45 year old Chauncey Norman Noteware of Douglas County (Carson City) wins. R.M. Daggett and Dr. A.S. Peck also ran. Noteware had brothers and cousins who were gunning for other positions, including M.D. Noteware who would become Surveyor General, W.C. Noteware who would become Clerk. Those boys were city officials in other towns when the election happened. Electioneering for the big brother. He was the Grand High Priest of the Masons in NV. He was later appointed to be a Probate Judge. Stewart hooked him up for life. They are electioneering, traveling around and speaking.
MT&OC pg 99
Sam had written that Noteware was one of the guys with his feet up on his desk during the Territorial Legislative sessions, as if they place belonged to him. He did feel comfortable in power and felt entitled. Chauncey married Sarah Lyon whose father survived the 1860 Pyramid Lake War with the Paiutes, and Lyon County was named after him – and another Union General who died in Missouri. Major land-owing family of ranchland. Orion comes in 2nd.