The pioneer history of Pocahontas County, Iowa, from the time of its earliest settlement to the present time, Part 93

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

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Catherine L. Seymour. In 1900 he lo-

In 1888, during his residence at Ju- cated at Pocahontas. Fannie in 1894 neau, he returned to Platteville, Wis., married Frank L. Dinsmore, an at- and married Nellie Jones. His fami- torney at Pocahontas, and of this ly consists of two children, Clara May, union has one daughter, Lois. In born at Juneau in 1889, and Clyde 1900 she married James Calvin and Philip, born at Platteville, Wis., in lives at Miles City, Montana.

1893.

In 1886 F. G. Thornton married Ma- O. K. Jones, father of Mrs. Weitten- ry L. Steward, of Marshalltown, and hiller, in 1882, bought sec. 1., Marshall of this union has one child, Arthur M. township, and four years later divlded

Weittenhiller, Philip S. (b. 1859), it among his three children. He gave owner and occupant of a farm on Sec. to Mary Lottie, wife of David Merry, 1, Marshall township, from 1893 to the NE}, 183 acres. They were mar- 1899, is a native of Platteville, Wis., ried in 1883, began to occupy and im- where h's parents were early pioneers.

prove this farm, in 1884 and have a At 20, in 1879 he went to California, family of five children, Bessie, Frank, and in 1882 was among the first to go

Nellie, Jennie, and Ernest. To his to the mining excitement at Silver- son, D. F. Jones, of Odebolt, he gave the NW}, 180 acres; and to his daugh- ter Nellie E., wife of P. S. Weittenhil-

bow Basin, Alaska, where he engaged in trading and mining until 1885, when he received the appointment of ler, the south half, 320 acres.

XXIV.

POWHATAN TOWNSHIP.

"The Indian must away; Not in this land another morn could he prolong his stay."

My country, I love thee, thy prairies and hills; Thy broad, flowing streams and murmuring rills: Thy greatness be sung to the true poet's lyre, In strains that such freedom alone can inspire.

-L. BROWN.

OWHATAN' town- method by which it was adopted, and ship (93-32), the sec- as a result of a meeting held at the ond from the east in home of Henry Thomas, March 27, the north row of the 1867, it was changed April 20th, follow- county, was the ing to, "Powhatan", in honor of the fourth one organized Indian chief who was father of Poca- in Pocahontas county. It was in- hontas, and lived in Virginia from cluded in Des Moines township until 1550 to 1618.

September 3, 1866, when the territory His Indian name was "Wa hun-san", included in it and the two townships a cock, but the English erroneously west of it, was set off as "Nunda" township. It was called "Nunda" called him "Powhatan", after the name of his residence. The latter after a town by that name in western consisted of twelve wigwams in which New York from which some of the he maintained a body guard of fifty settlers had emigrated. The ma- warriors and it was located near the jority of the settlers, however were site of Richmond. He raised himself neither pleased with the name nor the from the rank of tribal chief to the

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command of a confederacy that con- of native timber. In some of the old- sisted of thirty three tribes, that er groves may be found some of the numbered 10,000 persons who belonged largest trees in the county.

ta the Florida or Southern branch of the Algonkin family and occupied Maryland and Virginia. He had con- quered most of the tribes over which he ruled and was about 60 years of acquaintance. The beautiful form of his daughter, Pocahontas, as it has been perpetuated in sculpture by

He who plants a tree beautifies to that extent his home and benefits every member of his family. A country home is never beautiful without trees. : They serve as a protection, increase

age when the English first made his its comforts, and the

love

and

sympathy that unite the family find in them one of their happiest forms of expression. Whilst bleak, cheerless Capellans may be seen over one of the homes and fields are the natural con- doors at the capitol at Washington. comitants of extremepovertyorsorrow, wooded hills and shady slopes are the nursuries in which love of home and country germinates and grows strong, for they are the natural inspirers of reverence for Him who made the groves his first temples. "The groves of Eden, though vanished long, live The plans of Powhatan for the decep- tion and destruction of the colonists having been frustrated by Capt. Joun Smith and Newport, his comrade, he concluded to live at peace with them. A few years later when Newport brought him from England a crown, he was so delighted that he gave New- yet in prose and look green in song." port his robe and old shoes.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

In 1871 Swan Lake township was de- The early settlers of this town- tached, and in June 1874, the name of ship were of Scotch and American the township was changed to Jackson, birth and these nationalities continue at the instance of Andrew Jackson, a to be the most numerous. prominent citizen of the township, who was then a member of the board of county supervisors.

