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 MARCH 1, ISSY. 
 
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 INTRODUOTORT. 
 
 This history of Story County, Iowa, is based on a pretty thorough 
 knowledge of the county and the people, and may be relied on in 
 the main. Many years ago the writer hereof was acquainted with 
 nearly all the first settlers of our county, and has seen much of its 
 features. By the assistance of many of these first settlers, scattered 
 over the county, I am enabled to give such circumstances and items 
 as occurred from time to time, connected with the official records 
 of the county and Col. John Scott’s historical address made on 
 July 4, 1876, at Nevada. This address is one of special interest to 
 the citizens of Story County ; the most valuable Fourth of July ad- 
 dress ever made in our county. 
 
 The grumblers of hard times now should surely profit by reading 
 up the early history of Story County and learn what hard times 
 mean. All citizens of their respective counties should be interested 
 in a history of their county — an account of affairs at home — if 
 they have any interest in knowing the particulars and hardships of 
 the past compared with our prosperous present. This history will 
 tell you what you know — what you don’t know, and what you 
 ought to know. Very Truly, 
 
 Nevada, Iowa, March 1, 1887. 
 
 Wm. G. Allen". 
 

 
 
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History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 By W. Q. ALLBN. 
 
 LETTER EROM JOHET RAISTDOLPH GOODIE", OF OHIO, JANUARY 30 , 1857 . 
 
 \_For the Advocate.] 
 
 '‘’‘Mr. Editor : Happy — thrice happy — am I to make the acquaint- 
 ance of the Story County Advocate. A little over one year ago, I 
 went to Nevada, and at that time there were but eight or ten log 
 cabins to mark the spot where your now prosperous village stands. 
 When I left there this past spring, some three hundred intelligent 
 and enterprising inhabitants were present to interpret the mystery 
 of its prosperity and progress. Few counties, indeed, can boast of 
 a faster people, and but few justly boast of a richer soil. Its set- 
 tlement would have been, no doubt, more rapid, had its peculiar 
 advantages been sooner made known. Situated as it is, in the 
 geographical center of the State, with a sufficiency of excellent 
 timber and rich, rolling prairie, it would be passing strange, indeed, 
 did it not receive a consideration equal to the advantages presented. 
 As the capitol question is again agitated, and Ft. De Moine begins 
 to lay the wires, it would be well for you to urge your claims — for 
 claims you have — for a central location. This vexed question ought 
 to be settled, in my mind, on the equitable principle of ‘ popular 
 sovereignty' — regardless of past ‘compromises’ and ‘compacts.’ 
 Then send out the Advocate as the representative of Story County, 
 .and let the masses know that the Injins ” have long since left 
 your regions, and in their stead remain as intelligent and go-a-head- 
 ative whites as ever graced the soil of the ‘ Hawkeye,’ or any other 
 State. While the farmer in this county expends a life of toil 
 and vexation in opening up a farm which seldom benefits Awn, but 
 sometimes his posterity ; the Iowa farmer, with less expense, less 
 toil in the short space of three or four years by proper industry, 
 may be the owner of a well cultivated farm — clear of roots and 
 stumps — and, in the language of somebody, ‘be a monarch of 
 (nearly) all he surveys.’ I have no doubt, from what has already 
 transpired, that my wildest conjectures and anticipations in regard 
 to the future of Story County will, ere long, be realized. It is 
 said, that ‘ Westward the star of Empire takes its way,’ and I am 
 inclined to believe that the emigration to the west next spring will 
 be very great; yet Kansas will, doubtless, receive a share. There is 
 
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 Histoet op Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 nouglit to prevent Story from becoming one of the most populous, 
 as it is now one of the best counties in the State of Iowa. The 
 railroad once completed, people will begin to ascertain and realize 
 the importance of ‘ pitching their tents ’ within her borders, as she 
 will then be thrown open to the gaze of the traveling populace, who 
 will, at a glance, perceive the ‘ wealth that is in her,’ heretofore un- 
 known but to a few. The emigration from this section to Iowa, 
 will not, I apprehend, be as great the coming season as during the 
 last. They seem to be alarmed at the shrieks of those puny ones who 
 went west expecting to find a country where “ summer would last 
 all the year,” but who now seem fully determined to seek out a 
 home in some fair region where they, will not have to ‘ bide the 
 peltings of such pitiless storms,’ — but let such go. ’Tis the hardy 
 sons of toil you want to develop the resources of your beautiful 
 county and State; and not the timid who are continually complain- 
 ing of either heat or cold. But I must close. J. R. G. 
 
 “Kenton, Ohio, January 30, ’57.” 
 
 ITEMS EEOM STOEY COUNTY ADVOCATE OE MAECH 11, 1857. 
 
 “ Resigned. — Dr. Allen Bell has resigned the office of constable 
 of Nevada township. The county judge has appointed Nelson 
 Hockley in his place. 
 
 '‘'‘Resigned. — Mr. R. J. Zenor has resigned the office of justice of 
 the peace for Franklin township. 
 
 ^'‘Married — January 25th, by Rev. Ira H. Rees, Mr. John B. 
 Phipps and Miss Martha J. Chandler. 
 
 “March 4th, by Elias Pocock, Esq., Mr. H. C. Wakefield to Miss 
 Lovinna M. Garbison. 
 
 “March 8th,' by E. G. Day, Esq., Mr. Francis M. Newton to Miss 
 Margaret Mullen. 
 
 “At Kenosha, Wis., Mr. Frederick Reichauer, of Story county, to 
 Miss Augusta Randeau, of Hanover Kingdom, Germany. 
 
 “Hon. S. G. Winchester, delegate to the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion for this district, has favored us with several days proceedings 
 of the convention. The work of constitution making is progress- 
 ing as rapidly as possible. Mr. Winchester is a worker. 
 
 “Several new mills (flouring mills) are being erected in this county. 
 
 '‘'‘New Township — Collins township, in the southeast corner of 
 the county, has been organized. 
 
 “J. Hog Story . — At New Philadelphia, Story County, we learn 
 that three hogs lived from the first hard storm this winter ('56-7) 
 until February 24th in a hay stack, a space of about seven weeks, 
 with nothing to eat except hay. When discovered two were alive 
 and are now doing well, the other is missing — supposed to have 
 been eaten by the others. The above appears almost incredible, 
 but we learn it from a gentleman of undoubted veracity. 
 
 “February 17, 1858, was the coldest of the season; mercury 
 twenty degrees below zero.” 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
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 FOR THE STORY COUNTY ADVOCATE, FEBRUARY 17, 1857. 
 
 “In accordance with certain resolutions passed by the citizens of 
 Story county assembled en masse at the court house, in Nevada, 
 January 30, 1858, the citizens of Franklin township. Story County, 
 Iowa, met at the residence of J. H. Keigley, February 6, 1858, for the 
 purpose of organizing a protective committee to prevent the sacri- 
 fice of property at sheriff and constable sales. 
 
 “ The house was brought to order by calling Wm. McMichael to 
 the chair, and appointing Philip Bechtel secretary. The following 
 resolutions were unanimously adopted: 
 
 _ “1. Resolved, That whereas the scarcity of money and the pressure of the 
 times, that we severally and mutually bind ourselves together to assist in pre- 
 venting the sacrifice of our property at sheriff’s or constable’s sales, notwith- 
 standing we are all willing to pay our debts as soon as possible. 
 
 “2. Resolved,^ That we have appointed a committee of three, whose duty it 
 shall be to appraise property when executed within this township at a fair aver- 
 age value. The appraisers are Solomon Young, Wm. McCoy and John H. 
 Keigley. And we, the undersigned, pledge ourselves that property shall not 
 sell at less than two-thirds of its appraised value. 
 
 “3. Resolved, Furthermore, that when property is executed that so many of 
 us as can will attend the sale, and see that it shall not sell for less than two- 
 thirds of its appraised value. 
 
 “4. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Story 
 County Advocate. 
 
 “Meeting adjourned. 
 
 “Wm. McMichael, Chairman. 
 
 “Philip Bechtel, Secretary.” 
 
 [The following explanations of the cause of the above proceed- 
 ings were published soon after:] 
 
 “The Iowa State Journal is right in conjecturing that the citi- 
 zens of Story have been ‘slightly annoyed’ by the legal executioner. 
 When a farm worth in ordinary times |l,200, sells at forced sale for 
 $60 or ^70, — when a good yoke of oxen worth $70 sells at from |5 to 
 $15 per yoke — and a good two-horse wagon worth $75 brings only $15 
 or $20, and other property in the same ratio — is it not time to begin 
 to be ‘annoyed’ Mr. Journal? Yet these have all occurred here, 
 owing to the absence of money and an appraisement law. Our 
 citizens are an honest, industrious and law-abiding people, and are 
 anxious to pay their debts, but owing to the entire absence of a 
 • home market, and want of means or channel to ship produce 
 abroad, thus having no foreign market, they are unable to do so. 
 They have waited for the present General Assembly to enact some 
 law for their relief, yet nothing has been done, or is likely to be, it 
 is feared, by that body until all debtors’ property is sacrificed and 
 their debts still unpaid. It was supposed that immediate action 
 would be taken upon this all important topic, as it was absolutely 
 demanded, regardless of what foreign creditors might think of it or 
 us, by the Legislature; as they have done nothing, and believing it 
 useless to wait longer upon their action, a large portion of the cit- 
 izens concluded to take the only other course left then! to get relief. 
 
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 History of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 How this move will work remains to be seen. On our part we trust 
 there will be no occasion to transgress the statute or any other law, 
 for mob rule is, at best, a short-lived remedy — though the step 
 taken by our citizens should not be so classed, as it is nothing more 
 or less than self-protection, which is in accordance with all laws. 
 We would urge upon the Legislature the necessity of immediate 
 action, so that all may know what course to pursue in the premises.” 
 
 (For such a law as above demanded, many citizens of Story county 
 petitioned; and it was urged by Hon. J. L. Dana, then our repre- 
 sentative in the House, and it was not long thereafter until the 
 appraisement law was passed.) 
 
 THE FOLLOWING LETTER WAS WRITTEN AT DES MOINES BY HON. J. L. 
 
 DANA WHILE A MEMBER OF THE IOWA LEGISLATURE, 1857-8. 
 
 “ Des Moines, February 15, 1858. 
 
 “Dear Thrall: It may not be uninteresting to some of our 
 friends to hear that the law providing for the foreclosure of mort- 
 gages by publication and sale has been repealed by the action of the 
 General Assembly at its present session. There has always been 
 some doubt concerning sales made in accordance with what is un- 
 derstood to be the provisions of the Code, as to whether property 
 so sold was subject to redemption as property is which is sold by 
 virtue of an execution. The best judges entertain various opinions 
 concerning the matter. I think the people of Iowa will say that 
 by repealing a law that has done so much harm, and but little good, 
 the Legislature has done a wise act. J. L. Dana.” 
 
 FROM THE ADVOCATE OF FEBRUARY 17, 1858, WE COPY THE FOL- 
 LOWING: 
 
 “ House^ February 5, 1858. — Mr. Dana introduced an act regula- 
 ting judgments and executions. Laid on table and ordered printed. 
 
 “ House., February 6th. — Mr. Dana introduced an act to appoint 
 commissioners to locate’ the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in 
 Hardin county. Read twice and referred to the committee „ on 
 charitable institutions. 
 
 “ House., February 6th. — Mr. Dana presented a petition of one 
 hundred and thirty-six citizens of Story county for an appraise- • 
 ment law. Also a petition of citizens of Story county for a more 
 strict prohibitory law.” 
 
 LOCATION OF THE COUNTY SEAT AT NEVADA. 
 
 The Legislature of the State of Iowa appointed three commis- 
 sioners for the purpose of locating the county seat for Story 
 County. Joseph M. Thrift, of Boone County, Johnson Edgar, of 
 Jasper County and Thomas Mitchell, of Polk County, were the 
 locating commissioners appointed. After a pretty thorough exam- 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
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 ination o£ a number of localities, they decided on the location 
 which Nevada now is occupying ; the e|- nwi, and the w|- nei section 
 7, township 83, range 22. Jenkins W. Morris entered the land July 1, 
 1853, showing entry four days after the location was made. The 
 location was made June 27, 1863, because Mr. Thos. Mitchell, (one of 
 the commissioners), was not present on account of sickness in his 
 family. Messrs. Thrift and Edgar made the location, and Mr. Thrift 
 named the town — ‘‘Nevada."” It was a favorite name called after 
 the “Sierra Nevada” range of mountains in California. It is said 
 Mr. Thrift was so attached to the name “Sierra Nevada,” he named 
 a daughter of his “Sierra Nevada.” 
 
 Judge E. C. Evans, who was then the county Judge arranged 
 with Mr. Morris for the land, in payment of which the judge gave 
 a deed in behalf of the county for one-third the lots and blocks, 
 when the one hundred and sixty acres were laid off regularly. As 
 a matter of course Jenkins W. Morris had to first deed to the 
 county, then the other arrangements followed. 
 
 Soon after this location was made, say within two months after, 
 Nevada was regularly surveyed by Mr. — Barnard, surveyor of Polk 
 County. 
 
 Prior to the location the following election took place: 
 
 At the first election held in the county, April !, 1853, the following 
 county officers were elected: Evan C. Evans, County Judge; for 
 Recorder, John Zenor; for Clerk, Franklin Thompson; for Sher- 
 iff, Eli Deal; Surveyor, Otho French; Coroner, Shadrick Worral; 
 School Fund Commissioner, John H. Kiegley. 
 
 The votes were canvassed by the first Board of Canvasser for 
 the county, Samuel B. McCall, County Judge, of Boone County, 
 Adolphus Prouty and James Corben, assisting Justices of the 
 Peace of Story County. There were then two precincts — “Indian” 
 and “Story.” Sixty-three votes were cast April 4, 1853, for County 
 Judge. The Board counted the votes April 9, 1853, Immedi- 
 ately after these county officers elect were sworn in, the county set 
 up “House-keeping” for itself. 
 
 You will see by our Official and Business directory for 1857, on 
 page 18, (the first directory of nearly the same kind appeared in 
 February, 1857,) that we were nearly all Land Agents, Attorneys at 
 Law, Doctors, Merchants, etc., etc. Well, when we could not sell 
 land or town lots to strangers, we would try each other so as to 
 keep up the boom. 
 
 Well, in the Advocate of February, 1857, I find this war-like 
 news: “Two two-horse wagon loads of muskets passed through 
 this place,” ("Nevada), “last week bound for Ft, Dodge. This looks 
 decidedly war-like. They will assist, no doubt, in keeping the In- 
 dians in check if necessary.” We old settlers well recollect the In- 
 dian scare we had in 1857, at the time of the Spirit Lake massacre. 
 Some of the citizens of Story County left their homes and came to 
 Nevada for protection and safety; but the scare was soon over, and 
 they returned in peace to their respective homes. This was about 
 
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 March or April, 1857, we “old ones” came near seeing the elephant, 
 or thought we did. Who of us have forgotten the trials brought 
 upon us in part by that extraordinary winter of 1856-57. The old 
 settlers cannot forget it. 
 
 We notice that the “Agricultural Society, the Board of Directors 
 of the County Society, are (were) requested to meet at the oflBce of 
 the President on Tuesday next, at 2 o’clock, p. m. Important busi- 
 ness demands attention.” I also find under the head of “Announce- 
 ments,” the following; “The Rev. Mr. Noe will preach at the resi- 
 dence of John H. Keigly, on Skunk River, Saturday, August 29* 
 at 2 o’clock, p. M.; and on the following Sabbath at 11 a. m., and 
 3 p. M.” There had been preaching, however, in Nevada and else- 
 where in the county a number of years prior to 1857; for I was at 
 a meeting in December, 1851, held at Mr. Geo. Dye’s house, who 
 then resided on section 21, township 83 north, range 22 west — and 
 still that was not the first. 
 
 EARLY BOUNDARY OP STORY COUNTY: 
 
 “It was a part of Benton County in 1837, and even later. Es- 
 tablished and boundaries defined, January 13, 1816. Attached to 
 the county of Benton four days later, for election, revenue and ju- 
 dicial purposes; and the same day to the county of Polk for the 
 same purposes. Attached to the county of Boone, January, 22, 1853. 
 See Acts of the Seventh Legislative Assembly, chapters 82, 96 and 
 101: Fourth General Assembly, chapter 12. 
 
 Named in honor of the eminent jurist, Joseph Story, for a third 
 of a century Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States. Story County completed her organization by electing her 
 county officers April 1, 1853, under an Act of the General Assem- 
 bly approved January, 1853. The boundary of the county, as it 
 now exists, was fixed January 13, 1816. So it is, now, 1887, forty- 
 one years old. 
 
 The following is clipped from the Story County Advocate of 
 August 26, (1857), which would seem to show the fears some had 
 those days of the Indians north and northwest of us : 
 
 “St. Paul, August 9, (1857,) — Little Crow and his band of one 
 hundred and twenty warriors have returned from their expedition 
 in search of Ink-pa-du-tah, having found his camp and dispatched 
 four of the murderers. He brought the scalps of the slain to the 
 Superintendent of the lower Sioux Agency. 
 
 A band of fifteen or sixteen Chippewas are plundering settlers 
 about fifty miles north of this place.” “St. Louis, August 15, (1857) 
 — Advices from Fort Kearney state that a party of nineteen drovers 
 in charge of upwards of 800 cattle, arrived; destination, Utah. The 
 expedition was attacked twenty-keven miles above the Fort on the 
 first instant by one .hundred and fifty Cheyennes; all the cattle 
 and twenty mules run off, one man killed, another severely 
 
Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa. 11 
 
 wounded — three Indians slain. Col. Sumner started in pursuit."” 
 These outrages occurred as a result of the Spirit Lake massacre 
 which was in the March prior. When we read of Mrs. Marble’s, 
 Mrs. Noble’s, Miss G-ardner’s and Mrs. Thatcher^’s extreme suffer- 
 ings, and which commenced at Spirit Lake, it is enough to arouse 
 the feelings of every one who possesses a spark of humanity. 
 There were a few who reached Story County after very severe ex- 
 posures and sufferings, who made their escape almost miraculously 
 from this massacre. 
 
 Mrs. Marble’s account was published in the Washington Union, 
 of July 30, (1857), and then copied by the Story County Advocate, 
 August 26, 1857, as follows : 
 
 “Statement of Mrs. Marble. Application at the Denartment 
 for Indemnity for loss of property.— -Mrs. Marble who, with others, 
 was recently made a prisoner by a party of Sioux Indians, had an 
 interview with the Corumissioner of Indian Affairs yesterday morn- 
 ing. In her application for indemnity for property destroyed by 
 the Indians, she states that on the thirteenth of March last a party of 
 Sioux Indians numbering about seventy, of whom thirty were war- 
 riors belonging to Ink-pa-du-tah’s band in amity with the United 
 States, came to her residence, on the west side, of Spirit Lake, killed 
 her husband and destroyed and carried away property amounting 
 in the aggiegate, to $2,229, of which $700 was gold coin. 
 
 After having murdered her husband and buried his body in the 
 snow, they claimed as their prisoners Mrs. Noble, Miss Gardner, 
 Mrs, Thatcher and herself and compelled them to carry heavy bur- 
 dens and plod their weary way with their feet entirely naked,— 
 through snow to the depths of two, three and four feet, occasion- 
 ally crossing rivers, where they were forced to wade, where oftimes 
 the water would nearly immerse their persons, and compel them to 
 ward off the drifting ice with their feeble hands to keep it from 
 bruising their shivering bodies. In this manner they were driven be- 
 fore the savages for the space of ten weeks, during which time the 
 squaws were allowed to abuse them in the most cruel manner, 
 striking them with clubs, axes, etc., and their sufferings were of 
 such a chpacter that language is inadequate to the task of a truth- 
 full description. After suffering these hardships and privations she 
 was rescued by a party of Sac-Qui-Pale Indians, to whom the 
 Agent llandrau paid $1,090 for her ransom. Some two weeks be- 
 fore her release Mrs. Thatcher was thrown into the Big Sioux 
 river. Upon attempting to get out, rifle balls were fired into her 
 body until she expired. Her husband, prior to his murder, held a 
 pre-emption claim for one hundred and sixty acres of land, on 
 which he had settled; and Mrs. Marble believes she is. entitled to 
 appropriate remuneration to the amount of $200 in lieu of this 
 claim which she was forced to abandon. She adds that she has not 
 recovered any portion of the property which she has specified, and 
 has not herself, nor through others, sought to. obtain revenge on 
 the Indians.” 
 
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 Histoky of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 In this narrative, Mrs. Marble does not say what became of Mrs. 
 Noble or Miss Gardner; the above occurrence is only one of many 
 occurrences of “man’s inhumanity to man.” 
 
 The Hamilton County supervisors have appropriated i|300 for a 
 tablet of polished brass to commemorate the heroism of. citizens of 
 that and Webster County who went to the rescue of the settlers, 
 at Spirit Lake in March, 1857, when Ink-pa-du-tah’s Sioux band 
 massacred twenty-seven whites . — Story City Review. 
 
 January 29, 1887. 
 
 POPULATION AND STATISTICS FOR STORY COUNTY, 
 
 AT DIFFERENT DATES — 1852 TO 1887 INCLUSIVE. 
 
 Population — 1840, entire population for Iowa was 43,112; Foreign 
 born, 2,983. 
 
 Population — 1852, for Story county, was 214, of who'm 100 were 
 females. There were then 43 voters. 
 
 Population— 1855 was 1,568 persons. Taxes, $3,990.30. 
 
 Population — 1856 was 2,868, of whom 1,308 were females; were 
 five to a square mile; 640 voters. 
 
 Population — 1864 were 5,000 persons. Taxes, $29,145.49. 
 
 In 1864 lands valued at $1,155,669; lots, $42,227; personal, $215,- 
 351; total, $1,413,247. 
 
 In 1865 to 1870 increase in population was 97 per cent; nearly 
 doubling. 
 
 Population — 1867 was 6,888; females; 3,398; 1,302 voters. 
 
 Population — 1870 to 1875, increase in population was 14.2 per 
 cent; least per cent noted. 
 
 Population — 1875 to 1880, increase in population was 27 per cent. 
 
 In 1880, number farms, 2,218 ; families, 3,125 ; dwellings, 3,066. 
 
 Population — 1880, population born in United States, 13,923; were 
 29 to a square mile. 
 
 Population— 1875, Story county, 13,311; taxes, $97,683.06; 2,574 
 voters. 
 
 In 1876 lands valued at $2,709,375 ; lots, $189,104; personal, 
 $655,444; total, $3,551,923. 
 
 Population — 1880, 16,906 persons; 9 colored; 8,131 were females. 
 
 In 1886 valuation of lands, $3,259,935; lots, $434,659; ’personal, 
 $972,047; total valuation, $4,666,641. 
 
 LEVY FOR 1886 — TAXES. 
 
 County levy $ 
 
 State 
 
 County- school 
 
 Bond 
 
 Bridge 
 
 Poor 
 
 18,444.87 
 
 11,527.69 
 
 4,611.05 
 
 4,611.05 
 
 9,222.10 
 
 6,916.57 
 
Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 13 
 
 Road 7,823.36 
 
 School house 4,475.80 
 
 Teachers’ fund 37,683 44 
 
 Contingent 12,439.79 
 
 Corporation 3,520.90 
 
 Library 298.82 
 
 Drainage ' 674.16 
 
 Side walk 228.44 
 
 Poll , 1,923.50 
 
 Dog 881.00 
 
 Highway to school house 580.91 
 
 Grand total $ 125,863.45 
 
 This levy is for collection in 1887. 
 
 THE STORY COUNTY ADVOCATE OF AUGUST 26, 1857, HAS THE FOL- 
 LOWING ITEM FOR OUR ATTENTION. 
 
 “ AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.” 
 
 “ The board of directors of the county society are requested to 
 meet at the office of the President, on Tuesday next at 2 o’clock p. 
 M. Important business demands attention.” 
 
 We therefore are informed we had an organization of this kind 
 as early as August, 1857. I think the organization was first made 
 1856, or early in 1857, but never secured fair grounds until May 
 7, 1869. 
 
 NEVADA DIRECTORY FOR 1857. 
 
 COUNTY OFFICERS FOR 1857. 
 
 E. C. Evans, County Judge. 
 
 (Geo.. A. Kellogg elected Judge August 3, ’57.) 
 
 Wm. Lockridge, Treasurer and Recorder, elected August 3, 1857. 
 Wm. Thompson, Clerk. 
 
 Geo. Child, Sheriff. 
 
 R. H. Mitchell, County Surveyor. 
 
 J. W. Cessna, Coroner. 
 
 J. J. Bell, School Fund Commissioner. 
 
 T. E. Alderman and I. T. Evans tied, each receiving 203 votes for 
 Drainage Commissioner, at April election of 1856. 
 
 Jas. S. Frazier, Prosecuting Attorney. 
 
 Isaac Romane, County Assessor, elected April, 1857. 
 
 ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW AND LAND AGENTS. 
 
 Geo. A. Kellogg, Attorney and Land Agent. 
 
 
 
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 Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 J. L. Dana, Attorney and Land Agent. 
 
 Jas. S. Frazier, Attorney and Land Agent. 
 
 John Scott, Attorney and Land Agent. 
 
 C. D. Berry, Grenerai Land Agent. 
 
 SURYEYOES. 
 
 R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor. 
 
 W. G. Allen, Surveyor. 
 
 D. J. Norris, Surveyor. 
 
 DRUGGISTS. 
 
 V. y. Adamson & Bro., Druggists. 
 
 DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES. 
 
 T. J. Adamson & Geo. Child. 
 
 J. H. Talbot. 
 
 Wm. Margason (Story City.) 
 
 0. D. Russell, Dry Goods and Hardware. 
 
 Bell, Aldredge & Co., Dry Goods and Groceries. 
 
 W. W. Moore, Dry Goods, &c., &c. 
 
 Frazier & Cessna, Dealers in Furniture. 
 
 CHURCHES AND CIVICS. ■ 
 
 M. E. Church meetings — services by J. F. Hestwood, Pastor. 
 Presbyterian, new school; services by B. F. Stewart, Pastor. 
 
 CIVIC SOCIETIES. 
 
 Central Iowa Lodge No. 104, I. 0. 0. F.; meetings every week. 
 Nevada Lodge, U. D. of A. F. & A. M.; meets at Masonic Hall. 
 Nevada Star Lodge of I. 0. G. T.; meets weekly. 
 
 HARDWARE DEALERS, ETC. 
 
 Alderman & Rhodes, Hardware, Stoves, etc. 
 
 Smith & Harrison, Boots and Shoes. 
 
 Smith & Westlake, Shingles and Lath. 
 
 Geo. McDonald, Carpenter and Builder. 
 
 John Scott, Lands for Sale. 
 
 John Scott, Money to Loan. 
 
 E. C. Evans, Timber Lands for Sale. 
 
 CONCERT. 
 
 The Nevada brass and string bands will give a musical entertain- 
 ment on the evening of Tuesday, February l22d, (Washington’s 
 birthday), at the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Chants and glees 
 will be performed by amateurs. An address on the character of 
 Washington, from a member of the band may be expected. Single 
 tickets, 15 cents; double tickets, 25 cents. Family tickets at re- 
 duced rates. Doors open at 6 o’clock; music at 61- precisely. Feb- 
 ruary 9, 1859. 
 
 The following letter was written for the Story County Aegis 
 about twenty years ago. The Aegis was published at Nevada by 
 
Histoey of Story County, Io.wa. 
 
 15 
 
 John M. Brainard, who is now editor of the Boone Standard. The 
 writer hereof was well posted as to soil, locations, timber and im- 
 provements of Story County: 
 
 “ Nevada, Iowa, 1866. 
 
 “ Mr. Brainard: While it seems to he the rage among certain 
 of your correspondents to deal in giddy slang and personal hits, I 
 beg leave not to imitate, but will try and say something in regard 
 to the enterprise of our county. We have a large quantity of 
 prairie lands unimproved — good, rich and beautiful. We can in- 
 vite the agriculturist and grazier to a critical examination of the 
 soil of our county. To such at least as are practical grain, grass 
 and stock growers, we fear not to submit to a candid decision. Our 
 prairies in certain localities are wavy and undulating— at others 
 thej'^ are flat rosinweed lands — as desirable perhaps as any in Iowa 
 for tame pastures and meadows. The timber is pretty well dis- 
 tributed over the county, excepting the north part of it, and in this 
 part, thus destitute of timber, is some of the most beautiful prairie, 
 and which may yet be had (1866) at from ^2.50 to $7 per acre, de- 
 pending on location and quality. Stock water generally well sup- 
 plied. The climate is exceedingly pleasant during the summer; but 
 like other prairie countries we are subject td some very ugly storms 
 in winter; the good health during the entire year cannot, however, 
 be well surpassed any where. 
 
 The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad passes almost directly 
 through the center of the county from east to west, and is a road 
 doing an immense quantity of business. Another railroad’is pro- 
 posed to pass from Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, in a north or 
 northeasterly course through Story County, intersecting the Chicago 
 k Northwestern Railway, (the Cedar Rapids & Nebraska) at Ames 
 or some other point in the county. ^ 
 
 “ But few, if any, of our towns are improving as fast as the 
 country. Nice frame houses and new farms are dotting our prai- 
 ries; and, indeed, many parts of the county are farms and houses 
 placed so closely together as to form heavy neighborhoods. These 
 neighborhoods surround a nice, convenient and comfortable school- 
 house or church, or both. We can with pride boast of our numer- 
 ous and pretty school-houses all over, or nearly all over, the county 
 which afford an excellent advantage to pupils of each district for 
 educating the mind and the morals. We will soon have in practi- 
 cal operation in this county the Iowa State Agricultural College, a 
 building sufficiently large and commodious to compare with many 
 of the fine buildings of the United States. 
 
 “ Nevada, the county seat, is within a very short distance of the 
 geographical center of the county, on the Cedar Rapids & North- 
 western Railroad, (now the C. & N. W.), and is thirteen years old, 
 containing about 1,000 inhabitants. It is situated mostly on a dry, 
 rolling prairie on West Indian Creek, and is a remarkably healthy 
 location. It has two church buildings, (Cumberland Presbyterian 
 and New School Presbyterian) already built. The Cumberland 
 church was the first built in Nevada, and probably the first in the 
 

 16 Histoey op Stoey Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 county. It was in this church building that the first union meet- 
 ing of the county was held. It was held in May, 1861, and the 
 meeting was made up of all political parties. The writer hereof called 
 the meeting in order to test the feelings more definitely of the cit- 
 izens of our county on the ‘ state of affairs.’ The' ‘startling’ news 
 reached us of the Rebs firing on ‘ the Star of the West,’ and then 
 upon ‘ Ft. Sumpter.^ As might be expected, excitement ran high. 
 The meeting was large, harmonious and patriotic. I will now re- 
 turn to the further history pf Nevada. The M. E. society is build- 
 ing a ^1,000 or $5,000 church. In connection with this there is 
 about to be built a good flouring mill. It may cost when built 
 from $5,000 to $7,000. A bonus of $2,000 is offered to the party 
 who may comply with the offer. ‘ Nevada has as good schools, per- 
 haps, as we have any where in Central Iowa. Its citizens have a 
 regard for quiet and order within its limits. Lager beer and whisky 
 are ‘few and far between.’ 
 
 “Iowa Center is a village of considerable business. It has two 
 mills, and is in the midst of an excellent country, and is surrounded 
 by good settlements. It is situated mainly on the west fourth of 
 section 10, township 82, range 22. near the east bank of East Indian 
 Creek, seven or eight miles southeast of Nevada. Cambridge is in 
 the center of section 21, township 82, range 23, and on the south- 
 west bank of Skunk River, and is a point of considerable business. 
 It contains a mill, and is surrounded by a good section of country, 
 and good settlements. Situated on the road leading from Nevada 
 to Des Moines — about nine or ten miles southwesterly from Nevada. 
 
 “Ames is a brisk village situated near the Agricultural College 
 farm, and in the fork of Skunk River and Squaw Creek, and on the 
 Chicago & Northwestern Railway, eight miles west of Nevada by 
 rail. It has two church buildings. Congregational and Methodist, 
 and an enterprising people. It is about to have a steam saw mill 
 erected by Messrs. Scott & Stevens. The settlements around this 
 place are growing, but are much divided by the large streams dur- 
 ing high waters. 
 
 “ New Philadelphia ls one and one-half miles west of the College 
 farm. New Philadelphia is situated in a good vicinity of land and 
 prrounded by good settlements. North of town a short distance 
 is a steam saw mill owned or controlled by a Mr. Burger, who 
 seems to be doing a good business. The Chicago & Northwestern 
 Railroad runs near the north end of town. 
 
 [^Since the above was written (twenty years ago), Ontario, on the 
 Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, immediately north of and ad- 
 joining to New Philadelphia, has been laid out in town lots, and a 
 good building for a depot has been erected. It is now (1886) a 
 place of considerable trade, and is surrounded by an excellent coun- 
 try and good settlements. Population about 200.] 
 
 ‘ Colo is a station on the above named railroad, seven miles east 
 of Nevada. It has a young and thriving settlement around it — as 
 much so, perhaps, as any other point in the countv. The prairie 
 around it is beautifully undulating. 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 17 
 
 “ Story City (original name, ‘Fairview’) and Palestine, each has 
 some nice lands around, and energetic people to improve them. 
 The county, though young, has an intelligent and enterprising 
 population. The county contains probably about 6,000 persons. 
 The geographical center of the State is believed to be within the 
 limits of Story County — near Nevada. To the emigrant we would 
 invite special attention. W. G. A.” 
 
 COMMENTS. 
 
 Since the above was written, twenty years have passed, and sur- 
 prising improvements have been made within that time. This will 
 be more fully explained hereafter or elsewhere in the history of the 
 county, for it will be brought down to the present, 1887. 
 
 THE WAR DANCE BY INDIANS, 1856. 
 
 About six months prior to the Spirit Lake massacre we had the 
 South Public Square, (now a beautiful City Park), full of Indians; 
 but they were friendly. They were Pottawattamie and Musquaka 
 Indians and were camping near the old ford of the West Indian 
 Creek, on the east side, a short distance southwest from where the 
 cemetery is now situated. There were probably one hundred and 
 fifty or two hundred of them, big and little, squaws and all. Well, 
 some of the citizens of Nevada raised a sum of money, by collec- 
 tion, for, the Indians if they would give us a “war dance.” They 
 agreed to do so; so in the afternoon of the day, (in September, I 
 think,) they assembled on the square named, equipped for the occa- 
 sion in full Indian style, painted and tattooed for the dance. With 
 some kind of a wild and unnatural sound of “turn, turn, turn,” in 
 the ring, they began their performance, squaws as well as “Injins’ ’ 
 with a hideous noise and contortions of the face and body, jump- 
 ing and squatting, wheeling round and round and chanting their 
 “war song’^as they would prance around the ring, which was, per- 
 haps one hundred feet in circumference. 
 
 They surely looked frightful, or would have looked so had they 
 meant “war.’"’ But they did not mean war. In about six months, 
 from then, other Indians did mean war, as shown by their cruelty 
 and. massacre of our people in the Spirit Lake horror, which is 
 noticed elsewhere. 
 
 Well, this war dance on the square lasted one or two hours. 
 
 ^ During this time the little “Injins” six to eight years old, with 
 bow and arrow, would shoot and knock a five cent piece, set in a 
 split stick, nearly every time, a distance of fifteen to eighteen feet. 
 The five cent pieces then were not large as some we now have. 
 When the money was hit or knocked out of the stick it was given 
 to the little Injin as his reward for sharp shooting. 
 
 After the dance was over, and some begging done by the squaws, 
 they returned to their camp, and on the following day they left us. 
 
 2 
 
18 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 But we retain three Injins in our county — West Injin, East In jin 
 and Big In jin. They are creeks only and not Creeks of the Indian 
 Tribe. 
 
 CENTENNIAL ORATION 
 
 DELIVERED JULY 4, 1876 AT FTEVADA, IOWA, BY COL. .JOntl SCOTT BE- 
 IHG AFT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF STORY COHNTY, PREPARED IH 
 PURSUANCE OF THE PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT, AND IN 
 ACCORDANCE WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNOR OF 
 THE STATE. 
 
 On the thirteenth day of May, 1^73, Marquette and Joliet, two 
 French missionaries, set out from? their mission, St. Ignatius, in the 
 Huron Wilderness, on the daring enterprise of exploring the coun- 
 try west of the Creat Lakes. They came by way of Grreen Bay, as- 
 cended the Fox river of Wisconsin, were shown by the Indians the 
 portage between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and descending the 
 latter they reached the Mississippi, and were the first white men to 
 look upon what is now the State of Iowa. A.bout ten years there- 
 after, La Salle, also a Frenchman, descended the Mississippi, and 
 took possession of the country in the name of the King of France. 
 He named the country Louisiana, in honor of Louis XIV, his King. 
 This included the whole valley of the Mississippi, from the Alle- 
 ghany to the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 On the third day of November, 1762, a secret treaty was signed 
 between France and Spain, by which the latter acquired that part 
 of Louisiana which lies west of the Mississippi, and that part on 
 the east of the great river came into the possession of the English, 
 This river continued to be the western boundary of the English 
 possessions in America until by the treaty of peace which acknowl- 
 edged our Independence in 1783, it became a boundary of the 
 United States. Thus, we see, that in 1776, one hundred years ago, 
 the land we possess was a part of the Spanish Dominion. 
 
 On the twenty -first day of March, 1801, the treaty of Madrid was 
 signed, which transferred Louisiana to France ; and on the thirtieth 
 day of April, 1803, it was deeded to the United States for the sum 
 of fifteen millions of dollars, thus extending our territory to the 
 Grulf and to the Pacific Ocean. 
 
 During this period of one hundred and thirty years, and for 
 thirty years thereafter, this beautiful land was the home or hunt- 
 ing grounds of roving Indians, and the scene of many a bloody bat- 
 tle between contending tribes. The first occupancy by the whites 
 seems to have been that of Julien Dubuque, with a party of lead 
 miners, who settled for mining purposes in, 1788 on the site of the 
 city that bears his name, where he continued until his death in 1810. 
 There were also locations taken early in this century at Montrose, 
 and opposite to Prairie du Chien, and Indian traders fixed them- 
 selves at various points. Fort Madison was occupied by some 
 troops about this time. 
 
Histoey of Story Couftty, Iowa. 19 
 
 But on the first of June, 1833, about fifty miles in width, west 
 of the Mississippi was thrown open for settlement, being then 
 known as the Black Hawk purchase, and was soon largely occu- 
 pied. A further cession was made in September, 1836, which ex- 
 tinguished the Indian title as far as the western end of Johnson, 
 Washington and Jefferson counties, and an agency was established 
 near where Agency City now stands. At this time the Indian 
 chiefs Keokuk, Wapello and Appanoose had their villages near the 
 site of Ottumwa. In 1837 and 1812 other cessions were made, and 
 on May 1, 1843, the west line of settlement was established near 
 Red Rock, and a Fort was built at the mouth of the Raccoon Fork 
 of thp Des Moines. In the autumn of 1845 and the spring of 
 1846, the Indians removed to their reservation in Kansas, and the 
 land we now hold was open to occupancy. 
 
 It appears that the Starry Banner was just raised over the 
 territory of which this was a part on the twentieth day of December, 
 1803, at the city of New Orleans. October 1, 1804, a division was 
 made by which all of Louisiana north of the thirty-third parallel was 
 placed under the authority of the officers of the Indiana Territory, 
 but bearing the name of the District of Louisiana. On the fourth of 
 J uly, 1805, seventy-one years ago this day, it was organized into a 
 territory, under the same name, with a territorial government, 
 which it retained till 1812. June 4, 1812, it was reorganized and 
 this portion was called the territory of Missouri. From June, 1834, 
 to July 4, 1836, it was a part of the territory of Michigan, and at the 
 latter date it became a part of the territory of Wisconsin, which 
 continued two years; and on the fourth day of July, 1838, it was con- 
 stituted the Territory of Iowa — only thirty-eight years ago to- 
 day. As a State, Iowa was formerly recognized, under her present 
 boundaries, on the twenty-eighth day of December, 1846, as the 
 twenty-ninth in National Union. 
 
 POLITICAL HISTORY. 
 
 The County of Story was probably described by name and 
 boundary in an act of the Second General Assembly, which met at 
 Iowa City in 1848-9, and we find it assigned to various Districts 
 from and after that time. Among the items of interest in her po- 
 litical history it may be stated that with scarcely a settler within 
 her borders in 1850, associated with eight other counties, she was 
 represented in the Senate by P. M. Cassady, of Polk county, and in 
 the House by L. W. Babbitt, of Marion, and E. R. Guiberson, of 
 Madison. 
 
 Her representatives' in the succeeding General Assemblies were 
 as follows : 
 
 In the 4th, A. Y. Hull of Polk, in the Senate; and by Dr. 
 Rice of Boone, and J. C. Goodson of Guthrie, in the House. 
 
 In the 5th, by J. C. Gordan of Polk, in the Senate; by S. B. 
 McCall of Boone, in the House. 
 
 In the 6th, by Aaron Brown of Payette, in the Senate; by W. 
 C. Wilson of Hamilton, in the House. 
 

 
 20 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 In the 7th, by Aaron Brown in the Senate; by John L. Dana 
 of Story, in the House. 
 
 In the 8th, by John Scott of Story, in the Senate; by S. E. 
 
 Rosencrans of Hamilton, in the House. 
 
 In the 9th, by E. B. Potter of Story, in the Senate; by T. C. 
 
 McCall of Story, in the House. 
 
 In the 10th and 11th, by H. C. Henderson of Marshall, in the 
 Senate; by Greo. M. Maxwell, in the House. 
 
 In the 12th, by I. J. Mitchell in the Senate; by James Hawthorn 
 in the House. 
 
 At this time John Scott of Story, was President of the Senate. 
 
 In the 13th, by I. J. Mitchell in the senate; by W. K. Wood 
 in the House. 
 
 In the 14th, by G. M. Maxwell in the Senate; by W. K. Wood ; 
 
 in the House. i 
 
 In the 15th, by G. M. Maxwell in the Senate; by L. Q. Hoggatt | 
 
 in the House. • 
 
 In the 16th, by W. H. Gallup in the Senate; by Milton Evans 'R-S 
 
 in the House. 
 
 Her successive Representatives in the Congress have been Lin- 
 colu Clarke, o£ Dubuque, in 1851-3; John P. Cook, of Davenport, 
 in 1853-5; James Thorington, of Davenport, in 1855-7; Timothy 
 Davis of Elkader, in 1857-9; William Vandever of Dubuque, in ' 
 
 1858-63; A. W. Hubbard of Sioux City, in 1863-9; C. Pomeroy of 
 Fort Dodge, in 1869-71; J. Orr of Boone, in 1871-5; Addison Oli- f 
 
 ver of Onawa, in 1875-6. 
 
 Story county completed her organization by electing her county • 1 
 
 officers, April 4, 1853, under an act of the General Assembly, • | 
 
 approved January 12, 1853. At the first election there were two | 
 
 precincts, Indian and Story. The first comprising the settlement on 
 Indian Creek and the other those of Skunk river. Whole number 
 of votes cast at the first election was sixty-four, twenty-seven _ in ' 
 
 Indian, and thirty-seven in Story. One pecularity of this election 
 is that each of the precincts voted all their ballots the same way, 
 consequently all the candidates receiving the votes of the Story 
 precinct were elected by about ten majority. The following is a 
 list of candidates and votes for same : * 
 
 For county Judge, 
 
 E. C. Evans, 
 
 Adolphus Prouty, 
 
 For Recorder, 
 
 John Zenor, 
 
 For Clerk, 
 
 E. H. Billings, 
 
 Franklin Thompson, 
 
 Sheriff, 
 
 I. N. Alderman, 
 
 Eli Deal, 
 
 87 
 
 26 
 
 64 
 
 24 
 
 36 
 
 27 
 
 37 
 
 Surveyor, 
 
 Franklin Thompson, 19 
 
 Otho French, 31 
 
 Coroner, 
 
 Shadrick Worrell, 35 
 
 School fund Commissioner, 
 
 David Ned, 23 
 
 John Keiglej^ 32 
 
 The above votes were canvassed 
 by Samuel B. McCall, county 
 Judge of Boone county ; Adolphus 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 21 
 
 Prouty and Janies Corben, assist- 
 ing justices of the peace of their 
 respective townships. The next 
 election was held in August of 
 the same year — precincts the 
 same — at which, election the fol- 
 lowing persons received the votes: 
 
 Sheriff, 
 
 John J. Zenor, 32 
 
 David Wilkinson, 24 
 
 S. M. Cory, 5 
 
 Surveyor, 
 
 Otho French, 41 
 
 F. Thompson, 14 
 
 Coroner, 
 
 R. H. Robinson, 29 
 
 Drainage Commissioner, 
 Adolphus Prouty,, 31 
 
 School fund Commissioner, 
 Stephen P. O’Brien, 46 
 
 April, 1854 is the date of the 
 next election. The number of 
 precincts having been increased 
 to five, Franklin, Washington, In- 
 dian Creek, Nevada and Lafay- 
 ette. Only one county office was. 
 filled at this election. 
 
 School fund Commissioner, 
 
 T. E. Alderman, 59 
 
 Stephen O’Brien, 43 
 
 Wm. Alderman, 
 
 The next election was held Aug. 
 7, 1854, at which there were one 
 hundred and nine votes cast as 
 
 follows : 
 
 County Judge, 
 
 Adolphus Prouty, 36 
 
 E. C. Evans, 66 
 
 Clerk, 
 
 Austin Prouty, 58 
 
 Nathaniel Jennings, 51' 
 
 Prosecuting Attorney, 
 
 Eli H. French, 62 
 
 Wm. L. Burge, 1 
 
 Surveyor. 
 
 E. H. French, 29 
 
 At the election in August, 1855 
 there were 235 votes cast. 
 
 County Judge, 
 
 E. C. Evans, 198 
 
 J. P. Robinson, 12 
 
 J. H. McLain, 40 
 
 Recorder and Treasurer, 
 
 J, C. Moss, 128 
 
 Adolphus Prouty, 77 
 
 Isaac Romain, 30 
 
 Sheriff, 
 
 Geo. W. Child, 72 
 
 J, J. Zenor, 78 
 
 S. H. Dye, 52 
 
 R. H. Robinson, 16 
 
 Surveyor, 
 
 D. J. Norris, 150 
 
 E. H. French, 85 
 
 Coroner, 
 
 R. Hackley, 69 
 
 J. C. Lovell, 2 
 
 J. N. Robinson, 3 
 
 B. Broughard, 15’ 
 
 C. Wood, 2 
 
 Wm. Wood, 3 
 
 Isaac Hague, 7 
 
 J. Griffith, 12 
 
 April 7, 1856. 
 
 Clerk, 
 
 E. G. Day, 357 
 
 Wm. Bennett, 6 
 
 School Fund Commissioners, 
 
 John J. Bell, 234 
 
 S. S. Webb, 160 
 
 For prohibitory stock law, 119 
 Against, 82 
 
 At this election. Union town- 
 ship held her first election. 
 
 Aug. 4, 1856. 
 
 Clerk, 
 
 Wm. Thompson, 206 
 
 E. G. Day, 148 
 
 E. B. Fenn, 78 
 
 Prosecu tin g Attorney, 
 
 J. S. Frazier, 220 
 
 J. L. Dana, 86 
 
 E. H. French, 109 
 
 For convention, 128 
 
 Against, 56 
 
 At the next election April 6, 
 
22 
 
 Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 1867, Collins township was or- 
 ganized, vote as follows : 
 
 County Assessor, 
 
 W. G-. Allen, 152 
 
 Isaac Roraain, 193 
 
 Drainage Commissioner, 
 
 I. T Evans, 203 
 
 T. E. Alderman, 203 
 
 Coroner, 
 
 W. G. Buswell, 197 
 
 J. W. Cessna, 215 
 
 Aug. 3, 1857, the next elec- 
 tion was held as follows : 
 
 G. A. Kellogg, 
 
 E. B. Fenn, 241 
 
 Recorder and Treasurer, 
 
 Wm. Lockridge, 371 
 
 Ed Schoonover^ 278 
 
 Sheriff, 
 
 . Geo. Child, 356 
 
 W. B. Sweeney, 297 
 
 Surveyor, 
 
 R. H Mitchell, 310 
 
 D. J. Norris, 269 
 
 For stock law, 431 
 
 Against, 115 
 
 At the election in April, 1858, 
 New Albany township, appears 
 on record. The office of Superin- 
 
 tendent of commonschools, being 
 
 provided for, the following 
 
 vote 
 
 was had : 
 
 
 Geo. M. Maxwell, 
 
 331 
 
 A. G. Shaw, 
 
 289 
 
 Oct. 12, 1858. 
 
 
 Clerk, 
 
 
 S. S. Webb, 
 
 339 
 
 D. P. Ballard, 
 
 319 
 
 Heretofore the election of county 
 officers had turned largely upon 
 local and personal considerations, 
 but they had been gradually tend- 
 ing toward the party issued, and 
 by October, 1859 they had be- 
 come sharply defined. Hitherto 
 the Democrats had carried the day, 
 but this year, for the first time, the 
 Republicans were successful, after 
 a close contest. 
 
 This election resulted as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 County Judge, 
 
 Geo. A. Kellogg, 364 
 
 E. C. Evans, ' 376 
 
 Treasurer and Recorder, 
 
 Sam S. Statler, 369 
 
 T. J. Ross, 37J 
 
 Sheriff, 
 
 H. B. Young, 367 
 
 Geo. Child, 384 
 
 County Superintendent, 
 
 W. A. Wier, 396 
 
 Ira H. Rees, 375 
 
 Coroner, 
 
 W. E. McKnight, 368 
 
 F. W. Rhoads, 375 
 
 Drainage Commissioner, 
 
 T. E. Alderman, 255 
 
 0. Sheldahl, 389 
 
 Surveyor, 
 
 D. J. Norris, 313 
 
 R. H. Mitchell, 369 
 
 Stock law, 401 
 
 Against, 155 
 
 For the following items, given in the order in which they were 
 published, I am indebted to the files of the 
 
 STOEY COUNTY ADVOCATE. 
 
 The first number of this paper, printed and published every 
 Thursday by R. R. Theall, which I am able to obtain, is of date 
 January 29, 1857, and is No. 4 of that paper. In the first column 
 I find that the Nevada Lyceum meets every Monday evening at the 
 Court House, E. C. Evans, President; J. W. Davidson, Secretary. 
 
Histoet of Stoey Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 23 
 
 Also that Nevada Star Lodge of L 0. of Grood Templars meets every 
 Tuesday evening in Nevada Hall, W. E. Aldredge, W. C. T., and J. 
 W. Davidson, W. S. Also that Deo. A. Kellogg, J. L. Dana, John 
 Scott, J. S. Frazier, R. H. Mitchell, Wm. Lockridge, Chas. D. 
 Berry and W. Gr. Allen, beside other avocations, offered their ser- 
 vices as Land Agents. Also that Drs. A. Wiley, T. V. Adamson 
 and J. W. Davidson, having permanently located in Nevada, re- 
 spectfully tender their professional services as Physicians and Sur- 
 geons. 
 
 In the same number is noted that E. Gr. Day is appointed a Jus- 
 tice of the Peace, ■ 2 ;ice, W. E. Aldredge, resigned, that Melvin Swift 
 “has got his goods out of the meshes of the law, and is going to 
 sell them off cheap;” that Webster County has been divided, and a 
 new county called Hamilton has been erected; that the second Quar- 
 terly Meeting on the Nevada Mission will commence on Saturday, 
 Jaunary 31st, and that Rev. J. E. Hestwood “requests the friends of 
 the place to show themselves true-hearted to the cause of religion 
 by assisting to feed and entertain the brethern from a distance. 
 
 By an article descriptive of Story county we learn, among many 
 other things, that there are six townships in the county, to- wit; 
 Nevada, Indian Creek, Washington, Union, Lafayette, and Franklin; 
 that Nevada is thirty miles from Des Moines, and one hundred and 
 fifteen miles from Iowa City, the nearest railway station; that a 
 good Court House has been erected; that no less than fifteen grist 
 and saw mills have been built in various parts of the county; that 
 Nevada boasts of many neat and substantial buildings “mostly 
 erected after the steam saw mill was erected, in the fall of 1858; 
 that arrangements are being made for putting up from seventy-five 
 to a hundred buildings the next summer; that Iowa Center, Cam- 
 bridge and New Philadelphia are thriving places; that Prairie City, 
 Fairview, Albany, New Bloomington and Defiance have been more 
 recently laid out and are mostly in the future; (which we now see 
 was a mistake, for even at that early day several of them were al- 
 ready in the past;) and that many expect the Central Iowa Air 
 Line Railroad will be built to this place in four or five years. 
 
 From the advertising columns it. is seen that M. Swift, E. 
 Schoonover, Moore & Bell, Aldredge & Prouty, Adamson & David- 
 son, J. H. Talbott, Alderman & Rhodes, and T, E. Alderman are 
 each doing a thriving business in various lines of trade. The latter 
 announces in large capitals that there is “Grreat Excitement at the 
 Cheap Cash Store,” and that “all the earth', and the rest of man- 
 kind are invited to come to the far-famed emporium of fashion,” 
 &c., &c., at the N. E. corner of Court House Square. 
 
 The next number was issued March 4th, after a wintry sleep of 
 five weeks, on thin wrapping paper, of a brown color, and apolo- 
 gized for its non-appearance “on account of the failure of paper ar- 
 rangements.” This wrinkled faded, and mouse-eaten half-sheet in- 
 forms us that the first house in Nevada was raised on the eighth of 
 September, 1853, by T. E. Alderman, on lot 5, in block 17, and that 
 
24 
 
 Histoey op Stoet Couktt, Iowa. 
 
 Mr. A. moved into it on October 11th, of the same year. The next 
 comer was John H. McLain, who moved in August 7, 1854, and that 
 Geo. Childs, T. J. Adamson, Isaac Romane, J. C. Harris and A. P. 
 Fitch came in during the fall and winter following. It is here stated 
 that the first District Court held at the county town was August 
 14, 1854, his honor, C. J. McFarland, presiding, and that it met in 
 a log house that stood on the N. E. corner of North Square, which 
 house had been removed. There being no house for the juries they 
 went out on the prairie, probably where the Presbyterian church 
 now stands, and sat on the grass, as well as the jury. 
 
 In the same number is a call for a meeting on March 21st, to for- 
 ward measures for a County Pair next fall, as well as other mat- 
 ters; and also in the advertising columns a modest announcement 
 from E. Armstrong that he is desirous of making a small fortune 
 while his neighbors are making large ones, and that he will sell 
 goods for cash cheaper than any other store in the city, of same 
 date there is also announced the opening of a New Furniture store 
 on South Square, by Frazier & Cessna. 
 
 Whether “the failure of paper arrangements” above mentioned 
 was caused by lack of funds or by impassable roads is not stated, 
 but most likely to be the latter, as all our citizens were very proud 
 of our new Adoocate, and were liberal in sustaining it. 
 
 The next number at hand is dated June 17th, being No. 20th, and 
 contains the articles of incorporation of the Waterloo and Des 
 Moines Railroad Company. The capital stock is to consist of 
 $3,000,000 which may be increased if necessary, but the indebted- 
 ness shall not exceed $2,000,000. The names of the corporators 
 are published, but the mice have taken that of the signer from 
 Nevada. 
 
 This number contains a call from Rev. B. F. Stuart for a meet- 
 ing on Wednesday evening, July 1st, to “learn the names of all that 
 will unite in building up the cause of Christ after the manner of 
 Presbyterianism, and in organizing a church, if thought best.” 
 
 A simple incident may serve to illustrate the kind of milk fur- 
 nished the babes of that period by this simple-hearted brother. 
 The writer remembers hearing one of his discourses on the evi- 
 dences of a Supreme Power, in which he endeavors to show a sup- 
 posed condition of affairs in the words following: “And now, dear 
 friends, supposing God should happen to die!” This original idea 
 he elaborated at considerable length, very much to the edification 
 of his audience. 
 
 June 24th, we are advised that Joshua Cooper had a fine cream col- 
 ored , horse stolen; and that a lodge of I. 0. 0. F. was institu- 
 ted on the previous Saturday night. Also that Robbins & Down- 
 ing succeed to the chances of E. Armstrong for that little fortune 
 he meant to make, also that certain liquors were seized as being 
 kept for sale contrary to the peace and dignity of the State. Un- 
 der date of July 1st, we learn that these liquors were claimed by a 
 Mr. See, and that after the defendant had taken a change of venue 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 25 
 
 from Jonathan Statler to W. H. Richardson, the jury, of which 
 W. G. Allen was foreman, found that the liquors were kept with 
 intent to be sold' in violation of the law. It appears further on 
 that they were destroyed; in the minds of many an unpardonable 
 waste of a good thing. About this time Sheriff’s Sales and Mort- 
 gage Sales begin to be advertised, and Mr. Alderman states by ad- 
 vertisement that he wants debtors to “either pay him the money 
 by the first of August or give him a bankable note at not over 
 sixty days, including forty per cent interest for the term of his in- 
 debtedness.” H. Russell also notifies the public that he will take 
 ambrotypes of all sizes, in any kind of weather, at his room oppo- 
 site the Court House; and C. G. Smith and S. C. Harrison ask the 
 public to call at Nevada Boot and Shoe Store, at No. 3 Union 
 Block, east of the Public Square. 
 
 Jul}’' 15th, the public was informed that the Story County delega- 
 tion to the R. R. meeting at Waterloo had returned, much pleased 
 with the prospects of the road, and John J. Bell and John Scott 
 were elected Directors, and John Scott attorney of the company. 
 The editor closes his notice by saying “it now only remains for the 
 counties and citizens along the line to do their duty, and this im- 
 portant road will be built.” Of this date also appears a call for a 
 meeting of the Story County Agricultural Society on the 25th, 
 signed by John Scott as President. At the same time 0. D. Rus- 
 sell announces New Store and New Goods, and T. A. Walker of- 
 fers $50 reward for the prosecution and conviction of any person 
 who has committed or may commit depredations on his timber ad- 
 joining the town. At this time, also, is advertised the fact that 
 Smith & Westlake “are prepared to grind any quantity of shingles, 
 on short notice, at their mill on Scott’s addition to Nevada.” 
 
 J uly 22d, it is stated that the first Presbyterian church of Nevada 
 was organized, with eleven members, and Jonathan Myers was 
 chosen and ordained Elder. Camp Meeting is announced for Au- 
 gust 14th, near Iowa Center. In another column is a notice of the 
 arrest of several parties for drunkenness and disorderly conduct 
 and fines to the amount of seventy-five dollars assessed by Esq. 
 Statler. 
 
 August 19th, notes that the wheat and oats have been gathered 
 and the yield far exceeds the fondest anticipations of the most san- 
 guine in our midst; also that fine flouring mills have been erected 
 within the past year at Iowa Center and Cambridge, the latter of 
 which will soon be in operation. The statement is also made 
 that T. E. Alderman’s block of stores is being raised and presents 
 quite an imposing appearance. 
 
 September 23d, it is stated that the School Board have purchased 
 two lots immediately east of the Court House, and the brick are be- 
 ing delivered on the ground for a house 26x40, and two stories high. 
 This building will be an ornament to our town, as well as useful 
 to the rising generation. Of same date a review of the recently 
 held District Court states that “the indictments found by the Grand 
 
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 Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 Jury were from several causes nearly all squashed.” Can any of 
 our lawyers tell in what condition that left them? 
 
 August 18, 1858 reports an almost entire failure of wheat and 
 oats. During the previous winter the weather was mild and rainy, 
 and the roads and streams impassable at times from mud and high 
 water. The summer continued wet — and in June the streams in 
 Central Iowa were higher than ever before known. 
 
 In September there was published the first news of gold in Col- 
 orado, being an extract from a letter written by H. C. Nutt, of 
 Council Bluffs, to B. F. Allen, of Des Moines, as follows: 
 
 “I open this to say that we have great gold excitement here. 
 Two men came in from Pike’s Peak with $10,000 in dust. It is 
 five hundred miles west of here. One hundred men leave from 
 here, Omaha and Pacific City. It is thought here to be a fact.” 
 
 _ The excitement thus begun carried off quite a number of the 
 citizens of Story County during the winter and the early spring of 
 the following year. 
 
 On Friday, October 8, 1858, the first mail from Eldora arrived, 
 carried in a hack. 
 
 About this time wooden rollers for grinding sorghum were put 
 up, and the editor began to receive half-gallon measures of the pro- 
 duct. He gives his opinion that nearly enough was made to sup- 
 ply the home demand. 
 
 About this time the Advocate ofiice was removed to the old Ab- 
 ner Lewis house, just north of the National Hotel, near the spot 
 where M. M. Ross now lives. The office had been in a small build- 
 ing facing north, near the present residence of Mrs. T. C. Davis. 
 The building was afterward removed to the lot north of where the 
 cheese factory now stands, and is, I believe, part of the rear of Mr. 
 Robinson’s house. Mr. Thrall used it for a dwelling in that loca- 
 tion. He paid for the apple trees on that lot in advertising nursery 
 stock for James Smith, of Des Moines. 
 
 November 17, 1858, a call was published for a meeting at the 
 Court House on Saturday the 27th, to consult in reference to the 
 location of the College and Farm, l3y the Agricultural Board. At- 
 tention had been called to this matter during the summer, and to 
 its importance, and the necessity for action if we would secure the 
 location. 
 
 On the evening of Saturday, December 9, 1858, the Nevada 
 Brass Band gave a concert at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 
 They played thirteen pieces; admission ten cents. Before this 
 mention is made of the Iowa Center Brass Band, 
 
 March 1, 1859, three teams started for the gold diggings, with J. 
 P. Robinson, Sr., J. M. Robinson, J. Heffler, Doc. Tichenor, C. D. 
 Berry, B. P. Haman, Charles Lovell, A. F. -Dinsmore and Bar 
 Scott. The next week I. B. Compton, Wilson Daly and wife, 
 Mallory Daly, wife and sister-in-law, J. D. Ferner and W. P. 
 Staw followed. 
 
 March 29, John H. McLain, wife and two sons, R. M. McLain, 
 F. A. McLain, Mrs. Laura A. Berry, Leroy Childs, Frank Hunt, 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 2T 
 
 Geo. E. Brigham, Isaac Walker, Henry Sangler and Henry 
 Tritts, with six wagons and fourteen yoke of cattle, went in the 
 same direction. These were followed on the twenty-fifth of April by 
 Webb, Geo. Childs, W. E. A1 dredge, James Bales and John W. 
 Johns. 
 
 In May Dr. L. Car and family, Wm. 0. Miller, H. Jennings, R. 
 W. Keigley, G. W. Grow, G. Smiley, P. Brown, Wm. B. Swaney, 
 Wells Swaney, P.' Bechtel and T. Baldus went also from the west 
 part of the county. 
 
 On the night of the third of June 1859 there was a killing frost, 
 that did considerable damage, especially in the low lands. During 
 this month there was considerable excitement over the diversion of 
 the Land Grant to the C., I. and N. Railroad Company. The roads 
 were full of returning Pikes Peakers. WebbL. Childs, Geo. Childs, 
 Hunt and Brigham, of this county came back “perfectly satisfied.” 
 The Robinsons, McLains and Mrs. Berry also returned, but few of 
 them ever have reached the diggings. 
 
 During this month the final location of the Agricultural College 
 was made and a picnic for the coming Fourth of July on the Col- 
 lege grounds was at once arranged for by the delighted citizens of 
 Story and Boone counties. This seems to have given an impetus 
 to the farmers, and early in August a County Agricultural Society 
 was organized and arrangements made for holding a Pair. T. C. 
 McCall was elected president, and James Frazier, Secretary. The 
 date fixed for the Fair was October 19 and 20, and the premium 
 list was published in full in the Advocate. Ho cash premiums 
 were offered. 
 
 Schools were opened in the new school house at Nevada on the 
 fourteenth of November, 1858, Dr. Fuller and Miss May Moore as 
 teachers. 
 
 During the year 1859 many changes in business fimis occurred, 
 some failed and left the country; new men started in and others 
 changed their occupations. At the close of this year Hawthorne 
 & Talbott and J. H. Sinclair had the lead as merchants in Nevada. 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 The first record in the office of the School Fund Commissioner 
 is dated January 13, A. D. 1851, and relates to the formation of 
 School District No. 1. It comprised sixteen square miles, being 
 four miles square, the center being the section - corner of sections 
 three, four, nine and ten of Indian Creek Township, not far from 
 the present residence of N. Webb, to whom the necessary notice 
 issued at that date. Although this was called “No. 1, in township 
 82, range 22,” it contained four square miles in township 83, 
 range 22. 
 
 “ District No. 1 in township 82, range 21, was six miles from east 
 to west, and four miles in width, the center of which was at the 
 point where Grant, Union, Palestine and Washington townships 
 
 
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 History of Story CouotY; Iowa. 
 
 come together, having one-fourth of the district in each township, 
 and issued notice of the same to George W. Thomas.” This is 
 dated January 18, 1854. 
 
 “ District No. 3 in township 84, range 24,” was three miles square, 
 and its center was at the half mile stake on the north line of sec- 
 tion 5, township 83, range 24. This dated January 23, 1854, and 
 notice issued to John J. Zenor. 
 
 Of same date “District No. 4 in township 84, range 24,” was 
 formed, being four and one-half miles long and four miles wide, 
 the center of which was in south half of section 26, township 84, 
 range 23. Notice was issued to Evan C. Evans. 
 
 January 25, 1854, gave premature birth to a district which hap- 
 pened to be all in one congressional township, to-wit: Township 
 83, range 22, being three miles square, and the center of which was 
 at the center of section 23. Following this record is a statement 
 in form following: “ The above district was not complied with,” 
 and across the face of the record is written “ of no effect.” 
 
 The above items are from what purports to be a “ transcript of 
 S. P. O’Brien’s book, this July 18, 1854.” There is no statement 
 as to who transcribed it, or what became of the original. 
 
 Then follows a record of the “ acts and doings of T. E. Aider- 
 man as School Fund Commissioner in and for Story County, Iowa,” 
 of which the first entry shows the formation of a district in town- 
 ship 82, range 22, south of District No. 1, dated July 3, A. D. 1854. 
 
 After this the record shows considerable business transacted be- 
 tween January 26th and April 15th, all apparently done by T. E. 
 Alderman, at which last date the record shows receipt of the books 
 from O’Brien. The first entry after this shows an allowanbe to 
 O’Brian, B. F. Thompson, Clerk, and M. Zenor, Sheriff, of $48.50, 
 (without stating the amount to each or for what purpose), and noted 
 as “ paid out of the permanent fund by T. E. Alderman.” 
 
 April 18th shows “ loaned T. E. Alderman $2.36.” About this 
 time many of the section 16 lands were sold, mostly to the settlers, 
 the prices ranging from $1.25 for wet prairie to $3 per acre for the 
 best timber. Loans were made, the record stating simply the name 
 and amount, and relying upon the contract, which was recorded in 
 full in another place, for the details. In one case the payment of 
 “a note with interest thereon” is recorded, with no amount stated 
 and no dates given except that of payment. 
 
 January 20, 1855, a district was formed in the north part of the 
 county, and notice issued to Jonah Griffith. 
 
 May 5, 1855, a district was formed, five miles square, the center 
 of which was in the center of section 7, on the south side of the 
 town plat of Nevada. Notice issued to E. C. Evans. 
 
 Then follows the record of the formation of the Shelby Baker 
 district, July 2, 1855, now known as the old Mullen district; the 
 '’Squire M. Cory district, February 9, 1855, (the date anterior but the 
 record subsequent to the other); the W. W. Utterback district had 
 been reformed October 2, 1854, in place of the one that had failed 
 to organize. 
 
The record also shows that the commissioner received of the 
 County Treasurer February 15, 1854, the sum of ^37.23 as county 
 school tax collected for the previous year; that Jeremiah Marks, 
 Secretary of his district, reported twenty-two names of persons over 
 five and under twenty-one years old; F. Thompson reported fifteen 
 names, and N. Webb forty-three. Upon this the commissioner 
 portioned respectively to these districts $5.25, $3.75 and $10.75 
 “reserving the sum of $17.47 for part of salary out of the amount 
 received.” 
 
 From an examination of the contracts it is seen that O’Brien 
 contracted sales of lands as late as April 12, 1854, and that Aider- 
 man made sales June 24, 1854, indicating that the office was trans- 
 ferred about April 15th, the date of transfer of the books above 
 noted. 
 
 From this time until the summer of 1857 the accommodations of 
 the schools were of the most humble character. The citizens of 
 the year 1856 will remember the various log school houses, situated 
 mostly in the timber, of which one was in the North part of 
 Nevada, one at the west end and one at the east end of Walnut 
 Grove, one at McCartney’s, near Utterbacks, one at New Phila- 
 delphia, and one at Cameron’s. 
 
 In the Advocate of October 20, 1857, John H. Keigley boasts of 
 the finest school house in the county. It was a frame, 20x26 feet, 
 and with a lobby of six feet, leaving a school ' room twenty feet 
 square. In the same paper of date December 9, 1857, some one 
 writes of the school house in the John P. Pool district, generally 
 known as Murphy’s school house, which was 20x30, or four feet 
 longer than the other. S. E. Briggs taught the first school in the 
 last named house. 
 
 About this time there were quite a number of very comfortable 
 frame school houses built, some of which were seated with walnut 
 desks, that being then considered a great advance. 
 
 After the completion of the first court house the Nevada district 
 rented the court room for school purposes, which it mostly occu- 
 pied until the erection of the two story brick recently demolished, 
 and the material of which now lies ready for use in a dwelling pro- 
 posed to be built on the same site. One or more terms were also 
 taught in the second story of Alderman’s block. William Marga- 
 son taught the first school in the old Nevada log school house; Dr. 
 Fuller and Miss Mary Moore the first in the old brick house, 
 while Prof. Payne has principal charge of the first school taught 
 in the school building erected in 1875, the cost of which completed 
 and furnished approximated $16,000. 
 
 In this centennial year there were one hundred and twenty-two 
 school buildings within the county, and others in course of con- 
 struction, while the number of teachers employed is one hundred 
 and thirty-three. 
 
 And this brings us naturally to a short account of the inception 
 and location in Story County of the 
 
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 History op Story Couptty, Iowa. 
 
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, 
 
 As Story County contains the State Agricultural College and 
 Model Farm, some of the incidents connected with its location may 
 be noted. The act of the Glerieral Assembly by which a model farm 
 was directed to be purchased, and on which a College was to be 
 erected, was passed in the early part of 1858. The sum of ten 
 thousand dollars was appropriated with which to carry out its pro- 
 visions, This action interested many of the then citizens of Story 
 County, and they determined to secure the location if possible. To 
 this'end appeals wer.^ made through the Advocate, meetings were 
 called, and Mr. E. Gr. Day, who was made one of the College board, 
 endpavored to excite the people to definite action. In the Advocate 
 of November 17, 1858, there appears a call for a meeting on Satur- 
 day, the 27th, but as no notice of such a meeting appears, it prob- 
 ably was not held. 
 
 On November 30th, Mr. Day published a call for specimens of 
 grains, seeds, minerals, stone for building, etc., probably to present 
 to the board as an evidence of the fitness of the county for such a 
 trust. On December 8th, there appeared another call for a public 
 meeting, headed “Rouse Up,” and making a strong appeal. Finally 
 on December 15th, there was an urgent appeal, headed “Everybody 
 turn out!” and appointing Christmas day as the time, and stating 
 that it was proposed “to donate eight hundred or one thousand dol- 
 lars,” and if the location should be secured then ten thousand dol- 
 lars would be expended in the county. 
 
 The result of that meeting is best told by its own minutes as 
 follows: 
 
 Record of the meeting held December 25, 1853: 
 
 In pursuance of notice, a large number of the citizens of Story 
 County met at the court house in Nevada, on Saturday, the 25th 
 inst., for the purpose of taking the necessary steps towards secur- 
 ing the location of the Agricultural Farm and College in said 
 county. 
 
 On motion Ueorge M. Maxwell was elected chairman, and Charles 
 D. Berry secretary. 
 
 The chairman stated the object of the meeting. On motion a 
 committee consisting of one from each township was appointed to 
 draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. The fol- 
 lowing gentlemen were appointed: 
 
 Franklin, Amon Hipsher ; Lafayette, Jonah Grriffith ; Nevada, 
 John Scott; Milford, Jacob Hoover; Indian Creek, T. J. Ross; New 
 Albany, Wm. H. Richardson; Washington, W. J. Graham; Union, 
 W. H. Grafton; Collins, J. L. Hyde; Palestine, Wm. Templeton. 
 
 . Committee, by John Scott, reported the following resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that Story County, in her cen- 
 tral location, variety of soil and agricultural resources, has strong claims upon 
 the State for the location of the Agricultural College within her limits. 
 
 Resolved, That we^vill use every effort to cause these interests to be properly 
 represented before the locating board. 
 
Histoey oe Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 31 
 
 Resolved, That the County Judge be requested to order a special election, at 
 which shall be submitted the question of appropriating twelve thousand acres 
 (or the proceeds thereof), of the swamp lands belonging to this county, to be 
 used for influencing the location aforesaid. 
 
 Mr. Queal moved to strike out so much as referred to swamp lands, 
 and insert in lieu, “ County bonds for the sum of ten thousand dol- 
 lars.” On this quite a spirited discussion took place, participated 
 in by Messrs. Scott, Queal, Grraham, Allen, Chairman and others, 
 after which the resolutions thus amended were passed. 
 
 On motion said bonds were to be drawn for ten years; rate of in- 
 terest to be paid annually. 
 
 On motion of W. Gr. Allen the chair appointed a committee of 
 five to represent the interests of the county before the board of 
 locating commissioners, to- wit: W. Gr. Allen, J. L. Dana, T. C. 
 McCall, John Scott and E. C. Evans. 
 
 On motion Messrs. Maxwell, Graham and McGuire were instruc- 
 ted to solicit funds to defray expenses of the committee. 
 
 Geo. M. Maxwell, 
 
 C. D. Beeey, Chairman. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 In accordance with the request of this convention, Judge Kellogg, 
 on the fourth day of January, 1859, issued proclamation for an elec- 
 tion to be held on the seventh of February. Public meetings were 
 in various parts of the country ; among those remembered was one 
 at McCartney’s school-house, and one at Iowa Center, The feel- 
 ing was strongly in favor of the “Donation,” and it carried by a 
 very large majority — Nevada voting the bonds by 117 for, and 3 
 "against. On Monday, January 10, 1859, the Board of Trustees 
 held their first meeting, at which, on determining the terms by lot, 
 E. G. Day drew for four years. There being some charge of fraud, 
 or unfair action, made by an anonymous letter, on the next day there 
 was another cast of lots, in which the member for Story county 
 drew for two years. Propositions for the location were received 
 from Marshall, Kossuth, Johnson, Story and Polk counties, and a 
 committee of three, to-wit : Sherwin, Pattee and Gains, were ap- 
 pointed to examine the several propositions. 
 
 The location was made by the Board on the twenty-first of June 
 following and was celebrated by an Independence Day Picnic on the 
 grounds of the farm, at which James Phelan, of Boone county, pre- 
 sided; Paul A. Queal read the Declaration; John A. Hull of Boone, 
 and John Scott of Story, delivered addresses. 
 
 Two long tables had been erected in the grove northwest of where 
 the college building now stands, at which the historian says peas, 
 potatoes, fruit, pies, beets, cheese, honey, ham, mutton, fish, turkey, 
 chicken, roast pig, and other delicacies and substantials were in 
 abundance and well cooked. 
 
 After the dinner came the regular toasts, to which responses 
 were made by Hall, Gwynne, Ballinger, Brunning, and Poster of 
 Boone, and % Queal, Frazier, Scott, Dana, and Day of Story. 
 
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 History oe Story County, Iowa. 
 
 It appears that on the first ballot for location, Marshall county- 
 had four ; Story, three; Hardin, one ; and Polk three votes. On 
 the second ballot. Story had six, and Polk four votes. Further ac- 
 tion was had to the effect that the location would not bind the 
 Board until the propositions for donations of lands, money and 
 bonds should be made .good, and the lands selected, conveyed at the 
 prices agreed upon. The executive committee was also authorized 
 to have lumber and stone purchased for the erection of a house and 
 barn, to procure plans for the same, and plans for a college building, 
 to have one hundred and sixty acres of prairie broken, and to ar- 
 range for fencing the same the following year. In short, it was 
 the understanding that there should be at least twenty thousand 
 dollars expended in the purchase and improvement of the farm. 
 At that time an act had been passed through the lower House of 
 Congress granting an endowment of lands for Agricultural Col- 
 leges, and nations had obtained that an experimental farm would 
 greatly aid the common farmer in learning the nature of soils, and 
 how to till them ; and the advantages of a college at which the 
 farmer’s son or daughter could pay his or her way by their own la- 
 bor was fully appreciated. But the ideas that such stately build- 
 ings as now adorn the farm, would soon appear; or that before the 
 centennial year should have passed one hundred graduates, one-third 
 being ladies, would have left these halls of learning; or that more 
 than twelve hundred different pupils would by the same time have 
 received instruction therein; or that mainly through the impetus 
 thus given to that part of the county an interest would be fostered 
 that would array itself against the proper developement of other 
 positions of the country, were never entertained for a moment by 
 those who so earnestly and cheerfully strove to advance its strug- 
 gling fortunes. 
 
 As an evidence of the present capacity and popularity of the 
 college it is sufficient to mention that it enrolled the names of 277 
 pupils in 1875; that its corps of professors and teachers number six- 
 teen all paid by the endowment, and furnishing free tuition; that 
 its present income from the land-endowment is but little less than 
 $40,000, and will eventually exceed that amount; and that in place 
 or the meagre $20,000, which at first it was expected would be 
 expended, there have been paid out, mostly from the State Treas- 
 ury nearly a half million of dollars. 
 
 Take it all in all, when it is remembered that Story was then 
 almost a frontier county; that her territory was contemptuously 
 styled a frog-pond; that her people were poor and the times were 
 those of great depression, and that the Board was strongly disposed 
 to be influenced by the amount of donations promised, the securing 
 of the location was a great triumph. Had the subsequent action 
 of Fongress been anticipated it would doubtless have gone to a more 
 wealthy county. 
 
 The courts and attorneys of Story County in early times were 
 as follows : Incident to the settlement of the county and apper- 
 
Histoey of Story Coukty, Iowa. 33 
 
 taining to our civilization are our courts of law. It is said that 
 the title to all the real estate of a county passes through the courts 
 on an average as often as once in thirty years. But if our first court 
 in Story was appertaining to civilization and either invested or di- 
 vested title to real estate we don’t envy the early settlers of this 
 county their civilization, but we might sympathize with some of 
 the unfortunate owners of the soil for their misfortunes inflicted 
 under the title of legal adjudication. It is said the first term of 
 court in Story County was held at the farm house of E. C. Evans, 
 (a small log cabin), on the east side of Skunk River in what is now 
 Franklin Township. The officers of this court were Judge McKay, 
 of Des Moines; Clark F. Thompson; Eli Deal, sheriff; W. W. Wil- 
 liamson, of Des Moines, prosecuting attorney. The records do not 
 show the presence of any attorneys ot^^er than the prosecutor: but 
 we learn from persons present that D. 0. Finch, of Des Moines, 
 was present. 
 
 The first Glrand Jury consisted of Joseph P. Robinson, foreman; 
 Adolphus Prouty, Elisha Alderman, Nathan Webb, Shadrick 
 Worrell, Gr. Vest, Samuel Heistand, Jacob Wheeler, John Hughes, 
 Geo. R. Zenor, Presley R. Craig, James C. Smith, Joseph Brouhard, 
 Jonah Griffith, and Judiah Ray. The first indictment, and the only 
 one found by this Grand Jury, and the only cause that appears 
 upon the docket at this term of court was against Barnabas Lowell, 
 an incident that is mentioned elsewhere. The records of this term 
 of court were kept on loose sheets of paper which have been lost, 
 and but a part of which were afterward transcribed into a journal of 
 the court, and but little is known of what was done except as is re- 
 tained in the memory of those who were present. As an example 
 of the manner in which justice was dealt out in those days in this 
 , court, we mention the fact that Joseph P. Robinson was the magis- 
 trate before whom Lowell was taken for preliminary examination 
 when first arrested for the murder, and he was committed to jail 
 by the said Robinson to await the action of the Grand Jury of the 
 county. When court convened the same J. P. Robinson was made 
 foreman of the the Grand Jury that found the indictment 
 against Lowell. 
 
 A change of venue was taken jto Polk County by Lowell, where 
 he was tried, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sent 
 to the penitentiary for life. It is said, upon good authority, that 
 the magistrate after hearing the evidence upon the part of the State 
 proceeded to and did pass the death sentence, and addressing the 
 prisoner he said: “And it is the sentence of the court that you, 
 Barnabas Lowell, be taken hence and hanged by the neck until you 
 are dead, dead, dead; and may God have mercy on your soul.” At 
 this juncture some of the bystanders suggested to the magistrate 
 that he had no power to pass sentence of death, whereupon he said: 
 “ I guess I know.” Other bystanders then suggested to the magis- 
 trate that it might be better to postpone the execution a few days 
 to give the culprit a chance to make his peace with his God and 
 
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34 Histoey of Story Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 prepare for his future happiness, which appeal touched the sym- 
 pathy^of the magistrate and he ordered the prisoner to be committed 
 to the jail of Polk County to await “further orders.” (The above 
 occurrence probably took place in 1853, or early in 1854. But the 
 writer hereof was well acquainted with Mr. J. P. Robinson, and 
 thinks the above “sentence” by the Squire was made on him for a 
 bore.) 
 
 The second term of court convened August 14, 1854, the officers 
 of the court being the same as at the first term, excepting that the 
 Hon. C. J. McFarland had been appointed Judge to fill the vacancy 
 caused by the resignation of Judge McKay. It is said on good 
 authority that the first appearance of the Judge in the county was 
 made with a jug of whisky, shot-gun and two setter dogs. It is 
 certain, at all events, that tRese were his companions at subsequent 
 terms of the same court when seen by the writer hereof. The prin- 
 cipal qualifications of Judge McFarland were that he was a good 
 judge of whisky, could spin a good yarn, enjoy a good laugh, and 
 fight his way through. This term of court was^ held in the log 
 building which belonged to J. C. Harris, and was situated on lot 11, 
 block 12, of the town of Nevada. The Grand Jury repaired to the 
 log stable of the Nevada House, then kept by J. H. McLain, to de- 
 liberate. It is said that a span of mules were standing in the stable 
 at the time and kicked Mr. Heistand, who was serving on the jury. 
 The first civil cause that appears on the calendar of the court was 
 at this term, and was entitled Jenneous Wilkinson vs. Michael 
 Hughes. There were two civil causes on the docket and one crim- 
 inal cause, that of the State of Iowa vs. Jas. P. Ktnney. The attor- 
 neys in attendance on the court were John F. House, H. 0. Finch, 
 M. M. Crocker, Jas. S. Wood, known as “Old Timber Wood,” John 
 A. Hull, Wm. L. Burge, and Cornelius Beal. This term of court, 
 as were all of Judge McFarland’s courts, was spent in drinking 
 whisky, playing cards and hunting, more of which may be related 
 hereafter. The Judge had a happy faculty of pressing men into 
 the service to get the drinks, as he termed it, which was usually as 
 follows: He would select his man, always a liberal-hearted farmer, 
 and have an attorney make a motion for his admission to practice 
 as an attorney of the court. The Judge would appoint a comrnit- 
 tee to examine the applicant. The qualifications were to furnish 
 the whisky; when that was done the committee would report fav- 
 orably, and the party would be sworn in as an attorney of the court. 
 But if he refused he would be reprimanded by the Judge for con- 
 tempt of court. In this way Wm. H. James, Samuel Davidson, Eli 
 H. French, Franklin Thompson and S. P. O’Brian, all farmers of 
 medium capacity, were admitted to practice as attorneys of the 
 court, none of whom ever attempted to practice. There being no 
 other professional attorney in the county, Eli H. French was elected 
 Prosecuting Attorney, but never tried a cause. The third term of 
 court convened at Nevada on the fifth of May, 185b; Judge, C. J. 
 McFarland; Clerk, E. G. Day; Sheriff, John J. Zenor; Deputy 
 
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 Sheriff, Greorge Childs, who did all the business of the office; Pros- 
 ecuting Attorney, Eli H. French. At this term of the court there 
 were some twenty-five causes on the docket, all of which were dis- 
 posed of in two days, and court adjourned on the 6th. At this the 
 first professional attorneys of the county were admitted to prac- 
 tice in the following order: J. S. Frazier, Greorge A. Kellogg, Jas. 
 M. Elwood, an attorney from New York, and who had located at 
 Des Moines, was also admitted to practice. This was the last term 
 of court held by Judge McFarland in Story County. But before 
 dismissing him we will relate a few court scenes which occurred 
 under the writer’s (Col. John Scott’s) observation. We heretofore 
 observed that one of the Judge’s qualifications was that he was a 
 good judge of whisky. We have seen him repeatedly, whilst pre- 
 siding in court on the trial of causes, take a flask of whisk}'' from 
 his pocket and take a drink and offer it to his friends. At one time 
 when it was exhausted he sent the Deputy Sheriff for a jug full. 
 The Judge, too, was quite a sporting character. He would fre- 
 quently leave the bench on the trial of a cause to treat his friends, 
 to jump with the bystanders, or to shoot prairie chickens. During 
 the Judge’s absence the attorneys on the trial of the cause would 
 frequently get to wrangling on a question of law, and have to stop 
 the trial until they could send for him to settle it. We will relate 
 one scene on the trial of a cause w^hich is a fair sample of the man- 
 ner in which justice was dealt out and we will pass to another part 
 of our history. On the call of the docket the cause of J. C. vs. B. 
 H. was reached for trial. The J udge called to the attorney for the 
 plaintiff and said: “Young man, you are ready for trial in this 
 case?” The response was: “Yes, your Honor.” “Then proceed,” 
 said the Judge. The attorney, who was evidently somewhat un- 
 skilled in the practice, commenced in a stammering manner, by 
 saying: “Your Honor, this case is brought for the possession of a 
 town lot. The plaintiff bought it from his grantor, and paid his 
 money for it; took a deed, which he now holds. Afterwards the 
 defendant purchased it from the same party, and also took a deed, 
 and went on and built a house on it, and is now occupying it. This 
 action is brought for possession.” The Judge turned to Mr. 
 Crocker, attorney for defendant, and said to him: “What do you 
 ^ve to say to that, Mr. Crocker?” Mr. Crocker said: “Your 
 Honor, it is true the plaintiff first purchased the lot in controversy 
 and took his deed, but he did not comply with the registry laws of 
 this State; he did not have his deed recorded, and my client pur- 
 chased it without any knowledge of his title, and paid his money 
 for it, and has built a house on it and made other improvements, 
 and is now living on it. He is a hona fide purchaser, without any 
 knowledge of plaintiff’s rights. The’ plaintiff has lost all of his 
 rights by his failure to record his deed, or give us notice of his title.” 
 Then proceeding, the Judge responded: “No you don’t, Mr. 
 Crocker; that is a little too thin. The young man is right; the 
 oldest title to realty is always good in this court. Judgment for 
 
36 Histoey op Stoey Couptty, Iowa. 
 
 plaintiff,’’ The Judge then said to the attorney for plaintiff: “ You 
 have done well, young man; you cleaned that old attorney out 
 beautifully,” and closed the case up with a good, hearty laugh. 
 
 The fourth term of court was held September 22, 1857. The 
 officers of the court were: Judge, James D. Thompson, of Eldora; 
 Clerk, Wm. Thompson; Sheriff, Greo. Childs; Prosecuting Attorney, 
 Jas. S. Frazier. At this term of court John Scott, E. B. Potter and 
 A. D. Shaw were admitted as attorneys of the court, and J. L. Dana 
 made his first appearance in the courts of Story County, he having 
 been previously admitted to practice in Marshall County, Iowa. 
 Judge Thompson was succeeded by Hon. John Porter, of Hardin 
 County, whose first term of court commenced April 18, 1859; S. S., 
 Webb, Clerk; W. P. Hepburn, District Attorney. (It would seem 
 we were placed in the Thirteenth Judicial District in 1856-57, but 
 on March 20, 1858, the State was re-districted and Story County was 
 placed in the Eleventh Judicial District, to which it now [1876 J 
 belongs.) Judge Porter served till January, 1876, when he resigned, 
 and the Hon. D. D. Chase, then District Attorney, was appointed 
 to fill the vacancy. Mr. Hepburn, Prosecuting Attorney under 
 Judge Porter’s first term, resigned in 1861 and entered the army as 
 Captain of Company “ B,” of the 2d Iowa cavalry. D. D. Chase 
 was appointed to fill the vacancy, and held the office until he was 
 appointed Judge in 1866; then Chase was appointed Judge, and 
 John H. Bradley, of Marshall county, was appointed District 
 Attorney. D. D. Chase held the office of Judge until the first of 
 January, 1875, when Isaac J. Mitchell, of Boone County, the present 
 incumbent (1876) succeeded him. John H. Bradley held the office of 
 District Attorney until January 1, 1869, at which time he was suc- 
 ceeded by M. D. O’Connell, of Webster County, who is the present 
 incumbent (1876), By an act of* the Legislature of the State, the 
 third of April, 1868, the Circuit Court system was established. The 
 first Judge under this new court was Henry Hudson, of Boone 
 County, who was elected at the general election in 1868, and served 
 from January 1, 1869, to 1873; and John H. Bradley, of Marshall 
 county, succeeded him. The present officers of the courts are (1876): 
 Isaac J. Mitchell, of Boone County, District Judge; M. D. O’Con- 
 nell, District Attorney, of Webster County; John H. Bradley, 
 Circuit Judge, of Marshall County; J. A. Fitch patrick. Clerk of 
 District and Circuit Courts. Attornej^s of the court now (1876) 
 engaged in the practice, in the order of their commencing practice: 
 J. S. Frazier, J. L. Dana, F. D. Thompson, L. Irwin, S. F. Balliet, 
 Nevada; N. A. Rainbolt, C. E. Turner, McCarthy, Stevens & Un- 
 derwood, Ames; J. R. Gage, M. C. Allen, J. R. McDonald, C. 
 H. Balliet, Dyer & Gallup, Nevada; L. S. Nelson, Colo. Our de- 
 sign is only to give a history of the organization of the court and 
 its officers at the early settlement of the county at a time when the 
 records of the court were imperfectly kept, and also to relate a few 
 of the many court scenes which characterized its proceedings, and 
 which could not appear of record, but are known only to eye-wit- 
 
Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
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 nesses, together with the present officers and attorneys of the courts, 
 and believing that we have given all that would be of interest to the 
 reader we dismiss the subject. 
 
 EARLY SETTLEMENTS. 
 
 When the Indian title to the lands in Story County was extin- 
 guished there was a large extent of country thrown open to settle- 
 ment, of which there was much choice land still east and south of 
 us, and more readily reached. It was several years before there was 
 a heavy rush for these lands, and meantime their entry and settle- 
 ment was confined to localities near bodies of timber and the larger 
 streams. This continued until 1849, when there was a large emi- 
 gration to California, and then settlers began to locate near the 
 California trails. One of these passed through Newton and Des 
 Moines. It was not until Jasper and Polk had considerable popu- 
 lation that the first settler found his way into Story county. This 
 honor has been claimed for difierent persons, but it is believed that 
 Wm. Parker (now of Collins Township) was the first settler. Mr. 
 Parker, without suspecting it himself for a year or two thereafter, 
 is said to have located within the limits of Story County as early as 
 April 14, 1849. He was very near the Jasper County line. Since 
 writing the above I have a letter from Mr. Parker which settles 
 this question. There is no other person that claims to have settled 
 in Story County as early as April 14, 1849, the date given by Mr. 
 Parker. He says: “June 23, 1876.- Dear Sir : — In the fall of 
 1848 I came to Story County and built me a little log cabin — size, 
 12 by 14 feet. April 14, 1849, I came to my cabin. It had no 
 opening for door or window. I cut out a door with my axe so I 
 could carry my goods in, and moved into the pen without roof or 
 floor. I cut a tree for boards to cover the Uabin; took my wagon 
 bed apart to make a floor in my mansion to keep the two little babes 
 off the ground, and being root hog or die my better half and I went 
 to work. Some people say it is hard times now; they don’t know 
 hard times when they see them. Let them take it rough and tumble 
 as I did, and then they may talk. 
 
 We lived in this hut till the next August, when I put me up 
 what was called a good house in those days. 
 
 I went sixty miles to mill. It took me about a week to make the 
 trip. We had a cast iron mill in the neighborhood that we used to 
 run by hand. We were often glad to get a peek of corn cracked 
 on this mill. Now I can go to mill and return in half a day. 
 
 I have now two hundred and thirty acres of land, all fenced ex- 
 cept eleven acres. Collins Township has improved in proportion. 
 
 Yours truly. 
 
 William Parker. 
 
38 
 
 History of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 THE FIRST SETTLER. 
 
 After the above was in type I met Dan. W. Ballard, of Ballard'^s 
 Grove, who informed me that his brother. Mormon Ballard, and 
 himself obtained a permit from St. Green of the Dragoon, and 
 Capt. Robert Allen, A. Q. M., at Des Moines, (for the latter of 
 whom Dan was then butchering), which gave the brothers author- 
 ity to select their claims, and they made their selections in 1847. 
 He states that they moved their families into the Grove, March 8, 
 1848. Each of them built a house of split logs 14x16 feet, with 
 floor and doors made of puncheons. Simon Ballard, their father, 
 came in the fall of 1838, and died about two years after, his being the 
 first death in the county. He was buried at the Grove. 
 
 Ben Jeffers, Reuben Baddock and Washington Thomas came and 
 made selections in 1849, and brought their families in 1850. 
 
 S. M. Cory came in the spring of 1850; first settling at Ballard’s 
 Grove. The Ballards opened the first farms, raised the first crops, 
 and furnished food and shelter to many of the early settlers who 
 made their homes in the west part of the county. 
 
 Dan also tells of going to Des Moines to the election of 1848 and 
 voting for Zachary Taylor for President. 
 
 Prom all this it would seem that the first settlement was made by 
 the Ballards; though when Parker settled in the eastern part of 
 the county he had no knowledge of their settlement. 
 
 The settlement of J asper County began in 1843, when the eastern 
 part of that county was first open for settlement, and in 1846 the 
 population was about two hundred. Quite a number of the early 
 settlers of Story had been still earlier settlers in Jasper, among 
 them T. J. Adamson and family, who settled in Jasper in 1845, and 
 removed to Story County in 1854. Settlements were begun at Bal- 
 lard'’s Grove, Walnut Grove, Iowa Center and all along the Skunk 
 River, and Squaw and Indian Creeks, and the principal groves of 
 the county, in 1851 and 1852. 
 
 George N. Kirkman was probably the first citizen who lived on 
 his own land, his entry dating April 8, 1851, it being the second 
 entry made. Thomas Lowe, who afterwards lived in the county 
 many years, made an entry in section 26, township 82, range 23, on 
 the twelfth day of November, 1850, that being the first entry. Squire 
 M. Cory made the third entry, July 9, 1851, nearly twenty-five 
 years ago, and as a Story County land owner outranks any other 
 living man, and is still a resident of Story, and on the farm he 
 then entered. The fourth entry was made by Jeremiah Cory, near 
 Iowa Center, August 20, 1851. 
 
 For some years these settlements were mainly in the two distant 
 parts of the county, the southeast and the west. There were two 
 election precincts, one of which must have voted near where Iowa 
 Center now is, and the other probably near Judge Evans’. The 
 earliest election returns show the relative strength of the two set- 
 tlements, as the vote of each precinct was cast solid for men from 
 
History or Story CouifTY, Iowa. 
 
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 their own township. It was the two Indians against the Squaw, 
 with the Skunk siding with the latter and bearing off the palm. 
 
 The names that are now remembered as among those who were 
 then active members of the Indian Creek settlements, and who still 
 live in the county, are Adolphus Prouty, (who was a prominent 
 candidate for County Judge), W. K. Wood, John Brouhard, Thos. 
 C. Davis, J. R. Wood, Judiah Ray, Nathan Webb, Milburn Elli- 
 son, Thomas Fitzgerald, Thomas Monahan, W. W. Utterback, 
 Samuel McDaniel, George Dye, John P. Pool, Ephriam Bowen, the 
 Hands, the Aldermans, the Vincents, and the sons of J. P. Robinson. 
 
 In the west part of the county we recall Joseph Brouhard, 
 Jonah Griffith, John H. Kiegley, the Arrasmiths, the Zenors, Henry 
 C. Cameron, the Jones, the Evans, P. R. Craig, James Ross, George 
 W. Sowers, the Smiths, Jeremiah Pressnall, the Elliotts, the Breeze- 
 leys, Cyrus Simmons and others. 
 
 But the first great influx of population was from 1851 to 1857, 
 during which time there came into the Clear Creek and Indian 
 Creek country the Shenkles, Daniel Swarm, the Lambs, the Dunlaps, 
 M. Gifford, R. Gamble, E. Gun, Wm. Fatish, Zach. Elliott, John 
 Jones, G. W. Livingston, I. C. Alderman, the Casebolts, C. P. Mc- 
 Cord, the Woods, J. C. Lovell, 1. Walker, the Brubakers, A. Road, 
 W. C. Carr, the Richardsons, the Sellers, Dr. Sheldon, E, B. Potter, 
 W. R. Robinson, Thos. Jackson, H Funk, the Fenns, Joshua 
 Cooper, the Murpheys, the Pools, the Apples, C. P. Page, B. J. 
 Dunning, D, R. Brown, H. C. Wickham, Geo. Hyden, Wm, Hand- 
 saker, John Conehan, J. C. Hempstead, Wm. Lockridge, J. C. Lovell, 
 the Mullens, the Applegates, J. P, Robinson, Jr., F. A. McLain, 
 John Thomas, W. M. Kelly, Alex. Dinsmore, Mike Daugherty, the 
 Harrisons, the Bales, Isaac Romane, Micah French and his sons. 
 John J. Bell, Chris. Wood, Alex. Robinson, the Maxwells, F. M, 
 Baldwin, the Halls, the Olingers, and a host without number. 
 
 In the northern and western parts of the county during the same 
 time there settled many hundreds, such as the Ballards, the Wiers, 
 the Larsons, the Nelsons, Jonas Duea, J. F. Brown, D. L. iStults, the 
 Grovers, Paul Thompson, Sam Bates, John James, W. R. Doolittle, 
 J. E. Hoover, Thomas Hughes, Solomon Young, the McLains, S, W. 
 Adams, the Diffenbackers, the Briloys, A. Hipsher, the Hunters, 
 the Millers, the Posters, Asa F. Eastwood, the Primes, the Mc- 
 Carthys, Milo McCartney, Jacob Erb, the Beedles, Morgan Keltner, 
 John Bracken, Wm. Templeton, Noah Berry, 0. Sheldall, E. Shel- 
 dall, Joseph Harkness, the Eaglebargers, Andrew Scott, the Mc- 
 Michaels, James Campbell, Geo. H. Alfred, John Rich, the Wake- 
 fields, 0. Chamberlain, W. W. Spring, the Taylors, the Gossards, 
 the Grosecloses, W, H. Grafton, M. D. Livingston, H. H. Boyes, 
 George Gilmore, John Warren, Wm. Allen, Ole Apland, J. J. Foote, 
 W. C. Shockley, W. H. Fitzpatrick, M. Evans, John Severson, 
 Kenley Dobyns, H. McKee, and scores more than can now be re- 
 cited. 
 
 About this time the village of Nevada began to settle, and the in- 
 flux was lively. The town was located for a county seat on the 
 
40 
 
 Histokt op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 wild prairie in 1853, Joseph Thrift, of Boone, Johnson Edgar, of 
 Jasper, and Thomas Mitchell, of Polk, being the commissioners. 
 The first two only made their appearance, accompanied by John M. 
 Barnard, of Polk, as surveyor. The commissioners stopped with 
 J. P. Robinson, who then lived where W. R. Finley lives now, and 
 whose house was nearer to the proposed location than any other. 
 The first public sale of lots was in September, and the first house 
 was raised on the day of sale, being a log cabin built by T. E. 
 Alderman, on the corner where E. W. Lockwood now lives. Into 
 this Mr. Anderson moved on the eleventh day of October. In this 
 house occurred the first birth, the first death and the first marriage 
 in the village. The birth, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Alderman, 
 occurred January 13th, and the death was of 'the same child on the 
 sixteenth of December following, and the marriage was that of 
 James Smith to the mother of Mr. Alderman. 
 
 The first physician was V. Y. Adamson, who came in 1854. Mr. 
 Alderman was the first merchant, who states that W. K. Wood 
 brought the first pork, and James Broughard the first butter that 
 were bought in Nevada. The butter was exchanged for tobacco. 
 In the extracts from the Advocate may be noted some facts as to 
 the early settlers, to which the reader is referred. 
 
 Dr. N. A. Kellogg came to Nevada June 17, 1855. He died May 
 6, 1856, and was the first adult that was buried in the Nevada cem- 
 etery. In June, 1855, there was not a single lot with a fence about 
 it, every house standing on the open prairie. There was a fence 
 about the block where Wm. Lockridge now lives, and some garden 
 vegetables were raised there during the summer of 1855, that being 
 the only land planted within the town limits. There were three 
 stores here then; one on the property now owned by Otis Briggs, 
 on the west side of the south square, run by a man named Harris; 
 one owned by T. E. Alderman, on the lot where E. W. Lockwood 
 now lives, and the other that of T. J. Adamson, at the northeast 
 corner of the south square, where Mr. Bell now lives. 
 
 Mattie A. Kellogg, daughter of Dr. N. A. Kellogg, is the oldest 
 native of Nevada now known to be living. Mrs. Kellogg remem- 
 bers that at that time on the low places between her house and the 
 cemetery the grass was higher than her head, and she has seen 
 wolves in the path. 
 
 At that time, and for several years thereafter, the leading hotel 
 was that of J. M. McLain, consisting of the log portion of the old 
 buildings just south of Quincy A. Boj^nton’s place — the last named 
 place being the site of a quite deep pond, the waters of which were 
 often lashed into waves by the unobstructed wind. 
 
 There was another hotel built of logs, which stood west of and 
 facing the south square, popularly known as the Terrific. It was 
 not considered a first-class house, though it is not improbable that 
 many of the “ big bugs” of the day stopped there. 
 
 July 4, 1855, was celebrated by a procession, orations, etc., at 
 the grove which stood near the old ford, southwest of the cemetery. 
 
41 
 
 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 T. J. Adamson was president of the day, Isaac Romane was marshal, 
 fully decked in old militia uniform and feathers, and carrying a 
 sword that is remembered mainly for its length; the reader of the 
 Declaration was Randolph Groodin, then quite a young man; the 
 orator was a man named Carpenter, from Newton, who made a 
 failure in speaking, and was supplemented in that line by a Baptist 
 minister from another county, who happened to be present. 
 
 There was a picnic dinner near where the court house was after- 
 wards built, with plenty of corn bread and a great many other good 
 things — and with a cask of home-brewed beer, brought on an ox 
 wagon by Jerry Marks from his place near Skunk River. 
 
 The celebration was attended by nearly all the residents of the 
 county, and by some from counties adjacent, many of whom came 
 with ox-teams and started the day before, so as to be on hand in 
 time. It was a notable and highly satisfactory occasion. 
 
 This account would be incomplete without mention of the music, 
 which was furnished by a Mr, Cory, from Cory’s Grove, who beat 
 upon a drum, and was accompanied by a fife, making a good deal 
 more noise than tun^, according to the recollection of my informant. 
 
 It seems somewhat strange to us now to consider that when Thos. 
 Fitzgerald settled where he now lives his nearest neighbors would 
 be Elisha Alderman and J. P. Robinson, Sr., and that he had no 
 neighbors to the north and west on this side of Skunk River and 
 below E. C. Evans’. He tells of going to mill to Red Rock, in 
 Marion County, in company Avith W. K. Wood, and only being able 
 to get fifty cents worth of flour, that being the total stock on hand. 
 To make bad matters worse one of his horses died on the way home. 
 He tells of seeing Cale Walters attacked by a timber wolf at the 
 upper ford, west of Nevada, and only being saved from serious 
 damage by the presence of his dog. Also of going to James Smith’s 
 mill on Long Dick, which he describes as grinding “ about as fast 
 as a coffee mill, but not as fine.” His recollection is that his wife 
 had no great trouble in choosing between LeGrand flour, Peter 
 Baker’s best, and the Minnesota brands in those ever-memorable 
 days. 
 
 J. H. Talbott was one of the earl}^ merchants. He arrived in 
 June, 1856, picked up such building material as he could find and 
 put up the building now occupied by 0. Hambleton, but which was 
 then on the Welton corner, facing the south square. After placing 
 the goods he had bought in the building, and nailing up the open- 
 ings for doors and windows with rough boards, he started for more 
 goods, with ox-teams to Muscatine. After starting the loaded teams 
 back he went to Illinois for a time, and when he returned he found 
 that a Mr. Hackley, with whom he had stopped when here, had 
 made a dancing hall of his second floor (of loose boards), had opened 
 his goods and made general distribution of them, some for cash, 
 others on credit, but had kept no books, and could not tell who had 
 the goods, or how much or who had paid, and had no knowledge of 
 the value of the goods sold. He said, however, that they were all 
 
42 Histoey oe Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 sold to good men. From this start Mr. Talbott soon opened a good 
 trade, part of which came from adjoining counties. 
 
 Among the settlers not named elsewhere who settled in Nevada 
 and its neighborhood from 1854 to 1856, may be named R. H. 
 Mitchell, Sam S. Statler, J. C. Hempstead, E. G. Day, John Scott, 
 W. K. Smith, J. L. Dana, J. D. Ferner, S. E. Harrison, W. G. Allen, 
 Wm. Lockridge, David Child, James Green, H. F. Murphey, E. S. 
 Hoag, C. P. Robinson, J. G. Tanner, James Hawthorn, Ellis Arm- 
 strong, G. A. Kellogg, John Hail, D. L. Stephens, J. W. Cessna, 
 Henry Bailey, Smith Goodin, and many others. 
 
 The first celebration of 
 
 INDEPENDENCE DAY 
 
 in Story County was in 1854, at Iowa Center. John G. Woods was 
 president; Rev. W. B. Hand was the orator, and Peter Gordy read 
 the Declaration. Cannon were extemporized from the blacksmith’s 
 anvils, and “ Uncle Tommy ” furnished the stars and stripes, the 
 same consisting of a piece of white cloth on which he exhausted 
 himself in painting an eagle in lamp-black. His own testimony is 
 that the portrait would stand much better for that of a crow, but 
 the crows would probably deny the resemblance in everything but 
 color. Two travelers rode up while Mr. Hand was speaking, and on 
 loud calls for another speech from somebody, one of the visitors ad- 
 dressed the crowd, much to their edification. The exercises closed 
 with a botlntiful dinner. 
 
 EELIGION AND MOEALITY. 
 
 Story County has long been noted for the religious and moral 
 character of its population. It has had less drunkenness, fewer 
 broils, and less litigation than almost any county with an equal 
 population. Whisky has never been sold at a bar except in viola- 
 tion of law, and followed by punishment. Beer and wine have 
 sometimes been retailed as a beverage, but there is also a strong sen- 
 timent against even that, and at some period of the county’s history 
 these have been prohibited for years at a time. 
 
 I give now a short history of that Pioneer corps, the religious 
 sappers and miners, known as the 
 
 METHODIST CHUECH. 
 
 The earliest records of this church relate to a quarterly meeting 
 on the ninth day of December, 1854, for the Story Mission, held at 
 Barker’s school house, in the north part of Jasper County, on the 
 road from Iowa Center to Newton. The minutes show that Wm. 
 Simpson was presiding elder, John Anderson was preacher in 
 charge; Elisha Alderman was an exhorter; Wm. M. Allen and Geo. 
 Hestell were class leaders, and that Benjamin Culyer, H. Alderman, 
 Wm. H. Allen, Huper Parsons, and W. W. Utterback were elected 
 stewards. 
 
 The minutes of the next meeting, which was held at the school 
 house near Iowa Center, February 24, 1855, show that the Mission 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 43 
 
 belonged to the Montezuma District, and the Rev. John Parker 
 took his seat as a local preacher. 
 
 The meeting for the fourth quarter was held at the house of 
 George Holland, some two miles west of Iowa Center. At this 
 meeting J. J. Cole was licensed, and license renewed to N. Apple- 
 gate, John Parker, E. Alderman and John Anderson. The course 
 of the trustees was approved, and they were directed to go ahead 
 and build the house. (This is supposed to refer to a house near 
 Elisha Alderman’s, either for preaching or a parsonage, most likely 
 the latter.) Brother McCartney was made steward, in place of W . 
 W. Utterback, released. 
 
 In 1856 the first Quarterly Conference was held at Bro. Baker’s, 
 Rev. J. E. Hest wood being preacher in charge. The name of J. 
 Haden as presiding elder, is signed to the minutes, they showing, 
 however, that he was not present. The second meeting was ordered 
 to be at Bro. Dye’s, but was held at Bro. McCartney’s, in the same 
 neighborhood. The name of Joanna McCartney appears now as a 
 class leader. The third meeting is shown to have been held at 
 ‘'Nevada County, Iowa,” June 24th. At this meeting there were 
 some complaints against Bro. Parker, but he was acquitted. Bro. 
 Richard Jenness was released as steward, and Melburn Pettibone 
 appointed. It appears that there was a church in course of erec- 
 tion at Iowa Center, and a debt of $58.90 against it. The fourth 
 meeting was at the camp ground near Iowa Center. Wm. Tiche- 
 nor, Robert McCartney, N. Applegate, George Holland, S. W. Day, 
 John J. Cole and Joseph Tichenor were appointed a committee to 
 secure a lot to build a parsonage. George Merryhew’s license as 
 local preacher was renewed. . . ^ 
 
 The first quarterly meeting, for 1857 was held at McCartney’s 
 school house, which stood in the timber near McCartney’s house, 
 on the road to Utterbacks from where F. A. McLain now lives. 
 The second was held at Nevada, at which John Parker was expelled, 
 E. G. Day was appointed steward in the place of Y. Tomlinson, 
 resigned, J. M. Rankin was presiding elder; and J. F. Hestwood 
 was preacher in charge. At the fourth meeting Samuel Gossard 
 appears as local preacher, B. J. Dunning as an exhorter, Johna- 
 than Mathews and Cyrus Davis as class leaders. It was also re- 
 solved that Missionary aid is no longer needed on this Mission. 
 
 At the meeting of Conference in the fall of 1857 it seems that 
 Nevada was made a circuit of the upper Iowa Conference, and Jos. 
 Cadwallader was made preacher in charge. Nothing of general 
 interest during the year. 
 
 In 1858 I. N. Holmes was made presiding elder of the district, 
 and R. Swearengen was sent as preacher in charge. There were 
 classes then at Nevada, McCartney’s, Applegates, Mullins, Bloom- 
 ington, Smiths, and Cambridge. 
 
 The Methodist Society at Nevada was organized at the house of 
 J. W. Cessna who then lived where the Warring House now stands. 
 The seven names then entered on the roll were those of E. G. 
 
44 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Day and wife, Mrs, Cessna, M. Pettibone, Mrs. Warren, Mrs. W. 
 Gr. Allen and Mrs. Kellogg. This was about the last of May, 1856, 
 and was the original organization of the church at this place, hav- 
 ing continued unbroken till the present time. 
 
 In this Centennial year the Methodist Episcopal Church in Story 
 County supports four circuits and one station, paying about $3,500 
 per annum to the five ministers; there are seven local preachers; 
 twenty places of stated preaching; seven hundred and sixty mem- 
 bers, about two thousand that attend Sunday schools, and over three 
 C' ' thousand of all ages who attend the various places of worship. The 
 
 church property is valued at $15,000; the annual contributions for 
 benevolent purposes and sustaining the church institutions, exclu- 
 'I'f sive of what is paid the pastors, amount to about $2,500. 
 
 ' THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 
 
 The Presbyterian Church has quite a strong hold in the county. 
 Probably the first services held under the auspices of that sect were 
 led by Rev, Thompson Bird of Des Moines, who had settled there 
 at a very early day. The village of Iowa Center and various school 
 . houses in the county, must have been the scene of occasional labors 
 
 4 - looking toward the establishment of folds for the scattered sheep. 
 
 ^ The first formal announcement of systematic efforts, however, was 
 
 the notice of Rev. B. F. Stuart, as stated elsewhere, followed 
 by a church organization, but which was finally abandoned, and 
 slumbered for several years. 
 
 ' ■ About the year 1864 the Rev. I. Reid came to Story County in 
 
 capacity of a Presbyterian Minister, and mainly through his efforts 
 that church has been sustained. Mr. Reid’s labors have not been 
 confined to his particular charge, but he has had regular appoint- 
 ", , ments at Iowa Center and Center Drove, and has led other services 
 
 ; , as opportunity offered. It may be interesting to note that he 
 
 ' preached the first sermon ever delivered in Ames. This was an un- 
 
 finished building belonging to Deacon Kingsbury, and during the 
 services the floor broke down and huddled the congregation. But, 
 
 ; . doubtless, for lack of necessary organizing labor at Ames, at an 
 
 ■ early day, the Presbyterian element assimilated with the Congrega- 
 
 tionalists, and thus was organized the excellent church of that sect 
 ^ in that village. 
 
 ' r The earliest Presbyterian record are those of the “Presbyterian 
 
 i- church of Iowa Center.” This church was organized in April, 
 
 1855, by Rev. Thompson Bird, of Des Moines, and its first minutes 
 i :' and date of organization are in his own beautiful handwriting. In 
 
 a preliminary note he states that previous to the organization both 
 ’ ; himself and Rev. IST. C. Robinson of Vinton, had done pioneer mis- 
 
 i ^ sionary work in this county. 
 
 F' , On the day of organization but three presented their names, viz.: 
 
 ■: Mr. Joseph P. Robinson, and Mary, his wife, and Dr. Samuel Floyd. 
 
 Mr. Robinson was declared ruling elder, 
 f The first regular minister the church had was Rev. B. F. Stewart 
 
 \i[ who came on the field July 19, 1856. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 45 
 
 In addition to his Iowa Center appointment he preached regularly 
 in Nevada, and at other points; Bakers (Mullen’s) school house, 
 at the house of Mrs. Hague, Swedespoint and Boonsboro. 
 
 July 28, 1857, a Presbyterian Church was organized at Nevada, 
 by Rev. B. F. Stewart and Rev. Williston Jones of Iowa Falls, 
 consisting of thirteen members. Johnathan Myres was elected 
 ruling elder, but soon left the church irregularly. Rev. Mr Stu- 
 art’s connection, and the churches at Nevada and Iowa Center, was 
 with what was then called the new School Presbyterian General 
 Assembly. ' 
 
 In the year 1864 it was found that the former church organized 
 by Mr. Stewart had scattered, and a new church was organized by 
 Rev. C. I. Black of Newton, Iowa. The date of this organization 
 (the Presbyterian Church, Nevada,) is March 26, 1864, with eleven 
 members. D. B. Stout was elected elder, James M. Applegate, 
 deacon. They called Rev. I. Reid, then a student, in Auburn The- 
 ological Seminary, N. Y., for their minister, who reached the field 
 June 19th of the same year. 
 
 The corner stone of their present church edifice was lai& Jnly 7, 
 1866, and the building was first used for worship January 19,1867, 
 and was dedicated December 29, 1867. Sermon by Rev. E. J. Gillett, 
 D. D., of Keokuk, Iowa. This was the second church edifice in 
 Nevada. 
 
 The Cumberland branch of Presbyterian order, organized its first 
 church in the southern part of the county during the year 1857. 
 Though this body never had an organization in Nevada, for a num- 
 ber of years they had regular appointments, and built the first 
 church edifice in the county seat. The property being held by the 
 church in the vicinity of Iowa Center. This church edifice was 
 sold and removed about the time of the erection of the present 
 church buildings in Nevada. The society is still in a fiourishing 
 condition, holding services at Mullen and Washington school 
 houses. Rev. F. M. Johnson serving as minister. 
 
 A second Cumberland church, called “Pisgah,” was organized in 
 1874, by Rev. L. L. Lorimore, with thirteen members. Elders, L. 
 McKim, Jf. H. Keigley; Deacons, B. Confare, and D. Spencer; Min- 
 ister, Rev. F. M. Johnson. 
 
 The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Johnson’s Grove, was 
 organized February 16, 1865, by Rev. J. G. Beckley, with eight 
 members. The present membership is about fifty-nine. Their 
 place of worship is the school house just south of Johnson’s Grove. 
 For about eight years Bro. Beckley preached for them. 
 
 LUTHERAN CHURCH. 
 
 The Norwegians began to settle in the north part of the county 
 in 1856. They are of the Lutheran denomination, and their first 
 church was built in 1861-2. It was situated about one mile east of 
 Story City. The lumber for this building was brought from the 
 Des Moines River at a cost of $2,400. The first minister was the 
 Rev. Mr. Rasmussen, from Lisbone, Illinois. He came out about 
 
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 Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 once every six months to visit liis little flock. In 1860 the present 
 pastor, Rev. N. Amlund, was regularly settled as minister of this 
 church. In 1870 another church was organized, with Rev. E. 
 Johnson as pastor. In 1870 Rev. J. Eistson became the pastor, 
 and the same year the congregation built a church one mile west 
 of Roland at a cost of two thousand dollars. This congregation is 
 building another church this year two miles north of Story City 
 at about the same cost. 
 
 In 1873 a church was built at Roland costing $6,000, and in 1875 
 one at Story City at a like cost. These are said to be the largest 
 and best churches in the county. 
 
 There are churches of the same denominations, perhaps equally 
 as strong and wealthy, in the southwestern part of the county, 
 hut I have been furnished no information on the subject. 
 
 OTHEE DENOMINATIONS. 
 
 A man named Jessup preached in July, 1855, being mainly re- 
 membered as standing in the legs of his boots, the heels being 
 turned well up at the sides. Several of the congregation attended 
 with bare and unwashed feet, all of which may have been out of re- 
 spect to the preacher. Jessup was of the United Brethren persua- 
 sion, and was the fore-runner of Rev. Ives Marks, of Palestine 
 who belonged to the same denomination, and afterwards preached 
 at Nevada, and in other parts of the county. 
 
 On Monday, September 1, 1858, the Rev. H. W. Lee, Bishop of 
 this Diocese, preached, and administered the right of conflrmation 
 to seven persons on the camp ground west of Iowa Center. It was 
 the first time this service was ever performed in an Iowa Drove. 
 The Bishop spoke of it as a very interesting era in his ministry. 
 On Tuesday he preached in the court house, at Nevada, and con- 
 firmed one. Rev. X. A. Welton had been holding services for 
 some time previous. 
 
 About this time the United Brethren held a camp meeting in 
 Ballard’s Drove in which there was much interest, which was en- 
 hanced by a young lady passing into a trance, in which she con- 
 tinued for nine days, conscious but partaking of no food. 
 
 September 8, 1856 a notice was published in the Advocate, ad- 
 dressed to the members of the Free Will Society, or those in favor 
 of good liquors being kept by respectable men for medical, me- 
 chanical and religious purposes, and requesting such to meet at the 
 house of E. B. Dean, on the eighteenth of that month, to perfect the 
 organization for the Society, and adopt practical measures. This 
 was signed by Isaac Romane, E. B. Dean and James Ferguson as 
 committee. 
 
 December 1, 1858, the editor discusses the want of success among 
 the clergymen in arousing a religious feeling in the community, 
 notwithstanding their zealous labors, and closes with an opinion 
 that would do honor to Jack Bunsby, as follows : 
 
 “The clergy and laymen here have been worked too hard in the 
 
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 47 
 
 “church belligerent,” and not hard enough in the “church militant.” 
 Is this not so?” 
 
 This may refer to some forensic contests about that time, between 
 the various ministers, of which one was between Rev. Richard 
 Swedrengen of the M. E. Church, and an Elder Elolland, a min- 
 ister of the Campbellite Church. 
 
 In March, 1859, Rev. L. Hay returns thanks for a donation. 
 He had for some time been preaching for the Cumberland Presby- 
 terians. 
 
 Prior to this time, probably as early as 1854, Rev. I. H. Rees, 
 who lived then on or near to what is now Black’s addition to Ames, 
 preached occasionally in Nevada. He was of the Baptist church. 
 
 Among the early preachers of the county the Rev. Job Garberson 
 occupied a conspicuous position. He was a very plain farmer, who 
 lived near Bloomington, and preached at various points, giving 
 very original views of the scriptures, aud the plan of salvation ac- 
 cording to the Baptist persuasion. Many went to hear him in the 
 spirit in which they would have attended a place of amusement of 
 much less serious character. The Rev. X. A. Welton of the Epis- 
 copal church, who labored at Iowa Center and Nevada, had some 
 peculiarties that also attracted attention. His views on the sub- 
 ject of slavery were esteemed radical even in those days. He held 
 a public discussion at Iowa Center in which he took the affirmative 
 of the proposition, that Negro slavery is a Divine Institution and 
 has the sanction of the Bible. My recollection is that Rev. Joseph 
 Cadwalladar sustained the negative. 
 
 Various other preachers held forth in the early days, in different 
 parts of the county. The school house near John H. Keigley’s 
 must have been a popular place for these itinerants, as frequent 
 mention is made of appointments at that place. 
 
 Church services of an interesting and instructive character were 
 not very common in those days, and all being eager to enjoy church 
 privileges an opportunity was offered to all sorts and conditions of 
 preachers to hold forth as pleased themselves. At times the con- 
 gregation would be delighted by an able discourse, and again either 
 annoyed or disgusted by that of another character. 
 
 THE CATHOLIC CHUECH. 
 
 Several Irish Catholic families settled in the county as early as 
 1853-4-5, among whom were Thomas Fitzgerald, Thomas Monahon, 
 John Conahan, Owen O’Neil, Daniel Doyle, Daniel Mugan, John 
 Connelly, Richard Hopkins, John Guthrie and perhaps others. 
 Though scattered abroad they kept the faith. They were occasion- 
 ally visited by their priests, and in time large accession to their 
 number were had, mainly from 1863 to 1865, from which time they 
 had more frequent ministerial visits, and the customary rites of the 
 church began to be regularly observed. 
 
 Among the early pastors were Rev. Father Brigil and his assis- 
 tant, and Rev. Father Delaney. It was in Father Delaney^s time 
 that they built a neat and commodious church edifice at Nevada, in 
 

 48 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 tlie year 1870. The church is reported as prospering, and will soon 
 be quite strong if its present healthy growth continues. The pres- 
 ent pastor is the much esteemed Rev. Father McVrey, of Boone, 
 though the church will soon sustain a resident pastor. It is probable 
 that a church will also be built at Colo before long, as many Cath- 
 olics live in that part of the county. 
 
 Besides those already mentioned, there are many other churches, 
 some of which have houses of worship, and some that have not. 
 There are Christian churches at Ontario, and near Bloomington; 
 Evangelist church at Iowa Center and Colo; fine Congregational and 
 and Baptist churches at Ames; a church of United Brethren at 
 Palestine; a church of Adventists at Nevada and Iowa Center; the 
 New Light church of which Rev. W. B. Hand was the preacher 
 more than twenty years ago near Iowa Center, is said to be still in 
 existence, though without a house of worship; there are Dunkards, 
 Winebrenarians, Spritualists, Universalists, and probably other 
 sects, of which no information has been given me and of which I 
 have but little knowledge. 
 
 THE MASONIC ORDER. 
 
 The first lodge of Free Masons was organized under dispensation 
 dated January 15, 1857, a charter being granted in June follow- 
 ing, of which John Scott, Ed. Schoonover. T. B. Kelly, Jas. Haw- 
 thorne, W. H. Richardson, Chas. Schoonover, H. F. Murphy, Wm. 
 McGuire, B. J. Dunning, and T. E. Alderman were the members. 
 It was opened in the Nevada Hall, this being the second story of 
 T. J. Adamson’s old New York Store/’ then standing just east of 
 the northeast corner of the South Square. It continued to occupy 
 that hall until the present lodge room was built in 1868, the old 
 building having meantime been removed to its present site, a few 
 feet south of the Presbyterian church. The order has had a reason- 
 able share of prosperity; Nevada Lodge No. 99 still fiourishes, while 
 the lodges at Ames and Colo have since been organized, partly from 
 its membership, and all are in a healthy condition. 
 
 Columbia Lodge, No. 292, at Colo, was granted a dispensation 
 June 30, 1870, and the charter was granted by the Grand Lodge, 
 June 8, 1871. The returns for 1875 show a membership of thirty- 
 two, and the lodge is said to be in a healthy condition. 
 
 Arcadia Lodge, No. 249, at Ames, was granted a dispensation on 
 the fifteenth day of October, 1868, of which M. J. Bundy, was Master 
 W. D. Lucas was Senior Warden, and L. Q. Hoggatt was Junior 
 Warden, with sixteen others. A charter was gr>inted at the meet- 
 ing of the Grand Lodge in June, 1869. At that time the lodge 
 reputed a membership of twenty-two Master Masons. The returns 
 for the year 1875, show a membership of thirty-two. 
 
 THE ODD FELLOWS. 
 
 Central Iowa Lodge, No. 104, 1. 0. 0. F., was organized 
 June 20, 1857. The charter members were Lyman Wilkinson, B. 
 J. Dunning, S. S. Webb, J. S. Blickensderfer a)id Sam S. Statler. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa, 
 
 49 
 
 Meetings were held in Adamson’s Hall during the first year, then 
 in a small room over J. H. Talbott’s store for about a year, then in 
 a small room in the building known as “Alderman’s Block,” for 
 about a year, and then went back to the Adamson’s Hall. Up to 
 the commencement of the war of the rebellion, the order was in a 
 prosperous condition. When the call was made for men to sup- 
 press the rebellion, a great majority of the members responded to 
 the call, and during the war Central Iowa Lodge went down... 
 
 During the spring of 1867, it was resuscitated and its real life 
 again commenced. The lodge continued to meet in Adamson’s 
 Hall until the spring of 1868 when it united with the Masonic fra- 
 ternity, and the two orders built and paid for a hall over the store 
 rooms of Statler, Ferner & Stephens, on Linn street, since which 
 time the order has met in its own hall every Tuesday evening. The 
 Hall is comfortably furnished and compares favorably with lodge 
 rooms elsewhere, 
 
 March 1, 1876, the lodge was incorporated and during the same 
 month purchased lot 6, in block 2, Nevada, with sixty feet front, 
 on Linn street, where, at no distant day, the order hopes to erect a 
 building that will be both a credit to themselves and an ornament 
 to the town. 
 
 The lodge (the only one in Story County), now numbers about 
 sixty active members and is in a thriving condition. Financially 
 for so young a lodge it makes an excellent showing, there being 
 now about seven hundred dollars belonging to the widows and 
 orphans fund alone. 
 
 The present officers are: James Hawthorn, N. Gr.; Daniel Mc- 
 Kiin, V. G.; C. P. Robinson, Secretary; S. S, Statler; Per Secre- 
 tary; A. Dayton, Treasurer. 
 
 EARLY ROADS. 
 
 One of the first necessities of civilization in any country consists 
 of practicable roads. We, of the present day, are apt to lose sight 
 of many of the accidents and circumstances that go to make up 
 the life of the pioneer. I well remember in traveling to Story 
 City and to Defiance, in the early days, of following a furrow 
 made by a breaking team. There were some miles on each road, in 
 dull days, when the traveller was very liable to lose the way, and 
 the furrow was a safe guide. In the season of tallest grass one 
 might, even with fairly beaten track, lose the way by getting a few 
 rods from it, as the tall grass would effectually conceal all trace of 
 it until one should get within a few feet of it again. 
 
 To those who have seen the prairies only since they have been 
 grazed, it may seem almost incredible that in many places a man 
 on horseback would show but little above the grass, and yet it is 
 true. Mrs. Geo. Childs, on a visit to a neighbor, tells of hurrying 
 back very near the place where she now lives, when she got into 
 grass so high that she could not see where she was going. This, 
 too, in the streets of a country town. 
 
 For about ten years past there bas been quite a sum, annually, 
 4 
 
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 Histoey oe Story County, Iowa. 
 
 collected as a bridge tax, there have been heavy road taxes in 
 money and labor collected during the same time, the roads have 
 mostly been located on the section lines, the low places have been 
 graded up, the sloughs and streams have been bridged, iron bridges 
 are now in course of erection for the first time, so gradually have 
 all those things been done that we scarcely note the change from 
 time to time, and many of us have almost .forgotten that for many 
 years our county was a by-word and a reproach, as being in some 
 seasons almost impassable. To have a team mired down from ten 
 to thirty times in crossing the county, to pay a guide for piloting 
 one across the notorious Skunk bottoms, covered with water from 
 two to four feet in depth, for passengers to wade while the team 
 struggled through, to drive a team for nearly a mile in deep water, 
 in bitter weather, with men in advance breaking the ice, there are 
 plenty of witnesses here to-day that all of these were not of very 
 uncommon occurrences twenty or more years ago. 
 
 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 
 
 The first office occupied by Judge Evans for the transaction of 
 the county business, was in that noted pioneer establishment, Mr. 
 Alderman’s Store. The Judge says he kept his papers in a com- 
 mon dry goods box, which had probably the special advantage said 
 to arise from using a barrel for the same purpose, to- wit : that you 
 always know where they are. The box was probably about as ac- 
 cessible to every body else as it was to the Judge, in those free-and- 
 easy days. As there was no money in the Treasury until some lots 
 were sold. Judge Evans had to buy county books from his own 
 purse, and no doubt that was often lean enough. The result was 
 that the early record books are scarcely what our present county 
 officials would consider sufficient for the purpose, and really would 
 not comport with the style of the Court House now building. 
 
 But the Judge soon built a cabin in town for his family, after 
 which he removed the county archives to his dwelling, where, ac- 
 cording to J. C. Lovell, his regular files of papers were kept in the 
 crack between the logs and chinking. That must have been be- 
 fore the clay filling was put on; or probably the house was only 
 mud-daubed on the out-side, thus leaving many places quite con- 
 venient for the files of papers. The remembrance of those primi- 
 tive modes of transacting the public business is more amusing to 
 us than were the actual facts to the troubled and ill-paid officials. 
 Many a trip to Des Moines at his own expense, and many a hard 
 day’s work did that honest and artless Judge perform for this 
 county, over the bleak and unsettled prairie at all hours and sea- 
 sons, paving the way for this period of comparative ease and lux- 
 ury, with scarce a thought other than that it was the duty of the 
 hour, and must be done. And whatever may be said of the incapacity 
 or dishonesty of the early officials of many counties, the testimony 
 of hundreds will bear out the statement that the early county 
 officers of Story County were never paid as they should have been 
 for their well-meant endeavors to do their duty to the public, and 
 honestly sustain the trusts reposed in them. 
 
Histoey op Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 51 
 
 The next public buildings, or building used as such, was a frame 
 office about 12x14 feet, that stood on the south-east corner of S. F. 
 Balliet’s lot, north of the old Court House. This was used as a 
 county office until a Court House was built. It now stands on the 
 lot north of Mrs. Kellogg’s new residence, on the west side of the 
 same block. The use of this building was quite an upward move- 
 ment, as it was the first home for the County business, the first 
 building used exclusively for that purpose. 
 
 After this came the first Court House, built at a cost of about 
 $1,500, and when finished and accepted was found to be without 
 flues, or any means of heating it. This was remedied by putting 
 in the flues after the building was completed; and to that over- 
 sight it is most likely may be imputed its destruction by fire on the 
 night of December 31, 1863. 
 
 The County Jail was built in 1870, at a cost of about $5,000. 
 
 The Court House now in course of erection, at a cost of about 
 $40,000, will, it is to be hoped, long stand as the Centennial work of 
 Story County, and a monument of the pride and liberality of her 
 citizens. 
 
 COUNTY SCHOOL TAX. 
 
 The amount raised by taxation for schools the first year after the 
 organization of the county, as shown by the report of the School 
 Fund Committee, $177.31, this being for the year 1854. The 
 amount of School House Tax collected and paid out for the year 
 1875, was about $27,000. In addition to this the Independent Dis- 
 trict of Nevada expended the proceeds of about $14,000 in bonds. 
 The amount of Contingent Fund expended, was near $10,000; the 
 Teacher’s Fund was about $30,000; making a total expenditure 
 for common schools for the year 1865 of about $80,000. In addi- 
 tion to this the expenditures for all purposes in connection with 
 the Agricultural College must be about the same, making a grand 
 total of expenditure in the cause of education for that year, in 
 Story County, of about $160,000. Let those who are ambitious to 
 educate their children, note the advantages offered in that direction 
 by this community. 
 
 AN BAELY MILL. 
 
 Mr. J. C. Smith’s Mill had the capacity to crack corn at the 
 rate of about two bushels per hour, “when in full blast,” and was 
 operated, when the stage of water offered power, from 1854 to 1863. 
 The mill-stones were made from bowlder’s picked up on the prairie 
 and manufactured by Thomas Vest, who then lived near Ontario. 
 (So says Jonah Griffith.) 
 
 AMES. 
 
 The town was laid out in the fall of 1865, being named for Oakes; 
 Ames, one of the proprietors of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River 
 Railroad. In October of that year Noah Webster erected the first 
 house. It still stands on the corner northeast from the West 
 House, and is still occupied by the builder. He was assisted in the 
 
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 History of Story Couitty, Iowa. 
 
 carpenter work by H. N. Tupper, and the lumber was on the 
 ground before the lots were surveyed. The second house was that 
 of Dr. Carr, immediately west of the other, and was occupied as a 
 residence and office by the doctor, who was, of course, the first 
 physician in the town. 
 
 The depot was built about this time. Deacon H. F. Kingsbury 
 being the first station agent, and living in the depot _ until he 
 could erect a house for himself, which he did on the site of the 
 New York house. The Deacon was also first express agent, first 
 post-master, first merchant and first in the hearts of his fellow cit- 
 izens generally. 
 
 The Bosquent Drug store was the first building on that part of 
 the street and was built by a Mr, Osborn. The Boyd Brothers’ 
 store was built about the same time by Mr. Miller, and opened as a 
 hardware store and tin shop. These were the improvements made 
 during the fall and Avinter of 1865-6, 
 
 The first grain warehouse was built by Irwin, Rainbold & Hog- 
 gatt, who also opened the first lumber yard. J. Q. Leffingwell set 
 up the first blacksmith shop, taking Mr. Duff in as partner to roof 
 the same, and furnish other capital. The latter had settled on his 
 farm north of town in 1863, and Mrs. Duff was land and business 
 agent in several important early enterprises. It was mainly 
 through her energy and tact that the first church was built, the 
 Congregational, of which the Rev. John White was the first pastor. 
 Rev. Isaiah Reid, as stated elsewhere, preached the first sermon in 
 Ames, and it is narrated that, on one occasion, having been called to 
 officiate at a funeral in the neighborhood, a passing locomotive was 
 hailed for him, and kindly took him up near the present depot and 
 carried him to Nevada. Wm. Hart opened the first wagon shop. 
 Mr. Sherwood built the West House, and kept the first hotel there- 
 in, The first Methodist preacher was Rev. James Hankins; after 
 him came Rev. J. M. Dudley. The first Baptist Church was 
 organized in 1868, the Rev. L. P. Day as pastor, when he was suc- 
 ceeded in 1869 by Rev. H. A. Borden, and he, in 1870, by Rev. S. 
 H. Mitchell, Ames was incorporated 1869, Wm. West being the 
 first Mayor. The first Dry Groods Store, that carried a general 
 assortment, was opened by Lucas & Eddy, since which time all 
 branches of business have greatly increased. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 Josiah Chandler was the pioneer in this village, building a saw 
 mill on Skunk River in 1853, which was the nucleus of this town. 
 
 Jairus Chandler was the first resident on the town plat, building 
 his house near the saw mill. Chandler & Glrafton erected the steam 
 grist mill soon after, it being finely and expensively furnished and 
 finished. 
 
 J. C. Sladden opened a store in 1854. 
 
 TOWMSHIP ORGAMIZATIOMS. 
 
 At the first election held April 4, 1853, the people voted in two 
 election precincts, the boundaries of which do not seem to have 
 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 53 
 
 been legally defined, but were designated as Indian and Story. The 
 records are obscure and have probably been changed or amended at 
 times, but subsequent to that time and before April, 1854, the fol- 
 lowing seems to have been about the number and extent of the vari- 
 ous townships: 
 
 1st. Indian Creek consisted of township 82, ranges 21 and 22. 
 
 2d. Union, township 82, ranges 23 and 24. 
 
 3d. Washington, township 83^ and west half of range 23, and 
 all of range 24. 
 
 4th. Franklin, township 84, west half of range 23, and all of 
 range 24. 
 
 5th. LaFayette, township 85, and west half of range 23, and all 
 of range 24. 
 
 6th. Nevada, which practically comprised all of the rest of the 
 county, though the territory of the present townships of Lincoln 
 and Warren were not formally recorded as part of the township till 
 May 21, 1858. 
 
 In 1857 Collins was organized; and in 1858, Milford, Palestine, 
 Howard and New Albany, some of them with boundaries some- 
 what larger than at present, came into organized existence. In 1866 
 Lincoln received its name; and in 1867 Grrant and Sherman were 
 baptized. In 1872 Warren and Richland came in; and during the 
 same year other boundaries were adjusted, and each congressional 
 township became a civil township. In this condition they now 
 (1876) remain, and with no desire it is presumed for any further 
 change. 
 
 New Albany Township received its first settlers in 1855. These 
 were John Lee, Gleorge Waltz and Al. Dalton. In 1856 Messrs. 
 G-riffin, John McBarnes and Joshua Cooper arrived, after which 
 there was but little settlement for a number of years. About the 
 close of the war there began to be considerable accessions, and now 
 nearly all the land in the township is occupied. The first school 
 house was built in 1865. Hon. J. L. Dana furnished the following 
 notice of Colo: It was laid out and recorded as a village on the 
 twenty-second day of May, 1865, by J. L. Dana. In July, the fol- 
 lowing year, Blair’s addition to Colo was laid out. From May, 1865, 
 until the present time improvements have continued to be made, 
 and many substantial residences and business houses have been 
 erected. The first resident of the town was David Leonard, who 
 was soon followed by J. H. Voorhies, S. L. Bailey, George H. Rich- 
 ardson, J. W. Bishop, Isaac S. French and C. W. Gross. 
 
 There are two churches (1876) in this place; one erected in 1872, 
 by the Church of God, and the Methodists erected the other church 
 in 1873. Both are very neat structures, and seem to be well at- 
 tended. 
 
 The first school in Colo was taught by Miss Huldah Bailey, in a 
 school house which was built in 1866, and since removed into the 
 country. In 1870 the people of Colo built their present substantial 
 frame school house, having two large rooms, in which is taught a 
 
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 Histoet of Story County, Iowa, 
 
 good graded school. Colo was organized as an incorporated town 
 in the spring of 1876, and on the thirteenth of May of that year 
 the first election for town officers was held, at which election S. L. 
 Bailey, was elected as mayor, and Riley French, P. W. Hopkins, C. 
 W. Grross, R. M. Bailey and P. E. Granger were elected councilmen. 
 
 WARREK TOWFTSHIP, 
 
 Township 85, range 22, was first settled by Mr, John A. Boston, 
 who came from Whiteside County, Illinois, in the fall of 1868, to 
 the farm on which he still resides (1876), being the northeast quar- 
 ter of section 33. At that time, from his elevated situation, he 
 could see only two houses, that of Isaac Romane, some three miles 
 to the southeast, and C. Springer’s house, a like distance to the 
 west. At that time there was no track on the interior prairie 
 around him save that made by himself, and where now (1876) three 
 school houses and a great many dwellings may be counted, there 
 was but a sea of grass. M. V. Durstine and C. E. Graves soon fol- 
 lowed by others, and Warren is rapidly assuming the appearance of 
 a settled county. Groves and orchards are taking their places, and 
 the face of the country is rapidly changing. 
 
 LA FAYETTE TOWNSHIP, 
 
 One of the earliest settlements in the county was made on the 
 east side of Skunk River in the northern part of the county, by 
 James Smith and his sons, Robert Bracken and his sons, and Joseph 
 Brouhard. These were soon followed by Jonah Griffith, the Bal- 
 lards, the Boyes, and the Andersons, on the east side of the river, 
 while the Lamberts, the Sowers, the Burhams, the Primes also set- 
 tled on the east side, and J. P. Brown on the west side, some of 
 them near the site of Story City (Fairview originally). James 
 Smith built a mill on Long Dick Creek near the center line north 
 and south of section 18, township 85, range 23, and only a few rods 
 north of where said line crosses the creek. Smithfield (an old re- 
 corded village, but now defunct) was a very short distance north of 
 the mill. The mill, though small, was quite a convenience to the 
 early settlers. Col. Scott’s history of the mill is as follows: “It is 
 said to have been constructed in a very primitive manner, the corner 
 extending over the dam; the stones which were made of boulders, 
 being set on the shaft over the wheel. J. S. Frazier (says the Col.) 
 remembers to have visited the mill, and to have heard the old man 
 express regret at its incompleteness, notwithstanding it had cost 
 him nearly seventy-five dollars. It would probably grind two or 
 three bushels per hour.” (The writer hereof has been at said mill 
 and thinks the above description a good one.) 
 
 Story City, or rather Fairview, was founded about the year 1855, 
 Geo. Prime being one of the principal proprietors. It was surveyed 
 by Eli H. French. Jenness built the first dry goods store. In its 
 infancy it was the site of a saw-mill, the inevitable pioneer,- that 
 was run by Noah Harding, George Prime and Henry McCarthy. 
 In the olden time the place was called Fairview. 
 
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 55 
 
 LIFTOOLN TOWNSHIP. 
 
 The first settler in township 85, range 21, was John Campbell, who 
 made his home on section 12 in the year 1854. He was fol^wed in 
 1855 hy Jacob Miller, Mr. Buckdaw, Thos. Reagan, John Grilmore, 
 Levi I^orton, H. C. Wickham, and perhaps Mr. Jeffers. There was 
 no addition to the population by immigration for five years, at which 
 time W. H. Terwillager made his appearance. But as an evidence 
 that the township was having accessions in another direction, it 
 may be stated that the family of Mr. Wickham now (1876) consists 
 of himself and wife, and five sons and eight daughters, all natives of 
 Lincoln Township. The eldest is not quite seventeen years of age. 
 It is quite remarkable that there has never been a physician called 
 in Mr. Wickham’s family. The township is now being well settled, 
 and good school houses dot the prairie in all directions. 
 
 INDIAN CREEK TOWNSHIP, 1876. 
 
 T. C. Davis even yet grows enthusiastic over the early Indian 
 Creek days, and recalls with great enjoyment the recollection of the 
 fishing, ’coon hunting, deer killing, and elk chasing times. Pjame 
 wolves gave music at nights, and grouse furnished the standard dish 
 in their season. “ Uncle Tommy ” and Jerry Corey laid out Iowa 
 Center in August, 1855, and engaged in trade, displaying their 
 goods, wares and merchandise in the log cabin in which Jerry s 
 family lived, and for the time it was store, parlor, bed-room, kitchen 
 and hotel. (The compiler of this history now, 1886, ate dinner at 
 this Headquarters ” in 1854, and found it very much as above de- 
 scribed.) The salt, sugar and molasses were kept in a small out- 
 house. It was Jerry’s turn one day to draw molasses for Billy 
 Wood. He started the faucet and set the jug, and then went out 
 to entertain Billy while it filled. They struck up a hog-trade, for- 
 got all about the running sweets, and when it was looked for the 
 jug was buried in the escaped contents of the barrel, r. M. Bald- 
 win, with the Young Bros., erected a frame building and began 
 trade in 1855. M. M. & T. J. Ross opened a store in 1856; and the 
 same year there were two steam saw and flouring mills erected. In 
 1857 the Baptists, aided by the community generally, built their 
 brick church, said to be the first building in the county for church 
 purposes. (There is some doubt about its being the first church 
 building erected in the county. The Cumberland Presbyterian 
 church was built about the same time in Nevada.) 
 
 HOMICIDES AND OTHER ITEMS. 
 
 About August, 1853, Barnabas Lowell lived in a cabin on East 
 Indian Creek, north of the McDaniel saw-mill. He had quite a 
 large family, and the older children slept in a rough addition to 
 the cabin. One of the older boys was sent for the neighbors in the 
 night with the story that his mother was sick, but when they 
 arrived life was extinct. The children told some story about hear- 
 ing disturbances between their parents, and though the body was 
 buried before any investigation, it was afterwards exhumed and a 
 
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 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 post-mortem examination, was made. The result was that the cor- 
 oner’s jury charged the death upon the husband, and he was 
 arrested. The story that the Justice of the Peace before whom he 
 was examined sentenced him to be hanged was started in mischief, 
 but he was held for trial and committed to the Polk County jail. 
 Judge McKay ordered a special term of the District Court, which 
 was held in the cabin of B. C. Evans, then County Judge, which 
 was about eighty rods west from where he now lives. There was 
 great interest manifested in this trial. A grand jury, the first in 
 the county, was impaneled and held its sessions in an unfinished 
 log house, then in course of erection by Wm. D. Evans. The 
 accused was indicted, the trial was called, and a change of venue 
 was had, the case being sent to Polk County. There was a great 
 crowd at this first term of court. It lasted two days, and the 
 houses and fence-corners of the neighborhood afforded but scanty 
 entertainment for the people. Of course. Judge McKay, ex- Judge 
 Williamson, prospective Judge McFarland, D. 0. Finch, the attor- 
 ney for the defense, John A. Hull, “Old Timber,” and such nota- 
 bles stopped with Judge Evans, and slept in the court-house; others 
 passed the night as best they could. Many people from the eastern 
 settlements were there, and the track made by the numerous 
 wagons on that occasion was used for several years as the main 
 road across the county. Lowell was afterwards tried at Des Moines, 
 and sentenced to the State’s Prison, where he died. This trial cost 
 the county over $600 — no great sum in these days, but with the 
 money in the county treasury then it was regarded as being a heavy 
 blow financially. 
 
 On the seventeenth of October, 1861, the body of an unknown 
 man was found, partially buried near the mouth of the ravine north 
 of Mr. Frazier’s place, who was afterwards known to have been 
 murdered. The perpetrator was caught, tried, and sentenced to the 
 penitentiary for ten years. The murdered man’s name was Town- 
 send; the murderer’s name was McMullen, They had traveled 
 together from Pike’s Peak, and had camped near where the body 
 was found. It was a most brutal act. 
 
 On the fourteenth of June, 1870, on the railroad track, near 
 Ames, Greorge Stanley shot and killed Wm. Patterson. The mur- 
 derer was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. It was while he 
 was awaiting execution that the Gleneral Assembly, then in session, 
 repealed the act authorizing capital punishment. Both the parties 
 to this murder were citizens of another county. 
 
 On the ninth of May, 1875, Greorge N. Kirkman, an old citizen 
 living near the south line of the county, was taken from his bed, 
 under cover of darkness, and killed. This, also, is supposed not to 
 have been done by citizens of Story County, but the guilty parties 
 have not been ascertained. (The writer hereof, W. Gr. Allen, was 
 well and favorable acquainted with Mr. Kirkman. I have always 
 found him honorable. While surveying for him and others in his 
 vicinity 1 found it convenient to be at his house often, and consid- 
 
Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 57 
 
 ered him a good citizen. The men who so cruelly murdered him 
 may even yet be detected.) 
 
 We now copy some items from our Nevada papers. On the six- 
 teenth of July, 1863, the Reveille^ published weekly by George F. 
 Schoonover, notes that the Western Stage Company had com- 
 menced running a tri-weekly line of coaches from Marshalltown to 
 Nevada, by way of French Grove. This was in addition to Parker’s 
 line, by way of Marietta, twice a week. A • great advance on any- 
 thing they ever before enjoyed. November 25, 1863, the Story 
 County paper appeared under the name of The jTJgis, and con- 
 tainecf the salutatory of John M. Brainard. The same number 
 announced the death of 116 Merino sheep in the pens of G. W. 
 Sowers, near Story City, killed in a single night by dogs. This was 
 regarded as a very noted slaughter of the innocents, probably the 
 largest of any late occurrence. 
 
 December 30, 1863, an office of the American Express Company 
 was opened at Nevada, in Rock’s hardware store, two doors south 
 of the post-office. This was in the “Union Block,” east side of 
 south square, which is now called “The Park.” The yEgis of 
 January 9, 1861 (court-house burned December 31, 1863), notes 
 the burning of the Story County Court-house on the night of 
 December 31st. (This court-house was built in 1855 or 1856, and 
 situated on block 25, Nevada, at northeast corner of said block.) 
 The same number notes a storm that “beat the oldest inhabitant.” 
 Cattle and hogs frozen to death in their stables and pens; and 
 extending from Green Bay and central Illinois. It was severe 
 much further south. February 10, 1861, the postmaster has just 
 informed the editor there will be a daily mail to and from the East 
 after the 15th. February 21th, the mails that were due on the 
 11th have not yet arrived, caused by a snow blockade. March 9th, 
 experienced miners are prospecting on West Indian Creek and san- 
 guine of success in finding coal. April 20th, the Chicago daily 
 papers sold on the streets for the first time. June 8th, the old 
 steam saw-mill that stood near the creek northeast from Mr. Frazier’s 
 house was moved to Skunk river. June 21&t, the construction 
 train is visible less than two miles east of Nevada; a welcome sight. 
 June 29th, a post-office established at Colo (the first railroad post- 
 office in our county). The masons are laying the foundation of the 
 new court-house. (This foundation was placed precisely where the 
 old court-house stood that burned.) The depot building is going 
 up rapidly. August 3d, the telegraph is completed to Nevada, and 
 building to Des Moines. The contractors also broke ground for 
 the Agricultural College building. October 19th, the railroad com- 
 pany have determined to locate the next depot west of Nevada at a 
 point between Skunk River and Squaw Fork, near Sheriff Hoggatt’s 
 farm; have not learned what name it will bear. November 16th, 
 J, H. Sinclair removed his goods to his new rooms on the corner 
 northeast from the northeast corner of the North Public or Court- 
 house Square, the corner now occupied by Mr. 1. A. Ringhem’s 
 magnificent brick block. Several of our business men are about to 
 
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 Histoey of Story Cou^tty, Iowa. 
 
 try the experiment of burning coal. March 25, 1865, several teams 
 started from Nevada freighted for Denver. 
 
 MILITARY HISTORY. 
 
 At the beginning of the war for the Union Story County was 
 but sparsely settled, having a population of less than 800 voters. 
 This was before the days of railroad and telegraph communication 
 in this part of Iowa, and our only reliance for the news of the day 
 was a semi-weekly hack line from Marshalltown to the Missouri 
 River, leaving mail at Nevada, College Farm, and New Philadel- 
 phia. It was several days after the firing on Port Sumpter before 
 our people were fully aware as to what had occurred, but on learn- 
 ing the particulars their patriotism was at once awakened and all 
 were alive to the duties of the hour. Men who had always acted 
 in sympathy with the people of the South instantly changed, and 
 were among the first to offer their services to the Government. 
 Under the first call for three months’ volunteers, the regiment 
 assigned to Iowa could have been filled in Story County. A com- 
 pany was organized under this call at' Nevada, and Messrs. John 
 John Scott, Paul A. Queal, and George Childs were appointed a 
 committee to go to Des Moines and tender its services to the Gov- 
 ernor. On reaching the Capital they found that the three months’ 
 regiment was already full and running over, but that another call 
 had been made by President Lincoln for three years men, and that 
 thereunder two regiments had been assigned to Iowa. Governor 
 Kirkwood agreed to accept from Captain Scott a company for one 
 of those regiments, and the committee then returned and reported 
 the facts, when there was a great thinning out from the ranks of 
 those who had offered their services. They could stand it for three 
 months, but “ three years, or during the war,” was a different thing. 
 However, a company of one hundred could have been easily raised 
 within the borders of our own county. At that time Boone and 
 Story Counties formed a kind of a partnership, and Captain S. B. 
 McCall had raised a company at Boonsboro, and as only one com- 
 pany would be accepted from this part of the State, he brought 
 about forty of his men to Nevada and joined Captain Scott’s com- 
 pany, which then organized by the election of John Scott, Captain; 
 S. B. McCall, First Lieutenant; and W. A. Wise, of Iowa Cen- 
 ter, Second Lieutenant. There was quite a scramble for those 
 offices, but the war lasted long enough to enable those who were 
 disappointed on this occasion to satisfy their ambition by getting 
 like positions in other organizations. This company was enrolled 
 at Nevada, by order of the Governor, the twenty-first day of May, 
 1861, and designated as Co. “E,” 3rd Regiment Iowa Infantry, and 
 ordered into quarters at Keokuk same day. It left Nevada, Tues- 
 day, May 28th, in wagons for Keokuk. At Iowa Center the citizens 
 had prepared a bounteous supper and entertained the company in 
 good style. Arrived at Keokuk June 1st, and was mustered into 
 the United States service June 8, 1861, and the regiment was then 
 organized and Captain Scott was then made its Lieutenant Colonel. 
 
History of Story Coujjity, Iowa. 59 
 
 Lieutenant McCall was then made Captain of the company, and 
 George W. Crossley, of Nevada, First Lieutenant. Lieutenant 
 Crossley was afterwards promoted to be Major of the regimenf:. 
 The regiment left Keokuk the last of Jane for the South, and from 
 that time until the grand review at Washington in May, 1865, it 
 was on the move and always in front. Its first battle was at Blue 
 Mills, Missouri; its last in North Carolina. It was in the battle of 
 Shiloh, siege of Corinth, and with Hurlbut on the Hatchie; with 
 Grant at Vicksburg, and Banks on Red River; in Lauman’s reck- 
 less charge at Jackson, and Sherman’s march to Meridian. It 
 marched all the way with Sherman from Clifton, near Donnelson, 
 on the Tennessee, to Washington, on the Potomac, via Chatta- 
 nooga, Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, Goldsboro, and Raleigh. It 
 engaged in all the important events of that campaign, and during 
 this march the regiment went out of existence. At Atlanta all its 
 commissioned officers present were killed, and it was then consoli- 
 dated with the 2d Veteran Infantry, forming Companies ‘‘A,” “F,” 
 and “P,” of that regiment, Co. “E ” being a part of Co. “A” as then 
 organized. The Story County boys who went out in this company 
 saw service in every State south of Mason and Dixon’s line, except 
 Florida; and out of fifty who enlisted from the county only ten 
 returned with the company in July, 1865; others had preceded 
 them, having been discharged on account of disease and wounds 
 received in battle. But the following, who will always live in the 
 memories of their friends and comrades, who went forth with 
 strong hands and brave hearts but will never return, viz: Nathaniel 
 Jennings, Elisha B. Craig, George W. Grove, Henry H. Halley, Wm. 
 B. Taylor, Lewis M. Vincent, Asa Walker, Wm. R. White, Thomas 
 Dent, and Thomas M. Davis. Some of them died in battle, others 
 of disease, and one, the last named, succumbed to the horrible treat- 
 ment at Andersonville Prison. 
 
