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C. Payne,
J. Dalton.
H. Ashby,
H. Scales,
Wm. Cabine.
B. Lewis,
R. Sisk,
L. Sisk,
B. Gentry,
S. Hutchison.
S. Price,
B. Ashby,
W. Breeze,
G. Breeze,
P. Lapson.
S. Dinsmore,
H. Hurt,
Dr. Scroggins,
T. B. Edgar, John Hudnall,
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From different counties then we came; Our object and our aim the same - A home in this far West. A cabin here and there was found, Perhaps a little spot of ground Inclosed and cleared, while all around In nature's garb was dressed.
ITere then we saw the groves of green Where woodman's ax had never been - The spreading prairies too. Within these groves -o dense and dark Was heard the squirrel's saucy bark : The bounding stag was but the mark To prove the rifle true.
But all is changed and cabin's gone ; The clapboard roof with weight poles on, The rough hewu puncheon floor : The chimneys made of stick and clay Are seen no more : gone to decay ; The men that built them, where are they ? I need not ask you more.
They're gone, but they're remembered yet, Those cabin homes we can't forget Although we're growing old : Fond memory still the spot reveres, The cabin homes of youthful years Where with compatriot pioneers We pleasure had untold.
The dense and tangled woodland too, The groves we often wandered through No longer now are there; The prairie with its sward of green With flowers wild no more are seen, But farms with dusty lanes between Are seen where once they were.
Large towns and villages arise And steeples point toward the skies, Where all was desert then ; And nature's scenes have given place To those of art; the hunter's chase Ifas yielded to the exciting race Of speculating men.
Ah, yes my friends, old pioneers, Full many a change within those years The country's undergone ;
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How many changes it's passed through -- And we old friends are changing too -- There's been a change in me and you And still that change goes on.
And when we think upon the past, Those friends whose lots with us were east On this one wild frontier, And pass them all in our review, As often times in thought we do - Alas! how very few Are there remaining here.
A few more years will come and go, As other years have done, you know; And then -ah, yes, what then? The world will still be moving on; But we, whose cheeks are growing wan, Will not be here : we'll all be gone From out the ranks of man.
Our places will be vacant here, And of the last old pioneer The land will be bereft. The places which we here have filled, The fields which we have eleared and tilled,
Our barns, though empty or though tilled, To others will be left.
But ere we pass to that far bourne, From whence no traveller ean return, We meet old pioneers. The few of us who yet remain, And we who here have met, would fain Now clasp those friendly hands again, We clasped in by-gone years.
In glad reunion now we meet, Each other once again to greet, And conversation hold; And while we socially to-day A few brief hours may while away, Let us, although our heads are gray, Forget that we are old.
Let us go back - in memory, go Back to the scenes of long ago, When we were blithe and young ; When hope and expectation bright Were bouyant, and our hearts were light; And faney, that delusive sprite, Her siren sonnets sung.
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And as we join in friendly ehat, We'll speak of this and talk of that, And of the inany things That have occurred within the land, Since first the little squatter band Came to this country, now so grand, Before 'twas ruled by rings.
'Tis natural that we should think, While standing on the rivers brink, How wide the stream has grown. We saw it when 'twas but a rill, Just bursting from the sunny hill ; And now its surging waters fill A channel broad, unknown.
'Tis natural and proper, too That we compare the old and new - The present and past, -- And speak of those old fogy ways In which we passed our younger days, Then of the many new displays That crowd upon us fast.
We little knew of railroads then, Nor dreamed of that near period when We'd drive the iron horse; And t'would have made the gravest laugh, Had he been told but oue-half The wonders of the telegraph - Then in the brain of Morse.
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We did not have machinery then, To sow and reap and thresh the grain, But all was done by hand; And those old-fashioned implements Have long ago been banished hence, Or rusting, lie beside the fence - No longer in demaud.
Yes, there are grown up men I know, Who never saw a bull-tongue plow, A flail or reaping hook ; And who could not describe, you know, A swinging board or knife, although Their grandmas used them long ago, And lessons on them took.
