Ques. 3. Where did you live at the last November election ?-Ans. Indian Village Township. Ques. 4. Did you vote at that election ?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 5. You voted at the Nov. election held in Indian Village Township, in which B. T. Frederick and James Wilson were running for Congress, did you?—Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 6. Which one did you vote for, if either?-Ans. I believe I voted for Mr. Frederick. Ques. 7. Where were you born?-Ans. In Ireland. Ques. 8. When did you first come to America ?-Ans. In '37. Ques. 9. Where did you come to?-Ans. New York. Ques. 10. How long did you reside in New York?-Ans. I will tell you in few minutes; about ten years, I guess. Ques. 11. Where did you move to?-Ans. Canada. Ques. 12. How long did you reside in Canada ?-Ans. Four years. Ques. 13. Then where did you move?-Ans. Back to New York. Ques. 14. How long did you reside in New York, this second time?-Ans. Six years. Ques. 15. Then where did you reside?-Ans. In Ohio, from '52 to '56. Ques. 16. Then you moved where, in '56-Ans. To Iowa. Ques. 17. Tama Co. ?-Ans. No, sir. Ques. 18. Where?-Ans. Lee County. Ques. 19. How long did you live in Lee County ?-Ans. I lived in Lee Co. till '60. Ques. 29. Where did you move to then?-Ans. Tama County. Ques. 21. Were you ever naturalized?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 22. Where ?-Ans. New York State. Ques. 23. Have you your papers?-Ans. No, sir. Ques. 24. When were you naturalized?—Ans. In '52; I first voted in '52, for Franklin Pierce. Ques. 25. You voted in '52; now, will you tell me in what county you were naturalized?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 26. Where was it?-Ans. Osage County. Ques. 27. Is that what you say?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 28. What was the town, please?-Ans Oswego. Ques. 29. You say you have no naturalization papers?-Ans. No, sir; I had them when I came to this State; they got so old that they molded away. Ques. 30. In what year did you say you took your naturalization papers?—Ans. In 52. I got my full papers in '52. Ques. 31. When did you get your first ones?-Ans. I got them in '50, I think. Ques. 32. At the same place?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 33. In what court?-Ans. I can't tell that; it was so long ago. Ques. 34. You have no naturalization papers now ?-Ans. No, sir. Cross-examination: Ques. 36. You are sure you were naturalized?—Ans. Yes, sir. Redirect: Ques. 36. Have you any boys in this country?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 37. What are their names?-Ans. The oldest is Thomas, the other one is John. Ques. 38. Where do they live?-Ans. In Tama Co. Cross-examination: Ques. 39. How old were these boys when you were naturalized; that is, when you applied for your papers, how old were they then?—Ans. I didn't have but one then. JOHN CARY. STATE OF IOWA, Tama County, 88: ROBERT MONTGOMERY, being produced and sworn before Eldon Moran, notary public for Johnson County, on this 31st day of March, A. D. 1883, testifies as follows (T. Brown appearing on the part of the contestant and W. H. Stivers on the part of contestee): Where do you live?-Ans. Montour, Indian Village Township. Ques. 2. How long have you resided there?—Ans. Going on 15 years. Ques. 3. Did you vote at the last election held in Indian Village Township?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 4. At which Mr. Ben. T. Frederick and James Wilson were candidates for Congress?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 5. What ticket did you vote, Democratic, Greenback, or Republican, if either-Ans. Well, I forget; some or both. Ques. 6. Did you vote for either of these men for Congress ?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 8. Where were you born?-Ans. Canada. (Witness produces papers.) Ques. 13. Those are the only naturalization papers you have?-Ans. Yes, sir, all that is necessary. Ques. 14. Are those all that you have?-Ans. Yes, sir; that is all. STATE OF NEW YORK, St. Lawrence Co.: CANTON, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1872. I, T. H. Ferris, clerk of said court, do hereby certify that Robert B. Montgomery, in the town of Freeport, said co., this day appeared in open court, before the judges of this court, and produced a record of his declaration to become a citizen of the United States in conformity with the acts of Congress using a uniform rule of naturalization, and it having appeared to the satisfaction of the court that he had in all respects complied with the requirements with said acts of Congress to entitle him to become naturalized, and had taken the oath required by the said acts, and was by the said court duly admitted a citizen of the U. S. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed the seal of the said court and county, at Canton, this 24th day of October, 1872. T. H. FERRIS, Clerk. (Paper shows that the seal has been impressed on it at some time.) Cross-examination: Ques. 15. How old were you when you came to the U.S.?-Ans. I think I was 13. Ques. 16. And declared your intention to become a citizen at that time ? (Objection.) Ques. 17. Did your parents come with you?-Ans. No, sir. STATE OF IOWA, Tama County, 88: ROBERT B. MONTGOMERY. SANDY RIBBY, being sworn before Eldon Moran, a notary public, on this 30th day of March, testifies as follows (T. Brown appearing on the part of contestant, and W. H. Stivers appearing on the part of contestee): Ques. 1. Where do you live?-Ans. In Tama County. Ques. 2. Whereabouts?-Ans. Tama City. Ques. 3. How long have you been living in Tama City ?-Ans. Came here about 18 or 19 years ago. Ques. 4. What else do you say in that answer? How long have you been living in Tama City-Ans. About 9 years. Ques. 5. Where in Tama City have you lived? With whom?-Ans. With my father. Ques. 6. With your father in Tama City? Does your father live in Tama City now! How long ago since he resided in Tama City ?-Ans. About 13 years. Ques. 7. Where does your father reside now?—Ans. In Otter Creek Township. Ques. 9. Have you resided with your father during the last thirteen years?—Ans. No, sir. Ques. 10. How much of it?-Ans. About 9 years. Ques. 11. The last 9 years?-Ans. No, sir. Ques. 12. Where did you live during the last year?-Ans. In Tama City. Ques. 13. Did you board?-Ans. Boarded myself. Ques. 14. Where did you board?-Ans. With Mr. Come. Ques. 15. In '81 and '80 didn't you vote in Otter Creek Township?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 16. Wasn't you living with your father then?-Ans. Boarding there ; yes, sir. Ques. 17. Wasn't that your home?-Ans. No, sir. Ques. 18. In '1, when you voted in Otter Creek Township, it was your home?— Ans. No, sir; I had my washing done there. Ques. 19. When you went there didn't you go home? Didn't you call it going home?-Ans. Yes, sir; of course. Ques. 20. Then it was your home, wasn't it?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 21. Don't you do so still?-Ans. Call it my home? Ques. 22. Don't you do so still-like you did before; before you came there? Didn't you go home?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 23. What is your business?-Ans. Railroading. Ques. 24. Where were you railroading last summer?-Ans. In Keokuk County; also in Tama County. Ques. 25. What part of the year in Tama County ?-Ans. We commenced the 28th of August. Ques. 26. Quit when?-Ans. About the 12th of November, 214 miles of Gladbrook. Ques. 27. Didn't you board there during the time you was working there?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 28. Did you go from Keokuk to work on the railroad at Gladbrook ?—Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 29. Then go where ?-Ans. To Tama City. Ques. 30. What time did you go to Tama City ?-Ans. Nov. 1st. Ques. 31. What day of Nov. ?-Ans. 1st day of Nov. Ques. 32. That is after you were railroading at Gladbrook?-Ans. No, sir; I went down on a visit. Ques. 33. To visit whom?-Ans. My friends. Ques. 34. Whom?-Ans. I don't have any particular ones. Ques. 35. Whom did you go to visit?-Ans. I don't know; there are so many I would hate to name them all here. Ques. 36. Any particular place then to go?-Ans. No, sir. Ques. 37. Who did you board with ?-Ans. With Mr. Morgan. Ques. 38. Your brother-in-law-Ans. No, sir. Ques. 39. You boarded with Morgan; how long did you board with him?—Ans. About 8 or 9 days at that time. Ques. 40. Was it after election?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 41. Then where did you go?-Ans. Then I went to Cornell one day. Ques. 42. What business did you follow after election?—Ans. Railroading. Ques. 43. Where did you railroad after election; the next place?-Ans. North of Gladbrook. Ques. 44. Went back to the same place where you were railroading ?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 45. Railroaded until the middle of Nov. ?