 Our County being but sparsely settled offered a foraging field 
 for recruiting agents from other counties and in consequence our 
 volunteers were widely distributed in a large number of regiments. 
 The 1st, 2d, 3d, 10th, 11th, 12th i3th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 
 20th, 23d, 32d, 3Tth, 40th, 44th, 47th, and 48th regiments of 
 Infantry; the 2d and 4th Artillery; and^2d, 6th, 7th, 8th and 
 9th Cavalry — all having more or less Story “County men in them. 
 In the 10th were quite a number scattered in three different com- 
 panies, but not enough in afiy one to claim it as a Story County 
 organization. • Paul A. Queal raised about forty men who were as- 
 signed to Co. “B,” 2d Cavalry, of which he was made first Lieuten- 
 ant and afterward Captain. This company was mustered into the 
 United States service August 31, 1861, and during the fall and win- 
 ter of that year, operated in Missouri. In the spring and summer 
 of 1862 it did valuable service in the seige of Corinth, and suffered 
 severely in the battle of Farrington. After the evacuation of 
 Corinth it was busy scouting in Mississippi and Tennessee, and 
 participated in innumerable skirmishes and raids, engaging the 
 
60 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 Rebel Greneral Forrest on several occasions. It was in the battle 
 of Nashville in December, ISGI, and lost heavily. It was among 
 the best Cavalry organization in the army, and was busy until the 
 close of the war. The only citizens of our county who lost their 
 lives while in this company were Captain P. A. Queal, who died of 
 disease, and Archilles M. See, who was taken prisoner and died from 
 the effects of prison treatment after reaching our lines at Annap- 
 olis, Md. James C, McHone, a member of this company deserted, 
 and was never heard of afterwards. About one-half of Co. “A,” 23d 
 Infantry were Story County men, recruited by Deville P. Ballard, who 
 was appointed First Lieutenant of the company. This organization 
 was mustered into the United States service September 19, 1862, 
 and went immediately to the front. During the fall and winter 
 of 1862-3, it operated in Southern Missouri, and joined in the cam- 
 paign against Vicksburg during the spring and summer of 1863. 
 It fought nobly at Port Gibson, Black River Bridge and Milliken’s 
 Bend, meeting with great loss. It was also at Champion Hills and 
 Jackson. After the capture of Vicksburg it went to New Orleans, 
 and thereafter operated extensively in Louisiana and Texas, being 
 several times engaged and always doing its whole duty. Among 
 our noble citizens who went out in this company, but did not 
 return, and whose remains repose on the banks of the Mississippi, 
 from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico, and on the borders of 
 the Gulf to the mouth of the Rio Grand, may be mentioned 
 Harvey J. Heistand, Charles P. Miller, Geo. W. Smiley, James 
 Bevington, Pierson Ilrown, Henry Barber, D. V. Foster, J. R. 
 Foster, J. A. Grove, Thos. J. Harrison, Toor Hegland, J. P. 
 Jenkins, A. Kintzly, Daniel M. McCoy, Christ Ness, Levi J. 
 Stratton, 0. Scott, 0. Week, and Collins Snyder^ all of Co. ‘‘A.” 
 Augusta B. Illingsworth, Elias Ersland, David A. Breezley and 
 Wm. Sunday of Co. “E”; and Jno. Ballard and Wm. Mencer of 
 Co. “B”; John Yocum, of Co. “C”; and John See, I. N. Shenkee. 
 and Chas. E. Culver, of Co. “K.” C. P. McCord was a member of 
 this company, and lost a leg at Black River Bridge, and R. May, 
 Co. “A” lost an arm at the same time. Company “K” of the 32nd 
 Infantry was almost exclusively a Story County organization. 
 Rev. Joseph Cadwallader was its first Captain, and Geo. Childs its 
 2nd Lieutenant. After about one year’s service Capt. Cadwallader 
 resigned to accept the position of Chaplain of regiment which was 
 more in keeping with his calling, and Lieut. Gideon Wheeler, of 
 Marshall County, was then made Captain, Lieutenant Childs, 1st. 
 Lieutenant, and V. Tomlinson, 2ud Lieutenant. This company 
 was mustered into service October 2, 1862, and immediately went 
 south with the regiment, and for more than a year, until February 
 1864, did post duty at New Madrid, Island No. 10, Ft. Pillow, 
 Columbus and other points along the Mississippi. 
 
 This was known as Scott’s regiment. Col. John Scott, of Nevada, 
 being its Colonel, who had command of the regiment until after 
 the Red River expedition in May, 1864. Capt. T. C. McCall was its 
 Quartermaster until promoted Captain and A. Q. M. in March 
 
History of Story Couhty, Ioi^^a. 
 
 61 
 
 1864. Althougli the first year of its service was one of apparent in- 
 activity it more than made up for this by extraordinary activity 
 during the remainder of the war. 
 
 In the year 1864 it probabl}^ traversed as wide an extent of terri- 
 tory, and was in as many engagements as any other regiment in 
 the service. At the opening of this year it was stationed in de- 
 tachments along the Mississippi, in Missouri, Kentucky and Ten- 
 nessee. In February it made the march with Sherman to Meridian, 
 which occupied the whole month. Manih, April and May were 
 occupied with Bank’s expedition up Red River, where it fought 
 valiantly at Fort De Rnssy, Pleasant Hill, Cruthersville, Bayou 
 Rolerts, Marksville and Yellow Bayou. It is conceded that it 
 saved the day for the Federal troops at Pleasant Hill. In June it 
 participated ^in the battle of Lake Chicot, Arkansas; and in July 
 was engaged’ at Tupelo and Old Town Creek, Miss., and in August 
 was in the raid on Oxford, Miss. In September and October it 
 marched over seven hundred miles in driving Price out of Missouri. 
 In November it joined Thomas at Nashville, Tenn., and was en- 
 gaged in the battles at that place on the fifteenth and sixteenth of 
 December. It distinguished itself on this last occasion by the capture 
 of a battery of five guns and fifty prisoners. After resting a month 
 at Eastport, Miss., it went to New Orleans and joined in the expe- 
 dition against Mobile, and was in the assault on Ft. Blakely. It 
 then went to Montgomery where it remained until ordered 
 mustered out in August 1865. 
 
 That this organization nobly did its whole duty and was in the 
 thickest of the fight is attested by its long mortality list in which 
 appears the names of the following Story County men; 
 
 N. A. Mount, 0. Egland, E. Modlin, F. M. Anderson, Wm. C. 
 Ballard, D. J. Bloys, F. S. Daniels, H. Elliason, Peter Egland, H. 
 
 B. Henryson, E. Hefley, J, R. Hand, Wm. L. Lemmon, Wm. Pierce, 
 
 C. M. Sellers, J. Sorter, N. A. Tichenor and John S. Wood. 
 
 The Story County boys in the Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Four- 
 teenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Thirty-ninth Regiments of Infan- 
 try, and Eighth Cavalry and other Regiments, did equally as good 
 service, and were in as many hard fought battles as any of the 
 organizations mentioned. They each have a history of thrilling 
 interest, and in order to fully preserve it for the information of 
 coming generations it should all be written out and published, but 
 lack of space in a work of this kind forbids giving a full history of 
 those organizations, or even making what has been attempted as 
 full and complete as justice demands. 
 
 There are scores of individual cases entitled to special mention, 
 and enough of entertaining matter might be written on those caSes 
 to fill a good sized volume, but we must desist from entering on 
 that branch on this occasion. The list of dead belonging to our 
 county, not already given, as near as I am able to ascertain, is as 
 follows : 
 
 Wm. Crum and Wm. Tanner, Company A, Tenth Infantry; B. 
 F. Craig and H. Howard, Company D, Tenth Infantry; S. Kelley, 
 
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 Histoet oe Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 Company K, Tenth Infantry; R. D, Casebolt, James T. Mount, S. 
 D. Allen, Company E, Thirteenth Infantry; Sam W. Jenks, J. J. 
 Aldrege, Thomas Snelling, John T. Shumaker, H. Spangler, J. L. 
 Martin, Greorge Lowell and Z. F. Martin, Company G, Fourteenth 
 Infantry; E. Elliott, Company B, Fifteenth Infantry; H. Hunt, 
 Company I, Nineteenth Infantry, (died in prison at Tyler, Texas); 
 David C. Vail, Company G, Fourteenth Infantry, (died at same 
 place); Marcus D. Cong, F. Lowell and D. Womack, Company B, 
 Thirty-ninth Infantry; Thomas Fatland, Company F, Forty-seventh . 
 Infantry; Wm. Keltner, Company G, Seventh Cavalry; A. G. Briley 
 and S. P. Shaw, Company I, Eighth Cavalry; Wm. C. Evans, Com- 
 pany H, Ninth Cavalry; Lieutenant Jason D. Ferguson, of the 
 Twelfth Infantry, was killed at Shiloh. 
 
 THE DEAET. 
 
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 In casting up accounts in 1864, it was determined by the powers 
 that be that Story County had not furnished her full quota of vol- 
 unteers, and that a certain number must be forthcoming within 
 a given time, or a draft would be necessary. This announcement 
 caused great consternation among the home guards, and a regular 
 epidemic appeared to have at once broke out all over the county 
 among those who had heretofore been considered in good health. 
 Doctors were in great demand, and they reaped a rich harvest. 
 Nearlj’' everybody turned agent and tried to prevail on his neighbor 
 to enlist. Great was the running to and fro, and finally only twenty 
 were wanting to make out the required number, and the draft was 
 ordered, and that number of our patriotic citizens were drafted; 
 some of the unlacky ones submitted to it gracefully, and some who 
 had the funds hired substitutes. This ordeal having passed, quiet 
 reigned, and people became more healthy. It was afterwards found 
 that the draft was a mistake, as our county had already furnished 
 more than its quota, but some sixty odd who had enlisted from this 
 county had been wrongfully placed to the credit of adjoining coun- 
 ties, and had the proper credit been given the draft would not have 
 been a part of our history. On the whole, Story County may be well 
 proud of her military record. N ot an important battle was fought, 
 nor an important event occurred during the whole war in which 
 some of her citizens did not take an active part. They were with 
 the immortal Lyon at Wilson’s Creek; with Gen. Grant at Ft. 
 Henry, Donnelson, Shiloh, and siege of Corinth; with Rosecrans at 
 Inka and Chicaraauga; with Sherman in his first attack on Vicks- 
 burg, and in when it surrendered to Grant; with Hooker on Look- 
 out Mountain, and with Thomas when he scaled the heights at 
 Mission Ridge, and with Sherman from l)hattanooga to the sea, and 
 engaged in every battle in that memorable campaign, with brave 
 Corse at Altoona Pass when Sherman signalled from Kenesaw to 
 “ Hold the Fort for I am Coming;” with Sherman at Columbia and 
 Goldsboro, and with Grant at Appomattox. They experienced the 
 horrors at Libby, Belle Isle and Andersonville, and joined in the 
 triumphal march in the Grand Review at Washington. In all 
 
Histoet of Story Couftty, Iowa, 
 
 63 
 
 these phases of the war the citizens soldiery from Story County 
 sustained a conspicuous part, and returned at the end to their homes, 
 resuming their quiet and peaceful vocations as though they had 
 only been absent on a holiday excursion. The county provided 
 liberally out of her revenues for all her volunteers. December, 
 1863, our Board of Supervisors passed a resolution giving to each 
 volunteer who should thereafter enlist $100, and in case he was a 
 married man $50 in addition thereto, and also to the family of each 
 married man then in the service, was given one hundred dollars. 
 Also in January, 1867, our board made a further appropriation, 
 giving to each person who had been a soldier an amount equal to 
 that received by those who had been paid under the first resolu- 
 tion. Under all these appropriations there was paid out of the 
 county treasury to soldiers’ widows and orphans something over 
 $46,000. 
 
 STATISTICS. 
 
 As showing the rate of improvement in the county, the follow- 
 ing tables may be of interest. They are taken from the books of 
 the County Auditor, and estimating the assessment at forty per 
 cent we have total values in 1876 as follows: 
 
 Value of real estate $1,242,198 
 
 Value of personalty 1,966,332 
 
 Paying annually in taxes about 100,000 
 
 Having a present population, about 15,000. 
 
 ASSESSED VALUATION. 
 
 TEARS. 
 
 LANDS. 
 
 LOTS. 
 
 PERSONAL. 
 
 • 
 
 TOTALS. 
 
 1860. 
 
 1864. 
 
 1867. 
 
 1870. 
 
 1873. 
 
 1875. 
 
 1876. 
 
 $ 1,026,237 
 
 1,155,669 
 
 1,422,469 
 
 1,977,681 
 
 2,520,182 
 
 2,706,060 
 
 2,709,375 
 
 $ 62,189 
 
 42,227 
 74,818 
 117,428 
 165,739 
 187,104 
 ’187,104 
 
 $ 125,247 
 
 215,351 
 314,301 
 476,604 
 450,534 
 589,950 
 655,444 
 
 $ 1,213,675 
 
 1,413,247 
 1,811,588 
 2,571,703 
 3,146,455 
 3,473,114 
 3,551,923 
 
 TOTAL TAXES AND POPULATION. 
 
 YEARS, 
 
 TAXES. 
 
 POPULATION. 
 
 YEARS. 
 
 TAXES. 
 
 POPULATION. 
 
 1855. 
 
 $ 3,990.30 
 
 1,568 
 
 1866. 
 
 $ 46,228.14 
 
 5,914 
 
 1859. 
 
 14,823.04 
 
 3,826 
 
 1870. 
 
 100,318 37 
 
 11,651 
 
 1862. 
 
 16,439.88 
 
 4,300 
 
 1873. 
 
 86,311.75 
 
 11,519 
 
 1864. 
 
 29,145.49 
 
 5,000 
 
 1875. 
 
 97,tj83.06 
 
 13,311 
 
 EXPLANATION. 
 
 The short notice I had that this labor would be requested of me, 
 the haste with which the matter has been gathered from many 
 sources, the necessity of placing it in the hands of the printer as 
 soon as it could be collected, offering no time for comparison, cor- 
 
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 rection or arrangement, tlie limited space afforded, and press of other 
 business on my attention, must be my apology for the incomplete- 
 ness of the treatment on this subject. It would be interesting to 
 gather many additional facts that are now accessible if one bad 
 leisure to do so, but the “ old settlers ” will not write them, and 
 therefore it would require considerable labor to get them in 
 form. I am under obligations to Judge Evans, T. B. Alderman, J. 
 A. Fitcbpatrick, John R. Hays, T. J. Ross, T. C. McCall, Rev. J. 
 Reid, Judge Mitchell, John Connelly, H. C. Wickham, R. H. Rob- 
 inson, T. C. Davis, J. H. Talbott, Joshua Cooper, S. F. Balliet, John 
 Evanson, A. Duff, N. R. GrifSn and others for assistance and items. 
 Also to Mr. Gallup for the files in his office. If there are many 
 interesting facts not noted, and even whole neighborhoods un- 
 noticed, it must he imputed to my having been unable to get any 
 response to my appeals for help. (Signed.) 
 
 JoHFT Scott. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 65 
 
 A HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT 
 
 OF 
 
 LAFAYETTE AND HOWARD TOWNSHIPS, 
 
 STORY COUNTY, IOWA, 
 
 BY R. W. BALLARD, ESQ., 
 
 AN OLD AND TRIED CITIZEN OF THE COUNTY AS WILL HEREAFTER APPEAR. 
 
 “ Story City, Iowa, April 1886.” 
 
 The first men looking for a location above John H. Keigley’s 
 were in the spring of 1852 from Appanoose county, Iowa, (but 
 formerly from Indiana, as most of the early settlers were,) were 
 Robert Bracken, George and Daniel Prime, John, Jesse and Sam- 
 uel Smith, and viewing the county up near what is now Story City. 
 Mr. Bracken and George Prime liking it well thought they would 
 move in in the fall, but the Smiths and Daniel Prime thought they 
 would look farther, consequently went west into Kansas and Ne- 
 braska, and not liking it west as well as they did here, returned 
 late in the fall to find their claims (as Bracken and Geo. Prime 
 made claims) taken possession of by three families of Quakers who 
 •came in the last of August. They came from the south, stopping 
 over a few days with Win. Arra Smith who lived where he now 
 does, he being the only settler between Squire Corey’s and Keig- 
 iey’s, there being too many for the Quakers and being non-residents 
 they left, and leaving the first settlement to be made by Robert and 
 William Bracken, George and Daniel Prime, John, Jesse and 
 Samuel Smith, all men of families who located in what became 
 Lafayette Township, this county, none of them living here at 
 present, and only Roliert Bracken residing here till death. They 
 located on the following lands : Robert Bracken on nw J sec. 
 18, 85-23 ; Samuel Smith on the se i of same section ; Jesse 
 Smith on the ne i sec. 19, 85-22 ; John Smith the se J sec. 
 13, 85-24 ; George Prime on ne i of the same section ; Daniel 
 Prime on nw J sec. 6, 85-23. Following them came in the year 
 1853 James C. Smith (father of the former Smith), bringing three 
 more sons with him, James, Isaac and Fletcher, and a son-in-law, 
 Isaac Blades, Jonah Grifiith, H. L. Boyes, Joseph Brouhard, who 
 located on the following lands : Isaac Smith at Bear Grove, where 
 he killed a black bear that gave the creek and grove their name, on 
 5 
 
66 Histoet of Story Coui^ty, Iowa. 
 
 se i sec. 28, 85-23 Janies C. Smith on sw i see. 18 ; Jonah 
 Griffith on sw i sec. 19 ; Isaac Blades on se J sec. 30, all in 
 85-23 ; Joseph Brouhard on sec. 6, nej, Milford township, at 
 Spring Grove ; H. L. Boyes above Spring Grove, on Bear Creek, in 
 Howard Township. The third corps of settlers that came in 1851,. 
 were N. N. Sheffield, La Count Lambert, the man who built the 
 first house at Story City (formerly Fairview). The house was 
 made by setting four crotches in the ground and covering with 
 prairie grass, and siding up with quilts and carpeting. About this 
 time Geo. W. Sowers, a Mr. Brown and others came in, Mr. Brown 
 building the first water-power saw-mill in this part of the county ; 
 it was north and east of the artesian well at Stor}’’ Cityi It never 
 sawed but very little as the fall of water was not sufficient to give 
 power to the water-wheel. From 1855 to 1857 will include most 
 of the early settlers, some of whom, in ’55 were John James, Sam- 
 uel Bates, James McGee, Hiram Ferguson, R. W. Ballard, and 
 others. 
 
 “ One incident in Iowa I shall not forget : I had been here ten 
 days, and living in my wagon, I was warned out to work the high- 
 way which I thought made a citizen of me too soon. About this 
 time J. C. Smith contemplated building a grist-mill, and, in the 
 spring of 1856, commenced the work and had it in running order 
 in November following. Now this was not a patent roller flouring 
 mill, — I would not have you think it ims not a flouring mill. To 
 us it was a convenience not enjoyed by every community, for they 
 came long distances to it. It was a water mill run by the water of 
 Long Dick Creek one-half mile above its mouth. Its dimensions 
 were about 16x20 feet, built of logs one-story high, roof made of 
 shakes or clap-boards, as some call them. The burrs were made 
 from boulders ‘ found on the prairie, and would grind from five 
 to twelve bushels per day, owing to what condition the dam 
 and water were in, the dam being very difficult to keep in repair, 
 consequently the first year was not a very successful year for 
 the owner, yet it would crack two kernels of corn into three 
 for one of them, after paying from 11.00 to $1.50 per bushel for 
 the corn in the ear, providing yourself and team would work on the 
 mill dam a day or during the time they were grinding your grist. 
 Such were the privileges of the pioneers. During the year there 
 was an influx of immigration. Our friends and neighbors, the 
 Norwegians, came in, viz: Jonas Duea, Paul Thompson, Mons C. 
 Grove, E. R. Sheldall and others, and in the meantime there had 
 been a small store started at Fairview by one Jennis, and a steam 
 saw-mill by a Mr. House. The mill remained but a short time, 
 perhaps two or three months. It left between two days. Late in 
 the year, or early in 1857, the post-office was established at Fair- 
 view. Frederick W. Rhoads was the first postmaster. 
 
 “Henry Durham was the first justice of the peace in this part of 
 the county. Noah Harding, township clerk. In the year 1858 he 
 was a candidate again, myself the opposing candidate (he not want- 
 
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 ing it), and up to one o’clock on election day nearly half of 
 the votes were polled of which I had a large majority, l^bout that 
 
 time a man Ipown as “ Whisky Jim B ” arrived with a half 
 
 barrel of whisky, and there was a general time of imbibing, and at 
 the close of the election I was counted out by one majority against 
 me. So much for the “whisky argument.” About this time, 
 1857, Sanauel Bates was appointed postmaster of Sheffield post- 
 office, which was located then in what is now Howard Township. 
 This office was vacated in 1866. 
 
 “ Of the early settlers buried in the cemetery at the Sheffield 
 School House are Robert Bracken, died 1874, aged 67 ; Jonah 
 Griffith, died 1877, aged 67 ; N. N. Sheffield, died 1871, aged 70; 
 M. R. Ballard, died 1878, aged 76 ; D. L. Stultz, died 1881. aged 49 ; 
 Mathew Bates, died 1885, aged 58; Hirain Ferguson, died aged 
 54i. Mr. Ferguson was a millwright. He built the saw-mill for 
 J. Miller at or near Bloomington, the first good mill run by water 
 in Story county. R. W. Ballard.” 
 
 A SAD HISTORY OF A PRAIRIE FIRE. 
 
 In the autumn of 1860, a Mr. Swearingen, his wife and four 
 children, were moving to some point north or northwest of here 
 and traveling on the road then leading from Nevada to Story City, 
 and as they were strangers in this county, they knew but little as 
 to the danger of prairie fires in a country like this was twenty-six 
 or thirty years ago. The day was dry, windy and smokey; and as 
 they had just passed Indian Hill in the sej section 4, township 84, 
 range 23, (Milford township), they first discovered fire was on them 
 when it caught in the wagon cover and then their clothing. It 
 seems Mrs. Swearingen was driving the team, (two horses,) while 
 Swearingen was asleep, and as they were traveling at the time, 
 nearly north, the fire caught them as it came, at rapid speed, 
 from the southwest in the rear of their covered wagon — caught* 
 them on flat land where the dry grass heavily coated the ground. 
 It seems also the horses tried to run and Mrs. S. fell out of the 
 wagon against the horses and probably was seriously injured, while 
 at the same time burning to death. There is but little or no won- 
 der under such circumstances that this sad affair occurred as it did. 
 It took place in the afternoon. Messrs. Hoxie and F. D. Thomp- 
 son, of Nevada, were the first, or among the first, to find this 
 family, wagon, horses and dog burnt to death." Messrs. Hoxie and 
 Thompson hurried back to Nevada for help and to tell of the hor- 
 ror discovered. They did not then see what had become of Mr. 
 Swearingen. To return to Messrs. Hoxie and Thompson’s narrow 
 escape of the same sad fate before they found the burnt family, I 
 will say, after they left Nevada for Story City, and after they had 
 about passed the Dieffenbacher farm, they saw a covered wagon in the 
 distance before them. It was but a few minutes after when they 
 
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 History op Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 beheld the prairie, to the southwest pd west, a sea of fire. It 
 was approaching them rapidly, and in order to save themselves 
 they started a new fire in the grass and as soon as it was possible 
 moved into the space burnt; by this method they saved them- 
 sgIvgs from almost CGrtain dGstruction. Aftor tliG firG had passod 
 them and had cleared their way of dry grass, they then passed on 
 and soon found the burnt family and burning wagon. Mr. bwear- 
 ingen managed to wander to Mr. J. E. Hoover’s or was conducted 
 by some one there, who found him and discovered his awful situa 
 tion. Mr. Hoover’s house probably did not exceed a half a mile 
 northeasterly from the sad spot. This sad occurrence took place 
 near the interior center of section four, in Milford Township. Here 
 is a brief picture of the horror. A number of individuals beside 
 myself hurriedly rushed to the scene which may have been two 
 hours after the sad, sad, occurrence ! On our reaching the spot we 
 beheld a sight which, I trust, will never again be seen by me! The 
 wife and the daughter lie near each other burnt almost to a crisp. 
 The arms and limbs of each were burnt off and so disfigured it was 
 hard to tell whether they were man or beast. A child, as it seemed 
 to have been, was lying near the mother; it was so badly crisped 
 it was scarcely recognizable what it was. The boy, (probably the 
 oldest child), was lying, ten feet from the burning wagon and 
 not very far from the dead horse. The boy was not burnt so badly 
 as the other children. His boots were yet on his feet, if I mistake 
 not. The youngest child, or next to the youngest, was burnt entirely 
 up, I believe, as nothing of its body was visible. The off horse 
 was lying dead close to the burning wagon; but the harness was 
 burnt off him. The other horse, by some means, got loose and was 
 found wandering around but seriously burned. The dog was lying 
 dead a few feet from the wagon. The wheels and some other 
 parts of the wagon were burning yet when I first saw it. Mr. 
 Swearingen could talk but little, for he was fatally burnt, but gave 
 the people, to understand much of what occurred after the fire 
 . reached them. It is thought he might have saved himself had he 
 not made the desperate but noble effort to save his wife and chil- 
 dren After a few days extraordinary suffering he died, and all 
 were buried in the Sheffield cemetery in Howard township. What 
 was left of the remains of the wife and children was buried in one 
 grave; but as Mr. Swearingen lived a few days before dying, he 
 was buried in a separate grave. 
 
 COURT HOUSE BURNED, DECEMBER 31, 1863. 
 
 On the thirty-first of December, 1863, the Court House was 
 burned, but fortunately the County Records, with a very few ex- 
 ceptions, were saved. The safe did not, however, prove to be a 
 safe safe. All, or nearly all, the loose papers or money not 
 
Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 69 
 
 in close packages in the safe, were burnt or badly scorched. It 
 was supposed the fire had its origin from a defect in the flue. 
 About eight or nine o’clock p. m., the fire was discovered, and the 
 cry. Fire ! Fire ! Fire ! was soon heard all over Nevada, The 
 wind was blowing southeasterly a perfect gale, and as cold as the 
 Arctics ; for the next morning, January 1, 1864, the mercury had 
 to stop at forty degrees below zero. But before the fire was at its 
 greatest intensity, Mr. Ross, the County Treasurer, and two or 
 three others, rushed into the house in the midst of great danger of 
 perishing in the fire in order to save the County Records, They 
 were saved, but a few of the books were somewhat injured by being 
 thrown out at the windows. It was a narrow escape for men and 
 books. The money loose in the safe was either burnt or badly 
 charred. As near as could be estimated $1,672 or over was burnt. 
 The bills that were put in tight packages were generally recognized 
 so as to be redeemed by the government; for it was National cur- 
 rency, etc. There were about $9,243 redeemed as that amount was 
 all that could be recognized with certainty. 
 
 Mr. W. M. White, County Superintendent and W. Gr, Allen 
 were the accountants appointed by the Board of Supervisors to 
 make an investigation of the affairs. After careful investigation 
 they believed the Treasurer had done his duty officially. Mr, Ross 
 and Mr. J. M. Brainard, (the Clerk of Courts,) cheerfully gave them 
 all the information to be reached. The Treasurer, (Mr. T. J. Ross), 
 took or sent the charred packages of bills to Washington City in 
 order to have them redeemed. He therefore, as already related, 
 secured about $9,243. 
 
 COURT-HOUSE BONDS.— The Bond Question. 
 The total valuation of all the taxable property in Story 
 
 County for the year 1865, was $1,795,120 
 
 The total valuation for 1874 is 3,295,381 
 
 The gain in nine years has been. • 1,500,261 
 
 The average gain in each year has been 166,685 
 
 Then taking this gain each year as a correct basis (the gain, 
 however, will be more per year for the next ten than the last 
 ten years,) for the valuation of each year of the ten years to come 
 from the time (1876) of the first levy, will be as follows : 
 
 Say the bonds issue July 1, 1876 $40,000 
 
 Interest one year to July, 1877, at 10 per cent 4,000 
 
 Total 41,000 
 
 First levy on $3,628,771 for 1876 at li mills. 5,443 
 
 Balance due 38,557 
 
 Interest to July 1, 1878 3,855 
 
 Total 42,412 
 

 
 70 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 % 
 
 Second levy on $3,795,466 valuation for 1877 at mills. . . 5,693 
 
 Balance due 36,719 
 
 Interest to July 1,*'79 3,671 
 
 Total 40,390 
 
 Third levy on $3,962,161 valuation for 1878 at 1^ mills. . . • 5,943 
 
 Balance due 34,447 
 
 Interest to July 1, ’80 3,444 
 
 Total 37,891 
 
 Fourth levy on $4,128,856 valuation for 1879 at li mills.. . 6,193 
 
 Balance due 31,698 
 
 Interest to July 1, ’81 3,169 
 
 Total 34,867 
 
 Fifth levy on $4,295,551 valuation for 1880 at li mills 6,443 
 
 Balance due • 28,424 
 
 Interest to July 1, ’82 2,842 
 
 Total 31,266 
 
 Sixth levy on $4,462,246 valuation for 1881 at 1^ mills 6,693 
 
 Balance due 24,573 
 
 Interest to July 1, ’83 2,457 
 
 Total 27,030 
 
 Seventh levy on $4,628,941 valuation for 1882 at l-j mills . . 6,943 
 
 Balance due 20,087 
 
 Interest to July 1, ’84 2,008 
 
 Total 22,095 
 
 Eighth levy on $4,795,636 valuation for 1883 at H mills. . . 7,193 
 
 Balance due 14,902 
 
 Interest to July 1, ’85 
 
 Total 16,392 
 
 Ninth levy on $4,962,331 valuation for 1884 at li mills 7,443 
 
 Balance due 8,949 
 
 Interest to July 1, ’86 • • • 394 
 
 Total 9,843 
 
 
 
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Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa. 71 
 
 Teath levy on $5,129,026 valuation for 1885 at 2 mills 10,258 
 
 Overplus 
 
 At li mills for nine years, and 2 mills for the tenth year, will 
 pay the $40,000 bonds with their interest and have $400 of an 
 overplus left. W. Gr. Allen. 
 
 COMMENTS BY THE EDITOE, W. H. G. 
 
 The above figuring is the most convincing, fair, and devoid 
 of any assumption, that we have yet seen made by any person, on 
 the Court House bond question. In fact there is only one thing 
 against it, and that is, it has not assumed the increase of the valu- 
 ation of property to be as fast as it actually will lie. It is not 
 a difficult proposition for any person to comprehend, that if 
 $1,795,120 will increase in valuation $166,695, in each year, that 
 the valuation which we shall start with the next year— which will 
 be about $3,500,000,— ought to increase about twice $166,695. 
 But Mr. Allen has only assumed that the greater valuation of the 
 next ten years will only increase as many dollars per year as 
 the smaller valuation has during the last ten years. This, the 
 readers will readily see, is assuming much less than the natural 
 growth of the county will actually do. Therefore, we believe 
 there is not a single doubt but what 1^ mills^ levy for the next 
 ten years will pay the $40,000 for the Court House bonds, and 
 more too. 
 
 Of course, the levy asked for is 2 mills per year, but that is 
 in the nature of a discretionary power conferred upon the Board, 
 which they will only use in the case of necessity. As a pledge 
 that they will only use it in case of necessity, we have their own 
 words published over their own signatures in our issue of Septem- 
 ber 10th, in the article in which they ga,ve their reasons for sub- 
 mitting the question. The following is their language as then 
 
 expressed : . -n 
 
 “ Now the proposed levy for the Court House is only 2 mills on 
 the dollar, which at the present valuation of over $3,000,000 of tax- 
 able property in the county will pay for the Court House in 
 less than ten years, and we believe it safe to calculate that mills 
 on the dollar, with the increase in valuation of property in the 
 county, will fully pay it in the length of time the bonds have 
 to run. In case the bonds should be voted, we think it expedient 
 for the Board of Supervisors for the first three or four years to not 
 levy over mills on the dollar, which will be one-half null less 
 
 than is now levied.^ so that the county tax, notwithstanding the 
 building of the Court House, cannot be increased, and with proper 
 management may be decreased.” 
 
 Now, Mr. Evanson and M. Carr are among the heaviest tax- 
 payers of the county, and of course neither of them, nor Mr. 
 Evanson, as long as they are members of the Board, will be in favor 
 of making the yearly levies heavier than is actually necessary. 
 
72 Histoey qf Stoey Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 Even should they or any future Board be disposed to levy 
 the full 2 mills each year, with the intention of building more than 
 a $4:0,000 Court House, they could not do that, for the Supreme 
 Court has decided that not a dollar can be put into the building of 
 a Court House that is not actually voted by the people. There- 
 fore, the only difference between a 2 mills’ levy, or a mills’ levy, 
 would be that the one would pay the $40,000 in from six to eight 
 years, while the other would require, probably, the full ten years. 
 
 As far as the Board is concerned at present and as far as all 
 whom we have talked with, have expressed any opinion, it has been 
 universally in favor of the bonds. 
 
 FROM STORY COUNTY. 
 
 . From the Boone Republican, 1815. 
 
 The confluence of the melifluous sounding Skunk and Squaw 
 Creeks is found in the southern part of this country with timber, 
 some coal, water power and an abundance of stock water ; add to 
 this an inexhaustible soil, with prudent, industrious and enterpris- 
 ing people, and you have all the elements of a prosperous county. 
 Nevada and Ames, on the N, W, R. R. divide the trade and the 
 population pretty equally between themselves, each claiming 1,200 
 people. The former has the Court House, the latter the Agricul- 
 tural College, and each makes a pet of its “ peculiar institution.” 
 
 Nevada is destitute of a single saloon or licensed drug store, and 
 still they prosper, have one of the most intelligent and refined 
 little communities in the State of Iowa, and certainly know the 
 art of treating a visitor in the most hospitable manner. 
 
 The Normal Institute closes this week, seventy teachers having 
 been present, an excellent course of evening lectures well attended, 
 and everything has passed off to the entire satisfaction of our earn- 
 est working Superintendent Franks. 
 
 Iowa boasts of no more modest, neat and sparkling gem among- 
 her hundred jewels than Story County. 
 
 THE KIRKMAN MURDER. 
 
 From the Representative. 
 
 Since the publication of our last paper, some new steps have been 
 taken in reference to the Kirkman murder, but as far as we can 
 learn, we cannot say as any definite conclusion has been arrived at 
 as to who were the actual perpetrators of the deed. That seems to- 
 be the main point of interest, and it is the most difficult to solve. 
 If the public could have known to a certainty who did the deed, it 
 would have taken but a very few moments time to have ascertained 
 what steps to have taken in the matter. But owing to un- 
 certainty surrounding the whole thing, and the doubt as to who 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
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 and how many were engaged in the murderous act, renders the pro- 
 gress of the Grand Jury very slow. We can only hope, however, 
 that their efforts will be successful, and that a punishment equal to 
 the enormity of the crime committed will overtake the villains. — 
 May 21, 1875. 
 
 The Coroner’s jury, after spending ^a week in taking testimony 
 and examining some seventy-five witnesses, believed that there was 
 sufficient grounds for the apprehension of Geo, E. Woodman, Len- 
 ford Fisher, Wm. E. Parr, Daniel Kirkman and John McLaughlin, 
 and in accordance therewith they were arrested on Sunday and 
 Monday last and are now lying in jail awaiting the action of the 
 Grand Jury. The following short sketch of the parties under 
 arrest we take from the last Watchman: 
 
 Woodman is a farmer by occupation, has lived the past seven 
 years in Washington township, Polk County, and within one mile 
 of the place where Kirkman was hung. He was born in New 
 Hampshire, has lived in Illinois, been to California six times and 
 has seen considerable of frontier life. He is in good circumstances, 
 having a large farm well stocked and out of debt. The following 
 is a correct description of Mr. Woodman: He is forty-seven years 
 of age, five feet five inches in height, square built, sandy hair and 
 whiskers which are sprinkled with gray, florid complexion, gray 
 eyes and is a good talker. Mr. Woodman says that all he wishes 
 is a fair and impartial trial, and he has no fear but what he can 
 establish his innocence. 
 
 Lenford Fisher is a son-in-law of the murdered man, lives in 
 Washington Township Polk County, and within six miles of the 
 Kirkman residence, has been in the State six years and a farmer by 
 occupation. He was raised in Ohio, is twenty-six years old, five 
 feet eight inches in height, spare built, hair and whiskers light 
 brown, gray eyes and a fair complexion. Mr. Fisher, like Mr. 
 Woodman, is sanguine of establishing his innocence when the time 
 of his trial comes. 
 
 Wm. E. Parr is an Englishman by birth, has been in this 
 county five years, lived in Peoria City, Polk County, during that 
 time, working at the business of blacksmithing. Parr is twenty- 
 eight years old, five feet six inches in height, square built, dark hair 
 and eyes, and a fair complexion. 
 
 Daniel Kirkman is a son of the murdered man. He is twenty- 
 one years old, was born in Story County on the farm where the 
 murder was committed. He is five feet six inches high, brown 
 hair and eyes and fair complexion. 
 
 John McLaughlin is an Irishmam by birth, twenty-four years 
 old, five feet eleven inches high, brown hair and eyes, has lived in 
 Polk County the past eleven years and worked for Kirkman some 
 three years of that time. — (1875.) 
 
 The day following the arrest of the above, Mrs. Kirkman was 
 also arrested as being accessory to the crime, and is now in the 
 •custody of the law, at the residence of Mr. D. H. McCord. We 
 

 
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 74 Histoey of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 think the only evidence against her, thus far, is in the fact of the 
 doors being unlocked, when, if we are correctly informed, it was 
 the habit of Mr. Kirkman, since the commencement of .these 
 troubles, to always keep the doors locked. In connection with this 
 we might also add that after the murder of Mr. Kirkman, Mrs. 
 Kirkman sent a telegraph dispatch to Mr. Zinsmaster and the 
 children, at Des Moines, to be’ at the funeral, and entirely forgot 
 the oldest son, James Kirkman, in Union, Hardin County. The 
 first that James heard of his father’s death was through the Rep- 
 resentative account of the tragedy which was copied into the 
 State Register. But it seems that when he did find it out he com- 
 prehended the situation at once, as he came down on Monday last, 
 and has been enquiring about the condition and shape of the prop- 
 erty very carefully. 
 
 The will which Mr. Kirkman made after the separation of him- 
 self and wife, was carefully destroyed before they commenced liv- 
 ing together the last time. A copy had been kept by Mrs. Haynes, 
 unbeknown to Mrs. Kirkman, until a few days ago, when that 
 was also burned by Mrs. Kirkiman as soon as she discovered it. 
 Many other strange moves have been made by this or that one of 
 this family, enough to make a curious volume, could they all be 
 collected together. 
 
 MORE OF THE MURDER. 
 
 A recent number of the State Register says that Polk County 
 was disgraced by a mob of citizens in the hanging of Howard, and 
 now Story County has been disgraced by a mob of its citizens in 
 the hanging of Mr. Kirkman. — (1875.) 
 
 The first part of the Register’s statement above, is correct, 
 namely, that Polk County was disgraced by the hanging of How- 
 ard by a mob; but the second part, namely, that Story County has 
 been disgraced by a mob of its citizens in the hanging of Kirkman, 
 is not correct. The facts developed by the testimony of nearly 
 seventy-five witnesses who appeared before the coroner’s jury as 
 near as we can find out, casts no suspicion upon any citizen in 
 Story County as being engaged in the murder of the late Greo. N. 
 Kirkman. All of the parties arrested upon suspicion, thus far, are 
 residents of Polk County. Not one of the five arrested on Sunday 
 and Monday last, reside in Story County. In short we believe that 
 the late inhuman and brutal murder of Greo. N. Kirkman is the 
 result of the loose way in which the Howard murder was inquired 
 into and the semi-official winking at it, given it by the Polk 
 County authorities. We don’t claim that the Polk County people, 
 generally, are any more evily disposed than the majority of the 
 people of Story, but it is nevertheless a fact, that in this particular 
 case, all of the suspicioned characters do reside in that county. At 
 this writing, Thursday afternoon, the Grrand Jury are still investi- 
 gating the case, but what conclusion they will arrive at we cannot 
 
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History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
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 say. We can only hope that a sutScient amount of evidence will 
 be brought to light to clearly establish the guilt of the correct par- 
 ties, and that they may be brought to speedy and sure justice, if 
 such a thing as justice, under our present laws can be meeted out 
 to them. 
 
 ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FOLLOW MADE UP OF 
 DIFFERENT DATES AS SELECTED FROM OUR 
 COUNTY PAPERS AND OTHERWISE. 
 
 Summer of 1876 we cull : “ The McHose boys have made this 
 season over six hundred thousand brick. The most of them have 
 been used in building the new Court House. As they have the 
 contract for that nearly filled they are now prepared to fill all 
 orders from a church to a chimney.” 
 
 July, 1876, — “The ninth number of Highway Papers, Rev. I. 
 Reid, editor, has just been issued from this office. For the last 
 three or four numbers 800 copies have been issued each time. This 
 large edition shows the popularity and acceptableness of it to 
 its readers. May it continue to increase till its issue shall be num- 
 bered by thousands.” 
 
 September, 1876. — A serious accident happened to Mr. Wm. Coke, 
 of Lincoln Township on Thursday of last week. While out hunting 
 he had the misfortune to accidentally discharge his gun in such a 
 manner as to shoot off his left arm and two fingers of his 
 right hand. 
 
 July, 1876. — “ Mr. J. B. Randall, the Court House contractor, 
 was in town last week, viewing the progress of the building. The 
 Court House is now completed to the top of the first story windows 
 and the joist for the second floor are being laid over portions of the 
 structure. The building now begins to show something of its style 
 and beauty, and that it will be truly a magnificent structure. The 
 oval caps for the windows are truly ornamental and already add 
 much beauty to the building, even in its unfinished state.” 
 
 July, 1876. — “Mr. W. G. Allen has invented a new way of 
 attaching barbs to wire fence, which for durability or stability ex- 
 ceeds any other device we ever saw. The barbs can be attached to 
 old fences as well as new, and they remain absolutely secure in the 
 position in which they are put. A patent has just been secured, 
 and eastern parties are already in communication with Mr. Allen 
 in reference to the purchase of the right.” 
 
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 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 1878. — “ Daring the month of November the business transac- 
 tions at the Nevada depot were as follows : 
 
 Freight Beceioed. Charges. 
 
 No. cars of lumber, 45 11,757.86 
 
 “ “ other freight, 67 789.99 
 
 “ lbs. of merchandise, 214,817 919.79 
 
 “ cars of grain, 38 2,053.37 
 
 “ “ live stock, 11 704.50 
 
 “ “ other freight, 3 39.96 
 
 “ lbs. of merchandise, 41,214 158.26 
 
 “ tickets sold, 897 806.74 
 
 January 2, 1878. — “ Mr. Tho. Hemstock’s residence was destroyed 
 by fire about two weeks ago, total loss being about $2,000. It was 
 insured in the Hawkeye of Des Moines for $500, which amount he 
 will doubtless receive promptly. A policy for $750 in some other 
 company expired in September last, and consequently will be of no 
 account in the present loss. Cause, a defective flue.” 
 
 January 2, 1878. — “Messrs. Jacobs, Mead & Co., lost one shipment 
 of dressed poultry during the recent warm weather, amounting in 
 value to about $800. A very important item about these days.” 
 
 1878. — “ At a re-union of the Jones family at the house of W. J. 
 Freed, near Ontario, Story County, on May 30th, there were pres- 
 ent sixty-three men, women and children, among whom were Mr. 
 Giles Ayls worth and wife, of Porter County, Indiana; also his two 
 sons living near here, and their families; Mr. T. F. Jones of Ames, 
 his six sons and one daughter, three of whom had their families, 
 and others to make up the above number. The occasion was one 
 of much good feeling and enjoyment, and was appreciated by all, 
 especially those engaged in getting up the party.” (Incident 
 extra.) “ Mr. W. J. Freed had a hive of bees to throw off a swarm 
 on May 5th, another May 17th, another on May 18th, and another 
 on May 24th.” 
 
 June 5, 1878. — “The first postal money-order was issued seven 
 years ago last Sunday.” 
 
 September 20, 1878. — “Four loads of hogs were brought in Tues- 
 day all the way from White Oak Grove, Polk County, more than 
 half way to Des Moines, and sold for $3.10 per 100 lbs. to T. J. 
 Ross.” 
 
 September 20, 1878. — “ The six prisoners confined in the jail got 
 up another scene last Tuesday evening and attracted some atten- 
 tion. They took advantage of the absence of Mr. Tyler and barri- 
 caded the doors, and when Joe Morse took up their suppers they 
 refused to admit him. Sheriff Gillespie was called, and when he 
 demanded them to remove the barricade, which they had made by 
 taking to pieces the bedsteads, they still refused, and, after consid- 
 
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 erable talk, in which the prisoners appeared very defiant, the 
 Sheriff, in order to give them to understand that he meant business, 
 fired a couple of shots through the grating of the door, which had 
 the desired effect, and they at once removed the obstruction. There 
 is no doubt but what these prisoners are a hard lot, but it is a 
 disgrace to our county to have a jail with only one room in which 
 to keep prisoners, be they many or few, male or female.’" 
 
 The above opinion as to a jail of one room only for prisoners, 
 the writer hereof thinks the same. Such an arrangement for a 
 jail is a shameful disgrace. “Just so long as so many prisoners 
 are kept in one room there will be trouble, and the wonder is that 
 it is not more serious. Prisoners should behave themselves. Still 
 they should have decent quarters.” 
 
 On Sunday morning last Mr. Jas. Dillon, of Richland township, 
 had three cows knocked down by lightning, one being killed out- 
 right. Mr. Cyrus Padleford had one cow killed by the same storm. 
 All insured though, Mr. Sugart informs us in the Hawkeye, of Des 
 Moines. — (October 2, 1878.) 
 
 TO THE PUBLIC AT LARUE. 
 
 The ladies of the W.‘C. T. U., of Nevada, would call the atten- 
 tion to the Reading Room that has been established in this place, 
 under the auspices of this Union. — (January 2, 1878.) 
 
 Gentlemen, we offer you a neat and pleasant room, well warmed 
 and well lighted, with plenty of good reading to while the hours 
 away. 
 
 And to them who are verging into manhood, we extend a cordial 
 invitation. Boys we gladly welcome you to our Reading Room, 
 and trust you will there gain much information and knowledge 
 that will be of use to you now and in the coming years. 
 
 The following is a partial list of the papers and Magazines to be 
 found at this place for the amusement, entertainment and instruc- 
 tion of those who avail themselves of its benefit : 
 
 Harper’s Weekly; New York Observer; Pomeroy’s Democrat; 
 The Witness; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated; Our Union; Daily Inter- 
 Ocean; Christian at Work; The Living Issue; Scribner’s Monthly, 
 etc., etc. Mrs. E. B. POTTER, 
 
 ’ Sec. of W. C. T. U. 
 
 JUDGE McFarland and the horse races. 
 
 In 1854 or ’55 there was an election being held in a hut of some 
 kind, situated near where the old “Tan Yard” was afterwards 
 located — near where the Jones Bechtel house is situated. Well, 
 while voting in full glee was going on, news came to the judges 
 
 
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 and clerks o£ the election, that in a few minutes a horse race would 
 take place, probably near where the railroad depot now is in 
 Nevada. Well, these said otficers of the ballot-box concluded to 
 adjourn to see the races, taking the ballot-box with them. After 
 the races were over they returned to the hut and renewed the vot- 
 ing conflict. But by this adjournment they learned that “one 
 horse did not run as fast as the other.” 
 
 H. C. French, Esq., of our county, probably the only surviving 
 officer now of that occasion, can tell you more. 
 
 About these times, (1855), C. J. McFarland, Judge of the Court 
 then for Story County, is said to have had the happy faculty of 
 impressing men into the service to get the drinks, as he termed it, 
 which was usually as follows: “He would select his man, always a 
 liberal hearted farmer, and have an attorney make a motion for his 
 admission to practice as an attorney of the Courts. The Judge 
 would appoint a committee to examine the applicant. The quali- 
 fications were to furnish the whisky. When that was done the 
 committee would report favorably, and the party would be sworn 
 in as an attorney of the Court. But if he refused, (to furnish 
 whisky,) he would be reprimanded by the Judge for contempt of 
 Court. In this way, Wm. H. James, Samuel Davidson, Eli H. 
 French, Franklin Thompson and S. P. O’Brien, all farmers of 
 medium capacity, were admitted to practice as attorneys of the 
 Court, none of whom ever attempted to practice. During Court 
 the Judge would stealthily, at times, slip down from his seat and 
 make a visit to his whisky bottle which was hidden outside the 
 Court House. Sometimes he would engage, with the outsiders, in 
 a scuffle, or in jumping, while a trial was going on inside. On one 
 occasion, or more than one, he had to be sent for by some of the 
 attorneys who were much excited in their case. The Judge went 
 in and boisterously called out; “What’s up? What’s wanting?” After 
 getting things quieted down a little — the Judge and attorneys — he 
 would take, from a side pocket, a flask of whisky and drink, and 
 invite others to drink, after which they would proceed to business. 
 
 “In 1856, Judge McFarland, in charging the Brand Jury, in 
 Marion County, Iowa, is reported to have said: ‘This Maine Liquor 
 Law, fanatics made it, and some people think it unconstitutional, 
 but that is none of your business. It is your business to indict all 
 persons who sell liquor. There is plenty of liquor sold in this 
 town. If you want to know where it is sold, wait until Court ad- 
 journs and watch the bystanders and see where the Judge goes.’ ” 
 
 September 20, 1878. — “During the month of August there were 
 shipped from the station, (Nevada,) sixty cars of grain; seven cars 
 of live stock; nine cars of other goods, and 73,499 lbs. of other 
 freight. Total charges on freight shipped $4,490.61. During the 
 same time there were received thirty-three cars of lumber and six- 
 teen cars and 222,114 lbs. of other freight. Total charges on 
 
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 freight received 12.465.61. There were also 949 tickets sold for 
 $827.31.’^ 
 
 1878. — Railroad business at this station, (Nevada,) for the month 
 of September was as follows: 
 
 Received. — Lumber, thirty-three cars, charges $940.12; Other 
 freight, twenty-two cars, charges $431.59; Merchandise, 435,055 lbs. 
 charges, $1,028.8. Total — $2,400.51. 
 
 Forwarded. — Grrain, fifty-nine cars, charges $3,074.93; Stock, • 
 nineteen cars, charges $1,139.98; Other freights, thirteen cars, 
 charges $278.93; Merchandise, 104,585 lbs., charges $547.76; 
 Tickets sold $1,036,79; Total $5,078.37; Total business, $8,478.90. 
 
 September 20, 1878.— “John Nass, aged fifty, a shoemaker, of 
 Story County, was brought before the insane committee Tuesday, 
 who heard the case and pronounced him insane and ordered him 
 conveyed to the Asylum at Independence, whither he was taken by 
 Deputy Sheriff Tyler. He is impressed with the idea that he is 
 doomed to endless punishment, and his mind is hopelessly gone,” 
 
 October 2, 1878. — “Messrs. Dutton & Son have just had shipped 
 to their bank, to accommodate the business wants of the com- 
 munity, $1,000 legal tender silver dollars. They paid for them 
 $1,000 in currency, besides paying three or four dollars expressage 
 to get them here. Mr. Dutton told us in speaking of this ship- 
 ment, that they paid in about a year over sixty dollars expressage 
 on small change, silver dimes, quarters, halves, dollars, &c., besides 
 paying full face value of the money which they had shipped to 
 this town to accommodate the business wants of this community.” 
 
 December 20, 1878. — “Six cars of hogs and cattle were shipped 
 from this station to Chicago last Saturday.” 
 
 December 20, 1878. — “W. H. Mead has riow a force of twenty 
 men employed in his poultry packing establishment. The poultry 
 is dry picked, entrails drawn, head taken off, then after cooled, 
 packed in barrels and boxes and shipped to Boston. Mr Meads^ 
 father is one of the largest commission dealers in that city, and is 
 the owner of a large refrigerator there. He handles all of W. H.’s 
 poultry, and if the market is not good when the consignments 
 arrive, he places them in. his refrigerator and holds them until the 
 market advances. Hence W. H. has the inside track.” 
 
 January 12, 1881. — “On Thursday evening of last week, a small 
 portion of the friends of Capt. I. L. Smith, made a raid on him in 
 the Clerk’s office, for the purpose of a thorough examination of his 
 official bond and properly inaugerating him upon his third term. 
 The meeting was called to order by Supervisor R. W. Ballard, and 
 upon motion of Supervisor Ersland the matter of approving his 
 official bond was opened for discussion. Mr. F. D. Thompson 
 thought his bond should not be approved, for on or about Decem- 
 ber twenty-sixth, after the fire had gone out in his stove, he put 
 
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 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 red tissue paper behind the isinglass intending to defraud the 
 public with the idea that the stove still contained fire and gave 
 forth warmth. Mr. Irwin opposed the approval of his bond because 
 he hung a thermometer up in his office against the chimney where 
 it marked ninety-four degrees, whereas the real temperature was not 
 over sixty degrees. Other charges were made equally grave and 
 damaging to his reputation, especially one by Dr. Farrer, to all of 
 which the Captain plead guilty, but for the purpose of eliciting a 
 favorable verdict from the crowd, took all hands down to Welton’s 
 restaurant and set up the oysters, whereupon his bond was pro- 
 nounced good and sufficient for two years to come. The oysters 
 pulled him through.” 
 
 April 20,1881. — “Mr. John Reeve, near Colo, the other day, 
 sold a bunch of steers, 18 in the lot, for ^4.60 per 100 lbs., that av- 
 eraged in weight 1,340 lbs. At these figures the cattle netted him 
 the snug little sum of ^1,109.52 cents. They were pronounced 
 an extra fine lot of cattle for their age, and brought the top figures 
 of the market.” 
 
 April 20, 1881. — “Railroad. — Nevada proposes to have a Nar- 
 row Grauge Wabash plug as well as all the other towns along the 
 Northwestern, and consequently held a railroad meeting last 
 Wednesday evening to take the subject under consideration. After 
 giving railroad matters generally a pretty thorough discussion, 
 a general railroad committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. 
 T. C. McCall, Jas. Hawthorn, J. F. Grillespie, J, R. Hays, and 
 W. K. Boardman.” 
 
 May 13, 1881. — “ Mr. D. F. Shope, of Iowa Center, shipped two 
 car loads of cattle of his own raising last Tuesday. They were 
 a fine lot of cattle.” 
 
 July 1, 1881. — “ Mr. A. M. Norris shipped several cars of cattle 
 from Colo during the past few days, some of which are claimed 
 to be ahead of any shipped this season from that locality. He 
 is shipping largely and appears to be making a good thing, which 
 we trust is the case. The amount of stock shipped by him each 
 year is large, and by thus raising, buying and shipping, he is doing 
 a good thing for himself and neighbors.” 
 
 July 1, 1881. — “The railroad tax in Nevada Township carried 
 with a round majority. The vote stood 222 for and 36 against.” 
 
 May, 1882. — “ Robert Hannum has at last concluded to remove 
 his flouring mill to Odebolt, in fact he has already commenced 
 taking down the machinery and shipping it there. We hope 
 his new location will prove as profitable as he anticipates it 
 will be.” 
 
 “ Friejstdship. — In the forenoon of life a man has an idea that 
 it would take a mighty big church to hold his friends, if they 
 
 
 
 
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 should all be drawn to the same sanctuary at the same time. But 
 ere the dentist put in his second set of teeth he has about come 
 to the conclusion that one of the short pews near the stove would 
 not be crowded if they should all sit down to warm their feet.” 
 
 October 27, 1880. — A serious accident occurred in Lincoln Town- 
 ship last week, resulting in the death of a young man by the name 
 of Young. A railroad meeting had been held at the Wickham 
 school house,, and in going home several parties on horseback 
 engaged in racing, the horse that Mr. Young was riding throwing 
 and injuring him so that he died in a few days afterwards.” 
 
 KILLED BY THE CAES. 
 
 Mr. Greorge Winger t, a brother of Mr. A. F. Wingert, of Milford 
 Township, was killed instantly by the cars at Grlidden, about 
 two weeks ago. He was a brakeman on Conductor W. M. Gallup’s 
 train, and was in the act of coupling cars, when his head was 
 caught by a projecting piece of timber on one of the cars and 
 crushed. He fell on the track and three cars passed over his body. 
 His remains were brought to this place and taken in charge by his 
 brother who conveyed them to Franklin Grove, 111., for burial. He 
 had only been on the train for a short time, but was considered a 
 good and trusty employe, as he had a considerable experience years 
 before in railroading in Illinois.— Sept. 21, 1881. 
 
 FAEMEES PEOTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Pursuant to call published, quite a number of the farmers of 
 Story County met at the Court House on last Saturday and organ- 
 ized a Protective Association. The object is to aid the State Asso- 
 ciation in fighting the barbed wire monopoly, and other matters of 
 like interest. 
 
 C. P. McCord was elected President, A. M. Norris, Vice Presi- 
 dent, Col. John Scott, Secretary, and E. F. Farington, Treasurer 
 — Sept. 21, 1881. 
 
 There will be a meeting at the Fair grounds on the last day of 
 the fair at 11 o’clock. 
 
 December 28, 1881.—“ Work on the C. M. & St. P. railroad is 
 crowding along very fast, the rails are laid to Indian Creek, and the 
 surfacers are only a few miles behind finishing the track. Freight- 
 ing to a limited extent will commence in a few days.” 
 
 December 28, 1881. — “We had a case of mysterious shooting 
 near the county line last week, Mr. L. Rhinesmidt was preparing to 
 retire about 9 p. m. when some unknown person fired a shot 
 through the window, the ball taking effect in the breast, shattering 
 a rib and glanced around the body and was cut out of his back. 
 The doctors consider it a dangerous wound. No clue to the as- 
 sassin.” 
 
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 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 AUNT DINAH’S HYMN. 
 
 [^Augusta Chronicle.^ 
 
 De sinner see de mote in de Christian eye, 
 
 He can’t see the beam in he own ; 
 
 He had better go home and keep he house clean, 
 
 An’ let God’s chillen alone.’ 
 
 I’m gwine home to glory, 
 
 Gwine to de shinin’ town, 
 
 Gwine to tell my story. 
 
 An’ wear the golden crown. 
 
 De sinner find fault wid he knows not what. 
 
 Can’t put nuttin’ better in de place ; 
 
 Better go er seekin’ on de solitary path. 
 
 An’ git aboard de old ship o’ Grace, 
 
 For de lightnin’ it am flashin’. 
 
 The thunder loud do roll, 
 
 De mitey wave am dashin’. 
 
 Oh, sinner, save your soul ! 
 
 De sinners stumble on in er great big crowd, 
 
 Er gropin’ wid de halt an’ de blind, 
 
 Dey makes a heap of noise to keep their spirits up. 
 But they’re lackin’ of de Christian mind. 
 
 Don’t turn to Satan callin’, 
 
 , But tuk de helpin’ hand, 
 
 ’Twill s’port you in your toilin’ 
 
 ’Long wid the chosen band. 
 
 Dey had better keep time to de music of de just. 
 
 An’ jine in de singin’ wid de band, 
 
 An’ try mitey hard to be among de fust 
 Dat am pushin’ for de promised land, 
 
 Whar de holy lamp am burnin’, 
 
 Whar de saints in glory stand. 
 
 To meet de soul returnin’ 
 
 Home to de happy land. 
 
 For de gospel’s train am cornin’ on fast, 
 
 Sinner, git er ticket while you kin ; 
 
 It’s crowded wid de saints, an’ will push on past 
 If you don’t hurry up an^ git in. 
 
 I’m gwine home to glory. 
 
 To Canaan’s happy land, 
 
 I’m gwine to tell my story. 
 
 An’ wid de blessed stand. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 DE LOR OB DE LORD. 
 
 83 
 
 [ Independent.^ 
 
 In dis wo’ful worF can’t I do as I please ? 
 
 Guess not brudder, guess not. 
 
 Can’t I set right down an’ take my ease, 
 
 Wid all I can beg an’ borrer and seize. 
 
 My head on my ban’s, my ban’s on my knees ? 
 Guess not, brudder, guess not. 
 
 Won’t some rich ’lation take pity on me ? 
 
 ’ Guess not, brudder, guess not. 
 
 Can’t I ’proach de roost whar de fat hens be. 
 
 An’ do it so sly dat nobody ’ll see. 
 
 An’ den git off wid no dog after me ? 
 
 Guess not, brudder, guess not. 
 
 Don’ you tink dat de lazy man git froo de gate? 
 
 Guess not, brudder, 'guess not. 
 
 Ef he don’t hurry up will he be too late ? 
 
 An’ den won’t he hev in- anodder state 
 A second perbation, an’ come out at lass 
 Jes’ as good as though he had trabbled fass ? 
 
 Guess not, brudder, guess not. 
 
 Ef I don’t want de debbil to scratch on my grave. 
 
 Go on, brudder, go on, 
 
 An’ holler, “ Cum up here, you old jack-a-knave, 
 
 I’ve waited an’ waited for you, honey dear ; 
 
 Git up outer dar, an’ cum along here : 
 
 Go on, brudder, go on. 
 
 I’se got a little corner close by de fire — 
 
 Ef you ain’t warm enuff you can hitch up nigher.” 
 
 Go on, brudder, go on. 
 
 An’ I say, Misser Debbil, I ain’t your son ; 
 
 You is werry kin’ to dig, but you’ve dug de wrong one. 
 
 “ I truss in de Lord, an’ he is lookiA for me ; 
 Good-by, Misser Debbil” — ^do you s’pose dat he 
 Will erpologize, and let me go free ? 
 
 Jess so, brudder, jess so. 
 
 An’ from dat narrer escape can I fiy 
 Up to Jerusalem in de sky ? 
 
 Jess so, brudder, jess so. 
 
 Well, den I guess I won’t do as I please. 
 
 An’ I won’t res’ my ban’s too much on my knees ; 
 
 As nigh as I possible can. I’ll do right ; 
 
 So I won’t be afraid ob de Lord’s daylight. 
 
 Jess so, brudder, jess so. 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 FIRST BIG FIRE AT NEVADA. 
 
 The fire started in the second story of Y. A. Ballou’s building on 
 west side of Linn street soon after midnight on the second day of 
 December, 1880. The building where the fire started was occupied 
 at the time by R. Gr. Nelson as a drug store ; the upper room 
 by Dr. Sheldon, dentist. The fire burnt north to Alderman’s 
 hardware building, and south and west to the Opera Hall building. 
 How the fire originated is not surely known, but it had a start. 
 The total loss was estimated, or supposed to be about 150,000. 
 There was some insurance. The wind was not blowing much 
 at the time, consequently the buildings on the east side of Linn 
 street were saved. The losses were as follows : 
 
 D. S. Snyder, shop, $76. 
 
 James Hawthorn, building, $125. 
 
 Boyd & Child, meat market, $1,500. 
 
 Funson & Cook, law office, $150. * 
 
 J. C. Miller, jewelry and residence, $1,000 ; insured for $700. 
 
 Jas. Hawthorn, building, $3,000 ; insured for $1,500. 
 
 Tobey & Edwards, goods ; insured for $5,000. 
 
 Stevens & Bro., butter and eggs, $75. 
 
 S. F. Balliet, law office, $200. 
 
 J. L. Dana, law office, $150. 
 
 Zwilling Bros., dry goods and building, $10,000; insured for 
 $4,000. 
 
 C. H. Balliet, law office, $150. 
 
 J. R. McDonald, law office, $150. 
 
 Dr. Schooler, office, $50. / 
 
 Tupper Bros., meat market, $1,000. 
 
 Otis Briggs, building, $800. 
 
 M. C. Allen, law office, $200. 
 
 y. A. Ballou, building, $1,000. 
 
 R. G. Nelson, drug store, $3,000 ; insured for $2,000. 
 
 A. C. Sheldon, dentist, $1,000. 
 
 Tuffree & Co., daguerrean, $450 ; insured for $200. 
 
 Carhart & Statler, building, $1,000. 
 
 Carhart Bros., groceries, $2,500 ; insured for $500. 
 
 Hall of Masons and Odd Fellows, $1,000. 
 
 C. W . Welton, hotel, $3,000 ; insured for $500. 
 
 Joe Davis, barber, $150. 
 
 McCall & Thompson, office. 
 
 D. J. Vinge. 
 
 Wm. Hansell, jeweler, $300. 
 
 M. M. Ross, building. 
 
 Mayo & Yan Horn, saloon, $100. 
 
 Alderman & Son, shed, etc., $200. 
 
 Z. Shugart, office fixtures, $100. 
 
 This entire row made vacant by the fire (except McC. & T.’s cor- 
 ner and west about to the Opera block) is now built up with superb 
 brick buildings, now the best brick row in the county. The cost 
 
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 of these blocks and others in Nevada can be found on a subse- 
 quent page. 
 
 BOAED OF SUPEEVISOES — ACTION OF (1881). 
 
 On motion it was ordered that the Nevada Representative and 
 Ames Intelligencer be and is hereby declared to be the ofl&cial 
 papers of Story County for the ensuing year. 
 
 On motion it was ordered that J. 0. Weatherby be and is hereby 
 allowed the sum of $150, said amount to be paid from the poor 
 fund, and to apply on his contract for completion of the county 
 infirmary. 
 
 The Auditor was, on motion, authorized to approve the bond of 
 the Steward of the county farm, and also official bonds that may be 
 brought in hereafter. • 
 
 Salaries for the various officers for the year 1881, were on motion 
 fixed as follow: 
 
 Treasurer $1,500.00 
 
 Deputy Treasurer 550.00 
 
 Auditor..... 'Z.; i 20o!oO 
 
 P^P^lty Auditor. 55 O .00 
 
 Clerk..... 1,300.00 
 
 Deputy Clerk. loo.oo 
 
 County Superintendent, per diem and 200.00 
 
 Recorder, the fees provided by law. 
 
 faemee’s peotective association. 
 
 At a meeting of the farmers of Story County held at the Court 
 House in Nevada, September 17, 1881, it was agreed to organize a 
 Farmer s Protective Association subject to the constitution and by- 
 laws of the State Association of Iowa. C. P. McCord was chosen 
 Chairman and A. M. Norris Secretary. — (September 23,1881.) 
 
 The following names were enrolled as members of said associa- 
 tion: 
 
 ■ Col. John Scott, Nevada. 
 
 C. P. McCord, Iowa Center. 
 
 S. 1. Shearer, Collins Center. 
 
 Oliver Stevenson, Nevada. 
 
 A. M. Norris, Colo. 
 
 A. Hale, Collins Center. 
 
 E. P. Farrington, Collins Center. 
 
 B. R. Shinkles, Collins Center. 
 
 R. J. Barber, Nevada. 
 
 Stephen Turkington, Nevada. 
 
 0. Gr. Ashford, Nevada. 
 
 A. S. McCord, Iowa Center. 
 
 J. W. McCord, Iowa Center. 
 
 John Cook, Nevada. 
 
 Sol Young, Nevada. 
 
 E. W. Shearer, Edenville. 
 
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 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 On motion proceeded to election of officers, resulting as follows: 
 C. P. McCord, President ; Col. John Scott, Secretary ; A, M. 
 Norris, Vice President and E. P. Farrington, Treasurer for the 
 year ending June first, 1882, or until their successors are elected 
 and qualified. Adjourned to meet at Fair Grround, Thursday of the 
 fair at 11 A. m. C. P. McCord, Chairman. 
 
 A. M. Norris, Secretary. 
 
 RE-UFTIOFT OF THE THIRTY-SECOUD IOWA. 
 
 The re-union of the 32d Iowa Infantry, Col. Scott’s old regi- 
 ment, at Iowa Falls, about two weeks ago, was an extremely enjoy- 
 able affair to the survivors of that veteran regiment, and one that 
 will long be remembered. Of the thousand that the regiment was 
 supposed to have contained when the boys first put on the blue, 
 one hundred and forty was all that could be got together sixteen 
 years after the close of the war. From this county were Col. 
 Scott, T. C. McCall, Geo. Child and A. 0. Hall, and all united in 
 giving great credit to those who managed the arrangement and 
 received the veterans as they arrived from different parts of the 
 State. One hundred and forty soldiers requiring one hundred and 
 forty long and hearty hand shakes for each one, a co-temporary 
 estimates, was equal to about 6,000,000 shakes, and the Story 
 County representatives rub their shoulders and say they think the 
 shakes are not over estimated. The feature of the re-union was a 
 neat and patriotic address by Miss Clara M. Byam, of Hopkinton, 
 daughter of Surgeon Byam, of the Regiment. She was afterwards 
 unanimously chosen the daughter of the Regiment. — (September 
 Id, 1881.) 
 
 RE-UmOJY. 
 
 Remember, all the soldiers of Story County, of whatever regi- 
 ment they may have been members, or from whatever State 
 enlisted, will meet in a re-union at Ames, on Friday and Saturday 
 next. All Mexican soldiers as well as those of the Rebellion are 
 also invited, and We presume if there are any of the war of 1812 in 
 the county, they are especially invited. — (September Id, 1881.) 
 
 FIRE m AMES. 
 
 This afternoon, just as we were going to press, the news was tel- 
 ephoned from Ames that the drug store of Ed. Barstow was on fire 
 and the fire beyond control. As that was in the central part of 
 town the fire company was called out and started for their assist- 
 ance. But before a train could be procured, better news came 
 down and our fire boys returned. The drug store was wholly 
 consumed, the hardware store next to it was partly destroyed and 
 then the fire was extinguished. It must have taken excellent organ- 
 ization and hard work. W e have not learned the amount of the ^ 
 losses. — (January 25, 1882.) 
 
87 
 
 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 FIRE. 
 
 Nevada’s second scorching. 
 
 Another block in ashes. 
 
 Eleven buildings in the business part of town wiped out. 
 
 Loss $15,000 to $20,000. 
 
 Insurance $5,500 to $6,000. 
 
 This morning, a little before three o’clock, the alarm of fire was 
 sounded, and the people were speedily on hand to save what they 
 could, and witness another conflagation. The fire was first dis- 
 covered by Mr. Groldsberry and family, who were living up stairs in 
 the building adjoining the express office. Mr. Groldsberry woke up 
 through the effects of smoke, and finding his feet getting unusually 
 warm, to discover that the whole corner of the building he was in 
 and the drug store building adjoining, were all ablaze. His son, 
 Carl Groldsberry, saw the fire about the same time and commenced 
 giving the alarm. The fire was so far advanced that the family 
 only had time to save themselves, without even getting sufficient 
 clothes together to dress. In their milliner and dress-making shop 
 below, one show case was carried out and that was all that was 
 saved. Their total loss was not less than $2,500 with only $700 
 insurance. 
 
 The drug store stock owned by Mr. Nelson was wholly lost, but 
 was insured to the extent of $2,000. Total loss about $2,500. 
 
 The two buildings were owned by Mr. S. J- Mills and valued by 
 him at $3,500. Insured for $1,000. 
 
 The next building north was McCall & Thompson’s office, worth 
 perhaps $500, and we believe was not insured. The law books and 
 furniture were got out. 
 
 Next north was Mr. D. F. Whipple’s grocery. The stock was 
 got out, all but the safe, but Mr. Whipple estimates his loss on 
 building and stock at $4,500, with $2,500 insurance. 
 
 The furniture building next was owned by Mr. M. L. Borgen 
 and valued at $1,500. No insurance. The stock of furniture was 
 owned by D. D. Briggs, but all in the lower part and in the front 
 room in the upper part was got out, though a good deal damaged 
 in moving. Loss and damage estimated at $1,000. Insured at 
 $ 1 , 000 . 
 
 Mr. Highland’s shoe shop, loss estimated at $100. 
 
 Mr. C. Leonard’s saloon next. Building owned by Otis Briggs, 
 valued at $1,000, no insurance. Everything moved out. 
 
 Next, Mrs. Coggshall milliner and dress-making shop. Groods all 
 moved out. Building owned by Otis Briggs, vallued at $300. 
 
 Next building owned by Otis Briggs, valued at $200, and occu- 
 pied by D. D. Briggs with furniture. No insurance on building. _ 
 
 Carhart Bro., came next but succeeded in removing all their 
 stock of groceries. Building owned by Otis Briggs and valued at 
 $800. 
 
 Dress-making shop of Mrs. M. A. Glreen next, stock all removed. 
 Building owned by Otis Briggs, valued at $100. 
 
88 Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 This completes the list ot buildings, eleven in all, not very large 
 in size, but all within the fire limits and cannot be replaced except v: 
 
 with brick. It swept the whole block on our main street except * ■ A 
 
 two on the corner owned by W. S. Waldron, and M. L. Borgen’s 
 brick manufacturing shop. The side of Mr. W aldron’s next to the 
 fire and only about twenty feet from it, was veneered with a four = 
 
 inch brick wall. By the aid of that and keeping the roofs wet n 
 
 these were saved, although the roof of one was several times on - 
 
 fire. The occupants, Mrs. Burgess, with millinery and dress mak- ' : 
 
 ing, Mr. Dayton, with jewelry, clocks, &c., &c., and Mr. Erickson, '■ | 
 
 with tailoring, moved nearly everything out of the buildings, cans- ' 
 
 ing considerable damage, but no great loss other than that. 
 
 * Messrs. Otis Briggs, Goldsberry, S. J. Mills and D. F. Whipple j 
 
 are the heaviest actual losers. The loss to others was the result of .j 
 
 moving stock, and in breakage. | 
 
 This is Mr. Nelson’s, Carhart Bros, and McCall & Thompson’s 
 second burning out in little over a year. 
 
 Carhart Bros have rented the old post-office building of Mr. 
 
 Beatty and moved their stock into it. ! 
 
 Mr. Whipple moved his stock into the building just south of the 
 Presbyterian church. 
 
 D. D. Briggs takes Otis Briggs old drug store building, next to 
 Mr. Ringheim’s. 
 
 The express office, which Mr. Mills kept in his building with Mr. ^ 
 
 Nelson’s drug store, experienced some loss, but as he happened to y 
 
 have the books home with him for the purpose of making monthly 
 settlement, it was not great. ' 
 
 The origin of the fire is not definitely known, but the best judg- * 
 
 ment seem to indicate that it was the result of a defective chimney „ ^ 
 
 in Mr. Mill’s express building. If not that, it must have been set 
 on fire, but as yet no one knows of any cause for incendiarism. 
 
 The whole west side of the street of the business part of town, 
 excepting Alderman’s and Waldron’s buildings, have now been 
 burned in a little over a year. 
 
 Where will it strike next? 
 
 Railroad engineer McCormick on a freight train going west stop- 
 ped his train on the track and whistled until he aroused all of the 
 north side of town. 1 
 
 Mr. R. G. Nelson, we understand, will probably not open out | 
 
 again in town but return to Eddyville. j 
 
 The fire company was out, but for want of water were unable to I 
 
 stop the fire’s progress till the block had been consumed. | 
 
 The express office will be at the depot till Superintendent W. J. ! 
 
 Hancock arrives and re-locates it. . I 
 
 Among the incidents may be mentioned that of Henry Arm- ' 
 
 strong getting a small piece cut off of the end of his thumb. ; 
 
 In recapitulating, the various losses may be put as follows, 
 besides the damage in moving : 
 
 "'ii&aeaHHH v-' 
 
History of 'Story County, Iowa. 89 
 
 Goldsberry. .... 
 
 
 Total loss. 
 
 Insured 
 $ 700.00 
 
 Mills 
 
 
 .... 3,500.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 McCall & Thompson 
 
 
 
 Whipple 
 
 
 
 2,500.00 
 
 Bergen 
 
 
 .... 1,500.00 
 
 
 D. D. Briggs 
 
 
 .... 1,000.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 Highland 
 
 • • • • 
 
 . . . . 100.00 
 
 
 Otis Briggs , 
 
 
 
 
 (January 25, 1882.) 
 
 
 $17,300.00 
 
 ■ $5,200.00 
 
 MAIL AWARDS. 
 
 No. 27,432, asks for bids to carry the mail between Nevada and 
 Maxwell, thirteen miles, three times a week and back, leaving Max- 
 well, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and Nevada on Mondays, 
 Wednesdays amd Fridays. Bond required with bid, $400. Pro- 
 posals will be received at the contract office until January 3, 1883, 
 and decision to be rendered March third, award by May nineteenth 
 and service to commence in July. 
 
 The above mail ceased to be carried January 1, 1887, any further 
 than from Maxwell to Iowa Center and back three times a week; 
 but about July 1, 1887, it will be carried through, as at first, from 
 Maxwell to Nevada three times a week and back. — (November 17, 
 1882.) 
 
 THE AGES OF THE PRESIDENTS. 
 
 The occurrence of President Arthur’s birthday, last Friday, sug- 
 gests a glance at the ages of the other twenty Presidents. Death 
 has made four Presidents, John Tyler, in 1841, when he was fifty- 
 one; Millard Fillmore, in 1850, when he was fifty; Andrew Johnson, 
 in 1865, when he was fifty-seven and Chester A. Arthur in 1881, 
 when he was fifty-one. Of the four Presidents who have died in 
 office, Garfield was the youngest when inaugurated, being but fifty; 
 Harrison died a month after his inauguration in 1841, at sixty-eight; 
 General Taylor sixteen months after his inauguration in 1849, at 
 sixty-six; and Lincoln four years and a little more than a month 
 after his first inauguration in 1861, at fifty-six. It is interesting 
 to notice that while Lincoln and Garfield died tragic deaths. Presi- 
 dent Harrison’s death was the result of a cold he caught while 
 going to market, and General Taylor’s the result of eating cherries 
 and drinking cold milk, after setting in the hot sun an hour dur- 
 ing the Fourth of July exercises at the Washington monument. 
 
 Washington was fifty-eight when first inaugurated in this city, 
 ninety-three years ago; John Adams, the first college-bred Presi- 
 dent, was sixty-one when inaugurated; Thomas Jefferson, who was 
 
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 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 educated at the College of William and Mary and in range of 
 knowledge is thought to compare favorably with Burke, was fifty- 
 eight; James Madison, a graduate of Princeton, was fifty-eight; 
 James Monroe, who left the College of William and Mary to join 
 the Revolutionary army, was fifty-nine; John Quincy Adams, who, 
 like John Adams, was a Harvard graduate, was fifty-eight; Andrew 
 Jackson was sixty-two; Martin Van Buren was fifty-five; James 
 K. Polk, who graduated at the University of North Carolina, was 
 fifty; Franklin Pierce, who graduated at Bowdoin College, was 
 forty-nine; James Buchanan, a graduate of Dickinson College, was 
 sixty-six_; Greneral Grrant, the only man West Point has trained for 
 the White House, was forty-seven and Rutherford B. Hayes, was 
 fifty-five. _ Thirteen of the Presidents, including Grarfield, a gradu- 
 ate of Williams College, and Arthur, who graduated at Union Col- 
 lege in 1848, have been college-bred men, but they reached the goal 
 of their ambition no earlier in life than the Presidents whose edu- 
 cational advantages were more limited. President Harrison gradu- 
 ated at Hampden Sidney College, and President Tyler at the Col- 
 lege of William and Mary. 
 
 General Grant was the youngest of the Presidents at the time of 
 inauguration, although he is now about six months older than 
 ex -President Hayes, and eight and a half older than President 
 Arthur. If he lives as long as the elder Adams, he has almost 
 thirty years before him. Five Presidents have lived more than 
 eighty years, John Adams dying at ninety; Jefferson at eighty- 
 three; Madison at eighty-five; John Q. Adams at eighty-one and 
 Martin Van Buren at eighty. Polk is the only President who died 
 a natural death at less than sixty years of age,, reaching but fifty- 
 four. Lincoln was cut off at fifty-six and Garfield at fifty-one. 
 The former would be but seventy-three were he now living. It is 
 evident that the office of Chief Executive is not unfavorable to 
 longevity . — Neic York Mail and Expt^ess. (1882.) 
 
 Sheriff Banks took Willie Richardson, of this city, to the Eldora 
 Reform School, Monday. He reports the new building a fine one 
 and the whole institution, now under the care of Superintendent 
 Mills, in first-class order. — (November 29, 1882.) 
 
 The following named persons have been elected to attend, as dele- 
 gates, to the Woman’s Suffrage Society, to be held in Des Moines 
 this week, Thursday: J. B. Fenn, N. G. Hambleton, M. J. Bixby, 
 H. J. Robinson, Mrs. H. F. Murphy and Mrs. K. Child. — (Novem- 
 ber 22, 1882.) 
 
 T. F. Talbot, the gentleman chosen to distribute the fund col- 
 lected for cyclone sufferers, visited Mount Pleasant last week. 
 Here is what the Free Press has to say on the subject: 
 
 “The amount disbursed in October was $6,514.84, making the 
 whole amount distributed in Henry County $7,284.84, being within 
 a trifle of one quarter of the whole State fund contributed, which 
 was a little less than $30,000. Of this amount Poweshiek County, 
 
History op Story County, Iowa. 91 
 
 I . . . 
 
 j in which is located Brooklyn and Malcora, has received ^12,415.37,. 
 
 Iowa County, $735, Clay County, $1,040, O’Brien, $875, Sioux, $150, 
 
 I Story, $4,005, Boone, $1,215, Marshall, $100, Humboldt, $200, and 
 
 I Mitchell, $1,320. (Damages for an October storm,) Glreen County 
 
 $300 and Henry $7,884.84.-1882. 
 
 Greorge W. Hemstock, who some time since received $500 from 
 the cyclone fund in the hands of Grovernor Sherman, has just 
 i received $700 additional from the same source. Mr. Hemstock was 
 
 k one of the greatest sufferers by last summer’s tornadoes, and the 
 
 aid is worthily bestowed. — {November 29, 1882.) 
 
 £? 
 
 i Colonel Scott has accepted an invitation to give an address before 
 
 ' the State Short Horn Breeder’s Association, of Michigan, at Lan- 
 
 ,| sing, December 21, 1882. 
 
 f' 
 
 Colonel Scott left Monday for Atlantic to be early on the 
 ground for the meeting of the Stock Breeder’s Association, which 
 ,j, , met in that city Tuesday evening, and of which the Colonel is 
 
 'i president. — (December 13, 1882.) 
 
 , f 
 
 A self-helpful little five year old, in trying to light a lamp in his 
 : bedroom, in the City Hotel, at Story City, Thanksgiving morning, 
 
 I, set fire to the papers and other combustibles in the room. The 
 
 ; timely arrival of assistance saved the child’s life and prevented a 
 
 J conflagation. — (December 13,1882.) 
 
 I The extreme cold weather of last Wednesday and Thursday suc- 
 
 |i ceeded in bursting about five hundred feet of the steam heating 
 
 r apparatus at the school building. In consequence of this state of 
 
 I things the schools have been adjourned until the second day of Jan- 
 
 r nary, 1883, when it is thought the apparatus will be in running^ 
 
 order again. — ^(December, 1882.) 
 
 Nevada is not the only place in which the steam heating appa- 
 , ratus of the school building was frozen up during the cold snap. 
 
 Webster City and Ames, we understand, are in about the same fix. 
 
 I — (December 13, 1882.) 
 
 Torkel Henryson, of Story City, expects to build a fish pond in 
 connection with his fine artisian well. Colonel Scott has furnished 
 the plans and takes a lively interest in the enterprise. — (December, 
 " 1882.) 
 
 ( The Edenville band, assisted by Miss Florence Dana, of this City, 
 
 rendered the operetta. Olivet, for the entertainment of the Eden- 
 villians, Friday and Saturday evenings; and thereby replenished its 
 treasury to the amount of fifty dollars. — (December 20, 1882.) 
 
 E. D. Fenn has taken preliminary steps to bring suit to recover 
 damages for injuries received at Des Moines last spring. There is 
 some prospect that the city will settle without further proceedings. 
 — (December 20, 1882.) 
 
Histoey op Story Couptty, Iowa. 
 
 The Davenport liquor case involving the validity of the prohibi- 
 tory amendment was argued before the Supreme Court at Des 
 Moines last week, beginning on Tuesday and ending on Friday 
 ihe arguments against the amendment were made by J. C. Bills 
 and Judge Wright; and for it, by Attorney General McPherson 
 and J. A. Harvey. The Court having adjourned, its decision will 
 ^t be rendered until after its re-assembling, January 16th. — 
 (December 20, 1882.) 
 
 m MEMORY OF LEONA C. THATCHER. 
 
 No longer pillowed on my bosom. 
 
 Rests Leona’s darling head; 
 
 The angels softly came and took her. 
 
 And she’s numbered with the dead. 
 
 My heart cries out for thee, Leona; 
 
 Let me fold thee to my breast. 
 
 As my tears for joy are falling 
 On my darling’s quiet rest. 
 
 While softly pillowed on my bosom 
 Rests Leona’s little head, 
 
 I start and wake; ’tis but a vision, 
 
 For Leona now is dead. 
 
 Yet brightest sunbeams seem to linger 
 All around that hallowed spot. 
 
 Where grim death with icy finger 
 Closed the eyes that see them not. 
 
 The grass will soon grow green above her, 
 
 Where^she lies in silent sleep. 
 
 And the birds their song will warble, 
 
 While the fiowers their vigils keep. 
 
 The clouds will oft drop tears of sadness. 
 
 When by zephyrs they are borne 
 O’er the grave where sleeps Leona, 
 
 Whose bright sun went down at morn. 
 
 While we grieve for dear Leona 
 Standing on time's fearful shore, 
 
 Life’s sad waves to us keep singing, 
 
 ^ “She is gone forevermore.” 
 
 Shall we meet her on that morning. 
 
 When we wake from our last sleep? 
 
 Is that day for us now dawning 
 When we shall no longer weep? 
 
 Mrs. R. M. Beckpter. 
 
 Palmer, Kansas, November 25, 1882. 
 
Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 93 
 
 Lockwood & Son shipped three cars of cattle, and a car of hogs 
 on Monday. — (December, 1882.) 
 
 Nevada, Iowa, 1883.— A letter, to be found in this issue, from 
 our old and respected citizen, W. G. Allen, contains suggestions 
 which are entitled to candid consideration. There is no doubt a 
 general desire among the voters of the county to know the posi- 
 tion of the respective legislative candidates on the prohibition 
 question; and to give or withhold their support according as such 
 position shall be satisfactory or otherwise. In view of this fact, it 
 might be well for the several candidates for legislative honors, in 
 either House, to gratify this desire by stating, in this or some other 
 county paper, their proposed solution of the prohibition problem. 
 
 George H. Wright, a prominent practical farmer, and one of the 
 trustees of the State Agricultural College, has devoted considerable 
 time and money to the raising of black walnut timber, and he is 
 decidedly in favor of it. He has sold 1,000,000 young trees to the 
 Northern Pacific Railroad Company, to be set out along that road. 
 He says the trees will begin to pay in six or eight years, and will 
 do well on the high or average prairie. Plant five or six feet apart, 
 and in five years it will be necessary to cut out some, and in eight 
 years they will be large enough for fence posts; in ten years would 
 be eighteen to twenty inches in diameter. The first cutting would 
 pay all the cost of cultivation. — (December, 1882.) 
 
 THE FIRST CONGRESS. 
 
 Some antiquarian has dug up these figures as the pay received 
 by the first Congress ; “ The Continental Congress met on the 16th 
 
 of May, 1775 ; the number of members was sixty-four. At this 
 time a member appeared from St. John’s Parish, Georgia, and 
 afterward the colony of Georgia sent an entire delegation. Each 
 colony paid its own delegation. New Hampshire allowed to each 
 all expenses, a servant, two horses, and a guinea a day ; Massachu- 
 setts, expenses and |3 a day ; Rhode Island and Maryland, forty 
 shillings a day and expenses ; Virginia, a half Johannes per day'; 
 North Carolina, £50 per annum ; South Carolina, £300 per annum ; 
 Georgia, £100 per month while in session.” — (August 16, 1882.) 
 
 QUARTERLY CONVENTION. 
 
 _ The first quarterly convention of the Story County S. S. Asso- 
 ciation will be held at Zearing, Sunday, August 20, 1882. 
 
 _ All persons interested in Sunday school work are cordially in- 
 vited to attend and participate in the exercises of the meeting. 
 
 S. S. Paxton, Pres’t Co. Association. 
 
 August 16, 1882. 
 
 The family dog ran under the barn at Moscow, Iowa. A boy 
 threw a lighted cracker after him to scare him out. The dog’s 
 gone — so is the barn. — (August 25, 1882.) 
 
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 History of Story Couhty, Iowa. 
 
 ELEVEFTTH DISTRICT SUls'DAY-SOHOOL COFTYEFITIOFr. 
 
 The Eleventh Sunday School District of Iowa, comprising the 
 counties of Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Green, Hamilton, Story and 
 Webster, will hold its first convention in the M. E. church at 
 Ogden, commencing Tuesday evening, October 24, 1882, and closing 
 Thursday evening the 29 th. 
 
 A program second to none in point of interest, is being 
 arranged, comprising names of some of our best district workers, 
 and two or more from other districts. To those who have never 
 attended one of these conventions, especially a Sunday-school 
 teacher, we wish to say that the methods presented and knowledge 
 gained at these meetings will be of incalculable help to you in your 
 future work. We wish each of our 110 townships represented, and 
 recommend there be two delegates chosen by each township con- 
 vention held before October 15. Programs will be in the hands of 
 all township secretaries whose townships are organized, by Sep- 
 tember 30th. 
 
 The good people of Ogden will welcome and entertain all who 
 attend to the mutual profit of all interested. 
 
 All delegates will return at the usual reduced rates on railroads. 
 
 C. A. Crawford, Pres’t, Boone. 
 Mrs. S. a. Erickso^t, Sec’y, Grand Junction. 
 
 August 16, 1882. 
 
 FUEL AND TIMBER —SHELTER AND SHADE. 
 
 The past winter has been such as to set every thinking man at 
 work to devise ways and means for the better care of his stopk, as 
 well as comfort for the family, especially those having chores 
 to do. We can get some idea of the advantages of a grove when 
 passing over the country. How soon we notice the difference when 
 we pass from an open prairie to a shelter of timber. Then as a 
 measure of self-defense and protection in the near future, every 
 farmer should plant a belt of timber about his dwellings, barns, 
 and sheds, in proportion to the size of his farm and amount of 
 stock kept. He should also plant for fuel and posts. Who can 
 calculate the amount of suffering in many parts of our country on 
 account of the scarcity and high price of coal ? Who can calculate 
 the loss and suffering of stock for want of shelter — say nothing 
 about the extra feed necessary to sustain life? Who can tell when 
 another winter like this will be ours to endure? Then plant 
 groves — build sheds — ^build barns, save your straw, cut up corn — 
 in 1881. — ( Iowa City Republican.) 
 
 BE HONORABLE. 
 
 Boys and young men sometimes start out in life with the idea 
 that one’s success depends on sharpness and chicanery. They im- 
 agine if a man is able always to “ get the best of a bargain,” no 
 matter by what deceit and meanness he carries his point, that his 
 prosperity is assured. This is a great mistake. Enduring pros- 
 
Histoet oe Story County, Iowa. 
 
 95 
 
 perity cannot be founded on cunning and dishonesty. The tricky 
 and deceitful man is sure to fall a victim, sooner or later, to the 
 influences which are forever working against him. His house is 
 built upon the sand, and its foundation will be certain to give way. 
 Young people cannot give these truths too much weight. The 
 future of that young man is safe who eschews every shape of 
 double dealing, and lays the foundation of his career in the endur- 
 ing principles of everlasting truth. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS— NOVEMBER SESSION, 1882. 
 
 The poor farm and Inflrmary was awarded to Jacob S. Horst, at 
 a salary of $1,000. 
 
 A list of twenty-three school-fund mortgages made by the 
 auditor were approved. 
 
 The auditor was instructed to erect an' addition to the jail, 10x12 
 feet, one story high, and otherwise repair it, and a sum sufficient to 
 pay the bill was authorized. 
 
 The auditor was instructed to issue warrants as allowed, etc. 
 
 SOLDIERS RE-UNION. 
 
 On Friday afternoon last the old soldiers of Story County met 
 on the fair grounds, at Nevada, for their annual re-union. The 
 program was carried out with the usual success and the night 
 wore away as has been the case heretofore. The program of 
 Saturday was also carried out. The number present at one time on 
 Saturday is estimated at from 1,200 to 1,500 persons. The roll 
 shows 226 enrolled. 
 
 Cambridge was selected as the place for the next annual re-union, 
 and the time the third Friday and Saturday of August, 1883. - 
 
 The officers for the ensuing year were chosen as follows: Colo- 
 nel, A. P. King; lieutenant colonel, Kichard May; major, John 
 O’Neil; adjutant, J.M. Brown; quartermaster, Wayne; chap- 
 
 lain, Rev. E. R. Mills; quartermaster sergeant, H. J. Hamlin; ser- 
 geant-major, P. H. Ream; surgeon. Dr. A. Patton; drum-major, 
 Doty; flfe-major, A. 0. Hall. 
 
 The assemblage was addressed as per announcement by Grovernor 
 Sherman, in well chosen language, and by other gentlemen. 
 
 Among the things that caused a ripple was the introduction of 
 Mr. French, a soldier of the war of 1812-15, who made a few 
 remarks and was received with three cheers and a tiger. 
 
 The crowd dispersed in good shape on Saturday evening, and 
 will look forward to the annual meeting next year with anticipa- 
 tions of another good time, at the chosen place of rendezvous. 
 —(April 25, 1882.) 
 
 A NEW COUNTY MAP. 
 
 Messrs. Warner & Foote, of Minneapolis, Minn., well known 
 cointy map surveyors and publishers, propose to issue a new map 
 
96 
 
 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 of our county. There is hardly a county, outside of Story, in the 
 state of Iowa, but that has had a map. The question is, shall we 
 secure one for our homes? In order to do this it will take the 
 united support of our citizens. Let us see to it so far as we can 
 that this company receive the encouragement necessary to complete 
 this work. Messrs. Warner & Foote some months ago commenced 
 the survey of our county with the view of publishing a complete 
 farm map. Besides their own work they have secured of W. Gr. 
 Allen all the information he had collected. They have shown us a 
 sample of their work in the shape of township plats of several 
 townships in our county compiled from their actual surveys, which 
 are by far the finest plats we have ever seen. The firm comes 
 to our county with the best of recommendations from other coun- 
 ties where they have published similar works and they have that 
 reputation to sustain. In view of this fact the people of Story 
 County may rest assured that in the coarse of a year, when this 
 map is published and put before them, they will have the pleasure 
 of examining one of the finest maps ever published in any county, 
 and one that will do justice alike to the county and to the 
 company. — (November 29, 1882.) 
 
 The supreme court of the United States by a vote of five to four 
 has restored the Arlington estate to the heirs of Robert E. Lee. 
 The estate was confiscated during the war and used as a national 
 cemetery for Union soldiers, and for other national purposes. 
 This case as a precedent will doubtless be followed in due time by 
 an endless troop of other rebel claims. — ( December, 1882.) 
 
 STORY COUNTY IMPROVEMEFTTS — JAFTUARY 10, 1883. 
 
 With tlie assistapce of the gentlemen in the several townships 
 who have kindly aided us, we are able to make the following sum- 
 mary of the building improvements made in the county during the 
 year just closed. 
 
 The improvements in Lincoln foot up nearly |14,000; nearly 
 12,500 of this amount has been expended in the township at large, 
 the balance in Zearing. The record is a good one. We hope to 
 publish soon an itemized account of these improvements in Lincoln 
 and some other outlying townships. 
 
 The buildings of various kinds in Warren foot up $5,000 or more. 
 To this record we are able to add the interesting items that 350 
 acres of pasturage have been made at a cost of $1,000, that nearly 
 the whole township is under cultivation, and that during the last 
 ten years its population has increased from 75 to 900. 
 
 We have received no estimate from Howard; but are quite cer- 
 tain that improvernents therein have been made to some considera- 
 ble extent. We hope for a reliable summary by next week. 
 
 Our estimates of improvements in Lafayette are not as full 
 as we would like, still we are able to note for Story City a $5,000. 
 school house, the fine depot and stock yards of the I. C. & N. W 
 

 
 
 History or Story Coukty, Iowa. 97 
 
 R’y, the rebuilt and enlarged American House, and two fine dwel- 
 lings by Messrs. Esbe and Larson. In the fanning community 
 large and commodious barns have been built by Jens Flatibo, J. W. 
 Palmer and James Leedwig. 
 
 The total improvements in Franklin foot up $15,000; one-half 
 of this amount was expended in Gilbert Station. Of the whole 
 expenditure nearly two-thirds were put into town and country res- 
 idences. This fact indicates a prosperous community. 
 
 The building improvements in Milford, so far as we have been 
 able to ascertain, are a $2,000 barn by Ole Christian, and additions 
 to dwellings amounting to $1,000. These figures will no doubt be 
 much enlarged by a supplemental estimate. 
 
 We have not been able to get returns from Richland, but look 
 for an estimate next week. 
 
 The building improvements in Sherman consist of two houses 
 and several barns, and some additions to houses and barns, and 
 amount in all to about $5,000. 
 
 The 1882 improvements in Washington, including the build- 
 ings in Ames and on the college grounds foot up at least $50,000. 
 This outlay speaks well for the Washingtonians. 
 
 Grant puts $13,500 into a good class of buildings, six of which 
 cost about $1,000 each. A $900 school-house is numbered among 
 them. One building cost $3,000. 
 
 The_ building improvements of Nevada, city and township, 
 including the city hall, addition to the school building and the new 
 blocks of Boardman Bros., and of White & Bamberger will not 
 foot up much less, if any, than $10,000. This record, made so soon 
 after the extended improvements in the wake of the fire of 1880, 
 and which in reality were not completed until the present year, is 
 one with which our cit}’- and township may well be gratified. 
 
 New Albany has sent in no estimate. We hope to get a report 
 in time for our next issue. 
 
 The building operations in Palestine during the year have not 
 been extensive, only one new house being reported. There are, 
 doubtless other improvements not noted. It will be safe to value 
 the whole at one or two thousand dollars. 
 
 The building improvements of Union township have been 
 quite marked, especially in the line of business houses. By 
 including the improvements which were begun during the last two 
 or three months of 1881 with those wholy belonging to the present 
 year. The total expenditures amount to about $75,000. Of this 
 amount $65,000 have been put into business houses, an elevator 
 and the railroad buildings. The other $10,000 has been appro- 
 priated to the erection of new residences or the repairing of old 
 ones. _ This is a noble record, especially in view of the fact that 
 the said improvements are confined almost wholly to the town of 
 Cambridge. The township improvements would probably swell 
 ihe amount to $80,000. 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 From Indian Creek we have a close estimate on the building- 
 improvements in Maxwell. And as the town is really less than a 
 year old, the improvements comprehend its entire growth. The 
 figures are 53,000. If to these figures are added the probable cost 
 of the railroad buildings, tile works, and the various minor im- 
 provements of the township at large, the total will not fall much, 
 if any, below $75,000. These are figures that show commendable 
 enterprise. 
 
 The building improvements in Collins township foot up about 
 $37,000. Though a goodly share of this expenditure has been in 
 the town of Collins, still a larger part than usual seems to have 
 been in the township at large. Evidently the towns and town- 
 ships on the line of the Milwaukee have had a regular building 
 boom during the year. 
 
 The building improvements of the whole county during the year 
 can be safely estimated at $375,000, and fuller returns may raise 
 the figures to $100,000. This is an indication of prosperity in 
 which we can all rejoice. 
 
 NEVADA FOUNDRY. 
 
 The foundry of A. Hague is not a very pretentious establish- 
 ment, and we presume there are not twenty men in the town or 
 county who have any just comprehension of the amount and supe- 
 rior quality of work that is being wrought therein. And yet this 
 unpretending iron manufacturing institution, in addition to the 
 usual range of foundry business is turning out in certain special 
 lines,,work that is attracting more than state wide attention. One 
 of the special lines of work is cresting. Mr. Hague, by elegance 
 of design and the substantial character of workmanship has pro- 
 duced for himself in this article quite a boom. Some of the places 
 outside of Story County where his cresting ornaments public or 
 private buildings are Webster City, Eldora, Albia, Tipton, Ottumwa, 
 Iowa City, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Glalosburg, 111. Another special 
 line of work is iron fronts. Samples of his work in this line may 
 be seen in several of our brick blocks, notably the fine columns 
 of the National bank building. Mr. H. frequently receives large 
 orders for this class of work from various cities of the state. W e 
 mention one more specialty — cast runners. Of these Mr. H. has 
 made during the past season no less than one hundred and twenty- 
 five sets, one hundred of which have been shipped on specific 
 orders outside the county. We might still further particularize as 
 to the excellent character of the work, special and general done at 
 the Nevada foundry; but we have written enough to show that 
 this iron business which has been carried on for years single 
 handed and with insufficient capital, might, with the right combi- 
 nations, be developed into a business that would prove highly prof- 
 itable to its projectors and beneficial to the town. We hope to see 
 the day when Mr. Hague’s knowledge and skill as a worker in iron 
 shall be supplemented with such capital and business ability as 
 shall greatly extend the capacity and prosperity of the Nevada 
 foundry. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
History op Story County, Iowa. 99 
 
 TILE FACTORY. 
 
 One of the new and important enterprises of Nevada is the 'tile 
 factory now in process of construction by Messrs. Lockridge 
 & Beatty. It is located just south of the depot and West of 
 Hague’s foundry. In the matter of shipments this location will 
 prove a great convenience, besides being advantageous in many 
 other respects. Much of the necessary machinery is already on the 
 ground. It includes an engine of 20-horse power, and a boiler of 
 25-horse power. The tile machine which has been purchased is 
 provided with all the latest improvements, and is capable of making 
 tile from 2i to 12 inches in diameter. The crusher secured is 
 of the largest size. Brick is alread}'" on the ground for the build- 
 ing of two kilns with a capacity of 13,000 tiles each, or 26,000 per 
 week. The proprietors of these works expect to be ready for man- 
 ufacturing by the first of May. And it goes without saying that 
 the men who are back of this enterprise will spare no effort nor 
 expense needed to make as good tile as can be found in the 
 market. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
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 Night mail service was inaugurated between Chicago and Omaha 
 on the C. & N. W., the C., R. I. & P., and the C., B. & Q. railroads 
 last Monday night. This new arrangemeut is specially advan- 
 tageous to the lesser towns on these lines Hitherto the night mail 
 has been sent in locked pouches to important points only. Under 
 the new order of things, all stations at which express trains stop 
 are served by night as well as by day; and the delivery of much 
 
 
100 
 
 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 of the mail is thus hastened twelve hours. These increased postal 
 facilities result from the extraordinary development of the country 
 largely consequent upon the great amount of railroad building 
 which has been done during the last few years. It is not unusual 
 for the day line west to leave Cedar Hapids with 1,500 to 2,000 lbs. 
 of paper mail; and the amount is constantly increasing. On the 
 Northwestern two postal clerks are employed for the day service 
 and one for the night. Soon two clerks in every mail car will be • 
 a necessity. Frank Dana, of this city, who has been employed on 
 this route for some months, is transferred to the night service. 
 The change is a promotion with increase of salary, and is an 
 emphatic declaration of 'his ejfficiency in the service of Uncle Sam. 
 
 — ( Jan. 24, 1883.) 
 
 Matters at the court house are progressing favorably. The jury 
 civil cases have been disposed of, but several equity cases are yet to 
 be submitted to the court. The cases, so far that have created the 
 most interest have been the liquor cases and the Scott Ozmun cat- 
 tle stealing case. The former cases on one plea and another have 
 been virtually dismissed. The latter case occupied the time of the 
 court all day yesterday, and will not go to the jury before noon 
 to-day. The attendance of witnesses and other persons from the 
 southeastern part of the county was quite large and a good deal of 
 interest shown in the testimony given. The Porter murder case is 
 set for to-day. Of this there are to be two trials. Mrs. Porter 
 and John the youngest son are defendants in the first trial, and 
 Greorge Porter in the second. These trials will awaken a great deal 
 of interest throughout the county, and the attendance will be large. 
 The prosecution is to be conducted by John R. Hays, assisted by 
 F. D. Thompson and J. F. Martin. The defense is in the hands of 
 Funson & Grifford and J. S. Frazier. The prospects are now that 
 the session will extend into next week, though the ability and dis- 
 position of Judge Henderson to dispatch business may bring about 
 an earlier adjournment. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 SOUTHEAST NEVADA. 
 
 George W. Mullen will quit farming and go into the ministry 
 He will commence his new work in April. 
 
 E. D. Heck is holding a musical institute at Summit chapel. 
 
 The parsonage at New Hope is at a standstill; when completed 
 it will make a pleasant residence. 
 
 Rev. A. K. Bone was the recipient of a fine donation at his church 
 Friday evening. An ample supper was prepared of which over one 
 hundred persons partook. All enjoyed themselves hugely. The 
 receipts of the evening were quite large.— (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 EEPOET OP COUNTY PAEM COMMITTEE. 
 
 Having been committee of the county farm for the-past year 
 and knowing that there is a desire among the people to learn some- 
 
Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 101 
 
 thing more of the farm than can be gathered from the proceedings 
 of the board or the auditor’s report, I take the liberty to make a 
 statement of my doings during the year 1882 as such committee. 
 On account of the mvoice of January 1, 1882, having been mislaid, 
 I am not able to give any showing as to stock or grain on hand at 
 that time, except that there were nineteen hogs only on the farm, 
 ninety-six head having died of cholera. There have been during 
 the year from seventeen to twenty-one inmates, making, with the 
 family and help, twenty-five persons during the summer months. 
 There were raised on this farm this year 108 bushels of wheat, 
 170 bushels of oats, sixty acres of corn— all fed except 900 bushels 
 on hand— eleven calves and sixty shoats. There have been sold or 
 butchered for use, seventeen head of fat cattle, and forty-six head 
 of hogs. Butter has been sold to the amount of 172.00, and other 
 property to the value of $22.00; aggregating, with the stock and 
 grain on hand, and sold during the year, $3,331.81. 
 
 There has been paid for stock and improvements during the year, 
 for one two-horse wagon, $65.00; one new double harness, $40.00; 
 one large cook stove, $32.50; lumber and carpenter work for cell, 
 cow shed^ and picket fence, $136.13; for 290 rods of open ditch 
 twenty-eight inches deep^ four feet at the top and two feet at the 
 bottom at twenty-five cents per rod; 185 rods of tile ditching at 
 seventy cents per rod; rebuilding chimneys torn down by the 
 cyclone; breaking fourteen acres of prairie; the purchase of forty 
 head of hogs, one bull, and thirty tons of coal at $2.62i per ton; 
 the whole aggregating $926.76; leaving a balance above the 
 expenditure for improvements of $2,405.15. 
 
 We invite any of Story County’s citizens to go and see the farm 
 at any time, and observe the able manner in which it is conducted 
 by J. S. Horst and wife. R. W. Ballaed. 
 
 (February 14, 1883.) 
 
 The patent poultry freezing apparatus, or general refrigerator, 
 in the Boardman building is an interesting arrangement. It con- 
 sists of a basement room fifteen by twenty feet with twelve feet 
 ceiling. On two opposite sides of this room are ranged thirty 
 galvanized iron pipes, fifteen on each side. These pipes are about 
 ten inches in diameter, and reach from the floor below to trap 
 doors in the floor above. When a freezing temperature is required 
 the trap doors are lifted and the pipes filled with ice and salt. The 
 water which is produced by the melting ice is conducted away by 
 drainage pipes. The room is simply an ordinary freezer on a large 
 scale. It is finely adapted to the preservation akd storage of poul- 
 try and butter during the warm portions of the year. — (Feb- 
 ruary 28, 1883.) 
 
 Maxwell Times: D. Shope shipped four car loads of stock, all 
 raised by himself. — ( Dec. 29, 1882.) 
 
 Frank Curtis, the first of the week, sold to a Mr. Campbell, 
 of Tama City, forty-two head of steers at an average price of four 
 
102 Histoet of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 and a half cents per pound. The delivery is to be made this week. 
 — ( Dec. 29, 1882.) 
 
 Mr. J. S. Hutchins started yesterday for a trip via. the Topeka, 
 Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railways to California. During the 
 next three months he expects to breathe the perfume of orange 
 groves in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and to be fanned by balmy. 
 Pacific breezes at Santa Barbara, San Diego and intermediate coast 
 points. May good luck attend him. — ( Dec. 27, 1882.) 
 
 Mr. Editor: If the manner in which public property, in any 
 community, is cared for, is an index to the spirit of the people, 
 surely the people of Pleasant Drove, Milford township, are thrifty 
 and enterprising. During the latter part of the summer their 
 beautiful M. E. church was newly kalsomined, and the woodwork 
 well painted, outside and inside. The young ladies of the neigh- 
 borhood concluded that other improvements could be made to add 
 to the comfort of the church, nicely carpeted the aisles and ros- 
 trum, also put up to the windows very neat and tasty shades, giv- 
 ing their church a most homelike appearance. The cemetery 
 grounds adjoining and in the same enclosure with the church were 
 next put in good shape, and but a few days ago, a fine row of stalls 
 for the comfort of the teams of those who attended church, was 
 put on the grounds adjoining. Among the leaders in these public 
 improvements aside from the young ladies, we might mention Hon. 
 Mr. Curtis, Mr. McClure, Mr. Sowers and Mr. McLain. Surely 
 our county has reason to be proud of their neighborhood of enter- 
 prising farmers. — (Jan. 6, 1883.) Z. 
 
 The Christian church at this place has assured their former 
 magnitude by the addition of forty-four new members. Their 
 church had been reduced to almost poverty by removals to other 
 parts and desertions; for a while it seemed as though it hardly had 
 existence under the load of debt incurred in building the church 
 edifice. It has. been nine years since the debt was incurred^ though 
 there was ample enough subscribed to liquidate it, but before it 
 was all collected the subscription book was consumed in the burn- 
 ing of the late A. H. Beedle’s residence, consequently it was never 
 collected. The recent revival was the outgrowth of a united effort 
 of the friends of the church to shape things for a more prosperous 
 future. — (Jan. 6, 1883.) 
 
 Robert Richardson of Elwell shipped yesterday from this sta- 
 tion five car loads of cattle and one of hogs. — ( Jan. 6, 1883. ) 
 
 Dunklebarger & Son shipped three car loads of stock on Mon- 
 day. — ( Dec. 29, 1882.) 
 
 An accident, which might have been serious, but fortunately was 
 not, occurred to the Sunday night east-bound train. About two 
 and a half miles west of town the engine struck the raised end of a 
 rail and shivered five or more feet of it into pieces from the size of 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 103 
 
 a thimbl'e to that of a fist. Specimens of the pieces can he seen 
 at the jewelry store of Will Hansel who was on the train at the 
 time of the accident. The engine kept to the track, but one of the 
 sleepers left it in part. This and another coach were somewhat 
 disabled, but none of the passengers were injured. The train was 
 delayed about two hours. — (Feb. 21, 1883.) 
 
 For chicken cholera boil a bushel of smartweed in ten gallons 
 of water until thoroughly steeped. Mix the decoction with the 
 fowls’ food twice a day for three days, when the disease is worse; 
 then diminish the feeding of it to every other day for a week until 
 cured. It is said to be effective. — ( Feb. 21, 1883.) 
 
 The school house in district No. 7, New Albany township, was 
 burned, with all its contents including school books, last Wednes- 
 day night. It is not known how the fire caught. Thanks to the 
 foresight of the directors this house with the others of the town- 
 ship were well insured. The insurance in this case is $400, which 
 will go far toward rebuilding. — ( Feb. 28, 1883.) 
 
 Coal has been discovered by Mr. J. C. Lovell on his farm in this 
 county at a depth of 250 feet. The vein is said to be three feet 
 eight inches thick. — (March 14, 1883.) 
 
 Station Agent Ingalls received word Saturday to ship no freight 
 and to sell no tickets for the Winona and St. Peter branch of the 
 Northwestern until further notice, the road being again blockaded 
 with snow. — (March 14, 1883.) 
 
 THE STUBBS MURDER. 
 
 About three o’clock in the morning of the fifteenth of last April, 
 Mayor R. W. Stubbs of Polk City was brutally shot and killed in 
 his own house. So unprovoked was the deadly assault and so 
 carefully were the tracks of the murderers covered up, that it was not 
 until December that any arrests of any moment were made. At 
 that time William Kline and John Weir were arrested. The trial 
 of these parties, though unearthing some ugly circumstances 
 against them, failed to fix upon them the responsibility of the 
 murder; and the public were beginning to fear that thereat crim- 
 inals would never be found. But last Sunday morning’s Register 
 published the confession of one Charles Wilcox which clears up 
 the dense mystery that has surrounded the case, and fixes the mur- 
 der upon William Kline. Wilcox was arrested about a month 
 ago in the eastern part of Kansas, to which locality he had fled 
 with his family from Colfax, Jasper county, in the early fall, and 
 brought back to Des Moines. Wilcox’s confession outlines the 
 work of the three desperadoes about as follows: They went from 
 Des Moines to Polk City, the night of the murder, in two buggies. 
 They did not intend to kill Mr. Stubbs but to rob him of $3,000 
 which they believed to be in his possession. The horses were left 
 in charge of Weir about three-quarters of a mile from Mr. Stubb’s 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 residence while Kline and Wilcox went to the house and entered it 
 by a rear window. The two reached Stubb’sroom and accidentally 
 awoke Mrs. Stubbs by flashing the light of their dark lantern in 
 her face. Mr. Stubbs was soon awake, out of bed and in hot pur- 
 suit of the burglars. Kline received him at the chamber door 
 with the deadly shot, and then fled with Wilcox. Reaching their 
 teams they hastily made their way back to Des Moines and thence 
 to Altoona where they separated, Weir going to Colfax and Kline 
 and Wilcox to Clyde. The unearthing of this diabolical crime is 
 largely due to the sleepless thought and persistent efforts of Mr. 
 Tirrell, father-in-law of the murdered mayor, and the detective 
 scheme of Gr. W. French, marshal of Colfax. Mr. French followed 
 Mr. Wilcox to his home in Kansas, made his acquaintance and 
 gained his entire confldence by passing himself off as a fugitive 
 murderer and counterfeiter from Ohio. The confession as detailed 
 above and subsequent arrest followed this successful ruse. The 
 public will be glad to learn of the successful hunting down of 
 these men, and if they are guilty, as it seems quite certain they are, 
 will be still further gratified when they shall have received the 
 punishment their cruel and unprovoked murder deserves. — (Feb- 
 ruary 22, 1883.) ^ 
 
 The residence of Wm. Elliot, Collins township, was destroyed by 
 Are Saturday with most of its contents. — (March 17, 1883.) 
 
 Col. Scott enters immediately on his duties as professor of mili- 
 tary tactics. He takes a liberal and generous view of the necessarily 
 limited and subordinate place that must be assigned to military 
 drill in the organization of the Agricultural college. — (March 
 , 17, 1883.) 
 
 The postoffice Latrobe has been changed to McCallsburg. , This 
 makes the name of town and office one and the same. — (April 
 18, 1883.) 
 
 One car load of Dakota emigrant goods was shipped from this 
 station Monday night and three loads went Tuesday night. — (April 
 18, 1883.) 
 
 The shipments from the Nevada station during the last fifteen 
 days have averaged at least two car loads a day. The lading con- 
 sisted principally of grain, stock, hay, and household goods bound 
 for Dakota. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 Milton Elliott, of Minerva, lost recently eleven head of cattle 
 from being poisoned with white lead with which a leak in their 
 watering trough had been mended. Mr. E. hopes other people mky 
 profit by his loss. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 G. W. Sowers, F. Curtis, and J. Duea shipped to Chicago the 
 early part of last week eight car loads of cattle and four of hogs. 
 They were shipped from Roland and Story City, two loads going 
 

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 by the way of Ames and the main line of the Northwestern and ten 
 , over the Toledo route. The shippers, we are glad to learn, struck 
 
 tj, a good market. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 W Mr. S. F. Griffin has received |949 back pension money, and 
 
 IM invested it in rich alluvial of Story County. We are always glad 
 
 |,f to see the old soldiers come to the front with a back pension. 
 
 ! They earned it — every one of them. — (Feb. 3, 1883.) 
 
 Delayed Gilbert Gatherings. — The thermometer stood thirty- 
 five degrees below zero last Sabbath, the weather suspending all 
 kinds of business. 
 
 Miss Lizzie Keigley was not able to reach her school in Norway 
 this week, owing to the bad weather. — (Feb. 5, 1883.) 
 
 A prime lot of hogs was brought to this town Thursday by R. J. 
 Barbour of Richland township; they were thirteen in number; 
 weight, 6,280 lbs.; average, 483 1-13 lbs.; receipts, the trifle of 
 I3T9.80. The purchaser was 0. Dunkelbarger. — (Feb. 14, 1883.) 
 
 Sheriff Banks, assisted by Dan. McCarthy, started for Ft. Madi- 
 son penitentiary with Mrs. Elizabeth and John Porter last Monday 
 afternoon, the 11:15 train being two hours late. There were large 
 but orderly crowds at the depots in Nevada' and Ames to witness 
 the departure of the prisoners. Mr. Banks expects to remain a 
 day or two with Warden McMillan, and will not return before 
 ^ i Thursday or Friday. — (Feb. 14, 1883.) 
 
 ^ Col. Scott was in Lincoln, Nebraska, last week in attendance at 
 
 the Nebraska State Stock Breeder’s association. The colonel 
 entered quite freely into the discussion of the occasion, besides 
 reading an extended paper on “ Breeding and Feeding for Beef,, 
 and Supplying the Market.” The Daily State Journal, of Lincoln, 
 referring to the address characterizes it as “ remarkably able,” and 
 ; adds: “ It will be printed soon in the agricultural edition of the 
 
 j I Journal. There has been but one comment upon it by those who 
 
 I heard it, that it was the soundest ever delivered in Nebraska upon 
 
 any similar occasion.” — (Feb. 14, 1883.) 
 
 H. Barnes has a hog that takes the ribbon for a “ long faster,” it 
 having been buried under a straw stack, without food or water, for 
 , sixty-five days. It now, since its release, seems to be hale and 
 
 hearty, but somewhat weak. — (Feb. 17, 1883.) XXX. 
 
 The idea that farmers’ sons do not attend the Agricultural Col- 
 I lege is dispelled by the record, which shows that of the 280 pupils 
 
 last year, 118 were farmers, twenty-two mechanics, three millers, 
 three nurserymen, and four manufacturers. The remainder had 
 no profession or trade. — (Feb. 17, 1883.) 
 
 After the careful examination of the sworn statements of J. E. 
 Duncan, W. P. Payne and V. A. Ballou, relative to the circulation 
 
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 Histoey of Stoey Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 of tlieir respective newspapers within Story County, and it being 
 found that the Ames Intelligencer has a circulation of seven hun- 
 dred and forty-eight copies, the Nevada Representative, six hundred 
 and seventy and the Story County Watchman, six hundred and 
 sixty-seven respectively, it is therefore, on motion, ordered that 
 the Ames Intelligencer and the Nevada Representative be selected 
 as the official papers of Story County for the ensuing year. Those 
 voting yea, were Ballard, Ersland and Hale. Nays, none. — (Jan- 
 uary 17, 1883.) 
 
 We learn that a farm house near Gilbert, was destroyed by fire, 
 Wednesday morning. We have no particulars. — (January 21, 
 1883.) 
 
 _ There was quite a sharp little contest before the board of Super- 
 visors last Friday, as to whether or not a druggist’s permit should 
 be granted Mr. Ed. Barstow, of Ames. The applicant was repre- 
 sented by D. McCarthy and the remonstrants by Prof. McComber, 
 K. W. Brown, B. Bisbee and Rev. Mr. Bennett. The petition for 
 the permit was numerously signed as was also the remonstrance. 
 After a full and patient hearing of the pros and cons the Board 
 took the case under advisement; and subsequently granted the per- 
 mit.— (January 10, 1883.) 
 
 Thirty sheep, belonging to Hon. F. Curtis, were either killed or 
 crippled by dogs last Tuesday; The dogs that did the mischief 
 were shot, we are rejoiced to learn, and their ownership. ascertained; 
 but unfortunately, the responsibility of the ownership for damages 
 is questionable. This and similar dog depredations upon the sheep 
 flocks of the State, cry out for an efficient dog law in the interest 
 of our sheep raisers. There should be a tax levied on dogs sufficient 
 to provide a fund to pay all losses occasioned by the dogs of 
 unknown or irresponsible parties. Two of the questions that 
 should be put throughout the State to our next applicants for legis- 
 lative honors should be: First, will you vote for an efficient dog law 
 for the protection of sheep owners, if one is introduced, and sec- 
 ond, will you introduce such a law if no one else does? If they do 
 not say yes, then they should be elected to stay at home. — (Jan- 
 nary 17, 1883.) 
 
 Rev. A. K. Bone, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church', 
 in the southeast part of Nevada Township, who .was in town Mon- 
 day, expressed himself very much pleased with the donation sur- 
 prise gathering at his church last Friday evening. The financial 
 results of the occasion were forty dollars in cash and valuables. 
 About two hundred persons were present and the social cheer 
 seemed to be greatly enjoyed by all. Mr. Bone has been the pastor 
 of the church for four years and has evidently done a good work 
 and made many friends. He preaches one-half the time at Iowa 
 Center. — (January 31, 1883.) 
 
 The Chicago Journal. — It is said that “an occasional meal of 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 107 
 
 corn, burnt on the cob until each kernal is black, or as long as it 
 can be burned and have the corn retain its shape, is greedily eaten 
 by fowls, and results in a general improvement in their health, and 
 a greater average number of eggs are produced. — (January 31, 
 1883.) 
 
 E. W. Lockwood & Son shipped two car loads of hogs Saturday, 
 one from Nevada and one from Roland. — (January 31, 1883.) 
 
 Dunklebarger & Son shipped several car loads of stock from this 
 station Monday. Or. Dunklebarger accompanied the shipment. — 
 (Januar]^ 31, 1883.) 
 
 Put a tea-spoonful of sulphur in the nest as soon as hens or tur- 
 keys are set. The heat of the fowls causes the sulphur to pene- 
 trate every part of their bodies; every louse is killed, and as all nits 
 are hatched within ten days, when the mother leaves the nest with 
 her brood, she is perfectly free from nits or lice . — Clarkson in Reg- 
 ister. — (January, 1883.) 
 
 We noticed in The Intelligencer., of March 24th, an item 
 stating that Mrs. W. S. Anderson, in December last completed 
 a quilt containing 4,320 pieces, and asking if any lady in Story 
 County could beat it. Miss Nellie Coon has pieced two quilts, one 
 containing 15,988, and the other 9,580, both of which were com- 
 pleted before her sixteenth year. What lady can beat this? Mrs. 
 G. — (April, 1883.) 
 
 Colonel Scott left yesterday for Washington, D. C., where he is 
 expected to read a paper before the National Agricultural Conven- 
 tion now in session in that city. The Colonel will be absent 
 about a week. — (April 24, 1883.) 
 
 Maxwell voted Monday to build a $2,700 school house. This is 
 a good move, and just what might have been expected of the enter- 
 prising town and township in which it is located. — (April, 1883.) 
 
 Mr. Sowers shipped a car load of cattle, and a car load of hogs, 
 and J. Duea & Son two cars of hogs this week. — (May 13, 1883.) 
 
 Our school will commence Monday. Mrs. Lizzie Truitt will 
 teach the “young Indians to hoot.” She is a good teacher. — (May 
 13, 1883.) 
 
 NEVADA— MARSHALLTOWN CONTEST. 
 
 Nevada, Iowa, April 24, 1883. 
 
 At eleven o’clock, Friday morning, April twentieth, twelve Mar- 
 shalltown contestants with forty or fifty friends, stepped off the 
 train and were escorted by the Nevada contestants and their 
 
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 Histoey op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 friends to the hotel and private dwellings, where they were enter- 
 tained. The “Nevada Citizens’ Band” lead the procession. 
 
 The afternoon was pleasantly spent by the rival contestants in 
 social converse, rides, walks and general sight seeing, but as evening 
 approached the participants prepared for the “final trial of 
 strength.” 
 
 At 8:30 p. M. the Opera Hail was crowded to its utmost capacity. 
 The interest manifested in the beginning was well retained 
 throughout the following long program : 
 
 NEYADA contestants. 
 
 1. The Last Days of Herculaneum, Belle Garrett. 
 
 3. The Eed Jacket, -Frances Gallup. 
 
 6. Solo. — Cantilena, Hellen Davis. 
 
 7. The Ballad of Lake Erie, Mellie Harrison. 
 
 9. Icilius, Will Smith. 
 
 12. Piano Selection from Matlia, Jessie Allen. 
 
 13. The Visions, Minnie McCall. 
 
 15. The Pilot’s Story, Sophia Murphey. 
 
 18. Solo . — The Day is Done, Grace Dyer. 
 
 19. Sister and I, Birdie Petchley. 
 
 21. Toussant L’Ouveture, Herbert King. 
 
 23. Tilghman’s Ride, Frank Burdick. 
 
 MARSHALLTOWN CONTESTANTS. 
 
 2. Bertha in the Lane, Kate Slye. 
 
 4. How He Saved St. Michael’s Fannie Wright. 
 
 5. Violin Solo, Jessie Woodrutf. 
 
 8. The Uncle, ' Louise Rumsey. 
 
 11. Piano Solo . — Selection from Irish Diamonds,. McCombs,. 
 14. The Execution of Montrose, Edith Day. 
 
 16. Archie Dean, Alice Henderson. 
 
 17. Solo. — Mermaid's Song, Roxy Beeson. 
 
 20. The New Church Organ, Belle Woodruff. 
 
 22. Mad Mag, Frances Patterson. 
 
 24. Speech before the Virginia Convention, Otis Williams. 
 
 The J udges were J. W. Akers, Des Moines, W. W. Speer, Mar- 
 shalltown, Ole 0. Roe, Nevada, in Declamation; Pro. Willard 
 Kiniball, Grinnell, Mrs. R. E. Sears, Marshalltown, Mrs. Charles 
 Balliett, Nevada, in Music. Referee — J. S. Frazier, Nevada. 
 
 The following were the rules of award: 
 
 Rule I. An exercise perfect in every respect shall be marked as 
 follows: Pronunciation, 10; Articulation, 15; Carriage and ges- 
 ture, 25; Expression, 50. 
 
 Rule 11. The award in each class shall be determined as fol- 
 lows: 1. The contestant who receives the highest aggregate marks 
 shall be declared the successful one. 2. If the highest aggregate 
 marks should result in a tie, the choice shall be determined by the- 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 109 
 
 marks of the Referee. 3. The school aggregating the highest 
 marks shall receive the award as a school. 
 
 While the Judges were making their decision the audience was 
 entertained by a duet played by the Misses Jessie Allen and Grace 
 Dyer, followed by a chorus, “Womans’ Rights will soon be Here,” by 
 Edna White, Emma Airhart and Pearl Child, little girls of less 
 than eight years, members of the second primary department of 
 our public school. 
 
 The decision of the Judges was announced by Hon. J. W. Akers, 
 which he prefaced with a few very appropriate remarks. The fol- 
 lowing are the aggregate marks of the Judges: 
 
 Nevada 2,437. 
 
 Marshalltown 2,298. 
 
 Nevada having received the greatest number of points, was 
 declared winner in the whole contest, and according to Rule II, 
 part three, the Nevada High School received the award. The 
 honor of best speaker was closely contended. Miss Alice Hender- 
 son, of Marshalltown, received two hundred and eighty-nine 
 points and Frank Burdick, of Nevada, two hundred and eighty- 
 eight. Miss Henderson’s selection was humorous and Master 
 Frank’s oratorical. 
 
 The interest manifested by the people in the music was also 
 great. All of the musicians were enthusiastically encored. Miss 
 Grace Dyer, of Nevada, was awarded first honor in vocal music, 
 and Miss Sally McCombs, of Marshall, first in instrumental. 
 
 Nevada feels proud of her victory, and well she may, for the 
 Marshalltown school has often been accounted the best in the 
 State; and to have three impartial judges, all superintendents of 
 education, say the Nevada School takes the lead in declamation, by 
 one hundred and thirty-nine points, is honor enough for one time. 
 
 Among the more noted visitors in attendance from abroad were 
 Prof. Chevalier and sister, of Ames; Miss Curtiss, Principal of 
 State Center Schools, with a party of twenty; Miss Abbot, Princi- 
 pal of Marshalltown Schools, with Judge H. C. Henderson, Col. 
 B. A. Beeson, Rev. J. B. Casebeer and Byron Webster, also of 
 Marshall; Hon. C. T. Mason and friends, of Boone; Hon. J. D. 
 Gillett, of Ogden; and a number from Jewell Junction, Cambridge, 
 Iowa Center and Eldora; among the latter was J. C. Hisey, Princi- 
 pal of Eldora Schools. 
 
 Wednesday afternoon the barn of H. C. Foster, near Ontario, 
 was struck by lightning and consumed, together with a valuable 
 horse which it contained. — (July 11, 1883.) • 
 
 Business transacted at the Northwestern depot, at Nevada, for 
 the first eight months of 1883, the only month for which definite 
 information is obtainable, was as follows: received, lumber ninety- 
 four car loads; other freight, 191; merchandise, 2,170,656 lbs. 
 forwarded, stock 112 car loads; grain 147; other freight, eighty- 
 
110 History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 six; merchandise 757,747 lbs; tickets sold 7,750; total receipts and 
 shipments 630 car loads and 3,928,303 lbs. — (January '9, 1884.) 
 
 ' The arrangements for taking possession of the new State Capi- 
 tol are as follows: On Monday, January 14, the Gleneral Assem- 
 bly will convene at the old State House and will take the prelimi- 
 nary steps toward an organization. On Tuesday, January 15, the 
 permanent organization will be effected. On Wednesday, January 
 16, the canvas of votes cast at the last general election for State 
 officers will be made. On Thursday January 17, the address at the 
 new Capitol by Hon. J. A. Kasson, followed by the inauguration 
 of Governor B. R. Sherman. The Senate and House of Represent- 
 atives will then occupy their respective chambers in the new Capi- 
 tol, going in a body from the old to the new State House, to attend 
 the inauguration and* dedicatory services, and take formal posses- 
 sion of their own chambers. — (January 9, 1884.) 
 
 Boardman Brothers shipped six car loads of poultry and eggs, 
 this week for New York, Boston and Philadelphia. — (January 9, 
 1884.) 
 
 The Attorney General of Iowa has decided that the salaries of 
 school teachers are payable monthly, and if longer withheld can be 
 collected with interest. — (January, 1884.) 
 
 The Story County Sunday School Convention will be held in 
 the M. E. Church, of this city, commencing Tuesday evening, June 
 3, and closing Wednesday afternoon, June 4. Each school in the 
 County is requested to send delegates. All interested in Sunday 
 School work are cordially invited to be present and take part in 
 the discussions. Township officers are expected to be there of a 
 certainty. Bring with you a collection for State and County work. 
 
 S. S. Paxton, 
 
 A. 0. Abbott, President. 
 
 Secretary. — (May 23, 1884.) 
 
 Last week W m. Moran visited Des Moines and sold three horses 
 for something over $700. That is just what he is up to, and that 
 sale stable business must be paying him well. — (May 23, 1884.) 
 
 Dunklebarger & Son shipped, on Monday, seven car loads of 
 stock — six of cattle and one of hogs — principally of their own feed- 
 ing. They do a considerable shipping even though it is a bad sea- 
 son of the year — summer. — (May 23, 1884.) 
 
 Mr. E. Cooper had an old fashioned barn raising on his farm just 
 eaist of town on Tuesday. It is a large one and worthy of the one 
 having the work done. — (May 23, 1884.) 
 
 The theives that have of late been troubling some of our neigh- 
 boring towns have reached Nevada. The hardware store of White 
 & Bamberger was entered Saturday nisfht and the safe forced open 
 in a very workmanlike manner. Chisels and a sledge hammer 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. Ill 
 
 from the shops near by were left in the store. Some change from 
 the safe was the booty. — (May 23, 1881.) 
 
 T. W. Kelly shipped two cars of hogs from Nevada on Monday 
 and two from Ames on Wednesday. — (December 26, 1881.) 
 
 The Pleasant Grrove M. E. Church hold their Quarterly meeting 
 on the 27th and 28th of December. — (December 26, 1881.) 
 
 GILBERT PICKINGS. 
 
 With the thermometer twenty degrees below zero, we are 
 reminded of its being mid-winter, and with the sleighing fair, the 
 young folks are enjoying themselves on the top shelf. 
 
 The farm house of T. U. Hughes, four miles east of this place, 
 was burned on Thursday, December twenty-eighth. The stove 
 pipe not properly entered into the chimney was thought to be the 
 cause. 
 
 PENSION LIST. 
 
 Below we give the list of pensioners living in Story County, as 
 received directly from official sources. There are one hundred and 
 forty-eight names testifying to bravery in the field or sorrows at 
 home. There is one veteran of the war of 1812 and six widows of 
 veterans of that war. This inequality calls attention to the esteem 
 in which war worn heroes were held forty or fifty years ago. 
 Other matters of interest will be noted on examination. 
 
 Coffman, Abraham, inj to back and dis of lungs $ 8.00 
 
 Ives, Daniel Gr. g s w left knee and rt leg 6.00 
 
 Drake, S. Bosworth, inj left knee 17.00 
 
 Hannah Rogers, widow 1812 8.00 
 
 Greorge G. Tilden, rheumatism 17.00 
 
 Jacob Horner, inj right thigh , 4.00 
 
 1 William S. Anderson, bronchitis 4.00 
 
 Joseph A. Savits, wd right leg 10.00 
 
 Eliza Ann Farr, widow 8.00 
 
 Benjamin Breneman, g s w rt leg (thigh).. 10.00 
 
 Edward S. McKinzie, injury to abdomen 8.00 
 
 John A. J. Butler, dis of lungs 12.00 
 
 A. H. Buck, g s w rt thigh and chr diarr 10.00 
 
 James Bradley, rheum and res dis of heart 12.00 
 
 K. W. Brown, shell wd left side and hip 15.00 
 
 Thomas J. Miller, chr diarr ' 6.00 
 
 I. B. McElyea, inj to back from shell contusion and res 
 
 dis of kidneys 8.00 
 
 William W. Arnold, chr rheumatism 24.00 
 
 Stephen P. O’Brien, opthalamia 18.00 
 
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112 Histoet of Stoet Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 A. D. Gaston, g s w rt foot and chr diarr 20.00 
 
 E. B. Cramblitt, dis of stomach and bowels and sciatica. .... 18.00 
 
 William C. Shockley, injury to abdomen 12.00 
 
 C. E. Haverly, g s w both legs and left arm 17.00 
 
 James Kelley, g s w rt arm 4.00 
 
 G. H. Hodgson, lung disease 10.00 
 
 Marshall Hemstreet, lung disease 12.75 
 
 D. G. France, measles and resit dis of lungs 6.00 
 
 D. S. Ferguson, sunstroke and result marked nervous dis- 
 order 12.00 
 
 Orland Eddy, dis of skin 10.00 
 
 David Jones, chr diarr and dis of abd vis 6.00 
 
 John Kelley, sunstroke 14.00 
 
 Thos. Gossard, dis of abd and rheum with result dis of 
 
 heart 8.00 
 
 Henry Lightner, injury to abdomen 4.00 
 
 Polly A. Kintzley, widow 8.00 
 
 John Worp, dis of heart and liver 6.00 
 
 Cyrena Clark, widow 8.00 
 
 Polly Betts, widow 1812 8.00 
 
 Patrick Kelley, injury to abdomen. 8.00 
 
 Amanda F. Johnston, widow 8.00 
 
 Isaac H. Craig, chr diarr and dis of lungs 8.00 
 
 Sorem Y. Kalsem, g s w rt leg 6.00 
 
 F. C. Tilden, malarial poison and chr diarr 12.00 
 
 Richard May, loss of arm 24.00 
 
 Charles A. Noling, g s w left elbow 14.00 
 
 John M. Hammitt, g s w left thigh 24.00 
 
 Gilbert G. Cronk, granular conj both eyes 4.00 
 
 Merritt Southwick, g s w rt arm and hand 14.00 
 
 Theodore Ham, g w s left hand and chr diarr 4.00 
 
 Aaron H. Hughes, g s w right thigh 4.00 
 
 DeWitt Hanks, g s w left shoulder 6.00 
 
 Jarvis Hanks, g s w right hand 4.00 
 
 Anfen Ersland, chr rheumatism * 12.00 
 
 Elijah Wise, chr diarr 4.00 
 
 Adin B Kinsell, g s w right knee 8.00 
 
 Nancy Nellis, widow 1812 8.00 
 
 Sarah Yasel, mother 8.00 
 
 Samuel Olson, loss right arm 24.00 
 
 Alanson P. Cronk, g s w left leg 6.00 
 
 W. R. Hampton, dis lung and result dis heart 8.00 
 
 Ann K. White, mother 8.00 
 
 Lucinda Runyon, mother 8.00 
 
 Huldah Davis, widow 1812. . . 8.00 
 
 Christopher BufSngton, dis of eyes and ears 8.00 
 
 Nathan B. Allen, chr diarr 2.00 
 
 Henry H. Neal, dis of eyes 12.00 
 
 Wm. J. Cawin, minors of 10.00 
 
Histoet of Story Couktt, Iowa. 113 
 
 W. H. Shafer, g s w left arm and left leg 8,00 
 
 Frederick Shandlemeier, g s w right thigh 2.00 
 
 John H. Shammo, g s w left thigh 4.00 
 
 S. P. Griffin, dis of lungs and chr diarr 4.00 
 
 Mahala Whisler, widow 8.00 
 
 Elizabeth Hefiey, widow 8.00 
 
 James McQuillen, chr conjudctivitis and granulated lids of 
 
 eyes 4.00 
 
 Micah French, sura 1812 8.00 
 
 James T. Morford, dis digestive organs from prison life . . . 4.00 
 
 G. W. Bruner, g s w left hip and both legs 14.00 
 
 Barrett J. Grennell, g s w right thigh 14.00 
 
 F. W. Downs, chr diarr and dis of eyes 10.00 
 
 David K. Bunce, g s w left forearm 8.00 
 
 John Humphrey, g s w left hip and thigh 8.00 
 
 E. G. Lewis, chr diarr with resulting dyspepsia and disease 
 
 of abdomen vis 8.00 
 
 George M. Barnes, eyes injured 12.00 
 
 Julia A. Prouty, widow .... 8.00 
 
 Lucinda P. Word, widow 8.00 
 
 Elizabeth Applegate, widow 1812 8.00 
 
 Dommodore P. McCord, loss left leg 24.00 
 
 Lewis Gray, injury to abdomen 4,00 
 
 John J. Wiltse, chronic bronchitis 4,00 
 
 Jethro Bale, g s w of face and left hip 
 
 Wm. M. Hardin, chronic diarrhea 2.00 
 
 H. B. Churchill, chronic bronchitis 4.00 
 
 Benton Corrington, g s w left thigh 4.00 
 
 Hamilton Cramer, injury to abdomen 8.00 
 
 Robert J. Campbell, g s w left arm 8.00 
 
 John W. Spencer, injury to hips 6.00 
 
 Francis M. Smith, g s w right leg 6.00 
 
 John F, Straw, g s w right leg 10.00 
 
 Alba 0. Hall, chr diarr and resulting dyspepsia 4.00 
 
 Jacob R. Fetterhoff, g s w left shoulder 4.00 
 
 Eugene R. Mills, g s w right thigh and resulting varicose 
 
 veins 8.00 
 
 Thomas R. Leonard, rheumatism 4.00 
 
 Allen Cotten, lung disease 6.00 
 
 Mary A. Martin, widow 8.00 
 
 Elizabeth Robinson, widow and four children 8.00 
 
 John W. White, heart disease 24.00 
 
 Elizabeth West, widow .- 8.00 
 
 Anne E. Tichenor, widow 8.00 
 
 Edward Kuhn, rheumatism and resulting dis heart 4.00 
 
 Charles Kent, chr diarr and g s w left forearm 8.00 
 
 George W. Kinney, g s w left hand 18.00 
 
 Eliza Densmore, widow 1812 8.00 
 
 John A. Boston, dis of eyes 4.00 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Lewis ¥. Brown, g s w left shoulder 
 
 David Dale, g s w left hand 
 
 Wesley D. Barnes, g s w left foot 
 
 John B. Love, disease of eyes 
 
 Andrew Patton, chr diarr 
 
 John Nelson, inj to back 
 
 Henry 0. Ayers, g s w left arm. 
 
 R. F. Chapman, inj to spine and kidneys 
 
 Michael Purkheiser, g s w right side chest 
 
 Eugene A. Taylor, 
 
 E. D. French, dis of heart and frac left clavicle 
 
 S. P. Zenor, g s w right shoulder and left side head 
 
 Hussong Calvin, inj right hip 
 
 Eliza Jenkins, widow • • 
 
 Henry Rigby, wd rt thigh chr diarr .......... 
 
 Michael D. Deal, g s w left foot 
 
 Susannah Foster, mother 
 
 J. B. Jacobson, injury to abdomen 
 
 Dingus Hatfield, g s w left arm and foot 
 
 Peter Johnson, g s w right side 
 
 Lucy Olson, widow 
 
 Malinda Johnson, widow 
 
 J. M. C. Robbins, partial loss of sight 
 
 A. J. Jones, dis of brain, sunstroke 
 
 Nelson Erickson, shell wd right hand 
 
 August Jacobs, g s w If t shoulder . 
 
 E. R. Larson, chr diarr and erysipelas... 
 
 Wm. A. Wier, dis lungs and chr rheumatism. ... 
 
 Greo. Boyd, chv diarr dis lungs and rheu 
 
 Benj. Hollingsworth, disease of eyes 
 
 Ole Bergeson, g s w left foot 
 
 Jefferson Moses, chr diarr, res dis abd vis. ... 
 
 N. A. Myers, shell wound left shoulder and thigh . . . 
 
 Arthur W. Johnson, wound of neck , 
 
 D, E. Weatherly, injury to left side and chest 
 
 Henry Dimmitt, g s w right thigh 
 
 James M. Price, chronic rheumatism 
 
 — (January 9, 1884.) 
 
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 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 
 
 A Grand Army Post was organized at Nevada Monday evening, 
 January 7, 1884, and the following officers were elected for the 
 ensuing year; Commander I. L. Smith; Senior Vice Commander, 
 0. W. Wilson; Junior Vice Commander, Guilf Mullen; Adjutant 
 M. C. Allen; Quarter Master, F. D, Thompson; Surgeon, Dr. P. 
 W. Farrar; Chaplain, Rev. A. K. Bone; Officer of the Day, C. W. 
 

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 Histoey oe Story County, Iowa. 115 
 
 Wood; Officer of the Guard, H. H. Boyes; Sergeant Major, A W 
 Davis; Quarter Master Sergeant, George Child. Henr}^ Wilson Jr * 
 was detailed by department headquarters to officiate as mustering 
 officer Fifty-five were mustered and there are founteen more on 
 the roll to be mustered at the next meeting of the Post. The first and 
 mird Saturdays of each month were times fixed for meetings of the 
 Post. The Post was named in honor of a brave Story County sol- 
 dier who belonged to the Twelfth Iowa Infantry and was killed at 
 the battle of Shiloh, Jason D. Ferguson Post, No. 31. G. A. R. 
 The following is the list of soldiers mustered in: 
 
 H H. Boyes, I. L. Smith, J. A. Fitchpatrick, A. W. Davis Jay 
 A. King, Colonel John Scott, John Beatty, Geo. W. Hemnstock 
 
 J- T- Stone, J. D. Ferner 
 M Purkhiser, A. K. Banks, Freeman Elliott. Ed. Kuhn, C h’ 
 Schermerhorn M. Daugherty, M. C. Allen, 0. W. Wilson, C w’ 
 W^d Geo. M. Baimes, W. D. Barnes, Guilf Mullen, T. C. McCall* 
 KD. Thorapon, John W. Spencer, Henry C. McIntosh, P. w’ 
 Farrar D V. Thrift, D. Dale, J. F. Dane, Geo. Child, F. M. Smith, 
 
 1 R. S. Wakeman, E. F. Wakeman 
 
 Alf. Goodwin H. F. Ferguson, Samuel Reid, Wm. G. Hodge, D. E. 
 Southerland, Levi Smith, James E. Batman, D. E. Finch Geo A 
 Mason, James Dillon, Henry Tetwiler, Patrick Nicholson, John 
 Corrmgton, H. K. Hulse and Daniel Masters 
 A are yet to be mustered in: J. F. Gillespie, 
 
 A 0. Abbott W H. Jones N. H. Confare, Seth Hunphrey, W. I. 
 Stephens, I. Walker, R. S. Satterlee, H. 0. Ayers, A. K Bone A 
 
 0. Hall and J. W. White.— (Janu- 
 ary 9, 1884.) 
 
 Some two weeks since W. W. Utterback’s family and friends 
 were grieved to receive a telegram from Sioux Falls, Dakota, that 
 John Utterback was drowned at the falls' of the river After 
 receiving the telegram they received a letter from Joseph Utter- 
 back. He stated that John Utterback and his partner, Mr Tliomn 
 son were engaged in enlarging pictures and sketching landscape! 
 On this fatal night they were engaged in sketching a moonlight 
 scene of Sioux Falls, when John slipped, fell into the river and has 
 not been seen since. Mr. Thompson reported to the sheritf, who 
 immediately gffihered a posse of men and made dilligent search 
 tor the body I here are some whisperings of murder or foul play 
 It seems as though Mr. Thompson telegraphed for Joe to meet 
 him at bioux I alls City and that his brother was drowned, and 
 when Joe got to the city Mr. Thompson was gone. 
 
 John was supposed to have from two hundred and fifty to three 
 hundred dollars of money with him. He and Thompson had been 
 partners for about three years. Mr. W. W. Utterback has lately 
 
 J from Mr. Thompson in Kansas. Mr 
 John Utterback was weL and favorably known in this vicinity from 
 infancy to manhood and his parents and friends have the true sym- 
 pathy of the entire community in the sorrow of their sad be- 
 reavement.— (May 23, 1884) 
 
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 Histoey of Story County, Iqwa. 
 
 DECORATION DAY. 
 
 The ioiut committee of the Gr. A. R. Post and citizens, appointed 
 to arrange for Decoration Day exercises, submit the roliowmg 
 
 program; _ , 
 
 Sunday, May 24, 1884, at 11 A. m., union services in Opera Hall, 
 sermon by Rev. I. Reid, prayer by Rev. Oeo. Houghton. 
 
 Friday, May 30, 1884, 1:30 p. m. 
 
 1. Music by band on McCall & Thompson s corner.^ , . n . i 
 
 2. Meeting called to order in Opera Hall by president of the 
 
 day, at 2 p. M. 
 
 3. Vocal Music. 
 
 4. Prayer— Chaplain, W. A. Wright. 
 
 5. Band Music. 
 
 6. Address— F. D. Thompson. 
 
 7. Recitation— Minnie McCall. 
 
 8. Address— P. W. Farrar. 
 
 9. Vocal Music. 
 
 10. Address— W. 0. Payne. 
 
 11. Address — J. L. Dana. ^ 
 
 12. Band Music. • ol i. j 
 
 13 ’Formino’ of procession on Fifth and Main Streets, under the 
 
 direction of M^arshal J. F. Oillispie and assistants, in the following 
 
 Martial Music; 2. 0. A. R. and other soldiers and sailors; 
 
 3. Officers of the day and speakers; 4. Sin^rs and decorating 
 committee; 5. Civic societies; 6. Band; 7. Fire department; 8. 
 
 City schools; 9. Citizens. . 
 
 14. On arriving at the cemetery the procession will gather 
 
 around the colors of the O. A. R. and participate in the following 
 exercises: 
 
 1. Band Music. , i • i. o 
 
 2 The decoration of graves simultaneously by thirteen squads 
 
 of soldiers, accompanied each by a boy and girl with flowers, the 
 
 band meanwhile playing a dirge. 
 
 3. Reading a poem— Prof. F. E. Plummer. 
 
 4. Vocal Music. 
 
 5. Dismissal with benediction. i. 
 
 The committee suggests that the above addresses do not exceed 
 
 ten minutes in length. . j i; ..w. 1 .qa 
 
 They also recommend that places of business be closed from 1.30 
 
 to 4 P M., on Decoration Day, and that all citizmis co-operate to 
 render the occasion a memorial of those who in the days t^t tried 
 men’s souls gave their lives a ransom for the Nation.— (May 23, 
 
 D. Fergason Post, No 31, G. A. E 
 hall at 10:30 A. m., Sunday— and will march to Opera Hall in a 
 body at 11 a. m., to attend memorial services. A general atten- 
 dance is required. i. 
 
 (May 23, 1884.) • C!om. of Post. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 117 
 
 Dr. Farrar lias a model of his new door or window fastening, and 
 it promises to be a valuable invention. We trust he may make a 
 fortune out of it. — (Jan. 16, 1883.) 
 
 The expenditures on the Iowa State capitol up to March 13 have 
 been $2,657,315.03. It is estimated that $188,184.97 will be 
 required to complete it. There yet remains $61,696.13 of the 
 appropriation for 1885. — (March 27, 1885.) 
 
 On Tuesday Oeo. Frazier and Tete Kelly tried to reach Chicago 
 with several cars of cattle. They undoubtedly reached there and 
 will see the L. E. Phant. — (March 27, 1885.) 
 
 In the apportionment of the school fund in Story County for 
 April we find the number of pupils to be 6,125, and the amount 
 of money to be appropriated, $4,261.81. The main ones are as 
 follows : 
 
 
 
 No. 
 
 Ain't Apport’d. 
 
 Collins 
 
 
 388 
 
 ■ $269 97 
 
 Franklin 
 
 
 
 228 92 
 
 Grant 
 
 
 
 157 25 
 
 Howard 
 
 
 385 
 
 267 88 
 
 Indian Creek 
 
 
 376 
 
 261 63 
 
 La Fayette 
 
 
 319 
 
 221 96 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 
 
 149 60 
 
 Milford 
 
 
 280 
 
 194 82 
 
 Nevada township 
 
 
 197 
 
 137 07 
 
 New Albany 
 
 
 238 
 
 165 60 
 
 Richland 
 
 
 203 
 
 141 25 
 
 Sherman 
 
 
 
 148 21 
 
 W arren 
 
 
 203 
 
 141 25 
 
 Washington 
 
 
 
 206 65 
 
 Ames, Independent 
 
 
 418 
 
 290 85 
 
 Cambridge “ 
 
 
 151 
 
 105 05 
 
 Colo “ 
 
 
 117 
 
 81 41 
 
 Iowa Center “ 
 
 
 .... 99 
 
 68 89 
 
 Nevada “ 
 
 
 
 304 07 
 
 Story City “ 
 
 
 
 144 03 
 
 The ratio of apportionment is a fraction less than seventy cents 
 for each pupil. — (April 24, 1885.) 
 
 Theo. Baldus has lost about fifty first-class hogs during the past 
 few months. Oleson Oleson, Jack Bowen, M. Larson, S. Switzer 
 and others living in the northwestern part of the county have also 
 been having losses by some disease resembling hog cholera. They 
 do not know what the cause is but they know that they have lost 
 the hogs. Quite a number of calves have also been lost in the 
 same neighborhood owing to circumstances which they were unable 
 to control. — (April 24, 1884.) 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Fine Stock Shipped. — Col. Scott sliipped on yesterday a fine 
 young Short Horn bull to S. P. Bowman of Chickasaw county, and 
 one to Hon. B. W. Johnson of Bremer county. Mr. 0. W. Wilson 
 of Grant township also took a fine one home in his wagon. Mr. 
 John Nelson of Howard township took one home last Saturday, 
 and Mr. A. 0. Shaw of Howard took his pick of the lot a few days 
 earlier. — (May 13, 1885.) 
 
 Various Topics — To Destroy Cabbage Worms. — Ice-cold water 
 sprinkled upon cabbage plants infested hy the imported cabbage 
 worm is claimed to be sure death to that insect. The water should 
 be sprinkled upon the cabbage during the heat of the day, when 
 the worms will roll off and die. The discovery of this remedy is 
 credited to Mr. Charles H. Irwin, of Painted Post, N. Y., ^d is 
 communicated to the Rural New Yorker by Prof. C. V. Riley. 
 A very simple remedy if effectual. 
 
 Mr. Wm. Smay has, during the past few months, made many 
 creditable changes and improvements in his store. He carries on 
 an extensive trade with the surrounding country, and meets with 
 the success he so justly merits. — (July IT, 1885.) 
 
 A LITTLE girl’s APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 (Trenton Gazette. ) 
 
 A little girl was engaged, with others, in raising money by 
 small contributions to liquidate the debt of one of the_ small 
 churches near Trenton, New Jersey, and a prize was to be given to 
 the girl that raised the largest amount. She succeeded well, but 
 learned that one little girl had raised a trifle more than she had, 
 and, after all, she was likely to lose the prize. In thinking over 
 the matter the idea occurred to her to write to Gen. Grant to help 
 her out. President answered the letter and enclosed the sum of $5, 
 and sent her, besides, some excellent advice. The child was as 
 much pleased in receiving a letter from Gen. Grant as she was to 
 get the $5. The letter became an object of great curiosity. Ev- 
 erybody wanted to see it. One gentleman gave $5 for it, and then 
 charged a quarter of a .dollar to see it. In this way fifteen or 
 twenty dollars were realized, all of which was paid to the Hamilton 
 Avenue church, for which the little girl was soliciting subscrip- 
 tions. The letter was read in the church on Sunday, and excited 
 no little curiosity. 
 
 ROLAND. 
 
 This has been a better week for business than last was, but 
 nothing to brag of this week. We have shipped six loads of grain 
 and one of hogs. T. W. Kelly is here buying hogs. He would 
 have shipped two cars Saturday but the heavy rain washed some 
 portions of the railroad track out, so that trains did not get through 
 until late Saturday evening, too late to ship. He shipped Monday. 
 

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 119 
 
 SfV^:. , ! 
 
 Duea & Son also shipped two cars Monday, one of hogs and one 
 of cattle. 
 
 A. K. Banks and R. W. Ballard were here Monday of last week and 
 made us pleasant calls. I have promised them the offices they are 
 candidates for, and they must not be disappointed. — ( July 22, 1885.) 
 
 The house of James Fry in Nevada township, together with all 
 its contents, was burned last Thursday night about midnight. 
 Mr. Fry did not even save his pocket-book from the fire. The 
 amount of the loss we have not ascertained, but the insurance was 
 only 1150.— (July 22, 1885.) 
 
 T. W. Kelly shipped two car-loads of hogs Monday to 
 Chicago.— (Aug. 7, 1885.) 
 
 Half fare rates will be given over all roads to the state fair. 
 
 — (Aug. 7, 1885.) 
 
 Col. Scott shipped three head of blooded yearlings to J. P. 
 
 Conkey, Huron, Dakota, on Monday. He has shipped a considera- ,1 
 
 hie number to points in this and other states.— (Aug. 7, 1885.) 
 
 The first issue of the Monitor, the new Ames paper, reached us 
 last week. It is republican in politics and is edited by E. W. ;'| 
 
 Clark. W^e extend the hand of fraternal greeting and wish the 
 enterprise the full measure of success its merit may entitle it to. i 
 
 —(Aug. 26, 1885.) i 
 
 The sum total of premiums offered by the Story County Agricul- 
 tural society this year is nearly |2,000.— (Aug. 26, 1885.) 
 
