{"id":60,"date":"2023-07-08T00:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T00:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahs.maripress.com\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2023-07-08T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T01:00:25","slug":"government","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/government\/","title":{"rendered":"Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CITY GOVERNMENT 1886 &#8211; 1891<\/strong>: Prior to incorporating as a city, the area that was to eventually become Tomahawk, was established by the Tomahawk Land and Boom Company in 1886 under the management of William H. Bradley.&nbsp; Dr. John D. Cutter served as president or chairman of the area with Edward Everson, Werner Wipperfurth and L. Bohn serving as his supervisors.&nbsp; Dr. Cutter would later serve four terms as mayor of the city of Tomahawk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>INCORPORATION &#8211; 1891<\/strong>: Tomahawk was incorporated as a city in 1891.&nbsp; Angus Buie was elected as the first mayor, and the first aldermen were as follows: J. C. Gilman and T. Twoomey, first ward; Morris C. Hyman and Richard Dawson, second ward; Felix Marcouillier and John Knauff, third ward; Joseph Chevrier and Frank Liberty, fourth ward.&nbsp; A. J. Olson was the first city clerk, being followed a short time later by John Shirk.&nbsp; A. H. Woodworth was the first city attorney; James O&#8217;Connell was the first chief of police, with William Dumont as night watchman; L.L. Edmonds was the first city treasurer, and John Tobin was the first assessor, resigning a short time after taking office, followed by A. Allen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY GOVERNMENT 1886 &#8211; 1891: Prior to incorporating as a city, the area that was to eventually become Tomahawk, was established by the Tomahawk Land and Boom Company in 1886 under the management of William H. Bradley.&nbsp; Dr. John D.&#8230; <a class=\"di-continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/government\/\"> Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-right-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomahawkhistoricalsoc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}