Winona County, Minnesota
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: HISTORY OF
WINONA CITY
Pages 423-436
From the book
"History of Wabasha County"
Published in 1884
Concerning Wabasha and Winona Counties in Minnesota
When the county of Fillmore was created out of Wabasha county by special act of territorial legislature, approved March 5, 1853, the new county thus created was organized for judicial purposes and divided into electoral precincts. One of these precincts was called the Winona precinct, and included within its limits the territory embraced in the level bottom lands on the west side of the Mississippi river in latitude 44 degrees north, longitude 14 degrees and 30 minutes west from Washington, and known as Wabasha prairie. The life of Winona precinct as thus constituted was of short duration. By special act of territorial legislature, approved February 23, 1854, Fillmore county was in turn divided and the present county of Winona formed, its boundaries fixed as now existing, and Winona designated as the county seat. Under the provisions of this act, a special election was held April 4, 1854, within the several precincts as then designated by the county commissioners of Fillmore county, for the purpose of choosing county and precinct officers. These commissioners were Henry C. Gere, Myron Toms and Wm. T. Luark. The precinct officers to be elected were, two justices of the peace, two constables and one road supervisor. Under the Fillmore county administration the precinct officers were appointed by the governor of the territory, and for Winona precinct were, John Burns and John M. Gere, justices of the peace; Frank W. Curtis, constable; and Geo. W. Clark, road supervisor. These officers held their seats until the regular territorial election, on the second Tuesday in October, when Geo. W. Gere and Wm. H. Stevens were elected justices of the peace and F. W. Curtis, constable. The terms of office for which these gentlemen were elected expired by operation of the special act of February 23, 1854, ordering a special election to be held April 4 ensuing. The judges of election were appointed by the Fillmore county commissioners, the election held as ordered, and Winona precinct, besides casting her vote for the regular county officers, elected for herself as justices of the peace Wh. H. Stevens and Geo. H. Sanborn, and for constable, Frank W. Curtis. No official record of this election is on file in the office in this county, as the returns were made to Fillmore county. The Winona county commissioners, elected April 4, 1854, met as Winona, the seat of government for the new county, April 28, of that same year, and the following day, April 29, 1854, redistricted the county. By this partition Winona county was divided into six electoral precincts; one of these was named Winona and described as township No. 107 north, range 7, west of the fifth principal meridian. As will be noted y the description, the precinct of Winona, as then formed, was identical in its boundaries with the present township of Winona, including the corporate limits of the city of Winona. The official term for which these offices were filled in April expired when the regular election for the territory was held the ensuing October. The official returns of this election ~ the very existence of which seemed unknown until they were unearthed for us by ex-county auditor Basford from among the musty archives of the county records ~ give the following as the result: justices of the peace, S. K. Thompson, A. C. Jones; constables, F. W. Curtis, A. C. Smith; road supervisor, Enoch Hamilton. It does not appear from any records in the office of register of deeds, or from any acknowledgment upon any instrument extant, or from the memory of any one familiar with these times, that A. C. Jones ever qualified as justice of the peace or exercised the functions of that office. There is abundance of parole evidence to show that G. H. Sanborn continued to exercise the authority of justice for months after the October election, and in connection with S. K. Thomson "preserved the peace" in Winona precinct.
The election of 1855 returned Henry Day and John Keyes, justices; Harvey S. Terry and W. H. Peck, constables; and Wm. Doolittle, road supervisor.
The officers elected in 1856 were : justices of the peace, G. R. Tucker, I. B. Andrews; constables, Harvey S. Terry, C. C. Bartlett; road supervisor, Asa Hedge. This was the last precinct election in which the residents within the city limits took part. The term of office for which the above election was held expired with the charter election held Monday, April 6, 1857.
From the formation of Fillmore county, March 5, 1853, until the charter election for the newly incorporated city was held, four years and one month later, the settlers on Wabasha prairie were subject only to such general laws and regulations as had been enacted by territorial authority for the government of each communities as were uninvested (sic) with corporate rights and privileges. This day had passed by for Winona and she was now to enter upon the larger and more responsible work of creating a city government, and administering its affairs, answerable only to herself within the limits of her corporate franchises. Before entering upon this phase of the history of Winona, it is necessary that some idea should be given of the growth in population and the material progress made by the little community from the date of its planting to the eve of its incorporation, and for this purpose a brief reference to these matters will be all that is necessary.
