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Members of Town Boards in Hamilton, 1871-187
Until Hamilton became a Borough in 1877 it was governed by two Town Boards - Hamilton West and Hamilton East. The Boards were elected each July and the five trustees elected a chairman at the first meeting of each board.
Issac Richardson Vialou, Chairman of the Hamilton West Town Board who later became Hamilton's first Mayor |
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Elected |
Left office |
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Members of Hamilton West Town Board |
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Butler, W.H. |
1875 |
1876 |
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Deegan, J. |
1875 |
1876 |
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Edgecumbe, G. |
1871 |
1872 |
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Farrell, T. |
1871 |
1873 |
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Gaudin, F. |
1874 |
1875 |
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Gaudin, F. |
1876 |
1878 |
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Gwynne, R. |
1876 |
1878 |
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Harper, J. |
1873 |
1873 |
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Hay, W, McG |
1876 |
1877 |
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Highley, J. |
1871 |
1872 |
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Hinton, J. |
1874 |
1876 |
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Hume, J. |
1876 |
1878 |
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Hunter, H. |
1871 |
1871 |
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Jone, W. |
1872 |
1874 |
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Kingsley, H.L. |
1875 |
1875 |
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Knox, J. |
1873 |
1873 |
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Knox, J. |
1874 |
1875 |
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Longbottom, J.L. |
1875 |
1876 |
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McDonald, J.K. |
1877 |
1878 |
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Martin, J. |
1873 |
1876 |
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Morris, T.W.H. |
1873 |
1875 |
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Peat, R. |
1876 |
1876 |
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Tanfield, S. |
1871 |
1872 |
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Vialou, I.R. |
1873 |
1874 |
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Vialou, I.R. |
1876 |
1878 |
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Webb, J. |
1872 |
1873 |
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Wooley, J. |
1872 |
1873 |
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Young, B. |
1871 |
1873 |
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Chairmen of Hamilton West Town Board |
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Farrell, T. |
1871 |
1873 |
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Vialou, I.R. |
1873 |
1874 |
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Gaudin, F. |
1874 |
1875 |
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Longbottom, J.L. |
1875 |
1876 |
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Hay, W. McG. |
1876 |
1877 |
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Vialou, I.R. |
1877 |
1878 |
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Members of Hamilton East Town Board |
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Coates, I. |
1871 |
1872 |
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Coates, I. |
1874 |
1875 |
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Coleman, W. |
1875 |
1877 |
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Cumming, W. |
1871 |
1877 |
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Gardiner, D. |
1877 |
1878 |
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Harris, R. |
1875 |
1877 |
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Le Quesne, P. |
1871 |
1871 |
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Le Quesne, P. |
1877 |
1878 |
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McDonald, J.K. |
1871 |
1871 |
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McDonald, J.K. |
1873 |
1874 |
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Mullions, H. |
1871 |
1874 |
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Mullions, H. |
1877 |
1878 |
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Pearson, E.J. |
1871 |
1875 |
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Potter, A. |
1874 |
1878 |
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Tippen, C. |
1872 |
1878 |
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Vincent, A. |
1872 |
1872 |
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Williamson, R. |
1871 |
1873 |
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Chairmen of Hamilton East Town Board |
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Cumming, W. |
1971 |
1877 |
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Potter, A. |
1877 |
1878 |
The list has been sourced from Astride the River : a history of Hamilton by P.J. Gibbons. Image from Hamilton 1878-1928 : commemorating the jubilee of the Hamilton Borough by E.J. Davey. | |
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