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Submitted by Barbara Crafton Vulgamott, March 2002. pavbjv@ncn.net

BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF WEBSTER CITY 1866

Merchants–John Rhodes - drugs, dry-goods, groceries, boots and shoes
 G. W. Crosley - dry-goods, groceries, boots and shoes
 L. L. Estes - drugs, groceries and post office
 K. Young - dry-goods and groceries, boots and shoes
 L. L. Treat - dry- goods, groceries, boots and shoes
 Fairchild & Hoffman - general hardware
 W. W. Wells – gent’s furnishing goods and tailoring
 J. S. Bell – groceries
 G. W. Bailey – groceries
Furniture–Cox and Sketchley
 J. S. Kenyon
Harness Shop–W. H. Mayhew
 W. Young
Blacksmiths–Howell & Cleckner
 W. C. Howard
 J. Fisher
Wagon Shop – E. Sackett
Shoe Shop – A. Beauchaine
 David Smith
 D. Hartman
 J. W. Holiday
Livery Stable – Chas. Arthur
Lawyers –D. D. Chase, district judge
 W. J. Covil
 Miracle & Sutton
 J. Skinner
Billiard, Saloon – Browning & Worthington
Physicians – H. E. Hendryx
 J. R. Burgess
 H. N. Crapper
 I. Soule
Millinery –Miss D. Swanger
 Miss M. E. Bell
Auctioneer – W. L. Church
Mills – Saw - Chas. Stoddard; Grist – S. Aldrich
Cooper Shop – James Gayer
Photographer – S. Moore
Agricultural Warehouse – O. E. Stevens
Meat Market – H. C. Hillock

This directory is taken from the Freeman of February 24, 1866. As a further basis of comparison a market report is desirable, but none was printed, and the memory of man is too treacherous to rely upon.

(From A History of Hamilton County Iowa, Vol. I by J. W. Lee 1912)


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