History of the counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections; including their early settlement and development; a description of the historic and interesting localities; sketches of their cities, towns and villages biographies of representative citizens; outline history of Pennsylvania; statistics, Part 113

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) comp. cn; J.H. Beers & Co., pub
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1320

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Fires. - The first fire at Emporium was that of December 11, 1862, which destroyed the Emporium Hotel, then conducted by N. L. Dyke and owned by the P. & E. Land Company. The location was in the lower part of town, where J. L. Overhiser's building, the American Hotel, Mrs. Genung's store and Dr. Bryan's store stood in 1876, and later years .... The fire of March, 1869, destroyed part of the tannery and several hundred cords of bark, all valued at $6,000, but covered by insurance. .... The fire of September, 1870, originated in the Felt or old block of seven stories in the lower part of the town, then vacated as a place of business. The old landmark was swept away and also C. C. Fay's dwelling and liquor store; Borgelt lost his furniture and mil- linery goods; VanCuren, Fitch and Norris, dwelling on the second floor, lost their property, while J. P. Felt lost a lot of bark. B. F. Barrett of Philadel- phia, was owner of the old building.

The fire of December 18, 1872, originated in Joel Shive's building. In it he carried on a grocery store, and C. H. Cowles' bakery, J. N. Campbell's building, on the west, was destroyed, and also James Hogan's new house. The total losses were about $9,000, partly insured. Christ. Madison, a German, was seriously injured while engaged in pulling down Hogan's house ..... The fire of January 8, 1873, originated in Cook's block. and spread until all the territory between Narby's block on Broad street and Penny's block on fourth street was destroyed, the last-named building being saved with difficulty. Among the business houses given up to the flames were John Campbell's hardware store, L. Taggart's drug store and the post office, J. Deubler's tailoring house, DeLong & Dillon's drug store, J. D. Mercereau's boot and shoe store, W. J. Goodwin's photograph rooms, Madame Hitchcock's millinery. The dwellings or residence rooms burned out were John Anderson's, J. Duebler's. M. T. Hogan's, Gallup's, W. D. White's, H. T. Taggart's, John S. Donglass', William Morrison's, George Kimball's and W. J. Goodwin's.

The fire of February 12, 1874, originated in Swaney's tobacco store in Wil- lard's building, where I. A. Hirsch carried on the jeweler's trade, and Will- iam Webb kept a barber shop. In the adjoining building was Madame Rock- well's millinery and Cowles' bakery .... The fire of June 15, 1874, destroyed Bryan & Co.'s saw-mill, entailing a loss of $6,000, while the citizens saved an immense amount of the company's property. Fagots from the mill set the town on fire at several places, but the people combated the flames successfully, leaving the mill to its fate. . . . The fire of November, 1874, originated in J. S. Wiley's barn, and resulted in the destruction of 700,000 feet of lumber valued at $15,000. ... The fire of December 9, 1874, destroyed Hamilton, Mar- tin & Co.'s tannery, in which were 25,000 hides. ... The fire of February 22,

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1875, destroyed the Phelps' block, Thomas Creaton's Union Hotel, Riley War- ner's hotel, John Creaton's new building, and crossing Broadway destroyed the Biddle House and Rockwell's new block on Fourth street. In the Phelps' block were Miner & Co., H. L. Putzell, Tulis & Hogan, P. J. MeDougal, Mrs. Hitchcock, and the Masonic, P. O. S. of A. and I. O. G. T. halls.

The fire of March, 1876, destroyed the Burns Block on Fourth street, then occupied by Olmsted & Burns as a grocery, Charles Evans' grocery, Angus McDonald's saloon, while above were the quarters of William Burns, A. McDonald, Addison Gross, Mike Miller and George Hand, who barely escaped. The fire engine saved Taggart's and Holden's dwellings .. .. In April. 1875, Leet & Olmsted's building, opposite Cook's hotel. was burned .... The fire of November, 26, 1877, originated in the brick block where Walker, Howard & Co.'s brick block now stands. J. L. Cook valued the building at $18,000. but had it insured for $10,000. The Press office was destroyed, entailing a loss of $3,500 on Mr. Gould; L. Taggart, who kept the drug store and post- office, lost $1,000; the Masonic lodge. $1,500; chapter, $1,500; J. H. Schan- backer, proprietor of the then new hotel, $300; H. T. Taggart, assignee of Phelps & Matteson, dry goods, etc., $150; Dr. J. T. Lanning, William Mor- rison, boots and shoes, and Union Express office. A Mr. Canfield died a few days later from burns received .... Prior to this several dwellings were de- stroyed, among them J. B. Newton's, Hertig's and Sowers'. Cook's hotel, a large three-story house was destroyed May 2, 1884; entailing a loss of $10,000 of which $4,000 was insured.

