San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . Ham-ilton counties and to which were attached some twelve or fifteen unorganizedcounties of the northwest for electoral and judicial purposes. Six months laterhe became county judge and served in that capacity until 1858. His decisionswere based upon a knowledge of the law and tempered with the kindness whichmakes an officer on the bench of real value. He was then appointed by Gover-nor Grimes and later by Governor Lowe of Iowa as commissary general ofIowa and ably served in that important position u
San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . Ham-ilton counties and to which were attached some twelve or fifteen unorganizedcounties of the northwest for electoral and judicial purposes. Six months laterhe became county judge and served in that capacity until 1858. His decisionswere based upon a knowledge of the law and tempered with the kindness whichmakes an officer on the bench of real value. He was then appointed by Gover-nor Grimes and later by Governor Lowe of Iowa as commissary general ofIowa and ably served in that important position until 1861, when he receivedthe appointment by President Lincoln as registrar of the land office for theFort Dodge district for four years. He had every opportunity to display inthis position his legal talent in allotment of the government land and in givingdecisions in regard to controversies arising from the same. He was reappointedfor another four years and then resigned his position and established the FirstNational Bank of Fort Dodge, Iowa, creating an institution for which a long-felt. HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY 101 want existed in the fast-growing community. He became the first president ofthe bank and served in this capacity for ten years, at the same time attending tohis law practice which was of an extensive and important nature. At the endof that period he sold out his interests and, once more feeling the spirit of thewest, removed to Monarch, Colorado, where he invested heavily in mines. Helater organized his interests into a company to which he admitted Major Hewitt,Edwin C. Cooper, Augustus G. Payne, R. W. Raymond and Anton Eilors, all ofNew York, and erected the Colorado Smelting plant at Pueblo, which later wasmerged into the American Smelting & Refining Company, in which he is stillinterested. Having obtained a comfortable competence in 1888 he came toSan Diego to enjoy the fruits of his labor on the sunny California coast, but in1893 he was called from retired
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