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Book Title: THE HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876.

CITIZENS' MEETINGS.

  On the i3th day of May, A. D. 1876, there was a meeting of citizens of
Anderson county at the county hall in Garnett (commonly known as the "old
settlers' meeting"), for the purpose of taking the necessary steps to prepare,
compile and publish a full and complete history of the county from its earliest
settlement to the 4th day of July, 1876.

  At this meeting a committee of sixteen persons, selected from different parts
of the county, was appointed, and instructed to collect all matters and items of
interest in their respective localities, and report at a future meeting. The
following are the names of the gentlemen appointed: W. A. Johnson, S. Kauffman,
A. Simons, J. W. Vaughn, John Moler, B. M. Lingo, J. H. Wolken, Zar Bennett, A.
G. West, T. J. Day, M. E. Osborn, Wm. Denny, C. E. Dewey, Preston Bowen, J. Y.
Campbell, I. P. Sutton.

  This committee organized by the election of Solomon Kauffman, chairman, and
Charles E. Dewey, secretary, and adjourned to meet on the following Saturday,
May 20, to receive reports from the several members thereof.

  At the adjourned meeting of the committee, May 20, an executive committee was
appointed, consisting of W. A. Johnson, A. Simons, J. Y. Campbell, Dr. Preston
Bowen, Charles E. Dewey and Solomon Kauffman, who were instructed by the
original committee to receive the reports of members of the historical
committee, and to collect from all available sources all facts and matters of
interest necessary to form the basis of the history, to write up, compile and
prepare the same for publication, delegating to the executive committee full
authority to select from their number, or outside of the committee, a suitable
person or persons as historians to write up and prepare the same for
publication, and to publish the history in book or pamphlet form.

  The committee organized by the election of W. A. Johnson, chairman, and
Solomon Kauffman, secretary, and proceeded to appoint the necessary committees,
and to apportion the work among them.

  At a subsequent meeting of the executive committee (June 24), W. A. Johnson
was selected as the historian, to compile and write up from the material
furnished, and from the records and other sources, and complete the history, the
committee to give every assistance in their power in the collection of material
for the same.

  The manuscript being prepared and ready for publication, a meeting of the
executive committee was called (January 27, 1877), to provide for its
publication. There being no funds in the hands of the committee, the following
proposition, presented by the firm of Kauffman & Iler, was accepted:

  "That if the executive committee will turn over to Kauffman & Iler a
subscription list of 125 books, at $1.25 per copy, that they will publish 500
copies of the history, of the style heretofore agreed upon, cloth binding, and
of the manuscript prepared by W. A. Johnson, and supposed to make about 250
pages, and will sell the same at $1.25 per copy, without any further expense to
the said committee."

                W. A. JOHNSON, Chairman.
   SOLOMON KAUFFMAN, Secretary.



Additional Comments:
THE HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY,
FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876.
BY
W. A. JOHNSON,
CHAIRMAN OF HISTORICAL COMMITTEE.

PUBLISHED BY KAUFFMAN & ILER, GARNETT PLAINDEALER,
1877.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
KAUFFMAN & ILER, In the office of the Librarian of Congress,Washington, D. C.


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