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85
County Finances
75
County Governing Power
43
County Government, Past and Pres-
ent
62
County Jails
70
County Judges
83
County Officers, First 41
County Organized
41
County Poor Farm 71
County Seat at Camanche. 295
County Seat Election
67
County Seat Located
43
Clinton Lumber Co.
379
Clinton, Mayors of
352
Clinton Methodism
153
Clinton, Municipal History
351
Clinton National Bank
338
Clinton Newspapers
23.8
Clinton Physicians
224
Clinton Police Department 354
. Clinton County, Population of
398
Clinton Postoffice
355
Clinton Presbyterian Church
173
.Clinton, Present City Officers.
352
Clinton Public Libraries.
361
Clinton Railroad . Bridge 124
Clinton Savings Bank.
339
Clinton School Superintendents.
141
: Clinton Schools, Early. 138
. Clinton Street Railways
258
Clinton Telephone Business
360
Clinton Universalist Church
184
Clinton Water Works
356
Clinton Wells
33
Commissioner Records
72
: Commissioners, County
DeWitt Congregational Church
177
Commissioners, Drainage
83
DeWitt Fair
131
Days of Mourning
414
Death of President Garfield_
415
Death of President Mckinley
418
Deep Creek Township.
253
Delmar
267
Delmar M. E. Church
158
Delmar Newspapers
240
DeSoto, Fernando
25
DeWitt as the Sent of Justice.
311
DeWitt Baptist Church 171
DeWitt Christian Church
169
Clinton County Agricultural Associa-
tion
131
Clinton County, Are of.
29
Clinton County, Early Settlement 46
Clinton County Guards
91
Clinton County Medical Society
229
Clinton County Organized.
41
Clinton County Regiment 95
Clinton County Soldiers.
99
Clinton County's First Railroad
121
Clinton Danish Ev. Luth. Church.
181
Clinton Episcopal Church
178
Clinton Evangelical Association
182
Clinton Fire Department
354
Clinton, First Claim at
51
Clinton Gas Works.
357
Clinton Herald
238
Clinton Hospitals
372
Clinton Industries
372
County Seat Re-Located
43
County Seat Removed to Clinton 65
County Supervisors
County Surveyors
84
County Treasurers
Court House History 62
Court House. Present.
69
Crossing the Mississippi
295
Curtis Bros. & Co.
382
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Digitized by
Company A, Eighth Reg.
94
Clinton Congregational Church
177
Clinton County Advertiser
241
HISTORICAL INDEX.
DeWitt, Incorporation of
314
DeWitt Masonry
194
DeWitt, Mayors of 315
DeWitt M. E. Church 155
DeWitt Named
73
DeWitt Observer
243
DeWitt Physicians
226
DeWitt, Population in 1844
312
DeWitt Postoffice Record.
313
DeWitt Public Library
313
DeWitt Savings Bank
344
Farmers
and
Merchants
Savings
DeWitt, Town of.
310
DeWitt Township
305
DeWitt U. P. Church 174
DeWitt Well
34
Diamond Jo Line.
116
District Court, First Term
213
District Court Judges. 204
Dillon, Jobn F.
205
District Attorneys
83
Domestic Life
59
Drainage
32
Drainage Commissioners
83
Drift Plains
31
F
Earliest Schools
134
Early Clinton Schools
138
Early Explorations
25
Early Justice Courts
51
Early Saw-Mills
377
Early Settlement of Clinton County_
46
Eastern Star
188
Eden Township
300
Educational Development 134
Elijah Buell
46
Elk River Township
247
Elk River Township Schools
248
Elk River Township Settlers
248
Elvira
287
Elvira Lutheran Church
182
Elvira U. P. Church 174
Elwood
271
Elwood M. E. Church
156
Elwood Savings Bank
343
Emerson, Rev. Oliver
150
English Emigrant of 1850.
