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The present pastor is Rev. E. H. Vornholt, who came to the charge in April of 1910. There are now 313 members in the congregation. One of the difficult tasks before the congregation is to pass through the transition period safely. from German into English. This will, however, take quite a number of years yet.
EPISCOPMI. CHURCH
This does not exist here today, but the old organization was so much a part of our early history that this sketch must not be omitted. Rev. James Bentley came to Waukon in 1858, sent by the Episcopal bishop to this place and to Lan-
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sing. He held services sometimes in the public school building, and in 1859 in the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoons. April 25, 1859, Walter Delafield, Orin Manson, John Griffin, John Phillips, L. B. Cowles, C. Paulk, and A. Parson, organized St. Paul's parish of the Protestant Episcopal church, of the diocese of Iowa. The same year they built a small frame church on block 5, Delafield's addition, corner of Liberty and High streets. In the summer of 1860 the build- ing was greatly enlarged and the tower erected. While these improvements were being made, the Sunday school, which was very popular under Delafield's superintendency, was held in Hersey's hall. A 613-1b. Meneely bell, costing $250 was also purchased and placed in position, the first church bell in town. It is said that this bell was a gift from Jay Cooke, later the financial agent of the United States government in the Civil war. This writer has a distinct recol- lection of the assembling of the Sunday school in Hersey's hall one bright summer day, from whence with a profusion of oak leaf wreaths and flowers, they marched with banners flying, out to the east of town to meet the coming bell, which had been brought from Lansing by the Columbus road, and escorted it into town to the little church now ready to receive it. In 1895 the bell was taken to the Decorah church. The little brown church and the large parsonage to the north are still standing, the church remodeled into a residence.
Mr. Bentley served as rector for several years, but was later in the employ of the American Sunday School Union, in this state and Kansas. He made his home for years on the farm on Makee Ridge until recently owned and accupied by Hon. E. H. Fourt. Mr. Bentley died September 2, 1893. Rev. James Allen was elected rector, and after him Rev. Estabrook held services occasionally. In the fall of 1867 Rev. A. M. May came to Waukon as rector and served the church in that capacity five or six years; but the congregation had been small since early in the sixties, and regular services were finally abandoned.
Walter Delafield was in 1868 rector of Grace Chapel, New York city, and graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York in 1869. In 1886 he came from Terre Haute to Chicago, where he organized the Church of the Transfiguration, Forty-third street, near Cottage Grove avenue, which he continued to serve as rector until his death, April 11, 1900.
NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN CHURCH
St. John's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran church of Waukon, was incorpo- rated September 22, 1890, the board of trustees comprising Niles A. Rippy, president ; Hans J. Bjerke, secretary; Halvor Pedersen, treasurer, and H. H. Larson. In 1907 the church was reincorporated, as the St. John Lutheran church of Waukon, with the following named officials: Trustees, Hans E. Vold, Ole P. Kvernum, and John L. Ehrie; Secretary, S. K. Kolsrud; Treasurer, L. T. Hermanson ; Deacons, Olaf Hanson, Tollef Johnson and J. S. Johnson.
About the year 1890 this church built a handsome little frame house of worship, which has been from time to time improved. Rev. M. F. Lunde served the church as pastor from 1890 to '95, when he took charge of the church on Waterloo Ridge. Rev. J. A. Hellesvedt succeeded him here, being transferred to La Crosse about 1905, and he was followed on this field by Rev. Jacob Fjelde, who is the present pastor.
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SEVENTH DAY CHURCHI
The Seventh Day Adventist Association had an organization and a church building on the Ludlow-Jefferson township line three miles south of Waukon, in the sixties, the membership of which was composed of well known early set- tlers including Wm. Andrews, Geo. I. Butler, E. M. Stephens, James Vile, John P. Farnsworth, the Bullocks, Washburn, and others. Sometime in the early eighties the little church was removed into town and located upon lot 10, block 21, which they bought of G. L. Teeple, in the block of the Robert Douglass resi- dence. The society continues to hold social meetings every Sabbath, and quarterly meetings. A Sabbath school is also kept up.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
On the 30th day of May, 1883. after Memorial Day exercises, a meeting of veterans from all over the county was held in Waukon, preliminary to the organi- zation of a Grand Army Post. G. M. Dean was chairman of the meeting, and T. C. Medary secretary. On motion of D. W. Reed, F. H. Robbins was appointed a committee to arrange for a mustering officer, and the time of assembling.
