION OF THE CITY.
At a meeting of the commissioners, held December 1862, Geo. D. Copeland and Charles P. Jacobs, Jr., presented a petition asking the Board to order the annexation of adjacent territory to the town. The commissioners ordered that "all the territory lying contiguons to the southern boundary of said town, between the west line of Fifth street, as laid off and platted in the record of Latta and Cope- land's addition to said town, and the west line of Third street, when extended south in its present direction to a point where the south line of Latta and Copeland's addition, if extended west, would intersect said west line of Third street, extended south as aforesaid, (except McAllister's addition to said town, which is already annexed)."
TOWN STATISTICS.
Receipts .*
Disburse- ments.t
Receipts .*
Disburse- ments.t
1855. ..
83 00
83 00
1868 .. ..
4,573 76
4,777 88
1856.
419 57
359 42
1869. . ..
12,003 06
14,612 85
1837.
744 22
568 92
1870. . ..
14,312 48
14,312 48
1858 ..
588 42
499 02
1871. . . .
8,054 10
7,885 20
1859. ...
2,751 30
650 91
8,054 10
7,885 20
1860. . . .
2,100 39
894 73₺
1873 ....
9,185 99
8,994 26
1862 ....
1,976 48
1,705 10
21,271 07
17,583 37
1863 ....
544 13
430 10
1876 ....
40,180 25
34,001 36
1864.
2,159 20%
1,554 50
1877. ...
20,426 09
15,932 30
1865. ...
2,195 42
1,678 11
1878.
. . 17,600 31
11,442 48
1866 ....
1,986 74
1,373 96
1879.
. . 16,968 92
12 402 04
1867.
1,706 24
1,676 28
1880.
18,952 92
16,137 61
1872 ....
1874. . .
9,212 89
1861 ....
2,722 58
2,707 68
1875. ...
*Including balance on hand.
tIncluding $9,300 and $9,985.19 for building school-house and extending water works, and $13,136.69 bonds redeemed.
*Besides $601.91 transferred to the school fund.
§Of this amount Geo. Sherwood paid $1,795.52 as tax.
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FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE CITY IN MAY, 1880.
Liabilities.
$ 4,000 00
Old canal bonds, at 6 per cent.,
2d issue of water works bonds, 8 per cent, 10,000 00
3d issue of same,
6,000 00
School-house bonds, 8 per cent,
7,500 00
Outstanding city orders,
148 37
$27,648 37
Resources.
Balance on hand, ,
$2,815 31
Balance due on tax duplicate,
5,161 53
$7,976 84
Excess of liabilities,
$19,671 53
GOSHEN CITY STATISTICS.
An election was held April 18, 1868, to test the voice of the people in the matter of erecting the town of Goshen into a city. This resulted in an affirmative vote of 391 and a negative vote of 31. The city received its charter, and an election of officers was held on May 5 the same year. The following is a copy of the first city tax duplicate:
Direct city taxes, $4,556.88; fines and costs, $350.35; show licenses, $79.50; peddler's licenses, $60.75; auction licenses, $29.00; sale of cemetery lots, $132.00; stairway licenses, $25.00; ten-pin-alley licenses, $25.00; liquor licenses, $1,150.00; freight refunded, $4.25; sale of lumber, $23.17; loans to treasury, $2,950- .00; received from County Treasurer on duplicate, 1867, $2,417.51; delinquent tax, 1867, $199.65. Total taxes received, $12,003.06.
In addition to the resources given in the report, there is city property valued at $8,232.00, comprising seven acres cemetery lands, unplatted, valued at $1,400.00; 306 lots, platted, valned at $5,332.00, and property within the city valued at $1,500.00. So that the financial condition of Goshen is in reality most satis- factory, for when all the improvements are considered, the net liability of $19,671.53 appears very small indeed, and leaves the citizens quite content with the municipal administration.
OFFICERS OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF GOSHEN FROM 1868 TO 1879.
1868-'69 .- H. D. Wilson, Mayor; Laporte Heefner, Clerk; Joseph Lauferty, Treasurer; H. G. Hale, Marshal; J. A. S. Mitch-
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ell, City Attorney; James Allison, Assessor; George B. Walter, Chief Fire Engineer; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer. Council- men .- A. A. Norton, W. B. Snyder, Samuel F. Eisenhour, George B. Walter, M. B. Hascall. Board of Health .- M. M. Latta, W. C. Harrington, W. W. Wickham.