56
Episcopal Churches
178
Evangelical Lutheran Churches
179
Example in Patriotism
434
Exchange Bank of Calamus
3-42
F
Fair Associations
130
Farm Statistics
128
Farmers and Merchants Bank, Wel-
ton
343
Bank, Charlotte
345
Farmers Savings Bank, Calamus.
342
Father Emerson
150
Ferry at Camanche
52
Ferry Boat at Lyons.
106
Finances of County
75
Financial Statement, 1909.
77
First Bank in County
335
First Bar Convention in Iowa
217
First Claim at Clintou.
51
First Clinton County Attorney
215
First County Officers.
41
First Courts
213
First Grand Jurors
41
First Jury Trial
213
First M. E. Church, Clinton
153
First Minister in County
150
First National Bank, DeWitt
344
First National Bank, Lost Nation
343
First National Bank, Lyons.
336
First Railroad
121
First School Tax
73
First Settler
46
First Settlers
53
Founding of Woodcraft Orders
201
G
Geographical Features
29
Geological Description by Townships
34
Geology of Clinton County
29
German Trust and Savings
Bank,
Wheatland
341
Goose Lake
256
Goose Lake Channel.
32
Goose Lake Savings Bank
345
Grand Army of the Republic.
364
Grand Jurors, First
41
Digitized by
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Grand Mound
319
Grand Mound Immanuel Church 181
Grant, James
208
H
Hawkeye Rangers
93
Hampshire Township 289
Hanging of Barger
426
Hanging of Hiner.
426
Hanging of Warren
421
Hauntown
250
Hayes, Walter I
208
High Bridges
365
Hiner's Hanging
426
Horse Thieves
267
House, A. J
210
Howit, Andrew
211
I
Independent Order of Odd Fellows 196
Indians, Conduct of.
49
Indians Removed
27
Inflated Values
260
Iowa Land Company
349
Iowan Drift Plain
31
Iowa State Savings Bank, Lyons 338
Iowa Territory
25
Iowa Volkszeitung
242
J
Jackson, Douglas V
211
Jails
70
Jean, Rev. Frederick C.
167
Joyce, David
381
Judges
83
Judges of the District Court. 204
Judges' Records
72
Justice Courts, Early
51
K
Keokuk Northern Line
116
Knights of Pythias
200
Knights Templar
189
L
Ladies of the G. A. R. 365
Lamb & Sons
377
Laying Out of a Road.
109
Leflingwell, A. J
206
Leffingwell, William E. 210
Liberty Township -276
Lincoln Township
291
Lion Company
94
Locating the County Seat. 43
Lost Nation
274
Lost Nation Catholic Church 105
Lost Nation Journalism 244
Lost Nation Reformed Church 183
Louisiana Purchase 25
Lowlands, Mississippi
30
Low Moor
302
Low Moor M. E. Church 158
Lumber Industry
376
Lyons
383
Lyons & Iowa Central Route. 121
Lyons, Annexation to Clinton
387
Lyons Congregational Church 176
Lyons Episcopal Church
178
Lyons Evan. Luth. Church
179
Lyons Female College.
148
Lyons Ferry Boat.
106
Lyons, Incorporation of 385
Lyons, Mayors of.
385
Lyons M. E. Church
152
Lyons Mirror
240
Lyons Newspapers
238
Lyons Physicians
222
Lyons Postoffice
386
Lyons Presbyterian Church 172
Lyons Public Library 386
Lyons Savings Bank 337
Lyons School Relic
137
Lyons Schools
135
Lyons Street Railways 358
M
Mail Routes
107
Malone
304
Markham's Tavern 260
Masonic Order
187
Masonry at Lyons
193
Medical Profession
220
Medical Society, Clinton County 229
Meetings, War
91
Merchants National Bank, Clinton
340
Mercy Hospital, Clinton
372
Digitized by
--
I
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Meteorology
37
Methodist Episcopal Churches.
152
Mexican War
89
Mitchell, Gilbert C. R.
209
Military History of County
89
Mills at Lyons
380
Miscellaneous Commands
99
Miscellaneous Items
389
Mississippi Discovered
26
Mississippi Lowlands
30
Mississippi River Logging Co
380
Mt. St. Clare Academy
167
Murder of Mrs. Alger.