On the 23d of June following, the veterans of Allamakee county to the num- ber of eighty-nine, assembled at Barnard Hall in Waukon, and Comrade Herman Karberg of Hyde Clark Post, Dubuque, proceeded to muster in the following named charter members, under special order No. 199. from department head- quarters for Iowa: Geo. W. Sherman, John Toole, E. B. Raymond, D. W. Reed, John W. Pratt, Wm. T. Stull, T. W. David, Geo. D. Greenleaf, Thos. B. Wiley, Isaac Mickey, David Hawthorne, John Dowling, Thomas Dowling, John Sines, Robert Boyce, T. J. Hawthorne, Frank Klees, Julius Nelson, Geo. O. Potter, John Griffin, Wm. Niblock, Wm. J. Miller, James B. Rudd, D. W. Douglass, John H. Hale, Geo. Robertson, Leroy Butts, E. W. Pratt, Peter Griffin, Jolın F. Pitt, Martin Hoffman, O. A. Ross, S. L. Rush, Daniel Ryan, T. J. Han- cock, Wm. Raymond, John D. Nesmeier, Henry Allpress, L. Ferris, Jas. A. Langford, John Hartley, A. R. Prescott, John T. Robinson, E. A. Swan, C. T. Granger. Heber Robinson, F. H. Robbins, T. C. Medary, Geo. M. Dean, Jas. M1. Barr, A. B. Conner, Cornelius Ward, Henry P. Lane, Isaac Woodmansec, E. B. Bascom, M. G. Wood, Oscar Collins, Jolin A. Decker, John Crawford, Wm. 11. Crouch, M. F. Sanner, Frank Van Amberg, Robert Smith, Henry Graham. C. B. Jordon, James McClintock, James Ruth, L. W. Irwin, Hans Simenson, Geo. Schroda, A. M. May, John A. Rupp, J. J. Jennewine, Nick Betzinger, Wm. H. Graham, Archibald Mcclintock, B. G. Stanley, James Briar. Geo. W. Miller, Alonzo Thornton, Levi N. Green, P. I. Pierce, C. A. Robey, Geo. P. Bellows, John W. Barlow. A. F. Loomis, John Pixler, Hugh McCabe, Robert Wampler.
Immediately after muster the following officers were elected and installed : Post Commander, D. W. Reed ; Senior Vice Commander, J. W. Pratt ; Junior Vice Commander, James Ruth: Officer of the Day, T. C. Medary; Surgeon, A. R. Prescott ; Adjutant, E. W. Pratt ; Quartermaster, F. H. Robbins ; Chaplain, Rev. Robert Smith; Officer of the Guard, A. B. Conner ; Sergeant Major, J. B. Reid; Quartermaster Sergeant, Henry P. Lane.
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The name chosen for the Post was Nathaniel P. Baker, the adjutant general of Iowa in the dark days of the rebellion ; but upon ascertaining that the name was already adopted by the Post at Clinton, on the 21st day of July this Post unanimously adopted the name of John J. Stillman, the first man from Allamakee county killed in action at Fort Donelson, and it has since been known as John J. Stillman Post, No. 194.
From the time of organization the principal officers, commander and adjutant, have been as follows :
Commander : D. W. Reed, 1883-88; F. H. Robbins, 1889-97; R. Wampler, 1898-1903; G. M. Dean, 1904-05; F. H. Robbins, 1906; R. Wampler, 1907-10; G. P. Bellows, 1911-13.
