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The remains of the elegant parlor were burned in 1856. In the same block stood the two-story frame tavern of Peter Jones. Across the street, in a house poteaux au terre were the stores of George Wallace and Toussiant Dubois, and a little gun shop of John Small, the pioneer gunsmith of Vincennes. Adjoining the Jefferson House was the tannery and residence of Antoine Mar- chall and the fur house of Francis Bosseron, and across the street lived Judge Vanderburg. At the corner of Main and St. Louis was Thorn's saddle shop and Bruner's seed and dye house. Across St. Louis Street was Dunica's tavern, with a sign of a ferry-boat, and back of it was a part of Sackville, converted into a jail. Below Main was Barnet's tavern, at the sign of an Indian with bow and arrows. Then to the church was an open plain, upon which Fort Sackville stood, close to " Block House Square."
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On the corner of Main and Second was the old residence of An- toine Gamelin, the French notaire, who held his commission from le grand monarch. The records of Gamelin and Pierre Quarez are still to be seen occasionally.
At the corner of Third and Busseron stood the frame cottage residence of Antoine Drouet de Richardville, who was of royal descent, and some of whose descendants still live in the county. Near were the residences of John Johnson and Homer Johnson. Grouped about the church were the mud and straw-thatched cot- tages of the old French settlers. In the house on the south cor- ner of Broadway was the place of the meeting of the first Terri- torial Legislature in 1801. A little later, 1809, on the corner of Fourth and Buntin, stood the first court house, and on the sepa- ration of Illinois Territory from Indiana, Vincennes was made the dividing line, and that being so indefinite, the old court house, by common consent, was made the position of that line. At what was then the head of St. Louis Street was the mansion and plan- tation of Gov. W. H. Harrison. This house is of brick, and is in a good state of preservation, although it was begun in 1805 and completed in 1806. It is said to have been the first house of burnt brick west of Chillicothe, or some say Pittsburgh. The doors, sash, mantels and stairs were made at the former place, but the brick were not shipped from Pittsburgh, as they were made a few miles east of town. The style, architecture and finish are creditable to this day. A considerable crack was made in the walls of this building in March, 1811, during a terrible earth- quake that occurred. Here Gov. Harrison entertained his numerous guests in royal style. It was here that Capt. Miller, who became famous at Lundy's Lane by "I'll try, sir," was a guest at the time of the earthquake. Around the mansion, among the elms, catalfas, secret and stately oaks, were the servants' halls and quarters.
Where nature had not furnished trees sufficient, the same had been supplied by artificial means. Beneath the family room was a powder magazine. It is said the General was determined, rather than fall into the hands of the savages, that he and his family would be blown into eternity by this means. These trees, lands and surroundings constituted "my plantation of Grouseland."
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This was the famous treaty ground between Harrison and the various Indian tribes of the Wabash. It was here that Harrison held his celebrated conference with the great Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, who when invited into the house threw himself upon the ground and exclaimed: "The sun is my father, the earth is my mother, and on her bosom will I repose." Whether the actual language of the stern chief, it but illustrates his character; it was during a conference here that came so near resulting in a fearful tragedy. The haughty chief boldly told the Governor that he lied. The interpreter tried to soften the language some, when Tecumseh said, " No, tell him he lies." A dozen tomahawks were raised. Harrison and his few guards stood motionless, but ready. Capt. Parke's company of volunteer dragoons were drawn up some distance away, but not close enough to have saved the gov- ernor and his men, besides they were far inferior in number to the Indians. Cooler judgment at last prevailed, and the tragedy was averted. J. Scott Harrison, a son of the General, who was then a little boy, says that the Rev. Winans was standing in his father's doorway with gun ready for the fray. He further says that Winnemac, a friendly Pottawattomie chief, was near himself and only a short distance from Tecumseh, with his eyes firmly fixed upon the chief and his hands upon his weapon, from whom he afterward learned that he intended to dispatch Tecumseh should a blow be struck.
