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thousand two hundred dollars. June 1, 1871, bonds were issued to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, to procure funds for proceeding with the work of construction ; they were disposed of in New York City, by W. W. Woods, for twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, which sum was placed to the credit of Union county in the Bank of Marysville.
The first superintendent of the infirmary in 1851 was William Porter, father of Judge John L. Porter, of Marysville.
By a report made in 1913, it is learned that the farm now contains two hundred acres of fine land, worth thirty thousand dollars. The present building is a four-story structure with a basement and has one hundred rooms. It has steam heat and acetylene lights throughout. There is a three- acre garden and a six-acre orchard. Fourteen cows are kept ; five horses are used on the farm; four hundred chickens are also found about the premises. In December, 1914, there were twenty-five men and twelve women in the institution. The average in 1914 was twenty-five males and thirteen females.
THE CIHILDREN'S HOME.
The first children's home for Union county was started in March, 1884, when the homestead of William Gibson, one mile to the east of the city of Marysville, was rented and the institution was opened April I, of that year. It opened with twenty-five children, and Mr. and Mrs. Byron Turner were placed in charge. At their January. 1887, meeting, the county commissioners selected a new site for the home, a ninety-five-acre tract two miles east of the city on the Marysville and Dover pike. paying sixty-five dollars per acre for the land, with fair farm buildings on the same.
In 1900, the county commissioners ordered a new building erected for the home. the cost being ten thousand dollars. The official report for De- cember, 1913, shows that the institution consisted of ninety-six acres, two miles east of the city. on land worth one hundred and fifty dollars per acre. The building is of pressed brick; contains thirty rooms and cost when finished, thirteen thousand dollars. It is in every particular modern in ap- pointments. A good water system is had, making all sanitary and safe. Stock and chickens are kept to good advantage. There were at the close of 1913, nineteen children at the home. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Fox are the super- intendent and matron of the home and have been for the last fifteen years. The superintendent reported January 1, 1915, sixteen girls and three boys as inmates of the home.
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THE COUNTY BOARD-PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
The first recorded meeting of the board of county commissioners was held April 17, 1820, the following being the only entry found regarding it : "Joel Frankelberger, being appointed clerk of the board of commissioners and duly qualified to office, there is deposited with said clerk one bond of James Ewing, sheriff. and one of Joseph Kennedy, coroner." April 28, 1820, the sum of one dollar per month was allowed for the hire of the clerk's office. May 15, the commissioners "received pay for William Buram's license as a tavern keeper ; also, received pay of Sanders & Davis in the use of the house for cost one year. Received of the county money, in cash, fifty cents." June 5. allowed to Thomas Reynolds, for his services as clerk of the court of common pleas, forty dollars for one year, also, allowed five dol- lars to Nathaniel Kazar, for making a table for the clerk of the court. On page forty-four, Record No. 1. is the following: "Ordered, by the com- missioners of Union county, that Levi C. Phelps, surveyor of said county, shall commence running the line around the county on the last week of July. 1820. calculating the variation of the compass in order to run the true course."
The business of the early commissioners seems, from the records, to have been mostly in the line of issuing orders on the treasury and attending to road matters.
June 2, 1823, the commissioners met at Marysville, and appointed Richard Gabriel, Esq., treasurer for that year, and John Reed, collector for the same time. June 4. 1827, George Reed. Henry Sager and James Herd, commissioners, met and proceeded. with the auditor, to form a board of equalization. "Andrew Noteman's house, appraised at four hundred dol- lars, reduced to three hundred dollars : Rueben P. Mann's two lots, formerly in the name of Samuel Kazar, and one house, all formerly appraised at two hundred and sixty dollars, reduced to one hundred and fifty dollars." June 5. 1827, "The commissioners of Union county accepted a certain license for vending goods, bearing date, October term, A. D. 1825. for the term of one year, granted to Lanson Curtis. A law being passed, at the session of the winter previous, altering the mode of collecting taxes, commencing and tak- ing effect on the first day of March. 1826, the above laid over for further consideration." Under the same date, the record says: "The foregoing license given to Lanson Curtis, the commissioners of Union county, after a full investigation, agree to allow and refund back to the said Curtis the amount of the proportion which would accrue on said license for six months,
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amounting to seven dollars and fifty cents." At the same date the commis- sioners, having been notified of a vacancy in the office of county auditor, appointed Levi Phelps as auditor pro tem.
