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TOWN OFFICERS.
Below we give a roster of the town officers so far as we were able to ascer- tain them.
1863-Mayor, J. H. Smith; Recorder, Henry Todd. Council-J. Y. Black well, James A. Bryan, B. F. Thomas, A. L. Palmer, D. H. Daudel.
1864-A. L. Palmer, Mayor; A. Palmer, Recorder.
1865-Allen Palmer, Mayor ; W. B. Keeling, Recorder (resigned in April and Thomas Ray appointed as his successor).
1866-J. S. Darling, Mayor; Levi Keck, Recorder. Council-Thomas Ray, D. H. Daudel, Joseph Palmer, P. B. Bradley.
1867-W. B. Whitley, Mayor ; A. D. Palmer, Recorder ; Richard Cobb, Marshal. Council-D. W. Trump, Thomas McMurray, B. F. Thomas, J. C. Rigby, J. Y. Buchanan.
1868-W. B. Whitley, Mayor; D. W. Trump, Recorder; William Buchanan, Marshal. Council-B. F. Thomas, J. Y. Buchanan, William M. Trout, James Thompson, Joseph Long
1869-R. M. Smith, Mayor; Allen Palmer, Recorder; A. J. Cheney, Marshal. Council-B. F. Thomas, Joseph Long, William Trout, O. P. But- terworth, James A. Bryan. Mayor Smith resigned in June and W. B. Whit- ley took his place for the remainder of the year.
1870-A. S. Carnahan, Mayor; Allen Palmer, Recorder ; Richard Cobb, Marshal. Council-Levi Keck, John S. Ray, John Donnelly, William Trout, C. H. O'Brien, O. P. Butterworth.
1871-A. S. Carnahan, Mayor ; D. W. Trump, Recorder ; Richard Cobb, Marshal. Died in May and C. Starr appointed as his successor. Council- W. B. Whitley, O. P. Butterworth, T. E. Blanchard, J. P. Mann, A. Palmer.
1872-James A. Bryan, Mayor; John S. Ray, Recorder; J. L. Cannon, Marshal. Council-D. H. Daudel, J. Hollister, C. H. O'Brien, O. P. Butter- worth, William M. Trout.
1873-P. B. Bradley, Mayor : John S. Ray, Recorder ; James Buchanan, Marshal. Council-Nathaniel Butterworth, Jr., A. M. Phillips, D. H. Dau- del, J. P. Mann, Thomas Ray.
1874-W. C. Gregory, Mayor; T. E. Blanchard, Recorder; John L. Cannon, Marshal. Council-Thomas Ray, D. H. Daudel, A. M. Phillips, Allen Palmer and J. C. Rigby.
1875-P. B. Bradley, Mayor; T. E. Blanchard, Recorder ; Joseph Long, Marshal. Council-A. M. Phillips, J. C. Rigby, J. C. Blessing, Thomas Ray and D. H. Daudel.
1876-P. B. Bradley, Mayor; T. E. Blanchard, Recorder; P. N. Kim- ball, Marshal. Removed from town during the year and W. H. Moler appointed. Council-O. P. Butterworth, A. S. Carnahan, J. Hollister, James Thompson, D. H. Daudel.
1877-L. D. McCoy, Mayor; T. E. Blanchard, Recorder; C. L. Closson, Marshal. Council-Thomas Ray, D. H. Daudel, J. Y. Buchanan, N. B. But- terworth, J. J. McCord.
1878-L. D. McCoy, Mayor ; C. F. Bradley, Recorder ; John W. Van Meter, Marshal. Council-T. M. Hamilton, Thomas Ray, J. Y. Buchanan, J. J. McCord, Allen Palmer.
1879-Mayor, Thomas Ray ; Recorder, N. E. Butterworth; Marshal, G. W. Downing. Council-A. S. Carnahan, J. J. McCord, D. H. Daudel, N. B. Butterworth, J. Y. Buchanan, M. W. Mechner.
