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Lewis L. Taylor . 1,368
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120
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
1872
CIRCUIT JUDGE
Robert Sloan 1.541
E. L. Burton 1,157
CLERK OF COURTS
Walter S. Johnson 1,555
WV. F. Howell 1.130
RECORDER
J. B. Wright 1,492
A. F. Thompson 1,164
CORONER
Caleb Wentworth 1,509
Joseph Hatton 1,165
SUPERVISOR
J. B. Gedney 1,541
W. M. McDanel 1.162
1873
REPRESENTATIVE
Samuel Jordan 1.522
George W. Wyckoff 1,109
AUDITOR
John B. Maring 1,291
S. K. Ball 1.289
TREASURER
William Evans 1,575
George M. Teagarden 1,054
SHERIFF
John M. Elgin 1.322
Mansel Hughes 1.305
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
George W. Taylor 1,240
R. E. Chandler 1.068
G. C. Goodenough 270
SURVEYOR
D. N. Miner 1.453 .
J. J. Wall
1.158
121
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
CORONER
William P. Darrah . 1,458
Caleb Wentworth 1,159
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Thomas M. Fee 1,283
J. C. Mitchell 1,107
CLERK OF COURTS
Walter S. Johnson 1,363
S. H. Showalter 1,061
RECORDER
John B. Wright 1,249
S. D. Harris 1,166
SUPERVISOR
William S. Llewellyn 1,270
Amos D. Thatcher . 1.163
1875
SENATOR
Joshua Miller 1,435
A. F. Haines 1,354
REPRESENTATIVE
J. B. Stuckey 1,416
James C. Coad 1,386
AUDITOR
John B. Maring .2,743
TREASURER
William Evans 1,551
K. P. Morrison . 1,251
SHERIFF
B. F. Silknitter 1,590
Henry H. Wright . 1, 10.4
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
J. W. Cary 1,40I
H. Welker Zentz . 1,390
SURVEYOR
D. N. Miner 1.443
J. J. Wall
1.357
122
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
CORONER
M. A. Holshouser 1.440
J. J. Hicks 1.363
SUPERVISOR
J. B. Gedney 1,404
John N. Dunbar . 1,40I
1876
CIRCUIT JUDGE
Robert Sloan 1,708 . .
CLERK OF COURTS
Noah M. Scott 1,778
J. O. Hunnell 1,485
J. S. Wakefield 85
RECORDER
Thomas H. Morris 1,840
George A. Bryant 1,358
Joseph Reynolds 123
SUPERVISOR
Claudius B. Miller 1,734
William B. McDonald
J. L. Earnest 1,493
1,719
N. J. Moreland
1,436
A. P'. Berry
119
Joseph Bland 108
A. C. Stone 68
1877
REPRESENTATIVE
S. T. Sherrard 1,176
J. B. Stuckey 1,027
A. P. Berry 775
AUDITOR
John B. Maring 1,304
Lewis L. Taylor 1.067
J. C. Crawford 603
TREASURER
William Evans 1.286
Thomas Wentworth 1,124
J. M. Loughridge
548
123
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SHERIFF
Benjamin F. Silknitter . 1,223
R. B. Carson
. 1,210
Joseph L. Youngker
533
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
D. R. Guernsey ,201
John W. Cary
993
Mrs. M. A. Haughey
700
SURVEYOR
Cyrus Kerr
1,207
David N. Miner
1,094
J. J. Wall 662
CORONER
Noah Lantz
. 1,207
Peter Koontz . 1,069
J. C. Thompson 680
SUPERVISOR
William S. Llewellyn
1,192
Jesse M. Ellis
1,085
Samuel Hixon
690
1878
DISTRICT JUDGE
E. L .. Burton 1,760
T. M. Fee 1,251
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
R. B. Townsend . 1,771
W. 11. Tedford 1,247
CLERK OF COURTS
J. W. Moore 1,606
Noah M. Scott . 1,416
RECORDER
W. O. Hollingsworth
1,605 .
