E. E HERBERT
The next to fill the office was E. E. Herbert, who was elected in 1871, and served one term.
Ebenezer E. Herbert was born in Columbia county, Ohio, in 1827, and removed to Iowa in 1855 or 6, residing for some years in Mahaska county. During the late civil war, he served the General Government as lieutenant in the famous Fifteenth Iowa Infantry. He came to Cass county, from Mahaska, in 1869, and in 1871 was elected sheriff as above stated. He was a resident of Pymosa township and in 1873, was duly elected a member of the board of supervisors of the county, and served three years.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 367.
