HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY OHIOBy Aldrich Lewis Cass
Published 1889
HISTORY OF City of Sandusky
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In 1840 it was a mere appointment, belonging to the so-called Sandusky circuit of the Ohio Conference, which at that time contained about thirty five stations or appointments. The preachers of those early times worked hard, and endured great trials. For twelve years they visited this town every four or six weeks, and kept life in the little enterprise. At this time they held their meetings in the old court house, and their prayer meetings in private dwellings. The meetings in the court house were well attended, even Catholics came to hear the Gospel because they had no church. In 1840 A. Strob preached here with great power, and several persons were converted to God. Two years before Mrs. Chr. Zollinger and some others had been converted.
In 1843 the Ohio Conference located a preacher here permanently, Rev. John Lutz. This man of God did a good work among the Germans of Sandusky.
The first building was erected on court house square, and was a small frame house. It stood but three years, and was then sold and removed. In 1854 the present church was built, near the blue school house. Rev. L. Scheuerman was then pastor.
The first members of this church included some of the most respected German families, of whom some are still here, others have died, and many moved away. Most prominent among these are the following names: C. W. Zollinger and wife, J. Nicolai and wife, B. Wiegel and wife, John Kaegle and wife, Jacob Schumacker and wife, Mr. Traub and wife, John Walker and wife, John Brost and wife and others. The ministers who have been from time to time stationed here were the following: Rev. John Lutz, J. G.Ziegler Revs. Jos. Haffert, J. Hall, J. Kern, A. Miebel, G. Behner, G. F. Spreng, J. J. Lang, George Kagy, D. Hahn, L. Scheuerman, J. Strohman, J. Hanecker, C. T. Negele, J. D. Seip, J. Trech, K. Tramer, J. P. Schautz, J. Walz, J. Pontius, C. L. Well, and M. Guhl now in charge.
The number of members has varied greatly, and when other German Churches were established it had many difficulties to contend with. There are at present one hundred and forty members. A Sunday school is flourishing of one hundred and thirty scholars, and fifteen officers and teachers. The present officers of the church are J. G. Ziegler, S. Becker, J. Walker, J. Schumacher, P. Vinnes (trustees). J. G. Ziegler and P. Vinnes (class-leader), S. Becker and P. Fuhr stewards.
The growth and success of this church would have been more continuous and greater could the first pastors have remained longer in charge. As a rule they remained but a single year, and as soon as they were acquainted with their people, were sent to other appointments. This kept the church from growing as it should have done. The present pastor has done a good work here, and is now on the third year of his pastorate.
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German Reformed Church, corner Hancock and Jefferson streets, Rev. Michael Treiber, pastor. Historically, this church is descended from the Swiss churches established in the sixteenth century, through the instrumentality of the reformer Zwingli. After the death of Zwingli the head of the church was assumed by John Calvin himself, who resided in Geneva. They are strictly orthodox in belief and have their churches in every town and city of our new world.
The German Reformed Church of Sandusky was formed in 1852, by a number of seceders from the German Evangelist Protestant Emanuel Church, under the leadership of Rev. Peter Bricker, to supply a want long felt for an orthodox German Church. They are placed under the supervision of the High Dutch Reformed Synod of Ohio and the adjoining States. Their house of worship is on the corner of Hancock and Jefferson streets, and their church membership now numbers about two hundred. The value of their property is $6,000. Their present pastor is Rev. Michael Treiber.
St. Stephen' s German Evanigelical Protestant Church, corner of Laurence and Jefferson streets. Rev. Ernst Von Schulenberg, pastor. In the year 18 Dr. Von Schulenberg organized this church, and with a few families from the Emanuel Church, and several others, took steps toward a permanent organization. The necessity for a building forced them at once to make arrangements for its beginning, and Dr. Von Schulenberg succeeded in seeing one erected at a cost of $3,500, of which all but three hundred is now paid.
This church has a membership of fifty five families, ten of these having been added since its organization. This church was dedicated in May, 1882, and at the present time the Sunday school numbers one hundred and fifty scholars and fifteen teachers.
In addition to the work of the parish, and the service of the church. Dr. Von Schulenberg carries on a large medical practice and accomplishes a large amount of literary work. He has been a large giver to the church, and, as in the course of years some of his best families have been removed by death or change of residence, the burden is not light. One of his principal families, Mr. Fruechticht, returned to Hungary, and at present there are none to rise up and take the vacant places, but the work goes on, and the doctor labors earnestly for his church.
