History of Crocker County, Iowa

Excerpts from the "The History of Iowa", by Benjamin F. Gue. Copyright 1903
Transcribed by Sue Soden .

Copyright © 1998 by Sue Soden.

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CROCKER COUNTY, IOWA
1870 created
1870 organized
1871 abolished
see Kossuth, Greenwood, and Bancroft Counties

Crocker County was created by an act of the Legislature of 1870, embracing
the northern part of Kossuth County which had at one time made the county
of Bancroft. It was named for General M. M. Crocker of Iowa, a
distinguished officer of the Civil War. The county-seat was located at
Greenwood and the organization was completed in October, 1870, by the
election of the following officers: George V. Davis, auditor; Cyrus Hawks,
clerk; william Gibbon, treasurer; A.J. Garfield, recorder; J.H. Coffin,
sheriff; Sarah A. Littlefield, superintendent of schools.

In December, 1871, the Supreme Court of Iowa declared the act creating this
county a violation of the constitution, which in article eleven declares
that no new county shall be created which contains less than four hundred
thirty two square miles. Crocker County ceased to exist from and after the
rendition of that decision and its territory reverted to Kossuth.