July 23, 1861, John Q. Wild, captain. Chas. W. Kepler was a captain and
E. R. Mason a sergeant. Among the members were Geo. W. Doty, Jacob W.
Easterly, Chas. Gardner, Jos. M. Harper, S. P. Harman, D. A. Hamilton,
Jas. E. Neal, Robt. W. Thompson, Wm. Thompson, F. A. Varner, Thos. W.
Wilson, D. C. Weaver, John Shaver, John Archer, Henry Blessing, Frank
Cook, David Hoster, Geo. W. Thompson, John Bierly, Wm. Cline, T. B.
Fullerton, John Gregg, Wm. Hackett, Joseph Livington, Jas. A.
McClellan, O. T. Petit, M. W. Sweet, Wm. Teeters, Edw. Ware, Julius A.
Jackson.
In the Fourteenth Infantry Jos. Legore was a corporal, and a number
enlisted in the regiment from this county. The same is true of the
Fifteenth. Sixteenth and Eighteenth regiments. Company A of the
Fifteenth was composed largely of Linn county men. M. A. Higley was
first lieutenant in this company and later a major in the commissary
department.
The Eighteenth regiment was organized at Clinton, but Company A was
made up almost entirely of men from this county. T. Z. Cook, of Cedar
Rapids, was lieutenant-colonel of the regiment.
On July 9, 1862, Governor Kirkwood called for five additional infantry
regiments from Iowa. In response to this call a "mass war meeting" was
held in Cedar Rapids on the evening of July 22. E. G. Brown was
chairman and J. H. Elder, secretary. The result of this meeting was the
organization of Company A, 20th Iowa. Many of the most substantial
citizens of Cedar Rapids for the time being laid aside their private
business to engage in raising men for the war.
The Twentieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry was composed of five companies
from Linn county and five from Scott county. The companies from this
county were A, B, F, H, and I. They were mustered into service August
25, 1862. The company went from here to Clinton and from there to
Davenport. On September 5 they took the boat for St. Louis. The
regiment experienced several hard marches in Missouri and Arkansas; it
took part in the siege of Vicksburg, saw service in Louisiana and
Texas; was in the attack on Mobile, and was mustered out there July 8,
1865.
William McE. Dye, of Marion, was colonel of the regiment, William G.
Thompson was major. Dr. Henry Ristine was surgeon, C. S. Lake,
adjutant, and J. S. Lake, commissary sergeant. Company A was captained
by E. N. Bates, Company B by Edward Coulter, Company F by N. M.
Hubbard, Company H by R. H. Lucore, and Company I by C. C. Cook. Among
the well known Linn county men in this regiment may be mentioned the
following: Milo Adams, W. H. Boyce, John H. Culp, George W. Homer,
Robert Keeler, George W. Mentzer, John D. Mounce, C. E. and Daniel W.
Robbins, Erin Rucker, John M. Starbuck, B. F. Snyder, F. Uebel, William
D. Robbins, A. J. Mallahan, John J. Robbins, Robert C. Hall, D. G.
Manahan, D. A. Dingman, Joseph Floyd, R. C. Ring, L. L. Wilson, N. C.
Gillilan, Geo. W. and William Bice, H. Hollenbeck, H. C. Adams, W. C.
Bowen, S. A. Beach, George Beebe, Byron Cone, F. M. Elrod, H. P.
Eastman, Geo. D. Gillilan, J. N. Huston, James W. Howlett, J. W.
Newhall, E. J. Reynolds, W. Stinson, Geo. A. Gray, J. J. Hollan,
William H. Scott, George W. Wynn, B. P. Wickham, L. D. Elsbery, A. B.
Lucore, William Busby, D. L. Castle, S. P. Hollan, James M. Hunter,
Hiram Inks, J. D. Jordan, F. A. McConahy, C. H. Sawyer, J. C.
McClellan, S. L. Dows, William E. Earl, E. D. Stedman, S. F. Seeley,
Casper J. Hart, John W. Whitenack, S. B. Mann, Chas. Morehead, John C.
Weatherwax, John Chambers, George W. Daniels, G. B. Daniels, Abraham
Hess, M. B. Plummer, Samuel M. Whiteing, Henry White. J. O. Stewart.
Capt. J. O. Stewart, long clerk in Cedar Rapids of the U. S. District
Court, entered Company B of this regiment as first sergeant. In March,
1863, he was appointed second lieutenant and in 1864 commissioned
captain. For a year and a half he acted as adjutant of the regiment.
Companies F, G. and H in the Twenty-fourth Infantry were from Linn
county. E. C. Byam was for a time colonel of this regiment, John F. Sly
was surgeon, John Q. Wilds, of Mt. Vernon, was lieutenant colonel. C.
L. Byam, D. W. Camp and William H. Smouse were adjutants, F. W. Vinson
was both a captain and chaplain. W. C. Dimmett was captain of Company
F. John G. Hayzlett and C. H. Kurtz were first lieutenants, T. L.
Smith, A. T. Waln were second lieutenants, and among the members of
this company may be noted the following: William Camp, Andrew Doty,
John W. Firkins, John F. Goudy, John Geiger, William Hall, John A. Ide,
Samuel Johnson, J. H. Kepler, A. Lacock, William McQuiston, John
Peddycoard, John Renfrew. This company was organized at Mt. Vernon.
W. W. Smith was captain of Company G and among the members of this
company were George F. Coleman, James Morrison, David Briggs, A. Cox,
H. H. Felton, Jacob Grow, J. G. Hall, D. W. King, Daniel Matson, John
L. Ogan, John F. Prather, Willis Vance, John H. Worden. This company
was organized in Cedar Rapids.
Of Company H William Carbee was captain. Among the other officers were
F. A. Jones, I. B. Dutton, William C. Glover, George W. Martin, J. H.
Shanklin, Josiah Bundy, and among the members may be noted Michael
Boyer, C. H. Burlingham, Joe L. Bundy, John B. Bowman, C. H. Branch,
David Ely, Z. V. Elsbery, C. R. Elsbery, E. R. Gregg, M. Griffith, T.
J. Gibson, Benjamin W. Gibson, Joseph Hyatt, F. C. Hunter, I. Lambert,
Charles Penn, D. J. Post, J. S. Vernon, David C. Winans, and John
Yount.
This company was recruited from Springville, Waubeek, and Prairieburg.
The Thirty-first Infantry, Company A, Robert Stinson, captain, was
recruited in northeastern Linn county and was organized at Marion.
William Smyth, of Marion, was colonel of the regiment, G. L. Carhart
surgeon, L. H. Mason and A. J. Twogood quartermasters, Milo P. Smith
sergeant-major, and Donald Lothian commissary sergeant. J. S.
Alexander, at present postmaster at Marion, was promoted to the
captaincy of Company A on June 14, 1864. Dyer Usher and John H. Harvey
were lieutenants in this company, John M. Robbins, Hiram Deem, Jesse
Abbott, Richard Abbott, Alfred Stinson and A. P. McKinley sergeants.
Linn county was represented in the Thirty-seventh Infantry by men in
Companies A, D, G, H and I. Jas. S. Morehead, George A. Calder, G. L.
Snyder are familiar names on the roster of this regiment. Company A was
organized in Cedar Rapids with John Hogendabler as captain. The company
was made up of men from Linn, Benton and Blackhawk counties. The
regiment was known as the "Grey Beards."
Toward the close of the war some 100-day regiments were organized in
Iowa. The county had men in these also--John S. Harrison, J. T.
Christian, Geo. W. Bever, Henry S. Bever, B. F. Snyder, Geo. S.
Bushnell, I. S. Barger, John Allsbaugh, H. O. Kearns, R. N. Maudsley,
S. H. Metcalf, N. H. Martin, P. Otterbein, Homer H. Phelps, and others.
Half of Company E, 46th, Infantry were from Linn county. John Harrison
of Cedar Rapids, was the captain. David B. Henderson, of Dubuque, was
colonel of the regiment.
The county had also scattered representation in several cavalry
regiments.
According to the reports of the adjutant general of Iowa, out of a
population of 18,947, Linn county furnished 1,737 men for the army from
1861 to 1864 inclusive.
It is scarcely possible to sum up in brief space what Linn county did
in raising men for the war. Company K of the First Iowa. Company D of
the Twelfth, the companies raised by Captains E. N. Bates, C. C. Cook,
R. H. Lucore, N. M. Hubbard, and J. P. Coulter, had already gone out
from the county or were ready to enter the service early in 1862. W. W.
Smith and Rev. F. W. Vinson had also a full company. More than fifty
men had been recruited at Western, seventy-five at Springville, a full
company at Mount Vernon, some fifty additional men at Marion, and a
company was then forming at Center Point.
In its issue for August 21, the _Times_ stated: "Within the past two
weeks she [Linn county] has sent five companies out, and four others,
full and organized, are waiting orders to leave. A tenth company will
soon be filled. Nothing less than a regiment will satisfy the martial
feeling prevailing in our county."
On Monday, August 18, the companies of Captain Cook, Lucore, and
Coulter, about 250 in all, left Cedar Rapids for Clinton. Captain
Vinson's company was filled on August 20, with Sheriff W. W. Smith as
first lieutenant. This company was made a part of the Twenty-fourth, or
"Temperance" regiment. Mr. Vinson later resigned as captain to accept a
position as chaplain of the regiment. In the meantime Captain T. Z.
Cook had received a commission as lieutenant colonel of the Eighteenth
Iowa. At the time he was mayor of Cedar Rapids but resigned and Charles
Weare was appointed in his place.
[Illustration: SAMPLES OF CURRENCY USED IN PIONEER DAYS The lower two
signed by John Weare, President]
In April, 1862, Dr. J. H. Camburn, of Cedar Rapids, was commissioned as
surgeon of the Sixteenth Iowa and about the same time Dr. R. R. Taylor
was appointed as medical officer of the Fourth cavalry, then stationed
at Benton Barracks, St. Louis.
