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Conrad Weiser Branch of D. A. R.
Northeast Democratic As- sociation
Northeast Republican League Sixth Ward Democratic Club Southeast Republican League
Volunteer Fire Companies
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Golf Gunning Gymnastic
Home for Friendless Chil- dren Home for Widows and Single Women
Woman's Employment
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Religious
All the different denominations have societies of a literary, sociable or charitable nature, numbering about one hundred.
Secret and Beneficial
American Protection As- sociation 6
Knights of Labor ... .. 32
Knights of the Maccabees
American Mechanics ... 10 Elks
Knights of Malta ..
3
F. and A. M. 11
Knights of Pythias . .
5
F. O. E.
Modern Woodmen 2
Odd Fellows 7
P. O. S. of A. 17
German Order of Har-
ugari 2
Roman Catholic 25
Knights of Friendship. . 7
Royal Arcanum 3
Knights of Golden Eagle
Temperance 4
Temple Club
Social
Alumni
Nursery Literary Associa- tion
Combine Club
Reading Reading Club
Elm Leaf Club
West End Club
Ivy Leaf Club
Woman's Club
Letter Carriers'
Wyomissing Club
GOVERNMENT AND OFFICIALS
STATE REPRESENTATIVES
Under the provisions of the Act of . May 19, 1874, the State was apportioned into senatorial and representative districts. By this apportionment, the city of Reading was made a separate district for representatives, and authorized to elect two mem- bers. Previously the county, including the county- seat, was one district and the Assemblymen chosen from the city are therefore included with the coun- ty officials. The following persons were repre- sentatives from Reading :
Name
Term
Amos B. Wanner 1875-76
Jacob Miller 1875-78
Jeremiah Boone 1877-80
George McFarlan 1879-82 John S. Wagner 1881-82
Asa G. W. Smith 1883-86
Henry D. Green 1883-86
Spencer H. Smith
1887-88
James L. Douglas .1887-88
Allen S. Beck 1889-92
Samuel D. Missimer
1889-92
John R. Laucks
1893-94
John B. Goodhart 1893-94
Edward H. Luden 1895-98
David West 1895-98
Daniel K. Hoch 1899-1902
Harry E. Drase 1899-1902
W. Frank Mohr 1903-06
James B. Gabriel 1903-06
W. Wayne Weber 1907-08
John W. Morrison 1907-08
Richard W. F. Reuther 1909-10
Robert G. Bushong
1909-10
READING OFFICIALS
TowN .- The local government at Reading from 1748 to 1783 was that commonly incident to a township for the regulation of road affairs. Un- til 1760, it was included in Alsace township; then it was established into a separate district.
BOROUGH .- On Sept. 12, 1783, the town was incorporated into a borough, and the people were invested with enlarged powers for local affairs, which related chiefly to the streets and the public peace. Provision was made for the annual elec- tion of two burgesses, four assistants (who with the chief 'burgess constituted the council), high constable, town clerk, two supervisors and two assessors. The charter continued the same, ex- cepting several modifications about elections.
CITY .- The borough was incorporated into a city on March 16, 1847. The Act preserved the wards previously created: Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest and Spruce, and it provided for the election of one select and one common councilman from each ward by the electors, the former for three years and the latter for one year ; for the annual election of a mayor, treasurer, and three auditors; for the election of select and com- mon councilmen from the several wards, the for- mer for three years and the latter for one year ; and it provided further for the annual appoint- ment by councils of a solicitor, street regulator, surveyor, two street commissioners, market com- missioner, high constable, and scavenger, and pres- idents and clerks of councils. It created two dis- tricts for aldermen (Penn street being the divid- ing line), with two aldermen for each district, having similar term of office and powers as jus- tice of the peace; and the day of election was fixed for the third Friday of March.
The Act was modified March 13, 1861, and among other things provided by this second charter the terms of mayor and treasurer were extended to two years, and of auditor to three years; and it was again modified April 26, 1864, when a third char- ter was provided, changing the day of election to the second Friday of February, and increasing the term of common councilmen to two years, one-half of the number to be chosen every two years alter- nately.
