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Mr. Kasson was succeeded by Grenville M. Dodge, of Council Bluffs, in the For- tieth Congress, and served one term. Grenville M. Dodge was born in Essex county, Massachusetts, April 12, 1832. In 1851, he emigrated to Peoria, Illinois, and a few years later to Iowa. Was at that time engaged with the engineer corps of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad company. After a year spent in Nebraska, he settled in Council Bluffs, in the banking business. On the breaking out of the war, he raised a company in Council Bluffs, and was made. Colonel of the celebrated Fourth Iowa Infantry. On the 31st of March, 1862, lie was made
Brigadier, and afterwards Major-General. In 1866, he was elected to Congress, as above stated.
In the Forty-first Congress, which met in 1869, Frank W. Palmer, of Des Moines, was the representative of this district, and so well discharged his official duties that he was re-elected to the forty- second.
In 1870, on account of the increase in the population of the State of Iowa, the State was re-districted into nine Congres- sional districts, and Cass county was as- signed a place in the eighth. James W. McDill, a resident of Afton, was elected in 1872, to represent the district, and served in the Forty-third and Forty- fourth Congresses.
The Forty-fifth Congress, which met in 1877, continued as the representative of the eighth district, William F. Sapp. He was an able man and served his constitu- ency so well that he was re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress.
W. P. Ilepburn was elected as the member from the eighth district in 1880, and served through the Forty-seventh Congress.
In 1882, the State of Iowa was again re-districted, and by this new apportion- ment, Cass county, became a part of the ninth Congressional district and is rep- resented by W. H. M. Pusey, who was elected in November, 1882, and is serving in the Forty-eighth Congress.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The Fourth General Assembly con- vened at Iowa City, December 6, 1852, and adjourned January 24, 1853. At this time Cass county, although unorganized, was represented in the senate by Hadley
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D. Johnson, of Pottawattamie. Joseph L. Sharp, of Mills county, represented the counties of Pottawattamie, Mills, Fre- mont, Page, Taylor, Ringgold, Union, Adams, Montgomery, Cass, Adair, Audu- bon, Shelby, Harrison, Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Sac, Ida, Walkaw, Plymouth, Cherokee, Buena Vista, Sioux, O'Brien, Clay, Dickinson, Osceola and Buncomb, in the lower house.
In the Fifth General Assembly, which met at Iowa City December 4, 1854, and in the extra session which was convened July 2, 1856, Cass county which was dis- tricted with Mills, Montgomery, Adams, Union, Ringold, Taylor, Page and Fre- mont counties was represented in the sen- ate by George W. Lucas. The repres- entative district was composed of the counties of Cass, Mills, Montgomery, Adams, Union, Adair and Audubon. This was to have been represented by Richard Tutt, of Mills county. He was a young man of brilliant promise, and bright fu- ture, but died before the meeting of the Assembly. The vacancy was not filled at the regular session, but when the Assem- bly met in extra session, the place was filled by Joseph W. Russell, who had been elected to fill the vacancy.
The Sixth General Assemby convened at Iowa City, in December, 1856, and ad- journed January 29, 1857. The senator- ial district was composed of the counties of Warren, Madison, Adair and Cass, and was represented in the Senate by M. L. McPherson, of Madison county. In the house, Benjamin F. Roberts, represented the district composed of the counties of Madison, Adair and Cass.
The Constitutional Convention which met at. Iowa City, January 19, 1857, Cass county together with the counties of War- ren, Madison and Adair, was represented by Lewis Todhunter, of Warren.
The Seventh General Assembly con- vened at the newly made capital, Des- Moines, on the 11th of January, 1858. Cass, now districted with the counties of Warren, Madison and Adair, was . repres- ented by M. L. McPherson, in the senate. Leroy Lambert, of Dallas county, was the representative from the district composed of the counties of Guthrie, Dallas, Adair and Cass.
The Eighth General Assembly met at Des Moines, January 8, 1860, and also in extra session May 15, 1861. At this time Cass county was associated with Pottawat- tamie, Harrison, Shelby, Audubon and Guthrie, in a senatorial district, and was represented by W. H. M. Pusey, of Coun- cil Bluffs. The representative district composed of the counties of Union, Adair, Adams and Cass, was numbered the six- teenth and was represented by K. W. Ma- comber, of Cass county.
