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1869-Isaiah Kirk, supervisor; Henry L. Parks, town. ship clerk; Benjamin Freeland, overseer of the poor ; Thomas J. Watson, treasurer ; John B. Watson, school commissioner ; Rawley Watson and Barton Hawley, inspec- tors of elections ; John Orr, constable.
1870-Isaiah Kirk, supervisor ; Thomas Watson, justice ; Henry L. Parks, township clerk; William Elliott, school commissioner ; Henry L. Parks, overseer of the poor; Raw- ley Watson and S. Waitman Hartley, inspectors of elections ;. Lindsey Huggins, surveyor of roads, precinct No. 1, and Sanford Watson, precinct No. 2.
1871-David Graham, supervisor ; H. A. Hartley, school commissioner ; H. L. Parks, clerk and overseer of the poor ; Rawley Watson and G. W. Fairfax, inspectors of elections ; Thomas Watson, justice ; John D. Orr, constable.
In 1872, by the new Constitution, Valley Township was changed to Valley District. District officers elected from August 22, 1872, to December 31, 1881 :
1872-Justice, David Graham; constable, John Taylor.
1873-School board-John W. Guseman (president), Isaiah Kirk, James Carroll ; Thomas Watson, secretary.
1875-School board-John W. Guseman (president), Isaac J. Welton, James Carroll ; Thomas Watson, secretary.
1876-Justices, Thomas Watson and David C. Zinn ; con- stables, William F. Menear and S. W. Hartley.
1877-School board-S. A. Dill (president), Peter M. Hartley, I. J. Welton ; Thomas Watson, secretary.
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1879-School board-John W. Guseman (president). D. L. Keifover, S. P. Elliott, I. J. Welton, James M. Carroll ; Dr. John Hall, secretary.
1880-Justices, Isaac B. Cobun and Samuel A. Dill; con stables, William F. Menear and Wilber Posten, who resigned, and Thomas Watson was appointed in his place.
1881-School board-S. W. Hartley (president), J. S. Loar, D. C. Zinn ; Dr. James A. Cox, secretary.
On October 4, 1881, the courty court appointed the following road surveyors : Precinct No. 1, W. Hillon ; No. 2, N. Posten ; No. 3, J. W. Rodebaugh ; No. 4, W. F. Menear ; No. 5, Lindsey Huggins ; No. 6, Alex. Squires ; No. 7, W. C. Menear ; No. 8, William Shaffer.
Towns .- Masontown is situated on the Ice's Ferry and Tunnelton turnpike, 9 miles northwest of the county-seat. The town is named after William Mason, its founder, who, in 1856, commenced the present store building, and after- wards secured a postoffice. He sold out, in 1859,; to William Neff and George M. Hagans, who were succeeded, in 1861, by G. A. Heidleberg, who, in turn, sold the store to Peter M. Hartley. Mr. Hartley, however, did not commence business until 1869 ; and was succeeded by his son Edgar M. B. F. Cobun & Son erected their store-building in 1879.
William Mason was the first postmaster ; succeeded by William Neff, I. W. Cobun, Peter M. Hartley, and the pres ent incumbent Dr. J. A. Cox ; assistant p. m., Wilbur Posten.
Dr. James A. Cox attended lectures at Jefferson College, and came from Monongalia County and located here in 1875. He is secretary of the district board of education.
D. H. Summers erected his steam sawing and planing mill in 1881, and Coleman Hartley's flouring mill is but half a mile away.
Reedsville is situated on the Kingwood and West Union turnpike (generally called the Kingwood and Morgantown turnpike), and is 8 miles northwest from the county seat- The town is named after its founder, James Reed, of Mon-
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ongalia, previously of Berkeley County, Virginia, who, in 1827, bought a tract of land on which the larger part of the town stands. In 1855, J. C. McCarty built the first house, now occupied by Mr. Wheeler. In 1856, a store was opened by James C. McGrew and E. C. Bunker, succeeded by A. Elliott and J. M. Jeffers, George M. Hagans, G. A. Heidle- berg, R. P. and Joseph Jackson, J. M. Hartley and Hagans, D. Wheeler and W. R. Loar, son of John Loar, in 1879.
