History of Walworth county, Wisconsin, Volume I, Part 27

Author: Beckwith, Albert C. (Albert Clayton), 1836-1915
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Indianapolis, Bowen
Number of Pages: 792


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An incident in the Liberal's business was a contract, for six months, with Rev. George Willis Cooke, then of Sharon, to print his Liberal Worker bi-monthly. Its purpose was to promote a provisional union or alliance of several shades of unorthodox religion or philosophy. Some of the ablest preachers of two states contributed their freshest serions, and the quality of its editorship may be inferred from the fact that the Houghton Mifflin Company afterward employed Mr. Cooke as editor and critical annotator of their new editions of Emerson's and Browning's works, and of other modern classics.


Several members of the Prohibitionist county organization found it expedient to encourage the establishment of a newspaper in its interest. A stock company was formed, a printing office equipped, and April 17, 1891, Charles E. Badger, a good job printer, put forth the first number of the W'alworth County Blade. In the fall of 1896 Henry H. Tubbs, a practical printer and a stockholder, took upon himself the duties and difficulties of the office, and afterward acquired its ownership. In a few of his several absences from home (in railway work as a civil engineer ) the office was leased temporarily, and on other such occasions Mrs. Helen M. A. Tubbs managed its business and editorship. Late in 1905 the Blade was discontinued and the office was sold to a short-lived management which changed its name to Tribune and made it a semi-stalwart Republican paper. Returning in 1906 to the Tubbs ownership, its material was sold and sent out of the county.


llis year's experience with the Liberal had foreshown Mr. Tubbs clearly that the Blade could live only by his personal labor and continuous


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self-sacrifice; and his single-minded, whole-hearted belief in the justice of the cause thus espoused was the one source of his tenacity of purpose. It may well be doubted if another person in the county would have carried the paper half way through its sixteenth volume. Mr. and Mrs. Tubbs closed their business without debt or shadow of dishonor, and their almost heroic resoluteness, with their personal qualities, enabled them to keep old friend- . ships and to gain the respect of men who were politically antagonistic. Mr. . Tubbs once received the compliment of a congressional nomination by his party.


Town and village affairs had been administered from 1846 to 1892 by a board of three supervisors, and from 1857 under a special charter. An election was held May 3, 1892, under a general law of 1887, for a village president and a board of six trustees. Harley C. Norris was president until he became mayor. The twenty-one citizens who served as trustees were Otto Arp 1894-5. George W. Bentley 1896, George B. Cain 1896, Augustus F. Desing 1893. Charles Dunlap 1893-7, Egbert Francis 1892-3, S. Clayton Goff 1892-6, John Hare 1897, Fred W. Isham 1894-5. John Keeffe 1893, LeGrand Latham 1892, John Morrissey, of Church street, 1892-3, Herman Nappe 1896, Thomas 11. O'Brien 1892, William O'Brien 1897, John J. Slattery 1897, Thomas E. Slattery 1892. George B. Sprague 1894-6, De Witt Stanford 1897, August Voss 1894-5, Philip S. Wiswell 1897.


Hon. Joseph F. Lyon discovered or remembered, in 1807. that chapter 326, laws of 1889, had made Elkhorn, as well as many villages, a city of the fourth class, whereupon an election for city officers was held May 3, 1897, and three days later Governor Scofield's proclamation completed the efflorescence from the village bud to the perfect flower of the city. The first board of aldermen was: First ward, Augustus F. Desing, William O'Brien; second ward, Samuel Breese, Jr., Charles C. Gaylord : third ward, F. Maxwell Porter, DeWitt Stanford. The new order began June 1, 1897.


Chairman of the village board during the period of county commissioner government : William H. Conger 1862, '68-9: Horatio S. Winsor 1863, '66; Edwin Hodges 1864-5. '67.


MEMBERS OF COUNTY BOARD FOR VILLAGE.


