History of Buffalo County
and Its People
by Samuel Clay Bassett

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CHAPTER LII

CAPITAL RELOCATION -- COUNTY OPTION THE CAMPAIGN ISSUE -- CAPITAL REMOVALISTS DRAFT A BILL -- THE CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, ON THE PART OF LIQUOR INTERESTS, INDORSES SUCH A MEASURE -- LIQUOR INTERESTS USE CAPITAL RELOCATION BILL AS A CLUB TO DEFEAT COUNTY OPTION -- BUFFALO COUNTY CITIZENS A THOUSAND STRONG PETITION IN FAVOR OF THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL -- ANALYSIS OF THE VOTE ON CAPITAL RELOCATION AND COUNTY OPTION -- LETTER OF E. P. COURTRIGHT -- LETTER OF. W. L. HAND -- OFFICIAL ACTION OF BUFFALO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

CAPITAL REMOVAL

    In the political history of the county, no incident, for a brief period of time, created more intense interest than the vote on that so-called capital removal bill, known as House Roll No. 246, in the 1911 session of the Legislature.
    The leading issue in the political campaign in the state in 1910 was county option. S. C. Bassett as candidate for representative in the Legislature from Buffalo County had publicly pledged to do all possible to secure the passage of county option legislation.
    A bill looking to the relocation of the state capital had been drawn and published during the campaign and James Dahlman, a citizen of Omaha, candidate for governor and supported by the liquor interests, had publicly announced himself in favor of such a measure and in the light of subsequent events there is little doubt that capital relocation was instigated and encouraged by the liquor interests, to be used in the legislative session, should occasion offer, to assist in the defeat of county option legislation.
    It is not questioned that the people of Buffalo County, who advocated the relocation of the state capital, who assisted in the drawing of and introduction in the Legislature of such a measure, were honest in their intentions, which were to secure a relocation of the capital and if possible at Kearney. It is not believed they were advised of or in any manner a party to the plan of the liquor interests to use the measure to help defeat temperance legislation--county option.
    The City of Lincoln had abolished the open saloon which greatly angered the liquor interests of the state. The County of Lancaster had sent to the Legislature a county option delegation with one exception. Both branches of the Legislature were about equally divided on the question of county option. To help insure the defeat of county option legislation, the liquor interests conceived the plan of using the capital relocation bill as a club to punish the people of Lincoln for driving out the open saloon and to compel the Lancaster delegation to defeat county option.

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    If by any possible means the capital relocation bill could be passed in the house, the people of Lincoln would be offered the choice, of defeat of county option or relocation of the state capital.
    In the campaign preceding the legislative session and during the session, there was no pronounced public sentiment in the state in favor of capital relocation. When the liquor interests, as represented in the house began to advocate the passage of House Roll No. 246, the people of Buffalo County became greatly excited, being led to believe that the relocation of the state capital at Kearney was practically assured in case the bill passed the House.
    Delegations of citizens living in Kearney, in autos, canvassed the county to secure signatures to a so-called petition urging Representative Bassett to support the capital relocation bill. And just as the roll was being called in the house on the final passage of House Roll No. 246, one C. E. Oehler, a transient resident of the county, handed to Representative Bassett, so-called petitions containing, as he stated, the signatures of more than one thousand citizens of Buffalo County.
    The official records of the 1911 session of the Legislature, as disclosed in the house journal, make plain the full intent and purpose of the liquor interests in supporting this measure. The county option members in the house realized that a vote for House Roll No. 246 was, in effect, a vote to defeat county option legislation.
    Herewith is an analysis of the vote on this measure as well as on county option:

CAPITAL REMOVAL AND COUNTY OPTION

    In this analysis of the vote on the capital removal bill and on the county option bill, those members who voted for county option are listed "dry" and those opposed to county option are listed "wet."
    Legislative Record of the Capital Removal Bill, House Roll No. 246. The capital removal bill was introduced in the House of Representatives on January 26, the sixteenth day of the legislative session.
    On the twenty-seventh day of the session it was placed on its passage; third reading, a period of eleven days from its introduction.
    The house records seem to disclose that of 703 bills introduced in the house no one of these bills required so brief a length of time from introduction to a vote on third reading as did the capital removal bill with the exception of bills introduced by standing committees and a very few bills to which there was no objection or opposition. On page 236, house journal, can be found the record vote on the capital removal bill. On page 458 of the house journal can be found the record vote on the county option bill.
    The record discloses that in the vote on the capital removal bill, thirty-eight votes were in the affirmative, fifty-eight in the negative, excused and not voting four, a total of 100.
    The records disclose that of the thirty-eight members who voted for the capital removal bill, thirty-one were listed "wet" and seven "dry." The records disclose that over eighty-one (81,6 per cent) of the vote in favor of the capital removal bill was a "wet" vote.

