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THE LAW DEFINING A BLIND PERSON.
The law defines a blind person as anyone who, by reason of loss of eye- sight, is unable to provide himself with the necessities of life; who has not sufficient means to maintain himself, and who, unless relieved as authorized by the act, would become a charge upon the public or upon those not required by law to support him. By an act of the General Assembly dated February 18, 1913, the county commissioners are given full power to determine the beneficiaries of this relief fund and the extent of the relief that may be
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granted to each individual. The maximum relief granted to one person is one hundred and fifty dollars per annum and is payable quarterly. The commissioners also have the power to increase or decrease the amount granted each pensioner. Since the law went into effect in 1908 several blind persons of Greene county have been granted pensions.
CHAPTER VII.
ROSTER OF COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS.
There is a striking difference between the number of county officials in 1803 and the number in 1918 and the difference in the salaries is no less striking. The janitor of the court house now receives a larger annual sal- ary than the combined salaries of the clerk, recorder and auditor in 1803. At the first county election in 1803 one man was elected for three offices- clerk, recorder and auditor, and the man who performed the three-fold duties was John Paul, the proprietor of the site of Xenia, who served in this capac- ity until he left Greene county in 1809 for Indiana Territory where he be- came the proprietor of the townsite of the city of Madison. The first sur- veyor, which office was one of, if not the most important county office in the early years of the county's career, was James Galloway, Jr., who was ap- pointed by the associate judges at their meeting in August, 1803. Benjamin Whiteman, William Maxwell and John Sterritt were the first associate judges and they were elected to this official position by the General Assem- bly on March 6, 1803. The first county commissioners were Jacob Smith, the miller, James Snoden and John Sterritt, the three being elected on the first Monday of April, 1804. The office of probate judge was created by the constitution of 1851 and James W. Harper became the first probate judge. A prosecuting attorney was provided for under the first constitution of the state and Daniel Symmes was the first man to serve Greene county in that capacity. The office of county treasurer was not an elective one until sev- eral years after the organization of Greene county, the office being at first an appointive one. At the first meeting of the associate judges in 1803 James Galloway, Sr., was appointed treasurer, which office he held until 1819. The first sheriff was Nathan Lamme; the first state senator was William Schenk and the first representative was John Sterritt. Greene county did not have common pleas judges until after the constitution of 1851, but the first president judge of the county was Francis Dunlavy, who was not a resident of the county, nor was he elected by the residents of the district of which he was judge.
In the following pages are listed the county officials who have served the county since its organization or since the creation of the office which they held. This roster is as complete as could be compiled from the records, the office of coroner not being given in full because, from the very nature of the
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office, the records thereof are not consecutive. The judges and prosecuting attorneys are listed in the chapter devoted to the bench and bar.
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
In the early history of the county the surveyor was undoubtedly one of the busiest of the corps of county officials, and the chapter on the organiza- tion of the county, wherein is explained the various surveys and wherein is given in detail something of the difficulties which confronted the early sur- veyors, makes it obvious that the office of surveyor was no sinecure. The congressional lands which lie west of the Little Miami give the county sur- veyors little difficulty, but the chief difficulty arises in the military lands east of the river. There the irregular land plats on the county map gives it the appearance of an old-fashioned "crazy quilt." As a rule the early surveyors had little technical training and many of their surveys bear evidence of their lack of engineering knowledge. Stakes were little used; dogwoods, hickories and whiteoaks serving as starting and marking points on the sur- vey, each tree being marked with "three notches fore and aft." In those early days open land was so plentiful and so cheap that no one had the in- centive to quarrel with his neighbor over a few feet or even a few rods of land. But with the increase in the value of land came the necessity for get- ting exact surveys of the whole county.
