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Oliver, Ozi
Oliver, Sylvanus E.
Orcott, Ansell
Phelps, Charles C. Phelps, Foster W. * Phelps, George R. Phelps, Leander W. Phillips, Asa Pierce, John R.
Rich, Joshua Rich, Samuel
Mier, John
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Twichell, Willard * Twichell, William, Jr. Tyler, Charles H.
Whitney, Chandler
Whitney, E. Whipple
Wilber, Walter
Walker, David
Williams, Alfred G.
Walker, Freeman H.
Williams, Henry
Ward, Jonathan D.
Wood, George B.
Ward, Ransom
Wood, Nelson G.
Washburn, Oscar
Woodward, Thomas A.
Washburn, Theodore
Wyman, Asa
Washburn, William
Weaver, Horace K.
Young, Daniel T.
West, Edmund R.
Wetherby, Maxon R.
Young, Morgan Youngblood, Jacob
* The thirteen men whose names are thus marked enlisted in 1862 and were counted on our quota but by some official mistake were never credited with service nor were they paid except the local bounty.
Even after they were sent home (at their own expense) two of their number were arrested as deserters and confined at Fort Independence for twenty-three days, being then released with no charges against them.
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Wilkinson, Moses
Walters, Peter
Wilson, Charles
CHAPTER XXV ATHOL PUBLIC LIBRARY
A THOL had existed ninety years as a municipal corporation before the Legislature in a liberal mood granted it, with the other cities and towns of the Commonwealth, the privilege of taxing its property owners for the establishment or main- tenance of a library.
For long years this community service was performed by the churches. Under the pastorate of the Rev. Joseph Estabrook, the First Church of Athol gathered a library of some propor- tions. When the present Congregational Church seceded from the Old Church in 1830, the library was divided with the new church and each church for seventy years or until the end of the last century maintained a library as an important part of the activities of its Sunday School. Likewise the Athol Baptist Church around 1825 established its library and main- tained it for three-quarters of a century or more.
While the great preponderance of the books in these several collections were of the highly "moral" type but little read today, yet these little libraries sent joy into many a lonely home and were perused by candle and lamp light by many who now in old age look back with gratitude upon them.
With the coming of the railroad to Athol in 1847, an out- lying hamlet known as "Factory Village" became almost over- night an ambitious community. One of the early activities in this community was the establishment of Athol Circulating Library, supported entirely by private contributions and main- tained for a part if not all its existence in the "Joe John" Anderson store just east of our Memorial Building.
Just who were the founders of this community enterprise I do not know but I do know that the Dr. Hoyt family, Judge Field and wife, Dr. S. H. Colburn and wife, Elisha F. Brown and wife, and E. J. E. Thorpe were actively interested in its later years.
Monetary support was seriously curtailed during the severe financial depression of 1873-1878. When the financial storm was over one of the first items of business was to establish a library, this time for the whole town.
Under the leadership of Rev. H. A. Blake, Rev. E. M. Bart-
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lett, and Charles Field, Esq., the Athol Library Association was: formed on November 20, 1878. To the available books of the old circulation library were added some material of private. donations and what purchases the limited funds of the new" voluntary association would permit.
The front parlor of Mr. Joel M. Doane on the second floor of No. 268 School Street was secured as a library room and Mrs. Doane engaged as librarian. The records of this association although well preserved give very little idea of its activities.
At the April town meeting of 1882 the town appropriated $300 for a Free Public Library and appointed a Library Com- mittee consisting of Hon. Charles Field, Rev. Henry A. Blake, Rev. John H. Cox, Edgar J. Wilson, Esq., and Lilley B. Caswell. The Library Association quickly made over all of its 1063 books and property to the town.
The "front parlor up one flight" served as a library room and the same estimable lady on each Wednesday and Saturday afternoon delivered us books through one "peek hole" in the fence which barred the public from the sacred book shelves, and received the returned books from us through another "peek hole" in the same fence.
For rent, iights (kerosene), heat (stove), and services as librarian including pay of assistant, Mrs. Doane received the first year $150 which was gradually increased until mid-year of 1887 when she retired then receiving a compensation of $227.50 for all the items mentioned above.
A "Library Committee" numbering five to seven was elected annually for the years 1882 to 1886 inclusive by nomination from the floor. In 1886 the number of this board was fixed at six, two to be elected each year, which practice has con- tinued to this day. It was designated as a "committee" until' 1894 when the Board was given the more honorable title of Trustees.
