The history of Cape May County, New Jersey : from the aboriginal times to the present day, Part 34

Author: Stevens, Lewis Townsend, 1868-
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Cape May City, N.J. : L.T. Stevens
Number of Pages: 500


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roads, superintendent of the local gas company, and pub- lisher of the Cape May Wave since 1887.


In 1886 a scheme was gotten up to sell the valuable fran- chise of the city water works toa company headed by General W. W. Taylor, a brother of the literateur, Bayard Taylor, for $22,000. At the head of the scheme was the Mayor, James H. Edmunds, who was a pronounced corporation man. At the time there were six hold-over members c' Council, four for the sale, one against it, Joseph Q. Wil- liams, and one who did not define his position, Charles H. Dougherty. After a three-days' campaign the people al- most unanimously elected F. Sidney Townsend, Enos R. Williams and William T. Stevens as colleagues of Mr. Wil- liams. Charles H. Dougherty, who was the president for year beginning in 1885, resigned, and there was a tie in the body over the matter-4 to 4. Subsequently Thomas H. Williamson was elected to the vacancy. He voted with the people's representatives, and thus the works were saved to their rightful owners.


In the autumn of 1889 the New Columbia Hotel, built on the site of the Atlantic (burned in 1878), was burned down. It was a brick structure, valued at $200,000.


In 1879 the present Baptist Church was erected at the corner of Franklin and Lafayette streets, but was not dedi- cated until August 14, 1892, when it was out of debt.


Francis K. Duke, who was president of the City Council during the year 1890, was born at Harper's Ferry, Va., DE- cember 7, 1830, where he remained until he was ten years of age, after which he lived in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and when the Mount Vernon Hotel was being built in 1847, he came to Cape May. He had learned the carpenter's trade, and worked on that famous hotel. While here he married Miss Louisa Eldredge, a sister of Coroner Daniel C. Eldredge. Before the Rebellion he moved to Delaware, and when the war broke out he entered the Union army int the Second Delaware Regiment, serving as second lieuten- ant of Company F, and was promoted for meritorious ser- vice at the battle of Savage Station. He was bushwhacked at Drummondstown, Va., and his horse being shot from under him he was thrown, and the horse falling upon his


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leg crippled him so that he has never since had its free use. He came to Cape May again in 1868, where he has ever since resided, taking an active part in politics and Grand Army affairs. He has always been a Republican, is past commander of Jolin Mecray Post, No. 40, G. A. R., and is a builder of note. For ten years he served as Justice of the Peace in Lower township, and in 1886 he was elected by City Council to the vacancy caused by the death of the late Thomas H. Williamson, and re-elected by the people for the unexpired term for one year. In 1888 he was chosen for a full term of three years, and was the president of the body during the year beginning March, 1890. In the fall of 1893 he was elected Coroner for Cape May county, and served three years.


James M. E. Hildreth, the sixteenth and eighteenth May- or of the city of 'Cape May, is a son of Hon. Alvin P. Hil- dreth, who has served his city in various public offices, and served his county as a member of the State Legislature and the State as a Riparian Commissioner under the administra- tion of Governor George T. Werts. The younger Hildreth was born in Cape May City, December 9, 1858, and for twelve years as a child lived in this city. His maternal an- cestors were of the Wales family, whose history is well known, his great uncle, E. L. B. Wales, being at one time- a judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, the highest tribunal in the State.


When Mr. Hildreth reached his twelfth year he was taken to Mount Holly, where he remained, finishing his education at the Mount Holly Academy, which has been a famous institution of its kind. After leaving school he studied law in the offices of Hon. Walter A. Barrows, an uncle, and Hon. Joseph H. Gaskell, now President Judge of Burling- ton county. After being admitted to the practice in the courts of New Jersey, in 1881, he removed to his native city again, where he has since resided, and become a prominent practitioner and enjoys a large clientage. It is said of Mr. Hildreth that he never advises any one to take up a law fight unless they have a wrong to right, and that his cases are nearly always won by his thorough research.