To speak at length of the services rendered in the field by the men
from Linn county is not possible at this time. Our boys all
distinguished themselves for bravery, and suffered patiently the many
privations to which they were subjected. Many of them saw hard service,
and quite a number were taken prisoners. At Shiloh among the Linn
county officers made prisoners were Capt. John H. Stibbs, and Lieut.
Hiel Hale of Company D, Twelfth Iowa. These officers were later
released on exchange. Captain Ed Coulter of the Twentieth Iowa fell
into the hands of the enemy down in Texas. It seems that officers of
the Twentieth were somewhat unfortunate. Major W. G. Thompson was badly
wounded at the battle of Prairie Grove. Captain Bates resigned because
of ill health, returned home, and died. Captain Lucore became ill with
the small pox and also died. Captain C. C. Cook resigned on account of
sickness, and was succeeded by Joseph McClelland, who at the time was
ill in New Orleans. Lieutenant Joseph Holland resigned and came home
sick, dying soon afterward.
Company A of the Thirty-first Iowa reached Cedar Rapids after being
discharged on July 3, 1865. This company went into the war 100 strong
and returned with only about forty. Early in August of this same year,
the three companies from Linn county in the Twenty-fourth Iowa reached
home. Of Company C there were only twenty of the original members left.
On the 7th of September, 1865, Cedar Rapids gave the returning soldiers
a big reception. The elaborateness of the reception was greatly marred
by a heavy rainfall. The spirit manifested was all right, however.
COMPANY C, CEDAR RAPIDS
One of the best known military companies in the state is Company C, of
Cedar Rapids. This company was organized November 1, 1883, its first
captain being George Greene. Many of the best known young men of the
town at one time or another have been members of this organization.
After serving a number of years Captain Greene resigned, and for a
short time W. G. Dows was acting captain. Ed. II. Smith was then chosen
to the position. He was succeeded by George A. Evans.
W. G. Dows, long a member of this company, for a time was adjutant of
the First Regiment Iowa National Guards.
Upon the call for troops because of the Spanish-American war, on April
25, 1898, the entire membership of Company C left that same night for
Des Moines, where the entire First Regiment was assembled. This
regiment was mustered into the United States service as the Forty-ninth
Iowa United States Volunteer Infantry. William G. Dows, colonel,
commanding. After drilling for a time they went to Jacksonville,
Florida, and then to Savannah, Georgia, where they took a government
transport for Cuba. The members of the regiment did all kind of service
in the army of occupation, much of it being very laborious. In May,
1899, the regiment returned from Cuba and shortly afterwards was
mustered out at Savannah.
While the company was in the service in Cuba George A. Evans was its
captain.
A few months later the present Fifty-third Regiment was organized, each
city in the old regiment being allowed a company in the new. Company C
was reorganized, and is now a part of this regiment. The first captain
of the new company was Frank Hahn. He was succeeded by T. A. Berkebile,
and he by John Rau, who is now the captain of the company.
Col. William G. Dows, who is now a member of the governor's staff,
served for twenty-five years in various capacities in the same
regiment, a service for continuity unequalled. Though offered
promotions, he maintained that he would rather stay by the old boys and
the old regiment.
FIFTH IOWA BATTERY
Promptly upon the declaration of war in 1898 with Spain a battery was
organized in Cedar Rapids for service in that war. It was mustered into
the service as the Fifth Battery Iowa Volunteer Light Artillery. Nearly
all of the 100 members came from Cedar Rapids and vicinity. The members
were enrolled during April and May, and the battery was mustered in at
Des Moines in June by Major Olmsted of the U. S. regulars. The battery
saw no regular service, but it spent ten weeks in camp waiting, ready
for service in the field if called upon. George W. Bever was the
captain, R. Tasker Forbes and S. Craighead Cook, lieutenants, Charles
A. Loring was first sergeant, Robert M. Witwer, quartermaster sergeant.
Dr. C. H. French and Roy Waite were also sergeants in the company.
CHAPTER XLV
_Odds and Ends of History and Reminiscence_
In this chapter we give some odds and ends of history and reminiscence
that could not well be inserted elsewhere or that came into our
possession after the foregoing chapters were written:
The result of the vote in Linn county in 1860 showed 2,227 for Lincoln
electors, 1,220 for Douglas, 24 for Breckinridge, and 84 for Bell. In
Rapids township Lincoln had 397, Douglas 201, Breckinridge 3, and Bell
26.
The first telegraph line reached Cedar Rapids February 24, 1860.
On the evening of Sunday, June 3, 1860, a destructive storm occurred,
since known as "The Great Tornado." It was most destructive about five
miles north of Cedar Rapids, and passed southward, leaving the county
in the vicinity of Western. Some lives were lost and many buildings
destroyed.
THE TOWN OF WESTERN
Western was laid out in March, 1856, under the auspices of the United
Brethren church, with the design of forming proper surroundings for the
college. Ground was first broken in June of that year. By August, 1857,
there were forty-three dwelling houses and three hundred inhabitants.
One college building had been completed. This was of brick, three
stories in height, 36 by 62 feet. This was placed upon a campus of
seventeen acres. Rev. S. Weaver was first president of this
institution. The plan was to operate a large farm in connection with
the college, that students might earn their way. In this new town there
were already two stores, one hotel built and one building, a blacksmith
shop, two physicians, and fourteen busy carpenters. Land in the
vicinity was worth from $10 to $20 per acre. Its quality was proven
when the college president, on his own farm, raised 1,800 bushels of
wheat. There was a railroad coming there, of course, as there was one
prospected to nearly every cross-roads in the state. This particular
line was the Iowa Union, to run from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City.
Western was above all things a moral town. One Daniel Quin having
opened a grog shop near the place, where the college authorities could
not interfere, the people took up the matter. Sentiment was aroused and
a mass meeting was held. At this meeting resolutions were adopted,
which provided that a committee should wait upon the dram seller and
urge him to desist. In case of his refusal the committee was to try
legal methods for his suppression. If these proved ineffective the
meeting was to be again called, to devise further measures. A very
significant addendum was that the meeting would support the committee
in any plan which might be considered necessary to eradicate the
obnoxious business. It was further resolved to use the boycott--though
the Irish captain had not yet given his name to the scheme. In other
words they were not to employ or trade with any man engaged in the
liquor business or who might in any way support the traffic. It is
perhaps needless to say that Quin surrendered at discretion without
forcing the committee and the people to extremities hinted at.
MT. VERNON
Mt. Vernon makes showing in several directions during 1857. The
Congregationalists of that town being without a place of worship were
enabled to rent from the Covenanters. But by the terms of the lease
with that strict body promise was made that no minister of pro-slavery
sentiments should be heard within the building, nor upon any occasion
was a musical instrument of any description to be used therein. The
institution at Mt. Vernon which had before this time been known as
"Iowa Conference Seminary," was in August, 1857, changed in name to
Cornell College. And Mt. Vernon, like the other college town of
Western, was careful for civic peace and righteousness. Christianity in
that time and in a new country was required sometimes to be of a
stalwart and muscular kind, that it might meet evil tendencies sharply
and effectively. Thus we learn of the discomfitures of a gang of
rowdies from Linn Grove, who invaded the peace of Mt. Vernon and
disturbed its Sabbath quietude, with intent to break up a religious
meeting then in progress. These were overcome, after a tussle, by the
worshippers, and held until passing of midnight brought a civic day.
Then the justice was roused, the disturbers formally accused, tried and
fined to the utmost extent of their resources. The affair was over
before one o'clock Monday morning, the rowdies started home with empty
pockets, sadder and wiser men, and the godly inhabitants of Mt. Vernon
again slept the sleep of the just.
FIRST AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
The Linn County Agricultural and Mechanical Association was organized
in 1855, its first meeting being held at Cedar Rapids in May of that
year. The organization was completed in July. The object, as stated,
was "the encouragement of agriculture, manufactures and the mechanic
arts." To accomplish this laudable purpose an annual county fair was to
be held. The first of these was at Cedar Rapids in September, 1855, and
the second at Marion the next year. These are reported as very
creditable in exhibits, and fairly well attended. In 1857 the
association was incorporated, and in consequence drew $200 from the
state treasury. The third fair was again at Cedar Rapids, and the
management took the public into its confidence in advance by revealing
its slender resources. The premiums for '56 were not paid, but those of
the next year were very promptly met, and a surplus remained over for
the future. These annual fairs were recognized as something to be aided
by all parties, and the various toll bridges notified intending
exhibitors that all live stock taken to the fair would be passed free.
The statement of the association for 1860 shows total income of
$462.00, of which amount $259.00 represented the gate receipts. The
expenditures were $414.95, including $146.98 for premiums. The
indebtedness of the society had increased to $618.65. The amount
received from the state each year was $200.00. Officers elected for
1861 were: President, Charles Taylor, Cedar Rapids; vice presidents,
Andrew Safely and W. S. Gott, Marion; secretary, S. D. McCauley, Cedar
Rapids; treasurer, Lysander Jones, Marion.
FIRST TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Another organization, though having nominal existence before this time,
was really made effective in 1857. This was the Linn County Teachers'
Association.
On October 31, on call of J. L. Enos, the teachers and others
interested met in Cedar Rapids. Mr. Enos was then editor of the _Voice
of Iowa_, the educational organ of the state. At this meeting a
reorganization of the association was effected, and officers elected as
follows: President, Rev. S. Weaver, president of Western college; vice
presidents, Prof. S. M. Fellows of Mt. Vernon, E. A. Cooley of Marion,
Ira G. Fairbanks of Cedar Rapids; secretary, Prof. N. W. Bartlett,
Western; treasurer, Hon. E. N. Bates of Cedar Rapids. The executive
committee consisted of M. Bowman, Franklin township; S. M. Bruce,
Washington; William Parmenter, Western; J. L. Enos, Cedar Rapids; and
A. Witter, Franklin. The work of preparing a constitution was committed
to J. L. Enos, E. A. Cooley, and Ira G. Fairbanks. A further meeting of
the association was held at Western, December 12th, at which time the
constitution was adopted and the organization started on a very useful
existence.