The first theater was built at the corner of St. Louis and St. Peter's Streets by John Rice Jones. The first company to play in this was in 1807, at which time Robert M. Douglass was drowned while bathing in the river opposite Peter Jones' tavern, in company with some soldiers of the garrison. A strange coin- cidence of the occurrence was that the play for the evening was the one entitled "Drowning men catch at straws." In the same building Mr. McGowan taught school; he also sold meat, good beef, "to the citizens-Indians and negroes excepted." Vin- cennes, in the year 1806, gave entertainment and grace to that wonderful genius but unscrupulous character, Aaron Burr. Here he collected a body of men; here he received financial aid and encouragement from many leading citizens. It is doubtless due their credit to say that they were deceived as to the true import
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of his designs, as was the unfortunate Blennerhassett. The expe- dition from this place, unlike Blennerhassett, never sailed, and Theodosia never became queen. An incident of 1813 was the duel between Parmenus Beckes, sheriff of Knox County, and Dr. Scull, who had been surgeon in Harrison's army of Tippe- canoe, in which pistols were used with fatal effect. The diffi- culty grew out of a social scandal. The duel was fought just across the river on the Illinois side, not far from the foot of a bridge. In the affray Beckes was killed. The scenes in a little over half a century have greatly changed. The old ox tread-mill and the wind-mill have given place to large steam flouring-mills that have a capacity of more than 1,000,000 bushels annually. The old common lands, covered with prairie grass, on which fed the ponies and stunted cattle, have given way to vast cultivated fields of timothy, clover, and other grasses and grains, on which are fed the finest blooded stock. The little old French cart, made entirely of wood, with its rawhide tire, its sleepy pony and unam- bitious driver, his cart loaded with a few sticks of wood, all these have given place to the well-fed horse of civilization, the elegant pleasure carriage, with its proud driver, or the grain wagon of the prosperous farmer, driving his ample supply of grain to market.
Squaws, bearing deerskin sacks of corn or honey, are no longer seen, but the market basket or the delivery wagon in its stead. While the stupid, drunken savage may not be seen, the drunkenness of civilization still remains. And other things have changed. Notwithstanding the ordinance of 1787, and the State constitution of 1816, slavery existed here till about 1840. In 1808 there were 123 slaves, and the census of the town of 1830 showed a slave population of twelve males and twenty females. When Harrison was governor he had quite a retinue of slaves about him. In files of the Sun, from 1808 to 1820, numerous adver- tisements of runaway slaves are seen. On the records are to be seen many contracts between indentured slaves and their masters. These were for some real or fancied debt, the consideration often being of a very trivial amount, but the term of service usually covered the entire term of the period of active life of the in- dentured slave; in other words, it was slavery legalized under the constitution.
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As is well known the early French settlers intermarried in- discriminately with the Indians. Thence sprang a race of creoles, whose descendants are scattered over the country, using the French language exclusively. The generation now growing up learn the English, but the older ones cling steadfastly to the French. The old two-wheeled carts, " caleches," made without the use of metal, were common as late as 1840. Even at that period, the creole population outnumbered the other, and con- trolled elections. They clung tenaciously to their old habits of unrestrained freedom in hunting, fishing, dancing, and raising a little corn and a few esculents. Since 1840 the city has been making much more rapid growth.
ORDINANCES.
The first ordinances for the government of Vincennes were passed in 1805, approved in 1807, and published in the Sun in 1809. The act incorporating the place did not pass until Sep- tember 6, 1814, and was approved by the Territorial Legislature February 2, 1815. It embraced all the lands from the planta- tion of Gen. W. H. Harrison on the northeast to the church lands on the southwest, and from the River St. Jerome (Wabash) to the commons, to be under the name and style of "the Borough of Vincennes." All freeholders and householders were allowed to vote for town trustees, and these were to choose their own chair- man and clerk. Ground for a market-house was purchased, and the town divided into three wards. In 1818 the commons lands (5,400 acres) were given to the town trustees for the purpose of draining the swamps and otherwise improving the town. This was divided into 200 five-acre lots, 100 ten-acre lots, and the remainder into twenty-acre lots. Bids for the survey of the town were advertised in the Western Sun, Indiana Herald, Louisville Journal and Western Spy. The contract for the survey was re- ceived by Homer Johnson and Samuel Emison.
In 1819 the trustees were ordered to provide six fire-hooks and six ladders thirty feet long; also, every family was ordered to provide itself with two two-gallon leathern buckets, and when they had but one chimney, one two-gallon leathern bucket. Ordi- nances were now ordered printed in the Sun and Public Advertiser.
