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After the vote, moving the county seat to the geographical cen- ter, it became a matter of political importance who should be the next county judge. In 1859 fhe Republicans nominated Judge Ripley, and the Democrats nominated David Wiltse, of St. Charles, who pledged himself as being opposed to St. Charles be- ing the county-seat, that if elected he would put a roof on the stone structure already reared to preserve it, and wait further develop- ments before completing it. This bait the Democrats swallowed as a party, hoping thereby to elect their ticket. The Republicans in favor of St. Charles also swallowed it, and with perhaps another secretly tendered promise in regard to finishing up the Court House, and they voted almost solidly for Wiltse, who was elected ; and contrary to his pledge, contracted for the completion of the court-house. This act was the occasion of a raid upon the court- house. The people feeling indignant, many informal indigna- tion meetings were held, and by concert, many of the disaffected people determined to visit St. Charles, and there give vent to their pent-np feelings. Floyd Township, though not unanimous in this move, acted voluntarily with a majority of her voters in this matter. The citizens met in the then would-be court-house, and appointed a committee to wait on Judge Wiltse and invite him to come over and explain his conduct. He was sick and could not
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come. This seemed to be the culmination of the entire county-seat business.
The vote to raise a tax of five cents on the dollar to assist in build- ing the Cedar Falls & Minnesota Railroad, was taken and carried Oct. 29, 1868, and the cars reached the Floyd depot on that road in the fall of 1869. Of this road 5 35-100 miles lie in this town- ship, and 4 25-100 of the McGregor & Sioux City Road. On this last road the cars also ran to Floyd Crossing in 1869. Previous to this our commerce was carried by wagons across the Wapsie to McGregor or down the Cedar to Dubuque. Thomas Sprague's four-mule team carried everybody between these two points. No bridges, no roads anywhere. It is doubtful if even a minister could pass over either of these roads without thinking of the bad. We had no home markets except to settlers coming in. How welived in those olden times is a mystery. Prices low, roads bad, no market. In the summer of 1858 no grain or flour could be bought nearer than Clermont Mills, down toward McGregor. Musty corn was worth $1.00 per bushel in Charles City. Now, how changed! Market for everything and at cach man's door. The people of Floyd can now reach the following depots, going and returning in one day: Osage, Orchard, Floyd, Charles City, Nashua, Marble Rock, Rockford, Nora Springs and Rudd. Instead of oak and basswood for lumber for building material, as in former days, we have pine brought to every depot, and sold at reasonable rates. . The old steam and water saw-mills have ceased their depredations on our forests, and the old-worn fence is giving place to boards and wire. Instead of the log cabins or mere huts, and the down stables, new houses are being erected of stone, brick or pine, and barns of formidable dimensions are being erected of the same materials. Instead of bee-lining across the township and wad- ing through sloughs, the traveler finds well-worked roads, carefully located for the convenience of the inhabitants, and instead of ford- ing our streams, we pass thiem over good, substantial bridges.
Two heavy freshets have visited Floyd, one of which caused the water of the Cedar to rise over thirty feet ; this occurred in 1858. Other freshets have occurred since, but of less magnitude. Every bridge was swept away by this one.
This year also occurred a very destructive storm of wind, rain and thunder and lightning-at night. The morning showed the effects of the damage to be great, though no lives were lost. Houses were moved from their underpinning, school houses and
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private houses unroofed, fences prostrated, and a general time of discomfort felt. Add to this poor crops this year, and you may guess our situation.
The big spring, a little way below the Floyd Mill on the east side of the river, is a natural curiosity. Quite a large stream of water abruptly bursts forth from under a high embankment. This water is impregnated with some kind of mineral, and should some enterprising Yankee become its owner, he would undoubtedly make it historical as a summer resort. Still further up from the same mill and on the same side of the river on B. B. Van Steenburg's flat is another beautiful spring. This spring is almost in the center of a small rivulet which flows into the Cedar, and is con- stantly boiling up like a huge cauldron of heated syrup. The water however is clear as crystal and pleasant to the taste. This spring is already somewhat notorious as the resort of pleasure parties. Being close to the river and in the timber, boating, swinging, eating and gossiping can all be done in due order. Another phenome- non in this township is the finding of animal a id vegetable remains many feet below the surface of the ground when digging wells. Moses Conger, Esq., when digging for water on the premises now owned and occupied by Neil Oleson Seim Esq., found at the dis- tance of about twenty feet below the surface a stick of timber about six inches in diameter and reaching clear across the excavation. It was so nearly petrified that the kind of wood could not be ascer- tained. James Burnham, in digging a well on the Clark farm, near Floyd village, found vegetable remains, such as limbs of trees several feet below the surface. James Raymond, Sr., living about four miles northwest from the village, found large quantities of petrified matter, while digging a well. One piece had the appearance of a black walnut, another had the form of a quill, another appeared to be a large sized turtle; there were also many pieces of petrified wood. Query, whence and how came they here?