Under town management the library had by 1887 doubleď in size and the "front parlor up one flight" was no longer adequate for its needs. Further, the librarian began to feel the infirmities of age, she being then in her seventy-third year. The old catalog (sold for 50c to patrons) had become obsolete despite the numerous supplements that had been issued and a general upheaval became necessary.
The "Committee" leased for five years of Mr. Joel M. Doane, his vacant barn just east and in the rear of his residence
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at an annual rental of $100 and engaged his daughter-in-law;, Mercie S. Doane, as librarian. Fixing her compensation at $130 for services, lighting and heating (still by kerosene lamp and stove), and janitor service, the committee in July, 1887 moved the entire library there, establishing the service hours as Wednesday afternoon from two to five and Saturday from two to five and seven to eight.
Re-arrangement and re-cataloging advanced slowly. The Dewey system was adopted and all volumes re-numbered and re-listed by the end of 1890. The following year a complete card index was installed. In 1893 a complete catalog was pub- lished and put on sale but financial reverses again gripped the country and but little money flowed into the library funds from the sale of this book.
In 1894 the town in a burst of generosity appropriated $1000 for the library, allowing the committee to spend more than half this sum for new books. In 1896 the card catalog was entirely re-arranged and made accessible to the patrons. The Dog Fund of about $600 was the only appropriation in 1897 and 1898. This was after the Committee had announced that the quarters were inadequate and that further addition of books was inadvisable so long as the then present arrange- ments continued.
About this time Mary Farr offered the town, as a gift for a library site, an adequate lot on Beacon Street near to School Street but conservative leaders would not countenance any considerable expenditure for a building and the matter was dropped. At that period most of the voters felt that any public building for general use should be erected near Riverbend Street, equally inaccessible and inconvenient for both villages.
With but few additions to the volumes on the shelves the patronage of the institution fell off sharply until in 1902 with 5932 volumes in the library the number of books issued was less than in 1884, with less than half the population in town and less than one-quarter the number of books from which to make selections.
Co-incident with this situation, that long time friend of Athol, Wilson H. Lee of New Haven secured from Andrew Carnegie an offer of $15,000 to erect a building and from friends of his a further pledge of $1500 to purchase a site. When the town was asked to accept this the memories of the Homestead riots and other labor struggles were revived, thor-
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oughly aired, and the generous offers were emphatically refused.
As a sequel to this the town was asked to authorize the re- moval of its library to the store in the Academy of Music Build- ing, then recently vacated by Mr. Walter L. Whitney. This authority was granted, a lease executed at $200 per year for
WILSON HORATIO LEE 1852 - 1948 Born in Hardwick, Reared in Athol Prospered in Connecticut
rent and heat, and on December 5, 1903 the library was opened in its new quarters. It was not in the plan to eliminate Mrs. Doane as Librarian but the move was displeasing, the longer hours arranged were irksome, and as a result she presided in the new quarters but a few days. Mantie R. Hinman succeeded her under the title of Assistant Librarian in which capacity she had charge for upwards of a year when she resigned to enter Simmons College.
The library in 1904 became the beneficiary under the will of Hon. Alpheus Harding in the amount of $300 which fund is held by the Town Treasurer and the income used to buy additional books. There are three other library funds: that of Adele C. Parmenter for $500 in 1936; the H. L. Bartlett Fund
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of $1000 in 1945; and the Cragin-Downing Fund in 1947 for $7,212.29.
Mrs. Mary A. Cook became the Librarian in 1905 which position she held for nearly nine years at the munificent salary. of $500 per year. The new quarters in Exchange Street seemed® delightful at first but as patronage and books doubled, the additional stacks shut out much of the meagre supply of day- light, the gas lights were expensive and unsatisfactory, the. juvenile section soon became inadequate, and ere long the Trustees were sighing for a change. Electric lighting after a few years solved a part of the problem but there was an in- creasing dissatisfaction with the housing facilities as time went on.
The people at the Center found it inconvenient to go to the- library and continually asked for a branch uptown until finally in 1915 arrangements were made with Miss Grace Pitts to receive and deliver books at her store and thus this difficulty was overcome.
A small branch was opened at South Athol about this same time under the supervision of Rev. Mr. Beers. About a year after, this was discontinued as Mr. Beers removed from town. It was reopened again when in 1917 space was provided in the new school house erected there. This was continued some years under the gratuitous supervision of Mrs. Frank Lindsey.
