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SIXTEENTH GOVERNOR OF IOWA. JANUARY 16, 1896 TO JANUARY 13, 1898.
FRANCIS MARION DRAKE.
BY W. H. FLEMING.
Francis Marion Drake, governor of the State 1896-1898, departed this life November 20, 1903, in the seventy-third year of his age. Thus closed the earthly career of a worthy man, one of Iowa's most notable philanthropists.
Governor Drake was descended from James Drake, who went from the colony of Virginia to that of North Carolina in the eighteenth century. Sev- eral of the family have been notable characters in the history of Nash county, North Carolina, in both colony and State, as they were also in the war of the Revolution. James Drake's son Benjamin married Celia Thayer. Their son, John Adams, born in 1802, married Harriet J. O'Neil, and after a brief resi- dence in Tennessee, removed to Illinois, where, in Schuyler county, their second son, Francis Marion, was born December 30, 1830. In 1837, Mr . John Drake moved with his family across the Mississippi river into Lee county, then Wis- consin territory, and settled at Fort Madison, then recently laid out. Here Mr. Drake, besides enjoying a successful business career, was justice of the peace, and also probate judge. In 1846, he removed with his family to Davis county, territory of Iowa, where he founded the town of Drakesville. Here young Francis attended district school as he had at Fort Madison. He was sub- sequently in his father's employ until 1852, when with a train of two wagons (each drawn by eight oxen), and accompanied by five men and a boy, he took the overland route to California. On the way the party, reinforced by another train, had an encounter with a large party of Indians. After a desperate bat- tle, the Indians were driven off, their leader being among the slain. Securing a ranch in the golden State, young Drake returned to Iowa the next year. In 1854, he again crossed the plains, taking with him a hundred milch cows, reach- ing his destination with a loss of only three. Returning by sea, he was on the steamer Yankee Blade, which was wrecked off the coast of Mexico, when sev- eral hundred lives were lost. He succeeded in making his escape, helping a number of others to get ashore. Here they remained until rescued by a steamer and taken back to San Francisco; whence Mr. Drake took passage on another vessel for home. He then went into business with his father and brother at Drakesville. Subsequently he engaged in businesss on his own account. In 1859, leaving the management of his affairs to his partner, he removed to Unionville, Appanoose county, where, following mercantile pur- suits, he became also a live stock dealer and pork packer.
When the civil war began, he commanded an independent force that went to the relief of a Missouri regiment near Memphis, Mo. During the same year, when Colonel Cranor, commanding a body of Missouri Union troops, was driven into Iowa, a Union command that had hastily been gotten together, known as "Colonel Edwards's Independent Iowa Regiment," in which Captain Drake served as major, marched into Missouri, and soon relieved that part of the State from the presence of the enemy, Major Drake himself attacking a force
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at Albany. Being placed in command at St. Joseph, Mo., he was there when Price, after the capture of Lexington, went westward, threatening St. Joseph. Anticipating the arrival of the southern commander, Major Drake attacked his advance so vigorously that the enemy were led 10 think that there was a large force at St. Joseph, a rumor having previously reached their lines that ten regiments had been sent to that point. The enemy then retired beyond the Missouri.
In 1862, when the Thirty-sixth Iowa infantry volunteers was formed, Major Drake was made its lieutenant colonel, a position he held until the regiment was mustered out, a large part of the time being in command of it.
In the campaign in Arkansas in 1864, when General Steele undertook to render assistance to General Banks, operating in Louisiana, Colonel Drake took an active and prominent part. At Elkin's Ford, on the Little Missouri river, with a detachment of 500 men from his own regiment, the First Iowa Cavalry, and an Indiana regiment, with a couple of pieces of cannon, he held the Ford against a force numbering in the thousands under Marmaduke. The fight lasted from about daylight until near noon, when the enemy retired. In' the same month. Colonel Drake, in command of a brigade of 1, 500 men, encountered General Fagan, commanding a superior force, at Mark's Mills. Although overwhelmed, the Union forces did some desperate though ineffectual fighting. In this battle Colonel Drake was severely wounded in the left thigh, slightly fracturing the thigh bone, pieces of the ball being taken from different parts of the body, and one piece never being gotten out. The enemy, finding Colonel Drake on the field, and supposing him to be mortally wounded, did not make him prisoner. It was six months before he was again fit for duty. When he did return to his regiment, it was on crutches. Soon afterwards he was brc- veted brigadier general; and in 1865, the first brigade, second division, scven h army corps, was placed under him. He was mustered out of the service i.l September, 1865.
