The history of Warren County, Iowa, from its Earliest Settlementto 1908, Part 34

Author: Union Historical Company
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Des Moines : Union historical company
Number of Pages: 1010


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the value of which now could hardly be estimated. but they too have gone the way of all the earth. Richland township was a part of the "strip." and enjoyed the distinction of belonging to Polk county for about seven years. Every student of the past of Warren county can but regret the careless manner in which the large groves of excellent timber in Richland township were dis- posed of and the little profit that was derived from them. As has been else- where mentioned, John D. Parmelee was the first permanent settler in the county. and in this township took up his abode in 1843, and remained until 1860 when he went farther west. The first settlement in Richland township dates back to the days of the Indians. Several men were able to get across the line and make claims before the Indians retired, although such enterprises were strictly for- bidden by the government. Others slipped across the line and selected their claims and were ready to rush in and take possession as soon as the day for the Indians' departure had arrived. Uriah Dodson was among the enterprising settlers who came in 1845 to take a claim. This was about six weeks before the time for the departure of the Indians. He forded the Middle river near the Parmelee mill and reached the top of the bhiff where he could get a good view of the surrounding country, and expressed himself well satisfied and that he would set his stake there and claim it for his future residence. Moving a little farther on he saw smoke rising from a log cabin, which was already ocenpied by George Leslie, who had been building bridges for the government, and like Parmelee. had got in on a permit before the expiration of the Indians' time. It was near the mill site where William Mason broke the first prairie land in Warren county on the claim of Mr. Parmelee. Amos and William Freel were early settlers, also Newton Guthrie. J. D. Hartman and many others came in as early as 1846. It is now believed that L. N. Fonts taught the first school in Richland township. in a log cabin. Newton Guthrie and J. D. Parmelee were the first to enter their lands as soon as opportunity was given in 1848. Richland township has furnished more legislators than any other township in the county. William M. Marshman was senator in the Eleventh General Assembly. Mark A. DaSheill was senator in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth General Assemblies. and represented Warren county in the Twelfth General Assembly while a resident of Hartford. C. L. Anderson represented Warren county in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second General Assemblies. Newton Guthrie repre- sented Warren county in the Ninth General Assembly, and also in the Extra Session.


HARTFORD.


John D. Hartman (the father of Indianola's present mayor) laid out the town of Hartford in 1849. The postoffice was established in 1859, Dr. J. Iluff being the first postmaster. The first house was built in 1850.


DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS.


M. M. Barr. general store. L. B. Nunnally, general store. WV. Cheeney. hardware. A. Badgley, jewelry. Findlay Shepperd, postmaster. F. Nichols,


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barber shop. Carl Noe. blacksmith. E. C. Sturman, physician. The first Sunday school was organized at Hartford in 1849 with Daniel Smith as super- intendent.


CHURCHES.


The Baptist church was organized April, 1853. The following list of charter members shows that Charles MeKay was among them : E. D. Taylor, A. J. Duncan. O. C. Hancock, James Duncan. Charles MeKay. S. V. R. James, J. H. Terwilleger. Margaret Duncan, Lonisa JJane Duncan. Susan Taylor, Margaret Hartman. Julia A. Hancock. This society was organized by B. B. Arnold, moderator. and II. Wyatt, clerk. B. B. Arnold was the first pastor. The first church building was erected in 1858. The building was sold abont a year ago. But ten members remain.


CHRISTIAN CHURCH.


The Christian church was organized in a schoolhouse in 1854 with the following members: Uriah Dodson and wife, James Talbott and wife. Amos Mattock and wife. Clark Badgley and wife, Henry Stonebunner and wife. Martha Carey and Mrs. Ray. The first pastor was James Hill. and the next P. T. Russell. A schoolhouse was built east of Hartford. known as Brown's schoolhouse, to which the Christian church gave $100 and was allowed to use the schoolhonse for church purposes. The Christian church at Swan met with them. making a strong society. In 1868 the present church building was erected in Hartford at a cost of $1500. S. J. Mathewson is pastor. Present membership one hundred. This church has a flourishing Sunday school and Christian Endeavor Society.


PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.


William Henry Kelly. pastor. Present membership one hundred. Con- gregational expenses $750. Benevolences raised last year. $80. The Sunday school has an enrollment of seventy members, and the Ladies Industrial Society fifty, and the Junior Endeavor Society twenty members. This has long been recognized as an influential and prosperous church.


M. E. CHURCH.


Hartford was the head of the first Methodist Episcopal cirenit established in this part of the country. John W. Teas was appointed pastor of the Three Rivers Mission in 1849, and took up his head-quarters at Hartford. His circuit embraced Warren and Madison counties and a part of Polk county. and was called the Three Rivers Mission. A parsonage was built at Hartford and occupied for several years by Methodist preachers. A small church building was ereeted and served a good purpose for many years.


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LODGES.


YOEMEN.


Three Rivers Homestead No. 323, was organized August 3, 1899 with twenty- four charter members. G. E. Shupe, Foreman. F. E. Morris, M. of A. Mary Cutlip. Correspondent. It now has thirty members.


I. O. O. F.


Hartford Lodge No. 507, I. O. O. F. was organized in 1856, and was re- chartered in October. 1894 with five members. It now has a membership of forty. W. H. Cain, N. G. Homer IInll, V. G. I. G. Badgley, See. A. L. Putnam, Treasurer.


G. A. R.


This post was organized in 1883 with forty-three charter members. Henry Cain, Commander. Ira Parker, Adjutant. S. M. Quinn, Quartermaster. J. II. Miller, Chaplain. Geo. Haworth. S. V. Com. Present membership twelve.


A. F. & A. M.


Hartford Lodge 83. A. F. & A. M. Present officers. Guy Coon, W. M John Beitzel. S. W. J. A. Morris, J. W. J. F. Sherman, Sec. A. L. Putnam, Treasurer. Present membership sixty-five. Meets on Saturday night on or before the full moon.


FORD.


Perry Furrow, general store. Mart Ray, railway station agent. Perry Furrow, postmaster. Ford is located on the Des Moines and Knoxville branch of the C. B. & Q. railway system, which road crosses the township from west to east.


SQUAW TOWNSHIP.


Squaw township is the same as township 74 north of range 24 west of the 5th P. M. of Iowa.


TOWNSHIP OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1908.


Justice of the Peace: W. C. Conrad, New Virginia.


Township Trustees: John A. Murphy, Indianola; W. G. Davidson, New Virginia ; George McIntosh, New Virginia.


Constable: John W. Sams, New Virginia.


Township Clerk: George M. Van Patten, New Virginia.


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Township Assessor: George Hagen.


Warrants drawn on the Poor Find : Food and clothing $ 29.85


Medical aid 29.00


$ 58.85


Trustees Road Report :


Cash on hand January 1. 1907 $ 9.70


Received from County Treasurer 860.69


$870.39


Paid for labor and material


$816.18


Balance on hand 54.21


$870.39


The following is condensed from the County Superintendent's Report of the Public Schools for Squaw township for the year ending July 1, 1907.


Squaw township has nine sub-districts with a schoolhouse in each. valued at $4,300. It maintains an average of seven months school in the year. There were employed five male teachers, at an average salary of $35.57 per month; and fifteen female teachers, at an average salary of $30.85 per month. There are two hundred seventy-five persons of school age in the township. The average attendance is one hundred and sixty-one. The average cost of tuition per pupil per month $1.94.


