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At a Court of Common Pleas begun and held at the court-house in the town of Ashland in the County of Ashland, in the eleventh judicial circuit of the State of Ohio, on the 7th day of May, A.D. 1846, there were present the Honorable Jacob Parker, President Judge of said court; and the Honorables John P. Reznor, Edmund Ingmand, and George H. Stewart, Associate Judges; James Doty, Sheriff; and Daniel W. Brown, Clerk pro tem.
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Nicholas M. Donaldson, Prosecuting Attorney elect of the County of Ashland, appeared in open court and presented his bond in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned, as the law directs, with Thomas J. Bull, George W. Bull, and Thomas McMahan, his bail; which bond was accepted and approved by the court, and ordered to be recorded.
Attorneys in Attendance.
A member of the bar furnishes the following list of attorneys in attendance at the first term of court, namely : From Ashland-Messrs. Maffett, Hunter, Gates, McCombs, Kellogg, Fulton, Taggart, Sloan, Rankin, Osborn, Slocum, Kenyon, Donaldson, Geddis, Smith, Broombeck, Scott, and Clark. From Wooster- Messrs. Dean, Cox, Hemphill, Rex, Flattery, Bone- witz, Carter, and H. C. Curtis. From Mansfield- Messrs. C. T. Sherman, John Sherman, Brinkerhoff, Purdy, Hull, Smith, I. J. Allen, Bryan, Bartley, Kirkwood, and Stewart.
First Grand Jury of the County.
The following named gentlemen were impaneled as Grand Jurors for the May Term, 1846: Hugh McGuire, Daniel Carter, Sr., George Buchanan, Chris- topher Mykrantz, Christian Miller, Thomas Smith, Samuel Burns, Daniel Campbell, Andrew Mason, Michael Myers, John Smurr, George McConnell, James Boots, Michael Riddle, and John Naylor; of whom Daniel Campbell was appointed Foreman. Having been impaneled and sworn, and received their charge, they retired to their room to consider of their duties.
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Commissioner of Insolvents Appointed.
Ordered by the Court, That John S. Fulton be ap- pointed Commissioner of Insolvents for the County of Ashland for the term of three years from this day, (7th of May, 1846.)
Appointment of J. O. Jennings, Clerk.
At the March term, 1847, it was ordered by the court that Jacob O. Jennings be and he is hereby appointed clerk of this court for the constitutional term of seven years.
Appointment of Deputy Clerk.
It appearing to the court that Jacob O. Jennings, Clerk of this Court, has appointed James Hunter his Deputy, it is by the court Ordered, That said appoint- ment be approved and confirmed.
Appointment of Deputy Recorder.
It appearing to the court that Asa S. Reed, Re- corder of Ashland County, has appointed Hugh Burns his Deputy, it is by the court Ordered, That said ap- pointment be and the same is hereby approved and confirmed.
May Term, 1847.
Present-Jacob Parker, President Judge of the eleventh judicial circuit, and Edmund Ingmand, George H. Stewart, and Daniel W. Brown, Associate Judges; James Doty, Sheriff; and J. O. Jennings, Clerk.
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Appointment of Deputy Clerk.
. It appearing to the court that Jacob O. Jennings, Clerk of this Court, has appointed Albert L. Curtis his Deputy, it is by the court Ordered, That said appointment be approved and confirmed.
The "Steingraver Case."
This being the first murder trial that had occurred in Ashland County-added to the fact that its cir- cumstances were calculated to challenge the morbid curiosity of the multitude-attracted an unusual in- terest. The defendant had been designated by a coroner's inquest, held in Jackson Township, as guilty of the crime of having murdered, on the 4th of July, 1851, while her parents were absent at- tending a Sunday-school celebration at Perrysburg, Clarinda Vantilburg, a blind girl, aged ten years and two months. At the September term, the Grand Jury found against him a true bill-the first three counts in the indictment charging murder in the first degree, in the commission of a rape. The fourth, fifth, and sixth counts charged willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder, by alleging that the kill- ing was done in an attempt to commit a rape. The seventh and eighth counts charged the accused with murder in the first degree, by averring that he killed the deceased purposely, and of deliberate and pre- meditated malice. The ninth and tenth counts charged murder in the second degree; and the two concluding counts, manslaughter.
