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June 5th, it is recorded, "Show for church building gloomy," but on the 20th, the committee reported that they had purchased Lot 3, Block 23, and in view of the amount so far pledged, and what might be reasonably expected, it was safe to begin work immediately. The report was adopted by a unanimous rising vote. The matter was then referred to a building committee composed of C. Hoyt, H. W. Waterbury and F. M. Aylsworth. July 10th, the plan of the church was modified by the vote to have it built 30x50 feet.
It is stated that the project stalled for several months. H. W. Waterbury received quite a little sum in contributions from traveling salesmen, which was a considerable help. During the period occupied by the erection of the church, the places of meeting were shifted from school house to school house, but on the 8th of October, 1871, the church building was dedicated, the offering sermon being preached by Rev. J. Guernsey. The edifice cost $2,150, the society
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having received aid to the amount of $400. The bell was the donation of Dexter A. Knowlton, of Freeport, Ill.
The present Trustees of the church are H. W. Waterbury, W. A. Hoyt, G. F. Lyman. The Deacons are B. N. Johnson and F. M. Aylsworth. Their membership is about seventy.
C. A. Lyman is Superintendent of the Sabbath School; S. E. Waterbury, Assistant ; Horton Fussell, Librarian.
Mrs. Leavett is President of the Ladies' Aid Society ; Mrs. A. E. Winrott, Secretary ; Mrs. Schoonmaker, Treasurer. This Society deserves very great credit for the assistance rendered in finishing and furnishing the church.
St. Paul's Church .- The Episcopal society at Fayette was organized at the residence of Rev. J. Rambo, on the 9th of April, 1864, at which time articles of association were adopted, and the society fully incorporated. The Vestrymen chosen were Samuel Crawford, C. W. Lorode, Thomas Fowells, D. Alexander, D. Vines, I. W. Comstock and Foster Mitchell. Messrs. Crawford and Fowells were chosen Wardens, and D. Alexander, Secretary. The other incorporators were R. Gaynor, B. Rambold, E. Hayward, Jr., and Fleming Jones. The project of building a church had been decided upon, for Messrs. Crawford and Fowells were appointed a committee to solicit funds for the purpose. June 26th, Messrs. Vines, Rector and Alexander were chosen a building committee. Oct. 22d, thanks were tendered to the ladies, who had raised $61 by a festival, and placed the amount at the disposal of the church. The construction of the church was begun. The society made no progress for four years, for, Oct. 19, 1868, D. Vines, Wm. Morris and John S. Cook were appointed as building committee. Rev. J. Allen was ministering over the par- ish, and he was requested to continue his services, the society agreeing to support him to the best of their ability. April 25, 1870, another building committee, composed of D. Vines, D. Alexander and George Burden, were chosen. April 17, 1876, Daniel Davis and J. J Caward were elected delegates to the Diocesan Convention, to be held at Des Moines, in May. June 8, 1877, A. N. Goodrich, D. Vines and Daniel Davis were elected building committee, to remain until the work should be done.
It is designed to complete the church during the present year, the building being now enclosed and the stained glass ready to be put in. The cost will be not far from one thousand dollars. The size of the building is 24x40 feet. The society has a bell, presented some years ago by Jay Cooke.
The present Vestry are D. Vines, Daniel Davis, Joseph Grannis, A. N. Goodrich, E. A. Lichenstein, T. Fowells and D. Alexander.
Rev. S. E. Gaynor, of Davenport, holds occasional services.
Mrs. Dr. Alexander is President of the Ladies' Aid Society; Mrs. Home, Vice President ; Mrs. Mott, Secretary and Treasurer.
Catholic Church .- Services according to the ritual of the Catholic Church are held at Duncan's Hall every fourth Sabbath, by Father Sullivan, of Cler- mont. The society was organized about eighteen years ago, by Rev. Mr. O'Byrne, of Elkader, who used to hold services once in two months. For a year or two before that time, priests, when passing through Fayette, would gather the Catholic believers for worship. Since its organization, those who have preached to the congregation have been Fathers Nagle, Smith, O'Carl and Quigley. The society owns two lots in Westfield, purchased years ago, with the intention of building thereon, but a different locality is now being consid- ered. The membership includes twenty-five families.
