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Several other men of eminent ability have been, and some are yet, connected with the Newark bar, whose biographies will be found elsewhere in this work.
The older members of the present bar of New- ark are Messrs. George B. Smythe, C. H. Kibler, James R. Stanbery, H. D. Sprague, Jerome Buck- ingham, Charles Follett and Gibson Atherton. The younger members who are coming upon the stage of action and whose full success is yet to be determined by the future, are Joel Dennis, J. B. Jones, John D. Jones, B. G. Smythe, Jesse Flory, James W. Owens, John H. James, D. A. Allen, John M. Swartz, J. R. Davies, Judge S. M. Hunter, William A. King, George Grasser, James Lingafelter, W. Taylor, C. Norpel, C. Follett, jr., E. M. P. Brister, L. P. Coman, William Baker, A. B. Barrick, Perry Veach, Clark Barrows, J. E. Law- head, Thomas Thornton, George P. Webb, Theo- dore Kemp, Charles F. Bryan and L. B. Harris.
Little need be said of the building in which these men fought their battles, so far as this county is concerned. All the court houses-four in num-
ber-have occupied the public square. The first one stood a little north of the present building; was built of logs, and when first erected the floor was mother earth, either bare or covered with saw- dust. It was a square pen, one or two stories in height (statements differing regarding this), the seats were slabs or puncheons laid upon blocks of wood. It was in perfect keeping with the cabins of the settlers, and was erected in 1809 or 1810, serving all the purposes of a court house until about 1815, when another was erected. This one was stylish, comparatively; being built of brick, two stories in height, thirty or forty feet square, surmounted with a roof which sloped from either side to the center, upon which rested the square cupola. The upper part of this building was oc- cupied as a court room, and the lower part for offices, there being an office in each corner. This building stood about where the present one stands, as did also the one which immediately succeeded it. About 1832 it became necessary to erect a new one. The old one was not only too small for the accom- modation of the increased business, but it had been poorly constructed and was beginning to decay; it was, therefore, taken down, and another brick structure erected in its place, which, however, was but little improvement upon the old one except that it was larger. It consisted of two stories and a basement, and was built something after the style of the old court house in Richland county, and shows that certain ideas of architecture for court houses prevailed at that time. When the building had been put up ready for the roof, in- stead of putting on the roof in the ordinary way, another partial-wooden-story was added, with ends jutting out over the main building, these ends being supported by stone pillars. This was sup- posed to add greatly to the architectural beauty of the building. The pillars, and the part resting on them, were wholly and entirely useless-not probably even answering the purpose for which they were designed, that of architectural finish. The pillars in the case of the Newark court house were on the east and west ends. This building was destroyed by fire in 1874; about the time it was desirable to have a new one.
The present building was begun in 1876, and cost, with furniture, about one hundred and ninety
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thousand dollars. It was fire-proof except the upper portion. In March, 1879, the upper part caught fire, probably from a defective flue from the heat- ing apparatus, and was destroyed; burning down to the second story, where the fire was extinguished. In this fire the records in the offices of the recorder and auditor suffered greatly by fire and water. The part destroyed was rebuilt at a cost of forty or fifty thousand dollars. It is a beautiful structure, and looks as if it might stand the ravages of time a few centuries.
The following is a list of articles deposited in the corner-stone of this building, under the aus- . pices of the Masonic fraternity :
