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OREGON.
This was first called Long Creek precinct, and in January, '44, the precinct became a part of Crawford township, but in '47 it was detached and organized and called Oregon. One version is, J. L. L .. Terry was talking much about go- ing to Oregon, as Jowa was not near "west." The two other trustees asked him for a name, and as Oregon was eternally running in his head, he said "Ore- gon," as automatically as if he were a phonograph. But W. R. Jeffrey says it happened thus, as his father Asahel told it : Long Creek precinct petitioned the judge for another voting place, and two of the three trustees suggested "Oregon," but Terry, the third one, demurred, when they said "you have long been talking about going to Oregon, a long way off, and it will cost a lot ; you can save all expense and bother by staying here and still be living in Oregon." That rather tickled his funny bone, and so the name stuck. Mr. Terry came to Ainsworth in '44. He was justice of the peace, and he got the claim that the dream city of Astoria was on, a city fashioned out of the imagination, though it was laid out in '37.
Wm. and John Marsden came in '41, also A. Jeffrey, W. H. Jenkins, Thos. and Woodford Marr, Isaac Whitsol. Thomas Tucker came earlier, though no date is given so far as I can find. He had a small mill on Crooked creek, that he sold to Whitsol. Ralph Stafford did not come till 1846.
Ainsworth was laid out in '58 by D. H. Ainsworth, who owned land near the present station, and had a pull with the Rock Island men.
Dr. B. Parkinson once represented the county in the legislature, while living there.
As late as '56 there was hardly a tree, few fences and no hedges and but a trace of fruit trees in that township, just clean prairie spotted with the brilliant fires of flowers, lying under the sun and moon and stars. All the farmers raised wheat and corn, and hauled grists to Coppock or Riverside.
Some of the notable men were John M. Stone, father of more railroad and postal boys than any man since Adam, Colthurst, Pearson, Jesse, John and Cal .. J. M. Stewart, the Marrs, Gobles, Swifts, McConnells, Jeffreys, Sands, Woodburns, Hardings, Rowans, Beards, Wickhams, Utterbacks, Por- ters.
One of John Stone's sons, Warren Sanford Stone, is Grand Chief of the Order of Locomotive Engineers.
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The civil township got its name from the congressional, of which it forms a part. As there was no timber, there were no improvements before '50,
MR AND MRS. WILLIAM MOORE
MR. AND MRS. JOHN MATHER Came to county about 1840
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though a few claims had been made earlier under circumstances very likely peculiar. Thus Charles Patterson of Maryland had made a claim on section 23, in '39, and Mr. Vine on section 24 in '40. James Bartlenson and W. S. Hamilton, a few years later, took out the first prairie claims.
The township was organized in '56, trustees David M. Brooks, John S. Melvin and Samuel Mathers; James H. Sargent, clerk; James Gardner, assessor ; W. S. Hamilton, justice of the peace.
The first wedding was that of Wm. Thompson and Jane Patterson in '51. John Eyestone, justice of the peace, tying the knot ; first birth, Charles Stewart, in '48; first death, a son of John Batterson ; burial in James Batter- son's orchard, in '60.
The township has one peculiarity -- no town or village in it, no store, no post-office-just pure country, where every prospect pleases and not even man is vile. The inhabitants in '75 numbered nine hundred and fourteen.
The shipping points are West Chester, Keota, Nira, Wellman. Really, it is the best purely agricultural country in the county, unless Jackson contests the claim.
Robert Fisher became county treasurer. The noted men, besides those named already, are David R. Munro, Richard Fisher, the Romines, Statlers, Tallmans, Daytons, Gregories, Singmasters, Ralstons, Stoutners, Hitch- cocks, Greens, Flemings, Gardners, Mayers.
WASHINGTON.
The civil township is mainly composed of the congressional township number 75, range 7. On the south it includes part of 74, range 7, on the west part of 75, range 8, and on the southwest a bit of 75, range 7 is at- tached to Franklin and a bit to Marion, Crooked creek making a sierra of the boundary.
