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When the work on Cemetery Hill had been well completed, then the organ- ization turned its attention to the main lines of the battle-field, that is, those lines of the Union forces extending from Cemetery Hill to the two Round Top Mountains, and the design was conceived of purchasing the land along this line and making a grand-drive avenue to Little Round Top Mountain, where land suitable for a picnic ground was purchased, and in a cheap form the nec- essary buildings erected to accommodate parties and delegations. And there, also, commenced the work of designating by suitable stones the positions of the different commands that they occupied during the most severe and trying times of the three days' fight. The eighteen States entered loyally into this project, and ordered suitably inscribed stones made. All of them put up, so far, are very elegant works of art, beautiful in design and finish, and already the most of the States have their battle-field monuments in position, and the coming summer will see them properly represented. These tell the story of the battle, the part played by each of the various State troops, in solid granite. And now standing upon any elevation of the field these gray and white shafts can be seen in every direction. The association in nearly every instance pur- chased the grounds where these monuments stand, so as to bring them under the protecting care of the Cemetery Association. They will therefore stand here, each telling to the world, to future generations especially, its own part of the thrilling and tragic story. Hence, the perpetual story of the battle of Gettysburg will be gathered and preserved in a way more complete, perfect and enduring than that of any great battle-field in all history, and in the long future the history of the organization arising from the first suggestion of Judge Wills, July 24, 1863, will be of itself an intensely interesting story.
The monument in the cemetery was unveiled and dedicated July 1, 1869. The dedication ode for that occasion was written by Bayard Taylor, and in it occurs the following:
"After the thunder storm our heaven is blue: Far off, along the borders of the sky, In silver folds the clouds of battle lie, With soft consoling sunlight shining through; And round the sweeping circles of your hills The crashing cannon thrills Have faded from the memory of the air;
Jesse Say laugh
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And summer pours from unexhausted fountains
Her bliss on yonder mountains:
The camps are tenantless, the breastworks bare:
Earth keeps no stain where hero-blood was poured:
The hornets humming on their wings of lead,
Have ceased to sting, their angry swarms are dead, And harmless in its scabbard rusts the sword."
The president of the Battle-field Memorial Association is ex-officio the gov- ernor of Pennsylvania. The local officers, those who are in immediate control and management of its affairs are for the years 1885-86 as follows: Vice-Presi- dent, David A. Buehler, Esq., Gettsyburg, Penn. ; secretary, John M. Krauth, Esq., Gettysburgh, Penn. ; treasurer, J. Lawrence Schick, Gettysburg, Ponn. ; superintendent of grounds, Sergt. Nicholas G. Wilson, Gettysburg, Penn.
Directors who live in Gettysburg are Col. C. H. Buehler, Sergt. N. G. Wilson, John M. Krauth, Esq., Maj. Robert Bell, Sergt. W. D. Holtzworth, David A. Buehler, Esq., J. Lawrence Schick, Charles Horner, M. D., Col. John B. Bachelder.
CHAPTER XXV.
BOROUGH OF GETTYSBURG.
HANCE HAMILTON AND RICHARD MCALLISTER-JAMES GETTYS-OLD PLAT OF THE TOWN-TOWN INCORPORATED-ELECTIONS-WATER COMPANIES-FIRE COMPANIES-BANKS-SEMINARY AND COLLEGE-CHURCHES-G. A. R. POST- A NATIONAL RESORT.
