Details about the Jefferson Township, Switzerland County, Indiana Democratic Meeting of 21 March 1840 appeared in
Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat – 28 March 1840 – Page 3, Column 4.
Consult newspaper for full article.
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
Democratic Meeting.
Pursuant to notice given in the Vevay Times, a very large and respectable meeting of the Democratic Republican citizens of Jefferson township was held in the town of Jacksonville, on Saturday the 21st inst.
The meeting was organized by appointing EDWARD PATTON, President, JOHN F. DUFOUR and MARTIN R. GREEN, Vice Presidents; and ISAAC STEVENS and GEO E. PLEASANTS, Secretaries.
[List of resolutions passed at meeting]
Resolved, That fifty delegates be appointed to represent this township in said Convention [to be held at Vevay on 25 April 1840]. Whereupon the following gentlemen were appointed said delegation.
- Thomas Armstrong
- Samuel Butler
- David Dyer
- Robert Hatton
- Nathan Hadlock
- Charles H. Krutz
- James Kyle
- Hiram Froman
- Lemuel Montanye
- Henry McMakin
- William Miller
- William Protsman
- Joseph Peelman
- Percey Rous
- Mordocai Reed
- Mosbey Smith
- Philip Schenck
- Newton H Tapp
- Parker Truitt
- George Bays
- Charles Schmeidt
- Charles Goldenburg
- Charles Henderson
- Zachariah Montanye
- William Whitmore
- John C Brown
- John Boyd
- Constant Golay
- Jeremiah Thomas
- William Jones
- Sylvanus S. Kingsley
- Jonathan Livings
- Isaac H Matts
- Samuel McClintick
- David Miller
- David McCormic
- Samuel Protsman
- George E. Pleasants
- Thomas Rayl
- Joseph Smith
- Ulysses P. Schenck
- Philip Bettens, jr.
- Charles Thiebaud
- Silas Wooley
- Joseph Waltz
- Bemjamin Cole
- John Gray
- Josiah M. Doan
- John Gaines
- Zadig Rous.