Laroy S. Starrett offered the present library lot to the town in 1914 and the gift was accepted. Despite the former ex- perience, Mr. Lee was willing to open anew the negotiations with the Carnegie Corporation and secured a new offer to the town of $22,000, the only condition being that the town must: agree to raise by taxation $2200 to support the library.
August 16, 1918 the new building was accepted and before: September 1 of that year the library was installed in its present home. The large clock so much admired by all was donated by Mr. Wilson H. Lee and various other items of equipment were given by others.
In 1914 Mrs. Cook resigned and Edith L. Barber was ap- pointed as Librarian, continuing until November, 1918 when Mrs. Cook again took charge, serving until August 1, 1919 when Pearl Mason was appointed. Miss Mason resigned in 1922 and Helen G. Estey assumed her position, remaining about a year when she was succeeded by Margaret Baker Foley who resigned on January 1, 1927.
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Gladys C. Green became librarian in June, 1927 which posi- tion she still holds, much to the satisfaction of all who use the library facilities. In 1933 a signal honor came to Miss Greene and through her to Athol when she was chosen to exchange places for six months with an English librarian. She was as- signed to Maidstone, Kent, and the librarian there, Mary Stanley-Smith, came to Athol. Miss Greene brought home much help to our library and our people, while Miss Smith en- deared herself to all who came in contact with her here.
Fifty-two people have served on the Library Board, twelve women and forty men. Of these, six were lawyers, and ten clergymen. The longest service was that of Arline H. Bond who served from 1920 to December, 1952, all the time as Clerk of the Board. Next in length of service were Mrs. Bond's mother, Sarah H. Smith, and Lilley B. Caswell, each of whom served twenty-eight years, seven of them as Chairman.
The library building was planned for general library purposes on the first floor with a sizeable assembly hall with stage and other rooms in the basement but hardly had the building been opened for public use when the local Red Cross Chapter was admitted as a tenant in these basement rooms and although that space could well have been used for some years by the library it was not until mid 1953 that the Red Cross finally vacated and a renovation of the lower rooms begun.
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CHAPTER XXVI POLITICAL
U TNTIL Athol was incorporated in 1762 our people were en- titled to no voice in the Legislative halls at Boston, but it was thirteen years after we might have legally sent a rep- resentative to the General Court before our people availed themselves of this right.
With the general interest in things political incident to the separation of Massachusetts with the other twelve colonies from Birtish allegiance came the urge to have a voice in mak- ing the momentous decisions of the times. We accordingly designated Capt. John Haven as our Representative in 1775.
For several years prior to 1792 our town records show no action regarding election of our Representative, but the fol- lowing list is prepared from all available data in the State Archives.
Prior to 1858 compensation for members of the legislature paid by the Commonwealth was only travelling expenses to and from the Capitol City. The State paid only one round trip for each annual session leaving all further pay to be provided by the home town of the Representative. Thus it was not in- frequently voted "not to send a representative this year."
The State Constitution permitted fining of the town of failure to send a representative and thus on several occasions a fine was imposed upon our town for its neglect of this duty. I think in each case future appeals secured a remission of the fine so I find no record of Athol having ever paid a fine for this neglect. In 1858 a generous legislature established a salary of three hundred dollars for its membership and made further somewhat adequate compensation for mileage.
As previous to 1858 a majority was necessary for the elec- tion of our Representative several ballots on succeeding days were sometimes required to effect an election. Such was the case in 1849 when Stillman Simonds was elected on the third ballot for the legislature. A hopeless deadlock occurred in 1853 when after numerous ballots the meeting was adjourned without effecting an election.
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Previous to 1857 a certain number of Senatorial seats was alloted to each County and their entire number was elected on one ballot by all the municipalities of the County. With this system giving a decided advantage to the more populous areas of Worcester County it is not surprising that before the es- tablishing of the Senatorial District system in 1957 we had but two Senators from Athol.
By the apportionment of 1857 ours was the Second Wor- cester District comprising Athol and Royalston. This remained unchanged until 1876 when the number was changed to the Eighth Worcester, but no change was made in the component towns. In 1886 Athol, Royalston, and Phillipston were desig- nated as the First Worcester District and that number has been attached to us ever since, but there have been some changes in the member towns. In 1906 Petersham and Dana were fur- ther additions. In 1916 Royalston was transferred to another district, Barre replacing it in the First District. A drastic change was made in 1936, Royalston and Winchendon being grouped with us, which is the present arrangement of our district.
