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In 1880 came the record-breaker up to that time. The Portage Democrat of June 18th, that year, tells why: "Portage is as nearly isolated from the outside world as a walled city with the gates closed. Turn your eyes in whatever direction and they rest npon a waste of water. We can imagine something of the sensation Noah experienced when he navigated his craft into the harbor on Mt. Ararat. Never before in the history of floods has so much property been destroyed in the vicinity of Portage. The bottom lands between the Wisconsin and Baraboo rivers are inundated. The levee in Lewiston gave way Tuesday night, June 15th, and the back water of the Wisconsin now finds an outlet through Big Slough, down Neenah Creek and into the Fox River. The plank road is covered inches deep and the marshes between that highway and Swan Lake would serve a better purpose as fish ponds than for cattle grazing. Trains are suspended on all roads except the old line, and that track is not more than two inches above the water. Unless the floods soon subside, Portage will be compelled to adopt the Venetian mode of travel."
During the week of June 14, 1880, the main line of the Milwaukee Road was flooded between Portage and Kilbourn on Lewiston Marsh, where the river broke through the levee, and the Democrat of the 18th says: "A section of the track on Lake George marsh is flooded and men are at work night and day barricading against the waves. The Madison and Portage branch between the main line switch and Wood's crossing is submerged, and travel on that railroad has been obstructed several days. The Wisconsin Central is in its worse condition. Not a train has run above Stevens Point since Wednesday. Three or four miles beyond Stevens Point the track is built along the bank of the Wisconsin, and there an engineer lost his life on Tuesday. His family were sick at the Point and the unfortunate man was drowned trying to reach them."
In October, 1881, the water reached a height within an inch of the flood of 1880. The levee at Lewiston again broke on the 4th, and from that time until the 29th no trains were running on the Milwaukee & Portage Branch of the Milwaukee Road. The entrance to Portage
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from Caledonia, Fort Winnebago and the plank road was completely obstructed for several weeks.
By the evening of April 23, 1900, the river registered 11.6 at Port- age, overflowing the top of the shorter gauge then in use at the Wiscon- sin River lock. That afternoon, at 4 o'clock, one hundred feet of the First Ward Levee near the old toll gate broke out, flooding the adjacent flats. The strong current setting across the marshes toward the Fox submerged the Madison branch and cut a 300-ft. gap in the main line of the Milwaukee Railroad. Fort Winnebago Lock was partly washed out and had to be rebuilt .. Nearly the whole First Ward was
SCENE IN FLOODED DISTRICT, SOUTH FROM KILBOURN
under water. The flood was held at Wisconsin River Lock only by erecting embankments of bags filled with sand.
In the fall of 1900 came another flood, on the 9th of October a new and longer gauge showing 12.5 feet in the Wisconsin at Portage. Trains were again forced to quit on the Portage and Madison line. Levees on the south bank broke, and travel between the city and Cale- donia was suspended.
At 6 P. M., June 11, 1905, the Wisconsin rose majestically to a height of 12.6 feet, which remained the record until the flood of 1911. By this time the system especially protective of Portage had been so extended and strengthened that all the levees held except the one near the Barden Place, which let several feet of water onto the Caledonia
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low lands. As usual the Madison & Portage Railroad tracks got a bath from the Duck Creek backwater and several trains were held up.
As stated, although the flood of 1911 was of unprecedented height, the levee system proved its worth. Outside of Portage the most uneasi- ness was felt at Kilbourn City, where the waters reached a terrific volume and battered at the great power dam which is the source of the electrical supply of Milwaukee, Portage, Watertown and Kilbourn itself.
The floods of 1905 and 1911 have fully proven the splendid protect- ive value of the levee system to the people and the institutions of the Fox and Wisconsin valleys, not only fixed in Columbia County, but for miles beyond its borders.
