The pioneer history of Pocahontas County, Iowa, from the time of its earliest settlement to the present time, Part 59

Author: Flickinger, Robert Elliott, b. 1846
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Fonda, Iowa, G. Sanborn
Number of Pages: 1058

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only to Fort Dodge, and only a few settlers had preceded them. He as- he made provision for better facilities sisted in the organization of Cedar by the erection of a larger and more township, June 6, 1870, was elected its permanent building and has inserted first justice of the peace and served three years, 1870-72. In 1871 he was

better presses as the years have passed, so that today the work of this township clerk, and in 1875 treasurer office is unsurpassed by any in North- of the school funds. He was mayor west Iowa, and the Times maintains of Fonda in 1882, a member of the its position of being not only the old- council in 1887 and has been president est, but the best paper in Pocahontas county. of the board of education seven years, 1881, '89 and '95-1900. He was post-

Mrs. Sanborn was for eight years master of Fonda seven years, Oct. 15, previous to December, 1899, superin- 1889-Sept. 1, '96, and during five years of this period, 1891-'96, the town en- joyed free delivery of the mail. tendent of the Juvenile Temple, and, since its reorganization in 1886, has been an unfaltering supporter of the lodge of Good Templars. She has also

"See page 287 for history of this paper.

G. B. SANBORN

REV. R. BURNIP

MRS. R.E.FLICKINGER

LULU .RIGBY

DR. M.S.JOHNSON

MRS. SANBORN

REV. JOHN HAMERSON

JOHN KENNEDY

MRS. B.F. OSBURN

FONDA AND VICINITY.

MAUD F. MILLER.

MAUD M.JORDAN

MAUD S.KELLEY

EMMA P.TAYLOR

ROSE

STEINER

HARRIET (. CHAPMAN

YRUS THOMPSON

GEO.G. CRAFT

JOS. B. BOLLARD

REPRESENTATIVES OF PIONEER FAMILIES, FONDA AND VICINITY.

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been an active member of the Relief

His family consisted of five sons, all Corps since its organization. Whilst of whom, except Alberti, were born in her social standing places her among

New Hampshire, are still living and the cultured and refined, she mingles the oldest three, VanBuren, George with the humblest, sympathizes with W. and James W., were members of them in their trials and by her kind the same company and regiment, Co. ministries endeavors to help them F, 27th Iowa, during the civil war. live better and nobler lives. The VanBuren enlisted 1862, noble woman is never more a queen George and James Feb. 15, 1864. On than when July 17, 1865 they were transferred to "Teaching us how to seek the highest goal, the 12th Iowa Inf. and were dischar- ged at Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 20, 1866.

To earn the true success, To live, to love, to bless-

And make death proud to take a royal soul."

1-VanBuren Whipple (b. May 5, 1845) on Dec. 4, 1868, married Jane Fowler, located on a farm in Clayton County, Iowa, and in the spring of

Their family has consisted of seven children, five of whom died in their 1869 on his present farm on section 36, childhood and youth, Chester at the Buena Vista county. His family has age of twelve, in 1892. Lulu, after consisted of five children: Arthur, graduating at Epworth college, on Nov. 1, 1890, married Lily Stodgel, August 25, 1897, married A. E. Rigby, lives in Cedar township and has a fam- a graduate of Cornell college, princi- ily of three children; Maude, a teach- pal of the Manchester high school two er, Dec. 23, 1897, married Duncan A. years and now pastor of the M. E. Kelly and lives at Smithville, Texas; church at Elk Point, S. Dak. George Raymond, a carpenter, has been in the B. (b. Oct. 26, 1876) has been an effi- Klondike region since 1898; Herbert, cient assistant in the postoffice for a a farmer, on April 25, 1900, married number of years and in 1900 was the Ella Dumond and lives in Sac county; census enumerator for Cedar town- Jennie on June 27, 1900, married Fred ship, including the town of Fonda. Holtz and lives at Newell.

Sargent Americus Vespucius, (b.

