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There was a "hot time in the town tonight" every day and night, Sundays included. Money was easy and gamblers plenty. You must not mistake in thinking the merchants had an easy time. Many present remember the panic of 1873 and all have heard something of it. While the panic did not affect this new West in a serious degree, yet in some respects it was felt. In my trade I had occasion to handle commercial paper such as drafts, checks, etc., and at one time I had in my hands three drafts of $500 each drawn by eastern national banks upon their New York depositories all protested for want of funds, confusing my cash arrangements for the instant to such an extent that I had to ask the First National Bank of Lincoln to deposit to my credit, by telegraph, in First National Bank of Chicago, $1,000 to make good deficiencies on overdrafts arising from protested drafts just mentioned. While the panic was raging in the East making bankrupts by the thousands, the West was not seriously concerned.
In 1873 appeared a distemper among horses called "epizootic," which was a panic breeder over these plains. During a period of about two months only a few dozen teams of horses appeared in the lively market of Lowell, succeeding a year or more of the daily arrival of from fifty to one hundred teams from the settlements of the Republican, Solomon, the Smoky and their tributaries. Their horses in considerable numbers died and all were disabled that did not die. To such straits were they reduced that hundreds of teams of oxen were hastily caught up from herds and yoked and driven to market for supplies. Some of those wild steers never had their yokes taken off after starting until they returned home. They were thus enabled to haul about half loads or a little more. While it was hard on the settler it was harder on the merchants. The gamblers and saloonkeepers were horror stricken and left temporarily for greener pastures. Half the merchants failed or closed and the remainder did some tall hopping to make ends meet.
I had several experiences new to me during my two years' merchandising at Lowell. Lowell market had attracted the attention of trappers, many of whom along the upper tributaries of the streams to the southwest, west and northwest of Lowell came here to market their pelts and to lay in supplies. During the furnishing of my share of the customers I heard numerous complaints of the unfair dealing they were receiving at the hands of local dealers. I made it my business to investigate the facts and in so doing actually learned the names of the different pelts and watched the manner of inspection of the grades of the different kinds of furs. A load of pelts came in one day and was by the different dealers inspected and quoted, that is, bids were made for the load amounting to about six hundred dollars. I closely watched their proceedings and found what I believed to be a "ring"-that is a secret agreement among them that the load should be bought by one of them and after the hunters left divided. Just then I
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stepped in and over-bid the gang, first by going through the form of inspection and then making my figures $50 above the best bid so far made. I got the load and supplied their outfit, and was the cause of better prices and a better name for Lowell. I had never handled nor owned a fur pelt before but kept on buying, all of the other dealers wondering what market I was going to find for my furs. One day a gentleman from Buffalo stepped into my store inquiring who had a stock of furs. I showed him mine, made him a price, he bought the lot amounting to over twenty-three hundred dollars, at a profit to me of near two hundred and fifty dollars. It was my first and last venture in furs. I never again bought a pelt.
Other hunters in Kansas were busy in another line of profit. In the winter of 1873 large herds of buffalo appeared and the hunters turned out for a carnival of fun and a bushel of money. Thousands of buffalo were slain, the hams cut out with the skin on them and a load sent to Lowell. It was a new deal, none of the dealers would touch them at any price. I bid 314 cents per pound for the load, and upon a further contract to take other loads, I got it. The other loads came also until I had accumulated over four tons of ham. A notice of the fact in a Chicago daily that I could supply large or small orders brought me customers from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa for one, two, three or four hams at 10 to 121/2 cents a pound, by express C. O. D. and all were closed out at a profit.
