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"It's just the thing," exclaimed the late Thomas II. Swope.
Besides Mr. Swope and two prospectors, Dr. Root and Mr. Eldridge, there were in the party S. W. Eldridge, W. Y. Roberts, Robert Morrow, Gaius Jenkins, Daniel Killen, John McAlpine and John M. Winchell. They proceeded at once to arrange for the organization of a town eom- pany. It was to be called Wyandotte. But first the land for the site must be bought. A committee was appointed. It was composed of Roberts, Swope, MeAlpine and Jenkins.
THE TOWN ORGANIZATION.
The next morning the committee went to dicker with the Wyandots for some of their lands. The committee visited the Wyandots and the rest of the company that was to be waited in Kansas City for several days. At last, having had no tidings of the expedition, they became uneasy and sent over a scouting party to find out what had happened. Something had really happened. The scouting party found that the committee had taken in three influential men of the Wyandots-Isaiah
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Walker, Joel Walker and Silas Armstrong-and a town company had al- ready been formed. Armstrong was president, Roberts secretary, Isaiah Walker treasurer, and McAlpine trustee. to receive conveyances of lands purchased from the Indians. Of course the members of the company who were left out of the deal made a fuss about it, and the four members of the committee patched things up so they would receive a share of the profits. They hired John 11. Miller, a surveyor, to lay out the town, and this is the way the description read :
"Commeneing on the eastern boundary of the territory of Kansas, where the same is intersected by the second standard parallel; thence west along said parallel line to the northeast corner of section four, township eleven, range twenty-five; thence sonth to the southwest corner of section nine, township and range aforesaid; thence east to the middle of the Kansas river; thence by the middle of the Kansas and Missouri rivers to the place of beginning."
According to the plat there were four thousand lots in the town site. The company issued four hundred shares, each share calling for ten lots, and each share having a value of five hundred dollars. An irregular strip along the Missouri river was reserved for a publie levee. From this four avenues, each one hundred feet wide, were laid out- Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and Washington. At the west end of the town, between Tenth and Eleventh streets and extending from Wash- ington avenne south of Kansas avenne, was Oakland Park. The avenues were to be the great thoroughfares, as they are today, although Oakland Park is a dream of the past.
The allotments of Isaiah and Joel Walker and Silas Armstrong, of the town company, partially covered the prospective site, and they cast in their lot and incidentally their land. Ike Brown's farm was bought, probably with money furnished either by Swope or MeAlpine. At any rate, rumor had it that he could show a ponch containing an even thousand of twenty dollar gold pieces. The map of Wyandotte also included the lands of Mrs. Lucy B. Armstrong, Matthias Splitlog and H. M. Northrup. These lands were all platted into streets and blocks along with the rest, and formed part of the city, on paper, but a close inspection of the original city map shows a series of dotted lines marking the boundaries of these tracts, although as a matter of fact the town had no control over them.
THE BIG TOWN LOT SALE.
The members of the town company proved to be real boomers, and they had plenty of backing from the settlers who were coming in. The new town was duly advertised and subscription books were opened. Finally the 8th day of March, 1857, was fixed as the date of the first sale of shares.
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The Armstrong residence had been converted into a hotel, kept by Robert L. Ream, and on the morning of the sale they organized a pro- cession some fifty strong, and, headed by fife and drum and the Stars and Stripes, marched from the hotel around by the conneil house to the store, whose proprietor was Isaiah Walker, the treasurer of the company.
This building is still standing on the north side of Nebraska avenue just below Fourth street. The store was for years used as our only court room, and the late David J. Brewer before he was a justice of the United States supreme court, was one of the judges who held his court therein. There was an outside stairway leading to the second story, and this was utilized on more than one occasion as an impromptu gallows. There are many thrilling incidents connected with this old building- but this, in the words of Mr. Kipling. is another story.
The upper story of the building was one large room, and the gather- ing crowd became so great that there was fear of a collapse, but no aeci- dent happened, and each eager unit of the crowd pushed anxiously for- ward, impatient to exchange the twenty-five double eagles (for these were the principal "currency" during the first few months of 1857, but they all disappeared long before the first frost) for a paper ealling for ten lots in the embryo city. These lots were supposed to be located somewhere out on the brush-covered site, but few of the eager buyers ever knew just where the lots they bought were located.