SENATORS FROM ATHOL
1817-Gen. James Humphrey
1818-Gen. James Humphrey
1843-Benjamin Estabrook
1858-Charles Field
1859-Charles Field
1879-Alpheus Harding
1880-Alpheus Harding
1891-Sidney P. Smith
1892-Sidney P. Smith
1929-Thomas J. Worrell
1930-Thomas J. Worrell
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS
State Constitutional Convention of 1779: Josiah Goddard, Capt. Ephriam Stockwell.
Federal Constitution of 1788: Josiah Goddard.
Mass. Constitutional Convention of 1820: Rev. Joseph Estabrook.
Mass. Constitutional Convention of 1853: Lyman W. Hapgood.
Mass. Constitutional Convention of 1917: A. Foster Hamilton.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
1860-Charles Field-Republican
1896-Augustus Coolidge-Republican
1908-Almond Smith-Republican
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REPRESENTATIVES FROM ATHOL AND AFTER 1858 FROM OUR REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT
1775-Capt. John Haven 1776-Capt. John Haven 1777-Capt. John Haven, William Bigelow
1778-Capt. John Haven 1779-Josiah Goddard 1782-Hiram Newhall 1784-Hiram Newhall 1785-Hiram Newhall 1787-Jesse Kendall
1788-Josiah Goddard
1792-Josiah Goddard
1795-Josiah Goddard 1796-Josiah Goddard 1797-Voted not to send
1798-Josiah Goddard
1799-Josiah Goddard
1780-Josiah Goddard 1800-Josiah Goddard
1802-Eleazer Graves
1804-Eleazer Graves
1805-Eleazer Graves
1806-James Humphrey
1808-Samuel Young
1809-James Humphrey 1810-James Humphrey
1811-James Humphrey
1812-James Humphrey
1813-James Humphrey
1814-James Oliver 1815-James Oliver
1816-James Humphrey 1817-Eleazer Graves
1819-Joseph Proctor
1821-James Humphrey
1823-James Humphrey
1825-James Humphrey
1827-Dr. Ebenezer Chaplin
1829-Dr. Ebenezer Chaplin
1830-Col. Samuel Sweetzer
1832-Eliphalet Thorpe
1833-Col. Nathan Nickerson
1835-Benjamin Estabrook
1836-Benjamin Estabrook
1837-Benjamin Estabrook and James Young
1838-Benjamin Estabrook and Abner Young
1839-Benjamin Estabrook
1840-Theodore Jones
1841-John W. Humphrey
1842-John W. Humphrey
1843-Theodore Jones
1844-Samuel Sweetzer
1845 -- Theodore Jones
1846-Samuel Sweetzer
1847-Nathaniel Richardson
1848-Rev. Lysander Fay
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1849-None chosen
1850-Stillman Simonds
1851-Nehemiah Ward
1852-Benjamin Estabrook
1853-4 ballots, no choice
1854-Josiah Haven
1855-Laban Morse
1856-James 1. Goulding
1857-Charles Field
1858-Isaac Stevens
1859-Col. George Whitney of Royalston
1860-Nathaniel Richardson
1861-Elisha F. Brown of Royalston
1862-Farwell F. Fay
1863-Alpheus Harding, Jr.
1864-Ebenezer W. Bullard of Royalston
1865-Calvin Kelton
1866-William W. Clement of Royalston
1867-Alpheus Harding, Jr.
1868-Jeremiah A. Rich of Royalston
1869-Thomas H. Goodspeed
1870-Benjamin H. Brown of Royalston
1871-Ozi Kendall
1872-Col. George H. Hoyt
1873-Col. George H. Hoyt
1874-Jeremiah A. Rich of Royalston
1875-Edwin Ellis
1876-William W. Fish
1877-Joseph Walker of Royalston
1878-J. Sumner Parmenter
1879-Leander B. Morse
1880-Russell S. Horton
1881-Ira Y. Kendall
1882-Henry M. Humphrey
1883-Dr. Frank W. Adams of Royalston
1884-C. Fred Richardson
1885-Washington H. Amsden
1886-Benjamin W. Rich of Royalston
1887-Sidney P. Smith
1888-Sidney P. Smith
1889-John D. Holbrook
1890-C. Waldo Bates of Phillipston
1891-Lucien Lord
1892-Charles A. Crossman
1893-Col. George Whitney of Royalston
1894-C. Waldo Bates of Phillipston
1895-Harding R. Barber
1896-Harding R. Barber
1897-William H. Mellen
1898-Oscar T. Brooks
1899-Phineas S. Newton of Royalston
1900-Charles A. Carruth
1901-Charles A. Carruth
1902-Edmund C. Shepardson!