Squaw township brings us again into Indian vocabulary. The word squaw signifies female or woman among the tribes of the Algonkin family, and is the dearest of all words to the Indian braves. Squaw township was a favorite haunt of the Indians. After they evacuated this part of the country, groups of them returned to Squaw township to look at the scenes with which they were familiar in former days. The Indian is a sentimentalist. he delights in reminiscences and possesses a most excellent memory. The principal stream in Squaw town- ship is called Squaw Creek, and there is another creek in the township, namely Papoose Creek. That brings forward the Indian again. Papoose signifies baby, and there are no babies in all the world more attractive than Indian babies. To see a score of sqnaws marching in single file each with a papoose in a haver- sack on her shoulders, is a sight worth remembering. The bright-eyed squaw with her long black hair, carrying a delightful little papoose, is really worth remembering. In an early day, before the railways were built. there was a stage line from Indianola to Osceola. The half-way station between these two points was in Squaw township near where the village of Medora is now situated. That half-way station was a point of considerable interest in those days. Stage horses were changed at that point. and dinners were served. and an air of business prevailed all around. This station with all that was connected with it was abandoned when the railways came. There is no railroad in Squaw township : to those who love the bustle and stir of the railway station. it makes Squaw town-


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ship undesirable; but to the farmer who loves rural life and cares nothing for the hum-drum of business, Squaw township is a desirable locality. The land is somewhat broken, but in the township there are many good farms. It is well adapted to stock raising, which is largely the proper method of farming in Warren county. The old idea that corn is the only profitable crop is or ought to be obsolete. £ Corn requires too much labor. Each ear must be husked by human hands, for human skill has never been able to invent a successful corn- husking machine.


J. Hackney was the first settler in Squaw township. He settled on seetion 10 in 1848, and made considerable improvements, but later sold his improvements and sought a newer country. After 1852, the township settled rapidly. There is bnt one village in this township. Medora, which was laid out and named by Charity D. Rice in 1870. There are two general stores in the village, the one kept by Burgess and Son, and the other by II. II. ITimstreet. C. C. Taggart and Fred Foster, blacksmiths.


CHURCHES.


PRESBYTERIAN.


There is a Presbyterian church building at present nnoeenpied.


METHODIST EPISCOPAL.


The Methodist Episcopal church has a membership of eighty-six. Harry Lyon is the Superintendent of the Sunday school. Mrs. Joe Burgess is the president of the Epworth League.


COUNTRY CHURCHES.


The Medford M. E. church maintains a Sunday school, superintended by Mary Davidson, and also an Epworth League.


Plainview M. E. church has a membership of forty one. Mrs. John Murphy is Sunday school superintendent.


The Mt. Tabor M. E. church was organized March 1855, with a membership of twenty-eight. The following have served this church as pastors: Wm. Butts. Wm. Pring. John Reynolds, Henry Hadley. George and John Conrad, Enoch Woods. Archibald Murphy, D. B. Clary, D. Thompson, John IIestwood, Michael Sheets. Joseph Knots, Joshua Smith. George Clamer. M. R. Harnard, Adam Kern, Arthur Barton, W. C. Smith. E. Voorhees, M. R. Stryker, H. C. Preston, C. A. Fassett, J. D. DeTarr.


The first church building was erected in 1874 and dedicated on the fourth day of July, and cost nineteen hundred dollars. The society has a membership of thirty-six. It maintains a Sunday school, Epworth League and Ladies' Aid Society.


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LODGES.


I. O. O. F.


Medora Lodge No. 681. I. O. O. F .. was organized October 17, 1901. with five charter members. It now has a membership of thirty-five. Alexander Sanders, N. G .; C. Deskins. V. G .; J. W. Matthews, Secretary : J. P. Burgess, Financial Secretary.


YOEMEN.


Medora Homestead No. 676. was organized May 8, 1901. with nineteen charter members. It now has a membership of fifteen. C. C. Taggart, Foreman ; II. Il. Himstreet. Correspondent.


M. W. A.


Medora Camp No. 9343. M. W. A. was organized March 7, 1901, with twelve charter members. Its present membership is thirty-five. C. C. Edgerton, ad- viser; Alex. Williamson, clerk.


COOL.


J. L. Graham conducts a general store, J. H. Moore, physician.


The Christian Union church was organized November 11, 1893, with the following members: Elizabeth Morris. Maude Butler. Saralı Goodrich. Rebecca Coatney, Lizzie Hess, Ella R. King, Anna R. New. Lizzie Disney, L. A. Disney. Lucy New, Etta New. W. B. Disney. The following pastors have served this church : Rev. Quick, Joe. Griffin, Charlie Hollingsworth. Nathan Eveland, N. D. Gordon, C. W. Reed. The present membership is fifty-six. Horace Wallace is Sunday school superintendent. The church building was erected in 1894 at a cost of fifteen hundred dollars.


