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 141

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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There were nineteen tax payers in 1853, and 154 in 1889, with property valued at $127.816. The population in 1880 was 374. In 1888 there were forty-one Republican, fifty-seven Democratic and one Union Labor votes cast, representing 495 inhabitants. The resident tax-payers of West Branch in

A. J. TUCKER & CO. MANUFACTURERS OF HIPPER LEATHER ROULETTE, TOTTER CO. FA.

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1849 were Harvey Allen, Cal. Burrows, Alonzo Bradley, C. C. Burdett, Eras- tus Crippen, Henry Crippen, Sill. Conable, Wm. Davis, O. B. Goodman. Wm. Gross, L. Hammond, John Ives, Joseph Johnson, Oliver Knickerbocker, Amasa Knickerbocker, Thomas Padgett, Waters & Doolittle and S. Wetmore. Erastus Crippen, of West Branch, writes that West Branch township was settled "in or about the year 1835. The first settlement was begun on the West branch, near a mile above the forks, where Pine creek and the branch come together, and is the site where my farm and dwelling now is, by Levi Ives. He was killed by a falling tree shortly after he began clearing." Z. S. Bunnel was the first blacksmith. The first settlement of the southern portion of the town- ship was begun by a portion of Ole Bull's colony. They were Danes and Norwegians.

The first saw mill was built in West Branch township in 1850, by Daniel Dewey and Theodore Larrison .... The first school was taught in West Branch township by Irene Skinner, in 1849 .... The first school-house was built in West Branch in 1857 .... The first church organization in West Branch town- ship took place in 1862, by the Free Will Baptists. Rev. Stillwell was the first preacher .... At West Branch village is the general store of Willis Conable ... Cherry Spring post-office is located in the extreme west part of the township on the proposed Sinnemahoning Valley Railroad.

The township officers, elected in February, 1890, are named as follows: Justice of the peace, Willis Conable; auditor. L. Zundel; supervisor, Charles French; constable, John Diseroth; collector, John Diseroth; school directors, Charles Prouty, Ben Maines; treasurer, C. Shumaker; town clerk, L. F. Rice; overseer of the poor, Charles Prouty; judge of election, A. P. Longee; inspect- ors of election, Joseph Keller, Will Osgood.

CHAPTER XXI.

ROULETTE TOWNSHIP.

TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL ADVANTAGES -- POPULATION IN 1880-TAXABLES IN 1831-EARLY NAMES-THE GERMANS-PRIMITIVE PRICES-EARLY BAPTISTS- INDUSTRIES-SCHOOLS-MISCELLANEOUS-ELECTIONS IN FEBRUARY, 1890- VILLAGE OF ROULETTE-ITS SCHOOL, BUSINESS, ETC .- FLOODS-SOCIETIES.

R OULETTE TOWNSHIP, located north of Keating and west of Eulalia, is made up of the rich valley of the Allegheny and the foot-hills of the north and south divide. The Hebron anticlinal crosses the township from northeast to southwest. The Allegheny enters near the the southeast corner and leaves in the west center at Burtville; near by, on the north side, is the Sartwell creek confluence. This creek is ted by many rivulets from its head waters in Pleasant Valley township to the mouth. At Roulette Fishing creek joins the river, flowing from the Clara divide; a few miles east of Roulette Trout brook comes down from the north, and at regular intervals swift, clear streams leap down to join the parent river. Clara and Lanning creeks, with a half dozen small streams, enter the river from the south, flowing from the sum- mit divide. In the Trout brook neighborhood, as well as on the last-named creeks, coal measures exist. In the neighborhood of Roulette glacial moraine

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material appears to cover the surface, while south of the river, a short distance, fossilized shells, reeds, plant-stems and fish exist. Chemung shale and rock and the Catskill formation are exposed at several points, while sandstone of the Pocono class caps the hills. Plant and fish fossils abound in this vicinity. 1

