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At a meeting held February IStb, 1854, the following were appointed a Committee to prepare article* of association' Rev. C. C. Beatty, Dr. John Andrews, Win. McDonald, Joshua Manly and John McCracken. A week later a form of association under an act of 18.54 wan presented and adopted. The nameof the concern was to be the Union Cemetery Association, with a capital stock of $10,000, divided into shares of $10 each, with the following incorporators: Chas.C. Beatty, James Collier, D. I*. Collier, T. 8. Henning, John Andrews, Win. McDonald,J. Wallace, Johnston Mooney, Ruel Powell, Davd McGowan, K. 8 won Is, J. B. Peters. It was ordered that the original subscribers be allowed the privilege of locating a lot in the new cemetery PI feet square for one share of stock held, 80 feet square for two shares,JO feet square for tour shares, 40 feet for six shares, and 50 for eight shares. The different. churches were also authorized to select tracts in accordance with their subscription*, A sufficient ntimber of subscriptions having been obtained, theFIRST BOARD OF TRUSTEESwas elected on May Itilh, 1854, as follows:D. McGowan, 8r., Kinsey Bwords. Jas. Collier, C. C. Beatty, Joshua Manly, Geo. W. McCook a%u John Andrews. James Collier was elected President of the Association; D. L. Co!Her, Clerk, and John 3. Patterson, Treasurer. The first installment of stock was made payable on June 1st. The Huscroft farm of fifty acres having been purchased for $6,750, it was laid out into lots, drives and walks by John D. Black, and the taste displayed in the w ork has been evidenced ever since. The ground was divided into sections, lettered alphabetically from A to R inclusive, and containing an aggregate of nearly 1,000 lots, besides individual and free ground, aud the parts taken by churches for their own special use. A subscription of 8500 was made by the County Commissioners, and a tract selected for the use of the county. Lots were also selected by the Associate Reformed (U. P.) Church, St. Paul’s, Methodist Protestant, and First and Second Presbyterian, also the .Female Seminary. By arrangement, the Presbyterian congregations afterwards transferred their lots back to the Cemetery Association, the others still retaining theirs.
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Steubenville Weekly Herald
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 17, 1881
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