Urban Duncan Meacham 1846


Horatio Sales Winsor


George Gale 1847-8


LeGrand Rockwell 1852-3


Dr. Eleazer R. U'uter 1849


Otis Preston 1854-5. '59 Dr. George Henry Young 1850 Alvah J. Frost 1856


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Dr. Jesse Carr Mills 1857


John Flavel Brett 1858


George Washington Wylie -1885


Edwin Hodges 1860-1


John Matheson 1886-9


Christopher Wiswell 1870-1, '80


Edward Harvey Sprague 1890


Wyman Spooner 1872


Harley Cornelius Norris


1891-2


Ely Bruce Dewing 1873-6


Lucius Allen 1877, '8I


Osmer C. Chase 1878


John Harrison Harris 1896


COUNTY MEMBERS FOR CITY.


First Ward-John 11. Harris, 1897-8; Edmund J. Hooper, 1899-1907, IgIO: James Matheson. 1908-9. 1911 ; Arthur G. Groesbeck 1912.


Second Ward-Joseph F. Lyon. 1897: George E. Pierce, 1808, 1900? Walter E. Lauderdale, 1899: S. Clayton Goff. 1901-4: Henry De L Adkins. 1905-8: Charles H. Nott, 1909-11 : Walter .A. West, 1912.


Third Ward-Dr. George H. Young, 1897-8. 1904: Thomas E. Slattery. 1899-1901, 1906: Edward H. Sprague, 1902-3, 1905: Hiram N. Stubbs. 1007-8: Charles Freligh. 1909: Henry De L. Adkins, 1910-12.


Mayors: Harley C. Norris, 1897. 1902; John Dunphy (elected ). 1808; De Witt Stanford. 1898; Dr. George H. Young, 1899. 1906: Dr. William H. Hurlbut. 1900: George Edmund Pierce. 1901: Jay Wright Page. 1904: S. Clayton Goff: 1908. 1910: Herbert Eugene Hartwell. 1912. Mayor-elect Dunphy declined service and Mr. Stanford, as president of the council. acted for the year. The first five elections were for one-year terms. In 1902 and since the official term has been two years. Messrs. Dunphy, Page and Young are Democrats. A health officer, city clerk, street commissioner. weed commissioner, marshal, six school commissioners and nine library directors are appointed by the mayor with consent of the council.


ASSOCIATE SUPERVISORS.


Lester Allen 1862-3. '66


Lucius Allen 1874


Alonzo Angel 1851


Delos Brett 1857


Amos Eastman 1859 George Bulkley 1864-5. '67


Hiram Shubael Bunker 1869


Nelson Catlin 1871


William Henry Conger 1860-1


AAugustus F. Desing 1890-1


Ely Bruce Dewing 1870


Julius Lyman Edwards 1868


Edward Elderkin 1858-9


Dr. Chester F. Ellsworth


1875-6


George Matheson


1893


Abraham Cranston Norton.


1894-5


Dr. William Henry Hurlbut __ 1879


William James Stratton_ 1882-4


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Egbert Francis. 1892


William Oakley Garfield __ 1849, 53. 55-6


Sidney Clayton Goff


1891-2


Daniel Parmelee Handy 1852


John Hare.


1879


Robert Harkness


1 867


Rufus Dudley Harriman __ 1878, 'S4


Horace Noble Hay


1846, '49


John W. Hayes


1881


Robert Holley


1858


Benjamin Blodgett Humphrey_1863


George Humphrey


1848


Fred Willard Isham 1 886-8


David R. Johnson


1866


Hollis Latham


872, '77. '80,


82. '84.


James Henry Lauderdale __ 1871. 75


Wilson David Lyon 1883


Lot Mayo 1848.'53


Thomas W. Miller


1852


John Morrissey


ISS5


Harley Cornelius Norris


1 886-9


John Ashe Norris


1 869


Albert Ogden


1847, 50


Zenas Ogden


1846, '55-6


John Adams Perry


1879


Dwight Preston


ISS3


Harley Flavel Smith


1854, '60-2


Israel Smith


1870


De Witt Stanford


1877-8


Squire Stanford_1857, '68. '72-3. '82


Cyrus Cortland Stowe


IS50-I


William James Stratton_1880-1, '90


Charles Wales


1885


Walter Aaron West


1889


Horatio Sales Winsor


1854. 64-5


Christopher Wiswell


1873-4. '76


Dr. George Henry Young.


