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Mar. 14, 1841-Christopher Columbus Cheesebro. aet. 24, Darien.
May 21. 1841-Abby Frances Goodsell. aet. 33, Lake Geneva.
Mar. 5. 1842-Rosetta, wife of Azor Kinney, aet. 31, Whitewater.
Apr. 9, 1842-Dorcas ( Perry), wife of Thomas James, Richmond. Dec. - , 1842-Mary, widow of Israel Ferris, aet. 85, Whitewater.
Jan. 8, 1843-George Matthews, aet. 38, Troy.
Feb. 27, 1843-Henry Phoenix, aet. 50, Delavan.
Apr. 20, 1843-Sprowell Dean, aet. 48, Troy.
June 11. 1843-Martha W. ( Larrabee), wife of Charles M. Baker, aet. 37. Lake Geneva.
June -, 1843-Jonathan Perry .- with suspicion of poisoning .- Lafayette. July 25, 1843-Eli Moody, aet. 63, Bloomfield.
Aug. 16, 1843-Harriet ( Wheeler ), wife of Daniel Salisbury, Spring Prairie. Oct. 20. 1843-Calvin Pike, aet. 41. Whitewater.
July 25. 1844 Charlotte ( Boyce), wife of Albert Ogden, Elkhorn.
Sept. 4. 1844-Dr. James Tripp. aet. 49, Whitewater.
Oct. 26. 1844-Huldah (Cornell), wife of Judge John Martin, aet. 49 Spring Prairie.
Nov. 21, 1844-Benoni Bradway, aet. 52, Delavan.
Dec. 20, 1844-Philinda, wife of Joseph Hall, aet. 40, Richmond.
Mar. 3. 1845-Lydia ( Dodge ), wife of Silas Salisbury, act. 59, Whitewater. Apr. 15, 1845-Eliza E. (Gay), wife of Samuel H. Stafford, aet. 34, Bloom- field.
Apr. 18. 1845-Esther ( Cravath ), wife of Nelson Salisbury. aet. 32. White- water.
June 21. 1845-Clementina M., wife of Thomas Harrison, act. 34. Spring Prairie.
July 23, 1845 James R. Bruce. aet. 31. Darien.
Ang. 13. 1845-Harriet ( Boyce), wife of Alvah B. Johnson, aet. 27. Darien. Ang. 16. 1845 Anstin H. Wright, act. 31. Fast Troy.
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Sept. 10, 1845-Amasa Allen, aet. 69. Lafayette.
Sept. 18, 1845-Phoebe ( Blakeslee). wife of Elijah Church, aet. 51, Wal- worth.
Sept. 20, 1845-Asaph Pratt, aet. 55. Whitewater.
Oct. 3. 1845-Sarah, daughter of Webster Bailey, wife of Whitefield Bailey, Walworth.
Jan. 2. 1846-Thomas K. LeBarron. aet. 27. Whitewater.
Jan. 16. 1846-Jesse Hand. aet. 63. Hudson.
Aug. 13. 1846-Robert Kennedy Morris. aet. 39. Lagrange.
Sept. 18, 1846-Harriet C., wife of Charles A. Soper, aet. 26. Darien.
Oct. 14. 1846-Capt. Israel Williams, aet. 57. Walworth.
Oct. 17. 1846-Cynthia, wife of Stephen Knapp, aet. 59. East Troy.
Oct. 20, 1846-Charity L., wife of Loren Stacy, aet. 42. Hudson.
Oct. 24. 1846-Harriet (Newell), wife of Albert H. Smith. aet. 31, Delavan.
LOSSES BY FIRE.
An incomplete list of more or less destructive fires, though of little value as history, may help to fix dates of other events associated with then in men's memories. It is so far from full that a list nearly as long may be found in the Delavan fire department's record of the last twenty years.
Apr. 14. 1844-William Birge's house. Whitewater. A child of three years burned.
May 9. 1844-"A great fire at Sharon."
Dec. - , 1845-Andrew Ferguson's store. Geneva.
Der 10, 1852-Samuel Tibbets's home. Sugar Creek.
-- -. 1858-Benjamin F. Pope's house, Elkhorn.
