CHAPTER XVII.

BRAZIL—TOWN AND CITY.

    The question of the incorporation of the town of Brazil was sub-
mitted to the qualified citizens of the proposed site on the first day of
October, 1866. The advertisement of the election had been published in
the Brazil Independent and Home Weekly, and ten copies of the notice
had also been posted. Joseph T. Liston was at that time president of
board of commissioners, under whose direction the election and the
proceedings of incorporation took place.
    On the morning designated, at nine o’clock, the legal voters began
assembling at. “the frame church on lot No. 6, Brackney’s addition,” to
the town of Brazil. Evelyn Montgomery was clerk of election. The
names of those who were qualified to vote on that day are a list of
charter citizens, which should be preserved. They were the following:
E. H. Hussey        A. W. Knight    M. V. McClure
J.  H. Britton  Charles Spears  James R. Kennedy
A. J. Kidd      C. Wagner   Asa Thomas
J.  W. Kidd J. W. Bridges   E. D. Jones
J.  C. Gifford  H. M. Atkinson  James B. Russell
W. N. McConnell     Mark Bruffee    Jeremiah Kirk
J.  W. Wilson   C. W. Reed  Jacob Puff
E. S. Hussey        G. A. Knight    John Clyne
W. S. Crafton       Albert Clyne    Thomas Osborn
E. H. Post      Uriah Stewart   J. C. Willoughby
G. W. Kress     Adam Storm  J. Hendrix, Sr.
F. W. Armstrong     S. S. Harris    J. B. Richardson
Isaac Johnson       S. Hollingsworth    Albert Huffman
J. R. Rinewalt      James Keeler    William Haggart
J. W. Butt      Asa Hadley  John Harshmann
D. H. Larr      S. E. Armstrong J. E. Brant
D. W. Bridges       Henry Yocum N. M. McClure
A. C. Hunt      W. C. Riley J. B. Allison
J. M. Bangs     W. M. Westfall  Albert Kelsey
Thomas Sarchett     John Stough F. L. Wheeler
H. Wheeler      M. Rodenberger  T. M. Robertson
Austin Elliott      F. Gardner  R. M. Hollingsworth
Junius Hunt     W. P. Richardson    Aaron Reed
Joel Earp       C. W. Clark M. 1. Reed
Joseph Haynes       Mark Parkins    A. Pilling
A. Wright       John H. Torbert David Oliver
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