History of Warren County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 41

Author: Schenck, J. S., [from old catalog] ed; Rann, William S., [from old catalog] joint ed; Mason, D., & co., Syracuse, N.Y., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co.
Number of Pages: 1020


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In the spring of that year the maple trees, now densely shading the little park at the point separating Water and Third streets, were placed in position. Of the traveling " shows," which during that period regularly visited Warren in their rounds, the tent exhibitions of Quick & Co., Levi J. North, Barnum, and Dan Rice, and the hall entertainments of the Baker Family, the Burt Fam- ily, etc., seemed to be the most popular.


In the summer of 1851 a form of diarrhea became epidemic in the town and carried off many of its residents, particularly young adults and children.


The Johnson block, on the southeast corner of Second and Liberty streets, was built in 1854, and was then considered to be the most imposing and best building in the county.


The year 1859 closed with railroad communication established between Warren and Erie, and great was the rejoicing thereat. The lower railroad bridge was completed in September of the following year, and, resting on rather low abutments or piers, terminated steamboat navigation to points above.


The United States census of 1860 revealed the following facts concerning


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the borough and its inhabitants: Total number of inhabitants, 1,742; total number of the same, foreign born, 417 ; total number of deaths during the year, 22 ; total number of persons whose estates exceed $30,000, 9; total number of persons whose estates equal or exceed $20,000, 19; total number of persons whose estates equal or exceed $10,000, 29 ; total number of dwelling houses, 308.


In July of that year the chief topic of thought and conversation for a short time was in relation to a bold burglary committed in their midst. The office of Hon. Thomas Struthers had been broken into and a safe containing $3,000 in gold and many valuable papers carried off by thieves who left no traces be- hind them. After two or three days, however, the safe was found on James H. Eddy's farm in Glade. It had been broken open and the coin taken away, but the papers were found nearly intact. Suspicion was soon directed upon three Irishmen living near by, who upon being arrested were found to be the guilty parties, and a portion of the money was recovered.


During the fall of 1860 the marshaling of the ante-bellum militia companies of the district under Brigadier-General R. Brown and staff (the latter composed of George V. N. Yates, judge advocate ; Nelson S. Woodford, quartermaster; Leroy L. Lowry, paymaster ; Harrison Allen, aid, and Samuel W. Brown, surgeon), the parades of the wide-awake marching companies, the great polit- ical campaign then in progress, and last, but not least, the oil excitement-all conspired to make matters exceedingly lively in and around the borough.


In the fall of 1864 wood was worth $7 per cord, and coal $12 per ton. For a small inland town literally surrounded by thousands of acres of timber land all in sight, this seems to have been an exorbitant price for common fire wood, even though it was at a time of inflated prices.


In March, 1865, occurred the great flood remembered so vividly by many, and still to be seen - as pictured by the photographer. The roily, rushing waters rose to their greatest height on the 18th, when the Irvine bottom opposite the town was one vast lake. The "Island" was covercd to the depth of several feet, and all the buildings, lumber, cooperage, etc., near the banks of the Conewango and Allegheny were swept away. Hook's old saw-mill, which for nearly fifty years had been a familiar land-mark on the Allegheny some five miles above Warren, was lifted from its ancient site and transferred to Morrison's flat, below the town.


Among the dealers in various kinds of merchandise at this time (1865) were O. H. Hunter, Beecher & Coleman, E. T. Hazeltine & Co., George L. Friday & Co., P. J. Trushel & Co., George Ball, Arnett & Galligan, Pierce & Shafer, William Messner, John Honhart, Schnur & Ruhlman, J. M. Turner,. F. A. Randall, S. Burgess, J. B. Brown, D. D. Babcock, Otto Huber, Kelly Weaver, Christian Retterer, Jacob Lesser, C. L. Hassel & Co., George Rcig, L. D. Crandall, S. G. Stevens, L. W. Arnett, Adolph Saltsman, brewer, Smith & Messner, Abijah Morrison, A. Kirberger, and Rowan & Converse.


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The years 1867-68 witnessed marked improvements throughout the bor- ough. Many new buildings, both for dwelling and business purposes, were erected, a number of them of a size and ornate style of architecture to this time here unseen. The handsome residences of Hon. R. Brown, Judge Will- iam D. Brown, Boon Mead, and Colonel L. F. Watson were among the num- ber then built.