UNION TOWNSHIP.


Union township is bounded on the north by Richland and Palmyra townships. on the east by the county line, on the south by Belmont township and on the west by Lincoln township.


TOWNSHIP OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1908.


Township Trustees: J. E. Frank, Sandyville, J. W. Batten, Pleasantville. C. O. Stacy. Sandyville.


Justice of the Peace: V. N. Carpenter. Sandyville.


Constable : J. B. Putnam. Ackworth.


Township Clerk : C. W. Sandy, Sandyville.


Township Assessor: A. E. Frank. Warrants drawn on the Poor Fund.


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Medical aid $ 15.25


Trustees Road Report.


Cash on hand January 1, 1907 : 476.51


Received from County Treasurer


1018.95


$1495.46


Paid for labor and material


$ 916.19


Balance on hand 579.27


$1495.46


The following is condensed from the County Superintendent's report of the Public Schools for Union township for the year ending July 1, 1907.


Union township has five independent rural school districts and five school- houses vahied at twenty-six hundred dollars. An average of seven months of school was maintained in the township for the year. One male teacher was em- ployed at a salary of $43.20 per month. Ten female teachers were employed at an average salary of $31.14 per month. There are one hundred and sixty-three persons of school age in the district; average attendance during the vear seventy-six. Average cost of tuition per month for each pupil, $2.34.


SANDYVILLE-INDEPENDENT DISTRICT.


Sandyville has one schoolhouse of two rooms, vahied at fifteen hundred dol- lars. It maintained school eight months during the year and employed one male teacher at a salary of $43.00 per month and two female teachers at an average salary of $32.73 per month. There are thirty-nine persons of school age in the district; average attendance, twenty-nine. Average cost of tuition per month for each pupil, $2.47.


Union township was settled in the early history of Warren county by a very enterprising class of farmers, who came from Ohio and Indiana. It is an excellent township of land. There is a divide that is not excelled for beauty in the country. The north part of the township is drained by South river; and the south part by Coal creek and other tributaries of White Breast. The natural appearance of the land in its virgin state was very attractive. The soil is good ; the water is good, and the topography of the country is not excelled anywhere in the county. There is but one village. Sandyville, in this township; and it is not as prosperous as it once was, because there is no railroad in the township; and after railroads were established, the villages that were considerable distance from a railroad ceased to improve. When farmers go to town, they want to go to a railroad point. The settlers early gave attention to schools and churches. There is no place in this part of Iowa where the farming community have more generally prospered than in Union township. They have given attention to both grain raising and stockraising. All of the first settlers who remained on their farms became prosperous, well to do, happy and contented. The township being one of the east tier of townships in the county, many of the inhabitants go to Pleasantville and Knoxville to trade.


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W. G. Sandy and JJ. M. Blanchard were the first settlers in Union township. They entered their land in 1848 when the land was first put on the market. D. A. Felter and Philip Lambert were also early settlers.


Sandyville was laid out by W. J. Sandy in 1851. J. W. Sherman erected the first house. In 1855 the first store was opened by JJames Stafford and J. Moorman.


Directory. E. S. Heiney. general store; Hicks & Sutton, general store; Will Greene, barber; J. A. Greene, restaurant ; Joseph Knox, blacksmith; M. D. Riddle, physician.


The postoffice was abolished about a year ago and the people receive their mail on a rural ronte from Ackworth.


Sandyville was incorporated in 1905. The present city officers are, Joseph Knox, Mayor; Dr. M. D. Riddle. Clerk : Charles Carpenter, Treasurer; Elmer McRae, Marshal; James Brown. Bert Stone. E. Stanley. Elias Ilicks, Henry Bassett and James Greene, Councilmen.


CHURCHES.