326
Murders in Eden Township
301
Murray, Samuel R
215
N
Natural Features
29
Newspapers of the County
238
New York
351
Niagara Limestone
34
Northern Steamboat Line
116
0
Odd Fellows
196
Officers, County, Salary
78
Old Clinton Wells
33
Reminiscences
428
Older Drift Plain
31
Old Settlers' Meetings.
396
Olive Township
323
Olive Township, First Events
324
Orange Township
318
Order of the Eastern Star.
188
Organization of the County
41
Our Lady of Angels Seminary
166
P
Panic of 1857
346
Past County Government.
62
Patriarchs Militant
196, 198
Peoples Savings Bank, Delmar.
345
Peoples Savings Bank, Grand Mound 346
Peoples Trust and Savings Bank,
Clinton
340
Periods of Iowa History
27
Petersville
263
Petersville Catholic Church
164
Physicians, List of Registered
231
Pioneer Detectives
419
Plats of Towns and Villages
389
Pleistocene System
37
Poor Farn
71
Population of Clinton County.
398
Presbyterian Churches
172
Present Attorneys in County
217
Present Court House.
69
Present-day Rural School.
144
Press of Clinton County.
238
Proclamation of President McKin-
ley
100
Prohibitory Amendment, Vote on
442
Pythian Order
200
R
Railroading
104
Railroad, The First
121
Railroads vs. Rivers.
113
Rain Statistics
40
Recorders
84
Reformed Churches
183
Registered Physicians
231
Relation of Strata
33
Relief Societies
97
Religious History
150
Reminiscence of Early Days
439
Reminiscences of the River
111
Removal of Indians.
27
Representatives
80
Representatives in Congress
79
Retrospection
430
Richman, Jacob S
209
Ringwood
385
River Reminiscences
111
Riverside Institute
149
River Traffic
118
River Transportation Lines.
116
Robinson, John W. S
326
Royal and Select Masters
189
Royal Arch Masons
188, 194
Rural Schools, Present-day
144
S
Sacred Heart Church, Clinton
161
St. Boniface Catholic Church.
160
St. Columbkill's Church, Hughes
165
St. Irenaeus Catholic Church, Clin-
ton
159
Digitized by
HISTORICAL INDEX:
St. Joseph's Church, DeWitt.
162
St. Joseph's Hospital
167
St. Mary's Church, Bryant.
165
St. Mary's Church, Clinton
160
St. Patrick's Church, Clinton
161
St. Patrick's Church, Delmar
166
St. Patrick's Church, Villa Nova
164
St. Paul's Ev. Luth. Church
180
Ss. Philip and James Church, Grand
Mound
165
Salary of County Officers.
78
Saloons in Clinton County
398
School-fund Commissioners
83
School Statistics
148
School Superintendents
82
School Superintendents, Clinton
141
School Tax
73
Schools at Lyons
135
Schools, City and Town
147
Schools, Earliest
134
Schools, Present Standing.
146
Scottish Rite Masonry
190
Secret Societies
187
Senators
79
Settlement of Whites
27
Seventh-Day Baptist Church
169
Severe Winter of 1856 105
Sharon Township
273
Sheriff's
82
Silurian System
34
Snow Statistics
40
Soldiers Aid and Relief Societies.
97
Soldiers' Bounty
98
Spanish-American War
100
Spiritualists
185
Spring Rock Township
329
Spring Valley Township
290
· State Representatives
80
State Senators
79
"Statistics, School
148
Steamboating
104
Storm of 1876.
410
Storm of 1898
412
Stowrs, J. S
323
Strata, Relation of.
33
Stratigraphy
33
Superintendents Clinton Schools
141
Superintendents of School
82
Supervisors
86
Supervisors, Proceedings of
74
Surveyors
84
T
Tax and Valuation 1877
76
Tax Report, 1840.
