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Richmond Township / Mansfield BoroughPage
1957 Mansfield Borough History Table of Contents
Submitted by Chester P. Bailey
Retyped for Tri-Counties by Diana HANCOCK Moilanen
History of Mansfield Borough 1857-1957

by George A. Retan, Ph.D.
Pictures Collected by Chester P. Bailey

Published by The Council of Mansfield Borough 1956
Copyright Mansfield Advertiser 1957

Reprinted on Tri-Counties Site by permission of Chester P. Bailey, former owner of Mansfield Advertiser
SRGP refers to ID in Joyce's database for Sullivan-Rutland (and Richmond) Genealogy Project.

Burgesses  
Name Dates SRGP
Henry Allen 1857 and 1866 68422
J. A. Holden 1858 63285
S. B. Elliott 1859 66092
Mart King 1860,1861,1864,1874,1875 31025
A. J. Ross 1862 87204
Philip Williams 1863 31302
W. D. Long 1865
J. T. Strait 1867
W. B. Middaugh 1868,1870,1871
William Hollands 1869, 1878 31438
J. W. Adams 1871 59377
J. S. Murdaugh 1873, 1874 04224
D. H. Pitts 1876, 1879, 1885 04217
C. H. Verrill 1877 86671
Enouch Blackwell 1880 08926
C. V. Elliott 1881 82641
T. H. Bailey 1882, 1883, 1886 thru 1889, 1900-03 31036
H. E. Metcalf 1884, 1890, 1891
C. S. Kingsley 1892 21935
W. D. Husted 1893 65516
Dr. J. M. Barden 1894 18264
F. E. Van Keuren 1895, 1896 03786
   
Three Year Terms  
Names Dates
S. J. Shepard 1897
R. W. Rose 1903 07153
E. H. Ross 1906 87208

Four Year Terms

Names Dates SRGP
F. A. Clark 1909 08929
A. H. Vosburg Feb. 1913 to Dec. 1918 76970
L. B. Shaw 1918 09658
Edwin Coles 1922 to Jan. 1936 21694
Everett McMurty 1936 to Oct. 1940 03877
Mott Brooks Nov. 1940 to June 1943
E. C. Russell July 1943 to 1954
Joseph Garside 1954 to 1962 86773
   
