This list of “electors” in Morgan Twp., Morgan Co., Ohio appeared in the 23 Aug. 1872 issue of the McConnelsville Herald. I’m not clear if these were “ electors” who signed a petition of some kind or if it is a list of all who were eligible to vote on this railroad issue. (I included all men listed, but only part of the text on the issue itself.) Barbara Proclamation of Election Persuant to a written request of the following taxpaying electors of Morgan Township, Morgan County, and State of Ohio: E. M. Stanberry, J. E. Hanns, F.A. Porter, R. B. Vincent, R. Stanton, E. H. Shepard, C. B. Bozman, D. H. Mortley, E. Sherwood, A. Alderman, David Mummy, Jas. K. Jones, Chas. Loughridge, J. H. Brown, Jno. Ryan, A. J. Lawrence, E. M. Kennedy, J. H. Powell, W. N. Hambleton, O. C. Ong, A. G. Pyle, Jacob Adams jr., Wm. Weeks, Lem McGrew, J. J. Stewart, C. P. Scott, C. D. Moore, Jacob Adams sen., J. K. Mayhugh, Wm. Robinson, Chas. L. Kincaid, Samuel Cochran, Samuel Browning, J. L. Matson, Atwood Tanner, G. M. Gilley, H. F. Power, J. Doudus, Wm. Adams, Jos. McVey, Jas. Bain, R. D. Johnson, J. C. Metcalf, Chas. Buchanan, Jno. Ralston, A. A. Adair, J. B. Stone, H. Spence, J. Marquart, J. C. Loughridge, A. J. Gray, H. L. True, Harry Shartle, F. B. McGrew, Geo. Decrow, F. Ryan, Wm. Willis, J. B. Farra, Enos Worrall, J. M. Wilson, Amos Brady, O. B. Nott, S. S. Frye, J. M. Gaylord, W. O. Fouts, Jas. Watkins, I. Patterson, H. L. McGrath, Jesse Seamar (or Seaman), Sohn Stitt, E. P. Dunsmoor, R. B. Moore, B. Kincaid, J. H. Wheeler, Wm. Love, T. D. Cheadle, J. Erwin, S. E. Fouts, G. W. Murry, P. B. Gilbert, W. O. Conklin, S. C. Brewster, Robt. McMurray, W. H. McCarty, D. C. Pinkerton, S. Sprague, A. Ralston, Thos. Ethel, W. W. McCarty, John Ewing, Henry Davis, A. D. Havener, Chas. Merriam, Worley Adams, G. W. White, W. F. Peairs, F. M Kahlar, W. M. Culbertson, H. R. Pinkerton, N. M. Brent, C. K. Kahler, G. W. Benjamin, Jno. Hiatt, Jno. Boone, G. W. Erwin, H. I. Jenkins, John O’Reilley, Wm. Hammond, C. E. Hall, Albert Hambleton, J. B. King, J. F. Riley, C. B. Sweetland, F. W. Wood, A. Kahler, W. P. Sprague, Jas. Hilt, Jno. Alexander, Nelson Roberts, D. S. Stalsmith, H. M. Cochran, Albert Worrall, Chas. Robertson, V. Spence, E. A. Talbott, I. Carnes, J. K. Brown, J. K. Seaman, J. F. Sonnanstine, J. Buchanan, Jas. Parr, Samuel Murray, R. Morris, H. McGrath, L. D. Reed, R. Kelly, John Triplitt, P. Sweeney, W. O. Decrow,Geo. Morrow, P. Henry, R. A. Pinkerton, J. R. Foulke, N. C. Lukens, Jno. Spurrier, N. M. McLaughlin, J. S. Adair, C. W. Cromwell, A. L. Eberlin, W. H. Allard. Wm. Holmes, John Kirby, John Young, G. E. Halliday, W. S. Fouts, A. Story, Thos. P. Nott, Goe. P. Morris, J. A. Adair, Thos. Forsythe, W. A. Sill, W. H. Blundon, C. Head, E. Dye, C. Burckholter, W. R. Kelly, M. McDaniel, D. Holbrook, J. P. Willis, G. W. Conklin, Wm. Lackey, St. Clair Harper, J. W. Kincaid, S. H. Fouts, Wm. Sherman, T. L. Simpson, G. A. Powell, Jas. Watkins jr., C. F. Shepard, E. P. Johnson, Bert McGrath The qualified electors of said township are required to meet at the Mayor’ s office in McConnelsville, in the said county, on Monday, the 23rd day of September, A.D. 1872, and then and there between the hours of six o’clock A.M. and six o’clock P.M. of said day, determine by ballot whether the said Morgan township shall build a railroad…