Adjutant : E. W. Pratt, 1883; N. H. Pratt, 1884; T. C. Medary, 1885-86; A. M. May, 1887-1913.
The present officers are: Post Commander, G. P. Bellows; Senior Vice Com- inander, James Briar ; Junior Vice Commander, John F. Pitt; Adjutant, A. M. May ; Quartermaster, Geo. W. Sherman ; Surgeon, George Cummins ; Chaplain, R. Wampler : Officer of the Day, D. W. Douglass ; Patriotic Instructor, A. M. May ; Officer of the Guard, George Schroda ; Sergeant Major, Hugh McCabe ; Quarter- master Sergeant, Jacob Minchk; Delegate to State Encampment-A. M. May.
Waukon Relief Corps, John J. Stillman, No. 123, organized August 7, 1887. with the following officers: Mrs. E. E. Stevens, president ; Anna Granger, senior vice president : Jane Dean, junior vice president ; Henrietta Hale, secretary ; Ellen Reed, treasurer ; Margaret David, chaplain; Adelia Conner, conductor ; Cynthia Robinson, guard. The present officers are :
Mrs. Althae Robbins, president ; Alice Daulton. senior vice president ; Dina Reynolds, junior vice president ; Phoebe Walker, secretary ; M. A. R. Bellows, treasurer ; Eliza Colgrove, chaplain; Mary Passmore, conductor; Sarah Briar, guard.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
Albert M. Stewart Camp, No. 6, Department of Iowa, United Spanish War Veterans, was organized and mustered in May 30, 1908, under charter dated May -, 1908, with the following charter members: R. A. Nichols, Wm. S. Hart, J. H. Hager, Otto Gulrud, M. S. Jones, John Colsch, C. H. Stilwell, Calvin S. Stilwell, C. M. Powell, C. H. Dean, J. E. O'Brien, B. W. Ratcliffe, R. J. Pratt, Chas. Colsch, Nicholas Colsch, Jr., Robt. E. Hughes.
Officers elected at first meeting as follows : Camp Commander, R. A. Nichols ; Senior Vice Commander, J. H. Hager; Junior Vice Commander, Otto Gulrud ; Adjutant, Calvin S. Stilwell; Quartermaster, Claude H. Dean; Officer of the Day, M. Scott Jones; Officer of the Guard, John Colsch.
Present officers of the Camp: Camp Commander, John E. O'Brien; Senior Vice Commander, Calvin S. Stilwell; Junior Vice Commander, A. W. Douglas; Adjutant, M. Scott Jones ; Quartermaster, Nicholas Colsch, Jr .; Officer of the Day, R. A. Nichols ; Officer of the Guard, R. J. Pratt.
Camp was named in honor of Sergt. A. M. Stewart, the first typhoid victim of Company I, Forty-ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, who died at Jacksonville, Florida, August 25, 1898.
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Members of the camp include veterans of the Spanish-American war and Philippine insurrection, who saw service in Cuba and the Philippines, on land and water.
All honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Spanish-American war, Philippine insurrection, Boxer trouble, serving from 1898 to 1900 in the service of the United States are eligible to membership.
WOMEN'S CLUBS
"The Woman's Literary Club" of Waukon was organized in February, 1884, through the efforts of Mrs. W. C. Earle. It is said to be the second oldest of the women's clubs in the State of Iowa. At first the object of the society was largely for social intercourse, although the first hour was spent in reading Shake- speare, and the second in some work selected either by the club or reader; but as time rolled on it seemed to its members that more systematic work should be done. The subject was discussed pro and con, for some time, and in the summer of 1897 it was decided to plan a course of study for the coming year ; accord- ingly Mrs. A. M. May, who was then president, appointed a committee to lay out the work. The course decided upon was a study of the United States, by states, giving a short history of each. its prominent cities, statesmen. authors, etc. Since that time each year has had its apportioned work. Friday has been the meeting day of this club: the first Friday in February is set apart as an anniversary, and the last Friday in June, closing the year's work, as guest day. The present officers of the club are: President. Mrs. Jackson Smith: Vice Presi- dent, Mrs. W. T. Gilchrist : Secretary, Mrs. Charlotte Hancock ; Treasurer, Mrs. Phoebe Walker.
