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465
O'Brien County, Naming of
28
O'Brien County, Organization of.
29
O'Brien County Relics
176
O'Brien, Old
208
"O'Brien Pioneer"
289
O'Brien, William Smith
1
I
28
Ocheyedan River
179
1
Odd Fellows 350 1 1 1
1
1
I
1 1
1
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Fires, Prairie
73, 147
First Crops 70
First General Election
31,
42
First Grand Jury
252
First Homestead Entry
45
180
H
Hartley 384
Beginning of
384
Business Directory 389
Churches
317
1 1 1 First Officers 385
Incorporation 384 1 1 1 1 1
1 Mayors 390 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Old Soldiers
1 503 1 1
1 1 Platting of 357 1 1 1 1 1 1
Postoffice 388 1 1 1 I
1 Present Officers 387
Public Utilities 388 1
School History 385 1 1
Soldiers' Monument 1 388
. Hartley Banks 239
246
1 "Hartley Journal" 299
"Hartley News"
300
"Hartley Record" 299 1 1 1
1 Hartley Township 1 1 384
1 Old Soldiers 503
1 Highland Township 423
1
Old Soldiers
502
Hay Twister
479
High Schools
195, 197
Hollanders
.68
Homestead Entry, First.
45
Homestead Law
65
Hospitals 304
Hub Hotel
167
Humorous Incidents
455
Hunter, A Noted 490
I
Improvements, Farm
188
Incident, Curious Indian 487
Incorporated Towns 354
Independent Order of Odd Fellows 350
Indian Incident, Curious
487
Indian Occupancy
200
Indian Scare
455
Indian Treaties
201
Indians in O'Brien County
37
(451/2)
Grant Township-Continued.
Natural Features 1
427
Old Soldiers 502
Grasshoppers
149
Groves
First Jury Case
253
First Physicians in County 302
First Record Entries
53
First Sermon in County 313
First Things
52
First White Child
41
Flowers, Wild L 1 1
188
Floyd Township 1 1
1
1
1 1
361
L Early Settlers 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 362
How Named
1 361
Location
362
1 Old Soldiers 501 1 1 1
1 1 1 Squatters 107
Foreign Population 75 I 1
Fort Dodge Crowd 1
42
1 1 Franklin Township 375 1
How Named 375 1 1 I 1
1
1 1 1 Old Soldiers 502 1 1 I 1 1
1 Population 376 1 1 1
1 1 1 Settlement 375 1
1 Squatters 106
Fraternal Societies 1
346
Freemasonry 1
346
French Settlers 1
74
1 1 1 Friends, Society of 1 1 1
325
Fruits
187
G
Game, Wild 489
Gaza
423
Platting of 358
424
Gaza Bank 242, 247
German Evan. Church of No. Am. 336
German Evan. Luth. Zion Churches_ 327
German Settlers 68
Germantown 431
Location
431
Platting of 359
Postoffice 432
1 Government, County 108 t
1 1 Grand Jury, First 252
Grant Township 426 1
First Settlers 427 1 1 1
Milwaukee Road
429
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1 1 1
1
1
1
| 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1 I 1
1 I
1
1
I
Woodstock, Known as
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Inman, Chester W. 19.2
Institutes, Farmers' 189
Institutes, Teachers' 198
Irish Settlers
67
J
Jails
136
Jokes Reminiscent 462
Jordan, Samuel J. 193
Judges
249
Judges, County
109
1
Jury Case, First 253 7 1
1
Justices' Courts
286
K
Knights of Pythias
352
L
Land Grants, Congressional
86
Land Investors 244
Land Jumping
43,
92
Land Litigation
94
Land Loans
178
1
Land Office Trials 1
93
Land Squatters, List of 1
105
Land Values
178
Lands, Overlapping 85
Lands, Squatter 85
Law Suits 276
Lawyers of O'Brien County
262
Legal Questions
442
Liberty Township
Old Soldiers
504
Library, First Circulating 53
Library, Gen. N. B. Baker 214
Library Parties 218
Lincoln Township
382
Old Soldiers 503
List of 'O'Brien Soldiers 499
Litigation
276
Litigation, Land 94
Little Sioux River
179
Lodges
346
Log Court House
42, 129, 137
Mc
McCormack, B. F. 491
McCormack, F. M. (Pomp) 290
McCormack, John
490
M
Masonic Order 346
Medical History 302
Medical Progress 309
Meeting, a Notable
81
Memorable Winters
146
Methodist Churches
311
Milwaukee Lands 86, 95
Minerals, Lack of
190
Miscellaneous
468
Moneta
419
Business
Interests
Churches
321
Fires
420
First Things
419
1
Incorporation
419
Platting of
357
Moneta Bank
240, 247
Mound Builders 200
Mounds, Burial
484
Murray, Archibald
110
N
Naming of County
28
Newspapers
287
Norwegian Lutheran Church
330
Notable Meeting
81
0
O'Brien
County
Agricultural
So-
ciety
481
"O'Brien County Bell"
290
O'Brien County in the Humorous 465
O'Brien County, Naming of.