-1847


CLERKS OF VILLAGE AND CITY.


Edward Elderkin 1840


Edward Winne 1847


Dr. Samuel Wirt Henderson


1848


: Eli Kimball Frost


1849


William Harrison Pettit


1850


Alvah J. Frost 1851-3


Myron Edwin Dewing 1854-5


Charles Daniel Handy 1856


Henry Bradley __ 1857-8. 60-2. 65-6. 60-72


Charles Lyon 1850


Evarts C. Stevens 1863


Henry Adkins 1864


Joseph S. T. Eaton 1867


John K. Burbank 1868


George W. Ogden


1873. 76. 80-1


Edward Marshall Latham_1874-5. '82-3


Charles James Stratton


1884


Sidney Clayton Goff


1885


John Dunphy


1886-7


Charles Coe Gaylord


1888-9


Jay Forrest Lyon


1890-5


Henry De Lafayette Adkins_1896-8


Will Bartle Lyon 1899


Joseph Hayden Webster


1000


George B. Sprague


1901


Will E. Dunbar


1902


William Opitz


Harley C. Norris


1908


Philip Sheridan Stewart


-1912


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TREASURERS.


Edwin Hodges 1846


Alexander S. Brown 1847


Harley C. Norris 1880-4


Amplias Chamberlin 1848


Samuel Mitchell 1885-6


George Bachelder (app.) 1848


Charles Frank Graff


1887


Henry Hobart Hartson_'49-51, 53, '58


Hollis Latham 1852


Myron Edwin Dewing 1854-5


David R. Johnson 1856


Jolın L. Holley 1857


Zebina Houghton


1859


Alexander Stevens 1860-I 1


Phineas C. Gilbert 1862-7


Joseph S. J. Eaton


1868-9


Waldo W. Hartwell


1870-I


Dyar Lamotte Cowdery 1872-3


John Cromley


1874-7


Philip Sheridan Stewart ___ 1908-1I Will Slattery IQ12


JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.


Levi E. Allen 1888-9


Lucius Allen 1880-I


William Bell 1866-7


Henry Bradley


1861-74


William Worth Byington 1880-I


Arthur Clohisy 1897-1912


Horatio Seymour Dunlap 1881 Stephen R. Edgerton 1896-7 James Ervin Fuller 1888-1912


Robert Holley


1860-5


John Peter Ingalls 889-91


Hollis Latham


1859-63. 77-8


Levi Lee 1807-8


Joseph Foster Lyon


- 79-80, '82-3, '85-98. 1901-2


Samuel Lytle


1905-8


John Matheson 188.4-5


Lot Mayo


1859-60


Samuel Mitchell


1893-6


Jolın Adams Perry


1870-84


William Harrison Pettit 1860-4 Harley Flavel Smith 1871-9


George B. Sprague.


1892-3


Charles Wales


1884-7. 91-4


Curtis Husted Winsor


1870-I


George Edwin Wood


1907-12


George Washington Wylie __ 1895-6


Orland Carswell 1888-9


Silas Rockwell Holden 1 890-1


Arthur Tripp Waterbury 1892


LeGrand Latham


1893


George Henry Farrar


1894


George .A. Burpee


895-6


WV. Christopher Nuoffer 1897-8 George B. Sprague_1899-1900, '02-3 Francis Maxwell Porter


1901. 04-07


Charles Lyon 1878-9


Of the justices for this, as for other towns, two of whom were chosen in each year. between 1846 and 1859. none filed credentials at the circuit clerk's


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office. Hence, the officers-elect who qualified within that period are only determinable in part and that from a great mass of loose papers.


