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Various propositions were received at different times for the sale of land to the association, but no purchase was made until the 11th of May, 1864, when the grounds known as the "old cemetery" were purchased from G. H. Ford, together with adjacent grounds, embracing in all about fifteen acres, situated west of the city, on an elevated portion of ground at the junction of Buffalo Creek with the Wapsipinicon River. The situation is decidedly beautiful and romantic. The purchase was made on three, six and nine years' time, at eight per cent, and the association was made ready to make sales of the laid-out lots, and soon entered upon the work of laying out and improving the cemetery.
In 1869, under the personal supervision of Mr. J. H. Fisher, the whole ground *was inclosed with a strong, pine board fence, and a roadway thirty feet wide cut around, inside the fence. On the east side, a strip of ground some thirty feet wide and two hundred long, leading to the cemetery grounds proper, was inclosed in the same substantial fence, and at the entrance-way was made a handsome double gate. twelve feet wide. These gates were hinged to massive pillars and kept locked.
During the last few years there has been a great deal of attention paid to the Riverside cemetery and many fine improvements have been made. The cemetery association has built a large receiving vault, has fixed up the grounds by improv- ing the lots and keeping the grass mowed and built a wide cement walk from the entrance gate to the main part of the cemetery grounds. In the spring of 1909
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a large and imposing blue Bedford cut stone gateway with large iron gates was erected at the entrance of the cemetery at a cost of one thousand dollars. This is a magnificent gateway and adds much to the beauty of the cemetery. River- side cemetery is situated on a hill at the junction of the Wapsipinicon and Buffalo Creek making a beautiful as well as a convenient spot for a resting place for the dead. It has many costly and substantial monuments, well kept roads and graves with evergreen trees and shrubbery. The lots were well platted and arranged with cinder avenues so that all lots may be reached with convenience and all graves observable from the roadside.
There are three well built vaults. One public vault and two private vaults, which are an ornament to the grounds. The two private vaults are owned by the Soper and Skinner families.
FIRST BURIAL IN THE ANAMOSA CEMETERY.
The first person buried in what is now the Anamosa Cemetery was a child of John Leonard. Leonard's home was at Fairview, but he was working for some person in Anamosa (then Lexington), and his family was with him. His child died, and as there was no regular burying-ground, those who had previously died were buried on the hillside back of what is now the dwelling of Mathews & Son, and back of the Midland Railroad track. The child was buried on the hill, and among a few scattered trees overlooking the Wapsie. All who died here in the years that followed were buried on the same hill, and, finally, in the year 1854 or 1855, the ground, which was the property of Mr. G. H. Ford, was laid out into burial lots.
The first officers of the association were: president, George W. Field; secre- tary, C. R. Scott; treasurer, E. B. Alderman.
The present officers are: president, William Thomas; vice-president, C. W. Metcalf; treasurer, Wm. Alspaugh; secretary, T. W. Shapley.
The following are the present trustees: C. L. Niles, Wm. Alspaugh, Wm. Thomas, F. M. Belknap, H. H. Soper, Ed Osborne, C. W. Metcalf, C. H. Ander- son, W. A. Cunningham.
Mr. T. W. Shapley has been secretary of the association continuously since the 16th of May, 1889.
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
Post No. 4 of the Grand Army of the Republic was organized in Anamosa, Jones county, Iowa, on the 13th day of August, 1866, at a meeting of the charter members consisting of the following named persons: William T. Shaw, Edwin B. Alderman, Richard McDaniel, Lawrence Schoonover, George L. Yount, James A. Palmer, Jeremiah Austin, Alexander Rollo and O. B. Crane. E. B. Alderman was made chairman and the following named persons were its first officers: post commander, Wm. T. Shaw ; assistant post commander, E. B. Alderman ; post ad- jutant, Richard McDaniel; post quarter-master, T. H. Thompson ; post sergeant, Horace H. Gates. Wm. T. Shaw, John H. Barnard, and Geo. L. Yount were ap- pointed recruiting officers. Post No. 4 of the Grand Army of the Republic con-
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tinued until the 23d day of August, 1867, when it disbanded on account of the lack of interest and inability to get the members to attend meetings.
