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In the latter part of the summer of 1855, Mr. Algees and family came, and with him Sarah. John Fuller saw fit to take to himself a wife, and said Sarah was the bride. The marriage cere- mony was performed by Mr. Wilson, J. P. of Vernon Co., and the guests, bride and groom marched down the river over the county line, as supposed (but didn't), that the ceremony
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might be valid, and there under the canopy of Heaven, cheered by the rippling music of the waters, by a large log on the bank of the Kicka- poo, the sacred pledges were taken. This was the first wedding. Andrew llall came this year and located lands, where the old pioneer building, above or on where the Richards farm now stands, and returned to New York, and now the winter is upon us, and we prepare to clear up, and the exercises are changed-land-lookers cease to come among us, and the Indians take their places for company. And now we have to exert ourselves considera- bly in order to keep from freezing, which can only be done by stirring rapidly about, rubbing, robed in buffalo robes or bear skins. If we can survive the night the sun may shine in upon us at about 10 o'clock, and relieve us of some of the intense cold, by placing the thermometer in a position to receive its most direct rays, or as the little boy says, "Papa, bring in the ther- mometer, and it will thaw out!" In 1856, Mr. Hull and family came and moved into the log house above Mr. Richards', which he soon ex- changed with D.C. Turner for the lands he now owns, and where he has so long kept hotel. The day that he moved here his son, Jasper C. Hull, was born, thus the first birth-but not on the town plat-Oct. 1, 1856. This same fall C. D. Turner built a small plank house-where. Mr. Cushman's house now stands, and moved into that.
William Mack, a half breed from Picatonic country, now appears among us. Ile bought out the store of D. C. Turner, and built a wooden structure, which is now attached to Mr. Tate's store. With Mr. Mack came Mr. Goodrich and family. Mr. Goodrich built a plank house on block three, which is still standing. Here his little daughter, Libbie Goodrich died. This was the first death. She was buried near the house on the said lot, near the southern line of the street, where her grave is indistinct.
In the fall of 1857 Mr. and Mrs. Keith, teachers in the Brown school of Chicago, spent
their summer vacation in Viola with the family of D.C. Turner. In three days after their return to Chicago, Howey Willie Turner, D. C. Turner's oldest son, was a corpse. Here appears Dr. Gott, of Viroqua, for the first time; yet his skill was of no avail. This child's death was a crushing calamity upon his family.
Mr. Keith, Howey Willie and Freddie Turner were buried on the mound between the residence of Charley Tate and Nelson Buegor's store for several years, but disinterred in 1869, and removed to the Viroqua cemetery, along with the remains of William Turner.
In the year 1857 Viola Mack was born, and received a lot in block three for her name. This year also D. C. Turner bought out Mr. Mack, and commenced buying ginseng, which business he followed for eight successive years. Buying and clarifying and drying was also largely carried on by James Turner and Henry Livingston, from Kentucky.
D. C. Turner built another store, and the old Mack building was used for a dry house. The store then built is now a part of H. C. Cush- man's.
Our teachers were Salma Rogers, Helen Jackson, Jennie Loveless, Marion Gill, (after- wards Mrs. Dr. Gott, of Viroqua), and Miss Dailey, of Readstown.
Mr. George Nutzem preached here often, and general good feeling prevailed under his super- vision.
Our postoffice was established as a side office, and the mail was carried from Viola to Kicka- poo C'enter by some one hired by private per- sons. At one time D. C. Turner gave the mail carrier ($20) twenty dollars to get the office on the route, which was done for one week only, and again thrown off.
Lots were sold and given away. Salma Rogers was offered (10) ten acres of land adjoining the town-where Mr. Cushman's resi- dence, Waggoner's store and many other build- ings are now-if he would only build himself a
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house on it; but he would not heed the Mac- edonian cry of come and help us.
