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1869-James W. Condit, Elliott Warner, J. Q. Adams. 1870-Bernard Phillips, Thomas Stone, J. L. McColley. 1871-Joel Foote, James Davis, J. Q. Adams. 1872-Nelson Kunder, Joel Foote, J. Q. Adams. 1873-Joel Foote, Septimus Mawer, James Davis. 1874-Joel Foote, Nelson Kuder, J. Q. Adams.
1875 76-Edward Beverstock, Joel Foote, J. Q. Adams. 1877-C. C. Gundy, Daniel Murdock, E. B. Beverstock. 1878-C. C. Gundy, E. B. Beverstock, J. Q. Adains.
The trustees front 1879 to 1896 are named in the following list:
1879 -- Fred Peinert, David Petteys, S. Van Tassel.
1880-Silas Gray, J. S. Matthews, Fred Peinert.
1881-C. C. Gundy, Fred Peinert, J. S. Matthews. 1882 -Jacob Huffman. Fred Peinert, J. J. Black. 1883 - Jacob Huffman, Fred Peinert, J. Q. Adams.
1884-C. C. Gundy, Fred Peinert, Adam Scherer.
1-5 -Alex. McCombs, J. S. Matthews, C. C. Gundv.
1886-Alex. McCombs (3), Daniel Huffman (2), J. S. Matthews.
The election of April, 1887, was the first when a single trustee was to be chosen. John S. Matthews was elected, and, with his associates
elected in 1886, formed the board. The trustees, elected for the long term, or to fill vacancies, since April, 1888, are named as follows: ISSS. Daniel W. Huffman; 1889, Alexander McCombs: 1890, Frank Adams; 1891, Adam Scherer; 1892, W. U. Baker; 1893, John Phillips; 1891, George Stone; 1895, Daniel W. Huffman; 1896, John S. Phillips.
Transactions. -- The Sugar Creek ditch was considered in September, 1854, and Stations 22 to, 31, inclusive, apportioned to Egbert Husted. In November, 1854, the trustees in session, with T. S. Sabin and William Pratt, of Weston, and M. Tracy, of Plain, awarded the contracts for excavating the Keeler Prairie and Tontogany ditch. The White Outlet was excavated in 1856; the Washington & Weston Middle ditch, the Cummings ditch, and other drains were au- thorized the same year. The Donaldson and Soash ditches were constructed in 1858, and also the Elliott and Russell and the Green ditches. By March, 1859, there were ten large drains ex- isting, including all named, with the Plain and Tontogany, the Sittle Prairie, and the Weston and Washington West Town Line.
The election for stock in the Dayton & Mich- igan railroad, held April 4, 1853, resulted in 56 votes for and 28 contra. On the 12th the trus- tees met at the Jefferson school house to issue said bonds, but declined signing them. On May 19, W. V. Way, agent for the company, cailed the trustees to meet him, but nothing was ac- complished; again, on the 20th, the attorney met them and urged them to sign bonds for $Io, - ooo, which they did, after Way and Peck had given their joint bond, for $20,000, to the town- ship for the faithful observance of the railroad company's promises. Each of the ten bonds issned was for $1,000, bearing 7 per cent. inter- est, and payable January 1, 1873. On May 28, the trustees levied sixteen mills on each dollar of valuation, to meet interest on such bonds. On June 4, 1868, there is a minute inade of the fact that the trustees took 2So fifty-dollar shares in the stock of the Michigan-Dayton Railroad Con- pany.
In April, 1888, there were 127 votes cast for . issuing $4,000 bonds for building a town hall- 123 votes against, and nineteen neutral.
In December, 1893, the trustees and board of health considered the sanitary condition of the township, ordered all school children to be vac- cinated, appointed Dr. B. F. Davis health officer. and Adam Scherer, samtary policeman, and adopted a series of rules to be observed in guard- ing against contagious diseases.
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The old journal of the trustees, in possession of Judge Ewing, with documents and records in the county offices, have enabled the writer to make almost a complete list of township officers and a summary of their transactions.