On the 20th day of March, 1880, an organization called Our Country De- fenders was organized at an informal meeting of ex-soldiers held at Good Tem- plars Hall, Saturday morning, March 20, 1880. General J. H. Gray, commissary general of musters of the National Encampment was present and read. the plat- form of the National Encampment of Our Country Defenders and explained the object of the organization. Those present were G. L. Yount, C. W. Coe, E. M. Condit, T. E. Patterson, E. J. Wood, Wm. B. Fish, I. H. Brasted, Robert Dott, B. H. White, John Stewart, L. C. Aldridge, A. V. Eaton, E. V. N. Hall. These comrades took the obligation administered by General Gray and proceeded to the election of officers which resulted as follows: Geo. L. Yount, commander ; E. M. Condit, lieutenant commander; I. H. Brasted, adjutant; V. H. White, quarter- master; C. W. Coe, chaplin; E. J. Wood, officer of the day; T. E. Patterson, officer of the guard; W. B. Fish, sergeant major; M. M. Curtis, quarter-master- sergeant ; L. C. Aldridge, drum major ; E. V. A. Hall, chief musician.
The encampment was named Major Thompson Encampment No. 25 after Judge Wm. C. Thompson of Marion, Iowa. The initiation fee was seventy-five cents. This organization continued until May 3, 1881, when it went out of existence.
On the 12th of May, 1881, the present Fred Steel Post No. 4 of the Grand Army of the Republic was organized at an informal meeting of ex-soldiers held at Good Templars Hall Friday evening, May 12, 1882. General Burst and Major F. Clendennan were present as mustering officers.
The following ex-soldiers were then obligated: E. M. Condit, M. M. Curtis, James Phelan, A. L. Eager, H. H. Monroe, Frank Chapman, R. Wilkinson, L. C. Aldridge, James Lampson, Frank Fisher, I. H. Brasted, E. V. N. Hall, J. B. Vandusen, Wm. H. Arment, John Stewart, G. L. Yount, Harlan Hollenbeck, C. W. Coe, L. J. Adair. C. W. Coe was called to the chair and I. H Brasted was appointed secretary. The following officers were elected: post commander, L. C. Aldridge ; S. V. P. C., C. W. Coe; J. V. P. C., Harlan Hollenbeck, adjutant, W. H. Arment ; quarter-master, I. H. Brasted; surgeon, L. J. Adair; chaplain, F. V. N. Hall; officer of the guard, James Lamson ; O. D., G. L. Yount ; sergeant major, M. M. Curtis; Q. M. sergeant, John Stewart.
The post was named James A. Garfield Post of Anamosa, Iowa, but before the national organization could be notified some other post had selected the name of James A. Garfield and a new name had to be chosen. The name of Fred Steel Post was selected and the Anamosa post was granted their original number, No. 4, as the fourth post organized in Iowa was organized at Anamosa. The Fred Steel Post No. 4 paid the outstanding indebtedness of the old organization of our Country Defenders and took their property.
The following is the present roster of Fred Steel Post, No. 4: C. P. Atwood, Thos. Burke, I. H. Brasted, J. H. Barnard, Wm. Bromley, Wm. Brown, John Birk, J. A. Bishop, Frank Cooper, Dr. S. Druet, Frank Grimm, David Heisey, S. C. Hall, C. S. Holcomb, H. Harris, - Hamaker, W. W. Isham, M. Ken- yon, Jas. H. Lamson, Jno. A. Leaper, Isaac Luce, A. F. Lohrman, I. H. Meek, John McHorter, Thomas Neiley, T. L. Pattison, T. E. Patterson, Anton Parker,
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Louis Rosencrans, John Ronen, L. Rushford, W. C. Ruhl, M. P. Sigworth, H. W. Sigworth, Geo. W. Sones, Jas. Strickle, Wm. Sampica, A. Somers, John Strickle, Henry Sitka. Henry Thompson, Warren Tauer, E. J. Wood, W. W. Walbridge, Jos. Weiss, and Thomas Wilds. Forty-six members.
