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Wm. A. Patrick came to this place from eastern Ohio in 1867, and car- ried on the mercantile business for several years. He is now engaged in the grain trade.
J. C. Gridley established the first hardware store. He came from Illi- nois to this place in the year 1866.
INCORPORATION OF VICTOR.
In the year 1869, under the general law of the State of Iowa, this town was incorporated. Under the direction of Mr. G. W. Wilson the town was laid off into lots by the surveyor, Mr. Charles Stotwell. It was surveyed only eight years before incorporation. The mayors, recorders and marshals have been as follows:
YEAR.
MAYOR.
RECORDER.
MARSHAL.
1869|A. H. Simpson
H. M. Wilson.
F. P. Hutchins.
1870 W. A. Patrick.
H. M. Wilson
John Ledwich
1871 H. F. Garretson.
A. M. Simpson
F. P. Hutchins
1872 H. F. Garretson
A. M. Simpson
A. Emry .
1873 E. P. Hall.
A. M. Simpson
James Miller
1874|J. E. Wilkins
J. B. Kessler
James Miller
1875 J. E. Wilkins.
1876 G. P. Englebeck.
A. S. Gilbert
James Miller .
1877 R. C. Broughton
A. S. Gilbert
J. B. Kessler
1878 W. A. Patrick.
A. S. Gilbert
John Cross ..
1879 W. A. Patrick.
J. B. Craven
W. Vanfossen .
1880 Harry Howard
J. B. Craven .
John Genzley
Not only is Victor supplied with the corporate machinery of a little city, but it possesses all the motive power for carrying forward a well ordered town. It has printed city ordinances and a full list of city officers.
CHURCHES.
The glory of a growing town is her churches and schools, and Victor has not failed to estimate the value of four churches in her midst.
Methodist-The Methodist denomination was the first to erect a place of public worship in the city limits. George H. Blodgett drew up the
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plan of the building and James Miller performed the principal part of its construction. The present elegant structure was erected in 1878 at a cost of $3,000. It was dedicated June 28, 1878, by Rev. I. A. Bradrick. It is. a frame edifice, capable of seating about three hundred, provided with. all modern improvements, including a good bell and organ. The first class was organized in the year 1853, and among the early members were Mrs. Mary Ann Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. Griswold, Charles Cumstock, W. Rosecrans and wife, Isaac Rosecrans and wife, McBurney and wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Switzer, John Gwin and wife. There is a present membership. of seventy-five. There have been several pastors and among them we no- tice John Hestwood, George Bamford, J. Cary, C. P. Reynolds, S. H. Thomas, J. T. Simmons, D. C. Smith and D. A. Watters, the present pas- tor.
Presbyterian-The First Presbyterian Church of Victor was organized September 28, 1867, with the following members: Mrs. Martha P. Batch- eller, Miss Rebecca Ann Blackburn, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gridley, William C. North, Mrs. Mary Jane Patrick, Edward P. Pierson, Mrs. Sophia Pear- son, Susan Rohrer, Claudius B. Tracy, Mrs. Hannah Wallack, Mrs. Louisa J. Wilson. The church, situated on Washington Street, in the south part of town, was purchased from another denomination in 1872 for the sum of $900. In the spring of 1880 the church building was improved by founda- tion, addition to front, vestibule, belfry, bell, etc., to the amount of $500. It will seat about two hundred. The following pastors have served the church: A. D. Chapman, A. Snashall, H. H. Kellogg, E. C. Haskell, John Branch, John L. Martyr, E. A. Walker, present pastor. There is a good union Sunday-school of about one hundred, with Mr. E. P. Hall superintendent and Miss Mary Wilson, secretary.
There is also a small organization of Moravians, also a small church of Catholics.
SCHOOLS.