I. A list of city, county, State and other public officers.
2. Printed transactions of the Licking County Pioneer society.
3. History of the Welsh settlement in the county.
4. List of soldiers from Licking county in the war of the Rebellion.
5. List of the Licking county soldiers killed during the late war.
6. Copies of the Newark Advocate (June 30, 1876); New- ark American (June 30, 1876), and Newark Banner of June 28, 1876.
7. Christian Apologist, German, published in Cincinnati.
8. A Welsh paper (Y Drych) published at Utica, New York.
9. Copy of the Masonic proceedings of the day.
10. Copy of the printed proceedings of the Masonic grand bodies of Ohio, for 1875.
II. List of the officers and members of Newark Lodge No. 97, F. and A. M.
12. List of the officers of the Grand Lodge, held for the purpose of laying this corner-stone.
13. A box of coins, furnished by the commissioners of Lick- ing county and the First National bank of Newark.
14. List of officiating ministers of the city of Newark, July 4, 1876.
15. List of members of the board of education.
16. A copy of a sermon in memory of the late Rev. Henry M. Hervey.
17. A copy of the Scientific Monthly of Toledo, Ohio.
18. Record from the German Benevolent society.
19. Record from St. Francis De Sales Benevolent society.
20. Record from Germania Benevolent society.
21. Record from Germania Building society.
22. Record from Robert Blume Grove No. 24 society.
23. Copy of the specifications and diagram of Joseph Rider's improvement in fire-arms,
24. Copy of the United States Internal Revenue return for 1876.
25. Copy of the premium list of the Licking County Agri- cultural society for 1876.
26. Copy of Ohio statistics for 1875.
27. List of the officers and students of Dennison university, Granville, Ohio.
28. List of the officers of the Licking County Pioneer society.
The first jail has been mentioned in the early history of the town. It stood on the south side of the public square, and Adam Hatfield, one of the first mail carriers, was probably the first jailor. The second jail was erected on a lot immediately in rear of the Park house, on East Main street. It was a square brick building, two stories in height, and very homely in appearance. About 1840 it was abandoned for the present building, which stands on Canal street, south side, between First and Second. It is a brick, two-story building, about thirty by forty feet in size, with a one-story wing on the east side, occupied by the jailor.
Among the public buildings may, perhaps, be considered the old market-house, which stood facing the square, directly in West Main street where it enters the square. It was erected about 1827 or 1828, and stood upon posts, the lower part being occupied for a market, and the upper part as a place of public worship, and for other public gatherings. Some of the early schools were also taught here. It was used until the pres- ent one, corner of Fourth and Main, was erected, in 1839 or 1840.
One of the most important public buildings in the county is the infirmary, located in Union town- ship, eight miles from Newark, and about three miles south of Granville. The first Licking county poor-house, consisting of a hewn log building, was erected nearly upon the site of the present one, December 13, 1838, the first superin- tendent being Trueman B. French, and the first inmate admitted, Samuel Thrall, of Granville township. In 1862, the old log structure was cleared off and a brick building substituted, form- ing one portion of the present main building. Since the first, the farm has also been extended, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-six acres, nearly an acre of which is built over. Mr. William Beaumont, the efficient superintendent, comes from Alexandria, and took the office Febru- ary 2, 1880. The main building is one hundred by forty feet, two stories and a basement, though showing three stories to the public road. On the first floor is the superintendent's office, a dining room for the female inmates, excellent kitchens,
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cellars, drying and ironing rooms. On the second floor are the superintendent's sleeping apartments; the male patients' dining room, capable of seating sixty persons; spacious sitting rooms for men; a tailoring and clothing department; a dispensary, suitably appointed for the visiting physician, Dr. S. S. Richards, from Kirkersville; the superinten- dent's private office, and a suitable meeting room for the infirmary directors. The whole of the third story is devoted to sleeping apartments.
The hospital and infirmary building is a sub- stantial brick, two stories and a basement, eighty by sixty feet, and is occupied in part by children, who have their own separate dining room and sleeping apartments. The "idiot ward" is also in this building. Around these two structures clus- ter some fifteen or twenty smaller buildings, occu- pied as shoe shop, bake house, wash house, store house, slaughter house, winter and spring milk houses, smoke house, ice house, wood house, hog houses, stables, barns, etc. Neat flower and veg- etable gardens are attached, and are skilfully tilled. The farm consists of two hundred and twenty acres under a high state of cultivation, having yielded this year eight hundred and five bushels of wheat, eight hundred bushels of corn, seventy tons of hay, two thousand bushels of po- tatoes, besides pasturing and feeding twenty-two cows, four horses and fifty hogs. There are two orchards, one quite young; the yield of fruit is
satisfactory. The directors are James Miller, of Newark, elected in 1879; S. C. Williams, of Pat- askala, elected in 1877; and R. D. Horton, of St. Louisville, elected in 1878.
