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County
Organization
What
is now known as Lincoln County was first
organized as a county under the Territorial
government of
Nebraska, in 1860.
Cottonwood
Springs was made the county seat.
The
following officers were elected:
J.
P. Boyer, J. C. Gillman and J. A. Morrow
- Commissioners
Charles
McDonald - Judge
W.
M. Hinman - Treasurer
Instead
of being called Lincoln, the county
was called Shorter. Nothing more
important than the
organization was done because the only
officers that ever took the trouble
to qualify for their
respective offices were J. A. Morrow
and Charles McDonald.
In
1866, steps were taken to reorganize
old Shorter County, since the first
organization had no effect
so far as the government of the county
was concerned. The officers elected
in 1860 having
failed, with two or three exceptions,
to qualify, and no other election having
been held, the
organization of the county was practically
of no effect.
On
September 3, 1866, a meeting was held
and arrangement made to re-organize
Shorter county
under the name of Lincoln, in accordance
with the Territorial laws of Nebraska,
as this was
before Nebraska became a state.
An
election was called for the following
October. The early records are
so incomplete that
it is impossible to give the names of
all the officers elected at this time.
A
partial list was:
J.
C. Gillman, W. M. Hinman and J. A. Marow
- Commissioners
S.
D. Fitchie - Judge
William
Baker - Sheriff
Charles
McDonald - Clerk
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