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Messrs. L. H. Lyne, S. K. Sneed, L. C. Dallam, on the part of the Sinking Fund Board and bondholders, and E. B. Newcomb on the part of several bondholders.
At this meeting it was agreed between the Council, Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners and bondholders represented, that the outstanding bonds should be replaced by a new bond bearing five and six per cent. interest, the only dissenting vote being that of Mr. Lewis. The following resolution was then passed, Colonel L. H. Lyne and E. B. Newcomb dissenting.
"Resolred. That it is the sense of this Conference that no interest should be paid on the present outstanding bonds unless the holders of said bonds agree to accept the new bonds and conform to the provisions of the resolution heretofore adopted "
During the time this settlement was pending the City Assessor had made his assessment of property liable to taxation for the year 1880, and returned his book to the Council. The Board of Super- visors, to-wit, ex-Mayor Jacob Held, John O'Byrne and Aaron F. Kennedy, appointed to compare and correct the books, met, and, after completing their labors, returned them, together with their re- port. The action of the Supervisors was so peculiar, and so differ- ent from that of any previous board, the Council, or a majority of that body, at least, were amazed, and by resolution not only refused to accept the action of the Supervisors, but thereupon directed the Assessor's book and the accompanying report referred back to them. The Supervisors seemed to be imbued with the idea of scaling prop- erty as well as bonds, arguing that if bonds had depreciated in value so had real estate, and no matter how low a valuation had been placed upon real estate by the Assessor, it was yet entitled to a sweeping re- duction of twenty per cent. The Supervisors again met, and having matured a report, reduced it to writing, and, on the 23d day of July, 1880, returned the same to the Council. The following is a copy :
HENDERSON, KY., July 22d, 1880. "To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Common Council:
"GENTLEMEN-As supervisors of tax assessments the report furnished by us to your honorablr body on June 30th, 1880, has been by your order re- committed to our further supervision, we beg leave to state that the duty as- signed us, has this day. July 22d. 1880, been completed, which herewith is furnished for your consideration. In the judgment of the Board there has not been furnished them facts sufficient to make any alterations in their first re- port.
' With reference to the assessment of the city bonds, the Board are of the opinion that fifty cents ot their face value is all that they should be taxed, for the following reasons:
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" First. The bondholders personally appeared (at least several of them ) before the Board and said that fifty cents was as much as their cash value.
" Second. Your Board was well advised, that not long since, less than fifty cents of their face value was the amount for which some of them were ex- changed for cash.
" Third. In 186S there was real estate taxed for the interest on said bonds to the amount of $3.066.656. Since then real estate has been in the amount of $1,000,000 added. all of which is assessed in 1880 at $1.320.702, which shows a depreciation in said real estate of $2,744 954. thus a depreciation appears in said real estate of fully sixty-seven per cent As the bondholders admit, and the facts establish, this depreciation, why should your Board fix a fictitious value on the bonds, at more than double their cash value. The oath and clearest judgment positively forbids it.
" In conclusion, since the Council cannot run the city government at sixty , cents per one hundred dollars, and the fact that the bondholders insist upon property thus depreciated being taxed to pay the interest on the bonds at their face value. which are equally depreciated. the Council, if it meet their demand, will be compelled greatly to increase the per cent of taxation above the amount for the year 1879, for which this Board is not responsible.
"All of which is respectfully submitted.
JACOB HELD SR., JOHN O'BYRNE, A F. KENNEDY.
Committee.
This very remarkable report was a sort of cannon shot, but nevertheless unsatisfactory to the Council. It was referred to four members of that body, namely, Messrs. Unverzaght, Kreipke, Lewis and Kleiderer, who, after having given the Assessor's book a thorough overhauling, and a scrutinizing attention to the report of the Super- visors, reported :
WHEREAS, Complaints have been made to this Council that the report of the Board of Supervisors of tax for the year 1880 in decreasing the value of all real estate, as reported by the Assessor, twenty per cent , and increasing certain lists as follows, in order, as they report, to equalize the value of real estate, and decreasing other lists for the same purpose, is unjust and unfair; and
" WHEREAS, The Common Council have the right to hear complaints and to change, reduce or correct the tax list of any person ; and
" WHEREAS, The Council is satisfied that said complaints are well taken; therefore, be it
Resolved, First. That the tax list reported by the Board of Supervisors be and the same is declared by this Council unfair.