B. W. Kellogg, Esq., assisted by I. J. Allen, pros- ecuted the case; and John S. Fulton and Jacob Brinkerhoff appeared for the defense.
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In the court journal occurs what follows :
SATURDAY, October, 1851.
The State of Ohio
08. Indictment for murder, etc.
Charles Steingraver.
This day came the State of Ohio, by B. W. Kellogg, Esq., Prosecuting Attorney, and also at the same time came said Charles Steingraver, in his own proper person, and for plea says that he is not guilty in manner and form as he stands charged in said in- dictment, and puts himself upon the country for trial. Thereupon came thirty-six jurors, having. the qualifi- cation of electors, being householders in and of said Ashland County, to wit: John McCormick, Ephraim C. Marks, Samuel White, John McKahan, Abiather Stockman, Hugh Burns, Abraham Ritter, Henry Dimit, Gilbert Crist, Isaac Hatch, Jacob Johnson, David Bryte, Jacob Bucher, John L. Hootman, W. W. Parker, John Van Nest, George Ship, An- drew McClain, Samuel Baker, Hiram Tanner, Brad- ley Potter, Samuel Whittington, Stephen Wolf, Elisha Barnes, George Stott, Samuel Harman, Reuben Hill, Enoch Yallens, Calvin Hill, James L. Drake, Johnson Oldroyd, William S. Strickland, John Harman, Sam- uel Welty, Frederick Eighinger, regularly summoned jurors, and Joseph Chandler, as talesman, out of which said pannel were selected, tried, and impan- neled the jury following, to wit: John McCormick, Ephraim C. Marks, Samuel White, Henry Dimit, Isaac Hatch, Jacob Johnson, Jacob Bucher, Elisha Barnes, George Stott, Samuel Harman, James L. Drake, and John Harman, who being duly impan- neled and severally sworn to well and truly try and
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true deliverance make between the said State of Ohio and the said Charles Steingraver, and a true verdict give according to the evidence, and having heard the evidence adduced, the arguments of counsel, and the charge of the court, upon their oaths aforesaid do find and say that the said Charles Steingraver is guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged against him in the fourth, fifth, and sixth counts of said in- dictment, and not guilty as he is declared in the other counts in said indictment.
And thereupon came the said defendant, Charles Steingraver, and filed his motion for a new trial.
MONDAY, A.M., October 6, 1851.
Court met pursuant to adjournment. Present as Judges, the Honorable Levi Cox, President, and the Honorables Edmund Ingmand, George H. Stewart, and John C. Myers, Associates.
The State of Ohio
08. Indictment for murder.
Charles Steingraver.
This cause came up to be heard upon the motion of the said Charles Steingraver for a new trial, and was argued by counsel; on consideration whereof the court do order that said motion be overruled.
Therefore it is considered, and the sentence of the court is, that said defendant, Charles Steingraver, be taken hence by the Sheriff, and confined in the jail of the county, until Friday, the 30th day of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty- two, and then, on said thirtieth day of January, be- tween the hours of 12 meridian, and two o'clock, post meridian, the Sheriff of said Ashland County, or in case of his absence or inability, then the Coroner
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of said county, take him, the said Charles Stein- graver, to the place appointed by law, and execute him by hanging him by the neck until he is dead.
The Execution. [From the Ohio Union, February 4, 1852.]
The execution of Charles Steingraver took place on Friday, the 30th day of January, 1852, as ordered and directed by the court. Early in the morning, immense numbers of the people were collecting from every section of the country-some from a great dis- . tance-and directing their course to the execution ground, which was guarded by the military, who were called out for the purpose of suppressing any disturbance which might occur to mar the proceed- ings, or hinder the law from being peaceably enforced. By eleven o'clock A.M. there had congregated, it is supposed, from eight to twelve thousand persons; and we are sorry to state, that many of this immense assemblage gave evident signs of intoxication. It might therefore be submitted whether executing the extreme penalty of the law in this manner brings about the desired reform, viz., of suppressing the awful crime of murder?