76
Taxation, 1851
73
Teed's Grove
251
Teed's Grove Savings Bank
342
Territorial Representatives
80
Territorial Roads Surveyed.
42
Territory of Iowa
25
The Calico Line.
121
The "Envoy"
118
The Pioneer Priest.
167
Topographical Features
29
Tornado of 1860
399
Tornadoes
399
Toronto
278
Toronto Catholic Church
165
Township Lines, Changes of
43
Traffic, River
118
Transportation
104
Treasurers
84
Twenty-sixth Regiment
95
U
Uncertain Remuneration
108
Underground Railroad
391
Underlying Formations
33
Union Reformed Church
183
United Presbyterian Church
174
Universalist Church
184
V
Valuation and Tax, 1877.
76
Vanderburg
73
Village Plats
388
Vote on Prohibitory Amendment.
442
W
Wapsipinicon Lowlands
31
War Meetings
91
Warren, Hanging of.
422
Digitized by
1
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Wartburg College
149
Wheatland, Fires at
331
Washington Township
284
Waterford Township
258
Waterman, Charles M.
209
Weather Table
38
Wells, Old Clinton
33
282
Welton
Welton Catholic Church
166
Welton Colony
55
Welton Seventh-Day Baptist Church 169
Welton Township
281
Wharfmaster, Camanche
297
Wheatland
330
Wheatland Fifty Years Ago.
428
Y
Young Men's Christian Association_ 363
Young, W. J. & Co
378
Digitized by
Wheatland Newspapers
245
Wheatland Reformed Church
184
Wheatland, Reminiscences of.
333
White Collar Line.
116
William Pitch Well.
33
Wolf Bounty
73
Woodcraft Orders, Founding of.
201
Digitized by
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
A
Ackerman, George G.
526
Adrain, Julius
1128
Ahrens, John B.
992
Aikman, E. M.
1098
Albright, A. J.
501
Albright, Mrs. Tobitha D.
500
Alden, Charles F.
878
Allen, Lucius P.
466
Ambrose, John P.
1012
Anderson, Hans
880
Anderson, James W.
1130
Anderson, Thomas
498
Andresen, Christian
861
Ankeny, Augustus L.
464
Ashford, William D.
460
Ashford, William R.
459
Ashpole, Henry
785
Atzen, John M.
1014
B
Babcock, James O.
999
Barber, Albert A.
904
Barber, A.
648
Barber, George W.
520
Barber, William R.
640
Barnum, James H.
1112
Barr, C. V.
693
Bather, John R.
544
Bauer, Charles H.
1072
Becker, Henry
672
Beeby, Charles W.
922
Beeby, Harry E.
949
Behr, Hans F. C.
996
Bendtschneider, John F.
937
Benedict, James C.
737
Berner, Albert H.
521
Berst, Carl B.
1009
Bingham, Charles C.
794
Blake, Charles A.
608
Blodt, John J.
836
Blumer, Joseph F.
944
Blunk, Hans C.
525
Blunt, Arthur W.
908
Boardman, Norman
496
Bohart, Charles S.
610
Borbeck, Joseph
862
Bormann, Louis J.
801
Bousselot, Henry E.
566
Bowers, Henry F.
552
Brandenburg, John C.
1042
Brick, Conrad
621
Briggs, Stephen
484
Broderick, James
765
Broomfeldt, Lewis C.
958
Broxam, Benjamin
891
Brumer, Robert G.
775
Buech, Charles
940
Buell, Elijah
575
Buell, Langworthy J.
972
Buell, William E.
574
Buennig, Claus
605
· Burke, Thomas J.
643
Busch, George C.
519
Butzloff, F. L.
468
Buxton, Perry T.
655
C
Cahill. Patrick
1126
Cain, Edward L.
1026
Carlin, M. F.
661
Carroll, William H.
876
Carstensen, Julius
553
Cavey, Matthew B.
527
Chandler, Esek B.
616
Chapman, Lee
1138
Chase, Charles W.
869
Christensen, Engle J.
540
Christensen, Hans H.
947
Christensen, Peter
896
Christian, Madison L.