The building burnt this year. D. Wheeler then built on its site, and John Wheeler opened a store, succeeded by G. W. John & Co., followed by the present firm of Watson Brothers. W. R. Loar kept a few goods that he saved from the fire, in Dr. Hall's office, until he built a store-room in which he kept until 1881, and which is now the residence of Claudius Wheeler. Heidelberg at the time of Jones's raid, hid a lot of goods in the woods, but the Confederates found them.
Dr. J. N. Lloyd was educated at Washington, Pa., and came in 1871. He has a large building, erected to accom- modate eastern boarders, and opened as a høtel.
Dr. John D. Hall came in 1875, and removed to Kingwood in 1881.
The Reedsville steam flouring and saw-mill was built by Henry Reed, whose son Abraham still lives on the home farm. The mill was purchased, in 1880, by Albert Lemon, its present owner, and moved from the creek to its present site.
Three miles from Masontown, at a cross roads, is the store of John M. Strahin, notary public ; and it is proposed to call the place, if it ever grows into a village, Fieldsville, after Hiram Fields.
The surrounding country is known as Hacklebarney, so named by the eccentric Elihu Horton. When sheriff of Monongalia County, he got lost here, and his horse "Barney" was badly scratched by the low brush. Horton said "Bar ney " was badly hackled by the brush, and it was nothing but a "hackle-barney country."
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Mail Service .- A tri-weekly mail runs from Masontown, via Reedsville, to Independence.
Attempted Furnace .- Scott and Dougherty, sometime about 1825, attempted the erection of a furnace at Decker's Creek Falls, which is referred to elsewhere.
The Great Sandstone Cave .- About three miles south- west of Masontown this cave is situated on lands of Reuben Morris. It is 17 feet high and 125 feet wide at the entrance. Roof and floor unite 255 feet from"the mouth, where a narrow passage on the left opens into a large chamber, 10 feet high and over 80 feet long. H. H. Potter and Charles Mann crawled in a narrow descending passage from this, until Mann could see but could not get into a very large chamber ahead. A beautiful spring is in the center of the opening chamber.
Decker's Creek Falls .- These falls are about two miles from Masontown. The first fall is about 4 feet, the next about 12 feet, and the third, fourth and fifth are between 16 and 20 feet. It is a grand sight, when the waters of the creek are high and fall in volume over them. On the right bank of the creek. a high cliff of the great conglomerate rises over 50 feet above the falls, and on the left is a high steep hill or ridge. Below the falls which are in the great conglomerate, the water cuts down into the 100-foot vein of limestone.
The Poison Spring .- Two miles southwest of the Great Sandstone Cave is this deathful water. Mr. Harrison McKinney says that cattle drinking of the water died in spite of every remedy that could be used. The water is of a greenish hue, supposed to come of copper. The spring is now filled up to prevent man or beast from drinking of it.
Mineral Paint Spring .- About a mile from James M. Carroll's, and near Cheat River, out of a cliff of rocks in a deep hollow, bursts a reddish stream of water, which leaves a
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heavy brown deposit where it falls. This deposit is used as a brown paint for buildings, with satisfactory results. In the same cliff, a spring makes deposits of what is asserted to be crude alum and copperas.
Projected Railway .- In 1881, the Morgantown & Iron Valley Railroad was projected. It was to pass through Valley (from Irondale), and extend, down Decker's Creek, to Morgantown. Valley voted a subscription of $11,000 to the road. The route was surveyed, but nothing farther has been done. John W. Guseman is one of the directors of the road.
Religous Denominations .- In 1836, the Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists occupied a frame house as a union church, near Sandford Watson's. The Methodists bought it that year. Their members, in 1830, were Isaac and Arthur Cobun and wives, James Posten and wife, Mrs. Hartley, Mrs. McMillen, and some others. The class was in the Uniontown District of the Pittsbugh Conference. In 1847, the West Virginia Conference was erected from the Pittsbugh Conference, and the class passed into the Mor. gantown District, of Kingwood Circuit, of the new conference.