The next oldest club in Waukon is the "Nineteenth Century Club," and numerous others followed in later years, as the "New Century," the "Thursday Club," the "Browning," the "Keane Circle," and others ; all we believe uniting in various enterprises for the public welfare, instruction and amusement. Among such enterprises may be mentioned the lecture courses in winter and the Chau- tauqua in summer, as well as the public library elsewhere noticed.
OLD COMPANY "I"
The Waukon military company has a long and honorable record. It was mustered in as Company F, Fourth Regiment Iowa National Guards, by Capt. E. B. Bascom, of Lansing. May 16, 1878, with a full complement of sixty-four enlisted men, besides the commissioned officers, who were elected as follows: Captain, D). W. Reed: First Lieutenant, J. W. Pratt ; Second Lieutenant, T. G. Orr. In July. the company was transferred to the Ninth regiment, becoming Company E. August 17. Captain Reed was elected major of the regiment. About September 20th the company received their arms and accoutrements. In October, Earle's hall was leased for an armory. November 7th, Second Sergeant A. J. Rodgers was elected captain, and Fifth Sergeant A. T. Stillman, first lieutenant to fill vacancy caused by resignation of J. W. Pratt. May 2, 1879. Orderly Ser- geant Dell J. Clark was elected second lieutenant to fill vacancy caused by Lieu- tenant Orr's resignation, and A. H. Peck was elected orderly. In July the com- pany was retransferred to the Fourth Regiment, becoming Company I. In August,
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uniforms were purchased, and September 16th to 19th the company partici- pated in regimental encampment at Independence. May 7, 1880, Third Sergt. J. B. Reid was elected second lieutenant in place of D. J. Clark, resigned. October IIth to 15th the company was in regimental camp at Postville. In August. 1881, Captain Rodgers was elected major of the regiment, and the term of service having expired, it was a question whether or not the company should reorganize. On the Stli the company decided by vote to do so, and on the 17th Sergt. A. G. Stewart was elected captain. The company attended the state encampment at Des Moines, second week in October. Lieutenant Stillman's commission having expired, and he desiring to retire, Second Lieut. J. B. Reid was elected his suc- cessor November 25th, and Sergt. E. B. Gibbs elected to the second lieutenancy. In June, 1882, with these officers, and E. W. Pratt as first sergeant, the company attended brigade encampment at Waterloo, where they received the first prize ($100) for the best drilled company in the Second Brigade, comprising three regiments. In September, Barnard Hall was rented for an armory, and that month the company, by special invitation, attended the grand military encamp- ment at Dubuque, where they acquitted themselves creditably. The company held the championship for target practice for several years after this.
In May, 1883, the company attended a National Guard encampment at Nash- ville Tennessee, where they met a vast concourse of people as well as most of the celebrated companies of state troops in the United States. "Company I" did not enter the prize drill at this place. It went at the special request of the com- mander of that great camp-"Camp Duncan," Brig. Gen. C. S. Bentley of Iowa commanding-as "Headquarters Guard, and escort to the commanding general." The company received the highest praise alike from United States and state officers for general efficiency and soldierly bearing as well as discipline and good conduct.
The roster of the company attending this camp was as follows: Capt. A. G. Stewart ; First Lieut., J. B. Reid; Second Lieut., E. B. Gibbs ; First Sergt., E. W. Pratt; Second Sergt., R. A. Nichols; Third Sergt., E. M. Hancock ; Fourth Sergt., J. E. Duffy; Fifth Sergt., J. C. Lewis.
Corporals, A. O. Sagen, L. A. Howe, F. A. Wigton, J. B. Hays.