"Resolved, Second. That the tax books, or lists, as reported by the Board of Supervisors, be changed and corrected so that the same will conform to the
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Assessor's lists or books as originally returned by said Assessor, and the taxes to be levied for the year 1880 shall be levied on the basis of the return of the lists or books by the Assessor.
W. H. UNVERZAGHT,
F. KLEIDERER. F. E. KREIPKE,
Committee.
From this it is quite plain that the Supervisors' report met with summary treatment and was consigned to the waste basket of " un- fair " public documents. The Council once again turned its atten- tion to the agreed settlement, and upon motion to change the deposi- tory at which the interest should be paid from the Bank of America, New York, as fixed in the original bonds, to that of the Treasury of the City of Henderson, opposition was again met, but the motion prevailed by the following vote : Ayes-Unverzaght, Kreipke, Klei- derer, Clore, Sandefur and Schlamp. Messrs. Lewis and Steele vot- ing in the negative.
Thereupon the ordinance directing the issuing of the funding bonds as per the agreement, was placed upon its final passage and adopted by the following vote : Ayes-Unverzaght, Kreipke, Klei- derer, Clore, Sandefur and Schlamp. Nays-Lews and Steele, This ordinance directed to be issued the bonds of the City of Henderson to the amount of four hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred dollars. Three hundred and ninety-eight bonds of one thousand dol- lars each. One hundred and eighty-nine bonds of five hundred dollars each, and forty-three bonds of one hundred dollars each, to be num- bered serially as issued, commencing with number one, and to be des- ignated as series A, B, C and D, to be payable to bearer, and fall due in thirty years from the date thereof, but redeemable at any time after the expiration of five years at the option of the City Council and to bear interest at the rate of 5 and 6 per cent. per annum. It was directed that the new bond to be issued in exchange for the out- standing railroad bonds, be designated as series "A" and entitle the holder to the same liens and priorities as were given the holder of the original bond. That the new bond to be issued in exchange for the outstanding school bonds, be designated as series " B" and entitle the holder to the same liens and priorities as were given the holder of the original bond. That the new bond to be issued in exchange for the outstanding bonds issued for city purposes, be designated as series " C" and entitle the holders to the same liens and priorities as were given the holder of the original bonds, and that the new bond to be issued in exchange for the water works bonds, be designated as series "D"
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and entitle the holder to the same liens and priorities as were given the holders of the original bond. It was further directed that the bonds designated as series " A " should bear 5 per cent. interest, pay able semi-annually, on the first day of May and November. Series " B" to bear 6 per cent. interest payable semi-annually, on the first day of May and November. Series "C" (with the exception of thirteen thousand five hundred dollars, which originally bore 8 per cent. interest) to bear 6 per cent. payable semi-annually, on the first day of September and March. The thirteen thousand five hundred dollars to bear 5 per cent. interest, payable semi-annually, on the same days. Series " D)" to bear 6 per cent. interest, payable semi- annually, on the first day of March and September. Upon the adoption of the new bond and ordinance levying the tax for 1880 was read and adopted by the following vote : Ayes-Unverzaght, Kreipke, Kleiderer, Clore, Sandefur and Schlamp. Messrs. Lewis and Steele voting in the negative.
The tax levy as fixed by this ordinance was as follows : An ad valorem tax of 60 cents on the one thousand dollars valuation as re- turned by the Assessor for city purposes, for defraying the current expenses of the city. An ad valorem tax of 30 cents for the pur- poses of defraying the expenses of the public school, and an addi- tional tax of 10 cents for the purpose of paying the interest on the the school bonds. An ad' valorem tax of 70 cents for the purpose of paying the interest on the bonds issued for railroad purposes, and an ad valorem tax of 30 cents for the purpose of paying the interest on the water works bonds, making a total of two dollars tax levy, ninety cents less than 1878 and twenty-five cents less than 1879. This levy was made upon the following assessment : for city purposes, $1,980,864, for water works, $2,021,989, for railroad the same, for school, $1,980,864.