A MONG the points in the county of the earliest settlements where Gettysburg now stands, and in its vicinity, we find some of the very first settlers in this part of then Lancaster County. When York County was formed, 1749, we find that the Scotch-Irish of this, then called Marsh Creek settlement, were ranked among the old settlers of the new county of York. Indeed, they seemed to present the majority of the prominent leading men of the now county of York. They lived remotely from the county seat-thirty miles-the place where the people had all to go to vote, but this seems to have been no detriment to their prominent and controlling influence, or their presence and active partici- pation in all general elections. Hance Hamilton was the favorite, bold, strong and adroit leader of the Scotch-Irish element, and McAllister of the Dutch, Conowago, settlement, was the strong and active leader in command of the Dutch hosts. They were well matched. McAllister had the most numerous followers. Hamilton was the ablest captain, and he called about him the best lieutenants. McAllister's forces could outvote Hamilton's crowd, but Hamil- ton never failed to carry off the prize at every election when he was a candi- date. More than once riots occurred at elections in York; notably, at the first election in 1749 when Hance Hamilton and Richard McAllister were rival can- didates for sheriff. It became evident to the Scotch-Irish, or more properly, perhaps, to Hamilton, early in the afternoon of election day, that the Dutch were outvoting them. Two or three stout Irishmen rushed in and took pos- session of the point where the voters passed their ballots in between the cracks in the logs of the house. A lusty and brave Dutchman fell upon them, and commenced kicking the Irish heels from under them. A general fight, of
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course, at once ensued. The battle became hot and furious, and the sturdy Dutch drove the Irish from the field-out of the village and across Codorus Creek and kept them there the remainder of the day. The Dutch only then voted, and of course their votes were in an overwhelming majority, and to ordinary men McAllister would appear to have been elected. But he was not, rather he failed to get it so declared, and Hamilton was elected; at all events he got his commission and served. He simply went to the governor and threw the odium of the riot on the Dutch, and got his commission. Another riot oc- curred at the next election, and here again, and something after the previous tactics, was Hamilton master of ceremonies and the triumphant leader, wrest- ing victory from defeat.
Hance Hamilton was the strong man, the man of unequaled resources, in the then entire territory that is now Adams and York Counties. He was then a very young man, just upon life's threshold; he died when he was but entering upon ripe manhood, and yet his name is imperishably linked with the his- tory of York and Adams Counties.
James Gettys, the founder of the borough of Gettysburg and from whom it received its name, was a son of Samuel Gettys (in the days when only the preacher and the school teacher could write); the name was, like nearly all names in those days, spelled by sound and variously about every time a differ- ently learned pundit had occasion to write it; thus we find " Gettes," "Gattis," "Gettus," "Gittys," etc. The Gettys family can be traced back, as among the pioneers of this part of the State, to 1767. Samuel Gettys died March 15, 1790. At one time he had been a rich man for that day, but lost heavily by dealing in Continental money. Still at his death his real estate at public vendue brought £1, 764 10s.
James Gettys was an enterprising man, of sound judgment and bold and dashing financial schemes. He built a house large and commodious enough to throw open his doors to the public, or chance travelers passing, as a house of accommodation for "man and beast." He soon saw that a little trading store would be a good investment, and he opened one, and, perhaps so far, unconsciously. he was forming the nucleus for a town. Just when these things occurred cannot now be accurately known, but from chance records we do know that as early as 1787 it is referred to by Rev. Dobbin in one of his marriage certificates, as "Gettistown." It is supposed that Gettys built his hotel and residence as early as 1783, and soon after this the locality began to be called after him, instead of "Marsh Creek Settlement." From the records in Harrisburg we learn the town was laid out in 1780.
As explained in a preceding chapter, the idea of laying out a town oc- curred to Gettys about the time of the first agitation of the question of form- ing a new county. Mr. Gettys followed the common custom of that day of putting the lots of his new town on the market and disposing of them by lottery.
An.old plat of the town, on parchment, has been found, as it was traced out by John Forsyth, deputy surveyor, who laid out the place. It is impossi- ble to decipher the date. It is the original plat, and the first limits are described from " North" (now Railroad) Street on the north, to "South" Street on top of the hill on Baltimore Street, on the south, and include seven lots west of what is now known as Stratton Street, and seven lots west of what is now Washington Street. Eight streets are described: "Baltimore" Street, now Carlisle and Baltimore; "York" Street, now Chambersburg and York Street; "Middle" and "High" Streets, now North, corresponding to Railroad Street; "East" Street, now Stratton; and "West," now Washington Street; and
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' South " Street, now the alley crossing Baltimore Street at the top of the hill. There were but three alleys, all running east and west.
On the map is the following memoranda: " The center square contains 196 square perches and is on each side 14 perches. The alleys are all 12 feet wide. The streets which cross at right angles on center square aro 66 feet wide, viz .: Baltimore Street and York Street, all the other streets are 50 feet wide. The lots from No. 1 to S are 41 in front by 99 feet deep: and the lots from No. 9 to 38, inclusive. are 60 feet in front by 1-12 deep; Nos. 39 to 210 are 60 feet in front by 180 deep, except the lots from Nos. 67 to 126, inclusive, which are 60 feet front by IS1} deep."