[Illustration: STREET VIEWS IN CEDAR RAPIDS, IN 1910]
FIRST TEACHER'S CERTIFICATE IN CEDAR RAPIDS
The first teacher's certificate issued in Rapids township reads as
follows:
"This certifies that I have this day examined Miss Susan A. Abbe,
touching her ability to teach, both in regard to her education and to
her moral character, and I find her well qualified for a teacher of
common schools.
"This certificate shall be valid for one year.
"Rapids township, Linn county, Iowa, July 16, 1847.
"Alexander L. Ely,
"Inspector of Common Schools for said Township."
Alexander L. Ely was one of the early settlers of Cedar Rapids, was
interested in the public matters of the new town, and early engaged in
politics. He was also largely interested in real estate, and operated
one of the first mills on the Cedar river at the dam, which he caused
to be built with N. B. Brown and other leading citizens.
Susan A. Abbe, the person to whom this certificate was issued, is still
living in Hollister, California, and is known as Mrs. Susan Shields.
She was seventeen years when the certificate was issued, and had then
been a resident of the county ten years. She taught for a number of
years in the public schools of this county.
Mrs. Shields maintains that she was the first legally qualified person
to teach in the public schools of Cedar Rapids, according to the laws
then in force in the state.
The evidence seems to confirm her contention.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
A teachers' institute, first of which record is made and notable in
point of attendance, was held in Cedar Rapids December 26, 1859, and
continued for three days. There was constant drilling for the
pedagogues in common school branches. Some sixty teachers were present.
Linn county teachers held their institute for 1860 at Western October
29-30, with Prof. F. Humphrey of Cedar Rapids, president. Some of the
subjects discussed may serve to illustrate differences in the times.
Question of teachers (presumably male) using tobacco came up, and a
resolution was adopted expressing "disapproval of the use of tobacco by
teachers, and recommend to those of Linn county to abstain therefrom
entirely." Dr. J. Maynard of Tipton made an address on the subject of
"Children's Rights." Prof. Wheeler of Cornell orated on "Demosthenes."
Editor Jerome of the Iowa City _Republican_ urged teachers to use the
press as an ally in the cause of education.
* * * * *
Mrs. Ruth A. Dale, of Cedar Rapids, sister of Elias Doty, now living
near Bertram, where the family settled in the early days--1839--has
distinct recollections of pioneer life in the county. She states that
Aretas Crane and Daniel C. Doty, brothers of Elias and James M. Doty,
the pioneers, settled at Ft. Stevens, now Davenport, in 1836 or
1837--1836 she believes is the correct date. Daniel Doty and his son,
J. M. Doty, and his son-in-law, Aretas Crane, passed over the ground on
which Cedar Rapids now stands in 1837. This being the fact, it is
evident that these people were the first white men to look upon the
present site of the city, with a view to finding a permanent settlement
for themselves. They, however, after looking over the ground concluded
that the site afterwards known as Westport, and somewhat later as
Newark, was the preferable location. They returned to their home at
Middletown, Butler county, Ohio, and arranged their affairs. James M.
Doty and Elias Doty, sons of Daniel Doty, returned to the county in
1839 and took up a claim at Westport. There they started what was,
without question, the first manufacturing plant within the limits of
the county, and possibly in the state. This was a pottery. The date of
its establishment was probably in 1840. Later the same year Elias Doty
began the erection of the first saw-mill in the county.
The Dotys were induced to come to Iowa through the fact that their
brother, Daniel C. Doty, was at the time engaged in steamboating on the
Mississippi, his headquarters being at Davenport.
In this connection the following extracts from a letter written by
Elias and J. M. Doty to their parents and dated May 2, 1841, are of
interest:
"I have my mill frame up, that is, the lower frame. The upper
frame is almost ready to raise. The millwright work can be
done in about six weeks from the time we raise the frame. I
have commenced the race. I have three hundred feet in length
of a race and two hundred feet dam. As soon as I get water to
it, it will be ready to run.
"There are hard times enough here for anybody. There is
nothing that will bring cash that I know of. For my part I am
hard run to live. I would like to have some money. It has not
come yet.
"I cannot say that we are all well, but we are able to keep
about. We had a great deal of sickness last fall. I cannot
say that I like this country, it is too cold for me, the
ground freezes from two to four feet deep. The frost is
hardly out yet. The trees look like winter time. I think I
will leave this place as soon as I can get my business
settled, and money enough to carry me away. I have between
two and three hundred dollars coming but can't get enough to
buy myself a shirt. I bought corn last fall at three cents
per bushel. I have three claims and want to sell them.
"Last night was a pretty moonlight night. Parmelia kicked up
a fuss and after all night's watching about six o'clock this
morning after a bright sunrise she was delivered of a
prosperous looking son, weight nine pounds, seven ounces."
VOTE OF LINN COUNTY 1910
The vote of the county in November, 1910, for governor was as follows:
Twp. Rep. Dem.
Bertram 33 75
Brown 209 102
Boulder 76 90
Buffalo 40 27
Cedar 133 127
Clinton 52 64
College 49 95
Fairfax 60 111
Fayette 94 35
Franklin 385 182
Grant 124 95
Jackson 166 51
Linn 57 57
Maine 225 79
Marion 519 391
Monroe 99 66
Otter Creek 67 63
Putnam 43 96
Rapids 1761 2443
Spring Grove 83 22
Washington 145 168
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4420 4439
In addition to the above there were 382 votes cast for other
candidates.
SOME MUNICIPAL FIGURES FOR CEDAR RAPIDS
The net taxable value of property in Cedar Rapids for the year 1910, on
the one-fourth valuation, is $6,579,183. In addition the city has a
mulct tax revenue and an income from licenses, police court fines,
etc., of about $60,000 per year, giving a little more than $300,000
available for city purposes.
The real estate valuation for 1910 is $21,280,294, and the personal
property is valued at $5,026,438. The valuation twelve years ago was
one-half of the above amount. It has increased at the rate of one
million dollars per year since 1898. This increase is largely due to
improvements and new buildings. Land values have doubled in the past
twelve years. For 1911 the valuation will go above these values as the
city has increased in value so fast that it will be necessary for the
assessors to raise the valuation on all property for 1911 at least
three million dollars, which will bring the total valuation to nearly
thirty millions by 1912.
EARLY DAYS IN LINN
IN CEDAR RAPIDS REPUBLICAN JUNE 20, 1910
Being in a somewhat reflective mood today I shall attempt to acquaint
you of a few incidents in a life as memory unfolds them to me. It will
be necessary before narrating these incidents to introduce to you my
friend and acquaintance, Colonel McIntyre of Indian Creek bottom,
familiarly known as "Pinkey" by his class mates at West Point. The
colonel measured six feet two, symmetrically proportioned, tipping the
scale at a trifle over two hundred pounds, eyes of steel grey, beard
auburn, bordering slightly on the reddish and a military bearing in
keeping with his long years of service as a disciplinarian. The
incidents of this life take me back some years to that little cabin,
that stood on the east side of the road running north and south past
Indian creek bottom, built from roughly finished logs hewn from the
trunks of trees cut from the nearby forest. Time does not seem to
efface from memory recollections with the boys and girls of the
sparsely settled neighborhood, attending spelling schools and such
like. The unfolding of memory reveals to me versions of the old place
and the childhood days spent beneath the clapboard roof as vividly as
though it were but yesterday.
A little farther on up the road from this cabin, perhaps a half mile,
there is a fork in the road, one fork leading on to what was then known
as Turkey Grove and now to feather ridge, the other on to the Inn
dwellers cave on the "Pinican" bluffs. On the flat iron point where the
road forks was erected the first school house in that vicinity and is
still standing as a monument to the men who were not afraid to do what
they knew to be right regardless of the whims and petty clamorings of
dissatisfaction that continually sway committees from the paths of
rectitude and right. From this nucleus of education there go forth its
quota of youth each year to enter higher institutions of learning or
grapple with the more serious problems of life. The impressions I
received while attending this school by the pleasant grove have not
been eradicated by the conquering of new worlds or by the glamour of
political conquests. Youthful dreams and the bewitching smile of some
fair maid were a source of great pleasure to me; a smile from Miss Rose
LaBelle during school time would set my heart going at a two minute
clip and detract materially from my studies and the routine of school
work.
From this miniature "college" have gone forth men and women who are now
wielding an influence almost nation wide in its scope. Some are
gradually wandering from the truths that were enunciated and make a
cardinal principle of its teaching and are now searching in hidden
paths of sociology for new light. I now recall an event that happened
while attending this school that conveys to my mind another fact
tending to establish the truth of the proposition, that "ingratitude"
is no dream.
One bright morning in early spring when all nature seemed aglow with
freshness and beauty, myself and a number of girls were the first to
arrive at school, the teacher, Miss Theresa McCurty, being a little
later than usual. On entering the school house we were held spellbound
and speechless for a moment by a strange musical yet weird sound which
seemed to come from the rear of the room. It took considerable effort
to muster up courage to make an investigation, but finally a search was
started and on approaching the rear end of the room the same musical
weird sound would be at the other end of the room. Now in order to
discover what it was that was making this strange weird noise and put
the intruder to rout and discover if possible what kind of a looking
monster he was, it was decided that two of us would go around to the
rear and the rest remain in front and keep a sharp lookout for whatever
it might be, when all at once one of the girls let out an unearthly
scream and pointing at some object in the corner of the room shouted,
"There it goes." We all gave chase, although some of the girls were
rather timid on the start, and succeeded in capturing the intruder
alive. It turned out to be a large white wood-mouse. What to do with
this new and unruly possession was the important question now up for
solution. Some were in for dispatching it at once, others said let's
turn it loose, but Miss Orrie, who always had an eye for business when
there was any fun in sight, suggested putting it in the teacher's desk
and the result was that Miss Orrie had her way and we proceeded with
all haste to carry out her plan, the girls holding up the lid of the
old fashioned teacher's desk while I dropped the musical wonder in.