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Friends. — Friends chapel is on the south side of Second street between Sycamore Line and Erie street. William Nicholson, minister. This society was organized in February, 1881. The house now occupied by them was built and formerly occupied by the Episcopalians, until their present house of worship was built on First street. At that time they sold their old church to the city School Board, to be used for school purposes, until the tenth ward school house was built. The building then was left unoccupied, and in February, 1880, Rev. J. Strong, of the Congregational church, assisted by J. J. Howell and others, rented the house from the Board of Education and gathered in fifty children that had hitherto been attending no Sabbath school, and proceeded to organize a Sabbath school, and elected D. C. Walker superintendent, and J. J. Howell secretary and treasurer. Under their management the interest and attendance increased until it was concluded that the cottage prayer meetings, that had been held throughout the winter in private houses, should be moved to the church; and through the interest of the people, and by their request, William Allen, a minister of the Society of Friends, from Indiana, with Charles Sweet, came and held revival meetings, at which there were several conversions. Thirteen or more requested to become members of the Friends Church, and thus Milan Monthly Meeting (at that time composed of the two meetings of Milan and Berlin), by the requests of these converts became interested, and the house was bought by the Friends. The church was organized in 1881, with J. J. Howell and Mary Jackson as elders. About this time Lida G. Romack, a noted lady minister and revivalist, of Alum Creek, held a series of meetings in which the whole community became interested; so much so that the house could not hold the people, and an eager throng pressed around the doors and windows, even to the blocking of the street. More converts were thus brought in, and William Allen brought his membership as a minister from Indiana, and he and Charles Sweet preached for some time, until William was called to another field, and then the work rested on Charles Sweet for some months. Then G. J. Bartlett took charge of the work, with the other two appointments, until he was succeeded by William Nicholson, the present pastor. He was sent from East Richland by the Yearly Meeting’s Pastoral Committee, in September, to Milan Monthly Meeting, and took this work in connection until one year ago, when it was decided to divide the work and give William Nicholson the work in Sandusky alone. At the time when he came to the city he found a membership of about thirty. Since that time there have been thirty five by request, and five by letter, and the interest of the church is on the increase.
The Society of Friends have a yearly conference, and a quarterly meeting or conference. This church belongs to the Alum Creek Conference and the Ohio Yearly Meeting.
Wherever the Friends are found there is a monument to their founder, George Fox, who in 1657 organized the first society of this denomination, and lived to see 80,000 converted under him. The church in Sandusky is united and prosperous, and promises well for the future growth of its body, under its present earnest minister.
German Lutheran Church — Corner of Washington and Jackson streets. Rev. Jacob Dornbirer, pastor. In June, 1852, a meeting was called with the intention of forming a church, and Rev. Schladtermundt was appointed to draft the constitution.
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January 18, 1853, this organization joined the Lutheran Synod, of Ohio, and the same day proceeded to elect trustees and Sunday school officers. The first trustees were: Bernhardt Meier, George Hartman, George Lanz. The first minister was Rev. Schladtermundt. Rev. Kline succeeded him August 6, 1853, and Rev. Seidel followed him March, 1855. Then came George Lehr in 1856, who remained twenty two years and died February 6, 1879. His successor was J. Dornbearer in the same year. They own a parsonage and now have a church of two hundred families.
Methodist Episcopal Church — South side of Washington, between Jackson and Decatur streets. Rev. J. F. Brant, pastor. Methodists are always pioneers. They are found wherever a few families have settled, and proceed to organize themselves at once into a class. In Sandusky City they did this in its earliest days, and until 1828 they worshiped in private houses. At this time they erected the first church building ever erected here, and had Rev. John Janes for their pastor. It was a small one-story building on Jackson street, facing west from the present courthouse.
In those days it was customary for brother Daniel Van Fleet to blow the horn for assembling the people for worship, but in a few years this custom was relegated to the background, and the more modern fashion of ringing a small bell was substituted in its place. Rev. L. B. Gurley, completed the interior of the church in 1830, and was heard to say that the pulpit was so unlike anything in heaven or earth that there would be no sin in worshiping it. Among the first members were the following persons: Daniel Van Fleet, Father Kelly, J. H. Norman, Father Allen, D. H. Tuttle, Mrs. Eunice E. Newton, Mrs. Mary Osborn, Mrs. Mary A. Paul, Mrs. Mary Holland, Mrs. Amanda Smith, Mrs. Elenore Smith, Mrs. Susan Dean, Martin C. Clarkson. From the erection of the first church in 1828 until the building of the second in 1847, ths following pastors succeeded each other in the charge of this church: John Jones, William Runnels, L. B. Gurley, Edward Thompson (afterward bishop), Thomas Barkdull, John Quigley, Orin Mitchell, William C. Pierce, O. Burgess and Clark Johnson, Thomas Thompson and Ralph Wilcox, Harvey Camp and Thomas Cooper, E. McClure and S. I. Seymour, E. R. Jewett.