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Pleiades Lodge, No. 248, A., F. § A. M .- This Lodge was organized U. D. June 2, 1869, with ten members, as follows: Thomas Fowells, W. M .; Wm. Morris, S. W .; M. C. Sperry, J. W. The other members were John Rhoades, Samuel Hendrickson, J. W. Hawn, Hiram Brooks, William Brooks, William Brush and J. L. White.
The Lodge was chartered in June, 1870, constituted by William Cowle, of West Union, acting as D. G. M., and the officers chosen for the year 1870-71 were: Thomas Fowells, W. M .; Wm. Morris, S. W .; M. C. Sperry, J. W .; John Rhoades, Treasurer ; John Sanburn, Secretary ; S. Hendrickson, S. D .; Finley Smith, J. D .; James P. Percy and James L. Grannis, Stewards ; Rob- ert Patterson, Tiler.
Thirty additions were made during the first year. The whole number who have belonged to the Lodge is ninety, and the present membership is fifty-four.
The officers for 1878-9 are : James P. Percy, W. M .; John D. Dooley, S. W .; Joseph L. Grannis, J. W .; John Rhoades, Treasurer; George W. Par- sons, Secretary ; Wm. L. Phelps, S. D .; James L. Marvin, J. D .; George. Robertson and Elijah Gregory, Stewards ; D. Vines, Chaplain ; Erastus Ham- mond, Tiler.
The deaths have been : William Brooks, in 1870, and Henry Burch, in 1873. Lodge meets Saturday evenings, on or before full moon. Hall over Bank of Fayette.
Ansel Humphreys Chapter, No. 80, R. A. M., was instituted in 1875, chartered October 4, 1876, and constituted November 1st, by A. W. Daugherty, Deputy G. H. P. The first officers under the charter were: D. A. P. Burgess, M. E. H. P .; Samuel Hendrickson, E. K .; A. N. Goodrich, E. S .; Daniel Davis, Treasurer ; Geo. W. Parsons, Secretary ; A. W. Crans, C. H .; Thomas Fowells, P. S .; W. C. Sanford, R. A. C .; Geo. Comstock, G. M. 3d V .: John Rhoades, G. M. 2d V .; E. Gregory, G. M. 1st V .; R. Patterson, Sent.
The present officers are : J. S. Anderson, M. E. H. P .; D. A. P. Burgess, E. K .; S. Hendrickson, E. S .; Daniel Davis, Treasurer ; George W. Parsons, Secretary ; Thomas Fowells, C. H .; A. N. C. Goodrich, P. S .: W. San- ford, R. A. C .; Geo. Comstock, G. M. 3d V .; John Rhoades, G. M. 2d V .; E. Gregory, G. M. 1st V .; R. Patterson, Sent.
The Chapter meets on the first Wednesday evening of each month.
A. O. OF U. W.
Fayette Lodge, No. 80, was instituted August 7, 1876, by W. H. Burford, D. G. M., assisted by several members of the order from West Union. The following were elected and installed as officers : John S. Anderson, P. M. W .; Ezra C. Moulton, M. W .; Thomas Fowell, G. F .; Scott E. Waterbury, O .; William A. Hoyt, Recorder; James J. Caward, Financier ; William C. San- ford, Receiver ; Charles A. Lyman, Guide ; Charles W. Sperry, I. W .; Henry A. Everts, O. W. Members : Adolphus W. Crans, George L. Helms, Alex. Minston, Richard Minston, William A. Roa.
The officers now are : A. Winston, M. W .; George Robertson, G. F .; W. A. Hoyt, O .; A. E. Winrott, Rec .; C. W. Sperry, Fin .; C. A. Lyman, Rec .; A. C. Hamilton, I. W .; J. J. Coward, O. W.
