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1863-M. A. O. Packard, Marshall and Stark. 1865-Lloyd Glazebrook, Marshall and Stark. 1867-D. E. Van Valkenburgh, Marshall and Stark. 1869-Amasa Johnson, joint, St. Joseph and Marshall.
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1869-Daniel McDonald, Marshall.
1869-Daniel McDonald, Marshall, special election.
1871-Milton M. Galentine, Marshall.
1873-Reason B. Eaton, Marshall.
1875-Designy A. Snyder, Marshall.
1877-Joseph W. Davis, Marshall.
1877-John W. Houghton, joint, Marshall and St. Joseph.
1879-James M. Confer, Marshall.
1881-Thomas Sumner, Marshall.
1883-William Shaw, Marshall.
1885-Charles Kellison, Marshall.
1887-Charles Kellison, Marshall.
1889-Jacob W. Eidson, Marshall.
1891-Arthur L. Thomson, Marshall.
1893-John W. Baugher, Marshall.
1895-Millard W. Simons, Marshall.
1897-Adam E. Wise, Marshall.
1899-Adam E. Wise, Marshall.
1901-Clay W. Metsker, Marshall.
1903-H. W. Lemert, Marshall.
1905-Daniel McDonald, Marshall.
1907-Daniel McDonald, Marshall.
Clerks of Marshall County.
Jeremiah Muncy, May 22, 1836, to February 23, i839. William G. Pomeroy, February 23, 1839, to April 17, 1843.
Oscar F. Norton, April 17, 1843, to February 10, 1844.
William G. Pomeroy, February 10, 1844, to March, 1844. Isaac How, March 14, 1844, to January 7, 1848.
Rufus Hewett, January 8, 1848, to March 29, 1849.
James Buffum, March 29, 1849, to September 4, 1849.
Richard Corbaley, September 4, 1849, to April 30, 1855.
Richard Corbaley, appointed April 30, 1850, to September 24, 1850. Richard Corbaley, elected September 24, 1850, to November 1, 1855. (This was occasioned by the adoption of the new state constitution of 1850.) Newton R. Packard, November 1, 1855, to November 1, 1859.
Hezekiah R. Pershing, November 1, 1859, to November 1, 1863.
John C. Cushman, November 1, 1863, to April 3, 1871. (Resigned on account of being a member of the building committee of the new court- house. )
Daniel McDonald, appointed April 3, 1871, to November 1, 1871.
Daniel McDonald, elected November 1, 1871, to November 1, 1875.
Daniel McDonald, elected November 1, 1875, to November 1, 1879. Oliver P. Klinger, November 1, 1879, to November 1, 1883. Oliver P. Klinger, November 1, 1883, to November 1, 1887. Designy A. Snyder, November 1, 1887, to November 1, 1891.
Designy A. Snyder, November 1, 1891, to 1895. John W. Wiltfong, November 1, 1895, to November 1, 1899. Keim Franklin Brooke, November 1, 1899, to December 31, 1903.
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John R. Jones, January 1, 1904, to December 31, 1907. Joseph E. Whitesell, January I, 1908, to --.
Auditors of Marshall County.
Jeremiah Muncy, May 2, 1836, to February, 1839. William G. Pomeroy, February 23, 1839, to June 29, 1844. William M. Dunham, June 29, 1844, to March 4, 1859. Thomas McDonald, March 4, 1850, to March 7, 1859. Austin Fuller, March 7, 1859, to March 14, 1863. Alexander C. Thompson, March 14, 1863, to March 14, 1871. Hiram C. Burlingame, March 14, 1871, to March 14, 1875. Alexander C. Thompson, March 14, 1875, to March 14, 1879. Keim K. Brooke, March 14, 1879, to March 14, 1883. Morgan Johnson, March 14, 1883, to March 14, 1887. Charles H. Lehr, March 14, 1887, to March 14, 1891. Peter Hahn, March 14, 1891, to March 14, 1895. Oscar R. Porter, March 14, 1895, to March 14, 1899. Henry H. Miller, March 14, 1899, to December 31, 1903. H. L. Singery, January I, 1904, to December 31, 1907. Charles M. Walker, January 1, 1908, to December 31, 19II.
