MISC: 1866 Webster City Business Directory; Hamilton Co., Iowa
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF WEBSTER CITY 1866

Merchants
John Rhodes - drugs, dry-goods, groceries, boots and shoes
G. W. Crosley - dry-goods, groceries, boots and shoes
L. L. Estes - drugs, groceries and post office
K. Young - dry-goods and groceries, boots and shoes
L. L. Treat - dry- goods, groceries, boots and shoes
Fairchild & Hoffman - general hardware
W. W. Wells - gent's furnishing goods and tailoring
J. S. Bell - groceries
G. W. Bailey - groceries

Furniture
Cox and Sketchley
J. S. Kenyon

Harness Shop
W. H. Mayhew
W. Young

Blacksmiths
Howell & Cleckner
W. C. Howard
J. Fisher

Wagon Shop
E. Sackett

Shoe Shop
A. Beauchaine
David Smith
D. Hartman
J. W. Holiday

Livery Stable
Chas. Arthur

Lawyers
D. D. Chase, district judge
W. J. Covil
Miracle & Sutton
J. Skinner

Billiard, Saloon
Browning & Worthington

Physicians
H. E. Hendryx
J. R. Burgess
H. N. Crapper
I. Soule

Millinery
Miss D. Swanger
Miss M. E. Bell

Auctioneer
W. L. Church

Mills
Saw - Chas. Stoddard
Grist - S. Aldrich

Cooper Shop
James Gayer

Photographer
S. Moore

Agricultural Warehouse
O. E. Stevens

Meat Market
H. C. Hillock

This directory is taken from the Freeman of February 24, 1866.  As a further basis of comparison a market report is desirable, but none was printed, and the memory of man is too treacherous to rely upon. 

(From A History of Hamilton County Iowa, Vol. I by J. W. Lee 1912)
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