Thomas 11. Morris . 1,409
SUPERVISOR
J. W. Wailes .1,702
J. L. Earnest .1,253
124
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
1879
SENATOR
J. J. Wall 1,616
Madison M. Walden 1,503
J. S. Wakefield I21
REPRESENTATIVE
Samuel Hixon 1,661
C. B. Miller 1,475
G. R. Moss 1.46
AUDITOR
J. C. Crawford 1,610
E. G. Ashby 1.502
J. W. White 157
TREASURER
John A. Pierson 1,570
G. T. Pulliam 1.545
T. Davidson 157
CLERK OF COURTS
Lewis L. Taylor 1,616
T. H. Morris 1.507
C. F. Findley 166
SHERIFF
B. F. Silknitter 1,615
Harvey Cochran 1,500
J. J. Stone 145
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
C. J. Brower 1.659
D. R. Guernsey 1,403
J. W. Payne 158
SURVEYOR
O. C. Whitsell . 1. 000
Cyrus Kerr 1.404
John Potts 167
CORONER
Jacob Schontz .654
Noah lantz 1.471
Joseph Kinkade
125
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SUPERVISOR
Peter Koontz 1,621
G. S. Stansberry 1.513
S. Summers 141
1880
CIRCUIT JUDGE
J. W. Freeland 1,865 .
H. C. Traverse 1,666
D. H. Payne
CLERK OF COURTS
Lewis L. Taylor 1,898
E. C. Haynes .1.711
RECORDER
W. S. Scott 1,859
T. H. Morris .1.732
SURVEYOR
S. W. Whitmer 1,800
John C. McAdams 1,688
SUPERVISOR
George Wolf 1,962
G. W. Streepy 1,629
1881
REPRESENTATIVE
E. M. Reynolds .
1,412
A. P. Berry 1,112
A. C. Stone 370
AUDITOR
O. H. Law . 1,539
HI. T. Phillips . 1,397
TREASURER
J. R. Hays 1,518
William Evans . 1,103
M. Y. Sellers 258
SHERIFF
William S. Gay . 1.332
J. B. Gedney . 1,292 11. K. Showalter 30.
126
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
C. J. Brower . 1,335
P. B. Wilkes 1,320
John A. Moss
288
CORONER
Jacob Schontz 1,556
L. G. Parker 1,380
SURVEYOR
Cyrus Kerr 1,390
J. H. McClard 1,191
John Potts 337
SUPERVISOR
G. W. Wyckoff 1,404
Lafayette Shaffer 1,204
A. G. Davidson 325
1882 DISTRICT JUDGE
E. L. Burton 1,752
H. I .. Dashiell 1,294
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
W. A. Work 1,524
Samuel Jones . 1.413
CLERK OF COURT
Lewis L. Taylor 1,944
John C. McDonald 1,079
RECORDER
WV. M. Peatman . 1,512
J. L. Hughes 1,294
SUPERVISOR
Timothy Jennings . 1,300
J. H. Williams 1,132
A. C. Stone 632
J. B. Maring 1,516
Peter Koontz .1,235
1883 SENATOR
E. J. Gault 1,818
John H. Drake 1.595
127
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
REPRESENTATIVE
Samuel Jordan 1,686
E. M. Reynolds 1,604
J. P. Smith 132
AUDITOR
O. H. Law 1,857
L. H. Marshall 1,50.4
TREASURER
S. W. Lane 1,727
James Merritt 1,618
SIIERIFF
W. S. Gay 1.861
W. T. Ogle 1,502
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
C. J. Brower . 1.925
P. B. Wilkes 1,423
SURVEYOR
S. T. Galbraith 1,584
J. J. Wall 1,536
CORONER
Jacob Schontz 1.848
F. Ellis
1,570
SUPERVISOR
S. B. Short 1.711
Timothy Jennings 1.518
J. E. Goodhue
210
1884
DISTRICT JUDGE
Henry C. Traverse 1.807
S. S. Caruthers 1.702
Dell Stewart 1,720
W. H. C. Jaques 1,721
CLERK OF COURT
Lewis L. Taylor 1.782
James C. Bevington .1.755
128