Washington township's boundaries were defined in January, '44, but Washington precinct had been fixed in May, '39, both of said boundaries being given elsewhere. The township is now much smaller than the original precinct and some larger than the township made in '44. The northeast half of the township is a level prairie, the soil rich, hardly a bit of waste land, and no other thirty thousand acres in the world can raise more corn and grass. But the early settlers shied, as there was not a whisker of forest, only a slight down or fuzz of hazel bushes, thick as hair on a dog. The settler thought that one hundred and sixty acre farms were "impossible" without an eighty of timber.
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But when the county seat was located at Washington in '39, settlers sat up and took notice, and in a short time all the lands within five miles of the city were taken up.
The city includes the first town plot, phuis eleven additions, a cluster of grapes. The county commissioner work dates April 11, '44 ; October 27, '55. division of out-lot by S. C. Corbin ; November 6, '55, by James Dawson : March 20, '56. by J. H. Wilson, Wm. Sinsabaugh, A. P. Becker, Peter Boyle ; March 22, '56, by Joseph Keck ; April 5, '56, division of out-lot 6 and part of 7, by Wm. Barnes ; April 19, '56, by A. N. Miller ; April 25, '56, by George W. Thompson, Sr. ; May 14, '56, by J. H. Wilson, A. N. Miller, R. B. Mc Mil- lan ; June 10, '56. by A. L. Burris ; July 10. '56, division out-lots 9 and 10 of Dawson's addition by David Crandall : October 13, '56, division of out-lot 9 by Dr. Rousseau ; November 10, '56, by A. T. Burris ; March 7, '57, division east half out-lot 11 of Davidson's addition, by Wm. McGaughey ; April 4, '57, by J. C. Conger ; May 6, '57, by John Jackson and Wm. A. Stiles ; October 19, '57, division of west half out-lot 11 of Dawson's adlition, by S. M. Cox ; August 23, '59, by N. Everson.
From 1857 to '60 something was doing ; the city grew fast. The Rock Island railroad or the M. and M., came in, in '58; this was the trading and shipping point for people fifty to sixty miles south and west ; the receipts of stock and grains, etc., were enormous, to be shipped east ; each wagon that came in, loaded to the guards, took back groceries, dry goods, hardware, boots and shoes ; business houses multiplied ; stores were thronged nearly all night, after the men had unloaded. This kept up till the railroad pushed on west and southwest ; and we were fools enough to raise money to extend it, thus killing the goose that had for so long laid golden eggs in our pockets. We largely lost that infinite retail trade o' nights, and stock and grain went right on east and did not halt here long enough for our merchants and millers to take toll of them. Washington lost her boom and bulge. The foolish virgins sold both their oil and their lamps.
The town was built around a central square or park-an old, immemor- ially old, English municipal plan, an enclosed commons being the lungs of the place. In that inclosure the curious student can read more than a thousand years of history.
The story of our incorporation is queer. The first heat was made in '52. An election in the court house, May 29, authorized incorporation. and D. L. Parker, W. H. Jenkins and Samuel Miller were chosen to draw up a charter. and they filed it with the county judge. It was adopted in the election of July 10, but for some cause, not stated, it was revoked, and we were in the old hole. The next trial was in '55, when these officers were chosen : Mayor. A.
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THE FIRST TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE IN WASHINGTON, IOWA Built by John Jackson, an early surveyor and sheriff
LOG CABIN BUILT IN THE '40S BY JOHN ROWAN Still standing near Ainsworth
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J. Disney ; recorder, J. M. Ferguson ; marshall, John H. Bacon ; aldermen, first ward, Jos. Keck and Nort Chipman ; second ward, Hiram Wallingford and WV. Perry Organ. The first ward was all west of the square, and the second all east of it. In 1856 there were about one thousand two hundred people here. The building in '55 and '56 was astonishing; the brick blocks were nearly all erected in that golden age. Folks fairly tumbled in here. In '57 the legislature passed a law incorporating Washington, and the law had to be published in an Iowa city paper. A copy got in here on a Sunday, the day before an election must adopt or reject it, and the Press, always wicked, got out an extra, that cracked the holy day into pieces, for the information of voters. It was carried, one hundred and twenty-seven for, two against. Only two knockers was a hopeful average. The officers elected were:
Mayor. S. P. Young ; recorder, A. R. Wickersham ; treasurer, S. M. Cox ; assessor. J. H. Wilson ; marshal, J. R. Easton ; aldermen-first ward, Andrew Kendall, E. Ross, M. C. Kilgore ; second ward, R. H. Marsh, Geo. C. Ander- son, W. P. Organ. But-botheration ! the district court held that the election notice was insufficient and illegal, hence the charter was null and void.
