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Among the residents of Fairview after 18-10 were Edmund Booth and Dr. Sylvester G. Matson. In the vicinity, and extending eastward along the bor- dler of the timber, were John G. Joslin, Heury Booth, Benonia Brown. Dr. Clark Joslin, Eli and George H. Brown, and westward were Julius A. Peet,
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Marlin Peet, James, Silas and Neely Parsons, Gideon Peet (the father of the Peet family in the settlement) and Gideon N. Peet. Next to the last was Ambrose Parsons. Then came Alex. Rhoton and John Crow. John Crow and family came from Virginia. He was a courtly and dignified gentleman. and had the handsomest couple of mastiffs and horses in the settlement. The names given above are only of the heads of families of that time.
FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE.
The first schoolhouse built within the township was on the Marion road, near a mile from the village. It should have been in the village, but unfavor- able feelings against Russell and the town. on the part of outsiders, located it otherwise. It was a log cabin, perhaps 15x20 feet, and served the growing generations for some years.
THE FIRST POST OFFICE.
In 1840, a weekly horseback mail was placed on the route between Dubuque and Iowa City, via Edinburg, the then county seat, and conang into the military road at Dartmouth, now Anamosa. In 1841, Gideon N. Peet procured the establishment of a post office at his residence, a mile west of Russell's, and was appointed Postmaster. This was the first post office and Postmaster in the township. The nearest post offices being then at Edinburg, James Hutton, Postmaster ; Big Woods, Mr. Grauel, Postmaster ; Rome tnow Olin). Norman B. Seely. Postmaster : Springville, Col. Butler. Postmaster, and Monticello, William Clark, Postmaster. Mr. Peet conducted his post office well, but the business was light, for the people were few, and the rates of letter postage were burdensome. Money was a scarce article, the country not having recovered from the effects of the crash of 1837. and the Govern- ment accepting nothing at the land offices or post offices except gold and silver. The money mostly current was "red-dog," " wildcat," and " stump- tail," that is, the money of State banks, and no man receiving it one day could tell what it would be worth on the next. In such a condition of things, and every man hoarding to pay the Government for his land. the amount of mail sent and received was small. After some months, Mr. Peet wished to rid himself of the care of the office. Russell desired the position, as he said, " so that he could read all the papers." and the expression may have been one of his many jests. In some way, and through his personal friend, Senator A. C. Dodge, at Washington, his wish was gratified. Months passed. The mail came weekly at about the noon hour. Almost daily, Rus- sell might be seen stepping to his door after dinner, and, with vexation depicted on his face, looking up the road leading into the timber and to the Wapsipinicon bridge. Waiting for the mail kept him from his farin work, and finally he declared the post office was " nothing but a plague," and sent in to Washington his resignation in favor of A. B. Dumont.
Dumont was a carpenter, one of the two sons of J. B. Dumont, then recently arrived from the State of New York, and settled in Fairview. The other son was Fred. an invalid at the time. and now one of the substantial farmers near Fairview. The new Postmaster, Mr. Dumont, had a job at Marion, Linn Co., and placed the office in charge of Edmund Booth. Lis next-door neighbor. for a few weeks. The time ran into six months, and, still having work at Marion, Dumont concluded to resign. Dr. Sylvester G.
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Matson, then living on the military road just sonth of Reed's Creek. desired it. and Mr. Dumont resigned in his favor. Mr. Booth remarks that during the six months the post office was in his care, the sum total of his compensation. that is, Postmaster's percentage on receipts, was just 86. Dr. Matson held the position some months, and, like his predecessors. found the glory small and the pay still smaller. He, too, threw up the affair, and another man succeeded him. The name of the office all this time was Pamaho, suggested by Mr. Peet in his petition to the Department in 1841, Mr. Peet stating it was the name of an Indian chief in Wisconsin. It was while Dr. Matson was thus Post- master at Fairview that a post office was established at Lexington (Anamosa). Pratt R. Skinner was appointed Postmaster. He was a well-educated, intelli- gent and enterprising man, brother of Dr. William MI. Skinner, now one of the leading druggists in Anamosa, and is now living in Oregon.
