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ceeded by John. Meredith. Mr. Pratt was, however, returned to the Board at its Octo- ber session, from Brighton township, and was duly sworn into office.
The Board of Supervisors for the year 1864, was composed of the following indi- viduals:
C. S. Newlon. of Edna townabip
D. Glasgow of Lura township
J. E. Pratt of Brighton township
William Judd
.of Turkey Grove township
John C. Cannon. of Pymosa township
W. H. Bailey of Cass township
Jobn Tale. of Union township
It met for the first time on the 4th day of January, and organized by electing C. S. Newlon to the chair.
At the June session, J. E. Pratt, the Supervisor from Brighton, having removed from that place, Thomas Meredith was ap- pointed in his stead.
On the 2d of January, 1865, the new Board of Supervisors for the ensuing year, met. The following gentlemen presented themselves, and, after being duly qualified, took their seats:
Thomas Meredith. of Brighton township
William H. Bailey of Cass township James B. McDermott of Lura township John C. Cannon, of Pymosa township David A. Barnett .... of Turkey Grove township John Tate. of Union township
C. S. Newlon .of Edna township
They organized by the election of D. A. Barnett to the chair, and procceded to business. On the 6th of the same month the following resolution was unanimously passed by the Board:
"Be it resolved, by the Board of Super- visors, in and for Cass county, State of Iowa, acting in behalf of said county, that a bounty of three hundred dollars be
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paid by the said county, to each volun- teer, and to each drafted man, who shall be accepted, or shall furnish a substitute who shall be accepted, to fill the quota of the county of Cass, under the call of the President of the United States for three hundred thousand inen, of date December 20, 1864.
"And that the same shall be paid as follows, to-wit: The Clerk of the District Court and ex-officio clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Cass county, State of Iowa, is hereby authorized and ordered by the Board of Supervisors, as aforesaid, to issue to each volunteer, and to each drafted man, warrants upon a fund to be called and known as the 'Bounty Fund,' in the sum of three hundred dollars to each, whenever a certificate from the Pro- vost Marshal of this Fifth District of Iowa shall be filed in the said clerk's office, that the said volunteer, or drafted man, or his substitute as aforesaid, has been accepted and accredited to the county of Cass, in the State of Iowa, on the aforesaid call for three hundred thousand men.
"And further, That all the warrants which may be hereafter issued under the foregoing provisions of this resolution, shall draw interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, from the date of this issue.
And, be it further resolved, that, to pro- vide for the immediate payment of a portion of the said 'Bounty Fund' war- rants, which may be hereafter issued, the County Treasurer, of the county and State aforesaid, shall be authorized to transfer, or borrow, the entire amount of cash in his hands belonging to the 'Town Fund,'
for the benefit of the 'Bounty Fund,' and the same shall be paid out pro rata, after the entire" amount of the 'Bounty Fund' warrants shall be ascertained. The money so borrowed shall be repaid to the 'Town Fund' whenever a sufficient amount shall be collected from the 'Bounty Fund' tax.
On the 7th of June, Thomas Meredith resigned his position on the Board of Supervisors, and M. B. Darnell was appointed in his place. J. B. McDermott, the representative from Lura township, also resigned, and was succeeded by James Turner. At the next general election, in October, William F. Altig was chosen Supervisor by the people of Brighton township, and succeeded Mr. Darnell, who had just been appointed to fill the vacancy.
The Board for the year 1866, which met on the Ist day of January, was composed of the following mentioned gentlemen: William F. Altig.
William H. Bailey .Cass
Brighton
C. S. Newlon. Edna
Lewis Beason. .Grant, late Lura
James L. Byrd.
Pymosa
D. F. Gaylord . Union
D. A. Barnett. Turkey Grove
The last mentioned was duly elected chairman for the ensuing year, on organ- ization. The usual routine business was transacted by this Board in a business-like manner.