Justices. - Justices were Emilins Wood, 1838; Samuel Flanders, 1839; Elliott Warner, 1841; Samuel B. Campbell, 1841; Jeremiah Ward, 1843; Edmond C. Buttels, 1846; Thomas E. Jackman, 1847-52; Edwin Tuller, 1849 (did not qualify); Edmond Buttels (of the Thunder- gust mill), 1850; Edwin Tuller, 1850-53; John Bamber, 1851; Ebenezer Donaldson, 1856-59; Edwin Tuller, 1856 to 1898; Edward Renwick, 1862; Robert Bamber, 1862; Charles Lewis, 1863; James L. Curry, 1864; Thomas W. Mawer, 1865; Geo. H. Van Blarcum, 1865; Luther Black, 1866; Alfred B. Jeune, 1868; Richard Ingraham, 1869: George Nicholls, 1871-74; E. A. Ketchum, 1875-78; R. H. Freeman, 1875-80 (resigned in 1882); H. G. Condit, 1882; G. A. Repass, 1884-87 (resigned in 1889); John Q. Adams, 1886-89; Jesse P. Wade, 1892; and John S. Matthews, 1895.
Clerks, Treasurers, Assessors. -- The clerks: Michael Sypher, 1837; Elliott Warner, 1839; M. Sypher, 1840; Elliott Warner, 1841 to 1868; Burt Williams, 1868; Geo. Nicholls, 1872; Silas Clark, 1873; E. A. Ketchum, 1874; Geo. R. Matthews, 1876 (served until April 10, 1884, when he resigned, and Dr. A. Eddmon was ap- pointed to fill the vacancy); R. J. Collins, 1885; Geo. R. Matthews, 1887; W. R. Marwick, 1890 (declined to qualify, when George R. Matthews was appointed); Robert J. Collins, 1892, re- elected 1896. Treasurers were T. Bassett, 1837; R. Black, 1839; Samuel Flanders, 1840; John Skinner, 1842; James T. Skinner. 1844; Nelson Kuder, IS45: Walter Cummings, 1852; C. C. Whitmore, 1873; David Petteys, ISSo; Frank Yost, 1882; and Will Waugh, 1895-97. The assessors were named as follows: Jeremiah Ward, 1842; Michael Sypher, 1845; James WV. Condit, 1847, Roswell M. Skinner, assessor to 1854; Edward A. Ketchum, 1854; Joseph E. Creps, 1856; Nelson Kuder, 1857; Phillip Bal- lard, 1858; Jacob R. Huff, 1859; J. H. Kuder, 1 860; Joseph A. Creps, 1864; Bernard Phillips, 1865; J. H. Kuder, 1866; Burt Williams, 1870; Bernard Phillips, 1871; John S. Matthews, 1872; P. H. Van Valkenburg, 1880; G. S. Kuder, 1882; Jacob Gundy, 1883; W. Cummings, 1886; W. R. Marwick, 1888; Loren C. Potter (chosen be lot;, 1890; Christopher C. Gundy, 1892; C. C. Kuder, 1893; and L. A. McCombs, 1895 -97, who received 160 votes on the Republican ticket
against eighty-three recorded for Jacob Douster, the Populist nominee.
School Trustees .- In 1896 the following were elected members of the school board: Conrad Beil, Ananias Shenower, Jacob Volmer, William Hyman, and Peter Whitmore.
Pioneers. - Samuel Ewing, who settled oppo- site Wolf Rapids in 1819, and who was killed in 1822, must be named as the pioneer of the town- ship. His farm became the property of Valentine Winslow, who sold to David Hedges. He built the stone house in 1833. The white adult males within the township in 1839, are named as fol- lows: Isaac Bossard, Jesse T. Pugh, John Black*, Robert Black", Jacob Barnthistle, Rob- ert Bamber, Jr., John Bamber#, Jonathan Croin, Josiah Cummings, Abraham Crom, Josiah Crom, Solomon Kuder, Jonas Stockwell, Jeremiah Ward, John Skinner*, William North", Henry Comager, Joseph North, Caleb North*, Emilius Wood, Elliott Warner, Martin Warner, Martin Warner, Jr., John Warner, John Williner, Rich- ard Hoff, Alexander Howard, Levi Lazell, John Soash, Edmund Buttles, Noah Reed, Phineas Durphy, Samnel Flanders, St. John Wilson, Michael Sypher*, David Whitney, Benjamin Miller, Luke Van Tassel, Merrit Flint, Jacob Huffinan, James Henry, Neptune Nearing, Alex Alcorn, David Hedges, Elias W. Hedges, Stephen Cook, and Robert Newell, blacksmith.