The Grand Army of the Republic has been an active organization in Ana- mosa for a great many years and has taken charge and successfully conducted memorial day exercises every year and have decorated the graves of all deceased soldiers. They are loyal to their follow members and render assistance when- ever called upon. Their numbers become fewer every year and it will be but a few years when the order from lack of members will go completely out of exist- ance.
EASTERN IOWA VETERAN ASSOCIATION.
The members of the Fred Steel Post No. 4, were active members in the organization known as the Eastern Iowa Veteran Association, which organiza- tion was effected at Anamosa about the year 1878 and was dis-organized about the year 1890. The ninth annual reunion was held at Anamosa, Iowa, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 7, 8 and 9, 1887. The officers of the asso- ciation at that time were as follows: general commander, William T. Shaw; colonel, Milo Smith ; lieutenant colonel, D. B. Moorehouse ; senior major, W. P. Rigby ; junior major, W. S. R. Burnet.
This was a large reunion of soldiers and the feature of the day was a sham battle upon the Anamosa Fair Grounds, which was largely attended by ex-soldiers and fellow citizens.
G. I .. Yount of Anamosa, was adjutant general of the day and T. M. Wilds was judge advocate general.
E. J. Wood of Anamosa, held the office of general commander in this organiza- tion, and he and William T. Shaw were the only Anamosa citizens honored by an office.
THE APOLLO CLUB.
The only musical organization in Anamosa,-had its inception in the minds of a few earnest music-lovers eight years ago.
The ambitious name belonged at first to a rather meager membership; this has steadily grown, both in numbers and enthusiam, until now fifty names are upon the club's roll.
The high musical standard set for the club by its founders has never been lowered; and the nine programs given each year comprise only the best in vocal and instrumental composition.
The meetings are held at the houses of the members on the second Tuesday evening of each month from October to June. In addition it is the custom of the club to give in one of the churches an oratorio or sacred cantata at Easter; thus far "The Crucifixion." "The Holy City," and "Olivet to Calvary" have been given.
Two years ago the opera "Chimes of Normandy" was given in the Opera House most successfully under the direction of a professional brought from Chicago; "The Pirates of Penzance" will be sung the present season.
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Upon one occasion Apollo took a vacation, in which interim a male minstrel show was given for the benefit of the club, and netted a sufficient sum to purchase whatever music the performers on program did not care to own. This music is the property of the club and is kept for its use by the club librarian. The replenished treasury also offered the club last year the pleasure of a concert given by Mrs. Haman, Mr. Montilius and Mr. Orr of Cedar Rapids, on New Year's Eve, followed by a reception, at the home of the president, Mrs. E. R. Moore, and later in the year, it enabled the club to secure Dr. Waugh Lander for two mag- nificent piano recitals. Two other pleasant social affairs were given by the club in previous years; the first, a regular club program to which the general public was invited; and the second, a rendition of Schubert's song cycle, "The Fair Maid of the Mill" by Mrs. T. R. Watson of Cedar Rapids, at the home of Mrs. W. B. Skinner.
The outlook for successful work the coming year is very bright as the calendars are now in the hands of the members, and the work will cover selections from standard operas and oratorios, with several symphonies.
The present officers are as follows: President, Mrs. E. B. Harrison; vice president, Mrs. C. H. Anderson; secretary, Miss Gordon; treasurer, Mrs. G. E. Noble; librarian, Mrs. J. S. Stacy.
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
The Daughters of the American Revolution, Francis Shaw Chapter, No. 501, was organized at Anamosa, Iowa, October, 1899, and was named in honor of Francis Shaw, Jr., of Boston, Massachusetts and Gouldsboro, Maine. The first meeting was held at the home of Mrs. C. S. Millard, the first regent being Miss H. L. Shaw.
