City of East Moline

 

East Moline was organized December 23,1902, and on January 17, 1003. Andrew L. Mills. Thomas J. Gorman, Albert E. Bergholtz, Frank E. Palmer, August De Scheppers, and James B. Hock were elected trustees.

Tlie present city form of government was adopted in 1907. The present city officials are: Charles Goodwin, mayor; Edward Huntiugton, city clerk; F. O. Loving, city treasurer; Charles Radden, Oscar Lundeen, Grant Fair, F, K. Schlveter and Julius Van Snathern, aldermen; J. K. Williams, chief of police; and A. F. Griffith, street commissioner. East Moline lies seven miles east of Rock Island, and four miles east of Moline. Its location on the Rock Island system, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Chicago, Burlington & Quiucy, and the Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern railway, and the Peoples' Power Company electric lines, have made it an advantageous point for manufacturing plants and also as a place of residence. This fact has been so generally recognized that many of the large concerns with headquarters at Rock Island or at Moline. have established branch plants ar East Moline, while new capital also has been interested here in the line of factories, and many of the handsomest residences in the county have been built here.

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