May 15. 1859-Patrick O'Brien's house. Darien.
Sept. 22, 1859-Methodist church. Elkhorn.
Jan. 12. 1860-Alexander H. Bunnell's house. Lafayette.
Jan. 23. 1860-Two newspaper offices and other buildings. Delavan.
Apr. 29. 1860-John .\. Farnum's house. North Geneva.
Feb. 26. 1862-Henry Lord's house, town of Delavan.
Nov. 25. 1862-Lemuel Webster's house, Sugar Creek. Nov. 10. 1866-Chaffee's planing mill and Thiele's cabinet shop. Whitewater.
Feb. 26. 1867-Centralia store and other buildings, Elkhorn.
May 31. 1867-Esterly reaper works. Whitewater.
Nov. 10. 1867-Several stores in Main street, Whitewater.
Nov. 30. 1867-Cole & Hunter's pottery. Whitewater.
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-- --. 1867-John Welch's store, Whitewater.
Apr. 25. 1872-Quigley's vinegar factory. Lake Geneva.
Jan. 29, 1873-County House, North Geneva.
Feb. 26, 1874-Ethan B. Farnum's store, Springfield. Mar. 28, 1875-Office of Whitewater Register and other buildings.
July 2, 1875-Office of Walworth County Liberal, Elkhorn.
Aug. 13, 1875-Goff's grain house, Delavan village.
Aug. 21, 1875-Nathan W. Mower's barn, lightning-struck and burned.
Dec. 31. 1875-Hollis Latham's house, one of the oldest at Elkhorn.
Apr. 5, 1876-Doane's and other stores. Delavan.
May 2, 1876-Isaac Way's house, with two children, North Geneva.
July 7, 1876-Darien Water-cure building.
Feb. 19, 1879-Episcopal rectory, Elkhorn, badly damaged.
Sept. 16, 1879-State School for the Deaf, Delavan.
Mar. -. 1880-Steamer "Arrow," in Geneva lake.
Jan. 7, 1881-Benjamin T. Fowler's house and cheese factory, Heart Prairie.
Jan. 10, 1881-John G. Flack's house and creamery. North Geneva.
July 5. 1881-Artemas Baird's house. Elkhorn.
Apr. 2. 1884-Cooley E. Wing's house, Elkhorn.
Aug. 20, 1885-William Harwood's barn, Little Prairie. lightning-struck and burned.
Nov. 18, 1886-Public school building. Elkhorn.
Nov. 8. 1888-Railway passenger house. Elkhorn.
Apr. 24. 1890-Dynamite explosion and fire at Doane's store, Delavan, him- self and another killed.
Aug. 5. 1890-George W. Ferris's house, Elkhorn.
May 16, 1891-Mrs. Margaret Casey's house, Elkhorn.
Oct. 31. 1891-The Daniel Botsford house, Elkhorn.
Dec. 6. 1801-Steamer "City of Lake Geneva." in Geneva lake.
Oct. 31. 1892 The John Driscoll house, Elkhorn.
Feb. 20, 1803-William K Chambers's house, Lauderdale Lake.
Aug. 28, 1893 Strow hotel and twelve more stores and shops, Delavan.
Sept. 17, 1803-Field fire, west of Elkhorn, threatened the whole village.
Oct. 4. 1893 -- Kachel's dairy supply building. Elkhorn.
Oct. 7. 1803-Isaac Moorhouse's dwelling. North Geneva.
July 9. 1804-Whiting House. Lake Geneva. Ang. 8. 1804-Hollenbeck cottage. Lauderdale.
Jan. 1. 1806 -- Barns and cattle ou Franklin H. Eames's farm, Lafayette.
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Mar. 12, 1896-Implement Company's store and Lore's laundry, Elkhorn. Mrs. Lore fatally burned.
Apr. I, 1896-Clifford A. Mower's store and Grove creamery. Bowers.
May 10, 1896-Bumstead's butter factory, Elkhorn.
Mar. 9. 1898-Frank Lumb's store.
Apr. 25, 1898-Mrs. Casey's house, Elkhorn.
