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is also true of many items and phrases in this history, but we can not make explanations too extended. Mr. McCormack took in the whole range of the back matters in the county. It has been seen that up to January 1, 1884, many of the county treasurers had their troubles in various forms. He in- cluded in his remarks comments on the "old regime," as he would almost boastfully call it. Mr. McCormack, in his very truthfulness, in "fessen up," as he termed it, often took men unawares and off their feet, until uncon- sciously parted with him, with the parting thought, that "B. F.," after all, was not so bad. Indeed when one reads some of his comments, we can see that such a set of conditions was a hard matter to battle with from any standpoint.
Following is his "Soliloquy," commencing with T. J. Alexander, who was the most recent treasurer with his troubles :
"Yes, poor Jeff Alexander, county treasurer, he never knew what hit him. Many of those old officials didn't know what hit them. They were conditions. Poor Jeff. Oh, ye shades of John Wesley. Good Methodist, just like Jeff. Say, Peck, why in thunder didn't those Methodists take up a col- lection and make up Jeff's shortages? Then there was that other poor un- fortunate, Chester W. Inman, county treasurer, with his visions and dreams of a three-story castle on the classic Waterman, with its big cedar cliffs bluff, trying to be a young Yellowstone Park; too much county treasury, busted farm, good man, old soldier, fought, bled and died for this blessed country of ours, and a good soldier too he was; first in politics a reformer, then joined our Old Regime, couldn't keep out of it, succumbed, fell flat. But such is hard fate. 'What fools we mortals be.' Then there was that poor sardine of a preacher, Rev. Rouse B. Crego, another poor dog tray, maybe, in part, county treasurer if you please, part of a term only ; bought a load of horses -some told it on him that he bought them with county funds-went to Sioux City, stayed there too long, several weeks. John Pumphrey said they had too much good whisky down there, but Crego said he made John his deputy, and then John stole the office. But then, a preacher had no business trying to handle money in such a hog trough as we had in them days. A two-dollar church collection was his size. He served our Old Regime fairly well, couldn't help himself, had to be good. John was his deputy and while he was gone to Sioux City John got the board to declare the office vacant and ap- pointed John in his place. Crego soon found out he couldn't run a county by the church route. I knew he couldn't last long. He couldn't double shuffle county warrants with John Pumphrey. Yes, that reminds me of John, King
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John, prince of the royal blood. John R. Pumphrey for many years run the Wall street of O'Brien county. Yes, yes, again yes. John R. Pumphrey,
Honest Injun John, One shoe off and one shoe on. My son John,
Glorious scion of the F. F. V.'s, the First Families of Virginia, Prince of Wales of O'Brien county.
"And then last but not least, Benjamin Franklin McCormack, of the Old Regime, successor in trust to the mantle of those beloved ancients. Bosler, Cofer, Tiffey & Co. Yes, Benjamin Franklin McCormack is a poor man. It's no disgrace to be poor with a rich wife. Look upon me, a sage, in the old doings of O'Brien county, with my hair silvered over, an old man, the pre- server and guardian of the dear people, our "Cestui Que Trusts," but con- found the dear cattle, some of those smart fellows got their full share.
"And then there was that big tall duffer, Warren Walker, with his long whiskers, with even more cheek than your humble servant, and both of us had more than a government mule ( when shall we three meet again ). a good scrapper, fought in the open; we tried to use him in the Old Regime, but he fought us part of the time, but you know. Peck, after all Walker had a heart in him as big as an ox ( and he had, as the writer nodded back and knew full well ).
"But we couldn't help some of those poor fellows falling by the way. They were confused in a period of bad times. I mean Jeff Alexander and Chester W. Inman and perhaps others. Like Poor Dog Tray, they got into a bad slop pail. In fact, Peck, those old 'First Seven' ( barring Old Han. all the time) handed down to us, all of us, and to the county, a bad mess to deal with.