A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
As W. E. Brill was crossing the I. C. R. R. about half a mile south of the depot, on the morning of Friday, Feb: 13, 1874, lie was struck by a passing train, the approach of which he was not aware of, owing to the sudden bend in the road, and to the fact that it was two hours past the time for the train to be due. The horses had just crossed the track, and the engine struck the sled
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about the middle, literally smashing it to fragments, and precipitat- ing its occupant to a distance of seventy-five or a hundred feet. Mr. Brill was seriously injured. The train was stopped and the unfortunate man taken up in an unconcious condition and carried to the depot.
CASUALTIES.
April 27, 1858, John Wyman was upset in a skiff and drowned in the Cedar under the dam a short distance below Floyd.
In April, 1879, on the premises of J. W. Webster, a colt was born which seemed to be perfect in all respects except that it had no fore-legs or shoulders, and no sign of any. It did not live and the carcass was taken to W. A. Fairbanks, a taxidermist of Charles City, to be skinned and mounted. The task was neatly done, and this singular freak of nature was thus preserved as a wonder to all observers of biological phenomena.
May 28, 1858, at Floyd, three men were drowned in the Cedar River. They were engaged in the stone quarry at that place, had finished work for the day, and were crossing the river in a skiff, to their boarding place, accompanied by Mr. Griffith. When near the middle of the stream the strong current, with the wind, upset the skiff, and Mr. Griffith alone escaped drowning. The name of one was John Carroll.
Aug. 13, 1858, Mr. Cottrell, a stranger from New York, was drowned near Floyd. His boat struck a bridge pier and threw him ont.
July 30, 1858, at Floyd, a terrible tornado and thunder-storm occur- red, demolishing half a dozen buildings. Mr. Welch's family suf- fered considerable injury. About forty acres of timber was blown down, and fields of corn, oats and wheat were prostrated, and al- most entirely ruined.
In June, 1861, Mrs. Alice C. Haley, of Floyd, in a freak of in- sanity attempted to chop off her husband's head with an ax while he was sleeping on a lounge. She missed his throat and hit his skull a blow, which in a few days proved fatal. She was taken to the insane asylum at Mount Pleasant, from there to Wisconsin, and died with her friends.
In 1865 Mr. Henry Webster had a little girl burned to death. Both parents were from home, and the fire caught in the little one's clothes.
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On the 3d day of March, 1865, Patrick Burns was killed in Floyd Township by a falling tree.
In July, 1865, two little boys, seven and five years of age, sons of Wm. Galbraith, while out after cows, a severe storm coming on the cows ran in an opposite direction, and the little fellows got lost and were compelled to stay out all night. In the morning several persons started on horseback to find the children, whom they soon met coming home. They bivouacked on a gopher's hill.
On the 3d day of March, 1867, a daughter af Stephen Huntley, aged eight years, was burned to death at Floyd.
On the 8th day of March, 1867, a daughter of F. Dale, aged four years, was burned to death at Floyd.
On the 4th day of July, 1868, Jacob Whitbeck was drowned while bathing in a pond near his father's residence in Floyd Township.
July 17, 1868, a young German of considerable means, but unable to understand English, was binding wheat for C. P. Bur- roughs, near Floyd, in the afternoon, when he suffered a fatal sun- stroke. He was told not to work so hard, but it was thought that he misinterpreted the warning and supposed he was urged to do more.
July 24, 1869, Henry W. Cunningham and wife, a mile and a half north of Floyd, were killed by a stroke of lightning during the night while they were in bed. Theodore Cunningham the only other person in the house, was stunned. The remains of the de- ceased young couple, clad in their wedding garments, were bur- ried in the cemetery at Charles City.
Feb. 10, 1872, a most disastrous fire occurred in this county near Watertown. On the night of that date both the dwelling-house and the barn of J. G. Thompson were entirely consumed by fire, with nearly all the contents. Five valuable horses were a part of the loss in the barn. Total loss nearly $10,000; insurance $5,000. Origin of fire, possibly sparks from the chimney falling upon straw on the ground.
John Sharky, son of Philip Sharkey, of Floyd, supposed to have committed suicide by cutting his throat, was found in the river near Floyd on the 4th day of May, 1873, after the body had lain under the ice for four months.
