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In 1846 or '47, probably the former, John Brown, a brother of Daniel Brown, who settled at Eads' Grove in 1839-40, and a United Brethren preacher, built the first hotel. Prior to this time, Mr. Olmstead had "accommodated " the traveling public in the old log house built by Kibbee. Mr. Brown's wife died in 1847, and his son and daughter afterward carried on the house. Subse- quently - - Froom built another hotel on the other side of the street, and later Geo. W. Ashburn opened a hotel at Rockville.
When and by whom the first stock of goods was brought to Rockville can- not now be definitely determined. It is said that Mr. Olmstead, who owned the mill, also kept a few goods for the accommodation of the settlers. About the time the town was laid out or soon after, J. M. Custer had a small log store and kept a few goods. Calvin Sawyer went there at a comparatively early day, and was a trader for a number of years, keeping, it is said, the largest stock and best assortment of goods then in the village. Charles W. Hobbs, from Delhi, removed to Rockville in 1850, and opened a well-stocked store, then the best in town.
About 1846-7, Rockville began to increase pretty rapidly in importance and population. It was located on the main traveled road from Dubuque westward, and was one of the stations of the Western Stage Company. It apparently had a promising future, and was headquarters for balls and parties for the young people of Delaware and the western part of Dubuque Counties. Late in 1847, Mr. Olmstead, the founder of the town, sold the mills and his other property to Philip Hogan, who in 1848 built an excellent flouring-mill, and from that time until about 1855-6, the town of Rockville was on the top wave of prosperity.
The first sermon preached is lost in the obscurity of years. John Brown preached the first sermon of his denomination here about 1846, and he preached Cyrus Keeler's funeral sermon. The Methodists probably held religious ser-
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vices prior to that time, and among the earliest were Rev. Mr. Briar and Rev. Mr. Farlow. The Methodists built a fine church here and occupied it sev- eral years, but it was finally taken down, removed and re-erected on Plum Creek. The removal of this house was the occasion of considerable excitement, and not a little ill feeling. A brick school house was erected about 1852-3, which still remains.
In the great flood of 1851, a large portion of the town was submerged. In this freshet the mills were swept away, but were immediately rebuilt.
About 1851, Judge Dyer started the town of Dyersville, a few miles north of Rockville, on the edge of Dubuque County, and for several years the people of that infant town obtained their mail at Rockville. Delhi also took a start about the same time, and the people of Rockville became exceedingly jealous of these rivals. It was then a thriving town, had several stores, three hotels, a church, a school house, a number of mechanics, and it did not like to see its prestige threatened. But when the Dubuque & Pacific Railroad was completed to Dyersville in 1856-7, the stages were taken off, the immense stream of travel that since 1847 had flowed through the town was diverted into another channel. Rockville suddenly collapsed, and received its final blow when the Dubuque & Southwestern Railroad passed by it on the other side, and the town of Worthing- ton sprang up within three miles of it.
But little now remains to attest to its former prosperity, except a new stone flouring-mill built several years ago by Mr. Ruddlesdin and now operated by Mr. Georgean.
HARTWICK.
This hamlet, which is located on Section 30, Township 88, Range 4, was laid out by John W. Clark in 18 -. Here Clark built a saw-mill, and in 1853, began the erection of a flouring-mill. He had already opened a store and was keeping tavern. John Whitman settled in 1855, and started a black- smith shop. Two years after, a wagon shop was started, Clark furnishing the means. The town flourished apace, for within the next year or two, a shoe- shop was established, but by whom is now forgotten, and about the same time, a brick yard was started by Samuel Stansbury and his brother. A paint shop was also built by Jacob Williams.
This is an incident in the early history of Hartwick. An Irishman, Pat- rick Kenna, used to haul wood to the burg with a yoke of oxen named " Buck" and " Bright," but never troubled himself as to whose land it grew on. Clark met him one day as he was going in with a load. Clark stopped and hailed him with the point blank question as to whose land he had gone on for the wood. Looking his interlocutor square in the eye, as he trudged by, Pat. answered. "Sure, Misther Clark, an' I niver asks ye where ye git your wood !' Pat then cracked his whip, with a " Gee, Buck !" and drove on with his load.