Sept. 13, 1899-James F. Jude's hotel, barn, etc., East Troy.
Sept. 22, 1899-William DeGroff's house, Williams Bay.
Jan. 5. 1900-Patrick Campbell's house, Walworth.
Jan. 31, 1900-John H. Lauderdale's house, Elkhorn.
May 10, 1900-Mettowce Hotel, by Delavan lake.
Apr. 30, 1901-Daniel Carey's barn, etc., Darien.
Nov. 2. 1901-Kenilworth Inn. Delavan lake.
Feb. 6, 1902-House on the William Lincoln farin, Spring Prairie.
Apr. 10, 1902-Ira Enders's house and contents, Delavan.
May I, 1902-W. Allen Barnes' mill, or shop, Elkhorn (once a church ) .
Oct. 30, 1902-William. . Albert and Julia Wickinson burned with their house, in Lagrange.
Dec. 22, 1902-Workshop and instruments at Observatory, near Williams Bay.
July 28, 1903-Ernest Hand's barn and cattle, Sugar Creek, lightning- struck and burned.
July 31, 1903-James Cutler's barn, Darien,-largest in the county.
Dec. 25, 1903-Public school house at Lake Geneva.
Feb. 14. 1904-John W. Hare's store, Walworth village.
Oct. 24, 1904-Arthur Deist's house. East Troy.
Nov. 16, 1907-Baptist church, Elkhorn.
Jan. 19, 1908-Robert Opitz carriage shop, East Troy.
Apr. 4, 1908-James Baldwin's house, Darien
July 12, 1908-L. P. Sutter's barn. Delavan, one of largest in county.
Oct. 15, 1908-House on Eames farm, Lafayette.
July 2, 1909-Wilbur Lumber Company's mill, Honey Creek.
July 28, 1909-Town Hall, two stores and shop, Darien.
Apr. 3. 1910-House on Joseph Heimbach farm, near Honey Creek.
Oct. 12, 1911-Millard E. Mills's farmhouse, Elkhorn.
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CHAPTER XX.
TOWN OF BLOOM FIELD.
It is not now known why town i north, of range 18 east, was so named. There was Bloomfield, Essex county, northern New Jersey, and there was its namesake in Ontario county, New York, which is now two towns, East Bloom- field and West Bloomfield. It does not appear that any considerable number of settlers came from any of these places. It is not improbable that the early naming of Bloom prairie led to this appropriate name for the whole town. It has Linn westward, Lyons northward, Randall and Wheatland, both in Keno- sha county, eastward, and the Illinois towns of Richmond and Hebron, in MeHenry county, southward. At the primitive division of the county into five towns the southeastern quarter constituted the town of Geneva. By further legislation, January 23, 1844. Bloomfield, Hudson and Linn were severally set off from the parent town for home rule. There is in Waushara county, too, a township named Bloomfield, whence arises part of the difficulty in identifying the soldiers of the Civil war for whom credit should be given to this part of Walworth county.
The surface of the town is as fair to look upon as that of ant part of the county or of the neighboring counties. Though there is no great extent of level prairie, its slight unevenness nowhere breaks abruptly into hill coun- try, nor are there great areas of low-lying swamp. Its wooded sections are fairly distributed. The timber is mostly oak of the usual varieties, on the level and high ground, while a few patches of swamp lands are cov- ered with tamaracks. These evergreen-bearing swamps are often or generally peat-bottomed. with blue clay underlying. Modern scien- tific farming will at some time lead away the water and convert the peat into fertile soil. The Nippersink, by its three valleys and those of its little tribu- taries, distributes the relatively small marsh surfaces fairly about the town. Along the Kenoshan border the Powers lake chain in sections 13. 24, a small part of Ryan's lake in section 3. Pell's lake, in sections 15. 22, and a few glacial pot-holes, subtract about 928 acres from the total area of the town That is, official estimate shows 22,112 acres of land surface : but. as the well- informed reader is aware, owing to surveyor's slight inaccuracies. as well as to the convergence northward of all meridian lines, township areas are
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not invariably 23,040 acres of land and water. Bloom prairie reaches out into Hebron and Linn, about two-thirds way across the town northward and some- thing like one-third way eastward from the line of Linn; and its primitive unplowed beauty was in no way deceitful.