In fifteen years, 1897 to 1911, inclusive, the citizens named have served as aldermen: First ward-Aug. F. Desing. Charles Dunlap. William E. Clough, George Kinne, Nathaniel Carswell, Herbert E. Hartwell. Timothy Calahan, Dr. James M. Marsh, Edw'd Morrissey, Fred'k Winter. W. Chr. Nuoffer : second ward-Sam'l Breese, Ch. C. Gaylord. Abr. C. Norton, Geo. W. Wylie, Walter .A. West, Geo. H. Farrar, Albert J. Reed. John Keeffe, Edw'd P. Ellsworth, J. Matt, Niessen, Henry J. Noblet, John II. Lauderdale. Michael Slattery, Michael Fay: third ward-F. Max Porter, DeWitt Stan- ford, Herbert E. Hartwell, John Morrissey, Alva J. Blanchard, Ch. Pieplow. Rudolph G. Hoffman, John H. Snyder, Jr., Thos. Keeffe. Fred'k J. Smith. Win. Morrissey.


Postmasters for Elkhorn have been LeGrand Rickwell. 1838: Edwin Hodges, 1849: Lot Mayo, 1853: Henry Bradley, 1861: Wilson D. Lyon. 1886; Henry Bradley. 1890: Albert C. Beckwith, 1894: Thomas William Morefield, 1898: John H. Snyder. Jr., 1915. In July, 1874. the office was placed in the third class, but important changes in postage rates reduced it in July. 1875, to the fourth class. It became a third class office in July, 1882. and a second-class office in 1907. In 1908 a ten-year contract of the depart- ment with Edward IT. Sprague removed it to its present place, at Walworth and Broad streets. This office is the center of seven free delivery routes, which so operated as to discontinue the postoffices at Bowers, Fayetteville. Jacobsville. Lauderdale, Millard and Tibbets, and to divide with Lake Geneva routes the business of Como and East Delavan.


PUBLIC UTILITIES.


For many years it was generally felt that the village would be nearly help- less in case of any considerable fire. About 1892 a rather loosely presented proposition to provide one or more publie wells was rejected at a special elec- tion In 1894 the village board, acting on its own judgment, employed F. M. Gray. of Milwaukee, to drill at the foot of Broad street, near the railway station. This work was finished early in 1895. an exhaustless supply of pure water having been found at 1.050 feet. Passing through the drift the drill met Cincinnati shale at 225 feet. Trenton limestone at 412 feet. St. Peter's sandstone at 665 feet. Magnesian limestone at 700 feet. Potsdam sandstone at 950 feet. red sandstone at 1,025 feet, and thence in that stratum 25 feet to the bottom of the boring. Water rose to a point 147 feet below the surface.


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At a special election, June 4, 1895, it was decided by two-thirds of the voters to issue bonds to the amount of eighteen thousand dollars for construc- tion and equipment of a system of water works. N. F. Reichert, of Racine, began July 9th the work of building power house and stand pipe, and of laying street mains. All this led to reorganization of old firemen's companies, and President Norris named Clarence N. Byington, George B. Cain, Aug. F. Desing. Will G. Fowlston, S. Clayton Goff. Herbert E. Hartwell, David Lowry, Will B. Lyon. Alonzo C. and Vernon H. Mckinstry, Will E. Magill. John Morrissey. John and Will Morrissey. W. Chr. Nuoffer. Will O'Brien, Jr .. Albert J. Reed, John Russell, Frank H. Stafford, with instruction to form a hose company. This body was increased later to fifty men, and then divided into two hose companies and a hook and ladder company. The chiefs of the fire department. since 1897, have been Will B. Lyon. F. Maxwell Porter, George O. Kellogg. Will Morrissey, Will E. Magill, Fred B. Magill. George E. Burpee. George H. Farrar, Michiel Morrissey, and. at present, Will E. Magill again This department quickly became efficient for service, and also for competitive drilling at various points in the state. The Magills have won personal distinction on these latter occasions.