This done, we went about our play as though nothing was ever expected
to happen, impatiently waiting for something to happen, but not quite
sure what. We didn't have long to wait.
Now the teacher, Miss Theresa McCurty, was of the type of spinsters who
are apparently self-willed and thoroughly versed in the art of throwing
round them an atmosphere of ability to convince others of their
dependence only on themselves in case of emergency to take care of
themselves.
We had barely completed the capture and imprisonment in the teacher's
desk of the musical wonder, when Miss McCurty arrived, ready for her
day's work of training the youthful intellect. It seemed as if this
morning in particular she was more precise than ever and went about her
work very deliberately.
It was her custom (a custom that the "Blasting at the Rock of Ages"
ought not to minimize) to read a chapter from some book of the bible
every morning to the scholars before commencing the further duties of
the day, and that chapter which speaks about bearing false witness was
the one chosen for this morning, a very fitting prelude too, to the
further developments of the day. We were more prompt than usual in
taking our seats after school was called this morning with an evident
desire to impress the teacher as being very attentive to our studies,
but at the same time keeping one eye in the teacher's direction, so as
not to miss any of the movements of the teacher in case the anticipated
fun was thrust upon us. Lowell Taylor, the boy who couldn't keep still
if he had to, was bubbling over with mirth (every school has them) and
was severely reproved for not keeping quiet and for disturbing the
whole school by his antics. After delivering to Lowell this short
lecture on disobedience she went to her desk to get her bible and as
she lifted the lid out jumped the prisoner and such a screech as she
let out seemed to almost freeze the marrow in your bones and sent the
cold chills chasing up and down your spinal column as with one bound
she made the first row of seats and in a jiffy was clean to the farther
end of the room, perched upon the rear desk with her skirts tucked
snugly around her shaking limbs and terror pictured in every line of
her face.
In this position she remained impervious to all efforts to induce her
to come off her high perch, until a second chase had been made and the
intruder ejected from the room.
By recess time she had again settled back in the old well beaten path
and assumed her usual calm and dignified way, her reason, which had
been so suddenly dethroned by the advent of the harmless mouse, was
again gaining mastery of the situation. With the return of reason came
the tangled threads of suspicion, that perhaps she had been the victim
of a designing bunch of scholars and that a huge joke had been
perpetrated on her. With this object in view she began a systematic
search for evidence and among the girls she struck a responsive chord.
They were ready to convict any one in order to exculpate themselves.
They gave the whole plot away and every last one of them persisted in
their innocence so eloquently that the teacher was fully convinced of
my guilt. She therefore proceeded to relieve her pent up feelings by
putting into action several of her "suffragette" ideas about personal
liberty. She restrained me of mine for the next two weeks during the
noon hour.
EARLY DOCTORS IN THE COUNTY
The following extracts from a paper read in December, 1910, before the
Iowa Union Medical Society at its meeting in Cedar Rapids, by Dr. H. W.
Sigworth, of Anamosa, himself a pioneer physician in Linn county, is of
interest:
I left northeastern Linn county thirty-four years ago.
In 1856 I commenced the study of medicine in Pennsylvania. After that I
was a tramp schoolmaster, farmer, student at Wisconsin university, and
U. S. soldier. I graduated from Rush in '63. After looking for a
location in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, I located at
Waubeek--think of it--in Waubeek, in Maine township, in 1863.
I had tried it a month at Fairview, in Jones county, before going to
Waubeek. By the way, old Dr. Ristine made his first start in Iowa in
the same historic town of Fairview before locating in Marion.
Northeastern Linn county at that time was very much on the frontier.
There were no bridges on the Wapsie from Quasqueton to Anamosa, but at
Central City; now there are five. At Waubeek we had a postoffice but no
regular mail carrier. Any one going to Marion took the mail sack and
brought back the mail.
Our first mail route was on Friday morning. It left Quasqueton
horseback, making Paris, Central City (which was formerly called
Clark's Ford), Waubeek, Necot (Perkins), Anamosa. Saturday it would
return over the same route.
The earliest doctor of whom I can get any word of locating in this
territory was Doctor Ashby at Paris. When I came in 1863, Doctor
Patterson was at Central City. Dr. Lanning was at Paris. He sat next to
me at Rush in 1861 and 1862. Dr. Stacy lived out the Anamosa and
Quasqueton road at Valley farm. I never met him. He sent me my first
case of fractured thigh in June of 1863; a boy, eight years old, who
lived in a sod house with a board roof, two miles north of McQueen's
(now Hill's Mill), now owned by Coquillette. The splints were made with
an axe and pocket knife out of an old cradle found on the roof of the
house. Extension on the ankle was by the top of an old shoe with
strings through the foot-piece of the Liston splint. Results all right.
At Paris, after Lanning came Drs. Byam, Mrs. Dr. Byam, and my brother,
M. P. Sigworth, Fullerton, McTavish, and Ellis, all of whom I knew, and
not one of them alive now.
Where the thriving village of Prairieburg now is was a cross road, the
northeast corner lying out to commons for years.
The first doctor to locate there was Dr. Young. He drove a little
sorrel horse in a light rig with one wheel dished, which made a crooked
track, and his disposition was something like the track of his buggy.
Following him at this place was Dr. Ellis, who went to that place from
Paris.
At Central City after Dr. Patterson came Mitchell, a state of Maine
Yankee. At an early date a majority of the people here abouts were from
the state of Maine, henceforth the name of Maine township. The Jordans,
Friesons, Clarks, Waterhouses, were early settlers from the state of
Maine.
Dr. Mitchell was a good doctor and a fine man. Poor fellow, he lost his
life by having administered to him by a mistake a teaspoonful of poison
when he was to have a tonic.
After his death at Central City the place was filled by Drs. Ristine,
Fisher, McTavish, my son, Dwight Sigworth, and Percy, a scientific
fellow. This field is now filled by Drs. Fisher and Woodbridge.
Waubeek was in the field of Dr. Love, he going northwest to Nugent's
Grove at times. Dear old Dr. Love was a splendid man, a first-class
diagnostician and a good physician and surgeon. If he lacked anything
it was aggressiveness in surgery.
While at Waubeek I had for co-laborers Drs. Phipps, Scott, Bowers, and
Grimm. Bowers tried to commit suicide by taking a teaspoonful of poison
which made him very sick, but he ultimately recovered. Dr. Grimm was
known as the Dutch doctor.
While I was at Waubeek when the river was high I had a stable on the
north side of the river and I used to cross in a skiff to feed my horse
and attend to calls on that side.
The north side of the river was all woods for three miles in those
days, and my practice was largely on that side. I used to go into
Delaware county, and I had a large slice of Jones county. And may I say
it, there are some families in that county which have had no doctor but
a Sigworth for forty-four years. After fourteen years I sold to Dr.
Crawford and then in four years he sold to Dr. Woodbridge, who in ten
years moved to Central City. At the present time Dr. Ward is in
Waubeek.
The practice in those days was fraught with a great deal of difficulty
and inconvenience. Swimming the river on horseback was one of the
experiences which I did not like. Many times have I been wet while
fording the streams with my feet on the dashboard of the buggy, my
attention being taken in guiding my horse to an opening in the timber
or a safe place to land.
Those were the days in which we drank brandy mixed with sorghum, which
was browned in the oven. This served the place of coffee. Grape-nuts, I
think, originated from this.
Of all of the forty-two doctors whom I have mentioned in this article I
have met thirty-five, and at the present time there are six doctors on
this field.
THE OLD MILL OF CENTRAL CITY
One of the land marks of the county is the old grist mill on the banks
of the Wapsie at Central City. For a history of this mill, as well as
for other interesting matter relative to the neighborhood, we are
indebted to E. S. Wetherbee, editor of the Central City _News-Letter_,
which paper in its issue of May 2, 1907, contained the following sketch
and reminiscence:
There are in the history of every city or hamlet many
incidents of early times which are interesting to the
present day generation, and are often worth recording,
otherwise they are apt to pass into entire oblivion. But few
remain of the early settlers of this community to tell the
story of those early days. Although not one of the first,
yet being among the very oldest of those yet alive and
living here is Mr. James Outing, and it is to him we credit
the data of the contents of this article. [Mr. Outing died
about a year after this interview.]
Among the very first people to settle here may be named
Chandler Jordan, who still lives on his farm southeast of
town, old "Uncle Joe" Clark, who came in 1839, and other
families by the names of Heubner, Crawley, Pond, Tisdell,
and others who might be named who appeared here about the
same time. For a number of years the only way of getting
across the river, and that only when the water was low, was
by fording it somewhere near what is now known as the upper
bridge. From this the place received its first name, and
whatever honor was attached to it was given Mr. Clark by
calling it Clark's Ford.
At that time Mr. Clark owned quite a large tract of land
here, comprising all the land now inside the corporation
west of Fourth street, the eighty acres lying east of Fourth
street being owned by some land concern in Cascade. As did
all his neighbors, Mr. Clark farmed in those days entirely
with oxen.
The place went by the name of Clark's Ford but a few years,
however, for Mr. Clark and a few others conceived the idea
of laying out a town, and the Cascade men came over and
together they laid off the plat, and it was then decided to
call it Central City.
One of the first needs of the people of the little
neighborhood was a more convenient way of crossing the
Wapsie, and this meant that a bridge must be constructed.