The general Act of May 23, 1874, accepted by the people as a fourth charter, made a num- ber of changes in the local government of Read- ing. The day of election was changed to the third Tuesday of February. Each ward became en- titled to an alderman for five years, and a consta- ble and assessor for three years. It substituted a controller in the place of the auditors, with a term of two years; and increased the term of en- gineer and solicitor to two years. All the com- mon councilmen were to be elected every two years.
A general Act was passed May 23, 1889, for cities of the third class (which included Reading), and the terms were made as follows : Mayor, treas- urer, controller, three assessors and engineer, three years ; solicitor, two years; select councilmen, four years, and common councilmen, two years. The Act of May 16, 1901, increased the term of solici- tor to three years.
Knights of Mystic Chain
Foresters of America G. A. R .. 2
P. O. of Americans. Red Men 11
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Heptasophs
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Berkshire Country Club
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READING
Wards .- The first sub-division of Reading was board of health, who select two physicians (indefin- made in 1817 for election purposes. The divisions ite period) ; four common commissioners (four were two, North ward and South ward, with Penn years) ; four commissioners of public works (four street as the dividing line. In 1840, it was sub- years) ; superintendents, clerks, assistants, etc., for the several departments. Matron appointed since March, 1898. divided into four wards, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest and Southwest, with Penn street and Sixth street as the dividing lines. And in 1844, a fifth ward was established called Spruce, com- prising that part of Reading which lay between the Schuylkill and the Philadelphia & Reading rail- road south of Spruce street.
In 1861, the names of the wards were changed to numerals: Spruce ward to First; Southwest to Second; Southeast to Third; Northeast to Fourth ; and Northwest to Fifth. In 1864, the city was di- vided into nine wards. In 1876, two wards were added, the Tenth ward having been taken from the Second (constituting that portion lying east of Tenth street) and the Eleventh from the Ninth, constituting that portion lying north of Button- wood street. In November, 1885, two additional wards were created out of parts of the Eleventh ward, the Twelfth constituting the portion between Greenwich and Windsor streets, and the Thirteenth constituting the portion north of Windsor. In November, 1892, two additional wards were created out of parts of the Sixth and the Seventh wards, the Fourteenth constituting that portion of the Seventh north of the Lebanon Valley railroad, and also that portion of the Sixth north of the Lebanon Valley railroad and east of Second street and Centre avenue; and the Fifteenth constituting the remaining portion of the Sixth, north of the Leb- anon Valley railroad. And in November, 1894, the Sixteenth was created out of that portion of the Eighth which lay east of Eleventh street, and that portion of the Tenth east of Thirteenth street.
The Act of March 23, 1889, provided for repre- sentation from the wards in councils as follows : In select, one member for four years; in common, two members for two years until the city came to comprise fifteen wards, when the representation in common should become one member.
Elective Officials .- The following officials are elected by the electors of the entire city every three years at the municipal election on the third Tues- day in February : Mayor, controller, treasurer, and three assessors; and the following by the electors of the sixteen respective wards: select councilmen for four years and common councilmen for two years.
Appointive Officials .- The following are ap- pointed :
By the mayor: Chief of police, four sergeants, sixty-five patrolmen, two operators of the police telegraph, two turnkeys, two patrol drivers, elec- trician, police clerk, commissioner of markets and city property, and scavenger, all subject to approval of councils.
. By council : City clerk (four years) ; four water commissioners (four years) ; city engineer (three years) ; city solicitor (three years) ; five members
Officials for Wards .- Officials are elected at the municipal election in February by the voters of each ward: Alderman (term five years) ; constable (three years) ; and assessor (three years) ; besides the representatives in the select and common coun- cils, and in the school board.
Officials for Precincts .- All the wards of Read- ing, excepting the Fourth, are divided into precincts, numbering altogether fifty. Each of these pre- cincts is an election district, and annually, on the third Tuesday in February, the voters elect a judge, two inspectors and a registry assessor. The Fourth ward constitutes an election district by itself; as to this district, there is no registry as- sessor, the ward assessor performing the duties of that office also.
