Taken from the Story of Sault Ste. Marie
By Stanley Newton - 1923
The present county officials are:
Circuit Judge: Hon. Louis H. Fead
Judge of Probate: Hon. Chas. H. Chapman
Sheriff: Arza M. Swart
County Clerk: Sam C. Taylor
Court Stenographer: John A. France
Circuit Court Commissioners: John A. Colwell, F.B. Kaltz
County Treasurer: Anna E. McDonald
Register of Deeds: Edward Thompson
Prosecuting Attorney: M.M. Larmonth
County Surveyor: F.H. Brown
Coroners: George J. Dickinson, A.E. Lemon
Superintendents of Poor: J.W. Sparling, R.B. HOlmes, Jas A. Troutt
School Commissioner: Thoas B. Aldrich
Road Commissioners: A.J. Short, R.R. Reinhart, T.J. Watchorn
County Engineer: Louis Levin
SUPERVISORS OF THE TOWNSHIPS:
Bay Mills: C.R. Ladd
Bruce: John A. McKee
Chippewa: Geo. W. Warner
Dafter: A.E. Curtis
DeTour: John F. Goetz
Drummond: Earl E. Bailey
Hulbert: Chas. Johnson
Kinross: Albert Curtis
Pickford: George Watson
Raber: F.X. Schuster
Rudyard: John Bergsma
Soo: Wm. H. Miller
Sugar Island: Wm. Walkler
Superior: John Gleason
Trout Lake: Wm. Hayward
Whitefish: Thomas H. Savage
THE SOO CHANGES ITS GOVERNMENT
Dissatisfied with the old ward and aldermanic system under which the city government had functioned from the eighties, the electors of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, voted in 1917 for a new charter and a change to government by commission.
A Charter Commission was appointed of the following representative citizens: Francis T. McDonald, chairman; A.J. Eaton, clerk; Frank P. Sullivan, John P. Connolly, Wm. M. Snell, Edward Stevens, Goe. P. McCallum, and J.L. Lipsett. These gentlemen drew up the new charter, and at the elction following Mark Tympn became the first Mayor under the new form. Two years later he was succeeded by Francis T. McDonald. Commission government was proved a success, and few Sauleurs would consider a return to the old regime.
CITY OFFICERS IN 1923
The present city officials, elected and appointed, are:
Mayor: George O. Comb
City Manager: Henry A. Sherman
Commissioners: J.N. Adams, R.R. Beyer, Phil Jacobs, Robert Nimmo
Board of Education: Dr. Geo R. Ritchie, President; Ghas. G. Clarke, secretary; Isaac De Young, treasurer; Jos. MacLachlan and Chas. G. Lampman
Superintendent of Schools: Geo. G. Malcolm
Officers and heads of departments appointed by the city manager:
City Engineer: V.B. Redfern
Superintendent of Streets: Samuel Horry
Water Works Superintendent: Kenneth McLay
Engineer Pumping Station: B.F. Kelly
Sexton: Andrew Sayres
Health Officer: Dr. J.J. Griffin
Sanitary Inspector: Dan O'Connell
Visiting Nurse: Eithleen Rowe
Director City Band: Thos. H. Hanson
Chief of Police: Capt. J. F. Young
Chief of Fire Department: Frank Trombley
Board members appointed by the City Commission:
Carnegie Library Board: T. R. Easterday, Chairman; K. Christofferson, secretary; John P. Wessel, L.C. Sabin, Stanley Newton, Librarian: Alice Clapp
Park Commission: L.C. Sabin, chairman; W.S. Chapin, secretary; Geo. S. Wescott, Chas. E. Chipley, V.R. Conway.
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