The population in 1880 was 648. In 1888 there were 121 Republican, 129 Democratic, 3 Prohibitionist, and 13 Union Labor votes cast, represent- ing 1,330 inhabitants. The number of tax payers was 350, and the assessed valuation $81,723. In 1815 the same persons who were appointed to report on the question of erecting bridges over Pine and Kettle creeks were named to divide Eulalia township, and on January 29, 1816, reported the establishment of Roulette township-the territory being 18 miles long by 5 miles and 182 rods wide-embracing what is now known as Clara, Sharon, Pleasant Valley and Roulette. The resident tax payers in 1831-32 were George Adam, Benj. Burt (saw-mill), Elisha H. Burt (saw-mill), Silas Billings, Reu- ben Card, Henry Dingman, W. Farnham, A. T. Gault, Dailatt Harr, D. B. Ingram, Joseph Kibbe, John Lyman, Lanra Lyman, Wm. Moore, Francis, Philander R. and James Reed, Peter Limner, Burrell and Isaac Lyman, Sam. Stanton, Cy. and Nathan Turner, Asahel West, Jake Wiedrich and Geo. Weimer. Elisha H. Burt and Philander Reed were the assessors.

A Germany colony settled in Roulette in 1831. Some of them are still living, among them being George Weimer, of Pleasant Valley, the Dehns, Tauchers and Yentzers. There were but seventeen voters in the township, which was much larger than at present. The first name of Roulette village was Streetertown, named from the number of Streeters living there. The next name adopted was Dutchtown. This from the number of Germans that set-

tled there. At last the name Roulette was given it, this time being named for John Roulette, a partner of John Keating. During the year 1828-29 wages were from four to five shillings a day. A good suit of clothes cost fifty dollars; corn from one to two dollars per bushel. The women spun and wove flax and wool. Michael Dehn, who is now living, worked for Benjamin Burt, for seven years, for $14 a month. Settlers went to the Cowanesque, to Jersey Shore or Olean, to mill, going to the latter place with their grist in a canoe. There was here at this time, a densely settled region, for Potter county --- eleven families, within six miles. This community was almost entirely Baptist, close commun- ion. Their pastor, the organizer of the Roulette Church, was Rev. Benjamin Avery; and the young idea was taught how to shoot by a Mr. Kennedy, a knight of the birchen-rod and Cobb's Speller. The school-house was on the Wiederich farm. The first saw-mill was built by Benjamin Burt, whose son, John K. (still living), was the first male white child born in the county. John Keating presented the new comer with fifty acres of land, as a birthday gift. This parcel of land is still a portion of Mr. Burt's farm, near Burtville. Land at this time sold from 75 cents to $1 per acre. There was plenty of fish and game, and wolves enough to make the farmer's heart beat for his fleecy flock.

Along the railroad, through this township, a number of new saw-mill towns have sprung up within a year or so. Fishbasket, the town of the large saw- mill; Mina, another town, which, in May, 1889, looked as if taken out of a cabinet shop, owing to the well-built and well-painted homes of the settlers; Knowlton and Pomeroy Bridge. ... Burtville, so often referred to in the history of Liberty township, Mckean county, is the site of Beldin Burt's large store, and also that of Ole Hanson . . . . Riverside Park, six miles west of Coudersport, is the property of the Coudersport & Port Allegany Railroad Company. This park is fitted up with all contrivances to make picnickers happy.

The officers of the township, elected in February, 1890, are as follows :

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Justice of the peace, J. B. Davidson; constable, Miles Marsh; treasurer, D. F. Manning; collector, Miles Marsh; town clerk, George Eimer; auditor, Milo Lyman; supervisor, William Ernst; school directors, J. V. Weimer, Marcus Card, William Weimer; overseer of the poor, J. M. Lyman; judge of election, J. M. Lyman; inspectors of election, J. E. Ruby, J. P. Hall.

VILLAGE OF ROULETTE.