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    The records disclose that 80 per cent of the total "dry" vote in the house was cast against the capital removal bill.
    The records disclose that of the total vote cast for the capital removal bill, more than 23 per cent, all "wet," came from counties adjoining the County of Lancaster in which is located the capital city.
    The records disclose that of the total vote cast in favor of the capital removal bill, 58 per cent, all "wet," came from counties having territory within fifty-five miles of the City of Lincoln.
    The records disclose that twenty-seven members were introducers of the capital removal bill. Of this number fourteen were "dry" and thirteen "wet." Of the fourteen "dry" members, four voted FOR the bill; of the thirteen "wet" members, twelve voted FOR the bill.
    The record discloses that in the House of Representatives fifty votes were cast in favor of the county option bill, Roll No, 392, and of this number seven voted for the capital removal bill.
    The records disclose that the county option bill was introduced in the House on the twenty-seventh day of the legislative session and was placed on third reading on the forty-fourth day, a period of seventeen days from introduction to the final vote.
    As ours is a representative form of government it seems pertinent, and not out of place to call attention to the somewhat divergent views entertained as to the duties of a representative in matters of legislation. There are those who believe the greater obligation of a representative in our Legislature is to the larger interests of the state even when they seemingly conflict with the comparatively smaller interests of his district. In short, that the interests of the state are paramount as compared with the interest of any one locality.
    There are those who deem the interests of their district or locality as paramount to any or all others as a claim upon the time, efforts and vote of their representative.
    There are those who deem it the duty of their representative to secure for his district or home town, the location of a state institution or an appropriation for one already located, but are not concerned as to any means he may use therefor.
    There are those who believe that pledges made during a political campaign are binding on both the candidate and the people who accept the pledges by electing the candidate to office; that party platforms, and campaign pledges are not simply "hot air" to secure votes or mere "scraps of paper" of no binding force.
    County option represented a moral principle; the candidates for the house, in Buffalo County, who had publicly declared in favor of county option, and pledged to support such a measure, had been elected by substantial majorities. The principle of county option was the leading issue in the county and in the state.
    A student of history is inclined to question: Had the people of Buffalo County, a substantial majority of them, been fully advised that the liquor interests of the state were using the capital relocation bill in the Legislature as a club to help defeat county option, would they have supported the capital relocation bill and paid as a price for support the defeat of county option?

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    As a result of his opposition to the capital relocation bill Representative Bassett received hundreds of letters from constituents, a few commendatory, a large majority condemnatory.
    As a matter of history, representative of the expressed views of individuals as to the duties of a representative in our State Legislature, herewith are included three communications bearing on the question:

	"Kearney, Neb., November 21, 1911.
"Hon. S. C. Bassett, Gibbon, Neb.     "Dear Sir: If you had been in Kearney the day the message came that you had defeated the capital removal bill, I fear you would have been mobbed and roughly handled.     "I was as indignant at you as anybody, but on a sober, second thought, I tried to put myself in your place. Knowing your strong temperance sentiment, knowing that all good laws must be made at a place as far removed from the saloon influence as possible, I could not be honest and vote to take the state capital from a dry town and put it in a wet one. Now that the conditions are likely to change, Lincoln wet and Kearney dry, perhaps in this case you would have voted different.
	(Signed) E. P. COURTRIGHT."

    W. L. Hand has been for years one of the most active, outspoken opponents of the open saloon in the state.
    In the political campaign of 1910, as an officer of the County Option League of Buffalo County, in company with Candidate Bassett he campaigned the county in support of county option.
    The following from W. L. Hand of Kearney:

