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There was never a regularly organized Presbyterian Society of Elma Village, but the Spring Brook members brought their Society with them, and after that time it was generally called the Elma Presbyterian Society.
The Society was disbanded by order of the Presbytery on June 5, 1873, most of the remaining members joining the Lancaster church.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ELMA VILLAGE.
Rev. George E. Havens, who was minister in charge at Lancaster in 1848-1849, was called to Big Flats to preach the funeral sermon of Samantha Standart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Standart, Senior, who died July 15th, 1849. This was the first death of a white person on the Lancaster part of the Reservation, and the first sermon preached in that part of Elma.
Rev. Havens, after that, preached in the schoolhouse to the close of that Conference year.
The M. E. Conference for 1849 sent Rev. C. S. Baker to Lancaster and to supply Bowmansville and Elma with alternate Sunday afternoon services.
In September, 1849, Rev. C. S. Baker organized a " class," com- prised of Joseph Briggs, George Standart, Jr., Mrs. J. B. Briggs, Florina Briggs, and Mrs. Olive Standart. The preachers who were sent by the M. E. Conference to Lancaster came to Elma regularly every alternate Sunday afternoon for many years, the meetings being held in the schoolhouse until the church was built.
A Sunday-school was organized in the spring of 1851 by Col. Cyrenus Wilbor (father of Mrs. J. B. Briggs). The meetings of the Sunday-school being at 1 o'clock p. m.
The Methodist Episcopal Society of Elma Village was organized at a meeting held in the schoolhouse December 23, 1853, Rev. Schuyler Parker, pastor, present. The following named persons were duly elected as trustees: Cyrenus Wilbor, James R. Jackman, Joseph B. Briggs, Elon Clark, Warren Jackman, Joseph F. Clark, and Deforest Standart.
Cyrenus Wilbor died September 21st, 1856, age 62 years, 7 months, 6 days.
James R. Jackman died November 24th, 1864, age 71 years, 1 month, 17 days.
Joseph B. Briggs died October 30th, 1898, age 86 years.
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Elon Clark died June 7th, 1856, age 34 years, 1 month, 20 days. Joseph F. Clark died August 22d, 1854, aged 31 years. Deforest Standart died October 10th, 1864, age 41 years.
The Board of Trustees in the year 1900 consists of Warren Jack- man, Cyrus Hurd, Simeon Noyes, Myron H. Clark, George Beidler, and Charles S. Briggs.
The M. E. Church building on the east side of Main Street, in Elma Village, was commenced on July 7th, 1859, and Rev. Gleason Fillmore preached the dedication sermon February 9th, 1860; since which time preaching services and meetings of the Sunday- school have been continuous in the building.
The names of the M. E. preachers who have served with the year of their coming are given below ; Names. Year. Names. Year.
Rev. George E. Havens. 1849
Rev. George M. Harris 1875
Rev. C. S. Baker 1849
Rev. John B. Wright 1878
Rev. Gustavus Hines 1850
Rev. W. H. Henderson 1880
Rev. Nelson Reasoner 1852
Rev. C. S. Baker 1881
Rev. Schyler Parker 1853
Rev. J. F. Brown . 1883
Rev. Gordon. 1855
Rev. R. L. Robinson 1884
Rev. Alonzo Newton 1856
Rev. Wallace. 1885
Rev. Lewis A. Chapin .1858
Rev. C. S. Baker 1885
Rev. Sheldon H. Baker. .1859
Rev. Fred Dark. 1888
Rev. James McClelland . . . 1861
Rev. C. Robson. 1889
Rev. W. H. Shaw. 1862
Rev. E. W. Shrigley 1890
Rev. F. W. Conable 1862
Rev. Louis A. Wright. 1892
Rev. Hiram May .1864
Rev. Jabez E. Armstrong 1897
Rev. Geo. W. McPherson . . 1868 Rev. S. W. Wyman. 1899
Rev. P. P. Reese 1874
Rev. Jabez E. Armstrong. .1900
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
The Town of Elma, by resolution of the Board of Supervisors at the time the town was formed, was joined to and to be a part of the Second School Commissioner District of Erie County.
On July 16th, 1857, Amos Freeman, the Commissioner of the said Second District, altered and re-numbered the school distircts in the Town of Elma.