I have endeavored to give a full and complete history of the long to be remembered settlement of the bonded indebtednes of the city of Henderson, which had its beginning in May 1877, during the administration of Hon. John C. Atkinson, and finally settled in Au- gust 1880, during the administration of Hon. F. M. English.
To sum up this long contest in a few words it amounted to this : It was evident to a majority of the bondholders that the interest was too much for the city to bear up under, and that by funding their bonds at a lower rate of interest, the investment would certainly be- come a much safer one. They knew full well, better, in fact, than others, that the interest was too great and that it should be reduced.
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They were willing, in fact, more than willing, that such should be done, but upon a just and equitable basis. As to what this basis should be, the bondholders, and Council elected upon the heavy scal- * ing idea, failed to agree. That they were willing to give more than the Council ultimately demanded, is surely proven by comparing the proposition made by the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, Jan- uary 16th, 1869, with the final settlement. To make this plain, the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the city at the time the settle- ment was made consisted of the following bonds : One hundred and ninety-four railroad bonds of $1,000 each, bearing seven per cent. interest ; twenty-seven city bonds for water works extension, of $500 each, bearing eight per cent. interest; fifty-six school bonds of $500 each, bearing ten per cent. interest ; twenty-nine city bonds of $1,000 each, bearing ten per cent interest ; fifty-six city bonds of $500 each, bearing ten per cent. interest; forty-three city bonds of $100 each, bearing ten per cent. interest ; seventy-five water works bonds of $1,000 each, bearing ten per cent. interest, and fifty water works bonds of $500 each, bearing ten per cent. interest, making a total of six hundred and thirty bonds bearing seven, eight and ten per cent. in- terest and representing $496,000.
January 16th, 1879, the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, representing a large majority of the bondholders, proposed to the City Council to receive in lieu for the $194,000 of seven per cent, railroad bonds, new bonds bearing six per cent. interest and repre- senting $155,200 or twenty per cent. off of the face of the original bond. For the $100,000 eight per cent. railroad bonds, and $13,500 eight per cent city water works extension bonds, new bonds bearing six per cent. interest and representing $102,150, or ten per cent. off of the face of the original bonds. For the $189,300 school, water works and city ten per cent. bonds, new bonds for the same face value, but bearing six per cent. interest. Under this agreement the total value of the new bonds would have been $446,650, bearing six per cent. interest, in place of $496,800 bearing seven, eight and ten per cent.
This proposition was rejected, although the Council was repeat- edly importuned and urged by Mayor Atkinson and others to adopt it as a basis of settlement. Meetings were held week after week, and night after night, and yet no conclusion could be arrived at. Fi- nally, on the 24th day of October, over nine months after the propo- sition made by the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners had been rejected, the proposition to fund the bonded indebtedness at its ori.
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ginal face value, the seven and eight per cent. bonds to bear five per cent. and the ten per cent. bonds to bear six per cent., was submitted by the Council to the bondholders, and by a very large majority of them accepted.
The difference between the propositions of January 16th and Oc- tober 24th, 1879, which it took the Council nine months of laborious work and study to harmonize, settles down to this : The bondhold- ers proposed to receive, January 16th, $50,150 less of principal and $66 more of interest than was voluntarily given them October 24th, nine months afterwards, as the following statement will show :
PROPOSITION SINKING FUND, JANUARY 18TH.
$194,000 7 per cents, 20 off.
$155.200 at 6 per cent.
113,500 8 60 Io off. 102,150 at 6
189,300 10
o0 off. 189,300 at 6 6
$496,800 $50,150 $446,650 at 6 per cent .- 126.729
COUNCIL COMPROMISE, OCTOBER 24TH.
$194.000 7 per cents $194,000 at 5 per cent. $ 9.700
113,500 S 113,500 at 5 .. 5.675
189.300 10
189.300 at 6 11.358
$496,800
$496,800 $26,733-$26,733
Interest in favor of Council. $66 00
Principal of debt against Council. $50,150
Thus the city had, after a settlement, a bonded indebtedness of $496,800, bearing five and six per cent. interest, when she could have had nine months before a bonded indebtedness of $446,500, bearing six per cent. interest.