The first school established in Victor was held in a blacksmith shop that was built and owned by Mr. L. W. Hunt. It stood on the south end of the lot afterward occupied by Barker & Brother's saloon building. This was in the spring.of 1863; Miss Addie Furley, sister of Mrs. Noah W. Gwin, was teacher. The little shop was gotten up after the primitive style, and had no floor in it, and but one window. In the fall of 1865 the house now owned and occupied by the Catholic society as a church was built, and used for school purposes till 1870. John G. Simpson, Melvin Wigton, Philip Uhl and John H. Funk, were chosen as the first directors of the Independent District of Victor. M. T. Funk was the first treasurer and George W. Wilson was the first secretary. In 1870 the district erected a building for school purposes, which stood about one-half mile south of the business portion of town. In October,. 1873, the building was wholly destroyed by fire. In 1874 the present building, with the ex- ception of the addition on the south side of the same, was erected. George H. Blodgett was the architect and builder of the edifice. The schools were first graded in June, 1869. John Wallack and Reuben Randolph members of the board were appointed "to classify the scholars into suitable classes, and divide the labor of teaching said scholars as equally as practicable be- tween the two teachers." In April, 1871, the " board acted in conjunction with the teachers to establish a grade for the school." At a meeting of the
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board April 26, 1871, the " school of Victor was organized into six graded departments-primary, intermediate and grammar"; a course of study was also adopted. August 26, 1877, a course of study proposed by principal O. M. Schee was adopted. This added two departments, second primary and high school, to course adopted in 1871. Another revised course of study has been proposed by Principal J. J. Pollard, and is now before the board. This adds one year to the high school department and designates the amount of work to be done each half term in each branch. A school- house, as has been stated, having two rooms and a small recitation room down stairs and two rooms up stairs was built in the fall of 1870. Its location was about one-half mile due south of the depot. Only the rooms below were furnished and used. The cost of the house was about $7,000. It was a frame building heated with a furnace. Owing to some defect in the flue it caught fire at noon, Monday, October 6, 1873. During the win- ter of 1873-4, the Presbyterian and Methodist churches were rented for
school purposes. School was closed at the opening of spring, until a new house could be built. The new house was built on the corner of Har- rison and Fourth Street, in the summer of 1874. It is provided with two stories and four rooms at a cost of $3,500. An addition of two rooms was built to this house in the summer of 1877, at a cost of $1,500. It is heated with steam. The present bonded indebtedness of the district is $1,500. All the rooms are well supplied with blackboards of superior quality. clocks, desks, chairs, etc. The walls of all the rooms have been ornamented with pictures procured by the exertions of the pupils; also the pupils of the high school and grammar departments have within the past year, started a library, containing at present forty volumes. Scribner's Monthly is also taken by the pupils of the high school. The board have furnished two Webster's Unabridged Dictionaries, one set of Chambers' Encyclo- pedia, two large maps of Iowa, one set of outline maps, one twelve inch globe, one box of geometrical forms, also organ for high school room, and will soon provide air pump and electrical machine.
The first primary is dismissed at 2:30 P. M., when the teacher takes charge of the high school, allowing the principal to visit other rooms.
The total amount paid teachers annually is $2,200. The present num- ber of pupils enrolled is 203, and the average number belonging 1082. The number of persons having graduated from the high school is 8. The first class graduated in 1879. The present graduating class numbers 10. Here- ยท with we give a list of the principals with the date of each one's service:
John A. Davidson, summer of 1869; Aranthna Cardell, fall 1869 and sum- mer 1870; Jesse A. Smith, one year 1870-1; Clement L. Clapp, one year 1871-2; A. H. Simpson, fall and winter 1872-3; A. B. Cornell, spring 1873; A. C. Osborn, fall and winter 1873-4; W. M. Colby, two years 1874-6; C. L. Porter, one year 1876-7; O. M. Schee, one year 1877-8; A. T. Free, one year 1878-9; J. J. Pollard, two years 1879-81.
The present list of teachers is J. J. Pollard, principal and teacher in high school; Miss E. E. Lewis, teacher in grammar department; Miss Ella Craven, teacher in intermediate department; Miss Eva Batcheller, teacher in second primary department; Miss Marian A. Patrick teacher in first primary department.
VICTOR HERALD.
