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In 1877, a new one-story frame school house was erected. The school is now taught by A. P. Hargrave, B. S.
RELIGIOUS.
Methodist services were hield irregularly in 1850, on week days, by Rev. Mr. Woodford, of Tipton. Rev. Julius Reid preached occasionally in 1850 and 1851, though Rev. Rufus Ricker first preached sermons on the Sabbath.
A Class was formed about that time, which has continued to the present time. Among the Pastors officiating were Rev. Mr. Critchfield, Elder Henry Wharton, Revs. Messrs. Gilruth, Blake, Amos, Paine, Hodges, Wertz, Man- ning, Albert Miller, L. P. Dosche, G. W. Rodgers and the present Pastor, O. D. Bowles.
A good substantial church was built in 1866. It was dedicated July 22, by Rev. R. W. Keeler, D. D., under the pastorate of Rev. G. R. Manning. 4 good parsonage is located near the church.
A Sabbath school of 100 members is held during the entire year, J. W. Drake, Superintendent.
Congregational .- The first Sunday services of this denomination were held in the school house, on the first Sabbath in January, 1851, by Rev. Mr. Keith. He was followed by Rev. Mr. Cobb, then by Revs. Messrs. J. R. Upton, Doolittle, S. N. Grout, Harrison and George W. Smith.
In 1867, this Society erected a church building immediately east of the residence of Thomas Curtis, but as they became unable to support a Pastor, the building was sold to the Christian Disciples, in 1874, since which time the latter denomination have held services there.
Rev. Pardee Butler, who came there in 1850, Revs. Messrs. Posten, C. E. Phinney, Atkinson, Garrison and others have officiated there.
Sabbath school is held during the Summer, Mr. Joshua Dobbins, Superin- tendent.
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HISTORY OF CEDAR COUNTY.
MASSILLON.
This village is situated in Massillon Township, in the northeast part of the county, and.on the Wapsipinicon River. The country around was settled at an early period in the history of the county, and is reputed to be one of the richi- est agricultural sections in the county. Among the early settlers in that section were William Williams, George, William and John Thorn, and the Shriver family-the Widow Shriver still living on the old homestead.
Massillon was first known as Denson's Ferry, named after Joseph Denson, who first settled there and established the ferry. The river is now spanned by a very excellent bridge, some 1,100 feet in lengthi. Its first cost was borne equally by the farmers interested in having a bridge erected there and the county.
The following statements or certificates are attached to the plat of Massillon on file in the office of the County Recorder, at Tipton :
Massillon is siuated on the northeast quarter of Section 14, Township 82, Range 1, west of the 5th P. M. It was re-surveyed and re-platted December 31, 1875, by F. A. Gates, County Surveyor, at the request of M. D. Keith, C. C. Butler and Amos Deming, and also assented to by William Williams, one of the original owners and proprietors of said town. In the re-platting of the lots and blocks, the original lines, corners and numbers have been strictly observed, and no changes made in any respect, save such as have been made by sales of lots or parts of lots.
The original town consisted of Blocks 1, 2, 3 and east half of 4 and 5, and all of Block 6. M. D. Keith's first Addition consisted of the west half of Blocks 4 and 5, and his second Addition of Block 7. C. C. Butler's Addition consists of the east half of Block 2.
The certificate of William Williams, bearing even date with the plat. and made part thereof, certifies that he was one of the persons who originally caused the said town of Massillon to be platted and laid out, and that Thomas Sloper since deceased, was his associate, and that after said town was properly surveyed and laid out, neither of them ever caused the plat of said town to be recorded in the proper office of said county, as required by the laws of the State of Iowa, and further that the town was originally surveyed and laid out in the year 1854, by Dep- uty Surveyor Graham.
The village of Massillon is a station on the Davenport & Northern Railroad, and is a shipping point of considerable importance. A number of the farmers thereabouts ship their surplus grain and stock direct, while others sell to mid- dle-men.