Clark was a driving, stirring man, but like thousands of others in the spec- ulative era of 1856-7. went to the wall with liabilities much in excess of assets. He went to California in 1858, and his property passed into other hands. Mr. Whitman left the place before Clark, and with the departure of these two enter- prising men the glory of Hartwick, as a business point, departed.
In June, 1861, the Board of Supervisors, on motion of Clement Coffin, resolved to submit to vote whether or not a farm should be purchased for the maintenance of paupers, and the homestead formerly owned by Clark was
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temporarily leased by the county and used as a poor farm until the Board purchased the present site.
Jacob Williams, referred to above, enlisted in the Greybeard Regiment in 1863. He deserted shortly after, and returned. A. S. Blair, Esq., who was Deputy Provost Marshal, heard of his return, and also heard that Williams had given out that he would not submit to be taken alive. Mr. Blair engaged J. C. Skinner to go with him, and as a precautionary measure took along a ponderous revolver. Arriving at Williams' house, he got out, leaving his
revolver in the buggy. He went to the door on the side of the house whence Williams expected to escape, and gained access by inquiring if a painter lived there. Williams was up stairs, but came down, little suspecting Mr. Blair's errand. Blair told him his business, but Williams manifested no dangerous symptoms, merely asking the privilege of going up stairs to change his clothes. Mr. Blair refused to allow this, whereupon Mrs. Williams remarked that it was not genteel to require him to undress before the women folks. Blair suggested they could retire themselves. Williams changed his apparel, wentalong quietly, and was punished by having his pay stopped.
The scenery at Hartwick is attractive in the extreme, the mill and dam adding much to the picturesque location of the town. The Maquoketa is bridged at this place by a graceful iron structure, which springs from a high rocky bank on the south side of the stream, and the north side rests on a high pier built of massive magnesian rock. The locality is an attractive one for picnic parties. In the gravel bed below the dam are found small geodes and beautiful agates.
The mill is now owned by Furman Brothers, and is regarded as one of the best in the county.
DELAWARE TOWNSHIP.
The first meeting for the election of township officers in Delaware Town- ship, of which record now remains, was held at the house of Toogood & Bethell, in the village of Burrington, in April, 1856. when the following officers were elected :
Joseph C. Skinner, Justice of the Peace; Harvey J. Brown, Township Clerk ; Watson Roe, Allen Mead, James Edmonds. Trustees ; Albert Thomp- son, Assessor ; Charles Trenchard and William H. Hollister, Constables.
In 1857, O. P. Reeves, Justice of the Peace : E. R. Congar, Clerk ; Henry Acers, Watson Roe, Allen Mead, Trustees.
In 1858, E. L. Eaton, Justice of the Peace ; J. W. Yount, Clerk ; Watson Roe, George Acers, William C. White, Trustees.
In October, 1858, another election was held at the school house in the vil- lage of Manchester, and thenceforward the annual meetings for election of township officers were held in October. At the above-named meeting, E. O. Clemens and E. L. Eaton, were elected Justices of the Peace ; J. W. Yount, Clerk ; E. Merrill, A. R. Loomis, T. Crosby, Township Trustees.
In 1859, L. A. Loomis, Justice of the Peace: H. J. Brown, Clerk ; C. Paxson, John Acres, Henry Edmonds, Trustees.
In 1860, E. L. Eaton, William Terwilliger, Justices of the Peace; S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; Ira P. Adams, H. M. Congar, Watson Roe, Trustees.
In 1863, R. W. Tirrill, L. A. Loomis, Justices of the Peace ; E. Merrill, T. Crosby and Thomas Toogood, Trustees : V. Childs, Clerk.
