Otsego Town Minutes 
1861 

At the Annual Town Meeting of the Electors of the Town of Otsego, held 
at the house of William Lewis in said town on Tuesday  March 5, 1861
				Present	    Seth Doubleday     )
					    William Wendall    ) Justices
					    Zebulon G.  Garlock)
					   	 M. B. Angell 	Town Clerk

The following officers were elected   to wit.

	George W. Ernst		Supervisor

	Marias B. Angell		Town Clerk

	Zebulon G. Garlock		Justice of the Peace

	Fayette Hinds			Assessor     full term

	Isaac K. Williams		Assessor    to fill vacancy

	James J. Allen			Commissioner of Highways

	Daniel Green			Collector

	Marcus Field			Overseer of the Poor
	Thomas F. Higby		     "          "    "    "

	Webster C. Keyes		Constable
	Edward A. Olendorf		    "
	Stephen Williams		     "
	Charles M. Welden		     "

	D. Dolphus Kelly )		Inspectors of Election  1st  Dist
	Jerome B. Wood  )						
	Horace Hooker    )

	900 Votes taken
	
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	Elon C. Denio   )		Inspectors of Election  2nd  Dist	
	John B. Hooker )
	Andrew Shaw  Jr)

		List of Path Masters for 1861
Dist
1    Caleb Clark			33  Charles Bailey
2    Johnson Colburn			34  Richard Van Horne
3    John Kellogg crossed out, Erastus Warren added   35  Jacob Allen
4    James Allen			36  Norman Babcock
5    A. T. Van Horne			37  Peter King
6    					38  Jeremiah Shaul
7    Buckingham Fitch  2d		39  Oliver Freeman
8    Orlo Underwood			40  Levi Russell
9    John Shumway			41  
10  Levi Davison			42  Isaac Pier
11  German Potter			43  Joel Squiers
12  Eleazer Bowen			44  
13  J. A. Cheney			45  Lewis Hinds
14  Harvey Williams			46  Horace Taylor
15  John B.  Northrop			47
16  Everett D. Preston			48  Samuel Quaif  
17  Lemuel Ackley			49  John Bunn
18  Robert Rutherford			50  Martin Austin
19  James M. Whipple			51  Edward Lewis
20  Benjamin Johnson			52  A. W. Thayer
21  Daniel Richards			53  James Hinds
22  John Stevens			54  Elisha Gibbs 	    
23  Hiram Barton			55  Daniel Carpenter
24  D. D. Kelly				56  L. L. Benjamin
25  Ransom Eddy				57  
26  Francis Hecox			58  Jay Taylor
27  Sheldon Brainard			59  Leander Rooker
28  W. K. Warren			60  Frederick Jarvis
29  Wm  Edget				61  Y. F. Peasley
30  Geo  Scribner			62
31  Miner Smith				63  Beecher Higby
32  Walter Van Horne

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Adjourned to meet at the house of William Lewis on the first Tuesday in March  
1862 at the usual hour.

		Marias B. Angell
				Town Clerk