"And then, lest we forget, there was old Hannibal House Waterman, 'Old Han,' the first man God made in O'Brien county. A man all right, in an old-fashioned 'camp meetin' ' could exhort to beat the cars. He was trying to farm a little, those first fellows first gave him some of the offices to make a fairly honest showing and then took them away from him, as soon as he would not do as they told him. Besides those huckleberries had their very pliable good natured clerks, Archibald Murray and Henry C. Tiffey, who did most of the book work. Waterman hardly knew what was going on. He was farming. Yes, Old Han, first and oldest inhabitant, honest as the hills ; let O'Brien county history embalm his good old soul with all the praises
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and solace that heaven can bestow. He was God Father at the christening, and 'Fit Injuns.'
"Then there was that Isaac W. Daggett, saved every five-cent piece, got rich with the Old Harry going on all around him, too honest for our Old Regime, wouldn't join us.
"Then, too, old Capt. A. J. Edwards, county auditor during the Gopher Scalp, joker of days, and during the worst of the grasshopper years; just think of reform during that period. But, Peck, when they condemn me, they should consider that I came here in 1870, and that grasshoppers were before every session of the board of supervisors nearly, in some form, during which I was a member, to get taxes thrown off or some worse plight. But back to Captain Edwards, tall, straight as an arrow, long beard, black aş coal, in his best days an ideal soldier, a real, an actual captain, a soldier who did fighting, but nevertheless he had to be all O. K. for our Old Regime; bless that phrase, as Old Cap said, 'Dod blame it, boys, my old debts are big, just like the county debts ; put 'em in judgment, sue 'em, and we can add 'em up better." Of course, Peck, we know, that was a curious idea of finance, and perhaps not a very good qualification for a public official to pilot a county through such troubles, but what in thunder could we all do? We had to live, and when we got a warrant we could only get from twenty-five to forty cents on the dollar for it.
"Then there was old Judge A. H. Willits, clerk of the district court, yes and of the old circuit court before it was abolished, editor of the O'Brien Pioneer, down at Old O'Brien, then at Primghar for some years, then later to Sanborn. The good old judge was always good humored, a pretty writer, best dancer in town, polite as a king, loved to see him stroke those long silken whiskers of his, happy all day, never saved a cent.
"But we mustn't forget Clark Green, our Clark, everybody's Clark Green, pioneer store keeper and merchant; had a hard row to hoe. We claimed him at times as part of our old crowd; honest Clark Green, he was honest, too honest for his own good, honest enough for you reformers. He was too generous, dished out his flour, sugar, clothing, boots and shoes to those un- lucky grasshoppered old homesteaders, who came into his store in their pio- neer poverty as it were; who could withstand such an appeal? What county treasurer could stand such an appeal? Talk about his store busting as it did ; it couldn't do anything else. See here, Peck, you rantankerous reformers couldn't have killed, trapped or shot down with a shot gun those millions of grasshoppers any better than we did. We had to live, and we all had to do business among the business that was going on. Green and Pumphrey took
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in county wararnts. Green took them in on his store bills. County warrants was the money, the legal tender of the realm over which we as kings and boodlers presided. Green took warrants for his goods, and the only merchant in the whole east half and south half of the county trying to carry the whole bunch, which, after he got them, could only get from twenty-five to forty cents on the dollar for them, from those fellows Polk & Hubbell, of Des Moines, or Weare & Allison, bankers at Sioux City, who bought them up, and then put them into judgment and collected it all. Why don't you reform- ers shed a few tears for them? Both Green and Pumphrey had to tumble round, as best they could, with the county treasurers, school treasurers, and every body else, and us old sinners, and the old gang, and the honest old settler and old homesteader. Things did get into an infernally bad fix. It did need real reformers. I really hope the county will get over its bad case of small pox. I played King Bee as well as I could. I lived during the fu- neral period of the county. Bosler, Cofer, Tiffey & Company handed to us an inheritance, and we all had to flounder around as best we could. I know that your humble servant and Warren Walker, and King John and the In- mans, caught blazes, but we were up against it. But the dear people did one righteous act to Clark Green when they elected him sheriff for eight years, and made amends for his store goods they ate up. He deserved it.