Anamosa has had sucesssive Postmasters: Pratt R. Skinner, C. L. D. Crockwell, Samuel Cunningham. Alex Shaffer, J. H. Show, Amos H. Peaslee. of Fisher, now Gillen House-Dr. N. G. Sales. II. C. Metcalf, Richard MeDaniels and H. Hollenbeck. During the administrations of Pierce and Bnehanan, a period of eight years, no less than seven different Postmasters were appointed in succession for her accommodation.
It was during this that the old site-down-town-of Anamosa, was being gradually deserted by the business men for np-town. The building of the Fisher House and the general building of residences on the higher ground, had started the movement. Some hard feeling among the down-towners grew out of this. and the post office was removed alternately, up and down town, with the advent of each new Postmaster, until Peaslee's appointment, after which its stay up town became permanent. When Shaffer was appointed, he said in view of these alternate removals, that he would get a wheelbarrow. Meeting Mr. Booth, he remarked : " Up-town has come down town," to which the latter replied, " . Up- town ' will turn ' down-town ' upside down." These are quoted as showing some of the humors of the time.
Since 1869, Charles W. Coe has held the position of Postmaster, a period of ten years, and to the satisfaction of the public.
The Court House too, was, for a time, a bone of contention between up and and down town.
The facts above recorded were obtained from old settlers, and from those whom the writer has reason to believe to be wholly reliable.
ANAMOSA.
The name of the present county seat of Jones was suggested by Edmund Booth. The incident that led to the selection of the name Anamosa is related elsewhere, as is also the history of its early settlement. The place was first named Dartmouth, then Lexington. and afterward Anamosa. The site of Ana- mosa is quite romantie and beautiful, the scenery in the vicinity adding much to the attractiveness of the city, which sits upon a delightful portion of the undulating timber-land situated at the junction of the Buffalo Creek with the Wapsipinicon River. The situation possesses the natural advantages necessary to the permanence and prosperity of a town. The abundant water-power afforded by the Buffalo and Wapsipinieon has been somewhat utilized, although the interests of the citizens of Anamosa demand a much more liberal use of these inanimate and tireless forces. The quarries of most excellent bnil ling
James Me. Peet
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stone, in the neighborhood, constitute a never-failing source of cheap and ever- lasting material for building purposes.
The name and plat of the town as Dartmouth were lost because no record was made. The town as Lexington was laid ont in the year 1846, by R. J. Cleaveland, of Olin, now dead. Ile was a graduate of Harvard, intelligent, chivalrous, kind and noble hearted ; was a genuine patriot, joined the Ninth Iowa Volunteers in the war of the rebellion, was sixty or nearly that old, at the time, but Col. Wm. Vandever, of Dubuque, was a personal friend of his. and, in con- sequence of this fact, he was mustered into the service, notwithstanding his age. During the war, he acted as army correspondent, and signed himself .. Leonidas." He died a year or more ago, at the age of seventy-two. The name Lexington was changed for Anamosa, and that portion of the city now ealled "down- town " by some, by others, "Dublin," corresponds to the original town of Lex- ington, or Anamosa. To the original town there have been made the following additions and subdivisions :
1-Crockwell's Addition in the year 1848.
2-Crockwell's Out-Lots in the year 1847.
3-Ford's Addition in the year 1848.
4-Walworth's Addition in the year 1849.
5-Walworth's Out-Lots in the year 1849.
6-Fisher's East Anamosa in the year 1850.
7-Fisher's Addition in the year 1865.
8-Webster's Out-Lots in the year 1854.
9-Haddock's Out-Lots, 27. East Anamosa.
10-Keller's Subdivision of Lot 1, Fisher's Addition.
11-Warren's Subdivision of part of Walworth's Addition.
12-Shaw's Subdivision of Lot 1, Section 11, Town 84, Range 4.
13-Soper & Boardman's Subdivision of Lots 25, 26, 28, 29, Fisher's East Anamosa.
