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Book Title: Counties Of Warren, Benton, Jasper And Newton, Indiana

ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY.

    The 23d of June, 1827, was fixed as the date upon which an election of
Clerk, Recorder, two Associate Judges and five Justices of the Peace, for the
transaction of county business, should be held, and the county was divided into
five election districts; the necessary number of Inspectors, Clerks and Judges
of Election were appointed, and the election was advertised and ordered held by
Luther Tillotson, Organizing Sheriff. The following were the voters in the First
District: John N. Lewin, Joseph Thomas, Nicholas DeLong, John Black, Lewis Evans
Samuel Watkins, Humphrey Becket, Benjamin Becket, John Miles, William Becket,
John Ferrell, William Jolly, Elias Oxford, Sylvester Stone, Thomas Cunningham,
Elisha Miles, James Holmes, Hiram Miles, James McCune, Robert Mill, Enoch Stran,
Jacob Ferrell and William Henoersh; total, twenty-three. The voters in the
Second Election District were James C. Watson, Thomas Kitchen, Luther Tillotson,
James Kitchen, Nelson De Moss, Peter High, Amos Clark, William Hall, Samuel
Clem, Henry Coons, Adam Coons, Augustus Watson, William Kent, Nathaniel
Butterfield, Holder Sisson, James Shaw, Lemuel Boyd, Benjamin Cheneweth, John
Jones, James Forbner and Joseph King: total, twenty-one. The voters in the Third
District were Ransom Wilkinson, Seth Shippy, James Oxford, William Harrison,
Nathan Billings, Samuel Harrison, Uriah Dunn, George Billings, Marcus Shippy,
John Fields, Jr., James Gilbert, Christopher Pitzer, David Dickinson, Joseph
Readine Jonathan Pitzer, Robert Benjamin, William Harrington, Mathias Reading,
John Hankins, William Harrison, Jr., John Fields, James Fipps, James B.
Harrison, Thomas B. Clark, Jonathan Shippy, Daniel Benjamin. John Dickson,
Thomas Doan, John Seaman, Daniel Clark, Nimrod Harrison, David Fleming, William
Pugh, Andrew Flemihg, Peter Fleming, Lyman Judd, Marshal Billings and Jacob
Halstead: total, thirty-eight. The voters in the Fourth District were
Constantine Messmore, Zechariah Cicott, Thomas Horren, Solomon Pitzer, Francis
Boggs, Marshfield Hunt, Daniel Tevebaugh, Adam White, John Tevebaugh, James
McCase, John Farmer, Enoch Farmer and Joseph Cox: total, fifteen. The voters in
the Fifth District were James Bidwell, Daniel White, Archibald Davis, Samuel B.
Clark, Samuel Green, Isaac Rains, John Anderson, John Jackson, Jeremiah Davis
and John Gardner; total, eleven. Grand total, 108. This election resulted as
follows:

                                           District
Office      Candidate            First Second Third   Fourth Fifth Total

Clerk       James Cunningham         23     21       1     13         58
            Marshall Billings                       37      2    11   50

Recorder    James Cunningham         23     18       1     10         52
            Marshall Billings                       37           11   48

Two         Samuel B. Clark                 11      29     11    11   62
Associate   William Jolly            11              8      2     8   29
Judges      Nathaniel Butterfield     8     17      13     13         51
            Humphrey Becket          23     10       5      4     3   45

Five        Edward Maco                                           4    4
Justices    Thomas Kearns                                  15         15
of the      William Harrington                      21                21
Peace       Lemuel Boyd                     11                        11
            Thomas Cunningham        23                               23

   This was really the organizing election of the county, and was the first in
the county, of any description, after the passage of the act by the Legislature
which brought Warren into existence. Soon after this, the officers elected took
the oath of office, and entered upon the discharge of their respective duties.


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PART II.
HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
County Organization
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COUNTIES OF 
Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton,
INDIANA

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1883.


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