Roulette, which slept for many years, awoke when the locomotive whistle sounded, and in September, 1883, the large sash and blind factory was opened, Benton & Co.'s steam mill was built, and a number of dwellings and business houses were constructed. (This saw-mill, at Pomeroy bridge, was burned in March, 1885). In 1886 the Roulette Tannery was established, the proprietors being A. J. Tucker, of Roulette, and W. T. Jackson and Henry Taggard, of Boston, Mass. The business is carried on under the firm name of A. J. Tucker & Co. The plant consists of a ten acre plat of ground, with a main building 120x45 feet, having a wing 110x45 feet, the building being two and a half stories high. Besides these there are bark, leach and boiler houses. The firm employ about sixty-five men, and use from 2,500 to 3,000 cords of bark per year. the capacity being 300 sides per day, which is the usual output.

The Roulette Oil Company was organized in December, 1877, with Leroy Lyman, B. A. Green, A. W. Johnson, R. L. White, John French, J. S. Baker, Willis Weimer, Michael Dean and J. M. Lyman, officials.

Fifty-four years ago the largest school building in the county was that at Roulette, known as the "Old Red School-house." It was the church, school and meeting house, of all that section, until April, 1884, when it was vacated to make way for the present school building. At that time also a union church building was being erected close by, which was dedicated in 1885.

The general stores of the village, in 1889, were conducted by L. D. Rey- nolds, R. L. White, John Seymour, A. M. Benton & Co., and C. W. Tauscher & Co .; Dr. C. G. Fisher's drug, Eimer & Co.'s hardware, A. Goodman's clothing and C. P. Reed's grocery were the leading mercantile houses. The brewery was carried on by Thomas Moran.

The Lackawanna Lumber Company was established at Mina in 1887-88, and then the saw-mills were built. The capacity is about 100,000 feet per day. The logs are drawn by an engine along a tram-road to the mills.

The flood of May 31, 1889, did much damage here and in the vicinity. It took out Fishing creek bridge, Tront brook bridge on Main street, the bridge by George Kenote's blacksmith shop, a stringer from Card creek bridge, the bridge at Tauscher's mill on Fishing creek, washed out the entire road in front of W. S. Brine, so that teams had to drive through his orchard; also carried away the sidewalk from Pomeroy bridge to Knowlton's barn, tore up the side- walk from White's store to the iron bridge and carried part of it away, removed some small buildings and entirely destroyed some gardens, and carried away many logs from Bard's saw-mill.

The Union Church Association of Roulette was organized March 7, 1882. with Leroy Lyman, C. Knowlton, R. L. White, R. C. Fessenden and L. B. Yentzer, trustees . . . . The Baptist Church was erected in 1889-90, and dedicated January 19, 1890, Rev. Mr. Conard, of Philadelphia, officiating as preacher at the dedication. Subsequently the Allegheny River Baptist Association assem- bled here .... The W. C. T. U. was organized December 1, 1887, with Mrs. Hall, president; Mesdames H. N. Leavenworth, R. White and P. L. Boy- ington, vice-presidents; Mrs. L. L. Reynolds, treasurer; M. L. Day and W. H. Whitcomb, secretaries. .. . The John Lyman Cemetery Association of Rou-

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lette was organized January 29, 1878, with Joseph Samsen, D. P. Reed and Rodney Fessenden, trustees. There were twenty-seven stockholders.

Lodge No. 322, I. O. O. F .. is a comparatively new organization here. E. Welch is D. D. G. M., and F. E. Rice, P. G.

The E. A. U. elected the following officers in July, 1889, in the order of Union rank: I. L. Fessenden, Mrs. D. F. Manning, Mrs. L. A. Brooks, Mrs. Ada Lyman, J. B. Davidson, R. L. White, Mrs. Miles Marsh, Olan Page, Rev. A. Brooks, Mrs. M. Fessenden, Miles Marsh, S. B. Pomeroy, J. R. Fessenden and Mrs. Clara Fessenden. The record of installation, however, shows Mrs. L. A. Brooks to be chancellor.

CHAPTER XXII.

SHARON TOWNSHIP.

GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL-THE BOULDERS-VALUABLE STONE-NA- TURE'S FREAKS-RELICS-PETROLEUM INTEREST-POPULATION-TAX-PAYERS OF 1832-SOME FIRST SETTLERS AND THEIR PRIVATIONS-FIRST STORE AND SCHOOL-STEVENS, THE WILD BOY-VILLAGES-MISCELLANEOUS.