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 46. You had no particular person to visit when you came here ?-Ans. Well, no, sir. Ques. 47. Now, tell us what you came here for from Gladbrook ?—Ans. No, sir; I can't tell. Ques. 48. What did you come down here for about the 1st of Nov. 1—Ans. Is that a proper question? Ques. 49. You said you came to visit; is that it? I don't want to be too particular. Was that it, you came to visit ?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 50. Your home, then, is in Otter Creek; that is, when you go home you go to Otter Creek, where your father lives?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 51. How many years did you say you resided in Tama County -Ans. 18 or 19 years. Ques. 52. Your business for a portion of that time has been railroading in different parts of the State?-Ans. Most of the time in this county. sir. Ques. 53. Has it been your intention to make Tama County your home?-Ans. Yes, Ques. 54. Was it your home 60 days before election 1882?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 55. Was your home in Tama City 10 days before election?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 56. And you voted here at that election?-Ans. Yes, sir. Redirect: Ques. 57. Where was your home here in town, in Tama City?-Ans. I made my boarding place up here— Ques. 58. Where was your home? I don't want to know where you went to visit. (Objection; not proper redirect cross examination.) Ques. 59. Where was your home in Tama City? That is what I want to know.Ans. A single man's home is where he boards. Ques. 60. I asked you where your home was, I tell you. Where did you board ?— Ans. Where I was boarding, that is where my home was. Ques. 61. That is the way it was for several years?-Ans. No, sir; about three years. Ques. 62. Wherever you boarded, that was your home? Recross-examination: Ques. 63. Have you ever had the intention of living in Tama City permanently during that time?-Ans. Always pay taxes there. Redirect: Ques. 64. Who do you pay taxes to?-Ans. To the county treasurer. Ques. 66. Assessor there and pay taxes there?-Ans. Yes, sir. Redirect continued: Ques. 67. Did you vote at the last election in Tama City ?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 68. I mean the election in which Frederick and Wilson were running for Congress-Ans. Yes, sir; I voted for Fredrick. STATE OF IOWA, Tama County, 88: SANDY RIBBY. MICHAEL POWERS, being produced and sworn before Eldon Moran, notary public for Tama County, on this 31st day of March, A. D. 1883, testifies as follows (T. Brown appearing on part of contestant and W. H. Stivers on part of contestee): Ques. 1. Where do you live?-Ans. I live above Montour. Ques. 2. In what township?-Ans. Indian Village; I don't know what township. Ques. 3. How long have you lived where you now live?-Ans. Since '61. Ques. 4. How far from the town?-Ans. What town? Ques. 5. Any town.-Ans. About two and one-half miles from Montour. Ques. 6. What direction?-Ans. I guess northwest. Ques. 7. Northeast, is it not?-Aus. No; I guess not. Ques. 8. It is not Tama County, at least, is it?—Ans. I don't know what county it is in. Ques. 9. Do you know what State you live in?-Aus. I know I live in the State of Iowa. Ques. 10. Were you at the election last fall?-Ans. I was there, sir. Ques. 11. Where was the election, over in Montour?—Ans. I was living in Montour. Ques. 12. When?-Ans. At the time of the election. Ques. 13. Last Nov. election -Ans. I don't know what election it was. Ques. 14. Do you know of anybody who ran for office at the election you voted ?— Ans. I don't know who I voted for. Ques. 15. What ticket did you vote-Democratic, Repulican, or Greenback ?—Ans. I can't tell. Ques. 16. You never did know what you did vote, did you?-Ans. No, sir; because I could not read or write. Ques. 17. Who gave it to you?-Ans. I cannot tell that, either, who gave it to me. Ques. 20. Did you have a ticket before you got there ?—Ans. No, sir. Ques. 21. Who did you see when you got there?-Ans. I saw plenty of them. Ques. 24. Which party do you belong to what political party?-Ans. Well, I think I belong to the Democratic; I couldn't read the ticket. Ques. 25. Then you belong to the Democratic?-Ans. I did, only I don't have in my mind who I voted for. Ques. 26. You voted for a Democrat.-Aus. I think I did; but I don't know, because I could not read. Ques. 27. You don't know who he was nor his name?-Ans. No, sir, Ques. 28. You don't know the name of the man that gave you the ticket; only you supposed you voted the Democratic ticket?