The population of Winona county at the date of its organization is generally placed a little below 800 ~ a slow growth, and one not destined to be much accelerated during the year and a half that followed. The attractions of southern Minnesota, to which Winona has ever been the chief gateway, seemed generally disregarded, and the rush of settlement was farther north along the Minnesota river; the St. Paul press growing so eloquent in its descriptions of the beauty and fertility of that valley as to attract the attention of prospective settlers to that region. The protracted occupation of this section of Minnesota by the Indians, their final removal not having been effected until the autumn of 1853, had much to do in preventing the early settlement of southeastern Minnesota. But when the vast territory lying west of Winona was opened to settlement in the summer of 1855, and the government land office established here in November of that year, the change from the dull inactivity of the previous year was almost marvelous. The influx of population, the rapid increase in the number of business houses of all kinds, the activity manifest in every department of trade, the impetus given to all speculative movements, the number of buildings in course of erection, all testified to the fact that a new day and a better one had dawned upon the prospective metropolis of southern Minnesota. The condition of affairs at the close of the year 1856 may be summed up as follows: the population had increased from about 800 in December, 1855, to 3,000 in December, 1856. There had been erected during the year 290 buildings of all kinds, among them three good churches, a large four-story warehouse, a commodious hotel (the Huff House, now standing), a steam flouring-mill with five run of stones, a large three-story banking building, besides scores of others of less note, yet decidedly creditable to the young city. An idea of the value of real property may be had from these specimen quotations of sales of real estate, taken from the columns of the "Winona Republican" of that date: "A lot on Second street, between Center and Lafayette, 40 x 100 feet, $1,600 cash; two corner lots on Walnut street, $1,800; a lot, 80 x 140 feet, corner of Second and Center streets, $6,000." The manufacturing establishments were two steam saw-mills, one steam planing-mill, one steam flouring-mill, one cabinet manufactory with steam power. The river was open to navigation from April 8 to November 17, and during that time there were 1,300 arrivals and departures of boats. A tri-weekly line of steamers was maintained for greater part of the season between Winona and Dubuque, and the forwarding and commission business for that season aggregated $182,731.96. There were fourteen attorneys-at-law and nine physicians waging war against crime and death, and about 150 business houses, stores, shops, etc., distributed as follows: Dry goods, 14; groceries and provisions, 16; clothing, 7; hardware and tin, 6; drugs, 5; boots and shoes, 4; furniture, 4; books, 2; hat and fur store, 2; wholesale liquors, 2; hotels and taverns, 13; eating-houses and saloons, 10; lumber yards, 5; blacksmith shops, 3; warehouses, 4; brickyards, 2; livery stables, 2; sign painters, 3; watchmakers, 3; butchers, 2; wagon and carriage shop, 2; fanning-mill maker, 1; gunsmith shop, 2; bakeries, 2; dentists, 3; gaugenean artist (I don't have a clue as to what that means and neither does Merriam-Webster), 1; banking-offices, 6; real estate and insurance, 10; printing-offices, 2; harness shop, 2; barber shop, 3. To these may be added five churches and two schools, and you have a fair summary of Winona business at the close of the year 1856. The original plat of Winona, surveyed June 19, 1852, by John Ball, for Erwin H. Johnson and Orrin Smith, was so set apart and recorded under the revised territorial statutes of 1851, in accordance with the town site act passed by congress May 23, 1844. This original plat was bounded on the north by the Mississippi river, on the east by Market street, on the south by Wabasha street, and on the west by Washington street. It comprised a square, each side of which was six full blocks. This plat was enlarged from time to time by "additions," until at the close of 1856 the platted area on Wabasha prairie covered a tract of ground fully two miles in extent from east to west and nearly half that distance from north to south. The principal of these addition s was never recorded as such, and is generally known as Huff's survey of the city of Winona. This survey and dedication was made in 1854, and extended from the original town plat on the east to Chute's addition on the west, a total length of seven blocks and a fraction, and covering an area considerably larger than the original plat itself. This addition does not now appear on the maps as such, and for years has been included and its blocks numbered as a part of the original town plat. The more important of the subsequent additions were Laird's addition and subdivision, immediately east of the original plat. These covered an area of about 80 acres in extent, fronting north on the river and extending some half-dozen blocks to the south. Hamilton's addition, lying east of Laird's, was the largest of any of the plats, original or additional. It comprised an area of 169 acres, extending westward beyond the macadamized road leading to Sugar-loaf Bluff, and running backward eight or ten blocks from the river. Within its limits are some of the most populous sections of the city. These, with Taylor & Chute's addition on the west, were platted and dedicated before the close of the year 1856. Beyond the limits of these additions but little building has been done, save in the Polish quarter just east of Hamilton's addition, and in the vicinity of the wagon-works just west of Chutes's addition. The latter of these settlements, in what is known as Evans' addition, is rapidly building up, and will some day be a populous portion of the city, lying, as it does, in the immediate vicinity of the manufacturing establishments recently located in west Winona.