In the distribution Mr. Gettys reserved for himself the lots on which his property stood, or lots 53. 54. 55. 56, 57, 58 on Railroad Street. The follow- ing is very nearly a correct list of the lots and their owners in the distribution. Opposite each name is the number and location of the lots:
ON CENTER SQUARE.
1 Isabella Elder.
Mai. Bailey.
3 J. C. Gettys.
4 James Finley.
7 llenry Arnold. 8 Widow Harrison.
ON BALTIMORE STREET.
9 Mary Vance.
10 N. Frozier.
11 James Moore, T. Pike.
23 William McCreary.
12 John Troxell.
24 John Riley.
13 John Blair.
14 Thomas Steel.
15 William McPherson.
16 John Kerr.
17 Samuel Reay.
18 Robert Elden.
19 John Ilollin.
20 James Duncan.
33 Reynolds Ramsey. 34 William MeCleary.
35 David Dunwoody.
36 George Gautz. 37 William McG- 38 John Agnew.
RAILROAD STREET.
50 William Emmit.
51 Mathew Black.
52 John Inghes.
53 to 58 vacant.
59 John Thornburg.
60 Joseph MeNeay.
61 Daniel MeNorton.
62 Thomas Wesniss.
63 John Emmit.
64 James Stevenson.
65 James Linn. 66 Hugh Black.
CHAMBERSBURG STREET.
72 John Knight.
73 David Puddle.
74 Isabella Moore.
75 Samuel Maxwell.
76 Ilannalı Rodgers.
77 Samuel Elder.
67 Thomas Trout, George Trout. 68 William Barr.
69 Ferguson,
Bole Owings.
70 Mathew Longwell, William MeCIellan.
71 John Edie.
21 John Murphy. 22 Edwin McSherry.
25 John Phillip. 26 Sally Fleming.
27 Alex. Gettys.
28 Thomas Mcclellan.
29 Thomas Campbell.
30 Robert McPherson.
31 John Donaldson.
32 William Patterson.
CARLISLE STREET.
39 Arnold Elder.
40 David Corson.
41 Robert Dunn.
42 Adam Cookes.
43 George Robertson.
44 Henry Brandon.
45 Reynolds Ramsey.
46 Irish John McClellan. Irish William Bailey.
47 James Wills.
48 John Blakely.
49 John Latta.
5 John Coyt. 6 James - [illegible].
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78 Samuel Adams. 79 Hugh Bigham. 80 Rev. A. Dobhin.
81 Samuel Gettys. 97 Jacob Sell. 98 Alex Russell.
99 William Gettys, Conow. 100 Polly Vance.
101 Charles Campbell.
82 Barnabas McSherry.
83 William G. McPherson.
84. 10 87 vacant.
88 William Stewart.
89 Robert McIlvain.
90 Alex Spear.
91 Philip Morningstar.
92 Samuel Gettys, Jr.
93 George Irwin. 94 Walter Maxwell.
95 Bole Owings.
96 Joseph Mark.
102 Widow Susanah Little.
103 John Blair.
104 Isaac Armstrong.
105 John Maholin.
106 Samuel Wilson.
107 James Duncan.
108 Henry Buchanan. 109 Samuel Fay.
110 Isabella Fleming.
111 Reynolds Ramsey.
YORK STREET.
112 Thomas Clinger.
113 William Crawford.
114 John Ashbaugh.
115 Reynolds Ramsey. 116 Alexander Scott.
117 Capt. William Lusk.
118 Reynolds Ramsey.
119 James Black.
120 Jacob Bower.
121 Elizabeth Bruner.
122 Alexander Thompson.
123 William McClellan.
124 Isabella Gettys.
125 John Anan. 126 John Blair,
127 Archibald Stewart. 128 John McKelip.
199 William Dunwoody.
130 Robert Dana.
131 Sophia Vance.
132 John Tome.
133 James Smith, Michael Miller. S
134 James Gettys.
135 Mathew Caldwell.
136 William Vance.
137 Isabella Gettys, } Patrick McCoy. S
138 Patrick Mooney. 139 Alexander Elder.
140 Mathew Horner, McMillan.
WEST MIDDLE STREET.
