History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Part 141

Author: Ashmead, Henry Graham, 1838-1920
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1150


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In 1780, when steps were taken for the gradual ab- olition of slavery in Pennsylvania, twenty-six slaves were held in Haverford, but none in Radnor.


In 1786 the taxable inhabitants of Haverford were as follows :


William Brooke, William Burns, Jonathan Buckman, Thomas Cor- nogg, Abraham Cornogg, John Cornogg, Lewis Davis, Jesse Davis, John Davis, Caleb Davis, William Davis, George Dunn, Peter Dehaven, Sarah Ellis, Jesse Ellis, David Ellis, Jonathan Ellis, William Free, Griffith Davis, Andrew Frederick, Samuel Gracy, Samuel Griffith, Han. Humphrey, Edward Hughes, Mary Hayworth, George Hayworth, Rob- ert Holland, Aaron Johnson, Hugh Jones, Samnel Leedom, John Lind- say, David Lowden, David Lyon, Simon Litzenberg, Catharine Lu- kens, Anthony Lewis, Abraham Lloyd, Francis Les, Mary Miller, William McClure, John Moore, Nicholas Pechine, Henry Lawrence, Jo- seph Powell, George Powell, Hugh Quinn, John Ross, Philip Sheaff, Richard Willing, Obadish Wiley, Felix Wershing, Joseph Worrall, Mar- tin Wise, Nathan Jones, Thomas Terry, Richard Humphrey, and John- son Vaughan.


Inmates .- Duncan Johnson, William Downey, John Hayworth, Sam- uel McClure, Richard Tippons, Samuel Burrows, Joseph Webster, Jons- than Haycock, Michael Timple, Zachariah Long, Daniel McElroy, Ed- ward Hughes, and William Sheaff.


Freemen .- William Lincoln, John Graville, Joho Fres, John Point, John Stevens, John Holland, Jacob Vanghan, Edward Leedom, George Stump, William Lloyd, and Jonathan Worrall.


The Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road crosses the northeast corner of the township. The company was incorporated in 1792, and the road was completed in 1794, at a cost of four hundred and sixty- five thousand dollars. It was the first turnpike road constructed in America.


At the beginning of this-the nineteenth-century Haverford's taxables were mentioned as follows :


William Brooke (brigade inspector), Jane Burns, Thomas Brooke (miller), Benjamin Bevan, George Bonsall (blacksmith), Joseph Bond, William Bittle (innkeeper), Amos Bradshaw (grist- and saw-mill), Isaac


1 In March, 1798, the minutes inform us, the township election was " held at the new school-house."


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Bittle, Abraham Cornog, Abraham Chapmao, John Cornog, John Coch- Tan (shoemaker), Lewis Davis, Joseph Davis (tanner), Jesse Davis, Grif- fith Davis, William Davis, John Davis, Samuel Davis, William Dickin- son, John Dickinson, Jesse Ellis, Jonathan Ellis, Isaac Ellis (black- smith), Rudolph Epwright (weaver), Jacob Spright, John Free, Andrew Frederick (shoemaker), John Timple, John Gracy (wheelwright), Ed- ward Gill, George Hayworth (carpenter), John Hughes (fulling-mill " going to decay," and saw-mill), Richard Humphrey, John Jones, Aaron Johnson, Jacob Johnsoo, William Johnson, Mary Jones, Joho Jones, Ludwig Knull, John Lindsay (justice of the peace), William Llewellyn, Anthony Lewis, David Lyons, Edward Lobb (millwright), Amos Lukens (joiner), Adam Litzenberg, Jacob Litzenberg (cooper), Simon Litzen- berg (cooper), Mordecai Lewis, Samuel Leedom, Samuel ยท Lewis (tailor), Mary Miller, Patience Morgao, Jonathan Miller (innkeeper), Joseph Powell, George Powell, Nicholas Pechin, Hugh Queen, John Ross (owner of the "Grange"), John Dickinson, Benjamin H. Smith, Philip Sheaff, Jacob Stanley, Valentios Smith, Matthias Snyder, Alexander Symington (storekeeper), Richard Tipping (shoemaker), Christiso Vanghao, Joshus Vaughan, Johnson Vaughan, Garrett Van Buskirk, Keziah Wilday, George Willing, Maris Worrall (storekeeper, grist-, sod saw-mill owner), and Casper Weist.