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
RECORDER
Levi J. Fleming 1,771
William M. Peatman
1,736
CORONER
James Redding 1,779
James K. Boyles 1.715
SUPERVISOR
Edward Broshar 1.760
Levi Broshar .1.750
1885
REPRESENTATIVE
E. M. Reynolds 1,854
W. H. Young 1.577
AUDITOR
James Merritt 1,798
Edwin Lowry 1.622
TREASURER
S. W. Lane 1,872
John B. Morrison 1.589
SIIERIFF
Samuel Jennings 1.765
IV. S. Gay 1.677
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Elon G. Ashby 1,857
G. W. Armstrong . 1.577
SURVEYOR
Charley A. Miller 1.739
E. T Stratton 1.722
CORONER
Robert Easton 1.766
James Reddig 1.074
SUPERVISOR
John Dailey . 1.730 Douglas 1,718
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129
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
1886
COUNTY ATTORNEY
C F. Howell 1.784
George D. Porter 1,833
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
C. J. Phillips
1,762
Lloyd C. Lane 1.671
COUNTY RECORDER
Elza M. Rigler .563
L. J. Fleming 1.853
SUPERVISOR
J. B. Teagarden
1.756
James M. Creech 1.684
SURVEYOR
Perry S. Holbrook 1.737
Edward T. Stratton 1.695
1887
SENATOR
E. M. Reynolds 1,833
W. H. Taylor 1.572
J. P. Smith
23
REPRESENTATIVE
George W. Wyckoff 1.759
F. M. Sharp
1.657
AUDITOR
James Merritt 1.839
11. Booth
1.559
TREASURER
Levi Broshar 1,583
S. W. Lane
1,841
SHERIFF
Samuel Jennings 1.829
James M. Dale 1.575
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Elon G. Ashby 1,733
George W. Taylor 1,667
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130
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SURVEYOR
Perry Holbrook 1,777
E. T. Stratton 1,637
SUPERVISOR
George R. Haver 1,810
J. C. Crawford 1,591
CORONER
Robert Easton 1,809
George A. Bryan 1,605
1888
COUNTY ATTORNEY
C. F. Howell 2,127
George D. Porter 1,823
C. W. Martin 46
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
C. J. Phillips .2,124
B. F. Silknitter 1,904
T. J. Green 39
RECORDER
William Cree 2.049
Zack Rupe 1,96I
T. O. Wilson 47
SUPERVISOR
G. W. Streepy 2,065
William B. Strickler .1,939
J. E. Goodhue 39
1889
REPRESENTATIVE
M. M. Walden 2.070
E. B. Horner 1.884
C. P. Campbell 33
AUDITOR
J. T. Connor . 1,952
Jacob M. Willett 2,019
C. W. Martin 30
131
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
TREASURER
D. N. Steele 1,812
S. W. Lane 2,154
J. P. Silknitter 21
SHERIFF
J. T. Rogers 1,877
M. B. Maring 2,001
G. T. Moore 20
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
P. B. Wilkes 1,938
J. W. Rinchart 1,008
Thomas Mc Neff 30
Robert Easton
2,007
CORONER
L. J. Sturdivant 1,883
James True 37
SURVEYOR
Perry S. llolbrook 2,027
John H. McClard 1,921
SUPERVISOR
R. M. Hicks 2,045
Noah Nash 28
Noah Lantz 1,913
1890
COUNTY ATTORNEY
C. F. Howell . 2.309
O. 11. Law 2.032
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
J. Elliott 2.180
L. L. Taylor 2,181
RECORDER
William M. Cree 2.372
John Benefiel . 1.012
SUPERVISOR