November 4, 1828, by order of the commissioners, Levi Phelps began surveying the boundaries of the townships in Union county in the following order: Union, Darby, Jerome, Allen and the line between Liberty and Leesburg. June 6, 1827, a tax of three mills on the dollar was levied for road purposes and four mills for county purposes. March 3. 1828, the bond of county auditor, Levi Phelps, was received. he having been elected to the office in October, 1827. March 4. "Ordered, by the commissioners of Union county, that Levi Phelps, surveyor of Union county, proceed to establish the eastern boundary of Union county, to commence on the 24th of this instant." Also, same date, ordered "that notice be forwarded to the board of commissioners of Delaware county notifying them of their intention of establishing the above mentioned boundary line, commencing on the above mentioned date, to meet at Ephraim Markley's, on Scioto, on said day." March 5. 1828, Stephen McLain was appointed to the office of county sealer, and Levi Phelps was authorized to cause all necessary repairs to be per- formed on the court house and present his account to the next board of com- missioners. June 5. 1828, the commissioners placed the tax for that year at three mills to the dollar on the grand levy, and four mills for county pur- poses. At the same date, Levi Phelps was ordered to proceed to survey and establish the east line between the counties of Franklin and Union, and also establish the southeast corner of Union county agreeably to an act of the Legislature, passed Jannary 10. 1820, erecting the county of Union : to com- mence on the third Monday in July following. Notice of said step was ordered to be forwarded to the clerk of the commissioners of Franklin county. It was also ordered that Mr. Phelps proceed to establish the lines of the several townships, the lines between Union and Marion, and Union, Hardin and Logan counties, and give the required notice to the commission- ers of the different counties. December 2, 1828, Mr. Phelps having been unable to complete the surveys of the aforementioned county and township lines, was ordered to complete the unsurveyed balance, instructions being given him to the manner of procedure. He had not quite finished his work in March, 1829, and was given further time.
June 6. 1849, ordered that the bounty on wolf scalps be increased to three dollars and fifty cents on each wolf under six months of age, the county paying the excess of two dollars and fifty cents. June 6, 1850. the com- missioners authorized the levy of four thousand dollars in Paris township for
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aid to the Marysville & Delaware Plank Road Company, four thousand dol- lars in the same township for the Clark & Union Turnpike Company, and half the same sums in Union township for the same roads, with further orders for levies in 1851. Neither this plank road nor any other was ever built in the county, and the taxes levied were not collected. April 7, 1851, the voters of the county, by a vote of one thousand two hundred and twelve to seven hundred and seventy-nine, decided to raise a tax of seventy-five thousand dollars for stock in the Springfield & Marysville railroad, and twelve thousand five hundred dollars in the Indiana, Piqua & Columbus rail- road, should the latter be constructed through Milford Center, with other provisions. Subsequent to this election, the commissioners subscribed the above amounts in the bonds of the county, those officers at the time being J. W. Robinson, M. H. Wadhams and William T. Fulton.
June 5, 1851, the commissioners directed the sheriff to "keep the door of the court room closed, and exclude therefrom all shows and exhibitions for gain ; provided, however, that agricultural exhibitions and lectures on the arts and sciences are not to be excluded, on proper occasions, for the use of said room." December 8. 1852, further action was taken in the matter, which resulted in the promulgation of the following order: "It is hereby ordered that the court room be closed against all meetings, excepting political meetings, wherein three or more townships may be represented, and in all such meetings the carpet is to be carefully removed ; also, that the rooms in the lower story of the court house, not now occupied by county officers, be immediately vacated: also, that it is contrary to our views of propriety for officers who are entitled to rooms in the court house to rent the same to be used for any kind of business, or to receive an inmate, as a joint occupant of their room, when such inmate is not a county officer. The county sheriff to enforce these regulations, so far as they relate to the second story of the court house, and the county auditor to enforce them so far as they relate to the lower story."