War prices still prevailed, which, in comparison with present rates, were almost frightful Thus, flour was worth from $12 to $16 per barrel ; butter 60 cents per pound ; potatoes $1.00 per bushel ; lard 22 cents per pound ; pork 18 cents per pound, and sugar 15 to 20 cents per pound. All other commodities bought and sold -dry goods, hardware, etc., were equally as high in price, while the laborer and mechanic received but little more pay for his daily toil than he does to-day.


About the Ist of November, 1869, the buildings on Water street, occupied by Bennett, Carrie Denison, A. Ruhlman, S. M. Cogswell, P. Bysecker, Mrs. A. Ruhlman, Taylor & Messner, M. Carpenter & Co., O. H. Hunter, F. Fettee, J. F. Wells & Co., and Allen & Reeves, were destroyed by fire. In February, 1870, another conflagration raged, at the corner of Liberty and Water streets. A newspaper writer of that day said: "There were a few men who worked faithfully to subdue the flames and save property, and a very large audience collected to see them do it."


By the census enumeration of 1870 it was ascertained that the borough contained two thousand and one inhabitants. The wire foot-bridge across the Conewango was built during the same year, and a stock company organized to build a suspension bridge across the Allegheny, which structure was finished in 1871.


During the year 1872 a number of notable events occurred-Decoration Day was formally observed for the first time. The new union school building, which was completed a few months before at a cost of $23,000, was badly damaged by the' fire which destroyed the old Germania Hotel. The old pioneer, Zachariah Eddy, died at the age of ninety-four years. A street railway extending from the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad station, via Water street to Glade, was built. Two one-horse, or "bob-tail," cars were brought into use, but it appears that there were then two cars too many. The enterprise proved to be a complete failure, and after about two years the rails were taken up, and all the material shipped to some locality more populous or appreciative. During 1872, also, the Irvine family, of Irvineton, proposed to donate to the borough, for a public park, thirty acres of land, lying on the left bank of the Allegheny, about one mile below the town; but as the proposal was accom- panied by conditions requiring the immediate expenditure of a large sum of money, it was considered that for a town having no gas or water supply, nor fire apparatus worthy of mention, the luxury would prove to be too expensive,


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quite out of character; hence the proposition was respectfully declined. Gifts bestowed under conditions are not always acceptable.


The building termed the Town Hall, on the southeast corner of Third and Hickory streets, was built in 1877-78, at a cost of about $9,000.


In 1884 the substantially-built structure now occupied by the Warren Library Association was completed. For a number of years there had been a chartered public library in the town, but it had neither home nor income. Its destitution excited the sympathy of the Hon. Thomas Struthers, and aroused his beneficence. He therefore proposed to the citizens that if they would fur- nish the grounds he would build and donate to the association a structure of which all might feel proud. The site, a rather costly one, corner of Liberty and Third streets, was purchased with money contributed by L. D. Wetmore, H. A. Jamieson, William D. Brown, S. P. Johnson, F. Henry, Rasselas Brown, Willard White, C. W. Stone, M. B. Dunham, A. J. Hazeltine, O. W. Beatty, L. F. Watson, David Beatty, M. Waters, Benjamin Nesmith, A. Hertzel, H. L. Bartholomew, Robert Dennison, S. T. Allen, O. C. Allen, S. W. Waters, Christian Smith, E. T. Hazeltine, Beecher & Copeland, J. H. Eddy, F. H. Rockwell, Thomas H. De Silver, W. H. Pickett, C. H. Noyes, E. B. Frew, J. K. Palmer, Charles P. Henry, E. Cowan, O. H. Hunter & Son, Sol Cohn, J. E. Berkstresser, G. I. Mead, J. W. Jenkins, J. A. Weible, G. G. Mead, F. Barnhart, Albert Kirberger, Alice W. Jefferson, W. A. Rankin, Henry Knupp, James C. Wells, Hazeltine & Baker, George H. Ames, A. J. Davis, Medora I. Mcad, H. E. Brown, M. V. Van Etten, P. H. Towle, Manville Bros., L. G. Noyes, Henry Cobham, W. W. Wilbur, William Schnur, Rufus P. King, M. Shaeffer, S. T. Daggett, George L. Friday, John Kropp, Thomas Keelor, S. P. Schemerhorn, Fred Morck, M. Mead, S. H. Davis, S. V. Davis, George H. Leonhart, J. W. Stearns, Jane Orr, P. Greenlund, S. Keller, A. B. Miller, Rick Donovan, and A. H. McKelvy.


Not including the site, the building cost about $90,000. Besides affording spacious and elegant rooms for the books of the association and visitors, it also contains one of the handsomest and best appointed halls for the use of opera and theatrical troupes to be found in Western Pennsylvania. The post-office officials, and the publishers of the Ledger, likewise find commodious quarters within its walls.