The young man now would be amused To see some things his grandsire used, Some things he ne'er has seen.
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The way in which we elean our wheat, When two strong men with blanket sheet Would winnow out the chaff and cheat, And twice or thrice the thing repeat, Until the grain will elean.
The single shovel plow and hoe, To clean out weeds was all the show - We knew no better ways; And now our sons would laugh to scorn Such poky ways of making eorn, And bless their stars that they were born In more enlightened days.
They say the world is wiser grown, They've got the speaking telephone - Talks twenty miles or more. And preachers now may preach and pray
To eougregatious miles away ; And thousand other things they say We never had before.
And yet I do not know but what The pioneer enjoyed his lot, And lived as much at ease, As men in these enlightened days ' With all their strange, new-fangled ways, Which wealth and fashion now displays, The mind of man to please.
'Tis true we did not live so fast, But socially our time was passed, Although our homes were mean. Onr neighbors then were neighbors true, And every man his neighbor knew, Although those neighbors might be few And sometimes far between.
Ah, yes, old pioneers, I trow, The world was brighter then than now To us gray-headed ones. Hope pointed us beyond the vale, And whispered us a fairy tale Of coming pleasures, ne'er to fail Through all the shining suns.
Ambition, too, with smile so soft, Was pointing us to seats aloft, Where fame and honor last. We had not learned what now we know, The higher up the mount we go, The storms of life still flereer blow, And colder is the blast.
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That though we reach the mountain top; Fruition find of every hope, Or wear the victor's crown : Though far above the clouds we tread,
There's other clouds still overhead,
And ou the mind there is the dread, The dread of coming down.
Ah, yes, Old Settlers, one and all, Whatever may us yet befall, We will not, can't forget, The simple, old-fashioned plan,
The routes in which our father's ran
Before the age of steam began To run the world in debt.
And while we talk upon the past, Of friends who are dropping off so fast, And those already gone, It may not be, my friends, amiss
For each of us to this -- -
The curtain of forgetfulness Will soon be o'er us drawn.
And though in glad reunion we Have met to-day, perhaps 'twill be A day of taking leave. And we who oft have met before,
And parted in the days of yore,
We'll part, perhaps, to meet no more When we shall part this eve.
The mind goes back through all the years -- We call to mind the pioneers, Those bold and hardy men; We pass them in the mind's review, The many dead, the living few, Those unpretending settlers who Were our compatriots then.
Yes, some of these were noted men, Well known, and much respected then, Although their coats were plain ; And when in office they were placed, They proved themselves not double-faced - The people's trust was not misplaced, We need such men again.
We had our courts of justice then, A terror to dishonest men, Who feared the halters drop. Judge Riyland then the courts could hold
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In full a dozen counties toll, Decide the cases manifold, And keep with business up.
And then the preachers of those days Were noted for their simple ways, And some for style uncouth. But they are gone, they all are dead, Another class are in their stead, Much better paid and better read, But have they more of truth ?
But time would fail to speak of all Those changes that our minds recall ; The world is shifting strange, And soon its shifting scenes will bear The last old pioneer to where Ilis lost and loved companions are, Low in the silent grave.
But ere, my friends, we hence embark, We fain would place some lasting mark, Upon this mountain shore A mark the traveller may see In coming years and know that we Have lived and passed the road that he May then be passing o'er.
When death's dark curtain shall be drawn And we old pioneers are gone, Let truthful history tell To far posterity the tale, As down the stream of time they sail, How we with motto " never fail " Came here and what befell.
Let history then impartial state The incidents of every date, And that it so may do, 1
Let pioneers of every age, In this important work engage, And each of them produce his page, His page of history true.
The incidents of early years, Known only to the pioneer-, With them will soon be lost, Unless before they hither go, Those incidents are stated so Posterity the facts may know, When they the stream have crossed.
CHAPTER XV.
Railroads - Bonded Indebtedness - Swamp Lands and Miscellaneous Matter.
RAILROADS.
