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Caleb Brand settled early several miles west of Thayer's Corners. He died in town.
Lewis Graves first settled in the northwest part of the town. He raised a large family, and died in town.
Erastus Finney resided early in the west part of the town, between the two turnpikes.
Ira Smith settled at an early day west of Burke Hollow, and passed his life in town.
Simeon Pond, when he first came in the town, which was at an early day, settled west of Thayer's Corners. He then removed to the west part of the town. George and Woos- ter, his sons, reside in town now.
Timothy Beaman was an early settler, and located about two miles west of Thayer's Corners. Orson, his son, is still a resident of the town.
Rufus Jones was another early settler of the town, and located where his son Lewis now resides, at an advanced age.
Peter B. Davenport was quite an early settler of the town, and lived on the north turnpike. Several of his descendants still reside in town.
James Hatch had an early tavern in the town, at Burke Hollow, up on the hill.
James S. Allen was an old settler of the town, and lived about half a mile east of Thayer's Corners, where W. A. Lampson lives. He was elected elerk of the county March 17, 1808.
Warren Botsford was an early settler on the south turn- pike, and raised quite a family. Loren, his son, died in town, middle-aged.
Other early settlers of the town were Ezra Styles, Jesse Ketchum, Elijah Stevens, - Alvord, - Dunham, and others.
- Spencer located at an early day on the Beaman place, and was one of the first school-teachers in the town. Gustavus V. and Asa Spencer, his sons, reside in town, at advanced ages.
Deacon Cook lived at an early day two miles and a half west of Thayer's Corners. Reuben Allen was an early settler near by.
- Lawrence lived early in the west part of the town. Peter Bush was one of the first settlers in the north part of the town, near the lines, where his son Henry now lives. Another son, Leonard, also resides in town, and is a justice of the peace. David and Hiram also live in town, and John in Chateaugay. Peter Bush died in March, 1879.
Joel Andrews was also an old settler in the north part of the town, and lived where John Dougherty now resides. IIe had a number of children, none of whom reside in town.
Ansel Smith occupied a farm adjoining Peter Bush at an early day. The place is now occupied by Joseph Rey- nolds.
Silas Phelps lived near Ansel Smith at an early day. He raised quite a family, none of whom reside in town.
Wm. P. C. Badger lived between Smith and Phelps at an early day. IIe had two children, J. P., and a daughter, Matilda, who married Dr. Johnson, now at Chateaugay Lake. The former is the present district attorney of the county.
Robert Reynolds and Thomas Dougherty settled carly on the cast-and-west road, near the lines. The latter still resides in town.
Benjamin Hall was one of the early settlers in the north- cast part of the town. Stanley Rust now ocenpies the place.
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John and James Twaddell settled in the town about 1830 or 1831, and lived near one another on lot 87, in the northeast part of the town.
Jeptha R. Darling came in about 1830, and located where the widow of David Darling now resides.
Selah Wright, who still resides in town, settled quite early where Hiram Bush now lives.
The Jordan family located in the town at quite an early day. The sons, George and Henry, are prominent business men in the town, and have a butter-factory, store, and blacksmith-shop.
Patrick Dinneen lived in the same locality at an early day. James Dinneen, his son, occupies the old homestead.
John Erskine and - Sym lived at quite an early day in the northeast part of the town. A brother of Erskine's occupied the Perey place. John lived where Tryon resides.
In 1838, James W. Mastin, a native of the town of Champlain, came to town, and located where he now resides. The country then was very wild. His brother Isaac, who also resides in town, joined himn a few years later.
James Brewer and John Newton were also early settlers in the town, besides others of whom space forbids special mention.
Obed Rust settled early on the south turnpike.
Ira Covey settled early west of Burke Hollow.
David Crippin was one of the earliest of the more recent settlers.
STORES.
There have been a large number of stores in town, of which mention ean only be made of a part.
A pioneer store was kept a mile west of Thayer's Cor- ners by one Sanford at an early day.
At Thayer's Corners, Daniel Mitchell kept the first store, where the Baptist church now stands. It was taken down in 1856. John P. Badger was in trade there for a time.
