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On the 4th of April, 1877, the title of the society was changed to that of "The Methodist Episcopal Society of the village of Cattaraugus." The trustees chosen were Morris J. Hovey, Wm. G. Hall, Charles J. Rich, Norman Higbee, and Hiram Rumsey. The church has enjoyed a fair degree of prosperity, and at present has 62 members, under the pastoral care of the Rev. S. S. Burton.
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There is a Sunday-school having 130 members, superin- tended by A. A. Ross, connected with the church, and a library of 300 volumes is maintained.
THE ST. MARY'S CHURCH AND SOCIETY (ROMAN CATH- OLIC) OF CATTARAUGUS VILLAGE
was incorporated Dec. 12, 1863, according to the act of April 5, 1863. The trustees were John Timon, Bishop of Buffalo; F. N. Lester, Vicar-General; John Baudnelli, Pastor, residing at Dunkirk ; Stephen O'Donnell, John Gordon, Lay Members.
A plain but substantial frame church was erected west of the depot, in which worship is held statedly by a non- resident priest in connection with other places on his parish.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ALSON LEAVENWORTH
was born in Litchfield Co., Conn., in October, 1788. He enjoyed the meagre privileges of the common schools of New England. During the summer season his time was employed on the farm with his father until he was of age. He then commenced the study of medicine, which he pur- sued until May, 1811, when he was licensed to practice in his native State. After a year's experience, he felt the necessity of more thorough preparation for the successful practice of his profession.
Accordingly, in the autumn of 1812, Dr. Leavenworth journeyed to Philadelphia, and entered as a student in the University of Medicine, in which the eminent Dr. Benja- min Rush was one of the professors; and it was the good fortune of the young doctor to be of the class that attended his last course of lectures in the University.
Graduating in the spring of 1813, he returned to Con- necticut, and resumed practice. Soon after he received the appointment of surgeon in the State militia, and was ordered into the service of the United States.
In consequence of the dispute between the general government and the State authorities, regarding the right of each to appoint the general and regimental officers in command of the State militia while in the service of the United States, Dr. Leavenworth did not see actual service.
In the few years following the war of 1812, the atten- tion of the young men of the State of Connecticut was turned to the territory west of Pennsylvania, known as " New Connecticut," and in the spring of 1818, Dr. Leaven- worth decided to emigrate thither. A large covered wagon was loaded with the necessary outfit and drawn by oxen. The young doctor and his wife bade farewell to home and friends, and began the long and tedious journey. In four weeks they arrived at Batavia, where they halted to rest and recruit the oxen. While sojourning there the doctor became acquainted with the agent of the Holland Land Company, and being interested in land and meeting persons from different parts of the " Purchase," and from represen- tations made of the abundance and quality of the timber and excellence of the soil in Cattaraugus County, he was persuaded to examine it himself. After a tedious journey
of about a week with his ox-team through the almost un- broken wilderness, they reached the village of Ellicottville on the 25th of September, 1818. The village then con- sisted of the public square, the land-office, a tavern, and a few log houses.
He filled many important public offices. In 1823 he was appointed First Judge of the County Courts of Cattar- augus, Jan. 25, 1823, which office he held for ten years, and was succeeded by Judge Chamberlain. He was one of the committee to superintend the erection of the county buildings at Ellicottville, and commissioner of loans, also commissioner to lay out public roads on the Indian reser- vation. He was instrumental in procuring from the Hol- land Land Company an entire surrender of accumulated interest on land contracts, held by them against the early settlers, and was also one of the original founders of the Randolph Academy. In the year 1831 he removed from Ellicottville to Little Valley, and subsequently to Cattarau- gus Station, in the town of New Albion, where he passed the remainder of his days.
