This office and the duties thereof wore adopted from the statutes of Pennsylvania, in 1795. After Ohio became a State, in 1803. an act was passed giving the power of appointing the Recorder to the Court of Common Pleas, his term of service to be seven years. The duties of the office were changed and defined by many subsequent acts, until February 25, 1831, when a law was enacted making the office elective every three years, all vacancies to be filled by the County Commissioners. It will be seen that the same men filled the offices of Clerk and Recorder at the same time, for the first twenty-nine years of the County's career, as, doubtless, the labor did not justify an official for each during those early years. Robert Hume, from 1810 until his resignation, in July, 1815; John Moore, July 18, 1815, until his death, June 27, 1839; Robert Hume, July 6, 1839, until his death, May 9, 1854; Oliver P. Crabb served out the unexpired term from May 1O, 1854, until the following October. In October, 1851, William Love came in, serving till his death, in May, 1857; W. A. Athey, was appointed in June. 1857, to fill the unexpired term, and served under the amended law until the end of that year; 1858-63, George Bowen; 1864-66, G. W. Darety: 1867-69, Sylvester W. Durflinger; 1870-June, 1880, Leonard Eastman, who died in office, and, in June, 1880, B. W. McCormack was appointed to serve until a successor was elected: 1881-83, Samuel P. Trumper.