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Past and Present of Jasper Co.

CHAPTER VII
COUNTY, STATE AND NATIONAL REPRESENTATION

Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa
B.F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912


The chief object of this chapter is to give the reader a complete list of all county officers; also to inform him as to who have represented the people of Jasper County in state and national official positions. It may serve as a fair political index of the county since the early days to the present, as in cases the vote is given on certain officers, showing the party strength.

PRESIDENTIAL VOTE

1848
Zachary Taylor (D) Elected
1880
James A. Garfield (R) . . . . 3,162
Winfield Scott Hancock (D)
James B. Weaver (Gr'enb'k)
1852
Franklin Pierce (D) Elected
Winfield Scott. (Whig)
1884
Grover Cleveland (D) . . . . 2,734
James G. Blaine (R) . . . . . 2,997
John P. St John (Prohi.)
1856
James Buchanan (D) Elected
John C. Fremont (R)
1888
Benjamin Harrison (R). . . 3,138
Grover Cleveland (D) . . .  2,340
1860
Abraham Lincoln (R) Elected
Stephen A. Douglas (Northern D)
John C. Breckenridge (South. D)
1892
Benjamin Harrison (R). . . .  3,176
Grover Cleveland (D). . . . . 2,556
James B. Weaver (Peo.)
1864
Abraham Lincoln (R) Elected
George B. McClellan (D)
1896
William McKinley (R) . . . . 3,713
William J. Bryan (D) . . . . . 2,747
John M. Palmer (Nat. D)
John Levering (Prohi)
1868
U. S. Grant (R) . . . . . . . . . . . .2,999
Horatio Seymour (D) . . . . . . .1,282
1900
William McKinley (R.). . . 3,887
William J. Bryan (D.). . . . . 3,161
John G. Wooley (Prohi.)
1872
U. S. Grant (R) . . . . . . . . . . 2,848
Horace Greeley (Lib. D) . . . . 942
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R). . 3,962
Alton B. Parker (D). . . . . . 1,942
Silas C. Swallow (Prohi.)
Eugene V. Debs (Soc.)
1876
Rutherford B. Hayes (R)
Samuel J. Tilden (D)
1908
William H. Taft (R) . . . . . 3,543
William J. Bryan (D). . . . . 2,889
E. W. Chafin (Prohi.)
Eugene V. Debs (Soc.)

UNITED STATES SENATORS

The following is a list of the United States Senators from Iowa. The first General Assembly failed to elect a U. S. Senator:

1848 - 58 - George W. Jones (D)
1848 - 55 - Augustus C. Dodge (D)
1855 - 65 - James Harlan (Whig)
1858 - 70 - James W. Grimes (R)
1866 - 72 - James Harlan (R)
1865 - 67 - Samuel J. Kirkwood (R)
1870 - 72 - James B. Howell (R)
1871 - 77 - George G. Wright (R)
1872 - 1908 - William B. Allison (R)
1877 - 1894 - J. H. Gear (R)
1877 - 81 - Samuel J. Kirkwood (R)
1881 - 83 - James McDill (R)
1882 - 1894 - James F. Wilson (R)
1895 - 1900 - John H. Gear (R)
1900 - 10 - Jonathan P. Dolliver (R)
1910-few months-Hon. Lafayette Young (appointed)
1908 - Albert B. Cummins (R)
1911 - W. S. Kenyon (R)

CONGRESSMEN

Since I875 the congressmen from the sixth district have been as follows:

1875 - 78 - Ezekial Sampson 1889 - 90 - James B. Weaver
1879 - 80 - James B. Weaver 1891 - 92 - John F. Lacy
1881 - 83 - John C. Cook 1893 - 94 - Fred E. White
1883 - 84 - M. E. Cutts 1895 - 06 - John F. Lacy
1885 - 86 - M. E. Cutts 1907 - 08 - D. W. Hamilton
1887 - 88 - James B. Weaver 1909 - 11 - N. E. Kendall

GOVERNORS OF IOWA

1846 - 50 - Ansel Briggs (D)
1850 - 54 - Stephen Hemstead (D)
1854 - 58 - James W. Grimes (Whig)
1858 - 60 - Ralph P. Lowe (R)
1860 - 64 - Samuel J. Kirkwood (R)
1864 - 68 - William M. Stone (R)
1868 - 72 - Samuel Merrill (R)
1872 - 76 - Cyrus C. Carpenter (R)
1876 - 77 - Samuel G. Kirkwood (R)
1878 (part) - Sam'l G. Newbold (R)
1878 - 82 - John H. Gear (R)

