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We know, however, by tradition and common repute that as early as 1845 Richard B. Wyckoff of Van Buren township, was colonel of the Jackson county regiment, probably appointed by Territorial Governor James Clarke. Colonel Wyckoff was a member from Jackson county of the first constitutional conven- tion in 1844, and of the lower house in the third general assembly 1850-51. He also held several county offices.
The first lieutenant colonel of the Jackson county regiment was Charles Swan of Charleston (now Sabula). He was one of the first town site proprietors at that place, but removed from there in the early forties and was succeeded October 9, 1840, by John Bending, of Bellview. The latter gentleman must have also left the county very soon afterward as he is a very dim memory among all of the old settlers now living.
The major of the regiment was William Augustus Warren, of Bellview, one of the best known of Jackson county's pioneers. He was recommended by Major
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General Warner Lewis for promotion to brigadier general of the First Brigade, but for reasons not disclosed in any available authority, General McDonald pulled down the plum. Major Warren resigned January 15, 1841, when Colonel Anson Harrington was promoted over his head. With whom the vacancy was filled is another of the secrets which Adjutant General Stull took care should not be revealed.
The following were the members of the regimental staff :
Lieutenant James Kemper Moss, adjutant. Residence Bellview. Was post- master in Belleview 1839; probate judge, 1839-40; clerk of district court 1840-41 ; member house of representatives Iowa territorial assembly, 1841. Died October 4, 1843. A Kentuckian by birth.
Lieutenant John B. Sublette, quartermaster. Resident, Bellview. A Ken- tuckian who had come to the Galena lead mines in 1827, and to Jackson county 1836. Treasurer of the county 1839-1842. Died at Bellevue January 2, 1853.
Lieutenant Oliver A. Crary, paymaster. Residence Charleston, now Sabula. Removed to Chicago at an early date and died there.
Dr. Enoch A. Wood, surgeon. Residence Charleston, now Sabula, where he had come from his native state, Ohio, in 1836. Principal town site proprietor and merchant in Sabula from 1837 for more than forty years. Died in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1899, aged ninety.
Following are the line officers of the Jackson county companies of the First Regiment, First Brigade, Third Division, Iowa Territorial Militia :
Company No. I, was a Clinton county company, headquarters at Comanche, but the second lieutenant, Israel Day, living at Comanche in 1839, removed to Sabula, Jackson county, in 1843, and became one of the most prominent merchants there. He died at Sabula in 1867.
Company No. 2-never filled.
Company No. 3 was organized in South Fork township. Henry G. Mallard, captain. Lived in the Buckhorn Settlement, to which he came in 1838 from New York State.
William Vosburg, first lieutenant. A Vermonter who came to the Buckhorn Settlement in 1837. Was captain of Company F, Thirty-first Iowa Infantry in the Civil War. Died in Clinton, Iowa, in 1891.
Calvin Teeple, second lieutenant. A Canadian from the Niagara Falls dis -ยท trict, who came to Buckhorn in 1837, and lived upon the claim then entered, until his death August 30, 1899, at the age of eighty-four.
Company No. 4. Perry and Maquoketa townships.
John G. McDonald, captain. Promoted to brigadier general, which see.
John Webb, first lieutenant. Residence Perry township, Andrew postoffice. Native of Ohio, from whence he came to Iowa in 1837. Went to California in 1852 and died there about 1865.
Amaziah Janes, second lieutenant. Residence, Bridgeport, Maquoketa town- ship. A southerner who came to this county from White Oak Springs lead min- ing district. Acquired nickname of "Little Pony."
Company No. 5. Location uncertain.
Jeremiah Wood, captain. Residence Charleston (now Sabula). Born in Ohio, 1820. Came to Iowa from Michigan in 1837 ; on Mississippi River steam- boats as clerk and captain, 1857 to 1890. After sojourn in Tacoma, Washington, for several years, returned to Iowa and died in Davenport, February 6, 1900.
