Grant Guthrie was appointed to fill the vacancy, afterwards elected for a full term. M. J. O'Connell was elected and took the office in eighteen ninety-nine, being reelected five times, making a total service of twelve years. Fern Samuel Baker, who succeeded him, has a record about as long. By the close of his present term he will have attained the distinction of being the one who has had the longest period of service. Baker is also coroner.

County Commissioners By designation of Governor Dawes, as heretofore recited, J. G. Morris, J. F. Pfost and D. H. Griswold were the special commissioners during the formative period of Sioux county. The election of eighteen eighty-seven made J. G. Morris, A. M. Mc- Ginley and Daniel Klein the members of the board. Klein and Morris were from the same district and district number two was without membership, according- to the lines later drawn by this board. Morris therefore resigned on March fifteenth and Don M. Wier was appointed April twenty-ninth to fill the vacancy. In eighteen ninety a full new board was chosen consisting of J. 1',. Burke, John A. Green, and Chas. U. Grove. In the following years the count}- lias had for its "county dads" some of the best men in the county, and all the time has been ably and economically handled. The following list will show the high character of the men who have managed the county business. In the nineties there were Fred W. Knott. M. 1. Weber. I:. F. Johnson, Frank Tinkham, I. Mittlen. Jens C. Meng, and A. Procunier.