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was being made to dislodge him (Brunson). He knew too that Carpenter could have saved him if he had seen fit to do so. He had been a warm supporter of Carpenter's for four years and knew him personally. He felt that it would have been courteous, just and right if the congressman had first written to him on the subject. He became thoroughly convinced that Carpenter was having too soft a job at Washington, that he did not realize the value of his friends, that he cared more for McCoy's democratic influence than he did for such a republican as he (Brunson) was, and that the congressman deserved to be humiliated in defeat at the next congressional convention.
Brunson started out looking for sore spots that had been caused in the district by Carpenter's postoffice appointments during the preceding three or four years. He easily found them and soon had quite an opposition arrayed against the congressman. Wherever he discovered smoldering embers of dissension he fanned them into a flame. When the congressional campaign came on in 1882 he displayed great activity, not only in this county but in others in the district, in endeavoring to have the county conventions send anti-Carpenter delegates to the congressional convention. He managed to secure four of the seven delegates from this county to oppose Carpenter's nomination. These four were J. B. Jones, C. N. Oliver, F. M. Taylor and A. D. Clarke. The three that stood for Carpenter were J. H. Hawkins, Geo. W. Hanna and J. E. Stacy. Quite a number of others from the county also attended the convention, which was held in August at Webster City. Carpenter found other troubles staring him in the face besides those which had originated in this county. Since his last election several districts had been changed in form and he had been cut out of the ninth and placed in the new tenth, which had been made up of portions of the old sixth and ninth. This change brought him opposition which he other- wise would not have had.
At the caucuses held at the Willson house the evening before the conven- tion each faction voted nearly all night for a choice candidate to down the other. The anti-Carpenter forces voted for Glass, Benson, Nagle, Holmes and Scott, till the latter had a majority of all the ballots. The Carpenter forces, in a room by themselves, decided to vote for anyone who could down the opposition. Before that caucus ended it was evident that Carpenter could not be nominated. A prominent citizen of this county, who slept with him at the hotel that night, has often remarked that "if a man ever sweat blood Carpenter did that night." At the convention next day a lawyer from Eldora, favorable to Carpenter, was elected chairman. The first ballot showed Col. John Scott to have received seventeen more votes than enough to nominate. The convention went wild with shrieks and yells and great disorder was in evidence. Although Scott had received the nomination the chairman sat like a marble statue and refused to so announce the result. During the suspense Dolliver of the Fort Dodge delega- tion jumped over the heads of several delegations and jerking the coattails of some of them said, "For Heaven's sake change your votes to Major Holmes and do it now." Delegations began rapidly changing their votes and in a few minutes the chairman declared Holmes nominated, amid loud demonstrations of both approval and disgust. The situation was a most peculiar one for both factions had been defeated, while at the same time each had scored a victory.
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Following the nomination the Kossuth county citizens present saw one of the most pathetic scenes they ever witnessed at a convention. There stood Con- gressman Carpenter humiliated and his countenance white as marble; and there stood the venerable Col. John Scott, the old hero of the Thirty-second Iowa, who had faced the cannon's mouth in actual service, but now cut to the very heart's core and his face showing the most intense agony. Major Holmes was trembling like a leaf while trying to be jubilant over his nomination for he realized the forced conditions under which the convention had made him its choice.
The democrats being in the minority in the county have never developed any startling events during their political campaigns. They agree on their candi- dates without any friction, and generally poll their full party vote as a result. They have often elected their candidates, mostly because of factional strife among the republicans, but sometimes because they had better or more popular candidates for the places to be filled. The party is always taken into considera- tion by every republican candidate, nowithstanding the great difference in numbers between the parties.
Kossuth had never had the honor of having any of her citizens occupy seats in the cabinet or halls of congress at Washington. Phil C. Hanna, whose home was about as much in Kossuth as in any other county, has been in the consular service for more than twenty years, and is at present stationed at Monterey, Mexico, where he is consul general. Harold Quarton, an Algona boy, is deputy counsul general at Berlin, Germany. No others have been chosen for this line of service. So far as state officials are concerned, only one has been chosen from the county to have an office at the state house. Arthur R. Corey, being secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, is ranked as a state officer. He was chosen from Wesley in 1904 statistician for the State Bureau of Labor, and in 1908 was made assistant secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. In the fall of 1910, upon the resignation of John C. Simpson, Mr. Corey was made acting sec- retary, and then two years later was chosen secretary in fact. On the board of agriculture two of our citizens have served a couple of terms each-S. S. Ses- sions and J. W. Wadsworth. Lewis H. Smith was for twelve years a member of the state board directing the control of the Independence Hospital for the Insane, and for eight of those years he was the president of the board.
