Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THESE 1840 VOTERS ALL LIVED IN HAMILTON 1888 
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THESE 1840 VOTERS ALL LIVED IN HAMILTON 1888
	Narrator:  Ben Dort

     Shortly before his death 1933, Ben Dort of this city wrote out the 
following narrative for interested interviewers.  It showed how certain men 
alive in 1888 who had voted for Benjamin Harrison that year, voted back in 
1840 when Wm. Henry Harrison ran for president.  Ben Dort's father J.D. Dort 
yet alive in 1888 had voted for both Harrisons, and this fact aroused Ben's 
interest, so he went to other old men in town to find how they voted on both 
men.  J.D. Dort had voted in Wellsborough Pa.  H.W. Markham who was an early 
life insurance man here, voted for both men, for the first Harrison in 
Broadtown N.Y.  Geo. S. Putnam who ran the stock yard scales for 15 years 
voted for Ben Harrison in Newark N.J.  Henry Clark, father of Elmer E. of this 
city voted for Harrison in Willington, Conn.  E.L. Reynolds a carpenter voted 
for Harrison in East Lansing N.Y.  Judge Samuel Orr for Harrison in Youngstown 
Ohio.  William Wilmot for Harrison at Hamilton O.  William McCoy, a pioneer 
grocer for Harrison in Pittsburg (he was the grandfather of Roy McCoy 
Republican politician), Capt. H. Townsend for Harrison in New York City.  
Moses Lear (a farmer near Hamilton before the war) for Harrison at Warwich 
Pa., Rodney Glazier a farmer near Hamilton since 1868, for Harrison in Troy 
N.Y.  John Brown who had voted for J.Q. Adams, switched to Harrison in 
Tippancanoe Ind.  A.B. Nash, early poultry dealer, for Harrison in New Ashford 
Mass. altho he too had voted for Andrew Jackson.  J.W. McClelland a farmer 
here north of town before the Civil War, who had voted for John Q. Adams, in 
his earlier years, voted for William Henry Harrison in Marion Va.  He was the 
great grandfather of Paul Doll of Hamilton who still lives on the old place 
where J.W. lived.
     George Royer, father of Frank of Hamilton, voted for Harrison in Ohio.
     F.P. Low one of the important pioneers of the late 60s in Hamilton voted 
for Van Buren in the 1840 election, but later on at the Lincoln election cast 
his first Republican vote, and the Low family have ever since been Republicans.
     Otis Houghton, who came into N.Y. township this county in 1867 also voted 
for Van Buren in 1840 but changed to the Republicans with Lincoln.
     Most of these families, if not all, are still Republicans.  The list too, 
is important, for it shows where these well known families of Hamilton and 
vicinity were living in 1840.
     Interview  Before 1933.


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