Treasurers of Marshall County.
John Houghton, May, 1836, to August 5, 1850. Joseph Evans, August 5, 1850, to December 6, 1854. David Vinnedge, December 5, 1854, to December 6, 1858. Nathan H. Oglesbee, December 6, 1858, to December 6, 1862. Daniel O. Quivey, December 6, 1862, to August 12, 1867. Michael W. Downey, August 12, 1867, to August 10, 1871. John Soice, August 10, 1871, to August 10, 1875. Arthur L. Thomson, August 10, 1875, to August 10, 1879. Frederick Tescher, August 10, 1879, to August 10, 1883. John K. Lawrence, August 10, 1883, to August 10, 1887. Oliver G. Soice, August 10, 1887, to August 10, 1891. A. D. Senour, August 10, 1891, to (died) Chas. C. Vink, appointed to fill vacancy to August 10, 1895. William J. Rankin, August 10, 1895, to August 10, 1897. Chas. C. Vink, August 10, 1897, to December 31, 1901. William O'Keefe, January 1, 1902, to December 31, 1905. Jones Grant, January 1, 1906, to December 31, 1907. Fred Myers, January 1, 1908, to -.
Sheriffs of Marshall County.
Adam Vinnedge, March 16, 1836, to August 31, 1836. Abner Caldwell, August 31, 1836, to August 17, 1838. Patrick Logan, August 17, 1838, to August 17, 1842. Joseph Evans, August 20, 1842, to August 26, 1846. Jacob K. Hupp, August 26, 1846, to August 26, 1850. Seth Hussey, August 30, 1850, to February 25, 1852. William C. Edwards, February 28, 1852, to November 10, 1852. John L. Thompson, November 10, 1852, to May 5, 1856.
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J. F. Van Valkenburgh, May 25, 1856, to November 10, 1858. Obed M. Barnard, November 12, 1858, to November 12, 1862. Henry M. Logan, November 19, 1862, to November 12, 1866. David How, November 21, 1866, to November 19, 1870. Daniel K. Harris, November, 1870, to November 19, 1874. L. C. Fink, November 19, 1874, to November 19, 1878. John V. Astley, November 19, 1878, to November 19, 1882. William B. Kyle, November 19, 1882, to November 19, 1886. John N. Wilson, November 19, 1886, to November 19, 1890. Henry L. Jerrell, November 19, 1890, to November 19, 1894. David C. Smith, November 19, 1894, to November, 1896. Joseph E. Marshall, November 19, 1896, to November 19, 1900. Clinton A. Bondurant, November 19, 1900, to December 31, 1904. Monroe Steiner, January 1, 1905, to December 31, 1906. Daniel C. Voreis, January 1, 1907, to December 31, 1908.
Recorders of Marshall County.
Silas Morgan, April 29, 1836, to May 1, 1837.
Evan B. Hobson, August 15, 1837, to September 13, 1838. Isaac Crocker, September 13, 1838, to November 14, 1839. Gilson S. Cleveland, November 14, 1839, to August 21, 1854. Johnson Brownlee, August 21, 1854, to August 21, 1858.
Thomas K. Houghton, August 21, 1858, to August 21, 1866. John W. Houghton, August 21, 1866, to October 26, 1874. J. B. N. Klinger, October 26, 1874, to October 26, 1878. John L. Place, October 26, 1878, to December 4, 1882. Theodore Cressner, December 4, 1882, to November 11, 1892. Thomas M. Walker, November 11, 1892, to February 15, 1900.
Frank M. Walker, February 15, 1900, to April, 1900 (to fill vacancy ; died in office ).
L. G. Harley, appointed April 9, to November 14, 1900.
L. G. Harley, elected November, 1904, to November 19, 1904. Alvin L. Porter, November, 1904, to December 31, 1908.
Surveyors of Marshall County.
Daniel Roberts, November 9, 1836, to -, 1840.
Grove Pomeroy, appointed 1840, to -, 1841. Henry B. Pershing, November 9, 1841, to January 3, 1848.