That the county seat of Winona county was destined at no distant day to become a city of no mean proportions was very early accepted as a fact by her citizens, and preparations for investing her with corporate rights and privileges were not long delayed. A s early as November 11, 1856, the "Winona Republican," in a brief editorial, called attention to the matter of securing a city charter, and suggested the necessity of taking definite action, alleging that the movement would be heartily supported by all the members of the territorial legislature from the southern Minnesota districts. A meeting of the citizens was accordingly called for Saturday evening, January 3, 1857. The response to the call was quite general. The meeting was held in Central Hall, and organized with Edward Ely, better known as Elder Ely, in the chair. W. C. Dodge was elected secretary, the business of the hour stated, the measure of incorporation approved, and after considerable discussion as to corporate boundaries, etc., a committee was appointed to draft a charter, and report the same at an adjourned meeting to be held on the following Saturday evening. The members of that committee, three only of whom are now residents of Winona, were: G. W. Curtis, W. Newman, C. H. Berry, William Windom, M. Wheeler Sargent, John Keyes and Edward Ely. On Saturday evening, the 10th inst., the citizens met, pursuant to adjournment of previous week, to hear the report of their committee. Hon. C. H. Berry, on behalf of the committee, presented the report, which at their instance he had drafted, together with an abstract of charter. The only question upon which differences of opinion arose was as to the proper limits for the proposed incorporation. Some were in favor of quite extended corporation boundaries, other advocated a comparatively limited boundary. The report favored extending the boundaries of the city to include the causeways over the slough at the east and west ends of town, the following reasons being adduced: That, as the maintenance of good approaches to the city more nearly concerned the citizens of the corporation than those outside its limits, the control and repair of the roads over the sloughs, by which access to town was only possible, should be under the care of the city; that the vote of the county outside the city limits being in excess of that polled within the city, it would not be wise to allow the county vote, which might or might not approve the expenditures for maintaining these causeways in good repair, to control a matter so essential to the interests of the city; that as the city would certainly reap the most benefit, it was only just that she should incur the responsibility of the increased outlay; that it was a question whether the county had any right to appropriate moneys for a work so nearly sectional in its character; and that in any event the more liberal policy would be for the city to assume the burden, leaving the county authorities free to assist in bearing it if at any time they saw fit. It was also represented that by extending the corporate limits a larger proportion of property-holders whose lands would be increased in value by their nearness to a large city would be taxed to defray the city expenses. The reasons of which the above is a brief summary were approved, the report adopted, the abstract of charter commended and returned to the committee with instructions to complete the draft and submit it as a completed charter for the adoption of the citizens at a meeting to be held the following Saturday evening, January 17, 1857. This was accordingly done, and the accepted charter was forwarded ti St. Paul, where it came before the territorial legislature, passed, and the act formally incorporating the city of Winona was approved March 6 of that same year 1857, and became law immediately after its adoption.
