Eugene Delatour, county clerk, at once executed the certificate that the county was divided and that the part north of township fifteen to be henceforth known as Garden county.
The first county officers were : Robt. A. Day, Clerk ; Charles Davis, Treasurer; Walter Clark, Sheriff; T. C. McKee, Superintendent of Schools ; Lee Minner, Attorney ; John Robinson, Surveyor; J. C. Hartman. Assessor, H. H. Hough, Coroner ; A. W. Gttmaer, Tudge ; and M. P. Clary, D. F. Fickes, and Wni Barnwell, Commissioners.
Oshkosh the new county seat is conveniently located in the south central part of the county. The commissioners rented the lower floor of the Commercial hotel in Oshkosh for a court
house, hired Mr. Day to transcribe the records from Deuel county ; built a temporary jail and a cement vault for the records, and early in 1910 Oshkosh got settled down to the duties and responsibilities as county sat of the new county.
In the spring of 1914, the county commissioners called a special election to submit to the voters the question of issuing court house bonds in the sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000). The measure failed to carry and the. county is still renting the old cramped, unsuitable building for a court house. The county officers at this time. March, 1920. are: G. E. Melvin Clerk ; Ed. S. Wood, Treasurer ; A. W. Gumaer, Judge; R. H. Smith, Sheriff; H. J. Curtis, Attorney; H. A. Mark, Surveyor; Esther M. Johnson. Superintendent; D. F. Fickes, Assessor; Wm. L. Law, J. R. Woolery, and W. R. VV. Taylor, Commissioners.