In 1874 came a German settler who through agents in Europe contracted for the purchase of railroad lands in Frontier County south of Plum Creek, now called Lexington. He came to Lowell and brought his wealth in the shape of a draft of a Prussian bank upon a New York bank for $1,730 in gold. There was a bank at Lowell at that time but the bank nor any merchant in Lowell dare invest. They had never seen such a thing. He came to me and with the aid of my smattering knowledge of German, and the assistance of the "Mohawk Dutch- man" I mastered the meaning of the document, and as the premium on gold was then declining, the day before having been quoted at 8 cents premium, I offered to take the paper at 6 per cent premium, give him all the goods he wanted to buy on it and $600 in cash, the balance on demand at any time after two weeks from date. He was rejoiced, took out about $300 trade and the cash I had on hand. I sent the draft to the First National Bank of Chicago which refused to credit any specific amount but forwarded it to New York where it arrived on a day when gold was quoted at 16 per cent premium. My bank account was credited within a week of the date I had taken it for the face plus 16 per cent premium thus clearing 10 per cent on $1.730 besides my profits on the goods sold him. In about four weeks he again appeared, loaded up two wagons with farm imple- ments, food and supplies and took the balance due him in cash, a happy man and came again and again.
I soon learned the kinds of guns mostly used by hunters and made it a point to keep a good supply of ammunition of all kinds used. I also made it a point to have on hand also a large supply of strychnine used largely by hunters. At one time received a supply from the manufacturer of 180 ounces in dram bottles ; and steel traps by the dozen of the size mostly in demand by the trappers. I tried to make it an object for settlers, hunters, trappers and all others to come to the metropolis.
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When I came to Lowell there was no Kearney Junction. It had just been platted but not a building of any kind on the plat. Along in the fall the square house used by pre-emptors of section 2, town 8, range 16, was moved upon the street named Wyoming Avenue, now called Central Avenue. In a few days a board shanty was erected for a saloon, those were the first buildings in what is now known as Kearney City.
At the date of my arrival there was no such place as Hastings, but in 1873 the St. Joe & Denver Railroad changed its name and its terminal to St. Joe & Grand Island Railroad, and at its crossing of the Burlington & Missouri, a little town was started and named Hastings. Only an eighty acres was platted at first. The United States Land Office was moved in the spring of 1874 from Lowell to Bloomington. In September, 1874, a new bridge (across the Platte River) was erected at Kearney Junction and a few months later a bridge was completed at North Platte. Lowell was doomed. Your orator saw it. Hastings, Kearney Junction, North Platte, Grand Island were all bidders for the wonderful trade that Lowell had enjoyed in full sway for two years, and I withdrew to my farm and the founding of a new town to become the county seat of this finest county in the state. Kearney County lost its City of Lowell but gained by the founding of a new and larger and better City of Minden.
Buffalo County won the trade at the expense of a new bridge which it built at its own cost and has kept in repair for thirty-five years-whether a profitable deal will be explained by "Bob Greer" who took charge of the customers when I quit.
But 1874 is also an historical year in the fact that in that year and the two succeeding years the locusts came and played havoc with the crops of those new struggling settlers, which plague was finally ended by a fortunate May, 1877, rain, sleet and snow storm, closing with a freeze that utterly destroyed the "hoppers."
Recounting my first advent to this county I now find not one of those thirty- one organizers remaining, but find myself to be the oldest remaining settler of the county. All those who were here when I came are dead or moved away except two old ladies who were here prior to my advent, Mrs. Talbot and Mrs. Paul Peterson.
Upon recapitulation of my merchandising venture July '72 to July '74 I found that I had sold $1,300,000 worth of goods; that my ledger balance showed that I had made a clear profit of $13,000, or just 10 per cent on my sales ; dividing that, one-half to my father who was my partner, and living expenses of my family for two years, I had enough to erect buildings on my homestead, buy teams and implements and support my family during the grasshopper plague and be just even when the locusts quit.
CHAPTER XXVI
HOMESTEADERS IN BUFFALO COUNTY-A LIST OF 1,265 PERSONS TAKING HOMESTEAD AND PRE-EMPTION CLAIMS IN BUFFALO COUNTY PREVIOUS TO 1880-ARRANGED BY TOWNSHIP AND RANGE, GIVING YEAR OF FILING ON CLAIM.
THE HOMESTEADER
As a pioneer in the settlement of the county and state the homesteader takes first place-first rank. As a rule the homesteader was of limited means and ventured everything in the effort to establish a home. The rapidity with which the county was settled beginning in 1871 is best illustrated by a table showing the number of homestead and pre-emption claims filed upon in the county previous to the year 1880.