It was when Mr. Jewett was pastor that the second Methodist Episcopal Church edifice was erected on what is now the High School grounds opposite the Congregational Church. When almost completed it was burned. The next church edifice was erected on the West Square between the Congregational Church and the present stone church occupied by the German Lutherans. The following were the regularly appointed pastors : Erom 1845, 1846, 1847, E. R. Jewett; 1847 1848, Ebenezer R. Plill; 1848 and 1849, Hibbard P. Ward, who died of cholera; Thomas Cooper, appointed chaplain to the seamen in 1848, died of cholera in 1849; in 1849 and 1850, Edward S. Grumley; 1850, 1851, 1852, James A. Kellam; 1852 and 1853, Alexander Wilson; 1853 and 1854, Liberty Prentiss; 1854 and 1855, Samuel M. Beatty, second charge, the church being divided.
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It was during this year that the name of the district was changed from Tiffin to Sandusky.
In 1855, 1856, 1857, Jacob T. Caples, Samuel M. Beatty, and Simon A. Lee, second charge, and William C. Pierce, presiding elder; 1856, 1857, 1858, Alfred Wheeler; 1858 and 1 859, Alpha Wright; i860 and 1861, Moses K. Hard; 1861, 1862, 1863, T. L. Hildrith, E. R. Jewett, presiding elder; 1863 and 1864, W. H. Nickerson; 1864 and 1865, Alfred Wheeler ; 1865-1867, William D. Godman; 1867, 1868, 1869, A. J. Lyon; 1869, 1870, 1871, Leonard B. Gurley; 1871, 1872, 1873, John A. Mudge; 1873 and 1874, George W. Collier; 1875, 1876, 1877, P. B. Stroup; 1877, 1878, 1879, A. D. Knapp; 1879 and 1880, George W. Pepper; 1881 and 1882, B. G. Hoadley; 1883, 1884. 1885, B. T. Stevenson; 1886, 1887, 1888, J. L. Brant.
At present the church is known as Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a large, handsome, brick structure, with facing and two towers, the eastern one terminating in a high, graceful spire. It is handsomely finished within and furnished with taste. Rev. E. R. Jewett and the ladies of the church raised over $6,000 of the amount necessary to complete the present building. The property is valued at $25,000. The church was dedicated in 1882.
This church has a present membership of two hundred and seventy full members and forty probationers, with a Sunday school of two hundred and ten scholars.
Stewards: D. C. Powers, Dr. William Gaylord, R. J. Hargraves, N. A. Hadden, R. C. Gould, Rev. E. R. Jewett, Edward Haylor, Homer Ward, E. Gilbert, S. G. Cathermaine, William Booer, E. L. Redding. Trustees : Charles Cooke, R. M. Wilcox, Joseph Porter, B. Crozier, William H. McFall, G. E. Harris, W. R. Zollinger, J. E. Freeman, Daniel Buck. Rev. E. R. Jewett, superannuated preacher; Martin C. Clarkson, local preacher.
German Aletliodist Episcopal Church< south side of Jefferson, between Columbus avenue and Jackson, Rev. John Kuster, pastor. The First German Episcopal Society was organized in 1851, with a membership of eight persons. The church was built in 1852, on the court house square. It was removed to its present location in 1880. The value of the property is $2,500. Its present membership is thirty-five. Trustees, J. Kachell, J. Richter, Fred Schor, H. Heinzerling, M. Crass, M. Marschall and A. Lickfeld.
The first church of this denomination in Margaretta township was for a time connected with Sandusky, and is still under the care of the same pastor. Rev. Kuster. This church was built in 1886. The building committee was A. G. Miller, A. Wiedenhoeft and L. Schoewe. Value of property $2,500. Membership thirty five. Trustees, A. G. Miller, E. Miller L,. Kleinoeder, J. Young and L. Schoewe.