In the whole history of the industrial world there is nothing to compare to the enterprise shown in railroad building in the United States. But little more than half a century ago the practicability of railroad transportation, according to the present principle of traction, was for the first time successfully demonstrated. To George Stephen- son, of England, a man of humble birth and fortune, but of the greatest natural genins, belongs the honor of this crowning triumph of the utilization of steam. On the 27th of September, 1825, he made the first really successful trip ever made on a railroad by steam, by run- ning a locomotive drawing a train of ears at the rate of twelve miles an hour on the railway from Stockton to Darlington. His success elec- trified the world. All Europe and America rushed into railroad building. The Quincy Railroad in the United States was commenced during the winter of the same year and was completed the following year. Other parts of the country quickly followed the example there set, and the United States soon distanced all other countries in rail- road building. We now have in regular operation over 25,000 miles of road, or within a few thousand miles of as many as there are in all the balance of the world.
As population pushed on out West railroads were extended into the interior, and Missouri, although at that time a frontier State, showed commendable enterprise and liberality in encouraging railroad build- ing. Various railroad enterprises were discussed and advocated in this State as early as 1835, and two years afterwards charters were granted by the Legislature to the St. Louis and Bellevue Mineral and the Lonisiana and Columbia Railroad Companies. These were after- wards merged into the charters of the Iron Mountain and the Hanni- bal and St. Joe companies. After the close of the Mexican war, the
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building of a railroad to the Pacific coast began to be agitated, and the people of Missouri, and particularly of St. Louis, were among the first to advocate the enterprise. The policy of St. Louis was to build three grand trunk lines from that city, one directly west up the Mis- souri into Kansas and to the Pacific ; another towards Arkansas and the Southwest ; and the third towards lowa and the great Northwest. For these roads charters were granted by the Legislature, and they ultimately became the Missouri Pacific, the Iron Mountain and the North Missouri, respectively.
THE NORTH MISSOURI RAILROAD COMPANY.
The North Missouri Railroad was chartered on the 1st of March. 1851. The company was authorized to build, equip and operate a railroad from St. Louis via St. Charles, thence on the dividing ridge between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers through this State to the Iowa line and in the direction of Des Moines. The road was com- pleted to St. Charles in August, 1855 ; to Warrenton in August, 1857 ; to Mexico in May, 1858 ; to Moberly in November of the same year ; and to Macon in February, 1859.
THE CHARITON AND RANDOLPH RAILROAD COMPANY.
Charitou county was not touched by the route taken by this road. But her citizens were equal to the emergency. In 1855 the Legislature had passed a general railroad law authorizing the formation of railroad companies by articles of association, etc., and conferring upon the companies so formed very liberal powers and privileges. Various meetings of the citizens of the county were held looking to the build- ing of a railroad from some point on the North, Mississippi through this county and on up the Missouri river to the Kansas State line.
Under the general law, before a certificate of incorporation could be issued at least $1,000 had to be subseribed and five per cent there- of actually paid into the treasury of the company for every mile of road proposed to be built. The tirst movement in the county taking tangible shape for building the road was the oganization of the Chari- ton and Randolph Railroad Company, which was effected on the 20th day of November, 1855. This was organized under the general law, and the building of the road from the North Missouri in Randolph county, a given point on the North Missouri Railroad iu Randolph county, to Brunswick, a distance of forty-three miles, re-
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quiring a subscription of stock to the amount of $43,000, was all that was at that time proposed. Considering the limited population of the county, and that its citizens were nearly all " new comers " and men of small means, this was certainly a large amount to raise by private subscription. That the stock was readily taken by the people of the county is in the highest degree creditable to their public spirit. A copy of the original articles of association, together with the subserip- tions made is here given.
Articles of association made and entered into this 20th day of . November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
§ 1. This association shall be called the Chariton and Randolph Railroad Company, and shall continue one hundred years.
§ 2. The object of this association is to construct. maintain and operate a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property between the city of Brunswick in the county of Chariton and some point on the North Missouri Railroad in Randolph county, through the counties of Chariton. Howard and Randolph, or solely through the counties of Chariton and Randolph.