A table giving by years the number of homestead and pre-emption claims filed upon in Buffalo County :
1867
I
1870
2
1871
165
1872
177
1873
150
1874
143
1875
71
1876
50
1877
29
1878
268
1879
209
Total
1,265
The setback which not only Buffalo County but the state received in the drouth and grasshopper years of 1874, 1875 and 1876 is only half illustrated in the above table, for not only were there comparatively few newcomers, but hun- dreds of those who had taken claims left the county and state, deserting their claims, which were in later years taken by others.
The rather large number of claims recorded as taken in the years 1878-79 is in part accounted for by the fact that the Fort Kearney Military Reservation, ten miles square and four-tenths of which was embraced within the limits of Buffalo County, was thrown open to homestead entry in 1878 under conditions
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which permitted the head of a family to homestead 160 acres, and in the years 1878-79 all these lands were filed upon in the United States Land Office, and as there were no railroad lands in the reservation, every quarter section contained a homesteader. The belief that the reservation would be thrown open to home- stead entry led interested parties (the chief promoter being Dr. J. J. Saville) to employ S. and J. Murphy, civil engineers, living at Kearney, to survey the reservation, this about the year 1876, and at that date practically the entire reservation was taken by "squatters," who, when the lands were thrown open to homestead entry in 1878, having the first right to make entry, filed their claims in the land office.
Believing that in a history of Buffalo County the name of every person taking a homestead or pre-emption claim, in the early days, is worthy of being made a matter of record, and that to future generations it will be of interest to know who made the first settlements in the various townships of the county, the editor has copied from the United States Land Office records the names of all those taking a homestead or pre-emption claim in the county previous to the year 1880.
This list is here given by Government township and range, and in the spelling of the names great care has been taken to follow the record in the land office. It will be noticed there are some duplication of names. This is accounted for from the fact that some settlers took both a pre-emption and a homestead claim, it being legal and proper so to do.
List of persons taking homestead and pre-emption claims in Buffalo County previous to the year 1880:
PLATTE TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. S, RANGES 13 AND 14
1878-Jacob Miller, Nelson Jaco, C. E. Darling, F. C. Goodwin, Edward Broderick, A. Smith, H. S. Towers, R. H. Pember, John Stutz, Fred Donner, Henrich Brenkman, W. H. Wallace, John Nash, Wm. Moreland, Wm. J. Willars, John Hartwell, John Pember, E. Slatie, L. Morrow, Thomas Carson, Sarepta Patterson, A. Johnson, G. W. Rishel, N. Platt, M. Martin, F. A. Morgan, J. A. Combs, Sophia Holbrook, P. McBride, Silas Troop, A. A. Robinson, T. L. Graffius, H. Wilcox, Samuel Boyer, Charles Ernst.
1879-John Vanwey, George Stearley, J. W. Weaver, M. O. Kessler, John W. Shahan, John T. Gilliland, T. Swenier, I. A. Matlick, W. H. Fulton, J. Kent.
SHELTON TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 13
1870-O. E. Thompson, Andrew Buest.
1871-August Meyer, L. Worthington, B. C. Bassett, Henry Fairchild, Robert Waters, S. C. Bassett, A. S. Craig, J. H. Darby, Ed Lovall, W. H. Sprague, James Oliver, H. C. Green, M. Stearley, H. Goss, B. F. Sammons, Ira L. Bunker, L. N. West, F. F. Blanchard, C. Putnam, Dr. I. P. George, W. H. Kelly, Theron D. Yost, J. N. Allen, B. Austin, J. M. Bayley, C. O. Childs, Kingman Fisher, J. M. Erwin, J. F. McKinley, Isaac Starbuck, James Wilkie, F. B. Reider, Paul Litterman, W. H. Gray.
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1872-Edward Oliver, Ephriam Oliver, Henry Dugdale, E. M. Fargo, John Gagin, H. Stockwell, Orin Pratt, S. B. Lowell, A. D. George, Rodney George, George W. Brown, James Wilson, John Haug, Fred Haug, George Stearley, Joseph Buck, Sr .. A. W. Zimmerman, J. R. George.
1873-Joseph Owen, Elizabeth Hurley, Mrs. Mary Day.
1874-Patrick Walsh, J. A. Brown, M. Breed, H. Thompson, F. J. Jenns, L. M. Sanford, B. Ashton.
