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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 8: Hampden County. (search)
4; in 1865, 1,266. Valuation in 1860, $456,635; in 1865, $445,900. The selectmen in 1861 were Charles W. Knox, Joseph C. Kelso, Erastus D. Ormsby; in 1862 and 1863, Charles W. Knox, Alfred S. Foote, Erastus D. Ormsby; in 1864, Charles W. Knox, Alfred S. Foote, Joseph Kelso; in 1865, Charles W. Knox, George S. Williams, Benjamin B. Eastman. The town-clerk in 1861 and 1862 was C. C. Carpenter; in 1863, 1864, and 1865, Timothy Keefe. The town-treasurer during all of these years was Silas P. Searle. The first legal town-meeting, to act upon matters relating to the war, was held on the 4th of May, 1861; at which it was voted to raise two thousand dollars to equip the volunteers from Chester, and to pay their support and the support of their families while drilling. A number of meetings were held during the war, at which money was appropriated for the payment of bounties to volunteers and State aid to their families. The returns which we have received from Chester are not so