"W. L. HAND "Lawyer-Title Examiner.
	"Kearney, Neb., February 11, 1911.
"Hon. S. C. Bassett, Lincoln, Neb. "Dear Mr. Bassett: It is never too late to correct a mistake, tho' sometimes it is too late to cure all the results of the mistake.     "You have made the big mistake of your life in opposing the capital removal bill. That mistake is now blighting your standing and reputation among your old friends and neighbors. You will never recover from its awful effects, unless you speedily, while there is opportunity, do all in your power to correct it.     "You have made this terrible mistake because you do not understand your duties as a representative and your relations to the people of this county and the people of the state. This is plain talk, Mr. Bassett, but I speak the sober truth when I say it. You have acted from a mistaken understanding of your duties, if you are correctly quoted in what you said in defense of your action.     "You are not entitled to act on your own judgment in the matter. You are not sovereign, but only a servant. Your own judgment should be subordinate to that of the people of Buffalo County: Herein lies your mistake, that you think you should be governed by what you suppose the people of the state will approve. You do not represent the state. I repeat, you do not represent the state.
"You Represent Buffalo County

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"Let this idea sink deeply into your heart. "You have no right to represent Douglas County or to speak for Douglas County on this question or any other that comes before the Legislature. Douglas County has its own representatives who are commissioned to speak for them. So with every other county in the state. Each representative represents the people who elect him and he speaks for them. He knows their sentiments, or is supposed to and he is, therefore, in position to be their agent, their servant and carry out their will. You can not know the will and demands of the people of other and distant counties like you know it of Buffalo County.     "Here is the foundation of our legislative system. The state is divided into districts and each district given a representative, or sometimes more, in order that each man elected may be close to the people who elect him and in position to carry out their will. The aggregation of these men thus elected, sitting in the Legislature, may thus speak for all the people. Each man speaks for the people of the district he comes from and all acting together speak for the entire state. But whenever any man refuses to obey the will of the people of his district he deserts his trust, he betrays the people whose servant he is, he assumes duties belonging to the representatives of other districts.     "Moreover, in your case you have opened the way for a vicious attack upon yourself, to the effect that you are controlled by a few personal friends in Lincoln. Nor can you escape the effects of this attack. No matter what excuse you give, how much you try to hide behind the claim that the state does not want capital removal, you can not escape from the effect of this action. In other words, the accusation is that you have forsaken your people, deserted them, and betrayed their interests for what seem to you your personal advantage.     "This is a terrible accusation and no man can hold his head up under it very long.   I do not make it, but the people of this county do make it.   It behooves you to retrieve yourself by undoing all you have done so far as may be possible.   You can either move a reconsideration of the vote and then advocate the bill or, you can support a new and amended bill. I shall do what I can to have another bill introduced with some important changes in it. Just what the new bill will contain I do not know.   But if one is introduced   it stands you in hand to support it and do all in your power to get it through.     "You need not doubt that the people of this county want the question of capital removal submitted. I undertake to say there are not a dozen voters in the county against it.     "If you really want to represent the people of this county there is but one thing for you to do and that is to do your utmost to pass the bill. Remember, as I have said, that you are only an agent of the people of this county; you are selected as their servant to do their will and you have no right to set up your will against theirs.     "This is plain talk, Mr. Bassett, but I want you to understand, that I am just one of the people who sent you to Lincoln. In what I say I do not speak for myself alone. I know I speak the sentiments of the great majority of the people who voted for you. I know what they want and what they expect of you. I know they expect you to stand by their interests and obey their commands, to be their servant, not their master, nor dictator.

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"It is better for you to take some plain talk now, even if it does hurt your feelings, than for you to go down to disgrace and oblivion here among your old friends where you have had an honorable standing all your life.     You can redeem yourself if you will, in large measure. But if you refuse to make the effort the results upon yourself will blight and perhaps shorten your life. Act at once before it is too late.

"Yours truly,     (Signed) "W. L. HAND."

    As relating to this history, the following is copied from the record of the proceedings of the board of county supervisors.
    "At the February 9, 1911, meeting of the county board of supervisors, the following action was taken:

    "Moved by Higgins that: "The board of county supervisors of Buffalo County, Nebraska, in session the 15th day of February, 1911, desire to express the unanimous opinion of the board that Representative S. C. Bassett, in opposing the capital removal bill, known as House Roll No. 246, has voted contrary to the sentiment of practically all of the voters of this county; and we further believe he is no longer qualified to represent this county in the Nebraska Legislature now in session and should resign at once.
    "Motion carried.
    "Moved by Higgins that the clerk be instructed to send copies of the foregoing resolution to State Senator C. F. Bodinson, Representative S. C. Bassett and Representative Willard F. Bailey.
    "Motion carried."