LA CROSSE & MILWAUKEE RAILROAD
Having passed in review the chief features of the Columbia County waterways, natural and artificial, her modern and most important means of communication remain to be described-her iron ways. A glance at her map is all that is required to know that the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad is her all-important agency for trans- portation and communication, The father of the system, which covers all except one northern township of the county and its southwestern corner, was the La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad Company. It was incorporated in 1852, among its organizing commissioners being Hugh McFarlane, one of the proprietors of the village site of Portage. In the following year the Milwaukee & Fond du Lac and the Milwaukee, Fond du Lac & Green Bay railroads were consolidated, and the con- struction of a line commenced from Milwaukee to Fond du Lac. In 1854 the Milwaukee, Fond du Lac & Green Bay and the La Crosse & Milwaukee were consolidated under the latter name, proceeding with the construction of the road already commenced, but turning the line toward La Crosse.
REACHES POINTS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY
The road was completed to Fox Lake on November 1, 1855, to Port- age, March 14, 1857, and to Kilbourn City, in August of the same year. This is the branch which enters Columbia County, via Randolph and Cambria, taking in Pardeeville, and then passing along the northern shores of Swan Lake, to Portage and Lewiston, and thence to Kilbourn City. The entire line was opened to La Crosse in October, 1858.
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL
In 1863 the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company was formed by New York and Milwaukee capitalists, the corporation having pur- chased the western division of the La Crosse & Milwaukee line running between Portage and La Crosse. Their articles of agreement also stipulated that they might purchase the Milwaukee & Western ( Water- town) Road, from Milwaukee to Columbus. These and other minor lines were absorbed by the vigorous Milwaukee & St. Paul, which, in order to own a through line from Milwaukee to La Crosse, constructed twenty-eight miles of track from Columbus to Portage. That section in Columbia County was opened to travel in September, 1864, its sta- tions beyond Columbus being Fall River, Doylestown, Rio and Wyocena. 1
In 1872 the Milwaukee & St. Paul Company purchased the Chicago & St. Paul Railroad running from St. Paul to Winona and Crescent, opposite La Crosse, and in the same year the line was completed between Chicago and Milwaukee. Then, in February, 1874, by an act of the Wisconsin Legislature, the name of the company became the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company.
In 1856-7 the La Crosse & Milwaukee Company partly graded a track for a railroad between Madison and Portage, but with the col- lapse of that company the work was abandoned. In 1869 a new com- pany was formed which procured the right-of-way and grade of the old concern. Principally through the efforts of James Campbell and R. B. Sanderson the road was completed. On January 8, 1871, a large delegation of Portage citizens took the first passenger train to Madi- son over the new line. It was for a time operated by the St. Paul Company under a lease, and in 1878 that company bought the road out- right, which now forms the southern division of its system in Columbia county. Poynette and Arlington are its principal stations.
CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN
The Chicago & North Western Railway passes through the south- western corner of Columbia County for about seven miles. It was originally a section of the Madison Extension, and still earlier the Baraboo Air Line. It reached Lodi in 1871. Okee is the only other station in the county.
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WISCONSIN CENTRAL COMMENCED AT PORTAGE
As early as 1864 Congress granted to the State of Wisconsin vari- ous public lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from Southern Wisconsin to Lake Superior, Portage City being named as a possible terminus. After considerable wrangling over the land grant, Portage was actually named, and the Portage & Superior Company came into existence. The board was organized at Portage, June 5, 1866, and the first stake of the road was set in that city, June 15, 1869, after a consolidation of the Winnebago & Superior and the Portage & Superior. In 1871 the name of the company was changed to the Wisconsin Central.
COMPLETION OF LINE (1877)
In 1870 the Portage, Stevens Point & Superior Railroad Company was incorporated, with W. W. Corning, S. A. Pease, A. J. Turner, Robert Cochrane, G. L. Park, J. O. Raymond, Seth Reeves, George A. Neeves and Joseph Wood as directors, for the purpose of building a road on a direct line from Portage to Stevens Point, to connect with the land-grant road. On the 3d of December, of the same year, the com- pany was consolidated with the Portage, Winnebago & Superior Com- pany, and its route was adopted as the line of the land-grant road. The legislature of 1876 gave its consent to the change of route, which was ratified by Act of Congress in the same year. In June of the follow- ing year the Wisconsin Central Railroad completed its entire line of 330 miles through the state, much of the way through unbroken forest.
THE M., ST. PAUL & S. STE. MARIE
The stretch of the road which runs north from Portage through the Town of Winnebago is now included in the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company, which absorbed the Wisconsin Central System in 1905.