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In ISS3 Mr. Hildreth was chosen by the City Council Solicitor, and that he conducted the office in a way that bespoke praise to himself was known by every one who- remembers the time. He held the office for one year, and then did not hold another office until elected Mayor in March, 1893, for a term of two years. He was always on. hand to receive all visiting delegations. It was through his. efforts mainly that the Fourth of July celebration of 1893 was a success. The principal speaker was Benjamin Harri- son, ex-President of the United States. The ceremonies took place on the Stockton Hotel piazza and Mayor Hil-


JAMES M. E. HILDRETH.


dreth had the honor of introducing the famous visitor, and" every one remarked on the occasion of the gracefulness by which it was done. During that year of Mr. Hildreth's ad- ministration, by his efforts, City Council secured as much for the city in the improvement line as any preceding Coun- cil, and yet so economical was the city's affairs managed that each taxpayer was saved fourteen per cent. of his usual net amount of tax.


In 1895 the City Council again elected Mr. Hildreth City Solicitor for a term of one year. In 1897 he was again chosen Mayor. He is a member of the First Presbyterian


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Church of this city, and since January, 1885, has been a trustee and treasurer of the church. Since 1886, when the company was organized, he has been general manager of the Franklin Electric Light Company, of this city. He is also a director in the South Jersey Railroad Company, which opened a competing line to Cape May in 1894 dur- ing his term as Mayor.


He is an active member of the Cape May City Athletic Club, which was organized August 15, 1887, and had for its directors, besides himself, General William J. Sewell, of Camden, State Senator (afterwards Congressman) Joim E. Reyburn, of Philadelphia; George W. Boyd, assistant gen- eral passenger agent of the great Pennsylvania Railroad; Max Riebenack, the auditor of freight receipts of the same great corporation; W. S. P. Shields, the Philadelphia build- er; Charles A. Hart, of Philadelphia: General Clinton P. Paine, of Baltimore, and Nathan C. Price, of this city. Mr. Reyburn was president; General Sewell, vice-president; Mr. Hildreth, secretary and attorney, and Mr. Riebenack, treasurer.


James J. Doak, president of Council from 1892 to 1894, was born in the First ward of Philadelphia, November 7, 1844. He was educated in the public schools of that city, principally at the Weccacoe and Mount Vernon Grammar Schools. Between school hours he was clerk in a grocery and provision store. Early in 1862, when not yet eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a private in the Nineteenth Penn- sylvania Regiment, but was not accepted because of his youthfulness. He enlisted a second time early in 1863 in the Fifty-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, and served in it four months, the time for which the regiment was mustered. Af- ter being discharged therefrom he again entered the army as a private in the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Regiment, serving a full enlistment. He then learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1868 came to Cape May, where he has ever since resided. He followed his trade here for a while, but in 1869 became a member of the police force, in which he served eighteen years, being chief for eight years from 1870. He became a hotel detective and served in the Stockton


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Hotel and Congress Hall, Cape May, and Willard's, Wash- ington. He was for some years a detective of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, operating on the New Jersey Division. In 1887 he was elected for a full term of three years as a mem- ber of the City Council, and has since been three times re- elected, holding the position at the present time. He has been for several years assistant chief of the Cape May Fire Department. In politics he is a Republican, and a leader in the party.


Alonzo L. Leach, M. D., second son of Joseph S. Leach, was born at Cape May City March 19, 1845; received his education at our public schools and under private tutors; began the study of medicine at Harvard Medical College and completed the same at Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated with honors in 1868. Upon his graduation he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy. In 1869 he was com- missioned first assistant surgeon of the First Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, and was with his command on the several occasions it was called into service to quell formidable riots in Pennsylvania. During the railroad riots at Pittsburg in 1877 he was in charge of the division hos- pital, and on his return home was promoted surgeon for his meritorious service with rank as major. He resigned his commission after a service of thirteen years in the Guard, and after practicing medicine in Philadelphia with marked success for twenty years he was obliged to relinquish his work there on account of impaired health. Returning to Cape May in 1887 to recuperate his health, he here, later, resumed practice. While in Philadelphia he wrote on medi- cal subjects, his writings being published in the then cur- rent medical magazines. One article published in the American Medical Journal on "The Influence of Close Con- finement in Prisons on the Production of Phthisis" was translated into many of the leading magazines of Europe. He was a member of the Pathological Society and of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. He is president of the Board of Health of Cape May City, being elected in A892, and was elected member of the Board of Education of


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the same city in 1896, and vice-president of the Cape May , County Medical Society in 1897.