1050
Digitized by
1
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Christiansen, Carl J.
993
Clancy, John
651
Clapp, John W. 549
Clark, James B.
931
Clark, William B.
938
Clausen, Carl C.
791
Clausen, Engver N.
790
Claussen, Claus J.
454
Clinton Business College
844
Clinton Sugar Refining Co. 878
Cole, Ansel O.
817
Cole, Charles W.
595
Collins, Seth L.
1088
Connole, Cecil V.
743
Conrad, Charles C.
750
Conrad, Harold F.
752
Conrad, J. C. & Sons
750
Cook, Alfred L.
1063
Cook, John B.
1022
Cooper, Robert D.
777
Cornish, Oscar - P.
1084
Correll, Alf .E.
848
Corson, Truelove-M.
995
Crampton, William - B.
1015
Creger, John Henry
1073
Cressey, John H.
1136
Cressey, Robert E.
508
Creveling, Samuel
Crockett, Harrison U.
536
Crockett, Samuel Y.
536
Cummings, Langdon J.
580
Cunningham; John
7813
Curtis, Charles F.
694
Curtis, George M.
445
Curtis, Liman J.
634
D
DeLange, James
701
Detlef; Julius
613
Dexter, Horatio R.
884
Dice, Bruce
1106
Dice, Helen
1106
Dice, Samuel
1106
Dickey, John W.
1113
Diebner, Emil
766
Dieckmann, William
L.
820
Dierks, Henry
977
Dierks, Henry W. 669
Dilley, Sebastian C. 597
Disbrow, Martin A.
1096
.
Dixoon, John
1139
Dolan, James E. 1008
Dolan, John
1035
Dolan, Martin 1035
Duer, Peter C.
510
Dulany, George W., Jr.
747
Duley, Joseph I.
1141
Dunlap, John W. 997
Dutton, Jerome
584
Dutton, O. L.
686
Dutton, Lorenzo D.
624
E
Cook, Edmund L.
933
Eastman, Lauren C.
542
Eaton, Ebenezer
854
Eaton, William D.
854
Edens, John H.
632
Eggers, Hans
1057
Ellis, Frank W.
866
Ellis, Lyman A.
' 867
Evans, John W.
825
F
Fairchild, David S.
1000
Fallesen, Peter
1116
Farrell, Peter
561
Farrell, Thomas
1045
Fay, Clarence .A:
863
Fay, Horace A:
973
Fay, Louis E.
973
Fegan, Joseph D.
984
Fields, Jesse S:
547
Flynn, Mathew
1027
Fox, Henry F.
654
Fox, John F:
1021
Frahm, Charles
964
Gage, Frank
1023
Gage, Marshall S. B.
976
Galbraith, Henry"G.
1056
Galloway, Daniel C.
1147
Digitized by
Cossins, Horace M.
959
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Gardiner, Silas W. 456
Geblsen, John J. 1108
George, Calvin H. 980
Hoffmann, Jacob 1016
Holcomb, Fred C.
557
Holmes, William
472
Gohlman, Christoph J.
816
Homrighausen, George 641
Homrighausen, John F.
702
Homrighausen, John N. 948
Hooks, Charles F.
828
Horstmann, Bismark C.
Horstmann, Gustav A.
746
Horstmann, H. F.
1142
Howes, Philip
604
Hughes, Richard
824
Hunter, Joseph
697
Hynes, Michael H.
1121
I
Illemann, M. H.
507
Ingebrigthsen, Peder
916
Ingwersen, Martin
776
Ingwersen, Nicholas E.
611
Irwin, Clarence C.
1076
Iten, Louis
1078
J
Hart, Claude D.
874
Hart, Edward, Jr.
529
Hart, Edward, Sr.
530
Hart, Paul D.
874
Hart, Reuben C.
841
Hartmann. August
7.80
Hasenmiller, William
49?
Hauke, Thomas E.
687
Hayes, George V.
784
Hayes, Walter I.
571
Heflin, Benjamin J.