A RUSH OF POPULATION.
There was a great rush of people to Wyandotte. The price of town lots and shares popped up to twice their original value. Houses went up as fast as men and materials could be produced. The carpenters received five dollars a day, and new saw mills had to be built to supply the lumber. It was a great boom for Wyandotte, and its boomers were chuckling over their success against the feeble efforts of Governor Charles Robison and his crowd of Free State men who were starting a port of entry at Quindaro, four miles up the Missouri river. But it was a great race. Wyandotte held the lead for a time and then lost it be- cause of the rush of the Yankees to Quindaro to help make Kansas a free state. But Quindaro's glory did not last long. The Free State men had all they could attend to at the outbreak of the war, while Wyandotte was able to hold its own, although with only a corporal's guard of men at home to protect the women.
At this time Wyandotte had several big stores along the levee, be- sides a hotel or two. Its population had increased to four hundred. People were coming in from all directions, one company coming from Pennsylvania and another from Ohio. Mark W. Delahay, a relative of Lineoln and for years judge of our United States district court, had
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started a paper, and F. A. llunt had picked up an old steamboat, the "St. Paul," and had converted it into a wharf-boat and hotel. Mrs. Garno had moved from Leavenworth and built the Garno House, on the corner of Third and Minnesota. There were four physicians, Dr. J. P. Root, Dr. J. C. Bennett, Dr. Fred Speck and Dr. John Speck. There were lawyers there too-Bartlett & Glick, Davis & Post, J. W. Johnson. B. Gray and D. B. Iladley. Byron Judd was in the real estate busi- ness, and Thomas J. Barker was postmaster.
By June 8, 1858, the town had 1,259 inhabitants. Then the town petitioned for incorporation with Daniel Killen, William MeKay, George Russell, Charles W. Glick and William F. Simpson as trustees. It was incorporated under the title "The Inhabitants of the town of Wyandotte."
FOUR BROAD AVENUES.
The four avenues, each one hundred feet wide, and named, respec- tively, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and Washington, after the four territories, had been brushed out, a lot of one story houses, framed at Cincinnati, had been set up, and altogether things looked booming. It was a problem which of the four avenues was to become the principal street, and trade was much scattered. Schriner, Garlick & Co., had set up one of the Cincinnati honses at the northeast corner of Fourth and Minnesota, and were doing a rushing hardware business. The building still stands at the old corner, and Dr. S. F. Mather occupied it for many years as a drug store. Parr, Boyd & Company located somewhere near Third and Washington and had started in groceries and dry goods. Governor James McGrew established himself in groceries nearby, while Zeitz & Buesche held forth on the north side of Kansas (now State) avenue between Third and Fourth streets.
A FAMOUS OLD HALL.
John MeAlpine put up a two story warehouse on the levee between Nebraska and Washington, and the top story, known as MeAlpine's halı, served for years as a gathering place for parties, balls and political conventions. It was in this hall that George Francis Train and Susan B. Anthony wound up their brilliant tour of Kansas in the interests of woman suffrage, and Train complained that he had been forced to take his daily bath in a pint tin cup; bath tubs were, as yet, an unknown article on our Kansas prairies. It was also in this hall that Jim Lane made his celebrated speech after the killing of Gaius Jenkins in a quarrel over a claim. Captain George P. Nelson had built his residence on the south side of Armstrong street, between Fourth and Fifth, and F. A. Hunt had put up an imposing mansion nearly south of it, on Ann; the
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latter building is still standing. A. B. Bartlett had built a small, one story residence away back in the brush, on the corner of Fifth and Nebraska, and the old building is yet standing, over a stone basement, put in when Fifth street was graded, back of the large brick residenee which he subsequently erected in front of it. And this practice of building the top story first was a common occurrence in those days.
During the winter of 1857-8 Third street was graded through, leav- ing the Garno House two stories above the ground. Tom Merry had the contract for putting in the underpinning, and some of the big timbers that supported the lower stories, and whieh Frank H. Betton assisted in raising, are still standing. Third street was subsequently filled up again about ten feet, at the corner; the scoop-ont was too deep, as some one had blundered. Doctor Root had established himself at the corner of Fourth and Nebraska, building a rather ornamental one story cottage, which came to be known as the "pillbox."