BURGESSES
The Act of Sept. 12, 1783, provided for the an- nual election in May of two burgesses and four as- sistants, the first appointees until May 1, 1784, hav- ing been: burgesses, Daniel Levan and William Scull; assistants, Peter Nagle, John Spohn, Benja- min Spyker, Jr., and James May.
A complete list of the burgesses from 1783 to 1847 was not obtainable. After diligent search the names of the following persons who officiated were discovered (no minutes between 1786-89, 1791-92, 1795-96-97-98) :
Name Term
Daniel Levan and William Scull 1783
Charles Biddle and John Mears
1784
James Diemer and Jacob Winey
1785
James May and William Green
1790
Christian Barrenstine and John Otto
1793-94
Jacob Bright " 1799-1800
Henry Hahn and Peter Stichter 1803
Jacob Bright (Brecht) and John Strohecker 1804
Fred'k Fritz 1807-08
Nicholas Dick .1810
1815-22
William Witman
1822-25
Peter Nagle, Jr.
1825-31, 1832,-33, 1837-39
Henry A. Muhlenberg
1831-32
George M. Keim
1833-34 .
Anthony Bickel
1834-35
Thomas Keppel
1835-36
William Schoener
1836-37,
1839-43
William High
1843-44
William Betz
1844-47
MAYORS
Nanie Term
Peter Filbert 1847-48
William H. Keim 1848-49
George Getz 1849-53
Daniel R. Clymer 1853-54
John S. Richards 1854-55
William M. Baird
1855-56
Joel B. Wanner 1856-57
A. Jordan Swartz 1857-58
Benneville Keim . 1858-61
Joel B. Wanner 1861-63
John Spayd
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Joseph S. Hoyer
1863-65
Peter Cleaver 1855-56
Nathan M. Eisenhower
1865-67
William Geiger 1855-56
William H. Gernand
1867-71
John A. Banks 1855-56
Samuel C. Mayer
1871-73
Matthias Babb 1856-57
Charles F. Evans
1873-79
William Henry 1856-57
1879-81
Albert G. Green
1856-57
William G. Rowe
1881-85
William Umbenhower
1857-58
James K. Getz
1885-87
Wharton Morris
1857-58;
1861-62
James R. Kenney
1887-90
James Van Horn
1858-59
Thomas P. Merritt
1890-93
Amos B. Wanner
1858-59
William F. Shanaman
1893-96
John O. Schoener
1858-59
Jacob Weidel
1896-99
Peres Hain
1859-60
Adam H. Leader
1899-1902
Charles Scull
1859-60
Edward Yeager
1902-05
Henry Eppihimer
1860-61
Edwin R. Gerber
1905-08
James A. Fasig
1860-61
William Rick
1908-11
CHIEFS OF POLICE
Name
Term
John L. Morris
1847-49; 1858-59
Henry Seitzinger
1849-51
John H. Nagle
1851-54
Reuben Goodhart
1854-55
William Y. Lyon
1855-57; 1860-61
Samuel Folk
1857-58
Henry Wunder
1859-60
Howard L. Miller
1861-63
Jacob B. Mast
1863-65
Joseph Deysher
1865 -- 67
William McNall
1867-71
Peter Cullen
.1871-79;
1893-96
Daniel Housum
1879-81
Raymond B. Lewis
1881-85
Frederick H. Fleck
1885-87
Mahlon Shaaber
1887-90
Richard M. Whitman
1890-93; 1902-08
John F. Albrecht
1896-98
Jacob Etzel
1898-99
Milton J. Miller
1899-1902
Charles E. Auman
1908-11
TREASURERS
Name
Term
George Feather 1847-55
George R. Frill 1855-56
Daniel S. Holl 1856-57
George W. Bruckman
1857-58
Michael Kraemer
1858-59
Peter Cleaver
1859-61
Peter Shaneman
1861-63
William Heidenreich
1863-71
John E. Arthur
1871-85
Horatio Jones
1885-87
John Obold
1887-93
John M. Bertolet
1893-96
Henry G. Young
1896-98
John Y. Hoffman
1898-1902
Walter M. Tyson
1902-08
Edward H. Filbert
1908-11
AUDITORS
Name
Term
Lewis J. Hanold
1847-48
Nathan Eisenhower
1847-49; 1859-61
John L. Reifsnyder
1847-49
Frank B. Miller
1848-49
Jacob B. Smith
1849-50
Z. H. Maurer
1849-51; 1834-55