1875-Wm. Nutter, Montrose Fisher.
1876-L. D. Craven, Mrs. E. Pember.
1877-M. G. Lee.
1878-D. S. Meals, D. M. Swayze, W. G. Devall, Mary M. Kirkpatrick, Eli Meals, B. P. Thompson, W. H. Curtis, J. O. Vanwey, George Trace, Jr., L. Vohland, W. H. Bell, N. Meals, M. W. Winchester, W. H. Mauer, J. Bishop, W. H. Ashton, J. P. Bastian, S. L. Boyer, J. B. Loury, J. J. Brown, James Wilson, H. H. Winchester.
1879-George Mortimer, J. H. Leisey, J. Miller.
SHARON TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. IO, RANGE NO. 13
1871-V. Armbus, Wm. M. Craven, Albert Washburn, Geo. L. Thomas, O. B. Washburn, O. C. Hancock, Simon V. Seeley, F. D. Boardman, James Garfield, Jame E. Judd, T. D. Thacher, Lorenzo Plumb, J. W. Vance, J. A. Barnes, George Meisner, Casper Meisner, D. Fox, Henry Fieldgrove, John P. Smith, A. Barrett, Alzo Plumb, J. H. Mills, S. R. Traut.
1872-Mrs. Lois N. Ayer, E. Buno, L. Sturges, P. Ruth, R. A. Fox, Robert Goar, T. J. Taylor, J. E. Miller, C. E. S. Cooper, E. Miller, J. M. Kean, J. K. Lux, C. W. Davenport, J. C. Standley, P. Mccullough, S. F. Henninger, J. J. Whit- tier, D. W. Johnson, R. Neil, D. Stonebarger, Mrs. E. Pember, Nathan Mills.
1873-A. Rines, C. S. Bailey, E. S. Judd, T. E. Mundle, A. D. Barnhart, John Henry, M. S. Henry, Daniel Dye.
1874-H. S. Colby, J. D. H. Koch, J. M. Devall, Geo. F. Klingst, F. A. Kappler, O. Gumprech, Isaac Willard, B. Whittaker.
1875-E. W. Borman, J. P. Turbell, E. M. Devall.
1876-F. W. Killner, T. F. Craig, W. S. Freeman.
1877-D. Otto, F. W. Schiemann.
1878-W. F. Koster, H. Sutter, George Conroy, John Conroy, Geo. D. Williams, C. H. Cudney, G. A. Blume, A. Hoag, W. H. Bentley, Florence E. Brown.
1879-John Lubbin, E. L. Smith, T. D. Allen.
GARDNER TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. II, RANGE NO. 13
1874-D. Barrett, A. Bromley, Wm. Barrett, S. Chandler, J. T. Badger, T. J. Smith, Saml. Urwiller.
1875-Geo. L. Gardner, Luke Barrett.
1876-Geo. K. Peck, Wm. Weeces.
1877-W. S. Elliott, Emma T. Peck, S. Mccutchen, Henry Willey, G. W. Archer, C. Riddle.
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1878-Max Schlund, Claus Sothmann, F. Hentz, H. Muhlbach, R. Beekman, H. Cassidy, J. H. Barrett, G. H. L. Harding, J. G. A. Muhlbach, Jas. Hutchin- son, S. R. Hankins, C. C. Knapp, W. L. Lewis, L. Krenzwieser, V. E. Bush, H. Harris, J. G. Harris, Elizabeth J. Aufderhide, John Luce, Robt. Taylor, F. Urwiller, Thomas Carroll, Emil Keehler, C. Karp, George Best, D. Scrivin, J. Urwiller, F. A. Muhlbach, W. F. Muhlbach, J. P. Curry, J. B. Wrightington, Joanna Dean, A. G. Welch, Henry Decker, J. Hendrickson, D. Riley, F. Rohr- bach.
1879-Samuel Urwiller, E. Muhlbach, F. A. E. Novck, John A. Hogg, E. Riley, L. Waldron, James Cleary, George S. Post, Wm. Sprect, E. J. Stephens, J. Y. Swigart, George W. Carr, Danforth Demary, C. N. Klammer, John Stuber, R. J. Welch, Eli Campbell, P. Dooley, J. Billingsly.
