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Joseph S. West
Joseph S. West, who was the first person that held the office of justice of the peace, within the present limits of Summit, and whose name appears among the first grand jurors in the county, was a native of Mason county, Kentucky, where he was born in 1810, and from whence he immigrated to Iowa in 1844. On his arrival here he purchased a claim in the southern part of the township, from Gadis and Nye, the two traders mentioned in the first chapter of this history, where he has constantly resided ever since.