2-George Washington, (b. Aug. 5, Dec. 2, 1821), resident of Fonda and 1847,) in 1878 married Addie Wood- vicinity since 1877, is a native of Or- ward, at Elkader, and dealt in stock ange county, Vermont, the son of there until 1891, when he came to Enoch and Lydia (Littlehale) Sargent. Fonda and engaged in the hotel busi- In 1884 he married Mary Whipple, (b ness, erecting the Washington House Corydon, N. H., Apr. 23, 1819) and six in 1892. He is now at LaCrosse, Wis., years later moved to Newport, Sulli- and has a family of four children: Al- van county, N. H. In the spring of bert, Edward, Luella and Eva.

1854 he moved to a farm in Clayton

3-James Wellington, a twin broth- county, Iowa, later to another' one in er of George W., in 1874 married Sarah Delaware county, and after the war Love and engaged in the livery busi- to Elkader, the county seat of Clay- ness at Elkader. In 1890 he came to ton county, and engaged in the livery Fonda, and in 1894 married Mamie business. In 1877 he located on the Cunningham and has a family of three W+ SW} Sec. 30, Cedar township, im- children: Claude, Nodica and Frank. proved and occupied it until 1891, when he moved to Fonda. He was a trustee of Cedar township fifteen years, 1883-97, and is a member of the M. E. church,

4-Herbert Eugene, (b. Oct. 15, 1852) a painter, in 1877, married Mary Gould, of Sac county, lives in Fonda and has a family of four children: Van, a teacher and painter, Ruth, Laura and Allie.

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5-Alberti Whipple (b.Aug. 23, 1861) has a family of four children, Nellie a native of Delaware county, Iowa, May, a Fonda graduate in 1897 and a after attending the Iowa State successful teacher since, Irwin H., Cedar Normal school at Falls, Flora E. and Hazel B .; Ora O. in 1886 several terms, served as principal of married Florence Clapp, both being the Rolfe, Pomeroy and Fonda public graduates of Parsons college, Fairfield, schools, each one or more years. On Iowa, holders of state certificates and June 6, 1888 he married Lydia, daughter teachers for ten years, and now lives of Rev. Edgar and Emiline Stev- near Laurens; Flora E. in 1883 mar- ens, lives at Fonda and has a family ried V. A. Marsteller, a merchant, of four children: Bernice, V., Mary and lives at Wilcox, Neb.

Louisa, Forrest and Glenn, two hav- ing died in childhood.

Swingle Fred, resident of Fonda from 1874 to 1891, was a native of the

Mary, wife of A. V. Sargent, died Rhine province of Prussia, Germany, March 20, 1890, and on Nov. 27, 1895, he married Nancy D. (Brush) Moul- ton and they live at Fonda.

Sargent Isaac L., (b. 1819, d. Fon- da, 1890) was a native of Orange coun- ty, Vermont, the son of Enoch and Lydia Sargent, who raised a family of the Wisconsin river about forty miles eight children, three of whom, Isaac east of Prairie du Chien. Here he at- L., A. V. and Lydia, wife of Samuel tended the public schools and also the Carleton, during the eighties located high school in Muscoda. in Pocahontas county. Isaac married At fourteen he found employment Rachel Colby, in 1865 moved to Hen- in a store in Avoca, Wis., and spent ry county, Ill., in 1868 to Jefferson

one summer in Milwaukee. He then county, Iowa, and in 1885 to Cedar engaged in teaching in Grant and township. His wife died in 1874 in Iowa counties, Wis., until November, Jefferson county.

His family consisted of six children. Jennie E. in 1866 married W. A. Clark, a photographer, lives at Pentwater, Mich,, and has a family of two chil- became teacher of the public school dren; Harrison H., in 1872, married at Fonda, then called Marvin, and Elizabeth Stewart and in 1894 died at later taught several terms in other Des Moines, leaving three children; schools in the vicinity. Purchasing

1872, when he accepted a position in the store of Nicholas Kiefer at Pome- roy, Iowa. In February, 1874, at the request of Geo. Fairburn, director, he

Edwin I. in 1880 married Cordelia the coal business of E. O. Wilder, he Sinclair, in 1881 located in Cedar town- added lumber to it and continued in ship and in 1885 moved to Des Moines, the lumber and coal business until where he has since been engaged in August, 1886, when he sold out to N. . the commission business, owns a fine B. Post. He then dealt in hay and grain until August 1891, when he disposed of all his property in Fonda and moved to Sioux City.

home in addition to several other val- uable properties and has a family of seven children; James B. in 1876 mar- ried Ella Stewart, (died, Fonda, Nov.