YHARON TOWNSHIP is the extreme northwestern thirty-six square miles S of this county. Except a small group of Catskill hills west of Goldsmith corners or Honeoye, and a small area of that formation in the southeast corner. the township is occupied by the Chemung lands. Prof. Sherwood, in speak. ing of the township, says:

"The Chemung belt, occupying the center of the township, is about five miles wide-Eleven-mile run bordering it on the south, and Honeoye creek on the north. Butter creek joins the Honeoye at Goldsmith corners, within half a mile of the New York line. A mile down Honeoye creek lies the village of East Sharon. At the junction of Honeoye creek, with the Oswayo, lies the village of Shinglehouse. Sharon Center is on the Oswayo, three miles above Shinglehouse; and Millport. on the Oswayo, is two miles above Sharon Center. This unusual number of villages in the township shows the agricultural quali- ties of the Chemung plain. The Catskill surface is also susceptible of culti- vation, so that the whole township may be considered as fit for agriculture."

The Oswayo, rising in Genesee and adjoining townships, receives Eleven- mile creek near Millport, and flows in a fairly direct course northwest into Mc- Kean county. Eleven-mile creek rises in the northeast of Oswayo township. flows along the southern border of the Chemung formation in Oswayo to its mouth. Honeoye creek rises in New York State, northeast of Goldsmith Cor- ners, and, flowing southwest, enters the Oswayo northwest of Shinglehouse. Butter and Centre creeks, in the northeast, offer drainage to that section, while a hundred little feeders of the streams named leave no part of the township without water or drainage. The boulders northeast of Sharon Center have been placed there by a freak of nature. Near East Sharon are the gray sand- stone and the fossiliferous sandstone flags, while along the Eleven-mile and Honeoye runs may be seen Chemung and Catskill rocks. Near the State line are the white sandstone quarries, also on the Lane farm and in a few other localities. The stone crumbles into fine white sand under the pounder, and is excellent

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for glass-making and building purposes. There are three peculiar depressions on the Lane farm, two of which are water reservoirs. Evidences of excavation are plenty; but nothing is known of the time or people or purpose of such holes. In the neighborhood arrowheads and stone pipes have been unearthed. Above Shinglehouse a circular ridge is visible, resembling a fort.

O. P. Taylor, who died at Wellsville, N. Y., November 17, 1883, was the pio- neer oil operator of the Allegheny field, using the first string of tools, while his neighbors laughed at him. One of the stories related of Taylor's third well at Alma, is that O. P. Taylor had occasion to take the tools to Bradford for repairs; but being without money he sought in vain for friends. On going to his house, his wife told him that she had some money, as she was compelled to sell her watch to purchase necessaries of life, and of the proceeds some remained. This balance she gave her husband, thus enabling him to complete the well and make a fortune.

Some time after the development of the first gas well in Sharon town- ship, and about the year 1880, gas was discovered on the Graham farm. It appears Graham's two boys picked up a flat sandstone on the flats, and, although youths, they discovered the presence of gas. On their father returning in the evening, they reported their discovery, and he at once began the work of con- trolling the flow. Making a barrel suit the uses of a gas reservoir, he placed a piece of gas pipe in the top, and packed clay round the bottom of this barrel to contine the gas. One of the youths believing the work was complete, took his seat on the top, but in a little while the barrel and boy were moved from the spot by the pressure . . .. In June, 1884, the first producer of the county was struck on the Prince farm, north of Shinglehouse. yielding eighteen barrels in a day. This well is still flowing, though abandoned long ago .... The Standard Oil Company leased a large quantity of land in Sharon and adjoining townships in New York State in 1888, and now have three wells complete at a point northeast of Capt. Kinney's farm, and the work of drilling more wells continues. The reservoir is just south of the line.