Privates, J. A. Brawford, James Berry, F. Berrier, J. Cummins, J. B. Dowling, Herman Groeling, G. L. Hubbell, Daniel Hanley, B. H. Hall, E. P. Jordan, S. W. Kellogg, F. E. Nichols, T. F. O'Brien, J. L. Pratt, Allison Peck, A. H. Ross, Mark Snyder, R. I. Steele, E. R. Spencer; and Quartermaster Sergt. G. C. Hemenway. A. C. Hagemeier, assistant.
The company kept up its continuous record as one of the best companies of the state in all respects for nearly fifteen years after this time (1883). In 1886 Captain Stewart, who had commanded the company since 1881, was elected colonel of the Fourth Regiment. He occupied this position for a term (five years), and was reelected and recommissioned for another five years, but on the reorganization of the guard in 1892 resigned and retired from the active service, being given, by special orders from the military department, the full rank of colonel.
Meantime Company I had gone along in its steady and reliable way, always doing its duty faithfully and well and attending the annual encampments with a full complement of men. On the promotion of Captain Stewart to the colonelcy
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in 1886, Lieut. E. B. Gibbs became captain and served through one encampment. Ile then resigned to take the adjutancy of the regiment, which he held for several years. On his leaving the captaincy Lieut. R. A. Nichols became captain and held the company up to its old standard of efficiency until he resigned in June, 1893. Previous to this, in October, 1892, the company had the honor of par- ticipating in the military part of the program of the dedication of the World's Columbian Exposition, at Chicago, for several days, where they encamped in the great Agricultural Building. They were assigned a position in the military review at Washington Park, October 21st, assisted at the dedication of the lowa Building on Saturday, October 22d, and returned home on the following Monday.
Captain Nichols was succeeded by First Lieut. Henry V. Duffy, who was commissioned captain July 1, 1893, and commanded the company until his tragic death in 1895. when Lieut. Wm. S. Hart became captain.
In the early summer of 1897 came an order from headquarters disbanding the company, on account of some lack of interest, and strife on the part of some larger towns more centrally located to supplant the village company from the extreme northeast corner of the state. Efforts were immediately made for its reinstatement which proved successful, and in one month from the date of the order of disbandment the company was fully reorganized and mustered in. Colonel Stewart and Captain Nichols, who had both been on the retired list for years, were elected unanimously as captain and first lieutenant, consenting to serve for a short time only, until the company was well on its feet again.
Before the following encampment at Waterloo was well over there were strong prospects of a war with Spain over the situation in Cuba. It did not come until the following spring, however. Finally when war was declared and the call for troops made by President McKinley, Captain Stewart was away at the bedside of a dying brother in the southern part of the state. Lieutenant Nichols, however, promptly took command and in twenty-four hours after the order to rendezvous at Des Moines was received the company had started. To then Lieutenant Nichols is due great credit for his promptness and efficiency in equipping, so far as might be, and getting out the company, not only with its full complement of forty enlisted men, but a number more to take the place of any who might "flunk."
Under the call of President Mckinley of April 25, 1898, the company started on the 26th for Camp Mckinley, Des Moines, where they were mustered into the United States service on June 2d as Company I, Forty-ninth Regiment lowa Volunteers. The regiment took the designation as the Forty-ninth because it was the forty-ninth consecutive regiment of infantry furnished by the state for national service.
Company 1 at this time was uniquely officered. Captain Stewart had enlisted as a private in 1878. and risen to the rank of colonel. First Lieutenant Nichols had also enlisted as a private in 1878, served through all the grades, and as cap- tain for about eight years. Second Lieutenant Hart had joined the company as private in 1889, had become captain in 1895, and reenlisted as private upon the reorganization of the company in 1897. but was soon after elected lieutenant. All had assumed their lower rank through devotion to the company and the cause in which it was embarked.
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The officers and men of Company I, Forty-ninth Regiment, who were enrolled from Allamakee county, were as follows :
Capt., Albert G. Stewart ; First Lieut., Ross A Nichols; Second Lieut, Wil- liam S. Hart; First Sergt., Nicholas Colsch, Jr .; Quartermaster Sergt., Fred G. Stilwell. Discharged September 6, 1898, on account of disability.