The present membership is sixteen.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
The Rechabite Band was organized January 4, 1878. This is a temper- ance organization, requiring its members to wear a badge of red and blue rib-
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bon. The officers for the first year are : A. N. Goodrich, Moderator ; W. L. Potter, Recorder ; S. E. Waterbury, R. Z. Lattimer and A. E. Winrott, Direct- ors. The Band has over 800 members enrolled.
The Fayette Cemetery Association was formed in 1864, the members being D. Alexander, H. W. Waterbury, Wm. Burch, John A. Griffith, I. W. Com- stock, S. H. Robertson and E. Gregory. D. Alexander was chosen President ; H. W. Waterbury, Secretary; E. Gregory, Treasurer, and Ed. Cavenaugh, Sexton.
The first interment had been previously made, it being that of Martha Alexander, followed by the burials of J. Buffington, Mrs. Fulmer and son, Mrs. George Walker, Mrs. I. Templeton, Mrs. W. A. Boughey, Miss Davis and Moses Davis-all in 1855.
H. W. Waterbury is still Secretary.
DAVENPORT & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD.
W. C. Sanford is Station Master. Over fifty car loads of ice were shipped from Fayette Station in the Winter of 1876-7, for which purpose the track was completed to the Volga. To show the business done at this station, the follow- ing items are transcribed from the company's books, for 1877 : Live hogs, fifty cars; dressed hogs, five cars ; cattle, thirty-five cars ; sheep, seven cars ; wheat, forty-five cars ; oats, six cars ; barley, eleven cars ; butter and eggs, five cars ; grass seed, one car ; hides and pelts, seven cars. Of lumber, fifty-two cars were received in 1877.
The water tank has a capacity of 1,800 barrels. In the basement of this building is placed the station battery, containing seventy jars.
The rock cut near the river is over fifty feet in depth.
APIARY.
S. Hammond is managing an apiary at Fayette, having nearly 100 swarms of bees. His building, erected in 1875, is ten-sided, and has a diameter of twenty-seven feet.
The capacity of the Volga, as a water power, is almost unlimited, its fall being so rapid that dams could be erected every mile of its course. One of the most eligible situations on the river, for manufacturing purposes, is just below Fayette, and should be turned to account speedily.
LIMA. ( Westfield Township.)
Originally called " Lightville," laid out as " Volga City," and name changed to Lima by act of the Legislature. The first to locate here were Erastus A. Light and Harvey Light; hence the name Lightville. The Lights built a saw- mill on the Volga at this point in 1849-50.
A. J. Hensley built a flouring-mill at this place in 1852, who not long after sold the property to P. H. Durfey & Son. This structure is twenty-six by forty feet, two stories high, with stone basement. A saw-mill is also kept run- ning. The property reverted to Mr. Hensley in the year 1878.
An iron bridge recently spanned the Volga at this point, but was swept away by the flood of June 1, 1878. The structure, when replaced, will be 100 feet long. Each approach is about fifty feet long.
A Congregational Church was organized at this place by Rev. S D. Helms in 1857, the members being Winslow Stearns and wife, S. D. Helms and wife,
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and Ebenezer Hyde, wife and daughter Esther. The church gained in num- bers with the settlement of the neighborhood. The different Pastors have been S. D. Helms, Rev. Mr. Hill, Rev. W. S. Potwin and Rev. E. C. Moulton. There are now about twenty members. Winslow Stearns is Deacon.
A church of United Brethren was organized at Lima many years ago, but has been for some time disbanded.
The Superintendent of the Lima Union Sabbath School is Mr. Richmond. It has just been organized.
ALBANY. (Westfield Township.)
This village is the outgrowth of Lima, and commenced its existence as a village in 1854. Albert Albertson and Edwin Smith, proprietors.
Mr. Albert Albertson, who removed from Stephenson County, Ill., built a saw-mill at this place and opened a large store in 1854. He sold his property in the Fall of 1855 to Richard Earle, who in 1865 built a flouring-mill, thirty by thirty-six feet, three stories high, including basement. The dam is one of the best on the river, being 160 feet long, ten feet high, and twenty-seven on base, built of heavy timber filled in with stone, making it very strong.