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The market master was ordered to enclose the market house by fence "made of scantling, with turn-stile at each corner;" to open the market on market-day at daylight, and close at 9 o'clock, and to announce the opening by the "blowing of a horn," to keep order, seal every weight and inspect the meat. In 1830 the fol- lowing board of health was appointed for the town: Drs. Wolver- ton, Somes and Davidson. An amendment was made to the charter of Vincennes on January 27, 1831; it was thereafter to be known by the name of the president and trustees of the borough of Vin- cennes. An act for granting a city charter also passed the General Assembly in 1831, and was submitted to a vote of the people on Saturday, June 4, 1831. The election board consisted of R. P. Price, judge; John B. Martin and Joseph Roseman, clerks. There were but twenty-three votes "for" and twenty votes "against" the charter. The vote was not considered legal, and the city charter was not granted until the act of June 10, 1852. The same act was amended January 20, 1855. The remaining portion of the com- mons lands passed into the control of the city council in January, 1856.
Harrison's Addition was made to the "Borough of Vincennes, Indiana Territory," in November, 1816. This was the first, and was surveyed by Robert Buntin. The following have been made since: G. W. Cochran's Addition to borough, August 20, 1853; McCord & Smith's Addition, May 26, 1858; W. W. Hilt, ten lots, March 10, 1858; J. G. Bowman's Addition, July 27, 1858; W. M. Hitt's Addi- tion, March, 1860; Mantle & Noble's Addition, July 16, 1859; Wat- son & Noble's Addition, 1859; J. W. Hinkle's Addition, July 10, 1863; C.W. Allen's Addition (upper survey), Feb. 12, 1866; Sam- uel Judah's Addition, September 25, 1866; McCord & Bayard's Addition, January 31, 1861; N. F. Malott's Addition, May 25, 1868; Peck's Addition (Upper Prairie), February 28, 1874; Mass & Watson's Addition, December, 1870; R. B. Jessup's Addition, April 23, 1875; William Richardville's Addition, June 29, 1876; A. B. Daniels' subdivision lots, May 27, 1872; Ellen Hilt's Addi- tion, August 13, 1877; Charles Connoyer's Addition, September 6, 1879; Bishop Chatard's Addition (Lower Prairie), February 14, 1879; Government Subdivision, June 21, 1881; Frederick Bultman's Addition, January 3, 1882; Chatard's Subdivision of College Ground, August 28, 1884.
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INCORPORATED COMPANIES.
A branch of the old Indiana Bank was established at Vincennes in 1817, of which Nathaniel Ewing was one of the principal di- rectors. After its failure in 1823-24, there was established a State Bank in 1834, and in 1853 the bank of the State. It is now the Vincennes Bank, and was established in 1865. Its cap- ital is $100,000, with $80,000 surplus. Its officers are W. M. Tyler, president, and H. A. Foulks, cashier. The First National Bank was established in 1874, with a capital stock of $100,000. The officers are J. H. Rabb, president, and J. L. Bayard, cashier.
The first gas light company was incorporated September 19, 1859, by Charles P. McGrady, W. H. H. Terrell and associates. under the name of Vincennes Gas Light Company, charter to run twenty years. This proving inadequate for the growing city, the Citizens' Gas Light Company was incorporated January 20, 1876. The following were the stockholders: L. L. Watson, M. D. Lacroix, J. Pollox, Laz. Noble, W. H. De Wolf, H. A. Foulks and G. G. Riley. The capital stock was put at 440 shares of $50 each, with privilege of increasing to $75,000. The capital stock now stands at $50,000. The officers are J. Rabb, president, and George G. Ramsdell, secretary and treasurer. The office is 16 Second street. In 1881 their capacity for manufacturing gas was increased from 12,000,000 cubic feet to over 30,000,000 feet an- nually. They have seven miles of mains and consume 1,200 tons of coal.
The Building and Saving Association, No. 1, was incorporated August 9, 1879, with a capital stock of $100,000 in shares of $100 each. Old Post Building and Loan was incorporated January 7, 1880, also with a capital stock of $100,000, in shares of $100 each. The Knox Building and Loan Association was incorporated in 1883, with a capital stock of $500,000. Incalculable has been the benefit from these associations in building up the city. Noth- ing short of a detailed history would do them justice.