William Cook may properly be considered as the chief factor in our early commercial development. Mr. Cook was an Englishman who had achieved a reasonable competency as a dyer in St. Louis. He had faith in the new city, and it was said invested sixty thousand dollars in developing the town. Ile built a number of small dwellings and a large storehouse near the site of the Wyandotte hotel on Minnesota avenne between Fourth and Fifth. For years he was our principal merchant, and was foremost in nearly all of our publie enterprises. IIe built the large brick building at the southwest corner of Third and Minnesota, and subsequently the larger part of what is known as the Wyandotte hotel.
WHEN WYANDOTTE BECAME A CITY.
The next year. on January 29, 1859, the legislature passed an act permitting the creation of a city out of Wyandotte. James R. Parr was the first mayor. The first board of aldermen consisted of William P. Overton, J. N. White, Byron .Indd, Daniel Killen, Isaiah Walker and II. MeDowell. Under this incorporation the town weathered the stormy times of the Civil war and maintained a respectable growth. In 1886 it was consolidated with the old city of Kansas City, Kansas, Armour- dale and Armstrong, and became a part of the municipality under the first name.
A FORBIDDING LOOKING PLACE.
"I remember the first time I saw these bluffs, " Mrs. Mary II. S. Wolcott, one of the survivors of the early days of Wyandotte, said recently. "My husband, Albert Wolcott, and I were coming up the Missouri river on one of those steamboats in 1857 to make our home in
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Kansas. I thought it the most forbidding looking place that I had ever seen. We landed at the foot of Minnesota avenue in old Wyandotte. There was no regular landing place. The deck hands threw ont a plank and we walked down it, and up to the old Garno House, the only hotel in the eity. We were there for some time before we built a house of our own.
"We did not go out calling in those days as women do now," Mrs. Wolcott said. "It was too far from house to house to make ealls. I remember one day when a very distinguished personage was stopping at the old American House at the foot of Main street, on the levee. Three other Wyandotte women and myself decided to visit her. Our only means of travel was by horseback. We crossed the Kansas river on the ferry, at the foot of what is now Barnett avenue, and followed the wagon road which ran through the woods over the ground now occupied by the Armour Packing Company. After a pleasant visit we started for home. On reaching the ferry we found that the ferryman had locked up his ferry boat and he refused to take us over. After much pleading and some tears, he consented to carry us over in his little skiff, but made us leave our ponies on the other side. We found our hus- bands waiting for us at the landing, very much worried over the late- ness of our return. The next morning our husbands went over and brought the ponies back."
Mrs. Woleott walked across the first bridge built over the Kaw river on the day it was opened. That bridge known as the old Southern bridge was built in 1859, and connected what is now Argentine with old Wyandotte. It was used by many of the freighters who were going over the Santa Fe trail. Forty-eight years later Mrs. Wolcott walked across the inter-eity viaduet on the day it was opened to the public.
THOSE READY-MADE HOUSES.
Albert Wolcott brought six frame houses with him from St. Louis. They were among the first frame houses to be built in old Wyandotte. At that time there were quite a number of log houses. Mr. Wolcott's "ready-to-use" dwellings were quite an innovation. The huimber had all been cut and matehed and needed only the carpenter's hammer to put them up. The new houses caused quite a stir. All of the new arrivals who intended to loeate and had been dependent upon the Garno ITouse for food and shelter, were anxious to occupy one of the new hous- es. The Indians came from miles around to look upon the wonderful wig- wam of the white brother, which needed but a few strokes of the hammer to make of it a tepee far beyond their wildest dreams of splendor. As a consequence of the feverish anxiety of the white settlers to live in one of the "modern structures," Mr. Woleott disposed of five of his dwell- ings at a big priee. The sixth one, he finished in what was then the Vol. 1-7
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finest style, for his own home. His suceess in disposing of his ready- to-nail-together houses may have somewhat influenced his eareer, as he afterward became a lumber merchant.
THE "BLUE GOOSE" SALOON.
