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been justice of the peace and secretary Maggie and Nellie.
of the school board during the last two years.
Struthers Robert, (see page 172), the first representative from this county in the legislature of Iowa, was a resident of Des Moines township from 1857 to 1893, when he moved to Rolfe where he died Sept. 18, 1898, and his wife June 9, 1897. He was one of the very first pioneers to locate in the northeast part of this county and his wife joined him a few months later. By their. sterling integrity and noble lives this worthy couple, during the first forty years of the history of this county, exerted a potent influence for good that was felt not merely in their own neighborhood but through-
3. Susan married Col. John B. Kent. (See Kent.)
4. Maggie J. lives at Rolfe.
5. Andrew J. (b. Aug. 22, 1865) oc- cupies a farm of 220 acres, Sec. 11, Des Moines township. April 26, 1893 he married Etta Parkin of Humboldt county and has one daughter, Mary.
6. Grace, Sept. 12, 1887 married James McClure, a mechanic, lives at West Bend and has a family of two children, Gilbert G. and Walton M.
7. Robert A. (b. Feb. 1, 1871), farmer, lives at Rolfe.
Spence George Francis, (b. Aug. 23, 1842,) Rolfe P. O., is a native of Kenosha county, Wisconsin. In 1869 he located in Hamilton county Iowa, out this county and in the legislative and remained fourteen years. In 1883 balls of this commonwealth. The he located on his present farm of 200 good are a mighty power and they acres on section 11, Center township, Rolfe. He has erected good improve- exert an influence long after their de- two and one-half miles southwest of parture from earth. They are grate-
fully remembered in the home, the ments on this farm and made it a de- social circle and the church.
"That man exists but never lives, Who much receives but nothing gives, But he, who marks his devious way By generous acts from day to day, Treads the same path his Saviour trod, The path to glory and to God."
His family consisted of three sons and four daughters.
lightful home. He has been identi- fied with the history of Center town- ship, having served as a trustee five years, 1885-89, and as a justice of the peace and president of the school board in 1888. It is, however, by reason of the long continued and effi- cient public service rendered as post- master at Rolfe that he became most widely and favorably known. He had
1. William E. (b. Mar, 19, 1857) is a native of Aurora, Ill., where his par- charge of the Rolfe postoffice seven ents tarried a few months while on the years and three months from April 1, way to the frontier. He is the owner and occupant of a farm of 160 acres on section 3, Des Moines township. He has been secretary of the school board in this township since 1889. On April 6, 1882 he married Alice Price of Lizard township and has three chil- dren, William, Alec and Ernest.
1890. He has been an elder in the Presbyterian church of Rolfe since 1889 and superintendent of the Sun- day school during the past five years. He is a veteran of the civil war, hav- ing enlisted in May, 1864, at Kenosha, as a member of the 39th Wis. Volun- teers and continued in the service in the western department of the army until the fall of that year.
2. Ellen (b. Jan. 1, 1859) on March 19, 1878 married Richard S. Mathers owner and occupant of a farm of 320 In 1872 he married Etta Gould, of acres on Sec. 3, Clinton township. Grundy county, and bis family con- Her family consists of seven children, sists of two children, Clara Bell, who William, Susie, Mary, Robert, Archie, married Ora P. Malcolmu, (see Mal-
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colm) and Walter A., who lives at years of their residence at Rolfe. Rolfe. Their family consisted of ten children,
Tilley Matthew, (b. Dec. , 1811) of whom three died in infancy.
and his wife, Sarah Pether, were both natives of Somersetshire, England, Lizzie Pike of Fonda, has two sons where they were married in February, and lives near Emmetsburg.