 S 
 
 Ellsworth & Yantis, patent solicitors, Washington, D. C., report 
 that, August 8th, a patent was issued to E. W. Lockwood, of Ne- 
 vada, for a device for dressing millstones. — (Aug. 26, 1885.) 
 
 The verdict in the Lash-Robison slander case was for 11.00. 
 — ( Sept. 9, 1885.) 
 
 Dunklebarger & Son shipped seven car-loads of hogs Monday. 
 Or. Duklebarger and Otis Briggs went in with them. — ( Sep- 
 tember 9, 1885.) 
 
 Boardman Bros, shipped a thousand dozen of eggs to Portland, 
 Oregon, Saturday. — Sept. 16, 1885.) 
 
 W . H. Porter has been appointed postmaster at Sheldahl, to 
 succeed Col. S. W. Snider, offensive partisan. — ( Sept. 16, 1885.) 
 
 On Friday last J. B. Grinnell was appointed postmaster at Gil- 
 bert, in this county. — (Sept. 11, 1885 ) 
 
 
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 The corner stone of the M. B. church at Collins will be laid on 
 Saturday, one week from to-morrow, and the edifice will be pushed 
 forward to completion as fast as possible. — (Sept. 11, 1885.) 
 
 Still Dying. — Hogs continue to die near Center Grove from a 
 disease resembling cholera. Quite a number of farmers have lost 
 nearly their all, while others have them die off by the score. 
 Whether the disease will spread remains to be seen, but efforts are 
 making to hold it to the locality. — ( Sept. 25, 1882.) 
 
 m’callsbueg sceaps. 
 
 M. L. Gates, living two miles northeast of the place lost his resi- 
 dence by fire on Saturday last. The fire caught from a defective 
 flue and occurred when all were at home. All attempts to stay the 
 progress of the flames were in vain and it was destroyed with most 
 of the contents. The loss is estimated at $900. The neighbors 
 circulated a paper and raised a sum of money to assist him in 
 rebuilding at once. 
 
 Roland had a corner on eggs last week and got more than they 
 wanted. The market price is twelve cents per dozen and they paid 
 nineteen cents, and there was money in it for some one! Don’t 
 ask them who!— (Sept. 25, 1885.) 
 
 • ONTAEIO HASH. 
 
 P. M. Coffelt is having a big trade, and as he is one of the 
 2d Iowa boys, all will be glad to hear of it. He expects to attend 
 the reunion at Marshall the last of the month. He took in 300 
 dozen eggs last week. 
 
 Considerable oats are coming in and twenty cents per bushel is 
 paid. — (Sept. 25, 1885.) 
 
 The hog cholera is getting to be a serious matter in Story County. 
 Dunklebarger & Son have lost at least one-fourth of their number, 
 and we understand that like fatality has occurred in yards in the 
 southern part of the county. Farmers should make use of 
 approved remedies to allay the ravages of the disease and to make 
 all possible effort to keep their hogs in a healthy condition. It is 
 the only way to prevent serious loss to individuals and the com- 
 munity. — (Sept. 30, 1885.) 
 
 Sowers & Evenson ship two cars of hogs to-day. This part 
 of the county is healthy and all is tranquil. — ( Roland, Oct. 7, 1885.) 
 
 Col. John Scott, of Nevada, Story County, Iowa, was in the city 
 Sunday. The colonel has occupied many positions of responsi- 
 bility; a colonel in the war, a senator twenty-six years ago, a lieu- 
 tenant-governor eighteen years ago, Grand Master of Masons in 
 Iowa, president of the State Agricultural society. He has been 
 
History of Story Couktt, Iowa. 
 
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 nominated for the state senate this year in the Boone and Story 
 district. — (Keokuk Constitution, Oct. 27, 1885.) 
 
 Business has been pretty fair for the last few days; considerable- 
 stock is being shipped, also grain and flax seed. J. Duea & Son 
 shipped a car-load of hogs to-day. Sowers and Evenson will ship 
 two car-loads to-morrow, and thus the wheels of commerce keep 
 moving.— (Roland, Oct. 20, 1885.) Josephus. 
 
 Wm. Moran shipped a car of horses to New York City Tuesday. 
 He expects to make that business a regular occupation. — (Oct. 
 16, 1885.) 
 
 A. M. Norris has sold his large farm southwest of Colo to Ben- 
 jamin Berry. — ( Oct. 28, 1885.) 
 
 Nine cars of apples, potatoes, and other kinds of merchandise 
 were received at the Nevada station between Saturday night and 
 Monday morning. Mr. Ingalls and the city draymen have been 
 busy since. — (Nov. 11, 1885.) 
 
 Dunklebarger & Son and T. W. Kelly shipped each a car-load 
 of hogs yesterday. — (Nov. 18, 1885.) 
 
 # 
 
 Herman Knapp shipped a couple of cars of brood sows to his 
 father who is now in Louisiana. They were choice ones and were 
 selected especially for their excellence. — (Nov. 20, 1885.) 
 
 During the past two weeks the weather has been extremely cold, 
 and the thermometer has gone as low as twenty-eight degrees 
 below zero. And at hardly a time has it been warm enough to- 
 make a show of melting. Everything is frozen that is freezable, 
 and ice ought to be cheap the coming season. A good January and 
 February ought to be forthcoming, followed by a favorable spring. 
 All are hoping for such. — (Dec. 26, 1884.) 
 
 SUHDAY SCHOOL COHVENTIOH. 
 
 To the Sunday School Workers of Story County: _ The annual 
 convention of tbe Story County Sunday School association will be 
 held at Maxwell, June 2d and 3d. It is expected that eaph school 
 in the county will send two delegates; but all that are interested 
 in the work are cordially invited to be present. Come one, come 
 all, and make this one of the grandest Sunday school years in the 
 history of the county. All schools that have not reported to the 
 county secretary will please do so at once. Ample accommoda- 
 tions will be provided for all who may attend the convention. 
 Programs will be out in a few days. Gteo. H, Spehcer, 
 
 (May 13, 1885.) County Sec’y. 
 
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 Histoey of Story Couj^-ty, Iowa. 
 
 DEDICATORY EXERCISES. 
 
 As already announced, the dedication of the New Lutheran 
 church of this place will take place next Sabbath, July 26. 
 
 Ihe following is a partial program for the day: 
 
 Sunday school, 9:15—10:45 a. m. 
 
 Prea,ching, 11 — 12 a. m. 
 
 Dedicatory sermon, 3 — 4 p, w. 
 
 Combined service of praise and song and children’s service, 8 p, m. 
 Addresses by Mr. _J. A. Spielman of Fairfield, C. W. Bingham, 
 ^sq., of Cedar liapids, and other visiting brethren. This program 
 IS subject to such change as shall be thought necessary. There 
 may possibly be a separate children’s service from 4 to 5 p. m. and 
 ^ general exercise in the evening. Notice of any changes 
 
 will be given at the Sunday morning service. 
 
 A cordial invitation is extended to all. Those coming from the 
 country should be prepared to remain for the afternoon'’service 
 
 (July 22, 1885.) j. A. Zieglbe, Pastor. 
 
 E. W. Gifford recovered his stolen watch yesterday. It was 
 tound done up in a napkin under a sidewalk at Ames near where 
 AT n n ^ burglarizing Thomas Bros, store were found. 
 
 C. Cook, the photographer, was the finder, and he identified the 
 watch by the published numbers.— (July 22, 1884.) 
 
 E. W. Gifford’s house was burglarized Thursday night and his 
 gold watch stolen. The number of the watch was 371,009 and 
 of the case 61,3375. The house of M. F. Warrick was entered the 
 same night; but Mrs. W arrick waked up and the burglars left 
 —(July 22, 1885.) 
 
 soldiers’ reuftioet. 
 
 The sixth annual reunion of Story County soldiers and sailors 
 took place at Maxwell last Thursday and Friday. The weather 
 was superb, the grove good enough, and the attendance exception- 
 ally large, being variously estimated at 2,000, 2,500, and 3,000. 
 
 1 lie Torenoon of the first day was occupied in reaching the grounds 
 from the various parts of the county, pitching tents and getting 
 settled in carnp. The several posts of the county ivere well repre- 
 sented, and it was evident at the start that the veterans were 
 to have a grand good time in meeting old acquaintances and 
 reviving old war memories. The afternoon and evening of Thurs- 
 from camp duties and sports and general visiting, was 
 failed in with speaking at the stand, Messrs. Fenn and Hoggat 
 being the most conspicuous of the talkers. The election of officers 
 of the regiment for the next year took place Friday evening and 
 esulted as follows: Colonel, John Scott; lieutenant colonel, I. L. 
 mith; major, C. E. Haverly; quartermaster. Jay A. King; sur- 
 eon. Dr. Geo.. Stitzell; chaplain, Rev. Moulton; drum-major, Geo. 
 Fitsor; fife-major, Alba Hall. Nevada was selected as the place 
 
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 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 of meeting for the reunion of 1886. - Thursday night the veterans 
 slept quietly and soundly in camp, when not otherwise occupied. 
 Friday morning Ben Brenneman’s “ love feast” took place, and was 
 a highly-enjoyed feature of the reunion. Among those who spoke 
 their little impromtu pieces and cracked pleasant camp-fire jokes 
 were Scott, Underwood, Smith, Gossard and Shearer. About 
 11 o’clock the soldiers and people gathered at the stand to listen to 
 the opening of the formal exercises of the day. Music in good 
 quantity and quality was furnished by the bands, and prayer was 
 offered by Chaplain John Doty; after which and more music. Col. 
 Jesse Wood introduced Mayor Goodman, who welcomed the old 
 soldiers and the people generally to Maxwell and to the reunion 
 of 1885. — (Aus. 9, 1885.) 
 
 THE THIEP EBUNION. 
 
 The reunion of the 3d Iowa regiment is now taking place in 
 Nevada, and the citizens are glad to welcome the surviving vet- 
 erans. The streets and business houses are decked with flags, and 
 the homes of the people are open. The headquarters have been 
 established by Col. Crossley at the office of Smith & Son, where 
 twenty-seven names were registered at nine o^ clock this morning. 
 A hundred or more of the three hundred survivors are expected. 
 Tents have been put up in the park, and there a camp-fire will be 
 held this evening. The announcement of the reception to-morrow 
 evening will be seen elsewhere. Meanwhile the veterans will renew 
 old associations and fight their battles over again. A cordial wel- 
 come and hopes for many more reunions are extended to them. 
 —{Aug. 19, 1885.) 
 
 The State Board of Equalization have been in session recently 
 and Auditor McCarthy received Monday a letter from Gov. Sher- 
 man under date of August 1st, in which he says: ‘‘ Your valuation 
 was reduced ten per cent, leaving the average at $8.05 per acre, 
 instead of $8.94 as reported.” This makes a difference of $1,236.82 
 on state revenue and county school, being thus much a saving to 
 our taxpayers. This reduction is on all realty in the county, both 
 town property and lands. At the time of the meeting of the State 
 commission. Auditor McCarthy was present and explained the 
 matter in such shape that they gave Story Count}'' the benefit. ^ It 
 is still higher than some of the counties in the state. The auditor 
 did good work in this instance and we give him due credit for it. 
 —(Aug. T, 1885.) 
 
 NEW POSTMASTEE. *' 
 
 On Tuesday morning Nevada was treated to a new postmaster, 
 E. D. Fenn in place of T. J. Ross. The office was removed into 
 the building belonging to Mrs. Patton on the corner of Linn and 
 Sixth street, and has commodious and comfortable quarters. Miss 
 Fegtly will remain in the office, thus assisting the new official in 
 making matters in the best of shape from the start. That the 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 incoming official will give good satisfaction is only to be. expected 
 as he is genial and obliging. 
 
 The postoffice was established in Nevada in November, 1853,. 
 with T, E. Alderman as postmaster, who held the office two years. 
 He was succeeded by Austin Prouty, As near as we can learn the 
 following are the officials following up to the present time: W. 
 E. Aldridge, Jas. Hawthorn, W. Gr. Allen, J. S. Blick, Otis Briggs,. 
 E. D. Fenn, L. Irwin, John Beatty and T, J. Ross, now followed 
 by E, D. Fenn. 
 
 The first postoffice was located on the corner of the lot occupied 
 by Mr. Lant Lockwood as a residence southwest of the court house. 
 The first mail carrier was J. P. Robinson, uncle of J. P, Robinson,, 
 of Grrant township, who carried it weekly from Des Moines. The 
 receipts for the first quarter were a trifle over $1, of which amount 
 Mr. Alderman received the large sum of seventy-five cents for his- 
 services, and the government forty per cent of the gross receipts. 
 This is quite a marked contrast with the present receipts. Of 
 course at that time there was no boxes, no conveniences and little 
 mail. The salary of the postmaster now is about |1,300 per year. 
 Comments are unnecessary. — (Sept, 4, 1885.) 
 
 A very interesting and profitable Sunday school convention was 
 held at the Evangelical church in Story City, Sunday morning 
 and afternoon. The topics discussed concerned — the object of the 
 Sunday school and how well it is fulfilling its mission, the qualifi- 
 cations of SL^ successful teacher, the extent to which temperance 
 should be taught in the Sunday school, and how to teach the 
 lesson. T. B. Howland, the district president, and Rev. B. H. 
 Neible, 0. B. Ingalls and S. R. Corneliussen assisted very much in 
 the meeting. A township organization was effected with S. R. 
 Corneliussen as president and C. Nelson as secretary. The chil- 
 dren’s exercise was very nice. The collection was |4.30. — (Sep- 
 tember 2, 1885.) 
 
 BACKWOOD’S justice, — AN OLD SETTLER’s ACCOUNT OF AN ILLINOIS 
 
 COURT SCENE IN 1832. 
 
 “ Jim Baxter, take the witness stand and state whether or not 
 you know the cow said to have been stolen by the defendant. 
 If you do, state her age and value; in a word tell all you know 
 about her.” 
 
 “ Mr. Lawyer, ask one question and speak louder. I’m thick 
 o’hearin’.” 
 
 ‘'Well, if you know the cow, state how old she is.” 
 
 “ I owned her thirteen years ago.” 
 
 “ Answer my question, how old is she?” 
 
 “ Don’t know; was so old I put hickory withes on her horns for 
 the wrinkles to run out on.” 
 
 “ What is she worth?” 
 
 “ She gives right smart of milk every day.” 
 
 “I didn’t ask how much milk she gave; state her value.” 
 
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 “ Age ain’t nothin’. I don’t know the price of beef cattle.” 
 
 “Is she worth fifteen dollars? Also state how much right 
 
 smart is.” . , 
 
 “ She gives a pint in the mornin’ and a half in the evenin . 
 
 “ Is she quiet? Does she ever kick the pail over?” 
 
 “I accept the amendment. She kicks and spills every day one- 
 half the milk.” 
 
 “ Jim Baxter, you are an expert— a smart Alex; is a pint and a 
 half your estimate of right smart?” 
 
 “ Yaas, that’s the law in Indiana and in old Kaintuck, whar 
 I was born.” 
 
 The Court turns to the clerk and states; “ Mr. Clerk, whereas 
 Indiana and Kaintuck, being older states, heretofore let it be 
 recorded as a ruling that henceforth a pint and a half of whisky, 
 rum, and all life-invigorating beverages, including milk, shall be 
 known and acknowledged as “right smart” in this, the First judi- 
 cial district of the commonwealth of Illinois. Call the next 
 witness.” 
 
 The bar rises in a body and informs his Honor that the hour 
 appointed for the. horse race has arrived. 
 
 “ Thanks, gentlemen of the bar, Mr. Sheriff adjourn court, sine 
 die till half-past eight to-morrow morning .” — {Detroit Free Press.) 
 
 W. H. Gallup has arrived and we are again favored with banking 
 privileges. An enterprise of this kind is one of the necessities 
 
 of the village. _ . 
 
 Mr. Schoonover, principal of the Madrid school, delivered his 
 lecture, “ The Great Rebellion,” to an interested audience Satur- 
 day evening. 
 
 J. H. B. Kerr died at his home Monday morning after a linger- 
 ing illness from cancer of the face. The funeral was held Tues- 
 day afternoon at 10 o’clock, from the M. E. church. Rev. Thomp- 
 son officiating. Mr. Kerr was an old. resident of the county, and a 
 highly respected citizen. — (Cambridge, Nov. 25, 1885.) 
 
 Parley Sheldon took charge of the Ames postoffice on Monday 
 last and is now handling the mail bags, letters and papers. — (No- 
 vember 25, 1885.) 
 
 J. B. Green has taken possession of the postoffice at Cambridge 
 and the democrats tally one more in Story County. — (Novem- 
 ber 25, 1885.) 
 
 Burt Hix took possession of the Zearing postoffice a week or so 
 ago, superceding J. C. Burkhart, offensive partisan. There are 
 some democrats in Lincoln township, but the powers that be 
 thought it necessary to import a postmaster. — (Nov. 25, 1885.) 
 
 A. M. Norris has purchased a number of lots in State Center, at 
 a valuation of $10,000. Good for him, though we should much 
 have preferred his purchasing in this town. — (Nov. 27, 1885.) 
 
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 Histoey of Stoet Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 According to the forthcoming census report of Iowa, that state 
 has twenty-five centenarians. Thirteen are 101 years old; three 
 102 years; one 103; two 104; one 105; one 106; one 107; one 112;, 
 and one, Jacob Heike, of Grundy, who is 121 years of age. There 
 are thirty-five persons whose ages range from ninety-five to ninety- 
 nine years. — (Nov. 27, 1885.) 
 
 FEIEFTDSHIP. 
 
 There is but one kind of true friendship and that is a genuine 
 attachment for the person befriended. There are many pretended 
 friends — the world is full of them — we all have such — they fiock 
 around us like Sunday school scholars do at a Christmas entertain- 
 ment, or like the rough-feathered vulture about a carcass; yet 
 they are no more our friends than the average Sunday school 
 scholar is an admirer of his lesson, or the vulture of the animal 
 before it has died and passed into decay. One man feigns to be 
 your friend because he thinks you have money or social standing, 
 or political influence, and by associating with you he hopes to- 
 gratify some selfish end, but for the real personal pronoun You, 
 he cares nothing. Then we have the literary friend who wants to 
 be “solid” with you because of his chance to borrow a dozen new 
 books your fine library contains; or he may wish to have frequent 
 access to your collection of rare specimens or to behold your collec- 
 tion of works of art. These are not our real friends, they are mere 
 hangers-on. They simply come under the head of admirers of our 
 personal effects and as a common rule care but little for us. But 
 very few of us can measure or weigh friendship until the testing 
 day comes. When adversity takes from us our property; when 
 our books and collection and works of art, and all that money has 
 bought for us are swept away by fire or flood and we move from 
 Best street to a rented cottage on Poor Alley, and when we work 
 with our hands for the bread we eat, we can tell then and not until 
 then just who our true friends have been all along the meanderings- 
 of life’s journey. 
 
 On Sunday afternoon John Steward, of southeast Nevada town- 
 ship had his house burned. A portion of the contents only were 
 saved. The loss is about ^1,200, and the insurance $600. — (Decem- 
 ber 18, 1885.) 
 
 The annual reunion of the family of J. H. Keigley will occur at 
 his residence in this place on Friday, and all are expected. Of 
 course the best of time will be had. — (Dec. 18, 1885.) 
 
 The number of cars of stock and grain shipped from Nevada 
 during the year 1885 were as follows: Of stock, 150 cars; of grain,. 
 197 cars. For the first six months of 1886 there were of grain 
 sixteen ; cars of stock for same time were seventy. 
 
 Wm. Clark & Co. shipped a car of horses and mules Saturday 
 
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 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 morning to Minneapolis, and one also of horses Wednesday morn- 
 ing. — (Ames, Aug. 6, 1886.) 
 
 On Tuesday morning Mr. Wm. Clark shipped to Minneapolis his 
 twelfth car of horses since February last. A few of the animals 
 became frightened and took a go-as-you-please frolic, but they were 
 impounded before traveling a great distance. — (Ames, Sept. 2, 1886.) 
 
 Dunklebarger & Son ship to-day five cars of as fine cattle as ever 
 went from the county. — (Nevada, Dec. 8, 1886.) 
 
 Mr. Wm. Fultz, living south of town, sold to Dunklebarger 
 & Son on Saturday last forty-five head of hogs, averaging 322^ 
 pounds, for which he received $184. Mr. Fultz is one of our 
 most thrifty farmers, and is an enterprising, go-a-head gentle- 
 man. — (Nevada, Dec. 10, 1886.) 
 
 At a regular meeting Monday evening of Jason D. Furguson 
 Post, No. 31, Gr. A. P., the following officers were elected: J. F. 
 Gillespie, Com.; Jas. Dillon, S. Y. Com.; J. W. Kinney, J. V. Com.; 
 G. W. Barnes, Q. M.; A. D. Pattee, Officer of Day; D. Y. Thrift, 
 Officer of Guard; W. I. Stevens, Chaplain; M. Daugherty, Surgeon; 
 F. D. Thompson, Jas. Dillon, delegates to Grand Encampment; 
 F. Elliott, C. W. Wood, alternates. — (Nevada, Dec. 9, 1885.) 
 
 On Tuesday Geo. Gilmore, of Milford township, sold sixty-three 
 hogs that weighed 25,620 pounds at $3.40 per hundred, and which 
 netted him the snug sum of $871.10. They were delivered at 
 Ames, from which place they were shipped. Mr. Gilmore is one 
 of the good farmers in the county and keeps only the best of stock. 
 One thing will strike one familiar with hogs as still better that 
 they were all of one breed, Chester White, and of nearly uniform 
 size. The average weight of them will be seen was over 400 
 pounds. Mr. Gilmore has more of the kind on hand and is up to 
 just such things. — (Dec. 18, 1885.) 
 
 When passing, I called to see my old and highly esteemed friend,, 
 p. R. Brown, who has been a great sufferer for years from a linger- 
 ing disease. He seems to endure his sufferings with remarkable 
 patience. _ He may even yet outlive the writer hereof. Allow me 
 to say he is one of Story County’s honest men. Mr. Brown lives 
 in the southeast corner of Grant township. I passed several farms 
 in good culture before reaching Mr. Jesse Barker’s. Mr. B. has 
 one of the largest apple and cherry orchards in Story County. Has 
 about 750 apple and 200 cherry trees in fair bearing condition. 
 Has also peach and chestnut trees. Around this orchard, and inter- 
 mingling it, is a magnificent and nicely arranged grove of maples. 
 This grove covers nearly or quite twenty acres of ground. Has a 
 large commodious dwelling, nicely surrounded and protected by 
 the grove. — (Dec. 10, 1885.) 
 
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 Wm. Fultz, Tuesday, sold Dunklebarger & Son twenty hogs 
 which weighed 6,950 pounds, one of the twenty weighing 550. He 
 received the goodly lump of $229 for the lot. — (Dec. 11, 1885.) 
 
 D. M. Ruth has been appointed postmaster at Maxwell, and will 
 soon be in a position to help Uncle Sam in good shape. 
 Shake — (Dec. 11, 1885.) 
 
 Some Corn. — In 1881 was the year for large loads of corn. It 
 will be remembered that several tried to see who could bring the 
 largest one to market. On the 31st of January, Milo Warner 
 brought in with one span of mules, on bobs. 111 bushels and ten 
 pounds; on February 1st, S. D. Tooker, with one span of horses, 
 brought in 119 bushels and fifty pounds, and on February 1th, M. 
 Warner brought in 159 bushels and sixty pounds. Several other 
 large loads were brought in, but these were the largest. The ques- 
 tion is who will bring in the big loads the present year. — (Decem- 
 ber 11, 1885.) 
 
 Geo. Baeschlin has laid 1,000 rods of tile the past summer. 
 A large part of it was put down on the farms of Alderman & Son, 
 Nevada, and B. E. Wells, McCallsburg. — (Dec. 16, 1885.) 
 
 Curt Wood shipped a car-load of cattle and one of hogs last 
 Tuesday. This is the first car of cattle shipped since last spring. 
 — (Maxwell Tribune^ Dec. 16, 1885.) 
 
 Geo. W. Dyer went to Zearing yesterday to complete the process 
 of closing the saloon at that place and condemning the liquor 
 seized last week. The Zearing people, with the assistance of Mr. 
 Dyer, will succeed, without doubt in suppressing the illegal and 
 disreputable traffic. — (Dec. 16, 1885.) 
 
 People who dislike to have their windows frosted in cold weather 
 can prevent it by rubbing the glass inside and outside with 
 glycerine. — (Dec. 16, 1885.) 
 
 Arrangements to have coal prospected for in the immediate 
 vicinity of Nevada have been nearly perfected, and there is strong 
 hope that the prospecting will be successful. The movement 
 should receive, and does, the hearty encouragement of the business 
 men of Nevada. — (Dec. 16, 1885.) 
 
 The library at the Agricultural college is said to contain 5,540 
 books, running in all lines, history, biography, novels, etc. — (Jan- 
 uary 29, 1886.) 
 
 A. Patton Post, G. A. R., Zearing, chose the following officers 
 at their last meeting: M. R. Bump, C.; B. F. Paisley, S. N.; C. N. 
 Thatcher, J. N. — (Jan. 1, 1886.) 
 
 Mr. Dana shipped a car of young cattle to Laramie, Saturday 
 night, consisting of sixty-five head, on which he expects to realize 
 a good thing. — (Jan. 1, 1886.) 
 
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 Histoey op Stoey Coustty, Iowa. 
 
 The coldest weather known for years was reported at Gralveston, 
 Texas, where ice formed from three to five inches in thickness 
 Friday night. In the South Atlantic region, as far south as Tampa 
 Bay, Florida, freezing weather was also reported. — (Jan. 13, 1886.) 
 
 OPTTAEIO. 
 
 Christmas eve, just as people were taking their leave from the 
 Christmas tree, a fire was discovered in the south part of town, and 
 the news was soon spread that Wm. Trembly’s house was in flames. 
 People hastened to aid, but it was then too late. The fire was 
 burning rapidly; there was no hope. There were a few things 
 taken from the kitchen such as the cook-stove, cupboard, cooking 
 utensils, and other articles, but the fruit, flour and such articles 
 were put away in a cave, which saved them from the fire. The 
 carpets, furniture, beds, bed-clothing and other articles which were 
 in the bed-room and front room were all burned. The mystery was 
 not explained until Monday, when ’Squire Shockley, from Ames, 
 arrived and searched the house of J. W. Johnston and found some 
 of Ida Harris’ things who was boarding with Trembly. Clothino-, 
 jewelry, books and other articles were found before the search was 
 begun. Mary Johnston, a girl of thirteen, rolled something under 
 her apron and started but was caught with some of the stolen 
 goods. She then confessed that she had taken the goods and then 
 set fire to the house. She said she had taken most everything out 
 of Ida Harris’ trunk when the bed-clothes caught on fire. She 
 could not smother the flames and was obliged to escape through 
 an open window through which she had broken in at. She will be 
 taken to a reform school. 
 
 Mrs. Annie Jones, who died Saturday night, has been ill but one 
 week. It has not been a year since her husband died. Now four 
 children are left to mourn the loss and to be orphans; it is strange 
 that both parents should die while so young. 
 
 After all, Ontario has not witnessed a Merry Christmas, but we 
 hope for a Happy New Year. — (Jan. 1, 1886.) 
 
 There are too many small boys running our streets after night- 
 fall. It is the very worst place for a boy to be. Parents should 
 see that their children are furnished with reading of a wholesome 
 kind, and some innocent games, and then a love for home and that 
 which is good will early in life be instilled into their minds, and 
 they will grow up better qualified for the duties of life, than if they 
 a,re allowed to take all their lessons on the streets, and loafing 
 about the stores. 
 
 Dunklebarger & Son, and T. W. Kelley, shipped a car-load 
 of hogs, each, yesterday. — (Jan. 27, 1886.) 
 
 Mr. D. Gr. Ferguson started a car-load of hogs from here last 
 Thursday evening, but they only got as far as Ames, where they 
 were overtaken by a snow storm, and had to be unloaded and cared 
 for until Saturday evening, when they were again sent out on their 
 journey.— JJan. 27, 1886;) 
 
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 History op Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 The Message^ Bro. Everly’s new monthly, has made its appear- 
 ance, The editor says in his salutatory that “the object in sending 
 the Message'"' is “to help you in your Christian life.” We hope 
 the Message may prove itself helpful to all who receive it, and a 
 financial success to its enterprising publisher. — (Jan. 28, 1886.) 
 
 Messrs. G. W. Sowers & Son shipped two cars of stock from this 
 place, and one from Story City on Tuesday of this week, and we 
 sincerely hope they will not meet with a snow blockade. — (Jan- 
 uary 28, 1886.) 
 
 Several Nevada ladies mourn the loss of treasured house plants 
 by freezing, while the heads of the households mourn the loss 
 of potatoes and other vegetables from the same cause. — (Jan- 
 uary 29, 1886.) 
 
 Wm. Moran is again purchasing horses and expects to ship two 
 cars the coming month. — (Jan. 29, 1886.) 
 
 Coal has been a scarce article during the past two weeks and 
 much suffering may yet result from it. — (Jan, 29, 1886.) 
 
 The weather is quite moderate at this writing and we may look 
 for the backbone to be broken. — (Jan. 29, 1886.) 
 
 The Story County jail had no boarder on Wednesday. Long 
 may it remain so say the taxpayers. — (Jan. 29, 1886.) 
 
 L. McKim, of Milford township, shipped a car of cattle the last 
 of the week, of his own raising. May there be many more just 
 such farmers in Story County, — (Jan. 29, 1886.) 
 
 The greatest industry to-day in this locality is chicken picking. 
 All can get work, and plenty of it, and make good wages, — (Jan- 
 uary 29, 1886.) 
 
 The supreme court last week decided in favor of T. J. Ross 
 in his suit to get hold of the Hes Moines property of the sewing 
 machine agent Helyer, whose bond he had been on to his sorrow. 
 —(Feb. 3, 1886.) 
 
 Those that use coal for fuel have been obliged to economize a 
 little in that direction. It seems almost impossible for the Max- 
 well coal dealers to get coal, and the roads are blockaded so badly 
 we can’t haul from the banks; and unless there is a change in the 
 weather for the better and the roads become passable, 1 fear we 
 will suffer for the want of coal or be obliged to visit our more for- 
 tunate neighbors who burn wood. — (Feb. 3, 1886.) 
 
 Duea & Son shipped more hogs to-day and two cars to-morrow. 
 They keep the hog market booming. — (Feb. 2, 1886.) 
 
 Boardman Bros, are cutting and hauling their ice to-day and 
 filling their ice house. — (Feb. 3, 1886.) 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 131 
 
 Mr. Fred. Eckard, residing three miles north of Ontario, was one 
 of the earliest settlers of Story County, having lived here over 
 thirty years. He says he spent nearly all his early life on the 
 frontier, and claims he “ never was in a school room in time 
 of books.’"’ — (Feb. 4, 1886.) 
 
 Yesterday morning the thermometer indicated twenty-eight to 
 thirty-two degrees below zero according to location. That is quite 
 comfortable, particularly close to a red hot stove. — (February 4, 
 1886.) 
 
 The Mississippi river, for sixty-five miles in the vicinity of St. 
 Louis, is blocked with ice. — (February 5, 1886.) 
 
 John Thompson, president of the Wolf Creek Coal Company, 
 Collins, was in town Monday, and reported the coal prospects good. 
 — (February 10, 1886.) 
 
 GROVES FOR STOCK. 
 
 This winter is bringing home to the minds of thoughtful far- 
 mers the necessity of groves. Many farmers in the Korthwest 
 are provided with natural groves, and these men are fortunate in 
 having this natural protection for stock in the severe storms of the 
 present winter. But even then there would be a great improve- 
 ment if the north and west sides of every stock yard were lined 
 with a good grove of evergreen trees. It is a matter of astonish- 
 ment that these have not been long since provided. It can be 
 accounted for only on two grounds — one the impression that ever- 
 greens were hard to raise, as well as high priced, and the other that 
 their value as windbreaks has not been appreciated until the stock 
 interest obtained its present development. But whatever may have 
 been the mistakes of the past, there is not a year to be lost. The 
 stock interest will develop every year. Severe winters and heavy 
 snows seem to have come to stay. The work of protecting our 
 stock in this way is a work, in the language of the catechism both 
 of “necessity and mercy.” The quicker we set about it the better. 
 —(February 10, 1884.) 
 
 The tax of the Northwestern Railroad in Story County for the 
 year 1885 amounted to $8,122.34.— (February 10, 1886.) 
 
 We have the change at last. Mr. M. Swartout took charge of 
 the Post-office on Monday February 1, 1886. — (Story City, Febru- 
 ary 10, 1886.) V ^ 
 
 Extremes of the weather for the season have been experienced 
 during the past week. Thursday morning was perhaps the coldest 
 of the season, the thermometer, at eight o’clock, registering thirty 
 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 degrees below zero. Since Friday, weather has been spring like; 
 the sleighing is getting demoralized,* and wagons are again run on 
 the streets. — (February 10, 1886.) 
 
 J. C. Lee has already delivered, at this place 7,000 bushels of 
 corn. — (February 10, 1886.) 
 
 Charles Fish is shipping four car loads of hogs a week. — (Febru- 
 ary 3, 1886.) 
 
 Charles Mead shipped six car loads of stock this week. — February, 
 1886.) 
 
 ROLAND. 
 
 Thursday morning of last week, the mercury dropped to thirty- 
 three degrees below zero here, but Friday was warm and pleasant, 
 the first pleasant Friday for about six weeks. Trains were about 
 on time, which was quite a novelty. 
 
 E. J. Evenson went to Morris, Illinois, and brought back a wife. 
 She is not very large, but I suppose he thinks of two Evelis choose 
 the least. We congratulate him and wish him any quantity of 
 joy. — (February 10, 1886.) 
 
 Miss Mary A. Scott has been appointed clerk of the Senate com- 
 mittee on horticulture and public buildings. — (February 10, 1886.) 
 
 The twelve saloon keepers who were occupying the Marshalltown 
 jail yesterday, are beginning to discover, that perhaps, prohibition 
 does prohibit after all. — (February 10, 1886.) 
 
 Judge Henderson levied $3,500 in fines against Webster County 
 saloon keepers at his recent term of court in Fort Dodge. Prohi- 
 bition is doing very well up there. — (February 17, 1886.) 
 
 Wm. Clark shipped a car of horses to Minneapolis Monday, 
 which makes the third car load of equines he has purchased and 
 shipped since the first of the present month. — (March 18, 1886.) 
 
 We have shipped fifteen cars of live stock from our station so 
 far this month and still they come. — (March 18, 1886.) 
 
 Whispering in church during the delivery of a sermon is a pas- 
 time our young people are liable to indulge in very much to the 
 annoyance of those around them, and frequently to the disgust of 
 the entire congregation. But whispering during prayer time or 
 while the benediction is being pronounced is unmistakable evi- 
 dence of ill breeding. — (March, 1886.) 
 
 E. F. Farrington has the ill fortune to lose the greater portion 
 of his hogs by some disease that nearly makes a clean sweep. — 
 (March 19, 1886.) 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 133 
 
 W. R. Mason, of Grrant, shipped thirty-five head of cattle to 
 Chicago, on Wednesday of last week. Their average weight was 
 1,423 pounds in Chicago, and sold for five dollars and forty cents. 
 Mr. Mason fed them and has a number more of the same kind. — 
 (March 19, 1886.) 
 
 There is nothing purer than honesty; sweeter than charity; 
 warmer than love; richer than wisdom; brighter than virtue; more 
 steadfast than faith; more beautiful than friendship. — (March 19, 
 1886.) 
 
 If there are fence corners or other places about the farm where 
 weeds are growing they should be mowed out to prevent the seeds 
 from being scattered to adjoining fields. Farm fences afford one 
 of the most common sources for weed distribution, and it is poor 
 policy to allow the seeds to mature and become scattered to the det- 
 riment of the adjoining land. Pasture land, too often produces 
 heavy growths of noxious weeds which should be cut before matur- 
 ing their seeds . — Country Gentleman. — (March, 1886.) 
 
 The City of Boone has been adjudged to pay $4,500 for personal 
 damages incurred by a defective side walk. There is a warning in 
 this to all municipal corporations to keep the public ways in safe 
 condition, — (February 24, 1886.) 
 
 The Iowa Agricultural College opened Tuesday. Every room in 
 the main and other buildings have been engaged, and several appli- 
 cants have been turned away for want of acommodations. The 
 present college ^’^ear promises to be a very successful one. — (Febru- 
 ary 25, 1886.) 
 
 Mr. S. H. Smith, of Kelley, had two colts killed by the cars a 
 couple of weeks ago. A colt belonging to Mr. Hewheart had a 
 leg broken at the same time. — (February 25, 1886.) 
 
 Mr. Ed. Patton recently shipped three car loads of hogs and cat- 
 tle of his own raising. Mr. Patton takes great interest in improv- 
 ing his stock and always realizes the highest market price. — (Col- 
 lins, March 3, 1886.) 
 
 TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
 The Story County Teachers’ Association will meet at the School 
 House in Nevada, Saturday, February 20th, 1886. 
 
 PROGRAM. 
 
 1:30 p, M, . 
 
 1. A Professional Standard for Teachers, W. H. Wier. 
 
 2. The training of the Senses, Miss Anna Gr. McConnon. 
 
 3. Literature in the Schools, Frank Shutts. 
 
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 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 4. Practical Education, Miss Anna E. Henry. 
 
 5. The Average Pupil, Ole 0. Roe. 
 
 6. School Grovernment, W. F. Chevalier. 
 
 Topics for general discussion: Reading Circles, Care of School 
 Property, The Text-book Problem, School Exhibits. 
 
 Teachers and others interested in the cause of education are cor- 
 dially invited to attend the meeting and take part in the discus- 
 
 C. F. Curtiss, President. 
 
 sions 
 
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 — (February 17, 1886.) 
 
 Colonel Scott has been chosen by the Senate as President, pro 
 tern., and will make a magnificent presiding officer.— (February 18, 
 1886.) 
 
 NEVADA. 
 
 Poultry. — The past month has been a grand one for poultry 
 raisers, and the prices being paid to-day indicate as to what the 
 probable result will be in this County and State. It has become 
 one of the best paying productions of the farm, and readily com- 
 mands cash. Car load after car load has been shipped from the 
 county and still the supply is plenty. Corn is a staple article and 
 much'time is devoted, to its cultivation, yet more clear money is 
 made from the poultry of the county, according to the amount of 
 work devoted to it. It is only as a pastime that it is raised, but the 
 winter receipts indicate that it has become one of the staples of a 
 great and growing State. Prom it many of our best farmers real- 
 ize hundreds of dollars, and from an expense really trifling as com- 
 pared with other products of the farm. To see the teams engaged 
 in bringing in the poultry and the number of men plucking and 
 packing chickens and turkeys one would infer that it has become 
 one of the staples of the locality. Our dealers ship east in car lots 
 and sometimes two or three cars at a time, and nearly every town 
 in the county has a chicken ranch or two within its borders. W e 
 are certain that we are correct in saying that more money has been 
 paid out for poultry during the last two months than has been the 
 case for cattle and hogs combined. If any one is inclined to think 
 different let them visit either of the chicken houses in this town 
 and they will see a sight that they will long remember, and admit 
 our theory is correct. What is done with it is another question. 
 We know it is shipped from here, and that the trafic has become 
 one of the largest in Central Iowa. This is all that is necessrry for 
 us. It is shipped to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, 
 where it is held or placed upon the market as circumstances dictate. 
 Our farmers can do no better than to arrange for raising chickens 
 and turkeys by the thousands instead of the hundreds as at this 
 time, and will undoubtedly find it profitable. The expense is but 
 
Histokt of Story County, Iowa. 135 
 
 trifling compared with the receipts. The returns are sure and 
 immediate, and there is no waiting for a market, or for fattening, 
 as they run loose until late in the fall and at comparatively little ex- 
 pense and are only fed a month or two before being turned off. 
 Look up the matter and turn Story County into the greatest poul- 
 try county in the Nation. — (February 5, 1886.) 
 
 
 PREVALENCE OF FIRES. 
 
 As usual with every exceptionally cold spell, especially when 
 accompanied by a high wind, as has been the case during the 
 intense cold which has marked the past six weeks, flres occurred 
 with extraordinary frequency during the time the cold and storm 
 lasted, and many of these, we regret to say, were of farm buildings, 
 stock aud other property. The question of flres is, perhaps, jnore 
 serious to farmers than to any other class in the community. The 
 means of relief are the least accessible, and the amount at stake, 
 usually involves the farmer’s almost entire property. — There is no 
 other man, according to the business methods of to-day, whose 
 entire property is exposed to destruction by a single Are, yet this 
 is the case with the farmer whose dwelling, outbuildings, granary, 
 and its contents, live stock and farm implements are all exposed to 
 the same conflagration. Many times a farmer flnds himself, as a 
 result of a Are, bereft of all he possessed except his land, the con- 
 sequence being a heavy mortgage and years of trouble and anxiety, 
 - unless indeed he carry a full line of insurance. This is rarely the 
 case, and even then the ; insurance only indemnifies for the cash 
 loss, even when they pay it and promptly, which in many cases is 
 not the fact, and nothing can repair the loss of time involved in 
 putting up new buildings and collecting a new herd. As the win- 
 ter goes on the danger grows, owing to the continued use of the 
 stoves, the dryness of all interior wood-work in proximity to stoves, 
 pipes, etc. We speak these words of warning not as alarmists, but 
 hoping to induce greater care in the use of lanterns and lamps, the 
 careful examination of stoves and pipes, and the immediate rectifi- 
 cation of any arrangement, dictated, perhaps, by temporary con- 
 venience, but attended with even the slightest risk of fire. We 
 have frequently seen in many farm houses arrangements of stoves 
 and stove pipes which were a constant menace of fire, and becom- 
 ing more and more hazardous as each succeeding week of winter 
 passed by, and rendering the danger positively imminent whenever 
 a cold wind storm caused the stove to be run at its full capacity, 
 in such cases the old adage of “a stitch in time,” etc., is immi- 
 nently applicable. See to these matters and take advantage of the 
 first mild spell to thoroughly over haul your stoves and stove-pipes. 
 — (February 5, 1886.) 
 
 
 
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 136 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 ^ INVENTORY OF CITY PROPERTY. 
 
 I' MARCH 1, 1886. 
 
 City Hall $3,000.00 
 
 City Library Building 725.00 
 
 L City Tool House and Lot 100.00 
 
 City Pound 25.00 
 
 J City Cemetery Buildings cost 175.00 
 
 ;; City Hook and Ladder Trucks 700.00 
 
 I City Fire Engine and Hose Cart 750.00 
 
 ' ■ City Force Pump 93.00 
 
 , City Road Scraper - 200.00 
 
 City Tools and Scrapers 150.00 
 
 City Books and Library 1,200.00 
 
 City Park Seats 60.00 
 
 Ij. Total $7,178.00 
 
 All of which is 'respectfully submitted. 
 
 < H. C. Boardman, 1 
 
 William Gates, >• Finance Committee. 
 R. J. SlLLIMAIil, ) 
 
 STORY COUNTY. 
 
 r According to the returns of the census tabulated in the office of the 
 
 ; Secretary of State Story County has a population of 17,527, of which 
 
 ' number 3,473 are of foreign birth. The number of foreign born 
 
 I [Norwegian] in Palestine, including Sheldahl is given at 528; How- 
 
 i ard 500; Lafayette, including Story City, 379; Milford 131; Union, 
 
 f including Cambridge, 172; and Warren 165. There are 6,425 mar- 
 
 i ried (how about the odd one); 10,593 single; 476 widowed and 
 
 • thirty-three divorced; the number of births in 1884 were 392; sub- 
 
 I ject to military duty 3,012; entitled to vote 3,866. — Of the aliens 119 
 
 ' have taken out first papers and 372 have made no application. The 
 
 j number of families in the county is given at 3,510; number of 
 
 I dwellings 3,410. Of the native population 1,673 were born in 
 
 Illinois; 7,952 in Iowa; 1,100 in Ohio. The num.ber of pupils in 
 I attendance upon the public schools is given at 5,741. These few 
 
 i ! statistics will give something of an idea as to how Story County 
 
 i I stands in several quarters and will explain some things that may 
 
 ! i have puzzled many. — (January 29, 1886.) 
 
 THE PAST YEAR. 
 
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 The year 1885 is past and gone. Like all things of this earth it 
 has had its day, and we can only look to it from the record. The 
 question now arises how has it left Story County? Let us see. In 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 137 
 
 most towns and villages there has been a steady growth, slow but 
 sure. The pressure of the hard times has showed itself by a lack 
 of creation of more buildings for mercantile purposes. Nevada 
 has erected not one; Ames one, the Cook building; Story City one, 
 by Mr. Swan for his bank and in Maxwell Mr Ruth is erecting one, 
 and one by another for a drug store. In Zearing, Mr. Steelsmith 
 has^ been overhauling and rearranging a store building. In the 
 majority of the towns a number of substantial residences have been 
 erected during the year, which will go far towards helping out the 
 general average. As a whole the growth of our towns have not 
 been so satisfactory as we could desire. Yet the general improve- 
 ment has been fair, showing that our citizens are still advancing 
 in material prosperity and wealth. Many of the residences of the 
 past year’s build will reach as high as $2,500 each, and in a couple 
 of instances over $3,000. Business changes throughout the county 
 have not been numerous, and failures the exception, thus indicat- 
 ing that our merchants and business men generally are in a flourish- 
 ing condition and all trust the coming year may be one of pros- 
 perity to all. 
 
 The county shows to far better advantage and new residences, 
 barns, and improvements in general conclusively show there has 
 been a large advance in the financial circumstances of the great 
 majority of our farmers. Of the new dwellings quite a number 
 are costly ones, and are made for the use of those building them, 
 and from their saving of the past. Such men have rarely run in 
 debt for such things, having laid the money by for the purpose and 
 used it as contemplated. The amount of cattle and hogs yet in the 
 hands of the farmers is quite large, and those who claim to know 
 say that only a limited number have been marketed, and that they 
 will soon be placed upon the market. Corn is being fed to their stock, 
 and the open winter has been a good thing in assisting them to 
 realize a large percent upon the amount fed. To be sure, in some 
 localities, hogs have died of a scourge. Yet it has been confined to 
 individuals or localities and has figured but lightly in the general 
 sway. The corn crop has not realized as anticipated it would, but it 
 has answered for home feeding as well as for better grade, and, per- 
 haps, it has been of more value than would have been the case had 
 it been shipped. As a- whole our farmers are considerably better 
 off than last year, and far ahead of their brethren in the town. 
 This is shown conclusively by their improvements and general 
 appearance of thriftiness, which manifests itself to one that may 
 go through the county. The striking of coal in paying quantities 
 in Collins Township will also assist in making the general average 
 throughout the county, for the year just passed, better, and now 
 coal is found in the two extreme corners of the county, thus indi- 
 cating this to be in the coal belt and as a consequence far more val- 
 uable than has been generally thought. 
 
 As a whole, the county may be said to have been prosperous and 
 far ahead of one year ago. - Our business men are financially able, 
 and few failures have rfesulted, and none are anticipated. Our 
 
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 Histoey of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 farmers are gradually recuperating from the crop failures of the 
 past years and all is serene, and all look forward to a good year in the 
 year of our Lord 1886. It is a duty we owe each other to assist in 
 making the coming year one of prosperity, and it should be made 
 so. With the hope the coming season will be far better than the 
 one just past, we can only cherish the hope, and cordially extend 
 happy greetings for the New Year to all, whether friends or foes. 
 Let all remember that this is a good time to tender the Olive 
 branch of peace and good will in order that we may all pull to- 
 gether for the good of t^he town and county. What do all say ? 
 
 treasurers’ report. 
 
 To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Story County, Iowa: 
 
 I would respectfully submit the following as a true and correct 
 report of the receipts and disbursements in the oflSce of the county 
 treasurer of Story County from June 1st to December 31st, A. D. 
 1885, both dates inclusive. J. A. Mills, Co. Treasurer. 
 
 Dated this fourth day of January, 1886. 
 
 EECAPITULATIOH. 
 
 County fund $4,546 87 
 
 State “ 360 29 
 
 County school “ 1,431 36 . 
 
 Bond ‘‘ 834 55 
 
 Bridge * “ 5,256 88 
 
 Poor “ 
 
 Insane “ 1,034 30 
 
 Feebleminded “ 3 60 
 
 School house “ 675 03 
 
 Teachers “ ' 4,226 94 
 
 Contingent “ 1,324 89 
 
 Road 602 11 
 
 Corporation “ 559 35 
 
 Library “ • • • 35 21 
 
 Cemetery “ 10 28 
 
 Railroad" “ 115 79 
 
 Institute “ 640 77 
 
 School house site “ 99 50 
 
 Permanent school “ 357 89. 
 
 Temporary school “ 897 13 
 
 Board of health “ 16 64 
 
 Drainage “ 640 96 
 
 Balance cash on hand 
 
 $1,044 94 
 
 22,625 40 
 
 $23,670 34 $23,670 34 
 
 State of Iowa, ) 
 
 Story County, f ‘ 
 
 This may certify that we the Board of Supervisors of said County 
 and State have examined the books and papers pertaining to the 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 139 
 
 Treasurer’s office and we find that his receipts from all sources for 
 the period commencing June 1, 1885, and ending December 31, 
 1885, both dates inclusive, are as stated in the attached settlement 
 sheet, that the treasurer has correctly charged himself with the 
 balances on hand at the previous settlement, that we h^e exam- 
 ined his vouchers and find that the proper credits have been taken, 
 and finally that we have counted the cash on hand and find that 
 the treasurer has now in his possession the amount of cash with 
 which he is charged in this settlement sheet. In evidence whereof 
 we have hereunto affixed our hands this ninth day of Janu- 
 ary, 1886. J. Q, Burgess, 
 
 R. W. Ballard, 
 
 A. Hale, 
 
 Members of the Board of Supervisors. 
 
 The board of supervisors of Polk County appropriated $500 for 
 the distribution of a pamphlet descriptive of Des Moines and Polk 
 County. — (Jan. 27, 1886.) 
 
 NEVADA — REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE. 
 
 To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the Incorporated 
 
 Town of Nevada, Iowa: 
 
 Gentlemen: We, the finance committee of the city council, 
 most respectfully make the following report of the financial con- 
 dition for the year ending March 1, 1886. 
 
 In addition to the attached statements which show the condition 
 of the several funds we wish to state that the city is entirely out 
 of debt; also, that of the tax levy of 1884, there remains in the 
 county treasury the sum of $232.49; that none of the tax levy 
 of 1885 has been drawn on and will be available, as soon as col- 
 lected by the county treasurer, for current expenses for the coming 
 year, all of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 GENERAL FUND — RECEIPTS. 
 
 Balance on hand, March 2, 1885 $ 111 29 
 
 Received from sidewalk repairs 10 20 
 
 'Received from licences peddlers, shows, etc 114 76 
 
 Received from county treasurer 1,210 93 
 
 Received from error Wm. Lockridge 10 00 
 
 Received from rent City hall 39 00 
 
 Received from Farrar subscription 26 75 
 
 Total $1,522 93 
 
 GENERAL FUND — DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 F. D. Thompson, mayor, fourth quarter salary for 1884. $ 8 25 
 
 F. D. Thompson, mayor, third quarter salary 1885 ..... 20 75 
 
 Jas. Brown, recorder, fourth quarter salary 1884 14 50 
 
 L. A. Will, recorder, third quarter salary 1885 39 50 
 
 C. H. Balliett, city attorney, fourth quarter salary 1884. 18 75 
 
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 C. H. Balliett, city attorney, third quarter salary 1885. . 
 
 Henry Filer, marshal, fourth quarter salary 1884 
 
 Henry Fifer, marshal, third quarter salary 1885 
 
 J. W. White, trustee, fourth quarter salary 1884 
 
 H. C. McIntosh, trustee, third quarter salary 1885 ...... 
 
 L. A. Will, trustee, fouHh quarter salary 1884 
 
 J. B. Shedd, trustee, second quarter salary 1885 
 
 0. B. Alderman, trustee, fourth quarter salary 1884 .... 
 
 W m. Grates, trustee, third quarter salary 1885 
 
 A. K. Banks, trustee, fourth quarter salary 1884 
 
 James Dillon, trustee, third quarter salary 1885 
 
 R. J. Silliman, trustee, fourth quarter salary 1884 
 
 R. J. Silliman, trustee, third quarter salary 1885 
 
 H. C. Boardman, trusted, fourth quarter salary 1884. . . . 
 
 H. C. Boardman, trustee, third quarter salary, 1885 
 
 J. E. Scott, health officer, fourth quarter salary 1884. . . 
 J. E. Scott, health officer, first and second quarters sal- 
 ary 1885 
 
 C. W. Wood, balance street commissioner’s pay for 1884 
 
 James Green, sexton, third quarter salary 1885 
 
 Henry Fifer, police duty in care of tramps 
 
 Extra police duty during the year. 
 
 Alf. Goodin and others, care tramps 
 
 H. C. McIntosh, drayage 
 
 Payne & Son, printing 
 
 Lyman & Son, tile " * • 
 
 Wm. Lockridge, lumber 
 
 R. J. Silliman, lumber 
 
 Boardman Bros., lumber 
 
 T. E. Alderman & Son, force pump . . 
 
 Hose cart and hose 
 
 White & Bamberger, hardware .... 
 
 W ork in city park . . . 
 
 L. W. King, work on tool houSe 
 
 N. F. Olsen, ditch north railroad 
 
 Coyne & Burns, ditch on Fourth street 
 
 Repairs on engine and pumps 
 
 Merchandise for city 
 
 Balance on hand March first, 1886 
 
 37 50 
 
 6 25 : 
 
 18 75 
 
 6 75 I; 
 
 20 25 
 
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 77 46 
 43 17 
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 251 50 
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 Total $1,522 93 
 
 EOAD FUFTD — RECEIPTS. 
 
 Balance on hand March first, 1885 62 96 
 
 Received from county treasurer 677 15 
 
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 Overdrawn March 2, 1886 267 73 
 
 Total $1,01157 
 
 
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 ROAD FUND— DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 Road Grader $ 165 00 
 
 Win. Gates, plow for city 23 00 
 
 Ellis Armstrong, street commissioner, pay for year 357 68 
 
 A. W. Davis, lumber . . . 15 00 
 
 Wm. Lockridge, lumber 14112 
 
 Lockridge & Beatty, tile 142 22 
 
 Lyman & Son, tile 56 05 
 
 White & Bamberger, tax refunded 10 22 
 
 L. A. Will, making out tax list.. 30 00 
 
 E. W. Lockwood, making sewer across Vine street 10 00 
 
 Wm. Gates, blacksmithing , 17 15 
 
 Humphrey & Simser, blacksmithing ‘ 7 50 
 
 Wm. Boynton, drayage 6 43 
 
 Ben Olsen, work on sewer 4 00 
 
 R. H. Mitchell, making grade 4 00 
 
 H. C. McIntosh, work on street 12 75 
 
 S. E. Armstrong, work on street 5 00 
 
 W. R. Smith, work . 75 
 
 White & Bamberger, merchandise 370 
 
 Total 11,01157 
 
 LIBRARY FUND — RECEIPTS. 
 
 Received from County treasurer $ 287 72 
 
 Received from librarian 49 40 
 
 Total % 337 12 
 
 LIBRARY FUND — DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 Mattie Kellogg, salary and library expenses | 63 48 
 
 L. W. King, building coal house. 3 00 
 
 W. P. ZwiLling, merchandise for library 4 33 
 
 Henry Fifer, coal for library 2 00 
 
 Merchandise, coal, oil, etc 19 80 
 
 White & Gillespie, lamps for library 8 00 
 
 R. J. Silliman, lumber 9 77 
 
 Transferred to cemetery fund |6.26, borrowed |8.14 100 00 
 
 White & Bamberger, merchandise 5 59 
 
 Overdrawn March 2, 1885 32 86 
 
 Balance on hand March 1, .1886 88 29 
 
 Total ......' I 33713 
 
 CEMETERY FUND — RECEIPTS. 
 
 Balance on hand March 2, 1885 $ 65 64 
 
 Received from library fund 6-26, ’85, borrowed 8-14, ’85. . 100 00 
 
 Received from sale' of lots 150 00 
 
 Total 
 
 $ 315 64 
 
142 
 
 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 CEMETEEY FUND — DISBUESEMENTS. 
 
 Jas. Green, sexton, third and fourth quarters salary 1884. $ 12 50 
 
 Jas. Green, sexton, first and second quarters salary 1885. 12 50 
 
 Cemetery building 145 00 
 
 Pump and well 29 80 
 
 J. P. Brown, making deeds 3 50 
 
 White & Bamberger, merchandise. 8 40 
 
 White & Bamberger, merchandise 6 25 
 
 R. J. Silliman, lumber 2 46 
 
 Balance on hand March first, 1886 95 23 
 
 Total I 315 64 
 
 EECAPITULATION. 
 
 March 1, 1886, general fund on hand $350 95 
 
 March 1, 1886, library fund on hand 88 29 
 
 March 1, 1886, cemetery fund on hand 95 23 — $534 47 
 
 March 1, 1886, road fund overdrawn $267 73 
 
 Total in treasurer’s hands $266 74 
 
 In mayor’s hands (see his report). . . -r , . 31 15 
 
 In county treasurer’s hands, tax levy of 1884 .... 232 49 
 
 In librarian’s hands (see report) 17 30 
 
 In city marshal’s hands (see report) ". 4 60 
 
 In street commissioner’s hands (see report) ...... 3 95 
 
 Cemetery notes on hand 72 20 — $628 43 
 
 SECOND day’s PEOCEEDINGS OF COUNTY BOAED SUPEEYISOES. 
 
 Tuesday, April 6, 1886. 
 
 Board met as per adjournment. 
 
 Minutes of yesterday read and approved. 
 
 Members all present. 
 
 On motion, the following was declared to be the number of miles 
 and valuation of railroad belonging to the Chicago & Northwestern, 
 Central Iowa (Story City branch), Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 
 and Des Moines & Minneapolis railroad companies for the year 1886 
 as required by section 1321 of code of 1873, as follows, to- wit: 
 
 IOWA, c. & N. w. E. E. 
 
 Miles. Valuat’n. 
 
 Lincoln township 4.19 $ 8,380 
 
 Zearing (outside incorporation) 1.01 2,020 
 
 Zearing incorporation 1.05 2,100 
 
 Warren township 5.95 11,900 
 
 Howard township 6.23 12,460 
 
 Story City (outside incorporation) 27 540 
 
 Story City (incorporation and independent). . . .80 1,600 
 
 Total 
 
 19.50 
 
 $39,000 
 
T™j|pi{j^yJjTiiiigf I .1 .. 
 
 . tiK 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 143 
 
 c. & N. w. R. R. 
 
 New Mbany 4.95 $ 49,995 
 
 Colo independent (outside incorporation) ..... .50 5,050 
 
 Colo (independent and incorporation) 50 5,050 
 
 Nevada township 3.53 35,653 
 
 Nevada independent (outside incorporation) . . . 1.00 10,100 
 
 Nevada (incorporation and independent) 1.43 14,443 
 
 Grant township 6.10 61,610 
 
 Grant (in Washington) 50 5,050 
 
 Washington township 1.25 12,625 
 
 Ames independent (outside incorporation) 1.04 10,504 
 
 Ames (incorporation and independent) 1.00 10,100 
 
 Franklin township 2.43 24,543 
 
 Total 24.23 |244,723 
 
 D. M. & M. R. R. 
 
 * 
 
 Sheldahl (incorporation and independent) 53 $ 1,590 
 
 Franklin independent 1.56 ' 4,680 
 
 Bloomfield independent 2.05 6,150 
 
 Kelley independent 2.10 6,300 
 
 Washington township 5.17 15,510 
 
 Ames independent (outside incorporation). .. . 1.19 3,570 
 
 Ames (incorporation and independent) 85 2,550 
 
 Franklin township 6.34 19,020 
 
 Lafayette township 4.57 13,710 
 
 Story City independent (outside incorporation) 1.04 3,120 
 
 Total 26.40 $79,200 
 
 C., M. & ST. P. R. R. 
 
 Collins township 6.12 $ 35,649 
 
 Indian Creek township 4.05 23,591 
 
 Maxwell independent (outside incorporation) . . 1.11 6,466 
 
 Maxwell (incorporation and independent) . ; . . . .98 5,709 
 
 Centre Grove 2.93 17,067 
 
 Cambridge independent (outside incorporation) .99 5,767 
 
 Cambridge (incorporation and independent). . . 1.00 5,825 
 
 No. One (1) independent 1.54 8,970 
 
 Palestine independent 34 1,981 
 
 Fieldberg independent 1.69 9,844 
 
 Sydnes independent 2.02 11,766 
 
 Franklin independent 2.02 11,767 
 
 Total 24.79 $144,402 
 
 The executive council of the state has assessed the Story County 
 railroads per mile as follows: Northwestern, $10,000; Des Moines 
 and Minneapolis Branch, $3,000; Milwaukee, $5,800; Story City 
 
144 
 
 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Branch of Central, $2,000. The Rock Island road is assessed at 
 $12,500 per mile, the Burlington at $14,500. — (April 8, 1886.) 
 
 Later action on the bill creating the office of county attorney 
 makes it the duty of the county supervisors to hx the salaries of 
 attorneys. The amendment provides that the supervisors shall fix 
 salaries as follows: In counties of not more than 5,000, $300; 
 between 5,000 and 10,000, $600; between 10,000 and 20,000, $900; 
 between 20,000 and 30,000, $1,200; over 30,000, $1,200. The super- 
 visors have the right to fix the salaries at less than the above figures 
 if they desire to, but in no case can they make them higher than 
 the rates named in the bill. — (April 8, 1886.) 
 
 The new Eleventh judicial district is comprised of the counties of 
 Marshal], Story, Boone, Webster, Hamilton, Hardin, Franklin, 
 Wright and Humboldt, with three judges — Judges Miracle, Weaver 
 and Stevens. — (April 8, 1886.) 
 
 STATE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. 
 
 The state encampment of the Gr. A. R. was held at Sioux City on 
 Wednesday and Thursday of last week. The attendance was 
 unusually large, numbering over twelve hundred old soldiers. 
 
 The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
 
 Commander — W. A. McHenry, of Denison. 
 
 Senior Vice Commander — P. H. Hankins, of Sac City. 
 
 Junior Vice Commander — J. L. Greddes, Ames. 
 
 Medical Director — Greo. P. Hannawalt, Des Moines. 
 
 Chaplain — John H. Lozier, Mt. Vernon. 
 
 Assistant Adjutant Greneral — Geo. L. Wrignt, Denison. 
 
 Assistant Quartermaster General — Melvin Smith, Denison. 
 
 The encampment, by a very nearly unanimous vote, endorsed the 
 project of a soldier’s home for Iowa. 
 
 Dubuque was selected as the place for holding the next State 
 encampment, and Nashville was endorsed for the next National 
 encampment. 
 
 The financial report showed over $3,000 in the treasury. 
 
 The citizens of Sioux City treated the “ boys in blue” with great 
 hospitality, and a most enjoyable time is reported by all who were 
 present — ^(April 15, 1886.) 
 
 LOCATION OE AGRICULTURAL EARM OPPOSED. 
 
 Col. Scott, in his centennial address, refers to the difficulty Story 
 County had to contend with*in the location of the farm. This 
 makes me think of a colloquy that occurred a short time after the 
 location had been made by the trustees, perhaps two hours after. 
 A delegate from another county (for each county desiring the loca- 
 tion had friends at work) commenced thus, and said: “ Since the 
 board has made the location for the farm and college where they 
 have it, it would be well for them to locate a cemetery on the farm 
 so as to be ready to bury the dead; for there will b§ a demand for 
 

 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 145 
 
 one at such an unhealthy location.” The writer hereof asked him 
 if he had ever seen the place of location. His answer was, “ No, 
 hut I am told or understand it to be but little short of a frog 
 pond. Then, sir, was the reply to him, “ I presume that came 
 trorn some one that knew nothing about it, or did not desire to tell 
 the facts about it. It is a beautifully elevated prairie, moderately 
 undulating, and as beautiful as can well be found anywhere, 
 excepting a little flat land along the creek. The native timber 
 beltings on the east, north and west of the farm are delightful. 
 There is a good spring near the center of it for watering and other 
 purposes. So we two adjourned sine die, leaving Des Moines to 
 its fate. Col. Patterson, of Marshall county, was in attendance, if 
 I mistake not, representing a point in his county, but the colonel 
 was very much of a gentleman. He had no slurring of other 
 points to use. At the present writing the time has been twenty- 
 seven and a half years since the location and about eighteen years 
 since the flrst term of college school. The college has been suc- 
 cessfully conducted since its commencement, October 21, 1868, and 
 there is no cemetery needed on it yet. 
 
 The new Congressional districts of Iowa are as follows: 
 
 Washington, Louisa, Jefferson, Henry, Des Moines, Lee. 
 and Van Buren. 
 
 Second— Muscatine, Scott, Clinton, Jackson, Johnson and Iowa. 
 I bird— Dubuque, Delaware, Buchanan, Black Hawk, Bremer, 
 Butler, Franklin, Hardin and Wright. 
 
 Fourth— Clayton, Allamakee, Fayette, Winneshiek, Howard, 
 Chickasaw, Floyd, Mitchell, Worth and Cerro Gordo. 
 
 Jones, Linn, Benton, Tama, Marshall, Grundy and Cedar. 
 Sixth— Davis, Wapello, Keokuk, Mahaska, Poweshiek, Monroe, 
 and Jasper. 
 
 Dallas, Polk, Madison, Warren and Marion. 
 KigMh Adams, Union, Clarke, Lucas, Appanoose, Wayne, De- 
 Taylor, Page and Fremont. 
 
 Ninth— Harrison, Shelby, Audubon, Guthrie, Pottawattamie, 
 Cass, Adair, Mills and Montgomery. 
 
 •Tenth— Crawford, Carroll, Greene, Boone, Calhoun, Webster, 
 Hamilton, Pocahontas, Humboldt, Palo Alto, Kossuth, Hancock, 
 Kmmet and Winnebago. 
 
 Eleventh— Lyons, Osceola, Dickinson, Sioux, O’Brien, Clay, 
 Plymouth, Cherokee, Buena Yista, Woodbury, Ida, Sac and 
 Monona.— (April 15, 1886.) 
 
 IN EARLY IOWA. 
 
 In 1836 there was but one newspaper in what is now Iowa, the 
 Dubuque Visitor. Our state was a part of Wisconsin territory, 
 after July 4th. The following is a list of the votes at the October 
 election of that year in the four counties east and the two west of 
 10 
 
;j^46 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 the river: Iowa, Wisconsin, 1,288; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 781; 
 Brown, Wisconsin, 325; Crawford, Wisconsin, 68; total, 4,37b. 
 Dubuque city alone now casts a vote nearly equal to the whole 
 
 Yote only forty-four years ago, in what now constitutes the three 
 
 states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Such is the progress of 
 the west and of our city. Though the election was held on the 
 tenth of October, the ofhcial returns were not published until the 
 sixteenth of November in that early time of slow stage coaches, 
 with no western railroads and no telegraph lines anywhere. It 
 appears that Iowa county was the most populous e^t of the river, 
 Dubuque had the most voters on the west side. The citizens of 
 Fort Snelling did not then vote, and the present great cities of St. 
 Paul and Minneapolis and nearly a hundred Iowa cities and pros- 
 perous towns were not then even prospectively thought of. I he 
 neighborhood of our state capital was then occupied by Indians, 
 though Keokuk, Burlington, and Davenport had already been 
 settled permanently by the pioneer voters.— (Dubuque Times.) 
 
 There are in the United States 6,000 posts of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic containing a membership of 280,000 men which in 
 the year iust ended disbursed $500,000 for benevolent purposes. 
 In the state of Iowa there are 415 posts with a membership 
 of 17,000. The mortality for the year was: National, 2,500; 
 State,’ seventy-three;— a marvelously low record for a class of men 
 who have been subject to the privations of war.— (April 1, 1886.) 
 
 Sheriff Banks brought back from the Insane asylum at Inde- 
 pendence last week James Hoffman who has been confined there 
 the past two years. His insanity seems to be of a harml^s nature 
 and he will be kept at the Poor farm for the present. The Inde- 
 pendence asylum is full.- (March 31, 1886.) 
 
 Will Moran has sold Jack Ziegler, of Iroquois, Dakota, another 
 car load of horses, including his stallion. Merry Tom. They will 
 be shipped to-day. — (March 31, 1886.) 
 
 The county attorney bill requires the board of supervisors to fix 
 the salary at their June session, and in counties of the population 
 of Story the salary can not be more than $900.— (April 21, 1886.) 
 
 CYCLONES. 
 
 The cyclone season came in with a rush last week. The first 
 reported was that at Story City, Tuesday night. The barns and 
 out houses at Kittel Olson’s, east of the river, and the house and 
 other buildings at Tollef Ericson’s were destroyed. The loss was 
 about as reported last week, $1,800. Ericson had some insurance. 
 
 Wednesday evening there were much worse storms in south- 
 western Iowa, in the vicinity of Bedford, Atlantic and Coon 
 Rapids. A great deal of property was destroyed and at Coon 
 Rapids a boy was killed and a freight train was capsized except one 
 car containing Milwaukee beer. 
 
147 
 
 filSTOEY OF StOKY CoUFTTY, IoWA. 
 
 The storm that night in Iowa was, however, but an incident to 
 the one that struck St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids on the Mississippi 
 above Minneapolis. The two towns were nearly destroyed. The 
 storm there was terrific. One 250 pound man was carried 400 feet. 
 The depot sign at Sauk Rapids was found fifteen miles away. 
 Other similar incidents might be noticed. The surgeons and relief 
 parties from Minneapolis found barely buildings enough left to 
 shelter the wounded. The death list at the two towns foots up 
 sixty-nine. — (April 21, 1886.) 
 
 The present legislature passed a bill forbidding the traffic in 
 swine which die of cholera. They cannot be hauled on the public 
 highway, or be taken from the enclosure in which they have died, 
 but must be buried, at least thirty inches deep within a reasonable 
 time. The fine is from five to one hundred dollars and the act is 
 now in force. — (April 22, 1886.) 
 
 Nelson Taylor, of Bloomington, stepped out a few rods from his 
 door recently, in company with his son of eleven years, to shoot 
 some wild ducks on a pond near by, Mr. T. following one side 
 of the pond and his boy the other. The game rose from the water, 
 and flying between father and son the youthful Nimrod, under 
 some excitement, let fly a load of No. 4, bringing his duck to 
 terra firma and at the same time scattering a few shot in close 
 proximity to the old man’s physical corporosity, one of which 
 penetrated Mr. T.’s hand. — (April 22, 1886.) 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Evans, formerly of Milford township, now 
 of North ville, Dakota, has out cards for a golden wedding on Tues- 
 day of this week. A large proportion of the people of this county 
 are well acquainted with him, and the old residents will readily 
 recall the time when Judge Evans was one of the leading officials 
 of Story County, and since their attention is called to it will wish 
 him and his aged companion a prolonged lease of life. He is now 
 seventy-three and his wife sixty -nine years of age. — (April 23, 1886.) 
 
 Under the new law our judicial district comprises Marshall, 
 Story, Boone, Webster, Hamilton, Hardin, Franklin and Wright 
 counties; there will be three judges, the three to be elected this 
 fall, the law displacing both Judge Henderson and Judge Miracle. 
 
 Seventeen Mormon polygamists in the charge of the United 
 States marshal passed through Nevada Friday afternoon on their 
 way to the penitentiary at Detroit, Michigan. — {Representative^ 
 June 9, 1886.) 
 
 The Iowa State Sunday school convention held its annual session 
 this week at Oskaloosa, with 800 delegates in attendance. Grov- 
 ernor Larrabee was among the speakers. The statistical report 
 shows about 5,000 Sunday schools in the state, with the number 
 rapidly increasing. — (June 16, 1886.) 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sunderland received ^100 for marrying the Presi- 
 dent. — (June 9, 1886.) 
 
Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 Both houses of congress have passed a hill appropriating $100,000 
 for a public building in Sioux City.— (June 9, 1886 ) 
 
 A fire came near occurring in the alley in the rear or , , 
 hloch Saturday. Some boys were out there playing with matches, 
 
 when ft started. It was promptly put out with f 
 
 fence. It might have been a serious thing as every thing is so 
 
 ^^Moila^El^D.^^Fen^ received his commission as postmaster 
 of this plLe. It is a comprehensive document and bears date the 
 10th of June, 1886. — (July 30, 1886.) 
 
 THE FUTUEE GEAND JUEY OF IOWA. 
 
 Under the new law, after the first of next January, the Iowa 
 orand iury will be composed as follows; In counties having a 
 
 population of 16,000 or less the grand 1”^ inry 
 
 Tnpmhers and in counties having more than 16,000 the grana jury 
 shall he ’ composed of seven members. Whenever the number 
 of civil townships in any county equals or exceeds the number 
 of ffrand iurors for such county not more than one grand juror 
 shaU he dCn from any civil township. No person shall serve as 
 a ffrand juror for two consecutive years. An indictment cannot he 
 found without the concurrence of four out of five ® 
 
 jury is composed of five members, and not without “ 
 
 rence of five when the jury is composed of seven members. (Ma 
 
 ^^°A goS firmnd of the Watchman wishes us to caution our readers 
 to take extra care in the matter of fires now as a blaze once started 
 it would be difficult to stop it.— (July 30. 1886.) 
 
 TOTAL VALUATION FOE TAXES. 
 
 The total of the County is (January 7, 1886)— 
 
 No. of acres assessed, 351,144; valuation 4^319 
 
 Valuation of lots qqg qiQ 
 
 Valuation of personalty ____ 
 
 $1,670,955 
 
 fiQ Q64 
 
 Deduct grove and orchard ^ 
 
 Amount on which tax is computed - $1,600,991 
 
 STOEY COUNTY TAXES (jANUAEY 7, 1886.) 
 
 The auditor has completed the tax entries for 1885. They show 
 the aggregate township assessments to 
 
 $259,595 $ 8,071 81 
 
 nXarl ; ; 266,610 7,512 11 
 
 “6;eek.'.'.‘.': 263,030 7,031 41 
 
History or Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 149 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 Milford 
 
 Nevada 
 
 New Albany 
 
 Palestine 
 
 Richland 
 
 Sherman 
 
 Union 
 
 Warren 
 
 Washington 
 
 Nevada City 
 
 Ames 
 
 Colo 
 
 Story City 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 Sheldahl 
 
 Maxwell 
 
 Zearing 
 
 Total 
 
 Distributed as follows 
 
 County tax 
 
 State tax 
 
 County school tax 
 
 County bond tax 
 
 Bridge tax.. 
 
 Poor fund tax 
 
 Insane fund tax 
 
 Poll tax 
 
 School house tax 
 
 Teachers’ fund tax. . . . 
 
 Contingent tax 
 
 Delinquent road tax . . . 
 
 Corporation tax 
 
 Library tax (Nevada). . . 
 Cemetery tax (Collins) . . 
 Drainage tax (Richland) . 
 
 Plat tax 
 
 Dog tax 
 
 Total 
 
 Classified as follows-: 
 
 State purposes 
 
 County expenses 
 
 Schools 
 
 All other purposes 
 
 1 199,136 
 174,418 
 220.424 
 
 245.306 
 238,162 
 274,644 
 
 189.307 
 186,972 
 256,407 
 180,824 
 266,071 
 295.255 
 258,888 
 
 45,543 
 
 67,237 
 
 72,122 
 
 23,159 
 
 65,064 
 
 24,785 
 
 $4,600,991 
 
 $ 5,089 12 
 5,194 36 
 5,452 97 
 6,118 22 
 6,138 91 
 6,705 10 
 6,057 22 
 4,497 96 
 6,474 60 
 5,557 30 
 7,963 63 
 11,579 22 
 9,581 05 
 1,523 36 
 2,569 20 
 3,319 52 
 761 54 
 1,952 03 
 869 29 
 
 $134,400 
 
 36 
 
 $ 18,405 
 
 09 
 
 11,502 
 
 47 
 
 4,601 
 
 00 
 
 4,600 
 
 98 
 
 11,502 
 
 49 
 
 6,901 
 
 43 
 
 2,300 
 
 45 
 
 1,927 
 
 50 
 
 7,010 
 
 98 
 
 39,016 
 
 82 
 
 13,517 
 
 74 
 
 7,518 
 
 87 
 
 3,213 
 
 46 
 
 284 
 
 83 
 
 259 
 
 53 
 
 882 
 
 72 
 
 3 
 
 75 
 
 950 
 
 25 
 
 $134,400 36 
 
 $11,502 47 
 39,109 46 
 64,146 54 
 19,641 80 
 
 Total 
 
 $134,400 36 
 
150 
 
 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 COUNTY FUNDS — STATEMENT — RECAPITULATION . 
 
 ( June 16, 1886.) 
 
 County 
 
 State 
 
 County school 
 
 Bond 
 
 Bridge 
 
 Poor 
 
 Insane 
 
 School house 
 
 Teachers 
 
 Contingent 
 
 Road 
 
 Corporation 
 
 Library 
 
 Cemetery 
 
 Railroad 
 
 Institute 
 
 School house site 
 Permanent school 
 Temporary school 
 Board of health 
 Drainage 
 Domestic animal 
 
 
 $10,560 90 
 
 DLli-LLl •••• 
 
 a 
 
 756 16 
 
 u 
 
 1,172 81 
 
 
 » 
 
 u 
 
 9,538 61 
 
 u 
 
 607 48 
 
 ki. 
 
 1,518 97 
 
 u 
 
 500 97 
 
 u 
 
 4,931 08 
 
 u 
 
 1,751 97 
 
 u 
 
 623 66 
 
 
 391 59 
 
 cc 
 
 11 33 
 
 u 
 
 25 92 
 
 it 
 
 19 57 
 
 ii 
 
 808 77 
 
 u 
 
 99 50 
 
 ii 
 
 , 667 89 
 
 ii 
 
 ^ 882 15 
 
 ii 
 
 3 84 
 
 ii 
 
 1,029 01 
 
 ii 
 
 353 72 
 
 1104 05 
 
 $36,265 90 
 
 Cash on hand $36,161 85 
 
 $36,265 90 
 
 The Soldiers’ Home at Leavenworth is quite a comfortable place 
 for the homeless soldier. There are now about five hundred old 
 veterans domesticated there. There are now twelve barracks or 
 buildings, in course of erection. All who want to work are allowed 
 thirty cents per day. Those drawing pensions put it in the treas- 
 ury at the Home and check it out as their needs require. Each 
 person is furnished with two oversuits and four suits of under- 
 clothing each year. The home is well managed and the old soldiers 
 seem to enjoy it very much. It is neither a military prison nor a 
 poor house. — (July, 1886.) 
 
 For the benefit of house-keepers the following information is 
 given free: If a bottle of the oil of pennyroyal is left uncorked in 
 a room at night not a mosquito or any other blood sucker will be 
 found there in the morning; and if potash is mixed with powered 
 meal and thrown into rat holes of a cellar, the rats will depart. 
 Also, if a rat or mouse bothers you by getting into the pantry and 
 you will stuff into its hole a rag saturated with a solution of cay- 
 enne pepper no rat or mouse will touch the rag for the purpose of 
 entering. Try these things on. 
 
161 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Sam Pertly won the twenty-five dollar library prize offered by 
 President Parks, of Simpson Centenary College, for the best work 
 done during the year by any student in any department of the in- 
 stitution. We congratulate the young man, his family and 
 Nevada for this exceptionally fine record. — (July 11, 1886.) 
 
 The following senators have refused to take the two hundred 
 and sixteen dollar vacation pay and have discharged the State from 
 further liability in this matter. Democrats being printed in Italic: 
 Bayless^ Bloom^ Bolter^ Burdick, Caldwell, Carr^ Carson, Cassey^ 
 Cassatt^ Cheesbro, Chubb, Dodge^ Dooley, Doud, Duncan, Earle, 
 Hatch, Gault, Grlass, Henderson, Hutchinson, McCoy, McDonaugh, 
 Miles, Parrot, Poyneer, Reiniger, Robinson, Schmidt, Sutton, 
 Sweeney, Whaley, Whiting, Wilkins, Woolson. Of the above 
 Cheesbro and McDonaugh drew the money but repented and 
 returned it. Those taking the pay are Barret, Chambers, Clark, 
 Donnan, Deal, Hendrix, Johnson, Knight, Ryder, Scott, Stephens, 
 Underwood, Weber, Wolfe, Young.— (July, 1886.) 
 
 We are glad to note that our Road Supervisors, in various parts 
 of the county, are taking advantage of the dry weather to do some 
 good grading in low places. There was never a better time for 
 Story County to get ahead in road building than now. Hood roads 
 such as we may have, through the county in all directions would add 
 greatly to its good name and the value of its real estate. — ( J uly 14, 
 1886.) 
 
 New Mexico newspapers tell of a “norther” that passed over the 
 northern edge of Lincoln County a few weeks ago, accompanied by 
 hail stones as large as a man’s fist, doing damage to sheep. One 
 man lost three thousand killed, another five thousand, a third four 
 thousand out of a herd of five thousand Merinos and Cotswolds. 
 Several beeves and some cattle were killed, and is was rumored that 
 the hail killed two herders also. — (July 16, 1886.) , 
 
 The officers of the Story County Regiment for this year are: 
 John Scott, Colonel; I. L. Smith, Lieutenant Colonel; C. E. 
 Haverly, Major; J. A. King, Quartermaster; H. H. Boyes, Adju- 
 tant and Dr. Heorge Stitzell, Surgeon. — (July 21, 1886.) 
 
 The Hovernor of Maine has. requested the Postmaster Heneral to 
 so modify the regulations for sending liquids by mail as to prevent 
 violations of the prohibitory liquor laws of the State. — (July 21, 
 1886.) 
 
 Don’t play with matches. The accident on Tuesday to Mr. Bur- 
 gess’ little boy prompts us to warn parents not to permit their 
 children to have matches. Only a short time since a number of 
 little fellows got together and, obtaining matches, kindled a fire on 
 a barn floor, which, fortunately, was fAiscovered in time, by an 
 older person, to prevent a conflagation. We know of another 
 instance where boys played with matches in and about a barn. A 
 
152 
 
 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 fire at any time is bad enough, but now while everything is parched 
 and dry, a blaze might light a conflagation that would destroy the 
 town. — (July 22, 1886.) 
 
 The Iowa Agricultural College opened yesterday, with the Pres- 
 ident and most of the professors in attendance and a major- 
 ity of the students. President Chamberlain takes hold with a mas- 
 ter hand, and under his kind and considerate administration we 
 hope to see the college prosper in all its departments, and fill its 
 purpose in the highest degree. We believe he will find in the fac- 
 ulty able and conscientious supporters, whose pleasure it will be to 
 sustain his admirfistration both in and out of the class room. — 
 (July 22, 1886.) 
 
 Look out for fires! The flat on the south side was set on fire 
 last week by some one throwing a stump of a lighted cigar into 
 the grass; and twice, within a week, has Colonel Hoggat’s pasture 
 been set on fire by the noon passenger train. People cannot be too 
 careful. Everything is so parched and dried that a spark will start 
 a conflagration. — (July 29, 1886.) 
 
 Under the new law, after the first of next January, the Iowa 
 Grand Jury will be composed as follows: In counties having a 
 population of sixteen thousand or less the Grand Jury shall be 
 composed of five members, and in counties having more than six- 
 teen thousand the Grand Jury shall be composed of seven mem- 
 bers. Whenever the number of civil townships in any county 
 equals or exceeds the number of grand jurors for such county, not 
 more than one grand juror shall be drawn from any civil town- 
 ship. No person shall serve as a grand juror for two consecutive 
 years. An indictment cannot be found without the concurrence 
 of four out of five when the Grand Jury is composed of five mem- 
 bers, and not without the concurrence of five when the jury is com- 
 posed of seven members. — (August 5, 1886.) 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 153 
 
 STORY COUNTY VETERANS. 
 
 EIGHTH ANNUAL REUNION OF THE FEDERAL SOLDIERS IN STORY 
 COUNTY. HELD AUGUST 12 AND 13, 1886. 
 
 A LARGE AND ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING OF VETERANS AND 
 
 OTHER CITIZENS, 
 
 ELOQUENT ADDRESSES BY MAJOR CONGER AND 
 
 GENERAL GEDDES. 
 
 NEVADA SELECTED AS THE PLACE FOR HOLDING 
 THE NEXT ANNUAL REUNION. 
 
 One hundred and eighty-six veteran soldiers of the late war reg- 
 istered at the Eighth Annual Reunion of the Story County Asso- 
 ciation on Thursday and Friday of last week. And in addition to 
 those who registered their names with the Adjutant of the Regi- 
 ment, there were present quite a number who did not report to 
 that officer. It is therefore safe to say that there were in camp at 
 Nevada over two hundred soldiers, representing all arms of the ser- 
 vice, and at least one-fourth that number in regiments and batteries 
 that were in active service during the rebellion. Here were assem- 
 bled representatives of the greatest conflict of arms that history 
 records; men who stood face to face with death at Donelson and 
 Shiloh; who hurled back Price and Van Dorn at Corinth and luka; 
 who routed Pemberton at Champion Hills, and stormed the heights 
 of Vicksburg; who smashed Bragg at Murfreesboro and touched 
 elbows at Chickamauga; who scaled Lookout Mountain and Mission 
 Ridge; who pulverized Hood at Franklin and Nashville, and 
 marched with Billy Sherman “from Atlanta to the sea;” who 
 fought under McDowell at Bull Run and stood shoulder to 
 shoulder through the long Peninsular campaign and shouted ‘Vic- 
 tory’ under Little Mac at Antietam; men who fought under Burnside 
 at Fredericksburg and under Hooker at Chancellorsville; who crossed 
 the Rapidan with Grant and followed the Great Captain from the 
 Wilderness to Appomattox; men who lingered for months and 
 years in the prison pens of Anderson ville. Belle Isle and Libby. 
 What history we have in these war-worn veterans! heroes of a 
 hundred battle-flelds. It fairly thunders in the old flag as its 
 silken folds are spread to the free winds of the Northland! These 
 men are the Nation’s heroes. With an intelligent loyalty that is 
 the offspring of the free schools of this blessed land of ours, the 
 armies of the north marshaled by companies and regiments for 
 
 

 154 History of Story Coukty, Iowa. :l 
 
 i; 
 
 that herculean contest which ended in the downfall of the slave 
 power. Every man who drew a sword or shouldered a musket for ' 
 
 the suppression of the slave-holders rebellion, is a hero! He com- ' 
 
 prehended the magnitude of the cause, and felt the responsibility | 
 
 of his citizenship. Can a people or a nation honor too greatly the 
 men who rescued the country from dissolution and all the horrors 
 that would have followed in its train? j 
 
 The Veterans began to arrive in camp Thursday forenoon, and 
 by evening the grounds were full of “blue coats.” The officers of 
 the regiment. Colonel John Scott commanding, had aiiipl}'' pre- 
 pared for the comforts of the comrades. The fair grounds had 
 been selected for the encampment; and in addition to the large 
 and commodious buildings thereon, which were thrown open to the 
 soldiers, tents had been erected for their shelter and convenience, 
 and all present were well provided for. 
 
 The commissary department was in charge of experienced cater- 
 ers and the supply of comforts for the inner man was never more 
 abundant or of better quality. Indeed, the arrangements were per- I 
 
 feet, and no one suffered for shelter or food. 
 
 There were no fixed program for the first day of the meeting. | 
 
 Thursday evening had been set apart for the election of officers for 
 the ensuing year and the selection of a place for the next re-union; ■ 
 
 hut by vote of the Association this business was postponed until 
 9:30 A. M. Friday, and the evening given over to music, which was : 
 
 supplied by the Ames Griee Club, consisting of Messrs Meredith, 
 
 Haverly, Hutchinson and Arnold, and the Nevada and Cambridge 
 Cornet Bands. The Nevada Military Company went through vari- 
 ous military evolutions, much to the delight of those present. The " 
 
 audience was immense, filling the great stand and all available i 
 
 space within a radius of several rods. Colonel Scott presided, and 
 covered himself with the gratitude of the large company by the I 
 
 masterly manner in which he kept the exercises going. The even- 
 ing’s entertainment was a first-class concert, the vocal and instru- 
 mental music was eloquent, and the short, sharp speeches of the 
 commander and comrades pithy and enjoyable. 
 
 FRIDAY A. M. * j. 
 
 An informal meeting of the old soldiers convened at 8:30, to dis- ; ; 
 
 cuss the general interests of the Association, and to determine ■ 
 
 upon a plan that would effect a more perfect organization, insure 
 larger attendance and provide better accommodations; but the 
 meeting adjourned without accomplishing anything. 
 
 At 9:30 the Association convened in the grand pavillion for the ; 
 
 purpose of selecting a place for the next annual re-union and elect- 
 ing officers— Colonel John Scott presiding, J. E. Duncan acting 
 Adjutant. 
 
 Nevadaand Ames were placed in nomination, Thesentiment of the 
 Association seemed to be in favor of the former place on account of 
 its central location; and after a fiery little speech by Colonel Fenn, 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 155 
 
 in which, in behalf of the citzens, he welcomed the old veterans to 
 the hearts and hospitalities of the town, Nevada was chosen as 
 the place for the next annual encampment of the Story County 
 Kegiment. 
 
 The following of&cers were then chosen for the ensuing year: 
 
 Colonel — T, C. McCall, 32d Iowa, Nevada. 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel — D. A. Bigelow, 124th Illinois, Ames. 
 
 Maj or — J. C. Burkhart, 20th Iowa, Zearing. 
 
 Quartermaster — George Child, 32d Iowa, Nevada. 
 
 Adjutant — I. L. Smith, 54th Pennsylvania, Nevada. 
 
 Surgeon — ’G. A. Meredith, 26th Iowa, Ames. 
 
 Chaplain — John Doty, 17th Wisconsin, Maxwell. 
 
 Drum Major— ^George Pitsor, 17th Wisconsin, Ames. 
 
 Fife Major — Alba 0. Hall, 32d Iowa, Nevada. 
 
 It was voted that the next annual meeting be held on Thursday 
 and Friday on or before full moon in August, 1887. 
 
 The officers of the regiment were constituted an Executive 
 Council for the transaction of all business of the Association. 
 
 During the progress of the meeting the Womans’ Relief Corps, 
 of Cambridge and Colo entered the pavillion and were received by 
 the veterans standing, and three hearty cheers. 
 
 The assembly then adjourned until 1 p. m. 
 
 AFTERNOON. 
 
 At the hour named for the meeting of the Association the jam of 
 humanity that pressed into the pavillion and immediately around 
 the speakers’ stand, was painful. Fully two thousand persons 
 were present. 
 
 After a song or two and instrumental music by the Cambridge 
 band. Colonel Scott introduced Major E. H. Conger, Member of 
 Congress from the Seventh Iowa District, who addressed the large 
 audience for nearly one hour, and was followed by General Geddes, 
 of Ames, who spoke about one-half hour. 
 
 We made no notes of the remarks of either of the speakers, and 
 it would be an injustice to them for us to attempt to outline 
 their addresses, which at our best would be very imperfect. The 
 speeches were appropriate to the occasion, at times pathetic and elo- 
 quent, strong in their affection for and loyalty to the Old Flag, full 
 of love for their comrades of the war, and patriotic in their devo- 
 tion to the country. Both gentlemen were loudly cheered during 
 and at the conclusion of their remarks. 
 
 At the close of General Geddes’s speech Colonel Scott, in a burst 
 of eloquence, introduced Micah French, a hero of the war of 1812, 
 who has carried British lead in his body since that memorable 
 struggle, and who is now past ninety years of age. During the 
 last session of Congress Mr. French applied to Congress for a pen- 
 sion and was refused. Major Conger, taking off his hat to the vet- 
 eran of 1812, proposed three cheers for him, which was given by 
 the multitude with full lung power. Major Conger promised his 
 
156 Histoet OF Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 best efforts in tbe next Congress to get Micah French a pension — 
 and he’ll do it. 
 
 The new field officers were called upon the stand and introduced 
 to the regiment. Each made a pleasant response, promising their 
 best efforts to make the next re-union successful in all its detail. 
 
 After a couple of songs by the quartette, the Association 
 adjourned. 
 
 The re-union of ’86 was a very pleasant and successful one. The 
 comrades in Nevada aimed to make it such, and succeeded. Its 
 pleasant memories will go with the Vets until next year, when the 
 boys of our sMretown will surpass themselves. 
 
 The following old soldiers registered with the Adjutant of the 
 regiment: 
 
 H. H. Boyes, Co. B. 2d Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 J. D. Ferner, Co. D. 12th Iowa. 
 
 J. T. Graves, Co. F. 147th Illinois. 
 
 John Hammitt, Co. F. 7th Iowa. 
 
 H. C. French, Co. K. 32d Iowa. 
 
 F. Elliot, Co. G. 15th Illinois Cavalr}". 
 
 Micah French, New York Volunteers, 1812. 
 
 Levi Smith, 18th United States Artillery, 188th Ohio. 
 
 Z. C. Burdick, Co. G. 116th Illinois. 
 
 Pat Kelley, Battery H. 4th United States Artillery. 
 
 F. P. Ellicott, Co. C. 21st New York Cavalry. 
 
 W. 0. Templeman, Co. E. 11th Illinois Cavalry. 
 
 J. W. Spencer, Co. G. 33d Illinois. 
 
 T. J. Miller, Co. A. 23d Iowa. 
 
 E. Purvis, Co. B. 2d Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 Benjamin Brenneman, Co. F. 24th Iowa. 
 
 A. H. Buck, Co. E. 45th Illinois. 
 
 W. D. Barnes, Co. C. 66th Illinois. 
 
 W. H. Heacock, Co. K. 1st Indiana Cavalry. 
 
 J. A. King, Co. H. 9th Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 J. F. Gillispie, Co. H. 13th Iowa. 
 
 James S. Scott, Co. H. 140th Illinois. 
 
 Asa Griffith, Co. I. 13th Iowa. 
 
 M. C. Allen, Co. D. 40th Ohio. 
 
 Gordon Wood, Co. I. 4th Illinois Cavalry. 
 
 George Hardenbrook, Co. B. 12th Indiana Cavalry. 
 
 J. P. Corbin, Co. G. 1st Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 A. Dunnahoo, Co. H. 22d Iowa. 
 
 W. A. Miller, Co. C. 54th Pennsylvania. 
 
 J. A. Boston, Co. B. 75th Illinois. 
 
 A. M. Bingman, 1st Ohio Artillery. 
 
 L. M. Dayton, Co. F. 132d Illinois. 
 
 H. C. McIntosh, Co. G. 2d Illinois Artillery. 
 
 H. F. Ferguson, Co. B. 2d Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 S. F. Griffin, Co. D. 31th Iowa. 
 
 John Coyne, Co. E. 46th Illinois. 
 
 Charles Hellvig, Co. E. 15th Iowa. 
 
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 Ole Berguson, Co. C. 15th Wisconsin. • 
 
 I. L. Smith, Co. C. 54th Pennsylvania. 
 
 Colonel John Scott, 32d Iowa. 
 
 Janies Cook, Co. A. 12th Iowa. 
 
 M. Purkhiser, Co. B. 66th Indiana. 
 
 Isaac Craig, Co. A. 23d Iowa. 
 
 Anson Ladd, Co. Gr. 3d Missouri Cavalry. 
 
 . H. K. Hulse, 25th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Independent Battery. 
 
 J. F. Dame, Co. H. 22d Wisconsin. 
 
 Hiram Elliott, Co. L. 6th Indiana Cavalry. 
 
 George A. Mason, Co. K. 28th Wisconsin. 
 
 T. C. McCall, Quarter Master 32d Iowa. 
 
 James Brown, Co. I. 13th Iowa. 
 
 H. H. Durstine, Co. A. 34th Illinois. 
 
 John O'Neil, Co. I. 8th Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 George Barnard, Co. G. 108th Illinois . 
 
 W. H. Shaffer, Co. K. 8th Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 F. D. Thompson, Co. D. 12th Iowa. 
 
 C. D. Bunce, Co. H. 96th Illinois. 
 
 J. C. Burkhart, Co. A. 20th Iowa. 
 
 J. Fair, Co. E. 15th New York Cavalry. 
 
 J. Fry, Co. K.* 18th Iowa. 
 
 George Child, Co. K. 32d Iowa. 
 
 Jesse R. Wood, Co. E. 3d Iowa. 
 
 C. M. Morse, Co. H. 1st Wisconsin Artillery. 
 
 M. H. Pearson, Co. K. 32d Iowa. ^ 
 
 J. B. Rushmore, Co. D. 207 Pennsylvania. 
 
 W. D. Martin, 20th Indiana Battery. 
 
 W. M. Starr, 31st Indiana. 
 
 F. Stillwell, 3d Indiana Cavalry. 
 
 O. Riddle, 12th Indiana Battery. 
 
 J. S. Dick, Co. K. 85th Pennsylvania. 
 
 A. Langeray. 135th Pennsylvania. 
 
 S. Bartlett, Co. B. 88th Indiana. 
 
 S. N. See, Co. K. 32d Iowa. 
 
 W. H. Cunningham, Co. A. 99th Indiana. 
 
 P. Chaffin, Co. C. 78th Illinois. 
 
 J. D. Mathews. Co. I. 135th Ohio. 
 
 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 AnfBn Ersland, Co. E. 91st Illinois. 
 
 John Bennethnm, Co. Gr. 93d Illinois. 
 
 C. Torkelson, Co. A. 23d Iowa. 
 
 L. L. Parish, Co. E. 74th Illinois. 
 
 B. F. Pasley, Co. K. 132d Illinois. 
 
 D. P. Wood, Co. K. 10th Missouri. 
 
 W. A. Cole, Co. K. 32d Iowa. 
 
 James Magee, Co. A. 5th Iowa. 
 
 Janies M. Jenks, Co. D. 4Tth Indiana. 
 
 P. H. Beam, Co. B, 2d Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 G. H. Kerr, Co. H. 44th Iowa. 
 
 Grid. Jay Wire, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry. 
 
 P. Goodno, Co. E. 98th New York. 
 
 George Shattuck, Co. I. 9th Illinois Cavalry. 
 
 G. G. Cronk, Co. C. 96th Ohio. 
 
 J. Q. Moore, Co. B. 45th Ohio. 
 
 T. M. Gossard, Co. D. 10th Iowa. 
 
 S. Trout, Signal Corps. 
 
 A. P. Cronk, Co. C. 18th U. S. 
 
 D. P. Barker, Co. E. 86th Ohio. 
 
 W. A. Thompson, Co. G. 23d Wisconsin. 
 
 W. H; Jones, Co. H. 9th Iowa. 
 
 A. J. Hanline, Co. D. 124th Illinois. 
 
 E. G. Chandler, Co. E. 1st Missouri Cavalry. 
 William Reynolds, Co. E. 3d Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 D. A. Bigelow, Co. A. 124th Illinois. 
 
 J. E. Duncan, Co. B. 23d Wisconsin. 
 
 M. Hemstreet, Co. G. 157th New York. 
 
 Henry Wilson, Jr., Co. H. 1st Massachusetts. 
 
 D. G. Eurguson, Co. C. 47th Wisconsin. 
 
 C. E. Haverly, Co. B. 28th Iowa. 
 
 M. E. McMichael, Co. F. 87th Ohio. 
 
 R. W. Liddle, 142d New York. 
 
 T. .1. Slaughter, Battery G. 2d Illinois. 
 
 F. W. Downs, Co. I. 11th Wisconsin. 
 
 F. T. Wilson, Co. G. 46th Illinois. 
 
 John Shearer, 12th Wisconsin Battery. 
 
 E. Weatherly, Co. B, 2d Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 W. Howell, Co. I. 179th New York. 
 
 Charles M. Wilson, Co. E. 142d Illinois. 
 
 John Wilson, Co. H. 75th Illinois. 
 
 E. P. Smith, Co. B. 2d Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 Colonel S. W. Snider, 4th West Virginia Cavalry. 
 
 D. y. Thrift, 82d Ohio. 
 
 Cal. Giddings, Co. D. 93d Illinois. 
 
 George Pitsor, Drum Major, 17th Wisconsin. 
 
 D. K. Bunce, 75th Illinois. 
 
 S. Tullock, Co. I. 20th Wisconsin. 
 
 P. D. Hatfield, Co. K. 55th Illinois. 
 
 Parley Sheldon, Co. B. 177th Ohio. 
 
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 F. T. McLain, Co. Gi. lltli Iowa. 
 
 A. D. Pattee, Co. I. 12th Illinois Cavalry. 
 
 David Yeazel, Co. B. 23d Iowa. 
 
 L. Oliver, Co. F. 153d Illinois. 
 
 W. I. Stevens, Co. K. 32d Iowa. 
 
 Eichard May, Co. A. 23d Iowa. . 
 
 V. A. Ballou, 2d Iowa Cavalry. 
 
 Gruilf Mullen, Co. E. 3d Iowa. 
 
 W. A. Wier, 122d United States Colored Troops. 
 
 John Nelson, Co. K. 32d Iowa. 
 
 A. W. Davis, Co. E. T9th New York. 
 
 E. D. Fenn, 2d Iowa, S. R. T. 
 
 John P. Harndenn, Co. H. 15th Illinois Cavalry. 
 
 F. Randau, Co. C. 1st Missouri Light Artillery. 
 
 J. Horner, Co. K. 10th Iowa. 
 
 James E. Bateman, Co. C. 21th Indiana. 
 
 M. J. Thompson, Co. B. 28th Pennsylvania. 
 
 J. W. Parker, Co. B. 13th Iowa. 
 
 Cyrus Wilson, Co. H. 115th Pennsylvania. 
 
 E. L. Franklin, Co. F. 13th Iowa. 
 
 Peter Brown, Co. E. 13th Iowa. 
 
 John Beatty, Co. K. 8th Indiana. 
 
 S. P. O’Brien, Co. A. 23d Iowa. 
 
 J. W. Armstrong, Co. H. 22d Iowa. 
 
 John Heslet, Co. D. 88th Ohio. 
 
 S. R. Davis, Co. B. 63d Ohio. 
 
 George W. Bruner, Co. D. 15th Illinois. 
 
 J. A. McFarland, Co. E. 13th New York Heavy Artillery. 
 D. E. Sutherland, Co. K. 16th Wisconsin. 
 
 W. W. Lincoln, Co. C. 18th Illinois. 
 
 John Reynolds, Co. E. 92d Illinois. 
 
 A. K. Banks, Co. G. 153d Illinois. 
 
 Joseph Mills, Co. G. 121th Illinois. 
 
 D. J. Whittaker, 2d Iowa Battery. 
 
 A. C. Allen, Co. H. 83d Pennsylvania. 
 
 J. H. Longdoorf, Co. C. 152d Pennsylvania. 
 
 Isa-ac Walker, 11th Iowa. 
 
 J. C. Sawtell, 83d Illinois. 
 
 George W. Kinney, Co. G. 6th Vermont. 
 
 W. A. Ulmun, 
 
 J. A. Fitzpatrick, Co. E. 3d Iowa, 
 
 Oley Nelson, 
 
 W. M. Greeley, 
 
 T. J. Moses, 93d Illinois. 
 
 A. P. King, 22d Iowa. 
 
 E. H. Conger, Co. I. 102d Illinois. 
 
 J. L. Geddes, Colonel 8th Iowa. 
 
 H. Tetweiler, 
 
 J. T. Stone, Co. B. 31th Illinois. 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 WOMANS^ RELIEF CORPS. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 SaraL A. Fletcher, 
 Susanna Bruner, 
 Lura Hainline, 
 Anna Glroseclose, 
 Elizabeth C. Kirk, 
 Henrietta Cook, 
 Kate Brown, 
 Emma Warner. 
 
 M. A. Adams, 
 Anna Allen, 
 
 Sadie McLaughlin, 
 C. A. Sawtell, 
 Helen A. Dayton, 
 Lillian Thomas, 
 
 Sarah Murphy, 
 Almira Detwiler, 
 Hattie Cronk, 
 Minerva M. Jory, 
 M. E. Bartlett. 
 Clara Aplin, 
 Sylvia Bossnot, 
 
 COLO. 
 
 Hattie Wood, 
 Charlotte McBarnes, 
 Fidelia French, 
 
 Ann Grilger, 
 
 P. W. Hopkins, 
 Phoebe Hopkins. 
 
 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL SECTIONS OF 
 STORY COUNTY,— 1886. 
 
 Nevada. — At your suggestion I will sunder my pleasant rela- * 
 tions with the “pretty school marms” long enough to resume my 
 correspondence. 
 
 The Normal Institute is making excellent progress in all depart- 
 ments. Mr. Roe and his assistants are very active in their efforts 
 to make it largely beneficial to those in attendance — a school of 
 instruction that will aid the teacher in the school room, and make 
 the duties there comparatively light. I append a list of teachers 
 who are now graded: 
 
 NEVADA. 
 
 Oliva French, 
 Lillie Stamm, 
 Marne Cook, 
 Lillie Dale, 
 
 Stella Fifer, 
 
 N. F. _ Gillespie, 
 Maggie Smith, 
 Flora L. Cook, 
 
 E. M. Tichenor, 
 Lizzie Lantz, 
 Lillian Purkhiser, 
 
 HaHie Smith, 
 Lizzie Emmons, 
 Annie Batman, 
 Grace Emmons, 
 Mildred McLain, 
 Lina Hambleton, 
 Ben. R. Smith, 
 Louise Snyder, 
 
 M. B. Young, 
 Kate Ross, 
 Georgia Warrick, 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Emily Purkhiser, 
 Anna Dougherty, 
 Wilda Cessna, 
 Belva Garrett, 
 
 Love Lockridge, 
 Frank Halley, 
 Anna Hardcastle, 
 Josie Jorgenson, 
 Lillian Confare, 
 Julia Hoskins, 
 Carrie E. Smith, 
 Maud Ballou. 
 Emma Hartman, 
 Jesse Child, 
 
 Geo. Arrasmith, 
 May White, 
 
 Emma Jackson, 
 Carrie Elliott, 
 
 Olive Hodenfield, 
 May Spencer, 
 
 Bessie Hall, 
 
 Sarah McNichols, 
 Clara McIntosh. 
 
 Ella Morris, 
 
 Mary Kelley, 
 
 Ida Arrasmith, 
 Jennie Jones, 
 
 Clara Tillitson, 
 Stephen Loughran, 
 Edith Cox, 
 
 Emma Arrasmith, 
 Ida M. Smith, 
 Gertrude Morris,- 
 
 Mattie Livingstone, 
 Oley Fatland, 
 Emma Benfer, 
 
 Eva Benfer, 
 
 M. E. Coady, 
 
 Hattie Danskin, 
 Savilla Fosea, 
 
 Anna Morgan, 
 Jennie Morgan, 
 
 Maggie Gamble, 
 Roy Yennamon. 
 
 11 
 
 Nettie Hammond, 
 May Boynton, 
 
 0. M. Mitchell, 
 Etta Lockridge, 
 Etta Pond, 
 
 Lou. Farrington, 
 Maggie Smay, 
 Anna Jorgenson, 
 Ada Stephenson, 
 Mettie Whittaker, 
 Emma Kilburn, 
 Edith Ballou, 
 
 Cora Mullen, 
 Bruce McQuillen, 
 Bea. McNichols, 
 Verna L. Bates, 
 Carrie Payne, 
 Bertha Ruefly, 
 Edith Ferner, 
 Mable Gates, 
 Helen Harper, 
 
 J. R. Cutchens, 
 
 AMES. 
 
 Nellie Jewett, 
 Rosa Harrigan, 
 Mary Mills, 
 Maggie Bradford, 
 Roscoe Miller, 
 Jennie Ralf, 
 Blanche Gossard, 
 Emma Wakefield, 
 Lillian Bingman, 
 May Hardy. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 F. W. Larsen, 
 Osmund Johnson, 
 Lizzie Brown, 
 Amy Chandler. 
 
 COLO. 
 
 M. E. Coleman, 
 Jennie Eckles, 
 
 Ella Hicks, 
 
 Jennie Danskin. 
 Kate Hemping. 
 
 MAXWELL. 
 
 Etta Pearson, 
 
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 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 IOWA CENTER. 
 
 Carrie Wood, 
 
 Dow Selby, 
 
 Kate Smith, 
 Warren Ayres. 
 
 Maud Flickinger, 
 
 ELWELL. 
 
 Lillie Parish. 
 
 
 STORY CITY. 
 
 0. 0. Douhaug, 
 Anna Brandvig, 
 
 W. 0. Bates, 
 
 Nina Sheffield, 
 Charley Grove, 
 
 0. B. Peterson. 
 
 Elma Lewis, 
 
 Elbert Thatcher, 
 Lola Hahn. 
 
 ZEARING. 
 
 Minerva Wickham, 
 Ira Bowman, 
 
 B. M. Rasmussen, 
 Christine Roe, 
 Amelia Relland. 
 
 ROLAND. 
 
 Belle Hegland, 
 
 L. A. Stueland, 
 
 
 m’callsburg. 
 
 Eva Spencer, 
 
 John Egnes. 
 
 W. H. Jonhron. 
 
 ONTARIO. 
 
 Lillian Barker. 
 
 GILBERT. 
 
 Rhoda Shinkle, 
 Ella Ozmun. 
 
 COLLINS. 
 
 Mary Bedell, 
 
 
 STATE CENTER. 
 
 Edward Binder, 
 
 Carolina Binder. 
 
 Inez C. Myers. 
 
 SHELDAHL. 
 
 Lewis Ness. 
 
 HUXLY. 
 
 Maggie Herlocker. 
 
 BANGOR. 
 
 
 BROMLY. 
 
 Ola Pennington, 
 
 LE GRAND. 
 
 Luella E. Mote. 
 
 
 Commenced August 9. 
 
 
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 History of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 A COMRADE OF 1812. 
 
 One of the most interesting characters which has ever attended 
 any of the meetings of the National Association, was present at this 
 re-union, and his presence on the stage yesterday was the occasion of 
 a voluntary ovation to him. Mr. Micah French, of Story County, 
 was a private soldier in the ranks of the American Army which 
 repelled the invasion of the last British arms on free American 
 soil. A reporter of the Register called on Mr. French yesterday 
 with a view to learning something of his remarkable career. He 
 is feeble and gray with age, but is in possession of all his faculties 
 save that of sight, which is almost gone. His recollection of the 
 events of three-quarters of a century ago is not at all times per- 
 fectly clear, but enough was learned to give a fair idea of his life. 
 He was born in New York on April 6, 1792, and from that State 
 enlisted at the early age of twenty years in the army of the then 
 Republic. He served through that war faithfully and was honor- 
 ably discharged. He was in many of the most sanguine engage- 
 ments, his company being in the command which moved to the 
 north on the invasion of Canada. 
 
 At the battle of Queenstown, known to every school boy, Mr. 
 French was wounded by a musket ball in his arm. This ball he 
 carries yet, and is probably now the only living American who has 
 the honor of carrying a British bullet fired on American soil. He 
 served in the Black Hawk war, enlisting from Illinois, which was 
 then a far west country. His three sons and every grandson, who 
 was old enough, enlisted in the Rebellion. While yet the central 
 portion of Indiana was held by the Miami Indians he moved to 
 ^at country, but now for thirty years he has lived in Story 
 County. His life has been a plain and simple one, and he bids fair 
 to live several years more.— Des Moines Register— 2, 1886.) 
 
 Monday morning Company G. went to camp at Marshalltown 
 for the annual drill and to have a regular lark. The boys will 
 have a good time and return to business improved greatly in color, 
 and it is to be hoped, in health as well. 
 
 The Company is reported by the Times-Republican as composed 
 of the following ofiicers and men: 
 
 Captain — J. R. McCutchen. 
 
 First Lieutenant — 0. A. Lyssand. 
 
 Second Lieutenant — U. S. Alderman. 
 
 Sergeants — George Briggs, Frank Burdick, Edwin J. G. Reid. 
 
 Corporals— C. P. Murphey, William Fifer, William Bates, Chas. 
 L. Covell. 
 
 Musician — Bert B. Childs. 
 
 Privates — H. A. Armstrong, Frank A. Boynton, Harry F. Child, 
 William Chapman, Frank E. Cook, C. W. Earle, Albert W. Fry, 
 William Fitchpatrick, Norillo F. Gillispie, James G. Hastings, M. 
 
 
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 Histort of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Hiland, M. Hastings, Martin Hardesty, Neils Jager, Anton P. 
 Johnson, Osmund S. Nelson, Edgar Statler, Homer W. Smay. 
 (August 2, 1886.) 
 
 THE GREAT CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 There is something wonderful about the energy and push of this 
 peer among the railways of America. Under the matchless execu- 
 tive ability of General Manager Marvin Hughitt, and Ins able 
 assistants, Mr. W. H. Stennett, and Messrs. R. G. Hare and W A 
 Thrall, of the Passenger Department Mr. H. R. McCullough, of 
 the Traffic Department, and Messrs C. C. Wheeler and H. G. 
 Burt Superintendents of the leading divisions of this mighty 
 thoroughfare, the old Chicago & Northwestern Railway has 
 taken a rank excelled by no road in the world. It not only keeps 
 its 5 000 miles of track in the best possible condition, but it is con- 
 stantly pushing itself northward and westward, opening up new 
 sections for pre-emption and settlement. During the past year 
 it has made many new conquests of- territory, and many extensions 
 and improvements— Of these the following are among the most 
 prominent: A new line from Belvidere, Illinois, south to the coal 
 fields west of Peru, a distance of seventy-six miles; from Center- 
 ville D. T., to Yankton, D. T., (new line,) distance of thirty miles; 
 frorn Valentine, Nebraska, west to Chadron, a line of one hundred 
 and thirty-seven miles. Grading is progressing on a new- line from 
 Chadron north towards Rapid City, near Dead wood; also a line 
 from Chadron west. At Winona, Minnesota, a mammoth eleva- 
 tor was erected; a new passenger depot at Madison, Wiscimsin, 
 and six new iron spans have been placed in their Mississippi River 
 bridge at Clinton, while others will be added this winter.— Ames 
 Intelligencer . — (January 7, 1886.) 
 
 The Annual Re-union for 1886 of the old soldiers in Story Cou^nty 
 will be held at Nevada, on Thursday and Friday, the twelfth 
 and thirteenth of August, prox. As Nevada is the central town 
 in the county, the attendance should, and we hope will, include 
 every ex-union soldier within the limits of Story County. W^e know 
 the hospitable people of our sister town will extend to them a gen- 
 erous and cordial welcome; while the comrades and others there 
 will reo'ard it a pleasure to open wide their doors and_ give the 
 boys of ’61-5 such a whole-souled greeting as will bring their 
 hearts to their lips. Let the comrades make, by their presence, the 
 re-union of ’86 memorable for numbers and enjoyment. 
 
 The Faculty of the Agricultural College extended an elaborate 
 reception, Friday evening, to Dr. Chamberlain, the new president. 
 There was a dress parade by the college battalion, a banquet, an 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 165 
 
 address of welcome by ex-President Welch, a response by Presi- 
 dent Chamberlain, and toasts by representatives of many parties 
 interested in the success and usefulness of the college. The wel- 
 come to the new president was hearty and unanimous and appeared 
 to be a finale of the differences which have existed among the 
 friends of the college . — Nevada Representative . — (August 4, 1886.) 
 
 A Little York girl, while lisping her childish prayer at her 
 mother’s knee before retiring, stopped in the middle of her devo- 
 tions and said: “0, Lord, please wait a minute until I scratch 
 my toe.” 
 
 CEDAR RAPIDS. 
 
 Advices from Belle Plaine say that the artesian well is still vom- 
 iting out a stream as large as the fore wheel of a wagon. The 
 Chicago Engineer, George Morgan, arrived. He believes it will in 
 time exhaust itself. A cone, twenty feet in length and tapering 
 from twelve to thirty inches, is being made from heavy boiler iron. 
 This will be fastened to a five inch tube loaded with sand and sunk, 
 in the hope that it will gradually settle in the hole and plug it up. 
 The story in the papers about an immense and increasing damage 
 is an exaggeration. The surplus water is being led off by two chan- 
 nels, which will be sufficient to prevent an overflow. 
 
 The civil engineer, George Morgan, stated that the discharge of 
 water was 5,000,000 gallons ' daily with a pressure of twenty-six 
 pounds to the square inch. There is no immediate danger from 
 the overflow and the excitement has about subsided. The five inch 
 pipe to be sunk to-morrow with the cone-shaped top will be seven- 
 ty-five feet long and the success of the experiment will depend 
 upon sinking it in the exact center of the well. If it does not suc- 
 ceed a twenty inch well will be sunk below the water point, which 
 is expected to stop the water flow, as the last well stopped the 
 other seven. The proposed new well will be fitted with a cap so 
 that when the geyser is filled up the water may be forced back 
 again into the seven wells which have ceased flowing. The only 
 danger apprehended is that when the water is cut off the loose soil 
 for a number of feet about the well, which is bouyed' up by 
 its pressure, may cave in, making a bad hole in the street. This 
 will be about fifty feet deep, since the soil to that depth is com- 
 posed of sand and gravel, when the impervious bed of clay which 
 the water cannot wear away to any extent. The crisis is supposed 
 to be past . — Nevada Watchman . — (September 3, 1886.) 
 
 The painting of the Court House by Mr. Davis has been com- 
 pleted and the work is well done and looks well. The contract 
 price for the work was ^240 and the material used cost $192.66. 
 
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 166 Histoey oe Story County, Iowa. 
 
 There will be some little extra charge for work, that will come 
 before the board for their action, which will swell the total a trine. 
 The total cost will thus be a trifle over ^432.66. That is quite a con- 
 trast with the bid of some of the competitors . — Nevada Watchman. 
 — (October 29, 1886.) 
 
 MAXWELL SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. 
 
 The Convention of the Sunday Schools of this district assembled 
 here October 10th and held a very successful meeting. 0. B. 
 Ingalls, our worthy President, was on hand, as he always is, when 
 anything is going on that pertains to Sunday Schools. He is an 
 indefatigable worker and by his continual labors the members of 
 our Sabbath Schools are continually on the increase. Dr. Bunce 
 was present and favored us with his views on temperance in all 
 things, more especially on rum and tobacco. He being able to tell 
 so much from actual experience, and so many being present that 
 knew what he had been, his remarks, produced a profound impres- 
 • sion. May he be the means of bringing many out of the miry pit 
 and placing their feet upon the rock Christ Jesus, who only is able 
 to save fallen humanity. Our district President, A. L. Grolden, was 
 present and gave a good report of the Sunday School work m this 
 district. The Rev. R. A. Ferguson spoke upon the topic ‘ Watch- 
 man. What of the Night?” and encouraged the hearts of the 
 workGrs by his Gloquent rGmarks. Hg was uiiGxpGctGdly callGd 
 away in the afternoon to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alex. McCon- 
 nell, who resided about two miles southeast of this place. Tmese 
 conventions are stirring up the people to greater zeal in the 
 day School work and are conductive of much good. May the good 
 work go on, until all church members and young people shall be 
 found enrolled as earnest workers in studying the truth which is 
 in Christ Jesus. Worker. 
 
 : — (October 13, 1886.) 
 
 SABBATH SCHOOL CONVENTION. 
 
 The Sabbath school convention called to meet at the chapel in 
 Franklin township October 17th, got at work in good time in the 
 forenoon with a fair attendance from Nevada, Ames, Bloomington 
 and the surrounding country. The convention was opened in the 
 usual manner by Bro. Howland, of Milford. The lesson was read 
 responsively and explained by Bro. Ingalls, of Nevada. The ques- 
 tion When and for what purpose should lesson helps be used 
 was discussed by Messrs. Jas. Brown, T. C. Miller, Hardcastle and 
 Wright, of Ames. After an intermission the afternoon session 
 opened with song and praise service conducted by Mr. Wingert, of 
 Nevada, and in which, besides the choir, Messrs. Ingalls. Brown, 
 Howland, Fegtly, Miller, Bunce, Hardcastle, Wright and Ferguson 
 
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History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 167 
 
 participated. Mrs. Fegtly and another lady also took a part. 
 “What is the greatest need of the Sabbath school of to-day” was well 
 handled by Mr. Hardcastle. “ What is being done in the Sabbath 
 school — the outlook,” was answered by Howland, Ingalls and 
 Fegtly. “ From what standpoint shall temperance be taught in the 
 Sabbath school,” was responded to by Dr. Beverly, of Ames, who 
 showed the evil effects of intemperance. He was followed by Dr. 
 Bunce, of Nevada, who gave a temperance speech with the “ right 
 kind of a ring to it.” “ How can we have the most and best influ- 
 ence with our class,” by Mrs. Fegtly was well handled. Mrs. Orson 
 Brown played the organ in the forenoon and Mrs. Wingert in the 
 afternoon. The convention was one of the best of the season. 
 
 (Oct. 20, 1886.) F. 
 
 The new church — United Brethren in Christ — four miles south 
 of Ames, will be dedicated on Sunday, November 7, 1886. Sermon 
 by Elder Greo. Miller. All are invited. Com. 
 
 This new church is in the southwest corner of the northwest 
 quarter of section 25, township 83, range 24; was built in 1886. 
 
 The Nevada Fire company, October 4th, elected the following 
 officers for the ensuing year: Fire marshal, T. P. Worsely; assist- 
 ant, W. H. Jones; president, J. H. Boyd; secretary and treasurer, 
 L. H. Proctor; foreman of engine, John Peterson; assistant, Al. 
 Fry; foreman of hook and ladder, Greo. Brady; assistant, Z. Pres- 
 nell; janitor, Al. Fry. — (1886.) 
 
 ACTION OP THE BOARD OP SUPERVISORS. 
 
 On motion, the salaries of the officers were fixed as follows: 
 
 Clerk of district court fees not to exceed thirteen hundred dol- 
 lars ($1,300). 
 
 County recorder fees as provided by law. 
 
 Deputy clerk, six hundred dollars ($600). 
 
 On motion, the Nevada Representative^ Ames Intelligencer^ and 
 Nevada Watchman were selected as the official papers for the 
 ensuing year. 
 
 The treasurer was authorized and instructed to transfer $471.90 
 from the domestic animal fund to the county fund as provided by 
 section six of chapter seventy of the laws of the twentieth general 
 assembly. — (Jan. 10, 1887.) 
 
 A large company of ladies assembled in Gr. A. R. hall Friday 
 evening of last week, to witness the installation ceremonies of the 
 new order of W. R. C. recently established at AmeS. There were 
 present also quite a number of gentlemen, “lookers on in Venice,” 
 and of course to give tone and eclat to the occasion! Mrs. Nichols, 
 the commander of the department of Iowa, a very accomplished 
 lady, was the installing officer, and went through the service 
 of installation with much grace and dignity. During the open 
 session eloquent addresses were made by Gen. Geddes^ Prof. Wynn 
 
168 
 
 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 and Col. Bigelow. At the close of the oratory the gentlemen were 
 very politely bowed out,* and the ladies held a secret session of a 
 couple of hours, to perfect themselves in the established work. 
 The corps is now fully equipped for active duty, and will do valiant 
 service in the cause of humanity. * * Its deeds of kindness 
 
 and charity will he felt by many old soldiers and their families. 
 The corps will meet in G. A. R. hall every alternate Friday after- 
 noon. The Post, at its meeting Saturday evening, granted to the 
 corps the free use of the hall. — (Ames Intelligencer^ Feb. 10, 1887.) 
 
 SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL CONDITION. 
 
 The schools of the county are in a most excellent condition. 
 Our teachers of country schools are better qualified, continue in the 
 same schools longer, and in all respects do much better work than 
 formerly. The town schools of the county are graded and doing 
 creditable work, while the schools of Nevada and Ames, with high 
 school departments, are second to none in similar towns in the 
 state. The school buildings of both town and country are, as 
 a rule, in a good state of repair and some of them are exceptionally 
 fine structures. The taxation necessary to secure these desirable 
 educational results is voluntarily imposed and cheerfully paid. 
 — (Nevada Representative^ Dec. 29, 1886.) 
 
 The Story County attendants upon the meeting of the State 
 Teachers’ association were: Supt. Roe, Prof, and Mrs. Weld, Prof. 
 Wynn, Prof. Chevalier, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Payne, Mrs. M. E. 
 Boynton, Misses Sara Kraiger, Belle Garrett, Emma Purkhiser, 
 Hattie Smith, Alice Lewis, Nellie Fahnestock, and Mattie Living- 
 ston and Messrs. Clark McLain, Frank Shutts and. E. L. Erickson. 
 — (Nevada Representative^ Jan. 5, 1887.) 
 
 The senior class in our public school is spoken of with the 
 highest commendation. In the markings for seniority of place, 
 Miss Lanning captured the honors with an average of ninty-eight 
 in a possible one hundred, followed closely by others whose relative 
 standing had to be determined by fractions. No higher evidence 
 of the excellent character of our high school and the good work 
 being done by Prof. Chevalier and his assistants could be desired. 
 The junior class is also well advanced in their studies, and promise 
 to equal the standing of their predecessors, coupled with an honest 
 endeavor to eclipse them. If our citizens will give Prof. Chevalier 
 a hearty and cordial support, he will make our public school equal 
 to any in the state. — (Ames Intelligencer, Jan. 6, 1887.) 
 
History of Story Couhty, Iowa. 
 LINCOLN TOWNSHIP. 
 
 169 
 
 A HISTORY OF LIHCOLH TOWNSHIP FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO 
 MARCH, 1887. — CONTAINING, ALSO, A NOTICE OP 
 MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION 666. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found a history of the first settlement of Lin- 
 coln Township. It received its name in honor of A. Lincoln, the 
 President of the United States. He was a noble man most surely. 
 The township was organized in 1867, comprising all of township 
 eighty-five north and range twenty-one west. 
 
 The brief items, with dates, were culled in part from our 
 county papers. 
 
 Zearing, Story County, Iowa, Jan. 21, 1882. 
 
 Names seem to* be plenty for this place. The railroad company 
 have now named the station Ashhurst. I suppose they did it for 
 the purpose of making it convenient for the citizens of the place. 
 I do not see what is gained by naming the station a different name 
 than the town has, viz., Zearing. 
 
 There have been several additions to the list of persons doing 
 business lately. 
 
 Mr. Brooks, from Mitchell county, Iowa, has his building nearly 
 completed and is opening up a good stock of dry goods, boots 
 and shoes. 
 
 Messrs. Patton & Johnson have a fine building and are opening 
 up a large stock of hardware. They also have a first-class tin shop 
 in connection with their hardware. 
 
 Messrs. Granger, of Colo, and N. R. Clift are each in the grain 
 business, they are paying good prices for grain, and are shipping 
 about two car loads of grain per day. 
 
 Mr. Hawley, of Colo, has shipped two or three cars of hogs from 
 this place. 
 
 It is quite inconvenient for those doing business here on account 
 of no post-office here, Colo and Illinois Grove are the nearest 
 post-ofiices. 
 
 Dr. Squires, of Illinois Grove, the former postmaster there, has 
 been commissioned postmaster for this place. I wish he could 
 commence his duties at once. 
 
 Major Hix is station agent at this place. He has been in the 
 
170 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 position about two weeks and appears to be quite at home in 
 the office. 
 
 Threshing and corn husking is about finished in the township. 
 
 Yours truly, Eb. 
 
 The buyers in Zearing are paying thirty-five cents per bushel 
 of eighty pounds for corn and there is quite a large amount being 
 hauled to town, — (November, 1882.) 
 
 Henry Orthman, a Glerman, living about two miles south of Zear- 
 ing, committed suicide Monday morning of last week b}’’ shooting 
 the top of his head off with a shot-gun. Orthman had had poor 
 health for a number of years and had been worse for some time 
 past, and it seems was tired of living and so took this method 
 of ending his existence. — (November, 1882.) 
 
 Dr. Newton is building a residence in the east part of town. 
 Messrs. Thatcher & Norton are building a good livery stable in the 
 west part. Mr. Tooker has finished the inside of the hotel building 
 in good shape bj^' plastering, putting in bed-rooms, etc. — (Zearing, 
 November, 1882.) 
 
 The Northern Lights of Latrobe, is to be removed to Zearing and 
 issued as a republican paper.' Messrs. Lewis will improve the pros- 
 pects by the change of location quite materially. Of course we 
 wish them abundant success. — (December, 1882.) 
 
 THAT CONVENTION AT ZEARING. 
 
 At about seven o’clock last Sabbath morning, August 20th, in 
 company with that genial companion, liev. M. L. Mun, the writer 
 hereof started overland for Zearing to attend the first quarterly 
 meeting of the county Sabbath school association. 
 
 A pleasant drive of three hours brought us to the end of our 
 journey, and we were surprised to find so much of a town, and it is 
 so pleasantly located. 
 
 Mr. Paxton, of Ames, and Mr. and Mrs, Howland, of Pleasant 
 Grove, arrived soon after, as did also Mr. and Mrs Geo. Clift, of 
 Hubbard. Mr. J. A. Boston and family, of Warren, and Rev. 
 Johnson, of Colo, were present in the afternoon. 
 
 The convention was held in the new town hall, which was well 
 filled with an interesting, as well as an apparently interested, audi- 
 ence, largely composed of young people and children, who gave 
 excellent attention during the somewhat lengthy exercises of 
 the day. 
 
 The opening devotional exercises w6re conducted by Mr. T. B. • 
 Howland, followed by the discussion of the topic: “The Sabbath 
 school — what is it doing?” led by Mr. Mun, who, as usual, pre- 
 sented some grand thoughts. 
 
 Mr. G. S. Clift led in the discussion of the next topic, viz: “How 
 can we increase the teacher’s competency and earnestness?” and 
 gave a very earnest and practical talk. It was evident that he. 
 
History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 171 
 
 himself, possessed what he thought every teacher should, to-wit: 
 a full appreciation of the importance of the Sabbath school work. 
 
 After discussing one more topic the convention adjourned for 
 dinner. 
 
 First after dinner came the Praise meeting, led by Rev.' Johnson, 
 of Colo, in an interesting manner, and then the Children’s meet- 
 ing, led by Mr. Gi. S. Clift, who gave the children a nice black- 
 board exercise, illustrating the story of The Lost Lamb,” which 
 he related to them in a pleasing manner. Mr. Mun also talked to 
 the children, and the manner and readiness with which they 
 answered questions, indicated that they enjoyed the remarks of 
 both speakers, and also that their Sabbath school teacher or teach- 
 ers had done good work. 
 
 The remarks of Mr. A. Stebbins upon “ The Sabbath school 
 teacher out of school,” as also those of Mr. Gr. Paxton on “ Shall 
 the Sabbath school scholar attend public worship,” were good, 
 being practical and earnest. 
 
 • An election of officers for the township organization resulted in 
 Mr. A. Stebbins being elected president, and Mrs. N. R. Clift sec- 
 retary and treasurer. 
 
 Mr. N. R. Clift and Mr. Gr. Paxton were elected delegates to the 
 district convention, at Ogden, in October. 
 
 We should judge that the Sabbath school at this place, under the 
 management of Mr. Clift, is doing a good work, and that Lincoln 
 Township has earnest workers to look after the work there. — (Au- 
 gust 20, 1882.) 
 
 Everything is lovely in Zearing. A Christmas tree in Ingrams 
 hall Christmas night was well loaded with useful and handsome 
 presents; and Santa Claus was very well personated by a person 
 clothed in furs and sheep-skin. The hall was packed full of people 
 and a great many were unable to get inside the hall. 
 
 The new elevator is being built as fast as possible and will be a 
 great addition to the appearance and business of the town. 
 
 W. F. Lewis & Sons are intending to enlarge the Northern Light 
 and print it in Zearing hereafter. 
 
 J. C. Burkhart has moved into his new house and is now a citi- 
 zen of the town. — (Zearing, Jan. 3, 1883.) Eb. 
 
 The following itemized building improvements in Zearing during 
 
 1882, have been kindly furnished us: 
 
 E. A. Abbott, steam elevator $ 2,500 
 
 E. G. Slaight, warehouse 500 
 
 J. C. Burkhart, dwelling house 1,500 
 
 George Williams, dwelling house 300 
 
 James Williams, dwelling house 800 
 
 Joseph Ingram, store and hall 1,000 
 
 Patton & Johnston, finishing store 200 
 
 G. Tuttle, improvements on store 200 
 
 Barb wire factory 200 
 
172 
 
 Histoey op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 J. McClain, dwelling house 200 
 
 Robert Doul, harness shop 1,550 
 
 Snider, boot and shoe store 550 
 
 D. A. Tooker, finishing hotel 300 
 
 R. Peary, dwelling house 350 
 
 J. H. V. Willetts, drug store 1,000 
 
 W. H. Brooks, improvement on store 200 
 
 E. Q-. Richardson, improvements on house 200 
 
 R. R. Company stock-yard 300 
 
 William Thatcher, livery stable 500 
 
 Other Lincoln Township improvements were two new school 
 
 houses which, including furniture, cost $700 each 1,400 
 
 James Carver, new barn 500 
 
 J. M. Price, hay barn, and farm fences. 400 
 
 p Total improvements $13,600 
 
 (Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 ZEARING. 
 
 Cold stormy weather this week. 
 
 The incorporation election held the fourth instant passed off 
 quietly with a good majority in favor of incorporation. 
 
 The Odd Fellows organized a lodge in Zearing Monday evening. 
 Quite a number were in town from Nevada, State Center and 
 Hubbard. 
 
 The new elevator will be ready to receive grain as soon as the 
 machinery can be put in the building. 
 
 The railroad company did considerable extra work last week. It 
 took two days with two or three engines, snow plows, etc., to clear 
 the road from Marshalltown to Story City. They had an engine 
 off the track twice during the time which made it rather interest- 
 ing. We had no mails for three days which was not very interest- 
 ing for us. 
 
 The Northern Light has been moved to Zearing and we hear it is 
 to have a new name. 
 
 Wm. Grolly has rented his building to Pierce Bros., who intend 
 to put in a stock of furniture in a few days. 
 
 E. Gr. Richardson and W. H. Grolly are buying live stock here 
 now, and the boys are stirring around as though they intended to 
 buy some. 
 
 Mr. Bowman, our new justice of the peace, had his first case 
 Tuesday: Groodrich vs. Ufford; verdict no cause of action. — (Jan- 
 uary 17, 1883.) Eb. 
 
 The first number of the first volume of the Zearing Register' 
 published by Lewis Bros., put in an appearance at this office last 
 week. It is successor to the Northern Light, of Latrobe. It is 
 quite a newsy little sheet and edited in good spirit. We wish the 
 paper abundant success. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Quite a number of changes have taken place in Zearing since 
 
Histoet of Stoet Coijkty, Iowa. 
 
 173 
 
 March 1st. A. M. Williams has moved into the hotel; W. May- 
 nard, from Nevada, has opened up his grocery store in the Snyder 
 building; the Zearing Register has moved into the rooms over A. 
 M. William’s implement store. Ira Barnes, one of the grain buy- 
 ers, will move his family from Union in a few days.— (Zearing, 
 Jan. 21, 1883.) 
 
 There was considerable excitement in town Monday week at the 
 election. Much feeling was shown, and quite a number of votes 
 were challenged. The result of the election was as follows: 
 Mayor, A. M. Williams; assessor, Dr. F. S. Newton; recorder, 
 J.. M. Ingram; councilmen, W. H. Brooks, C. Burgess, Gieo. Pat- 
 ton, W. F. Lewis, C. Burkhart, and N. R. Clift.— (Zearing, 
 Jan. 21, 1883.) 
 
 Some improvements are going on: D. A. Tooker is putting up 
 a new store building twenty by forty feet on his lots in the east 
 part of town, and N. R. Clift is remodeling his implement ware- 
 house. — (Zearing, Jan, 21, 1883.') 
 
 The examination of Arch. Neet, for the assault on Charley In- 
 gram was held Tuesday, the sixth instant. John R. Hays appeared 
 for the prosecution and Martin & Sellers for the defendant, Neet 
 was placed under $100 bonds for his appearance at court. Charley 
 Ingrarn is recovering from the effect of the blow; but it was a close 
 call for him. — (Zearing, Jan. 21, 1883.) 
 
 From the Zearing Register we glean the following facts': 
 A whisky case was tried before W. A. Bowman last Thursday, in 
 which case one Herman was defendant. J. R. Hays represented 
 the State and T. L. Sellers the defense. Herman was convicted on 
 two counts and fined including costs something over forty dollars. 
 It is intimated that other parties besides Herman are unlawfully 
 conducting the liquor business in Zearing. — (Feb. 28, 1883.) 
 
 Zearing had almost a murder on Sunday the fourth instant. 
 Arch Neet, the section boss, _ without any provocation, struck 
 Charley Ingram with a heavy iron poker used for the depot stove 
 and very nearly killed him. Neet was arrested and his examina- 
 tion will be held to-day. Liquor was the cause of the assault, as 
 Neet is a quiet peaceable man when sober. Neet and several of the 
 boys had been down to St. Anthony on the hand-car and got full 
 of beer and after their return the assault was made— (March 
 7, 1883.) 
 
 The new officers of the incorporated town of Zearing are as fol- 
 lows: Mayor, A. M. Williams; recorder, J. M. Ingram; treasurer, 
 J. Johnson; assessor, F. S., Newton; councilmen, N. F. Lewis, W. 
 H. Brooks, C. Burgess, Ueo. Patton, N. R. Clift, Gr. M. Tuttle. 
 —(March 17, 1883.) 
 
 The farmers have been busy the past week haying. Timothy 
 and clover is heavier than last year. 
 
174 
 
 History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 E. G. Richardson returned from (Chicago the other day. He had 
 been in with live stock, and he made a visit to his old home in Illi- 
 nois while gone. 
 
 A child of Z. Burdick died the thirteenth instant and was buried 
 in the cemetery near Zearing. 
 
 The grain warehouse of Clift’s will be much more convenient 
 after the changes are completed. 
 
 On the afternoon of the fifteenth instant the barn of John Rah- 
 felt, a German who lives about three miles southeast of Zearing, 
 was destroyed by fire. It contained thirty or forty tons of hay, a 
 lot of oats, corn, wheat, and some farm implements. The loss is 
 estimated at $1,500 with some insurance. 
 
 Mr. E. Dakins, an old and respected citizen of the Township, 
 was severely injured internally on Wednesday of last week while 
 getting off an ugly horse which he was riding. It is feared 
 that he will not recover from the injury. — (Zearing, July 
 22, 1885.) Eb. 
 
 Zearing is lively and trade good. 
 
 Maynard has fitted up the basement under his store for a res- 
 taurant. 
 
 J. Q. Burgess has his new house nearly completed. 
 
 I suppose there will be a change of postmasters in the Zearing 
 office soon, as it is reported that Bert Hix has received the appoint- 
 ment. The affairs of the office have been well managed by Mr. 
 Burkhart, and I suppose politics is the only reason for the change. 
 
 The first issue of The Crucible^ a Zearing newspaper, made its 
 appearance Monday. It is quite newsy and spicy. We hope it 
 will prove a success. It is edited by M. Kuhn. Mr. Arthur Lewis 
 and Miss Susie Williams have been assisting Mr. Kuhn in the 
 office during the past week. 
 
 There is considerable corn coming to market, for which the buy- 
 ers are paying twenty cents for eighty pounds. Oats being eighteen ’ 
 to twenty cents, flax ninety-one cents per bushel. The merchants 
 are paying sixteen cents per pound for butter and sixteen cents per 
 dozen for eggs, 
 
 John Rafeldt has a larger barn built than the one burned. — (Zear- 
 ing, Nov. 4, 1885.) Eb. 
 
 The Crucible^ the new Zearing paper reached our editorial table 
 last evening. It is quite newsy and in every respect creditable. 
 Morton Kuhn is the editor. We wish the little journal success. 
 — (Nov. 4, 1885.y 
 
 Very lively in Zearing the past week. Large quantities of corn 
 being brought to market for which the buyers have been paying 
 twenty cents for seventy-five pounds until Saturday, when Brooks 
 commenced to buy corn, and the price soon advanced to twenty- 
 one cents for seventy pounds, which was quite an advance for 
 one day. — (Dec. 16, 1885.) 
 
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 -The saloon keeper, John Hurst, was arrested. — (Zearing, Decem- 
 ber 16, 1885.) 
 
 Zearing has been rather quiet lately, as the railroad has been 
 blockaded with snow nearly all the time for the past ten days. 
 The last storm which commenced Thursday and lasted four days 
 was one of the worst storms for years, a genuine blizzard and verj’' 
 cold. Some report thirty-five degrees below zero. The regular 
 train run up to Story City on Thursday and could not get back 
 until Monday, when they succeeded in getting the road clear from 
 Marshalltown to Story City. Ed. Richardson had a car of hogs 
 and John Peck also had one ready to ship from Zearing the day of 
 the storm and had to hold them till Monday. They only lost three 
 hogs by the storm. — (Jan. 13, 1886.) 
 
 C. N. Thatcher, of Lincoln, near Zearing, is just completing a 
 large and convenient barn. It has ample capacity for horses, cows, 
 hay, grain and carriages. An inside well and other modern con- 
 veniences make it a model building. — ( Nevada Representative. 
 July 21, 1886.) 
 
 Zearing was laid out as a town in October, 1881; was incorpo- 
 rated in 1883. The Crucible (a newspaper) commenced about No- 
 vember 1, 1885, and quit about April 1, 1886. The Northern Light 
 
 commenced at Latrobe (McCallsburg) about 1882; then moved 
 
 in January, 1883, to Zearing, and took the name of Zearing Reg- 
 ister, and commenced there about January 20, 1883. 
 
 It -has had three postmasters since the post-ofSce was created, 
 viz: A. W. Squires, John C. Burkhart and A. D. Hix, the 
 present one. Zearing has also had three mayors, viz: A. M. 
 Williams, Joseph Johnson, C. Burgess. Mr. B. is the present 
 mayor (1886). 
 
 Lincoln Township has no native timber in it, unless it be brush 
 in the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section one. 
 It is a township of good land; some wet lands, but are being 
 drained and made productive. It is being well settled and good 
 houses are dotting the prairie. School houses of fair quality are 
 being built. Zearing is a place of stir for a young town. It was 
 laid out in October, 1881, and was incorporated in 1883. It is 
 situated on the west half of the northeast quarter of sec- 
 tion 21, township 85, range 21. The population of the town- 
 ship in 1880 was 387, but is now much greater than that. 
 It is about to become an independent school district. 
 It already has a nice school building two stories high 
 with a bell on it. Zearing must contain a population of two 
 hundred or more, and it is a good point of trade for lumber and 
 stock. See under the head “ Directory” elsewhere for its business 
 men. The Iowa Central and Nortwestern railroad passes through 
 it. The road enters the county one and a quarter miles north 
 of southeast corner of Lincoln Township and passes east and west 
 
176 
 
 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 througli it near its center. A branch of Minerva Creek runs 
 through sections one and two, crossing into Marshall county a 
 little north of the southeast corner section one. There are some 
 other branches that pass through or near Zearing, coming together 
 east of it and leaving the county a little north of the east 
 quarter section corner of section twenty-five. (See Col. Scott’s ac- 
 count of Lincoln Township on preceding pages). 
 
 There is one church building in Zearing, the Evangelical church. 
 It is not a large building but would seem comfortable. It has a 
 bell. The membership is fifty-three. 
 
 The school house, situated at the east end of Zearing, is a very 
 nice looking building and is two stories high and has a bell on it. 
 
 Zearing has two elevators, but no tile factory nor creamery. For 
 its cemetery see “ Cemeteries” in index. 
 
 The main farmers and stock dealers are some of the following, 
 and other citizens of energy and purpose: L. W. Thomas, J. Ad- 
 ams, C. S. Clift, N. R. Clift, S._S. UtFord, W. R. Haslett, J. Hol- 
 comb, C. Schuyler, A. R. Guthrie, J. B. Conser, J. Q. Burgess, Mr. 
 Bull, H. M. Holcomb, I. Baker, W. A. Ufford, H. C. Wickham, 
 C. E. Stebbins, M. J. Rolfe, S. X. Oakes, A. Lancaster, J. M. Golly, 
 W. Mercer, J. Golly, J. M. Price, D. Dakin, S, W. Dakin, H. 0. 
 Norton, J. M. Bunker, C. N. Thatcher, T. Thatcher, J. Carver, 
 C. L. Belden, M. Koch, W. P. Young, J. Rafeldt, W. G. Tremens, 
 T. Blackburn, D. Ufford, W. J. Lightfoot, J. B. Elliot, A. Pollock, 
 J. H. Irwin, A. Orthman, W. F. Kelley, J. C. Craft, F. Tagatoff, 
 C. P. Beam, J. H. Guthrie, J. S. Smith. 
 
 Shippers of stock and grain from Zearing, in part, are as follows: 
 E. G. Richardson, J. Peck, W. H. Golly, N. R. Clift, Granger, 
 Hawley, Roark and Dawsoij. 
 
 The number of cars of stock and grain shipped from Zearing 
 during the last four months are, eight cars of stock and 109 cars 
 of grain. C. E, Hayes, Station Agent. 
 
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Histoet of Stoey Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 177 
 
 WARREN TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTOEY OF WAEEEFT TOWFTSHIP FEOM ITS OEGAFTIZATIOFT TO 
 MAEOH, 1887. — COFTTAIFTIFTO, ALSO, A PEESOliIAL NOTICE 
 OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION 591. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found a history of the first settlement of 
 Warren Township. It received its name from Maxwell — J. W. 
 Maxwell. The Township was organized in 1872, comprising all of 
 Township eight-five north, range twenty-two west. 
 
 The brief items, with dates, were partly culled from our 
 county papers. 
 
 m’callsbueg. 
 
 There is a town about half a mile east of the center of Warren 
 Township named McCallsburg, in which there is a post-office named 
 Latrobe. Should the reader ever want to visit this place by rail he 
 should be careful to procure a ticket for McCallsburg; but should 
 he write to a friend to meet him at McCallsburg he should be par- 
 ticular to address his letter to Latrobe. Great inconvenience often 
 occurs to shippers because of the different names of the town and 
 post-office; and the sooner this matter is settled by giving the town 
 and post-office one name the better it will be for all concerned 
 —(Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 The severe snow storm on Wednesday last blockaded the rail- 
 road, which up to Saturday was impassable. Two engines were 
 ditched between here and Zearing Friday by the deep drifts on 
 the track. — (Jan. 17, 1883.) ^ ^ 
 
 J. W. Smith, our genial postmaster, was oht the other day to 
 lend a helping hand in getting a ditched engine on the track so his 
 mail sack might get through; but he got no mail.— (Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 Business is lively. N. B. Churchill has sold his entire stock 
 of hardware, dry goods and groceries to J. A. Boston, who is con- 
 ducting the trade in these goods and has a good run of custom. 
 Mr. Boston will build a new store room in a few days. — (March 
 28, 1883.) 
 
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178 
 
 Histoey oe Stoey Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 John Peck has purchased N. B. Churchill’s stock of lumber and 
 will keep a supply of lumber at this place. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 A large amount of pressed hay is being shipped from here. — (Mc- 
 Callsburg, March 28, 1883.) 
 
 McCallsburg expects to have a church, another railroad, and no 
 saloon by the first of next March. — (March 5, 1881.) 
 
 John Peck, J. S. Smith, Charles Wolfe, and B. E. Wells went 
 to see the railroad superintendent, but as he was not at home they 
 had their trip for nothing. — (Sept. 2, 1885.) 
 
 drain is coming in very fair for the 'time of year, all circum- 
 stances considered. Oats are worth eighteen cents, corn thirty 
 cents, rye forty cents, flax ninety-four cents. — (Sept. 2, 1883.) 
 
 The new firm of Smith Bros, are having quite a trade; and why 
 should they not have? They are selling goods clear down at bot- 
 tom prices. Prunes fifteen pounds, Arbuckle^s coffee seven pounds, 
 dried peaches fifteen pounds for one dollar; cotton batting fifteen 
 cents per pound, and prints from five to nine cents per yard. 
 — (McCallsburg, Sept. 2, 1885.) ^ 
 
 I have been interested in a decree of the superintendent of the 
 Iowa Central railroad for some time, in regard to taking the 
 authority to say how many men, and who, shall buy grain in Mc- 
 Callsburg. That is, they stopped John Peck from building an ele- 
 vator and say they do not intend to have but one elevator here, nor 
 to allow men or man to load on track. We think this shot-gun 
 policy. — (Sept. 2, 1885.) 
 
 The Armstrong & Brackett elevator is hoisting grain, ^which 
 came in pretty lively last week. — (McCallsburg, Sept. 2, 1885.) 
 
 During the storm we have only had four mails in nine days. 
 The railroad is blocked badly, but it was opened Monday. Two 
 cars of hogs were shipped from here Monday night that have been 
 here since last Thursday. The train was snowed in at Story City 
 Thursday, and did not get out until Monday about three o’clock, 
 —(McCallsburg, Jan. 13, 1886.) 
 
 There is a coal famine at this place, but we hope to-day will 
 bring relief. — (Jan. 13, 1886.) 
 
 We had a heavy wind here last Thursday, but little or no damage 
 was done. — (April 28, 1886.) 
 
 Easter went off quietly. — (April 28, 1886.) 
 
 Peck & Sowers shipped stock Monday. — (April 28, 1886.) 
 
 From August, 1885 to April, 1886, over 853 tons of coal were 
 shipped to this station. — (McCallsburg, April 28, 1886.) 
 
 For the early history of the settlement of Warren Township see 
 Col. Scott’s account of it on a preceding page. 
 

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 Histoey of Story Couetty, Iowa 
 
 179 
 
 Among the names of the present shippers of live stock and grain 
 from the Township may be named John Peck, T. J. Sowers, Daw- 
 son & Roark, J, P. Hesson. 
 
 Stock raisers, farmers, and other citizens of energy and stir in 
 the township may be named as follows: W. M. Hardin, B. E. 
 Wells, Patrick McLain, P. W. Bamgardner, Fred. Schauper, J. J. 
 Holm, S. & A. Erickson, Lars Hanson, M. Moyer, H. N. Rogers, 
 Andr. Egnes, P. Egnes, Adam Ruxton, Martin Erickson, Jesse 
 Thatcher, A. K. Giuthrie, Henry Keiwitt, Chas. Mencel, Chas. 
 Mencel, Jr., Jacob Smith, A. D. GrifSth, W. Shickell, Chas. Wolf, 
 Ed. Wells, J. P. Sanders, Ed. Elliot, H. H. Jondall, Ole Twedt, W. 
 F. Lewis, — (Mr. Lewis is mainly engaged in the nursery business, 
 such as evergreens, ornamental trees, small fruits, etc.) — J”. W. 
 Smith, C. H. Hendrickson, Gr. Johnson. ' 
 
 Warren Township has no native timber, but is a township of 
 prairie. It has some ponds and wet land, but tile draining is 
 believed sufficient to make it very productive. There is very nice 
 undulating prairie land in Warren, but no mountains. It is drained 
 by the main head branch of east Indian Creek and its branches. 
 The main creek passes from and through its northwestern part, 
 and leaves it on the south line near the south quarter section 
 corner of section 34, township 85, range 22. Grood farms are 
 appearing, and good farm houses and barns also. School 
 houses are not all in place yet, but will be before long. 
 McCallsburg is its capital, and is situated on the south- 
 east quarter of section fifteen and the northeast quarter 
 of section twenty-two, and is on the Iowa Central & North- 
 western railroad, which passes through the center of the township 
 east and west. On the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter 
 of section 13, township 85, range 22, there were many years ago 
 many large and beautiful white lime rocks which made a singu- 
 lar and delightful appearance. Twenty-five or thirty years ago 
 they were visible for miles; but time and other mishaps may have 
 robbed this lovely spot of much of its beauty. A small branch of 
 the headwaters of Minerva Creek runs near this, then, sightly place. 
 
 The business men of McCallsburg will be noticed, elsewhere, 
 under “ Directories.” 
 
 W^arren and the east half of Howard Townships are much alike 
 as to soil. Howard is better improved because of its early settle- 
 ments. 
 
 They have a post-office, telegraph office, express office, and a rail- 
 road ticket office at McCallsburg. Mr. Robert Cadden is the ticket 
 agent, and A. B. Glriffith postmaster. 
 
 No printing office now at McCallsburg. 
 
 The cemetery near McCallsburg is situated in the southeast cor- 
 ner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-two . 
 
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180 
 
 Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 HOWARD TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTOEY OF HOWAED TOWNSHIP FEOM ITS OEGANIZATION TO 
 
 MAECH, 1887. — CONTAINING, ALSO, A NOTICE OF MANY 
 
 OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION, EOLAND AND TOWNSHIP, 1191, 
 
 Elsewhere will be found a history of the first settlement of 
 Howard Township. It is presumed. to have been named in honor 
 of G-eneral W. 0. Howard, a very distinguished Union Greneral in 
 the late Rebellion. The Township was organized in 1859— com- 
 prising all of township 85 north, range 23 west. 
 
 The brief items, with dates, were partly culled from our county 
 papers. 
 
 EOLAND. 
 
 The following township ofidcers were elected; Justices, R. K. 
 Grarard and E. E. Evans; ConstablGS, H. Osmundson and R. P* 
 Sheffield; Trustee, Jeremiah Olson; Assessor M. Olson, and Clerk, 
 J. Evenson. 
 
 Roland is improving right along. It has of stores, two general, 
 one hardware, one furniture, one dress-making and millinery, _^^d 
 one grocery. It has also a restaurant, and a hard and sweet cider 
 establishment. Those who wish to get drunk can be accommodated 
 at the latter institution. It has also three blacksmith shops, two 
 shoemaker shops and one harness shop; one gram buyer and coal 
 dealer, a lumber yard, a creamery and two farm implement houses. 
 The people can usually get what they want in the way of trade. 
 Roland needs a hotel, a drug store, a doctor, and perhaps a lawyer, 
 and some other necessary evils, to make it a complete town. 
 (November 22, 1882.) 
 
 The farmers are very busy picking corn. Boardman Brothers 
 are now ready for picking turkeys and chickens which the farmers 
 will bring in by the wagon load. 
 
 Messrs. Sowers and Minkler and Lockwood and Bechtel, are 
 busy buying and shipping hogs and cattle from Roland at the rate 
 of five and ■six cars loads a week, and are spreading the money at 
 the rate of six and seven thousand dollars per week. 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 181 
 
 John H. Queal & Co„ are closing out their lumber yard at this 
 place and will quit in a short time. That will leave a good chance 
 for somebody that has capital and wants to go into business, as 
 . there can be a great deal of lumber sold at this point if a good 
 assortment of kinds and qualities is kept. — (December 13, 1882.) 
 
 A Roland Saloon Demolished. — Last Saturday night week 
 about thirty men, after drinking freely in Ole Johnson^ saloon, 
 turned crusaders and destroyed his entire stock. Tobacco and 
 cigars were scattered about the room and the floor flooded with 
 beer. The men agreed that the saloon was doing them harm and 
 were determined to do away with it. Mr. Johnson began business 
 here the 21st inst, in a building he had formerly used for dry goods 
 and groceries. This he did against the Wishes of many citizens. 
 Two men, it is reported, remained with him over Thursday night 
 being too drunk to return home. — (April 3, 1883.) 
 
