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Clinton street, Allen Grove, lies along the south line of Darien, in section 31 ; and the Sidney Allen addition to the village plat lies north of that street. The railway keeps to the Darien side, having its station at the top of Allen's hill, at an inconvenient distance from the half-abandoned village. Bardwell station, or crossing, at first named "Tioga," is in section 32, 2.5 miles from Darien and 1.7 miles from Allen Grove. Its station building and its Y's are all there is in sight besides the intersecting lines of two divisions of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway system. Why this crossing was not made at Darien may be one of the inscrutabilities of railway building.
As nearly as may now be learned the town and village of Darien fur- nished one hundred thirty-eight soldiers for the Civil war. Migration and death have so far reduced the number of resident ex-soldiers as to suspend the once flourishing Grand Army post.
The several postmasters were Christopher C. Chesebro. John Bruce, Henry Frey, Edward Topping, Moses Bushnell Stone, Nathaniel Wing Hoag, Joseph F. Lyon, Charles S. Teeple, George F. Lathrop. Rodney Seaver .* Horace Everett Seaver, Edwin E. Park,* Frederick Siperley, John W. Gar- butt .* The three whose names are starred were soldiers of 1861.
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The loss of records, burned with the town hall, makes the official list of the town somewhat incomplete; though part has been recovered from county clerk's and circuit court clerk's records, and part from newspaper files at Delavan and Elkhorn.
CHAIRMEN OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Salmon Thomas 1842, 44, '53
John DeWolf 1863. '76. '79
John Bruce 1843. 45
Horace Everett Seaver
1864
Newton McGraw
1846-7
John J. Johnson
1865-6, 1885-6
Gaylord Blair
1848
Joseph Foster Lyon __ 1867-72, '74-5
George Cotton
1849-52
Daniel Rodman 1873
Chester Deming Long. 1854
John B. Johnson 1877, '80-1. '84
Hiram Averill Johnson 1855. '58
Darwin Pratt Clough
1878, '87-97
John Brooks Hastings
1856
William Blakeley
1882-3
Josiah Dodge
1857
John McFarlane
- 1898-9.
George W. Lamont 1859
John Piper
1
I 1900-I
Parker M. Cole
1860-62
1 1 1 George Christie I 1902-12
ASSOCIATE SUPERVISORS.
Charles Allen 1875-6, '79
Isaac \\. Babcock __ 1867, '79-80, '82-3
Willard B. Babcock 1861, 78
George W. Benner. 1901-08
Gaylord Blair 1850
Byron J. Blakeley 1899-1900
Willard Blanchard 1849
Daniel Carey 1885
Orange Walker Carter 1845, '69
George Christie
1886-95, 1900
Rufus Conable
1850
George Cotton
1846
John Cusack 1893-96. 98
Truman P. Davis 1865
John DeWolf 1856, '58
Josiah Dodge 1849
Lemuel Downs 1878
Jared Fox 1843 I
Cyrenus M. Fuller 1864
James Gale
1859-60
Moody Orlando Grinnell 1859
Wickham H. Griswold
1877, '85
Lewis E. Ilastings
I888-90
Henry J. Heyer
1898
Edwin E. Hillman.
1873
Uriah Schutt Hollister
1866, '70-2, '74
Asher Johnson
1842, 45. 48, '52
Hiram Averill Johnson 1853-4
John J. Johnson 1863
William B. Johnson 1872
Abijah Jones 1862
Loren Kenney Jones 1844, '60
George W. Lamont. 1858
Ebenezer Latimer
1851
Peter M. Latimer 1862
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John Lippit 1843
Ilugh Long 1844
James W. Long. 1891-2, '97
Alexander A. Mckay.
1870-I
Johnson Goodwell Matteson_1881-2
Arthur W. Maxson 1867
Frank Niskern 1887
Charles S. Teeple.
1864
Hiram Onderdonk 1851-3 1
Edgar Topping
1861
John Milton Vanderhoof 1909-12
Frank Pounder
1897
Rial N. Weed
1847
Dr. Andrew J. Rodman 1876
John Williams
1846-7
Daniel Rodman
I 869
William H. Williams
1874-5, '77
William Rood
1899
Elmer C. Woodford.
