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USA > Missouri > Barton County > History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade, and Barton counties, Missouri > Part 46
USA > Missouri > Hickory County > History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade, and Barton counties, Missouri > Part 46
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The following named attorneys have registered in this court at the dates mentioned: 1866-C. H. Brown, Lamar; James F. Hardin, Neosho, Newton County; John S. Phelps, Spring- field, Greene County; C. W. Randolph, Neosho, Newton County; Nathan Bray; R. C. Anderson, Nevada, Vernon County; S. A. Wight, Nevada, Vernon County; G. H. Walser, Lamar; Will- iam H. Avery, Lamar; J. Thomas Bridgens, Fort Scott, Kansas; C. B. McAfee, Springfield, Greene County. 1867-John Q. Page, Greenfield, Dade County; L. W. Shaffer, Greenfield, Dade County; E. M. Hulett, Fort Scott, Kansas; W. W. Martin, Fort Scott, Kansas; John F. Birdseye, Nevada, Vernon County; T. H. B. Lawrence, Springfield, Greene County; W. F. Cloud, Leavenworth, Kansas. 1868 - James E. Wickerly, Neosho,
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Newton County; George W. Bradfield, Lebanon, Missouri; C. H. Morgan, Lamar; John I. Reed, Lamar. 1869-J. M. White, Lamar; Edward Buler, Lamar; J. D. Bicknell, Greenfield, Dade County; D. A. Harrison, Lamar; R. P. Smith, Lamar; J. P. Ellis, Springfield, Greene County; James L. Brown, Kan- sas City; Robert W. Crawford, Springfield, Greene County; T. A. Sherwood, Springfield, Greene County; Ben. U. Massey, Springfield, Greene County; Joseph F. Duckwall, Greenfield, Dade County; S. C. Jayred, Lamar. 1870-D. C. Hunter, Nevada, Vernon County; A. A. Pitcher, Nevada, Vernon County; Daniel M. Leet, Sedalia, Pettis County; R. F. Buler, Stockton, Cedar County; R. B. Robinson, Lamar; E. O. Brown, Lamar. 1871-Lee Chiswell, Lamar; R. J. Tucker, Lamar. 1872 - W. H. Phelps, Carthage, Jasper County; E. J. Montague, Car- thage, Jasper County; James M. Allen, Carthage, Jasper County; Amos Sanford, Columbus, Kansas; A. J. Wray, Lamar; W. T. O'Connor, Lamar. 1873-J. M. Kennedy, Greenfield, Dade County; J. W. Sennett, Carthage, Jasper County; J. F. Johns, Callaway County; Volney Moon, Lamar; James E. Lincoln, Liberty, Clay County. 1874-Paul N. Rupert, Greenfield, Dade County. 1875-J. B. Johnson, Nevada, Vernon County; H. H. Harding, Carthage, Jasper County; O. A. Tonslay, Joplin, Jasper County; W. C. Robinson, Carthage, Jasper County; A. H. Dunlavy, Carthage, Jasper County; R. W. Cloud, Carthage, Jasper County; A. H. Dale, Newton County; George Hubbert, Neosho, Newton County; O. H. Picher, Carthage, Jasper County. 1876- William H. McCown, Carthage, Jasper County; F. S. Yager, Carthage, Jasper County; M. E. Benton, Neosho, New- ton County; J. L. Jones, Fayette, Howard County; C. W. Thrasher, Springfield, Greene County; George F. P. Griffin, Lamar; Josiah Lane, Carthage, Jasper County; John B. Logan, Lamar; G. D. Jackson, Joplin, Jasper County; M. A. Pinkerton, Montevallo, Vernon County. 1877-J. H. Harkless, Lamar. 1878-D. P. Stratton, Stockton, Cedar County; Frank Cray- croft, Joplin, Jasper County; Galen Spencer, Joplin, Jasper County. 1879-L. W. Cremeens, Lamar; J. C. Cravens, Spring- field, Greene County; T. B. Haughawout, Carthage, Jasper County; Samuel McReynolds, Carthage, Jasper County; W. H.
