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Mr. Slater is a true blue Republican and has been an active factor in party management in Dayton and Montgomery County ever since reaching his major- ity. He was a member of the Republican Committee in his county four years, and has belonged to the Garfield Club of Dayton ever since its inception. He served as Secretary of the Republican State Central Committee for two years and now represents the Third District on that committee.
On February 25, 1892, he married Miss Lottie Aveyard, and two daughters have been the result of that union-Gladys, aged eight years, and Charlotte, aged three. Mr. Slater is a first-class official and a popular gentleman. He unites all the elements of political success.
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THE SUPERVISOR OF PUBLIC PRINTING.
T HE Department of Public Printing consists of a board of Com- missioners of Public Printing which is composed of the Auditor of State, the Secretary of State, and the Attorney-General, and a supervisory department, which is managed by an officer called the Supervisor of Public Printing, who is appointed by the Governor for a term of two years.
- In the early history of the state, the Public Printer was elected by the General Assembly, generally on the recommendation of the Commit- tee on Public Printing, which was charged with the duty of canvassing for bids and recommending as its candidate the party presenting the most favorable terms or most favorable conditions for the execution of the work.
The office of Supervisor of Public Printing was created by the Gen- eral Assembly in the year 1860, the appointing power being vested in the Commissioners of Printing, who appointed L. L. Rice to the office. In the year 1864, the law was so changed as to vest the appointment of the Supervisor in the Governor, who appointed W. O. Blake as such officer.
STATE BINDERY.
The State Bindery was organized in the year 1867 by the Supervisor of Public Printing and the Trustees and Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, for the benefit of the unfortunate deaf mutes of that In- stitution.
The Supervisor is charged with the superintendence of the State Bindery, which is located on the grounds of, and largely operated by pupils of, the Institution for Deaf Mutes, in Columbus. He is also given executive authority in the oversight of the printing done under the several state contracts, and must see that the work is properly done and promptly delivered. He must keep a record of all the work done by the two branches of state printing and state binding, and submit an annual report to the Governor covering the business done by these departments.
STATE PRINTING.
The contracts for state printing are let by commissioners every two years by competitive bids, which are duly advertised. There are seven classes of printing, which are defined as follows :
First Contract-All bills for the General Assembly and such resolutions and other matters as it may order printed in bill form.
Second Contract-Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives.
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The Supervisor of Public Printing.
Third Contract-All reports, communications, etc., printed in pamphlet form, except bulletins of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station.
Fourth Contract-General and Local laws and Joint Resolutions.
Fifth Contract-All blanks, circulars, etc., for the executive departments not printed in pamphlet form.
Sixth Contract-Reports of the Secretary of State, Inspector of Building and Loan Associations and Commissioner of Labor Statistics.
Seventh-Reports of the auditor of State, Commissioner of Common Schools, Superintendent of Insurance (Life and Fire) and State Board of Agriculture.
The state binding is done by day labor, chiefly, as has been stated, by the pupils or ex-pupils of the Institution for Deaf Mutes.
The number of persons so employed during the year is about forty.
DEPARTMENT ROSTER-1904.
Name.
Office.
Residence.
Mark Slater
Supervisor
D. L. Agler
Clerk.
George Schmelz.
Foreman of Bindery ..
Dayton. Columbus. Columbus.
NAMES OF FORMER SUPERVISORS WITH TERM OF SERVICE.
Name.
Term of Service.
L. L. Rice.
1860-1864
Wm. O. Blake.
1864
W. H. Foster
1864-1867
L. L. Rice.
1867-1875
Chas. B. Flood
1875-1877
Wm. W. Bond.
1877-1879
Wm. J. Elliott.
1879-1881
Joshua K. Brown.
1881-1885
W. C. H. De la Court
1885-1887
Leo. Hirsch.
1887-1891
S. V. Hinkle.
1891-1892
Leo. Hircsh.