A. Davison 2,237
W. A. Lemaster
2,135
132
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
1891
SENATOR
E. MI. Reynolds 2,435
D. C. Bradley 1,848
S. B. Downing 439
REPRESENTATIVE
G. W. Wyckoff 2,393
L. Shaffer 1,994
J. J. Stone 347
TREASURER
James Merritt 2,499
S. J. C. Eby 1,946
G. N. Cates 291
SIIERIFF
William Bray 2,348
M. B. Maring 2.128
W. G. Green 265
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
P. H. Bradley 2,419
J. W. Rinehart 2.020
J. J. Coulson 291
CORONER
Robert Easton . 2.492
E. S. Denoon 1.911
D. F. Williamış 330
SURVEYOR
John Reynolds 2,508
J. J. Wall 1.926
H. Harris 300
SUPERVISOR
H. L. Halliday 2.324
W. B. Strickler . 2.111
Joseph Kincade 299
1892
COUNTY ATTORNEY
W. H. Sanders 2,000
C. W. Vermilion 2.511
W. F. Garrett 437
133
IHISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
AUDITOR
J. M. Willett 2,084
J. T. Connor 2.448
Edwin Lowry 427
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
J. W. Argo .1,808
John Elliott 2,500
F. A. Brown 1512
RECORDER
J. C. Bell 2,020
D. W. Bryan 2.477
Patrick Quigley 442
SUPERVISOR
W. J. Taylor . 1,914
M. S. Edwards 2.582
C. A. Ullrich 456
1893
REPRESENTATIVE
George W. Wyckoff 2.357
J. D. Pirtle . 2,324
TREASURER
James Merritt 2.352
Gust Parson
1.319
Edwin Lowry 1.042
SITERIFF
William Bray
2.345
G. S. Minor 1.447
Horace Silk
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
P. H. Bradley 2.384
J. S. Stamps 1.370
J. C. Hornady
(140
SURVEYOR
John R. Reynolds 2.3349
J. J. Wall
. 1,074
I ORONER
William J. Martin 2.285
D. C. ()'Neil . 1.441
W. C. Willis
1344
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SUPERVISOR
S. H. Smith 2,239
C. M. Crego 1,493
H. K. Showalter 963
1894
AUDITOR
J. T. Connor 2,717
J. N. Roby 2,260
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
D. R. Guernsey 2,552
Frank Hughes 2,422
RECORDER
D. W. Bryan 2,617
S. F. Haines 1,269
James H. Inskeep .1.085
COUNTY ATTORNEY
C. W. Vermilion 2.518
C. R. Porter 2.481
SUPERVISOR
Harvey Cochran 2.501
Pierce Wilson 1,478
E. Moss 997
James M. Walker 2.679
H. K. Showalter 2.265
1895
SENATOR
B. F. Carroll 2,601
W. S. Scott . 2,104
REPRESENTATIVE
J. C. Barrows 2,426
C. R. Porter 2,528
TREASURER
N. M. Scott 2.499
R. M. Hicks 1,820
J. G. Patterson 630
SHERIFF
M. S. Edwards 2.330
B. F. Silknitter 2,031
135
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
E. W. Adamson 2,699
Mrs. Mattie Cashman 2,214
SURVEYOR
P. S. Holbrook 2,620
David Blosser 1,586
John Reynolds 694
CORONER
William J. Martin 2,665
O. P. Martin
843
SUPERVISOR
H. H. Phillips 2,595
Newton Moore 1,578
Abner Wells
737
1896
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
D. R. Guernsey 3,030
Edwin Lowrey 2,928
J. J. Pratt 18
Casper Stoltz
28
AUDITOR
H. L. Hazlewood 3.072
J. D. Galbraith 2,893
R. H. Marshall 16
Bernard Murphy
29
RECORDER
J. A. Stevens . 3.105
J. 11. Inskeep 2,855
A. L. Callen 18
Samuel Gough
26
COUNTY ATTORNEY