Trading first began at Burke Depot, to any great extent, after the railroad was contemplated, in 1848. Joseph Good- speed, Samuel Smith, and Elisha Marks were partners in trade there among the first. Taylor & Mitehell were also in trade for some time, and, about 1853, Marks & Derby. Lewis Arthur was in trade about this period for a short time. Others who have been in trade there are Ezra S. Goodspeed, from 1869 to 1874, Day & Badger, Soper & Adams, Warren Clark, Lyman Brown, - Montague, Oliver C. Orville, and N. & C. Everett. The latter have been in trade since the spring of 1872, and are now the leading tradesmen of the town. George B. Green has occupied the Ezra S. Goodspeed store (erected in 1873) sinee the fall of 1878. William Day and Harvey Harring- ton have also recently commeneed trade at the depot.
The oldest store in the north part of the town, and prob- ably the oldest in the town anywhere, was that of John Mitchell, on the Chateaugay River, where a large business in trading and the manufacture of potash was carried on for many years. Farther west, Charles Clark, Seymour Wy- man, Leonard Bush, Hiram Cartwright (now), John Bush, and J. J. Jameson (now) have been in trade. Still farther west, John Helm was in trade, preceded by George Ander- son.
At Burke Centre, John Bacchus was early in trade. Some of his successors have been Ezra Styles, Giles Smith, Joseph Goodspeed, Ezra S. Goodspeed, Everett Brothers, Dr. William Golding, Thomas Williams, Finney & Seovel, George T. Seovel, and S. Finney, the present proprietor.
TAVERNS.
The town has been equally well supplied with public- houses. Aaron Beaman kept an early inn half a mile west of Thayer's Corners, and Rufus Jones in a log house that stood near where W. Seovill now lives. Others are referred to in the history of Chateaugay. Among the latter was that of James Hateh, at Burke Depot, which was long a landmark in pioneer tavern-keeping in this section of the county. Barney Hateh, father of James, was the eccentric genius that dispensed the rich New England rum to those who were bibulously inelined. Abram G. Smith eame along after Hatch at the Depot, followed by Samuel Smith, who kept hotel as late as 1847. George S. Adams, county judge in 1855, Henry Lord, Henry Smith, and Reuben Pike (now ) have kept hotel there sinee.
PROFESSIONAL.
The learned professions have not been very extensively represented in Burke.
Dr. Stephen F. Morse has already been referred to as a pioneer physician in the town. He practiced with great success for many years. His successors have remained but short periods. Among them have been Dr. William Mott, . 1846, six years, now of Chateaugay ; Dr. Phelps, 1873, also of Chateaugay ; Dr. Rust, at present in practice at Ellenburgh Depot ; and Drs. Stone, Golding, and Young. Dr. Warren M. Brand and Dr. S. P. Banker are at present in practice in the town.
ROADS.
The earliest roads that were laid out within the present territory of Burke will be found fully set forth and de- seribed in the history of the town of Chateaugay.
The most aneient of those now in use are the north and south turnpikes, the three east roads leading north from the former to " the lines," and the road leading west from the Jordan neighborhood.
The Ogdensburgh and Lake Champlain Railroad passes east and west through the town, south of the centre, having a station at Burke Depot.
PROMINENT MEN.
Among the men of prominence that have been produced or fostered by the town have been Joshua Nichols, who was associate justiec and surrogate in 1808, and first judge in 1815 ; James S. Allen, who was county elerk in 1808; John Mitchell, who was coroner in 1821, and sheriff in 1822 and 1823; Ezra Styles, who was coroner in 1831 ; Timothy Beaman, who was coroner in 1834 and 1840 ; and John P. Badger, a native of Ossipee, Carroll Co., N. H., and who represented Franklin County in the State Legisla- ture in 1873, 1874, and 1875, and who was elected distriet attorney of the county in 1877.
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TOWN OF BURKE.
CIVIL ORGANIZATION.
The town of Burke was set off from that of Chatcaugay by virtue of an act of the Legislature passed April 26, 1844, with the following bounds :
" All that part of the town of Chateaugay, in The county of Frank- lin, lying west of a line commencing at a point in the southern bound- ary line of said town of Chateaugay, one hundred and sixty rods east of the southwest corner of lot No. 15, of Joseph II. Jackson's sur- vey of said town ; thenee north through lots No. 15, 26, 35, 46, 55, 66, 75, and 86, on a line parallel with the west line of said lots to the northern boundary line of said town, being also the boundary line of the State of New York, shall be and is hereby ereeted into a separate town, by the name of Burke, ete."
It comprises most of the western half of township No. 7 of the old Military Tract. It was named in honor of Edmund Burke, the British statesman.