The early ministers, from 1830, were John West, Isaac Boyd, Jemison, Coleman and Tolbert. The parsonage is in Masontown, and the present pastor is the Rev. G. W. Parriott.
The Presbyterians held a meeting at Samuel Graham's in . 1833, about once a month. The Rev. C. B. Bristol, from Fairmont, preached. They worshiped in the union Church next, and in 1859 built their present church building. Among the old members were Samuel Graham and wife, . Thomas Watson and wife, Edgar Hartley, Jacob Baker and wife, Gustavus Davis, and some others. The church was in the Redstone Presbytery, until West Virginia was organized as a State, when it passed into the West Virginia Presbytery.
The Methodist Protestants built a church about 35 years ago, near Thomas Fortney's; and a few years ago tore it
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down and erected their present one on its site, called Bethlehem, which was the name of the first church. The Rev. I. Barnes is the pastor.
The Evangelical Association church has an organization at the school-house beyond J. M. Strahin's store.
The Baptists have an organization at the Reedsville school- house.
The Rev. James L. Holmes, the missionary killed in China in 1861, was from Valley. His brother, M. G. Holmes, was consul at Chefu, and is now a merchant in Clarksburg.
Schools .- William Hambret was among one of the first school teachers (about 1798) in what is now Valley District. The district is divided into eleven school sub-districts, whose teachers for the winter of 1881-82, were as follows : No. 1 .. .I. J. Jenkins. No. 6. ... U. G. Hartley.
2. .S. A. Posten. 7. . . . Milliard Pell.
3. H. D. Carroll. 8. .. . Miss Julia Fairfax.
4 .. .. S. J. Posten. 9 .... J. S. Brown, 5 ... . Miss Jennie Loar. 10 .... Dewit Gatewood.
No. 11, A. F. McMillen.
The enumeration of youth in 1882, was : Whites-males, 289 ; females, 291 ; colored-males, 3 ; females, 1 ; total, 579.
In the district there are (1881) 33,456 acres in farms. assessed at $125,964 ; land and buildings, $156,714; per- sonal property, $65,975; town lots, $2,023 ; aggregate, $224,712.
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GENERAL BUCKNER FAIRFAX.
The subject of this sketch was a descendant of the cele- brated Fairfax family, whose Lords were more or less noted for seven generations in the history of England, and a distant relative of Lord Fairfax of Virginia.
His father, Colonel John Fairfax, was the superintendent of Washington's Mount Vernon estates, and married Mary, daughter of Samuel Byrne, of Prince William County, and came about 1790 to near the site of Reedsville. He served as justice, sheriff and colonel of a militia regiment in Monon- galia, and afterward in Preston County, which he also repre- sented in the legislature of Virginia. He had five children by his marriage with Mary Byrne : George William, who died young; William, who died in Missouri; Buckner, the subject of this sketch ; John, who was killed in a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi, and Mary, who married Aquila Martin. His wife died, and several years afterward he mar- ried the widow Nancy Franklin, daughter of Boucher Franklin, of Charles County, Md., and had three children : Franklin B. F., George Washington, and Elizabeth L.
Colonel John Fairfax was a man of fine personal appear- ance, over six feet in height ; blue eyes, fair complexion, and dark hair. He was born December 10, 1763, and died December 22, 1843.
Buckner Fairfax, the third son of Colonel John Fairfax, was born March 30, 1798, in what is now Valley District. He was named Buckner after his maternal grandfather's family of that name. When but a boy he was noticed for being quiet, kind and generous, traits of character for which he was afterwards noted. He received only a practical business education ; yet we find the first county court appointing him county surveyor when he was only twenty years of age, and directing him to run the dividing line between Preston and Monongalia counties. On March 30,
Gen. BUCKNER FAIRFAX.
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1828, he married Miss Rebecca, daughter of James Parsons, of Romney, Virginia
He represented Preston County in the Virginia house of delegates in 1837-38, in 1846-7, and in 1851.
The general assembly of Virgina, in 1849, elected him General of the 10th Brigade, 3d Division, Virginia Militia, which he commanded until the militia went down.