1882 - 1886
Buren R. Sherman (R) . . . . . . . . 2,073
L. G. Kinnie (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695
D. M. Clark (P) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

1885-1889
William Larrabee (R) . . . . . . . . 2,756
C. E, Whiting (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,462

1889-1891
___ Hutchison (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,791
Horace Boies (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,276

1891-1893
Hiram C. Wheeler (R) . . . . . . . . 3,077
Horace Boies (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,695

1893-1895
Frank D. Jackson (R). . . . . . . . . 3,075
Horace Boies (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,365
1895-97
F. M. Drake (R). . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,875
W. J. Babb (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,414


1897-1900
Leslie M. Shay (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,116
F. E. White (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,240

1900-1902
Leslie M. Shaw (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,330
F. E. White (D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,009

1901-1908
Albert B; Cummins (R) . . . . . . . . . 3,434
T. J. Phillips (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,190

1908-1912
B. F. Carroll (R) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,307
Fred E. White (D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,825

STATE SENATORS

The state senators who have lived in Jasper County and represented this district have been as follows:
Elisha Flaugh, tenth General Assembly
M. D. Doud, twenty-first and twenty-second General Assemblies
Perry Engle, twenty-third and twenty-fourth Assemblies
Dr. J. R. Gorrell, twenty-eighth Assemblies
F. L. Maytag, twenty-ninth to thirty-third Assemblies

REPRESENTATIVES

First General Assembly, John Kinsman
Sixth General Assembly, David Edmundson
Seventh General Assembly, S. B. Shelledy
Eighth General Assembly, C. M. Davis
Tenth General Assembly, Salem Jeffries
Eleventh General Assembly, David Ryan
Twelfth General Assembly, M. W. Atwood
Thirteenth General Assembly, Caleb Bundy
Fourteenth General Assembly, John P. Beatty
Fifteenth General Assembly, George M. Wilson
Sixteenth General Assembly, George M. Wilson
Seventeenth General Assembly, Joel W. Deweese
Eighteenth and Nineteenth General Assemblies, Eli E. Dotson
Twentieth General Assembly, William H. McColloch, H. B. C. Ward
Twenty-first and twenty-second General Assemblies, Aaron Custer
Twenty-third, twenty-seventh General Assemblies, Samuel B. Powers
Twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth General Assemblies, C. N. Doane
Twenty-sixth General Assembly, N. A. Wells
Twenty-eighth General Assembly, W. W. Hawk
Twenty-ninth General Assembly, W. W. Hawk
Thirtieth to thirty-third General Assemblies, John F. Offill
Thirty-third General Assembly, William R. Cooper

EARLY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

1846 - John R. Sparks, Joab Bennett, Manly Gifford
1847 - Manly Gifford, Nathan WH1iams, John R. Sparks
1848 - Same as 1847
1849 - John R. Sparks, Nathan Williams, John B. Hammack
1850 - Nathan Williams, John R. Sparks, James A. Tool
1851 - James A. Tool, Willis Green, Levi Plummer

COMMISSIONERS' CLERKS

1846 - John H. Franklin
1847 - Washington Fleener
1847 - Jesse Rickman (to fill vacancy)
1848 - Jesse Rickman

COUNTY JUDGES

This office was abolished by law in 1868.

1852 - Jesse Rickman
1856 - William P. Norris
1858 - David Edmundson
1862 - Riley Ashley
1864 - J. A. Harris
1866 - O. C. Howe

SHERIFFS

1846-7 - David Edmundson
1848 - Silas Dooley
1850 - Ballinger Aydelotte
1852 - Riley Ashley
1854 - J. A. Shellady
1856 - William Kromer
1857 - D. E. Longfellow
1858 - J. T. Hull
1860 - R. Ashley
1864 - Chancy Howard
1866 - James M. Rodgers
1872 - W. C. Hawk
1874 - J. R. Zollinger
1879 - James S. Hunter
1881 - James S. Hunter
1883 - H. L. Weston
1885 - H. L. Weston
1887 - M. A. McCord
1889 - I. L. Patton
1891 - M. A. McCord
1893 - M. A. McCord
1895 - D. R. Tripp
1897 - D. R. Tripp
1899 - C. H. Hook
1901 - C. H. Hook
1903 - M. B. Moberly
1905 - M. B. Moberly
1908 - F. H. Russell
1910 - W. S. Gove