28
O'Brien County, Organization of.
29
O'Brien County Relics
176
O'Brien, Old
208
"O'Brien Pioneer"
289
O'Brien, William Smith
28
Ocheyedan River
179
Odd Fellows
350
1
419
1
Lecture Courses
198
277
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Official Vote in 1912
472
Prairie Chickens 488
Officials, County, 1913 470
Prairie Features 1 1
177
Old Log Court House 42, 129, 137
Prairie Fires
73,
147
Old O'Brien
208
Prairie Land
177
Preacher, the First
52
Prehistoric Fortifications 1
484
Old Settlers' Reunion
169
Omega Township
418
How Named
418
Old Soldiers
503
Population
419
Orchards 184
Organization of O'Brien County 29
Origin of Pioneers
66
Overlapping Land Suit
278
Overlapping Lands
85
Ox-team Trips
37
P
Paine's Store Court House 134
Parade of Old Settlers
174
Parochial Schools
199, 329
"Pathfinder of O'Brien County".
392
Paulling, D. Edward
190
Paullina
432
Additions
435
Churches
319, 333
Coming of Railroad 434 1 1 1
First Business Men
439
Grain Shipments
441
1
1
1
1
How Named 1 1 1
439
Library
437
503
Organization of 1 J
435
Platting of
358, 434
1
1
Public Utilities
436
School District
438
Paullina Banks
238, 247
1
"Paullina Star"
294
1
1
1 "Paullina Times" 294 1 I 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 Physician, the First. 53
1 Physicians, First 1 1 1
302
Physicians, Registered 306 1 1 1 1
Pioneer Women
220
Pioneers of O'Brien County
25
Pioneers, Origin of 66
Poetry of a Local Flavor 506
Platting of Towns
356, 359
Population Statistics
75, 473
Prairie, Advantages of 70
Railroad Land
86
1
1
1
1
127
Public Officials
469
1
Public Roads
188
Public Square, Primghar
1
135
Pumphrey's Bank
58, 230
Q
Quieting Title Litigation 283
R
Raid, The Sanborn
156
Railroad Contract Men
105
1
[
1
333
f
Present Court House
1
134
Press, The
1 287
Primghar
1
402
Business Interests
Charter Families
404
Churches
316, 323, 341
County-Seat
Contest
405
Epidemic
412
Fires
411
1
First Buildings
406
1
411
First Election 1
Hospital
How Named
1
I
1
I
402
Incorporation
1
1
1
1
1
411
Mills
1
412
Old Soldiers
503
1
Platting of
356
1
1 1 Present Officers 411
1
Public Square
1
405
Railroad Building
409
I
Schools
413
1
1
Town Plat
404
1
1
1
Water Works
415
1
I
1
I
Primghar Banks
230, 245
1
E
"Primghar Democrat"
1
295
"Primghar Republican"
1
295
1
1
1
"Primghar Times"
294
Products, Farm
181
Public Improvements
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
Old Soldiers
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
415
1
I
1
1
1
Prehistoric Races
200
1
Presbyterian Churches 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
Old Settlers' Parade
174
1
1
1
1
1
412
I
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Railroad Land Contest 87
Railroad Land Taxation 278
Railroad Mileage 473
Ranches, Large
190
Rebonding of County Debt
83
Record of County-seat Contest
165
Recorders. County
119
Records, County
119
Records, The First.