CHERRY CREEK TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. 12, RANGE NO. 13
1876-E. Locke. 1878-A. Kyne, G. M. Hankins, R. J. Hodson. 1879-A. J. Hodson, J. D. Mathews, M. Kyne, E. J. Varney.
GIBBON TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 14
(Note-The southwest quarter of section 14, town 9, range 14, in this town- ship, known as "Boyd Ranch," was the first claim taken in the county by Joseph Boyd in 1867, and was the first piece of deeded land in Nebraska west of Hall County.)
1867-Joseph Boyd.
1871-A. F. Gibson, W. H. Kenny, W. J. Knight, Coe Killgore, Clara E. Lew, John Lloyd, C. A. Monks, W. F. McClure, E. Northrup, A. J. Oviatt, Wm. Patterson, C. T. Silvernail, H. P. Rogers, John Lucas, Geo. H. Silvernail, Wm. Roach, John Silvernail, Jacob Booth, R. E. L. Willard, J. W. Wiggins, S. M. McDuffee, Aaron Ward, W. D. Hick, C. E. Brayton, John W. Forrest, Wm. Brady, Robert Hick, I. D. LaBarre, R. Forrest, Geo. Gilmore, P. K. Drury, L. S. Hough, J. Delos Drury, S. Rosseter, V. T. Mercer, U. A. Day, John Stern, D. R. Davis, O. A. Buzzell, Asa Fawcett, W. J. Carson, W. W. Gibson, D. P. Crable, M. D. Thomas, A. Kennedy, J. S. Chamberlain, R. S. Shiffert, L. D. George, J. Gable, T. J. Hubbard, W. N. Jackson, E. M. Hubbard, G. A. King, Saml. Mattice, R. Wallace, John Grabach.
1872-P. T. Davis, A. J. Snowdon, W. C. Drury, J. W. Berry, Mary J. Mercer. J. E. Kelsey. D. P. Ashburn, John P. Putnam, T. J. Fisher, D. B. Wor- ley, Wm. Stern, J. A. Danner, H. B. Mercer.
1873-J. Marsh, T. B. George, W. P. Trew, T. J. Mahoney.
1874-Ebon Bray, J. J. W. Place.
1878-A. P. Johnson, H. Lewis, R. W. Wallace, P. Crawford, A. J. Mur- rish, John J. Marrs, Charles Riley, Wm. Manix, John Murrish, B. M. Guiles, M. Meals, J. McWhiney, T. Pratt, A. H. Boltin, Elisabeth Baker, W. H. Chapman, W. O. Altaffer, S. M. Palmer, H. Cook, F. H. Cook, Mary A. Reis, E. S. Edwards, J. M. Applegate, P. E. Foxworthy, Hattie B. Cook, A. Eddy.
1879-Peter DeClark, Isaac DeClark, A. L. Chase. Vol. I-8
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VALLEY TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. IO, RANGE NO. 14
1871-N. W. Short, M. Gray.
1872-T. L. Mitchell, J. R. Beach, S. A. Barrett, E. Graham.
1873-W. T. Beatty, H. H. Haven, W. A. Losce, S. F. Berry, M. Oard, A. M. Campbell, George Simpkins, Samuel T. Walker.
1874-Thomas Jones, John Brennon, W. R. Wheeler.
1875-P. C. Shannon.
1876-Wm. Puttergill, S. D. Kooser.
1878-J. B. Wheeler, Geo. E. Fredericks, T. Q. George, O. Knepper.
1879-R. R. Rathbon, Joseph Glaze, Wm. Trivelpiece, L. C. France, J. Kin- nett, G. W. McKay, David Roach, G. W. Walker, N. H. Smith.
SCHNEIDER TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. II, RANGE NO. 14
1874-J. Schuller, John Petz, F. Frederick, G. Schiem.
1875-W. Fischer, J. G. Grossen, P. Mundscheuk, A. Schueller, C. Murbe, F. A. Schmidt, C. Kaubler, F. Lochr, F. L. Berbig.