Candidates in this county desiring to represent the district in the Iowa house of representatives had to consult the voters in other counties prior to 1886. In that year the twenty-first general assembly set Kossuth off in a district by herself. Under that law and regulation A. D. Clarke was elected in 1887 and C. L. Lund in 1880. When John G. Smith campaigned for the position in 1891 he had to at- tend the convention at Britt to receive his nomination, because the Legislature in 1890 had yoked Hancock with Kossuth in the district. That was one of the times when this county had her sister on the east at her mercy on account of having the greater number of votes in the convention. The district was in this form in 1893 when S. S. Sessions was nominated. The legislature in 1894 cast away Hancock and restored the district to comprise Kossuth alone, a form that since that time has not been changed. Fourteen citizens of the county have served as members of the lower house. They were representative men and had the
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ability to perform the duties required of them by their office. The voters in choos- ing them did not confine themselves to any one trade or profession. Blackford was a miller and farmer; Wilson, a lumberman and grain dealer; Spencer, a retired merchant and postmaster; Clarke and Lund were dealers in real estate and operated farms; Smith was a retired merchant; Sessions and Mayne were the only lawyers ever elected; Farley was engaged in the hardware trade; Cowles was interested in real estate, government mail routes and banking; Hanna was a banker and land magnate; Holmes was a Congregational minister, and Hutchins a civil engineer and farmer. It is not remembered that any of them proved traitors or deceived their constituents. They worked in line with the principles they advocated while soliciting votes for the position. The only one ever charged with a dereliction of duty was Lund, who was either in bed asleep or in a condition unfit for duty when the vote was taken pertaining to the making of the normal school at Algona, a state institution. It was an unfortunate circumstance that the one representing Kossuth county in the legislature was off duty at the critical moment when he was the most needed.
TABULATED ELECTION RECORD
CONGRESSMEN
The following are the names of the congressmen who have represented the district of which Kossuth county was or is a part. The first on the list represented the north half of the state at a period so early that this county had not been established :
Shepherd Leffler, Dubuque, democrat, farmer, 1845 to 1851 ; Lincoln Clark, Dubuque, democrat, lawyer, 1851 to 1853; John P. Cook, Davenport, democrat, lawyer, 1853 to 1855; James Thorington, Davenport, republican, lawyer, 1855 to 1857; Timothy Davis, Dubuque, American party, lawyer, 1857 to 1859;William Vandever, Dubuque, republican, lawyer, 1859 to 1863; Ashel W. Hubbard, Sioux City, republican, lawyer, 1863 to 1869; Charles Pomeroy, Fort Dodge, republican, farmer, 1869 to 1871; Jackson Orr, Boone, republican, merchant, 1871 to 1875; Addison Oliver, Onawa, republican, lawyer, 1875 to 1879; Cyrus C. Carpenter, Fort Dodge, republican, lawyer, 1879 to 1883; Adoniram J. Holmes, Boone, re- publican, lawyer, 1883 to 1889; Jonathan P. Dolliver, Fort Dodge, republican, lawyer, 1889 to Dec., 1900; James P. Conner, Denison, republican, lawyer, from last date to 1909; Frank P. Woods, Estherville, republican, banker, 1909 to -.