The whole town, for the first forty years of its settlement, yielded the usual fair to full returns in grain and root ; but. like its neighboring towns. it has found its truer value in its adaptation to corn raising and .dairy produc- tion. Returns for 1910 made to the county clerk show these acreages of improved land: Barley, 301 ; cabbage, 29: corn, 1.339: growing timber. I.307 : hayfieldi. 1,861 ; oats, 2.331 ; potatoes, 103; rye, 74; wheat, 30. Mr. Sikes shows census of live stock and true values: 3.093 cattle, $92,000 ; 845 hogs, $9.300: 804 horses, $66,200; two mules, $200: 1.056 sheep. $3.900. Land values, for town. $1.731,000, at an average of $78.27 per acre; for village. 458 acres at $429.47 per acre, whole value $196,700. The valuation of town and village is 5.01 per cent. of that of the entire county.
The population of Bloomfield, including Genoa Junction, at seven fed- eral enumerations, was: 1850, 879: 1860. 1.140: 1870, 1,091: 1880, 1,097: 1890, 1,197; 1900, 1.314: 1910. 1.485. In 1905 the state census gave the village 710 inhabitants and 856 to the rest of the town. The census of 1910 shows a loss of one for the village.
The permanent settlement of the town began late in 1836 with the com- ing of Henry Kimball and his son. Oramel, who made their claim in section 6. The elder pioneer brought his wife, Keziah, and such family as they had. from Otsego county, as soon as he had made for them a home in the solitude. He was born in July, 1783, and died January 31. 1851. His wife was born in 1783 and died August 10. 1852. Oramel was born May 29. 1815, and died in the town of Delavan. June 27, 1882. His wife, Lucinda, who outlived him, was born in 1830.
The earliest coming family was that of Harry and Elizabeth Tupper. late in 1837. Their son, Silas Wright Tupper, eldest of four children known. was born in the town. June 24. 1838: enlisted in 1861 as a private of Com- pany K. Eighth Infantry: re-enlisted in 1863: was transferred December 28, 1864. to Veteran Reserve Corps; died February 12, 1865, in the military hospital at Indianapolis. The other children were Sarah .A., born in 1844: Norman H., born in 1846: Ellen A .. born in 1848. Harry Tupper died in California. Elizabeth. daughter of Eli and Dorothy Moody, was born March 2, 1813; died May 1. 1881. John and Levi Moody were her brothers, both unmarried. and both came among the settlers of 1838.
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Among other best remembered settlers from 1837 to 1840, inclusive, were Hiram and Clarissa Barker, Thomas Buckland, John and Clarissa Chapin, Jonathan P. and W. Densmore Chapin, Charles Dorathy. Timothy H. Fellows, Carl Freeman, Samuel T. Hatch and wife, Caroline: Jeremiah and Orpha Jerrod, Andrew and John Michael Kull, William K. May. Welcome J. Miller, Marcus Moody, Doric C. Porter. Dan and Eliza Rowe, Thomas Peck Rutenber (1809-1855) and Polly Brazee, his wife: Sebastian and Apollonia Schurman, Benjamin Franklin Trow ( 1802-1870) and wife, Aurelia H. ( 1814-1890) ; Ebenezer and Mary Tupper. Everton Walker, Jonathan Ward. Isaac White, Jr.
