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TYPICAL DODGE COUNTY CORN FIELD
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HOW THE PLANTS FEED
The tiling brings the warm air into the cold soil that has formerly been waterlogged. This warm air warms the soil and makes a favorable breeding ground for plant bacteria. These little forms multiply by the billions breaking down vegetable matter and making available the raw materials and translating them into assimilable food for plants. Their little microscopic bodies are quickly dissolved into this film of water enveloping the soil particles and the water becomes rich in food values. Tiny rootlets drink this solution and the plant shows the effect of the food by its rich dark green color and luxuriant growth. Contrast these well-fed plants with those in land that has not tile drainage where the soil is cold or waterlogged. Whenever the water in the soil increases to the point of complete saturation the envelop of water which contains the rich plant food breaks up and the soil particles float in a sea of water. The solution becomes so diluted the plants cannot secure adequate food. They become yellow and sickly and their growth greatly checked if not completely stopped.
EFFECTS OF TILING
An example of the marvelous effect on crop productions was clearly shown by the first experiment in drainage on this farm. The first eighty tiled was plowed and planted to corn. The lines were 200 feet apart running across the eighty the short way. The corn was planted the short way also. In the month of August visitors who were driven along the turn row the full length of the eighty could look down the corn rows. As they approached and crossed a tile line the corn gradually rose in height around twelve and fourteen feet, and then gradually it dwindled in size to not over a foot in height midway between the lines. Along the tile lines the corn was a dark green color and luxuriant in growth, gradually fading out to a sickly yellow as the effect of the tiling dimin- ished. Over the tile lines, and for a considerable distance on either side, the surplus of water was drained away and the plant food was made available in abundance. The absence of water and presence of warm air made the soil a splendid home for plant bacteria. The soil midway between the lines was waterlogged and cold. Bacteria could not live in such soil, therefore, the abundance of plant food in the soil was not avail- able for the corn. It was too thin to furnish proper nourishment because of the surplus of water in which it was in solution. It was a remarkable sight-the alternating ridges of dark green corn twelve to fourteen feet high, at intervals of every 200 feet over tile lines, with corresponding depressions midway between the lines of yellow corn a foot high, both extending across the full width of the eighty, with exact regularity. This example was so convincing to the owner of the value of tile, he imme- diately laid lines of tile between the existing lines, doubling the original system. The year following the completion of this doubling of the lines, he harvested from this eighty and adjoining forty which had been tiled at the same time over 8,000 bushels of corn, or about seventy bushels to the acre.
CHAPTER XIV DODGE COUNTY AND MODERN ROADS
(BY WILLIAM H. BUSS)
The substance of this chapter was derived from a very instructive interview, obtained by one of our editors, from the Hon. George F. Wolz, popularly known as "Good Roads Wolz," who, to use an historical term, might well be called "The Great Waywarden" of eastern Nebraska. This very busy and useful citizen wears with characteristic modesty sev- eral other distinctions. He is commissioner of the Fremont Commercial Club ; president of the State Good Roads Association, and state consul for the Lincoln Highway. Seen by our editor, he very cordially granted an interview, recognizing at once that the new History of Dodge and Washington Counties would be comparable with Hamlet, with Hamlet left out, if it should fail to include a chapter on modern good roads. He agreed that the presentation should begin far back in human annals, and in the acknowledgment that among all the ancients the mighty peo- ple of Rome were the most efficient road-builders, and that all subsequent nations had learned much from them. Portions of Roman roads, after more than 2,000 years, are still in use and are among the most notable memorials of antiquity. However, with the decline of the Roman empire, interest in good highways fell away, and not until the middle of the Eighteenth Century was that interest revived. France was the leader of the new movement, to be speedily followed by England, and the main roads of Europe have, for 150 years, been of high and excellent quality, admired by all tourists. The highways of our own country, on the contrary, up to a half-century ago, were left to themselves, very largely, and were a discredit to our civilization.