The third heat for incorporation set in September 17, '58, the limits to be one and a half miles square from the center of the original plot. It, too, failed, and the final spurt came in the winter of '63-4, a petition signed by one hundred and ninety-three voters asking for it. It was heard April 4, '64, and on September 29, these, officers were duly elected, and the agony was over : Mayor, Ralph Dewey ; recorder, L. F. Sherman ; trustees, James Daw- son, Dr. A. W. Chilcote, V. W. Andrus, Jos. R. Lewis, W. Wilson, Sr. This stood the test.
Prior to '79, the city was detached, and Washington township has ever since been known as "the Widow." Beautiful in her weeds.
On May 20, '57, the Press said we have a population of near two thousand, five churches and two more under way, four taverns, nine dry goods stores, two of clothing, two hardware, four blacksmith shops, three stove and tinware stores, two drug and one book stores, seven groceries, a bakery, millinery, sash and door shop, two boot and shoe, three furniture, three cabinet shops, boiler factory with foundry and machine shop, flouring mill, carding and full- ing, two tailors, eight to ten ministers (rather indefinite), six or seven lawyers, eight doctors. Invested in dry goods, seventy-five thousand dollars. and sales just double ; twenty thousand dollars in groceries, sales double, and so on. But what did those fellows tell the assessor ? some fairy tale? The Methodists had put up a brick church, the Associate Reforms a nicer one and had Wash- ington College building up to second story, there was a two-story brick for a
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school, and the Methodists dedicated their church June 28, ai ! raised two thousand dollars backsheesh in payment of it.
To recur to the personnel of the town: One of the early comers was Baalam Anderson, of Virginia, a tanner, in 1840, and in '41, several noted men came, as Wm. Corbin, of Kentucky, a soldier in the Black Hawk war ; Norman Everson, a teacher and law student fresh from Kentucky, resumed teaching here ; 'Squire B. P. Baldwin, James Lemon, R. B. McMillan, Wm. Benson, S. B. Coulter, Andrew Spillard. In '42, Moses Curry, who helped lay the foundation of the first church here ; Daniel Yockey, a red-hot abolitionist and conductor on the underground, who soon went to Brighton and carried on the lumber business. In '43, Joseph Keck, the first cabinet maker, drifting into banking later, the several Chilcote families, Henry Parr, John and Thomas Vincent, Wm. Robertson, and Robert Allen who set up in the old cemetery the first tombstone, to the memory of R. R. Walker, mer- chant. In '44, Basel Williams, deputy sheriff in the time of murderer McCanlly, the first Cain in the county ; Samuel Conner, who, happily, is still with us, past eighty years of age, a carpenter whose handiwork is on many an old building -he worked on the Seceder church, on coming here, and in 1860 worked on the old elevator that stood till a few years ago on the site of Whiting's elevator, both of them going aloft in chariots of fire-James Dawson built the original one at a cost of eight thousand dollars. The Seceder church was built by Samuel H. Joy. In '45, Robert McConnell came, and Clark Alex- ander, and his widow married James McKee, and John L. Kilgore, a famous conductor on the subway.
The community had a picnic feeling for every new family or single man that arrived; the people wanted co-operation and numbers, and as each reinforcement came along, all looked upon the stranger, made warmly wel- come, with as much interest, and quite the same sort of interest, that a church in a revival looks upon a sinner who comes forward to accept a new leader. It was the era of good feeling, all were hospitable, helpful, charitable ; it was the reign of pure democracy ; one as good as another, no one stuck up and putting on a haughty manner; there was no selfish passion to divide the colony : there was no desire for office until after 1846, for there was no pay in office-holding, and no special honor, and for a fact until after that year there was not a single "politic" in the county.
By 1846 Iowa had become a sovereign state, and in that decade, 1836- 1846, the population grew to about three thousand five hundred. And churches had been organized, school houses built, mills erected, a railroad and a tele- graph realized, some manufacturing being possible, and Washington was a good market for settlers still farther west.
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COUNTY OFFICES AND FINANCES.