By the provisions of this act the extreme southeastern limit of the city was established just where the western boundary of Winona township touches the south shore of the Mississippi river. From this point the boundary line of the corporation was run due west four miles, thence north two miles, thence east to the middle of the Mississippi river, thence in a southeasterly direction down the middle of the stream to a point due north of the place of beginning. The ground thus inclosed within the corporate limits of the city formed an irregular four-sided figure; its south boundary a right line four miles long, its west boundary a right line two miles long, its north boundary a right line running east about one a-half miles to the shore of the river, from which pont it followed the irregular shore line southeasterly to the west line of the Winona township. The city was divided into three wards. The first ward embracing all that portion of the city lying west of Washington street. The second ward extending eastward from Washington to Lafayette streets, and the third ward including all between Lafayette street and the city limits on the east. The wards thus established were each to constitute an electoral precinct, the judges of election for which (at the ensuing charter election) were to be appointed by the county commissioners, as was the case in all precinct elections. The charter election was ordered to be held on the first Monday in April, polls to open at twelve o'clock and close at four o'clock, and the officers to be chosen were, one mayor, one recorder, one justice of the peace, one marshal, one assessor, one attorney, one surveyor and two aldermen for each ward. The mayor, aldermen and recorder to form the city council.
Tuesday, April 7, 1857, the first charter election for the city of Winona was held, when the following vote was cast:
| OFFICE | CANDIDATE | VOTES POLLED |
|---|---|---|
| Mayor | R. D. Cone | 291 |
| ~ | M. Wheeler Sargent | 405 |
| Recorder | E. A. Gerdtzen | 331 |
| ~ | James White | 323 |
| Treasurer | J. V. Smith | 401 |
| ~ | H. B. Upman | 291 |
| Marshal | E. A. Batchelder | 293 |
| ~ | G. W. Horton | 213 |
| ~ | N. Hudson | 106 |
| ~ | P. B. Palmer | 142 |
| Attorney | H. W. Lamberton | 439 |
| ~ | D. S. Norton | 246 |
| Surveyor | L. Pettibone | 274 |
| ~ | H. B. Cozzens | 417 |
| Justice | Thomas Sompson | 414 |
| ~ | H. Day | 276 |
| Assessor: First Ward | O. M. Lord | 97 |
| ~ | C. H. Blanchard | 41 |
| Assessor: Second Ward | A. P. Foster | 107 |
| ~ | V. Simpson | 94 |
| Assessor: Third Ward | I. Hubbard | 109 |
| ~ | P. P. Hubbell | 291 |
| Alderman: First Ward | W. H. Dill | 94 |
| ~ | I. B. Andrus | 81 |
| ~ | I. D. Ford, M. D. | 58 |
| ~ | P. V. Bell | 43 |
| Alderman: Second Ward | Tim Kerk | 124 |
| ~ | G. W. Payne | 113 |
| ~ | Sam Cole | 88 |
| ~ | Geo. H. Sanborn | 80 |
| Alderman: Third Ward | J. Bolcom | 217 |
| ~ | Jacob Mowery | 205 |
| ~ | E. H. Murray | 127 |
| ~ | G. Lautenslager | 127 |
From these returns it appears that the maximum vote cast was for marshal, for which office 754 votes were polled; the vote for recorder being the minimum, 654. The average vote was about 685 to 690. The third ward vote was equal to the votes of the first and second ward in the ballot for aldermen, and led those wards in the vote for assessor, 400 votes being cast in the third ward for that office and only 339 in both the others. The usual proportion of population to voters would have given Winona at this time a census of 3,770 souls, so that the estimate of 3,000 population for the city was probably not much out of the way.
The city limits were not long unchanged. The following year, 1858, the act of incorporation was so amended as to change the city boundaries on the south and east. By this change, and a immaterial one made nine years later, the southern boundary was fixed to conform in some degree to the south shore of lake Winona, and some quarter-sections were taken off the western end of the corporation as originally bounded. By these acts about one and one-half square miles were taken from the area of the city as established by Act of March, 1857. By act of February 10, 1870, a further curtailment of a quarter of a section was made, at which time the tract in the extreme west end of the city, known as the fair-ground, was set outside the city limits, and these are the only changes made in the boundaries of the city since its incorporation. The ward changes have not been numerous. February 15, 1865, the boundary line between the second and third wards was removed two streets east of that upon which it was originally established and Market street made the division line. When the whole act of incorporation was amended, March 1, 1867, the boundary between the first and se cond wards removed one street east and Johnson street became the separating line. February 28, 1876, a radical change was made. The city was divided into four wards, and their boundaries respectively were, for the first ward, that portion of the city lying westward between the center of Washington street and the city limits; second ward, that portion lying between Washington street on the west and Walnut street on the east; third ward, that portion extending from Walnut street on the west to Vine street on the east, and the fourth ward, that portion lying withing the city limits eastward from the center of Vine street. These changes were all made by special act of Minnesota legislature and are the only ones made in the several ward boundaries to date.