Having a desire to engage again in 26, 1895) in 1881 located on a farm of teaching, he attended for a short 200 acres in Cedar township, of which time the Sioux City school, at the he was assessor two years, 1891-94, in head of which was the the late Prof. 1889 moved to Fonda, where he has J. C. Gilchrist, the University of since been engaged in clerking, and South Dakota one year and the Sioux

came with his parents to Livingston County, N. Y., in 1855, and there re- ceived his first lessons in the public ,chool. After a few years he moved with his parents to a farm near the old military post, Fort Muscoda, on

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City college one year. He is now en- 1883 they built a fine house on the tering upon his fifth year as a teacher west side of Main, between 4th and in the Sioux City schools .. 5th streets, Fonda, and moving to On Dec. 13, 1875, he married Nellie town established a lumber yard south- R. Remtsma, of Webster county, west of the I. C. R. R. depot, and en- Iowa, and she taught seven years in gaged in the sale of lumber, imple- the public schools of Fonda. She was ments and hardware until June 12, a native of Hanover, Germany, came 1884, when his warehouse and stock of with her parents to Ogle county, Ill., implements and hardware were de- in her infancy, and later to Webster stroyed by fire. He then turned his county, Iowa. After attending the

attention to the cultivation of flow- public schools of Grand Detour, Ill., ers, for which he erected a greenhouse, and Fort Dodge, Iowa, she attended and to the improvement of their the Des Moines school of Methods, farms. Cook County Normal, Chicago, and Mrs. Smeaton was one of the char- the Denver Normal, Colo. At the age ter members of the Fonda Presbyteri- of sixteen she began to teach school, an church and served two years as the first in Calhoun county, Iowa, then in first president of the ladies' aid so- Webster and Pocahontas counties. ciety. She was the daughter of Seth

In March, 1892, she was appointed and Phoebe Riford, of Waukesha, first primary teacher in the Haw- Wis., whose family consisted of eight thorne school, Sioux City, and has children, four of whom-one son and been annually re-elected to that posi- three daughters-became residents of tion since that date. During the Fonda and vicinity from 1874 to 1881. summer vacations of the last six Eliza, the eldest, married David B. years she has been a teacher of pri- McKillips, and occupied the Stafford mary methods in teachers' institutes farm until 1890, when they moved to held in South Dakota and Nebraska. Fort Dodge; Sophia married Edward

Fred Swingle was a member of the R. Ellis and died at Fonda in 1898; Fonda council three years, 1883-85. Royal Riford, the youngest, married Both he and his wife took a leading Martha Jones and with a family of part in the work of the M E. church two sons, Seth and Thad, still lives in and Sunday school, and also in the or- this vicinity. ganization and maintenance of the

Tabor Edward B. (b. Aug. 14, 1858) first Chautauqua circle during the editor of the Pocahontas Times three early eighties. They were highly es- years, 1877 to 1879, is a native of Lake teemed for their excellent social City, Calhoun county, Iowa. He qualities and the valuable assistance moved with his parents to Denison, they were able to render on all special then to Webster City, then to Cedar or public occasions.

Falls and in 1862 back to Lake City.

Smeaton David, and his wife, Es- After a few months they moved to ther O. (Riford) Smeaton, were resi- Davenport where they remained until dents of Fonda and vicinity from May, the close of the year, then moved to 1881, until April, 1890, when they Cedar Rapids and in 1867 again re- moved to Des Moines. They first turned to Lake City, where he was purchased the Et Sec. 32, Cedar town- favored with the opportunity of ob= ship, and located on that portion of it taining a limited education.

known as the Dorton homestead. A

In 1872 he found employment in the little later they purchased other lands office of the old Calhoun County Pio- in the vicinity until they had an ag- neer, the first paper published in that gregate of 560 acres. In the spring of county, and began to learn the print-

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er's trade. The office contained only this district in congress.