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POST OFFICE.
The first post office in this vicinity was kept by Nathaniel Butterworth, Sr., shortly after the establishment of the mail route from Davenport to Dubuque. This was about 1840.
Shortly after the location of Andrew, the post office was changed to this point, with Thomas Marshall as first Postmaster, as already mentioned. Mr. Marshall was succeeded by - Shureck, then Harvey Young, Henry Todd, Joseph Long, John K. Miller, William Trout, W. C. Gregory, T. E. Blanch- ard and J. Y. Buchanan. The latter is the occupant of the office at this time, which is kept in Butterworth & Buchanan's store. The money-order business is quite large at this office for the size of the town, being about $25,000 per year. This fact is due to the absence of a bank or exchange office. At this office is also a United States Depository of Refunding Certificates, affording small and safe investments for the people of the town and vicinity. This depository was established in the spring of 1879.
BUSINESS INTERESTS.
In brief, the chief business of Andrew is done by the following firms :
General stores, Butterworth & Buchanan, established in 1875; A. S. Car- nahan, established in 1874.
Grocery, H. A. Bryan, established in 1879.
Drug stores, A. S. Carnahan, in 1871; M. W. Mechner, in 1877. These gentlemen are also practicing physicians.
Attorneys, B. F. Thomas, L. D. McCoy and P. B. Bradley, Esq. Hotels, the Franklin House, by N. B. Butterworth.
There are various blacksmith and wagon shops, saloons, etc., etc. The pop- ulation of Andrew is not far from 320.
SCHOOLS.
The schoolhouse now used by the rising generation of Andrew is located just far enough north of town to prevent mutual disturbance on the part of the pupils and others. This building is a two-story stone, built in 1866, and will accommodate about one hundred pupils, having one room on each floor. The building was not placed on a good foundation, and the walls are sadly cracked, rendering the present value of the building doubtful. Neither is it large enough to accommodate the needs of the district, since it became necessary, during part of the past winter, to open an additional school in one of the rooms of the old Court House.
The Directors now are: B. F. Thomas, President; L. F. Manning, J. Y. Buchanan, W. C. Butterworth, W. B. Hunter, T. M. Hamilton. The Secre- tary is L. D. McCoy ; Treasurer, J. C. Rigby.
This Board have now in the treasury (July 18, 1879) about $800 belonging to the teachers' fund, $700 of which is invested in United States Registered Certificates. This doubtless is partly due, we presume, to the low salaries paid their teachers ; during the past year the schedule being $35, $25 and $20.
School is maintained nine months of the year. The tax for teachers' fund (1878) was 11 mills ; contingent fund, 2 mills.
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The attendance during the winter months, in the three rooms, was about one hundred and ten pupils. In the highest room, quite a number of high- school branches are taught. The present teachers are W. H. Palmer, Miss Frank Snyder and Mrs. Grace Trump.
In 1847 or 1848, Andrew secured from the Iowa Legislature the promise of a Normal School. A scheme was passed organizing three State Normal Schools, one at Mount Pleasant, one at Oskaloosa and the third at Andrew. The citizens of the various towns were to furnish the buildings. The people of Andrew went to work with a will, and soon had ready for the roof a suitable stone building, when a tornado overthrew the wall and brought ruin to all the well-laid plans, for the citizens were not able to erect a new building.
However, they went on with the school, conducting the same for two years in the Methodist Episcopal Church, without any assistance from the State. The project was dropped for lack of funds, and, some years later, the Legisla- ture appropriated $1,000 to recompense some of those who had advanced money to carry on the school.
During the years 1878 and 1879, under the care of the Evangelical Luth- eran Synod of Iowa, there has been conducted in a frame building on the Orphan Asylum farm, a seminary for boys, in which are taught both German and English. The students are permitted to take lessons in instrumental music. Theology, too, is taught. This seminary has been in charge of G. Grossman and F. Eichler.