14-Kimball's Subdivision of 5, 6 and part of 7, Webster's Out-Lots.
15-Peters' Subdivision of the west half of Lot 4 of Fisher's Addition.
16-Gibb's Addition.
17 -- Skinner's Addition.
18-Boardman's Subdivision of Lots 2 and 3 of Webster's Out-Lots.
19-Peters' Subdivision of Lot 30, and west half of Lot 31 of Walworth's Addition.
20-Huber's Subdivision.
21-Shaw's Subdivision of the east half of Lot 4 of Fisher's Addition, and part of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 2, Town 84, Range 4.
22-Ilick's Addition.
23-Shaw's Subdivision of Lot 25 of Fisher's East Anamosa.
24-Sales' Subdivision of Out-Lot 1 of Walworth's Addition.
25-Boardman & Soper's Subdivision of Lots 6, 7 and 10 of Anamosa.
26-Booth's Subdivision of Lot 2 of Fisher's Addition.
27-Crane's Subdivision of part of Walworth's Addition.
28-Osborne's Subdivision of part of Walworth's Addition.
29 -- Fisher's Subdivision of part of Walworth's Addition.
30-Subdivision A of Skinner's Addition.
31-Shaw's Subdivision of Lot 26 of Fisher's East Anamosa.
32-Shaw's Subd'n of part of Lot 4. and the northeast quarter of the north- east quarter of Sees. 10, Town 84, Range 4, west of the Fifth Principal Meridian.
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The first hotel-keeper was G. H. Ford, who was also the first blacksmith. The house he kept as a hotel was built by E. Booth and sold to Ford.
The second hotel-keeper was C. L. D. Crockwell. He built the " Waverly House " for a hotel. and it continues to be kept as such at the present.
Mahan and John Crockwell kept the first store, which was a small affair, and the principal commodity kept for sale is said to have been poor whisky.
The second mercantile firm was that of Skinner & Clark in 1847. Messrs. Gillett & Osborne opened out as dealers in general merchandise about the same time.
Dr. Clark Joslin was the first physician, and is still in practice as such in company with his son, J. M. D. Joslin.
Dr. Joslin and Crockwell established the first drug store. Crockwell, it is said, after a time went to Utah and became a Mormon.
About 1848 or 1849, J. H. Fisher opened a store at the mill on the Buf- falo, and after a time, moved his stock to the town and continued the business.
Messrs. Cary & Show were among the early mercantile men of Anamosa and kept jewelry, boots and shoes, etc., for sale. Show emigrated to Missouri and became a Judge on the Supreme Bench of the State. Cary moved to Utili, and is in the real-estate business at Ogden.
The first tailor was William Sterling, in 1848. He was afterward County Recorder and also Treasurer of the county.
The first lawyer was Rockwell, in 1847. In 1849, he was Chief Clerk of the State Senate.
The first child born was Maria Ford, daughter of Gideon II. and Hannah Ford. This child grew up and married Israel Fisher, and they now live at Webster City in this State.
The city now numbers (1879) upwards of two thousand inhabitants, mostly Americans. The census of 1875 showed a population of 1,598. The census was taken by the Township Assessors, and, it is thought by some, was not very carefully made.
Anamosa was incorporated as a village in 1856, and as a city in 1872. Col. W. T. Shaw was the first Mayor.
At this date, Anamosa contains a number of elegant private residences, many handsome cottages, and a very fine display of good and substantial busi- ness houses. With a magnificent system of water-works and three well-organ- ized fire companies, the city is well protected from the ravages of fire. There are six churches, two newspapers, two graded schools (including Strawberry Hill, which is so related to the city as to properly belong with it;, two private schools, one bookstore, two news depots, two libraries, two banks, seven dry- goods stores, two clothing stores, three drug stores, three millinery stores, five hardware stores, seven grocery stores, one candy manufactory, four con- fectioneries and restaurants, one cigar manufactory, one cemetery asso- ciation, one marble shop, two undertakers and furniture dealers, one art gallery, one cigar and tobacco store, three shoe-shops, four blacksmith-shops, three harness-shops, three wagon-shops, one machine-shop, three flouring-mills. two grain elevator warehouses, two lumber-yards, three tailor-shops. one plan- ing-mill, one cooper-shop. five hotels, three jewelry stores, two provision stores, one feed and sale stable, two livery stables, two dentists. four architects. one civil engineer, one general insurance office, one express office, two meat markets, three barber-shops, one soap-factory, one water-works company, three fire com- panies, one opera house. eight secret societies, two railroad offices, two ice-houses, one brewery and three saloons. There are twelve doctors and fifteen lawyers.