Several changes, some of them quite important, have been made from time to time in the list of city officers, both as regards the nature of the office and the status of the officer. Under the original act of incorporation the elective officers of the city were: one mayor, one recorder, one treasurer, one marshal, one attorney, one surveyor, one justice of the peace, one assessor and six aldermen. Some misapprehension concerning the election of assessors must have occurred at the first charter election, as three assessors were returned, one for each ward, a thing not contemplated by the act. The term of office for aldermen and justice was fixed at two years, all other official terms one year. By the act of March 8, 1862, the number of justices was increased to two, and the recorder, though still an elective officer, was denied any vote or voice in the proceedings of the council, his duties being to keep a report of the council proceedings, to make an annual estimate in August of the current expenses for the year and of the revenue necessary to be raised therefor. A radical change in the list of elective officers was made by the act of March, 1865, which defined said officers to be a mayor, two aldermen from each ward, two justices of the peace and city treasurer. The offices to be filled by appointment of the council were: recorder, marshal, assessor, attorney and surveyor, and the first regular meeting after the charter election was designated as the time and place of appointment. All terms of office, except those of aldermen, which remained unchanged, were fixed at one year, the rule to apply to offices filled either by election or appointment. By act of 1867 the original act was so amended as to virtually constitute a new one. By the later act the officers to be chosen by the people were: mayor, two aldermen for each ward, two justices of the peace, a treasurer and an assessor. The terms of office were as before established by act of March, 1865, with the exception of justices of the peace, whose term was fixed at two years. The officers to be appointed by the council were: recorder, marshal, surveyor, attorney and street commissioner. All persons otherwise qualified to vote for county and state officers were made eligible to vote at any city election in the election district, of which at time of voting they had been for ten days resident, and were also qualified thereby to hold any city office to which they might be elected. All officers, elected and appointed, were required to take an oath of office, and bonds were to be given by the marshal and treasurer. The city justices were given exclusive jurisdiction over all cases and complaints arising under the ordinances, police regulations, laws and by-laws of the city; the powers of the council were fully set forth in extenso, and they were duly empowered to act in all matters pertaining to the peace, cleanliness and safety of the city, as also to the security and public conduct of the citizens. This "act," "virtually the one under which the city authorities now act," was declared to be of a public character and not contravened by any general law of the state conflicting with its provisions, unless so expressly stated in the enactment of such general law. By act of February, 1870, council was restrained from incurring an indebtedness in excess of $10,000 for any specific purpose without first submitting the same to the voters of the city and receiving the sanction of two-thirds of the votes cast, for and against the measure. By special act of April, 1876, aldermen were prohibited from receiving any compensation for their services, either directly or indirectly. A new departure in making up the official list of the city was taken in 1877, by authority of an act passed that spring. Under this amendment the officers to be elected were: a mayor, treasurer, recorder, assessor, attorney, marshal, street commissioner, surveyor, physician, two aldermen for each ward and two justices of the peace; the council, as heretofore, having authority to appoint such additional officers as in their judgment the interests of the city required. The term of all officers elected by the people was fixed at two years, and of those appointed by the council one year. The experiment did not prove satisfactory, and in 1879 this act was repealed by an amendment, making the officers chosen by the people to consist of mayor, treasurer, assessor, whose terms of officer were for one year; and two aldermen for each ward, and two justices, whose terms, as before, remained fixed at two years. By this amendment city justices were clothed with all the rights pertaining to justices elected under the general laws of the state, as well as the exclusive jurisdiction before given them, over all actions and complaints arising under the laws, ordinances, by-laws and police regulations of the city.
