Voters of 1868
October 3rd, 2007
VOTERS OF WATSONTOWN BOROUGH IN 1868
Joseph Everitt was Assessor of Watsontown Borough in the year 1868. The certificate of his appointment was signed by John Eckman, Solomon Billman and Jacob Hunsicker, Commissioners, and J. Farnsworth, Clerk. Mr. Everitt preserved a list of voters of the town for the year 1868 with a total of 218 names divided between Landlords, Tenants, and Single Men The spellings of the names are as they appeared in the newspaper article printed in 1923.
| Landlords | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Albright | J.H. Foresman | Daniel Marsh | Charles Steckel |
| Seymour Ammons | N. Gauger | George Marshall | Charles Sterner |
| Geo. W. Baker | F. Gearhart | George C. McKee | Samuel Stover |
| W.L. Baker | Benjamin Grier | John F. Meckley | William Strickland |
| William Banghart | A.J. Guffy | E. Meltzer | Benjamin Tarry |
| M.A. Barr | B.F. Hammon | George Miller | David Teas |
| M.E. Barr | Lewis Hample | Henry Miller | David Ulrich |
| Wm. F. Berger | William Hanley | Elias Mowery | John Ulrich |
| Frederick Bluck | John S. Heffner | Henry McNulty | William Ulrich, Jr. |
| James Bly | Enos Hilliard | John Orr | Wm. Ulrich, Sr. |
| Joseph Bly | Peter Hine | Elijah Osborn | Jacob H. Wagner |
| Samuel Bond | D.C. Hogue | Joseph Ott | Sam\'l H. Walize |
| Cyrus F. Bower | Joseph Hollopeter | A. Pardee | Eli Welsh |
| Geo. W. Bowser | H.D. Hunter | J.D. Patten | James Wenk |
| George Burns | I.P. Irwin | A.A. Porter | R.M. Wertman |
| Samuel Caldwell | Abraham Johnson | Jonathan Raher | Sam\'l Wertman |
| James Campbell | J.W. Johnson | Silas Rambach | A.S. Wetmer |
| John Carry | Robert Johnson | Henry Rastetter | Augusta Whitman |
| William Cooner | T.S. Johnson | William Reed | F.S. Whitman |
| Jacob Crossley | William Kirk | Henry Reinbold | H.K. Whitman |
| Samuel Daugherty | F.H. Knight | William Ritter | James Williamson |
| William Donachy | John Koons | George Runyan | Philip Wintersteen |
| George Douty | D.S. Kramer | C. Scales | John Yagel |
| William Eckard | Jonathan Kramer | P.L. Schooley | Zach Yagel |
| Samuel Eshbach | Wilson H. Kriner | Peter Seiler | George Young |
| Enoch Everitt | D.T. Krebs | J.B. Shadel | Jos. G. Young |
| Enos Everitt | A.B. Latshaw | Peter Shaffer | John Zimmerman |
| Joseph Everitt | B.H. Leiser | James Shultz | Fogelman & Treon |
| Andrew Fisher | Jacob Leiser | C. Springer | Hollopeter & Everitt |
| Joseph Follmer | A. Lippencott | J.P. Starr | Hollopeter & Wagner |
| Tenants | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| C.O. Bachman | John Engle | Phineas Leiser | John S. Smith |
| Charles Bailor | Lewis Fagely | Jacob Mager | Stephen Sprole |
| George Baker | J.M. Follmer | Michael Mailen | B.F. Stam |
| Thos. Barr | Edward E. Foulk | R. Marsh | A.R. Stebbins |
| Wm. W. Barris | Henry Foust | Geo. Martin | A. Stull |
| Joseph Barto | Oscar Foust | Robt. McCormick | T.H. Switzer |
| John Bly | T.J. Galbraith | Isaac Messinger | S.F. Taylor |
| Joseph Bolin | Richard Garahty | Henry Miller | Lemuel Thomas |
| Geo. Bronachal | A.T. Goodman | Wm. Mitchell | Jacob Tyson |
| Minor Cady | John Goodman | Wm. Moorhead | Mathias Tyson |
| Theodore Carey | J.D. Gosh | John Mowry | John Vanfossen |
| Thomas Carl | John Humes | J.W. Muffly | T.J. Vastine |
| T.A. Clees | George Irwin | John Murphy | Geo. N. Wagner |
| Reuben Critzer | B.F. Jacoby | J.A. Patten | Ed. Waltman |
| James Cummings | N.E. Johnson | S. Patten | Noah Ware |
| Hiram Dewalt | Sam\'l Johnson | James Perry | Fleming Webster |
| L.J. Delate | Thomas Kisner | John Peterman | David Weir |
| S.C. Dixon | David Kline | John Raher | E.G. Wykoff |
| Ellis Doctor | Jacob Krisher | M. Robenson | Asa Yarnell |
| S. Dresham | Wm. Krisher | J.W. Saxton | Hiram Young |
| M.O. Eilert | Isaac LaForm | Luther Sheridan | Jas. Zettlemoyer |
| Luke Ellis | Ambrose Lamm | Mark Slack |
| Single Men | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| James Barley | Henry M. Fether | Charles Langdon | James Pittman |
| Aaron Berger | Albert Fisher | Alex Lesher | John Rambach |
| T.C. Billheimer | Joseph Foresman | Alfred Lesher | Thos. J. Robers |
| Jonas Billing | John Gotshall | John Linn | M. Rimert |
| Charles Bly | Siney Hilliard | Patrick Marony | Alex Rogers |
| William Bly | Samuel Hunt | B.P. McCormick | Davis Runyan |
| Michael Boland | J.W. Hurst | James McKee | John Shaffer |
| S.P. Burns | Sam\'l Hurst | Wm. H. Miller | Sam\'l Shannon |
| T.G. Caldwell | John Kiney | Cyrenus Murray | David J. Stewart |
| Henry Cooner | Philip Kisner | Frank A. Murray | Isaac Stryker |
| L.R. Cooner | Geo. Kissinger | D.J. Noaker | Jno. S. Wintersteen |
| Thomas Cooner | Wm. Koons | Thomas O\'Connor | C.F. Young |
| W.T. Crist | Barney Laform | S.T. Piatt | Christ Young |
| Peter Faust |
[Record & Star, June 8, 1923, pges 1, 8]
Last Modified: 3.8.09