"But the end of the world came to our Old Regime in 1877, in the Alexander contest over the office of county treasurer, with and against Stephen Harris. But referring to this contest, of course the claim that was made at the time that voting in that cigar box should have affected that elec- tion was all a hoax. But he had to do something, we had to fight. The election was close, only seventeen majority. We grabbed at straws. That contest was an exciting event in the county. It was a climax. The two candi- dates were simply in the puddle. They couldn't swim out, and it took a con- test to get the pole to either of them. Of course we know that many of those old treasurers had all kinds of troubles. Many of them got in over their depth. That contest became, as it were, Custer's last stand in O'Brien county, our last fight. When other folks attempt to save a drowning man, they get carried under the waters themselves. That's what happened to a lot of those county treasurers. The very cost of that contest, probably five hundred or more dollars to each one, was more than either of them was able to stand in those days. Debts were debts in those days, county debts, township debts, school debts, private debts.
"Then you fellows came on the scene, George W. Schee, and Ezra M. Brady, Thomas Holmes, William W. Johnson, Benjamin Jones, John L. Ken-
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ney, Jacob H. Wolf, Frank and Fred Frisbee, Dr. C. Longshore, Hubert Sprague, David Algyer, W. N. Strong, Frank N. Derby, Lon F. Derby. O. H. Montzheimer, George R. Slocum, Frank A. Turner, William Harker, John Metcalf, J. A. Stocum, William P. Davis, E. E. Brintnall, Oliver M. Shonk- wiler, Frank Patch, Joseph Shinski, Henry C. Lane, J. L. E. Peck, my dear friend here present, T. J. Alexander, and others of a large following: yes and Frank T. Piper of the Sheldon Mail, I must not forget him, who all con- cluded that payment was the solution, and, Peck, it was the only solution in fact.
"Of course, in natural sequence, sprung up the Taxpayers' Association to defeat the debt. Many good men were in it. Their intentions were honest. There was grand old A. P. Powers, who headed the list and signed the peti- tion in court to knock out the debt. There was that original brusque char- acter, William Huston Woods, as one of the most active leaders ( Huse, you know, his favorite expression oft repeated). These men were supplemented and assisted by Ralph Dodge, W. R. Powers, Thomas J. Steele, Silas Steele, Judge A. H. Willits, Emanuel Kindig, member of the board, Joseph Row- land, also a member, Barney Harmon, Sid Hitchings, William Kenyon, Charles S. Stearns, Ezra W. McOmber, James Magee, and a large following who took the position that it was the best remedy to attempt to defeat the debt in the courts.
"This created two camps. So far as Bosler, Cofer & Co., were concerned most of this debt should have been defeated. That old debt was a good deal like Jeff Alexander's county treasurer's cash; yes, a good deal like the same money when it got into John Pumphrey's Bank of England, so mixed up with everything else on earth, they never could follow it up. Bosler, Cofer & Co. were a bad bunch. They handed us a lemon sure enough. But the defeat of the old snag or debt was impractical. I will concede. It had been clinched too tight. They blow blazes at some of us old officials, because we sat by and let them serve us with original notices and put them into judgment and not fighting them. But, Peck, did you ever think, most of that was done during the grasshopper times. Where were most of those judgments ren- dered? Not in our own dear little O'Brien county court house, where we at least might have been present, but mainly in the United States court at Des Moines or Sioux City. In those days also the law was that such a suit against a county could be brought in any county in the state, and many were so brought. Who had any money in them days I want to know to go tramping off to Sioux City or Des Moines or some distant county seat, and hiring
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thousand-dollar lawyers, and pay hotel bills with county warrants at forty cents? Old Captain Edwards was almost right in those days when he said, 'Dod blame it, boys, put 'em in judgment ; we can add 'em up easier." You reformers couldn't have fought them in those days. We couldn't and didn't. But that contest spoiled our hash all the same. Frank Frisbee was right in that contest. though I was on the other side, when he jumped up and out in the middle of the floor in that court room and shouted that 'It was time for some damm thing to be done.'"