In 1833, the men whose names are marked thus # above were among the petitioners for a road, from Miltonville to Green Encampment, or Bowling Green, with James Smith, Robert Cowan, Levi, Samuel and Horace Hamilton, Jacob Crom, Robert Bamber, Sr., and George Barron, who do not appear to be residents of the township in 1839. In 1834, the names of John Barker, Jesse T. Pugh, C. Collett, John Graber, David Hedges, the three Hamiltons, the two elder Warners, Robert Shuman, John Fea- gles, Widow Linscott, Joseph Haines and Elias W. Hedges were here. Michael Sypher settled in 1831; William North and Samuel Hamilton, in the fall of 1830 (settled on site of Tontogany); John Crom in 1831; and John Skinner in 1832. When these pioneers went into the forest from the river, that part of the Fort Meigs and Wappa- koneta road, from the Mission station into the prairie, on the east bank of the Tontogany, was not cut ont or bridged. The Haskins and Bear Rapids road running from the river to the Perrys- burg and Findlay road, at Mackey's, at Mi. Ararat, was next cut through, and then the road
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referred to above, as petitioned for in 1833. Michael Sypher moved in the spring of 1831, from his first location, a half-mile above Milton- ville, into what is now Washington township. As stated above, William North and Samuel Hamilton arrived the year before, or the same year; John Skinner, Sr., with his wife and seven children, came in 1832, while John and Robert Black located north of Tontogany the same year. The Barnthistles, Solomon Kuder, Elliott War- ner, Sr., and the Bambers came next, followed in quick succession by others until the pioneer circle of the township was completed.
First Murder .- The township has not been without its tragedies and alarms. In 1819 Sam- uel Ewing settled at Wolf Rapids, near where David Hedges established the town of Benton in Inter years. One day, in i822, while visiting Richardson's tavern, at Roche de Bœuf, he quar- relled with a man named John Lewis, who struck him in such a manner as to dislocate his neck, killing him at once. Lewis was imprisoned in the jail at Maumee, but escaped that night. Eight years after, Porter killed the owner of that tavern, and suffered the death penalty for the act.
A False Alarm .- The Huckleberry war of 1837 left its impress on the pioneers of this town- ship. A half-breed named Tibault carried the news from Gilead that the Sacs and Foxes had induced the Pottawattamies and Ottawas to don the war-paint, and exterminate the whites. The Ottawas were guiltless of the charge, but the re- port was sufficient to drive the settlers to arms; so that on the night after the first new moon, suc- ceeding the Indian council, Rev. Isaac Van Tas- sell and his missionary family were in a boat, anchored in mid-stream, ready to fly; a number of pioneers, fully armed, garrisoned Guy Near- ing's old mill at Otsego, and another party gar- risoned John Crom's log house, north of Ton- togany.
A Sweet Speculation .- Many stories are re- Lited of Guy Nearing, the pioneer. On one oc- casion (some tinie in the " thirties") he made a bargain with the Deckers to pay them a dollar a tree for every bee tree they could find. At that time wild flowers were so abundant on the prairies that wild bees prospered better than taine ones do now, and it was no trouble to find a bee tree. The Deckers, who were skillful bee hunters had marked a great number in the openings skirting the prairie north of where Bowling Green now is. Nearing took his men and ox-wagons, filled with barrels and supplies, including some whisky, and came out and a merry, sweet, jolly time they had of it. Nearing, who had feet as large as a small
store box, attended the "commissary," and packed the honey in the barrels, which he would do by getting in the barrels with his feet and stamping it down. After getting a full cargo they took it to the river, and shipped it by steamer to the Buffalo market.
Early Schools .- The first school house in Washington township was a log "structure " 12 × 14 feet, built near where the Washington chapel, U. B., now stands, about 1833. After the house was built the question came up: " Who shall be our teacher?" As that commodity was not as plentiful as at present, it was decided, in 1834, that Michael Sypher and Elliott Warner, Sr., should take charge of the school, each by turn teaching a month, their only pay being the satis- faction of seeing the rapid advancement of the pupils, who, we may niention, are now some of the old and substantial citizens of Washington. Thus began the first educational effort in a pub- lic way in that township. Probably the first Sunday-school of the vicinity was organized in the same building, with Warner. superintendent, and when the people on the Sabbath wished to attend church and hear a sermon, they some- times went to the "Mission Station" to hear Rev. Isaac Van Tassel read a sermon of the Oid- School Presbyterian kind.