On the 7th of January, 1867, the Board met, and the following members took their seats, after due qualifications:
James L. Byrd. Pymosa
W. II. Bailey . Cass
D. F. Gaylord. Union
C. S. Newlon. .Edna
L. Beason Grant
A. Brown Turkey Grove
W. F. Altig. .Brighton
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On organization, James L. Byrd was elected chairman of the Board, for the year.
The Board for the year 1868, embraced the following-mentioned gentlemen:
L. Beason. .Grant
Anson Brown. Turkey Grove
D. G. Gaylord. . Union
James L. Byrd. . Pymosa
Z. Clarey .. Brighton
Edna
John Leslie.
· John A. Mills. Cass
The first meeting was held upon the 6th day of January, and James L. Byrd was elected to the chair. At the June session, a committee which had been appointed for the purpose of selecting a Poor Farm for the county, at the January session, made their report, which was as follows:
"We, your committee that were ap- pointed to ascertain where a tract of land suitable for a Poor Farm for Cass county could be procured, have to report that, in the present unsettled and unknown rail- road facilities in our county, and in view of the agitation of the county seat ques- tion, we have come to the conclusion that it is inexpedient to purchase or locate a Poor Farm at this time.
D. F. GAYLORD. JOHN A. MILLS. ANSON BROWN.
This report was received and adopted by the Board.
On the 4th of January, 1869, the Board of Supervisors for the year held their first meeting, with the following-named in their seats:
D. F. Gaylord. . Union
James L. Bvrd. Pymosa
Cass John A. Mills.
W. W Jameson. Turkey Grove
J. C. Morrison. G.ant
Simeon S. Green Brighton
John Leslie. Edna
James L. Byrd was re-elected to the position of chairman.
At the June session of this Board, William Waddell and others came before the Supervisors and filed a notice of pub- lication and petition for the removal of the county seat to Atlantic. At the same time, a remonstrance against the same was filed by R. G. Phelps and others. The matter, by vote of the Board, was referred to a committee of three, and the Chair appointed D. F. Gaylord, S. S. Green and John A. Mills as said committee. These gentlemen, on the 10th of June, filed the following report:
"We, the committee to whom was re- erred the petition and remonstrance per- taining to the removal of the county seat, beg leave to report, and recommend that the whole question be referred to the committee of the whole, as the committee have arrived at no definite conclusion as to the merits of the case."
This report was received and adopted, and the Board, going into committee of the whole, canvassed the question. It he- ing shown that six hundred and eighty- two of the legal voters of the county had signed the petition in favor of the re-loca- tion of the county seat at Atlantic, and as the last preceding census showed that Cass county contained eight hundred and twenty-one voters, the Board adopted the following resolution, offered by D. F. Gaylord:
"Resolved, That it is ordered by the board of Supervisors of Cass county, in the State of Iowa, that, at the general election to be holden within, and for said county, on the second Tuesday of Octo- ber, A. D. 1869, to-wit : the 12th day of
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October, A. D. 1869, a vote shall be taken on the re-location of the county seat of Cass county, Iowa, between the said town of Atlantic, as asked for in the petition duly filed, and the town of Lewis, the ex- isting county seat of Cass county, and that the ballot of each voter voting on snch re-location shall designate that it was cast for the county seat at Atlantic, or for the county seat at Lewis."
Provisions were also made for the due observance of law, in the way of public notices, both by publication in the papers, and by notices posted in conspicuous places.
The board, on the 11th of June, 1869, in response to a petition, ordered the or- ganization of congressional township 75, north of range 36 west, into a civil town- ship under the name of Bear Grove, and ordered C. A. Hebing to act as the organ- izing officer, and the first election to be held at the building known as the Roselle school house, on the 12th of October. At the September session, the board, also, ordered the organization of township 74, range 37, as a civil township under the name of Pleasant, and instructed H. A. Barton to act as organizing officer. The first election was also ordered to take place on the 12th of October, at the Stet- ler school house. This latter order was revoked shortly after, and a committee composed of Simeon S. Green, John C. Morrison and John Leslie appointed to look into the re-organization of the county into civil townships.