The first town-meeting was held on May 14, 1844, at the school-house in District No. 2, and the following officers were chosen : Supervisor, Loren Botsford; Town Clerk, Arthur Smith ; Assessors, Winthrop Newton, Willis Webb, Alanson Green ; Commissioners of Highways, Gustavus V. Speneer, Patrick Dinsen, Charles I. Clark ; Collector, John Newton; Overscer of Poor, Ransom B. Crippen ; Inspectors of Election, Ezra G. Bowers, Allen Wilharth, Ira Eggleston, Julius C. Chipman ; Constables, Alanson Green, Orson Beaman, Russell Andrews, George L. Pike; Overseers of Highways : District No. 1, Timothy Beaman ; Distriet No. 2, James Woods; District No. 3, David Crip- pin ; District No. 6, Hiram Miner; District No. 7, Platt N. Banker ; District No. 9, Calvin Crippin ; District No. 13, James Tolan ; District No. 14, Miner Lewis ; District No. 16, Francis White; District No. 20, Michael Flinn ; District No. 21, Peter Bush; District No. 24, Nathan Williamson ; District No. 28, Thomas Boner.
The following persons have filled the principal offices sinee :
SUPERVISORS.
1844-47, Loren Botsford; 1848-49, Reuben Pike; 1850-61, Winthrop Newton ; 1852-54, Elisha Marks; 1855, Willis Webb; 1856, Timothy Beaman; 1857-58, Loren Botsford; 1859-64, Orson Beaman ; 1865, E. S. Goodspeed ; 1866, George B. Greene; 1867, John Bush; 1868, George B. Greene; 1869, Ezra S. Goodspeed ; 1870, John P. Badger; 1871, John Mckenzie; 1872, John P. Badger ; 1873, Leonard Bush ; 1874-75, Andrew J. Day ; 1876, George Jordon ; 1877-78, Alfred C. Thayer; 1879, Wm. MeKenzie.
TOWN CLERKS.
1844-47, Arthur Smith ; 1848-49, Joseph L. Goodspeed; 1850, Giles W. Smith; 1851-52, Joseph L. Goodspeed; 1853, John Bush ; 1854, Allen Willmarth ; 1856, Alfred C. Morse; 1857, Joseph E. Day; 1858, Alfred C. Morse ; 1859, Joseph E. Day; 1860-64, Ezra S. Goodspeed ; 1865, Hiram Cartwright; 1866-68, Albert A. Proetor; 1869-72, William MeKenzie; 1873-77, Orvillo M. Everett; 1878-79, Lorenzo W. Thayer.
The following were the officers chosen in 1879: Super- visor, Wmn. MeKenzie ; Town Clerk, Lorenzo W. Thayer ; Collector, Andrew F. Roek ; Commissioner of Highways, Robert Johnston ; Assessor, John C. Childs ; Auditors, Wm. Richards, Findley Moc, Ashley Loomis; Overseers of Poor, Carlos Shattuck, Charles Roby ; Constables, Nel- son Mitehell, Theodore Fenton, Samuel Kennedy, Smith March, John Emcriek ; Inspectors of Election : District No. 1, Alfred C. Thayer, Morey Ellsworth, Martin Riley ; District No. 2, John Helm, George Friend, Myron Avery ;
Justiecs of the Peace, D. B. Jones, Leonard Bush, George T. Seovel.
NOTE FROM THE RECORD.
" March 2, 1854 .- Voted, to raise the sum of five hundred dollars for the purchase of a site for and the building of a town-houso in said town."
The house was erected at Burke Centre, nearly opposite the Presbyterian church, and is still in use.
STATISTICAL.
The ecnsus of 1875 gives the number of dwelling- houses in the town at 410, having a value of $187,615 ; number of acres of improved land, 18,180; of unimproved land, 7974; cash value of farms, $940,120; and of farm buildings, $94,485.
VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.
BURKE DEPOT is the principal village in the town, and is located on Front River, south of the centre. It has sprung up principally since the Ogdensburgh and Lake Champlain Railroad was put through, of which it is a sta- tion. It contains a Methodist church, several stores, a mill or two, and a number of dwelling-houses.
The Burke post-office was created Nov. 4, 1844, with Hiram Miner as postmaster. Some of the succeeding post- masters have been Eastman Day, Orren Beaman, A. C. Morse, and A. J. Day, the present ineumbent of the position.
