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Painters and Glaziers-R. Bain, H. C. Farnsworth, J. F. Bropst. Veterinary Surgeon-W. D. Baily, John Dill.
Brickmakers-A. DeCou, S. Noel.
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The Oldest Dry Goods Store in Winterset, Iowa. A. B. SMITH & CO., DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS,
And a general assortment of all articles usually kept in a first-class Dry Goods store. Entire satisfaction given to customers, and prices warranted as
"CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST."
ELI COX, Six Miles Northeast of Winterset, Iowa,
CARPENTER AND JOINER !
Takes Contracts for Building Houses, Barns, and Bridges.
He also manufactures all kinds of native Lumber at his Mill, six miles Northeast of Winterset. Good native lumber as cheap as can be liad at any other mill.
SALVE! SALVE !!
Useful for Scratches, Quarter Cracks, or Bad Feet on Horses, or Lumps on the Shoulder, Cuts or Bruises. Useful for Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Burns, Scald Heads, &c., on the Human Body.
DIRECTIONS:
Spread the Salve on a cloth as thin as it can be spread. Do not take off the salve when it begins to draw.
For animals, shave off' the hair around the hurt and apply the Salve with the finger. Apply to fresh wounds three times a day. For sale at the Livery stable ot TRYON & GLAZEBROOK,
WM. NEWELL.
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ATTORNEYS OF WINTERSET.
The following individuals compose the "Bar" of Winterset, to-wit:
Hon. M. L. McPherson, Hon. John Leonard, Hon. B. F. Murray, Major T. C. Gilpin, S. G. Ruby, Col. H. J. B. Cummings, V. Wain- wright, Samuel B. Gilpin, J. S. McCaughan, Eli Wilkin, John Burke, V. G. Holliday and W. H. Lewis. For ability and a thorough know- ledge of their profession, the Bar of Madison county is unsurpassed by that of any county in the State.
Hon. M. L. McPherson.
M. L. McPherson, one of the oldest settlers in Madison county and at the present time one of the most successful lawyers of Western Iowa, is of Quaker origin, and was born in the State of North Carolina. While quite young, his father migrated to the State of Indiana, in which State he grew to manhood. He received his education at Green Castle, Indiana. After leaving school he turned his attention to the study of law. In 1847 he migrated to the State of Arkansas, with a view of practicing his profession, but the unhealthy climate of that State and his natural aversion to slavery, caused him to soon seek a location where he could breathe God's pure air uncontaminated with the miasmatic influences of human bondage. He returned for a short time to the State of Indiana; and in 1850 he started to seek a home in the new State of Iowa. His arrival at Winterset is described by an early settler somewhat as follows: At the first settling of the county the streams were often impassable in the spring, and the wayfaring man had to trust himself to the mercy of the waves or remain until the floods were assuaged. This was the case in the spring of 1850. Few persons were seen in the small village of Winterset. But one bright day, when the roads were hardly navigable, and the streams in good swimming order, the monotany of the town was disturbed by the entrance of a stranger. He was barefoot, had his pants rolled up and his coat off; but he was a perfect pattern of manhood and health, and he signified his intention of making the village his home. Soon the inquiry went abroad, what will he follow for a living? This was answered by the stranger-M. L. McPherson-who soon convinced the people of the county that he was a worthy follower of Blackstone, and that he was ready to practice law, teach school, or do most any other respectable business for a livelihood.
As the law business was limited, he taught school for a short time after his arrival. He has been very successful as a lawyer and has a very large practice, extending throughout most of the counties of south-
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JOHN DUNKLE.
GEO. W. DUNKLE.
DUNKLE BROS.
No. 68 Court Avenue, bet. 3d & 4th Sts., } Two doors east of Allen's Bank,
DES MOINES, IOWA,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS,
DRESS GOODS, Merinos, Alpacas, Plaids, Cloth Sacques, Chinchilla Cloak- ings, Shirts, Shawls, Cloths, Cassimeres, Muslins, Carpets, Cotton Yarn, and Carpet Warp, Gloves, Ladies' Furs, AND ALL ARTICLES USUALLY KEPT IN A FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS STORE.
When you go to Des Moines call and see them.
