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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. II

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 305 words

After wrecking his place, the boys procured a stove and other furniture from the Tv A. N. ranch, then located on Horsehead creek ' near where Oelrichs, S. D., now stands, and otherwise assisted Angel to start in business again. Soon after, Angel secured a bartender from some distant point, and gave it out that he had hired a man with whiskers that was some gun man himself, and that any further disorder in his emporium would be summarily sat upon. The new man came and he truly was a man with whiskers and had a formidable appearance with his long red beard. Shortly after his arrival, Bill Malone, one of the wildest of the fellows, heard about the man with whiskers, who was a bad man with a gun, and came in to size him up. Malone approached the bar, looked at the purported bad man for a moment, in evident disgust, then grabbed him by the long whiskers with his right hand, pulled his gun and began shooting through them with the other. The man finally escaped with only a few whiskers, but lots of experience and departed the town forever. In 1884 Burr Shelton, who was later a local judge of Dawes county, erected a frame building and a general store in the old town. The building now stands on Egan street in the present town, and is owned by J. W. Owens. Soon after this the boys made some demand upon Mr. Shelton which was refused, and they shot up the store badly, damaging the contents, terrorizing and menacing Mr. and Mrs. Shelton, who were living in the rear of the store. Later these same fellows, having learned that Mr. Shelton was in no way to blame, became his warmest friends. The next person to erect a frame building was Dr.