180	HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

the 21st day of the same month. In the fall of 1852, Thomas Riddell,
of Jackson township, first incumbent under the new constitution, was
elected to succeed Beam at the expiration of his term in 1853. Riddell
was re-elected in 1856, and died on the 16th day of September, 1860,
when his son, Job Riddell, was appointed to fill the vacancy. Clinton M.
Thompson, of Washington township, was elected at the general election
of 1860, and assumed the duties of the office in November following.
He was succeeded in November, 1864, by Charles H. Knight, of Van
Buren township. Peter T. Luther, of Harrison township, was elected
in 1868, succeeded in 1872, by Edward A. Rosser, of Van Buren town-
ship. In 1876, Lucius J. Bowman, of Washington township, was
elected, who was succeeded in 1880 by Silas Foulke, of Perry township.
Owen T. Stark, of Lewis township was elected in 1884, followed by
Dennis C. Gilfillan, of Sugar Ridge township, in 1888, who was followed
by George J. Kayser, of Harrison township, in 1892. Thomas J. Keegan,
of Brazil township, was elected in 1896, succeeded by Bence Casteel in
l900, who was followed in 1904 by Joseph M. Chambers, of Lewis
township, who died on the 28th of September, 1906, when his son,
Clayton Chambers, was appointed by the Board of County Commis-
sioners to fill out the unexpired term. Herman C. Emmert, of Jackson
township, was elected in 1908.
	When Clayton Chambers resigned as Recorder, to take the Clerk’s
office, November 17, 1908, Fred C. Witt was appointed to fill the position
until January ist, succeeding.
	Jesse Fuller, of Washington township, the first auditor, was elected
in August, 1845, and was succeeded by John Osborn, of Washington
township, in March, 1850, who had been elected in August, 1849.
Osborn was re-elected in 1854, his first term expiring in March, 1855,
and was followed, in 1859, by Hezekiah Wheeler, of Posey township.
George W. Wiltse, of Washington township, was elected in 1863, fol-
lowed by James M. Hoskins, of Posey township, who was elected in
1867, and re-elected at the general election of 1870, his second term
expiring, in November, 1875. James Shaw, of Brazil township, was
elected in 1874 to succeed Hoskins, and served until January, 1877.
when he died, the board of county commissioners appointing Jefferson
McAnelly, of Washington township, to fill the vacancy, who assumed
the duties of the office just at the time of the removal from Bowling
Green to Brazil. James T. Casteel was elected in October, 1878, and
re-elected in November, 1882, serving two full terms. Thomas Hyland,
of Perry township, was elected in i886, succeeded by Matthew R.
Yocum, of Posey township, in 1890, who died, when Thomas Phillips, of
Perry township, was appointed by the board of commissioners to fill out
the term, who was elected in 1894 to a full term. In 1898 Samuel M.
Stigler, of Jackson township, was elected, followed by J. Frank Smith, of
Brazil township, in 1902, who was succeeded in 1906 by James L. Burns,
of Posey township.
	Under the old constitution, prior to 1840, county treasurers were
appointed by the county board, whose duties were the care and disburse-
ment of the public funds, the collection of taxes having been made by
the sheriff, or by some one chosen specially as a collector. Under the
statute providing for the election of a treasurer and collector, to serve
for the period of three years, Allen T. Rose, of Washington township,
was the first man chosen to this position, who was elected the first of