The chapter meets monthly at the homes of the members, the programs being literary and musical. A program of more than passing interest was given on May
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(c) Credo-Messe Sollenelle Gounod
(d) Offertory-Ave Maria-Bach Gounod
(e) Sanctus -- Benedictus-Mass in C. Beethoven
(f) Agnus Dei-Messe. Sollenelle Gounod
This program was given later in the Catholic church with the approval of the priest and the bishop. The collection taken on this occasion, amounting to about fifty dollars was given to the sanitarium.
The Francis Shaw chapter was largely instrumental in securing the erection of the library. This will be seen in the history of that splendid institution.
The present officers and members of the chapter are as follows: regent, Mrs. F. M. Bagley; vice regent, Mrs. Geo. Schoonover; second vice regent, Miss Bertha Remley ; secretary, Mrs. Geo. Noble; treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Ramsey ; registrar, Miss Harriet Cunningham; historian, Mrs. Eleanor Strawman.
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LIST OF MEMBERS, FRANCIS SHAW CHAPTER NO. 501.
Mrs. Ella Thomsen Bagley 29,45I
Miss Eva Byerly. . 49,905
Mrs. Elizabeth McDowell Buckley. 49,056
Mrs. Mary Calkins Chassell. 37,262
Mrs. Vada Lamb Carpenter. . 29,452
Mrs. Lena Hubbell Chamberlain. 29,459
Miss Harriet Amaret Cunningham . 29,454
Miss Celia Dyer . 34,131
Mrs. Eliza Crane Ferguson . 29,456
Mrs. Elida Mccutcheon Ellison 30,308
Mrs. Agnes Dyer Foley.
34,132
Mrs. Ida I. B. Glanville.
33.303
Mrs. Charlotte Page Hartman.
29,844
Mrs. Mary Ryan Harvey 33.305
33,304
Miss Jane Merton Harvey.
Mrs. Frances Little Hicks. 44.290
Mrs. Josephine Holt Howard. 29.458
Miss Rena Hubbell. . 30,309
Mrs. Amanda Peck Hunter 32,063
Mrs. Laura Hicks Koop 44.291
Mrs. Mary Thompson Ketcham
29,461
Mrs. Cornelia Samson 53,680
Mrs. Emogene Sartelle Lull 30,310
Mrs. Augusta Hopkins McCarn. 29.464
Mrs. Hattie Lull McGuire 34.130
Mrs. Mary Wynkoop Moore.
41,794
Mrs. Nellie Scroggs Niles
29,449
Mrs. Clara Holt Niles
29,460
Mrs. Eliza Webb Noble.
30.311
Mrs. Sarah Thompson Osborne
29,466
Mrs. Lena Scroggs Pitcher
. 33-306
Mrs. Ella Hazard Petcina 52,588
Miss Annette Page 29,845
Mrs. Cora Belknap Ramsey. 52,580
Mrs. Mary Underwood Remley 29,469
Miss Bertha Remley. 33.737
Mrs. Sarah A. Sarles 33,307
Mrs. Jane Meade Sigworth . 29,470
Mrs. Margaret Davis Sigworth 52.590
Mrs. Anna Harvey Snyder .49.425
Mrs. Margery Ryan Soper 18,421
Mrs. Eleanor Soper Strawman . 58,297
Miss Anna Treman. 29.846
Mrs. Lucile Ellen Tucker 49.057
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Miss Margaret Wood. 33,308
Mrs. Mary Hathaway Washburn 32,064
Mrs. Jeanette Welch . 59,761
Miss Carrie M. Wildey (Number not yet received)
Miss Ida Osborne, Miss Lena Osborne, Miss Agnes Remley, Miss Elsa Straw- man, Mrs. Elva Dunham Parsons, Mrs. Grace Lovell Schoonover, Mrs. Carrie Schoonover. Miss Verda Lytton, Mrs. Estella Jump, Mrs. Lorenda Peet Temple- man.