1903-Edmund C. Shepardson
1904-Fred W. Lord
1905-Fred W. Lord
1906-James H. Hutchins of Phillipston
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1907-James Oliver
1908-James Oliver
1909-James Oliver
1910-James Oliver
1911-Merrick E. Hildreth of Petersham
1912-E. Warren Tyler
1913-E. Warren Tyler 1914-Fred W. Cross of Royalston thru 1916 1917-William G. Lord and 1918 1919-Joseph W. Ellsworth of Barre
1920-Almond Smith
thru 1924 1925-Leslie T. Haskins of Dana and 1926
1927-Thomas J. Worrell and 1928
1929-Clyde H. Swan of Barre thru 1932
1933-Charles H. Cooke thru 1945
1946-Warren E. Karner thru 1950
1951-Samuel J. Boudreau thru 1954
ATHOL SELECTMEN
1762-William Oliver, Aaron Smith, John Haven
1763-Samuel Morton, Aaron Smith, John Haven
1764-Aaron Smith, John Haven, Martin Morton, Samuel Morton, Silas Marble
1765-William Oliver, Aaron Smith, Nathaniel Graves, John Haven, Abraham Nutt 1766-Aaron Smith, William Oliver, John Haven, Abraham Nutt, Seth Twichell 1767-William Oliver, Aaron Smith, John Haven
1768-Nathaniel Graves, William Oliver, Aaron Smith, Jesse Kendall, Ichabod Dexter
1769-Nathaniel Graves, John Haven, William Oliver 1770-Aaron Smith, John Haven, Jesse Kendall
1771-John Haven, Jesse Kendall, Nathaniel Babbitt
1772-John Haven, James Oliver, George Kelton 1773-Aaron Smith, John Haven, Jesse Kendall 1774-Aaron Smith, James Stratton, Jr., James Oliver
1775-Aaron Smith, James Stratton, Jr., Hiram Newhall
1776-Aaron Smith, James Stratton, Hiram Newhall
1777-George Kelton, Hiram Newhall, Abner Graves
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1778-George Kelton, James Stratton, Josiah Goddard 1779-Josiah Goddard, Abner Graves, Hiram Newhall
1780-Josiah Goddard, Hiram Newhall, Abner Graves
1781-Josiah Goddard, Hiram Newhall, John Foster 1782-Josiah Goddard, Caleb Smith, Daniel Ellinwood
1783-Daniel Ellinwood, Thomas Lord, Simon Goddard, Josiah Goddard, John Foster
1784-George Kelton, Josiah Goddard, Abner Graves
1785-George Kelton, Josiah Goddard, Abner Graves
1786-Josiah Goddard, Abner Graves, Caleb Smith
1787-Josiah Goddard, Abner Graves, Caleb Smith 1788-Josiah Goddard, Aaron Oliver, Abner Graves
1789-Josiah Goddard, Abner Graves, Aaron Oliver
1790-Josiah Goddard, Joseph Pierce, Eleazer Graves, Jr.
1791-Josiah Goddard, Joseph Pierce, Caleb Smith
1792-Josiah Goddard, Thomas Stratton, Aaron Smith 1793-Thomas Stratton, Eleazer Graves, Jr., Caleb Smith
1794-Josiah Goddard, Thomas Stratton, Eleazer Graves, Jr.
1795-Josiah Goddard, Thomas Stratton, Eleazer Graves, Jr. 1796-Josiah Goddard, Thomas Stratton, Eleazer Graves, Jr.