The Vincennes Draw-bridge Company was incorporated Octo- ber 13, 1869, with a capital stock of $40,000 in shares of $50 each: The company was allowed the privilege of increasing its stock to $75,000. In 1875 the city took $20,000 of this stock, and in 1877 increased its stock by.$25,000 additional. In
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1843 the Wabash Navigation Company was organized for the pur- pose of improving the navigation of the Wabash so as to admit large steamers from New Orleans. The undertaking was only partially successful.
The Vincennes Coal Mining Company was organized and in- corporated December 17, 1872, by J. R. Mantle, A. Patton, J. H. Shepard, George Harris and H. A. Foulks; capital stock, $100,000. The mines operated are at Edwardsport.
The Spring Lake Ice Company was incorporated in 1882 with a capital stock of $30,000. This company does a prosperous busi- ness. N. F. Dalton is its president.
The Vincennes Colorific Brick and Tile Company was incorpor- ated by F. Clark, J. R. Mantle, S. P. Ruble, and T. Doyson. This has a capacity of 20,000 brick per day, and a vast quantity of tile. The quantity of brick manufactured at the three yards amounts to about 3,000,000 annually.
THE STREET RAILROAD.
The charter for the street railway was granted October 24, 1881, to Charles Graeter, Frederick Graeter, their associates, suc- cessors or assigns, to organize themselves into a body corporate and politic under the laws of Indiana, under the name and style of the Vincennes Citizens' Street Railway Company. The char- ter calls for the route now taken, and requires the completion of the same within two years from date of charter, with the privilege of extending the same. It restricts the fare to 5 cents each way, and requires the running of cars every twenty minutes between the hours of 6 A. M. and 10 P. M. The capital stock is $15,000. Frederick Graeter is president of the company, and G. W. Graeter is secretary and superintendent.
THE WATER WORKS.
A vote was taken on the question of water works on July 25, 1885, and the privilege of building the same passed the city council July 13, 1885. It was granted Samuel R. Bullock, Will- iam S. Mercer, their associates, successors and assigns. The privilege was granted for twenty years, the city to pay an annual rental of $5,000, payable in quarterly installments, with legal rate of interest on deferred payments unless the city purchase the work sooner.
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On August 6, 1817, the great flouring-mill of Ewing, Hay, Parke & Co. was begun. A quantity of land twenty arpents front and forty arpents deep was purchased in the Upper Prairie survey on which to erect the mill. The mill was both a saw and grist- mill, and was to have four saws to be driven by 200 horse-power engines, and capable of making 200 barrels of flour per day. The company issued bills of credit similar to bank notes, some of which are to be seen yet occasionally bearing the signatures of N. Ewing, J. D. Hay, W. Felton, C. Small, and Benjamin Parke. The enterprise proved rather disastrous to most of the stockhold- ers.
BUSINESS HOUSES.
The principal business and professional men between 1810 and 1840 were Peter Jones, John D. Hay, Samuel Hays, G. R. C. Sullivan, Elihu McNamee, Elkana Babbitt, Henry C. Mills, Will- iam Mieure, M. Brouillette, Samuel Thorne, Frederick Watson, George Davis, M. Jones, Christian Graeter, Tomlinson & Rose, John R. Kintz, H. D. Wheeler, Burtch & Heberd, J. & S. Wise, Smith & Carson, Rose & Harper, B. Shelmeire & Co., Francis Bayard, William G. Foulks, Brouillette & Vanderburg, M. Crom- alin, J. & W. Hay, William Lindsey, Samuel Brunner, David L. Brunner, C. Clark, Rose & Ewing, Thorn & Tracy, L. C. Lang- ton, G. Cruikshank & Co., Philander Fellows, Clark & Brown, Fifield & Bordalin, Wheeler & Bailey, Robert Smith & Co., J. G. Crow, and J. W. Moore. Between 1850 and 1860 there were druggists, A. W. Morris, Luck & Lauder; dry goods, Adam Gimbel, Worman & Koster, A. J. Wise & Co., M. D. Lacroix & Brother, Charles Graeter, M. L. Edson, John Caldwell, William Hays, J. W. Maddox, and Theodore Husselage; clothiers, Isaac Joseph, John H. Massey, and Moses Gimbel; grocers, J. B. Laplante & Brother, C. A. Wessert, Frederick Graeter, Garret Reiter, L. B. Smith, James T. Cox, W. & R. Owens; attorneys, Allen, Usher & Palmer, Cauthorn & Wise, J. W. Booth, R. M. Curran, A. T. Ellis, Judah & Denny, W. A. Jones, John Law, and John Baker; physicians, Dr. Batz, Hiram Decker, H. M. Smith, J. R. Mantle, R. S. Coe, R. B. Jessup, W. W. & W. M. Hitt, J. S. Sawyer, and Joseph Somes; furniture dealers, Curry & Coons, Gardner & Sons; boots and shoes, Horsting, and Henry
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Sweet; manufacturer of blankets, etc., H. D. Wheeler; stoves, N. Smith & Sons, Wilkins & Robinson; harness, saddles, etc., Pashia, Orr & Co., Thing & Potter, W. J. Heberd & Sons, and P. R. Bishop; clocks, jewelry, etc., William Stalz; merchant tailor, H. P. Brokaw.