WILLIAM R. GIBBS
was born in the county of Saratoga, State of New York, the 25th of May, 1797. His father died when our sub- ject was a mere child; too young, indeed, to have any remembrance of him. He was a farmer, and upon the home farm young Gibbs received his education, and passed
WILLIAM R. GIBBS.
his youth and early manhood. There, also, he was mar- ried, June 8, 1817, to Miss Sally Mix. He subsequently removed (about the year 1827) to Wayne Co., N. Y., thence to the county of Orleans, from whence, in 1834, he emigrated to this county, settling in the town of New Albion, upon the farm now occupied by his son, John S. Gibbs. He was a hard-working and enthusiastic farmer, and all the improvements upon his place were the result of his own labor. Mr. Gibbs, although no aspirant for politi- cal office, was assessor of the town of New Albion for several years. Although holding no political office by
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which to distinguish himself in the annals of the town and county, he is justly entitled to be enrolled among the many sturdy yeomen who have lived here, did their part, and then passed away, leaving to their descendants visible results in broad acres, comfortable homes, and all the advantages of an enlightened society. He died Aug. 16,
1865, and his remains repose in the Snyder Hill cemetery, along with those of his wife, who departed June 23, 1849. Of the eight children of William and Sally Gibbs (viz. : Isaac, Elisha, Norman, Emeline, William, John S., Phile- mon, and Sally) two only are living at the date of this writing,-Isaac and John S.
A. L. GIBBS.
FREEDOM.
FREEDOM is the northeast corner town of the county. The surface is a rolling or moderately hilly upland. Its principal water-courses are Clear Creek, which takes its rise from Fish Lake, and flows northwest through the central part, and the south branch of Cattaraugus Creek, which flows in the same direction across the southwest corner. Fish Lake in the east part, Beaver Lake in the south, and Scum and Laws Lakes in the centre, are small bodies of water. The soil is of good quality, of clay and gravelly loam, well adapted to grazing, dairying, fruit-culture, and all other pursuits of agriculture. Several quarries of good building-stone are found in different parts of the town. Stock-raising and the manufacture of cheese engages the attention of the agricultural classes. The three cheese- factories of Mr. J. B. Lewis, and the two controlled by Mr. John G. James, use the milk of 2500 cows, and manufacture about 700,000 pounds of cheese yearly. At the Sandusky factory are nine cheeses, made the present year, which weigh from 1200 to 1500 pounds each. Sales are made monthly, and the products shipped to New York and the markets of Europe.
The town contains a total area of 25,998 acres, of which 18,125 acres are improved, and in 1875 had a population of 1341 inhabitants.
PIONEER SETTLEMENT.
Contracts for land in township 6, range 4, of the Hol- land Purchase, were entered into by Aquilla Robbins, Joseph Edminster, Jr., Seth Pratt, Elihu Daggett, and Joseph Franklin, in the year 1809, and by Warren Stan- ley, Enoch Howlett, Ezekiel D. Runals, Rufus Metcalf, Earl Sawyer, and Jonas C. Irish, in 1810, for land in township 6, of the third range. It has not been learned that either Robbins, Edminster, Pratt, or Franklin ever became actual settlers. The remainder did, and located as follows: Elihu Daggett, from Vermont, on lot 37, in the West part of township 6, range 4; Enoch Howlett on the west part of lot 21; Rufus Metcalf on the west part of lot 13; Earl Sawyer on the east part of lot 13; Jonas C. Irish on the west middle part of lot 5; and Stanley and Runals in the vicinity of Fish Lake,-all of the last named were in township 6 of the third range. But little
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is known of Messrs. Daggett, Stanley, and Runals,- and that little by a few old residents,-as they removed at quite an early day, and, we believe, have no representa- tives here at the present time. It is related of Mr. Daggett that during a time of great scarcity-probably the year following the cold season of 1816-his family were obliged to dig up and eat the potatoes just planted. He was the first freeholder in the town.
Stanley and Runals were from New Hampshire. Enoch Howlet came from Bradford, N. H., and settled first on the farm now cleared by Alonzo Osman in 1811 ; soon after he contracted for the farm of 200 acres now owned by his son, John Howlet, and remained there until his death, which occurred at the age of sixty-seven years. Mr. Howlet was a prominent man in the early days, and at the first town- meeting was elected to the offices of assessor, overseer of the poor, commissioner of common schools, and poundmaster. He was one of the first justices of the peace appointed, and the second supervisor of the town. He also opened the first tavern, in 1823; was the second postmaster, and held the office for a quarter of a century.