K. W. Macomber was born in Franklin county, Massachusetts, March 13, 1813, his parents being Ebenezer and Sallie (Jewell) Macomber. His father was a native of Taunton, Massachusetts, and his mother of Connecticut. She was a rela- tive of Governor Jewell. He grew to manhood in Massachusetts, and was edu- cated at the Shelburn Falls Academy. Mr. Macomber and his brother afterwards conducted the Academy, in 1839 and 1840. After retiring from the Academy, he went to Springfield, Massachusetts. There he remained two years, and then went to
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Northampton, and engaged in the manu- facture and sale of silk. He made that his business for eight years, and then went to Boston, where he remained until coming to Iowa, which was in July, 1855. He located near the present site of Atlan- tic, and there, in connection with his brother-in-law, L. L. Alexander, improved and cultivated a farm. He held the office of assessor of Cass county in the years 1857 and 1858, and in 1859 was elected as representative to the General Assembly from the district of which Cass county was a part. lle served one term of two years, and the extra session of 1861, held for the purpose of arranging for Iowa's part in the war. He was married in Mas- sachusetts, December 12, 1839, to Miss Martha Alexander. They have four chil- dren-Belle L., Henry Kirk, John K., and Frank J. Their child, George A., died in California in 1881, aged thirty.
The Ninth General Assembly convened in January, 1862, at Des Moines.
In the Senate, Cass being associated with Adair, Dallas, Guthrie, Audubon and Shelby, was represented by James Redfield, of Dallas. In the House it was represented by Samuel L. Lorah. The district then consisted of the counties of Audubon, Guthrie, Cass and Adair.
Judge S. L. Lorah, of Lorah, has been a resident of Pymosa township since 1855. He was born in Berks county, Pennsylva- nia, in 1809. Ile removed with his par- ents to Franklin county of the same State, thence, when thirteen years of age, to Wayne county, Ohio. His father, John Lorah, was a farmer. At the age of sev- enteen years, Judge Loral left home and served an apprenticeship to the trade of
tanner and currier, which occupation he followed twelve years. In 1837 he was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas, of Wayne county, and served in that capacity fifteen years. In October, 1851, he was elected probate judge of the same county which office he held three years. In the fall of 1854 he came to Cass county and purchased and entered a large amount of land. He entered a part of section 14, Pymosa township and bought the balance of Dr. Samuel M. Bal- lard, of whom he also purchased one hun- dred and twenty acres in section 13. He owned at one time, about one thousand acres of land in Pymosa township. He was elected county judge in 1857, and served two years. In the fall of 1862, he was elected to the General Assembly of Iowa, and served one term (two years.) He was member of the first board of su- pervisors of Cass county, an office which he now (1884) holds. He has also held various township and school offices. Since coming to Cass county he has devoted the greater part of his time to agricultu- ral pursuits. After the completion of the Audubon branch of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Judge Lorah made application for the establishing of a station on section 14. His proposition was accepted and he proceeded to lay out the village which bears his name. Judge Lorah has been twice married, first, in 1830, to Tamar Stophlet, a native of Penn- sylvania, who died one and a half years after marriage. In 1833 he was again married to Rachael Wilson, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1813. She died in the autumn of 1879. He had by his first mar- riage, one son, David, who went to Aus-
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tralia when a young man, thence to Ore- gon where he died several years ago. By the second union there were seven chil- dren-Samnel I., a resident of Colorado, E. Jane, Tamar E., Rachael C. Sarah L., John W. and Charles E.
Politically, Judge Lorah has always been allied to the Democratic party. Few men in Cass county are more widely known thian Judge Lorah and he has ever been held in high esteem for his sterling char- acter, and respected for his many excel- lent qualities of mind and heart.
In the Senate of the Tenth General As- sembly, (1864), Lewis W. Ross, of Coun- cil Bluffs, was the senator from this dis- trict. The district consisted of the coun- ties of Fremont, Mills, Cass and Potta- wattamie, and was known as the eighth.
In the House of the Tenth, E. B. Fenn, of Guthrie county, was the member. The representative district then consisted of the counties of Adair, Audubon, Cass and Guthrie was numbered as the sixty-fourth. Mr. Fenn moved to Guthrie from Story county, in this State, in 1860, locating at Panora, the then county seat, where he practiced medicine. During the late war he entered the service with company C, 4th Iowa Infantry, and served with that regiment for about a year, as assistant surgeon. Ile went back to Guthrie county and again entered upon the practice of his profession, and was elected represen- tative from this district in the General Assembly as above. He was afterward connected with the press of that county, but became involved, however, and re- moved to Dale City, from whence he went to Kansas. He was, also, at one time, county superintendent of Guthrie county.
