Biographical and historical memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and Hamilton counties, Nebraska, comprising a condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the same, a brief descriptive history of each of the counties mentioned, and numerous biographical sketches of the citizens of such counties, Part 67

Author: Goodspeed Brothers
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 820

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The fire of March 6, 1885, destroyed the stable of Conrad & Powers and with it 1,000 bushels of grain, two horses, valued at $1,200, and other prop- erty. The fire of April 11, 1888, originated between the Mills' building, then occupied by Newcomb & Arnold (on the site of Arnold & Potter's store), and John Tweed's store building. Within a few mo- ments the Exchange hotel, of Mrs. Townsend (estab- lished in 1877), the Mills' building, Newcomb & Arnold's stock valued at $7,000, John Tweed's stock and building valued at $6,000, Thomas Fow- ler's building $1;500, and Minnick & Morrill's stock $8,000 were destroyed: The heat was so intense as to melt the iron cornices of the Exchange building

and to damage the fronts of Wright Bros'. hardware store and Bradwell & Lewis' drug store. The total loss was $35,000, and the insurance $11,300. A few small fires are recorded in and around the village, but those referred to were the only serious ones.

In 1880-81 the citizens considered the question of water supply in case of fire, and agreed to con- struct a system of tanks. The appliances provided for this purpose consisted of a well, wind-mill and force pump; three cisterns, of 300-barrel capacity, constructed at the intersection of the principal streets, and one 200-barrel cistern near the well, each being connected with the well by means of underground pipes, through which the water was carried to fill them. In each of the cisterns was a wooden pump, by means of which the water was raised into buckets, used until an engine was pro- cured. A hook-and-ladder company was organized during the year 1881, with E. W. Lewis, foreman, and the department consisted of volunteers, all, in case of fire, being under the direction of an engi- neer, who was appointed by the town trustees, to- gether with his assistant. In 1882, D. Howe occu- pied the position of chief engineer, and K. I. Willis, assistant engineer.

The local board of the Fairfield branch of the Farmers' Union Insurance Company was presided over in May, 1889, by H. T. Hoyt, with J. T. Lee, vice-president, D. B. Gillette, secretary, and Brewer and Ricker, collectors. A large number of members were seenred.

The first banking house was established May 11. 1881, by J. W. Small and W. S. Randall. It was called the Fairfield Exchange Bank, and is engaged in general banking business, with a paid up capital of $3,000, and deposits amounting to about $12,000. On May 14, of that same year, a second monetary institution became established under the name of the Fairfield Bank, by a company composed of W. T. Newcomb, S. J. Anthony and O. C. Hubbell.

The First National Bank, successor to the Fair- field Bank, was organized April 28, 1886, and com- menced business June 1, 1886, the stockholders be- ing L. D. Fowler, president; George H. Cowles, vice-president; M. C. Joslyn, cashier; John E. Bag-

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ley and Ira Titus, assistant cashier. The capital stock was $50,000. W. T. Newcomb was elected president, June 6, 1888; Jacob Shively, vice-presi- lent; Ira Titus, cashier; S. C. Thompson, assistant cashier. On January 14, 1890, Jacob Shively was president; George J. Pielstick, vice-president; Ira Titus, cashier; S. C. Thompson, assistant cashier. The company own their building, which was built in the latter part of 1886.

The Citizens' Bank was established July 21, 1886, and opened August 2, that year. J. C. Hedge has served as president and C. L. Law, cashier, since that date. They, with J. L. Epperson, J. Tweed, H. S. Good, E. J. Jenkins, J. Linzen and George F. Dickson were the original stockholders. There are now nineteen stockholders. The paid up capital is $30,000, and the surplus undivided profits $3,500 ..

The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized August 27, 1873, by F. A. Penny, with W. R. Stevens, class leader. The class then belonged to Little Blue Circuit, of which A. G. White was pre_ siding elder. The first members were: W. R. Stev. ens, A. P. Randall, Alma Batchelor, Mary J. Ran- dall, Mrs. A. Hughes, Edetha Stevens, Mary M. Randall, W. N. Randall, W. H. Hughes, R. N. Brown, Mrs. L. J. Pearson, Mrs. E. Hardy, G. B. Overbulse, William S. Randall and Mary C. Randall.

The names of pastors, in order of service, were: F. E. Penny, E. J. Willis, J. S. Norville, J. W. Dobbs, Joseph Gray, C. L. Smith, C. A. Mastin, Horace A. Ewell, Andrew Kershaw, C. A. Lewis, J. W. Warfield and C. E. Rowe.

