RIST, LUTHER

RIST, SIBLEY

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Date: 10/1/2004 at 13:00:34

Biography reproduced from page 361 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Luther Rist was the next incumbent of this important office; and was elected in 1863, and re-elected in 1865. In March, 1866, however, he resigned the office and retired to the shades of private life.

Luther Rist, a native of Worcester Co., Mass., was born in 1808. He married Betsy Sibley, by whom he had seven children. In the spring of 1856 he came to Kossuth county, where he engaged in farming. He was elected county judge and highly respected in the community where he lived. After Mr. Rist’s resignation the board of supervisors appointed L. H. Smith to fill the vacancy. He was elected to fill the office by the people in the fall of 1866, and re-elected in 1867. With him ended the system of county courts, the duties of the county judge devolving upon the circuit court and other offices; principal among which was the one of which the county judge was made ex-officio, the first incumbent.