The office of surveyor in Greene county now bears little resemblance to the office as it must have been one hundred years ago. Now the surveyor and all his assistants must all be trained men and do their work so that it will bear the most searching investigation. The variation of an inch in a survey may lead to litigation and this means that all the work of the office must be done with extreme care. Since 1904 the county surveyor has had general charge of all the roads, bridges and ditches in the county and this has added materially to his duties. At this time Greene county is having platted every tract of land in the county, every farm and town lot, which will enable the administration of taxes to be placed upon an intelligent and equit- able basis. Since the work has been in progress it has been found in several instances that some persons have been paying double taxation and others have not been paying on their entire holdings. Naturally this work is being done in the surveyor's office where it is being carried on by S. M. Mckay, who has been connected with the surveying activities of the county for many years. Since all these different fields of activity in the office of county surveyor add to the responsibility of that official position, an expert is de- manded for the place, and this fact is reflected in the fact that the salary attached to the office is one of the highest paid in the local public service.
The following men have served Greene county in the capacity of county
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surveyor from 1803 to 1918: James Galloway, Jr., 1803-1816; Moses Col- lier, 1816-1830; Robert Watson, 1830-1834; Moses Collier, 1834-1841; Samuel T. Owens, 1841-1853; Washington Galloway, 1853-1878; L. Rid- dell, 1878-1893 ; G. A. Mckay, 1893-1909; 1909-1913; S. M. Mckay, 1909- 1913; Joseph M. Fawcett, 1913 -.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The office of county commissioner did not exist in Ohio in 1803, the year in which Greene county was erected, and the work of the commission- ers was carried on by the associate judges who set aside a session for the transaction of county business. The board of county commissioners was created on February 14, 1804, by an act of the General Assembly. An elec- tion was held on the first Monday of April, 1804, and on June 11, 1804, Jacob Smith, James Snoden and John Sterritt presented certificates of their election and on this day the board held its first session at the house of Peter Borders on Beaver creek. As the term of the county commissioners was placed at three years, one member of the board being elected annually, these first commissioners drew lots for rank and Jacob Smith drew for three years, John Sterritt for two and James Snoden for one. The electors of the county continued to elect a commissioner annually until the Legislature changed the term of county officials in 1906. It was then that the term of the commissioner was placed at two years and all three were to be elected at the same time. The act provided that its provisions would go into effect in 1909, thus giving the officers the chance to finish their terms. The fol- lowing list of county commissioners is as accurate as the historian was able to determine, the election of one member of the board each year causing considerable difficulty in compiling the list :
