Although not a member of the bar, Judge Gumaer is well read in the law, and ever preserves the honor and dignity of the bench. About the only time the magisterial calm was ever ruffled was on the occasion when a well dressed young man and woman with every appearance of candidates for matrimony presented themselves before him and smiling recited, "Will you divorce us from each other, Judge?"

Lee Minner of Omaha, was our first county attorney. After but a few weeks in the office, he became dissatisfied, resigned his office and removed to Kansas City.

The next attorney to arrive was R. F. Williams who came from Bridgeport. Nebraska. He was appointed county attorney in the spring of 1910 to fill the vacancy, was elected to the office in 1910, reelected in 1912. Failing to secure reelection in 1914, he went back to his boyhood home in Niles, Michigan. Richard F. Williams, who was known here as "Judge" Williams, was a captain and veteran of the Civil War. He always took a lively interest in politics and was a staunch Republican. In addition to his successful experience as a soldier and lawyer, he spent several years as a miner and prospector, and at one time edited and published a newspaper at St. Edwards, Nebraska. Judge Williams now spends the winters in Florida. He is the father of Fay E. Williams, one of the pioneer lawyers of Bridgeport, Nebraska.

Herbert J. Curtis, county attorney of Garden county, was born in Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa, on September 24, 1871. His paternal ancestors came from England in early colonial times and each new generation joined the western bound pioneers. In the early fifties when Mr. Curtis's father. Stephen Curtis, was a small boy, the Curtis family emigrated from Ohio to the Des Moines river bottom near the site of old Bellefountain and engaged in the usual occupations of the woodman.