A. W. Cram is a general dealer in dry goods, groceries, etc., dealer in grain and stock, and proprietor and manager of a large grain elevator.
There are several mechanics, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, etc.
Amos Deming is station agent, Postmaster and hotel-keeper.
The Methodist Episcopal denomination has a regularly organized society, but no church edifice. The school house is used as a meeting place, and is supplied regularly by the preacher in charge of the Louden Circuit.
The population of Massillon is estimated at 150.
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HISTORY OF CEDAR COUNTY.
A TABULAR STATEMENT,
Showing an Abstract of the Assessment of Cedar County, Iowa, for the year 1877.
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
No.
Assessed Val.
Horses, all ages
11,073
$248,376
Cattle, all ages.
26,518
218,821
Mules and Asses, all ages.
753
24,255
Sheep, all ages ....
4,528
4,598
Swine, over 6 months old ..
54,169
94,226
Total value of Live Stock
590,276
Vehicles of all kinds.
2,528
59,318
Merchandise .
139,624
Moneys and Credits
388,487
Taxable Furniture ..
6,805
Farm Utensils.
9,008
Other Taxable property
22,261
Aggregate of Personal Property
$1,215,779
INCORPORATED TOWNS-VALUE OF REALTY.
Clarence.
$68,048
Durant.
34,450
Louden .
30,732
Mechanicsville
52.055
Tipton ..
179,168
West Branch
24,800
Total value of Realty in Towns.
$ 389,253
Lands exclusive of Town Property, Acres
356,202
3,777,888
Value of Railroad Property.
417,402:
Total valuation of the County.
$5,800,323
Total valuation, after equalization by the State Board.
$5,791,487
AMOUNT OF TAXES LEVIED, 1877.
KIND OF TAX.
Rate.
Amount.
State Tax.
2 mills
$ 11,582 97
County Tax.
3 6
17,374 46
Insane Tax
1
5,791 48
Poor Tax
1
5,791 48
Bridge Tax
24 «
14,478 71
County School Tax
5,791 48.
Teacher's Tax
31,609 17
School House Tax
7,676 43
School Contingent Tax
11,649 49
Delinquent Road Tax
1,749 33
Poll Tax.
2,009 00
Corporation Tax
2 558 08
Total Tax Levied
$118,062 08
1
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HISTORY OF CEDAR COUNTI.
OFFICIAL CANVASS OF THE VOTE OF CEDAR COUNTY, IOWA, AT THE GENERAL ELECTION HELD OCTOBER 9, 1877.
GOVERNOR.
LIEUT. Gov.
JUDGE SUP. |SUPT. PUBLIC AUDITOR |CO. TREAS'R.
COURT.
INSTRUC'N.
John H. Gear.
John P. Irish.
D. P. Stubbs.
Elias Jessup.
Frank T.Campbell.
W. C. James.
A. McCready.
James G. Day.
H. E. J. Boardman.
John Porter.
C. W. Von Colln.
G. W. Cullison.
S. T. Ballard.
A. E. Young.
Moreau Carroll.
George Huber.
E. H. Pound.
Sam. Wampler.
Cass
44
76
10
44
77
16
44
77
10
44
77
10
35
93
106
24
Center ..
267
243
25
71
328:
262
20
326
264
20
326
263
20
232
372
384
228
Dayton
73
67
24
72
148
66
24
148
66
25 148
67
25
107
125
153
81 55
Farmington
59
23
35
2
61
23
35
60
22
35
62
22
35
61
53
42
62
52
Fremont
96
60
1
2
100
59
1
102
59
102
59
2
78
84
98
64
Gower.
56
52
4
15
78
47
4
78
47
4
78
47
4
72
57
66
62
Inland
86
34
5
20
107
33
5
107
33
5
107
33
5
99
46
64
79
Iowa
63
73
13
42
109
73
13
109
74
33
41
33
Massillon
53
59
1
14
60
66
1
61
65
60
66
1
49
78
76
50
Red Oak
41
32
3
11
53
34
2
53
34 36
38
56
36
38
21
109
97
32
Springfield ..