As stated, the first election was held in August, '39, and it was not a bit tinctured with politics. It merely recognized the necessity of organization.
Hitherto, the pioneers keenly felt the need of co-operation, lience their democratic spirit and the habit of hospitality ; one as good as another, none better than another ; no caste, no personal distinction. But by degrees, not very pronounced at first, because, for one thing, office-holding was not then remunerative, men began to wish to be "set apart," detached, marked as officers. Human nature is a queer, vain, weak thing ; we are "pore critters ;" we "feel our oats" when office-bearing, whether there is a cent of pay in it. or a pot of gold. It "differentiates" a person to be "elect." So this tape-worm of office-holding got into many a pioneer brain, and set up toxins in the blood. The distinction of whig, democrat, or whatnot, lively in the old eastern or southern home, woke up in men's breasts out here just as snakes come out of hibernation when spring suns get hot. However, the worm did not gnaw seriously until 1846. Nor was its appetite for office lusty, since the pay was so small. The officer had to eke out a living by farming or mechanical work. As a sample of salaries, the tax-collector in '40, '41, '42, got for three years but one hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty cents, and in '43-4 the treasurer's annual salary was one hundred dollars. Nevertheless, by '46 party lines began to be drawn closely. The county was usually non- democratic, that is, whig or republican. Naturally so, too. When Missouri and Iowa were settled, slavery was a vital question. Men of slave-holding proclivities or sympathies would naturally drift into Missouri, while Iowa got a preponderance of freedom-loving settlers.
County Officers .- The record of elections for the first ten years is hope- lessly lost. In '40, James Dawson and David Bunker were chosen commis- sioners and S. P. Teeple representative. Before that, Louisa and Washing- ton counties had been a representative district, and as Louisa was the more populous, she dominated. They also composed a senatorial district, and Judge Francis Springer held the office ten years, and was succeeded by Norman
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Everson for one term. He then declined office, publishing in the Press a card. refusing to be a candidate for mayor, tho' in after years he was mayor sev- eral times.
The county official directory should appear in this history.
1851.
County judge, Enoch Ross ; recorder. W. H. Jenkins ; sheriff, W. Perry Organ : coroner, R. H. Marsh : surveyor, Marcus Hull.
1852.
Representatives, H. H. Willson and David Bunker ; clerk, Robert Kin- kade : prosecuting attorney, David L. Parker.
1853-
Sheriff, W. P. Organ; recorder and treasurer, W. H. Jenkins ; coroner, W. B. Bolding ; surveyor, Daniel Coryell.
1854.
Representative, Samuel A. Russell ; clerk, Albert Allen ; prosecuting attor- ney. A. H. Patterson.
1855.
County judge, John T. Burris ; recorder and treasurer, Samuel M. Cox ; sheriff. W. P. Organ ; surveyor. D. Coryell ; coroner. A. J. Disney.
1856.
Representative. W. B. Lewis ; clerk, Albert Allen ; prosecuting attorney, Joseph R. Lewis.
1857.
Treasurer and recorder, S. M. Cox ; county judge, S. P. Young ; sheriff, Hiranı Wallingford ; coroner, R. H. Marsh ; surveyor, D. Coryell.
1858.
Clerk, Ralph Dewey ; for stock and tax, April railroad election, one thou- sand four hundred and seventy-one : against, eight hundred and eighty-three.
1859.
Representatives, Matthew Moorhead, Robert Glasgow; judge, S. P. Young ; treasurer and recorder, S. G. Owen ; sheriff, James R. Easton ; super- intendent of schools, James McKee.
1860.
Clerk. R. Dewey ; Lincoln electors, one thousand seven hundred and twen- ty-six ; Douglas ditto, one thousand and fifty-seven; Breckenridge ditto, twenty ; Bell, fifty-seven.
1861.
Representatives, T. H. Stanton, John W. Quinn ; judge, S. P. Young ; recorder and treasurer, S. G. Owen ; sheriff, J. R. Easton ; superintendent of schools, James McKee.
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1862.
Clerk, R. Dewey.
1863.
Judge, J. F. Brown ; recorder and treasurer, S. G. Owen ; sheriff, Samuel E. Hawthorn.
1864.
Clerk, C. T. Jones ; recorder, W. R. Jeffrey ; Lincoln electors, one thou- sand six hundred and sixty-three ; Mcclellan, nine hundred and thirty-seven.