    The members of the board of supervisors adopting the foregoing resolutions were: John Conroy, J. W. Higgins, Pat Fitzgerald, Phil Bessor, Jacob Sitz, E. L. King, Charles Grassman; J. H. Dean, county clerk.

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CHAPTER LIII

LIST OF PERSONS HOLDING OFFICIAL POSITIONS -- MEMBERS OF TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE REPRESENTING BUFFALO COUNTY -- MEMBERS OF STATUE LEGISLATURE REPRESENTING BUFFALO COUNTY -- MEMBERS OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION -- JUDGES OF DISTRICT COURT -- DISTRICT ATTORNEYS -- COUNTY ATTORNEYS -- COUNTY CLERKS -- COUNTY TREASURERS -- COUNTY SHERIFFS -- COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS -- COUNTY JUDGES -- CLERKS OF DISTRICT COURT -- REGISTER OF DEEDS -- COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND SUPERVISORS.

TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE

    Names of representatives from territory embracing Buffalo County in the Territorial Legislature of Nebraska:

1858-- 5th session..... 1859-- 6th session..... 1860-- 7th session..... 1861-- 8th session..... 1864-- 9th session..... 1865--10th session..... 1866--11th session..... 1867--12th session.....

House E. Brewer E. Brewer E. Brewer Frederick Hedde Frederick Evans John Wallichs John Wallichs

Council " " " " " Isaac Albertson Isaac Albertson F. K. Freeman

STATE LEGISLATURE

    Names of representatives in the State Legislature, Senate and House, from territory which embraced Buffalo County:

Year 1867..... 1869..... 1871..... 1873..... 1875..... 1877..... 1879..... 1881..... 1883..... 1885..... 1887..... 1889..... 1891..... 1893

No. of Session 1 2-3-4 5-6-7 9-10 11-12-13   14 15 16-17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Senators F. K. Freeman Guy C. Barnum Guy C. Barnum Guy C. Barton Guy C. Barton Elisha C. Calkins    J. D. Seaman Sidney Baker A. H. Connor J. N. Paul W. H. Conger A. H. Conner George N. Smith George N. Smith

Representatives James E. Boyd Wells Brewer Enos Beall D. P. Ashburn M. V. Moudy S. W. Switzer James H. Davis Simon C. Ayer H. H. Haven, A. Steadwell S. C. Bassett, R. E. Barney H. C. Andrews, S. W. Thornton H, Fieldgrove, R. K. Potter John Stebbins, D. Nichols A. J. Scott, John Wilson

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1895...... 1897...... 1899...... 1901...... 1903...... 1905...... 1907...... 1909...... 1911...... 1913...... 1915......

24... Joseph Black 25... J. W. Heapy 26... James E. Miller 27... James E. Miller 28... Aaron Wall 29... Aaron Wall 30... R. M. Thomson   31... C. F. Bodinson 32... C. F. Bodinson 33... Peter Wink 34... Peter Wink

A. J. Scott, John Brady F. Gaylord, L. L. Hile J. M. Easterling, E. Wyman J. E. Harris, William Jordon James H. Davis, Oscar Knox James H. Davis, Oscar Knox George W. Barrett, Thomas F. Hamer George W. Barrett, A. L. Armstrong S. C. Bassett, W. F. Bailey Max A. Hostetler, J. E. Harris Max A. Hostetler, J. E. Harris

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS

    First Constitutional Convention, 1871, B. I. Hinman, representing Buffalo County.
    Second Constitutional Convention, 1875, A. H. Connor, representing Buffalo County.

JUDGES OF THE DISTRICT COURT

    List of judges of the District Court in territory which embraced Buffalo County, also list of district attorneys for same territory:

First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth

1873-- 1875-- 1883-- 1883-- 1889-- 1891-- 1895--

Samuel Maxwell William Gaslin Samuel L.Savidge F. G. Hamer A. H. Church Silas A. Holcomb H. M. Sullivan

Seventh Eighth Ninth

1896-- 1900-- 1904-- 1908-- 1912--

W.L.Greene H. M. Sinclair H. M. Sullivan Charles B. Gutterson B. O. Hostetler B. O. Hostetler B. O. Hostetler

DISTRICT ATTORNEYS

E. F. Gray........ E. F. Gray........ M. B. Hoxey....... M. B. Hoxey. C. J. Dillworth.

1868 1870 1872 1874 1875

C. J. Dillworth..... T. D. Scofield...... V. Bierbower........ J. W. Bixler....... H. M. Sinclair......

1876 1878 1880 1882 1884

SHERIFFS OF BUFFALO COUNTY

John Oliver....... O. E. Thompson...... David Anderson... S. V. Seeley....... D. B. Ball......... P. F. H. Schars...... John Wilson.........