Inmates .- Edward Fowler (wheelwright), John Hay, Reuben Lewis, Philip Litzenberg (cooper), Daniel Leedom (weaver), John Powell, Jesse Moore, Joseph Rogers (miller), Jonathan Vanghan, Daniel McElroy, John Van Buskirk, Samuel Wright (carpenter), and Martin Wiee.


Single Freemen .- David Bittle (mason), Hugh Carm (carpenter), Thomas Ellis (carpenter), William Garrett (storekeeper), William Has- kios and Andrew Lindsay (blacksmiths), Jesse Maddock (tailor), Thomas Downs, Abraham Free, Joseph Griffith, Amoe Griffith, Joha Lindsay, Jr., William Lindsay, William Litzenberg, Edmund Leedom, William Lyons, John Little, Joseph Powell, John Stephens, Yorb Van Buskirk, Joseph Van Buskirk, Jacob Vaughan, George Weist, Garrett Van Horn, Jonathan Ellis, Isaac Ellis, Amos Lukens, and Jonathan Miller.


Since that day the improvements made in Haver- ford have been vast and varied. Its inhabitants have ever kept in the advance line in the onward march of the nation, and its lands, lying as they do just without the limits of a great city, are very fertile and highly prized.


We now turn to other topics which are treated under separate headings, but before doing so will add the following, which was made a matter of record by the township clerk :


" Be it remembered that the winter of 1828 was the most mild winter in the recollection of the oldest people then living, there being scarcely any snow and but very little ice, and followed by the winter of 1829, which was the coldest that had been for many years, there being two months of study Friezing."


Early Mills, etc .- Haverford Mill .- As early as the year 1688 a small grist-mill, known as the " Haver- ford Mill," was built on Cobb's Creek,1 near where that stream is crossed by the road leading past Haver- ford meeting-house. Its original owner is unknown. By searching the records, however, a little light is thrown on the history of this, one of the first mills built in Pennsylvania. Thus, Fourth month (June) 12, 1700, Richard Hayes, attorney for William Howell, acknowledged a deed to David Lloyd, attorney for Rowland Powell, " for ninety-seven acres of land with a mill called Haverford Mill, and all other appur- tenances and improvements thereunto belonging," the deed bcaring date Third month 30th, 1700. This seems to indicate that William Howell, one of the first settlers of the township, was the original owner


of "Haverford Mill." Friends' meeting-house, in Haverford, was also built upon the same tract, a tract which came into the possession of Howell in May, 1682. In October, 1703, Daniel Humphrey became the owner of two hundred and forty-one acres of land, of which the east line was Cobb's Creek, and the south line the road on which Friends' meeting- house stands. Humphrey's land included the mill- property above mentioned. Subsequently, Charles Humphrey 2 (son of Daniel, and a member of the Continental Congress at the time of signing the Declaration of Independence), together with his brothers, became the owners of the mill property, which also included fulling- and saw-mills. Thus, in 1766, Edward Humphrey was mentioned as the owner of the fulling-mill, and Charles Humphrey of the grist- and saw-mills. The latter owned the grist- and fulling-mills in 1782. He died in 1786, but this mill property continued in the hands of the Humphrey family until about 1826, when Dennis Kelly purchased it and changed the buildings into a woolen and cotton manufactory, under the name of the "Castle Hill Mills."


Haverford New Mill .- On Fourth month (June) 14, 1698, Richard Hayes, Jr., before mentioned as Howell's attorney in the transfer of Haverford Mill to Powell, became the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land, of which Darby Creek formed the western boundary. On this property, about the year 1707, Hayes, with David Morris and Samnel Lewis, erected a grist-mill, for a long time known as " Haver- ford New Mill" (now as Leedom's mill), which he managed himself till his death, in 1738. This prop- erty, with a saw-mill attached, belonged to Maris Worrell in 1802. Eighteen years later it was still in his possession. In 1826 it was owned by Elisha Wor- rell and occupied by Thomas Steel. In 1830 it was managed by Joseph Leedom, Elisha Worrell still being the owner. In 1875 it was owned by Maris W. Lee- dom. It is now owned by the latter's widow.