Such care as they received was rendered by local authorities, who with no adequate system, or Government encouragement, slighted them, and suffered them to come to such degeneration as they might. The United States Government took charge of the roads in national parks, but left all others to the people who use them. It is an interesting historic fact that it was the invention and introduction of the bicycle, which first awakened practical attention to the need of better roads. In our own county before that time the pathways of travel were often impassable from mud and water; whole stretches were a mass of gopher mounds, rendering the road perilous; and the grades, where the bluffs by the rivers were approached, were not infrequently of 15 per cent. Attempts at improvement include the casting up, in this section, of the Broad Street grade in 1880 and that on Military Avenue in 1885. The roads west of the county seat were through a sand region and needed less help. The use of the bicycle, first of the high-wheel variety and then of the safety, became very general and popular, and the imperative need of better roads was more and more generally felt. This grew out of the fact that relay races were attempted from coast to coast, and century runs were widely practiced. Then came the advent of the automobile and vastly augmented the popular cry for better roads. At first the autocar could be used only in summer and fall and never in winter or
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rainy weather. The mud and snow and their effects made it impossible. These discoveries were made by such pioneers in gas-motor vehicles as Ross L. Hammond and Dan V. Stephens and soon the press took up the agitation for good roads at public expense. As in all times of progress opposition soon developed and it was asserted that the demand was for the taxation of property holders in the interest of joy-riders, the aristo- crats of motor travel. But automobile owners multiplied ; the Ford was invented and the friends of good roads rapidly increased. Pioneer enter- prise in this direction began to develop. The Fremont Commercial Club agitated for a co-operative movement in making the Arlington Road fit for gas-car travel, and finally in co-operation with Elkhorn Township raised and expended $1,500 for that pioneering project. This led soon
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after to the expenditure of $21,000 in Elkhorn Township for good roads of a similar order. Incidental advantages of great worth soon were experienced. The ditches excavated in road-building naturally consti- tuted drainage districts which so benefited adjacent farms that from being swamplands they became among the most productive in the county.
All this led to Government action which has since developed into a most elaborate system of good-roads manufacture and preservation. In the Department of Agriculture at Washington there was established a road division, whose function was the study of the whole subject; its supervision and the distribution of Federal aid. The first appropriation was for $65,000,000 to be met by an equal amount from the several states. The second appropriation was for $100,000,000, and a third for $200,- 000,000, and then were established district departments for the admin- istration of these funds. The first Nebraska legislation in the interest of
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good roads in connection with motor-travel was the imposition of a tax of $3.00 on each machine, to be used to this purpose. This was in 1911. In 1915 a State Highway Advisory Board was created to supervise the general work and to recommend Government action. Legislation was adopted providing also signs and markings for the identification of routes of travel. In 1917 the first attempt was made by our state to provide its part in response to the $65,000,000 Government appropriation and in 1919 liberal legislation was secured in co-operation with this and also with the later and larger appropriations. There was made a 3 mill levy for two years; and an automobile tax was voted to bring in $3,000,000 for road maintenance. This legislation secured $10,500,000 for the whole state, of which Dodge County received $127,000. Then the auto tax of 1920, amounting to $60,000, was available, to which was added a city and county levy of 4 mills each. The outcome is that by act of the State Legislature we now have a splendid state highway sys- tem, of which Dodge County has eighty miles, maintained by a state patrol system which is increasingly efficient. Still another law allows townships and counties to vote bonds not to exceed 10 per cent of assessed valuation, for road construction.
Following are the names of the five Dodge County highways which have come into being through this legislation :
(1) Lincoln Highway East. Lincoln Highway West.
(2) B Line, running from Fremont to Blair.
(3) Cornhusker Highway; Manville, Kansas, to Sioux City.
(4) Black Hills Trail, Omaha to Deadwood.
(5) Fremont-Albion Highway.
These are considered as the beginning of a great system of highways, perfecting our county system of modern roads.
The matter of good roads mileage is of great interest. Nine hundred out of a total of 1,054 miles in the county, are graded, and the strong tendency is toward a general grading, drainage and surfacing. The pub- lic interest is nearly universal, and the present co-operation is most encouraging; and much to the credit of our splendid commonwealth. Much might be said of the value of good roads to the county, which most citizens now recognize. Of course they result in augmented credit, in the east, where capital seeks investment. The question which is asked when application is made for a loan on farm lands is apt to be this : "What highway is your property upon ?"
Then as a result of paved roads passing farms, land values have increased in some known cases fully $50 per acre.