SOCIETIES.
Hermitage Lodge, No. 298, A., F. ยง A. M .- This Lodge had its first meeting in Andrew January 5, 1871, and, on the 7th of the following June, received its charter from the Grand Lodge of Iowa. The charter members and officers were: E. J. Holmes, W. M .; James A. Bryan, S. W .; J. A. Spen- cer, J. W .; A. S. Carnahan, Treasurer ; C. H. O'Brien, Secretary ; John S. Ray, S. D .; William Trout, J. D. A. J. Miller, M. S. Allen, Oliver Wheeler, Levi Keck and P. J. Miller.
The third floor of the Court House, used by the county in 1871, was never finished. The Hermitage Lodge, at an expense of $400, plastered and fitted up the third floor for their own use, and have occupied it to this day. No rent has been charged them.
The Worshipful Masters of this Lodge have been : E. J. Holmes, 1871-72; James A. Bryan, 1873; A. M. Phillips, 1874 ; T. E. Blanchard, 1875, 1876 and 1877 ; O. K. Cheney, 1878; Thomas Abbey, 1879.
The officers for 1879, besides the Master, are J. Y. Buchanan, S. W .; John Downing, J. W .; J. M. Fitzgerald, Treasurer ; O. P. Butterworth, Secretary.
The Lodge consists of thirty-five members, meeting monthly. They have $500 in the treasury.
Central Lodge, No. 41, A. O. U. W., was chartered January 10, 1876, by the Grand Lodge, with the following officers : J. W. Scott, P. M. W .; A. M. Phillips, M. W .; H. H. Cheney, G. F .; O. P. Butterworth, O .; C. W. Long, Recorder ; J. Y. Buchanan, Financier ; John Downing, G .; W. H. Moler, I. W .: H. I. Trump, O. W. There were in all twenty-one charter members.
Soon after their organization, this Lodge secured a comfortable room on the west side of the second floor of the Court House, which they furnished for their own use. There are now thirty-eight members. There have been no deaths in the Lodge since its beginning.
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The present officers are: W. C. Kelly, P. M. W .; A. S. Carnahan, M. W .; D. P. Kimball, O .; L. D. McCoy, Recorder ; J. Y. Buchanan, Financier ; O. P. Butterworth, G. F .; W. C. Butterworth, Recorder.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union .- For the purpose of combat- ing the evils occasioned by the presence of three saloons, eighteen ladies of Andrew organized themselves into this association, May, 1879. This band now numbers twenty-two. They meet every Thursday in the M. E. Church. The officers are : Mrs. Thomas Sweezy, President ; Mrs. Mitchell Hamilton, Vice President ; Mrs. A. S. Carnahan, Secretary, and Mrs. Rev. Pollock. Treasurer.
CHURCHES.
United Presbyterian Church was organized September 22, 1858, by Adam Crawford and wife, Samuel McCombs and wife, James Reed and wife, Amos Wil- kin and wife, Lucinda Reed, Alexander and John Galloway, Johnson Thompson and wife, John Brakey and wife, John McClerry, Henderson Dickey and wife. Samuel McCombs, Johnson Thompson, John Galloway and James Strain composed the first session. A church was built in Andrew in 1861. It will seat about three hundred and fifty persons. Jonathan Stewart was the organizing minister who assisted in founding the Church, and became its first Pastor. He continued until June, 1865. He was succeeded by Rev. G. W. Torrence, who came in February, 1866, and labored in this field until October, 1873. The pulpit was then filled by occasional supplies during a couple of years, when it was per- manently occupied by Rev. Pollock, who resigned his pastorate in the spring of 1879. The pulpit is occupied during the summer of 1879 by Rev. W. W. Gordon as supply.
The present membership is about eighty communicants. A thrifty Sabbath school is maintained during the entire year, superintended by Thomas Orr, Sr.
The present session is composed of James Curry, T. M. Hamilton, William Orr and R. N. Gibson.