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In 1864. D. S. Potter, M. Cotton, N. H. Johnson, Trustees ; T. Crosby, V. Childs, Justices of the Peace; V. Childs, Clerk.
In 1865, Pardon Wells, Watson Childs, A. S. Blair, Trustees ; S. L. Dog- gett, Justice of the Peace; V. Childs, Clerk.
In 1866, Oliver Cronk, M. Cotton, L. S. Gates, Trustees ; D. R. Blais- dell, T. Crosby, Justices of the Peace; S. L. Doggett, Clerk.
In 1867. S. L. Doggett, Justice of the Peace ; J. M. Lanning, Henry Acers, J. D. Sly, Trustees ; S. L. Doggett. Clerk.
In 1868, T. Crosby, V. Childs, Justices of the Peace ; S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; J. W. Robbins, Oliver Cronk, J. Davidson, Trustees.
In 1869. S. L. Doggett, Justice of the Peace; S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; William Catron. Ferdinand Dunham, Noble Ruggles, Trustees.
In 1870, J. R. Satterlee, N. H. Johnson, Justices of the Peace; S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; S. W. Green, Noble Ruggles, W. HI. Seeds, Trustees.
In 1871. S. L. Doggett, Justice of the Peace ; S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; Tru- man Terrill, John F. Merry, Egbert Hoag, Trustees.
In 1872. Calvin Yoran, N. H. Johnson, Justices of the Peace; S. L. Dog- gett, Clerk ; John F. Merry, Seth Brown, Morell Cotton, Trustees.
In 1873, S. L. Doggett, Justice of the Peace; S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; L. S. Gates, George Quackenbush, A. O. Moore, Trustees.
In 1874. S. L. Doggett, Calvin Yoran, N. H. Johnson, Justices of the Peace: S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; William Tate, Alonzo Shew, Ira Howland, Trustees.
In 1875, N. H. Johnson, Justice of the Peace ; S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; Alonzo Shrew, Ira Howland, T. Crosby, Trustees.
In 1876, Cummings Sanborn, S. L. Doggett, N. H. Johnson, Justices of the Peace : S. L. Doggett. Clerk ; Alonzo Shrew. T. Crosby, Ira Howland, Trustees.
In 1877, Charles Husted. Justice of the Peace; 'S. L. Doggett, Clerk ; Alonzo Shew. Ira Howland. Lewis Paxson, Trustees.
MASONVILLE.
(Coffin's Grove Township.)
This pleasant little town is located on the southwest corner of Coffin's Grove Township, was laid out July 22, 1858, by Francis Daniels and the Iowa Land Company, James G. Verplank, Surveyor.
The town was named in honor of R. B. Mason, Esq., then the late President of the Iowa Land Company, and probably named by Mr. Daniels, who at that time owned the quarter section on which the village now stands, and offered the Land Company one-third of it to induce them to locate a station upon his land. This proposition was accepted by the Company, and they erected a depot in 1860, upon the site the present one occupies. It proving inadequate, however, to the growing demands of the town, it was, eight years thereafter, removed and a new one substituted. The old one was moved up on the main street, opposite the Masonville House, and is now used as a sort of carpenter's shop.
The first house in the town was erected by Oscar Wellman, who came west from New York in 1852, and built, about two years afterward, the house he now occupies. He kept for some years a stage station and hotel, giving the horses good stabling, and lodging the men on the floor or anywhere they could find room to stretch their weary limbs.
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BUSINESS INTERESTS.
Hotels, Masonville House, by J. D. Smith, 1874; Central House, by A. K. Martin, 1876. General Merchandise, A. M. Latimer, 1877; David Burk, 1876. Drugs and Groceries, W. E. Lawrence, 1877. Blacksmith, Joseph Taylor. Elevators, F. S. Griffin, 1869 ; Chandler, Brown & Co., of Mil- waukee, not now in operation. Grist-mill, Burk Bros., 1878. Flour and Feed, I. D. Smith.
