History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. II
In eighteen ninety-one the fifteenth district came into existence. A. W. Crites was appointed to divide the work of the district. Alfred Bartow of Chadron succeeded Crites, and in eighteen ninety-six W. H. Wrestover became judge in the place of Bartow. J. J. Harrington took the place of Kinkaid in nineteen hundred. The sixteenth judicial district was created in nineteen twelve, including Sioux county, and Judge Westover still presides when district court is held in this county.
Thus for over twenty-five years Judge W. H. Westover has been chosen and rechosen by the people of his district. Of late years there has been no opposition at the elections.
Membership of the Sioux county bar is pretty well reflected in its official list of county prosecutors. First again we find the name of Ed Satterlee. W. H. Davis was contemporaneous of the time, and John W. Hunter soon followed as a practitioner. In the nineties there were Geo. Walker, Hugh L. Conley, Alvin T. Clark. Grant Guthrie and perhaps some others. M. J. O'Connell was teaching school in eighteen ninetyseven. He practiced law in Harrison for ten years after about eighteen ninety. W. A. McMann was at Bodarc for a time, and R. L. Wilhite, now of Gordon, was here for a time.
Fern Samuel Baker came to Harrison about a decade ago and is the present county prosecutor. Colonel J. W. Hartwell and Mr. Baker now constitute the total resident membership of the bar of Sioux count}'.
The Story of the Schooi - As heretofore stated the first school organized in Sioux county was while it was yet unorganized territory, and attached to Cheyenne county. Jo. Oberfelder was then county superintendent at Sidney. In eighteen eighty-three he came to Fort Robinson and organized district number one, just west of the fort.