A. W. Reed, January 3, 1848, to December, 1850. Jacob B. N. Klinger, December, 1850, to November 29, 1854. Oliver W. Morris, November 29, 1854, to November 16, 1856. Jacob B. N. Klinger, November 29, 1856, to November 29, 1858. Oliver W. Morris, November 29, 1858, to November 12, 1860. J. S. Crampton, November 13, 1860, to June, 1861 (died). Fred H. Hall, June 6, 1861, to November 12, 1863. Jerry M. Klinger, November 12, 1863, to November 12, 1867. Martin H. Rice, November 12, 1867, to November 12, 1871. Morgan Johnson, April 17, 1872, to November 12, 1872. Jerry M. Klinger, November 12, 1872, to November 12, 1876. Achilles North, November 12, 1876, to November 12, 1880.
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E. O. Boyce, -, 1880, to November 12, 1880. Achilles North, October 21, 1881, to November 11, 1884. J. M. Klinger, October 21, 1884, to November 1I, 1886. John C. Buttler, November 11, 1886, to November 11, 1890. Achilles North, November 11, 1890, to 1894.
William Warnes, November 21, 1894, to November 21, 1896. William H. English, November 21, 1896, to November 21, 1900. Harry E. Grube, November, 1900, to December 31, 1904. David E. Van Vactor, January 1, 1905, to December 31, 1906. Percy J. Troyer, January 1, 1907, to December 31, 1908.
Coroners of Marshall County.
The early records of the coroners of this county were so imperfectly kept that only the names have been procured. They are as follows : John Johnson, 1836. James Bannon. Lyman H. Andrews.
John K. Brooke. William Bailey. James Logan.
Isaac Shadel.
Robert McFarlin.
Lorenzo Matteson.
Keim K. Brooke.
Adam Vinnedge.
Henry M. Logan.
Eli R. Shook.
John Bauer, Jr. A. C. Holtzendorff, November, 1878, to November, 1886. John H. Johnson, November, 1886, to (died) 1887. Jacob W. Eidson, appointed 1887, to November, 1888. J. J. Hamilton, November, 1888, to November, 1894. Jacob Kaiser, November, 1894, to December, 1896. W. C. Sarber, November, 1896, to November, 1900. J. H. Kiser, November, 1900, to November, 1905. R. C. Stephens, December, 1905, to December, 1907. J. H. Kiser, January 1, 1907, to December 31, 1908.
Marshall County Commissioners.
Robert Blair, May, 1836, to May, 1837. Abraham Johnson, May, 1836, to September, 1840. Charles Osterhaut, May, 1836, to July, 1836. John Gibson, September, 1836, to September, 1839. Andrew Roberts, May, 1837, to August, 1837. Ewell Kendall, August, 1837, to March, 1838. Abel C. Hickman, May, 1838, to September, 1838. Thomas McDonald, November, 1838, to September, 1840. James Nash, September, 1839, to September, 1842. Joseph Evans, September, 1840, to June, 1842. John B. Dickson, September, 1840, to August, 1841.
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Ira Allen, August, 1841, to December, 1844. Abraham Johnson, June, 1842, to September, 1842. Ransom Barber, September, 1842, to September, 1851. George Metcalf, September, 1842, to September, 1843. Charles Palmer, September, 1843, to December, 1845. Enos S. Tuttle, December, 1844, to September, 1847. Hiram A. Ranck, December, 1845, to March, 1847. Designey S. Conger, March, 1847, to September, 1847. Hiram A. Ranck, September, 1847, to December, 1849. Tyra Jones, September, 1847, to March, 1851. Robert Schroeder, December, 1849, to December, 1851. Sanford Gordon, March, 1851, to June, 1857. David Van Vactor, September, 1851, to December, 1857. H. A. Ranck, December, 1851, to March, 1853. Robert Johnson, March, 1853, to March, 1855. Jacob Knoblock, March, 1855, to March, 1856. S. N. Champlin, March, 1856, to December, 1856. William Hughes, June, 1857, to December, 1859. Robert S. Piper, December, 1857, to December, 1859. Moses Keyser, December, 1858, to December, 1861. Isaac N. Morris, December, 1859, to December, 1862. J. L. Westervelt, December, 1859, to September, 1860. Elijah Boley, September, 1860, to September, 1863. Thomas Tyner, December, 1861, to March, 1865. John H. Voreis, December, 1862, to June, 1863. Leonard. Alleman, June, 1863, to December, 1868. William Garrison, September, 1863, to December, 1868. Hiram A. Ranck, March, 1865, to December, 1867. Jonas Miller, December, 1867, to September, 1877. Henry Krause, December, 1868, to December, 1874. James Abrams, December, 1874, to December, 1883. H. Barnaby, September, 1875, to June, 1880. William Sear, June, 1880, to September, 1881.