What was the loss in valuation and business during this long unnecessary, and almost ruinous, settlement, it is not the pur- pose of this work to investigate. That it was immense, may be safely inferred. Since the settlement property has advanced faster than the assessor, and the whole city resounds with the ring of trowel and hatchet.
On the twenty-first day of January, the weather being intensely cold, with every prospect of a long cold spell, the Henderson Coal and Mining Company, with commendable liberality, donated twelve hundred bushels of coal to be delivered gratuitously to the suffering and destitute of the city. This liberal contribution of one of the greatest comforts of life was distributed by the Mayor and a commit- tee of the Council, and it is not surprising to know that many persons,
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far from belonging to the unfortunate class for whom this charity was intended, were importunate applicants, and had to be watched closely.
May 15th the annual conclave of the Knights Templar of Ken- tucky held its meeting in Henderson and was largely attended. The city was beautifully bedecked with flags, and altogether the grand oc- casion was one long to be remembered. A sumptuous and magnifi- cent banquet was given the Grand Commandery at Marshal's ware- house on Third, between Main and Water Streets.
July 21st a rigid quarantine was established, and an ordinance passed to prevent, if possible, the introduction of yellow fever.
This ordinance made it a penalty for any railway company or other persons operating or controlling any railway or trains leading into Henderson to transport over such road any cars, freight, passen- gers or baggage coming from south of Guthrie to within less than five miles of the city before obtaining permission of the city. No steamboat coming from a point on the Ohio River south of Paducah was permitted to land passengers, freight or baggage within less than five miles of the city without permission. This was the year of the frightful fever epidemic at Memphis and still further up the Missis- sippi River at Hickman, Kentucky. It will be remembered that Dr. John L. Cook, of this city, a brilliant young physician, husband and father, volunteered his services, went to Hickman and soon be- came himself a victim of the terrible scourge. Dr. Pickney Thomp- son, of this city, as President of the State Board of Health, also visited the plague-stricken city. Surely Henderson contributed liberally to the comfort and health of the Hickman people.
The Grand Lodge of Kentucky, Knights of Pythias, held its annual meeting in this city in September. At the same time the Henderson Fair Association was holding its meeting; the city was alive with flags and music, and a general good cheer pervaded the town. There were a large number of Knights from different portions of the State, and their handsome bearing was noticeable. A compe- tition drill was given in the ring of the Fair Association, and Ivy Lodge lost, Evansville winning the prize. An unsurpassable banquet was given the Grand Lodge at Marshal's warehouse. Altogether, 1879 was a gala year for Henderson and will be remembered with in- finite pleasure for years to come. W. W. Blackwell, of this city, was elected Grand Chancellor at this meeting. He is the youngest mem- ber ever elected to that exalted position, being only thirty years of age at the time of his election.
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February 27th, an act of the General Assembly of Kentucky was passed, incorporating the " Henderson Female Seminary," Miss Mary McCullogh, principal, Hons. John Young Brown and H. F. Turner, James R. Barret, Ben C. Redford, Dr. W. M. Hanna, Thomas Soaper, James Alves, David Clark and A. S. Winstead, incorporators and trustees. This magnificent institution of learning deservedly ranks among the first in the State.
The city purchased during this year her two fine horses " Jumbo " and " Dido" and shut up the market house by converting its rear end into a stable.
1881.
An ordinance was passed on the fifth day of May granting the Henderson Bridge Company the right to bridge the Ohio River, to- gether with all other privileges thereto appertaining.
February 23d an ordinance was passed reducing the price of gas from $3 to $2.25. This ordinance was bitterly fought and only passed by the vote of Mayor English. Upon its passage a motion was made to shut off the street lamps. Mayor English opposed it. The vote stood : For shutting off-Unverzaght, Clore, Kleiderer and San- defur. Opposed-Schlamp, Steele, Kreipke and Lewis.
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TOWN AND CITY OFFICIALS.
TRUSTEES.