Abram C. Lukens, now living at Upland, speaks of this mill property as follows: "The old mill stood a little farther up the stream. When the new mill was built, the gudgeon was lost in the creek. One of the workmen dived for it. The instrument was heavy, and as the man stayed under water a long time, seem- ingly, it was feared for a moment that he, too, was gone; but finally he came up, struggling and safe, with the recovered article in his hands." The mill now in operation, and of which Lukens speaks, was built in 1832.


Ellis' Fulling-Mill .- In 1694, Tenth month, 2d day, Humphrey Ellis purchased two hundred and twenty acres of land, of which Darby Creek formed the west- ern boundary. On this property a very early fulling- mill was erected, and successfully operated. In 1790


1 The Indian name of Cobb's Creek was Rarakung.


2 It will be remembered that Charles Humphrey, with three other Pennsylvania members, voted against the Declaration of Independence.


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it was owned by Humphrey Ellis, a son of Humphrey Ellis first mentioned by a second marriage.


Brown's (Garrigues') Mills .- About the year 1800, Peter Brown became the owner and operator of grist- and saw-mills, which stood on the head-waters of Cobb's Creek. On Feb. 11, 1802, he sold this prop- erty to William Hill, William White,1 and Miers Fisher. It then consisted of one hundred and thirty acres of land, with grist- and saw-mill. On the 1st of July, 1807, the parties above mentioned transferred the mills and property belonging to Samuel Garri- gues, "House Carpenter." The mills were run by the latter for a few years, but by reason of a scarcity of water were finally abandoned. In 1826 this mill property was mentioned, by a Delaware County com- mittee, on the subject of manufactories, etc., as "an old stone grist-mill, which has been out of use for several years past." On the 26th of July, 1834, Samuel Garrigues sold two acres of this tract to the Haverford School Association, and the same are now included with the lands owned by Haverford College.


There are some, doubtless, who will question the existence of the Brown Mills. Indeed, Abram C. Lukens, for a time, stoutly maintained that such mills never existed, but finally remembered having seen the ruins of an old mill there. The volume of water in these small streams was much greater eighty years ago than it is now.


Lawrence's Mills .- A saw-mill, owned at various times by Henry Lawrence, and his sons Thomas, Mordecai, and William, was erected about the be- ginning of this century on Darby Creek, near where that stream is crossed by the West Chester turnpike. Prior to that time, however, an old fulling-mill had occupied the same mill-seat (standing on the north side of the present turnpike), which, probably, was the one owned by Humphrey Ellis in 1790. In 1832 a stone grist-mill (the present one) was built by Wil- liam Lawrence, just below the saw-mill. These mills have since been in the possession of members of the Lawrence family, and are now owned by Thomas D. Lawrence. They have been leased and operated by John E. Stanley and his father for the twenty-two years last passed.


Miller's Mills .- About the year 1810, Jonathan Miller built grist- and saw-mills on Cobb's Creek, just above the mill privilege, soon after utilized for the manufacture of gunpowder. A few years later David Quinn became associated with him in the business and served as manager. In 1827, Samuel Leedom took charge. For a number of years prior to that time the latter had operated Joshua Humph- rey's mill, which was situated a short distance above Miller's, on the same creek. In 1844, Mr. Leedom purchased the Miller Mills, and lived there till his


death, which occurred some twelve years ago. Augus- tus B. Leedom then became the owner, to be suc- ceeded in a few years by one Lombert. The latter was in turn succeeded by the present owner, George Dickinson, who purchased the property in February, 1879, and came here to reside in April of the follow- ing year.


Nitre Hall Mills .- These mills, used for the man- ufacture of gunpowder, began operations prior to the beginning of the war of 1812-15. They were owned and managed by Israel Wheelen and William Rogers, Jr., until about 1825. Rogers alone then conducted the business until his death, which occurred about 1840, when Dennis Kelly purchased the property and converted the principal building into a woolen- and cotton-factory. It remained in the possession of Kelly and his heirs until March, 1880, when George Callahan became its owner by purchase. John and Thomas Burns, the present managers, have been identified with these mills for seventeen years. Fif- teen hands are now employed, and about seven thou- sand pounds of cotton and woolen yarns are manu- factured per month.