CHRISTIAN.


The Christian church was organized over fifty years ago. A very com- fortable church building has been erected, which was destroyed by the cyclone of July 4, 1876. The society was reorganized about 1890. The present building was erected in 1892 at a cost of $1,600. The present membership is seventy-five. A flourishing Sunday school and a Ladies Aid Society are well maintained.


METHODIST.


The first society of Methodists was organized in 1867 consisting of seven members. In 1873 they purchased a small church building of the "Seven Day Adventists" in which they worshiped until 1898, when the old building was wrecked and the present structure erected at a cost of $1.200. A Sunday school and Epworth League are maintained. R. G. Vanatta is the present pastor.


UNITED BRETHREN.


Otterbien United Brethren Church. Early in 1850, regular preaching was established in the home of T. JJ. Sinnard ; later a log schoolhouse was erected in the conmumity in which religious services were held. A society of United Brethren was organized by Rev. Corbin, which was finally disbanded because of deaths and removals, but was reorganized in 1878, by Rev. J. H. Young. The constitutent members were, S. A. Gose and wife, D. C. Pearson and wife, Richard Pearson and wife, Aaron Reeves and wife, Samuel Hagan and Alice Pearson. The present membership is twenty-five. A large member of pastors have served this society, some for a shorter, some for a longer period. In 1884. the society erected a commodious church on the corner of S. A. Gose's farm in section 2 in


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Union township. At present the society is supplied with regular preaching once in two weeks. Mrs. Henry Thompson is the superintendent of an excellent all-the-year-around Sunday school.


SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCIL.


This church was organized in an early day. The church building was erected in 1855 at a cost of $1,500. A. F. Ferguson is the present pastor. A good Sunday school is superintended by JJohn Glasgow. The church maintains a prosperous Missionary Society. Some of the leading men of the denomination have been connected with this society.


LODGES.


A. F. & A. M.


Sandyville Lodge No. 190. A. F. & A. M. was organized in the year 1872, with seven charter members. It now has a membership of twenty-two. The meetings are on Saturday night on or after full moon.


I. O. O. F.


I. O. O. F. No. 298 of Sandyville was organized in 1874, with fifteen men- bers. It now has a membership of sixty-four, with the following officers: J. W. Parker, N. G .; William Pervill. V. G. : J. F. Baugh, Secretary ; E. S. Heiney, Treasurer. Meetings are held Thursday night of each week.


REBEKAH.


Rebekah Lodge No. 357 of Sandyville, was organized in 1903, with fourteen members. There is now a membership of thirty-five, with the following officers : Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, N. G .; Mrs. Putnam, V. G .; Mrs. Goss, Secretary; Mrs. Greene, Treasurer. Meetings are held the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month.


VIRGINIA TOWNSHIP.


Virginia township is the same as township 74 north of range 25 west of the 5th P M. of Iowa.


Virginia is the southwest township of the county and the last one settled. The early settlers in central Iowa chistered around Fort Des Moines and pushed out from that point. Naturally the north part of Warren county was settled first. Richland township was settled by J. D. Parmelee in 1843, hence we see that the northeast township in the county was the first settled and the southwest the last. The township was named Virginia because a large portion of the early settlers came from Virginia. George Richards took up his residence in Virginia township in May. 1853. but it seems quite certain that William Conner settled in


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the township in 1852, and built a cabin. Abraham Felton was an early settler. Thomas Proudfoot and his sons, together with the Reeds and Knottses were early settlers. One reason for the delay in settling this township was the scarcity of timber. Sonth river is the largest stream in the township. The land is partly rough, yet some of it lays well. It is adapted to hay and bluegrass, consequently the farmers from the beginning have engaged in stock raising. There is one railroad in the township, the Des Moines and Osceola branch of the C. B. & Q. system, a road for tortuosity not equaled in the state. It enters the township on the west, south of the center, meanders to the north until it reaches the center of the township and then turns south. The people of this township have prospered about as well as those of the other townships. The early settlers were a good class of people and gave much attention to moral and intellectual improve- ment. Many of the young people have sought and obtained a college education. The present prices of land vary from $50 to $100 per acre But one citizen of this township, Samuel Irwin, has represented Warren county in the Legislature, lie being a member of the Sixteenth General Assembly. The citizens have not been noted for office-seeking but have given attention to business, to the development of the country, to the intellectual and religious culture of the people. The first child born in the township was Hester Felton, daughter of Abraham Felton. IIer birth dates June, 1855. The first school was taught by Samantha Sigler in 1857. Joel Mason was the first merchant and erected the first store building. There is one town in this township, New Virginia, which was laid out in the spring of 1856. John Felton, F. H. Reed, Absalom Knotts and Joseph Knotts were the original proprietors. It is now one of the most prosperous towns in the county.