Albert James, a farmer, married
1836. In 1855 they came to America Darley Cornelius, a farmer, married and located at Dyersville, Iowa, where Mary Schirgogle of La Conner, Wash., they remained seven years. In the where he now resides, and has three spring of 1862 they located on the NE} children. Sec. 23, Des Moines township, later Abbie Louisa, a dressmaker, Rolfe. known as the Wm. Struthers farm, Watson Henry, a butcher, married one and a half miles north of Old Florence Drake of Rolfe, lives at Rolfe. Here she died Feb. 16, 1868. Eagle Grove and has two daughters. In 1869 he married Abbie A. Blood and Mary Isabella. a few years later moved to Ness coun-
Hephzibah Sarah married Wm. O.
ty, Kansas, where he built a fine stone Forsythe, a cigar-maker, lives at Ma- house and remained seven years. On sun City, and has one daughter. his return to this county he located Susan E., Rolfe graduate in 1898, at Rolfe, where he died April 18, 1901, has since been a compositor in the in his 90th year. He was a stone ma- Reveille office. son all his life and a first-class work-
3-Henry Tilley, in the fall of 1862, man. He built the First Congrega- at the age of nineteen, enlisted with tional church, a stone building, at three others from Old Rolfe-Wm. S. Dyersville in 1860, and later a stone Fegles, Charles Jarvis and Dennis school house in Humboldt county. He Quigley-as a member of Co. B, 4th served twelve years as a clerk in one of Iowa cavalry. He was bugler for the the churches of England, and as a tax-
regiment and remained in the service collector before he came to this coun- until the fall of 1865. On his return try. He treasurer of the school funds to this county he entered as a home- a few years in Des Moines township stead the NE} Sec. 14, Powhatan during the sixties, and was identified township, 160 acres, and received the first with the Methodist and after patent for it Sept. 25, 1872. A few removing to Kansas with the Presby- years later he moved to Kansas, where terian church.
His family consisted of four chil- from his father and when not other- dren:
he still resides. He learned masonry wise engaged sought employment as a He married Belle Hancher
1-Mary, the eldest, in 1858 at mason Dyersville, married Henry Jarvis. and his family consists of two sons (See Jarvis.)
and one daughter.
4-Edward Tilley, a farmer, Have- lock, on Sept. 15, 1867, married Anna
2-Ellen Tilley (b. July 17.1837,) is a native of Ware, Somersetshire, Eng- land, where she learned dressmaking. Jane, daughter of Edward P. Hamn- At twenty she came with her parents, mond, and they occupied the Han- sister and two brothers to Dyersville, mond farm on section 1, Clinton town- Iowa, the trip across the ocean occu- ship, until the year 1888, when they moved to Powhatan township, and in pying eight weeks. In 1857 she mar- ried Henry Hayward of Dyersville, 1897 to Havelock. and about five years later moved to a His family consisted of twelve chil- dren, two of whom died young: farm in the northeast part of Poca- hontas county. He was proprietor of a meat market during the first ten
1- Mary E. in 1892, married John B.
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Harris and lived at Havelock until the Loan Co. and State Savings Bank 1901, when they moved to Ware.
June 1, 1900, and since that date has 2-Edward Wm., a merchant, mar- given his attention to the care of his ried Celia Esteila Campbell, and lives own interests.
in the state of Washington.
He participated in the organization 3-Adlaide, Dec. 7, 1898, married of Grant township in 1870, and had John Johnson, (b. 1865) who has been the honor of serving as the first jus- superintendent of the Shannon ranch tice of the peace in that township, in Center township, since 1897. He is serving altogether eight years, 1870-72, a native of Denmark, came to this country in 1887 and began to work on the Shannon ranch in 1893. They have two children, Grace and Grant; twins.
'77-81. He was clerk of that town- ship eight years, '72-79; president of the school board in 1872, and secretary of it three years, 1874-75, '78. During his residence at Pocahontas he was
4-Agnes, in 1898 married Frank president of the Center township Spornetz, a harnessmaker, and lives school board three years, 1885-87, and in North Dakota.
Charles Henry, Sarah A., Minnie G.,
He is a very neat penman, a Harold B., Edna May and Olney D. ready writer and strictly methodical are at home.
in the transaction of business and keeping accounts. In early life he
Tollefsrude Christian Hansen, (b. May 1, 1845,) Rolfe, is a native of Rock formed the habit of keeping a diary
in which he noted every important local event. By the aid of this diary
county, Wisconsin, the son of Hans C. and Bereth Tollefsrude, of Rusk. His early days were spent on the home he wrote a very minute and accurate farm. He attended Beloit college history of the early settlement of 1864-67, and taught several terms in Grant township, first for the public the public schools of Wisconsin. In press of this county and later for this 1869 he married Maria G. Shirley, of volume.