1892-1901
Mark Slater
1901
THE COMMISSIONER OF RAILROADS AND TELEGRAPHS.
J. C. MORRIS.
Mr. J. C. Morris, Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, August 18, 1857, and was educated in the public schools of that city. But while yet a boy he secured employment in a local grocery store and continued in that employment until his nineteenth year, when he began railroading. He continued in this vocation until he was appointed Chief In- spector in the office of the State Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, faithfully performing the duties of this appointment until the 16th day of March, 1901, at which time he was appointed Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs.
During all this long period of railway service-26 years in all-he was in the employ of the Erie Railway Company, a fact that speaks well for the char- acter of the service he rendered.
He is a married man, having been married to Miss Emma Morris of Youngs- town, Ohio, on April 24, 1878. They have four children, all boys. Mr. Morris is a Mason, a K. of P., and a member of the Order of Railway Conductors.
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The Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs.
THE DEPARTMENT OF RAILROADS AND TELEGRAPHS.
The Department of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs was created by an act of the Fifty-seventh General Assembly passed April 5, 1867, which required the appointment of the officer within fifteen days after the passage of the act, and prescribed his duties. He has a general police authority over roads operating in Ohio, and is required to give careful attention to the construction, operation and maintenance of the roads and their equipment so far as these matters relate to the safety and general welfare of the public. The following extract from the last report of the Commissioner, is a tribute to the friendly readiness of the railroad companies to safeguard the public, as well as an indication of the watchfulness of the department:
The railroads of Ohio have never been in a better physical condition than at the close of the present year. One hundred and twenty-six trestles, having an aggregate length of sixty-seven thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four feet or twelve and eighty-seven-hundredths miles, have been filled and abolished. Large sums of money have been spent in better- ments, the road bed materially improved, light rails replaced by rails of greater weight and modern steel bridges taking the place of wooden structures. It is unnecessary to suggest that this will greatly increase the safety of the traveling public.
Eight thousand, eight hundred and seventy-one more people were employed by the railroads of Ohio during the year last passed than dur- ing the previous year. In the year 1902 the railroads gave employment to seventy-five thousand, one hundred and. twenty persons.
Wonderful activity has been manifest during the year in the mat- ter of construction of electric railroads and a large amount of capital is now invested in such enterprises. In so far as I have been able to ob- serve, roads of this kind have been well constructed. At the present time electric railroads are not required to report to any Department of the State, except a report of gross earnings to the Auditor of State, and I would recommend appropriate legislation requiring such roads to make an annual report of their operations and financial condition and to author- ize a police supervision over them for the protection of life and property.
From a financial standpoint the railroads of Ohio have enjoyed a year of unprecedented prosperity. The gross earnings from operations within the state are, for the first time, in excess of one hundred million ($100,000,000.00) of dollars. The net receipts were in excess of thir- teen millions, five hundred thousand ($13,500,000.00) dollars, insuring to the stockholders a reasonable return for the capital invested.
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The Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs.
There are a total of one hundred and seventy-four interlocking machines now in operation in Ohio for the purpose of protecting cross- ings, at grade, of steam railroads. Of this number, twenty have been installed during the year and the general condition of those previously put in operation has been much improved by rearrangement and recon- struction.
ROSTER OF DEPARTMENT, JULY, 1902.
Name.
Office.
J. C. Morris.
H. E. King.
E. H. Hanna
W. O. Jackson
O. F. McJunkin
D. F. Johnson
D. S. Archer
C. L. Hughes
Chief Inspector. Deputy Inspector. Inspector of Couplers and Brakes. Stenographer. Messenger.
FORMER COMMISSIONERS OF RAILROADS AND TELEGRAPHS.
(Term of office: Two years.)
Name.
Term.
George B. Wright
1867-1871
Richard D. Harrison
1871-1872
Orlow L. Wolcott.
1872-1874
John G. Thompson
1875-1876
Lincoln G. Delano
1876-1878
William Bell, Jr ..