 Tuesday morning, the twenty-third of January, 1883, about eight 
 o’clock, the house of Erick Jacobson, in Howard Township, caught 
 Are from the same old cause, a defective stove pipe, and burned to 
 the ground. Everything in the house was saved except an old bed- 
 stead and an old bureau. Mr. Jacobson being in moderate circum- 
 stances, the neighbors started a subscription and raised forty dol- 
 lars on the spot. They also appointed a committee to go round 
 and get what they could in addition. They met with willing 
 hands; so the prospect is good that money enough will be raised 
 to furnish lumber for a new building. Mr. Jacobson will proba- 
 bly build as soon as the weather will permit. He has a large fam- 
 ily and needed the house. Although it was not worth over three 
 or four hundred dollars it had served him well for many years. — 
 (January 31, 1883.) 
 
 This Tuesday, November 4, is the morning of election day. 
 The stars and stripes are floating over our voting place which 
 should inspire every man to vote. The ballot box should not be a 
 place to vent personal spite. We should all vote for principle and 
 right, and elect the whole ticket. 
 
 Business is pretty good. Merchants are busy and happy. Stock 
 is beginning to move a little more freely. Farmers are more in- 
 clined to sell, as they have given up getting higher prices for the 
 present. — (November 4, 1885.) 
 
 While snow storms, tidal waves and cyclones have visited various 
 parts of the country, Iowa has had the finest kind of weather. 
 
 Farmers have been busy gathering their immense corn crop. 
 Some are already through but the majority have considerable yet to 
 gather; and they will need the most of it for their cattle and hogs. 
 Hog cholera has not troubled the hogs up this way yet, and we all 
 hope they may escape the plague. 
 
 We are shipping many good hogs from this point if the price is 
 low. 
 
182 Histoey oe Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 Eoland has two churches — one, the Salem Evangelical Lutheran 
 Church, about one or one and a half miles southwesterly from 
 Eoland, and has about four hundred members. This building cost 
 about $2,000, The other church is in Eoland, and is a large build- 
 ing, built in 1873, and cost about $6,000. It is the Lutheran 
 Church, of Eoland and is just like the St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 
 of Story City, and claims a membership of one thousand. The St. 
 Peer’s Lutheran Church, of Story City, is a type of the Lutheran 
 Church in Eoland, and was built in 1875 at a cost of $6,000. Nine 
 hundred and sixty member, old and young, are claimed for it. 
 These two Lutheran Churches are probably the largest in the 
 county. The Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church at Story City 
 is not a large building, but cost about $2,000. They claim a mem- 
 bership of only one hundred and fifty, I presume mostly adults. 
 
 The Cemeteries — one in the northwest quarter of the northwest 
 quarter of section 32, called “Sheffield Cemetery.” There is one in 
 the northwest quarter, section 22, one half or three-fourths of a 
 mile west from Eoland. There are a few graves at or near the 
 northeast corner of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter, 
 section 18, township 85, range 23.^ See Index for Cemeteries. 
 
 Mr. Jonas Duea has been postmaster at Eoland ever since the 
 postoflfice was placed at Eoland. Mr. H. E. Carpenter is the sta- 
 tion agent, and has been for years. 
 
 Samuel Bates was postmaster for Sheffield from 1857 to 1866, 
 when the office was vacated. 
 
 The School Houses are all at regular places so as to form school 
 districts two mi les square, at least I believe so. 
 
 A new drug store is being opened in Eoland by Helvig & Jensen. 
 
 Howard Township, elsewhere has been described as to the 
 early settlements and the early settlers. The Iowa Central 
 and Northwestern Eailroad passes through near the cen- 
 ter of Howard, east and west, and enters Lafayette Township 
 eighty or one hundred rods north of the southeast corner of sec- 
 tion 12, township 85, range 24, and terminates, for the present, at 
 Story City — connecting with the D. & M. Eailroad. Howard is a 
 township of good land. Eoland was surveyed and platted in 
 October, 1881, and is now a thriving, lively town. It is on the 
 the railroad and has considerable trade; is the capital of Howard, 
 has k postoffice, express office, telegraph office, and, of course, a 
 fair depot building. Although Eoland was surveyed in 1881, it 
 was a point of considerable business eight years before that. Its 
 business men will be found under the head of “Directory,” as per 
 index. The Skunk river, (now Chicaqua,) enters this township, 
 crossing the north line of the northwest quarter of section 6, and 
 passes through section 6 into section 7 near one-third of a mile, then 
 crosses into section 12, township 85, range 24; but returns to 
 
Histoey oe Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 183 
 
 Howard at or near the southwest corner of section 7, then passing 
 through, in a zigzag form, sections 18, 19, 30 and 31 — crossing the 
 township line into Milford, near the southeast corner of section 31. 
 Keigley’s branch of Skunk river passes through the southwest 
 quarter of the southwest quarter of section 31, very near the south- 
 west corner of Howard Township. This creek was thus named 
 after Esq. John H. Keigley, an early settler, and a worthy man. 
 There are several smaller creeks passing through Howard. Bear 
 ^ Creek runs from the northeast part through it southwesterly and 
 empties into Skunk Kiver in section 6, township 84, range 23, 
 crossing the south line of Howard, (south line of section 32.) This 
 creek, as well as “Bear Grove,” received its name from the circum- 
 stances of a black bear having been killed on it by Isaac Smith, one 
 of the early settlers. “Long Dick” Creek, the main branch, enters 
 the north line of Howard, as well as the north line of Story County, 
 in section 3, about the Bog Springs, then passes southwesterly and 
 enters the Skunk River in the southwest quarter of section 18, 
 township 85, range 23. It is said this creek (on which the old 
 Smith mill stood,) received its name from the incident of a man, 
 by the nick-name of “Long Dick,” in looking over the country, up 
 and down the creek, got lost and had to stay on the prairie one or 
 two nights — yes, and just think of it — among prairie wolves and 
 Indians — the Indians one hundred miles away; why, it was terri- 
 ble! Well, he finally got back to settlement as Long as ever; so 
 the creek was named “Long Dick.” 
 
 There was a town laid off, October, 1854, on the southwest quar- 
 ter of the northeast quarter of section 18, township 85, range 23, 
 called “Smithfield,” very near to this celebrated mill, you can read 
 about it as described by my friend, R. W. Ballard. 
 
 There was once considerable timber along the western border of 
 the township and some in Bear Grove, but much of the larger tim- 
 ber is now missing. The improvements in this township, within 
 the last ten or fourteen years have been brisk; and especially 
 within the vicinity of the railroad. 
 
 There are several in Howard who ship a great many cattle, hogs 
 and grain and perhaps horses. I will name a few of them: Jonas 
 Duea, H. C. C. Daea, 0. 0. Helgen, Mr. Michaelson, Sowers and 
 Evanson. 
 
 Even Sowers & Minkler, of Milford, and Lockwood & Bechtel, of 
 Nevada, ship cattle and hogs from Roland. ‘ 
 
 There are many who raise cattle and hogs for sale, and supply ship- 
 pers; some of whom may be named, viz: Jonas Duea, John Christian, 
 Giles A. Fenn, M. Erickson, John Michaelson, 0. Laughland, Abel 
 Olson, Elias Johnson, Oliver Thompson, M. Hegland, Ole 0. Heg- 
 land, S. Opstret, Ole J. Olson, John Ritland, Jeremiah Olson, Ole 
 Ritland. Many raise and ship their own stock. 
 
184 
 
 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 There are still others, in Howard, who are active, energetic 
 farmers, and others, stirring citizens, who should be named, Sol 
 Switzer, Paul Thompson, John Nelson, John Evanson, John 
 Twedt, H. J. Wulfsburg, Knute Thompson, John James, R. W. 
 Ballard, H. L. Ballard, H. F. Ferguson, B. S. Rasmussen, Erick E. 
 Evans, K. Olson. 
 
 During the year prior and to November 1, 1886 there were fifty- 
 three cars of grain, and one hundred and thirty-five cars of stock 
 ' shipped from Roland. 
 
 The creamery at Roland makes about 1,000 pounds of butter per 
 day during six months of the year. The tile factory makes an es- 
 timate of 200,000 tiles and 150,000 brick during the season. 
 
 LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT 
 AND ORGANIZATION TO MARCH, 1887. — CONTAINING, ALSO, 
 
 A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION — TOWNSHIP 920, STORY CITY 595 — 1,515. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found a history also of its first settlement. 
 It was named after Glen. Marquis De Lafayette, that distinguished 
 and noble Frenchman who aided us so nobly in the Revolutionary 
 war to secure for this nation our “National Independence.’^ 
 Lafayette Township was organized in 1854, now comprising only 
 Township eighty-five north, range twenty-four west. 
 
 The brief items, with dates, were partly culled from our 
 county papers. 
 
 STORY CITY ITEMS. 
 
 Story City, Dec. 17, 1878. 
 Glood sleighing and lots of farmers in town every day. 
 
 Our poultry man, N. B. Jacobs, is taking in large quantities of 
 turkeys and chickens daily. 
 
 Business is brightening up since the snow came. 
 
 The people of Story City were thrown into a state of excitement 
 and alarm by a prairie fire which started in Hamilton County and 
 
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 burned in a southeasterly direction toward this place. Fortunately 
 the wind subsided and the fire was put out but not until it was 
 within two miles of Story City. Much property was consumed in 
 Hamilton County, consisting of barns, corn-cribs, fences, &c., one 
 man named Oleson losing forty tons of hay. 
 
 G. W. Sowers has again made large shipments of hogs and 
 cattle. , Or. 
 
 Mayor Wier will deliver his address of welcome before the Min- 
 isterial association next Thursday afternoon. — (Story City Herald. 
 Aug. 23, 1882.) 
 
 The town will be fiooded with preachers from all parts of the 
 Des Moines conference who come to attend the Ministerial associa- 
 tion which convenes next Thursday and remains in session until 
 Sunday. There will be forenoon and afternoon sessions each day 
 and preaching in the evening. — (Story City Herald.) 
 
 Hans Hanson, of Story City, was adjudged insane by the proper 
 authorities last night, and is to be taken to the poor farm to-day 
 for care and safe keeping. — (Nov. 29, 1882.) 
 
 Very little grain has come to town this week, and dealers have 
 been taking time to settle up old accounts. The snow lies in solid 
 drifts along the fences; and the children enjoy the fun coasting 
 it affords. — (Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 The convention here on Saturday of the teachers of Hamilton 
 and Story counties was quite interesting. Instructive lessons were 
 given by Superintendent Richardson on writing, geography and 
 map drawing; and by Supt. Roe, in arithmetic. The absence of 
 Prof. B\ E. Plummer of Nevada, through failure in connection of 
 trains at Ames was regretted. — (Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 Since the exit of the late, not lamented blizzard, this little burg 
 has been as brisk as a bee hive. Of course producers have been 
 the main factors in creating the stir and keeping tradesmen busy. 
 Butler & Molstre have received more corn than ^as anticipated for 
 this season and found it of better quality. The orders they are 
 filling indicate preparation for considerable building in this vicin- 
 ity on the opening of spring. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Merry girls and boys and the spirit of earnest work have filled 
 all departments of our school since the return of pleasant weather. 
 — (Story City, Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 The spirit of the still filled five or six of our town boys a few 
 nights since, and thereupon. His Honor, the Mayor, emphasized 
 the fact that “ the way of the transgressor is, hard,” by imposing 
 upon each offender a tine of from five to eight dollars. — (Jan. 31, 
 1883.) 
 
 We have to record the sad event of Mrs. Bristow’s death. Mrs. 
 Bristow resided in Nevada before her marriage, and she is remem- 
 

 186 ' Histoky of Stoky County, Iowa. 
 
 bered there as Miss Martha Tegland. The very large attendance 
 at her funeral attests the regard in which she was held by this 
 community, and sympathy with the bereaved husband and his 
 motherless little flock. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 At Willow Grove, five miles southeast, the large congregation of 
 Rev. Evans was swelled by a goodly number of our people; and, 
 after the service, visiting friends in the party were treated to a ! 
 
 view of that interesting wonder, the Watkins flowing well, from 
 which pours out unceasingly a stream sufficient to run a great, 
 old-fashioned mill. — (Story City, Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 STORY CITY. 
 
 Bad going has checked business somewhat, but it is the general 
 verdict that the past season has developed far more business than 
 was anticipated. In due time the city is to receive an accession by 
 immigration, as Mr. Molstre, who is agent for the Dominion line, 
 has just forwarded ^116 passage money for four persons from 
 Norway. 
 
 Examinations were held on Friday, and Saturday came the expo- 
 sition which was a most creditable and interesting display of the 
 handiwork of the pupils in general. The collection comprised a 
 great variety of articles, ranging from the cake and cushion and 
 shingle boat manufactured by the least of the flock, to the elaborate , 
 
 crochet and needle work and nice pieces of cabinet work by the 
 older .pupils. An article belonging to the last mentioned class was 
 fashioned from thirty-six different kinds of wood, nearly all of 
 which are native to this region. Saturday evening brought a crowd 
 of visitors. They were entertained with good music by Miss Rich- 
 ards, the band and the glee club, and by several interesting 
 addresses. Prof. Leighton’s speech was an expression of thanks to 
 patrons and pupils; Capt. Wier called to mind the growth of edu- 
 cational advantages since his early days in a log school house; Dr. 
 
 Allen encouraged the teachers with appreciative words; and Mr. 
 
 Evans noted some widely differing sources of education and 
 reminded that the wholesome lessons of the good school displace 
 the pernicious influences of the street. — (Story City, March 7, 1883.) 
 
 A Story City correspondent writes to the Register as follows; 
 
 Story City, March 6, 1883. 
 
 While through your columns most of the young cities of the 
 state have begged space to lend their virtues. Story City has stood ' ' 
 
 back, carefully noting the prosperity of others and comparing their 
 advantages with those of our own. We now beg space to say that 
 we have two railroads, — one the Central of Iowa, terminating 
 here, — several finely stocked stores, bank, steam grist mill and 
 about 700 inhabitants. 
 
 We particularly pride ourselves in our artesian wells, one in the 
 suburbs of the town, having power to throw a stream through an 
 
Histoey OS’ Story Coukty, Iowa. 187 
 
 incli pipe thirty feet high. In the spring, above this powerful 
 well, is to he made a beautiful lake, well stocked with fish. Col. 
 Scott, of Nevada, being one of the prime movers in its construction. 
 
 Our growth is solid and substantial, and business _ firm. Some 
 enterprising firm would do well to start here a clothing and boot 
 and shoe store. 
 
 At our city election to-day was developed considerable feeling 
 over the selection of mayor for the ensuing year. W. _A. Wier, the 
 former incumbent, being elected by a strong majority, however. 
 W. D. Graudrup, the only contestant, already serves Denmark in the 
 capacity of consul, and a question arose as to his eligibility to any 
 office in this country. 
 
 Easter was observed by the Lutheran societies with appropriate 
 services. — (Story City, March 28, 1883.) 
 
 (x. W. Haitsell is sole proprietor of the American House now, 
 his brother John having retired. — (Story City, March 28, 1883.) 
 
 The editor of the Herald has returned from his trip to Chicago. 
 — (March 28, 1863.) 
 
 Cold! Colder!! Coldest!!! No trains from_ Thursday till Mon- 
 day. It is pleasanter to burn coal now than it is to draw it. Five 
 or six of our citizens who started for the coal banks Thursday 
 returned Saturday nearly frozen, having shoveled their way back 
 'i through the drifts. — (April 21, 1883.) 
 
 Mrs, Logan, a lady living near Roland, died of consumption on 
 Wednesday. A husband and children are bereaved by her death. — 
 (April 21, 1883.) 
 
 Will Wier, from the Iowa Agricultural College, reposed under 
 the home roof Friday night. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 A new picket fence in front of the School House improves 
 appearances and indicates public spirit. — (Story City, May 2, 1886.) 
 
 Opening cellar drains is the order of the day. New and larger 
 tiling in our main street drain is talked of and hoped for. — (Story 
 City, May 2, 1883.) 
 
 The telegraph fever has broken out, and wires extend in various 
 directions through town. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 I A heavy rain fell last Saturday morning, cutting out the roads 
 
 I in many places. Three bridges were rendered impassable until 
 
 J rebuilt. — (July 22, 1885.) 
 
 A ten year old son of R. Bonde was drowned in Skunk River, 
 Sunday afternoon. He tried to ford the river and was immedi- 
 ' ' ately swept away by the swift current. His body has_ not been 
 
 recovered, although a constant search is being made for it by forty 
 
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 or fifty men. Another child of the same family was nearly drowned 
 in a railroad culvert the same afternoon, but she recovered after 
 about two hours’ work over her. This community sympathizes with 
 the parents who deeply feel the sudden loss of their son. — (Story City, 
 July 22, 1885.) 
 
 A young woman was killed by lightning a few miles west of 
 here last Saturday morning. She was married last spring-. — (July 
 24, 1883.) 
 
 Lightning followed a telegraph wire to Dr. B. F. Allen’s house, 
 Tuesday morning and tore off a window casing with some lath 
 and plaster, but did no other damage.— (July 22, 1885.) 
 
 It is reported that several parties are preparing to buy poultry 
 here this winter. It will make trade lively for there is plenty of 
 poultry to be sold. — (December 2, 1885.) 
 
 Mr. Swan will probably move his bank fixtures this week. — 
 (December 2, 1885.) 
 
 A set of scales will be placed on Ludwig’s corner this week. 
 James Jacobson will use them in buying grain this winter. There 
 will be a dozen, more or less, grain buyers for the winter and we 
 look for lively times. — (December 2, 1885.) 
 
 _ Story City.— Our little town was livened up last Saturday by a 
 visit from Sheriff A. K. Banks, who proceeded “to crawl” the bil- 
 liard halls. At T. C. Miller’s ranch four kegs of beer was seized. 
 Sheriff Banks not wishing to give Jim Lewis, the proprietor of the 
 other billiard hall a chance to secrete his stock of anti-prohibition, 
 deputized C. Nelson and A. S. Helvig to raid Lewis'’s ranch. Nel- 
 son and Helvig made themselves the laughing stock of the town by 
 allowing Lewis to carry out and empty — before their very eyes — 
 two kegs of beer. Hamilton and Dale’s drug store was searched 
 but nothing criminating found. We are glad to note this action 
 against these open yiolaters of the law. For the last year the two 
 billiard halls have been nothing but grog shops, where all persons 
 who understood the way could get liquor. So degenerating an 
 effect has this had upon the community that many of our towns- 
 people, both old and young, have sought the hidden way and 
 exchanged a character of temperance for one of intemperance. It 
 seems to have been the purpose of a large class of men in Story 
 City to set the prohibition law at nought, and a brave man is he 
 who has started this crusade. He can not but know that two- 
 thirds of the people and the press, will give him free advertising of 
 such a nature that hell will seem too good a place for him. But 
 the good wishes of the churches and the help of all sober, industri- 
 ous and temperate people is with him— Ames Intelligencer . — 
 (March 4, 1886.) 
 
 The fire apparatus bought by the council this spring, is at hand. 
 It consists of a double cylinder force pump and four hundred feet 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
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 of two inch hose with hook and ladders. This will give us a fair 
 fire protection. — (1886.) 
 
 Story City is preparing to celebrate the Fourth of July in grand 
 style. 
 
 A fire department has been organized in our little city, and now 
 we are prepared to battle with the fire fiend should he ever make 
 his appearance. The officers of the company are as follows: R. 
 Boyd, foreman; J. H. McElwee, assistant foreman; 0. B. Peterson, 
 secretary, T. T. Henryson. — (June 17, 1886.) 
 
 A tile factory has been started and is now in successful operation 
 under the efficient management of Messrs Butler and Peterson. 
 
 From four to six loads of hogs are shipped from here every week. 
 
 Story City is twenty-three years younger than Fairview. Story 
 City was laid out as a town in 1878, while Fairview was laid out in 
 1855. The place was known for many years as Fairview only. 
 
 The name of the postoffice was first called Story City, and the 
 first postmaster was Fred W. Rhodes, and the business of the office 
 commenced late in 1856 or early in 1857. 
 
 Rhodes was succeeded by Noali Harding in 1857 or ’58; Lars R. 
 Larson succeeded Harding and retained the office until he was suc- 
 ceeded by M. Swartout, February 1, 1886, who is still postmaster. 
 
 The first water power saw mill was built by Mr. Brown. It was 
 northeasterly of the artesian well. It sawed but little for want of 
 water power. The early history of Howard and Lafayette, to be 
 found elsewhere, will give further items of early times, (see R. W. ’ 
 Ballard’s letter.) 
 
 Story City and Fairview were incorporated as one in December, 
 1881, as Story City. We may say: “United, we Stand divided we 
 fall.” 
 
 Under the head of “Directories” can be found the business men 
 of Story City. 
 
 Lafayette is a very noted name. All American readers, doubt- 
 less are familiar with the name. Southwesterly from Story City, 
 some distance from town, a considerable portion of the land is flat 
 and wet, but not so many ponds as are in some other parts of the 
 county. By tile draining it surely will be very productive. The 
 township has two streams that are named — the Everlasting Skunk, 
 (otherwise, by act of Legislature, called “Chicaqua,”) is one of them 
 and Keigley’s branch is the other one. Skunk enters the township 
 in the northeast quarter of section 12, township 85, range 24, 
 and passes down and crosses the township line into section 7 for a 
 very short distance, then crosses back to section 12 near the south- 
 east corner of 12, then crosses into the northeast quarter of the 
 
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 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 northeast quarter of section 13, township 85, range 24; and 
 again re-crosses into Howard Township to section 18; then gets 
 back into the southeast quarter of section 13, then cuts across west 
 of the east quarter section corner of 13, then crosses the east line of 
 the southeast quarter of section 13 two or three times and gets into 
 the southwest quarter of section 18, township 85, range 23. This 
 stream, surely is very crooked. 
 
 There once was some timber in sections 12, 13 and southeast quar- 
 ter of section 36. 
 
 Keigley’s fork enters the north line of the township at the north 
 quarter section corner of section 5, township 85, range 24; then 
 winds through sections 5, 8, 16,22, 26 and 36, touching sections 21, 
 27 and 35. It finally empties into Sknnk river a short distance 
 below Soper’s mill, and near the center of the northwest quarter of 
 section ?, township 84, range 23. This creek was named, as has 
 been said, for Esq. John H. Keigley, who settled near it in early 
 times. He was and is yet a worthy citizen. I have known him 
 nearly thirty years in Story County and think I am entitled to an 
 opinion. 
 
 The Press.-— “TAe Review'' is published Aveekly by H. C. Carl- 
 son, and is politically Democratic. 
 
 There is a tile factory established at Story City by Butler & Peter- 
 son. 
 
 The business men of Story City will be given in its place (see 
 “Directory”) in Index. 
 
 For Mills, Cemeteries, Groves, Tile Factories, etc., see the index 
 for reference. 
 
 The D. & M. Eailroad passes through this township — entering 
 near the center of southeast quarter of section 33, then runs 
 through 33, and passes at or near the quarter section corner between 
 sections 27 and 28, then in almost direct line to Story City passing 
 through sections 22 and 14 — touching near the northwest corner 
 of 23. From Story City north on or near east line of sections 11 
 and 2._ The Iowa Central & Northwestern road enters the town- 
 ship eighty or one hundred rods north of the southeast corner of 
 section 12, then a little south of west to its junction with the D. 
 M. & _M. E,. Eoad at southwest part of Story City. This is a good 
 shipping point for stock and grain. Several engage in shipping 
 live stock and grain from here, some of whom I will name: John 
 McEllery, Eandall Company, Butler & Molstre, Mr. Hayden. 
 
 There are three elevators on the Northwestern Eailroad, oper- 
 ated by horse power. A good flouring mill. A nice two story 
 school house, with a good bell on it, costing $3,500. 
 
 There is a Creamery here, but did not learn the business it is doing. 
 
History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 191 
 
 There are stock raisers and farmers of energy and business, and 
 others who help make up a business community, among whom I 
 will name: J. F. Brown, W. R. Doolittle, E. J. Watkins, C. H. 
 Watkins, W. A. Wier, Thos. Erickson, C. E. Christenson, Geo. Lar- 
 son, Fred Reischauer, Soren Anderson, Theodore Baldus, William 
 S. Johnson, E. J. Peterson, Christian Peterson, Dan Tressler, C. S. 
 Brubaker, Jacob Jergenson, E. C. Doolittle, Jacob C. Jacobson, 
 John A. McFarlan, John Wirth, Sam Nelson, Hans Hanson, Jacob 
 Lapp, John Rex, Andrew Johnson, Hans Mousland, Geo. P. Brown, 
 Jacob Jacobson, Jacob Born, A. Spring, J. S. Liddle, Jas. McNaug- 
 ton, Martin Johnson; and Robt. Bracken and — Prime settled in 
 1853; George W. Sowers, La Count, Lambert, H. Burham, — Mc- 
 Collister and Jonah Griffith settled in 1851. 
 
 Story City Cemetery is situated on the west half of the west half 
 southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter 
 of section 12, township 85, range 21. Is in the northeast part of, 
 the city. 
 
 Churches, etc. — The St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Story City 
 is a Wpe of the Lutheran Church at Roland, and was built in 1875, 
 costing $6,000. Nine hundred and sixty members (old and young, 
 I presume,) are claimed for it. This and the Roland church are 
 probably the largest in the county. The Bethel Evangelical 
 Lutheran Church of Story City is not a large building, but cost, 
 probably, $2,000. They claim a membership of one hundred and 
 fifty. 
 
 The fine brick business house on the south side of Broad street, 
 and owned by S. Larson, cost $8,000. Pretty good for Story City. 
 This is the only town in Lafayette Township. 
 
 Story City has had for Mayor Capt. W”. A. Wier, who served 
 from early in 1882 to March, 1881. 0. B. Peterson was elected 
 
 March, 1881, and resigned December, ’81, and Capt. W. A. Wier 
 filled the vacancy till March, ’85 at which time C. W. Allen was 
 elected. He was re-elected March, 1886, and is still the Mayor. 
 
 During July, August, September and October, one hundred and 
 six cars of grain were shipped and sixteen cars of stock from the 
 Northwestern station, and for the same time thirty-eight cars of 
 grain, and fifteen of stock were shipped from the Central Iowa sta- 
 tion, Story City, Iowa. 
 
192 
 
 Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTOEY OF FEANKLIN TOWNSHIP FEOM ITS BAELY SETTLEMENT 
 TO MAECH, 1887 — CONTAINING, ALSO A NOTICE OF 
 MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION 899. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found also an account of its early settlers. It 
 was named for Dr. Benjamin Franklin, the great and distinguished 
 American Philosopher and Statesman. It was organized 1854, and 
 now comprising only township 84 north, range 24 west. 
 
 There are several who ship stock and grain from Gilbert and 
 Ontario, we will name L. R. Jones. 
 
 There are those who raise stock and grain for sale, and other 
 farmers and citizens of energy and nerve, some of whom I will 
 name below: W. H. H. Grove, L. C. Allen, Henry Barnes, J. R. 
 Decker, Fred Eckard, L, 0. Oliver, D. M. Hayden, I. De Long, C. 
 F. Ruth, Peter Marshall, J. B. Grove, Wm. Arrasmith, R. M. 
 Hunter, F. C. Hunter, D. G. Ferguson, H, C. Wakefield, J. J. Coon, 
 T. A. Barrett, H. C. Cameron, Ira Briley, Elisha Briley, James 
 Briley, I. N- Briley, 0. Ward, Eli Zenor, W. H. Zenor, Wm. Men- 
 hennett, Rob. Shearer, T. I. Miller, J. S. Hughes, Jas. Dodds, Robt. 
 Dodds, Jas. Gibson, 'J. H. Cook, Frank Wilson, A. U. Stewart, Gil- 
 bert Gilbert, Geo. Stitzell, 0. D. Allen, A. Van Campen, C. Walters, 
 A. H. Buck, R. R. Craig, W. H. Cole, J. E. Davis, — Cameron, H. C. 
 Foster, F. M. Cotfelt, E. Favre, etc., etc. 
 
 There have been several fires at Ontario since and including 
 1869. 
 
 Two good store houses — good ones — were burnt, goods included 
 in the year 1869. Hiram Scott owned one of these good buildings 
 and C. & E. Thurman owned the other. Fired by lightning, or so 
 supposed. 
 
 The elevator was burnt about 1878 — a very fair building. The 
 cause of the fire mysterious. One or two blacksmith shops were 
 burnt since 1870. A store house of G. C. Harrison’s burned about 
 1873. The station (house or depot on the railroad, burnt June 
 
History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 193 
 
 30, 1882, cause of fire unknown. A new and substantial depot 
 building was put up on the same spot of the first one; was built in 
 the latter half of 1882. Nevertheless Franklin Township has two 
 live villages — Ontario and Gilbert. Gilbert is situated on sections 
 four and nine, and was laid out as a town, January, 1880. 
 
 Ontario was laid out January 16, 1869, on the southeast quarter 
 of the southeast quarter of section 31, township 84, range 24. 
 The townsite of Bloomington is in Franklin, and situated on the 
 northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 25. It was 
 laid out in June, 1857, but does not seem to improve. It once had 
 a postoffice, called “Camden,” but that long since was vacated. 
 Frank Thompson and I. T. Evans were the postmasters. 
 
 Under the head of “Directories” can be found the names of the 
 business men of Ontario and Gilbert. 
 
 Franklin Township is a township of much good land and is 
 being settled and improved rapidly. At one time it had, and may 
 have yet, more native timber in it than any other township in the 
 county. It contains several streams of water along which timber 
 in earlier times was quite abundant. Skunk river enters the town- 
 ship in the southeast quarter of section 12, passing southwesterly 
 through section 13, and leaves 13 near the southwest corner; then 
 passes through the northeast quarter of section 23, then southwest- 
 erly through 23 to the section line between sections 22 and 23, the 
 line between the southwest quarter of 23 and the southeast quarter 
 of section 22, crossing and recrossing said line about four times 
 before leaving it in section 27 ; passing a little west of the center 
 of section 26. It then enters section 35 near the north quarter sec- 
 tion corner, passing south and southeasterly into and through 
 the southeast quarter of section 35, then into the southwest quar- 
 ter of section 36, then crossing the south line of said quarter into 
 section one of W ashington Township. Squaw F ork of Skunk enters 
 the county at the west quarter section corner of section 7, town- 
 ship 84, range 24, passing southeasterly through sections 7, 18, 29 
 and 33, leaving the township eighty or one hundred rods east of 
 the southwest corner of section 34, cutting off, in its passage, a lit- 
 tle of section 19, and through southwest quarter of section 20 and 
 a little off of the southwest quarter of section 34. Onion Creek 
 enters the township in the southwest quarter of section 30, passing 
 through the south half of south side of section and passing through 
 the northwest and northeast quarter of section 32, and connects with 
 Squaw near the center of the northwest quarter of section 33. 
 Squaw enters the county at or very near the Squaw Creek Coal 
 Banks. The small branch that passes the “big rock” and empties 
 into Squaw Creek just above the west quarter corner of section 7, 
 that branch forms a valley of coal and of most excellent quality. 
 These banks are in Boone County but a short distance. Here quite 
 a trading point has grown up, and Zenorville is the town. On 
 Skunk and Squaw there are some stone quarries of fair quality. 
 13 
 
194: History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Stone quarries are found on sections 23, 25 and 26, and on tlie east 
 half of section 32, and the west half of 33. A good one is on the 
 west side of Skunk river, and on the southwest quarter of southwest 
 quarter of section 13, township 84, range 24. The rock is of good qual- 
 ity. Luther branch of Squaw Creek' (now called, by some, Clear 
 Creek,) enters Franklin Township on the west line of section 31, 
 but crosses the south line of 31 east of the southwest corner and • 
 passes to a point near the south quarter section corner of 31; then 
 it passes southeasterly through section 6, and easterly through sec- 
 tion 5, and northeasterly through the northwest quarter of section 
 4 township 83, range 24, and empties into Squaw forty or fifty 
 rods north of the south quarter section corner of section 33, town- 
 ship 84, range 24. 
 
 Luther Branch is the original name of this creek, and the grove 
 through which it passes was called “Luther Grove.” All this grove 
 is in Washington Township; and so is nearly all of Luther Creek. 
 There is a Clear Creek in the southeastern part of the county 
 which will be noticed in Collins Township. 
 
 Bible Creek got its name from the circumstance of a book ped- 
 lar having left his buggy, loaded with books and Bibles, in a snow 
 drift which proved, when the snow melted, to be in this stream. 
 
 It was called Bible Creek from that occurrence. This creek emp- 
 ties into Skunk river near the center of the southwest quarter of 
 section 23, township .84, range 24, passing through sections 10, 
 15 and 14. 
 
 The school houses are not all in their territorial limits, caused 
 mainly by the interference of Skunk River. There are five church 
 buildings in Franklin Township, viz: At Gilbert, two churches, — 
 one a Cumberland Presbyterian, the other a Congregationalist, the 
 latter has thirty members. The buildings look very well. 
 
 Ontario has two churches — one a Christian Church, the other 
 a Methodist Episcopal Church, a brick building. Bloomington has 
 a Methodist Episcopal Church building but no organization just 
 now. 
 
 There are several cemeteries in Franklin Township. One is in 
 the northeast corner of the soutneast quarter of section 4; and one 
 in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 1,; and 
 one in the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 13, 
 and one in the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of sec- 
 tion 36, township 84, range 24. (See “Cemeteries” Index.) 
 
 First settlers of Franklin Township were among the following, 
 viz: John H. Keigley, A. Hipsher, I. Cotton, Wm. McMichael, 
 Adam Grove, Joshua B. Grove, Robt. M. Hunter, Frank C. Hunter, 
 Henry Barnes, Sam J. Hiestand, T. F. Jones, W. J. Freed, Henry 
 Clay Cameron, Fred Eckard, James Briley, Ira Briley, Elisha 
 Briley, E. G. Evans, W. D. Evans, Otho Frpch, Frank Thomp- 
 son, Eli H. French, John Zenor, P. R. Craig, John Miller, Rev. 
 
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 Histoey op Story Couis'ty, Iowa. 
 
 Job Garberson, Elias Pocock, Mr. — Riddle, Joshua Foster, Wm. 
 Arrasmith, Peter McNerney, Dr. Favre, S. P. O’Brien, Dr. Phipps. 
 
 The first postmaster of Ontario was Hiram Scott, who had been 
 the postmaster of New Philadelphia. When office was changed to 
 Ontario, the office was called “Ontario Postoffice,” and Mr. Scott 
 
 continued as the pastmaster. Something like years ago 
 
 Frank M. Coffett succeeded Mr. Scott. Mr. Coffett is still the post- 
 master for Ontario. There is a fair warehouse at the depot. The 
 depot building is a good and substantial building but not large. 
 Ed. Allen is the Ticket or Station Agent at Ontario. 
 
 Gilbert has J. B. Grinnell for the present postmaster, and Wm. 
 L. Marshall for Ticket Agent. 
 
 The two Church buildings, heretofore named are nice comfort- 
 able houses. 
 
 There are twenty members of the Frank Bently Post No. 89, of 
 G. A. R. A. J. McFarland, Commander. 
 
 Gilbert Brothers have a good brick building for their business 
 house. They also have a fine looking elevator. 
 
 The building in which Mr. A. U. Stewart has his stock of goods 
 is a brick building. The Directory will show the business men. 
 
 There Avere during the year up to September 1, 1886, 112 cars of 
 stock shipped, and seventy-two cars of grain, from Gilbert; and in 
 May and June, 1886, four cars of stock, and in June, July, August 
 and September, twenty-four cars of grain were shipped from 
 Ontario. 
 
 There are many valuable improvements made and making in 
 Franklin Township. The iron bridge, near and above Soper’s mill 
 IS a good institution, but is in Milford Township. In passing 
 through section 6 of Milford Township we find on a nice elevation 
 a very fine residence owned and occupied by James Dodds. This 
 has the outward appearance of one of our finest dwellings in the 
 township. 
 
 Henry Clay Cameron, on section 19, on the southeast quarter of 
 the northeast quarter, has one of the most substantial brick dwell- 
 ings in Story County. The brick appeared to be all hard, regular 
 in size, srnooth and square corners. This is more than can be said 
 of the brick of many of our brick buildings. The house is a two 
 story house. The main building and ell are two stories. It is a 
 plain building with but little, if any, fine style finish outside. A. 
 J . Hunter, on the east half of the northeast quarter of section 20, 
 has now a very fine dwelling, one and a half stories high. His 
 barn is also a fair barn. Mr. Hunter died since writing the above. 
 Mr. Ward, on the northwest quarter of section 29, has a fine look- 
 ing one and a half story building. In passing is to be noticed a 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 newly finished one and a half story building on the southeast quar- 
 ter of section 32, by I. N. Briley. It seems to be a well finished 
 house. Mr. G-. Ferguson, on the southeast quarter of section 
 15, and near a fine brick school house, has a fine residence. The 
 house, grove and out fixtures on “Bible Creek” show well. Mr. J. 
 B. Grove’s fine house, on the hill-top, makes a fine appearance. He 
 has a good one. Mr. Grove’s house is on the northwest quarter of 
 the northwest quarter of section 23. Mr. Wm. Arrasmith has not 
 so fine a house and barn as some others, but he has a lovely situa- 
 tion. His native grove, for protection, is surely nice and valuable. 
 He resides on the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of 
 section 23, and is one of the first settlers of Story County. He 
 is a good one. Yes, nearly all the old settlers are good ones. 
 
 In passing by Bloomington a short distance to reach the ceme- 
 tery, several nice improvements were noticed. At the cemetery I 
 found the very worthy name of a very worthy man on a nice mon- 
 ument, situated near the center of the cemetery. This name was 
 “John Miller,” with whom I had been acquainted for many years. 
 I think, as an honest, a noble man, he had but few to excell him. 
 In getting the names and ages of the dead in the cemetery for my 
 history, I had then about 2,600 of the dead listed when I ap- 
 proached the monument of “John Miller.” There have been but 
 few of that number that brought to my mind so much of the past 
 and present. He was, as my cemetery list shows, near eighty-four 
 and a half years old. 
 
 Passing a short distance below Bloomington a good frame build- 
 ing in the southwest corner of section 30, township 84, range 23^ 
 just in Milford Township. This residence belongs to M. J. Craig. 
 Still a little south is a fine two story brick building owned by J. E. 
 Davis. This is in the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of 
 section 36, township 84, range 24. While he has one of the excel- 
 lent dwellings of the county, he has also a very fine barn and out- 
 fixtures. His front yard is ornamented with evergreens — an ever- 
 green fence or hedge, nicely trimmed so as to be about four feet 
 high, makes a fine appearance. Why should Mr. Davis not beau- 
 tify his premises since “Prairie City is just across the street east of 
 his brick, and since he owns the entire city. It once had a house 
 on it, and one John Vest had some goods and groceries for sale. 
 Go in, Mr. Davis! The town was laid olf January, 1854. 
 
 There are many valuable improvements, I did not get to see, in the 
 township, for which reason I cannot give them. The bridge across 
 Skunk River, on the south line of the township is a good one. 
 The iron bridge across Skunk at Hannum’s mill probably is one of 
 the best in the county. A very good bridge is placed across Squaw 
 Creek on the middle line of section 20 running east and west. 
 
History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 197 
 
 MILFORD TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTORY OF MILFORD TOWFTSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, 
 ITS ORGANIZATION, ETC., TO MARCH, 1887. — CONTAINING, 
 
 ALSO, A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION 753. 
 
 It probably received its name, ‘‘ Milford,” as a kind of favorite 
 name. It was organized in 1858, comprising now only township 
 eighty-four north, range twenty-three west. 
 
 The brief items were partly culled from our county papers. 
 
 Our schools are all progressing very nicely, except the one in No. 
 Three, which has been closed for a while on account of the serious 
 sickness of the teacher. Miss Frazier. Miss Baughman is teaching 
 again in number Five with her usual good success, and is trying to 
 make her school the most interesting in the township. — ( Pleasant 
 Grove, Dec. 27, 1882.) 
 
 Much credit should be given Mr. R. McClure for the erection of 
 a number of good horse sheds at the Methodist church here for the 
 protection of his and his neighbor’s teams. — (Pleasant Grove, 
 Dec. 27, 1882.) 
 
 We hear that Mrs. Ella Minkler has bought another one-hundred 
 and twenty acre farm. This purchase plainly shows what ten years 
 of good management coupled with energy like hers will do. It was 
 only a few years ago that her eighty-acre farm was taken, almost 
 in its native state ; and now with this new accession, and her hus- 
 band one of the successful stock buyers and shippers, may we not 
 reasonably expect a greatly increased prosperity. — (Dec. 27, 1882.) 
 
 Our neighbor Brown’s house was burned last Thursday evening. 
 There was some insurance in the Cedar Rapids Company, but his 
 loss on the contents was considerable for one in limited circum- 
 stances to bear. — (Pleasant Grove, Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 Everything quiet. That old reliable merchants mill of T. R. 
 Soper has closed for the present; cause, no water. — (Milford, 
 April 24, 1883.) 
 
 Omitted Milford improvements are as follows: L. J. Raymond, 
 a new house; James Smith, G. E. Gilmore, I. Olson and F. T. Mc- 
 Lain, new barns. — (Milford, April 24, 1883.) 
 
198 History op Story Gouptty, Iowa. 
 
 Waldo Stultz, while leading a horse to water, was severely kicked 
 in the face, but under the excellent skill of Dr. Stitzell no serious 
 results are anticipated. — (Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 F. T. McLain is drawing stone preparatory to the erection of 
 a fine brick dwelling house. Turner is one of our most successful 
 farmers, and we hope the rumor of his moving to town is without 
 foundation. — (Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 R. McClure has the barn for the M. E. church completed, an im- 
 provement needed at all country churches. — (Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 Christmas and New Years both were observed with big turkey 
 dinners and other good cheer by some of the citizens of this 
 township. — (Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 That energetic stock buyer and shipper C. M. Minkler has 
 engaged the services of Uncle Gleorge Sowers the veteran bu^mr 
 who used to make things hum for himself in years past. — (Milford,. 
 Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 J. W. Sowers’ barn should be added to Milford improvements of 
 last year. — Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 The decision of the supreme court in the amendment case casts 
 a gloom over the hearts of our temperance people. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Hamilton Wakefield has lost about $200 worth of Chester White 
 hogs lately from cholera. Charley Shultz estimates his loss from 
 the same disease at over $300. — (Jan. 28, 1886.) 
 
 Dakota parties are in the north part of the county buying horses. 
 Animals weighing from twelve to sixteen hundred pounds pre- 
 ferred. Object, able to keep in the furrow when the Dakota zephyr 
 is frisking about. — (Jan. 28, 1886.) 
 
 Milford Township once had a town containing one house. This 
 building, if yet standing, may be now on a good farm. “Prairie 
 City” is the name of the town referred to, and was laid out on the 
 south half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-one, and 
 recorded in ‘book A, page twenty. Laid out in January, 1854. 
 This township has some very good land, one of the best in Story 
 County. It is improving rapidly. Good farms and good buildings 
 dot its prairies all over. School houses have found their regular 
 places — nine of them. 
 
 There are two church buildings in Milford. One is a Campbell- 
 ite or Christian church, in the northwest corner of section 
 eighteen, and a Methodist Episcopal church near the northeast 
 corner of section seven, having forty members. A nice brick school 
 house stands near the Methodist Episcopal church, a few rods east 
 and immediately in the northeast corner of section seven. The 
 Pleasant Grove cemetery joins on the north of the Methodist 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 199 
 
 Episcopal church. This church has conveniences not often found 
 at churches, shelter and stabling for teams. With all it is a good 
 church building. Meetings . weekly. There is a Sabbath school 
 regularly held every Sabbath at this church. 
 
 The school house is a substantial brick building on heavy stone 
 foundation. 
 
 There is a flouring mill in this township, the Soper Mill, near 
 the north quarter section, corner of section seven. It is a water- 
 power mill and was at first a saw-mill (see “ Mills” in index). The 
 Skunk is a beautiful stream of water at this mill, for the ford 
 or crossing is rocky and gravelly. Such crossings below on Skunk 
 in this county are “ few and far between.” Very good rock for 
 building purposes in quantities is at and near this mill ; a good 
 quarry. 
 
 There are several streams of water in the township. The main 
 stream is Skunk river. It passes through sections six and seven, 
 crossing the west line of section seven a little above the southwest 
 corner of section seven. Keigley’s Fork enters section six near its 
 northwest corner, then flows southerly through the western part 
 of section six, and then enters section seven near the northwest 
 corner of the east half of the northwest quarter of section seven, 
 and passes into Skunk river some distance below Soper’s mill. 
 Bear creek enters the township at or very near the north quarter 
 section corner of section five and passes into Skunk some sixty or 
 eighty rods north of Soper’s mill. The main stream of the West 
 Indian enters one branch in section two and the branch in section 
 three. The main creek runs through sections fourteen and twen- 
 ty-three and sections twenty-five and thirty-six, leaving section 
 thirty-six at its south quarter section corner. There is a branch 
 passing through the County Poor Farm and enters into the main 
 creek at the south quarter section corner of section thirty-six. 
 
 The County Infirmary is in Milford, and is situated on the north 
 half of section thirty-five, containing 320 acres of pretty good soil. 
 The county has built a good house on it. \(See preceding pages for 
 valuations). 
 
 The Soper mill stands idle and much dilapidated. It is said this 
 mill once cost or sold for $10,000 or $12,000. Good stone quarries 
 are also found a short distance northwesterly from the Pleasant 
 Grove church. 
 
 There are two cemeteries in the township. The Pleasant Grove 
 cemetery grounds are adjoining to the Methodist Episcopal church 
 building on the north, and is on a nice elevation for the purpose, 
 and seems to be kept in nice order. The church is in front or south 
 of the cemetery, but is adjoining to it. The other cemetery is on 
 the Poor Farm for the use of paupers. 
 
 V This township has some native timber in the northwest part of it 
 but much of it has been taken off. It is dotted over with many 
 .valuable artificial or cultivated groves, such as have been raised by 
 ; cultivation. Cottonwood, soft maple, box elder, ash, elm and wil- 
 
200 
 
 Histoey oe Stoey Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 low and black walnut do well. Evergreens, the different kinds 
 of pines and cedars, do well here. 
 
 Among the early settlers may be named, for Milford Township, 
 Joseph Brouhard, Wesley Arrasmith, G. W. Sowers, John Rich, 
 J. E. Hoover, Sol. Young, W. Randeau. 
 
 Mr. Brouhard settled some fifty rods from the northwest corner 
 of the northeast quarter of section 5, township 84, range 23, in 
 Spring Grove, a small patch of timber on Bear creek. Mr. Brou- 
 hard has been gone from the county for many years. 
 
 Mr. Arrasmith settled next south of Mr. Brouhard, but built his 
 house on the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 
 five, and is still living there. 
 
 The following names are some of the shippers of live stock, stock 
 raisers, farmers, etc., men of energy and stir are included: Geo. 
 W. Sowers, J. W. Sowers, Frank Curtiss, Chas. M. Minkler, P. T. 
 McClain, Lafayette McKim, Geo. Stultz, Isaac Craig, .lames Smith, 
 G. H. Alfreds, And. Scott, George Gilmore, Edward McNicholson, 
 John Eagleberger, R. Kimball, B. Confare, J. Weidner, John 
 Harndon, Samuel Rich, T. B. Howland, W. Rondeau, G. B. Kooser, 
 R. McClure, John Rich, Charles Campbell, A. 0. Hall, H. Rasmus- 
 sen, N. H. Rasmussen, A. Jargenson, Robert Kelley, Kirkendall, 
 F. M. Confare, B. Confare, Oliver Thompson, 0. Christian, Wesley 
 Arrasmith. 
 
 Some Hogs. — One day last week Geo. Gilmore, of Milford Town- 
 ship, sold to Duea & Mickelson, of Roland, eighty-three Chester 
 White hogs, the average weight of which was 3721- pounds, and 
 the amount received was $1,0^7.50, being at the rate of -$3.55 per 
 hundred. The weight of the lot was 30,915 pounds. The best 
 part of it is that they were all of the raising of Mr. Gilmore. 
 There are very few such lots of hogs in any county in the state, 
 and we congratulate Mr. G. on his success. — (Nevada Watchman^ 
 Dec. 10, 1886.) 
 
 RICHLAND TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTOEY OE EICHLAHD TOWHSHIP EEOM ITS OEGAHIZATIOH TO 
 MAEOH, 1887.— OOKTAIHIEIG, ALSO, A HOTIOE OE MAHY 
 
 OE ITS CITIZEN’S. 
 
 POPULATIONT 558. 
 
 It is believed it received its name, “ Richland,” from its beautiful 
 rich land of which it shares largely. It was organized in 1872, 
 comprising all of township 84 north, range 22 west. 
 
 The brief items were partly culled from our county papers. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 201 
 
 JOHFTSOFr’S GROVE MUTUAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 On the 23d inst. the citizens of Johnson’s Grove and vicinity 
 met and elected officers for the ensuing year for an organization 
 known as the Johnson’s Grove Mutual Protective Association. 
 The preliminary arrangements having before been made and the 
 object set forth, rules and regulations adopted, etc. 
 
 To show that we mean business, we quote from the principles 
 set forth; 
 
 Whereas, our section of the country being infested with tramps 
 and vagabonds and horse thieves, and the same having become an 
 intolerable nuisance, we, the citizens of Johnson’s Grove and 
 vicinity, deem it necessary for the better protection of our fam- 
 ilies and property, to organize an association for that purpose; 
 therefore, be it 
 
 Resolved, that while we are ever ready and willing to assist 
 in cases of misfortune and distress, we are fully determined to 
 enforce the law and bring to justice all offenders found among us, 
 and to protect ourselves and property at all hazards. 
 
 If this fails to show that “ Hannah is ailing,^’ by calling on the 
 association a second chapter will be gratuitously furnished, which, 
 if taken according to directions, is warranted to cure or the money 
 will be refunded and no questions asked. By order of Association. 
 
 Johnson’s Grove, Iowa, May 27, 1878. 
 
 Last Saturday evening was a time of much rejoicing in the 
 household of Freeman Elliott of Johnson’s Grove. The occasion 
 was the eighteenth birthday of the elder daughter of the house. 
 A goodly company of relatives and neighbors surprised the young 
 lady who nevertheless was a model hostess. After a bountiful sup- 
 per, consisting in part of “ye festive oyster,” she was presented 
 with many useful and beautiful presents, not the least among 
 which was the deed of a farm, making her quite an extensive land 
 owner. The donor of the last mentioned gift is the young lady’s 
 grandfather. Just where she is to pay taxes we are unable to state. 
 As the clock reached the “ hour of night’s arch, the keystone,” the 
 company dispersed feeling that they had fully enjoyed them- 
 selves. — (Dec. 9, 1885.) 
 
 Richland township we would suppose from its name, “Rich 
 Land,” as being the most beautiful township of land in the sister- 
 hood of townships; but it is not, and yet it is over an average. 
 Richland has no town or post-office in it. A number of years ago 
 Mr.W. M. Kelley was post-master of an officeat his own house where 
 he now resides. It was called “ Johnson Grove Post-office.” His 
 duties as post-master seemed to be well performed as I had some 
 reason to know. But a short time before the C. R. & M. River 
 railroad reached the county the office was discontinued. 
 
 There were of the early settlers the following, and perhaps 
 others : 
 
 
 
203 
 
 Histokt of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 J. P. Pool, W. M. Kelley, Micah French, Henry C. French, 
 
 Hague, C. P. Page, W. C. Murphy, H. F. Murphy, Philo 
 
 Nickerbocker, Wm. Handsacker, Geo. Hyden, C. Bryant, Samuel 
 S. Hague, A. Snelling, John Snelling. 
 
 Those who raise cattle, hogs or horses and grain I will name 
 also; and all farmers of energy and stir, and active men in any 
 other legitimate business are cheerfully named ; and yet even with 
 care some may be forgotten not purposely: I. H. Mathews, James 
 C. Lovell, W. R. Woodward, Cornelius Tway, W^. M. Kelley, Wm. 
 Pool, Watt C. Murphy, Absolem Smay, David Smay, C. P. Page, 
 G. N. Kuhn, E. Kuhn, Wm. Handsacker, Geo. Hyden, E. M. Pad- 
 elford, Freman Elliot, Ed. Elliott, J. Newhouse, J. W. Cook, W. C. 
 Harris, E. Furnas, J. Sowers, J. Q. Adams, Henry Miller, N. R. 
 Pool, Pat Ryan, S. M. McCall, G. Moore, J. Connahan, R. Siddall, 
 J. Coon. 
 
 There are many who own land in Richland but are not residents 
 of the township. Among them who are large landholders are 
 E. J. Cessna, H. E. J, Boardman, J. D. Lahman, T. C. McCall, Jas. 
 Dillon, H. Staley, J. H. Sinclair, H. E. J. Boardman, of Marshall- 
 town owns near 1,400 acres, being the largest landholder in the 
 township. T. C. McCall, of Nevada, is next, owning about 1,000 
 acres in the township; Jas. Dillon, 960 acres; E. Furnas, 740 acres; 
 J. H. Sinclair, 705 acres; J; D. Lahman, 590 acres. 
 
 There are several streams passing through the township. Most 
 of them are small. The main East Indian creek passes through it 
 from near the north quarter section corner of section three, and 
 leaving the township some fifty rods east of the south quarter sec- 
 tion, corner of section thirty-five. This creek drains sections three, 
 two, twelve, thirteen, twenty-four, twenty-six and thirty-five, 
 touching a little on sections eleven, twenty-three and thirty-six. 
 This creek enters the north end of Johnson’s Grove at or near the 
 interior center of section twelve. This grove of native timber is 
 more fully described under “ Groves” in the index. The main 
 creek timber begins at the north line of the northeast quarter sec- 
 tion twenty-six and follows the creek southerly through the town- 
 ship. The timber belt is not wide, but did have in early times 
 pretty good timber. There are smaller branches, but will notice 
 only one. It commences in section six, then passes southeasterly 
 through sections eight, nine, sixteen, fifteen, twenty-three, and 
 empties into the main creek near the north quarter section corner 
 of section twenty-six. 
 
 The school houses are fair and all in their proper places, nine of 
 them, so as to make each school district two miles square. 
 
 There are two church buildings in the township. One is at or 
 near the southwest corner of the east half of the southwest quarter 
 of section twenty -four, and is a comfortable structure. It is an 
 Evangelical Lutheran church, and religious services are conducted 
 by the Rev. J. A. M. Ziegler, of Nevada. The other church is a 
 Methodist Episcopal church, built in 1885. It is fifty by twenty- 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 203 
 
 five feet, and twelve feet high. Has no bell. There are about 
 thirty-seven members that meet there. The building stands in and 
 near to the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 
 13, township 84, range 22. Rev. W. A. Welker is their pastor. 
 
 There are two cemeteries, perhaps more, in the township, one at 
 the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-six; 
 the other more recently laid off is in the west half of the northeast 
 quarter of section thirteen. 
 
 SHERMAN TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTORY OF SHERMAN TOWNSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, 
 ORGANIZATION, ETC., TO MARCH 1887 — CONTAINING, ALSO, 
 
 A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION 589. 
 
 It is believed its name, “Sherman,” was given in honor of Gen- 
 eral William Tecumseh Sherman, who did noble service in the Fed- 
 eral Army during the Rebellion of the “Southern Confederacy.” 
 Sherman Township was organized 1867 — all of township 84 north, 
 range 21 west. 
 
 _ Wm. Smay is doing a big business in the molasses line; the cane 
 pilled up around the mill reminds one of a southern sugar planta- 
 tion ; He employs from twelve to fifteen men and is making a good 
 article of molasses. — (October 2, 1878.) 
 
 Our township is visited with the scourge of the hog disease, 
 many of our farmers loosing nearly all of their hogs, seems to be a 
 fever. Anon. 
 
 — (October 2, 1878.) 
 
 The roads are smooth and dusty. 
 
 Wheat and oats all cut and stacking commenced. 
 
 Robert Hardin had the misfortune to lose one of his fine grey 
 horses while cutting oats for Mr. Dayton. 
 
 Wm. Smay has built a nice cheese house. He still keeps improv- 
 ing his creamery. — (August 23, 1882.) 
 
204 
 
 Histoky op Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 A few weeks since we referred to the fact that a petition was 
 about to be forwarded to Washington asking for the establishment 
 of a post-office in Sherman Township. The prayer has been 
 granted and on Monday last Wm. Smay forwarded his bond to 
 Washington as postmaster of Smaysville, Story County, Iowa, and 
 expects his commission soon. It is thought the office will be run- 
 ning in thirty days. This however proved a failure. — (April 23, 1886.) 
 
 Smaysville is on the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter 
 of section 31. At this place is a good creamery and cheese factory, 
 doing a good business. I know Mr. Smay well, and believe him to 
 be a worthy citizen. More of the same sort would not hurt us. 
 
 Sherman is a township of prairie, not a native tree in it. It is 
 however being pretty well dotted over with artificial groves such 
 as are raised by cultivation. It has a quantity of flat land — some 
 of it quite wet, but the soil is surely rich, and when well drained will 
 be productive. 
 
 It has no streams 'worth naming unless it be the Harvey Dye 
 branch of East Indian Creek. It crosses out of the township near 
 the southeast corner of section 32; then touches the south line of 
 32 at or near the corner, eighty or one hundred rods west of the 
 southeast corner of said section 32. The school houses are not 
 all in place yet in Sherman. There are some large tracts of land 
 owned by a few men. J. W. Ambrose owns, or did own lately, 
 about 1,240 acres, Seymour Hix 640 acres, and some other large 
 land owners. Mr. Ambrose takes the premium for Sherman, beat- 
 ing Seymour. 
 
 There are no cemeteries, it is believed, in Sherman. 
 
 There are no villages nor cities in the township. 
 
 Mr. Wm. Smay has made rather a profitable point at Smaysville, 
 which is in the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 
 31 — near two and a quarter or two and a half miles northwest 
 from Colo. Mr. Smay means business and is doing a fair business, 
 or I am mistaken in the man. But my acquaintance with him will 
 not admit of any other interpretation from me. Among the first 
 settlers of the township I will name Wm. MclJain, on the south- 
 east quarter of section 8, or southwest quarter of section 9; and 
 Owen O’Neil on the west half of the southwest quarter of sec- 
 tion 19. There were probably a few others that might be named 
 as first settlers. 
 
 But must say something more of Wm. McCain. Mr. McCain in 
 1855-’6 was far from any house other than his own. It was a sal- 
 vation or God-send to the traveler in those cold stormy winters of 
 1855-’56-’57-’58 and ’59. It was a dangerous undertaking for 
 those trying to get from Nevada to Clemmen’s grove; or from the 
 grove to Nevada. I think it probable that Mr. McCain’s house 
 was the means of saving some from freezing to death in these 
 
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 205 
 
 History or Stort Coukty, Iowa, 
 
 frightful, horrid snow storms we then had to encounter. Then we 
 did not have any thing between timbers to break the force of the 
 storm, not even grass, for the prairie grass was all burnt off and 
 left the bare ground which did not interfere with the storm. Now 
 we have houses, barns, hedges, groves, fences and stock fields to 
 check Mr. Storm to quite an extent. 
 
 I will return to Mr. Smay and say his creamery and cheese 
 factory are objects of value to that part of the county and should 
 he encouraged. 
 
 Of those who engage in shipping live stock and grain from the 
 township, a few will be named, viz: M. Hopkins, James Hopkins^ 
 John O’Neil and John Reaves. 
 
 The following are some of those of the township who engage in 
 raising stock and grain, and other farmers and citizens who mani- 
 fest energy and life in business, viz: David Danskin, Seymour 
 Hix, John O’Niel, M, Hopkins, James Hopkins, John Reaves, I. 
 Buffington, J. Shammo, E. Sparrow and J. H. McLain. 
 
 NEW ALBANY TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTORY OF HEW ALBANY TOWNSHIP FROM ITS ORGANIZATION 
 TO MARCH 1887. — CONTAINING, ALSO, A NOTICE OF MANY 
 
 OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION, TOWNSHIP, 667; COLO, 264; TOTAL 931. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found a history of the first settlement of 
 New Albany Township. The name, I presume, was a favorite 
 for it. It was organized in 1858 — comprising now only town- 
 ship 83 north, range 21 west. Of the brief items a few were culled 
 from our county papers. 
 
 COLO. 
 
 As the weather has been quite spring like the past week, the 
 farmers being busy putting in their crops, it leaves our town 
 unusually quiet. — (Colo, April 1, 1878.) 
 
 Rev. Long leaves this week for Conference, but returns to preach 
 his farewell sermon, four weeks from last Sabbath. We are sorry 
 to see him leave as he is one of our best men. — (April 4, 1879.) 
 
206 History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Rev. Rosenberger has brought his meeting to a close in Collins 
 Township, which has been a long and successful one. — (April 
 4, 1879.) 
 
 J. W. Kinsell is making preparations to move his old building, 
 on Main street, to make room for a new store he is about to put 
 up.— (April 4, 1879.) 
 
 Fred Norris has taken charge of the place known as the Jona- 
 than Evans farm. — (April 4, 1879.) 
 
 Frank Brown, who has been northwest of Manitoba for the past 
 eight months with a surveying party, returned last week. He re- 
 ports that the thermometer at Winnepeg on the third of Novem- 
 ber pointed to twenty degrees below zero. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Wednesday, W. A. Miller shipped a car of oats to Chicago, and 
 will follow it with another right away. 
 
 William Cozens is building a barn thirty-two by eighteen feet 
 high, just north of town. 
 
 Mr. John Handsaker is erecting a large corn and grain crib on 
 his farm three miles north of town. ^ ' 
 
 Mr. Rahfelt, of North Sherman, is building a large barn on his 
 farm and making improvements generally. 
 
 G-eorge H. Richardson has the contract for building the new 
 church at Johnson’s Grove. It is to be of good size and finished 
 in good style, and he does just that kind of work. P. W. Hopkins 
 furnishes the lumber. — (1885.) 
 
 John R. McCoy has opened up his stock of groceries and is 
 now ready to receive calls from those desiring such goods. 
 
 J. W. Kinsell is arranging to build an addition to his store 
 building of twenty-four feet, and soon expects to have much more 
 room. 
 
 Farmers are very busy and trade is inclined to be dull just at this 
 time. Nights are cool, but no frosts are chronicled as among the 
 things that are. — (Sept. 4, 1885.) 
 
 Humes Cumings has bought an interest in the store of J. W. 
 Ambrose and will remain a citizen here. The firm will be Am- 
 brose & Cumings. 
 
 Mrs. C. W. Gross returned here a few days since and is making 
 arrangements to move to Pipestone, Minnesota. — (1885.) 
 
 Business is good. 
 
 C. V. Norris is fixing up his chicken ranch. He is intending 
 to pay the highest market price for poultry this winter. 
 
Histokt of Story Couktt, Iowa. 
 
 207 
 
 Our post-office will be changed the first of December. Mr. J. R. 
 McCoy having been appointed by the Cleveland administration. 
 John is a good one and deserves his good luck. — (November 18, 
 1885.) 
 
 Colo was burglarized to a considerable extent last Thursday 
 night. The stores of Hulse Brothers, L. C. Adams & Co., and J. 
 H. McCoy were broken into, a small amount of money taken, 
 several valuable papers captured and some articles of merchandise 
 appropriated. The papers referred to have been found. The burg- 
 lars have not yet been apprehended. — (Nov. 25, 1885.) 
 
 Monday was the regular election of municipal officers. The fol- 
 lowing were elected: Mayor, W. A. Miller; Street Commissioner, 
 Mr. Lax; Treasurer, Mr. Heffiy; Alderman, L. C. Adams and J. I. 
 Hostetter . — Nevada Representative. — (1886.) 
 
 J. F. Loucks was in town Monday. He reports that prepara- 
 tions are completed for the building of an United Brethren Church 
 near the southwest corner of New Albany Township. The esti- 
 mated cost is about twelve hundred dollars. The building com- 
 mittee are Messrs Loucks, Rineheart, Torry, Martin and Sawtell, 
 which is a pretty good guarantee that the work will be carefully 
 looked after. The pastor of the society is the Rev. Mr. Lewis, of 
 Toledo, Iowa . — Nevada Representative . — (March 3, 1886.) 
 
 Abner Waltz had his residence, near Colo, burned this week. 
 The loss is about eight hundred dollars . — Nevada Watchman . — 
 (March 12, 1886.) 
 
 Samuel McClure, of New Albany Township, was adjuged insane 
 last Wednesday and was taken to Independence by Sheriff Banks 
 • the same night.— -(March 31, 1886.) 
 
 Colo post-office, it is said, was so named because a dog by that 
 name was run over by a train of cars prior to the survey of the 
 town. John I. Blair gave this incident as the cause of the town 
 being thus named. 
 
 Colo was incorporated March 2, 1876, and it was laid out as a 
 town May, 1865. 
 
 The town of New Albany (now of the past) was laid out in 
 October, 1855, on the west half of the southeast quarter section 18 
 and the east half of the southwest quarter section 18, township 83, 
 range 21. 
 
 The township, “New Albany” took its name, it is presumed, 
 from the town that had been" surveyed three years prior to the 
 organization of the township. It is a township of good soil, yet 
 it has its wet and flat lands is several parts of the township. 
 
 Its first settlers probably were William McGuire, Harvey Dye, 
 John Brouhard, John Waltz, John See, Al. Dalton, etc. 
 
208 
 
 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 I am of the opinion that the La Rue House was built and occu- 
 pied in 1856, by James and Kid La Rue. It was a log house, one 
 and one-half or two stories high, and stood on the northwest quar- 
 ter of section 4, near the north line. 
 
 William McGruire was living in December, 1854, on the west half 
 of the northwest quarter of section 19 — so L believe, as I was there 
 in December, 1854. Harvey Dye, about this time, lived on the east 
 half of the southeast quarter of section 12, and John Brouhard on 
 the west half of the northwest quarter of section 18. W. H. 
 Richardson and George H. Richardson were also among the first 
 settlers of New Albany Township. The town was laid out in 1855, 
 and several families settled in and around it in 1855 and ’56. The 
 west part of the township seemed to be the attraction. The town, 
 however, got its growth by 185T or ’58. It is now one of the 
 things of the past. As early settlers add John McBarnes and 
 Joshua Cooper. 
 
 Ten years after New Albany was laid out, Colo came up. Its 
 history is given elsewhere in New Albany Township. 
 
 The first passenger train reached Colo late in 1863 or early in 
 ’64. It was the first railroad post-office in the county, and the first 
 point to ship from. Stock and grain were shipped from Colo in 
 the latter part of 1863. The station is meant, for Colo was not yet 
 laid off; but in June, 1864, the post-office was called Colo. 
 
 This C. R. & M. R., as it then was called, enters the county in 
 the northeast quarter of section 12. The road now is the Chicago 
 & Northwestern Railway and runs parallel to the section line, cut- 
 ting off just one hundred feet of the south side of the- north tier of 
 the forties of sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, through which the 
 road runs. Mr. W. W. Walker, the Chief Engineer of the road, 
 said he done so, so as to have only half as many to settle with 
 for the right-of-way and damages, as if the center of the road were 
 placed on the line between the forties. 
 
 We now find Colo a brisk, live town. For its business and busi- 
 ness men, see “Directories’"’ in Index. Population in 1880 of Colo 
 was two hundred and ninety-six. The township nine hundred. 
 At this date, 1886, the population will be greater. 
 
 It has one of the best railroads (Chicago & Northwestern,) in the 
 western states, and shipped stock from this point in 1863; and 
 there being then no hotel at Colo, people went to Mr. Joshua Cooper’s 
 to stay over night and get something to eat. 
 
 There is but little native timber in this township — a little in the 
 west quarter of section 18, and a few trees near and around the 
 the west quarter section corner of section 19. 
 
 There are two or three small streams running through the town- 
 ship. The Harvey Dye branch runs through sections 5 and 7 — 
 

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 touching section 6 near its southeast corner and at the south quar- 
 ter section corner of section 6. A branch runs through sections 
 17 and 18, and empties into the Harvey Dye branch. Another 
 branch passing very near the south quarter section corner of sec- 
 tion 19 — then runs northwesterly and leaves section 19 near its 
 west quarter section corner. Also a branch of Clear Creek run- 
 ning from section 10 and through sections 15, 24 and 25 — touch- 
 ing sections 14 and 23 — leaving the county a little north of the 
 southeast corner of section 25. And yet another branch passing 
 from section 16 through sections 21, 22, 27 and 35 — cutting off the 
 southwest corner of section 26, and leaving the township in the 
 southeast quarter of section 35 and flowing into and forming an 
 extensive flat, wet land in section 1, township 82, range 21. 
 
 The township has its school houses all in place except Ho. 3. 
 
 Colo has three or more church buildings — one a Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, costing about $2,000, and a membership of thirty. 
 The M. Protestant Church organization is not very large in mem- 
 bership. They have a church building. The Catholic Church 
 cost $1,100 and was built in 1883. The membership for Colo and 
 Nevada, (or the whole county,) is claimed to be three hundred. 
 
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 Four miles south of Colo there is a United Brethren Church, 
 built in 1886, at which Methodists and United Brethren meet to 
 worship. This church is in the southeast corner of section 30, 
 township 83, range 21, costing $1,200. 
 
 For the business men of Colo (see Directory). Henry Yager is 
 ticket agent. 
 
 It has a cemetery in the north part of the southwest quarter of 
 the northwest quarter of section 9, and is a nice place for it. It 
 was regularly blocked and lotted by survey, and is a short distance 
 east of Colo, For further information, (see “Cemetery” in Index). 
 
 Colo has had eight Mayors since its incorporation, viz: S. L. 
 Bailey, first one, succeeded by P. E. Gfranger, L. Wilkins, I, S. 
 French, W. S. Morgan, P. E. Granger, A. T. Bartlett and W. 
 A. Miller, the present Mayor. Its first postmaster was J, H. 
 Voorhies; its present one is J. R. McCoy. The post-office was 
 established in June, 1864. The town was named in accord with 
 the post-office — Colo. 
 
 Among the shippers of stock and grain from Colo are E. A. 
 Dayton, John Stewart, — Hawley, C. Mead, C. Fish, W. A. Miller„ 
 C. Y. Norris. 
 
 Those who raise stock and feed for sale are Nelson Perry, Henry 
 Trites, E. B. Carver, C. Mead, C. Gearhart, T. Coil, J. Keily, M. 
 O’Donnell, P. Mulcahy, J. Mulcahy, L. Cummings, J. Pekin, 
 Joshua Cooper, George McGibbon, J. T. Graves, P. W. Hopkins, 
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 Histoey of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 W. W. Lincoln, J. Coleman, J. Croker, M. Carmody, J. Reynolds, 
 J. Bvers, S. S. Fawcett, S. P. Rhinetiart, F. Norris, J. Barr, Geo. 
 H. Richardson, Peter Thornton, M. J. Hopkins and H. S. Converse. 
 
 CHRISTMAS. 
 
 Christmas Eve was celebrated, by having a Christmas tree in the 
 M. P. Church, under the auspices of the Union Sunday School. 
 Rev. W. A. Welker delivered a very appropriate address; excellent 
 music was furnished by the choir, with Miss Mary Coady as the 
 capable organist. Rev's. Welker and Gilchrist were each very ap- 
 propriately and kindly remembered by their friends; and each re- 
 quests that due acknowledgments be made for him of his full ap- 
 preciation. — Colo. — (1886.) 
 
 The new M. E. Church was dedicated last Sunday. The sermon 
 was delivered by Rev. W. F. Harneld, of New Jetferson, and there 
 was music furnished by the choir, 
 
 A Methodist Episcopal Sunday School will be organized next 
 Sunday at ten A. m. 
 
 . COLO FIRE. 
 
 Friday evening December 21, just after people had returned 
 home from the Christmas tree, and were admiring the gifts they 
 had received, a fire broke out in the back room occupied b}”^ D. 
 Gumbiner, and owned by Abbott & Kinsely, of Marshalltown. 
 The fire spread very rapidly and destroyed the following property: 
 The building owned by Abbott & Kinsely and occupied by L. C. 
 Adams & Co., General Merchandise, the second story being used for 
 a dancing hall. The next store was used by D. Gumbiner, who 
 was selling bankrupt clothing; next was the building owned by H. 
 Cummings and occupied by W. G. Spratt, restaurant. Then fol- 
 lowed J. M. McArthur’s meat market, R. Corvan’s shoe shop was 
 tore down but not burned. This completed that part of the block 
 which was not burned two years ago. The stock, of which about 
 half was saved, was partly insured. Some of the buildings were 
 not insured. The losses as nearly as can be learned are as follows: 
 L. C, Adams & Co., on stock '$2,500, insurance $2,000; H. Cum- 
 mings, building, $400, no insurance; W. G. Spratt, stock and fix- 
 tures, $100, full insurance; J. M. McArthur, $400, insurance $300; 
 R. Corvan’s shoe shop torn down to save J. W. Kinsell’s store, $50, 
 no insurance. J. W. Kinsell got quite a severe cut on the fore- 
 head, but is getting along nicely. — (1886.) 
 
 Mr. T. Coil on section 17, built a barn in 1886, about forty-five 
 by sixty-four feet, and it is presumed to be a good one. 
 
 Mr. C. Gearhart on section 28, also built a fine barn. Mr. J. 
 Pekin on section 23, built a very good barn. These are new barns; 
 
Histoey of Stoky Couftty, Iowa. 211 
 
 and there are several other good ones in the township that are not 
 old. 
 
 In the way of tiling a great deal has been done lately in New 
 Albany Township. 
 
 There are several of the citizens who engage in raising fine hogs 
 and other good stock. 
 
 As a township, mark New Albany one of . the good ones. 
 
 NEVADA TOWNSHIP. 
 
 # 
 
 A HISTOEY OF HEVADA TOWHSHIP FEOM 1853 TO MAECH, 1887. 
 COHTAIN-IHG, ALSO, A FTOTICB OF MAHY OF ITS CITIZEIsrS. 
 
 POPULATION IN 1884 — TOWNSHIP 637, Neyada 1,540—2,177. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found, also, a history of its early settlements. 
 It received its name, “ Nevada” because of its being a favorite name 
 taken from the range of mountains in California called “ Sierra 
 Nevada.” The township was first organized in 1853, comprising 
 now only township 83 north, range 22 west. Nevada (town or city) 
 was incorporated in November, 1869. 
 
 Of the brief items a few were culled from our county papers. 
 
 A Caed. — The W. C. T. U. will open a reading room on Monday 
 evening, December 3, in the front room of the building occupied 
 by Mrs. Foster. Grentlemen residing in Nevada and those stopping 
 over night or only for a few hours are cordially invited to spend 
 their evenings at our reading rooms. Respectfully, 
 
 (Nov. 26, 1879.) W. C. T. U. of Nevada. 
 
 Miss Julia Prouty met with almost a fatal accident last week by 
 falling upon a butcher knife in her own hands. The knife entered 
 over the heart, striking a rib it glanced upward, missing her heart, 
 thereby saving her life. Rumor says it was an attempt at suicide. 
 Doctor Farrar is in attendance with hopes of a speedy recovery. 
 —(Oct. 2, 1878.) 
 
 The first daily mail for Nevada commenced soon after the 
 fifteenth of February, 1884. The first passenger train came to 
 
212 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Nevada from tlie east, July 4, 1864. The first telegraph office at 
 Nevada was about the third of August, 1864. The first American 
 Express office at Nevada was about December 30, 1863. Was 
 incorporated November, 1869. 
 
 THE BOARDMAN BUILDING. 
 
 In the late fall, Boardman Brothers decided to put up a building 
 adapted to and commensurate with their extensive and constantly 
 increasing business. With their characteristic energy the struc- 
 ture has been pushed to rapid completion, and in sixty days from 
 the time the excavations for the foundations were begun, the last 
 brick was laid. 
 
 The building is a substantial brick and makes a fine appearance. 
 It has a frontage of fifty feet, a depth of one hundred, and a total 
 height from foundation to top of cornice of over fifty feet. The 
 basement is divided into two rooms longitudinally. The north half 
 is again divided transversely into two rooms twenty-five by fifty 
 feet each. This part of the basement is also made into a complete 
 refrigerator in the following manner: Bight feet from the ground- 
 floor is laid a water-tight iron floor. The compartment thus formed 
 between this floor and the floor of the first story constitutes an ice 
 chamber. By an ingenious yet simple arrangement air is made te 
 pass over ice placed in this chamber and then throughout the 
 rooms beneath it, making not only the ice compartment, but the 
 whole north half of the basement a perfect refrigerator. This part 
 of the basement is to be used for pickling or liming eggs. The 
 vats in which the pickling is to be done are of brick and altogether 
 will have a capacity for 300,000 dozens of eggs. 
 
 The south half of the basement is divided into three rooms. 
 The front one, twenty-five by forty feet, is to be used as the butter 
 room. The middle room, twenty-five by twenty, with side door, is 
 the receiving room. The rear room, twenty-five by forty, is the 
 freezing room for poultry. This is the room where the patent 
 freezers — capable of freezing poultry in any weather, are to be put 
 in operation. 
 
 On the first floor, which is well up from the walk, in the southwest 
 corner, is located the office room, twenty by twenty. Back of the 
 office with side doors are two rooms, one for receiving and the other 
 for handling and candling eggs. The north side of the first floor 
 is used for storage of return butter barrels, egg cases, and for salt 
 which is bought by the car-load. And at this point it might 
 be well to add that Boardman Brothers use, and are agents for 
 Ashton’s celebrated dairy salt, of which there is none better in the 
 markets of the world. 
 
 The second floor is in one room fifty by one hundred, and is 
 intended for general storage of butter tubs, egg cases, etc., used for 
 shipping purposes, and also for a work room where knocked down 
 egg cases and poultry boxes, received by car-loads, are put together. 
 An ice house, thirty by sixty, with an elevation of twenty feet, and 
 
Histoet oe Stoey County, Iowa, 213 
 
 with a capacity of six hundred tons of ice has just been constructed 
 in the rear of the main building. The cost of grounds and build- 
 ings will not fall much short of $10,000, The town and county 
 as well as the Messrs, Boardman are to be congratulated on the 
 successful completion of this building enterprise. 
 
 But we must look beyond even this manifestation of thrift and 
 energy in order to get a just idea of the wide range of business car- 
 ried on by the comparatively young men composing this firm. 
 They have $5,000 creameries at Roland and Cambridge, with facili- 
 ties for manufacturing, at each, 2,500 pounds of butter per day. 
 A large number of hogs are also fattened at the creameries. Last 
 year they handled 700,000 pounds of ladled or reworked butter at 
 an average cost of sixteen cents per pound, and manufactured 
 125,000 pounds of creamery butter at a cost of twenty-five cents a 
 pound. Their egg purchases footed up 200,000 dozens at an aver- 
 age cost of fifteen cents, and their poultry 228,000 pounds, or ten 
 •car-loads at a total cost of $25,000; while their disbursements for 
 corn amounted to about $70,000. They furnish steady employ- 
 ment in their butter, egg and creamery business to thirty men, and 
 during the poultry season to twenty-five more. They are now pre- 
 pared for a live poultry campaign, and already are dressing turkeys, 
 ■chickens, ducks, and geese at Nevada, Roland, Story City, Carroll 
 and Union, and are buying at all the principal central Iowa 
 :stations on the Northwestern and Milwaukee railroads. — (Nevada 
 Be;presentative^ Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Since the above account of the Boardman Brothers’ fine brick 
 block and business was given, they have made some costly addi- 
 tions to the interior and exterior parts of their building. It is 
 believed now its value is not less than $12,000 or $13,000. They 
 are doing an immense business. — (March 1, 1887.) 
 
 CLOSING. 
 
 This issue of the Watchman is the last for the year 1882. The 
 next issue will be in the year 1883. The future of Nevada and 
 Story county is well assured and a lengthy account of its natural 
 progress is unnecessary. Story county, it is well known, is one of 
 the best counties in the state, and is filled with live towns, among 
 which may be named Nevada, Ames, Story Cit}^ Colo, Cambridge, 
 Maxwell, Zearing, Collins, Roland, besides others that are worthy 
 of more than a passing notice. Every town in the county has 
 added greatly to its population and prospects, and only words 
 of encouragement and assistance can be given. Buildings have 
 been erected in every part of the county, and the farm houses that 
 now adorn the landscape make a pleasant sight to all that view it. 
 To particularize is almost useless, as it would simply be a recapitu- 
 lation of what has been in our columns during the year. Suffice 
 it to say that the stride made during the year throughout the 
 county is far a head of what could have been anticipated at the 
 opening of the year. New farms with comfortable dwellings, and 
 

 214 Histoet oe Stoet Couistty, Iowa. 
 
 large additions to all towns have been made, indicating thrift and 
 prosperity, even though the crops were not of the best. The 
 coming year will also see still farther advancement, and the day is 
 not far distant when the county of Story will not take a second 
 place in* Central Iowa. • 
 
 Of the towns in the county there are many we should like to 
 particularize more closely, but are compelled to let the correspond- 
 ents from them do so. In the case of Nevada the two fires did 
 much damage for the time, but the ground has almost all been 
 regained, and the new buildings really make it far ahead of what 
 it has ever been before. The new blocks of last year do not appro- 
 priately belong to this, although none of them were really com- 
 pleted until the present year. Of the present year’s we shall only 
 refer briefiy to the more prominent buildings. The first in order 
 we shall notice the addition to the school building, which has been 
 finished and furnished at a cost of not far from $10,000. It is 
 brick throughout and furnished in the best of style, and town and 
 county may well be proud of the educational edifice of the capital 
 of Story County. The grade of school is as high as an average 
 academy, there being a principal, assisted by nine teachers, and the 
 number of scholars enrolled reaches over 400. It is heated by 
 steam, and all the modern appliances have been furnished. Pupils 
 are in attendance from various parts of the county, and it stands in 
 high repute. 
 
 The city has erected a city building on their lot on corner of Oak 
 and Fifth streets, which is to be used for the council meetings, 
 engine house and all purposes needed by the city, including space 
 for a city library. The building, of course, is of brick and an orna- 
 ment to the county. On the business street Boardman Brothers 
 have erected a two story brick building for their butter, egg and 
 poultry business, at an expense of more than $12,000. Messrs. 
 White & Bamberger and Miss M. A. Bamberger have erected a 
 brick business block on the corner of Linn and Sixth streets, and 
 have just completed the store rooms, which are now occupied by 
 Messrs White & Bamberger for hardware stock, in one room, and 
 by Miss Bamberger, with her millinery stock, and Mr. Dayton with 
 his jewelry store in the other. The upper rooms are to be occupied 
 as lodge rooms and offices. 
 
 Fourteen cars of Mormons, mostly Scandinavians, passed through 
 Nevada the morning of the fourth bound for Salt Lake City. 
 — (July 11, 1883.) 
 
 STEEETS OE ETEVADA ILLUMIETATED. 
 
 The city authorities have caused to be placed along the principal 
 streets fifteen large lamps to enlighten the citizens on dark and 
 gloomy nights. This is “ putting on city style,’"’ hut is a style of 
 usefulness. It is not only useful, but makes things “ brilliant.”' 
 — (January, 1887.) 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 215 
 
 BUEIAL PEEMITS. 
 
 The State Board of Health, in a recent circular says: “There 
 appears to be an erroneous impression among physicians regarding 
 the regulations for burial permits. Physicians under these regula- 
 tions will use the same blank forms for return of deaths, and pro- 
 cure their supply from the county clerk, as heretofore. Instead of 
 delivering these returns to the county clerk they are to be deliv- 
 ered, on application, to the undertaker or person having charge 
 of the burial. The undertaker or person having charge of the 
 burial must deliver the certificate or return of death to the city 
 clerk or recorder, who will thereupon issue a burial permit, and not 
 otherwise. The city clerk will deliver the physician’s certificate of 
 death to the county clerk. These regulations apply only to deaths 
 occurring within cities and towns. For deaths occurring outside 
 of cities and town limits the physician’s return must be made to the 
 county clerk. — (Nov. 5, 1884.) 
 
 MEMBEES OF NEVADA CHUECHES AND CIVICS, FOE SEPTEMBEE, 1886. 
 
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 members of the M. E. Church 130 
 
 “ “ N. S. Presbyterians. 45 
 
 “ “ Baptists 30 
 
 “ “ Evangelical Lutherans at Nevada .......' 31 
 
 “ “ “ “ “ Johnson’s drove 44 
 
 “ “ Cumberland Presbyterians, three miles 
 
 southeast of Nevada 50 
 
 Catholics in the county about 300 
 
 members of the Seventh day Adventists — 
 
 “ “ Evangelists — 
 
 “ “ Evangelical church, 3|^ miles se. Nevada. . . — 
 
 “ “ Legion of Honor 27 
 
 “ “ Knights of Pythias. 40 
 
 “ “ I. 0. 0. F. (order about 68 years old) 52 
 
 “ “ Masonic Order 85 
 
 “ “ A. 0. U. W 43 
 
 “ “ Gf. A. B. (Jason D. Ferguson Post No. 31). 80 
 
 “ “ Chapter 3x3, No. 92 R. A. M. Convocates. — 
 
 NEVADA. 
 
 The improvements in Nevada the present season have not been 
 as great as we could have desired, yet the list below shows there 
 has been no stand still. It will be seen that thousands of dollars 
 have been spent in this town alone. While no business building 
 has been erected the past season, there are indications that at least 
 two blocks — three if not four rooms — will be added to our present 
 substantial ones the coming summer, and thus aid in making the 
 town more important, and we shall refer to them at length as soon 
 as they are beyond the embryotic stage. The list below is com- 
 posed of new residences, and of substantial improvements as indi- 
 
216 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 cated. If any have been omitted it is unintentional and we shall 
 be pleased to hear from them: 
 
 T. E. Alderman & Son, barn |3,000 
 
 I, A. Ringheim, house and barn 2,000 
 
 J ohn Boyd, new dwelling • 1,000 
 
 W. P. Payne, repairing dwelling 500 
 
 Col. Scott, repairing dwelling 500 
 
 Wingert & Co., chicken ranch 300 
 
 Lyman White, repairing dwelling 50 
 
 E. S. Bamberger, repairing dwelling 100 
 
 Mrs. Henry Baily, new house 600 
 
 Isaac W alker, barn 300 
 
 G. W. Ambrose, repairing residence 500 
 
 Lyman & Co., tile factory 1,000 
 
 Lars Hanson, addition , . . 200 
 
 Almond Ashford, addition to dwelling 700 
 
 Jeff. Lyman, addition 300 
 
 Wm. Hansell, foundry repairs 300 
 
 Wm. Lyman, on residence 200 
 
 W. Johnson, on residence 200 
 
 A. M. Norris, on residence 250 
 
 Boardman Brothers 300 
 
 Samuel Bates, on houses. 250 
 
 George Child, on residence 250 
 
 Court-house 1,000 
 
 Dr. Munk, on residence 200 
 
 Dr. Bunce, on residence 100 
 
 E. S. Bamberger, on residence 200 
 
 Jack Worsley, stable 200 
 
 T. R. Leonard, addition to house 50 
 
 Wes. Wood, stable 100 
 
 D. P. Billings, repairing residence 100 
 
 Z. Shugart, addition to stable 50 
 
 Mrs. George W. Payne, on residence 50 
 
 T. E. Alderman, north s. r. r. res - 100 
 
 Ed. Hague, hennery 100 
 
 J. A. Fitchpatrick, on residence 100 
 
 Mrs. Monahan, on residence 50 
 
 M. C. Allen, on residence 100 
 
 S. E. Briggs, on residence 100 
 
 Wm. Lockridge, on residence 200 
 
 Mary Hague, on residence 50 
 
 Henry McIntosh, on stable 100 
 
 S. S. Statler, on residence 100 
 
 Frank Curtiss, on dwelling 100 
 
 Wra. Moran, on residence 100 
 
 J. W. Almy, hennery 200 
 
 Total.... $16,250 
 
 — (Nevada Watchman^ Dec. 31, 1886.) 
 
Histoet Stokt County, Iowa. 
 
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 VALUE OF BUSINESS BLOCKS. 
 
 Ringheim block $16,000 
 
 National Bank block.... 
 
 High School building 22,000 
 
 White & Bamberger building 10,000 
 
 Patton building 13,800 
 
 Union (Zwilling & Hawthorn) building 18,000 
 
 Q. W. Boyd & Co. building 5,500 
 
 Gillespie building 6,500 
 
 Ballou building 3,500 
 
 Alderman building 3,200 
 
 Otis Briggs building 13,000 
 
 Ray building 10,700 
 
 Boardman Brothers building 10,000 
 
 Gallup building 4,500 
 
 Opera Hall building 13^000 
 
 Withey & Hawthorn building. 
 
 City Hall building 3,500 
 
 The Court-house was built in 1875-6, and cost, when finished, 
 over $40,000. With its new dressing (painted to show the appear- 
 ance of Milwaukee brick) it is a beautiful structure. The sceneries 
 over town and county from its tower are very delightful on a clear 
 day. Every citizen of our county should share in seeing this 
 scenery. It is heated by a steam heating apparatus, which makes 
 the rooms comfortable. It stands on a beautiful though modest ele- 
 vation. The square on which it stands is 280 feet by 140. There 
 is yet a balance on the court-house bonds unpaid of over $10,000. 
 There has been lack of assessments or the bonds would have been 
 paid by this date. 
 
 The High School building is a nice brick building, and will 
 accommodate some 600 or 650 scholars. The entire cost of it has 
 been about $22,000, and is on block five. Mills’ addition to Nevada. 
 This is a most beautiful elevation for such purpose. 
 
 The City Library contains near 1,400 volumes; the best public 
 library in the county. 
 
 For the business men of Nevada see index for “Directory.” 
 
 The Township of Nevada is one of the interesting townships of 
 the county. The precise center of the county is 101^ rods north 
 and fifty-eight rods west from the northwest corner of Burris’ 
 addition to Nevada. Nevada was laid out in August, 1853, thirty- 
 three and a half years ago; and was selected us the county seat by 
 commissioners appointed for the purpose. Its early settlers are 
 named in preceding pages, but I will add a few more, viz: W. W. 
 Utterback, Samuel McDaniel, Adolphus Prouty, John S. Thomas, 
 Barnabas Lowell^ Joseph P. Robinson, Lewis Appelgate, Jacob 
 Hefier, R. H. Robinson, W. E. Aldredge, J. C. Aldredge, Amariah 
 Mullen, W. R. Robinson, C. B. Dean, Shelby Baker, A. Dins- 
 more, J . C. Hempstead, and others of the township. In the village 
 
218 Histoky of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 were: T. E. Alderman, J. H. McLain, Dr. N. A. Kellogg, E. G. 
 Day, T. J. Adamson, D. J. Norris, Thos. Westlake, W. K. Smith, 
 J. J. Bell, Allen Bell, J. N. Moore, Simon Moore, Austin Prouty, 
 A. Bales, John Hail, I. Bomane, James Hawthorn, John Scott, 
 Wm. Lockridge, J. C. Lovell, J. C. Moss, D. Child, George Child, 
 Chester Child, Roy Child, J. H. Talbott, R. H. Mitchell, James S. 
 Frazier, Charles Berry, C. D. Berry, Isaac Walker, Wils. Daily. 
 S S. Webb, J. L. Dana, W. G. Allen, J. W. Cessna, John Parker, 
 Ellis Armstrong, R. D. Coldren, J. R. Meyers, ^d others. These 
 came, all of them, or nearly all, prior to 1857. The C. & N . W. R. 
 R. road passes through sections 12, 11, 10, 3, 4, 5 and 6, enter- 
 ing the east line at the center of the northeast quarter of sec- 
 tion 12, or the south line of said railroad enters at center of said 
 northeast quarter of section 12. The road leaves the west line of 
 the township at or near the center of the west line of the south- 
 west quarter of section 6, passing along the center of Tenth street 
 in Nevada. 
 
 The first passenger train on this road reached Nevada, July 
 4, 1864. 
 
 The two principal streams are East Indian creek and the West 
 Indian. These Indians get together in section 16 in Indian Creek 
 township, and they make Big Indian creek. The East Indian 
 enters the north line of section 2, east of the north quarter section 
 corner of section 2. Then this Indian passes through sections 
 2, 10, 14, 23, 27 and 34, touching sections 11, 26 and 33, leaving the 
 township a little east of the south quarter section corner of section 
 33. The West Indian enters the township about fifty rods north 
 of the west quarter section corner of section 7, then passing 
 through sections 7, 18, 19, 29, 30 and 31, leaving the township 
 about sixty rods west of the south quarter section corner of sec- 
 tion 31. The Harvey Dye branch enters tbe township near the 
 northeast corner of section 12, passing througli townships 12 and 
 13, and empties into the East Indian in the southeast quarter 
 of section 14. 
 
 For a description of the mills refer to “Mills” in index. 
 
 There are two elevators in Nevada that seem to do good service. 
 
 There are two tile factories that are surely doing a big business. 
 See index for “ Tile Factories.” 
 
 There are three brick yards, but at this time are not doing a 
 heavy business. 
 
 The Boardman Brothers are probably doing the most extensive 
 poultry, egg and butter business (buying and shipping) of any other 
 house in central Iowa. See preceding pages for business heretofore 
 and a description of their building. Here are the figures for their 
 
 present business: 
 
 No. pounds of butter shipped in 1886 700,000 
 
 ‘‘ “ “ poultry shipped during 1886 500,000 
 
 “ dozen eggs shipped during 1886 700,000 
 
 
Histoey of Stokt County, Iowa. 
 
 21 
 
 No, men employed in egg and butter business during season 20 
 
 “ “ in the creameries during the season 75 
 
 “ “ “ during the poultry season 150 
 
 This gives employment to more men in the county and elsewhere 
 than any other one business of our county. 
 
 CHURCH BUILDINGS OF NEVADA. 
 
 The first church built in Nevada was a Cumberland Presbyterian 
 church and stood on a modest elevation near the center of lot nine, 
 block P, in Scott’s addition to Nevada. It was one of the first 
 buildings for church purposes built in the county. 
 
 The brick church, a Baptist church, was built about the same 
 time, say in 1857, in Iowa Center. This Cumberland church was 
 taken down a number of years ago, and the timbers taken away, 
 I find, by referring to a brief history of this church and the “Union 
 Meeting” that had been held in it, written in 1866, that the build- 
 ing was still in its place at that date. I will here say more of the 
 “ Union Meeting” that was held in this church in May, 1861. It 
 was held to test the feelings more definitely of the citizens of our 
 county on the “ state of affairs.” The startling news had reached 
 us of the rebels firing on the Star of the West, and then on Fort 
 Sumpter. Port Sumpter, after being bombarded for two or three 
 days, surrendered April 14, 1861, and the brave Major Anderson 
 and his men became prisoners — made prisoners by those fighting 
 against their own countrymen and their own country. Such news 
 reaching us of course was exciting. The meeting was called by 
 consent of both parties here, and it was large and harmonious and 
 patriotic. See preceding pages. 
 
 The N. S. Presbyterian church was built in 1866 on lot three, 
 block sixteen, a cosy church. 
 
 The M. B. church was built about 1867, costing about $4,000 or 
 $5,000. It is the largest church in the city and will seat a large 
 number of people. It was built on lots four and five, block 
 thirteen. 
 
 The Baptist church was built about 1881-82 on lot nine, block 
 G, Stewart’s addition, and is a handsome building, and has twenty- 
 seven members. 
 
 The Evangelical Lutheran church was finished mainly in 1885, 
 and has thirty-one members. It is, with the parsonage, situated on 
 lots two and three, block three. Mills’ addition. This church is 
 convenient and has the most taste in its finish of any other in 
 Nevada. Is not quite so roomy as the M. E. church. This Luth- 
 eran church and the parsonage cost about $3,500. The Lutherans 
 have a good church building at Johnson’s Grove, and membership 
 there of about forty-four. 
 
 The Catholic church was built about 1870, costing about $1,280, 
 on lot seven, block thirty-nine. The priest. Father Murphy, 
 although a young man, lives at Nevada, the only resident priest in 
 Story County. Has services at Colo occasionally, for they have a 
 church building there costing $1,100. 
 
 ( 
 
220 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 There is an Advent church building, but it is not used much. It 
 is said the Advent members hold their meetings most of the time 
 elsewhere. 
 
 The Cumberland Presbyterians now have a very nice church 
 house, three and a half miles southeasterly from Nevada. It is 
 standing near to the southeast corner of section sixteen, Nevada 
 Township. It cost about |1,000, and was erected about 1881. 
 Members belonging are about fifty. 
 
 There is an Evangelical church one-half mile south of the Cum- 
 berland Presbyterian church at Mullen cemetery. 
 
 For church services, etc., see “ Directories’'' in index. 
 
 The court-house square, block seventeen, is nicely fenced with 
 iron pickets. This square has been called the North Public Square. 
 The South Public Square is now our city park. It has been im- 
 proved until it is the beauty and pride of the citizens of Nevada; 
 especially in a hot day, or for evening promenading. 
 
 The City Hall is a fine brick building with a balcony and bell, 
 and is about twenty-four by fifty-six feet, and has a very good hall, 
 and apartments below for the fire engine, hose cart and other pur- 
 poses. The hall is used for the city council meetings and other 
 meetings. The city elections are held in a side room of the hall. 
 
 The city library, containing about 1,350 volumes is in an addition 
 built purposely for it. The library is under the care of the libra- 
 rian, Miss Mattie Kellogg, now Mrs. Mattie Dyer, who will see that 
 things are kept right. 
 
 The City Hall is on the southeast corner of lot nine, block thir- 
 teen, Nevada. 
 
 COUNTY JAIL. 
 
 When we speak of the jail it is with shame! To think males 
 and females are forced to occupy the same room, or about the same 
 thing really, is ridiculous! This for a county of civilization, as we 
 claim to be, is a little too much. Also, the idea of thrusting a 
 young boy among old hardened villains; a boy, perhaps, who had 
 for the first time, under some undue temptation, become intoxi- 
 cated, or committed some other small offense. Such boy, for such 
 first offence, to be confined among such hardened villains, is almost 
 beyond endurance! The Fejee Islanders would not, could not, 
 excel it. A jail should have apartments suitable to the crime and 
 the sex. This said jail, too, stands only a few rods from one of the 
 beautiful court-houses of Iowa! The jail could be properly 
 arranged without extraordinary expense. Why is it not done? 
 
 In the history of Nevada, as touching the survey and location of 
 the C. It. & Missouri River R. R. (now the Chicago & Northwest- 
 ern R. R.) the following may be of some interest to many of our 
 citizens, viz: On the fifteenth of May, 1863, the county by vote 
 gave the swamp lands, or what were yet belonging to the county, 
 with the understanding the railroad should be located within 3,000 
 feet of the court-house. The road was located within the distance 
 required, but very little was said about the depot. The citizens, of 
 
 
Histoet of Stoey Couetty, Iowa. 221 
 
 •. course, presumed the station would be located in Nevada, but Mr. 
 T. E. Alderman urged the contract should insure us the station. 
 
 _ The company, after the lands were given them, sprung the ques- 
 tion of the duty of the citizens to contribute $400, or forty acres of 
 land for depot grounds. The $400 demand was urged by the rail- 
 road company. Well, during the summer of 1863, the thing 
 seemed to lie dormant or nearly so. During the fall of 1863 it 
 became a question in which we were very much interested in the 
 location of the station. The company insisted on the $400. Citi- 
 zens became interested enough to raise by subscription over $300 
 during the fall and early winter. So it dragged along and the 
 rumor was getting out over the country that Nevada was going to 
 lose the depot, and that it would be located about one and a half 
 or two miles west of Nevada on lands given to the railroad by the 
 county. In those days I was acquainted with W. W. Walker, the 
 chief engineer of the road and the business man of the company. 
 I concluded to write Mr. Walker in regard to what they were 
 going to do in the matter, and to give him the best turn I could, 
 pleasantly, however. The following extract from his reply to me 
 will show some of the cause for delay: 
 
 “Des Moie-es, Feb. 13, ’64.— W. Gr. Allen, Esq: Dear Sir—Yoxxv 
 favor of the eighth was duly received, but I have not had time 
 until now to reply. I do not differ materially from your views of 
 the matter, except as to your people having doneVhat they ought 
 in proportion to their means. * * * All I can say is that I 
 
 have gone to the_ utmost extent of the responsibility I am willing 
 to assume in letting your people slide on without fulfilling only 
 one single condition of the understanding and agreement which 
 induced the company to undertake last spring to push the road 
 westward, and the condition you did fulfill did not cost you any- 
 thing. * * * delay of your people in settling this matter 
 
 is an inconvenience to the company as well as an injury to the 
 place. Warner told me last week that he wanted to comrnence his 
 well wherever the station was to be, and whether he is now at it or 
 where I do not know, but it will make no difference with the final 
 settlement of this question. Your people can quickly settle it by 
 raising the $400, and if they refuse, it will go to the executive com- 
 mittee as I shall go no further in the matter without some authority 
 to do so. In haste, yours truly, W. W. Walkee.^’ 
 
 Well, the answer to my letter of the eighth of February, 1864, 
 was, as above quoted, received about February thirteenth or four- 
 teenth, 1864, and at once Major Hawthorn, .0. B. Letson, E. B. 
 Potter, and perhaps others, were called together to determine what 
 was the best thing to do. As only fifty dollars were lacking to 
 make up the $400, we determined to add to what we had previously 
 subscribed; and as the Major was a good worker we thought he 
 would soon work it up when the citizens could know what had to 
 be done. Well, in a very few hours he raised the residue and 
 reported to Mr. Walker the result. Just as soon as the mail could 
 
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 come, a letter from Mr. Walker put his Mr. Warner to work for 
 the Nevada station. This removed all further doubts, and the sta- 
 tion became a fixed historical fact for Nevada in February, 1864. 
 
 I will now name some of the principal shippers of stock and 
 grain at Nevada, at least those that live near Nevada: N. Dunkle- 
 barger & Son, Frank Curtiss, T. W. Kelley & Brother, Will Moran, 
 Geo. W. Sowers & Son, LaFayette McKim, George Stultz, Charles 
 Minkler, A. M. Norris, R. J. Silliman, E. W. Lockwood & Son. 
 
 Will name some of the live and stirring farmers and stock raisers 
 of the township; F. A. McLain, Isaac Walker, W. R. Finley, 
 Wm. Fultz, Zacariah Shugart, H. H. Robinson, F. & J. Halley, 
 
 G. W. Halley, H. 0. Ayers, S. M. White, C. W. Wells, J. M. Wells, 
 James W. Cook, G. W. Wireman, William Mathews, Golden, 
 Finley, Delos Applegate, Mrs. J. R. Fetterholf, Thomas Whitaker, 
 D. J. Whitaker, E. F. Farrington, 0. G. Ashford, Thos. Ashford, 
 Oliver Stevenson, John Connolly, W. H. Baker, W. W. Utterback, 
 Chas. Selby, Caleb Winger, L^ngdon Drake, H. Bailey, J. M. 
 Hague, E. Bates, Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Joor, Mrs. M. A. Martin. 
 
 Those in Nevada who own and farm lands out, are, in part, 
 
 H. Boynton, T. C. McCall, Col. Scott, T.E. Alderman, J. S. Frazier, 
 
 N. Dunklebarger & Son, J. D. Ferner, J. C. Mitchell, R. H. Mitch- 
 ell, M. C. Alleif, J. Hawthorn, J. Fegtley, I. A. Ringham, 
 
 O. Briggs, Geo. Childs, Lyman & Son, J. W. Ambrose, A. M. Nor- 
 ris, G. W. Halley, A. E. Hempstead, Geo. M. Barnes, J . Dillon, 
 J. W. Cessna, etc. 
 
 LIST OP NEVADA MAYORS. 
 
 Nevada was incorporated in November, 1869. 
 of the Council was November 23, 1869. 
 
 First Mayor, George A. Kellogg, 1869. 
 
 
 Second 
 Third 
 Fourth 
 Fifth 
 Sixth 
 Seventh 
 Eighth 
 Ninth 
 Tenth 
 
 Eleventh “ 
 Twelfth “ 
 Thirteenth “ 
 Fourteenth “ 
 Fifteenth “ 
 Sixteenth “ 
 Seventeenth^ 
 Eighteenth “ 
 
 E. ET. Potter, 1870. 
 
 J. H. Talbott, 1871. 
 
 J. H. Talbott, 1872. 
 
 D. H. McCord, 1873. 
 
 J. L. Dana, 1874. 
 
 J. Hawthorn, 1875. 
 
 J. Hawthorn, 1876. 
 George A, Kellogg, 1877. 
 William Lockridge, 1878. 
 William Lockridge, 1879. 
 William Lockridge, 1880. 
 
 E. D. Fenn, 1881. 
 
 J. A. Fitchpatrick, 1882. 
 H. M. Funson, 1883. 
 
 F. D. Thompson, 1884. 
 
 F. D. Thompson, 1885. 
 William Gates, 1886. 
 
 The first meeting 
 

 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 LIST OF NEVADA POSTMASTERS. 
 
 T. E. Alderman, first P. M. 1853. Otis Briggs, 
 
 Austin Prouty. E. D. Fenn. 
 
 W. E. Aldredge. L. Irwin. 
 
 James Hawthorn. John Beatty. 
 
 W. C. Allen. T. J. Ross. 
 
 J. S. Blickensderfer. E. D. Fenn, Jatnuary, 1887. 
 
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 GRANT TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTORY OF GRANT TOWNSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, 
 ORANIZATION, ETC., TO MARCH 1887 — CONTAINING ALSO A 
 NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION OF GRANT TOWNSHIP 622. 
 
 This Township was named in honor o£ General Ulyssus Simpson 
 Grant, one of the great military chieftains of the world. It was 
 organized in 1867 — comprising township 83 north and range 23 
 west of 5th p. M. 
 
 Grant Township is a fair average of soil and its citizens seem to 
 be enterprising people generally. Among its first settlers may be 
 named Jerry Marks, James Mathews, — Rynard, W. B. Womack, 
 George C. Harrison, Joshua Harrison, W. W. Spring, Jeremiah 
 Pressnall, George Green, A. P. Fitch, Nathaniel Appelgate, N. C. 
 Minre, William Tichenor, Lewis Mercer, Noah Berry, George 
 Wheeler, Hymen Halleck and W. C. Shockly. 
 
 This township has some fiat lands, but most of them are along 
 Skunk River and not quite so easily drained as some other fiat 
 lands. There is a great deal of tile draining being done and it of 
 course is making the lands more productive, and more valuable. 
 There are two principal streams and some smaller ones touching 
 fW' and running through the township. 
 
 Skunk River comes in on the west line of the northwest quarter 
 of section 19; then passing down through the west half of the 
 southwest quarter of section 19, passing on and near the township 
 line for nearly three-fourths of a mile till it reaches the west quar- 
 ter section corner of section 30. Here it takes a southeasterly 
 
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 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 course, crossing tlie south line of section 30 some sixty or seventy 
 rods east of the south quarter section corner of spction 30. It then 
 passes southerly through the west half of the east half of section 31, 
 leaving the township some seventy or eighty rods west of the south- 
 east corner of section 31. West Indian Creek enters the township 
 at the north quarter section corner of section 1, then passes south- 
 easterly through section 1, and the northeast quarter of section 12, 
 leaving section 12 some fifty rods north of the east quarter section 
 corner of section 12. There is a small creek called Spring Creek 
 running from section 23 through section 25, and the east part of 
 section 36, crossing the township line some fifty or sixty rods south 
 of east quarter section corner of section 36, and empties into. West 
 Indian Creek some one hundred rods east of the southeast corner of 
 section 36. This little creek has a number of springs and springy 
 places along it. 
 
 There is but little native timber in Girant Township — a little on 
 sections 19, 30 and 31. There were once a few trees on section 12. 
 That on section 12 has about all disappeared except some under- 
 growth. 
 
 This township has a number of good farmers in it and other en- 
 ergetic citizens. Some I will name, viz: 0. K. Alderman, Daniel 
 Philips, Martin Switzer, Joshua Harrison, W. W. Spring, A. A. 
 Humphrey, P. D. Humphrey, W. R. Mason, J. C. Mason, Thos, M. 
 Gossard, Jesse Dinsmore, Bert. Corrington, J. M. Whitney, J. C. 
 Haughsted, Ole C. Haughsted, Benjamin Everets, James Mathews, 
 L. Kingsbury, Henry Kingsbury, Benjamin Kingsbury, Geo. W. 
 Hempstock, W. 0. Wilson, IST. A. Cole, D. R. Brown, P, Lacy, E. 
 Pierce, W. Hardy, Malary Daily, S. H. Beckwith, — Holdridge, M, 
 Spencer, Lem Blood, G. T. Sherwood, W. V. Kyle, J. W. Mathews, 
 Pat Moran, E. Cooper, Hiram Taylor, C. Mills, Jacob Erb, J. M. 
 Storm, H. Nichols, G. Proctor, Henry Banks, C. Barber, Al. Strat- 
 ton, — Sutherland and W. H. Stevens. 
 
 The school houses are not yet placed so as to make regular dis- 
 tricts two miles square. This township has a very fair nursery in 
 it. Mr. A. A. Humphrey is its proprietor. He furnishes nearly 
 all kinds of fruit trees, such as are commonly cultivated in Story 
 County, for transplanting. He has evergreens, grapes, etc. Also 
 is engaged pretty extensively in strawberry culture as well as 
 grapes. It may be that this nursery is not second to any other in 
 the county. This nursery is situated on the north half of the. 
 northeast quarter section 10. 
 
 The garden of Mn James Blackman is in Grant, and is on the 
 south half of the southeast quarter of section 1. This garden does 
 quite an extensive trade. Being so near Nevada that the citizens 
 .and business men cheerfully encourage it. 
 
 Messrs Lyman & Co’s tile factory and brick yard are adjoining 
 Mr. Blackman’s garden. The Chicago & Northwestern railway 
 runs between them. 
 
Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 225 
 
 The Datton Farm, (now T. B. Alderman & Son,) is in Grrant 
 Township and probably when minutely considered is the most val- 
 uable farm in the county. There are about nine hundred and sixty 
 acres in it, all in one body. It is being thoroughly drained by til- 
 ing. A very large and commodious brick building, standing on a 
 beautiful elevation, was built some three or four years ago by Mr. 
 Dutton which cost about $4,700, and the three barns, one of which 
 is one of the good ones of the county, with other valuable improve- 
 ments in the vicinity, will swell the amount to about $8,000. Then 
 add to it the value of nine hundred and sixty acres of land at not 
 less than twenty-five dollars per acre, and it sums up to about 
 $32,000. This is a noble showing for Story County, and will be 
 hard to beat. 
 
 Having already said something of Mr. Alderman’s farm I must 
 now say more about it. He has just finished a new barn, 
 more valuable than the one burnt July 3, 1886, and which occurred 
 since my first description of the farm. This barn just completed, 
 (December 1886,) cost about $1,600. It has a heavy stone base- 
 ment story and will hold, it is claimed, forty horses placed in regu- 
 lar order. The barn is forty-two by seventy feet — covering 2,940 
 square feet of ground. Posts twenty-four feet and work well done; 
 and still there are barns in the county covering more ground. He 
 has another one twenty-four by one hundred feet with a stone 
 basement sixteen feet post, covering 2,400 square feet. A third 
 one thirty-six by sixty feet, but does not have a stone basement. 
 He has yet two other barns on the premises. When viewing barns 
 and a splendid brick residence, the view of the group is that of 
 quite a village. Mr. Alderman expects to have a large well so as 
 to furnish water, by pipes or otherwise, to all his barn yards for 
 stock purposes. The water is to be raised by windmill power and 
 thrown into the pipe or conductor so the water can reach the barn 
 yard. 
 
 He has also a contract with a party to tile-ditch nine thousand 
 rods of tiling on this nine hundred and sixty acre farm, much of it 
 is already done. When all are considered it is the most valuable 
 farm in Story County. 
 
 _ Yet as good a barn as the new one is Mr. William Grolden, of In- 
 dian Creek Township, can beat it, I now believe. Mr. Colden’s is 
 octagonel in shape — covering about 3,824 square feet of ground, 
 with a magnificent stone basement. It has a nice spire started for 
 the clouds. It is, however, described elsewhere. It is surely class 
 one as is Mr. Alderman’s. Mr. M. Erickson^ near Roland, de- 
 scribed in the history of Howard Township, has one of the fine 
 barns of the county. It is thirty-two by one hundred and thirty- 
 two and covers 4,224 square feet, and is high No. 1. 
 
 I am aware there are many valuable barns, dwellings, etc., in 
 Story County I could not get round to see — yes many. 
 
 But I must say good for T. E. Alderman— the old settler— he 
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 who built the first house in Nevada, September 8, 1853, and moved 
 
 into it October 11, 1853, j r. 
 
 The first child born in Nevada, and the first to die, was a daugi- 
 ter of Mr. Alderman’s, whom he named “Mary Nevada. Mr. 
 Joseph M. Thrift, of Boone County, who had been one of the 
 locating commissioners of the county seat for Story County, also 
 named a daughter of his “Sierra Nevada. These two gentlemen 
 surely admired the name “Nevada,” as was verified by each naming 
 a daughter by that name. Mr. Alderman’s daughter, Mary 
 Nevada,” died December 16, 1854— thirty-two years ago. 
 
 WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. 
 
 * 
 
 A HISTOEY OF WASHUTOTOlSr TOWFTSHIP FEOM ITS OEGANIZATION" 
 AND SETTLEMENT TO MAECH 1887 — CONTAINING, ALSO, 
 
 A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, 821 ) 
 
 AMES IMCOEPOEATION, 1317 f 2138. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found, also a history of the first settlement of 
 Washington Township. Its name, “Washington,” was given in 
 honor of General George Washington, first President of the 
 United States. “First in War, first in Peace and first in the hearts 
 of his Countrymen.” It is a name familiar with all Americans. 
 Washington Township was organized in 1854— comprising now 
 only township 83 north, range 24 west. The brief items were, in 
 part, culled from our county papers. 
 
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 AMES ITEMS. 
 
 The post-office has been removed to the new brick, erected es- 
 pecially for it, when completed it will be one of the neatest and 
 most convenient offices in Iowa. (June 5, 18 i 8.) 
 
 During the last three weeks grain and stock have been loaded at 
 Ames station, at an average of seventeen cars per day. 
 
 We glean from the Intelligencer. 
 
 Adjudged Insane. — For several weeks past the family and 
 friends of Mr. John G. Drey have noticed, with solicitude and 
 
Histoey oe Stoey Couhty, Iowa, 
 
 227 
 
 alarm, tliafc he was devoloping symptoms of insanity. It was 
 hoped that these would soon wear away and that John would be 
 himself again in a very short time. From the start, however, he 
 has grown worse. His ways and actions at first being only a little 
 eratic, grew to be alarming, for the welfare and life of his family 
 and friends are jeopardized by his personal liberty during the ten 
 days previous to Tuesday evening. On Monday of the current 
 week he made two attempts on his own life. On Tuesday the 
 county authorities were called to sit on his case and he was ad- 
 judged insane; on Wednesday morning he was taken to the State 
 Asylum for the Insane. — Intelligencer . — (April 20, 1881.) 
 
 THE IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
 
 Professor Thompson, of the Nebraska Agricultural College, re- 
 cently visited our Agricultural College and writes as follows of the 
 farm and stock: 
 
 “The sessions of the association are held at the Iowa Agricul- 
 tural College. And every day two or three hours are devoted by the 
 study of the buildings, stock and crops of the college. The 
 College is now keeping Poland-China swine, Clydesdale horses, 
 ShorUhorn and Holstein cattle. The Holstein cattle are very fine, 
 in some points the finest I have ever seen. Among them are some 
 good milkers, yet there is one native cow in the dairy, that gives 
 more milk than the best Holstein. 
 
 “Some of our friends in Nebraska who think our college farm 
 large, may be interested to know that the farm of this college con- 
 tains eight hundred and forty acres, and they are to buy one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres more. This institution is doing much more in 
 the way of teaching agriculture than formerly, and the drift now 
 seems set strongly in that direction. The board of trustees were 
 in session and from conversation with some of them, I learn that it 
 is their settled determination to make it truly an agricultural and 
 mechanical college, and not merely a scientific school with an agri- 
 cultural attachment. — (August 23, 1882). 
 
 • 
 
 The Chicago & Northwestern Company has notified the authori- 
 ties that it, the company, will proceed at once to grade up for more 
 side-track room south of the new freight house, and suggests that 
 the city sewer be extended south of the contemplated track. The 
 suggestion will be complied with at once . — Ames Intelligencer. 
 
 During the thunder storm of Saturday night last the barn of 
 William McMichael was struck by lightning, 'and a pair of horses, 
 which were in the barn, killed. Very little damage was done the 
 building, as the current hit the northwest corner, tearing off but 
 one board. The principal part of the charge grounded outside 
 of the barn. 
 
 About the same time, during the same storm, the house of J. T. 
 Shepherd, of Lafayette Township, was struck, and both Mr. and 
 
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 228 History of ‘Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Mrs. Shepherd considerably injured. Mr. Shepherd was rendered 
 senseless by the shock for nearly .twenty minutes, and up to Mon- 
 day of this week experienced considerable difficulty in breathing. 
 
 M rs. Shepherd was knocked down and somewhat injured by brick 
 falling from the chimney, besides being badly burned by the 
 lightning. The house was not materially injured. — (August lb, 
 1882). 
 
 Monday evening during the storm the house of Will Staves, and 
 a dwelling owned by W. D. Lucas, occupied by a Mr. Peterson, 
 were struck but not much damaged, and none of the inmates hurt. 
 
 A discharge came down, too, in the north part of the city, striking 
 the fence near Charlie Taylor’s house. — (August 16, 1882.) 
 
 Ames has begun rebuilding the burned district. 
 
 We wanted to sit out of doors and sun ourselves the few sun- 
 shiny days of last week. 
 
 Brown, the clothing man, has a big lot of hat cases on his side 
 walk just in from market. 
 
 The absorbing question is, when will the Supreme Court re-open 
 the Amendment case? — (March 7, 1883.) 
 
 James A. Bain, of the Southern Hotel, Cedar Rapids, and 
 formerly proprietor of the old New York House here, was found 
 dead in an out house, Friday evening, at six o’clock. The Coroner 
 was notified and a post-mortem examination was made by 
 Fairchild, assisted by Dr. Merideth, Saturday afternoon. The 
 coroner’s jury gave a verdict of death "from an overdose^ of chloral 
 — taken by himself, with no intention to commit suicide, and a . 
 diseased state of the heart. His body was taken to Tecumseh, for 
 interment. 
 
 I. L. Smith, J. A. Mills, C. G. McCarthy, F. D. Thompson, L. 
 
 W. King and George Child, of Nevada, were in town Sunday to 
 attend the funeral of Uncle Tommy Jones. Mr. Jones died Fri- 
 day morning in the eightieth year of his age. The funeral was at 
 the Baptist Church af 2 p. m. Sunday, under the charge 
 sonic fraternity. The interment was at Ontario. — (May 30, 1883.) 
 
 The Intelligencer speaking of the retirement of Mrs. Lucas from 
 the Ames post-office pays her the following deserved compliment: 
 "She proved herself, in the long years that she filled the position, an 
 efficient and obliging officer — certainly without a superior in the 
 State. She takes with her, in her retirement, the esteem of a host 
 of warm friends, who will remember her with many pleasant 
 recollections.” — (Nov. 5, 1884. 
 
 George H. Maxwell, of Ames, arrived home Saturday night from 
 France, bringing with him four fine Percheron stallions. He came 
 by way of the State Fair where, notwithstanding they had been 
 
 
Histoet oe Stoey County, Iowa. 229 
 
 three weeks enroute, one of them took the red ribbon. He will 
 have them all on, exhibition at the County Fair. — (Sept. 9, 1885.) 
 
 On Friday night burglars tried to get into the safe in the 
 freight office here, but were frightened away before they got any 
 booty. The safe was badly used and a new one will be needed. — 
 (Sept. 11, 1885.) 
 
 IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
 
 Commencement exercises will be held on Wednesday, November 
 11. The present class will outnumber any that has yet graduated. 
 Quite a marked change has been made in the courses of study, 
 making the Junior and Senior years almost entirely elective with a 
 fixed minimum and maximum amount of work. Other changes have 
 been made and some new studies added. Altogether it will be a de- 
 cided improvement and of great advantage to the students. 
 
 Last Sunday Mrs. Julia 'Ward Howe lectured on “Human Ap- 
 pearance, Experience and Influence.” Her lecture was highly ap- 
 preciated and all feel grateful to President Hunt for taking advan- 
 tage of the opportunity to secure this address. 
 
 Our batallion and band, under the direction of Captain Lincoln, 
 visited Boone last Friday and took part in the sham battle. 
 
 Yesterday morning, between three and four o’clock, the alarm of 
 fire was given, and it was soon discovered that the hog barn was on 
 fire and under such headway that nothing could be done to save it. 
 
 Kilbourn, the photographer, from Marshalltown, visited the Iowa 
 Agricultural College again and took some very fine pictures of our 
 good looking (?) Seniors. We hope next time he comes he will 
 take the mustaches that grace the Junior class. 
 
 The erection of a Ladies’ Boarding Hall is one of the improve- 
 ments now being contemplated. Admission cards for ’86 are 
 already issued to more students than can possibly be accommodated 
 by the present capacity . — Ames Intelligencer. — (Oct. 21, 1885.) 
 
 Final examinations are now the order of the day. 
 
 The Baccalaureate sermon will be preached next Sunday; Class 
 Day exercises will be held next Tuesday afternoon, and Commence- 
 ment Wednesday following. 
 
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 The Senior session and graduation, of the Agricultural Society, 
 was a marked success. The establishment of this society, with 
 museum and library was the first enterprise of the kind in the 
 West and that it should be so successful is highly gratifying to our 
 agriculturists. 
 
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 Contest; W. B. Hunter taking second place, and Miss Molten 
 third. The orations, taken as a whole, were exceptionally good, 
 and three speakers were a tie for first place. 
 
 President Hunt will organize farmers reading clubs over the 
 State this winter . — Ames Intelligencer. — (Nov. 4, 1885.) 
 
 NOTES OF THE LATE FIRE. 
 
 The Barroll building is in ruins. The west wall of the Brown 
 building fell on it and mashed it into kindling wood. We under- 
 stand that Mr. Barroll had about ^300 insurance on it. 
 
 There was no insurance on Mr. William Hulitt’s building. We 
 were in error in stating last week that it was insured. 
 
 Mr. Rogers has moved his shoe shop into the Peterman building, . 
 
 adjoining the Barroll ruins. ^ n i mi t 
 
 Miss Dix occupies the west room of the Cook block. I he Insur- 
 ance companies paid her $96 for damage to her stock of goods. 
 
 The Thomas Brothers are in the old Sisson & Creen store room. 
 They received $675 for damage to stock. 
 
 Bigelow & Huntington obtained $200 for damage to the west 
 wall of their block, and D. A. Bigelow & Co. $60 for damage to 
 stiock 
 
 The Booth and Brown insurance has not been adjusted yet. 
 
 Miss Dix had a ton and a half of hard coal in her cellar when 
 burnt out, which is still burning. , 
 
 The Telephone Company has done nothing yet to repair its lines. 
 It is rumored the company will take out its instruments in Ames 
 and remove its lines. We hope not. 
 
 Insurance on the property destroyed was as follows: 
 
 On K. W. Brown’s building— $1,000 in State; $1,000 in Mon- 
 arch; $500 in Globe; all of Des Moines, A. P. Condit, Agent. On 
 stock— $2,500 in Sun Fire, London; $1,000 in State; $1,000 in 
 
 Globe; A. P. Condit, Agent. . tt n tvt o 
 
 On the Booth building, $1,000 m the Home. C. M. Soper, 
 
 ^ M^ss Dix— on stock $1,500 in Des Moines, M. Hemstreet, Agent. 
 
 On the Thomas building — $1,000 in the Des Moines and $1,000 
 in the Home; on the stock, $1,100 in the Home. 
 
 Bigelow & Huntington— on building, $3,000 in the Underwriters 
 and $2,000 in the North American, M. tiemstreet. Agent. 
 
 $500 on store fixtures in Sun Fire, London, A. P. Condit, Agent. 
 D. A. Bigelow & Co.— on stock $2,000 in the Phoenix and $3,000 
 in the Home, C. M. Soper, Agent; $2,000 in North British and 
 $2,000 in Continental, M. Hemstreet, Agent; $500 on store fixtures 
 in the Sun Fire.— (January 28, 1886.) 
 
 The Agricultural College opened yesterday for the year . — Nevada 
 Representative . — (February 22, 1886.) 
 
 The Ames High School graduated ten girls and boys Friday 
 evening. The young ladies were tastefully dressed in calico. T 
 
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 History of Story County;, Iowa. 
 
 was a display of good sense, as commendable as it was rare, and in 
 pleasing contrast with the extravagance which is becoming quite 
 too conspicous a feature of High School commencement days.— 
 Nevada Representative. — (March 31, 1886.) 
 
 Captain John E. Duncan and wife arrived in the city Saturday 
 of last week and are visiting friends and relatives. They are the 
 guests of F. C. Duncan and John Bray. They will remain in the 
 city several days. Captain Duncan came to Darlington in 1861. 
 He served in the army with honor and distinction and was for sev- 
 eral years editor of the Republican and has many warm friends in 
 this county. — Darlington Republican. — (June, 1886.) 
 
 A very painful and distressing accident occurred on Tuesday last, 
 about 2 o’clock, p. m., to the little four year old son of Mr. and 
 Mrs. A. E. Burgess, of Ames. By some means the little fellow 
 procured a number of matches and went out to the lawn to play. 
 A few minutes after the servant girl was attracted to the spot by 
 the piercing cries of the child, whose clothing she found in flames. 
 Seizing the sufferer she hastened with him to a tub of water, in 
 which she immersed him and extinguished the flames. Upon ex- 
 amination his right leg, side, arm and back were found severely 
 burned, parts of the sHn sloughing off. Dr. Plumb dressed the 
 child’s injuries, and at the present writing (Wednesday) he is rest- 
 ing comfortably, and has a good prospect of recovering. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Burgess were not at home at the time of the accident. The 
 girl who rescued the boy was severely burned on the hands. — (July 
 22, 1886.) 
 
 Thursday last several boys went duck hunting and communi- 
 cated fire to Mr. Cole’s fence, destroying a portion of it, and also 
 consuming eight tons of hay for the Widow Baker. How would 
 it do to make the boys pay "for the damage done? It might in the 
 end prove a valuable lesson to them. There is too much careless- 
 ness — probably lawlessness is a better word to use among some 
 young men, who need one or two wholesome lessons to make them 
 respect the rights of others.— Ames Intelligencer. — (October 28, 
 1886.) 
 
 The Public Library is in the room above Maxwell & Son’s, and is 
 now ready for public use. Citizens can have the use of the books 
 by calling on the librarian.— (Ames, November 4, 1886.) 
 
 AMES. 
 
 Ames was laid out in 1864, plat and deed of lands for the public 
 use filed for record January, 1865, and was incorporated in 1869. 
 It was named “Arnes’^ in honor of Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, 
 and in return for this Mr. Ames, donated to the Congregational 
 Society a fine bell for their church building. The lots on which 
 the building stands were donafted to the society by John I. Blair, 
 
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 232 liiSTOET OP Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 of New Jersey, and W. W. Walker, of Iowa, accompanied by a 
 gift of 130,000 in money to aid in the construction of the building. 
 These donations were greatfully acknowledged. 
 
 About this time, or prior, Mr. Blair, also, donated grounds to 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church Society upon which a church 
 building was to be erected. Rev. J. R. Williams, of Indiana, gave 
 $100 to aid in the building of the church. Many others of Ames 
 and vicinity, also, made generous donations for this object. 
 
 In July, 1868, the Baptist Society was organized. Fourteen per- 
 sons were in the organization at first. They now have a good 
 church building and a membership of one hundred and twenty-five; 
 at Kellj^ twenty-five members. The Methodist Episcopal Society 
 was organized in 1862, in the township, consisting at first of only 
 six members. They afterwards built a fair church building, as 
 well as a good society in Ames. The membership now numbers 
 two hundred, November, 1886. The Congregational Society was 
 organized November, 1865, with a membership of nine persons. 
 They now number one hundred and fifty members and have a good 
 church building. The Episcopalians and Disciples have no regular 
 church building in Ames. For futher information as to church 
 service, see the Church Directory. 
 
 There is a new church house, built in 1886, in the southwest cor- 
 ner of the northwest quarter of section 25, township 83, range 24. 
 This is “a United Brethren Church.” Is three and a half miles 
 south of Ames. 
 
 Hon. William West was the first mayor of Ames, but soon re- 
 signed and was succeeded by W. D. Lucas, Esq. See Ames Direc- 
 tory for the year 1886. 
 
 THE PRESS. 
 
 The Weekly Intelligencer^ a live paper, was first published by 
 Mr. A. McFadden, an experienced newspaper publisher and editor. 
 Its first issue was about April, 1868 — nineteen years ago — and is 
 still being published. J. E. Duncan, Esq., is editor and propri- 
 etor, and gets up an excellent paper. 
 
 The Monitor^ a weekly paper, commenced in August, 1885, pub- 
 lished by E. W. Clark, who died March 20, 1886, but it ceased be- 
 ing published in August, 1886. The Monitor made a very good 
 appearance. The Aurora^ a monthly paper, published at the Iowa 
 Agricultural College, was commenced some fifteen years ago. 
 
 Ames is a point of considerable railroad stir in freighting and 
 passenger interest. It is surely a lively place when different pas- 
 senger trains arrive in connection with each other. The Cedar Rapids 
 and Missouri River Railroad was located through the central part 
 of Story County, east and west, in 1863. Therefore Colo, Nevada, 
 Ames and Ontario are situated on this road. The road now is 
 known as the Chicago & Northwestern road; and surely is one of 
 the best business roads in the western states. At nearly right-an- 
 
History Story County, Iowa. 
 
 233 
 
 gles the Des Moines & Minnesota road crosses the Northwestern at 
 Ames. These roads so accommodate as to have passenger trains 
 connect here, so passengers can take trains for the south, north, 
 east or west, with but little delay. On return to Ames, the passen- 
 ger can generally, with but little delay, return north, south, east or 
 west, as may be desired. 
 
 • There are fourteen passenger trains passing through Ames daily 
 at this time, and about — regular freight trains. The Hes Moines 
 & Minnesota Railroad passes north from Ames through Franklin 
 and Lafayette Townships — passing through Gilbert station and 
 Story City. Going south from Ames the road passes southwesterly 
 through Washington and Palestine Townships — passing through 
 Kelly and Sheldahl — crossing the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 
 Railroad nearly one mile and a half north of Sheldahl at what is 
 called Sheldahl crossing. 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING OF AMES. 
 
 It cost about $16,000; has six apartments, and will accommodate 
 about three hundred and seventy-five scholars. It is three stories 
 high, including the basement. It is a good looking brick building 
 and arranged in the different departments for comfort and conven- 
 ience. The building rests on a strong stone basement foundation. It 
 has what some would call four fronts, at least that part above the 
 square indicates it. It has a fine tower containing a well toned 
 bell. The house was built about 1880 or 1881, and is an ornament 
 to Ames. This structure would make a better showing were it on 
 a nice elevation. 
 
 VALUE OF BRICK BUILDINGS OR BLOCKS IN AMES. 
 
 Bigelow & Tilden’s brick block $12,000 
 
 Opera block 12,000 
 
 High School Building 16,000 
 
 City Hall...; 1,350 
 
 Giles Cook brick blocks, first one on corner (south side of 
 
 Onondaga street,) 5,000 
 
 Giles Cook brick blocks, next east Onondaga street, 3,000 
 
 D. Cramblet ........... 3,000 
 
 Mrs. W. S. Bradley 3,900 
 
 W. M. Greeley... 2,500 
 
 Samuel Lucas’ heirs (posUoffice building) 2,500 
 
 T. K. Soper, (south side Onondaga street) 4,000 
 
 M. Pheney, “ “ 3,000 
 
 I. B. Frazee, “ “ 3,000 
 
 M. Matson, “ “ 4,000 
 
 The following is a list of improvements made in Ames during 
 the past year,f rom which it will be seen that there has been a consider- 
 

 
 
 
 234 Histoey of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 able amount of money spent in the good work of beautifying and 
 adorning the town. If any have been omitted if they will notify 
 
 us we will make the addition: 
 
 C. G. Ives, residence $2,500 
 
 J. S. Brooks, residence 2,000 
 
 H. M. Templeton, addition 1,000 
 
 • Ames City Hall 1,35(X 
 
 Cal. Giddings, addition 300 
 
 W. G. Wright, addition 400 
 
 J. L. Stevens, addition 750 
 
 A. Perkins, addition 150 
 
 J. L. Bartlett, addition ^ 200 
 
 Mrs. L. M. Bosworth, addition 500 
 
 William Greeley 150 
 
 Charles Hamilton, addition 175 
 
 William Paxton, addition 100 
 
 G. G. Tilden, addition 100 
 
 Total • $9,675 
 
 The principal street has been improved at great expense and 
 made good. 
 
 The Ames Flouring Mill was burnt in 1881, and was rebuilt in 
 1882, by Haverly and Banning, its present owners, assisted by citi- 
 zens. 
 
 There is one elevator here, and is owned by Henry Wilson. 
 
 There are three hotels: the “West House,” kept by Wm. West; 
 the “Lawton House,” kept by Mr. Little; the “Kaynor House,” 
 kept by Kaynor & Son. 
 
 The press here, the “Intelligencer office,” owned and conducted 
 by Capt. J. E. Duncan, gives us a good paper. The work is done, 
 (the main portion of it,) by steam power. We have a steam power 
 press in Nevada, worked by Bev. Isaiah Reid, in doing the press- 
 work on his paper The Highway. These two steam power presses 
 are the only ones of the kind in Story County. 
 
 Ames has an excellent water tank, furnishing abundance of 
 water. 
 
 The Northwestern station house is a plain building, but com- 
 fortable for waiting passengers. 
 
 The new railroad warehouse, about two years old, is a good build- 
 ing and is south of the station. 
 
 The school houses of Washington Township have all taken reg- 
 ular order, with few exceptions. 
 
 The business of Ames, Kelley and New Philadelphia will be 
 found by refering to Directories in the Index. 
 
Histoey of Stoey Couhty, Iowa. 
 
 235 
 
 This township was settled in early times. Among the early 
 settlers may be named, viz: Shadrick Worrall, Harvey Lewellen, 
 Morgan Keltner, Mr. Yest, Mr. Luther, A. H. Beadle, Lot Loving, 
 C. and E. Thurman, W. H. Poster, Ed. McKenzie, W. C. Shockly, 
 Amos Simmons, Henry and Cyrus Simmons, John Bracken, Gr. H.. 
 Crossley, I. H. Rees, W. J. Grraham, Mr. — Walker, Mr. Gr. Scott, 
 Calvary Ross, Mr. S. Coffelt, S. M. Corey, W. W. Spring, Mr. — 
 Eastlick. 
 
 The first frame school house built in the county, as claimed, was 
 located in the northeast corner of section 1, township 82, range 24, 
 and was the renowned “Walnut drove School House,” built in 
 1854—5. 
 
 Washington Township has three towns: Ames, Kelley and New 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 At the last named town there is but little doing. It was laid 
 out in 1856. 
 
 Kelley is a small town but has life about it, and is in the midst 
 of a good country. It is situated on the southwest quarter of the 
 southeast quarter of section 32, was laid ojff in 1875. 
 
 The town “Collegeton,” was laid off in 1863 but was not recorded. 
 It would have been recorded if the railroad had been located on the 
 south line of the Agricultural farm. Mr. W. J. Graham, who had 
 worked so faithfully for the location of the farm felt pretty sure 
 of the final location of the road on the south line of the farm so 
 sure I surveyed the town for him. He offered the Railroad Com- 
 pany sixteen or twenty acres of ground free for depot grounds in 
 case of its location on said south line. Mr. W. W. Walker and 
 others examined, with care, this route, but it was finally rejected. 
 Had it been located on said line Ames would not have been laid qff, 
 but it would have been Graham’s Town — “Collegeton.” This Col- 
 legeton was on the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of 
 section 9, and directly south of the College building and not eighty 
 rods distant. 
 
 There are several branches beside Skunk River, (Chicaqua,) that 
 pass through parts of the township: Squaw Fork, Worrall Branch, 
 Walnut Creek, Luther Branch, (and not Clear Creek). Luther 
 Creek was its original name and not Clear Creek. The Clear 
 Creek of Story County is in Collins Township. In early times 
 there was a Mr. Luther living on or near this, creek, and in Luther 
 Grove. For groves see the index “Groves.’^ This Luther Creek 
 enters the township east of the northwest corner of section 6, pass- 
 ing through 6, to a point near the northwest quarter section corner 
 of section 6, then southeasterly through section 6, and then easterly 
 through section 5, and then northeasterly through the northwest 
 quarter of section 4, and empties into Squaw Fork some forty or 
 fifty rods north of the north quarter section corner of section 3. 
 
236 
 
 Histoet op Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 For a description of the Tile Factory on this creek, and its busi- 
 ness, see in index, Tile Factories. And for Mills, see Mills in index; 
 and for Groves see index. 
 
 There once was some good native growth timber in Luther 
 Grove, Worrall Grove, Walnut Grove and some along Skunk River 
 and Squaw Fork. It has been disappearing yearly; but to more 
 than recompence this, artificial groves are dotting the prairie farms 
 all over the township. Squaw has but little timber. Walnut and 
 Worrall Groves once had some very good timber in them. 
 
 West of Walnut Grove is the town of Kelley. A Tile factory is 
 there and an elevator. 
 
 There are two or more cemeteries in Washington Township, one 
 at Ames and on the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of 
 section 2. One at New Philadelphia, the oldest one, situated on 
 the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 5. They 
 are on nicely elevated land. 
 
 Mr. P. L. Porter, who several years lived close to and west of the 
 College, did quite a brisk trade in the creamery business, and 
 brick making. J ohn McDougall was first in the brick manufactory. 
 The manager now is Mr. J. M. Stark who is doing a good business 
 in tile manufactory. Mr. Stark has the experience and should 
 know how to do good work. Mr, Stark calls the creek on which 
 the tile is made. Clear Creek. Its original and correct name is 
 “Luther Creek,” This discrepancy, however, will not harm the 
 work done. 
 
 IOWA STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND FARM. 
 
 This farm was located June 21, 1859, on the west half of section 
 3, the east half of section 4, and the east half of the west half of 
 section 4, township 83 north, range 24 west of 5th P, M. — contain- 
 ing six hundred and forty-eight acres. The first Board of Trus- 
 tees appointed under the act, consisted of the following gentlemen: 
 Timothy Day, John Wright, G.. W. F, Sherwin, Richard Gaines, 
 Suel Foster, J. W. Henderson, E* 0. Day, John Pattee, Peter 
 Melendy, Gov. R. P, Lowe, William Duane Wilson and M. W. 
 Robinson. 
 
 In order to secure this farm Story County proposed to donate 
 $10,000 in bonds; the citizens of Story and Boone Counties gave 
 in notes and subscriptions $5,340, and nine hundred and eighty-one 
 acres of land deeded and bonded in Story and Boone Counties. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found an account of the efforts made, moneys 
 and lands donated, to secure its location in Story County; also the 
 vote on the expediency of the county donating $10,000 for the lo- 
 cation. 
 
 After this farm was located in Story County, the College received 
 
237 
 
 Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 in donations from that and Boone County, and by individual con- 
 tributions in those counties, the amounts named above, including 
 the Story County bonds for $10,000. 
 
 Appropriations made by the State have been as follows: In the 
 act establishing an Agricultural College, passed by the “Seventh 
 General Assembly” in 1858^ there were appropriated by the State, 
 viz: 
 
 For the purchase and improvement of land $10,000 
 
 For the benefit of the College, and the proceeds of the 
 sale of five sections of land, known as Capital Lands 
 estimated 16,000 
 
 The total previous to the Congressional grant . . 
 
 In compliance with the conditions of the 
 Congressional Land Grant, there have 
 been appropriated by the State the fol- 
 lowing sums: 
 
 1862, by the Ninth General Assembly, ex- 
 tra session. Sept. 11. For location of Con- 
 gressional Grant .... $ 1,000 
 
 In 1861, by Tenth General Assembly, March 
 22, to aid in the erection of the College 
 
 building 
 
 In 1866, by Eleventh General Assembly, 
 
 April 2, for completing College building. 
 
 In 1868, April 3, by ^Twelfth General 
 Assembly : 
 
 For heating and cooking apparatus 
 
 For Professors’ houses 
 
 For water, clocks and bell 
 
 For out buildings and ornamental 
 
 grounds. . 
 
 For extra work on College building 
 
 For use of farm and other purposes .... 
 April 8, for completing College building . 
 
 In 1870, April 13, by Thirteenth General 
 Assembly: • 
 
 10,000 
 
 12,000 
 
 2,000 
 
 1,000 
 
 3,000 
 
 9,750 
 
 10,000 
 
 For extending and completing wings of 
 
 College building 50,000 
 
 For building and completing laboratory . 5,000 
 
 For erection and completion of work shop 5,000 
 
 For erection of gas house • 500 
 
 For farm improvements 2,000 
 
 For seeds and plants for experimental 
 
 grounds 
 
 For tile draining 1,000 
 
 For professors’ dwelling house $ 4,500 
 
 $26,000 
 
 $20,000 
 
 91,000 
 
 47,750 
 
 $68,500 
 
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 Histoet op Story Coukty, Iowa 
 
 Total appropriation since Congressional 
 
 Land Grant $228,250 
 
 Add previous appropriations 26,000 
 
 Total appropriations made since founding 
 
 of College (April, 1870,) $254,250 
 
 The appropriations made since the above 
 date, (1870,) and up to May 1, 1886, 
 amount to nearly or quite $211,400 
 
 Making a grand total of appropriations of $465,650 
 
 There were at the late session of the College nearly or quite 
 three hundred students. 
 
 The endowment fund of the College consists (1870) of 204,309 
 acres of land, embracing all which was received by the State under 
 the Congressional Land Grant. (The Congressional Grant in July, 
 1862, to Iowa was 240,000 acres of land. At a special session in 
 September, 1862, Iowa accepted the grant.) • 
 
 The scheme of leasing the lands was approved by the Legislature 
 and passed into a law which authorizes the trustees to lease for a 
 term of ten years any of the endowment lands. The lessee, by the 
 terms of the act, pays annually, in advance, eight per cent interest 
 on the appraised value of the land, with a right to purchase at the 
 expiration of the lease. In the case of failure in the prompt pay- 
 ment of the interest when due, the land with all improvements re- 
 verts to the College. 
 
 It is deemed right and proper to insert here the text of the spec- 
 ial act of our Legislature forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors 
 within two miles of the College. The following is the act: '‘Be it 
 enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, that from 
 and after the Fourth of July next, no person shall open, maintain, or 
 conduct any shop or other place for the sale of wine, beer or spirit- 
 ous liquors, or sell the same at any place within the distance of two 
 miles from the Agricultural College, in Story County; provided, 
 that the same may be sold for sacramental, mechanical, medicinal, 
 or culinary purposes. 
 
 Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be punished, 
 on conviction by any court of competent jurisdiction, by a line not 
 exceeding fifty dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment in the 
 county jail for a time not exceeding thirty days, or by both such 
 fine and imprisonment. Approved, April 7, 1868.” 
 
 This law has the hearty approval of all good citizens. 
 
Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 241 
 
 “THE GOLLEHE BUILDINGS.” 
 
 The main building, which contains the dormitories, recitation, 
 rooms, chapel, library, museum, etc., is 157 by 61 feet on the 
 ground and four stories high, with a basement for dining room, 
 kitchen, store-rooms, etc. It is located in the center of an enclo- 
 sure of 190 acres, which contains the vegetable garden, vineyard, 
 orchard, nursery, ornamental grounds, and various buildings be- 
 longing to the College. Two new wings of the main building, for 
 which the legislature of 1870 appropriated $50,000, are being con- 
 structed, and will be ready for occupation in the spring of 1872. 
 
 The present building supplies dormitories for one hundred and 
 sixty students. When the wings are added it will accommodate 
 two hundred and twenty. 
 
 West of the College building are the work shops and laboratory; 
 the former a wooden building furnished with suitable tools, and 
 containing a steam engine, which drives various machines for laun- 
 dry and other purposes; the latter a brick structure sixty by thirty 
 feet, with one story for students in analytical chemistry, and a base- 
 ment which furnishes apparatus and lecture rooms, for general 
 chemistry and physics. Southward from the College at proper dis- 
 tances from each other, are three professors’ houses built of brick — 
 one being in process of construction. 
 
 “ornamental grounds” 
 
 ^ The grounds in the vicinity of the College building have been 
 laid out with care, and ornamented with lawns, shrubbery and 
 trees. _ A broad terrace immediately in front is bordered with 
 flowering plants and shrubs. 
 
 * * * “The course of instruction in said College shall include 
 
 the following branches, to-wit: Natural Philosophy, Chemistry 
 Botany, Horticulture, Fruit growing. Forestry, Geology, Mineral- 
 ogy, Animal and Vegetable Anatomy, Heterology, Entomology, 
 Zoology, Veterinary Art, Plane Mensuration, Leveling, Surveying, 
 Book-keeping and such Mechanical Arts as are directly connected 
 with Agriculture; and also such other studies as the trustees may, 
 from time to time, prescribe not inconsistant with the purposes of 
 the act.” 
 
 “All students, without regard to pecuniary circumstances, are 
 therefore obliged to perform manual labor as an essential part of 
 College education and discipline and training.” 
 
 ^ * “Nothing is more conclusively settled than that those 
 
 students who are most studious and industrious in class, work the 
 most efiiciently, and are the most trust worthy in the performance 
 of their daily work.” 
 
 “By law each representative district is entitled to send one per- 
 son for each member in the General Assembly. Candidates for ad- 
 mission should, when possible, make application through the Super- 
 intendent of Common Schools for their county, and his certificate 
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 242 History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 of good character and scholarship will give preference over other 
 applicants equally deserving. Students are required to work not 
 less than two hours in winter, and three in summer, and each stm 
 dent will receive compensation therefore, and no student shall be 
 exempt from such labor, except in case of sickness or other inabil- 
 ity. They are paid for their labor at its value to the College, the 
 rate per hour varying from three to nine cents. Students pay act- 
 ual cost for board, fires, lights, laundry, use of musical instruments, 
 damages to the property of the College, when caused by themselves, 
 a fair part of the chemicals consumed by themselves, care and gen- 
 eral repairs of the College buildings and furniture, and for such 
 other incidental expenses as especially belong to them as a body. 
 Students pay nothing for tuition and rent, nor for the general ex- 
 penses of the College. They will, each one, be required to deposit 
 ten dollars with the cashier, on entering the College, as security 
 for the payment of his bills.” 
 
 “Students supply themselves with bedding and towels, and with 
 carpets, if they desire them. All other furniture, including mat- 
 tresses, is supplied by the College. A fair estimate for a year may 
 be set down as follows; 
 
 “For board thirty-six weeks, at $3 per week, $108 $108 
 
 “For laundry from 5 to 15 
 
 “For fire and lights 9 9 
 
 “For repairs and incidental expenses 9.00 9.00 
 
 “For books and stationery 10.00 20.00 
 
 Total expenses per year $141.00. . .$161.00 
 
 “Students’ earnings vary with their age, health, strength and pre- 
 vious knowledge and skill, the time they devote to labor, and their 
 general efliciency. The past year students have earned, in some 
 instances, as much as $120, and have by economy, fully paid their 
 College expenses. An average of earnings for the past year, (1870,) 
 has been fifty-four dollars, including the young, sick, and the in- 
 experienced.” 
 
 The corners proper to the Farm of 648 acres were fixed by the 
 writer hereof, November, 1867, at the request of the Superintend- 
 ent, Hon. H. M. Thompson. The stones for the corners were 
 nicely dressed, and about five by eight inches square at the top with 
 an X cut thereon. The stoiic^s are of the same kind of material as 
 those in the College building, and was dressed by the workmen on 
 the building for the express purpose of being used in the corners of 
 the Farm. 
 
 One and one-quarter miles west of this farm are the villages of 
 New Philadelphia and Ontario. The former is in Washington 
 Township — the latter in Franklin Township. New Philadelphia 
 was laid off in April 1856, on the east half of the northeast quarter 
 section 6 and three blocks of section 5, township 82, range 24. For’ 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 243 
 
 a few years it had considerable trade; but as soon as Ontario was 
 laid out as the railroad town, New Philadelphia improved but little 
 
 • 
 
 There is a ci^amery at Ames owned by Mr. Burgess, but is about 
 to sell to Mr. Hawley, of Colo, for $4,000. Have no report as to 
 its business. 
 
 There is a creamery at Kelley under the control of the Board- 
 man Brothers or Mr. Wortman. 
 
 Kelley was laid off as a town April, 1875, on the southwest quar- 
 ter of the southeast quarter section 32, township 83, range 24. 
 
 There is a stone quarry about thirty rods southeast from west 
 quarter section corner, section 4, township 83, range 24. 
 
 The Tile factory is controlled and owned by C. S. Biddings. 
 This factory turns out about 150,000 tiles and about 50,000 brick 
 during the season. See “Tile Factories.” 
 
 An addition to Kelley in the northwest quarter of the northeast 
 quarter of section 5, township 82, range 24, gives a share of the 
 town to Palestine Township. There is a good elevator at Kelley, 
 and is operated by steam. 
 
 Those who ship stock and grain are named as follows: 
 
 William Clark, Ross Mason, Henry Wilson, Mr. McCoy, John 
 T. Bray, Perkins & Son, Cook & Shields, and perhaps others. 
 
 Those who raise and feed stock may be, in part, the following: 
 
 A. J. Braves, C. S. Biddings, Lyman Crane, H. F. Woodruff, 
 John J. Keigley, Asa F. Eastwood, Richard Jones, W. H. Johnson, 
 Amos Hurst, William Scott, Prosper Templeton, Edwin Rex, 
 Henry Keltner, C. B Leesing, John Brumigin, Isaac Thomas, Wm. 
 Beedle, T. J. Keigley and Albert Slater. 
 
 A list of farmers, mechanics and others of energy and stir is 
 here appended, viz: 
 
 J. J. Keigley, Z. T. Jones, A. B. Jones, J. Rex, Wm. Beedle,, 
 F. M. Finch, W. A. Bossard, I. B. McElyea, W. H. Fitchpatrick 
 John H. Keigley, Daniel McCarthy, Henry McCarthy, Parley 
 Sheldon, L. Q. Hoggatt, Milo McCartney, Michael Price, W. H. 
 Foster, E. Thurman, T. B. Keeney, J. M. Stark, Wm, Menhenet, 
 W. F. McCarthy, J. F. Long, H. Christman, E. B. Plumb, 
 J. A. Bunder, Jas. Hutchinson, M. Roberts, L. Rozenfeldt and 
 A. McFarlane. 
 
 Business men of Ames, Ontario and Kelley will be found in their 
 respective Directories. See “Directory.” 
 
 The first post-master in Washington Township was Dr, Bull- 
 man, post-master at New Philadelphia, He was succeeded by W^. 
 H. Foster, then Dr. Sharper, then W. H. Foster, then Hiram 
 
2ii 
 
 Histoey of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 Scott, while Scott was post-master the name of the post-office was 
 changed to “Ontario.” Scott resigned and Frank M. Coffelt was 
 appointed post-master and is still acting. Later — ^jjist removed. 
 
 About 1861 or ’62 W. H. Fitchpatrick was appointed post- 
 master at “College Farm” but resigned in 1861, and A. J. Grraves 
 succeeded him. While Mr. Grraves was acting the office was 
 moved to Ames and the name of the office, in accordance. The 
 first post-master in Ames was Henry F. Kingsbury, in 1865. Mr. 
 Kingsbury was also the first express agent and first station agent 
 at Ames. 
 
 The post-office at Kelley was created about 1875 or ’76. J. S. 
 McCoy is the present post-master at Kelley, and S. S. Arnold is 
 ticket agent. 
 
 There are two church buildings at Kelley, one a Baptist and the- 
 other a Congregational. 
 
 It is claimed Noah Webster built the first dwelling house at 
 Ames which was late in the fall of 1865. . Dr. Phipps was the first 
 physician. L. Q. Hoggatt, L. Irwin and — Rain bolt built the 
 first warehouse for grain. J. Q. Leffingwell was the first black- 
 smith. As to the first dwelling houses in or where Ames now is, 
 I will name two; Rev. I. H. Rees lived in a log house near Squaw 
 Creek and in what now is southwest Ames, some ten years before 
 Ames was‘ surveyed. Mr. Rees settled there about 1854. The 
 other house referred to was also a log house and built about 1856, 
 by George H. Crossly, (Major G. W. Crossley’s father,) and stood 
 near a spring near the summit of the hill. The house stood nearly 
 precisely where Mr. Born’s house was afterwards built, and was on 
 the summit above the spring. This Crossly house was in section 
 2, township 83, range 24, and was near the south line of said sec- 
 tion and a few rods west of the southeast corner of the section. 
 This was built some eight years before Ames came up. The 
 Kintzley house was built near the same time and stood near where 
 Esq. J. H. Keigley now resides; perhaps a little west. 
 
 Ames was incorporated in 1869. Its first Mayor was Wm. West, 
 a man who was well qualified for its first Mayor. W. D. Lucas 
 was the second; Wm. Clark, third; C. E. Turner, fourth; Walter 
 Evans, fifth; Wm. Clark, sixth; Geo. A. Underwood, seventh; E. 
 R. Chamberlain, eighth; Geo. G. Tilden, nineth; Henry Wilson, 
 Jr., tenth; Henry Wilson, Jr., eleventh; J. Watts, twelfth; 
 John Watts, thirteenth; Parley Sheldon, fourteenth; M. C. Jones, 
 fifteenth, the present one, January, 1887. 
 
 The list of post-masters for Ames is as follows; Henry Kings- 
 bury, 1865, was the first; second, L. Q. Hoggatt; third, Samuel L. 
 Lucas; fourth, Mrs. Hattie Lucas; fifth, John Watts; sixth. Par- 
 ley Sheldon, who is the present (1886) post-master for Ames. 
 
 The new warehouse is about fifty-five or sixty feet south of the 
 ticket office. 
 
245 
 
 Histoey of Stoey Couftty, Iowa.^ 
 
 I will here name an instance of female energy that occurred 
 some twenty-two or twenty-three years ago, in W ashington Town- 
 ship. Here it is; Mrs. C. 0.* Duff, living near where Ames was 
 afterwards located, by an understanding between herself and the 
 Railroad Company, bought 320 acres of land for the Company, 
 some of which was used, (40 acres) for the town site of Ames, 
 which was laid off in lots and blocks late in 1864. The Company 
 or John I. Blair and others made some fruitless efforts to get some 
 land for a station where Ontario now is. This was prior to Mrs. 
 Duff’s purchase at Ames. It is therefore presumed they desired 
 to try the next purchase by an agent /or the Bailroad Company— 
 supposing land could be had at much lower figures bj’’ some one 
 not known as being interested in the company. Mrs. Duff was 
 therefore selected as the agent, and she made the purchase. Some 
 of the early history of this and of Ames will be found elsewhere. 
 Mrs. Duff boarded the hands while they were building the depot 
 in 1865. Had the first efforts of the company succeeded in getting 
 the land where Ontario now is, the town would have been there. 
 She was an active and untiring worker in trying to get up a church 
 organization at Ames for the Congregationalists. The church was 
 built as you will learn, and Mrs. Duff was the untiring worker. For 
 the dedication of the church Mrs. Pierce, (mother of Mrs. J. A. 
 Fitchpatrick,) composed the dedicatory hymn. So it is said. 
 
 CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY TIME CARD 
 AT AMES — September 23, 1886. 
 
 GOIFTG BAST. 
 
 No. 2 Marshalltown Passenger, except Monday 4:50 A. m. 
 
 “ 4 Atlantic Express 1:45 A. m. 
 
 “ 6 Mail 5:00 p. m. 
 
 “ 14 Freight 8:20 a. m. 
 
 “ 16 Way Freight 10:20 A. m. 
 
 “ 18 Freight 3:00 p. m. 
 
 “20 “ 7:00 p. M 
 
 • 
 
 GOIiTG WEST. 
 
 No. 3 Pacific Express 1:45 a. m. 
 
 “ 5 Mail 11:30 a.m. 
 
 “ 25 Freight 10:20 a. m. 
 
 “ 23 Freight 6:30 a. m. 
 
 “ 27 Way Freight 4:55 p. m. 
 
246 
 
 Histoey op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 GOING SOUTH. 
 
 No.51 Night Express 1:^6 A. m. 
 
 “ 55 Passenger 5:00 p. m . 
 
 “ 53 Passenger 11:40 A. m. 
 
 “ 57 Passenger 8:05 p. m. 
 
 “ 59 Freight for Des Moines 6 :45 a. m. 
 
 GOING NORTH. 
 
 No. 1 Passenger 10:55 p. m. 
 
 54 Passenger 11 :35 A. m. 
 
 52 Passenger 8 :20 a. m. 
 
 No other trains will carry passengers. / 
 
 M. ‘C. Jones, Agent. 
 
 TWENTY CHANCES TO LEA YE EYERY TWENTY-POUR HOURS. 
 
 It seems by the time card there are eighteen to twenty chances 
 every twenty-four hours to get away from Ames by railroad. 
 
 There is no other town in the county that has such facilities for 
 getting away.- Grood for Ames! 
 
 The College library is said to contain 5,540 books of various 
 kinds. 
 
 PALESTINE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTORY OP PALESTINE TOWNSHIP PROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT' 
 AND ORGANIZATION TO MARCH, 1887. — CONTAINING, ALSO, 
 
 A NOTICE OP MANY OP ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION — TOWNSHIP 1,201, SHELDAHL 164 — 1,365. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found, also a history, in part, of the early 
 settlement of the Township. The Township was named “ Pales- 
 tine” in remembrance of the ancient Palestine as recognized in 
 Holy Writ. The Township was organized in 1858, comprising now 
 only township 82 north, range 24 west. 
 
 Of the brief items a few were culled from our county papers. 
 
 A Rev. Mr. Ives Marks had a seminary building erected about 
 the year 1855 or 1856, for a kind of religious institution on a site 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa, 
 
 247 
 
 included in the town plat of the town of Palestine, which plat 
 comprised the south three fourths of the east half of the southwest 
 quarter of section 14, township 82 north, range 24 west. Mr. 
 Marks never completed the building, but it has been for many 
 years used as a barn. The structure in part remains to the present 
 day but in a very dilapidated condition. 
 
 SHELDAHL ITEMS. 
 
 From the Bheldahl Cyclone, August 23, 1882. 
 
 We understand Madrid will have another newspaper called the 
 Register. 
 
 Pilgrimages to the High Bridge is a daily occurrence, picnics 
 almost a daily one, 
 
 Mr. Charles Mead, of Collins, our old and respected friend, was 
 the first who subscribed for the Cyclone when in town some five 
 weeks ago. 
 
 In the new arithmetic one reads: “In one lot there are four 
 calves, and in another two young men smoking a cigar with their 
 hair banged, and a hat on one side of their heads. How many 
 calves in all?” 
 
 From the Northern Light, August 23, 1882. 
 
 The telegraph wire is up. Ed. Allen is to be the depot agent at 
 this place. 
 
 A paper has just been established at Sheldahl, called the Iowa 
 Cyclone. It is published by Willie D. McTavish, is three ^columns 
 to the page, and well printed. It is the third effort to maintain a 
 weekly paper at that point, and we hope will this time meet with 
 success. 
 
 Business in Sheldahl is brisk in every department. — (Decem- 
 ber 13, 1882.) 
 
 Last Thursday our stock dealer, G. W. Strongs, shipped a car- 
 load of hogs to Des Moines. Having delivered them to the slaugh- 
 ter yards, he took passage on the switch engine back to the North- 
 western depot. On the way the engine upset and Mr. S. came 
 near being seriously injuried. As it was, his hair, whiskers and 
 one ear show marks of fire. It was only by his coolness and fore- 
 thought that he saved his life. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Sheldahl was laid out as a town in August, 1874. Was incorpo- 
 rated on the 28th of June, 1882. 
 
 The Iowa Cyclone (a newspaper) commenced about the twentieth 
 of August, 1882, and discontinued sometime afterward. 
 
 Palestine was laid out as a tawn in October, 1857. 
 
 Huxley was laid out in February, 1882, on the north half of the 
 northeast quarter of section 26, township 82, range 24. 
 

 248 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 SHELDAHL BRIEFS. 
 
 The snow blockade has been broken and trains are running on 
 time again. People can get to town now and business is looking 
 up again. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 R. A. Eastman has sold the Avenue House of this place to J. N. 
 Scott and gave possession Monday morning. The new proprietor 
 will endeavor to take good care of all who patronize him. — (Jan- 
 uary 31, 1883.) 
 
 Messrs. Bagwill & Freed are shipping from eight to ten car-loads 
 of stock per week now-a-days. Not bad we think for our town. 
 Mr. G. W. Strong buys and ships stock also. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Coal became very scarce here last week, but the supply is suffi- 
 cient again. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 The snow blockade is ended and we have regular mails once 
 more. — (Feb. 21, 1883.) 
 
 Business is looking up. — (Feb. 21, 1883.) 
 
 Farmers are disposing of their surplus cattle, hogs and corn, and 
 are getting ready, they say, to raise the biggest crop of corn that 
 has ever been raised in Iowa. We hope they may not be disap- 
 pointed. — (Feb. 21, 1883.) 
 
 Mr. G. W. Strong has bought and brought to our village 
 the fine Clydesdale stallion formerly owned by H. C. Martindale. 
 —(May 2, 1883.) 
 
 Mr. Gust. Reinins has just completed the upright portion of his 
 dwelling, which gives him as good a house as is in the town. 
 —(May 2, 1883.) 
 
 Jacob Harpol, near town, has put up an upright to his farm 
 dwelling. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 The Rev. 0. Sheldahl and* his little congregation are building a 
 church on block number two. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 Corn planting began last Monday morning in this locality with 
 the ground in good condition. With good weather the people say 
 that nothing less than a number one crop will do this year. 
 —(May 2, 1883.) . 
 
 The bridge gang of the Northwestern have been taking their 
 meals at the Avenue hotel the past week while repairing the bridges 
 on the Des Moines branch of the road. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 Osmund Sheldahl is erecting a church building in the north part 
 of town, which, when completed, will be a very handsome structure. 
 Then the parson can “ worship under his own vine and fig tree.” 
 —(May 2, 1883.) 
 
History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 249 
 
 Mr. Andrew Mickelson was found dead near Huxley last Sunday 
 about noon. Tuesday, the tenth of this month, Mr. Mickelson left 
 town to go to his farm to build fence for a few days, and his wife 
 thought nothing wrong until he failed to come home Friday night. 
 Saturday she sent some parties to look after him; but after looking 
 all day they failed to find out anything of his whereabouts. Sun- 
 day there was a turn out of 150 men with the above result. 
 —(Nov. 18, 1885.) 
 
 Mrs. W. P. Yiland died of consumption last Saturday night 
 Her funeral and Mr. Mickelson’s were both attended yesterday 
 —(Nov. 18, 1885.) 
 
 Sheldahl Crossing. — The first dwelling house at the Crossing 
 is completed by Mr. E. Freed, where he is permanently located. 
 
 Last Sunday morning while one of the freight trains of the C. M. 
 & St. P. R. R. was doing some switching at the Crossing one of the 
 brakeman had one of his hands so badly smashed that amputation 
 was necessary. — (Nov. 18, 1885.) 
 
 W. H. Porter was appointed P. M. at Sheldahl on the first 
 instant. This is a worthy compliment to a disabled citizen of our 
 county. — (Sept. 4, 1885.) 
 
 All soldiers desiring passes to enter the State Fair on Soldier’s 
 Day,"” Tuesday, Sept. 8, can be accommodated by calling on Au- 
 ditor McCarthy. — (Sept. 4, 1885.) 
 
 Mr. S. W. Snider has taken a temporary residence in Colfax for 
 the benefit of his crippled son who has been suffering with rheu- 
 matism for the past eighteen months. — (Oct. 4, 1885.) 
 
 The new elevator at the crossing of the C. M. & St. P. & C. & N. 
 W. R. R’s is now ready for business, with a fair prospect. 
 —(Oct. 4, 1885.) 
 
 A little son of W. B. Mill fell from the roof of an old stable last 
 Saturday and hurt his face very badly. — (Oct. 4, 1885.) 
 
 A little girl of E. F. Mill, about two years old fell from a baby 
 cab standing on a porch breaking its left collar bone. — (Octo- 
 ber 4, 1885.) 
 
 We had the first speech of the campaign last Saturday evening 
 by Dr. Hutchins, of Des Moines. — (Oct. 4, 1885.) 
 
 Sheldahl Election. — The town election came off Monday with 
 the following results: Mayor, C. B. Owens; recorder, S. W. Shep- 
 herd; treasurer, E. F. Miller; assessor, L. Gr. Johnson; councilmen, 
 Swert, Houge, and Oust Reinuer. — (March 1, 188G,) 
 
 Palestine Township has some fiat, wet land in it, more particu- 
 larly in parts of sections 7, 8, 17 and 18. Many years ago before 
 tile draining was introduced in Story County, it required experts 
 
 
250 
 
 Histoey of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 in wading well so as to survey some of these lands. The soil is 
 good and draining may make it very productive. 
 
 Some of the early settlers were, viz: Mormon Ballard, Daniel 
 Ballard, Isaac Atkinson, J. H. B. Kerr, A. Gr. Person, Wm. Tem- 
 pleton, W. B. Hopkins, Ives Marks, John May, Jacob Horner, 
 G-. W. Kelley, 0. Sheldahl, E. Sheldahl, Ole Apland, W. W. Hall. 
 
 There are two streams of water I will name in Palestine Town- 
 ship, but there are other smaller ones: Ballard’s Creek with its 
 several branches and Walnut Creek. The last named passes very 
 cautiously through the northeast part of the northwest of 
 the northeast quarter of section one, and crossing through the more 
 central part of the northeast of the northeast quarter of sec- 
 tion one. Ballard’s main stream commences in or near the wet 
 lands named above and passes through the northwest quarter of 
 section 21, and across the southern part of the southeast quarter of 
 section 16, and through the south half of sections 15, 11 and 13, 
 leaving the township near the southeast corner of section 13. 
 Ballard’s Creek runs through the whole length of Ballard’s Grove; 
 and Walnut Creek passes through Walnut Grove. See index for 
 “ Groves.” See index for ‘‘Mills.” See index for “ Cemeteries.” 
 
 Palestine having the good old Scripture name, has in its borders 
 the site of the town of Palestine laid out in October, 185-7, and was 
 recorded. 
 
 Many years ago there were several families in it. Mr. Ives Marks 
 by stir and energy had a kind of religious seminary built, but was 
 never completed entirely. I believe it was never used as a seminary 
 but may have been used as a dwelling for a time, but am not sure. 
 Of late years it has been used as a barn and stable. 
 
 There was a post-office there prior to and during the war, and 
 that excellent citizen of the township, W. B. Hopkins, was post- 
 master, and his daughter (now Mrs. P. W. Hopkins, of Colo) was 
 his deputy. 
 
 The town was laid out on the south three-quarters of the east 
 half of the southwest quarter of section 14, but is now in the past. 
 
 Huxley is situated on the north part of the north half of 
 the northeast quarter of section 26, and is on the C. M. & St. 
 Paul railroad. It is a place of some business, and was laid out as a 
 town in 1882. It has a post-office and depot. The present post- 
 master is_ Jacob Stenson. See Directory for its business men. 
 
 There is a creamery at Sheldahl controlled or owned by Board- 
 man Brothers. J. H. Scott is manager and may own a part of the 
 creamery. 
 
 The town of Sheldahl is situated in three counties — Story, Polk 
 and Boone. The post-office is now in Polk county. That part in 
 Story was laid out in August, 1874. It was attached, by vote of its 
 citizens to the Polk county incorporated part in June, 1882, just 
 prior to the prohibitory amendment vote. 
 
 For the business of Sheldahl see indqx for the Directory. 
 
 Sheldahl was visited by its first fire about the twenty-fifth of 
 
Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 251 
 
 December, 1886, which resulted in the destruction of S. W. Sny- 
 der’s flouring mill. The loss is estimated at |1,000 without any 
 insurance. It is supposed Dr. W. H. Glrafton, of Cambridge, will 
 share in the loss. A good flouring mill destroyed makes a seri- 
 ous loss to the whole community. 
 
 C. B. Owens, mayor at Sheldahl. 
 
 Sheldahl Crossing is near one and a half miles north of Sheldahl, 
 and has an elevator, no post-office, but passengers can get off and 
 get on trains here. E. T. C. Wells, agent at the Crossing. Later — 
 April, 1887. — A post-office just fixed at the Crossing called Slater. 
 S. Ashland, postmaster. 
 
 Mr. E. Freed has the credit of building the first dwelling house 
 at the Crossing. 
 
 There are several cemeteries in the township; one in section 1, 
 one in section 18, and one in section 36, and the Fieldburg ceme- 
 tery in the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 
 25, township 82, range 24. 
 
 There are four church buildings in Palestine Township as 
 described below: 
 
 The Fieldburg Lutheran church is in the southwest corner 
 of section 25. 
 
 The Palestine Lutheran church is in the southeast corner of 
 section 25, township 82, range 24, being near a mile from the Field- 
 burg Lutheran church. 
 
 There are two Lutheran and two Methodist churches in Sheldahl. 
 One Lutheran church in Polk, and one in Story County; one 
 Methodist church in Story and one in Boone County. The town 
 being in three counties each county shares in the churches. 
 
 ' The school-houses seem to be centrally placed in their two miles 
 square idstricts, except one, and that one is not far from its center. 
 The first frame school house, as claimed in Story County was 
 located in the northeast corner of section 1, township 82, range 24 
 (now Palestine township), and was known as the renowned Walnut 
 Grove school-house, and was built in 1854-5 of native lumber. 
 
 Sheldahl has a high or graded school building. 
 
 Fire’s Doings. — Mr. Edwards, who lives a few miles west of 
 Sheldahl, had the misfortune to have his house burned to the ground 
 Wednesday last. There was an insurance of $800 on the house. 
 — {Intelligencer^ Jan. 27, 1887,) 
 
 Col. Snider is rebuilding his flouring mill at Sheldahl. The 
 numerous friends of the old veteran hope that he may be blessed 
 in business and recover all his recent loss before another hair turns 
 gray on his venerable head— {Intelligencer^ Jan. 27, 1887.) _ 
 
 From a brief acquaintance with Col. Snider we think he is a very 
 worthy man and such as should receive not only the sympathy but 
 financial aid in his effort to rebuild his mill. A good flouring mill 
 is of great value to the community in which it is situated. He has 
 our sympathy at least. 
 
252 History op Story Couhty, Iowa. 
 
 Railroads.— The D. M. & M. railroad passes through Sheldahl 
 from Des Moines northward, crossing the C. M. & St. Paul railway- 
 near the interior center of section 30 at Sheldahl Crossing, and 
 crossing the C. & N. Western road at Ames. This road also crosses 
 the north line of section 5, about eighty rods west of the northeast 
 corner of section 5. The C. M. &. St. Paul enters the township near 
 or at the southeast corner of section 24, passing westerly through 
 the township and crosses the west line of the county about forty 
 rods south of the west quarter section corner of section 30. 
 
 ^ A few who engage in shipping stock and grain will be named, 
 ■viz: Messrs. Bag will & Freed, about December, 1882, were lively 
 shippers of stock, — they may still be doing a lively business; 
 Miller & Freed, G. W. Strong, A. L. Kloster & N. J. Thompson, 
 merchants; H. Hendrickson, hardware. / 
 
 Stock and grain raisers, farmers and others of energy, etc., etc., of 
 the township are about as follows: John Y. Kalsem, S. Y. Kal- 
 sem, A. K. Olson, John Johnson, J. Severid, A. G. Person, Lars 
 Prowick, H. Klongeland, Eric Sheldahl, Henry Ersland, Amos 
 Thompson, Thor Olson, Peter Kjelsvig, H. 0. Hendrickson, W. P. 
 Yiland, C. Person, John Severtson, R. Richardson, Eric Erickson, 
 John Amfensen, K. B. Thompson, John Storing, Nels N. Sydnes, 
 A. Lande, J. Steenson, 0. S. Hegger, Nels Highland, J. W. 
 Lyttel. 
 
 UNION TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTORY OP UHIOH TOWHSHIP PROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT AND 
 ORGANIZATION TO MARCH, 1887. — CONTAINING, ALSO, A 
 NOTICE OP MANY OP ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION, 1885— township 894, Cambridge 473—1,367. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found, also, a partial history of its early set- 
 tlers. “ Union” being a short name, as well as a favorite name, 
 was given the township when organized. I presume this to have 
 been the case; It was organized in 1855, comprising now only 
 township 82 north, range 23 west. 
 
 The brief items were partly culled from our county papers. 
 
 A DAY WITH UNION TOWNSHIP SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORKERS. 
 
 Center Grove, May 9, 1875. 
 
 On arriving here in company with 0. Hambleton, I. H. Mathews 
 and P. Williams, we found the large brick school-house filled with 
 little and big old and young folks, from the surrounding country. 
 
i 
 
 s 
 
 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 253 
 
 At 10:30 A. M., Rev. D. 0. Stewart, of Cambridge, preached a 
 very able discourse, it being his regular appointment. 
 
 At 11:00 — In the absence of President Paxton, convention was 
 called to order, opening remarks, plan of work, etc., by the writer. 
 
 At 11:45 — “Object of Sunday-school,” etc. Presented by 0. 
 
 Hambleton, followed by Mathews, Wm. Allen, and R. R. Payne. 
 
 At 12:15 — Adjourned to 1:00 p. m. 
 
 During the recess a heavy thunder storm came up which pre- 
 vented our meeting at the hour appointed. 
 
 At 3:30 — Prayer by I. H. Mathews. The following oflBcers were 
 then elected: 
 
 Union Township Association — For president, Dr. W. H. Grafton; 
 for vice president, Robert Richardson; secretary and treasurer, 
 
 Morris Snider. ! 
 
 At 4:00 — “The Lesson, How Prepared to Teach,” etc., presented 
 by Rev. I. Reid. 
 
 At 4:30 — “Relation of Teachers’ Meeting to the School.” Pre- 
 sented by 0. Hambleton, followed by Payne. 
 
 At 5:00 — “ Duties of Parents to the Sabbath-school.” Presented 
 by I. H. Mathews, followed by Reid and Miller. 
 
 At 6:00 — Adjourned to 8:00. 
 
 At 8:00 p. M. — Prayer by Rev. I. Reid, followed by Sunday- 
 school workers experience meeting. In this the time was well oc- 
 cupied and, we trust, profitably spent. The interest kept up until 
 quite late, closing with benediction by Rev. Reid. 
 
 The meeting all day was well attended although the rain made 
 it very muddy afternoon and evening, but the friends' turned out 
 nobly. 
 
 We found here a school organized on the evergreen plan, and 
 doing a noble work, and we expect a good report from their town- 
 ship association, as their officers mean business. 
 
 J. C. Millee, Secretary. 
 
 Centee Geove, Union Township, Jan. 2, 1878. 
 
 Me. Editoe: — We wish you a happy Hew Year, any amount of 
 new subscribers and all the old ones coming up and toeing the 
 mark and paying up. May you have plenty of good things to eat 
 and lots of good clothes to wear. Good-bye old year, we will 
 remember all the good things that you gave us, and in view of good 
 crops, forget the muddy roads. How are you. New Year? Hope 
 you are well. Give us less mud and good roads because we cannot 
 get to town. Give us a new suit of clothes and new overcoat for 
 we need these things bad. Give us good crops, plenty of^work, 
 and by all means good roads. Give the young folks some snow 
 and good sleighing pretty soon, they look so lonesome. Give us 
 liberal candidates in the fall so that cigars will be plenty and 
 smoking cheap, but by all means give us good roads. Well, New 
 Year, we had better stop asking and go to work, but don’t forget 
 the roads. X. 
 
254: 
 
 History op Story Coujtty, Iowa. 
 
 A CARD. 
 
 Cambridge, Iowa, Dec. 13, 1878. 
 
 We take this method of tendering our warmest thanks to those 
 persons, men and women, who so nobly assisted us, even to the 
 extent of risking their lives, during the burning of our store on the 
 night of December seventh, 1878. 
 
 All did nobly, and their efforts in our behalf will ever be grate- 
 fully remembered. 
 
 We would also take this opportunity to correct some erroneous 
 stories, put in circulation, probably by some thoughtless persons in 
 regard to goods being stolen during the fire. We do not believe 
 that one dollar’s worth of goods were stolen and think the stories 
 originated without any foundation in fact. 
 
 Maxwell, Kixg & Co. ■ 
 
 CAMBRIDGE ITEMS. 
 
 Mr. Wm. Jones lost four head of cattle, twenty-two of hogs, and 
 two of sheep; cause unknown. Also, Mr. C. Tillotson lost four 
 head of cattle and many hogs. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Our town rejoices over having a new mayor, Mr. John Breezly. 
 That’s only four in less than a year. We trust the members of the 
 council who have not enjoyed the honor of holding said office will 
 not be discouraged. Their turn will come soon. We hope our 
 ■council will have back bone enough to enforce its ordinances. If 
 we are legally incorporated they can and should be enforced, and 
 if we are not it is time we are finding it out. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Sylvanus Chandler, one of the oldest citizens of this town died 
 last Thursday. He had lived four score and three years. He was 
 buried in the cemetery northwest of town. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Our editor, C. Dolph, has returned, and the Reporter will be 
 published regularly hereafter. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 We are to have a circulating library. Already we have shares 
 sold to the amount of $120. Shares are three dollars each; one 
 share entitles the shareholder to the free use of any one book for 
 two weeks. Shares are transferrable. Books may be received in 
 payment of shares, but the committee on selection of books shall 
 have authority to decide as to the price and suitability of said 
 books. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 We are to have a Christmas tree. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Board man Brothers are buying poultry. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 A. P. King has a new clerk, 0. W. Hill. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Business was booming Saturda5L The merchants report very 
 heavy sales. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
DEAKE UKIVEKSITY. 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 257 
 
 Briggs, o£ Nevada, sold furniture here Saturday to the amount 
 of $800. It is safe to say that our furniture dealers would have 
 sold furniture just as cheap. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 To the enthusiastic debater who said at our literary that “No 
 legislation on the liquor question is necessary,” we would say, go 
 down to our saloon and stay just one evening and see if you do not 
 change your mind. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 Why have we not a marshal to look after such men as were on 
 our streets Saturday night. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 The thermometer indicated twenty-one degrees below zero 
 Wednesday morning. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 One of our drug firms has a permit to sell liquors for medicinal, 
 mechanical, and culinary purposes. Judging, from what we saw 
 Saturday there must be a great many very sick men in this 
 community. — (Dec. 13, 1882.) 
 
 The near approach of the railroad has had a tendency to make 
 things quite lively in Cambridge, and on every hand may be seen 
 the work of the various artizatis. Quite a number of residences and 
 some store buildings are in course of erection. New business firms 
 are springing into existence and everything points to a most suc- 
 cessful summer. Among the buildings nearly completed is "one 
 twenty by sixty, two stories, by Green & Bryant, to be used by 
 them as a hotel and restaurant. The location is a good one, and 
 there is no reason why the business will not be a profitable one. 
 —(Sept. 23, 1881.) 
 
 Dr. Grafton and Livingston & Rodearmel have nearly completed 
 a large store building forty-six by eighty, two stories. One room 
 is to be occupied by dry goods and the other by Livingston & Ro- 
 dearmel as a hardware store. They are already engaged in opening 
 their stock. This building would be an honor to more pretentious 
 towns, reflects much credit on the parties referred to. Messrs. L. & 
 R, will have a large stock and one that it will not be necessary to 
 go elsewhere for hardware, stoves, nails or any other articles in 
 their line.— (Sept. 23, 1881.) 
 
 Among the prospective buildings is one by Brown & Cronk, who 
 will erect a commodious building for their drug store soon. 
 —(Sept. 23, 1881.) 
 
 Mr. Southwick is also building a neat room for the post-ofSce 
 and other business. — (Sept. 23, 1881.) 
 
 Mr. Goodnow has charge of the mill and turns out a number one 
 article of flour, which is in demand all through that country. 
 —(Sept. 23, 1881.) 
 
 The future of Cambridge looks bright and there is no reason 
 why she shall not grow and prosper. — (Sept. 23, 1881.) 
 
 IT 
 
258 Histoet of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 {Nevada Representative Correspondence.) 
 
 Cambridge, Iowa, Jan. 23, 1882. 
 
 As tliis pleasant place opens up with the new year, we find our- 
 selves on a railroad with trains running every day, if they are only 
 construction trains. Regular trains, they say, will be running' 
 before long. We can then step on the cars and go east or west, 
 and we hope soon to be able to say either north or south. Cam- 
 bridge has the most favorable show of any of its neighboring 
 towns for a branch road to Des Moines, and for a division. It is 
 not permanently located yet but Cambridge feels secure all the 
 same. The track is now completed to the junction of. the C. & 
 N. W. one mile north of Sheldahl. 
 
 Cambridge is now a point of telegraphic communication, where 
 you can step into the office and send a message to Europe if you 
 have any friends there to read it. 
 
 The railroad company is putting up two water tanks, a large 
 coal house and a depot second to none in Story County. It is 
 a building thirty by sixty feet, two stories. Where is there another 
 depot of that size ? 
 
 The community feels sorry to lose* their first lumber merchant, 
 Mr. B. T. French, for he was a good boy, but have a good man in 
 his place, Mr. Bartlett, of Nevada, formerly with Mr. Lockridge. 
 
 P. Groodnow, our miller, has relatives visiting him, who think 
 some of locating here as this is a good point. 
 
 The next thing needed is a bank — a coal bank. 
 
 The first load of stock shipped from this place was on Sunday 
 last by Lockwood & Co., they will ship again on Wednesday. 
 
 Business all on the boom. Boh. 
 
 The Christmas concert at the M. E. church Sunday night was 
 well attended. The concert was a success, a credit to our town and 
 particularly to our young folks. — (Dec. 27, 1882.) 
 
 Dr. Hayes has his hall fixed up in fine shape, ^and has tendered 
 the free use of the same to our literary society. — (Dec. 27, 1882.) 
 
 Our marshal’s name is Charley Stowe, not the man’s name printed 
 in the Representative last week. — (Dec. 27, 1882.) 
 
 Our saloon man is in trouble. He is charged with selling beer to 
 minors, drunken men, and with other offenses. We hope the time 
 will coine when a saloon cannot exist in our town. — (Dec. 27, 1882. 
 
 It was necessary for the correspondent to go into our saloon last 
 week on a business errand ; and there he saw men playing pool and 
 drinking beer whose families are in need of the common necessi- 
 ties of life. They were engaged in that kind of business, paying 
 the cash for playing and drinking while on the very same day they 
 tried to buy meat and groceries on time. — (Dec. 27, 1882.) 
 
 Our saloon is closed and we sincerely hope permanently. Well 
 have such places been called “The devil’s satellites;” — (Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 259 
 
 The Masons are not going to rent Hayes'" hall as misreported, 
 but are going to occupy Dr. Grraf ton’s hall. — (Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 After January twelfth the literary society will be held in 
 Hayes’ hall.--(Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 Our young folks are having fine times sleighriding. — (Janu- 
 ary 3, 1883.) 
 
 Cambridge seems to be a good market for poultry. — (Janu- 
 ary 3, 1883.) 
 
 Boardman Brothers are receiving, killing and packing large num- 
 bers of geese, turkeys and chickens. — (Jan. 3, 1883.) 
 
 Owing to the snow we did not get our mails regularly last week. 
 Many of our citizens turned out to shovel snow on the railroad. 
 At present the trains are running regularly. — (Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 We feel justly proud of our local talent. The house was 
 crowded, and we can sly to the credit of the audience that remark- 
 ably good order was observed. On Friday evening next our literary 
 society will meet in the same hall, and we would suggest that our 
 literary give an entertainment similar to the one given Friday 
 night, at no distant period. — (Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 Some of our firms are packing ice. — (Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 Since the saloon closed we have not seen a single drunken man 
 on our streets. Let the man who voted for saloons hold up his 
 hand; we should like to see how he looks. We already know his 
 name. It is “Missing Link.” — (Jan. 17, 1883.) 
 
 Once more the trains on the Milwaukee are running regularly. 
 —(Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Boardman Brothers and the proprietor of our City meat market, 
 (j. W. Barrows, put up large quantities of ice last week. The ice 
 was about two feet thick and as clear as crystal. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 No preaching at the M. E. church, Sunday, owing to the absence 
 of the pastor, Rev. Hall. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 There were three sudden deaths in this vicinity last week — B. A. 
 Oleson, a Mr. Hall, and Miss Longnecker.— (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 The supreme court decided the amendment invalid, but it rests 
 with our town council to say whether or not our town shall 
 be cursed with a saloon. We hope our council will grant no license 
 to any one. Let each member of the council think of this, and 
 compare the order we now have on our streets with what we had 
 before the saloon was closed. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Our fellow townsman and hotel proprietor, James Grreen, took 
 unto himself a wife sometime ago. He and his better half dish up 
 first-class grub at the restaurant. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 

 260 Histoey op Stoky County, Iowa. 
 
 Rev. Hall will, at no distant period, deliver a lecture on “ Popular 
 Amusements.’^ — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 The literary society will hereafter hold its meetings in Dr. 
 Hayes’ hall. The society fully appreciate the privilege of holding 
 its meetings there. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Thermometers in this vicinity indicated thirty-seven degrees 
 below zero at one time during our recent cold spell. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Rev. Gr. M. Hall delivered a lecture on “ Popular Amusements” 
 at the M. E. church Thursday evening. Owing to the bad roads 
 the audience was small. The lecture was splendid, and those who 
 did venture out in the rain and slush to hear it, were well paid. 
 Mr. Hall will lecture on kindred subjects Tuesday and Thursday 
 evenings. We hope he will be favored with large audiences. The 
 discussion of these subjects is particularly interesting to the people 
 of Cambridge and vicinity just now. — (Feb. 21, 188A) 
 
 Some of the young folks of Cambridge spent a very pleasant 
 evening at Robert Richardson’s one evening last week. — (Feb- 
 ruary 21, 1883.) 
 
 Rev. Hall delivered his third lecture at the M. E. church Tues- 
 day night; subject, “ Gleanings from the false and true.” The 
 lecture was interesting, but the crowd small. We are sorry to 
 know that negro minstrels and juvenile singers draw larger crowds 
 than a good lecturer. Persons who heard the entire course of lec- 
 tures feel benefited by them, and are satisfied with Mr. Hall’s views, 
 but those persons who heard only one or two lectures did not get a 
 correct idea of Mr. Hall’s position on some points. — (March 7, 1883.) 
 
 Our town council did a commendable thing at their last meeting ; 
 passed an ordinance that the mayor and council should receive no 
 compensation for past or future services. This is a donation to our 
 town of about $350 to $400. The laborer is worthy of his hire. 
 —(March 7, 1883.) 
 
 We understand that our literary society will adjourn sine die 
 Friday evening. We think this is altogether wrong. There are 
 many school teachers who, could not attend our literary society pre- 
 vious to the closing of their schools, but now their schools are out 
 they would gladly attend. There is no good reason why the liter- 
 ary should not continue for at least three months if not all sum- 
 mer. — (March 7, 1883.) 
 
 The town council mean business. When they order a sidewalk 
 it is built. — (March 28-, 1883.) 
 
 An effort is being made to procure funds to build a house in 
 which to hold council meetings and for other public purposes. 
 Levi Nellis has donated a lot upon which the building is to be put. 
 About $125 have been subscribed with which to buy lumber. This 
 is a move iu the right direction. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 261 
 
 The spring term of our school will commence next Monday. 
 Whitney and Hanson will be retained as teachers. — (March 
 28, 1883.) 
 
 An effort is being made to form a lodge of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. Twenty-three applications have been sent in 
 and “still there are more to follow.” An effort will be made 
 to secure Hayes’ hall if a charter is granted. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 The Masonic fraternity will soon have a lodge here.— (March 
 28, 1883.) 
 
 The dwelling of Cora Larson was burned last week. Her young- 
 est child was entirely consumed in the flames. Mrs. Larson is a 
 widow and lives west of the west Norwegian church. A subscrip- 
 tion paper is being circulated for her benefit. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 Harry Maxwell and Clara Grillett were married last week. Your 
 reporter had some of the wedding cake and it was excellent. They 
 were married in Keokuk county. They have the best wishes of 
 all.— (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 Maurice Mason is building a dwelling house in the southwest 
 part of town. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 Our farmers report nearlv all their apple trees killed. — (March 
 28, 1883.) 
 
 A tax of ten mills on the dollar was voted at the school election 
 for the purpose of building an addition to our school-house 
 — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 C. H. Stowe has been reappointed marshal by our new council. 
 —(March 28, 1883.) 
 
 The Reporter is to be enlarged sdon. — (March 28, 1883.) 
 
 There were three deaths in the vicinity of Cambridge last week, 
 Dick Macey’s child, Mr. Ferguson’s and Ole Gr. Vigen. The latter 
 was a section hand on the railroad. Saturday morning, it will be 
 remembered, was very dark and foggy. The section men were at 
 work two miles west of town. They did not see nor hear the 
 approaching freight train until it was nearly upon them. The 
 other men jumped in time, but Vigen delayed too long and the 
 train struck him. One arm and one leg were broken and several 
 ribs fractured. He also received other injuries. He was taken to 
 the house of James Russell where he died in the afternoon of Sat- 
 urday. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 We learn that Bro. Dolph, editor of the Reporter went to Rhodes 
 Sunday evening to deliver a temperance lecture. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 On Sunday last John Mitchell, a young man living near Elwell, 
 while attempting to board a freight train fell and was run over by 
 the cars. His right leg and left foot were terribly mangled; he 
 
262 
 
 History of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 also received several other injuries. Drs. Robinson and Aplin 
 were called and amputated the thigh at the middle third. His 
 condition was such that it was not deemed advisable _ to amputate 
 the foot at that time. Dr. Robinson remained with him during the 
 night; and notwithstanding all was done for him that could be 
 done, he died Monday morning at six o’clock. Let this sad acci- 
 dent be a warning to all against boarding moving trains. The 
 young man who only last Sabbath was full of life and vigor 
 is now no more. Verily, “Experience teaches a dear school.^’ 
 —(May 2, 1883.) 
 
 Judging from the number of fruit trees delivered here on Mon- 
 day, the farmers are not disheartened by their losses last winter. 
 The smaller fruits can be had in one and two years from the time 
 of planting and in great abundance, too. One word to persons 
 putting out apple trees: do not put them too close together. 
 —(May 2, 1883.) 
 
 ELWELL. 
 
 El well is having quite a little boom in the building line. One 
 good additional dwelling, one elevator and a depot station house 
 and freight room, are in process of construction and will soon be 
 completed. The depot building proper is twenty-four by thirty feet 
 on the ground and two stories high. It has the same dimensions 
 as the depots at Cambridge and Maxwell. The freight room 
 adjoining is also twenty-four by thirty, but only a story and a half 
 in height. The depot buildings are being constructed by the peo- 
 ple of El well and vicinity at an expense of about $1,500, and when 
 completed will be made over to the Milwaukee as a' free gift. 
 Elwell is not very old nor very large, but it has several pleasant 
 dwellings, a blacksmith shop, a wagon and carpenter shop com- 
 bined, an agricultural implement establishment, a lumber yard and 
 a general merchandise store. The town is developing into quite a 
 trading point. It has an elevated position and when the weather 
 is favorable can look down on several of its county neighbors, to- 
 wit: Nevada, Iowa Center, Peoria and Huxley. Cambridge and 
 Maxwell are below the general level of the landscape and cannot 
 be seen. 
 
 One of the fine farm residences near Elwell is that of Robert 
 Richardson, formerly a resident of Nevada. 
 
 Elwell is located in a good section of country, and as one of the 
 outlying hamlets and railroad stations of the county has a hopeful 
 future. — (Sept. 26, 1883.) 
 
 DECORATIOIf DAY AT CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 At a recent meeting of the citizens the following officers and 
 committees were appointed: 
 
 President of the Day — A. S. Aplin. 
 
 Chief Marshal — Charles C. Cook. 
 
 Chaplin — Rev. Conrad. 
 
History or Story Courtty, Iowa. 
 
 263 
 
 Executive Committee— J. M. Brown, A. P. King, George Lentz, 
 S. Trout, J. E. Jones, Henry Ozmunson, and A. W. Southwick. 
 
 Finance Committee — J. E. Jones, Henry Ozmunson, and A. W. 
 Southwick. 
 
 Committee on Instrumental Music — A. P. King. 
 
 Committee on Vocal Music — M. C. Jones. 
 
 Floral Committee— Mrs. A. W. Bartlett, Mrs. J. E. Jones, Mrs. 
 William Dodge, Mrs. G. C. Cronk, Mrs. Caroline Clauson, Mrs. 
 Henry Fatland, Mrs. J. S. Nelson, and the Misses Sylvia Bossoutt, 
 Kate Cook, Sarah Gillett, Bell Chamberlain, Amanda Livingston, 
 Ada Maxwell, Sarah Wilson, Mary Breezley, Eva Benser, Effie 
 Snider and Miss L. A. Illings worth. 
 
 Orator of the Day — John R. Hays. 
 
 The committees are requested to meet at the A. 0. U. W. hall at 
 eight p. M., May nineteenth, to make further arrangements for the 
 occasion. 
 
 By order of the Executive Committee. 
 
 (May 13, 1884.) J. M. Browrt, Chairman. 
 
 Died of blood poison, Saturday, September fifth, in the sixty- 
 ninth year of his age, J. C. Kinsell, Mayor of Cambridge. Mr. 
 Kinsell was one of the old residents of Cambridge. He was known 
 as a man of radical opinions on nearly all suljjects. He was buried 
 Sunday in the Cambridge cemetery. — (Sept. 9, 1885.) 
 
 The wells at the depot are being repaired or rather enlarged, and 
 when the work is completed, Cambridge will have an inexhaustible 
 supply of water. — (Sept. 9, 1885.) 
 
 J. B. Green is our new postmaster. While Mr. Green is a first- 
 class man he will do well if he gives as good satisfaction as did 
 A. W. Southwick. There was not a single complaint against Mr. 
 S. from any citizen in town or vicinity. — (Nov. 11, 1885.) 
 
 . The Sunday-school concert at the M. E. clmrch Sunday evening 
 was a very interesting affair, and well patronized. — (Nov. 11, 1885.) 
 
 Last' Sunday was A. P. King’s forty-ninth birth-day. His chil- 
 dren to fitly celebrate the event presented him with a fine gold 
 watch chain, and the members of the Masonic fraternity with a 
 fine Masonic pin and charm. — (Nov. 11, 1885.) 
 
 There is a good deal of “ tangle-foot” being drank in town now- 
 a-days, and the drug store and billiard saloons are blamed for sell- 
 ing it; but the truth of the matter is that it is brought here from 
 Des Moines and other places by men who peddle it out. — (Novem- 
 ber 11, 1885.) 
 
 Hogs are still dying with cholera in town and vicinity. Uncle 
 Jerry Malloy’s fine Chester Whites are dying; and the loss falls 
 heavily on him as he can ill afford to lose them. — (Nov. 11, 1885.) 
 
 A Sabbath school convention will be held at Cambridge, Decem- 
 ber 20, 1885. A cordial invitation is extended to all who wish to 
 attend. Exercises to commence at 10 A. m., and continue all day. 
 
 W. H. Graftort, Township President. 
 
264 
 
 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 The river is booming. Many of our citizens, particularly the 
 young folks, indulge in boat riding. Saturday evening two of our 
 most esteemed young ladies, Amanda Livingston and Mary Breezley, 
 came very near being drowned, particularly Miss Livingston, who 
 was in the water about twenty-five minutes. She was saved from 
 a terrible death by the gallant efforts of Greo. Maxwell. Assistants 
 did what they could, but to Mr, Maxwell the credit is due of saving 
 her life. The cause of the accident was the upsetting of a boat. 
 Less than a year ago one of the bright boys in Cambridge, Millard 
 Bullard, was drowned. That sad event with the narrow escape of 
 Saturday evening should be a lasting lesson. But Sunday many 
 boys went boat riding. The boats here are small and ill shaped and 
 not safe, and more than two persons should never go into them. 
 One word to the young ladies: When gentlemen ask you to go 
 boat-riding, respectfully decline. No matter how good a swimmer 
 or oarsman, decline to go. The currents are treacherous, the boats 
 unsafe. Again we say, don’t go with any one under any circum- 
 stances, that is, if you value your life. W e would like to say to the 
 boys something that would be of benefit to them, but boys are usu- 
 ally so very smart that they think they know just when and how 
 a thing should be done. — (Cambridge Beporter., April 21, 1886.) 
 
 The fire on the river bottom southeast of Cambridge last Sunday, 
 destroyed about ten tons of hay belonging to A. W arner and about 
 thirty tons belonging to Mr. Adams. On the same night 0. L. Lar- 
 son’s barn and contents were burned. Seven good horses, four sets 
 of harness, 2,000 bushels of oats, 100 bushels of wheat, one corn- 
 planter, several corn plows and other farming utensils were entirely 
 destroyed. Besides the above, three large ricks of hay were con- 
 sumed. Mr. Larson was very badly burned, but not fatally, in at- 
 tempting to get the horses out of the burning barn. No insurance 
 except $200. The entire loss will be about $2,500. Mr. Larson, 
 although suffering severely, keeps up courage remarkably well. He 
 is one of our most prominent Norwegian citizens, a good financier, 
 honest and industrious. This is a great loss to him, but with his 
 energy and ability he will soon be all 0. K. again. The origin of 
 the fire is not known and there are no suspicions of incendiarism. 
 — (Cambridge Reporter., Nov. 3, 1886.) 
 
 Union Township is a township of pretty fair land, although it 
 has its wet lands mostly following down on the east or northeast 
 side of the river. South and west of Cambridge, and southwesterly 
 the land generally is good. Section one of this township is one of 
 the most beautiful, naturally, sections in Story County. Section 
 two is pretty fair. 
 
 Jt has several creeks running through parts of the township 
 besides Skunk River. Skunk runs entirely through the township 
 from the northeast quarter of section six to a point near on the 
 east of the south quarter section corner of section 34. 
 
 There is a belt of timber all along the river through the town- 
 ship, but is most generally soft timber. 
 
Histoky of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 266 
 
 This river flows through sections 6, 5, 19, 16, 21, 27 and 34, 
 touching sections four and 22. 
 
 Ballard’s branch enters the township a very short distance south 
 of the northwest corner of section 19, passing through the north 
 part of section 19, touching section 18, and crossing through the 
 south half of section 17, cuts off the southwest corner of section 
 16, and empties into Skunk River in section 21, just above Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 There is a stream running through the southeast quarter of sec- 
 tion 19 and the northwest quarter of section 20, passing into Bal- 
 lard branch in the southeast quarter of section 17, just north or 
 northwesterly from the Cambridge cemetery. 
 
 There are two small creeks passing through Centre Gfrove and 
 empty into the Skunk flats. 
 
 There is yet another stream running from section 31 through 
 sections 32 and 33 and crosses the county line east of the southeast 
 corner of section 33. 
 
 See index for “ Gfroves’'’ and “ Cemeteries.” 
 
 Cambridge was laid out November, 1856, and incorporated 
 December, 1881, and recorded April, 1882. It was laid out in the 
 interior center of section 21, but the streets are not north and south 
 nor east and west. 
 
 The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway runs through its 
 southern part. This road was engaged in shipping stock and 
 other freighting in 1881, and passenger trains run in the forepart 
 of 1882. _ 
 
 Cambridge is a place of considerable business. It is situated on 
 nice table-lands above high water at all times, and immediately on 
 the west bank of Skunk River. For its business men see “Direct- 
 ory” in the index. See index for “ Mills.” 
 
 The Cmnhridge Herald is a weekly newspaper published by 
 Charles D. Parks. The Herald makes a fair appearance in both 
 type and paper. 
 
 Elwell is a town on the C., M. & St. Paul railway, situated on the 
 southeast quarter of section 25; surveyed in 1882; plat filed for 
 record December 28, 1886. It is nicely situated, and has some nice 
 prairie near it, farms, rather. It has a post-office, express office, 
 and, of course, a ticket office. It is, on a straight line, about three 
 miles from Cambridge. The immortal Skunk (Chicaqua) rolls 
 between it and Cambridge. Smith Paine is its postmaster, and M. 
 L. Smith the Station Agent for Elwell. It has a steam-power ele- 
 vator. A variety store at Elwell, kept by Robert Richardson & R. 
 Paine, is doing considerable business, I believe. 
 
 Some of the early settlers of Union Township were as follows: 
 W. H. Grafton, M. D., Josiah Chandler, J. C. Sladden, Mr. Harris, 
 0. Chamberlin, Thomas Lowe, John Warren, John Grosclose, B. 
 Netterfield, Kenly Dobyns, Amos Kelley, Daniel Finch, Robert 
 Richardson, John Richardson, Wm. H. Jones, L. Nellis, Mr. Rubar, 
 
266 
 
 Histoey of Stoey Coujstty, Iowa. 
 
 Sylvester Chandler, Wm. Breezley, Joseph Seal, J. P. Ball, J. Lee, 
 M. D. Livingston, C. Knight, J. W. Batterson, Mr. Doty, W. B. 
 Womack, P. H. Ream, E. P. Scott, Wm. Allen, P. Lindsey, Hugh 
 McKee, Ole Keerness, Mr. Crawford, Jairus Chandler, J. C. 
 Kinsell. 
 
 Jairus Chandler built the water-power saw-mill on the west side 
 of Skunk River and near where the bridge is, but north of it a short 
 distance, in 1853. The steam flouring mill, which was a good one, 
 was built by J. Chandler and Dr. W. H. Grafton about 1854. It 
 stands a short distance southwest of the bridge at Cambridge. 
 
 The following engage some in shipping stock and grain: R. R. 
 Paine, Robert Richardson, J. C. Lee, Moses Seal, Wm. Williams, 
 Johnson & Co., J. Johnson of Huxley, Mr. Preed of Sheldahl 
 Crossing, Oley Nelson, shipper of grain at Sheldahl. It appears 
 that Lockwood & Co., of Nevada, shipped the flrst car-load of stock 
 at Cambridge that was shipped on the cars about the nineteenth of 
 January, 1882. 
 
 Stock raisers, farmers, and others of the township of energy and 
 attention to business: Thomas Hemstock, Jesse Barker, Wm. 
 Storm, Chas. Barker, E. Prank Scott, Anfen Anfensen, P. H. Ream, 
 E. Cogshall, John Ware, Robert Richardson, J. Chaplin, Hugh 
 McKee, John Jory, John Grosclose, J. C. Grosclose, Geo. Proctor, 
 Ole Neerness, J. 0. Johnson, Weir Weeks, Jonas and Rasmus 
 Lewis, J. C. Lee, Wm. Wilson, H. R. Detwiler, M. D. Illingsworth, 
 Morris Mason, J. S. Kies, John Sesker, Oliver Chamberlin, W. H. 
 Jones, S. J. Severson, John Severson, Pred. Heleman, Thomas 
 Larson, A. E. Larson, Oliver Hill, J. P. Wilson, B. 0. Patland, 
 J. A. McKee, John Patland, L. T. Wing. 
 
 The school houses are not in regular order — two miles apart. 
 The river will not admit it. Cambridge has a very good brick 
 school-house, two stories high. It is for high or graded schools, 
 and they are having good schools. A good principal has much to 
 do in giving reputation to a school. 
 
 SKUETK FLATS ASTD SKUFTK VALLEY. 
 
 Union and Grant Townships share more of the Skunk flats than 
 any other township in the county. I am now inclined to believe 
 when the drift-wood is taken from the channel of the river, and 
 when the flat lands along it are well tiled, where it will admit of it, 
 that the Skunk valley will be among the most beautiful and pro- 
 ductive lands we have. I believe the improvements will be such in 
 the next twenty years that this opinion will prove correct. Wash- 
 ington township shares liberally of Skunk flats and of the Squaw 
 Creek flats. 
 
 Cambridge has had eight postmasters, including the present one, 
 James B. Green, as follows: 
 
 1. Jairus Chandler. 
 
 2. Samuel Bossout. 
 
 3. Oliver Chamberlin. 
 
 4. A. M. Gillett. 
 
 5. J. D. Breezley. 
 
 6. G. D. Southwick. 
 
 7. A. W. Southwick. 
 
 8. James B. Green. 
 
History Story County, Iowa. 
 
 267 
 
 Cambridge has also had eight mayors, viz: 
 
 1. F. M. Livingston. 
 
 2. Mont. Gi. Rodearmel. 
 
 3. D. D. Hayes. 
 
 4. John B. Breezley. 
 
 5. D. D. Hayes. 
 
 6. C. Bidwell. 
 
 7. John C. Kinsell. 
 
 8. 0. M. Johnson, present one. 
 
 Cambridge has two mills, one creamery, two elevators, two water 
 tanks, two livery stables, and two church buildings. One is a iiew 
 church, one year old, and is called the Norwegian Church. It is a 
 nice though plain building. The Methodist Episcopal church 
 building is a fair building, not quite so fancy as the Norwegim 
 church. There are about fifty-eight members of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church at Cambridge and twenty at Center Grove. Of 
 the civics the following will indicate their membership: I. 0. 0. F., 
 30; G. A. R., 41; Masonic, 42; A. 0. U. W., 18; W. R. C., 32; 
 1. 0. G. T., 38. 
 
 The number of cars of stock and of grain shipped from Cam- 
 bridge during the last four or six months could not be ascertained, 
 as the station agent refused to give the item for the public. 
 Why is this? 
 
 For the business men see “ Directory” in index. 
 
 The creamery that was to be is a settled fact, as Richard.son & 
 Paine are preparing to conduct the business to the satisfaction of 
 the farmers who may favor them. — (Elwell, March, 1887.) 
 
 FIRE AT ELWELL. 
 
 Friday afternoon, about two o’clock, smoke was discovered pour- 
 ing out of the house owned and occupied by Nate Pace, at Elwell. 
 The villagers were soon at the scene and with the assistance of a 
 number of persons who happened to be in the immediate vicinity, 
 it was thought the flames were put out; in this they must have 
 been mistaken, as about half-past four Mrs. Pace had occasion to 
 go up stairs, and on opening a door was driven back by the dense 
 smoke, and in a few minutes the whole building was in flames, and 
 it burned to the ground. The household effects on the first floor 
 were saved, while those on the second, consisting of beds, bedding 
 and clothing were burned. The building was valued at $600 and 
 insured in the State, of Des Moines, for $400. The value of 
 burned household goods foots up in the neighborhood of $200 and 
 were insured with the above company for $100. 
 
 Mr. Pace was away from home at the time of the fire and was 
 sent for and arrived just in time to see it fall in. It is probable that 
 the house will not be rebuilt as Mr. Pace was in town Saturday 
 trying to find a house in which to live, we did not learn for certain 
 but think his efforts were unsuccessful.— (Cambridge Herald^ 
 May, 1886.) 
 
268 
 
 History of Story Coujity, Iowa. 
 
 FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 Fire! fire!! fire!!! was the dreadful cry from all directions in 
 Cambridge last Saturday at about 8:30 p. m. Hundreds of persons 
 rushed to the spot marked by the fiames and found the furniture 
 store of Henry Fatland all ablaze. Joining this on the south was 
 the agricultural implement house of B. 0. Fatland, which was soon 
 wrapped in flames. On farther south was a building owned by 
 Solomon Hagen, and used as a billiard room below and a tenement 
 house above. In about twenty-five minutes from the time the fire 
 started in the furniture store this building was on .fire. 
 
 Of Henry Fatland’s building and stock only an organ, a few 
 chairs and a stand were saved. The loss on building and contents 
 were $2,200. Of B’. 0. Fatland’s building/ and stock there was 
 saved about $500 of stock. Loss on stock and building $2,800. 
 
 Hagen’s building entire loss being about $900. 
 
 North of the furniture store was the smith and plow shop be- 
 longing to Christ. Osmundson. This building was only saved by 
 the greatest efforts. Damage to building and contents $150. On 
 farther was the residence and shoe shop of C. Peterson. Damage 
 to contents $25. I 
 
 The snow was falling, and the wind blowing from the northeast, 
 and only for these favorable conditions was the loss as small as 
 it now is. 
 
 Men, women and children did all possible to save the burning J 
 
 buildings and contents. 
 
 Cambridge should have some means of combatting fire; but has • 
 
 from time to time done a great deal of talking about it — “Only _ ! 
 
 this and nothing more.” 4 
 
 We have been informed that Henry Fatland had insurance on 
 building of $400; and on stock $1,200. B. 0. Fatland had insur- 
 ance on building of $400; on stock 1,600. Hagen, Osmundson and ■ 
 
 Peterson had no insurance. — {Intelligencer^ Jan. 8, 1887.) 
 
History of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 269 
 
 INDIAN CREEK TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTORY OF IFTDIAH CREEK TOWHSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLE- 
 MENT AND ORGANIZATION TO MARCH 1887. — CONTAINING, 
 ALSO, A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION, TOWNSHIP, 847; MAXWELL 339; TOTAL 1186. 
 
 Elsew*here will be found a partial history of its early settlement. 
 The Township received its name, ‘‘Indian Creek,” from the name 
 of its longest stream of water, “Indian Creek.” But how the 
 creek got its name, “Indian,” the deponent saith not. The Town- 
 ship »was organized in 1853 — comprising now only township 82 
 north, range 22 west. Maxwell, the only incorporated town now 
 (1886) in the township, was incorporated, by vote, December 17, 
 1883 — for incorporation sixty-seven votes; against it none. 
 
 The following- brief items were partially culled from our 
 county papers. 
 
 IOWA CENTER ITEMS. 
 
 The Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company have had a 
 corps of men going over the survey, through the southern part of 
 this county, straightening the line as much as possible. The 
 present indications are that the railroad will enter the county near 
 the center of the east line of Collins Township, pass about half a 
 mile north of the White Chapel, and cross Indian Creek near the 
 King crossing. Although their railroad employes are not very 
 communicative, yet the indications look as though the company 
 designed building the road at once. 
 
 The burning of the flouring mill at Mitchellville has caused a 
 big run on our mill, but so far. Uncle Peter has been equal to the 
 occasion, and served all patrons satisfactory. 
 
 Dr. Joor has hung out his shingle for the practice of his pro- 
 fession, at Iowa Center. He is a graduate of the Medical Depart- 
 ment of the Iowa City University, a close and careful student, 
 and we trust will be successful in his new location. His industry 
 and perseverance certainly merits success. — '(Sept. 14, 1881.) 
 
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 Histoey oe Stoey Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 lETDIAET GEEEK ITEMS. 
 
 James Fields had a horse killed by lightning on last Friday at 
 11 A. M. —(May 31, 1882.) 
 
 Mrs. Agnes Harsh, daughter of Robert Bradshaw, died very 
 suddenly, last Wednesday, and was buried at the Peoria City ceme- 
 tery, the remains were followed to their last resting place by a very 
 large number of friends. 
 
 On last Saturday, Mr. Fred Leonard, who has been failing for 
 several months with that dreaded disease, consumption, passed over 
 tliG ^^Jordan of Lifo.” Fred was well and favorably^ known, lias 
 lived with us many years, occupying important^ positions and ap- 
 pointments at different times. At the time of his death was post- 
 master of Iowa Center. He was twenty-eight years of age, and 
 leaves a wife and four little children to mourn their loss. They 
 have the true sympathy of many friends. 
 
 IOWA CEMTEE MEWS. 
 
 One hundred and five cars of Texas cattle passed over the, Mil- 
 waukee road last Sunday. They were drawn by seven engines.— 
 (August 25, 1882.) 
 
 Grrain in this vicinity is being stacked in fine condition. 
 
 The silver wedding at J. W. Maxwell’s is pronounced a most en- 
 ioy able affair. Quite a numerous company, consisting of friends 
 from Nevada, Colo, Maxwell and residents here, asseinbled. Ihe 
 hospitality and entertaining powers of the host and his excellent 
 wife were unsurpassed, and to say that each guest had a good time 
 is saying very little. A list of presents would fill a column. 
 
 Maxwell is still booming and bids fair to make one of the best 
 towns in the county. 
 
 The lumber is being put on the ground to-day for Heitchen’s 
 buildino-. It is to be twenty-two by sixty feet, twenty foot posts 
 and tin roof, and is located just south of S. E. Cooper & Co s. 
 furniture store. 
 
 Mr. Roe, of Jones County, has the foundation almost ready for 
 his grocery. The building is to be the same size of the one above 
 mentioned and on the same side of the street, a few rods south. 
 
 The new store on the east side of Main street, just south of 
 Raff’s hardware store, is almost done and presents a fine appear- 
 ance. 
 
 The elevators will be ready for business in a few days. Lots of 
 grain coming in to-day. Farmers must be threshing. 
 
 Peter Baker is now well established in the restaurant business 
 and keeps a fine house. 
 
History op Story County, Iowa. 271 
 
 S. E. Cooper & Co., are unloading another car of furniture to- 
 day. They handle lots of it. 
 
 Mr. Metcalf, the Milwaukee Railroad man is in town to-day 
 looking up matters generally. He says the piling will be here 
 soon for the wagon road across Calamus, south of town. The 
 Railroad Company furnish the piling free of charge. I hope the 
 people will see that we have a good road in that direction. Now 
 is the time to work while the ground is dry. 
 
 Dr. Groodman’s new residence is almost enclosed. It will be one 
 of the finest in the county. He also has a fine office on the street 
 and is doing a good business. 
 
 We are sorry to announce the death of Thomas Dunlap, just 
 east of town. He was an old resident of this county, loved and 
 respected by all who knew him. 
 
 MAXWELL. 
 
 The ladies of the M. E. Church have made all the necessary 
 arrangements for a public Thanksgiving dinner and supper on 
 Thursday next, in Starr & King’s building, for the benefit of the 
 M. E. Church, now in course of construction. — (Nov. 29, 1882.) 
 
 The tile works are burning their last kiln for the winter. The 
 proprietors expect to commence operations March 1st, doubling 
 the capacity of their works. 
 
 The Maxwell House is doing a land office business, so to speak, 
 crowded to excess. 
 
 The freight war between the C. M. & St. P. and the R. I. R. R. 
 has its effects at Maxwell, as the live stock buyers have been pay- 
 ing Chicago prices for hogs during the past week. Farmers are 
 taking advantage and selling their stock. Several car loads were 
 shipped on Saturday. 
 
 In consequence of the church being freshly painted the ladies of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church Aid Society, were compelled to 
 postpone their social and supper for one week, or from May 2nd, 
 to Wednesday, May 9th. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 The sixty-fourth anniversary of the Lodge of I. 0. 0. F. was a 
 success in every respect. The social at the hall was enjoyed by the 
 brethren, their wives and invited guests; and the supper at the 
 Bowen House was par-excellence. 
 
 The school board selected a site for the school house and accepted 
 plans at their meeting last Saturday. The work will be pushed 
 forward at once. 
 
 Arrangements are being made for a grand, old celebration here 
 July 4, 1883. 
 
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 272 
 
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 The Methodist Episcopal Church will he dedicated next Sunday, 
 the Rev. Paxton, of Waterloo, Iowa, officiating. 
 
 The Odd Fellows are making arrangements to build a new and 
 larger hall for their use. 
 
 A movement is on foot to incorporate the town. We have 
 grown to such size that we require a different form of government 
 from the present. 
 
 The township trustees have appointed J. F. Allen, justice of the 
 peace; C. F. Kelley, constable, and George W. Olinger, road 
 supervisor, to fill vacancies. 
 
 G. W. Boitnott and H. Brubaker, have returned from their trip 
 to Kansas; and, while they are pleased with their trip report Iowa 
 as good enough for them. ' / 
 
 Mr. J. D. Gamble had the misfortune to lose two valuable horses 
 in one day recently. One of them fell dead without apparent cause 
 while at work; the other one was killed by falling on a harrow. 
 
 C. A. Wood shipped a car of fifty-four hogs, Saturday, that 
 weighed 17,700 pounds; average, over 327 pounds. Good hogs. 
 
 Among them were eight hogs brought in by George Lash that 
 averaged 425 pounds. — (May 30, 1883.) 
 
 The celebration was a grand success in every respect, musically, 
 socially and financially. A shower in the morning settled the dust 
 and the day was cool and pleasant. The procession was! well 
 handled by Marshal J. G. Wills and numbered over 158 teams. 
 
 The State Center Cornet band, Colo and Maxwell Martial bands, 
 and the Maxwell Glee Club, gave all the music the people could 
 wish. J. R. Hays Esq. gave an oration, leaving out the usual 
 ‘‘spread eagle gush,” which was highly appreciated by his large 
 audience, and was deservedly commented upon, as a model address. 
 
 We desire to thank John R. for this favor, and hope to return it 
 in the future. The shady grove was just splendid. The crowd 
 estimated at from 2,200 to 2,500. Not a fight, nor a man under the 
 influence of liquor on the ground. — (July 4, 1883.) 
 
 At last— The church bell of Maxwell rung its first death, knell 
 last Thursday afternoon, since the town was recorded. Jacob 
 Flora, one of our most worthy and respected citizens, who has been 
 suffering for many months with that dreaded disease consumption, 
 passed away. He died happy and with decided hopes of a future 
 hfe of eternal glory. The funeral services were conducted in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church by the Rev. Samuel Gokenhour 
 assisted by Rev. Daniel Brubaker.— (Sept. 26, 1883.) ^ 
 
 Samuel Vincent died of hemorrhage of the lungs in Dallas 
 County, Sunday last. The remains were brought here on the even- 
 ing train and conveyed to his home near Iowa Center, Iowa. It is 
 indeed sad to be thus claimed by the hand of death, in the very 
 
 
 
Histoey of Stoey CouisTTY, Iowa. 273 
 
 prime of life, as was the case with both of these young men. 
 Surely in the midst of life we are in death. 
 
 Rev. Conrad preached his first sermon in the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, last Sundaj^ morning. The congregation was well 
 pleased with his effort and believe that he will do a good work in 
 this vicinity during the coming year. — (Oct. 10, 1883.) 
 
 The Meyer Bros, are enlarging their livery barn to almost 
 double its former size, and will add several new turn-outs; increas- 
 ing business the cause. 
 
 Mr. Shaffer is building an addition to the Maxwell House, 16x10 
 feet, two story. He can’t now accommodate his large patronage. 
 
 There were twenty-five car loads of grain and stock shipped from 
 this station last week. Who says we have not got the boss busi- 
 ness town? 
 
 The remains of Charles A. Goldsberry arrived from Denver, on 
 Friday night and were taken in charge by Social Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. 
 The funeral services were conducted according to tl*eir ritual, the 
 sermon being preached by Rev. Conrad, after which the body was 
 taken to Iowa Center and buried with the last sad and impressive 
 rites of the order. The sorrowing family have the true sympathy 
 of the entire community. — (March 5, 1884.) 
 
 A serious accident occurred at Mr. George Tomlinson’s, near 
 Peoria City, last Friday. While 'threshing clover, John Tomlinson 
 was engaged in feeding the huller, and by some movement the 
 sleeve of his coat caught in the teeth and his ’right hand and arm 
 was drawn into the machine, tearing it to shreds to the elbow, one 
 tooth passing between and severing the elbow joint. The arm was 
 amputed above the elbow by Drs. Goodman and Joor. St. Ceis. 
 
 J. R. Wood has been secretary of the Indian Creek District 
 Township for ten or fifteen years, during which time the condition 
 of the schools, financially and otherwise, has greatly improved. 
 Mr. Wood has no doubt done his full share in securing this 
 improvement. — (Sept. 9, 1885.) 
 
 Our school house is looming up magnificently and will be com^ 
 pleted within two weeks. It is roomy, conveniently arranged, and 
 the third in size in the county. It is a credit to the town and 
 vicinity, giving us school privileges fully up to the requirements. 
 — (Nov. 25, 1885.) 
 
 Mr. Forbes has his new elevator finished, except his feed grind- 
 ers, which will be ready for grinding all kinds of feed this week. 
 
 Our town is booming. Many buildings are going up and not a 
 vacant room of any kind is to be had, to accommodate new comers. 
 
 The band boys have made extensive preparation for their fair 
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274 History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 and festival, wliich is now under way and will continue until 
 Thursday evening. Many new novelties by way of amusements 
 are being introduced, and a grand good social time is being enjoyed^ 
 
 The I. 0. G. T.’s had a social and supper in their hall on last 
 Friday evening, which was enjoyed by the members of the mystic tie. 
 
 Mrs Charlotta Oxley, aged seventy-five years, mother of John 
 and Thomas Oxley died last Friday; the funeral services were held 
 in Peoria City, on Sunday, conducted by Rev. Sway. 
 
 The gravel pit expectations are running high, but we will not 
 squeal this time till we get out of the water. St. Cris. 
 
 It was undoubtedly a surprise to many persons, although the 
 change had long been anticipated, to learn that last Friday’s Reg- 
 ister contained the appointment of D. M. Ruth as postmaster of 
 this place, and Mr. McNall was to step down and out. _Mr. Ruth 
 has not yet taken possession of the office, but will most likely do so 
 before long. We believe we are safe in saying that Mr. McNall 
 has devoted himself very closely to his office, giving satisfaction to 
 the entire community, and we are sorry to see him yield that posi- 
 tion, but if .there must be a change we are glad to see Mr. Ruth 
 receive the appointment, as we think he is worthy of the position 
 and will endeavor to discharge his official duties to the best of his 
 ability. — Maxwell Tribune. — (Dec. 16, 1885.) 
 
 Our old friend Albert McNall has been relieved of the arduous 
 duties of postmaster, and on January 1st, the keys, bags, etc., were 
 handed over to Daniel Ruth, who has opened the post-office tem- 
 porarily in Mr. Roe’s store room. — (Jan. 13, 1886.) 
 
 The dedication of our new school house, on New Year Eve 
 was a decided success in every particular; the building presented a 
 fine appearance, illuminated in each story. The exercises were 
 interesting, the supper excellent and the treasury replenished about 
 |30. The citizens of Maxwell and vicinity, can well_ be proud of 
 their school privileges, and if properly managed will induce many 
 good citizens to locate here to receive the benefits thereof. 
 
 Death has again visited our vicinity, and taken from us one of our 
 oldest and most respected citizens, Mrs. Anna Miller, aged seventy- 
 four years, died at the residence of her son, Samuel Miller, in Deer 
 Grove, a week ago last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Miller was a con- 
 sistent Christian, and always ready to administer to the sick and 
 afflicted, extending to them needed aid. The funeral services were 
 held in Iowa Centre, Iowa, Rev. Evans officiating; the interment 
 at Woodland Cemetery. 
 
 The many friends of Mrs. John C. Hotchkiss regret to hear of her 
 death, in Des Moines, and extend to her family and her many 
 relatives, in Story County, their true sympathy. 
 
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 History of Story Couiity, Iowa. 
 
 Mayor Goodman held his first court last Monday. His honor 
 was so elated that he set up the apples, and Fred sleeps aa^ain. 
 
 W. 
 
 The Press. — The Maxwell Tribune commenced about January, 
 1883, and is Republican in politics — weekly, by hand press. 
 
 Maxwell was laid out as a town, December, 1881. 
 
 Among the first settlers I will name some of them: — Jeremiah 
 Corey, Mr. J. Corey, Sr., T. C. Davis, W. K. Wood, Jesse R. Wood, 
 Chris C. Wood, John G. Wood, Milton Arnold, Judiah Ray, Jacob 
 Ray, Wm. Alderman, Hezekiah Alderman, Mark D. Sheldon, X. 
 A. Welton, G. M. Maxwell, Daniel Maxwell, N. Webb, Thomas 
 Hall, Thomas Dunlap, Henry Phillips, Wm. Brodie, Mr. — John, 
 Hiram Vincent, Ephraim Bowen, W. V. Smith, Joseph Brubaker, 
 Henry Funk, Dr. Spring, — Grubb, D. F. Shope, John W. Daw- 
 son, Geo. N. Kirkman, Jas. Sellers, Z. Lamb, Alex. McConnell, — 
 Pearson, N. P. Hall, — Olinger, Peter Gordey, John S. Wood, 
 Elisha Alderman, Mr. Neal and Adolphus Prouty. 
 
 The first post-office in the township, and probably second in the 
 county, was at Goshen and was called ‘‘Goshen.” Jeremiah Corey, 
 Sr., was post-master. Goshen waS on the west side of Indian 
 Creek, and in the northeast quarter, of section 21, township 82, 
 range 22. The office was moved to Iowa Center. 
 
 This township is one of the good ones as to soil. Its native tim- 
 ber belts along its streams were better divided over the township 
 than most others. In many places the timber was of better quality 
 than in many other parts of the county, exce|)ting Franklin Town- 
 ship. Indian Creek Township is well supplied with creeks. The 
 two Indians forming into one Indian, and some other small creeks. 
 Ruffle Creek shows itself in section 2, then passes through section 
 10, (running through the south part of Iowa Center,) and enters 
 Indian in the northwest quarter of section 16 at or near the junc- 
 tion of_ the two Indians. Rock Creek has its start in section 7, 
 township 82, range 21, then runs sputhwesterly through sections 
 12, 13, 11, 23, 22 and 27, and empties into big tnjin in the north- 
 west quarter of section 34. In section 27 it passes near the town 
 of Maxwell. 
 
 I now return to the Indians, though they are not for war, yet I 
 must say something about their intrusions on the township. East 
 Injin commences his assault by breaking over Ihe north line of the 
 northeast quarter of section 4, then marching through sections 4, 
 9 and 16 where the big In jin is met and a halt is called for a time. 
 Then comes' the West Injin from the northwest, commencing his 
 out-break on the north line of the northwest quarter of section 6, 
 then he passes southeast through sections 6 and 8 and meets ’tother 
 Injin in the northwest quarter of section 16, and the two Injins 
 there formed an alliance and made Big Injin. Then he commences 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 his assault by rushing through sections 16, 21 and 22, disturbing 
 the line between sections 27 and 28, then breaks through section 
 31, and quits the county near the southeast corner of section 34. 
 This closes the Injin raid in Story County. 
 
 Deer Grrove is explained more fully by reference to “Groves” in 
 the Index. “Mills,” see Index for mills. 
 
 Iowa Center was laid out in August, 1855, but was doing some 
 business in 1854, as the writer hereof knows, from, having been 
 there and took dinner with “Jerry Corey.” 
 
 The town was laid out principally on the west quarter of sec- 
 tion 10, with a tier of blocks off the east side of the southeast quar- 
 ter of section 9. / 
 
 If the proprietor of “Dayton,” (Milton Arnold,) had had as good 
 talkers to work up his interests in Dayton as Jerry Corey and 
 Tommy Davis, Iowa Center might, to-day, be of the past, just as 
 Dayton now is. Then it is presumed Dayton would have been re- 
 corded and shown to be a live town on the northwest quarter of 
 the northwest quarter of section 9, township 82, range 22. But 
 Jerry and Tommy could out-talk Arnold. I met all of them, (the 
 three,) in 1854, at which time Dayton was nicely staked, off. But 
 haps and mishaps occur very frequently. So good bye, Dayton, 
 Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Maxwell next comes up twenty-six years after Iowa Center was laid 
 out. Maxwell was laid off as a town in 1881, on the Chicago Mil- 
 waukee & St. Paul Railroad. It was laid out on the northwest 
 quarter of section 27, and was incorporated in December, 1883. 
 
 It is a place of stir and business, and promises fair for the future. 
 
 For its business see “Directories” in the Index. For “Tile Man- 
 ufactory,” see Index. For “Cemeteries,” see Index. 
 
 The tile factory is one of the profitable institutions of the town- 
 ship. 
 
 The Maxwell Tribune, a weekly newspaper, commenced publica- 
 tion about January, 1883, and' is still prospering. It is Republi- 
 can and makes a good paper. 
 
 The school liouses are not all in their regular places as yet so as 
 to form two mile square school districts. Iowa Center has a good 
 two story school house. 
 
 There are several church buildings in the township. There is 
 an Evangelical Church at Iowa Center. There is a M. E. Church 
 building at Maxwell, noticed elsewhere. , 
 
 Those who ship stock and grain may be named as follows: 
 
 W. K. Wood, Curt. Wood, R. A. Robinson, David F. Shope, 
 Geo. Lash, Samuel Miller, Jacob Ray, J. Freed, Miller & Co., 
 and 0. Lash. 
 
History op Story Couhty, Iowa. 
 
 277 
 
 Among the stock raisers and feeders for sale, and other farmers 
 of energy and life, may be named the following: 
 
 Jesse H. Wood, Wm. Grolden, John Dunahoo, Jacob Ray, M. Elli- 
 son, S. Whitaker, Lot Moore, W. C. Hall, Isaac Horton, T. Mona- 
 han, Thos. Fitzgerald, James Thompson, M. D. Sheldon, W. V. 
 Smith, J. W. John, W. J. Venneman, Robt. Bradshaw, C. Byers, 
 T. V. Maxwell, S. J. Miller, Noble Hall, A. J. Marshall, R. R. 
 Thompson. A. McConnell, M. Pearson, John Oxley, A. Wells, 
 David F. Shope, Gr. W. Boitnott, Gr. W. Olinger, J. D. Gramble, R. 
 M. Scott, L. Flickinger, Thos. Conly, E. C. Fair, W. C. Geary, L. 
 Coggshall, Arch Ray, John Ray, Geo. Wells and J. Wells. 
 
 Maxwell has a Creamery which is three years old and is owned 
 or under the control of Messrs King, Dickey & Hill. 
 
 Mr. R. R. Thompson is the proprietor, or one of them, of a Tile 
 Factory a short distance east of Maxwell. See in Index, “Tile 
 Factories.” 
 
 Maxwell has had three Mayors: J. W. Maxwell, Dr. S. T. Good- 
 man and J. 0. French. 
 
 The post-masters have been A. F. McNall and D. M. Ruth, the 
 present one for Maxwell. 
 
 Iowa Center has for post-mistress Mrs. Frank Higley. At this 
 date, (January 1887,) Iowa Center is the only post-office in the 
 county not on R railroad. There was once a post-office called 
 “Goshen,” which has been noticed. 
 
 Maxwell has a Methodist E. Church organization numbering 
 about eighty-five members. The Cumberland Presbyterians may 
 have from thirty-five to fifty members. 
 
 The “Civics” are indicated as follows in membership: Masons, 
 “Herald Lodge,” fifty-five; “Social Lodge,” fifty-two; I. 0. G. T., 
 forty; G. A. R., forty-one. This is a good showing for Maxwell. 
 
 Maxwell has a beautiful school house — brick — and it is situated 
 on a nice elevation — costing near $3,000. They have a good and 
 graded school with a corps of live teachers. Maxwell has life. 
 
 The old cemetery in the southeast part of town it is presumed, 
 will be moved ere long. Some of the graves will be hard to find. 
 I found about sixty-five graves, but I think there are more. The 
 new Cemetery is in the southwest corner of the northeast quarter 
 of the southwest quarter of section 22, township 82, range 22. 
 
 The number of cars of grain shipped from Maxwell during the 
 last three or four months, was fifty-eight cars. The number of cars 
 of stock shipped, in same time was eighty. This was for June, 
 July, August and September. 
 
 There are two elevators in Maxwell, but steam power is used at 
 one only. 
 
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 Histoet oe Stoet CouisTTY, Iowa. 
 
 Mr. P. A. Jackson is the station agent, and he seems to be ac- 
 commodating and attentive. 
 
 At Iowa Center there are about fifty members of the Good 
 Templars in their organization. 
 
 R. A. Robinson has a nice looking dwelling — well and tastefully 
 finished, Wm. Golden has a good house — one of the good ones of 
 the township. His barn may be the best in the county, find yet it 
 is possible it may not be. It is the best I’ve seen. W. K. Wood 
 and Jesse R, Wood have good dwelling houses. Each one is one 
 and a half or two stories high and a nice outside appearance. 
 There are other good dwellings and barns in the township I did 
 not get to see. 
 
 IOWA CENTEE. 
 
 The coal prospectors struck a paying vein ol coal at a depth of 
 108 feet, southwest of the mill at this place, last week. All that 
 we need now is the right company to take hold and push the work, 
 and by the time snow flies again we can supply the surrounding 
 country with coal. — (April 28, 1886.) 
 
 MAXWELL ETEE. 
 
 The fire broke out about 12:30 Monday morning in Horton & 
 Son’s drug store, catching from stove or flue. It ‘spread north to 
 Magee’s harness shop and south to the corner. Losses as follows, 
 as nearly as can now be ascertained: — S. E. Cooper & Co., furniture, 
 building total loss, stock nearly all saved, fully insured. Goodman, 
 room and hall, total loss, no insurance. I. 0. G. T. and G. A. R. 
 hall, total loss, no insurance. Dickey, Hill & Co., building total 
 loss, insurance $600. Stock about half saved in a damaged condi- 
 tion, insurance about $2,000. C. H. Dickey, household goods, etc., 
 total loss. Bank of Maxwell and building vault all safe, building 
 total loss, insured. Junius Pearson, household goods, total loss, no 
 insurance. W. H. Barnes, law office, papers and books saved, safe 
 not open was in the fire. Maxwell Tribune^ saved type, books and 
 small press, insured for enough to cover loss. 
 
 MOTES. 
 
 Fire was on the sixth of December. 
 
 The City Council lost their room. 
 
 Hitchen’s store room is badly blistered, but wet carpets saved it. 
 
 The bank vault just opened. Nothing frozen and nothing 
 damaged. 
 
 Dickey, Hill & Co., have moved their damaged stock into the 
 Cole building. 
 
 Leroy Shepherd was injured by unusual exertions in getting out 
 his press and inhaling smoke. 
 
 Dr. Goodman contradicts the statement that his building is a 
 total loss. He has the key to the front door. 
 
Histoey oe Stoey Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 279 
 
 The passenger and freight trains did good service in alarming the 
 people by their continuous whistling. 
 
 Mrs. Greddes millinery room was in very great danger. It stood 
 the extreme heat of the bank building. 
 
 Several of our citizens did not get down in time to see the fire; 
 among them Dr. Goodman and W. W. Star. 
 
 Baldwin & Maxwell’s store is peculiarly decorated over the front 
 this Monday morning with frozen blankets. 
 
 Everybody seems to be bearing the loss pleasantly this Monday, 
 A. M., because it might have been so much worse. 
 
 S. E. Cooper & Co., have secured Bagwill & Co’s agricultural im- 
 plement building and will open their stock at once. 
 
 The train men of the freight train came up town and helped 
 fight the fire. Two passengers left the train and came to our as- 
 sistance. 
 
 Our town well was an excellent servant and paid for itself. It 
 was going constantly for two hours but did not fail with its stream 
 of water. 
 
 All household goods and merchandise in the four buildings north 
 and in the range of the fire were removed as it was thought 
 nothing could save the buildings. 
 
 It was only by extra efforts that the business house of Baldwin 
 & Maxwell was saved. No goods were removed, consequently but 
 trifling loss of blankets, buckets, etc. 
 
 The ladies deserve great praise for their work during the fire. 
 They handled the goods, moving wagon loads several times, while 
 the principal part of the men were -fighting the fire. 
 
 Geo. W. Oiinger, one of our oldest and respected citizens, died 
 at 12:30 a. m., to-day. — (December 8, 1886.) 
 
 Mrs. Frank Higley was appointed post-mistress for Iowa Center, 
 in October or November, 1886, in the place of Miss Sheldon, who 
 resigned the ofiice. 
 
 DESCEIPTIOIV OP THE MAXWELL SCHOOL HOUSE. 
 
 The school house is very large; it has four school rooms, two re- 
 citation rooms and three halls. It stands on a small hill, with 
 evergreens in the yard. It is made of brick, and has nine doors and 
 thirty-one windows. It is two stories high. In the largest room, 
 up stairs, is an organ, library, globe, eight maps and a philosophi- 
 cal apparatus, thirty seats, a stove, two large pictures and about 
 fifteen song books. The other room, up stairs, is not quite so large, 
 but has a teacher’s desk, a stove and about twenty seats. The 
 smallest room, down stairs, opposite this one is not used only when 
 there are sociables for the school. Mamie Mead, 
 
 . C Grade, 
 
 — Maxwell Tribune, January 6, 1887. 
 
 The tri-weekly mail from Nevada to Maxwell quit from Iowa 
 Center to Nevada, January 1, 1887; but is still tri-weekly from 
 Maxwell to Iowa Center. 
 
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 Histoey op Stoet Cou^ttt, Iowa. 
 
 COLLINS TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A HISTOEY OP COLLIN'S TOWHSHIP PEOM ITS BAELY SETTLEMEHT 
 AND OEGANIZATION TO MAECH, 1887. — CONTAINING, 
 
 ALSO, A NOTICE OP MANY OP ITS CITIZENS. 
 
 POPULATION 1,003. 
 
 Elsewhere will be found a partial history of its early settlement. 
 I am not sure why it was called “ Collins^” It may have been 
 named for the Rev. John Collins who was a power amongst the 
 people of Ohio, and elsewhere, about fifty years ago. His orator- 
 ical powers were, perhaps, nearly equal to that of the Rev. Henry 
 B. Bascom, who fiourished about the same time of the Rev. Collins. 
 This name for the Township, “ Collins,” is only presumed by me 
 how it came. It was organized in 1857, comprising now only 
 township 82 north, range 21 west. 
 
 The brief items were partly culled from our county papers. 
 
 COLLINS MATTEES. 
 
 We are sorry to announce the death of Mr. Parker’s only child, 
 which occurred on Saturday nineteenth. 
 
 Dr. Knepper has located here, at least we notice his office sign at 
 J. Hanson’s drug store. Welcome, doctor. 
 
 Business is reasonably good in every department. 
 
 The new elevator is progressing rapidly. 
 
 Through trains are now running daily on the Milwaukee 
 railroad. — (Aug. 25, 1882.) OccA. 
 
 John W. Kline is building a blacksmith and ivagon shop. He 
 expects to have it in running order by New Year’s. — (Nov., 1882.) 
 
 The school-house was occupied, for the first time, Friday evejiing 
 with a show. It had to be dedicated. 
 
 Some matters at Collins have taken a new departure. Instead of 
 farmers going to other towns they are bringing their corn all here, 
 or at least it looks that way. Corn is bringing forty cents, hogs 
 are in demand at $6.00. Thanks to C. Mead for the rise in prices. 
 Mr. Mead is feeding about 150 head of cattle and makes quite a 
 market for corn. — (Nov. 29, 1882.) 
 
 W. R. Benson has a fine lot of lumber and it is still coming 
 
Histoet of Stoet Couftty, Iowa. 281 
 
 every day. He expects to have one of the finest lumber yards in 
 the county. 
 
 S. C. Deeter, of Jasper county, has traded his farm for a stock of 
 goods and will bring them to Collins. This will give another store 
 to Collins. 
 
 John Ozmun has bought lots of hogs since the rise, and is still 
 in the field. 
 
 Mrs. John T. Shinkle, daughter of Jacob Cronch, was buried a 
 few days since. She was out from O’Brien county on a visit to 
 her father and mother. The friends have the sympathy of all their 
 neighbors. 
 
 Dr. Knepper is having a large practice in Collins, judging from the 
 amount of driving he does, both night and day. The doctor is a 
 success. 
 
 The Milwaukee railroad company are doing an immense busi- 
 ness. They run seven regular trains each way daily besides several 
 extras, making the south side of the county a good place to live. 
 
 The map man is still around Collins soliciting subscribers. 
 
 COLLIFTS ITEMS. 
 
 Collins is to have a new lumber yard. A gentleman from Clin- 
 ton will soon put in a full stock of all kinds of lumber, moldings, 
 sash, doors and blinds. 
 
 Collins needs a good stock man. Farmers have to go to the ad- 
 joining towns to sell their hogs and cattle. There is a good open- 
 ing for some man in that business. 
 
 Another good grain buyer would do well in Collins. There is 
 only one buyer here now and he buys for another man, not living 
 at Collins, and so cannot be quite as much interested in the pros- 
 perity of the town as a resident would be. 
 
 A good furniture store would pay at Collins, as there is nothing 
 of that kind in town. A good wagon and paint shop is also needed. 
 All other business is well represented and prosperous. 
 
 Collins is still improving. New buildings are being erected all 
 the time and prospects are good for a number next season. Collins 
 expects that the Newton and Nevada railroad will cross here, which 
 will give Collins a big boom. 
 
 Mr. Dodd, the new hotel man seems to be keeping up the repu- 
 tation of the Collins house, judging from the number that 
 stop there. 
 
 Farmers are busy gathering corn. There is about half a crop, a 
 
282 
 
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 good deal of it having been damaged by the first frost. No market 
 at Collins as yet for new corn. 
 
 Supervisor A. Hale is having the pond east of John Mead’s 
 drained, preparatory to making the road passable, which is a long 
 needed work. 
 
 C. Mead is having a lot of tile draining done on his land, that 
 being the leading question among the farmers of Collins. They 
 expect Collins to be the foremost township in the county for farm- 
 ing, as soon as it is properly tiled. There is talk of putting up ma- 
 chinery next summer for making the tile. It will pay for there 
 will be a great deal done next year. 
 
 Collins Township has been redistricted by the school board and 
 another sub-district, created, making ten in place of nine. The 
 town of Collins is now No. 10. As there is no school house in No. 
 10, it will be necessary for the board to rent until such time as a 
 house can be built. There is now about forty scholars in the new 
 district. The school board are in earnest and are determined to 
 give every child a chance for education. Success to them. — (Nov. 
 29, 1882.) 
 
 The town of Collins was laid out as a town February, 1882. 
 
 The snow blockade is over, and trains are again on time. Collins 
 was without mail for nearly a week. Business has been rather 
 slow as the farmers could scarcely reach town. — (Jan. 31, 1883.) 
 
 Charles Mead shipped six car-loads of fat cattle from Collins. 
 Monday. They are said to be the best lot ever shipped from Col- 
 lins Township. 
 
 C. W. Mead and R. Misskimons shipped one car-load of cattle 
 and one of hogs Wednesday. 
 
 J. W. Ozmun shelled corn last week to be ready for shipment 
 when the market favors. 
 
 Collins has a literary society. It meets every Friday evening in 
 the school-house; and on those occasions the building is always 
 full to overflowing. Success to the new enterprise. 
 
 The Collins house keeps up its former reputation; and Mr. Dodd, 
 the landlord, spares no pains to make his guests happy. He also 
 runs a livery stable in connection with the hotel. 
 
 The report is current that the C. M. & St. Paul railroad company 
 have everything in readiness, and will build a branch road from 
 Collins to Des Moines early next summer. 
 
 Farmers all busy plowing corn. Reports from all points say the 
 corn prospect is better than at this time last year. Small grain 
 and grass never looked better. We have every reason to be thank- 
 ful.— (July 11, 1883.) 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 283 
 
 The Milwaukee commenced running a passenger train each way 
 Sunday the 8th instant, and there will be one every Sunday after 
 this till further orders. 
 
 Rev. C. H. Rogers, of Newton, preached one of the best sermons 
 ever heard in Collins on Sunday. He preaches every four weeks 
 at 3 p. M. 
 
 John and Charles Mead have just returned from an extensive 
 trip through Nebraska and Kansas. They report no better State 
 than Iowa; and I think they will stay in Iowa, satisfied that Iowa 
 is best. 
 
 Business in Collins is very good. The merchants all seem to be ' 
 busy. Postmaster Chapman has about all he can attend to since 
 Harry left. 
 
 THUNDER STORM IN SOUTHEAST STORY COUNTY. 
 
 During the thunder storm of last Wednesday, lightning struck 
 a cottonwood tree standing about fifteen feet east of John Hemp- 
 ing’s house, ran down the tree and from the tree to the house, 
 passed through the east window, breaking all the glass but two, 
 then passed out at the north window, breaking sixteen glass in the 
 two windows. A double barreled shot-gun, hanging over the win- 
 dow was knocked down and one barrel discharged; then it fell on 
 the floor by Mr. Pulner’s feet who was sitting on that side of the 
 house. The only persons in the house at the time were Mrs. 
 Hem ping, her little boy and Mr. Pulner who was mowing for Mr. 
 Hemping, Heuiping having gone to Collins with hogs. No damage 
 was done in the house further than breaking glass, the occupants 
 being only slightly shocked. — (July 22, 1885.) 
 
 Last Thursday night Doc. Converse, living a mile and a half 
 north of Supervisor Hale’s had four head of young cattle killed by 
 lightning; they were standing close to a wire fence. 
 
 Everybody is anxiously waiting the development of the coal 
 mines. There was an impediment in the form of a very peculiar 
 formation of sand stone, sulphur and iron combined, that delayed 
 the work from making more speedy headway, but the company are 
 putting forth every effort to bring the work to a focus. — (Decem- 
 ber 2, 1885.) 
 
 George Harsh and Henry Downs are also prospecting for coal 
 and have struck a five foot eleven inch vein at a depth of 107 feet. 
 They passed through five different veins ranging from eleven inches 
 to five feet eleven inches of most excellent quality. On Monday a 
 company from Des Moines will commence prospecting for coal and 
 natural gas on the farms of Wyatt Carr and Perry McCristian. 
 Should they find either they will utilize the same at once. There 
 is already an escape of natural gas on the farm of George Harsh 
 that will burn with a brilliancy that rivals the electric light. This 
 is giving the company great encouragement already. 
 
Mr. Chapman, of Mason City, was in town the past week looking 
 after business affairs. He thinks he will move back to Collins in 
 the spring with his family. We all gladly welcome him back. 
 
 Thanksgiving day was observed in the usual manner. In the 
 evening the ladies’ aid society gave a supper which was well patron- 
 ized. All expressed a degree of satisfaction as no pains were spared 
 to satisfy the hungry souls. — (Dec. 2, 1885.) 
 
 Dr.' Knepper brought into this office Monday a specimen of coal 
 
 from the mine of the Wolf Creek Coal Co., situated two miles 
 southeast of Collins. The specimen is genuine coal from a three 
 foot vein, just below which is another vein six feet thick and of 
 
 equally good quality. The people of the county are to be heartily 
 congratulated upon finding what is proved to be a valuable coal 
 vein. — (Dec. 16, 1885.) 
 
 The coal company has at last passed through 
 which proved to be nearly four feet in thickness, 
 mence entries Thursday. The coal proves to be a; 
 in the state. They have nothing to hinder them r 
 back some of the lucre. With the best of ruach 
 of first quality coal they ought and will make : 
 good thing as well as the community at large. — (J 
 
 Mr. Bricker, of Ohio, was among us looking aft 
 his farm, which lies east of town. 
 
 The old year dies with this number and the ne^ 
 in. All should prepare to make all necessary vc 
 moil saying, throw off bad habits, etc. 
 
 A splendid Christmas trade reported by all, si 
 government is not bankrupt yet, as was predict( 
 necessary wealth still comes to all that seeks it, 6 
 to make a merry Christmas. 
 
 There will be a singing school organized in o 
 near future. 
 
 Several parties from our town were at Maxwell 
 report business quite lively comparatively, the sa: 
 town. 
 
 Charles Fish ships a car load of hogs to-day. 
 
 Hogs are dying quite lively around here. It i 
 the soft weather. 
 
 Business in town for the past week was about tl 
 is coming in in abundance and bringing fron 
 
 twenty-seven cents per bushel. — (Feb. 17, 1886.) 
 The coal miners had a strike Tuesday, but afl 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 285 
 
 explantion as to their misunderstanding, they again resumed work. 
 The company are now ready to supply the local demand. 
 
 Mr. Foster has bought some 1200 or 1500 acres of land around 
 Collins, for a consideration of $50 per acre, on condition that after 
 a fair test that it is underlaid with coal in paying quantity. Pros- 
 pecting will commence at once. 
 
 The Wolf Creek Coal Company, of Collins, are now in full blast 
 and are supplying the local demand. The coal is of the first qual- 
 ity and proven very satisfactory to all who have had an opportu- 
 nity of testing it. ' They are now selling coal at the low figure of 
 $2.50 per ton. — The secretary, Mr. Hampton, was in town Wednes- 
 day and says they can furnish all who call. — (Feb. 26, 1886.) 
 
 W. W. Carr, of Collins Township, is bringing a farm of about 
 five hundred acres under a good state of cultivation. He has four 
 miles of tile already laid, with more to follow. He has put up two 
 hundred tons of hay this year, mostly tame, and has some fine 
 horses and cattle to feed it to. — (Aug. 4 , 1886.) 
 
 Mrs. Susan C. Carr and daughter, Clara, of Collins Township, 
 have a large farm, in most excellent condition in regard to cultiva- 
 tion and improvements. Their herd of thorough-bred Short-Horns 
 is among the best in the county. Mrs. Collins, we are sorry to 
 learn has been quite ill of late. 
 
 Collins Township is over the average for good soil and it is 
 improving rapidly. It is supposed by some that William Parker, 
 yet a resident of the township, was not only the first settler of 
 Collins Township, but the first in the county. 
 
 Mr. Parker claims to have settled in Story County, April 14, 
 1849; Daniel W. Ballard claims that he and his brother, Morman 
 Ballard, moved their families into rude cabins, built for the pur- 
 pose, March 8, 1848. This, then, shows the two Ballards the first 
 settlers of the county. Their father, Simon Ballard, came in the 
 fall of 1848, and died about two years after — making his death the 
 first known in the county. (See Col. Scott’s history of it on pre- 
 ceding pages.) They settled in the grove, which took its name, 
 “ Ballard’s Drove,” from the fact of their being the first settlers in 
 the grove. It would seem, from this circumstance, that this grove 
 was named prior to any other grove. 
 
 I will return to Collins Township. In connection with Mr. 
 Parker will be named, as early settlers, the Shenkles, Dan. Swarm, 
 Zac. Elliott and Ephraim Smith, in the northwest corner of section 
 6, township 82, range 21. 
 
 Mr. Funk, who was far from any neighbor yet was the means of 
 saving the life of a good citizen, (W. S. Vincent), trying to get 
 home came to Mr. Funk’s, accidentally, late in the evening, when 
 

 
 286 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 in almost an insensible condition from extreme cold. Mr. Funk’s 
 bouse, that time, was his salvation. 
 
 There are several creeks in the township, but none large. A 
 branch of Minerva Creek, coming from New Albany Township, 
 and crossing the north line of the section, a little east of the 
 north quarter section, corner of 2, passing into a wide, flat or wet 
 prairie, in the northeast quarter of section 2, and continues so to 
 the east line of section one. A small branch of Clear Creek runs ■ 
 
 through section 13, southeasterly, and leaves the county a little 
 south of the southeast corner of section 13. A larger branch of 
 Clear Creek shows itself in section 23, then passes through sec- 
 tions 26 and 35 — leaving the county a little east of the southwest 
 corner of the southeast quarter of southeast quarter of section 35. 
 
 A small branch showing itself in section 26 and passes through 
 section 35. Wolf Creek commences in section 29, then flows 
 through sections 29 and 33 — cutting off a little of southwest quar- 
 ter of section 34, leaving the county eighty or one hundred rods 
 east of southwest corner of section 34. 
 
 Deflance was laid out as a town, in May, 1856, in the northwest 
 corner of the northeast quarter of section 36, and a small part of 
 it in the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 36. 
 
 Recorded in Record Book B, page 383. This town is one of long 
 standing, and it may be possible there is a house on it, or in sight ' 
 
 of it. It has no hotels, churches nor colleges. The town of Col- , 
 
 lins CMie up early in 1882, and has done well. It is a place of stir '' 
 
 and life. It is situated mainly on the southwest quarter of the 
 northwest quarter of section 21. The Chicago, Minneapolis & St. 
 
 Paul Railway passes through its southern border. Collins is four 
 and one-half miles east and three-quarters of a mile north of Max- 
 well. Nevertheless it is destined to be one of our business points 
 — being nicely located and in'the midst of a productive country. 
 
 One of its valuable points is the coal flelds being so near to it. 
 
 This fact must help it if the coal is abundant and of good quality. 
 
 Of the latter, the claim of quality is good. 
 
 The railroad enters the county a little south of the northeast 
 corner of section 24, curving a little so as to cut sections 13, 14 and 
 23 — then the road on a straight line with but little or no curving, 
 running a little south of west through sections 22, 21, 20 and 19 — 
 quitting the township at or near the southwest corner of section 19. 
 
 At this time no newspaper is published in Collins. 
 
 The nine school houses of this township seem to be, all of them, in ^ 
 
 regular order— forming nine school districts, each being two miles < 
 
 square. This is business. The town of Collins has a high school 
 building, or for graded schools, in addition to the nine others. 
 
 Native timber is scarce. There may yet be some in sections 24, J 
 
 25, 26, 35 and 36. There once was a little timber on Wolf Creek 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 287 
 
 in sections 33 and 31, and a few trees in the southeast quarter of sec- 
 tion 13. Artificial or culitvated groves ‘cover the township all over 
 in beauty and profit, at this time, (1886). 
 
 For the business men of the town of Collins, see the “ Directory ” 
 for Collins. 
 
 The members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and others, 
 have recently built a church building in Collins. It is 60x30 feet, 
 and 16 feet high — no bell — cost $1,800. There are ten members at 
 Collins. The Christian Society has ten members here. Four miles 
 south of Colo there is an United Brethren Church building, at 
 which the Methodist Episcopal Church Society has seventeen 
 members to meet. W. A. Welker, pastor. This United Brethren 
 Church is situated in the southeast corner of section 30, township 
 83, range 21, and was built in 1886, costing about $1,200. 
 
 There is a United Brethern Church in the southwest corner of 
 the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 25, town- 
 ship 82, range 21. 
 
 Also, there seems to be a church in the northeast corner of the 
 southeast quarter of section 33, township 82, range 21. 
 
 Mr. C. E. Campbell is the postmaster at Collins, and Mr. A. H. 
 Tracy is the station agent. 
 
 There are those who ship stock and grain, some of whom I will 
 name: John W. Osmun, Chas. Mead, R. Miskimmons and Chas. 
 Fish. 
 
 Those who raise stock and for sale, and other farmers, and citi- 
 zens of energy, some of whom I will name, vizr: S. I. Shearer, A. 
 Jones, C. W. Etherton, Theo. Fowler, E. W. Shearer, Geo. Pease, 
 W. S. Price, Wm. Parker, W. R. Heath, C. Day, J. A. Pringle, I. 
 L. Hidy, Z. Elliot, E. H. Guy, W. T. B. Shenkle, E. M. Patton, B. 
 R. Shenkle, C. E. Dodd, Frank Millhouse, Anthony Jackson, 
 Wyatt Carr, A. G. Armstrong, H. Angelo, Daniel Lamb, G. M. 
 Kennedy, J. A. Pringle, A. L. Kennedy, Mrs. Susan C. Carr, 
 R. Carpenter, Jno. Thompson, John Denniston, D. Parker, Wm. 
 Richard, Jacob Crouch, J. W. Reagan, Aaron Hale, Anthony Hale, 
 L. W. Marsh, L. Bence, R. Williams, Geo. Donning, L. Tipton, C. 
 Mead, Sr., C. Patterson. 
 
 HISTORY OP THE SIXTEEN TOWNSHIPS CLOSED. 
 
 The history of' the sixteen townships is now complete, and the 
 directories for all the towns are placed adjacent to each other, but 
 are to be found elsewhere in this history. 
 
 The list of names of stirring, active, go-a-head men of the differ- 
 ent townships of the county — such as stock raisers, farmers, ship- 
 
288 
 
 Htstoet oe Stoky Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 pers of stock and grain and teachers are meant — looms up to over 
 800. There are many more just as industrious, perhaps, whose 
 names I had no good chance to get. Then, when the names of 
 about 400 business men as indicated by the directories are consid- 
 ered, and a list of near 900 names of early settlers, and 400 names 
 for county officers, since 1852, and 2,000 names of the dead of our 
 county, we have nearly or quite one-half the names of the adult 
 population of the county published in this history. 
 
 The history of the townships is preceded, however, by a mis- 
 cellaneous or general history; also followed by many interesting 
 incidents and statements as the book will show. 
 
 THE ADAMS BEQUEST TO IOWA. 
 
 A somewhat eccentric bequest has just been made to the Iowa 
 State Agricultural College by a venerable couple living in Florida, 
 by the name of Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Adams were former resi- 
 dents of Iowa, and, with .warm regard for the subject of agricul- 
 tural education, they have set aside a handsome tract of land in 
 Allamakee County, in Northeastern Iowa. The rental of the land 
 is to be set apart as the Adams endowment fund for the benefit of 
 the State Agricultural College till the year 1936, when the amount 
 is to be used for the support of one or more pupils in the school. 
 The Agricultural College is already the wealthiest school in the 
 State, with an endowment of hundreds of thousands of acres, but 
 the bequest from Florida will be accepted, nevertheless, for the 
 good motive that prompted it. — (Nov. 24, 1886.) 
 
 The grand jury at Sioux City has returned indictments for the 
 murder and conspiracy against Arrensdorf and nine of his accom- 
 plices in the Haddock murder. This grand jury has been regarded 
 with much suspicion, but to its credit it is stated that the indict- 
 ments vvere all adopted by a unanimous vote. The conviction at 
 Sioux City has grown very strong that one Peters, who was a driver 
 of a brewery wagon and a witness to the murder of Haddock, has 
 also been murdered by Arrensdorf, and his body burned in the 
 brewery furnace. 
 
 STORY COUNTY VOTE. 
 
 The Board of Supervisors canvassed the vote of Story County 
 Monday. The official canvass differs in no material respect from 
 the unofficial returns published last week, and will be given in our 
 next issue. The totals and the majorities are as follows: 
 
 SBORETAEY OE STATE: 
 
 2005 991 
 
 1014 
 
 5 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Sells 
 
 Farnham (Pro.) 
 
OALLA^TAK COLLEGE. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 291 
 
 AUDITOR OF state: 
 
 Lyons 2010—1000 
 
 Guelich 1010 
 
 McReynolds (Pro.) 5 
 
 TREASURER OF STATE: 
 
 Twombly 2012 — 1008 
 
 Campbell 1004 
 
 Mickelwait (Pro.( 3 
 
 ATTORNEY GENERAL: 
 
 Baker 2008 — 998 
 
 Mackey 1010 
 
 Rogers (Pro.) 4 
 
 CLERK OF SUPREME COURT: 
 
 Pray 2014—1011 
 
 Theophiliis 1003 
 
 Howard (Pro.) 4 
 
 SUPREME COURT REPORTER: 
 
 Ebersole 2010—1007 
 
 Bradley 1003 
 
 Wolf (Pro.) 4 
 
 congressman: 
 
 Conger 1937 — 850 
 
 Carpenter 1087 
 
 DISTRICT judges: 
 
 Miracle 2037 — 1022 
 
 Stevens 2006 — 991 
 
 Weaver 2006 — 991 
 
 Doud 1015 
 
 Beacher (Pro.) 1 
 
 COUNTY attorney: 
 
 Dyer 1727 — 485 
 
 Martin .... 1242 
 
 CLERK DISTRICT COURT: 
 
 Wilson 1996 — 974 
 
 Wood 1022 
 
 recorder: 
 
 Ingram 2038—1061 
 
 Longsdorf 977 
 
 supervisor: 
 
 Burgess 1964 — 912 
 
 Golly 1052 
 
 —(Nov. 2, 1886.) 
 
292 
 
 Histoet oe Stoey County, Iowa. 
 CONGRESSIONAL. 
 
 The following is the vote of this district for Congressman, the 
 vote of Story and Polk being official and that of the other counties 
 as unofficially reported; 
 
 
 
 CONGEE. 
 
 CAEPENTEE. 
 
 Story 
 
 
 1937 
 
 1087 
 
 Polk 
 
 
 5423 
 
 4993 
 
 Dallas 
 
 
 2067 
 
 1978 
 
 Marion ...... 
 
 
 2200 
 
 2476 
 
 Warren 
 
 
 1896 
 
 1841 
 
 Madison 
 
 
 1657 
 
 1855 
 
 Total . . . 
 
 
 15180 
 
 14230 
 
 Conger’s majority 950. 
 
 DECORATION. 
 
 Monday was Decoration Day and it was duly and appropriately 
 observed by Jason D. Ferguson Post, No. 31, G. A. R., assisted by 
 the citizens of the town and surrounding country. The exercises 
 were commenced with a sermon at the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 on Sunday, by Rev. Jeffry, who treated the subject in grand shape. 
 Monday was ushered in in good shape; the day was clear and the 
 sun shone bright, yet it was not hot, making all nature in its love- 
 liest aspect. — Long before noon the streets commenced to fill with 
 parties from the country, who came to participate in the exercises. 
 About one o’clock the G. A. R. assembled at their hall, under direc- 
 tion of Commander Gillispie, assisted by Comrades Alfred Goodin 
 and A. K. Banks, and proceeded to the street escorted by their 
 martial band. Company G, I. N. G., was waiting for them, with 
 their band, when they proceeded to the public square, followed by 
 the Nevada brass band with a vast concourse of citizens, the Nevada 
 public schools, and, in fact, by an increasing multitude, including 
 fair maidens who had been appointed as floral bearers and loaded 
 with their garlands. 
 
 When the square was reached the crowd took seats, which had 
 been prepared, and was called to order by Comrade T. C. McCall in 
 a few choice and fitting words of tribute to those whom we were 
 to honor by the acts of this day. Music was interspersed through- 
 out the services from beginning to end. The prayer was made by 
 Rev. Reid, after which Judge H. C. Henderson, of Marshalltown, 
 was introduced to the assembled crowd as orator of the occasion. 
 His discourse was a fine one and was listened to throughout with 
 marked attention, and may be truly said to be one of the finest 
 that was delivered on that day in any section of our common 
 country. 
 
 After the proceedings at the square were over the procession was 
 again formed and proceeded to the cemetery, which being reached 
 
History of Story Coukty, Iowa. 293 
 
 the committees proceeded to decorate the graves of those who were 
 laid within its bounds. Each grave was decorated with a wreath 
 of fine flowers and a cross of evergreens, making a neat and tasty 
 display. The following were the names of the ex-soldiers, whose 
 graves were decorated, beiiig all buried in these grounds, so far as 
 known. If any have been missed in the Nevada or Catholic ceme- 
 teries, the fact should be reported that it may be remedied the next 
 time: 
 
 Dr. A. Patton. 
 
 D. L. Stephens, 
 
 George Adams, 
 
 Thos. Richardson, 
 
 Q. A. Boynton, 
 
 Wm. Talbott, war 1812, 
 
 P. P. Chauncey, 
 
 S. M. Chenoworth, 
 
 L. Irwin, 
 
 being eighteen in number. 
 
 After this duty had been performed the balance of the work was 
 attended to. Frank Burdick read a poem, which was timely and 
 quite well executed, after which Company G fired a salute, giving 
 a good specimen of volley firing, and one much to their credit. 
 The next was the benediction, after which the procession was 
 reformed and all returned to town and dispersed to their various 
 homes. 
 
 Very many graves in the cemetery were decorated with flowers, 
 and in a very neat and tasty manner. Quite a number of the sol- 
 diers’ graves had already received a large floral offering before the 
 committee reached them, and were thus doubly remembered. Thus 
 did our citizens show their appreciation of those that served their 
 country in hours of trial and the dark hour of almost despair at 
 times. The testimony is given that all party feeling is laid aside at 
 least for one day in the year, and all unite on one common level to 
 do honor to those, who have simply anticipated the other veterans 
 in reaching the other and popularly supposed to be better land, and 
 who took their lives in their hands upon many a bloody field that 
 the nation should remain intact and not be dismembered, at the 
 hands of a band of traitors, whom misguided clemency permitted 
 to remain in our midst. 
 
 The number in attendance was quite large— far larger than has 
 ever before been assembled on a similar occasion. Each and all 
 appeared to enter into the various parts of the program with a 
 determination to make it a success, and such only. 
 
 Thanks are due to the various committees for what they did, and 
 to Mrs. Bixbie for the care and forethought in arranging the flow- 
 ers for the services, and to the concourse for the kindly attention to 
 the suggestions made them. Each one on dispersing to their 
 
 Alba Hall, war 1812, 
 John W. White, 
 Frank Bobo, 
 
 J. Fetterhoff, 
 
 George Schoonover, 
 Frank Daniels, 
 
 R. Lyman, 
 
 Joseph Middaugh, 
 John Confare, 
 
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 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 homes wished that all present might live to attend many more such 
 gatherings before the All Wise Architect shall summon them to 
 the region beyond the river of life, from which there is no return. 
 —(May 30, 1886.) 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. 
 
 There was a very interesting Sunday School Convention held at 
 the church, in Bloomington, Sunday, November 7th. The conven- 
 tion was opened with a song led by the superintendent, T. J. Miller. 
 After the reading of a chapter of scripture by T. B. Howland, 
 Pres. Ingalls explained the lesson in a very instructive and compre- 
 hensive manner. The afternoon session was opened by singing, 
 and a short praise service led by T. B. Howland. The topic, 
 “ What is the greatest need of the Sunday School ” was discussed 
 by Gr. H. Spencer and others. Rev. J. Fegtley discussed the topic, 
 “ The relation of parents to the Sunday School.” This, it is need- 
 less to say, was ably handled. The speaker took the very sensible 
 view, that parents should bring the Sunday school into the home; 
 that they should, assist the children in the study of the lesson by 
 reading, by conversation and by whatever means they have at 
 hand; finally, they should supplement these means by attending 
 Sunday school with them. A good interest was manifested 
 throughout the day, and we trust that good results will follow. 
 May the Master add his blessing in this grand work. — (Nov. 1886. 
 
 Gr. H. Spencee. 
 
 MEMORIAL DAY. 
 
 SUNDAY. 
 
 Greneral satisfaction seems to be the sentiment from all who 
 attended the exercises in the hall on last Sabbath morning. The 
 hall was full to the doors. All were on time and the audience was 
 not disturbed by late comers or early goers. The Sons of Veterans 
 had entire charge of the arrangement of this service, and much 
 credit is due to them for the beautiful appearance of the hall and 
 the systematic manner of seating the large audience. The Sons of 
 Veterans attended the service in a body, under the command of 
 Capt. Pickett, and presented a fine appearance with their new silk 
 fiag. The services were conducted by Rev. H. J, Everly, assisted 
 by the local pastors and Prof. Wynn. The singing was by a 
 double quartette selected from the different church choirs, with Dr. 
 Meredith as leader. The selections were appropriate, and excel- 
 lently rendered. The sermon by Rev. Everly was rich in thought — 
 pertaining to the day and its duties, but we refrain from any 
 extended synopsis of it, as we hope to give it to our readers in full 
 next week. It is proper to say that it received general commenda- 
 tion from the entire audience. 
 
Histoey of Stoky County, Iowa. 
 
 295 
 
 MONDAY. 
 
 Memorial Day was observed by Ellsworth Post, Gr. A. R., with 
 the same order of exercises as has been usual on former years. The 
 response to the invitation of the Post by the citizens of Ames and 
 the surrounding country was most hearty, making the aggregate 
 attendance much larger than that of any former year. The stu- 
 dents of the college added materially to the interest of the occa- 
 sion — their fine band— uniformed and armed battalion of cadets, 
 together with the novel but attractive and well drilled brigade of 
 young ladies, were features that received well merited praise from 
 all observers. Prank Bently Post, of Gilbert, was present in fine 
 form, and J. L. Geddes Camp, Sons of Veterans turned out fifty 
 members and a more manly body of young men would be hard to 
 find in any town. The Parade was formed on Onondaga street in 
 the following order: 
 
 1. College Band. 
 
 2. Battalion of Cadets — Major W. B. Hunter. 
 
 3. Ellsworth Post, G. A. R.— Com. Loughran. 
 
 4. Frank Bently Post, G. A. R. — Com. McFarland. 
 
 5. Drum Corps. 
 
 6. J. L. Geddes Camp, Sons of Veterans — Capt. J. H. Pickett. 
 
 7. Spear Brigade (Ladies) — Capt. J. Rush Lincoln. 
 
 8. College Artillery with piece. 
 
 9. Orator of the day, in carriage. 
 
 10. Citizens in general. 
 
 In this order the column marched to the cemetery where a hol- 
 low square was formed and the appropriate ritual of the G. A. R. 
 was conducted by the Ellsworth Post. 
 
 The decoration of the graves was performed by Officer of the 
 Day, T. J. Miller with detail, assisted by sixteen misses — daughters 
 of soldiers. The young ladies deposited the flowers and flags, and 
 rendered an appropriate song at each grave. Responses were made 
 at the graves by comrades Christman, McMichael, Wilson, Moul- 
 ton and Cramblet. The column then reformed and proceeding 
 to Condit’s Grove participated in the program as previously 
 published. 
 
 Very general satisfaction was felt with all the exercises at the 
 grove and each deserves special mention but we lack space to par- 
 ticularize. 
 
 The overture by the college band was finely executed and each 
 selection of vocal music was new, of a high order and finely ren- 
 dered. Com. Tilden welcomed the citizens as follows: 
 
 Friends, as commander of Ellsworth Post, I welcome you to this 
 public service. It is dear to every soldier. Decorating the graves 
 of our departed comrades is an outward act, but calling to mind 
 their lives and the scenes through which they passed is of much 
 deeper significance. Let the day lose none of its present features, 
 but let it become more and more a season of memories. This day 
 
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 is dedicated to patriotism. We cannot have a more important les- 
 son than love of country and devotion to the country’s good. 
 
 The dead whom we honor, sleep their last sleep, no music and no 
 words can touch their hearts, “ no sound can awake them to glory 
 again.” It is the rising generation that need the lessons of this 
 day; so for one day the plow stands in the furrow, the busy ham- 
 mers are at rest and the marts of trade are silent. Here and all 
 over our beloved land is heard the tramp of veterans marching to 
 the last camping ground of their comrades who sleep; nor come 
 they here alone for the millions of patriot hearts that beat respon- 
 sive to the echo of their arms now beat in sympathy with the 
 honors which we bring. Here are the widows and orphans, the 
 grey haired fathers and the Spartan mothers of the dead, and their 
 presence deepens in our hearts the memory of our departed com- 
 rades who rest in yonder cemetery or in unknown graves. It is to 
 those who fought and won, to the living and the dead; to those 
 who fought and failed, and here come to rejoice with us in the 
 dawn of a better day; that our country should be kept on the road 
 of progress, toward the goal of the greatest human weal. 
 
 The evils that we overcome were vast, but the evils that we face 
 to-day are numerous and great. 
 
 The passions of men still trample upon liberty and law. Tbe 
 disturbances of the old world pervade our changing population, and 
 endanger more and more that purity of life, without which popular 
 government by and for the people cannot stand. 
 
 I think we need to magnify the functions of law if we would 
 prevent crime, awe the vicious and inspire confidence in the hearts 
 of all good citizens. I once read a statement that one of the New 
 York regiments was composed of men of foreign birth, spoke eleven 
 different languages, but when the bugle sounded the line was 
 formed, and when the order came to charge all moved forward, and 
 no man questioned why. This was to do and die. So may we all 
 move forward to the command of the law and the music of the 
 Union. Let us cultivate the sentiments of temperance, justice and 
 peace. The Norwegians, proud of their native hills, inscribe upon 
 their Rex dollars, temperance, virtue, probity, and whatever is of 
 good report let the world learn among the rocks of Norway; so let 
 us in this grand and noble commonwealth of Iowa not only assume 
 to be, hut he the very eagle’s nest of all that makes man noble, 
 great and free. 
 
 Hon. John L. Stevens, in behalf of the citizens responded as 
 follows: 
 
 Commander and members of the Grand Army of the Republic! 
 On behalf of the citizens here assembed I take pleasure in thanking 
 you for the kind welcome extended to us. 
 
 We recall to-day many tender memories of years gone by, many 
 which bring grief to our hearts. 
 
 We see fathers, sons, brothers and lovers forming in line at their 
 
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 Histoey of Stoky County, Iowa. 
 
 country’s call. Wives, mothers, sisters and loved ones taking their 
 last long loving and lingering look as the dear ones march away. 
 
 We remember how often, in the years that followed, sad news 
 came filling many a home with a gloom that still remains. News 
 of death upon the battlefield, in the hospital, and in the rebel pris- 
 ons. These are some of the sad memories of the great war. Mem- 
 ories which as loyal citizens we hold sacred for they contain a les- 
 son of patriotic devotion to country. A sentiment which lies at 
 the foundation of liberty itself. 
 
 There are many still living who carry a load of grief for their 
 loved ones; some are among us to-day. We sympathize with them 
 and we honor their dead, for they are our dead also. We pay them 
 a loving tribute of respect, and teach our children to revere their 
 memory and to emulate their patriotism. Other memories to-day 
 fill our hearts with pride rather than sadness. Time heals the 
 wounded heart and lessens every sorrow. But time does not dim 
 the glory of national honors. This glory will live though the 
 nation perish. Rome and Carthage have passed away yet every 
 school boy knows the history of their soldiers and their deeds of 
 valor. Thus will future ages listen to the story of brave men who 
 fought our battles, of their many deeds of daring, of the final grand 
 victory which gave us an undivided country, and preserved for 
 future generations this great republic; a nation in which every 
 man, woman and child is equal before the law. Where every ave- 
 nue to success is open free to honest industry and moral worth 
 regardless of rank or wealth. Where titles are despised and 
 oppression unknown. In such a country patriotism is in the very 
 air. It is rooted in every heart. Race, prejudice and sectional 
 hate must yield to it. Political strife cannot destroy it. The Re- 
 public stands to-day the greatest nation on earth, confident of her 
 own strength, the irresistible power of fifty-five millions of free and 
 enlightened people. We feel an honor to be citizens of such a 
 country. W^e are glad to have lived with those who preserved it 
 for our children. We rejoice to see every people on earth unite in 
 honoring the silent soldier who led you to final victory and whose 
 tomb is to-day covered with flowers from every state in this union. 
 May his words, “ Let us have peace” find a response in every heart 
 North and South. Let brotherly love prevail, and let us hope that 
 the republic may never again be convulsed by internal strife, That 
 every section may prosper. That wisdom, patriotism and a broad 
 and generous statesmanship may hereafter, and forever prevail. 
 
 Gen. Given feeling obliged to leave by the five o’clock train sub- 
 stituted for his prepared address an extemporaneous speech our 
 only criticism of which is that it was too short. The audience 
 heartily appreciated it and wanted more. The General was partic- 
 ularly happy in picturing the soldier of 1861 to 1865 in camp, on 
 the march or in the battle — and the scenes so vividly portrayed 
 were perhaps as near the reality as is possible for tongue to picture. 
 To appreciate the blessings and profit by the teachings of the day, 
 
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 he proposed to show the audience a little of what this grand herit- 
 age cost in sutfering and privation. What was brought home was 
 not the empty sleeve, the shattered frame, or the crippled limb, but 
 a glorious country, a genuine nation, the envy of the world, and 
 free, forever free from the damning curse of human slavery. In 
 closing the Gleneral referred to the fears sometimes heard that Gr. A. 
 R. Posts and Sons of Veterans Camps had a tendency to keep alive 
 personal animosities and answered the thought by proving that 
 personal feeling was not an element during the strife, and that it 
 was no feature in their organization. Everybody granted every ex- 
 Confederate soldier all rights and privileges as a citizen that every 
 other citizen possessed, and this sentiment met a hearty response 
 from every soldier present. 
 
 The poem, Reunion,” was recited by Miss Moulton in a very 
 efficient manner. After the benediction the different organizations 
 returnM in the same order as they marched to the cemetery, a gen- 
 eral good feeling prevailing and each trusting that they had con-, 
 tributed what they could towards doing honor to the heroic dead. 
 The committee having charge of the exercises felt somewhat 
 chagrined that the facilities of the town did not permit them to 
 entertain the college organizations, but they hope to make amends 
 at some future day. 
 
 The graves in the Ontario cemetery were decorated in the fore- 
 noon by the citizens, and members of Ellsworth Post. The arrange- 
 ments being mainly directed by Messrs. Foster and McCracken. 
 Comrades Barstow and T. Gr. Miller, assisted by comrades and citi- 
 zens living in that vicinity held appropriate services during the 
 forenoon at Bloomington cemetery. The exercises at Walnut 
 Grove were conducted on Saturday, and it is reported that they 
 were both solemn and patriotic. Other observances in this part of 
 the county may have been, held of which we have failed to gather 
 the report, but enough is recorded to show how rapidly Memorial 
 Day is increasing in the hearts of the people, and that the lessons 
 it teaches receives sympathetic response from every loyal citizen. 
 
 POOR FARM. 
 
 THIRD days’ proceedings OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY SUPERVISORS 
 AND COUNTY INFIRMARY INVENTORY. 
 
 Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1886. 
 
 Board met as per adjournment. 
 
 Members all present. 
 
 Minutes of yesterday read and approved. 
 
 Board went in a body to the County Farm and Infirmary, and the 
 day was occupied in inspecting the same and taking an inventory 
 from which the following is summarized. 
 
 Number of inmates in infirmary, sixteen. 
 
History oe Story County, Iowa. 
 
 299 
 
 V alue of farm (320 acres) and improvements $10,000 00 
 
 Value of mules, horses, cattle, hogs, etc 2,184 00 
 
 Value of grain on hand 455 00 
 
 Value of farm implements, etc * 500 00 
 
 Value of household effects, beds and bedding, including 
 
 pantry stores, furniture, etc 789 70 
 
 Total... $13,928 70 
 
 Adjourned to meet to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock. 
 
 COUNTY FAIR GROUND. 
 
 The County Fair Ground is situated on the west half of the 
 northwest quarter of section 5, township 83, range 22, containing 
 twenty -four acres. It was located on May 7, 1869, for the purpose 
 of a permanent fair ground. There are all the improvements on it 
 now necessary for comfort and convenience. The halls for exhib- 
 iting goods, wares, flowers, drafts, fruits, machinery, everything 
 for exhibition, are suitably arranged for the purposes intended. 
 Stabling and water for horses, cattle, hogs, etc., etc., are bountifully 
 supplied. The track (race track?) is kept in fair condition. The 
 amphitheatre and judges stand are in place. By the report of 
 the Secretary of the Agricultural Society for 1885 we find the 
 following : 
 
 STATEMENT NO. 7 — ACCOUNT OE EAIR. 
 
 The fair was held at Nevada, September 15th to the 18th inclu- 
 sive. * * * The show of horses and public school exhibit were 
 
 particularly attractive. The attendance was good but would have 
 been better had it not rained the night of the second and the 
 morning of the third day. The grounds are in good condition, 
 new improvements made each year and the society prospering. It 
 could be improved, however, if a more general interest was 
 taken, and meetings of the society better attended and suggestions 
 
 freely made. 
 
 Receipts $1,400 00 
 
 Expenses • • 425 00 
 
 Paid in premiums 922 75 
 
 Paid for improvements 125 00 
 
 Value of grounds 2,700 00 
 
 Number members, 240. 
 
 And finally, our agricultural society as an index of progress and 
 a stimulator to still better achievements in all rural and related 
 pursuits, should not be overlooked. The society was organized in 
 May, 1869, without a dollar of property; now the society has 
 twenty-four acres of well fenced fair grounds, two large and con- 
 venient halls, a good amphitheater, over a hundred stalls and pens 
 and an excellent half mile track. In view of the fact that this 
 
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 History of Story Courtty, Iowa. 
 
 property is well worth $3,500, that premiums are always paid in 
 full, and that its indebtedness is only $500. 
 
 The barn of Mr. L. 0. Larson, who resides six miles east of 
 Sheldahl, was entirely consumed by fire early Monday morning last, 
 with all its contents, embracing seven horses, one colt, 4,000 bush- 
 els of oats, 100 bushels of wheat, hay, etc. In his effort to rescue 
 his stock Mr. Larson was severely burned. It is not known how 
 the fire was communicated to the building. — Ames Intelligencer . — 
 (November 4, 1886.) 
 
 The Senate removed the injuction of secrecy from the several re- 
 ports in cases disposed of some time ago. In the case of E. D. 
 Fenn, to be post-master of Nevada, vice T. J. Ross, suspended, the 
 Postofifice Committee says that there seems to have been no cause 
 for the suspension of Ross other than that he was a consistent and 
 active member of the Republican party and his suspension was de- 
 sired on that account in order that a member of the Democratic 
 party might be appointed in his stead. The committee finds 
 nothing against Ross and finds Penn a worthy man. — Ames Intel- 
 ligencer.— 1886.) 
 
 The destruction, by fire Tuesday morning last, of the Leader 
 newspaper in Des Moines, entails a severe loss on the owners of 
 that paper. The total loss is about $25,000, with $14,000 insur- 
 ance. The Leader will be continued without delay or interruption. 
 — Ames Intelligencer. — (May 27, 1886.) 
 
 On Friday word was received here, that Henry Pattee, a former 
 resident here, had committed suicide at Fort Dodge on Thursday. 
 He was traveling for a Dubuque house and had about $1,000 of the 
 money belonging to them. The reason given was gambling. — Ne- 
 vada Watchman. — (May 7, 1886.) 
 
 Accident. — On Friday afternoon as Ed. Silliman and Jesse • 
 Barnes were out on a hunting expedition, and while west of the 
 residence of J. M. Whitney, in Orant Township, they crossed a 
 slough, and in doing so took a boat which was there. Ed took 
 hold of the muzzle of his gun and pulled it towards him. The gun 
 was discharged, the charge entering the left arm just above the 
 wrist and coming out near the elbow. He was brought to town by 
 Mr. Whitney, and Drs. Smith and Farrar called, who took out the 
 pieces of bone and fixed up the sufferer as well as could be expected 
 under the circumstances. The other bone of the arm was saved 
 and can be used, though the arm will remain somewhat stiff. It 
 is serious, but not so bad as it might have been. — (April 10, 1885.) 
 
 The mercury has indicated pretty cold weather the past week. 
 Friday morning it went as low as 35 degrees be|ow zero. In other 
 localities near by it run down to 28. At present writing we are 
 having a slight thaw. — Ames Intelligencer. — (Jan. 7, 1887.) 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. . 301 
 
 TOTAL NUMBER OF CHURCHES IN THE COUNTY. 
 
 CHURCH BUILDINGS AND DENOMINATIONS. 
 
 Townships 
 
 OF 
 
 The County. 
 
 N. S. Presbyterian. 
 
 1 Cumb. Presbyterian. 
 
 M. E. Church. 
 
 M. Prost. Church. 
 
 1 Baptist Church. 
 
 Christian Church. 
 
 1 Congregational Church. 
 
 1 Evangelical Lutheran. 
 
 D. Brethren Church. 
 
 1 Church of Giod. 
 
 Lutheran Church. \ 
 
 1 Catholic Church. 
 
 Total No. of Churches 
 
 in County. 
 
 Total members reported 
 
 — A meagre report. 
 
 Tiinpnln 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 53 
 
 nrrpn 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Howflrrl 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 2 
 
 1400 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 . • 
 
 2 
 
 1100 
 
 nrflnVliTi 
 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 30 
 
 jyTilfnrd 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 40 
 
 p.li 1 n.Ti 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 81 
 
 Stiprman 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 New Albany 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 , , 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 Npvada 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 
 586 
 
 C-ran t 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 W a sh i n erf nn 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 500 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Falpsfinp 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 TTmnn 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 78 
 
 Tnflia.n Frpplr 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 133 
 
 Cnllins 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total each denom. 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 11 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 . . 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 41 
 
 4068 
 
 SENTENCE OF SALOON-KEEPERS. 
 
 Hon. N. M, Hubbard, District Judgje of the Eighth Judicial 
 District of Iowa, in passing a sentence upon some liquor-dealers 
 for violation of the prohibitory law of the State, said: 
 
 “While there are greater crimes known to the law which are 
 punishable with great severity, are none which involve more of 
 those qualities known as despicable meanness and audacity than 
 the selling of intoxicating liquors. 
 
 “There is something in the taking of human life by violence so 
 instantaneous that it shocks and terrifies the minds of all, and yet 
 we look upon the man who takes human life quite as surely, but 
 by a slow, lingering process — if not without condemnation, at least 
 with horror. You who stand before the court for sentence are in 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 . every moral sense murderers, and you are within the spirit, if not 
 the letter, guilty of manslaughter; for the law says that whoever 
 accelerates the death of a human being unlawfully is guilty of the 
 crime. Your bloated victims upon the witness stand, and who 
 undoubtedly committed perjury to screen you from the law, not 
 only abundantly testify that you are accelerating death, but that 
 you are inducing men to commit still greater crimes than your 
 own. 
 
 “You are still in living idleness and eating the bread of orphans 
 watered with widow’s tears. You are stealthily killing your vic- 
 tims and murdering the peace and industry of the community, and 
 thereby converting happy, industrious homes into misery, thriftless 
 poverty and rags. You are sowing the seeds of ignorance, idleness 
 and among the generations to come. 
 
 “Anxious wives and mothers watch and pray in tears nightly, 
 with desolate hearts, for the coming home of their victims, whom 
 you are luring the smiles of the devil into midnight debauchery. 
 
 “You are persistent, defiant law-breakers, and shamefully boast 
 that in defiance of the law and moral sense of the community you 
 will continue in your wicked and criminal practice. 
 
 “And finally, let me entreat you, if you are not lost to sentiment 
 of humanity, to desist from your criminal, vagabond traffic, and 
 betake yourselves to some honest calling for a livelihood, and you 
 may yet become virtuous, useful citizens, and entitled to the respect 
 of a Christian community; while if you persist in this way your 
 own ruin is certain, and you will receive, as you deserve, the exe- 
 cration of mankind. 
 
 “You may think that the sentence of the court is harsh and 
 unjustly severe, but the court assures you that, compared with your 
 crimes and the desolation you have already brought the commu- 
 nity, it is mild in the extreme.” — (1875.) 
 
 officers’ temperance league — ORGANIZED BY THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 Washington, Nov. 20. — Greneral Sherman has issued a general 
 order from the headquarters of the army, in which he says: “The 
 President is much concerned to find before him for action the pro- 
 ceedings of the courts martial in several cases where officers have 
 been tried for violation of the thirty-eighth article of war, which 
 provides that any officer found drunk on duty shall be dismissed from 
 the service. The President desires it to be known to the army that 
 he cannot be led to underrate the magnitude of the evil of which 
 the crime alluded to is likely to produce in the public service. No 
 person addicted to it can expect to be entrusted with any responsi- 
 ble duty, and a person who cannot be trusted had better not be 
 continued in office. It must therefore be understood that any 
 clemency which may have been heretofore extended by the mitiga- 
 tion or commutation of the sentence cannot hereafter be relied 
 upon as a basis of hope for a like favorable action. After this sol- 
 
Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 303 
 
 emn warning a rigorous execution of the sentences imposed in due 
 course by the courts martial may be expected .” — State Leader . — 
 (Nov. 21, 1877.) 
 
 TO THE PEOPLE OE STOEY COUNTY. 
 
 Does it pay to have scores of workingmen poor, ragged and 
 financially ruined in order that one saloon-keeper may be dressed 
 in broadcloth and flush of money ? Does it pay to have fifty men 
 live on bone-soup and half rations in order that one saloon-keeper 
 may flourish and feast on roast turkey and champagne? Does it 
 pay to have the mothers and children of twenty families dressed in 
 rags, and almost starved, and living in hovels, in order that the 
 saloon-keeper’s wife may dress in satin, and her children grow fat 
 and hearty, and live in a bay-window parlor? Does it pay to have 
 a citizen in jail, to be supported at the public expense, because 
 another sells him liquor? Does it pay to have hundreds of 
 homes blasted and ruined, defiled and turned into hells of misery 
 and discord, in order that one liquor-dealer may amass a large for- 
 tune? Does it pay to keep men in the penitentiaries and prisons, 
 and men, women and children in the poor-houses, at the expense 
 of the honest, industrious tax-payers, in order that a few capital- 
 ists may grow richer by the manufacture and sale of intoxicating 
 liquor? Does it pay to permit the existence of a traffic which 
 only results in crime, poverty, misery and death? It never pays 
 to do wrong. Our sin will find us out whether others find, it out 
 or not. The sin knows where you are, and will always keep you 
 posted of that fact. It does not pay. Petee Bakee. 
 
 The Watchman . — (June 5, 1878.) 
 
 In his instructions to the Grrand Jury of Marshall County, last 
 week. Judge Henderson expressed an opinion, touching the assured 
 validity of the amendment, which the Marshalltown Times-Repuh- 
 lican pronounces the ablest and most lawyer-like yet rendered on 
 the vexed question. 
 
 THE EAILEOAD AND SALOONS — OPINIONS OE THE MANAGEES. 
 
 Geinnell, Iowa, May 22, 1882. — Ed. State Register : — Being 
 requested to learn the views of railway officials as to our prohibit- 
 ory amendment, I can report in part. At an early stage of the 
 discussion my opinion was that no good railway manager in Iowa 
 would be averse to the amendment, and I have sought in vain to 
 find one, hut afiirmatively we have four great thoroughfares across 
 the State with several branches. One company has forbidden the 
 sale of intoxicating drinks in its buildings, on its grounds, or its 
 use by employes on duty. 
 
 Another forbids, as manager, trainmen from entering a saloon 
 on peril of dismissal, and is thus an outspoken servant of the pub- 
 lic, whom I have repeatedly heard declaim on the demoralizing 
 influences of the saloon. 
 
 A third said to me with emphasis: “I wish you God-speed — 
 
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 Histoey op Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 there are no railway interests promoted by the saloons.” This was 
 a calm and decisive utterance. 
 
 The fourth remarked: “I would put the license up to ^1,000 
 each— S5, 000 would be better. Our great peril to trains and losses 
 have come by drinking. There is nothing to be said in their favor 
 every business man knows.” 
 
 These gentlemen, in charge of more than $100,000,000 of prop- 
 erty, and with nearly twenty thousand men on their pay-rolls, 
 cannot be called fanatics, or of one idea, and employes in every 
 branch of the service and rank may know the mind of their chief. 
 What a spectacle it would be for gods and men to see one of them 
 walking up to vote against a principle which means safety to rail- 
 road trains! Dividends on the investment, and mere comforts to 
 the employes and their families, less tenaptation to thousands of 
 young men, and good to every material interest, and a thousand- 
 fold more in the elevation of character. 
 
 Still in the faith of thirty thousand majority after reading Sen- 
 ator James F. Wilson’s speech very strong and to the point. Right 
 is right. Yours, J. B. Ceinnbll. 
 
 (May 31, 1882.) 
 
 The following paragraph from Friday’s Regisier furnishes excel- 
 lent material for the temperance plank that will be needed in the 
 Republican platform of the coming fall campaign in Iowa: “The 
 the temperance people of Iowa know how to achieve what they 
 want, and they have the power needed to achieve it. Their first 
 step will be for statutory prohibition, and they will win that in the 
 next Legislature. As to constitutional prohibition, that is also 
 . sure, although it may be a little more distant. Indeed they have 
 that already, and all they need is a Supreme Court to recognize 
 and enforce it, and that will take less than two years’ time. A 
 people or party who can have statutory prohibition within a year, 
 have no reason to feel cast down. — (May 2, 1883.) 
 
 JUDGE HENDERSON’S CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY 
 ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITORY 
 AMENDMENT. 
 
 IT TOOK EFEECT JUNE 27, 1882 — -UNLAWFUL TO SELL 
 WINE OE BEEE SINCE THEN. 
 
 District Court convened in regular session on Monday last. 
 Judge H. C. Henderson on the bench. One of his first duties was 
 his charge to the Grand Jury, in which, in treating of the Consti- 
 tutional Prohibitory Amendment, as to when it took eftect, etc., 
 he uses the following language: 
 
History Story Coujity, Iowa. 
 
 305 
 
 “It is made my special duty to call your attention to infrac- 
 tions of the liquor laws of the State, and to direct you to investi- 
 gate such cases and indict where you have or can obtain sufficient 
 proof to warrant an indictment. Since the last term of this court 
 the law, on this subject, has been changed by the adoption of a 
 constitutional amendment, commonly known as the Prohibitory 
 Amendment. This amendment was adopted and went in force at 
 the close of the special election of June 27, 1882, since which date 
 it has been unlawful to sell beer and wine the same as any other 
 intoxicating liquors. There seems to be a diversity of opinion in 
 the profession as to the effect of the adoption of that amendment, 
 and the proper practice arising under the law since the amendment 
 was in force. It is my duty to advise you on this question in the 
 first instance, and upon a very careful consideration of the sub- 
 ject, I have concluded that since June 27th last, it is not only un- 
 lawful to sell beer and wine, but the sale or keeping for sale these 
 varieties of intoxicating liquors is subject to the same penalties 
 as the sale or keeping for sale other liquop. The statute by its 
 terms originally prohibited and now prohibits in terms the traffic 
 in all intoxicating liquors. After the statute went into effect the 
 legislature incorporating a 'proviso by which beer and wine were 
 excepted from the operation of the law. By the adoption of the 
 constitutional amendment this proviso and exception were abro- 
 gated and set aside, and now the law stands in full force against 
 the excepted liquors as well as all other intoxicating beverages. 
 The repeal of the exceptional provisions can, in my opinion, only 
 operate to bring the excepted liquors under the condemnation of 
 the law, and the amendment of the constitution has the same ef- 
 fect, I think, as would a legislative act repealing the exceptional 
 clause. So you are directed to bring in indictments against all per- 
 sons who have been engaged in selling or keeping for sale in any 
 place or building in the county, any intoxicating liquors, includ- 
 ing ale, wine and beer, but as to ale, wine and beer, only since 
 June 27th, last. — (Aug. 23, 1882.) 
 
 THE CLARKE BILL BOILED DOWN. 
 
 1. Action for injunctions shall be brought by the district or 
 county attorney. If he refuses, then by any citizen. General rep- 
 utation of a place shall be accepted as evidence. 
 
 2. Temporary injunctions shall be granted by judges in court 
 or vacation without bond. 
 
 3. The violator of an injunction is liable to summary punish- 
 ment under the laws of 1884. 
 
 4. The penalty on conviction of keeping a nuisance is a fine of 
 1300 to $1,000, and the defendant cannot purge himself under the 
 poor debtors act. 
 
 5. A nuisance may be abated by removing all fixtures from the 
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 building and closing the building for one year, unless sooner 
 released. 
 
 6. The owner of the building may secure its return on giving 
 bond for the value of the property that the nuisance shall remain 
 abated. 
 
 7. The possession of liquor without lawful permit, whether in 
 a saloon or private dwelling is presumption that it is kept for un- 
 lawful purpose. 
 
 8. The penalty for a second conviction is three months to three 
 years in the penitentiary. 
 
 9. The unlawful transportation of liquor is a fine of $100 for 
 each offense, and jail until the fine is paid. 
 
 10. The penalty for concealing the contents of a package by 
 false mark is $100, and police officers have power to break suspected 
 packages. 
 
 11. All property of defendant, except the homestead, is liable for 
 fines and penalties, and may be confiscated therefore. — Capital— 
 (April 21, 1886.) 
 
 Hon. J. A. Harvey, President of the Iowa State Temperance 
 Alliance, and chairman of the executive committee, spoke at 
 Kelley, the twenty-seventh of June, upon the work and object of 
 the Alliance, etc., after which he organized an Alliance there, with 
 twenty-two members, and for officers, appointed A. Wortrnan, 
 President; Elmer Keeney, Vice President; John J. Wiltse, Secre- 
 tary; and David Raymond, Treasurer. The name is the ^'Kelley 
 Temperance Alliance,” which will meet the first Tuesday night of 
 each month, for the transaction of business, declamations, reading 
 of essays and anything, in fact, fostering and encouraging prohi- 
 bition and total abstinence. These meetings are public, and we 
 cordially invite all to come, who will behave well. Secretary. 
 
 — Ames Intelligencer . — (July 1, 1886.) 
 
 Judge Stutsman is reported by the Clinton Herald to have given 
 rebuke to a law evading body of city ordinance makers, in words 
 burning with the eloquence of truth, and fitting close to the hides 
 of culprits outside the cage. Sentencing one more unfortunate, a 
 Democrat, who, under the license of a city council, was caught in 
 the act of “promoting sobriety and suppressing free whisky” on 
 the Democratic plan, was fearless to say: “If I was a member of 
 the city council I would come to the rescue and pay the fine of a 
 man like this. I think it is a shame for a city like this to hold out 
 inducements to men to violate the law and the order of the court. 
 Here is a bottle of whisky and the affidavit which are clear proof of 
 his guilt. All this grows out of the fact that the city has "induced 
 this man to take out a license with the implied understanding that 
 he can violate the law which will land him in jail. If I were the 
 city treasurer I would not sign such a license. I feel humiliated 
 that the city council has brought this upon this man, and I hope 
 they will come forward and help pay the fine.” Defendant fined 
 $500. — Ames Intelligencer . — (July 15, 1886.) 
 
Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 307 
 
 Saturday last there was a drunken carnival in Ames. Our re- 
 porter observed three cases, and only a small section of Main street 
 had been heard from at that hour. Where does the “budge” come 
 from? Who keeps open saloon in Ames? Who sells the "''hard 
 cider''"' (?) that makes 'the drunk come. Man’s disregard and defi- 
 ance of law seems to be on the rampage. Will men never cease to 
 want to break the law because it is the law? And have they no 
 realizing sense of their responsibility to God tor debauching menA 
 souls and bodies ? He who willfully violates the laws of his country 
 is not a good citizen, and a community is' justified in driving him 
 forth. The drunkard-maker is worse and more dangerous to society 
 than the unfortunate intoxicant who staggers through our streets. 
 We have pity for the drunkard and sympathy for his d^istressed fam- 
 ily, but we have no pity, no sympathy, no respect for the creature that 
 deals out the liquor that sends husbands, fathers and brothers reel- 
 ing through our thoroughfares. These violaters of the law should 
 be boycotted by every decent man and woman in the community. 
 They are vipers, whose sting is as deadly as the rattle-snake’s, and 
 should be shunned as we would the poisoned fangs of the reptile. 
 — Ames Intelligencer. — (Oct. 21, 1886.) 
 
 AN APPEAL. 
 
 MADE TO THE BOAED OF SUPEEVISOES OF STOEY COUNTY BY A 
 COMMITTEE OF LADIES, ABOUT 1874, AND MADE BY THE 
 PEESIDENT OF THE W. C. T. U., MES. MAEY M. 
 
 ALLEN, OF NEVADA, VIZI 
 
 Honorable Gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors : 
 
 We are here as a committee sent by the W. C. T. U. to entreat 
 of you not to grant permits to those who have petitioned for 
 the right to sell intoxicating liquors. We come with the law in 
 our hands, page 280, section 1529. First, We claim to be residents 
 of the county and have an interest in the prosperity and welfare of 
 its citizens. Second, The persons applying shall be of good moral 
 character. 
 
 Now the question is whether this is an employment which a 
 man of good moral character would be, or ought to be, engaged in. 
 Is it such a business as the citizens ought to approve? Is it such 
 as your conscience and sober judgment can approve? Is it such? 
 Is it such as your God and Judge will approve? When we know 
 it is not to benefit our neighbors, nor promote public health, or 
 morals, or happiness — but for the sole purpose of making money. 
 We feel and Mieve that it don’t pay to permit the existence of a 
 traffic which only results in crime, poverty, misery and death; which 
 
308 Histokt of Stoet Coufttt, Iowa, 
 
 never did, never does, never can, never will do any good. That it 
 don’t pay to have our active, intelligent boys transformed into 
 drunkards, thieves and criminals, to enable one man to lead an easy 
 life by selling them liquor. 
 
 To reduce the question to a narrow compass and a nice point, is 
 it right to permit a man who, for the sake of gain, will engage in 
 the sale of poison?” 
 
 The parties petitioning for license to sell intoxicating liquors 
 failed, at this session of the Board, to get such permits. 
 
 INGERSOLL’S 
 
 ARRAIOFTMEifT OF ALCOHOL. 
 
 Col, Robert G. Ingersoll in addressing a jury in a case which in- 
 volved the manufacture of alcohol repeated the following terrible 
 arraignment of the demon. No one can gainsay its truth and no 
 one can read it without a shudder: 
 
 “I am aware that there is a prejudice against any man who man- 
 ufactures alcohol. I believe that from the time it issues from the 
 coiled and poisonous worm in the distillery until it empties into the 
 jaws of death, dishonor and crime, it demoralizes everybody that 
 touches it, from its source to where it ends. I do not believe that 
 anybody can contemplate the object without being prejudiced 
 against the liquor crime. All we have to do, gentlemen, is to think 
 of the wrecks on either side of the stream of death, of the sui- 
 cides, of insanity, of the ignorance, of the destitution, of the little 
 children tugging at the faded and withered breast of weeping and 
 despairing mothers, of wives asking for bread, of the men of ge- 
 nius it has wrecked, the men struggling with imaginary serpents, 
 produced by this devilish thing; and when you think of the jails, 
 of the almshouses, of the asylums, of the prisons, of the scaffolds 
 upon either bank, I do not wonder that every thoughtful man is 
 prejudiced against this damnable stuff called alcohol. Intemper- 
 ance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength and old 
 age in its weakness. It breaks the father’s heart, bereaves the do- 
 ting mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases conjugal attach- 
 ment, blights parental hope, and brings down mourning age in sor- 
 row to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness, 
 not health; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children or- 
 phans, fathers fiends, and all of them paupers and beggars. It 
 feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemic, invites cholera, 
 'imports pestilence and embraces consumption. It covers the land 
 with idleness, misery and crime. It fills your jails, supplies your 
 almshouses, and demands your asylums. It engenders controver- 
 sies, fosters quarrels and cherishes riots. It crowds your peniten- 
 tiaries and furnishes victims for your scaffolds. It is the life blood 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 309 
 
 of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the high- 
 wayman, and the support of the midnight incendiary. It counte- 
 nances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the blasphemer. It 
 violates obligation, reverences fraud and honors infamy. It de- 
 fames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue and slanders inno- 
 ence. It incites the father to butcher his helpless offspring, helps 
 the husband to massacre his wife and the child to grind the parri- 
 cidal ax. It burns up men, consumes women, detests life, curses 
 Grod, despises heaven. It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, defies 
 the jury box and stains the judicial ermine. It degrades the citi- 
 zen, debases the legislature, dishonors statesmen and disarms the 
 patriot. It brings shame, not honor; terror, not safety; despair, 
 not hope; misery, not happiness; and with malevolence of a fiend 
 calmy surveys its frightful desolation and unsatiated havoc. It 
 poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights confidence, slays 
 reputations and wipes out national honor, then curses the world 
 and laughs at its ruin. It does that and more. It murders the 
 soul. It is the sum of all villainies, the father of all crimes, the 
 mother of all abominations, the devil’s best friend and Grod’s worst 
 enemy. 
 
 AT WATEELOO, IOWA. 
 
 The Presbytery adopted the following resolution unanimously 
 and with enthusiasm: 
 
 Resolved . — That the Presbytery of Waterloo is in favor of the 
 entire destruction of the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a bever- 
 age, and to secure this end we pledge our hearty support to those 
 men and those measures which will secure the legal prohibition of 
 said traffic throughout our State. 
 
 The Ladies Presbyterial Missionary Society held a very interest- 
 ing meeting Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday evening a 
 praise Missionary service was held. Addresses were made by Revs. 
 T. S. Bailey, State Superintendent of Home Mission work, Wm. 
 Bryant, of Grundy Center, Andrew Herron, of Albion, and Mrs. 
 Van Hook, missionary from Persia. All the addresses were ex- 
 cellent. Mr. Herron made the last address, and roused the audi- 
 ence to the highest pitch of enthusiasm in closing with the senti- 
 ment that we shall have, in Iowa, a school house and a church on 
 every hilltop, and no saloon in the valley. The music led by the 
 fine choir of the church was most excellent, and the singing was 
 joined in heartily by the congregation, which completely packed 
 the house. — (October 10, 1883.) 
 
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 Histoet oe Story Couistty, Iowa. 
 
 GOVERNOR LARRABEE’S TEMPERANCE PROCLAMA- 
 TION. 
 
 State oe Iowa, ) 
 
 Executive Department. \ 
 
 To whom these presents may come — Greeting. 
 
 Whereas, The people of this State at a non-partisan, election, 
 held on the twenty-seventh day of June, A. D. 1882, expressed 
 themselves in favor of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors 
 as a beverage; and. 
 
 Whereas, The Twenty-first General Assembly amended the law 
 to secure universal enforcement; and 
 
 Whereas, A very large number of persons are petitioning for 
 pardons and remissions of fine for offenses committed under such 
 law; 
 
 Now, therefore, I, William Larrabee, Governor of the State of 
 Iowa, relying with confidence upon the loyalty and true Christian 
 spirit of our people to sustain all measures adopted for the promo- 
 tion of the general welfare, do, under the pains and penalties of the 
 law, warn all persons engaged in the illegal sale of intoxicating 
 liquors to desist from such unlawful practice, and I do hereby give 
 notice that willful violators will hereafter have no claim to execu- 
 tive clemency. And I call most earnestly upon all good people of 
 the State to aid, to the best of their ability, in the inforcement of 
 the law. 
 
 Especially do I call upon all temperance societies, and other 
 bodies organized for kindred purposes, to realize the necessity for 
 new energy in their labors. 
 
 Let the priests, ministers teachers and the press use their best 
 efforts to enlist the moral forces of the State in this cause. Let 
 the judges, attorneys and other officers of the courts be painstaking 
 and persistent in enforcing the law, both in letter and in spirit. 
 Let the sheriffs and peace officers be fearless, vigilant, and let the 
 mayors and other municipal officers awaken to new zeal in their 
 efforts to secure its observances. 
 
 I exhort all citizens to lay aside partisan differences, and by 
 united and determined efforts banish the dram-shop from Iowa. 
 
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set mj^ hand and caused 
 to be affixed the great seal of Iowa. 
 
 Done at Des Moines, this third of May, A. D. 1886. 
 
 William Larrabee. 
 
 By the Governor: 
 
 Frank D. Jackson, Secretary of State. 
 
 AN UPRIGHT JUDGE. 
 
 The Des Moines (Iowa) Register says: ‘^One of the first decis- 
 ions affirming the constitutionalty of the new prohibitory law 
 comes from the ablest Democratic judge in the State, Judge Bur- 
 ton, of Ottumwa. A test case was recently submitted to him, ask- 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 311 
 
 ing for a permanent injunction against operating a large brewery 
 at Ottumwa, which was manufacturing beer without a permit from 
 the County Board of Supervisors. The owners of the brewery set 
 up the defense that the law was unconstitutional, inasmuch as it 
 violated the provision of the United States Constitution, which 
 says: 'No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, 
 without due process of law.’ The further defense was made that 
 all the beer now being sold had been manufactured prior to July 
 4th, when the law went into effect. These are the grounds which 
 the opponents of prohibition generally rely upon as sufficient to 
 establish the un constitutionality of the law, hence the importance 
 of Judge" Burton’s decision. The Judge decides that the law is 
 constitutionah notwithstanding the defense alleged. He takes the 
 ground that the Legislature has the right to enact laws prohibit- 
 ing the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors whenever in 
 their judgment such prohibition is best for the interests of the 
 whole community. He declares that this right is acknowledged by 
 an unbroken line of authorities, and is not an open question. — N. 
 Y. (Sept. 24, 1884.) 
 
 A man may be a temperance man, and not a religious man; but 
 it is impossible for a man to be a Christian and at the same time be 
 antagonistic to temperance or the most radical temperance work. 
 There is no antagonism between the temperance work and Chris- 
 tianity. Every movement and every organization formed for the 
 purpose of pushing on the temperance work, take them in any 
 form they may exist, are useful auxiliaries of the church, aids to 
 true religion, and the most effective allies of Christianity. Drunk- 
 enness is a sin, and as such is denounced by the Bible. It is, how- 
 ever, a sin, which in many instances has its palliations, because of 
 its having become to a great extent, a physical disease. But rum 
 selling is a crime which this day and age has no palliation, no 
 excuse, no defense. No man can be a true Christian and apologize 
 for it any more than he can be a true Christian and apologize for 
 theft, blasphemy, gambling, perjury or any other of the crimes 
 against Grod and society, which are universally acknowledged as 
 flagrant crimes. — Intelligencer . — :(Feb. 10, 1887.) 
 
 PROHIBITION PASSED. 
 
 \ 
 
 Prohibition has passed both houses of the Legislature, and before 
 this reaches our readers, will, very likely, be a law. The debate 
 in the House, which began Wednesday, came to a crisis Friday. 
 The bill had already been amended on motion of Mr. McCall, so as 
 to conform very nearly to the Senate bill. The question then was 
 upon a thousand dollar license bill which had been offered as a sub- 
 stitute by Clayton, Republican, from Pottawatamie, and upon the 
 Democratic free whisky bill which had been moved as an amend- 
 ment to Clayton’s bill. The first vote was upon the amendment. 
 

 
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 312 Histoet oe Story Coujsttt, Iowa. 
 
 ft 
 
 A few Republicans voted for it in order to load down Clayton’s 
 substitute, but the Democrats saw the scheme and changed their 
 votes. The rest of the Republicans did likewise, and the result 
 was a party vote, the Republicans supporting the Democratic bill, 
 and the Democrats opposing it. Clayton and his colleague, Davis, 
 voted with the Democrats, and the amendment was lost by a vote 
 forty-nine to fifty. Now came the rub for prohibition in the vote 
 on the substitute. Clayton and Davis again voted with the Demo- 
 crats and Greenbackers; but Johnson, of Montgomery, who had 
 been elected on two or three tickets, and generally classed as a 
 Democrat, voted for prohibition, and the license bill was defeated 
 by a vote of forty-nine to fifty. The next question was upon the 
 engrossment of the prohibition law. Clayton and Davis now voted 
 with their party, and the motion prevailed, fifty-one to forty-eight. 
 Staurday the vote was taken on the final passage, and the bill 
 passed, fifty-two to forty-one. Johnson voted for it, and a num- 
 ber of Greenbackers dodged. Yesterday the bill was taken up in 
 the Senate and passed, thirty-four to eleven. The bill now goes to 
 the Governor, whose approval is certain. The bill as passed differs 
 from the Senate bill, published last week, only in the omission of 
 the word “now.” The act will take effect on the Fourth of July. 
 — (March 5, 1884.) 
 