Eleven schoolhouses were in the town at that date, viz .: Three on the Mile Strip, three in the Aurora part of the town, and five in the Lancaster part.
School District No. 1-Schoolhouse on Clinton Street, known as the Cotton District.
School District No. 2-Schoolhouse on Bullis Road, known as the Bullis District.
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School District No. 3-Schoolhouse on Jamison Road, known as the East Elma District.
School District No. 4-Schoolhouse on Billington and Williams roads, known as the Hitchcock District.
School District No. 5-Schoolhouse on Plank Road, known as North Star District.
School District No. 6-Schoolhouse on Bowen and Rice roads, known as Woodard District.
School District No. 7-Schoolhouse on Bowen Road, known as the Elma Village District.
School District No. 8-Schoolhouse in Blossom Valley, known as the Blossom District.
School District No. 9-Schoolhouse on Winspear Road, known as the Winspear District.
School District No. 10-Schoolhouse in Spring Brook, known as the Spring Brook District.
School District No. 11-Schoolhouse on Northrup and Paxon roads, known as the Davis District.
A Catholic schoolhouse was built in 1864 on the southeast corner of the Clinton Street and Girdled Roads.
The schoolhouses in 1900 are on the same old sites, except that District No. 11 after a few years was discontinued and the territory joined to two school districts in the town of East Hamburgh, and that schoolhouse is gone.
The schoolhouse for DISTRICT No. 1 is on the south side of the Clinton Street Road, about 20 rods east from the Girdled Road, on the north end of Lot No. 20.
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLHOUSE is on the northwest corner of Lot No. 20, and southeast corner of the Clinton Street and Girdled Roads.
DISTRICT No. 2-Schoolhouse is on the north side of the Bullis Road, on top of the hill east of the Big Buffalo Creek, and on south line of Lot 16.
DISTRICT No. 3-Schoolhouse is on the north side of the Jamison Road and south line of Lot 10, about 60 rods east from the East Elma store.
DISTRICT No. 4-Schoolhouse is on the north line of Lot 15 of Mile Strip and on southwest corner of the Williams and Billington Roads.
DISTRICT No.5-Schoolhouse is on the north line of Lot 28 of the Mile Strip, on southwest side of the Plank Road.
DISTRICT No. 6-Schoolhouse is on the southeast corner of Lot 52, and on northwest corner of the Bowen and Rice Roads.
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DISTRICT No. 7-Schoolhouse is on the west side of the Bowen Road, on top of the hill about 50 rods south from the Clinton Street Road.
. DISTRICT No. 8-Schoolhouse is in Blossom Village on the south side of the Main Street.
DISTRICT No. 9-Schoolhouse is on the west line of Lot 89, and on the north side of the Winspear Road, about 108 rods north from the Bullis Road.
DISTRICT No. 10-Schoolhouse is in Spring Brook Village, on Lot 75, and on northeast side of the Plank Road.
DISTRICT No. 11-Schoolhouse was located near the centre of Lot 36 of Mile Strip, and on the southwest corner of the Northrup and Paxon roads. This district was united with Districts 8 and 11 of the town of East Hamburgh.
The schools in the town are generally what are known as graded schools.
The number of children in the town, on July 1st, 1898, between five and eighteen years of age, as given by the trustees of the sev- eral school districts was 578. Of these, 476 attended school in the town some part of the school year, and 46 attended school out of town, making a total of 522 who were in school; the fifty-six who were not in school were mostly between 14 and 16 years of age,- and by the school law, were not obliged to be in school, if they were regularly employed.
School expenses for the school year ending July 1st, 1899: $2,644.20
Amount paid for teachers' wages
Amount paid for other expenses 948.54
Total $3,592.74
By the returns of the trustees of the school districts there were on July 1st, 1899, 558 children in the town between 5 and 18 years of age, being 20 less than on July 1st, 1898.
Number of children in the town between 8 and 16 years of age:
On July 1st, 1898. On July 1st, 1899.
Boys
219
Boys 193
Girls 207
Girls 188
Total 426
Total 381
Making a loss in the year of :
Boys 26
Girls 19
Total 45
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APPENDIX.
1901.
January 1901, introduces the 20th century, with five inches of snow, entirely cloudy, terperature 26°, gentle northwest wind.