CHAPTER VIII
COUNTY ORGANIZATION
OLD PORTAGE COUNTY-FIRST CASTING OF BALLOTS-COLUMBIA SET OFF FROM PORTAGE COUNTY-FIRST ANNUAL ELECTION-JAMES T. LEWIS INSISTS ON COLUMBIA-THE COUNTY OFFICERS-SHERIFFS-CLERKS OF CIRCUIT COURT-DISTRICT ATTORNEYS-COUNTY CLERKS-COUNTY TREASURERS-REGISTERS OF DEEDS-CORONERS-COUNTY SURVEYORS -BOARDS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-CHAIRMEN OF COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS-COUNTY SEAT FIGHTS-TEMPORARY COUNTY BUILD- INGS-FIRST STEPS TOWARD PERMANENT COURTHOUSE-THE COURT- HOUSE COMPLETED-COUNTY JAIL AND SHERIFF'S RESIDENCE-HOME FOR COUNTY INSANE AND POOR-THE CIRCUIT COURT-PROBATE AND COUNTY COURT.
It is not necessary to go further back into the political history of Columbia County than 1836; that is the logical year, in fact. Rowan, its first permanent settler, established his homestead in 1836, and on the 7th of December of that year the Territorial Legislature set off Portage County from Brown and Crawford. A portion of the present Town of Caledonia remained in old Crawford County, a small slice of Sauk County with "Sauk Prairie" as its nucleus was included in the newly created County of Portage, which also included the western tier of towns in the present Dodge. Otherwise its territory corresponded with the Columbia County of today.
OLD PORTAGE COUNTY
Iu 1838 Portage County was set off into the Town of Lowe, and the election polls were established at the Indian agency house. But the polls were never opened, for about a week later the boundaries of the county were rearranged and the county seat established at Kentucky City. That town had been platted the year before upon the present site of De Korra, and thus, for a brief period, snatched the county seat
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from Winnebago City, on the south side of Swan Lake, where it was established when Portage County was created in 1836. Both were among the paper cities which spring up in every new country to com- pete for the honor of being the "shire town." Kentucky City has some claims for historical recognition, for it was really the predecessor of the existent Village of De Korra.
In 1841 the Territorial Legislature so enlarged the boundaries of Portage County as to include in its territory the present counties of Columbia, Adams, Juneau, Wood; the eastern portions of Taylor, Price and Iron, and the western portions of Marquette, Portage, Marathon, Lincoln and Langlade. The election precincts of the enlarged county were established at the Franklin House, Portage; Stephen's Mills, at the Big Bull Falls.
Election precinets for the enlarged county were established, but the few settlers neglected to vote, and in 1842 the sheriff of Dane County (to which Portage had been attached for political and judicial purposes) called an election for choosing the officers of Portage County. The time set was the fourth Monday in March.
FIRST CASTING OF BALLOTS
In April, 1842, the voters selected Plover (now a postoffice a few miles from Stevens Point, Portage County) as the county seat, its com- petitor being Fort Winnebago. At the first meeting of the county com- missioners held at Captain Low's "Franklin Honse," on the 20th of the month, three election precincts were established in the territory compris- ing Columbia County-Columbus, voting place at Stroud and Dickin- son's mills ; De Korra, the house of LaFayette Hill, and the Winnebago portage, Captain Low's hotel.
Hon. John Q. Adams made the election returns to the county seat at Plover. About fifty votes were polled in this precinet and one hundred and twenty-five in the county. The day after the election Mr. Adams started with the returns. Ile went as far as Dickason's (Wyocena) with the Major, the latter on foot and Mr. Adams mounted on a pony. This was Mr. Adams's first experience in the "ride and tie" mode of traveling. One rode a couple of miles or more, tied his horse to a blazed tree and walked along the trail until he was overtaken and passed, and afterward came up with the horse tied and waiting for him. This was not a sociable way of journeying, and often the party overtaken would trot along beside his mounted friend to get a few minutes' chat. One day on the trail satisfied Mr. Adams that it was hardly worth while for him to take a trip of 100 miles to carry the returns of fifty votes,
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and handed his papers over to Charles Temple, who was going with the returns of the Winnebago Precinct-a proceeding which would hardly be tolerated in these days, when such strict safeguards are thrown around the ballot box to protect it from tamperers.