1797-Samuel Young, Joseph Pierce, Aaron Oliver
1798-Josiah Goddard, John Humphrey, Aaron Smith, Jr. 1799-Josiah Goddard, John Humphrey, Aaron Smith 1800-Eleazer Graves, Samuel Young, Joshua Ballard
1801-Eleazer Graves, Joshua Ballard, William Young 1802-Eleazer Graves, Aaron Smith, Elijah Goddard 1803-John Humphrey, Eleazer Graves, Elijah Goddard 1804-John Humphrey, Eleazer Graves, Samuel Young 1805-Eleazer Graves, Samuel Young, James Humphrey 1806-Eleazer Graves, William Young, James Humphrey 1807-Eleazer Graves, James Humphrey, James Oliver 1808-James Oliver, Elijah Goddard, Joseph Pierce 1809-Eleazer Graves, Elijah Goddard, Joel Morton 1810-Eleazer Graves, Joseph Proctor, Elijah Goddard 1811-Eleazer Graves, Elijah Goddard, James Oliver 1812-Joshua Ballard, James Humphrey, James Oliver 1813-James Humphrey, James Oliver, Joseph Pierce 1814-James Humphrey, James Oliver, Joseph Pierce 1815-James Humphrey, James Oliver, Theodore Jones 1816-Eleazer Graves, Joseph Pierce, Zachariah Field 1817-Eleazer Graves, Zachariah Field, Ezra Fish
1818-Eleazer Graves, Ezra Fish, Eliphalet Thorpe 1819-Eleazer Graves, Eliphalet Thorpe, James Oliver 1820-Eliphalet Thorpe, Joseph Proctor, James Oliver 1821-Eliphalet Thorpe, Joseph Proctor, James Oliver 1822-Eliphalet Thorpe, James Oliver, Abner Graves, Jr. 1823-Eliphalet Thorpe, James Oliver, Abner Graves, Jr. 1824-Eliphalet Thorpe, James Oliver, Abner Graves, Jr. 1825-Eliphalet Thorpe, James Oliver, Abner Graves, Jr. 1826-James Oliver, Abner Graves, Nathan Nickerson 1827-Nathan Nickerson, James Young, Daniel Ellinwood 1828-James Young, James Oliver, Ebenezer Chaplin 1829-James Young, Samuel Sweetzer, Jr., Josiah Fay 1830-James Young, Samuel Sweetzer, Jr., Josiah Fay 1831-James Young, Eliphalet Thorpe, Josiah Fay 1832-James Young, Eliphalet Thorpe, Josiah Fay 1833-James Young, Eliphalet Thorpe, Josiah Fay 1834-James Young, Eliphalet Thorpe, Noah Stockwell
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1835-James Young, Gideon Sibley, Noah Stockwell 1836-James Young, Gideon Sibley, Noah Stockwell 1837-Benjamin Estabrook, Amasa Lincoln, Nehemiah Ward 1838-Benjamin Estabrook, Amasa Lincoln, Nehemiah Ward 1839-Benjamin Estabrook, Stillman Knowlton, Nehemiah Ward 1840-Theodore Jones, Elias Bassett, Joseph Stockwell 1841-John W. Humphreys, Elias Bassett, Alexander Gray 1842-John W. Humphreys, Henry Fish, Alexander Gray 1843-John H. Partridge, Alexander Gray, John Kendall 1844-Eliphalet Thorpe, Benjamin Estabrook, Elias Bassett 1845-Elias Bassett, Theodore Jones, Samuel Sweetzer 1846-Theodore Jones, Elias Bassett, Samuel Newhall 1847-Samuel Newhall, Benjamin Estabrook, Nehemiah Ward
1848-Calvin Kelton, Nathaniel Richardson, William D. Lee, Jr.
1849-Calvin Kelton, Nathaniel Richardson, William D. Lee, Jr. 1850-Calvin Kelton, Nathaniel Richardson, Benjamin Estabrook 1851-Benjamin Estabrook, Isaac Stevens, Josiah Haven 1852-Benjamin Estabrook, Isaac Stevens, Josiah Haven 1853-Samuel Newhall, Josiah Haven, Nathaniel Richardson 1854-Nathaniel Richardson, Josiah Haven, Laban Morse 1855-Josiah Haven, George Farr, Calvin Kelton 1856-Calvin Kelton, James Lamb, Abner G. Stratton 1857-Calvin Kelton, Abner G. Stratton, Benjamin Estabrook 1858-Nathaniel Richardson, Calvin Kelton, John Kendall 1859-Nathaniel Richardson, Calvin Kelton, John Kendall 1860-Calvin Kelton, Abner G. Stratton, Jonothan Drury 1861-Calvin Kelton, Amos L. Cheney, John Kendall 1862-Amos L. Cheney, John Kendall, Addison D. Horr 1863-Calvin Kelton, Addison D. Horr, Amos L. Cheney 1864- Calvin Kelton, Josiah Haven, Gardiner Lord, Jr. 1865-Calvin Kelton, James W. Hunt, James M. Rice 1866-Calvin Kelton, James W. Hunt, James M. Rice 1867-Calvin Kelton, James W. Hunt, James M. Rice 1868-Calvin Kelton, Nathaniel Richardson, John Kendall 1869-Benjamin Estabrook, Nathaniel Richardson, John Kendall
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