Kelly's Woolen- and Cotton Mills .- About 1814, Dennis Kelly, with borrowed capital, purchased a mill-seat on Cobb's Creek from Isaac Ellis, and erected thereon a small stone woolen-factory, now known as the "Clinton Mills." His venture proved to be highly successful, and soon after, with George Wiest as a partner, the remainder of Ellis' lands were bought, and the capacity of Clinton Mills considerably en- larged. Not a long time elapsed, however, before Mr. Kelly was again conducting his business alone. He furnished the United States government, per con- tract, large quantities of goods for the use of the army and navy. His mills were worked to their greatest capacity, and he accumulated wealth rapidly. About 1826 he purchased Joshua Humphrey's grist- mill, and changing it to a cotton- and woolen-factory, gave it the name of "Castle Hill Mills." Samuel Rhoads, as lessee, occupied this mill for a number of years. On the 20th of February, 1834, it caught fire from the picker, and was entirely consumed, the in- surance of ten thousand dollars covering but a small part of the loss. After this mill was rebuilt it was leased for some ten years to John Hazlitt. George Bumley, James Howorth, Boyle, and Calleghan were also prominent lessees and operators at different times of Kelly's mills. Up to the time of his death Mr. Kelly was widely known as one of the most successful manufacturers of cloths in the State of Pennsylvania. He died in July, 1864, worth nearly one-half million dollars.


Boyle's Mills .- About fifteen years ago John Boyle erected the large four-story building located just above Castle Hill Mills, which yet stands as a monu- ment to his name. Intended for the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, they are inactive, and have been so for some five or six years.


1 William White was then doctor of divinity of the Protestant Epis- copal Church, and later was far famed as a distinguished bishop of the same denomination.


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Other Mill Interests .- Besides the mills already mentioned, a few others, as well as tanneries, etc., were established and operated bere during years Jong passed, of which traces are only to be found in early assessment-rolls. Hence, in the endeavor to give an impartial list of the manufacturing interests of the township from 1766 to 1830, we turn to these rolls and find that the mills and the owners of them during the years indicated were as follows :


1766. Edward Humphrey, fulling-mill ; Charles Humphrey, grist- and saw-mills.


1770. Isaac Davis, grist- and saw-mills.


1779. Elisha Worrall, grist- and saw-mills.


1782. Charles Humphrey, grist- and fulling-mills.


1788. Humphrey Ellis, part of fulling-mill ; Francis Lee, saw-mill; John Moore, grist- and saw-mills; Philip Sheaff, tannery.


1790. Thomas Brooke, grist-mill; Joseph Davis, tannery ; Humphrey Ellis, fulling-mill ; Francis Lee, saw-mill; John Moore, grist- and saw-mill; Philip Sheaff, saw-mill.


1802. Peter Brown, stone grist- and saw-mill on head-waters of Cobb's Creek ; Joseph Davis, tannery ; James Tyson, saw-mill and old fulling-mill ; Enoch Watkins, stone grist-mill ; Maris Worrell, grist- and saw-mill.


1807. Joseph Davis, tannery ; Mordecai Lawrence, saw-mill ; James Tyson and John Dolen, saw- and fulling-mill; Enoch Watkins, stone grist-mill; Sam- uel Garrigues, stone grist- and saw-mill, the property formerly owned by Peter Brown.


1809. Samuel Garrigues, grist-mill; E. Leedom, saw-mill; Mordecai Lawrence, saw-mill; Joseph Mathews, grist-mill.


1811. Joseph Davis, tannery; Jonathan Miller, grist- and saw-mill ; Thomas Steel, grist-mill; Maris Worrell, grist- and saw-mill.


1817. Joseph Davis, tannery; Francis Gaucher, paper-mill; Mordecai Lawrence, saw-mill; Jonathan Miller, saw-mill ; Robert Steel and Charles Leedom, grist-mill ; Dennis Kelly and George Wiest, fulling- and carding-mills ; Israel Wheelen, powder-mills ; Maris Worrell, saw- and grist-mill.


1820-22. Edward Humphrey, paper-mill ; Joshua Humphrey and - Leedom, grist-mill; Dennis Kelly, woolen-factory ; Jonathan Miller and - - Quinn, grist- aud saw-mill ; William Rogers, eight powder-mills and refinery ; Maris Worrell, grist- and saw-mill.