1878-1880
James S. Robinson
1880-1881
Hylas Sabine.
1881-1885
Henry Apthorp.
1885-1887
William S. Cappelar
1887-1890
James A. Norton
1890-1892
William Kirkby.
1892-1897
Raymond S. Kayler
1897-1901
J. C. Morris
Incumbent.
Mr. Wright resigned in October, 1871.
Mr. Harrison died in April, 1872.
Mr. Thompson resigned in Dec., 1875. . Mr. Norton resigned in May, 1892.
Mr. Bell died in June, 1902.
Mr. Robinson resigned in February, 1881. Mr. Cappellar resigned in May, 1890.
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Commissioner. Chief Clerk. Statistician.
THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.
MICHAEL D. RATCHFORD.
Commissioner of Labor Statistics Michael D. Ratchford, the subject of this sketch, was born in Clare, Ireland, in 1860. Migrating with his parents to Stark County, Ohio, some ten years later, he attended the public schools there until he reached his twelfth year, at which age he entered the mines where he labored for more than twenty consecutive years. His education, however, was principally acquired by attending evening school, and by careful home study during the earlier years of his occupation in mining.
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Mr. Ratchford, although mainly conservative in his views upon the labor question, was an active trade unionist, and as such he realized the growing needs of a thorough organization of mine workers, and labored unceasingly to that end. He was elected to and served in the office of President of the Mas- sillon, Ohio, miners, 1890-92; General Organizer, 1893-94; President Ohio Miners. 1895-96; President of the United Mine Workers of America, 1897-98. It was while serving in the chief executive office that he established and put into practice a working-day of eight hours; instituted mutual relations and an annual wage contract between mine workers and operators through which strikes have since been averted; and made uniform the conditions of mining throughout the bituminous coal fields.
He was appointed by President Mckinley September 7, 1898, as . member of the National Industrial Commission created by Congress, where he served for nearly two years, resigning the same to accept the office of Commissioner of Labor Statistics of Ohio, to which he was appointed by Governor George K. Nash, April 25, 1900, and reappointed April 25, 1902.
Mr. Ratchford is unswerving in his devotion to the Republican party, and as such has ably discussed the issues for which his party stands in many states of the Union during national and state compaigns.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Commissioner of Labor Statistics is appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate for a term of two years. The Chief Clerk and office force of the Bureau are appointed by the Com- missioner with the consent of the Governor. The superintendents and clerks of the five Free Public Employment Offices-Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo, which are under the direction and super- vision of the Bureau, are also appointed by the Commissioner in the same manner for a term of two years.
The Bureau, under the law-Sec. 308 of the Revised Statutes- 1 collects, arranges and systematizes all statistics relating to the various branches of labor in the state, and especially those relating to the com- merciaí, industrial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the labor- ing classes.
COMMISSIONERS OF LABOR STATISTICS.
Appointive by the Governor, and term of office for two years.
Incumbents.
Years of Service.
Terms.
Henry J. Walls
Four
1877 -- 1881
Henry Lusky.
Four
1881-1885
Larkin McHugh.
Two.
1885-1887
Alonzo D. Fassett
Three.
1887-1890
John McBride.
Two.
1890-1892
Wm. T. Lewis.
Four.
1892-1896
Wm. Ruehrwein.
Two.
1896-1898
J. P. Jones ..
Two.
1898-1900
M. D. Ratchford.
Incumbent.
1900-1902
M. D. Ratchford
Incumbent.
1902-1904
NOTE .- Commissioner Fassett was legislated out of office in 1890, and was succeeded by Mr. McBride, who resigned before his term expired.
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THE INSPECTOR OF MINES.
GEORGE HARRISON.