March 9, 1853, the commissioners ordered that the line between Union and Madison counties be surveyed and marked, agreeably with an act of the Legislature passed April 9, 1852. June 8, 1853, an order was issued for the incorporation of the village of Milford, in accordance with a legislative act dated May 3, 1852. August 4, 1866, a petition having been presented at a previous term, the commissioners issued another order for the incorporation of the place. under the name of Milford Center. June 2, 1857, it was or- dered that one hundred dollars of the county fund be set aside for the sup- port of a county teachers' institute. said money to be used in accordance
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with the provisions of the statute for the support of such institutions. June 3, 1863. "allowed Dr. Hamilton five dollars for dissecting a cat and de- livering the stomach and bowels to Professor Wormley." December 5. 1865, the auditor was authorized to contract to rent a room for the use of the county treasurer. A safe for that office was purchased of Joseph L. Hall & Company, of Cincinnati, March 7. 1866, costing twelve hundred dollars delivered on the cars at that city. This safe was used until a new one was purchased in 1878.
March 8, 1875, a survey of the line between Union and Champaign counties was ordered to settle a dispute regarding it among property owners along the line. The boundary between Union and Logan counties was finally settled March 8, 1877, the commissioners of the two counties meeting at Bellefontaine, Logan county, in joint session on that day, and receiving the reports of the surveyors who had run the line. It was found that lands supposed to be in Union were in Logan, and the former had expended seven hundred thirty-three dollars and twenty-three cents in improvements, which sum was paid back by Logan county.
Unionville Center, in Darby township, was incorporated by order of the board of commissioners on the 5th of May, 1879. At a joint session of the commissioners of Union, Marion and Hardin counties, held at Rich- wood. May 16, 1879, a re-survey of the boundaries between Union and the other counties was ordered, to settle dispute over said lines. The surveyors made their report June 6. 1879, and it was found that the lines differed materially from the supposed boundaries, whereupon the commissioners of the three counties ordered the lines run and permanently established. On the 9th of February. 1881, there being considerable uncertainty as to the boundary between Union and Delaware counties, the commissioners of the two ordered a survey thereof, with establishment, and, as elsewhere seen, their orders were carried out.
A public drinking fountain was provided for the public square in Marysville. in July, 1892. by the ladies of the city, who held entertainments to secure the necessary funds with which to purchase it. Its cost was two hundred and twelve dollars.
At the November election in 1902 the question was voted on whether the taxpayers of the county should levy a tax to build a soldiers' memorial building in Marysville. The measure was lost by four hundred and sixty- five votes.
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ASSESSED VALUATIONS BY TOWNSHIPS IN 1914.
The subjoined tables show the total assessed valuations of both per- sonal and real estate property in Union county in 1914:
Allen township $ 1,677,080
Claibourne township
2,775,080
Richwood corporation
1,726,720
Darby township
2,635,900
Unionville corporation
123,160
Dover township
1,469,090
Jackson township
1,951,480
Jerome township
2,580,010
Plain City corporation
340,310
Leesburg township
1,872,840
Liberty township
2,512,100
Mill Creek township
1,263,360
Paris township
2,535,730
Marysville corporation
4,198,560
Taylor township
1,829,450
Union township
3,448,420
Milford Center corporation
749,850
Washington township
1,621,520
York township
2,116,220
Total
$37.705.900
COUNTY FINANCES.
The last report of the county auditor for the fiscal year ending Septem- ber 1, 1914, shows the finances of Union county to be as follows :
Total receipts $399,275.67
Total expenditures
368,613.83
Balance on hand. September 1, 1913.
192,207.51
Balance on hand, September 1, 1914
222,869.35
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Expenditures and receipts for the last fiscal year :
Bonds paid off August 31, 1914
135,536.57
Received as interest on deposit in banks
7,300.00
Officers' salaries
15,657.80
Roads
69.626.02
Bridges
69,845.98
Cost of poor
II.760.91
Court expenses
3.537.02
Cost of keeping criminals
534.85
Ditches
18,044.56
Keeping up county buildings
4.045.99
Soldiers' claims
1,951.68
Sheep killed
675.75
Cost of appraising property in county
3.189.10
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The county has bonded indebtedness as follows: Roads, $132,270; ditches, $116,550; Children's Home, $10,000; bridges, $36,000; flood emer- gency fund, $110,000: old county debt, $75.000. Total, $479.820.00.
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CHAPTER VI.
COUNTY, STATE AND NATIONAL REPRESENTATION.