OSGOOD & WYMAN, DEALERS IN
STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS,
YANKEE NOTIONS, WILLOW BASKETS, &c.,
73 Walnut Street, ! Opposite Savery House. DES MOINES, IOWA.
ATKINSON BROS., PHOTOGRAPHERS, No. 98 Third Street, DES MOINES, IOWA. We have Sarony's Celebrated POSITION CHAIR,
THE ONLY ONE IN DES MOINES. Call and See the Beautiful Positions at our Rooms. 8
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western Iowa. He is ever zealous in the cause of his client, and exerts a great influence over a jury. He is a man of fine personal character, and a firm believer in practical Christianity. He is generous and patriotic, and always evinces a lively interest in all matters of a public character. He represented this portion of the State two terms in the State Senate, and was regarded as one of the leading members of that body. During the war he was a Captain in the Commissary Depart- ment, and at its close came home with the rank of Brevet-Colonel. He was one of the "original Abolitionists," and by his labors on the stump did much to advance the principles of Freedom ; and he has always been identified with the best interests of Madison county. His success is another evidence of what energy and unfaltering application to business and devotion to principle will do when nature has provided a good head and generous heart.
John Leonard
Is one of the oldest residents of the county. He came to Winterset, we believe in 1852, and has been identified with the best interests of the county ever since. He was born in Knox county, Ohio, and was educated at the Dennison University, at Granville, Licking county, Ohio. After leaving College he located in Morrow county, Ohio, and was elected county surveyor. The duties of that office not occupying the whole of his time, as a recreation he took up the study of law. He made such rapid progress in his reading that after a time, owing to physical inability, he was better prepared with the knowledge he had gained, to make a living in the practice of law than in any other man- ner; and he put out his "shingle" in Mt. Gilead, the county seat of Morrow county, Ohio. But after a couple of years practice, he started for the West, and located at Winterset. He has now, perhaps, the largest practice of any lawyer in south-western Iowa. He is a man of great perseverance and tenacity of purpose, and attends strictly to his business. He impresses those around him with the idea, that every one, like himself, should attend strictly to their own affairs; that "favors " in law are only granted on " terms," and that those at the head of affairs of a public nature, should control them to the best inter- ests of the people, without suggestions or aid from the people. He has been a close student, is logical in his conclusions, and is more successful in the management of a case, and in arguing points of law before the Court than as an advocate before a Judge. If once fully enlisted in a cause, he bears down with such vehemence that a mighty weight is required to balance the scale. As an attorney he is the most successful in the West. He is a man of temperate habits, and a devout member
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THOS. F. WITHROW. THOS. S. WRIGHT.
WITHROW & WRIGHT, Attorneys - at - Kaw
Office on Fourth Street, 3 doors north of Court Av., DES MOINES, IOWA. AG Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. a
J. M. OTIS, FORWARDING AND
Commission Merchant
DEALER IN
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, PRODUCE AND SALT, EAST DES MOINES, IOWA. Office In Brick Warehouse on Railroad track.
J. Simington, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
FURNITURE, Chairs, Mattresses, Mirrors, PARLOR, CHAMBER AND COMMON FURNITURE, No. 44 Walnut St., bet. Second and Third, DES MOINES, IOWA.
VAN BERGEN & KEELER, HOUSE, SIGN AND
ORNAMENTA PAINTERS
Graining, Marbling and Glass Staining, Plain and Decorating Paper Hangers, Shop on Sixth Street, one door north of Walnut, DES MOINES, IOWA.
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of the Baptist Church. He, together with his son-in-law, Fred'k Mott, now Circuit Judge, with the aid of a few others, built the large Baptist church edifice which now ornaments and graces the city of Winterset. Of them it might be said that they " carried the Church along on their shoulders."
V. Wainwright
Is a lawyer of great natural and acquired abilities, a fluent speaker and a good debater. He is well read, and is very thoroughly conversant with all that pertains to the law profession. He has only been a resi- dent of the county some five or six years, but during that time he has built up for himself a large and rapidly increasing practice. In politics he is democratic, and he is the only democratic lawyer in the county. He is able and thorough in all that pertains to his profession ; and he is in all respects, a gentleman and a Christian.
Frederick Mott.
Frederick Mott, who is at the present time our Circuit Judge-2d Circuit, 5th District-came to Winterset about fourteen years ago. He is a graduate of an Eastern College, and for a number of years he was the Principal of a flourishing Academy of learning in Vermont ; and also of a College at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He is a lawyer of large legal attainments, an accomplished scholar, and a man of great natural and acquired abilities. He has always been identified with the best interests of the county, and he has always taken an active and leading part in all matters of a general or public welfare. He is one of the live and stirring members of the Baptist Church ; and his labors in the church and Sabbath school have been awarded with great success. As Judge, he is giving universal satisfaction. We predict for him an enviable reputation and the highest judicial honors of the State.