George Harrison, Chief Inspector of Mines, was born in Greenhead, Northum- berland County, England, April 30, 1846, and went to work in the mines at the age of eight years and passed through all the stages of labor, connected with mines from trapper boy up to superintendent and manager. Was a trade union- · ist from boyhood, and having removed to Durham County in 1863, was an active worker in the establishment and maintenance of the Durham Mines Union, and for many years was one of its representatives and a member of its Executive Board in the seventies. Came to America in 1880, and located in Byesville, Guernsey County, Ohio, and has resided in the state ever since. During these years he was connected with the practical mine workers and since 1887, has had charge of the management of mines located in Guernsey, Portage, Mahoning, Jefferson, Jackson and Perry Counties. He was President of the Miners' Union in the Cambridge District for a number of years and a State Organizer and Sec- retary of the Miners' State Executive Board, and was one of the fearless advo- cates of conciliation and arbitration in the councils of the miners in the eighties, when the National Federation first assumed great powers. He has always been an active worker in mining matters, and his admonitions were always listened to by that organization which is so powerful in the coal-producing districts of the United States.
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From April, 1895, to August, 1903, he was in charge of mining properties in Jackson County, owned by the Wainwright Coal Company, and is still a resident of Wellston of that county. From July, 1903, up to the time he was ap- pointed Chief Inspector of Mines, by Governor Myron T. Herrick, on May 25. 1904, he was associated with W. A. Gosline & Co., of Toledo, Ohio, opening up mining property in Perry County.
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The Inspector of Mines.
A REVIEW OF THE OHIO STATE MINING DEPARTMENT.
In the year 1871, owing to a catastrophe occurring in the Avondale Mine, located in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania, in which one hundred and nine persons lost their lives for the want of a second opening, the miners of this state held meetings and signed petitions requesting that laws be enacted to regulate and ventilate mines, and that an author- ized official supervisor be appointed. These petitions were presented to the Senate by Senator Woodworth, of Mahoning county, and were re- ferred to a select committee of seven senators from the mining regions of the state. This committee authorized Senator Daugherty to prepare a bill on the subject. Six of the seven senators recommended the passage of the bill, but it was met with persistent opposition from interested par- ties.
Senator Woodworth thereupon introduced a joint resolution in the Senate, authorizing the Governor to appoint a commission of three com- petent persons, one or more of whom should be practical miners, to in- spect the leading coal mines of the state in regard to ventilation, means of ingress and egress, and all other matters affecting the lives and health of the miners ; and also to inquire into the cause of strikes and report to the Governor, for the use of the Legislature, the facts found in the prem- ises, recommending such legislation as in the judgment of the commission the facts might demand. Governor Hayes appointed a board composed of the following members: Charles Reemelin, of Cincinnati; B. F. Skin- ner, of Pomeroy; and Andrew Roy, of Glen Roy, Ohio. This board was on duty four months. In the month of January of the following year (1872) the report of the commissioners was laid before the Legislature. Senator Jones, of Trumbull county, chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining in the Senate, introduced the bill for the ventilation and in- spection of mines at this session, which, although passing the Senate by a unanimous vote, failed to secure a constitutional majority in the House, and a substitute by Representative Conrad, of Portage county, was made a law. This substitute contained all the provisions of the Senate bill, except as to the official supervision of the mines by the state. Owing to the fact that it failed to provide for the inspection of mines, its precepts and provisions were disregarded by nearly every mine owner in the state. Accordingly Governor Hayes, in his next annual message to the Legis- lature, called attention to its defects, and urged the Legislature to so amend the law as to provide for authorized official supervision ; otherwise it would continue to be for the most part inoperative. Mr. Sterling, of the House, introduced a bill supplementary to and amendatory of the law, as enacted, providing for a state inspector of mines, and prescribing his duties, but this failed to become a law.
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The Inspector of Mines.
However, during the early part of the session of the Legislature, two bills were introduced in the House of Representatives for the inspec- tion of mines, one by Mr. McLain, of Trumbull county, the other by Mr. Baker, of Perry county. The McLain bill was amendatory to the act in force, and had the same object in view as the bill introduced by Mr. Baker, but the Baker bill, containing the whole act, was adopted in com- mittee as being simpler than the other, and it became a law.