190I-II
Names are wanting for both supervisors in 1884, and for one of them in each of the years 1883. '86. '90. and '93; but it is probable that Mr. Chris- tie's service was continuous from 1886 to 1896 inclusive.
TOWN CLERKS.
Joseph Warren Seaver __ 1842-6, '57
Orange Williams
1863
Andrew J. Weatherwax I847
Jonathan Hastings. 1848
Calvin Serl 1849
Charles P. Soper. 1850-2, '54
1880-3, '86-9
Elias W. Grow 1853
Riley S. Young
1890-7
William A. Waterhouse 1855-6
George L. Reed
1898-1912
Nathaniel Wing Hoag
1858-62, '64-71
TOWN TREASURERS.
Loren Kenney Jones 1842
William A. Waterhouse
'51-2, '57-8, '61-2, '64, '68
Leander Dodge 1844
Lyman Hunt Seaver 1853
Asa Foster
1845-6
James Gale 1854
Jonathan Hastings 1 I
1847
William Harper 1855, '60
Henry Frey
1848-9
John D. Older 1856
Hugh Long
t 1850, '59
John S. Dodge. 1863 I 1 I I
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Horace Everett Seaver 1863, '66
Lyman Hunt Seaver ___ 1842, 45, 57 Charles P. Soper __ 1848, '56, '65, '68 Arthur H. Stewart 1880-I
Hiram A. Stone 1857
Israel Stowell
1868, '73
Joshua Parish
1854
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Theron Rufus Morgan __ 1872, '76-9 Horace Everett Seaver __ 1873-5, '85 John Milton Vanderhoof
Iliram A. Stone 1843
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Joseph Foster Lyon 1865-6
John Milton Vanderhoof. 1869
Leroy Dodge 1870
Avery H. Stone 1871-2
Lucius C. Waite 1873-4
James Stryker 1875-6
Darwin Pratt Clough 1877
Rodney Seaver_1878-80, '82, '85-90
William Edwin Clough 1881, '87
Edwin E. Park 1883-4
John McFarlane 1891-5
Henry J. Heyer. -1896
James Thorpe
1897-1912
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Ellis S. Barrett 1911-12
Edwin Buck Carter 1885-88
John S. Dodge 1862-64
John Gilbert
1910-12
Orvellus Henry Gilbert_1860-4, '72-4 Nicholas Montgomery Harring-
ton 1861-6
William Harrison 1859-61
Uriah Schutt Hollister 1867-8
Hiram Averill Johnson 1887-8
George W. Lamont
1863-7
Chester Deming Long
1877-82
James W. Long 1888-9
Joseph Foster Lyon 1863-9. '74-6
Arthur W. Maxson 1864-6, '69-71
Peter J. Miserez
1900-I
Washington Mulks_1890-2, '99-1901 Eugene D. Odell. 1885-7, '89-93 Dr. Andrew Jackson Rodman __ 1883-4
Adna Viles Sawyer.
-1897-1910
David H. Seaver, bet. 1896 and 1905
Ilorace Everett Seaver 1881-3
Calvin Serl
1860-1, '64-6
Edwin I. Smith.
__ 1878-94, '97-1902
Charles P. Soper
1866-70
Calvin Graham Sperry
I866-8
Moses Bushnell Stone
1859-61
John Milton Vanderhoof.
1871-7
Bert H. Welch
1895-6
David Williams
1869-79, '82-99
Archibald Woodard
1870-8
CHAPTER XXII.
TOWN OF DELAVAN.