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The business houses are compactly built of brick and stone, and present a heat and handsome appearance. The publie walks are mostly made of stone, and the principal streets well macadamized. The county has no Court House, but owns good and commodious rooms in the Shaw Block, where the court-room and county offices are conveniently arranged. The jail is a sub- stantial building for the safe keeping of those unfortunate enough to become its inmates.
The public school buildlings and churches are sufficiently large and com- modious to meet the wants of the people and are neat and handsome structures.
The Additional Penitentiary is within the city limits, and, when completed, will add much to the architectural appearance of the city. The inhabitants are an intelligent and industrious people, and the morale of the city is most excellent.
CITY OFFICERS.
Anamosa held its first election as an organized town on the first Monday of April, 1856. Mayor, William T. Shaw ; Recorder, C. C. Peet ; Council, G. W. Keller, Joseph Mann, S. T. Buxton, H. C. Metcalf.
1857-Mayor, Robert Dott : Recorder, Charles D. Perfect ; Councilmen. H. C. Metealf, S. S. McDaniels, E. Cutler, Burton Peet.
1858-Mayor, A. H. Peaslee ; Recorder, E. Cutler ; Council, E. T. Mellett, W. R. Locke, J. J. Welsh. A. P. Carter.
1859-Mayor, George W. Field ; Recorder, C. L. Hayes ; Council, J. J. Welsh, W. R. Locke, A. P. Carter, J. L. Brown.
1860-Mayor, N. G. Sales ; Recorder, O. Burke; Council, P. Flannery, J. J. Dickinson, David Graham. J. L. Brown.
1861-Mayor, N. G. Sales ; Recorder, O. Burke; Couneil, Willians Skehan, Cornelius Peaslee, Benjamin Chaplin, J. J. Diekinson.
1862-Mayor. N. G. Sales ; Recorder, J. J. Dickinson ; Council, E. B. Alderman, Benjamin Chaplin, F. S. MeKean, J. D. Walworth.
1863-Mayor, J. H. Benjamin ; Recorder, Robert Dott; Council, E. M. Harvey, B. L. Watson. C. J. Higbv. E. M. Littlefield.
1864-Mavor, Israel Fisher ; Recorder, E. M. Littlefield ; Council, A. P. Carter, W. M. Skinner. J. S. Belknap, J. S. Perfect.
1865-Mavor, Israel Fisher ; Recorder. E. M. Littlefield ; Council, A. P. Carter, J. S. Belknap. W. M. Skinner, John S. Stacy.
1866-Mayor, John S. Stacy ; Recorder. C. T. Lamson ; Council, H. C. Metcalf. J. C. Dietz, HI. Lehmkuhl, P. ITaines.
1867-Mayor, J. C. Dietz ; Recorder, A. P. Carter ; Council, S. G. Matson, C. W. Hollenbeck, M. II. French. Robert Dott, E. B. Alderman.
1868-Mavor. D. MeCarn ; Recorder. A. P. Carter ; Council, L. Niles, A. Heitchen, B. F. Shaw, H. C. Metcalf, C. W. Hollenbeck.
1869-Mavor. J. C. Deitz ; Recorder, E. M. Littlefield ; Council, II. C .. Metcalf: Thomas Perfect, J. II. Fisher, E. F. Clark, Lyman Niles.
1870-Mayor. E. Blakeslee ; Recorder, B. F. Shaw ; Council, II. C. Met- calf. J. Il. Fisher, 'B. P. Simmons, A. B. Cox, Lyman Niles.