STATE SENATORS
The following named persons have had the honor of representing the district, of which this county was or is a part, in the upper house of the state legislature:
J. T. Atkins, Decorah, 13th district, elected 1856; John F. Duncombe, Fort Dodge, 32d, elected 1859; George W. Basset, Cedar Falls, 43d, elected 1863; Theodore Hawley, Fort Dodge, 46th, elected 1867; E. A. Howland, 46th, elected 1871 ; Lemuel Dwelle, Forest City, 46th, elected 1875; E. J. Harts- horn, Emmetsburg, 49th, elected 1879; Charles C. Chubb, Algona, 47th, elected 1883; A. B. Funk, Spirit Lake, 47th, elected 1887, 1891, 1895; E. W. Bachman, Vol. 11-23
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West Bend, 47th, elected 1899; George Kinney, Curlew, 47th, elected 1903; Leslie E. Francis, Spirit Lake, 47th, elected 1908, 1912.
REPRESENTATIVES
The various districts of which this county has formed a part have been repre- sented in the lower house of the Legislature by the following named persons who were elected respectively in the years herewith presented:
Walter C. Wilson, Webster City, 6th, 1856; C. C. Carpenter, Fort Dodge, 13th, 1857 ; J. E. Blackford, Algona, 61st, 1859, 56th, 1861 ; Edward McKnight, Dakota City, 58th, 1863; Lemuel Dwelle, Forest City, 58th, 1865; C. W. Tenney, Mason City, 59th, 1867 ; H. G. Day, Estherville, 66th, 1869; Robert Struthers, Pocahontas county, 67th, 1871 ; David Secor, Forest City, 69th, 1873; H. H. Bush, Garner, 69th, 1875 ; J. J. Wilson, Algona, 76th, 1877 ; A. D. Bicknell, Humboldt, 76th, 1879; J. J. Wilson, Algona, 76th, 1881 ; T. W. Harrison, Emmetsburg, 84th, 1883; R. H. Spencer, Algona, 84th, 1885; A. D. Clarke, Algona, 84th, 1887; C. L. Lund, Algona, 84th, 1889; John G. Smith, Algona, 83rd, 1891 ; S. S. Sessions, Algona, 83rd, 1893; Samuel Mayne, Bancroft, 83rd, 1895; J. M. Farley, Whittemore, 83rd, 1897; Gardner Cowles, Algona, 83rd, 1899, 1901 ; George W. Hanna, LuVerne, 83rd, 1903; Otis H. Holmes, Algona, 85th, 1906, 1908; Clayton B. Hutchins, Algona, 85th, 1910, 1912.
LIST OF COUNTY OFFICERS (EXCEPT SUPERVISORS)
August, 1855. Asa C. Call, county judge ; Robert Cogley, clerk ; J. W. Moore, treasurer and recorder ; Lewis H. Smith, surveyor.
April 7, 1856. G. W. Hand, school fund commissioner ; Eber Stone, prose- cuting attorney ; Francis Brown, coroner.
August 4, 1856. J. E. Stacy, clerk; Charles Osgood, prosecuting attorney ; Alexander Brown, coroner.
April, 1857. H. F. Watson, sheriff ; J. P. Sharp, drainage commissioner ; Joseph Thompson, coroner.
August, 1857. Lewis H. Smith, county judge; H. F. Watson, treasurer and recorder ; O. W. Robinson, sheriff ; W. H. Ingham, surveyor; Luther Bullis coro- ner ; W. B. Moore, school fund commissioner.
April, 1858. Rev. Chauncey Taylor, superintendent.
October 12, 1858. J. E. Stacy, clerk; Kinsey Carlon, coroner; A. F. Wil- loughby, surveyor.
October 11, 1859. J. E. Stacy, county judge; L. L. Treat, treasurer and re- corder ; Oliver Benschoter, sheriff ; J. R. Armstrong, superintendent ; H. C. Kel- logg, drainage commissioner ; W. L. Miller, surveyor ; Luther Bullis, coroner.
November 6, 1860. Franklin McCoy, clerk ; Lewis H. Smith, surveyor ; A. B. Mason, coroner.
October 8, 1861. D. S. McComb, county judge; J. E. Stacy, treasurer and recorder ; Horace Schenck, drainage commissioner; C. Taylor, superintendent ; Oliver Benschoter, sheriff; John Summers, coroner; Lewis H. Smith, surveyor. October 14, 1862. C. Taylor, county judge; James L. Paine, clerk.