The project of establishing a "Home for the Friendless" in the county has been inaugurated, and it is believed will soon be pushed to comple- tion. It entered into the mind of Mr. Lucius Humphrey, one of the philanthropic citizens of the county, to signalize the close of his life by generously donating a tract of ten acres of land, situated within the corporate limits of Columbus, to this noble purpose. The liberal donor of the munificent gift selected Judges Buckingham and Follett and Hon. Isaac Smucker as trustees to carry his benevolent purpose into effect, who promptly. accepted the trust and entered into the possession of the property. In pursuance of the provisions of the trust deed and of law, a board of trustees, composed of Messrs. Enoch Wilson, David Winegarner and John H. Franklin, has been appointed by the court, who have organized to execute the trust, The land has been conveyed to the county commissioners, who will proceed to sell it and apply the proceeds to the establishment and perpetuation of a children's home, as provided for by Mr. Humphrey, under the direction and su- perintendence of the recently appointed board of trustees.
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CHAPTER XXXV.
DATE OF SETTLEMENT, ORGANIZATION, ETC.
T THE following is a list of the townships of Lick- ing county, the date of their organization, and when settled:
TOWNSHIPS. WHEN ORGANIZED. WHEN SETTLED.
I.
Licking *
1801 . 1801
2. Granville *
1807
.1801
3.
Hanover
1808.
1801
4.
Bowling Green
1808.
1802
5. Union. 1808. 1800
6. Newton 1809. 1803
7.
Newark
1810.
1801
8. Madison 1812. .1798
9. Monroe, 1812. 1806
IO. Washington 1812. .1808
II. Franklin 1812. 1805
12. St. Albans 1813.
1807
13. Hopewell. 1814. 1806
14. Benningto 1815 .. 1809
15. Harrison 1816 .. 1806
16. Burlington 1817 .. .1806
17. Mary Ann 1817.
1809
18.
McKean.
.1818.
19. Hartford 1819 ..
1812
20. Perry
1819.
1810
21. Jersey 1820. 1815
22. Eden 1822. 1813
23. Fallsbury 1826. 1818
24.
Liberty
.1827.
I821
25. Lima
1827. 1805
26. Etna 1833. 1815
Population of the city of Newark, and of the towns and villages of Licking county, according to the census of 1880:
Newark 9,602
Granville. 1,027
Hebron
538
Pataskala, (first called Conine). 634
Utica, (first called Wilmington) 700 Kirkersville 349
Johnstown
278
Columbia, (sometimes called Columbia Center,) 188 St. Louisville 215
Chatham, (first called Harrisburgh,)
133
Jersey .
I28
Fredonia
86
Vanattasburgh 81
Total.
13,959
* Organized originally as part of Fairfield county.
N. B .- Amsterdan, Toboso, Wagram, New Way, Fallsburgh, Boston, Moscow, Sylvania, Summit Sta- tion, Union Station, Jackson, Brownsville, Han- over, Alexandria, Etna, Hartford, Homer, Gratiot, Elizabethtown, Linnville, Appleton, Luray, and perhaps other villages were not separately enum- erated, but were included in the total population.
LICKING COUNTY TOWNS-WHEN LAID OUT AND BY WHOM.
( Given in Chronological Order).
TOWNS.
WHEN LAID OUT.
AND BY WHOM.
Newark
1802 .. W. C. Schenck, J. N. Cummings and
J. Burnet.
Granville
1806. . Licking Land company.
Johnstown
. 1813. . Dr. Oliver Bigelow.
Utica.
. 1814. . Major William Robertson.
Homer
1816 .. John Chonner.
Hartford
1824. . Ezekiel Wells and Elijah Durfey.
Hebron .
1827. . John W. Smith.
Jackson
1829. . Thomas Harris.