1870-1871 1872-1875 1876-1879 1880-1881 1882-1883 1884-1887 1888-1891

John N. Nutter..... D. E. Wort......... S. B. Funk......... Logan Sammons...... Walter Sammons..... E. H. Andrews...... S. B. Funk.........

1892-1895 1896-1897 1898-1901 1902-1905 1906-1911 1911-1914 1915-

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COUNTY CLERKS OF BUFFALO COUNTY

Martin Slattery..... Michael Coady...... Aaron Ward.......... Joseph Scott....... Simon C. Ayer........ Emory Peck......... G. H. Cutting....... T. W. Shahan

Feb. 26 to April, 1870 July, 1870-1871 1872-1873 1874-1875 1876-1879 1880-1883 1884 to August 18, 1887 August 18,1887 to December 31, 1887

R. M. Rankin H. H. Seeley W. S. Hormel S. E. Smith L. M. Welsh A. V. Offill E. A. Miller J. H. Dean

1888-1891 1892-1893 1894-1895 1896-1899 1900-1901 1902-1905 1905-1909 1910-

COUNTY ATTORNEYS

George E. Evans....... Judge T. E. Gillispie-Ira D.     Marston..... Norris Brown....... Fred Nye..........

1886-1890 1890-1892 1892-1896 1896-1900

N. P. McDonald......... Ed Squires............. J. M. Easterling........ Ed B. McDermott.......... Albert B. Tollefsen.......

1900-1904 1904-1906 1906-1910 1910-1914 1914-

    Judge J. E. Gillispie died during his term and Ira D. Martson was appointed to fill the unexpired term.

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS

Patrick Walsh........ C. Putnam............ Dan A. Crowell...... J. J. W. Place...... John Swenson........ John T. Mallalieu... T. N. Hartzell...... Albert Snare........

1870-1871 1871-1872 1873- 1874-1875 1876-1880 1880-1884 1884-1888 1888-1890

N. P. McDonald.... F. P. Wilsey...... H. F. Carson...... T. N. Hartzell..... S. A. Reasoner..... E. E. Hayes........ J. S. Elliott...... A. R. Nichols......

1890-1894 1894-1898 1898-1902 1902-1906 1906-1909 1909-1911 1911-1915 Apr. 1915-

COUNTY TREASURERS

Henry Dugdale Edward Oliver James Van Sickle Joseph Black Joseph Scott Homer T. Allen R. M. Grimes H. Fred Wiley

1870-1871 1872-1873 1874-1879 1880-1881 1882-1883 1884-1887 1888-1889 1800-1891

Lyman Cary P. E. Stuckey Lyman Cary C. F. Bodinson M. N. Troupe G. E. Haase M. N. Troupe

1892-1893 1894-1895 1896-1899 1900-1903 1904-1907 1908-1911 1912-

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COUNTY JUDGES

Patrick Walsh..... Frank S. Trew..... Asbury Collins.... D. Westervelt....... J. J. Whittier..... John Barnd......... Frank W. Hull...... J. E. Gillispie..... Thomas N. Cornett...

1870-1871 1872 1873 1874-1875 1876-1879 1880-1883 1884-1887 1888-1889 1890-1893

J. M. Easterling.... E. Frank Brown..... Charles E. Yost.... F. M. Hollowell.... Ira D. Marston..... F. M. Hollowell.... J. E. Morrison..... F. M. Hollowell.... F. J. Everitt......

1894-1897 1898-1899 1900-1901 1902-1905 1906-1907 1908 to June, 1913 June, 1913 1914 1915

    In the year 1913 the board of county supervisors, by court proceedings, attempted to remove County Judge F. M. Hollowell from office, appointing, as county judge, J. E. Morrison, who served from June, 1913, until F. M. Hollowell again resumed the office, serving to the end of the term for which he was elected. From the year 1870 when the office of county judge was established until the close of the year 1914, the number of marriage licenses issued totaled 6,048.

CLERKS OF THE DISTRICT COURT

    In the year 1883 the office of "Clerk of the District Court" was created by act of the Legislature. Previous to that date the county clerk also served as clerk of the District Court.

