CHAPTER XXII.

CIVIL LISTS OF COUNTY AND TOWNSHIPS.

COUNTY OFFICERS BY APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION FROM THE TIME

OF THE ORGANIZATION IN 1825.

    Under the old constitution, as under the new, sheriffs were elected
for two years. Following his service, under the appointment of the
governor, Jesse Mclntire served two full terms, until August, 1829,
when he was succeeded by John Rizley, who served but one term. In
August, 1831, Lawrence Leonard was elected, and commissioned Sep-
tember 22 following, and in August, 1833, was re-elected, his second
term expiring in 1835. McIntire, Rizley and Leonard were all citizens
of Washington township. At the election of 1835, Bluford H. Bolin,
of Jackson township, was elected, who was succeeded in 1837 by
Lawrence Leonard. In 1839, Abner Gaines Christie, of Perry township,
was elected, who resigned in July, 1841, when Thomas I. Cromwell, of
Washington, was commissioned his successor, serving only until the 16th
day of August, when Hiram C. Tribble, also of Washington, having been
elected the first Monday of the month, was commissioned. In August,
1843, George Pinckley, of Posey township, was elected, who was suc-
ceeded in 1845 by Elias Cooprider, of Harrison township. Charles W.
Moss, of Washington (now Sugar Ridge township), was elected in
1847, and re-elected in 1849. In 1851, Lot Loving, of Washington, was
elected, and, in 1852, re-elected under the new constitution, serving
until the expiration of his four years in 1855. In 1854, William F.
McCullough, of Dick Johnson township, was nominated and elected, and
in 1856, was renominated and re-elected. He was succeeded in 1858 by
Jeptha M. Ellington, of Lewis township, whose successor, elected in 1860,
was Calvin Reed, of the same township. In 1862, John H. Davis, of
Washington, was elected, and was succeeded in 1864 by John Cullen, of
the same township, who was re-elected in 1866. In i868, John Weber,
of Washington, was elected, and re-elected in 1870. In 1872, John
Strauch, of Washington, was elected, who was succeeded, in 1874, by
Jesse B. Yocum, of Posey, who was re-elected in 1876, and died in the
spring of 1877, when Alexander Haggart, of Van Buren township, was
appointed to fill out the unexpired term. In 1878, Jacob Baumunk, of
Cass township, was elected, and succeeded, in 1880, by James F. Lank-
ford, of Harrison. George Stierly, of Jackson township, was elected in
1882 and re-elected in 1884, succeeded by William F. Bright, of Perry
township, elected in 1886. In 1888 John Murphy, of Van Buren town-
ship, was elected and re-elected in 1890, followed by Morgan H. Ringo,
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