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Photography .- The first of the business of sun- painting was done here in 1842 by T. W. Whitridge, as related in another chapter. Improvement was slow, but in the last ten years photography has made as striking advances as any industry in the city. There were 20 establishments here in 1880, pro- ducing about $50,000 worth of work. There are 23 here now, doing probably double that amount of work.
Electric Lights .- The Brush Electric Light Com- pany was organized here June 17, 1881, with John Caven, so long mayor of the city, as president. The capital is $150,000. A large establishment was built by them on South Pennsylvania Street, below Geor- gia, and powerful machinery put in, and operations begun within a year after the organization. About 120 lights, each of 2000 candle-power, are main- tained, but for private use. The city has not yet secn fit to use the light, though advantageous offers have been made it by the company.
The Telephone .- Two telephone companies were organized here in 1878,-one under the control of the Western Union Telegraph Company, using the
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Edison invention, and one managed by Mr. E. T. Gilliland, of the Electrical Manufactory, who used the Bell invention. The former had the exchange in the Western Union telegraph-office, the other was lo- eated in the Vance Block. The two were consoli- dated into the Western Telephone Company in 1879, and the consolidated exchange kept in the Western Union location. In 1882 the Central Union Com- pany was formed, absorbing the others. Very re- cently the exchange was removed to the building on the southwest corner of Illinois and Ohio Streets, the removal causing a good deal of embarrassment to the citizens as well as the company. There are now about 1000 "renters," as they are called, requiring the services of about 50 persons, though 100 were needed during the removal.
Sewing-Machines .- In 1870 the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing-Machine Company established a fac- tory at the upper end of Massachusetts Avenue, to make the cabinet-work of their machines, and it was carried on extensively for several years. But for some half-dozen years past it seems to have declined, and suspend finally, as no return is made of any of that class of work. Agencies for the sale of machines are numerous.
Indianapolis as a Manufacturing Centre .- The variety, extent, and value of the manufactures, of which the foregoing summary may give the reader an idea, are an assurance that the position as a manu- facturing centre which the city has attained is very unlikely to be lost or seriously weakened. The influ- ences that combined to create this impulse continue in their original force, or rather, are stronger than ever. The central position of the city, its central position in the State, or rather in the Northwest, has brought to it from all directions the new lines of com- munication opened by the locomotive, and in these it has found the advantages by the energetic and saga- cious improvement of which it has attained its posi- tion. These are the work of man's intelligence and energy, and are, therefore, in no way dependent on the accidents or changes of nature. They are as easily kept as got, and more, for as. population attracts population and business attracts business, the concen- tration of railways attracts or compels the addition of
railways, when new outlets to markets are needed. The city will therefore, in all probability, continue to grow from the roots already sent out, as it has grown in sending them out. But to this probability must be added others of even greater promise. No city in the West, or even in the world, offers such opportu- nities for illimitable and easy expansion. There is not a foot of ground within ten miles in any direction that cannot casily be built upon and added to her area. Cheap lots are therefore possible for more years and growth than would suffice to make it as large as London. There is no cramping of hills, or streams, or unhealthy localities, to huddle up settlements in any quarter and raise real estate to figures inaccessi- ble to poor men. The health is not surpassed by that of any city in the country or any country. There is nothing in that direction to offset the advantages offered by a flourishing town, with an inexhaustible area of cheap building-lots. The schools are equal to any in the country, East or West, and have been sup- ported with unfailing liberality and unanimity. The public improvements are in good part completed, or advancing to completion, so that the heaviest expenses of preparing for comfortable and profitable residence have been incurred, and will not need to be renewed. Thus it offers the four best inducements to the emi- grant,-cheap residence, ample means of education, light taxes, and assured health. Without these the unequaled railroad advantages might have left, and might still leave, it merely a flourishing town, but not a large commercial and manufacturing centre.