The lieutenants of this company, Thomas Coumbs and William L. Harrison, we have been unable to trace. It is quite probable that they were Clinton county people.
Company No. 6, Bellevue and vicinity.
Joseph Stillman Mallard, captain. Residence, Bellview. Came to Iowa in 1838 from New York State where he had been engaged in mercantile business. First, settled in the Buckhorn neighborhood, South Fork township, then removed to Bellevue the county seat and engaged in the practice of law. Married Cordelia,
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daughter of Colonel Thomas Cox, in 1845, and in 1849 removed to Los Angeles, California, where he died nearly twenty years ago leaving a family of seven chil- dren, all of whom attained considerable wealth and prominence.
Isaac Jonas, first lieutenant. Residence, one mile north of Bellview. Son of William Jonas, an 1833 settler of Jackson county.
John Smith, second lieutenant. Residence, Tete des Morts township. One of the Smith brothers, proprietors of Smith's Ferry over the Mississippi River, be- ing a highway to Galena, the pioneer's principal market.
Company No. 7. Never organized.
Company No. 8. Tete des Morts, Prairie Springs and Richland townships.
David G. Bates, captain. Residence, Tete des Morts township, near Smith's Ferry. Had been a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River, and was brother of Captain Bates who ran the Virginian the twenties, the first steamboat on the Upper Mississippi. Was grand juror first term of court in Jackson county, 1838. Died 1844 or 1845.
William D. Stephens, first lieutenant. Residence, La Motte. Had been a sol- dier in the War of 1812, and was badly wounded at the battle of Lundy's Lane.
Franklin Stukey, second lieutenant. Residence, Bellevue township, north of the town. Was a son-in-law of William Jonas, old 1833 pioneer. Came to Jackson county from the Galena lead mining region.
THE MISSOURI BOUNDARY WAR.
The only semblance of active military duty that came to the territorial militia of Jackson county, was when Governor Robert Lucas called upon the major gen- erals of the three divisions in December, 1839, to furnish the United States marshal such force as he might require to maintain the rights of Iowa Territory in a strip of land along the southern border which was also claimed by Missouri. Information had reached the governor that Missouri had embodied an armed force to go into the disputed territory and collect taxes from settlers who had always regarded themselves as Iowa citizens.
Excitement became intense. Everywhere from Lee county to Clayton, there was as spontaneous and eager response to the call to arms, as was ever witnessed among militant Americans anywhere. Not from any spirit of vindictiveness or hatred towards the people of the adjoining commonwealth with whom the dis- pute had arisen, but with a pervading sense of duty. The pioneers were members of the militia of their territory and, as such, bound to enforce its laws, defend its honor, and protect its borders from invasion. They grasped their nondescript weapons of every sort, and sallied forth to brave winter storms, with insufficient shelter, clothing and supplies, offering their lives if need be, in conflict with breth- ren of equal daring and like grim determination.
"Major General Warner Lewis of the Third Division, left his place in the territorial council at once on receiving his orders, and proceeded to arouse his command. He appeared at Bellevue on the evening of Saturday, December 7, 1839, found there Brigadier General George Cubbage of his First Brigade, and left orders with that officer, who reported to Governor Lucas on the 16th, that he had issued orders to the regimental officers in the brigade, and that detachments from the two regiments were ordered to rendezvous at the Wapsipinicon post- office on the twenty-fifth. (This postoffice was on the Wapsipinicon River, east of De Witt near the mouth of Ames Creek.)