George D. Aspinwall.. W. G. Nye............ Peter O'Brien........

1884-1887 1888-1891 1892-1899

George A. Nixon.. E. Bowker........

1900-1907 1908-

REGISTER OF DEEDS-OFFICE ESTABLISHED IN 1894

Thomas J. Scott....... David R .Mathieson..... Thomas G. Spencer...

1894-1897 1898-1901 1902-1905

Victor B. Wheelock.. Thomas J. Scott........

1906-1914 1915-

COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS-1870 TO 1883

    From the organization of the county in the year 1870 until the year 1883 the county board consisted of three members elected by the county at large, one from each commissioner district, of which district the commissioner must be a resident, and each commissioner elected for a term of three years. Vacancies in the board were filled by appointment until the next general election; then by an election for the unexpired term. The year opposite a member's name indicates the year in which his service began; an asterisk (*) following a member's name indicates that he served less than one year. The records seem to disclose that no one of the members served more than one term (three years) in succession :

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Thomas K. Wood*........ Edward Oliver........ Samuel Boyd*........ Charles Walker*........ William C. Booth*........ Henry Dugdale........ B. F. Sammons........ W. F. McClure........ John P. Arndt........ Patrick Walsh........

1870 1870 1870 1870 1870 1871 1871 1871 1872 1872

Dan A. Crowell........ J. E. Chidester........ George Flehearty........ Harry A. Lee........ Henry C. Andrews........ Edward Oliver........ W. C. Tillson........ D. I. Brown........ Henry Cook........ D. B. Jones........

1872 1873 1874 1876 1878 1879 1880 1880 1882 1883

COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS--NOVEMBER 21, 1883, TO JANUARY, 1896

    In the year 1883 Buffalo County adopted township organization to take effect November 21, 1883. Under the provisions of this law the county board consisted of a supervisor elected by and from each voting precinct, with power, when organized, to divide the county into townships and name the same. The county was divided into twenty-five townships, each electing township officers, including a supervisor, who served as a member of the county board, together with two supervisors elected from the City of Kearney. These supervisors were elected for a term of one year. In the twelve years under this law the records seem to disclose that 159 men were elected as supervisors and served as members of the county board, and of this number sixty-nine served one year only, forty-six for two years, twenty-one for three years, fourteen for four years, six for five years, one (L. S. Deets) for six years and one (H.H. Bowie) for eight years, each year thus served being one term.
    In the following list of supervisors the names are arranged in alphabetical order, the figure following the name indicating the number of years of service as supervisor:

Allen, D. B. (1) Abel, John (3) Ashburn, D. P. (4) Aron, Charles (3) Bailey, C. S. (2) Brown, A. (1) Borders, C. A. (2) Bell, Thomas ( 1 ) Billingsly, J. (1) Bernett, Paul (4) Brown, J. W. (2) Boyle, Henry (1) Bowie, H. H. (8) Bush, I. (1) Broadfoot, James (2) Baker, J. K. (2) Black, J. W. (2) Brady, Phil (4)

Bickwell, B. H, (2) Cook, Henry (3) Caswell, Warren (1) Campbell, Nathan (3) Calkins, N. O. (l) Campbell, Eli (1) Carpenter, E. W. (3) Coid, W. M. (1) Casewell, J. W. (1) Clark, I. D. (1) Cary, Lyman (2) Cocks, Charles (2) Crossley, A. J. (2) Craven, Wm. (1) Collard, C. (2) Duncan, G. W. (2) Downing, W. A. (5) Deets, L. S. (6)

Day, Walter A. (3) Dengler, J. G. (1) Edson, Jesse (2) Eaton, Rice H. (4) Evans, J. J. (1) Elliott, C. A. (3) Evans, George E. (1) Fieldgrove, Henry (3) Frame, Perry (2) Forrest, J. W. (2) Fisher, Fred (2) Ferris, A. H. (3) Fritz, Herman (2) Gitchell, B. S. (3) Green, H. C. (1) Greenwood, J. S. (2) Griffith, S. C. (1) Grammar, Joseph (2)