Lewis T. Stevens, president of Council in 1894, was born in West Cape May, August 22, 1868, and is a son of Wil- liam T. Stevens, and grandson of William S. Hooper. He: obtained his education in Cape May public schools and at: Princeton College. Early in life he became an amateur jour- nalist, then learned the trade of a printer, and finally became- a newspaper correspondent. In 1892 he was elected to City Council for three years, serving as president the last year.


F. Sidney Townsend was born at Seaville, this county, June 21, 1849, and is a grandson of Joshua Townsend, Legislator. He obtained his educotion in Seaville, and in 1875 removed to Cape May City, where he has since re- sided. He was a member of Council from 1883 to 1892,. and was chosen in 1896 for another full term of three years. He was president of Council in 1889.and in 1891. He was. Alderman from 1894 to 1896.


CHAPTER XXXI.


THE BOROUGHS.


Ocean City, on Peck's beach, came into existence as a temperance and Methodist summer resort in 1880. It grew rapidly and is second now only to Cape May City in pros- perity. It was beautifully laid out. In 1884 it was organ- ized as a borough government. In 1897 it was made a city, and with the following as its bounds: Beginning at a point in the line of low-water mark on the northerly side of Cor- son's Inlet at the intersection of low-water mark to said Corson's Inlet with low-water mark of the Atlantic Ocean; thence northwesterly along and in line of low-water mark of said Corson's Inlet to the intersection thereof with Beach Thoroughfare; thence northeasterly along said Beach Thor- oughfare to the most easterly channel of Peck's Bay; thence still northeasterly in and along the most easterly channel of Peck's Bay and Great Egg Harbor Bay to the dividing line between Cape May county and Atlantic county ; thence following said dividing line in a southeasterly direction down Great Egg Harbor Bay and Great Egg Harbor In- let to the Atlantic Ocean; thence extending into the Atlan- tic Ocean as far as the jurisdiction of the State of New Jersey extends; thence southwesterly along and in the said jurisdictional line of the State to a point in said line at right angles to low-water mark on the north side of Cor- son's Inlet aforesaid: thence northwesterly to the place of beginning.


It has a water works, by which water is obtained from artesian wells driven nearly 800 feet in the earth. A sew- age and drainage system has been introduced. The town is lighted by electricity. The leading hotels are the Brigh- ton, Illinois, Emmett, Wesley House, Vandalia, Strand, La- fayette. Traymore, Excursion and Adams' Casino. It has sa public school. a Methodist church, built in 1890: St. A11-


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gustine's (Catholic) Church, built in 1895, and an Episcopal. church, built in 1897.


The West Jersey Railroad was opened to Ocean City in: 1884.


Gainer P. Moore, the first Mayor, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1836, where he obtained his education. He- served honorably in the civil war on the Union side. In 1866 he became a merchant in Philadelphia, and in 1881 he came to Ocean City, and has since been an energetic: public citizen. He is a Methodist in religion.


James E. Pryor, the second Mayor, was born near L ». gansport. Indiana, April 24, 1861, and was educated in the public schools there and at nineteen became a teacher in: them. He fitted himself for the medical profession in the University Medical College at Detroit, Mich., graduating in 1888. He then came to Ocean City.


Harry G. Steelman, fourth Mayor, was a native of Wey- mouth, N. J., and settled in Ocean City in 1888.


Robert Fisher, fifth Mayor, is a real estate agent of con- siderable activity.


Wildwood was founded by Philip Pontius Baker, of Vine- land, N. J., about 1890.