1864-65. The first homestead entry in this township was made by Barney Hancher, April 9, 1864, for the SE}

Sept. 5, 1876, Washington township Sec. 24 In September following his was detached, and on Jan. 8, mother, Nancy A. Hancher, entered 1878, the name of the township was again changed to "Powhatan, " Andrew Jackson, who had been treas- urer of the school fund for several years, having suddenly left the county two months previous for parts un- known with about $1,000 of the public funds.

gently rolling prairie that originally had a great many marshes. As the years have passed these have been drained to their natural outlets, Beaver and Pilot creeks, and the soil is splendid for corn and other cerea's.

the NE}, and Henry Thomas, his father-in-law, the SW} of this same sec' ion; and in April 1866 Ira Strong, entered the NW} of it, thus making it one of the first sections entirely taken by homesteaders. Henry Thom- as, wife and sons, Daniel and Joel, had located in Des Moines township The surface of this township is a in the fall of 1863. In September 1864 Daniel and Joel selected claims on Sec. 23 and Jeremiah Young, their brother-in-law, on Sec. 25.

Barney Hancher, who turned the first furrow in May 1864, also built that spring the first shanty, using

The early settlers appreciated the native hasswood sawed by W. H. value of trees around the home and on Hait. In the fall of that year he the farm; and beautiful groves soon moved this shanty to the timber near appeared that now look like bodies old Rolfe, where he and his family

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spent the next winter. In the spring of 1865 be moved this shanty back to first log house on the SW} Sec 24 and planted around it the first grove. The cottonwoods he then planted are still growing and they are believed to be the largest in the county at this time. A cut of his log house which is still

his homestead. Others that erected shanties that year were Jeremiah Young on the NW#, Sec. 25, Henry Thomas on 24, Joel and Daniel Thomas on 23. The one built by Joel Thomas was a sod house and Mr. and Mrs. standing within the grove and in use, Samuel Booth became its occupants. may be seen in the frontispiece, where

1866. In 1866 a number of families it is erroneously credited to Ira Strong located in the township, among whom due to the fact it has been owned were those of J. B.Jolliffe and Samuel for some years by his grand daughter, Umbarger on Sec. 2, James Henderson Dora Strong. The log house built by on 8, J. W. Brown on 10, Mrs. Fannie Ira Strong in 1866 was replaced by a N. Strong on 12, Wm. Orcutt, Henry new one a few years ago by his son, Tilley, Oscar J. and Geo. W. Strong on Philander Strong. 14, Robert, Edward and John Ander-

The first frame house was built by son and S. N. Strong on 15, C. L. Thomas L. Mac Vey on Sec: 36 in 1867, Strong on 16, A. H. Hancher and and the lumber for it was hauled from James Drown on 24, George Hender- Boone. son on 26, Robert Lowrey on 28, Thomas L. Mac Vey and John Fraser on 36, William Stone on 25; and Rob- ert Lothian on Sec. 30, Des Moines township.

1869. In 1869 George Stevens and Marcus Lind located on 16.

1870-74. During the early 70's there arrived Alexander Geddes on 29, Geo. and W. E. Goodchild on 20, John and obtained from the groves of native Geo. W. Barnes on 12, Daniel P. Frost timber along the Des Moines river, on 16, S. E. Heathman on 9, Geo, W. frequently from the "cabbage lot" on and Norman L. Rowley on 12, S. N. section 37.

A. H. Hancher helped to baul the H. Heathman, Thomas Fulcomer, lumber for five of the first frame Andrew Jackson and M. J. Young.

houses from Boone, a distance of 80 miles. The houses though plain were expensive, for the lumber cost $70.00 per thousand feet and its transporta- tion with ox teams was exceedingly laborious.