At the October session, it being brought to the attention of the board that one of their number, John A. Mills, had on the 2d day of October, been called away by
death, resolutions of respect were passed by the board bearing testimony to his work, and the loss the community met with in his death,and tendered his afflicted family their condolence.
On the 20th of October, after a due canvass of the vote on the re-location of the county seat, the Board declared the city of Atlantic the seat of county gov- ernment, and ordered the county officers to remove to that place.
"That in consideration of the Atlantic Town Company making a warrantee deed to all of block number Fifty-two in said town of Atlantic; to the county of Cass, Iowa, for county building and purposes, the same being in full for the grounds which said town agreed to donate to said county for public buildings, and upon the said Town Company erecting the buildings in manner and form as required by their bond, within sixty days, upon block Thir- ty-four in said town of Atlantic, and the same is accepted by a committee appoint- ed by this board, upon their certifying the acceptance of said building to the county officer, they are immediately re- quired to remove their offices, books, pa- pers, etc., to the county seat at Atlantic, into said building."
The Board for the year 1870, was com- posed of the following gentlemen, who met for the first time on the first of Jan- uary, and after qualification, took their seats :
D. T. Gaylord. Union.
E. J. Shields. Edna
N. L. Mills. .Cass.
James L. Byrd Pymosa
S. S. Green Brighton.
W. W. Jameson .Turkey Grove.
J. C. Morrison. .Grant.
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J. L. Byrd was chosen chairman. At the June ses ion Benjamin Albee, of Bear Grove, presented his credentials as a mem- ber of the board, and was admitted to a seat in the council. The committee on re- organization of the county now made a a report by which the following congress- ional townships were erected into civil townships :
Township 74, range 34, to be called Vic- toria township.
Township 75, range 34, to be called Mas- sena township.
Township 76, range 34, to be called Lin- coln township.
Township 77, range 34, to be called Grant township.
Township 77, range 35, to be called Benton township.
Township 76, range 35, to be called Franklin township.
Township 75, range 35, to be called Union township.
Township 74, range 35, to be called Edna township.
Township 74, range 36, to be called No- ble township.
Township 75, range 36, to be called Bear Grove township.
Township 76, range 36, to be called At- lantic township.
Township 77, range 36, to be called Py- mosa township.
Township 77, range 37, to be called Brighton township.
Township 76, range 37, to be called Washington township.
Township 75, range 37, to be called Cass township.
Township 74, range 37, to be called Pleasant township.
The Board of Supervisors had hereto- fore been composed of one representative from each township, but by the law of the State of Iowa, in 1870, this was abro- gated and the county government placed in the hands of three supervisors chosen at large. The first Board of this compo- sition met at the conrt house in Atlantic, on the 2d day of January, 1871, and was composed of William Waddell, W. W. Jameson and A. Teal. On being duly qualified and taking their seats, they fully organized by the election of William Waddell as chairman for the ensuing year.
The Board of Supervisors for the sub- sequent years, were as follows :
1872-W. Waddell, A. Teal and H. G. Van Vlack, Mr. Waddell again occupying the chair.
1873-William Waddell, H. G. Van- Vlack and Homer L. Darnell, with the first named again in the chair.
1874-H. G. Van Vlack, H. L. Darnell and E. E. Herbert, with H. G. Van Vlack as chairman. During the month of April Mr. Van Vlack resigned his position on the board, and was succeeded by G. I. Chizum, and Mr. Darnell made chairman for the balance of the year, but in Sep- tember the latter resigned from the board and J. H. Vinson was appointed to fill the vacancy, and the chair was filled by Mr. Herbert.
1875-M. J. Stearns, E. E. Herbert and E. J. Shields, with Mr. Herbert in the chair.