155 Mathew Horner. 156 John McKelip, } John Craig.
157 James Flaught.
158 Thomas Douglas.
159 William Blakely.
160 Agnes McPherson.
161 John Cochran.
162 William Pim.
163 Robert Galbreath.
164 .John Balteu, 1 George 165 Robert McPherson.
EAST MIDDLE STREET.
166 Samuel Russell. 167 William Bailey,
143 James Hughes.
168 Robert Mellvaine.
169 William Bailey.
170 Joshua Russell.
146 James Russell.
171 James Buchanan.
147 And. Weir.
173 Richard Elder.
148 Elizabeth Fleming.
149 Alexander Scott.
150 Joseph MeCreary. 151 James Dobbin, Esq.
152 Alex. Seott. 153 Riehard Jenning. 154 -- (illegible. )
WEST IIIGII STREET.
180 Fred Remmel. 181 Joseph Moore. 182 Andrew Boyd.
177 James Campbell, Sr. 178 Joseph Stilly. 179 Joseph Stilly.
173 John Tawney.
174 Mary Williams. 175 Mathew Shanks.
176 Bole Owings.
141 Samuel Gettys, Sr. 142 Thomas Cross.
144 John Blair.
145 John Thompson.
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183 William Pim.
184 Robert Scott.
199 Alex. Scott, James Gettys.
185 Thomas Rogers.
200 Daniel Gour.
186 Joseph Hughes.
201 Samuel Hays.
197 And. Johnston.
202 Barnabas MeGec.
198 John Tome.
203 Johu Blair.
EAST HIGH STREET.
187 Samuel Hays.
204 James Hughs.
188 John Watt.
205 Alex. Russell.
189 John Forsyth.
206 Nancy McPherson.
190 John Wilson.
191 Samnel Moore.
207 Betsy McPherson, 208 Bole Owings.
192 Patrick McMullen
209 James Gettys,
194 John Tate.
210 Peggy Kirk.
195 James Baird
196 John MeClellan (Irish).
The 210 lots laid out by Mr. Gettys retain the same numbers in the title deeds to the present time. Owners can thus readily trace the different assign- ments, as the numbers and streets given above correctly locate each lot. This is the best obtainable list of those who were here in the latter part of the eighteenth century. It is a convenient book of peerage for the descendants of these people-a vein of the blue-blood of the country.
TOWN INCORPORATED.
The above list of lot owners, and then the list given in the account in another chapter of the parties engaged in building the first court house, and then the list of settlers from 1817 to 1828, as given elsewhere, from the mem- ory of Mr. Longwell, give a remarkably full list of the settlers in Gettysburg during nearly the first half century of its existence. Then, the marriage docket of Rev. Dobbin completes the list in a manner more satisfactory than can probably be found of any other town in the State at this late day of compara- tively the same age.
From the day of its founding it grew with the growth of the surrounding country in population and wealth, receiving, of course, the impulse that would naturally come of the location of the county seat here in 1800. The wisdom of this selection is shown that now for eighty-six years it has remained undis- turbed-we believe no effort made or question agitated for a removal during all that time.
On March 10, 1806, it became by law an incorporated borough. It had a postoffice and store, blacksmith shop, and enough people to begin to put on many town airs. George Morton had started a spinning wheel factory to supply the country with that very necessary article in every household. The movement to build a court house and jail commenced in the early part of 1801. This year the new town was making local laws to regulate affairs in the town. Reynolds Ramsey was village treasurer, collecting quit rents and dog tax, and market house rents, ete. Ramsey and Attorney Haight had their offices together. As early as 1801, we know from an advertisement that James Mars- den had a " frame house handsomely weather-boarded and painted on York Street." Indeed, in 1801. Gettysburg was a bustling young " Western town," full of promise, new buildings and improvements, and new settlers to grow up with the town. So wide had its fame extended in 1801 that the peripatetic showman was attracted here, and suddenly one morning the bustling town must have been, as the slang now puts it, paralyzed by the gandy posters announcing the coming of the "great, moral and edifying show;" "wax
193 James McSherry.
Reynolds McPherson.