There were saloons in old Wyandotte in the early days-but that was before Kansas had "prohibition." One of these was the Blue Goose saloon. It stood somewhere on the hillside near what is now Third street and Nebraska avenue. The front part of the building rested on the ground and the back part was on stilts. And there is a story connected with the Blue Goose saloon that savors of the "good old times." One day word came to the village that Buckskin Joe and a band had been committing depredations in the country surrounding Wyandotte. A posse of citizens was formed to go out and search for them. The citizens went out on horse back, armed with rifles, but re- turned at night without seeing the desperadoes. At the ontskirts of the village it was decided that they would race to the Blue Goose saloon and would ride into it and up to the bar on their horses, the last man in to pay for the drinks. Well, the big race came off, the citizens in the posse riding through the town with the speed of the wind. They rode right into the saloon and their horses were standing with their heads over the bar, while the drinks were being mixed by the bartender. Suddenly there was a crash and down went the floors, carrying with it horses, riders, bar, bartender and liquors, and dumping them together in a heap. And the most remarkable thing about it was that not a man or horse was seriously hurt. Then the Blue Goose saloon was built on level ground and the floor was made strong enough to bear the weight of horses and riders.
OFFICERS FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS.
The men who filled the public offices in Wyandotte from the time it was incorporated as a eity to the date of the consolidation of the cities that entered into the making of Kansas City, Kansas, were as follows:
1858-The inhabitants of the Town of Wyandotte: Trustees, Wil- liam MeKay, George Russell, Daniel Killen, Charles S. Gliek and Wil- liam F. Simpson.
1859-City of Wyandotte: Mayor, James R. Parr; aldermen, W. P. Overton, I. N. White, Byron Judd, Daniel Killen, Isaiah Walker and H. MeDowell ; clerk, E. T. Vedder ; assessor, David Kirkbride; treasurer, J. II. Harris; attorney, W. L. MeMath ; marshal, N. A. Kirk; engineer, William Miller; street commissioner, H. Burgard.
1860-Mayor, George Russell ; aldermen, Joseph Speck, Philip
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Hescher, A. D. Downs, B. Washington, S. A. Bartlett, C. R. Stuck- slager; clerk, T. J. Darling; assessor, J. W. Dyer; treasurer, C. H. Van Fossen; attorney, S. A. Cobb; marshal, H. H. Sawyer; street eom- missioner, David Levitt ; engineer, William Miller.
1861-Mayor, George Russell; aldermen, Jacob Kerstetter, E. L. Busche, James Sommerville, C. R. Stuckslager, O. S. Bartlett, Chris Schneider; elerk, Franeis House; assessor, W. Hood; treasurer, I. D. Heath; attorney, S. A. Cobb; marshal, P. S. Ferguson; street commis- sioner, W. Curran ; engineer, Gustavus Zeitz.
1862-Mayor, S. A. Cobb; aldermen, Jacob Kerstetter, Robert Hal- ford, J. P. Hanrion, N. A. Reichnecker, W. H. Scofield, J. M. Funk; clerk, W. B. Bowman; marshal, P. S. Ferguson ; assessor, W. Hood; attorney, J. S. Stockton; treasurer, I. D. Heath; street commissioner, Gottlieb Knipfer; engineer, Horatio Waldo.
1863-Mayor, J. M. Funk; aldermen, Mathias Splitlog, W. P. Hol- comb, J. P. Ilanrion, B. Washington, J. Grindle, R. Chalk; clerk, W. B. Bowman; treasurer, I. D. Heath; attorney, J. S. Stockton ; assessor, P. Hance; street commissioner, Gottlieb Knipfer; marshal, P. S. Fergu- son.
1864-Mayor, J. M. Funk ; aldermen, W. Cook, E. L. Busche, Fred Weber, R. Chalk, I. Moore, A. S. Cobb ; elerk, W. B. Bowman ; treasurer, W. P. Holcomb; attorney, W. B. Bowman; assessor, Joseph Hanford ; marshal, Matthew Clary ; engineer, W. Miller.