1869-'70 .- H. D. Wilson, Mayor; Laporte Heefner, Clerk; Joseph Lanferty, Treasurer; H. G. Hale, Marshal; W. E. Pooley, Assessor; J. A. S. Mitchell, City Attorney; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer; Adam Yeakel, Chief Fire Engineer. Councilmen .- Henry Bartlemay, N. Pooley, H. J. Beyerle, *W. W. McVitty, S. F. Eisenhour, M. B. Hascall.
1870-'71 .- M. B. Hascall, Mayor; Laporte Heefner, Clerk; Joseph Lauferty, Treasurer; C. D. Henkel, Marshal; +William Pooley, Assessor; J. A. S. Mitchell, City Attorney; W. A. McAl- lister, Chief Fire Engineer; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer. Councilmen .- W. A. McAllister, Christian Hinderer, S. F. Eisen- hour, Moses Simmons, H. Bartlemay, H. J. Beyerle.
1871-'72 .- M. B. Hascall, Mayor; C. N. Fassett, Clerk; A. A. Norton, Treasurer; C. D. Henkel, Marshal; Israel Wyland, Assessor; J. A. S. Mitchell, City Attorney; M. S. Davis, Chief Fire Engineer; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer. Conncilmen .- H. K. Thomas, H. Bartlemay, H. J. Beyerle, C. Hinderer, J. C. Beck, S. F. Eisenhour.
1872-'3 .- J. A. S. Mitchell, Mayor; C. N. Fassett, Clerk; A. A. Norton, Treasurer; L. A. Hascall, Marshal; Israel Wyland, Assessor; W. A. Woods, City Attorney; Elias Gortner, Chief Fire Engineer; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer. Conncilmen .- S. F. Eisenhour, H. K. Thomas, H. Bartlemay, Daniel M. Fravel, C. Hinderer, H. J. Beyerle.
1873-'74 .- J. A. S. Mitchell, Mayor; C. N. Fassett, Clerk; A. A. Norton, Treasurer; L. A. Hascall, Marshal; Israel Wyland, Assessor; W. A. Woods, City Attorney; O. F. Dewey, Chief Fire Engineer; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer. Councilinen .-¿ S. F. Eisenhour, H. G. Hale, H. Bartlemay, D. M. Fravel, C. Hinderer, Christian Schaffer.
*Resigned July 26, 1869, and Moses Simmons elected Sept. 6, 1869, to fill vacancy .
+Resigned Jan. 3, 1871, and Israel Wyland appointed to fill vacancy.
#Died Nov. 24, 1873, and W. W. McVitty elected Dec. 13, 1873, to fill unexpired term.
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1874-'75 .- George Freese, Mavor; W. A. Bradford, Clerk; A. A. Norton, Treasurer; A. Myers, Marshal; Israel Wyland, Assessor; R. M. Johnson, City Attorney; O. F. Dewey, Chief Fire Engineer ; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer. Conncilmen .- C. B. Alderman, D. M. Fravel, P. A. Welch, H. G. Hale, HI. Bartlemay, C. Hinderer.
1875-76 .- George Freese, Mayor; W. A. Bradford, Clerk, A. A. Norton, Treasurer; A. Myers, Marshal; Israel Wyland, Assessor; R. M. Johnson, City Attorney; O. F. Dewey, Chief Fire Engineer; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer. Councilmen .- C. B. Alderman, D. M. Fravel, H. G. Hale, J. B. Slaughter, C. Hinderer, P. A. Welch.
1876-'77 .- C. B. Alderman, Mayor; W. A. Bradford, Clerk; A. A. Norton, Treasurer; A. Myers, Marshal; Israel Woyland, Assessor; R. M. Johnson, City Attorney; O. F. Dewey, Chief Fire Engineer; George T. Ager, Civil Engineer. Councilmen .- H. G. Hale, J. B. Slaughter, D. M. Fravel, J. P. Butterfield. P. A. Welch, Henry Kolb.
1877-'78 .- C. B. Alderman, Mayor; W. A. Bradford, Clerk; A. A. Norton, Treasurer; A. Myers, Marshal; Israel Wyland, Assessor; L .- W. Wanner, City Attorney. J. W. Drake, Chief Fire Engineer. Councilman .- II. G. Hale, J. B. Slaughter, D. M. Fravel, J. P. Butterfield, P. A. Welch, Henry Kolb.
1878-'79 .- C. B. Alderman, Mayor; J. B. Walk, Clerk; Adam Yeakel, Treasurer; A. Myers, Marshal; James Blaine, Assessor; L. W. Wanner, City Attorney; J. W. Drake, Chief Fire Engineer. Councilmen. - P. A. Welsh, J. A. Carmien, A. M. Parsons, II. G. Hale, J. B. Slaughter, Henry Kolb.
