Yuba County CA Archives History - Books .....Chapter 12 County Officials, Past Amd Present 1924 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 January 3, 2012, 5:38 pm Book Title: History Of Yuba And Sutter Counties CHAPTER XII COUNTY OFFICIALS, PAST AND PRESENT Judges and Justices District Judges, 1850 to 1860: William R. Turner, Gordon N. Mott, William T. Barbour. 1860 to 1879: S. M. Bliss, I. S. Belcher and Phil AY. Keyser. County Judges, 1850 to 1860: Henry P. Haun, S. M. Bliss, Charles Lindley, L. R. Sellon, and Charles Lindley (returned). 1860 to 1879: Charles E. Filkins, Jesse O. Goodwin, S. M. Bliss, and L. R. Sellon. Under the new constitution, beginning in 1879, Phil W. Keyser became first Superior Court judge. Judge Keyser and his successor, Edwin A. Davis, served Yuba and Sutter Counties jointly for many years. In January, 1903, Eugene P. McDaniel was advanced from the position of district attorney and made the third superior judge of the county, which position he holds at the present time. Judge McDaniel was first elected district attorney in 1893. Justices of the Peace: Samuel Garber is remembered as an early-day justice of the peace of Marysville Township. Garber was preceded in the office by B. W. Howser, Marysville attorney. At the departure of Garber for San Francisco, where he spent his remaining days, Isaac N. Aldrich became justice of the peace. At one time the township had two justices, Garber and Aldrich. At Aldrich's death, James M. Morrissey succeeded to the position, which he held for twenty-three years. He expired suddenly in his office in December, 1922, and was succeeded by the present incumbent, George F. Herzog, who had been chosen in November, 1922, to succeed Judge Morrissey. Constables serving in the Justice Court of Marysville Township during these years are recalled as follows: Ezra E. Brow, C. C. Kelser, and Henry Miehe. The present incumbent is Thomas J. Tyrrell, who also fills the position of deputy sheriff. District Attorneys 1850 to 1860: S. B. Mulford, H. P. Watkins, Jesse O. Goodwin, Charles H. Bryan. G N. Swezy, L. Martin, T. B. Reardon, I. S. Belcher, and F. L. Hatch. 1860 to 1870: George Rowe, F. J. McCann, and R. R. Merrill. 1870 to 1880: William G. Murphy, E. W. Halloman, Edwin A. Davis, and E. A. Forbes. These were succeeded by the following: Eugene P. McDaniel, M. T. Brittan, Fred H. Greely. Edward T. Manwell, E. B. Stanwood, and Ray Manwell, the last named being now the incumbent. Sheriffs and Coroners Sheriffs, 1850 to 1860: R. B. Buchanan, Michael Gray, William R. Thornburg, Matt Woods. 1860 to 1870: Richard H. Hall, Herndon Barrett, L. D. Adkison, and A. P. Spear. Since 1870 the following have served in this office: Matt Woods, A. W. Torry. Hank L. McCoy, who died August 5, 1885; S. E. Inlow, J. A. Saul, Daniel P. Donahoe: R. E. Bevan, George H. Voss, Oscar E. Meek, and Charles J. McCoy. Coroners: S. T. Brewster, J. B. Warfield, H. W. Teed, Edward B. Hand, E. Hamilton, A. P. Barnes, George M. Fronk, A. B. Hopkins, Dennis Hayes, R. E. Bevan, John K. Kelly, and Frank T. Bevan. Public Administrators A. J. Gray, E. D. Wheeler, Seymour Pixley, B. F. Mann, James R. Vance, Henry Eilerman, C. G. Hubbard, C. G. Bockius, W. L. Lawrence, Samuel Cummins, C. A. Stratton, Thomas C. Martin, Newton Seawell, J. P. Scott, A. J. Cumberson, A. J. Batchelder, W. C. Shaffer, Patrick Brannan, Joseph P. Arnoldy, Wallace S. Durkee, F. E. Smith, and H. A. Niemeyer. Members of the Board of Supervisors Those who have served as members of the Yuba County Board of Supervisors, representative of five districts, in the years since 1855, are: J. O. Goodwin, A. O. Hyde, Herndon Barrett, Isaac Allen, Samuel Rideout, F. R. Stryker, Charles G. Bockius, William Buntin, Wilson T. Woods, S. S. Stinchicum, J. H. Beaman, H. G. Russell, F. L. Aude, W. C. Campbell, C. E. Stone, A. Cross, A. G. Hough, W. W. Presbury, William