The pioneer history of Pocahontas County, Iowa, from the time of its earliest settlement to the present time, Part 84

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

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GILMORE CITY IN 1901.

POSTMASTER -- Frank J. Tishenban- ner.

MAYOR -- Lesl'e H. VanAlstine.

COUNCILMEN -- Andrew Bull, Thos. W. C. Kennedy of Rolfe. The char- J. Calligan, W. A. Pollock, John Mc- Bride, Jackson Hunter, Lyman Beers. Assessor, C. A. Belt; recorder, Geo. W. Spurger

ATTORNEYS-L. E. England, Percy

BANKS-Exchange (Est. 1886), L. H.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Bobel, Mr. VanAlstine, cashier; Security (Est. 1894), Rollin H. VanAlstine, presi- dent; Lyman Beers, cashier.

On Feb. 3, 1889, a church building BAKERY -- A. H. Keck, since 1896. 26x36 feet and costing $1750 was dedi- BARBER -- Charles Kennedy, since cated. This was the first church 1888. building in Lake township. In 1900 a BLACKSMITHS-I. B. Long, since good parsonage was built and the 1887; Geo. Lyst, (1895), Williams & congregation is now in a very flourish- Lyst. ing condition.

COAL-Robert Gibson.

CREAMERY -- A. A. Briggs.

CARPENTERS -- Wm. Barker, .C. L.

CLOTHING STORE -- C. L. Hatfield,

CHURCHES -- Methodist Episcopal, built 1888, Rev. Arthur Ward, pastor; Presbyterian, 1889, Rev. Frank E. Hoyt, successor to Rev. W. E .. Pinker- ton, pastor; Catholic, 1889, Rev. Steph- en Butler, pastor; Christian Church,

DENTIST -- J. T. Hambly.

DRESS MAKER-Mrs. Hattie Hogan.

DRAYMEN-McQuarrie & Brown, Wm. Rice.

DRUGGIST4-Gilmore City Drug Co., L. E. England, kesq., proprietor, since 1885; John McCormick, 1899.

ELEVATORS -- C. W. Edgington, since

The succession of pastors has been as follows: Rev. G. H. Duty, 1887- Oct. 1890; Rev. A. C. Keeler, Rolfe; Belt, Albert Freeman. Rev. J. Malcolm Smith, Pomeroy; Rev. Norman McLeod, D. D., Fort Dodge; since 1893.

Rev. O. F. Wisner and Rev. J. R. Vance, Pomeroy; Rev. W. C. Pinker- ton and Rev. Frank E. Hoyt-1901.

CATHOLIC-The St. John's Catholic church at Gilmore was organized July 4, 1889, by Rev. John Hennessey, Arch-bishop, Dubuque, of the families 1896, Rev. B. F. Shoemaker, pastor.

of P. J. Gaughan, T. C. Connelly, P. J. Kelly, J. J. Griffin, D. Mulholland, M. McCormick, J. J. Sinnott, N. Myers, M. Fitzgerald, T. Comminskey and others. Soon afterward they erected a church building 72x38 feet, costing $2,576, and a parsonage 32x32 feet, costing $1,873. This church has had a steady and substantial growth

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1891; Mullen & Hunter; Counselman F. J. Tishenbanner, T. J. Calligan. & Co., Thomas Maher, manager.

RESTAURANT-The Farmers-Ben-

FURNITURE -- C. W. Smith, since jamin Kidd.

1896.

SHOE MAKER-Joseph Hocking.

UNDERTAKER-C. W. Smith.

WAGON MAKER-I. B. Long, since

WELL DRILLER-Henry Hocking. VETERINARY SURGEON-Wm. Sax- by, 1879.

RURAL FREE DELIVERY.

GRAIN DEALERS-Mullen & Hunter, since 1887; T. F. Maher, 1892.

On Feb. 1, 1902, two rural free de- HARDWARE-E. P. McEvoy in 1901, livery routes were established from Gilmore City. J. C. Smith was ap- HARNESS MAKER-C. L. VanAl- pointed carrier for route No. 1, which runs through south Avery, west Cor- HOTEL-Gilmore House, R. L. Weir. inth and Weaver townships, Hum-

successor of C. B. Fitch.