 John Q. Adams said: “No vote can be lost or thrown away 
 when it is cast for a principle, though you have to vote alone; and 
 you can cherish that sweet reflection that your vote is never lost.” 
 
 The great American Statesman, Henry Clay, just about his ven- 
 ture in support of the Compromise of 1833, said, “ I would rather 
 be right than to be President.” 
 
 John B. Gough said: “You must stand to your principles. 
 They talk about protection, but we temperance people have no pro- 
 tection whatever. We want protection from the liquor traffic for 
 the widow, the orphan and the children.” 
 
 The able and distinguished United States Senator, Lot Morrill, 
 said on the floor of the United States Senate: “The liquor traffic 
 is the gigantic crime of crimes. It inflicts upon society more evils 
 than come from any other crime; more evils than come from all 
 other crimes. No one, so far as I know, has ever denied that all 
 this is true. Is there any compensating good coming from it to 
 the State or the people that should restrain us from resorting to 
 prohibition?” 
 
 
Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 313 
 
 VOTE ON THE PROHIBITORY AMENDMENT TO THE 
 CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF IOWA, 
 TAKEN JUNE 27, 1882, AS GIVEN 
 BY TOWNSHIPS FOR THE 
 WHOLE COUNTY. 
 
 Collins . 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Grant 
 
 Howard 
 
 Indian Creek 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 ijinpoln 
 
 
 YES. 
 
 77 
 
 AGAINST. 
 
 57 
 
 29 
 
 30 
 
 11 
 
 29 
 
 87 
 
 20 
 
 Milford 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 Nevada 
 
 
 
 79 
 
 New Albany 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 Palestine 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 Richland 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 Sherman 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 Union 
 
 
 
 42 
 
 Warren 
 
 
 46 
 
 11 
 
 Washington 
 
 
 
 59 
 
 Total 
 
 
 
 553 
 
 Majority, 1368. 
 
 Well done Story County! 
 
 ENFORCING THE LAW. 
 
 Judge Stevens last week imposed a number of heavy fines upon 
 Boone saloon keepers, to- wit: Mike Seerey ^700, Arthur Mann 
 $300, Chas. Lindsey $600, Asa Coppoc $350, Vince Hipps $300, 
 Hans Jurgeson $600, Nic Heilman $300, Fritz Saterlee $400. To 
 a candid and unprejudiced observer this would seem discouraging 
 tojthe liquor business. — (Feb. 23, 1887.) 
 
 The above fines imposed show the ring of tKe true metal. Good 
 for Judge John L. Stevens! 
 
 The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Emporia, Kansas, 
 walked to the City Clerk’s office in a body recently and were regis- 
 tered. There were ninety.” — (April, 1887.) ' ' 
 
 The above item means business. This temperance wave that has 
 been sweeping over many of the States for several years, had its 
 origin among the faithful women of this country, and it has been 
 perpetuated — increasing in numbers and interest — until the pro- 
 hibitory sentiment has become the most interesting question of the 
 day. The women of the United States will persevere — will not 
 cease working until the liquor traffic shall, in some way, be con- 
 
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 History of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 trolled. The interest is also taking deep and earnest hold of the 
 male part of our country. 
 
 The vote given on the Prohibitory Amendment to the Constitu- 
 tion of Iowa, in 1882, will evidence the sentiment of her people on 
 that question — 1921 votes for and only 553 against, in Story 
 County. The majority in the State was nearly 30,000 for prohibi- 
 tion. 
 
 This was an unpartizan vote, and, probably, was a very true 
 expression of the sentiment of the people. 
 
 A RAILROAD CHAPTER. 
 
 During 1859 there was held at the Court-house in Nevada a rail- 
 road meeting to consider the matter of trying to secure, somehow, 
 a continuation of the railroad from Cedar Rapids westward through 
 Nevada, etc. At the meeting there were four delegates appointed, 
 if I mistake not, to meet railroad men at Cedar Rapids to consider 
 what could be done in getting an extension westward; for Cedar 
 Rapids was a point already fixed by the terminus of the road from 
 the Bast. I believe T. C. McCall, James Hawthorn, John Scott, 
 and S. S. Statler were the delegates selected. After considerable 
 discussion and interchange of views there were directors elected for 
 the new company along the line from Cedar Rapids to the Missouri 
 River. This new company was called the Cedar Rapids and Mis- 
 souri River Railroad Company. At that convention James Haw- 
 thorn was elected one of the directors in this new company. We 
 had good men for delegates. After his election as director, Mr. 
 Hawthorn went into the work with a will and secured $600 or $700 
 in Story County, and as much in Boone for a preliminary survey 
 through these counties. Well, as we old settlers know, after much 
 hard work had been done and money pledged by our citizens, the 
 survey was made, and finally a location was secured and the road 
 built; but the county gave the swamp lands with the condition the 
 road be built within 3,000 feet of the court-house. Finally the 
 railroad company got the land and the people got the railroad. 
 The difficulty that followed in regard to the station is explained 
 elsewhere. 
 
 There has been an effort made to secure a railroad from Newton 
 via Nevada and towards Webster City, or some point north or 
 northwesterly. There have been twosurvej^s made and taxes voted 
 in this county, as well as others, in the townships through which 
 the road was to pass. But up to this date the road has not been 
 built. Several of the citizens of Nevada spent much time and 
 money to secure it. The most active workers on it were James 
 Hawthorn and T. J. Ross and J. L. Dana. Major Hawthorn also 
 worked on it northwesterly for quite a time in other counties, if 
 memory serves me right, and spent time and much of his money 
 in the effort. This road we ought to have yet. There also has 
 
History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 315 
 
 been a strong effort made to secure a railroad from Des Moines via 
 Nevada to some point near, or at Iowa Falls. For a time it was 
 hopefully worked up and one or two surveys made, but as yet this 
 road is not built. It is a road Nevada and the county ought to 
 have. It is believed T. C. McCall, of Nevada, was one of its most 
 active workers. There were, however, active workers at Cam- 
 bridge, but the road has failed to put in an appearance up to date, 
 March 1, 1887. 
 
 RAILROADS AND BROTHERHOOD OF COHNTIES. 
 
 After the completion of the C. R. & Missouri River Railroad, 
 others came up such as have just been named, and such as now fol- 
 low: The road now running from Des Moines via Ames, Story 
 City, and northward, caused considerable attention. It was built 
 by a company that made it a narrow gauge at first. But about 
 four years ago the Northwestern company got possession of it and 
 made it a common or wide gauge and is now doing a great deal of 
 business between Ames and Des Moines. This road has five sta- 
 tions on it in the county, Sheldahl, Kelly, Ames, Gilbert and 
 Story City. 
 
 The Iowa Central and Northwestern runs through the northern 
 tier of townships, intersecting the Des Moines and Northwestern 
 road at Story City. This road is not doing so much; but for ship- 
 ments of stock and grain it is a good one. Its stations are Zearing, 
 McCallsburg, Roland and Story City. 
 
 The C. M. & St. Paul, running east and west through the south- 
 ern part o£ the county, is said to be doing a great deal of business, 
 and is an important road. It has for its stations, Collins, Maxwell, 
 Elwell, Cambridge, Huxley and Sheldahl Crossing. 
 
 It is believed the Central and Northwestern road running east 
 and west through the center of the county is doing the most busi- 
 ness of any of them. Its stations are Colo, Nevada, Ames and On- 
 tario. Long passenger trains and many heavy freights are con- 
 stantly passing over this road. 
 
 So, after all. Story County is well supplied with railroads and 
 railroad stations. The county is one of the brotherhood of coun- 
 ties adjoining us, viz: 
 
 Boone, named in honor of Daniel Boone, the old pioneer and 
 Indian fighter of Kentucky. 
 
 Polk, named in honor of James Knox Polk, a president of the 
 United States. 
 
 Jasper, named after the noted and brave Sergeant Wm. Jasper, 
 of Revolutionary fame. 
 
 Marshall, named in honor of John Marshall, the fourth Chief 
 Justice of the United States. 
 
 Hardin, named in honor of the lamented Col.' John J. Hardin, 
 who fell in battle during the Mexican war. 
 
 Hamilton, named in honor of the distinguished statesman, Alex- 
 
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 History of Story Coun^tt, Iowa. 
 
 ander Hamilton, who fell in a duel with Aaron Burr. Some claim 
 Hamilton County was named in honor of W . W . Hamilton, presi- 
 dent of the Senate in the Sixth Heneral Assembly. 
 
 Story County was named in honor of the very distinguished 
 jurist, Joseph Story, for near one-third of a century associate jus- 
 tice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 Therefore, this brotherhood of counties should treat each other 
 as brothers in all matters pertaining to their mutual interests. 
 
 Story and Boone Counties corner together in the center of the 
 south line of Hamilton County. 
 
 Story and Marshall Counties corner together in the center of the 
 south line of Hardin County. 
 
 Story and Marshall Counties corner together six miles east of the 
 northeast corner of Polk County. 
 
 Story and Boone Counties corner together six miles east of the 
 northwest corner of Folk County. 
 
 Hardin and Hamilton Counties corner together at center of the 
 north line of Story County. 
 
 Jasper and Polk Counties corner together six miles west of the 
 southeast corner of Story County. 
 
 MARRIAGE LICENSES. 
 
 During the month of May, 1878, marriage licenses have been is- 
 sued to the following couples: 
 
 Lewis L. Thompson and Carrie L. Larson; Jonathan Buffington 
 and Elizabeth Aply; Ole Yttrevold and Martha Lackous; C. A. 
 Layton and Martha Ann Goodwin; Daniel P. Heaker and Mary A. 
 Cronk; Lewis Washborn and Jennie D, Dawson; Sheer Nelson 
 and Inger Erickson; J. S. Green and Mary A. Backus. 
 
 Five couples have been made happy during the month of Sep- 
 tember, 1878, by Clerk Smith giving them permits to join hands in 
 life’s battle until death or the court do them part. The list is as 
 follows; 
 
 Henry Bunker and Eliza Wickham; A. E. Green and Flora 
 Emly; Henry G. Hitchcock and Isabella McCain; Isaac Shalfer and 
 Sarah Waltz; George Larson and Relinda Engebret. 
 
 Clerk Smith issued, during the month of March, 1879, marriage 
 licenses to the following parties: 
 
 Tim Keef and Alice Seal; L. H. Lincoln and Mary Bassett; Ole 
 0. Apland and Mary Thorson; 0. L. Tesdale and Martha Johnson; 
 Tom 0. Larson and C. M. Sheldahl; Jacob Knuteson and Anna 
 Mortvedt; John J. Holm and Caroline E. Jacobs; George Robison 
 and Alice Gregory; W. A. Rucker and Viola Parker; Thomas Mo- 
 ran and Florence E. Hoskins; D. N. Vincent and Florence A. Gif- 
 ford; Ole B. Bergeson and Mary Johnson; George W. Barrett and 
 Mary E. Farrington; Andrew Ankeny and S. A. Billman; Eli Post- 
 
History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 317 
 
 gate and F. A. McKeen; John Wolf and Charlotte Darby; Frank 
 Baker and Eliza Davis. 
 
 Clerk Smith has issued marriage licenses to the following couples 
 during the month of February, 1880: 
 
 Lars Christenson and May Larson; Ole E. Teig and Nelly 
 Raymond; Stephen M. Deal and Viola Eckhart; Nathan Kelly and 
 M. H. Lawman; Andy Scott and Ida J. Groldsmith; M. R. Dona- 
 hoo and Jennie Seley; Eddy Newcome and Salfrona S. Howard > 
 R. J. Reed and Clara Bard well; L. Harzoor and Martha J. Hadley; 
 Andrew Kurtz and Clara Ray; Gleo. N. Harsh and Agnes F. Brad- 
 shaw; Jacob F. Burtes and Caroline Sheldahl; 0. J. Burk and 
 Anna S. Renand. 
 
 Marriage licenses issued during the month of March, 1883: 
 
 F. M. Noe and Sarah Black; C. A. Cooper and Hattie Black; 
 Frank L. Huneywell and Emma Lightner; Ole A. Land and Sarah 
 B. Hill; E. A. Morrison and Mary S. Hansen; Peter Oriffith and 
 Carrie Chamberlain; John Morit and Resilva Deal: Oscar S. Kurtz 
 and Mary Moore; Errick E. Horgen and Belle H. Espa; Phillip 
 Picht, Jr., and Edna Murphy; Alex. McConnell and Charlotte Ame 
 Fenton; George H. Stultz and Agnes A. James; A. H. Thomas and 
 Mattie S. Vinel; Homer L. Morgan and Nettie B. Emery; C. P. 
 Payn and Mary Hitchcock 5 Osmund D. Nelson and Julia Thomp- 
 son; Alvois Richl and Rose Switzer; S. H. Severson and Carrie 
 Kalsem; Z. M. Baird and Alwilda Murphy; E. G. Lewis and Mamie 
 E. Gilchrist; T. K. Thompson and Caroline Charlson. 
 
 During the month of April, 1883, in Story County, marriage 
 licenses were granted to the following parties: 
 
 Joseph Duea and Melinda Johndall; G. W. Hoyman and Flora 
 A. White; Knude Mackenson and Anna Fronsdall; Severt Queam 
 and Isabel Michaelson; Paul Peterson and Isabella Bonebrake; 
 Theodore Maxwell and Nellie Moore; Lewis Olson and Betsy Hill; 
 Chester F. Davis and Ada L. Morris; James A. Blunk and Maggie 
 McGlynn. 
 
 During the month of May, 1883, marriage licenses have been is- 
 sued in Story County to the following persons: 
 
 Elven Vernon and Belle Snell; Knude Apland and Fomene Er- 
 ickson; Nels Christian Knutson and Maria Pederson; Nels Jor- 
 genson and Sarah I. Jacobson; Ole J. Rorum and Sennie Thomp- 
 son; Augustus 0. McClung and Blanche Price; Gardner Baxter 
 and Ester Johnson; W. S. Lones and EflSe Leonard; John John- 
 son Kolaun and Anna Christiansen; John Holcomb and Mary 
 Abbott. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of Septem- 
 ber, 1883, to the following named couples : 
 
 Lewis H. Proctor and Estella Lewis; W. Westcott and Sarah 
 Ozmun; Robert Jarden and Sallie Hambleton; Z.H. Thurman and 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Nannie A. Simpson; F. B. Carly and Katie Hansell; E. Peterson 
 and Ida V. Snider, Dr. Asa A. Arthur and Martha E. Mills; Ben- 
 son Norherry and Bellvidere Leonard; James Campbell and Sarah 
 Cozzens; M. Gr. Branen and Eda Fisk; F. M. Livingston and Bessie 
 Ringheim; Andrew H. Jacobson and Sarah H. Thompson; Robert 
 A. Spence and Rosa Bryant; R. A. Dool and Ida M. Bishop. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during February, 1884:, to the fol- 
 lowing parties; 
 
 J. T, Hoover and Nellie Coon; John L. Johnson and Julia 
 Amondson; Lewis Helland and Bera Jacobson ; Randolph Jacobson 
 and Martha Olson; Isaac Kelley and Lissie Elliott; Frank B. Rich- 
 ardson and Sarah J. Glamble; Jacob Jacobson and Mary Helgensen; 
 W. I. Switzer and Mary Johnson; Ole C. Haugland and Annie Er- 
 ickson; George Allen and Elizabeth Snell; Beny R. Pringle and 
 Josephine Day; S. 0. Wierson and Tilda Sophia Williams; Abram 
 A. Shaw and Linda Thompson; C. M. Deal and Jennie Fenton; 
 Dennis D. Mitchell and Amanda J. Woods. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued in Story County during the month 
 of October, 1884:, to the following parties: 
 
 F. J. Will and Millie A. Baldwin; Ole Johnson and Bertha Reid; 
 
 N. C. Johnson and Lottie Emerson; Thomas E. Miller and Julia 
 Stevens; J. M. Thornton and Eva Lhommedieu; W. H. Mullen and 
 Victoria E. Farrington; Howard Hale and Etta Jane Marsh; Silas 
 
 O. Brown and Minerva E. Bates; Knudt P. W^icks and Anna J. 
 Chelsvig; R. B. Harper and Ida McGloflin; John A. Reinschmidt 
 and Philipine Stenlei; Jas. Carmody and Ellen Donnelly; Paul Er- 
 ickson and Inger Thompson; E. W. Perry, Jr., and Hattie Richard- 
 son; Clarence Axford and Edith May John; Severine Heggem and 
 Annie Huddebarg; W. W. Kent and Edith E. Pierce; L. B. 
 Latchem and Sally Nelson; Ole Holverson and Ellen J. Jacobson; 
 J. H. Cozine and Lillian T. Miller; W. H. Boynton and Ida 
 B. Lockwood, 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued by Capt. Smith during the month 
 of September, 1885, as follows: 
 
 Orlando S. Easton and Fannie M. Sharp; W. H. Taylor and 
 Mary E. Wise; G. R. Vernon and Sarah E. Fruitte; Christian 
 Nielson and Caroline K. Nielson; C. A. Beverly and S. J. Coon; 
 Calvin Vinton and Sarah Anne Border; John M. Holmes and Flora 
 B. McCartney; Robert C. Lehmann and Ollie Hughes; G. F. Daw- 
 son and Mary Z. Bales; James Miller and Annie Cook; Lafayette 
 Tennant and Nancy E. See; Wm. M. Munden and Minerva Craig; 
 H. J. Fresier and Laura Williams; Charles E. Smith and Susie E. 
 Gillespie. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during October, 1885, to the fol- 
 lowing parties: 
 
 E. W. Robinson and Sarah F. Cary; Wm.’Koin and Ella Hen- 
 nixman; Andrew J. Hoveland and Araline J. Kalevaag; Jacob 
 
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 Histoet of Stoet County, Iowa. 321 
 
 Horner and Ruth V. Smith; Ed. E. Whalen and Laura E. Mc- 
 Donald; Hugh E. Boston and Patience J. Hendrickson; George F. 
 Fry and Tillie Morris; A. A. Furman and Sadie M, Smiley; 
 •Stephen J. Kurtz and Mary E. Brown; David Starr and Amy D. 
 Humphrey; Gregornes L. Tesdahl and Bertha K. Olson; Charles E. 
 Campbell and Nina Stratton; Thomas B. Holmes and Emma 
 Hardcastle. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of November, 
 
 1885, to the following couples: John Coughenour and Emma 
 Rinehart; E. L. Perry and Rose Bremner; Wm. T. Harrison and 
 Dora L. Palmater; Chas. J. Brown and Martha A. Kent; Joseph 
 Henningson and Betsey Richardson; Njeld 0. Sand and Mrs. Caro- 
 line Marcus; Daniel E. McKim and Mrs. Alice Goldsbury; Samuel 
 W. Keeley and Clara E. Hall; Henry Peterson and Sarah Peterson; 
 Grant Pinch and Anna Beckwith; Christian Hansen and Anna M. 
 Olsen; Henry G. Kay nor and Sarah A. Stamp; Lewis H. Hauge 
 and Julia Anderson; Francis Long and Mary A. Deeter. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of December, 
 
 1886, to the^ following couples: Albert L. Poster and Lucy A. 
 Smith; J. W. Stevens and Mary C. Millhouse; Marvin Aftendahl 
 and Bertha K. Johnson; Lars Johnson and Laura R. Hansen; W. 
 R. Holcomb and Amelia Bunker; Wm. Sills and Stella Stoops; Sol. 
 J. Holland and Kary 0. Sjofland; J. E. McCready and Mrs. A. E. 
 Tichenor; Myron Emerson and Nettie Hollowell; Dion Mick and 
 Rosa B. Smith; L. D. Jackson and Emma Z. Cavender; T. M. 
 Aylsworth and Anna W. Sutton; Rasmus Olsen and Lena Severide; 
 Louis Glauz and Mary E. Smith; Nathan S.'Tedrow and Mate A. 
 Butler; Frank Finch and Lillian Stevens; Jas. Bates and Susan 
 Whiting; John H. Boston and Ella M. Hendrickson; Philip Picht 
 and Emma J. French; U. S. G. Deal and Melissa E. Deal; Chas. 
 Barton and Agnes Scarron; Oscar McKim and Amelia Garlock. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of January, 
 1886, to the following couples: Hartman Sharp and Isabel Beard; 
 Frank A. Flach and Carrie E. Statler; Abraham A. Twedt and 
 Lena Thompson; John R. Ask and Maggie Arneson; J. A. Arra- 
 smith and Alice E. Hunter; N. L. Gridley and Anne E. Roe; J. 
 H. Fitton and Zella Cessna; P. P. McOye and Lura C. Beckwith; 
 Amos Jones and Alice McCartey; J. N. Halley and Mildred Hague; 
 Osmond Olson and Belle Sampson; Thos. A. Thompson and Mary 
 Halverson; Alba H. Person and Jennie T. Reynolds. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of February, 
 1886, to the following couples: S. F. McNicholls and Mary E. 
 Connolly; Amos E. Hyden and Nellie I. Adams; Daniel Vincent 
 and Roenna E. Willhide; L. H. Shattuck and Mary A. Bates; Os- 
 car S. Askelson and Julia F. Johnson; S. G. McCord and Hattie 
 Clothier; J. P. Hesson and Nellie R. Harris; Abraham W. Yoten 
 and Rosa A. McQuiston; Ole Jorstad and Annie Raymond; Walter 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Hulse and Edith Day; Herman Ward, Jr., and Cornelia E. Zenor; 
 Chas. E. Hix and Mary E. Buffington; Jas. H. Bennington and 
 Emma Delany. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of March, 1886, to 
 the following couples.- J. T. Montgomery and Ellen R. Posegate; 
 Lars L. Grjerdevig and Valber Olson; J. J. Sevde and Belle Larson; 
 Samuel E. Hiestand and Daisy Quachenbush; Henry Tompson and 
 Sarah Ann Watney; E. W. Geer and Mary Kersey; Andrew Olson 
 and Bertha Barke; Erick Erickson and Betsy K. Erickson; W. R. 
 Kirk, Jr., and Emma Proctor; W. E. Warrick and Helen D. Davis; 
 Chas’. Sutton and Eva Edmonds; Grant J. Whitaker and Julia A. 
 Hand; Carl W. Tichenor and Mary Whitaker; J. W. Porter and 
 Emma Gossard; J. W. Sutton and Leah Jones; Edward Pepper 
 and Ida Maynard; Albert Whitinger and Mary E. Dunnahoo; Ole 
 G. Johnson and Maggie Williamson; M. Allard and Mary Gook; 
 Peter Sodestrum and Lizzie McFarland; Henry Hoberland andElvia 
 Sparrow; L. L. Belland and Clara Louise Nelson, John Gilmoro 
 and Nancy B. Gatrel; Clinton Emerson and Sadie Hollowell; J. 
 W. Ray and Mattie Trobaugh; T. T. Holm and Mary Christiar^on; 
 Martin Miller and Bertha Peterson; Ole Engbert and Anna Han- 
 sen; A. U. Quint and Anna E. Henry; Ole Christopher and Helen 
 Tesdahl; Peter L. Fatland and Anna H. Larson; Elbridge G. 
 Chandler and Medora E. Chandler. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of April, 1886, 
 to the following couples: Ole M. Olson and Martha Amonson; C. 
 A Oliver and Theo. Bissell; Knut Knutson and Isabella Kanut- 
 son; Charles A. Russell and Lytia Carlson; B. L. Hammerland and 
 Betsy Hegeland; T. E. Rullestad and Sarah E. Fatland; G. W. 
 Backus and Emma R. Kilmer; W. C. Harrison and Jennie M. 
 Dame; B. W. Wilkinson and Nellie M. Narcott. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of May, 1886, 
 to the following couples: Segger Nelson and Christine R-asmus- 
 sen- Wm. H. Black and Nellie B. Cole; Tormad P. Nag and Mar- 
 tha’F. Olson; G. W. Riggs and Mrs. Martha Graves; H. B. Hill 
 and Isabel A. Holland; F. P. Sullivan and Maggie Fitzgerald; J. W . 
 Simpson and and Cornelia L. Booth; Andrew Kent and Rena Cory. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of June, 18^86, 
 to the following couples: E. J. Loughran and E. Graves; Wm. 
 Parker and Sarah Teed; Andrew Short and Melissa Smith, Martin 
 J. Solbrack and Sarah S. Matteson; Jas. Dwight Corey and Flor- 
 ence Dana; K. A. Ersland and Ragnhild Apland; Amos H. Twom- 
 bly and Mary A. Norton; J. W. Davidson and May Castleman; 
 George Elliot and Nellie Smith. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of July, ^88ffi 
 to the following couples: W. S. Bell and Lizzie Oxley; Ole J. Hill 
 and Mattie Neal; Ole Bergeson and Caroline Plong; Wm. E. Deal 
 
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 and Louisa McCoy; R. B. Brandleland and Lena Johnson; William 
 B. Pierce and Susan Brown; A. L. Farrington and Fannie B. Shu- 
 gart; Gr. E. Ness and Bertha Knudtson; Scott D. Gregory and Net- 
 tie V. Davis; Wm. Diggins and Amanda C. Nordstrol; Wilson 
 Long and Lucy E. Deter; John Hibbard and Phcebe E. Randlet; 
 John Johnson and Bessie Hanson; Allan A. Huges and Elmina 
 Thorpe; John R. Smith and Mary M. Apple. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of August, 1886, 
 to the following couples: Frank M. Mead and Sarah A. Mansfield; 
 Frank. W. Martin and Sarah E. Sharp; J. S. Smith and Jessie M. 
 Burkhart; John Canady and Jane M. Canady; E. F. Fenton and 
 Dell Murphy; John M. Valen and Martha C. Donhaug; 0. P. Rich 
 and Nettie Shattuck; Jens Peterson and Mattie Madson. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of September, 
 1886, to the following couples: B. H. Harmell and Rena Smith; 
 W. M. Clapper and Maria Cleverly; C. J. Porter and Ella N. 
 Thompson; C. J. Larson and Annie Bergesen; W. A. Reese and 
 Nora Bowman; F. L. Bolton and Cora Hutchins; George Dyer and 
 Mattie Kellogg; Wm. Kirkendall and Mary C. Story; E. R. Elliot 
 and Martha E. Blair; W. D. Cooper and Sarah V. Coughenour; 
 S. L. Wood and Lenora A. McGuire; Wm. A. Ricketts and Lillie B. 
 Smith; Amos E. Walker and Emma V. Knutson; Able H. Twedt 
 and Nellie S. Jacobson; B. H. Troutner and Ella A. Miller. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of October, 
 1886, to the following couples: Ole Shaw and Carolina Johnson; 
 Salem H. Nourse and Mary H. Wynn; T. H. Opsvedt and Betsey 
 Opsvedt; Tjol 0. Tungland and Ellen Erickson; E. E. Larson and 
 Sophia Christianson; Wier P. Yiland and Randy C. Nernes; John- 
 ston Noble and Laura Shattuck; Scott McCartney and Nona Me 
 Fadden; Chas. Phillips and Ella Vancise; Samuel McGooden and 
 Hattie Nichols; W. E. Maxwell and Minnie Erb; Lars L. Ponsness 
 and Bertha J. Braland; Anderson Shields and Minnie L. Sheldon. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of November, 
 1886, to the following couples: Charles J. Brooks and Annie 
 Markly; James Dailey and Julia Sullivan; Wm. Hansell and Mar- 
 garetta B. Ringheim; Lewis Carr and Dessie James; Peter Peter- 
 son and Mareu Peterson; Hans Peterson and Christina Hennings; 
 John Axelson and Mrs. Susan Olson; W. B. Scott and Carrie 
 Heileraau; B. Bagley and Ida L. Cressley; Jacob Brekke and Han- 
 nah Harsted; W. A. Ulum and Florence Allard; S. S, Berven and 
 Marie Oien; S. J. Jeffries and Adeline Walker; Hamilton R. Bell 
 and Ella J. Patterson; Phillip Berggren and Sarah Scott; Robert 
 B. Dawson and Mollie Evans. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of December, 
 1886, to the following couples: LeRoy Shepherd and Leona L. 
 Cole; Jos. M. Kennard and Victorenia Marshall; Nels S. Holland 
 
324 • Histokt of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 and Dennie L. Fro wick; Paul H. Hylland and Martha J. I^ymond; 
 Jacob Westre and Bertha Jacobson; F. A. Horton and Hike M, 
 Wells; John Miller and Sarah Wood; P. A. Grable ^d Lettie 
 Bracken; Samuel Boston and Leafy Hays; Rasmus T» Thompson 
 and Christina M. Anderson; Knute K. Prescott and Katie Siamon- 
 son- Chas. H. Thayer and Annie Rohrhack; Jas. Jenson ^d Lena 
 Danielson; Prank Scott and Carrie B. Hoskins; Andrew P. John- 
 son and Minnie Nelson; John* A. Leese and Orpha C. Hahn; J • .y- 
 Mickelson and Josie Jorgenson; Lewis A. Peckham and Lida 
 Hamilton; C. A. Duntz and Alma H. Hunter; Ole T. Ramswig and 
 Annie D, Larson; John S. Johnson and Rachel Mason; Ikes. 
 Charlson and Anna Johnson; Isaac Fish and Flora Herhart; S. W. 
 Brown and Cora Hull; Lars Peterson and Julia Jenson. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of January, 
 1887, to the following couples: C. E. Campbell and Hattie F. 
 Carver; HaiinibalD. Todd and EllaRuby;D. T- Fultz and Julia Max- 
 well- Geo. Whitaker and Laura Golden; Prank Kennedy and /ora 
 Olive Stevens; Wilbur Graves and Milissa J. Harris; 0. T. Brathbo 
 and Gurine 0. Borgen; J. W. Puller and Minnie Brown; Anfen 
 Mickelson and Bertha K. Anfinson. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of FebruarJ^ 
 1887, to the following couples: J. R. Miinden and Cora E. 
 Sprague; John W. Cook and Marrietta Baker; H. M. Waters and 
 Carrie A. Armstrong; M. J. Birkland and Sereno Hovick; Lars 
 Andal and Jane Elisa; Fred J. Banks and Frances Olinger; G. W. 
 Monlux and Delia N. Stough; Barnt Haudland and Anna Ran- 
 seulckze; Cyrenius Bates and Sophia M. Olson; Geo. Connolly and 
 Hattie Skinner; Thos. A. Rorem and Alice Hegland; Jas. Nerv^ 
 and Mary B. Erickson 5 Jolm Morris and A-licc See 5 Florydon C. 
 Hunter and Della Bradford; A. T. Bartlett and Sarah E. Worrell; 
 Lewis Ryerson and Emma Jorgenson. 
 
 Marriage licenses were issued during the month of March, 1887, 
 to the following couples: John M. Tipton and Allie Selby; T. G. 
 Conley and Ida Shoop; J. H. Lint and Hattie Flora; Jas. T. Henry 
 and Allie E. Pizer; Severt 0. Oleson and Betsy G. Weirson; Ole 
 Anderson and Lena Larson; C. lA. Sowers and Elmetta Kooser, L. 
 M. Cessna and Minnie E. Bechtel; W. R. Hardcastle and Margaret 
 Bradford; Henry Lesky and Alice Livingston; J. A. Spence and 
 Nora A. Spence; W. E. Stone and Ella Fosha; F. M. Boster and 
 Deborah M. Ingram; Chas. Carver and Anna Jones; C. Spencer 
 and Bessie McFarland; Thos. F. Wicks and Lizzie Olson; Knute F. 
 Johnson and Maggie Holverson; Chas. P. M. Smith and Isabella A. 
 Gage; Elijah Lake and Mary C. Morgan; C. A. Kuhn and Allie 
 Mead; Olof B. Engmann and Mary Rinertson; Ira M. Danskin and 
 Leilla F. Eller; John Yanscoy and Lovie Yanhook; W. A. Cox and 
 Caarie Wireman; John Sorrenson and Carrie Olson. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 COLO DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 325 
 
 Municipal Officers — W. A. Miller, mayor; Lax, street com-’ 
 
 missioner; Hefley, treasurer; D. C. Adams, council; J. I. Hos- 
 
 tetter, council. 
 
 Churches — M. E. Church, W. A. Welker, pastor, thirty mem- 
 bers; M. P. Church; Catholic, Colo and Nevada, Rev. Murphy, 
 pastor, 300 members; Evangelist, fourteen members; Church of Grod. 
 
 Civics — Sons of Veterans; Gr. A. R. — J. B. Steadman Post, No. 
 238, J. H. Shammo, commander, twenty-eight members; Women’s 
 Relief Corps, Mrs. Almira Hopkins, six members; Masonic, forty- 
 five members. 
 
 Dry Groods — L. C. Adams & Co,; Ambrose & Cummings. 
 
 Hardware— J, W. Kinsell. 
 
 Postmaster and Grrocer — J. R. McCoy. 
 
 Druggists — Lax & Hefley. 
 
 Lumber and Farm Machinery — P. W. Hopkins. 
 
 Blacksmiths — McCoy & Braker. 
 
 Wagon and Carriage Makers — Richardson & Thomas; John Mc- 
 Quillin. 
 
 Hotel — Colo House, by Bartlett. 
 
 Elevator — W. A. Miller. 
 
 Grain Shippers and Buyers — W. A, Miller; C. V. Norris. 
 
 Stock Shippers — Stewart & Hawley; L. M. Dayton, 
 
 Station Agent — Henry Yager. 
 
 IOWA CENTER DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Postmaster — Mrs. Prank Higley. 
 
 Churches — Evangelists; M. E. Church. 
 
 Civics — 1. 0. G. Templars, fifty members. 
 
 Dry Goods — F. M. Baldwin & J. W. Maxwell; John Wills; 
 John Brown & Son. 
 
 Grocers — Baldwin & Maxwell; John Wills; Brown & Son. 
 Blacksmith — John E. Fry. 
 
 Flour Mill — John Q. Moore. 
 
 Physicians — M. D. Sheldon, M. D.; Prank Thompson, M. D. 
 Woodland Cemetery — Total number dead, 218. 
 
 KELLEY DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Postmaster — J. S. McCoy, 
 
 Station Agent — S. S. Arnold. 
 
 Churches — Congregationalist; Baptist, twenty-five members. 
 Tile Factory — C. S. Giddings; turns out 150,000 tile and 50,000 
 brick. 
 
 Elevator — Steam power. 
 
 Creamery — Boardman Bros. 
 
326 Histoet of Story CouifTY, Iowa. 
 
 SLATER (Sheloahl Crossing) DIRECTORY — 1887. 
 
 Postmaster — S. Ashland. 
 
 Station Agent — E. T. C. Wells. 
 
 Elevator. 
 
 SHELDAHL DIRECTORY— 1887. 
 
 Mayor — C. B. Owens. 
 
 Postmaster — W. H. Porter. • 
 
 Station Agent — S. W. Shepherd. 
 
 Churches — Lutheran (Norwegian), Polk County; Lutheran (Nor- 
 wegian), Story County; Methodist (Swede), Boone County; Meth- 
 odist, Story County. 
 
 1. 0. 0. F. — Polk County, thirty members. 
 
 Dry (roods — Oley Nelson, Story County; 0. Alhberg, Story 
 County; S. S. Biddings, Polk County; P. A. Nelson, Polk County. 
 
 (Irocers — II. 0. Sheldahl, Polk County; P. D. Hatfield, Polk 
 County. 
 
 Clothing — A. Peterson, Polk County. 
 
 Hardware Dealers — E. P. Miller, Polk County; Bust. Reinius, 
 Story County. 
 
 Jeweler — Beorge Hellin. 
 
 Furniture Dealer — John Johnson, Polk County. 
 
 Farm Implements — W. B. Miller, Story County; B. Reinius, 
 Story County. 
 
 Lumber Dealers — C. B. Owens, Story County; J. H. Queal & Co., 
 Story County. 
 
 Brain Buyers and Shippers — W. H. Meyers, Story County; Oley 
 Nelson, Story County. 
 
 Elevators — B. A. Lockwood, Polk County; A. K. Ersland, Story 
 County. 
 
 Mills — S. W. Snyder, steam flouring mill. 
 
 Physicians — J. A. Anderson, Polk County; E. A. Rawson, Story 
 County. 
 
 Creamery — J. N. Scott for Boardman Brothers, Story County. 
 
 Hotels — Mrs. Hall, Polk County. 
 
 Attorneys — M. P. Webb, Polk County. 
 
 Livery Stables — J. N. Scott, Polk County. 
 
 Harness Makers — A. Auelting, Polk County, 
 
 Wagon and Carriage Makers — Zachariah Zachariahson, Story 
 County. 
 
 Druggists — Amos A. Landa, Story County. 
 
 Restaurants and Bakers — A. B. Samuelson, Story County; John 
 Nelson, Polk County. 
 
 Blacksmiths — Oley Legwell, Story County; H. N. Hansen, Polk 
 County. 
 
 Millinery — Miss, Cassell, Polk County; Mrs. Anderson, Polk 
 County. 
 
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 Shoe Shop — C. C. Holm, Story County; M. Anderson, Polk 
 County. 
 
 Butcher Shop — L. Gamrath, Polk County. 
 
 Broom Manufactory — L. L. Elliott. 
 
 ROLAND DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Postmaster — Jonas Duea. 
 
 Station Agent — H. E. Carpenter. 
 
 Churches — Lutheran, 1,000 members; Evangelical Lutheran, Rev. 
 Hotter, pastor, 400 members. 
 
 Dry Goods — A. Olson & Son; Iver Johnson. 
 
 Grocers — A. Olson & Son; R. K. Gaard, 
 
 Hardware and Implements — Duea & Stole. 
 
 Lumber Dealers — Erickson & Christian. 
 
 Creamery — John L. Scott, manager; 1,000 pounds butter per day. 
 Tile Factory— Swenson, Thomson & Co.;, capacity 200,000 tile 
 and 150,000 brick during season. 
 
 Meat Market — One shop. 
 
 Milliner — One shop. 
 
 Coal and Grain — 0. 0. Helgen. 
 
 Blacksmiths — Two shops. 
 
 Drug Stores — 'Helvig & Jensen. 
 
 M’CALLSBURG DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Postmaster — A. B. Griffith. 
 
 Station Agent — Robert Cadden. 
 
 Elevator — One, run by power. 
 
 Dry Goods and Groceries — Samuel Reid. 
 
 Grain Buyers and Stock Shippers — John Peck; T. J. Sowers; 
 Dawson & Roark. 
 
 Hardware Dealers — Roark & Dawson. 
 
 Lumber, Etc. — John Peck, dealer in live stock, grain-, coal, 
 lime, etc. 
 
 ONTARIO DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Postmaster — F. M. Coffelt. 
 
 Station Agent — Ed. Allen. 
 
 Dry Goods — F. M.Coffelt. 
 
 Grocers — Thos. E. Aylesworth, F. M. Coffelt. 
 Hardware — F. M. Coffelt. 
 
 Carpenters — W. H. Foster, Henry C. Foster. 
 Wagon and Carriage Maker — Henry C. Foster. 
 Churches — M. E. Church, brick building. 
 

 328 Histoey of Story Coujstty, Iowa. 
 
 Christian Church — (See History of Franklin Township.) 
 Hotel — J. B. Currents. 
 
 Blacksmith — A. Kefer. 
 
 NEVADA DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 City Officers — Wm. Gates, mayor; Henry Fifer, marshal; I. L. .J 
 
 Smith, recorder for 1886. i 
 
 Postmaster — E. D. Fenn. 
 
 Station Agent — 0. B. Ingalls. 
 
 President School Board — Otis Briggs. 
 
 Principal High School — -M. L. Hastings. 
 
 Justices of the Peace — M. C. Allen; J. A. Fitchpatrick. i 
 
 City Attorney — C. H. Balliet. *j 
 
 Churches — Baptist Church, D. L. Clouse pastor, thirty members; j 
 
 ' Cumberland Presbyterian, three and one-half miles southeast of ' I 
 
 • ; Nevada, Rev. Ferguson pastor, fifty members; Presbyterian, N. S., i 
 
 ' forty-five members; Methodist Episcopal Church, J. T. Jeffry 
 
 7, pastor, one hundred and thirty members; Evangelical Lutheran, at 
 
 It Nevada, thirty-one members, and at Johnson Grove, forty-four ' [ 
 
 y members, J. A. M. Ziegler pastor; Catholic Church, Matt. Murphy ' . i 
 
 ‘y pastor for all in County, three hundred members; Evangelists at 'ji 
 
 Mullen Cemetery; S. D. Advents, services irregular. ,1 
 
 Civic Societies — Knights of Pythias, Sampson Lodge, No. 77, 
 p forty members; Nevada Lodge, A. 0. U. W., No. 115, forty-three 
 
 r members; Central Lodge, 1. 0. 0. F., No. 101, fifty-two members; 
 
 H Legion of Honor, Enterprise Lodge, No, 13, twenty-seven members; 
 
 f ' I. 0. G. Templars, fifty-one members; Nevada Lodge, No. 99, A. F. 
 
 & A. M., eighty-five members; A. 0. U. W., Chapter 3x3, No. 92, ’j 
 
 ^ , R. A. Convocates, forty-three members; G. A. R., Jason D. Furger- ij 
 
 ^ son. Post No. 31, thirty members. 
 
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 Physicians — Geo. Stitzell, M. D., H. D. Chamberlin, John A. 
 
 Jeffrey, E. H. Munk, E. S. Hoag, Magnetic Healer. 1 
 
 Attorneys — D. J. Vinje, M. C. Allen, J. L. Dana, Martin & Sel- j 
 
 lers, C. H. Balliet, F. D. Thompson, Funson & Gifford, Dyer & 
 
 Fitchpatrick. * : 
 
 Poultry, Butter, Eggs, etc. — Boardman Bros. 
 
 Insurance, Land & Loan Agents — T. C. McCall, Land Agent, etc.; .. j 
 
 F. H. Higley & Co., at Maxwell, Land & Loan; Hix & Allen, - i 
 
 Nevada, Land & Loan; Jas. D. Ferner, Land Agent, etc.; J. A. 
 
 Fitchpatrick, Land Agent, etc.; H. L. Carrell, Law & Loan Agent ' 
 
 and Deputy Clerk of Courts; Z. Shugart, Insurance. ^ 
 
 Dentist — C. E. Hoag. 
 
 Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, etc. — J. B. Shedd & Tobey; I. A. Ring- 
 heim; W. P. Zwilling. 
 
 Liverymen — Geo. Child, James Earl. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- I . Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 329 
 
 1. Blacksmiths — Wm. Gates, Pool, J. Q. Leffinsrwell, Humphrey 
 
 * & Simser. 
 
 Grocers— Fitton & Withey, Statler & Covill, J. F. Gillespie, C. E. 
 Shedd, A. C. Eckerd, C. E. Crain. 
 
 Hardware — White & Bamberger, T. E. Alderman & Son. 
 
 Jewelers — E. A. Dayton & Co., Wm. Hansell. 
 
 Druggists — Lewis & Simmers, S. E. Briggs. 
 
 Dressmakers — Mrs. C. E. Cogshall, Minnie Emmons. 
 
 Milliners — M. A. Bamberger; Mrs. H. M. Burgess. 
 
 Furniture — Briggs & Son, Peterson, Borgen. 
 
 Lumber & Grain — R. J. Silliman, Wm. Lockridge, E. W. Lock- 
 wood & Son. 
 
 Second Hand Store — T. R. Leonard. 
 
 Meat Market — Boyd Brothers; Dunklebarger & Green. 
 
 ! Bakeries and Restaurants — Wm. Killen; G. W. Brady; James 
 
 Doyle. 
 
 ( Banks — Farmers Bank; First National Bank, 
 
 r Painters — W. Templeton; Davis & Davis; L. E. Allen. 
 
 Nurseries and Green-house — Mrs. M. J. Bixby, green-house; 
 A. A. Humphrey, nurseryman. 
 
 Draymen — W. H. Boynton; H. C. McIntosh. 
 
 Miscellaneous — John Blackman, gardner; H. Boynton, dealer in 
 lime, cement, etc.; Boardman Brothers, wholesale packers, etc; John 
 Scott, dealer in blooded stock; Hoag & Murphy, harness and sad- 
 dles; W. J. Rejmolds, photographer; Will Handsell, extensive 
 foundryman. 
 
 Wagon and Buggy Manufacturers — Edgcomb; Wakeman; J. Q. 
 Leffingwell ; Kelley. 
 
 HUXLEY DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Postmaster — Jacob Stenson. 
 
 Hardware Dealer — H. Hendrickson. 
 
 General Merchandise — N. J. Thompson; A. L. Kloster. 
 Blacksmith — John Valen. 
 
 Grain and Stock Dealers — Miller & Freed. 
 
 AMES DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 City Officers-— M. C. Jones, mayor; M. J. Smith, recorder; E. 
 R. Chamberlin, treasurer; A. H. Thayer, assessor; L. Van Dusen, 
 street commissioner; Wm. C. Shockley, marshal; A. Richmond, 
 councilman; Van Chamberlin, councilman; C. E. Haverly, coun- 
 cilman; G..H. Maxwell, councilman; H. Westerman, councilman; 
 A. Perkins, councilman. / 
 
 Postmaster — Parley Sheldon. 
 
 Station Agent — M. C. Jones. 
 
 Churches — M. E. Church, H. J. Everly, pastor, 200 members; 
 
 
 
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 Baptist, G. H. Starrling, pastor, 125 members; Congregational, E. C. 
 Moulton, pastor, 150 members; United Brethren, church three and 
 one-half miles south of Ames. 
 
 Masonic — Arcadia Lodge, No. 219, A. F. & A. Masons; M. C. 
 Jones, W. M.; Cal. Biddings, secretary; eighty members. 
 
 United Workmen — Ames Lodge of A. 0. U. W., No. 166; C. M. 
 Soper, recorder; J. S. Brooks, N. W.; twenty-five members. 
 
 (j. A. R. — Ellsworth Post No. 30; J. E. Duncan, Adj.; T. J. 
 Miller, commander; H. Wilson, Jr., Q. M., ninety-two members. 
 
 Professional Cards — M. J. Smith, attorney at law; George A. 
 Underwood, attorney at law; Stevens & Hays, attorneys at law; 
 Dan McCarthy, attorney at law; Smith & Turner, attorneys at law. 
 
 Physicians — R. M. Templeton; Geo. A. Meredith; C. A. Beverly; 
 D. S. Fairchilds; E. B. Plumb; E. B. Cramblit, veterinary sur- 
 geon; Chas. E. Hunt, Dentist. 
 
 Real Estate Agents — T. C. McCall, of Nevada; H. L. Carrell, of 
 Nevada. 
 
 Drayman — John Glidden. 
 
 Insurance Agents — C. M. Soper. 
 
 Barber — J. F. Kintzley. 
 
 Real Estate Agent — M. Hemstreet. 
 
 Union National Bank — W. M. Greeley, president; G. G. Tilden, 
 vice president; E. R. Chamberlin, cashier. 
 
 Ames Flouring Mill — Haverly, Banning & Co. 
 
 Fancy Groceries — Maxwell & Son; J. L. Bartlett. 
 
 Hardware Dealers — Bingham & Co. 
 
 Harness, Etc. — George McGinnis. 
 
 Farm Implements, Etc. — E. & E. J. Loughran. 
 
 Drugs, Books, Etc. — H. Westerman; Pickett & Co. 
 
 Livery and Feed Stable — G. H. Maxwell & Co. 
 
 Hotel — West House, Wm. West, proprietor. 
 
 Printing Office — Ames Intelligencer^ J. E. Duncan, editor. 
 
 Civic Societies — I. 0. G. T., seventy-eight members; W. C. T. U., 
 thirty-three members; Sons of Veterans, fifty members; Band of 
 Hope, 300 members; W. R. C. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 City Officers — 0. M. Johnson, mayor; Charles D. Parks, re- 
 corder. 
 
 Postmaster — James B. Green. 
 
 Station Agent — A. F. Mills. 
 
 Churches — M. E. Church, Rev. W. H. H. Smith, pastor, about 
 fifty-eight members; Norwegian church. 
 
 Odd Fellows — Story Lodge No. 186, I. 0. 0. F., J. S. Kies, N. G.; 
 A. W. Southwick, secretary. 
 
 G. A. R. — Ersland Post No. 234, G. A. R., P. H. Ream, com- 
 mander; John Jory, Adj. 
 
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 Masonic — Tabernacle Lodge No. 452, A. F. & A. M.; A. S. Aplin, 
 W. M.; James Shafer, secretary. 
 
 Workingmen — Cambridge Lodge No. 232, A. 0. U. W.; J. S. 
 Kies, M. W.; A. W. Bartlett, recorder. 
 
 W. R. C. — Woman’s Relief Corps No. 35; Mrs. M. Jory, presi- 
 dent; Miss Kate Cook, secretary; fifteen members. 
 
 Creamery — Boardman Brothers. 
 
 Carpenters and Builders— Grid Jay Wire. 
 
 Professional Cards— J. M. Brown, M. D.; W. H. Grafton, M. D.; 
 A. S. Aplin, M. D; C. E. Hoag, dentist, Nevada. 
 
 Attorneys — Funson & Gilford, Nevada; M. M. Keller. 
 
 City Barbers — C. A. Hoffman. 
 
 Drayman — A. P. Cronk. 
 
 Millinery — Mrs. E. J. Chandler. 
 
 Harness, Collars, Etc.— Fred Carelins; E. V. Smith; Chas. Cook. 
 Citizens’ Bank— W. H. Gallup; M. M. Keller. 
 
 Dry Goods, Etc. — Geo. M. Maxwell & Co.; 0. M. Johnson & Co. 
 Agricultural Implements— B. 0. Fatland; Henry Cronk. 
 Hardware — Bullard Brothers. 
 
 Dealers in Furniture — Henry Fatland. 
 
 Livery and Feed Stable — D. A. Looker; Chas. Cook. 
 
 Sewing Machines — M. D. Livingston & Son. 
 
 Printing Office — The Cambridge Herald; Chas. D. Parks, editor. 
 Druggists — Dr. W. H. Grafton. 
 
 MAXWELL DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Churches, Etc. — M. E. Church, Rev. W. H. H. Smith, Pastor; 
 eighty -five; Wilson Mills, superintendent Sunday School; Evan- 
 gelical Association, Rev. T. M. Evans, pastor; Cumberland Pres- 
 byterian, Rev. Furguson, pastor, service in the M. E. Church, 
 thirty-five to fifty members. 
 
 Lodges — Herald Lodge, No. 455, A. F. & A. M., C. Dickey, sec- 
 retary, J. W. Maxwell, W. M., fifty-five members; Social Lodge, 
 No. 463, I. 0. 0. F., S. E. Cooper, secretary, J. P. Wells, N. G., 
 fifty-two members; Maxwell Lodge, No. 17, I. 0. G. T., Daisy 
 Dickey, secretary, J. W. Dickinson, W. C. T., forty members; J. H. 
 Ewing Post, G. A. R., Jesse R. Wood, commander, C. M. M. Morse, 
 adjutant, forty-one members. 
 
 Dry Goods and General Merchandise — Maxwell & Baldwin: 
 Dickey, Hill & Co. 
 
 Physicians, Etc.— S. T. Goodman, M. D.; P. Joor, M. D.; C. E. 
 Hoag, Dentist. 
 
 Hotels — Maxwell House, J. Bowen, proprietor; Monitor House, 
 G. Cook, proprietor. 
 
 Attorney at Law — W. H. Barnes. 
 
 Harness Shop — J. B. Magee. 
 
 Bank of Maxwell — H. A. Church, cashier. 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Grocers — A. H. McNalL 
 Postmaster — D. M. Ruth. 
 
 Livery and Feed Stable — Urias Myers, proprietor. 
 
 Furniture, Etc. — S. E. Cooper & Co. 
 
 Meat Market — Finn & Schroeder. 
 
 Grain and Stock Dealers — T. B. Sclimetzer; W. G. Dickey. 
 Clothing, Hats, Caps. Etc. — Geo. Sheldon. . 
 
 Lumber Dealers — John 0. French. 
 
 Elevators — One by steam power; one by horse power. 
 
 Farm Implements — A. C. Cole; Bush Bros.; Bagwill & Co. 
 Jeweler, Books, Etc. — Geo. Benedict. 
 
 City Restaurant — C. D. Schroeder. 
 
 Blacksmithing — Henry Trefz. / 
 
 Loans, Abstracts, Etc. — Smith & Son, Nevada. 
 
 Printing Office — Maxwell Tribune^ L. R. Shepherd, editor. 
 Mayor — S. T. Goodman. 
 
 Cemetery — New cemetery, nine graves; cemetery in Maxwell, 
 sixty-five graves; total dead, seventy-four. 
 
 Station Agent — F. A. Jackson. 
 
 - STORY CITY DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 City Officers — C. W. Allen, mayor; 0. Ostrem, recorder. 
 
 • Postmaster — M. Swartout. 
 
 Printing Office — The Story City Review^ H. C. Carlson, editor. 
 Lodges — Good Templars, thirty-five members. 
 
 Flouring Mill — John Swan. 
 
 Churches — Lutheran, said to have 600 members; Evangelical 
 Lutheran, 150 members. 
 
 Physicians — B. F. Allen, M. D.; C. W. Allen, M. D.; J. Emmet, 
 
 M. D. 
 
 Attorneys at Law — L. J. Tjernagel. 
 
 Notary Public — W. A. Wier. 
 
 Jewelers — P. Robertson. 
 
 Dry Goods — P. Mathre; S. R. Corneliussen & S. Larson. 
 Hardware — Boyd & Henryson. 
 
 Grocers — Johnson & Grove; P. Mathre. 
 
 Butter and Eggs — M. A. Tendeland. 
 
 Druggists — Allen & Dale. 
 
 Furniture, Etc. — Jondall & Bracke. 
 
 Agricultural Implements and Blacksmithing — H. I. Overland. 
 Citizens Bank — John Swan, president; W. W. Allen, cashier. 
 Photographer — A. N. Thorp. 
 
 Lumber and Grain — Butler & Moltse. 
 
 Meat Market — M. B. Jacobs, proprietor. 
 
 Wagon Makers — D. Johnson; J. Blakeslee. 
 
 Livery Stable — James Dodds. 
 
 Harness Shop — Holm Bros. 
 
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 Hotels — American House, Johnson, propriptor. 
 
 House Moving — Gr. W. Staves, of Ames. 
 
 Drayman — B. E. Grinde. 
 
 Painters — M. M. Smith. 
 
 Blacksmith — Gus. Amhend. 
 
 Tile Factory — Butler & Peterson. 
 
 Station Agents — Thos. Coyl, for C. & N. W.; T. Farrell, for I. 
 C. & N. W. 
 
 ZBARING DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 City Officers — C. Burgess, mayor; Chas. Burkhart, recorder. 
 
 Churches — Evangelical, preaching on Sabbath at 10:30 a. m. and 
 7:30 p. M., fifty-three members. 
 
 Station Agent — C. E. Hayes. 
 
 Lodges — I. 0. 0. F., every Saturday night at the hall, R. Dool, 
 secretary, N. R. Clift, N. G., forty-five members; A. F. & M., Paci- 
 fic Lodge, No. — , W. H. Brooks, secreatry, twenty-three members; 
 G. A. R., A Patton Post, No. 239, twenty-three members. 
 
 Lumber Dealer — J. C. Burkhart. 
 
 Agricultural Implements — N. R. Clift; A. M. Williams. 
 
 The Press — The Crucible^ a weekly newspaper published (was) 
 by Morton Kuhn, it ceased publication some time ago; Zearing 
 Register^ also quit. 
 
 Evergreens, Etc. — W. F. Lewis, McCallsburg. 
 
 Physicians — F. S. Newton. M. D.; A. W. Brooks. 
 
 Hotel — Zearing House, A. M. Williams, proprietor. 
 
 Real Estate Agent — Morton Kuhn. 
 
 Postmaster — A. D. Hix 
 
 Elevators — One owned by Armstrong, Bracket & Co., Marshall- 
 town; one owned by E. A. Abbott, also of Marshalltown. 
 
 GILBERT DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Churches Congregationalists, thirty members; Cumberland 
 Presbyterians. Each denomination has a nice church building — 
 neat and modest. 
 
 Postmaster and Grocer — J. B. Grinnell. 
 
 Dry Goods — Gilbert Bros.; A. U. Stewart. 
 
 Hardware — A. U. Stewart. 
 
 Lumber Dealer — L. Oliver. 
 
 Station Agent — Win. L. Marshall. 
 
 Surveyor and Carpenter — J. H. Cook. 
 
 Inventor, Machinist and Blacksmith — Frank Wilson. 
 
 Elevator — Gilbert Bros. 
 
 Lodges — G. A. R., Frank Bentley Post, No. 89, A. J. McFarland, 
 ■commander, twenty members. 
 
 Grain Shippers — Gilbert Bros.; W. B. Needham. 
 
 
 
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 Stock Shippers — Gep. W. Sowers & Son; D. G. Ferguson. 
 Shipments — No. cars stock shipped for the year closing Septem- 
 ber 1, 1886, 112; No. cars of grain shipped for the year closing 
 September 1, 1886, seventy-two. 
 
 ELWELL DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Postmaster — -Smith Paine. 
 
 Ticket Agent — M. L. Smith. 
 
 Elevator — By steam power. 
 
 Shippers of Stock and Grain — Robert Richardson. 
 Dry Goods, Hardware, Etc. — Richardson & Paine. 
 
 COLLINS DIRECTORY— 1886-7. 
 
 Postmaster — C. E. Campbell. 
 
 Station Agent — A. H. Tracy. 
 
 Churches — M. E. Church, W. A. Welker, pastor, twenty-seven 
 members. 
 
 Dry Goods — H. Herreg; Hidy Bros. 
 
 Grocers — J. Thompson & Son. 
 
 Hardware — F. A. Leonard. 
 
 Furniture — A. Jones. 
 
 Agricultural Implements — J, W. Parker; A. Jones. 
 
 Lumber Dealers — Rush Bros. 
 
 Grain Buyer and Elevator — J. W. Osmun. 
 
 Physicians — W. W. Knepper, M. D.; A. P. Edgar, M. D. 
 
 Hotel — Gillette & Ozley, 
 
 Livery Stable — T. J. Gillette. 
 
 Harness Shop — W. S, Price. 
 
 Blacksmith Shop — J. W. Parker. 
 
 Druggists — J. B, Hanson; C. E. Campbell. 
 
 CLOSING DESCRIPTION OF THE PAST AND PRESENT- 
 
 IMPROVEMENTS OE THE COUNTY. 
 
 These improvements are promiscuously given in diflPerent town- 
 ships. The finest barn, and also a large one, in size, plan and 
 beauty yet noticed in the county, is on the northwest quarter of 
 the northeast quarter of section 6, township 82, range 22, Indian 
 Creek Township, and owned by Wm. Golden. It is about three 
 years old. It is, in fact, a model of beauty as well as large. It is 
 octagon in shape and has a very large basement of heavy rock for 
 the foundation of the main structure. This barn must be high 
 
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 class, No. one. Mr. Golden has two other barns near by, that 
 would be called good were they not near the monster barn. Hav- 
 ing a good dwelling near by and the three barns make the scenery 
 look like a village. The barn covers 3,824 square feet of ground. 
 
 Esq. Robert Richardson near Elwell, and in Center Grove, has a 
 stock and hay barn that is said to cover 7,600 square feet of ground 
 but its foundation is not so strong as Mr. Golden’s barn. It is a 
 monster. Mr. Richardson’s dwelling, as to plan, structure and 
 finish, is one of the first class buildings in the county, so far as I 
 have noticed. Of course I am not classifying with the magnificent 
 company buildings in the towns. 
 
 W. H. Jones, one mile east of Cambridge, is guilty of a heavy 
 . expenditure in one of the good barns. It is three stories high 
 including the basement, which is a good one, built of heavy rock. 
 This barn is class two. There are many barns as large, but is a 
 more substantial building than many others. I find his dwelling 
 class two. 
 
 To return to Indian Creek Township, I find some excellent 
 buildings, but will be able to name only a few. Will say Isaac 
 Horton, in the northwest corner of Indian Creek Township has a 
 fair new dwelling class two. R. A. Robinson, section 8, township 
 82, range 22, has a fine dwelling near class one. Jesse R. Wood 
 has made very permanent and valuable improvements on his dwell- 
 ing, so it will class two. W. K. Wood has a good house class two. 
 Geo. W. Hempstock, of Grant Township, has a very finely finished 
 dwelling. Its interior arrangements are convenient and good. It 
 is class one. The Dutton — Alderman brick building and barns are 
 noticed elsewhere on pages 206 and 207. 
 
 Wm. Fultz, on the northwest quarter of section 20, township 83, 
 range 22, Nevada Township, has a good barn and about class two. 
 John McConnel has a good barn about class two. His dwelling is 
 of brick; is a plain building, one and a half or two stories high.* 
 Wm. R. Finley’s fine dwelling of one and a half or two stories 
 high, and near the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of 
 section 29, township 83, range 22, is a good one but not so fancy as 
 others. It is class two. I classify the very best No. 1, or class 
 one. Class four is very ordinary. 
 
 Will now notice F. A. McLain’s premises. His dwelling is high 
 class two. His barn, also, will class number two. It is most a 
 wonder that Frank is able to have things so nice, and so much 
 stock around him, while he has so small a patch of ground — only 
 about 1,100 or 1,200 acres of land. Well, poor men sometimes will 
 get proud and fixy, and have things nice. Frank, go on! These 
 nice fixings are on the northeast of the northeast quarter of sec- 
 tion 15, townhship 83, range 22, about three and a half miles from 
 Nevada. 
 
 Promiscuously I pass to Lafayette Township. Will now notice 
 the energy and stir of Mrs. Jacob Born. She has the premises 
 covered with chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks. She claimed to 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 have only 500 in all. Her monthly sale of eggs, she said, never 
 averaged less than (seven dollars) per month, or $84 per year. 
 Who can beat that on eggs? It was noticed that Theodore Baldus 
 has a good house about class three, and two very good red barns on 
 the southeast quarter of section 35. 
 
 At Story City I find a very nice brick Business House, on the 
 south side of Broad Street, costing, perhaps, $8,000. It is owned 
 by S. Larson, and for general merchandise. As a part of the incor- 
 poration, made December 12, 1881, Fairview, laid off June, 1855, 
 is included. Story City was laid off December, 1878,— being twenty- 
 three years younger than Fairview. Since the two railroads^ have 
 reached it, it has become quite a point for business. It is the 
 only village in Lafayette Township. In this township we find the 
 curiosities of fiowing wells. We may include Howard Township. 
 The “Watkins” well, on the southeast of the northeast quarter 
 of section 26, township 85, range 24, is one of great curiosity, not 
 only of the County, but of the State. The one who tested the 
 volume of water rushing out of two large tubes, say ten inches in 
 diameter, with great force, counts 368 gallons passing every min- 
 ute. Mr. W. has it so arranged as to turn the water into the lake 
 near by, or he can let it on a wheel, twenty-eight feet in diameter, 
 while running machinery to grind corn, but not yet with good 
 success. The lake is said to be twelve by forty rods, containing 
 three acres. It is from three to six or seven feet deep, and has 
 two little boats or skiffs for pleasure riding. The water passing out 
 of the tubes is seven or eight feet above level ground. The water’s 
 outlet of the lake is near the northwest corner of it, and makes 
 quite a stream of water. The embankment to confine the water 
 for the lake is about eight feet wide on top and average four to five 
 feet above the outside level — making about 68,640 cubic feet, or 
 •near it, of embankment. This must have been quite an item of 
 cost to Mr Watkins. The lake and the well with the machinery 
 make an attractive scenery. The other fixtures are very ordinary'' 
 indeed. It is claimed by some that the kind of picnics and 
 gatherings that assemble there often do no credit nor good for the 
 morals of the surrounding neighborhood. 
 
 Mr. James F. Brown has a fine fiowing well on his farm which 
 throws out a great deal of water, but is a small affair compared 
 with Watkins’ well. Mr. Brown’s is half a mile north of Wat- 
 kins’ well, and Watkins’ well is half a mile north of Mr. Brown’s 
 residence. Between the creek and Mr. Brown’s magnificent new 
 barn, and about eight rods from the barn is a fiowing fountain of 
 water to furnish his stock at all times. Then a short distance 
 south of Brown’s, but on the south side of Keigley’s branch is 
 another fiowing well. Well, it’s wells here all around,, and Story 
 City is increasing her stock of artesian wells. They of Lafayette 
 are not going “ to grass” as fast as to “ water.” 
 
 As Capt. W. A. Weir does not reside on the town plat, but is in 
 the corporate limits of Story City, I will say he has a very fine 
 
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 dwelling of fine style and finish. It is one of the good ones of La- 
 fayette Township. 
 
 In the descriptions given of buildings and barns I do not design 
 to describe town dwellings unless in a very few cases. Business 
 houses, church buildings, school houses, fine brick blocks, etc., are 
 generally described, but usually am confined to the improvements 
 out of town. 
 
 Now \vill return to Mr. J. F. Brown’s new barn. This barn, 
 when finished, will beat anything of the kind that was noticed in 
 Lafayette Township, but I did not see near all of them. This barn 
 has a basement of heavy rock, and the barn stands on this founda- 
 tion. The arrangements in the basement for stock are good. It 
 is 48^x56^ feet on the ground, and covers 2,722 square feet of 
 ground. From the basement fioor it is about forty feet to the cone 
 vertically. It is substantial and well planned, yet there are larger 
 barns to be found. It overlooks his humble dwelling so boastfully 
 that “Jim” must make his new dwelling bid defiance a little to 
 the barn. 
 
 We now pass to Howard Township. It is one of the good town- 
 ships in Story County. Roland, its only town and post-office, has 
 been described elsewhere. Near the north of Roland, Mr. Michael 
 Erickson resides, and owns a fine farm, and on it is another one of 
 those splendid barns. It is 132x32 feet square, and covers about 
 4,224 square feet of ground. The basement story is made of heavy 
 rock. The frame is a strong one and rests on the heavy basement. 
 The posts are eighteen feet post, making two stories high up to the 
 square above basement, three stories high in all. It has two ven- 
 tillators, or cupolas, to it in the roof. There is a flowing well in 
 the barn-yard which supplies abundance of water for all kinds of 
 his stock and at all times. This is one of the best barns noticed in 
 Howard Township, and is class one. Howard has many excellent 
 barns and dwellings. Am inclined to believe as to the number of 
 its excellent barns, Howard will lead all the other townships. 
 Howard is a well improved township. 
 
 The church, one and a quarter miles southwest of Roland is 
 called the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, and has about 400 
 members. The large church in Roland has, as is understood, about 
 1,000 members. This is the Lutheran Church, and was built in 
 1873. The St. Peter’s Lutheran Church at Story City is a type of 
 the Lutheran church building at Roland, and was built in 1875, 
 and it is claimed has a membership of 960. Each church cost 
 about $6,000. The Evangelical Lutheran Church at Story City is 
 not a very large building, but modest in appearance, and it is 
 claimed has 150 members. This church is called the Bethel Evan- 
 gelical Lutheran Church and cost probably $2,000. 
 
 In and close to the southwest corner of Howard Township is the 
 fine residence of Sol. Switzer. His house is “ on the hill-top” and 
 his barn “ in the valley.” He has a class two house and barn. The 
 water from Watkins’ and Brown’s flowing wells seems to run 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 nicely in Keigley’s branch by this barn of Mr. Switzer’s. The dis- 
 tance from Watkins’ to Switzer’s, the way the water has to go, is 
 very near or quite two miles. 
 
 We pass from Roland south. Paul Thompson was first to be 
 noticed — his buildings. The dwelling is a beauty. This is on the 
 northeast quarter of section 27, township 85, range 23. Mr. T. has 
 two nice barns; one is class two, the other is class one. The style 
 and finish of his house is surely excellent, and is about one mile 
 south of Roland. It is class one. 
 
 We find in the northwest corner section 35 a fair barn, but must 
 class it No. 3. 
 
 In the southeast quarter of section 34, township 85, range 23, is 
 John Twedt. He has a good house, class two, but his barn is one 
 of the excellent, and will class No. 1. 
 
 We now cross to Milford Township, and in the northeast quarter 
 of section 3 is 0. Christian’s premises. His improvements on his 
 farm seem to be good. His barn is good but is class two. Mr. 
 Christian’s house is an excellent one, nicely finished and good style. 
 It is class one. 
 
 Further south is 0. Thompson’s farm. Find good improve- 
 ments. He is finishing a very nice house, and it may be class one, 
 not more than two. 
 
 We pass good improvements as we go south until we reach the 
 vicinity of Mr. Frank Curtis. Among the fine improvements in 
 Milford Township is noticed Mr. Curtis’ fine brick residence. This 
 is class one. It is a good one. His barn, also, is a valuable struc- 
 ture, and one of the good ones of the county. It is class one. In 
 connection with these he has an excellent stock farm, and generally 
 well stocked. His neighbor, the affable F. T. McClain, so nearly 
 duplicates Mr. Curtis in house and barn that it is hard to determ- 
 ine “which from tother.’’’ Mr. McClain probably has the best 
 brick residence, while Mr. Curtis will beat him on barns. They 
 class No. 1 all around. 
 
 Mr. McClain also deals liberally in stock. Many others of Mil- 
 ford Township do likewise. 
 
 Mr. J. W. Sowers has a very fair barn, but will class No. 2. 
 When speaking of some particular improvement I do so with deli- 
 cacy, because I feel sure there are many many magnificent resi- 
 dences and barns and other improvements in the county that merit 
 a particular description and among the best in the county that I 
 cannot get to see. 
 
 But the citizen, from what is given, may be sure we have one of 
 the prosperous counties in the State, and no mistake. 
 
 For further particulars of stir and energy in Milford Township, 
 see its history, given elsewhere. 
 
 The history of each township is very particularly given in its 
 place, as the Index will show, and the Directory of every town in 
 the county is also given. 
 
 We find some good improvements in Lincoln Township. In section 
 
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 341 
 
 31, township 85, range 21, W. J. Lightfoot has a fine farm and 
 good buildings. His house is a nice one and a half story house, 
 and the picture of neatness though plain in its appearance. It 
 is class 2. The new barn just finished will class 2. It is 26 by 52, 
 and 16 feet posts. It rests on a good stone foundation, but has no 
 basement. Covers 1,352 square feet of ground. 
 
 In the southwest quarter of section 21, township 85, range 21, a 
 barn just being finished is owned by M. Koch. It is 36 by 50, and 
 14 feet posts. Not so large as some, but seemed to have heavy tim- 
 bers for the frame. It covers 1,800 feet of ground, and is class 2. 
 
 David Smay, in and near the northeast corner of section 24, 
 township 84, range 22, (Richland Township,) has a good premises 
 and stock shelter. His dwelling is about class 3, and his barn — 
 new barn — is good but not large. Is 30 by 32 feet and 16 foot 
 posts. Rests ,on a rock foundation. Is about class 3. 
 
 The “Evangelical Lutheran Church,” of Johnson’s Grove, was or- 
 ganized in February, 1865, by the Rev. J. G. Beckly. The church 
 building stands on the southeast of the southwest quarter of 
 section 24, township 84, range 22, and was built in 1880. 
 
 The M. E. Church, called Oak Hill M. E. Church, is on the 
 northwest of the northeast quarter of section 13, township 
 84, range 22, and was built in 1885, and has a membership of 
 thirty -seven. 
 
 The Evangelical Lutheran Church, first above named has forty- 
 four members. 
 
 They are both comfortable looking buildings and speak well of 
 the moral enterprize of the citizens. 
 
 No town nor post-office in Richland Township; but once there 
 was a post-office and Wm. M. Kelley was post-master. It is 
 noticed elsewhere. 
 
 Wm. Handsacher, on section 22, township 84, range 22, has one 
 of the handsome dwelling houses and is class one. His barn, from 
 outward appearance, is a good one. Will deals lively in hogs and 
 making money. 
 
 From the outside appearance of the barn and dwelling of Geo. 
 Hyden, they are fair buildings. George is next east from Hand- 
 sacher’s. 
 
 J. Cook, in the southwest corner of section 22, and west of 
 HandsacheEs, has a dwelling that has the appearance of comfort. 
 It is class two. 
 
 In classifying, class one is of first quality; class two, is second; 
 class three, is third; class four, is fourth, and so on. A class 4 
 house or barn is of ordinary quality. Many come in under 5 and 
 6 in classifying and but few such are noticed or described. 
 
 By returning to Lincoln Township we find C. N. Thatcher, near 
 Zearing, has one of the valuable barns, and for plans and arrange- 
 ment, as I understand, will be among the good ones. 
 
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 Histokt of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 There are parts of several townships I did not see daring 1885 or 
 ’86, consequently many valuable improvements have been made that 
 were not seen — I am very sure of this fact. 
 
 Many places have been noticed where the nice willow hedges, 
 (fences) are being purposely destroyed preparatory to tiling. 
 
 The quantity of tile manufactured, as reported by the Tile Fac- 
 tories of the county, will surely indicate that an active business in 
 tile-draining has been done during the last eighteen months. We 
 need not be surprised to see within a very few years our flat lands 
 — and ponds — producing the heaviest crops of grain and grass; but 
 the draining may affect our wells and stock water unfavorably in 
 many places. 
 
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 COUNTY OFFICERS. 
 
 FOR 1853, 
 
 E. C. Evans, County Judge; John Zenor, Recorder; Franklin 
 Thompson, Clerk; Eli Deal, Sheriff; Otho French, Surveyor; 
 Shadrick Worrell, Coroner; John H. Keigley, School Fund Com- 
 missioner. 
 
 The above were elected April 4, 1853; but the following were 
 elected in August, 1853: 
 
 John J. Zenor, Sheriff; Otho French, Surveyor; R, H. Robinson, 
 Coronor; Adolphus Prouty, Drainage Commissioner; S. P. O’Brien, 
 School Fund Commissioner — but T. E. Alderman was elected April, 
 1854, School Fund Commissioner. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1854, ELECTED AUGUST 7, 1854. 
 
 Wm. Cassady, Judge Fifth Judicial District; E. C. Evans, 
 County Judge; Austin Prouty, Clerk; Eli H. French, Prosecuting 
 Attorney; Eli H. French, County Surveyor; John Zenor, Recorder 
 and Treasurer from August, 1853, to August, 1854; T, J. Adamson 
 Recorder and Treasurer from August, 1854, to August, 1855; T. E. 
 Alderman elected School Fund Commissioner, April, 1854. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1855. 
 
 Dr. Rice, of Boone County, and J. C. Goodson of Guthrie 
 County, Representatives; E. C. Evans, County Judge; T. J. Adam- 
 son’s time, as Recorder and Treasurer, expired August, 1855, Jas. 
 C. Moss elected Recorder and Treasurer August, 1855; John J. 
 Zenor, Sheriff; D. J. Norris, County Surveyor; R. Hockley, Coro- 
 ner, elected August, 1855. 
 
 April, 1856, were elected E. G. Day. clerk; John J. Bell, School 
 Fund Commissioner; on August 4, 1856, were elected Wm. Thomp- 
 son, Clerk; Jas. S. Frazier, Prosecuting Attorney. 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1856. 
 
 E. C. Evans, County Judge; S. B. McCall, of Boone County, 
 Representative; Wni. Thompson elected Clerk August, 1856; Jas. 
 S. Frazier, Prosecuting Attorney; T. E. Alderman and I. T. Evans, 
 tied for Drainage Commissioner, each receiving 203 votes; J. W. 
 Cessna, Coroner; Jas. C. Moss, Recorder and Treasurer; John J. 
 Zenor, Sheriff; D. J. Norris, Surveyor; J. J. Bell, elected April, 
 
 1856, School Fund Commissioner. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1857. 
 
 C. J. McFarland, District Judge; Aaron Brown, Senator; S. G. 
 Winchester, member of the Constitutional Convention; W. C. 
 Wilson, Representative for Hardin, Story and Hamilton Counties; 
 E. C. Evans, County Judge; Geo. A. Kellogg, elected August 3, 
 
 1857, as County Judge; Wm. Lockridge, Treasurer and Recorder, 
 elected August 3, 1857; Wm. Thompson, Clerk; George Childs, 
 Sheriff; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; J. W. Cessna, Coroner; J. J. 
 Bell, School Fund Commissioner; T. E. Alderman and L T. Evans 
 tied for Drainage Commissioner, at election of April, 1856; Jas. S. 
 Frazier, Prosecuting Attorney; Isaac Romane, County Assessor, 
 elected April, 1857. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1858. - 
 
 Aaron Brown of Fayette County, State Senator; J. L. Dana, 
 Representative Seventeenth District; Geo. A. Kellogg, County 
 Judge; S. S. Webb, clerk of County and District Courts, elected 
 October 12, 1858; Wm. Lockridge, Treasurer and Recorder; Jas. S. 
 Frazier, Prosecuting Attorney; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor W. G. 
 Allen, Deputy; T. E. Alderman, Drainage Commissioner; Geo. M. 
 Maxwell, County Superintendent of Schools, first County Superin- 
 tendent elected in County — elected April, 1858; John J. Bell, School 
 Fund Commissioner; Geo. Childs, Sheriff — D. Hall, Deputy; J. W, 
 Cessna, Coroner; Isaac Romane, County Assessor. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1859. 
 
 John L. Dana, Representative; Geo. A. Kellogg, County Judge 
 E. C. Evans was re-elected October, 1859; Wm. Lockridge, Treas- 
 urer and Recorder, T. J. Ross was elected October, 1859; J. S. Fra- 
 zier, Prosecuting Attorney; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; S. S. Webb, 
 Clerk of Courts; T. E. Alderman, Drainage Commissioner; W. H. 
 Grafton, County Superintendent of Schools; Geo. Childs, Sheriff; 
 J. W. Cessna, Coroner; I- Romane, County Assessor, the only 
 County Assessor we ever had. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1860. 
 
 E. C. Evans, County Judge; T. J. Ross, Treasurer and Recorder; 
 George Childs, Sheriff; I. H. Rees, County Superintendent of 
 Schools; F. W. Rhoads, Coroner; 0. Sheldahl, Ikainage Commis- 
 
344: 
 
 Histoet oe Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 sioBGr; R. H. Mitcliell, County Surveyor; S. S. W^ebb, Clerk of 
 District Court; John Scott, Senator Forty-first District; S. Ij. 
 Rosenkrans, Representative Forty-third District. 
 
 OFFICEES FOE 1861. 
 
 John Scott, Senator Forty-first District; S. B. Rosenkrans, Rep- 
 resentative Forty-third District; E. C. Evans, County Judge; 1. J. 
 Ross, Treasurer and Recorder; E. Gr. Day, Clerk of Court; 1 ^ 60 . 
 Child, Sheriff; I. H. Rees, County Superintendent of Schools; 1. 
 W. Rhoads, Coroner; 0. Sheldahl, Drainage Commissioner; R. E. 
 Mitchell, County Surveyor. 
 
 BOAED OF SUPEEYISOES FOE 1861. 
 
 W. B. Wiltse, Chairman; R. W. Ballard, John H. McLain, T. C. 
 Davis, A. D. Person, Joseph Seal, W. H. Richardson, Samuel Eagle- 
 bergei’, Noah Harding, W. C. Carr, Frank Thompson (in the pl.^ce 
 of N. Jennings). The first Board ever organized in County. 1 irst 
 official canvass by this Board was October 14, 1861. 
 
 OFFICEES FOE 1862. 
 
 T. C. McCall, Representative Fortieth District; E. C. Evans, 
 County Judge; E. Gr. Day, Clerk of Courts; T. J. Ross, Treasurer; 
 L. Q. Hoggatt, Sheriff; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; H. F. Murphy, 
 Deputy Sheriff; F. W. Rhoads, Coroner; 0. SheldahL Drainage 
 Commissioner; Deville P. Ballard, Superintendent of Schools; E. 
 B. Potter, Senator to fill vacancy Forty-first District, elected Feb- 
 ruary 4, 1862. • , • P 
 
 At a special election to fill vacancy made by the resignation ot 
 John Scott as Senator of the Thirty-third District, E. B. Potter was 
 elected February 4, 1862, term expiring January, 1864. 
 
 BOAED OF SUPEEYISOES FOE 1862. 
 
 W. C. Carr, chairman; Wm. Arrasmith, A. P. Ball, R. W. Bal- 
 lard, T. C. Davis, Samuel Eagleberger, Noah Harding, J. H. Mc- 
 Lain, A. Gl. Person, W. H. Richardson, Cyrus Simmons. 
 
 OFFICEES FOE 1863. 
 
 E. B. Potter, Senator Thirty-third District; T. C. McCall, Rep- 
 resentative Fortieth District; E. C, Evans, County Judge; E. H. 
 Day, Clerk of Court; T. J. Ross, Treasurer and Recorder; L. Q. 
 Hoggatt, Sheriff; F. W. Rhoads, Coroner; Deville P. Ballard, Su- 
 perintendent of Schools; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; 0. Sheldahl, 
 Drainage Commissioner. 
 
 BOAED OF SUPEEYISOES FOE 1863. 
 
 R. W. Ballard, chairman; Wm. Arrasmith, A. P. Ball, James M. 
 Applegate, Milt Evans, Noah Harding, Enoch Halley, Henry Mc- 
 Carthy, W. C. Carr, A. Gr. Person, W. fl. Richardson. 
 
345 
 
 Histoey oe Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 OFFICBES FOE 1864. 
 
 H. C. Henderson, Senator Thirty-third District; Greo. M. Max- 
 well, Representative Fifty-Third District; *E. C. Evans, County 
 Judge; T. J. Ross, Treasurer and Recorder; L. Q. Hoggatt, Sheriff; 
 E. G. Day, Clerk of Court; W. M. White, Superintendent of 
 Schools; R. H. Mitchell, County Surveyor; F. W. Rhoads, Coro- 
 ner; 0. Sheldahl, Drainage Commissioner. 
 
 *E. C. Evans was elected Judge October, 1863, and November. 
 1864, was elected County Recorder. County Judge ceased in 1869, 
 R. H. Mitchell having succeeded Evans. — Auditor’s office was in- 
 augurated 1870. C. P. McCord was elected in 1869, and was our 
 first County Auditor. 
 
 BOAED OF SUPEEVISOES FOE 1864. 
 
 R. W. Ballard, chairman; H. Boynton, C. P. McCord, H. Bur- 
 ham, A. P. Ball, M. McCarthy, W. H. Richardson, T. C. Davis, 
 W. B. Hopkins, Milt. Evans. 
 
 OFFICBES FOE 1865. 
 
 H. C. Henderson, Senator Thirty-third District; Geo. M. Max- 
 well, Representative Fifty-third District; T. J. Ross, Treasurer; 
 D. P. Ballard, Clerk of Courts; E. C. Evans, Recorder; B. C. Evans, 
 County Judge; L. Q. Hoggatt, Sheriff; W. M. White, County Su- 
 perintendent of Schools; R. H. Mitchell, County Surveyor; F. W. 
 Rhoads, Coroner; 0. Sheldahl, Drainage Commissioner. 
 
 BOAED OF SUPEEVISOES FOE 1865. 
 
 T. C. Davis, chairman, R. M. Hunter, John Scott, John McCart- 
 ney, Samuel Bates, Daniel Finch, Henry McCarthy, B. R. Shenkle, 
 W. B. Hopkins, J. P. Dewey. 
 
 OFFICBES FOE 1866. 
 
 Henry Clay Henderson, Senator Thirty-third District; George 
 M. Maxwell, Representative Fifty-third District; R. H. Mitchell, 
 County Judge; T. C. Davis, Treasurer; J. A. Fitchpatrick, 
 Clerk of Courts; E. C. Evans, County Recorder (elected November, 
 1864); H. T. Murphy, Sheriff; C. P. Robinson, Coroner; W. G. 
 Allen, Surveyor; J. G. Beckley, County Superintendent of Schools; 
 I. T. Evans, Drainage Commissioner. 
 
 BOAED OF SUPEEVISOES FOE 1866. 
 
 Daniel Pinch, chairman; J. R. Wood, John Scott, A. 0. Hall, 
 W. B. Hopkins, S. W. Adams, R. Jones, R. M. Hunter, John Mc- 
 Cartney; Ben. R. Shenkle, H. H. Boyes. 
 
 OFFICBES FOE 1867. 
 
 John Scott, Lieutenant Governor; H. C. Henderson, Senator 
 Thirty-third District; Geo. M. Maxwell, Representative Fifty-third 
 
346 
 
 History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 District; R, H. Mitchell, County Judge; T, C. Davis, Treasurer; 
 H. F. Murphy, Sheriff; (jeo. F. Schoonover, Recorder; W. G. Allen, 
 County Surveyor; J. G. Beckley, County Superintendent of Schools; 
 C. P. Robinson, Coroner; J. A. Fitchpatrick, Clerk Court; I. T. 
 Evans, Drainage Commissioner. 
 
 BOARD OP SUPERVISORS POR 1867. 
 
 Daniel McCarthy, chairman; Daniel Finch, T. E. Alderman, Jas. 
 F. Jeffers, Wm. Arrasmith, W. B. Hopkins, W. A. Wier, Jesse R. 
 Wood, B. R. Shenkle, W. H. Richardson. 
 
 OPPICERS POR 1868. 
 
 John Scott, Lieutenant Governor; I. J. Mitchell, Senator Forty- 
 fourth District; James Hawthorn, Representative Fifty-third Dis- 
 trict; R. H. Mitchell, County Judge; T. C. Davis, Treasurer of the 
 County; Samuel Bates, Recorder; F. D. Thompson, Superintend- 
 ent of Schools; M. C. Allen, County Surveyor; F. W. Rhodes, 
 Coroner; H. F. Murphy, Sheriff; A. Rood, Drainage Commissioner; 
 J. A. Fitchpatrick, Clerk of Courts. 
 
 BOARD OP SUPERVISORS POR 1868. 
 
 Daniel Finch, W. H. Richardson, W. H. Fitchpatrick, J. H. B. 
 Kerr, John Evanson, D. R. Brown, W. R. Woodward, J. M. Jeffers, 
 John Jones, Wm. Arrasmith, Jesse R. Wood, T. E. Alderman, 
 George Louks. 
 
 OPPICERS POR 1869. 
 
 John Scott, Lieutenant Governor; I. J. Mitchell, Senator Forty- 
 fourth District; James Hawthorn, Representative Fifty-third Dis- 
 trict; J. A. Fitchpatrick, Clerk of Courts; Samuel Bates, Recorder, 
 F. D. Thompson, Superintendent of Schools; M. C. Allen, Sur- 
 veyor; T. C. Davis, Treasurer; R. H. Mitchell, County Judge, (the 
 last County Judge); F. W. Rood, Drainage Commissioner, (this of- 
 fice ceased with 1869); H. F. Murphy, Sheriff. 
 
 BOARD OP SUPERVISORS POR 1869. 
 
 D. R. Brown, W. H. Fitchpatrick, Daniel Finch, J. H. B. Kerr, 
 John Evanson, W. R. Woodward, S. S. Statler, H. 0. Higley, E. F. 
 Farington, W. H. Terwillager, Frank Curtis, Erick J. Peterson, 
 W. J. Freed, John Jones. 
 
 OPPICERS POR 1870. 
 
 I. J. Mitchell, Senator Forty-fourth District; W. K. Wood, 
 Representative Fifty-third District; C. P. McCord, County Audi- 
 tor, (first County Auditor); E. G. Day, Treasurer; J. R.Hays, County 
 Superintendent of Schools; M. C. Allen, County Surveyor; J. A. 
 Fitchpatrick, Clerk of Courts; Alf. Goodin, Sheriff'; C. P. Robin- 
 son, Coroner; Samuel Bates, Recorder. 
 
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 Histoey of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOE 1870. ' 
 
 D. R. Brown, John Evanson, H. 0. Higley, W. H. Eitchpatnck 
 J. H. B. Kerr, Erick J. Peterson, W. H. Terwillager, John Rich 
 Joseph Cadwallader, W. R. Woodward, W. J. Freed, J. C. Kinsell, 
 B. R. Shenkle. 
 
 This numerous Board ceased to exist after January 1, 1871 — 
 then new Board of three Supervisors commenced. 
 
 OFFICERS FOE 1871. 
 
 J. H. Bradley, Attorney for Eleventh Judicial District; D. D. 
 Chase, District Judge, Eleventh Judicial District; I. J. Mitchell, 
 Senator Forty-fourth District; W. K. Wood, Representative Fif- 
 t5'-third District; J. A. Fitchpatrick, Clerk of Courts; C. P. Mc- 
 Cord, Auditor; E. G. Day, Treasurer; Samuel Bates, Recorder; 
 Alf. Goodin, Sheriff; J. R. Hays, Superintendent of Schools; M. C. 
 Allen, Surveyor; C. P. Robinson, Coroner 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1871. 
 
 First supervisor board of three elected October 1870. 
 
 W. R. Woodward, chairman, (3 years); A. J. Graves, (1 year); J. 
 W. Maxwell, (2 years.) 
 
 OFFICERS FOE 1872. 
 
 Geo. M. Maxwell, Senator Forty-Fifth District; W. K. Wood, 
 Representative, fifty-third District; J. R. Hays, Auditor; E. G. 
 Day, Treasurer; H. F. Murphy, Sheriff; J. H. Franks, Superin- 
 dent of schools; J. H. Franks, Superintendent of Schools (to fill 
 vacancy); W. (j. Allan, County Surveyor; C. P. Robinson, Coro- 
 ner; J. A. Fitchpatrick, Clerk of Courts, elected October, 1870; 
 Samuel Bates, Recorder, elected October, 1870; John Evanson, 
 Supervisor for ’72 to January ’75. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1872. 
 
 W. R. Woodward, J. W. Maxwell, chairman, John Evanson. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1873. 
 
 George M. Maxwell, Senator Forty-Fifth District; W. K. 
 Wood, Representative Fifty-third District; J. A. Fitchpatrick, 
 Clerk of Courts; Jno. R. Hays, Auditor; E. G. Day, Treasurer, 
 Samuel Bates, Recorder; H. F. Murphy, Sheriff; j. H. Franks, 
 Superintendent of Schools; J. H. Franks, Superintendent of 
 Schools, (to fill vacancy); W. G. Allen, County Surveyor, (com- 
 menced ’72); C. P. Robinson, Coroner; John Evanson, Supervisor, 
 for ’72, ’73 and ’74. 
 
 SUPERVISORS FOR 1873. 
 
 John Evanson, chairman, W. R. Woodward, J. W. Maxwell. 
 
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 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1874. 
 
 Geo. M. Maxwell, Senator Forty-fifth District; L. Q. Hoggatt, 
 Representative; Jo. A. Fitchpatrick, Clerk of Courts; S. S. Statler, 
 Treasurer; Chas. Christian, Sheriff; John R. Hays, Auditor; SamT 
 Bates, Recorder; J. H. Franks, County Superintendent of Schools; 
 R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; C. P. Robinson, Coroner; Walter Evans, 
 Supervisor for 1874-5-6. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. 
 
 W. C. Carr, Chairman; John Evanson, Walter Evans. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1875. 
 
 Geo. M. Maxwell, Senator Forty-fifth District; J. A. Fitchpat- 
 rick, Clerk of Courts; L. Q. Hoggatt, Representative; S. S. Statler, 
 Treasurer; Chas. Christian, Sheriff; John R. Hays, Auditor; 0. K. 
 Hill, Recorder; J. H. Franks, County Superintendent of Schools; 
 R. H. Mitchell, County Surveyor; C. P. Robinson, Coroner. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1875. 
 
 John Evanson, Chairman; Walter Evans, S. I. Shearer. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1876. 
 
 Addison Oliver, member Ninth Congressional District; I. J. 
 Mitchell, District Judge Eleventh District; J. H. Bradley, Circuit 
 Judge Eleventh District; M. D. O’Connel, District Attorney 
 Eleventh District; W. H. Gallup, State Senator; Milton Evans, 
 Representative; J. A. Fitchpatrick, Clerk of Courts; Jay A. King, 
 Treasurer; J. F. Gillespie, Sheriff; John R. Hays, Auditor; 0. K. 
 Hill, Recorder; C. H. Balliet, County Superintendent of Schools; 
 R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; C. P. Robinson, Coroner. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1876. 
 
 John Evanson, Chairman; S. I. Shearer, Walter Evans. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1877. 
 
 W. H. Gallup, Senator; Milton Evans, Representative; I. L. 
 Smith, Clerk of Courts; John R. Hays, Auditor; J. A. King, Treas- 
 urer; 0. K. Hill, Recorder; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; J. F. Gilles- 
 pie, Sheriff; C. H. Balliet, Superintendent of Schools; J. W. Bog- 
 gess. Coroner. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1877. 
 
 Ed. Elliott, S. I. Shearer, John Evanson. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1878. 
 
 W. H. Gallup, Senator; Frank Curtiss, Representative Forty- 
 third District; J. R. Hays, Auditor; Jay A, King, Treasurer; I. L. 
 Smith, Clerk of Courts; 0. K. Hill, Recorder; J. F. Gillespie, 
 
Histoet oe Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 349 
 
 Sheriff; F. W. Tyler, Deputy Sheriff; L. B. Baughman, County 
 Superintendent of Schools; J. W. Boggess, Coroner; R. H. Mitch- 
 ell, Surveyor; J. A. Mills, Deputy Treasurer; D. A. Bigelow, 
 Supervisor for 1878. 
 
 BOAED OE SUPEEVISOES EOE 1878. 
 
 S. I. Shearer, Ed. Elliott, D. A. Bigelow. 
 
 OEEICEES EOE 1879. 
 
 W. H. Grallup, State Senator; J. W. McKenzie, Judge Eleventh 
 District; J. L. Stevens, Attorney for Eleventh District; Frank 
 Curtiss, Representative Forty-third District; J. R. Hays, Auditor; . 
 
 I. L. Smith, Clerk of Courts; J. A. King, Treasurer; R. H. Mitch- 
 ell, Surveyor; 0. K. Hill, Recorder; L. B. Baughman, Superinten- 
 dent of Schools; J. F. Gillespie, Sheriff; A. M. Norris, Supervisor. 
 
 BOAED OE SUPEEVISOES. 
 
 Ed. Elliott, Chairman; D. A. Bigelow, A. M. Norris. 
 
 OEEICEES EOE 1880. 
 
 J. D. Gillette, Senator Thirty -first District; W. D. Lucas, Rep- 
 resentative Forty-fourth District; J. R. Hays, Auditor; Jay A. 
 King, Treasurer; I. L. Smith, Clerk of Courts; 0. K. Hill, Recorder; 
 A. K. Banks, Sheriff; L. B. Baughman, Superintendent of Schools; 
 R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; J. W. Boggess, Coroner; Anfen Ers- 
 land. Supervisor. 
 
 BOAED OE SUPEEVISOES EOE 1880. 
 
 D. A. Bigelow, Chairman; A. M. Norris, Anfen Ersland. 
 
 OEEICEES EOE 1881. 
 
 D. D. Miracle, Circuit Judge Eleventh Judicial District; J. D. 
 Gillette, Senator Thirty-first District; W. D. Lucas, Representa- 
 tive Forty -fourth District; I. L. Smith, Clerk of Courts; H. H. 
 Boyes, Recorder; J. R. Hays, Auditor; Jay A. King, Treasurer; 
 A. K. Banks, Sheriff'; L. B. Baughman, Superintendent of Schools; 
 
 J. W. Boggess, Coroner; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; R. W. Ballard, 
 Supervisor. 
 
 BOAED OE SUPEEVISOES EOE 1881. 
 
 A. M. Norris, Chairman, Anfen Ersland, R.- W. Ballard. 
 
 OEEICEES EOE 1882. 
 
 T. C. McCall, Representative Forty-third District; J. D. Gillette, 
 Senator Thirty-first District; H. H. Boyes, Recorder; I. L. Smith, 
 Clerk of Courts; C. G. McCarthy, Auditor: J. A. Mills, Treasurer; 
 Ole 0. Roe, County Superintendent of Schools; R. H. Mitchell, 
 
360 
 
 History of Story Coujity, Iowa. 
 
 Surveyor; J, I. Hostetter, Coroner; A. K. Banks, Sheriff; Anthony 
 Hale, Supervisor. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1882. 
 
 Anfen Ersland, chairman; R. W. Ballard, Anthony Hale. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1883. 
 
 J. D. Gillette, Senator Thirty-first District; T. C. McCall, Rep- 
 resentative Forty-fourth District; C. G. McCarthy, Auditor; I. L. 
 Smith, Clerk of Courts; J. A. Mills, Treasurer; H. H. Boyes, Re- 
 corder; A. K. Banks, Sheriff; Ole 0. Roe, Superintendent of 
 Schools; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; John I. Hostetter, Coroner. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1883. 
 
 R. W. Ballard, chairman; Anthony Hale, Anfen Ersland. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1884. 
 
 J. D, Gillette, Senator Thirty-first District; T. C. McCall, Rep- 
 resentative Forty-fourth District; C. G. McCarthy, Auditor; J. A. 
 Mills, Treasurer; 1. L. Smith, Clerk of Courts; A. K. Banks, 
 Sheriff; H. H. Boyes, Recorder; Ole 0. Roe, Superintendent of 
 Schools; R. H. Mitchell, Surveyor; John L. Hostetter, Coroner; 
 
 G. W. Dyer, County Attorney; J. Q. Burgess, Supervisor. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1884, 
 
 Anthony Hale, chairman; J. Q. Burgess, Anfen Ersland. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1885. 
 
 D. D. Miracle, Circuit Judge Eleventh Judicial District; J. D. 
 Gillette, Senator Thirty-first District; T. C. McCall, Representa- 
 tive Forty-fourth District; I. L. Smith, Clerk of Courts; H, H. 
 Boyes, Recorder; C. G. McCarthy, Auditor; J. A. Mills, Treasurer; 
 A. K. Banks, Sheriff; Ole 0. Roe, Superintendent of Schools; R. 
 
 H. Mitchell, Surveyor; John I. HosteUer, Coroner; Geo. W, Dyer, 
 County Attorney. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1885. 
 
 Anfen Ersland, chairman; J. Q. Burgess, Anthony Hale. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1886. 
 
 D. D. Miracle, Circuit Judge Eleventh District; H. C. Hender- 
 son, District Judge Eleventh District; John Scott, Senator Thirty- 
 first District (to fill vacancy made by resignation of J. D, Gillette); 
 G. W. Dyer, elected County Attorney Nov. 2, 1886; C. G. Mc- 
 Carthy, Auditor; I. L. Smith, Clerk Courts; Henry Wilson, Jr., 
 elected Clerk Nov. 2, 1886; J. A. Mills, Treasurer; H. H. Boyes, 
 Recorder; Joseph M. Ingram, elected Recorder Nov. 2, 1886; A. K. 
 
PROSPECT PARK, DES MOIJTES, IOWA. 
 
 
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 History or Story Couitty, Iowa. 353 
 
 Banks, Sheriff; Ole 0. Roe, Superintendent of Schools; R. H. 
 Mitchell, County Surveyor; J. I. Hostetter, Coroner; R. W. Bal- 
 lard, Supervisor for 1886. 
 
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR 1886. 
 
 J. Q. Burgess (re-elected Nov. 2, 1886); Anthony Hale, R. W. 
 Ballard. 
 
 SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM STORY 
 
 COUNTY. 
 
 The following is a list of the State Senators and Representatives 
 from Story County who have represented us in the Iowa Legisl- 
 ature from the first in the county up to and including 188T. 
 
 SEFTATORS. 
 
 John Scott, 1860-1; E. B. Potter, for the unexpired term of J. 
 Scott, who resigned in order to go into the service — the war, the 
 term expiring with 1863; George M. Maxwell, 1872, '’73, ’74, ’75; 
 W. H. Gallup, 1876, ’77, ’78, ’79; Col. John ScotL elected Novem- 
 ber, 1885, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of J. D. Gil- 
 lette; CoJ. Scott, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 1867 to the 
 close of 1869 (two years); was elected Oct. 8, 1867; term expired 
 with 1869. 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 J, L. Dana, 1858-9; S. B. Rosenkrans, of Hamilton County for 
 1860-61; T. C. McCall, 1862-3; George M. Maxwell, 1864, ’65, 
 ■’66, ’67; James Hawthorn, 1868-9; W. K. Wood, 1870, ’71, 72, ’73; 
 L. Q. Hoggatt, 1874-5; Milton Evans, 1876-7; Frank Curtiss, 
 1878-9; W. D. Lucas, 1880-1; T. C. McCall, 1882, ’83, ’84, ’85; 
 Oley Nelson, 1886, ’87. 
 
 The first biennial session of the Iowa Legislature convened on 
 the second Monday of January, 1858, at the City of Des Moines. 
 
 QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO THE VOTE OF THE 
 
 PEOPLE. 
 
 A number of propositions for donations -of lands, moneys or 
 bonds, amendments to the constitution of the State, as well as 
 other propositions, have from time to time been submitted to the 
 vote of the people of the county. 
 
 First in order will be given an election to determine whether or 
 not Story County should offer $10,000 in bonds as a donation for 
 the location of the “State Agricultural Farm” in the County. The 
 
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354 
 
 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 election was held on or about the seventh of February, 1859. The 
 total number of votes cast was 450; for the bonds were 402 votes; 
 against the bonds were 48 votes—leaving a majority of 354 for the 
 bonds. So the bonds, upon the permanent location of the Farm 
 in the County, were issued. Nine townships (precincts) voted: 
 Nevada, Union, Indian Creek, Palestine, Washington, New Albany, 
 Franklin, Lafayette and Milford. 
 
 The location was made June 21, -1859, by the Trustees, who were 
 appointed by the Legislature for that purpose. F urther particu- 
 lars will be found elsewhere. Nevada Township cast 117 votes for 
 and three against the bonds. Washington Township was solid for 
 bonds. This Agricultural College and Farm movement made some 
 active, working friends for its location where it is now situated. 
 Hon. John L. Dana was then our Representative in the State Leg- 
 islature, and was a warm advocate for the measure, and had some- 
 thing to do in selecting the Trustees to locate the Farm. 
 
 Mr. Dana, Mr. W. j. Grraham, Hon. Geo. M. Maxwell, Judge B. 
 C. Evans, W. G. Allen and others, of Story County, and Hon John 
 A. Hull, of Boone County, were workers in this matter. Mesps. 
 Dana, Graham and Hull were particularly active and untiring 
 workers for its location, and in securing donations in money and 
 lands for its benefit in case of its location on the lands then named 
 and on which the farm was afterwards located. The County,, 
 therefore, gave its bonds for |10,000, and citizens of Boone and 
 Story gave about |5,340 in notes and subscriptions, and 981 acres 
 of land — deeded and bonds— which (the land at ^5 per acre) will 
 amount to the. sum of $20,245 donated. 
 
 On the twenty-first of June, 1859, the location became a fixed 
 fact in our County’s history, and the result was brought about by 
 the particular energy of citizens outside of Washington Township 
 with some honorable exceptions. First term of college school 
 commenced October 21, 1868, and closed January 7, 1869. The 
 first regular term of school commenced about the seventh o£ 
 March, 1869. 
 
 About four years after the location of the Farm, at a special 
 election, came up the vote on the question of donating the swamp 
 lands of the County, such as yet belonged to the County, to the 
 Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad Company, in case the loca- 
 tion of said road be made through and in the central part of the 
 County, It was to be located within 3,000 feet of the Court House, 
 which at that time stood on lot 1, block 25, Nevada. On this prop- 
 osition the voters of the County were required on the fifteenth of 
 May, 1863, to cast their votes. The result was 334 votes for, and 
 98 votes against, the donation. So the conveyance Avas made after, 
 the railroad company complied with the conditions. 
 
 November 3, 1868, the voters of the county Avere called on 
 to say Avhether or not the word “white"’ should be stricken out 
 of the following phrase of the State constitution, viz: “Article 
 2 — Right of Sulfrage — Sec. 1. Every ichite male citizen of the 
 
Histoby op Stoey Couptty, Iowa. 355 
 
 United States,” etc. The result was in favor of striking out, so as 
 to let it read every male citizen.” Such was the decision of the 
 
 TS 1 November 3, 1868, election. October 
 
 ‘ ® Pi’oposition for the County to issue bonds for 140,000 
 0 be applied in building a new “Court House,” was submitted to 
 voters of County. The result was: “For the bonds, 1022; 
 against bonds, 962. In the litigation that followed, it was shown 
 that a number of students of the Iowa State Agricultural College 
 voted against bonds whose _ votes were illegal. Ingratitude will 
 ^metimes occur, and on this _ occasion it was unkindly exhibited. 
 Ihe students who were willing to violate law by casting illegai 
 votes were not alone to blame. There were older abettors in the 
 movement it was believed. Had it not been for the untiring 
 eueip of friends outside of Washington Township (with the hon- 
 orable exceptions already named) for the college, there would have 
 been no college in this County to furnish students and others the 
 means to annoy every effort for the general good that mav come 
 lip outside tlie college ring. I am one of the many who Wked 
 for its location m the County, without sectional jealousy in my 
 heart or heBd. It seems much out of place (to put it in its mild- 
 est terms) to have the influence cast against those in the central or 
 eastern part of the County (whose efforts mainly brought about 
 the location of the college) when anything for the general good 
 comes up. We used our energies, our influence and some of our 
 money and lands to secure its location. Will the jealousies of stu- 
 dents and others prove to us that the location in this County was 
 a mistalm. The writer hereof is one of those who know soine- 
 ning about the efforts made to secure its location. Come, let this 
 antagonism cease Let us have no jealousies nor local strife, but 
 
 ™ submitted to the voters 
 frnm fiP ^ restrained from running at large 
 
 Horn the fix st day of ^October to the first day of May following?” 
 
 The result was Wes. _ October election of 1875, “Shall stock be 
 restrained from running at large?” The result was “Ho.” At 
 the election of November 7, 1876, the same question as last named 
 was submitted, and the result was “Yes.” October, 1877, the same 
 as last proposed was voted on, and with the same result, “Yes.” 
 November 7 1876, “Shall the constitution of the State be 
 
 187^ “ShAll against.” October, 
 
 u pnall the numoer of Supervisors be increased to five^^” It 
 
 CnLr^r /t ‘Trohibitory Amendment to the 
 
 Constitution of Iowa was submitted to the voters of the County. 
 
 meut 1921_ votes were given; against the amend- 
 
 S 13^ votes— leaving a clear majority for the amendment 
 
 1882, was submitted the question 
 of a County High School, the expense of its erection to be met 
 
356 
 
 Htstoey of Story CouisrTY, Iowa. 
 
 by the funds of the County. The question submitted was, “For 
 High School,” and “Against High School.” “For High School” 
 was defeated by a large majority. 
 
 There have been several other propositions proposed from time 
 to time to the voters of the County, but of minor importance. I 
 will name the one, however, that was submitted November, 1885. 
 It was, “Shall the number of Supervisors be increased to five?” 
 The result was “No.” 
 
 THE OLD SETTLER. 
 
 I mind the Fourth in fifty-nine, 
 
 A blisteriA, red hot sultry day,_ 
 
 Fire crackers burned a barn of mine, 
 
 A boss and nigh a ton of hay. 
 
 Come sixty-one the war broke out. 
 
 And all the boys was wild to go. 
 
 And on that Fourth with song and shout. 
 
 My boys enlisted. Bob and J oe. 
 
 The Fourth in eighteen sixty-two 
 Come on a rainy drizzling day. 
 
 And Joe, in clothes and feelin’ blue. 
 
 Came home, without a arm, to stay. 
 
 In sixty-five, when Bob came back, 
 
 We celebrated, all hands round; 
 
 We drove to town, but missed the track. 
 
 Drove off a bridge — two horses drowned. 
 
 In seventy-one — that was the year 
 The cannon burst at Doddar’s Bend 
 
 And killed Bill Brand, the cannoneer. 
 
 And knocked the school house end for end. 
 
 In seventy-six Bob licked the ’Squire, 
 
 And Hensey’s boys and Jake Magore 
 
 Sot Eldridge Lamson’s hay a-fire 
 
 And burned the church and Boseman’s store. 
 
 But now it kinder seems to me. 
 
 The Fourth doAt have no sort of fun, 
 
 Like when my granson’s pa and me 
 Just made her boil from sun to sun. 
 
 — Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. 
 
History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 357 
 
 OLD SETTLERS OP THE COUNTY— SETTLED PRIOR 
 
 TO JANUARY 1, 1858. 
 
 Adamson, J. J. 
 Adamson, Rob’t 
 Alderman, Elisha 
 Alderman, Wm. 
 Ashmore, Nels. 
 Aldredge, J. C. 
 
 Allen, W. Gr. 
 
 Allen, Robert 
 
 Applegate, Lewis 
 Applegate, Jas. 
 Applegate, Wm. 
 
 Adams, B. F. 
 
 Allen, Wm. 
 
 Apland, Ole. 
 
 Alexander, Frank 
 Arrasmith, Wesley 
 Arrasmith, Massey 
 Anderson, F. M. 
 Anderson, Joseph 
 Arnold, Milton 
 Armstrong, Ellis 
 
 Ayers, H. 0. 
 
 A 
 
 Adamson, V. V. 
 
 Alderman, T. E. 
 
 Alderman, Hez. 
 
 Alderman, I. C. 
 
 Aldredge, W. E. 
 
 Aldredge, James 
 
 Allen, Jas. C. 
 
 Applegate, Nath. 
 
 Applegate, Hez. 
 
 Applegate, John 
 
 Adams, S. W. 
 
 Alfred, 0. H. 
 
 Allen, Samuel 
 
 Atmore, Elijah 
 
 Arrasmith, Wm. 
 
 Arrasmith, Dudley 
 
 Allen, S. D. 
 
 Anderson, R. C. 
 
 Anderson, Thomas 
 
 Apple, Elias 
 
 Atkinson, Isaac 
 
 Anfenson, Ole 
 
 Bennett, Wm. M. 
 Ballard, Dr. M. R. 
 Ballard, H. D. 
 
 Ballard, John 
 
 Ballard, Morman 
 Ballard, Ch. 
 
 Berger, J. 
 
 Brouhard, Barnet 
 Brouhard, Joseph 
 Brouhard, Martin 
 Bowen, Eph. 
 
 Baldwin, F. M. 
 
 Bell, Allen. 
 
 Bassout, Samuel 
 
 Brown, J. P. 
 
 Bates, Math. 
 
 Burris, N. W. 
 
 Boug, Knute 
 
 B 
 
 D 
 
 Ballard, D. P. 
 
 Ballard, R. W. 
 
 Ballard, Henry 
 
 Ballard, Dan. W. 
 
 Ballard, Simeon 
 
 Blades, Isaac 
 
 Baldoc, R. 
 
 Brouhard, John 
 
 Brouhard, James 
 
 Brouhard, Wm. 
 
 Bowen, Jesse 
 
 Bell, J. J. 
 
 Bell, Abner 
 
 Bonnet, Wm. 
 
 Bates, Samuel 
 
 Black, Isaac 
 
 Bethards, Jas. 
 
 Briley, James 
 

 
 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 358 
 
 Briley, Ira 
 Briley, A. Gr. 
 Buswell, Wm. Gr. 
 Beedle, W. C. 
 Bracken, John 
 Bracken, Perry 
 Berry, Chas. D. 
 Berry, Chas. D., Jr. 
 Brown, John 
 Brown, D. R. 
 
 Baker, Shelby 
 Burham, Henry 
 Bryant, Chas. 
 Batzner, Martin 
 Ball, Thos. 
 
 Ball, Amos 
 Brubaker, D. E. 
 Brubaker, John W. 
 Boyes, H. H. 
 Boyes, H. L. 
 Brubaker, Joel 
 Brigham, Gr. E. 
 Bales, Andrew 
 Bales, Robert 
 Batterson Capt. 
 Baldus, Theo. 
 Briggs, S. E. 
 
 Buel, James 
 Barwell, W. G. 
 Barber, Gilbert 
 Born, Jacob 
 Breezely, D. A. 
 Breezely, John 
 Biggers, Willis 
 Baird, Mr. 
 
 Brodie, William 
 Billings, E. H. 
 Brown, Zac. A. 
 Banning, J. E. 
 
 Child, David 
 Child, Chest 
 Child, Samuel 
 Crowser, Moses 
 Carter, A. W. 
 
 Cole, Joel 
 Corey, S. M. 
 
 Corey, Jer., Jr. 
 Cessna, J. W. 
 
 Briley, Elisha 
 Briley, Mrs. Hannah 
 Beedle, A. H. 
 Bracken, Robert 
 Bracken, Wm. 
 
 Berry, Chas. Sr. 
 Berry, Noah 
 Brown, Pierson 
 Brown, J. W. 
 Burham, Wm. 
 Burham, John 
 Brvant, Robt. 
 Barnes, Albert A. 
 Ball. J. P. 
 
 Brubaker, Joseph 
 Brubaker, G. W. 
 Brubaker, Henry 
 Bo3^es, Geo. W. 
 Bailey, Henry 
 Burge, W. L. 
 
 Bales, 
 
 Bales, James 
 Batterson, J. W. 
 Bechtel Philip 
 Briggs, Otis 
 Bradshaw, Robert 
 Bullock, Albert 
 Barber, 
 
 Barber, Henry 
 Blickensderfer, J. S. 
 Breezely William 
 Breezely, James M. 
 Boitnott, G. W. 
 Babcock James 
 Barnum, A. C. 
 
 Barks, Geo. S. 
 Bevington, James 
 Bently, J. P. 
 
 C 
 
 Child, George 
 Child, Leroy 
 Child, Smith 
 Crowser, William 
 Crum, John 
 Cook, W. C. 
 
 Corey, Jer., Sr. 
 Chandler, William 
 Carr, Dr. Lancelot 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 359 
 
 Carr, W. C. 
 
 Cameron, Henry Clay 
 Craig, P. R. 
 
 Craig, B. P. 
 
 Chandler, Soreno 
 Cooper, Joshua 
 Connehan, John 
 Campbell, Robert 
 Chamberlin, 0. 
 Casebolt, R. C. 
 Compton, I. B. 
 
 Cook, James W. 
 Chandler, Alph. 
 
 Cox, Nelson 
 Crawford, Mr. 
 
 Coffelt, Samuel 
 Cook, John 
 Chandler, Josiah 
 Cole, R. W. 
 
 Cotton, Isaac 
 
 Dana, J. L. 
 
 Deal, Michael 
 Dye, George 
 Day, T. J. 
 
 Davis, John W. 
 Daily, Malary 
 Davis, T. C. 
 
 Davis, Cyrus 
 Dunning, B. J. 
 Doolittle, W. R. 
 Daugherty, Mike 
 Day, S. W. 
 
 Doyle, Daniel 
 Dent, Thomas 
 Doty, John 
 Dudley, J. M. 
 Dawson, J. W. 
 Dowling, John 
 Dieffenbacker, Joe 
 Donahue, William 
 Davis, George 
 
 Ewing, James 
 Evans, I. T. 
 Elliot Clark 
 Elliott, Matt 
 
 Cochran, Dr. H. 
 Clark, William 
 Craig, I. 
 
 Craig, Elisha B. 
 Connehan, Pat 
 Connelly, John 
 Campbell, James 
 Campbell, J. W. 
 Cole, J. J. 
 
 Cline, J. W. 
 Confare, B. 
 
 Coldren, R. D. 
 
 Coon, J. J. 
 
 Crossley, G. H. 
 Curry, A. 
 
 Coffelt, F. M. 
 Chandler, Jarvis 
 Chandler, Sylvanus 
 Cotton, James 
 Clutter, Orlando 
 
 D 
 
 Deal, Eli, Sr. 
 
 Dye, S. H. 
 
 Day, E. G. 
 Davidson, J. W. 
 Dailey, Wils 
 Deter, Anson 
 Davis, Thomas M. 
 Daily, Dr. J. N. 
 Duea, Jonas 
 Dobyns, Kenly 
 Dinsmore, Alex. 
 Dean, E. B. 
 
 Doyle, James 
 Dunlap, Thomas 
 Drain, M. 
 
 Dalton, Al. 
 Downing, John 
 Dieffenbacker, Fred 
 Donahue, Andrew 
 Donahue, John 
 Delawyer, John 
 
 E 
 
 Evans, E. C. 
 
 Evans, W. D. 
 Elliott, Zacariah 
 Elliott, John 
 
360 
 
 Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Elliott, E. 
 
 Erb, Jacob 
 Eaglebarger, S. 
 Ersland, Elias 
 Ersland, Knute 
 Evans, W. C. 
 Evans, Milton 
 Emery, Thomas 
 Emery, William 
 Estlick, Mr. 
 Edgin, Anelton 
 Edwards, Mr., Sr. 
 Edwards, William 
 Eckert, Mr. 
 
 Eastwood, A. E. 
 Erb, Joseph 
 Eaglebarger, John 
 Ersland, Anfen 
 Egland, 0. 
 
 Evans, Walter 
 Ellison, Milb 
 Emery, John 
 Eckard, Fred 
 Evenson, John 
 Elzy, J. C. 
 Edwards, Hosea 
 Evans, Johathan 
 
 F 
 
 Finch, Daniel 
 French, E. H. 
 French, H. C. 
 French, .1. S. 
 Fitzgerald, Thomas 
 Ferguson, James 
 Ferguson, Hiram 
 Fitch, A. P. 
 
 Funk, Henry 
 Funk, John 
 Flora, Henry 
 Fitchpatrick, J. A. 
 Fitchpatrick, W. W. 
 Fenn, E. B. 
 
 Fenn, P. 0. 
 
 Foster, Joshua 
 Foster, James J. 
 Freed, W. J. 
 Findlay, J. H. 
 Finnie, Greorge S. 
 Frump, Elisha. 
 
 Grriffith, Jonah 
 Graham, W. J. 
 Grove, J. B. 
 
 Gifford, M. 
 
 Gun, E. 
 
 Garberson, Jonathan 
 Gossard, S. J. 
 Grosclose, John 
 Gilmer, George 
 Green, George 
 Glass, David 
 
 Finch, Frank M. 
 French, 0th o 
 French, Micah 
 Frazier, J. S. 
 
 Ferner, J. D. 
 Ferguson, Jason D. 
 Furguson, H. F. 
 Fertig, William 
 Funk, Henry, Sr. 
 Foote, J. J. 
 Fitchpatrick, W. H. 
 Fitchpatrick, John 
 Fatland, Ole 
 Fenn, E. D. 
 
 Foster, W. H. 
 Foster, H. C. 
 
 Favre, Dr. A. 
 
 Ford, Thomas 
 Flickinger, Levi 
 Frump, Jacob 
 
 G 
 
 Grafton, Dr. W. H. 
 Grove, A. L. 
 
 Grove, W. H. H. 
 Gamble, R. 
 Garberson, Job 
 Griffin, D. A. 
 Gossard, William 
 Grosclose, Jefferson 
 Gordey, P. 
 
 Green, James 
 Gamble, J. D. 
 
Histoey oe Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 Goodin, Smitli 
 Gilmore, Charles 
 Gosslee, Dr. F. 
 Gilchrist, A. W. 
 Graef, Mr. 
 
 Hawthorn, James 
 Hague, I. M. 
 Hague, A. H. 
 Hestwood, J. F. 
 Hiatt, Abram 
 Hipsher, A. 
 
 Hyde, J. L. 
 Hughes, John 
 Hughes, Thomas 
 Handsaker, W. 
 Horine, Mr. 
 Harrison, S. E. 
 Harrison, David 
 Harrison, .John 
 Hall, N. P. 
 Hoffman, T. B. 
 Hunter, F. C. 
 Hunter, Craig 
 Harkness, Joseph 
 Hand, Mathias, 
 Holland, George' 
 Hail, John 
 Hambleton, 0. 
 Holland, Severt 
 Hall, Alba 
 Hall, W. W. 
 Hussong, John 
 Harding, Noah 
 Hunt, M. 
 Hoggatt, L. Q. 
 Hefler, Jacob 
 Halley, Enoch 
 Hopkins, W. B. 
 Halieck, H. 
 Helphry, Israel 
 Henry son, Torkel 
 Headley, Lem 
 Hegland, Sam 
 Hubbard, Edward 
 Hockley, Nelson 
 House, Nelson 
 Hussong, Jesse 
 
 Guthrie, John 
 Gibson, James 
 Guy, Mr. E. 
 
 Graham, George 
 Grove, Mons C. 
 
 H 
 
 Hackley, Robert 
 Hague, S. S. 
 
 Hill, Barney 
 Hanks, M. J. 
 
 Harris, J. C, 
 
 Hoover, J. E. 
 Hiestand, S. 
 
 Hughes, Michael 
 Hyden, George 
 Hempsted, J. C. 
 Harrison, W. I. 
 Harrison, G. C. 
 Harrison, Joshua 
 Harrison, Thomas 
 Hall, Thomas 
 Hunter, R. M. 
 Hunter, A. J. 
 Horner, William 
 Hand, W. B. 
 
 Hand, C. G. 
 
 Hoag, E. S. 
 Hammond, John 
 Hambleton, G. W. 
 Hendrickson, Charles 
 Hall, Alba 0. 
 Hussong, Cal. 
 Harding, Jesse 
 Harmon, Robert J. 
 Hunt, Frank 
 Haman, B. P. 
 Horner, Jacob 
 Hopkins, Richard 
 Hay, L. (Rev.) 
 Hadley, Seth 
 Helphry, George W. 
 Head, William 
 Hegland, Thor 
 Hackathorn, H. I. 
 Heeger, Jacob F. 
 Hefley, Edward 
 Hoblet, John 
 Hoxie, M. B. 
 
362 Histoey op Stoey Coujstty, Iowa. 
 
 Hizer, James 
 
 Hand, Joseph T. 
 Hand, Noah 
 
 I 
 
 Illingworth, Wm. 
 
 Illingworth, M. D. 
 Ingersol, Albert 
 
 J 
 
 Jory, Mr. 
 
 Jory, John 
 
 John, Mr. 
 
 Jones, John 
 
 Jennings, Nat. 
 Jackson, Thomas 
 Jones, T. F., Sr. 
 
 Jones, T. F., Jr. 
 
 Jones, Richard 
 
 Jones, George 
 
 Jones, R. C. 
 
 Jones, Paul 
 
 Jones, Isaac 
 
 Jones, W. H. 
 James, John 
 
 Joor, Cor. 
 
 Jennis, Mr. 
 
 Jeffers, J. M. 
 Jenkins, James 
 Jones, J. H. 
 
 K 
 
 Kelley, W. M. 
 
 Kerr, J. H. B. 
 Kirkman, G. N. 
 Kellogg, George A. 
 Keigley, J. J. 
 Knickerbocker, P. 
 Kelley, T. B. 
 
 King, A. P. 
 
 Kelley, G. W. 
 Kemplin, Mr. 
 
 Kooser, George B. 
 Knight, Curtis 
 
 Kuntz, N. R. 
 Kinsell, J. C. 
 Kellogg, Hr. N. A. 
 Keigley, J. H. 
 Keigley, Robert 
 Keltner, Morgan 
 Kelley, Amos 
 Kintzley, Mr. 
 Kinworthy, D. 
 Keif, Luke 
 
 Kooser, Jacob 
 Knapp, Hiram 
 Kelley, John. 
 
 L 
 
 Larson, Os 
 
 Lee, J. C. 
 
 Lowe, Thomas 
 
 Luther, Mr. 
 
 Loving, John E. 
 
 Lamb, Zeno 
 Lockwood, Ross 
 Livingston, M. D. 
 
 La Rue, Kid 
 
 Lewis, Abner 
 
 Lovell, Chas. 
 
 Lewellen, Harvey 
 Latham, Henry 
 
 Lyons, Havid 
 Linsey, F. 
 
 Lemmon, Wm. 
 Loving, Lot 
 
 Lamb, Daniel 
 Lambert, La Count 
 Larcom, Mr. 
 Larrison, Mr. 
 
 La Rue, James 
 Lovell, James C. 
 Lockridge, Wm. 
 Lowell, Barnabas 
 La Seur, G. B. 
 

 
 / 
 
 Livingston, Greorge W. 
 Larson, L. R. 
 
 Lackey, John 
 
 McDaniel, Lewis 
 Moore, D. A. 
 McCoy, Daniel 
 McCoy, Win 
 Mount, N. 
 McKenzie, Ed 
 Mercer, Lewis 
 May, John 
 Marks, Ives 
 Marks, Jerry 
 McDuire, Wm. 
 McConnell, John 
 McConnell, Alex. 
 Mood, Mr. 
 
 Myers, Jonathan 
 Maxwell, Gr. M. 
 Maxwell, J. W. 
 McCartney, Robert 
 McDaniel, Sam 
 McCarthy, Daniel 
 McCarthy, Henry 
 McCartney, Milo 
 McCartney, John 
 McLain, J. H. 
 McLain, Russel 
 McLain, Jesse 
 McLain, Frank A. 
 Miller, Isaac 
 Miller, W. 0. 
 Miller, John, Sr. 
 Miller, J. H. 
 
 Miller, Rev. I. 
 Miller, Thomas J. 
 Miller, James 
 Miller, E. L. 
 Margason, Wm. 
 Moss, J. C. 
 Mitchell, R. H. 
 May, Richard 
 Mullen, Am. 
 Mullen, Cuilf. 
 Murphy, H. F. 
 
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 363 
 
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 Larson, Rasmus 
 
 
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 Larson, E. R. 
 
 
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 Logan, Robert 
 
 
 
 Larrabee, Wm. 
 
 
 
 M . 
 
 
 ■ -.H 
 
 McKee, H. 
 
 
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 McKee, Thomas 
 McDaniel, Ira 
 
 
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 'j 
 
 McDaniel, Louis 
 McCauley, Samuel 
 Mason, Morris 
 McBarnes, John 
 Miller, Henry 
 McCain, Wm. 
 McCain, Alex 
 McCain, John H. 
 McCain, Wm. H. 
 Mathews, James 
 Mathews, Mr. 
 Miner, FT. C. 
 Marsh, Mr. 
 McDonald, Geo. 
 Moore, Lot 
 Mitchell, Isaac 
 Maxwell, Daniel 
 Maxwell, T. V. 
 Maxwell, David 
 Martin, Peter 
 Martin, Seph 
 McCowan, Sam 
 Morgan, John 
 McMichael, Wm. 
 Madison, Mr. 
 Munden, Wm. L. 
 Mullen, J. N. 
 Minton, D. 
 Marshall, Peter 
 Marshall, A. J. 
 McCord, C. P. 
 Moore, Siinon 
 Moore, James N. 
 McGee, James 
 McQuistion, Silas 
 McQuistion, P. 
 Mitchell, Ira 
 Mitchell, Henry 
 Mitchell, Mr., Sr. 
 
364 Histoet 
 
 OP Story Coupttt, Iowa. 
 
 Murphy, W. C. 
 Monahan, Thomas 
 
 McNerney, Peter 
 Mooning, Mr. 
 
 
 N 
 
 Newton, Frank 
 
 Nourse, U. Gr. 
 
 Netterfield, B. 
 
 Neerness, Ole. 
 
 Nellis, Levi 
 
 Neilson, Mr. 
 
 • Norris, D. J. 
 
 Ned, David 
 Nirskern, Charles 
 Nugent, Daniel 
 
 
 0 
 
 Olinger, John B. 
 
 O’Brien, S. P. 
 
 O’Neil, Owen 
 
 O’Neil, John 
 
 Osmun, S. Gr. 
 Osborn, Lewis 
 Olinger, Christ. 
 Ogles vie, John 
 
 Olson, Brit 
 P 
 
 Person, A. Gr. 
 
 Pressnal, Jer. 
 
 Parish, S. W. 
 
 Prime, George 
 
 Parker, Wm. 
 
 Prime, Daniel 
 
 Phillips, Henry 
 
 Pettibone, Mel. 
 
 Prouty, Adolphus , 
 
 Pedlar, George 
 
 Prouty, Austin 
 
 Pike, F. M. 
 
 Potter, E. B. 
 
 Pocock, Elias 
 
 Parker, John 
 
 Perigo, R. 
 
 Price, Nathan 
 
 Pierce, Mr. 
 
 Pool, J. P. 
 
 Perry, Nelson 
 
 Parish, Gr. B. 
 
 Peterson, Henry 
 
 Page, C. P. 
 
 Picard, Warren 
 
 Purvis, Elijah 
 
 Phipps, J. B. 
 
 Pearson, Wm. 
 
 Postgate, Thomas 
 
 
 Q 
 
 Queal, Paul A. 
 
 R 
 
 Rich, John 
 
 Robinson, R. H. 
 
 Rich, Samuel 
 
 Robinson, J. M. 
 
 Rich, Jacob 
 
 Robinson, J. P,, Jr, 
 
 Randeau, W. 
 
 Robins, C. D. 
 
 Reischauer, P. 
 
 Russell, 0. D. 
 
 Rubar, Sebastian 
 
 Romaine, I. 
 
 Ross, T. J. 
 
 Rees, I. H. 
 
 Ross, M. M. 
 
 Rhoads, F. W. 
 
 Ross, Calvary 
 
 Robinson, R. A. 
 
 Ross, Granville 
 
 Rynard, Jacob 
 
 Ross, James 
 
 Russell, A. T. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 365 
 
 Ross, Wm. 
 
 Ross, Jesse 
 Ray, Jud 
 Ray, Jacob 
 Richardson, W. H. 
 Richardson, Gr. H. 
 Ream, Philip H. 
 Robinson, Charles P. 
 Robinson, W. R. 
 Robinson, Joseph P. 
 
 Stultz, D. L. 
 Spring, W. W. 
 Smiley, George 
 Swaney, W. B. 
 Sinclair, J. H. 
 Smith, James C. 
 Smith, James 
 Smith, John 
 Simmons, Henry 
 Simmons, Amos 
 Simmons, Cyrus 
 Scott, George, Sr. 
 Scott, Hiram 
 Scott, George 
 Scott, Bar 
 Scott, E. F. 
 
 Scott, John Col. 
 Scott, Andrew 
 Scott, Thomas 
 Sowers, G. W. 
 Sowers, J. W. 
 Sheffield, N. N. 
 Severson, John 
 Stevens, I). L. 
 Stevens, John, Sr. 
 Stevens, Isaac 
 Stevens, Elias 
 Stevens, Benjamin 
 Smith, W. K. 
 Smay, Absolem 
 Smith, C. G. 
 Spencer, Mr. 
 Spring, L. H. 
 Switzer, M. 
 Switzer, Sol. 
 Stafford, Mr. 
 
 Seal, Joseph 
 
 Raff, Peter 
 Rigby, Henry 
 Rood, Adol. 
 
 Ritland, John 
 Rhoads, J. A. 
 
 Ring, George 
 Runyon, C. 
 
 Rogers, Perry 
 
 Roe, Mr. (of Franklin.) 
 
 Rynard, Wm. 
 
 S 
 
 Smith, Jesse 
 Smith, Samuel 
 Shenkle, B. R. 
 
 Spurgin, Aaron 
 Spurgin, Wm. 
 
 Shields, W. H. 
 Stratton, Al. 
 
 Shope, David F. 
 Speaks, George 
 Swarm, Daniel 
 See, John, Sr. 
 
 See, John 
 See, Jonathan 
 See, Missouri 
 See, Michael 
 See, Earl 
 Shearer, E. W. 
 
 Shearer, S. I. 
 
 Shearer, Robert B. 
 Shaw, A. D. 
 
 Shaw, P. H. 
 
 Statler, Jonathan 
 Statler, S. S. 
 
 Sheldahl, 0. 
 
 Stewart, B. F. 
 
 Straw, W. P. 
 
 Spangler, Henry 
 Schoonover, Ed 
 Schoonover, Charles 
 Schoonover, Levi 
 Sheldall, E. R. 
 
 Swan, Giles 
 Smith, Carl 
 Squire, T. A. 
 
 Snell, Jasper 
 Summers, Philander 
 Strait, Wm. 
 
366 
 
 Histoey of Stoet CoTJifTY, Iowa. 
 
 Seal, Moses 
 Sladden, J. C. 
 Sheldon, M. D. 
 Sellars, James, 
 Sellars, John 
 Sellars, Wm. Y. 
 Smith, J. W. 
 Smith, J. W., Jr. 
 Smith, W. V. 
 Smith, Ephraim 
 
 Tallen, Patrick W. H. 
 Tanner, Jo. Gr. 
 
 Talbot, J, H. 
 Thompson, F. D. 
 Thompson, James 
 Thrall, R. R. 
 
 Tritts, Henry 
 Thomas, Gi, W. 
 Thomas, John S. 
 Templeton, Wm., 
 Templeton, Greorge 
 Thurman, Charles 
 Thurman, Enoch 
 Thompson, Paul 
 Thompson, Knute 
 
 Vincent, Hiram 
 Vincent, W. S. 
 Vincent, David 
 Vest, Gr 
 
 Van Stewart, Peter 
 
 Shenkle, Benjamin 
 Stratton, E. 
 
 Sorter, James 
 Seal, John 
 Seal, Wm. 
 
 Sunday, Wm. 
 
 Shockley, W. C. 
 
 • Smart, Sylvester 
 Stewart, D. W. 
 
 Sharkey, John 
 
 T 
 
 Thompson, Wm, 
 
 Thompson, Frank 
 Thatcher, Mr. 
 
 Tichenor, W. E. 
 
 Tichenor, Joseph 
 Taylor, Joseph 
 Taylor, Hiram 
 Turtle, Thomas 
 Thorlton, James 
 Taylor, Wesley 
 Taylor, Mr., Sr. 
 
 Tomlinson, V. 
 
 • Tanner, J. M. 
 
 Thomas, Mr.— (Escaped from the 
 Spirit Lake massacre.) 
 
 Tisdall, Louis 
 
 U 
 
 Utterback, W. W, 
 
 V 
 
 Vance, Mr. 
 
 Van Fossen, J. 
 
 Vest, Thomas 
 Vest, C. M. 
 
 Vest, John 
 
 Wickham, H, C. 
 
 Womach, W. B. 
 
 Warren, John 
 
 Williams, Mr. (of Cambridge.) 
 Wheatley, Allen 
 Woodward, W. W. 
 
 Woodward, Mr. (of Collins.) 
 Webb, Nathan 
 
 W 
 
 Welton, X. A. 
 Waltz, George 
 Wise, G. W. 
 
 Wise, W. A. 
 Walters, Caleb 
 Westlake, Thomas 
 Whitaker, Mr. 
 White, S. M. 
 
NINTH STR. ENTRANCE aYUVAN LAKE 
 
 PKOSPECT PAEK, DES MOINES, IOWA. 
 
History of Stort CornTx, Iowa. 
 
 369 
 
 Webb, A. K. 
 
 White, Mr., Sr. 
 
 Webb, Granville 
 
 Whorton, John 
 
 Wood, W. K. 
 
 Whorton, George 
 
 Wood, J. R. 
 
 Whipple, B. S. 
 
 Wood, C. C. 
 
 Wood, A. G. 
 
 Wood, J. G. 
 
 Whitehead, Job 
 
 Wood, J. S. 
 
 Wells, Chester 
 
 Wood, J. H. 
 
 Watkins, Sol. 
 
 Walker, Isaac 
 
 Wheeler, John 
 
 Willey, Dr. A. J. 
 
 Willhide, J. A. 
 
 Wier, W. A. 
 
 Wier, Francis 
 
 Wilkinson, D. 
 
 Wolf, Mr. 
 
 Wilkinson, Lyman 
 
 Wheeler, Tip 
 
 Wilkinson, John 
 
 Wilson, Wm. 
 
 Worrall, Shadrick 
 
 Wakefield, H. C. 
 
 Webb, S. S. 
 
 Wakefield, Mar. 
 
 Wheeler, Jacob 
 
 Weeks, Wier 
 
 Wheeler, George 
 
 Williams, Wallace 
 
 Wolfsburg, H. J. 
 
 Wiltse, W. B. 
 
 Y 
 
 Young, Sol. 
 
 Yazel, David 
 
 Yazel, Mr. 
 
 Yelton, J. G. 
 
 Yocum, G. P. 
 
 Z 
 
 Zenor, John 
 
 Zenor, Michael 
 
 Zenor, Wm. 
 
 Zenor, Eli 
 
 Zenor, George B. 
 
 Zenor, J. J. 
 
 Zenor, James 
 
 HAVE WE 
 
 PEAT m STORY COUNTY 
 
 Hon. H. M. Thompson, a former Superintendent of the Iowa 
 State Agricultural Farm, a man of close observation, and was a 
 Scotchman by birth, cut out and dried in blocks some of the loose 
 rooty and mossy soil which he found on the Farni on flat spongy 
 land, and reported it, when dried, to burn equal to peat in Scotland. 
 Mr. T. was a close observer of the Farm and its interests and was, 
 I presume, correct in his conclusion in regard to peat. If his views 
 were correct we have hundreds of acres of it in Story County. Mr. 
 Thompson was from Scott County, Iowa, and had represented it in 
 the General Assembly. If we have coal, timber and ^eat in Story 
 County, what more do we need for fuel? 
 
 24 
 
370 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 POPULAR AND ELECTORIAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENT 
 FROM 1824 TO 1884, INCLUSIVE. 
 
 Yr. 
 
 Candidates. 
 
 Party. 
 
 Pop. 
 
 Vote. 
 
 Ehct'l 
 
 Vote. 
 
 1824 
 
 1824 
 
 1824 
 
 1824 
 
 1828 
 
 1828 
 
 1832 
 
 1832 
 
 1832 
 
 1832 
 
 1836 
 
 1836 
 
 1836 
 
 1836 
 
 1836 
 
 1840 
 
 1840 
 
 1840 
 
 1841 
 1844 
 1844 
 1848 
 1848 
 1848 
 1852 
 1852 
 1852 
 1856 
 1856 
 1856, 
 1860 
 1860 
 1860 
 1860 
 1864 
 1864 
 1868 
 1868 
 1872 
 1872 
 1872 
 1872 
 1876 
 1876 
 1876 
 1876 
 1876 
 1880 
 1880 
 1880 
 1884 
 1884 
 1884 
 1884 
 
 Andrew Jackson 
 
 John Q. Adams 
 
 W. H. Crawford 
 
 Henry Clay 
 
 Andrew Jackson 
 
 John Q. Adams 
 
 Andrew Jackson 
 
 Henry Clay 
 
 Wm. Wirt 
 
 John Floyd 
 
 Martin Van Buren. . . . 
 
 W. H. Harrison 
 
 Hugh L. White 
 
 Daniel Webster 
 
 W. P. Mangum 
 
 W. H. Harrison 
 
 Martin Van Buren 
 
 James G. Birney 
 
 James Knox Polk 
 
 Henry Clay 
 
 James G. Birney 
 
 Zachary Taylor 
 
 Lewis Cass 
 
 Martin Van Buren 
 
 Franklin Pierce 
 
 Winfield Scott 
 
 John P. Hale 
 
 James Buchanan 
 
 John Charles Fremont. 
 
 Millard Fillmoi’e 
 
 Abraham Lincoln. . . . 
 Stephen A. Douglass.. 
 John C. Beckenridge. . 
 
 John Bell 
 
 Abraham Lincoln 
 
 Geo. B. McClelland. . .-. 
 
 U. S. Grant '. . 
 
 Horatio Seymour 
 
 U. S. Grant 
 
 Horace Greeley 
 
 Charles O’Connor 
 
 James Black 
 
 R. B. Hayes 
 
 Samel J . Tilden 
 
 Peter Cooper 
 
 Green Clay Smith 
 
 Scattering 
 
 James A. Garfield 
 
 Winfield S. Hancock. . 
 
 James B. Weaver 
 
 James G. Blaine 
 
 Grover Cleveland 
 
 Benj. F. Butler 
 
 •John P. St. John 
 
 Democrat. . . . 
 
 Federal 
 
 Republican.. . 
 Kepublican... 
 Democrat . . 
 
 Federal 
 
 Democrat. . . 
 
 Whig 
 
 Whig 
 
 Whig . 
 
 Democrat/. . . 
 
 Whig 
 
 Whig 
 
 Whig 
 
 Whig 
 
 Whig 
 
 Democrat. . . 
 Liberal. ...'.. 
 Democrat. . . - 
 
 Whig 
 
 Free Soil 
 
 Whig 
 
 Democrat 
 
 Free Soil 
 
 Democrat . . . 
 
 Whig 
 
 Free Soil 
 
 Democrat. . . . 
 Republican. . 
 American — 
 Republican. . 
 
 Democrat 
 
 Democrat 
 
 Union 
 
 Republican... 
 Democrat.. . . 
 Republican. . 
 Democrat. . . 
 Republican. . 
 
 Liberal 
 
 Democrat. . .. 
 Temperance. 
 Republican . . 
 Democrat. . . . 
 Green backer. 
 Prohibition... 
 
 Republican . 
 Democrat. . . 
 Greenback. . 
 Republican 
 Democrat. . 
 
 People’s 
 
 Prohibition. 
 
 152.872 
 
 105,321 
 
 44,282 
 
 f46,587 
 
 647,231 
 
 509,097 
 
 687,502 
 
 530,189 
 
 761,549 
 
 1 
 
 1736,656 
 
 I 
 
 J 
 
 1.275.017 
 1,128,702 
 
 7.059 
 1,377,243 
 1,299,068 
 62,300 
 1,360,101 
 1,220,544 
 291,263 
 1,601,474 
 1,386,578 
 156,149 
 1,838,169 
 1,341,262 
 874,534 
 1,866,352 
 1,375.157 
 845,763 
 589,581 
 2,216,067 
 1,808,725 
 3,015,071 
 2,709.613 
 3,597,070 
 2,834,079 
 29,408 
 5,608 
 4,033,950 
 4,284,885 
 81,740 
 9,522 
 2,636 
 4,441,233 
 4,443,325 
 314,324 
 4,848,334 
 
 4.911.017 
 133,825 
 151,809 
 
 99 
 
 84 
 
 41 
 
 37 
 
 178 
 
 83 
 
 219 
 
 49 
 
 7 
 
 11 
 
 170 
 
 73 
 
 26 
 
 14 
 
 11 
 
 234 
 
 48 
 
 170 
 
 105 
 
 163 
 
 127 
 
 254 
 
 42 
 
 174 
 
 114 
 
 8 
 
 180 
 
 72 
 
 39 
 
 12 
 
 212 
 
 21 
 
 214 
 
 80 
 
 286 
 
 185 
 
 184 
 
 214 
 
 155 
 
 182 
 
 219 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 371 
 
 SALARIES OF OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 President, per year $50,000 
 
 Vice-President 8,000 
 
 Secretary of State 8,000 
 
 Secretary of Treasury 8,000 
 
 Secretary of Interior 8,000 
 
 Secretary of Navy 8,000 
 
 Secretary of War 8,000 
 
 Postmaster Greneral 8,000 
 
 Speaker House Representatives 8,000 
 
 United States Senators .... 5,000 
 
 Representatives in Congress 5,000 
 
 UNITED STATES MINISTERS TO 
 
 Peru $10,000 
 
 Venezuela 7,500 
 
 Turkey ,. . 7,500 
 
 Norway 7,500 
 
 Netherland 7,500 
 
 Denmark 5,000 
 
 Greece 5,000 
 
 Uruguay 5,000 
 
 Portugal 5,000 
 
 Switzerland 5,000 
 
 Siberia 4,000 
 
 England 17,500 
 
 Germany 17,500 
 
 France 17,500 
 
 Russia 17,500 
 
 China 12,000 
 
 Brazil 12,000 
 
 Spain 12,000 
 
 Japan 12,000 
 
 Mexico 12,000 
 
 Central America 10,000 
 
 Chili 10,000 
 
 JUDGES. 
 
 Chief Justice United States Supreme Court $10,500 
 
 Associate Judges 10,000 
 
 United States Circuit Judges 6,000 
 
 ( 3,500 
 
 United States District Judges •< to 
 
 ( 5,000 
 
 Judge United States Court of Claims 4,500 
 
 HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. 
 
 Superintendent Signal Service $ 4,000 
 
 Director of the Mint 4,500 
 
372 
 
 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 Superintendent Nautical Almanac 3,500 
 
 Commander of Marine Corps 3,500 
 
 Director Greological Surveys • „ — 6,000 
 
 Auditor Railroad Accounts 5,000 
 
 Commissioner of Patents 4,500 
 
 Commissioner of Pensions 3,600 
 
 “ Agricultural 3,000 
 
 “ Indian Alfairs 3,000 
 
 “ Education 3.000 
 
 Superintendent of Census 5,000 
 
 “ Naval Observatory 5.000 
 
 Commissioner General Land Office 4,000 
 
 / 
 
 FIRST STEAMBOAT AND LOCOMOTIVE IN THE UNITED 
 
 STATES. 
 
 The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807, and was built by 
 Robert Fulton. The first use of a locomotive in the United States 
 was in 1831. 
 
 REMEDIES FOR BURNS AND SCALDS. 
 
 Every family should have a preparation of linseed oil and lime 
 water, about the consistency of thick paint, constantly on hand 
 for burns and scalds. The best application in case of burns and 
 scalds is a mixture of one part of carbolic acid to eight parts of 
 olive oil. Lint or linen rags are to be saturated in the lotion, and 
 spread smoothly over the burnt part, which should then be covered 
 with oil silk or gutta percha tissue to exclude air. 
 
 A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF MASON AND DIXON’S LINE. 
 
 A name given to the southern boundary line of the “free State 
 of Pennsylvania,’" which formerly separated it from the slave 
 States of Maryland and Virginia. It was surveyed — with the ex- 
 ception of about twenty-two miles — by Charles Mason and Jere- 
 miah Dixon, two English mathematicians and surveyors,, between 
 November 15, 1763, and December 26, 1767. During the exciting 
 debate in Congress, in 1820, on the question of excluding slavery 
 from Missouri, the eccentric John Randolph, of Roanoke, made 
 great use of this phrase, which was caught up and re-echoed by all, 
 or nearly all, the newspapers in the country, and thus gained a 
 celebrity which it still retains. 
 
 
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 Histoey of Story County, Iowa, 373 | 
 
 THE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. 1 
 
 At end of first year, the cotton wedding. ' 
 
 At end of second year, the paper wedding. 
 
 At end of third year, the leather wedding. 
 
 At end of fifth year, the wooden wedding. .i; 
 
 At end of seventh year, the woolen wedding. f 
 
 At end of tenth year, the tin wedding. J 
 
 At end of twelfth year, the silk and fine linen wedding. ^ 
 
 At end of fifteenth year, the crystal wedding. i 
 
 At end of twentieth year, the China wedding. ’ 
 
 At end of twenty-fifth year, the silver wedding. ; 
 
 At end of thirtieth year, the pearl wedding. 
 
 At end of fortieth year, the ruby wedding. ‘ 
 
 At end of fiftieth year, the golden wedding. .1 
 
 At end of seventy-fifth year, the diamond wedding. 1 
 
 NICKNAMES OF STATES AND CITIES. 1 
 
 ■T! 
 
 _ Bayou State — The name sometimes given to the State of Missis- 
 sippi, which abounds in bayous or creeks. i 
 
 _ Bear State — A name by which the State of Arkansas is some- ‘ 
 times designated, on account of the number of bears that formerly i 
 
 infested its forests. 
 
 Badger State — A name popularly given to the State of Wiscon- i 
 
 sin. i 
 
 Bay State— A popular name of Massachusetts, which, previous i 
 
 to the adoption of the Federal Constitution, was called the Colony 
 of Massachusetts Bay. ’ 
 
 Creole S^te — A name sometimes given to the State of Louis- « 
 
 iana, in which the descendants of the original French and Span- I 
 
 ish settlers constitute a large portion of the population. 
 
 Diamond State — A name sometimes given to the State of Dela- i 
 
 ware, from its small size and great worth or supposed importance. j 
 
 Excelsior State, or Empire State — “Excelsior” is the motto upon : 
 
 its coat of arms; a popular name of the State of New York, the ' 
 
 most populous and wealthiest State iu the Union. 
 
 Freestone State — The State of Connecticut, sometimes so called ^ 
 
 from the quarries of freestone which it contains. I 
 
 Green Mountain State— A popular name for the State of Ver- ) 
 
 mont, the Green Mountains being the principal mountain range in 
 the State. ' 
 
 Granite State — A name for the State of New Hampshire, the 
 mountainous portions of which are largely composed of granite. ^1 
 
 Hoosier State — The State of Indiana, the inhabitants of which 
 are often called Hoosiers. This word had its origin from “husher,” 
 formerly a common term for a bully, and throughout the West. 
 
 Hawkeye State — The State of Iowa; said to be so named for an j 
 
 Indian chief, who was once a terror to voyagers to its borders. > 
 
374 
 
 Histoet op Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 Keystone State — The State of Pennsylvania; so called from its 
 having been the central State of the Union at the time of the for- 
 mation of the Constitution. If to arrange the thirteen original 
 States in the form of an arch, Pennsylvania will occupy the place 
 of the keystone. 
 
 Lumber State — A name sometimes given to the State of Maine, 
 the inhabitants of which are largely engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness, cutting and rafting from the pineries. 
 
 Lake State — A name given to the State of Michigan, which bor- 
 ders on the four lakes, Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie. 
 
 Lone Star State — The State of Texas; so called from the device 
 on its coat of arms. 
 
 Mother of States, Mother of Presidents, Old Dominion— A name 
 sometimes given to Virginia, the first settled in the United States, 
 and sometimes called “Mother of Presidents,” as it has furnished 
 six Presidents to the Union. 
 
 Palmetto State — The State of South Carolina; so called from 
 the arms of the State, which contain a palmetto. 
 
 Peninsular State — The State of Florida; so called from its shape. 
 
 Pine Tree State — A name given to the State of Maine, the cen- 
 tral and northern portions of which are covered with extensive 
 pine forests. 
 
 Prairie State — A name given to Illinois, in allusion to its exten- 
 sive and beautiful prairies. 
 
 Turpentine State — A name given to the State of North Caro- 
 lina, which produces and exports immense quantities of turpen- 
 tine. 
 
 Nutmeg State — A name in the United States given to Connecti- 
 cut, the inhabitants of which have such a reputation for shrewd- 
 ness that they have been jocosely accused of selling wooden nut- 
 megs for the genuine. 
 
 Old Colony — A name given to that portion of Massachusetts 
 included within the original limits of the Plymouth Colony, which 
 was formed at an earlier date than the Colony of Massachusetts 
 Bay. 
 
 Old North State — A popular name for the State of North Caro- 
 lina. 
 
 NICK OE POPULAE NAMES OF CITIES. 
 
 City of Churches — A name given to the city of Brooklyn, New 
 York, from the unusually large number of churches in it. 
 
 Bluff City — A name given to the city of Hannibal, Missouri. 
 
 City of Brotherly Love — Philadelphia is sometimes so called, 
 this being the literal significance of the name. 
 
 City of Elms — A familiar name of New Haven, Connecticut. 
 Many of the streets are thickly shaded with lofty elms. 
 
 City of Magnificent Distances — A name popularly given to the 
 city of Washington, capital of the United States, laid out to cover 
 a space of four and one-half miles long and two miles and a half 
 wide, or eleven square miles. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 375 
 
 City of Spindles — A name given to the city of Lowell, Mass., 
 the largest cotton manufacturing town in the United States. 
 
 City of the Straits — A name given to Detroit, Mich., which is 
 situated on the west bank of the river or strait connecting Lake 
 St. Clair with Lake Erie. Detroit, a French word, means “strait.” 
 
 City of Notions — Boston, Mass., the metropolis of Yankeedom. 
 
 City of Rocks — A descriptive name given to the city of Nash- 
 ville, Tenn. 
 
 Crescent City — A name given to the city of New Orleans, the 
 older portion of which is built around the convex side of a bend 
 of the Mississippi River. 
 
 Empire City — The city of New York, the chief city of the 
 United States. 
 
 Fall City — Louisville, Ky.; so called from the falls which at this 
 place impede the navigation of the Ohio River. 
 
 Flour City — A name given to the city of Rochester, N. Y., a 
 place remarkable for its extensive manufactories of flour. 
 
 Flower City — Springfleld, 111., the capital of the State, which is 
 distinguished for the beauty of its surroundings. 
 
 Forest City — 1. Cleveland, Ohio ; so called from the many orna- 
 mental trees which border the streets of the city. 
 
 Forest City — 2. A name given to Portland, Maine, distinguished 
 for its many elms and other beautiful shade trees. 
 
 Grotham — A name for the city of New York. 
 
 Hub of the Universe — A burlesque name on Boston, Mass., 
 originating with the American humorist, 0. W. Holmes. 
 
 Garden City — A popular name for Chicago, a city remarkable 
 for the number and beauty of its private gardens. 
 
 Garden of the West — A name sometimes given to Kansas, some- 
 times to Illinois, and sometimes to Iowa, and other parts of the 
 West. 
 
 Gate City — Keokuk, Iowa; so called from its situation at the foot 
 of the lower rapids of the Mississippi River. 
 
 Iron City — A name given to Pittsburg, Pa., for its great iron 
 manufactories. 
 
 Monumental City — The city of Baltimore, so called from its 
 monuments. 
 
 Mound City — A name sometimes given to St. Louis, Mo., on 
 account of the numerous artificial mounds on which it was built. 
 
 Puritan City — A name sometimes given to the city of Boston, 
 Mass., in allusion to the character of its founders and early inhab- 
 itants. 
 
 Railroad City — Indianapolis, Indiana, is sometimes called by 
 this name as being the end or terminus of many railroads. 
 
 • Smoky City — A name sometimes given to Pittsburg, Pa., an im- 
 
 portant manufacturing city in iron, nails, etc., etc. 
 
 Quaker City — A name given to Philadelphia, Pa., which was 
 planned and settled by William Penn. 
 
376 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Queen City— A popular name given Cincinnati; so called when 
 it was the commercial city of the West. 
 
 Queen City of the Lakes— A name_ sometimes given to the city 
 of Buffalo, New York, from its position and importance. 
 
 THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. 
 Pyramids of Egypt. 
 
 Hanging Cardens of Babylon, Tower, Walls and Terrace. 
 
 Statue of Jupiter Olympus, on the Capitoline Hill, at Rome. 
 Temple of Diana at Ephesus. 
 
 Pharos, or Watch Tower, at Alexandria, Egypt. 
 
 Colossus of Rhodes, a statue 105 feet high, overthrown by an 
 
 earthquake 224 B. C. ..... 
 
 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, a Crecian-Persian city in Asia 
 
 Minor. 
 
 THE FIRST STAKE ON THE COLLEGE FARM. 
 
 About the year 1860, the College Farm House site was fixed by 
 Mr. Suel Foster, of Muscatine County, and Daniel McCarthy, of 
 Story County. Mr. Foster was one of the locating Trustees and 
 had desired to meet Mr. E. G. Day, also a locating Trustee, on the 
 Farm so they could select the site for the Farm House and the 
 barn. Mr. Day did not appear. Mr. McCarthy, I , believe, had a 
 compass and met with Mr. Foster, and they scared up a surveyor’s 
 chain or tape line and went to work fixing the site for the house. 
 It became the arduous duty of Esq. Daniel to drive the first stake 
 on the Farm^ looking to its improvement. 
 
 I was acquainted, somewhat, with the surveyor who gave the 
 bearings for the foundation wall of the College building. , Also am 
 acquainted with the surveyor who fixed and recorded the corners 
 of the Farm by request of Hon. H. M. Thompson, of Scott County, 
 superintendent of the Farm. 
 