Colonel Earl Sawyer, Jonas C. Irish, and Rufus Metcalf came from Vermont, and settled here the same year, viz., 1811. Mr. Sawyer was the first town clerk, one of the first justices, and in all his business and social relations a popu- lar and prominent citizen. He built the first frame house in 1822, introduced the first improved agricultural imple- ments, and was ever to be found among the foremost in all matters looking to the advancement of the interests of his townsmen. The homestead is still owned by his children, all of whom are of the most eminent worth and respecta- bility. Mr. Irish remained a resident of the town until about 1866, when he removed to the State of Tennessee.
Rufus Metcalf acquired considerable notoriety during the Mormon excitement of 1835 as a zealous adherent and believer in that faith, and, we believe, continued with the faithful when they migrated from this vicinity to Kirtland, O. His brother, Gregory Metcalf, settled on the northwest part of lot 3, in the southeast part of the town, about 1812. In 1816, John G. Ensign, one of the first constables, was in the west part, near Elihu Daggett. Nathan and Daniel Cole, brothers, who were active and prominent citizens du- ring the early settlement, were at Cole's Settlement in the southwest in 1817; also Seth Makepeace, the first surveyor, and his sons Jarvis and Elijah, on and near the site of San- dusky village ; and Zadock Randall, Amos P. and James Randall, south of the central part. The year 1819 found Nathan Holmes in the south part, on lot 10, range 4; Gil- let and David Hinckley on the west part of lot 38, third range ; and Oliver and Truman Alger just north of Cole's Settlement. William Price, the first surveyor, was on lot 40, in the extreme northwest part. From this time forward settlers came in rapidly. In 1820, Frederick Beekman, a veteran of the Revolution, and his son, Christopher Beek- man, were on lot 40 of the third range. The elder Beek- man was of Dutch parentage, and himself and wife, as regards longevity, have but few parallels in the world's history. He died at the age of one hundred and nine years, and his wife, who died two years previously, was one hundred and five years of age. Very many of the
present residents of Freedom remember the old veteran and the words of his patriotic toast. It was his custom to shoulder his " howling-piece" early on Fourth of July mornings, and awaken his sleeping neighbors by a salute from his heavily-loaded piece, which was discharged at arms' length, held high over head, and then he would re- peat the following words: " Hurrah for Washington, Gates, Putnam, und Lee; und all de brave men who fought for libertee !" Through some irregularity in his papers or muster, he received no aid or pension from the govern- ment until a short time before his death.
John Blocker was a resident in 1820; also Lot Crowel, one of the first jastices and assessors, who was located on lot 36, third range; Bicknal Cole in the Fish Lake neigh- borhood; Dr. Elihu Cruttenden and Hurlbut Cruttenden on Clear Creek. Dr. Cruttenden was the first resident physician, and built the first grist-mill, in 1822. It stood where the present mill of Thomas Dornan now stands. Wycum Clark, Jonathan Cook, Sullivan Drew, James T. Drew, Lewis Daggett, Delinus Daggett, and Reuben Daggett, supposed to be brothers or other relatives of Elihu Daggett, were also here, and Robert Daniels, who kept the first tavern in Sandusky, in 1824. Austin Daniels was located at the same place,-Stephen Hollister in the west part. Willard Law, who afterwards gained an unenviable reputation, built the first saw-mill in town, on lot 20, in 1820. John Marricle in the central part, Simeon Magoon in the west- ern, Joseph Pasco in the north part, James D. Sischo in the west part, Nehemiah Sparks on lot 4, third range. He was a zealous Mormon, and called "the Prophet." Joseph Wait, on lot 6, third range; Mark and Thomas White, on lot 20, third range; and Israel Runals and Jon- athan Stow, whose exact location is unknown.