1865-Mayor, I. B. Sharp; aldermen, W. Cook, J. R. Parr, J. M. Chrysler, E. T. Hovey, Daniel Cable, J. J. Hughes; elerk, W. B. Bow- man : marshal, John Bolton; attorney, C. S. Glick; treasurer, W. P. Holcomb; assessor, Joseph Hanford; street commissioner, W. Bucher; engineer, J. A. J. Chapman.
1866-Mayor, I. B. Sharp; aldermen, W. Cook, R. Anderson, C. Ilains, D. Cable, B. Washington, N. A. Kirk; clerk, A. J. Cruise ; attorney, C. S. Glick; marshal, M. Clary ; assessor, Joseph Hanford; engineer, J. A. J. Chapman ; street commissioner, G. A. Schreiner.
1867-Mayor, James MeGrew; aldermen, G. P. Nelson, H. West, .J. Il. Harris, B. Washington, Joab Toney, P. Lugibihl; clerk, J. A. Cruise; attorney, J. B. Serogg; engineer, S. Parsons; treasurer, N. Mc- Alpine ; marshal, J. Lecompt; street commissioner, G. A. Sehreiner ; assessor, E. F. Heisler.
1868-Mayor, S. A. Cobb; councilmen, J. Hennessy, A. Jost, H. Grantman, R. E. Cable, J. Townsend ; police judge, J. M. Funk ; marshal, Thomas Redfield; attorney, F. B. Anderson; treasurer, Byron Judd; clerk, A. J. Cruise ; engineer, C. Piney; assessor, E. F. Heisler; street commissioner, John Hosp.
1869-Mayor, Byron Judd; aldermen, F. Castring, O. K. Serviss, J. Hennessy, R. E. Cable, N. Kearney, P. Knoblock ; police judge, W. B. Bowman; marshal, H. C. Johnson; assessor, E. F. Heisler ; clerk,
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J. A. Cruise; attorney, F. B. Anderson ; street commissioner, T. Pur- till ; engineer, J. McGee; treasurer, J. C. Welsh.
1870-Mayor, J. S. Stoekton ; couneilmen, F. Bell, J. Bolton, R. E. Cable, F. Casting, P. Knoblock, O. K. Serviss; police judge, W. B. Bowman; marshal, H. C. Johnson; assessor, E. F. Heisler; clerk, II. L. Alden ; engineer, S. Parsons; street commissioner, John Hosp; attorney, II. W. Cook.
1871-Mayor, J. S. Stoekton ; couneilmen, Frank Bell, John Bolton, Peter Connelly, H. C. Johnson, N. Kearney, P. Knobloek ; treasurer, O. K. Serviss; police judge, W. B. Bowman ; marshal, H. T. Harris; attor- ney, E. L. Bartlett ; clerk, 11. L. Alden ; engineer, Franeis House; as- sessor, G. P. Nelson ; street commissioner, S. Balmer.
1872-Mayor, J. S. Stockton; conneilmen, D. W. Batchelder, P. Connelly, E. M. Dyer, C. C. Gerhardt, A. Jost, D. W. MeCabe, Jacob Meunzenmayer, M. W. Phillips; police judge, W. B. Bowman; marshal, H. T. Harris; treasurer, O. K. Serviss; clerk, William Albright; attor- ney, W. J. Buchan ; engineer, Francis House; assessor, G. P. Nelson
1873-Mayor, James MeGrew; couneilmen, D. W. Batehelder, W. Cook, B. Grafton, James Hennessy, E. T. Ilovey, J. C. Ives, A. Jost, L. Schleifer; police judge M. B. Newman ; treasurer, O. K. Serviss; elerk, William Albright ; marshal, HI. T. Harris; engineer, Francis House; as- sessor; J. J. Keplinger; street commissioner, W. B. Garlick; attorney, W. J. Buchan.
1874-Mayor, G. B. Wood; councilmen, R. E. Cable, W. Cook, N. Me Alpine, F. W. Meyer, J. Reid, W. H. Ryus, Lonis Schleifer, F. Speek ; police judge, M. B. Newman; treasurer, O. K. Serviss; clerk, W. Al- bright; engineer, F. Honse; street commissioner, J. P. Faber; assessor, J. J. Keplinger ; marshal, H. T. Harris; attorney, W. J. Buchan.
