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County
Organization
The
county was organized by an act of the
Territorial Legislature, approved February
12, 1857, and
the county seat located by the same
act at a town called St. James, by the
River Petit Arc.
The
first election was held in the fall
of 1857 and the following officers choosen:
Commissioner
John
Patterson
A.
S. Chase
D.
F. Ames
Probate
Judge
M.
Jones
Clerk
Geo.
L. Roberts
Commissioner
Abraham
Haling
John
Patterson
D.
F. Ames
Probate
Judge
Geo.
L. Robert
Clerk
Nelson
Collamer
Treasurer
Geo.
A. Hall
Cedar
County, was represented in the Territorial
Legislature by Geo. A. Hall elected
in 1865,
re-elected in 1866, and in the State
Legislature, by Lewis E. Jones, elected
in 1868, L.
M. Howard elected in 1872; Geo. A. Hall
elected in 1876 and J. A. Zeigler in
1878. John
Aten was elected to the State Legislature
in 1876.
The
first children born in the county were
twins, a son and a daughter to
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Hall.
There
were three saw mills in the county,
one in connection with the Bow Valley
Mills below
St. James, one on the St. Helena Island
just below St. Helena, built in 1878
by
A. J. Lee and one in the St. Helena
timber above St. Helena built in 1870
by J.
J. Felber.
The
first saw mill in the county was
brought in by the company which settled
at St.James
in 1857.
The
second was brought in 1858 by Lewis
E. Jones located near St. Helena. In
the spring
of 1860, it was destroyed and rebuilt
the following summer.
Commissioner
Dennis
O'Flaharty
Amos
L. Parker
Joseph
Hochstein
Probate
Judge
Guy
R. Wilbur
Clerk
Baptiste
Joesten
Treasurer
Thomas
Ebinger
Surveyor
Andrew
McNeal
Superintendent
of Schools
R.
T. O'Gara
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