Accordingly one was built at the place where the north or
upper bridge now crosses the river. It was not what in this
day would be called an expensive structure or so very
handsome when completed, but it represented much hard work,
privations, and expense to those interested in the building
of it. The county had but little to do with it, if any, the
whole thing being done by popular subscription, and in those
times, there not being many to subscribe, the task was
indeed a big one for the little handful of people. There was
some money raised, but more gave in work, others furnished
lumber, a stick of timber, and so on, until finally it was
completed and traffic over it was begun in 1857. This bridge
did not stand the test long. In the summer of 1859 there
came a big freshet and the bridge went down stream. With its
going out occurred an incident, which, though possibly
forgotten by others, yet still remains fresh in the memory
of Chandler Jordan. He was on this side of the river and
while the bridge swayed and was considered unsafe he
concluded to risk it as he was anxious to get home. He was
on horseback and over he started. When about half way across
the bridge began breaking loose, and realizing his danger
Mr. Jordan jumped off his horse and started on the run for
the shore. The horse also made an extra effort to find solid
footing and both succeeded in getting on the opposite bank
just as the bridge swung out into midstream and started
floating down the river. It was soon replaced by another
wooden structure built by the county and costing about
$4,000. This stood for many years but has long since passed
away and been replaced by the steel bridge now spanning the
river on the same site.
But we started out to write about the old mill. It still
stands, and with the exception of the necessary repairs
which from time to time have been made, contains the same
timbers and lumber it did when built. In the early fifties
there came to this neighborhood two men, one by the name of
St. John, the other by the name of John Peet, both men of
push and ambition. Realizing the tremendous power to be
obtained from the waters of the Wapsie, and the ease with
which a dam could be constructed where it now is, with the
rocky banks on either side, and knowing the great demand for
lumber, in the then fast settling community, they begun the
construction of a dam with the intention of running a saw
mill with it. The work on the dam was begun in 1855 by the
two men mentioned, but was not finished until the next year,
the work being engineered by old Mr. Bowdish, father of I.
P. Bowdish. It was finished in 1856, as was also the old saw
mill which stood for many years on the south bank of the
river and did a flourishing business. Like many other old
land marks it is gone. But many a stick of timber and lots
of the old oak boards sawed there may yet be found in the
older buildings about town.
The country all about here was fast settling up, and one of
the principal crops was wheat. It was a long way to market,
the nearest railroad station being at Marion. St. John and
Peet concluded that a flouring mill would be a paying
enterprise, and began the erection of the mill. The lumber
was sawed at the sawmill, and the heavy timbers, of which
there were many, mostly came from a forty on what now
belongs to the Gus Hatch farm north of town.
Mentioning these timbers calls to the mind of Mr. Outing an
incident which he threw into this narrative. There was a
character who lived here by the name of Henry Hutchins. He
was fond of hunting and fishing and would be gone often for
a period of several days, no one knowing of his whereabouts.
About this time he disappeared, and his absence became so
protracted that his many friends began to fear that
something had happened to him. It was while a party of
choppers was hunting for timbers for the mill on the forty
mentioned that one day they found Hutchins' lifeless body
and beside it lay his gun with every indication that he had
committed suicide.
When the timbers were all on the ground, hewed and framed,
everybody for miles around was invited and came to help with
the raising. It was a mammoth job and occupied the better
part of a week. Mr. Outing was there from start to finish.
The mill was completed and began operations in 1859. St.
John and Peet ran it for only about three years when they
sold it to E. R. Burns, who ran it until 1867, when it
passed into the hands of Hatch & Co., they paying for it the
sum of $16,000. They conducted it for five years when it
again passed into the hands of Mr. Burns who owned and
operated it until sometime in the latter eighties. Since
then it has changed hands several times, but the valuation
for many years has not been one-fourth of what it originally
was. For a great many years it did a big business grinding
thousands and thousands of bushels of wheat each season, the
flour being hauled across the country to Marion by teams. As
the raising of wheat played out so the value and popularity
of the mill depreciated until finally, as now, it was used
only as a grist mill. The building is now owned by parties
in the east and is being run by T. J. Liddington who runs it
and any day may be found there taking care of any demands
made upon him. He works alone, surrounded by a vast amount
of empty space that was once filled with piles of grain,
machinery, and the several men required to look after the
big business.[O]
LAND ASSESSMENTS
Statement showing total acreage, valuation and average equalized actual
value per acre of land in Linn county for 1909 and 1910.
Township Acreage Valuation Average
Bertram 15,816 $ 705,880 $44.63
Brown 22,689 1,226,160 54.04
Boulder 22,275 1,149,447 51.60
Buffalo 14,985 568,850 37.96
Cedar 13,268 1,002,296 75.54
Clinton 20,689 1,256,772 60.74
College 22,361 1,350,511 60.39
Fairfax 22,852 1,451,070 63.50
Fayette 15,463 770,599 49.83
Franklin 20,621 1,222,768 57.92
Grant 22,267 1,030,492 46.27
Jackson 22,090 1,016,365 46.01
Linn 22,874 1,278,324 55.88
Maine 29,537 1,345,650 45.55
Marion 46,922 2,779,332 59.23
Monroe 22,025 1,044,440 47.42
Otter Creek 22,423 1,206,721 53.82
Putnam 17,467 786,950 45.05
Spring Grove 22,558 1,086,186 48.15
Washington 18,026 797,423 44.23
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Totals 437,208 $23,076,236 $52.78
COMPARATIVE TABLE
Showing actual and taxable valuation of Linn county, 1899-1909.
Actual value Taxable value
1909 $67,148,140.00 $16,787,035.00
1908 64,391,760.00 16,097,940.00
1907 63,806,912.00 15,951,728.00
1906 59,215,180.00 14,803,795.00
1905 57,547,092.00 14,386,773.00
1904 59,404,000.00 14,851,000.00
1903 57,505,160.00 14,376,290.00
1902 51,864,092.00 12,941,023.00
1901 50,501,132.00 12,625,283.00
1900 48,876,016.00 12,219,004.00
1899 48,083,716.00 12,020,929.00
* * * * *
The history of the settlements in Linn county has been a history of
struggle, of privation and of endurance. It was not an easy matter to
have to go to Muscatine or Dubuque to mill and market; to travel by
night on horseback some fifty miles for a doctor, and equally far to
find a drug store. There were no roads passable for a greater part of
the year; the rivers were not bridged, and the streams oftentimes were
swollen so that the only means of crossing was by swimming or by making
some temporary raft. The pioneer settler who wandered out over the
prairie in a winter blizzard no doubt many times looked for the "smoke
that so gracefully curls above the green elms" to indicate that a cabin
was near.
The new settlers found Iowa as they had so often heard of it as "a
wilderness of prairie land." It was well watered, and along the streams
could be found enough timber to erect fences and furnish fuel and
rails. They generally located in the edge of the timber and along the
streams, and hesitated about locating on the prairie till much later.
There they found richer land than along the timber. These first
settlers came from the far east and south, Ohio, Indiana, New York,
Virginia, South Carolina, and the New England states. They came from
Maryland, from Kentucky, and Tennessee. Some walked, like Ellis and
Crow. Still others came in canvas covered wagons, in which the family
were housed. They brought enough utensils to cook their scanty meals.
The wagon was drawn by horses or oxen, followed by a few cows, an extra
horse or two, and several dogs. At night they would camp by the side of
some stream or near an oak tree.
Not till the fifties and sixties did the foreigners arrive in any large
numbers. As soon as they had been here a short time they wrote home
their first impressions, and from that time a steady stream of foreign
immigration poured into Iowa. These early pioneers waited long for
railroads, for steamboats, and for good roads. Their produce was cheap
and money was scarce, while interest was high. But they held on to
their claims, ever looking for the brighter day. They possessed
courage, hope, and the ability to wait and struggle till the times
would change for the better. While many of the first settlers did not
live to see their plans realized, later descendants sing their praises
and embalm the memories of those who made the county, the cities, and
the towns what they are today.
Truly it can be said of the settlers of Linn county that they were a
sturdy class of men and women, of whom their descendants may be justly
proud. And the old pioneers who remain--when they reflect on the past
and recall the days of old lang syne--cannot refrain from shedding
affectionate tears for those who have gone hence. They call to mind the
lines of the poet:
"Two dreams came down to earth one night
From the realms of mist and dew,
One was a dream of the old, old days,
And one was a dream of the new."
Pioneer days in Linn county were days of hardships, often of exposure,
but their trials only served to develop the manhood and womanhood of
the early settlers who never thought of returning, whose "only aim was
to wait and see."
Certainly Kipling's lines apply to conditions as they existed in Linn
county in pioneer days:
"To the far flung fenceless prairie
Where the quick cloud shadows trail,
To the barn in the neighbor's offing,
To the land of the new cut rail,
To the plough in the league long furrow,
To the gray lake gulls behind,
To the weight of half a year's winter,
To the warm, wet western wind."