Gregory, R. H. Hall, G. S. Saunders, John AVhealdon, Byron AVhitcomb, John Lowery, William Carpenter, L. D. Adkison, W. H. Hartwell, Eli Teegarden, Martin Knox, George W. Mallory, D. A. McConnell, S. C. Hutchings, R. S. Jenkins, N. D. Rideout, D. C. McGanney, A. DeCray, E. A. Harrington, John Stineman, J. H. Bowman, C. F. Brown, J. P. Brown, Fred Buttlemann, H. Lohse, C. K. Dam, Joseph A. Flint, AVilliam Slingsby, S. D. Wood, D. P. Derrickson, A. S. Wight, L. H. Babb, J. F. Flathman, B. F. Dam, Charles C. Duhain, James Lowery, John H. Beatty, Jr., G. W. Pine, James Malaley, W. T. Ellis, Jr., S. H. Bradley, T. B. Hopkins, T. J. Arnold, James O. Rusby, T. M. Hawley, J. A. Saul, W. B. Atkisson, Louis Conrath, Hugh J. McGuire, Lewis Wilder, A. C. Irwin, John Stineman, W. J. Mellon, W. B. Filcher, W. M. Jefferds, Fred Roberts, Phil J. Divver, David Morrison, A. G. Wheaton, J. J. Casey, Harry E. Hyde, G. E. Nutt, William J. Forbes, Clarence E. Swift, W. J. Mellon, and Frank M. Booth. County Assessors, Treasurers, and Tax-Collectors County Assessors: S. C. Tompkins, Mix Smith, F. M. Davenport, Joel D. Martin, John Rule, T. J. Sherwood, Newton Seawell, M. J. Crawford, B. F. Newberry, H. C. Newberry, Lewis M. Wilder, W. B. Meek, and Thomas E. Bevan. "Tom" Bevan has held the office since 1894, and is now the oldest assessor in the State of California in point of service, if not in years. County Treasurers: L. W. Taylor, George Rowe, John A. Paxton, A. F. Williams, Samuel P. Wells, A. O. Hyde, A. C. Chapman, J. P. Brown, W. H. Hartwell, J. R. Rideout, J. Fred Eastman, C. A. Stratton, W. T. Ellis, E. C. Ross, W. W. Holland, George W. Pine, Thomas Fogarty, and Harvey D. Eich. County Tax Collectors: During the period between 1856 and 1868 the office of county tax collector was independent of the county treasurer's office, not combined with it as it is today. Those who served as tax collector during that period were: C. N. Felton, L. B. Moore, John S. Love, Horace Beach, and C. E. Stone. In the period between 1874 and 1880 these offices were again combined, J. F. Eastman filling the place during all that time. County Clerks and County Auditors and Recorders County Clerks: E. D. Wheeler, Charles Lindley, E. Dorland, W. W. Dobbins, Lloyd A. Magruder, William Sharkey. William T. O'Neale, E. M. Ragan, D. E. Arnold, Barney Eilerman, Emerson E. Meek, Thomas J. Sherwood, James K. Hare, Sid Reardon, Gordon Bowman, J. F. Eastman, Phil J. Divver, and W. M. Strief. Auditors and Recorders: Alfred Lawton, E. D. Wheeler, Charles Lindley, S. C. Tompkins, D. C. Berham, W. H. Wickersham, L. T. Crane, L. R. Sellon, Barney Eilerman, John H. Krause, S. O. Gunning, C. N. Jenkins, S. O. Gunning (returned), William P. Cramsie, and Fred H. Greely. Other County Officials Superintendents of Schools: Samuel P. Wells. J. M. Abbott, E. B. Walsworth, W. C. Belcher, D. C. Stone, H. H. Rhees, Isaac Upham, A. A. McAlister, T. H. Steel, Frank B. Crane, H. H. Folsom, James A. Scott, Jesse E. Rich, William P. Cramsie, and Jennie Malaley. Miss Malaley has the distinction of being the first woman to hold the position. County Surveyors: James B. Cushing, W. W. O'Dwyer, D. B. Scott, Joseph Johnstone, Nelson Wescoatt, R. P. Riddle, H. H. Sanford, Jason R. Meek, James M. Doyle, Jason R. Meek (returned), L. B. Crook and Jason R. Meek (returned at last election). Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF YUBA and SUTTER COUNTIES CALIFORNIA WITH Biographical Sketches OF The Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified with Their Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present HISTORY BY PETER J. DELAY ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 1924 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/yuba/history/1924/historyo/chapter1325gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 8.3 Kb