He was justice of the peace for many years, and was a member of the celebrated county court of 1852.
Every enterprise for the advancement or developing of our county, enlisted his attention and received his support, while to aid his friends he often embarrassed himself. His long and useful life closed at the ripe age of 82, at Cranberry, where he died March 30, 1880. He was born, married, and died on the 30th day of the month of March. His children were James B., Mary C., Susan L., who married, October 19, 1852, John A. F. Martin, son of Aquila Martin ; and who was Colonel of the 148th Regiment, Virginia Militia, deputy sheriff in 1843-47 and 1849, member of the legislature of Virginia in 1853 and 1855, and elected, in April, 1881, presi- dent of the board of directors of the asylum for the insane, Parthena G., wife of Charles E. Vickery ; Sarah R. ; and Ann Elizabeth, wife of Dr. S. M. Scott.
In the position of public servant, or in the capacity of a private citizen, General Buckner Fairfax was always kind and obliging. He lived a life of usefulness, and left behind him a character above reproach. In his death, Preston lost a useful citizen, and his life is a bright page in the history of the county.
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CHAPTER XXII. KINGWOOD DISTRICT.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION - MOUNDS - INDIAN TRAIL - EARLY SET- · TLEMENTS - INDIAN INVASIONS - ROADS - ORGANIZATIONS : MAG- ISTERIAL, TOWNSHIP, DISTRICT - TOWNS - THE COUNTY SEAT - MILLS - MAIL SERVICE -PAINT BANK - KINGWOOD RAILWAY COMPANY - RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS - SCHOOLS ..
The territory of Kingwood District was embraced, in 1852, in the Sixth (magisterial) District. In 1863, without change of boundaries, it became Kingwood Township ; and in 1872, by change of designation, Kingwood District.
Kingwood is the only district not bounded by a State or county line. It is bounded on the north by Valley District ; on the east it is separated by Cheat from Pleasant and Portland districts ; on the south it is bounded by Reno Dis. trict, and on the west by Lyon District.
In order of size Kingwood is sixth ; in order of designa. tion, sixth; in population fourth ; and in wealth, the first district in the county.
The eastern part of the district lies in the Ligonier Valley, rising into high hills along Cheat River, while the western part lies in the Newburg Trough, elevated above and divided from the eastern part by the Preston County axis, which runs mearly through the center of the district.
Cheat River and its tributaries, Green's Run, Morgan's Run, Lick and Pringle's runs, drain the eastern part. The western part is drained by the headwaters of Three Forks
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Creek. The soil under proper culture produces well. Oats, rye, corn, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, and wheat are raised. Wheat averages from 8 to 15 bushels per acre.
Heavy forests once covered the district, and to day large bodies of good timber remain. Oak, chestnut and poplar are still abundant, with considerable ash, sugar, beech and hickory.
Coal, limestone,and iron-ore are everywhere abundant, as the district lies in the Lower Coal and Lower Barren Measures. The celebrated Austen coking coal, an Upper Freeport vein, is very plentiful in the southern part of the district. Near Kingwood the Copeman bank is asserted to be Newburg or Pittsburgh seam. If it is, the top of the hill is in the Upper Measures. Limestone exists in large beds and the hematite iron-ore is abundant, being near 10 feet thick on Greene's Run, including parting's. Close to some of the coal veins, a splendid article of fire-clay is found.
Fruit of all kinds does well in the district, especially apples.
Horses, cattle and sheep are raised for profit. All the dangerous wild animals disappeared years ago, excepting a wild cat now and then along Cheat.
Mounds .- The mysterious Moundbuilder has left evidence of past inhabitation of the district in the Castle Farm inter- ment mound, described on page 8.
Indian Trails .- The Great War Path struck the head- waters of Morgan's Run, and followed that stream to Cheat River. Every murder committed in the county by Indians, was on or near this path. Interesting Indian relics found on Sheriff Elisha M. Thomas's place can be seen in the West Virginia University museum, at Morgantown.
