Sylvester Chandler, Wm. Breezley, Joseph Seal, J. P. Ball, J. Lee, M. D. Livingston, C. Knight, J. W. Batterson, Mr. Doty, W. B. Womack, P. H. Ream, E. F. Scott, Wm. Allen, F. Lindsey, Hugh McKee, Ole NEERNESS, Mr. Crawford, Jairus Chandler, J. C. Kinsell.
Jairus Chandler built the water-power saw-mill on the west side of Skunk River and near where the bridge is, but north of it a short distance, in 1853. The steam flouring mill, which was a good one, was built by J. Chandler and Dr. W. H. Grafton about 155. It stands a short distance southwest of the bridge at Cambridge.
The following engage some in shipping stock and grain: R. R. Paine, Robert Richardson, J. C. Lee, Moses Seal, Wm. Williams, Johnson & Co., J. Johnson of Huxley, Mr. Freed of Sheldahl Crossing, Oley Nelson, shipper of grain at Sheldahl. It appears that Lockwood & Co., of Nevada, shipped the first car-load of stock at Cambridge that was shipped on the cars about the nineteenth of January, 1882.
Stock raisers, farmers, and others of the township of energy and attention to business: Thomas Hemstock, Jesse Barker, Wm. Storm, Chas. Barker, E. Frank Scott, Anfen Anfensen, P. H. Ream, E. Cogshall, John Ware, Robert Richardson, J. Chaplin, Hugh McKee, John Jory, John Grosclose, J. C. Grosclose, Geo. Proctor, Ole NEERNESS, J. O. Johnson, Weir Weeks, Jonas and Rasmus Lewis, J. C. Lee, Wm. Wilson, H. R. Detwiler, M. D. Illingsworth, Morris Mason, J. S. Kies, John Sesker, Oliver Chamberlin, W. H. Jones, S. J. Severson, John Severson, Fred. Heleman, Thomas Larson, A. E. Larson, Oliver Hill, J. P. Wilson, B. O. Fatland, J. A. McKee, John Fatland, L. T. Wing.
The school houses are not in regular order—two miles apart. The river will not admit it. Cambridge has a very good brick school-house, two stories high. It is for high or graded schools, and they are having good schools. A good principal has much to do in giving reputation to a school.
SKUNK FLATS AND SKUNK VALLEY.
Union and Grant Townships share more of the Skunk flats than any other township in the county. I am now inclined to believe when the drift-wood is taken from the channel of the river, and when the flat lands along it are well tiled, where it will admit of it, that the Skunk valley will be among the most beautiful and productive lands we have. I believe the improvements will be such in the next twenty years that this opinion will prove correct. Washington township shares liberally of Skunk flats and of the Squaw Creek flats.
Cambridge has had eight postmasters, including the present one James B. Green, as follows:
| 1. Jairus Chandler. 2. Samuel Bossout. 3. Oliver Chamberlin. 4. A. M. Gillett. | 5. J. D. Breezley. 6. G. D. Southwick. 7. A. W. Southwick. 8. James B. Green. |