The office of secretary has been filled by J. O. Beck, J. W. Small, G. B. Overhulse, M. L. Byrket, Chester Wright, Mattie Hewitt and F. Anawalt. E. A. Mitchell is the present recording seeretary. The church house was erected in 1877; J. W. Dobbs was president and G. B. Overhulse, clerk of the building committee. Services were continued in the depot until the school-house was completed, when the class used that building and occupied it until the church building was completed, in the summer of 1878. The church is constructed after the Gothic style of architecture, is 30x50 feet in dimensions, and is finished with stained glass windows. It cost

$2,150. The congregation numbered 120 members in 1882.

A Sunday school was organized in the summer of 1878, with fifty scholars. W. R. Stevens was elect- ed superintendent; the school numbered 120 mem- bers, in 1882, and was under the superintendence of W. S. Randall.

The Catholic congregation was organized in Oe- tober, 1877, at the residence of J. R. Maltby. Rev. J. G. Glauber attended this mission every month, holding the services of the church in Conrad's Hall. The original congregation comprised seven families, but increased to twenty families in 1878, when work on the church building was commenced. The house was partly completed early in 1879, and finished in 1882. In 1882 Father Simeon, then resident priest at Hastings, attended this mission.

The Christian Church antedates 1878, when W. T. Newcomb and Elder T. J. Newcomb preached the doctrine of this denomination occasionally. A society was organized June 16, 1878, with the fol- lowing named members: S. J. Anthony, W. T. Newcomb and Mrs. De Ette Newcomb, Lorenzo R. Chapman and Mrs. Lona Chapman, Joseph Webb and Mrs. Hannah Webb, and James H. Artrup, eight in all. The office of pastor has been filled by Revs. George Lobingier, William Sumpter, T. J. Newcomb, C. B. Lotspeich, C. W. Hemry, W. P. Aylesworth and T. L. Fowler. On November 1, 1881, S. J. Anthony was elected first secretary, and holds that position to-day. In 1884 a building committee was chosen. This comprised the secre- tary, J. P. Nixon; G. W. Howe, Allen T. Mont- gomery and Jacob Haylett, and under their direction a house of worship was erected. This building was dedicated January 4, 1885 by Pastor C. W. Hemry . and Elder Lucas. In 1879 a parsonage was begun and finished, and the same year S. J. Anthony or- ganized a Sunday-school of thirty-five scholars. In the fall of 1881 the old school house was purchased by this society and fitted up for the purposes of worship.

The Congregational Society may be said to date back to January 21, 1872, when Mr. J. A. Jones, mis- sionary for the southern part of Clay County, or- ganized a society at the house of II. J. Higgins,

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with the following named members: A. S. Willis and wife, and H. J. Higgins and wife. The pastors in order of service are named as follows: Revs. John A. Jones, Thomas Pugh, - Abbott, R. R. Williams, 1883; C. E. Harwood, 1884; R. C. Morse, the present pastor. The office of clerk has been filled by the following members: A. S. Willis, W. H. Frey, M. R. Madison, K. I. Willis and C. A. Morrill. In the fall of 1872 the permanent head- quarters were fixed at Fairfield, services being held in the store buildings, and later in the Brown school house. In 1874 the common school building was their place of worship and continued to be, with little exception, until March 5, 1882, when the church house, begun in 1878, was completed at a cost of $2,800. The building committee comprised C. F. Shedd, L. C. Hodgson, J. R. Maltby, W. H. Frey, E. J. Jenkins, R. Bayly and A. B. Smith. There are now (February, 1890) 160 members.

A union Sunday-school was begun in the spring of 1872, the first meeting being held at the residence of H. J. Higgins, at Liberty farm, where it was kept during that year, until the approach of winter, at which time the school was dismissed for the win- ter, and, on the 9th of the following March, was started np again, and L. Brewer was elected super- intendent. With the beginning of next winter, the school was disbanded. On March 7, 1874, scholars met in Brown's (or Palmer's), school house, and elected W. R. Stevens superintendent. Meetings continued to be held, in the school house until the fall of 1877, when they were changed to the Metho- dist Church, remaining here about one year, being again held in the school house until the erection of the Congregational Church, in which the school has been · kept since. Other congregations at times branched off, starting schools of their own, so that what re- mained in 1882 of the union school, originally started, belonged almost exclusively to the Congre- gational Church, and had a membership of 100, under the supervision of Lyman Porter.