A glance at the assessment roll of the borough for the year 1885 discloses the following pertinent facts : Value of lots and buildings, $1,514,759; number of horses and mules, 221 ; number of cows, 37 ; number of resident taxables, 1,167. The resident taxables for the year 1886 are 1, 134 in number, thus showing a decrease of 33 in twelve months. This can be accounted for, how- ever, from the fact that for ten years or more Warren has been the rendez- vous of large numbers of oil men. As residents they are an uncertain quan- tity - birds of passage, coming and going constantly. Hence many former


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short-term Warrenites can now be found in Washington county, Pa., and the Ohio oil fields.


Though the town is built upon lands the surface of which is but a few feet above the bed of the Allegheny, it is credited with an elevation of eleven hun- dred and ninety-eight feet above tide water, and six hundred and thirty-three feet above Lake Erie. Its population numbered considerably less than three thousand in 1880. The present inhabitants are estimated to be full five thou- sand in number, or more than the entire county contained in 1830. The last decade has witnessed the introduction of illuminating gas; water, of the finest quality, from Morrison's Run; the formation of an efficient fire department ; the inauguration of a system of drainage and sewage, and the utilization of natural gas as a fuel.


In the " Warren County Directory," published at the Ledger office in 1886, Judge S. P. Johnson closed a brief article relating to the borough, as follows : "Warren has always kept up even with, and sometimes a little ahead of, the enterprise and progress of the surrounding world of the same age. She had a bell in her court-house, a chartered bank, a public hall, an academy, and a street railroad before Franklin, twenty years her senior in judicial organization, enjoyed these luxuries. . For the last twenty-five years it has furnished the bench with more judges, and the legislative halls, both State and National, with more representatives than any other town of its size in the State. For some years it was the head of steamboat navigation, until bridges obstructed the river's channel. It has now within its limited territory eight churches, well supported, four hotels, four restaurants, and of saloons five too many. It abounds in dry goods, grocery, drug, hardware, shoe, millinery, clothing and fancy goods stores, mostly permanent and successful business houses. In me- chanical and manufacturing establishments Warren is well supplied - of which the iron works of Struthers, Wells & Co., the Wetmore door and sash factory, and the Jamieson pail and tub factory are the largest. Besides these there are four planing-mills, two furniture factories, and other shops and factories in almost every branch of productive industry, including Piso's cure for consump- tion, and the Warren flouring mills.


" Outside local history has given Warren the reputation, for some years past, of being a wealthy town, having large capital in proportion to its popu- lation. As an evidence of that it has had, and now has, three banks - the First National, the Citizens' National, and the Warren Savings Banks-owned entirely by her own citizens. For the fact, if it be so, it is indebted to no factious aid or circumstance ; it is the result of intelligent and persevering industry and at- tention to business for a lifetime, for which, notwithstanding the slurs of the ephemeral parasites that have floated into it upon the tide of oil develop- ments, they are entitled to much credit. All the so-called wealthy men of the town commenced life poor, and have acquired what they have, not by gam-


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bling in an oil exchange or bucket-shop, but in the prosecution of honest and legitimate business. These men came, or were here, before there were any brick buildings in Warren, and by their enterprise have made it what it is - the most permanently prosperous and beautiful little city in the western por- tion of the State."


MUNICIPAL HISTORY. - The following is believed to be a full and correct list of those who have served as burgess, town councilmen, and clerks for the borough, from its incorporation in 1832 to 1886 inclusive.


1832. - John Andrews, burgess; Thos. Struthers, clerk; council, Joseph Hackney,1 Lansing Wetmore, Zachariah Eddy, James Stewart, and Albinus Stebbins.


1833. - Joshua Turner, burgess ; Thos. Struthers, clerk ; Robert Arthur, Rufus Olney, Eben Jackson, Thomas Turner, and Scott W. Sayles.


1834. - William Pier, burgess ; Thos. Struthers, clerk ; Francis Hook, W. W. Hodges, Gilman Merrill, J. C. Gordon, and Warren L. Adams.


1835. - G. Merrill, burgess ; C. B. Curtis, clerk; Henry Sargent, Orris Hall, John Edgar, Joshua Turner, and David Jackson.


1836. - G. Merrill, burgess; C. B. Curtis, clerk; Hiram Gilman, N. B. Eldred, Geo. L. Chapel, W. W. Hodges, and J. D. Summerton.