1875-Mayor, Charles Hains; councilmen, Russell Burdette, R. E. Cable, George Grubel, F. W. Meyer, J. Reid, T. B. Roberts, L. Schleifer, F. Speck : police judge M. B. Newman ; marshal, H. T. Harris ; attorney, W. J. Buchan; treasurer, J. C. Stout; clerk, W. Albright; assessor, G. WV. Bishop ; engineer, F. House ; street commissioner, J. P. Taber.
1876-Mayor, Charles Hains; councilmen, C. Anderson, Russell Burdette, H. E. Chadborn, .T. L. Conklin, George Grenbel, J. Hanford, HI. C. Long, M. M. Stover; police judge, M. B. Newman ; marshal, M. Collins; clerk, W. Albright; treasurer, J. W. Wahlemaier; assessor, G. W. Bishop; engineer, F. House; street commissioner, F. Kramer; attorney, F. B. Anderson.
1877-Mayor, Fred Speck; marshal, Mike Collins; poliee judge, R. E. Cable ; treasurer ; J. W. Wahlemaier ; treasurer board of education, Perley Pike; attorney, F. B. Anderson ; couneilmen. L. Cook, Dan Wil- liams, R. Burdette, J. C. Welsh; board of education, R. Halford, J. P. Dennison, J. HI. Gadd, A. N. Moyer.
1878-Mayor, Fred Speck; marshal, Michael Collins; treasurer, O
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K. Serviss; treasurer board of education, Perley Pike; attorney, F. B. Anderson ; councilmen, John E. Zeitz, M. M. Stover, J. Lecompt, James S. Bell; board of education, Caleb Crothers, W. R. Chapman, James Furgason, H. C. Darby.
1879-Mayor, J. S. Stockton; treasurer, Chris. Bernhard; police judge, R. E. Cable ; attorney, J. A. Hale ; treasurer board of education, Chris Bernhard; councilmen, Lawson Cook, J. W. Wahlenmaier, Dan Williams, V. S. Lucas, John Burk; board of education, J. L. Conklin, P. II. Knoblock, James S. Gibson, G. W. Bishop.
1880-Mayor, J. S. Stockton; marshal, II. T. IIarris; councihnen, Louis Burnett, Daniel Williams, D. E. Cornell, James S. Bell ; board of education, II. C. Darby, W. R. Chapman, James Fnrgason, C. Anderson ; attorney, J. A. Hale; police judge, R. E. Cable ; treasurer, Chris Bern- hard.
1881-Mayor, R. E. Cable; marshal, V. S. Lucas ; police judge, F. B. Anderson; treasurer, Chris Bernhard; attorney, Henry McGrew ; councilmen, Louis Burnett, Peter Lugibilile, T. B. Roberts, D. E. Cor- nell, James S. Bell, Daniel Williams, J. C. Stout, George A. Dudley ; board of education, Emile Kreiser, H. C. Darby, P. H. Knoblock, W. R. Chapman, C. D. Schrader, W. C. Lyman. C. Anderson.
1882-3-Mayor, R. E. Cable; clerk, Ed. H. Sager: treasurer, C. Bernhard; police judge, T. B. Anderson; attorney, Henry McGrew ; engineer, Walter Hale; street commissioner, Thomas MeCauley ; marshal, H. T. Harris; couneilmen, John B. Scroggs, E. A. Webster, D. E. Cor- nell, Charles Hains, George A. Dudley, Thomas H. Roberts, Charles Wilson, J. C. Boddington, James Brennan, D. Albert, Peter Lugi- bihle and J. C. Stout.
1883-5-Mayor, D. E. Cornell : clerk, H. E. Chadborn ; attorney, Henry McGrew ; treasurer, Louis Burnett; engineer, R. E. Ela; street commissioner, W. H. Brown ; police judge, George W. Betts; marshal, O. K. Serviss.
1883-4-Councilmen, John E. Zeitz, Thomas Schultz, James Bren- nan, Henry Horstman, J. C. Boddington, Charles Hains, George A. Dudley, T. C. Foster, J. B. Scoggs, E. A. Webster, Charles Wilson, W. A. Eldridge.
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