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1887 History of Story County, Iowa by W. G. Allen

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NEVADA TOWNSHIP DESCRIPTION ; NEVADA MAYORS
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come, a letter from Mr. Walker put his Mr. Warner to work for the Nevada station. This removed all further doubts, and the station became a fixed historical fact for Nevada in February, 1864.

I will now name some of the principal shippers of stock and grain at Nevada, at least those that live near Nevada: N. Dunklebarger & Son, Frank Curtiss, T. W. Kelley & Brother, Will Moran, Geo. W. Sowers & Son, LaFayette McKim, George Stultz, Charles Minkler, A. M. Norris, R. J. Silliman, E. W. Lockwood & Son.

Will name some of the live and stirring farmers and stock raisers of the township: F. A. McLain, Isaac Walker, W. R. Finley, Wm. Fultz, Zacariah Shugart, B. H. Robinson, F. & J. Halley, G. W. Halley, H. O. Ayers, S. M. White, C. W. Wells, J. M. Wells, James W. Cook, G. W. Wireman, William Mathews. Golden, Finley, Delos Applegate, Mrs. J. R. Fetterhoff, Thomas WHITAKER, D. J. WHITAKER, E. F. Farrington, O. G. Ashford, Thos. Ashford, Oliver Stevenson, John Connolly, W. H. Baker, W. W. Utterback, Chas. Selby, Caleb Winger, Langdon Drake, H. Bailey, J. M. Hague, E. Bates, Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Joor, Mrs. M. A. Martin.

Those in Nevada who own and farm lands out, are, in part, H. Boynton, T. C. McCall, Col. Scott, T. E. Alderman, J. S. Frazier, N. Dunklebarger & Son, J. D. Ferner, J. C. Mitchell, R. H. Mitchell, M. C. Allen, J. Hawthorn, J. Featley, I. A. Ringham, O. Briggs, Geo. Childs, Lyman & Son, J. W. Ambrose, A. M. Norris, G. W. Halley, A. E. Hempstead, Geo. M. Barnes, J. Dillon, J. W. Cessna, etc.

LIST OF NEVADA MAYORS.

Nevada was incorporated in November, 1869. The first meeting of the Council was November 23, 1869.

First Mayor,George A. Kellogg, 1869.
Second Mayor,E. B. Potter, 1870.
Third Mayor,J. H. Talbott, 1871.
Fourth Mayor,J. H. Talbott,1872.
Fifth Mayor,D. H. McCord, 1873.
Sixth Mayor,J. L. Dana, 1874.
Seventh Mayor,J. Hawthorn, 1875.
Eighth Mayor,J. Hawthorn, 1876.
Ninth Mayor,George A, Kellogg, 1877.
Tenth Mayor,William Lockridge, 1878.
Eleventh Mayor,William Lockridge, 1879.
Twelfth Mayor,William Lockridge, 1880.
Thirteenth Mayor,E. D. Fenn, 1881.
Fourteenth Mayor,J. A. Fitchpatrick, 1882.
Fifteenth Mayor,H. M. Funson, 1883.
Sixteenth Mayor,F. D. Thompson, 1884.
Seventeenth Mayor,F. D. Thompson, 1885.
Eighteenth Mayor,William Gates, 1886.
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