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My North Dakota Diary
Stutsman County
'Stutsman County was named to perpetuate the memory of Hon. Enos Stutsman, who came to North
Dakota in 1864 as a special agent of the United States Treasury Department. He was elected to the
territorial legislature from Pembina county, and thereafter until his death he was intimately connected
with territorial affairs and progress. The county lies third from the eastern boundary of the state, and is
crossed from north to south by the James river. The main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad traverses
the county from east to west. Jamestown is the county seat. Here is located the State Hospital for the
Insane, one of the best conducted establishments of its kind in the United States.' Source: North Dakota Blue
Book -- 1942