History of Johnson County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882, Part 38

Author: Johnson Co., Ia. History. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa.
Number of Pages: 980

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Daniel Hart, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1801. Settled in Iowa in 1846. Deceased.

Edwin A. Brown, was born in New York in 1819. Settled in Iowa in 1839.

Jacob Bean, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1815. Settled in Iowa in 1844.

Rush Mendenhall, was born in Johnson county, Iowa, in 1849.

C. H. Bane, was born in Johnson county, Iowa, in 1843.

A. C. Dennison, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1813. Set- tled in Iowa in 1838.

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Christopher S. Roplen, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1819. Settled in Iowa in 1840.

Samuel Hunter, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1825. Set- tled in Iowa in 1850.

John Cohnan, was born in York county, Pa., in 1818. Settled in Iowa in 1848. Deceased.

J. S. McCrory, was born in Johnson county, in 1845.

Wm. T. Sweet, was born in Champaign county, Ohio, in 1833. Set- tled in Iowa in 1839.

Theodore S. Parvin, was born in Cumberland county, New Jersey, Jan. 15, 1817. Removed to Iowa in July, 1838, (Bloomington, now Mus- catine,) and to Iowa City Sept. 1, 1860.

Henry Hart, was born in Chenango county, N. Y., July 4, 1839. Came to Iowa in 1849.

James Cavanagh, was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1806. Settled in lowa in 1839. Deceased.

Philo Haynes, was born in New London county, Conn., in 1814. Set- tled in Iowa in 1842.

E. K. Morse, was born in Windham county, Conn., in 1816. Came to Iowa in 1838. Deceased.

Julius G. Brown, was born in Erie county, New York, in 1818. Came to Iowa in 1839.

A. L. Clark, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, in 1832. Settled in Iowa in 1852. Florence A. Clark, was born in Pike county, Ohio, in 1842. Settled in Iowa in 1848.

Horace Kimball, was born in Iowa City Sept. 2, 1849.

Jacob Ricord, was born in Philadelphia Sept. 26, 1816. Came to Iowa City March 4, 1840.

Emily Ricord, was born in Missouri in 1829. Came to Iowa (at Dubuque) in 1834.

Henry Bechtel, 1845 .*

Samuel Welch, 1841 .*

J. J. Ressler, 1840 .*

Fanny Ressler, 1849 .*

Anna Albright, 1849 .*

Henry Walker, was born in Portage county, Ohio, in 1829. Settled in Iowa in 1841., Farmer.

John Wilson, was born in Ohio in 1809. Came to Iowa in 1842. Farmer.

L. G. Wilson, was born in Monroe county, Ohio. Came to Iowa in 1842. Merchant.

The next meeting recorded was on June 2, 1869, but on motion of Mr. McCrory it adjourned to the 16th. At this adjourned meeting the officers elected were-

President, Samuel H. McCrory.

Vice-presidents: 1st, John Parrott; 2d, Charles McCune: 3d, Titus R. Fry.

Secretary, John P. Irish.

Corresponding secretary, T. S. Parvin.

Treasurer, Edward Lanning.

*This is all there was given with these names.

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President McCrory appointed as executive committee: E. W. Lucas, J. R. Hartsock, L. S. Swafford, S. C. Trowbridge and Sylvanus John- son.

At this meeting there was presented a fine group-photograph of mem- bers of the Old Settlers' Association of Scott county, for which a vote of thanks was recorded; and a committee, consisting of John P. Irish, S. H. McCrory and J. R. Hartsock, was appointed to see what it would cost to have a similar picture of the Johnson county association. But that com- mittee does not appear ever to have made a report.

THE SUMMER PIC-NIC-1877.