Fredonia.
1829. . Spencer Arnold, David Wood, jr., and
S. Shaw.
Gratiot
1829. . Adam Smith.
Brownsville
1829. . Adam Brown.
Linnville.
. 1829. . Samuel Parr.
Chatham
. 1829. . John Wagonner.
Elizabethtown
.. 1829. . Leroy, Beverly, Abner and Minerva
Lemert.
Lockport
. 1830. . James Holmes and C. W. Searle.
Moscow
.1830. . Daniel Green and William Green.
Alexandria
. 1830. . Alexander Devilbliss.
Wagram.
1831 .. (First called Cumberland) Jeremiah
Armstrong.
Appleton
1832. . Titus Knox and Carey Mead.
Etna.
1832. . L.yman Turrill.
Jersey
1832. . L. Headley, W. Condit, E. Beecher
and A. D. Pearson.
Kirkersville.
1832. . William C. Kirker.
Luray
1832. . Adam Sane and Richard Porter.
Amsterdam
. 1834. . George Barnes.
Sylvania.
1838. . Jesse and Abraham Gosnell.
St. Louisville
1840. . John Evans.
Columbia
1850. . John Reese, Stephen Childs and Mark
Richey.
Pataskala.
1851. . Richard Conine.
Hanover
1852 .. J. H. Hollister.
Toboso
1852. . William Stanbery.
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Fairfield, Licking, New Winchester, Belfast, Exeter, Livingston, and Mount Hope are virtually extinct villages of Licking county.
TOWNSHIPS NUMBER OF NAMES OF FIRST SET- WHEN
OF LICK- INHABITANTS TLERS IN EACH. SETTLED.
ING COUNTY. IN 1880.
Bennington .. 887. . Henry Iles.
1809
Bowling Green. . 926. . Michael Thorn, F. Myer and H.
Neff
1802
Burlington.
.. 1,068. . James Dunlap, C. Vanousdal and
others. 1806
Eden
767 .. W. Shannon, J. Oldaker and E.
Brown
1813
Etna 1, 168. . J. Williams, J. Crouch, Nelsons and Housers
1815
Fallsbury 897. . David Bright.
1818
Franklin
819. . George Ernst, the Switzers and J.
Feasel.
1805
Granville.
.2, 147. . John Jones and Patrick Cunning-
bam
1801
Hanover. 1,227. . Philip Barrick 1801
Harrison . 1, 328. . Henry Drake. 1806
Hartford
1, 159. . Daniel Poppleton.
1812
Hopewell.
1,000 .. W. Hull, I. Farmer, S. Pollock
and others
1806
Jersey 1,358. . Joseph and Peter Headly and L.
. Martin.
1815
Liberty 753. . Rena Knight and others. 1821
Licking 1, 157. . P. Sutton, J. Rathbone and J. and
G. Gillespie.
1801
Lima 1,803. .- Hatfield, David and John Her-
ron .. 1805
Madison 920. . Elias Hughes and John Ratliff. 1798
Mary Ann . . 944. .- Bush, a Virginian. 1809
Mckean 980. . John Price. 1806
Monroe
1, 339. . George W. Evans, Charles and
George Green.
1806
Newark . 1,012. . Samuel Parr and others 1801
Newton . 1,332. . John Evans 1803 Perry 1,038. . Samuel Hickerson and James Thrap 1810
St. Albans.
1, 148. . John Cook Herron.
1807
Union
1,878. . John Van Buskirk, the Fords and
others 1800
Washington. . 1,620. . Joseph Conard, John Lee, and others 1808
The following list comprises the names of the persons, with the titles of their offices and time of service in the various State and county offices, so far as this county was identified with them, begin- ning with the members of Congress who have rep- resented districts of which Licking county formed a part :
Jeremiah Morrow served from. . 1803 to 1813
James Kilbourn . 1813 " 1817 ..