January 1, 1886, he resigned this po- a few fonts of type, a Washington hand-press and was a very small af- sition to accept one in the office of the fair compared with the country offices Sioux City Journal, where, commenc- of the present time.

ing at the exchange editor's desk he

Early in the spring of 1875 he came soon became successively city reporter, to Fonda and secured a position with city editor, telegraph editor and final- M. D. Skinner on the Pocahontas ly managing editor. Jan. 1, 1890, he Times, taking the place of Geo. M. resigned this position and bought the Dorton, who had worked on the paper Saturday Chronicle, a local, variety during the previous winter, and then paper.

returned to the farm from which he In July, 1891, he moved to Brandon, had been driven by the ravages of the Miss., where in January following he grasshoppers in the fall of 1874. In established the Brandon News, which the Times office Tabor did all the me- has prospered until it is now one of chanical work including the printing the foremost weeklies of that state, of the paper, one page at a time on is published in a finely equipped office the old wooden press that worked and proves a profitable enterprise. with a screw like a cider-press.

On Dec. 25, 1877, he married Alice ·

In August, 1875, he purchased the E. Townsend, of Carroll, and has a Calhoun County Index and returned family of three children, the oldest to Lake City. When he became pro- one of whom was born at Fonda.

prietor of this newspaper he was only

Taylor William, (b. June 6, 1819- seventeen years of age. In the spring d. Fonda, Oct. 31, 1890), was a native of 1876 he moved his outfit to Glidden of Bourbon county, Ky. In his boy- and started the Glidden Express, the hood he moved with his parents to first paper published in that town. Greene county, Ill., and in 1855 to Ma- After a few months he sold the Ex- con county where, March 19, 1856, he press, returned to Lake City and married Harriet D. Seay. In 1859 worked on the Calhoun County Jour- they moved to Logan county, Ill., and nal.

in 1873 to the SE} Sec. 23, Cedar town-

Jan. 1, 1877, he became foreman in ship, this county, which he improved the office of the Pocahontas Times and continued to occupy until the then published at Pocahontas and year previous to his death, when they owned by Messrs. MeEwen & Garlock, moved to Fonda.

the former serving as editor.

In Oc- His family consisted of seven chil- tober following he leased the Times dren: John W., a blacksmith, on office and in the spring of 1878 moved April 14, 1897, married Mrs. Parrie A. it to Fonda and continued in charge (Watts) Metcalf, and lives at Varina; of it until Oct. 1, 1879, when Mary E. in 1881, married Geo. W. it was sold to Geo. Sanborn, its pres- Taylor, lives on a farm in Calhoun ent owner.

county and has one daughter, Daisy; Elizabeth in 1886, married Frank

He then started the Fonda News, but the support it received proving Brackenwagen, lives on a farm near insufficient, in the spring of 1880 it Emmons, Minn., and has two children, was moved to Pomeroy and called the Clarence and Leroy; Charles in 1888, Pomeroy News. In May, 1881, he re- married Cora Hendrickson, has two ceived an appointment as a postal children, Lloyd and Pearl, and lives clerk on the I. C. R. R., a favor con- in Potter county, S. D .; Annie in 1889 ferred by the late Ex-Gov. C. C. Car- married Charles Bevier, lives in Cal- penter, who was then representing houn county and has one child, Al-

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pheus; Martha lives with her mother March 29, 1883, married Alice Bliss, in Fonda, and Edward, the youngest, (daughter of George) of Dover town- in 1888 married Evelyn Aten, has one ship, and lives on a farm in Thayer child and lives at Emmons, Minn. county, Neb. 4-Harry C. Sept. 29, Lucian and Milfred Seay, parents 1889, married Eugenia Gobelle, of of Mrs. Taylor, in 1874 came to Cedar Vermillion, S. D., and has one son, township and bought a farm three Earl. He was a telegraph operator miles west of Fonda. A few years for a number of years and is now an later they moved to Marathon, where express agent at Kansas City, Mo. she died July 21, 1885, and he, Aug. 5-James H., a railroad carpenter, on 16, 1895.

