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Jason Mosher

Sheriff's Journal

Vernon County Sheriff.

Learning from the past as we move into the future

Saturday, February 7, 2015

I was cleaning out a file cabinet this week and found an old property deed that belonged to my wife's grandparents. This one looked a little older than any I had seen before, so I started looking through it and noticed the dates were starting back in the late 1800s. As I turned through each page, I noticed one of the pages was signed by Vernon County Sheriff Elkanah M Scroghem, who served as Sheriff from 1894 -- 1898. I have always been fascinated with history and having an original document more than 115 years old is something worth saving! What is it about something being old that makes it more interesting? Is it the curiosity of wondering how different things are now from how they were then? I have never sat and read all the wording on a property deed, but found this one interesting because a large part of it had been written by hand. I believe we have a lot to learn from the past.

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