On Saturday, June 16, 1877, the Old Settlers held a grand pic-nic; but we found no record of any formal business transacted by the organized society. Gov. Kirkwood and Hon. Rush Clark were expected to address the gathering, but both were engaged at the time on undeferable public business and could not be present. Speeches were, however, made by J. D. Templin and Dr. Ballard. The following list of the persons present was published in the Daily Press at the time:

Henry Mccullough, came in 1850; Mrs. McCullough, 1850; Mrs. H. Walker, 1842; Mrs. E. Sehorn, 1839; Henry Walker, 1840; Mrs. C. W. Irish, 1846; Mrs. John Coldren, 1841; Jabez Stevens, 1841; Chas. Pinney, 1840; Robert Hutchinson, 1839; Mrs. Robert Hutchinson, 1842; Mrs. Dr. Murray, 1839; T. Garvin, 1851; James Hill, 1838; V. I. Willis, 1839; Phil. Clark, 1836; Jas. Tucker, 1844; Sylvanus Johnson, 1837; Joseph Hemphill, 1845; Jacob Bowen, 1846; Jacob Stover, 1838; B. Henyon, 1837; Wm. Jayne, 1839; Eph. Welch, 1839; E. G. Stephens, 1853; Zion Hill, 1838; J. J. Mendenhall, 1841; J. J. Baker, 1853; Jonas Switzer, 1838; Mat. Cochran, 1843; Hiram Watts, 1840; H. H. Beeson, 1838; Mat, Cavanagh, 1839; H. Bechtel, 1845; S. E. Gunsolus, 1854; Chas. Calkins. 1843; W. H. Hoy, 1853; N. Scales, 1840; Sam. Spurrier, 1839; L. W. Talbott, 1851; E. F. Brown, 1856; James Cochran, 1853; Green Hill, 1838; Mrs. Elbert, 1843; H. Murray, 1839; T. S. Parvin, 1838; Geo. Osborn, 1854; Jos. Hill, 1846; Mrs. Geo. Paul, 1839; Geo. Paul, 1836; Geo. Nelson, 1856; Wm. Boyce, 1855; Mrs. I. N. Sydel, 1855; T. C. Adams, 1839; M. Adams, 1838; Jas. Robinson, 1840; Mrs. Middleton, 1847; Jesse N. Harris, 1851; Mrs. Tantlinger, 1842; Jas. D. Templin, 1845; G. S. Deni- son, 1838; A. Patterson, 1841; M. B. Patterson, 1841; H. Earhart, 1837; James Cavanagh, 1839; John Potter, 1851: L. S. Swafford, 1840; Col. Lucas, 1839; John Renshaw, 1854; Jos. Brown, 1841; Geo. Hevern, 1846; I. N. Dessellem, 1854; Mrs. Sanders, 1838; Mr. Gaunt, 1843; Ed. Lan- ning, 1840; Miss Mary Lucas, 1838; Ben. Wilde, 1856; L. E. Curtis, 1856; Mrs. Watts, 1840; Mrs. Pierson, 1840: John Parrot, 1839; S. Stagg, 1845; B. W. Coe, 1838; Mrs. McCrory, 1840; D. Jones, 1849; John Stevenson, 1856; Wm. Hazard, 1849; Mrs. Wm. H. White, 1840; C. Cartwright, 1841; S. H. McCrory, 1838; D. B. Cox, 1836 at Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. Jos. Huffman, 1847; Peter Roberts, 1841; Ed. Morse; 1838; W. B. Ford, 1839; H. H. Kerr, 1839; Mrs. Jas. Hill, 1846; Dr. Coulter, 1851; Mrs. Burr, 1846; Mrs. Tom, 1847; Geo. Hunter, 1850; Dr. Ballard, 1841; Capt. Clark, 1852; D. Ham, 1850; John S. McCrory, 1845, native; E. R. Handy, 1856; Ben. Ritter, 1838; E. R. Barnes, 1856;