Early Settlements .- In 1773, William and Hugh Morgan settled on the west side of the Dunkard Bottom, on settle- ments rights which they patented in 1783. About 1778, Patrick Morgan, a son or brother of William Morgan, was killed by Indians, as described on page 31. Several different
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accounts are given of this affair by persons who conversed with William Morgan's wife, Hannah, when she was over 100 years old. After Morgan's death, she married Michael Grady, and lived to be 110 years of age. William Morgan's son, William, was the father of David Morgan.
About 1781, a man by the name of Miller, with his two sons (little boys) was chased away from his camp-fire, not far from the site of Kingwood, by the Indians. One of these little boys, John Miller, afterwards married Catherine Neff. and came back about 1800. His brother William went to South Carolina. John Miller's children were Henry, David, Benjamin, Ann, Mary, and Sarah who married Christopher Jordon, and is still living.
John Greene came some time before 1788, and his murder by the Indians in their last invasion of the county is de scribed on page 223.
In the spring of 1790, James Brown (father of the Hon. William G. Brown) came near the site of Kingwood ; and in 1800. he bought John Greene's tract of land of his heirs. Robert and Alexander Hawthorne, his wife's brothers, came with him, but they located four miles south of Morgantown.
About this time (1790), came Robert Beatty, George Gillaspy, Robert Butler, Peter Meredith, Abraham Darling, and the Balls.
Anthony Carroll served in the English Navy, and came at an early day close to Morgantown. He married a Miss Dunaway. They had two children, James and Mary. Mary married William Gordon, an ancestor of William G. Worley. Anthony Carroll and his son James settled one mile north of Kingwood about 1790, or '92. His son James married Sarah Vankirk. Their children were Anthony, William and Mary. The latter was the wife of Paul Herndon. William was the father of James H. Carrol, of Kingwood, and Amos Carroll, of Cranberry; and was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1834, 35, 36, 39 and 40.
The Darlings were here at about this time. A tradition asserts that a sister of William Darling was captured by
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Indians on the Copeman farm, where they then lived.
Aaron Royse, the ancestor of the Royse family, died in. 1818, at the age of 84. His son Hiram was the father of Moses, who married Rebecca, daughter of John Stonebridge in Winchester, and came from Somerset Co., Pa., in 1806, and. bought the Darling farm, and died in 1861, at the age of 95. His children were Mary, Elizabeth, Moses, and John. John was the father of Mrs. Henry Copeman, and died in 1863, at the age of 68 years.
Jacob Snyder came about 1800. His sons were Abraham! John, William, Jacob and Allen.
Jesse Trowbridge came in 1804, from the Shenandoal; Valley.
The Taylors and Joseph Kelso were old settlers.
Philip Martin came from Rockingham Co., Va., between 1800 and 1805. He married Susan Funk. Their children were John, Jacob, Philip, David, Joseph (father of J. Ami Martin), and Samuel.
Roads .-- The first road was the old Clarksburg road. Crossing Cheat River at the Fairfax Ferry, it passed over the site of Kingwood. On the site of the Court-house, was a favorite camping place. The road then ran nearly with the present Morgantown turnpike for about three miles, to the shook shop, where it lead toward Zinn's (now Brown's) mill. At the shook shop a road ran toward Morgantown, afterward called the Monongalia State road, or the old Mor- gantown road. An old road lead toward Evansville.
The present roads are: The Kingwood and West Union Turnpike, generally called the Morgantown Turnpike. Its construction cost $327 per mile ; and the Brandonville, Kingwood and Evansville Turnpike, generally called the Kingwood and Tunnelton Turnpike.
Organizations .- From 1818 to 1852, the territory of the district was not recognized as a distinct part of the county. In the latter year, the territory of Kingwood District was " in District. On the 10th of July.