1876-The Board of Supervisors having been increased to five members, it was composed this year of E. J. Shields, chair- man; E. E. Ilerbert, S. E. Huse, J.Pickett and J. P. James.
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1877-J. P. James, chairman; James Pickett, S. E. IIuse, E. J. Shields and J. H. Vinson.
1878-S. E. Huse, chairman; J. P. James, J. Il. Vinson, James Pickett and T. J. Allyn.
1879-J. H. Vinson, chairman; D. F. Hawks, William Cool, J. P. James and T. J. Allyn.
1880-J. P. James, chairman; William Cool, T. J. Allyn, J. E. Bailey and D. F. Hawks.
1881-D. F. Hawks, chairman; John E.
Bailey, William Cool, J. M. Baxter and D. C. Kellogg.
1882-D. F. Hawks, chairman; J. E. Bailey, J. M. Baxter, D. C. Kellogg and Julius Triplett.
1883-J. M. Baxter, chairman; D. F. Hawks, D. C. Kellogg, Julius Triplett and Samuel L. Loralı.
THE PRESENT BOARD OF SUPERVISORS is composed of the following named gen- tlemen: Julius Triplett, chairman; D. F. Hawks, S. L. Lorah, S. W. Garvin and William Christie, Jr.
CHAPTER VIII.
OTHER OFFICIAL MATTERS.
In this chapter are given various items of information, taken from the official rec- ords of the county, and elsewhere, and although they are necessary to a complete compilation of the annals of the county, do not have any fitting connection with any other matter in the book.
POPULATION.
No notice seems to have been taken of this part of the country in any census, until the year 1856, when, by a State enumeration it was shown that the four townships that, then, made up the county of Cäss, had the following population: Cass, 415; Edna, 56; Pymosa, 175, and Turkey Grove, 179; making a total of 815 souls. The following table will show the
statistics of that year, as shown by the -
State Census Report:
Number of dwelling houses 156
Number of families 148
Number of males 448
Number of females
367
Married 308
Widowed.
.12
Native voters
205
Naturalized voters 10
Aliens 9
Militia. 171
Idiotic 2
Owners of land. 175
Acres of improved land 3,265
Acres of unimproved land 26,128
'Tons of hay. 172
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Acres of spring wheat. 442
Bushels harvested 3,838
Acres of winter wheat 43
Bushels harvested 348
Acres of Oats 322
Bushels harvested 3,302
Acres of Corn
1,417
Bushels harvested 40,013
Acres of Potatoes. 40
Bushels harvested. 6,209
Number of hogs sold 319
Value of hogs sold
$1,684
Number of cattle sold. 317
Value of cattle sold. $10,304
Pounds of butter made
13,50l
Pounds of wool.
613
Value of domestic manufactures. $350 Value of general manufactures ... $4,150
In this connection it would, possibly, be of interest to give a table of the vari- ous occupations represented in the county of the same year: .
Farmers
179
Laborers 8
· Blacksmiths
7
Carpenters
14
Wagonmakers
1
Stonemasons
2
Millers
2
Sawyers
Tinners
Milliners
2
Shoemakers
1
Saddle and Harnessmakers 3
Merchants 2
Agents.
1
Traders
1
Physicians
3
Lawyers.
1
Clergymen
1
Teamsters 1
Coopers 3
Clerks
1
Surveyors.
I
County Judge
1
Weavers 1
In 1860, by the National census, just previous to the Civil War, the population of Cass county was set down as 1,612. In 1865, it was 1,895, and 1870, had grown to 5,464, an increase of about 300 per cent. in five years. On the authority of the Fed- eral census of 1880, it is shown that in that year Cass county had outgrown its days of infancy and could boast of 16,943 inhabitants; and in the four years of growth since then has added to this un- til to-day, it is thought, her population will foot up to twenty-three or twenty-four thousand. Taken on the basis of the enumeration of that year, the following table, showing several items of interest in regard to the county, are not out of place. In the year 1880 there were in this county:
Natives of the United States.