53
Records, Old, History of
55
Referee in Bankruptcy
284
Reformed Church in No. Am.
335
Registered Physicians
306
Relics of O'Brien County
176
Religious History
311
Religious Statistics
343
Reminiscences
205, 222
Reunion of Old Settlers
1
169
Rivers
179
Road, Public 188
Rural Schools
199
S
Sanborn
376
Banks
237, 246
Business Interests 380
Churches
340
1
Postoffice
366
Stock Breeders 372 I
"Sun"
298
Water
Works
368
Sheriffs
260
Sioux City Land Squatters. 99
Snow Storms 143
Sod Church
312
Soil, Quality of 181
Soldiers, Army Record of
499
Soldiers' Bounty Money
51
Soldiers' Monument
388
Squatter Incidents
101
Squatter Lands
85
Squatters Evicted
96
School Buildings, Modern 197
School Superintendent, County __ 194, 199
School, the First
52
Schools 194, 384, 399, 413
Scotch Settlers 67
Scrub Poet, The 506
Second General Election 32
Second O'Brien Court House 132
Secret Orders 346
Sermon, First in County 313
Sermon, the First 52
Settlers, Customs of
68
Settlers, Origin of
1
1
66
Settlers' Reunion, Old
169
1
Shabbona
431
Sheldon
365
Banks
233,
245
Business Interests 373
Churches
318, 337, 340
Congregational Church 226
"Daily Record" 301
"Eagle"
298
District Fair 371
Electric Light Plant 369
First Events
366
1
298
Improvements
368
Library
369
"Mail"
I
295
Mills
1
372
Municipal History
1
367
National Guard 1
370
"News"
291, 297
1
1
1
Old Soldiers
504
Platting of
356
First Things
377
Library
382
I
1
Municipal History 1 1 1
379
Old Soldiers 503, 504 I 1 I
Platting of
1
1 1 1
1
357
Postoffice
380
1
Public Utilities
379
1
Railroad Interests 381 1 1 1
"Sanborn Journal" 297
"Sanborn Pioneer" 289
Sanborn Raid 156
"Sanborn Sun"
298
Scandinavian Settlers 68
Schee, George W. 196, 268
Squatters, List of 105
Squatters' Shanties
91
Squatters, Sioux City Land
99
Squatters Union
104
State Officials 470
Statutes, Inconsistent 92
Stocum, Jonathan 192
Streams
179
Streeter, Elizabeth
282
1
1
1
1
1 1
1
1
I
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
I
1
1
"Gazette"
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Official Vote in 1912
472
Officials, County, 1913 470
Old Log Court House 42, 129, 137
Prairie Fires
73, 147
Prairie Land
177
Preacher, the First 52
Prehistoric Fortifications 1
484
Prehistoric Races 1
1 200
Presbyterian Churches 333
Present Court House 134
1 Press, The 287
Primghar
402
Business Interests
415
Charter Families
Churches
316, 323, 341
County-Seat
Contest
405
Epidemic
412
1
Fires
411
1
First Buildings 1
406
First Election
I
411
Hospital
How Named
102
1
Incorporation
411
Mills
412
Old Soldiers
503
Platting of
356
Present Officers
411
1
Public Square
405
1
1
Railroad Building
109
1
1
Schools
413
I
Town Plat
404
1
Water Works
415
1
Primghar Banks
230, 245
"Primghar Democrat"
295
"Primghar Republican"
295
"Primghar Times"