Charles Beebe, a native of Vermont, and for some time a resident of Madison Co., N. Y., removed to Genesee County in 1815, and settled in China, near Arcade. He remained there until 1820, when he removed to this town and settled on the farm now owned by his sons, Wellington and Charles Beebe. He was accompanied here by his sons Hiram and Charles. Mr. Beebe was elected an assessor, commissioner of schools, and fence-viewer, at the first town- meeting held in Freedom. He was a successful farmer, and highly respected as a citizen. Died at the age of eighty-six years. His wife still survives, aged eighty-three. Of a family of eleven children, six are living. The sons located as follows : Hiram and Charles, in Freedom ; Wellington and Clinton, in Arcade; and Darius, in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Among those here in 1821 was Barnes D. Bixby, on lot 24, fourth range; James Cahoon, on lot 8, fourth range; Dr. Warren Cowdery, an early physician, in the Fish Lake Settlement. He built the first brick house in 1828, and was the first postmaster in town ; the office was established about 1824. Enoch and Ephraim Cheney, Elbridge Dem- ming, Samuel Gibbs, Henry and Jacob Hitsman,-Henry was on lot 6, fourth range, and is still living; Caleb Lamb, Eliphas Lafferty, in the south west part ; Jesse and Philander Murray, Orange Powell, in the north part; Benjamin E. Taft, A. B. Wadsworth, David D. Wells, were on lot 37, third range ; and Roswell Webb, location unknown.
Elam Ellithorpe, accompanied by his sons, Samuel, George
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D., William T., Elam, Jr., Chauncey, Charles, and Jacob, came from Monroe Co., N. Y., and settled here in 1822. He established the first tannery, in 1824, on the farm now owned by John Charles. In 1828 he removed to Sandusky village, and started a tannery near Hayden's Woolen-Mills. Other residents in 1822 were Josiah Cheney, who, with Heman Hyde, established the first fulling, wool-carding, and cloth-dressing works, near Dr. Cowdery's, in 1822; Aaron Cheney was on lot 12, and Benjamin Cheney on lot 19, in the third range; Henry E. Denio, near Sandusky village; Sardis Davis, in the same locality ; Heman Hyde, Heman T., and Josephus Hyde, in the Fish Lake Settle- ment; John S. and Peter S. Johnson, on lot 28, third range; Robert Nicholas, on lot 33, fourth range; James and Moses Parmelee, location unknown; Henry Treat, on lot 39, third range; John Treat, on the same lot.
Francis Crane, from Fabius, Onondaga Co. (formerly from Vermont), with his sons Ulysses P., Lockart B., Ira P., and Squire D., settled on lot 8, in the third range, in 1823. His son, Hon. Ulysses P. Crane, one of Freedom's most worthy and respected citizens, who has held many offices of trust and honor, and represented Cattaraugus County in the State Legislature in 1860, occupies the homestead at the present time.
Previous to 1825 the following-named settlers were here and located as follows: David Austin, in the south part ; David Alton and Elliott Alton, on lot 1, in the third range ; James R. and Edward Ball, on lot 7, third range; Gideon Baker, on lot 3, third range; Reuben and Nathaniel Brown, on lot 26, of the fourth range; Charles Baldwin, on lot 40, of the third range; Isaac Crawford and his son, Isaac Jr., on lot 18, third range ; Chauncey I. Calkins, on lot 3, fourth range ; also Isaac R. Calkins, same vicinity ; Robert and Alvah Durkee, on lot 9, fourth range; Benjamin and Joseph Farley, on lot 18, fourth range; Abel Gordon, lot 8, fourth range; Abram and John Harwick, on lot 31, third range ; Elisha Leonard, on lot 18, fourth range ; Peter Marble, on . lot 20, fourth range; Joseph and William Marsh, in the west part ; Delevan Nelson, on 36, of third range; Elijah Oakes, in the northwest corner; Elijah Oakes, Jr., on 32, fourth range; Lane Rounds and Isaiah Rounds, on lot 2, fourth range; John Selfridge, on 15, of third range; Charles E. Stewart, on lot 33, fourth range; John Thomas, lot 2, fourth range; William Thomson, a surveyor, and town clerk for many years, on lot 5, third range; David Wild, at San- dusky. He was a hotel-keeper at an early day, about 1825, and built the present Sandusky Hotel in 1833. His daugh- ter was married to Judge Sanford E. Church. Amos Wright, on lot 25, fourth range; Hartley Weld, near Enoch Howlet's, where he sold the first goods in town, in 1821.