Jacob Smith, James Snoden and John Sterritt, 1804; Jacob Smith, James Snoden and John McLane, 1805: James Snoden, John McLane and William Beatty, 1806; James Snoden, John McLane and Andrew Read, 1807; John McLane, Andrew Read and James Morrow, 1808-1809; Andrew Read, James Morrow and William Buckles, 1810; James Morrow, William Buckles and John Haines, 1811; William Buckles, John Haines and Samuel Gamble, 1812; John Haines, Thomas Hunter and Peter Pelham, 1813; Thomas Hunter, Peter Pelham and Benjamin Grover, 1814-1815; Thomas Hunter, Samuel Gamble and Peter Pelham, 1816; Thomas Hunter, Samuel Gamble and John Haines, 1817; Thomas Hunter, John Haines and David Conley, 1818; Thomas Hunter, David Conley and Peter Pelham, 1819; David Conley, Peter Pelham and John Sterritt, 1820; David Conley, John Sterritt and William Buckles, 1821; David Conley, John Sterritt and Stephen Bell, 1822; John Sterritt, Stephen Bell and Samuel Shaw, 1823-
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1824; Samuel Shaw, Stephen Bell and William Buckles, 1825; Stephen Bell, William Buckles and Mathias Winans, 1826; William Buckles, Mathias Winans and Simeon Dunn, 1827; William Buckles, Simeon Dunn and Sam- uel Gowdy, 1828; William Buckles, Samuel Gowdy and John Barber, 1829- 1831; William Buckles, John Barber and John Fudge, 1832; William Buckles, John Fudge and Ryan Gowdy, 1833-1834; John Fudge, Ryan Gowdy and T. G. Bates, 1835-1836; John Fudge, Daniel Lewis and E. Steel, 1837-1839; John Fudge, Daniel Lewis and Bennet Lewis, 1840-1841 ;. Bennet Lewis, Daniel Lewis and James C. Johnson, 1842-1843; Ben- net Lewis, James C. Johnson and John Kendall, 1844; Bennet Lewis, John Kendall and John Fudge, 1845-1846; Bennet Lewis, John Fudge and James McMillan, 1847; John Fudge, James McMillan and John Keiler, 1848; William Reid, Bennet Lewis and John Keiler, 1849; John Keiler, William Reid and Jonas Janney, 1850; William Reid, Jonas Janney and John Harbine, 1851; William Reid, Jonas Janney and John Little, 1852; William Reid, John Little and James C. Johnson, 1853; John Little, James C. Johnson and A. H. Baughman, 1854-1855; John Little, A. H. Baugh- man and John Fudge, 1856; A. H. Baughman, John Fudge and Robert Jackson, 1857-1861 ; A. H. Baughman, Robert Jackson and S. E. Bennett, 1862; A. H. Baughman, S. E. Bennett and John G. Clemens, 1863-1864; A. H. Baughman, S. E. Bennett and D. McMillan, Jr., 1865; A. H. Baugh- man, D. McMillan, Jr., and J. H. Brotherton, 1866; D. McMillan, J. H. Brotherton and A. Trader, 1867-1869; D. McMillan, J. H. Brotherton and Aaron Spangler, 1870; J. H. Brotherton, Aaron Spangler and G. Snider, 1871; A. Spangler, G. Snider and H. Steel, 1872; G. Snider, H. Steel and David Rader, 1873; H. Steel, David Rader and John B. Allen, 1874; H. Steel, David Rader and William Watt, 1875; John B. Allen, J. S. Stevenson and William Watt, 1876-1880; William Watt, John S. Stevenson and John B. Allen, 1881-1883; William Watt, John S. Stevenson and Alfred Johnson, 1883 ; John S. Stevenson, Alfred Johnson and H. H. Conklin, 1884; Moses A. Walton, Alfred Johnson and H. H. Conklin, 1885; Moses A. Walton, H. H. Conklin and Alfred Johnson, 1886-1889; W. H. Glotfelter, Moses A. Walton and H. H. Conklin, 1890; John B. Stevenson, Moses A. Walton and W. M. Glotfelter, 1890-1892; John B. Stevenson, W. H. Glotfelter and J. W. Pol- lock, 1892-1894; John B. Stevenson, W. H. Glotfelter and J. W. Pollock, 1894-1896; John B. Stevenson, J. W. Pollock and John Fudge, 1897; John B. Stevenson, John Fudge and Lewis Smith, 1897-1901; R. H. Nash, John Fudge and Lewis Smith, 1902; R. H. Nash, Lewis Smith and John W. Hedges, 1903 ; R. H. Nash, John W. Hedges and John W. Smith, 1902-1906; R. H. Nash, Joshua Barrett, A. G. Carpenter and John W. Smith, 1907; John W. Smith, J. F. Harshman and A. G. Carpenter, 1907-1909; I. T. Cum-
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mins, J. F. Harshman and R. D. Williamson, 1911-1915 ; C. M. Austin, J. C. Conwell and R. D. Williamson, 1915-1918; George N. Perrill, Robert Corry and R. D. Williamson.
TREASURER.