COUNTY SURVEYORS

1846 - Silas Sawyer
1848 - Samuel M. Coleman
1849 - Elisha Hammer
1852 - John Q. Deakin
1856 - W. P. Cole
1858 - S. W. Foreman
1860 - E. T. Preston
1866 - John Collier
1868 - Charles C. Turner
1872 - Aaron S. Stuver
1876 - William L. LeFever
1879 - William L. LeFever
1881 - Willard F. Byers, serving until 1906
1906 - P. R. Rice
1908 - W. F. Byers, still serving

CLERKS OF THE DISTRICT COURT

1847 - Thomas J. Adamson
1848 - Peter Miller
1850 - William M. Springer
1852 - W. P. Norris
1854 - C. C. Turner
1857 - Joseph B. Hough
1861 - Owen Davis
1865 - John A. Seaton
1869 - W. R. McCully
1877 - Leroy B. Westbrook
1878 - L. B. Westbrook
1880 - M. P. Doud
1882 - M. P. Doud
1884 - G. W. Harlan
1886 - George W. Harlan
1888 - N. Townsend
1890 - N. Townsend
1892 - John L. Mathews
1894 - John S. Mathews
1896 - John A. Mathews
1898 - C. H. Kapple
1900 - J. A. Mathews
1902 - Earnest Early
1904 - Earnest Early
1906 - P. H. Healy
1908 - P. H. Healy
1910 - Frank Wilson

COUNTY ATTORNEYS

1886 - J. A. Kerr
1888 - W. G. Clements
1892 - E. J. Salmon
1896 - O. C. Meredith
1900 - Henry Silwold
1904 - P. H. Creagen
1902 - P. H. Creagen
1906 - E. P. Malmberg
1908 - E. P. Malmberg

COUNTY TREASURERS

Up to 1864 the office of treasurer and recorder were one and the same. The records show, however, that the following served in their respective positions in Jasper County:

1846 - J. W. Swann
1848 - John E. Copp
1850 - Henry Rodgers
1854 - A. T. Ault
1858 - Elisha Hammer
1862 - J. W. Wilson
1864 - Thomas Arthur
1866 - Josiah B. Eyerly
1872 - E. H. Bartow
1876 - George Z. Anderson
1878 - S. E. Zinn
1879 - D. G. Winchell
1881 - D. G. Winchell
1883 - S. H. Galusha
1885 - S. H. Galusha
1887 - A. K. Brown
1889 - A. K. Brown
1891 - Frank R. Witmer
1893 - Frank R. Witmer
1895 - Willard Howard
1897 - Willard Howard
1899 - Henry Galusha
1901 - Frank E. Robins
1903 - Frank E. Robins
1906 - Phillip Scharf
1908 - O. B. Kipp
1910 - O. B. Kipp
1910 - O. B. Kipp

COUNTY RECORDER

1846 - Seth Hammer
1848 - John E. Copp
1850 - Henry Rogers
1858 - Elisha Hammer
1862 - J. W. Wilson
1864 - Thomas Arthur
1865 - John C. Wilson
1869 - G. W. Chinn
1873 - W. H. Hough
1877 - Williamson N. Carrothers
1878 - W. B. Russell
1 879 - S. S. Wilson
1880 - Thomas M. Rodgers
1882 -Thomas M. Rodgers
1884 - Ezra Adkins
1886 - Ezra Adkins
1888 - Jo Cunningham
1890 - Jo Cunningham
1892 - J. W. Jeffries
1894 - J. W. Jeffries
1896 - A. G. West
1898 - Fred A. Eaton
1900 - A. J. Streeter
1902 - A. J. Streeter
1904 - James Campbell
1906 - E. E. Erwin
1908 - R. H. Bailey
1910 - R. H. Bailey

COUNTY CORONERS

1852 -Thomas J. Adamson
1854 - David S. Fuller
1856 - Joseph Hickman
1858 - Hugh Rodgers
1864 - W. M. Carrothers
1866 - Hugh Newell
1868 - David S. Stiver
1871 - Hugh Rodgers
1876 - E. W. Mitchell
1878 - Hugh Newell
1879 - Hugh Newell, until 1887
1887 - T. J. Robins
1889 - T. J. Robins
1891 - Hugh Newell
1893 - Hugh Newell
1895 - Hayden Reynolds
1897 - Hayden Reynolds
1899 - H. C. Gill
1901 - T. H. Jacobs
1903 - S. M. Robinson
1906 - C. E. Boyd
1908 - James C. Hill
1910 - James C Hill

COUNTY AUDITORS

This office was created and that of county judge abolished in 1868, the auditor, since that date, being ex-officio clerk of the board of county supervisors.