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African Methodist Episcopal Clmrch, Steven’s Chapel, Rev. George Stevens first pastor and founder of the church in 1879. Corner stone laid by Rev. Morris in the same year. It has thirty members, and has had many obstacles to its growth, but still continues to exist in spite of all opposing forces. For many years one of its most active forces was Father Boston, well known to all Sandusky residents, and still living, but of great age.
The First Presbyterian Church, corner of Washington and Jackson streets.Rev. D. E. Bierce pastor. It was not until 1852, when Sandusky was a town of respectable proportions, and had witnessed the changes incident to thirty-five years of growth, that it was deemed necessary to organize a Presbyterian Church. At this time, December ii, 1852, twenty six persons took their letters from the Congregational Church, and formed themselves into the First Presbyterian Church of Sandusky.
For a time their services were held in Campbell’s Hall on Water street, and not until the following year did they make a move in the direction of building. This was in 1853, and in 1854 the lecture room was completed and occupied. The entire building was completed in 1855, and dedicated in June of that year. Its cost was $33,000 including organ and bell. The lot had cost $2,000, making an entire cost of $35,000. It is built of native stone, beautifully situated on the corner of Washington and Jackson streets, facing the city park. In some respects it is the most attractive church edifice among the Protestant denominations in the city. Its first elders were W. P. Gray and Charles Cockran.
Rev. W. S. Kennedy was the first pastor. He took charge of his flock in 1852, and remained six years. He was an able and popular man, and at that time received and accepted a call to the Third Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati. He was succeeded by Rev. Thomas C. Campbell, a young graduate of Allegheny Theological Seminary, who began his work December 20, 1859, and remained until July, 1861. From that time the church was supplied by Rev. Mr. Cross of Baltimore until the following December, when Rev. Franklin Noble, a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, was chosen pastor. He remained in Sandusky almost three years, and left July 1, 1864.
In October, 1864, the church called Rev. George H. Fullerton from the Lancaster (Ohio) Presbyterian Church, and he became its pastor until November, 1867. He was a faithful servant and did a good work here. From Sandusky he went to the Walnut Hill's Church, Cincinnati. Rev. Dr. Keifer, professor of Heidelberg College, Tiffin, was called to succeed Mr. Fullerton, and continued his labors until February, 1869. In July of that year Rev. James McCoy, a young minister was called, and remained until October, 1872. He was succeeded by Rev. Mead C. Williams (since D.D.) who served the church faithfully from June, 1873, until March, 1877.
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The church was now vacant six months, but supplied by Rev. D. J. Meese, who then became its pastor. He was not installed until November, 1880, and was a devoted and successful pastor until he received and accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Mansfield, O., October i, 1886. After hearing various candidates the church decided to call Rev. D. E. Bierce, of Fargo, N. D., who accepted and began his work in 1887.
During the history of this church, extending over a period of more than thirty years, there have been many changes in its membership, and the usual vicissitudes of all church life have varied its numbers from year to year, now increasing, now decreasing, until at the present time it numbers a membership reaching almost, if not quite, two hundred persons. It has a Sabbath school that is in a prosperous condition.
In 1869-70 it started a mission in the eastern part of the city, which has been promotive of great good, and is still cared for by the church. It averages about one hundred scholars, and the property is valued at $1,600.
ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES AND ORDERS.
The Young Men' s Christian Association. Among the numerous societies of Sandusky there is none of greater value and importance to the people generally, and none having more pure and praiseworth} objects in view — the reaching out for young men and drawing them away from vice, giving them opportunities for study and self improvement, and providing them with honest employment — than that society known all through the land as the Young Men’s Christian Association. And there is no society in this city that has made the stubborn fight for life against many trials, hardships, disadvantages, and disappointments as has this.
The Young Men’s Christian Association of Sandusky was organized in the year 1870, through the personal endeavors of J. R. Davies, James Woodworth, James E. Marshall, George J. Anderson, E. E. Upp and others, who felt the iiecessity of such an organization in the city, and saw abundant room for the society’s work. Mr. Davies was elected president, and Byron Gager, secretary. After presiding over the society for some years Mr. Davies retired and was succeeded by D. C. Powers, and he, after two years, by Henry H. West. The latter, with a brief interval, held the presidency until the year 1884, when the present president was chosen. During that interval of time Mr. Davies filled the position, and it was while so holding that William R. McCullough rendered efficient service as general secretary; and during the same period Mrs. Susan Collwell bequeathed to the association the sum of $500, to be used as the nucleus of a building fund.
