This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: English, Greenwood Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1714 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1840: Dave English came in 1840 from Clay county, Missouri, to McKissick's Grove. Appointed organizing sheriff by the governor.--His nephew Wm. F. English, quoted in the Centennial Edition of the Hamburg Reporter. 2.--1849: Elected sheriff at the first election in April 1849.--Lingenfelter, page 8; Hist. of Fremont County, page 379. N.B.: Strictly speaking, this was the o-r-g-a-n-i-z-i-n-g election that was held in the spring of 1849. The men elected at this time were to organize the regular election in the fall. English set off the county into three townships for this purpose.--W.F. 3.--1849: Made the first land entry at Fairfield, Iowa, on May 28, 1849 for the northeast quarter of section 25 township 67 range 42. On Oct. 9, 1849, entered the southwest quarter of section 25 township 67 range 42.--1881 History of Fremont county, page 401. 4.--1849: Land entry made July 19, 1849 for the northeast quarter and for the southeast quarter of section 24 township 67 range 42.--Hist. of Fremont County, page 401. 5.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa: David English.....31.....b. KY Eliza.................29.........MO Joseph................4.........Iowa John....................2........Iowa 6.--1850: Bond of David M. English as assessor approved.--Minutes (of the Board of County Commissioners.--W.F.), April 1, 1850. 7.--1851: David M. English,. sheriff, allowed $175.70 for receiving prisoner, etc.--Minutes, Jan. 6, 1851. 8.--1852: Fremont county Census.--"Madison township" Eliza English......2m....1 f 9.--1852: Allowed $121.28 for services as sheriff.--Greenwood, Dec. 30, 1852. N.B.: It seems one has no choice but to believe English, now deceased, had not been paid by the Board of County Commissioners before that form of county government had been replaced by the county judge system. The payment must have been made to his widow, for she is shown as such in the 1852 census.--W.F.