IMPLEMENT DEALERS-Mullen & boldt county, and D. A. Rice carrier Hunter, since 1887; C. W. Edgington, for route No. 2; which passes through 1898. south Clinton, Lake and north Lizard

INSURANCE-Frank J. Tishenban- townships, Pocahontas county. This

ner.

JEWELRY-I. P. Davidson, since office unnecessary and it was discon- 1896.

LIVERY-Wm. Cavanaugh, since 1894.

To keep them warm on cold days each carrier is provided with a muffied LIVE STOCK-Andrew Bull, since heater, that has the form of a small 1894. flat muff and is dropped on the floor LUMBER & COAL-B. L. Willis Lum- of the conveyance. The fuel for this ber Co , A. L. Gill, manager; Black & unique contrivance consists of a small Neel.

MASONS AND PLASTERERS-Wilkes that, when heated in a stove a few

Woolman, O. A. Willard.

MEAT MARKET-City, T. McMahon & Co.

MILL-Horace Keller, since 1896.

MILLINERS-Mrs. M. J. Wood, Mrs. A. Brown.

H. C. Marmon.

Bendixen Peter H, (b. 1837), a resi- NEWSPAPER-Gilmore City Globe, dent successively of Des Moines, Clin- ton and Lake townships, is a native PAINTER -Mark Whitcomb. of Denmark, the son of Niels and POULTRY-John McBride. Martha M. (Buck) Bendixen. His PHOTOGRAPHER-D. A. Rice. father. from his earliest recollection,

PHYSICIANS-A. L. Belt, M. D., was the owner and captain of a mer- since 1891; U. G. Grigsly, 1896. chant vessel, which he sold in the

TELEPHONE-Northwestern Co., spring of 1864, when the family came Emery Eversole, operator; Iowa Co, to America. Peter, coming to Mc- Henry county, Ill., in 1861, found em- L. E. England, operator.

RAILROAD-C. R. I. & P., I. W. ployment as a farm hand and clerk in a grocery store until the fall of 1863,

Brokaw, agent.

REAL ESTATE-Rollin VanAlstine, when he returned to Denmark and

last route rendered the Lizard post-

tinued Feb. 1, 1902.

cake of material resembling carbon, minutes and placed in the center of it by means of a drawer, continues to burn without flame or smoke an en tire day. 1

LEADING CITIZENS.

GENERAL MERCHANTS -- Charles L. Hatfield, large department store since 1893; Guernsey & Spargur, 1895; J. J. 1887. Mulholland, 1899.

GROCERS-Pollock, since 1895; Green & Hartnelt.

stine, since 1883.

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married Petra Alberta Svendson. The Clinton township, and has a family of next spring, accompanied by his wife, six children. 2-William (b. Ill. 1866) a sister and his parents, he located in married Minnie Thompson, lives in McHenry county, Ill. Minnesota and has one son. 3-Charles

In the spring of 1869, making the B. (b. Ill. 1868) married Carrie Ken- trip in a lumber wagon, he moved to nedy, lives on 80 acres on Sec. 32, Clin- a rented farm in Des Moines town- ton. 4-Maggie (b. Poc. Co. 1870) mar- ship, this county. The next year he ried Peter Hendrickson, a farmer, and bought 80 acres on Sec. 33, Lake town- has five children. 5-Alice B. married ship, and his father 80 acres on Sec. Charles Borg, owner of 80 acres ou 28. Later Peter bought 80 acres more Sec. 32, Clinton, and has two children. on Sec. 27. Their nearest market then 6-Matilda B. married Anton Peter- was Fort Dodge, afterward Manson, son and lives at Gilmore City. 7-John Humboldt, Algona, Rolfe and finally (b. 1876) in 1901 married Emma Han- Gilmore City. The visits of the grass- son and is proprietor of a blacksmith hoppers made it necessary for him to and wagon-maker shop at Westbrook, live two years on cornmeal, and to Minn. 8-Minnie B. married John keep his horses the same period with- Lynch, a farmer. Albert G., Peter out grain. Hansen and Nellie B. are at home.