The fall of 1856 Harry Turner and family, Mr. Gill and family, Mr. Loveless and family, Amos Fuller and family came on. Harry Turner bought out Lyman Jackson; Mr. Gill bought out the tract of land, Jerry Turner had entered and now resides there. Amos Fuller went to blacksmithing, got sick of the country, and went back in the fall of 1857. In the fall of 1859 Henry M.Keith and family came here and bought the pioneer home of Mr. Hull. Mr. Keith had been obliged to resign his situation in the Brown school of Chicago on account of ill health. He received a death blow from a band of ruffians in that school building of which account the papers of Chicago detailed in full particulars. Mrs. Keith taught our school one summer, before her husband's death, which occurred Feb. 18, 1861. In the winter of 1859-60 our school house was made lively frequently from time to time, in which Jerry Turner and Van S. Ben- nett figured largely.
1858-9. About this time several acres of land were given by C. D. Turner for a cemetery on the mound east of the new school house, where Mr. Clark now resides. This did not suit and became outlawed. Mr. Keith, con- sequently, was buried and removed, as before mentioned.
1860-1. The second pioneer house was re- moved, and the residence Mr. Cushman now occupies was erected. John Fuller left for California. Mrs. Keith left for the Chicago school again. General political excitement pre- vailed : the war was upon us ; consequently no improvements were made for some time.
Jerry Turner enlisted ; was second lientenant, then first, then captain of company H, 5th Wis- consin Infantry. Here is an extract from Ben- jamin Lawton's letter, as written to Ilarry Sherme's family : "He fell while charging on Mary's hill, back of the city of Fredericksburg. He was struck in the head by a large ball ; I think it must have been a canister shot, for it
made a hole about the size of a canister shot. He was shot so dead that he did. not move. He was a brave and noble soldier. We mourn his loss and always will. He has been the main stay of company H ever since we came out. When the captain fell I staid with him and took care of his body, which I agreed to do when I first came out ; I told him I should stand by his side until the last, and I have done so. I tried my best to get his body embalmed and sent to you ; but I could not for want of an ambulance to get it carried to Falmuoth. Our quarter-master assisted me all he could, but it could not be got, for every thing in the shape of wagons was used to bring the wounded off the field, so we had to bury him in the city." He was killed May 3, 1863.
He made us his last visit on his thirty-first birth-day, the 16th of February before his death.
Company I, of the 12th Wisconsin Infantry, was organized and drilled here until ordered to headquarters. Hartwell Turner was captain of this company. While this regiment was in Leavenworth he was very sick. C. D. Turner, his brother, went to and staid with him till he could be brought home.
From 1861 to 1864 it was only war, war, war, until scarcely an able bodied man was left in the town of Forest in 1865. D. C. Turner was quite sick, was drafted, and Dr. Terhune, of Viroqua, reported for him, as he was under the doctor's care for sometime, until he was able to go to Boscobel, prepared to furnish a substi- tute, but was not accepted. From this time more or less sickness followed. He gave up the mercantile business and sold out to Mr. Tate. In 1865 Mr. Harrington and family, John Bryan and C. Ward, came. N. D. Ward, of the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry, returned from Texas.
1866-The new school building was erected in 1867. D. C. Turner built the store Mr. Waggoner now occupies, and commenced the mercantile business again ; bought out the
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steam mill and sold it again-hardships of pioneerlife told by failing health- and in 1868 the farm was sold, the store closed out and the building sold to Alonzo Clark. Every line of business was settled up and closed out, and in the spring of 1869 he looked over the south- west Missouri country, and purchased lands in Dade county, two and one half miles west of Greenfield. To this home he moved his family in the spring of 1870. His health im- proved by this change of climate ; he built a house, planted on orchard, and made improve- ments, for about two years, when he gave up work entirely, each day taking a little less exercise, until November, 1873 ; then he could no more move around with us, to cheer us by his loving, patient endurance. He was con- fined to his bed for three months, when, on the 5th day of March, 1874, he passed
"As a summer cloud away- As sinks the gale when storms are o'er, Or dies the wave along the shore." in his fifty-first year.
llis remains were sent to Viroqua, and there the last solemn rites were given him by the Masonic Order. fle had many, many friends in his new home in Missouri. He is gone from us, but his life still lives, for he was a kind husband and an indulgent father.
By his son-an only child-Dewitt C. Turner, will the name of that particular Turner family be perpetuated or become extinct.