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1863, it was established as Kingwood Township. Its boun dary lines are as follows : "Beginning at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at the big fill west of the big tunnel, thence N. 6, E. 600 p. to a W. O. on the east side of the Ice's Ferry and Tunnelton Turnpike; thence with said turnpike to the old Clarksburg road, at Zinn's mill, in a line of Valley Town- ship ; thence with said Clarksburg road and the lines of the said township reversed, to a stone in said road about 30 p. east from Benjamin Freeland's dwelling house; thence leaving said road N. 49g, E. 310 poles to a chestnut stump on a ridge above George Conley's dwelling house ; thence N. 70%, E. 116 p. to a Pin Oak ; thence N. 37, E. 176 p. to a Hickory and Pointers ; thence N. 58, E. 54 p. to Pointers ; thence N. 81, E. 503 p. to a small Chestnut ; thence N. 42, E. 80 p. to the fork of Laurel Run; thence down said run S 50, E. 500 p. to its junction with Cheat River; thence up said river with its meanders to a point on said river below the mouth of Buck Horn Run ; thence west 300 p. to a little fill in the B. & O. R. R .; thence with said railroad to the place of beginning."
In 1872, under the new Constitution, Kingwood Township became, without any change of boundaries, Kingwood District.
From 1818 to 1852, Wm. Price, - McGee, William Sigler, E. M. Hagans, David Trowbridge, Reuben Morris, - Fortney, and John S. Murdock were among the jus- - tices of the peace.
Magisterial officers (1852 to 1863), as far as can be ascer- tained :
1852 .- Justices, John S. Murdock, Israel Baldwin, Elisha M. Hagans, and Hezekiah Pell.
1856 .--- No record.
1860 .- Justices, J. M. Godwin, Hezekiah Pell and J. S. Murdock.
Township officers from from 1863 to 1872 :
1864 .- Simeon Mattingly, treasurer ; John Potter, clerk.
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School Board - John S. Murdock (president), Robert McCafferty, H. C. Ravenscraft.
1866 .- School Board of 1864 reelected ; also treasurer and clerk.
1868 .- John R. Stone, treasurer ; John Potter, clerk. School board -H. C. Ravenscraft (president), B. S. Miller, J. M. Godwin.
1869 .- James Gibson, supervisor ; James H. Carroll, clerk; Joab G. Conner, overseer of poor; James E. Murdock, treasurer ; M. F. Pell and Samuel Snyder, school commis- sioners ; John S. Murdock and Robert McCafferty, inspec tors ; John W. Miller and Richard Smith, constables; Charles B. Fawcett, surveyor of roads.
1870 .- James Gibson, supervisor; J. Ami Martin, clerk : John R. Stone and Nathan Sypolt, constables ; James Car- roll, overseer of poor ; James W. Parsons and Joshua H. Cale, inspectors ; Richard Nugent, surveyor of roads in pre- cinct No. 1; Joseph M. Shaw, No. 2; Charles C. Craig, No. 3; James McGee, No. 4. School board -M. F. Pell (presi- dent), H. C. Ravenscraft, Samuel Pell; John Potter, secre- tary, James E. Murdock, treasurer.
1871 .- James W. Brown, supervisor; J. Ami Martin, clerk; Jesse Spahr, overseer of poor; H. Pell and H. C. Ravenscraft, inspectors ; John S. Murdock and J. M. God- win, justices ; John R. Stone and N. H. Sypolt, constables. Road surveyors-precinct No. 1, Salathiel Posten ; No. 2, J. H. Cale ; No. 3, Brokenborough Stone; No. 4, Jesse T. McGinnis.
District officers elected from August 22, 1872, to Decem- ber 31, 1881 :
1872-John S. Murdock and Joseph M. Shaw, justices ; John R. Stone and Leroy Shaw, constables ; school board- M. F. Pell (president), John J. Gocke, Samuel Snyder ; John Potter, secretary.
1873-School board-James W. Brown (president), M. C. Gibson, Jacob Bower ; John Potter, secretary.
1875-School board-M. F. Pell (president), Simeon
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Mattingly, Thornton J. Bonafield ; John Potter, secretary.
1876-Justices, John S. Murdock and Eugene McGinnis; constables, James Carroll and P. F. Caufield.
1877-School board-R. W. Monroe (president), M. F. Pell, Simeon Mattingly ; John Potter, secretary.
1879-School board-R. W. Monroe (president), M. F. Pell, Dr. Felix Elliott, J. Harmon McGinnis, Gustavus J. Shaffer ; John Potter, secretary.
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