But to all the advantages enumerated there must be added another equal to either, if not to all to- gether. This is the city's vicinity to the best coal- field in the world for all classes of manufactures. Fuel is the prime necessity of manufacturing in these days, and is likely to remain so until electricity or Ericsson's concentrated sunlight replaces it. Raw material goes to power to be worked up. The phi- losophy of this movement need not be considered here. It is enough, in this connection, to state the fact. Power exists here in such abundance as all the developments of England cannot equal. Within two or three hours' run of us lies a coal-field of nearly eight thousand square miles. We enter it by five,
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and soon may by six, different lines of railway, making a monopoly, and consequently a heavy cost of transportation, impossible. The dip of the strata is to the west, thus turning up the outcrop in the direction nearest to us, and making that part which is most easily mined also the most easily reached. The seams, in many cases, are mined by drifting in from hill-sides, sometimes by shallow shafts, some- times by merely stripping off a few feet of the sur- face soil. The ground above is all capable of culti- vation and can support all the men, and more, necessary to work them. Mining, therefore, can be carried on at the lowest possible cost. But more than this, the character of the coal itself increases the facility and consequent cheapness of mining. It is soft and easily broken ; its laminations are casily 'separated ; it breaks easily across the line of stratifi- cation ; in fact, is seamed with lines of breakage crossing those of cleavage. It can be thus knocked out of the seam in large, square masses, or chunks, as one might knock bricks out of a dry-piled wall. This, again, assures easy mining. It is almost en- tirely free from the dangerous gases that produce such fearful calamities in deeper mines of different coal. It is not saying too much to say that no coal has yet been found anywhere in the world so easily accessible, so cheaply mined, or so free from danger to the miner. These facts alone are enough to assure to the city all the advantages that belong to the pos- session of inexhaustible fuel and illimitable mechanical power.
But there are other facts besides these that " make assurance double sure." This coal, called block coal, -from the peculiarity above alluded to of breaking into blocks,-is really a sort of mineral charcoal. It contains no sulphur, or so little that no analysis has been able to detect more than a trace of it. It contains enough naphtha to kindle almost instantane- ously, and it burns without caking, or melting and running together, as most bituminous coals do. These two qualities-freedom from sulphur and burning without caking-every man accustomed to using coal for steam, or for smelting or working iron, will understand at once to make the Indiana block coal unequaled for all manufacturing purposes. For
iron it is unapproachable, being but little different from charcoal. In fact, much of it is charcoal, as any one can see by breaking a lump. The whole surface will be found mottled by alternate lines of bright and dull black, and the latter are laminations of mere mineral charcoal. It will rub off on the fingers or clothes like charcoal, and it can be scraped up in little heaps of charcoal-dust. The brighter laminations are a sort of cannel coal. The whole mass, instead of the glossy, polished look of Pitts- burgh coal, is dull and dark, rather than black, with frequent splotches of grayish hue, like an under- ground rust, upon it. It is, in all respects, different from the ordinary bituminous coal, which has to be coked before it can be used to smelt or work iron. To its singular adaptation to iron manufacture is due the enormous development of that interest in the city within the past ten years.
The field is calculated, from the facts so far ascer- tained, to contain over twenty thousand millions of tons of this block coal. This is more than will be worked up by all the population that can be collected on the vast plain about Indianapolis in five hundred years.
Besides the block, the field contains many seans of the ordinary coal, though varying less from the other than does the Eastern kind. There is every variety for all kinds of work, and all can be obtained withi cqual ease and cheapness. The whole field is calculated to contain sixty-five thousand millions of tons, much of it close to the surface, none of it so deep as to need the costly shafting and machinery of the English or Eastern mines.
In the possession of this amount of fuel, Indian- apolis offers to the manufacturer, and especially to the iron manufacturer, these advantages :
1st. The best coal that has yet been found in the world to make or work iron, and as good as any- better than most-for making steam.
2d. Cheap coal, made cheap by ease of mining, freedom from danger, facilities for approach in mining, and by the capability of the covering country to sup- port the miners.
3d. Cheap transportation of coal from the mines to the city, assured by the actual operation of four lines
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of railway penetrating the field in four directions, with the certain addition of a fifth, already on the way to completion. Added to these is the probability of a cheap narrow-gauge line, which the recent de- velopments as to the value of that mode of transpor- tation have suggested to men not likely to abandon it. The competition of these lines makes high prices impossible.
4th. Choice of coal. Standing at the junction of five or six lines of coal transportation, each bringing a different variety or different grade, the manufacturer at Indianapolis can choose that which suits him best, at a price regulated by strong and steady competition. Right in the coal-field, he would have to take what was near him, or obtain better at a cost that would make profit impossible. Iron men know well the necessity of adapting coal to ore, and the uncertainty there is of finding one kind yielding an equal product with another. The city is, therefore, a better point for smelting, as well as puddling, rolling, casting, or any other process of iron manufacture, than any other point in the State.