COLUMBIA SET OFF FROM PORTAGE COUNTY
On February 3, 1846, the Territorial Legislature set off Columbia County from Portage, and provided for its civil and judicial organiza- tion on May 1st following. Its bounds were the same as the present, except the northwestern portion between the Fox and Wisconsin riv- ers, which was still included in the Indian lands of the Menominees. At the election in April, Solomon Leach, John Q. Adams and John Langdon were elected county commissioners, and on July 16, 1846, Messrs. Leach and Adams met at the house of Major Elbert Dickason at Wyocena and organized the board. Mr. Leach was elected chairman and James C. Carr, clerk. The only business transacted was the forma- tion of eight precincts for the fall election, "without any particular authority," as the chairman afterward declared.
The election precincts are here enumerated, as the "judges of elec- tion" include most of the leading citizens of the county in 1846. For the LeRoy Precinct the election was to be held at the house of Oliver Langdon, with Nathan Griffith, James Buoy and Irwin McCall as judges of election; Columbus Precinct, at the house of A. P. Birdsey, Asa Proctor, J. T. Lewis (afterward Wisconsin's War governor), and Jere- miah Drake, judges of election; Dyersburgh Precinct, at the house of Landy Sowards, who, with Jonathan E. Haight and Henry Pellet, were named as judges; Lowville Precinct, at the house of Jacob Low, with William Young, IIenry Herring and Stephen Brayton, judges of elec- tion ; De Korra Precinct, at the house of LaFayette Hill-Joshua W. Rhodes, John Springer and Thomas Swearingen, judges of election; Pleasant Valley Precinct, election at the house of Marston Bartholomew -election judges, Mr. Bartholomew, Aaron Chalfant and J. Maynard; Winnebago Portage Precinct, at the house of Gideon Low, with Henry Merrell, Richard F. Veeder and Daniel D. Robertson as judges; and the Wyocena Precinct, at the house of Elbert Dickason-Charles Spear, Darius Bisbee and Harvey Bush, election judges.
FIRST ANNUAL ELECTION
On the first Monday of September (7th), 1846, the first annual elec- tion was held for legislative, county and precinct offices. Whig and
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democratie tickets were in the field, and the result of the election was "honors even," as witness: Territorial Council, Mason C. Darling (democrat) ; House of Representatives, Hugh McFarlane (democrat) and Elisha Morrow (democrat) ; members of the Constitutional Conven- tion, Jeremiah Drake (whig) and LaFayette Hill (whig) ; probate judge, Silas Walsworth (whig), who refused to qualify, and James T. Lewis (whig) was appointed in his place; sheriff, Thomas C. Smith (demo- crat) ; clerk of board of county commissioners, Nelson Swartout (whig), who resigned in favor of Wayne B. Dyer (whig) ; treasurer, James C. Carr (whig) ; collector, John Swarthout (democrat) ; register of deeds, Elbert Dickason (democrat ) ; surveyor, Albert Topliff (whig) ; coroner, Daniel E. Bassett (whig) ; county commissioners, R. F. Veeder (whig), Nathan Griffin (whig) and John D. McCall (whig).
This election was believed to be void, as it was held under the action of the board of commissioners chosen in April. There was some doubt about the legality of their election, but everybody, including the mem- bers themselves, were quite positive that they had no authority to divide the county into election precincts. So in February, 1847, the Legisla- ture legalized the election of the previous September. Consequently Columbia County was fully and firmly organized.
The title of the Menominee Indians having been extinguished, a legis- lative act was passed in 1849 taking in their former territory between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, thus giving the county its present form and area.
JAMES T. LEWIS INSISTS ON "COLUMBIA"
To James T. Lewis is generally accorded the credit of fixing the name of Columbia on the county. But it had a narrow escape from "York." Mr. Lewis, of Columbus, presented a strong petition for "Columbia ;" but Wayne B. Dyer, at Otsego, and some of the settlers at Portage, forwarded a somewhat larger petition for "York." The bill, thus christening the county, was about to pass, when Mr. Lewis, with characteristic pertinacity, induced the members to vote for an amend- ment striking out "York" in favor of "Columbia."