BURKE CENTRE is a hamlet, located, as the name ini- plics, near the geographieal centre of the town. Here are Presbyterian and Catholie churches, the town-house, a store and post-office, and a collection of dwelling-houses. The post-office was established here Feb. 25, 1829, when Ezra Styles was appointed postmaster. The office was then known as West Chateaugay. The subsequent incumbents of the office have been numcrous. George T. Seovel and Giles Smith have been the last two postmasters.
THAYER'S CORNERS is a hamlet two miles east of Burke Centre, on the Fort Covington road. A Baptist church stands here, and a number of dwelling-houses. This settle- ment has experienced more prosperous times. A post-office was created at this point in 1873, of which L. K. Thayer is postmaster.
NORTHI BURKE is a growing settlement on the north border of the town, where are several stores and some residenees. A Baptist and a Wesleyan Methodist Epis- eopal church exist in the same locality.
SCHOOLS.
Schools were carly established within the limits of the present town, some reference to which will be found in the history of the town of Chateaugay.
One of the pioncer schools of Burke was kept in a log house near Ansel Pond's present residence. Sally Cadwell is one of the first of those whom the carly inhabitants re- member to have wielded the birch with effect and taught the " young idea how to shoot."
The district schools were planted in the town at an carly period. These are now in successful operation, with a graded school at Burke Depot. The latest official report shows that there were in attendance upon the various
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schools 341 males and 299 females between the ages of five and twenty-one years.
RELIGIOUS HISTORY.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN BURKE
was organized as a Congregational Church under the care of the Champlain Presbytery on June 26, 1845, by Rev. Messrs. Ashbel Parmelee, D.D., S. R. Woodruff, F. B. Reed, and Andrew M. Millar. The present church cdifice at Burke Centre was erected in 1851. On May 23, 1875, the church formally united with Presbytery as a Presby- terian Church.
The stated pastoral supplies of the church have been as follows : 1845-48, Rev. Andrew M. Millar ; 1849-50, Rev. Elisha B. Baxter ; 1851-56, Rev. Rufus R. Deming ; 1857- 61, Rev. Andrew M. Millar ; 1862-63, Rev. Jolin H. Bcek- with ; 1864-79, Rev. Andrew M. Millar.
The deacons have been : 1845, Timothy Beaman, Oscar F. Brewer, Warren Botsford; 1859, Finley Moe, Julius Chipman ; 1867, Abel Smith, John McKenzie, Orren Bea- man ; 1875, Allen Ellsworth ; 1879, Chas. Paine. The elders have been : 1875-79, John McKenzie, Allen Ells- worth, S. Brown.
The present membership of the church is 119; size of the Sabbath-school, 190; superintendent, Sheldon Ells- worth.
THE BAPTIST CHURCHI IN BURKE
is an outgrowth of that at Chateaugay. On the formation of the town of Burke, about two-thirds of the members of the Chateaugay Church found themselves in the new town, and soon thereafter organized a new society.
In the fall of 1852 the erection of a brick church edifice was undertaken. After being used a short time, it was partially destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt, and is now St. George's Catholic church. The present Baptist church was erected as a store in 1857, but was transformed and dedicated as a church in 1878.
The first pastor of the church was Elder Smith. Preach- ing has occurred at irregular periods since. The present pastor is Elder St. Clair.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
The first Methodist Episcopal society at Andrusville (now Burke Post-Office) was organized Aug. 16, 1869, by an election of trustees, who were Andrew J. Day, L. H. Brown, George Pond, J. P. Badger, and Lathrop Main. A lot was purchased of A. J. Day for $200, on which a church was erected, and dedicated Nov. 22, 1870. The dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. W. W. Hunt ; Rev. L. L. Palmer (Protestant Episcopal) performed the dedicatory services. Rev. W. P. Hall was the first pastor in charge. The cost of the building was $3600.
Prior to the organization of the society, the charge had been attended from Chateaugay village.
The first official board was formed by the appointment of Ashley Loomis, Theodorus Hewitt, Lathrop Main, J. P. Badger, Ezra S. Goodspeed, John Lewis, Joseph La Fleur, Wm. Brumley, and Win. Foster, stewards ; and Ashley Loomis, George Pond, John Williamson, and John
Kane, lcaders. Henry O. Smith, Sunday-school super- intendent.
The pastors of the eliurch have been : 1870-71, W. P. Hall; 1872-73, John Dolph; 1873-74, supplies ; 1874, Josiah Fletcher ; 1875-76, W. R. Helms ; 1877-79, A. C. Danforth.