5th. The numerous railway lines centring here afford all possible facilities for obtaining necessary raw material or shipping completed products. We have thirteen lines entering the city, and, counting the old Madison road, fourteen. There are only three counties in the State that are not in direct rail- way connection with us, that is, that cannot send a passenger from there here all the way by rail. This can hardly be said of another State in the Union, except some of the New England States. There are only these three or four from which a mer- chant may not come here, do business, and return in the same day, with suitable arrangement of connec- tions and trains. This places every dealer in the State at the doors of our manufacturers virtually.
6th. Besides these advantages, offered to the iron manufacturer especially, the advantages of cheap fuel and unequaled transportation are offered to every class of manufacture. To wood-workers we can show hardly less capabilities of profitable labor than to iron men.
7th. We offer plenty and cheap building stone, brick, and other building materials.
The Coal Trade .- The completion of the Van- dalia (then Terre Haute and Indianapolis) Railroad in 1852 was the signal for active operations in the Indiana coal-field, which was cut across the middle by the new line, and opened up to the readiest possible means of transportation. But enterprise proceeded rather slowly at the outset. The value of the new fuel, for new it was to most of the settlers of White River Valley, was not appreciated. It was not better than wood, it was a great deal dirtier, and it did not then appear likely to be cheaper. So the country viewed the opening of its new and great resource with a very indifferent eye. The late generous and philan- thropic Chauncey Rose, president of the railroad, fumed and swore because some of his old ties and spikes had been used by a firm from this city in lay- ing a little side track to connect their mine with his line and make business for him. He did not want that sort of business. The first mining attempted by any one in Indianapolis was by John Caven, mayor during the war, and now president of the Brush Electric Light Company, and a partner by the name of Robert Griffith. They opened a surface mine; merely skinning off a few feet of alluvial soil, near the little town of Brazil in the fall of 1852, and prosecuted the enterprise under very great disadvan- tages all that winter. Then the trouble and expense became too weighty, and they quit and sold out. Some little of this coal was burned in the city, but not much, and what was used was not greatly liked. Gradually, however, as forests were swept away and cultivation extended, wood became dear, and the war- times and prices made it dearer, and then coal began to find a readier sale. For twenty years the business has steadily increased by the increasing consumption for domestic purposes, and by the increasing number and use of locomotives and stationary engines. In 1880 the consumption of all kinds of coal here was 252,357 tons, of which 25,000 was Pittsburgh coal. In 1882 it was about 350,000 tons. For the past year no returns have been completed, but it is esti- mated that the increase has been about ten per cent., which would raise the total well up towards 400,000 tons. There are 31 coal and coke dealers in the city.
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CHAPTER XIX.
CIVIL LIST OF INDIANAPOLIS AND MARION COUNTY.
FOLLOWING is a complete list of the town and city officers of Indianapolis from 1832 to the present time, kindly furnished for this work by Mr. George H. Fleming, who was appointed by the Council to revise the city ordinances, viz. :
PRESIDENTS OF BOARDS OF TRUSTEES.
Samuel Henderson .. .Oct. 12, 1832, to Sept. 30, 1833 James Edgar (resigned as trustee) ....... Sept. 30 to Deo. 9, 1833
Benjamin I. Blythe ... March 7, 1834, to Feb. 14, 1835
Alexander F. Morrison Feb. 14 to Oct. 2, 1835
Nathan B. Palmer.
Oct. 2, 1835, to April 13, 1836
George Lockerbic ..
April 13, 1836, to April 4, 1837
Joshua Soule, Jr ..
April 4, 1837, to April 2, 1838
PRESIDENTS OF COMMON COUNCIL.
James Morrison. 1838-39
Nathan B. Palmer 1839-40
Henry P. Coburn, 1840-41
William Sullivan (resigned Nov. 12, 1841) 1841
David V. Culley 1841-44, 1850-53
Lazarus B. Wilson 1844-45
Joseph A. Levy 1845-47
Samnel S. Rooker (resigned Nov. 1, 1847). 1847
Charles W. Cady.
1847-48
George A. Chapman 1848-49
William Eckert .....
1849-50
Andrew A. Louden (resigned Jnne 3, 1850) 1850
MAYORS.