INDEX
Abbe, Augustus: letter from, 53
Abbe, William: mentioned, 10, 92, 102;
government agent, 11;
mentioned, 32, 33, 34, 35, 44;
first settler in the county, 51;
member state senate, 52;
Ellis speaks of, 147
Abbe, Susan: probably first teacher in Cedar Rapids, 198, 481
Agassiz, Louis: quotation from, 1
Agricultural Association: first in county, 480
Albrook, Rev. J. B.: 209
Alderman, A. B.: gives information as to schools, 200
American Fur Company: 14
Atkins, John W.: superintendent of schools, 418
Attorneys: those now practising in the county, 188
Austin, Leonard: first settler in Spring Grove township, 289
Avery, E. H.: president Coe college, 227
Banks and banking: history of in the county, 435 ff
Bardwell, T. S.: early Marion physician, 87, 467
Barnes, William H.: Cornell professor, 204
Barry, Justin: writes history of Grant township and Walker, 279
Bassitt, James: comes to county, in 1839, 148
Bates, E. N.: tribute to, 112; lawyer, 178
Beales, Hiram: builds saw mill, 462
Belt, A. Sidney: lawyer, 179
Bench and Bar: chatty mention of, 177 ff
Bennett, Henry: early settler at Quasqueton, 101
Benton, Thomas H.: reference to, 19
Berry, James M.: county judge, 56
Berry, John C.: clerk of commissioners, 33
Bertram township: history of, 270
Bishop, Homer: postmaster at Cedar Rapids, 84
Blair building: 232
Blair, John I.: 232
Blair Town Lot and Land Company, 239
Black Hawk: mentioned, 9, 12
Black Hawk Purchase: mentioned, 14
Black Hawk War: 14, 31
Boggs, Governor: of Missouri, 15
Bohemian Element in Cedar Rapids: 121 ff
Bottorf, Andrew: lays out Center Point, 290
Bowling, O. S.: came to Cedar Rapids in 1838, 152
Bowman, George B.: founder of Cornell college, 201
Bowman, H. G.: brilliant lawyer, 186
Boulder township: history of, 278
Boye, Nels C.: first Scandinavian settler, 159
Brice, S. M.: postmaster at Center Point, 82
Bridges: the Cedar Rapids, 420
Brodie Gang: 38
Broeksmit, John C.: treasurer Coe college, 226
Bromwell, James E.: writes history of Marion, 460
Bromwell, James E., Sr.: early settler, 46, 257;
makes first coffin in county, 466
Brown, Alpheus: school fund commissioner, 196
Brown, N. B.: mentioned, 11;
lays out town site of Cedar Rapids, 43;
buys portion of town, 49;
a progressive citizen, 150
Brown, N. E.: speaks of railroad to Cedar Rapids, 64
Bryan, B. S.: 267
Bryan, Hugh L.: 267
Bryan, Michael: 267
Buffalo township: history of, 279
Burke, Thomas: 163
Burkhalter, E. R.: writes history of Coe college, 215 ff
Burlington: first capital of Iowa, 14
Burrell, H. A.: quotation from, 103
Butler, Isaac: first postmaster in Brown township, 84
Calhoun, Senator: quoted, 18
Calvin, Samuel: quoted, 1
Camburn, Dr. J. H.: an able justice, 189
Carroll, G. R.: his _Pioneer Life_ quoted, 92, 93, 215
Carroll, Isaac: came to Cedar Rapids in 1839, 152
Carpenter, Gabriel: buys much land in Cedar Rapids, 160
Carpenter, S. D.: early physician, 88;
quoted, 154;
writes of early banking, 435
Carondalet: Spanish Governor at New Orleans, 13
Catholicism in Linn county: 401
Cavanaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew: first graduates Cornell college, 210
Cedar Rapids: townsite surveyed, 43;
figured in county seat fight, 57;
the postoffice in, 84;
early schools in, 198 ff;
beginnings in, 207;
Robert Ellis reaches, 307;
N. B. Brown here in 1839, 308;
surveyed in 1841, 308;
the Listebargers build log house in, 310;
Rev. Carroll's reminiscences of, 310;
railroad reaches, 312;
ferries established in, 313;
first brick building in, 314;
first store, 314;
first newspaper, 314;
first mayor, 314;
first school, 316;
Dr. Carpenter's reminiscences of, 317 ff;
early hotels in, 328;
business of the city in 1856, 328;
sketch of the city from an early directory, 332;
sketch of Mrs. N. B. Brown, 333;
Cedar Rapids today, 335;
the railways of, 337;
manufacturing in, 339;
the street railways of, 341;
Commercial club, 345;
who paid the taxes in, fifty years ago, 347;
text of incorporation act, 353;
first city officials of, 356;
second election in, 356;
first tax levy in, 357;
election of 1851 in, 357;
first sidewalk ordinance, 357;
election of 1853 in, 358;
the cemeteries of, 358;
election of 1854 in, 358;
election of 1855 and 1856 in, 359;
officials of the city from 1857 to 1910, 359;
the city fifty years ago, 365;
how the first railroad came to, 370;
some of the early brick houses in, 374;
some strenuous days in, 376;
Mrs. Rock's reminiscences of, 379;
when land was cheap in, 382;
first decoration day celebration in, 384;
first labor union organized in, 390;
story of a mountain howitzer, 391;
a fortunate tumble, 392;
interesting bit of ancient history, 393;
churches and fraternities in, 395;
history of Catholic churches in, 402;
bridges, 420;
some municipal figures, 482
Cedar Rapids Clearing House Association: 442
Cedar Rapids & Marion City Railway Company: 344
Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad: 233
Cedar River: early steamboating on, 423
Central City: 284; old mill at, 486
Center Point: 290
Cemeteries: some of the old, 242
Child. J. J.: lawyer, 172, 182
Clark, Joseph: arrives at Central City in 1839, 148
Clay, Senator: quoted, 18
Clinton township: history of, 278
Coe, Daniel: founder of Coe college, 217
Coe college: history of, 215 ff
Colby, Farnum: early settler, 153
College township: history of, 287
Columbus (now Cedar Rapids): 43, 48
Commercial Club: of Cedar Rapids, 345
Company C, Cedar Rapids: brief account of, 477
Condit, R. A.: principal Coe Collegiate Institute, 223
Conkey, John P.: first member of legislature from Cedar Rapids, 158
Conklin, C. H.: judge, 173
Conway, William B.: territorial secretary, 14
Cook, Isaac: nominated for secretary of state, 158;
mentioned, 170;
lawyer of ability, 177
Cooke, Harriette J.: dean of women at Cornell, 204
Corbett, Thomas: 176
Cornell college: historical sketch of, 201 ff
Cousins, Robert G.: quoted, 20 ff;
elected to congress, 305
Craig, John: 162
Crane, Joseph: early settler at Bertram, 159
Crocker, L. D.: 234
Crow, Edward M.: 45, 48;
came to county, 56;
mentioned, 92, 161
Crow, John: one of first permanent settlers, 48, 161
Dale, Mrs. Ruth A.: interview with, 481
Daniels, Addison: has first store in Marion, 461
Daniels, John J.: quotation from, 55, 270;
early teacher, 148
Daniels, L.: postmaster at Marion, 82;
at Cedar Rapids, 84
Daniels, Samuel: early settler, 462
Davenport: 44
Davenport, J. G.: postmaster at Cedar Rapids, 84, 108
David, John: 176
Davis, William: early settler in Grant township, 280
Dawson, James: 45
Deacon, Charles J.: quoted, 220
Deem, Hiram: early settler, 153
Democratic party: organization of in county, 260
Devendorf, Thomas: article on taxes in Cedar Rapids by, 347;
article on first railroad to Cedar Rapids by, 370
Dinwiddie, J. M.: treasurer Coe college, 226
Dodge, A. C.: mentioned, 31; senator, 82
Dodge, Henry: mentioned, 31, 82
Donnan, Helen R.: writes of Masonic Library, 248
Doty, Elias: helps on court house, 34
Doty, Elias: a constant litigant, 188
Doty, James: helps erect court house, 34, 35
Doty, James M.: plats Newark, 143;
first pottery maker in Iowa, 146
Doty, Susan: kind to the Indians, 11
Downing, Thomas: early settler, 152
Dows, S. L.: 263
Dows, W. G.: his military record, 477, 478
Dubuque, city: mentioned, 13, 20, 44
Dubuque, Julian: obtains grant of land, 13
Dudley, J. W.: 172
Durham, S. W.: letter to from Col. Merritt, 58;
as to postoffices, 82;
letter by, 143;
address by, 164 ff;
honored pioneer, 464
Eastman, A. V.: secretary Coe College, 225
Edgerton, Asher: gets contract for Court House, 34, 35
Ellis, Robert: knew the Indians, 10;
agent for the government, 11;
walked to Iowa, 45;
meets Bill Johnson, 101;
oldest living settler in county, 146
Elkhorn Land & Town Lot Company: 240
Ely, Alex. L.: 47, 50
Ely, John F.: early physician, 88;
mentioned, 233
Endicott, W. I.: quoted, 335
Engle, Peter H.: letter written by, 19;
referred to, 31
Enos, J. L.: newspaper articles by quoted, 84, 86
Evans, George A.: captain Company C, 477
Ewing, Senator: quoted, 18
Fairbanks, Ira G.: superintendent of schools, 196
Fairfax: Catholic church at, 407
Fairfax township: history of, 271
Fellows, Rev. S. N: 202 _note_
Ferguson, Henry V.: 233
Ferguson. Jason D.: killed in Civil War, 474
Fifth Iowa Battery: 478
Fifty-third regiment: 477
Fisher, A. W.: writes history of Spring Grove township, 288
Fiske, John: quoted, 8
Florida: admission of, 15
Flynn, Rev. P. J.: contributes article on history of Catholicism in
county, 401
Fordyce, Emma J.: writes of early schools, 198 ff
Fort Atkinson: 10, 11, 12
Fort George school house: 143
Fortner, Catharine A.: early Cornell teacher, 204
Foster, Sidney A.: 17 _note_
Freer, H. H.: professor Cornell college, 208
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad, 237
Gainer, Thos.: came to Cedar Rapids in 1839, 152
Garrow, Peter: first citizen to be naturalized, 464
Geer, C. M.: quoted, 13
Geology of Linn county: 24 ff
Gillilan, James: 45
Glass, J. P.: early settler, 46
Good, James W.: elected to congress, 305
Goudy, John, family of robbed, 38 ff
Grant township: history of, 279
Gray, George W.: builds present court house, 35
Gray, Hosea W.: 33, 35, 47, 48, 49;