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figures as large as life." The proprietor's name is not to the bills, and it is only inference that it was not the incomparable Artemus Ward -- making his first bold venture, in the " wild and raging West." In the same year James Cobean rented Gettys' tavern, and Dr. Samuel Agnew opened his office and offered his ministrations to the sick and afflicted. Michael Newman erected a ' tannery and commenced making leather. In 1802 John Rowland had his pot- tery running, and so brisk was business that he was constrained to advertise for "a good potter." In 1803 Edward Davis had his chair factory in opera- tion, and as our citizens will remember, Gettysburg was a leading point for this industry to the time of the rebel invasion in 1862-63. Jacob Sell had occu- pied the "Red House" on the south side of York Street, east of the court house; then in 1805 Mr. Underwood carried on business in this place, and in 1806 Mr. Harper moved his printing office into it.
April 6, 1806, James Scott and Thomas Hetich started a line of stages from Chambersburg to Baltimore. Starting "every Monday morning at 4 o'clock from Chambersburg, it arrived at the house of James Scott, in Gettysburg, the same day, and at the house of Jacob Winrott, Petersburg; stopping here all night, would reach Baltimore the next day, at the house of the sign of the ' Sheaf of Wheat.' Returning, leave Baltimore Friday morning at 4 o'clock, and by the same route reach Chambersburg Saturday." This was a great improvement for that day. All the way to Baltimore and back by stage in a week!
In 1806 Henry Young was "mine host" in Gettysburg, and returns public thanks and is "continuing at the old stand of tavern-keeping and Ironmon- gery."
In 1807 the total revenue of Gettysburg, including dog tax, was $557.81}. Reynolds Ramsey was burgess in 1806-07.
The first borough election was in May, 1806. The first council met May 21, following, at the house of William MeClellan: present, George Kerr, Eman- nel Zeigler, William Garvin, James Dobbin, Walter Smith. George Kerr, elected president of the town council, appointed James Gettys clerk and treas- urer, his bond fixed at $1,000; salary 23 per cent on moneys collected.
In June, 1807, Rev. D. MeCanaughy opened his high school in Gettysburg, which school was an era in the town's history. In it was taught Latin and Greek. as the ancient prospectus informs us. Rev. McCanaughy was an emi- nent divine and leading educator of his time.
Among the ordinances of 1806 was a resolution to purchase a fire engine, and for this purpose a petition to the grand jury and court of quarter sessions asking assistance, which obtained from them an allowance of $150, and then the conneil authorized the issuing of a town bond for $300.
As early as June 8, 1806, a severe ordinance was passed prohibiting swine from running at large; the same time was passed an ordinance " to prevent the increase of dogs." It required every owner to report his dogs, with full de- seription thereof and pay a tax on each one-40 cents for Mr. Dog and $2 for Mrs. Dog. It was Reynolds Ramsey's official duty to buy a book, keep the dog registry and collect the tax. This record book is a veritable curiosity. It shows fifty-eight dogs reported before August, 1806. " Joseph Worley one small Dog his Name is pen is black and white Ring round his Nack paid;" " Alexander Russells Dog is of a small size Coller black with a white Ring Round his Neck his name pointer paid;" "Spangler B. McClalen dog is brown yeallow lags and Brast Named beaver;" "Samuel Kuplinger Dog is of a middle size Collor is black and white his name is pipe paid;" "George Walsh a Midel Sized yeallow Dog and his name is liberty paid;" "Chris-
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tian Culp one small light yeallow Dog his name is possum paid;" "John Gross a small dog Black his name is smart paid;" "Mickel Numan of a whitish brin- dled collar with a very long head his name is bull paid;" Doc Samuel Agnew's dog of a Dune Collor and his name is 'Augustus Cozror;""' "Mathias Culp a small yallow Brindeld dog his name is pen paid;" "Adam Swop 1 dog of Midel Size his name is Forney and yeal collor," etc. While on the subject of ex- tracts from Reynolds Ramsey's records we give the following extract, that not only explains itself, but is a complete insight into the ideas of that time of morality and statesmanship: " bo it Remembered that on the second day of february in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven, Shem Greble [Graybill] of Adams County, farmer, is convicted before me, being the burgess of the Borough of Gettysburg, of a breach of the Lord's day by driv- ing a wagon through the Borough of Gettysburg on the first day of February and year afsd. being the Lord's Day commonly called Sunday which convic- tion is Mede upon my ordinance and I do adjudge him to forfeit for the same the sum of four dollars."