Samuel Henderson. 1847-49
Horatio C. Newcomb (resigned Nov. 7, 1851) 1849-51
Caleb Scudder. 1851-54
James McCready 1854-56
Henry F. West (died Nov. 8, 1856) .. 1856
Charles Coulon (to fill vacancy until Nov. 22, 1856). 1856
William John Wallace (resigned May 3, 1858). 1856-58
Samuel D. Maxwell. 1858-63 John Caven 1863-67, 1875-81
Daniel Macauley. 1867-73
James L. Mitchell 1873-75
Daniel W. Grubbs 1881-84
1884-86 John L. McMaster.
PRESIDENTS OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
Horatio C. Newcomb. 1877-78
William D. Wiles. 1878-79
Jonathan M. Ridenour. 1879-80
Henry Coburn .. 1880-81
James T. Layman.
1881-84
TOWN CLERKS.
Samuel Merrill (trustee). .Oct. 12 to Nov. 27, 1832 Isaac N. lleylin (resigned March 22, 1833). 1832-33
Israel P. Griffith (resigned Deo. 6, 1833) 1833
Ilugh O'Neal
1833-34, 1836-38
James Morrison (resigned Oct. 2, 1835). 1834-35
Joshua Soule, Jr .. Oct. 17, 1835, to April 4, 1836
SECRETARIES OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Joshua Soule, Jr. 1838-39
Hervey Brown. 1839-43
William L. Wingate .. 1843-45
James G. Jordan (resigned Dec. 10, 1849) 1845-49
Joseph T. Roberts 1849-51
Daniel B. Culley 1851-53
CITY CLERKS.
Daniel B. Culley .. 1853-54
James N. Sweetser. 1854-55
Alfred Stephens (died Oct. 14, 1856). 1855-56
Frederick Stein (to fill vacancy) 1856-57
George II. West. 1857-58
John G. Waters. 1858-63
Cyrus S. Butterfield 1863-67
Daniel M. Ransdell 1867-71
John R, Clinton 1871-75
Benjamin C. Wright.
1875-79
Joseph T. Magner. 1879-84
George T. Breunig. 1884-86
CLERK OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
George T. Breunig.
1877-84
CITY AUDITOR.
John G. Waters.
1866-67
TOWN TREASURERS.
John Wilkens (trustee). Oct. 12 to Nov. 27, 1832
Obed Foote (died) 1832
llervey Bates.
1833-35
Thomas II. Sharpe 1835-39
Charles B. Davis 1839-40, 1841-44
Humphrey Griffith 1840-41
Jobn L. Welshans 1844-46
George Norwood 1846-47
CITY TREASURERS.
Nathan Lister (resigned April 22, 1848) 1847-48
Henry Ohr (to fill vacancy). 1848
James Greer (resigned Aug. 9, 1848) 1848
James II. Kennedy. 1848-50, 1851
John S. Spann (resigned Jan. 6, 1851).
1850-51
Ambrose F. Shortridge.
1851-55
Harry Vandegrift.
1855-56
Franois King.
1856-58
James M. Jameson
1858-61
Joseph K. Englisb
1861-65
William H. Craft 1865-67
Robert S. Foster. 1867-71
Jobn W. Coons 1871-73
Ilenry W. Tutewiler.
1873-77
William M. Wiles 1877-79
William G. Wasson
1879-81
Isaac Newton Pattison. 1881-86
TOWN ASSESSORS.
Josiah W. Davis (resigned). Nov. 27, 1832-
Butler K. Smith 1833-34
George Lockerbie.
1834-36
John Elder
1836-37
Thomas MeOuat. 1837-38
Albert G. Willard 1838-40
Henry Bradley. 1840-41
Thomas Donnellan 1841-42, 1843-46
James II. Kennedy 1842-43
John Coen 1846-47
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CIVIL LIST OF INDIANAPOLIS AND MARION COUNTY.
CITY ASSESSORS.
Joshua Black
1847-48
Charles I. Iland 1848-49
Henry Ohr.
1849-50
Samuel P. Daniels
1850-51
Lemuel Vanlandingham. 1851-52
John S. Allen ..
1852-53
Matthew Little.
1853-54
John G. Waters
1854-55
James II. Kennedy 1855-56
John B. Stumph ..
..... 1856-58 (resigned July 6, 1864), 1860-64
David L. Merrymaa.