The great fire of August 2, 1884, destroyed twenty-one business places and $130,000 worth of property. This fire originated in the Central Hotel over Heilman's drug store. The following is a list of the sufferers, commencing at the corner of Chestnut Street: Parsons' block-Larrabee's book store. Gra- ham's barber shop, A. Hirsch's jewelry store, Mrs. W. D. White's photograph gallery and residence; Hogan's block-Spuller's store, billiard saloon and residence, H. J. Sassman's store and residence; Shives' block-Frank Shives' store, the Shives House; Heilman's building-Heilman's drug store, Central hotel, J. B. Grimshaw, proprietor; H. C. Olmsted's building-Olmsted's store, the Central hotel extending over the upper rooms of the building; Doug- las block -Edgcomb, Douglass & Co.'s store on first floor, three families, Messrs. Avery, Woodley and Guppy on second floor; Hackenberg's store and residence; Opera House block-Balcom & Lloyd's store, Walker's store, H. C. Rockwell's and Adolph Jager's residences, and the opera house on third floor; Metzger's building-George Metzger's store, J. C. Metzger's law office, Odd Fellow's hall; McDonald building-J. A. Dorr & Sons' store; Newton & Green's law office; A. A. McDonald's building-McDonald's billiard parlors, Fred Collins' residence; J. C. Johnson's law office; Leggett's building-Mc- (fee's restaurant and residence; Graham's residence; James Johnson's resi- dence: house owned by George Metzger-making a total of seventeen build- ings, besides a dozen ont-buildings, warehouses. ice-houses, sheds, etc., a total of twenty-four business places, and fifteen residences.

The former Warner House was destroyed by fire November 30. 1855, the fire being the result of the explosion of the hall lamp. Sheriff Smith and S. H. Storrs, who had their rooms in the bank building opposite, gave the alarm at 2 o'clock that cold morning, about the same moment that Riley Warner gave the alarm, and the latter, with John R. Wilson, the colored porter, awoke the guests-the former being severely burned in his race to save them. It was now too late to find an exit by the doors, although Norman Warner led his mother and Miss Cole through the smoke to the street. Mrs. N. P. Warner

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cast her child from the second floor into the arms of Riley Warner, who had just leaped from that floor to the sidewalk; the mother leaped after, to a mattress, escaping with a broken ankle; Miss Lizzie Warner leaped to the pavement, and sprained her ankle. David Hayes, who had room No. 6, on the third floor, fled to the roof, but he was so closely pursued, that he was com- pelled to leap to the yard, where he was found insensible. John R. Wilson es- caped from room No. 7 by the same means. Edwin Shultz also escaped, after receiving severe burns, while Elmer Steele, his room mate, descended from the roof by the flag rope and flag to the street. Henry Greeves and Charles Fisher jumped from the second floor. Barney MeCauley, in escaping, fell on the shoulders of H. H. Mullin. Sandy MeDougal descended by a ladder from the roof. E. G. Sheldon made an effort to escape by a rope made of sheet- ings, but this breaking, he fell to the ground. John Wilt leaped from the third story window, Fred Hill, John Hill, S. Shadman and Henry Burns, from the second story. James Kilpatrick, Dornblazer and his wife took time to make their bed clothes into ropes, and escaped from the second floor. A. H. Boyn- ton cooly prepared for escape, put on his gloves. and calling for a plank ladder, descended quietly. J. W. Phelps leaped from the second story. George Poor- man, the barber, who slept in his shop near by, knew nothing of the fire until he was going to breakfast. The building of the present house was at once commenced, and in July, 1886, was opened. This is a large brick three- story building, on the site of the former one, built especially for hotel purposes, heated by steam, lighted by gas, and in every way complete. Since its open- ing, the doors have never been closed, a night clerk attending to the office and house with as much regularity as in the day time.