1876-C. W. Grosser, T. Kender, F. Winkler, G. Middleton, Robert Penson. 1877-F. A. Scheick, F. Reinhold, F. Gruenther, W. Weber.
1878-J. Lindloff, Anna Murgerl, J. Soukup, Frank Schuler, E. Goehring, W. A. Shreve, Mary Schuller, W. Freyberg, F. Guenther, J. H. Richardson.
1879-C. H. Dow, Elizabeth Porter, A. Burgess, S. H. Hogg, Silas Robinson, R. Goehring, W. Z. Tillson, B. F. Gardner, C. T. Frederick, A. Scheick, F. A. Weidner, F. L. Weidner, J. Schmidt, A. W. Clark, J. Weigel, W. W. Pool, W. Freyberg, Hans Voss, T. Blaschko, Granvill Robinson, J. A. King, J. Zulauf Peter O'Brien, R. McKutchen, J. H. Vorys, T. Hodges.
GARFIELD TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. 12, RANGE NO. 14
1874-Erastus Smith, H. J. Alward, Wm. Eastridge, D. Miller, W. Freel. 1876-E. Veith.
1877-J. T. Lewis.
1878-F. Stark, A. A. Hixon.
1879-J. C. Stark, P. Gehrt, J. W. Mommesson, J. M. Smith, C. Uri, W. Brough, B. F. Peck, P. N. Round, C. Landers.
CENTER TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 15
Also all of town No. 8, range No. 15, embraced in Buffalo County.
1871-George N. Smith, H. Hillficker, R. Killgore, B. F. Bengsloe. John Blanchard, A. H. Brundage, H. D. Smith, W. A. Hunter, Wm. Smith, George Hoge, George Enderly, J. H. Miller, George Flehearty, J. H. O'Neil, S. A. Mack. A. Shovel, T. M. Faddis, I. B. Wambaugh, H. Comstock, H. T. Faddis, C. A. Smith, John Davis, A. W. Tabor, A. L. Ketchum, F. Moore.
1872-W. H. Killgore, J. Hillficker, J. Wood, John Mahan, L. D. Forehand, G. M. Hively, John Hively, J. Enderly, J. Loverin, J. N. Loverin, Mary A.
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Smith, A. P. Mitchell, J. Gabriel, A. B. Richardson, J. C. Pierce, I. L. Cuttler, H. S. Guy, J. McClure, G. W. Kern, Jr., S. I. Asterheid, C. I. Asterheid, D. B. Marsh, S. Brandal, A. Row, W. S. Spooner, J. Crinyan, H. Worden, W. M. Brookover, C. Parry, J. Hively, A. Henderson, T. Garland, C. T. Weldin.
1873-J. M. Frantz, N. D. Brooks, George Grabach, A. W. Hanson, D. Bean, WV. Troop, Robert Haines, A. Scott, Maria J. Sadler, Mary A. Smith, J. M. Thomas, J. Thomas, H. V. Westhoven, H. W. Morse, J. S. Harrington, J. B. Ingram, J. A. Waters, G. W. Clem, John Hoge.
1874-B. Fancette, L. Troop, J. Scott, J. Troop, E. A. Hartman, C. Lee, P. D. Keys.
1875-J. Hormel, D. Clelland, A. A. Brown.
1876-F. E. Babbitt, B. F. Vandyke, S. Van Scyoc, C. C. Black, F. Reynolds, A. H. Edwards.
1877-J. Trumbull, Wm. Schramm, L. Korecek, C. Osterheid.
1878-W. T. Scott, F. J. Switz, H. Burritt, Mary A. Vance, L. M. Brigham, E. C. Calkins, M. Saville, C. A. Westervelt, A. Bessie, Samuel L. Savidge, C. E. Paist, A. B. Clark, I. Henthorn, J. Layton, J. A. Harron, J. E. Lund, M. F. Martin, S. H. McNutt, A. D. Randall, M. O. Riley, H. J. Mack, E. Mathews, G. W. Mecum, M. M. Martin, D. Allen, J. M. Chism, R. W. Russell, S. Landis, C. D. Ayers, H. C. Sams, W. H. Salisbury, S. Wenzell, D. Webbert, W. L. Nash, J. S. Sizer, S. J. Waldron, L. W. Zook, P. Ford, W. E. Hawley, J. Eaton, J. W. Winslow, T. T. Clelland, J. McKain, M. M. Allen, M. Henthorn, T. McBride, James Evans, Rosa Grant.