294
Products, Farm
181
I
Public Improvements
127
Public Officials
469
Public Roads
188
Public Square, Primghar
135
Pumphrey's Bank
58, 230
Q
Quieting Title Litigation
283
Pioneers of O'Brien County
25
Pioneers, Origin of 66
Poetry of a Local Flavor 506
Platting of Towns
356, 359
Population Statistics
75, 473
Prairie, Advantages of 70
Prairie Chickens 488
Prairie Features 177
Old O'Brien
208
Old Settlers' Parade
174
Old Settlers' Reunion
169
Omega Township 418
How Named 418 1 1
Old Soldiers 503
Population 419 1
Orchards 184
Organization of O'Brien County 29
Origin of Pioneers 66
Overlapping Land Suit 278
Overlapping Lands
85
1
1
Ox-team Trips
37
P
Paine's Store Court House 134
Parade of Old Settlers 174
Parochial Schools
199,
329
"Pathfinder of O'Brien County"
392
Paulling, D. Edward
190
Paullina
432
Additions
435
Churches
319, 333
Coming of Railroad. 434
First Business Men
439
Grain Shipments
441
1
How Named
439
Library
1
437
Old Soldiers 1
503
Organization of 1 1
435
Platting of
358, 434
Public Utilities
436
School District
438
Paullina Banks
238, 247
"Paullina Star"
"Paullina Times"
1
294
I 1 I Physician, the First. 53
Physicians, First
1
1 302
1
1 1
294
Physicians, Registered
306
f
Pioneer Women
220
R
Raid, The Sanborn
156
Railroad Contract Men
105
Railroad Land
86
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
412
1
404
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Railroad Land Contest
87
Railroad Land Taxation 278
Railroad Mileage 473
Ranches, Large
190
I
Settlers, Origin of
66
I
1
1
1
Settlers' Reunion, Old 169 . 1 1 1
Shabbona
431
1
Sheldon
365
Banks
233, 245
Business Interests 373
Churches
318, 337, 340
Congregational Church
226
"Daily Record" 301
"Eagle"
298
District Fair
371
Electric Light Plant 369
First Events
366
"Gazette" 298 I
Improvements
368
Library
1
1
1
369
"Mail"
295
Mills
1 372
Municipal History
1
367
National Guard 1
370
1 "News" 291, 297
Old Soldiers
504
Platting of
356
Postoffice
366
1
1
Stock Breeders
I
372
"Sun"
1 1 298
Water Works
368
Sheriffs
260
A
Sioux City Land
Squatters
99
Snow Storms 143
Sod Church
312
Soil, Quality of
181
Soldiers, Army Record of 499
Soldiers' Bounty Money 51
Soldiers' Monument 388
Squatter Incidents 1
101
Squatter Lands
85
Schee, George W. 196, 268
School Buildings, Modern. 197
School Superintendent, County __ 194, 199
School, the First 52
Schools 194, 384, 399, 413
Scotch Settlers 67
Scrub Poet, The 506
Second General Election 32
Second O'Brien Court House 132
Secret Orders 346
Sermon, First in County 313
Sermon, the First 52
Settlers, Customs of
68
1
1
Rebonding of County Debt
83
Record of County-seat Contest
165
Recorders, County
119
Records, County
119
Records, The First
53
Records, Old, History of
55
Referee in Bankruptcy
284
Reformed Church in No. Am.