Harvey J. Hurd died January 25th, burial in the Elma cemetery. By his will he gave $1,000 to the Investment Fund of the Elma Cemetery Association; the interest of this fund is to be used, per- petually, for the care and improvement of the cemetery grounds.
By his will, his sister, Mrs Harriet D. Rowley, came into full pos- session of the "Hurd Homestead" and mills, being about 180 acres of land on lots 48, 52, 53 and 57, on the east side of the Bowen Road in Elma Village, and between the Clinton Street and Chair Factory Roads.
Snow or rain fell during a part of every day between December 24th, 1900 and March 11th, 1901; the seventy-eight consecutive days of storm giving seventy-one inches of snow, and with the high widns on many days made travel, especially the turning out to meet teams, very difficult and dangerous.
The town meeting on March 12th was held by election districts; 306 votes were polled in the first district and 218 in the second district ; total 524.
Rain and thirty-two inches of snow in April served to continue the roads as the worst in many years.
Mr. O. J. Wannemacher died April 24th; burial in the Catholic cemetery in Spring Brook.
A special town meeting was held in the school house at the corner of the Bowen and Rice Roads on Saturday, April 27th, 1901, to vote on the following five propositions, viz. :
FIRST .- Shall the Town Board be authorized and empowere I to effect a settlement and compromise of the claim of Michael Morath for $10,000 damages for alleged personal injuries by reason of falling through the bridge over Pond Brook on the Chair Factory Road, on or about the 13th day of October 1900, for the sum of $1,700, together with his necessary and reasonable expenses for physicians and surgeon's attendance from October 13th, 1900, to March 30th, 1901, and to raise and appropriate the same?
SECOND .- The same question to settle the claim of $10,000 of George Heidenreich, by reason of falling through the same bridge
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at the same time for $500.00 and expenses of physicians and sur- geons attendance, between same dates as above?
THIRD .- Shall the Town Board be authorized to raise and appro- priate the sum of $3,500 or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of building a new bridge across the Cazenove Creek at Northrup mills?
FOURTH .- Same question for authority to raise $1,000 for con- struction and maintenance of the highways and bridges of the town?
FIFTH .- Shall the Town of Elma raise and appropriate seven and a half per centum toward the amount required for improving the Aurora Plank Road and the Clinton Street Road through the town, under the provision of Chapter 115 of the Laws of 1898, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto?
At this special Town Meeting there were 122 votes polled and all the five propositions were voted affirmatively by a majority of 80 to 100. Bad roads were the cause of the light vote.
Farm work was much delayed through April and well into May on account of the ground being too wet to allow of very much plowing and planting.
Apple trees were very shy of blossoms this year and most of the fruit that set dropped early in the season. Pear, plum, cherry, and quince trees blossomed full, but most of the crop was destroyed by heavy rains and winds while the trees were in blossom, the pear being a partial exception.
May 1st was the time set for opening the Pan-American Expo- sition in Buffalo, but bad weather and labor strikes caused such delay that May 20th was named as Dedication Day for the" Rain- bow City, " when 101,687 persons passed through the gates.
The electrical building and tower, illuminated at night by more than 500,000 electric lights, and the plan by which the Exposition buildings and grounds were lighted by electricity made a display far in advance of anything of the kind ever attempted, and were the wonder and admiration of all visitors.
The Commissioner of Highways of the town in May let the con- tract to furnish and put up a steel and iron bridge across the Caze- nove Creek at the Northrup mills, to the Canton Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio; the bridge to be 130 feet in length and to be com- pleted in August. The contract price was $2,800.
The old lattice bridge was torn down in June, a new abutment built at the north end of the bridge; for some reason the iron work was not in place at the close of the year 1901 and people were put to great loss and inconvenience, as it was at times dangerous to ford the stream, especially in cold weather and on dark nights.
The Farmers Club of the Town of Elma was organized in June 1901, with Cornelius McHugh as President, Myron H. Clark as
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Vice-president and Rev. George Mason as Secretary and Treasurer.
The frequent showers and warm weather of the latter part of June and first part of July forced vegetation along very rapidly, so that crops on July 10th were as far advanced as in ordinary years; but haying, and the harvesting of wheat, rye, and oats, have all been crowded together between July 8th and 20th.
