The following article about Switzerland County, Indiana appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 1 Aug 1867 – Page 2, Column 1
[Additional subscribers appeared in the article the following week at the bottom of this list.]
Vevay and Moorefield Turnpike.
Enough money has been subscribed for the building of this road to make its completion beyond a doubt. The distance is about eight miles, and it is estimated that when completed it will cost about $14,000.
The citizens of this place, and farmers living along the route of the proposed road, are under obligations to Capt. Harvey Myers and Robert A. Knox for their untiring exertions in soliciting subscriptions and otherwise working for the success of the road. Mr. Myers has spent about four months time in working for it, besides spending about $50 for traveling expenses. The enterprise originated with him, and from the start he has known no such word as fail, and he will not fail.
The following are the names of persons and amounts subscribed for the building of this road:
[See paper for amounts subscribed.]
- Harvey Myers
- J. D. Griffith
- E. Purdy
- George Manford
- Henry Rodgers
- W. H. Stewart
- Charles W. Allfrey
- E. R. Portsman
- John F. Cotton
- John Protsman
- Wm. Rogers
- James W. Garner
- Robert Collins
- John M. Crandle
- James Stewart
- Robert Scott
- Andrew Thrasher
- Wm. S. Tower
- Allen W. Smith
- T. J. McKay
- A. Culver
- J. F. Gray
- John S. Muret
- James Ralston
- L. J. Woolten
- Wm. Granner
- Wm. Culbertson
- John B. Scott
- C. Manford
- J. W. Clements
- Mrs. Winslow
- Wm. C. Scott
- Robert Glenn
- Jeremiah Manford
- James Culbertson
- Perry K. Cotton
- Jacob C. Kerr
- Otis S. Waldo
- F. L. Courvoisier
- James Davies
- F. L. Grisard & Sons
- W. B. Owens
- G. W. Hathorn
- Harwood & Son
- J. C. & J. P. Teats
- G. W. Teats
- A. Peters
- M. D. Fuget
- Geo. P. Tinker
- Wm. E. Peters
- Isaac Stevens
- John S. Roberts
- S. B. Miller
- S. Shuff
- J. F. Webb
- Isaac Turner
- John Todd
- C. B. Lamson
- James Park
- John Holler
- James Whitsett
- H. A. Downey
- B. F. Smith
- W. R. Johnston
- Larkin Johnston
- Francis R. Detraz
- Harison Adams
- Tardy & Detraz
- Dr. E. R. Morerod
- John Armstrong
- Harvey Schroder
- Lewis Schroder
- Alexander Edgar
- Daniel Ple
- Kyle & Co.
- John Milton Myers
- John W. Wright
- John Dickason
- John B. Lamson
- Wm. Tilley
- Robert A. Knox
- Henry H. Hatch
- Fleming Jones
- W. N. Duncan
- Benjamin F. Siebenthal
- Fleming J. Siebenthal
- Henry Stucy
- Justi Thiebaud
- T. A. Haskell
- Thomas J. Wakefield
- Wm. Tait
- Benjamin Stoops
- Wm. Harrison Banta
- Lewis Detraz
- William Sauvine
- Samuel Porter
- Barney Farrell
- Abraham Parkinson
- W. P. Hall
- Daniel Ramseyer
- Charles O. Hastings
- Henry Sauvine
- Lewis Schroder
- Philip Rumerill, Jr.
- J. W. Adams
- David Leap
- Charles Wiseman
- Thomas Anderson
- Martin Madary
- James Shaw
- Samuel Wiseman
- J. P. Bellamy
- E. F. Bellamy
- P. Porter
- John H. Cotton
- Alva Leap
- John H. Brown
- Wm. Anderson
- Alexander McCallum
- Joseph Cowan
- William Brindley
- Samuel Adkinson
- James A. Claghorn
- Jacob Banta
- John S. Malcomson
- Morris McKay
- Mathew Brown
- F. E. Mennet
- U. P. Schenck & Sons
- James K. Pleasant & Co.
- William Hail
- Charles Thiebaud
- C. Goldenburg & Son
- J. L. Thiebaud
- Joseph Rutherford
- William G. Shaw
- James W. Rodgers
- John Armstrong
- E. A. Dumont
- Julia E. LeClerc
- F. J. Waldo
- John Gill
- A. C. Weaver
- L. W. Gordon
- O. Ormsby
- Lindenschmidt & Co.
- Johnathan Montgomery
- William Bright
- Wm. Patton
- Robert Graham
- James Anderson
- Vevay Furniture Company
Total – $10,331.00
The following article appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 8 Aug 1867 – Page 2, Column 2
In our last issue the compositor accidently omitted the following names of the following persons who have subscribed for the building of the Vevay and Moorefield Turnpike:
- Lovina J. Griffith
- Jos. T. Manford
- E. M. Scott
- Joseph Kaufman
Amount published last week – $10,331.00
Total am’t subscribed – $10,443.50