The office of county treasurer has been in existence since the organiza- tion of the county, for on August 4, 1803, the associate judges appointed James Galloway. Sr., to this office, for which he was allowed three per cent. of all the taxes collected for the safe keeping and the paying out of all money. For 1804 the amount of his salary was about fourteen dollars. The complete list of the treasurers who have served Greene county from its or- ganization to the present (1918) follow :
James Galloway, Sr., 1803-1819; Ryan Gowdy, 1819-1820; Tinsley Heath, 1820-1821; James Gowdy, 1821-1824; Hugh Hamill, 1824-1825; James Gowdy, 1825-1828; Samuel Newcomb, 1828-1840; Alfred Trader, 1840-1852; Brinton Baker, 1852-1856; John Louck, 1856-1858; David Medsker, 1858-1862; Daniel Lewis, 1862-1863; F. A. McClure, 1863-1864; Richard Galloway, 1864-1868; Henry Barnes, 1868-1872; Robert Steven- son, 1872-1876; L. Arnold, 1876-1880; J. H. Cooper, 1880-1884; Frank E. McGervey, 1884-1888; James A. Johnston, 1888-1892; Joshua P. Oggles- bee, 1892-1896; John A. Nesbet, 1896-1900; Asa Little, 1902-1906; Oscar R. Kauffman, 1906-1909; Rankin R. Greive, 1909-1915; John H. McVay, 1915-1917, and J. E. Sutton, 1917-1919.
CORONER.
The office of coroner was established by the constitution of 1803, but since the salary arising from this office was paid in fees and since the neces- sity for inquests came only intermittently, the historian has not been able to compile a complete list of the corners. Among the early incumbents of the office were James Collier 1814-1820; David Connelly, 1820-26; James Collier, 1826-30. It has been possible by consulting the newspaper files to obtain a complete list of coroners since 1881, which list follows: Clark M. Galloway, 1881-1887; A. S. Dryden, 1887-1891; M. A. Broadstone, 1891- 1897; William W. McMillan, 1897-1898; Charles S. Johnson, 1898-1909; P. C. Marquart, 1909-1917, and R. L. Haines, 1917-1919.
CLERK.
The office of the clerk of the common pleas court was provided for in the first constitution of the state, and each succeeding constitution adopted in the state has provided for the office. The tenure was seven years during the period of the first constitution ( 1803-1852) ; from 1852 to 1909 the ten-
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ure was three years ; since the year last named it has been two years. The complete list of clerks from the organization of the county to the present time follows :
John Paul, 1803-1809; Josiah Grover, 1809-1830; James L. Grover, 1830-1837; Thornton Marshall, 1837-1844; D. W. Brown (pro-tempore), 1844; M. Stark (pro-tempore), 1845; James J. Winans, 1846-1852; John Boyd, 1852-1861; J. G. McWirk, 1861-1864; John Orr, 1864-1882; John A. Cisco, 1882-1891; J. F. Haverstick, 1891-1900; Silas O. Hale, 1900- 1909; Leroy T. Marshall, 1909-1913; J. Carl Marshall, 1913-1917, and George Sheets, 1917-1919.
AUDITOR.
The office of county auditor was at first associated with the office of clerk and recorder, the business of the office not being sufficiently onerous or remunerative to occupy the entire attention of one man. John Paul then was the first county auditor and he served until he left Greene county in 1809. At that time Josiah Grover became clerk, auditor and recorder and he served in this capacity until 1820 when the office of auditor was made a separate office and Peter Pelham became the first county auditor after the office became one within itself. Before 1909 the tenure was three years, but after that date it became two years. The complete list of auditors since the organization of the county until the present time follows :
John Paul, 1803-1809; Josiah Grover, 1809-1820; Peter Pelham, 1820- 1821 ; George Townsley, 1821-1829; William Richards, 1829-1837; T. Coke Wright, 1837-1855; James A. Scott, 1855-1857; Samuel T. Owens, 1857- 1861; William C. M. Baker, 1861-1867: Andrew S. Frazer, 1867-1883; William R. Baker, 1883-1896; John H. McPherson, 1896-1902; William Dodds, 1902-1909; Walter L. Dean, 1909-1913; and Amos E. Faulkner, 1913-1919.
RECORDER.
The county recorder has charge of all the deeds, mortgages and trans- fers concerned with all the property, both personal and real, in the county. He has more records to keep and his office is visited with more regularity by the taxpayers of the county than any other.
