118	HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY
A. Strachan		H. S. Fletcher	James Stunkard
J.	S. Vancuren	G. P. Shaw	E. Willoughby
A. Bornstein		A. Faulkner	James Moran
Timothy Donnehue		Henry Hendrix	Elias Diel
G. Baker		J. T. Vanhise	George Reed
William Torbert		John Hendrix, Jr.	J. G. Ackelmire
William E. Moore		William Black	J. C. Plannett
Thomas Desart		Freeman Conklin	William Lumes
A. McDonald		Henry Conklin	Oliver Allen
Brightwell Thompson		Joseph Coleman	Calvin Reed
W. H. Cozine		J. Mintor	J. M. Southers
Jesse Lehr		B. F. Givan	William Lumher
Lewis Brackney		John Yates	Eli Hendrix
C. Herbert		George Beahan	W. H. Gifford
John Behan		Samuel Tatam	A. S. Hill
M. L. Farlow		J. Robinson	D. M. Keeler
E. Montgomery		J. Croasdale	Samuel Gonter
I.	W. Sanders	Paul Rodenberger	J. A. Michaelru
I.	M. Compton	John Moore	Peter Ehrlich
J. W. Kidd		Thomas Henderson	Jeff. Baughmann
A. J. McCullough		Henry Males	H. Michaelree

	The record reads that one hundred and twenty-two of these voted
for incorporation, and nine against. Allowing for some slight error in
this record, it is evident that the large majority of citizens were in favor
of incorporating the town.
	The town was soon afterward divided into three election districts,
the township line and Meridian street being the north and south dividing
lines. The first town election was held at the office of Isaac M. Compton,
December 18, 1866. Three trustees, a school trustee, clerk, treasurer,
assessor and marshal were the officials voted for. John G. Ackelmire,
Jacob Thomas and Thomas Desart were the first board of town trustees,
and the other officials chosen at this election were the following: Evelyn
Montgomery, school trustee; Eli Hendrix, treasurer; D. W. Bridges,
clerk; Samuel Hollingsworth, assessor and marshal.
	The changing of the name National Road to Main street was officially
prescribed in an ordinance (No. 9), passed February 21, 1867. The same
ordinance gave the name Factory street to as much of the county road
between Dick Johnson and Van Buren townships as lay in the corporate
limits. (Factory street has since become Forest avenue.) The street
between the railroad and the National Road had been known up to this
time as Middle street, but the ordinance directed that its name should
thereafter be Jackson street.
	The next ordinance (No. io), which named and defined the width of
streets in the town corporation, mentioned the following streets: Main,
Jackson, Knight, Desart, Atlantic, Sherman, Grant, Depot, Meridian,
Lincoln, Franklin, Walnut, Center, Washington, Factory, Cass, Lambert,
Front, Church, Methodist, McDonald, Morton.
	The first noteworthy street improvement in Brazil was the grading
of Main street from Franklin to Sherman, as called for in the ordinance
of June 14, 1870. The street was to be cut down and graded according
to a uniform grade, and a layer of cinders or pounded stone was to be
spread over it.