I865.
Representatives, G. G. Bennett, H. M. Holden; judge, Samuel Bigger ; treasurer, R. Glasgow ; sheriff, S. E. Hawthorn ; superintendent of schools, Charles L. Thompson.
1866.
Clerk, C. T. Jones ; recorder, W. R. Jeffrey.
1867.
Representatives, J. D. Miles, M. Goodspeed ; judge, S. Bigger ; treasurer, R. Glasgow ; sheriff, A. Bunker ; superintendent of schools, Isaiah G. Moore.
1868.
Clerk, C. T. Jones ; recorder, Thomas S. Rowan; Grant electors, two thousand three hundred and fourteen ; Seymour, one thousand three hundred and twenty-three.
1869.
Representatives, A. Conner, J. D. Miles ; auditor, Ralph Dewey ; treasurer, R. Glasgow ; sheriff, A. Bunker ; superintendent, I. G. Moore.
1870.
Clerk, C. T. Jones ; recorder, Tom Rowan ; superintendent, E. R. Eldridge ; supervisors. John A. Henderson, J. M. Glasgow, Geo. L. Reed ; for poor farm, one thousand and eighty-seven ; against, one thousand one hundred and fifty.
1871.
Representatives, M. Goodspeed, Charles H. Wilson ; auditor, John A. Young; treasurer, R. Glasgow ; sheriff, A. Bunker ; superintendent, E. R. Eldridge ; supervisor, John M. Stone.
1872.
Clerk, C. T. Jones ; recorder, T. S. Rowan ; supervisor, John A. Hender- son ; Grant electors, two thousand one hundred and forty ; Greeley, one thou- sand two hundred and twenty ; O'Connor, fourteen.
1873.
Representatives, B. F. Brown, E. F. Brockway ; treasurer, John W. An- derson ; auditor, A. S. Bailey ; sheriff, A. M. Bosworth ; supervisor, Walter
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McKinnie; superintendent, Clara Harris; for poor house and farm, two thousand two hundred and seventy-eight ; against, three hundred and twenty- nine.
1874.
Clerk, James A. Cunningham : recorder, T. S. Rowan ; superintendent, M. Goodspeed.
1875.
Representatives, George T. Auld, Wm. Said ; auditor, David J. Palmer ; treasurer, Robert Fisher ; sheriff, A. Bunker ; superintendent, Mary M. Jer- man ; supervisor, J. A. Henderson.
1876.
Clerk, J. A. Cunningham ; recorder, B. F. Warfel ; supervisor, W. O. Wallace ; Hayes electors, two thousand four hundred and sixty-four ; Tilden, one thousand five hundred and eleven ; Cooper, two hundred and thirty.
1877.
Representative. B. Parkinson ; auditor, D. J. Palmer ; treasurer, R. Fisher ; sheriff. Tom E. Johnson : supervisor, S. E. Woodford ; superintendent, N. J. Springer.
1878.
Clerk, J. A. Cunningham ; recorder, B. F. Warfel ; supervisor, Robert T. McCall.
1879.
Representative, Abram Pearson ; auditor, W. J. Eyestone : treasurer, John A. Henderson : sheriff, T. E. Johnson ; supervisor, David G. Letts : superin- tendent, N. J. Springer.
1880.
Clerk. S. A. White ; recorder, Andrew Kendall ; supervisor, Cyrus Bush. 1881.
Representative, A. Pearson ; auditor, W. J. Eyestone ; treasurer, J. A. Henderson ; sheriff. Marion O'Loughlin ; superintendent, Nette Rousseau ; surveyor, W. J. Livingston ; coroner. Dr. H. Cushman ; supervisor, Nathan Littler.
1882.
Clerk, S. A. White: recorder. A. Kendall; supervisor, D. G. Letts ; surveyor, D. C. Kyle : coroner, Dr. J. D. Miles. Prohibitory constitutional amendment, Yes, two thousand two hundred and one; No, one thousand six hundred and seventy-nine.
1883.
Representative, John P. Huskins ; treasurer, George M. Groendycke ; audi- tor, D. J. Eichelberger ; sheriff, M. O'Loughlin ; superintendent, Belle Kil-
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gore ; surveyor, Joseph Dudley ; coroner, J. C. Boice ; supervisor, John Hicks. 1884.