HUFF'S HOTEL
Engraving by R. N. White, Plainview, Minn.
| Years | Mayors | Recorders | Treasurers | Assessors | Marshals | Justices of Peace | Aldermen: First Ward | Aldermen: Second Ward | Aldermen: Third Ward | Aldermen: Fourth Ward | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1857-1858 | M. W. Sargent | E. A. Gerdtzen | J. V. Smith | P. P. Hubbell | E. A. Batchelder | Thomas Simpson | J. B. Andrews/ W. H. Dill | Tim Kirk/ G. W. Payne | Joseph Bolcom/ Jacob Mourry | * | |
| 1858-1859 | Wm. A. Jones | E. A. Gerdtzen | Z. H. Lake | John Keyes | Lyman H. Buck | J. B. Andrews | J. B. Andrews/ A. W. Webster | Tim Kirk/ Jacob Story | Joseph Bolcom/ C. F. Schroth | * | |
| 1859-1860 | M. K. Drew | E. A. Gerdtzen | R. A. Hurxthall | W. S. Drew | Lyman H. Buck | Warren Powers | A. W. Webster/ A. F. Hodgins | Jacob Story/ Wm. Mitchell | C. F. Schroth/ D. L. Miller | * | |
| 1860-1861 | M. K. Drew | C. F. Schroth | Z. H. Lake | H. J. Hilbert | J. P. Holtzman | Samuel Cole | A. W. Webster/ A. F. Hodgins | Wm. Mitchell/ Jacob Story | D. L. Miller/ John Lauer | * | |
| 1861-1862 | A. W. Webster | C. F. Schroth | J. J. Randall | W. S. Drew | J. P. Holtzman | Samuel Cole | A. F. Hodgins/ E. D. Williams | Jacob Story/ Sam'l Melvin | G. Lautenslager/ Daniel Evans | * | |
| 1862-1863 | A. F. Hodgins | C. F. Schroth | A. W. Webster | V. Simpson | J. P. Holtzman | Samuel Cole | E. D. Williams/ Thomas Simpson | Sam'l Melvin/ R. Jackson | Daniel Evans/ G. Lautenslager Daniel | * | |
| 1863-1864 | A. F. Hodgins | C. F. Schroth | A. W. Webster | W. S. Drew | H. B. Herrick | Samuel Cole | Thomas Simpson/ E. D. Williams | R. Jackson/ D. L. Williams | Daniel Evans/ Jacob Smith | * | |
| 1864-1865 | A. F. Hodgins | C. F. Schroth | A. W. Webster | W. S. Drew | H. B. Herrick | Warren Powers | E. D. Williams/ Thomas Simpson | D. L. Miller/ Wm. Mitchell | Jacob Smith/ Wm. Garlock | * | |
| 1865-1866 | A. F. Hodgins | C. F. Schroth | V. Simpson | W. S. Drew | David Morrill | Warren Powers | E. D. Williams/ J. J. Randall | Wm. Mitchell/ W. S. Drew | Wm. Garlock/ D. L. Miller | * | |
| 1866-1867 | R. D. Cone | C. F. Schroth | J. P. V. Dorslen | W. S. Drew | David Morrill | C. N. Wakefield | J. J. Randall/ A. B. Youmans | W. S. Drew/ Wm. Mitchell | Charles Horton/ W. H. Laird | * | |
| 1867-1868 | R. D. Cone | C. F. Schroth | J. P. V. Dorslen | John C. Laird | David Morrill | C. N. Wakefield | A. B. Youmans/ A. P. Foster | Wm. Mitchell/ J. J. Randall | W. H. Laird/ Charles Horton | * | |
| 1868-1869 | Jno. A. Mathews | C. F. Schroth | H. R. Wedel | Daniel Evans | David Morrill | C. N. Wakefield | A. P. Foster/ A. F. Hodgins | J. J. Randall/ M. Ralphe | Charles Horton/ Wm. Garlock | * | |
| 1869-1870 | Jno. A. Mathews | C. F. Schroth | H. R. Wedel | C. F. Schroth | W. H. Dill | C. N. Wakefield | A. F. Hodgins/ John Ball | M. Ralphe/ O. Wheeler | Wm. Garlock/ A. Hamilton | * | |