The school house at Albany is the best in Westfield Township outside of Fayette, it having cost over $1,000. The first school taught in this building was in the Spring and Summer of 1877, by Miss Phillips, of West Union.
The business of Albany, besides its milling interest, is represented by a general store, kept by S. Nefsgar, and E. Matsell, blacksmith, who succeeded George Dow about two years ago. There is a tailor shop also, kept by J. B. Oelberg.
The first house on the ground occupied by Albany was built by Sidney Hopkins in 1850.
The first child born was Sidney Hopkins, Jr., and the first marriage was Mr. McGray to Miss L. Albertson.
WESTFIELD TOWNSHIP.
As stated elsewhere, the first settler in this township was Franklin Wilcox, who built a cabin in Section 32 in the Fall of 1840.
In 1844, James Beatty bought a cabin near the present residence of James E. Robertson, which had been erected by Madison Brown. He owned the claim about a year, when he sold to Lorenzo Mulliken, who remained until 1847. Horace Bemis worked for him or with him, it is not certain which, dur- ing the Winter of 1845 and till the Spring of 1847, when he rented the place. Mulliken had meantime secured the contract for carrying the mail from Du- buque to Quasqueton, but died of consumption during the same Summer. In the general history will be found further details regarding the other early set- tlers and their adventures. Bemis bought the Mulliken estate, owned it two years, and then sold it to Robert Alexander, who transferred it to its present owner, James E. Robertson. Isaac Webster, who wintered with Beatty in 1844-45, improved the ground now covered by Fayette, raising a crop of oats the Summer of 1844.
The Fall of 1849 and the Spring of 1850 brought a considerable increase by immigration to the population of this part of Fayette County.
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In the Fall of 1850, a village was platted near the east line of Westfield Township and named Volga City, but the owners of the plat, finding that a town had just been established in Clayton County with the same name, changed the name of their village to Lima. This place was a competitor with West Union for the county seat ; her business men, the Lights, Mr. Lacy and Mr. Hopkins, working for the interest of their town with great energy. But the fates and West Union were too much for these enterprising men by a consider- able majority, and the town soon began to lose its temporary importance.
The first religious service ever held in Westfield Township of, which record remains, was at the house occupied by Jas. E. Robertson, the services being conducted by Rev. John Hinman, a Methodist. The date was Jan. 9, 1850.
S. H. Robertson, a brother of J. E., settled in the Fall of 1850, occupying the " Continental House " (the Wilcox cabin), in Township 92, Range 8, dur- ing the following Winter. In the Spring of 1851, he purchased land on the bottom near by and erected a cabin.
Madison Brown built a cabin one mile below Fayette some time prior to 1849, but abandoned it. This was occupied in 1850 by Clark Newcomb.
In 1850, Robert Alexander built a saw-mill at what is now known as West- field, and during the same year Erastus A. Light built another saw-mill at Lima. He purchased a small pair of buhrs for grinding corn, which was a great con- venience to settlers in the vicinity.
The first school house in the township was built at Lima in 1850, and a school was taught in the building, the following Winter, by E. H. Light.
C. Lacy started a store in Volga City, in 1851, and D. H. Miller started in the same business during the following year.
The second school house in the township was built where Fayette now stands, in 1853, the first school being taught by Lucy Newcomb, in the Winter fol- lowing.
Her immediate successors were Desdemona Dunham, J. L. Paine and R. Mulnix. Among others, Joseph Hobson is remembered as having taught three or four years later.
The first election in Westfield Township was in April, 1851, held at the house of Stephen Ludlow. The election in August following was at Clark Newcomb's.
It is related that whisky flowed freely at the first election, the candidates passing the jug with the greatest activity. Among those mentioned who did not drink were Aaron Brown, afterward Colonel of the Third Iowa and subse- quently Register of the State Land Office, S. H. and J. E. Robertson. The local chronicler adds that not one of the trio got an office at that election.