"Wildwood" is situated on the famous "Five Mile Beach," about six miles northeast of Cape May City. The tract comprises 100 acres and it lies between the ocean and the "thoroughfare." About fifty acres are in woods, grand timber, some of the trees being nearly one hundred feet high, and two to five in diameter. They include pine, red, white and black oak, sassafras-six feet in circumfer- ence-red and white cedar, holly, magnolia, wild cherry, persimmon, sweet gum, beech, plum and other varieties, and from the branches of many of them hang festoons of beautiful green mosses, three to six feet in length. Gi- gantic grape vines here flourish, one monster nearly a yard in circumference ten feet from the ground, spreading away over the branches of the oaks a distance of two hundred feet. All underbrush, undesirable vines and bushes have been cleared away, bringing to view the innumerable va- riety of beautiful wild flowers which cover the ground in every direction. An authority on the subject states that


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every variety of flower that grows along the coast from Maine to Florida is here to be found.


In the centre of the forest is a charming little body of fresh water appropriately called Magnolia Lake. It is about three feet in depth and is fed by a small stream that rises a mile or so away. It is one of the prettiest spots on the tract, and is especially popular with the children who are never happier than when navigating the lake in boats,


Here and there in the woods are rare and interesting spec- imens of nature's handiwork, to see which is alone worth a visit to the "Beach." There is, for example, an immense huckleberry bush growing from the trunk of a tree twenty feet from the ground, and which has for years borne large. crops of fine fruit.


The town was developed rapidly, and laid out in squares. It is situated on the central portion of Five Mile Beach. There are water works, a Baptist church, a Presbyterian church and a public school there. The water is derived from two artesian wells, one 1000 feet deep and the other 700 feet. The latter alone has a capacity of 500,000 gallons per day. The leading hotels of the place are Hotel Dayton, Marine Hall, The Latimer, Sea View, Ocean Villa, Tower Villa, Silver Dean, Brighton, Woodland, Selina, Stewart, Ivy and Wildwood. The West Jersey Railroad runs there. The borough was incorporated first on May 1, 1895.


Philip P. Baker, its founder, was born at Cowan, Union county, Pa., January 14, 1846. He went to school there, and at sixteen when his father died, managed the farm there.


In 1869, with his brother, L. R., he removed to Vineland, N. J., and there conducted a general store. The Baker Brothers, as their firm was known by name, built the Ba- her House Block there. He was a member of Assembly from Cumberland county in 1882, and in 1886 was elected State Senator from that county. He was a prominent mover in having the law passed introducing manual training in the public schools. Being a Democrat, he was a delegate-at- large from New Jersey to the National Democratic con- vention in 1888 and in 1892 was a Presidential elector,


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casting a vote for Grover Cleveland. In 1891 he was re- ceiver of the Philadelphia and Seashore Railroad. He was interested in Sea Isle City's foundation.


In 1896 he was made New Jersey's member of the Dem- ocratic National Committee.


Avalon was founded by the Seven-Mile Beach Company, at the head of which was Frank Siddall, of Philadelphia, in 1887, and in 1891 a borough was created. It is situated on the north end of Seven Mile Beach, and has several hotels. The West Jersey Railroad is opened through it.


Thomas Bray, who has been Mayor since its incorpora- tion, was born in New York city on September 5. 1843. He lived there until four years of age, when he was taken to Philadelphia, where he resided until 1857. He then re- turned to New York, where he was educated. In 1861 he came back to Philadelphia and was with the Lockwood Manufacturing Company two years. He then went to New York again, remaining for eight years. Soon after this he became manager of Dr. J. H. Schenck's medicine manufac- tory, in Philadelphia, and removed there until he became secretary of Seven-Mile Beach Company, in 1886, since which time he has devoted his entire time to its success.


Sea Isle City includes the whole of Ludlam's Beach, and was first laid out about 1880. Charles K. Landis was its founder. The island fronts six and one-quarter miles in length on the Atlantic Ocean, and varies from one-quarter to one and one-quarter miles in width, extending from Cor- son's Inlet, on the north, to Townsend's Inlet, on the south, and is bounded on the west by Ludlam Bay and a navi- gable channel, called the Thoroughfare, furnishing excel- lent advantages for fishing, sailing, or still-water bathing.