CONGRESSMEN FROM UNION COUNTY.
1866-Cornelius S. Hamilton ; deceased during term of office. 1872-James W. Robinson ; held one term.
STATE SENATORS.
1820-21-Joseph Foos; Franklin, Delaware, Madison and Union. 1822-Henry Brown.
1823-Jamies Kooken; Franklin, Madison, Union, Delaware, Marion and Crawford counties.
1824-27-Joseph Foos; Franklin, Madison and Union counties.
1828-Charles Carpenter.
1829-William Fielding; Logan, Shelby, Union and Madison counties.
1830-31-John Shelby.
1832-35-Philip Lewis; Madison, Union, Logan, Hardin and Hancock counties.
1836-37-Hezekiah Gorton; Marion, Crawford, Delaware and Union counties.
1838-39-Benjamin F. Allen. 1840-James H. Godman.
1841-Benjamin F. Stanton; resigned July 25, 1842: Champaign, Logan and Union counties.
1842-Same; elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation.
1843-44-John Gabriel, Jr.
1845-46-Ira A. Bean ; Logan, Champaign, Union and Hardin counties. 1847-48-Joshua Judy.
1849-50-William Lawrence; Logan, Hardin, Union and Madison counties.
1852-John J. Williams. 1854-William Lawrence. 1856-Cornelius S. Hamilton. 1858-Conduce H. Gatch.
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1860-T. B. Fisher. 1862-John Hood. 1864-William H. West. 1866-P. B. Cole. 1868-Solomon Kraner.
1870-John Bartram.
1872-Isaac S. Gardner.
1875-M. C. Lawrence.
1876-William Beatty.
1878-Hylas Sabine. 1880-82-Luther M. Strong.
1888-90-James Cutler.
1896-97-George B. Hamilton.
1908-Robert L. Cameron.
1910-Robert L. Cameron.
1912-R. H. Finnefrock.
STATE REPRESENTATIVES.
James Curry, representative from Madison county in 1819-20, intro- duced the bill for the erection of Union county, which was passed at that session. Mr. Curry's home was in the new county.
1820-Isaac Miner ; district composed of Madison and Union counties up to 1828.
1821-William Lewis.
1822-Nicholas Hathaway.
1823-Robert Hume. 1824-26-Philip Lewis.
1827-28-Reuben P. Mann; district changed in 1828 to include the counties of Union, Madison, Logan and Hardin.
1829-Lanson Curtis.
1830-John T. Chenowith: Logan, Madison and Union counties. 1831-33-Samuel Newell. 1834-35-Nicholas Hathaway. 1836-Otway Curry, John Carey : Marion, Crawford and Union coun- ties.
1837-Otway Curry, Stephen Fowler. 1838-John Campbell. Stephen Fowler. 1839-Guy C. Worth. James H. Goodman.
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1840-William C. Lawrence; Champaign. Logan and Union counties.
1841-Same; Logan and Union counties.
1842-Otway Curry.
1843-William McBeth.
1844-No record found.
1845-46-William Richie: Champaign and Union counties.
1847-Jesse C. Phillips.
1848-49-Josiah S. Copeland; Union and Marion counties.
1850-Philander B. Cole.
1852-Same, from Union county alone.
1854-Joshua Judy.
1856-William Gabriel.
1858-60-James W. Robinson.
1862-William H. Robb.
1864-Amos J. Sterling ; resigned and James W. Robinson elected to fill vacancy.
1866-68-Maecenas C. Lawrence.
1870-72-A. James Sterling.
1874 -- William H. Conkright.
1876-French Garwood.
1878-William H. Conkright.
1880-82-A. B. Robinson.
1884-88-Jesse L. Cameron.
1888-92-John H. Shearer.
1892-94-L. H. Southard. 1894-99-John E. Griffith.
1900-04-Francis T. Arthur.
1904-08-R. L. Woodburn.
1908-12-George L. Wilber.
1913-14-Charles D. Brown.
COUNTY AUDITORS.