July 16, 1878, a three-year-old girl of Mr. Holland's, the section boss at Floyd, was missed, and search was made all night by some forty or fifty persons, and about six A. M. she was found by
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Charlie Hoord, weeping bitterly, chilled and cold, being thinly clad, and without shoes, hose or bonnet.
Nov. 15, 1878, about three o'clock in the morning, the immense barn on the farm of J. G. Thompson, section 28, was discovered to be in flames, which were too far advanced to be extinguished. Six horses, 900 bushels of oats, 460 bushels of wheat, a large quan- tity of hay and twenty-four fine hogs were all consumed. Among the horses was one of the finest stallions in the county. Fire sup- posed to be incendiary. Insurance to cover only a third of the loss. Mr. Thompson had before this suffered a number of similar misfortunes.
MISCELLANEOUS.
In February, 1858, the first bridge was constructed of wood over the Cedar River at Floyd, but in March, 1859, was swept away be- fore being completed. This bridge was a private enterprise.
In 1868 the county erected a bridge over the Cedar at Floyd, a part of which went out in March, 1869. It was rebuilt and went out again in September of the same year. Erected a combination bridge of iron and wood across the Cedar River at Floyd in 1875.
In 1857 every vote cast in Floyd Township at the June election was Democratic.
July 4, 1860, a fine Sunday-school celebration at Floyd, when Hon. Oran Faville, of Mitchell, delivered the oration.
TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS.
The following persons have held the office of Justice of the Peace: Chester Butterfield, E. W. Jones, H. Wilbur, Henry R. Hubbard, James Raymond, Lebeus Barnes, Alden Flint, O. Haven, E. H. Morrison, G. B. White, L. H. Waterbury, A. P. Seaton, Wm. Sprague.
Assessors since 1856, have been: Wm. A. Cooley, Alden Flint, J. W. Dawley. James Raymond, M. G. Cook, Wm. Sprague, Joseph Manson, G. B. White, P. Sharkey, J. W. Webster, A. Laban, O. H. Fluent, M. H. Curry, John Clark.
Township Clerks have been: Joseph Manson, Wm. Sprague, R. P. Jackman, Otis Haven, E. S. Thomas, I. M. Merriman, A. S. Griffith.
Trustees since 1856: James Griffith, Lewis Birney, Henry R. Hub- bard, John Richardson, N. A. Rice, R. P. Jackman, G. B. White, Geo. E. Raymond, James Coley, B. B. Van Steenburg, Samuel
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Clark, Geo. E. Smith, E. H. Morrison, Alden Flint, Jesse Ed- wards, J. N. Montgomery, S. C. Purdy, O. Haven, J. W. Webster, Wm. Hausberg, A. B. Lanphire, C. Butterfield, L. Cunningham, Harris Quinby, Moses Stewart, Jr., J. H. Benedict, Wm. Morse, A. M. Cunningham, A. Loban, Jerry Butterfield, P. Sharkey, A. Fowles, Thomas Martin, Wm. Morse, Jesse Edwards, N. A. Rice, O. H. Fluent, A. H. Merriman, W. Raymond, A. M. Cunningham.
Constables have been R. H. Hubbard, Henry Tatum, Wm. Carl, James Montgomery, Coleman Bumgardner, I. K. Lee, P. Sharkey, P. D. Larabee, James Raymond, Jr., H. M. Brown, C. P. Collins, Andrew Rice, Wm. L. Dayton, Wm. Morse, N. M. Wolcott, V. R. Rider, L. M. Fluent, Benj. Smith, J. R. Rider, Sidney Stick- ney, Jas. Raymond, Lucius Cole, R. J. Rankin, A. J. Harwood, John Snyder, Wm. Smith, Levi Moon, Geo. F. Seaton, R. J. Ran- kin, C. B. Crosby.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Edward G. Beattie, farmer and stock-raiser, section 23, Floyd Township, was born in Canada West, Dec. 20, 1837. His father, Edward Beattie, was of Scotch descent. In 1846 his father brought his family to Lake County, Ill., and to this township in 1854, where the family still reside. His father died Jan. 8, 1873. He owns 150 acres of well-improved land. He was mar- ried, Jan. 5, 1863, to Elizabeth Saltsgiver. Of their seven children, four are living-William, Lewis, Rosa and an infant girl.