Steingraver was led from his cell precisely at twelve o'clock, accompanied by the sheriff and five ministers. He marched from his place of confinement to the gal- lows under the solemn and impressive notes of the "Dead March," which were calculated to soften the most obdurate and hardened, and impress suitable reflections for the solemnities of death. He shed not a tear-he moved along with a firm and unfaltering step-ascended the scaffold with as little apparent regard for his hard fate as the ox for the slaughter.
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His long white robe was calculated to rouse solemn reflections about the destiny of man and his long home, when he returns to his mother earth, and lies mouldering in the dust, wrapped in the slumbers of death-dreamless and quiet.
While religious exercises were taking place on the scaffold, his bearing was firm and unmoved. He knelt and listened to several appropriate and power- ful prayers both in German and English, and not until the last prayer was being offered was he seen to shed a tear. He then wept-was much affected; but again braced up, rose with a firmness ill befitting his situation, and requested the sheriff to announce, as his dying words, that he was not guilty of the crime imputed to him. He then requested that the people be exhorted, in German and English, to avoid sins that were calculated to lead them into vice and event- ually to ruin.
He then took his parting leave of the officers and ministers present on the scaffold-submitted calmly to have his arms and feet pinioned-the cap drawn over his head and face-the rope placed around his neck, and drawn up in order to launch him into eternity. The sheriff called out, nineteen minutes till the time expires-ten minutes-five minutes- one minute. During which announcements, he stood like a statue-unshuddering-unmoved, save to in- cline his head a little to the right. A moment before he was precipitated from the scaffold, the sheriff, ap- proaching him, pressed the question, "Steingraver, are you innocent of the crime of murder as charged against you?" With apparent earnestness he replied, "Sheriff, I am innocent." It was now just fifteen minutes past one o'clock. A moment, and his guilty or guiltless 5
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soul was thrust into another world to meet its Creator; a few spasmodic shrugs of his body and limbs, and all was over. He hung suspended by his neck about half an hour; was then pronounced dead by the medical gentlemen present; his body taken down and placed in its coffin, and in something over half an hour transferred to an obscure place in the Ashland cemetery.
During these proceedings the people behaved with unexpected decorum, the best of order prevailing throughout the whole assemblage, except when the criminal was precipitated from the scaffold, and for a short time became invisible to the crowd. Order, however, was soon restored, and all went off quietly. *
REMUS.
The Case of Thornton Pool.
This was the second murder trial in the county. The defendant was arraigned for the murder of Noah Mock, at the town of Orange, on the 17th day of December, 1853. The tragedy had its origin in the matter of seven cents that had been used at a "raffle." The money belonged to Mock, but had been appro- priated by Pool; and in the controversy growing out of this trifling affair, the murderous hate was generated, and a fatal stab was inflicted. "What a great matter a little fire kindleth." The case was tried at the March term, 1854-Alexander Porter, Prosecuting Attorney for the State, and Fulton, McCombs, and Given, for the defence. The regular grand jurors were John Clugston, Harvey Sackett, Henry Stickler, Jacob Poorman, John Mason, John Aten, Jeremiah Buckmaster, Joseph Neff, Martin
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Dowd, Jacob Fast, and David Fox; and talesmen, Elias Ford, Jacob Johnson, Michael Myers, and John Davoult; John Mason, Foreman.
Extracts from Court Journal-MARCH TERM, 1854, (March 17.) : The State of Ohio 08. Indictment for murder.
Thornton Pool.