THE COUNTY OFFICERS
The territory thus named and legally organized has been well gov- erned, judicially and civilly, with the following as its principal officials :
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SHERIFFS
1847-48-T. Clark Smith
1881-82-J. H. Jurgerson
1849-50-Jacob Low
1883-84-D. G. Williams
1851-52-Alexander McDonald
1885-86-J. W. Leffingwell
1853-54-Perry Lee 1887-88-R. C. Falconer
1855-56-S. C. Higbie 1889-90-J. R. Nashold
1857-58-Edward F. Lewis
1891-92-P. C. Irvine
1859-60-Benjamin Williams
1893-94-William H. Parry
1861-62-William W. Drake
1895-96-Hugh Hall
1863-64-Nathan Hazen
1897-98-Ole M. Bendixen
1865-66-P. Pool
1899-00-Lewis Leith
1867-68-S. K. Vaughan
1901-02-J. C. Mackenzie
1869-70-O. H. Sorrenson
1903-04-E. P. Ashley
1871-72-P. Pool
1905-07-Don C. French
1873-74-William W. Drake
1908-09-H. H. Hawkos
1875-76-J. O. Prescott
1910-11-J. W. Dalton
1877-78-A. H. Russell
1911-12-Ferdinand Voth
1879-80-Jonas Conklin 1913 -Wm. K. Mckenzie
CLERKS OF CIRCUIT COURT
1847-48-Henry Merrell (clerk of District Court) 1879-82-S. S. Lockhart
1872-78-S. M. Smith
1848-50-Josiah Arnold
1882-86-J. H. Wells
1851-53-James Delaney, Jr. 1
1887-88-L. E. Greenleaf
1854 -A. W. Delaney
1889-90-Peter Williams
1855-56-S. K. Vaughan t
1891-92-Frank M. Shaughnessy
1893-96-A. S. Crouch
1857-58-S. K. Vaughan 1859-60-A. Morehouse 1897-00-Evan O. Jones
1861-62-A. J. Turner
1901-06-Clifford H. Crothers
1863-65-H. M. Haskell # 1907-08-Louis B. Morse
1866 -J. Chancellor (to fill va- 1909-10-A. H. Proctor cancy ) 1911 -David D. Owen
1867-71-C. A. Dibble ||
* Election contested and office awarded to George Robinson.
T Drowned May 31, 1853, and A. W. Delaney appointed to fill vacancy. t Certificate given to A. W. Delaney, but office given to S. K. Vaughan on a contest.
# Resigned and James Chancellor appointed to fill vacancy
|| Resigned and S. M. Smith appointed to fill vacancy December 6, 1871.
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DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
1847-48-James T. Lewis 1881-84 H. H. Curtis
1849-50-D. J. M. Loop
1885-86-Thomas Armstrong, Jr.
1851-52-Amasa G. Cook
1887-88-J. S. Maxwell
1853-56-Luther S. Dixon
1889-94-W. S. Stroud
1857-60-Levi W. Barden
1895-98-W. G. Coles *
1861-64-Israel Holmes
1899-06-H. E. Andrews
1865-66-Gerry W. Hazelton
1907-08-Henry A. Gunderson
1867-68-John T. Clark
1909-10-Royal F. Clark
1869-74-Emmons Taylor
1911 -David Bogue
COUNTY CLERKS +
1846 -James C. Carr
1869-74-Ogden A. Southmayd
1847 -Wayne B. Dyer (ap-
1875-80-L. S. Rolleston
pointed in place of Nelson Swarthout)
1881-86-Wm. B. Smith
1887-90-Chas. C. Dow
1848 -James C. Carr
1891-92-Frank B. Ernsperger
1849 -James B. Eaton
1893-96-Richard Pritchard
1851-54-Alvin B. Alden
1897-00-D. R. Marshall
1855-58-Thomas B. Haslam
1901-06-Robert J. Hughes
1859-62-Julius Austin
1907-08-Wm. O. Cordy
1863-68-Harvey H. Rust
1909 -E. E. Price
COUNTY TREASURERS
1847 -James C. Carr
1867-68-Lewis Low
1848-49-William J. Ensign *
1869-72-Miles T. Alverson
1850-51-Stephen Brayton
1873-76-Oliver H. Sorrenson
1852-54-Harrison S. Haskell
1877-80-Henry Neef
1855 -Horace Rust t
1881-88-C. A. Colonius
1857-60-George Ege
1889-92-J. A. Johnson
1861-66-Ll. Breese
1893-96-James R. Hastie
* Died and W. S. Stroud appointed to fill vacancy.
t Title of this office was first "Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners; "' changed to "Clerk of the Board of Supervisors" in 1848 and to "County Clerk" in 1871.