TOWNSHIP OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1908.


Justice of the Peace: L. E. Shane, New Virginia.


Township Trustees : W. G. Taylor, New Virginia; J. F. Hylton, New Vir- ginia; A. E. Sayre, New Virginia.


Township Clerk: Theodore Irwin, New Virginia.


Township Assessor: W. II. Keiser.


Warrants drawn on the Poor Fund. None.


Trustees Road Report :


Cash on hand January 1, 1907


$ 303.24


Received from the County Treasurer


1140.32


Received from poll tax


5.31


$1448.87


Paid for labor and material


$ 945.29


Balance on hand


503.58


$1448.87


The following is a condensed report of the public schools of Virginia town- ship, taken from the County Superintendent's Report for the year ending Inly


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1, 1907. Virginia has eight independent rural school districts and eight school buildings valmed at $3,850. Thirteen female teachers were employed at an average compensation of $31.90 per month. An average of seven and three- fourth months of school was held in the districts. There were one hundred and eighty-two persons of school age in the districts with an average attendance of one hundred and nine. Average cost of tuition per month for each pupil, $2.52.


NEW VIRGINIA GRADED SCHOOL.


New Virginia has one school building of three rooms valued at $6,500. Nine months of school was maintained during the year. One male teacher was em- ployed at a compensation of $70 per month and two female teachers at an average compensation of $38.75. There were one hundred and forty-seven persons of school age in the district with an average attendance of ninety-three. Average cost of tuition per month for each pupil, $1.58.


DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS.


General store, M. M. Van Scoy and A. J. Coltrane; hardware and imple- ments, H. C. Van Seoy ; farm machinery, H. M. Mullen; dry goods, groceries and novelties, R. K. McGee; variety store, O. W. Woods; lumber, Leacham Brothers ; hardware and implements, W. R. Mitchel; livery barn and feed store, S. D. MeClintock; blacksmithing, G. W. Frazier; harness shop, J. R. Stroam; real estate and insurance, W. J. Davidson; painters, L. D. Van Scoy and John Hamilton ; P. M. Fee and C. II. Mitchel, physicians ; J. A. Ackerman, veterinary ; Cottage hotel, Mrs. M. C. Ralston; Ilotel Purdue, John Purdue; harness shop, J. Kramer; feed, flour and coal, Zachariah Felton ; restaurant, W. D. Vertdz; stock buyers, Coltrane & Freeman, also Thomas Queen; auctioneer, L. E. Frederick ; poultry and eggs, John Felton; jewelry, A. L. Freeborn; furniture and undertaking, G. W. Moore; millinery and dressmaking, Mrs. Bolyard and Miss Stickle; O. Stansel, barber shop; drug store, J. H. Wilson; meat market, E. G. Porter & Son; brickyard, with annual output of 100,000 bricks, Kramer; blacksmithing, LeRoy and Harsh ; drug store, Edd Coy. The "New Virginian," a weekly paper, was established in 1895, by L. E. Shane, editor and publisher ; present subscription five hundred. J. W. Harsh was the first postmaster in New Virginia. J. T. Strock is the present postmaster. There are five rural routes going ont from this office. Two were established in 1902 and three in 1903. New Virginia is the most important town on the Des Moines and Osceola branch in Warren county. S. A. Powers is the railway station agent.




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