At the first division of the county. January 2, 1838, for town govern- ment the southwestern quarter was named Delavan. The Phoenix brothers sought thus to dedicate a newly planted community to total abstinence from the use as beverages of spirituous and malt liquors, wine and cider. Ed- ward Cornelius Delavan, a rich man of Albany, took an early part and became a leader of great personal influence in the temperance movement of the later thirties, which increased noticeably for some years thereafter. The organization, founded on a belief in the efficacy of moral suasion, was volun- tary, and without other ritual than a publicly taken pledge. Officially named the New York State Temperance Society, its members were better known as "Washingtonians." Mr. Delavan's social position, as well as his ability and earnestness, made his name a household word in temperance families until his fame was eclipsed, about 1850, by Neal Dow, the apostle of "legal sua- sion." In their sales and leases of real estate in their new town and village the Phoenix proprietors inserted a covenant, in effect, that no liquor should ever be sold on land conveyed or left by them. But this stipulation did not long outlast their own short lives.
The town of Walworth (with Sharon) was set off in 1839, and the town of Darien early in the next year, leaving the name Delavan to town 2 north, range 16 east. One more dismemberment, February 2, 1846, gave section I to the new town of Elkhorn. Of seven measurements recorded by the state topographers the highest and lowest points were respectively nine hundred and sixty-eight and nine hundred and five feet above sea-level. The higher ground is in the vicinity of Delavan lake,-on both sides and at its foot,-at points along its outlet and on banks of Turtle creek, and in the sections lying nearest the town of Sugar Creek.
Delavan lake is second in area and only in that way inferior in its nat- ural beauty to Geneva lake. It is about three and one-half miles long, from a half-mile to a mile in breadth, and its greatest depth, near its middle point. is fifty-six and seven-tenths feet. Its largest inlet. Jackson's creek, comes from Geneva into the town at section 12 and crosses sections 14 and 22 to reach the foot of the lake. A much smaller stream comes out of Walworth.
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crosses sections 33, 34 for less than a inile, and meets the lake near its upper end. Its one outlet, opposite the mouth of the larger inlet, takes a swan- necked course to reach the Turtle near the city of Delavan. A widening of Turtle creek, near by, locally named Lake Como, completed the sugges- tion to Pottawattomie imagination of the body, neck, and head of the bird from which they named the lake and its outlet. Turtle creek comes out of Richmond into section 6, enters Darien from section IS, and winds its way to the Rock near Beloit. The so-called island, which at wettest seasons has been really an island, rises high above the water level, at the head of the lake, as if to mask a small marsh which was part of the primitive lake-basin.
The farms at the broad foot of the lake are among the finest in the county. They were owned for many years by the Mabie brothers and their heirs, but have passed into other ownership. The high banks of the lake, once well-wooded and now not wholly bare, are lined with summer homes, hotels, parks, picnic grounds and steamer landings,-and, in brief, the Algon- quin fishermen's Wah-ba-shaw-bess has become the white men's highly civ- ilized Delavan lake. Whatever changes have been or may be made, the lake itself and the natural height and slope of its containing walls will remain; and the Pottawattomie's grandson may fish as of yore in Swan lake, but must first buy the county clerk's license and must submit his catch to the game warden's count. The Delavan Lake Assembly Association's ground, about thirty-seven acres, fully equipped with auditorium and other suitable buildings, lies at the head of the outlet. Its yearly meetings bring visitors from far beyond the county borders, and have had their part in making the little lake a part of the geography of American inland waters, not to know which argues one's self unknown and as having yet something of rational interest to learn. About thirty-five years ago a steamer. the "D. A. Olin," was built and launched, but was found rather too large for practical use. The present flotilla is two small serviceable steamers and numerous unregistered sail-boats.
The land area of the town of Delavan is 18,751 acres, valued at $2,629,- 000, an average value $140.25 per acre. Crop acreages for 1910 were : Bar- ley, 1,556; corn. 345: growing timber, 1, 183; hayfields, 3,038; oats, 1,769; orchards, 54; potatoes, 135; rye, 166; wheat, 28. There were nine automo- biles. The population of town and village in 1850 was 1,268. At the six following federal enumerations it was for the town: 1860, 890; 1870, 821; 1880, 930; 1890, 667; 1900, 993: 1910, 903.