INTERESTING EVENTS.

The first social was held at the home of Mrs. Nancy A. Hancher on Christ- mas day 1866.

The first marriage was that of Henry Tilley and Belle, sister of A. H. Hancher, March 29, 1866.

The first children born were twins in the home of Daniel Thomas

Pettit, J. D. Hilton, C. F. Barlow, E.

1875-79. During the later 70's there arrived Alex McEwen, P. W. and Joel Smith, E. C. Fuller and Nels H. Shaver.

1880-86. Others that arrived. during the early 80's were A. L. Whitney on 15, E. Northrop, Wm. Halsted, P. J. and Josiah Shaw, Ed. R. Trites, Frank Salasek, W. II. Baker, B. F. Bogue, F. C. De Wolf, A. W. Ireland, D. D. Cornick, Henry Sternberg, J. H. Bellinger, F. H. Pringle; and at Plover J. T. Calhoun, Louis Brodsky, W. A. Hubel, J. H. Blanchard, A. Eggs- puebler.

In 1866 Henry Thomas built the

A few sod houses were built in this township owing to the scarcity and high price of lumber. They were quickly constructed and ordinarily were used only one season.

The log houses rendered good ser- vice for many years and some of them were quite comfortable. Wood was principally used for fuel and it was

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in March 1866, one of them sleeps as this company did not fulfill its part in the Powhatan cemetery and the of the contract within the appointed other became the wife of Harley time they reverted to the government Unbarger. and then to the settlers who had com-

The first death, save that of the plied with the homestead law.

man whose body was found on the prairie by Joun Anderson in The first public cemetery is located the on the nw corner of the swt sec. 24, spring of 1866, was that of a child in near the Strong schoolhouse. Henry the family of Samuel Booth. I's Thomas, the first owner of this land, coffin was made in the pioneer school promised to donate it for a public

house and the place of its burial, near cemetery and three:

persons were

the school house on sec. 24, afterward buried in it during his lifetime, name- became the Powhatan cemetery.

ly, Ira Strong and Mrs. George Hen-

The first crop of wheat was one of derson, both in 1871, and a child of five acres by Thomas L. Mac Vey in Samuel Booth previous to that date. 1868.

The winter of 1866 67 was a very severeone. Although very little snow ander McEwen, who also had it plat- fell until the holidays, after that ted in 1876. period blizzards were frequent and un-

In June 1876 the Sunday schools at welcome visitors, often overtaking old Rolfe and the Strong schoolhouse the settler at a distance from his held a picnic in the grove of A. H. home.

The first bridge was built in 1870 Wm. McCready, George Metcalf and over Beaver creek and it had an in- J J. Jolliffe they sat down around a teresting history. In the fall of the table fifty feet long loaded with the years, it was taken down and placed substantials of life prepared for this beyond reach of high water; and then notable occasion. after the spring freshets had subsided,

Hancher; and after addresses by Rev.

January 25, 1879, "Mayview" post it was replaced in its former position. office was established at the home of The lack of bridges was the occasion D. P. Frost on sec. 16 and he was ap- of a vastamount of inconvenience and pointed postmaster; but owing to the of many ludicrous episodes.

fact he lived about two miles from All of sec 25 was entered by four men on the same day, Sept 28, 1864. The men were Wm. Stone, Jeremiah Young, Samuel Booth and George the mail route between Pocahontas and Sioux Rapids and no provision had been made for the extra dis- tance on the part of the mail carrier, Booth. Twenty-six of the early set- no mail was received or distributed at tlers of this township secured home- this, the first post office in the town- steads and nearly all of them included ship. 160 acres. Homesteads were also se- The early settlers of this township, appreciating the future value of the cured in this township on the odd numbered sections, as 15, 23 and 25, on history of its early settlement, held a special meeting in the schoolhouse at

which the following persons secured homesteads: Robert and Edward An- Plover, Feb. 19, 1887, at which John derson and S. N. Strong on 15, Joel B. Fraser served as chairman and Sam'l and Daniel Thomas on 23, and Wm. Smith assecretary. At this meeting Stone., Jeremiah Young, Samuel Booth histor cal addresses were delivered by and George Booth on 25. These John Fraser, A. H. Hancher and oth- lands were claimed by the McGregor ers, and papers were read that bad & Sioux City R. R. Co., but inasmuch been prepared by P. J. Shaw and T.

