updated 07/26/2020
- Peace Officers - Keeping Law & Order in Allamakee County Marshall's, Sheriff's, Deputy's, Constables, Police Chiefs, Justices of the Peace |
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Marshall John Huffy - Served as Postville town marshall from 1887-1888
On the back of this photo is written: "Marshall Postville, Ia." It was taken at Beedy's in Postville. The photo has been passed down through the Huffey family, whose ancestor was John Huffy, the Postville town marshall from 1887-1888. The photo has been positively ID'ed by his grandson as John Huffy / Haffa.
John Huffy, (b. ca1846 in Illinois) and his wife Harriet 'Hattie' (b. ca 1853 in WI) are found on the 1880 U.S. census living in Nuckolls co. Nebraska; on the 1885 Iowa State census, they are living in the town of Postville, Allamakee county, Iowa. Their children were John E., Charley & James (or Jimmy). John & Hattie also had a son, William. The couple divorced, and John changed his name to John Haffa, remarried to Elizabeth Elliott (b. ca 1867 WI). John & Elizabeth are buried in Philipps, Prince Co. Wisconsin.
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Fifty Years of Sheriffs 1904-1949
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Sheriff James Palmer - served as county sheriff for 3 terms in the 1870's | ||||
Sheriff John B. Minert - Served as county sheriff from 1889-ca1893 | ||||
Sheriff James H. McGhee / Magee- Served as county sheriff ca1896-1904 | ||||
Sheriff George S. Hall - Served the county 1904 to 1909 | ||||
Sheriff B.O. Swebakken - First served under sheriff George Hall as deputy, and then was elected County Sheriff in 1909, serving to 1913. | ||||
Marshall James
Schisler - Served as Lansing town
marshall for nine years, ca1910. Obituary |
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Marshall Loren
Bellows - Served as Postville town
marshall for many years starting in 1912. |
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Sheriff Albert B. Larson - Served the county 1913 to 1917 | ||||
Sheriff Theodore Rumph, SR - Served as County Sheriff 1917-1921 | ||||
Sheriff Benjamin Martindale - Served Allamakee county 1921. He died shortly after taking office. | ||||
Sheriff Gunda H.
(Johnson) Martindale - Served Allamakee
county 1921-1923
Iowa in general and Allamakee county in
particular has become prominent through the recent
appointment of Mrs. Gunda Martindale as sheriff. Mrs.
Martindale is the only woman sheriff in the state and one
of the few in the entire country. Mrs. Martindale's
appointment by the board of supervisors followed the
death of her husband Ben Martindale, who formerly held
that office and who died May 1. Her application was
chosen out of [?23] and the board considers her worthy
and capable of filling this important office. She has
named Chall Hall of Waukon as deputy. He succeeds Art
Burdick of Postville. |
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Sheriff Ben A.
Davis - Served Allamakee county
1923-1927, then as Deputy until 1933. He also served as
Postville mayor in the late 1950's-early 1960's.
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Sheriff W.L. Hall - Served the county 1927 to 1929 | ||||
Sheriff
Leonard J. Bulman - Served
two terms as County Sheriff 1929-1933 and again 1941-1946
when he was killed in the line of duty Additional information & photo |
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Sheriff James P. Baxter - Served as Sheriff 1933 to 1935. Died April 26, 1965. | ||||
Sheriff John P. King - Served as Deputy Sheriff from 1931-1935, then as Sheriff 1935-1940. He died in 1951. | ||||
Deputy Sheriff Robert Jazuis Waters - Appointed in 1941 as deputy sheriff under Sheriff Leonard Bulman and later served as deputy to Sheriff William Huffman | ||||
Sheriff Peter Hendrickson
- Completed Leonard Bulman's term as sheriff and served
until 1949 ~photo credit: Cedar Rapids Gazette;
February 16, 1964 - a reprint from a 1949 newspaper |
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Sheriff William 'Bill' Huffman
- Served as county sheriff 1949-1960. ~photo credit: Cedar Rapids Gazette;
February 16, 1964 - a reprint from a 1949 newspaper |
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Sheriff
Theodore 'Ted' Rumph, JR - Served as
County Sheriff for 12 years from 1960-1972. He then moved
to Clayton county in 1974, where he became a chief deputy
sheriff and then was Chief of Police in Monona for
several years. He died in 1984. ~Photo credit: Cedar Rapids Gazette, Sunday July 14, 1974 |
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Sheriff
Neil Becker - 1973-? ~Photo credit: Cedar Rapids Gazette, Sunday Feb. 11, 1973; in an article written a few weeks after he took office |
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Deputy Sheriff Chester R. Barr, SR - served at various times between 1961 and 1972 as Allamakee County Deputy Sheriff | ||||
Deputy Glenn M. Cooper - served as Allamakee County Deputy Sheriff from 1973 to 1986 | ||||
Kerry Darling
- Served as the county Deputy Sheriff 1977-2004
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New Albin Chief
of Police Earl Mitchell
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Wilbur Mark, New Albin Town Marshal
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Officers who died in the
line of duty - Elmer J. Lennon & Leonard J. Bulman
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Obits of Marshal Lennon and Carroll Berres |
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~*~*~ SHERIFF L.J. BULMAN KILLED AT
POSTVILLE SATURDAY NIGHT
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Shooting Victims
Peace Officers Summoned.
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Obits of Sheriff Bulman and William Gericke |
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