Part II, from HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, by R.S. Douglass, 1912. Page 267 continued.. The town was incorporated for the first time in May, 1868, and on November 28, 1903, it was incorporated as a city of the third class. The first mayor was R. ALBERT. There are now (1912) four general stores in the town and about fifty other business institutions, but no factories of any considerable importance. There are three banks and the town is supplied with electric lights. the UNION AMERICAN LEAD COMPANY owns and has operated mines in the vicinity of the town, but the company has suspended operations for some time. Among the important interests of Fredericktown are MARVIN COLLEGE, and its good system of public schools. In another place we gave an account of the founding and some history of the college, which attracts to the wtown a number of students and families who cme for the purpose of educating their children. (account not given in this transcript..MC). During the last four or five years Fredericktown has suffered in an unusual way from calamities, a number of destructive fires have swept away some of the best and most important buildings, and, too, the town has been damaged by serious floods; it is situated on the Little St. Francois river and some of the town is on gound subject to inundation. Its situation is a delightful one and few places offer a more pleasant site of residence than Fredericktown. Its population (1912) is 2, 632. It is situated on the Belmont branch of the Iron Mouontain Railroad and is now and has been for many year the county seat of Madison county. There are two weekly newspapers published in the town (1912). THE DEMOCRAT-NEWS is Democratic in politics (imagine!) and THE TRIBUNE is Republican. More in next note.. Marge