The first school house in town was built in 1862, by Mr. Dunton, and after- ward purchased by the township. The first teacher was Miss Mary R. Williams.
CHURCHES.
Free-Will Baptist Church, organized May 10, 1857, at the school house near Henry Baker, by Rev. N. W. Bixby, and who was Pastor of the church until May 13, 1866, when he resigned the pastorate, and Rev. R. Norton was elected Pastor, May, 1867. By a vote of the church, the meetings were removed from Coffin's Grove to Masonville, and the name of the church changed from Coffin's Grove to Masonville.
During the season of 1877, the church erected a house for public worship, which was not completed and dedicated May 26, 1878. Rev. R. Norton is the present Pastor.
The Catholic Church was built in 1870. The present Priest is P. J. Clabby. of Buffalo, who conducts services there once in every three weeks.
I. O. OF G. T.
Masonville at present has but one society, and that is Masonville Lodge, No. 196, I. O. of G. T., which was organized in 1877, by Mrs. A. C. Carter, from Manchester. At the first meeting, the following officers were elected : W. C. T., George E. Gemmill ; W. S., John Latimer ; W. V. T., Jennie Latimer; W. C., S. P. Peters; P. W. C. T., Henry Stiles; W. M., Charles Lamon ; W. T., Lizzie Lawrence; W. F. S., S. C. Douglass ; W. I. G., Hattie Lamon ; W. O. G., Oscar Wellman ; L. L., S. P. Peters; W. D. M., Mina Peters; W. A. S., Lenora Brown ; L. H. S., Mrs. N. M. Stiles; R. H. S., Mrs. Gemmill. The Lodge started with 35 charter members, and now numbers about 70.
COFFIN'S GROVE TOWNSHIP.
This township is Congressional Township 89 north, Range 6 west. It was organized in 1855, by a decree issued to Clement Coffin, who had settled in a grove of timber in the south central portion of the township, fifteen years before. The grove was called Coffin's Grove by the early settlers and hence the name of the township. The voters met according to the provisions of the decree in the old school house in the grove, and elected the following, first town- ship officers : Henry Baker and Aaron Sullivan, Justices of the Peace : W. J. Doolittle, Township Clerk.
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SCHOOLS.
The township contains eight sub-school districts, with school houses and teachers, to wit :
Material.
When Built.
First Teacher.
No. 1, Brick
1868
E. H. Sellens.
No. 2, Frame.
1873
Victoria Isbell.
No. 3. 6.
1867 .H. A. Brown.
No. 4,
1866.
.Emeroy Stimson.
No. 5, ..
1872
C. H. Sharp.
No. 6, 66
1871
Hattie Hawley.
No. 7,
1871
.T. M. Sabine.
No. 8,
1875
Annie Maguire.
These, with the exception of Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, were the first houses and teachers. In the excepted districts, the first school houses were log structures, which soon gave place to more substantial buildings. In No. 1, however, the log school house was built in 1854.
In the Summer or Fall of 1856, Orton & Older's circus tent was pitched near Henry Baker's, in Coffin's Grove, and all the country side turned out to witness the performance. The afternoon was rainy and it was decided not to exhibit in the evening. Several men from Acersville and Manchester, who had transferred considerable whisky from their flasks to their own stomachs, demanded that the performance should be repeated in the evening. This demand was refused, whereupon a dispute arose, followed by a fight. In the melee, Martin Heath was struck on the head by a neck-yoke, in the hands of one of the circus men. He was picked up and taken to Manchester, where he was confined to the house for several days. About ten days after the figlit, he walked out, with the help of a cane, to where some boys were playing ball. The ball coming in his vicinity, Heath struck at it with his cane, but fell to the ground suddenly, exclaiming, " Oh boys, I have killed myself!" His words were indeed true, for he died during the night.