Melville J. Hurd on July 1st bought of Mrs. Sarah L. Standart her seven acre lot on the east side of the Bowen Road on Lots 58 and 59, just south of Elma Village; and on the same day he bought of James T. Hurd, Myron H. Clark and Mrs. Harriet D. Rowley, executors of the will of Harvey J. Hurd, forty-two acres on the west side of the Bowen Road between John Garby's land and the railroad.
The same day, July 1st, James A. Woodard, George H. Woodard and Mrs. Emma McDonald, bought of the same executors eight and one-half acres, being parts of lots 52 and 60, on the south side of the railroad.
Saturday, July 27th, was " Elma Circus Day," and large crowds of people turned out, afternoon and evening, to attend the second yearly entertainment on the "Bonny Brook" grounds of Mr. R. P. Lee. Fun on a large scale and a great financial success. The Aurora brass band furnished the music.
Simeon Phillips, who lived on Lot No. 6 on the south side of the Clinton Street Road, committed suicide on August 4th by hanging, in the woods a short distance from his house.
As the bridge across Crooked Brook on the Bullis Road had broken down, the Commissioner of Highways put in a steel pipe six feet in diameter and 32 feet long; then on August 10th he let the contract of filling with earth, the space which had been covered by the old bridge.
William Beckman's barn on Lot 20 on the east side of the Girdled Road, on the north side of the Big Buffalo Creek, was struck by lightning and with the hay and grain was burned during the severe thunder storm of Tuesday p. m., August 20th. No insurance.
Yager's barn on lot 65 on south side of the Bullis Road, and Andrew Slade's barn at Elma Centre were struck and slightly in- jured, and several cattle in different parts of the town were killed by the same storm.
Otis A. Hall's barn on the Lancaster Town Line Road, filled with hay, grain and farm inplements, was burned by lightning on Thurs- day p. m., August 22d; no insurance. Nearly six inches of water fell during the three days, August 20th-22d.
Mrs. Sarah A. Cunningham died August 27th; burial in the Elma cemetery. By her will she gave $200 to the Elma Cemetery In- vestment Fund.
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The Elma Town Farmers' Club, held its first annual picnic on Labor Day, September 2d, in Luder's grove on Lot 41, on the west side of the Schultz Road. Professor Spencer, representing the agricultural department of Cornell University, gave a very inter- esting address; subject, "Cultivating the Farm."
The Town Board on Tuesday, September 3d, authorized the Commissioner of Highways to sign a franchise which would give to the Buffalo, Gardenville and Ebenezer Trolley Company the right. to build and operate a trolley road in this town along the easterly side of the Aurora and Buffalo Plank Road.
The attendance at the Pan-American Exposition, on September- 5th, "Presidents Day " was 116,660.
PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY.
President William McKinley, while holding a public reception on Friday afternoon, in the Temple of Music on the Exposition grounds, was shot by Leon F. Czolgosz, (pronounced Sholl-Goss) an avowed Anarchist 28 years of age.
The President was taken to the Exposition hospital, where his wounds were dressed, thence to the home of John G. Milburn, at the corner of Delaware Avenue and Ferry Street, where he died at . 2,15 o'clock, Saturday morning, September 14th, 1901. Age, 58 years, 7 months, 15 days.
Funeral services were held at the Milburn home at 11 o'clock a. m., Sunday, September 15th, and at 11.55 the procession left Ferry Street for the City Hall, arriving there at 1 o'clock, where the body of the President lay in state until 10.55 p. m., when more than 100,000 persons had looked upon the face of the dead President and the doors of the building were closed, guards were placed and the body remained through the night in the City Hall.
At 7.45 a. m., Monday, September 16th, the funeral procession, under military and police escort, proceeded to the New York Cen- tral depot on Exchange Street where a train of seven coaches of the Pennsylvania Railroad was in waiting.
The train left Buffalo at 8.34 o'clock, passing Elma station at 9.03 a. m., arriving in Washington that evening.
The body lay in state in the Capitol until Wednesday evening, September 18th when the funeral train in two sections left Wash- ington, arriving in Canton, Ohio, on Thursday forenoon, September 19th. The final services were held in the Canton cemetery at 3 o'clock that afternoon. At that hour all business throughout the country was generally brought to a halt.