On April 6, 1874, Wm. Allen, Governor of Ohio, appointed Andrew Roy, Dell Roy, Ohio, to be the first Inspector of Mines. On April 18, 1881, a law was enacted by the General Assembly providing for the ap- pointment of an assistant Inspector of Mines, and on June 4, of the same year Jacob I Klein, of Stark county, was appointed to fill that posi- tion by State Mine Inspector Andrew Roy, by and with the approval of the Governor.
On April 11, 1884, a bill was introduced in the House, which was subsequently amended by the Senate, and passed in its amended form, creating the office of Chief Inspector of Mines, with an assistant desig- nated as a District Inspector in each district. The state was divided into three districts, and three District Inspectors appointed. This was due to the rapid growth of the mining industry, and the great increase in the number of mines, which in turn, increased the amount of work to be done in the office, making it impossible for the Inspector, with one assistant, to perform these duties in a satisfactory manner. 1
. On March 24, 1888, the General Assembly amended Section 290 of the Revised Statutes, providing for the appointment of five District In- spectors instead of three. Again on April 18, 1892, Section 290 of the Revised Statutes was revised and supplemented by an additional Sec- tion, by the General Assembly, which provided for the appointment of seven District Inspectors. This number has been maintained up to the present time. The following is a list of the Chief Inspectors of Mines, and the term of office served by each, since the creation of the department, together with a list of the Deputy Mine Inspectors, and the time served by each :
It might be of interest in connection with the history of the Mining Department to note the following facts: When the Department was first created there were in operation about two hundred mines. The statistics received for the year 1903 disclose the following: Nine hundred and eleven mines in operation, employing forty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-six men; amount of coal produced, twenty-four million five hundred and seventy-three thousand two hundred and sixty-six tons ; number of mining machines in use, seven hundred and seventy-four; amount of coal produced by mining machines, fourteen million five hun- dred and sixty thousand nine hundred and thirty-one tons; tons of fire clay mined, one million five hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred and three.
APPOINTMENTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT.
Name of Inspector.
County.
Governor by whom appointed.
Term began. Term expired. Time served.
Remarks.
Chief Inspectors.
Andrew Roy, D ... .. Jas. D. Poston, D ....
Trumbull
Wm. Allen, D ....
April 6, 1874
April 6, 1878|
4 years ...
Hocking .
R. M. Bishop. D .. .....
April 6.
1878
Nov. 15, 1879
1 yr. 7 mos.
Trumbull .
R. M. Bishop, D ...
Nov. 16, 1879
Feb. 12, 1880
3 months ·
Jackson ...
Chas. Foster, R ...
Feb. 12,
1880
Feb. 16, 1884|
4 years
Gallia ..
Geo. Hoadley, D. .....
Feb. 16, 1884
April 1, 1888| 4 yrs.11% mo.
Mahoning
Joseph B. Foraker, R .. Apr. 1, 1888
April 30, 1888
1 month
Mahoning ...
Joseph B. Foraker, R .. May 1, 1888
April 30, 1892
4 years ..
Mahoning . ...
Wm. Mckinley, Jr., R. May 1, 1892
April 30, 1896
4 years
MahoLing ...
Asa S. Bushnell. R .... May 1,
1896
April 30, 1900
4 years
Athens ·
Geo. K. Nash, R .......
May 1, 1900
April 30, 1904
Jackson
Myron T. Herrick, R. May
1, 1904|
April 30, 1908
Stark .. ·
Chas. Foster. R. ... ..
June 4, 1881
Jan. 26, 1883| 2 yrs. 712 mo
Trumbull ...
Chas. Foster, R ..
Jan. 26,
1883
Feb. 16, 1884)
Columbiana ..
Geo. Hoadley, D .. .
Feb. 16.
1884
April 30, 1886
Athens ....
Geo. Hoadley, D. ....