Then Mr. McCormack turned on me with some flattery and perhaps some condemnation thus: "Here is J. L. E. Peck himself, scrapper and sav- iour of the county seat, rode that mule all over the county, when the Sanborn boys tried to play hookey with the county seat. Confound you. Peck, you and George W. Schee were the only reformers, who were ever able to tumble round in office and politics, during the period of our old regime, and who were able to get out from under the juggernaut, without getting their necks broke.
"But then, J. L. E. Peck, old settler, with Benjamin Franklin McCor- mack, two twins, with the gray hairs growing fast in our heads, like Topsy, we may as well 'fess up,' and 'fess plenty,' on our sins. Yes, J. L. E. Peck. keen observer of human nature, who is acquainted with the old records and knows the squirmings of all us old sinners, yes, J. L. E. Peck and Schee and Holmes and Brady able to be real reformers, and yet swing clear of Pumphrey, and Benjamin Franklin McCormack & Co., successors in trust to Bosler and his blessed bunch, we Peck and McCormack, will shake hands, you over your success. I over mine.
"But, Peck, do you realize that you and Schee and Holmes and Brady and others of your bunch could not have performed your mission, even five years earlier. Our Old Regime could not have done it. even had we been en- dowed from heaven with good intentions. That bad place they say is paved with good intentions, but it is that bad place all the same. We had grass- hoppers to eat us up, we had prairie fires to burn us up, crops on prairie sod, in debt up to our necks, had to twist blue joint hay to keep warm; see here, Peck, be a trifle kind, be charitable, your skies were soon lifted, mine continued for the whole period here., I was not in at the christening of the county. I did not help organize the little still-born county. I have attended the long years of its living funeral, with prairie fires to burn over the county, leaving its black funeral path of destruction, to say nothing of debts for breakfast, debts for dinner, debts for supper, and then debts at night to dream over in blessed sleep, and still debts to leave and die unpaid. Peck, come now, don't
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condemn us with a sledge hammer. Plant a prairie sweet william over my grave.
"Alas, poor Yorick. Alas, poor Richard. Poor fellows, poor old home- steaders, ate up by grasshoppers and chintz bugs, poor Old Regime. Alas, its county officials, poor old homesteaders, old settlers, the whole push, they were dark, dark days.
"Exit. Alas. Et Dieu."
COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR.
I knew B. F. McCormack well. I think he uttered every sentence I have written above, and much more. It was his characteristic conversation. His "soliloquy," as I term it, always seemed to me to be the embers of truth shot out from a heart that had passed through troublous times. Each of those public officials and others were bumped at in politics as they passed out of office. The conditions left by Mr. McCormack and his Old Regime, as he called it, while not to be spoken in the same breath with the Bosler doings, yet they were a set of conditions that had to be corrected. He is probably cor- rect when he says that that correction could not have been made five years sooner, or any earlier than it was. The hard times were too strenuous for sooner action, that would really meet the situattion.
As carrying out and verifying some of Mr. McCormack's statements, the senior editor will give one item in his individual experience. In 1878 I was appointed as a committee to check up the term of office of Judge A. H. Willits, clerk of the courts. It occupied twelve and one-half days. I was allowed three dollars per day in a county warrant for thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. I sold that warrant to John Pumphrey for fifteen dollars to pay my board. As one can see in result. I got about, or a trifle over one dollar per day. One can see from this item the significance of Mr. McCormack's re- mark, where he asks, "Who had any money in them days to go tramping down to Sioux City or Des Moines to hire thousand-dollar attorneys in United States courts to fight those debts?" And yet, when said and done, much of that debt and the large part of it was fraudulent, and as against those first men who created it and who deserved defeat.
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA AND ARMY RECORD OF OLD SOLDIERS WHO HAVE LIVED IM O'BRIEN COUNTY.