335
Registered Physicians
306
Relics of O'Brien County
176
Religious History
311
Religious Statistics
343
Reminiscences
205
222
Reunion of Old Settlers
169
Rivers
179
Road, Public
188
Rural Schools
199
I
1
1
S
Sanborn
376
Banks
237, 246
Business Interests 380
Churches
340
First Things
377
Library
382
Municipal History 379
Old Soldiers
503, 504
Platting of
357
Postoffice
380
Public Utilities
E
379
Railroad Interests 381 1 1
"Sanborn Journal"
297
"Sanborn Pioneer"
1
1 289
Sanborn Raid 1 1
156
"Sanborn Sun"
1
298
Scandinavian Settlers 1 I
68
Squatters Evicted
1
Squatters, List of 1
1
1
1
1
91
Squatters, Sioux City Land 99
Squatters Union
104
State Officials 470
Statutes, Inconsistent
92
Stocum, Jonathan 192
Streams
179
Streeter, Elizabeth 282
I
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
96
Squatters' Shanties
1
1
1
1
1
105
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
L
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
F
1
1
1
1
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Summit Township 400 1
Deeded Township I 1 1 1
1 401
Location
1 400
1 Old Soldiers 505 I 1 1
Tribes, Indian
201
U
Uniformity of the County
184
Union Township
433
Coming of Railroad 434
Norwegian Settlers 442
Old Soldiers
505
Organization of
433
Population
442
V
Value of Land 178
Vital Statistics 473
Vote, Official, 1912 472
Vote on County Seat, 1911 166
W
Waterman, Anna 41
Waterman Creek
179
Waterman, Hannibal H.
32, 35, 41, 43
Waterman Township
445
First Settlement 445 1
Homesteaders 446 1 1
How Formed
1 445
Old Soldiers 505 1
188
Wild Game 489 1
Winterble, Charles H.
117
1
Winters, Severe
146
Wolf Scalp Joke
459
"Woman's Standard" 300
Women, Pioneer
220
Woods, William H. (Huse) 392
Woodstock
424
Township
354
Treasurers, County 113
Treaties with Indians 201
Tree Planting 180
1 1 Organization 1 1 1 1 1
400
1 1 1 1 1 I Squatters 105
Supervisors, County 120 1 1 1
Supervisors in Contempt 1
77
Surveyors, County
120
Sutherland
448
1 Banks 241, 248 1
Business Directory 1
1
1
1
452
"Courier"
300
1
I
1 Fair Ground 450 1 1 1
First Events
1 449
Library
1 449
Location
448
Municipal History
451
Officers
451
I 1 I Old Soldiers 503 I
1 1 I I 1 A I Pioneer Merchants 449
1 Platting of 1
358
Postoffice History
1 452
1 1 1 Public Utilities 451 1 1 1
Swamp Land Contracts 1
61
Swamp Land Swindle
62
T
Tax Sale of 1880 82
Taxpayers' Association
76
Taxpayers' Association Picnic 78
Teabout, Franklin 191
Teachers' Institutes
198
Timber 180
1 Towns 354 1
1 Towns, Platting of 356, 359 1
Township Government 1
355, 360
Township, the First 52
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1 1
1
1
I
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1 1
1 1
1
1
Wild Flowers
1
Young Men's Christian Ass'n.
344
I
HISTORICAL INDEX.
OSCEOLA COUNTY.
A
Baker Township-Continued.