Sharon township, in 1880, was credited with 1,055 inhabitants, of whom forty-nine resided in Millport, and thirty-five in Sharon Center. In 1888 there were 14S Republican, 80 Democratic, 29 Prohibition and 33 Union Labor votes cast, representing 1, 450 inhabitants. The number of tax-payers was 424. and value of property assessed, $64,883. The seated tax-payers in 1832 were Richard Allen (blacksmith, in Clara), T. W. David and Jonathan Brown (in Clara), Sheldon Bradley, William and George R. Barber, Daniel Benson (near the Hickox mill). Lewis Baldin, G. Chappel, Milton and Moses Chappel, Avery Coon, Louis H. D' Aubigney (N. R. ), Abel Eastman Harvy Fisk. (farmer above the center), Mary Gilbert, William Lester, Elisha, Ovid and Theo. Mix (lumberers and farmers), Milton Main, Luther Molby, Sheffield Main, Erastus Mulkins (whose grandson is postmaster at Shinglehouse), A. D. Nichols, M. McCord, Bridge & Co. (saw-mill owners on the Honeoye, afterward owned by James H. Wright), Thomas Peabody, George Sherman (now living, voted for Van Buren in 1840), Sam. Stetson, Joseph Stillman, John Scott (went west), Aaron Sturgis, William Shattuck (now residing in Hebron township), Milo Smith, Matt Standish, Joel Woodworth, Bartlet Ward, Ashbel West, Ira A. Wicks, Joseph Rew (saw- and grist-mill owner where T. J. Burdic later built a mill now standing at Sharon Center), Joel H. Rose (merchant), John Rew, Ira Young, Benjamin Hall (where Capt. Kinney resides), O. G. Perry, N. Daton, Willard M. Toner, John White, James Whiting, Noah Crit- tenden, and Rufus Cole, assessor, one of whose grandsons is now county com- missioner. The old McCord mill was purchased nearly a half century ago by

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Peleg Burdic, and ultimately became the property of A. A. Newton, about. 1866, and is still standing. Abiel Sheldon was here in 1846. Jacob Ridg- way, Joseph Rew, Nathaniel White, John M. Milizet, Salmon M. Rose, Richard Gernon, John Gordon, Joseph Brush, John Rew, Rensselaer Wright and Andrew Mann paid taxes on unseated lands in 1834.

In 1827 Joseph Fessenden moved from Madison county, N. Y., and built the first house in Millport. He had seven boys: Charles, James, Nathaniel. William, Rodney, Joel and Edmund. The family moved to the Knowlton place in 1828. In 1829 he took all of his family back to Madison county, with the exception of Joel, who went to Sartwell creek. Joel Fessenden is still liv- ing, and recalls the time when the settlers were three months at a time.without bread, living mostly upon potatoes. He relates how at one time Benj. Burt took a four ox team, and, loading his wagon with his neighbors' grists, he started for mill, and that after he had started Isaac Lyman said, with much feeling: "When Burt gets back I will have one good meal of bread." The most of the Fessenden boys came back in succeeding years, and are nearly all living at a hale old age with many descendants. Among the settlers of Sharon* in the " forties " were Capt. L. H. Kinney, A. A. Newton, A. S. Newton and Milo Davis, now in California. Nelson C. Newton came about 1848. At this time Lewis Wood, who preached for the Universalists, resided at Sharon Center; Robbins Brown was the blacksmith, and Ezra Graves the carpenter. In 1835 a vacant frame house occupied the site of Sharon Center, and in it I. W. Jones and family took shelter for a short time. Subsequent to 1832 Samuel Pearsall settled between the Center and Shinglehouse. I. W. Jones came in 1835, and in 1837 he was postmaster at a point east of Shinglehouse. Mrs. A. A. New- tou, who came with her parents in 1835, does not remember the Rose store, and states that the family had to go to store at Ceres. Willard Jones came early in the "thirties " and entered on the work of building a saw-mill, where Perkins' grist- mill now is. On his way home from Ceres he was killed during a wind storm. Arad Jones and I. W. Jones built the mill which was burned up forty years ago, and a second mill erected on the site which now adjoins the grist- mill which was built fifteen years ago.