Dr. Hamlet, who was said to have been the main cause of the fracas, prudently crawled under a wagon when it began, and remained there until it was safe to come out. Hancock, a Manchester lad, started to run when the fight began. In his course, he stepped on a rake-handle, which broke and one end flew up, giving him a sharp blow on the back of his head; as soon as he could gather, he turned and squared himself toward his fancied assailant, who was nowhere visi- ble. much to his disgust.
YANKEE SETTLEMENT. (Honey Creek Township.)
In the Spring of 1842, two young men, Lorenzo Mulliken and Daniel B. Noble, from " York State " or " Yankee Land," settled in the edge of the Tur- key timber, in the northeastern part of Township 90-5 (Honey Creek), on Section 1. Soon after their arrival, Henry W. Lyon and his family settled near them. Lyon appears as a taxpayer in the first assessment roll, in Septem- ber, 1842. He did not remain long. Becoming alarmed after the murder of 'T'. Garden, in February, 1843, he removed to Eads' Grove in the Spring of that year, and the year following went to Missouri.
In the Fall of 1843, Nelson Steele and family located near Noble and Mul- liken ; and in 1844, Lorenzo's father. Samuel Mulliken, and his family arrived.
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About this time, the new settlement in this part of the county began to be called " Yankee Settlement," from the fact that the settlers were all from Yankee Land, to distinguish it from other Turkey settlements. The name was not confined to any single section, and the Yankee Setttlement extended into 90-4 (Elk), and into Clayton County.
In 1846, Elder N. W. Bixby and his wife, Ruby, from Williamstown, Vt., located in the Yankee Settlement. Elder Bixby was the first Free-Will Baptist minister who settled in Delaware County. His wife, also, occupied the pulpit, " and," says Mrs. Bailey, "was considered the smarter preacher of the two."
January 12, 1848, the " Yankee Settlement " post office was established, on Section 1, 90-5, and Bohan Noble appointed Postmaster ; and in May follow- ing, Joseph S. Belknap, from Barre, Vt., located on the northeast quarter of Section 2, 90-5, about a mile west of the post office, and founded the town of " Yankee Settlement," now called Edgewood. At that time, there was but one . settler in that vicinity, on the Clayton side, John Gibson. who settled there about 1846.
In the Spring of 1849, Mr. Belknap built the first house on the site of the future village. This house was afterward used for hotel purposes. In 1852, Mr. Belknap built and opened the first store, and erected several other build- ings in 1853-4. In 1854, he built another store, on the Clayton side, removing thither, selling his claim on this side to Harrison Gifford.
A Congregational Church was erected in 1854, in which Rev. H. N. Gates first officiated as Pastor, succeeded about 1857, by Rev. A. Graves. Rev. L. P. Mathews occupied the pulpit in 1862. No regular services are held in this house now. Rev. Mr. Amsden, of Manchester, and others, preach there occa- sionally.
The school house was built in 1855-6. The first hotel was kept by Joseph S. Belknap, about 1852.
When the Davenport & St. Paul Railroad was built to and through the little town, which is mainly in Clayton County, the name was changed to Edgewood, and that part of the town lying in Delaware was surveyed and platted about 1876.
There are now on the Delaware side, in Edgewood, a hotel, kept by Robert Fairweather ; a store, kept by H. F. Beyer ; a school house and a church.
The main portion of the town is in Clayton County, where are the railroad station, post office, several stores, Methodist Church and a fine frame school house.
HAZEL GREEN.
In the Spring of 1853, Christopher L. Flint settled on Section 11. Brad- ford Crozier and James Sheppard settled during the same year on Section 1, Shellhammer settled about one and three-fourth miles north of Flint, and some others came in about the same time.
The first births are said to have been Sarah Shellhammer, in the Spring of 1853, and Matthew Sheppard, October 15, 1853. The first marriage was that of Luther P. Flint and Beulah Blanchard, November, 1854. The first death, Olverson Barnes, in the Summer of 1859.
