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WINNESHIEK COUNTY 1107 Previous by Judge C. T. Granger, then circuit judge, later judge of the Iowa Supreme Court. He was examined by L. Bullis, C. P. Brown and E. E. Cooley, committee, all deceased. In April, 1877, Mr. Carter commenced the practice of law in Ossian, where lie has continued for the past twenty-five years, in one office, conducting a successful business. He is the only democrat ever elected county attorney of Winneshiek County and he served in that office in 1891 and 1892. He is a member of the banking firm of Meyer, Carter & Figge, of Ossian; also a K. P., K. T., M. W. A., Shriner, Elk. B. P. O. E. He was presidential elector of the Fourth district on the Bryan ticket; sup¬porter of Judge Parker, and was defeated as a candidate for congress from the Fourth district in 1906. He was married April 4, 1878, to Miss Mattie Baker Harvey. WOODBURY COUNTY. HISTORICAL. Woodbury County is one of the largest in the state. It was first called Wahkaw, but was soon changed to Woodbury in honor of Judge Levi Woodbury, of the United States Supreme Court. The county was organized in 1853. Marshall Townsley was elected judge; Hiram Nelson, recorder and treasurer, and Joseph P. Babbitt, clerk. The first term of the district court was held September 3, 1855, at Floyd’s Bluff, by Judge S. H. Riddle. The first case upon the civil docket is that of Henry Goulet v. August Traversier. The first judgment in a contested case was rendered in the suit of Joseph Robidean v. Francis Lachartre and Francis Bercia for $378.64 and costs, and the first jury trial was in the case of Marshall Townsley v. August Traversier. Until 1857 Woodbury County was a part of the Seventh judicial district. In the fall of 1857 M. F. Moore, an attorney of Sioux City, was elected judge of the Twelfth judicial district, which had been formed, embracing all northwestern Iowa, and he held the first |
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