His father died on his farm in 1881 He died Feb. 11, 1902, three days at 81, and his mother in 1898 at 87. after reading this sketch in The Fon- Both were devout members of the da Times.

Lutheran church and are buried at Rolfe.

Buckner John, who acted a very prominent part in the early history of

After his father's death Peter be- the township, was a professional trap- came the owner of 240 acres, which he per and fisherman, and also a squat- occupied until 1893, when he moved ter. He neither bought nor rented any first to southern Missouri and the land in Lake township, but built a next year to a farm of 160 acres in El- shanty on the bank of Lizard lake and lington township, Palo Alto county occupied it about seven years, from, In 1898 he moved to a farm in Lake about 1876 to 1883. He caught and sold township and three years later to an- fish to the early settlers in that vicinity other one adjoining Gilmore City on and marketed annually a large amount

the east, where he is now living.

He of fur. He was a man of considerable is a man of considerable intelligence influence and was accorded the honor and rendered thirty years of public of serving as chairman of several service in Clinton township, as fol- meetings of the citizens in 1877 and lows: Assessor one year, a justice two 1878 for the purpose of organizing the years, a trustee two years, clerk four school district of the township. He served two years as the first president of the school board and two years also as a justice. years, and secretary of the school board twenty-one years. In Lake he served as a justice and clerk in 1900. By his strict integrity and faithful performance of every duty devolving upon him he has won and held the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens.

Daniels Emmet Abram (b. 1860), owner and occupant of the SW# Sec. 21 since 1885, is a native of Webster county, Iowa, the son of David M. and Sarah Daniels. In 1884 he married

His family consisted of eleven chil- Ida Hayes aud the next year located dren. 1-Erasmus Nelson (b. Ill. 1864) on his present farm. He was secre . married Elizabeth Christenson, occu- tary of the school board seven years. pies a farm of 160 acres on Sec. 28, His family consists of five children,

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Martin F., Emmet G., Joel V., Clinton Beginning with a small farm of wild D. and Frederic J.

prairie he improved it, and, turning

Elsen Henry, accompanied by wife his attention to raising and fattening and two sons, Gerd and Charles, in stock, has now a finely improved farm 1870 came from Germany and stopped of 480 acres. He assisted in the or - in Lizard township. Three months ganization of Lake township, served later he located on a homestead of 80 as one of its first trustees in 1878-79, acres on the W SE Sec. 2, Bellville and as secretary of the school board township, which he improved and oc- in 1881. He is now serving his sixth cupied during the next seven years. year as a member of the board of Here in 1876 his wife died at the age county supervisors.

of 58. In the spring of 1877 he moved

In 1879 he married Caroline Kron to a farm of 120 acres on Sec. 33, Lake and his family consists of eight chil- township, where he died in 1884 at the dren, Mary, Henrietta, Louisa, Annie, age of 62. His family consisted of two Carl, Bertha, Lena and Gerhard. sons and two daughters, the latter coming to this country in 1893.

Elsen Carl B. (b. Ger. 1862), mer. chant and postmaster, is the son of Elsen Gerd (b. Ger. 1852), occupant Herman Gretjelina (Mueller) Elsen, of the SW} Sec. 33, Lake township, and on coming to this country in 1881 and owner of a farm of 738 acres in located in Lake township. In 1891 he that vicinity, is one of the most suc- married Gerhardina Janssen and in cessful men in the township.

His partnership with Otto Siebels, estab- subsequent purchases have averaged lished a store and postoffice at the su acres every three years since that old Schoonmaker place on Sec. 4 date, and the buildings he has erected Lizard township. In 1893 he became are among the largest and best in the sole proprietor of the store and so con- township. He is a fine illustration of tinued until 1900, when he moved to thrift on the farm and the success Plymouth county.

that has constantly crowned his labors

Elliott Uriah, at whose home the has been no doubt due in great meas- first elections in the township were ure to the valuable co-operation of held in 1877 and 1878, was the owner his excellent wife and family, as the and occupant of 40 acres on Sec. 22 latter have become able to render as- from about 1875 to 1883. His family sistance. He was treasurer of the consisted of a wife and two children. school funds seven years. He has He served two years as one of the first been an active member and a trustee trustees, was township clerk and sec- of the German Lutheran church of retary of the school board in 1880, and Lizard township since it was built in 1885.