The association obtained a refusal of a parcel of land on Washington Row, on which it was proposed to erect a suitable building, but before the transaction was fully consummated the owners conveyed the property to other persons, having received an offer somewhat in excess of the price to be paid by the society. From that time there seems to have been no effort made toward securing property or erecting a building. For about three years the association has occupied rented rooms on Columbus avenue at No. 204, but prior to their locating there it had quarters in the Hubbard block, at the corner of Columbus avenue and Water street.
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The present officers of the Young Men’s Christian Association are as follows: President, T. Bower; secretary, Howard Bradley; corresponding secretary, Richard Lee; treasurer, O. B. Bannister. The association now num- bers seventy-five members.
The Woman's ChristiaJi Temperance Union. This society, the aim of which is no less worthy than that last above mentioned, was organized in Sandusky in 1879, by a number of well known ladies of the city, among whom were Mrs. J. Y. Beattie, Mrs. S. C. Norris, Mrs. Rev. D. J. Meese, Mrs. Rev. Knapp, Mrs. Amelia Lewis, Mrs. Dr. Chandler, Mrs. W. B. Hudson, Mrs. Mary E. West, Mrs. Josiah Strong, Mrs. Emma Nason, Mrs. William Cooke, Mrs. Alvord, Mrs. Theodore Walker, Mrs. B. F. Thompsom, and perhaps others whose names cannot now be recalled. The object of the society becomes at once patent by reference to its name the work of combatting intemperance and kindred vices through Christian influences and Christian work.
The union has a membership of about thirty, but unfortunately perhaps, the hard work of the society devolves upon some eight or ten of its more active members. The present officers are Mrs. Mary E. West, president; Mrs. Samuel Facer, vice-president; Mrs. J. Y. Beattie, secretary; Mrs. B. F. Thompson, treasurer; Mrs. William Cooke, superintendent of the Woman’s Temperance Publication Society.
The Order of Free Masonry. Of the hardy pioneers, those who first settled in Ohio when its broad domain was but a vast wilderness, when the red man and the wild beast roamed at will through the then almost unbroken forest, many were Masons, made in the older States, from which they came. Small settlements grew into communities, and they were organized into villages, towns, and thus came cities, and when they who had been taught to use the trowel to spread the cement of brotherly love and affection without regard to the ordinary avocations of life in which their several lots were cast, found themselves gathered together in any given locality in sufficient numbers, feeling the want of a Masonic home, the members of the order proceeded from time to time to organize their lodges, and erect their altars, generally obtaining authority to do so from the grand lodges existing in the States in which a portion of them had lived before coming to Ohio, and they thereby owed allegiance to the several grand lodge jurisdictions from which they had obtained charters, so that prior to 1808 there were in this State six subordinate lodges respectively located, one each in the towns of Marietta, Cincinnati, Chillicothe, Worthington, Warren and Zanesville.
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By an arrangement previously made and entered into by and between the officers and members of the said several lodges a convention had been called to meet at Chillicothe, the then capital of the State, on Monday, January 4, A. D. 1808. The Legislature was assembled at the same time, and by virtue of said argument and call, said convention did assemble for the purpose of organizing a grand lodge, and during the week the grand lodge was organized to be known as the Grand Lodge of L. & A. M. of Ohio,
The meager records preserved of the perfecting of the organization at that time show, that of the early settlers of Ohio some of whom gained not only a State but a national reputation and were honored and respected by the people, that Lewis Cass, Philoman Beecher, Rufus Putnam, Thomas Henderson, George Tod, Isaac Van Horn, Robert Colver, Ichabod Ney, William Skinner,. Thomas Gibson, Elias Langham, Levin Belt, Charles A. Stewart, Peter Spruck, James Kilbourn, David Putnam, Henry Massie,John Seely and Lrancis Mennessier, all Master Masons, were present and participated in the good work in laying the foundation on which the great Masonic edifice in Ohio has been erected.
After going through with the preliminaries necessary under the circumstances “to establish a more perfect union,” they proceeded to perfect the organization by the election of permanent officers, viz: G. M., Rufus Putnam; D. G. M., Thomas Henderson; S. G. W., George Tod; J. G. W., Isaac Van Horn; G. Sec’y, David Putnam; G. Treas., Henry Massie; G. S. D., Philoman Beecher; G. J. D., Levin Belt; G. Marshal, Charles A. Stewart; G. Tler, Peter Spruck.