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Martin, Stockton, Cedar County; J. R. Shields, Carthage, Jas- per County; W. C. Sloan, Lamar. : 1880- George E. Bowling, Lamar; Thomas M. Brown, Stockton, Cedar County; T. H. Cannon, Greenfield, Dade County; H. C. Timmonds, Stockton, Cedar County; N. Gibbs, Mt. Vernon, Lawrence County. 1881-E. E. Kimball, Nevada, Vernon County; O. H. Barker, Springfield, Greene County, John B. Cole, Lamar; S. C. Wood- son, Platte County; J. T. Gealy, Golden City; D. O. Turner, Greenfield, Dade County; Mason Talbutt, Greenfield, Dade County; I. W. Watthrall, Lamar; Clem. Hall, Stockton, Cedar County; C. H. Ingelow, Lamar. 1882-R. T. Railey, Har- risonville, Cass County; George F. Parry, Carthage, Jasper County; Walter J. Miller, Barton; H. C. Cartmell, Lamar; H. Harry, Golden City; Chauncey B. Stickney, Carthage, Jas- per County; A. J. Pyburn, Lamar. 1883 - William W. Bennett, Lamar; A. J. Harbison, Neosho, Newton County; C. B. Adams, Liberal; John Alexander, Sheldon, Vernon County; George H. English, Kansas City; L. M. Lloyd, Neosho, Newton County; J. B. Harris, Sheldon, Vernon County. 1884- W. F. Seaver, Golden City; Samuel E. Davis, Lamar; John H. Flanegan, Carthage, Jasper County; Mark Walser, Lamar; A. C. Betz, Butler, Bates County; R. W. Burr, Lamar; A. C. Burnett, Lamar; J. M. West, Minden; Edgar P. Mann, Greenfield, Dade County. 1885-J. Q. Work, Lamar. 1886-W. M. Williams, Boonville, Cooper County; L. S. Wright, Golden City; W. B. M. Austin, Joplin, Jasper County; C. Cheney, Clinton, Henry County; J. M. Dye, Lamar. 1887 -J. H. Krimminger, Lamar; John B. Bivert, Gentry County; C. S. Essex, Lamar; Thomas Hackney, Carthage. 1888 -William Mack, Lamar; H. M. Stephens, Lamar; John R. Walker, Boonville, Cooper County; T. L. Wills, Lamar; William A. Wood, Kingston, Caldwell County. 1889-W. E. Boulton, Lamar; E. C. McAfee, Spring- field, Greene County.
These have begun serving as justice of the Barton Circuit Court, as follows: 1866, John C. Price; 1869, B. L. Hendrick; 1872, John D. Parkinson; 1881, Charles G. Burton; 1887, D. P. Stratton.
Probate Court .- All probate business was attended to by the
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county court previous to the war. William B. Smedley was probate judge from 1866 to 1872. Marion Dale, the present incumbent, was elected in 1886.
COUNTY INTERESTS.
Court Houses, Fail and County Offices. - The first court house of Barton County was a small, temporary wooden structure erected on the north side of the public square in 1858. Its site was about where the St. Louis grocery store now is. The first court house designed for permanent use was erected in 1860. It was a brick building, and was located in the square. It was destroyed by fire during the war.
In 1868 a frame court house, costing between $5,000 and $6,000, was erected on the site of James Burnett's store on the west side of the square. It was subsequently sold, moved and diverted to other uses.
In the fall of 1888 work was begun upon the erection of a new court house, which will be completed during the present year. It is being constructed of Barton County's native building . stone and fine St. Louis pressed brick, and will be one of the largest, handsomest, best-appointed and most conveniently arranged buildings in Southwest Missouri. Its contract cost is $32,500. The contractors are Morrison Brothers, of Lamar. It is beautifully located in the center of the public square, and will constitute a goodly monument to Barton County's thrift, enterprise and progressive spirit.
Previous to 1871, Barton County sent her prisoners to con- finement in the jails of neighboring counties, chiefly to that of Vernon County. In the year mentioned, a brick jail building was erected in Lamar, at a cost of $7,600, which has since proved adequate to the demands upon it. I. N. De Long was the com- missioner appointed by the county court to superintend its erec- tion.
Until 1871 the county officers were in the old court house. During that year the brick building known as the recorder's office was erected in the public square, and the county clerk's,
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circuit clerk's and recorder's offices were located therein. In 1880 the county clerk's office was removed to a front room on the second floor of the Smith building. In 1881 it took up its quarters in a rear room of the same building, and the office of the circuit clerk took its place in the front room. A large room between these two offices is used for the sessions of the county and circuit courts. The recorder's office has remained in the brick building in the square. The office of the probate judge has been variously located from time to time, and is now on the second floor of Adams & Co.'s building. When the new court house is completed, the several county offices will be removed to it.
