. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . f William Seymour; in the fifth wardat the new school house (now the Carroll street school), under directionof Edward Kellogg. The act also provided that the annual election be held on the firstTuesday in September, and that the trustees annually elect a freeholderresiding in the village, not one of their own number, to be president,and also to choose a treasurer, clerk, attorney, police constable, andfive fire wardens. Agreeable to the act, the first village election was held on the firstTuesday
. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . f William Seymour; in the fifth wardat the new school house (now the Carroll street school), under directionof Edward Kellogg. The act also provided that the annual election be held on the firstTuesday in September, and that the trustees annually elect a freeholderresiding in the village, not one of their own number, to be president,and also to choose a treasurer, clerk, attorney, police constable, andfive fire wardens. Agreeable to the act, the first village election was held on the firstTuesday in June and resulted as follows: Samuel Peterson, trustee,and Vincent Whitney, assessor, in the first ward; George Park, trustee,and Joseph Congdon, assessor, in the second ward; Stephen Weed,trustee, and Augustus Morgan, assessor, in the third ward; William 134 BINGHAMTON, ITS SETTLEMENT, Seymour, trustee, and William E. Abbott, assessor, in the fourth ward;William B. Doubleday, trustee, and Henry Whittlesey, assessor, in thefifth ward. It may be stated that Major Morgan declined to serve as. assessor in the third ward, and at a special election held August 4,James Munsell was chosen in his place. The first meeting of the trustees was held at Samuel Petersons innon June 4, at which time officers were appointed as follows: President, Daniel S. Dickinson; clerk, Erasmus D. Robinson; attor- GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. 135 ney, Joseph S. Bosworth; treasurer, Julius Page; police constable andcollector, Joseph Bartlett; fire wardens, Myron Merrill, George T. Ray,Levi Dimmick, Gary Murdock and Isaac Leavenworth, representingthe several wards in the order mentioned. Thus did Binghamton become a fully incorporated and organizedvillage and entered upon a career of municipal prosperity which hasendured to the present time. By the incorporation proceedings thevillage in a measure became separated from the surrounding territoryof the town of Ghenango. Its authorities were at liberty to provid
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