846
Heie, Rev. Johanas J.
744
Hemingway, Fred B.
470
Hennessy. Rev. M. J.
963
Henningsen, B. H. A.
920
Herkelman. William
1124
Hesse. Frank
649
Higgins, Israel
582
Hilbert, C. Henry
546
Hilbert, W. M.
1145
Hill, Olin E.
838
Hines, William
650
Jackson, Julius M.
1110
Jaenicke, Adolph
739
Jameyson, Hiram E.
823
Jargo, Charles
1017
Jargo, William F.
1017
Jensen, Christ
696
Joehnk, Henry C.
461
John, Howard D.
831
John, Milo J.
830
Johnson, Hans.
620
Jorgensen, Carl
797
Jorgensen, Soren
971
Joyce, William T.
1060
K
Kallenbach, John
638
Kallenbach, Joseph
492
Kallenbach, Nick
491
Kehoe, Edward M.
853
Keiner, Louis C.
942
Digitized by
H
Hahn, Henry N.
635
Hale, Edward J. 802
Hallinan, Edward L. 452
Hannaher, Thomas C.
782
Hanrahan, William F.
945
Hansen, Fred G.
477
Hansen, John C.
837
Hanssen, Eugene
741
Harrington, Andrew L.
1029
Harrington, Chauncey S.
909
Gradert, Gustav
462
Green, Jacob
531
Griebel, Henry C. 792
Grumstrup, Thomas D.
808
Grumstrup, Walda M.
808, 832
Hinrich, August 1146
Hinton, Thomas S. 810
Gibson, Richard J.
793
Gluesing, Claus J.
936
Gohlman, John G.
499
Gohlmann. Mathias T.
856
Goodnow, Royal
1106
664
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Keith, Willis E.
847
Kelly Brothers 742
Kelly, David E.
1032
Kelly, J. A.
742
Lund, Virtus
673
Mc
McCarthy, Frank L.
793
McCord, Elias S.
1086
McDermott, Frank J.
822
McGarry, W. A.
645
McGinn, Francis P.
960
McKenna, William H.
773
Mclaughlin, Very Rev. Edward J. 600
Mclaughlin, Rev. P. V.
601
McMahon, Charles E.
758
McMillin, John W.
1094
M
MacMiller, George
1044
MacQuigg. William
882
Madden, Malchi Kane
890
Magnussen, Christ
453
Manion, Patrick H.
449
Manning, Dennis C.
1135
Martin, Hobart E.
839
Marx, Joseph
1107
Mason, Martin
734
Mason, Peter
735
Matson, Eric C.
842
Matthiesen, Emil C.
1118
Matzen, Frank J.
837
Matzen & Hansen
837
May, Calvin D.
678
Meints, Christ
487
Meints, John 736
Melvin, Matthew J. 803
Messer, William W.
757
Meves, William J.
928
Meyer, Albert J
479
Miller, Charles V.
1041
Miller, Edwin W. 1040
826
Lindmeier, Henry
779
Logan, John J.
762
Lohberg, Frank
968
Lohberg, Franz
969
Loofboro, Isaac N.
1007
Lubbers, John
1028
Lund, Christian
1100
Lund, Herman
675
Lund, John 676
Lund, Justus 675
Kelly, John W.
617
Kelly, Lee C.
812
Kelly, P. H.
742
Kelly, Robert Bruce
788
Kelly, Samuel S. 448
Kelly, T. F.
742
Kelly, W. J.
742
Kenney, Charles W.
821
Kershner, Frank O.
657
Kester, Carl John F.
504
King, F. B.
818
Kistner, George P.
917
Klahn, Hugo
642
Klahn, Julius
658
Knutzen, Henry
1134
Koons, William
480
Korn, Otto
881
Kramer, August
932
Krumpelmann, Clem
781
Kruse, Claus (Clinton) 865
Kruse, Claus
924
Kuebler, Conrad
629
Kuehn, William C.
988
L
Lamb, Artemus
684
.
Lamb, Garrett E.