When the county was organized in 1803, the offices of clerk, auditor and recorder were combined and for the first six years John Paul served in this triplicate capacity. It was not until 1830, which marked the end of the incumbency of Josiah Grover, that the office of recorder became a separate one under J. H. McPherson. The records in the recorder's office, as is true of those in all the other offices of the court house, are kept in excellent con- dition. The complete list of recorders from 1803 follows :
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John Paul, 1803-1809; Josiah Grover, 1809-1830; J. H. McPherson, 1830-1841 ; James W. Harper, 1841-1844; James A. Scott, 1844-1853; M. W. . Trader, 1853-1860; T. Coke Wright, 1860-1866; Hugh McQuiston, 1866-1877; Henry Torrence, 1877-1883 ; Samuel N. Adams, 1883-1901; M. A. Broadstone, 1901-1909; and Benjamin F. Thomas, 1909-1919.
SHERIFF.
The office of county sheriff is directly concerned with the enforcement of the law and is the only one that is attended with any unusual danger to life and limb. In the course of the hundred and fourteen years of its exist- ence, the county has seen scores of desperate criminals handled by its sheriffs, but during all this time the sheriffs have performed their duty without re- gard to any danger which might be encountered on their part. Especially during the early history of the county when the jails were only improvised structures some criminals have escaped, and as one follows the commission- ers' records he finds several orders for the repairs of the breaches in the county bastile which resulted from the successful attempt of some inmate, who had incurred the wrath of the law, to escape. In addition to his duties in maintaining the peace and in apprehending violators of the law, the sheriff of the early days was the collector of taxes. The first record book of the minutes of the court of common pleas contains an order for the clerk to turn over to Nathan Lamme, the first sheriff of the county, the tax lists. The sheriff then notified the residents of a certain community that on a specified day he would be at the house of one of the residents for collecting the tax from the surrounding neighborhood. Since silver specie was scarce in those days and since the tax bill of any person seldom failed to have a fractional cent included, the Mexican dollars then in circulation in those days had to be cut. When the sheriff started to that neighborhood from which he intended collecting the tax on a certain day, he carried in his saddle bag a hammer and cold chisel for cutting the specie of larger denominations into the requisite size. The tenure of the office of sheriff has always been two years and the names of those who have served the county in this capac- ity are as follows :
Nathan Lamme, 1803-1805; William Maxwell, 1805-1807; James Col- lier, 1807-1814; John Hivling, 1814-1815; James Popenoe, 1815-1819; John Smith, 1819-1824: James Popenoe, 1824-1830; James A. Scott, 1830- 1832; Amos Quinn, 1832-1838; James A. Scott, 1838-1840; W. C. Robin- son, 1840-1842; C. L. Merrick, 1842-1844; Daniel Lewis, 1844-1846; Sam- uel Harry, 1846-1850; C. Wilkins, 1850-1854; Daniel Lewis, 1854-1858; Samuel Crumbaugh, 1858-1862; Henry Barnes, 1862-1866; Robert Steven- son, 1866-1870; William H. Glotfelter, 1870-1874; James Harvey Kyle, 1874-1877; James McCann, 1877-1883; James A. Johnston, 1883-1887; C.
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W. Linkhart, 1887-1891 ; William Dodds, 1891-1895; R. R. Grieve, 1895- 1899; E. C. Beall. 1899-1903; F. T. Tarbox, 1903-1907; Howard Apple- gate, 1907-1913; WV. B. McCalister, 1913-1915, and Frank A. Jackson, 1915-1919.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE.