May 1, 1884
Mch. 1, 1888
1 yr. 21 dys. fyr. 212 mo. 3 yrs. 10 mo.
Wm. A. Davis, D ..... Joseph L. Morris, R.
Guernsey . .... Coshocton
Geo. Hoadley. D ..... Joseph B. Foraker, R. Joseph B. Foraker, R.
Feb. 15,
1886
June 1, 1889
{ yrs. 21/2 mo
Jackson .
April 1, 1888
April 30, 1888
. month . ..
Jackson · .....
Joseph B. Foraker, R. May 1, 1888 April 30, 1891
" years .....
Meigs .
Joseph B. Foraker, R. May 1, 1888 April 30, 1891
3 years
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Athens
Joseph B. Foraker, R. May 1, 1888
April 30, 1891
" years
Stark
Joseph B. Foraker, R. May 8. 1886
April 30. 1887
:. 1 mos. 23 d. Reappointed.
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The Inspector of Mines.
Resigned.
Jacob J. Klein. R .... John P. Williams, R.
Austin P. King, Jr. D. Wm. Dalrymple, D ..
Resigned.
Resigned, held over as no appointment was made at expiration of term, May 1, 1887. Resigned. Resigned. Reappointed.
May 1, 1884
Feb. 15, 1886
1 yr. 912 mo.
D. J. Harry, R ...... D. J. Harry, R ....
David E. Evans, R .. Jas. W. Haughee, R. Robert Bell, R ......
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Resigned. Reappointed. Reappointed. Reappointed.
Robt. M. Haseltine, R. Robt. M. Haseltine, R.
Elmer G. Biddison, R. George Harrison, R ..
Incumbent. Incumbent.
District Inspectors.
Resigned. Not confirm. by Senate.
David Owens, D ..... Andrew Roy, R ...... Thos. B. Bancroft, D. Robt. M. Haseltine, R. Robt. M. Haseltine, R.
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APPOINTMENTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT. - Continued.
Name of Inspector.
County.
Governor by whom appointed.
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Term began. Term expired. Time served.
Remarks.
District Inspectors- Continued.
Robert Bell, R. ... ..
Stark
Joseph B. Foraker, R. Joseph B. Foraker, R. Jas. E. Campbell, D ...
May
1,
1888
Aug. 11, 1890| 2 y. 3 m. 11 dl
Summit
Aug. 11,
1890
April 30. 1891 8 mos. 20 d ..
Ebenezer Lewis, D ..
Summit ·
Jas. E. Campbell, D ... Joseph B. Foraker, R.
May 1,
1891
April 30, 1894
Aug. 1. 1891
2 yrs. 2 mos ..
Reappointed. Reappointed.
Resigned.
Hocking
Jas. E. Campbell, D ... Jas. E. Campbell, D ... May
1.
1891
May 7, 1894
Perry
Guernsey
Jas. E. Campbell, D ...
May
1.
1891
April 30, 1894
Athens
Wm. Mckinley, R .....
June 17,
1892
June 28, 1892
Apptd, resg.
Robt. H. Miller, R .. Robt. H. Miller, R .. Alexander Beattie. R. Alexander Beattie. R. Jno. P. Jones, R ..... Jno. P. Jones, R ..
Perry
Wm. Mckinley, R ..
July 15,
1892
April 30. 18941
1 yr. 912 mos 4 yrs. 212 mo.
Perry ·
Wm. Mckinley, R ..... May 1,
1894
July 15, 1898|
Athens .
Wm. Mckinley, R .....
July 15,
1892
July 15, 1895|
3 years .
Athens
Wm. Mckinley, R ..
July 15,
1895
July 15, 1898
July 15, 1895
3 years ...
Stark
Wm. Mckinley, R. ...
July
15, 1895
May
9. 1894
May 21, 1897| 3 yrs. 12 da ..
Jackson
May 21,
1897
May 1, 1894
1897
June 1, 1900
Thos. McGough .
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