Others who were here during the years before mentioned, i.e., from 1823 to 1825, but whose location we are unable to ascertain, were Aaron Armstrong, John Aiken, Joseph Bradish, William and James Cooper, John Champlain, Jr., Aaron Clark, George Dunn, Peter I. Toland, David Frank- lin, Peter Huggerboom, David Hillman, Noah C. Howe, Jchiel Kibbe, John King, John Knowlton, Abram and Henry Keller, Barber Lawson, John W. Leonard, Christian Myers, John Martin, James McKey, Lemuel Rounds, John Richmond, Garrabrant Spear, Aaron Seavey, Earl Seaman,
S. R. Thornton, Ashbel W. Treat, David Van Buskirk, Chauncey D. Webster, Wm. W. Ward, Seth Winslow, John Willis, and John Welch.
Eber Holmes, a native of Vermont, and a soldier of 1812, accompanied by his wife and children, viz., Myron, Milo, Julia, Hannah, and Martha, came from York, Livingston Co., N. Y., in 1827, and settled on lot 38, of the third range. He became quite an extensive land-owner, built a saw-mill on Clear Creek soon after his settlement, and was engaged in mercantile business at an early period. Mr. Holmes was prominently identified with all the public interests of his town, and served as supervisor for a period of ten years.
John I. Weir, with his sons, Daniel, Samuel, and Am- brose, came from Washington Co., N. Y., and settled on the farm now owned by David D. Davis, in 1833.
From 1832 to 1835, Alexander Vallance, Daniel Lam- mie, William Mitchell, Andrew Mearns, and their families, came in from Ayrshire, Scotland, and settled in the north- east part of the town. James McKerrow, from the same place, settled in 1844.
In 1841, Robert Williams, John Higgins, Thomas Rees, Daniel Morgans, H. O. Roberts, John Lewis, and others came in from Oneida Co., N. Y., and formed the nucleus of a Welsh settlement, which has prospered and increased in numbers until there are found in this and the adjoining towns of Farmersville and Centreville a population of at least 500 of these thrifty, law-abiding, enterprising people.
Rufus Metcalf and Earl Sawyer were the first cheese manufacturers, and thereby hangs a tale which Samuel Weir and other old residents can unfold. The first child born was Rufus Metcalf, Jr., Dec. 24, 1812, and the first death of an adult was that of Peter Davis, Dec. 17, 1816. The first marriages were those of Elihu Daggett and Sally McKee, and Sylvester Davis and Miss Daggett, all of whom were married at the same time, in 1817. Jemima Clark taught the first school, in 1816. The first school-house was built in 1819, in District No. 1.
The pioneers of Freedom, as in many adjacent towns, were mainly from the States of New Hampshire and Ver- mont. They brought with them and practiced here in the wilds of Cattaraugus all their habits of thrift, economy, and industry, so eminently characteristic of the transplanted New Englander. That those habits and teachings have been inculcated to good purpose to succeeding generations is amply testified to by the appearance of the well-improved lands and neat farm-houses of the present inhabitants.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
Freedom was formed from Ischua by an act of the State Legislature, passed April 13, 1820, and at that time con- tained a population of 320 inhabitants. The act describes the territory as " being all that part of the town of Ischua known and distinguished as townships number six, in the third and fourth ranges of townships, be and the same is hereby erected into a separate town by the name of Free- dom ; and the first town-meeting shall be held at the dwell- ing-house of Gillet Hinckley, in said town, on the first Tuesday of March next." The west tier of lots was an- nexed to Yorkshire in 1844.