Science Lodge No. 50, F. & A. M. of Sandusky. In June, 1818, when Sandusky was but a small village containing but a few hundred inhabitants, and the Indians in this part of Ohio outnumbered the whites, there were among these early settlers quite a number that were Masons. Among and of them were Hector Kilbourn, a surveyor. Dr. George Anderson, Eleutherus Cook, Moers Larwell, John D. Wheeler, Ebenezer Ransom and others, having been made Masons before they came to Sandusky, and being more or less imbued with a love and reverence for the order, and feeling that they wanted a Masonic home wherein to gather in fraternal union, caused an application to be prepaired and signed by the requisite number of Master Masons, and forwarded it to the G. M. of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, asking of him the authority to organize a subordinate lodge in Sandusky, and in July, 1818, Chester Griswold, the then M. W grand master, granted the dispensation prayed for, and appointed Hector Kilbourn W. M., and by order of the grand lodge held at Columbus, December, 1818, Science Lodge with others was authorized to continue its labors under the dispensation until the next communication of the grand lodge.
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At the session of the grand lodge held in Columbus, December, 1819, Hector Kilbourn was its representative, and recorded as the master of the lodge in the published proceedings of that year, which also show that the returns of the lodge were not received in time to be acted upon before adjournment, whereby the lodge continued to work under the dispensation another year.
At the session of the grand lodge held at Columbus, commencing December 1 1, 1820, the committees on charters and dispensations reported in favor of granting a charter, which report was accepted and charter granted, and was duly issued, signed by John Snow, M. W. grand master, and Benjamin Gardner, grand secretary. Brother Lyman Farwell was its representative to the grand lodge at the session of 1820.
In December, 1820, the organization of Science Lodge No. 50 F. and A. M. was perfected under its charter, and entered upon its course as a full fledged lodge, and the following is a list of its officers so far as reported up to and including the year 1835.
1820. — VV. M., Hector Kilbourn; S. W., Samuel B. Carpenter; J. W., Henry Tuller; treasurer, Ebenezer Ransom; secretary, Eleutherus Cooke; S. D., Ab. Toutelett; J. D., John D. Wheeler; tyler, Ely Thompson.
1821. — W. M., Hector Kilbourn; S. W., M. Earwell; J. W., Eleutherus Cooke; treasurer, Wesley Anderson; secretaiy, William Hull; S. D., Alexander Clemons; J. D., S. B. Caldwell; tyler, L. Walker.
1823. — W. M., Moers Farwell; S. W., Eleutherus Cooke; J. W., John Wheeler; treasurer, George Anderson; secretary, Lyman Farwell; S. D., Wesley Anderson; J. D., A. Lyman; tyler, L. Walker.
1824. — W. M., George Anderson; S. W., John Wheeler; J. W., Seth Hull; treasurer, David Campbell; secretary. Hector Kilbourn; S. D., Wesley Anderson; J. D., A. Lyman; tyler, William B. Smith.
1825. — W. M., George Anderson; S. W., John Wheeler; J. W., Abner Root; treasurer, David Campbell; secretaiy, Samuel Allyn Otis; S. D., William Kelley; J. D., Luther Damison; tyler, William B. Smith.
1826. — W. M., M. Farwell; S. W., Hector Kilbourn; J. W., Samuel A. Otis; treasurer, William Kelley; secretary, J. N. Sloan; S. D., Alexander M. Porter; J. D., A. Root; tyler, Seth Hull.
1829. — W. M., George Anderson; S. W., H. Kilbourn; J. W., Abner Root; treasurer, A. M. Porter; secretary, H. H. Wilcoxon; S. D., Samuel Walker; J. D., A. C. Corbett; tyler, Leicester Walker.
1830. — W. M., George Anderson; S. W., H. Kilbourn; J. W., Abner Root; treasurer, A. M. Porter; secretary. H. H. Wilcoxon; S. D. Samuel Walker; J. D., A. C. Corbett; tyler, Leicester Walker.
1831. — W. M., George Anderson; S. W., H. Kilbourn; J. W., Abner Root; treasurer, A. M. Porter; secretary, H. H. Wilcoxon; S. D., Samuel Walker; J. D., A. C. Corbett; tyler, Leicester Walker.
1832. — W. M., George Anderson; S. W., H. Kilbourn; J. W., Abner Root; treasurer, A. M. Porter; secretary, Erastus Cooke; S. D., M. Earwell; J. D., J. N. Sloan; tyler, Leicester Walker.
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