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Book Title: History Of Fountain County

AUDITOR AND TREASURER.

   In 1841 the office of auditor was created and the office of treasurer was
made elective in this county. William Lamb was elected auditor and Baker Spence
treasurer in August of that year. Prior to that time the duties that have since
belonged to the auditor's office were performed by the clerk of the circuit
court and the county agent. With Mr. Lamb's entry into the office of auditor
began the system of keeping a separate account of the expenses of each
department of the public service. The treasurers of the county, prior to the
election of Baker Spence, in the order of their appointment, were: James Prevo,
appointed July 1826; William Hopkins, appointed January 1827; and Joseph L.
Sloan, appointed January 1828, and reappointed each year until 1841, serving
from January, 1828, to August 1841, receiving for many of these years the
munificent sum of $20 per year for his services. It may be truthfully recorded
of him that he was an honest man, and faithful in the discharge of the duties of
his office, and while he died poor in this world's goods, he was rich in the
esteem of those who knew him, and took with him to the life beyond the grave
more than will many another who has been successful in accumulating wealth at
the expense of the public, and by prostituting official position.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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