 Mr. McCarthy is one of those who aided the Farm location by 
 donating seventy-five dollars for that purpose. He was far from 
 being alone in the donations. (There were lots of us in that boat.) 
 
 The County gave |10,000 ; citizens of Boone and Story counties gave 
 in money and subscriptions ^5,340; the citizens of the two counties 
 gave 981 acres of land, deeded, and bonds, making, at five dollars per 
 acre, $4,905. The total loomed up to $20,245. This was surely liberal. 
 Boone shares with us in this liberality. Hon. John A. Hull, Hon. 
 J. L. Dana, Mr. W. J. Graham, Hen. G. M. Maxwell and others 
 were active and energetic workers. Dana was, perhaps, the most 
 energetic except Graham. 
 
 About the time Squire Daniel McCarthy secured the honor of 
 driving that “first stake on the Farm,” Mr. Foster secured the 
 honor of beating the mail hack to Nevada, from Des Moines — both 
 
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History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 377 
 
 leaving Des Moines about the same time. Mr. Foster, of course, 
 was on foot. The roads were nearly impassable. But Suel Foster 
 had the grit and nerve to undertake just such a trip, when business 
 called, and did not scare at a little mud on his boots. Foster and 
 Day voted for the location of the Farm in Story County. They 
 were good men; but both have left us and, have “passed over the 
 river. 
 
 CLOSING REMARKS. 
 
 NOW AND THEN. 
 
 There are many excellent improvements all over the County that 
 I did not get to see. I have not any doubt of this fact. — None at 
 all. It is true, however, that what I did see far exceeded my ex- 
 pectations. Just to think of the changes made since 1853-4-5, and 
 up to 1860 ! Why, it is marvelous ! 
 
 The writer hereof is one of many others in the County who have 
 l5een permitted to gaze on the wild expanse of prairie, thirty and 
 thirty-four years ago, when there was nothing to disturb the grass 
 but wolves, cranes, geese, ducks and prairie chickens. True, there 
 were a few straggling Indians, and the business of some of them was 
 to herd or drive away the few deer and elk we had then on the 
 prairies. But now what is our situation in the close of 1886 ? The 
 prairies are now changed to magnificent grain fields, pastures, 
 orchards, hedges, etc. Fine dwellings and splendid barns, good 
 churches and good school houses are seen in every direction. In- 
 numerable cultivated groves of timber are now found to dot the 
 prairies in every direction. 
 
 We now 'have in Story County four good railroads — three run- 
 ning east and west and one running north and south through the 
 County, giving us seventeen railroad towns in the County, and 
 eighteen postoffices — all on railroads except Iowa Center. We 
 have two Presidential postoffices — Ames and Nevada — in the 
 County. Such postmasters are nominated by the President and 
 confirmed or rejected by the United States Senate. Postmasters 
 not receiving ^1,000 per year are appointed by the Postmaster-gen- 
 eral. 
 
 We now have trading points all around us, and we ship large 
 quantities of grain, live stock, poultry, eggs, butter, etc., from our 
 County. We have ten money order offices in the County, viz.: 
 Nevada, Ames, Collins, Cambridge, Colo, Maxwell, Roland, Shel- 
 dahl. Story City and Zearing. The postoffice now at Sheldahl 
 really is in Polk County, but has been in Story County. 
 
 We have two steam-power presses in the County — one used by 
 the Highway Press, of Nevada, the other by J. E. Duncan, of the 
 
378 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Ames Intelligencer. We have in all seven presses, and have seven 
 papers published, weekly, in the County; one at Maxwell, one at 
 Cambridge, one at Ames, one at Story City and three at Nevada. 
 We now have a postoffiee at Sheldahl Crossing — April, 1887. Of 
 the postoffices that are of the past, I will name: Camden, Goshen, 
 Johnson Grove, Point Palestine, Willow Grove, New Philadelphia, 
 College Farm and Boardman. 
 
 We now have near or quite forty-one church buildings in the 
 County, and a membership of nearly or quite 4,000 members. 
 
 We have about seventy organized Sabbath schools. We have 
 135 or more school houses, besides the nine High or Graded school 
 buildings and the “ Iowa State Agricultural College.” There are 
 several common school buildings, substantial brick structures. 
 
 The High School buildings at Nevada, Ames, Cambridge, Max- 
 well are substantial houses, built of brick. The High School build- 
 ing at Nevada, cost $22,000; the one at Ames cost $16,000. 
 
 We now have five flouring mills of good quality making good 
 flour. We have some others, but of inferior quality. We have 
 now seven or eight tile factories; we have six or seven creameries. 
 We have a goo'd foundry, doing an extensive business. We have 
 now in Story County a population of about 20,000 persons. We 
 also have good schools, probably no better in any county in Iowa. 
 We have a county of good and productive soil. For stock raising 
 and shipping our products of all kinds, we are at home. We have 
 an enterprising and happy people. We have a county that is loyal 
 to our laws with but few exceptions. We gave on the twenty- 
 seventh of June, 1882, 1,921 votes for the “Prohibitory Amend- 
 ment to the constitution of Iowa,” and only 553 votes against it. 
 This vote would seem to indicate something of our moral standing. 
 Good for Story! 
 
 But now I will connect this prosperous condition with the hard- 
 ships of 1853 to 1860 we had to undergo, and it will make a 
 complete contrast in our history. As already said in this chapter, 
 and elsewhere, we’ve seen the bleak prairies, the wolf, the “Injun'” 
 and the “Elephant,’’ (or that other animal,) but will enumerate some 
 things we done in the early times. We eat up our money, what 
 little we had, by sending teams and our money for corn, flour and 
 bacon to Oskaloosa, Pella, Iowa City and elsewhere. The teams, 
 after sloughing down many times, would get back with something 
 to eat, but the money did not return. So we eat our money in that 
 way when we had any to eat. Why those who came here since the 
 war commenced and who are complaining of hard times, such 
 know but little of hard times such as the early settlers can tell what 
 we had to endure then. We had in 1854 a population of 836 per- 
 sons — 403 of them females. In 1860 we had 4,051 population, 
 1,955 were females. In 1870 the population was 11,651. In 1880, 
 16,906. At the present time it will nearly or quite reach 20,000. 
 
 But I will get back to 1853 and to 1860. We then had trouble 
 to get away with teams, and trouble to get back again. You would 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 379 
 
 think so to hear those who tried it to tell about getting sloughed 
 (slooed) down nearly a dozen times, and have to unload the best they 
 could, getting to Marietta, Marshalltown, Newton or Des Moines; 
 for we had but few or no bridges then, and yet we had bad roads. 
 Now all our streams have good bridges and lots of them, and the 
 roads are being made good. No trouble now, or but little. 
 
 The doleful story given refers to the time we were living under 
 the “Old Dispensation.” We will refer to the present prosperous 
 condition of our people as under the “New Dispensation.” 
 
 Just think back and compare then and now. Think of what we 
 had to undergo from 1853 to 1860 with our present situation (1887) 
 and then complain of hard times! In 1853 no railroad had crossed 
 the Mississippi river. In 1856 the nearest railroad to us was 115 
 miles off. Now we have seventeen railroad stations in the county, 
 and all around us. We who have seen the “Injun” and other animals, 
 and can see the difference! We will be content with the past, and are 
 willing others should try the adventurous curiosity in the future. 
 
 The description I have just given of hard times in the earlj^ times 
 of our county I will strengthen my statement by saying tljat in the 
 Story County Advocate of February 9, 1859, I find seven sheriff 
 sale notices and three marshal sales in Story County, and yet the 
 paper is nearly half gone at that. I have just examined some of 
 our papers and find one sheriff' sale for November, 1886. Ten in 
 1859, and ONE in 1886. And the population in 1859 was about 
 4,000; now, January 4, 1887, it will be from 18,000 to 20,000 per- 
 sons. Turn to pages seven and eight of this history and you 
 will learn the cause for an excited meeting of some of our best 
 citizens of Story County, held January, 1858. 0, let us not mur- 
 
 mur so m-u-c-h now of hard times! Ask the old veterans of our 
 early settlers if I have drawn the picture too dark. 
 
 Before closing I will say a little more as to the present. Our 
 towns did more beautifying and painting houses and barns, with 
 some exceptions, than any former year; but less valuable and 
 substantial buildings than usual. There are, however, many new 
 and valuable barns, and some fine dwellings, that were built in 
 1886 in different townships. I was pretty well over many of the 
 townships and write from what I saw and gathered. I visited 
 twenty-three cemeteries — all in the county except ten or twelve 
 small ones. I presume the total dead of the county will reach 
 3,100. Yes, we go, one — by — one! 
 
 I will again say it is probable, very probable, there is no other 
 county in Iowa, (age considered) to excel Story County in grand, 
 substantial and valuable improvements. With a very productive 
 soil, healthful climate, stirring farmers, and stock dealers, good 
 mechanics, good schools, such as are number one anywhere, a mag- 
 nificent Iowa Agricultural College and Farm, and several brick 
 High School buildings, and' one of the most beautiful Court Houses 
 in the state; with four railroads and seventeen railroad stations, 
 and eighteen post-offices, how is it possible we can be excelled. 
 
380 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Every, citizen has a market near his residence for anything he 
 wishes to sell, or to buy; and we have a business firm in our midst 
 of very great value to the whole county, and it is the business 
 firm of 
 
 BOARDMAN BROS., OF NEVADA. — A SUCCESS IN BUSINESS. 
 
 By referring to page 212 we find in 1882 the Boardman building and 
 business very minutely described — a building exactly adapted to their 
 extensive business. The business done by Boardman Bros, in the 
 buying, packing and shipping poultry, eggs, butter, and other ship- 
 ments, is very extensive, and is the means of giving employment to 
 a large number of teamsters, buyers, pickers, packers, etc., and 
 makes a big market for all such business all over the country, and 
 is the means of bringing into our county an enormous amount of 
 money per annum, when the business of Wingert & Riddlebarger 
 and others are considered also in this traffic. 
 
 What other business is so full of relief to the masses of the peo- 
 ple as this- business for the amount invested? Boardman Bros, are 
 having constantly a large number employed, and are themselves 
 energetic, thorough-going men — men who mean business. They 
 are making a big business for Story County beyond question, and 
 it is to be desired at the same time that they are doing well for 
 Boardman Bros. This traffic has become a very important factor in 
 the business of the country, and standing out so independently from 
 any other, it has no competition from any other business of the 
 farm products. 
 
 FIFTY OF THE LARGEST RESIDENT AND NON-RESI- 
 DENT LAND HOLDERS OF STORY COUNTY. 
 
 The following list of names is of those who own or did own, four 
 years ago, 400 acres or over in one or more townships of the County, 
 as shown by Plat Book in the Auditor’s office, in 1882. Some now 
 own less, others own more than they did four years ago. Some new 
 owners, doubtless, have come to the front since 1882. Some of 
 those in the list are not residents of the County. A few of the 
 largest land holders will be given, viz.; Hon. T. C. McCall, 2,587 
 acres; Mr. H. E. J. Boardman, of Marshall County, 2,570 acres; 
 Ole Apland, (now dead), 1,586^ acres; J. W. Ambrose, 1,380 acres, 
 in 1882. Mr. Ambrose now (1887) owns about 1,297 acres in Story 
 County; Judiah Ray, 1,177 acres; F. A. McLain, 1,200 acres; T. E. 
 Alderman, 1,200 acres; J. D. Labman, 1,070 acres; D. F. Lahman 
 & Co., 1,045 acres; J. Cl. Mitchell, 1^083; 'James Dillon, 960 acres; 
 W. K. Wood, 925 acres; M. C. Allen and M. E. Hix, 651 acres; J. 
 H. Sinclair, 1,415; Wm. Fertig, 820 acres; A. Foust, 800 acres; S. 
 Hix, 880 acres; G. W. Sowers, 770 acres; John Scott, 730 acres; 
 John Waugh, 720 acres; E. Furnas, 711 acres; S. C. Wilkins, 719 
 acres; Wm. Golden, 680 acres; Rogers & Spinning, 751 acres; Tor- 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 381 
 
 kel Henryson, 740 acres; W. R. Doolittle. 720 acres; Robt. Rich- 
 ardson, 780 acres; Abel Olsen, 663 acres; Jas. Smith, 640 acres; Gr, 
 B. Richards, 600 acres; Addie Grimard, 600 acres; A. M. Norris, 
 680 acres; J. Feghtly, 589 acres; J. W. R. & J. C. Mason, 640 
 acres; J. L. Dana, 572 acres; Dan’l McCarthy, 560 acres; W. C. 
 Huntington, 545; S. X, Oaks, 520 acres; Paul Thompson, 520 
 acres; Moses Dean, 501 acres; 0. Briggs, 520 acres; W. H. Golley, 
 480 acres; M. Wilson, 494 acres; D. Danskin, 440 acres; R. H. 
 Mitchell, 436 acres; Jas. Hawthorn, 414 acres; Nelson Perry, 480 
 acres; Prank Curtiss, 401; 0. Shedahl, 400 acres. 
 
 TILE FACTORIES— ALL IN THE COUNTY. 
 
 The Nevada Tile Factory, run by Messrs. Lockridge & Beaty, is 
 doing an extensive business. They make the estimate of the num- 
 ber of tile that will be made from May 1st to December 1, 1886, at 
 600,000 tiles. This seems to be a big figure, but they are doing a 
 big business. 
 
 Mr. Lyman and son are manufacturing extensively also, and esti- 
 mate not less than 200,000 for the tile season. These two facto- 
 ries make a good showing for Nevada in tiling. 
 
 Mr. R. R. Thompson’s tile factory is a short distance east of 
 Maxwell, and the reports from its yield in tile are surely very good. 
 Mr. T. is one of our stirring men — full of energy. It is under- 
 stood that he turns out not less than 250,000 tiles during the tiling 
 season each year. This, for convenience we call the “Maxwell Tile 
 Factory.” 
 
 “The Clear Creek Tile Works,” just west of the Agricultural 
 College, seem to be doing good work. C. F. Mount is proprietor, 
 but J. M. Stark is the manager. They manufacture about $4,000 
 worth during the tile season, and some 200,000 brick. “Clear 
 Creek” is a misnomer. The true and original name of the creek 
 on which this factory is situated is “Luther Creek.” Many years 
 ago Mr. W. J. Graham, who resided where Mr. P. L. Porter after- 
 wards lived, sometimes called it “Spring Creek.” But “Luther” is 
 the original name. We have a Clear Creek in Collins Township, 
 and a Spring Branch in the southeast part of Grant Township. 
 This mistake in the name will not affect the quality of the tile. 
 
 The Kelley Tile Factory, C. S. Giddings, proprietor; the first 500 
 brick made was on the twenty-fourth day of May, 1886. 
 
 Roland Tile Factory, near the southwest edge of town, is owned 
 by Swenson, Thorson, & Co., and is doing a lively business in tile 
 and brick manufacturing. They report 200,000 tile and 150,000 
 brick made during the season. This indicates thrift and stir in 
 business. 
 
 Story City Tile Factory, by Butler & Peterson, but did not get a 
 report from it. 
 
382 
 
 Histoey of Stoey Coukty, Iowa. 
 HISTORY OF THE MILLS OF THE COUNTY. 
 
 MILLS — FLOUEING. 
 
 A ffood flouring mill and two elevators at Nevada. 
 
 During the summer and fall of 1867 there was an effort made to 
 secure a good grist or flouring mill at Nevada. The writer hereof 
 spent considerable time in working up a bonus of $2,000 subscribed 
 to be given to any safe and responsible party who would guarantee 
 to build a good flouring mill, and to be put iu good running order. 
 The time given in the offer expired, I think, at the end of one year 
 from the time the offer was first made. A committee was ap- 
 pointed at the following meeting for carrying out the proposition, 
 
 as follows: 
 
 “mill meeting. 
 
 “The public who are interested in building a good grist mill in 
 Nevada are requested to meet at the Court House this evening, 
 August 5th, at the ringing of the bell, to consult on the matter. 
 Two gentlemen from Marshalltown, practical millers, will be with 
 us at the meeting. Let the people turn out.’ 
 
 Here follows the action of the meeting: ^ n n tt 
 
 Resolved, That W. Gr. Allen, Chairman; T. C. McCall, H. F. 
 Murphy, J. H. Talbott and I. A. Ringheim be appointed by the 
 donors as a committee to contract with any person or persons giv- 
 ing satisfactorv guaranty for the building of a good flourii^ mill 
 at any point in Nevada, Story County, Iowa where a sufficient 
 quantity of water can be had at all times for the use of said mill. 
 
 Said committee is hereby authorized to propose to 
 the party building said mill a bonus not to exceed $2,000.” 
 
 Well the proposition was not accepted; but, but very soon after 
 the offer expired, J. H. Talbott and E. G. Day added to their eleva- 
 tor a set of burrs, which made very good flour; also for grinding 
 corn. From that our excellent flouring mill of to-day had its ori- 
 gin, now owned and operated by E. W. Lockwood & Son, and who 
 have had control of it for many years. ^ 
 
 AMES — FLOUEIN G. 
 
 The flouring mill at Ames was built about 1873 was burnt in 
 1881, and rebuilt in 1882 by Haverly & banning, its present own- 
 ers, assisted by citizens. 
 
 COL. SNYDEE’s mill at SHELDAHL— STEAM POWEE. 
 
 This flouring mill is said to have been a good mill and cost 
 probably $4,000. It, however, was destroyed by fire about the 
 twenty, fifth of December, 1886, and was surely a heavy loss to Col. 
 Snvder. It is understood he is rebuilding it; in this he ought to 
 have the assistance, (and perhaps he has,) of the citizens of bhel- 
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 CAMBEIDGE MILLS. 
 
 A good flouring rail] and saw-mill combined, run by steam power, 
 was erected in, or about, 1865. This was a very good and useful 
 mill to many of us early settlers; and it is still a good mill— though 
 some thirty-one years old. Dr. Crafton and Mr. J. Chandler had 
 this mill erected. It is said to have cost, when fully completed, 
 about $13,000. This mill was the best in the county. No other 
 mill in_ Story County probably cost $13,000. It is claimed the 
 Story City Mill cost more. 
 
 IOWA OENTEE MILLS. 
 
 The first mill built here was by Messrs. Nathan Webb & Wood 
 
 uw Center, at what was once called 
 
 ^ ebb s Point.” It was run by steam, and was erected in 1856. 
 W as a flouring as well as a saw-mill. These mills were of great 
 value. It Anally passed into the possession of H. 0. Ayers & 
 Drother. It did a great deal of grinding and sawing, and Vas a 
 special advantage to many in the early times. About 1869 it was 
 taken down and moved away. The flouring mill in the south part 
 iQKc doing a fair business. It was erected about the year 
 1856 or 57, and was a steam power mill. It was a flouring mill 
 and a saw-mill combined — mostly a flouring business now. 
 
 Corey built a corn cracker mill, to be run by water, 
 on East Indian Creek, west of Iowa Center, and a short distance 
 Dortn of tho bridgo across the creek. It was a failure, and never 
 done but little if any grinding. 
 
 A guod flouring mill was built at Ontario about the year 1870, 
 by I. B. Nelson & Seymore, and was run by steam power. It did 
 excellent work; but Mr. I. B. Nelson, who owned it when it was 
 moved, took it down in J une, 1874, and took it to West Side, Iowa, 
 where he put it up again; and at last account it was doing flnely. 
 
 hannum’s mill. 
 
 (Miller’s in earlier times,) situated on Skunk River, on the west 
 half of the southwest quarter of section 23, township 84, range 
 24, was a water and steam power mill, and did a great deal of 
 work as a flouring mill and corn grinding. The main mill was 
 moved in the year 1882 to Odebolt, Iowa. What was left of it is 
 not of much value compared with what it had been. It also did 
 considerable sawing as there was fair timber near by. 
 
 sopee’s mill. 
 
 Situated on Skunk River near the north quarter section corner 
 of section 7, township 84, range 23, was built about 1862 by 
 Thomas Hughes, and it did considerable business for a time in 
 sawing. When first built it was a water power saw mill; and was 
 for a time, when first built, called “Husfhes’ mill.” This mill was 
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 386 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 ■first built about 1862, and it was re-raodeled, or re-built, in 1871, 
 by Mr. Soper. It is doing but little or nothing at this time. The 
 dam is mostly gone, and seems to be neglected. This mill after 
 being re-modeled did good work in making an excellent quality of 
 flour for a considerable time, but it is now doing nothing. 
 
 SAW-MILLS. 
 
 Saw-mills were once abundant in Story County — some fifteen or 
 eighteen in all, scattered over the south half and western part of 
 the county. The water power saw-mills were as follows: one on 
 East Indian Creek, built in 1855-6 by Samuel McDaniel, on the 
 northwest quarter of section 23, township 83, range 22. It did not 
 do a great deal of sawing, and yet it was quite an advantage to 
 those improving in that vicinity. It finall}’ became useless. 
 
 “chandler’s saw mill” 
 
 was on Skunk River in, or at, the northeast corner of Cambridge, 
 and was built in early times, 1853 or 1854, by Mr. Jairus Chandler, 
 it was a water power saw-mill, and was built before the Grafton & 
 Chandler flouring mill. 
 
 m’cowan’s steam saw-mill 
 
 was in the western part of Iowa Center, but has been moved to Mingo 
 Jasper County, Iowa. It was moved in April, 1886. 
 
 There was a steam saw-mill for a time on the southeast quarter 
 of the northwest quarter of section 7, township 83, range 22; also 
 one in the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 
 7, township 83, range 22, but remained only a short time, and did 
 but little work. 
 
 THE ESQ. ROBINSON STEAM SAW-MILL 
 
 was situated on the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of 
 section 29, township 83, range 22, and did quite a business for a 
 year or two. 
 
 John Parker had a steam saw-mill near the east quarter section 
 corner of section 14, township 83, range 22, which done a very fair 
 business; but it was finally taken to the northeast quarter of sec- 
 tion 6, township 82, range 23, at Womach’s. It was placed on the 
 west side of Skunk, and very close to the river in the northwest 
 corner of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 
 6, township 82, range 23, It now is of the past; but in its time 
 did a great deal of sawing. 
 
 The Hiestand Mill, a “ Tread Mill ” with an effort to use water 
 power, was on Squaw Creek, and on the southwest quarter of the 
 northwest quarter of section 33, township 84, range 24. It was built 
 probably about the year 1855. It did only a small business — a 
 “carding mill” and a saw mill. The dam washed out and the water 
 power was a failure. 
 
387 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Thurman’s Saw Mill, one-half a mile south of New Philadel- 
 phia, was built July, 1856, by D. and H. McCarthy, and moved 
 away, in 1864, and used as Burger’s Mill, described elsewhere. The 
 engine was brought from Fairview, in 1855 or 1856. It was placed 
 on Luther Creek, and did a great deal of sawing while Thurman 
 Bros, run it. It was steam power. D. & H. McCarthy, and Ross 
 and Latham, run it a while before Thurman Bros, took it. 
 
 T. McNaughton’s saw mill was about eighty rods north of the 
 southeast corner of section 30, township 84, range 24, but did Wt 
 little business. It was located on Onion Creek, and was run by 
 water power. The impression is that it was taken to Ames by 
 McNaughton and others about the year 1873, and changed into a 
 flouring mill at Ames. 
 
 Burger’s steam saw mill was on or near the southwest corner of 
 the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 32, town- 
 ship 84, range 24. It was built about 1864, but did not remain 
 very long; but it done some sawing. The engine and machinery 
 of this mill is said to be the same the Thurman Bros, had used. 
 And it was the same used by Thos. McNaughton, after Burger had 
 used it, on Onion Creek. 
 
 Guy’s steam saw mill, near the east quarter section corner of 
 section 26, township 82, range 21, did some sawing. 
 
 A water power saw mill at Fairview, (now recognized as Story 
 City), was built by a Mr. Brown, but remained a very short time as 
 the water power was not sufficient to run it. A steam saw mill 
 was built by a Mr. House, in 1856. Remained a few weeks, and 
 left in a hurry. 
 
 Scott and Stevens steam mill at Ames, was at the foot of the hill 
 at the southeast side of Ames, and did a great deal of sawing while 
 it remained. Was built about the year 1867 or 1868. 
 
 Corey’s Mill, on Squaw Creek, was water power, and was on the 
 northeast quarter of section 14, towmship 83, range 24. It was an 
 early settler and did but little work. 
 
 The renowned “Smith’s Mill” was situated on Long Dick’s Creek, 
 very near the interior center of section 18, township 85, range 23’. 
 For a full and amusing description of it see Ballard^s account given 
 in his “Early History of Howard and Lafayette Township.” 
 
 _ We now notice Mr. Nellis’ water power saw mill, on the west 
 side of Skunk River, below the railroad crossing and only about 
 one-third of a mile southeasterly from the Cambridge Depot. This 
 mill now does considerable work in sawing. No others in the 
 County, known to me, are doing a sawing business at this date, 
 1887, except Nellis’ Mill — a regular sawing business is meant. 
 
388 Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 GROVES. 
 
 There are about nine groves of native timber named in this 
 county, viz., Center Grove once covered parts of sections 15, 22, 23, 
 25, 26 and 36, but much of the larger timber is gone; all in Union 
 
 Township. 
 
 Ballard’s Grove originally covered parts of sections 18 and 19 in 
 Union Township; and parts of 12, 13, 14, 23 and 24 in Palestine 
 Township. Ballard^s Branch runs through the entire length of 
 the grove. The timber once in this grove was, much of it, pretty 
 good. It was named in honor of Mormon and Daniel Ballard, who 
 were among the first settlers of Story County. 
 
 Walnut Grove originally covered parts of sections l and 2, in 
 Palestine Township; and parts of sections 34, 35 and 36, in Wash- 
 ington Township. This Grove also in earlier days had some valu- 
 able timber; but some of it, it was said, as well as timber of other 
 groves, emigrated to other countries. Walnut Creek runs through 
 its entire length. 
 
 Worrall’s Grove originally covered parts of sections 16, 17 and 
 18, in Washington Township. This Grove was named after an old 
 and good citizen, named Shadrick Worrall, who was elected, April 
 4 1853, as the first Coronor for Story County. This Grove in com- 
 mon with the others shared a loss of timber. Worrall Creek passed 
 through it and entered the fiats of Squaw Fork. 
 
 Luther’s Grove originally comprised parts of sections 4, 5 and 6, 
 in Washington Township. Luther Creek passes through this 
 grove. It once had some good timber in sections 4 and 5 . This 
 Grove and the Creek were named for a Mr. Luther, who in very 
 early times lived in the grove, or owned a part of it. 
 
 Bear Grove covers part of the west half of section 28, in Howard 
 Township. It received its name from the circumstance of a Mr. 
 Smith, in early times, killing a black bear in or near it. 
 
 Spring Grove is or was a small patch of timber in the northeast 
 quarter of section 5, township 84, range 23, on Bear Creek. 
 
 Johnson’s Grove originally covered parts of sections 12, 13 and 
 24 in Richland Township. Much of the best timber, as in other 
 groves, is gone. This Grove commences the head or upper timber 
 of East Indian Creek. 
 
 Deer Grove once occupied some of sections 21 and 28, in Indian 
 Creek Township. This grove never had a great deal of timber. I 
 was in it 1854; and about the time the ppst-otfice was at Goshen 
 where old Mr. Corey lived and who, I believe, was the postmaster 
 at Goshen. The office was moved to Iowa Center sometime after- 
 ward. 
 
 
Histoet of Stoey Coufttx, Iowa. 389 
 
 There were other projections and bodies of timber that might 
 have been named “ Giroves,” as well as some that were named. 
 When looking on the County map you will find these groves as 
 above named. A great deal of our large native timber that this 
 County once had is now missing, and on the same lands in many 
 places a valuable young growth is growing up. Our prairies are at 
 this time being beautifully and profitably dotted over with many, 
 many, artificial groves which, by the way, are not only beautiful 
 but are very useful in many particulars. 
 
 STONE QUARRIES. 
 
 There was a quarry years ago about thirty rods southeast from 
 the west quarter section corner of section 4, township 83, range 
 24, Washington Township. 
 
 Franklin Township is the best township for quarries. There is 
 a good one on the west side of Skunk River on the southwest quar- 
 ter of the southwest quarter of section 13, township 84, range 24. 
 
 Quarries are found on sections 23, 25 and 26. There is a pretty 
 good one about eighty rods east of the west quarter corner of sec- 
 tion 23. Near the center of the northeast quarter section 26, and 
 elsewhere in sections 23 and 26, township 84, range 24, quarries are 
 found. It is thought there is a very good one on the southeast 
 quarter of section 26, owned by Pressly R. Craig. 
 
 It is understood there is a quarry on the east half of section 
 *32, or the west half of section 33, probably in the northwest quar- 
 ter of section 33, township 84, range 24, is more definite. 
 
 In Milford Township there is one or more quarries in sections 
 6 and 7. At or near the north quarter corner of section 7 (and at 
 Soper’s Mill ) there is rock, and up the river sixty or one hundred 
 rods north or northeasterly from the mill is the Sowers quarry; or 
 it may be about 100 rods northwesterly from the Pleasant Grove 
 church. 
 
 We find also a fair quality of rock in sections 28 and 32 on 
 Bear Creek in Howard Township. 
 
 On the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 13, 
 township 85, range 22, there were many years ago many large and 
 beautiful white lime rocks which made a singular and delightful 
 appearance. Twenty-five years ago they were 'visible for miles; 
 but time and other mishaps may have robbed this lovely spot of 
 much of its beauty. This beautiful group was miles from timber. 
 
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 *The Iowa Agricultural College owns one acre of stone quarry 
 in the soutJiwest part of the northwest quarter of the northeast 
 quarter of section 32, township 84, range 24, and it has the appear- 
 ance of an excellent quarry. 
 
390 Histoey of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE AT CHARLESTON. 
 
 CHARLESTOFT IFF RUINS — DESPATCHES IN DETAIL — SCENES OF WOE 
 
 AND DESOLATION. 
 
 Charleston, S. C., Sept. 1, 1886._ 
 An earthquake, such as has never before been known in the his- 
 tory of this city, swept over Charleston last night, shortly after 
 ten o’clock, causing more loss and injury to property and far more 
 loss of life than the cyclone of the year before. The city is 
 wrecked, the streets are encumbered with a mass of fallen bricks 
 and tangled telegraph and telephone wires, and up to an early 
 hour it was almost impossible to pass from one part of the city to 
 another. The first shock was the most severe. Most of the peo- 
 ple with families passed the night in the streets, which even this 
 morning are crowded with people afraid to re-enter their homes. 
 More than sixty people were killed and wounded, chiefly colored, 
 Among the whites killed and fatally injured are: M. J. Lynch, 
 Dr. R. Alexander Hammond and Ainsley Robinson. Fires broke 
 out in different parts of the city immediately after the earthquake, 
 and some are still burning, but there is no danger of their spread- 
 ing. There is no way of leaving the city at present. 
 
 Charleston, S. C., Sept. 1, 1886 — 6:30 p. m. 
 The gloomiest day ever known in Charleston is drawing to a 
 close with no improvement in the condition of the people. Great 
 fears prevail to-night of another violent earthquake, as slight 
 shocks have been felt at intervals during the day. Tents are 
 rigged up on the streets. The whole population, nearly, will pass 
 the night out of doors. The people are greatly depressed, as the 
 aggregate loss amounts up to millions, and may be increased indefi- 
 nitely at any moment by a gale of wind or.additional shocks. The 
 houses generally are in no condition for further trials. 
 
 The principal streets are littered with bricks and rubbish. The 
 City Hall escaped damage, but the steeples of St. Michael’s and 
 St. Philip’s churches will have to come doAvn. The massive portico 
 of St. Michael’s was wrenched from the body of the_ church, and 
 the cracks in the main building extend to the foundation. All the 
 porticos of Bishop Northrop’s residence were swept away. The 
 Charleston hotel loses ceilings and part of the coping. _ The Ger- 
 man Artillery hall is somewhat injured. Several buildings in 
 Haynes street are gutted. The injury to St. Philip’s church is 
 almost indescribable. 
 
 Charleston, S. C., Sept. 2, 1886. 
 Women and children are running about in the open air, terribly 
 agitated. There are three or four steamers in port, including buoy- 
 tenders, and many of the inhabitants are provided with berths on 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 391 
 
 these boats. Fortunately the weather has been good, and hard- 
 ships are not as severe as they might have been. The situation, 
 however, is becoming horrible. Cut off from communication with 
 the rest of the world, afflicted and haunted with a prospect of im- 
 mediate death, that is about the condition of this community. No 
 trains have departed or arrived here in twenty-four hours. It is 
 said all the railways leading into the city are crippled. The state- 
 ment is made that all railway tracks are twisted into the shape 
 of snakes. 
 
 The official total of deaths is thirty-three. The wounded will 
 probably number 100. Business is still suspended, the whole 
 attention of the people being given to providing for refuge and 
 making residences safe. Bricklayers have advanced their rates to 
 six dollars a day. There were shocks last night at 8:30, 11:15 p. m. 
 and 5 A. M. All were light. Confidence is gradually returning, 
 but much apprehension is still felt. 
 
 FISSURES IN THE EARTH. 
 
 A special report from Mount Pleasant, opposite Charleston, says 
 that a sink near the Glerman church, which on Tuesday was per- 
 fectly dry sand, is now full of fresh water. Near Shell street there 
 is a cabin occupied by a colored man that is completely surrounded 
 by yawning chasms extending through the earth’s surface for ten 
 feet and over. All around this there are sinks of fresh water and 
 masses of mud, with queer looking soft substances that have never 
 been seen before. It is contended by many that the mud and other 
 substances found around the village are volcanic matter. Just 
 after the first shock on Tuesday night there was a decided and dis- 
 tinct smell of escaping sulphuric acid gas over the entire village. 
 The smell lasted throughout the night, and was distinct in those 
 localities where the cavities in the earth were most numerous. 
 Some say that portions of the mud thrown up by the water-spouts 
 are strongly impregnated with sulphur, and that small portions of 
 sulphur can be found in the mud. 
 
 Not far from Charleston, on the road to Summerville, extensive 
 mounds of clay were thrown up, and hillocks of sand, in most cases 
 in the shape of inverted cones, the hollow parts of which had evi- 
 dently been formed by the action of the water returning into the 
 depths from which it had been raised. In many cases the erupted 
 matter had streamed away from the breaks in the surface of the 
 earth to a distance of twenty to fifty feet. In other places there 
 were fissures, almost invariably extending from north to south. 
 These cracks were not wide, and extended downward always in a 
 slanting direction. The matter that was thrown up was of a dark 
 dull slatey color, and was mixed with gravel. There was also a 
 little shale, and in general the mud resembled that which is thrown 
 from the bottom of the phosphate pits along the river. The water 
 in some places had the taste of our artesian water, but in many 
 instances it was just as clear and limpid as from a mountain spring. 
 
392 
 
 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 ERUPTIONS OF MUD AND WATER. 
 
 These evidences of the great convulsion are not sporadic; they 
 extend far and near in every direction from the city limits of 
 Charleston to Summerville, and at the latter place it was found 
 from trustworthy information that the cracks and fissures are eve- 
 rywhere visible for miles and miles around. Strangely enough, 
 some of these were in active operation, and the shocks that were 
 felt at Summerville sent the water out of these fissures in jets to 
 the height of from fifteen to twenty feet. This was evidently the 
 result of the cracks being filled with water and then the sides open- 
 ing and closing by each succeeding shock. These appearances 
 were, of course, suggestive of still more violent eruptions, and 
 there was a constant dread everywhere that there would be a gen- 
 eral inundation, caused by some extraordinary force of the earth- 
 quake. Not only was the water emitted in the low places where it 
 might be expected to exist all the time, but on the tops of the 
 highest elevations the mud could be seen. This latter fact indi- 
 cated that the force was being exerted at rather more than the 
 depth that was at first thought to be the limit of the force. 
 
 On Sullivan’s Island the shock was severe, but comparatively 
 little injury was done, and no lives were lost. Many of the sum- 
 mer visitors came up to the city this morning. On James 
 Island the earth was cracked in many places, and from the fissures 
 issued large bodies of cold water mixed with sand and blue mud. 
 
 THE SITUATION IN SUMMERVILLE. 
 
 The horror of the situation in Summerville on Wednesday was 
 much intensified by certain manifestations that were not observed 
 in Charleston to any great extent. All during the day there was a 
 constant series of detonations, now east, now west, and from all 
 possible directions. It resembled the discharge of heavy guns at 
 intervals of about ten minutes, and was like the sounds of a bom- 
 bardment at a great distance. All these explosions were not ac- 
 companied by tremors of the earth, as it was only occasionally that 
 the earth would quake from subterranean discharges. A remarka- 
 ble fact was noted in Summerville in respect to the bulging of the 
 water from the interior of the earth; nearly all of the wells had 
 been at low water. There was a sudden rise in all of these wells, 
 and the additional water was pure. 
 
 Looking down into one of these wells the observer could, on the 
 ' eve of any of the loud detonations, see the water rise up the walls 
 of the well, and after the shock again subside. 
 
 FIRST TRAIN TO CHARLESTON. 
 
 Savannah, Ga., Sept. 2, 1886, 
 
 The first train from Charleston to this city since the earthquake 
 reached here this afternoon. The passengers say that since the 
 shocks, holes in the earth resembling artesian wells have opened in 
 
Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 393 
 
 the neighborhood of Charleston, and for miles this side. They 
 vary in diameter but average two feet, and are apparently bottom- 
 less. Mica, and other minerals not known in that section before, 
 are found around their mouths. Mud of a bluish color oozes from 
 fissures in the ground surrounding tjiem, and the waters savor of 
 soda. People living near them report that when the water first 
 burst forth from the ground it was steaming hot, and shot fifty 
 feet into the air. On Pac Island, near Peaufort, a fissure in the 
 earth twelve feet vvide and 400 feet long still remains. All the 
 islands in that vicinity report similar fissures, with mud and water 
 issuing from them. Predictions that another shock may be 
 expected are keeping the people of Charleston in a state of terror. 
 
 The damage to the Northeastern Railroad that leads into Charles- 
 ton has been repaired, and connections are now complete to Savan- 
 nah and beyond, via the Atlantic coast line of railways. 
 
 Charleston, S. C., Sept. 4, 1886. 
 
 Many families who are unable to sleep in their houses provided 
 themselves with out-door quarters in yards and enclosures, in cases 
 where these are sufficiently large to avoid danger from falling 
 walls. In the upper wards many families are accommodated in 
 box-cars and passenger coaches which have been placed at their dis- 
 posal by the railway companies. The effects of the earthquake are 
 not visible in the harbor. Every ship in port is crowded with 
 women and children who go there to sleep. The most pressing 
 want is tents which will give the women .and children shelter. 
 The weather has been good up to this time. Should rain set in 
 the suffering must become intensified one hundred fold. 
 
 One of the most singular features of the earthquake was the 
 spouting wells in Beaufau street. The covers were torn from the 
 wells and sent flying in the air. Then came a huge column of 
 water and mud which was sent up to the height of fifteen or 
 twenty feet. Most of these wells were emptied of their contents, 
 but were speedily refilled. After this shock the surface of the 
 streets in the vicinity of these wells was covered by a yellowish 
 clay deposit, which may have come from the bottom of the wells 
 or from the lower stratum of the earth. In some portions of the 
 city vast jets of water were thrown up from crevices formed by the 
 force of the earth movement. Soon after the shock most of these 
 closed, leaving exposed a large mound of sand of an entirely differ- 
 ent character from the surrounding soil. Hundreds of people who 
 have sufficient means to leave the city are departing by every train. 
 
 Careful examination of the cracked buildings leads to the con- 
 clusion that Charleston is an utter ruin. Most of the devastation 
 is toward W ater street, where live the fashion and wealth of the 
 city. ^ There are not three houses out of sixty magnificent man- 
 sions in the locality whose front and rear walls will not have to be 
 rebuilt or entire buildings reconstructed. 
 
394: History of Story CouiiTY, Iowa. 
 
 Charleston, S. C., Sept. 5, 1886. 
 
 Having looked over a large part of the city this morning, Q-en. 
 Batchelder this afternoon telegraphed Gren. Drum that in his opin- 
 ion the accounts of the destruction had been in the main correct. 
 In some cases they had understated rather than overstated the 
 losses. It is his belief, and he plainly declares it, that fully one- 
 third of the buildings south of the Charleston Hotel and east of 
 Meeting street are so badly damaged that they must be torn down. 
 
 The damage done from Calhoun street to the Battery, all across 
 the city, is about as great everywhere as in the small section named 
 by Gen. Batchelder. Calhoun street crosses the city from Ashley 
 to the Cooper River, about a mile from the Battery. There are 
 many frame buildings in the area indicated, but fully one-third are 
 brick, and few brick buildings are free from injury requiring the 
 removal of walls. They have settled so badly about windows as to 
 make it impossible to open doors or to close doors that were thrown 
 open when the great shock came. City Assessor Kelly, who has 
 been revising his estimate of the losses, has concluded that to re- 
 place the brick houses and stores that are damaged beyond repair 
 must cost not less than 15,000,000. To this loss must be added 
 the value of ruined furniture, household implements, bedding, 
 clothing, and stocks of goods in stores, so that there is great prob- 
 ability that when the people come to foot up their losses closely 
 they will be found to reach $8,000,000 or $10,000,000. 
 
 • Washington, D. C., Sept. 3, 1886. 
 
 The following despatch was received by cable to-day from Queen 
 Victoria: 
 
 Balmoral, Sept. 3, 1886. 
 
 To the President of the United States : 
 
 I desire to express my profound sympathy with the sufferers by 
 the late earthquakes, and await with anxiety fuller intelligence, 
 which I hope may show the effects to have been less disastrous 
 than reported. . The Queen. 
 
 Executive Mansion, ) 
 Washington, Sept. 4, 1886. J 
 
 To Victoria^ Queen and Empress^ Balmoral^ Scotland: 
 
 Your Majesty’s expression of sympathy for the sufferers by the 
 earthquake is warmly appreciated and awakens a grateful response 
 in American hearts. Grover Cleveland, President. 
 
Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 395 
 
 TERMS OF COURT FOR ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DIS- 
 TRICT OF IOWA, FOR 1887. 
 
 The times and places of holding the regular terms of the District 
 Court in and for the Eleventh Judicial District of Iowa, are hereby 
 fixed as follows: 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 JUDGES . 
 
 MIEACLE. 
 
 WEAVEE. 
 
 STEVENS. 
 
 Marshall . . . 
 
 Jan. 21, 6 weeks 
 Oct. 31, 5 weeks 
 
 April 4, 5 weeks 
 
 Aug. 22, 6 weeks 
 
 
 
 W^ ebster .... 
 
 March 7, 1 weeks 
 Dec. 5, 3 weeks 
 
 May 9, 4 weeks 
 
 Oct. 3, 3 weeks 
 
 
 
 Boone 
 
 April 4, 4 weeks 
 
 Aug. 22, 4 weeks 
 
 Jan. 24, 4 weeks 
 Oct. 24, 3 weeks 
 
 
 Story 
 
 May 2, 3 weeks 
 
 Sept. 19, 3 weeks 
 
 Feb. 21, 3 weeks 
 Nov. 14, 4 weeks 
 
 Franklin . . 
 
 May 23, 3 weeks 
 
 Oct. 10, 2 weeks 
 
 March 14, 3 weeks 
 Dec. 12, 2 weeks 
 
 Hardin .... 
 
 Aug. 22, 4 weeks 
 
 Jan. 24, 4 weeks 
 Oct. 24, 4 weeks 
 
 April 4, 4 weeks 
 
 Hamilton.. 
 
 Sept. 19, 3 weeks 
 
 Feb. 21, 3 weeks 
 Nov. 21, 3 weeks 
 
 May 2, 3 weeks 
 
 
 
 Wright. . .. 
 
 Oct. 10, 3 weeks 
 
 March 14, 3 weeks 
 Dec. 12, 2 weeks 
 
 May 23, 3 weeks 
 
 
 
 The grand jury in each county shall be summoned to appear at 
 11 o’clock in the forenoon of the second day of the term. The 
 trial jury in each county shall consist of twenty-four members 
 who shall be required to appear at one o’clock in the afternoon of 
 the third day of the term. The clerks of the District Court shall 
 cause the publication of this order in their respective counties, as 
 provided by law. D. D. Mieacle. 
 
 S. M. Weavee. 
 
 John L. Stevens. 
 
 Judges Eleventh Judicial District of Iowa. 
 
 Dated Jan. 1, 1887. Filed Jan. 1, 1887. 
 
 I. L. Smith, Clerk. 
 
 DRAINAGE CONVENTION. 
 
 The fourth annual convention of the Iowa Tile and Drainage 
 Association was held at the Capitol building last Wednesday and 
 Thursday. The attendance was good from beginning to close and 
 the interest and good feeling manifested throughout highly gratify- 
 ing. The address of welcome by Governor Larrabee, a paper on 
 

 396 Histoet oe Stoet Couhty, Iowa. 
 
 “Farm Drainage” by C. F. Clarkson and CoL Scott’s address on 
 “Road Drainage” and the discussion following the presentation of 
 the latter subject, occupied the afternoon of the first day’s session. 
 The address of Col. Scott was enthusiastically received on its de- 
 livery, and its subsequent discussion only served to bring out more 
 fully its high merit. It was complimented with publication in full 
 in the Register' and the appointment of a committee to secure if 
 possible its publication in large numbers for distribution among the 
 road commissioners of the state. 
 
 During the above discussion Representative Nelson, on invitation, 
 fully and happily explained the laws of Iowa on the subject of road 
 drainage. Mr. Nelson’s knowledge of and interest in the matter of 
 tile drainage was subsequent and fully recognized by his election 
 to the Vice Presidency of the Association. — (January 9, 1887.) 
 
 Nevada people were a good deal shocked yesterday morning on 
 learning of the sudden and unexpected death of Mr. (ieo. Tomlinson 
 who lives about two miles of Peoria. Mr. Tomlinson was in attend- 
 ance at the Monday meeting of the Agricultural Society and 
 appeared in good health and spirits. He was found dead in his 
 sleigh near midnight a short distance east of Maxwell. W e are 
 not advised as to the cause of his death. — Night of Jan. 10, 1887. 
 
 Latee. — In regard to the above death of Mr. Tomlinson it appears 
 he was found dead in his sled to which his team was still hitched. 
 The coroner’s jury — W. M. Starr, J. 0. French and Miles Pearson 
 being the jurors — on examination found a jug in the sled partly 
 filled with proof alcohol, and that he had frozen to death probably 
 under its influence. 
 
 AUDITOR’S REPORT. 
 
 Auditor McCarthy’s annual report to the Board of Supervisors 
 shows the following facts of especial interest concerning county 
 finances for the past year: 
 
 Net assessment for 1886 • .$1,611,062 00 
 
 AMOUNT OE TAXES. 
 
 County $ 18,411 87 
 
 State.. 11,527 69 
 
 County School 4,611 05 
 
 Bond.. 4,61105 
 
 Bridge 9,222 10 
 
 Poor 6,916 57 
 
 School house.... 4,475 80 
 
 Purchase of highway to school house 580 91 
 
 Teachers '• • • • ,683 44 
 
 Contingent 12,439 79 
 
 Road 7,823 36 
 
Histoet of Stoey Couftty, Iowa. 397 
 
 Corporation | 3,520 90 
 
 Library 298 82 
 
 Drainage 674 16 
 
 Sidewalk 228 44 
 
 Poll..., 1,923 50 
 
 Dog 881 00 
 
 Total $125,863 45 
 
 Total tax 1885 134,400 36 
 
 EXPEFTCITUEES FEOM COUNTY -FUND. 
 
 Supervisors.. $ 1,284 66 
 
 Witnesses 691 70 
 
 J urors 2,627 35 
 
 Attorneys 397 50 
 
 Sheriffs and bailiffs 1,376 76 
 
 Jail expenses 713 55 
 
 Court reporter 265 40 
 
 Justices and constables 788 44 
 
 Clerk’s fees in state cases 98 25 
 
 Fuel, lights and repairs 1,338 66 
 
 Assessors, township clerks and trustees 2,388 65 
 
 Clerk and deputy hire 1,946 00 
 
 Books and stationery 593 05 
 
 Printing, blanks, etc 803 60 
 
 Superintendent of Schools 1,076 00 
 
 Surveyor 42 25 
 
 Bounty on wild animals ‘ 9 00 
 
 Salaries of county officers 1,300 00 
 
 Janitor hire 188 85 
 
 Coroner 34 75 
 
 Miscellaneous 390 24 
 
 Insurance premiums 675 00 
 
 Total $19,029 66 
 
 The county treasurers salary, $1,500, is not included above. 
 
 TOTAL EXPENDITUEES FEOM THE SEVEEAL FUNDS THE PAST THREE 
 
 YE AES. 
 
 County fund, 1884 $22,072 83 
 
 “ “ 1885 19,924 32 
 
 “ “ 1886.... 19,029 66 
 
 Poor fund, 1884 5,990 14 
 
 “ “ 1885 : 5,378 99 
 
 “ “ 1886 5,439 33 
 
 Bridge fund, 1884 7,010 72 
 
 “ “ 1885 7,461 61 
 
 “ “ 1886 13,289 19 
 
 Appropriation from domestic animal fund, 1886, $37.50. 
 
 Number of insane at state asylum, six. — (January session, 1887.) 
 
 
398 
 
 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 COUNTY FARM APPRAISEMENT. 
 
 The day was occupied by the Board in visiting, inspecting and 
 taking an invoice of the County Farm and infirmary, from which 
 
 the following is summarized: 
 
 320 acres — farm and improvements I|10,000 00 
 
 Horses, cattle and hogs 2,840 00 
 
 Grain and hay on hand 483 50 
 
 Farm implements 649 70 
 
 Household effects, beds and bedding 694 85 
 
 Total ; $14,668 05 
 
 The number of inmates at infirmary, fifteen (15). 
 
 Board Supervisors adjourned to meet to-morrow morning at 9 
 o’clock. — (January 5, 1887). / 
 
 STATE INSTITUTIONS— NUMBER OF INMATES. 
 
 Governor Larrabee reports the following number of inmates in 
 the different state institutions: Orphans'’ Home, Davenport, 301; 
 Penitentiary, Port Madison, 384 ; Penitentary, Anamosa, 287 ; In- 
 sane Asylum, Mt. Pleasant, 658; Insane Asylum, Independence, 
 783; Feeble Minded Institute, Glenwood, 285; Girls’ Reform School, 
 Mitchelville, 125; Boys’ Reform School, Eldora, 331; Deaf and 
 Dumb Asylum, Council Bluffs, 269; Blind Asylum, Vinton, 166; 
 Normal School, Cedar Palls, 260; State University, Iowa City, over 
 500; Agricultural College, Ames, 300. 
 
 TREASURER’S REPORT, JANUARY, 1887. 
 
 EECAPITULATION. 
 
 County Fund $ 9,024 74 
 
 State “ 309 37 
 
 County School 1,751 37 
 
 Bond “ 441 84 
 
 Bridge “ 2,369 31 
 
 Poor “ 1,221 89 
 
 Insane “ 1,817 20 
 
 School House “ 570 68 
 
 Teachers “ 5,175 69 
 
 Contingent “ 1,765 23 
 
 Road “ 646 87 
 
 Corporation “ 468 85 
 
 Library “ 8 55 
 
 Cemetery “ 16 13 
 
 Railroad “ 22 55 
 
 Institute “ 653 52 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 401 
 
 School House Site Fund 09 50 
 
 Permanent School “ 1,283 80 
 
 Temporary School 1,088 02 
 
 Board of Health “ 5 36 
 
 Drainage “ 203 73 
 
 Domestic Animal “ 721 90 
 
 Cash on hand January 1, 1887 $29,666 10 
 
 COAL BANKS — Coal Prospects. 
 
 Collins Township — Find an account of coal in the history of the 
 township. It is a boom to the township as well as to the town of 
 Collins. It seems to be of good quality and quantity. 
 
 At dilferent times “prospectors” have tried some for coal near 
 Nevada. It has been found at several points near Nevada, but did 
 not seem to be in paying quantities. 
 
 Mr. T. E. Alderman, of Nevada, has, within a few days, discovered 
 a fifty-three inch vein at a depth of about 220 feet. He may bore 
 deeper, and if a better vein is to be found he may find it. This is 
 near his fine farm residence, and probably one mile from the court 
 house. It will be of incalculable value to Nevada and surrounding 
 country when a good vein of coal can be found so near the city. 
 
 Mr. A. Duff, of Ames, is also making efforts to find coal on his 
 farm just north of Ames. Mr. and Mrs. Duff have proved them- 
 selves good and energetic citizens, and it is to be desired Mr. D. 
 may find for his reward plenty of coal and of first quality. 
 
 THE PRESS OP THE COUNTY— Newspapers. 
 
 Ames. — The Ames Intelligencer, a weekly paper, commenced 
 publication about April, 1868, by Mr. A. McPadden. He was suc- 
 ceeded, if I mistake not, by Capt. J. E. Duncan, who is giving us 
 one of the best papers in the county. Politically Republican. 
 
 A paper called the '‘'‘Monitor," weekly, commenced at Ames in 
 August, 1885, edited by Mr. E. W. Clark, who died March 20, 1886, 
 and the ''‘‘Monitor" ceased being published in August, 1886. There 
 is a monthly paper '‘‘‘The Aurora" being published at the Iowa 
 Agricultural College. It has been published for twelve or more 
 years, but I think it appears about nine months each year only. 
 
 Cambridge. — ^'‘The Reporter" commenced probably about 
 
 Mr. — Dolph was its editor. When it ceased publication is not 
 certain. 
 
 26 
 
402 
 
 Histohy of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 “The Cambridge Herald'''' is a weekly paper, (Republican,) edited 
 by Mr. Charles D. Turks. It commenced about January, 1884. It 
 is yet being published and makes a fair appearance. 
 
 Maxwell. — “The Maxwell Tribune" is a weekly print, (Republi- 
 can) edited by Mr. L. R. Shepherd. It commenced about Decem- 
 ber, 1882, and is an interesting paper, and is still being published. 
 
 Nevada. — “The Story County Advocate''' was the first paper 
 published in Story County. It commenced about the eighth_ of 
 January, 1857, over thirty years ago. W as Republican — W as edited 
 by R. R. Thrall. Thrall sold to Greo. F. Schoonover in 1862. 
 Schoonover then named the paper '‘"The Reveille." Politically it 
 was a Union or Republican. He sold the press to John M. Brain- 
 ard late in 1863. Brainard changed the name to “The Story 
 County JEgis" and still Republican. Brainard sold to V. A. 
 Ballou, October, 1868. It still retained its name. Ballou sold to 
 W. H. Grallup, April, 1870; still Republican, but the name was 
 changed to “Nevada Representative." He sold to W. P. Payne 
 September 1, 1882. Mr. Payne still owns it; it still retains its 
 name — Representative. 
 
 The Watchman. — “The Watchman" commenced August, 1874, 
 edited by Stoddard & Vaughn; and I. Horton succeeded Vauhgn. 
 Politically it was Anti-monopoly. They sold it to J. A. Fitchpat- 
 rick; he sold it to R. H. Rodearmel, and Rhodearmel to V. A. 
 Ballou, who still owns it. It is Democratic. 
 
 “The Highway” — a religious paper, commenced November, 
 1875, at Nevada, where it still remains. Is published by Rev. 
 Isaiah Reid. Press work done by steam power. There is a steam 
 power press at Ames, in the ""Intelligencer" _ offi.ce used to ad- 
 vantage. The above papers are all weekly publications. 
 
 “The Nevada Democrat” — was published during a portion of 
 the Rebellion. Its style was not commendable on the war ques- 
 tion. It did not continue long. 
 
 Sheldahl. — ""The Iowa Cyclone" commenced at Sheldahl about 
 the twentieth of August, 1882. It was started by young McTavish. 
 Was Republican, politically. ""The Cyclone" did not continue long, 
 do not know when it quit. 
 
 Story City.— -“Story City Herald" commenced publication 
 about 1881 or ’82, but think it ceased or changed in the course of 
 two or three years. 
 
 “Story City Review" a weekly paper published by H. C. Carlson. 
 It commenced about January, 1884, and is quite a nice looking 
 weekly. It is Democratic but is about ceasing publication at 
 Story City. 
 
 Zearing. — ""The Northern Light" was a weekly paper com- 
 menced at Latrobe in 1882. It was moved by Mr, W. F. Lewis & 
 

 Histoey of Stoey CouisTTY, Iowa. 403 
 
 Son to Zearing late in 1882 or early in 1883. It was Republican 
 in politics. The name was changed to '"'Zearing Register'’' under 
 which name it commenced about the twentieth of January, 1883. 
 
 “The Cetjciblb,” a bright little weekly, commenced at Zearing, 
 about November 1, 1885, published by Mr. Morton Kuhn. It 
 ceased about April 1, 1886. 
 
 “The Maxwell Times,” of Maxwell, was published for a short 
 time only. 
 
 “The Reflectoe” was the first newspaper published at Ames — 
 commencing, as claimed, before “The Intelligencer" commenced 
 publication which was in April, 1868. The Rev. Hezekiah Gilbert 
 was its editor. He afterwards became the editor of the Advance " 
 , and now of the Congregationalist^ at Boston. “The Reflector" 
 ceased publication after a few month’s trial. 
 
 “The Aueoea” is published at the Iowa Agricultural College 
 nine months in the year. It commenced about 1872, and is still 
 being published monthly during the school term each year. 
 
 “The Message,” a religious monthly, commenced publication 
 about November, 1885, and quit about July, 1886. It was pub- 
 lished by Rev. H. J. Everly, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church at Ames. It was of short life. 
 
 This closes the history of the Press of Story County to April, 
 1887. 
 
 GOVERNORS OF IOWA. 
 
 Anson Briggs, elected October 26, 1846. 
 
 Stephen Hempstead, elected August 5, 1850. 
 
 James W. Grimes, elected August 3, 1854. 
 
 Ralph P. Lowe, elected October 13, 1857. 
 
 Samuel J. Kirkwood, elected October 11, 1859. 
 
 Wm. M. Stone, elected October 13, 1863. 
 
 Wm. M. Stone, re-elected October 10, 1865. 
 
 Samuel Merrill, elected October 8, 1867. 
 
 Samuel Merrill, elected October 13, 1869. 
 
 Cyrus C. Carpenter, elected October 11, 1871. 
 
 Cyrus C. Carpenter, elected October 8, 1873. 
 
 Samuel J. Kirkwood, elected October 13, 1875. Resigned, Feb- 
 ruary, 1877. 
 
 Joshua G. Newbold, Lieutenant Governor, took oath of Gover- 
 nor February 1, 1877. 
 
 John H. Gear, elected October 10, 1877. 
 
 John H. Gear, elected October 8, 1879. 
 
 Buren R. Sherman, elected October 12, 1881. 
 
404 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Buren R. Sherman, elected October, 1883. 
 
 Wm. Larrabee, elected November 3, 1885. 
 
 The first Grovernor of Iowa, the Hon. Anson Brings, was sworn 
 in December 3, 1846. Iowa was admitted into the Union as a State 
 December 28, 1846, a few days after Briggs was sworn in Gover- 
 nor. 
 
 PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 George Washington, of Virginia. 
 
 John Adams, of Massachusetts. 
 
 Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia. 
 
 James Madison, of Virginia. / 
 
 James Monroe, of Virginia. ^ ^ 
 
 John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts. ' - 
 
 Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee. 
 
 Martin Van Buren, of New York. 
 
 W. H. Harrison, of Ohio. 
 
 John Tyler, of Virginia. 
 
 James Knox Polk, of Tennessee. 
 
 Zachary Taylor, of Louisiana. 
 
 Millard Fillmore, of New York. 
 
 Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire. 
 
 James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois. 
 
 Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. 
 
 Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois. 
 
 Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio. 
 
 James A. Garfield of Ohio. 
 
 Chester Allen Arthur, of New York. 
 
 Grover Cleveland, of New York. 
 
 The President receives a salary of $50,000 per annum, and is 
 authorized to appoint and employ in his official household a private 
 secretary at $3,500 per annum; an assistant secretary at $2,500, 
 who must be a short-hand writer; two executive clerks, each $2,300; 
 a steward at $2,000; and a messenger at $1,200 per annum. In 
 addition he has a cabinet, viz: Secretary of State, Secretary of 
 Treasury, Secretary of Interior, of War, Navy, Postoffice and 
 Justice. This cabinet is selected and appointed by the President. 
 
 Gen. Washington, the first President, was inaugurated on the 
 thirtieth of April, 1789. Since that the fourth of March has been 
 selected as inauguration day for the President of the United States. 
 

 History of Story County, Iowa. 405 
 
 DEATH LIST— NEVADA CEMETERIES. 
 
 [In the west i, northwest i, northwest i section 7, township 
 83, range 22 — the Protestant. But the Catholic is in the southeast 
 corner section 1, township 83, range 23. J 
 
 Andrews, Mr. 
 
 Alderman, Ida C., 13. 
 
 Allen, Freddie, 2. 
 
 Abbott, A. 0., middle age. 
 Armstrong, Wm. T., 18. 
 Applegate, Lewis, 65. 
 
 Applegate, Emeline, 1. 
 
 Airhart, Blanchie, 1. 
 
 Bobo, Mr. 
 
 Boynton, Q. A., 39. 
 
 Beil, Mrs. J. J., (middle age.) 
 Blackman, John, 54. 
 
 Brown, Rev. J. C., 62. 
 
 Brigham, Mrs., (old lady.) 
 Briggs, Mrs. Otis, first wife 
 Eliza) 301. 
 
 Barrows, Miss Mattie. 
 
 Burgess, Mr., (suicided.) 
 
 Bales, Win., (old man.) 
 
 Belknap, Mrs. P. E., (old lady) 
 Beach, P., 35. 
 
 Bixby, Wm. H. 
 
 Banks, Mrs. Druzilla C., 36. 
 Barrett, Mellie, 2. 
 
 Barrett, Jas. S., (infant.) 
 
 Brown, Fred. 
 
 Banks, Minnie Bell, (infant.) 
 Ballard, Emerette Eliza, 38. 
 Ballard, Delbert Eugene, 2 mos. 
 Bunce, Melvin M., 22. 
 
 Bates, Rev. W. S., 64. 
 
 Berry, Miss Fanny, a young lady) 
 died about 1857. 
 
 Bailey, Miss S3dva, killed by 
 lightning in year 1856. A 
 young lady. 
 
 Bamberger, Samuel, 70. 
 
 Bates, an infant. 
 
 Briggs, S. M. 
 
 Borgen, Carrie, 2 months. 
 
 Boyes, Lizzie E., 17. 
 
 Boyes, Burtie, an infant. 
 
 Briggs, (child of D. D. Briggs) 
 babe. 
 
 Alderman, Mary Nevada, 
 Applegate, Mrs. J. 
 
 Allen, Ethan, died in Ark., 32. 
 Allen, Mrs. Mary M. (died June 
 27, 1886) 60. 
 
 Applegate, Ida E., 14. 
 Armstrong, Cylinda, 19. 
 iVyers, Jessie M., 14i. 
 
 Boynton, Mrs. Henry, 62. 
 
 Bixby, Miss, (young woman.) 
 Bechtel, Hugh, (young man.) 
 Bright, Henry, 77. 
 
 Brigham, Mr., (old man.) 
 Barnaul, Mrs., and 3 children. 
 Burdick, Chas., and 1 child, (C. 
 B. 23.) 
 
 Batzner, Martin, (suicided.) 
 Balliet, Mrs. S. A., 20 1-3. 
 Brown, Asa, 35. 
 
 Buffington, Miss Mary, 25. 
 Brink, 0. S., 17. 
 
 Boggess, Chas. W. 
 
 Barrett, Mrs. Margaret, 55. 
 Barrett, Margaret E., 32. 
 
 Brown, Geo. H. 
 
 Brown, A. R., 81. 
 
 Banks, Willie, 9 months. 
 
 Ballard, Jay Henry, 9 months. 
 Ballard, Celia Loret, 1^. 
 
 Butt, Mr. Samuel, 63. 
 
 Beatty, Frank, (a child.) 
 
 Bailey, Mrs. Henry, first wife, 
 (old lady.) 
 
 Bailey, Daniel. 
 
 Buchanan, W. M., (killed by ac- 
 cident) i7f. 
 
 Bamberger, Reuben S., 32f. 
 
 Barr, Anna^ 1. 
 
 Briggs, Annie. 
 
 Blood, an infant. 
 
 Boyes, Dwight, an infant. 
 Butlege, Clara J., 24. 
 
 Barnes, Mrs. Saloma, 67f. 
 
 Carter, Bessie, infant. 
 
406 
 
 Histoey of Story Cou^fTY, Iowa. 
 
 Chineowitli, Mrs. Maria M., 69. 
 Child, Mrs. Geo. and 4 children. 
 Campbell, Jas,, died of cancer, 72. 
 Confare, John, 74. 
 
 Campbell, Ada M., 11. . 
 
 Cramer, Walter S., 4. 
 Christensen, Henry, 4, 
 
 Child, Mrs. Charlotte, 75, 
 Dayton, an infant. 
 
 Daniels, Frank L., (a soldier) 19. 
 Dunning, Mr. B. J., 68. 
 Dunning, Mrs. B. J., 72. 
 Daugherty, Mrs. M., (2d wife.) 
 Dietfenbacher, Fred., 58f. 
 Davidson, H. A. (child.) 
 
 Daily, Mrs. Wils. 
 
 Drake, Mr. Jesse, (old.) 
 
 Doyle, (young man killed by 
 lightning.) 
 
 Dailey, Walton D., 3. 
 
 Dailey, Maggie M., 1, 
 Diefenbacher, (son of Frederick.) 
 Densmore, Mrs. Buth, 74. 
 Emery, Thomas, 69. 
 
 Erb, Mrs. Caroline, first wife of 
 Jacob Erb, 43. 
 
 Erb, M. and I., children of Jacob 
 Erb. 
 
 Emerson, Clara May, i. 
 
 Earl, Welthy Ann, 51. 
 
 Frazier, Mrs. Virginia, 33. 
 Frazier, Frank. 
 
 Fenn, Mrs. P. 0., died in insane 
 asylum. 
 
 Fetterhotf, J. R., 44. 
 
 Ford, John L., (an infant.) 
 
 Fish, Jesse, 7 mos. 
 
 Farrar, Frank, If. 
 
 Finch, Manly, 1. 
 
 Gillespie. Mrs. Mary J., 37. 
 Garrett, W^illie J. (a child.) 
 Griffith, Elijah, 28. 
 
 Gilmore, Maria J., 6^-. 
 
 Gilmore, Geo. E., 5f. 
 
 Grimm, Emma J., (young.) 
 Gaugh, J. A., (killed on railroad.) 
 Goodin, Cecil, infant. 
 
 Hedges, Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell, 
 
 Chineowitli, Simon, (a soldier) 19 
 Child, Chester, 39. 
 
 Cook, Dr. P., 40. 
 
 Chauncy, P. F., 48. 
 
 Cogshall, Willie. 
 
 Crawford, Seneca A., 36. 
 
 Crain, Mrs. Mary C., 88. 
 Campbell, Wm.-J., 23. 
 
 Dutton, an infant. 
 
 Dunning, Mrs., (B. J. D.’s moth- 
 er) 81. 
 
 Daugherty, Mrs. M., (1st wife.) 
 Dunklebarger, Nathan E. (child.) 
 Dieffenbacher, Mrs. Fred, (old 
 lady.) 
 
 Drain, Mr. M. (old.) 
 
 Doyle, Daniel, and wife. 
 
 Day, E. G. 
 
 Dale, Jennette, (wife of James 
 Dale) 29. 
 
 Dailey Viola, 6. 
 
 Davidson, H. A. 
 
 Doyle, Maggie, 3 2-3. 
 
 Elliott, John, 80; Elliott, Mrs. 
 John, 83; husband and wife; 
 both buried in Illinois. 
 Efcamp, Harmke, 39. 
 
 Efcamp, Aurvie. 
 
 Earl, Frank, 13. 
 
 Ferner, Mrs. Ellen M., (first wife 
 of J. D. F.) 23 2-3. 
 
 Fenn, Maggie, 1. 
 
 Ford, John, 52; Ford, Mrs. E., 
 59; husband and wife. 
 Fitchpatrick, Freddie, (infant.) 
 Fish, Mary E., 16. 
 
 Furnas, Roy A., 6. 
 
 Finch, Gertie, infant. 
 
 Flynn, Anna, If. 
 
 Garrett, Mrs. W. S., (first wife) 25. 
 Griffith, Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 Goodin, Smith, 52. 
 
 Gilmore, Uretta, 6 months. 
 Gillespie, Willie E. and Winnie 
 M., children of J. F. G. 
 Gordon, Geo. B., f. 
 
 Goodin, Clarence, i. 
 
 Hadley, Mrs. Seth, (1st wife) 34. 
 Hunt, Daniel, 74; Hunt, Mrs. 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 407 
 
 Hunt, Rufus, 31. 
 
 Hunt, Roxy, 24. 
 
 Hawthorne, Mrs. Jas., (1st wife.) 
 Hall, Mrs. A., 75. 
 
 Hutchins, Miss Georgia, (teacher) 
 39. 
 
 Huffman, Mrs. Eliz., 69. 
 
 Harper, J. H., 2. 
 
 Hutchins, Veive, daughter J. S. 
 H., 6. 
 
 Holdridge, Fred. R., 5. 
 
 Hill, Jacob, 71. 
 
 Hadley, Lydia F., 1. 
 
 Hadley, Mabel J., li. 
 
 Hickey, Patrick, near 80. 
 
 Hall, James, (born in Ireland.) 
 80. 
 
 Hoy, Mary, nearly 20. , 
 
 Ingalls, H. W., 78. 
 
 Ingerbritson, Bessie, 3. 
 
 Johnson, Mr., (merchant with 
 Ringheim.) 
 
 Joor, Cornelius, (aged.) 
 
 King, Mrs. Lillie, 24 
 Kinney, Mrs. G. W., (first wife 
 of G. W. K.) 22. 
 
 Kellogg, infant son of Geo. A. K. 
 Kellogg, Willie, son of H. D. K. 
 Koozer, J. B., (middle age.) 
 
 Kyle, W. D., 19. 
 
 Kirkendall, Jas., 69. 
 
 Keef, Margaret, (born in Ireland) 
 64. 
 
 Louks, G. J., 67; Louks, Mrs. D., 
 82, husband and wife. 
 
 Lyman, Rev. R., 63. 
 
 Lewis, G. H., 73. 
 
 Letson, C. B., 58^. 
 
 Lockwood, Jessie L., 2. 
 
 Louks, Adelia, 35. 
 
 Lewis, Mary E,, 4. 
 
 Lough, Emma J., 20. 
 
 Leonard, C. S. 
 
 McCall, Mary A. B., (second wife 
 of T. C. McCall. 36. 
 
 McCall, Henry C., (10 months). 
 McCall, Walter K., 5. 
 
 Mitchell, Mrs. R. H., (first wife) 
 35. 
 
 Daniel, 56; husband and wife. 
 Hunt, Harry, (died in the army.) 
 Hall, Alba, 77. 
 
 Hall, W. W., 67. 
 
 Hoel, Mr. J., 55|-. 
 
 Hay, Miss Victoria, (young lady.) 
 Harper, R. M., 58. 
 
 Hemstock, Thos., 68. 
 
 Hall, Geo., 17. 
 
 Holdridge. Ephraim, 57. 
 
 Horton, Margaret S. R., 48. 
 Hemstock, Bert T., a child. 
 Huntley, Harriet E., 37. 
 
 Hardin, Ray, (a child of W. M. 
 H.) 
 
 Hopkins, Richard, 70. 
 
 Hopkins, Peter A., 1. 
 
 Irwin, Lycurgus, (middle age; a 
 soldier.) 
 
 Jones, (an infant.) 
 
 Jackson, Thomas, (aged.) 
 
 Jeffrey, Mabel Verne, 1. 
 
 Kellogg, Dr. IN . A, 29i. 
 
 Kellogg, Mrs. Geo. A., (first 
 wife.) 29. 
 
 Kellogg, infant daughter of Geo. 
 
 A. K. 
 
 Kelly, Miss, (committed suicide.) 
 Killen, Mrs. W., (first wife) 36. 
 Kirkendall, Lester, 3. 
 
 Lackey, (died in 1854 or 1855.) 
 Larcom, (died in insane asylum.) 
 Layton, Mrs. S. E., (wife of 
 Rev. Layton) 38. 
 
 Lough, Mr. S., 67. 
 
 Lewis, Frank B., 29. 
 
 Lockridge, Maggie, 2J^. 
 
 Louks, Jennie, M., 45. 
 
 Lucas, Annie, 32. 
 
 Lewis, Sarah R., i. 
 
 Lowell, Elida, (a young girl). 
 Larson, or Nettie Andreas, 68. 
 McCall, Samuel B., near 3. 
 McCall, Mary L., 2. 
 
 McCall, Harrie T., (9^ months). 
 Mills, Rev. S. J., 69.( 
 
 Mitchell, Clara M., f. 
 
 Mason Hannah, 70. 
 
408 
 
 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 Mason Jacob, 
 
 Mason, E. J.. 4, 
 
 McLain, Wm., 53; McLain, Mrs. 
 
 Win., 68, husband and wife. 
 McLain, Willis, (young man). 
 Morgan, John, (an early settler.) 
 Mahony, Mrs., (middle age). 
 McLain, Mrs. Rosie, (first wife of 
 F. T. McLain, IT. 
 
 McLain, Rachel, (wife of Wm. 
 
 junior), 68. 
 
 Miller, Willie H., 2. 
 
 Murphy, H. F., 63. 
 
 Mitchell, Mary S. 
 
 McClellan. R. C., 66. 
 
 McDonald, Catherine, TT. 
 McDonald, Thos., 64. 
 
 Mathews, Richard H., 92. 
 Monaghan, Laura M., (a child). 
 Minkler, Frank E., (a child). 
 Manifee, Phebe E., i. 
 
 Mills, Willie L., 1. 
 
 McCloflin, A. T4. 
 
 Mulcahy, Patrick, 76. 
 
 McCoy, John F., babe. 
 
 McGrath, Bridget A., 8. 
 
 McGuire, Catherine, 26. 
 
 Maloney, James, (infant). 
 
 Nelson, Karen, (a wife) 36. 
 Nelson, Maria, (infant). 
 
 Page, Mrs. C. P., (first wife). 
 Pointer, Mrs. Daniel. 
 
 Pressnal, Walter E., (child). 
 Padget, Wm. (died in insane 
 asylum). 
 
 Putnum, Mrs. Sarah, 92; Put- 
 num, Daniel B., 90, wife and 
 husband. 
 
 Quinn, Thomas, 19^. 
 
 Robinson, J. P., (settled in Co. 
 in 1853), buried in Scott Co., 
 65. 
 
 Ringheim, Mrs. I. A., (first wife 
 Lorinda) 30. 
 
 Rufly, (killed himself by acci- 
 dent). 
 
 Rhoads, Arch, (killed by cars on 
 railroad). 
 
 Robinson, R. H., (an early settler). 
 
 Mason Jessie, 27. 
 
 McLain, Wm., (senior), 79. 
 McLain, Mrs. Elizabeth, 46^. 
 McLain, Mrs. Howard, 22. 
 Minton, Mrs. Nancy M., 69. 
 Maynard, G. C., 56. 
 
 McLain, Attse, 17. 
 
 McLain, Mary J., (second wife 
 of F. T. McLain, 32. 
 
 McLain, Mrs. Susana, 98i. 
 
 Miller, Lizzie S., (wife of T. J. 
 
 Miller), 19i. 
 
 Mitchell, P. W. R., 21. 
 
 Moran, Anna, 9. 
 
 Murphy, Phil, near 70. 
 
 Mathews, Mary, 59. 
 
 Monaghan, Mary, 34. 
 
 McCreary, Sidney J., 58. 
 McCollisler, John, 68. 
 
 McGuire, Rachel A., 27. 
 Monaghan, Al. 
 
 Monahan, Margaret, 65. 
 
 McCoy, Frank, 16. 
 
 McDonald, Ellen. 
 
 McGrath, John, 5f. 
 
 Maloney, Thomas, 10 months. 
 Maloney, Patrick, 32f. 
 
 Newman, Mrs. 
 
 Nelson, Mary, 1. 
 
 Nelson, Louis, (died day of birth). 
 Page, Mrs. C. P., (second wife). 
 Price, Mrs. Julia, (first wife to 
 N. Price) 46. 
 
 Patton, Dr. A. 
 
 Potter, Edwin B, (a child) f. 
 Proctor, Mary E., 23. 
 
 Pearson, Oleva J., 26. 
 
 Pierce, A. H., 69. 
 
 Quinn, John T., (Nov. 8, 1886) 
 28. 
 
 Robinson, Mrs. Mary, (settled 
 in 1853), in Mullen cemetery, 
 71. 
 
 Rutherford, E. W, 47. 
 
 Rhoads, F. W., (died from a 
 fall) 58. 
 
 Rhoads, 0. Wade. 
 
 Ross, Ridgely R., 17. 
 
 Rodearmel, Jacob, 59^. 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 409 
 
 Rogers, Isaac, 23. 
 
 Richardson, George. 
 
 Reynolds, Joseph, 2 months. 
 
 Radagan, Patrick, 84, 
 
 Scott, Mrs. John, (wife of Col. 
 Scott). 
 
 Scott, Miss Carrie, (Col. s 
 daughter) 20. 
 
 Scott, Rankin, (son of the Col.’s) 
 
 10 . 
 
 Scott, Allie, (child of Col. Scott) 
 infant. 
 
 Schoonover, G. F., (soldier, mid- 
 dle age). 
 
 Strait, Mrs. (middle age). 
 
 Stevens, John, 53f; Stevens, 
 Elizabeth, 5Ti, (husband and 
 wife). 
 
 Shedd, Mrs. Katie, (first wife of 
 C. B. S.) 33. 
 
 Statler, Sam’l V., (son of S. S. 
 Statler.) 3. 
 
 Statler, Sidna, (child of S. Stat- 
 ler) If. 
 
 Schoonover, Mrs., (an aged lady). 
 
 Sanders, Mrs. Nancy, 61. 
 
 Shugart, Wilber. 
 
 Swafford, Alice M. 
 
 Shaw, Barbara A., 87. 
 
 Sawyer, Mary M., 2. 
 
 Sawyer, Frank H., 2. 
 
 Sherman, Yira Bell, 1. 
 
 Stratton, Edith A., 14. 
 
 Sours, Anna, li. 
 
 Smith, John P., 70. 
 
 Smith, Margaret, 53. 
 
 Stoddard, Edna, (wife of J. E. 
 S.) 75. 
 
 Severns, Mrs. Catharine, 71. 
 
 Thompson, (F. D. T.’s brother). 
 
 Turtle, Thos., (an early settler) 
 50. 
 
 Tyler, Rockie B.,_5. 
 
 Templeton, Mattie J., 17. 
 
 Thomas, Bertie E., 2. 
 
 Templeton, Frank L., 11. 
 
 Templeton, Harry C., 2. 
 
 Talbott, Mr., (aged); Talbott, 
 Mrs., (aged) ; husband and wife. 
 
 Rushmore, Defrancia, 20. 
 Rasmussen, Freddie, (young). 
 Rock, Michael, 55. 
 
 Smith, Mrs. C. Y., (died insane). 
 Scott, Bar, (brother of the Col’s), 
 40. 
 
 Scott, Miss Maggie, (Col. s 
 daughter). 
 
 Scott, Willie, (son of Col. Scott) 
 infant. 
 
 Stitzell, Mrs. Dr., first wife). 
 Stitzell, Laville, (killed by the 
 cars). 
 
 Statler, Jonathan, (buried in 
 Pennsylvania, 55i. 
 
 Stevens, D. L., 47. 
 
 Stevens, David L., (son of D. L). 
 See, Mr. J., (an early settler). 
 Shugart, Heman, 22i. 
 
 Shugart, (a child of John Shu- 
 gart). 
 
 Statler, James F., (son of S. S. 
 Statler) li. 
 
 Smith, Mrs., (Mrs. Brighams 
 mother). 
 
 St. John, Lizzie M.. 
 
 Swafford, Zella E., 2. 
 
 Stewart, Estella, 3. 
 
 Snelling, Chas. A. 
 
 Sawyer, Jacob E. 
 
 Sanderson, John F. 
 
 Smith, Bertel, 1. 
 
 Stratton, Alice, 16. 
 
 Smith, Millard F., 24. 
 
 Smith, Mathew, 64. 
 
 Shugart, Bessie M, 1. 
 
 Squires, Emma B., 4f. 
 
 Sanders, Marcus B., 38^. 
 Sherman, Eddie, 2. 
 
 Templeton, T. C., 26. 
 
 Townsend, (murdered by Mul- 
 len). 
 
 Tracy, Wm., (aged). 
 
 Thomas, I. K., 28. 
 
 Thomas, Mrs. Sarah, (a wife) 49. 
 Templeton, Sam’l E., 1. 
 Templeton, Clarence C., 1. 
 Turtle, Henry, 20. 
 
 Taylor, George, 74. 
 
410 
 
 Histoet of Stoey Cotjftty, Iowa. 
 
 Tueth, Edward, 69f 
 Vincent, Sam’l. 
 Whitney, Jas. 
 Wakeman, Mrs., 54. 
 Wakeman, Mr. W. 
 White, J. W., 37. 
 
 Utterback, young man, drowned. 
 Vance, Margaret, 36. 
 
 Wilson, Mrs., died Jan. 1, 1867. 
 Wells, Chester, 56^. 
 
 Whitaker, Mr., (aged.) 
 
 Wood, Sylvia A., 29. 
 
 Wingert, Wm., (killed by cars) Wheeler, Mrs. Anna, 72. 
 
 12 . 
 
 Wilcox, H. C., 17. 
 
 White, Mrs. Sarah, (aged.) 
 White, Mrs. Jane, 64. 
 Wilson, Herbert J., infant. 
 Weidner, Mrs. Mary D., 36 
 Wilkins, Mollie, 2 i. 
 
 Walters, Julia P., 26. 
 West, Mrs. Sarah, 59. 
 White, Dora A., 11. 
 Wilson, Alice A., infant. 
 Winger, Sylvia, 3. 
 
 West Charles, 45^. 
 Zwilling, George W. 
 
 Unknown in Protestant Cemetery of Nevada, 157. 
 
 Total in Nevada, two cemeteries, as known 432, carefully 
 counted. 
 
 Unknown to add, 178 total in both. Total dead in the two, 610 
 persons. 
 
 PLEASAKT GEOVE CEMETEEY. 
 
 [In the northeast corner of section 7, township 84, range 23.] 
 
 Alfred, Nat. D,, 23. 
 Anderson, Sarah, 22. 
 Arrasmith, Emma May, 17i 
 Bailey, Emma J,, 27. 
 
 Carey, Florida, 32. 
 
 Crowder. 
 
 Crowder, infant. 
 
 Frost, (a child.) 
 
 Adams, Claude, If. 
 
 Arrasmith, Jas. L,, 16|^. 
 
 Baker, Mr., 1. 
 
 Bales, Margaret, 2. 
 
 Crowder, A. A. 
 
 Crowder, infant. 
 
 Foote, John J., 64. 
 
 Grove, Adam L., (died insane) 63. 
 
 Grove, Geo. W., (a soldier, died Grove, Jacob, (a soldier, died in 
 
 service) 23 
 Grails, Willis, (a child.) 
 Hughes, infant. 
 
 Howland, Emma May, 11 mos 
 Hoover, Mr., (the old man.) 
 Howe, Mrs. Ellen, 68. 
 Randau, Hermine, 10 mos. 
 Randau, Julia, 76. 
 
 Randau, infant. 
 
 Spencer, Wm. B., 12. 
 
 Spencer, Elbert E., 10. 
 
 Scott, Mary J., 16. 
 
 Tuttle, Mrs., (old lady.) 
 Wilkinson, Lemmy, (a son) 8. 
 
 service) 21. 
 
 Hughes, Kinne 0. 
 
 Hughes, infant. 
 
 Hoover, Hannah C., 55. 
 
 Hoover, Mr., (brother to J. E. H.) 
 Randau, Fritz, 1. 
 
 Randau, infant. 
 
 Randau, Johanna, 37. 
 
 Sowers, Bessie M., 1^. 
 
 Spencer, Charles H., 6. 
 
 Scott, Annie R., 6. 
 
 Scott, Zilpha A., 33i. 
 
 Wilkinson, Josephine, 8i. 
 Yetton, Maggie, 24. 
 
Histoky of Stoey Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 411 
 
 SHEFFIELD CEMETERY. 
 
 [In the north half of the northwest northwest quarter of sec- 
 tion 32, township 85, range 23.] 
 
 U. 
 
 Ballard, Lois E., (1st wife of R. 
 W. B.) 30. 
 
 Ballard, Dr. M. R., 76. 
 
 Burham, Geo. A., 20. 
 
 Bracken, Robt., (early settler) 67. 
 Bracken, John Henry, 3. 
 Benton, Jesse C., 1. 
 
 Brouhard, Joseph H., 
 
 Bates, Samuel J., 12, 
 
 Bates, Matthew, 58. 
 
 Bates, Cynthia, 46. 
 
 Crabtree, Jerome. 
 
 Crabtree, Til man. 
 
 Carlton, Addie V., 6. 
 
 Emmerson, Louisa, 53. 
 Emmerson, Oliver, 18. 
 Eagleburger, Ammon H., 15. 
 Ferguson, Hiram, (an early set- 
 tler) 54 1-. 
 
 Griffith, Jonah, (an early settler) 
 67. 
 
 Haviland, Hannah J., 27. 
 
 Lewis, Lucy A., 2. 
 
 McStay, Mrs., (very old.) 
 
 Dense, Lillie A., 1. 
 
 Swearingen, Mr,* 
 
 Swearingen, (nearly a 
 woman.)* 
 
 Sheffield, Wm. M., 21. 
 
 Sheffield, Jane M. B., 39. 
 Sheffield, Maria C., 65. 
 
 Stolp, Melissa A., 20. 
 
 Stultz, Emma May, 20. 
 Varington, Willie 0., 
 
 young 
 
 A 
 
 Wier, Herbert E., 5. 
 
 Willington, Willie J., (infant.) 
 
 Total names known, 65; unknown, 10; total dead, 75, 
 *The burnt family — six of them. 
 
 Ballard, Julia A., (infant of R. 
 W. B.) 
 
 Ballard, Eliza, (wife of Dr. B.) 
 70. 
 
 Bracken, Mary, (an early settler) 
 53. 
 
 Boyes, Margaret, 26. 
 
 Brouhard, James W., 40. 
 
 Bates, George P,, 1. 
 
 Bates, Joseph B.. 26. 
 
 Crabtree, Arnold D., 47. 
 Crabtree, Arthur. 
 
 Crabtree. 
 
 Doolittle, Alvira A., 6. 
 Emmerson, Stephen, 15. 
 Eagleburger, Sarah, 26. 
 Ferguson, Ethelinda, 51. 
 
 Griffith, Zela T., 17. 
 
 Griffith, John J., 18, 
 
 Henderson, James H., l^. 
 Henderson, Sarah Belle, (infant.) 
 Keef, Margaret, 14. , 
 
 Lewis, L'zzie, 1. 
 
 Nash, Mary A., 63. 
 
 Pense, Mary E., 7. 
 
 Swearingen, Mrs., (the wife.)* 
 Swearingen, (young man).* 
 Swearingen, (quite young.)* 
 Swearingen, a babe.* 
 
 Sheffield, Virgil, 1. 
 
 Sheffield, John N., 20. 
 
 Sheffield, Nathan N., 70. 
 
 Squires, Alzina M., 11. 
 
 Stultz, Daniel N,, 49. 
 
 Wier, Clarence E., 1. 
 
 Wier, Lottie L., 1. 
 
 CEMTER GROYE CEMETERY. 
 
 In the- northeast corner southeast i section 26, township 82, range 
 23. 
 
 Allen, Candace E., 5f. 
 
 Allen, Bessie E., V 
 Allen, Hannah A., 52. 
 
 Allen, Jessie I., 1. 
 Allen, Sarah E., 44f. 
 Allen, Elmer E., 2. 
 
4:12 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Cook, Catherine, 62, 
 
 Davis, James W., (was at Aderson- 
 ville) 25. 
 
 Dobyns, infant. 
 
 Doty, Margaret, 66f. 
 
 Doty, John C., 3:^-. 
 
 Graves, Wm. L., 1 5-6, 
 
 Graves Willis W,, i. 
 
 Grosclose, Howard, 24. 
 
 Grosclose, infant. 
 
 Grosclose, Thomas J., SO-y. 
 Grosclose, Elizabeth, 76 5-12. 
 Harrison, Gertie, 5 5-6. 
 
 Hainline, Charlie, 4f. 
 
 Hennick, Henry H, 28 i. 
 Hennick, Barbara, 65^. 
 
 Harris, Jane D., 38i. 
 
 Halley, Elizabeth, 58 1-6. 
 
 Jones, Melissa D., 33. 
 
 Jory, Jennie, 1. 
 
 Kirk, Sarah A., 34. 
 
 Kirk, Georgia, infant. 
 
 Lindsay, Barbary, 63 5-6. 
 
 Miller, Robert, f. 
 
 Mishler, Sarah E., 20i, 
 
 Paine, infant. 
 
 Sternwiler, J. A. If. 
 
 Steel, Mary, 4f. 
 
 Scott, Roby, 2f. 
 
 Twombly, Mary E. 26f. 
 
 Tillotson, infant. 
 
 Virtue, Thomas, 70f. 
 
 Whorton, Harriet G., near 74f. 
 Worton, J. P., 46 1-6. 
 
 Whorton, Alzira M., infant. 
 Yazel, George M., 21f. 
 
 Yazel, infant. 
 
 Yazel, Nellie E., 5-6. 
 
 Total number, known, 81. 
 dead, 125. 
 
 Carter, Margaret E., 4f. 
 
 Dobyns, infant. 
 
 Dobyns, Anna M., 1. 
 
 Doty, N., 64f. 
 
 Dobyns, Esther A., 44. 
 Delawyer, Chas. W., 2f. 
 
 Graves, Augustus, f. 
 
 Graves, Willard W.,f. 
 
 Grosclose, Wm., 48 5-6. 
 Grosclose, infant. 
 
 Grosclose, Jacob, 54 6-10. 
 Harrison, Ida Bell, f. 
 
 Hainline, Sarah E., 31 5-6. 
 Hainline, Lizzie, infant. 
 Hennick, Rosa M., infant. 
 Harris, Isaac W., 3. 
 
 Harris Nancy P A., infant. 
 Jarvill, C. A. J., 22. 
 
 Jory, Thomas, 68 5-6. 
 
 Jory, Arcia P., f. 
 
 Kirk, Gena, infant. 
 
 Lowe, Keziah, near 69. 
 
 Lindsay, Ferdinand A. 65f. 
 Miller, David 2f. 
 
 Paine, Nash, Ilf. 
 
 Redman, Susannah, 16. 
 
 Stevens, Darcus, near 28f. 
 
 Scott, Martin, 31. 
 
 Scott, Cora, infant. 
 
 Tillotson, M. Alice, 20f. 
 
 Virtue, Elizabeth, 75 1-6. 
 Warren, Bessie, 4J. 
 
 Whorton, George, near 71. 
 Whorton, George D., f. 
 Whorton, Thomas N., infant. 
 Yazel, Rachel G., 2f. 
 
 Yazel, John F., 5f. 
 
 Yazel, Sarah C. J., 6f. 
 
 Total not known, 44. Total number 
 
 sowers’ cemetery. 
 
 [In the northeast corner northwest northwest f of section 18 
 township 85, range 23.] 
 
 Sowers, Solomon, 82. Sowers, Alfred, 29 1-6. 
 
 Sowers, Henry, f. Sowers, Laura, 2. 
 
 Sowers, Mrs. Malinda (wife of G. Sowers, Sylvana (Newnum) 38. 
 W. S.) 30f. Sowers, Charles M., 26f. 
 
Histoet of Stoey Cotjftty, Iowa. 
 
 413 
 
 Smith, Jane (wife of J.C. Smith) 53 Woodward, Mahlon, 66. 
 
 Three unknown names with rough Sutliff, Myra, (Church) wife of 
 flat rocks at head and foot. B. Church. 
 
 Church, Ebenezer. Church, a child. 
 
 GILBEET CEMETEEY. 
 
 [In the northeast corner southeast i of section 4, township 84, 
 range 24.] 
 
 Betts, Mrs. Polly (near (jilhert) 93 Duntz, E. A., 32. 
 
 Duntz, Gruy, child. Fogleson, (soldier in Rebellion.) 
 
 Grove, Effie L., 4^. Garberson, Job, 69^. 
 
 Garberson, Lucinda, 59f. Garberson, Jonathan, 52f, 
 
 Garbeson, Lucinda M., 1. Garberson, Ida E., 8. 
 
 Garberson, Ed. R., infant. Hunter, Margaret, 70. 
 
 Hunter, Craig, 64. Hunter, Francis Marion, 17^. 
 
 Hunter, Jas, (soldier of 1812) 67. Keigley, May B., 2^. 
 
 Hannay, Elizabeth, 90. Lake, Elizabeth, 54J. 
 
 Keigley, (an infant of J. J. Lake, Albert L,, 22. 
 
 Keigley.) Three soldiers of Rebellion,names 
 
 Mathews, Clara, 4f. unknown. 
 
 Three graves, names unknown. Wilson, (an infant) 2 months. 
 
 Total names known, 21. Total names unknown, 6. Total 
 dead, 27. 
 
 AMES CEMETEEY. 
 
 [In the northeast of southeast ^ of section 2, township 83, range 
 
 24.] 
 
 Frederick, Albert, 80 J. 
 Alexander, John, 57. 
 
 Barroll, Nancy B., 45. 
 
 Born, Jacob, 71. 
 
 Brotherton, Jennie M., 25. 
 Bradley, Wm. S., 53J. 
 
 Bos worth, Lieut. Drakes, 62. 
 Beal, Richard, (infant.) 
 
 Bryant, Sylvanus, 65. 
 Brumagim, Mary Jane, 45. 
 Beverly, Roy, 2. 
 
 Basket, Mrs., died in May, 1886. 
 Cooper, Ollie, i. 
 
 Castle, Mabel A., 1. 
 
 Chamberlin, Wyatt H., 6. 
 DeLorne, Louis Z., 40^. 
 
 Downs, Josiah, 89. 
 
 Elliot, Edith J., 21i. 
 
 Avery, A. H., 71^. 
 
 Allen, Charlie, li. 
 
 Bissell, Mary P., near 37. 
 Brotherton, Daniel, 23. 
 
 Ballard, Annie, near 30. 
 
 Barnes, Chas. A., 19. 
 
 Barndollar, Michael, 54. 
 
 Brooks, J. M., 86i. 
 
 Brumagim, Mary C., 46f. 
 Bradford, Edmund, near 27. 
 Baker, Ira E., 58. 
 
 Clark, Willie, 5i. 
 
 Clark, James A., 2i. 
 
 Clark, E. W., (editor of the 
 Monitor.) 
 
 Daniels, W, R., 62^. 
 
 Down, Amelia, 75. 
 
 Eddy, Wm. C., 27f. 
 
414 
 
 Histoey oe Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Emery, Lizzie May, 1|-, 
 Fitchpatrick, Eliza, 15^. 
 Graham, George, 50i. 
 Gossard, Sartih G., 64. 
 Gossard, H. Jennie. 26i. 
 Granger, N. H., 34^. 
 
 Graves, Cecil A., 6. 
 
 Hirsch, Louise, 1-12. 
 Hemstreet, Robt. F., 1. 
 Hutchison, Clifford C., f. 
 Hannum, Thomas, 76^. 
 Jewett, Bh’ancis J. 32^. 
 Jones, (infant) 
 
 Johnson, Willie A. 1 month 
 Kannarr, John (soldier) 45^. 
 Kistler, Katie E. Ih 
 Kingsbury, Olive M. 17^-. 
 Kerr, Emma L. 25^. 
 
 Little, Perry, 34. 
 
 Little, Lester R. 16f. 
 
 Lowery, Martha 18. 
 
 Little, Mary S. 62. 
 
 Lamb, Rev. Caleb, near 83. 
 Maxwell, Allie, 1. 
 
 Maxwell, Clarence J. 1-12. 
 McFarlane, George, 7f. 
 Marshall, James 1-12. 
 McMichael, Anne, near 57i. 
 McElyea, S. B. 24L ' 
 Nichols, Margaret, 55L 
 Norman, Eliza 49^. 
 
 Perkins, Charles A. 5-12. 
 Peterson, Lucy T. 60i. 
 
 Queal, William 31. 
 Richmond, B''annie C. 2-3. 
 Reynolds, Charlie E. near 14. 
 Rain bolt, Elizabeth 64. 
 Rainbolt, T. N. (soldier) 31f . 
 Russ, Guy 10-12. 
 
 Regan, Tillie 1-4. 
 
 Ruth, Leah, nearly 61. 
 Stevens. Ena, 1-12. 
 
 Smith, Hiram D. 49i 
 Spring, John S. E. 11-12. 
 Spring, Wm. H. 1^. 
 
 Stewart, Augustus, If. 
 Shockley, Wm. E. 10-12. 
 Simmons, Harry, Jr., 2f. 
 Slater, Effie G., 23^. 
 
 Eastlick, George, near 75. 
 Fitchpatrick,Clara Bell, 7f. 
 Graham, Jennie, near 26. 
 Gossard, Wm. M., 69. 
 
 Gretton, Ray, i. 
 
 Goff, Temp. T., 62. 
 
 Geddess, Gen. J. L., died Feb. 21, 
 ’87, buried at Vinton, Iowa, 60. 
 Hodgson, Geo. H., 9. 
 
 Harrison, Joshua, (soldier) 53. 
 Hannum, Sarah, 70^. 
 
 Jewett, George W. 38. 
 
 Johnson, Samuel 59. 
 
 Johnson, Simeon M. (sold’r) 34f. 
 Kannarr, Hattie, 5-12. 
 
 Kistler, Roy M. 1-4. 
 
 Kelley, Roxana, 54. 
 
 Lucas, Samuel L. 37. 
 
 Little, Lora M. near 6. 
 
 Little, Mary E. 7-12. 
 
 Lloyd, Charlie 1. 
 
 Lang, Mrs. D. 
 
 Loud, infant 
 
 McFadden, A. (editor) 51. 
 McFarlane, Gandage, 37. 
 
 McGee, George 8. 
 
 Moses, Lillie L. f. 
 
 McMichael, Samantha 31. 
 McLain, Katie 2-3. 
 
 Norman, Mary A, 74f. 
 
 Peterson, logenia. 
 
 Perkins, George C. near 19. 
 Perkins, Carrie M. 2. 
 
 Queal, Fannie May, 11*12. 
 Reynolds, Cecil C. 1-4. 
 Robinson,' Albert G. 2L 
 Rainbolt, W. H. 31. 
 
 Rainbolt, J. M. (soldier), 19^. 
 Regan, Susan 47^. 
 
 Ruth, Irwin 52f. 
 
 Reynolds, Rev. R. J. 49. 
 Sargent, Isabel, 64. 
 
 Stevens, Adam, 28-g-. 
 
 Spring, Agnes C. 3-j. 
 
 Starr, S. J., M. D., 45i. 
 Simmons, Cyrus, 55-^. 
 
 Shockley, Charles E. 23 -. 
 
 Slater, G. S., 18. 
 
 Smith, Aaron, (soldier), 67i. 
 
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 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Soper, Orpha May, 2, 
 Thayer, Ada, 10-lk 
 Tripp, Rev. William, 86f. 
 Tripp, Lillie May, 1^. 
 Thomas, Alice C., 19^. 
 Towns, Ulysses S., 8^. 
 Templeton, Charles, 1. 
 
 Van Campen, Della, 1^. 
 Worick, Frances H., 28. 
 Worick, John E., 1-4. 
 Wooders, Mary E., 35. 
 Wiltse, William B,, 48V 
 Westman, Maggie, 1-2. 
 Williams, Rev. Jas. R., 75i. 
 White, Lottie Gr., 19V 
 Total names known 157. 
 dead 237. 
 
 Soper, Charles C., 14f. 
 
 Til den, Lucy M., near 8. 
 
 Tripp, Clarrissa, 82f. 
 
 Thomas, Lottie E., 34^. 
 
 Thomas, (an infant.) 
 
 Todd, Henry W., 1-12. 
 
 Van Fleet, Laura B., 1. 
 
 Van Dusen, Catharine, 89V 
 Worick, Carry A., 2V 
 Worick, Charles E., 1-4. 
 
 Wilcox, Olive M., 2V 
 Wiltse, Howard M., 8. 
 
 Walker, William H., 63V 
 Wheeler, Greorge, 67. 
 
 Total names unknown 80. Total 
 
 COLO CEMETERY. 
 
 [In the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 9, 
 township 83, range 21.] 
 
 Allard, A. C., Co. H, 83d Illinois 
 Infantry. 
 
 Adams, Leslie J., 1. 
 
 Brouhard, Maria, 38f. 
 
 Banks, Chloe, near 59. 
 
 Boomer, Laura M., 2. 
 
 Bishop, Frankie K., IV 
 Black, James, 36f. 
 
 Buffington, Benj., 5. 
 
 Chevill, William, 44V 
 Chevill, Thomas, near 3V 
 Cozzens, Mary J. E., infant. 
 Danskin, Grilman, IJ. 
 
 Dailey, John L., Doctor, 47f. 
 Dewey, Susan, 45V 
 Earl, Eugene H., 22V 
 Ewald. 
 
 French, infant. 
 
 Forsha, William, 47. 
 
 Gressley, Laura May. 12f. 
 
 Gross, Harriet, 42^. 
 
 Gross, Maria, 81i. 
 
 Hoover, Louis E., 1 month. 
 Hedges, Stephen D., 28V 
 Jennings, R. F., 64. 
 
 LaRue, Mackie, 13f. 
 
 27 
 
 Allard, Mittee, 3f . 
 
 Allard, Verna E., If. 
 Barnard, Silas J., 61. 
 Bradbury, Mary E., 40. 
 Boomer, Charlie H., near 4. 
 Bowden, Douglas R,, If. 
 Ball, Johney, 3. 
 
 Brouhard, Charlie E., 8. 
 Cook, James R., 1-2. 
 Chevill. 
 
 Cozzens, Rebecca, 48f. 
 Danskin, Mary E., 41f. 
 Danskin, James, infant. 
 Dailey, John Elmer, If. 
 Earl, Eugene H. 7. 
 
 Ewald, Peter, 22V 
 French, Jamas R., 1-6. 
 French, Clara A., 45V 
 Gearhart, Eva A. 2V 
 Gressley, Viola, If. 
 
 Gross, William H., near l-J. 
 George, G., infant. 
 
 Hoover, infant. 
 
 Hitchcock, Harmon A., 63. 
 King, Willie, 1-4. 
 
 Learned, Nora, 1-4. 
 
418 
 
 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 Learned, Lucinda, 32^. 
 
 McClure, William Gr., 18. 
 McQuillen, Oscar, If. 
 
 Morgan, Franklin L., 66. 
 Morgan, William F., 12f. 
 
 Nauke, Emma, 25^-. 
 
 Rogers, Jenny M., 11^. 
 
 Sawtell, Louisa F., SOf. 
 Stephens, Martha, 15f. 
 Templeton, Belle, 1. 
 
 Vail, Laura S., 10 months. 
 Wagner, infant. 
 
 Worrall, Sarah P, 61i, 
 
 Wyatt, William W., 52. 
 
 Total names known 78; total 
 
 120 . 
 
 Mullen, Louie, 2 months. 
 
 Mead, Jimmie H., 4f. 
 
 Martin, Mary Z., 28^. 
 
 Morgan, Dora J., (or Carter). 
 Mastin, Jos., 62f. 
 
 Pontius, Ezra, 5 months. 
 
 Rogers, Birdie, 27i. 
 
 Smith, Reuben, 4^. 
 
 Soesbe, Maudie, 2i. 
 
 Tratner, Susanna, near 6. 
 Warrington, Enoch, Co. F, 146th 
 Illinois Infantry. 
 
 W orrall. 
 
 / 
 
 names unknown 42; total dead 
 
 ZEARIFTG 
 
 [In the southwest corner of 
 section 16, township 85, range 2 
 Burdick, infant. 
 
 Dakins, Elisha, 72. 
 
 Guthrie, Rebecca E., f. 
 
 Hufford, Kate. 
 
 Pasely, Frankie, (infant). 
 
 Pasely, Emma S., 27^. 
 
 Known, 11; unknown, 9; 
 
 CEMETERY. 
 
 the southeast southeast quarter of 
 
 1 .] 
 
 Belden, J. L., near 73i. 
 
 Dool, Mervyn, If. 
 
 Guthrie, Ella, 18. 
 
 Orthman, Hier R., 54.' 
 
 Pasely, Mabel Helene, 1. 
 Thatcher, Leona C., 2i. 
 
 I dead, 20. 
 
 MULLEFT CEMETERY. 
 
 f In the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section 21, 
 and part in the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 
 21, township 83, range 22.1 
 
 Alldredge, Eliphalet, f . 
 Alldredge, James, 70f. 
 Armstrong, Pleasant, 28f. 
 Ballou, Perlie Etta, (infant). 
 Brown, Jackson C., 34^. 
 Bryant, Isabella, 25. 
 
 Bates, Rebecca, near 61. 
 Bates, Joseph J., 49i. 
 Densmore, Eliza J., 44i. 
 Dean, Carpenter, 20^. 
 Gaugh, U. S., near 8^. 
 Gaugh, Wm. E., near 4. 
 Griffith, Maggie May, If. 
 
 Alldredge, Chauncy P., 15. 
 Armstrong, S. 0., 20. 
 Baxter, Lydia A., (infant). 
 Baker, Daniel W., near 1. 
 Bryant, Elbert W., 1. 
 Barber, Rhoda, 25. 
 
 Bates, Joseph, 73. 
 
 Bates, Stephen, near 75. 
 Dean, Erastus, 24f. 
 
 Fultz, Nellie, 4J. 
 
 Gaugh, Franklin A., 2. 
 Gaugh, Virginia A., 42f. 
 Robison, Elmer E., 1- 
 
419 
 
 Histoey of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Griffith, Genevra A. (infant). 
 Helphrey, Almeda, 6 mo. 
 Halley, Enoch, 70^. 
 
 Hague, Isaac M., 31. 
 
 Hague, Miles A., f. 
 
 Hempsted, Ida M., If. 
 Hempsted, Ellen E., 34. 
 
 John, Cynthia A., 53. 
 
 Johnson, Hanford, 89. 
 
 Mullen, Susannah, 62-^. 
 
 Mullen, Martha, 27. 
 
 Mullen, Elva E., 15. 
 
 Mullen, Effie A., If. 
 
 Mullen, George M., 18f. 
 
 Mullen, Elizabeth, 74f. 
 
 Mullen, Samuel, 71f. 
 
 Mullen, Laurinda, 23f. 
 
 Mullen, Amariah, 56. 
 
 McConnell, Amos, 24f. 
 McConnell, James, 23f. 
 
 Marsh, Clarence W., 2. 
 Norberry, Ardlissa, 69.' 
 
 Newton, Ida, 15f. 
 
 Robison, Dan’l, W. (suicided) 22. 
 Unknown, 31; known, 71; toi 
 
 Robison, Lettie, (infant). 
 Robison, Mrs. Mary, (came to 
 Story County in 1853), 71. 
 Stevens, Melissa E., 4f. 
 
 Stevens, James E., f. 
 
 Stevens, David N., 20f. 
 
 Shickell, Willie, (infant). 
 
 Staves, George, (infant). 
 Thornton, James, (infant). 
 Tichenor, Joseph, 63f. 
 
 Tichenor, Eva C., 14f. 
 
 Tichenor, Joseph W., 2. 
 Townsend, Elsie May, If. 
 Tindall, Mary A., 24f. 
 
 Thomas, Jacob L., If. 
 
 Thomas, Hugh L., 1. 
 
 Thomas, (infant). 
 
 Thomas, (infant). 
 
 Wireman, Hattie J., 12f. 
 Wireman, Jessie, (infant). 
 Wireman, Ernest, 23f. 
 
 Wolf, Sherman T. 
 
 (Unknown), Victoria, near 21. 
 
 102 . 
 
 MOUND CEMETERY. 
 
 [ On the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 23, 
 township 83, range 22.1 
 
 Banzell, Rosana, 20. 
 
 Cook, Rosa Caroline, 3f. 
 Cook, Wm. H., 6 mo. 
 
 Carr, Albert, (infant). 
 Dalton, (infant). 
 
 Dye, Nancy, 60f. 
 
 Dye, Jacob M., 36f. 
 
 Dye, Isaac, 12. 
 
 Dye, Wm. 0., 7. 
 
 Dye, James E., 13. 
 
 Dye, Jackson, 1. 
 
 Dye, Sarah F., 6 mo. 
 
 Fry, Margaret, 44. 
 
 Foster, Thomas J., 6. 
 Guge, Francis A., If. 
 Harman (son). 
 
 Jackson, Harriet A., 3 mo. 
 Jackson, Anna, 51. 
 
 McCartney, Robert, 81f. 
 McCartney, Mary, If. 
 Morrison, Oliver, 2. 
 
 Prime, John, 84. 
 
 Prime, Christena, 3. 
 
 Prime, Mary, (infant). 
 
 Prime, (infant). 
 
 Rogers, Lucy G., 2. 
 
 Smith, Charles F. 
 
 Smith, Jesse, If. 
 
 Stevens, Marion, 25f. 
 
 See, Achilles M. 3. 
 
 Sellers, Charles M., 1. 
 
 Sellers, Franklin G., If. 
 Stevens, Robert, 78. 
 
 Smith, Mary A., 4. 
 
 Smith, Mary, (wife), near 40f. 
 ' Utterback, Elizabeth, 4f. 
 
420 
 
 fiiSTOET OF Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Jackson, Alexus T., 11. 
 
 Lowell, Mrs., (murdered by her 
 husband, 1853). 
 
 McDaniel, Samuel, 66. 
 McDaniel, Jane, 63. 
 
 McDaniel, Joseph S., li. 
 McDaniel, Jane, 75i. 
 
 McDaniel, John W. 
 
 McCartney, Johanna, 64^. 
 Unknown, 17; known, 53; to 
 
 Utterback, Albert, 2^. 
 Williams, J. M., 6 mo. 
 
 Wylie, Lucy, 31. 
 
 Wheatley, James A., near 21. 
 Wheatley, George, 6 mo. 
 Wheatley, Malinda J., near 12. 
 Wheatley, -Allen, 54i. 
 
 Waltz, Lucy, 6 mo. 
 
 I, 70. 
 
 ONTARIO AND NEW PHILADELPHIA CEMETERY. 
 
 [Situated on the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of 
 section 5, township 83, range 24.] 
 
 Austin, Frank, 2 mo. 
 Aylesworth, Guy 0., near li. 
 Aylesworth, Arthur. 
 
 Anderson, Robert G., 62f . 
 Anderson, Catharine, 64. 
 
 Brown, Annie M. 
 
 Brown, Eliza J., 41f. 
 
 Burger, Mary C., 25f . 
 
 Brown, Mary R., 3. 
 
 Baughman, Win. 0. 
 
 Black, Mary J., 50f. 
 
 Ball, Hattie A., 6^. 
 
 Banning, Charles M ., 21 (sol- 
 dier). 
 
 Banford, (infant). 
 
 Blunk, (infant). 
 
 Briley, Hannah, 75. 
 
 Beedie, Sarah, 58^. 
 
 Beedle, Abraham H., 64. 
 
 Beedie, Simeon, 68i, (soldier). 
 Beemer, George H., 1. 
 
 Briley, Mabel, 1^. 
 
 Brien, Sarah E., 33. 
 
 Coffman, J. W., 1^. 
 
 Coffman, Sally A., 70. 
 
 Crowell, Ida, 2^. 
 
 Coffelt, Dieathean, 35. 
 
 Coffelt, Samuel, 59. 
 
 Coffelt, Efide, 1. 
 
 Cameron, Peter M., If. 
 
 Canady, Eddie M., (infant). 
 Canady, C. 0., (infant). 
 
 Canady, Philip J., 30f. 
 
 Deal, Viola B., 18. 
 
 Dobbin, Alex., 27. 
 
 Dickson, Eliza A., 5f. 
 
 Deal, Samuel H., 22f . 
 
 Deal, John T., 21. 
 
 Deal, Wm. J., 28| (soldier). 
 Deal, Eli, 57^. 
 
 Eckard, Geo. A., 8f. 
 
 Eckard, Alma L, 4f . 
 
 Eckard, Sam’l G., 14f. 
 
 Finch, E. J., 45. 
 
 Fullerton, Victory E., 20f. 
 Freed, Jas. W., near 1. 
 
 Fisher, Clara, 9. 
 
 Fultz, Laura J., 2. 
 Fitchpatrick, Nancy G., 3. 
 Fitchpatrick, Martha M., 13f. 
 Finch, Alfetta, 24. 
 
 Foster, Levilla J., 4. 
 
 Foster, Mary Bell, 2f . 
 
 Foster, Geo. W., 37f. 
 
 Foster, Elizabeth E., 25f. 
 Foster, Wm. A., If. 
 
 Foster, Netta, 16. 
 
 Finch, Candacy, 2. 
 
 Gibson, Isaac L., 69f. 
 Grayson, Nancy, 74. 
 
 Gibson, C. W. (infant). 
 Gilchrist, M. E. (infant). 
 Graham, Eliz. V., 2f. 
 Graham, Emma H., 4i. 
 Hopkins, Mary A., 1. 
 Hopkins, Frankie, 9 mo. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 421 
 
 Canady, Milton E., 27i. 
 
 Dowden, Mary F., 4 mo. 
 
 Deal, A. B., 9 mo. 
 
 Hoggatt, Ann E., ITf. 
 
 Hunter, James E., If. 
 
 Hussong, Greo., f. 
 
 Hussong, Emma D., (infant). 
 Hunter, A. J., (died the eight- 
 eenth Nov., 1886,) 45. 
 
 Jones, Thomas F., 80f. 
 
 Jenkins, Frank, (infant). 
 Jenkins, John, 6. 
 
 Jenkins, Sarah A., 28f. 
 
 Kintzley, George, 26f. 
 
 Lewellen, Amos, 6. 
 
 Loving, Art., 60f. 
 
 Lewis, Arthur E., f. 
 
 McCracken, Elnora, 4. 
 
 Moyer, Maria, 39f . 
 
 McDanael, E. J., 18f. 
 
 Manges, Margaret E., 18f. 
 McDongal, Matilda, 49f. 
 
 Mauser, Adam F., 63. 
 
 Mauser, Chas. H., 1-6. 
 
 Mauser, Fred, near 1. 
 McNaughton, Minnie, 2f. 
 
 Mort, Wm., 45-J-. 
 
 Nelson, C. A., near 1. 
 
 Peterson, Peter F., 2. 
 
 Rigby Hattie, 15. 
 
 Rigby, Mrs. 
 
 Rice, Peter N., (soldier) 30. 
 
 Rose, Minnie M., 1. 
 
 Ross, Mary, 68. ^ 
 
 Ross, Abraham, f. 
 
 Stull, H. S., Ilf. 
 
 Scott, George, 73. 
 
 Stevenson, Hester A,, 1. 
 Truesdell, Mary A., 18f. 
 Thurman, Laura B., 3f. 
 Thurman, Nancy E., 1. 
 Truesdall, J. H., f. 
 
 Taylor, Anna M., 23. 
 
 Taylor, George L., 2i. 
 
 Vest, Thomas G., 62f. 
 
 WoodrufP, A. F., f. 
 
 Worley, Wm. L., If. 
 
 Williams, Rosetta, If. 
 
 Walker, Sarah A., 32f. 
 
 Hopkins, Wm., 1, 
 
 Houghton, Kittie B., 9 mo. 
 Hoggatt, Emly P., 13f. 
 Hunter, Geo. Me., lOf. 
 Hussong, John, (soldier) 65. 
 Hussong, Dessie, f . ^ 
 Harrison, Wm. I. 
 
 Jones, Mary, near 82. 
 
 Jane Jones, 55f, 
 
 Jones Albert G., 38. 
 
 Jenkins, Rosa, If. 
 
 Jenkins, Jessie H., 25f. 
 Johnson, Rebecca, 51f. 
 Lewellen, 'Malinda, 24. 
 Lewellen, Arthur, 2f. 
 
 Leecing, Chas. H., 23. 
 
 Lewis, Mary A., near 1. 
 Myers, Elvira A., 18. 
 
 Moyer D. M., (infant). 
 McDanael, Arch., 55f. 
 Manges, (infant). 
 
 Manry, Clyde, f. 
 
 Mauser, T. M., f. 
 
 Mauser, Gotleib, 42f, 
 Menhenet, Mary J., 27f. 
 McNerney, Mary A. 
 
 Noyes, (infant). 
 
 Nora, Cora Zell, f. 
 
 Porter Christiana, 24. 
 
 Rigby, Harry A., f. 
 
 Rowley, Vinnie T., 3f. 
 
 Rose, Viola E., 3. 
 
 Ross, James, 77f. 
 
 Ross, Josie, 19. 
 
 Ross, Calvary, 62. 
 
 Scott, Oliver, (soldier) 23. 
 Scott, Mrs., (the old lady). 
 Truesdell, Wm. E., near 6. 
 Thurman, T. R., (soldier) 27f. 
 Thurman, Artimetia, 7f. 
 Truesdall, A. S., f. 
 
 Taylor, U. S. Grant, 23. 
 Taylor, (infant). 
 
 Thornhill, Mary N., 23f. 
 White, (soldier). 
 
 Wentworth, Atlee, f. 
 Wilkinson, Mary J., 1. 
 Walker, Ephraim, 30f. 
 Walker, Perry H., 3f. 
 
422 
 
 History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Walker, Sarah J., 20^. 
 Young, Dora A., f. 
 Zenor, Asah A., 26. 
 'Zehor, Milan, 49^. 
 
 Webb, Georgie H., 19^. 
 Zimbleman, Eva May, 2|-. 
 Zenor, G., 1. 
 
 Zenor, John, 41. 
 
 Zenor, Mary A., 34^. 
 Zenor, Minnie May, 4. 
 
 Zenor, Mary, lOf. 
 
 Zenor, George B., Tlf. 
 
 Zenor, Powhattan, (soldier). 
 
 Total names known in all, ITl. Total names not known, say, 
 100. Total known and unknown, 271. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE CEMETERY. 
 
 [Situated part in northeast corner section 20, and part in the 
 northwest corner section 21, township 82, range 23.] 
 
 Anway, Mary A., If. 
 Banghart, Atla P., 1^. 
 Bryant, Elmer, 1^. 
 Ball, Amos P.,41f. 
 
 Allen, Wm. J., 2f. 
 
 Bricker, Peter, 80f 
 Beckley, Lillie. 
 
 Ball, Rebecca P., 18. 
 
 Breezley, Ida M., 21f. 
 
 Breezley, John D., near 49. 
 Batterson, Geo. S., 34. 
 
 Buell, Joseph, 47f. 
 
 Browser, Wm., near 67^. 
 Cronk, Mary. 
 
 Chandler, 76. 
 
 Chandler, Fred, i. 
 
 Chandler, Jairus, 47:L 
 Chandler, Melvina A., 16f. 
 Chandler, Sylvanus, 83. 
 Chandler, Geor. F., 23 5-6. 
 Clawson, Robt. B., 34. 
 
 Cook, George M., 8. 
 
 Fries, Nellie Maud, If. 
 
 Finch, Sarah 0., 21 1-6. 
 
 Giles, Margaret J., If. 
 Illingworth, Nancy M., 16. 
 Illingworth, Augustus B., 29f. 
 King, Elmer, 1 1-6. 
 
 King, George, 1-6. 
 
 Kinsell, John C.,, 67. 
 
 Luellen, Margaret, 64f. 
 Mecuml), J. P., (a soldier). 
 Maxwell, Grace S., 4. 
 McIntosh, Geo. H., 61f. 
 
 Nellis, Bornt, 79. 
 
 Parish, Laura C., 25 5-6. 
 Richardson, Anetta, 14f. 
 Southwick, G. D., 6if. 
 
 • Breezley, infant. 
 
 Breezley, Harry T., If. 
 Batterson, Albert C., 65, 
 
 Buell. 
 
 Browser, Moses, 74 1-6. 
 Chamberlin, Clarrissa, 65. 
 Chandler, old. 
 
 Chandler, Sereno, 1 5-6. 
 Chandler, infant. 
 
 Chandler, Laura, 45f, 
 
 Chandler, Sarah, (his wife) 76. 
 Chandler, Clara A., 10. 
 
 Cook, Tabitha M., 3f. 
 
 Dunda, Win., 73J. 
 
 Finch, Elizabeth, 3f. 
 
 Finch, Sarah A., near 47f. 
 Hawks, (aged). 
 
 Illingworth, Agnes, 9f. 
 Illingworth, Wm. D., 64 1-6. 
 King, Willie, (infant). 
 
 Kinsell, Margaret S., 64. 
 Luellen, James, 82f. 
 
 Luellen, Lydia, (Marsh) 45. 
 Maxwell, Elizabeth, 77. 
 Maxwell, Jessie, (infant). 
 Netterfield, Benorjah, 44J. 
 Posten, Harriet, 5A 
 Parish, C. B., near 48. 
 
 Reams, Martha A., If. 
 
 Shafer, Ldyia E., 20f. 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 423 
 
 Shonts, Mary, 38f. 
 
 Slack, Corbia, near 2. 
 
 Sloan, Aggie A., infant. 
 
 Seal, Keziah, 59^. 
 
 Wilson, Wm. H., 1^. 
 
 Wire, Eliza A., 45^. 
 
 Whitehead, Almira E., near 10. 
 Wilson, older. 
 
 Names known, total, 84; unknown names 31. 
 
 Shonts, John I.; Shonts, David 
 B., children. 
 
 Seal, Joseph, 62f. 
 
 Scott, Minnie M., near 2. 
 
 Wire, Howard J., infant. 
 
 Wills, John M_., 36i. 
 
 Wilson, Freddie, f. 
 
 Williams, Glendora, f. 
 
 WOODLAND CEMETERY — IOWA CENTER. 
 
 [Situated near the center of the east half of the northeast quarter 
 of section 9, township 82, range 22.] 
 
 Applegate, Nathaniel, 71. 
 Applegate, Charles E., infant. 
 Alderman, Lydia E., 13 5-6. 
 Alderman, Sarah H., 36f. 
 Alderman, Milo D., If. 
 Arnold, Theodore M., If. 
 Allen, Errall F., 1-3. 
 Brubaker, John C., 25 1-5. 
 Booher, Jacob, 57 5-6. 
 
 Baker, Maurice, 23i. 
 Bennethum, Katy A., 24. 
 Brouhard, Barnet, 5. 
 Brouhard, Bachel, 56f. 
 
 Banks, Charles H„ near f . 
 Bowen, Gillian, 66f. 
 
 Byers, Catharine, 69. 
 
 Bowen, Hester A., 38. 
 
 Bowen, infant. 
 
 Corey, Jeremiah, 67. 
 
 Davis, Jonn, near 45f. 
 
 Davis, Polly, 69f. 
 
 Davis, Thos. H., 4. 
 
 Daugherty, Amanda J., 27f . 
 Dunahoo, Rachel, 52f. 
 Dunahoo, Jacob S., 20f. 
 Dunahoo, Sherman J., 13f. 
 Dunahoo, William, 70. 
 Eatherton, Elizabeth, near 68. 
 Gish, Mary E., 4f. 
 
 Grubbs, Abraham, 38f. 
 Goldsbury, C. A. 30f. 
 Hamilton, John, 25i. 
 
 Hoskins, Oliver W., 55f. 
 
 Applegate, Manerva J., 1-2. 
 Alderman, H. B. 53f. 
 Alderman, Elisha and Mariah 
 husband and wife, 85 and 66. 
 Alderman, William. 
 
 Arnold, Sarah D., infant. 
 
 Allen, 3-4. 
 
 Brubaker, Laura B., 1-3. 
 
 Booher, Sarah A., near 57f. 
 Bennethum, Maria M,, 29f. 
 Brouhard, Martin, 18. 
 
 Brouhard, Barnet, 59f. 
 
 Banks, Mary, near 62f. 
 
 Baldwin, Althea, If. 
 
 Burner, Mary S., near 32f. 
 Brodie, William, 74. 
 
 Bowen, infant. 
 
 Curry, Jas. W. P., 24f. 
 
 Corey, Marcus D., (sold’r) 20 5-12 
 Davis, Julia A., 26 1-6. 
 
 Davis, Ben Butler, f. 
 
 Daugherty, Eva G., If. 
 Daugherty, Michael, (soldier.) 
 Dunahoo, Andrew, 75 5-6. 
 Dunahoo, Edgar D., 5f. 
 Dunham, Moses R., 59. 
 Eatherton, Ebenezer, 67. 
 
 Funk, Jennette, 2f. 
 
 Gifford, Gifford, 69. 
 
 Grubbs, John C., near 21f. 
 Hallock, John W., 9f. 
 
 Hoskins, James H., f. 
 
 Hoskins, Samuel L., 20f. 
 
424 
 
 Histoey op Story Coupttm' Iowa. 
 
 Hoskins, Eliza, J., 14i. 
 Hardenbrook, C. C., Ti- 
 Hardenbrook, Ora A., near 21-. 
 Herring, Rev. D. C. D. 
 
 Ingersoll. David P., 64. 
 
 Jones, near 1. 
 
 Jones, Abina, 37. 
 
 Kitchen, Franklin, 7f. 
 
 Lewis, Mary E., near 37. 
 McCowen, Josiah, 24f. 
 
 Matteson, Mary E., 27f. 
 McPherson, Hannah, 45^. 
 Maxwell, Sinai, 20-|-. 
 
 Maxwell, William W. y - 
 Maxwell, Franklin B., infant. 
 Moore, Emma J., 23 5-6. 
 
 Mount, Rosetta E., 
 
 Maxwell, Lula B., 1. 
 
 Maxwell, Gleorge H., 1^. 
 McHone, Louisa, 29 5-6. 
 Mathews, Gleorge W., f. 
 
 Prouty, Adolphus, 61 5-12. 
 Plummer, John W., 36. 
 
 Ray, Maria, 74 f. 
 
 Ray, Ida A., near 1. 
 
 Reynolds, Margaret A., 19. 
 Spring, L. H., 56. 
 
 Stark, Stephen, 62J. 
 
 Smith, Rachel, 65. 
 
 Smith, Jesse M., 7-12. 
 
 Spurgin, Samuel R., infant. 
 Selby, Henry W., If. 
 
 Smith, Susey Ann, 21f. 
 
 Shoop, Mrs., near 70f. 
 
 Tipton, C. R. R., 6^. 
 
 Tichenor, Susannah L., Il-J-. 
 Vincent, Hiyam, near 60. 
 Vincent, Samuel S., 27. 
 
 Vincent, Lewis M., (soldier), 19i. 
 Whitaker, Samuel, 74f. 
 
 Wood, James H., 32 5-12. 
 Wood, Harlan, 5-12. 
 
 Wood, Julia L., 35^^. 
 
 Wood, Willie E., 1-6. 
 
 Wood, John 0., 78i. 
 
 Watkins, Walter, 57. 
 
 White, Augusta P., 5 ^. 
 Wolfkill, Nancy, 76. 
 
 Williams, Ephraim, 90. 
 
 Hand, Zebuion L., 2. 
 Hardenbrook, Vern, Infant. 
 Hackethorn, Sarah S., 49f.. 
 Ingersoll, Lucretia H., 63f. 
 Jones, infant. 
 
 Jones, W. S., 1 5-12. 
 
 Kitchen, Greo. W., near 13-2-. 
 Leffingwell, Mary F., 2. 
 
 Leonard, G. F., 28. 
 
 Mullen, Margaret S., 41f. 
 Matteson, William H,, 54-L 
 Maxwell, Candice, 15-2. 
 
 Maxwell, Phebe, 21. 
 
 Maxwell, Caroline, 36 and 
 Amelia, 46 wives of G. M. M. 
 Mount, Marshall M., 8.-| 
 Maxwell, Charles B., 41. 
 
 McCord, C. P., (Ist Co. Auditor). 
 McHone, Charlie, infant. 
 Mathews, Elizabeth, 39 5-12. 
 Pritchard, Jesse, -g-. 
 
 Prouty, Martha F., 14f. 
 
 Ray, Andrew, 1 5-12. 
 
 Ray, Harriet, 5i. 
 
 Robinson, William A., near 1. 
 Reynolds, J. N., 18 5-6. 
 
 Stark, Minnie E., 1. 
 
 Stark, Charles F., 5-8. 
 
 Smith, John W., 54 7-12. 
 
 Smith, Catharine A., 45. 
 Spurgin, Rachael C., 19^, 
 Shope, Charles W., IV 
 Shoop, Ann M., 12, 
 
 Sherman, Blanche E., f . 
 Tichenor, Emily L., 5-2. 
 
 Ulm, Catharine, 39. 
 
 Vincent, Nancy E., 34. 
 
 Vincent, Henry H., IV 
 Will, Carrie K., V 
 Whitaker, Harriet P., 30 5-12. 
 Wood, Louisa R., 301-12. 
 
 Wood, Corey L., 20-g-. 
 
 Wood, W. K., V 
 Wood, L. R., (Ingersoll) 30, and 
 Melinda, 32-J, wives of W. K. 
 Watkins, Annie, 17 5-12. 
 
 Will, Curt., 1-6. 
 
 Wolfkill, Daniel, near 74V 
 Wells, Mrs. Catharine. 
 
Histoet of Stoey Couetty, Iowa. 
 
 425 
 
 Webb, Sarah, 58f. Webb, Matilda A., 27f. 
 
 Webb, infant. Webb, infant. 
 
 Total names known 165; unknown names 83; Total dead 248 in 
 Woodland Cemetery. 
 
 MAXWELL CEMETEEY. 
 
 [New Cemetery north of Maxwell — on the southwest corner of 
 the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 22, town- 
 ship 82, range 22.] 
 
 Boitnott, Joseph. 
 
 Fields, James, 66. 
 
 Shakleford, Mary, 67 5-12. 
 Three unknown. 
 
 Old Cemetery in Maxwell. 
 
 Boitnott, Maud, 5-12. 
 Cooper, Dean, If. 
 John, James B,, 28-g-. 
 
 Ayers, James P., 20f. 
 Brubaker, George C. 
 Bradshaw, Margaret, 37f. 
 Cline, Maggie E., near 23. 
 Cline, Margate!, 69. 
 
 Cogshall, Mrs. Anna, 80 7-12. 
 Dunn, Mary, near f . 
 
 Flora, Sally, 61 5-6. 
 
 Flora, Sarah, 2. 
 
 Flora, Jacob, 24f . 
 
 Flora, Harvey M. 5^. , 
 
 Hall, Eliza, near 72. 
 
 Hail, Eva A., near 1^. 
 
 John, Eva May, 3^. 
 McPherson, Catharine, 344-. 
 Miller, Carrie G., 2. 
 
 Miller, Isaac E., 3. 
 
 Miller, Isaac, 62J. 
 
 Olinger, John B., 73 5-6. 
 Phillips, Henry, 651- 
 Smith, Ephraim, 34. 
 Thompson, Rosa May, f. 
 Woten, Esther, 60-2-. 
 
 Wells, Adelia A., 2 ^. 
 
 Berlin, Charles P., 1. 
 
 Brubaker, Catharipe, 73 11-12. 
 Bently, James Q., 18 5-6. 
 
 Cline, John W., 38. 
 
 Clark, Hannah, 25f. 
 
 Dunn, George, 7-12. 
 
 Ellison, John R., 26f. 
 
 Flora, Henry, near 39. 
 
 Flora, Hannah, If. 
 
 Flora, George E., 5. 
 
 Gamble, Guilford M., 
 
 Hall, Thomas, 68f . 
 
 John, Bowen W., 80f . 
 McPherson, Isaac A., 5. 
 
 Miller, Simon B., 19^. 
 
 Miller, Albert L., near 1. 
 Miller, Mary C., 30f. 
 
 Olinger, Russell C., E 
 Phillips, Amanda C.; 17i. 
 Phillips, Henry P., 5 5-6. 
 
 Stoy, Aaron, 24f. 
 
 Tucker, N. B , 46i. 
 
 Woten, Richardson, 164- . 
 
 Wells, infant. 
 
 Total names known 53; total names not known 21; total num- 
 ber dead 74. 
 
 STOEY CITY CEMETEEY. — ETOV. 5, 1886. 
 
 [ On the west half of the west half of the southwest quarter of 
 the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 12, town- 
 ship 85, range 24.] 
 
 Allen, Francis B. ' Knutson, Knui, 13f. ' 
 
 Anderson, Bertine R., 2^. Knewtson, Philip, 73. 
 
426 
 
 Histoey of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 Anderson, Karen Maria, 2. 
 Anderson, Ane S., 30. 
 
 Britson, Ingvald 0., 2 mo. 
 Britson, Martha, 31f. 
 
 Butler, Bernhard J., 6 mo. 
 Butler, Malvin J., (infant). 
 Butler, Berthe Gr., (infant). 
 Butler, Mrs. John died Nov. 5 , 
 1886. 
 
 Brondjord, Martin A., 3i. 
 Brondjord, Olina C., 8. 
 Brondjord, Bernt, 1 ^. 
 
 Beroen, Margaret, 41. 
 
 Birkedale, Anders F., 60. 
 Birkedale, H. L, 56. 
 
 Charlson, Joj^in C.,4f. 
 
 Charlson, Julia L, 2^. 
 
 Charlson, Anna, 9. 
 
 Charlson, Lewis, 33. 
 
 Christensen, Johann e K., 2i. 
 Dale, Johannes, 2-J. 
 
 Dickinson, Algernon, 2i. 
 Ellingson, Hanna J., 6 mo. 
 Ellingson, Ellen Gr., (infant). 
 Eliasson, Ewil, 1. 
 
 Folkdal, 5. 
 
 Gjaerde, Anna, near 82. 
 
 Hoon, Annice, 10. 
 
 Hanson, Hans, (infant). 
 Hunderland, Ole L., 18. 
 Hermansen, Maren, (infant). 
 Hermansen, Katharine, (infant). 
 Hanson, Henrietta M., 8. 
 Hanson, Peter, 50^. 
 
 Hanson, H. I., 52. ' 
 
 Houland, Gernda B., 9 mo. 
 Houland, Thea C., (infant). * 
 Henry son, Anna J., 44^. 
 Henryson, Guri H., 1. 
 
 Henryson, Randy M., near 3. 
 Johnson, Anna, 25f. 
 
 Johnson, Martha L., 5f. 
 
 Johnson, (infant daughter). 
 Johnson, (infant son). 
 
 Johnson, Martha J., 1^. 
 Joyensen, Jorgen 0. 
 
 Jacobson, Lewis, near 4^. 
 
 Jondal, Lewis T., near 3. 
 
 Larson, Rasmus, 71. 
 Larson, Martines, 2 5-6. 
 Larson, Bertha R., 1. 
 Larson, Eliot S., (infant). 
 Larson, Ingerseline, 1. 
 Larson, Henry R., 2 1-6. 
 Larson, Henry, 1. 
 
 Larson, A. Gurine, 13. 
 Larson, Anorine M. 
 Larson, Henry B. 
 
 Larson, Regine L., 6 mo. 
 Larson, Martin, 3^. 
 Larson, Benjamin, 3. 
 Larson, Karl H., 8. 
 Larson, Martin L., 3. 
 Larson, Rasmus A., 1^. 
 Larson, Hanna R., 9 mo. 
 Larson, Anna M., 5. 
 Larson, Julia S., 8. 
 
 Larson, Betsey, 28-1-. 
 Larson, Margaret G., 4. 
 Ludvigson, Bagnild 0., 2. 
 Mikelson, Maren H., 59. 
 Neilson, Lars, 9f. 
 
 Omvig, Thomas, 6 mo. 
 Omvig, Ingerhorg M., 6 m 
 Olson, Hannah, 13^. 
 
 Olson, Julia. 
 
 Olson, Karie E., If. 
 
 Olson, Otto H., 1. 
 
 Olson, Anna, 43. 
 
 Olson, Stine 27f. 
 
 Olson, Ole, 4. 
 
 Ovestebo, Berent,. 2f. 
 
 Oien, Hannah A., 3 mo. 
 Oien, Hannah N., 2f. 
 Oien, (infant). 
 
 Peterson, Ane C.. 66. 
 Peterson, Lars, 31-^-. 
 
 Roust, Caroline, near 47-f. 
 Roust, C., 49 5-6. 
 Sovrenson, Jens. S., 17. 
 Simonson, Anna S., 6. 
 Swan, Eugene (child). 
 Stovesund, Hans, 18f. 
 Swartwont, Roy, 6 mo. 
 Svenson, Justina, 1. 
 Simonson, Karen, 67f. 
 
 -W -:i- Si. 
 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 
 
 427 
 
 Jondals, Gurine L., li. Tesdall, Lars, 1. 
 
 Knutson, Anne, near 63. Welson, Pigen J., 4. 
 
 - Known, 106; unknown, 72; total 178. 
 
 ROLAND CEMETERY. — NOY. 5, 1886. 
 
 [Mostly in the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of the 
 northwest quarter of section 22, township 85, range 23.] 
 
 Anderson, Anna J., 2^. 
 Birkeland, Birthie 0., 6 mo. 
 Barke, Anders 0., 21. 
 
 Barke, Ellen, 55. 
 
 Barke, Ellen, 14. 
 
 Boyd, John H., 36f. 
 
 Boyd, Rachel, 6f. 
 
 Burrets, Sevry B., If. 
 
 Britson, Shur, 50. 
 
 Britson, John, 22 i. 
 
 Christian, Helen M., 5. 
 Christian, Betsey 0., 2^. 
 Christian, Helen M., If. 
 Christian, Alice A., 3 1-6. 
 
 Duea, Erbel L., 1. 
 
 Duea, Esebel J., 14f. 
 
 Duea, Joseph R., 3f. 
 
 Duea, Esebel J., 5. 
 
 Donielson, Augusteen, (infant). 
 Erickson, Lewis, 38 1-6. 
 Erickson, Hannah M., 9. 
 Erickson, Isabel S., 2f. 
 Erickson, Hannah M., If. 
 Erickson, Enga S., If. 
 Erickson, Ellen K., 63. 
 Ericksen, Christen, 48. 
 Erickson, Olina K., 30. 
 Espeland, N., 6 mo. 
 
 Egenes, Peter, 2f . 
 
 Evenson, Jorgene M., 5f. 
 Evenson, Alfred, 4. 
 
 Evenson, Malena, 40 5-6. 
 Gaard, Knud, 2. 
 
 Grove, Andrew, 6 mo. 
 
 Grove, Andrew, 2f . 
 
 Grove, Oscar, 8. 
 
 Grindem, J. S., 28. 
 
 Grindem, Seri. 
 
 Grindem, Johannes S, 81. 
 
 Hill, Olena, (infant). 
 
 Hellan, Jane W., 2f. 
 Helland, Anna, 13f. 
 
 Helland, Oscar, (infant). 
 Haaland, Samuel J., 54f. 
 Haaland, Britt. 
 
 Haaland, John. 
 
 Haaland, Martha. 
 
 Haaland, Johanna. 
 
 Jacobson, Ellen C., 57f. 
 Jacobson, Jacob. 
 
 Jacobson, Mime J., 8 mo. 
 Johnson, Gunver, 34. 
 Johnson, Peirce E., If. 
 Johnson, Knudt, 61f. 
 Johnson, 5. 
 
 Larsdater, Altes, 74. 
 
 Lorise, Inga, lOf. 
 
 Lein, Helen, 17f. 
 
 Lein, Helen J., 27 5-6. 
 Langland, Jacob, 2f. 
 Langland, Martin, 4. 
 Langland, Ole, 5f. 
 
 Langland, Martin, If. 
 
 Lars, 0. Ness, 17f. 
 
 Larson, Rasmus, 77. 
 
 Larson, Guilder. 60. 
 
 Larson, Martha P., 12. 
 Michaelson, Anna, If. 
 Michael son, Thomas (infant). 
 Michaelson, John. 
 Michaelson, Betsey. 
 Michaelson, Carrie, (infant). 
 Olson, Ole, 54. 
 
 Olson, Helene, 13 1-6. 
 
 Olson, John H., (infant). 
 Olson, Emma A., 1. 
 
 Pederson, Anna S., (infant). 
 Pederson, Peter, 2. 
 
 Ritland, Tobias, 13f. 
 
 Ritland, Aanen, 0., 40. 
 
428 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Hegland, Onelius, 1. 
 
 Hegland, Toor, (infant). 
 Hegland, Bertha 0., 3 mo. 
 Hegland, Rasmus'M., (infant). 
 Hegland, Olive T., 8 mo. 
 Hegland, (infant). 
 
 Hegland, Anna, 35^. 
 
 Hegland, Julia E., (infant). 
 Hegland, Thor. L., (infant). 
 Hegland, Ales, 2i 1-6. 
 Hegland, Bertha J., li. 
 Hegland, Anna B., (infant). 
 Hegland, Lewis, (infant). 
 Hegland, Ole J., 5^. 
 
 Holm, Daniel J., 3 mo. 
 
 Holm, J ohanne. 
 
 Holm, Johanne D, 23. 
 
 Holm, Sarah, 67. 
 
 Ritland, Osmund, 17. 
 Sheldall, Ingebor, 73. 
 Sovde, Joseph, 2^. 
 
 Sovde, Christian, 1. 
 
 Sovde, Betsey, C., 6 mo. 
 Sovde, Thorbjorn J., 33. 
 Sovde, Betsey C., 13 1-6. 
 Torkelson, Ana Serina, If. 
 Torkelson, Lars, 55f. 
 Thompson, Ellen M., 13f. 
 Thompson, Anna, 19. 
 Vaswick, Alfred 0.,4 mo. 
 Vaswick, Alfred 0., If. 
 Vaage, 3. 
 
 Woster, Helens T., 3f. 
 Wierson, Wier, 4. 
 Wierson, Ingeborg, 2 mo. 
 Wierson, Asker, (infant). 
 
 Known, 116; unknown, 95; total, 211. 
 
 BORN CEMETERY — NOV., 1886. 
 
 [On the north half of the northwest northeast quarter of sec- 
 tion 1, township 84, range 24.] 
 
 Axelsen, J. J., 30. 
 Abrahams, Bertha, 86. 
 Anderson, Sivert, f. 
 Askelson, Hans, f . 
 Brandvig, Matilde, 2 1-6. 
 Belland, Lars 0., 8 1-6. 
 Ojerde, Ole A., 67 1-6. 
 Hovland, Anna M., 21|-. 
 Hanson, Betsey A., 37. 
 Johnson, Mellie, 19f., 
 Lonning, Anna S., 1-6. 
 Larson, Johannes, infant. 
 Larson, Thorger, 2. 
 
 Olson, Engel. 
 
 01s, ()line, 9. 
 
 Rasmusson, Karen S., 19. 
 Rasmusson, Rasmus, 19. 
 Talberson, Wm. 0!, 1. 
 Talberson, Eli, 5-6. 
 Thompson, Julia E., 17. 
 Thompson, Mary B., 1-6. 
 Thompson, Bertha M., 2f. 
 
 Axelsen, Eliza T., 31. 
 Anderson, Julia, 60f. 
 Askelson, Hannah 0., If. 
 Bertine, Ounder, 2f. 
 Brandvig, John, 61. 
 Donhaug, Berent M., 6f. 
 Haugland, Serine E., 4f. 
 Hovland, Marie V., 5-6. 
 Johnson, J. Matilda, f. 
 Jacobson. 
 
 Larson, Bebent C., 3. 
 Larson, Hels J., infant. 
 Olai, Nels, f. 
 
 Olson, Louvise S., If. 
 Peters, J. M. 
 
 Rasmusson, Peter, 17. 
 Talberson, Elizabeth, 3f. 
 Talberson, Martha E., 7f. 
 Thomasen, Jacob, 75f. 
 Thompson, Martha, 5. 
 Thompson, Martha C., 7. 
 Thompson, Abraham 0., 1. 
 
 Thompson, Mons B., 1. 
 
 Names known, 45; names unknown, 15; total dead, 60. 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 429 
 
 BALDUS, OE DECOB CEMETEEY. 
 
 [In the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of the north- 
 east quarter of section 35, township 85, range 24.] 
 
 Baldus, Mrs. Florence. Baldus, Christian, 87. 
 
 Baldus, Frankie, 9. Baldus, Josie, 2f. 
 
 Baldus, Victor, 5^. Baldus, Florence, lOi. 
 
 Baldus, Anna, i. 
 Decob, infant. 
 Shultz, Charlie, 5-6. 
 Swan, Greorge, i. 
 Switzer, Frank, 6. 
 
 Baldus, Louise, 25. 
 Shultz, August, 4^. 
 Swan, John, f. 
 
 Swan, Charles, li. 
 Switzer, Frank, infant. 
 
 'Names known, 16; names unknown, 7; total dead, 23. 
 
 MICAH FEENOH CEMETEEY. 
 
 [In the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 26, 
 township 84, range 22.] 
 
 Bryant, Silva L., J. King, Greorge P., li. 
 
 King, Frank, 1]-. Snelling, Alexander, 73. 
 
 Snelling, Albert, 22. Snelling, Mary, 20. 
 
 Vincent, Hiram, Jr., about 19, 
 
 (killed by lightning). 
 
 m’michael cemetery. 
 
 [In the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 13, 
 township 84, range 24.] 
 
 Arrasmith, Sarah A., 22. 
 
 Brown, Charlie W., 6. 
 
 Brown, H. W., 41^. 
 
 Cochran, Mary, 77i. 
 
 Hannum, Willard, i. 
 
 Hughes, U. S. G., i 
 Reischaur, Adolphus, 1. 
 
 Rich, Jacob, 71 5-6. 
 
 Rich, Mary M., If. 
 
 Spencer, Lucy, 82i. 
 
 Unknown names, 5. One-half, 
 up and moved away. 
 
 Adams, Philura A., near 37f. 
 Brown, Olie D., f. 
 
 Brown, Anna L., 4f . 
 
 Carr, Fannie, (a wife) 34. 
 Hughes, Ruth A., 26. 
 
 Lewis, Anna W., 2f. 
 
 Reischaur, Therese, 1 1-6. 
 
 Rich, Jacob, Jr., 8 1-6. 
 
 Rich, Elizabeth, (wife of S. R.) 
 37. 
 
 from appearance, has been taken 
 
 OAK HILL CEMETEEY. 
 
 [On the west half of the northeast quarter of section 13, town- 
 ship 84, range 22.J 
 
 Day, James, 25. Elliott, Mrs. A. M., 38. 
 
 Elliott, Ida, infant. Elliott, Ira, infant. 
 
 Elliott, J., 15. Eddy, L. M., 2. 
 
Grranger, Mrs. P. J., 48. 
 Mark, Mrs. D., 28. 
 Newhouse, E., infant. 
 Pollock, M. B., 17. 
 Snelling, Lessie May. 2. 
 Van Dusan, Mrs. P., 76. 
 
 Kuhn, Willie, infant. 
 Mark, 0. M., 25. 
 Nelson, S., infant. 
 Roark, V. E., infant. 
 Snelling, R. D., infant. 
 Hix, M., infant. 
 
 BLOOMIKGTOJSr OEMETEEY. 
 
 [On the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 36, 
 township 84, range 24.] 
 
 Bird, Charles, 4. 
 
 Buck, Susan, (a wife) 57-^-. 
 
 Craig, Elizabeth, (wife of P. R. 
 
 C.)69 5-10. 
 
 Craig, Ida May, 1^. 
 
 Evans, Benton, 5-6. 
 
 Evans, Elizabeth, 1-J-. 
 
 Frister, Parlina, 20^. 
 
 Jeffers, Francis M., 27 5-6. 
 
 Lyon, Addie R.„l 4-6. 
 McCracken, Janies, 67^. 
 
 Miller, John, near 84^. 
 
 Miller, Harry C., i. 
 
 Pocock, Lucy E., i. 
 
 Riddle, Sarah E., 224. 
 
 Swan, Mary E., If. 
 
 Buck, Susan J., 21. 
 
 Buck, Henrietta, 6. 
 
 Craig, Elisha B , (soldier) 27 1-6. 
 Craig, Benj. E., (soldier) 24f. 
 Evans, Isaac, 34. 
 
 Evans, Cassius M., 14. 
 
 French, Otho. 27f. 
 
 Grossard, M., 5-6. 
 
 Kintzley, Gleorge, 494. 
 
 Lyon, Ada, 1 5-6. 
 
 McKim, Noble W., f. 
 
 Miller, Lena B., 4* 
 
 Osborn, Phebe, 444. 
 
 Rees, Zenas J. 
 
 Riddle, Matthew S., 18f. 
 Thompson, Casandra E., 20 1-6. 
 Wakefield, Carrie A., If. 
 
 Taylor, Rahama, 61f. 
 
 Wakefield, Emma M., infant. 
 
 Names known, 34; unknown names, 26, (two of them soldiers.) 
 
 ARRASMITH FAMILY CEMETERY. 
 
 [On the southeast southeast quarter of section 13, township 84, 
 range 24. ] 
 
 Arrasmith, Massey, 52; Arra- Hussong, Jesse, (middle age.) 
 smith, Lucy, 61; husband and wife. 
 
 COLLIMS CEMETERY. 
 
 [In the northeast corner southeast 4 of section 21, township 82, 
 range 21. 
 
 Harper, Mrs., died Feb. 13, 1887. Mead, John, died Nov. 29, 1886. 
 
 wilkimsom’s cemetery. 
 
 [In the northwest corner northeast 4 of section 3, township 85, 
 range 23.] 
 
 Wilkinson, Lyman, didd 1859. Wilkinson, John, died 1863. 
 Wilkinson (or Bracken) Mrs. Orva. 
 
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Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 431 
 
 
 I 
 
 POOE FAEM CEMETBEY. 
 
 Howard, J. H., died Nov. 30, ’70, 
 
 22 . 
 
 Tierson, Tobias, 44. 
 
 Thompson, Knudt. 
 
 Underwood, Ada. 
 
 Wilson, Jacob, 43. 
 
 Hollis. 
 
 Mooney, Mike, 34. 
 
 Nash, M. B., 80. 
 
 Thompson, Mrs. Jane, 84. 
 
 Van Dusen, Charles, 10 months. 
 
 CONDENSED DEATH LIST OF TWBNTY-THEEE CEMETEEIES. 
 
 First age period, from birth to 10 years 768 deaths. 
 
 Second age period, 10 to 20 years 132 “ 
 
 Third age period, 20 to 30 years. 179 “ 
 
 Fourth age period, 30 to 40 years 121 “ 
 
 Fifth age period, 40 to 50 years 77 ‘‘ 
 
 Sixth age period, 50 to 60 years 89 “ 
 
 Seventh age period, 60 to 70 years 133 “ 
 
 Eighth age period, 70 to 80 years 89 “ 
 
 Ninth age period, 80 to 90 years 29 “ 
 
 Tenth age period, 90 to 100 years 5 “ 
 
 Eleventh age period, 100 and over 000 “ 
 
 Total 1622 “ 
 
 CONDENSED CLASSIFICATION OF DEATH PEEIODS. 
 
 The County has lost 768 under 10 years of age; it has lost in the 
 second period (10 to 20 years old) 132; in the third period, 179; and 
 so on as above stated to the eleventh period. None who have died 
 in the County lived to see the eleventh or 100 year period. The 
 number of deaths since the organization of the County, in 1853, 
 has been, so far as reports from twenty-three cemeteries could be 
 had, about 2,700 persons, viz: 1,622 names and ages obtained; 174 
 names, but did not get their ages; about 904 graves counted with- 
 out names or age of the dead. 
 
 The periods above have names and ages and number 1,622 per- 
 sons, many of whom were among our most valued citizens and 
 dearest friends. The above table (and which was made up with 
 great care) shows the extraordinary circumstance of nearly one- 
 half of the total death loss as having been of the children under 
 ten years old. This is a very surprising circumstance. Yet it 
 seems true. Of the tenth period Mrs. Susanna McLain was the 
 oldest on the list. She was 94J years old at the time of her death. 
 
 
 
 
 
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432 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 I. 0. C. T. AT NEVADA. 
 
 The New Hope Lodge of Good Templars at Nevada in their 
 District convention held June 28 and 29, 1887, was a success. Dr. 
 Hutchins, of Des Moines, and F. B. Raber, of Baltimore, Md., 
 were the principal speakers. Dr. Hutchins spoke to a full house 
 in the Opera House on the evening of the twenty-eight. He spoke 
 eloquently and forcibly on prohibition, and in favor of the enforce- 
 ment of the law. Hutchins is hard to beat as a speaker. 
 
 Mr. Raber spoke to an interested assemblage at the Park on the 
 evening of the twenty-ninth on Prohibition and the Constitution- 
 ality of the Prohibitory Laws. 
 
 As an orator Hutchins can beat him, but as a forcible condenser 
 reaching every point of the subject in well chosen words I do not 
 think 1 ever heard him beaten. Both speakers are a power on pro- 
 hibition. ■ I am not a member of the order, but if such principles 
 as their speakers vindicated are theirs^ I trust in God they may do 
 a noble work. Both speakers were proud of Iowa. When Dr. 
 Hutchins was in England he desired a noted Englishman to show 
 him through his large business establishment; the Englishman 
 excused himself by saying he was so hurried in business he could 
 not. He asked Hutchins where he was from? The Doctor said, 
 “ I am from Iowa, one of the United States.” The Englishman at 
 once approached him with cheer and gladness and said; “ Yes,' sir; 
 I am at your service; for Iowa is the grandest country in the world. 
 It has power in England on the temperance question over all 
 other countries.” 
 
 The New Hope Lodge of Good Templars of Nevada now (July 
 1, 1887) number seventy members. 
 
 THE SABBATH SCHOOL FOR MORAL TRAINING. 
 
 The Sabbath School has more to do in training the young mind 
 than any other organization. It is said a preventive is better than 
 a remedy, especially when the remedy is of doubtful character. 
 The young when properly trained and properly taught — connected 
 with proper government — controlled for good while the mind is 
 susceptible of moral training, and while a wholesome and saving 
 influence can be impressed on the mind with noble and saving 
 principles. But if permitted to grow up to mature years in reck- 
 less and dangerous amusements from youth, the mind becoming 
 unsettled from a seared conscience and bad associations, it becomes 
 difficult then for any instructor or ministerial influence to correct 
 his doubtings after his doubtings become flxed. The training of 
 the mind when it is susceptible of wholesome influences is surely 
 much safer for the future than to depend on producing a safe and 
 permanent changq of mind when the mind is matured in visionary 
 conclusions. 
 
History oe Story County, Iowa. 
 
 433 
 
 There is much interest manifested in Sabbath Schools at this 
 time in Story County. There are about fifty-seven organizations 
 or schools in the County, and perhaps about 3,200 attendants or 
 scholars. From reports of their workings we may be very much 
 encouraged for the future morals of our people. 
 