Avon, Wis , and in 1870 settled on a Shirley, the first postoffice in Grant homestead, the E} SW# Sec. 28, Grant township, established in 1876, was township, this county. He engaged in farming and teaching until 1882, when he became county auditor and moved to Pocahontas. At the end of named in honor of his wife, and he was the postmaster until their re- moval to Pocahontas in 1882. They have one daughter, Charlotte I. B., four years of faithful public service whose birth in 1871, was the fourth he became the assistant cashier of the one in Graut township. On May 19, Farmers Bank at Pocahontas, and la- 1897, she became the wife of Alonzo ter its cashier, when it was reorgan- R. Thornton, Rolfe, and has two
ized as the Pocahontas Savings Bank. In 1888 he became also the account- children, Norma Emily and Charlotte I. B. On August 4, 1900, she became ant and corresponding secretary of associate publisher of the Reveille with her husband.
the Pocahontas Land & Loan Co., and in 1893 the assistant cashier of the
Van Alstine Sewell (b. Oct. 24, State Savings Bank of Rolfe, having 1824), farmer, Gilmore City, came to moved to that place that year. He Pocahontas county with wife and built and occupies a fine residence in seven children in 1871 and located on Rolfe. Hestill owns the old home- the W/ sec. 25, Clinton township. stead and altogether about 360 acres Later he purchased also the N. W. + in Grant township. Owing to failing sec. 36 on which he is now living one health he severed his connection with
mile northwest: of Gilmore City and
county auditor four years, 1882-85.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY, IOWA.
the W. } sec 31 Avery township, Hum- school board one year, a trustee four boldt county. Some time afterward years, a justice of the peace ten years. he purchased 200 acres more on sec- Mrs. Van Alstine in March 1878 was tion 25, Clinton township. Some of appointed postmaster of Clinton town- these lands have been transferred to ship and the office at their home was members of his family, but he is still called Prairie View. She continued the owner of 640 acres of rich and to be postmistress until July 1, 1881 highly improved lands in this and Humboldt counties.
when the office was established at Gilmore City.
He is a native of New York state, Their family is located as follows: the son of Leonard and Sophia (Pratt) 1-Inez in 1870 married Ira Scran- ton of Greene county, Iowa, and they Van Alstine, who lived on a farm and had four children of whom he was the lived there three years. In 1873 they youngest. At fifteen in 1840, he located on the N. W. } sec. 35, Clinton moved with his parents to Illinois township, improved it with good where Dec. 6, 1848 he married Ellen buildingsand fences and occupied it C. daughter of Edward and Harriet until 1893 when they moved to Polk (Spicer) Hawley. He then located on county, Mo. They however still own a farm near his parents and remained this farm.
on it twenty three years. All of liis children were born on this farm.
During their residence in Clinton township he was a trustee of the
When he arrived with his family in township two years, president of the Clinton May 8, 1871 there were only schoolboard four years and assessor about a dozen families in the town- six years. She was an active christian ship. He built a house 18x24 feet worker and was secretary of the Poca- on the S. W. ¿ sec. 25 and occupied it hontas County Sunday School Associ- till 1884 when he built the large ation several years. They have a mansion 34x34 feet on sec. 36 with
family of five children, Charles S. verandas on three sides of it and sup- a teacher; Grace E. who in 1894 mar- plied within with every necessary modern convenience.
ried Oliver Graves and having one child, Cecil, lives in Nebraska;
He is recognized as one of the large Robert Graves, Harold L. and Cath. and successful farmers of Pocahontas erine. county. He has been a thorough tomed to rest, renovate and enrich
2-Clarence L., farmer, in 1885 mar- tiller of the soil and has been accus- ried Gertrude Brooks of Humboldt county and lives on sec. 31, Avery it with crops of clover every six years. township, near the old home. He has He regards clover as the farmer's best a family of six children, Edward C., sub soiler since it rests the surface Greta E., Annie H., Paul B., Ruth A. while it draws nutriment from and Elizabeth, twins. the sub soil. In a single year on the
3-Rollin, proprieter of the Security land farmed by himself and family bank at Gilmore City since 1894, in he has raised 10,000 bushels of corn 1878 married Ada Jackson of Hum- and 5,000 bushels of oats. He used to boldt county and his family consists raise large numbers of fat cattle but of two children, Winnifred P. and during recent years has given more Robert L.
attention to raising hogs.