Duty Sergts: Albert M. Stewart, died August 26, 1898, at Jacksonville, Florida; John H. Hager, discharged before muster out of company: James E. Cummens ; Benjamin L. Martindale, promoted first sergeant.
Corporals: Fred C. Robey, promoted sergeant, September 1, 1898; Daniel Regan, promoted sergeant ; Alexander W. Douglass; Edmund Roche; John L. Casey, died at general hospital, McPherson, Georgia ; William J. Thill ; Otto L. Gullrud; Cornelius H. Stilwell, discharged before muster out of company ; Allen B. Boomer, promoted quartermaster sergeant, September 6, 1898; John Colsch, discharged before muster out of company; Frank M. Rupp. died September 15, 1898, at Waukon ; Stephen E. Barron.
Musicians : Benjamin A. Steffen, James E. Briar; Artificer, Royal E. Pratt ; Wagoner, Emery E. Bandle.
Privates: Barron, Mark S .; Coffrain, Selwyn P .; Carpenter, Albert J .; Colsch, Chas. (discharged before muster out of company) ; Dean, Claude H .; Fiete, Albert F .; Geesey, Chas A. (discharged by favor) ; Green, Fred H .; Hagen, Albert G .; Hanson, Floyd; Irvin, Chas. J .; Jackson, Carlton A .; Johnson, Carl A. (Corporal Company "A," Thirty-eighth U. S. V., September, 1899, to June 30, 1901) ; Kean, John H .; Klein, Joseph J. (promoted corporal) ; McGourty, Jolin (promoted corporal) ; Mullally, James B .; Nierling, William F .; Phipps, Harry V .; Regan, Chas. (promoted corporal) : Stilwell, Calvin S .; Stone, George E .; Trumbull, Frank C. (died September 23, 1898, at Waukon) ; White, William H. ; Wigton, Howard F .; Wigton, Chester J. ; Williams, William E. (promoted cook corporal, September 1, 1898).
On June 14, 1898, the company went into the great camp "Cuba Libre" at Jacksonville, Florida. The transition was very great. It had been a very cold spring and while at Camp McKinley there was scarcely a day, and never a night, but that an overcoat was necessary to comfort while out, except, of course, when drilling or exercising actively. When they landed at Jacksonville it was simply hot and continued so almost every hour of the day and night while they remained there.
On the 4th of July the glorious news of the destruction of Cervera's fleet off Santiago caused great rejoicing in camp over the success of the navy ; but it was somewhat tempered by the feeling it brought to our belligerent boys that they might lose the chance to have a "scrap" with the Spaniards after all. On that day the rains commenced. In spite of the rainy weather and poor food badly cooked, our men remained up to about the middle of August, comparatively well. No serious cases of typhoid had developed in Company I until August 16th, when Sergt. Bert Stewart came in from drill stricken. He grew rapidly worse and on the removal of the company to a new camp was taken to the second division hospital, where on the 25th he died. It was the first case in the company and the second death in the regiment, and produced a profound impression. His remains were returned to Waukon, accompanied by his father Captain Stewart, and buried in Oakland cemetery.
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On the 5th of September Tommy Wilson died. Frank Rupp, no doubt already permeated with the disease, left camp on furlough to escort home the remains of Wilson, and on the 15th died at his home near Waukon, and so it went. When Captain Stewart returned to the camp, September 14th, nearly if not quite, half of the company were sick in hospitals or on sick furlough. There were days when after the necessary guards were detailed, there were but six men left able to bear arms for even drill or show purposes out of the 106 mustered on August Ist.
John Casey had safely passed through all dangers and escaped all sickness until the regiment was moved to Savannah, Georgia, when he was taken with the ‹Iread disease and left there for the hospital when the company went to Cuba. He was soon thereafter taken to Atlanta, where, lingering until after the regiment was mustered out. he finally yielded to the disease and its complications. His body was brought to his old home and consigned to its last resting place in Mount Olivet cemetery by his comrades.
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