Of the five original families that came to Viola in 1854, only two are here now -- Salma Rogers' and II. L. Turner's. Of the twenty persons, or children, of that time, these are still living : Salma Rogers and wife and two children ; Mary Bews, of Deadwood ; Frank Rogers, of Viola ; Hartwell Turner and wife, Lyman Jackson, wife and son, of Oregon, Wis .; Helen Jackson Drenn, of Centralia, III .; Dewitt C. Turner and his mother, Greenfield, Mo.
These are deceased : William Turner and wife, Cyrus D. Turner and son, George Turner,
Alice Turner Waggoner, Jerry Turner and John Fuller.
III-BY FLORA DE FREES WEEDEN
I wrote lately to an old friend, living at a distance for information, and have just re- ceived a letter from her, and learn that the first death in Vernon county was a child of Wil- liam C. McMichael; it died February, 1847, at the spring afterward known as the Silver Springs Mill, two miles east of Viroqua. The mill burned down four or five years since. The next death was that of Mrs. Rice, who died September, 1847.
Jacob Johnson, a brother-in-law of T. J. De- Frees, emigrated to Vernon county with the latter. He died in 1870, and is buried at Viro- qua. His wife is living in southern Iowa at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, is still enjoying reasonable health, reads the news, and keeps up with the times. Mrs. Nancy B. DeFrees, my mother, died March 14, 1882, at the age of seventy-seven, is buried in the ceme- tery in this city. I noticed in a sketch of Ver- non county a short time ago, that Dr. Tinker was mentioned as the first physician. Such is not the case. Dr. H. G. Weeden was the first regular practicing physician in the county. He located there in the fall of 1851. Dr. Tinker arrived two or three years later. Dr. Weeden was a man of culture and refinement, had received a finished education in the east. For many years he was the leading physician in the county. The fearful tornado which visited Viroqua June 28, 1865, killed one of his children-a little girl three years old-and in- jured himself and wife very seriously. It also destroyed their nice home and much valuable property. The doctor never recovered entirely from the shock. He went to Montana in the spring of 1866, and died there in the fall of 1872. His wife and daughter still reside in that remote territory.
The Sterlings were a prominent family in the early settlement of the county. They located on West Prairie, in the fall or winter of 1846.
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The old gentleman died there many years after, and his two sons, Lonis and Lee Grant lived in the locality till after the close of the war of the rebellion, when the former emigrated to Mis- souri. The latter still resides in the county, I believe.
William H. Purdy was also a leading eitizen in early time. He held various offices in the county, is now a resident of Pratt Co., Kansas. George A. Swain and James Cook settled there in the spring of 1847, the former at what is now Brookville, the latter, on his farm east of Viroqua. They were leading members of the M. E. Church, and in early times did much to- ward the support and permanent organization of that society. The have both died within the last year. Mr. Cook at his home near Viroqua, and Mr. Swain in eastern Kansas.
James Bailey was an early settler. He came with his wife, to what is now Liberty Pole, in the autumn of 1846, soon returned to Prairie du Chien, where his wife died, he came back to Ver- non county, and soon married a Miss Clark, re- siding on West Prairie. She and her sister, who married a Mr. Chandler, were wedded at the same time. My father officiated, he being then county judge, making one ceremony do for both couples.
I also remember a couple in Vernon county -I purposely omit names-for whom my father obtained a divorce. A few weeks after they again presented themselves for the purpose of being married. He performed the ceremony which again made them husband and wife. But only a short time elapsed, before they again ap- peared asking for another divorce, and it was again procured for them. Subsequently both parties married, it is to be hoped with happier results.
I also remember a woman who came there leaving a husband in the east. She soon mar- ried a dashing widower. It afterward trans- pired that she had never obtained a divorce from her first husband. The last husband had promised to get one for her after their mar-
riage. But he failed to keep his promise, and she appealed to my father for redress. He se- enred for her a divorce from the first husband, and then she was again married, or rather re- married to the second.
Among the early settlers in Springville were Isaac and William Spencer, Charles and Henry Waters, Dr. Sudduth, Mr. Strange, the Cheat- ham brothers, and others that might be men- tioned. Isaac Spencer was a man of culture and ability. When he came to Springville he was a widower. He soon after married a Mrs. Thompson, a widow, from Bad. Ax city. Her first husband was drowned from off a steamboat near that place. The lady was young and in- teresting, and very much attached to her hus- band. The evening she was expecting him home she went to neighbor's to borrow a candle, said she wanted to burn it out looking at Mr. Thompson, as she had not seen him for some time. An hour or two after, his dripping corpse was borne into her presence.