In 1898 it was determined at another special election to light the streets with electric lamps, under city ownership of the system. Bonds were issued to the amount of ten thousand dollars. Both these and the water bonds were taken at home and at a small premium. In 1907 the council created an electric light and water commission of five members for management of these public utilities, the mayor and one alderman with three citizens not of the council. The first and only appointed members were John H. Harris, Jay W. Page and Charles Pieplow.


.\ public library was among the good things of which Judge Gale and other men of 1846 had dreamed. A few wretched attempts were made, from time to time for a half century, to create such an institution. In January, 1900. Edward H. Sprague, then about to improve his lots at Walworth and Broad streets, called a meeting at his public hall in order to disclose his matured plan for a practically fire-proof building which should serve. among other uses, for an "opera house" and a library room. On petition of a large majority of citizens the city council passed an ordinance to establish such a library and contracted with Mr. Sprague for the use of a specially prepared second floor in part of his building for a term of fifty years.


Charles Edward Sprague ( 1871-1892), the namesake of this library, was eldest son of the owner of the building. He was his father's confidential friend. and the two had day-dreamed together of plans for making such an


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institution at Elkhorn practicable. Mr. Sprague contributed about one hun- dred volumes, of his own selection and of permanent value. Besides these and seven hundred volumes from the government's printing office, the library was opened September 2, 1901, with, say two hundred and fifty books acceptable to general readers, and bought by public subscription. A few weeks later President Dewing, of the directory, in behalf of himself and Miss Melvina, his sister, gave six hundred and fifty volumes from the private collection of their brother. Myron E. Dewing. These are shelved together as the "Dewing Collection," and are still a most valuable part, as to their contents, of nearly four thousand volumes now in possession. Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon Dewing has since added about fifty volumes to the original collection. A few years ago the "public documents" were turned over to the County Historical Society.


This library was instituted under statutory sanction. In 1900 Mayor Ilurlbut appointed a board of directors: Mrs. Anna W. M. Flack, Mrs. Carrie E. Medbery, Alonzo C. Mckinstry, for one year; Miss Jesse L. Sprague, Jay F. Lyon, Albert C. Beckwith, for two years; Ely B. Dewing, Jay W. Page, Jolin H. Harris, for three years; Miss Sprague, Beckwith and Page are still members: Mrs. Elizabeth Stanton Forbes, Fred W. Isham, Dr. Edward Kinne have been members; and Miss M. Medora Hurlbut, Mrs. Catharine Monahan Porter, Orland Carswell, Will E. Dunbar, Grant D. Har- rington and Charles H. Nott are of the present board. The presidents have been Dewing, Page, Lyon and Harrington. The librarian was Mae Irene Ferris, and is Edna Lorene Derthick.


.A chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution was instituted in 1910, with Margaret Medora Hurlbut as regent. She was succeeded in 1911 by Mrs Ruth Eliza ( Wales) Isham. There are fourteen members, and many cligibles live within the chapter jurisdiction.


In the infancy of the village a little burial ground was set off in Wiscon- sin street, near North street. This was soon abandoned and a new ceme- tery was badly laid out at the eastern end of Court street. This, too, has been vacated and its area added to the fair ground. In 1874 a few really public- spirited citizens moved to far better purpose. The ground was bought. near the western end of Jefferson street, and was named llazel Ridge. William M. R French, landscape architect. of Chicago, made the plan, which nature, time, and human care have beautified. Its present area is about thirty-four acres. The first board of trustees was composed of Orland Carswell, William 11. Conger. David R. Johnson. William Thomas Jones, Jacob Ketchpaw. James H. Landerdale, Wilson D. Lyon. Squire Stanford and Stephen G. West. The several presidents of this board have been West. Ketchpaw, Lau-


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derdale, Conger, Lucius Allen and Carswell. Superintendents : Jones, Henry D. L. Adkins and Harley C. Norris. Secretaries: Johnson, Dyar L. Cow- dery, S. Clayton Goff. Treasurers : Conger, Jones, Lyon and Adkins.