§ 3. The capital stock of the company shall be two million dollars and shall consist of twenty thousand shares.
§ 4. The number of miles of railroad to be constructed by this company shall be forty-three.
§ 5. Sterling Price, Adamantine Johnson, John Ballentine. William C. Moberly, Isaac Brinker R. H. Musser, Thomas H. Price, Lucius Salisbury, Willis H. Plunkett and John P. Williams, of Chariton county ; Rice Batterson, of Howard county ; George Burekhartt, of Randolph county. and Lisbon Applegate, of Chariton county shall comprise its first board of directors, who shall hold their office for the period of one year, or until their successors are appointed.
§ 6. The stockholders of the company shall elect the board of directors once every year on a day to be appointed and fixed by the by-laws of the association.
§ 7. This association is organized under and subject to the general laws of the State of Missouri known as an act to authorize the for- mation of railroad associations and to regulate the same, approved December 13, 1855.
We, the undersigned subscribers to the capital stock of the Chari- ton and Randolph Railroad Company, hereby agree to be governed by the above articles of association and to pay the several sums set op- posite our names to the president and directors of said company in
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such installments as may be required, to meet the expenses of the construction of the above mentioned railroad whenever called upon by them to do so, and to pay five per centum on said stock on subserih- ing for the same :
NAMES.
RESIDENCES, NO. OF SHARES.
J. & G. M. Brinker,
Chariton,
20
AMOUNT. $2,000
Ballentine & Autcalt
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20
2,000
Johnson & Co.,
،،
15
1,500
Johnson, Barr & Co.,
5
500
R. H. Musser,
2
200
W. H. Plunkett,
2
200
Sterling Price,
5
500
Jas. MeFerran,
1
100
Philip Cooper.
1
100
Madison S. Marsh,
2
200
W. W. Hickman,
1
100
J. G. Hammer,
1
100
Win. E. Moberly,
5
500
Wm. W. MeCallister,
1
100
Thos. Neobold,
2
200
Jas. Mccullough,
1
100
Elias Elliott,
1
100
Jonathan H. Orley,
1
100
R. G. Beazley,
2
200
C. W. Warden,
1
100
L. Bauersmith
1
100
C. B. Rhodes,
1
100
Jno. E. M. Triplett,
1
100
Jno. Beaty,
1
100
Asa Turner,
2
200
Jno. S. Craig,
1
100
W'm. M. Neilson,
2
200
S. Munzey,
2
200
P. H. Staples,
1
100
L. Harman,
2
200
Plunkett & Ferguson,
5
500
Jas. O. Reiny,
5
500
A. D. Day,
Win. B. Watts,
5
500
38
4
400
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NAME ..
RESIDENCES. NO. OF SHARES.
Jas. S. Gillison,
Chariton.
3
AMOUNT. 300
Jas. P. Keyte,
12
1,200
Jno. T. Williams,
15
1,500
E. B. Keyte,
10
1,000
J. A. Keyte,
12
1,200
Geo. W. Harper,
2
200
Dickey, Priee & Co.,
5
500
Haynes & Post,
3
300
Robt. H. Dodge,
4
400
Wm. V. Hall,
5
500
Jno. G. Cunningham,
5
500
Wm. C. Applegate,
66
1
100
Jno. H. Blue,
2
200
Thos. Allen,
4
400
Henry C. Moore,
2
200
Peter T. Burnes,
..
2
200
Win. T. Todd,
2
200
P. V. Venable,
1
100
A. L. Gaines & Co.,
200
Wm. E. Warden,
3
300
Chas. W. Speneer,
3
300
Jno. W. Gilliam,
10
1,000
A. C. Johnson,
5
500
C. W. Bell,
2
200
Lewis S. Prosser,
1
100
Milton Withers,
5
500
W. B. Bruce,
3
300
Watkins A. Johnson,
1
100
W. H. Price,
1
100
A. Kennedy,
1
100
E. S. Williams,
10
1,000
E. Rueker,
2
200
T. H. Spencer,
8
800
Wm. Allega,
5
500
E. V. Eastmanpecuss,
5
500
R. C. Gregory,
2
200
Louis Augsberger,
66
1
100
Levo Benjamin,
2
200
Fred Sasse,
2
200
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NAMES. RESIDENCES. Chariton :
NO. OF SHARES.