1837 .- G. Merrill, burgess ; C. B. Curtis, clerk ; Geo. L. Chapel, J. D. Summerton, Hiram Gilman, W. W. Hodges, and N. B. Eldred.


1838. - Hiram Gilman, burgess ; C. B. Curtis, clerk ; Abraham Hazeltine, Thos. Clemons, A. H. Ludlow, Joseph Carver, and John King.


1839 .- Zachariah Eddy, burgess ; C. B. Curtis, clerk ; Lansing Wetmore, Abijah Morrison, Stephen Carver, Thos. Clemons, and A. H. Ludlow.


1840. - Robt. Falconer, burgess; C. B. Curtis, clerk ; Abijah Morrison, Lansing Wetmore, Richard S. Orr, Stephen Carver, and Zachariah Eddy. 1841 .- J. D. Summerton, burgess ; C. B. Curtis, clerk ; John Edgar, John H. King, Robert McKinney, S. G. Stevens, and H. L. Towle.


1842 .- Joseph Carver, burgess ; C. B. Curtis, clerk ; J. Y. James, John H. King, Richard Alden, Zachariah Eddy, and A. H. Ludlow.


1843. - John Edgar, burgess; C. B. Curtis, clerk; Henry L. Church, William Bell, S. G. Stevens, Silas Lacy, and Charles W. Rathbun.


1844. - S. L. Axtell, burgess; C. B. Curtis, clerk ; Aaron S. Parmlee, Lewis Arnett, S. J. Page, James HI. Eddy, and A. H. Summerton.


1845 .- Aaron S. Parmlee, burgess ; C. B. Curtis, clerk ; Wm. S. Parmlee, Jerome B. Carver, S. G. Stevens, Geo. Lobdel, and J. H. Eddy.


1846 .- Rasselas Brown, burgess ; C. Masten, jr., clerk ; H. T. Baker, R. P. King, Richard S. Orr, John II. Hull, and D. V. Stranahan.


1847. - Carlton B. Curtis, burgess ; J. D. James, clerk ; Zachariah Eddy, Stephen Carver, Calvin C. Lovell, Thos. Clemons, and J. D. Summerton.


1 June 2, 1832, at a special election, Robt. Miles was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Joseph Hackney.


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1848 .- W. W. Hodges, burgess ; L. T. Parmlee, clerk ; P. R. Bennett, G. W. Scofield, Benj. Nesmith, W. S. Parmlee, and Stephen Carver.


1849 .- Richard S. Orr, burgess ; L. T. Parmlee, clerk ; D. V. Stranahan, John A. Hall, C. W. Rathbun, Rufus P. King, and Philip Bucher.


1850. - G. A. Irvine, burgess ; John F. McPherson, clerk ; Thos. Clemons, P. R. Bennett, Geo. L. Chapel, John Edgar, and Wm. Mead.


1851 .- R. P. King, burgess; John N. Miles, clerk ; John H. Hull, Milo Parks, J. D. James, Benj. Nesmith, and Starling Waters.


1852. - G. Merrill, burgess; J. A. Morrison, clerk ; Boon Mead, J. D. James, Richard S., Orr, S. J. Page, and Milo Parks.


1853. - Milton W. Hull, burgess ; I. S. Alden, clerk ; S. J. Page, Richard S. Orr, Boon Mead, Milo Parks, and Andrew Hertzel.


1854. - Orris Hall, burgess ; F. A. Randall, clerk ; H. L. Church, John H. Hull, Stephen Carver, Rufus P. King, and Wm. S. Parmlee.


1855 .- Gilman Merrill, burgess ; Theodore C. Spencer, clerk; L. D. Wet- more, Thomas Clemons, J. B. Carver, A. Hertzel, and Peter Somers. Ap- pointed under amended charter - Rufus P. King, John H. Hull, J. Y. James, and Chester Park.


1856 .- G. Merrill, burgess; Theodore C. Spencer, clerk ; Rufus P. King, John H. Hull, L. D. Wetmore, Peter Somers, Andrew Hertzel, M. W. Hull, A. J. Davis, W. F. Kingsbury, and Thos. Clemons.


1857 .- J. D. James, burgess; S. N. Dickinson, clerk ; S. D. Hall, John M. Olney, George Offerlee, M. W. Hull, A. J. Davis, W. F. Kingsbury, Rufus P. King, John H. Hull, and L. D. Wetmore.


1858 .- J. D. James, burgess ; D. J. Hodges, clerk ; A. J. Davis, John H. Hull, John M. Olney, J. B. Carver, George Offerlee, C. W. H. Verback, S. D. Hall, W. F. Kingsbury, A. Brock.