1879-'80 .- C. B. Alderman, Mayor; J. B. Walk, Clerk; Adam Yeakel, Treasurer; A. Myers, Marshal; James Blaine, Assessor; L. W. Wanner, City Attorney; * J. W. Drake, Chief Fire Engi- neer. Councilmen .- Henry Kolb, John Rieth, W. A. Bradford, A. M. Parsons, J. A. Carmien, John McAuley.
1880-'81 .- Charles B. Alderman, third term, Mayor; Anstin B. Slattery, Clerk; Christian H. Schaffer, Treasurer; James M. Barns, City Marshal. Councilmen .- A. M. Parsons, James O. Smith and Christian Engell.
A city hall is in prospectns to be built on that portion of the city property, on Fourth street, between Jefferson and Washington;
* Died 25, 1879, and William A. McClenathan elected to serve unexpired term.
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however, a year or two may elapse before the Council will take up the work.
GOSHEN CITY SCHOOLS.
The school buildings of Goshen are to the city, in point of architectural style, what the court-house is to the county. Their projectors met with some opposition from the conservative or old- fogy element; but the proud boast of the citizens is justified by the fact that over 90 per centum of the people were in favor of progress, and co-operated cordially with the trustees. Anti-pro- gressiveness, however sincere, deserves to be ostracised. If it were supreme this Republic would fall to atoms, and return to the crude, pre-Revolutionary times, when a trans-Atlantic oligarchy subjected a people to its whims and caprices, and formed plans for enslaving the first generation of Americans-formed plans that brought them disgrace, infamy and defeat instead of new victims and victory. So is it at present. He who would pro- test against advance must ultimately be crushed under it. It will not halt in its march, and the conservatism that once opposed it must flee to the desert, or hide from its approach. The true economy of human life looks at ends rather than at incidents, and adjusts expenditures to a moral scale of values. DeQuincey pictures a woman sailing over the water, awakening out of sleep to find her necklace untied and one end hanging over the stream, while pearl after pearl drops from the string beyond her reach; while she clutches at the one just falling, another drops beyond recovery. Our days drop one after another by our carelessness, like pearls from a string, as we sail the sea of life. Prudence requires a wise husbanding of time to see that none of these golden coins are spent for nothing. The waste of time is a more serious loss than the extravagances against which there is such acclaim.
There are thousands who do nothing but lounge and carouse from morning till midnight-drones in the human hive, who con- sume and waste the honey that honest workers wear themselves out in making, and insult the day by their dissipation and debanch. There are tens of thousands of idle, frivolous creatures who do nothing but consume and waste and wear what honest hands accu- mulate, and incite others to live as useless and worthless lives as they do. Were every man and woman an honest toiler, all would have an abundance, and half of every day for recreation and cult- ure. The expenditure of af few dollars in matters of taste is a small
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matter in comparison with the wasting of months and years by thousands who have every advantage society can offer, and exact as a right every privilege it affords. The school must progress if the heavens should fall. It is the next highest hope of Christianity, and one which forever is breathed by the patriot and the philanthopist. 'The old idea of "where igno- rance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." is long since exploded, and nothing less than the education of the masses is required by the civilization of the times and the intelligence of the republic. Notwithstanding the calamity of the destrnetion by fire of the high- school building in 1874, the City Council took steps for the imme- diate erection of the present magnificent building, which was com- pleted in 1875, under the management of the School Board then in power, viz .: H. J. Beyerle, Elias Gortner and E. L. Billings.
Provisions are now being made for making a large addition to the Fifth-street school-honse during the ensning summer vacation. The high-school building cost $20,000 and is a model of school architecture. The ward school-honses are intended to be of suffi- cient capacity to meet the requirements of the present. The follow- ing are the names of the present Board of Education:
Board of Education for 1879-'80; also for 1880-'S1: W. . A. Whippy. M. D., President: term expires June, 18:2; W. A. Mc- Allister. Secretary: term expires June, 1883; Elias Gortner. Treas- nrer; term expires June, 18$1. The interest that this Board has taken in the welfare of the schools, in sustaining every judicious proposition and effort put forth by the instructors for the permanent improvement of the schools, is highly commendable, and their effi- cient labors are duly appreciated by the intelligent people of Goshen.
Instruetors for 1880-'$1 .- Ambrose Blunt, A. M .. Superintend- ent: Emma R. Chandler. Principal of the High School; Charles S. Taylor, A. B., O. H. Blaeklidge, M. S., Lettie Cleveland, Cora Beckwith, Julia E. Goodwin. Maggie MeGuffin, Kate C. Gortner, Julia C. Curtis, Marie H. Mesiek, Lucretia B. Collett. Emma L. Butler. Maggie Ketchum, Matilda Mullin and Nettie Crary.
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