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Cyrus Sanders, 1839; Mrs. Myers, 1837; Kate Winchester, 1839; R. Mendenhall, 1842: C. Detwiler, 1854; Mrs. Thompson, 1839; Mrs. Os- borne, 1846; Samuel Yarbrough, 1846; J. N. Seydel, 1844; Mrs. Cohick, 1840; C. Gaymon, 1841; Mrs. Gaymon, 1839; A. J. Rider, 1852; N. H. Brainerd. 1856; John R. Vanfleet, 1839; M. Bloom, 1857: J. G. Hill, 1854; A. P. Alyworth, 1851; Mrs. Whitlock, 1849; M. TenEyck, 1839; Geo. W. Dodder, 1855; M. Seydell, 1845; Henry Basterdey, 1842; H. W. Fyffe, 1844; L. B. Johnson, 1847; H. W. Lathrop, 1849; C. Starr, 1857: H. Powell, 1852; Mrs. A. Graham, 1853; Mrs. Jno. Thompson, 1856; Mar- tin Doran, 1857; W. E. Freeman, 1851 : B. S. Holmes, 1841 : Mrs. Holmes, 1842; Sam. Hess, 1846: Mrs. Hess, 1839; G. D. Palmer, 1845; Mrs. Ed. Fracker, 1857; Mrs. Hankins, 1839; T. C. Carson, 1855; Jas. McGruder, 1837; G. Hankins, 1848: A. Beermaker, 1855; Wm. Green, 1850; Capt. Shafer, 1841; N. Zeller, 1846; Jacob Cox, 1844; Geo. Hevern, 1854: Jas. S. Beatty, 1854; John Anderson, 1853; Mrs. Jas. Robinson, 1836.

THE MEETING IN 1SS2.

The last elected president of the association was S. H. McCrory, in 1869. On his death, the first vice president, John Parrott, became the rightful president; and in response to a request signed by about twenty members, he called a meeting at the office of Lucas & Lucas, in Iowa City, on September 9, 1882.

At this meeting the following proceedings were had:

The meeting was called to order by D. B. Cox, Esq., on whose motion Hon. George Paul was elected chairman; Robert Lucas was appointed secretary. The chairman read the published call, and stated the object of the meeting, after which a general discussion was had on the proposed reunion. The chairman appointed the following gentlemen a committee on arrangements for a picnic: Jacob Ricord, Col. E. W. Lucas, Cyrus Sanders, S. C. Trowbridge, S. J. Hess, Joseph Douglass, D. B. Cox, George Borland and James Magruder.

Upon the adjournment of the meeting, the above committee held a ses- sion, and it was determined that the Old Settlers' Association hold their pic- nic on Saturday, September 23, at the fair grounds. George Borland, Joseph Douglass and D. B. Cox were appointed to prepare the grounds. Col. E. W. Lucas, James Magruder, Cyrus Sanders, Sylvanus Johnson and L. W. Swafford were appointed committee on invitation. Jacob Ricord, S. J. Hess and Hon. Geo. Paul were selected as finance com- mittee.

OLD SETTLERS' REUNION OF 1SS2.

There were different newspaper reports of this affair published at the time; we select that of the State Press as in several respects the best one, and preserve it here:

Saturday last, September 23, the Old Settlers and their friends, to the number of over five hundred, gathered at the fair grounds, to renew and strengthen the ties that have bound them from 1839 to 1882. The pro- ceedings were quite informal, and began with a dinner, to which each one present contributed with a liberality that forbode good appetites. The old settlers have lived long years, and they ate well, for it is five years since their former picnic. During the dinner hour the band furnished music galore.

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Lunch disposed of, the party gathered in the amphitheater, where Mr. Cyrus Sanders opened the programme with a most graphic description of early times in Iowa. Mr. Sanders came to Iowa in 1838, his property a compass and staff and such portables as might be carried in "saddle bags." It is probable he has broken down more hazel brush than any other man in Johnson county. The first pioneer cabin was built by Nathan Fellows, on Clear Creek, the second, by a Mr. Miller, near the fair ground. S. C. Trowbridge was the first sheriff, and exercised jurisdiction from the Mis- sissippi to the Rocky mountains. At this time the breadth of land between Iowa City and Bloomington, (now Muscatine) was an unbroken prairie, and many were the surmises as to its future. Then it was hardly deemed possible this wide expanse should be settled. There was no Iowa City then, but in 1839 the first stake was driven where the University now stands; at that time the city and county had neither lawyer, doctor nor preacher. Mr. Sanders was listened to with close attention, and his words brought back "ve olden time" to many present.