October 13, 1863. Luther Rist, county judge; J. E. Stacy, treasurer and
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recorder ; O. Benschoter, sheriff ; M. D. Blanchard, superintendent; Jason Dun- ton, surveyor; Luther Bullis, coroner ; Horace Schenck, drainage commissioner.
November 8, 1864. James L. Paine, clerk; Jason Dunton, surveyor; J. E. Stacy, recorder.
October 10, 1865. Luther Rist, county judge; J. E. Stacy, treasurer ; Samuel Reed, sheriff ; Lewis H. Smith, surveyor; C. Taylor, superintendent; Asa C. Call, coroner; Kinsey Carlon, drainage commissioner.
October 9, 1866. Lewis H. Smith, county judge; J. L. Paine, clerk ; Harvey M. Taft, recorder ; O. F. Hale, surveyor.
October 8, 1867. Lewis H. Smith, county judge; J. E. Stacy, treasurer ; John M. Pinkerton, sheriff ; John Reed, superintendent; Henry Durant, surveyor.
November 3, 1868. A. E. Wheelock, clerk; H. M. Taft, recorder ; W. H. Ingham, surveyor.
October 14, 1869. J. E. Blackford, treasurer; A. E. Wheelock, auditor ; J. M. Pinkerton, sheriff ; A. W. Osborne, superintendent; J. B. Jones, surveyor ; L. A. Sheetz, coroner.
October 11, 1870. A. E. Wheelock, clerk; H. M. Taft, recorder.
October 10, 1871. M. W. Stough, treasurer ; A. E. Wheelock, auditor ; J. M. Pinkerton, sheriff ; M. Helen Wooster, superintendent; J. B. Jones, surveyor ; L. A. Sheetz, coroner.
November 5, 1872. A. E. Wheelock, clerk; A. M. Horton, recorder.
October 20, 1873. M. W. Stough, treasurer ; H. S. Vaughn, auditor ; J. M. Pinkerton, sheriff; A. A. Brunson, superintendent; A. D. Clarke, surveyor; L. A. Sheetz, coroner.
October 13, 1874. John Wallace, clerk; A. M. Horton, recorder.
October 12, 1875. V. H. Stough, auditor; M. D. Blanchard, treasurer ; J. M. Pinkerton, sheriff ; A. A. Brunson, superintendent ; H. C. McCoy, coroner. November 13, 1876. John Wallace, clerk; John Reed, recorder.
October 9, 1877. V. H. Stough, auditor ; M. D. Blanchard, treasurer ; J. M. Pinkerton, sheriff; A. A. Crose, superintendent; Dr. S. G. A. Read, coroner ; J. B. Jones, surveyor.
October 8, 1878. N. B. Benham, clerk; John Reed, recorder.
October 20, 1879. R. W. McGetchie, auditor ; Sylvester S. Rist, treasurer ;
J. M. Pinkerton, sheriff ; A. A. Crose, superintendent ; C. B. Hutchins, surveyor ; L. K. Garfield, coroner,
November 2, 1880. N. B. Benham, clerk; John Reed, recorder.
October 11, 1881. S. S. Rist, treasurer ; R. W. McGetchie, auditor ; D. A.
Haggard, sheriff; J. J. Wilkinson, superintendent; L. K. Garfield, coroner ; D. P. Mayer, surveyor.
November 7, 1882. N. B. Benham, clerk; John Reed, recorder.
October 9, 1883. C. B. Hutchins, auditor; S. S. Rist, treasurer; D. A. Haggard, sheriff; J. J. Wilkinson, superintendent; O. F. Hale, surveyor ; A. Richmond, coroner.
November 10, 1884. C. D. Creed, recorder; N. B. Benham, clerk.
November 8, 1885. D. Rice, treasurer; M. Stephens, sheriff ; B. F. Reed, superintendent ; C. B. Hutchins, auditor; O. F. Hale, surveyor ; B. G. Forbush, coroner.
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November 2, 1886. C. D. Creed, recorder; N. B. Benham, clerk; R. J. Danson, attorney.
November 8. 1887. D. Rice, treasurer; M. Stephens, sheriff ; B. F. Reed, superintendent ; C. B. Hutchins, auditor; Horace Mann, surveyor; Dr. L. K. Garfield, coroner.