The first weekly paper in Victor was called the Victor Sun, and edited
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by D. B. Eaton in 1871. Then G. W. Rutherford took the paper and called it the Index, after which it was edited by Mr. W. Clapp, and after his death, which occurred in the spring of 1875, his widow assumed the edito- rial duties. E. E. Merritt and Charles Kelsey followed, and now the Victor Herald is efficiently managed by Mr. J. A. Shanks. The particular his- tory of Mr. Shanks' paper is this: The Ladora Herald was established at Ladora, Iowa county, Iowa, November 21, 1878, by J. A. Shanks. It was a six column folio and was continued there till the latter part of Feb- ruary, 1880, when it was removed to Victor and has since been called the Victor Herald. It has been changed from a patent inside to an all home print, the same size as before, with J. A. Shanks still editor and proprietor. It now enjoys a good advertising patronage and has a good circulation and is now one of the fixed institutions of the county.
MASONIC.
The charter was granted the Victor Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 287 March 15, 1870, with the following as charter members: R. C. Broughton, J. H. Huston, George L. Ostrom, John Elrod, J. P. Hunt, D. L. Lyon, A. Young and S. Boden. R. C. Broughton was first W. M., and served in that capacity five years, 1870-1874, then C. F. Cadle was elected to that office in 1875, B. F. Booth W. M. in 1876, R. C. Broughton again in 1877, B. F. Booth again in 1878, R. C. Broughton again in 1879, and E. P. Hall is present W. M. The other officers are: J. A. Booth, S. W .; J. P. Hunt, J. W .; J. B. Craven, secretary; W. H. Bowman, treasurer; R. C. Brough- ton, S. D .; T. C. Howard, J. D .; and Wilson Vanfossen, tyler. The order meets in Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening on or before full moon in each month. Present membership thirty-five.
ODD FELLOWS.
They were organized in March, 1870, and the present membership is . forty. They meet every Saturday evening in Masonic Hall. The present officers are J. Buchanan, N. G .; S. Smith, V. G .; N. H. Curtis, treasurer; and F. O. Hall secretary. They own and manage the Odd Fellows' cem- etery, which is situated about one-half mile southeast from the depot. It was surveyed and laid out by John L. Williams in 1872, and contains ten acres. There is a good road leading to it; the grounds are laid out with roads and alleys, and shade trees are set at convenient intervals, so that in the space of a few years the grounds will be indeed beautiful. The trees are soft maple and evergreens. At present there are 125 graves. E. B. Mc- Connell is present trustee and agent.
The Catholics also have a cemetery of about five acres immediately north of the Odd Fellows'. There are now about 25 graves in the Catholic cemetery.
A. O. U. W.
The Victor Lodge, A. O. U. W., was organized in April, 1877, with eighteen charter members. W. A. Patrick was the first M. W., and C. F. Cadle, P. M. W. The present officers are: A. Bartholomew, M. W .; James Simpson, P. M. W .; J. B. Cary, foreman; G. W. Banghart, over- seer; W. A. Patrick, recorder; E. P. Hall, financier and C. F. Cadle, re-
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ceiver. The order meets every Wednesday night in Masonic Hall. The present membership is thirty-three.
THE V. A. S. FRATERNITY.
This lodge was organized in November, 1879, with eleven charter mem- bers. They meet on the first Friday evening in each month in Braugh- ton's Hall. The present officers are J. B. Cary, C. R .; E. B. McConnell, V. R .; T. Buchanan, scribe and W. F. Swayze, quester.
POST-OFFICE.
This office is under the efficient management of the gentlemanly postmas- ter, J. B. Craven, who received his appointment in October, 1874. There are three regular mails daily, one from the west and two from the east. For some time it has been a money order office and now does considerable busi- ness. The office was first established one and a quarter miles south on the State road in July, 1854, with Samuel Drummond postmaster. It was called Victor from a town by that name in New York State, and when re- moved to near the depot in March, 1862, still retained the name and soon the little village was called the same. After Mr. Drummond came Wes- ley Hunt, then F. C. Smith, John Ludwich, Melvin Wighton, Dr. D. J. Hussey, John Ludwich and the present appointee.