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" At a town-meeting held at the house of Gillet Hinck- ley, in the town of Freedom, the first Tuesday in March, 1821, the following-named town officers were elected :"
Supervisor, William Price ; Town Clerk, Earl Sawyer ; Assessors, Enoch Howlet, Charles Beebe, Lot Crowel; Col- lector, Daniel Cole ; Overseers of the Poor, Lot Crowel, Enoch Howlet ; Commissioners of Highways, Elihu Dag- gett, Nathan Holmes, Nathan Cole; Constables, Daniel Cole, Israel Runals, John (}. Ensign; Commissioners of Schools, Enoch Howlet, Charles Becbe, Nathan Cole; In- spectors of Common Schools, Earl Sawyer, Wycum Clark, Nehemiah Sparks; Poundmasters, Gillet Hinckley, Daniel Cole, Enoch Howlet; Fence-Viewers, Earl Sawyer, Nathan IFolmes, Nehemiah Sparks, James D. Sischo, Jonathan Stow, James T. Drew, Charles Beebe, Delinus Daggett, David Hinckley ; Overseers of Highways, Willard Law, Earl Sawyer, David Hinckley, Israel Runals, Lot Crowel, James T. Drew, John G. Ensign, Simeon Magoon, Reuben Daggett, James D. Sischo, Jonathan Cook, Oliver Alger.
At this meeting other matters relating to the affairs of the town were voted upon as follows : " Voted, to have the two roads layd out by Nathan Holmes last year recorded. Voted that swine should be free commoners if they ware yoked and Rung with a good and sufficient yoke and Ring. Voted, to raise $250 Road Money. Voted, to raise double the amount of school money received from the State. Voted, to raise $10 on every bear killed by actual residents of the town. Voted, to raise $20 on every Woolf and Panther killed by actual residents of the town. Voted, to raise fore Dollars to buy a Town Book."
Signed by William Price, Moderator; Enoch Howlet, Clerk.
The following is a list of the supervisors, town clerks, and justices of the peace from 1821 to 1878:
SUPERVISORS.
1821. William Price.
1850. Eber Holmes.
1822. Enoch Howlet.
1851-52. Daniel Laminie.
1823-26. James Parmeloc.
1853. William V. Smith.
1827. Enoch Howlet.
1854-56. Hugh II. Jones.
1828-30. William Price.
1857. Daniel Lammie.
1831-32. David Wild.
1858. Reuben M. Jameson.
1833-35. Eber Holmes.
1859-60. John Higgins.
1861. Harrison Cheney.
1862. William V. Smith.
1863-66. Daniel Lammie.
1841-43. Eber Holmes.
1867. Warren J. Sawyer.
1844-45. Jarvis Leonard.
1868. J. D. Colborn.
1846. John R. Knowles.
1869-70. Oliver R. Knight.
1847. Myron Holmes.
1871-72. John W. Rees.
1848. Reuben M. Jameson.
1873-74. Harrison Cheney.
1849. Henry Crandall.
i 1875-78. John Lammie.
TOWN CLERKS.
1821-28. Earl Sawyer.
1829. David Wild.
1830-31. James Sherwood.
1861. Leroy W. Brown.
1832-34. Lyman Scott, Jr.
1862-63. C. Mason.
1835. Albert Seaman.
1864-65. Martin Hayden.
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Austin, Jonathan.
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Alger, Scarl. 51
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Angle, Wm. P. 98
10 Alton, David .. 98
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Ashley, Denison 108
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Ball, Alvin 1464
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Applebee, John.
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Ball, James. 102 16
Alger, Oliver.
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Ball, Edward .. 98
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Alger, Truman. 155
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Ball, Reuben .. 119
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1877. Marcus P. Beche.
1849. Milo Holmes.
1850. Benjamin Hillman. 50
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE."
Enoch Howlet. 1852. David II. Olney.
Lot Crowell.
1853. Ulysses P. Cranc.
Earl Sawyer.
1854. John G. Wood.
Amos Wright.
1855. Thomas White.
Jonathan Cook.
1856. Reuben Brown.
Eber Holmes.
1857. Aaron G. Hovey. Alexander Mitchell.
William Price. 1858. Isaac T. Wheeler. 1859. Alfred Lewis.
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