Within the next eight years came Samuel and William Allen, Thomas Beeden and wife. Elizabeth ( 1810-1849). Schuyler Besteder ( 1800-1883) and wife Eliza Jane ( 1806-1889). Dewitt C. Blakeman, Morris Wait Blod- gett, John Brown, J. Sidney Buell, Edward Bundy, Conrad Burget, John Burns, William Worth Byington, David Ward Carey, Enoch B. and James B. Carter, Levinus Carver. George HI. Christian, Simon Williams Clark, Robert Cobb, Dudley Wesley Cook. Peter L. Craver, Edward Crowell. Will- iam Doughten. Delamore Duncan, Alfred W. Dyer. George Woodward Ed- wards. James Ervin, Andrew Everson, William Faulkner. George Field. Langdon Filkins, Jason Fobes, John Chesley Ford. \biel, Joseph and Russell Fuller, James Grier, Dike W, Hall. Jonah Ilanchett. Jr., Daniel P. Handy, Ephraim and Nathan Harrison, Dewitt C. Hay. Alanson K. Hill, Charles High, James C. Latour, Valorous D. Manning, Eli Manor, Stillman Moores, John 11. Nichols, Edwin Ruthven and Enos Hanchett Olden, Ira A. Pell, Thomas Peters, John Yerwell Petty, Oakley A\. Phillips, Preston Brewer Plumb, Joshua Post. Archibald. David and James Primmer, Solon Read and linda M., his wife, Lyman Redington, Cyrus and Erastus R. Rugg. Hiram J. Sawyer, Joseph W. Searles, John Sibley, George Smith, Clark Williams Spafard, Amos W. and Samuel H. Stafford. Abner Strickland ( 18[4-1900), Philo C. Taylor, Hamilton Temple, Dr. Oliver S. Tif- fany, Jeremiah and William G. Truesdell, Sammel Ward, Michael Welden. William H. Whiting, Nathaniel B. Whittier, William R. Wilkins, Thomas Wilson, Abner Wing, John Wood. Manson and Silas P. Wright. \ few of these may have bought government land without intending to settle. One such instance was that of Andrew Galbraith Miller, for many years judge of the federal court at Milwaukee, who bought in section 13. A larger num- ber went a few years later to other towns, counties, or states; and a few of the old settlers died within the next few years.
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Neither from public and private records, nor from the memory of aging men and women of the next following generation, are now to be gathered, with fair approach to fullness or exactness, many facts as to the earlier lives and later careers of the fathers and mothers of the county ; though something might yet be done to recover and preserve these "little lines of yesterday," were time and much effort to be given to such labor of love. The following notes include a few names of later comers :
lleman H. Allen ( 1813-1888) married Caroline B. ( 1816-1892), daughter of Calvin P. (1798-1861) and Pamela Gay.
Hiram Barker ( 1801-1884) married Clarissa .\. Bronson ( 1808-1879).
Elizabeth ( 1810-1849), wife of Thomas Beeden, was buried at Lake Geneva. Thomas and wife Jane were living in 1800.
Adeline, daughter of Thomas Buckland, was married in February, 1841, by Judge Baker, to William Williams, of McHenry county. This was the first marriage in Bloomfield.
William Worth Byington ( 1822-1909), a native of Vermont, married, first. Adeline, daughter of Abner Wing and Mehetabel Ingham; second, Mrs. Sarah B. (Newton) Pier. He was for several years in business at Lake Geneva, and came in 1876 to Elkhorn, where he died.
Enoch Boutell Carter ( 1819-1902), son of Leonard and Persis, was born at Leominster, Massachusetts. Charlotte ( 1824-1910) was daughter of Will- iam Vincent and Lydia Wilcox. Enoch married in 1845.
Jonathan Patterson Chapin, son of John and Clarissa, married, March 18, 1841. Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah and Orpha Jerrod.
Samuel Rogers Darrow ( 1809-1891) was a native of Herkimer county, New York.
Charles Dorathy ( 1811-1893), son of Joseph, came in 1840 to Bloom- field. His first wife was Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Tupper. His second wife was Eliza Kimball.
Delamore Duncan, son of William and wife, Ruth Gilmore, was a broth- er-in-law of Timothy H. Fellows.
George Field married Emma. daughter of Abiel Fellows and Dorcas Hopkins.
Nathan Harrison was born in 1801 and died in 1883. Anna, his wife, was born in 1804 and died in 1887.
Samuel Tucker Hatch ( 1802-1882), son of Harman (whose wife was named Tucker ), came in 1840 to section 12. His first wife was named Caro- line : his second was Mrs. Lucy Small. It is not known that he was of the same family as others of his name. in Delavan. Geneva. Linn, or elsewhere.
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Charles High ( 1809-1887) was probably son of Charles and Christine, of Washington county, New York. He came in 1841 to section 30, and married Nancy B. Rolfe, of Milwaukee. His farm was one of the largest and best in the town.