Circuit judge, W. R. Lewis ; clerk, Ellery N. Foster ; recorder. John W. Morton ; supervisor, W. J. Eyestone ; supervisor to fill vacancy, Cyrus Bush ; court house and tax, Yes, two thousand three hundred and nineteen ; No, one thousand three hundred and fifty-three ; for jail and tax, two thousand three hundred and seventy-two ; against, one thousand two hundred and ninety-two.
1885.
Representative, B. F. Tipton ; auditor, D. J. Eichelberger ; treasurer, Frank Critz ; sheriff, M. H. Sweet ; superintendent, Belle Kilgore ; supervisor, D. W Ott ; coroner, Dr. J. C. Boice ; surveyor, D. M. Shearer.
1886.
Clerk. E. N. Foster ; recorder, J. W. Morton ; supervisor, Uriah Smith ; county attorney. C. J. Wilson.
1887.
Representative, B. F. Tipton ; auditor, John. M. Lytle ; treasurer, F. Critz ; sheriff, M. H. Sweet ; superintendent, Mary A. Tate ; supervisor, G. Gregory ; coroner, Dr. T. G. Roberts ; surveyor, D. M. Shearer ; court house tax, No.
1888.
County attorney, C. J. Wilson ; clerk, S. W. Neal ; recorder, W. P. Moot- hart ; supervisor, D. W. Ott.
1889.
Representative, Samuel C. Gardner ; auditor, J. M. Lytle ; treasurer, A. J. Dawson ; sheriff, Jolin W. Teeter ; superintendent, M. A. Tate ; supervisor, joseph M. Huston ; supervisor to fill vacancy, Wm. Rownd; coroner, Dr. Roberts ; surveyor, Wmn. Ott, Jr.
1890.
Clerk, S. W. Neal; recorder, W. P. Moothart; attorney, C. J. Wilson ; supervisor. G. Gregory.
1891.
Representative, S. C. Gardner ; treasurer, A. J. Dawson ; sheriff, J. W Teeter ; superintendent, Lucy Swisher ; supervisor, W. Rownd ; coroner, Dr W. P. Gardner ; surveyor, D. M. Shearer.
1892.
Clerk, D. A. Boyer ; auditor, W. L. McConnell ; recorder, Thomas J. Allen ; attorney, C. J. Wilson ; supervisor, J. M. Huston.
1893.
Representative, Win. B. Bell ; treasurer, John G. Stewart : sheriff, J. W. Teeter ; superintendent, Lucy Swisher ; supervisor, G. T. Mathews ; coroner, Dr. Gardner ; surveyor, D. C. Kyle.
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1894.
Clerk, D. A. Boyer ; auditor, J. A. Y. Ashby ; recorder, T. J. Allen ; attor- ney, S. W. Brookhart ; supervisor, H. T. Reynolds, and to fill vacancy, B. F. Warfel.
1895.
Representative, W. B. Bell ; treasurer, J. G. Stewart ; sheriff, J. W. Teeter ; superintendent, Cornelia Klass ; supervisor. S. D. Carris; surveyor, D. G. Kvie : coroner, Dr. Charles W. Stewart.
1896.
Clerk. J. B. Young ; auditor, J. A. Y. Ashby : recorder, S. E. Parker : attorney. S. W. Brookhart : supervisor. G. T. Mathews.
1897.
Representative, Amos N. Alberson ; treasurer, Aaron Hise ; sheriff, J. W. Teeter ; superintendent, Cornelia Klass ; supervisor, H. T. Reynolds ; coroner. C. W. Stewart ; surveyor, D. C. Kyle.
1898.
Judges, A. R. Dewey, John T. Scott, W. G. Clements ; senator to fill vacancy, A. N. Alberson : auditor, John W. Ingham ; clerk, J. B. Young . recorder. S. E. Parker ; attorney, S. W. Brookhart for full term to fill vacancy ; supervisor, S. D. Carris ; amendment for biennial elections, No.
1 899.
Representative, Charles J. Wilson ; treasurer, A. Hise; sheriff, J. W. Teeter : coroner, C. W. Stewart ; superintendent, Mary M. Hughes ; surveyor, C. S. Coe.
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