He neglected to make the transfer and the donation was made by Alex-

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L. MacVey. Full reports of these ad- favoring providence that had guided dresses and papers were afterwards their foot-steps and guarded so au- printed in the Pocahontas Record and spiciously their destinies. they have proven of great value to DIFFICULTIES AND TRIALS. the author in the general part of this

The early settlers of this township, volume as well as in the history of this owing to their great distance from all township.

The call for this meeting was issued Jan. 31, 1887 by P. J. Shaw, a leading citizen of the township, who therein stated very appropriately the import- ance and scope of the meeting. We quote from it as follows:

sources of supplies and the lack of bridges over the streams, experienced with great severity, many of the trials and privations incident to pio- neer life. Their mail facilities were limited to one mail a week between Fort Dodge and Spirit Lake, and many of the trips to the postoffice at old Rolfe had to be made on foot. Fort Dodge was the nearest source of

"The object of this meeting is to bring to light the early history of Powhatan towhship, that it may be embodied in the future history of the supplies for the table and home, county. The questions to be discuss- while lumber had to be hauled from Boone or Iowa Falls, both 80 miles distant. They knew what it was to be beset with mosquitoes without any protection (p. 225); to be shut in for weeks at a time; to grind corn on their coffee mills for bread (p. 226), ed, are: (1) When, where and by whom were the first settlements made? (2) The state of the country, facilities for market, grasshoppers, muskrats and blizzards. (3) General discussion, his- torical incidents and reminiscences "Let us preserve the past that we may profit by its teaching. Let us keep in remembrance the brave deeds and the difficulty of finding one's of our fathers, the noble pioneers who home on the prairies in the absence settled on the treeless prairies in the of roads and trees for land marks. In the spring of 1866 John Anderson found on the homestead of his broth- er the bones of one who had thus perished there two years before, and J. B. Jolliffe the next winter came early days when the blizzard howled, or they traveled with no shelter save the prairie schooner, and no guide save the compass or the stars of heaven. The world has no nobler heroes. They came from the stock that has lighted the watch fires of civilization and progress on this con- near sharing the same fate (p. 229).

tinent. Some of them have already They were also called upon to en- dure several visitations of the dread- ed grasshoppers (p. 255) that swept passed the boundary line of human existence and are citizens of that country which no human being has ever explored, whose wonders no ton- through that section, darkening the gue can tell. While some of them live face of the sun as well as that of the to recite the details of their early struggles, let us record and preserve them for future generations. This is better than to depend on the mem- ory of their children, for the minor incidents are soon forgotten and the more thrilling ones become so chang- ed, that were the actors to rise out of their silent graves and hear them re- lated, they would not own that they were the principals."

farmer, and stripping the fields of their growing crops, the early settler's only hope of subsistence. They ex- perienced three visitations that in- cluded the depredations of six years, 1867 and 68, 1870 and 71, and in dimin- ished numbers in 1875 and 76. They came from a distance the first year and hatched out in the vicinity the they came on the wing everything was covered. They covered the roofs

This meeting was very devoutly second year of each period. When opened by Mr. Fraser, who read the first chapter of Genesis and followed it with a prayer of gratitude to that of the houses, clung to the outside

PRENTICE J. SHAW.

FRED. A. METCALF.

FRANK L. MACVEY.

WM. LEE MACVEY.

POWHATAN TOWNSHIP.

ROBERT ANDERSON.

MRS.JOHN FRASER.

GEO, HENDERSON.

MRS. BARNEY HANCHER

ALEXAN. MCEWEN.

MRS.A.W. MEEWEN

JOHN B.JOLIFFE.

MISS DORA STRONG.

GEO. N.LOUGHEAD.

POWHATAN TOWNSHIP.