63
54
17
2
64
55
8
65
55
2
65
55
7
55
72
69
57
Sugar Creek
42
28
32
44
28
44
29
31
44
28
31
42
62
64
34
Springdale.
90
45
7
182
271
45
272
45
7
272
44
7
260
58
58
263
Totals
1315 1093
206
446 1762 1124
199 1764 1126
200 1765 1125
200,1504 1543 1732 1315
22
1
Co. SHERIFF. CO.SUP'T |SURVEYOR. CORON'R REP. 33D MEM. B'DS'PR
DIST.
2D | 3D D.
A. B. Maynard.
John Whan.
Adney Langhan.
Eunice E. Frink.
C. U. Edwards.
S. Y. Yates.
John R. Myers.
M. G. Miller.
L. L. Sweet.
N. C. Millhouse.
Elwood Macy.
Jacob Geiger.
O. H Helmer.
J. W. Bell.
J. L. Hamiel.
Cass.
24
104
40
85
44
77
10
45
86
40
87
74
Center
282
323
340
260
356
243
15
355
234!
330
269
Dayton ..
165
72
168
65 142
67
21
148
91
148
89
Farmington
58
39
20
59
59
60
21
27
61
58
61
58
Fairfield
48
64
65
47
62
99
59
2
103
58
52
37
104
41
Iowa
108
85
116
53
110
81
4 109
41
33
41
33
Massillon
59
68
39
82
58
64
1
60
68
60
63
Pioneer
142
132
111
148
141
133
136
Red Oak
24
63
65
22
52
35
1
53
Rochester
42
88
46
84
56
34
18
Springfield
68
58
69
55
63
61
3
65
61
59
67
Sugar Creek
41
59
43
51
44
50
10
44
60
38
65
Springdale.
270
51
262
58
271
45
60
272
52
223
66
270 5
Totals
1638 1406
22 1735 1214 1810 1139
493
89
-
-
20
Fairfield.
59
48
1
3
63
50
1
63
50
1
63
50
1
56
52
84
85
106
Linn
41
31
39
3.5
37
37
Pioneer
127
132
9
135
137
135
137
135
137
157
107
209
64 27
Rochester.
55
36
38
1
56
36
38
56
2
53
34
2
32
56
61
2
Fremont
94
64
88
67
13
113
11
4 77
Inland
87
50
110
30
108
35
107
86
101
77
Linn
40
34
39
35
41
33
2
63
48
63
102
61
139
Gower.
76
52
14
116
107
84
74
138/
138
134
233
50
37
42
83
124 1804 1271 1711 1295
520
35
55
74
2
41
33
41
12
109
74
12
109
1
50
75
111
51
2
30 7
WAR HISTORY.
If there is anything more than another of which the people of the Northern States have reason to be proud, it is of the record they made during the dark and bloody days of the war of the rebellion. When the war was forced upon the country, the people were quietly pursuing the even tenor of their ways, doing whatever their hands found to do-making farms or cultivating those already made, erecting homes, founding cities and towns, building shops and maufactories-in short, the country was alive with industry and hopes for the future. The country was just recovering from the depression and losses inci- dent to the financial panic of 1857. The future looked bright and promising, and the industrious and patriotic sons and daughters of the Free States were buoyant with hope-and looking forward to the perfecting of new plans for the ensurement of comfort and competence in thicir declining years, they little heed- ed the mutterings and threatenings of treason's chlidren in the Slave States of the South. True sons and descendants of the heroes of the " times that tried men's souls "-the struggle for American independence-they never dreamed that there was even one so base as to attempt the destruction of the Union of their fathers-a government baptized with the best blood the world ever knew. While immediately surrounded with peace and tranquillity, they paid but little attention to rumored plots and plans of those who lived and grew rich from the sweat and toil, blood and flesh of others-aye, even by trafficking in the offspring their own loins. Nevertheless, the war came with all its attendant horrors.