Connected with the charge are stations at Belmont Centre and North Burke, where services are held each Sab- bath. The charge includes a membership of 155 persons.
The officers for 1879 arc : Leaders, Wm. Bromly, Finley Moe, Wm. Richards, Geo. K. Pond, John Lewis ; Stewards, D. B. Jones, F. Moe, A. Loomis, Wm. Foster, H. O. Smith, E. Babcock, J. La Fleur, C. Heading, M. Heading ; Trus- tccs, Luther Miller, Milo Baldwin, Finley Moc, Z. Vincent, Dennis Wood, IIenry O. Smith, Ashley Loomis, Gibson A. Smith, Theodocius Fenton ; Superintendent of the Sunday- school, D. B. Jones ; Superintendent at Belmont Centre, Earl Howe.
FREE-WILL BAPTIST.
A Free-Will Baptist Church was organized in the north part of the town in 1870, and a church edifice was built soon after. Services were held at first in the Bush school- house.
The first pastor of the church was Elder Richard Parks, who officiated several years. His successors have been the Rev. S. W. Cowell and Rev. Marshall White, the present pastor, who began his labors in the spring of 1873.
The present membership of the church is 40; size of Sabbath-school, 50; superintendent, Arthur T. Stratton. The deaeon is James Mastin, and clerk, Isaac Mastin.
METHODIST.
A Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church was also organ- ized in the north part of the town in 1871 or 1872. The church edifice was built in 1875-76. Rev. Messrs. Fisk, S. A. Warner, Hathaway, Barnes, Jaques, and Matthews have officiated among its pastors. The present pastor is David Munroe, and the membership of the church is small.
CATHOLIC.
The Catholics also have a church edifice at Burke Centre, known as St. George's church, and which was eonseerated Nov. 3, 1874. It was formerly a Baptist church. The charge is connected with Chateaugay.
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
The First Baptist Church of Burke was organized in 1848. The first church edifice was built in 1854, and burned in 1855. It was rebuilt the same year. In 1874 the church was sold on account of its location, and the society worshiped in a hall one and a half miles east of the former church until 1877, when a new site was purchased and a building erected. It was dedicated in 1878.
The pastors have been as follows : Revs. - Brand, I. A. Smith, L. S. Baker, W. W. Hickey, O. Osborn, R. Joncs, G. N. Harmon, H. T. St. Clare. The membership is 47 ; number of volumes in Sunday-school library, 100; superintendent, Samuel Stuart; deacons, H. N. Farnsworth, HI. Botsford.
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BURIAL-PLACES.
There are quite a number of burial-plaees in the town. Probably the oldest of these is the West Cemetery, as it is called, situated in the west part of the town on the Fort Covington road. The yard is large and well feneed, and contains the remains of a large number of the first citizens of the town. Among its sombre inscriptions are the fol- lowing :
"Lewis Graves, died Feb. 1, 1871, Ae. 89 y'rs."
" Richard Miner, died July 18, 1839, in his 79 year."
"Dr. Stephen F. Morse, Jan. 21, 1871, Aged 85 years and 7 mo."
"Col. John Newton, died July 11, 1845, Ac. 51."
" Erected In Memory of Joshua Beaman, who departed this life, April 26, 1829, aged 60 years, &e."
" Rev. R. R. Deming, died Apr. 12, 1868, Ae. 76 yr's."
" Simeon Reed, died "Apr. 2, 1856, Ae. 79 years."
"Stephen Cook, Born in Willingford, Conn., March 25, A.D. 1755. Removed with his wife and twelve children to this Town, A.D. 1805. Died Aug. 9, 1829.
" His works praise him."
" Reuben Allen, died June 18, 1854, Ae. 85 yrs."
"Dea. Timothy Beaman, died Feb. 13, 1859, Ac. 66 yrs."
Another old cemetery is the Thayer yard, near Thayer's Corners. An older yard existed still farther west, but the ground was found to be too moist, and some of the bodies were reinterred in the Thayer yard, which comprises a quarter of an acre of land presented to the town by Wal. cott A. Thayer. The oldest of those reinterred was the one marked by the following inscription :
"In memory of Mrs. Cynthia Botsford, wife of Mr. Warren Bots- ford, who died Sept. 26, 1812, in the 33 year of her age."