November 12, 1888. C. D. Creed, recorder; George E. Marble, clerk ; R. J. Danson, attorney.
November 5, 1889 T. H. Lantry, treasurer; M. Stephens, sheriff ; Bertha Carey, superintendent; J. B. Hofius, auditor ; Horace Mann, surveyor; L. K. Garfield, coroner.
November 4. 1890. L. C. Smith, recorder ; A. A. Brunson, clerk ; W. L. Jos- lyn, attorney.
November 4, 1891. T. H. Lantry, treasurer; J. G. Graham, sheriff; B. F. Reed, superintendent : C. A. Tellier, surveyor; Dr. L. A. Sheetz, coroner.
November 8, 1892. M. F. Randall, recorder; B. F. Crose, clerk; C. M. Doxsee, auditor ; J. C. Raymond, attorney.
November 7, 1893. R. H. Spencer, treasurer ; C. C. Samson, sheriff ; B. F. Reed, superintendent ; C. A. Tellier, surveyor ; Dr. W. E. H. Morse, coroner.
November 6, 1894. M. F. Randall, recorder ; B. F. Crose, clerk; F. D. Calk- ins, auditor ; J. C. Raymond, attorney.
November 5, 1895. R. H. Spencer, treasurer ; C. C. Samson, sheriff ; B. F. Reed, superintendent ; C. A. Tellier, surveyor ; W. E. H. Morse, coroner.
November 3, 1896. M. F. Randall, recorder; B. F. Crose, clerk; F. D. Calkins, auditor ; J. C. Raymond, attorney.
November 2, 1897. L. C. Smith, treasurer ; S. P. Christensen, sheriff ; Frank Van Erdewyk, superintendent; C. A. Tellier, surveyor; W. E. H. Morse, coroner.
November 8, 1898. C. F. Lathrop, recorder ; J. B. Carr, clerk ; M. P. Weaver, auditor; C. A. Cohenour, attorney.
November 7, 1899. J. H. Ward, treasurer ; S. P. Christensen, sheriff ; F. H. Slagle, superintendent ; A. J. Lilly, surveyor ; W. T. Peters,, coroner.
November 6, 1900. C. F. Lathrop, recorder; J. B. Carr, clerk; M. P. Weaver, auditor ; C. A. Cohenour, attorney.
November 5, 1901. J. H. Ward, treasurer ; W. E. McDonald, sheriff ; F. H. Slagle, superintendent ; A. J. Lilly, surveyor ; Dr. W. T. Peters, coroner.
November 4, 1902. L. E. Potter, auditor ; W. C. Dewel, clerk; J. J. Bishoff, recorder ; T. P. Harrington, attorney.
November 9, 1903. M. F. Randall, treasurer; W. E. McDonald, sheriff ; C. H. Belknapp, superintendent ; A. J. Lilly, surveyor; C. W. Packard, coroner.
November 8, 1904. L. E. Potter, auditor ; W. C. Dewel, clerk ; J. J. Bishoff, recorder ; T. P. Harrington, attorney.
November 6, 1906 (The first biennial election). A. L. Anderson, auditor ; W. C. Dewel, clerk; W. A. Wright, treasurer; C. X. Nicoulin, recorder ; L. J. Dickinson, attorney; J. E. Lillie, sheriff ; Sid J. Backus, superintendent ; A. J. Lilly, surveyor; Dr. T. S. Waud, coroner.
November 3. 1908. A. L. Anderson, auditor ; O. J. Stephenson, clerk ; W. A. Wright, treasurer; C. X. Nicoulin, recorder; L. J. Dickinson, attorney; J. E.
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Lillie, sheriff ; Sid J. Backus, superintendent ; C. E. Chubb, surveyor ; T. S. Waud, coroner.
November 8, 1910. B. E. Norton, auditor ; Fred Anderson, treasurer ; O. J. Stephenson, clerk; G. A. Brunson, sheriff ; Frank Henderson, recorder ; E. J. Van Ness, attorney ; S. J. Backus, superintendent; C. E. Chubb, surveyor ; E. H. Reaser, coroner.
