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 212 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY might induce sufficient circulation to keep warmth and life in his body until he could reach his house. The first town meeting was held .May 11, 1858, with the result that officers were elected as follows: Supervisors. Oliver •Webb (chairman), James Mann, N. S. Libby; clerk, William Sackett; justices of the peace. Fletcher Hagler, James Mann; collector, J. S. Wiekham; assessor, J. T. Mitchell; overseer of the poor, Horace Barber; constables, E. P. Penney, J. R. Good. Among the early supervisors were: Oliver Webb, G. G. McCoy, J. B. Dorman (two terms), Reuben Freeman, J. T. .Mitchell, C. W. Libby, J. T. Mitchell (two terms). P. Hagler, B. W. Halliday. Among the early town clerks were William Sackett i four terms), •lames Green, S. W. Rice, L. it. Rice (four terms), H. L. Holmes. Roscoe's contribution to the Civil War ranks was as follows: R. ( '. Barnes, E. II. Drake. Norman Dickinson. Jerry B. Getman, I-]. A. Bodge, 11. L. Holmes. Iv L. Ives. A. J. Johnson, E. P. Kin- caid, John M. Lee, Josiah Lothrop, David N. Lake, Samuel Maine, Captain G. G. McCoy, Ormando Merrifield, Edmund Parker, Andrew X. Perkins, Elton < '. Parker, Joseph Pickering, Silas W. Rice, Amos G. Scofield, George S. Scofield, David B. Scofield, Joseph Townsend, G. W. Van Sydle, M. L. Webb, Captain L. A. Webb, Richard Waterman. Lars Kesphol, D. W. Abbey, Orris Fox, James Shield. Alfred Collins, AVilliam Shield, John Peterson, Hermon Perkins. Lyman -I. Ward, Marion Blacker, AVilliam H. Shadwell. Charles Cade, Orlando Freeman, Lewis Freeman, George Fox. William Hemenway, Amos B. Mitchell, Francis Sackett, Pythagoras Wilson. William Bleedon, John Buhler, Rich- ard Dressel, John Doyle, Thomas Dgvine, John Dolchy, Frederick Hamman. -John Kreubeng, Frank Kuntz. Swan P. Peterson, Jacob Rosen, John Schugg, Fred Schannberg, George Gortman and Benjamin Light. Roscoe Center was founded in 1858. At that time it was known as Sunapee, and Truman Parker was appointed post- master. The name was changed to Roscoe Center in 1863. At this point is now a small settlement, and here also is the Nor- wegian Lutheran church, a. commodious structure capable of seating 500 people. Roscoe village is also a hustling little settlement. The post- office is now discontinued and mail is received by the Zumbrota , R. F. D. No. 4. The village is thirty-two miles southwest of Red "Wing and eight miles southAvest from Zumbrota. STANTON TOWNSHIP. Stanton consists of that portion of township 112, range 18, lying in Goodhue county. It is divided into river terrace and upland, the greater portion of it being the former. There are