"Those detachments gathered first at Comanche in Clinton county and at Charleston and Bellview in Jackson. By local tradition we learn that General Cubbage took charge himself of drilling those which assembled at Comanche from all parts of Clinton county. John Riggs of Bloomfield township spent a day cleaning and burnishing an old musket and bayonet that had seen service in the War of 1812, then shouldered also a knapsack and wooden canteen that had been borne by his father in that war, bade goodbye to his family, and braved the in-
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clement season because duty called. He returned after a week's absence and re- ported with a broad grin illuminating his features, "We won't have to go, the Pukes have run."*
Charleston (now Sabula) in the southeast corner of Jackson county was the home of Charles Swan, lieutenant colonel of the First, or Jackson county Regiment, and he busied himself in recruiting a force from his environment. About a dozen men enlisted, and armed with such weapons as the frontier afforded, started for the front with Colonel Swan as commander.
"It was in midwinter and the party left the place in sleds. They took with them a dressed hog of good proportions and several hundred weight of corn meal. Pro- ceeding as far as Deep Creek, they spent their time at that point consuming this royal fare and drinking whiskey. The provisions gave out in the course of a week or more and news came that the trouble was subsiding, whereupon the party re- turned to town."
At Bellevue, county seat of Jackson county, and headquarters of the regiment, detachments from several companies gathered and drilled for about a week. Simon Bolivar Cox, son of Colonel Thomas Cox, a territorial legislator, in a letter to the writer from Los Angeles, California, in 1906, says that as a boy of eight, attend- ing school in Bellevue, he remembers the soldiers drilling day after day with fife and drums. Anson H. Wilson, who died near Maquoketa in 1907, at the age of ninety-one, relates that he formed one of a squad that went from the southwestern part of the county to Bellevue in two wagons.
Henry G. Mallard was captain of the company (No. 2, First Regiment), and Calvin Teeple was lieutenant. Fayette Mallard furnished and drove one team, and Shadrach Burleson the other. Alfred Clark was sergeant, William Mitchell, corporal, and Zalmon Livermore, bass drummer. Mark Current and David Sears were among the squad. Both wagons were fully loaded, and all had good rifles. They started on Monday morning,t drilled during the week, and returned Satur- day, having been notified that the trouble was over.
As incidents of the trip he mentions that a hind wheel of Shade Burleson's wagon came off going down one of the steep hills; and that Alf. Clark and Bill Mitchell quarreled. Alf. being rebuked by Captain Mallard, struck that officer with his big powder horn, which broke and covered the captain with powder.
From other sources we learn that Richard B. Wyckoff, of Van Buren township, afterward colonel of the Jackson county regiment), was present, as also were representatives of Company No. 4, from Andrew. Among them we have the names of First Lieutenant John Webb, Harry F. Grover, Isaac Still, Ithiel Corbett, William and. Charlie Jones, the Powers brothers, Obadiah Sawtell and Bailey Vaughn .* (Reid's Early Military History of Iowa, in MS.)
THE BRUSH CREEK RANGERS.
An independent company of territorial militia was organized in the northern part of Fairfield and southern part of Jackson townships, in 1841 or 1842, during the administration of Governor John Chambers, and his adjutant, General Stull, whose records have shared in the oblivion that came to all that General Stull should have cared for, and therefore cannot be given from official sources. We have been supplied, however, with a roster prepared late in his life by Rev. William E. Reed, of Fairfield township, who joined the Rangers in 1842 soon after his arrival in the county from Pennsylvania as a settler. The list was prepared from
* Told to the writer by the son of John Riggs, Andrew Jackson Riggs of Maquoketa, who was then a boy of seven and remembers the incident distinctly.
* History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1879, p. 564. The information was given by Dr. Enoch A. Wood, a pioneer of 1837, who was surgeon on the staff of Swan's regiment. It is probable that the rendezvous was at Wapsipinicon postoffice instead of Deep Creek.
t Probably December 16, 1839. See Gen. Cubbage's letters in Territorial archives printed in the Early Military History of Iowa.
* Names given by Nathaniel B. Butterworth of Andrew, who came to Perry township in 837, a boy of eight, and has a "memory like a tombstone." Modern research into Jackson county history is very greatly indebted to Mr. Butterworth's remarkable memory.