LATER BUSINESS FIRMS.
Business of the Fifties .- Dry goods-W. J. Heberd & Son, J. B. La Plante (general store), B. Kuhn, J. S. Sawyer, A. Gim- bel, J. W. Maddox, L. Gimbel, R. Koster, Decker & Chadwick W. E. Brenne & Co., and Cass Graeter. Clothing-I. Joseph, B. Kuhn (wholesale and retail), Moses Gimbel, Frank Soudrilet, and H. T. Roseman. Groceries-Henry Haeussey, J. S. Sawyer, Decker & Chadwick, W. E. Brenne & Co. (wholesale and retail) and J. T. Cox. Boots and shoes-D. H. Johnson, Frank Horst- ing and George Kerchoff & Co. Books and stationery-Harry Mason & Co. Artist-J. P. Elliott. Furniture-Joel Gresh. Wagons-J. R. Bishop and John Collins. Agricultural im- plements-S. W. Adams and William Burtch. Livery Stable Emison & Green. Dentist-J. Flager. Physicians-Dr. J. R. Mandel, R. P. Jessup, J. S. Somes, Dr. Picquet and Hiram Decker. Attorneys-John Law, William Denny, John Baker and A. T. Ellis.
Business of the Sixties .- Dry goods-J. W. Maddox, J. S. Sawyer (dry goods and groceries), James Gardner, A. Gimbel and P. Kuhn & Co. Grocers and produce dealers-M. D. Lacroix, John A. Louis, J. T. Roseman, J. S. Sawyer, C. A. Weisert, Rethin & Bro., W. E. Meek and Fitzgerald & Denny. Clothiers and merchant tailors-H. P. Brokaw, William Huey and I. Jo- seph & Co. Bookstores-J. H. Shepard & Co., Will Watson and E. B. Ramsdell. Hardware-John H. Clark and N. Smith & Sons (also tinware). Artist-O. Thayer. Woolen factory- H. D. Wheeler.