The County Poor Farm .- Barton County has never possessed a " poor farm" in the ordinary meaning of the term, but this designation has come to be popularly applied to the farm of the keeper of the poor, where paupers are kept temporarily, pending their location with farmers and others who board them at an expense to the county of $2.25 per week. The present keeper of the poor is M. Trace, who lives a mile and a half east of Lamar.
County Civil List .- The incompleteness of the records of the county court renders it impossible to make this list as exact as may seem desirable. Such records as there are of the election and service of different officials have been supplemented by reference to private documents, and by the memories of old citizens, and the following is the result, there having been no elections during the war period:
The successive sheriffs of Barton County have been: Joseph H. Brown, 1857; James H. Zevely, 1858, 1860; W. A. Norris, 1866; F. H. Harrington, 1868, 1870 ; Morris B. Earll, 1872, 1874; John Q. A. Jackson, 1876; Dennis Springer, 1878, 1880; S. P. Findley, 1882, 1884; Dennis Springer, 1886; George W. B. Garrett, the present sheriff, 1888.
Branch T. Morgan was county and circuit clerk and recorder from 1857 until the war. The county clerks elected since the war have been : Emery Q. Condict, 1866-74 ; W. E. Condict, 1874-78; R. A. Ford, 1878-82; C. C. Daubin, 1882-86; and John E. Rundell, who has served continuously since 1886.
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L. M. Timmonds was made circuit clerk in 1866; Godfrey F. Burkhart served 1868-78; the present circuit clerk, W. L. Mack, was first elected in 1878. The office of recorder is now inde- pendent of any other in this county. Godfrey F. Burkhart, who had long been recorder and circuit clerk, was elected in 1880, and re-elected in 1882 and 1884. William Dye, the present recorder, was elected in 1886.
Previous to the war, all probate business was attended to by the county court. William B. Smedley was probate judge 1866- 72. The following have been elected at the dates given, and served until the qualification of their successors: Joseph C. Parry, 1872; Robert Brown, 1874; John V. Elder, 1876; E. C. Morlan, 1878; William Dye, 1882; Marion Dale (now serving), 1886.
George E. Ward and Thomas Graves were county treasurers before the war. One of them was appointed in 1857, and the other was elected in 1858, and re-elected in 1860. C. R. Logan was the first treasurer elected after the war (1866). James H. Neal was elected in 1868, and served until succeeded by Morris B. Earll, who was elected in 1876. The subsequent treasurers have been: R. P. Smith, 1878-82; M. N. Wills, 1882-86; Will- iam A. Leech, 1886-88; William M. Wills, 1888 (present incumbent).
The county judges appointed in 1857 were William H. Brown, James Guest and J. G. Hutton. The first mentioned was presi- dent of the board. Philip Matthews, William H. Brown and L. M. Timmonds were elected in 1860, Matthews being presiding judge. The first judges elected after the war (in 1866) were William H. Grier, Elijah Buffington and John R. Main, the first being president of the board. Lorenzo Baily was the next presiding justice, and his associates were James H. Morris and Dr. John Jones. They were elected in 1869. The presiding justices since that time have been as follows, the year beside each name being that in which his only or his first election occurred: Charles H. Fink, 1873; John Bates, 1878; A. Warder (appointed), 1883; Owen Blacker (elected at large), 1884; Charles A. Mor- row (elected at large), 1886, and now serving. The associate justices prior to 1884, when the county was divided into the Eastern and Western Judicial Districts, were as follows: E. R.
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Chase, 1872; D. W. Morehouse, 1872; J. J. Bryning, 1873; C. M. Wood, 1873; W. H. Waters, 1873; Joseph Ash, 1873; George G. Ryan, 1874; Robert Brown, 1874; John V. Elder, 1876; M. Girdner, 1878; A. B. Conrad, 1878; Thomas Seal, 1880; D. T. McGown, 1880; W. R. Harbour, 1882; J. S. Hallo- way, 1882. The judges elected from the Eastern District have been: W. R. Harbour, 1884; Simeon Isenhouse, 1886 and 1888, and now serving. Those from the Western District have been: Anthony Gilmartin, elected in 1884 and 1886; Robert Perkins, 1888, and now serving.