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George, Jason R. (3) Gardner, Geo. L. (2) Grimes, Nathan (3) Greer, R. R. (4) Graffius, T. L. (2) Hartman, J. P. (1) Hutchinson, R. W. (1) Huston, G.(1) Hughes, Richard (4) Hanson, C. E. (1) Holmes, K. O. (2) Hedges, J. S. (1) Harse, John (4) Henninger, S. F. (2) Haag, A. (2) Hinote, A. (1) Hunker, F. H. (1) Ihde, Fred (1) Jones, N, (1) Johnson, J. E. (5) Jones, John A. (2) King, J. R. (1) Kendall, L. (1) Kenagg, D. T. (1) Loughry, W. (2) Loft, H. P. (1) Luchr, Wm. (1) Lunger, G. C. (3) Lambert, P. T. (5) Long, J. M. (4) Larimer, J. A. (1) Landis, D. (1) Mack, H. J. (3) Mackey, J. F. (1) Morrow, W. H. (1)

Mundle, Thos. E. (1) Musser, C. O. (2) Morse, W. H. (1) Mohring, Geo., Sr. (5) Miner, Chas. (5) Miller, Jacob (2) Mortimer, Geo. (5) Mellett, John E. (2) McCann, James (1) McNeal, Charles (3) Norris, Geo. E. (3) Newberry, N. (1) Nethery, W. (2) O'Brien, Peter (2) Oliver, E. (1) Putnam, C. (1) Peck, Geo. K. (1) Potter, R. K. (2) Peake, A. H. (2) Peck, Emory (1) Plumb, L. (1) Post, George (1) Pickett, W. O. (4) Pokorny, M. (2) Pickett, J. H. (2) Peters, John (1) Rice, Frank (2) Reedy, J. W. (2) Reynolds, R. A. (2) Richards, R. (3) Rodgers, W. A. (1) Swenson, John (1) Scott, J. L. (1) Salisbury, W. H. (4) Shahan, J. W. (1)

Snavely, J. H. (1) Scott, Benjamin (1) Scott, C. H. (1) Scott, W. C. (1) Smith, James (1) Sibley, T. W. (1) Spencer, Thos. G. (1) Schars, P. F. H. (3) Scott, John (2) Scott, A. J. (2) Snyder, A. (3) Salsbury, J. S. (1) Stuckey, Peter (1) Steven, Walter J. (1) Tritt, J. W. (1) Taylor, F. E. (2) Taylor, J. D. (1) Tuttle, C. Ira (2) Troupe, N. M. (1) Tussing, B. F. (4) Trott, S. T. (4) Towers, H. S. (3) Urwiller, F. (1) Veal, J. S. (1) Varney, J. B. (1) Williams, D. J. (1) Waters, H. (2) Walker, R. A. (1) Whitney, W. A. (2) Wilson, Perry (3) Waite, J. D. (1) Witmer, Geo. W. (2) Weaver, W. O. (2) Wallace, C. W. (2) Young, M. A. (1)

COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS--1896 TO 1915

    Under the provisions of the township organization law, as amended in the year 1895, the county was divided into seven supervisor districts, each such district electing a supervisor for a term of two years, the seven district supervisors constituting the county board.
    This act went into effect in January: 1896.
    The following is a list of such supervisors, serving as members of the county board, arranged in alphabetical order, the figure following the name indicating the number of terms (two years each) which each member served:

361HISTORY OF BUFFALO COUNTY

Ayers, H. R. (1) Ashton, J. T. (1) Bessor, Phil (5) Brown, J. W. (2) Brown, J. L. (3) Black, Joseph (1) Bearss, E. A. (1) Clayton, Joseph (1) Conroy, George (5) Dengler, J. G. (3) Fitzgerald, Patrick (2) Funk, S. B. (1) Hall, James (1) Hervert, Chas. V. (1)

Higgins, J. W. (3) Hlava, Albert V. (2) Jones, W.R. (1) King, E. L. (4) Keys, Wallace T. (1) Kellogg, F. O. (1) Krassman, Charles (4) Lambert, Phil (1) Larimer, J. A. (1) Mellett, J. E. (1) McCurry, O. S. (3) McCormick, Reese (1) Osborn, W. A (1) Owen, Joseph, Sr. (2)

Puttergill, William (1) Roe, W. A. (4) Reiter, Herman G. (l) Richard, Eber (2) Reedy, John (1) Salisbury, A. H. (1) Snavely, J. H. (1) Sitz, Jacob (3) Smith, H. P. (1) Shafto, Everett(1) Tussing, B. F. (2) Tillson, W. C. (1) Weaver, W. O. (l)