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memory, and sent to the present writer by Mr. Reed, in 1905, from Sturgis, South Dakota, where he then lived and where he died in October of the same year.
The remarkably retentive memory of this gallant old Jackson county pioneer, and his close association with the military events of the county's early history, has supplied us with a wealth of information regarding those events that is in- valuable, and would have been forever lost but for his devoted labors in putting it upon paper as a contribution to the history of the county in which the greater part of his life was spent. Other material supplied by him will be drawn upon for this paper, and has been used in full in the "Early Military History of Iowa" by the present writer. The roster of the Brush Creek Rangers has been submitted to several old settlers whose memories go back to that period, and the names are all identified as residents of the environment in which the company is purported to have had its existence.
William E. Reed was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1826, of Scotch Irish ancestry, whose settlement in America dates from the French and Indian War of 1755. His father, William Reed, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, removed with his family to Fairfield township in this county, in 1842. Their trip was down the Ohio and up the Mississippi by steamboat to Bloomington (now Muscatine), and thence overland with two yoke of oxen and wagon. The mother, (Margaret Reed) became violently ill on the trip, and died where they crossed the Wapsipinicon River, at the mouth of Brophy's Creek. The body was taken through to their destination and buried in the North Bend graveyard near where a claim was taken at the mouth of Rock Creek in Fairfield township. William E. Reed became a member of the Brush Creek Rangers, militia, also of the Jack- son county Mexican War company, and of Captain J. M. Morgan's Company of Iowa Mounted Volunteers, as will appear later. After his discharge from the latter company he made the overland trip to California in 1850, returning a year or two later by the Panama route, on which he had the misfortune of being ship- wrecked. He married Samantha Hough, at Andrew, in 1853, who died in 1891. He was ordained a minister of the Baptist church in the early fifties, but engaged in local work mostly, and pursued the vocation of a farmer. Late in life he re- moved to Egan, South Dakota, and again, in 1904, to Sturgis, in the Black Hills of that state, where he died after nearly eighty years of rare usefulness, October 13, 1905.
ROSTER OF THE BRUSH CREEK RANGERS.
Leonard M. Hilyard, captain, a Virginian by birth, had come to Jackson county from Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1837, and made a claim in Fairfield township. He was one of a colony brought into Jackson county by Colonel Thomas Cox from southern Illinois. His sister had married Colonel Cox's brother, John W. Captain Hilyard married Mary E. Reed, sister of William E. Reed, compiler of this roster, and removed to California in 1849, where he died in San Joaquin county at an advanced age.
William Watkins was one of the lieutenants, a Virginian, father of James Watkins who was sheriff of the county for several years. Lieutenant Watkins removed to Texas, and his further career is unknown. It is uncertain who was the other lieutenant.
Stephen S. Fenn, orderly sergeant, a native of New York State, was county treasurer 1844-45, and county recorder, which included the duties of treasurer, 1847-49; removed to California in 1850.
W. H. Vanderventer, drummer, lived at Higginsport on the Maquoketa River in Washington township; ran a ferry over the Maquoketa there, it being a prin- cipal highway for the south part of the county to Bellevue, the county seat.
William Reed, drillmaster. This was the War of 1812 soldier, father of Wil- liam E. Reed.
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Privates : (The notes are mostly from information given by N. B. Butterworth and Chas. Wyckoff.)
Sherman Bills.
William Blake.
Andrew Birge. An 1837 pioneer of Perry township, went to California.
John Butters.
John Breeden.
Daniel Branscomb. Lived in Maquoketa township, near Colonel Cox's.
John Bozard. Vandolah & Bozard bought the first mill on Brush Creek, built by Governor Briggs in 1842. Bozard left the county early, probably in the for- ties.
Samuel D. Bennett. A long time resident of Perry-township.
John Collins. Son of a half brother of Colonel James Collins of Black Hawk War fame.
William Conway. An Ohio man. Went to California in 1850; made captain of the emigrant train, of which Thad Seamands was a member.