1821-23. Clark Provin : 1823-27. Levi Phelps: 1837-39, Silas G. Strong ; 1839-41. Stephen McLain : 1841-43. Oliver C. Kennedy ; 1843-48, John John- son ; 1848-52, Andrew McNeil: 1852-54, Joseph Newlove; 1854-56, John F. Sabine; 1856-58. Hylas Sabine; 1858-60. James A. Henderson: 1860-66. Joseph Newlove: 1866-75, John Wiley: 1875-83. Will L. Curry: 1884. George M. Peck; 1888-90, Lewis A. Harvey; 1890-96, Samuel A. Hudson ;
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1896-1902, Ed. M. Fullington; 1902-08, D. B. Edwards; 1908-10, B. J. Shelton; 1910-12, Charles Morelock; 1912-14, in the autumn of 1914, W. H. Husted was elected.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
1820, Robert Nelson, David Comer, Henry Sager ; 1821, Robert Nelson; 1822, Mathias Collins; 1823, Henry Sager; 1824, Robert Nelson; 1825, George Reed; 1826-27, James Herd; 1828, Elias Robinson; 1829, Henry Sager; 1830, James Herd; 1831, William B. Irwin; 1832, David Galland; 1833, James Herd; 1834, William B. Irwin; 1835, David Galland; 1836, James Herd; 1837, William B. Irwin; 1838, John P. Brookins; 1839, Joshua Judy; 1840, William B. Irwin; 1841, John P. Brookins; 1842, Joshua Judy ; 1843, Jesse Gill; 1844, William Hamilton; . 1845, returns missing; 1846, John WV. Robinson: 1847, William Hamilton, Joshua Marshall; 1848, Joshua Marshall; 1849, John W. Robinson; 1850, M. H. Wadham, William T. Fulton; 1851, William T. Fulton; 1852, Nelson Cone; 1853, William Porter ; 1854, William T. Fulton: 1855, Nelson Cone; 1856, Jacob Parthemore; 1857. Andrew McNeil; 1858, William R. Webb; 1859, Joseph K. Richey; 1860, Andrew McNeil; 1861, W. H. H. Titus; 1862, William R. Webb; 1863, Joseph K. Richey; 1864, John Cheney: 1865, Robert D. Reed; 1866, James Fullington ( to fill vacancy caused by death of R. D. Reed), Jehu Gray ; 1867, E. D. Smith : 1868, James Fullington; 1869, John Gray; 1870, R. T. McAllister ; 1874, James Fullington : 1875, Jehu Gray ; 1876, James B. Whelpley; 1877. John K. Dodge: 1878, James T. Mahaffey : 1879, James B. Whelpley; 1880, Nathan Howard: 1881, Uriah Cahill: 1882, Luther Liggett ; 1884-86, Uriah Cahill; 1888, Thomas F. Brannon; 1890, D. H. Henderson ; 1892, Thomas F. Brannon; 1894, Cyrus Zimmerman : 1896, O. E. Lincoln; 1898. O. B. Davis : 1900. John M. Lowe ; 1902, Oliver Lincoln ; 1906, L. W. Cline: 1910-14, Charles Morelock, George Cowgill, Charles Rausch, Charles Diehl. Mr. Cowgill resigned on account of illness and soon died of cancer and B. F. Beeley, of Jackson township, was appointed in his stead.
The county commissioners elected at the fall election in 1914 were P. V. Burson, A. T. Coons and J. J. Mayberry.
COUNTY TREASURERS.
1820-23, no record ; 1823-25, Richard Gabriel ; 1825-26, Alexander Rob- inson : 1826-27, James Boal. . All the foregoing were appointed to the office ;
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those elected have been as follows : 1827-28, Cyprian Lee; 1828-34, Stephen McLain; 1834-46, Alexander Pollock ; 1846-52, Cyprian Lee ; 1852-56, Joshua Marshall ; 1856-58, John Barbour; 1858-62, E. L. Reynolds; 1861, David D. Welsh; died in office and A. F. Wilkins appointed to fill vacancy ; 1864-66, Samuel S. Jewell; 1866-70, William H. Robb; 1870-74, James R. Russell; died after second election and J. B. Whelpley appointed to fill out his unex- pired term; 1874-78, Samuel S. Jewell; 1878-80, George W. Court; 1880-84, William L. Liggett ; 1884-88, W. H. Crary; 1888-1892, Robert Smith; 1892- 94. P. Cranston ; 1894-98, Henry E. Conkright ; 1898-1902, James W. Mon- roe ; 1902-05, James WV. Tilton, died and Robert G. Guy appointed ; 1905-09, Judson J. Scott ; 1909-II, R. G. Guy ; 1911-15, Henry J. Brooks. The newly elected treasurer is William J. Conrad, who takes office September 6, 1915.