Col. Samuel F. Phoenix having discovered the lake. its outlet, and the point at which the road from Racine to Janesville must cross the swan's
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neck, chose his lands by quarter-sections and half-quarters in sections 15, 20, 21, 22, 33, 34. He built his cabin in section 15, near the foot of the lake. Henry Phoenix entered land in sections 7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. The brothers jointly entered parts of sections 23, 24, 28, 29. Section 18 includes the site of their village. These men dealt justly and liberally with other men who came to build and people the rising city. The Phoenixes came with enough money for their enterprise, and their money, business abilities, and personal character and qualities gave them proportionate influence as long as they lived. A house was built early enough in 1836, on the east bank of the outlet and within the village as soon afterward platted, to admit their cousin, William Phoenix, and wife Susan, with their family and board- ers, as occupants, in October. Allen Perkins had also built earlier in the year, at a point on Turtle creek, within section 18, but did not stay long. In 1837 Colonel Phoenix brought his wife and son from Perry, New York, and Henry's family came in 1838.
A saw-mill was built between the village and the lake in 1838, and was at once set at work to turn out materials for a grist-mill, at the village. In 1838 a stock of goods was brought and set out for sale, at first near the saw-mill, but a few weeks later at the house in the village. One of the earliest revenue measures of the county commissioners was to impose a deal- er's license fee of ten dollars on the firm of H. & S. F. Phoenix ; but it does not appear in record that the county commissioners licensed a tavern in town or village.
No registry of arrivals was ever made and preserved, but the persons here named probably came to village or town by or before 1843: Abner Adams, William C. Allen, Tra Andrus, James Aram, John Auchampaugh, William Averill, Enoch Bailey and sons, Henry, Nehemiah and Samuel W. Barlow, William A. Bartlett, Richard Beals (wife Lucy Beardsley), Richard S. Bond, Daniel Bowen (d. 1860), Peter Boys (1783-1855), Jeremiah Brad- ley, Cyrus, Edwin, and Ichabod Brainard ( 1776-1855), Martin Brooks, Isaac Burson, Chester P., Hiram, and Nelson Calkins. David Perry Calkins, Luther Chapin, Jonathan C. Church, Daniel Clough, John Dalton ( 1800-1887) and wife Ellen, Edmund Dickenson, Lazarus W. Ellis, John Evans, James F. Flanders, Walter Flansburg, Daniel G. Foster, Abraham Fryer, John and Stephen P. Fuller, Daniel Gates. Levi Gloyd, Marcellus B. Goff ( 1808-1884), Jasper Griggs, Benjamin F. and ITenry Hart, Edwin A. and William Hol- linshead, Edward B. Hollister, Isaac C. Howe ( 1793-1887), Dr. Hender- son ITunt, John James, Asa G., Milo, and Samnel C. Kelsey, Daniel E. La Bar, James H. Mansfield, Hilas Meacham. Lewis H. Miller, James Mof-
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fatt, John Murray, Edward Norris, Alvin B. and Chauncey Parsons, George Passage, Webster Pease, Ira C. and Ransom Perry, Truman Pierce (1787- 1866), Thomas Potter, Joseph Rector, James Richardson ( 1781-1846), Peter Robinson, John I. Scrafford, John B. Shepard, Erastus Stoddard, Israel Stowell, Philo S. Sykes, Aaron H. Taggart, Hiram Terry, Rev. Henry Top- ping, Ira and Samuel Utter, Jeremiah Philbrook Ward, Eleazar Gaylord War- ren, Thomas Wells, Lewis H. Willis, James Wilson, John Yost.
Ichabod Brainard ( 1776-1855) married a second wife, Mary (born 1779), daughter of John Cleveland and Eunice Cutler. Cyrus was their son, as was probably Edwin, who married Mary A., daughter of William and Ann Phoenix.
Isaac Burson ( 1810-1881) was son of James Burson and Deborah Stroud, and was born in Monroe county, Pennsylvania. He was a brother of Mrs. William Hollinshead. He lived unmarried, and died at Elkhorn, March 5, 1881. His burial was delayed for some days by the memorable snow blockade of that year. He bought land in section 4, Delavan, and sections 20, 33, Sugar Creek.