Section 10
547
Accidental Deaths 667
Section 11
547
Agricultural Facts 681
Section 12
547
Allendorf 603 1
Section 13 547 1 1 1 1
Section 15 1
547
Early Settlers
544
First Name
544
Organization
544
Section 18 547
Schools 544, 670
Section 20 548 1 1 I 1 1
549
Section 2
544
Section
3
544
Section 4
544
549
Section 6 544 1 1 I
1
t
1
1
Section 9 545 1
Section 10
545
I Section 14 545 1 1 1 1 1 1
I Section 17 I
545
Section 24
545
Section 33
545
Altitude
536
Ashton
597
Business Interests 598
Churches 609, 623
623
Churches
606
Cities 593
Civil War Veterans
1 652
1 1 1 Officials 598 1
Clerks of District Court 540
Cloverdale 603
Congregational Churches 612
Convention, First Nominating 538
Coroners 540
1
I
County Attorneys
541
1
1
1
1
1
1 1 County Auditors 1 1 1 1 540
County Finances 1
541
1 County Officials 540
County Organized 536
County Recorders
1 540
1 1 Land Speculators 545 1 1 1 1 1
Schools 671 1
1 1 1
1
1
1 1 Section 2 545 1 1
Section 3
546
Section 6
1
1
1
1
1
1
546
Court, District, Clerks of 1
540
Section 8
546
Court, First Term of 541
Section 9
1 547
Court House, First
541
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
J
1
Settlement
545
1 Speculators 545 1
Baptist Churches
616
Bench and Bar
647
Boards of Supervisors
541
C
Catholic Churches
First Buildings
597
1 1 Location 597 1 1
598
St. Gilman 597
Assessments 542
Attorneys 647
Attorneys, County 541
Auditors, County
540
B
Baker Township 545
Early Settlers
1 545
1
1
1
1
1
1 537
County Supt. of Schools 540
County Surveyors 540
County Treasurers 540
1
1
1
1
1 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
549
Section 34
549
Section 29 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
549
Section 30
1
1
1
1
1
549
Section 31
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
I
1
Allison Township 544 1 1
Section 16 547
Section 17 547 1
Settlers, Early 544 1
1 I
1
1
1
1
I
J
1
Section 33
1
1
1
1
1 1
County Set Off
1
1
1
1 1 1
1
1
Official
Section 28 1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Summit Township 400
Deeded Township 1
1 I
401
Location 400 1 1
Old Soldiers
505
Tribes, Indian
201
U
Uniformity of the County 184
Union Township
433
Coming of Railroad 434
Norwegian Settlers
442
Old Soldiers
505
Organization of
433
Population
442
V
Value of Land 178
Vital Statistics 473
Vote, Official, 1912
472
Vote on County Seat, 1911
166
W
Waterman, Anna 41
Waterman Creek
179
Waterman, Hannibal H.
32, 35, 41, 43
Waterman Township
445
First Settlement 445
Homesteaders
446
How Formed
Old Soldiers
1 445
Wild Flowers
188
Wild Game 489 1 I 1
Winterble, Charles H.
J
117
1
Winters, Severe
146
459
"Woman's Standard" 300
Towns, Platting of
356, 359
Township Government
355, 360
Township, the First 52
Township
354
Treasurers, County 113
Treaties with Indians 201
Tree Planting 180
Organization
400
Squatters 105 1 1 I 1
Supervisors, County 120 1 1
Supervisors in Contempt
77
Surveyors, County 120
Sutherland 448 Banks 241, 248 1
1 Business Directory 452 I 1 1
"Courier"
300
1
Fair Ground
1 1 1 450
First Events
449
Library
449
Location
1 448
1 Municipal History 451 1
Officers 451 1
Old Soldiers 503
Pioneer Merchants 449 1
1 1 1 Platting of 358
Postoffice History
452
Public Utilities 451 1 I
Swamp Land Contracts
1
61
Swamp Land Swindle
1
1
1
T
Tax Sale of 1880 82
Taxpayers' Association 76
Taxpayers' Association Picnic 78
Teabout, Franklin
191
Teachers' Institutes
198
Timber
180
Wolf Scalp Joke
1
1
1
Women, Pioneer
220
Woods, William H. (Huse)
392
Woodstock
424
Young Men's Christian Ass'n
344
1
505
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1 1 1
I
1
1
1
1
1 1
62
Towns 354
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
OSCEOLA COUNTY.
A
Baker Township-Continued.
Section 10 547
Section 11
547
Agricultural Facts 681
Section 12
547
Section 13 547
Section 15 547
Early Settlers
544
First Name
544
Organization
544
Schools
544,
670
Settlers, Early 1
544
Section 2
544
Section 3 544 1
Section 30 549 1
Section 31 549
Section 33
549
Section 9 545
Section 10 545
Settlement
545
Section 14 1
545
Section 17 1
545
Section 24
545
Section 33
545
Altitude
536
Ashton
597
Business Interests 598 1
Churches
609, 623
First Buildings
597
606
Cities
593
Civil War Veterans
652
Clerks of District Court.