Philemon Beecher 1817 " 1821
Joseph Vance
1821 " 1823
William Wilson
1823 " 1827
William Stanbery
1827 " 1833
Robert Mitchell served from. 1833 " 1835
Elias Howell 1835 " 1837
Alexander Harper
1837 " 1839
Jonathan Taylor
1839 " 1841
Joshua Mathiot ..
1841 " 1843
Heman A. Moore ..
1843
'1844
Alfred P. Stone ..
1844 " 1845
Columbus Delano "
..
1845 1847 1847 1849
Charles Sweetser
849 ' 1853
Edson B. Olds
853 '1855
Samuel Galloway
855 1857
Samuel S. Cox
1857 1863
John O'Neil
1863
' 1865
Columbus Delano
1865 " 1867
George W. Morgan "
1867 " 1873
Milton I. Southard
1873 " 1879
Gibson Artherton ".
1879 " 1883
The State senators were-
Robert F. Slaughter served from 1803 to 1805
Jacob Burton
1805 " 1806
Elnathan Schofield
..
1806 " 1810
Jacob Burton
..
1808 " 1810
William Trimble
1810 " 1812
Robert F. Slaughter
1810 " 1812
William Gavitt
1812 " 1814
William Gass
1814 " 1815
William Gavitt
815
1816
Mordecai Bartley
1816 " 1818
John Spencer 1818 " 1822
Jacob Catterlin
1822 " 1824
William Stanbery 1824
1826
1830
Elias Howell
1830 " 1832
Benjamin Briggs
1832 " 1833
Jonathan Taylor
I833
1836
William W. Gault
..
1836
1838
Richard Stadden
1838
1840
Burrill B. Taylor I840 1842
James Parker
1842 " 1844
1844
1846
Samuel Winegarner 1846 " 1848
Samuel Patterson 1848 " 1850
John C. Alward 1850 " 1854
Charles Follett
854
' 1856
Daniel Gardner 1856
1858
William P. Reid
1858
1860
Thomas C. Jones
1860 " 1862
John A. Sinnett
1862 " 1864
James R. Stanbery 1.
1864 " 1866
Willard Warner, jr., ..
1866 " 1868
Lewis Evans 1868 " 1870
James R. Hubbel
1870
1871
Early F. Poppleton 1871
1872
John B. Jones 1872
1874
William P. Reid
1874 1876
James W. Owens 1876 " 1880
F. M. Marriott
1880 " 1882
The members of the House of representatives
were:
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William W. Gault ..
Willard Warner
Daniel Duncan
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William Trimble served in first session of .
David Reese ..
William Gass
from second session in 1803 10 1805
Philemon Beecher
1803 to 1804
David Reese
from
1804 to 1805
Philemon Beecher ..
1805 to 1808
Robert Cloud
..
1805 to 1806
William W. Irwin served from
1806 to 1808
Alexander Holden
1808 to 1809
William Gass
..
1809 to 1810
Jeremiah R. Munson ..
1810 to 1811
William Gass
..
1811 to 1812
Edward Herrick
..
1812 to 1813
William Hains
1813 to 1814
John Spencer
1814 to 1817
William W. Gault ..
1817 to 1818
Anthony Pitzer
1818 to 1820
William W. Gault
1820 to 1822
Augustine Munson
1822 to 1824
Stephen C. Smith
1824 to 1825
Bradley Buckingham
1825 to 1826
Stephen C. Smith
1826 to 1827
William Hull
1827 to 1828
Jacob Baker
1828 to 1829
Rollin C. Hurd.
. 1852 to 1857
Sherman Finch,
1857 10 1862
Thomas C. Jones,
1862 10 1867
Jefferson Brumback,
1867 10 1869
Jerome Buckingham, 1869 to 1870
Charles Follett, 1870 to 1876
Samuel M. Hunter,
1876 to 1881
The associate judges have been:
James Taylor,
from 1808 to 1809
Alexander Holmes, 1808 to 1812
Timothy Rose,
..
1808 to 1813
Henry Smith,
..
1809 to 1823
Isaac Green ..
1841 to 1843
Noah Fidler,
..