Chester Porter Calkins (1818-1890) married Catharine, daughter of Abraham Sperbeck. He was buried at East Delavan.
Jonathan C. Church (1811-1870) married Dorcas, daughter of Thomas James and Dorcas Perry.
Rev. James F. Flanders married Ann Elizabeth Porter, June 4, 1839. It is not shown where this marriage took place, but it was within the larger town of Elkhorn.
Daniel Gilman Foster ( 1802), son of Daniel Foster and Mary Davis, a native of New Hampshire, married Caroline, daughter of Daniel Brainard ; came from Perry, New York, in 1838 and bought land in sections 7, 21.
Stephen P. Fuller married Mary, daughter of Nehemiah Barlow and Orinda Steele. His sister. Loraine B. Fuller, was Doctor Hunt's first wife.
Daniel Stroud Hollinshead ( 1812-1869), son of James Hollinshead and Sarah Stroud, married Rachel Sherrod ( 1807-1853). Edwin Augustus and William were his brothers. The former bought land in section 34, Sugar Creek.
Edward Brigham Hollister ( 1823-1891), son of Seth L. Hollister and Catharine Brigham, married Harriet, daughter of Francis Eaton.
Milo and Samuel C. Kelsey were sons of Samuel Kelsey and Elizabeth Carver, of Sherburne, New York. Sarah Ann, their sister, was wife of Colonel Phoenix. Asa G. Kelsey's relationship may have been that of brother
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or of cousin. Milo was the first lawyer at Delavan. Samuel C. was a sur- veyor, teacher and architect. He married Caroline M., daughter of Colonel Betts.
Daniel Edwin La Bar ( 1789-1839) married Hannah ( 1793-1856), daughter of Samuel Rees and Rachel Stroud (1774-1854). He came in 1839 to sections 6. 7. His son, Samuel Rees La Bar ( 1820-1896), came in the same year. His wife was Harriet Nuel, daughter of Rev. Henry Topping and Nuel Van Doren.
Ira C. Perry bought land in section 31. April 5, 1843, he married Ann Briggs.
Truman Pierce (1787-1866) bought in section 31. His wife, Lucy, was born in 1793. Two of his sons-in-law were Kirtland G. Wright and Calvin Carrington. He and his mother, Mary (1755-1852), were buried at East Delavan.
Joseph Rector ( 1806-1869) with wife, Mary Ann MeDougal ( 1809- 1875), settled in section 34, but a few years later moved into Walworth.
John Bisby Shepard ( 1803-1875) was a son of Pelatiah Shepard and Elizabeth Thompson, of Fulton county, New York. He married Rachel (1806-1872), daughter of Benjamin Willis and Bridget Cole, and had five children. Of these, Sabra Amelia was wife of Reuben H. Bristol. Mary Selina was Mrs. Edward Colman, and Linus Delavan married Clarissa Zu- lemma, daughter of Adna Sawyer and Serena Norton Viles (widow of Ben- jamin Horne).
Israel Stowell ( 1812-1876), native of New Hampshire, married Mary M., daughter of Truman Jones and Elizabeth Kinne. He came to the village in 1838, and it is told that he built the first framed house, opened the first tavern, and placed a stage-coach on the route between Delavan and Chicago. A year before his death he married a second time.
Aaron Hardin Taggart ( 1816-1874) bought land in section 21, but be- came one of the earliest business men of Delavan. He married, in 1846, Martha ( 1826-1905), daughter of Henry Phoenix and Ann Jennings. They had seven children.
Ira C .. John (born 1825) and Samuel Utter ( 1807-1898) were sons of Abraham Utter and Marinda Beardsley, of Washington county, New York. Jolin married Louisa Amanda, daughter of Winsor Lapham. Samuel came in 1843 with his second wife, Harriet A. Winston ( 1823-1906).