Evangelical Lutheran Church .- This society was organized in 1866, by T. Jansson, Simeon Tebbin, John Tebbin, B. Defries, A. Defries, M. Liene- mann, Charles Speith, William Peter, Henry Schmidt, D. H. Daudel, et al.
J. M. Schueller was the first Pastor of the Church, and continued to preach to this people until 1873.
In 1872, the society was regularly incorporated under the laws of Iowa, with D. H. Daudel, C. Hankammer and G. Arwater as Trustees.
Previous to the building of the church, services were held in the schoolroom of the Orphan Asylum near Andrew. Rev. J. G. Rembold, the present Pas- tor, succeeded Mr. Schueller in 1873.
In 1875, the society erected a neat stone church in the eastern part of town. It is built after the Gothic style, and is tastefully finished on the inside. A bell, weighing, with hangings, 1,000 pounds is in the belfry. The church will seat about 250, and was erected at a cost of near $3,000.
A Sabbath school is regularly maintained. Here, as well as in the church services, the exercises are conducted in German.
The elders of the Church are Charles Hankammer, George Arwater and H. Defries. The Trustees are C. G. Daudel, J. Schenk and H. Blume.
M. E. Church .- The first religious service in Andrew is claimed to have been held by the Methodists, who had a church about three miles north of town, in 1840. The First M. E. Church of Andrew was organized in the summer of
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1843 by Rev. B. H. Cartwright, now of Rock River Conference. The organ- ization was effected in the old log court house already mentioned, with about twenty members, the most active of whom were the wife and a sister of ex-Gov. Briggs. Three of the original members yet reside in or near Andrew-Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. Cheney and Mrs. Hayes.
The church building was erected in 1848. Rev. Dennis was the Pastor at the time of its building, and laid the corner-stone.
The pulpit has been supplied for a portion of the time since the organiza- tion of the Church, and has enjoyed the ministry of some of the most efficient men of the Upper Iowa Conference.
Services are held every Sabbath at present, the Rev. S. Goodsell being the Pastor. The membership of the Church is about forty.
An efficient and energetic Sabbath school is superintended in this church by L. D. McCoy.
Presbyterian Church of Andrew .- This Church was organized on the sec- ond Sabbath of November, 1845, about two miles west of Andrew, and was known as the Church of Cedar Creek. The organizing minister was Rev. Michael Hummer, of Iowa City. The members petitioning for a church organ- ization were S. F. Glenn, Jane Glenn, Hester Hawkins, Elizabeth Hawkins, Henry Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Samuel Wilson, Mary Ann, Sarah and Rebecca Wilson.
The first Session was composed of S. F. Glenn and Henry Thompson.
The ministers supplying the pulpit have been as follows :
1847, Rev. Enoch Mead; 1849-51, Rev. F. A. Pratt, two years; 1851, Rev. James Gallatin, one year ; 1852, Joseph B. Hadden, until his death, July 11, 1858, excepting the supply of six months by Rev. John Wallace ; 1859, John P. Conkey, four months ; November, 1859, to February, 1864, Rev. Moses Noerr ; June, 1864, to June, 1868, the Rev. J. S. Dickey ; August, 1868, to April, 1869, Rev. William A. Ferguson ; May, 1869, to April, 1874, Rev. John Gilmore; during the winter of 1875-76, by Rev. William Gay, five months.
In November, 1878, the present Pastor, Rev. T. C. McFarland, was engaged to preach one-fourth of his time, giving the remainder to Bellevue, and is the minister now in charge.
The present membership is twenty-six. The Session is composed of James Strong and J. M. Fitzgerald. Mr. McFarland is the first regularly installed Pastor the Church has ever had.
It was in 1857 that the brick church now occupied by this congregation was commenced in Andrew, and completed in 1859. At the time of its building, the Church removed to this point, and was called the Presbyterian Church of Andrew. The building cost about $3,000, of which $500 was contributed by the Board of Church Extension. Aid has been received from the Board of Home Missions for the support of a minister, since 1859.