April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter, at Charleston, South Carolina, Major Anderson, U. S. A., Commandant, was fired upon by rebels in arms. Although basest treason, this first act in the bloody reality that followed was looked upon as mere bravado of a few hot heads-the act of a few fire-eaters whose sectional bias and freedom hatred was crazed by excessive indulgence in intoxicating potations. When, a day later, the news was borne along the tele- graph wires that Major Anderson had been forced to surrender to what at first had been regarded as a drunken mob, the patriotic people of the North, were startled from their dreams of the future-from undertakings half completed- and made to realize that bchind that mob there was a dark, deep and well or- ganized purpose to destroy the government, rend the Union in twain, and out of its ruins erect a slave oligarchy, wherein no one would dare question their right to hold in bondage the sons and daughters of men whose skins were black, or who, perchance, through practices of lustful natures, were half or three-quau- ters removed from the color that God, for His own purposes had given them. But they "reckoned without their host." Their dreams of the future-their plans for the establishment of an independent confederacy were doomed from the inception to sad and bitter disappointment.
Immediately upon the surrender of Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln, Ameri- ca's martyr President-who, but a few short weeks before, had taken the oath
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of office as the nation's chief executive, issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers for three months. The last word of that proclamation had scarcely been taken from the electric wires, before the call was filled. Men and moncy were counted out by hundreds and thousands.
The people who loved their whole government could not give enough. Patri- otism thrilled and vibrated and pulsated through every heart. The farm, the workshop, the office, the pulpit, the bar, the bench, the college, the school house -every calling offered its best men, their lives and fortunes in defense of the government's honor and unity. Party lincs were, for the time, ignored. Bitter words spoken in moments of political heat, werc forgotten and forgiven, and, join- ing hands in a common cause, the masses of the people repeated the oath of America's soldier statesman ; " By the great Eternal, the Union must and shall be preserved."
The guantlet thrown down by the traitors of the South in their attack upon Fort Sumter was accepted, not, however, in the spirit with which insolence meets insolence-but with a firm, determined spirit of patriotism and love of country. The duty of the President was plain under the Constitution and laws, and above and beyond all, the masses of the people from whom all political power is derived, demanded the suppression of the rebellion, and stood ready to sustain the authority of their representatives and executive officers.
April 14, A. D., 1861, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, issued the following
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been, and now are, violently opposed in sev- eral States by combinations too powerful to be suppressed in the ordinary way, I, therefore, call for the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of 75,000 to suppress said combination and execute the laws. I appeal to all loyal citizens to facilitate and aid in this effort to maintain the laws, the integrity and the perpetuity of the popular government, and redress the wrongs long enough endured. The first service assigned to the forces, probably, will be to repossess the forts, places and property which have been seized from the Union. Let the utinost care be taken, consistent with the object, to avoid devastation, destruction, or interfer- ence with the property of peaceful citizens in any part of the country ; and I hereby command persons composing the aforesaid combination to disperse within twenty days from date.
I hereby convene both Houses of Congress for the 4th day of July next, to determine upon measures for public safety which the interest of the subject demands.
WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States.
Seventy-five thousand men were not enough to subdue the rebellion. Nor were ten times that number. The war went on, and call followed call, until it began to look as if there would not be men enough in all the Free States to crush out and subduc the monstrous war traitors had inaugurated. But to every call for either men or money, there was a willing and a ready response. And it is a boast of the people that, had the supply of men fallen short, there were women brave enough, daring enough, patriotic enough, to have offered them- selves as sacrifices on their country's altar. Such were the impulses, motives and actions of the patriotic men of the North, among whom the sons of Cedar made a conspicuous and praiseworthy record.
