Daviess County

Jamesport Cornet Band Music is God’s melody, and he who is gifted with a melodious voice, or has a talent that can draw sweet strains of harmony from instruments of music has, indeed, a glorious gift, and it is impossible for a people to be all bad that are capable of appreciating this gift divine, or freely support those who are gifted or inspired by nature, with the genius of true melody. It was the love of music that brought the Jamesport cornet band into existence, and it is at this time one of the best in this part of

It was this year, 1877, and on the eventful 8th day of March, that the great organ of civilization known as the press located one of its family at Jamesport, and the same was issued that day. As a local organ the Gazette was a success. Under the talented editorship of Joe X. Wright, it has for weeks, and months, and years, sounded the praises of Jamesport and the surrounding country until the people of that live, go-a-head town have been completely astounded at the immensity of their local opportunities, wealth, culture, and refinement, and have often let sleep pass

The first meeting of the board of trustees of which a record is found occurred on the 24th of April, 1873, and at this meeting the following officers were appointed for the ensuing year: P. H. Lilly, chairman; C. E. Orcutt, clerk and collector; C. M. Hutchison, assessor; William Wineland, marshal; George H. Smith, treasurer. At the next meeting of the board of trustees, May 5, 1873, the first town ordinances were passed. The next election for town officers, etc., was on April 7th, 1874, and the following named gentlemen were elected as the board for the ensuing year; to-wit,

Jamesport is the metropolis of Jamesport township and was originally located on section twenty-seven of township sixty, range twenty-six, but owing to there being much land in that vicinity and a disposition on the part of the enterprising inhabitants to spread themselves, a portion of the town can be found on sections twenty-six and thirty-four, besides the original plat still located on twenty-seven. It was away back in ante bellum days that Jamesport was first settled. In the year 1858 it had a small gathering of settlers who concluded to build up a village, and with a store, a blacksmith-shop,

On the twenty-fourth day of December, 1880, the board of trustees drew up and passed an ordinance to submit to the legal voters of the town of Jamesport a proposition as to whether the citizens of said town should elect to become a city of the fourth class. The citizens would much have preferred to be a city of the first class, in fact their modesty had been so far overcome as to claim the title of “first city of Daviess county,” but rather than remain a town any longer, they would try the position of a fourth-class city and