4-Altha, who died at the age of 30 He has never had a desire to hold in October 1875.
office but on the other hand bas not 5-Leslie H., joint owner with his refused to perform his duty as a citi- younger brother Howard, of the Ex- zen, having been president of the change bank of Gilmore City, since
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP.
1881, in 1891 married May, daughter of Rolfe he relinquished the field that Dr. F. W. Coffin then of Gilmore he might enjoy a couple of years of City now of Cleveland, O. He has special training for the ministerial of- two children Enid M. and Reginald fice. M.
6-Blanch E. at home.
In 1891, he married Addie A. Carter of West Bend, and his family consists
7-Howard S. banker, Gilmore City, of two children, Carroll C. and in 1896 married Bertha, daughter of Jessie L. F. E. Beers an old settler of Lake township, and has two children, Lois CLINTON ASSESSMENT IN 1870. and Dana.
Leslie and Howard established the Exchange bank and Rollin the Securi- ty bank when they embarked in the banking business, and they have erec- ted substantial buildings, brick and stone, respectively, for them.
Wright Charles Gilbert, (b. Jan 14, 1864,) pastor of the Baptist church, Rolfe, from Jan. 1, 1896, to Jan. 1, Wm. Sandy 1900, was a native of Onondaga county, D. W. Hunt N. Y. In 1885 he graduated from Ora Harvey Munro Collegiate Institute near Syr- Almira Seely acuse. In 1881 he came to Kossuth Mallard Seely county, Iowa, and engaged in busi- Harmon Seely ness. In 1893, assured of a call to the Joseph Clason ministry, he became pastor of the Baptist church of Bradgate. Three Henry Clason months after its organization in 1895 he became pastor of the Baptist Assessed value
Horses Cattle Hogs
A. H. Malcolm
2
4
2
2
10
16
1
4
2
13
Elijah D. Seely
1
1
4
1
1
1
4
3
2
2
9
Parker C. Harder
7
3
Benj. Messenger
2
1
Total
15
61
28
· $525
$912
$14
Total value
$1,431
church of
Rolfe and secured the erection of a church building be- The assessment of 1900, not includ- fore the close of his first year. He ing Rolfe, shows 115 persons subject also supplied at intervals the Baptist to military duty, 540 horses, 1,688 cat- church of Havelock. After an en- tle, 1,255 hogs, 2.785 sheep; and their couraging pastorate of four years at value is $77,912.00.
In the spring of 1870, the 11th year of its settlement, there were only four persons in Clinton township liable to perform military duty, namely, D. W. Hunt, Wm. Sandy, Henry Clason and Mallard Seely.
The assessment of live stock for that year was as follows:
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COLFAX TOWNSHIP.
XVI.
"The wind on the prairie crept through the grass, A subtler sigh than in boughs of trees, The gray of the twilight fell, one great mass, Unbroken, blotting the pathless prairie." -BATES.
- OLFAX township was named in honor of Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, Speaker of the House of Repre-
Muskrat slough, that originally in- cluded nearly all of section 8 in the northwest part of it, used to be a great place for trapping. The little stream that flows from it, crossing the sentatives 1863-69, Garlock homestead in Cedar town- and Vice-president of the United ship and then emptying into Hell States 1869-73. It formed a part of slough in Calhoun county, was called Lizard township until Sept. 6, 1870, "Fast creek," because many teams when it was annexed to Cedar, and it stuck fast in the effort to ford it in was established as a separate town- the early days. The head of Purga- tory slough appears in the southeast
ship Sept. 4, 1871.