The first fire in East Emporium occurred February 24, 1886, in S. S. Hacket's smith and wheelwright shop. On March 2 the J. E. McDonald building was destroyed, together with Charles Weller's two stores and dwell- ing. Cook's stables, the Gibson House, the old saloon building, S. S. Hacket's wheelwright shop, while adjoining buildings were scorched ... . The old Biddle House in the West ward, occupied by Housler as a flour and feed store, was burned November 17, 1888. .. . The fire of June, 1889, originated in the Bryan Block. Before sufficient water was sent into the pipes the fire had half con- sumed the block, and had communicated to the Wiley building on the west and Mrs. Genung's on the east, and they both fell a prey to the devouring ele- ment. In the meantime the barns of F. D. Leet and the American Hotel, standing back from the street, caught fire, and were also consumed, and it looked at one time as if the American and Cook's Hotels would go with the others.

Flood of 1889 .- The following is the estimated damage and loss in Emporium borough to the parties named, by the flood of June 1. 1889: Reynolds & Stoddard, $600; J. P. Felt. $700; Hacket & Sons, $3.000: F. D. Leet, $300; Mrs. J. M. Judd, $100; R. D. Hacket, $75; Kelly property, $30; David Murry, $100; T. N. Hacket, $75; Mrs. M. E. Beers, $80; S. L. Barton, $50; Jonathan Gifford, $50; S. J. Hacket, $100; C. C. Fay, $300; John Keller, $75; Mrs. Owens, $75; Samnel Parker. $200; Dan Armstrong, $50; Elmer Klock, $150; H. J. Smith, $25; Farnam property. $40; James Welch, $100: Holbrook property, $200; Mrs. Maze, $200; James Fartell, $25; Creaton Hotel, $500; Goodyear & Goodman, $150; Len Taggart, 8400; Frank Mundy, $50; W. B. Thompson, $300; M. C. Tulis, 8500; D. H. Lamb, $500; John Haver, $100; M. M. Larrabee, $600; Rev. Bosworth, $1,200: C. M. Woodley, 8100; Dan Sullivan, $100; B. Apple- stein, $3,060; Frank Shives, $1,000; Mrs. A. E. Crane, $1,200; John Farrell, $100; H. J. Sassman, $200; H. C. Rockwell, $100; Edwin Schultz, $100;

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Hockley, Bonham & Day, $2,000; Thomas Cavanauge, $200; Thomas McDon- augh, $200; D. S. McDonald, $200; John Arthur, $150; Thomas Gallagher, $50; Bridget Hogan, $200; F. W. Yentzer, $300; I. K. Hockley, on furniture, $300; Mankey Furniture Company, $500; Mrs. Kate Hennessy, $300; John Vodack, $200; Pat Mundy, $150; A. Loucks, $250; P. Fitzpatrick, $200; H. C. Olmsted, $75; W. C. Clarke, $100; J. S. Douglass, $1.000; George Metz- ger, $800; J. M. Card, $1.500; J. C. Metzger, 8100; F. Hausler, $1,000; William Morrison, $300; H. W. Graham, $200; C. L. Butler, $150; J. C. Johnson, 8100; A. A. McDonald, $800; Walker, Howard & Co., $800; G. A. Walker, $400; Riley Warner, $500; Thomas Pelkey, $200; Pat Conners, $300; B. Coyle, $500; Mrs. Hurteau, $300; Mrs. R. M. Overhiser, 850: J. B. Schriever, 8500; Mrs. Poorman, $50; William McDonald, $200: M. Harris, $800; J. M. Havens, $150: W. M. Murray, $200; Mrs. D. P. Catlin, $150; Mrs. Borgelt, $300: H. L. Burns. $200; A. Montania. $40; H. S. Lloyd, $50; L. Weiss, 850; William Murray, $150; William McGee, $500; R. R. McQuay, $800; Henry Edgcomb, $1,500; D. Harris & Co., $1.000; Balcom & Lloyd, $600; M. T. Hogan, $100; Michael Burke, $75; Tom Creaton, $300; H. T. Tag- gart, $150; A. L. Vogt, $100; Mrs. L. Housler, $80; Frank Spaulding, $25; Mrs. Conery, $75; Dr. Heilman, $100; James Davin, $300; Mike Zimit, $50. In Shippen township among the principal losers were J. S. Wiley. $12. - 000 to $15.000; Beechwood Lumber Company, $3,000 to $5,000; Alfred Tru- man, $3,000 to $4.000; J. R. Buckwalter, $1,000 to $1,500; Allen Russell, $1,000; James Matteson, $500; Whitemore & Gaskill. $1,200.

CONCLUSION.