CLERKS OF COURT.
1820-21, Thomas Reynolds; Richard Gabriel was appointed clerk pro tem., November 13, 1821, but did very little duty in the office; his writing appears occasionally on the record until 1823; 1821-36, Silas G. Strong; 1836-43, James H. Gill; 1843-49, John Cassill; resigned in 1849 and James Kinkade appointed. The latter served until 1851, when, under the new law, the office became elective. 1851-54, James Turner ; 1854-69, Taber Randall; 1869-75, Francis T. Arthur ; 1875-81, William M. Winget ; 1881-88, John Q. Bergner ; 1888-94, Robert McCrory ; 1894-00, Jasper N. Gosnell; 1900-06, C. C. Penhorwood; 1906-II, Charles Parrott: 1911-15, John C. Hartshorn ; C. F. Smith, clerk-elect, will take office August 2, 1915.
COUNTY RECORDERS.
1830-33, Robert Andrew: 1833-42, Peyton B. Smith; 1842-45, James Turner; 1845, no record of county election : 1848-51. James Turner ; 1851- 54, William M. Robinson: 1854-60, John W. Thompson; 1860-69, James Smith; 1869-75, Hiram Roney; 1875-81, George P. Robinson. The fore- going were all elected. The following held the office by appointment: 1820- 21, Thomas Reynolds; 1821-23, Richard Gabriel; 1823-30, Silas G. Strong. Mr. Strong recorded his last deed June 29, 1830, when Robert Andrew be- came recorder pro tem. The latter was elected to the office in October, 1830. 1882-88, George Jordon : 1888-96, J. G. Turner : 1896-98, A. H. Goodwin; 1898-1908, John J. Andrews; 1908-10. E. H. Hatton: 1910-12, M. W. LaDow; 1912-14, M. W. LaDow. The newly elected recorder is Jeff L. Richey.
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PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.
1820, Abraham D. Vanhorn; 1821-22. John R. Parish; 1822, James Cooly; 1823-25, John R. Parish; 1825-33, Jonathan E. Chaplin ; 1833-38. William C. Lawrence; 1838-42, P. B. Cole ; 1842-44, A. Hall; 1844-46, P. B. Cole; 1846-48, Otway Curry : 1848-50. Charles W. B. Allison; resigned in 1850 and Otway Curry appointed ; 1851-53, James WV. Robinson; 1853-55, Jackson C. Doughty; 1855-59, John L. Porter; 1859-65, John B. Coats; 1865-69, John L. Porter ; 1869-73, Leonidas Piper ; 1873-75, John L. Porter ; 1875-77, Delbert WV. Ayers; 1877-81, R. L. Woodburn; 1881-88, John W. Broderick; 1888-96, Ed W. Porter: 1896-02, William T. Hoopes : 1902-08, James E. Robinson ; 1908-10, F. C. Ballinger ; 1910-12, J. H. Willis; 1912- 14, John H. Willis. Milton Haines is his successor.
COUNTY SHERIFFS.
1820-23. James Ewing; 1823-28, Amos A. Williams; 1828-32. David Witter ; 1832-36, Calvin Winget: 1836-40, Ransom Clark : 1840-44, William W. Steele; 1844-46, William M. Robinson : 1846-50, Philip Snider ; 1850-54, William C. Malin; 1854-58, William H. Robb; 1858-60, Abraham Wiley; 1860-62, Philip Snider : 1862-64. Charles M. Robinson: 1864-68, James B. Whelpley ; 1868-72. Robert Sharp: 1872-76, John C. Price: 1876-80, Justus J. Miller ; 1880-84, John Hobensack; 1884-88, Thomas Martin; 1888-92, Marion Hopkins ; 1892-96, William Snodgrass : 1896-1900, J. Ed. Robinson ; 1900-04, S. F. Burnham: 1904-08. D. C. Bolenbaugh; 1908-12, Cad Price: 1912, J. N. Laird. J. N. Laird, who was still serving in 1914, was re-elected for another term.
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