takes first census of county, 95, 463;
first sheriff, 463
Gray, Miss Pethenia: early school teacher, 285
Grafton, Dr. S.: early settler at Ivanhoe, 159
Greene, George: school teacher, 34;
member legislative council, 48;
buys portion of Cedar Rapids, 49;
letter to Col. Durham, 61;
lawyer, 178, 465
Greene, Joseph: first postmaster at Cedar Rapids, 84
Grist mill: first in county, 257
Gunn, Thomas F.: 404
Hagey, Joanna: writes of Cedar Rapids library, 250
Hahn, Daniel S.: claimed to be first settler, 55
Hall, O. S.: a pioneer, 461
Hall, P. E.: 233
Hall, Samuel: early settler, 276
Haman, Geo. C.: tells of coming of railroad to Cedar Rapids, 64
Haman, Mrs. George C.: gives her recollections of society in the early
days, 261 ff
Hamilton, John T.: elected to congress, 305
Harlan, James: senator, 82;
state superintendent, 201
Harlan, James E.: president Cornell college, 208
Harland, Ambrose, early settler, 143;
early politician, 300
Harman, Peter D.: did brick work on present court house, 35
Harper, Bill: a noted character, 181
Hart, Caspar J.: 159
Hart, J. A.: 159, 269
Hartigan, Father: in charge of the Catholic church at Marion, 410
Haskins, C. C.: 92;
early settler at Mt. Vernon, 159
Hazeltine, E. D.: early settler in Grant township, 280
Headley, J. T.: early practitioner, 164
Heins, B. F.: lawyer, 183
Henry, John: operates store at Westport, 42, 92
Hershey, Christian: pioneer minister, 292
Higley, Harvey G.: 158
Higley, Henry E.: 158
Higley, M. A.: 158
Higley, W. W.: 158
Hoffman, John: postmaster at Springville, 84
Hollis, C. M.: editor of _Times_, quotation from, 111, 112
Hook, Samuel F.: early settler, 152
Hoosier Grove Settlement: 46
Hormel, Frank: able lawyer, 183
Hotchkin, James K: first postmaster of Walker, 280
Howlett, G. M.: postmaster at Cedar Rapids, 85
Hubbard, N. M.: eminent attorney, 179;
anecdotes of, 180;
Decoration Day address of, 387;
mentioned, 467
Hubbard Smyth: political contest, 302 ff
Hull, Philip: 44, 147
Hunter, James: helps build court house, 34, 35
Hunter, John: helps build court house, 34
Humphrey, Joseph: early settler, 276
Illinois: admitted, 31
Indians: account of, 8
Indian nomenclature: 22
Ingham, W. H.: 163
Isbell, N. W.: first county judge, 169, 176, 468
Ivanhoe: 43
Ives, C. J.: pioneer railroad developer, 161
Iowa: a prairie state, 1;
first inhabitants, 3;
history of, 13
Iowa City: constitutional convention at, 15
Iowa Conference Seminary: founding of, 202
Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad: 236
Iowa Rail Road Land Company: 239
Iowa State Gazetteer: quoted, 47
Iowas: mentioned, 9, 13
Jackson township: history of, 285
Jenkins, John: first settler in Maine township, 282
Johnson, Alexander: early settler, 276
Johnson, Bill: hero of Canadian rebellion, 101 ff
Johnson, Kate: 101
Johnson, S. S.: early carpenter and builder, 154
Joliet, Louis: discovers Iowa, 4
Jones, Geo. W.: mentioned, 31;
senator from Iowa, 82
Jones, Stephen M.: 109
Jordan, Chandler: early settler in Maine township, 282
Jordan, Charles: early settler, 163
Jordan, L. D.: early settler in Maine township, 282
Justices: early Linn County, 199 ff
Keeler, C. B: lawyer, 186
Keeler, Rev. R. W.: early president Cornell college, 204
Kelsey, J. H.: early settler, 152
Kephart, Cyrus J.: his history of the United Brethren at Lisbon
quoted, 291
Kimball Building, 233
Kimbal, L. C: 233
King, David W.: came to Cedar Rapids in 1839, 152, 161
King, William Fletcher: president of Cornell college, 208
Kirkwood, Governor: dispatch from, 471;
calls for additional troops, 475
Kynett, A. J.: helps found Cornell college, 201, 208
Knott, Richard: commissioner to locate county seat, 32, 33
Knox, Rev. James, 224
Kurtz, John E.: one of the founders of Lisbon, 161
Labor: first union organized in Cedar Rapids, 390
Lake, E. W.: early Marion physician, 87
Langworthy, L. H.: quotation from, 104
Lawyers: early, 169
Lazell, F. J.: author of article on newspapers of county, 106
Laylander, O. J.: quoted, 17
Lea, Albert Miller: quoted, 19
Lee, Guy Carleton: his _History of North America_ referred to, 13
Leffingwell, William E.: candidate for Congress, 179
Legare, Margaret S.: 267
Leverich, James: arrives in 1839, 148
Leverich, Joel: becomes owner of Mound Farm, 46;
arrives in 1839, 148;
Dr. Carpenter on, 148;
Geo. R. Carroll on, 149;
early politician, 301
Libraries: Masonic, 248;
Cedar Rapids, 250;
Coe college, 250;
Mt. Vernon, 251;
Marion, 251;
Bohemian Reading Society, 251
Lichtebarger, Jos. H.: early settler, 148
Linn County: act organizing, 32;
first survey, 34;
first court house in, 34;
names of townships in, 35;
judiciary in, 35;
circuit court in, 36;
noted trials in, 36;
outlawry in, 37;
early settlement of, 42;
first marriage in, 46;
organized, 47;
first election in, 48;
first settler in, 51;
county seat contests in, 57;
first railroad in, 58;
old settlers of, 66 ff, 145 ff;
postoffices and politics in, 82 ff;
physicians of, 86 ff;
material growth of, 92 ff;
first reaper in, 93;
newspapers of, 106;
early Bohemian settlements in, 121 ff;
early marriages in, 127 ff;
historic roads and monuments in, 142;
early lawyers and courts in, 169 ff;
chatty mention of bench and bar, 175 ff;
early justices in, 189 ff;
schools in, 194 ff;
old cemeteries in, 242;
libraries in, 248;
wages and prices in, from 1846 to 1856, 253;
some first things in, 256;
first grist mill in, 257;
early land entries in, 258;
organization of democratic party in, 260;
early society in, 261;
history of townships, 270;
politics in, 298;
statistics for 1856, 332;
Catholicism in, 401;
population of, 416;
early votes in, 417;
members of legislature from, 417;
banks and banking in, 435 ff;
list of county officers, 451 ff;
in war, 470;
vote in, in 1860, 479;
tornado in, 479;
account of Western, 479;
of Mt. Vernon, 479;
first agricultural association in, 480;
first teachers association in, 480;
teachers' institute, 481;
vote in, in 1910, 482;
early days in, 483;
early doctors in, 485;
land assessments in, 488;
taxable valuation in, 489
Linn County Medical Society: 89
Linn, Dr. Louis F.: mentioned, 32;
Linn county named after, 47
Linn township: history of, 286
Lisbon: 291;
camp-meetings at, 296;
Catholic church at, 411
Loughnane, Rev. P. M.: Catholic priest at Marion, 411
Louisiana Purchase, The: 13
Love, J. S.: early Springville physician, 89
Lowry, Father: 403
Lucas, Robert: territorial governor, 14, 15
Lucore, R. H.: early settler, 148
Lund, Mrs. E. J.: early Cedar Rapids teacher, 199
Lynch, Jerry: a resourceful lawyer, 182;
anecdotes of, 183
Lytle, James: early settler in Jackson township, 285
McCabe, Bishop C. C.: 163
McClelland, Freeman: 88
McCloud, Ross: county surveyor, 34
McConnell, N. A.: early minister, 289
McCormick, Samuel B.: president Coe college, 228
McDye, William E.: colonel, 475
McIntosh, D. M.: lawyer, 177;
erects early brick house in Cedar Rapids, 267
McKean, A. J.: appointed constable, 33;
clerk of circuit court, 36;
early politician, 158;
first constable and first assessor, 464
McKean, Thomas J.: first mayor of Marion, 466;
sketch of, 470
McKinney, Ed: early settler in Maine township, 282
McKinnon, William: early settler, 277
McRoberts, Peter: chosen commissioner, 33
McVay, Luther: pioneer minister, 293
Maggart, Rev. C. W.: his sketch of the Cedar Rapids churches, 397
Maine township: history of, 281
Mann, Jacob: one of first settlers, 45, 48, 160
Mann, Sally: probably first white woman to settle in county, 160
Mansfield, E. L.: 88;
came to Iowa on horseback, 162
Maple River Railroad: 238
Marion: named county seat, 33, 57;
U. S. land office, 34;
district court of U. S. and territorial court meets at, 35;
railroad meeting at, 62;
Catholic Church at, 409;
history of, 460 ff;
first house in, 461;
first store, 461;
first hotel, 461;
first jail built in, 461;
plat of town recorded, 363;
first court held in, 465;
fire department organized, 466
Marquette, Jacques: quoted, 4
Marriages: early ones in county, 127 ff
Marshall, James: president Coe college, 227
Mason, Albert A.: superintendent of schools, 196
Matsell, G. W.: early settler, 163
May, J. M.: files plat of Mayfield, 143;
a stirring man, 157;
lawyer, 178
Mayfield: now portion of Cedar Rapids, 143
Maynard, H. H.: field secretary Coe college, 228
Mekota, Jos.: contributes article, 121 ff
Melton, George: and Center Point postoffice, 82
Mercy Hospital, 413
Merritt, W. H.: storekeeper at Ivanhoe, 11, 153;
writes political letter, 59
Mexican veterans: in county, 470
Miller, Wm. E.: judge, 173
Mills, J. G.: his _Handbook_ mentioned, 144
Mills, Mason P.: lawyer, 183
Minnesota: admitted, 31
Missouri: admitted, 31
Missouri Valley & Blair Railway and Bridge Company: 238
Missouri Valley Land Company: 240
Mitchell, Israel: lays out Westport, 33, 146
Mitchell, James: early settler, 275
Mitchell, John: lawyer, 177
Mitchell, John: early settler, 275
Moingona Coal Company: 240
Montrose: 20
Mound Builders: mentioned, 3;
account of, 4
Mt. Vernon: account of, 479
Mulford, Charles R.: early merchant, 153
Murray, F. G.: contributes chapter on physicians, 86
Muscatine: 44
Muskwaki: mentioned, 10
Newark: extinct town, 143
Newberry, J. S.: quoted, 7
Newhall, J. B.: quoted, 47
New Lindon: defunct town, 84, 143
