Sullivan County

County Commissioners

    The county commissioners at the time of the burning of the court house in February, 1850 were Joseph W. Wolfe, Jesse Haddon and Levi Maxwell. Haddon's term expired the same year, and Wolfe's in 1851. The commissioners elected during the succeeding years as vacancies occurred or terms expired are named in the following order.

• 1850 William Beard

• 1851 Samuel Brodie

• 1852 Jacob Hoke (vice Brodie, deceased)

• 1853 Levi Maxwell

• 1854 Josiah Wolfe

• 1855 John A. Cummins

• 1856 Hezekiah Riggs

• 1857 John Sproatt

• 1859 William H. Griffin

• 1860 C. B. Shepherd

• 1861 John A. Cummins

• 1862 W. H. Griffin

• 1863 C. B. Shepherd

• 1864 Isham W. Allen

• 1865 Eli Dix

• 1866 Levi Woodward

• 1867 Henry R. Wallace

• 1868 Eli Dix

• 1869 Levi Woodward

• 1870 H. R. Wallace

• 1871 Eli Dix

• 1872 William Combs

• 1873 William A. Thompson

• 1874 Charles Scott

• 1875 William Combs

• 1876 Levi Woodward

• 1877 Charles Scott

• 1878 James J. Snyder

• 1879 Phillip R. Jenkins (vice Woodward)

• 1879 Jackson Rich

• 1881 James J. Snyder

• 1882 Jacob Billman and William Arnett

• 1884 Jacob Billman and William Schaffer

• 1888 Harrison Pitman and James Pounds

• 1890 Harrison B. Pitman and James L. Nash

• 1894 John Wood and J. R. Joseph

• 1902 Joseph Asbury and Wiley Gambill

• 1906 Hilla Lovelace and Lewis O. Turnbull

Source: A History of Sullivan County, Indiana. Closing of the first century’s history of the county and showing the growth of its people, institutions, industries and wealth. Thomas J. Wolfe, Editor. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909, page 330.

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