1858-59
Robert W. Rebiason
1859-66
William Hadley 1864-79
Milten F. Cennett
1879-84
Engene Sauley
1884-86
TOWN ATTORNEYS.
James Morrison
1837-38
Hagh O'Neal 1838-40
Hiram and Hervey Brown 1840-46
Alanson J. Stevens and John L. Ketcham
1846-47
CITY ATTORNEYS.
Andrew M. Carnahan (resigned April 3, 1848) .. 1847-48
Napoleon B. Taylor. 1848, 1853-56
William B. Greer. 1848-49
Edwin Coburn
1849-50
William Wallace (resigned Oct. 28, 1850).
1850
Abram A. Hammond
1850-51
Albert G. Porter.
John T. Morrison. 1851-53
1856-57
Benjamin Harrison
1857-58
Samuel V. Morris.
1858-59
Byron K. Elliott ... .1859-61 (resigned Oct. 31, 1870), 1865-70, [1873-75 William Sullivan .. .Sept. 27, 1832, to June 18, 1838
James N. Sweetser 1861-63 Luke Munsell. .1838-39, 1839-41, 1843-44 Richard J. Ryan .. 1863-65 Robert B. Hanna (resigned Aug. 17, 1839). 1839 James Wood, Sr 1841-43, 1844-47
Jonathan S. Harvey 1870-73
Casabianca Byfeld (deposed May 8, 1876) 1875-76
Roscoe O. Hawkins
1876-79
John A. IIenry
1879-82
Caleb S. Denny
1882-
CITY SOLICITOR.
Byron K. Elliott.
Nov. 11, 1872, to May 12, 1873
TOWN MARSIIALS.
Glidden True.
.Nov. 27, 1832, to Feb. 8, 1833
Edward McGuire (resigned May 10, 1833). 1833 Samuel Jenison (resigned 1834). 1833-34
Dennis I. White. 1834-35 Jehn C. Busic (resigned Oct. 7, 1835). 1835 John A. Boyer (resigned Dec. 19, 1835) 1835 Richard D. Mattingly 1835-36 William Campbell 1836-39 James Vanblaricum .1839-42, 1844-43
Robert C. Allison
1842-45
Benjamin Ream 1843-44
Newton N. Norwood
1845-46
Jacob B. Fitler.
1846-47
CITY MARSHALS.
William Campbell 1847-18 Jolın L. Bishop 1848-49 Sims A. Colley 1849-56, 1851-52
Benjamin Pilbean
1850-51, 1853-55
Elisha MeNeely 1852-53
George W. Pitts 1855-56
Jefferson Springsteen
1856-58, 1859-61
Augustine D. Rese.
1858-59
David W. Loucks (died April 24, 1862) 1861-62
John Unversaw
1862-69
George Taffe. 1869-71
Thomas D. Ames 1871-73
W. Clinton West. 1873-75
Eli Thompson
1875-77
Alonzo D. Harvey
1877-79
Richard S. Colter (legislated out of office) .... 1879 to Apr. 16, '83
CAPTAINS OF THE WATCH.
Jefferson Springsteen. 1854-55
Jesse M. Vanblaricum .1855-56, 1862
Charles G. Warner.
1856-57
Augustine D. Rose (resigned Sept. 14, 1861) ... 1857-58, 1859-61
Samuel Lefever
1858-59
Thomas A. Ramsey
1861-62
John R. Cotton.
1862
CHIEFS OF POLICE.
David Powell
1864-65
SamucI A. Cramer. 1865
Jesse M. Vanblaricum 1865-66
Thomas S. Wilson 1866-69
Henry Paul
1870-71
Eli Thompson
1871-74
Frank Wilson
1874-76
Austin C. Dewey
1876-77
Albert Travis
1877-80
Robt. C. Williamson (legislated out of office) ... 1880 to April 16,
TOWN SURVEYORS. [1883
CITY CIVIL ENGINEERS.
James Wood, Sr. (died Nov. 15, 1862) ..
1847-55, 1858-62
Amzi B. Condit ..
1855-56
Daniel B. Hosbrook 1856-58 James Wood, Jr. (died July, 1866). 1862-66
Joshua Staples, Jr.
1866-67
R. M. Patterson. .1867-73, 1878-79 (resigned June 1, 1881), [1879-81
James W. Brown
1873-75
Bernhard H. Deitz (resigned June 16, 1878). 1875-78 Thaddeus Reed (removed July 14, 1879). 1879
Samuel H. Shearer
1881-
CITY GAS INSPECTORS.