Emporium is the largest receiving and despatching freight depot between Williamsport and Erie. The iron company paid, during 1SS9, the sum of 855.000 to the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Company, for freight received; J. P. Felt, about $12.000; the tannery company a large sum, and the Mankey Furniture Company and the Climax Powder Company proportionately large sums for freight received. This is only the beginning of the end. The location and natural advantages of the place, outlined in the name bestowed at the close of the last century, fit it to take a leading place among the great manufacturing centers of the commonwealth. A writer, speaking through the columns of the Commercial Gazette, in September of 1889, says: "The mer- chants are the men who have raised Emporium to its present important position as a commercial center. They were the ones who started the boom that has developed so substantially. They cling to progressive ideas. The land on which Emporium stands was owned by the Philadelphia & Erie Land Com- pany, of which B. W. Green is agent. They at one time had a thousand lots, and still own a great many. These are selling at from $250 to $300 each, and every one is 50x100 feet. The purchaser pays $25 at the date of sale. and the same amount quarterly thereafter until the full amount is paid. And the National Savings and Loan Association, of Rochester, N. Y., has a permanent board here. So it will be seen that the opportunity for building a home in Emporium, cheaply and with little money to invest, is an excellent one. The iron company have here in one solid body, in addition to the twenty acres on which the furnace is located, more than 10,000 acres of land, fully one half of which contains a second-growth of pine, hemlock and a variety of hard-wood timber. Very nearly all of this land is underlaid with coal, while a three foot vein of iron ore is under at least one-third of it; and it also contains an abund- ance of building stone and flagstone, the excellence of which is attested by the

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extensive use of them in this city and elsewhere." The possibilities of Empo- rium are only limited by the enterprise of her citizens. How far they may carry out their designs of progress can not now be measured, but location, material and men are here to warrant great things in the future.

CHAPTER IX.

GIBSON TOWNSHIP-BOROUGH OF DRIFTWOOD.

GIBSON TOWNSHIP -BOUNDARY AND AREA - ELEVATIONS AND STREAMS - POPULATION AND ASSESSMENTS-ELECTION, 1844-MISCELLANEOUS. BOROUGH OF DRIFTWOOD - ORIGIN OF THE PLACE-SOME FIRST THINGS - INCORPORATION-MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS-THE PLACE IN 1876-MANUFACTURES, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC .- HOTELS-CHURCHES-SCHOOLS-SOCIETIES AND ASSOCI- ATIONS-CONCLUSION.

G 1 IBSON TOWNSHIP, bounded north by Lumber, west by Elk county, east by Grove township, and south by Clearfield county, is twelve and a quarter miles in length along its eastern line, eleven and three quarters along its western line, eight and one-third miles wide in its northern half, and seven and one-eighth miles in its southern half, being the second township in point of area in the county. The highest points measured are 2,252 feet above ocean level, while Driftwood depot is only 843 feet above the ocean; the railroad bridge, below Huntley, 872 feet; Huntley depot, 882 feet; top of hill, two and a half miles from Huntley, 2,137 feet; and summit, northwest of farmhouse, 2.297 feet. The highway at Trump's dwelling is 2,072, and over ridge, south of Trump's, 2,122 feet above level; where the Sinnemahoning enters Clinton county it is only 787 feet above the ocean, or 760 above tide level. The feeders of the Sinnemahoning in this township are Mason run and Big run, rising in Lumber township: Big run, Dry run, Tanglefoot run and Grove run, flowing south - west or south from the divide, the latter entering the river at Grove's Battle- ground, just west of Sinnemahoning depot. A number of small streams enter from the southwest, while Bennett's branch* forms a confluence at Driftwood ou the west side and Wykoff's run, near the Barclay mills, at Wyside. Bennett's branch claims Mix run as principal feeder in this township, while Upper Jerry run rises in the southeast corner.

The population in 1880, outside Driftwood borough (504), was 700; in No- vember, 1888, there were eighty-four Republican and seventy-six Democratic voters, and on this basis the population is now estimated at 960. Driftwood gave fifty Republican and forty-seven Democratic votes, and by the same process of calculation the population would be 582, over 400 below the true figures. Wing & Getchell and Jacob Coleman were merchants in Gibson township in 1850, and John Brooks in 1851. There were forty-nine dwellings, fifty families, 332 persous, thirty-four farms and seven industries. In 1852-53, Brobst & Co .. J. T. Crosier & Co. and J. & W. Brooks, were the dealers. The assess- ments for 1889, of township and borough, were as follows:

This branch was so named after William Bennett, who first settled at Benezette abont 1811, who is said to have broken up his land with milch cows harnessed as oxen.