1868-9 - O. C. Howe
1869 - G. R. Ledyard
1871 - G. R. Ledyard
1873 - G. R. Ledyard
1875 - G. R. Ledyard
1877 - G. R. Ledyard
1879 - Moses Greenleaf
1881 - Moses Greenleaf
1883 - B. W. Brown
1885 - B. W. Brown
1887 - J. T., Hunt
1889 - J. T. Hunt
1892 - J. M. Rayburn
1894 - J. M. Rayburn
1896 - Frank Fisk
1898 - Joseph Horn
1900 - Joseph Horn
1902 - Eugene Bean
1904 - Eugene Bean
1906 - Frank Sellman
1908 - Frank Sellman
1910 - H. S. Rayburn

PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS

1851 - H. J. Skiff
1853 - J. N. Edgar
1856 - William B. Sloan
1857 - D L. Clark

Following this came the office of district attorney, which with the office of prosecuting attorney.

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

1858 - Albert Lufkin
1862 - James Porter
1864 - D. Thomas
1866 - David Craig
1868 - Sanford J. Moyer
1872 - C. D. Hipsley
1876 - W. G. Work
1878 - M. A. Mayfield
1879 - R. A. Mathews
1881 - R. A. Mathews
1883 - Daniel Miller
1885 - Daniel Miller
1887 - J. W. Iliff
1889 - C. O. McClain
1891 - C. O. McClain
1893 - M. A. Walsh
1895 - Minnie A. Walsh
1897 - E. C. Meredith
1899 - Libbie Dean
1901 - Libbie Dean
1903 - J. E. Roberts
1906 - Laura W. Killduff
1909 - Olive Shriner

SCHOOL FUND COMMISSIONERS

This was an office that was abolished when that of superintendent of schools was created in 1858. The commissioners were: 1851, Jesse Rickman; 1853, Harvey J. Skiff; 1857, James G. Meek.

COUNTY SUPERVISORS

The governing power of all Iowa counties since 1861, when the one man-power county-judge system was shorn of its authority, has been vested in the board of supervisors. Up to about 1871 there was one supervisor from each township within the county, but at that time it was changed to three and sometimes five (according to population) for the entire county, the same representing districts, in which they must reside.

Under the former supervisor system the list in Jasper County was:

1861 - David McCord, chairman; William N. Harrah, C. M. Davis, Morris Cating, Salem Jeffries, Reuben Johnson, John McCracken, G. W. Chinn, Caleb Jordan, James E. Butler, A. G. Groves, William G. Romans, Perry Matteson, Elisha Flaugh, George Ryan.

1862 - David McCord, chairman; Reuben Johnson, James Shaw, Joseph Dodd, Salem Jeffries, E. Flaugh, A. McDonald, William N. Harrah, Caleb Jordan, R. L. McCroy, W. G. Romans, John McCracken, James E. Butler, A. G. Groves, Morris Cating, C. M. Davis.

1863 - E. Flaugh, chairman; J. E. Butler, D. McCord, Reuben Johnson, Isaac Porter, Nicholas Graffis, Wm. N. Harrah, Caleb Jordan, James Shaw, Salem Jeffries, Manly Gifford, F. Cary, A. W. McDonald, Joseph Dodd, Levi Plummer.

1864 - C. M. Davis, M. Griffis, Thomas Haskett, Manly Gifford, R. B. Dawson, J. A. Killin, A. W. McDonald, L. Plummer, E. H. Bartow, C. Jordan, D. McCord, J. McCracken, J. E. Butler, J. Dodd, George Ryan, W. N. Harrah, chairman.

1865 - Joseph Dodd, George Ryan, John Taylor, R. S. Williams, Thomas Haskett, R. B. Dawson, John Sumpter, John A. Fillin, A. W. McDonald, E. H. Bartow, P. H. Doud, Caleb Jordan, John Breeden, C. M. Davis, W. R. Skiff, James E. Butler, John Taylor, W. N. Harrah, chairman.

1866 - E. H. Bartow, chairman; W. R. Skiff, Joseph Dodd, C. M. Davis, John Taylor, Joel Osgood, James Shaw, M. W. Atwood, P. H. Doud, William R. McCully, James E. Butler, John Breeden, James Rhinehart, R. B. Dawson, Henry: Hammer, Wesley Davis, R. S. Williams.

1867 - C. M. Davis, chairman; M. W. Atwood, Henry Hammer, Jacob Kipp, W. Davis, G. W. Shafer, J. F. Lamb, G. W. Chinn, Addison White, James Shaw, H. C. Peer, E. H. Bartow, J. G. Mudgett, Joseph Dodd, Salem Jeffries, J. F. Beatty, D. Edmundson.