676
Lamb, James D.
.1030
Lamb, Lafayette
681
Langbehn, William O.
656
Lathrop, Charles H.
625
Lee, William
475
Leedhan, Frank W.
700
Leedham, William
543
Leimbach, William
614
Lietz, John
860
Miller, John W.
Miller, Peter J.
809
Mitchell, Fred W.
749
Moeszinger, Chris.
671
Morris, George 786
Mudge, Myron C. 979
Mueller, Fred
1003
Mueller, Fred J.
951
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Lamb, Chancy 731
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Mueller, Henry S. 622
Mulvihill, Edward 511
Murphy, Patrick 1036
Murray, Rev. J. A
864
N
Naeve, Nicholas, Jr. 769
Nelson, Rev. James J. 451
Newbern, Lester F.
538
Newmarch, William
910
Nissen, Nis
764
O
Obert, Casin B.
1070
O'Connor, Thomas C. 1082
O'Dowd, Rev. Peter
1080
Ogden, James J.
1066
Olson, Edwin
567
Olson, Eli
565
Olson, Nils O.
494
Owens, Peter J.
806
P
Parker, Celinda
587
Pascal, Aylett L. 478
Pascal, Descartes L.
986
Peckham, F. E.
878
Pelham, Cornelius H.
915
Penningroth,
Henry
703
Perin, Noble
465
Peters, Henry C.
967
Petersen, Cornelius
929
Petersen, Hans H.
1090
Petersen, Nils
486
Petersen, Peter N.
763
Peterson, James
851
Phelps, George B.
534
Phillips. Dewitt H.
1106
Phillips, William
1106
Pingel, Herbert
524
Pingel, Otto D.
523
Porth, Charles J.
647
Porth, Henry
644
Porth, Yengle A.
533
Poston, William H.
814
Potter, J. Ward
789
Purcell, John E.
768
R
Rand, Robert N.
570
Rand, Robert W.
569
Rand, Samuel 569
Rand, William A. 569
Rands, The Four 568
Ranson, Edward
637
Rathie, William 1058
Rathje, John H. W. 618
Record, Aaron P.
965
Redden, William
759
Reihman, J. W.
474
Reimers, Fred
887
Rice, William S.
805
Riggs, Andrew J.
897
Riggs, John, Jr.
897
Riordan, Rev. D.
471
Ritter, Theodore C. 900
Rixon, Fred
753
Rock, F. H.
688
Rock, J. F.
495
Roehling, William
515
Roennfeldt, Claus D.
962
Roennfeldt, Hans D. 962
Roennfeldt, Otto B.
961
Rogers, William
517
Rohwedder, Henry
Roscoe, Charles E.
1048
Rosland, Gunder J.
493
Ruggeberg, Lewis
1047
Russell, Amherst W.
1064
Russell, Friend E.
1065
Russell, Gideon A.
800
Russell, William E.
691
Rutenbeck, Edward
514
S
Sackrider, George W.
1004
Sadoris, Charles L.
555
Savage, Rollin H.
811
Schepers, August
1120
Schepers, Herman
1069
Schmidt, Charles F.
539
Schmidt, Claus H.
1104
Schmitt, Louis E.
666
Schoening, Frederick
1010
Schoening, Henry
1010
Schoenthaler, Charles
1127
Schoenthaler, John E.
971
Schroeder, Benjamin H.
1074
Schroeder, Chris
956
Schroeder, Jacob
906
Schroeder, Peter F.
1102
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560
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Schunter, C. J.
502
Scott, Samuel C. 583
Scott, William W. 505
Seaman, Halleck W.
1092
Shaw, Fred B.
858
Shoecraft, Simon
740
Siegmund, William F. 576
Siemsen, Rudolph F. 903
Walsh, Edmund C. 1132
Simon, John W.
906
Walsh, Mark A. 1134
Walsh, James W. 1134
Slapnicka, Frank 913
Smith, George A.
698
Smith, George C.
689
Smith, George M.
603
Warning, Henry
808, 840
Watkins, John B.
