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The Janesville Gazette

August 14, 1985; p. 7H

Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin

Police/Fire - Janesville Sesquicentennial
 
Janesville has had 20 chiefs or marshals
There have been 29 police chiefs or marshals in Janesville's 150-year history. Here's a list:
 
1853: W. F. TOMPKINS; W. H. HOWARD, William MacLOON
1854: Charles YATES
1855: Thomas C. SLEEPER
1857: John L. D. EYCLESHIMER
1858-1866: None
1867: C. G. GILLETT
1868: Edmund HILL
1869: C. M. HEIMSTREET
1870: A. K. CUTTS
1871: None
1872: Nicholas CROTZENBERG
1874: M. H. KEATING
1879: Alex M. RUSSELL
1880: Alex M. RUSSELL; Edward SMITH; John W. HOGAN
1890: Theodore ACHESON
1897: John W. HOGAN, first police chief
1905: John COMSTOCK; William APPLEBY
1908: George APPLEBY
1913: Ensign RANSOM
1914: Peter CHAMPION
1919: William GOWER; Thomas MORRISY
1919: Thomas MORRISY
1921: Charles NEWMAN
1937: William H. FORD
1944: Jasper WEBB
1968: Murray COCHRAN
1975: Kenneth JONES
1979: Ray VOELKER, current police chief

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