By careful search of the tax books we learn that there were eighty-three houses and two tan-yards in Gettysburg in 1806. Adam Swope owned one of the tan-yards and William Buchanan the other. The fire engine, which cost $450, was received August 5, 1806.
At the May election, 1807. was elected George Kerr, burgess; town coun- cil-James Galloway, James Gettys, Samuel Hutchinson, James Dobbin, Will- iam Maxwell; street commissioners-Emanuel Zeigler, Henry Hoke; high con- stable-William Kuhns. James Douglas was appointed town clerk and treas- urer. This new council determined at their first meeting to build a market house. This was built in the square on the east side of the court house, a pas- sage way twelve feet wide separating the buildings.
In the year 1807 there were eighty-nine houses in the borough, and Philip Youse had built a brewery.
The next year, 1808, the town council was Alexander Cobean, John Trox- ell, Ralph Lashells, Jacob Ackerman, William Buchanan; Jacob Ackerman, president; James Dobbin, clerk and treasurer. There had been three houses put up the year onding June, 1808. This was not a very rapid growth, but the place was growing. It appears Nicholas Golwix had become the town brower. This council set apart Wednesdays and Saturdays as market days, and enacted some rigid laws about the matter of markets, going extensively into details. They had come of a race of men and were emerging from an age when all men be- lieved that the law-making power should regulate everything, even to that sacred little operation of a man kissing his wife on Sunday.
John Ashbaugh was appointed clerk of the market, and it must have occu- pied all his time and study to understand and enforce the wonderful regula- tions of the council.
In 1809 the new council-Michael Newman, president; Walter Smith, John Agnew, William Kuhns, H. G. Jamison. The council now held meetings in Fredrick Rupley's house. James Dobbin again town clerk and treasurer.
The people who owned and, it is presumed, lived in their houses in the borough at this time were Jacob Ackerman, John Ashbaugh, James Agnew, John Agnew, William Buchanan, Joseph Bolton, Ezekiel Boring, Frederick Bower, Christian Benner, Alexander Cobean (two houses), Christian Chritzman, Mathias Culp (three houses). Christian Culp, Joseph Cooksen, Henry Coaser (?), Abraham Coppersmith, Nicholas Crumbaugh (two houses), Peter Creamer, James Dobbin, Edward Davies, Moses Degraft, Martin Ebert, Jamos Gettys (two houses), Robert Graham, George Gelwix, James Galloway, John Gallo-
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way, George Geyer, William Garvin, George Gantz, Sarah Gilbert, Giffin, Nicholas Gelwix, Henry Hoke (two houses; had also a brewery and brick- yard), Robert Hayes, Hutcheson & Newcomer (store), Samuel Hutchinson, Dr. Samuel Huey, John Hughes, Dr. Jamison, John Jenkins, William Kuhns, Elizabeth Keyes, Barnabas Kerr, George Kerr, Ralph Lashells, Jacob Lohr, Messer (?), William Maxwell, John McKelip's heirs, John Myers, Will- iam Mcclellan, Markey. Martin Markley, Michael Newman, Valentine Neisewits (?), Jacob Oyler's heirs, Andrew Polley, Samuel Polly, George Pat- ser, Alexander Russell, Russell & Kerr (store), Mary Rimmel, Christian Ribe, Adam Swope, John Sweeny (the cabinet-maker), Walter Smith, Jacob Sell (two houses), Samuel Sloan, James Scott's heirs (two houses), Jacob Shroeder, John Troxell, Jr., Jacob Wertz, Mary A. Weims, Christian Wampler, Miller, Adam Walter, Henry Watkins (had also a brick-yard), Henry Wasmas (?), Emanuel Zeigler. This includes the entire list as shown to pay tax in the corporate limits on their houses. There was quite a number who paid taxes on vacant lots.
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