B. F. Murray
Studied law in 1857 and 1858 with Messrs. Leonard & Mott, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1859. In 1867 he was elected to rep- resent Madison county in the State Legislature. He filled that office with credit to himself and with honor to his constituents. He is a fluent speaker and a young man of great natural ability, and has earned and acquired for himself a good reputation and practice. Should his health permit, we anticipate a useful and brilliant future in store for him.
S. G. Ruby
Is at the present time one of the prominent lawyers of Madison county.
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J. PARMELEE, WATCHMAKER
AND Manufacturing Jeweler ! Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
WATCHES,
JEWELRY,
SILVER & PLATED WARE,
Clocks, &c., &c.
74 Walnut Street, Corner Fourth and 116 Fourth Street, (Under the Savery House.)
S. M. GOOD & CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in TOYS, NOTIONS, AND FANCY GOODS.
They also keep the Largest Assortment of Candies in Iowa. 97 Walnut St., DES MOINES.
MERRILL, KEENEY & CO., Manufacturers of and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in FURNITURE !
Chairs, Mattresses, Looking -Glasses, Picture-Frames, Wood and Metallic Coffins, NO. 68 WALNUT STREET, DES MOINES, IOWA.
Manufactory near Coon River Bridge. Post Office Box 404.
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He emigrated to the county with his father, in an early day, at which time he was a small boy. Before he was of age he studied law with G. N. Elliott-once an eminent lawyer of this county. After he had suffi- ciently prepared himself he was admitted to the practice of law in the District and U. S. Courts of Iowa. He is at the present time the able Prosecuting Attorney of the county. He been very successful in what- ever he has undertaken. He is a young man of great energy and ability, and he is eminently deserving of the exellent reputation which he has already acquired.
Col. H. J. B. Cummings
Has been a resident of Winterset since the year 1855, and he has always borne a conspicuous part in all that pertains to the best interests and welfare of Madison county. He is a lawyer of note, and has the reputation of having no superior in that part of his profession which requires the "getting up of legal papers or documents." He is at the present time the able editor of the Winterset Madisonian.
J. S. McCaughan
Studied law with Messrs. Leonard & Mott, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1868. He is a thorough scholar and a close student. He is a smooth, graceful and fluent speaker. Assiduous in his business and affable to all, he is bound to win his way up to affluence and honor.
Eli Wilkin and John Burke
Are young attorneys who have resided in the county but a short time; but they are already working into a good practice, and are earning a flattering reputation for themselves. They are young men of exceed- ing good ability, good students, and are of unreproachable habits. They are made of the right material and are bound to succeed.
Gilpin & Gilpin,
Lawyers, and brothers ; both well read and thoroughly posted in the law profession. They were both soldiers and served with great distinction through the late war. T. C. Gilpin enlisted as a private and was mustered out a Brevet-Major. He was elected County Judge in 1857, and he is at the present time County Auditor. He is a kind- hearted, straight-forward, Christian gentleman, and is one of the "shining lights " of the Presbyterian Church, and has been Superin- tendent of its Sabbath School for a number of years past. Samuel B. Gilpin was admitted to the practice of the law at the March (1868) term
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L. H. BUSH, WHOLESALE
DRUGGIST
NUMBER 75,
LH RUSH DRUGS.
L.H. BUSH, WHOLESALE DAJOGIST
75 L.H.BUSH. 75
WALNUT ST.
DES MOINES, IOWA.
UNIO
CALL AT FRANK BOYD'S PHOTOGRAPH
ROOMS, OVER THE POST-OFFICE,
DES MOINES, IOWA. -
Special ATTENTION GIVEN to the
Cabinet or Imperial Cards, And Large Photographs, A good assortment of Frames and Photographic Material. Photographs supplied at reasonable rates.
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of Court. He is a young man of great natural power and genius. He is a fine orator and speaker, and he has all the ability to make an eminent lawyer. We predict for him a brilliant success.
W. W. McKnight,
One of the successful and prominent business men of Madison county, came to Winterset as early as '53 or '54. For many years he was a leading and popular merchant of Winterset. He had but a very small capital to commence with, but by a strict attention to business, urbane deportment, and being a good financier, he won the confidence and es- teem of the public, and has retired from the mercantile business with a handsome competence. He is now one of the principal proprietors of the National Bank of Winterset; and to him belongs the honor of originating and putting into successful operation that flourishing in- stitution. As a financier he has no superior in the county.
C. D. Bevington,
Another successful business man of Madison county, came to the county at an early day, with very limited means; but by untiring industry and good financiering, he has become one of the wealthiest men in the county. He has been a very extensive dealer in live stock ; but of late years has been a dealer almost exclusively in lands and real estate. He is at the present time President of the National Bank of Winterset. He is another illustration of what untiring industry and indomitable perseverance will accomplish.