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GIBSON.

DRIFTWOOD.

290 taxables. Exempt, $7,000.

161 taxables.

Exempt, $5,000.

Occupation ..

6,305

Occupation.

$ 4.795

Seated real estate .. 50,886

Seated real estate. 35,618

Unseated real estate 122,228

L'nseated real estate. 1,305

145 cows and oxen.

1.846

124 horses.

4,062

Total $185,327

Money, etc., at interest, $25,610.97

Money, etc., at interest, $22.508.19

The March elections of 1861, for Gibson township, resulted as follows: Justice of the peace. - Samuel Barr. 24; Asa Inglesbee. 17. Constable .- G. W. Tanner, 27. Supervisor. - Washington Mason, 16; James Wylie, Jr., 21. Auditor. - William Barr, 18: Henry Mason, 24. Election inspectors. - Isaac Smith, 9: Joseph Lane. 5. Assessor. -- James Mason, 16. Clerk .-- Henry Ma- son, 7. School directors .- Isaac Smith, 23; Henry Mason, 15. Judge of elec- tion. - William Nelson, 23.

The clerks, inspectors and judge of this election, were William Nelson, Isaac Smith and W. E. Jourdan.

In the records of Elk county the election returns of this township, of Feb- ruary 27, 1844, appear: William Shepard and William M. Mason were elected justices; James Barr and Jacob Smith, supervisors; Daniel Smith, constable; Hezekiah Mix, Thomas Dent and William Montgomery, assessors; Joshua Idells, treasurer; E. C. Wykoff, Ralph Johnson, James Wylie, Samuel Con- way, William Barr and Joe Mason, Jr., school directors; William Montgomery. clerk; John Shafer, Jos. Mason and William Johnson, poor overseers; W. Brooks, W. Coleman and R. Johnson, auditors; B. Hollingsworth, judge; with M. Spangler and G. Hollingsworth, inspectors of elections; Solomon Mix and Solomon Bailey, fence-viewers. C. E. Wykoff and W. M. Mason were elected justices in 1849.

The officers of Gibson township, chosen in February, 1890, are Nelson D. Jordan and John R. Hicks, supervisors: George E. Wylie, clerk; John Mc- Millen, constable: George W. Huntley, Jr., and W. U. Barr, auditors; H. M. Bailey, overseer of poor. F. A. Blackwell received 69 votes, A. W. Mason 37, and Anson Mason 34 votes, for school directors. John W. Nelson was elected justice.

Grant Station post-office, on Bennett's Branch Railroad, twelve miles from Driftwood. was established in 1873, a year before the completion of the Low Grade Railroad.

John Coleman, who died in Grove township in April, 1886, was born near Muncy in 1810, and was brought to this section about that time. His father owned the site of Driftwood, also the Huntley farm and lands up Bennett's branch as far as Dent's. The Coleman property was sold to the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company in 1872, and their shops are located on part of this purchase. Mrs. Sally Johnson, who died in May. 1889, is said to be the last member of the original Coleman family, although a Mrs. Colegrove is thought to be still living in Wisconsin . ... Benjamin Smith, who was accidently killed at Castle Garden, June 25, 1857, was born at Huntley, April 5, 1820, and in 1839 married Ann Eliza Mix. She died in 1868.

The Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, begun in 1859, was completed through this township in 1864, and the Low Grade Division of the Allegheny Valley Railroad, begun in 1869, was completed in 1874. ... Between the years 1804 and 1815 the pioneers came hither, as written in the general chapter on the settle- ment of the county and in the history of Shippen township. In 1806 the

39 cows. 168

19 horses. 580

Total. $42.766

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Spanglers settled on the Driftwood branch. In 1848 Michael Spangler located in Jay township, Elk county, where he died in August, 1877.

BOROUGH OF DRIFTWOOD.

Driftwood, formerly known as "The Second Forks," is the site of one of the first settlements of this county. The celebrated hunter, John Jordan, built his cabin at this point in 1804, and following him came the pioneers of industry named in the pages devoted to pioneer history.