The first case spread on the docket of F. Mitchell, Justice of the Peace, is that of Mansel H. Root vs. William W. Anderson, in which a garnishee was taken on John R. Smith, who, on the 17th of October, 1855, admitted himself to be indebted to Anderson in the amount of $23.07. Defendant not appear- ing, he was defaulted ; and January 5, 1856, Root receipted for $17.82, the difference having been consumed by costs.
October 17, 1855, Lucretia Hendrickson took the oath of office as Deputy in Cornhill post office ; and Samuel Holmes was sworn as Postmaster at West- field on the 22d.
The next case is the State against Richard Quinn, cited before Justice G. W. Walker, charged with assault and battery on the person of John Dooley, with a knife, "saying he intended to take his life, and did inflict one wound upon the person of John Dooley." A change of venue was taken to Justice
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Mitchell, who fined the pugnacious Quinn $20.00, but while in the custody of Constable Z. Bryan the prisoner " escaped and absconded."
One of the earliest cases arising in Westfield Township was before Andrew Hensley, J. P., who fixed the hour of defendant's appearance at 11 o'clock at night instead of the same hour in the forenoon. The defendant noticed that Hensley had made a mistake, writing " A. M." for "P. M.," and he construed the summons literally, finding everybody in bed as he expected. Hensley had the previous forenoon defaulted the defendant, who lived over in Illyria Town- ship, but on his showing Hensley his mistake about the date, His Honor judi- ciously presented him with a hive of bees to keep the blunder to himself, which he did-for a while.
June 22, 1857, Martha Farrer, the teacher in District No. 13, received an order for $33.00, signed by Richard Earle and Whitfield W. Morrison. Pay- ment was refused, whereupon Martha brought suit on the order, and for the further sum of $60.00, claimed to be due her, before A. Wheatley, Justice. A trial was had, in which the district undertook to prove a violation of contract. It is to be presumed, however, that Martha won her cause, for she has left on the back of the order her attestation that she received $14.25. She obtained the rest by garnisheement from the County Treasurer, an allowable proceeding at that time. Among the papers pertaining to the case is a rejoinder from Earle, denying that the district had violated its part of the contract. Another paper, in the handwriting of L. L. Ainsworth and sworn to before Justice Wheatley, is as follows :
STATE OF IOWA, FAYETTE COUNTY, SS. : L. L. Ainsworth, being duly sworn, deposeth and says that he is attorney for defendant in the cause now pending before Andrew Wheatley, a Justice of the Peace in and for Fayette County, Iowa, wherein Martha Farrer is plaintiff, and School District No. 13 in Westfield Township, Fayette County, lowa, is defendant. That said suit was returnable on the 10th day of November, 1857, at 11 o'clock A. M. That at thirty minutes before 11 of said day, S. S. Ainsworth, attorney for the plaintiff in said suit, at the village of Albany in said Fayette County, compared time with this deponent, and that the time of the two [affiant] agreed with that of said S. S. Ainsworth, and that said S. S. Ainsworth agreed not to do anything in said case until 12 o'clock by their times, and that such should be the understanding between them. And further says that S. S. Ainsworth did wilfully and wrongfully, and with intent to wrong said defendant, as he verily believes, proceed in said cause and obtain an undue advantage over said defendant. He therefore asks leave to file an answer in said case, without costs.
It was a very unbarrister-like proceeding on S. S.'s part, no doubt ; but as he was endeavoring to obtain justice for a young lady, his offense may now be safely condoned. Five of the jurors who gave Martha the verdict were A. Gill. D. Crist, J. B. Finch, A. Rice and C. Landers.
EDUCATIONAL.
Among those who were school officers of Westfield Township in 1856, as indicated by their appearance before Justice Walker to be sworn in, were Erwin Ash, Charles Hoyt, Clark Newcomb, Henry N. Sutton, Leroy Templeton, John H. Maxon, James E. Robertson, John H. Borrine, Charles Reed, Will- iam Bonine, John Brooks and Chauncey Brooks.