This is the title of a book of one hundred and ninety-nine pages, compiled by George W. Schee and O. H. Montzheimer, and published in 1909. It gives
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the residence, date of birth, names of wife and family, date of enlistinent, name of company, regiment, division, brigade and corps, from what state, names of battles in which engaged, when discharged, whether paroled, or a prisoner, and, where imprisoned, with length of time. In addition to this army record, it further gives the date and place of settlement in the county, if an old homesteader, then his description of land entered, and located, with name of township, of what lodges or church a member, whether a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of what post, and other data. This book or army record thus gives a sketch of about one-third of a page to each of five hundred and seventy-five soldiers of the Mexican. Philippine, Civil and Indian wars, and who at some time have resided in the county.
One only needs to read the first biography given to grasp the very exten- sive research and correspondence necessary to complete this work, for work it was. O. H. Montzheimer spent some three months at Washington among the old army reports and archives, to secure this data of army record authen- tic; all this, besides much time spent at Primghar with Mr. Schee in the slow process of mails and letters, directed to those who have removed from the county or the families of those deceased. Mr. Schee published the book at his own expense and presented a copy to each old soldier or his family. Both its contents, as well as the publication itself, is a worthy item of history in the county.
The editors of this history had originally decided as far as possible to omit all statistics or long lists of names or figures on all questions. But we will deviate in this list of old soldiers. The Civil War was the greatest war in all history. As stated, five hundred and seventy-five settled in or have resided in the county. This would represent about that number of families. With the children and grandchildren of soldiers, they probably now represent a full fourth of about four thousand of the population of the county. The full army record of each name may be found in Mr. Schee's Book of Army Records. Each child and grandchild will be glad to read the name of grand- father in this honored list, and the old soldiers will be glad to run over this condensed statement. Many of these old soldiers were also old homesteaders and pioneers and helped to fight out the early problems of the county. The figures in parenthesis indicates the year of settlement when known.
LIST OF OLD SOLDIERS WHO HAVE SETTLED IN O'BRIEN COUNTY.
Baker Township-Levi M. Allison, Abel H. Balcom ( 1871), William Wallace Beebe ( 1883), Gustavus Bollenbeck (1881), David Bryson ( 1877),
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Andrew Carman ( 1871), Charles B. Dingly ( 1869), Andrew J. Donavan (1870), Byron Donovan (1870), J. W. Donovan (1870), Leonard Grady (1882), Demetrius J. Judd (1873), John Ker ( 1886), William H. Knepper (1871), Wallace Lasher (1884), William W. Luce ( 1870), Daniet Morfitt (1871), Enoch Philby (1870), J. J. Philby ( 1889), William Pursell ( 1871), Wallace E. Rinker ( 1870). William Short (1900), Henry Sutter (1870), Samuel G. Sutter ( 1870), Warren Walker ( 1871), William W. Walters (1871). John Wood ( 1871), Frank E. Wyman ( 1872).
Caledonia Township-William O. Boyd (1876), Henry Frederick Gebert (1907), John Wollenberg ( 1883).
Center Township-Jared P. Blood ( 1871), William Brander ( 1873), Adolphus V. Conaway ( 1882), William H. Brown ( 1871), Dewitt C. Chap- man ( 1871), Charles J. Clark ( 1870), Ancil L. Creamer ( 1872), Willard H. Eaton ( 1875), John Evans ( 1871), David M. Gano ( 1870), Daniel Griffith ( 1870), Philip A. Hamm ( 1871), Marquiss (Mark) Hannon ( 1871), George Hay ( 1888), David Ingraham ( 1870), Jasper N. Marsh ( 1889), Francis Matott ( 1871), Frank Matott, Jr. (1871), Archibald McDonald (1870), Al- fred P. McLaren (1870), Charles Moon ( 1870), James Morton (1876), William Oliver ( 1873), David Palen ( 1870), George Pfitzenmaier (1871), George Sanford ( 1873), Ephraim Scott (1873), Joseph Seidell ( 1884), Ezra F. Smith ( 1870), William H. Smith (1872), Milton Thornton ( 1876), Claudius Tifft ( 1871), Orlando M. Whitman (1871), Melvin C. Wilkins (1871), Edwin R. Wood (1872).
