Pennsylvania 1806 Sheriff, Dauphin County

Office:: Sheriff (County)
Title:: Sheriff
Jurisdiction:: County

Label:: Pennsylvania 1806 Sheriff, Dauphin County
Date:: 1806
State:: Pennsylvania
Type:: General
Iteration:: First Ballot
Office/Role:: Sheriff/Sheriff
Candidates:: Frederick Wolfersberger, Thomas Bennett, Obed Fahnestock, George Ziegler, James Clark

Candidates:	Frederick Wolfersberger [1]	Thomas Bennett	Obed Fahnestock	George Ziegler	James Clark
Affiliation:
Final Result: [2]	879	857	821	589	413
Dauphin County	879	857	821	589	413
Annville	96	30	28	18	5
Halifax[3]	18	55	92	28	30
Harrisburg	32	250	139	137	44
Hummelstown	48	41	31	50	8
Jonestown	149	19	152	39	38
Lebanon	169	37	111	93	63
Middle Paxton	1	29	39	5	57
Middletown	24	144	4	24	29
Myerstown	82	13	111	69	10
Palmstown	131	24	19	26	19
Schaefferstown	83	37	13	23	15
Upper Paxton	10	72	51	48	19
West Hanover	36	106	31	29	76

Notes:

[1]Elected.

[2]The True American and Commercial Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA) from October 23 lists George Zeigler with 519 total votes.

[3]The Die Harrisburger Morgenrothe (Harrisburg, PA) from October 18 lists Obed Fahnsestock with 29 votes in Halifax, but reports the same vote total of 821 as other sources do for him in Dauphin County.

References:

Original Election Returns. Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg.

Norristown Herald and Weekly Advertiser (Norristown, PA). October 17. 1806.

Die Harrisburger Morgenrothe (Harrisburg, PA). October 18, 1806.

The Oracle of Dauphin, and Harrisburgh Advertiser (Harrisburg, PA). October 18, 1806.

Dauphin Guardian (Harrisburg, PA). October 21, 1806.

Der Readinger Adler (Reading, PA). October 21, 1806.

The True American and Commercial Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA). October 23, 1806.

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