November 5, 1912. B. E. Norton, auditor; Fred Anderson, treasurer ; O. J. Stephenson, clerk; G. A. Brunson, sheriff; Mrs. W. F. Laidley, recorder ; E. J. Van Ness, attorney; William Shirley, superintendent; W. E. Laird, coroner. (Office of county surveyor abolished.)
Resident Judges. County-Asa C. Call, 1855; Lewis H. Smith, 1857; J. E. Stacy, 1859; D. S. McComb, 1861 ; Chauncey Taylor, 1862; Luther Rist, 1863, 1865; Lewis H. Smith, 1866, 1867.
Circuit. J. N. Weaver, 1876, 1880.
District. William B. Quarton, 1894, 1898, 1902.
Treasurer and Recorders. J. W. Moore, 1855; H. F. Watson, 1857; L. L. Treat, 1859; J. E. Stacy, 1861, 1863.
Treasurers. J. E. Stacy, 1865, 1867; J. E. Blackford, 1869; M. W. Stough, 1871, 1873 : M. D. Blanchard, 1875, 1877; S. S. Rist, 1879, 1881, 1883; D. Rice, 1885, 1887 ; T. H. Lantry, 1889, 1891; R. H. Spencer, 1893, 1895; L. C. Smith, 1897; J. H. Ward, 1899, 1901 ; M. F. Randall, 1903; W. A. Wright, 1906, 1908; Fred Anderson, 1910, 1912.
Recorders. J. E. Stacy, 1864; H. M. Taft, 1866, 1868, 1870; A. M. Horton, 1872, 1874; John Reed, 1876, 1878, 1880, 1882; C. D. Creed, 1884, 1886, 1888; L. C. Smith, 1890; M. F. Randall, 1892, 1894, 1896; C. F. Lathrop, 1898, .1900; J. J. Bishoff, 1902, 1904; C. X. Nicoulin, 1906, 1908; Frank Henderson, 1910; Mrs. W. F. Laidley, 1912.
Clerks. Robt. Cogley, 1855; J. E. Stacy, 1856, 1858; F. McCoy, 1860; J. L. Paine, 1862, 1864, 1866; A. E. Wheelock, 1868, 1870, 1872; John Wallace, 1874, 1876; N. B. Benham, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886; George E. Marble, 1888; A. A. Brunson, 1890; B. F. Crose, 1892, 1894, 1896; J. B. Carr, 1898, 1900; W. C. Dewel, 1902, 1904, 1906; O. J. Stephenson, 1908, 1910, (1912, tied with C. H. Worster but won on the draw.)
Sheriffs. H. F. Watson, April, 1857; O. W. Robinson, August, 1857; O. Benschoter, 1859, 1861, 1863; Samuel Reed, 1865; J. M. Pinkerton, 1867, 1869, 1871, 1873, 1875, 1877, 1879; D. A. Haggard, 1881, 1883; M. Stephens, 1885, 1887, 1889; J. G. Graham, 1891; C. C. Samson, 1893, 1895; S. P. Christensen, 1897, 1899; W. E. McDonald, 1901, 1903; J. E. Lillie, 1906, 1908; G. A. Brun- son, 1910, 1912.
School Fund Commissioners. G. W. Hand, 1856; W. B. Moore, 1857.
Superintendents. C. Taylor, 1858; J. R. Armstrong, 1859; C. Taylor, 1861 ; M. D. Blanchard, 1863; C. Taylor, 1865; John Reed, 1867; A. W. Osborne, 1869; M. Helen Wooster, 1871; A. A. Brunson, 1873, 1875; A. A. Crose, 1877, 1879; J. J. Wilkinson, 1881, 1883; B. F. Reed, 1885, 1887; Bertha Carey, 1889; B. F. Reed, 1891, 1893, 1895; Frank Van Erdewyk, 1897; F. H. Slagle, 1899,
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1901 ; C. H. Belknapp, 1903; Sid J. Backus, 1906, 1908, 1910; William Shirley, 1912.
Auditors. A. E. Wheelock, 1869, 1871; H. S. Vaughn, 1873; V. H. Stough, 1875, 1877; R. W. McGetchie, 1879, 1881 ; C. B. Hutchins, 1883, 1885, 1887 ; J. B. Hofius, 1889; C. M. Doxsee, 1892; F. D. Calkins, 1894, 1896; M. P. Wea- ver, 1898, 1900; L. E. Potter, 1902, 1904; A. L. Anderson, 1906, 1908; B. E. Norton, 1910, 1912.