What advantage good roads render in the matter of transportation, either in the speed or comfort of travel, or in the marketing of farm products simply cannot be estimated. That is the reason trucking has become so vast and growing a business, and of such profit to agricul- turists and consumers. Instead of this constituting harmful competition with railroads, it is a benefit to the companies, who do not care for the short hauls so much, preferring to care for their long hauling without expensive interruptions.
But other values resulting from good modern highways are of a still higher quality. They are educational and social; also constructively moral and of the first civic worth.
The consolidation of country schools, now recognized as so great and positive an advance in the promotion of rural educational interests, is very largely the issue of the good-roads enterprise. Throughout the county it will soon be a common sight to behold special school-trucks
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equipped for the safe and quick transportation of Young America to the central school buildings, and in all weathers, with comfort and punctuality.
These same buildings made so easily accessible by good roads, will become more and more used centers of community interests, in which the social, civic and ethical life of the people will be conserved and pro- moted. The rural problem, long seeming so increasingly difficult and despairful, is likely to find its happy solution through the modern facili- ties for travel and transportation; higher standards of home and civil life will take precedence, and the country once more become, through the new exodus from the abnormal life of the city, the fountain of the best ideals of our American life. There is no truer patriotic duty than to encourage this movement back to the farm and toward the contributory perfecting of the highway system of our steadily progressive Dodge County.
CHAPTER XV POLITICAL
GENERAL COMMENT-VOTE ON GOVERNORS-STATE SENATORS-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-PARTY VOTE OF COUNTY BY DECADES SINCE 1868-COUNTY JUDGES-COUNTY ATTORNEY-COUNTY TREASURERS -COUNTY CLERKS-CLERK OF THE COURT-SHERIFFS-SURVEYORS -- SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION-REGISTRAR OF DEEDS- COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Every true citizen has a political ambition, and although he may never reach the highest pinnacle there is a possibility that his children may. There is an excitement about a political campaign which all enjoy and although personalities are frequently indulged in, as a general rule all yield gracefully to the verdict of the people, a majority vote, and submit themselves unto the "powers that be."
The various tables of party vote, etc., here annexed will give the reader of this volume a fair idea of the political faith of the people of Dodge County from 1854 down to the present time. Much careful research in the county election records upon the part of the compiler of this work has brought out the following roster of both state and county officials :
VOTE ON GOVERNORS
Vote
Majority
1870-D. Butler
434
65
J. H. Croxton
369
1872-Robert W. Furnas
241
H. C. Lett
327
86
1874-Silas Garber
726
168
Albert Tuxbury
558
1876-(No returns given)
1878-A. Nance
942
66
W. H. Webster
876
1880-A. Nance
1,439
357
T. W. Tipton
1,082
1882-J. W. Dawes
1,129
J. S. Morton
1,463
334
1884-J. W. Dawes
1,589
J. S. Morton
1,724
135
1886-John M. Thayer
1,324
James E. North
1,511
40
H. W. Hardy
147
1888-John M. Thayer
1,780
S. A. McShane
2,320
379
Geo. E. Bigelow
169
1890-L. D. Richards
1,623
J. E. Boyd
2,127
J. H. Powers
549
1892-Lorenzo Crounse
1,348
J. Sterling Morton
1,676
326
C. E. Bentley
89
Chas. H. Van Wyck
680
504
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(The names of the governors elected from this point to present time are here given, but not the abstract of votes.) 1895-99-Silas Holcomb. 1901-William A. Poynter.
1901-Charles Dietrich.
1901-03-E. P. Savage.
1903-07-John H. Mickey.
1907-09-George L. Sheldon.
1909-11-A. C. Shellenberger.
1911-13-Chester H. Aldrich.
1913-17-John H. Moorehead.
1917-19-Keith Neville.
1919-21-Samuel R. McKelvie.
STATE SENATORS
The following shows the years served by the various state senators representing Dodge County :
1866-David Leach.
1867-William A. Preston.
1869-(No record.)
1871-A. W. Tenant.
1873-S. W. Hayes.
1875-H. D. Perky.
1877-G. F. Blanchard.
1879-William Marshall.
1881-Isaac Power, Jr.
1883-Charles Sang.
1885-John E. Shervin.
1887-John E. Shervin.