Lewis Henry Willis ( 1817-1886), son of William Willis and Elizabeth
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Hoyt, came from Sparta, New York, to Delavan in 1840, to section 23. His first wife, Mary M., was daughter of Orsamus Bowers. In 1872 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Adriance, of Scipio, New York.
Chauncey D. Woodford ( 1827-1891) was son of Austin ( 1785-1866) and Roxana ( 1793-1856). He married Sarah Fenton ( 1828-1864), daugh- ter of Moses Ball and Lucinda Holland. He was the first wagon-maker and blacksmith at East Delavan corners.
About 1843 Truman Pierce, Samuel Utter, Kirtland G. Wright and Calvin Carrington, farmers living near the intersection of the highway be- tween Delavan and Lake Geneva, with the north and south road dividing section 25 from section 26, chose that point as one convenient for a store, repair shops, and whatever else might develop there. In no long time a school house and church followed. The store has always had a good local trade and its business has generally been in good hands. The other buildings were displaced by larger and better ones, and a convenient town hall was added to the group. A butter factory, in operation for several years past, was burned in June, 1911. It has been rebuilt with hollow cement blocks. Its monthly receipt of milk was about one hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds, and its monthly product of butter about three thousand five hundred pounds.
A postoffice was established about 1872, a station on the star-route from Elkhorn to Harvard. The recent institution of rural free delivery service has divided the postal business of the eastern half of the town of Delavan between route No. 2, Lake Geneva, and route No. 2, Elkhorn, the village being served from the Lake Geneva office. In the village are about a dozen dwellings and fifty inhabitants. Its always prosperous Baptist church, or- ganized in 1843, has a resident pastor. now Rev. William .A. Weyrauch. The town hall houses a small public library. Nearly a mile and one-half away, at the northeast corner of section 36, is a little church of the Latter-day Saints, founded by a few persons who chose not to follow President Young. Henry Southwick was its spiritual leader for many years. A mile west of this church, at the corner of section 26, and three-quarters of a mile south of the village, is the small but sufficient and neatly kept East Delavan cemetery, where one may read on marble and granite several names of the fathers and mothers of the township.
The official lists of Delavan town (and city) are slightly imperfect, though not discontinuous.
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CHAIRMEN OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. .
William Ayres Bartlett 1842
Dr. Henderson Hunt 1843
William Phoenix 1844-5
James Aram 1862-74
Charles Holmes Sturtevant
IS46-7
Henry George Hollister
1875-97
Samuel Jones
1848
Thomas F. Williams
Henry Mallory IS49
1898-9. 1906-10
Asa Congdon 1850
Winsor Sales Dunbar
1900-I
Stephen Steele Barlow
I851
Cyrus H. Serl 1902
Dr. Norman L. Gaston 1852
Herman A. Briggs 1903-5
Aaron Hardin Taggart 1853
Bernard Conry
19II-12
ASSOCIATE SUPERVISORS.
Alexander H. Allyn 1877-82
James Aram 1850-1. '59-61
Charles Stewart Bailey
William Hollinshead
1845. '74-5
Henry George Hollister
1866-73
Job J. Hollister
1906-9
Milton L. Hollister
1874
William S. Howe
1875-6
Samuel Jones
I847
Phineas Dudley Kendrick_1855. '58
Samuel Rees La Bar
1856-7
Ebenezer Latimer
_ 1863
John S. MeDougal 1 1879-91
Henry Mallory
1846, '63
Moses R. Cheever 1 1
1859
Daniel Clark 1853 I F
Homer Coleman I
1864-5
Asa Congdon 1
1849
I Fred D. Cowles 1900-2
William Redford
1877-8
Cyrus H. Sert 1 898-1902 1
John Strong
1903-4
Winsor Sales Dunbar 1899
Tra C. Utter
1845
Samuel Utter _1850. '55-6. '60. '62
Edward F. Fiedler
IQII-12
Clinton Quincy Fisk
1898
James M. Gaskill
1861-2
1842, '47, 54
Levi Parsons Bailey
1857, 04-5. 73
Henry Barlow 1866-72
Samuel W. Barlow 1853-8
Silas Van Ness Barlow 1876
Peter Boys 1847
Herman A. Briggs 1 888-91
Hiram Calkins 1
1 1 1843
Jonathan C. Church 1 1843
Ililas Meacham
1862
William M. Mereness
1903-4
George Passage
1844. '46
John Prudames
1905
James Dilley 1852
Lemuel Downs 1892-7
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George W. Farrar 1893-7
John M. Walker 1883-7
Joseph L. Mott 1854
Edward P. Conrick. 1855-9
Salmon Thomas
1860-I
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Herbert J. Welcher -1906-9 William C. Winkleman -1905
Lewis D. Williams 1911-12
Richard Williams 1854
Kirtland G. Wright .1849, '51
TOWN CLERKS.
