City of Delano - Presidents & Mayors

1 . 172 – John Tuckson (chairman/mayor)

2. 1873 – William McKinley

3. 1874 - Oliver Stewart

4. 1875 – J. P. Lyle

First Village of Delano election
Feb. 19, 1876
Presidents

5. 1876 – 77 – George F. Walker

6. 1878 – L. W. Rawson

7. 1879 – Judge Daniel Fish – This was the year of municipal improvement. Street lights were installed, the city well was dug, and a grade established. The city boundaries were enlarged to take in 440 acres.

8. 1880 – Henry A. Ball

9. 1881 – John Steffes – It was voted to re-plat the village. The first board of health was appointed.

10. 1882 – C. G. Roosen – It was voted to codify the ordinances and also to survey and plat the corporate limits.

11. 1883-84 – J. D. Young – Small pox was discovered and the board of health was requested to take special precautions.

12. 1885 - M. A. O’Hair (resigned April 22, 1885) – The citizens voted to re-incorporate under the General State Statute

13. 1885 – W. H. Frazee – By a ballot of 53 to 12 bonds to the amount of $1,000 were voted for the purchase of a park.

14. 1886-87 – C. F. Peters – It was voted that all places of business should be closed Sundays, except hotels, restaurants and drug stores.A vote to rebuild the wooden bridge across the Crow River was defeated.A proposition to expend $3,500 for a town hall was approved, 53 to 13.

15. 1888 – M. A. O’Hair – A July 4th celebration was held in the unfinished town hall.
A proposition to repair the wooden bridge was again rejected.
A vote to spend $4,000 to replace the wooden bridge with an iron bridge was rejected, 85 to 67.

16. 1889 – C. G. Roosen - A special election was held to issue bonds amounting to $3,000 to cover the floating debt, it was decided that no corporate tax be levied that year, and by the end of the year the iron bridge across the Crow river was completed.

17. 1890-91 – George P. Schaffer – It was decided to fence and plant trees around the park on Railroad avenue.
Additional park land was purchased.
Stage scenery was purchased to equip the town hall for theatrical performances.

18. 1892 – John Coolen

19. 1893 – C. H. Vorse – A petition was presented asking for a special election for considering the establishment of a waterworks and putting in a four and half foot dam.
A fifteen inch sewer was constructed from the Crow river on Bridge street to the southeast corner of Second street.
There was considerable agitation over the extension of Franklin avenue and Elm Street.

20. 1894-95 – William F. Kohler (resigned Sept, 16, 1895) – A special election to consider of issuing bonds for a waterworks and electric plant were approved. Both were put into operation on October 29.

21. 1895 – W. D. Young

22. 1896 – I. Gutzwillwe Jr. – It was decided to erect a hose tower and have a bell in the fire station.A drinking fountain for horses was erected on Railroad avenue.23. 1897 – J. E. Borsch

24. 1898 – T. B. Rader

25. 1899-1900 – John Lohmiller – A vote to issue $2,000 in bonds to extend the water system was defeated.

26. 1901 – Adam Horsch – Issuing bonds of $1,500 for the purpose of purchasing a public park was approved. The Rufus Fandset lots Nos, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, block 3, Sim’s Park addition to Delano, and also Mrs. Creamer’s property on the east side of the road, formerly used for ball grounds on the road leading from Delano to Rockford were purchased.

27. 1902-04 – John Lohmiller – Bonds were issued for the improvement of streets, repairs to the village hall, and to refund the park bonds.

28. 1905-06 – Adam Horsch – Two prison cells were built for the village hall.
The sewer was extend, and the park was cleaned up and platted.
The Watertown telephone service was extended to Delano.
Additional property was purchased for the village.
An ordinance was passed allowing the Delano Creamery Co. to build a creamery on part of Rockford street.

Title Becomes Mayor in 1908

29. 1907-09 – E. F. Ziebarth – It was decided to use coal instead of wood as fuel at the power house, and also to shut off the water at night.
Electric lights were extended to the west side of the river, and sewer extensions were started.

30. 1910-13 – Charles E. Parker (resigned May 19, 1913)

31. 1913 – Adam Horsch

32. 1914 – Andrew Pogreba

33. 1915-21 – L. B. Bartlett

34. 1922-23 – Oscar Hildebrandt

35. 1924-26 - L. B. Bartlett
(died April 7, 1926)

36. 1926 – A. C. Pogreba
(replaced April, 1926)

37. 1926-30 – Frank Leiter

38. 1931-32 – Bert Gilmer – Municipal Utilities built

39. 1933-38 – A. C. Pogreba

40. 1939-47 – Leonard John Rieder

41. 1948-51 – Donald O. Gilmer

42. 1952 - 55 – Robert Bergh Cedergren

43. 1956– 59 – Donald O. Gilmer

44. 1960-69 – Laurence Rieder - worked with the Army Corp. of Engineers onflood mitigation and a new bridge on Bridge Ave. across the river after the 1965 flood.