On nearly every railroad, orders had been issued for every train, passenger and freight, to stop wherever they might be for five minutes, and these orders were obeyed.
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
At the home of Mr. Ansley Wilcox, at the corner of Delaware Avenue and North Street in Buffalo, at 3.35 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, September 14th, 1901, Vice-president Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as the 26th President of the United States.
Before taking the oath of office he said: "I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue, absolutely unbroken, the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of our beloved country.
The oath was administered by Judge John R. Hazel of the United States District Court.
Immediately after taking the oath of office, President Roosevelt asked the members of President McKinley's Cabinet who were present, to remain as his Cabinet, at least for the present. They all decided to comply with his request.
As the final burial services of President Mckinley were to be at Canton, Ohio, on Thursday, September 19th, President Roosevelt designated that day as a day for humiliation and prayer, and re- quested the people to assemble at their places of worship and ap- propriately observe the day.
A great, a noble, an honest Christian has left us. ' The people mourn, but the Government at Washington still lives.
As an over-ruling Providence can order that good shall come out of evil, it is hoped by this act of assassination of the President, that Anarchy has inflicted a death blow upon itself, at least in these United States.
The Pan-American Exposition closed on November 2d, 1901. Paid admissions, 5,306,859; free, 2,813,189. Total, 8,120,048.
Voting machines were used in the two election districts in this town at the general election held November 5th, 1901-168 votes in the First District; 149 in the Second District. Total 317.
Farmers have never had a nicer fall than this year has given them in which to secure their large crops of corn and potatoes, and to do other fall work.
The potato crop has been the largest ever raised in the town, and farmers have never realized such high prices as in the fall of 1901; 50 cents to 75 cents per bushel at the railroad stations for shipment, and 60 cents to $1.00 per bushel in Buffalo.
The wholesale market price for farm produce on December 18th was: Wheat, 80 to 90 cents; corn, 70 to 72 cents; oats, 52 cents; beans, $2.60 per bushel; butter 26 cents per pound; eggs, 26 cents per doz; hay, $15.00; rye straw, $10,00 per ton; apples, $4.00 to $5.75 per barrel. These prices are nice for the farmer but very high for the buyer.
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INDEX
A
Abolition Party 137, 147
Abstract of Title , 41 to 55
Accounts of Town .300
Adams, Amasa 78, 80
66 Chester .78, 80, 168
66 D. K. .86, 244
Luther .78, 100, 251
66 John, of Massachusetts. .. . 41
66
John, of Mile Strip .. 78, 80
66
John Q.
80, 86, 100
African Slave Trade. . . . 171, 189, 190, 191
Agreement, Indians with Hatch. . 96, 97 Alabama State Convention . 185, 186
Albany, City of. 38, 73
County 56, 57
Alden, town of. . 26, 28, 87, 88, 89, 90, 95, 100, 124
Aldrich, Thomas .86
198, 205, 233
Allen, Anthony, Jr. Brothers 198, 200, 205
David
.198,
205
Ellery 198, 205
66
Henry
.257
Allender, Nicholas 151
Alphabetical list of
Deaths 269
Marriages .257
Registered Voters. . 289, 293
66 Residents at East Elma in 1856 .. 103
Residents on Lancaster
part in 1856 121
60 Residents on Mile Strip in 1856 86
66 Residents in Spring
Brook in 1856. 132
66
Resident owners of real
estate in 1900 ..... 282
66 Volunteers in Civil
War 166, 168
66
Party 182, 191
Anderson, Major Robert. . 149, 159, 161, 170, 195, 196
Anniversary, 100th of U. S. .211
Appendix 310 Arbor Day 222
Ard, George .121
" James
152
Arkansas, State of 172, 195
Arndt, John 79
Arnold, Charles
168,
169
Assessments, Table of . 300 Association, County S. S. .221
Town S. S.
131
Atloff, John.
.213
Attendance, Officer
236, 237, 238
Aurora, part of Elma.
.91, 123, 124
Town of. . 18, 19, 20, 25, 28, 59, 61
62, 68, 77, 78, 79, 80, 85, 95, 96, 100, 122, 124, 125, 133, 201, 250
B
Bacon, Hiram 121
Baker, Rev. C. S. 109
66
George
125,
126
66
Luke
132
Matthias
.61,
121
66
Salem
S6,
251
66
William (
236, 248
Baltimore, City of
.162
Bancroft, Albert 121
Alonzo C ... 106, 109, 112, 121, 204, 205, 210, 219, 220.