ANDREW ORPHAN ASYLUM.
This institution had its beginning in the kindness of a German Lutheran minister who lived in Tete des Morts Township. This man, whose subsequent fall makes every friend of the Asylum avoid his name, from a generosity of a nature then untarnished, opened the doors of his own home to seven orphan children, about 1862. These and others he cared for with a little assistance from friends until 1864, when he solicited the aid of various German Lutheran
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friends of this section, that an institution might be formed and more good done. The war was making orphans daily, and the project was a most worthy one. It met with the response it deserved.
An incorporation was formed and duly acknowledged by J. M. Schueller, R. Oswald, H. Rehwold, P. Bredow, Charles Habich, J. K. Duerschner and J. H. Daudel. Mr. Schueller, the founder of the enterprise, canvassed the county for aid, and, in a short time, the association was able to buy a farm of 180 acres, east of Andrew, for $1,360, and a building was commenced, which aggregated, when completed, near $7,500.
The name adopted for the institution was " The Asylum for Orphans and Destitute Children." The articles of incorporation bear the date May 26, 1864. The second section of these articles sets forth the purposes of the Asy- lum as follows :
The object of this institution shall be to receive orphans and destitute children, not over twelve years old, to give them a Christian home until they are of age, and a common-schoot edu- cation, connecting the same with some work which they are able to do. No difference will be made in regard to nativity, creed or sex. Young criminals will be dismissed only after long and repeated trials to save them from ruin.
The main building is of stone, 30x60 feet, three stories high and capable of accommodating seventy-five children. On the adjoining lot is a smaller frame building, which has been occupied as a seminary, under direction of the Lutheran Synod, during the past year.
As soon as the building was ready for occupancy an assistant was employed, Miss Mary Hoaflinger, by name commonly known among the friends of the institution as Sister Mary. She had had considerable experience in charitable work, being a graduate of the Daconisen House in Augsburg, Bavaria, and was in the field during the Austro-Prussian war as a nurse for wounded soldiers. She continued with the institution about ten years.
When the Asylum was completed and occupied there were only forty acres of the farm under cultivation. That amount was altogether insufficient to sup- port so large a family, and the Legislature of Iowa was petitioned for aid to relieve the Asylum, in 1871, of a debt of $5,000, which was about to cripple the usefulness of the institution. The Fourteenth General Assembly responded by passing
AN ACT for the relief of the Asylum for Destitute and Orphan Children, at Andrew, Iowa. WHEREAS, There is located at Andrew, in the county of Jackson and State of lowa, an Asylum for Destitute and Orphan Children, regularly incorporated by that name under the gen- eral incorporation laws of the State of Iowa, and supported by the private charity of the people, and,
WHEREAS, There are now forty-eight orphan children under the care of said Asylum ; and, WHEREAS, Said Asylum is encumbered with a debt of five thousand dollars, which it is unable to pay, and from which, unless it is relieved, said Asylum must be abandoned, and the inmates turned out upon the public. Therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars for the relief of aaid Asylum, to be paid to the Trustees thereof upon their executing to the State of lowa, a note and first mortgage for said aum, and to secure the same upon the real property of said Asylum, and which said note and mortgage shall not run less than five nor more than ten years, at the election of the Trustees, and shall draw no interest until due, and after due to draw interest at the rate of six per cent per annum; and it is hereby made the duty of the Auditor, upon being presented with the note and mortgage herein provided for, and a satisfactory abstract of title, to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer for the amount of the appropriation and loan herein provided for. Provided, however, if said Asylum shall be converted to any other purpose the whole amount of this loan shall become due and payable.
This mortgage becomes due in 1882. The probability is, that, while the institution continues its good work, under proper management, that the State
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will not foreclose the mortgage. There is no probability that the Asylum could raise the means to lift the mortgage upon maturity.