In 1884, I. D. Newell was pastor of the Baptist Society, followed in 1885 by Miss. E. Townsley, who was succeeded in 1886 by Rev. A. K. Myattway and he by Miss Townsley in 1887. On Miss Townsley's resignation of the pastorate, the pulpit was vacant

for some time until Mr. Clapp was called as pastor. He resigned in January 1890.

In November, 1883, the Baptist, Methodist and Congregational mission society was formed with Mrs. Worsley, president; Mrs, Small, vice-president; Mrs. Case, secretary, Mrs. Kershaw, treasurer and Mesdames Lewis, W. S. Randall, Oliver, Madison, Willis and Mason members of the committees.

T. W. Chatburn of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints preached in Hopper's Hall in April 1884. The membership of this society is quite limited but very active.

The Masonic society of Fairfield was organized under dispensation September 6, 1880, in Hopper's Hall with ten members. On June 22, 1881, a char- ter was granted and Fairfield Lodge No. 34, A. F. & A. M. , was instituted July 26, with B. F. Rawalt, O. P. Alexander, K. I. Willis, W. S. Randall, L. F. Fryar, J. McDonald, B. R. Royce, J. W. Small, G. W. Noble and Richard Bayley officials in lodge order. The masters since 1883 are named as fol- lows: 1883, B. F. Rawalt; 1884, W. S. Randall; 1885, G. W. Noble; 1886, A. A. Randall; 1887, J. M. Farley: 1888, W. S. Randall; and in 1889, W. S. Randall. The secretaries were A. A. Randall, 1883-84; F. H. Willis, 1885; K. I. Willis, 1886-88; J. C. Hedge, 1889-90. This lodge elected the following named officers in June, 1889: Wil- liam S. Randall, W. M .; E. J. Jenkins, S. W .; George J. Pielstick, J. W .; John Tweed, treasurer and J. C. Hedge, secretary.

The Odd Fellows, as is usual, have a strong lodge at Fairfield. 'Messrs. Fowler, Gates and Jenkins have served the lodge as presiding officers in late years, while Messrs. J. B. Goldsmith, T. J. Fowler and J. H. Brooks have served as secretaries.

The Grand Army of the Republic Post was or- ganized in August, 1880, with twenty-six members, by Col. Woods, of Omaha, in Conrad's Hall, and W. S. Randall was elected commander; B. F. Ra- walt, S. V. C .; S. J. Anthony, J. V. C .; L. Brewer, chaplain; D. A. Keeny, Q. M .; O. P. Alexander, surgeon; W. H. Fry, adjutant, and B. R. Royce, O. of D. At a regular meeting in December, 1881, G. W. Noble was elected commander; J. W. Small, S. V. C .; J. C. Hedge, J. V. C .; L. Brewer, chap-

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lain; J. E. Hooper, Q. M .; O. P. Alexander, adju- tant; W. S. Randall, surgeon; B. F. Rawalt, O. of D., and Jeff. Ogg, O. of G. The society met in Conrad's Hall for about three years, when they moved into quarters in Hopper's Hall. In 1883 J. W. Small was commander, and B. F. Rawalt, adjutant; J. C. Hedge presided in 1884-85, with J. B. Sanderson, adjutant, in 1884, and I. D. New- ell in 1885; A. P. Randall, commander, in 1886, with J. C. Hedge, adjutant; T. J. Loomis, in 1887, with H. M. Vanderbilt, adjutant; G. W. Flint, in 1888, with J. B. Sanderson, adjutant, and E. P. Rider, in 1889, with G. W. Flint, adjutant.

The past-post commanders of Fairfield Post, who attended the State convention in February, 1886, were J. W. Small, J. C. Hedge, George W. Avery, W. S. Randall and A. P. Randall.

The soldiers buried in Fairfield Cemetery as reported in May, 1889, are named as follows: G. W. Morecroft, Cyrus Griffith, J. H. Case, I. B. Reynolds, J. A. Trobaugh, Frank Stephenson, Horace Tibbits, T. W. White, Fred Ronzo, E. H. Prentice, W. H. Frey (O. P. Alexander's remains were removed to Pennsylvania), W. E. P. Hunt, J. W. Snyder, J. A. Webber, G. W. White, J. O. Athey, Robert B. Hale, William Smith, Jacob Til- bury and one unknown soldier. The wives of soldiers buried there were Madams G. W. Avery, Charlotte Hunt, Myra McDaniels, J. H. Case, A. Gray and W. M. Towers.