was president of the latter in 1881. He was a very successful trapper and

In 1877 he married Louisa Redman, spent much of his time trapping a native of Wisconsin, and of their around Lizard lake on the bank of family of thirteen children eight are which he lived. living; Charles, William, Gerd, Har-

Hatfield Charles L. (b. 1859), mer- mon, Emma, Henry, Louie and Bern- chant, is a native of Evansville, Wis , hard.

the son of William H. and Margaret

Elsen Charles (b. Ger. 1855), chair- (Evans) Hattield. In 1881 he married man of the board of county supervi- Seba Shaw, of Dayton, Wis., and lo- sors in 1902, became a resident of this cated on a farm near Evansville. In county with his parents in 1870, first the spring of 1892 he moved to Scran- in Lizard and Bellville townships and ton, Iowa, and a few months later to of Sec. 33, Lake township, since 1877. a farm in Humboldt county. In 1893

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he bought a half interest in the gen- up on a farm and there becaine inured eral store of W. T. White, Gilmore to steady employment and hard work. City, and has since been engaged in In 1871 he moved with an uncle to the mercantile business. In 1900 he Crawfordsville, Ind., and two years became sole proprietor of this store, later to Polk county, Iowa, where in the largest in the city and one of the 1883 he found employment in the office largest in this county. He is a mod- of the Mitchellville Index. The next est, unassuming man and gives his year he moved to Holt county, Neb , undivided attention to his business. where in 1888 he married Ina A. Bal- During most of the year a half dozen come. The next year he returned to · clerks are kept busy arranging the Mitchellville and resumed work in goods and waiting on the customers the office of the Index. In 1893 he that daily throng this popular empor- moved to Gilmore City where he has ium of trade. His family consists of since been the editor and proprietor one child, Harold C.

of the Globe, a five-column quarto- by adding to its outfit a good cylinder

Leahy Michael Anthony (b. 1818), He has greatly improved this paper resident of Gilmore City and owner of a good farm on Sec. 22, Lake town- press and increasing the home print ship, is a native of Ireland and, com- from two to four pages. He has one ing to New York state in 1847, married of the neatest and cleanest offices in there that year Catherin Roache (b. the county and is an elder in the Ireland 1820). He found employment Presbyterian church. His family con- in railroad building, which was then a sists of two children, Harold A. and new enterprise. After a few years he Ethel. moved to Michigan and two years

McCormick Michael (b. 1829; d. later to a farm in Fayette county, 1898), one of the early pioneers, was a Wis. In the spring of 1869 he located native of Ireland and in his boyhood on 40 acres on Sec. 10, Lizard town- came with his parents to upper Can- ship, making the journey in a wagon, ada, now the province of Ontario. In and ten years later on Sec. 22 Lake 1854 in Gray county he married Honora township where the family has secur Kearns, and in 1871 located on Sec. 22, ed many acres of land. His sons are Lake township. He was a lonely set- practical and successful farmers. A tler on the frontier for a number of few years ago he moved to Gilmore years but did not become discouraged. City. He and his wife are both four He improved his farm on the prairie, score years of age. His family con- increased it to 320 acres, and occupied sisted of eleven children, five of whom it until the time of his death. He died under 16.

Nora married Michael Higgins, and Lake township and two of his sons, Jane married James Saddler, and both John, and Patrick, have been promi- live at Gilmore City. Michael P., a nently identified with its history mason, married Ella Crowder and since that event.

participated in the organization of

lives at Pocahontas. Thomas J. and

His wife who was a native of Clare Anna are at home. John, who mar- county, Ireland, died in 1889 in her ried in 1895, and Agnes, who married 54th year. Their family consisted of Robert Hanke, a farmer, live in South eleven children, two of whom, Anna Dakota.

and Mrs. Mary Walsh, died in 1895.