| 1870-1871 | Wm. S. Drew | C. F. Schroth | I. J. Cummings | Daniel Evans | W. H. Dill | H. W. Jackson | John Ball/ George Tallon | O. Wheeler/ R. D. Cone | A. Hamilton/ Wm. Garlock | * | |
| 1871-1872 | A. F. Hodgins | C. F. Schroth | I. J. Cummings | Daniel Evans | W. H. Dill | H. W. Jackson | George Tallon/ W. S. Grant | R. D. Cone/ Wm. Mitchell | Wm. Garlock/ John Robson | * | |
| 1872-1873 | A. F. Hodgins | C. F. Schroth | I. J. Cummings | Daniel Evans | Thomas Chappell | H. W. Jackson | W. S. Grant/ Charles Butler | J. L. Brink/ J. R. Hatcher | Daniel Evans/ W. H. Laird | * | |
| 1873-1874 | Jno. A. Mathews | C. F. Schroth | H. E. Curtis | Daniel Evans | W. H. Dill | H. W. Jackson | Charles Butler/ J. H. Jones | J. L. Brink/ O. Wheeler | A. Hamilton/ Daniel Evans | * | |
| 1874-1875 | A. F. Hodgins | C. F. Schroth | W. J. Whipple | Daniel Evans | J. C. Slater | J. M. Sheardown | J. H. Jones/ Charles Butler | O. Wheeler/ C. Deering | Daniel Evans/ A. Hamilton | * | |
| 1875-1876 | A. Hamilton | C. F. Schroth | W. J. Whipple | Daniel Evans | S. D. Van Gorder | J. M. Sheardown | Charles Butler/ B. J. Grimshaw | C. Deering/ J. S. Wilson | Daniel Evans/ Wm. Garlock | * | |
| 1876-1877 | A. Hamilton | C. F. Schroth | W. J. Whipple | W. S. Drew | S. D. Van Gorder | J. M. Sheardown | B. J. Grimshaw/ Daniel Leary | J. S. Wilson/ H. D. Morse | Wm. Garlock/ V. Simpson | Daniel Evans/ F. Droskowski | |
| 1877-1878 | V. Simpson | P. G. Hubbell | John Ludwig | W. S. Drew | G. W. Kidder | J. M. Sheardown | Daniel Leary/ E. A. Burrege | H. D. Morse/ J. H. Jenkins | A. Hamilton/ W. Rohweder | Daniel Evans/ F. M. Isham | |
| 1878-1879 | V. Simpson | P. G. Hubbell | John Ludwig | W. S. Drew | G. W. Kidder | G. H. Mackay | E. A. Burrage/ Wm. Noonan | J. H. Jenkins/ H. Stevens | W. Rohweder/ A. Hamilton | F. M. Isham/ J. Dotterwick | |
| 1879-1880 | V. Simpson | J. H. Jones | John Ludwig | W. S. Drew | Charles Butler | G. H. Mackay | Wm. Noonan/ K. V. Kohlman | H. Stevens/ J. H. Jenkins | A. Hamilton/ Gustav Anger | J. Dotterwink/ P. Mink | |
| 1880-1881 | A. F. Hodgins | P. G. Hubbell | W. H. Garlock | W. S. Drew | S. D. Van Gorder | Daniel Evans | K. V. Kohlman/ Wm. Noonan | J. H. Jenkins/ J. L. Brink | Gustav Anger/ John Latch | P. Mink/ J. Dotterwink | |
| 1881-1882 | H. W. Lamberton | P. G. Hubbell | W. H. Garlock | W. S. Drew | S. D. Van Gorder | Daniel Evans | Wm. Noonan/ C. H. Lamberton | J. L. Brink/ A. W. Gage | John Latch/ Wm. Garlock | J. Dotterwink/ J. Milanowski | |
| 1882-1883 | H. W. Lamberton | P. G. Hubbell | W. H. Garlock | W. S. Drew | W. W. Miller | Daniel Evans | C. H. Lamberton/ John Murray | A. W. Gage/ John Ludwig | Wm. Garlock/ H. P. Boynton | J. Milanowski/ F. Baumann, Jr. | |
| 1883-1884 | John Ludwig | P. G. Hubbell | E. D. Hulbert | W. H. Dill | W. W. Miller | Daniel Evans | John Murphy/ John Nagler | Geo. Gregory/ Geo. F. Crise | H. P. Boynton/ John B. Kirch | F. Baumann, Jr./ J. Milanowski |
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