Mr. L. B. Patterson spoke of the reasons that induced the migration of men from happy homes and thronged cities into the trackless wilderness, and closed with an eloquent contrast between the hardships of the pioneers, and the comforts and luxuries that now surround them.

Hon. S. H. Fairall made a very brief address, pointing out the work of the old settlers in laying the foundation of our county and State, and the debt due them from posterity and history.

Mr. Samuel Magill, our local laureate, read a pleasant poem, which was received with great applause.

Col. Henderson, of Nebraska, who came to Iowa as a surveyor, with Mr. Sanders in 1839, and removed to Nebraska eight years later, was present, and spoke briefly in fitting words.

The association then went into business session; the former officers were continued, save the secretaryship, made vacant by Hon. Jno. P. Irish's removal. Mr. A. E. Swisher was elected to the place.

Among the old settlers and pioneers present, with wives, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, were the following:

Philip Clark,

I. N. Sanders,

Walter Terrill,

Henry Earhart,

John Fry,

Henry Walker,

Cyrus Sanders,

Sihon Hill,

H. H. Kerr,

George Paul,

D. B. Cox,

J. J. Ressler,

James Magruder,

Carr Hartman,

Thomas Hill,

John Parrott,

J. T. Robinson,

Allen Cloud,

Matthew TenEyck,

Sylvester Coe,

Peter Rohret,

Jabez Stevens,

Samuel C. Cole,

J. M. Douglass,

Benj. Ritter,

E. Lanning,

Henry Medowell,

Chas. Cartwright,

Jno. P. McCune,

Pres. Conelly,

M. B. Cline,

J. Chamberlain, Matt Cochran,

Charles Smith,

J. Y. Stover,

George Hartsock,

A. H. Humphrey,

Benj. Swisher,

Ichabod Kimball,

»Isaac Smith,

James Tucker,

S. J. Switzer,

Chas. W. McCune,

John Morford, David Wilson,

R. B. Sanders,

Phil Shaver,

Bryan Dennis,

E. Clark,

Horace Kimball,

Robert Lyon,

Henry Gearkee,

Strawder Devaull,

A. E. Swisher,

James Hartman,

Nathaniel Scales,

S. J. Hess,

Edward Tudor,

H. W. Lathrop, John Renshaw,

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Henry Herring, Sylvanus Johnson,

Wm. Wolfe,

S. J. Kirkwood, T. J. Cox,

H. W. Fyffe,

A. D. Packard,

J. G. Sperry,

A. W. Palmer,

Jacob Ricord,

S. Henderson,

Dr. J. P. Coulter,

Jacob Bowman,

M. Seydell,

L. R. Wolfe,

Jacob Gobin,

J. C. Hamilton,

Dexter P. Smith,

Gottlieb Ressler,

Mrs. McConnell,

J. C. Crane,

D. A. Shafer,

Mrs. Lydia Sweet,

J. M. Seydell,

Benj. Horner,

Mrs. TenEyck,

Benj. Owen,

E. W. Lucas,

Mrs. S. Johnson,

Mrs. E. Seehorn,

E. M. Adams, .

Mrs. A. J. Bond,

Mrs. L. Bonham,

Mordecai Cropper,

Mrs. Betsey Walker,

Mrs. Dennis,

George Andrews,

Mrs. Mary Lyon,

Mrs. M. O. Coldren,

Casper Dunkel,

Wenzel Hummer,

Mrs. Tantlinger.

Charles Gaymon,

Mrs. E. Sutliff,

CHAPTER V .- PART I.

EARLY LAND TENURES.

The "Claim Association"-Its Organization, Officers, Members, Mode of Operation, and Results.

THE SQUATTER CLAIMS.