14.799
Natives of Iowa.
6,588
Natives of a foreign country.
2,144
Males
9,022
Female.
7,921
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Persons of Color.
21
Number of Males over 21 years of age
4,534
Persons to the square mile.
29.4
The American element, which is the predominant one, are representatives of most of the northern states, New Eng- land, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, contributing the larger portion. They are, taken as a whole, an industrious and thrifty people, many of whom have gathered around
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them considerable of this world's goods and are hospitable in the extreme.
COUNTY CHARITY.
Although the heart of every man in the county beats in earnest sympathy with the poor and destitute that lies within his knowledge, and the hand of pity is never withheld, in time of need, from those who are in want, the time has not yet arrived when the county has felt it just to itself and others, to provide a county home for the friendless. Many, having in their mind the parish poor houses, and "unions" of the old countries, shrink back with horror at the idea, that any, in whom they feel an interest, should be doomed to inhabit a place, within the cold and cheerless walls of such an asylum. Little do they think that many a waif, upon the broad and troubled sea of the world's bitter experience, has hailed, as a safe harbor, as a secure haven, the much dreaded poor-house. Ilere the weary can find rest, and the wolf, starvation, be held at bay, until a brighter day can dawn. To those of us that think, the name has many a sad and tender recollec- tion of pity for the unfortunate wretch, who is compelled to lower his pride, and seek relief, rather than meet death by starvation and exposure.
The only effort of any note that has been made in Cass county, toward the establishment of a county poor farm, was in January, 1868, when a committee of the Board of Supervisors, who had been ap- pointed for the purpose of selecting a tract of land for a poor farm, made a re- port, adverse to the whole matter, at that time, as not to the interest of the people of the county. So Cass county stands
to-day without an institution of that character.
Perhaps it may be partially owing to some mistaken notions of that noble char- ity, and the dread that many citizens have of such institutions, that there is none, but let not the stranger think, how- ever, that it is a land where people are lacking in brotherly charity. The method of relief practiced, and the yearly amount annually appropriated for the relief of the needy, bas only to be scanned to de- monstrate the fallacy of such a judg- ment. The weary wight that has lost his all through force of untoward cir- cumstances; the widow and orphan strug- gling hard for the daily crust of bread; the waif left to live or die, as best it may, can here, all, meet openhanded charity, and a people whose heart and purse are ever open to the call of the suffering and poverty stricken.
CIVIL TOWNSHIPS.
The sixteen civil townships of Cass county were constituted and organized upon the following dates:
Cass in the fall of 1851, as a township of Pottawattamie county.
Pymosa, prior to 1856; the first time it is mentioned being in that year.
Turkey Grove, during the year 1856.
Edna, prior to 1857.
Breckenridge, constituted September 6th, and organized October, 1858.
Lura, constituted March, 1858, and or ganized April 5, 1858.
Brighton, constituted in March, and or- ganized April 5, 1858.
These were the original seven, but in 1870 this was changed and the whole county reorganized into its present form
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of sixteen civil townships, each co-exten- sive with the Congressional township. The following gives the townships as created and named. The act constituting them was passed June 11th, and the or- ganization effected in October, 1870:
Victoria, embracing township 74, range 34.
Massena, embracing township 75, range 34,
Lincoln, embracing township 76, range 34.
Grant, embracing township 77, range 34.
Benton, embracing township 77, range 35.
Franklin, embracing township 76, range 35.
Union, embracing township 75, range 35.
Edna, embracing township 74, range 35.
Noble, embracing township 74, range 36.
Bear Grove, embracing township 75, range 36.
Atlantic, embracing township 76, range 36.
Pymosa, embracing township 77, range 36.
Brighton, embracing township 77, range 37.
Washington, embracing township 76, range .37.
Cass, embracing township 75, range 37.
Pleasant, embracing township 74, range 37.
Bear Grove had been organized as now constituted, at the previous October elec- tions.