Newspapers: history of, 106 ff
Neutral Grounds: 14
Norton, William Harmon: contribution on geology of Linn county, 24 ff;
writes of Cornell college, 201 ff
Nye, Benjamin: commissioner to locate county seat, 32, 33
Old Settlers' Association: members of, 66 ff
Otoes: mentioned, 9
Otter Creek: settlement of, 46
Otter Creek township: history of, 286
Owen, Dr. Norman W.: 467
Oxley, Marshall: 257
Oxley, Perry: early politician, 300
Parker, N. H.: quoted, 17, 144
Parvin, T. S.: 162
Patterson, William: does carpenter work on present court house, 35
Phelps, Stephen: president Coe college, 226
Physicians: of the county, 86 ff
Plummer, John: first justice in Spring Grove township, 289
Politics: county and district, 298
Pollock, S. L.: early settler, 153
Population: of county and towns, 416
Postoffices: early politics concerning, 82
Powell, J. J.: lawyer, 183
Powell, Major J. W.: quoted, 7
Practitioners' Club: 89
Prairie du Chien: 20
Prairieburg: Catholic church at, 407
Preston, I. M.: 171, 468
Public Instruction: superintendent of created, 195
Railroad: first in county, 58;
letter from Merritt on, 59;
Iowa Central Air Line, 63;
Dubuque and Southwestern, 63;
letter from C. H. Branch on, 64
Reiner, W. Fred: his experience as express messenger, 244 ff
Richardson, Rev. T. F.: 406
Risley, A. P.: postmaster at Springville, 84
Ristine, Henry M.: early county physician, 86, 89, 467
Roads: early ones laid out, 142
Roberts, Robert G.: chosen legislator, 33
Rock, Mrs. R. C.: early teacher, 198;
mentioned, 261;
reminiscences of, 379
Rockingham: 44
Rogers, Wm.: early settler at Rogers Grove, 163
Rood, H. H.: quoted, 210
Rothrock, James H.: judge, 173, 181;
anecdotes of, 181, 182
Runkle, Jesse A.: quoted, 196
Sac and Fox, The: 10, 13
Sacred Heart Academy: 414
Safely, Robt.: 163
Sampson, A. E.: lays out town of New Lindon, 84
Sanford, Julius E.: one of platters of Cedar Rapids, 162, 176
Schools: early history of, 194 ff
Scott, General Winfield: concludes treaty with Sacs and Foxes, 14
Seerley, H. H.: 209
Shambaugh, B. F.: quoted, 19
Shane, John: judge, 174
Shaw, L. M.: quoted, 213
Shepherd, Osgood: 46, 49, 149
Sherman, E. A.: quoted, 341
Shields, Mrs. Susan: daughter of William Abbe, 10, 51
Sigworth, Dr. H. W.: address on early doctors in county, 485
Sinclair, Thomas M.: helps Coe college, 225
Sisley Grove: 279
Sisters of Mercy: 412
Sioux City & Iowa Falls Town Lot and Land Company: 239
Sioux City & Pacific Railroad: 235
Sioux Indians: mentioned, 10
Skinner, Rev. Elias: candidate for county judge, 57;
letter from, 164
Smith, E. W.: Cornell professor, 204
Smith, Judge Milo P.: contributor, 169;
early teacher, 194
Smith, W. H.: appointed constable, 33
Smith, William Wilberforce: president Coe college, 229
Smyth, Robert: an enterprising man, 161
Smyth, William: first county attorney, 170, 179, 468
Snouffer, J. J.: 84, 269
Snyder, Justice: 189
Society in the early days: 261
Southern influence: 267
Soutter, C. B.: president board of trustees Coe college, 228
Speake, John K.: early settler in Grant township, 280
Spring Grove township: history of, 288
Steamboating: on the Cedar, 420
Stephens, R. D.: builds elevator at Marion, 97;
mentioned, 171;
financier, 177;
tribute to, 467
Stewart, J. O.: quoted, 109;
commissioned captain in Civil War, 475
Stewart, Samuel C.: chosen commissioner, 33
Stewart, William: early blacksmith, 154
Stoddard, Jos. C.: in Civil war, 473
Stone, William: had store at Westport, 42, 46, 49;
probable first settler in Cedar Rapids, 151
Stookey, S. W.: acting president Coe college, 228
Strong, L. M.: chosen commissioner, 33;
builds first house in Marion, 461
Sullivan, John C.: surveys southern Iowa boundary, 15
Taylor, A. C.: 85
Taylor, Dr. Robert: 269
Teachers' Association: first in county, 480
Teachers' institute: first in county, 481
Tecumseh: 9
Thomas, Dr. Cyrus: 7
Thompson, Henry: erects saw mill, 460
Thompson, William G.: lawyer, 172, 186;
anecdotes of, 187;
tribute to, 468
Trans-Mississippi Exposition: 20
Troup, Reverend C.: first minister in county, 48, 291
Troy Mills: founded, 290
Tryon, S. H.: 86
Union Medical Society, 89
United Brethren Church: beginning of in Iowa, 291;
at Lisbon, 292 ff.
United Presbyterian Church: origin of the Fairfax, 272
Ure, James: early settler, 275
Ure, Robert: early settler, 272
Ure, William: brings first reaper to county, 93
Usher, Dyer: first divorce action in county brought by, 36;
ferries people across the Mississippi, 46
Vardy, John: erects first frame dwelling in Cedar Rapids, 49;
arrives in Cedar Rapids in 1841, 152
Vinton, Samuel F.: attitude toward Iowa, 16
Walker: history of, 279;
Catholic church at, 409
Washington township: history of, 290
Waubeek: 284
Weare, Charles: early contractor, 154
Weare, John: early banker, 154
Webster, C. L.: quoted, 8
Weld, L. G.: 3 _note_; 13 _note_
Western: stage line to, 47;
account of, 479
Westport: 33, 43, 46, 48, 143
Wetherbee, E. S.: gives account of old mill at Central City, 486
Wheeler, David H.: Cornell professor, 204
Whittam, I. N.: pioneer lawyer, 178
Whittlesey, Charles: chosen senator, 33
Wick, B. L.: writes on early steamboating, 423
Williams, Joseph D.: judge, 35, 41
Williams, Horace: 239
Willis, James W.: first county commissioners meet at house of, 33
Wilson, George W.: noted attorney, 187
Wilson, Gen. James: 103
Wilson, Judge James: surveyor-general, 31
Wilson, T. S.: 82
Winnebagoes, The: account of, 9
Wisconsin: admitted, 31
Witter, Amos: early physician in Mount Vernon, 87
Woodbridge, Ward: writes history of Maine township, 281
Young, Joseph B.: lawyer, 177, 468
Zumbro, John: postmaster at Marion, 82
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote A: L. G. Weld, _Iowa Journal of History and Politics_, vol.
i, no. 1.]
[Footnote B: This is the view of nearly all the writers and historians,
but Professor Weld in vol. i, no. 1, _Iowa Journal of History and
Politics_, holds to the opinion that the landing was made at the point
in Louisa county where the Iowa river enters the Mississippi and gives
cogent reasons for his belief.]
[Footnote C: Hon. Sidney A. Foster, Des Moines.]
[Footnote D: N. H. Parker in _Iowa As It Is in 1855_, p. xiv.]
[Footnote E: _Iowa As It Is in 1855_, p. xv.]
[Footnote F: Response to a toast at a banquet in Waterloo in honor of
Hon. Horace Boise, ex-Governor of the State.]
[Footnote G: _Notes on the Wisconsin Territory_, pp. 14-15 (1836).]
[Footnote H: Letter written by Peter H. Engle, of Dubuque, in 1838.]
[Footnote I: _The Constitutions of Iowa_, pp. 23-24 (1902).]
[Footnote J: Rev. Dr. S. N. Fellows, _A Record of the Fiftieth
Anniversary of Cornell College_, p. 91.]
[Footnote K: The pioneer settlements about Mount Vernon had sent
several flat boats down the Cedar and Mississippi to New Orleans with
cargoes of wheat, corn and potatoes. With the proceeds of sale of boats
and cargo, sugar, molasses and other goods were purchased and shipped
by steamers to Muscatine. Col. Robt. Smyth was one of those who thus
made the voyage from Stony Point, three miles south of Mount Vernon, to
New Orleans.]
[Footnote L: During the melee a farmer from north of town gave a
stentorian yell for Jeff Davis and was promptly knocked down by a
federal soldier home on furlough. The soldier was afterwards arrested
for assault. On the day of the trial before Judge Preston of Marion
some thirty Mount Vernon men were present armed with various weapons,
including corn knives. The case was dismissed.]
[Footnote M: See _Minutes of Iowa City Presbytery_, Lyons, May 9,
1856.]
[Footnote N: This is according to Lawrence's history, and in harmony
with statements from Dr. A. W. Drury. Mrs. Elizabeth Harner, daughter
of Bro. Troup, says he came to Iowa in 1838.]
[Footnote O: Chandler Jordan, mentioned above, died about a year ago,
and Mr. Liddington was killed in the mill in the winter of 1909-10 by
getting wound up in the shafting, and since then the old mill has stood
idle.]
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Transcriber's Notes
Obvious typos and misprinted punctuation have been silently corrected.
Spelling and hyphenation variations have been retained to match the
original book when no major preference could be determined.
Added to Contents: FOOTNOTES, End of document
Added to List of Maps: Reproduction of the First Map of Cedar Rapids,
(Part 1) and (Part 2) 316.
Page 11: The Muskwaki Indians were probably the Meskwaki, also spelled
Mesquakie or Meskwahki Indians. (a large number of Muskwaki Indians
were camping)
Pages 67-81: Some names in the Members List are not in alphabetical
order, but match the order in the original book.
Page 113: The following sentence was incomplete in the original book:
The grain rates from Cedar Rapids to Chicago were thirty
cents a hundred pounds and the noise of protest which was
made then was quite similar to the noise which is sometimes
Page 131: John B. Taylor may be a typo for Joel B. Taylor, as this is
the only mention of John B. Taylor in the book. (May 26, John Zumbra to
Angeline Eggleston, by Rev. John B. Taylor.)
Some illustrations and text have been moved slightly to avoid breaking
up paragraphs. This might cause a few Index entries to be one page off.