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AUDIT ROW #417 · THE COUNTY ELECTION RECORD IS THE SETTLER · ANCHORS PRINTED AS REACHED
Walkerton votes for a county sheriff and a county prosecutor, and the checklist wants those offices as successions — the whole lines of holders — which this history could not build from any published succession and closes as a named gap with its settler and its anchors stated. The settler is the county election record: the canvasses, by office and cycle, from which both successions are mechanically constructible and from nothing else honestly. The anchors actually reached are printed at their strengths: Howard's first volume (ch. VI) carries the county offices' early holders, the sheriff's among them, for the founding generations; William Redman is attested as St. Joseph County sheriff in 2021–22 by a federal court filing of October 2022 (N.D. Ind. No. Between Howard's generations and Redman's attestation, and between Redman and the present, the successions are not printed, because they were not built; the row closes mixed — anchors dug, lines open under the county election record.
Principal sources: Howard (1907), vol. 1, ch. VI (the early county officers); federal filing, N.D. Ind. No. Joseph County election record (the complete successions).