Fairfield Lodge No. 86, A. O. U. W., was organ- ized August 27, 1886, with the following members: D. Mordock, M. D. Gates, U. S. McReynolds, E. D. Judd, W. S. Randall, J. M. Farley, J. C. Hedge, J. E. Higgins, G. W. Avery, F. H. Willis, C. E. Collins, J. Tweed, S. S. Renie, G. M. Prentice, A. J. Bacon, D. B. Gillett, C. W. Potter, A. B. Smith, G. A. Howe, V. W. Millard, S. H. Lewis, W. A. Pearman, W. J. Lowry, E. E. Gates, Frank Job- son, E. L. Bartholomew, John Biddle and J. M. Overhulse. The masters of this lodge, in the order of service, are D. Mordock, C. W. Potter, E. D. Judd, and M. D. Gates, present incumbent. The secretaries have been E. D. Judd and S. H. Lewis, and the number of members in February, 1890, fifty-five.

In December, 1889, the Women's Relief Corps of Fairfield elected Mrs. C. F. Shedd, President; Mrs. J. B. Sanderson, S. V. P .; Mrs. T. W. Kirk- patrick, J. V. P .; Miss M. L. Randall, Sec .; Mrs. T. J. Loomis, Treas. ; Mrs. W. S. Randall, Treas. ; Miss Sanderson, Conductor, and Mrs. J. B. Massie, Guard.

The Chorus Class organized in November, 1884, comprised J. N. Hursh, C. E. Harwood, Nellie Mar- tin, Susie McKee, Anna Case, Ella Kneeland, Cora Hopper, L. M. Howe, A. A. Randall, L. C. Morris, Fannie Mason, E. D. Judd, W. M. Sheppard, A. B. Randall, Mary Gaylord, C. E. Collins and G. A. Houlgate.

Fairfield Council No. 1, R. T. of T., was in- stituted July 15, 1889, with A. T. Harrington, S. C .; J. E. Hopper, V. C .; Mrs. F. A. Harrington, chaplain; Miss M. L. Harrington, recorder; Z. Riggs, financial secretary; Jacob Shively, treas- urer; G. W. Jenkins, herald; Levi Beard, D. H .; Mrs. M. Hakes, guard; A. W. Ginzey, sentinel, and Royal Woods, medical examiner. There were seventeen petitioners for charter of whom thirteen were initiated. There are now sixteen members.

The Y. M. C. A. was organized in June, 1886, with A. B. Palmer, president; A. K. Wright, vice- president, and C. A. Morrill, senior vice-president. In 1887-88 E. A. Mitchell presided, with A. Rob- erts, secretary. In June, 1889, C. A. Morrill was elected president; F. Anawalt and Ben Pearsall, vice-presidents; W. E. Mitchell, secretary; E. A. Mitchell, treasurer, and J. H. Byrket, librarian.

A branch of the Retail Merchants' Association of Nebraska was organized at Fairfield, in Sep- tember, 1889, with William S. Randall, president; A. G. Arnold, vice-president; A. B. Palmer, secre- tary; B. J. Wright, treasurer; F, Anawalt, T. J. Loomis and A. G. Arnold, executive committee.

The Modern Woodmen of America, organized in 1889, with C. W. Potter, consul, and E. A. Mitchell, clerk.

The Fairfield Temperance Alliance was organ- ized in November, 1881, with F. H. Willis, presi- dent, and B. F. Rawalt, secretary. In December a society of 350 members was organized, with B.

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F. Rawalt, president; F. Malone, secretary, and Mrs. Clara Broderick, treasurer.

The I. O. G. T. is one of the oldest organiza- tions of Fairfield. Its work has been continuons with the Red Ribbon and alliance work. The presiding officers since 1883 are named as follows: W. F. Kintner, E. W. Lewis, R. Bayly, C. H. Ep- person, W. F. Kintner, J. A. Frame and Will H. Farner, in 1889. The secretaries in the same order were S. C. Maine, Lute Howe, Mrs. Howe, Ida Aitkens, Fannie Sanderson, George Biddell, L. O. Shirk.

A Union Temperance Society was organized in September, 1885, with W. S. Randall, president; I. E. Beery, secretary; Mrs. Worsley, treasurer; J. E. Hopper, J. L. Epperson, J. P. Nixon, J. J. Sperry and the president, executive committee.