1871-Mayor, Charles Cline : Recorder, C. M. Failing: Council, B. F. Shaw, W. W. Hollenbeck, D. C. Tice, O. M. Ellis, W. S. Benton.
March 5, 1872, Anamosa was organized as a city, with the following officers: Mayor. Robert Dott ; City Clerk, C. M. Failing; Council, A. Heitchen, A. B. Cox, S. G. Matson, J. L. Brown, O. Dunning. S. Needhat, Frank Fisher, C. 11. Lull.
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1873-Mayor, Robert Dott ; Clerk, E. M. Littlefield ; Council. A. Heitchen, S. G. Matson. O. Dunning, Frank Fisher, Milton Reinley, L. Schoonover, J. G. Parsons. A. V. Eaton.
1874-Mayor, Robert Dott ; Clerk, L. B. Peck ; Council, Milton Remley, L. Schoonover, B. P. Simmons, A. V. Eaton, J. T. Rigby, J. S. Belknap, J. B. McQueen, Harmon Dorgeloh.
1875-Mayor, Robert Dott ; Clerk. L. B. Peck; Council. J. T. Rigby, J. S. Belknap, C. M. Failing, J. B. McQueen, E. B. Alderman, L. Schoonover. George Waters, A. V. Eaton.
1876-Mayor, E. Stecver :resigned in June and Robert Dott elected to fill vacancy) ; Clerk, L. B. Peck ; Council, E. B. Alderman, L. Schoonover. George Waters, A. V. Eaton, T. Clancy, J. T. Rigby, D. M. Hakes, J. S. Belknap.
1877-Mayor, A. S. Noble ; Clerk, L. B. Peck ; Council, T. Clancy, J. T. Rigby, D. M. Hakes, J. S. Belknap, C. L. Niles, D. Chadwick, L. Schoon- over, L. J. Adair.
1878-Mayor, A. V. Eaton ; Clerk, L. B. Peck ; Council, C. L. Niles, D. Chadwick, L. Schoonover, L. J. Adair. E. J. Wood, H. W. Sigworth, W. A. Cunningham, T. R. Ercanbrack.
1879-Mayor, A. V. Eaton ; Clerk, C. M. Brown ; Council, H. W. Sig- worth, E. J. Wood, W. A. Cunningham, T. R. Ercanbrack, I. Fisher. M. Heisey, R. L. Duer, J. P. Seroggs.
ORIGIN OF THE NAME ANAMOSA.
The name of this city has a somewhat romantic origin, and is derived from a simple incident in its early history. This incident occurred in the house of G. H. Ford about 1842, and is thus related by Edmund Booth, who happened to be present : "One day three Indians came in. At a glance, it was seen that they were not of the common, skin-dressed, half wild and dirty class. They were a man, woman and daughter, and all wore a look of intelligence quite different from the generally dull aspect of their race. The man and 'woman were dressed mostly in the costume of white people, with some Indian mixed ; but the girl, bright and pleasant-faced. and apparently about eight or ten years old, was wholly in Indian dress. One can form some tolerable idea of her appearance from the carved full-length figures sometimes found in front of tobacco and cigar shops in the cities. These are not always fancy figures. but taken from real life, though such are rarely, if ever, seen among Indians. as they travel from one part of the country to another. The girl was dressed as became the daughter of a chief. She was really a handsome girl. Her dress was entirely Indian, bright as was the expression of her face, tasteful. and yet not gaudy. She wore ornamented leggings and moccasins, and her whole appearance was that of a well-dressed Indian belle.
" It was evident that these Indians were, as we said, not of the commnon order, and this fact excited more interest in us and Mr. and Mrs. Ford, no other persons being present, than was usually the case at that day, when the sight of native sons and daughters of the wild frontier was a common occur- rence. The three were entirely free from the dull, wary watchfulness of their kind, and, though somewhat reserved at first, were possessed of an easy dig- nity. They readily became cheerful, and, but for their light red color, would be taken for well-bred white people. They were from Wisconsin and ou their way West.
