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Title |
"History of the Daviess County Sheriff Department" (1980) by David Wadsworth |
Object Name |
Report |
Catalog Number |
2020.FIC.0934 |
People |
Alberty, Jesse C. Armes, Alvin Cecil Bair, John A. Beasley, Everett K. Bowman, John Bowman, William H. Brown, Joseph Chestnut, Donald L. Colbert, Charles B. Colbert, Fielding M. Comer, Daniel Faith, Hugh G. Fitzgerald, Milton H. Franklin, Lawrence E. Graves, James M. Guthrie, Christopher D. Harmon, George Jones, Elijah J. Jones, Zachariah R. Leming, John G. Martin, Andrew McCord, Jabez A. McCormick, Isaac W. McCullough, James L. Morgan, John P. Morgan, Ralph Dayton Nash, Michael Palmer, Richard Raper, Robert Read, Nathan G. Wadsworth, David Wallace, Walter B. Waller, George A. Ward, Francis A. |
Date |
1980 |
Scope & Content |
"History of the Daviess County Sheriff Department," an18 page, December 8, 1980 research paper by David Wadsworth. The report begins with the construction of 10 forts, or blockhouses, constructed in Daviess County beginning in 1812 to protect settlers from Indian attacks. The first jail built in 1819 with logs was 18 x 28 feet, two stories high, and was constructed on the public square where the Daviess County Courthouse is now located. It was destroyed by fire in 1829. Mr. Wadsworth noted that the Daviess County Sheriff's Department acquired a "Xerox copy machine" in 1978 to "handle the heavy [paper] work load." On page 17 is a list of the Sheriffs of Daviess County from Ovid Flint in 1816 to Everett Beasley in 1983. |
Search Terms |
Daviess County Jail Daviess County Sheriff |