H. A. Ranck, June, 1877, to December, 1879.
Philip Dumph, December, 1879, to December, 1882. Peter Holem, September, 1881, to September, 1887. Ferdinand Sparr, December, 1882, to December, 1885. Pulaski Wickizer, December, 1883, to December, 1889. John P. Huff, December term, 1885.
G. M. Richardson, appointee, 1886; same short term, December, 1886, to December, 1888.
Milton Kleckner, September, 1887, to October, 1889. Marion A. Bland, October, 1889, to September, 1890. Benjamin Snyder, December, 1889, to 1894.
Marion A. Bland, October, 1889, to December, 1896. Daniel W. Marks, December, 1889, to December, 1892. William Voreis, December, 1892, to December, 1895. A. W. Dolph, December, 1894, to December, 1897. William Shunk, December, 1895, to December, 1898. Fred Seider, December, 1896, to 1899.
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Henry L. Jarrell, December, 1897, to 1903. Henry Snyder, December, 1902, to December, 1905.
Joel Anglin, December, 1903, to December, 1908. Wm. H. Troup, 1904, to December, 1910. Wm. L. Yantiss, December, 1905, to December, 1907.
James B. Severns, December, 1907, to December, 1910.
XLIV. SKETCHES OF COUNTY OFFICERS.
Since the organization of the county in 1836, Marshall county has had eight representatives in the state senate, viz: Wm. G. Pomeroy, Dr. Rufus Brown, Horace Corbin, Charles H. Reeve, Perry O. Jones, Samuel Parker, C. P. Drummond and John W. Parks. The first four are dead, the remainder are living. Of these, Pomeroy and Brown were whigs, and Parks repub- lican ; Corbin, Reeve, Jones, Parker and Drummond were democrats.
David Colerick, who represented the greater portion of northern Indiana in the senate in 1835-a territory sufficiently large to make a good sized state,-was a resident of Fort Wayne, and was an intelligent man, an enterprising citizen, and respected by all who knew him.
Jonathan A. Liston was a resident of South Bend, a lawyer by profes- sion, and was looked upon as being one of the foremost men of his time. He practiced law in the courts of this county for many years and was well known to most of the early settlers here.
John D. Defreese was one of the early pioneers of northern Indiana, and from the beginning took an active part in politics in opposition to the democrats. He was a resident of Goshen.
Norman Eddy was a resident of South Bend, and was perhaps as well and favorably known as any man in the state. His career as a citizen, a politician and a soldier in the war of the Rebellion is without blemish. At the time of his death in 1871 he was holding the office of secretary of state.
John F. Miller also resided in South Bend. He was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Rufus Brown. The Rebellion coming on, he went into the army and was promoted to the rank of general. After the close of the war he received an appointment from the government and removed to California. In 1881 he was elected United States senator from the state of California, and died while holding that office a few years afterward.
A. P. Richardson resided in St. Joseph county, and served one term in the senate, after which he removed to McGregor, Iowa, where he estab- lished the McGregor Times, which was, under his editorial management, one of the spiciest local papers in the west. He was of Irish descent, and was familiarly known as "Pat Richardson." He died at his home in Mc- Gregor several years ago, lamented by all who knew him.