540
St. Gilman
597
Cloverdale
603
1 1 Assessments 542 1
Congregational Churches
612
Attorneys
647
Convention, First Nominating
538
Coroners 540
County Attorneys 541 1
County Auditors
540
County Finances I
541
County Officials 1
540
County Organized 536 F
Early Settlers
545
Land Speculators 545 1
671
County Supt. of Schools
540
Section 2 545 F I
1
1
1
Section 3
1
I
L
1 1
546
County Treasurers
1 540
Section 6
546
Court, District, Clerks of
540
Section 8
1 546
Section 9
1 547
Court House, First
541
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Court, First Term of 541
I
1
1
1
I
1
1 County Recorders 540 1
County Set Off
1 537 1
Schools
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Attorneys, County
541
Auditors, County
540
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
598
Officials
1 1 1
1
1
1
1
1
Official
598
Baptist Churches
616
Bench and Bar
647
J
1
1
1
1
1
Boards of Supervisors
541
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
Section 6 544
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
Speculators 545
1
1
1
1
Section
4
544
Section 28
1
1
547
Section 17
Section 18 547 ,
Section 20 548
549
Section 29 549 6
Section 34 549 1
C
Catholic Churches 623
Churches
B
I
Allison Township
544
1
1 1
1
1
Baker Township 545
1
1
1 County Surveyors 540 1 1 1
I
1
Accidental Deaths 667
Allendorf 603 1
Section 16 1 1 547
1 Location 597 I 1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
D
Fairview Township-Continued.
Officers, First 556
Officers, Present 556
Prairie Beauty
555
Schools
557, 670
Section 8 555
Section 20 555
Section 22 555 1
Section 28
555
Section 30 556
Section 32 556
556
Settlement 555
Farm Statistics 681
Finances, County 541
First Attorneys 647
First Court House
541
First Election
538
First Grand Jury 541
First Nominating Convention 538
First Preaching Service
606
First Railroad 678
First Schools 670
First Supervisors 540 L
First Term of Court
541
Section 12 1
551
Section 14 1
551
Section 17 552 I 1
Section 18 552
Section 20 552 1
Section 21 1
553
Section 22
553
Section 24 1
553
Section 26 1
553
Section 28 1
553
Section 30
554
Section 32
554
Section 34
554
Section 36
554
1 Early Trials 537
Early Transportation 677
Educational History 670
Section 12
558
Section 14
559
1 Section 18 559
Section 22
560
Section 24
560
Section 26 1 1 560
Section 28
-560
Beautiful Vista
555
First Officers 556
Section 32
561
1
1
1
-
549
Section
2
549
Section
4
550
I 1 E I
I
1 Section 5 550 1 I 1 1 1
Section 6 550 1 L 1 1
Section 7 551 1
I Section 8 551 1 1
1 Section 10 551 L
First Things
1
I 672
1 Foster, William R. 565
Fuel Question
1
1
1
674
G
Geology
535
German Lutheran Churches
621
Gilman Township
557
1 Hard Times 557 1
Schools
671
Section 2
1.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
557
Section 4
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
557
Section 6
558
1 Section 8 558 I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
558
Section 10 1
1
1
I
L
Election, First 538
Evangelical Lutheran Churches __ 611, 620
Extraordinary Events
660
F
Fairview Township 555
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Section 30
560
E
East Holman Township 549
Settlement
549
Section
1
1
1
Į
1 I
1
1
1
1
1
633
Diseases 631
District Court, Clerks of. 540
Doctors, Early
629
Drainage
535
Dunkelmann, Henry
548
Davis, Jefferson, Survey 536
Death, First in County 672
Deaths by Accident 667
Deaths by Freezing 663
Diphtheria Epidemic
1
1
1
1
I
1
L
1
1
1
1
Section 33
L
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Gilman Township-Continued.