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.. We inquired their names. The father's was Nasinus. The name of the inother was a longer one and has escaped our memory. The name of the daughter was Anamosa-pronounced, by the mother, An-a-mo-sah. as is the usual way, and corresponds to the Indian pronunciation of Sar-a-to-gah, the Saratoga of New York. When we asked the mother the name of her daugh- ter, the latter laughed the pleasant, half-bashful laugh of a young girl, showing she understood the question, but did not speak. This interview was decidedly agreeable all around. After more than an hour spent in conversation, having taken dinner, they departed on the military road westward, leaving a pleasant impression behind them.
" It occurred to us that the names of the father and daughter were suitable for new towns-in faet, infinitely preferable to repeating Washington and various others for the hundredth time. Unfortunately, we neglected to ascer- tain of them the meaning of their names : but, some years later, Pratt R. Skin- ner removed here from Dubuque and established a land ageney. subsequently a dry-goods store. under the firm of Skinner & Clark. Mr. Skinner had been engaged in government surveys in this part of Iowa, and was no stranger to the Indians and their language. He said the word Anamosa signified white fawn, and the probability of such being the ease is natural enough, when we consider the Indian custom of naming persons from individual objects.
" After Lexington had been platted on this spot and had become the county seat, we brought forward the subject of changing the name of the town, and thus avoiding the numerous delays and losses in mail matter, resulting from similarity of post-office name, almost every northern State having its Lexing- ton. Skinner and C. C. Rockwell joined in the move, but, on consultation, the Board of County Commissioners concluded they had no power in the prem- ises, and that it was the province of the District Court. At the first session of that Court held in Lexington, a petition, gotten up mainly by Skinner and Rockwell, was presented. Judge Wilson assented, and since then the town has borne the name of Anamosa."
INCORPORATION.
In the early part of 1854, a petition was presented to the County Judge of Jones County, requesting the appointment of an election to decide whether or not Anamosa should become an incorporated town. The Judge granted the petition, and named May 1, 1854, as the day on which said election should be held, and at which election persons residing in the platted village of Ana- mosa should be electors. The result was in favor of an incorporation.
A second election was ordered to be held in the Court House of Anamosa on the 27th of May following, to choose five persons who should prepare a charter for the proposed town. This election resulted in the choice of C. L. D. Crockwell, D. Kinert, P. R. Skinner, S. T. Perec and Joseph Dimmitt.
The charter was not submitted for adoption for almost two years, being adopted March 19, 1856, and submitted for the consideration of the County Judge. By him the first election was immediately ordered, resulting in the choice of William T. Shaw, Mayor ; C. C. Peet, Reeorder. and G. W. Keller, Joseph Mann, S. T. Buxton and II. C. Metcalf, Couneihnen.
Anamosa was divided into wards and declared organized as a city February 6. 1672, by the Town Council. This organization was completed by the first 'ity election held March 4. 1872, when two Councilmen were elected from eich ward.
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THE PRESS.
No better index to the state of society or the thrift of a community can be found than the press it supports. Decide the question as you may. whether the press is the power behind the throne, or simply the mirror of public thought, the newspaper does not thrive in a virgin soil. but prospers only in a cultivated garden. The press of Anamosa and of other towns of the county show the people of Jones to be not one whit behind the standard which culture would demand in the support of the newspapers.
The first news sheet issued in Jones County was called the Anamosa Neu's. started by William Haddoek in February, 1852. He purchased an old press and type in Wisconsin, paying therefor $300. In 1856, he sold the affair to Nathan G. Sales, who conducted the sheet in such a manner as to pique the Republicans of Anamosa and surrounding country ; whereupon, some of the more vengeful and enterprising spirits determined to have an organ of their own. J. E. Lovejoy. of Scotch Grove Township. brother of Owen Lovejoy. being a practical printer, talked of selling his farm and starting a paper. It was likewise one of the ambitions of C. L. D. Crockwell to be the proprietor of a journal. They entered into partnership, Lovejoy making out a list of types and machinery needed. and sending to Cincinnati for the same. Crock- well became security for the payment of purchase money.
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