Dec. 22, 1898, married Lulu Spielman,

Thompson George E., (b. June 22, lives at Fonda and has one child, 1826, d. Cedar township, Aug. 20, 1891) Fern. 6-John A., August 26, 1896, was a native of Indiana county, Pa., married Dora Sayre, has one child and the son of George C. and Elizabeth is engaged in the hardware business (Davis) Thompson. May 5, 1853, he at Varina. 7-Mary, a dressmaker, married Evaline George and engaged in 1887 married Leslie Dean and their in farming. Dec. 31, 1866, he moved family consisted of one child, Daphne; to Aledo, Mercer county, Ill., where in 1899 she married Eugene Herring- he remained three years. In Novem- ton and now lives at Sioux City.

ber 1869, in two prairie schooners, he George H. Thompson, a nephew of and his family made the trip to Red- George E., came with the latter to Pocahontas county in 1870 and home- steaded the S? NE} Sec. 18. Cyrus

field, Iowa, crossing the Mississippi at New Boston, Ill. In the fall of 1870 they located on a homestead of 80 Thompson owned this farm from 1885 acres on the N} SE} Sec. 18, Cedar to 1898.

township. He improved this farm

Thompson Richard Perry (b. Dec. with good buildings and a new house 16, 1843), resident of Cedar township in 1890, and occupied it until the time since 1871, is a native of Jefferson of his decease in 1891. In 1894 this county, Ohio, the son of John and farm was sold and the family moved Maria (Ross) Thompson. At thirteen to Fonda.

he moved with his parents to Wash-

His family consisted of seven chil- ington county, Iowa, where Dec. 29, dren, all of whom are still living. 1- 1869, he married Annabel, daughter of Cyrus is a veteran school teacher, one Dr. Nicholas and Mary (Curry) Ray. who has been well qualified for teach- After visiting Washington county, ing, stands high in educational cir- Iowa, Johnson county, Kan., and sev- cles and in the fall of 1899, as the eral other sections of country in a democratic nominee for the office of prairie schooner, they decided to lo- county superintendent, polled a splen- cate in Pocahontas county, Iowa, and did vote-his own township of Cedar, in April, 1871, located on section 26, that gave the republican candidate Cedar township. Six months later for county treasurer a majority of 187, they purchased 80 acres on the SE} giving him a democratic majority of Sec. 18, improved ánd occupied it, 44 votes. He still lives with his moth- with the exception of one year, until er. 2-Elizabeth Frances, March 24, 1900, when they moved to Fonda.

1875, married James Albarnus Sayre,

He has been a careful and progres- who died in Fonda Oct. 29, 1894, leav- sive farmer, and still manifests those ing one daughter, Pearl, who

on habits of industry and thrift that Sept. 6, 1900, married Evermond D. were acquired in youth. Mrs. Thomp- Snyder, of Des Moines. 3-George P. son was one of the pioneer teachers of

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Cedar township and although not the the Et Sec. 1, making a farm of 800 first one in that district, yet during acres in one body.

James B., while assisting one of his

the winter of 1871-72, taught the first term in the first school house built in neighbors to thresb, stepped under- the township outside of Fonda, which neath a large box used for elevating the grain, and it fell upon him with

was the one on the southeast corner of Sec. 7, in the Sunk Grove district, such crushing force that he died one

Toy James F., of Sioux City, presi- hour later. He was a man highly es- dent of the Farmers' Loan & Trust teemed for his industry, integrity cor- Co. Bank, Fonda, established this in- diality and success. All who knew stitution Sept. 1, 1886, while he was a him attest the nobility of his man- resident of Storm Lake. In the early hood.

history of Storm Lake he organized His family consisted of ten children: William Potter, Claude J., Maude L., and became president of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. By careful man- Helen, Sarah, Mildred, Abram G., agement previous to the above date it Kenneth D, Angeline and Cora V., had not made a real estate loan on all of whom remain with their mother which a dollar had been lost or an on the farm, except Maude, who in acre of land taken on foreclosure. August, 1899, returned to the home of Having received that year an addition her uncle at Deerfield, N. Y., for the of $100,000, making the capital stock purpose of completing her education. $250,000 with a surplus of $56,000, the

Whitney Charles H., (b. Nov. 20, branch at Fonda was established with 1833) resident of Fonda and vicinity Geo. B. Kerlin in charge as cashier. since June 1870, is a native of Erie After two years he was succeeded by county, N. Y., the son of Erastus and P. C. Toy, a younger brother of James Anna (Wilkinson) Whitney. In 1852 F., who remained in charge of it ten he moved with his father's family to years, 1888-98, He was succeeded by McHenry county, Ill., where they re- Louis A. Rothe, the present cashier. mained four years and then moved to Weaver James B., (b. Jan. 5, 1854, Sac county, Iowa.