Councilmen Dates
Porter Gaylord 1857, 1858, 1869, 1870
L. H. Elliott 1857
M. Kelley 1857, 1858, 1868
J. M. Cassels 1857
H. Davis 1857, 1858, 1863
William Adams 1858, 1866
B. C. Mann 1858, 1865, 1868, 1874, 1875, 1881
D. H. Spur 1859
William Hollands 1859, 1860 , 1861, 1862, 1864, 1872
A. B. Campbell 1859, 1860
L. H. Brewster 1859
W. D. Kelley 1860
A. Young 1860, 1861
H. G. Martin 1860
John Slingerland 1861
H. H. Lawrence 1861, 1864, 1865
W. H. Allen 1861
Henry Allen 1862, 1864
J. M. Phelps 1862,1869,1870,1872,1873
Phil Williams 1862, 1874, 1875
R. P. Buttles 1862, 1867
L. A. Ridgway 1863, 1876
A. Hunt 1863, 1864, 1872, 1873
L. D. Grover 1863, 1865
C. J. Kelley 1863
A. J. Ross 1864, 1867, 1872, 1873
G. W. Kiff 1865, 1866, 1869
J. L. Kelley 1865
Abram Shuart 1866, 1871
Alvin Gaylord 1866
J. D. Smith 1866
C. V. Elliott 1867, 1876, 1883
J. S. Murdaugh 1867
J. M. Bailey 1867, 1878
P. V. Clark 1868, 1876
A. J. Webster 1868
Enoch Blackwell 1868
L. Reynolds 1869
F. L. Allen 1869, 1874, 1875
J. W. Adams 1870, 1871
C. J. Munn 1870
John A. Holden 1870
L. B. Eagle 1871
O. Newell 1871, 1889 to 1905
Homer Kingsley 1871, 1887, 1888, 1889
Mart King 1872, 1873, 1879
A. M. Pitts 1872, 1873, 1878
C. W. Brown 1873
D. H. Pitts 1874, 1875
C. S. Kingsley 1874. 1875. 1881 to 1885, 1887 to 1889
L. R. Decker 1874
Solomon Sweet 1875
F. M. Shaw 1876, 1877
W. W. Bentley 1876, 1877, 1881, 1886, 1887, 1888
M. A. Cass 1876
Freeman Gaylord 1877, 1879, 1880
Hiram Hodges 1877
D. D. Mann 1877, 1878, 1879
T. H. Bailey 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881
J. F. Howe 1878 to 1880, 1893 to 1895, 1906 to 1909
V. R. Pratt 1878
G. W. Davis 1878, 1880
Dyer Butts 1879, 1881 to 1883, 1885 to 1887
U. S. Snover 1880
H. C. Bailey 1880
D. A. Gaylord 1881 to 1883
C. L. Strait 1882
T. F. Rolison 1882, 1883
J. A. Elliott 1882, 1883
B. C. Mann 1884, 1885, 1886
Edward Doane 1884, 1885, 1886
Emory Goodrich 1884, 1885, 1886
T. M. Shaw 1884
Three Year Terms From Here
A. H. Avery 1884
T. Williams 1885
G. W. Davis 1886
J. M. Barden 1888
Frank Kohler 1888
Ira Wright 1889
J. E. Reese 1890, 1893
C. H. Horton 1890
Joseph Schusler 1891
O. T. Haight 1891
B. V. Straight 1892
C. H. Randall 1892
H. E. Metcalf 1894
O. V. Smith 1894
T. W. Judge 1895, 1907
G. L. Strait 1895
W. W. Allen 1897
Ray Longbothum 1897
Ed Passmore 1898, 1904
E. N. Bentley 1898, 1908
A. S. Reynolds 1899
Ed C. Wood 1899, 1903
J. L. Cummings 1899
A. R. Decker 1902, 1907
William McConnell 1902
G. A. Corawell 1900
L. B. Shaw 1900, 1903, 1907 (1 yr.)
J. M. Clark 1901, 1905
Delos H. Walker 1901
Reuben Curtis 1901 (1 yr.), 1905
E. H. Blackwell 1904
H. J. Ripley 1905
M. Shipbanker 1906, 1909
Frank Gillette 1907
Elmer Briggs 1908
W. D. Ramsdell 1908, 1914
S. B. McConnell 1909, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1926
J. H. Benson 1910
A. W. Kear 1910
Four Year Term From Here
F. L. Jupenlaz 1911
C. B. Sherwood 1911, 1915
H. B. Taylor 1911. 1915
S. C. Dorsett 1911
C. W. Earley 1913
J. J. Taylor 1913 (1 yr.)
Willys Avery 1915, 1920, 1924
H. B. Kingsley 1915
Homer H. Hager 1917 (3 yrs.)
G. L. Palmer 1914, 1917
F. W. Simmons 1917
Wallace Lowe 1920, 1924
Leon Baynes 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932
R. E. Cleveland 1922
R. M. Swan 1922
Frank Marvin 1924
H. G. Peterson 1926, 1930, 1934
E. C. Russell 1926, 1930, 1934, 1938
E. A. Retan 1928 (2 yrs.)
C. M. Thompson 1928, 1932
M. H. Shepard 1928, 1932
J. E. Farrer 1928, 1930, 1934
A. T. Belknap 1930 (2 yrs.)
Wade Goodall 1936
O. L. Schanbacher 1936, 1940, 1944
William Barden 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, resigned 1949
C. L. Johnson 1936, 1940
Fred Hakes 1938, 1942, 1946, 1950, 1954 to 1956
Elmer Kennedy 1938, 1942, 1946, 1950, resigned 1952
W. E. French 1940, 1944
Dana Decker 1942, 1946, 1950, 1954
Charles Hawley 1944
Raymond Austin 1948
King Rose 1948
David Evans 1948, 1952, 1956
John M. Barden 1950 to 1952
H. L. Goodall 1952, 1954
Emerson Evans 1952
J. J. Moore 1952
Ronald Sick 1952, 1956
William Branshaw 1956
William Taylor 1956, resigned June 1st
Wayne Cleveland 1956
J. B. Foreman 1956

Published On Tri-Counties Site On 12/12/2002
By Joyce M. Tice

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