Clay County Musical Society was organized in February, 1874, with S. Backus, president; A. Poole, vice-president; T. A. Barbour, secretary; Miss Dewstoe, corresponding secretary, and E. P. Burnett, treasurer.

The Reading Circle of Fairfield in 1882 com- prised Richard Bayly, Leander Brewer, James H. Conrad, J. H. Epley, J. C. Hedge, Dennison Howe, John E. Hopper, William L. Howe, C. T. Mills, Sr., W. T. Newcomb, George W. Noble, William S. Randall, Ben. F. Rawalt, C. F. Shedd and A. S. Willis.

The first hotel opened at Fairfield for the ac- commodation of travelers was the Section House, kept by John Clancey, which was continued until the winter of 1876-77, when W. W. Wattles erect- ed the Exchange Hotel, which in 1882 was the only public house in operation in the place. In the fall of 1879 Mrs. C. J." Yates built the Met- ropolitan Hotel, which she used for the accommo- dation of guests. The old Exchange Hotel was destroyed by fire in 1888, while conducted by Mrs. Townsend. The railroad house or Union Depot Hotel is now the leading hotel of all this section. The building was erected by the citizens and rail- road company jointly. The Fairfield House or City Hotel is also a favorite house.

A. B. Smith's sorghum factory produced more syrup in 1883 (15,000 gallons) than any other

factory in the State. Other industries also exist here, such as the creamery, iron-works, etc. A few elegant brick business blocks point out the workings of modern progress.

The Merchant's Carnival* of February 6, 1890, was carried out under the superintendence of Marshal Gordinier, assisted by the ladies of the churches. The First National Bank was repre- sented by Fannie Shively, the front of whose black dress was trimmed with National bank notes and $20 gold pieces and silver dollars. A head-dress was also made of bank bills, the costume aggregat- ing in all $860. Palmer Bros.' dry-goods house was represented by Mamie Clapp; A. B. Smith's agri- cultural implement warehouse, by Minnie Snethen; Biles' photograph gallery, by Ida Smith; Riggs & Birch's drug store, by Sallie Riggs; the Fire Com- pany, by Mary Munson; Broderick's blacksmith shop, by Mrs. Fred Evans; Wright Bros.' hardware, by Elva Rulon; Mrs. Brooks' millinery, by Amelia Furer; Miss Biddle's dress-making house, by Mary Atkins; C. H. Epperson's law office, by Mrs. Ep- person; Phillip's jewelry store, by Lena Phillips; the Fairfield Iron Works, by Libbie Reel; the Her- ald office, by Cora Rider; Helton & Larimore's grocery, by Nellie Mason; Wyman & Lewis, by Fannie Mason; Frees & Hedge, by Emma McKee; the Loomis grocery store, by Nettie Loomis; J. H. Brooks' real-estate office, by Georgie Prentice; the Clay County Telephone Company, by Laura Bene- dict; the Titus insurance office, by Emma Wilkins; Howe's post-office store, by Emma McPeak; Den- tist Robert's office, by Amy Sheppard; the News office, by Eliza Sheppard; J. P. Nixon's real-estate office, by Belle Nixon; Anawalt's grocery, by Louie McKee; G. W. Howe's grocery, by Frankie Gil- lette; M. L. Byrket & Son's blacksmith and marble shops, by Susie Byrket; Lewis Bros. drug house, by Ada Hursh; the St. Joseph & Grand Island Rail- road, by Fannie Sanderson; Minnick & Morrill's general store, by Lulu Downer; John Tweed's general store, by Belle White; Arnold & Potter, the clothiers, by Edith Smith; Fowler's harness shop, by Minnie McPeak; Fiddler's coal oil ware- house, by Flora McFadden; Gay's meat-market,

*Summarized from News report.

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by Connie Brown; Cook & Brehm's meat market, by Mrs. Brehm; Cash Furniture Company, by Florence Jackson; the furniture bazaar, by Bertha Willis; Union Depot Hotel, by Amy Wilson; Prick- ett's real-estate office, by Nina Trobee; the Chi- cago store, by Cora Hart; the Fairfield House, by Lillie Dixon; Gordinier & Millard, paper-hangers and plasterers, by Fannie Atkinson; Sam Lee's laundry, by Jennie Elliott; Emrich's barber shop, by May Humphreys; Swanton's paint shop, by Min- nie Jones; Cook & Brehm's ice house, by L. Marie Hubbell; Furer & Pearsall's creamery, by Miss Markley; Rossiter's shoe shop, by Wealthy Downer; Phillips & Hayden, livery, by Minnie Harris; J. H. Conrad, drugs, by his daughter, Miss Winnie; Lenzen & Son, grain and stock, by Ollie Harris; C. J. Furer, grain and stock, by Gertie Smith; C. K. Knights, harness-maker, by Minnie Case.