Sea Isle City is brilliantly illuminated at night with elec- tric light, and the cottages and hotels are lighted by elec- tricity. As to good water, Sea Isle City is supplied from an ever-flowing well of water. All the cottages are supplied with this water.


Two systems of railroads, West Jersey and Seashore, and the South Jersey.


It has thirty hotels, an electric railroad. ice plant, school


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house, a Methodist church, built in 1888, and a Catholic church, built in 1890.


Its first Council was composed of James P. Way, Roger Dever, William L. Peterson and Hudson Ludlam.


Cape May Point was set off as a political division in 1878, and continued to be a borough until 1896. Its borough government, after 1890, became a matter of uncertainty, its final abandonment of local government being the out- come of the unconstitutionality of the law under which it existed. It is now a part of Lower township. It has an electric light works, a water plant, four or five hotels, sev- eral boarding houses, a public school, a Baptist, a Catholic and an Episcopal church.


Anglesea was made a borough in 1885. It is a great re- sort for fishermen, who go to sea to fish. It contains several hotels and boarding cottages.


Holly Beach was also made a borough in 1885, and has several hotels and boarding cottages.


West Cape May was made a borough and came out of Lower township in 1884. Out of it was made South Cape May Borough ten years later.


APPENDIX A. MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.


A list of the Members of the Legislature from the first record of them after- the surren ler of the Government in Queen Anne's reign in 1703 to the present time.


DATE.


COUNCIL.


ASSEMBLY.


1702 to 1707


Peter Fretwell.


1707 to 1708


Peter Corson.


1708 to 1709


Ezekiel Eldredge.


1709 to 1716


Jacob Spicer, Peter Fretwell.


1716 to 1717


Jacob Spicer, Jacob Huling.


1717 to 1723


Jacob Spicer. Jeremiah Bass.


1723 to 1733


Humphrey Hughes, Nath'l Jenkins_


1733 to 1740


Aaron Leaming, 1st, Henry Young.


1740 to 1743


Aaron Leaming, Aaron Leaming, Jr.


1743 to 1744


Aaron Leaming, John Willets.


1744 to 1745


Henry Young, Jacob Spicer, 2d.


1745 to 1769


Aaron Leaming 2d, Jacob Spicer 2d.


1769 to 1771


Aaron Leaming 2d, Nicholas Stillwell.


1771 to 1773


Aaron Leaming 2d. Jonathan' Hand.


1773 to 1776


Eli Eldredge, Jonathan Hand.


1776 to 1778


Jonathan Hand.


Eli Eldredge. Joseph savage, Hugh Haythorn.


~ 1778 to 1779 1779 to 1780


Jonathan Jenkins. Jesse Hand.


Eli Eldredge, Richard Townsend.


Henry Y. Townsend, James Whill- den, Jonathan Leaming.


1780 to 1781


Jesse Hand.


Joseph Hildreth, Jeremiah Eldredge, Matthew Whillden.


1781 to 1782


Richard Townsend.


Matthew Whillden, John Baker, Eli- jah Townsend.


1783 to 1784


John Baker, Joseph Hildreth.


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1784 to 1785 1785 to 1786


Jesse Hand. Jeremiah Eldredge. Elijah Hughes.


Elijah Townsend, John Baker, Nezer Swain.


1786 to 1787


Jeremiah Eldredge. Jeremiah Eldredge.


Matthew Whillden, John Baker, Eli- jah Townsend.


1787 to 1789


Matthew Whillden, Richard Town- send, Elijalı Townsend.


1789 to 1790


Jeremiah Eldredge.


Eli Townsend, Nezer Swain, Elijab Townsend.


1790 to 1791


Jeremiah Eldredge.


Richard Townsend, Nezer Swain, Elijah Townsend.


1791 to 1793


Jeremiah Eldredge.


Richard Townsend, Matthew Whill- den, Elijah Townsend.


1782 to 1783


Elijah Hughes. Jesse Hand.


Elijah Townsend, Levi Eldredge.


