Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1866, FEB. 411 A. G. ENDICOTT kins, $94,548; L. W. Dinsmore, $102,000; W. V. Stone, $105,000; J. C. Evans, $107,000; P. McFarland, $109,000. The bid of J. A. McGonigle was accepted, and he gave bond for $50,000, for the performance of his contract by May 1, 1867. Feb. 20 - Weather - A beautiful aurora borealis. MARCH March 1 - Wheat promising. Peaches are a failure. March 12 - The Border Times has fifty sheriff sales. Louis Georgen is licensed as an attorney. Prof. G. W. Goodale is lecturing weekly at Weston, on various topics. The probate office at Platte City is publicly sold, and bought by Clinton Cockrill, for a bank, at $1,760. The probate records are removed to the circuit clerk's office, and J. C. Greenawalt becomes probate clerk, in the place of E. R. Owen, who goes to Oregon. AL. G. ENDICOTT. March 15 - Al. G. Endicott having died near Barry, J. B. Cox administered. Bond, $2,500. Ch. I. ANNIE W., married a Hall II. MARY A., married J. M. Adkins APRIL April 2 - Jacob Deitz is elected mayor of Weston over S. A. Gilbert, and Held is elected marshal. Carney is elected mayor of Leavenworth. President Johnson announces, by proclamation, that peace is established, and the war ended. LEWIB B. CHINN. April 11 - Lewis B. Chinn having died, J. H. Chinn adminsteres. married Mary A. Hayes, dr. of Cal. H. Hayes I. COL. JAMES H. CHINN, married Lucy Robinson, dr. of Senator A. M. Robinson and his second wife, Catherine Hughes.