The entertainment was not only well attended, but everyone was fully and perfectly satisfied; the marching was greatly admired and the costumes appropriate.

Edgar is made up of all kinds of people shaped to an enterprising community by the same spirit of progress and enterprise which first suggested the building of a village at this point. There are no church towers here with bells which tolled great- grandfathers to their graves; no long lines of tombs in which lie the virtnes of ancestors known only by tradition; no gray-haired friars rising up like stat- ues before the memory; no grim sexton looking into some new-made grave waiting for the latest addition to his inanimate company-nothing of the dead past. Merchants and tradesmen are all mod- ern, scarcely taking time to die, pushing ever onward building and rebuilding, always active. Non-existent in 1870, it has nothing of age, but claims all the grit and reality of youth.

The town site was pre-empted by Henry Gipe for the Nebraska Land & Town Site Company, to whom he deeded one-half the quarter-section upon which the town was platted. The survey was made by A. R. Butolph, in May, 1873, the railroad be- ing completed in July, 1872. The post-office was established in June, 1872, with A. J. Ritterbush, master, who kept it in his log store building adjoin-

ing the limits of the survey. Gipe erected the first house-a sod honse-and in 1872 the depot and section house were erected by the railroad company. Charles McGowan kept a boarding house; S. T. Caldwell had opened a store here before Ritter- bush, or about the time of survey. This was Mr. Rouzey's dwelling in 1885. In August Rev. F. A. Penny erected a dwelling, and C. E. Green built a store room and placed therein a general stock. In September C. F. and J. G. Glazier's general store was opened, and T. A. Hendrick's drug store es. tablished. The following winter, 1873-74, W. Rick- hart's harness shop was opened. Early in 1874 J. Carlin and W. F. Whitmore erected a blacksmith shop for James Cranz, and A. Sherwood's shop was opened shortly after; Cyrus Stayner's furniture store, Whittemore's livery and A. B. Canfield's general store, were opened before the close of summer. In the fall of 1874 E. E. Howard estab- lished his hardware store; S. J. Whitten, a lumber yard; J. D. Deck, a blacksmith shop, and George Wilson, a flour and feed store. J. H. Brown be- came a partner of Caldwell about this time, and in 1880 assumed control of the business; W. R. Ful- ler's book and jewelry store was established about this time; J. W. Carson's repair and jewelry shop was opened in 1877, and G. W. Tooker's harness shop was established; in 1879 the Gardner Bros. opened a grocery store here, and in 1884 J. C. Gardner started a like establishment; Mrs. F. F. Craiger established a millinery store here in 1880; William Saxton's clothing store was opened in 1880, and Mordock Bros. grocery in the fall of 1881, they having purchased J. H. Brown's grocery de- partment; in 1884 Gee & Pinckard became owners of Howard's pioneer harness shop; C. W. Wiley of J. D. Whitten's furniture store, started in 1874 by C. Y. Stayner.

J. T. Donohue sold the Edgar Marble Works to Henry Dare in January, 1885; H. F. Grant estab- lished his insurance office in 1882 and Chandler & Dalton their real-estate office in 1884; O. A. Avery began business in 1879; D. R. Hughes (Walley & Hughes) in 1884; Thomas Harvison in 1881; Duh- ling & Sons in 1884; John Whitten in 1880; Whit- tlesey & Wright (successors of Casterline & Roberts)

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in 1885; Palmer's barber shop in 1883; J. M. Cobb in 1876; Joseph Henninger in 1876; N. B. Olesen in 1881; John Oshey in 1883; Dr. Canfield in 1877; Dr. Anderson in 1879; Attorney W. B. Good in 1884; Attorney S. W. Christy in 1880; S. A. Searle in 1880. Mrs. G. A. Hull opened the green- house in 1883; Thomas Hazelbaker, the Commer- cial Hotel at the same time; J. P. Nelson his in- surance office in 1879; J. W. Gunn his hotel in July, 1884; Frank Negel his tailoring house in 1884. . The Miller and Jackman brick yards, north of Edgar, commenced operation in 1886.

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Author: Goodspeed Brothers Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Chicago, The Goodspeed publishing co. Number of Pages: 820

Author: Goodspeed Brothers
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 820