Prosecuting Attorneys. Eber Stone, April, 1856; Charles Osgood, August, 1856.
County Attorneys. R. J. Danson, 1886, 1888; W. L. Joslyn, 1890; J. C. Ray- mond, 1892, 1894, 1896; C. A. Cohenour, 1898, 1900; T. P. Harrington, 1902, 1904; L. J. Dickinson, 1906, 1908; E. J. Van Ness, 1910, 1912.
Surveyors. Lewis H. Smith, 1855; W. H. Ingham, 1857; A. F. Willoughby, 1858; William L. Miller, 1859; Lewis H. Smith, 1860, 1861; Jason Dunton, 1863, 1864; Lewis H. Smith, 1865; O. F. Hale, 1866; Henry Durant, 1867; W. H. Ingham, 1868; J. B. Jones, 1869, 1871 ; A. D. Clarke, 1873; C. B. Hutchins, 1875; J. B. Jones, 1877; C. B. Hutchins, 1879; D. P. Mayer, 1881 ; O. F. Hale, 1883, 1885; Horace Mann, 1887, 1889; C. A. Tellier, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897; A. J. Lilly, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1906; Charles E. Chubb, 1908, 1910.
Coroners. Francis Brown, April, 1856; Alex Brown, August, 1856; Joseph Thompson, April, 1857; Luther Bullis, August, 1857; K. Carlon, 1858; L. Bullis, 1859; A. B. Mason, 1860; John Summers, 1861 ; L. Bullis, 1863; Asa C. Call, 1865; L. A. Sheetz, 1869, 1871, 1873; H. C. McCoy, 1875; S. G. A. Read, 1877; L. K. Garfield, 1879, 1881; A. Richmond, 1883; B. G. Forbush, 1885; L. K. Garfield, 1887, 1889; L. A. Sheetz, 1891; W. E. H. Morse, 1893, 1895, 1897; W. T. Peters, 1899, 1901 ; C. W. Packard, 1903; T. S. Waud, 1906, 1908; E. H. Reaser, 1910; W. E. Laird, 1912.
Drainage Commissioners. Joseph P. Sharp, 1857; H. C. Kellogg, 1859; Horace Schenck, 1861, 1863; Kinsey Carlon, 1865.
LIST OF COUNTY SUPERVISORS WITH DATES OF ELECTION
BY TOWNSHIPS
Nov. 6. 1860. Ambrose A. Call, Algona; J. R. Armstrong, Irvington ; M. C. Lathrop, Cresco,
Oct. 8, 1861. Ambrose A. Call, Algona; J. R. Armstrong, Irvington ; Abia- ther Hull, Cresco.
Oct. 14, 1862. Ben Clark, Cresco.
Oct. 13, 1863. D. W. King, Algona; Addison Fisher, Irvington.
Nov. 8, 1864. Christian Hackman, Cresco.
Oct. 9, 1866. Ben Clark, Cresco.
Oct. 8, 1867. Abram Hill, Algona; A. Fisher, Irvington.
Nov. 8, 1868. G. W. Olmsted, Cresco.
Oct. 14. 1869. D. Rice, Algona; Albe Fife, Irvington; L. K. Garfield, Greenwood; O. F. Hale, Cresco.
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Oct. 11, 1870. D. H. Hutchins, C. C. Chubb, D. Rice. Oct. 10, 1871. D. Rice. Nov. 5, 1872. R. I. Brayton.
FIVE AT LARGE
Oct. 14, 1873. Marcellus Taylor, Leonard Ayers, H. F. Watson.
Oct. 13, 1874. D. Rice.
Oct. 12, 1875. Philip Dorweiler, R. I. Brayton.
Nov. 7, 1876. M. L. Bush, Horace Schenck.
Oct. 9, 1877. E. S. Streater.
Oct. 8, 1878. Philip Dorweiler, A. Rutherford.
Oct. 14, 1879. C. D. Pettibone, Isaac Sweigard.
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