This day came the State of Ohio, by A. Porter, Prosecuting Attorney, and also at the same time came said Thornton Pool, in his own person, and for plea says that he is not guilty in manner and form as he stands charged in said indictment, and puts himself upon the country for trial; thereupon came thirty-six jurors, out of which said number were selected, tried, and impanneled the following persons, to wit: Wm. Craig, James Huff, David Ciphers, Herman Alleman, John Willson, Elias Bates, and Christopher Hootman, to serve as jurors in said cause; and thereupon the said panel of thirty-six jurors having been exhausted, the sheriff called as talesmen the following persons from the bystanders, having the qualifications of electors, and being householders in said County of Ashland, to wit: Henry Horn, Jacob Emrick, Wil- liam Mory, Stephen Crozier, and Daniel Harman ; who were selected, tried, and impanneled, to serve as jurors in said cause ; * * * * upon their oaths aforesaid, the jury do find and say that the said Thornton Pool is guilty of murder in the second degree as charged against him in the fourth, fifth, and sixth counts of said indictment, and not guilty of murder in the first degree, as is charged against him in the first, second, and third counts of said in- dictment. And therefore came the said defendant, Thornton Pool, and filed his motion for a new trial.
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The State of Ohio
08. Indictment for murder and manslaughter.
Thornton Pool.
This cause came on to be heard upon motion of said Thornton Pool, in arrest of judgment and new trial, and was argued by counsel, on consideration whereof the motion in arrest of judgment is ordered to be overruled, and it is further ordered that said verdict be and the same is hereby set aside, and that a new trial be had between said State of Ohio and the said Thornton Pool; and thereupon came said State of Ohio by A. Porter, Esq., who prosecutes in this be- half, and enters a nolle prosequi as to the fourth, fifth, and six counts, in said indictment, charging said Thornton Pool with murder in the second degree; and also at the same time came the said Thornton Pool in his own person, and, by leave of the court, his plea of "not guilty," heretofore entered by him, was withdrawn, and enters a plea of "guilty" of man- slaughter as he stands charged in the seventh and eighth counts of said indictment.
Therefore considered, and the sentence of the court is, that said defendant, Thornton Pool, be taken hence by the sheriff to the county jail, and from thence within sixty days from the rising of court be taken by the sheriff to the Ohio Penitentiary, there to remain in confinement and to be kept at hard labor for the period of ten years.
State Cases.
The whole number of State cases prosecuted to final judgment from the first term of the court, held in May, 1846, to the February Term, 1862, inclusive, amounts to four hundred and thirty-nine.
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THE COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM OF ASH- LAND COUNTY.
Whatever may have been its results elsewhere, it can hardly be said that in Ashland County the pres- ent system has met the expectations of its friends. Although this county, by reason of its less amount of taxable property, and larger proportion of school children, receives nominally a thousand dollars or so yearly more from the State Treasury, than she pays into it, and might naturally, therefore, be classed with those eleemosynary counties that chronically resist all efforts to change the existing order of things, it may be a question whether the present is not, above all other systems that have been tried, the least prof- itable to our people, counting costs and returns, of any that has been in operation. While the popula- tion and wealth of most of the towns have made steady progress, the educational interests of the county, during the last twelve years, have scarcely maintained their statu quo. The "People's Colleges," of which we heard so much years ago, by those who urged the adoption of the system, have been so con- ducted as to create the necessity for two flourishing academies in the county, which are placed upon a permanent basis. Thus much by way of preface to the valuable statistics which follow.
Receipts and Disbursements for the year ending August 31, 1861.
The total receipts are made up of six columns, namely: 1. "Balance on hand, September 1, 1861;"
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2. "Fines, Licenses, and Miscellaneous Sources;" 3. "Irreducible School Funds;" 4. "State Tax;" 5. "Township Tax for prolonging School six months, and sustaining High Schools;" and, 6. "Township Tax for Sites, Buildings, Repairs, and Contingent Expenses."
The total expenditures include, 1. "Amount paid Teachers during the year;" 2. "Sites, Buildings, and Repairs;" 3. "Fuel and other Contingent Expenses."
Name of township.
Corporations and special school dis- tricta.