Returning home, General Drake was admitted to the bar. Success attended him here as elsewhere, and although he remained in the practice hardly half a dozen years, he attained considerable reputation, especially as a criminal law- yer. In the early '70's, he turned his attention to railroading. He was the moving spirit in the Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska railroad, (later the Keokuk & Western), until it was constructed to Humeston. The Albia & Centerville is another project of his; and he was the contractor in the construction of one or two branches of the Iowa Central. The Indiana, Illinois & Iowa railroad is another bold enterprise which he conceived, and of which he constructed over 150 miles, and he was its president until he disposed of his interest in it a few years ago. He was also president of the A. & C. R. R, and of the Centerville National Bank until his death, that city having been his home since the war.
In 1895 he was elected Governor of the State, being inaugurated in January, 1896. He discharged the duties of that office with the fearlessness and indc- pendence ever characteristic of the man. A severe injury which Governor Drake sustained in the summer of 1897 caused him to decline re-election to the office.
After his retirement he continued to manifest an active interest in the Uni- versity at Des Moines that bears his name, and of which he was the principal founder ; freely giving of his liberal fortunc for its strengthening and upbuild- ing. Governor Drake was also a generous contributor to other institutions of learning; while the cause of religion ever found in him a munificent supporter, churches all over the State, especially those of the "Disciples of Christ, " with which he was identified, experiencing the benefits of his generosity.
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Governor Drake was married in 1865 to Mary Jane Lord, but she preceded her husband in death more than twenty years. Six of their children survive their father, to experience the consolation that the State, the church, and the cause of education unite with them in revering the memory of their honored parent.
This sketch may very properly close with an extract from Governor Drake's message to the general assembly as he retired from office, indicating as it does his enthusiastic love for Iowa.
"Confident I am that all the interests of the State are safe in your hands.
Those interests are all very dear to me. Here has been my only home from early childhood, since before the time that there was an 'Iowa' on the map. I have seen all its growth and participated in it; its handful of people grown into millions; its vast stretch of bleak and forbidding prairie made the most productive fields on earth; and the embryo commonwealth become the tenth State in the Union in point of population, foremost in agricul- tural productions, and in the van of educational effort. Here, too, when I lay aside the burden of earth-life, I intend my mortal remains shall rest. In the record of Iowa as the home of one of the most enlightended bodies of people on earth; as the land whence went forth at the country's call myriads of men to save that country to themselves and their posterity, of whom I am thankful I was permitted to be one; and in all her luminous past I rejoice. In her future of glowing promise I have an abiding trust."
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NINETEENTH YEAR.
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CERTIFICATE.
STATE OF IOWA, - OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
In accordance with the provisions of Section 176 of the Code of Iowa of 1897, I hereby certify that this volume of the Iowa Official Register contains a true and correct tabulated statement of the population of the counties, and also of the cities and towns of Iowa, as shown by the last United States census.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of March, 1904.
Secretary of State.
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BERNARD MURPHY, STATE PRINTER
Compiled by W B. MARTIN Secretary of State
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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FRONTISPIECE-Francis M. Drake.
INTRODUCTORY-Iowa in history-government, etc. XI-XXXIV
ILLUSTRATIONS-
View of State Normal School from Northeast 98
Central Building-Iowa State College. 157
Iowa Building- Louisiana Purchase Exposition 148
Liberal Arts Building-University of Iowa 247
Grounds and buildings-State Normal School. 379
Engineering Hall-Iowa State College. 433
Central Building-University of Iowa. 433
PART I.
1-98
Articles of confederation a: d declaration of independence. 5-12
Citizenship and naturaliz ition of aliens. 28-33
Constitution of Iowa and amendments 48-70
Constitution of the United States and amendments 13-26
Iowa men who have held cabinet positions. 97
Organic law of Iowa and admission of Iowa into the Union 34-41
Presidential succession-Law relative to 27
Senators and congressmen from Iowa since organization of State. 90-96
State and Territorial officers-Register of 71-89
PART II. 99-158
Judicial officers and times of holding district court 124-132
State officers, departments, commissions, etc. 101-108, 132-156
Thirtieth general assembly-members-organization. 109-123
PART III 161-218
Board of control and state institutions 161-173
County officers 185-218
Iowa National Guard-Roster of. 174-184
PART IV. 219-246
National election 1900-party platforms-tickets-statistics 221-246
PART V 249-378
State election 1902-party platforms-tickets-committees-statistics. 251-378 PART VI. 381-431
Transactions of the executive council for the year 1903. 383-491
Minutes of proceedings-claims approved-canvass of vote 383-395
Assessment of railway, sleeping car, telephone, and telegraph companies . 396-431
PART VII
435-485
National government-officers-Fifty-eighth congress. 437-467
State and territorial government-officers 468-485
PART VIII. 487-535
Census returns for Iowa, 1900
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Census returns for the United States, 1900 439-508
Miscellaneous statistics. 53 .- 581
IOWA.