The "Washington " school house, near John McColly's, completed in 1842, was the first frame school house in the township. The meetings of the lyceum were held in the old house, and de- bates carried on there were generally hot and heavy. The cemetery has now spread over the school site. Dr. Lathrop taught in 1835-36. The " Jefferson, " or old Tontogany, school house, built in 1845, was the second. It stood north of the village, on the old Wood farm, now owned by Hiram Cunning. The old frame was pur- chased by S. L. Irwin, moved to Tontogany by W. D. Herrick, and forms a part of the Irwin homestead to-day. It is said that a log house was built in District No. 2 before township or- ganization, and that the Sypher-Warner house was the second building.
Board of Education .- The first record-book of the board of education, in possession of the clerk, begins April 18, 1853, and ends April 10. 1882. The clerks of the five districts, in 1853. were Edward A. Ketchum, James T. Skinner, Josiah H. Kuder, John Bamber and J. A. Creps E. A. Ketchum, Jesse Huff and Samuel Minard were elected directors of Sub-District No 1, James T. Skinner, Walter Cummings and Rob- ert Black, of No. 2: J. H. Kuder, Martin War- ner, Jr., and Syrenns Condit, of No. 3; (No. 4
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not mentioned); and J. A. Creps, S. Mawer and Hiram West, of No. 5. About that time a school house was almost finished in No. 5: William Trilì was appointed agent to obtain title to a site for the Otsego school house. In December, 1853, there was $513.51 in the school-house fund, in- cluding $19.03 accrued interest on Sec. 16, and $280.79 from State common-school fund. The township tax on county duplicate for 1853 was $181.45; the sub-district tax, $118. 57, and orders of former years, $42.23, making a total of $855.76. In 1854, the names of John Crom, William North, Joseph Jeffries, Robert Bamber and Philip S. Jones appear as directors, while in April, 1855, the members of the board of 1853 appear as librarians for their respective districts; the number of books committed to each being twelve or thirteen volumes. Sections 8 and 7 were established as Sub-District No. 7, or Oak Ridge, in 1857, and a levy made for school-build-
ing purposes. In the six districts of October, 1856, there were 233 children of school age. Ed- win Tuller, Hiram Cunning and E. A. Ketchum, directors of the new district, had a school house erected in 1857-58, which is now George Merk's dwelling house. During the ensuing twelve years, two districts were added, requiring nine school buildings, ranging in value from $150 to $450 each for building and ground. In Septem- ber, 1870, there were 240 male and 210 female children in the township, and the township tui- tion fund was $932.84. In April. 1871, District No. 10 was established, and J. W. Sargent was chosen clerk. A few months later a new school house was erected at Tontogany at a cost of $1,947, being the first school building, above the cabin style, in the township. By 1880, the ten districts were consolidated into seven, of which Thomas Stone, Jacob Gundy, C. C. Gundy, Henry Thomas, Joel Foote, A. S. Taft and Thomas Aldrich were clerks or members of the township board. There were then 148 male and 128 female pupils enumerated. In 1884 modern school equipment began to find its way into the schools, for in February of that year seven cases of the "Complete School Charts" were pur- chased at $50 a set, from Nickerson & Willough- by. Dr. A. Eddmon was elected secretary of the school board in April, 1884; in April, 1885, men- tion is made of a brick school house, the first in the township, 26x 36 feet in floor area, to be erected in District No. 3, at a cost not to exceed $1, 101.88. In April, 1885, R. J. Collins was elected secretary of the board. In 1886-87, inod- ern school furniture was introduced, Jacob Min- ard, C. C. Gundy, L. R. Van Tassel, George !
Cummings, Joel Foote, A. S. Taft and P. Eiler voting for this innovation. In 1888, authority was given to purchase a site and build a school house in District No. 6. and one in Joint-District No. 2, or Snyder Town, in connection with Grand Rapids township. In 1893. Zahm Ste- phens, N. Shenower, William Burditt, John Baker, Eugene Huff, Michael Seetz and Charles Cook formed the board.
VILLAGES.
Otsego .- This quaint old town owed its begin- nings to Nearing's sawmill, which he sold. in 1834 or 1835, to Asa Gilbert, who came from New York State. The place was then called " Gil- bert's Mill. " Prior to that time Eagle & Cul- bertson established a store there; but in 1834 moved to Grand Rapids, then named " Gilead." Emerson H. Eaton succeeded them as merchants; Samuel Flanders next purchased the property on which the Nearing mill stood, with the dwelling house and store room; rebuilt the gristmill. put in three buhrs, and added a sawmill, so that the flood which carried away the first mill in 1839-40 was rather beneficial than otherwise.