Stephen Steele Barlow 1842-3
Cyrus Brainard 1844-5
Ebenezer K. Barker 1862
Hugh Bradt 1846, '50-2
Charles E. Griffin
1863, '66-9
Charles Smith
1847-8
Kinner Newcomb Hollister 1864
Samuel Carver Kelsey
1849
Hiram Terry Sharp
1865
Enoch Henry Martin Bailey _1853-4
Ira Pratt Larnard
1870-90
George Frank H. Betts
1855
A. Harvey Lowe 1891-7
Henry J. Briggs. 1856
Henry P. Hare. 1898-1900
Charles M. Bradt 1857-8
.Orville S. Smith
1901-12
James S. Dilley !
1 1
.1859
TOWN TREASURERS.
Jasper Griggs 1842-3
Hezekiah Wells 1844
Alfred Stewart 1845, '48
Newton McGraw 1 1864-6
Aaron H. Taggart 1846
Henry C. Hunt I867-8
Joseph D. Monell, Jr. 1847
Elijah Matteson Sharp 1869-72
William Willard Isham 1849
Norman A. Keeler 1873
Philetus S. Carver 1850
Frank A. Smith 1874
William B. Munsell 1875-6
William H. Nichols 1877-8
Isaac Young Fitzer 1870-80
Dr. George H. Briggs 1881-2
Henry C. Johnson 1883-97
Edwin W. Phelps 1859
Benjamin D. White 1860 1
Romain M. Calkins 1899-1904
Wallace C. Austin
1905-12
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Allen Bennett 76-80, '82-4
Stephen S. Babcock 1877-9
Arthur Bowers 1892-4. '97-9
Henry W. Clark 1860-62
Dr. Daniel B. Devendorf. 1871
Edward J. Dodd 1887
William Clark 1851-2
Stephen S. Babcock. -1853
William Wallace Bradley 1854-5
Charles Smith 1856-7
George F. H. Betts 1858
Ross S. Smith 1 898
Charles H. Sanborn 1861
Sardis Brainard
1860-I
Sardis Brainard 1862
James F. Latimer 1863
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George Frederick Flanders __ 1886-90
Charles E. Griffin 1862-4
David B. Harrington 886-90
Henry W. Weed. _1893-5
Richard Williams_
1859-61, '65-8
Thomas F. Williams
1879-83. '94-1912
Lewis Henry Willis. -1861-3, 75-7
Frank A. Winn 1890-2
Philip Stephen Wiswell .1900
Chauncey D. Woodford
Charles Holmes Sturtevant 1883-7
Abner Van Dyke 1879-83
Ernest L. Von Suessmilch 1894-8
Henry C. Johnson 1890-2
Henry C. Kishner 1891-3
Newton McGraw 1854-74
Silas W. Menzie. 1871-82
Wilbur J. Reynolds 1900-03
Alfred Stephens Spooner
1872-6, '92-4
1863-75, '87-91
CHAPTER XXIII.
CITY OF DELAVAN.
Colonel Phoenix, his brother, and his cousin, platted their village and settled in it in 1837, and they had not long to wait for lot buyers and neigh- bors. The Colonel's early death, and that of his brother, about two years later, were most regrettable, for their character and practical abilities gave them influence and weight: but these events did not arrest progress. The cousin remained a few more years and left the county before the village was incorporated.
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