d. Cedar township, Aug. 13, 1897), was

On June 11, 1856, he married Levisa a native of Deerfield, Oneida county, Blakeslee, and located on a farm in N. Y., and was the son of James and Dubuque county, Iowa, and after two Arvilla (Smith) Weaver. Dec. 13, years moved to Moore county, Minn. 1876, he married Cora, daughter of On Dec. 28, 1862, he enlisted and spent John and Sarah (Wilcox) Potter, and three years in the frontier service they lived at Marcy, N. Y., until the against the Indians in Minnesota and spring of 1886 when, with a family of Dakota, (See page 45). In June, 1870, five children, they came to Pocahon- conveying his family and household tas county and began to occupy their goods in two wagons, he located on present home on sections 1 and 12, Ce- the W$ SW} Sec. 8, Cedar township, dar township. His uncle, Abram B. Pocahontas county, Iowa, which he Weaver, of Deerfield, bought of Thur- improved and occupied four years. low Weed, N. Y., the W} Sec. 1 in the He then purchased the two home- spring of 1870, and came to view it on steads of Geo. H. and Sidney E. the excursion train of July 4th follow- Wright on the NW} Sec. 36, which he ing, that signalized the completion of continued to occupy until the spring the laying of the track from Fort of 1898, when he moved to Fonda.

Dodge to Sioux City. In 1886 he He served seven years as a trustee bought also the N} Sec. 12, on which of Cedar township, 1875-78 and 1896- the buildings are located, and in 1890 98; and was treasurer of the school

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funds two years, 1877-78. He was one boyhood left home and no trace of him of the trustees of the M. E. church, was afterward discovered. The other Fonda, at the time of its incorpora- one enlisted in the civil war and held tion in 1877, and has been a constant the position of captain at the time he was killed on the field at Yorktown. supporter of its services since they were first established.

Alpheus worked for his board and

His family has consisted of six chil- clothing among the farmers of the dren. Nettie married Warren Karr, neighborhood until he was able to lives in Fonda and has two children, command wages, and then entered a Bessie and Charles; Oliva married factory in Massachusetts. The next William Bower and lives at Sac City; year he went to Michigan, found em- Mamie married Marion Jenkins and ployment in a store and remained lives at Pomeroy; Charles R., M. D., three years. He enjoyed the advan- (see below); William married Lulu tages of the public school only for a Reed and lives in Chicago, and Frank, few months,

but became well in- formed by reading the best books and who is still at home.

Whitney Charles R., M. D., (b. June papers his opportunities afforded. At 14, '63) resident of Fonda, isa native of twenty-one he found his way into a Moore county, Minn., son of Charles law office at Toulon, Ill., and two and Levisa Whitney, with whom he years later he was admitted to the came to Pocahontas county in 1870. bar. In 1849, in company with a num- After spending two years in the high ber of others, he went by the pony ex- school at Sac City, he spent four years press to California and, after a few in the Western Normal at Shenando- months, passed to Oregon, where he ah, graduating first from the Normal located a claim several miles distant and two years later from the Scien- from any neighbor. When others ar- tific department of that institution. rived they founded a town which he In 1894, he graduated from the Rush named "Dallas," and it became the Medical College, Chicago, and has county seat of Polk county. Here he since been engaged in the practice of began the practice of law and by ap- medicine and surgery at Fonda. Dur- pointment filled the honorable posi- ing his first year he was associated sitions of clerk of the senate, and with Dr. M. F. Patterson and then be- judge of the probate court in that dis- came his successor. He is a good rep- trict of the territory of Oregon.

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The pioneer history of Pocahontas County, Iowa, from the time of its earliest settlement to the present time, Part 59

Author: Flickinger, Robert Elliott, b. 1846 Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Fonda, Iowa, G. Sanborn Number of Pages: 1058

Author: Flickinger, Robert Elliott, b. 1846
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Fonda, Iowa, G. Sanborn
Number of Pages: 1058