On March 9, 1839, an organization was formed known as the " Claim Association of Johnson County." The land had not yet been surveyed by the United States Government, hence there were no land titles except by common agreement among the settlers that each one should be pro- tected in his right to the "claim" or farm, which he had selected and built some sort of a habitation on for himself and family. In order to systema- tize this plan of mutual protection they adopted a constitution or code of laws, which each one solemnly pledged himself to observe on his own part and assist in enforcing upon others. Without this they could have no peace or security in their land claims.

To give some idea of the nature and functions of this historic, but long ago defunct organization, a few extracts are here given from its rules:

ARTICLE 1 .- Section 2. The officers of this association shall be one president, one vice-president, one clerk or recorder of claims, deeds, or transfers of claims; seven judges or adjusters of claims or boundaries, one of whom shall be qualified to administer the oath or affirmation, and whose duty it shall be to attend all judicial courts of the association; and two marshals; all of whom shall be elected as hereinafter directed.

The officers were to hold their seats for one year. The clerk was required to keep a record of all meetings; and also to record and preserve in writing a description of each member's claim, assignments, transfers, etc.

Section 9, provides: The duties and powers of the judges or adjusters of claims shall be to decide in all questions of dispute relative to the rights of claims or parts of claims as the case may be, and settle all disputed lines

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or boundaries between members of this association or members of this association and any other individuals, and make return in writing to the clerk, showing the manner all cases brought before them has been dis- posed of. Any five of the judges elect shall compose a court: and any three of such court agreeing in any case brought before them shall be a final decision in the case. No evidence shall be received, but such as is recognized by the laws of the territory as legal in common law, and all evi- dence shall be on oath or affirmation. The judges or adjusters shall be required previous to their entering on the duties of their office to apply to the president of the association for a certificate of election, and take an oath or affirmation that they will well and truly discharge the duties of their office without fear, favor or affection, to the best of their abilities.

Section 10. The marshals shall be elected as other officers and their term of office shall commence and expire as other officers of this associa- tion: and their duties shall be to serve all processes that may be handed them and make return thereof as directed, and to enforce all decisions of the judicial court, and all other laws of the association; and they shall have full power to demand the assistance of a sufficient number of the members of this association, if they find it necessary to carry all decisions and laws into effect.

ARTICLE 2, provides, for the salaries of officers, which consisted of certain fees varying according to the kind of service rendered.

ARTICLE 3-Section 1. All members of the association shall be required, in making claims, to stake them off or blaze them in such man- ner that the lines of such claims can be easily traced or followed, and all claims thus made, in order to be respected, must be entered on record, and there as fully and accurately described as practicable, giving the names of the creek, river, or branch, where such shall be the boundaries on any side, and when bounded by other claims, give the owner's name of such claims, if known, and when the lands have been surveyed they shall be required to give the range, township, and quarter section, as is customary in describing surveyed lands. And further, persons making claims shall be required to put the initials of their names either on a tree or stake at each corner of their claims. No person shall hold more than 480 acres, or three quarter sections of land, by making claim thereto, and this quantity shall in all cases be recognized and constituted a claim, let the same lie in a body or detached parcels; provided, however that said claim is not in more than three separate and detached parcels. All per- sons wishing their claims recorded shall hand them in to the recorder in writing with their signature thereto.

Section 2. Any white male person over the age of eighteen can become a member of this association by signing the laws, rules, and reg- ulations governing the association. No member of the association shall have the privilege of voting on a question to change any article of the constitution or laws of the association unless he is a resident citizen of the county and a claim-holder. Nor shall any member be entitled to vote for officers of this association, unless they are claim-holders. Actual citizens of the county over the age of seventeen, who are acting for themselves, and depending on their own exertions, and laboring for a livelihood, and whose parents do not reside within the limits of the territory, can become members of this association, and entitled to all the privileges of mem- bers.