The school property in Sub-District No. 1 was appraised at $120 by Stephen D. Helms, Andrew Wheatley and F. G. Walbridge; Sub-District No. 7 was not in such comfortable circumstances for F. G. Walbridge, Conrad Sheela and Edward Cave returned the school property as valued at $50.
The report of the Secretary of the Township District of Westfield, to the Spring meeting of 1859, is in all respects a first rate document. District No. 1 had expended $159.44 for maintaining school, of which $144 was for teachers'
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wages. The attendance of pupils was 61, and the number of weeks. taught, 32. No. 2 expended $131 for teachers' wages ; number of weeks of school, 28 ; attendance, 51. No. 3, teachers' wages, $257 ; weeks taught, 44 ; attend- ance 165. No. 4, teachers' wages, $98; weeks taught, 20; attendance, 102. No. 5, teachers' wages, $160; weeks taught, 32; attendance, 50. No. 6, teach- ers' wages, $80; weeks taught, 16; attendance, 27. No. 7, teachers' wages, $104; weeks taught, 32; attendance, 65. No. 8, teachers' wages, $167.75; weeks taught, 28; attendance, 30. The valuation of the township is noted at $321,028.
Most of the teachers' registers for the year 1858 are preserved. F. A. Mitchell was the teacher in No. 3. " Got the itch," is noted against one pupil, and of another is registered, "turned him out on account of the itch." Another " brought no books, and was requested to purchase, or not come." Late in January (Friday), Mr. Mitchell says, " no school on Friday of this week on account of burning of house," which is also recorded of the following Monday. On the back of the return is a list of the text books used. There were three kinds of readers, " and every kind of primer known." There were seven dif- ferent arithmetics, four geographies and three grammars-enough to drive a teacher of 1878 to distraction. The compensation of teachers in 1858, was not princely, the salaries ranging from $2.25 to $7.50 per week, but in the case of the smaller sum, a further sum was drawn by other parties for the teacher's board.
The Directors of the various Districts for 1858 were S. D. Helms, No. 1; Richard Earle, No. 2; D. Vines, No. 3; C. Sheela, No. 4; Henry Hopkins, No. 5; J. L. White, No. 6; Levi Ross, No. 7; T. J. Dewey, No. 8 (all of Center). Dr. D. Alexander was President of the Board, C. Newcomb, Vice President, and F. G. Walbridge, Secretary. June 2, a special meeting of the voters was held, at which power was given the Board to levy a two-mill tax for teachers' fund, two mills for school house fund, and to borrow $3,000 for school house construction. In April, 1859, the Board limited the wages of female. teachers to $12 per month, and of male teachers to $18. October 6, 1860, Harlan Township was voted $45 as a fair pro rata of school taxes collected from the inhabitants of that township. May 10, 1862, the Board organized under the new law, by electing John Thorp as President ; H. W. Burch, Secretary, and Edwin Cave, Treasurer. January 23, 1863, the sum of $126 was voted to Center, as indemnification for taxes collected from the people of the new town- ship. April 20, a five-mill tax was levied in District No. 3, for the purpose of building a school house. The Sub-Districts were allowed $100 each for school purposes, with the understanding that they were each to have six months' school. May 2, 1863, the Board settled with Fayette Independent District, paying the latter $119.55 in full of all claims. The site for school house in District No. 3 was located December 26. April 13, 1864, five mills for school house pur- poses was levied on Districts No. 6, 3, 4 and 5. The sum of $120 was allowed to each school for teachers' pay.
A farmer named Campbell, living in Westfield Township, a few rods north of the Tegarden spring, lost his life by a falling tree in November, 1863. He had chopped off the tree, which caught him as it fell, breaking his neck.
October 4, 1864, Sarah Elizabeth Clark was taken before Justice Mitchell on the information that she had committed assault and battery upon the body of Olive Matilda Foster. Sarah waived the assistance of counsel, and pleaded not guilty. During the proceedings, the defense asked the court to keep Olive Matilda in another part of the room from herself and friends, upon which a
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