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Marysville Police Chiefs and Marshals

The people who led law enforcement in Marysville, from the town marshals and street commissioners of the 1890s to today’s police chiefs.

Early Marysville street lined with wooden buildings, residents, horses, and freight wagons
Early Marysville street · The marshal era

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What this record includes.

The list begins in 1891, the year Marysville incorporated. Until the first police chief appears in 1948, local law-enforcement leadership was recorded under the title Marshal / Street Commissioner. Names and dates appear as recorded in the Society’s research.

Collection size
39

Directory records

Historical span
1891–present

39 leadership terms

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Showing 36 of 39 records

Police Department

A. S. Turner

Marshal / Street Commissioner

Year or term
1894
Also listed as
A.S. Turner

This is the same A.S. Turner who served on the City Council in 1906.

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Police Department

Hugh Allen

Marshal / Street Commissioner

Year or term
Date not listed

The Society’s list does not give a date for this entry. It appears between George Hartness’s January 1895 entry and his 1900 entry, which suggests service in the late 1890s.

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Police Department

Austin J. McDonald

Marshal / Street Commissioner

Year or term
1905
Also listed as
Angus J. McDonald

The Society’s list originally recorded this name as “Austin (Angus) J. McDonald.” The Society has since confirmed his first name as Austin.

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Police Department

John Jacklin Jr.

Marshal / Street Commissioner

Year or term
1932
Also listed as
John Jacklin; Jack Jacklin

The Society’s list originally recorded this entry as “John Jacklin.” The 1932 and 1941 marshal entries refer to the same man, and the Society believes he is John Jacklin Jr., who served on the City Council from 1924 to 1926.

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Police Department

John Jacklin Jr.

Marshal / Street Commissioner

Year or term
1941
Also listed as
John Jacklin; Jack Jacklin

The Society’s list originally recorded this entry as “Jack Jacklin.” The 1932 and 1941 marshal entries refer to the same man, and the Society believes he is John Jacklin Jr., who served on the City Council from 1924 to 1926.

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Police Department

Kenneth Koplin

Marshal / Street Commissioner

Year or term
1946
Also listed as
Jan Kenneth Koplin

The Society’s list originally recorded this name as “Jan Kenneth Koplin.” Research in local newspapers confirmed his name as Kenneth Koplin.

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Police Department

Sgt. John Faulkner

Police Chief

Year or term
June 22, 1968

The Society’s list gives his rank as sergeant for this 1968 entry. John Faulkner appears again in the list in January 1976.

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3 more matching records remain

Two titles, one line of service

From town marshal to police chief.

For more than half a century, Marysville recorded its top law-enforcement officer under the combined title Marshal / Street Commissioner. The list names the town’s first police chief in 1948.

1891–1946

Marshals & street commissioners

29 entries
  1. March 21, 1891William S. Hovey
  2. September 29, 1891J. W. Vincent
  3. January 1892Levi H. Nelson
  4. 1894A. S. Turner
  5. April 28, 1894Frederick Bertois
  6. January 1895George Hartness
  7. Date not listedHugh Allen
  8. 1900George Hartness
  9. April 9, 1900Phillip Triber
  10. September 10, 1900Eugene Davis
  11. January 13, 1902C. A. Robbins
  12. June 30, 1902Hugh Allen
  13. January 6, 1903O. L. Harris
  14. June 20, 1903S. B. Mapes
  15. January 1904Sanford T. Asbery
  16. 1905Austin J. McDonald
  17. January 20, 1913H. P. Powers
  18. January 1919W. G. McClaflin
  19. November 22, 1920William Gottschalk
  20. 1921Frank Foster
  21. 1923C. E. Pymm
  22. January 1928Archie Heathers
  23. 1930Charles Lee
  24. 1932John Jacklin Jr.
  25. 1936Frank Foster
  26. 1941John Jacklin Jr.
  27. 1944Henry J. Robertson
  28. 1945Jan Day
  29. 1946Kenneth Koplin
1948–present

Police chiefs

10 entries
  1. 1948B. F. Campbell
  2. October 1953Herman J. Broecker
  3. June 22, 1968Sgt. John Faulkner
  4. January 18, 1974Ray Sizemore
  5. January 1976John Faulkner
  6. June 24, 1985John Turner
  7. July 11, 1989Robert Dyer
  8. 1997–2006Robert “Bob” Carden
  9. 2007–2019Rick Smith
  10. 2020–presentErik ScairponCurrent

Sources & method

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These are the principal records used to assemble this collection. Linked family-history services are research leads and may change independently of the Society’s index.

  1. Marysville Historical Society — Police chiefs and marshals list

    Compiled by the Marysville Historical Society. Names, titles, and dates appear as recorded in the Society’s list, including one marshal entry without a date.

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