Fountain County IN Archives History - Books .....Recorder, Sheriff And Clerk 1881
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Book Title: History Of Fountain County

RECORDER.

   The first recorder of the county was Robert Hetfield, who was elected in 1834
and served until 1841, when he was succeeded by William Hoffman. Mr. Hetfield
had before that time been sheriff of the county. Both these gentlemen were
honored and respected citizens, and faithful and efficient officers.

SHERIFF.

   The first sheriff of the county, whose name appears in the records of the
circuit court, was John Corse, although it appears from an entry in the minutes
of the board of justices that Isaac Col man was sheriff before Mr. Corse, and it
is probable that he was the first sheriff of the county. The only official
mention of his conduct as sheriff is found in the minutes referred to, in an
allowance to "Isaac Col man, former sheriff of the county, for services" in the
contested election case of Babcock vs. White, in July 1826.

   John Corse served until August 1830, when Robert Hetfield was elected, and he
served until August 1834; Lawson B. Hughes succeeded Mr. Hetfield, and served
until August 1836; John Bodley succeeded Mr. Hughes, and served until August
1840; John Bowman was elected in August 1840, and served until August 1842, when
he was succeeded by John Bodley, who served until August 1846; Geo. Ridge
succeeded Mr. Bodley, and remained in office until August 1848.

CLERK.

   The first clerk of the circuit court was Daniel Rodgers. Mr. Wm. B. White had
been elected, but, as we have seen, his election was successfully contested, and
Mr. Rodgers was appointed to serve until another election could be had. He
served until March 1830. William B. White then took the office by virtue of an
election, and held it until the latter part of 1839 or early in 1840, when he
resigned, and Marshall M. Milford was appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr. Milford
served until November 1840, and was succeeded by Joseph Ristine, whose first
term reached to 1847. No citizens of the county were better known or respected
during their lives than these gentlemen. They did much to build up and forward
the interests of their county. They were faithful and efficient in public
service, and it would be a pleasure to speak at length of their lives and
characters if it could be permitted here. The last two have been dead but a
little while. They lived to be of the present generation, and to-day no names
are more familiar to the people of Fountain county than those of Marshall M.
Milford and Joseph Ristine. The one died but recently, after a long illness, and
the other, but a year or two before, was stricken down instantly in the
court-room in Warren county, while engaged professionally in the trial of a
cause, and without warning the life went out of a body in the fall vigor of
manhood and left to the view of his mute and terrified friends but a lump of
clay, and to their senses a vivid illustration of the brittleness of the thread
upon which life hangs. Both were, at the time of their deaths, members of the
bar of this and Warren county, and appropriate memorials will be found of record
in the order-books of the circuit court — of the one in Fountain county, and of
the other in Warren county.



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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