Lewis W. Ross was the senator from this district in the Eleventh General As- sembly, which met January 8, 1866, the district remaining the same as in the Tenth. The sixty-fifth representative dis- trict of the Eleventh Assembly consisted of the counties of Guthrie, Adair and Casss, and Abraham L. McPherson, of Adair, was the representative.
The Twelfth General Assembly con- vened in January, 1868. The ninth sen- atorial district was made up of Pottta- wattamie, Mills, Cass and Fremont, and J. P. Cassady, of Council Bluffs, was the senator. Galen F. Kilburn, of Adair, was the representative from the sixty- sixth district which was composed of the counties of Adair, Cass and Montgomery.
Galen F. Kilburn was a native of New Ilampshire, and moved to Fontanelle, Adair county, from Des Moines, in the summer of 1858. He was an attorney, and entering on the practice of his pro- fession, soon gained a considerable patron- age. ITis principal business was the col- lection of debts, and in real estate trans_ actions. He was a sociable gentleman and a most excellent citizen. Ile was married to a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Mather, but the estimable lady was burned to death by an explosion of kerosene in 1875. Shortly after this sad event, Mr. Kilburn removed from Adair county to Creston, Union county, where he died on the 29th of April, 1883. IIe served the county of Adair for two years in the treasurer's office.
For the Thirteenth General Assembly which met in January, 1870, the Senator was the same as in the Twelfth. Cass, Adair and Montgomery constituted the
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twentieth representative district, and served by W. W. Merritt, of Red Oak.
Madison, Adair and Cass counties made the senatorial . district of the Four- teenthi General Assembly, which met at at Des Moines, in January, 1872, and B. F. Murray, of Madison, was the sena- tor. The twentieth representative dis- trict was composed of Cass, Adair and Montgomery counties, and Oliver Mills, of Cass, was the representative.
Oliver Mills was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, February 2, 1821, and is the son of Harlow and Aithan Mills. IIe was reared in that State, and educated in the common schools and Farmington Acad- emy. In 1850 he went to Denmark, Lee county, Iowa, and in the spring of 1857 removed to Cass county. He located near Lewis, and entered into the stock business, and brought what he claims was the first herd of Shorthorn pedigree cattle into the county. He has been engaged in the stock business since that time. IIe was elected in the fall of 1872 as representa- tive in the Legislature, serving one term. He was a director in the State Agricul- tural Society for its first twenty, and was president of it three successive years. IIe was one of the trustees who located the State Agricultural College at Ames. Ile was married in Ashtabula county, Ohio, to Miss Sophia Arnold, a native of New York. They had six children, five of whom are living. Their names are: Ed- ward P., Anna L., Sophia E., George and Frank. Their son John A. died October 2, 1869. Ile was well and favorably known in the county. Mr. Mills was mar- ried a second time April 27, 1876, to Julia Forgy.
The Fifteenth General Assembly was convened at Des Moines, January 12, 1874, and adjourned March 19, the same year. The seventeenth senatorial district, com- posed of the counties of Cass, Adair, Union and Adams, was well represented by Lafayette Young, in the Senate. W. II. Easton, of Adair, was the representa- tive in the IIouse.
A sketch of Mr. Young appears in con- nection with the account of the Atlantic Telegraph, in the Press chapter, he being the editor and proprietor of that progress- ive journal.
William II. Easton, a son of John and Ruth (Twickelle) Easton, is a native of Oswego county, New York, born Novem- ber 17, 1833. He moved with his parents to Peoria, Illinois, in 1837, where he was married in 1854 to Mary J. Thurston, a daughter of Jesse Thurston. They have been blessed with eight children-Mary Emma, Ella May, Ruth Caroline, Nathan- iel Lyon, J. Scott, William II., Edwin S and Adeline. In May, 1855, Mr. Easton entered four hundred and forty acres of prairie land in Jefferson township, Adair county, Iowa, and bought seventy acres of timber land of G. M. Haladay, on sec- tion 4, Grove township, of the same coun- ty. He returned to Peoria, Illinois, and in October of the same year moved his family to his land, spending the winter in a log cabin, which is now standing on the farm of Andrew Dickey. He built a log cabin on what is now his present location in Jefferson township, Adair county, and there lived until 1882, when he erected his new dwelling. Ile now owns four hundred acres of good cultivated land, and ten acres of timber land, which is of
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great valne. IIe is a general farmer and stock raiser, having some fine Short horn cattle. Mr. Easton has held every town- ship office, and helped make the first as- sessment, while in the assessor's office, and was the second representative from this district, having been elected in the fall of 1873.
The Sixteenth General Assembly con- vened at Des Moines, in January, 1876. In the Senate, Lafayette Young still con- tinued to represent this district. M. K. Campbell, of Shelby county, served the people in the IIouse.