Business of the Last Decade and the Present .- Groceries-E. Bierhaus & Son (wholesale), A. Gimbel (wholesale), L. B. Smith (wholesale); other wholesale and retail or retail alone are: J. D. Lacroix, Moore & Harns, F. Twietmeyer, Wickel & Harter, J. Hall, Hall & Bro. William Busse, Samuel Morgen- stern, John Burke, J. W. Cassell, John Farman, H. J. Hellert,
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J. H. Schultze, H. Shaffer, F. W. Ritterskamp, Vickery & Allen, E. Osweiller, John Hurmbolt, C. W. Schultz, John Hoffman, Be- mas & Becker, C. P. Porter & Bro., Lute Wile, J. C. Hautge, La Plante & Bro. and B. Knirihm. Dry goods-B. Kuhn & Co., A. Gimbel & Son, G. Weinstin & Co., L. A. Wise & Co., I. Jo- seph & Son, E. Baker and M. Rindskopp. Clothing-H. Willough- by & Son, J. W. Leuenthal & Co., S. Blum & Co. (clothing and dry goods ), B. Kuhn & Co., Isaac Gimbel, I. H. Liebshutz and J. C. Conne (clothing and boots and shoes). Jewelers-J. & H. Tin- doph, Perry Tindoph, C. C. Azbell and Fred Harsch. Drug- gists-C. A. Smith, Charles S. Miller, Padget & Lee, Moore & Harris, H. J. Watjen, W. A. Markee, Hannah Reel, H. Duester- burg, Ed Busse and Theodore Bauer. Books and stationery- E. B. Ramsdell, William Davidson and F. Tieverman. Merchant tailors-J. Bernstein and M. Hogan. Photographers-J. Dunn, E. D. Conoyer, W. H. Grover, W. J. Rawlings and Eugene Popf. Furnishing goods-J. A. Breivogel. Notion store-V. Schoen- field. Bakers and confectioners-Joe Ohnemus, H. F. Thuis, Charles Hagemeir, A. B. Johnson, Joe Woodman, M. Harde- metz and E. Schoenfield. Livery stables-Fred Graeter, Myer & Tewalt and William Green. Paper hangers-Dawson & Bro., Frank Weisert and E. J. Loten. Marble works-Salyards & Burns, A. Schoenebaum and John Hartigan. Milliners and dress-makers-G. R. Harvey, J. J. Anderson, Misses Stalder & Jarrow, R. M. Glass, Mrs. E. Openheim, Mrs. Frank Richey, Mrs. J. E. Eberwine, Mrs. J. E. Smith (hair dresser), Mrs. George Getchey, Miss L. Ostenhage, Mrs. Proctor and Mrs. M. Terhart. Grist-mills-J. & S. Emison, J. Pollick & Co., Bath Mills and Atlas Mills. Poultry, butter and eggs- J. E. Sullivan and C. R. Durham. Sewing machines-J. S. Thorn. Molding and fancy wood-work-J. P. Curry. Newspapers-Commercial, T. C. Adams; Vincennes Sun, Royal E. Purcell; Vincennes News, W. W. Bailey & Bro. Job office-A. V. Croth. Boot and shoe dealers-W. J. Nicholson, A. Kapps, George Klein, C. H. Blase and C. J. Lipe. Boot and shoe-makers-L. Moyes, J. P. Ed- wards. F. W. Weichel, J. E. Hartman, S. P. Brenn, J. S. Kitch- ell, C. Herdenreich, C. F. Shultz, C. Lane and H. Blome. Plan- ing-mills and lumber yards-Burnett & Eastham, Glover & Co.,
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J. R. Plummer, Spiegle & Gardner and Barrett & Son. Stoves and tinware-N. Smith & Son, H. H. Dubois, P. R. McCarthy & Bro. and John Watson. Furniture and undertaking-S. R. Jack- man, Gardner & Son and Peter Ivey. Tobacco-George Fen- drich, Joseph Smidt, Werker & Hanger and Emil H. Bringham. Hides, leather, etc .- Fred Miller, William Baker and John Schwartz. Saddles and harness-B. Page, Jr., J. T. Orr and Frank A. Thuis. Hardware, agricultural implements and seeds- M. Tyler, Son & Co., Heberd & Miller, George C. Cross, William Heberd & Co., C. H. Debolt & Co. and H. H. Hackman (hard- ware and guns). Queensware-George Harris. Hats and caps- Ed Breivogel and G. R. Spitz. Gas fitting-Vincennes Steam Heating Co. Gun works-P. Elure. Machine shops-J. F. Sechler & Co. Meat markets-O'Donnell & Son, C. Hoffman, John Ulmer, A. Marone, Peter Mallet and J. K. Green. Bar- bers-Frank Wilson, Horace Graves, Union Depot shop, Andy Hill, Emil Gebhart, J. S. Marvin, Thomas Posey, Frank Kreck, Brenner & Bro. and William Perry. Coal and wood-Retters- kamp & Fuller. Hotels-La Plante House, J. H. Cockran; Un- ion Depot Hotel, Mass & Watson, and Lahr House. Boarding houses and restaurants-Sixth Ward House, Avenue Hotel, Illi- nois House, St. John's Hotel, Metropolitan Restaurant, Waller's Restaurant and H. M. Townsley's Restaurant.
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