Nathaniel F. Ruggles, 1819 to 1835; Levi Jones, 1819 to 1825 ; John H. Sublett, 1819 to 1826; Samuel Stites, 1819 to 1826, 1834 1843; James H. Lyne, 1820 to 1831; George Morris, 1824, '25, '26; William D. Allison, 1826 to 1833 ; John W. Moseley, 1826 ; George Atkinson, 1827 to 1835; Wyatt H. Ingram, 1827, '28; John Spiedel, 1827 ; George Gayle, 1828, '29; James Rouse, 1828 to 1833 ; 1837 to 1847; Thomas Johnson, 1830, '31, 1843, '44, '45 ; Joseph Cowan, 1832, '33, '34, '35 ; Edmund H. Hopkins, 1832, 1838 to 1848 ; John D. Anderson, 1833 to 1845; Archibald Dixon, 1835 to 1844 ; James W. Marshall, 1835, '36, '37; William Vermilyer, 1835; Hugh Kerr, 1835 ; James E. Rankin, 1835, 1846, '47 ; James Alves, 1835 ; Alexander B. Barret, 1837, 1842; William P. Smith, 1838, '39; F. Cunningham, 1838 to '45; L. G. Taylor, 1839, '40, to '41; James Carroll, 1840 ; Lazarus W. Powell, 1840, '41, '46, '47 ; Y. E. Allison, 1841, '46, '47 ; William R. Abbott, 1841, '42; William J. Ross, 1841, '42 ; Thomas Towles, Jr., 1841, 42 ; D. R. Burbank, 1841, '42; Wil- liam L. Stone, 1842, '45; William Quinn, 1842; Littleberry Weaver,
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1842, '43; David H. Cowan, 1842 to 1847 ; John H. Lambert, 1842, '43, '47 ; James Wilson, 1843 ; Philo H. Hillyer, 1843 '44, '45, '46; William H. Cunningham, 1845 ; Nathaniel D. Terry, 1846, '47 ; Brent Hopkins, 1846; Edward D. McBride, 1846, '47; George W. Johnson, 1847 ; William B. Vandzandt, 1847 ; Samuel W. Langley, 1847 ; Rob- ert G. Beverley, 1847 ; David Banks, 1849 ; Philip L. Johnston, 1849; Walter A. Brown, 1849; Andrew Mackey, 1849; C. M. Pennell, 1850 ; John McBride, 1851, '52; William T. Barret, 1851; David Clark, 1851; William S. Holloway, 1851; Geo. M. Priest, 1851; James Ba con, 1851; James Carroll, 1852 ; Peter Semonin, 1853 ; James Wilson, 1852; D. N. Walden, 1853; Thomas J. Johnson, 1853 ; William Brewster, 1853; James Carroll, 1853; W. B. Vandzandt, 1853; Francis Millet, 1853.
COUNCILMEN.
James W. Clay, 1854; George M. Priest, 1854; Jacob Fulwiler, 1854, '55, '56, '57 ; John H . Lambert, 1854, '55, '59; B. Brashear, 1854, '55, '56, '57 ; D. H. Unselt, 1854; William S. Holloway, 1854, '55, '62, '69, '70 ; P. H. Hillyer, 1854, '57, '58, '62, '63 ; James Bacon, 1854, '55 ; R. G. Beverley, 1854, '55, '56, '57, '58, '59, '60, '61, '62 ; Robert G. Rouse, 1854, '55 ; P. B. Matthews, 1855, '56, '57, '60, '61, '62; John Rudy, 1855, '56; B. R. Curry, 1855, '56 ; C. W. Hutchen, 1855, '56; Walter A. Towles, 1856; William P. Grayson, 1856 ; William Steele, 1856; William Brewster, 1856; Andrew Mackey, 1856; E. G. Hall, 1857, '58, '59; Sam'l P. Spalding, 1857, '58 ; John McBride, 1857, '58; Richard Garland, 1858, '61; Sol. S. Size- more, 1858, '59; F. W. Reutlinger, 1858, '59, '68, '69 ; William E. Lambert, 1858, '59 ; L. F. Jones, 1858, '59, '60, '61; W, W. Catlin, 1859; A. H. Talbott, 