Total receipta.
Total expendi- tures.
Hanover ..
$1502.58
$828.85
Green.
2186.65
1674.22
Vermillion.
1886.12
1365.02
Montgomery
2087.26
1886.79
Orange
1600.00
1310.00
Jackson
1024.99
830.14
Perry
1058.79
1017.56
Mohican
1615.88
594 16
Lake.
1095.23
1054.02
Mifflin.
601.98
581.58
Milton.
1550.80
1159.88
Clearcreek.
2286.51
2445.26
Ruggles
1418.97
1128.10
Troy .
1258.02
1092.28
Sullivan.
817.62
658.08
Ashland
2802.28
2567.00
Hayesville
662.01
414.89
Loudonville
...
894.50
885.82
Jeromeville ....
319.26
810.00
$25,609.40
$20,787.05
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Number of Schools; Number of Youths enrolled in Schools during the year ; Number of Scholars in average daily attend- ance in Schools during the year.
Name of townships.
Name of corpora- tions and special school districts.
|Total number of
schools exclu-
sive of acad-
emies.
Males.
Females.
Total.
average daily
attendance du-
ring the year.
Hanover
8
226
219
445
261
Groen.
10
368
320
688
762
Vermillion
9
850
852
702
361
Montgomery
20
860
250
610
475
Orange.
12
275
260
535
898
Mifflin
11
278
264
542
808
Milton
7
880
85
734
405
Clearcreek.
9
358
289
647
401
Lake.
10
150
155
805
157
Mohican
16
406
219
625
889
Perry
11
829
229
55
288
Jackson ...
8
296
223
519
815
Ruggles
12
200
190
890
280
Troy ...
15
821
887
708
489
Sullivan.
5
159
142
801
208
Loudonville
2
87
94
181
76
Hayesville ......
2
60
65
125
109
Ashland
6
310
25]
561
801
Jeromeville
1
56
61
117
69
174
4969
4824
9298
5942
Number of youths enrolled in schools during the year.
No.ofscholars in
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Average length of time the Schools have been kept in session; Number of Teachers employed during the year; Average wages of Teachers per month during the year.
Name of town- ships.
Name of corpora- ration and spe- cial school dis- tricts.
Com-
mon.
High.
Common.
High.
Months.
Days.
Months.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Fe- males.
Males.
Fe- males.
Hanover
12
6
6
12
22.66 13.33
Green
7
24
10
20
30 20.48
14 15
Vermillion.
4
2
6
9
15 25.50 15.00
Montgomery .
6
12
10
10
20 24.00 10.00
Orange.
7
9
13
22
25.00 15.00
Mifflin
6
3
6
5
11 26.83 10.00
Milton
7
4}
7
6
13 22.68
9.93
Clearcreek.
7
13
4
12
16 21.87
14.33
Lake ...
6
5
5
4
9 21.00 12.66
Mohican
5
3
10
6
16 25.45 14.00
Perry
6
10
6
16 28.00 15.00
Jackson
6
8
8 26.00
3
7
6
6
12 25.62 10.16
3
5
10
15 21.00 10.85
Loudonville ..
9
2
2
18.80
Hayesville.
5
1
2
3 30.00
17.00
Ashland
9
9
2
5
7 33.33
20.00 80.00 33.00
Jeromeville ... 8
2
2 36.09
6
4
6
111 127 238 25.19 12.15 80.00 33.00
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5
9 18.00 10.00
Ruggles.
Troy
Sullivan
Dolls.
Dolls.
Dolls.
Dolls.
ring year.
Average ses- sion of the schools du- No. of teach- the ers employ- ed during the year.
Average wages of teachers per month.
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Number and value of School-houses heretofore erected, with Furniture; Number and value of School-houses erected during the year; Number and value of School Libraries; Value of School Apparatus.
Name of township, corpo- ration, or school dis- trict.
No. and value of school-houses heretofore erec- ted, with furni- ture.
No. and value of school- houses erec- ted during the year re- ported.