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of the walls and if the door was left Strong, '67; G. W. Strong '67; Jere- ajar they took possession and refused miah Young, '68; D. Thomas, '68-71; to vacate "under thirty days after Robert Lowrey, Henry Tilley, Geo. written notice." Under these cir- VanNatta, S. Booth, Henry Thomas, cumstances the early settlers had an '69-71; James Vosburg, Henry Ful- opportunity of displaying their true comer, '70, 72-74; Edward Anderson, grit. Although inferior in numbers J. F. Clark, J. W. Brown, Barney and comparatively helpless before Hancher, '73, 75-76; S. E. Heathman, those who devoured their hope of '73, 75-76, 88-93; Geo. Stevens, '74, 77, subsistence they achieved success by 93-95; C. F. Barlow, '74-75, 78-79; M. their superior power of endurance. Waite '77-78; J. D. Hilton, '76-77; Jas.

This settlement prospered in the Henderson, '78-86; A. H. Hancher, face of all these difficulties and trials. '79-81; G. W. Rowley, '80-82; P. W. The hand of affliction sometimes vis- Smith, '81-87, 1900-02; J. B. Jolliffe, ited them, but there were more oc- '83-88; E. C. Fuller, '87-89; E. H. casions for the expression of joy than Heathman, '89-91, 97-1900; D. P. of sorrow. The rider of the pale Roberts, '90-92; Louis Brodsky, '92-93; horse seldom took more than one S. J. Loughead, '94-96; H. Fitzgerald, familiar face from the family circle H. Truelson, '96-98; Rollo Postin, '99- while the angel of life very frequently 01; F. C. De Wolf, 1901-02; Geo. Fuller. brought two little strangers; so that

CLERKS: Jeremiah Young, '67-68; on the whole they had more occasions G. W. Strong, John Fraser, '70-71; Ed. for smiles than tears, more christen- Anderson, N. D. Herrington, '73-74; ings than burials.

The muskrats and mink, that J. T. Calhoun, '84-85; P. J. Shaw, abounded in the numerous ponds and '86-93; W. S. McEwen, '94 -95; Albert streams, served an important part in J. Shaw, '99-1900.

the commerce of that trying period.

ASSESSORS: Thos. L. MacVey, A. The early settler with his traps ob- H. Hancher, A. Jackson, S. Booth, tained his medium of exchange in the J. B. Thomas, D. P. Frost, Geo. W. settlement. The hide of the [musk- Rowley, '73-75, 78-79; S. E. Heath- rat was a legal tender for all debts man, '76, 80-85; P. Waite, Edward and his hindquarters were often found Gibbons, '86-93, 96-98; J. O. Overholt, to be quite tender when properly pre- '94-95; F. L. MacVey, '99-1900; S. J. pared for the table.

ORGANIZATION AND OFFICERS.

JUSTICES: O. I. Strong, A. H . Han-

The first election was held in the cher, G. W. Strong, Geo. Henderson, little schoolhouse on sec. 24, Oct. 9, J. F. Clark, A. H. Hancher, John 1866, and 19 votes were cast. At this Fraser, '71-73, 83; J. W. Brown, '71-77; election Barney Hancher, Ira Strong S. Pettit, Alex. McEwen, James Hen- and Oscar I. Strong served as judges derson. P. R. Smith, G. W. Strong, and T. S. MacVey and Jeremiah '80-82; H. Heathman, F. M. Coffin, J. Young as clerks. The officers elected S. Smith, '83-85, 90-93; F. C. De Wolf, were as follows: Ira Strong, Oscar I. '84-89, 93-1900; P. G. Hess, P. W. Strong and Geo. W. Strong, trustees; Smith, '96 1901: Ed. R. Trites, A. J. Jerry Young, clerk, O. I. Strong and Marshall, Alex. McEwen, P. R. Hen- A. H. Hancher, justices; and Thos. derson, F. J. Brodsky, 1902.

L. Mac Vey, assessor.

The succession of officers has been as follows:

SCHOOLS AND OFFICERS.

This township, including Washing- ton and Swan Lake, wasorganized as

TRUSTEES: Ira Strong, 1867; O. I. the Nunda township school district

Alex. McEwen, '75-83, 96-98, 1901-02;

Loughead.

