My North Dakota Diary
Sargent County
'Sargent County was named in honor of Gen. H. E. Sargent, at that time superintendent of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, deeply interested and active in promoting the welfare of the new county which was
created by legislative act, March 3, 1883. It was formed out of parts of Ransom county and the Sisseton
adn Wahpeton Indian reservations. The county is second in the southern tier of counties from eastern
boundary of the state. The firs settler in the county is said to have been John Langies, a half-breed
Indian, who located in Tewaukon township in May, 1873. The first white settler was E. D. Post, who
settled in Herman township in June 1879. Forman is the county seat, located in the geographical center
of the county.' Source: North Dakota Blue Book -- 1942