The population of Elkhorn in 1850 was 42 ; at later census: 1860, 1,081 ; 1870. 1.205 : 1880, 1. 122 : 1890, 1,447 : 1900, 1,731 : 1910, 1,707.


CHAPTER XXVI.


TOWN OF GENEVA.


.At the first legislative naming of the towns of Walworth the southeastern quarter of the county took its name from the lake which Mr. Brink had re- christened in 1835. and from the village which began its growth the next year. He disliked such uncouthness as "Big Foot," and his ear was untrained to the Algonquin euphony of Gee-zihig-waw-gid-dug-gah-bess; but he found in the scene about him some reminder of Seneca lake, with Geneva at its foot. Since the lake before him was so much smaller than the village-bordered eastern water, one name might serve very well for the lake that always had been and the village about to be. He chose very well, since he might have chosen so much worse. He might have given his own name to the lake, and he had warrant of familiar examples for some such polysyllabic majesty as "Megapodopolis."


The towns of Bloomfield. Hudson and Linn were set off by one legisla- tive act. January 23. 1844, each for its home rule, leaving the name Geneva to town 2 north, of range 17 east. Nearly three hundred acres of sections 35. 36 lie beneath the bay-like foot of Geneva lake, and nearly a thousand acres are (or have been) covered by Duck lake ( which Thomas MeKaig new- named "Como"). In 1846 the newer town of Elkhorn took away section 6. As a small offset to all this subtraction, the city of Lake Geneva includes about five acres of section 31 of Lyons, and is likely enough to take part of section t of Linn at no very distant time. The outlet of the larger lake, called White river, quickly leaves Geneva to cross Lyons and join the Fox at Burlington. The outlet of Duck lake is a branch of White river, which it meets in section 20 of Lyons, having left section 26 and crossed sections 23. 24 of Geneva and section 19 of Lyons. Duck lake is about three miles long and its average width is more than a half mile. It was much wider within the memory of man, but much of its marshy border is now mown. Jackson's creek in section 3. near the Lafayette line, drains sections 10, 9. 8. 17. 7 and flows south of Elkhorn to Delavan lake. Fish are caught near its month, and cattle drink along its threadlike course. The surface of the town, excepting the basin of Dick lake and the rather broad valley of its outlet. is generally high prairie and opening, with some knobbiness near the northeastern corner, the south-


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western sections, between the lakes, and about the city. The highest point in the county is near the northwestern corner of section 19. one thousand one hundred and forty-nine feet above sea level, which slopes easily to the lower levels adjacent. Several years ago the geodetic surveyors made this point a signal station.


The northern and central sections-much the greater part of the town -are among the most fertile of the county and were settled early by compe- tent and prosperous farmers, stock raisers and dairymen. The somewhat rougher sections were once heavily wooded, but are now cleared and culti- vated. The county poor farm spreads over nearly two-thirds of section 4. In section 24 are a church. town hall, and store, for a few years a cheese factory (its business now transferred ). a postoffice from 1896 until discontinued by the establishment of a rural delivery route from Lake Geneva. This incipient village is still named Como. John Chase's cheese factory, in section 10, in active operation for many years, has been absorbed by the Wisconsin Butter and Cheese Company. About 1837 Christopher Payne built a dam and saw mill at Duck lake outlet and sold it to George W. Trimble, his son-in-law, who sold it to Dr. Oliver S. Tiffany. With the coming of pine lumber the mill fell into disuse. decay and forgottenness. In 1858 a flood carried away the relics and the dam, lowering the lake and laying bare many acres of marsh meadow. The forlorn looking cuts and dumps of the old Wisconsin Central Railway Company are yet to be seen, yet a little more strongly marked than the Indian mounds. Their course was across sections 36, 25, 26, 23, 14. 11, 10. 9. 8, 5 to the Elkhorn line. In 1911-12 agents or operators were buying or in other way acquiring a few real or shadowy rights of way along this line for a proposed electric railway from Lake Geneva to Whitewater. New hope has been raised. and though nothing substantial is assured, old and new hope may soon end in fruition.