No. and value of school libraries.
No. of volumes in
Value of school ap-
paratus.
Hanover
No. 8
Dollars. 3,200
No.
Dollars. 880
No.
Dollars. 51.82
96
Vermillion ...
9
2,450
Montgomery.
10
2,000
Orange.
7
2,300
10
150.00
40
10
Mifflin
6
2,000
Milton ..
6
2,210
1
475
7
250.00 175.00
300
45 25
Lake
6
2,000
Mohican
7
1,050
1
425
8
69.50
278
5
Perry
11
4,400
Jackson
7
1,200
7
21.00
42 186
75
Troy ...
15
4,500
1
355
5
150
Loudonville
1
1,000
1
80.00
Hayesville
1
600
Ashland.
1
8,000
1
250.00 25.00
350 72
5
Jeromeville
1
450
1
126
47,160
4
1685
59
1,151.82
1864
185
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Green
10
4,000
1
10
8
350
Clearcreek
8
2,500
1
80.00
Ruggles
7
2,100
Sullivan
5
1,200
20
school libraries.
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Branches of Study taught and number of Scholars in each branch in the Common Schools of Ashland County.
Alphabet, 556; orthography, 5,553; reading, 5,811; penmanship, 4,473; mental arithmetic, 1,347; written arithmetic, 3,101; geography, 1,569; English gram- mar, 1,021; philosophy, 26; composition, 136; decla- mation, 165; drawing, 7; vocal music, 53; history, 40; algebra, 176; geometry, 4; natural philosophy, 52; astronomy, 18; Greek, 2; and French, 7.
RECAPITULATION OF THE FOREGOING TABLES.
Amount of school moneys received during the year .... $25,609 40 Total disbursements. 20,787 05
Total number of common schools in the county. .... 174
Number of youth enrolled in schools, viz .:-
Males.
4,969
Females
4,324
9,293
Number of scholars in average daily attendance during the
year.
5,948
Average session of the schools :-
Common 6 months 4 days.
High 6
Number of teachers employed :-
Males
111
Females
127
238
Average wages of teachers per month :-
Common-Males. $25 19
" Females 12 15
High-Males
80 00
= Females 33 00
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Number of school-houses heretofore erected. 126 Value of same $47,160
School-houses erected during the year.
Value of same. $1,635
Number of school libraries reported. 59
Value of same as reported $1,151 82
Reported number of volumes in school libraries 1,864
Reported value of school apparatus $185
BOARD OF SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
The names of the persons who were appointed by the Court of Common Pleas the first board of school examiners appear under the head of "Court Record."
From the first record of the board it appears that "on the 17th of May, 1851, the Court of Common Pleas appointed Wm. T. Adams, A. M. Fulton, and John Lynch, School Examiners in and for Ashland County." On the twenty-third of May the board organized by appointing W. T. Adams, chairman, and John Lynch, clerk.
The third quarterly meeting of the board was held June 26th, 1852. Seventeen teachers were examined, two of whom failed to obtain certificates. This ap- pears to have been the last record made by John Lynch, clerk.
At the meeting of the board, October 9th, 1852, the name of S. M. Barber appears as secretary.
The next record, bearing date, of the proceedings of the board occurs on the 4th of May, 1853. G. W. Hill and Orlow Smith, the former secretary, conducted the examination.
October 7th, 1854, the names of Rev. J. Robinson and Dr. G. W. Hill appear as members of the board.
The next change that occurred in the board, ac- cording to their record, is in the proceedings of the
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meeting of March 1st, 1855, when the name of Robert Beer appears as secretary.
On the 31st of March, 1855, the names of John Robinson, Levi Farnsworth, and Robert Beer stand upon the record as members of the board.
A change in the board appears in the proceedings of October 27th, 1855, when the name of S. M. Bar- ber, clerk, is appended to the proceedings; and in the record of the meeting of December 8th, 1855, the names of John Robinson, Levi Farnsworth, and S. M. . Barber are given as the members constituting the board.
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