Jeremiah Bitting
1849-50
John Darrah
1850-53
George Heckman
1850-51
James L. Rightmyer
1851-52 John F. Evans
1851-54
John F. Moers
1852-53
A. W. Nagle
1852-53 : 1854-55
John Pfleager
1853-54
William Briner
1853-54
John J. Tyson
1854-55
COMMISSIONERS First District
Name Term
David A. Stout
1865-73
Solomon L. Snyder
1873-77
George K. Levan
Matthias Mengel 1877-80
Charles K. Hillegas 1880-81
Jacob Holl
1883-90
Frank A. Tyson
1891-98
I. S. Fry
1898-1901
Edward Elbert
1901*
Second District
Tohn Malzberger
.1865-67
Thomas L. Addison
1867-73: 1877-85
Jacob Lenhart
1872-75
Isaac T. James 1873-75
Henry M. Keim
1874-75
CONTROLLERS
Name
Term
William Briner
Chester N. Farr, Jr.
1875-76
Henry A. Tyson
1876-79
William A. Runkel
1879-81
Joseph Housiim
1881-88
J. Lawrence Getz
1888-92
Samuel R. Kerper
1892-93
Walter B. Koch
1893-96
Adam H. Leader
1896-99
Charles L. Moll 1899-1908
Obadiah B. Dorward 1908-11
1861-64
Henry Kerper
1863-66
Isaac R. Fisher
1864-67
John S. Aulenbach
1865-68
William M. Goodman
1866-69
John E. Arthur
1867-71
Hiester M. Nagle 1868-71
W. Murray Weidman
1869-72
Levi H. Liess
1871-74
John Keppelman
1872-73
B. Frank Haas
1861-63
Charles F. Smith
Lewis Briner 1862-65
WATER BOARD .- The city was divided into four districts for the election of commissioners of water by an Act passed March 21, 1865. Sixth street and Penn street were made the dividing lines; and city councils were required to elect four persons, one from each district. Of the first board, two were to hold office for two years and the remaining two for four years. Thereafter every two years, councils have elected two members for four years. The office is without compensation. The board is authorized to employ a superintendent and work- men for carrying on the department. The follow- ing have been the commissioners :
1881-83
Henry A. Tyson
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Aug. C. Greth
1873-77
Charles Melcher
1877-77
1885-92
Albert A. Heizmann Jesse Orr
1892-92
Abner S. Deysher
1892-93
Frederic P. Heller
1893*
Third District
Jacob Bushong
Jacob C. Hoff 1867-71
William .R. McIlvain 1871-83
Isaac McHose
1883-87
James Rick 1887-91
Matthan Harbster
1891-1907
A. Ellsworth Leinbach
1907
Fourth District
Joseph Mishler 1865-67
Levi J. Smith
1867-75; 1879-83
Addy Gehry
1875-79
F. S. Jacobs
1883-91
George H. Felix 1891-1904
Solomon H. Close
1904*
SUPERINTENDENTS
Name
Term
Marks B. Scull 1865-82
William B. Harper
1882-92
William B. Albright
1892-95
Emil L. Nuebling 1895-1909
PARK COMMISSIONERS .- The board of common commissioners was established by an ordinance passed Sept. 28, 1887, and the councils in joint convention were authorized to elect four commis- sioners, for four years, one from each section, with Sixth and Penn streets as the dividing lines. At the first election, the two having the highest num- ber of votes, and the two having the lowest, were to be declared as elected, and one of each was to be elected for four years, and one of each for two years ; and thereafter every two years two commis- sioners were to be elected for four years. The elec- tion was to take place on the first Monday of Sep- tember. The following persons have been mem- bers of the board; and the board was empowered to appoint a superintendent and employ laborers.