Life Members: Mrs. Frances Higby Dutton, 29,455; Mrs. Theresa Peet Russell. 29.468; Miss Helen Louisa Shaw, 4.702; Miss Mary Dutton, 55,180. Honorary Member: Mrs. W. S. Benton, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In Memoriam: Mrs. Elizabeth Crane Shaw, Mrs. Theresa Peet Myrick, Mrs. Augusta Peet Hubbell, Mrs. Elizabeth Hicks Lull, Mrs. Jennie Waite Pearson, Mrs. Gertrude Herrick Cowan.
The regents are as follows: Helen L. Shaw, Nellie S. Niles, Charlotte P. Hartman and Helen T. Bagley.
THE LIBRARY.
In January, 1900, by the will of a former resident, Walter S. Benton, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the city of Anamosa was left the sum of ten thousand dollars to be used in purchasing books for the public library, provided a suitable building should be erected inside of three years.
The city council did not feel quite strong enough to undertake the work and expense which the acceptance of this generous gift involved. They voted a cer- tain sum for the support of the library if it should be built. The council wrote to the executor of Mr. Benton's estate to be allowed to erect a building the upper story of which was to be the library and the lower story to be used for a hose house. This offer was declined. It was at this stage of the proceedings that The Daughters of the Revolution took hold of the project. The Francis Shaw chapter, feeling that this gift should not be rejected or allowed to lapse, resolved to try to raise the necessary sum. The chapter raised by subscription, five thousand, eight hundred dollars, and the chapter raised by entertainments, seventeen hundred dollars, and other societies and entertainments, eighty dollars. Later, Mrs. Benton very generously gave three thousand dollars. The total cost of the library and site was eleven thousand dollars. The city furnished the building at a cost of eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. In January, 1903, the library was turned over to the city by Miss H. L. Shaw, regent of Francis Shaw chapter. The library was built and finished in accordance with instructions left by Mr. Benton and accepted by his trustees, January, 1903, and opened to the public, August 1, 1903. The library is complete in every particular, and com- petent critics state that there is no library in the state in any town of less than fifteen thousand that is as well equipped.
The present library board is : president, Mrs. E. M. Harvey ; vice-president, Harriet Cunningham; secretary, Mrs. Laura Gould; T. W. Shapley, George Schoonover, Dr. T. C. Gorman, Mrs. H. A. Ercanbrack, Mrs. H. M. Remley and Mrs. E. R. Moore.
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The board is appointed by the Mayor of the city of Anamosa.
The number of volumes in the library on September 1, 1909, was four thou- sand, one hundred and twenty-three volumes. Total circulation during the year ten thousand, two hundred and two volumes. Largest daily circulation eighty-four. Smallest daily circulation six. Average daily circulation thirty-two. Total num- ber of borrower's cards, one thousand, two hundred and seventy-four. Number of days open during the year three hundred and seven.
The librarians have been Miss Cornelius McCarn, who was the first lib- rarian, who resigned Sept. 1, 1909, and Miss Remley who was appointed her suc- cessor and is now the present librarian.
MINUTES OF CITY COUNCIL REGARDING LIBRARY.
ANAMOSA, IOWA, February 5, 1900.
Council met in regular session, presiding his honor, the Mayor. Present all councilmen, except Joslin and Sigworth. Minutes of last regular and special meetings read and approved. * * * * * *
A copy of the will of the late Walter S. Benton was then presented to the city council and the article relative to the bequest made to the city was then read. and the Mayor was then ordered to write his executors an acknowledgment of the receipt of the instrument
ANAMOSA, IOWA, April. 9, 1900.
Council met as a board of review, presiding his honor, the Mayor. Council- men present, Atkinson, Foley, Simmons, Watters, Cunningham, Jackells, Lull and Cook. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
Miss Lou Shaw, representing the D. A. R., came before the council in behalf of the public library building. After reading her plans and suggestions, motion was made and carried that a committee of three be appointed to confer with the city attorney and F. O. Ellison and determine if an arrangement could be made satisfactory to the D. A. R. and others interested and in compliance with the statute governing libraries, and report at the next meeting of the council.