1859 .- Thos. Clemons, burgess ; G. Merrill, clerk; C. W. H. Verback, A. Brock, George Offerlee, John M. Olney, S. Burgess, J. B. Carver, John Sill, E. T. F. Valentine, S. D. Hall.


1860 .- G. N. Parmlee, burgess; H. Allen, clerk ; E. T. F. Valentine, A. Brock, C. W. H. Verback, Starling Waters, Christian Keller, John Sill, Chris- tian Smith, S. Burgess, and Andrew Hertzel.


1861 .- J. B. Carver, burgess ; J. A. Neill, clerk; L. Arnett, J. H. Hull, C. Smith, John Sill, A. J. Davis, Andrew Hertzel, Christian Keller, Seneca Bur- gess, and E. T. F. Valentine.


1862 .- G. N. Parmlee, burgess ; S. T. Allen, clerk ; L. Arnett, A. Hertzel, George Offerlee, Christian Keller, John F. Davis, John Honhart, A. J. Davis, J. H. Hull, O. H. Hunter. C. Smith resigned.


1863 .- S. J. Page, burgess ; Thos. Clemons, clerk ; L. Arnett, A. Hertzel, J. H. Hull, J. F. Davis, George Offerlee, O. H. Hunter, Rufus P. King, M. W. Hull, and A. J. Davis.


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1864 .- L. Arnett, burgess ; Chas. Dinsmoor, clerk; G. N. Parmlee, A. B. McKain, Thos. Clemons, John F. Davis, O. H. Hunter, A. Hertzel, R. P. King, George Offerlee, and M. W. Hull.


1865 .- L. Arnett, burgess; Chas. Dinsmoor, clerk; R. P. King, R. D. Bartlett, J. H. Hull, Thos. Clemons, A. B. McKain, P. Bucher, A. Hertzel, G. N. Parmlee, and M. W. Hull.


1866 .- L. Arnett, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk ; J. H. Hull, R. K. Rus- sell, A. P. Wetmore, R. D. Bartlett, Philip Bucher, G. N. Parmlee, John B. Brown, Thos. Clemons, and Chas. Dinsmoor.


1867 .- J. S. Page, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk; Philip Bucher, J. H. Hull, B. F. Morris, M. Schaffer, S. Keller, jr., C. Dinsmoor, R. K. Russell, R. D. Bartlett, and A. P. Wetmore.


1868 .- A. Hertzel, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk; R. K. Russell, Philip Bucher, C. Dinsmoor, F. A. Randall, S. Keller, jr., B. F. Morris, J. H. Hull, A. P. Wetmore, and M. Schaffer.


1869 .- S. J. Page, burgess ; Rufus P. King, clerk ; J. H. Hull, S. Keller, B. F. Morris, C. Dinsmoor, John M. Olney, M. Schaffer, L. W. Arnett (died), F. A. Randall, and Philip Bucher.


1870 .- E. T. F. Valentine, burgess ; Rufus P. King, clerk ; J. H. Hull, John M. Olney, Philip Bucher, George Offerlee, C. Dinsmoor, F. A. Randall, J. H. Eddy, Seneca Burgess, and S. H. Davis.


1871. - E. T. F. Valentine, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk ; J. H. Hull, John M. Olney, J. H. Eddy, Geo. Offerlee, S. Burgess, S. H. Davis, J. H. Mitchell, C. Dinsmoor, F A. Randall.


1872. - Charles Dinsmoor, burgess ; Rufus P. King, clerk ; J. H. Mitchell, S. Burgess, J. H. Hull, F. A. Randall, James Nesmith, C. W. Stone, James Clark, jr., S. H. Davis, and J. H. Eddy.


1873. - John Sill, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk ; Seneca Burgess, Wm. Ryan, H. A. Jamieson, C. W. Stone, James Clark, jr., James Nesmith, F. A. Randall, John M. Davidson (removed), J. H. Hull (died Aug., 1873). D. W. C. James and Geo. Ott elected to fill vacancies.


1874. - John Sill, burgess ; Rufus P. King, clerk ; James Clark, jr., A. Hertzel, C. W. Stone, M. B. Dunham, George Ott, Wm. Ryan, S. Burgess, G. H. Ames, and James Nesmith.


1875 .- E. B. Eldred, burgess ; Rufus P. King, clerk; James Clark, jr., A. Hertzel, M. B. Dunham, George Ott, Wm. Ryan, W. C. Rowland, G. H. Ames, E. G. Wood, and S. Burgess.