The Seventeenth General Assembly met in January, 1878, at the State Capital. The eighteenth senatorial district, com- posed of Cass, Madison and Adair coun- ties, was again represented in the Senate by Lafayette Young, who was re-elected in October, 1877, for another term. By the new apportionment of the State, made by the Sixteenth General Assembly, Cass county was made a separate representa- tive district. and numbered the twenty- third. It was represented by Ull. Coomes.
Oliver Coomes was born in Licking county, Ohio, August 26, 1845. When eleven years of age he removed with his parents to Iowa, and settled in Jasper county. At that time the country was new, and all underwent the hardships in- cident to pioneer life on the prairies of the great west.
He attended district school in winter and worked on the farm and in his fath- er's pottery during the summer. In the winter of 1865 he entered Iowa College with the intention of taking a collegiate course, but after remaining a few months,
his father's financial circumstances com- pelled him to quit college and return to the potter's wheel.
In 1867, he was married to Miss Addie Kellogg. They have three children- Royston, Artbur and Isaiah, aged four- teen, eleven and six respectively. .
In the fall of 1870, Mr. Coomes settled in Cass county, on a farm in Franklin township, where he has resided ever since, and where he has made improvements which mark his farm as a model, and are a credit to his taste. In the years he has lived here he has seen the almost bound- less prairies around him settled up by thrifty and enterprising farmers.
Besides improving his farm, Mr. Coomes has given considerable attention to liter- ary writing, confining himself to the field of western romance. Ilis works include about sixty serials, which have been pub- lished in the New York Weekly and Sat- urday Journal of New York, and prices received at all times have made him one of the best paid writers of current litera- ture in the country. His first successful story was "Ironsides, the Scout," pub- lished by Street and Smith, of New York. This was followed by "Hawkeye Harry," "Death Notch," "The Dumb Spy," "Da- kota Dan," ' The Giant Rifleman," &c., &c.
He has been identified with the school interests of Franklin township ever since he came to the county. Ile is Republi- can in politics. In 1877 he was elected to the Iowa Legislature over James Byrd, and was re-elected in 1879 over R. G. Phelps, of Atlantic,. At present he di- vides his time between farm and literary work.
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The Eighteenth General Assembly of Iowa, met at DesMoines, in regular ses- sion, in January, 1880, and found Lafay- ette Young, still serving this people in the Senate, his second term not having ex- pired. Oll Coomes, having been re-elect- ed, was the representative.
The Nineteenth General Assembly met in January, 1882, at the capital of the State, and this district was represented in the Senate by C. B. IIunt, of Adair county, and in the House, by William Banghman.
C. B. Hunt is a native of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, and was born May 20, 1844. He is the eldest of the five chil- dren of George and Charlotte L. (Betch- er) Hunt. In 1854 the family removed to Henry county, Illinois, and in 1858 to Lyon county, Kansas. There they re- mained something over a year, when they went back to Massachusetts. But pre- ferring life farther west, they returned to Illinois, The civil war was then in full tide, and C. P. offered his services to his country, enlisting in Company I, 112th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. They were assigned to the 23d Army Corps, and served with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign. After the fighting at Atlanta, he was with Thomas in the Nashville campaign, and was discharged in July, 1865. He then returned to Illinois, and began employ- ment as clerk in a clothing store, in Gen- eseo, Illinois. He held that situation un- til March, 1868, when he removed to Iowa, and located in Adair county, improving a farm on section 28, Lincoln township. In 1871 he removed to a farm on section 1, Eureka township, and there cultivated the soil and followed the usual routine of
farming life nntil elected to the office of sheriff, which was in the fall of 1873. He held that position for three terms, giv- ing great satisfaction to all, and refused the nomination for the fourth term. In the fall of 1882 he was elected to repres- ent this district in the senate of the State, and he is still a senator. He has also held many offices in the city government. He was married May 23, 1867, to Miss Sue E. Cady, a native of Henry county, Illi- nois. They have three children-Fred- erick M., Allen F. and Hattie L. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and chapter degree, and also of the Grand Army of the Republic.
William Baughman was the first settler in what is now Pleasant township and is noticed at length, in that connection, in the history of that sub-division of the county.
The Twentieth General Assembly was convened at DesMoines, in January, 1884. C. B. Hunt was still in his place in the senate, serving the people of the Eigh- teenth senatorial district. Jacob Kuhn, was the representative.