The Mayor appointed Atkinson, Cunningham and Lull as said committee.
ANAMOSA, IOWA, May 7. 1900.
Council met in regular session, presiding his honor, the Mayor. Councilmen present, Atkinson, Foley, Simmons, Cunningham, Jackells, and Lull. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
The following report of public library committee was accepted: To the honorable Mayor and city council: Your committee to whom was referred the matter of public library, and the proposition of the society known as the D. A. R. in relation thereto, would respectfully report that they have discussed the issues with Senator Ellison representing said society, and have decided to recommend that an ordinance be prepared governing the relation between the city, the sub- scribers to the building fund, and the D. A. R., in which provision shall be made for three directors representing D. A. R., three represeting the subscribers to the
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building fund, and three others thus making up the board of nine trustees or directors as provided by the statute.
E. L. Atkinson, W. A. Cunningham, J. Z. Lull,
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ANAMOSA, IOWA, June 4, 1900.
Council met in regular session, his honor, the Mayor, W. D. Sheean, presid- ing. Councilmen present, Atkinson, Simmons, Cunningham, Jackells, Lull and Cook. * * *
The ordinance providing for the appointment of library trustees was read the first time ; on motion the rules were suspended and passed to the second reading; was read the second time and passed to the third reading; read the third time and on motion adopted by the following vote: Yeas, Atkinson, Simmons, Watters, Cunningham, Jackells, Lull and Cook. Nays, none. C. H. Carter, Clerk.
Adopted the fourth day of June, 1900.
SANITARIUM.
The Anamosa Sanitarium was originally built for a Mother House for the Sisters of St. Francis under the direction and inspiration of Rev. Robert Powers. In connection with the Mother House there was a Catholic school established in Anamosa and the building called the old Catholic church was remodelled and used for school purposes. After a few years it did not appear to be advisable to continue the Catholic school nor the Mother House and both were disbanded Archbishop Hennessey, of Dubuque. granted a permit to Dr. D. W. Gawley to use this building for a sanitarium and it has been so used until the present time. At the death of Dr. Gawley, the permit was given to Dr. A. G. Hejinian. On Jan- uary 28, 1902, when the building was filled with patients it caught fire from cinders dropping to the roof from the chimney and was burned to the ground, saving, however, the walls and part of the lower story. In summer of 1902, shortly after the fire Archbishop Keane was in Anamosa and was the inspiration and cause of starting a subscription for the rebuilding of the sanitarium. He himself giving five hundred dollars. The sum of five hundred dollars was given by Hon. J. A. Green, W. T. Shaw, Dr. T. C. Gorman, Drs. Sigworth and sons and Dr. A. G. Hejinian. With this start a subscription of three thousand, five hundred dollars was raised at once, which sum together with the insurance on the old building permitted the sanitarium to be rebuilt. The Sisters of Mercy, of Cedar Rapids, have charge of the Sanitarium. The Catholic church has no control or management and all physicians have equal privileges and rights.
The sanitarium is one of the most beneficial organizations in the city of Anamosa and its reputation is spread throughout the whole state and country and many patients come to this sanitarium from great distances in order to receive the services of its physicians and the care given by the sisters. The city may well be proud of such an institution and proud of its doctors and management.
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EDUCATIONAL.
March 25, 1859, a petition, signed by ten voters of the town of Anamosa, was presented to the town council praying an election to be held in said town to decide whether the corporation and territory adjoining, which had previously been attached for school purposes, should become a separate and independent district in accordance with certain powers conferred by the state board of edu- cation during the previous year.
In answer to this petition, the mayor, by order of the council, proclaimed an election, to be held on the second Monday of April following, to decide the matter. In this election an unanimous vote of seventy ballots was cast in favor of a separate district.
The first board was elected April 19, 1859, and was composed of : President. William T. Shaw; vice-president, J. S. Dimmitt ; secretary. J. J. Dickinson ; direc- tors : Israel Fisher, R. S. Hadley, R. Crane and David Graham.
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