Marmon Henry C. (b. 1856), editor John (b. Can. 1855), owner of the of the Gilmore City Globe, is a native old home farm in Lake township, oc- of Zanesfield, Ohio, the son of Asa cupied it until 1899 when, accompanied and Mary Marmon. He was brought by Elizabeth and Nora, two of his sis-

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ters, he moved to Gilmore City where hardware business, and since 1901 in he has since been engaged in the drug general merchandise. His family con- business. In Lake he was a trustee sists of three children, William, Frank two years, clerk four years, president and Christopher. and secretary of the school board each 3. Mary E., a teacher, is now a five years. Michael M. is the owner dressmaker at Dubuque. and occupant of 240 acres on sections 4. David, a real estate agent, in 21 and 22. Patrick H. married Bridget, 1886 married Maggie Condon and be- daughter of John Cain, and lives at came proprietor of a general store in Pocahontas. Mary married Philip Gilmore City. In 1891 he embarked Walsh, a farmer, and died in 1895, in the land, loan and insurance busi- leaving five children, Margaret, Thom- ness, in connection with the purchase as, Philip, Edward and Nora. Thom- of hay and grain. Since 1901 he has as P. is the owner and occupant of 80 devoted himself to the real estate acres on Sec. 21. Margaret married William Bollard and lives on the old 320 acres of land on Sec. 11, Lake farm. Nellie lives with her sister Margaret and Rosa with her brother Patrick.

business alone, He is the owner of township, and of other lands in that vicinity. He has become well and favorably known as one of the leading business men of Gilmore City. He served as a trustee and justice of the

Mulholland Dennis (b. 1820), one of the most prominent of the pioneers of Lake township, was a native of Ire- peace of Lake township. His family land. In his youth he came alone to consists of four children, Matthias, Massachusetts, where he found em- Mary, Emmet and Clement.

ployment in connection with the iron 5. William F., an insurance agent, industry and married Margaret Mc- in 1889 married Catherine, daughter of Ewen. A few years later he moved to John Cain, and since 1891, has been St. Louis and in 1857 to a farm in Al- engaged in the insurance business at lamakee county, Iowa. In 1865 he lo- Gilmore City. His family consists of cated on the Brockshink farm on the four children, Frances, Margaret, Lu- SW4 Sec. 36, Lake township, with a cile and William.

family of six children, and during the

Oldaker John (b. 1839), a promi- next five years they were the only nent farmer and stock raiser of Lake residents of the township, the next to township for many years, was a native arrive being the families of Joseph S. of Ohio and located on Sec. 6 in 1872. Thurber and Michael Fitzgerald in He and his son 'Andrew became the 1870. He was a member of the Cath- owners of all of Sec. 7 and 80 acres on olic church and lived on this farm un- Sec. 6, making altogether 720 acres. til he died in 1873. His wife died at He was highly esteemed as a citizen, 72 in 1892.

dren:

and served two years as president of trustee. In the spring of 1900 this

Their family consisted of five chil- the school board and five years as a 1. John J. one of the first trus- large and excellent family moved to tees of the township, later became Geddes, S. D.

an invalid and died at St. Louis in 1897.

Tishenbanner Frank J. (b. 1863) postmaster, is a native of Whiteside

2. James J. in 1883 married Mary county, Ill., the son of Peter and J., daughter of Nicholas Nolan, and Catherine (Wiseman) Tishenbanner. located first on the old home farm, In 1870 he moved with his parents to which he still owns. Later he moved Chicago, where he went to school to Gilmore City and engaged in the and worked in a factory. In 1879 they

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moved to Webster county, Iowa, and Conn. Soon afterward he came west two years later to Sec. 27, Clinton and found employment as a railroad township, Pocahontas county. Nov. agent at Dunton, twenty-two miles 10, 1896, he began the publication of from Chicago, but now called Arling- the Gazette, the first newspaper print- ton Heights and near the center of ed in Gilmore City, and continued its the city. He was compelled to re- publication about eighteen months. linquish this position on account of He then returned alone to Chicago sickness and on recovery taught a and found employment as a school term of school. May 1, 1856, in search teacher, traveling salesman and fore- of other employment, he came to Fort man of a machine shop. In 1889 he Dodge. In the fall of 1857 he was ap- married Minnie Willette and two years pointed surveyor of Webster county later returned to the farm in Poca- and rendered almost constant service hontas county. He has been postmas- in this capacity until some time in ter at Gilmore City since Oct. 1, 1897, January, 1858 when his work was in- and in this capacity has rendered the terupted by heavy rains and a per- community a very efficient and accept- sistent overflow of water.

able service. His family consists of CAPTAIN OF WHEELBOAT-THE ROLL- two children, Floyd and Lena. ING WAVE.