J. M. Wilson 3.017
W. H. Sanders 2,934
T. W. Meers 19
W. M. Morlan
36
136
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SUPERVISOR
J. M. Walker 3.056
A. W. Potts 2.898
J. H. McCauley 18
Arthur Grover 20
1897
REPRESENTATIVE
A. A. Highbarger 2.432
C. R. Porter 2.803
TREASURER
N. M. Scott 2.832
C. A. Hornaday 2.360
Fay Richardson
SHERIFF
Edward Climie 2,623
B. F. Silknitter 2,578
Harry McVeigh 05
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
E. W. Adamson 2.731
John S. Stamps 2.367
WV. C. Murdy 117
H. G. Street 89
CORONER
John Dailey 2.735
E. S. Denoon 2.363
SURVEYOR
P. S. Holbrook .775
David Blosser 2.350
SUPERVISOR
Harrison Baker 2,020
G. W. McKeehan 2.507
R. C. Coffey 106
1898
COUNTY ATTORNEY
J. M. Wilson 2.720
J. R. Barkley . 2.265
137
HISTORY OF APPNOOSE COUNTY
AUDITOR
11. L. Hazlewood 2.781
James Keller 2,190
Harry Mcveigh 1.5
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
M. E. Louther 2.788
W. J. Jones 2.102
AAndrew Anderson 03
RECORDER
J. A. Stevens
2.913
Isaac Wakeland 2,043
V. H. Barnes
65
SUPERVISOR
A. F. Johnston 2.613
T. W. Oden 2.332
1800
SENATOR
E. Rominger 2.848
C. R. Porter 2.581
REPRESENTATIVE
F. S. Payne 2,870
.A. H. Stuckey 2.499
John Wood
TREASURER
J. T. Sherrard 2.858
W. H. Owen 2.530
C. Stoltz
SHERIFF
G. E. Climie 2,868
I. A. Perjue 2.474
John Maring
1
CORONER
D. C. Stansberry
W. 11. Stevenson 2.354
C. McCondra
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
R. A. Elwood 2.500
W. K. Bishop 2.505
Robert Wilson
138
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SURVEYOR
W. L. Holbrook 2,888
J. J. Wall 2,460
W. P. Clifford 37
SUPERVISOR
A. E. Tucker · 3,004
M. J. Elam 2.338
W. M. Murdy 35
1900
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
M. E. Louther ·3,141
L. L. Taylor 3,087
AUDITOR
J. F. Parks 3.462
T. L. Morlan 2.776
RECORDER
H. L. Waters 3,352
J. F. Boileau 2,885
COUNTY ATTORNEY
E. M. Probasco 3,405
H. E. Valentine 2,815
SUPERVISOR
E. H. Streepy 3,369
Fay Richardson 2,856
1901
REPRESENTATIVE
Frank S. Payne 2,562
Lafayette Shaffer 2,062
C. S. Peterson 2
TREASURER
J. T. Sherrard 2,699
Jacob Harter 1,894
SHERIFF
W. P. Davis 2,623
George McDonald 2.039
139
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
R. A. Elwood . 2,424
Orsini V. Swift 2,174
SURVEYOR
W. L. Holbrook 2,682
John Ransden 1,900
CORONER
A. J. Shaw 2.729
J. D. Cleveland 1,847
1902
SUPERVISOR
A. E. White 2,000
R. M. Hicks 2,501
COUNTY ATTORNEY
E. M. Probasco 2,213
Claude R. Porter . 2.390
A. F. Thompson 219
AUDITOR
J. F. Parks . 2.335
Harry B. McCreary 2,193
Andrew B. Standberg 235
CLERK OF COURT (To fill vacancy. )
George C. Elliott 2.743
W. E. Law
I
G. E. Ferren
1
Ralph M. Davis I
COUNTY CLERK
U. G. Turner 2,533
G. E. Ferren 2,03.3
Bruce FF. Purdum 240
RECORDER
H. L. Waters 2,520
John T. Hiatt . 1.949
William McCowin 248
140
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
SURVEYOR (To fill vacancy.)