Thomas Garlinger
Came to Madison county in 1855, and settled in Crawford township, on what is now a part of Aaron Howell's farm. At the time he came into the county, all his worldly goods consisted of an old wagon, two horses, two cows, and sixty-two dollars and a half in money. But he had what is often better than a large fortune-an iron constitution, an indomita- ble will and untiring industry. The first Fall after he came here, a pro- minent merchant, doing business in Winterset at that time, refused to trust him a few weeks for half the price of a cooking-stove, regarding him as a man of too limited circumstances to trust. To-day, Tom Gar- linger is worth over a hundred thousand dollars, and is the richest man in Madison county ; and is, to all appearance, as strong, industrious and energetic as ever. He has made his money in buying and selling live stock. As a stock dealer, his operations during the last five years, amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Within the three months ending May 1st, 1869, he paid out for cattle and hogs alone, over thirty- three thousand dollars. He has now in Madison county nearly seventeen
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
GOODIN & BROS.,
HEADQUARTERS FOR IOWA FOR
76 SAVERY BLOCK.
76 SAVERY BLOCK.
HATS, CAPS, FURS, STRAW GOODS, BUCK AND CLOTH GLOVES, Buffalo Robes, Umbrellas & Paper Collars, 76 SAVERY BLOCK, Sign Big Black Bear, DES MOINES, IOWA.
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hundred acres of land under cultivation, and nearly seventeen hundred acres of unimproved land. He is liberal and generous to benevolent and charitable purposes,-unusually so for a wealthy man; and is a useful man for the county in which he lives.
Dr. David Hutchinson,
A prominent physician of Madison county, has been resident of Win- terset during the last seven or eight years. As a scientific physician and surgeon, he is, perhaps, unsurpassed by any physician in the West. He commenced his medical career at an early period of his life. Having resolved at the age of twelve years to devote himself to the medical profession, he began to prepare himself ; obtained a classical education, and entered the medical profession while quite young. He has been an active practitioner of medical surgery for the last thirty-three years, and during the whole of that time an active and industrious student ; as he possesses a vigorous constitution, it has permitted him to pursue his studies unremittingly, so that he has not only accumulated a vast fund of general and medical knowledge, but likewise a very large and extensive library of very valuable works on the different branches of medical science. His library comprises about a thousand volumes of medical books, embracing not only the most recent standard authorities, but also some very rare works on Microscopic Anatomy, and Histology. His library is especially rich in works of Pathology, embracing perhaps a greater variety in that department than is to be found in private libraries. His collection of medical journals is also very extensive, embracing the Dunglison Medical Library and Intelli- gencer ; also forty volumes of the London Lancet, forty volumes of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, the Lancet and Observer from 1842, the Chicago Journal from 1846, Braithwaite's Retrospect, Ranking's Abstract, and several other journals, both American and foreign. The Dr. is himself an author on medicine. The Rhode Island State Medical Society awarded him the prize on an essay, in 1847, the competition for which was held out to all the states of America, and also to Europe. He is also the author of an essay on the Physiology and Pathology of the spleen, which attracted considerable attention at the time of its publication, not only in this country, but in Europe. He has also many volumes on Horticulture in his library.
THE OLD LOG .COURT-HOUSE.
Before any church or school-buildings were erected in the county, meetings were held in the residence of Mr. Blair and other private dwellings. Soon after the sale of lots in Winterset the county built
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HOWELL & SEEBERGER,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
HARDWARE,
IRON, STEEL, NAILS, GLASS, AXLE SPRINGS,
Wagon Stock,
CIRCULAR SAWS AND BELTING,
FENCE WIRE, BUILDERS' HARDWARE, BLACKSMITHS' TOOLS, &C., &G, Court Avenue, DES MOINES.
[BY STATE AUTHORITY.]
STATE INSURANCE COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA.
Capital Stock, - $100,000. Assets January 1, 1869, $104,217,82. J. W. CATTELL, Pres. F. M. MILLS, Vice-Pres. C. P. HOLMES, Sec.
J. S. McCAUGHAN, Agent, Winterset.
N. T. VORSE, DEALER İN THRESHING MACHINES,
Reapers and Mowers, P. Schuttler's Wagons, Plows and Planters, and all Leading Farm Machinery and Seeds, Cane Mills, Revolving and Sulky Rakes, &c. Pumps for Wells of any Depth. Satisfaction Guaranteed, A LIBERAL DISCOUNT WILL BE GIVEN DEALERS. THIRD AND WALNUT STS .. DES MOINES, IOWA.