 Let us encourage the Sabbath School! 
 
 MOVING A TOWN. 
 
 Reports come from Sheldahl that there is strong talk of moving 
 that town, which has enjoyed the unique notoriety of being situ- 
 ated in the three corners of Polk, Boone and Story Counties, and 
 relocating it a mile north of the present site at the crossing of the 
 Northwestern and Milwaukee roads. Mr. Jenks, who owns the 
 territory around the new locality, offers liberal inducements in lots 
 to all householders of Sheldahl who will remove their buildings, 
 with donations to churches, school houses, etc., and with the advan- 
 tages a location with two great trunk lines would give it is said to 
 be very likely that the present town will be taken up bodily and 
 moved. The Northwestern opposes the transfer, but the Milwaukee 
 promises to take good care of the new town’s interests. — Boone 
 Republican . — (May 26, 1887.) 
 
 The contracts for moving the majority of the buildings at Shel- 
 dahl to Slater was let last week, and the work has already com- 
 menced. The job will not be as long a one as might be supposed, 
 as it has been let to a number of parties. Soon the crossing will 
 be a thriving mart, and one that ought to make a fine trading 
 point, backed as it will be by a railroad crossing of rival lines. It 
 will soon rank as the third town in size in the County. — Watch- 
 man. — (June. 10, 1887.) 
 
 The Story City News came to hand on Saturday flying the Re- 
 publican flag, with C. W. Allen and 0. B. Peterson at the fore. 
 The News is successor to the Story City Review. — (Ames, May 26, 
 1887.) 
 
 TWO MEN DROWNED IN INDIAN CREEK AT MAXWELL. 
 
 On last Friday evening several of the men working in the gravel 
 pit, accompanied by a number of the town boys, went into the 
 . creek bathing just below the railroad bridge. After being in the 
 water a reasonable length of time all came out but one, a Mr. Law- 
 son, and were dressing, when one of the men said, “I believe Law- 
 son is drowning,” whereupon Mr. C. E. Winslow rushed into the 
 water to save him, and virtually gave his own life in his attempt 
 to save that of his friend. They grappled and struggled for a few 
 moments, but soon sank to their watery graves. Every effort was 
 made by those on the shore to save them, but in vain. The news 
 
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434 Histoet op Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 soon spread to town, and a large number of citizens assembled on 
 the banks, and, procuring a hay rake, the creek was dragged and the 
 bodies found and taken out. Some effort was made to bring them 
 to life, but the two physicians present pronounced it impossible. 
 The bodies were brought to the Brodie boarding house and properly 
 dressed. It was indeed a sad sight to see the two bodies lying side 
 by side in the arms of death, which scarce an hour before were in 
 the prime of young manhood. Their parents, who live near Mad- 
 rid, were telegraphed to, but not receiving an answer, a messenger 
 was sent on the night passenger train to break the sad news to the 
 aged parents. In the meantime suitable coffins were procured and 
 the bodies placed in them. The ladies presented two beautifully 
 arrayed flower pillows. The parents of the young men, the 
 Messrs. Lawson and Winslow, came in the afternoon train, and 
 returned home in the evening with the bodies of their sons. Both 
 of the young men bear undisputed reputations for industry and 
 morality, and were both converted in the meetings conducted by 
 Mrs. M. Q. Libby at Madrid last winter. St. Ceis. 
 
 — Republican '. — (May 25, 1887.) 
 
 MORE ABOUT THE SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE. 
 
 During the session of the Iowa Legislature, 1857-58, Hon. J„ L. 
 Dana, of Nevada, who then was a member of the House, asked 
 for and obtained an indemnity of $3,500 for James B, Thomas, 
 then a resident of Nevada, and who, with his family, after losing 
 a son, and after losing an arm, escaped from the horrible massacre 
 of Spirit Lake of March, 1857. 
 
 Mr. Thomas and his family were otherwise cruelly treated before 
 escaping. They had to travel some distance through snow nearly 
 waist deep, as claimed by Mr. T., before reaching a place of any 
 safety. His condition deserved special aid; and by Mr. Dana’s 
 efforts, and other friends, he secured for Mr. Thomas the above 
 relief. Mr. Dana was a worker in the Legislature. _ The ’writer 
 hereof was acquainted with Mr. Thomas, and believed him a 
 worthy man. 
 
 DR. STITZELL, OP NEVADA. 
 
 Dr. Gleorge Stitzell is a pensioner, and draws $12.75 per month. 
 
 COL. L. Q. HOGGATT, OF AMES. 
 
 Col. Hoggatt has secured a pension under the Mexican Pension 
 bill, for $8 per month. He with others ought to have been pen- 
 sioned years ago. Justice is often slow to reach the deserving. 
 He may yet fare better. 
 
History of Story CouiiTY, Iowa. 
 
 435 
 
 MRS. MARY BEN NAM AN— IS SHE A SISTER OF 
 COMMODORE 0. H. PERRY? 
 
 Mary Perry was her maiden name, and she was the daughter of 
 William Perry. She was born in Chester County, Delaware, 
 March 15, 1773. At the age of thirty-five she married Wm. Coulter. 
 He died when she was fifty-two. She afterwards married Mr. Ben- 
 • naman. Her son Peter Coulter says: “The celebration of the 
 birth-day of Mrs. Mary Bennaman, of Russiaville, Indiana, was 
 an unique affair. It was also the birth-day of her son Peter. 
 Three hundred citizens, headed by a brass band of music marched 
 to the house where she was then staying.” Mrs. Bennaman has been a 
 resident of Ames or the vicinity for a number of years. At this 
 time she is living with her daughter, Mrs. Black, of Ames. Mrs. 
 Black is a widowed lady herself. It has been said Mrs. Benna- 
 man was a sister of Commodore 0. H. Perry, who, after three 
 hours desperate fighting on Lake Erie, September 10, 1813, de- 
 feated the British and then wrote briefly and definitely to Greneral 
 Harrison the result. He said: “Dear Greneral, we have met the 
 enemy and they are ours. Truly 0. H. Perry.” Mrs. Black does 
 the talking when information is sought, and says her mother 
 (Mrs. Bennaman) is no relation to Commodore Perry so far as she 
 knows. There was a letter, years ago, written by a sister of the 
 Commodore’s to Mrs. Bennaman, making inquiry as to rela- 
 tionship but no relationship was ascertained. Mrs. Bennaman has 
 but few, if any, her seniors in Iowa. Just think of it! A citizen 
 of Story County was born three years before the “Declaration of 
 American Independence” was made, and is still living ! She is 114 
 years old and past. ' 
 
 DECORATION DAY, MAY 30, 1887, AT VARIOUS PLACES 
 
 IN STORY COUNTY. 
 
 The following reports of our dead soldiers were made May 30, 
 but the reports from some parts of the county were not received in 
 time for notice: 
 
 THE HONORED DEAD. 
 
 The following are the veterans buried in the Nevada Cemetery 
 and their regiments so far as given in the Glrand Army roster: — 
 Andrew Patton, M. D., 60th Iowa Infantry; David L. Stephens, Co. 
 D. 1st Colorado Cavalry; Greorge Adams, Co.-G, 7th Iowa Cavalry; 
 Thomas G. Richardson, unknown; Q. A. Boynton, 22d Iowa In- 
 fantry; William Talbott, War of 1812; P. M. Chauncey, 32d 
 Ohio Infantry; S. M. Chenoworth, 47th Iowa Infantry; L. Irwin, 
 Co. F, 15th Indiana Infantry; Alba Hall, War 1812; John W. 
 White, 143d Pennsylvania; Frank Bobo, 46th Iowa Infantry; J, 
 R. Fetterhoff, 16tli Pennsylvania Cavalry; George Schoonover, 
 
436 * 
 
 Histoky of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 23d Iowa Infantry; Frank Daniels, 32d Iowa Infantry; B.. Lysman, 
 Ohio, unknown; Joseph Middaugh, unknown; John Confare, 
 124th Indiana Infantry; Pat Hickey, unknown. 
 
 AMES. 
 
 Officer-of-the-Day Wilson, who had charge of the Decorating 
 Detail in the Ames Cemetery, made the following report of graves 
 decorated in that cemetery: 
 
 1. Aaron Smith,. private company .B, 123d Ohio Infantry, died 
 
 July 23, 1885. _ . 
 
 2. A. J. Cooly, private company H, 46th Illinois Infanty, 
 died March 1, 1886. 
 
 3. W. W. Lindsa}'^, private company A, 52d Illinois Infantry, 
 
 died August 1st 1879. / 
 
 4. John Kannarr, private, Illinois, died January 20, 1871. 
 
 5. Louis Z. DeLorme, New York, died September 30, 1881. 
 
 6. D. S. Bosworth, first Lieutenant company L, 12th United 
 States Heavy Artillery, died May 13, 1885. 
 
 7. B. F. Gregory, private company D, 24th Iowa Infantry, 
 died July 27, 1886. 
 
 8. Joshua Harrison, private company C, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 died September 21, 1886. 
 
 9. S. M. Johnson, private, company K, 42d Indiana Infantry, 
 died March 9, 1870. 
 
 10. Thomas N. Rainbolt, private, 59th Indiana Infantry, died 
 August 3, 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi. 
 
 11. J. M. Rainbolt,. private, 24th Indiana Infantry, died Sep- 
 tember 4, 1864, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
 
 12. A. H. Dabler, private, company G, 156th Illinois Infantry, 
 died June 16, 1883. 
 
 13. Clark Elliott, 'private, company B, 15th Iowa Infantry, died 
 April 8, 1887. 
 
 14. S. J. Starr, hospital stewart 24th Iowa Infantry, died Jan- 
 uary 18, 1882. 
 
 ONTARIO. 
 
 Comrade Richard Jones made the following report from the On- 
 tario Decorating Committee: 
 
 1. T. R. Thurman, a hero of the war of 1812, enlisted from 
 
 the State of Ohio and served through the war in the army of the • 
 
 West under General Harrison, and died at his home in Ontario, 
 Iowa, January 26, 1867. 
 
 2. John Hussong, also a hero of the war of 1812, enlisted 
 from the State of Tennessee, served through the war in the army 
 of the South under General Jackson and died at his home near On- 
 tario February 12, 1861. 
 
 3. Simeon Beadle, also a hero of the war of 1812, enlisted from 
 the State of Ohio and served through the war in the army of the 
 West under General Harrison, followed the Indians under Proctor 
 
 
 
 
 
History op Story Coukty, Iowa. 437 
 
 and Tecumseh into Canada, and died at his home near Ontario, 
 November 12, 1864. 
 
 4. Oliver Scott, a private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, en- 
 listed at Ontario, August 4, 1862, and served with his regiment in 
 the Vicksburg campaign ; was taken sick and sent home to his pa- 
 rents and died the same evening, September 9, 1863. 
 
 5. Charles M. Banning, private, company A, 23d Iowa In- 
 fantry, enlisted July 28, 1862; served with his regiment in Mis- 
 souri; was discharged at Pilot Knob, Missouri, and died at his home 
 near Ontario, January 13, 1865. 
 
 6. Powhatten Zenor, private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted August 4, 1862, served with his regiment in nearly all 
 their campaigns,^ and was discharged at Kenerville, Louisiana, 
 January 29, 1865; died at his home near Ontario, in September, 
 1865. 
 
 7. VVilliam J. Deal, private, company B, 2d Iowa Cavalry, 
 served with his regiment in Tennessee; was discharged and died at 
 his .home near Ontario, October 25, 1861. 
 
 8. Henderson Steward, a member .of the 85th Indiana In- 
 fantry, died in Ontario, October, 1865. 
 
 9. Peter N. Rice, member of an Indiana regiment, suffo- 
 cated in a coal pit at Zenorville by an explosion of fire damp 
 ^August 30, 1867, and buried at Ontario. 
 
 10. Abel White, a member of an Indiana regiment, served 
 through the war and died at Ontario in May, 1884. 
 
 For the following, who were buried in the South, a cenotaph 
 has been reared : 
 
 1. George W. Smiley, corporal, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted July 29th^ 1862, served with his 'regiment in the Vicks- 
 burg campaign; was wounded in both hands in the battle of Port 
 Gibson, Mississippi, May 1, 1863, and died at Milliken'’s Bend, 
 Louisiana, July 15, 1863. 
 
 2. James Bevington, private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted July 29th, 1862, served with his regiment in Mississippi, 
 and died on hospital boat Hood, August 25, 1863; burial place un- 
 known. 
 
 3. Pierson Brown, private, companj^ A, 23d Iowa Infantry, en- 
 listed July 29th, 1863; was wounded below the knee in right limb 
 at the battle of Black River, and died at Vicksburg, October 16, 
 1863. 
 
 4. Charles P. Miller, corporal, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted August 4th, 1862; was killed in a charge at the battle of 
 Black River, Mississippi, May 19, 1863. 
 
 5. Jacob A. Grove, private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted August 4th, 1862; wounded at the battle of Black River, 
 Mississippi, May 17th, 1863; the ball passing through the right 
 knee. After his limb had been amputated, and he was being re- 
 moved to Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, while crossing Haine’s Bluff 
 
438 Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa, 
 
 in an ambulance, the vehicle overturned, and was precipitated 
 down an embankment about thirty feet; died on hospital boat 
 Hood June 9, 1863. 
 
 6. Harvey J. Heistand, private, company A, 23d Iowa In- 
 fantry, enlisted August 12th, 1862; was wounded in the shoulder 
 at the battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi, May 1st, 1863, and died 
 at Keokuk, Iowa, February 25, 1864. 
 
 7. Abraham Heistand, private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted July 28th, 1862; served with his regiment in nearly all of 
 its campaigns and died at New Orleans, Louisiana, December 8, 
 1863, in a hospital after he had received his discharge from the 
 Army. 
 
 8. Albert G. Briley, private, company I, 8th Iowa Cavalry, 
 was killed July 30, 1864, at Newman, Georgia, in the rear of At- 
 lanta, in a cavalry charge. 
 
 9. William Keltner, private, company G, 7th Iowa Cavalry, 
 died November 12, 1863, at Fort Cottonwood, Nebraska, from spot- 
 ted fever. 
 
 10. John R. Foster, private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted August 4th, 1862, served with his regiment, and died and 
 was buried at Young’s Point, Louisiana, in front of Vicksburg, 
 June 1863. 
 
 11. David V. Foster, private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted August 4th, 1862; served with his regiment and died at 
 A'oung’s Point, Louisiana, June 26, 1863. 
 
 12. Adolphus Kintzly, private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted August 11th, 1862; served with his regiment in Missouri 
 and died at Camp Patterson, Missouri, from the effects of measles. 
 
 13. James P. Jenkins, private, company A, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 enlisted August 11th, 1862; served with his regiment in Missouri 
 and died from lung fever at Arcadia, Missouri, November 3, 1862. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 Chaplain Miller, from the Bloomington detail, reported the fol- 
 lowing graves decorated: 
 
 1. Elisha B. Craig, company E, 3d Iowa Infantry, died Decem- 
 ber 15, 1861. 
 
 2. Benjamin F. Craig, company D, 10th Iowa Infantry, died 
 December 10, 1861. 
 
 3. Anthony Banning, company and regiment unknown. 
 
 4. W. D. Colter, Indiana regiment, company and date of death 
 unknown. 
 
 WALNUT GEOVE. 
 
 Comrade Hemstreet, from Walnut Grove decorating detail, made 
 the following report of graves decorated at that place: 
 
 1. Samuel Kelley, private, company K, 10th Iowa Infantry, 
 died June 14, 1862. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. . 
 
 439 
 
 2. Greorge P. Youkem, private, company C, 23d Iowa Infantry, 
 died September 27, 1871. 
 
 3. John Hawks, private, company A, 10th Iowa Infantry, died 
 August, 1872. 
 
 4. Elbert Brown, private, Wisconsin Infantry, died August 14, 
 1867. 
 
 5. Joseph N. Graston, war of 1812, private. Captain Jenks com- 
 pany, Light Artillery, died March 26, 1882. 
 
 CORY BURYING GROUND. 
 
 Comrade Christman reported an unknown soldier’s grave in the 
 Cory Burying Ground. 
 
 WOODLAND CEMETERY — (lOWA CENTER.) 
 
 List given by Jesse R. Wood, a comrade. 
 
 Comodore Perry McCord. 
 
 C. B. Maxwell. 
 
 Adolphus Prouty. 
 
 John C. Brubaker. 
 
 George Hilton. 
 
 Marcus D. Corey. 
 
 Michael Dougherty. 
 
 J. Maxwell. 
 
 AT MAXWELL. 
 
 James Bates. 
 
 AT IOWA CENTER — War OF 1812. 
 
 Nathaniel Applegate. 
 
 John G. Wood. 
 
 BURIED IN THE SOUTH. 
 
 N. A. Mount. 
 
 L. M. Vincent. 
 
 AT STORY CITY. 
 
 Jacob Enerson, of an Illinois regiment, 82d Infantry. 
 
 AT ROLAND. ^ 
 
 Christ Ness, company A, 23d Iowa Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTY. 
 
 Daniel McCoy, Nathaniel Jennings, Geo. W. Grove, W. B. Tay- 
 lor, Asa Walker, W. R. White, Thos. Dent and Thos. M. Davis. 
 (See Col. Scott’s very interesting history of our military affairs 
 during and since the Rebellion, pages 58 to 63 inclusive.) 
 
 AT GILBERT. 
 
 James Hunter, war of 1812; Abner Hill, war of 1812; Henman 
 Fogleson, Company F, 57th 111.; G. M. Conrad, Company C, 39th 
 
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 440 . History of Story Coukty, Iowa. 
 
 Iowa. Mr. Conrad is represented by cenotaph, and is buried in 
 Texas. 
 
 AT CEFTTER GROVE (eLWELL). 
 
 Jas. W. Davis — was a prisoner at Andersonville. 
 
 AT COLO. 
 
 A. C. Ballard, Company H, 83rd 111. Infantry; Enoch Warring- 
 ton, Company F, 146th 111. Infantry. 
 
 1 
 
 AT PLEASANT GKOYE. 
 
 Geo. W. Grove, Jacob Grove; represented by cenotaph. 
 
 MULLElSr CEMETERY. 
 
 Robt. H. Robison, Peter Joor, Henry H. Halley. 
 
 DIFFERENT PARTS OF COUNTY. 
 
 P. A. Queal, A. M. Lee, H. Barber, Thos. J. Harrison, Joor Heg- 
 land, L. J. Stratton, 0. Week, C. Snyder, A. B. Illingsworth, Elias 
 Ersland, D. A. Breezley, Wm. Sunday, John Ballard, Wm. Mercer, 
 John Yocum, John Lee, I. N. Shenkee, C. E. Culver, 0. Egland, 
 E. Modlin, F. M. Anderson, W. C. Ballard, D. J. Bloys, H. Elias- 
 son, Peter Egland, H. B. Henrysoh, E. Hefley, J. R. Hand, W. M. 
 Lemon, Wm. Pierce, C. M. Sellers, J. Sorter, JohnS. Wood, N. A. 
 Tichenor, Wm. Crum, Wm. Tanner, H. Howard, R. D. Casebolt, 
 Jas. T. Mount, S. D. Allen, S. W. Jenks, J. J. Aldrege, Thos. Snell- 
 ing, J. T. Shumaker, H. Spangler, J. L. Martin, Z. F. Martin, Geo. 
 Lowell, E. Elliott, H. Hunt, (died in prison at Tyler, Texas,) D. C. 
 Vail, (died at same place,) F. Lowell, D. Womack, Thos. Fatland, 
 S. P. Shaw, W. C. Evans, Jason D. Ferguson, (was killed at Shi- 
 loh). 
 
 AT CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 B. Nellis, James Lewellen; both were soldiers of 1812. Amos P. 
 Ball, James Meekim, Warren Hauks, Augustus Illingworth were 
 soldiers of the Rebellion. There are about 166 soldiers lie in the 
 silent tombs of Story County. Generally they were of our noblest 
 men. There are others, doubtless, but have not been reported in 
 time for publication. True, of the number given above, some of 
 them rest in other States. 
 
 ARRASMITH CEMETERY, IN SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SOUTHEAST QUAR- 
 TER OF SOUTHEAST QUARTER, SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 84, 
 
 RANGE -24. 
 
 Arrasmith, Massey, 52f years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 
 Arrasmith, Lucy, 58 11-12 years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 
Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 441 
 
 Arrasmith, Wm. H., i year, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 Eckard, John H., years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 Eckard, Mary J., 3 years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 
 Eckard, C. W., 5J years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 
 Hussong, Jesse, 34 11-12 years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 Hussong, J. W., 6 2-3 years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 Hussong, Mary E., 5-6 year, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 Hussong, Sarah, 3i years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 
 Harris, Celia M., 1 5-6 years, Arrasmith Cemetery. 
 
 Two children, names unknown. 
 
 Bales, James, 56 years, in Maxwell Cemetery. 
 
 Dunlap, Mrs. H., 76 years. Maxwell Cemetery. 
 
 Macy, Wm., 3 years. Maxwell Cemetery. 
 
 Bechtel, Minnie, 9 years, Cambridge Cemetery. 
 McIntosh, J. M., 28 years, Cambridge Cemetery. 
 
 Day, E. Gr., 59 years, Nevada Cemetery. 
 
 McGuire, John, 106 years, Nevada Catholic Cemetery. 
 McNichols, James, 88 years, Nevada Catholic Cemetery. 
 Kellogg, Dr. N. A., 29 7-12 years, Nevada Cemetery. 
 Ballard, Simon, died 1850, and buried at Ballard Grove. 
 Jones, M. C., (Mayor) 45 years, Ames Cemetery. 
 Wheeler, Geo., 67 years, Ames Cemetery. 
 
 Young, J. G., 90 2-3 years, Ames Cemetery. 
 
 Danskin, J. D., 28 years, Colo Cemetery. 
 
 Kennedy, Mrs. Louisa, 64 years, Collins Township. 
 
 THE “HUTCHINS HOUSE,” NEVADA. 
 
 This hotel is a la 'ge and commodious building, four stories high 
 including basement story. It is probably the largest hotel in Story 
 County, and is now undergoing a rich finish in painting. It now 
 is having a beautiful appearance, and is just across the street east 
 from our beautiful Court House. 
 
 A NEW BUSINESS HOUSE REBUILDING IN AMES. 
 
 Capt. K. W. Brown’s new brick building will, when completed, 
 he a good building, if finished according to plan. It will be twenty 
 and a half feet wide by sixty feet long, three stories high includ- 
 ing the basement. It will be placed where the one stood that was 
 destroyed by fire ; value, when finished, including lot, about $2,000. 
 
 NEW CHURCHES AT AMES. 
 
 The Methodists are building a new church to cost near or quite 
 $5,000. The United Brethren are also building a church. The 
 
442 
 
 Histoey oe Stoky County, Iowa. 
 
 Christian denomination will probably move the church building 
 they bought of the Methodists to another location in Ames. Grood 
 for Ames — five churches! 
 
 NEW ODD FELLOWS HALL. 
 
 The I. 0. 0. Fellows will build a magnificent brick block on 
 their lot, No. 6, block 2, in Nevada; for the work has already com- 
 menced. The building will be 27x80 feet basement. Will be two 
 stories high besides an eight feet basement story. The upper story 
 will be arranged for an Odd Fellows Hall, and will be fifteen feet 
 story. The room on the first floor — first story above the basement 
 — will be nicely finished for a Business Room, and will be a four- 
 teen feet'story. The entire cost of building may cost over $5,000. 
 
 THE CENEROUS AND UNGENEROUS, OR THE KIND 
 
 AND THE UNKIND. 
 
 If you should urge payment of an honest claim and be told by 
 ;^the debtor that “If you can get it before I do, just let me know.” 
 
 If you loan a person a valuable tool, and get it returned to you 
 badly treated, and should tell him so, it would he a wonderful 
 offense to him. 
 
 Should he pass through your premises or your cornfield with a 
 team and leave the gates open so stock could get in and destroy the 
 crops, you must not say anything about it or you will be called 
 selfish and a d — 1. 
 
 Should he hitch his horse or horses to your front gate at your 
 front door, don’t say anything — no, don’t! 
 
 The above drives refer to but few of the cases, or similar ones, 
 that are continually occurring from such as are not over stocked 
 with manhood or honesty. We have them. 
 
OFFICE OF IOWA PRINTIFTO COMPANY. 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 445 
 
 EXPOSITION BUILDINO OF DES MOINES, IOWA. 
 
 This is one of the large buildings of Iowa, situated on the cor- 
 ner of Eighth and Walnut streets, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 This building is now occupied by the Iowa Printing Company, 
 successors to Mills & Co. This Iowa Printing Co. employs about 
 seventy men and women in printing, binding, drafting, type-set- 
 ting, contracting, reviewing, etc., etc. They use a forty-horse- 
 power steam engine. They work five presses, and yet, sometimes, have 
 presswork done elsewhere. It would seem this House is doing more 
 
 IOWA PRINTING COMPANY’S COMPOSING ROOM. 
 
 business now than the whole town did when I was there in 1854. 
 At any rate the business done now is a marvel. There are four or more 
 Business Departments of active energy going on at the same time, 
 with seventy men and women crowding the work with nerve and 
 experience, viz.. The Press Room, Composing Room, Stereotyping 
 Room, The Bindery Room and the different offices where the busi- 
 ness is guarded and attended to. Yes, I repeat it, for it is wonder- 
 ful! Mr, McCaughan, President, and Mr. Rowen, Superintendent, 
 seem to be genial and pleasant gentlemen. . I particularize because 
 I became somewhat acquainted with them in our present business 
 matters. I would say to those who have any work to be done in 
 their line of business, and want it to be loell done^ try them before 
 going further. I corresponded with some half dozen Publishing 
 Houses — Printing Houses — before I learned I could do as well near 
 home. W. Gr. A. 
 
446 Histoet of Stoey Cotjkty, Iowa. 
 
 PARTIAL HISTORY OP THE NEVADA SCHOOL. 
 
 PEEPAEED BY MAY BOYNTOET. 
 
 Read in the High-school room March 23, 1883, and given for 
 publication at the request of the editor of the Bej^resentative. 
 
 Notice having been given according to law, an election was held 
 on the sixteenth of March, 1867, for the purpose of voting for or 
 against an Independent school district. At this election thirty- 
 three votes were cast for an independent organization, and none 
 against it. 
 
 The first board of education consisted of E. G. Dav, president; 
 Geo. A._ Kellogg, vice president; E. Lewis, secretary; 1. Reid, treas- 
 urer; directors, T. E. Alderman, J. L. Dana, James Hawthorn. 
 
 The first corps of teachers under the new organization consisted 
 of L. W. Wells, principal; Miss Minnie Braden, grammar depart- 
 ment; Miss Viola Pierce, intermediate; Mrs. M. E. Boynton, 
 primary. 
 
 The second corps of teachers was C. F. Secord, principal, and 
 John R. Hays, grammar department; the other teachers of the pre- 
 vious year retaining their former positions. 
 
 _ During this year 0. D. Welch was allowed $4 per week for cut- 
 ting the wood, building fires, and sweeping school rooms. Thir- 
 teen dollars was also expended for making and painting four black- 
 boards, and |1 for making a recitation seat. 
 
 In 1868 the second board consisted of G. A. Kellogg, president; 
 T. Kindlespire, vice president; E. B. Potter, secretary; J. C. Mitch- 
 ell, treasurer; directors, T. E. Alderman, James Hawthorn, Geo. 
 W. Hambleton. 
 
 During this year the custom was inaugurated of closing the 
 schools at the end of the term in order, commencing with the 
 lowest department; examining and closing the primary on Tues- 
 day, the intermediate on Wednesday, the grammar on Thursday, 
 and the High school on Friday. 
 
 Committees were appointed to be present and record the stand- 
 ing of pupils in each class. Examinations were wholly oral and 
 visitors were numerous. 
 
 The fall term of 1868 opened with J. R. Hays, principal; Miss 
 Pierce, intermediate; C. A. Barrows, grammar; Mrs. E. B. Potter, 
 primary. 
 
 ^ During this year the board decided that any teacher might be 
 discharged on six days notice and any teacher might be allowed to 
 resign by giving a like notice; but as no such incident occurred 
 during the year the resolution was valuable only as a precedent. 
 
 During this year a revolution in text books took place which, as 
 a matter of record, may possess an interest to those who are inter- 
 ested in the change of books. Davies arithmetic, the National 
 readers, and Parker & Watson spellers were adopted on condition 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 447 
 
 that hooks for the new series be giv.en in exchange for the old 
 ones in use, book for book. 
 
 Davies arithmetics and the National readers still remain in some 
 of the higher departments of the school. The entire series of 
 readers and arithmetics remained in school until 1882, a period of 
 nearly fourteen years. 
 
 In 1869 the school board consisted of T. Kindlespire, president; 
 J. 'D. Ferner, vice president; J. C. Mitchell, treasurer; directors, 
 James Hawthorn, George Hambleton, E. S. Bamberger. During 
 this year, Mr. Hays having in accordance with the wishes of the 
 people, become county superintendent, C. H. Balliet became prin- 
 cipal, wnth the same teachers as before. The committee on exam- 
 ination, appointed by the board, were: Mrs. J. L. Dana, Mrs. Col. 
 Scott, Mrs. George Hambleton, Rev,. I. Reid, F. D. Thompson, and 
 Rev. Shinn. 
 
 In 1870, the school law having been amended, the board con- 
 sisted of T; C. McCall, treasurer; Samuel Bates, secretary; David 
 Child, R. P. Padget, J. H. Talbott and H. F. Murphy, directors. 
 
 During this year Mr. Morgan became principal; and Mrs. Potter 
 acted as assistant in the High school. Mrs. McDonald taught the 
 grammar room. Miss Pierce the intermediate, and Mrs. Boynton 
 the primary. 
 
 In 1871 the board were, J. H. Talbott, H. F. Murphy, David 
 Child, Isaiah Reid, S. S. Statler, and J. L. Dana. 
 
 During this year pupils from other districts were allowed to en- 
 ter the school by paying tuition. The teachers of the previous 
 year retained their positions. Miss Barrows being added to the 
 number. 
 
 In 1872 the board consisted of S. S. Statler, I. Reid, J. R. Gage, 
 J. L. Dana, J. R. McDonald and J. H. Talbott. The teachers were 
 the same as previously, except Addie Lariie being teacher one term. 
 
 In April, 1872, the present site of our school-house was pur- 
 chased from S. J. Mills for $1,500. 
 
 J. R. McDonald, J. R. Gage, and J. H. Talbott were appointed 
 to procure trees and beautify the grounds of the new site. 
 
 Mr. Morgan having been a successful and popular teacher moved 
 from the place and the beginning of the new school year found 
 Mr. Balliet principal; A. T. McCargar, in the grammar depart- 
 ment; Miss Pierce and Mrs. Boynton in their former positions. 
 
 At this time a new department was formed and known as the 
 first primary. Miss Dilla Letson was selected as teacher and also 
 as assistant in the High school. 
 
 Rev. Reid and Mr. McDonald having resigned as members of 
 the board, W. H. Gallup and L. W. King were elected to fill 
 vacancies. 
 
 In 1873 the board consisted of T. C. McCall, president; Win. 
 Lockridge, treasurer; directors, I. A. Ringheim, S. S. Statler, G. 
 W. Hambleton, L. W. King, J. R. Gage. 
 
 At the beginning of the school year of 1873 Mr. Balliett wish- 
 
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 Histoet op Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 ing to engage in his chosen profession E. K. Munk became princi- 
 pal, Miss Lizzie Young teacher in the grammar rpom, and the 
 other teachers of the previous year were retained. In this year 
 Mr. Simmons was first employed as janitor. 
 
 During 1873 the schools became so crowded that outside pupils 
 were excluded and the principal was instructed to introduce no 
 more new studies. Mrs. McCargar was at this time employed as 
 assistant in the High school. The rules and regulations for the 
 government of the schools were at this time adopted. 
 
 In the fall of 1874 some difficulty was experienced in retaining 
 the principals elected. Miss Virginia Scott, Mr. Sweeney and Mr. 
 Christman were each elected and each resigned before the time for 
 school to commence. Mr. Clingan was chosen with Miss Kate 
 Tupper as assistant; and Mr. Mehan in the grammar department. 
 During the year Miss Pierce, Miss Callahan, Miss Carpenter, Miss 
 Thompson, Mrs. Boynton,, and Miss Letson were employed. Mr. 
 Gage having resigned, F. D. Thompson was chosen member of 
 the board. 
 
 The next board consisted of Messrs. Ross, Ringheim, Murphy, 
 Hambleton, Statler and Thompson. 
 
 During 1874 bids for the erection of a new school-house were re- 
 ceived and the contract was awarded to Mr. Hugh Brown for 
 $12,397. The architect was Wm. Foster, of Des Moines, who 
 received $100 for the plan. 
 
 At the annual election, March, 1875, John Hoel and 0. B. Dut- 
 ton were added to the board. In July, 1875, applicants for posi- 
 tions in the High school were numerous, and great caution was ex- 
 ercised by the board that a wise selection should be made, as a new 
 era in the educational affairs of our town was to be established. 
 Among the many aspirants who applied for situations, W. P. 
 Payne was selected as principal and Miss Lou Curtis as assistant. 
 Mrs. Payne was employed in the intermediate department, but was 
 soon transferred to the High school, and Miss Ida Ross employed 
 in her place. 
 
 In March, 1875, D. H. McCord was elected as a member of the 
 board, and S. S. Statler re-elected. 
 
 The second year in the new building found the same teachers as 
 before in the High school with Mr. Weatherby as second assistant 
 the first and second terms, and Miss Hempstead the third term. 
 Mr. Mehan h aving been offered a more lucrative position, resigned 
 "anTCMrs. M." Skiff became teacher in the grammar room, and Miss 
 Pierce in the intermediate. On Jan. 1, 1877, Mrs. Skiff resigned 
 and Miss Georgie Hutchins was elected as her successor. 
 
 The annual election of 1877 resulted in the choice of T. J. Ross 
 and S. F. Balliet as members of the school board. At the close of 
 the school year, June, 1877, the following students were awarded 
 diplomas: Minnie Alderman, Florence Dana, Rose Murphy, Lina 
 Hambleton, Helen Harper, W. 0. Payne, Newton Simmons, Will 
 Hague and Peter Joor. This graduating class presented the High 
 school with Appleton’s Cyclopedia. 
 
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 History of Story Couftty, Iowa. 
 
 In September, 1877, school began with Mr. and Mrs. Payne and 
 Miss Ella Dickens teachers in the High school. Miss Hutchins the 
 grammar department, and Miss Pierce the intermediate, with Miss 
 Mattie Kellogg as assistant. Miss Rose Murphy was employed to 
 assist Miss Letson in the first primary. In October, 1877, Miss 
 Pierce voluntarily severed her connection with the schools and left 
 a record which few have equalled, and none excelled as a faithful 
 teacher and wise counsellor for man,y years. Miss Overton suc- 
 ceeded her, and in March, 1878, Miss Mattie Kellogg who had been 
 assistant, was elected to fill the position she still holds— one in 
 which by her industry and perseverance she has established and 
 maintained a high reputation as a teacher. Miss Mary Hunt was 
 employed as assistant to Miss Kellogg. 
 
 In March, 1878, T. C. McCall was elected member of school 
 board, and 0. B. Dutton was re-elected. 
 
 In June, 1878, the graduating class consisted of La Mont Cessna, 
 Bruce Harper, Mary Hambleton, Ella Shugart, Will McCord, Car- 
 rie Ross, and Ella Wright. 
 
 For the year commencing September, 1878, the teachers of the 
 previous year were employed. 
 
 In February, 1879, Miss Hutchins resigned never to return, and 
 to-day all that is mortal of her rests in our beautiful cemetery; but 
 her memory will long remain in the hearts of her associate teach- 
 ers and her pupils. Miss Whipple completed the term, and Miss 
 Frazier was called to complete the school year. 
 
 In March, Samuel Briggs and James Hawthorn were elected 
 members of the school board to succeed S. S. Statler and D. H. 
 McCord. 
 
 In 1879 the graduating class consisted of Clyde Lockwood, Belle 
 Hempstead, Ed. Alderman, Aggie Harper, R. C. Tichenor, Miss 
 Letson resigned her position at this time, bearing with her the 
 affection and good will of the little ones whose faithful teacher she 
 had been without interruption for eight years. In September, 
 1879, Mr. E. F.Bell was called to the grammar room, and his long 
 term of service is a slight indication of his popularity as a teacher. 
 Miss Rose Murphy was elected to succeed Miss Letson; and, by her 
 unselfish devotion to her work, and her earnest efforts to improve 
 her school, she has greatly endeared herself to her pupils and 
 patrons. Miss Ella Wright was hired to assist Miss Murphy, and 
 Miss Frazier became assistant to Miss Kellogg. Miss Libbie Mc- 
 Farland was at this time chosen as second assistant in the High 
 school. 
 
 In January, 1879, the first primary room having become crowded, 
 fifteen pupils were added to the second primary department and 
 Miss Carrie Fegtly was employed as assistant therein, in which 
 capacity she performed faithful and efficient service. 
 
 In March, 1880, J . A. Fitchpatrick and V. A. Ballou were elected 
 members of the board. 
 
 The graduating class of 1880 consisted of Maggie Mitchell, Ma- 
 29 
 
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 History of Story CouifTY, Iowa. 
 
 bel Dana, Ben. F. Bates, George Frazier, Charles Tanner, Millie 
 Butt, Elfa Lockridge, Rosa Butt, and Chas. Talbott. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Payne having resigned in September of this year the teachers em- 
 ployed were Prof. A. H. Sniff and Miss McFarland in the High 
 school, and in the other rooms the teachers of the previous year. 
 During that winter trouble began with the heating apparatus. 
 
 In December, 1880, Miss Ada McClelland was employed as first 
 
 assistant in the High school. n n o i 
 
 In March, 1881, Otis Briggs and J. S. Frazier succeeded Samuel 
 Briggs and T. C. McCall as members of the board. There was no 
 graduating class, neither were there any promotions in 1881. 
 
 In September, 1881, the school year found the teachers of the 
 previous year in the building except Miss McFarland, who had re- 
 signed much to the regret of the C and D classes. Miss Rankin 
 succeeded Miss McFarland; and during 1881 two new departments 
 were added, in which Mrs. Sniff and Miss Ella Wright were em- 
 ployed. Miss Rankin soon resigned, and in January, 1882, Miss 
 McClelland having resigned,. Mrs. Sniff was transferred to the High 
 school, and Miss Frazier promoted to take her place. _ 
 
 During the winter of 1881 much difficulty was experienced in 
 properly heating the building; smoke was the rule, and warmth 
 and comfort the exception. The furnaces were abandoned and 
 stoves put up. 
 
 electors in 1882 chose Dr. Schooler and R. J. Silliman to 
 represent them as members of the school board. 
 
 The graduating class of 1881 consisted of Kate Thompson, Susie 
 Gillespie, A. Van Storm, Hattie Smith, Minnie Simmons, Etta 
 Lockridge, Abbie Joor, Earnest Wireman and Chas. Curtis. _ 
 
 Early in 1882 work began on the new school-house addition of 
 four rooms. 
 
 The board is now composed of Otis Briggs, R. J. Silliman, H. F. 
 Murphy, Dr. Schooler, J. S. Frazier, and Dr. Farrar. J. S. Frazier, 
 president; A. E. Lucas, secretary. 
 
 The school at the present time consists of seven departments, 
 namely, the High school, two grammar, two intermediate, and two 
 primary departments. The new teachers are F. E. Plummer, Miss 
 Fait, Miss Warrick, Miss West, Miss Lewis, and Miss Purkhiser. 
 They have already become deservedly popular with pupils and 
 patrons. 
 
 Much interest has always been manifested by the citizens in our 
 schools; and parents, almost without exception, cheerfully co- 
 operate with teachers in all efforts to properly train and educate 
 their children. 
 
 FORMER CHEROKEE MISSIONARIES. 
 
 White Rock, Kaksas, January, 1883. 
 
 Dear Brother ahd Sister: — We arrived safely at our destina- 
 tion Wednesday at 6:30 p. m. Found Mr. Leach waiting. All 
 
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 History of Story Cotjuty, Iowa. 
 
 well and glad to see us. We found no blockades, no frost on the 
 windows after we left Ottumwa. Snow gradually disappeared as 
 we went southwest. It is a fine looking country; but very little 
 snow; thawing, and beautiful sunshine and spring. I wish you 
 could come down next summer. I think it would be beneficial to 
 your health. It seems to be a sudden transition from cold and 
 storm to the mildness of spring. I hope you are both better than 
 when we left. Hope to hear from you. Phebe P. Gtossard. 
 
 The above, Mr. Editor, is from the pen of one who, thirty-eight 
 or forty years ago, as the wife of a missionary to the Cherokee and 
 Choctaw Indians taught school among the Indians while her hus- 
 band, then the Rev. Samuel Allen, was laboring as missionary 
 among them. During that time the Cherokees adopted a written 
 constitution in which was engrafted a stringent clause on temper- 
 ance prepared by their missionary and at their request. It has 
 grown into a prohibitory law which is now being enforced by 
 “ Bushyhead,” their chief. Although Indians, they are more ad- 
 vanced on that question than a vast number of whites. Their su- 
 preme court(?) sustains a prohibitory law, while ours does not. 
 The writer hereof was a brother of that missionary. He has been 
 dead about thirty-five years. His widow, when living in Central 
 Ohio, married the Rev. S. J. Grossard. Ackley, Iowa, is their pres- 
 ent home. They, many years ago, were citizens of Nevada. Rev. 
 Gossard labored as a Methodist minister for quite a while in differ- 
 ent parts of our county. Two or three weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. 
 Gossard were visiting friends in and near Nevada, while on their 
 way to Kansas on a visit; consequently Mrs. G. now writes from 
 Kansas and makes a striking contrast between our winter here and 
 the winter in Kansas. W. G. A. 
 
 THE NEVADA WELL. 
 
 It is not an artesian well, for there has been no effort to elevate 
 the flow of water only by pumps. It is, however, a very remark- 
 able and very valuable well. It supplies water for most of the 
 stock in Nevada, and many of the families, and for street sprink- 
 ling-requiring much of the time the use of two pumps at the 
 same time, and sometimes three, and still the supply of water seems 
 abundant. _ The dry seasons of 1886 and 1887 made no visible 
 change in it. 
 
 LIST OF VALUABLE NAMES. 
 
 The following gentlemen kindly gave me their assistance in 
 securing authentic history of the County, and whose judgments as 
 tried citizens are of value. The list here given contains names of 
 citizens of our County, who are known generally over the County, 
 and such as are worthy and reliable persons. Most of them 
 can tell you when we had hard times in Story County, and what 
 
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 History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 hard times mean. ' If my effort should seem a failure in the His- 
 tory of the County in making it of general interest to the citizen, 
 it will not be for want of close attention — untiring attention — 
 devoted to its accuracy. Of course there may he some errors: 
 
 J. E. Duncan, Editor Ames Intelligencer; L. R. Shepherd, Editor 
 Maxwell Chas. D. Parks, Editor Cambridge HeraZc?; Rev. 
 
 Isaiah Reid, Editor Highway; W, P. Payne & Son, Editors Nevada 
 Representative; V. A. Ballou, Editor Watchman; Anfen Ersland, 
 R. W. Ballard, Hon. John L. Dana, Hon. T. C. McCall, Col. John 
 Scott, who kindly allowed the use of his Cent. Address; S. I. 
 Shearer, Benj. R. Shenkle, C. E. Campbell, Postmaster at Collins; 
 E. B. Carver, Colo; W. H. Grafton, M. D.; Robt. Richardson, J. 
 N. Scott, Sheldahl; John Johnson, Huxley; Capt. W. A. Wier, 
 Story City; John H. Cook, Gilbert; Wm. Arrasmith, Jesse R. 
 Wood, David F. Shope, H. 0. Ayers, H. C. French, Ira Briley, 
 R. Jones, H. C. Foster, T. B. Howland, J. F. Brown, W. S. John- 
 son, J. H. Keigley, Wesley Arrasmith, J. Evanson, J. Q. Burgess, 
 Freeman Elliott, Benton Corrington, Hon. Geo. M. Maxwell, Jas. 
 B. Green, Postmaster Cambridge; A. G. Person, 0. B. Ingalls, Sta- 
 tion Agent, Nevada; Z. Shugart, Ins. Agent; C. G. McCarthy, 
 Auditor of County; H. F. Ferguson, Rev. W. A. Welker, Colo; Erick 
 Erickson, Roland; Thos. M. Gossard, John McCain, T. E. Aider- 
 man, Maj. Jas. Hawthorn, Guilford Mullen, Daniel McCarthy, Rev. 
 A. E. Mosher, Story City; Frank Curtiss, Nevada; J. S. McCoy, 
 Postmaster, Kelley; Ole 6. Roe, County Superintendent of Schools; 
 M. J. Smith, Recorder, Ames; W. H. Fitchpatrick, Ames; A. J. 
 Graves, Ames; L. Q. Hoggatt, Ames; J. A. Fitchpatrick, Nevada; 
 Henry Funk, Iowa Center; Judiah Ray, Nevada; Geo. W. Sowers, 
 H. E. Carpenter, Station Agent, Roland; John L. Scott, Roland; 
 W. F. Lewis, McCallsburg; Patrick McLain, McCallsburg; J. W. 
 Maxwell, Maxwell; S. M. White, Nevada; Rev. Holter, Roland. 
 
 REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. 
 
 The following is a statement of the transfers of property in this 
 county, as shown by the deeds deposited for record during the week 
 ending February 5, 1859: 
 
 Wm. Whitney to Henry McCarthy, 80 acres in 3, 83, 24, | 400 
 
 Also, 160 acres in 4, 83, 24, 600 
 
 Ira Cook to B. F. Allen, 120 acres in 30, 82, 22, 210 
 
 Charles S. Hamilton to James Nickerson, 160 acres m 4, 
 
 84, 21, . 600 
 Henry Lewis to Thomas Talburt, 80 acres in 28, 82, 24, 800 
 
 E. B. Craig to N. B. Riddle, H acres in 35, 84, 21, 95 
 
 Sheriff to Robert Robison, 25 acres in 35, 84, 24, 109 
 
 Sheriff to E. B. Craig, 15 acres in 35, 84, 24, 58 
 
 John Scott to Nicholas Francis, lot 7 in blk A, Scott’s add 
 
 to Nevada, 50 
 

 
 Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 Simon Stroup to Gt. Church, lot 6, hlk 23, Iowa Center, 
 Jeremiah Cory to M. M. Ross, west i lots 2 and 3, hlk 42, 
 Nevada, 
 
 Thos. Beard to James Formay, lot 1, hlk 11, Iowa Center, 
 A. H. McClelland to Albert Brocket, 120 a in 34, 84, 23, 
 
 NOVEMBEE 23, 1885. 
 
 Elizabeth C. Newton to Alice Mighles, ne ne e -i- sw ne 
 and e i nw se 15, 84, 24, wd, 
 
 Elizabeth C. Newton to Augusta Barnes, nw ne and w 4 
 sw ne and w 4 nw se 16, 84, 24, 
 
 J. C. Grressley to Sophia Cressley, n 4 nw sw 9, 83, 21, qc, 
 
 Sophia Cressley to J. C. Gressley, s 4 nw sw 9, 83, 21, qc, 
 
 Bradley, lot 1, blk 6, Gilbert, wd, 
 
 Ella C. Bradley to James F. Keeney, pt lot 5, blk 13; also 
 lot 9 and pt lot 10, blk Blair’s add; also lot 1 and pt 
 lot 2, blk 8, Ames, wd, 
 
 H. E J. Boardman to 0. J. Solist, lot 10, blk 3, McCalls- 
 burg, wd, 
 
 Oiey Nelson, admr, to Elias Frowsdahl, s 4 ne and nw se 
 29, 82, 24, admr d, 
 
 Iowa R. R. Land Co. to Thomas Quinn, ne sw 30, 84, 21 
 wd ’ 1 i 
 
 NOVEMBEE 28, 1885. 
 
 John Hanson to Cathrrine Hanson, e 4 sw 14, 85, 24, qc 
 
 Jacob Chaplin to W. R. and Isabella Kirk, w 4 sw 31 82 
 22, wd, ’ 
 
 J. C. Mitchell to R. S. and C. A. Shaffer, se and e 4 sw 23 
 83, 23, ’ 
 
 0. B. Judd to Frances Sheldon, s 4 sw and nw sw and pt 
 
 sec 10, 83, 24, wd, 
 
 W. H Brooks to Jas. S. and Hugh B. Smith, lots land 8, 
 blk 7, Zearing, wd, 
 
 Leander J. Scott to Henry C. Elliott, e 4 se 11, 83, 21, wd, 
 
 Jas. Hawthorn to Wm. Moran, nw nw23, 83, 23, wd 
 
 Martha A. Enos to F. F. Stebbins, nw ne 11, 85, 21, wd 
 
 F. G. Mead to L. Tinkel, w 4 nw 17, 84, 21, wd, ’ 
 
 Martha Lewis to Jas. Hawthorne, pt nw nw 23, 83 23 
 admr d, ’ ’ 
 
 Wm. S. Vincent to Susannah W. Goodin, lot 1, blk “F ” 
 Stewart’s add, Nevada, wd, ’ 
 
 DECEMBEE 5, 1885. 
 
 Iowa R. R. Land Co. to Jesse Barker, nw sw 2, 82, 23, wd 
 'Eugene A. James to Chas. G. James, sw 20, 85, 24, wd ’ 
 G. W. Kennedy to Lewis Marsh, e fr 4 ne 2, 82, 21, wd, 
 Otis Eastman to Jesse Barker, ne sw and nw se 2, 82 23 
 wd, ’ ' 
 
 453 
 
 25 
 
 1,000 
 
 300 
 
 500 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 9,300 
 
 25 
 
 1,000 
 
 440 
 
 53 
 
 1,400 
 
 12,000 
 
 6,200 
 
 150 
 
 1,800 
 
 725 
 
 800 
 
 2,000 
 
 233 
 
 3,000 
 
 308 
 
 800 
 
 1,050 
 
 1,400 
 
454 
 
 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 R. P, Shields to Daniel C. Sullivan, se nw and ne sw and 
 lots 1, 2 and pt lot 3 in nw 11, 83, 24, and lots 1, 
 
 4, 5 and 8, blk “B,” and lots 10 and 11, blk 4, and lots 
 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, blk “A,” and lots 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 and 
 
 11, blk 7, Black’s 2d add, Ames, wd, • 15,813 
 
 R. P. Shields to Daniel C. Sullivan, e f n i 31, and pt e i 
 se and nw se 32, 83, 24, and pt lot 1, Eskler’s add 
 Kelly, and lot 8, blk 2, and lot 21, blk 4, Kelly, wd, 19,740 
 John T. Cook to Daniel C. Sullivan, undiv. i sw se, 32, 82, 
 
 24, wd, 315 
 
 Melvina W. Huntington to Annie C. Richmond, lots 4 and 
 
 5, blk 1, Duff’s add Ames, wd, 6,000 
 
 Abbie C. Shaw to W aldo Stultz, pt e i se and pt w i sw, 
 
 5, 84, 23,wd, 1,244 
 
 Sebre Emerson to Soren Anderson, n i ne 34, 85, 24, wd 1,600 
 Hugh B. Smith et al to W. H. Brooks, w i se 35, 85, 22, 
 
 wd, 1,600 
 
 DECEMBER 12, 1885. 
 
 F. Seversike to John Sesker, pt ne ne 16, 82, 23, wd, 50 
 
 Alonzo M. Jenks to C., M. & St. P. R. R., pt se 30, 82, 24, 
 
 wd, 1 
 
 T. C. McCall et al. to H. B. Churchill, lot 2, blk 13, Mc- 
 
 Callsburg, wd, 20 
 
 Treas. Story Co. to Jay A. King, ne se 24, 83, 24, tax d, 
 
 Treas. Story Co. to Jay A. King, s i se 7, 83, 24, tax d, 
 
 John Patten to Ole T. Simonson, nw nw and w ^ nw 
 
 sw 29, 82, 24, wd, 1,500 
 
 Charles H. Watkins to E. J. Watkins, n’i s i se ne 26, 85, 
 
 24, qc, 1 
 
 John Patton to Charles Prowsdohl, ne nw and e i sw sw 
 
 29, 82, 24, wd, ' 1,500 
 
 James Holcomb to William R. Holcomb, ne ne 9, 85, 21, 
 
 wd, 1,200 
 
 JANUARY 12, 1886. 
 
 Charlotte A. Grossard to W. M. Glreeley, n i n i ne 14, 83, 
 
 24, wd, 1,000 
 
 Charles Brennecks to Henry C. Niedert, e i ne 1, 83, 21, 
 
 wd, 1,000 
 
 R. A. Robinson to A. P. Cronk, lots 5 and 8, blk 24, Cam- 
 bridge, wd, J60 
 
 Baldwin & Maxwell to District Tp. of Indian Creek, lots 
 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, blk “B,” Baldwin & Maxwell’s 
 add Maxwell, wd, 200 
 
 JANUARY 19, 1886. 
 
 Joseph Wiley to Abraham Woton, ne sw 36, 82, 21, wd 800 
 
 H. J. Backtel to Hix & Allen, w i ne 31, 85, 21, wd, 850 
 
Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 455 
 
 Henry Kline to Joseph Wiley, ne sw 36, 82, 21, wd, 850 
 
 Sarah A. Lindsay to A. F. Lindsay, n i ne and n + nw 36, 
 
 82, 23, qc, ^ 
 
 S. S. Larson to John Jondall, pt sw 12, 85, 24, wd, 75 
 
 M. E. Hix to M. C. Allen, und i s i nw 1, 85, 22," qc, 200 
 
 Albert Gr. Cramblett to Mary E. Price, s i se 23 and n i 
 ne 26, 83, 24, wd, 3^000 
 
 Betsey Straw to Wm. Lockridge, w f s i nw 33, 84, 22, wd, 900 
 
 Julia A. Chapin to M. E. Hix, s i nw 1, 85, 22, wd, 400 
 
 JANUARY 23, 1886. 
 
 state of Iowa to Elizabeth B. Patton, w i ne 16, 82, 21. 
 patent. 
 
 K/. Kate Hill to Jay A. King, se i 10, 84, 22, and se nw and 
 sw ne and nw se and ne sw and w f sw se and e -i- se 
 sw 6 and pt nw ne and pt ne nw 7, 84, 23, wd, 4,000 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to Lewis 0. Heggen, lot 7, blk 3, Hux- 
 
 ley^wd, 35 
 
 A. D. Bishop et al. to W. K. Boardman, lot 9, blk 16, Ne- 
 vada, wd, j25 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to Henry Trefz, lot 18, blk 8, Max- 
 well, wd, '80 
 
 A. D. Bishop et al. to J. S. Hutchins, pt lot 2, blk 16, Ne- 
 vada, wd, 200 
 
 Sheriff Story County to Thomas Coates, pt lots 8 and 9, 
 
 blk 12, Nevada, 712 
 
 J. C. Aldridge to Langdon Drake, w ^ sw 22 and pt nw 
 
 sw and pt sw sw 26, 83, 22, wd^ 2,000 
 
 FEBRUARY 5, 1886. 
 
 Grace M. Ellison to Samuel Whitaker, e 55 acres s ^ ne 5 
 
 and s i se nw 4, 82, 22, wd, ’ 1 600 
 
 M. C. Allen to E. B. Patton, s ^ ne 36, 85, 25, wd, 1,300 
 
 George W. Mullen to S. P. Alderman, s ^ ne and w f ne 
 
 nw 27 pt nw sw 26, 83, 22, wd, 1,600 
 
 S. P. Alderman to George W. Mullen, sw se 21, 83, 22, wd, ’800 
 Nels Gravdabl to Svert Gravdahl, s i ne 17, 85, 22, wd, 1,500 
 Julia A. Baldwin to Melissa G. Wingert, e i se and e f w 
 
 T . . . 2,100 
 
 Julia A. Baldwin etal. to Almira C. Riddlesbarger, n ^ sw 
 
 _ and se sw and w i se 21, .84, 23, 2,100 
 
 Union National Bank of Ames to Maria Read, lots 1, 2, 10, 
 
 11, blk 12, and lot 7, blk 16. Barns’ add, Ames, and pt 
 ^ w f se 3, 83, 24, qc, - 2,500 
 
 E. B. Patton to M. C. Allen, lots 7 and 10, blk H, Stew- 
 art’s add, Nevada, wd, 1,500 
 
 FEBRUARY 6, 1886. 
 
 S. P. McDaniel to Wm. M. Trembley, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 
 
 7 and 10, blk 4, New Philadelphia, qc, 20 
 
History op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 456 
 
 Julia A. Baldwin et al to Malissa Gr. Wingert, lot 5, and n 
 i lot 8, blk “F,” Stewart’s add, Nevada, qc, 
 
 Martha C. Dyer to S. P. McDaniel, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 
 and 10, blk 4, New Philadelphia, qc, 
 
 E. W. Lockwood’to Or Dunkelbarger, lot 1, blk 19, Tem- 
 pleton’s add, Nevada, wd, 
 
 Sarah A. Brown to Thomas M. Gossard, n 44 acres of n i 
 se 1, 83, 24, qc, 
 
 Bennet TagatoflP to L. C. Bryant, n sw 36, 85, 21, wd, 
 
 Amanda Hellyer to D. B. Lyons, lot 1 in se il, 83, 23, qc, 
 
 Robert P. Mercer et al. to M. E. Hix, e i nw and sw ne 7; 
 85, 21, wd, 
 
 Sarah D. Bailey to Ann Leonard, lot 7, blk 18, Nevada, 
 wd, 
 
 M. G. Updike to B. A. Armstrong, w i lot 6, blk 10, Zear- 
 ing, wd, 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co, to A. L. Kloster, lots 12 and 13, blk 
 3, Huxley, wd. 
 
 FEBRUARY 20, 1886. 
 
 Hiram 0. Crabtree to Jacob Jacobson, nw nw 3, 84, 23, qc, 
 John Bennethum to Daniel Bennethum, pt n ^ se 16, 82, 22, 
 Knut R. Johnson to John K. Johnson, w 47 acres s|- nw 6, 
 85, 22, wd, 
 
 John McConnell, Sr,, to John McConnell, Jr., s ^ sw 20, 
 and pt se se 19, 83, 22, wd, 
 
 Christian Wegst to Severt S. Severtson, w f s -J- se 7 and 
 e f ne nw 18, 82, 24, wd, 
 
 John Mead to Pierce Sinnet, s se 9, 82, 21, wd, 
 
 John D. Johnson to Peter D. Johnson, und i s i ne 9, 82, 
 24, wd, 
 
 Hirah Baxter to Hix & Allen, sw 5, 84, 21, wd, 
 
 Dewitt Dunham to L. C. Bryant, n ^ se 35, 85, 21, wd, 
 Mattie Madison to J ohn Peterson, lot 8, blk 24, Burris add, 
 Nevada, wd, 
 
 John S. McKee to Thomas McKee, und one-fifth e i sw 
 31, 82, 22, wd, 
 
 Treas. Story County to Samuel Bates, und one-eleventh e 
 i se 22, 85, 22, tax deed. 
 
 Thomas P. Oliver to S. T. Goodman, ne se and w f sw se 
 and lot 1 in s i nw 35, 82, 22, wd, 
 
 Paul Thompson to Maggie K. Johnson, lot 10, blk 10, Ro- 
 land, wd, 
 
 MARCH 3, 1886. 
 
 Wm. Calhoun to Torkel Walker, ne ne 19, 82, 24, wd, 
 Hezekiah Gilbert to Prank B. Gilbert, pt nw ne 9, 84, 24, 
 wd, 
 
 Hezekiah Gilbert to E. P. Gilbert, pt nw ne 9, 84, 24, wd. 
 
 1,600 
 
 25 
 
 150 
 
 60 
 
 2,000 
 
 1 
 
 540 
 
 150 
 
 750 
 
 170 
 
 1.400 
 75 
 
 1,000 
 
 1 
 
 1,700 
 950 • 
 
 300 
 
 2.400 
 2,500 
 
 60 
 
 200 
 
 1,750 
 
 50 
 
 800 
 
 100 
 
 100 
 
History op Story Coupity, Iowa. 457 
 
 Peter D. Johnson to John D. Johnson, und i s ne 9, 82, 
 
 24, wd, ^ 300 
 
 James S. and Hugh B. Smith to Wm. H. Brooks, e sw 
 
 35, 85, 22, wd, 2,000 
 
 0. L. Dickinson to Butler & Molstre, pt nw sw 12, 85, 24, 
 
 wd 515 
 
 George H. Stultz to Harriet M. Stultz, s f wisw4, 84, 23, 
 
 wd, 1,080 
 
 B. B. Bixhy to R. H. Mitchell, e ^ nw nw ne 26, 84, 24 wd, 25 
 Sheriff Story County to Alzina Soper, pt nw ne and pt ne 
 
 nw 7, 83^ 23, ' _ 2,000 
 
 Delila Garlock to Delila Kirkham, lot 8 in se sw 35, 82, 22, 
 
 wd, 290 
 
 Lars Christoferson to Julia L, Munroe, ne 35, 83, 24, wd, 4,000 
 
 Sheriff Story County to J. B. Jacobson, lots 2, 3 and 6, 
 
 blk 45, Nevada, 1,369 
 
 S. Goodell to Wm. F. Lyman et ah, lots 4 and 5, blk 12, 
 
 Templeton’s add, Nevada, wd, 45 
 
 John Giles to Stephen Curtis, lots 5 and 6, blk 23, Cam- 
 bridge, wd, 300 
 
 Lars R. Larson to John Butler, lot 1, blk 2, Story City, 
 
 wd, 45 
 
 MARCH 9, 1886. 
 
 John L. Crane to George W. Bull, sw nw, 9, 85, 21, wd, 500 
 
 Geo. W. Bull to John T. Carver, sw nw 9, 85, 21, wd, 500 
 
 Lorenzo Starr to George W. Bull, sw nw, 9, 85, 21, wd, 400 
 
 Robert S. Saterlee to Wm, F, Lyman, lots 8 and 9, blk 3, 
 
 Blair’s add to Nevada, wd, 100 
 
 Milwaukee Land Company to J. 0. French, lot 12, blk 14, 
 
 Maxwell, wd, 75 
 
 Sarah Mullen to Thomas M. Evans, ne nw and nw ne 27 
 
 and pt sw nw 26, 83, 22, wd, 1,540 
 
 T. B, Shenkle to W. W. Carr, se se 22, 82, 21, wd, 950 
 
 J, C. R. Layton to W. S. Cooper, w i sw 5, 85, 21, wd, 1,440 
 
 Amos R. Heath to T. B. Shenkle, s i sw 14, 82, 21, wd, 2,000 
 
 James Dillin to S. T. Goodman, ne se 30 and s ^ nw 29, 82, 
 
 22, wd, 2,400 
 
 J. C. R. Layton to Albert G. Eastwell, s i nw 5, 85, 21, 
 
 wd, 1,440 
 
 J. C. R, Layton to A. M McNall, w i nw 5, 85, 21, wd, 1,440 
 Simon J. Byers to Lucretia J. Byers, s ^ ne sw and se sw 
 
 and s i n i se and s i se 14, 83, 21, qc. 1 
 
 Singer Mfg. Co. to George W. Jones, se se 'and pt sw se 1, 
 
 83, 24, wd, 600 
 
 George E. Bisbee to Ephriam Starr, lots 6 and 7, blk 9, 
 
 Ames, wd, 500 
 
 Ella C. Bradley to Flora M. Matson, lot 18, blk 12, Ames, 
 
 wd, 5,000 
 
458 Histoet of Stoet County, Iowa. 
 
 MAECH 13, 1886. 
 
 H. W. Harris to L. H. Harris, n 160 acres se 23, 83, 24, wd, 3,200 
 Neils Anderson to Neils C. Neilson, e i- sw 27, 85, 22, wd, 1,450 
 Karen W. Hesselberg to John Emmet, lots 14 and 15, blk 
 
 7, Story City, wd, 860 
 
 0. H. Baker to Sarah R. Baker, w i ne and e i nw 1, 83, 
 
 24, and w i se and e i sw 36, 84, 24, qc, 350 
 
 0. W. Baker to Sarah R. Baker, same as above. 
 
 W. H. Brooks to C. W. Terrell, w ^ se 35, 85, 22, wd, 1,400 
 
 Chas. Mead to H. C. Mead, nw se 35, 83, 21, wd, • 500 
 
 John Doty to James Fields, ne se 32, 82, 22, wd, 1,000 
 
 Samuel Oaks to Briggs & King, n ^ ne and sw ne and s i 
 
 nw and e i se 12 and ne ne 13, 85, 21, qc, 1 
 
 John Jondall to Samson Grroteness, pt*sw sw 12, 85, 24, wd, 225 
 Oliver Thompson to John Twedt, n i sw 35, 85, 23, wd, 1,600 
 
 Samuel Oakes to Briggs & King, se ne 12, 85, 21, qc, 1 
 
 John C. Gressley to P. W. Hopkins, s ^ nw sw 9, 83, 21, 
 
 wd, 525 
 
 George R. Turner to E. W. Turner, pt sw 6, 83, 23, wd, 500 
 
 W. A. Burgess to Ida M. Dool, s i lots 3 and 5, blk 4, Zear- 
 
 ing, wd, 170 
 
 F. S. Newton to Mrs. M. Tesdale, lot 6, blk 8, Zearing, wd, 25 
 
 MAECH 26, 1886. 
 
 Shields & Cook to J. F. & C. P. Keeney, lots 1 and 2 and e 
 
 10 feet lot 14, blk 13, and lot 20, blk 12, Ames, wd, 12,000 
 W. A. Parker to Elsie 0. Armstrong, lot 7, blk 6, Collins, 
 
 wd, 300 
 
 Albert F. Lindsey, Guardian, to Lewis Pearson, und 2-21 
 
 n i nw 36, 82, 23, 314 
 
 Iowa R. R. Land Co. to John E, Craft, nw se 25, 85, 21, wd, 308 
 Geo. A. Lindsey to Lewis Pearson, n i n 36, 82, 23, wd, 4,000 
 R. P. Shields to James F. Keeney, lots 2, 3, 4 and 5, blk 
 A, Black’s add, Ames, and s ne and ne se 11 and n 
 i sw 12 and n i nw and se sw and s -g- sw and se se 13 
 and lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in se 13, 83, 24, wd, 16,000 
 
 Jacob Price to Anna Seals, pt ne ne 1, 82, 24, wd, 125 
 
 Alzina Soper to James F. Keeney, lot 4 in nw nw and lots 
 1, 3 and 5 in ne nw and lot 2 nw ne and n ^ sw and s 
 64 acres s i nw 7, 84, 23, and se 12, 84, 24, except lot 
 1 in se se, wd, 13,200 
 
 Ermina M. Padelford to Chas. L. Padelford, ne ne 28, 84, 
 
 22, wd, 800 
 
 MAECH 27, 1886. 
 
 Jacob H. Jacobson to A. A. Forthum, pt w ^ sw se 4, 84, 
 
 24, wd, 320 
 
 John 0. Connor to Z. Elliott, n e i se 26, 82, 21, wd, 125 
 
 Wm. Vincent to A. Hague, e 44 acres w i ne 6, 83, 22, wd, 1,600 
 
Histoet of Stoey County, Iowa. 459 
 
 W. T. Scott to L N. Briley, lot 2 in sw ne 32, 84, 24, wd, 100 
 
 Martha C. Dye to Newton Briley, sw nwsw 33, 84, 24,wd, 25 
 
 H. M. Nichols to 0. Gr. Nichols, e i se 3, 83, 23, wd, 1 
 
 Hix & Allen to A. H. Sink, s i nw 1, 85, 22, wd, 640 
 
 James F. Keeney to George H. France, lot 1 and 30 feet 
 
 off n side lot 2, blk 8, Ames, wd, 1,750 
 
 C. A. Patterson to Ernst E. Lindell, lot 7, hlk 4, Ames, wd, 180 
 J. S. Hutchins to Dennis Maloney, lot 1, blk 6, Blair’s add 
 
 Nevada, qc, 30 
 
 F. M. Bruebaker to J. M. Fanner, lot 16, blk 3, Kelly, wd, 30 
 A. B. Hague to Rebecca French, lots 2 and 3, blk “C,” 
 
 Stewart’s add Nevada, wd, 1,000 
 
 George G. Tilden to Esther A. Keeney, lots 11 and 12, blk 
 
 2, Duff’s add Ames, wd, 300 
 
 Julia Born to Rosetta Simmons, lot 7, blk 18, Born’s add 
 
 Ames, wd, 100 
 
 E. A. Mason to D. W. C. Beck, lot 2, blk 39, Cambridge, 
 
 wd, 750 
 
 Andrew Wells to Joseph G. Wells, lots 5 and 6, blk 8, 
 
 Maxwell, and lot 2 in w i se 34, 82, 22, wd, 1,200 
 
 Rebecca French to A. B. Hague, ne nw 12, 83, 22, wd, 1,000 
 
 M. Z. Baldwin to F. S. Varum, se 4, 85, 21, wd, 2,500 
 
 E. F. French to Noble W. Wood, sw 23, 85, 21, wd, 2,400 
 
 Christian Mikel to John Jondall, nw nw 14, 85, 24, wd, 928 
 
 John Ritland to Nekolia Thompson, e 40 acres n ^ uw 4, 
 
 85, 23, wd, 400 
 
 APEiL 3, 1886. 
 
 Hezekiah Gilbert to James Briley, pt ne ne 32, 84, 24, wd, 100 
 T. B. Keeney to Calvary Ross, w i nw 17, 83, 24, wd, 1,600 
 
 Delila Garlock to Daniel Brubaker, pt s -g- nw 35, 82, 22, wd, 90 
 
 R. H. Mitchell to M. V. Bump, w i se 32, 85, 21, wd, 800 
 
 Edmund Lindsey to John M. Wells, pt nw ne 14 and pt 
 
 sw se 27, 83, 22, qc, 1 
 
 0. D. Allen to James Briley, pt sw nw 33, 84, 24, wd, 30 
 
 Watson Murphy to Absolam Smay, lots 6 and 7, blk 13, 
 
 Blair’s add Nevada, qc, 1 
 
 Severt S. Ersland to Andrew Nelson, lot 2, blk 11, Cam- 
 bridge, wd, 300 
 
 Hannibal D. Todd to S. S. Larson, sw sw 2, 85, 24, wd, 550 
 
 Robt. L. Ormsby to Robt. Bryant, s f ne nw 14, 83, 22, 
 
 except 5 acres, wd, 550 
 
 Treas. Story Co. to T. C. McCall, lot 3 in nw ne 14, 83, 22, 
 and 25-26 of 10-11 of e i se 22, 85, 22, and lot 1 in 
 sw ne 35, 83, 22, and lot 4 in ne sw 13, 89, 
 
 APEIL 10, 1886. 
 
 Elza Pool to Jackson Straw, pt e hf sw 11, 83, 22 wd, $ 60 
 
 J. 0. Brewer to H. C. Donaldson, ne and n hf nw 12, and 
 
 se sw 1, 84, 22 wd, 1,000 
 
460 History or Story Cottkty, Iowa. 
 
 W. Gr. Mullen to J ohn McConnell, w hf ne ne 30, 83, 22 qc 16 
 Mrs. M. Dayton to A. M. Norris, se nw 17, 83, 21 wd, 1,300 
 Henry. Lantz to Jas. McArthur, sw nw 9, 83, 21 wd, 1,000 
 
 J. B. Holcomb to E. Gr. Peirce, se ne 26, 83, 23 wd, 800 
 
 A. M. Norris to Fred. Bahr, nw and ne sw and pt sw sw 
 
 19, 83, 21 wd, 7,200 
 
 Sarah Tillitson to Sarah M. Fatland,.se nw 15, 82, 23 wd, 1,000 
 Corneilus Snyder to F. A. Tritle, sw 5, 84, 21 qc, 1 
 
 Wm. N. Gilbert to H. M. Gilbert, und -J- sw 13, 83, 21 wd, 2,000 
 
 APRIL 20, 1886. 
 
 Wm. Hart to J. T. Fitton, lots 41, 43, 45 and 47, blk 10, 
 
 Burriss’ add, Nevada, wd, , 200 
 
 Mary J. Kintzley to Polly Kintzley, lots"20 and 21, blk 10, 
 
 Ames, wd, 350 
 
 Lycur^us McCoy to N. Jacob, lot 5, blk 24, Nevada, wd, 1,000 
 Blair Town, Lot and Land Co. to J. L. Stevens, lots 1, 2, 
 
 3 and 4, blk 29 Blair’s add, Ames, wd, 200 
 
 L. Tinkel to S. L. Winter w 4 nw 17, 84, 21, wd, 2,400 
 
 Wm. G. Mullen to S. J. Sherman, pt n -g- ei ne 28, and se 
 
 se 21, 83, 22 wd, 2,160 
 
 Lucretia J. Byers to Jas. M.Byers, pt w f se, and s -I ne sw 
 
 and se sw 14, 83, 21, qc, 1 
 
 Treasurer Story County to Edmund Lindsey, lot 1 in se se 
 31, 85, 23, td. 
 
 APRIL 24, 1886. 
 
 G. B. Grubbs to E. S. Grubbs, w i sw and sw nw 28 and 
 
 pt sw nw 27, 82, 22 qc, 500 
 
 E. P. Madison to Prank Rader, e i se 7, 84, 21 wd, 3,200 
 
 John Evenson to A. K. Gaard, pfc ne ne 22, 85, 23 wd, 77 
 
 Jefferson Moses to Daniel Tressler, s-g- nw 16, 85, 24 wd, • 2,000 
 
 Blair Town Lot and Land Co. to Andrew Johnson, lot 5, 
 
 blk 15, Blair’s add, Ames, wd, 50 
 
 B. L. Palmateir to Andrew Johnson, lot 4, blk 15, Blair’s 
 
 add, Ames, wd, 75 
 
 Ella C. Bradley to Rebecca J. Ball, lot 4, blk A, Born’s 
 
 add, Ames, wd, 250 
 
 Rasmus Rasmussen to Amy Harper, lot 42, blk 10 Burris 
 
 add, Nevada, wd, 450 
 
 Walter L. Church to John Evenson, ne ne 19, 85, 22 wd, 370 
 
 R. H. Mitchell et al to Jas. D. Ferner, s ^ se and ne se 23, 
 
 85, 22, 1,020 
 
 MAY 12, 1886. 
 
 H. J. Howe to Mary Cooke, nw 16, 85, 21, qc, 100 
 
 R. P. Shields to P. H. Best, pt nw 11, 83, 24, wd, 300 
 
 John E. Loring to Clarissa C. Zenor, se nw and ne sw 30, 
 
 84, 24, wd, 1,600 
 

 Histoey of Story Counts, Iowa. 
 
 A. J. Reed to S. D. Booher, pt nw sw 29, 83, 22, wd, 
 Daniel Finch to Geo. M. Maxwell & Co., n i nw IT and e 
 sw wi se 8, 82, 23, qc, 
 
 Chas. Tarrents to Knute N. Hill, pt ne ne 24, 84, 24, wd, 
 Albert Bates to Miram Bates, ne 31, 82, 21, qc, 
 
 Walter Bates to Miram Bates, ne 31, 82, 21, qc, 
 
 Ursula Bedell to Miram Bates, ne 31, 82, 21, qc, 
 
 Mary Cooke to Wm. E. Snelling, nw 16, 85, 21, wd, 
 
 J. W. Maxwell to C., M. &3t. P. R’y Co., nw sw 22, 82, 
 22, wd, 
 
 Joel C. Walker to R. E. Jenness, ne se and se ne 10, 85, 
 
 24, qc, 
 
 Chas. S. Vorse to Wm. Moran, lots 2, 3, 6, 7 and 10, blk 
 
 25, Nevada, wd, . 
 
 J. M. McArthur to John J. Cordy, sw sw 21, 84, 21, wd, 
 Isaac Walker to I. L. Smith, lots 1, 4, and 5, lalk 3, Cornells 
 add, Nevada, wd, 
 
 Wm. Young to A. L. Young, w ^ nw 27, 85, 21, wd, 
 Andrew Wilson to Christian Mekel, w i ne 10, 85, 24, wd, 
 Levi Nellis to Brit Olson, lot 1, blk C, Nellis add, Cam- 
 bridge, wd, 
 
 Blair Town Lot & Land Co. to Louisa M. Bosworth, lot 8, 
 blk 27, Ames, wd, 
 
 T. C. McCall to Neils Torseson, pt sw se 2, 85, 24, qc, 
 Erick T. Erickson to E. Erickson, w i sw 8, 85, 23, wd, 
 
 MAY 18, 1886. 
 
 T. Rogers to T. J. Sowers, si sw 27, 85, 22, wd, 
 
 A. K. Banks to R. H. Cooper, s i nw 18, 84, 21, wd, 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to J. R. Baxter, lot 15, blk 7, Collins, 
 wd, 
 
 Edwin Gross to Julia Berger, lots 8 and 9, blk 26, Colo, wd, 
 James T. Ellis to Julia M. Taylor, lots 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10, 
 blk 47, Nevada, wd, 
 
 T. C. McCall to James McLaughlin, lots 28 and 30, blk 20, 
 Burris add, Nevada, wd, 
 
 T. L. Seilers to J. C. Burkhart, lot 5, blk 11, Zearing, qc, 
 E. T. Bisbee to M. Chaney, pt lot 6, blk 8, Ames, qc, 
 
 J. R. Baxter to F. W. Knepper, lot 15, blk 7, Collins, wd, 
 W. F. Kingman to Thoron Bates, se sw 36, 83, 24, wd, 
 
 G. A. Hutchinson to H. A. Corrington, sw se 25, 83, 23, qc, 
 Wm. T. Crawford to J. B. Hanson, lot 5, blk 11, Collins, 
 wd, 
 
 L. R. Larson to T. 0. Linden, lot 5, blk 18,-Story City, wd, 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to H. A. Church, lot 7 and 8, blk 7, 
 Maxwell, wd, 
 
 MAY 28, 1886. 
 
 Elijah Lake to Oren Lake, ne se 3, 84, 14, wd, 
 
 A. F. DeCamp to L. M. DeCamp, w i se 28, 84, 23, wd, 
 
 625 
 
 350 
 
 140 
 
 1 
 
 1,500 
 
462 
 
 History of Story Cotiftty, Iowa. 
 
 Thos. H. Stephens to Janies M. Hawthorn, pt lot 4, blk 
 
 12, Nevada, wd, 1,500 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to Chas. Fish, pt lot 1, hlk 9, Col- 
 lins, wd, 20 
 
 Hans Hanson to Butler & Molstre, lots 4 and 5, hlk 24, 
 
 Story City, wd, 800 
 
 JUNE 10, 1886. 
 
 A. F. Eastwood to E. A. Crane, s i nw se se 17, 83, 24, wd, 200 
 
 John V. Kalsem to S. A. Tjan, pt w i se 13, 82, 24, wd, 100 
 
 M. D. Livingston to Olo H. Heggen, n i ne se 13, 82, 24, 
 
 wd 400 
 
 Henry Cronk to R. M. Southwick sw nw and nw sw and 
 
 pt nw nw 19, 82, 23, wd, 3,200 
 
 Bridget Dailey to James Dailey, e ^ sw 20,/ 84, 21, wd, 100 
 
 N. F. Frazier to H. M. Finson, s i nw 8, 84, 21, wd, 100 
 
 H. L. Breke to T. 0. Larson, nw nw 31, 82, 23, wd, 1,200 
 
 Giles Cook to G. Sanford, lot 3, blk 2, Black’s add, Ames, 
 
 wd, _ 60 
 
 A. W. Southwick to Henry Cronk, lot 1, hlk 39, Cam- 
 bridge, wd, 500 
 
 D. H. Brown to G. H. Brown, pt lots 3 and 4, blk 5, Black’s 
 
 add, Ames, wd, 1,000 
 
 D. C. Sullivan to J. F. Keeney, pt nw 11, 83, 24 and lots 
 1, 4, 5 and 8, and w i blk B and lots 10, 11, blk 4 and 
 lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, blk A and lots 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 
 blk 7, lots 1, 4, 5, blk G, Black’s add, Ames, wd, 17,000 
 
 JUNE 11, 1886. 
 
 C. Runyon to Joseph Runyon, se sw 38, 85, 21, wd, 240 
 
 Baldwin & Maxwell to C. M. & St. R’y pt swnw 22, 82, wd, 1,200 
 
 D. K. Hand to Hawkeye Insurance Co., ne se and pt nw 
 
 se 27 and s I- sw nw and nw sw 26, 82, 22, qc, 50 
 
 Cyrus Jackson to R. Anderson, w i ne 11, 85, 23, wd, 1,650 
 
 N. J. Brown to M. M. Warner, ne se 2, 85, 22, wd, 
 
 T. J. Sowers to E. R. Elliott, s i nw 27, 85, 22, wd, 1,600 
 
 W. S. Waldron to J. W. Ambrose, lots 4 and 5, blk 1, 
 
 Nevada, wd, 1,700 
 
 F. W. Tyler to H. C. McIntosh, lots 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, 
 
 blk 33, Nevada, wd 225 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to Wm. Parker, lot 8, blk 6, Collins, 
 
 wd, 50 
 
 JUNE 12, 1886. 
 
 J. W. Ambrose to Lewis Holveck, se ne 14, 84, 21, wd, 600 
 
 Ella Vanhorn to Isaac Shafer, s i nw se 20, 83, 21, wd, 400 
 
 Isaac Shatfer to Ella Vanhorn, n i nw se 20, 83, 21, wd, 400 
 
 Sheriff of Story County to John Thomas, lots 7, 8, 10, 11, 
 
 12, 13 and 14, blk 4, Kingsbury’s add, Ames, and pt 
 
 nw se 11, 83, 24, sd, 10 
 
Histoet of Story County, Iowa. 463 
 
 Sheriff of Story County to B. L. Palmatier, lot 6 in nw 11, 
 
 83, 24, sd, _ 408 
 
 Iowa Construction Co. to John Boston, lot 12, blk 9, Mc- 
 
 Callsburg, wd, 60 
 
 Treasurer of Story Co. to E. J. Bantz, pt se 29, 85, 22, td. 
 
 E. N. Thompson to New England Loan & Trust Co., lots 
 
 8 and 9 and s ^ lot 5, blk 3, Mills add, Nevada, wd, 600 
 
 New England Loan & Trust Co. to Rebecca Orwig, lots 8 
 
 and 9 and s i lot 5, blk 3, Mills add, Nevada, wd, 600 
 
 Sheriff of Story County to Shields & Cook, lot 21, blk 4 and 
 
 lot 8, blk 2, Kelley, and pt ne 5, 82, 2, 4, sd, 2,400 
 
 In Construction Co. to Gr. F. Dawson, lot 8, blk 5, Mc- 
 
 Callsburg, wd, 20 
 
 Elbridge Chandler et al. to John Book, pt w i ne 34, 82, 
 
 23, qc, 100 
 
 United States to Vier Vick, n i se and sw ne 29, 82, 23, pat. 
 
 Alonza B. Hague to Wm. Hansell, pt lot 4 in sw se 6, 83, 
 
 22, wd, 1,300 
 
 JULY 5, 1886. 
 
 E. M. Ellingson to Marie B. Jacobs, lot 6, blk 4, Story 
 
 City, wd, 1,250 
 
 D . J. Vinge to C. E. Hoag, lots 1 and 4, blk 41, Nevada, wd, 500 
 
 John Cornwall to J. P. Coggshall, e i ne 31, 83, 22, wd, 2,000 
 
 J. G. Allen et al, to S. D. Booher, e i sw 29, 83, 22, wd, 850 
 
 Frank M. Evans to Thos. McGoodin, e i wi se nw 24, 84, 
 
 wd, 50 
 
 L. D. Thompson to 0. W. Wilson, ne nw and nw ne 36, 
 
 83, 23, wd, 1,800 
 
 Dimmit Baker to A. Ashford, pt sw se sw 6, 83, 23, wd, 675 
 
 J, J. Severson to John W. Johnson, sw se 32, 82, 23, wd, 1,200 
 
 Oley Nelson to Heine Johnson, n i ne 8, 82, 24, wd, 1,050 
 
 Jacob G. Stram to J. V. Kalsem, pt ne sw 13, 82, 24, wd, 1,050 
 
 Peter Anderson to Thor. Erickson, nw ne 24, 85, 24, wd, 1,000 
 
 Sheriff of Story County to Morris Mason, n i sw 27 and 
 
 and n i se 28, 82, 23, 1,405 
 
 J. S. Scott to E. F. Scott, nw 4, 82, 23, wd, 2,000 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to Albert Jones, lots 9 and 10, blk 8, 
 
 Collins, wd, 86 
 
 JULY 12, 1886. 
 
 D. C. Sullivan to Shields & Cook, pt e i se and nw se 32, 
 
 83, 24, wd, _ 3,720 
 
 Harriet Porter to J. J. Keigley, pt sw sw 4, 83, 24, qc, 1 
 
 Ezra J. Bantz to McAllen, se 29, 85, 22, qc, 20 
 
 N. J. Converse to A. L. Mead, s ^ ei sw 27, 83, 21, wd, 300 
 
 J. L. Stephens to Sarah J. Beverly, e i sw and se sw 16, 
 
 84, 24, wd, 3,000 
 
 Geo. M. Barnes to C. Blackman, lot 6, blk 30, Nevada, wd, 700 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to A. E. Nass, lot 1, blk 3, Huxley, wd, 86 
 
m 
 
 History of Story Cotjkty, Iowa, 
 
 JULY 20, 1886. 
 
 P. W. Hopkins to Isaac Buffington, e i se and sw se, 20, 
 
 84, 21,wd, • 2,550 
 
 John I. Blair to Robert Allen et ah, lot 1, blk23, Colo, wd, 1 
 
 C. Gr. McCarthy to S. Gr. Hogue, lot 4, blk 11, Sheldahl, qc, 50 
 
 Solon Bryan to C. Gr. McCarthy et ah, lot 6, blk 7, lots 3 
 and 4, blk 8, lots 1, 2 and 3, blk 9, lots 1, 2 and pt lot 
 10, blk 10, Sheldahl, qc, 500 
 
 W. S. Sickmon to Simon Doran, lots 11 and 12, blk 7, 
 
 Duffs add, Ames, wd, 500 
 
 S. J. Beverly to R. E. Stevens, lot 3, blk 36, Blair’s add, 
 
 Ames, wd, 3,000 
 
 Blair Town Lot & Land Co. to J. B. Clark, lot 5, blk 39, 
 
 Blair’s add, Ames, wd, 125 
 
 JULY 27, 1886. 
 
 M. A. Kellogg to C. Anderson, se sw 71, 85, 23, qc, 1 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to F. A. Jackson, lots 5 and 6, blk 3, 
 
 Maxwell, wd, 84 
 
 R. P. Shields to James P. Keeney, und isw se and ii ^ and 
 
 pt se se 32, 83, 24, wd, 3,720 
 
 Clara Little to Chas. L. Waterman, lots 14 and 15, blk 8, 
 
 Black’s 2nd add, Ames, qc, 20 
 
 Jennie Kellogg to Chas L. Waterman, lots 14 and 15, blk 
 
 8, Black’s 2nd add, Ames, qc, 20 
 
 Chas. L. Waterman to E. J. Loughran, lots 14 and 15, blk 
 
 8, Black’s 2nd add, Ames, wd, 150 
 
 Louisa P. Deck to S. D. Rooher, se nw and ne sw and e -J- 
 
 sw nw 32, 83, 23, qc, 25 
 
 M. E. Kellogg to J. E. Diffenback, e i jv 25, 84, 23, wd, 371 
 J. P. Miller to C. Anderson, nw nw 20, 85, 23, wd, 1,000 
 
 W. M. Hardy to Miranda Hardy, nw ne and e i se and sw 
 ne and ne nw 7 and pt sw se 30, 83, 23, and s ^ se sw 
 12, 83 and lots 3 and 4, blk B, Kingsbury’s add, Ames, 
 wd, . 5,500 
 
 AUGUST 16, 1886. 
 
 Ethan Akin to L. W. Howland sw ne 28, 85, 24, wd, 650 
 
 E. H. French to Gr. McQuillen, lot 18, blk 17, Maxwell, wd, 375 
 Baldwin & Maxwell to Rebecca L. Cline, lot 4, blk 1, Max- 
 well, wd, 35 
 
 T. C. McCall to Gr. W. Brown, nw ne 13, 85, 21, wd, 500 
 
 J. Rhodes, to Julia M. Parker, lot 2, blk 5, Collins, wd, 200 
 
 Iowa Railroad Land Co. to W. C. Robinson, ne sw 1, 82, 
 
 21, wd, 220 
 
 SEPTEMBER 3, 1886. 
 
 Adin B. Kinsel to J. W. Kinsel, blks 6, 9 and 20 and lots 
 1, 4, 6 and 7, blk 24 and lots 3, 5 and 6, blk 5 and blks 
 D and E, Cambridge, qc. 
 
 150 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 465 
 
 Emily A. Maier to John Maier, lot 5, blk 15, Barnes’ add, ; 
 
 Ames, wd, 350 
 
 H. M. Funson to M. M. Frase. s 2, nw 18, 24, 21, wd, 1,700 
 
 Henry Chesebro to Alfred M. Van Auken, e 2 se 34 and sw 
 
 35, 83, 23, wd, 2,400 
 
 J. C. Heslet to W. F. Swayze, n 2, se 31, 84,^22, wd, 1,600 
 
 W. F. Swayze to Wm. Lockridge, n 2, se 31, 84 22, wd, 1,600 
 
 Arthur Latham to Swen Howland, w 5, se 25,85, 23, wd, 2,000 
 
 Henry H. Neal to Amelia Neal, nw nw 20 and s 4, sw 17, 
 
 82, 21, wd, 100 
 
 Wm. Ulum to Andrew Donahoo, s 2, nw 8, nw sw 6, 82, 
 
 21, wd, 2,100 
 
 Winfield Scott to J. S. Nelson, pt sw se 13, 82, 24, wd, 100 
 
 Sheriff of Story County to Fenn & Erickson, lot 14, blk 
 
 11, Rowland, 499 
 
 SEPTEMBER 4, 1886. 
 
 Andrew Scott to J. S. Johnson, se sw 2, 85, 24, wd, 1,000 
 
 M. C. Allen to J. H. Irwin, sw and s ^ nw 33, 85, 21, wd, 3,600 
 
 Osmund Sheldahl to H. I. Anestad, pt w L sw 31, 82, 24, 
 
 wd, 57 
 
 D. L. Smith to T. J. Glraham, pt se sw 26, 84, 24, wd, 10 
 
 Otis Briggs to Gf. W. Posgate, se nw 29, 85, 22, wd, 340 
 
 Lucretia Byers to J. M. Byers, e 80 a of s f se 14, 83, 
 
 21, qc, 1 
 
 E. S. Brown to N. D. Enos, nw nw 11, 85, 21, wd, 1 
 
 Andrew Kent to Sarah Corey, w i nw 10, 83, 23, wd, 1,500 
 
 SEPTEMBER 10, 1886. 
 
 Andrew Scott to J. S. Johnson, se sw 2, 84, 24, wd $ 1,000 
 
 M. C. Allen to J, H. Irwin sw and s2 nw 33, 85, 21, wd 3,600 
 
 0. Sheldahl to H. I. Annestad pt w2 sw 31, 82, 24, wd 57 
 
 I). L. Smith to T. J. Glraham pt se sw 26, 84, 24, wd 10 
 
 Otis Briggs to Gleorge W. Posgate se nw 29, 85, 22, wd 340 
 
 Lucretia J. Byers to Janies M. Byers e 80 a q sf se 14, 83, 
 
 21, qc 1 
 
 E. S. Brown to N. D. Enos nw nw 11, 85, 21, wd 1 
 
 Andrew Kent to Sarah Corey, w2 nw 10, 83, 23, wd 1,500 
 
 SEPTEMBER 17, 1886. 
 
 Mary A. Miller to Gl. W. Hetzler, south 7-8 s hf sw 15 
 
 and e hf nw and ne sw 22, 84, wd $ 7,000 
 
 Johnathan Edwards to Henry R. Bond, sw 28', 83, 22, qc 1 
 
 James McGuire to ,J. R. McCoy, lot 1, block 12, Colo, wd 400 
 Lyda M. Broughard to S. A. Bales, lot 6 and 7, block 20, 
 
 Colo, wd 200 
 
 Henry R. Bond to G. W. Halley, sw 28, 83, 22, wd 2,400 
 
 H. F. Kingsbury to F. A. Rainbolt, lot 28, block, 
 
 Ames, wd • 1 
 
 30 
 
466 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Fred Bahe to Dora Maier, w hf sm?- 2, 83, 21, wd 5 
 
 A. C. Pond to Ole Nelson, s hf sw 26, 85, 25 wd 1,200 
 
 SEPTEMBER 21, 1886. 
 
 G. W. Hartzell to Abel S. Helvig, lot 15, block 10, Story 
 
 City, wd $ 650 
 
 Jonathan See to J. A. Fitchpatrick, pt se, 4, 82, 22, wd 175 
 
 Andrew Scott to J. A. Heacock, se ne se 23, 84, 22, wd 100 
 
 A. P. Condit to C. 0. Condit, w fr hf nw and pt se nw, 1 
 
 and e hf ne and pt w hf ne 2, 83, 24, wd 1 
 
 Frank Curtis to Burkland, and Osmanson, n hf ne, 3, 85, 
 
 23, wd 1,200 
 
 A. W. Davis to Peter Anderson, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, 
 
 block 1, Fairfield, wd 150 
 
 P. L. Porter to J. L. Stevens, n hf sw, 9, 83, 24, wd 2,250 
 
 David F. Lahman to A. M. Norris, all of section 15, 84, 21, 
 except sw nw and nw sw, also ne and ne nw, 22, 84, 
 
 21, wd _ 15,200 
 
 Kare Larson to J. R. Whitman, pt sw se, 14, 82, 24, wd 25 
 
 John V. Kalsem to J. R. Whitman, pt w hf ne, 14, 82, 
 
 23, wd 55 
 
 H. Romsa to J. R. Whitman, pt sw ne, 14, 82, 23, wd 26 
 
 J. A. Saxton to 0. L. Tesdahl, ne nw 27, 82, 24, wd 575 
 
 SEPTEMBER 27, 1886. 
 
 A. B. Hague to A. K. Banks, ne nw 12, 83, 22, wd $ 800 
 
 Mary J. Warrick to Georgia Warrick pt w hf sw 3, 83, 
 
 23, qc 1,200 
 
 Anna L. Brown to Benj. Kingsbury ne 18, 83, 23, qc 2 
 
 John Lawman to John P. Corbin pt ne 2, 83, 23, wd 75 
 
 Adele Grinard to Peter Lininger w hf se 19, 85, 24, wd 1,200 
 Adele Grinard to Anthony Laux n hf nw and w hf ne 
 
 19, 85, 24, — — 
 
 Adele Grinard to Isidore Weigel, n hf sw 19, 85, 24, wd 1,114 
 John Wirth to Frederick Wirth, nw nw 30, 85, 24, wd - 350 
 
 Mary Finch to Francis Finch, se ne and ne se 34, and s hf 
 
 nw 35, 83, 24, wd 2,000 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co to A. G. Armstrong, lots 4 and 5, blk 
 
 8, Collins, wd 1 
 
 John B. Cole to John R. Hays, lots 1 and 2, blk 18, Max- 
 well, qc 500 
 
 John R. Hays to Curt Wood, lots 1 and 2, blk 18, Max- 
 well, qc 1 
 
 Matilda Cole to Curt Wood, lots 1 and 2, blk 18, Max- 
 well, qc 500 
 
 Susie K. Purvis to T. 0. Hyland, lot 28, blk 12, Ames, wd 400 
 
 OCTOBER 5, 1886. 
 
 Blair T. L. & L. Co. to G. B. LaSure, lot 15, block 19, 
 
 Ames, wd 50 
 
History of Story County, Iowa, 467 
 
 George Wheeler to C. E. Wheeler, lot 3, block 19, 
 
 ‘Ames, wd 
 
 Baldwin & Wax well to Jennie Magee, lots 5 and 6, blk F, 
 
 Maxwell, wd 120 
 
 Treasurer of Story County to E. F. Farrington, pt nw ne 
 
 14, 83, 22, tax d 
 
 E. H. Decker to J. R. Decker, nw sw, 12, 84, 24, wd 1,200 
 
 D. H. Phillips to T. J. Ross, e hf ne qr blk 50, Ne- 
 vada, qc 100 
 
 J. E. Raff to Charlotte Raff, und hf lots 25 and 26, blk 10, 
 
 Ames, wd 300 
 
 Lars R. Larson to C. E. Gainde, lot 6, blk 18, Story City, wd 60 
 Stephen Turkington to John Turkington, n hf ne, 10, 
 
 84, 22, wd 2,200 
 
 OCTOBER 11, 1886. 
 
 D. C. Sullivan to Julia Sullivan, se nw and ne sw and pt 
 
 nw 11, 83, 24, wd $ 6,000 
 
 Carrie Watkins to John Cook, se nw 33, 82; 23, wd 1,300 
 
 Halver Halverson to Bret Halverson, und hf sw nw 34, 
 
 82, 24, wd 600 
 
 Nels Christofferson to Bret Halverson, sw nw 34, 82, 
 
 24, wd 800 
 
 John Cole to Elizabeth Flynn, pt se ne 27, 84, 24, wd 37 
 
 Andrew Mikelson to Nels Christofferson, w hf nw 34, 82, 
 
 24, wd 800 
 
 Geo. M. Maxwell et al to Jonas Lewis, n hf nw 17 and se 
 
 sw 8, 82, 23, wd 3,000 
 
 Ann Campbell et al to John Cole, pt se ne 27, 84, 24, wd 50 
 
 Jas. O’Leary to Dennis O’Leary, nw 12,82, 21, wd 1,000 
 
 A. 0. Hall to Harriet A. Corrington, n hf sw se 19, 83, 
 
 22, wd 325 
 
 Edmund Lindsey to Peter Nelson, lot 5, blk 2, Kelly, wd 20 
 
 Ella W. Smith to Mary H. Chamberlin, lots 3 and 6, blk 
 
 27, Nevada, wd 1,400 
 
 NOVEMBER 8, 1886. 
 
 Blair Town L. & Land Co. to S. J. Beverly, lot 3, block 39 ' 
 
 2d add to Ames, wd 80 
 
 Seth Zug to John R. Smith, middle ■§• lot 3, blk 13, Ne- 
 vada, wd 2,000 
 
 James M. Holmes to H. E. Halverson, ne qr-18, 82, 24, wd 2,300 
 S. F. Lathrop to John Adams, sw qr ne qr 1, 85, 21, wd 400 
 
 James Mathews to Jennie N. Mathews, 5 a in nw sw 5, 
 
 82, 23, wd _ 100 
 
 Mary J ane Blair to Margaret White, 100 a in s hf 34, 84, 
 
 22, wd _ 2,000 
 
 Sheriff to German Saving Bank, w hf ne 18, 84, 21, shff d 1,100 
 Margaret J. Bradley guard to T. J. Graham, se nw 26, 84, 
 
 24, guard d 504 
 
468 
 
 History of Story Couistty, Iowa. 
 
 D. A. Emery to W. 0. Templeman, se nw 24, 83, 21, wd 720 
 
 D. A. Emery to Peter Dolan, sw nw 24, 83, 21, wd 720 
 
 Geo. M. Maxwell et al to Jonas Lewis, n hf nw 17 and se 
 
 sw 8, 82, 23, wd 3,000 
 
 Charles Mead to John 0. Moore, ne 35, 83, 21, wd 3,700 
 
 John 0. Moore to Hattie F. Anderson, e hf ne 35, 83, 21, wd 1,600 
 John 0. Moore to Addie L. Graves, w hf ne 35, 83, 21, wd 1,600 
 Wm. D. Lucas to Adam Baker, ne 25 and pt se sw and sw 
 
 se 23, 84, 24, wd 6,000 
 
 M. C. Allen to Aaron Lancaster, se sw and sw se 11, 85, 
 
 21, wd 650 
 
 D. H. Mackey to James Allison, nw 20, 84, 22, wd 3,087 
 
 J. A. Allen to John N. McCall, n hf ne and sw ne 2, 84, 22 2,100 
 
 A. B. Thomas to Mary E. Thomas, lots 3 and 4, hlk 28, 
 
 Ames, and s hf nw and n hf sw 4, 84, 24, 26, 2,500 
 
 J. H. Griffith to Sarah Anderson, nw ne 13, 84, 24, wd 800 
 
 Lydia B. Martin to Albert Jones, sw 9, 82, 21, wd 2,600 
 
 Thomas Danskin to Moses Dean, e hf se 18, ne 19 and w 
 
 hf nw 20, 84, 21, wd 7,656 
 
 Joseph Wiedner to Will T. Norris, lot 46, hlk 44, Burris 
 
 add, wd 500 
 
 I. S. French to Ellen Larue, lot 8, hlk 24, Colo, wd 200 
 
 A. T. Bartlett to Ellen Larue, lot 9, hlk 24, Colo, wd 155 
 
 John Evenson to A. M. Norris, lots 8 and 9, hlk 1, Ne- 
 vada, wd 2,000 
 
 KOVEMBBR 15, 1886. 
 
 Daniel Maxwell to R. W. Liddle und i nw 8, 84, 24, qc $ 1 
 
 Geo. P. Maxwell to R. W. Liddle und i nw 8, 84, 24, qc 1 
 
 Lizzie Waddel to R. W. Liddle, und i nw 8, 84, 24, qc 1 
 
 Shields & Cook to J. F. and C. P. Keeney, n hf se, se se 
 
 and und hf pt sw se 32, 83, 24, and lots in Kelly 9,470 
 
 W. W. Booth to E. R. Chamberlain, w 5 ft lot 23 and e 
 
 8i ft lot 22 hlk 11, Ames, wd 300 
 
 E. R. ChamberRin to W. W. Booth, lots 1 to 7, hlk 26, 
 
 Blair’s add Ames, wd 300 
 
 W. H. Grafton to 0. G. Leland, s hf lot B of lot 2 in se 
 
 nw 21, 82, 23, wd 37 
 
 W. H. Grafton to T. E. Egland, n hf lot B of lot 2 in se 
 
 nw 21, 82, 23, wd 37 
 
 John F. Wilson to T. T. Wilson, und hf s hf nw 17, 82, 
 
 23, w'd 1,100 
 
 Clarissa Zenor to Sarah E. Loving, se nw and ne sw 30, 
 
 84, 24, wd 1,600 
 
 R. M. Miskimins to Charles Mead, ne 32, 82, 21, wd 3,700 
 
 D. N. Prime to Jacob Taylor, lot 3 se nw 26, 83, 22, wd 35 
 
 James Henry to J. F. Taylor, n i w hf ne nw 26, 83, 
 
 22, wd 125 
 
 J. F. Taylor to H. 0. Ayers, w hf ne nw 26, 83, 22, wd 3,000 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 469 
 
 J. F. Taylor to H. 0. Ayers, s hf ne and lot 6 se nw 26, 
 
 83, 22, wd 1,400 
 
 James Carr to H. 0. Ayers, n hf ne 26, 83, 22, qc 1 
 
 J. K. P Kirkendall to H. 0. Ayers, n hf ne 26, 83, 22, wd 2,400 
 
 F. W. Foster, merchant, Ontario, assigns to L. R. Jones 
 for benefit of creditors Nov. i3th — assets $2,500, lia- 
 bilities $4,500 — creditors mostly Des Moines parties. 
 
 NOVEMBER 22, 1886. 
 
 J. T. Cook to J. F. and C. P. Keeney, lots 2, 4, 6, and 8, 
 
 blk 1 and lot 1 blk 4, Kelly, wd $ 1,400 
 
 R. P. Shields to J, F. and C. P. Keeney, lots 1, 7 and 10, 
 blk 4 and lots 1 and 4, blk 7, Black’s add, lot 3, blk 
 27, Blair’s add, Ames, wd 3,900 
 
 H. H. Neal to W. A. Ulm, s qr sw sw 17, nw nw 20, 82, 
 
 21, wd 1,600 
 
 Sheriff Story County to T. J. Ross, lots 5, 8 and 9, blk 19, 
 
 Nevada, sheriff d 700 
 
 DECEMBER 6, 1886. 
 
 Katarina Hansen to F. P. Jensen, e hf sw 14, 85, 24, qc $ 1 
 
 Katarina Hansen admx to F. P. Jensen, e hf sw 14, 85, 24, 
 
 admr d 1,150 
 
 Mary E. Pritchard and Harriet J. Watkins to Ann Wat- 
 
 Jervis Harvey to Thomas Humphrey, 137 acres in 5, 83, 
 
 24, wd 6,200 
 
 W. W. Tupper to Maggie B. Tapper, lot 7, blk 44, Ne- 
 • vada, qc 1 
 
 John Larson to Frank A. Boynton, lot 25, blk 17, Burris'’ 
 
 add, wd 100 
 
 Michael Hegeland to J. J. Sevdy, lot 5, blk B, Hegeland’s 
 
 add to Roland, wd 30 
 
 Kari Land to Katarina Hansen, e hf sw 14, 85, 24, qc 1 
 
 B. Lindsey to F. Elliot, lot 2 sw se 13, 84, 22, qc 15 
 
 W. L. Williams to Henry Cronk, lot 5, blk 33, Cam- 
 bridge, wd 1,300 
 
 Levi Nellis to Abram Hennion, lot 5, blk D, Nellis’ add to 
 
 Cambridge, wd 150 
 
 James F. Keeney to Julia F. McLain, lot 9 and n 30 ft, 1, 
 
 10, blk 2, Blair’s add to Ames, wd 2,000 
 
 George Jones and wife to Mary M. Jones se sw and s 70 a 
 
 w hf se 17, 83, 24, wd 1,700 
 
 Michael Ruvane to Halvor Monson, s hf sw and ne sw 28, 
 
 85, 22, wd 1,200 
 
 Clark & Cleveland, executors, to A. S. Converse, e hf nw 
 
 35, 83, 21, ex d 1,157 
 
 Colo M. E, Church to E. F. French, blk 2, Colo, wd 100 
 
 Otis Briggs to John Kirkendall, s hf lot 6, blk 11, Ne- 
 vada, wd 100 
 
470 Histohy op Story County, Iowa. 
 
 DECEMBER 13, 1886. 
 
 Martha C. Dye to S. P. Daniels, lot 4, blk 2, New Phila- 
 delphia, wd $ 50 
 
 S. P. Daniels to W. E. McCoy, lot 4, blk 2, New Phila- 
 delphia, wd 50 
 
 Tabitha Canfield to Maria C. Horton, w hf sw 4, 83, 22, wd 2,400 
 J. M. Wells to A. J. Reed, lot 4, nw ne 14, 83, 22, qc 46 
 
 John Dikoph to Joseph Leminger, sw sw 18, 85, 24, wd 856 
 
 E. S. Grubbs et al. to Baldwin & Maxwell, lot ne sw 27, 
 
 82, 23, qc 50 
 
 N. W. Wood to John Rogers, sw 23, 85, 21, wd 3,200 
 
 Lemuel Blood to Carrie Watkins, e hf nw and nw nw 21, 
 
 83, 23, wd 900 
 
 Joseph S. Nelson to Martin Nelson Lee, lot 9, sw se 13, • 
 
 82, 24, 175 
 
 Wm. J. Maxwell to Ann Brooks, sw nw 7, 84, 24, wd 478 
 
 Iowa Railroad Land Co. to Thomas Brooks, se nw 7, 84, 
 
 24, wd 400 
 
 DECEMBER 20, 1886. 
 
 Clara Little to Charles Waterman, s i s hf sw n i nw 26, 
 
 83, 24, qc, I 250 
 
 Jennie E. Kellogg to same, same land qc, 250 
 
 Sheriff to Daniel Pierce, w hf se and e hf sw 12, 85, 21, sd, 2,704 
 
 Treasurer to L.. L. Cassidy, lot 4 in s hf sw 33, and lot 5 e 
 hf sw 32, 84, 24, tax deed, 
 
 Oley Nelson Admr to Thomas Simonson, e hf se and nw 
 
 se 20, 82, 24 Admr deed, 1,500 
 
 Helen M. Balliet to Caleb Winger, lots 6 and 7 blk B 
 
 Stark’s add Nevada wd, ^ 180 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co to A. H. McNall, lots 5 and 6 blk 2 
 
 Maxwell wd, 80 
 
 E. P. Quackenbush to C. E. Smith, lot 2 blk 24 Burris add 
 
 to Nevada wd, 300 
 
 C. A. Haworth to Eli Hadley, lots 5 and 8 blk 41 Nevada 
 
 wd, 1,600 
 
 Adam Baker to H. C. Hensen, ne 25 and lots 1 in sw and 
 
 se 23, 84, 24 wd, 8,000 
 
 Ada D. Shugart to D. B. Hill all interest in estate of Ira 
 
 E. Baker qc, 350 
 
 DECEMBER 27, 1886. 
 
 Philip Nugent to L, D. Ozmun, lot 12 blk 2 Collins wd, $ 250 
 
 M. Erickson to R. H. Mitchell, lot 3 se sw 23, 84, 24 qc, 1 
 
 Ella C. Bradley to F. N. Evans, se sw 25, 84, 24 wd, 500 
 
 E. F. McKim to F. N. Evans, e hf w hf se sw 24, 84, 24 wd, 50 
 
 F. T. McLain to F. N. Evans, w hf n hf s hf se sw 23, 84, 
 
 24, wd, 50 
 
 John Evanson to Andrew Axelton, s 42 ft lot 1 ne ne 22, 
 
 85, 23 wd, 36 
 

 Histoey oe Story Couetty, Iowa. 471 
 
 T. S. Hampton to M. I). Hampton, lot 1 blk 3 Collins wd, 500 
 C. B. Grinde to Ole H. Lund, lot 10 blk 5 Story City wd, 175 
 
 N. Ballen to Caty Ann Hand lot 1 blk 5 Collins wd, 600 
 
 Amy Harper to Rasmuss Rasmussen, s 223 ft blk 2 Burris 
 
 add Nevada wd, 650 
 
 H. E. J. Boardman to Wm. Mathews, se sw 33, 83, 22 wd, 440 
 
 Charles J. Kagle to I. V. Walker, lots 2 and 3 blk D, 
 
 Kingsbury’s add to Ames wd, 1,200 
 
 Maggie A. King to C. H. Dickey, lot 10 blk 7 Maxwell qc, 1 
 
 Sylvester Scott to M. Aylsworth, pt nw nw 5, 83, 24 wd, 285 
 
 James S. Basly estate to K. Woster, e hf se 6, 85, 22, wd, 683 
 
 Rob’t Richardson to Town of Elwell plat w hf sw sw 30, 
 
 82, 22, * 
 
 JANUARY 3, 1887. 
 
 A. F. Tienan to Margaret Murphy, se qr nw sw ne and w 
 
 hf se ne qr and nw ne se 35, 84, 22 wd, ^ 200 
 
 Wm. and Eliza Kingsbury to Leland Kingsbury, e 10 a lot 
 
 5 w h£ sw 19, 83, 23 wd, 50 
 
 Sarah Wood to Arthur M. Gray, se 19, 85, 21 wd, 3,200 
 
 O. L. Binford to Geo. Barnard, n hf sw 2, 84, 21 wd, 1,700 
 
 Robert J. Butts to 0. L. Binford, n hf sw 2, 84, 21 wd, 1,800 
 
 Wm. Sapp to C. P. Bean, 1 hf acres ne cor 21, 85, 21 wd, 125 
 
 JANUARY 10, 1887, 
 
 W. H. Grafton to S. W. Snyder, lot 5 blk 7 Sheldahl wd, $ 125 
 
 Duea and w to 0. J. Olson et al. 10 a ne cor 21, 85, 23 wd, 75 
 
 John K. Hobaugh to Wm. R. Oxley, nw ne 36, 82, 22 wd, 700 
 Calvin Giddings and w to W. B. Miller, w hf nw- qr sec 3 
 
 and e hf ne qr 4, 82, 24 qc, J 
 
 B. E. Wells and w to J. M. Coleman, sw qr 23, 85, 22 wd, 3,872 
 
 State of Iowa to Wm. K. Wood, ne 16, 82, 22 pt. 
 
 Permelia Giddings to W. B. Miller, w hf nw sec 3 and e 
 
 hf ne 4, 82, 24 wd, 8,000 
 
 • JANUARY 17, 1887. 
 
 John Rex to John C. Bex, s hf se qr and nw qr se qr 17, 
 
 85, 24 wd, I 2,400 
 
 R. S. Shafer to J. H. Sinclair, se qr and e hf sw qr 23 wd, 3,500 
 Ole H. Orre to Peder Loe, se qr sw qr sw qr 13, 82, 24 wd, 323 
 M. Keith et al to T. Alysworth, lot 5 blk 6 Ontario wd, 35 
 
 Ernest R. Lindell to H. T. Woodruff, lot 7 blk 4 Ames wd, 180 
 J. F. Snyder to N.’ Eckler, all interest in he qr 5, 82, 24 qc, 137 
 
 JANUARY 24, 1887. 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to C. M. & St. P. R’y Co., lot 12 blk 
 
 16 and 1 and 2 blk 20 Maxwell qc, $ 1 
 
 Iowa Construction Co. to Wm. H. Weatherly, lot 4 blk 6 
 , lots 7, 9, 11 and 13, blk 5 lots 3, 5 a ' 
 
 5, 11, 13 and 15 blk 17 Zearing wd. 
 
 195 
 
472 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Greo. H. Brown and wife to Carrie M. Hawley, lots 3 and 4 
 
 blk 5 Black’s add to Ames wd, 4,000 
 
 John McConnell to Simeon McConnell, se nw nw and e hf 
 
 ne nw nw 29, 83, 22 qc, 1 
 
 W. H. Brooks and .wife to T. C. McCall, e hf sw 35, 85, 22, 
 
 J. F. Millhouse and wife to Thomas Brumly, w hf se hf 
 
 34, 82, 21 wd, 2,000 
 
 James S. Brooks and wife to S. E. Cameron, ne ne 36, 84, 
 
 24 wd, 1,000 
 
 Moses Dean to Arthur Dean, nw ne and nw 21, 84, 21 wd, 1 
 
 Moses Dean to Mary A. Whipple, ne fr 4, 83, 21 and part 
 
 sw 18, 83, 21 wd, ^ 1 
 
 David F. Shope to Prince A. Shope, s hf se 32, 82, 22* wd, 2,800 
 Wm. H. Weatherly to Nancy Norton, lots 13, 15, and 17 
 
 hlk 8 Zearing wd, ’ 75 
 
 Abhie M. White to Wm. Handsaker, sw 27, 84, 22, 3,000 
 
 First Norweigen Ev. L. Church to Bethlehem Congrega- 
 tion, part sw sw 30, 82, 23 wd, ■ 300 
 
 Sheriff to T. E. Alderman & Son, part nw se 6, 83, 22 sd, 170 
 0. M, Johnson & Co. to Johnson, Apland & Ersland, part 
 ! lot 1 blk 27 Cambridge wd, 3,300 
 
 Susan Seward and husband to James Thompson, se nw 17 
 
 and n hf se nw 4, 82, 22 qc, 50 
 
 David Holland and wife to James Thompson, se nw 17 
 
 and n hf se nw 4, 82, 22 qc, 50 
 
 E. J. Allen et al to James Thompson, se nw 17 and n hf 
 
 se nw 4, 82, 22 qc, 150 
 
 Mary E. Baker to James Thompson, se nw 17 and n hf se 
 
 nw 4, 82, 22 qc, • 50 
 
 . * JANUARY 31_, 1887. 
 
 E. Richardson to C. E. Hays, lot 10 blk B Zearing wd, | '50 
 
 E. Gr. Richardson to C. E. Hayes lot 9 blk B Zearing wd, 50 
 
 Mikel Erickson to Thor. L. Thorson lots 5, 8, 9, blk 13 
 
 Roland wd, 150 
 
 Sheriff Story Co. to Henry Barnes, lot 3 blk 14 Ames sd, 138 
 
 C. S. Giddings and w to John Nelson, middle 12 a nw se 
 
 34, 83, 24 wd, 270 
 
 John J. Keigley and w to Jervis Harvey se se and e^ of ne 
 se sec 5 and nf e hf ne sec 8 and lot 2 in w hf sw sec 
 4 twp 83 R 24 wd, 8,220 
 
 Sam. Christian and w to C. C. Holter, pt nw sw 15, 85, 
 
 23 wd, 1,366 
 
 R. Miskimins and w to Loienzo D. Ozmun, e Kf ne and 
 
 sw ne 33, 82, 21 wd, 2,500 
 
 FEBRUARY 7, 1887. 
 
 D. G. France to Geo. G. Tilden, se 29, 83, 24 wd, .3,200 
 
 J. A. Stratton to T. E. Alderman, n hf s hf ne 24, 83, 25 
 
 1,054 
 
Histoet of Stoey Couktt, Iowa. 473 
 
 Monina Hotzell to J. S. McCoy, sw 23, 83, 24 wd, 3,800 
 
 T. E. Alderman to J. 0. Elzy, n hf s hf ne 24, 83, 23, 725 
 
 John D. Johnson to 0. J. Maul, n hf s hf ne 9, 82, 24 wd, 700 
 
 Sam. Christian to John Evenson, pt ne and se 16 and pt 
 
 nw sw 15 all 85, 23 wd, 3,875 
 
 T. W. Kelly to F. D. Fultz, pt lot 6 in w hf nw 7, 83, 22 
 
 wd, 630 
 
 K. 0. Apland to K. A. Ersland, lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 blk 34 
 
 Cambridge wd, 450 
 
 D. M. Johnson to Apland & Ersland, pt lot 1 blk 27 Cam- 
 
 bridge wd, 533 
 
 John Evenson to Johnson & Mickelson, lots 17 and blk 10 
 
 Roland wd, 2,000 
 
 J. Keigley to E. Cook, lot 7 blk 6 Duff’s add to Ames wd, 42 
 W. M. Jones to F. J. Cook, lots 8, 9, 10 and 11 blk 6 Duff’s 
 
 add to Ames wd, 112 
 
 J. Evenson to 0. S. and C. S. Holland, ne ne 19, 85, 22 wd, 518 
 
 J. James to A. Johnson, 1 a lot 7 of se se 31, 85, 23, wd, 10 
 
 Wm. A. Smith to Jas. W. Reagan, s hf 12, 82, 21 wd, 5,000 
 
 FEBEUAET 7, 1887. 
 
 Aaron Pearson to Daniel J. Smith, e 8 a lot in nw sw 35, 
 
 82, 22 wd, _ . . ^ 
 
 Jacob A. Jacobson to Fieldburg Congregation, 2 a in sw 
 
 sw 25, 82, 24 qcd, 1 
 
 E. Lindsey to F. Anderson, lot 8 in nw 18, 85, 25 qcd, 15 
 
 J. V, Kalsem to J. Anderson, lot 13 in nw sw 13, 82, 24 wd, 50 
 
 Blair Town Lot and Land Co. to Maria Read, lots 1 and 2 
 
 blk 12 Ames wd, ' 175 
 
 Charlotte B. Holdridge to C. Gr. Tilden, ne 20, 83, 23 wd, 2,650 
 Nancy Gr. Hambleton and husband to J. R. McCutchen, 
 
 w hf sw 34, 84, 23 wd, 900 
 
 Henry Trefz to Miles Pearson, lot 18 blk 8 Maxwell wd, 400 
 
 W . H. Grafton to Knute Apland, 1 fr a in lot 6 blk 34 
 
 Cambridge wd, 87 
 
 FEBEUAET 21, 1887. 
 
 Ellen Vanhorn to J. A. Waltz, nw se 20, 83, 21 qcd, $ 400 
 
 Iowa R. R. Land Co. to John Scott, se ne 27, 84, 23 wd, 120 
 
 W. W. Knepper to J. B. Hanson, n hf se 9, 82, 21 qcd, 475 
 
 Chas. C. Brand to John Scott, s hf nw ne^S, 83, 25 wd, 112 
 
 G, M. Maxwell to M. Joseph, pt nw nw and lots 1 and 2 
 
 in se nw 26, 82, 23 wd, 800 
 
 F. M. Baldwin to Geo. M. Maxwell, n hf sw nw 26, 82, 23 
 
 and ef s qr nw nw 26, 82, 23 wd, 178 
 
 H. W. Bates to John Scott, nw ne ne 23, 83, 24 wd, 75 
 
 Hannah M. Gibbs to P. E. Burke, s hf nw 24, 83, 23 wd, 2,500 
 
 G. Mullen to John Scott, se sw 23, 85, 22 wd, 350 
 
 Maggie West to Maria West, e hf w hf ne 1, 82, 23 qcd, 1 
 
474 
 
 Histoey of Stoey County, Iowa. 
 
 Wm. Lockridge to John Beatty, lot 9 blk 41 Nevada wd, 600 
 John Ersland to John B. Frisk, lots 1 and 2 blk 1 and 
 
 lots 1 and 2 blk 8 Sheldahl wd, 85 
 
 B. W. Paxton to Alice M. Paxton et ah, ne 22, 82, 24 wd, 4,000 
 R. M. Miskimins to Chas. Meade, w hf sw 38, 82, 21 wd, 1,400 
 
 F. D. Quince Woosley to Patrick Scanlon, und 1-6 of se 9 
 
 and sw 9, 85, 22 wd, 1,100 
 
 FEBEUAEY 28, 1887. 
 
 Permelia biddings to Naomi Giddings, e hf nw 3, 82, 24, 
 
 and s^ nw se 34, 83, 24 qcd, f 1 
 
 G. A. Penn to Mikel Erickson, und int lot 14 blk 11 
 
 Roland qcd, 205 
 
 Mikel Erickson et al. to 0. 0. Stole, lots 11 and 12 blk 14 
 
 Roland wd, 130 
 
 0. 0. Stole to Duea Stale, lot 17 blk 11 Roland wd, 50 
 
 Mikel Erickson et al. to Duea and Stole, lot 18 blk 11 
 
 Roland wd, 50 
 
 Sam. S. Larson to S. R. Cornelinssen, hf of i lot 1 and pt 
 
 lot 2 blk 6 Story City wd, 660 
 
 R. M. Miskimins to Chas. Mead, w hf sw 33, 82, 21 wd, 1,400 
 Jesse Vanscoy to trus church United Brethren, 1 a in sw 
 
 cor of s hf nw 25, 83, 24 wd, 50 
 
 J. F. Rich to John Noble, 31 a more or less in nw ne 7, 
 
 84, 23 wd, 600 
 
 Andrew D. Clark to C. W. Sowers, s hf ne 34, 85, 22 wd, 1,500 
 
 O. C. H. Jacobson to Andrew H. Jacobson, und hf nw 9, 
 
 85, 24 wd, 1,400 
 
 W. F. Swayze to Langdon Drake, w hf sw 22, 83, 22 swd, 1,000 
 A. Mullen to J. C . Aldridge, 13 a in nw sw 26, 83, 22, wd, 130 
 
 MAECH 7, 1887. 
 
 Mary and James Marshall to Prince A. Shope, ne se 32, 
 
 .82, 22, qc d _ $ 130 
 
 P. A, McLain to J . Henry Riddlesbarger, lots 1 and 4, blk 
 
 2, Nevada, wd 1,500 
 
 J. S. Frazier to John Neasham, lots 6 and 7, blk 41, Ne- 
 vada, 160 
 
 J. S. McCoy to J. A. Hortzell, lots 1 and 2, blk 3, and lot 
 
 19, blk 4, Kelly, wd 2,500 
 
 Catharine Crowser et al. to Nels S. Helland, w hf sw w hf 
 se ne ne 14, and w hf of lot 4, blk 4, and lots 1 and 2, 
 blk 5, Palestine, wd 2,300 
 
 Oliver Chamberlain to James Dragoo, n hf sw 28, 83, 
 
 24, qc d 1 
 
 John E. Marrow to Martha E. Reagan, lot 16, blk 4, Max- 
 well, wd * 300 
 
 John W. Stevens et al. to Martha R. Bates, n hf se 28, 
 
 82, 21, qc d 1,000 
 
History or Story County, Iowa. 475 
 
 Heirs of James Fields to Prince A. SliOj.)e, ne se 32, 82, 
 
 22, wd 900 
 
 Nathan I. Brown to N. D. Hopkins, w hf nw 11, 85, 
 
 22, wd 1,600 
 
 Elizabeth Fields to Prince A. Shope, ne se 32, 82, 22, qc d 125 
 
 MARCH 14, 1887. 
 
 John and C. M. Peck to Hans Jacobson, n hf se 21, 85, 
 
 22, wd $ 1,600 
 
 J. A. Fitchpatrick to John Frazier, se ne 10, 85, 21, qc d 1 
 
 Mikel Erickson et al. to A. Olson & Sons, lot 15, blk 10, 
 
 Roland, wd 50 
 
 W. W. Booth to E. R. Chamberlain, w 5J ft, lot 23 and e 
 
 84 ft lot 22, Ames, wd _ 300 
 
 Sakarias Seldal to Andrew 0. Beard, lot 3, blk 5, Fair- 
 
 view, wd 200 
 
 Hawkeye Lumber Co. of Illinois to Hawkeye Lumber Co. 
 of Wisconsin, lot 8, blk D, lot 6, blk C, Cam- 
 bridge, qc d 1 
 
 A. K. Ersland to Oley Nelson, lots 3 and 4, blk 15, and 
 
 lots 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, blk 10, Sbeldahl, wd 2,500 
 
 Nancy Gr. Hambleton to A. M. Norris, s hf se 31, 84, 
 
 22, wd 1,600 
 
 A. Cole to Thomas J. and George Graham, n hf nw 35, 84, 
 
 24, qc d 200 
 
 John H. Fatland to John J. Severson, w hf nw nw 16, 
 
 82, 23, qcd ' _ 120 
 
 Sam Sampson to Cornelius Halvors, se 11, 85, 22, wd 2,900 
 
 Marion Smith to Frank Curtis, ne 16, 84, 23, admr d 2,760 
 
 John J. Severson to Hadle Larson, 6 a, lot 15, in w hf sw 
 
 18, 82, 23, wd , '^2 
 
 MARCH 14, 1887. 
 
 D. S. Dilfenbacker to Mary S. Scott, e hf w hf 25, 84, 
 
 23, ex d ^ 3,520 
 
 A. G. Armstrong to S. A. Bush, lots 7 and 8, blk 2, Arm- 
 strong’s addition to Collins, wd 80 
 
 John Christian to Sam Christian and P. A. Hermanson, 
 
 lot 3, blk 5, Story City, wd _ 1,300 
 
 Milwaukee Land Co. to Martha Johnson, lot 5, blk 5, Mil 
 
 L. Co’s to 1st add to Huxley, wd 50 
 
 J. D. Laham to J. H. Lounsberry se 29, 84, 21, wd 3,000 
 
 Isaac Shaffer et al to W. F. Swayze, nw se 20, 83, 21, wd 300 
 J. A. Hartzell to J. S. McCoy, w 5 a of s hf se se 17, 83, 
 
 24, wd 190 
 
 Delos Arnold to J. Jondall, n hf se 15, 85, 24, wd 1,200 
 
 Sarah W. Joor et al to E. Bates, n hf nw se and sw nw, 
 
 se 14, 83, 22, wd > 255 
 
 Mary D. Hampton et al to Albert Jones, lot 1, blk 3, Col- 
 lins, wd 190 
 
476 History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 Mary F. Belclier to W m. Belcher, lot 4, blk 9, Iowa Cen- 
 ter, wd 75 
 
 Nancy Gr. Harableton to E. M. Padleford, e hf lots 4 and 
 
 5, blk 13, Blair’s add to Nevada, wd 35 
 
 S. S. Larson to Carl Rasmussen, lots 4 and 5, blk 25, E. R. 
 
 Larson’s add Story City, wd 400 
 
 Nancy Gr, Hambleton to Annie Padleford, w bf lots 4 and 
 
 5, blk 13, Blair’s add to Nevada, wd 35 
 
 Emma B. L. Cowles etal. to George A. Underwood, lot 
 
 13, blk 11, Ames, wd 75 
 
 I) . B . and L . B . Hill to Sarab R . Baker und of w bf 
 
 se and e bf sw 36, 84, 24, ex 5 a sw cor wd 1,000 
 
 Sarab R. Baker to L. B. Hill, und f e bf nw fr ex s 9.47 
 
 a and und i w bf ne ex 10 a in sw cor 1, 83, 24, wd 1,000 
 
 MARCH 26, 1887. 
 
 David Goodin to Eddie D . Goodin, w 28,355 a e bf nw fr 
 
 qr 6, 83, 22, wd | 1,134 
 
 State of Iowa to Tbomas Wbitaker, n bf ne 32, 83, 22, 
 
 patent, 
 
 Tbomas Wbitaker to Samuel Wbitaker. n bf ne 32, 83, 
 
 22, wd 500 
 
 H. 0. Sbeldabl to S. Wydland, lot 1, blk 7, Sbeldabl, wd 100 
 J. C. Jacobson, admr to Ole Jacobson, 1 a off e side of sw 
 
 se and se se ex 1 a 15, 84, 23, swd 800 
 
 James Carr to Esther Gross ne sw and se nw 13, 83, 
 
 .22, wd 1,700 
 
 Christian Oleson to Severt Anderson, 4 a in sw of se 13, 
 
 82, 24, and lot 2 in sw of se 13, 82, 24, wd 140 
 
 Peder A. Lien to M. 0. Ferkin et al sw 4, 85, 22, wd 3,500 
 
 Mathew Lind to S. S. Larson, n hf sw sesw s 16.32 a of 
 
 nw 2, 85, 24, Avd 1,900 
 
 H. H. Boyes to J . M. Ingram, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, blk 10, 
 
 Blair’s add to Nevada, wd 300 
 
 Hans Anlund to S. E. Larson, lot 4, blk 25, E. R. Larson, 
 
 add Story City, wd 50 
 
 T. Mydland to Nels Severtson, lot 1, blk 7, Sbeldabl wd 155 
 Bert Sbepland to C. 0. Shepland, lots 9 and 10, blk C, 
 
 Wells add Cambridge, wd 400 
 
 R. E. Hurley to Hans Anlund, lot 4, blk 25, E. R. Lar- 
 
 
 
 Charles Mead to John J. Hattery, e hf nw and sw se 15, 
 
 82, 21, wd 2,605 
 
 APRIL 4, . 1887. 
 
 Henry B. Kent to C. W. Mills, e hf ne 8, 23, wd ^ 800 
 
 Joseph P. Robinson to D. J. Wbitaker, lots 13 and 16 in 
 
 w hf sw 29, 83, 22, wd 160 ' 
 
 George G. Tilden to Jesse Dinsmore, ne 20, 83, 23, wd 2,650 
 
History of Story County, Iowa. 
 
 477 
 
 3 
 
 Soren Paulson to F. Anderson, lot 7 in nw 18, 85, 23, wd 
 J. C. Mason to Eos well Cory, w hf sw and sw nw 16, 83, 
 23, wd 
 
 Greorge Wheeler to J. C. Mason, 4 a in w fr hf sw 19, 83, 
 23, wd 
 
 Eobert Cozzens to Wm. Cozzens, w hf ne 33, 84, 21, wd. 
 H. G. Erb to C. W. Mills, e hf ne 8, 83, 23, qcd 
 Mary M. Jones to George Jones, se sw and s w hf se 17, 
 83, 24, qc d 
 
 J. W. Ambrose to P. N. Thornton, se 31, 83, 21, wd 
 
 K. J. Jacobson to J. C. Jacobson, lot 13, blk 10, Eoland, wd 
 
 30 
 
 2,400 
 
 200 
 
 1,500 
 
 1 
 
 1,200 
 
 3,200 
 
 200 
 
 \> 
 
 
 
 « 
 
 
 k 
 
 
 
 
Il^DEX. 
 
 A. 
 
 Agricultural Society— First Organization 10, 13 
 
 Appraisement Law Demanded ’ 7 
 
 Agr. Col. and Farm — First Meeting to Secure 80, 31 
 
 Ames— Early Histoiy Of ; 51, 231, 232,’ 244 
 
 An Early Liquor Case 24 25 
 
 Appeal to Gen. Grant by a Little Girl ’ ng 
 
 Aunt Dina’s Hymn " 32 
 
 Age of the Presidents 90 
 
 Alderman — Dutton Farm ’ 225 
 
 Appeal to Board Supervisors by Mrs. A 307 
 
 Appraised value of Hevada Property 136 
 
 Agr. Col. location by active work 236 
 
 Ames’ Press — Their Newspapers ^ 232 
 
 Appraised Value of County Farm and other property 298 299 
 
 Attys at Law for 1857 and Later ’ 33 
 
 Adams’ Bequest to Iowa 288 
 
 Agricultural Farm— Trustees names who located the Agricultural Farm.. . 236 
 
 Adams,_ Clay and Gough 312 
 
 Arrasmith Family Cemetery ’ ’ . . . ”.440' 441 
 
 B. 
 
 Barns Good Ones — W. Golden’s 
 
 Barns Good Ones — Others 
 
 Born, Mrs. Jacob 
 
 Boardman Bros. Block 
 
 Boardman Bros. (Business) 
 
 Boone, Republican for Story County 
 
 Boundary of County First Fixed, etc 
 
 Brass Band, probably first in County 
 
 Barnabas Lowell sent to Penitentiary for life 
 
 Burial Permits 
 
 Business Blocks in Ames — Vualue of . . ^ 
 
 Back Wooks Justice — Amusing 
 
 Business of County for 1885- ’88 
 
 Business Blocks of Nevada— Value of 
 
 Belle Plaine’s Deluge Well 
 
 Briggs, S. E., First School Teacher at Johnson Grove 
 
 Bond Que.stion — Court House 
 
 Barker’s Grove 
 
 Be Honorable 
 
 Brotherhood of Counties, and Railroads 
 
 Bennaman, Mrs. Mary 
 
 ■ f 225, 334 
 
 225 
 
 337 
 
 212, 213 
 
 134, 218, 219, 380 
 
 72 
 
 • • lO 
 
 14 
 
 .... 215 
 .... 233 
 
 124, 125 
 
 217 
 
 165 
 
 29 
 
 69, 70, 71, 72 
 
 127 
 
 94 
 
 314, 315 
 
 435 
 
 c. 
 
 County Officers, First 9 20 21 99 
 
 Col. Scott’s History of County. ’. . .’.18’ 64 
 
 College Farm Celebration July 4, 1859 ’ 31 
 
 County Seat Located, and when 40 
 
 
Index. 
 
 479 
 
 Court House Burnt and what else 68, 69 
 
 County Atty., New Law 146 
 
 Church Organizations 42, 48 
 
 C. & N. W. Railroad and its business 164 
 
 County Jail — A shame 76, 220 
 
 Clark Temperance Bill 305 
 
 Churches of all in the County on one page 301 
 
 College Building and others described 236, 242 
 
 County officers, list of from 1863 to 1887. 342, 353 
 
 Court House Bonds Contest 69, 72 
 
 Comments by Hon. W. H. Gallup 71, 72 
 
 Collegton, where, (but not recorded,) 125 
 
 Comers to Agricultural Farm fixed and by whom 242 
 
 Cemeteries, all in the County, and where 405 
 
 County Farm and other property 298, 398 
 
 County Fair Ground 299 
 
 Court House Bonds yet unpaid 217 
 
 Colo, when laid off, and when incorporated 207 
 
 Collins, See Collins Twp. 282 and the Directory 336 
 
 Cambridge, Press and when incorporated 265 
 
 Creameries : — 
 
 Roland 184 
 
 Cambridge. . . 267 
 
 Maxwell 277 
 
 Smaysville 203, 204 
 
 Kelley 243 
 
 Story City 190 
 
 Ames 243 
 
 Sheldahl 250 
 
 Elwell 267 
 
 Condensed Death List of all the County 431 
 
 Coal Banks — their prospects, etc., 284, 285, 401 
 
 Collins Twp. Stock Men and olhers 287 
 
 Courts — New District with three Judges 147 
 
 Chapter on Railroads, etc., 314 
 
 Closing remarks of the past and present on improvements 334, 377 
 
 Col. Scott’s Eulogy by “Keokuk Const.” 120 
 
 Cyclones.. 146, 147 
 
 Congressional Districts, New 145 
 
 Col. Scott at Lincoln, Neb 105 
 
 Clay, Adams & Gough 312 
 
 Courts for Eleventh Dist. for 1887 395 
 
 County Auditor’s Report for 1885 396 
 
 County Treasurer’s Report for 1886 398 
 
 Col. L. Q. Hoggatt a pensioner 434 
 
 Cherokee Missionaries, formerly 4-50 
 
 D. 
 
 Defiance laid out 286 
 
 Duncan J. E. (Editor) 231, 234 
 
 Death List •_ _•••• ' 405 
 
 Dana, Hon. J. L. — Early work in Legislature 8, 9 
 
 Directory for Nevada for 1857 13, 114 
 
 Duff, Mrs. C. 0 52, 245 
 
 Daily Mail — first to and from Nevada 211 
 
 Danger of fires, etc 
 
 Dedication Lutheran Church at Nevada 122 
 
 De Lor of De Lord (Negro poetry) 83 
 
 Dutton — Alderman farm 225 
 
 Decoration Day at Ames, 1886 294 
 
 
 5 
 
480 
 
 liirDEX. 
 
 Decoration Day at Nevada, 1886 292 
 
 Decoration Day at Nevada 1887 435 
 
 Directory for all the towns in the County. 325, 334 
 
 Drainajife Convention 395 
 
 Drowned near Maxwell 433 
 
 Dr. Stillwell a pensioner 434 
 
 E. 
 
 Early Twp. Organizations 52, 55 
 
 Early History and Union Meeting 219 
 
 Early history of Howard and LaFayette Twps 65 
 
 Early history of Iowa 145, 146 
 
 Early Liquor Case 24, 25 
 
 Early population, votes, etc., 12, 13 
 
 Elections for 1886 in the County 288, 291, 292 
 
 Electoral vote in U. S. for President ^ 370 
 
 Earth-quake at Charlestonj S. C 390 
 
 Early Religious Organizations, etc 42 — 48 
 
 Early iVlill (Smith’s) 51, 54, 66 
 
 Evans, E. C.. I47 
 
 Elwell, Town of 265 
 
 Exposition Building at Des Moines 444, 445 
 
 Fair Ground, value and statement 299 
 
 First settlers of Nevada, etc 42 
 
 First Grand Jury of County 33 
 
 First settlers of the county 37, 38, 39, 65- 67 
 
 First Murder in the County 33 
 
 First Election in the County 9, 20, 21, 22 
 
 First School Districts in County 27 
 
 First Court House built in County 57 
 
 First Court held in County 3.3 
 
 First Postoffice at Colo, June, 1864 209 
 
 First Postoffice and first P. M. at Fairview 66, 189 
 
 First House built at Fairview 66 
 
 First Big Fire at Nevada 84, 85 
 
 Second Big Fire at Nevada 87, 88, 89 
 
 French, Micah, an old Soldier of 1812 165 
 
 Friendship, what it is 126 
 
 Fire at Ames, Jan., 1882 86 
 
 Fire at Ames, 1886 230 
 
 Fire at Elwell May, 1886 267 
 
 Fire at Cambridge Jan. 1, 1887 268 
 
 Fire at Ontario 129 
 
 Fire at Sheldahl 250 
 
 Fire at Maxwell 278 
 
 Fire at Colo 210 
 
 First House built at Sheldahl Crosising, or Slater now called. May, 1887. . . 249 
 
 First Biennial Session Iowa Legislature second Monday of Jan., 1858 353 
 
 Fairview — when laid off, etc 189 
 
 Fanner’s Protective Association 81, 85, 86 
 
 Franklin Twp. Stockmen and others 192 
 
 First Military Company organized in the County for war 58, 59 
 
 First frame School house in County 235 
 
 First child born in Nevada 226 
 
 First stake driven on Agricultural farm 376 
 
 First steam boat and Locomotive in U. S 372 
 
 Gr. 
 
 Groves for stock 
 
 Goodin’s J. Randolph letter 
 
 131 
 
 5 
 
/) 
 
 Index. 481 
 
 Goshen — second postoffice in County, where 275 
 
 Gov. Larrabee’s Temp. Proclamation. 310 
 
 Grand Army of Republic 114, 115-144 
 
 Gillespie and the jail prisoners 76 
 
 Grand Jury, new 148-152 
 
 Grinnell’s opinion of saloons 303 
 
 Grain and stock, shipped from County, (see shipments). 
 
 Govenors of Iowa up to Feb., 1887 403 
 
 Groves — all'^n the County 388 
 
 Grant Twp. stockmen and others 224 
 
 H. 
 
 Horse races and election adjourned 77, 78 
 
 Hog: cholera 117-120 
 
 Hog stories 6 , 105 
 
 Homicides, etc 55, 56 
 
 How attorneys were admitted by Judge McFarland 34 
 
 History of each Twp. separately see page 169 
 
 How “ Whisky Jim ” beat R. W. B 67 
 
 Hannum’s mill taken to Odebolt 385 
 
 Houses burnt from time to time 76, 104, 106, 119, 120, 126, 144-197 
 
 Howard Twp. stockmen and others 183, 184 
 
 Houses burnt 103, 109, 119, 207, 251, 261-300 
 
 History of Twps. closed and other items named 287 
 
 Huxley and Palestine 250 
 
 Henderson’s charge to Grand Jury 304 
 
 Hutchings House 441 
 
 I. 
 
 Items of general news 75, 76-81, 90- 96 
 
 Items from Story County Advocate 1857, page 6 
 
 Items — Various of interest 132, 133 
 
 Inventory of Nevada City property 136 
 
 Introductory 3 
 
 Isaac Smith Killed a bear, etc 65 
 
 Iowa Center, when laid out and where 276 
 
 Tile Factory 381 
 
 Mills 382 
 
 Groves 388 
 
 Indian Creek Twp. stockmen and others 276 
 
 Inmates of State Institutions 398 
 
 Nevada 215 
 
 The Townships 334 
 
 County for 1882 96, 97, 98, 99 
 
 Ingersoll, R. G 308 
 
 I. 0. G. Templars (district meeting) 432 
 
 J. 
 
 Judge Stutsman on Temperance 306 
 
 Judge John L. Stevens on Violators 313 
 
 Judge Burton on Enforcing Law 310 
 
 Judge McFarland to Grand Jury in Marion County 78 
 
 Judge McFarland and Whisky ” 34 , 35 
 
 Judicial District, new 147 
 
 June Session — statement of funds 396 
 
 Judge Henderson to Grand Jury 304, 305 
 
 Judge Hubbard on Saloons 301 
 
 Judge John L. Stevens is for enforcing law 313 
 
 January Session, 1886 — funds on hand 
 
 31 
 
 1 
 
 L 
 
I^TDEX. 
 
 
 ^■1 
 
 ; r gt . 
 
 ■ > 0 .' 
 
 
 ir 
 
 482 
 
 K. 
 
 Kirkman murder 72, 73, 74 
 
 Killed by the cars 81, 261 
 
 L. 
 
 Lucas, Mrs. H., P. Mistress of Ames 228 
 
 List and names of Story County’s dead soldiers 435-440 
 
 Locating vote of Trustees on Agricultural Parm 31, 32 
 
 Louisiana Purchase ...... 18, 20 
 
 Location of County Seat 8, 9 
 
 Location and names of Trustees 31, 32, 236 
 
 Location of Nevada Station settled. _ 221 
 
 Location of Agricultural Farm sneeringly opposed 144 
 
 Leave Ames 18 or 20 times every 24 hours • . 246 
 
 Leona C. Thatcher-^beautiful poetry , 92 
 
 Luther Creek explained 194 
 
 Library at Cambridge 254 
 
 Library at Ames 231 
 
 Library at Nevada 220 
 
 Library at College, 5,540 books 128-246 
 
 Large land-holders of the County 380 
 
 Large list (861) old settlers of the County 357-361 
 
 Lincoln Twp stockmen and others • . 176 
 
 Lafayette Twp. stockmen and others ■ 191 
 
 List of valuable names 451, 452 
 
 M. 
 
 Meeting opposed to forced sales 7 
 
 Masonic organization, first in County 48 
 
 Military History, by Col. John Scott 58- 63 
 
 Mills, all in the county, water and steam .-382, 385, 386, 387 
 
 Marriage Licenses for each month 316, 324 
 
 Mayors of Nevada, List of 222 
 
 Mayors of Ames, List of 244 
 
 Mayors of Cambridge, List of 267 
 
 Mayors of Maxwell, List of 277 
 
 Mayors of Colo, List of._ 209 
 
 Mayors of Story City, List of 191 
 
 Mayors of Zearing, List of. 175 
 
 Mayors of Sheldahl, List of _ 249, 326 
 
 McCallsburg, when and where laid off 179 
 
 Maxwell, Celebration 'of, 1883 272, 276 
 
 Members of Churches — See Directory 
 
 Mason and Dixon’s Line Explained 372 
 
 Moore, May E., and Dr. Fuller — Early Teachers at Nevada 27, 29 
 
 Money Order Offices in County 377 
 
 McKim, L., Ships his own stock 130 
 
 Milford Township, Stockmen and Others. _. 200 
 
 Miles of Railroad Taxed in Each Township 142 143 
 
 Military Co. (O) — New • • • 163 
 
 Moving Sheldahl. ... 433 
 
 More about the Spirit Lake Massacre 434 
 
 N. 
 
 Nevada’s Judicial District 147 
 
 Nevada’s Financial Report 139, 142 
 
 Nevada’s Improvements — for year 1886 215 
 
 Nevada Station, when fixed 221 
 
 Nevada — Marshall Concert 107, 108, 109 
 
 Nevada Funds — Statement for 1886 139, 142 
 
 Nevada — First house built 40 
 
 
 ii 
 
 
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Index. 
 
 !•) 
 
 48a 
 
 Nevada Postmasters, List of 123 
 
 Nevada Foundry — a valuable enterprize 98 
 
 Nevada Named ‘‘Nevada,” and Why 9 
 
 Nevada City Property Valued 136 
 
 Nevada Normal Institute, 1886, — Teachers’ names 160, 162 
 
 Nevada Illuminated by Lamps _ 214 
 
 New Albany, Town of — When laid off and where 207 
 
 New County Map 95, 96 
 
 New Philadelphia — When and where laid off 235 
 
 Nicknames of States and Cities * 373, 375 
 
 Now and Then 334, 342, 377 
 
 New Albany Township,. Stockmen and Others 209 
 
 Nevada Township, Stockmen and Others 222 
 
 New Buildings in Ames 441 
 
 New Churches going up at Ames 441 
 
 Nevada Schools, History of 446 
 
 Nevada Well, a valuable well 451 
 
 0 . 
 
 Odd Fellows — First organization 48 
 
 Old Settlers (in verse) 356 
 
 Old Settlers, List of— ^61 357, 366 
 
 Organization of M. E. Church at Nevada 43 
 
 Ontario — Fire and Theft 192, 193 
 
 Oldest Known in Iowa, ( J. Heike) 126 
 
 Odd Fellows Hall, new at Nevada 442 
 
 Prohibition Passed by Iowa Legislature 311 
 
 Press of the County — All 401-403 
 
 Pike’s Peak Excitement 26, 27 
 
 Population, etc., from 1852 to 1887 12, 13 
 
 Propositions for Agricultural Farm Location 31 
 
 Protective Association, Mutual 85, 86 
 
 Parker, Wm. — The early settler. 37, 38, 39 
 
 Payne, W. P. — First Principal Nevada School 29 
 
 Prevalence of Fires. 135 
 
 Pattee, H. — Killed himself 300 
 
 ( Postmasters of the County are given in the Township History in which 
 
 the office is situated.) 
 
 Post-offices Vacated or Moved' 378 
 
 Polk County Supervisors Appropriated, etc. 139 
 
 Pension List ... Ill, 114 
 
 Poultry Business of County, Wonderful 134 
 
 Peter Baker on Temperance 303 
 
 Population of County — 1854, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1886 12, 13 
 
 Prohibition or Temperance Chapter 301, 313 
 
 Presidents of the United States 404 
 
 Prohibitory Amendment Vote 313, 355, 378 
 
 Peat in Story County 369 
 
 Presidential Elections — Who were elected and who voted for 370 
 
 Patent Poultry Freezing Machine at Boardman’s 101 
 
 Presidential Post-offices in County 377 
 
 Palestine Township, Stockmen and Others 252, 
 
 Poor Farm and other Property — valued 298. 
 
 Presbytery on Liquor at Waterloo. 309 
 
 Presidential Temperance Organization 302 
 
 Press of County 401 
 
 Q. 
 
 .3.53, 3.56 
 
 .... 389 
 
 Questions Voted on by County 
 
 Quarries, Stone, and Where They Are 
 
484: Index. 
 
 R. 
 
 Report from County Farm Committee 100, 101 
 
 Religion and Morality. 42, 48 
 
 Reid, Rev. I., — At a funeral at Ames. 52 
 
 Railroads, Miles of, in Each Township 142 
 
 Raid of Capt. Smith as to his Bond 79 
 
 Representatives, Senators, Congressmen 19, 20 
 
 Rat Destroyer and Mosquitoes 150 
 
 Reaves, John, near Colo — Lot of extra cattle 79 
 
 Roland — When and where laid off .•••••. 
 
 Representatives and Senators from Story County, from time to time, in the 
 
 Iowa Legislature. 35.8 
 
 Railroads and County Brotherhood * 314, 815 
 
 Railroads Assessed, Miles of, in County 143 
 
 Richland Township, Stockmen and Others 202 
 
 Reunion of Soldiers ■ 86, 95, 122, 123 
 
 s. 
 
 Senators who Refused the $216 151 
 
 Soldiers’ Home at Leavenworth 150 
 
 Sabbath Schools..... 166, 167, 253, 294 
 
 Schools of County 168 
 
 Story City Laid Off — 1878 ... 189 
 
 Smithfield Laid Off - 183 
 
 State Sunday School Convention — June, 1886 147 
 
 Shall Stock Run at Large? “Yes.” 355 
 
 Shall Stock Run at Large? “ No.” 355 
 
 Sheriff Sales in 1859. 379 
 
 Sad History of a Burnt Family 67, 68 
 
 Spirit Lake Troubles and Horrors ■ • 10, 11, 12 
 
 Settlers, early, of County 37, 38, 39, 65, 66 
 
 Story County Twenty Years Ago .15, 16, 17 
 
 Stantey Killed Patterson ., 56 
 
 Story County Improvements — January, 1883 96, 99 
 
 Story County Improvements— January, 1886 15, 16, 17 
 
 Stubbs’ Murder— 1883 163, 104 
 
 Story County Regimental Officers for 1886 • . .151, 155 
 
 Smaysville 204 
 
 Shelter and Shade 94 
 
 Story County “ Sons of Vets.” — full list 153, 160 
 
 School Fund for 1885 among Townships _ 117 
 
 Senators from Story County in the Iowa Legislature 19, 20, 353 
 
 Swamp Lands given to Railroads — when and how 220, 354 
 
 Story County Improvements for 1885 137, 138 
 
 Story County Now, June 1, 1887 377 
 
 Skunk Valley Lands — When tiled 266 
 
 Streets of Nevada by Lamplight 214 
 
 Shipments of Stock, Grain, etc., from the County, 76, 78, 79, 80, 93, 101, 
 
 209, 247! 258,’ 272,’ 277,’ 282,’ 284 
 
 State Institutions — Number of Inmates 398 
 
 Seven Wonders of the World 376 
 
 Salaries of U. S. Officers. 371 
 
 Sherman Township, Stockmen, etc 205 
 
 Sabbath Schools 432 
 
 T. 
 
 Townships — Early organization 52, 55 
 
 Transfers of Land — Abstracts of title 452-477 
 
 Tile Factories — All in the County 381 
 
Ikdex. 
 
 485 
 
 Tile Factory of Lockridge & Beatty 99 
 
 Tomlinson, Thos., Frozen to Death— Cause of 273 
 
 Then and Now 334, 342, 377 
 
 The First Stake on the College Farm — When driven 376 
 
 Timber, Shelter and Shade 94 
 
 The Press of the County — All 401 
 
 Townships — History of each, viz. : 
 
 Lincoln (Col. Scott’s History of, page 55) 169-176 
 
 Warren (Col. Scott’s History of, page 54) 177-180 
 
 Howard (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) 180-184 
 
 Lafayette (Col. Scott’s History of, page 54) 184-192 
 
 Franklin (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) ,192-196 
 
 Milford (()oL Scott’s History of, page 53). 197-200 
 
 Richland (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) . . 200-203 
 
 Sherman (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) 203-205 
 
 New Albany (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) 205-211 
 
 Nevada (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) 211-223 
 
 Townships — History of each, viz.: 
 
 (^rant (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) 223-226 
 
 Washington (Col. Scott’s History of, pasre 53) 226-246 
 
 Palestine ((lol. Scott’s History of, page 53) 246-252 
 
 Union (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) 252-268 
 
 Indian Creek (Col. Scott’s History of, page 55) 269-280 
 
 Collins (Col. Scott’s History of, page 53) 280-287 
 
 Twenty Chances to Leave Ames, etc • 246 
 
 Terms of Court, 11th District, for 1887 • • 395 
 
 u. 
 
 Utterback’s Bereavement 115 
 
 Union Meeting of May, 1861 219 
 
 Union Township, Stockmen and Others 266 
 
 Ungenerous and unkind 442 
 
 V. 
 
 Vote of Trustees Locating Agricultural Farm _ 32 
 
 Vote on Prohibitory Amendment to State Constitution 313 
 
 Vote on the Word “ White” to be Stricken • 354 
 
 Vote on Various Questions Submitted. — 353-355 
 
 Veterans, List of .^. 153-160 
 
 Vincent, W. S., Saved from Freezing to Death 285 
 
 Value of County Farm and other Property for 1887 298, 299 
 
 Value of Nevada City Property 136-398 
 
 Valuable names 451, 452 
 
 w. 
 
 Waterloo & Des Moines early Railroad Engineer Corps 24 
 
 War Dance in 1856 17 
 
 Workers for Location of Agricultural Farm 353-356 
 
 W. W. Walker on Locating Nevada Station 221 
 
 Wedding Anniversaries 373 
 
 Wonders of the World 376 
 
 Washington Township, Stockmen and Others 243 
 
 W arren Township, Stockmen and Others 179 
 
 Walters, Caleb, and the Wolf 41 
 
 W. R. C. Meeting in G. A. H 167-168 
 
 Word “White” Stricken — Vote on. 354 
 
 z. 
 
 Zearing — When and where laid out, and when incorporated 175 
 
 Zearing — Was once named “ Ashhurst ” 169 
 
ERRATA: 
 
 Page 18, on fifth line after “cen. oration,” say “1673,” instead 
 of 1873. 
 
 On page 211 say “ 1864,” instead of 1884 in bottom line. 
 
 On twenty-seventh line from top of page 337, say “ 225 and 226,” 
 instead of 206 and 207. 
 
 On twenty-third line from top of page 224, say “Bent,” instead 
 of Bert. Alle^t.