Lewis Birney, M. D., born in Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1823, is a son of James Birney, a native of England, who died when Lewis was quite small. He was reared and educated in his native town, attending the College of Physicians and Surgeons in To- ronto, Can., in 1850-'51, graduating in 1851; also graduated from College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, Ia., in 1878. He commenced to practice in 1851 in Canada. He moved to Garden Prairie, Ill., in the spring of 1856, and came here the following fall. He is the pioneer physician of the county; had a large terri- tory to practice in; was frequently called to go forty and fifty miles. He has a large practice; is a very skillful surgeon. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic order. He was married April 27, 1846, to Mary M. Ferris. Of their seven children, six are living-Clarius C., Varriness C., Matilda A., Catharine M., Erasmus L. and Celia J. The three sons are all practicing medicine; one daughter, Ma-
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tilda A., also practiced medicine a short time. She is now the wife L. A. Snow. Mrs. Birney's father, Hiram Ferris, was born in New York State in 1801, and her mother in Canada in 1808.
William E. Brill, farmer and stock-raiser, section 22, Floyd Township, is a native of New York State, boru Dec. 14, 1834. His father, Nelson Brill, is a native of Pennsylvania, who moved to Kenosha County, Wis., in 1838, and to Sauk County, Wis., in 1846. He came to Floyd County, Ia., in 1867. He was married in 1859 to Eliza Degolia. They had one child-Charles. Mrs. Brill died and in 1865 he married Jeanette Richmond, born in Erie County. Pa. He deals in wood and timber.
Bushnell K. Bronson, born in Steuben County, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1819, is a son of Thomas Bror son, of Connecticut. He was educated in the Genesee College, N. Y .; came to Maquoketa City, Ia., in 1854; in 1855 he and his brother, Jas. A. Bronson, laid out the town of Wyoming, in Jones County, la. He built several large brick blocks there. He came to Floyd County in 1867. He went to Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1874 to educate his children. His son, Thomas B., graduated there in 1879, and is now Professor of An- cient and Modern Languages in the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake, Mich. Mr. Bronson was married in December, 1857, to Martha A. Stone. Of their four children three are living, Thos. B., May, and Christina. Sidney L. died at the age of four years.
Hartford M. Brown, born in Franklin County, Vt., Jan. 10, 1820, is a son of Prisson Brown, a native of New Hampshire, who went to California in 1850. In 1833 Hartford M. Brown went to La Porte County, Ind., and in 1835 to McHenry County, Ill. In 1852 he came to this county, before the land was surveyed west of Floyd Township. Indians, buffaloes, elk, deer, and bears roamed over the prairie. He saw thirty or forty deer in one drove. He was married April 16, 1847, to Lovina A. Brown. Of their ten children, four are living-Minerva, Malinda, Mary and Luella. He has served as Constable two years. They are members of the Christian church.
Abraham Butler, born in Muskingum County, O., Feb. 12, 1812, is a son of Absalom Butler, a native of Maryland. He was reared on a farm and received a limited education in the common schools. He went to Fayette County, Ohio, in 1855, and came here in the fall of 1860, and settled on section 23, Floyd Town- ship, where he now resides. He owns 160 acres of well-improved
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land and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. He is a carpen- ter and joiner by trade; also served an apprenticeship at the cabi- net-maker's trade. He was married May 8, 1836, to Mary Blunt, daughter of James and Elizabeth Blunt. Of their eleven children only seven are living-Elizabeth, Mary E., Amanda, James, George W., Louisa, and John. . Two daughters, Martha and Matilda, diod at the ages of thirty-three and twenty-one years, respectively.
John Clarke, farmer and stock-raiser, section 20, Floyd Township, was born in Leicestershire, England, April 26, 1844. He is a son of Samuel Clarke, a native of England, who came with his family to America, and settled in Lake County, Ill., in 1848. He received his education in the common schools and in the Northwestern Uni- versity, at Evanston, Ill. During the late war, he enlisted in Com- pany H, Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, and served fourteen months, when he was wounded and discharged. Jan. 1, 1869, he was mar- ried to Mary Green. They have five children-Nellie, Hepsy, Willie, Merton and Perry. He came to this county in 1877. He has been Assessor the past three years.
James Coley, farmer and stock-raiser, section 34, Floyd, was born in Franklin County, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1824, and is a son of David Coley, a native of Dutchess County. He graduated in 1846 from the New York State Normal School, at. Albany. He taught in Oxford and Oswego academies, N. Y. In March, 1855, he came to this county; was the first settler on the prairie northwest of Charles City, and plowed the first furrow. He was married in 1854 to Rosalie M. Willoughby, who died in 1862. Of their chil- dren two are living-Ellen and Amy. He was Township Trustee six years, President of the School Board four years, and was elected County Surveyor, but declined to serve.