1879-W. B. McBride, B. H. Goulding, R. H. Eaton, J. Anderson, E. D. McCalve.
THORNTON TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. IO, RANGE NO. 15
1873-C. A. Borders, B. Turner, F. Chisler, F. J. Weldin, M. Conners, J. C. V. Kelley, B. J. Holmes, W. S. Hall.
1874-S. S. St. John, J. M. Smith, J. Gass, N. L. Coombs, Joel Miller, N. Fellers, J. Trumbull, W. J. Neely, J. E. Holloway, F. G. Hamer, B. Streigle, G. H. Cutting, W. G. Patterson, S. W. Thornton, E. Goodsell.
1875-G. R. Tracy, S. W. Powers, H. Stanford, J. Schutrum, P. D. Keys, J. H. Borders, D. K. Larimer, E. Cooperider.
1876-G. P. Caldwell, J. A. Waters, G. Schmid.
1878 J. Lake, George Gilming, Z. A. Weldin, L. W. Weldin, D. McCan, W. Weldin, Rebecca S. Neely, C. C. Smith, W. J. Turner, T. Spencer.
1879-Caroline M. Gilming, J. Gass, L. F. Lyberger, R. Gass, F. Gunst, W. S. Ball, T. Caton, A. Henderson, A. W. Smith, I. S. Tracy, F. W. Magee.
CEDAR TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. II, RANGE NO. 15
1873-M. A. Young, I. Bates, Joseph Clayton, S. A. Marshall, S. Kinsey, E. West, E. W. Carpenter, Joseph White, S. J. Houston, J. M. Treichler, S. Hig- gins, J. Dance.
1874-A. St. Peter, J. McCool, J. Rink, H. Luce, J. E. Miller.
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HISTORY OF BUFFALO COUNTY
1878-W. C. Tillson, J. Mapes, C. H. George, G. Vater.
1879-A. Barker, J. Barker, G. W. Duncan, J. M. Shields, A. J. Stover, C. W. Putnam, D. McCool, W. Bigsty, T. Hunnegbun, G. A. Tuppan.
BEAVER TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. 12, RANGE NO. 15
1873-H. Hughes, J. P. Christensen.
1874-J. Armstrong.
1875-J. E. Nave, J. McGee.
1876-B. F. Parkhurst, H. C. Padelford.
1877-J. W. Herbough.
1878-E. Nervig, W. A. Weller, J. Michie, T. W. Smay, Robt. Hutchinson. 1879-H. Work, W. Lee, Ole Lee, J. L. Miller, T. J. Cocking.
RIVERDALE TOWNSHIP-TOWN NO. 9, RANGE NO. 16
Also town No. 8, range No. 16, as embraced in Buffalo County.
1871-George E. Smith, Jas. A. Smith, W. F. Marsh, E. T. Jay, Pattie Gid- dings, W. W. Patterson, Mahlon White, L. S. Dickenson, J. W. Whitlock, J. Q. Potter, J. F. Chace, G. S. Ball, W. S. Croy, N. Gould, A. M. White, I. White, H. Van Arman.
1872-John Henning, D. Lewis, W. Slote, D. M. Logan, James Jenkins, I. Webb, F. L. Perkins, Joseph Scott, J. M. Winterbottom, George E. Smith, A. M. Gay, I. J. Hillman, Anna M. Smith, J. W. Leland, L. B. Fifield, D. Rowan, D. Anderson, A. Fellows, F. W. Dart, A. W. Barlow, Ashbury Collins, F. N. Col- well, C. Winterbottom, F. G. Keens, A. J. Gibson, A. Larson, H. Miller, J. C. Bunnell, L. B. Cunningham, B. C. Byrd, C. Sischo, J. F. Jones, P. Calhoon, C. Stevenson, F. Cuddebach, J. Cuddebach, J. W. Kick, E. S. Perkins, W. G. Carson, J. B. Sammons, S. Wenzell, C. Gould, Wm. Morse.
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