THE DEPOT.
We have already given a full history of the construction of the depot, which was the first building, and around which has clustered such a pros- perous little town. We now give a few figures showing the amount of business done at this point. These facts and figures were kindly furnished us by the gentlemanly agent. The freight, passenger, telegraph and ex- press offices are in the same building. The telegraph office and passenger waiting room are kept open all night. There are two express and passen- ger trains each way daily, and fully fifteen freight and accommodation trains each way daily. There are convenient stock yards in connection with the other advantages. The yearly shipments are nearly as follows:
Wheat 250 cars or
100,000 bushels.
Corn 350 cars, or
148,750
Oats 75 cars, or.
45,000
Timothy seed 14 cars, or
7,000
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Other small grain about.
5,000
Hogs 250 cars, or
17,500
head
Cattle 150 cars, or
2,400
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Horses and sheep about
10
cars.
The aggregate number of tickets sold 5,000. Total monthly business $6,000.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Post-office-J. B. Craven, postmaster.
Iowa County Bank-W. F. Swayze, cashier. Central Hotel-J. Buchanan, proprietor.
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Harper House-J. T. Harper, proprietor.
General stores-W. F. Hunt, J. S. McClellan & Co., Joseph Holly, Buchanan Bros., A. Homann.
Grocery stores-Frank Mussetter, Harry Whitworth, A. J. McAdams.
Depot-J. T. Lewis, agent.
Clothing store-G. M. Schmidt.
Insurance-G. H. Blodgett, agent.
Drug stores-William Toovey, D. S. A. McDermid.
Hardware-J. C. Gridley, H. S. Lowrey.
Jewelry-A. E. Curry.
Grain elevators-J. P. Hunt, Hunt & Patrick, N. A. Drummond.
Lumber yards-James Simpson, C. F. Cadle.
Real estate-I. S. Richards.
Furniture-James Simpson & Son.
Millinery and Dressmaking-S. J. Buker, C. A. Brown, Dolmage Sis- ters.
Blacksmiths-Daniel Raffensperger, William Cushing, Jacob Ganzley.
Wagon and blacksmith shop-McConnell & Vanfossen.
Commission store-W. W. Orris.
Harness shops-Lewis Clark, Isaac Crissman.
Bakery-Charles Schroer.
Livery-N. A. Curtis and Chas. Morgan.
Meat market-Wm. Bowman and L. Byer.
Ministers-E. A. Walker, D. A. Watters.
Teachers-J. J. Pollard, Miss E. E. Lewis, Ella Craven, Eva Batcheller, Marion Patrick.
Lawyers-H. F. Garretson, Harry Howard, Henry Sheldon, J. H. Os- tron.
Physicians-J. M. Dunlap, I. M. Huston, F. D. Smith, W. W. Orris.
LADORA.
The neat little village of Ladora is beautifully situated about one-fourth of a mile north of Bear Creek, on the extreme eastern limit of Hartford township. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway passes through east and west, and the station is six miles west from Marengo, and six east from Victor. Most of the residences are on rising ground looking to- ward Bear Creek, its fertile fields and the rolling prairies beyond, while the business street running east and west is under the hill south of the railroad. At present the town contains two churches, a school, depot and various business enterprises. The population according to the United States cen- sus of 1880 was 285.
LAID OUT.
The town of Ladora was surveyed and platted by James A. Paine, Sep- tember 19 and 20,1867, and was located on the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twelve, township number eighty, range num- ber twelve west of the fifth principal meridian, for the C., R. I. & P. R. R. Co., of which J. F. Tracy was president, and F. H. Tows, secretary. The plat was officially acknowledged October 25, 1867. Huston's addition to the northeast of the original plat was made in June, 1868. The town plat
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covers seventy-three and three-fourths acres, one-half of which is in Hart- ford and the other half in Sumner township; all of the business portion, however, is in Hartford township.
