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Coroner--W. S. King.
Judges District Court--Milo P. Smith, W. N. Treichler, F. O. Ellison.
COUNTY OFFICERS FOR 1909-1910
Supervisors--Allan McDuff, Wm. P. Secrist, J. C. Gritman.
Auditor--F. J. Cleveland.
Treasurer--Harry E. Pratt.
Clerk District Court--Wm. Dennis.
Recorder--J. E. Cook.
Sheriff--Wm. G. Loftus.
County Attorney--Chas J. Haas.
Superintendent--A. B. Alderman.
Coroner--W. S. King.
Surveyor--J. W. Bowdish, Jr.
Judges District Court--Milo P. Smith, W. N. Treichler, F. O. Ellison.
COUNTY OFFICERS FOR 1911
Supervisors--Allan McDuff, Wm. P. Secrist, J. C. Gritman.
Auditor--F. A. Canfield.
Treasurer--J. B. Travis.
Clerk District Court--Wm. Dennis.
Recorder--J. E. Cook.
Sheriff--Wm. G. Loftus.
County Attorney--G. P. Linville.
Superintendent--A. B. Alderman.
Coroner--W. S. King.
Surveyor--Raymond Swem.
Judges District Court--Milo P. Smith, W. N. Treichler, F. O. Ellison.
CHAPTER XLIII
_History of Marion, the County Seat_
BY HON. JAMES E. BROMWELL
Marion, most fittingly called the ”City Beautiful,” or the ”Grove City,” was laid out in 1839 on a semi-circular plateau of prairie that lay within a timbered crescent bordering and following the course of Indian creek on the west, and opening into a vast extent of prairie on the east, to which it lay joined like a protected harbor of the sea.
Before it was laid out in the spring of 1839, it was located by a special board of commissioners appointed by the territorial legislature of Iowa in 1838, as the county seat of Linn county, and was named in honor of General Francis Marion.
David A. Woodbridge, who was appointed to superintend the work, and Ross McCloud, the first county surveyor, proceeded to lay out the town, and on December 2, 1839, a.s.sisted by Hosea W. Gray and A. J. McKean as chain carriers, Elisha Kemp stake driver, and Ira Wilson flagman, and under the direction of David A. Woodbridge, agent, the town of Marion was platted on the west half of the northwest quarter of section six, towns.h.i.+p eighty-three, range six, and the east half of the northeast quarter of section one, towns.h.i.+p eighty-three, range seven.
The town consisted of fifty-six blocks, 250 feet square. The lots were 60 by 120 feet, and the alleys ten feet wide. The four streets that enclose the public square were laid out eighty feet wide, all other streets sixty feet wide. The lots on which the court house and other county buildings now stand, were then reserved for public use, as was the park, consisting of the block directly north of that on which the county buildings now stand, and block fifty-six, the southwest block of the plat, was reserved for a public cemetery.