-Ans. That is all, sir. Ques. 28. Where were you born?-Ans. I was born in the old counntry. Ques. 29. Whereabouts, please; what old country?-Ans. In old Ireland. Ques. 30. How old were you when you came to America?-Ans. I came here in '43, and the year '55 Ques. 31. Came where in '55?-Ans. Into Halifax. Ques. 32. Where did you come to ?-Ans. To the State of Maine. Ques. 34. You are a single man, are you?—Ans. I am a single man. Ques. 35. Have you any naturalization papers?-Aus. I had them, but I lost them. Ques. 36. You have not any now?-Ans. No, sir; I lost them in the Green River. Ques. 37. How long ago?-Ans About 13 years ago. Ques. 38. Where did you get them?-Ans. got them in Connecticut at the time Buchanan was running. Ques. 39. Now, whereabouts in Connecticut, please?-Ans. In Norwich. Ques. 40. How many papers did you get out? Ans. I got two at the same time, but I lost them. Ques. 41. Lost them both?-Ans. Yes, sir; I lost all I had between this and California. Ques. 42. You never read these papers, did you?—Ans. I could not read them. Ques. 43. Did you ever read them?-Ans. I could not read them. Ques. 44. How did you know what they were?-Ans. Because I got them. STATE OF IOWA, Tama County, 88: MICHAEL POWERS. his mark. THOMAS CAREY, being produced and sworn before Eldon Moran, notary public for Johnson County, on this 30th day of March, A. D. 1883 (T. Brown appearing on the part of contestant and W. H. Stivers on the part of contestee), testifies as follows: Ques. 1. Where do you live?-Ans. In Tama County. Ques. 2. In what township?-Ans. In Indian Village. Ques. 3. How long have you lived there?-Ans. Since 1860. Ques. 4. What is your age, now, please?-Ans. About thirty-three, I guess. Ques. 5. Do you know where you were born?-Aus. In Vermont. Ques. 6. John Carey, senior, here is your father, is he?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 7. Did you vote at the last November election, in Indian Village Township, in which Mr. Frederick and Mr. Wilson were candidates for Congress?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 8. Which ticket did you vote?-Ans. For Benjamin Frederick; I always vote the Democratic ticket. THOMAS CAREY recalled: THOMAS CAREY. Ques. 1. Are you a brother of Jno. Carey ?-Ans. Both are sons of the Carey, senior, who was on the stand. Do you know where your brother voted at the election?Ans. At Montour. Ques. 2. Indian Village Township?-Ans. Yes, sir. Ques. 3. Do you know what ticket he voted?-Ans. No, sir; I don't know; I suppose he voted for Frederick. Ques. 4. Well, not what you suppose. Did you and he ever talk about it?—No, sir; I don't remember of having any talk; I never asked him; 1 suppose he would do so; that is his way of voting. (Objection; moved to strike it out.) Ques. 5. What makes you think he voted for Frederick?-Ans. Because I think he is a man of pretty good judgment. Ques. 6. Is that the only reason you have?-Ans. Yes, sir; that is the only reason I have. Ques. 7. Have you never talked with him any ?—I do not remember of talking with him any Ques. 8. You do not know anything about what his politics are?-Ans. I have heard him say he was a Democrat. Ques. 9. That would be another reason for you thinking so?-Ans. Yes, sir. Q. 11. You have always understood it so?-A. Yes, sir; always supposed so. Q. 12. Is not that another reason?-A. No, sir; I am a Democrat; I sometimes vote for Republicans. Q. 13. I will ask you if there is another reason why you think he voted for Frederick, because you have always understood that he was a Democrat?-A. Yes, sir; I suppose a Democrat would support a Democrat nominee. Q. 14. Then it is not altogether because you thought that he had good judgment?— A. No, sir. Cross-examination : Q. 15. You have no knowledge of how they probably voted?—A. No, sir. Q. 16. He has always voted Republican, though?-A. Yes, sir; I believe he has voted for county clerk and other officers. STATE OF IOWA, Tama County, 88: THOMAS CAREY (recalled). DENNIS MCCOY, being produced and sworn before me, Eldon Moran, notary public for Tama County, on this 31st day of Mar., '82, testifies as follows (T. Brown appearing on the part of contestant and W. H. Stivers on the part of contestee): Ques. 1. What has been your business for the last two years?-Ans. Farming. Ques. 2. What township?-Ans. Indian Village. Ques. 3. Where born?-Ans. York State. Ques. 4. Do you know where your father was born ?-Ans. Yes, sir. |