James Conway. Brother of William; emigrant to California at same time.
William Cunningham. Long time resident of Maquoketa township on main Sabula road.
William E. Crane. Kept store at mouth of Deep Creek, afterward merchant at Sabula, and died there. Had lived several years with the Sac and Fox Indians.
Bruce Coughran. Smith McKinley's father-in-law ; died in Missouri.
John W. Cox. Brother of Colonel Thomas Cox. Owned mill on Brush Creek. Went to California in 1849 and died there at an advanced age.
Thomas Cox. Son of Colonel Thomas Cox. Corporal in Captain Morgan's Independent Company of Iowa Mounted Volunteers, 1847-48, in garrison at Fort Atkinson, and escort to remove Winnebago Indians to Crow Wing Reservation, Minnesota. Removed to California, 1849, and died at Los Angeles May 1, 1897.
Ithiel Corbett. A Massachusetts man. Lived in Perry township; one of the 1849 emigrants to California, and died there.
George Clark. Brother to Dr. W. H. Clark, of Andrew. Removed to Decatur, Nebraska, and died there.
Matthew Curry. From Indiana. Said to have run a moonlight distillery in Jackson township.
John Curry. Miller at Rolling's Mill.
Lewis Dodd. From Cabell county, Virginia (now West Virginia). Farmer in Fairfield township. Father of J. L. Dodd, of Perry township.
J. B. Doane. Trader at Bridgeport.
Andrew Earles. Long time resident of Maquoketa township.
Richard Franklin. Came here from Ohio.
Braxton Fowler. Pioneer in Fairfield township. Native of Kanawha county, West Virginia. Father of William L. Fowler.
George Grant. A Scotchman who lived on the Maquoketa bottom, in Fair- field township. Went to California.
Walter Henry. A Scotchman; went to California in 1849.
Morris Hilyard. Brother of Captain L. M. Hilyard. Went to California in 1853.
Thomas Hilyard. Brother of Captain L. M. Hilyard. Joined Captain Mor- gan's Mounted Volunteers in June, 1848, and made the trip with them escorting the Winnebago Indians. Went to California in 1853, and was living there in 1908. The three Hilyard brothers married three sisters of William E. Reed.
John Hopkins. One of the White Oak Springs, or Cox Colony. Went to California in 1849.
Harrison Huling. One of the White Oak Springs Colony ; settled in Maquo- keta township near Colonel Cox.
Samuel Huling. Brother and neighbor of Harrison Huling. Was soldier in Black Hawk War, which see.
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A. B. Ireland. Removed to Comanche, and became a prominent physician there.
Robert Johnson. An Ohio man; lived in Perry township.
Preston Jewell. Came from Missouri and went back to that state but returned to Fairfield township and died there.
G. W. Jewell. Brother of Preston, and had the same history of migrations ; known as "General Jewell."
Nathaniel Jordan. Lived in Maquoketa township. Went to California and died there. Acquired nickname of "Stormy Banks."
James, George, and William Jones. Brothers from Michigan, who all went to California among the early emigrants.
Lewis Kinneson. Returned to his native state, Missouri, a few years later.
Frank Means. Perry township. Came from Pennsylvania.
Joseph Miller. Disappeared from home and never heard from.
Alexander S. McGinnis. Perry township. Son-in-law of Colonel Collins' half brother.
Jonathan Moore. Lived on section 1, Maquoketa township.
James McPeak. Perry or Jackson township. A Pennsylvanian.
Samuel Mckinley. Perry township; a Kentuckian, one of the White Oak Springs or Cox Colony. Father of Smith Mckinley, who enlisted in Morgan's Mounted Volunteers. A long time resident of Andrew.
William McKinley. Brother of Samuel.
John McDuffy. A Tennessean in Fairfield township.
William McDuffy. Brother of John ; went to California among the early emi- grants.