* Stephen Brayton was elected in 1849, but Mr. Ensign claimed to hold over. He filed his resignation December 10, 1850, and the board appointed Isaiah Robinson to fill the vacancy. The contest was decided in favor of Mr. Brayton.
t Office contested and awarded to M. M. Ege.
1875-80-J. H. Rogers
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COUNTY TREASURERS-continued
1897-00-Byron Kinnear
1909-12-John Luck
1913 -William J. Dunn
REGISTERS OF DEEDS
1847 -Elbert Dickason
1877-80-George Yule
1849 -A. A. Brayton
1881-84-Z. J. D. Swift
1849-50-F. F. Farnham
1885-86-H. H. Tongen, Jr. t
1851-52-Josiah Arnold
1887-90-John W. Brown
1853-56-William Owen
1890-94-John H. Dooley
1857-58-D. F. Newcomb 1895-98-Arthur A. Porter
1859-62-James Chancellor * 1899-02-Ole Johnson
1863-66-Abner H. Smead
1902-08-C. H. Smith
1867-74-Thomas Yule
1909-10-L. E. Nashold
1875-76-Joseph Schæffer
1911 -G. W. Morrison
CORONERS
1847-50-Daniel E. Bassett 1851-54-Isaac Smith
1855-56-Erastus Cook
1857-58-H. S. Haskell
1885-88-B. M. Allen
1889-90-N. J. Currier
1891-92-John Collins, Jr.
1865-66-Carl Schneider
1867-68-0. H. Sorrenson
1901-09-Wm. G. Bunker
1910-12-Frank Heidt
1913 -Charles E. McSorley
COUNTY SURVEYORS
1847-48-A. Topliff
1849-50-N. P. Foster
1851-52-A. Topliff
1853-54-John Thomas
1855-56-George M. Bartholomew 1857-60-A. Topliff 1861-62-Rensler Cronk į
1863-66-A. Topliff
* Office declared vacant in November, 1862, by reason of Mr. Chancellor's absence from state and A. H. Smead appointed to fill vacancy,
t Mr. Tongen died in February, 1886, and Z. J. D. Swift appointed to fill vacancy.
# Killed in battle and Alfred Topliff appointed July 26, 1862, to fill vacancy.
1893-01-B. M. Allen
1869-70-Charles Earley 1871-76-Z. J. D. Swift
1877-78-William Snoad 1879-80-Z. J. D. Swift
1881-84-Geo. W. Marsh
1859-62-Geo. W. Marsh 1863-64-Marcus Barden
1901-06-Thomas V. Dunn
1907-08-Julius F. Kluender
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COUNTY SURVEYORS-continued
1867-68-Jonathan Whitney 1879-80-Henry Meriton
1869-70-E. Corning 1881-82-E. Corning
1870 -H. Meriton t 1883-90-C. E. Corning
1871-72-F. A. Brown 1891-92-E. Corning
1873-74-G. M. Bartholomew 1893-08-Charles E. Corning
1875-76-Henry Meriton 1909-10-Frank S. Clark
1877-78-G. M. Bartholomew
1911 -Charles E. Corning
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
While the county was under the territorial form of government its affairs were administered by a board of county commissioners. The boards were constituted as follows :
1846-Solomon Leach, John Q. Adams, John Langdon
1847 -- R. F. Veeder, Nathan Griffin, J. D. McCall
1848-John Q. Adams, J. J. Guppey, G. M. Bartholomew
1849-James C. Carr, LaFayette IIill, John O. Jones
CHAIRMEN OF COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS .
1849-Alfred A. Brayton
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