1889 --- John Dern.
1891-J. M. Brown.
1893-John Thomsen.
1895-S. W. Hayes.
1897-09-W. D. Haller.
1909-13-Fred Volpp.
1913-15-Geo. F. Wolz.
1915-17-Wallace H. Wilson.
STATE REPRESENTATIVES (Territorial.)
1855-M. H. Clark.
1857-Silas E. Seeley.
1859-Henry W. De Puy.
1860-Samuel H. Elbert.
1862-Samuel H. Elbert.
1864-C. Blanchard.
1866-Geo. J. Turton. 1867-J. E. Dorsey.
(Under Statehood.)
1867-Henry P. Beebe. 1869-E. H. Barnard. 1871-A. C. Briggs, Frank Kupp. 1873-Milton May. 1875-J. W. Barnes.
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1877-N. S. Belden.
1879-G. C. Bruce. 1881-Wm. Fried. 1883-J. C. Homer. 1885-F. E. White, John Heinrich.
1887-James G. Gamble, C. F. Eisley. 1889-L. P. Larson. 1891-N. P. Nelson.
1893-N. P. Nelson. 1894-W. J. McVicker. 1895-Joseph Roberts. 1897-S. S. Van Horn, W. D. Holbrook.
1899-M. T. Zallers.
1901-Daniel Swanson, George L. Loomis.
1902-William J. Harman, George L. Loomis.
1903-George L. Loomis, William J. Harman.
1905-Joseph Roberts, William J. Harman.
1907-F. A. Howe, J. H. Knowles.
1909-F. P. Lawrence, William J. McVicker.
1911-William J. McVicker, F. P. Lawrence.
1912-George W. Losey.
1913-M. E. Shipley, George W. Losey.
1914-William G. J. Dau.
1915-C. E. Sievers, William G. J. Dau.
1916-Norman E. Shaffer, William G. J. Dau.
1917-William G. J. Dau, N. E. Shaffer.
1918-Andrew Prost.
COUNTY JUDGES
The first probate or county judge in Dodge County was S. I. Francis, who held the office by appointment, from early in 1856 to January 1, 1857, after which came the following soon after their election :
1856-James G. Smith (rep.).
1857-Samuel Strickland (rep.).
1859-Samuel Strickland (rep.).
1860-E. H. Barnard (rep.).
1861-L. H. Rogers (rep.).
1863-H. P. Beebe (rep.).
1865-J. H. Crabbs (rep.).
1867-E. C. Usher (rep.).
1869-E. C. Usher (rep.).
1871-N. H. Bell (rep.).
1873-W. C. Ghost (dem.).
1875-W. C. Ghost (dem.).
1877-W. H. Ely (dem.).
1879-W. H. Ely (dem.). 1881-James Murray (dem.).
1883-James Murray (dem.). 1885-J. J. Barge (dem.). 1887-J. J. Barge (dem.).
1889-William H. Hunter (dem.).
1891-William H. Hunter (dem.).
1893-Claus H. Plambeck.
1895-Claus H. Plambeck.
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1897-Waldo Wintersteen. 1899-Waldo Wintersteen.
1903-A. H. Briggs.
1905-Robert J. Stinson.
1909-Robert J. Stinson.
1911-Robert J. Stinson.
1914-Waldo Wintersteen.
1918-Waldo Wintersteen.
COUNTY ATTORNEY
This office was created to go into effect in 1888. Prior to that such business was looked after by attorneys employed by the commis- sioners, as also by the prosecuting attorney who served for the whole judicial district. In 1888 George R. Loomis (dem.) was elected and in 1890 C. Hollenback (dem.) was elected and re-elected in the fall of 1892. 1894-J. W. C. Abbott.
1895-Grant G. Martin.
1906-John W. Graham.
1914 -Fred W. Button.
1916-J. C. Cook.
1918-J. C. Cook.
COUNTY CLERKS
1856-Samuel D. Prescott (appointed).
1856-Julius Brainard (election), rep.
1859-John Ray (rep.).
1861-J. F. Reynolds (rep.).
1863-E. H. Rogers (rep.).
1865-E. H. Rogers (rep.).
1867-A. G. Brugh (rep.).
1869-A. G. Brugh (rep.).