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in the spring of 1867, and the first No schoolhouse had yet been erected board of directors consisted of Henry in sub-district No. 1, but arrange- Thomas, Ira Strong and O. I. Strong. ments had been made for the erec- Geo. W. Strong was secretary and tion of one that year on the net sec. Henry Thomas, treasurer. 11; and no families were living in this

The first school in the township district further west than the sw≥ sec. was taught during the previous year 5. In sub-district No. 2 three school by Sallie Thomas in a sod shanty loca- houses had been built, namely, on ted on sec. 23.

the net sec. 23 and on the net sec. 15

The first schoolhouse was built in in Powhatan, and on the ned sec. 31, 1866. t was a temporary structure Washington township. Sub-district 10x16 feet, seven feet high and set on No. 3 shows one schoolhouse at the runners so that it might be moved center of sec. 28.

from place to place. It was often called a shanty because of its flat roof resembling that of a freight car. Its has been as follows:

The succession of officers, so far as we have been able to obtain them,

PRESIDENTS: Henry Thomas, '67;

furniture consisted of a wide desk board fastened to each side and O. I. Strong, '74; Henry Fulcomer, one end of it, and three heavy oak '75-76; A. H. Hancher, '82-83; John benches of corresponding length. It Fraser, S. E. Heathman, '85-89; Louie was built by J. C. VanNatta and Ira Brodsky, '90-92; Alex. McEwen, '93-02. Strong of native lumber sawed on SECRETARIES: Geo. W. Strong, '67: Hait's sawmill. It was located first C. R. Waterman, '74-75; O. I. Strong, on the farm of Ira Strong on sec. 24 '76-80; S. N. Strong, '81-83; C. F. Bar- near the site later chosen for the low, J. T. Calhoun, '85-87; P. J. Shaw, Powhatan cemetery, and Caroline '88-1902. Strong taught the first school in it. TREASURERS: Henry Thomas, '67- The first election was held in it that 69; Joel Thomas, '70-71; A. Jackson, fall. It was moved into several of the '72-77; Geo. Henderson, '78-84; J. B. other districts as its place was supplied Jolliffe, '85-86; John Fraser, '92-98; by permanent buildings. Mrs. Thos. A. J. Eggspuehler, '99-1902. L. Mac Vey taught several terms in it Among the early teachers in this while it stood on the knoll north of township were Sallie Thomas, Caro- Pilot Creek on the nwt sec. 36, prev- line Strong, Mrs. T. L. Mac Vey, Oscar ious to 1873, when it was moved again. I. Strong, Mrs. Abigail (Ira) Strong,

The earliest school records now Edwin J. Strong, L. M. Strong, Hat- available for reference are those for tie Barnes, Peter R. Henderson and the year 1882. A plat found at the W. N. Gillis.

court house, however, shows that the Among recent teachers have been first sub-division of the township for Dora Strong, Lucy Beam, Jennie Ged- school purposes occurred Feb, 21, 18- des, Effie Mercer. Maud Heathman, Eva L. Hancher, E. L. Wallace, Mar-

74. At this date Washington was still attached and the two townships jory McEwen, Susan McEwen, E. D. Leonard, Ina Jolliffe, Irene Strong.

were divided into three school dis- tricts of 24 sections each, so that No. 1 and No. 2 extended east and west

PLOVER.

Plover, the railroad and business over the entire width of both town- center of Pow atan low ship, s an ships, the former including the two enterprising village of 250 inhabi- north rows of sections and the latter tants. It is located near the center of the the township, on the bigh ground

the next two rows and all southwest part of Washington. midway between Beaver and Pilot

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creeks, and on the ne sec. 16, which Fitzgerald '88-1901, and J. S. Smith was the farm of Andrew Jackson from '83-88.

1869 to 1877. The track of the Ruth- ven branch of the Des Moines & Fort lished in 1891, brick building built in Dodge, now the C., R. I. & P. R. R. 1900, W. S. McEwen, cashier; Joseph was laid through this locality in June McEwen, assistant cashier.

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The pioneer history of Pocahontas County, Iowa, from the time of its earliest settlement to the present time, Part 93

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