Name
Term
George F. Baer 1888-1910
Walter S. Davis 1888-1910
Thomas P. Merritt .1888-92
David F. Lotz .1888-92
David E. Benson 1892-1902
Philip Bissinger .1892-98
Jacob A. Strohecker 1898-1909+
James L. Douglas
1902-10
PARK SUPERINTENDENTS
Name
Term
William H. Burke 1887-1906
William I. Hoch
1906-10
ASSESSORS
From 1874 to 1889, the voters of each ward elected an assessor for three years to assess real and personal property for purposes of taxation. Then, under the Act of May 23, 1889, cities of the third class were authorized to elect three persons as a board of city assessors to serve from the first
* Continued by re-election.
i Died Feb. 27, 1909, and William K. Leithiser appointed suc- cessor.
Monday in April for three years. This board has accordingly from that time assessed the property in Reading for city purposes, and city councils have fixed the rate of taxation according to the demands for revenue. Ward assessors are still elected, how- ever, at the municipal election every three years, for county purposes. The following have been the assessors :
Name Term
Frederick Stephan 1890-93
William W. Werner 1890-93
Henry. A. Ruth 1890-93
Christian C. Frantz 1893-96
Daniel Beidler 1893-99
Adam H. Leader 1893-96
Abraham H. Reeser
1896-99
Aaron H. Dunkle
1896-99
Charles F. Yeity
1899-1902
Henry S. Young
1899-1902
Mahlon Fies
1899-1908
Howard O. Sharman
1902-05
J. Peter Koch
1902-08
William Luppold
1905-11
Charles J. Hoff 1907-10
Charles M. Brissel
1909-12
BUILDING INSPECTORS
The office of building inspector was established by ordinance passed on Jan. 5, 1889, and the mayor was authorized to appoint a suitable person for a term of three years. The following persons have officiated :
Name Term
Joseph A .. Heine 1891-92
Monroe A. Moser 1892-93
Abraham Seiverd 1893-96
John S. Wagner 1896-1902
Harry A. Heckman 1902-08
Oscar D. Henne 1908-11
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
A board of public works was established by city councils Nov. 30, 1895, for the purpose of super- vising the grading, paving, repairing and regulat- ing of the streets, and of controlling the house sewerage, pumping and disposal system; which was to comprise four commissioners, who were to be appointed by city councils, the appointees to be se- lected from the electors of the four districts of Reading, and the dividing lines of the districts to be Chestnut, Walnut and Douglass streets. This board has officiated since that time, having directed its attention more particularly toward the establish- ment of sewers for surface and house drainage, and of paved streets. The following have been members of this board:
First District
Name
Term
Henry Eppihimer .1896-98
James L. Douglas 1898-1900
Charles E. Leippe 1900-02
John M. Archer 1902-04
Andrew J. Fink, Jr. 1904-10
Second District
Jerome L. Boyer
1896-98
Charles W. Potteiger 1898-1906
Walter Essick
1906-10
1865-67
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Third District
Third Ward
George Eltz
Frank A. Schofer
1906-10
John S. Schroeder 1867-70
Calvin Goodman 1870-73
Charles S. Herb 1873-76
William G. McGowan 1876-79
Jacob Goodman 1879-82
Richard S. Dunkel 1882-85
Jeremiah G. Mohn 1885-87
Charles B. Wells
.1887-89
Samuel G. Heinly
1889-90
Henry C. Schroeder 1890-94
Jacob B. Stout 1894-1900