1871-L. M. Keene (rep.).
1873-L. M. Keene (rep.).
1875-Charles Sang (dem.).
1877-Charles Sang (dem.).
1879-G. C. Kerkow (dem.).
1881-J. C. Kerkow (dem.).
1883-G. H. Forney (rep.).
1885-G. H. Forney (rep.).
1887-O. H. P. Shively (rep.).
1889-Thomas Killeen (dem.).
1891-Thomas Killeen (dem.).
1893-Wenzel Legro.
1895-Charles A. Manville.
1897-Charles A. Manville.
1899-George A. Murrell.
1903-C. O. Boe.
1905-C. O. Boe.
1907-James A. Donahue.
1909-James A. Donahue.
1911-John O'Connor.
1914-John O'Connor:
1916-W. E. Barz, present clerk.
JOSEPH C. COOK
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COUNTY TREASURERS
1856-H. P. Beebe.
1858-Silas J. Francis (rep.).
1859-Silas J. Francis (rep.).
1860-H. C. Campbell (rep.).
1861-H. C. Campbell (rep.).
1863-George W. Wolcott (not qualifying, Theron Nye (rep.) was appointed). 1865-Theron Nye (rep.).
1867-E. H. Barnard (rep.).
1869-S. B. Colson (rep.).
1871-S. B. Colson (rep.).
1873-A. C. Briggs (rep.).
1875-John E. Shervin (dem.).
1877-John E. Shervin (dem.).
1879-John Grunkranz (dem.).
1881-John Grunkranz (dem.).
1883-E. N. Morse (dem.).
1885-E. N. Morse (dem.).
1887-B. F. Stouffer (rep.).
1889-John Dern (dem.).
1891-John Dern (dem.).
1893-N. P. Nelson.
1895-N. P. Nelson.
1897-William F. Basler.
1899-William F. Basler.
1903-George J. Coddington.
1905-John H. Knoell.
1907-John H. Knoell.
1909-Morris Horstmann.
1914-Ernest Hahn.
1916-Ernest Hahn.
1918 Joe Roberts.
CLERK OF THE COURT
Until about 1874 this was an appointive office within the gift of the presiding judge. Julius Barnard was the first to act in such capacity. He was followed by Mr. Hazen. Next came J. J. Hawthorne, who held the position until 1875, when the office was combined with the county clerk's office (ex-officio). The first to hold the two offices was L. M. Keene who served four years when the office again became an office by itself and was also made elective. In 1879 G. H. Forney was elected and in 1881 re-elected; then came the following:
1883-Louis Spear (dem.).
1885-Louis Spear (dem.).
1887-George W. Davy (dem.).
1891-J. M. Shively (rep.).
1895-James Shively.
1899-James M. Cruickshank.
1903-James M. Cruickshank.
1906-Luke Mundy.
1911-Luke Mundy.
1916-Peter F. Mitterling.
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SHERIFFS
1856-J. M. Hancock.
1859-Henry C. Lemmon.
1860-John B. Watterman.
1861-William Wilson.
1863-J. H. Teats.
1865-J. H. Teats.
1867-Ed Fuller. 1869-D. M. Strong (rep.).
1871-Thomas Turner (dem.).
1873-Thomas Turner (dem.).
1875-August Kopplekom (dem.).
1877-August Kopplekom (dem.).
1879-Robert Gregg (dem.).
1881-Robert Gregg (dem.). 1883-Thomas Curran (dem.).
1885-Thomas Curran (dem.).
1887-James P. Mallon (dem.).
1889-James P. Mallon (dem.).
1891-James Milliken (dem.).
1893-James Milliken.
1895-James M. Kreader.
1897-James M. Kreader.
1899 -- James M. Kreader.
1903-A. Bauman, Jr.
1905-A. Bauman, Jr.
1906-A. Bauman, Jr.
1909-A. Bauman, Jr.
1911-W. C. Condit.
1914-W. C. Condit.
1916-W. C. Condit.
1918-W. C. Condit.
COUNTY LAND SURVEYORS
Prior to 1861 no regular county surveyor was elected.
1861-Isaac E. Heaton (rep.).
1863-Isaac E. Heaton (rep.).
1865-Isaac E. Heaton (rep.).