Jesse Edwards, born in Huntingdon County, Penn., Sept. 26, 1828, is a son of Joshua Edwards, a native of the same State. He came to Iowa in 1854, first going to Dubuque County, and in 1856 coming to this county. He learned the trade of a carpenter when twenty years of age, and has always followed that occupation. He built most of the houses in Floyd; also built the flour-mill here. He was married in October, 1856, to Maria A. Magill. Of their two children only one is living-Jennie. Mrs. Edwards died in 1863, and Oct. 31, 1866, he married Mrs. A. E. Buckley; they have one child-Myrtle. He has been County Trustee three terms, and on the School Board several years. He is a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church.
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Albert S. Griffith was born Oct. 26, 1836, in Chagrin Falls, a mile and a half from the birthplace of Garfield, attending the same church with him when a boy, and being personally acquainted with him. He went with his parents to Kane County, Ill., in 1850; to McHenry County, Ill., in 1851, and came to this county in 1853 and settled in Rock Grove. In 1859 he went to Arkansas, and in 1860 to Louisa, Ky .; from there to Indiana and sold fruit trees around Winchester ; then went to Indianapolis and secured a position in the Commissary Department, but soon after joined the Eighteenth Indiana Regimental Band and served one year. In 1862 he went to Helena, Ark .; January, 1863, came back to this county ; June, 1863, to Columbus, Ky., and in October of 1863 came back to this county. In the fall of 1863 he went to Osage and ran the Monitor House one year ; then returned to Floyd and ran the hotel here one year. In the spring of 1866 moved to Nebraska; peddled groceries and provisions to the hands on the U. P. R. R., when it was building ; in the fall of 1866 returned to Floyd and engaged in the mercantile business; in a few years sold out and bought an interest in the flour-mill now owned by Haven, Griffith & Harwood ; in 1874 resumed the mercantile business in which he is doing well; keeps a full line of general stock. He was married Nov. 1, 1863, to Mary A. Rice, daughter of Andrew Rice, now of Mitchell County, Kas. They have two children-Lillian E. and Clarance H. Mr. Griffith's father, James Griffith, was born in the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., and moved to Illinois in 1850, and to this county in 1853, where he entered 700 acres of land for himself and others. At that time the nearest postoffice was Bradford, thirty miles distant. He married Abiah Storr. They had nine children, six grew to be men and women-Harriet L., Henry L., Sarah J., Albert S., Alınira M., and Elizabeth M. (now deceased).
Henry Ingram, born in County Derry, Ireland, June 4, 1811, is a son of William Ingram, a native of Cambridgeshire, England, who was an officer of the English army, and died when Henry was but seven months old. He came to America, going first to Vermont in 1830; from there, in 1847, to Massachusetts; in 1852 went to California, and in July, 1853, back to Massachusetts. In 1854 he came to this county. He was married in 1834 to Ann Sharkey. They have six children-Mary A., Ellen, Margaret, Jane, Sarah and Lizzie. Mrs. Ingram died Sept. 21, 1880. The
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family are members of the Catholic church. He is a member of the Alliance, also of the Mutual Insurance Company.
Alfred C. Judson, born in Delaware County, N. Y., March 27, 1845, is a son of Tarsus Judson, a native of New York, and now a resident of Floyd, aged seventy-eight years. He was educated in the common schools of Ogle County, Ill., where he went with his parents in 1854. In the fall of 1865 he went to Markesan, Green Lake County, Wis., where he learned the trade of harness-making, which he has continued to work at till the present time. £ In 1878 he came to Floyd County and went into business for himself. He does first-class work and has a good and increasing trade. He was married Oct. 17, 1879, to Isabelle Moon.
Peter D. McKinzie, born in Quebec, May 28, 1838, is a son of Dugald McKinzie, a native of Scotland. He was educated in an ac- ademy in Quebec. In 1871 he went to Massachusetts and resided in Lowell till February, 1880, when he came to Floyd County. He was married in October, 1865, in Ontario, to Margaret Shields, sec- ond cousin of General Shields. They have two children-Lizzie and Belle. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He resides on section 21, Floyd Township; owns 181 acres and is engaged in farming and stock-raising.
Ira M. Merriman, born in Hadley, Canada East, Sept. 8, 1819, was a son of Amasa Merriman, a native of Hartford, Conn., who settled in Canada in an early day. He received his education at Georgeville, Canada, and at Newbury, Vt. He went to Clinton, Ill., in 1843, and to Beloit, Wis., in 1845. In May, 1861, he came to Floyd County and bought a stock of groceries and dry goods; carried ou the mercantile business most of the time for ten years. For the past ten years has kept the Stage House. Has been Post- master and a notary public for the last fifteen years. Has been Township Clerk since 1864. He was married May 29, 1842, to Bel- inda R. Webster. Of their four children, three are living-Helen A., Amasa H. and Willie H. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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