The readiness with which the first call was filled, together with the embar- rassments that surrounded President Lincoln in the absence of sufficient laws to authorize him to meet the unholy, unlooked for and unexpected emergency-an emergency that had never been anticipated by the wisest and best of America's statesmen-together with an underestimate of the magnitude of the rebellion, and a general belief that the war could not and would not last more than three
551
HISTORY OF CEDAR COUNTY.
months, checked rather than encouraged the patriotic ardor of the people. But very few of the men, comparatively speaking, who volunteered in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers for three months, were accepted. But the time soon came when there was a place and a musket for every man. Call followed call in quick succession, until the number reached the grand total of 3,339,748, as follows ;
April 16, 1861, for three months
75,000
May 4, 1861, for five years.
64,748
July, 1861, for three years 500,000
July 18, 1862, for three years 300,000
August 4, 1862, for nine months
300,000
June, 1863, for three years ..
300,000
October 17, 1863, for three years ..
300,000
February 18, 1864, for three years
500 000
July 10, 1864, for three years.
200,000
Ju y 16. 1864, for one, two and three years.
500,000
December 24, 1864, for three years
300.000
3,339,748
The tocsin of war was sounded. Meetings were held in all the townships, at which stirring and spirited addresses were made, and resolutions adopted that admitted of but one interpretation. The spirit of the people in the early days of the war is very clearly reflected in the following preamble and resolutions :
WHEREAS, It becomes American citizens to know no political law but their country's wel- fare ; and, whereas, the flag of our country has been insulted, and the laws set at defiance by formidably organized bands of lawless men, whose avowed purpose and overt acts are high trea- son against the government, therefore,
Resolved, That in the present endangered state of our country, we will ignore all party dif- ferences and distinctions, and will unite in rendering all the aid within our power to the Federal Executive in executing the laws and defending the honor of our national flag.
Resolved, That we recognize the form of government formed by our fathers and baptized in their blood, the best in the world, the birthright of citizens, and to be given up but with our lives.
Resolved, That we are unalterably for the Union of the States, one and inseparable, now and forever.
With such a spirit, and guided by such patriots as Judge William H. Tut- hill, James H. Rothrock, Alonzo Shaw, John S. Tuthill, Wells Spicer, S. S. Daniels, editor of the Advertiser (of Tipton); William Baker, of Rochester Township; Moreau Carroll, of Massillon Township; Lawrie Tatum and Thomas James, of Springdale Township ; Ebenezer A. Gray, of Iowa Township; and Robert Gower, of Cass Township, there was no wavering, if there had been a dis- position to waver, the masses of the people were united in sentiment and prompt in action.
In a few days after the first call for volunteers was issued, a sufficient num- ber to form a full company enlisted at Tipton, were enrolled, officered and com- pletely equipped, their uniforms being presented to them by citizens of the town, who had by voluntary contribution raised, in a few hours, the amount required for that purpose. An illustrative incident is told respecting this sub- scription ; that upon its first inception, a somewhat notorious Copperhead remarked that those who talked the loudest were not always the largest givers, and that, although he had said but little, he would give half as much as Judge Tuthill. This conversation was reported to the Judge, who at once subscribed and paid in $50, and the subscription list being immediately brought back to " Charlie," he handed out his "twenty-five," without audible comment, but doubtless thinking the curses it was bad policy to utter aloud.
The pen could be employed for months in sketching the uprising of the people, the formation of companies, and telling of the deeds of valor and
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HISTORY OF CEDAR COUNTY.
heroism of the " Boys in Blue " from Cedar County. There is material here for volumes upon volumes, and it would be a pleasing task to collect and arrange it, but no words our pen could employ would add a single laurel to their brave and heroic deeds. Acts speak louder than words, and their acts have spoken- are recorded on pages written in blood. The people of no county in any of the States of the freedom and Union-loving North made a better record during the dark and trying times of the great and final struggle between freedom and slavery, patriotism and treason, than the people of Cedar. Monuments nay crumble, cities may fall into decay, the tooth of time leave its impress on all the works of man, but the memory of the gallant dceds of the Army of the Union in the war of the Great Rebellion, in which the sons of this county bore so conspicuous a part, will live in the minds of men so long as time and civilized governments endure.