Section 6. Members of the association who are not citizens of the

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county, shall be required in making claims to expend in improvements on each claim he or they may have made or may make the amount of fifty dollars within six months of the date of making such claim or claims; and fifty dollars every six months thereafter until such person or persons become citizens of the county, or forfeit the same.

Section 7. All persons residing in the county at the adoption of the foregoing laws shall be entitled to the privilege of voting at this meeting; but after this it shall require two month's residence to become a citizen of the county.

Section 8. All claims made after the adoption of the foregoing laws shall be registered or offered for record within ten days after the making thereof, and all persons making claims after the adoption of the foregoing laws, shall be required, on presenting his or their claim for record, to state on honor before the recorder, that such claim or claims has not been pre- viously made; or, if made, that they have been forfeited by the laws of this association, to his or their personal knowledge.

This organization and its transactions formed the most important part of the history of the county, as long as a condition of society existed here which made it necessary. It served in lieu of statute law for the time, and saved the settlement from many a fight, with murder or bloodshed, which would inevitably have occurred in the struggle for choice clainis if such an organization had not existed. It shows the pratical, business-like wisdom and foresight of the early settlers here, and stands greatly to their credit, as a people determined that every man should have a fair chance, and that no one should have any more than that. The book of their con- stitution, rules, laws, names of members and record of claims was secured and preserved by Hon. S. H. McCrory and Col. Trowbridge, and is now among the archives of the Historical Society. We have aimed not to lumber our pages with the entire document, but to quote such parts as would show clearly to future generations the nature and objects of the association, and the state of things then existing which gave rise to it. Many of its members are still living in the county [in 1882], and many more are represented by their descendants of the first, second, or third gen- eration. For this reason the entire list of its membership is here given as it appears on the musty and mouldy old record.

Many of these names were so poorly written that it is a miracle if we have got them all spelled right; but here they are, with the best that could be done toward getting them correct:

S. H. McCrory, S. Hill, Austin Cole, Allen Strom,

A. L. Stephens, A. M. Baker,

G. L. Douglas, A. C. Chapman, Matthew Ten Eyck,

David Liecertzer, John Abbott, John Reed,

John Morford,

J. Hartman,

James Rock,

Wm. Sturgis, John Frierson,

J. M. Horner,

I. P. Hamilton,

Cyrus Sanders,

Charles C. Morgan,

P. Harris, Samuel Welch, Lorenzo D. Swan,

John G. Coleman,

Suel Foster,

Thomas Green,

Joel Dowell, 21

Stephen Brown,

Joshua Switzer,

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Wm. M. Harris,

Henry Felkner,

John Willison,

P. C. Brown,

Oliver Curry,

E. M. Adams,

C. Gove,

J. Harris, H. A. Usher,

Wm. Morford, .