P. S. Holbrook 2.377
D. B. Blosser 2,000
J. J. Wall 255
SUPERVISOR
A. H. Gray 2,538
B. G. Miller 1,917 .
J. J. Wall 364
1903
REPRESENTATIVE
J. M. Wilson . 2.419
William M. McCreary 2.451
George H. Fryhoff 175
TREASURER
J. A. Moss
George W. Patrick 2.194
Joseph Wheeler 179
SHERIFF
W. P. Davis 2.816
Charles A. Yates 2,056
Bruce Purdum 177
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
W. M. Speers 2.702
Mrs. S. S. Webster 2.150
Mrs. E. Hays 186
SUPERVISOR
B. F. Bradley 2.558
WV. B. Ellis 2.284
Peter Ambuster 187
LORONER
Allen Shaw
Dr. J. P. Neeley 2,000
J. T. Lewis
SURVEYOR
P. S. Holbrook
D. B. Blosser 2.033
J. J. Wall 210
141
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
1904
COUNTY ATTORNEY
T. G. Fee .3.148
C. R. Porter 2,363
G. H. Fryhoff ( socialist ) 400
AUDITOR
R. J. Baker .3,538
C. E. Brokaw 1,864
Charles Bixby 447
CLERK OF COURT
U. G. Turner 3.444
J. N. Willett 1,821
F. R. Crouse
RECORDER
G. S. Bever
.3.483
N. W. Hamilton . 1,987
Charles Nighswonger 441
SUPERVISOR
John E. Moore . 3.388
R. M. Hicks
2,088
C. M. Thompson 441
1906
REPRESENTATIVE
George W. Swan 2,461
A. F. Wilson 2.178
1I. G. Street 253
AUDITOR
R. J. Baker 2,883
Jacob Ritter 1,845
Joel Wheeler 230
CLERK OF COURT
George C. Elliott 2,800
William Leeming .1,759
J. J. Hanrahan 208
TREASURER
J. A. Moss 2,800
C. E. Evans 1,843
D. F. Williams
208
142
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
RECORDER
George S. Bever 2,886
James White 1,761
F. E. Daniels 218
SHERIFF
John G. Clark 2.710
C. E. Campbell 1,761
T. T. Prough 219
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
W. M. Speers 1.924
Mrs. S. S. Webster 2.835
Beulah Hinzman 194
SURVEYOR
M. G. Hall 2.439
David Blosser 1,988
J. J. Wall 257
P. S. Holbrook 119
CORONER
C. P. Tillmont 2.516
Edgar Heaton 2,066
Peter Ambuster 250
1907
SUPERVISORS THREE YEARS
R. J. Raney 2.437
Newton Harris 2,008
J. T. Lewis 230
SUPERVISORS TWO YEARS
Z. B. Nighswonger 2.576
S. S. Amos 1.881
Geno Ortino 217
1908
SUPERVISORS THREE YEARS
Charles II Meyers 2.582
J. O. Cole 1.941
Peter Magnall 235
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Mrs. S. S. Webster 2.384
Bedinger 2.877
143
HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY
REPRESENTATIVE
G. W. Swan 2.728
Shaffer 2.358
Gott
2,287
AUDITOR
G. G. Gilcrest 3,080
Wilson
2,057
Daniels
281
TREASURER
W. M. Dukes 2,820
Evans
2,297
Bixby
274
CLERK OF COURT
George C. Elliott · 3.089
Evans
2,025
Hanrahan 278
SHERIFF
John G. Clark
3.136
Quigley
2,111
Baxter
251
RECORDER
J. L. Dodd 2,938
Killion
2,188
Friel
270
COUNTY ATTORNEY
R. W. Smith
.2,830
V'alantine
2,316
Thompson
SURVEYOR
M. G. Hall
2.836
Blosser
2,224
Wall
286
SUPERVISOR
Z. B. Nighswonger 2,910
Boardsman 2,112
Sparks 282
R. J. Raney 2,849
Hicks
2,196
Langdon 273
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1910
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Roll W. Smith 2,672
H. P. Powers 1.802
F. T. Romesburg 170
SUPERINTENDENT
Arthur L. Lyons 1,836
Mrs. S. S. Webster 2.764
Charles Bixby 148
SURVEYOR
M. G. Hall 2.492
D. B. Blosser 1,897
J. J. Wall 181
CORONER
C. P. Tillmont 2,555
I. S. Lane 1,852
E. Baxter 171
AUDITOR
G. G. Gilcrest 2.119
John B. Taylor .2.417
F. E. Daniels 166
TREASURER
W. M. Dukes 2,566
C. E. Evans 1.848
J. T. Lewis 180
CLERK OF COURT
George C. Elliott 2.766
Thomas L. Bryan 2,417
II. G. Street 160
SHERIFF
J. F. Luse 2.216
Lee M. Dowis 2.340
Richard Magnall 72
RECORDER
J. L. Dodd 2.300
Louise Wiseman 2,210
Richard Magnall 155
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SUPERVISORS-1911
U. G. Bear 2.313
Edward Gault 2.100
William Wessel 174
SUPERVISORS-1912
Z. B. Nighswonger 2.204
A. L. Stuckey 2.112
William Booth 165
AL'DITOR-1912.