Alanson King Hill ( 1813-1894) was born at Canton, New York, and died at Lake Geneva. His wife was Nancy Agnes Wellwood.
There was in Bloomfield, long ago, and perhaps is yet, a second Kimball family, of German origin. From tombstones it is inferred that the name was Kimpel, and changed by local pronunciation to the more familiar form. Carl F., of this family ( 1814-1891), had wife, Anna E. ( 1826-1885).
James C. Latour ( 1795-1883) was born in New York (city). He came with wife, Christina ( 1798-1856). to sections 3, 10.
John Loveland ( 1810-1886) was born at Middletown, Connecticut. He came in 1841 with wife. Elizabeth Latour ( 1814-1906).
Eli Manor ( 1822-1885) was son of Joseph and Louisa Lucia Manor ( This name is spoken "Man-ore."). He built the only hotel now at the Junc- tion.
Eli Moody ( 1780-1843) and wife Dorothy ( 1784-1847). Of their known children, Elizabeth was Mrs. Harry Tupper; Levi ( 1808-1890) died unmarried ; John died October 27. 1862, in naval hospital at Mound City, Illinois, seemingly in gunboat service. Alfred ( 1815-1881) may have been of Eli's family.
Stillman Moores bought land in sections 14, 23. His wife. Mary ( 1807- 1880), was daughter of William and Susannah Coleman.
Enos Hanchett Olden (born 1822) came about 1842 to section 15, and soon afterward married Julia A. Gregg (born 1826). Their farm, now Elisha T. Ifibbard's, has been found rather remarkably adapted to fruit- raising.
Ira A. Pell ( 1800-1871 ). namesake of the lakelet in section 15, married Mary L. ( 1816-1883), daughter of Ephraim and Alida Farmer.
Otis B. Phillips ( 1798-185-) and wife Olive ( 1800-1865) were buried at Lake Geneva. He may have been son or brother of Oakley .A. Phillips, who may have been a non-resident buyer in section 31.
James Primmer (born (816) and wife Hannah (born [821). daughter of Philip and Rebecca Shaver, were natives of Rensselaer county. They came to section 7.
Jolin Sibley was one of the founders of the Episcopal society. His son, Charles W. (county clerk 1853-7), married Lucy, daughter of Abiel Fellows and Dorcas Hopkins.
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Jane Eliza Trow, daughter of Benjamin F. and Aurelia H., first girl born in the town-October 8, 1839-lived to marry and died about 1871.
Everton Walker (born 1810) and wife Susan (born 1814) came to section 4 in 1839. They left the state later than 1860.
Jonathan Ward ( 1814-1872) married Electa King ( 1820-1894) and came to section 5 in 1837. In 1860 they had five children. They were buried at Lake Geneva. Mrs. Ward seems to have become Mrs. Adams.
Silas P. Wright ( 1815-1896) was born near Sackett's Harbor; lived on section 20, Bloomfield : died at Lake Geneva. Mary, his wife, was born in 1816.
Bloomfield centre-not Centre --- was but a convenient way of denoting the site of an early school house, a half-mile south of the town-centre, on the diagonal road from Geneva to Richmond (or, a little later, to Genoa). This house for long served as a meeting place of religious gatherings and early societies, and for other township purposes. The first school was taught in 1840 by Mrs. Electa (King) Ward, in section 6, at a house built for her 11se as a private school. There is now a district school house on her husband's farm, at the center of section 5. There are at present in the town ( the village not included ) six school districts, of which two are joint districts -- No. 6 with Lyons ; No. 8 with Randall, in Kenosha county.
The whole number of soldiers of the Civil war whose service was credited to Bloomfield was one hundred thirty-one. If not all of these were really residents of the town the non-residents were fairly offset by the men of Bloomfield who were enrolled for other towns. Her volunteers turned out promptly in the first two years, and her citizens voted liberal bounties in order to fill later calls for troops. The town was well represented in the Fourth Infantry-Cavalry and the Eighth and Twenty-second Infantry, and by smaller numbers in many other commands. Company K. Eighth Infantry, the Live Eagle regiment, was credited with thirty-six battles and skirmishes, in six states. Its orderly sergeant. Theodore A. Fellows, returned as its third cap- tain, after exactly four years of constantly active service.