Members of the State Legislature have been elected as fol- lows: David Norris, 1858 (representing Jasper and Barton Coun- ties); John B. Dale, 1860 (representing Jasper and Barton Coun- ties); and the following since the war, representing Barton County alone: R. T. Cartmell, 1866; G. H. Walser, 1868; Mi- chael Girdner, 1870; Charles H. Morgan, 1872; Charles H. Brown, 1874; Edward Buler, 1876; George Andrews, 1878; Robert Brown, 1882; Jerry Poor, 1884; H. C. Timmonds, 1886; John B. Cole, 1888 (now serving).
The following named have been commissioned public admin- istrators in the years mentioned: William B. Ryan, 1872; John F. Hall, 1876; A. J. Wray, 1877 and 1880; Allen Warden, 1884 (present incumbent).
Lee Chiswell was elected prosecuting attorney in 1872, and served ten years. In 1882, H. C. Timmonds was elected. He was succeeded by Andrew C. Burnett, who was elected in 1886, and is still in office.
The Seat of Justice .- Lamar was chosen as the permanent seat of justice of Barton County in 1857. Allen Petty was county commissioner and county seat commissioner, and in the latter capacity was aided by Mr. Fisher, who, prior to 1857, had been a resident of Jasper County. Lamar was laid outas a town, and made satisfactory progress until all local enterprise was checked by the outbreak of the Civil War. Its subsequent his- tory is outlined elsewhere in this volume.
The Barton County Agricultural and Mechanical Society was incorporated July 1, 1871, by the following order of the county court :
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Now at this day came Charles H. Brown, L. M. Timmonds and R. B. Robinson, and presented to the court a petition signed by the following named freeholders of this State, to wit: J. M. Lindley, G. W. Fink, W. H. De Long, I. N. De Long, Charles Van Pelt, C. H. Fink, T. C. Brock, William Tennis, William I. Stimmitt, J. Orrahood, J. C. Parry, T. P. Fondray, Charles H. Morgan, A. A. Dye, J. W. Dunn, Fred Rich- ards, Arnold Little, J. A. Albright, M. Huddleston, W. H. Catlin, J. T. Wyatt, O. F. Botkin, R. B. Robinson, Henry Murphy, John Jackson, E. G. Ward, John Jones, R. T. Cartmell, James Cromwell, J. T. Cartmell, James Harkless, C. C. Finley, S. Hilton, George 'W. Shawen, Joseph Little, A. W. Mccutchen, J. P. Bailey, E. R. Wilcox, .C. B. Lake, John Campbell, A. H. Joyce, S. L. P. Washburn, John Elsea, Charles H. Brown, H. F. Harrington, David Norris, C. H. Shapley, Lorenzo Bailey, S. G. Wood- fill, R. E. Whitney, William Haslam, James Ainscough, R. Scott, Peter Watts, M. L. Burr, W. E. Morris, James Zook, James H. Roberts, C. R. Carr, A. McCallister, S. G. Avery, James H. Neal, Isaac C. Reed, Joseph Alkire, M. N. Wills, L. M. Timmonds, Morris C. Baker and James Morris, stating that said petitioners desire to organize and be incorporated for the purpose of promoting improvements in agriculture, manufactures and the raising of stock, and praying that said petitioners may be, by order of this court, incorporated under and by the name of the Barton County Agricultural and Mechanical Society; and, it appearing to the court that said petitioners are freeholders of the State of Missouri, and a majority of them residents of Barton County, and that it would be for the advantage of the citizens of this county that the prayers of the petitioners should be granted, it is therefore ordered by the court that said petitioners be, and they are hereby, incorporated under the name of the Barton County Agricultural and Mechanical Society.
The association organized under the name of the Barton County Stock and Agricultural Association. Its objects, as set forth in its constitution, were the promotion of improvements in. the various departments of agriculture, fruits, vegetables and ornamental gardening; the promotion of the mechanical arts in all their various branches; the improvement of the race of all useful and domestic animals; the general advancement of all rural and household manufactures, and the dissemination of useful knowledge upon these subjects. The entire management of the affairs of the association was vested in a board of thirteen directors, each of whom must be a stockholder.