The surface of this township is a part on section 35, and its outlet in level or slightly rolling prairie. At Calhoun county is called Lake creek. the time of its survey it contained "a Hell slough in Calhoun county and great number of irreclaimable marshes Purgatory slough, a few miles east of containing one to one hundred acres it, were on the main route westward each," but now nearly all of them are from Fort Dodge, and these signifi- under cultivation or have become cant names were given them by the profitable pastures. The soil is of the emigrants who passed over these prai- ries before the time of their settle-
best quality.
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ment, on account of the difficulty ex-
In June Gad C. Lowrey, Jason his perienced in crossing them. In the son, and Edward B. Clark his brother- spring of the year horses would stick in-law, arrived and they immediately fast and fall in them, and the only began to improve their homesteads sure means of drawing a loaded wagon on section 28 by the erection of small through them was a string of oxen so houses. A month later Fred Jentz long that when the wagon would be and family and Herman Speik, a nearly covered with water in the young man, located on sections 14 and deepest part of them some of the oxen 22. Charles Peterson, John and Gus would be on the more solid ground on H. Johnson, Harry and John A. Nel- the other side. Eight to ten yoke of son, five young men who came to- gether from Sweden, walked from oxen would sometimes be hitched to one wagon. Coal and other necessary Des Moines, carrying their luggage supplies had to be hauled from Fort and entered five homesteads on sec- Dodge and, during the cold weather, tion 12 on the same day-March 3 1869. many a teamster in breaking the ice Andrew O. Long, a Swede, located on section 34, but after a few months moved to section 2, Bellville township. August Prange, Rudolph and Amandus Zieman in 1869 located their homesteads on section 20, and then working on the railroad lived before the oxen found himself in water to the armpits. Although they furnished an abundant supply of wild fowl of the best quality and other game both in the fall and spring of the year, they got the repu- tation of being the worst places in along it.
the whole country. They were drained in 1890 and have since been converted into productive valuable farms.
1870.
Others that located and entered and homesteads in the latter part of 1869, but, did not occupy them until the There was not a tree in the town- spring of 1870, were Charles and Peter ship when the first settlers located in Peterson, Theodore Dunn, John A. it and the first grove was planted in and Charles Johnson, Julia A John- 1871 by R. C. Stewart on section 34. son, Ludwic D. Turner, John Reimer, It consisted of one acre of forest trees. John E. Morien, Joseph Fells, Devlin FIRST SETTLERS-1869.
Brown, Carl F. Hillstrom, August Samuelson, John Soder, Wm. Zieman and August Malmburg. Other fam-
The first settlers of Colfax town- ship were Fred C. Smith (Schmidt) and Fred Matheis, two young men ilies that located in 1870, in addition who, locating on adjoining home- to those just named were those of steads on section 28, March 1, 1869, Robert C. Stewart, Charles G. Per- built a frame shanty on the line be- kins, Thomas Walker, Henry Russell, tween them and occupied it together. John Murphy, James Little, Jacob L. Fred Smith turned the first furrow Williams, Geo. W. Gearhart, Wm. in the township soon after their ar- Sanborn, James B. Chapin, James rival with two yoke of oxen they Hite, Fred Yohnke, N. C. Synstelien bought in partnership. They broke and John Russell.
about fifty acres on each of their homesteads that year, and then plowed for other settlers that arrived lowing later. In the fall of that year Smith steads:
1871.
In 1871, or soon afterward, the fol- families located on home-
Torrence Murphy, John, built a house and married Eliza Charles J. and August Johnson, Gus- Briggs, a native of England and a res tave Hagg, John Carlson, Peter J. ident of Calhoun county.
Gustafsen, Andrew Wass, Augusta
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Lindell, Richard Lory, Archibald '72; Charles G. Perkins, '73, '94-1900; Stigney, Swan P. Munson, George Guy, Hiram H. Wallace, '73-75, '78; Geo. W. Wm. B. Harris, John Kruchten and Gearhart, '74-76; Jason H. Lowrey, '74; W. C. B. Allen.
