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My North Dakota Diary
Oliver County
'Oliver County was named to perpetuate the memory of Hon. Harry S. Oliver of Lisbon, a prominent
member of the territorial legislature of 1885. It was organized in 1885 from part of Mercer county and
lies on the western bank of the Missouri river a few miles north of Bismarck, the state capital. For many
years its people were engaged in stock raising, but in later years the transition from ranching to
dairying and grain growing became very rapid. Center is the county seat, located near the geographical
center of the county.' Source: North Dakota Blue Book -- 1942