IOWA IN HISTORY.
CLAIMED BY ENGLAND, FRANCE AND SPAIN. The territory now included in the State of Iowa was, prior to 1762, claimed by three different foreign countries, Spain, England and France. Spain based her claim to title on the discovery of North America by Columbus in 1492, and on a grant from Pope Alexander VI., made in 1493 to Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Aragon and Castile, of all the continents, inhabited by infidels, which they had discovered, said grant being assigned to their heirs and successors, the kings of Castile and Leon. By the partition agreed upon by Spain and Portugal, Spain was allotted all of North America. England claimed title through the discov- ery of America in 1498, by John Cabot who, together with his sons, had been granted a patent of discovery, possession and trade by Henry VII., King of England. The claim of France was based on the actual discovery of Iowa Ter- ritory by Jaques Marquette and Louis Joliet, in June, 1673, and upon the dis- coveries made by Robert La Salle, in 1682, who had been granted a patent by Louis XIV., in 1678, pe: mitting him to explore the western part of New France. La Salle descended the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, explored the shores of the Gulf of Mexico to the westward, and on the ninth of April, 1682, proclaimed the river and all the lands drained by it to be by right of discovery the dominions of Louis XIV., King of France, and he named the country Louisiana in honor of his King.
DECLARED FRENCH TERRITORY. The ownership of theterritory of Louisiana was not definitely settled by the three claimants until 1763. In 1762 a preliminary treaty, known as the Act of Fontainbleau, was signed between England, France and Spain, by which it was agreed that the boundary between the provinces of England and France should be irrevocably fixed by a line drawn in the middle of the Mississippi river from its source to the Iber- ville, etc., the French possessions lying west and the English possessions lying east of this line. By this treaty Iowa was definitely placed in the Louisiana Province, and all rights of claimants through charters and grants made by the Kings of England in the seventeenth century were terminated. The Treaty of Paris, which was signed by the three countries in the following year, confirmed the boundaries agreed upon in the preliminary treaty.
CESSION TO SPAIN AND RETROCESSION TO FRANCE. Louis XV., King of France, secretly ceded to Spain, in 1762, all the French pos- sessions lying beyond the Mississippi river. Spain took formal possession of the province of Louisiana in 1769 and retained control of this vast territory until 1800; when the treaty of St. Idlefonso was concluded, Spain agreeing to recede the province of Louisiana to France upon the fulfillment of certain con- siderations to be performed by the French republic. This treaty was succeeded in the following year by the treaty of Madrid, which provided that the retro-
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cession of Louisiana, as agreed upon in the treaty of St. Idlefonso, should be carried out.
PURCHASED BY THE UNITED STATES. In 1803, for a considera- tion of $15, 000, 000, France relinquished to the United States all her right and title to the territory lying west of the Mississippi river and north and east of the Spanish possessions. This transaction is known as the "Louisiana Pur- chase." The United States thus acquired possession of a vast domain, out of which there have been formed the States of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Ne- braska, North and South Dakota, all of Indian Territory, the major parts of the States of Louisiana, Minnesota, Kansas, Montana and Wyoming, nearly all of Oklahoma Territory and a large portion of the State of Colorado.
INCLUDED IN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA AND TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA. The first act of Congress providing for the government of the territory acquired was approved October 31, 1803, and provided that all military, judicial and civil powers should be "vested in such persons and exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct." This was followed in 1804 by an act dividing the territory, the part lying south of the thirty-third parallel forming the territory of Orleans and the part lying to the north forming the District of Louisiana. The latter territory was placed under the control of the Governor and the judges of the Indiana Territory .. A year later Congress established a territorial government in the District of Louisiana and changed the name to the Territory of Louisiana. The executive and judicial powers were vested in a Governor and three judges, to be appointed by the President of the United States, with the consent of the Senate.
INCLUDED IN TERRITORY OF MISSOURI. In 1812 the name of the Territory was changed to the Territory of Missouri and an additional department of government established, the legislative department. This department consisted of a Council, composed of nine members, appointed by the President for terms of five years, and a House of Representatives, com- posed of one representative for every five hundred free white male inhabitants, to be elected for terms of two years by the votes of free white male taxpaying citizens. Absolute vetoing power was vested in the Governor. Another con cession was granted by Congress in 1816, the people being permitted to elect the menbers of the Council.
