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AUDIT ROW #418 · FIRST WOMAN, FIRST OF EACH COMMUNITY, PER OFFICE — UNDER THE SAME SETTLER
Office by office — sheriff, prosecutor, clerk, auditor, treasurer, the commissioners, the judgeships — the first woman and the first member of each community to hold each county office is a question that can only be answered off the successions, and the successions are the previous article's named gap. The item is therefore printed in its test form: the questions enumerated against the offices, the method stated (a first is provable only against a complete line — a name found early in a partial line proves a holder, not a first), and the whole item carried open under the county election record and the county histories jointly. Nothing is borrowed from the county's better-known firsts in other fields (its first Black or woman officeholders in offices this section does not carry) to fill the local lines.
Principal sources: the county-officers succession (article above) and its settler — the county election record; the county histories (Howard, and successors), named jointly.