The first store was opened by Jacob Coleman in 1834, about the sight of the Lafayette House. Samuel Brobst and John Coleman built a house near the south end of the railroad bridge, and opened a store there. This building is still standing. G. R. Vosburg came about 1853, and then O. J. Spafford. Bates & Coryell, a little later Rothrock. De Witt & Co., and then J. O. Brookbank. In 1862-63, during the construction of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, the village cast aside the swaddling clothes of a hamlet, and during the building of the Low Grade Railroad assumed higher pretensions. The leading residents at that time are named in a document from which the following paragraph is taken: The petition for the incorporation of Drift- wood was presented August 15, 1871, by the following named citizens: O. J. Spafford, D. J. McDonald, H. E. Gore, S. Miller. C. Y. White, J. M. Fillmar, C. F. Laughton, T. M. Hains, Edward Hatton, W. Harkenberg, J. O. Brook- bank, Joshua Lupole, John Knnes, Jacob Shaffer, F. Bush, Scott W. Jones, Patrick MeInerney, M. Cullinan, M. McMahon, Patrick Creevy, Frank Hagon- bush, Thomas Liddey, Thomas Barrington, H. J. McDonald, J. Gleason, H. E. Chamberlin, D. P. Polen, Levi Musser, George B. Patshel, J. B. Coryell, Joseph L. Bates, Anthony McCabe, Ed. Vosburg, M. O'Brien, J. Lupro, J. D. Whitman, George D. Kincaid, William Roache. John Kane, Reb. Bolton, Clark Beatty, J. Doulanghautz, J. D. Withem, John McMahon. The petition was considered and granted January 17, 1872, the election ordered for February 6; C. F. Laughton was appointed judge, with J. O. Brookbank and C. L. White, inspectors.

Municipal Affairs. - The charter election of Driftwood, held February 6, 1872, resulted as follows: O. J. Spafford, burgess, twenty-one votes: H. E. Chamberlin, fifteen; D. B. Polen, nineteen; Joshua Lupole, six votes for jus- tice of the peace; William Roach, twenty-two; D. J. McDonald, twenty-two; Wesley Chamberlin, twenty-two; E. Vosburg, twenty-four; L. W. Gifford, twenty-two, and David Lupro, twenty three votes for councilmen; C. Y. White, twenty-two for assessor; J. O. Brookbank, twenty-three for auditor; A. J. McDonald and John Kunes, elected poor-masters; David English, twenty for constable: D. J. McDonald, twenty-two for constable and collector; Levi Musser. W. F. Mizhols, L. Gifford, William Roach, twenty-two votes each; E. Vosburg and O. J. Spafford, twenty one each for school directors.

The officers elected since 1872 are named in the following list:

Burgess .- L. Musser. 1873; J. S. Bates, 1874; Ed. Vosburg, 1875; C. Y. White, 1876-77; Robert Rothrock. 1878-79; F. A. Blackwell (tie vote with Rothrock), 1879; F. A. Blackwell, 1880: Levi Dougherty, 1881-82; James P. McNarney, 1883; R. L. Earl, 1884; R. Rothrock, 1885-86; S. S. Smith, 1887; F. F. Kirk, 1888.

Councilmen .- J. S. Bates, 1873-75-76; E. Hatten, 1873; H. E. Chamber- lin, C. F. Laughton, 1873-74; Ed Vosburg. 1873-76; A. J. McDonald, 1873-80-83; J. P. Horman, 1874; H. C. Gore, 1874; William Roach,' 1875- 76; C. F. Laughton, 1875; William Gore, 1875; J. B. Earl, 1875; J. O. Brookbank, 1876; Ira DeWitt, 1876; D. J. McDonald, 1876-78-79; Bernard

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Nefcy, 1877-78; Jacob Shaffer, 1877; R Rothrock, 1877-80-82-83-87; W. A. Hatten. 1877-78-79-80-82; C. MeMinn, 1878; John I. MeCarty, 1878; Milo Fitzgerald, 1880; Samuel Buck, 1881; M. F. Leslie, 1881; Daniel Nolan, 1881; S. S. Smith, 1882; A. H Parsons, 1883; F. G. Rothrock, 1883; T. J. Riley, 1884-86-87; A. R. McDonald, 1884; J. B. Grimshaw, 1884: C. F. Laughton, 1884; Samuel Louck, 1884. W. G. Sanders, 1884-85-86; J. O. Brookbank, 1885-88; Ed. Bishop, 1885; Walter Scott, 1886; D. B. Reed, ISSS.

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Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) comp. cn; J.H. Beers & Co., pub Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1320

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) comp. cn; J.H. Beers & Co., pub
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1320