The first post office, Capt. Kinney thinks, was located at Millport. Prior to 1843 the old Sharon office, near Shinglehouse, was established, John Bos- worth being then master, succeeding I. W. Jones. At Millport the Oswayo Lumber Company's headquarters (of which Dr. Alma was first, and next W. B. Graves, now of Duke Centre, and Joseph Mann were superintendents) were established, the post-office was there. Shinglehouse was established as a post office center with G. W. Mosier master, appointed during Pierce's administration. East Sharon office was established later, with Nelson Palmeter master. He held the office many years. in fact up to his removal to Shingle- house. Orson Sherman is now master. In 1843, when Capt. Kinney came to the township, there were two school buildings-one above Shinglehouse (Miss Maxon's) and the other at Sharon Center (presided over by Mr. Witter or J. H. Chase). Capt. Kinney was director and examiner. Simon Drake, John Bosworth, William T. Lane, Silas Babbitt and Lorenzo Reynolds were the other directors. In 1843 there was a Universalist society at Sharon Center presided over by Mr. Porter.

One of the peculiar characters of the county who ranged the forests of Potter, and dallied along its trout streams for years, was Lewis Stevens, or the " Wild Boy," which sobriquet he earned by his taste for the solitude of the wildwoods.

* Dr. Mattison states that H. Leroy opened the first store in the township; Lewis B. Sutherland the first blacksmith shop, and Elisha Mix the first saw-mill-erected on the Honeoye.

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At one time he lived alone near the headwaters of the East fork, six miles from his nearest neighbor. A small stream emptying into the East fork is still known by the name of the " Wild Boy," from its proximity to the Stevens clearing. Stevens gave up his wild life several years ago, and is now living in Sharon township. For a number of years he preached, and led the life of a traveling tinker. He is said to be an Englishman by birth.

Sharon Center, in the Oswayo Creek valley, stretches along the Shinglehouse road. In 1871 Peleg Burdic's hotel, the Rose store, Graves' carpenter shop and Dodge's yard and shop made up the village.

John M. Dean established the first store on the site of the house now occu- pied by L. A. Bunker. The store was burned abont 1847 and rebuilt in 1848. It is still standing. Jonas Willey, now a resident, worked in this store. Pe- leg Burdic opened the first hotel, in June, 1861, having begun the erection of this house in 1860. Mr. Dean left before the war, and E. V. Wood carried on the business until after the war, when Allen Glynes took his place; Rose and Dodge followed Glynes; Shear and Simeon Sherwood were also merchants. Contemporary with E. V. Wood, were Newton, Stevens & Nichols, who car- ried on a store in connection with the saw mill. Wallace Burdic established his business in 1882, and in 1888 built his large house opposite the hotel.

The Oswayo Lumber Association was organized in Potter county, in 1837. for the purpose of lumbering in that and Mckean counties, with the Le Roy brothers, T. H. Newbold, Wm. H. Morris and Joshua Lathrop, members. Mr. Newbold was lost on an ocean steamer, and the company disbanded about 1845.

Peleg Burdic was appointed postmaster in 1862, succeeding Ezra Graves ; J. M. Dean was the first postmaster.

A post of the G. A. R. was organized here December 4, 1880, with the fol- lowing named members: L. H. Bailey, 15th N. Y. Cav. ; L. H. Kinney, S. J. White, 85th N. Y. ; A. A. Stevens, 184th Penn .; Dana Drake, 13th N. Y., Henry Art, W. D. Carpenter, 184th Penn. ; W. R. Hallett, 28th Iowa; J. Fail- ing, 141st N. Y .; J. H. Cole, E. A. Graves, 46th Penn. ; Peleg Burdic, Jesse Burdic, Jonas Willie, 15th N. Y. Cav. ; Seth Drake, 13th N. Y. Art .; J. S. Pearsall, 210th Penn .; M. S. Hitchcock, 9th N. Y. Cav. ; J. O. Blanvelt, 1st Penn. Art .; and Joseph Fessenden, 149th Penn. The position of commander was held by S. J. White, for three years; L. H. Kinney, one year; A. J. Barnes, two years, and Asael Christman, two years. E. A. Graves served the post as adjutant for five years, and J. W. Dickinson, for over three years. Dana Drake has been the general quartermaster for over eight years. The membership in 1889 was sixty-five, and value of property $200.

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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