The town and village records are quite full and generally legible. The clerks have usually been chosen for their fitness, and have often been re- elected. The books for 1850 are as easily read as printed script. The clerk for that year was Mr. Youlen, a young farmer who had at that time a work- ing partnership with David W. Carey, and whom nobody but the latter's son, Julian M. Carey, seems now to remember. The official list for the town of Bloomfield is as follows :
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CHAIRMEN OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
William K. May 1844
Cyrus Rugg. 1845, 47, 49
56-58. '65
Timothy Hopkins Fellows_
1846. '68, '73
Samuel Allen 1848
David Ward Carey 1850
Heman C. Stewart 1851
Schuyler Ward Benson
1852. '74. '75
William Densmore Chapin.
1853-55, '60, '61. '63. 64. '81
Amos Wagman Stafford.
1859. '66. '67. '69. '72
Adolph Freeman 1862
Alfred H. Abell 1876-79
Andrew Kull. Jr. 18So. '82-84
George Rue Allen 1885-97
Russell Holmes 1 898-1900
Thomas H. Grier -1901, '02
Charles W. Forbes - 1903
John H. Hoffman 1904-05
Elijah T. Hibbard. 1906-08
Clifton S. Arnold -1909
Frederick C. Paskie, res
IQI0, II
Elijah T. Hibbard, acting 19II
Elijah T. Hibbard, elected -1912
ASSOCIATE SUPERVISORS.
Alfred H. Abell 1863, 74, 75
James Grier Allen ~ 1904
William H. Allen 1873. 77-'80
Thomas Beeden 1847. 49
Elijah T. Hibbard. 1890, '99. 1900
Bryant S. Benson 1873
Frederick Henning 1891-93
Schuyler Ward Benson 1849. 51
John Hoffman
1894. 98-1903
Michael Hoffman 1885-88
Richard R. Hoffman. 1910-12
Russell Holmes
1895-97
Clifton S. Arnold I 1866-68
Seth L. Banks 1848
Dewitt C. Blakeman 1853-4
William Irish 1848
Elijah Jewett -1852
William G. Katzenberger 1909-12
Dr. Selvey Kidder 1876-79
William Forbes 1850. 74. 75
Andrew W. Foster 1888-93
William Kimball 1894-97
Andrew Kull, Jr. 1 t 1
1905
Edwin O. Kull 1889 [ I 1 I
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Joseph Fuller 1854. 55
Frederick Gleason
1885. '86. '98
Andrew W. Hafs 1905. '06
Orville N. Harrison .ISSO. '82- 84
Sidney Buell 1866, '81
William Ira Buell 1867-72. '82-84
Enoch Boutell Carter
1846-47. 51. 52, 60, '70. 71
Jolm Chapin 1844
Robert Cobb 1861. 62. 65
Timothy Hopkins Fellows
1856. 57. '65
Charles W. Forbes __ 1887. 1901. '02
Daniel Forbes 1881
Oramel Kimball 1864
Adolph Freeman 1861. 63
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Jacob Maas 1904
James C. Merritt 1860
Hiram J. Sawyer 1850
Welcome Joseph Miller 1868-69
Amos Wagman Stafford
Daniel T. Moores
1845-46, '58, '64
Enos Hanchett Olden
1 867
Heman J. Stewart 1850
Lawrence Palmitier
1853
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Everton Walker 1856
Frederick C. Paskie
1907-09
Edwin Woodman 1857-58
Morris Read 1866
Ira Williams 1855. '62
Samuel J. Wilson 1876 1
TOWN CLERKS.
Lyman Redington (2 mos.) 1844
William Densmore Chapin. 1844
Jason Fobes 1845
*Frederick Fernald
I867-69.
George Field
1846-47
1872-75, 1878-9
Adam C. Fowler 1870
William T. Beeden 1871
Julian Marcellus Carey 1876-77
Andrew W. Foster 1880-84
Charles W. Sibley
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