Mr. Kuhn was born in Pennsylvania, near the city of Pittsburg, in the year 1844. ITis great grandfather Kuhn, a na- tive of Prussia, came to this country in 1760, and settled near Philadelphia, in the eastern part of the State of Pennsyl- vania, where, the grandfather of Jacob was born, about the year 1785. They moved to Alleghany connty, in the same State, where the father of Jacob first saw the light, in the year 1805. Jacob Kuhn was reared on a farm, until the breaking out of the war in 1861. He enlisted in the Federal army on the 13th of Febru-
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ary, 1864, in Rank's Light Battery, Third Pennsylvania Artillery. This battery was serving with the Eighth Army Corps un- der General Lew. Wallace, and did val- liant service in the defense of the country. Mr. Kuhn was discharged from the ser- vice, at the close of the war, on the 28th of July, 1865, and was mustered out at Philadelphia. In 1868 he came to Cass county and engaged in the carpentering and building trade, which he followed un- til 1879, when he built the mill at Anita, which he operated until he sold it to the present owners. In 1882, he built a flour- ing mill at Manning, Carroll county, and which he is at present operating, in con- nection with V. Roush, under the firm name and style of Kuhn & Roush.
RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS.
Several citizens of Cass county have held the position of Railway Postal clerks, or mail agents, as they are called, among them the following named: M. M. Rutt, now of Atlantic; R. P. IIarris, a resident of Mapleton, Iowa; J. N. Bolton, the present representative from this county in this branch of the postal de- partment; C. E. Everett, now the chief clerk in the Atlantic postoffice; J. H. Willey, the genial editor and proprietor of the Atlantic Messenger, and president of the Blaine and Logan club, of that city; and W. B. Temple, the present county recorder. All these gentlemen have filled this position with credit to themselves, and to the great efficiency of the mail facilities and deserve a mention among the representative men of the county.
COUNTY JUDGE.
This office, in early days, was the most important of the county, embracing the work of various officers of the present day. It is treated also under the head of county court, in the judicial chapter.
The first county judge of Cass county was Jeremiah Bradshaw. He was elected at the time of the organization of the county, in April, 1853, and held the office for one year. Upon him, as the first county judge, devolved the duty of per- fecting the organization, dividing it into townships, and other work of a kindred nature, necessary to perfect the system of county government.
Jeremiah Bradshaw, the pioneer, was born December 17, 1807, in Madison county, Kentucky, and is a son of Charles and IIannah (Bates) Bradshaw. Ile lived in his native state until eighteen years of age. The family them removed to Guy- andotte, Cabell county, West Virginia, where they remained until 1840. In that year they moved to Illinois, and located near Paris, in Edgar county. The family consisted at that time of the parents, three brothers and a sister. They left West Virginia in a small boat, which contained also their household goods and provisions for the journey. The father, one brother, Elias, and a cousin made the trip over- land, taking with them cattle, horses ai d other stock. They passed on their route Terre Haute, which was then a small vil- lage. On arriving at their destination in Illinois, they began farming. Jeremiah lived in Illinois till 1847. In the spring of that year he removed to Wapello coun- ty, Iowa, and, the following September, went to Mahaska county, where he re-
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mained till early in May, 1851. About the middle of the same month he arrived in Cass county. Mr. Bradshaw was married in Ohio, January 15, 1828, to Miss Eliza Doolittle, a native of New York. By this union nine children were born, one of whom died in infancy. Those who attained maturity were Victor M., who was a men.ber of the Fourth Iowa Infant- ry; Henry L. and Harvey, who were in the same regiment; the former was killed at Mission Ridge; Calvin, who was in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, and very severely wounded at Black River Bridge; Hannah, wife of G. I. Chizum; Lucy Aun, wife of - Allbaugh, who was born in 1836 and died in 1879, and Lydia, wife of - Jackson,living in Pottawattamie county; Sarah died at the age of three years; Mrs Bradshaw died in this county, December 1, 1863. In May, 1865, Mr. Bradshaw was married to Parmelia Fer- rell; she died January 1, 1880, in Southern California, where her husband had taken her. In August, 1861, Jeremiah Bradshaw enlisted in company B,of the Fourth Iowa Infantry. He served fourteen months and was then honorably discharged at Mem- phis, Tennessee, where he had lain three months in the hospital, in consequence of a broken knee, which he received while on duty. lle took part in the battle of Pea Ridge, Cotton Plantation, and a great number of skirmishes. On being dis- charged, he returned to Cass county, and was appointed recruiting agent, and in that capacity rendered valuable aid to his country, by enlisting many in the ser- vice. Ile still has in his possession some of his army accoutrements, which he brought back with him. For one year
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