INCLUDED IN MICHIGAN TERRITORY. In 1821 the boundaries of Missouri were defined and Missouri admitted into the Union as a State. The remaining portion of the Territory, of which the present States of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota were a part, was left without any form of government. It remained in this state of orphanage until 1834 when the boundaries of Mich igan Territory were extended west to the Missouri river.
INHABITED BY INDIANS-EARLY PIONEERS. These various changes of jurisdiction are enumerated as a matter of history only, simply to show the chain of title and the character of government established by Congress. The changes had no effect on the territory now embraced in the State of Iowa prior to 1833, because of the fact that previous to that date the Territory was in the possession of the Indians and there were no white settlements. The only white pioneers known to have resided in the Territory were Julien Dubuque, a French-Canadian trader, who with a few followers settled at a point near the present city of Dubuque in 1788 and dwelt there among the Indians until his death in 1810; Basil Girard, a French trader, who was granted a tract of land
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situated in the limits of the present county of Clayton in 1795 by the Spanish Lieutenant Governor of upper Louisiana and lived thereon from 1795 until some time in the early part of the nineteenth century; and Louis Honori, who was granted a tract by the Spanish Lieutenant Governor near the present town of Montrose, Lee county, in 1799 and resided there until 1803.
ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THE INDIANS. The United States, shortly after acquiring Louisiana from France, made many attempts through army officers and Indian commissioners to establish friendly relations with the Indians inhabiting this territory. Many councils were held and treaties made, but the resume here given is only of those which related directly to Iowa. The principal Indian tribes of Iowa and those which figured most prominently in the Indian history of Iowa were the Sacs, Foxes, Winnebagoes, Sioux, Pottawattamies and Iowas.
LEWIS AND CLARKE EXPEDITION. In 1804 Captains Lewis and Clarke, while on their famous exploring expedition to the Pacific coast, held a notable council with the Indians where Council Bluffs is now situated, the pur- pose being to inform the Indians of the new government and to establish peaceful relations with them. While in Iowa, one of their men, Sergeant Charles Floyd, died and was buried on the bluff of the Missouri river, now known as Floyd's Bluff, near Sioux City.
TREATY OF 1804. On November 3, 1804, a treaty was concluded be- tween William H. Harrison, Governor of the District of Louisiana, and five chiefs of the Sac and Fox Indians by which they conveyed to the United States practically all of their land east of the Mississippi river, the United States agreeing to allow the Indians to occupy and hunt on the lands which they conveyed so long as such lands remained the property of the United States, and "never again to interrupt them in the possession of the lands they rightfully claimed, but, on the contrary, to protect them in the quiet enjoyment of the same against their own citizens, and against all other white persons who may intrude upon them." This treaty was not popular with the Indians. They looked upon the advance of civilization with dread as they were forced away from their hunting grounds and villages as fast as white settlements were made. They realized that the lands they had conveyed would soon be settled and they would be forced to seek new territory. In 1808 a military post was established at Fort Madison on Indian lands. This was in violation of the covenants made in the treaty of 1804, and still further infiamed the passions of an already discontented people. They immediately annulled the treaty and a large number gave active aid to the English in the war of 1812. In 1812 and 1813 they made several attacks on Fort Madison and finally forced its garrison to destroy and abandon it.
TREATIES OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP-HALF BREED TRACT. On September 13, 1815, a treaty of peace and amity was concluded with the Sac Indians and the treaty of 1804 was reaffirmed.' A like treaty was concluded with the Fox Indians September 14, 1815. Treaties of peace and friendship were also concluded with the Sioux Indians, July 19, 1815, and with the Iowas, September 16, 1815. August 4, 1824, another treaty was concluded with the Sac and Fox tribes by which the Indians relinquished to the United States all their territory in the State of Missouri and a tract in southeastern Iowa between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers south of a line drawn from the point where the Missouri state line touches the Des Moines river due east to the Mississippi river. This tract was known as the "Half Breed Tract. "
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INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE. August 19, 1825, a treaty was con- cluded by the Indian commissioners, Clark and Cass, with several tribes, Sacs, Foxes, Pottawattamies, Winnebagoes, Sioux and others fixing the boundary lines of the lands belonging to the various tribes. The only boundary line of importance established in Iowa by this treaty was the one dividing the posses- sions of the Sioux from the Sac and Fox Indians. The lands of the Sioux were to the north and the lands of the Sac and Fox to the south of the line described as follows: "Commencing at the mouth of the upper Iowa river on the west bank of the Mississippi river and ascending the said Iowa river, to its left fork; thence up that fork to its source; thence crossing the fork of the Red Cedar river, in a direct line to the second or upper fork of the Des Moines river; and thence in a direct line to the lower fork of the Calumet river and down that river to its juncture with the Missouri river." This is known as the Clark and Cass boundary line.
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