Post office established June 18, 1856, Christopher L. Flint, Postmaster. The office was on the route from Delhi to Marion. L. P. Flint was the first m .] contractor. al
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Mrs. Edward Pierce taught the first school, in her own house, in the Winter of 1858-59. The first school house was built in District No. 1, in the Sum- mer of 1859.
Chris. L. Flint was the first Justice of the Peace in the township. In 1878, A. R. Dickey has a store of general merchandise and the Hazel Green creamery. Mr. Flint still resides on the farm where he first settled, and now owns a fine stock farm of 1,300 acres, and carries about 400 head of cattle. Mr. Flint says that when he first settled there, deer and wolves were very numerous, and could be seen from the house every day. He used $10 worth of strychnine in killing wolves in the Winter of 1853-54. Mr. Flint says that the second day after he moved into his shanty, he went to Eads' Grove after a land warrant. When he reached Nelson Main's, within two miles of home, on his return, it was dark, but he thought he could find his way home, only two miles, if it was dark. He started, but soon became bewildered and traveled nearly all night hunting for home, where he finally arrived about 3 o'clock the next morning, weary, hungry and wet, for he had forded the creek several times during the night.
Until 1857, this township was a part of Union Township, but March 2, 1857, Township 87, Range 5, was established as a political township by the County Court, and called Hazel Green. The Judge issued a warrant according to law, to C. L. Flint, Edmund Barnes and Eri Richardson, to call the first meeting and act as Judges of Election. At this election, C. L. Flint was elected Justice of the Peace.
Mr. Flint is one of the Trustees of the Iowa College for the Blind, at Vinton.
The first church organization in Hazel Green was the Presbyterian Church. It was first organized in Milo, but was immediately moved to what is known as " Guthrie school house," where the first sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered, in the Summer of 1864. The members of the first organization were Thomas Guthrie, Mrs. Elizabeth Guthrie, Alexander Wilson, Mrs. Jane Wilson, John McCullom, Mrs. Jean McCullom and John Wilson. This organ- ization dissolved May 1, 1871, giving place to the present Congregational society, which was organized about the same time, under the ministrations of Rev. Alvah Day. The fine church building now occupied by this society, near the Golden Prairie post office, was built in 1874-75, and dedicated in 1875. The present Pastor is Rev. E. G. Carpenter, who has been in charge some three years.
DELAWARE CENTER.
(Acersville.)
The town of Delaware Center was laid out in 1853, by Dr. Acers, who had entered the land surrounding in 1851, and settled thereon the same year. The Maquoketa here flowed over a rocky bed, gradually narrowing at the site of the present Quaker Mill to a water bed about six rods wide, and with lime- stone banks over twenty feet high. Here Dr. Acers and his brother Henry erected a saw-mill. in 1852, which they soon after leased to Henry Ryan.
In 1853, Delaware Township was established, with Delaware Center as polling place, and the post office of Delaware Center was established October, 1, 1853.
Edson Merrill settled here this year. opening a blacksmith shop, but removed to Burrington in 1855.
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The same year (1853), a school house was begun, and completed the follow- ing year. Before the building was completed, some time in the Spring of 1854, Rev. B. M. Amsden held religious services therein. Mr. Amsden says a lot of plank for temporary seats were obtained from the saw-mill. Elder John Martindale, of Elk Township, held meetings there soon after. The first school taught in the building was by Mrs. Riley.
In 1854, A. R. Loomis started a dry goods store, and the election of that year was held therein. Dr. Acers built a flouring-mill the same year, and the indications were that quite a town would spring up. But the golden opportunity was lost when Dr. Acers failed to make satisfactory arrangements with Judge Dyer, in 1854, and compelled the latter to start a new town below. He did not take the " tide at its flood," and consequently Delaware Center was stranded, and its final hope was lost when, in 1856, the railroad was definitely located at Manchester, two miles below. This, and the removal of Mr. Loomis from the town, the year previous, was more than the infant town could bear. It quietly yielded up the ghost, and now exists only in the pages of this history and the memory of the old settlers.
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