Previous to this assistance, the Board of Supervisors of Jackson County had been repeatedly asked for aid, as there were supported in the Asy- lum quite a number of children who would otherwise be thrown upon the county for support. Two appropriations, of $100 each, were made by the Supervis- ors, which is all that Jackson County has ever contributed from the public treasury to the support of this enterprise, though much has been contributed, from time to time, in private subscriptions.
The work received a severe blow in the summer of 1873, by the disgrace- ful exposure and fall of J. M. Schueller, to whose devotion the success of the Asylum was almost entirely due. Shameful as was the denouement of this man, it must be acknowledged that his purpose originally was a noble one. Inexcusable and criminal as was his weakness, the Asylum would never have been but for him.
In the fall of 1873, Rev. J. G. Rembold, then Pastor of the Lutheran Church at Bellevue, was asked to take charge of the Asylum. He did so, leaving a comfortable salary to build up the fallen prospects of Andrew Orphan Asylum, for the miserable pittance of $250 per year. The public confidence in the Asylum revived, and its success is gradually developing.
To gain admittance to the Asylum, the child is not necessarily without parents, but may be the offspring of parents so destitute as not to be able to care for it. Children are thus taken, and everything that can be contributed by the poverty-stricken parent is thankfully received. The color, creed or former condition of the child is never inquired into as a ground of admittance or refusal, but all are taken with the purpose of granting them improve- ment, physically, mentally and morally. There are now about thirty children at the Asylum, the sexes having their apartments and schoolrooms in separate parts of the building. No profane language is permitted, and the children are required to be orderly and peaceable. Probably three-fourths of the occupants are from Jackson County. The others come from surrounding counties and adjoining States.
Religious instruction is imparted to the children, and the doctrines of the Lutheran Church taught to those old enough to understand, though no decided attempt is made to bias the mind of the child in favor of any particular creed.
School is taught every day of the year, save Sundays, Saturdays and holi- days. Each child has his task to perform in the schoolroom, and while these are not made of sufficient length to be irksome, something is required every day.
A child is kept in the Asylum until fourteen years of age, when, if he is a boy, he is allowed to choose a trade. Articles of agreement are drawn up by the Secretary of the Asylum, and signed by the master. During his appren- ticeship, one-third of his earnings goes to the Asylum. The remaining two- thirds, or what part is necessary, provide the boy with clothing and necessary spending money ; while the remainder is kept, by the master, on interest until the apprentice becomes of age, when he receives the whole amount. If, after remaining in the Asylum until fourteen, the boy expresses a preference for farm work, two-thirds of his pay is expended or saved, according to the same plan as if he were apprenticed to some master.
The girls are instructed, in addition to school work, into the mysteries of knitting, sewing and various house-work. Two knitting machines are the prop- erty of the institution, and, by means of these, the girls earn considerable
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money by knitting socks. Some of their work of this kind is very creditable, and they take a just pride in their skill. When girls have arrived at the age of fourteen, suitable homes are sought for them. At one time, it was the prac- tice to allow parties to come to the Asylum and choose out a child to raise ; but the children sometimes came into improper hands in this way, so that now no child is permitted to leave without the authorities being satisfied of its good treatment.
If a boy runs either from the Asylum or the master, he is brought back, if possible, the first and second time. But a third case of desertion closes the doors against him and prevents his return if he should seek it. There have been few cases of runaways. The fact appears to be that the children usually regret the day when their age drives them from the Asylum, where they have found a comfortable home.
When the larder runs low, Rev. Rembold hitches up a team, and, starting out into the country, stops at the different houses and solicits contri- butions-here a bushel of potatoes, there a shoulder of meat, etc., and in this way keeps the necessaries of life from running short. The farm of 180 acres would support the family were it good farming land, but it is a rough tract, and difficult to till. Various machinery for farming and furniture for the building are needed, and afford an opportunity to some humanitarian to do his alms in a useful and quiet way.
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