The first officers and directors were Charles G. Van Pelt, president; S. G. Avery, vice-president; R. B. Robinson, secre- tary; Allen Cockrell, treasurer, and Fred Richards, W. H. De Long, J. J. Fast, Joseph Parry, Charles H. Brown, R. D. Carpenter, E. G. Ward, Lewis Nigh and George Fink.
The capital stock of the association was divided into 100 shares, and originally owned by 100 shareholders. The number of shareholders has decreased to twenty-seven, whose shares, also twenty-seven in number, are correspondingly larger than
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were the original shares. The first fair of the association was held October 15, 16 and 17, 1872, in the grounds of the associa- tion, near Lamar. Its eighteenth annual exhibition will be held in the fall of 1889.
The present officers, directors and stockholders of the associa- tion, are as follows : William Allen, president; A. H. Snyder, vice-president; F. D. W. Arnold, treasurer; W. J. Miller, secre- tary; W. T. Craycroft, H. C. Brandon, William Dye, directors; and L. B. Smith, R. P. Smith, C. H. Brown, A. A. Dye, C. H. Morgan, S. G. Avery, John Main, John T. Wyatt, Charles Van Pelt, Tom Seals, E. G. Ward, C. H. Fink, Finley & Mat- thews, Steele & McDonald, E. S. Casner, W. L. Mack, M. L. Barth, C. M. Robinson, C. O. Brown, Patrick & Horton.
The Barton. Medical Society was organized at the office of Dr. A. A. Dye, in Lamar, in 1881, with Dr. J. W. Dunn as president, Dr. A. A. Dye as vice-president, and Dr. T. Hodge Jones as secretary and treasurer. Its objects are the establish- ment of more perfect unity in the medical profession, the sup- pression of quackery, and the advancement of true medical science and skill. Its constitution provides that its members shall consist of physicians residing in Barton, Jasper, Vernon and Dade Counties. Its meetings were held for a time in Grand Army Hall, Lamar, and for several years past they have been held at the office of Dr. A. Van Meter, of Lamar. The succes- sive presidents have been Dr. J. W. Dunn, 1881-83; Dr. A. A. Dye, 1884-86; Dr. A. Van Meter, 1887-88; Dr. A. B. Stone, 1889. The present officers are: Dr. A. B. Stone, pres- ident; Dr. J. W. Speece, secretary; R. F. Johnson, treasurer. The following named physicians have been members of the society at different periods since its organization, and many of them are members at the present time: A. A. Dye, J. W. Dunn, W. M. Drake, D. A. Pettigrew, A. Van Meter, I. N. Van Pelt, W. L. Griffin, Lamar; E. A. Mardick, G. T. Thomp- son, George W. Ackerson; T. B. Butler, Golden City; J. W. Keithly, William Terry, Milford; B. F. Crumrine, Dr. McGavran, A. B. Stone, Iantha; Dr. Gish, Pedro; R. F. Johnson, Nash- ville; A. C. Davis, Lockwood; M. G. Witter, Irwin; J. L. McComb, Kenoma; J. W. Speece, Beloit.
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Railroads .- Barton County has within its borders about 100 miles of railway, with a good prospect of soon having fifty miles more. The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad, which was not long since extended to Birmingham, Alabama, has obtained connection from Birmingham to the Atlantic Ocean. Liberal, Iantha, Lamar, Kenoma and Golden City are stations on this road in Barton County. The Arcadia and Cherryvale branch of the same road passes through Ozark and Southwest Town- ship, with a station at Minden. The Missouri Pacific road, from Kansas City to Joplin, passes through the county near the center from north to south, with Irwin, Lamar, Beloit and Dublin stations within the county limits, while the cut-off of the Mis- souri, Kansas & Texas Railway, from Nevada, Mo., to Chetopa, Kas., cuts four townships in the western part of the county, with stations at Ellsworth, Liberal and Minden. Other lines are projected with assurances of construction. The Kansas City & Sabine Pass road, designed to extend from Kansas City to Sabine Pass, has already passed the inceptive part of incubation, and the building of the road is assured. The Chicago, Jefferson City, Girard & Pacific road, an east-and-west-line, has also received much attention, the route having been located from. Jefferson City to Stockton, Cedar County. A third line which the county is reasonably sure to have is the extension of the Gulf road from Minden, near the western line, to Carthage. In addition, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé company designs gridironing Western Missouri with eight branches, one of which, extending from a point on the main road in Miller County, is destined to span Barton County, and pass through Lamar.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES. LAMAR.