George Il. Fleming (left city in March, 1871) Feb. 17, 1868-71 William S. Cone (resigned Nov. 6, 1871). 1871
E. T. Cox ..
1871-73
Ryland T. Brown
1873-74
Alexander Robertson (defaulted; office abolished).
1874-75
TOWN SUPERVISORS OF STREETS.
Themas Lupton
1838-39
James Vanblaricum 1839-42
Robert €. Allison. 1842-43
Thomas M. Weaver. 1843-44
William Wilkinson
1845-46
Jacob B. Fitler
1846-47
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CITY STREET COMMISSIONERS.
Jacob B. Fitler .. 1847-48, 1855-57
John Bisbop. 1848-49
George W. Pitts 1849-50
George Youngerman 1850-51
Joseph Butsob.
1851-52
Hugh Slaven .. 1852-53
William Ilughey 1853-55
Henry Colestock. 1857-61
John A. Colestock 1861-63
John M. Kemper ..
1863-65
August Richter.
1865-69
Augustus Bruner.
1869-73
Thomas Wiles.
1873-75
Stephen Mattler (deposed May 8, 1876). 1875-76
Leander A. Fulmer
1876-
CLERKS OF MARKETS.
Thomas Chinn (resigned) ........ Nov. 27, 1832, to Feb. 21, 1835
Fleming T. Luse (resigned July 29, 1835). 1835
Andrew Smith 1835-36
Jacob Roop (died
-, 1837).
1836-37
James Gore (resigned Feb. 6, 1837) 1837
Jeremiah Wormegen (died -, 1846). 1837-46
James Vanblaricum 1839-4]
Jacob Miller
1845-47
Jacob B. Fitler. 1846-47
CITY MARKET-MASTERS.
Jacob Miller (resigned Aug. 2, 1852) .. .... 1847-52, 1854-55
Sampson Barbee, Sr. (resigned March 20, 1848) 1847-48
Henry Ohr .. 1853-54
Richard Weeks
1855-56, 1857-58
George W. Jlarlan
.1852-53, 1856-57
Charles John .1858-61, 1862-63, 1864-67
Thomas J. Foos 1861-62
John J. Wenner
1863-64
Sampson Barbee, Jr. 1867-68
Gidcen B. Thompson 1868-69
Theodore W. Pcase 1869-70
Jamos Y. Mardick. 1870-71
John Unversaw 1871-74
John F. Guliek. 1874-76
William Shaw 1876-77 Jchiel B. Hampton 1877-78
Roger R. Shiel. 1877-78
Joseph M. Sutton. 1878-79
Charles N. Lee (resigned Feb. 15, 1879). 1878-79
Levi H. Rowell (to fill vaeaney). 1879
Albert Izor. 1879-80
Leroy C. Morris
1879-80
James A. Gregg .. 1880-82
Edward A. Guthrie (resigned Oct. 4, 1880). 1880
Abraham L. Stoner (resigned May 14, 1883). 1880-83
Orville B. Rankin.
1882-
Joseph R. Shelton 1883-
TOWN WEIGH-MASTERS.
Jacob J. Wiseman (resigned). .. Oet. 27 to Dec. 12, 1835 Edward Davis .. 1835-36
John F. Ramsey. Jan. 30 to April 18, 1836
James Edgar. 1836
James Gore. Jan. 19 to Feb. 6, 1837
Jeremiah Wormegen. Feb. 6 to May 17, 1837 Isaac Harris .. 1837-38 Adam Hangh .. 1838-39, 1840-47
Charles Williams 1839-40
CITY WEIGH-MASTERS.
John Patton.
1847-48
Adam Haugh 1848-56
Willard Nichols 1876-78
John W. Smitber 1878-79
William P. Ballard 1879-80
Jesse DeHaven ... 1880-
SEALERS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Joseph W. Davis 1853-54
Jacob T. Williams. 1854-56
Hugh J. Kelly 1856-57
James M. Jameson 1857-58
John G. Hanning ..
1858-59
Cyrus S. Butterfield
1859-61
James Loucks 1861-66
Joseph L. Bishop.
1866-67
Augustus Bruner
1867-68
Samuel B. Morris
1868-71, 1873-74
William H. Phillips.
1871-73
Ignatz Cook (office abolished). 1874-75
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