John B. McNeal 2.548
John B. Taylor 2.557
TREASURER
W. O. Steele 2.723
C. E. Evans 2.227
CLERK OF COURT
George C. Elliott 2.842
Thomas L. Bryan
.2.188
SHERIFF
George Payton
1.822
Lee M. Dowis 3,401
RECORDER
Frank L. Glick 3.019
Miss Louise Wiseman 2,180)
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Clarence S. Wyckoff 2.780)
WV. B. Hays 2.237
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Mrs. Grace Gilerest 2.531
Mrs. S. S. Webster 2.557
CORONER
Dr. W. B. Miller 2.725
Dr. G. F. Severs 2.2018
SUPERVISORS-1913
B. S. Everman 2.852
John Mas-man 2.100
( 1914 )
C. F. Parker 2.108
R. M. Hicks . 2.344
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CHAPTER VII
GEOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE COUNTY-SOIL OF AMPLE DEPTIF AND FERTILE-COAL IN VAST QUANTITIES-ITS ORIGIN-LIST OF MINES OF THE COUNTY-TIMBER- STRENMIS AND THEIR NAMES.
The surface of Appanoose county is, generally speaking, a nearly level plain, lying on the water-shed dividing the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The depressions for the river and creek beds are shallow, and it is probable that the extreme difference between the water-bed of Chariton river and the highest prairie summits will not exceed a hundred and fifty feet. The soil of the county is a brownish-gray loam, largely intermixed with clay, but yet tempered suf- ficiently with sand to be easily plowed and cultivated. It also absorbs the rain- fall rapidly so that very muddy roads are rare. The surface soil is of ample depth and very fertile. The substratum is nearly pure clay, and with proper care any portion of the subsoil of this county can be made into excellent brick. Both Professor White and Mr. St. John visited Appanoose county in 1868, and the former gentleman records that it is now known that all three of the divisions of the coal-measure group occupy the surface beneath the drift ; the lower occupying the northwestern portion, the middle traversing it near the cen- ter, and the base of the upper appearing as ledges of limestone along Copper creek, west of Centerville. In the valley of that stream. Mr. Talbot had opened a mine in a three-foot vein of good quality. This is regarded as the upper bed of the middle coal-measures, and whatever other beds may exist within the county doubtless belong beneath it. Thus, the place of all the heavy beds of coal found elsewhere is at considerable depth here ; but they may be looked for nearer the surface in the northeastern part of the county. It is believed that a shaft sunk in the valley of the Chariton river near Centerville would pass through all there is of the coal-bearing strata within three or four hundred feet. There are good reasons for believing, also, that one or more good beds of coal would be passed through at that or a less depth, besides the one worked by Mr. Talbot.
W. P. Fox. the geological commissioner of Iowa at the Centennial Exhibi- tion, visited Appanoose county in 1875 and made a statement, which is undoubt- edly true, that a vein of coal exists beneath the one now being worked, and gave it as his opinion that it lies from thirty-five to fifty feet below the other. There is no reason to disbelieve his statement that the lower vein should be five or six feet in thickness. Mr. Fox claimed that the slate overlying the coal is suitable for roofing purposes, but this was a blunder on his part, and pointed out the immense deposit of potter's and fire-clay overlying the shale.
Mr. Fox also visited the saline springs in the edge of Davis county, and
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describes them as being located in an outfield of the Onondaga salt group, which was certainly an egregious blunder on his part, for if that formation exists in lowa at all it must lie at least five hundred feet below the coal beds. The saline character of the Davis county springs is owing undoubtedly to local peculiarities.
After the above paragraph had been written, the compiler had an opportunity to consult Owen's Survey of the Northwest, made in 1849. That distinguished and reliable scientist visited several mineral springs in the eastern part of Davis county, and states, on page ILI of his report, that the chemical analysis showed the water to contain chloride of sodium, chloride of magnesia, bicarbonate of iron, bicarbonate of lime, sulphate of magnesia and sulphate of soda. The salt exists, it is true, but the other minerals mixed with the water would render it worthless as a commercial article. Fox must have been well aware of Owen's visit to this neighborhood, for he was himself an assistant in Professor Whit- ney's survey ten years later, and his assertion that the springs along Soap creek have any value should be entirely disregarded.
THE ORIGIN OF CO.AL
It is believed that a further discussion of the topic with reference to the coal mines may not be out of place. This article of commerce is found in various places in the geologic series of formations, beginning with the Middle Carboni- ferous, in which stratum belong the coal-seams found in this county, and ending with those much more recent in point of time, which are found in the Middle Tertiary. These latter beds are found best exposed in Wyoming and are in all about thirty feet in thickness.