From a report of a committee of Delaware County citizens made in 1826, on the subject of manufactories and unimproved mill-seats, we obtain the following pertinent items regarding Haverford township :


"On Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, a mill-seat, on lands of Manuel Eyre, about where the creek ceases to be the dividing line of Philadelphia and Delaware Counties.


"On Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, a cotton-factory ; head and fall about 14 feet ; owned and occupied by


Dennis Kelly ; drives 628 spindles ; manufactured last year 26,194 pounds of cotton-yarn ; employs about 12 hands.


" On Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, ' Nitre Hall Pow- der-Mills ;' head and fall from 22 to 34 feet, on the various mills owned and occupied by William Rogers, . Jr .; manufactured last year about 10,000 qr. casks of gunpowder ; employs about 20 men ; a large man- sion-house and tenements for 10 families.


"On Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, a mill-seat ; head and fall about 12 feet, on lands of Jonathan Miller.


"On Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, a grist-mill and saw-mill; head and fall about 20 feet; owned by Jon- athan Miller, and occupied by David Quinn.


"On Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, a grist-mill, head and fall about 20 feet, owned by Joshua Hum- phrey and others, and occupied by Samuel Leedom.


" On Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, a large woolen- factory ; head and fall 16 feet; owned and occupied by Dennis Kelly ; has 1 pair of stocks, 4 carding-engines of 24 inches, 2 bellies of 50 spindles each, 3 jennies of 75 spindles each, 10 power-looms ; manufactures about 2500 yards of cotton and woolen goods per week ; em- ploys about 60 hands ; dwelling-houses for 10 families.


" Near the head of Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, an old stone grist-mill ; head and fall 18 feet; owned by Samuel Garrigues; has been out of use for several years past.


"On Darby Creek, in Haverford township, an an- cient grist-mill and saw-mill ; head and fall about 10 feet, to which two feet more may be added ; owned by Elisha Worrell, and occupied by Thomas Steele ; grinds from 12 to 15,000 bushels of grain, grist, and merchant work per annum. Also cuts about 85,000 feet of lumber per annum.


" On Darby Creek, in Haverford and Marple, a mill-seat; head and fall about 12 feet; on lands of Mordecai Lawrence and others.


"On Darby Creek, in Haverford, a saw-mill; head and fall 10 feet and 6 inches ; owned by Mordecai Lawrence and others, occupied by John Richards ; cuts about 30,000 feet of lumber per annum.


"On Darby Creek, in Haverford and Marple, a mill-seat; head and fall about 10 or 11 feet, on land of the heirs of William Moore, deceased, and others. [Probably the site of John Moore's grist- and saw- mill, 1790.]


"On Ithon Creek, or east branch of Darby Creek, in Haverford, a mill-seat ; head and fall 7 or 8 feet; on lands of Gen. William Brooke." This probably was the site of the grist-mill assessed to Thomas Brooke in 1790.


The mills, etc., of the township in 1829-30, accord- ing to the assessment-rolls for those years, were as follows: Lewis Davis, tannery ; Dennis Kelly, lower factory (stone), dry-house, two frame dwellings, five stone dwellings, upper factory (stone), fulling-mill, stone grist-mill, seven stone dwellings, four frame dwellings ; Clermont Lawrence, stone grist-mill and


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saw-mill; Jonathan Miller and Samuel Leedom, grist- and saw-mill ; Elisha Worrell and Joseph Lee- dom, grist- and saw-mill.


The grist- and saw-mills and woolen- and cotton- factories in operation in the township at the present time (1884) are as follows: Leedom's saw- and grist- mills, on Darby Creek ; Lawrence's grist- and saw- mills, on Darby Creek ; Dickinson's (formerly Miller's) grist- and saw-mills, on Cobb's Creek ; Callahan's (Nitre Hall Mills) cotton- and woolen-factory, on Cobb's Creek ; and Taylor Wolfenden & Co.'s (Castle Hill Mills) woolen-factory, on Cobb's Creek. The " Castle Hill Mills," under the management of Messrs. Taylor Wolfenden & Co., lessees, are running nearly to their utmost capacity. More than one hundred operatives are furnished with steady employment, and about ten thousand dollars' worth of fine cassi- meres are manufactured per month.