TOWN PLATS.
The plats of the several cities, towns and villages in Cass county, were filed for record, in the office of the county re- corder, upon the following dates:
Indiantown was the first, being filed for record on the 10th of October, 1853, by William N. Dickerson.
Lewis, filed for record February 6, 1854, by the County of Cass, who was sole owner and proprietor.
Iranistan, filed March 1, 1854, by S. T. Carey.
First addition to the town of Iranistan, filed by Nelson T. Spoor and Martha E. Carey, on the 1st of August, 1855.
Conrad's addition to Indiantown, filed by V. M. Conrad, March 27, 1856.
Elsey's addition to Lewis, filed Novem- ber 9, 1857, by George M. Elsey.
Dickerson's addition to Lewis, filed February 1, 1858, by C. Soper, Westley Spurlock, W. N. Dickerson and J. F. Deaver.
Evan's and Macon's addition to Lewis, filed by Charles II. Evans, of Mahaska county, and Joseph H. Macon, of Cass, on the 4th of May, 1858:
Grove City, filed May 20, 1862, by D. A. Barnett, Albert Wakefield, J. R. Kirk, A. G. McQueen, A. P. Thayer, V. M. Conrad, J. P. Wheeler and E. W. Daven- port.
Re-survey of Lewis, plat filed by the county, February 25, 1866.
Atlantic, surveyed and platted in Oc- tober, 1868, by F. II. Whitney, B. F. Allen, J. P. Cook and others.
First addition to Atlantic, filed for record May 4, 1869, by B. F. Allen, F. I.
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Whitney, and Job Walker, executor of the estate of Henry Walker, deceased.
Anita, filed November 10, 1870, by F. H. Whitney, B. F. Allen and J. P. Cook.
Dickerson and Keyes' addition to At- lantic, filed May 20, 1871, by Isaac Dick- erson and John Keyes.
Walker's addition to Atlantic, filed March 25, 1872, by Job Walker and F. H. Whitney.
Marne, filed May 17, 1875, by the Marne Town company.
McDowell's addition to Atlantic, filed August 4, 1875, by William M. McDowell.
Whitney's addition to Anita, Septem- ber, 24, 1875, by F. H. Whitney.
Meredith's addition to Marne, May 24, 1876, by Thomas Meredith.
Wiota, filed November 13, 1877, by Hoyt Sherman, assignee of B. F. Allen, in bankruptcy, and F. H. Whitney.
Reno, filed by Edward Porter, August 24, 1877.
Whitney's addition to Wiota, August 20, 1878, by F. H. Whitney.
Whitney's second addition to Atlantic, August 25, 1879, by F. II. Whitney.
Haskins' addition to Anita, March 13, 1879, by Norman IIaskins.
Griswold, filed for record, December 15, 1879, by C. E. Perkins, trustee.
Whitney's addition to Atlantic, blocks 74, 81, 82 and 89, April 29, 1879.
First addition to Griswold, by C. E. Perkins, trustee, June 28, 1880.
Lorah, October 26, 1880, by Samuel L. Lorah.
Second addition to Griswold, August 26, 1881, by C. E. Perkins, trustee.
Crawford and Merriman's addition to Atlantic, December 13, 1881, by C. C. Merriman and A. Crawford.
Porter's first addition to Reno, April 14, 1884, by Edward Porter.
These matters are treated of in full de- tail in the township and village histories.
MATRIMONIAL.
As in several other instances the record of marriages in Cass county in the early days of its existence is quite incomplete. The first marriage in the county was that of Alvin Jessup and Harriet Driscoll. The license for this was granted on the 8th of June, 1853, and the ceremony per- formed the same day.
The second was that of George Shan- non and Melissa IIedges, in the early part of 1854.
The third was the ceremony that uni- ted the destinies of the present incum- bent of the treasurer's office, G. I. Chiz- um and IIannah Bradshaw, on the 23d of August, 1854.
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