1813 to 1823
Phelps Humphrey
1842 to 1843
William Hains,
. 1814 to 1816
Samuel White
1843 to 1844
Daniel Duncan
..
1843 to 1844
Presley N. O'Bannon ..
..
1844 to 1845
Alexander Holmes,
1823 to 1828
Samuel Brancroft,
. 1824 to 1845
E. L. Smith
..
..
1845 to 1846
William O. Bannon,
. 1825 10 1839
Jonathan Smith
1846 to 1847
Robert Fristo
1847 to 1848
William Taylor,
1829 to 1842
Robert B. Truman
1848 to 1849
Levi J. Haughey.
. 1839 to 1843
Noah Reed
1849 to 1850
Richard H. Yates
..
1850 to 1854
John Bell
1852 to 1854
Alban Warthen
1854 to 1856
A. E. Rogers
..
1854 to 1856
John A. Sinnett
..
1856 to 1858
Charles B. Giffin
1856 to 1858
William B. Woods
..
1858 to 1862
William Parr
1858 to 1862
George B. Smythe
1862 to 1864
John H. Putnam
1864 to 1868
John F. Follett
1866 to 1870
William Parr
..
..
1868 to 1872
William Bell, jr.
..
..
1872 to 1874
Waldo Taylor, 1873 to 1876
William D. Smith
1874 to 1876
1803 Joel L. Tyler served from . 1876 10 1880
= 1803 Benjamin Brownfield “ 1879 to 1881
The members of the Constitutional convention
were :
Henry Abrams and Emanuel Carpenter in 1802
Lucius Case and Henry S. Manon in. 1851-1852
William P. Kerr in convention of. 1873-1874
The Presidential electors of this county have been:
Daniel Humphrey, who served in 1856
James R. Stanberry, ..
1864
William D. Hamilton, .1868
Isaac Smucker,
1872
Edward M. Downer, .. 1876 ..
Mendall Churchill, ..
.1880
The president judges of the common pleas court have been :
William Wilson,
from 1808 to 1822
Alexander Harper, 1822 to 1836
Corrington W. Searle, ..
1836 to 1843
Richard Stillwell ..
1843 to 1852
Benjamin Briggs
1829 to 1830
Bryant Thornhill
1830 to 1832
Jonathan Taylor =
1832 to 1833
Samuel D. King
..
1833 to 1834
William Mitchell
1833 to 1835
John Yontz
1835 to 1837
John Stewart
1836 to 1838
Isaac Smucker
George H. Flood
..
1838 to. 1840
Walter B. Morris
1839 to 1841
Elisha Warren
1840 to 1841
Jonathan Smith
1841 to 1842
Seth S. Wright
..
1845 to 1846
John J. Brice,
. 1828 to 1829
Daniel Martin, .7842 to 1849
Benjamin F. Myers,
. 1843 to 1850
Benjamin W. Brice,
1845 to 1847
William Hunter, . 1847 to 1852
John Van Fossen,
. 1849 to 1852
Elizur Abbott,
. 1850 to 1852
Associate judges were abolished by the constitu- tion of 1852, and probate judges substituted. The probate judges have been:
Daniel Humphrey, from . 1852 to 1858
Henry Kennon, . 1858 to 1864 ..
William H. Shircliff, ,1864 to 1873-
George M. Grasser,
1876 to 1882
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Anthony Pitzer,
Zachariah Davis
1818 to 1825
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1837 to 1839
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The sheriffs have been:
John Stadden,
from
1808 to 1810
Andrew Baird,
1810 to 1814
Andrew Allison,
1814 to 1818
Stephen McDougal
1820 to 1842
Gilbert Brady ..
..
1842 to 1844
James Parker
1844 to r845
James White ..
..
1845 to 1851
Thomas J. Anderson" ..
1851 to 1857
Jesse S. Green 1857 to 1863
Isaac W. Bigelow ..
1863 to 1869
W. E. Atkinson
1869 to 1875
J. F. Lingafelter ..
..