The first interment in the yard was that of-
" Rena, wife of Dea. Israel Thayer, died Aug. 24, 1836, Ae. 59 yr's." Other inscriptions in the yard are :
" Warren Botsford, died Feb. 10, 1856, aged 76 years."
" Geo. W. Leggett, Died Feb. 20, 1865, aged 28 yrs. Member of Co. HI, 13 N. Y. Heavy Artillery."
"Nathaniel Day, died Nov. 11, 1867, In his 83d y'r."
" Joseph Earle, died May 4, 1875, Ae. 79 ys., 8 mno., 10 ds."
" Fowler D. Thayer, died June 3, 1879, Aged 69 y'rs."
" Israel Thayer, died aug. 31, 1847, Ae. 74 years."
At Burke Depot is a small cemetery containing the fol- lowing inscriptions :
"James Mills, died Mar. 10, 1863; Ae. 63 ys."
" Reuben Smith, died Jan. 12, 1859, Ac. 90 years."
" Ira Smith, died Jan. I, 1853, In the 71 year of his age."
" Mr. John Givin, died Mareh 4, 1844, Ae. 62 years.
" Death is a debt to justice duc, Which I have paid and so must you."
" Richard Hudson, died Aug. 9, 1860, Ac. 75 y'rs."
"Samuel Hudson, died March 9, 1863, Ae. 40 y'rs. Co. II, 142 Reg. N. Y. S. V.
" When among strangers, far from my home, No kindred or relative nigh, I met tho contagion and sunk in tho tomb, And soared to mansions on high."
" David Crippin, died Dee. 22, 1874, aged 84 years. " "T'is finished ! the confliet is past ; To heaven his spirit has fled."
Other eemeteries exist in the north and west parts of the town and elsewhere.
INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS.
The industrial pursuits of the people have been princi- pally confined to agricultural operations, although the water-
power of the town has not been wholly unutilized, and saw- and grist-mills, so essential to the growth and sustenance of every new community, were early established.
Among the first of these was the saw-mill of Simeon Hawks, on Trout River, near Burke Depot. The first grist- mill in town was the one now operated by William MeKen- zie, which was erected at an early period by Joseph Good- speed and Jehial Barnum.
In 1843 a starch-factory was set in operation by Ira Marks, and where King & Green now operate a similar factory Col. Ezra Styles at an early period had an ashery and store.
Several years ago Martin Durkee had a small saw-mill on a brook in the northeast part of the town. The starch- factory of J. J. Jameson, in the north part of the town, which had been in operation several years, was burned in the fall of 1878.
MILITARY.
The military record of the town is excellent. During the war of 1812-15 a large number of the citizens took part in the defense of their country's rights, and performed active service in the army. Among these heroes are re- called Israel Thayer, Jehial Barnum, Justin Day, John Day, and Warren Botsford.
The town actively co-operated in the suppression of the late Rebellion, and furnished her quota of men to the army cheerfully and promptly. Unfortunately, the full list of these cannot be found in the town. The following citizens of the town were in the army in 1864:
Thomas Smith, Co. A, 10th Vet. Res. Corps .; Alanson Walker, Co. II, 142d Regt .; William Slack, Co. C, 98th Regt .; Martin Riley, 14th 11. Art. ; Ephraim Bombard, 142d Regt., Co. D; Alexander Anderson, 13th Il. Art., Co. H; William Holden, 142d Regt., Co. II ; Joseph Denio, 3d Cav., Co. H; William 11. HI. Earle, 60thi Regt., Co. E; Roalind D. Ilumiston, 14th H. Art., Co. C: George W. Downing, 98th Regt., Co. D; Alfred J. Hewitt, Ist Eng., Co. I; Andrew A. Howard, Ist Art., Co. H ; Timothy Powell, 13th Cav., Co. D; Julius R. Deming, 142d Regt., Co. H; Orin Beaman, 6th Independent Bat .; Joseph Lafleur, 2d, 3d Cav., Co. C ; Theo- docius Fenton, 98th Regt., Co. D; James M. Rider, 142d Regt , Co. D; Daniel Newton, 98th Regt., Co. C; Lyman H. Brown, Ist Eng., Co. 11 ; Francis Murray, 20th Cav., Co. I ; Royal S. Childs, Ist Eng., Co. 11 ; Wm. McManus, 98th Regt., Co. A; Alfred J. Hewitt, Ist Eng., Co. L; F. C. Beaman, 98th Regt., Co. G.
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