Ephraim Nevill. One of the White Oak Springs Colony, formerly from San- gamon county, Illinois. Wife was sister of Colonel Thomas and John W. Cox. Lived in Maquoketa township.
Enoch Nevill. Brother of Eph. Nevill. Was soldier in Black Hawk War and badly wounded at the battle of Bad Axe. Lived in Maquoketa township, near Mann's Ferry.
Hugh Neeper. Came to the county from White Oak Springs as one of the Cox and McDonald first surveying party. Lived at Andrew, and afterward sa- loonkeeper at Bellevue.
Uriah Pearce. Pioneer of 1838. Died in Bellevue.
William E. Reed. Compiler of this roster.
Hugh M. Reed. Brother of William E. Died in Fairfield township, Feb- ruary 25, 1871, aged fifty-four.
James Reed. Relative of William E. Reed. Returned to Pennsylvania in 1846.
John Rowley. Lived in Fairfield township. Came from Ohio.
Peyton Seamands. Native of Virginia. Came to Jackson county from Ma- coupin county, Illinois, in 1837, as one of the Cox-McDonald first surveying party. Lived near southeast corner Perry township. A prominent democratic politician in the early day. Went to California among the forty-niners.
Charles R. Seamands. Brother of Peyton. Lived for many years in Fair- field township, at Mean's Ferry, and died there.
Thomas and John Shadrach, brothers, were Englishmen who lived in Fair- field or Jackson township, but returned to England at an early date.
Robert Spence. Lived in Andrew: Kept a saloon. Died at an early date; widow married Hayes and died recently at the age of one hundred.
Mark Spiles. Came to Jackson county in 1837 from Sangamon or Macou- pin county, Illinois, as one of the Cox-McDonald first surveying party. Lived in Jackson township as a bachelor. Went to California with the forty-niners.
Hastings Sandridge. Lived at Mann's Ferry in the first house built in Fair- field township. An uncle of the Seamands. Soldier in the Black Hawk War from Sangamon county, Illinois. Died by suicide.
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John Scarborough. Lived in Fairfield or Van Buren township. Married Mrs. Paddleford, widowed sister of Dr. Enoch A. Wood, and had long career as merchant in Sabula. Grandfather of Hon. G. E. Hilsinger.
Lee Sweet. Lived in Fairfield township.
Lewis Sanders. Came from Missouri and returned to that state a few years later.
Henry Trout. Lived in Perry township on the Thomas McMurray place. One of White Oak Springs Colony.
Peter Wood. A Canadian. Went to California.
Wilson. A house painter; lived many years in Sabula. Died in
the county home.
David Young. Lived in Jackson township. Built Rolling's Mill on Brush Creek.
A total of seventy-eight names on the roll of the company.
Mr. Reed writes :* "The Brush Creek Rangers were in existence when I came to Iowa in 1842. Iowa was then a territory, and, under the territorial law, all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were subject to military duty. Those who did not attend muster were subject to a fine of two dollars for every day's delinquency, so it was said. I know that the roll was arranged to mark down absentees, for I acted as orderly in Fenn's absence several times at his re- quest, but I never knew of any one being fined, and I am confident I never saw more than fifty attend muster at one time. After the organization of the Jackson county Mexican War infantry company in May, 1846, I never heard anything more of the Brush Creek Rangers."
MEXICAN WAR VOLUNTEERS MUSTERED INTO UNITED STATES SERVICE.
FIRST UNITED STATES INFANTRY.
On a day late in the winter of 1846-7, Enoch Nevill, a Black Hawk war sol- dier, who was somewhat crippled from a wound received in the battle of Bad Axe, visited the little town of Andrew, the county seat of the county, and, as was too frequently his wont, indulged freely in what pioneers often called "sod corn juice." In the exuberant state which resulted, he visited the shoemaker shop of John Rice, and in the discussion of war topics or other matters became ' so noisy that the din got on to the nerves of the knight of Saint Crispin, and he ordered the old veteran out of the shop.
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