INCORPORATION.
At the November term of the court, 1879, an order was obtained to call an election to decide the question of incorporation. In the month of Janu- ary at a special election it was decided to incorporate, accordingly on the first day of March, 1880, the following city officers were elected: Mayor, J. H. Gray; recorder, O. F. Williams; assessor, O. F. Williams; marshal, F. E. Dennis; common council, F. Pike, L. W. Wilson, F. P. Starrett, M. D. Snavley and I. D. Smith. Mr. J. H. Gray resigned soon after his election, and in May Mr. W. S. Foster was elected mayor to fill his place. The first building on the site of Ladora was erected by P. J. Rosencrans, and occupied as a dwelling in the year 1868 or latter part of 1867.
The second building was the old elevator, erected by P. J. Rosencrans in September of the same year, where he immediately commenced handling grain. It stood where the elevator now stands, on the south side of the rail- road. Mr. Rosencrans' dwelling stood a few rods north of the railroad. The third building was put up by Melvin Wigton just north of the railroad and used as a store. Then there was a store put up by S. Huston. The depot was built in the fall of 1869, and was a very small room only 16x22. The present station house was built in the summer of 1877.
CHURCHES.
The Presbyterian Church-Was organized in the year 1869, with about a dozen members. They built a neat little church during the summer of 1870 at a cost of $1,500. It was not dedicated, however, till the year 1874. The officiating clergymen at the dedicating services were Rev. Dr. Nott, of Davenport, and Rev. E. C. Haskel. Before the church was ready for dedica- tion it was removed from its foundation and considerably injured by a severe wind. Then again in June, 1876, it was struck by lightning. When the devout worshipers at this temple dedicated to God, saw the marks of vengeful lightnings they grew serious and wondered if it could be a direct sign from heaven. The church was repaired and again used for worship till last July, when a terrific cyclone struck and entirely demolished it scat- tering its fragments for half a mile. The people think it was the hand of him who rules the forces of nature, and have not as yet replaced the edifice.
Methodist Church-The society was organized in 1870 with six or eight members. The first minister was John Elrod, then came D. C. Smith, A. V. Francis, J. E. Corley, Samuel Hestwood, R. J. Kenyon, C. S. Jennis, R. A. Carnine, D. A. Watters and John Potter, present pastor. The pre- sent church edifice was built by the Seventh Day Adventists and located three miles west of Ladora, on the Allen farm, but in May, 1879, it was bought by the Methodist Episcopal Church and removed to its present site. It is supplied with tower and bell. The cost was not far from $1,200. It was dedicated July 26, 1879, by presiding elder I. A. Bradrick and the pastor, C. S. Jennis. The present membership is forty-five. There is a flourishing sabbath-school of eighty or ninety scholars, of which S. Whit- lock is superintendent.
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SCHOOLS.
The Ladora public schools are now under the efficient management of Miss Mary Lanphere and Miss Dora M. Jack. In both schools there is an average attendance of about sixty pupils. The building is a one-story frame with two rooms.
POST-OFFICE.
The office was established about the year 1865 and kept on the Wilson farm. When the application was made for an office it was not easy to de- cide upon a name, but Mrs. Gen. Scofield, a music teacher, living there at the time, conceived the idea of taking the syllables "la " "do " " ra," names of three notes of the minor scale in music and calling the name of the office what these would spell when written together, la-do-ra, hence the name Ladora. When the office was removed to the station from the farm the little village which grew around it was called Ladora. The post-office department at Washington, mistaking the word for one derived from the French spelled it, using a capital D, but in general business it is spelled Ladora, as at first intended. The office was brought to Ladora in the fall of 1868. W. S. Foster is the present postmaster.
DEPOT.
The advantages offered passengers and shippers at this point are fully equal to those offered elsewhere on the line of the railroad. The estimated shipment from this point is about as follows for 1879:
Corn, 336 cars. 145,000 bushels.
Wheat, 48 cars 20,000 bushels.
