Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — TEN LIVING EX-SHERIFFS OF OLD JASPER COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

TEN LIVING EX-SHERIFFS OF OLD JASPER COUNTY.

Every Han Elected Since 1880 Survives and Three Before That Time SUll Among the Living. A remarkable longevity of Jasper county sheriffs is evidenced by the fact that there are now ten ex-sheriffs of this couply living, and that every man who has been elected since ISBO still survives, as well as three before that time, one being before the war. The register of county officers in the office of the county clerk shows only those who were elected since 1872, as the prior records were destroyed when the court house burned. Only one sheriffs since that time has passed away, being George M. Robinson, who was sheriff for two terms, from Nov. 4, 1876, to Nov. 13, 1880. when he was succeeded by John W. Powell. The register shows the following names: Lewis L. Daugherty, 1872 —1875 George M. Robinson, 1876—1879. John W. Powell, 1880—1883. S. E. Yeoman,- 1884^—1887. Phillip Blue, 1888—1891. Chas. W. Hanley, 1892—1895. Nathan J. Reed. f 896—1899, A. G. Hardy, 1900—1903. John O’Connor, 1904—1907. Louis P. Shirer, 1908— Simon Phillips was sheriff in 1856 and 1857. He is the oldest of the sur- ! viving ex-sheriffs. Mr. Phillips is 87 years of age. Charles Platt is the next oldest ex-sheriff. He held the office two terms, 1865 to 1868, and was Lien elected county treasurer. Lewis L. Daugherty is next in age. He served the county as sheriff two terms. He has been living in Hammond for a number of years. Among the earlier sheriffs as nearly as we have been able to ascertain were Willis J. Wright, Daniel Davis, John Phillips, who succeeded his nepliew r , Simon Phillips, and William Nr* Henderson, who was sheriff during tiie four years of the civil war. This is quite a remarkable thing. There is but one living ex-president of the United States, and but two living ex-governors of the state of Indiana, viz. Winfield T. Durbin and J. Frank Hanley. _____ If there is another county in the state that can beat Jasper in the matter of living ex-sheriffs we should like to hear of it.