1868 - C. M. Davis, chairman; Wesley Davis, J. J. Mudgett, Henry Hammer, J. F. Lamb, J. P. Beaty, H. C. Peer, J. Kipp, Joseph Dodd, Addison White, A. W. McDonald, D. Edmundson, William J. Rippey, G. W. Chinn, E. H. Bartow, Thomas Peer, Riley Ashley

.

1869 - Riley Ashley, Jacob Kipp, J. L. Smith, J. L. Laughlin, H. C. Peer, Addison White, C. M. Davis, chairman.

1870 - J. P. Beatty, Reuben Johnson, J. L. Smith, C. M. Davis, J. C. Hiatt, E. Ross, George Harst, J. L. Laughlin, A. W. McDonald, A. J. Hamilton, W. Carrothers, J. Kipp, C. D. Conwell, Wesley Davis, H. C. Peer, F. E. Phelps, D. P. Craven, A. White, D. Edmundson, chairman.

1871 - Elisha Flaugh, chairman; A. W. McDonald, George Harst.

Under the later system of the 1871 code, this county has had but three supervisors, the county being divided into supervisor districts. Those serving as such have been:

1872 - George Harst, chairman; Daniel Arnold, John C. Hiatt
1873 - George Harst, chairman; Daniel Arnold, John Burton
1874 - Daniel Arnold, chairman; John Burton, W. G. Romans
1875 - W. G. Romans, chairman; John Burton, Jesse Slavins
1876 - W. G. Romans, chairman; Jesse Slavins, C. N. Doane
I877 - S. G. Butters, chairman, Jesse Slavin, C. N. Doane
1878 - S. G. Butters, chairman; C. N. Doane, Daniel Arnold
1879 - B. W. Brown, long term
1881 - Henry S. Effnor, long term

From this time on one supervisor was elected each year as follows:

1882 - A. R Smith
1883 - William Byall
1884 - John Roberts
1885 - James Stark
1886 - William Byall
1887 - E. H. Burton
1888 - James Stark
1889 - W. H. Daft
1890 - J. C. Donahey
1891 - Alfred Davey
1892 - W. H. Daft
1893 - J. C. Donahey
1894 - Alfred Davey
1895 - W. J. Miller
1896 - John T. Winters
1897 - Ed Cook
1898 - W. J. Miller
1899 - C. T. Shill
1900 - G. C. Hart
1901 - William Deutsch
1902 - C. T. Shill
1903 - Geo. C. Hart
1904 - J. H. Hise
1906 - F. J. Klise
1908 - D. S. Fleck, G. W. Parsons
1910 - W. O. Livingston

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS-1911-12

Justices of the Peace-Hickory Grove Township, A. H. Palmer; Independence, W. R. Vandike; Independence, Harry Hazlett; Newton, M. J. Carey; Newton, J. W. Allfree; Kellogg, F. L. Phipps; Kellogg, J N. Stuart; Richland, H. Laskewitz; Buena Vista, P. C. Welle; Mound Prairie, William Mabie; Mound Prairie, William Gist; Washington, W. H. Hagendorn; Washington, P. H. Cragan; Des Moines, T. J. Cowman; Des Moines; F. E. Cooper; Fairview, M. W. Bateman; Elk Creek, A. J. Hayes; Lynn Grove, J. H. Shaw; Lynn Grove, R. L. Sparks.

Township Clerks-Hickory Grove, Frank Beatty; Mariposa, T. O. Sheek; Malaka, L. H. Weseman; Independence, R. M. Lane; Clear Creek, J. A. Leonard; Poweshiek, L. C. Westfall; Sherman, J. H. Mallicoat; Newton, G. W. Edge; Kellogg, H. S. Roth; Rock Creek, W. H. Burroughs; Richland, V. B. Bailey; Buena Vista, R. F. Agar; Palo Alto, R. L. Rees; Mound Prairie, W. S. Westbrook; Washington, Ira J. Mead; Des Moines, Hugh G. Little; Fairview, W. M. Livingston; Elk Creek, W. D. McKinney; Lynn Grove, C. F. Briggs.

SUPERVISORS' DISTRICTS

District No. 1 - Clear Creek, Poweshiek, Malaka, Mariposa, Sherman, Independence, north one-half of Newton.

District No. 2 - Hickory Grove, Rock Creek, Kellogg, Richland, Buena Vista, Lynn Grove, south one-half of Newton.

District No. 3 - Elk Creek, Washington, Mound Prairie, Palo Alto, Fairview, Des Moines.

Transcribed by Ernie Braida in July 2003