1867-Isaac E. Heaton (rep.).
1869-F. W. Wirminghaus (rep.).
1871-F. W. Wirminghaus (rep.).
1873-F. W. Wirminghaus (rep.). 1875-John W. Dougherty (rep.). (L. D. Richards filled out term.)
1877-L. D. Richards (rep.). 1879-C. W. Hyatt (rep.).
1881-G. W. D. Reynolds (dem.).
1883-Herman Radicke (dem.).
1885-Herman Radicke (dem.). 1887-Chris Baysel (dem.).
1889-J. W. Andrews (dem.).
1891-J. W. Andrews (dem.). 1893-G. W. D. Reynolds.
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1895-John W. Andrews.
1897-W. J. McVickers.
1899-W. J. McVickers.
1903-William M. Sanders.
1905-William M. Sanders.
1907-William M. Sanders.
1909-W. M. Sanders.
1911-W. M. Sanders.
1914-W. M. Sanders.
1916-W. M. Sanders.
1918-W. M. Sanders.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
The functions of this office from 1856 to 1869 were not what they were in later years and indeed were not well defined by the statutes. A. G. Brugh, Mr. Campbell and Rev. Isaac E. Heaton, served as a sort of school superintendent in their respective order. Mr. Heaton selected a portion of the school lands and examined some of the earlier teachers. In 1860 the present system became a state law, or soon after Nebraska was admitted into the Union.
1869-W. H. Ely (dem.). He resigned and Reverend Wilson was appointed.
1871-John Cayton (rep.).
1873-John Cayton (rep.).
1875-H. G. Wolcott (rep.).
1877-George W. Simpson (dem.).
1879-George A. Stanley (dem.).
1881-George A. Stanley (dem.).
1883-E. M. Springer.
1885-Frank C. Tym (dem.).
1887-A. E. Clarendon (rep.).
1889-D. V. Stephens (dem.).
1891-D. V. Stephens (dem.).
1893-J. A. Collins.
1895-J. A. Collins.
1897-Conrad O. Boe.
1899-Conrad O. Boe.
1903-Charles Arnot.
1905-John N. Matzen.
1907-John N. Matzen.
1909-John N. Matzen.
1911-John N. Matzen.
1914-John N. Matzen.
1916-John N. Matzen.
1918-John N. Matzen.
REGISTRAR OF DEEDS
With two exceptions, the office of registrar and that of county clerk have been a combined office. In 1859 John Evans was elected as registrar, and in 1860, H. W. DePuy was elected. After his time expired the county clerk again resumed the duties which had devolved upon the office known as registrar. In 1892 the law was again changed
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in this county since which date there has been a separate office known as "Registrar of Deeds." The following have filled this important posi- tion until the present :
1893-George F. Looschen.
1897-George F. Looschen.
1905-John O'Connor.
1909-Fred Klaes.
1914-Fred Klaes.
1918-Ernest Hahn.
CORONERS
There is no complete record of the office of coronor in this county in the early times, hence we give such data as appears of record today : 1893, E. W. Martin; 1895, E. W. Martin; 1897, M. B. Croll; 1899, Robert P. Jensen ; 1903, Dr. Frank Brown ; 1905, Dr. A. P. Overgaard; 1907, Dr. A. P. Overgaard; 1909, Dr. A. P. Overgaard ; 1911, Dr. A. P. Overgaard; 1914, Dr. A. P. Overgaard.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Under the old precinct system in Dodge County the county commis- sioners who had charge of all county governmental affairs were these:
1856-William E. Lee (dem.), Thomas Fitzsimmons (dem.), L. C. Baldwin.
1857-Thomas Fitzsimmons (dem.), W. E. Lee (dem.), C. A. Whiteford.
1858-C. A. Whiteford, Thomas Fitzsimmons (dem.), G. J. Turton (rep.). 1859-G. J. Turton (rep.), Thomas Fitzsimmons (dem.), Jared Blanchard (rep.).
1860-George Turner (dem.), Thomas Fitzsimmons (dem.), G. J. Turton (dem.).
1861-W. H. Ely (dem.), G. J. Turton (rep.), Thomas Wilson (dem.). 1862-George Turner (dem.), W. H. Ely (dem.), Thomas Wilson (dem.).
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