South Otsego was surveyed in May, 1836, by Hiram Davis, for Samuel B. Campbell, agent and attorney for Levi Beardsley, James O. Morse and Jeremiah Fowler, of Cherry Valley, New York. The location was at Bear Rapids, on the N. E. Fr. Į, Sec. 35, T. 6, R. 9. Samuel Flanders, above named, must have succeeded Campbell. for he was here in 1839, and the most prominent man on the river above Perrysburg. About the time the village was surveyed an old sea captain. named Wilson, carried on mercantile business; but Edwin Tuller was the merchant in the hard winter of 1842, when he transacted a large trade in the hides of frozen cattle. Willard Trail be- came owner of the mill, but when Samuel Clymer bought Tuller's interest in the store, Trull sold him the mill. There is scarcely a trace of this old town to be found to-day. As early as 1839 G. M. Gunther kept a hotel, but in 1842 the hotel was the dwelling of Alexander Howard. Robert Newell was the old-time blacksmith. Before the dam was constructed at Bear Rapids for the Nearing mill a little steamer named . Crockett." and one named "The Sun, " plied between Gilead and Defiance, and between Otsego and Defiance, when the water warranted such trips. Of Asa Gilbert, it is said that he repaired the old mill, erected a house and store for himself, and two small houses for his emploves, among whom were Charles Smith and Sarah Smith, his sister. This girl married Gilbert shortly after, and when
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he sold the property she accompanied him to New York State. The post office, as related in the history of Tontogany, was discontinued in 1861 or 1362. Samuel Flanders is said to have been the first postmaster; Henry Mandell was ap- pointed about 1842; Joseph A. Creps followed; then, at the close of the "forties," Edwin Tuller was appointed; then P. H. Durphy; and lastly, Samuel Clymer, who was the incumbent in 1861 or 1862, when the office was discontinued.
Benton, like Otsego, passed out of existence many years ago. It was founded by David Hedges a few years after his settlement in this township, because it appeared to him that Wolf Rapids offered a good mill-site and a market town to the settlers living between Otsego and Milton -. ville. He was an admirer of Tom Benton, and in his honor named the village, which he laid out on the northeast corner of the farm. Emerson H. Eaton moved from Otsego to the new town and opened a store, while Alexander Alcorn, a chair-maker, established a shop there. Hedges constructed a dam across the river, built a saw- mill and launched the village on a commercial career; but circumstances opposed his enterprise, destroyed the town and left nothing of it. save the cellar of Eaton's store. To the traveler who goes north from Tontogany to the river, and walks a little southwest on the river road, the reward may be given of seeing where Benton stood, just as the searcher for Orleans of the north, who visits the quadrangle at Fort Meigs and looks into the bottom lands, will see where Hollister's four-story building stood, and the home of the Wilkinsons. The Stone House, now Morehouse, built by John Whitehead, Close, the mason, et. al., in the year 1833, may, however, be seen, remind- ing the traveler of the ideas of construction and architecture which then obtained; of 1819, when the Ewings selected the location for a home, and of the tragic end of Samuel Ewing, in 1822.
Germany .- There never was a village surveyed under this name in Wood county, but the title was given to Gwynndale, two miles south of Tontog- any, where Dr. Nieblung purchased a tract of land in the " forties," and attempted to establish a colony. Gwynn came from Ireland or England after the panic of 1337, built a three-story house, which he never completed; attempted to build a corduroy road from his home to Otsego, which attempt also failed, and he fled, leaving the for- est and land and tall house to any adventurer who might dare to locate there. Dr. Nieblung came in 1845, bought the Gwynn house, pulled it down, had it sawed into two parts, converted the upper stories into a hen-house, and sold the lower
stories to Dr. Waitz, who, in 1876, occupied it as a dwelling. Among the settlers who followed Dr. Nieblung were Ernest Miche, Guido Marx ( who, in Centennial year, was mayor of Toledo). E. W. E. Koch, Albert and Robert Just, C. Marksheifle, Conrad Bobel, and a few others. with a party of merry young men and musicians. The Doctor was wealthy, but his wealth did not save him from the mosquitoes and ague. Hav- ing lost, his money and patience, he was pleased to get away alive out of the Western Germany, which he aimed to establish in the wilderness. Moving to St. Louis, he established himself as a physician. His daughter, who became the wife of Orrin Tyler, of Plain township, is still a resi- dent of the township. Many stories are told of Nieblung and his colonists, the best among the lot being the attempt of the musicians to amuse the cattle, with the result of destroying their do- mestic character and converting them into a herd as wild as buffalo!
