TO MY SUPPORTERS IN WARREN
COUNTY: I am a Candidate for
Recorder …..Please Help Me.
There were three Holbrook boys in the army, all under 17, serving an average of 3 years in 12th, 35th and 79th Regiments and Signal Corps so well known in our county.
The illness resulting from a former campaign in which I walked over 700
miles has about disappeared and I can now satisfactorily perform duties
of office which are much more extended than formerly. The Deputy is my
daughter, Miss Hebe. The State Bureau of Inspection reports:
“The new abstract index required by Sec. 2751 G.C. is regularly
kept and the work in the Recorder’s office reflects much credit
on the clerical force.”
In addition to routine work done, we have transcribed, with corrections, almost three volumes of old records, which has made the office self supporting.
I am the only member of the family who has been a candidate for office and if I have one more term I can get my little home paid for. I was Secretary and Professor in the Lebanon University, which my father founded, for many years.
Expressing feelings of profound gratitude for support in the past, and
asking a continuance for one more term, thereby rewarding a soldier of
the Union army, first company organized in Lebanon viz.: Co. F, 12th
Reg. May 1861, I am,
Very sincerely yours,
JOSIAH HOLBROOK
Primary Election, Aug. 8th.
Source: The Western Star (Lebanon,
Ohio), Thursday June 8, 1916
[copy obtained from microfilm available at the Warren
County Genealogical Society]
Arne H Trelvik
13 June 2008