Wm. Baker,

Wm. H. Downey,

Edwin Buck,

Jacob H. Stover,

John A. Street,

William Falkner,

F. A. A. Cobbs,

Wm. C. Mussey,

J. Williams,

F. Thomson,

Jacob Earhart,

H. V. Antwerp,

Frederick Harter,

Allen Baxter,

James Miller,

B. P. Moore,

A. Wolcott,

Azariah Pinney,

H. H. Brown,

John Miller,

S. I. Sanders,

T. B. Brown,

P. Crum,

John Matthews,

Wm. W. Porter,

Henry Earhart,

Thomas Hall,

David Garard,

Benj. Miller,

David Odell,

Nathan Odell, Peter A. Douglass,

Joseph Stover,

John Shoup,

James Woodworth,

John Trout,

George G. Oyler,

S. S. White,

S. P. Hamilton,

John Horner,

William Murdock, 2d

Elias Secor,

John McCahan,

S. A. Abel,

John Earhart,

John Lee,

Wm. Murdock,

Philip Clark,

William Bagley,

James Smith,

Henry G. Reddow,

Henry Custer,

Henry Bradford,

Elijah Hilton,

J. M. Thrift,

John Hawkins,

Robert Walker,

Moses Adams,

Wm. Gayne,

W. Wilson,

John Parrot,

David Lindley,

William Jones, Eli Myers,

Asaph Allen,

L. B. Costly,

J. G. Morrow,

C. L. Allen,

L. S. Swain,

S. C. Trowbridge,

Geo. T. Andrews,

J. G. Gilmore,

James L. Wilkinson,

E. R. Morris,

Robt. Lucas,

John Right, Anthony Sells,

John B. Adams,

John Chick,

Jeremialı Stover

Jesse Berry,

Walter Terrell,

Joseph Walker, S. C. Hastings,

Robert McKee, A. Abel,

C. J. Vredenburg,

W. B. Snyder,

Walter Clarke,

Smiley Bonham.

William Miller,

J. D. Abel,

T. R. Fry,

Nelson Hastings,

S. B. Gardner,

J. N. Beanton,

J. B. McGrew,

Jacob Overholser, C. C. Brown, Andrew Mitchell,

I. M. Choate,

Martin Harless,

P. H. Paterson,

C. C. Catlin,

Daniel Barrett,

S. M. Ballard, R. Ralston,

F. H. Lee,

A. E. McArthur,

H. S. Coe,

Franz Vorrooch, .

Tofags Vorrooch, Thomas Henry, Joseph Henry,

Jonas Trimble, Wm. Henry, Griffith Shreck, Sia. N. Thill, S. H. Starr,

John R. Van Fleet, Julius S. Brown, Eran Dollarpid,

Samuel Scayplast,

Henry Brown, Samuel J. Frost, William Wain, A. Miller,

John Burge, Saml. Bumgardner, Yale Hamilton,

Wesley Morford, A. D. Packard,

I. L. Clark,

W. C. Ralston,

John Aglin, J. H. Alt, A. T. Alt, John Eagan, Caleb J. Vredenburg,

Moses Hale,

A. Blake,

O. Lindley,

Wm. McCormick,

George Hepner,

James Hill,

L. Wright,

Jesse M. Cart,

Robert Small,

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A. Dewey,

Robert Waterson,

Warren Stiles,

Moses Croner, James P. Carleton,

Thos. Holden,

Isaac McCorkel,

J. Crawford, Wm. Corcoran,

Perry Jourden,

Isaac Bowen,

Louis Rauzahn,

David Cox,

W. Harrison,

John Rossal,

James Haiden,

James Lee,

George Shigley,

Morgan Haiden,

Joseph Shell,

Francis Krov,

George Haiden,

Wm. Kemp,

James Waverley,

Theodore Sanxay,

David Henry,

Samuel Loyejoy,

C. S. Foster,

F. Kimble,

E. D. Stephen,

Elijah K. Yost,

Peter Trimble,

A. B. Boge,

Pleasant Arthur,

W. Buttler,

Alpheus Rupell,

Morgan Reno,

C. M. Calkin,

Theodore Rumsey,

Samuel Faessler,

John Sturges, Jr.,

Daniel J. Durial,

Nathaniel Fellows,

L. D. Forest,

R. Willis,

Green Hill,

G. Hutchinson, Geo. S. Hampton, S. Hanes,

Henry Jaytoe,

Elijah Harvey, Elihu Dusel,

P. Costly,

N. B. Morse,

Jackson Ponyar,

Wm. P. Doty,

Silas Foster,

Robert Matthewson,

M. M. Mongomery,

John N. Hedly,

Andrew T. McClain,

John Nortery,

Joshua Switzer,

Hedley,

James Wells,

Garrett Packard,

John D. Webb,

David Ralston,

Lewis D. Houtz,

J. V. Felkner,

Lyman Dillon,

Buel Tyler,

John M. Kidder,

H. Bruot,

Rebecca Tyler,

Wm. Robinson,

James Williams,

Wm. Mitchell,

James Sepcaron,

ThomasE. Torrance,

Robt. Smith,

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History of Johnson County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882, Part 38

Author: Johnson Co., Ia. History. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa. Number of Pages: 980

Author: Johnson Co., Ia. History. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa.
Number of Pages: 980