TONTOGANY VILLAGE.
The first settlement on the village site may be credited to Samuel Hamilton, who came from New York State in the fall of 1830, and selected a home where the village now stands. William North came about the same time, with his par- ents, and built a cabin where the fair grounds of a later day were fenced in. A better cabin was erected by him near the site of the Presbyterian church, into which he introduced, as house-keeper, and wife, Matilda, daughter of John Skinner. Such were the beginnings of settlement in the vicinity. On the town site, Pinnock's little store, IOX 12, was the first structure. S. W. Whitmore located here shortly after; in 1856, Edwin Tuller settled near the west line of the village, and made his home there until elected judge of probate.
Tontogany was surveyed by Sylvanus Jeffer- son May 5, 1855, for Willard V. Way and E. D .- Peck, who named it in honor of the Indian chief. referred to in the chapter on Indians. The village was incorporated September 9, 1874, on petition of forty-two residents, presented by W. H. Wood. April 17; re-presented June 2, that year, and, in opposition to a remonstrance signed by sixteen residents, presented on May 11. The first elec- tion was held April 11, 1875. when J. Patchen was elected mayor: C. C. Whitmore, treasurer: T. Klussman, clerk; Wm. Crom, marshal: Will- iam Allen, George Reed and Dr. B. F. Davis. councilmen for two years; C. C. Burton, Peter
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Van Valkenburg and R. Freeman, for one year. In 1876, the three last named were elected for two years.
The mayor's chair has been filled by the fol- lowing named citizens: J. Patchen, 1875; E. A. Ketchum, 1877; J. Y. Petteys, 1879; J. H. Kuder, 1881; A. F. Klinepeter, elected in June, 1882; G. A. Repass, 1885; Edwin Tuller, ap- pointed December 31, 1888: A. Eddmon, 1888- 1895; and R. J. Collin, 1895-96.
Municipal Elections .- The councilmen elect- ed annually since April, 1877, are named as fol- lows: Martin Warner, Z. S. Davenport, David Petteys, John Whitehead, in 1877; David Pet- teys, L. S. Pair and George Reed, 1879; W. D. Herrick, C. Burton, P. Whitmore, 1880; G. Dawler, C. Champion, M. Markley, 1881; S. Pair (vice W. D. Herrick), W. A. More, I. A. Parsons, 1882; G. Dowler. C. Champion, S. Pair, 1883; W. D. Herrick, William Heyman, S. Clark, C. C. Whitmore, J. A. Creps, 1884; A. Barger, C. Hollis, F. Yost, W. Crom, Peter Peany, 1885; W. Parker, F. Banks, S. Clark, Peter Whitmore, William Chapman, 1886; Will- iam Heyman, Peter Peany, Peter Whitmore, John Patchen, 1887; William Leaker, F. Banks, W. Crom, C. Hollis, 1888; S. L. Irwin, A. D. Foote, William Heyman, 1889; Ed. Foster, F. Banks, C. Hollis, 1890. Messrs. Foote, Foster, Heyman, Hollis, A. Beverstock and J. S. Phil- lips forined the council in 1891. In 1892, Ed. Foster, C. W. Hollis and B. Tasker were elected for two years, and John Huston for one year. In July, 1892, j. L. Braden and S. L. Irwin were appointed, vice Heyman, and Hollis. resigned. William Heyman, J. L. Braden and J. Huston were elected in 1893 for two years, and William Scott, for one year; while, in 1894, C. W. Mc- Colley and Ed. Foster were elected for the long term, and William Scott for the short termn. In 1896 John Huston and C. Hafner were elected councilmen. The Union ticket, nominated in 1895, was endorsed. The candidates elected were: Mayor-R. J. Collins (R.); treasurer-P. H. Van- Valkenburg (R.); councilmen-W. H. Heyman (D.); John Phillips (R.); William Chapinan (D); marshal-William Earl (R); street commissioner -Willian Earl; sealer of weights and measures --- Harry Rudd (R.); school board-Mrs. Anna Skinner, Mrs. Viola Foote. The fifty-four votes cast for mayor and three votes not recorded made up the total male vote. There were twenty-two votes cast by women for school officers.
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