1876. - W. H. Pickett, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk ; James Clark, jr., A. Hertzel, M. Spaulding, W. C. Rowland, M. B. Dunham, P. J. Falconer, G. H. Ames, E. G. Wood, and Geo. L. Friday.


1877 .- C. H. Noyes, burgess ; Rufus P. King, clerk ; James Clark, jr., A. J. Davis, M. Spaulding, Geo. L. Friday, E. G. Wood, Peter Greenlund, W. C. Rowland, Wm. L. Lewis, and P. J. Falconer.


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1878. - M. Miles, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk ; James Clark, jr., A. Hertzel, A. J. Davis, S. Burgess, Peter Greenlund, M. Spaulding, J. H. Palmer, G. L. Friday, and P. J. Falconer.


1879. - S. T. Allen, burgess ; Geo. O. Cornelius, clerk ; A. J. Davis, D. S. McNett, S. Burgess, T. J. Clemons, A. W. Morck, F. Barnhart, W. H. Heck, A. Hertzel, Peter Greenlund.


1880. - S. T. Allen, burgess ; Geo. O. Cornelius, clerk ; D. S. McNett, A. Hertzel, A. W. Morck, Robert Dennison, C. A. Waters, W. H. Heck, T. J. Clemons, S. Burgess, and F. Barnhart.


1881 .- S. T. Allen, burgess ; Geo. O. Cornelius, clerk; D. S. McNett, A. W. Morck, C. A. Waters, W. H. Heck, A. Conarro, Robert Dennison, George H. Leonhart, A. J. Hazeltine, FF. Barnhart.


1882. - H. A. Jamieson, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk; A. J. Hazeltine, Robert Dennison, G. H. Leonhart, L. T. Borchers, A. Conarro, C. A. Waters, J: A. Bell, A. W. Morck, J. H. Eddy.


1883. - Geo. P. Orr, burgess; Rufus P. King, clerk ; S. H. Davis, G. H. Leonhart, J. C. Siechrist, J. A. Bell, S. M. Cogswell, A. J. Hazeltine, L. T. Borchers, A. Conarro, J. H. Eddy.


1884. - Geo. P. Orr, burgess ; Rufus P. King, clerk ; S. H. Davis, J. A. Bell, S. M. Cogswell, F. M. Knapp, J. H. Eddy, Joseph Walkerman, L. T. Borchers, J. C. Siechrist, August Morck, jr.


1885-C. C. Thompson, burgess ; F. A. Cogswell, clerk; S. H. Davis, S. M. Cogswell, J. C. Siechrist, August Morck, jr., F. M. Knapp, Joseph Walkerman, Robert MacKay, Wm. Schnur, A. A. Davis.


1886 .- A. W. Morck, burgess; F. A. Cogswell, clerk ; F. M. Knapp, Joseph Walkerman, August Morck, jr., Robert MacKay, William Schnur, A. A. Davis, Christian Smith, J. W. Crawford. P. J. Bayer.


Since the incorporation of the borough, by the provisions of various acts of the General Assembly, passed from time to time, the corporate limits have been widely extended, and the authority of the town council largely increased. The public grounds on the southeast and southwest corners of Market and High streets, as shown upon the original plot of the town, likewise valuable strips of land along the Allegheny and Conewango not included in the original survey, as well as lands bordering upon Water street east of Market, have been, under such authorization, transferred by the borough to individuals.


By scanning the minutes of proceedings of early councils, a few matters of interest, perhaps, to present residents have been ascertained. Thus, at a meet- ing held June 16, 1832, $80 were appropriated to grade and turnpike portions of Fifth, Liberty, and High streets; but a few weeks later the resolution was rescinded. At the same meeting - June 16, 1832 - ten dollars were voted to improve the road leading from Water street down to the eddy near A. Tan- ner's storehouse on the bank of the Allegheny river, by cutting a ditch on


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the upper side, "and prevent the water from running over and across the same, and by filling up the holes already washed next the wall in the lower side thereof." Fifteen dollars were also appropriated to be applied in reducing the grade of hills near John Andrews's office and the house of Lansing Wetmore. On the 4th of August, 1832, council met and " took into consideration the remonstrance of sundry citizens against the improvement of High street-No. 15 on the files, and the same being under consideration, adopted the following resolution, viz .: Resolved, That the said Remonstrance is couched in disre- spectful and indecorous [terms] and that therefore the same be discharged from further consideration."




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