1860, '61' '66, '67, '68; F. Millet, 1860, '61; J. Adams, 1861, '62, '66, '67, '71, '72; W. H. Ladd, 1860, '61, '62, '64, '65 ; R. M. Allin, 1861; F. B. Cromwell, 1862; W. H. Sandefur, 1862, 1876, '77, 78, '79, '80, '81; J. C. Allin, 1862, '63; Jacob Reutlinger, 1862, '63 ; Peter Semonin, 1862; Jacob Held, 1862, '63, '64, '65, '66 ; Henry R. Tunstall, 1862, '63, '64, 65, '66, '67, '68 ; Ben M. Sandefur, 1863 ; Jacob F. Mayor, 1863; A. S. Nunn, 1864, '65, '66, '67, '68, '69, '70, '71; David Hart, 1864, '65; T. M. Jenkins, 1864, '65, '66, '67 ; D. N Walden, 1865; Grant Green, 1865, '66; E. L. Starling, 1866, '67, '68, '75, '76 ; David Banks, 1867, '68, '71 ; Thos. S. Knight, 1867, '68 ; Jacob Reutlinger, 1867 ; K. Geibel, Jr., 1867, '68, '69, '70, '71, '72 ; P. H. King, 1868, '69, "70, '71, '72, '73, '74; M. Yeaman, 1868, '69; A. B. Weaver, 1868, '69 ; J. E. Fagan, 1868, '69, '70, '71 ; L. Martin, 1868, '69; Thomas L. Norris, 1869, '70 ; John
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C. Atkinson, 1869, '70, '71 ; John C. Stapp, 1869, '70, '71, '72, '73; N. H. Barnard, 1870, '71, '72. '73; Robert Dixon, 1871, '72; W. S. Johnson, 1871 '72, 73 ; J. Ed. Rankin, 1872, '73, '74, '75, '76, '77, '78 ; E. W. Worsham, 1872, '73; L. C. Dallam, 1872, '73; James R. Bar- ret, 1873 ; Jacob Peter, 1873, '74 ; F. H. Overton, 1874, '75, '76, '77 ; W. B. Woodruff, 1874, '75, '76; H. C. Elliot, 1874, '75; John O'Byrne, 1874, '75; F. Kleiderer, 1874, '75, '76, '78, '79, '80 ; Henry C. Kerr, 1874, '75; Martin Schlamp, 1875, '76, '77, '78, '79, '80, 81; James H. McCullagh, 1875, '76 ; John McBride, 1875, '76; Jacob Held, 1876 ; J. O. Clore, 1876, '77, '78, '79, '80, '81; R. C. Soaper, 1876, '77, '78 ; G. A. Prentice, 1876, '77 ; S. A. Lambert, 1876, '77, '78; John H. Barret, 1876, '77; S S. Sizemore, 1876, '77; W. H. Unverzaght, 1878, '79, '80, '81, '83; George H. Steele, 1878, '79, '80, '81, '82, '83; F. E. Kreipke, 1878, '79, '80, '81, '82, '83 ; William H. Lewis, 1878, '79, 80, '81, '82, '83; John P. Beverley, 1880, '81; Perry Robinson, 1880, '81 ; John Thomasson, 1881, '82, '83 ; R. E. Cook, 1881 ; Henry Katterjohn, 1881, '82, '83; P. P. Johnson, 1882, '83, '84, '85, '86, '87 ; A. S. Winstead, 1882, '83, 84, '85, '86; James E. Rankin, 1882, '83; Richard Stites, 1883; Phelps Sasseen, 1883, '84, '85, '86, '87; James Williamson, 1883, '84, '85, '86, '87 ; Edward Manion, 1883, '84, '85, '86, '87 ; M. M. Kimmel, 1886, '87 ; Alex. Fenwick, 1886, '87; Frank Sugg, 1886, '87; J. G. Adams, 1886, '87.
CHAIRMAN BOARD TRUSTEES.
John H. Sublett, 1823; Samuel Stites, 1824; N. F. Ruggles, 1826 to 1835 ; John D. Anderson, 1834, '37, '45; James W. Marshall, 1835, '36 ; Edmund H. Hopkins, 1838 to 1845; William R. Abbott, 1842; James Rouse, 1846; L. W. Powell, 1847; Archibald Dixon, 1848; David Bants, 1849, '50 ; Thomas J. Johnson, 1851, '52, '53.
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