Oats, 84 cars . 62,000 bushels.
Other grain, 102 cars.
44,000 bushels.
Hogs, 42 cars
2,400 head.
Cattle, 24 cars.
432 head.
Tickets sold.
4,500
MASONIC.
A lodge of A. F. & A. M. was organized in June, 1871, with eleven charter members. John Bricker was the first W. M. The present officers are as follows: John Bricker, W. M .; Z. Waterman, S. W .; A. Young, J. W .; J. H. Gray, treasurer; W. S. Foster, secretary; D. B. Darr, S. D .; Isaac Bricker, J. D.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
General stores-Starrett & Miles, Foster & Medley, Bricker & Wilson. Grocery store-William J. Clements.
Drug store-Dr. D. B. Darr, L. W. Hall. Hotels-F. E. Dennie, Daniel Curfman. Hardware-M. D. Snavley.
Boots and shoes-John Kiel.
Blacksmith and wagon shops-John Schaf buch, J. D. Smith.
Grain houses-W. B. Fields, J. S. Black, Z. Waterman.
Harness shop-M. A. Mantz.
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Meat market-Fred Diercks.
Livery-Simon Heller. Millinery stores-Mrs. M. E. Hoselton, Mrs. R. M. Kimball.
Physicians-J. Bricker, D. B. Darr.
Lawyer-O. F. Williams.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
B OHSTEDT, C. H. F .- Farmer and breeder of fine stock, Sec. 32. The subject of this sketch is one of the most intelligent farmers and fine stock breeders in this township, if not in the county. He has a fine farm of 160 acres of fine land in section 30 of this township, most of which he has seeded to grass and has under a fine state of cultivation. His fences are of the very best and his buildings good; he has a great number of sheds and outbuildings for taking care of his stock, and in fact is well fixed for his partic - ular branch of agriculture. He isa gentleman of broad views and is thoroughly conversant with his business, and is a constant reader and student of the lead- ing journals of the age. He keeps hogs, cattle and horses, nor yet does he con- fine himself to one of a kind of these; in hogs he has the pure blooded Eng- lish Berkshire and the Poland-China; in catttle, the Short-Horns, and nearly all the different families; has 13 fine blooded cows, all of which are pure thorough-bred-the pedigrees of which he takes great pleasure in giving. He has also a number of fine heifers and young male animals of his own raising; has a fine span of imported Clydesdale mares, weighing about 1,750 Ibs. each, which he purchased in Chicago, of the Hon. George Brown, president of the fine stock breeders' association of Canada. These animals took the first premium at the State Fairs of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri. He has a fine male of the bovine species, the Second Duke of Waveland, from which animals all his calves have been bred. Mr. Bohstedt has taken great pains to get the very best stock in the market, and has spared neither pains nor money to have the best, and deserves to succeed. Mr. B. is well known and highly respected in his township and is destined to be at no distant day one of Iowa's best fine stock breeders. Was born at Holstein, Germany, on the 20th of September, 1837, where he was brought up on a farm and educated in the common schools. He remained in his native country until he was twenty-one years of age, when he came to America, landing at Baltimore, Maryland. He came immediately to Scott county, Iowa, and settled on a farm, where he remained until the year 1864, when he enlisted in company I, Eleventh Iowa infantry and joined his regiment at or near Atlanta, in time to go with Sherman on his memora- ble march to the sea. He made the entire trip from Atlanta to Washing- ton and participated in all the engagements on the route, besides the bat- tle of Goldsboro, North Carolina, before starting. He was present at the surrender of Columbia, South Carolina, the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnson and in many battles and skirmishes on the way. He was mus- tered out of the service at Georgetown after the grand review at Washing- ton. He then returned to Scott county and again entered upon his duties as a farmer, which he followed in that county until the year 1869, when, in January, he came to the place which he now owns and occupies. He was married in 1868 to Miss Dora Rotermund, who is still living and by whom he has five children living: Mary, Minnie, August, John and Emma. It is but fair to say that Mr. B. was very poor when he came to Davenport
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