Division History Police Marshals, Superintendents and Chiefs: 1816 to Present. From February 10, 1816, when the borough of Columbus began its corporate existence, the following Marshals, Superintendents of Police and Police Chiefs have held office.

Holmes served as Marshal during the Yakima War (1855-1856) and became the first marshal to appoint deputies when he hired eight special night guards to protect the city from Indian attack; they only served for a short time.

In fact, the U.S. police force is a relatively modern invention, sparked by changing notions of public order, driven in turn by economics and politics, according to Gary Potter, a crime historian...

While working in plain clothes assigned to the vice squad, he was shot in the legs and abdomen by one Charles Thomas at Lincoln and 4th Streets when he attempted to arrest Thomas after he and another man engaged in a gun battle.

Brief Life History of Thomas When Thomas Holvey was born in 1862, in Missouri, United States, his father, George H. Holvey, was 29 and his mother, Margaret Simmons, was 23. He married Mary Jane Evans on 3 April 1880, in Macon, Missouri, United States.