John R. Mast
1900-12
Peter F. Nagle 1851-54
Joseph Henry
1854-57
Joseph Ritter
1857-60
George Foos
1860-63
Levi J. Smith
1863-65
Northwest Ward
Hiester H. Muhlenberg
1847-49
Joel Ritter 1849-52
Tobias Barto
1852-55
Ivens Benson
1855-58
Francis Bright
1858-61
Jacob C. Hoff
1861-64
Jacob Bushong
1864-65
E. B. Slichter
1906-10
Southeast Ward
Henry Nagle 1847-50; 1854-56
Frederick Printz
1850-53
Joshua Keely
1853-54
Hiram C. Ritter
1856-59
Robert Caldwell 1859-62
David Levan
1862-65
Southwest Ward
Richard Boone
1847-49
Charles H. Hunter 1849-52
Augustus Boas 1852-55
Samuel Frees . 1855-58
Frederick S. Boas 1858-61
Isaac McHose 1861-64
Peter Hoch
1864-65
Spruce Ward
John Darrah
1847-49
Thomas Hill
1849-53
Henry W. Raudenbush
1853-56
John D. Morris
1856-63
Samuel Robinson
1863-65
UNDER CHARTERS OF 1864 AND 1874
First WVard
Name
Term
Amos H. Deysher
1865-68
John D. Morris 1868-71
Matthan Harbster 1871-74
Jesse Orr 1874-80
J. G. Leinbach 1883-90
F. F. Bressler
1890-92
Matthew Rhoda
1888-1908
Frederick H. Robitzer
1908-13
Howard L. Boas 1896-1906
Tra W. Stratton
1906-10
Eighth Ward
Joseph Henry
1865-66
Eli S. Fox
1866-67
Franklin S. Bernhart
1867-69
Charles Breneiser 1869-72
Henry S. Eckert 1872-75
Joseph Ganser
1875-80
George W. Bruckman
1880-83
J. A. Strohecker
1883-86
John H. Thamm
1890-94
Solomon S. Kind
1886-90
William R. Madden
1894-1902
William B. Laucks
1890-94
Joseph MicCullough 1902-06
James M. Cummings
1906-10.
John H. Close
1898-1910
William Call 1871-74
F. P. Heller 1874-77; 1883-86
Benjamin Lichtenthaler
1877-80
Harrison Harner
1880-83
Frederic P. Heller 1883-86
John R. Miller
1886-88
William H. Bitting
1888-1912
Sixth Ward
George W. Garst 1865-70
George W. Bushong 1870-76
George Rader 1876-82
Levi J. R. Krick 1882-87
Edward Yeager 1887-88
Francis M. Henning
1888-89
William F. Shanaman
1889-90
John H. Keppelman 1890-98
William W. Wunder
1898-1910
Seventh Ward
Levi J. Smith
1865-66
George J. Eckert
1866-69
Frederick W. Lauer
1869-72
Henry R. Hawman 1872-75
George Foos 1875-77
John H. Maltzberger 1877-80
F. Snyder Jacobs
1880-83
Glauser Miller
1880-88
Dr. G. Benton Beaver
1892-96
Second Ward
Zeno Hoffmaster 1865-69
Henry C. Hain 1869-72
Henry Seiders
1872-75
Levi Richards 1875-77
Simeon S. Sands 1877-80
Samuel Robinson
1880-83
Michael Mc Cullough
1883-87
Israel S. Fry
1887-88
Daniel Auchenbach
1888-90
Adam Kutz 1865-67
Fourth District
Ferdinand Goetz
1896-1901
Edwin R. Gerber
1901-05
Charles H. Hunter
1905-10
SELECT COUNCILMEN UNDER CHARTERS OF 1847 AND 1861
Northeast Ward
Name
Term
John Y. Cunnius
1847-51
Fourth Ward
Peter Hoch 1865-67
J. Timothy Jackson
1867-70
George W. Morgan 1870-73
James L. Douglas 1873-76
William S. Monyer 1876-79
James Lord 1879-82
Albert A. Heizmann 1882-85
John A. Rigg 1885-94
Dr. H. L. Johnson 1894-1902
Dr. F. W. Frankhouser 1902-06
Fifth Ward
Frederick Later 1865-71
William H. Wetherhold . 1894-98
1896-1906
READING
Ninth Ward
Frederick Printz
1865-68
Isaac R. Fisher
1868-71
Mahlon Kline
1871-77
Jacob B. Mast
1877
George B. McC. Hess 1889-92
George W. Romig 1892-94
Peter S. Holl 1894-95
Amos H. Beard 1895-96
Isaac W. Hull 1896-97
Jacob B. Stout 1897-98
George B. Clouser 1898-99
Matthew Rhoda 1899-1900
William H. Bitting 1900-01
Howard L. Boas 1901-03
John H. Close 1903-09
Ira W. Stratton
1909-10.