In the spring of 1853 O. C. Weeden came to Viroqua, from Vermont, and soon followed a unmber more of New England people, making valuable additions to society.
During the years of 1846-7, the residents of the county all went to Prairie du Chien for their mail matter, and it was understood that any person going, was to bring the mail for the entire neighborhood. Even with that arrange- ment, sometimes weeks would elapse between the times of receiving the mail. That hardly compares with this age of steam and daily mails.
In those first years the inhabitants of the county were obliged to go to Prairie du Chien for all their supplies, and many of them went with ox teams.
Neighborhood dances were at that time a favorite amusement with many of the settlers. Spelling schools were also a pleasant and profit- able pastime. The young people, and some who were not so young, would gather at the log school house, or at the cabin of some resi- dent, choose sides and spell. Those who stood
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longest without missing a word were the vic- tors ; and many times there would be three or four, perhaps half a dozen, who would not be spelled down at all. W. W. DeFrees, Milton Southwick, Esther A. Bishop and Lida P. De- Frees were almost invariably on the floor last and were considered the champion spellers. Lida P. DeFrees died March 11, 1849; W.W. De- Frees, Feb. 7, 1870. They both lie buried in the cemetery of Viroqua. Milton Southwick, I think, is still a resident of the county, and Esther A. Bishop, long since married, has for many years resided in Nebraska.
Michael Hinkst was an early settler. He lo- cated near the Liberty Pole, was remarkable for
being an original and eccentric character. He was for a time school superintendent, and taught one or two terms. Some amusing stories are told of his novel methods of governing.
Isaac Spencer was the first school superin- tendendent. That was when the town system prevailed. Rev. L. L. Radcliff was the first county superintendent. After him came Hart- well Allen, who is doubtless still a resident of Vernon county. He served a number of terms, was a popular and efficient officer. He is a man of much natural ability, a great reader and a deep thinker. I think he has long since retired to the shades of private life.
CHAPTER XIX.
ELECTION RETURNS.
In this connection is given the official vote of Vernon county for every year from 1851 to 1883 inclusive as far as could be ascertained from the records in the clerk's office. In some years the number of votes cast could not be found and where this is the case, the names of the officers elected are given :
ELECTION, APRIL, 1851.
County Judge.
T. J. Defrees, (elected for four years. ). .. No Opposition
Sheriff.
Rufus Gillett.
District Attorney.
No Opposition
Lorenzo A. Pierce.
No Opposition
Clerk of County and of Circuit Court.
Orrin Wisel.
No Opposition
Treasurer.
James A. Cooke. No Opposition
Jocob Higgins
No Oppositiou
Surveyor.
Samuel McMichael No Opposition
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1851.
Governor.
D. A. J. Upham. 45-15
Leonard J. Farwell.
30
Lieutenant Governor.
Timothy Burns.
55-35
James Hughes.
20
Secretary of State.
Charles D. Robinson ..
47-18
Robert W. Wright
29
State Treasurer.
Edward H. Janson
47-19
Jefferson Crawford
28
Attorney General.
Exprience Estabrook
48-21
John Trasdale.
27
State Superintendent.
Abel P. Ludd.
58-57
E. Root
1
Scattering
I
District Attorney.
Lorenzo A. Pierce (majority).
Clerk of County and Circuit Court.
William McMichael.
113
Treasurer.
John Longley
No Opposition
Register of Deeds.
Jacob Higgins.
132
Sheriff.
James M. Bailey (majority).
53
County Surveyor.
Samuel McMichael.
38-36
Isaac Spencer.
2
Register of Deeds.
243
HISTORY OF VERNON COUNTY.
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1853. Sheriff.
J. M. Bailey
.No Opposition
County Clerk and Clerk of Circuit Court
W. C. McMichael.
No Opposition
District Attorney.
T. J. DeFrees
Ne Opposition
Treasurer.
John Gardner
No Opposition
Register of Deeds.
S. C. Lincoln
No Opposition
Surveyor.