The incidents that led to his being

He had two sisters, Lena and Susa, that came with him and his parents the captain of the first wheelboat and to the farm. Lena in 1889 married also of the first steamer that plied on Eugene W. Otis and located in Des the Des Moines river from Des Moines Moines, where she died in 1895. Susa to Fort Dodge have their beginning died in 1891, and his mother in 1893. at this period. The story of these Frank now owns his father's farm and boats and his connection with them the latter lives with him.

not having been published hitherto, except a few brief references thereto,

Thurber Joseph S., one of the first justices, teachers and school directors, some of which are incorrect or wholly was the owner and occupant of 80 ignore Captain Beers, it has been acres on Sec. 17 from 1870 to 1884. He deemed not inappropriate to present served two years as a justice and five herewith a correct and quite full ac- as a trustee. He came from Straw- count of these interesting pioneer in- berry Point, Iowa, with a family con- cidents.

sisting of wife and one son, and after

In February 1858, F. E. Beers, Wil- a residence of about fourteen years in liam Beers, a carpenter, and an ac- the township moved to California.

Beers Francis E. Captain (b. 1833),

quaintance that had come with him from Connecticut, and Oliver Ryall,

one of the most widely known of the who had entered a pre-emption claim citizens of Lake township, is a resi- up the river near Bradgate, were liv- dent of Gilmore City and the owner of ing together in a cabin in the edge of 360 acres of land adjoining that town. the timber on the river land claim of He is a native of Cayuga county, N. Aaron F. Blackshire, about two miles Y., the son of Lyman and Sally (Ever- southeast of Fort Dodge. Not one of ett) Beers. His mother died when he them had anything special to do. was four years of age. Seven years The financial panic of the previous later he moved with his father to year had put a sudden check on every Fairfield county, Conn., and in 1854, new enterprise and closed nearly every in his 21st year, graduated from the avenue of employment. There was civil engineering department of the no railroad, no employment, no mon- Wesleyan University at Middletown, ey, and the flooded condition of the

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streams made travel by team almost and, passing to the mill at Swede's impossible. As a matter of diversion Point, now Madrid, obtained 40 sacks F. E. Beers proposed that they join of flour, paying for them with gov- together and build a boat. Though ernment scrip. As the boat sunk not one of them had ever been a boat- deeper into the water under this load man, the proposition met with favor it leaked considerably, until the water and a rude plan of a sidewheeler was swelled the timber, and the wind was soon approved. About six weeks were against them at first, so that at the occupied in its construction, as the end of the fifth day, they had gotten timber had to be cut from the stump. and when completed it was 40 feet only five miles from the mill. After- wards they made better speed and on long and 5 feet wide. Two side wheels, the sixteenth day, when they were 5 feet in diameter and having paddles

within five miles of their destination, 6x22 inches, were located at the cen- the wind changing to the south, they ter, and they were connected by a hoisted their sail and moved up the crank so that four menstanding in the river to Fort Dodge at a pace that re- middle of the boat might propel it. It lieved and gladdened every man on was built in the ravine opposite the the boat. gypsum quarries, a mile from the

The view of the river was not ob- river, and was drawn to the latter on structed then as it is now, and when a pair of bob sleds by Jacob Miracle about noon the boat was anchored at about the first day of April, 1858. All a point south of the place now occu- efforts to maneuver it that day proved pied by the Minneapolis depot, a a disappointment. One week later crowd of men were waiting who took they returned to the boat and, eleva- the flour as fast as it could be deliver- ting the wheels so they would not dip ed to them and the change made, at so deep in the water, made a trip $6.00 per sack.

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The pioneer history of Pocahontas County, Iowa, from the time of its earliest settlement to the present time, Part 84

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