Golden
Wedding. . . 238
66 Eleazer. 94, 95, 104, 107, 108, 112, 115, 116, 117, 121, 134, 210, 220.
Henry E.
154, 227, 240
66
Joseph W.
113, 115
William H .. . 92, 105, 113, 121,
146, 203, 229
Barnett, John.
61, 130, 132, 153
66
Richard T ... 230, 232, 238, 248
Barnum, Chauncey .123
Plin
123
Barto, Jesse. 100, 134, 251
Batavia, Town of
57,58, 89,202
Bates, William .86
Beck, Michael 202, 210, 236
Becker, Louis
.143
Beckman, William .312
Beidler, Henry
106, 121
Bell, William
.203
Benton, Thomas H. .173
Big Buffalo Creek . .. . 19, 20, 21, 25, 28, 29,
92, 95, 96, 99, 101,
104, 106, 108, 114,
134, 135, 140, 143,
146, 150, 199, 210,
238
315
1
American, the 104, 105, 106
66
Big Flats 26, 33, 101, 105, 112 Springs
124 Billington, Road (See Roads), Stickney . 80, 251, 252
Black Rock. 28
Blacksmiths in Blossom, Alois Dusch. . . . 212, 248 East Elma, Thos. Edwards 229, 248
" Wm. Edwards. 213
John Hicks. 202
Nathan Howard. . 103
John Kihm .197
Thomas Moore. . . 212
66 Thos. Schneider. . 204 John Shay .. 204
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ElmaCenter, Jos. Geyer. .234,248
« Village, Wm. H. Bancroft 105
Geo. Helfter .204, 211, 219
Jerge & Helfter. . . 204 Jerge Brothers. . 105, . 219, 229, 24S
" Casper & Jacob .. . 151, 203
" Jacob 120,203,229
66
66 Henry W. Stitz. . . 141
Blacksmiths.
Jamison Road, 3, T. Clifford . . . . 203
Charles Clough 240,248
Samuel Schurr. . . 222
Irving Schurr 234
Spring Brook,
66
John Barnett 130, 132, 153.
Michael Beck 203,236 T. Clifford. .153
Joseph Grace 126, 128, 132.
Nathaniel Graves, 128.
James MeGivern, 236, 24S.
James Wolcott, 129, 130.
Blaine, James G. 126
Bleeck, Ernst 202, 214, 216, 224, 235, 24S
Blood, Horace. 79. 251
James 79
Road, (See Roads)
Blossom, Blacksmith 212
Bridges, (see Bridges)
Churches (see Churches) 302
Fire Company 204, 229
Mill, Cider. 248
Grist, (see Grist Mills) Saw, (see Sawmills)
Post Office(see Post Offices) . 301 Schools, (see Schools) . . . 308, 309 Stores, (see Stores)
Saloons (see Saloons)
Village, 19, 20, 27, 93, 101, 108, 143, 147, 151, 198, 213, 218.
Blue Lodges 178
Board, Robert C. 234, 238, 243
of Supervisors, 60 to 64. . . . 91, 121, 132, 137, 140, 146, 223, 250.
Bodimer, Jacob .220
Philip, (see Deaths) 269
Bommer, Adam
.10
Booth, J. Wilkes
154,165
Border Ruffians
179, 180, 181
Bounty Fund,
.168, 169
Bowen, Oliver,
.108, 135, 141
Bower, Peter,
141, 147
Breckenridge, John C. . 148, 157, 182, 191, 193, 194.
Bridges, Built
‹‹ Blossom 200, 221
Bullis .90, 143
Cemetery Road. .230
East Elma 125, 141
Elma Village,. . . 95, 108, 204, 244 66 Northrup, 126, 127, 129, 131, 149, 200, 249, 311.
66
Simanton. 111, 119
Standart 120, 141
Winspear,. .
139, 140, 200, 224
Burned, Blossom 220
Carried off by Flood,
East Elma. .125
66
Elma Village .95, 108
Northrup, 127, 129, 131, 149
Simanton .111, 118, 150
Standart 150, 206
Winspear 200
Condemned, Northrup, 249
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