The whole area of improved land in 1910 was 19.413 acres, valued at $1,584,500 : average value per acre, $81.62. Acreages of principal crops, 1910, were : Barley, 693 ; corn, 3,073; hay field, 2,947 ; oats. 2,151 ; orchard, 138 : potatoes, 104; rye, 54; timber, 2,425 ; wheat, 82. Returns of live stock were: 3.064 cattle, $79.100: 686 hogs. $6.900: 759 horses, $62,000; 591 sheep. $2,000. Valuation of town. 3.596 per cent. of that of whole county.


Population of town ( including village, in 1850 and 1860) : 1850. 1.557; 1860, 2.272: 1870. 1.039: 1880. 930: 1890. 1.073: 1900. 1.191 : 1910. 1. 142.


Patents issued from the land office to the following named persons are recorded at the county scat : Alanson Clark Abell, section 25; Harrison Augier. 1, 12: William Averill. 1 ;; John S. Bacon, 2; Lewis Baldwin, 20:


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John Barr. Sr .. 10, 15: Hiram Beals, 30; Anson Bell, II ; James Alexander Bell, 4: Joseph Bennett, 14; Daniel S. Benton, 3. 9. 10: Charles Boyle, 12, 13; Daniel Edwin Bradley, 7: Milo Edwin Bradley. 1 ; Deodat Brewster, 1 ; Ar- thur Bronson. 34: Charles P. Brown, 29; John Brown, 33; Amos and Hiram Cahoon, II; Amos Cary, 35; George and Simon Williams Clark, 35; George Coburn. 19: Louis Leander Cook, 4; Seth Cowles, 9, 15; Lewis Curtis, 28; Charles Dickerman, IS; Samuel Dunbar, 7: John Dunlap, 10, 11 ; Baronet V. Eckerson, 30: Ephraim P. S. Enos. 20: John Evans. 32; Andrew Ferguson, 26: John Powell Flack and Thomas Flack. 3 : Richard Baker Flack, 9; George Gale. 3: Ludwig Giese, 32; Samuel Gott, 24; Elihu Gray, 9; Alvah Grow, 3: Daniel Parmelee Handy, 30: Noah Harriman, 14; Edmund Storrs Harvey, 13, 18: John Haskins, 26; Alonzo Herrick. 9: Jacob Herrick, 21: William D. Holbrook, 31 ; Mason A. Hollister. 32: Harvey Houghton, 30: John Hut- ton, 19; Seth W. Kelley, 10; Jacob Kenel, 21 : George Lamberson, 4; James Lewis, 13; Thomas McKaig. 25: Gurdon Saltonstall Murdock, IS: Joseph Musgrave, 21: Cyril Leach Oatman; Zenas Ogden. I. 21; Jasper William Peat. 7; Anthony Peck, 19: Jason Peck. 9: John R. Peck, 2; William Pent- land. 7: Eveline H. Porter. 1 ; Langdon Cheves Porter. II ; Newton Rand, 27 : Alanson C. Reed, 23: Leland M. Rhodes, 15 : Brittain Ross. 15 : Morris Ross. 14. 15: William Pangburn Ross, 22; William Rounds, 19; Nehemiah Rouse. 10: Adam Martin Russell. 17; Robert Emmett Russell. 24: Daniel Ryan. 34: John Carpenter Schuyler, 25; Hiram Spencer. 19; Oliver P. Standish, 10: Edward Stevens, 13: Sanford Wait, 12: Greenleaf Stevens Warren, 3: Rob- ert Wells Warren. 4. 32, 35: Joseph Webb, 8; George Weller. 35: Barton Brenton Wilkinson, 13: Israel, Sr., and Royal Joy Williams, 31: Silas Wright. 23.




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