Carroll Township-Abel Appleton (1871), Andrew J. Brock (1869), John Clements ( 1873), Harley Day (1871), Willard H. Dorsey ( 1871), John Durgin (1880). Gladney Ewers (1871), Dewitt C. Fields ( 1869), Milton Gillespie ( 1871), Miles H. Hart ( 1871), August F. Herrick ( 1870), Horace Parker Holyoke ( 1871), Elnathan S. Huber ( 1871), Benjamin Hutchinson (1871), George N. Klock ( 1872). Theodore Lemaster ( 1871), Marcellus G. McClellan ( 1872), Oscar McElwain (1869), J. E. McMillen ( 1871). George Mennig ( 1870), Silas Pool (1871), George W. Schee ( 1871), Isaac Sprague (1871). John F. Stone (1873). James Thomas ( 1871), Charles W. Tooth- aker (1871), George Van Epps (1871), James J. Wiley (1879). James M. Lewis ( 1883).
Town of Calumet-James Burnworth ( 1804), William Meier ( 1884).
Dale Township-Jacob C. Hillver (1870), Thomas T. Shaffner (1871), Thomas J. Trulock ( 1883).
Floyd Township-Edmund W. Bache ( 1881), William Bonner ( 1883), John A. Brown ( 1873). Asa G. Canfield, Isaac Clements ( 1871), Edward
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J. Copping ( 1880), George W. Copping ( 1872), Ammon H. Damon, Henry Denny (1876), Timothy Donahue (1871), James A. Glenn ( 1871), Elijah W. Gregg (1874), Joshua W. Davis ( 1870), Joseph M. Kirk, Charles Lingen- felter, Benjamin F. H. Luce ( 1869), William Lyle ( 1870), Robert E. Osborn (1871), Seymour Shryock ( 1871), George Sill, L. S. Stone ( 1871), Frank Turfree (1878), Edwin A. Ward ( 1871), Leroy S. Hackett ( 1871 ).
Franklin Township-Thomas F. Allen ( 1881), Thomas H. Croson (1881). Isaac Daniels ( 1874), William H. Dummitt ( 1872), Jacob H. Wolf (1873), Charles H. Zechman ( 1876).
Grant Township-David Algyer ( 1872), Anson Albee ( 1876), Isaac P. Ashalter. William W. Barnes (1869), Don Carlos Barry ( 1870), Robert W. Boyd (1871), Joseph J. Bryant ( 1888), John F. Burroughs (1871), Solomon E. Carmichael ( 1878). Charles E. Chandler ( 1869), George H. Cobb ( 1871), William A. Compton ( 1871), Job H. Christ ( 1871 ), Charles A. Didiot ( 1869), George H. Diggins (1877), Byram H. Eckman ( 1869), Andrew J. Edwards (-), Benjamin F. Epperson ( colored ) ( 1870). John H. Frush (1878), John B. Fumal ( 1881), Warren N. Gardner, Reuben Gross ( 1870). Desalvo B. Harmon ( 1869), Stephen Harris ( 1870), Luther E. Head ( 1870), Hiram H. Himebaugh ( 1871), Harvey Hoffman ( 1870). Daniel W. Inman ( 1866). Chester W. Inman ( 1866). August Jacob ( 1880). Corwin M. Johnson ( 1869), George W. Jones ( 1870), Samuel J. Jordan (1869), John W. Kelly ( 1868), James Kenyon, John Loder ( 1871), Thomas McBath (1870). John C. McCandlass ( 1869), Charles W. Merwin ( 1880). William Newell ( 1867), John H. Peck ( 1882), Newman Remington ( 1871 ). Louis Renville ( 1881), Napoleon Renville ( 1881), Alanson Clark Robinson (1878), William H. Seeley ( 1882), Joseph H. Shearer ( 1871), Edwin T. Shepard ( 1877) William Slack ( 1871). Edwin R. Smith ( 1870). Charles M. Stephenson ( 1871), Enoch R. Streeter ( 1873), James Streeter ( 1871). Orville A. Sutton ( 1872).
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