But the coal field in Iowa belongs to the true Carboniferous system of the writers upon the subject. and is. moreover. the outfield of the vast coal basin partly covering this state, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio and Pennsylvania. It is only in the Alleghanies that subterranean action has converted any part of the coal into anthracite. Everywhere else in the immense basin it is strictly bituminous. varying. however, from the article as first prepared by the economic forces of nature from the block coal of Indiana to the cannel coal found in several places in Iowa.
In the ancient history of the earth, the leading events of which have been slowly deciphered through the researches of scientific men. the earth's crust was much more plastic than at present, and the climate was more than tropical from pole to pole. The carbon now stored beneath many feet of soil and rocks was mingled. in the form of carbonic-acid gas, with the atmosphere. The earth's crust lacked the stability it now possesses. A vast plain would gradually thrust itself to the surface of the ocean, where vegetation would at once begin. Great forests would grow in the tropical heat. fanned by the damp sea breezes, and stimulated by the carbon in the atmosphere. This vegetation was usually composed almost entirely of a species of palm and a variety of fern that grew to an enormous size. That this is true cannot be disputed, for in many coal districts the stumps of immense trees are to be found in the clay underlying the coal, and often the trunks can be found only partially converted into coal. But what is more curious still, is the fact that in Nova Scotia mines, when the vegetable mold that now forms the coal bed was buried up, many trees were left standing. The lower
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portions of their trunks were in process of time converted into coal. but the upper sections, surrounded by sand, as that was converted into rock, became petrified, the bark taking the form of coal. This peculiarity is a source of danger to these mines, for the petrified trunks, as the coal is mined away beneath them. are liable to slip from their brittle enclosures of ancient bark and fall to the floor of the mine. More than one workman in these mines have been crushed to death by these silicified trees becoming detached and falling.
In explaining the cause of the freedom of coal from impurities of almost every description, Sir Charles Lyell gives a paragraph which has an important bearing on the above. He says :
The purity of the coal itself, or the absence in it of earthy particles and sand, throughout acres of vast extent, is a fact which appears very difficult to explain when we attribute each coal-seam to a vegetation growing in swamps. It has been asked how, during river inundations capable of sweeping away the leaves of ferns and the stems and roots of Sigillariae and other trees, could the waters fail to transport some fine mud into the swamps? One generation after another of tall trees grew with their roots in mud, and their leaves and prostrate trunks formed layers of vegetable matter, which was afterward covered with mud, since turned into shale. Yet the coal itself, or altered vegetable matter. remained all the while unsoiled by earthy particles. This enigma, however perplexing at first sight, may, I think, be solved by attending to what is now taking place in deltas. 'The dense growth of reeds and herbage which encompasses the margins of forest covered swamps in the valley and delta of the Mississippi is such that the fluviatile waters, in passing through them, are filtered and made to clear them- selves entirely before they reach the areas in which vegetable matter may accu- mulate for centuries, forming coal, if the climate be favorable. There is no possibility of the least intermixture of earthy matter in such cases. Thus in the large submerged tract called the "Sunk Country." near New Madrid, forming part of the western side of the valley of the Mississippi, erect trees have been standing ever since the year 1811-12. killed by the great earthquake of that date : lacustrine and swamp plants have been growing there in the shallows, and several rivers have annually inundated the whole space, and yet have been unable to carry in any sediment within the outer boundaries of the morass, so dense is the marginal belt of reeds and brushwood. It may be affirmed that generally, in the "cypress swamps" of the Mississippi no sediment mingles with the vegetable matter accumulated there from the decay of trees and semi-aquatic plants. As a singular proof of this fact. I may mention that whenever any part of a swamp in Louisiana is dried up during an unusually hot season, and the wood is set on fire, pits are burned into the ground many feet deep, or so far down as the fire can descend without meeting with water, and it is then found that scarcely any residuum or earthy matter is left. At the bottom of all these "cypress swamps" a bed of clay is found with roots of the tall cypress, just as the under clays of the coal are filled with Stigmaria.
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