1875 to 1880
George Iden
..
by appointment. .. 1880 to 1881
J. R. Mccullough
:
1881 to 1884
The county commissioners have been :
Archibald Wilson, sr., served from 1808 to 1814
Elisha Wells
1808 to 1810
Israel Wells
..
1808 to 1811
Timothy Spellman
1810 to 1822
William Hains
..
1811 to 1813
Samuel Stewart
..
1814 to 1815
Bradley Buckingham
..
..
1814 to 1814
Augustine Munson ..
.. 1814 to 1816
William Stanberry :
1815 to 1817
William W. Gault
..
1816 to 1816
Alexander Holden
1817 to 1820
William Robertson ..
. . 1817 to 1820
Thomas Mckean Thompson"
1822 to 1825
Jacob Baker
..
..
1823 to 1828
Alexander Holden
1824 to 1827
Richard Lamson ..
..
1825 to 1827
Chester Wells
..
1827 to 1833
John Crow
..
1828 to 1832
James Bramble
..
..
1831 to 1834
John Crow
1832 to 1835
Samuel Hand
..
1833 to 1839
Benjamin Woodbury
1834 to 1837
Jacob Baker
..
1835 to 1837
Israel Dille
1837 to 1837
Levi J. Haughey
..
..
1837 to 1837
Bryant Thornhill
..
..
1837 to 1843
Archibald Cornell
..
1837 to 1843
Thomas H. Fidler
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1839 to 1841
Isaac Green ..
.1841 to 1841
Carey McClelland
..
1841 to 1845
Henry Burner, jr.,
..
..
.1841 to 1844
Crandal Rosencrantz
..
1843 to 1843
Thomas Blanchard
1843 to 1852
John Brumback
..
1844 to 1850
Leroy Lemert
1845 to 1848
Harvey C. Blackman
..
1856 to 1858
Gibson Atherton
. 1858 to 1863
Lucius Case
1863 to 1863
Morgan N. Odell
1863 to 1867
James W. Owens
..
1867 to 1871
Samuel M. Hunter
1871 to 1875
Asbury Barrick
..
. 1875 to 1879
1879 to 1881
The county recorders have been :
Thomas Taylor served from
1808 to 1814
Amos H. Caffee ..
1814 to 1820
John Cunningham,
1818 to 1822
William W. Gault,
1822 to 1826
Elias Howell,
1826 to 1830
William Spencer,
1830 to 1834
Richard Stadden,
..
1834 to 1838
William P. Morrison,
1838 to 1840
Caleb Boring,
1840 to 1844
William Veach,
..
1844 to 1848
William Parr,
1848 to 1852
William Bell,
..
1852 to 1854
Hiram Tenney,
1854 to 1859
William Bell,
1859 to 1863
Jonathan E. Rankin,
1863 to 1867
Jeremiah Siler,
1867 to 1871
Elisha Williams,
1871 to 1875
S. H. Schofield,
1875 to 1879
A. T. Howland,
1879 to 1883
The clerks of the court of common pleas have been:
Samuel Bancroft,
from.
1808 to 1809
Stephen McDougal,
1809 to 1816
Amos H. Caffee,
1816 to 1837
Franklin Fullerton,
. 1837 to 1844
Gilbert Brady,
..
1844 to 1852
William Spencer,
..
1852 to 1855
Rees Darlington,
. 1855 to 1858
Thomas J. Anderson,
1858 to 1864
Samuel A. Parr,
1864 to 1870
Isaac W. Bigelow,
1870 to 1876
Sylvester S. Wells,
1876 to 1879
A. R. Brown,
1879 to 1880
Charles T. Dickenson
1880 to 1883
From 1808 to 1832 prosecuting attorneys were appointed by the judges. Among those who in early times served in this office for a longer or shorter period, were Major Jeremiah R. Munson, General Samuel Herrick, Hons. Thomas Ewing, William Stanberry, Hosmer Curtis, Charles B. God- dard, and Corrington W. Searle, whose term ended in 1832.
Joshua Mathiot
served from
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