John Murphy, '75; Fred Smith, '76,
It will be perceived that nearly all '90-92; John Barrett, '76; R. A. Hor- of the early settlers of Colfax town-
ton, '77; Daniel N. Boyd, '77, '79-82: ship were homesteaders. Geo. Wal- John Soder, '77; R. B. Adams, '78-81; lace and a few others were purchasers. Fred Yohnke, '78; J. Fell, '79-80, David ORGANIZATION. Spielman, '81-89; Alba Miller, '82; Alex. G. Maxwell, '83-88; Alex. Peter-
The first election in Colfax town- ship was held at the home of James son, '83-90; James H. Hogan, '89-93, '99- B. Chapin, afterward owned by Dan- 1901. J. A. Holmes, '91-94; Charles Pe- iel N. Boyd, on N W+ Sec. 15, and at terson, '93-1901; Frank Peterson, '97- the time of the general election, Oct. 1901; J. F. Gustason, '98-1900; David 10, 1871. The persons appointed to Welander.
CLERKS: Theodore Dunn, 1872-73;
hold this election were Geo. Wallace, R. C. Stewart and James B. Chapin, Geo. Wallace, '74-75, '77; R. C. Brown- judges, Theodore Dann and Hiram H. ell, '76; Henry Pearce, '78; J. A. Wallace, clerks. The local officers Holmes, '79, '84-86, '88; Amandus Zie- elected were Geo. Wallace, R. C. Stew- man, '80-82; R. C. Stewart, '83; J. L. art and Wm. B. Harris, trustees; Geo. Sanquist, '87; S. N. Maxwell, '89-90; Wallace and J. B. Chapin, justices; John Barrett, '91; O. A. Merrill, '99; Theodore Dunn, clerk; Jason H. Low- J. W. Clancy, '92-98; C. G. Perkins, rey, constable; and R. C. Stewart, as- 1900-01.
sessor.
JUSTICES: Geo. Wallace, 1872-74; R.
On March 2, 1872, Wm. Sanborn was C. Stewart, '72-73, '79-84; C. G. Per- appointed constable and Geo. wal- kins, '74-86; D. N. Boyd, '75-77; George lace a road supervisor. On Oct. 7th, Convy, '78; A. G. Maxwell, '85-90; S. following, the township was divided P. Boyd, '87-90: S. W. Mckinney, '91- into four road districts, one road 95; J. F. Parker, '91-95; Alex Peterson, '96-1901; Wm. Brieholtz, '97-1900;
scraper was purchased for each dis- trict and for 1873 Geo. Wallace, L. D. Louis Benshoof, 1901. Turner, Wm. Sanborn and Richard ASSESSORS: R. C. Stewart, '72-73 '77; James B. Chapin,'74; C.G. Perkins, '75-76; J. B. Rickman, '78-80; John Barrett, '81-84; James H. Hogan, '85- Hood were appointed supervisors. The annual levy for road purposes in '71, '73-75 was two mills; in '72 and '76- 84 it was five mills, and it has been 88; James Doyle, '89-'95; Edward Flah-
four mills since that date. In 1881 the township was divided into six road districts of six sections each, but
erty, '96-98; C. A. Hartley, '99-1901.
SCHOOL OFFICERS.
PRESIDENTS OF THE BOARD: W. B. on Oct. 5, 1896, it was re-districted and Harris, 1872-73; R. C. Stewart, '74-82; divided into two districts-east and C. G. Perkins, '75; Geo. W. Wallace, west-and for the ensuing year J. F. '76-77; R. A. Horton, '78-81; O. C. Wood, '83-86; R. Hodd, Fred Smith, J.
Gustason and Amandus Zieman were the supervisors. In 1889 a road grader H. Hogan, John Doyle, James Clancy, costing $196.00 was purchased. '91-92, '94; Charles Peterson, '93,'95-97; J. F. Gustason, '98-1900.
SUCCESSION OF OFFICERS.
The succession of officers has been as follows:
SECRETARIES: C. G. Perkins, '72- 73; J. H. Lowrey, '74-75; R. C. Stewart, "76-81, '83; D. N. Boyd, J. F. Parker,
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