AMOUNT.
Fredolin Meyer,
1
100
Fascke Bottscker,
2
200
Isaac Reiger,
1
100
Win. Tracy,
2
200
A. L. Kerr & Co.,
2
200
Win. Cunningham,
2
200
Jno. Strobe,
1
100
Wm. Ashton,
1
100
G. W. Spencer,
1
100
J. M. Douglass,
66
1
100
C. J. Peuck,
3
300
John Hughton,
2
200
R. A. Elliott,
1
100
J. M. Douglass,
3
300
Samuel Matthews,
2
200
Geo. Ashby,
1
100
E. Corby,
1
100
J. W. D. Littrell,
1
100
A. A. Knight,
1
100
W. S. Beale,
1
100
Thos. H. Price,
3
300
A. T. Adams,
5
500
Henry Lander,
1
100
Chas. Sasse,
3
300
Sarah Keyte,
1
100
John M. Gainer,
5
500
Stephen Porter,
1
100
Wm. W. Pugh,
1
100
David L. Cavanah,
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1
100
John Taylor,
1
100
Lewis W. Applegate,
1
100
John D. Locke,
2
200
Henry Shannon,
2
200
J. C. Crawley,
1
100
Jas. R. Horseley,
5
500
H. H. Davis,
2
200
Wm. H. Cock,
5
500
John R. Hyde & Co.,
66
2
200
M. C. Hunt,
5
500
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NAMES.
RESIDENCES. NO. OF SHARES.
AMOUNT.
John J. Grimslead,
Chariton.
1
100
JJas. Sportsman,
1
100
Abner Finnell.
2
200
Benj. F. Crawley,
1
100
John Hutchinson,
1
100
Alfred Mann.
1
100
Samuel Johnson,
2
200
David Hampton,
2
200
John Sportsman,
1
100
Lewis Bossworth,
..
3
300
Martin Tilsen,
1
100
Catherine T. Robertson,
1
100
Wmn. Dutton,
3
300
Samuel Elliott,
66
1
100
A. P. Harris,
1
100
J. D. Borrius,
2
200
Michael Ebert,
1
100
Wilson Elliott,
5
500
John Morton,
1
100
Wmn. Elliott,
1
100
Jas. Allen,
2
200
A. Rennick.
2
200
Frederick Teacher,
5
500
David Straub,
3
300
W. C. Price,
1
100
Win. C. Malloy,
1
100
Philip Parorth,
1
100
Jas. T. Blakeley,
2
200
Henry T. Blakeley,
66
1
100
Riley Price,
1
100
Samuel Campbell,
1
100
Jas. S. Applegate,
1
100
Geo. W. Shepherd,
2
200
R. D. Porter,
2
200
Wm. Harkeload,
2
200
Jos. A. Jaques,
1
100
W. A. MeClure,
5
500
R. H. Higgins,
1
2
200
Wm. W. Powell,
1
100
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NAMES.
RESIDENCES. NO. OF SHARES.
Elijah Dumon,
Chariton.
1
AMOUNT. 100
Richard S. Hyde,
30
3,000
Thos. Ferguson.
1
100
Verolde Harper,
5
500
Samuel M. Fuqua,
1
100
R. H. Tisdale,
..
1
100
John W. Price,
3
300
Jas. D. Price,
66
5
500
Wm. Turner,
1
100
Lisbon Applegate.
1
100
Lucius Salisbury,
5
500
Jas. II. Crickett.