Since Greene county was not organized until 1803 it did not receive representation in the General Assembly in the first session, but in the second legislative session of 1803 and 1804 this county with that of Warren, Mont- gomery, Butler and a part of Hamilton counties was represented by Samuel Dick. It was not, however, until the third session of the Legislature that this county had individual representation in the person of John Sterritt. The following men have represented Greene county in the Legislature since its organization :
Samuel Dick, 1803-1804; John Sterritt, 1805; Joseph Tatman, 1806- 1807; John McKnight, 1808; Joseph Tatman, 1809; James Morrow, 1810; John McKnight, 1811; David Huston, 1812; Jacob Smith, 1813; David Huston, 1814; William Tatman, 1815; James Morrow, 1816; Joseph Tat- man, 1817; Stephen Bell, 1818; James Popenoe, 1819; Joseph Johnson, 1820; William M. Townsley, 1821-1823; Joseph Kyle, 1824; James B. Gardiner, 1825; Robert Dobbins, 1826-1827; David Huston, 1828; Moses Collier, 1829; Simeon Dunn, 1830-1831; Aaron Harlan, 1832; James A. Scott, 1833; Robert Jackson, 1834; Amos Quinn, 1835; Isaac S. Perkins, 1836-1837; Joseph Kyle, 1838; James A. Scott, 1839-1840; John Fudge, 1841-1842; John Keiler, 1843; Elias F. Drake, 1844-1845; John Keiler, 1846; Charles F. Drake, 1847; Roswell F. Howard, 1848; William Fair- child, 1849-1850; (new constitution, 1851), Joseph G. Gest, 1852-1855; Moses D. Gatch, 1856-1859; Aaron Harlan, 1860-1861; John M. Miller, 1862-1863; Camaralza H. Spahr, 1864-1865; R. F. Howard, 1866-1869; John Little, 1870-1873; Isaac M. Barrett, 1874-1879; J. W. Green, 1878- 1882; Joseph G. Gest, 1882-1886; Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886-1888; An- drew Jackson, 1888-1892; John B. Allen, 1892-1894; J. B. Cummings, 1894-1898; J. J. Snider, 1898-1900; Horace Ankeney, 1900-1903; George Little, 1903-1908; James Lewis, 1908-1912; S. C. Anderson, 1912-1914; W. B. Bryson, 1914-1918.
STATE SENATORS.
After Greene county was erected into one of the civil divisions of the state in 1803, it was represented in the state Senate, along with Hamilton, Warren, Montgomery and Butler counties, by John Bigger and William C. Schenk, in the second legislative session during the years 1803 and 1804. During the third general session of 1804 and 1805, this county was included
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in a senatorial district which also included Warren and Montgomery coun- ties, which district was represented by John Bigger and William C. Schenk. During the fourth session this district, composed of the same counties, was represented by John Bigger and Jacob Smith in the year 1804 and 1805. When the fifth legislative session met on December 1, 1806, there had been a change in the senatorial district which contained Greene county, for to the counties of Warren, Butler, Montgomery and Greene the newly. erected county of Champaign was added. The district was then represented in the state senate by Jacob Smith and Richard S. Thomas. At the next conven- ing of the state senate on December 7, 1807, still another change had been made in the district, for to this district which already contained Warren, Butler, Montgomery, Greene, and Champaign counties, Miami county was added. In that session the district was represented by John Bigger and Richard S. Thomas.
From 1808 to 1812, including the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth ses- sions, Greene county constituted a separate senatorial district, and was rep- resented by Jacob Smith, 1808-1809; John Sterritt, ISI0, and Jacob Smith, I&II.
From the eleventh to the thirty-fifth sessions Greene and Clinton coun- ties formed a senatorial district. The state senators during this period from 1812 to 1836 were as follows: Jacob Smith, 1812-1813; William Buckles, 1814-1815; Jacob Smith, 1816-1817; William R. Cole, 1818-1821; John Alexander, 1822-1823; Samuel H. Hale, 1824-1825; James B. Gardiner, 1826-1827; Samuel H. Hale, 1828-1829; William Ellsberry, 1830-1833; Joshua Yeo, 1834-1835.
Greene county was joined with Fayette and Madison counties in 1835. The senators from this district were John Arbuckle, 1836-1838, and Aaron Harlan, 1838-1840.
Beginning with the thirty-seventh session and continuing until the for- ty-third, Warren and Greene counties formed a senatorial district which was represented in the state senate by Isaac Perkins, 1840-1841; William H. P. Denny, 1842-1843. The senator for 1844 is not on record. Evidently some re-districting had been done, for Warren county was joined with Montgomery in the forty-third session of 1844 and 1845. Greene county apparently was not represented in the state Senate in that year; at least there is no record to the effect of its having a senator, although it was undoubt- edly united with Warren.
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