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DATE.


COUNCIL.


ASSEMBLY.


1793 to 1794


Jeremiah Eldredge.


Richard Townsend, Matthew Whill- den. Ebenezer Newton.


1794 to 1795 1795 to 1796


Matthew Whillden.


Richard Townsend, Reuben Town- send, Eleazer Hand.


1796 to 1797


Parmenas Corson.


Abijah Smith, Elijah Richard Townsend.


Townsend,


1797 to 1798


Persons Leaming.


1798 to 1799


Parmenas Corson. Parmenas Corson. Jolin Townsend.


Abijah Smith.


1801 to 1803


Parmenas Corson.


Persons Leaming.


1803 to 1804


Ebenezer Newton.


Joseph Falkenburge.


1804 to 1805


1805 to 1806


1806 to 1807


Parmenas Corson. William Eldredge. Matthew Whillden. Ebenezer Newton. Joseph Falkenburge Matthew Whillden. Matthew Whillden. Nathaniel Holmes.


Nicholas Willets.


1807 to 1808


1808 to 1809


1809 to 1810


Thomas H. Hughes.


Joseph Falkenburge.


Nicholas Willets.


1812 to 1813


Joseph Falkenburge. Thomas H. Hughes. Joseph Falkenburge. Joshua Swain.


1815 to 1819


Furman Leaming. Joshua Swain.


Robert H. Holmes.


Nicholas Willets.


Joshua Townsend.


1821 to 1822 1822 to 1823 1823 to 1824


Thomas H. Hughes. Thomas H. Hughes. Thomas HI. Hughes. Joshua Swain.


Nicholas Willets. Joshua Townsend. Israel Townsend. Israel Townsend.


1824 to 1825


Thomas H. Ilughes. Joshua Swain.


Israel Townsend. Joshua Townsend.


Jeremiah Leaming.


Jeremiah Leaming.


Richard Thompson.


Amos Corson.


1838 to 1840


Amos Corson.


Thomas P. Hughes.


1840 to 1842 1842 to 1844


Thomas P. Hughes. Maurice Beesley.


Maurice Beesley. Reuben Willets.


Session Dates


SENATE.


House of Assembly.


1845


John Stites.


1846


Samuel Townsend.


Richard S. Ludlam.


Nathaniel Holmes, Jr.


Mackey Williams.


Joshua Swain.


1853


Waters B. Miller.


Jesse H. Diverty.


1854 and 1855 1856, 1857 and 1858 1859 and 1860. 1861 1862, 1863 and 1864


Reuben Willits. Reuben Willits. James L. Smith. James L. Smith. Enoch Edmunds. Enoch Edmunds. Joshua Swain, Jr. Joshua Swain, Jr.


Jesse H. Diverty. Downs Edmunds. Downs Edmunds.


Downs Edmunds, Jr. Abram Reeves. Jonathan F. Leaming.


Jonathan F. Leaming| Wilmon W. Ware.


1825 to 1827 1827 to 1830


1830 to 1831


1831 to 1834


1834 to 1836


1836 to 1838


Israel Townsend. Israel Townsend. Joshua Townsend. Jeremiah Leaming. Richard Thompson.


Matthew Whillden.


Thomas Hughes.


Thomas H. Hughes. Nicholas Willets.


1810 to 1811 1811 to 1812


1813 to 1814


1814 to 1815


1819 to 1821


Elijah Townsend.


1799 to 1801


Matthew Whillden.


David Johnson, Richard Townsend.


1847 1848 and 1849 1850 and 1851 1852


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Session Dates.


SENATE.


House of Assembly.


1865, 1866 and 1867 Wilmon W. Ware.


1868 Leaming M. Rice.


Thomas Beesley. Samuel R. Magonagle.


1869 and 1870


.Leaming M. Rice.


Thomas Beesley.


1871, 1872


and 1873 Thomas Beesley.


Richard S. Leaming.


1874 Richard S. Leaming.


Alexander Young.


1875 Richard S. Leaming.


Richard D. Edmunds.


1876


Richard S. Leaming.




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