Section 34
561
Settlement
557
Immigration of 1883-5
571
Schools
572,
670
Section 8
570
Section 10
570
Section 12
570
Section 14
570
Section 18
570
Section 6 562 I 1
Section 20 570
Section 22 570
Section 10 1
563
Section 24 570
Section 26 570
Section 28 570
Section 30 571
Section 32 571
Section 34 571
Section 36
571
Human Pincushion
643
J
Increase in Land Values 542
Iowa Land Company
673
Ireland Post, G. A. R.
652
Section 32
567
Section 34
567
Section 36
567
Grafters, Influx of 539
Grand Army of the Republic 652
Grand Jury, First
541
Grasshopper Scourge 678
Groen, George, Shooting of 663
H
Harris 598
Business Interests 599
Churches 610 1
Officers, First
1 599
1 Officers, Present 600 1 1
1 1 1 I Organization 599
Harrison Township 1 1
568
Agriculture 568
Land Speculators 568
Mennonites 568
Schools
671
Settlers, Early 568
Speculators, Land
568
J
Jenney, J. B.
588
Johnson Murder
660
Jury, First Grand
541
L
Land Values
542
Legal Fraternity
647
Looting of County Treasury
539
M
Medical History
628
Melvin
604
Churches
608
Methodist Episcopal Churches
606
Mileage, Railroad
542
Military History
652
Miscellaneous
670
Murder of Peter Johnson
660
1
1
1
1 1
1
1
1 I Section 14 564 I 1 1 1
564
Section 18 1
564
Section 19 1
564
Section 20 1
565
Section 22
I
1
1
1
1
4 565
Section 23
566
Section 24
566
1 1 Section 26 566
Section 28 566
567
Section 30
1
1
1
1
1
1
562
Section 4
1 1
1 1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
564
Section 13
564
Section 16 I
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1 Section 1 561
Section 2
561
Usurious Interest
557
1
Goewey Township
561
1
1
Schools
671
1
1 Section 8 563 1 I 1 1 1 1 1
1
1 1 1
I
1
1
1
Horton Township 569
Churches 620
I
1
Section 12
1
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
D
Davis, Jefferson, Survey 536
Death, First in County 672
Deaths by Accident 667
Deaths by Freezing
663
Diphtheria Epidemic
633
Diseases 631
District Court, Clerks of. 540
Doctors, Early
629
Drainage
535
Dunkelmann, Henry 548
Fairview Township-Continued.
Officers, First 556
Officers, Present 556
Prairie Beauty
555
Schools
557, 670
Section 8 555 1
Section 20
555
Section 22
555
Section 28
555
Section 30
556
Section 32 1 1 E 556
Section 33
556
Settlement
555
Farm Statistics 681
Finances, County 541
1 First Attorneys 647 1 1 1 1 1
First Court House 1
541
1 First Election 538 I 1 I 1
First Grand Jury 541
First Nominating Convention 538
First Preaching Service 606
First Railroad 678
First Schools
670
First Supervisors 540
First Term of Court
541
First Things
672
Foster, William R. 565
Fuel Question 674
G
Geology
535
German Lutheran Churches
621
Gilman Township 557
Hard Times 557
Schools 671
Section 2
557
Section 4
557
Section 6
558
1 Section 8 558
Section 10 558
Section 12
558
Section 14 I
559
1 Section 18 I 1 1 1 1 559
Section 22 560
Section 24
560
Section 26 560
Section 28
1
1
1
560
Beautiful Vista
555
Section 30
560
First Officers
556
Section 32
1
:
1
561
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
Election, First 538
Evangelical Lutheran Churches __ 611, 620
Extraordinary Events
660
F
1
1
1
554
Section 34 554 1 1 1 1
Section 36 554
I
I
Early Trials 537 1
1 Early Transportation 677
Educational History
670
I
1
1
1
554
Section 32
1
1
1
1
1
1
1 553
Section 22 553 1 1
Section 24
553
Section 26 1
553
Section 28
553
Section 30
1
1
1
1
1
551
I Section 17 552 I 1 1 1 1
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