Of Pomeroy, Brown, Corbin and Reeve, all of whom served with distinction in the senate, historical reference will be found in various places in this work, and it is therefore unnecessary to repeat it here. Of those that are living, Senators Jones and Parks reside in Plymouth, and Senators Parker and Drummond are residents of South Bend. All of these public
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officials served with distinction in the upper branch of the general assembly, and are all so well and favorably known that special mention of them is unnecessary.
House of Representatives.
Although prior to 1869 Marshall county had been attached to other counties for representative purposes, it has had its full share of members of the lower branch of the legislature. Of the personal history of those who have represented Marshall county, residents of other counties, it is not necessary to speak at length.
Joel Long, the first representative after the county was organized, was a resident of Kosciusko county. He is said to have owned a large farm on a beautiful prairie about midway between Warsaw and Milford. He passed off the stage of action many years ago, and sleeps with the innumerable throng who passed on before him.
Peter L. Runyan was also a resident of Kosciusko county, but little of his history is known.
Enos S. Tuttle was born near New Haven, Connecticut, in 1796, removed to the southwestern part of Indiana in 1817, and settled in Mar- shall county in 1841. He was elected and served one term as county com- missioner in 1845-46. In 1848 he was elected representative from the counties of Marshall and Fulton, and served during the session of that year. He died in Marshall county in 1850, aged 54 years.
James O. Parks was a native of Kentucky, born March 20, 1813. He came to Marshall county in 1836, and settled in what is now the town of Bourbon. He was twice elected to the legislature, in 1846 from Marshall and Fulton, and in 1859 from Marshall and Starke. He made an efficient member. He died at his home in Bourbon several years ago.
William M. Patterson was born in Cincinnati, February 10, 1807. From there he moved with his parents in an early day to Lexington, Indiana, where he was married in 1824. He took a liking to politics in his youth, and was an active participant in all the campaigns that followed until the day of his death. He was a democrat of the Jeffersonian school, and any one who disputed his democracy was sure to hear from him in the most emphatic language. He was elected and served as sheriff of Scott county, Indiana, in 1832, and moved with his family and settled in La Porte in 1836, where he resided until the fall of 1847, when he became a resident of Plymouth. In 1850 he was elected a member of the legislature from the counties of Marshall, Fulton and Starke, served one term, was defeated for reelection by Thomas Sumner in 1851, and as a slight recompense he was elected doorkeeper of the state senate in 1851, and the same year was appointed appraiser of canal lands ; in 1856 he was appointed receiver of the land office in Winamac; was appointed deputy United States marshal in 1860, and died at his home in Plymouth, August 9, 1871.
Since 1869 Marshall county has been entitled to a representative alone. Of the seventeen who have been elected since that time the following are dead: Reason B. Eaton, Joseph W. Davis, James M. Confer, Thomas Sumner, William Shaw, Arthur L. Thomson, Millard W. Simons. Of those still living it is unnecessary here to speak.
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The Clerk's Office.
The clerk's office is, if one office may be said to be of more importance than another, the most important office in the county. Here the judge of the court sits as arbiter of the disputes between man and man, and here the jury sits and determines the law and the evidence and the facts in matters of great import to the people, even the life or death of the individual ; and all these decisions are recorded on the records of the clerk's office, and are binding on all the people for all time to come. Therefore a brief sketch of a few of the earliest clerks who opened the books and without any plans of procedure to guide them did their work so well that it has stood the test of three-quarters of a century without any errors of consequence having happened, is in place here.
Jeremiah Muncy, the first clerk, held the office by appointment from the board of county commissioners. They were in session July 20, 1836, at the time the commissioners designated to organize the county were assembled, and as soon as they had made their report that the county had been legally organized, the board of county commissioners immediately appointed Mr. Muncy clerk of the court, it being the first business transacted by them after the county was organized. Those who knew Mr. Muncy then will remember him to have been a sprightly business man about forty years old, not very tall and somewhat heavy built, and somewhat handsome in appearance. His court records are clean and perfectly legible, and show plainly the traces of the now almost forgotten goose quill pen. The office at that time was more honorable than profitable, and having extracted all the honor there was in it, he went off with the Indians about February, 1839, locating in Clay county, Missouri, where he undoubtedly passed away many years ago.