Samuel MeMichael.
.No Opposition
ELECTION, SEPTEMBER 8, 1855.
Governor.
Coles Bashferd .
306-108
William A. Barstew.
298
Lieutenant Governor.
Arthur McArthur.
.317-15
Charles C. Sholes
302
Secretary of State.
David W. Jones
317-16
Samuel D. Hastings
.301
State Treasurer.
Charles Kuehn.
318-109
Charles Roeser
209
Attorney General.
William R. Smith.
317 ~- 14
Alexander W. Randall
303
State Superintendent.
A. Constantine Berry
.318-16
John G. McMynn.
302
Bank Comptroller.
William N. Dennis
318-16
Francis 11. West.
.302
Prisen Commissioner.
Edward McGarry
318-15
James Gidding
303
County Judge.
William F. Terhune
No Opposition
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
William C. McMichacl
No Opposition
Sheriff
J. M. Rusk
No Oppostion
Treasurer.
John Gardner
Ne Opposition
Register of Deeds.
William F. Terhune
Ne Opposition.
County Clerk.
A. K. Burrell
No Opposition.
District Attorney.
Thomas J. De Frees
.Ne Oppositien.
Surveyer.
W. F. Beavers
. Ne Opposition.
ELECTION. APRIL 1, 1856.
Circuit Judge.
George Gale ...
.279-34
W. Knowlton.
215
ELECTION, NOVEMBER 3, 1857.
Gevernor.
Alexander W. Randall
.549-104
James B. Cross.
.445
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1858. President.
John C. Fremont, (Majority).
.387
Congressman.
C. C. Washburn, (Majority).
387
State Senater.
William T. Pierce, (Majority) ..
347
Assemblyman.
Buel E. Hutchinson, (Majority)
.383
Surveyor, (To fill Vacancy.)
Samuel McMichael ...
Ne Oppesition
ELECTION, NOVEMBER 3, 1857
Governor.
Alexander W. Randall
549-104
James B. Cross
. 445
Lieutenant Governer.
Carl Schurtz
539-91
Eresmus Campbell.
448
Secretary of State.
John L. V. Thomas
.528-63
David W. Jones
465
State Treasurer
Samuel D. Hastings
.549-104
Carl Habich
415
Attorney General.
Mortimer M. Jaeksen
554-136
Gabiel Bouck.
418
State Superintendent.
John G. McMynn
.546-102
Lyman C. Draper
Bank Comptroller.
John P. McGreger
538-95
Joel C. Squires
443
Prisen Commisslener.
Edward M. McGraw
986
State Senater.
Edwin Flint
514-4
W. H. Tueker
510
Assemblyman.
William C. MeMichael.
523-62
James R. Savage
.461
Clerk ef Circuit Court.
John R. Cassen
.507-25
William C. McMichhel.
.482
County Clerk.
Samuel McKitriek
.576-201
William F. White
375
District Attorney.
R. C. Bierce.
. 563 -- 171
William H. Austin.
392
Sheriff.
William P. Clark
.386-111
Hugh McDill
275
A. R. Burrell ..
.234
Scattering
90
Register of Deeds.
Daniel P. Allison
.324-50
William F. Terhune.
.274
Treasurer.
John Gardner.
.870-120
W. F. White ..
250
Surveyor.
Greene Spurrier.
514-42
James Brown.
472
15
.444
244
HISTORY OF VERNON COUNTY.
Coroner.
J. M. Rusk
500-48
Mark.
.452
ELECTION, APRIL, 1858.
County Judge.
James E. Newell.
No Opposition
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1858.
Congressman.
C. C. Washburn
434-239
Judge Dunn
195
Assemblyman.
T. W. Tower
421-246
Huffman
175
ELECTION, NOVEMBER 8, 1859.
Governor.
Alexander W. Randall
.995-376
Harrison C. Hohart ...
619
Lieutenant Governor.
Alexander S. Palmer.
991-359
Butler G. Noble
.032
Secretary of State.
Louis P. Harvey
997-328
Marvin B. Alden
619
State Treasurer.
Samuel D. Hasting.
.970-334
Llon Silverman
.636
Attorney General.
Samuel Crawford.
035
James Howe.