Schools .- Doubtless schools of some kind were established and maintained in an irregular manner from the date of the first settlement of the township, but for many years thereafter all records now avail- able are silent respecting them. On the 28th of October, 1799, however, Joseph Davis, Abraham Lewis, George Hayworth, and John Gracey, as trus- tees, purchased of Jesse Davis a lot in the southwest part of the township, near the present school build- ing, "for the purpose of erecting a school-house thereon, and for no other purpose or use." In the stone structure which was soon after erected upon this lot John Hayes and David Bond were early teachers. It continued to be used for educational purposes until 1883, when the present substantial stone school-house was erected, on a lot purchased of John Leedom, and the old school property was abandoned.


On the Townsend Cooper property, formerly owned by Levi Lukens, a stone school-house was built by John Lukens, Robert Clark, John Hayes, and others, about 1814. The children of William Johnson, Levi Lukens, Dennis Kelly, and George Smith attended at this school-house. It was torn down about the year 1835, having been discontinued as a school-house for several years prior to that date.


About 1830 another school-house was built, on the lands of Jonathan Miller. It is still in use, and is located near the grist-mill of George Dickinson, on Cobb's Creek. John Moore was known as a teacher there for several years. On a corner of the Darby road and a road leading from West Chester road to Clinton Mills a stone school-honse was built about 1874, on a lot purchased from William Davis. Another school-house was erected, date unknown, on Mrs. Sarah O'Connor's property, east of Cobb's Creek, and near the Montgomery County line.


After the passage of the school law, in 1834, the court appointed inspectors of schools in each town- ship, who served till directors were elected. The in- spectors appointed for Haverford were Bertine Smith


and John Williams. The amount of school moneys received by the township from State and county in 1835 was $573.44.


Following is a list of the school directors elected in Haverford township since and including the year 1840, as fonnd of record in Media :


1840, John Leedom, Samuel Leedom; 1842, John Gracey, Thomas D. Lawrence; 1843, Samuel Leedom, James A. Moore ; 1844, Adam C. Eckfeldt, Archibald Gray; 1845, George Pyatt, David Sell; 1846, Philip Sheaff, William V. Black : 1847, Bartine Smith, Thomas H. West; 1848, James A. Moore, George Pyatt; 1849, Thomas D. Law- rence, Philip Sheaff; 1850, Bartioe Smith, Thomas H. West ; 1851, Jackson Lyons, Mordecai Lawrence; 1852, James A. Moore, Davis Sill; 1853, William Bittle, Bartioe Smith ; 1854, Mordecai Lawrence, James A. Moore; 1855, Davis Sill, Thomas D. Lawrence; 1856, Bar- tine Smith, William Bittle; 1857, Edwin Johnson, David Bond ; 1858, B. Lindsay, Charles Johnson; 1859, Henry McAllister, John Leedom ; 1860, W. H. Eagle, W. W. Leedom ; 1861, no report found ; 1862, John Leedom, - Haydock ; 1863, C. P. Bittle, D. R. Raleton ; 1864, Charlee Johnson, A. B. Leedom ; 1865, James Smith, William C. Hawkins ; 1866, C. P. Bittle, John H. Clemene; 1867, William C. Hawkins, Charles Johnson; 1868, Joseph Leedom ; 1869, C. P. Bittle, Edwin Johnson ; 1870, William C. Hawkins, William C. Jones ; 1871, Joseph Leedom, Joseph T. Mcclellan ; 1872, C. P. Bittle, W. M. Cal- lahan; 1873, Charles Johnson, William C. Hawkins; 1874, Joseph Leedom, Joho Johnson; 1875, C. P. Bittle, Morgan B. Davis; 1876, Charles Johnson, Lewis K. Esrey ; 1877, James Leedom, R. N. Lee; 1878, C. Pennell Bittle, Florence Lockwood; 1879, Charles Johnson, Lewis K. Esrey; 1880, Taylor Wolfendeo, Joseph Leedom; 1881, Florence Lockwood, Charles Getz; 1882, Robert N. Lee, Charles Johnson; 1883, Frank Ebright, Joseph T. McClellan ; 1884, William Carter, Joseph Leedom.




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