William G. Pomeroy followed Mr. Muncy by appointment of the asso- ciate judges of the circuit court, as appears from the following entry on the order book of the court:
"At a meeting held at the house of David Steel in Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana, on the twenty-third day of February, 1839, there were present Peter Schroeder and David Steel, the associate judges of the Mar- shall county circuit court. As Jeremiah Muncy, clerk of the same, had vacated said office by removing from said county, thereupon said judges, according to the statute in such case made and provided, proceeded to fill said vacancy, and thereupon appointed William G. Pomeroy clerk of the Marshall circuit court pro tempore."
Mr. Pomeroy resigned the office April 17, 1843, and was succeeded by Oscar F. Norton, who held the office until he died, and Mr. Pomeroy was again appointed February 10, 1844, to fill the vacancy. He held the office until March 14th, of the same year, when he resigned. Mr. Pomeroy was a man of more than ordinary capabilities, being competent to conduct the clerk's office, act as justice of the peace, practice law, keep a hotel, run a slaughter house, keep a dry goods store, a hardware store, and do anything else that happened to come in his way all at the same time. He removed to Rolla, Missouri, where he died many years ago. He was succeeded as clerk by the appointment of Isaac How, March 14, 1844. He served under the appointment until he was elected at the August election following. He died
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in January, 1848, and, being one of the early pioneers, was well known to the people of the county at the time of his death.
Charles Palmer was appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. How. He very quickly determined that he would not serve as clerk, for the next day the following entry appears on the records :
Plymouth, Ind., January 7, 1848. To The Honorable Associate Judges of the Marshall Circuit Court:
I hereby resign the office of clerk of said circuit court into your hands from whence it came. Respectfully,
CHARLES PALMER.
At that time Mr. Palmer was a dry goods merchant. In conversation with him as to the reason he declined the appointment he said on the day of the appointment he went to the clerk's office to look over the condition of things, and finding it locked, returned to his place of business. The next day he went to the office, and made an examination of the work the clerk was required to do, and the pay he was to receive for it, and at once decided that there was nothing in it for him, and within a few minutes after he had entered the office he took up a pen and wrote the above declination. Mr. Palmer was one of the early business men of Plymouth, and was one of the most substantial and reliable citizens of his time. He died many years ago.
Rufus Hewett was then appointed and served until March 26, 1849, when he died. Mr. Hewett was engaged in merchandising with Norman Woodward, in the firm name of Hewett & Woodward. He was in every way a splendid man.
James Buffum was appointed to fill the vacancy and served until September, when he went to California. He was followed by Richard Corbaley, by election, who served six years in all, ending November I, 1855. He died in the state of Washington about 1895.
Since the organization of the county there have been eighteen clerks, all of whom but seven are dead.
The Early Auditors.
The auditor's office is one of the most important parts of the machinery of the county government. Here is made out the tax duplicate from which the taxes are collected to keep the machinery moving. Here are recorded the transactions of the board of county commissioners and here are made out the orders on the treasurer for the allowances made by the board ; here the accounts of the township trustees are audited; here all the roads, public buildings, bridges, and many other matters too numerous to mention are authorized and provided for; and as the auditor has charge of all the records, and is supposed to be fully conversant with the details of everything connected with the office, the men who had charge of the office for the first quarter of a century are entitled to mention here as being important factors in starting the machinery of that part of the county government in such a manner as to reflect honor and credit upon them and the county as well.
Jeremiah Muncy served as auditor and clerk, the two offices being combined in one, or rather under one management, until June, 1844. He left the auditor's office in the same unceremonious manner that he vacated the clerk's office. The county was in its infancy at that time, and the.
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emoluments accruing by virtue of his two official positions were hardly sufficient to support himself and family. Nevertheless the records now in the auditor's office made by him seem to have been thoroughly made and well kept during his stay in the office. He is represented to have been a man of the world, and kept himself up to if not a little ahead of the age in which he lived. He left in 1839, and is probably dead long ago.
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