CLERKS OF SELECT COUNCIL
Name Term
John L. Rightmyer 1847-51
James L. Rightmyer 1851-52
Nathan M. Eisenhower 1852-61
A. Lucins Hennershotz 1861-62
Adam Waid 1862-64
B. Frank Haas 1864-73
Edward A. Howell 1873-79
John H. Keppelman
1879-84
George H. Felix
1884-88
Cyrus T. Fox
1888-89
I. Comley Fetter
1889-95
Edwin L. Lindemuth 1895-98
John H. Thamm 1898-1901
Lincoln S. Ramsey 1901-04; 1908-10
James J. Burns 1904-08
Harry R. Zimmerman 1909-10
COMMON COUNCILMEN
UNDER CHARTERS OF 1847 AND 1861 Northeast Ward
Name Term
Jacob Malsberger 1847-51; 1853-55
Daniel Spang 1847-49.
Henry Herbold 1849-50
Christian Eiler 1850-51
William Fricker 1851-52
Joseph Henry 1851-53
Joseph Ritter 1852-53
Morris Rambo 1853-55; 1859-60
Francis Roland 1853-55; 1856-57
George Cutler 1855-56
David Gross 1855-56; 1860-61
Henry Hahn 1855-56
Henry Heckman 1856-57
George A. Struben 1856-57
Henry A. M. Filbert 1857-59
1857-59
Peter F. Nagle
1852-54
Samuel Frees
1855-58
Hiram C. Ritter
1858-59
John D. Morris 1859-60; 1861-62
Frederick S. Boas
1860-61
Jacob C. Hoff
.. 1862-64
Jacob Bushong
1864-65
Levi J. Smith
1865-66
George W. Garst
1866-67; 1868-70
Frederick Lauer
1867-68
George W. Morgan
1870-71; 1872-73
Frederick W. Lauer
1871-72
Joseph S. Hoyer
1862-63
Levi J. Smith
1862-63
Peter Tinsman
1863-64
James Donagan
1863-64
James T. Reber
1863-64
Frederick R. Fritz
1864-65
William H. Kelly
1880-82
F. Snyder Jacobs
.1882
George K. Levan
1864-65
Levi J. R. Krick
1882-83
Amos B. Wanner
1864-65
William Geiger 1876-79
William H. Kelly
1879-82
Hayward H. Heckman
1882-87
George B. McC. Hess
1887-96
Harry J. Wentzel
1896-1900
Elmer E. Hess
1900-04
Jacob F. Hollenbacher
1904-06
John H. Stoner
1906-12
Twelfth Ward
Harrison S. Hartman 1886-88
Samuel Millmore
1888-90
Amos H. Beard 1890-1910
Thirteenth Ward
M. Leroy Wenger 1886-90
John S. Wagner 1890-92
Charles H. Ramsey
1892-95
W. Abbott Whitman
1895-1900; 1904-08
Edwin K. Mersinger
1900-04
Irwin S. Riegel
1904-12
Fourteenth Ward
Isaac W. Hull
1893-1906
John B. Raser
1906-10
Fifteenth Ward
Henry S. Young 1893-96
P. Monroe Krick
1896-1904
A. E. Keeport
1904-08
William M. Smeck
1908-12
Sixteenth Ward
Panl D. Millholland 1895-97
George B. Clouser
1897-1902
Lyman H. Ruth
1902-06
Richard Hull
1906-10
PRESIDENTS OF SELECT COUNCIL
Name
Term
Henry Nagle
1847-50; 1854-55
Joel Ritter
1850-52
Jacob B. Mast.
Christian Schultz
1857-58
Isaac R. Fisher
1858-59
Henry Crouse
1859-60
George Foos
1859-60
Daniel Kline
1859-61
Henry P. Herb
1860-62
Jacob Donahower 1861-62
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