The people were liberal, as well as patriotic ; and while the inen were busy enlisting, organizing and equipping companies, the ladies were no less active. Committees were appointed to look after the necessities and to secure comfort to the families of those who enlisted.
Men and money were given by tens, and hundreds and thousands. No one stopped to count the cost. The life of the nation was at stake, and the people were ready to sacrifice all, EVERYTHING, for the preservation and maintainance of the Union.
" A union of lakes. a union of lands, A union that none can sever : A union of hearts, a union of hands, The American Union forever."
Looking after the Families of the Volunteers .- At the June Term, 1861, of the Board of Supervisors, J. B. McGill offered the following resolution :
Resolved, That there be and is hereby appropriated for the use of the families of volunteers, who are or who may be called to enlist in the services of the State, or of the United States, from the county of Cedar, the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and all sums thus appropriated shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors.
Mr. Wright moved to amend by striking out all after the word "resolved," and to insert the following :
That each of the members of the Board of Supervisors be. and they are hereby appointed a Committee in their respective townships to attend to the wants of the families of volunteers, either in the State or United States' service ; said Committee to furnish such articles as said families may stand in need of, and present their accounts, properly verified, to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, who may allow the same and issue warrants. if he believes just and in accordance with the laws passed by the extra session of the Eighth General Assembly.
On motion to adopt the amendment the yeas and nays were called, resulting as follows :
Yeas-Messrs. Ed. Wright, J. J. Wright. Loomis, Stanton, Wharton, Houghton, Robinson, Z. Brown, Mason, J. W. Brown, Sheldon, Baker .- 12.
Nays-J. B. McGill.
The amendment was adopted.
Under this resolution, the enormous sum of $27,093.66 was paid out for the purposes specified. Can any other county in the State show a more liberal spirit ? But the end is not yet. The war went on, and more men and more moncy were necded.
At the June term, 1864, the Board of Supervisors appropriated $4,500 for the benefit of the men enlisted in the hundred day service, under Capt. L. D. Durbin. At the same time a committee of two, consisting of Messrs Hender- son & Hollingworth were appointed to inquire into the propriety of paying a county bounty to the hundred day men. This committee reported at the Sep- tember Session of the Board, recommending the payment of a bounty of $50.00
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HISTORY OF CEDAR COUNTY.
to each non-commissioned officer and private who had enlisted from the county, and who were credited to the county. The report of the committee was adopted.
January, 1865, the Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution providing for the payment of a county bounty of $200.00 to each and every man who volunteered in response to the President's call for 300,000 volunteers, issued under date of September 21, 1864. The resolution provided that of this sum $50.00 should be paid at the time of enlistment, $50.00 at the end of six months, and the remaining $100.00 at the end of one year.
Such was the war spirit, and spirit of just and merited liberality that char- acterized the people of Cedar County during the years of the war of the rebellion.
As an additional evidence of the patriotism of the people, it is shown by the statement of Judge Tuthill that he sold principally to farmers of the county $100,000 of 7.30 Government securities. He knew also of other subscriptions to a large amount, made by citizens of the county at Muscatine and Davenport.
Of their war record the people of Cedar County may well be proud.
It would be interesting to record the money contributions, voluntary as well as by means of taxation, made by the people during the years of the rebellion, but that would be impossible. Of the former, no accounts were kept. People never stopped to reckon the cost, or to keep account of what they gave. When- ever money was needed for any purpose, and purposes and needs were plenty, it was given and paid on demand. There were no delays, no excuses, no " days of grace," no time for consideration demanded. People were ready and willing. Husbands and fathers abandoned homes and their comforts, wives and little ones for the dangers of tented fields of battle, assured that, in their absence, plenty would be provided for their loved ones. Because of this knowledge their dreams were none the less sweet, nor their slumbers less refreshing, even if their beds were made upon mother earth, and their covering only that of the starry dome above.
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