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what is known as the "Old Log Court-House," a large, double log- cabin, which stood on the lot now known as Monumental Square, and was torn down but a few years ago. This building was used for a court-house, school-house, meeting-house, and for County Clerk's, County Judges's and County Recorder's offices. And the house was also a temporary resting place for weary travelers, and its doors were open to all who wished to enter, at all hours, summer and winter. Califor- nia emigrants would often remain in this hospitable building for days and weeks at a time. Among the early ministers who preached in it, we might mention the names of Reverends John Hooten, John Gui- berson, Syrus Spurlock, J. T. Cason, and Jones of Greenbush. Behind those old bass-wood logs, and beneath the old clap-board roof, many an erring wanderer has had pointed out to him the way that leads to truth and righteousness, and who can tell the benefit the world may have derived from the words of truth and wisdom given with soul-in- spiring eloquence within the walls of that old Log Court-House !
Here large congregations would gather, of ladies clothed in calico and sun-bonnets, and of men in their " home-spun," to listen to the preach- ing of the blessed Gospel ; and yet a more devout and attentive audience never assembled in the fine and aristocratic churches of the East. And the command "Love thy neighbor as thyself," was common to them all, and when they parted the hand of friendship was clasped with wishes for the health, happiness and prosperity of each other. Here a "saint and sinner class" would often meet, and the class-leader would often find the room filled with members, travelers and outsiders, and he would invariably call upon all in the house, one by one, to tell the state of their minds, and many a heart has thus been opened to reli- gious thoughts which never had a place there before. A little episode occurring at one of these class meetings furnished us by an early settler, would not be inappropriate here: John Spurlock, an eminent elass- leader, to whose piety the early settlers were wont to look up to as without a rival, arrived lateat the meeting appointed at the "Old Log" one sabbath morning. The audience, however, were excusing lıim in their own minds, as a very heavy rain had fallen on the night before. He finally came in, however, quite fiushed, and deeming an apology necessary for his tardiness, he remarked that he had to remain longer because he " had to let out that damned water." There was great sur- prise, and every one looked at each other in amazement. They wondered whether their good old class-leader had fallen from grace or gone mad ! But he was not long in noticing the astonishment his words had produc- ed, and began to call back his language, and he then explained what he meant. He had been letting out the water that had covered his corn in the furrows of his entire field. That was all.
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Simpson Centenary College,
INDIANOLA, IOWA.
Regular University Course, both Classical and Scientific.
ONLY COLLEGE IN THE STATE. FALL TERM
Commences on the First Wednesday in September.
WINTER TERM
Commences on the Second Wednesday in December.
SPRING TERM
Commences on the Second Wednesday in March.
NO SALOON OF ANY KIND IN THE CITY !
For Catalogues apply to the President. ALEX. BURNS, President.
LEWIS J. BROWN. C. E. FULLER.
LEWIS J. BROWN & Co., REAL ESTATE AGENTS !
HAWKEYE BUILDING,
DES MOINES, - - IOWA.
Also, Proprietors of "WEEKS' ABSTRACTS OF TITLES."
Particular attention paid to the purchase and sale of Farms, Farming Lands, and every description of Real Estate, as well as to Tax-paying, &c. Correspond- ence solicited.
Capt. W. H. HOXIE,
GROCER AND
Commission Merchant,
60 Court Avenue, DES MOINES, IOWA. ...
..........
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Refers to H. M. HOXIE, Asst. Supt. U. P. R. R., and THOMAS MITCHELL, Mitchellville.
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The first Sabbath School of the county was held in the Old Log Court- House in '53 and '54. Members of all denominations interested them- selves in its welfare. E. R. Guiberson and Wm. B. Ruby were the first superintendents, and William Pitzer, and Martin B. Ruby were the active working members of the school, and they were the means of accomplishing great good in the Sunday School cause.
THE OLD LOG JAIL.
During the year 1851, the county authorities found it necessary to deal out justice to a few horse thieves and other violators of the law, who would once in a while make their troublesome appearance in the county. Accordingly it was deemed best to build a jail where all of- fenders would be incarcerated and given time to repent of their mis- deeds. And a two-story bass-wood log jail was soon erected on the lot where Glazebrook and Tyron's hay scales now stand. The jail did not answer very well the purpose for which it was built, and many an erring criminal broke from its unhospitable quarters, and in the lan- guage of an early official, "escaped, and is escaped ever since."
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