Location .- Lamar is situated in Township 32, Ranges 30 and 31, a little south and west of the center of Lamar Township, at the crossing of the branches of the Missouri Pacific and Gulf Railway systems, which traverse Barton County, on the north fork of Spring River, forty-two miles southeast of Fort Scott, Kan-
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sas, twenty-five miles north of Carthage and twenty-eight miles south of Nevada. The population is about 3, 500.
The Town Plat and Additions .- The place was originally laid out in 1857, on land which had been taken up by George E. Ward, and Mr. Ward and J. C. Parry, his son-in-law, are popu- larly known as the donors to the county for a permanent seat of justice of a tract of land which was the nucleus of the present town plat. The original survey embraced forty to fifty acres. The plat was destroyed, with the other county records, during the war. The plats of the following additions to Lamar have been filed at the dates given: Wills' addition, January 16, 1868; P. Cockrell's addition, February 5, 1870; Parry's first addition, May 27, 1870; Parry's second addition, January 19, 1872; Wills' second addition, September 24, 1880; Wills' third addition, November 11, 1880; Edward Buler's addition, April 4, 1881; Parry's third addition, April 4, 1881; Allen Cockrell's addition, April 4, 1881; D. Humphrey's addition, July 1, 1881; the East Side addition, July 2, 1881; Miller's addition, August 20, 1881; Tucker's addition, November 26, 1881; Wills' fourth addition, May 12, 1882; Fink's addition, May 20, 1882; Humphrey Brothers' addition, April 23, 1885; Fink's second addition, January 21, 1888; Wills' fifth addition, February 14, 1888; Charles Van Pelt's addition, April 4, 1889. Peters' addition was earlier than the first above mentioned.
Incorporation .- Following is a copy of the record of the in- corporation of Lamar, March 12, 1867: -
Now at this day comes C. H. Brown and presents a petition signed by the citizens of the town of Lamar, asking that said town may be incorporated by the following metes and bounds: Commencing one-half mile east of the southwest corner of Section 30, Township 32, Range 30; running thence north one mile; thence west one mile to the center of the north line of Section 25, Township 32, Range 31; thence south one mile; thence east one mile to the place of beginning; and that a police may be established for their local gov- ernment; and, it appearing to the court that two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of said town have signed said petition, and that the prayer of the petitioners is reasonable and just, it is therefore ordered by the court that said town of Lamar be, and the same is hereby incorporated under the name and style of the Inhabitants of the Town of Lamar, according to the provisions of Section 1, Chapter XLI, title fifteen of the General Stat- utes of Missouri. And it is further ordered by the court that the following persons be, and they are hereby appointed trustees of said town, to continue in office until their suc- cessors shall be duly elected and qualified: Marcellus Pyle, Henry F. Harrington, Landon M. Timmonds, D. G. Steidley and William B. Smedley.
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June 1, 1880, the qualified electors of the town of Lamar voted to incorporate the town as a city of the fourth class. The first election of city officers was held July 10, 1880. N. E. Mccutchen was elected mayor; James Wilson, city marshal; and L. B. Smith, J. V. Elder, C. H. Brown and G. F. Burkhart, aldermen. They qualified July 13, and organized by electing C. H. Brown, president. July 19, J. P. Alter was elected city clerk. The present mayor is T. W. Harkless; A. J. Lovell and J. M. Dye are aldermen from the First Ward; J. A. Bowen and H. C. Branden, aldermen from the Second Ward; A. J. Wray and E. Buler, aldermen from the Third Ward; F. D. W. Arnold and A. C. Gardner, aldermen from the Fourth Ward; Harry Hall is city marshal and J. P. Alter, city clerk.
Corporate Limits - Wards .- The corporate limits of Lamar are as follows : Commencing at the northeast corner of the south- east quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 19, Township 32, Range 30; thence running west in a direct line to the center of the North Fork of Spring River, thence running in a southerly direction along the center of said North Fork of Spring River, and varying in each and every particular with the center of said North Fork, to the point where the center of said North Fork crosses the north boundary line of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 36, Township 32, Range 31; thence running in a direct line east to the southeast corner of the south- east quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 30, Township 32, Range 30; thence running north in a direct line to the place of beginning. The city was divided into four wards in 1884.
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