.989-344
State Superintendent.
Josiah Pickard.
.968-316
Lyman C. Draper.
652
Bank Comptroller.
Gysbert Van Steenwick
.975-329
Joel C. Squires.
646
Prison Commissioner.
Hans C. Heg.
.988-355
Henry C. Fleek
Assemblyman.
633
William C. McMichael
989-375
Daniel D Barnard
614
State Senator.
B. E. Hutchinson.
946-275
W. H. Tuekcr
671
County Treasurer.
James Lamsio.
997-526
R. S. Riley
.471
Thomas Fretwell.
.105
William T. McConnell
14
Sheriff.
William Goode
991-374
S. MeKitrick
617
P. Curtis
7
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.
J. M. Bennett
.. 957-297
Thomas B. Brown
.660
J. B. Brown
1
Clerk of the Court.
W. S. Purdy
938-260
B. F. Hartshorn.
.678
J. M. McCes
1
Register of Deeds.
D. P. Allison.
.901-20
William Terhune.
701
Distriet Attorney.
C. M. Butts
.962-454
R. C. Bierce.
508
H. W. MeAlley
25
County Surveyor.
L. Joseph
969-334
A. A. Baldwin
635
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1860.
President.
Abraham Lincoln
1145-670
Stephen A. Douglas
465
John C. Breckenridge
22
Congressman.
Luther Hanchet
1126-615
James D. Ramert.
511
D. H. Johnson
.. 1111-612
O. B. Thomas
499
Chief Justice Supreme Court.
A. Seott Sloan.
697-198
Luther S. Dixon
.497
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1861.
Governor.
Louis P. Harvey ..
976-699
Furgeson
277
Edward Soloman.
.968-682
Billings
.286
Secretary of State.
James T. Lewis
.947-650
Benton ..
297
State Treasurer.
Samuel D. Hastings.
970-686
Miller.
284
Attorney General.
James H. Howe.
968-682
Horton.
.286
State Superintendent.
J. L. Pickard.
.970-686
Winslow
.284
Bank Comptroller.
W. H. Ramsey
937-652
Vollmer.
.285
Prison Commissioner.
Hodges.
970-688
Crilly .
.282
State Senator.
C. M. Butt
653-79
Cate.
574
Assemblyman. (1st District).
Ole Johnson ..
366-141
William McConnell.
225
(2d Distriet).
J. M. Rusk
361-118
Soaring
248
Sheriff.
Lewis Sterling
.650-112
W. H. Officer.
538
Assemblyman.
Lieutenant Governor.
245
HISTORY OF VERNON COUNTY.
Clerk of the Court.
William S. Purdy
785-375
Albert Bliss
.No opposition
Vandwall ..
410
County Treasurer.
James Lowrie
828-473
Nickler
.353
Register of Deeds.
William S. S. White.
670-44
Nuzeman
.576
District Attorney.
W. F. Terhune
655-121
N. M. Layne
534
Surveyor.
Samucl Joseph
746-307
Adams
439
Coroner.
C. W. Pitcher
709-236
Herick
.473
School Superintendent.
L. L. Radcliff
636-103
Irish
533
ELECTION, NOVEMBER 4, 1862.
State Senator.
W S. Purdy
892-553
Charles Rodolf.
839
Assemblyman.
D. B. Priest
431-201
Georgo Walby.
230
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.
John M. Bennett
.893-507
Lucius Chase
.386
SPECIAL ELECTION, DECEMBER 30, 1862.
Congressman, (2d District).
Walter D. McIndoc.
770-337
N. S. Ferris
433
ELECTION, NOVEMBER 3, 1863. Governor.
James T. Lewis.
1155-795
Henry L. Palmer.
360
Lieutenant-Governor.
Wyman Spooner
1163-812
Nelson Dewey
351
Secretary of State.
Lucius Fairchild
1165-817
Emil Rothe.
348
State Treasurer.
Samuel D. Hastings
1165-814
Charles S. Benton
351
Attorney-General.
Winfield Smith
1163-811
Eleazer Wakeley
352
Stato Superintendent.
Josiah Pickard
1166-815
Volney French
351
Bank Comptroller.
William H. Ramsey.
1165-814
Henry S. Pierpont
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