1
100
Abram Sportsman,
2
200
Rice Patterson,
Howard Co.,
1
100
Geo. Burckbartt,
1
100
470
47,000
STATE OF MISSOURI, ) COUNTY OF CHARITON. S
Richard H. Musser, Adamantine Johnson and John Ballentine, three of the directors of the Chariton and Randolph Railroad Com- pany named in the foregoing articles of association, being first duly sworn upon their respective oaths, state : That the foregoing articles of association herewith filed contain the true and original list of sub- seribers to the capital stock in said railroad company ; and that four hundred and seventy shares of the capital stock of said railroad com- pany are therein by them subscribed in good faith ; and that five per cent has been paid in cash thereon to the directors of said company ; and that it is intended in good faith to construct, maintain and oper- ate the road mentioned in said articles of association. Affiants further state that the said four hundred and seventy shares subscribed as afore- said make an amount equal to one thousand dollars of stock for every mile of railroad proposed to be made by said company, and upon which five per eent has been paid in good faith as aforesaid.
[Signed] RICHARD H. MUSSER. A. JOHNSON, JOHN BALLENTINE.
Sworn to, etc.
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THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.
Following up this, and with a view of extending the road on west- ward. on the 5th of May, 1860, an act of the Legislature was procured, incorporating the Missouri River Valley Railroad Company with " full power to survey, locate, construct and operate a railroad from any point on the North Missouri Railroad in Randolph county, by way of Brunswick, Chariton county, thence through Carroll and Clay coun- ties, to any point on the Missouri river in Platte county." The capi-
tal stock of this company was fixed at $5,000.000. and Sterling Price, Adamantine Johnson and W. E. Moberly were appointed from Chariton county as the first directors. The two companies, the Chariton and Randolph and the Missouri River Valley, were incorporated and in- tended for the same purpose, to build a road from the North Missouri, in Randolph county, through Brunswick, and up the Missouri river, the former to build the road between the North Missouri and Bruns- wiek, and the latter to continue it up on the river.
THE CHARITON AND RANDOLPHI AND THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY RAIL- ROADS.
Both the Chariton and Randolph and the Missouri River Valley Railroad Companies were authorized to build branches and to receive subscriptions of stock from counties, eities and towns interested in the construction of the roads.
In 1859 the county court of this county voted to the Chariton and Randolph Railroad Company $150,000 in bonds ; but the road not being completed within the time specified in its contract upon which the sub- scription was made, the bonds were not issued. This subscription was subsequently declared null and void by an act of the Legislature. How- ever, active steps had been taken for the construction of both roads, a considerable portion of the Chariton and Randolph track being graded. But the war coming on soon after the work was commenced. all active operations were suspended. By act of the Legislature in 1864, the Chariton and Randolph and the Missouri River Valley Rail- road Companies were consolidated with the North Missouri Railroad Company, and the latter completed the entire line to Kansas City during the year 1869. From Moberly to Brunswick the road was completed December 15th, 1867 ; to Carrollton, August 15th, 1868 ; to Lexington
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Junction, October 1st. 1868 : to the Junction with the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, November 28, 1868 : and on to Kansas City in 1869. The citizens of the county through whose lands the road passes had already donated the right of way to the original companies. Since the completion of the road in 1869, it has followed the fortunes of the old North Missouri, and has become an important section of one of greatest railroad systems on the globe. .
THE CHILLICOTHE AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD COMPANY.
The Chillicothe and Brunswick Railroad, now also a part of the system with which the Chariton and Randolph and the Missouri River Valley roads are connected, was built in 1870 by the Chillicothe and Brunswick Railroad Company which was incorporated by act of the Legislature approved January 26, 1864. The first board of directors of the company were J. B. Lupen, J. B. Bell, Benjamin Berry, D. G. Saunders, S. K. Alexander, Thomas T. Eagles, W. A. Love, W. S. Davis, S. B. DeLand and John Smith, of Livingston county ; Will. 11. Plunkett, Thomas Anderson, John H. Blue, A. Johnson, W. E. Moberly, John Ballentine, John HI. Davis, James McFarren and David Loud, of Chariton county, and W. R. Creel and W. A. Da- lany, of Carrollton county. The Chillicothe and Brunswick became a part of the present Wabash system in 1879.
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