1034
Waugh, Birt
926
Spain, Cornelius
990
Spain, Michael J.
989
Weston, John C. 482
White, William 850
Wilke, Fred C.
859
Stephenson, George W.
558
Stires, Charles
1053
Stockwell, Ira 1140
Stoffregen, Henry
554
Stone, Augustus L.
729
Struve, John
578
Struve, William
1019
Wilson, John L. 833
Wilson, William L. 599
Wirth, Alexander J. 1002
Wirth, John 1001
Witte, Frank
659
Witte, Fred
665
Wolfe, James B.
623
Wolfe, Jerry
843
Wolfe, Patrick B.
912
Work, Alexander
562
Work, Nis P. 607
Wulf, J. C. 1143
Wulf, Nicholas F.
872
Wurmke, Diedrich 1025
Wurmke, Herman F.
102 !
Y
Young, Edward E.
893
Young, Joseph C.
Young, William E.
662
Young, William J.
488
Van Epps, Alden J.
1054
Vetter, August F.
541
Voss, Henry C.
982
W
Wadleigh, Erastus A. 512
Wadleigh, LeRoi B. 606
Walsh Bros. 1131
Walsh, Charles H. 1134
Walsh, Alfred E. 1134
Walsh, Eugene J.
1134
Smith, John W.
795
Soenksen, Christ
660
Soenksen, Martin
752
Wendel, Adolph
535
Wendel, John G.
503
Spence, James H.
772
Steiner, Joseph G.
631
Wilke, William
827
Willet, Charles H. 596
Willet, Mrs. Flora 594
Williams, John 902
Wilson, George E. 550
Wilson, George E. 886
Stuedemann, Albert H.
1038
Sunderlin, Floyd L.
885
T
Temple, Gilbert L.
988
The Four Rands 569
Thiel, Michael
760
Thompson, Daniel
919
Thusen, Mathias M.
755
Thusen, Peter M.
755
Toenningsen, Henry J. 579
Towle. Phineas S.
875
Traver, William R.
894
Tritschler, Louis P.
528
Turner, John H.
668
Turner, Merritt G.
563
Tyler, Henry F.
592
Tyler, William A.
952
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Simpson, Andrew
564
HISTORICAL.
CHAPTER I.
IOWA AS A TERRITORY AND STATE.
Through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. the western boundary of the United States was extended to the Rocky mountains and the northern Pacific ocean. Later this tract was opened up to settlement and was for many years known as the "New Northwest," in distinction from the North- west Territory, which was ceded to the United States by Virginia and which territory included all of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and that por- tion of Minnesota east of the Mississippi river. The New Northwest con- tained 1,887,850 square miles. Out of this great territory have been carved many of our best states and in 1880 contained almost one-third of the population of the entire United States.
EARLY EXPLORATIONS.
The territory from which Clinton county was carved was discovered by white men as follows: In 1541, DeSoto first saw the great West in the New World. discovered in 1492 by Columbus. He was not successful and left no trace of settlement. save making enmity between the Indians and whites. The French were eager to seize territory and were the first to profit by DeSoto's defeat. Yet it was more than a hundred years before any advantage was taken of this first discovery of this territory.
It was in 1616, four years prior to the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers on the rockbound coast of New England, that Le Caron, a French Fran- ciscan, had penetrated through the Hurons to the streams that run into Lake Huron ; and in 1634 two missionaries of the Jesuit faith founded missions among the lake tribes of Indians. It was just a century after DeSoto dis- covered the Mississippi river before the Canadian envoys met the savage nations of the Northwest at St. Mary's Falls, below the outlet of Lake
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Superior. None of the hardy fur traders attempted to spend a winter in that northern latitude until 1659, and in 1660 a station was established upon the borders by Mesnard, who perished in the woods after a few months of terrible suffering.
In 1665 Claude Allouez built the earliest lasting habitation of the white race among the Indians of the Northwest.
In 1668 Claud Dablon and James Marquette founded the mission at St. Mary's Falls, known as the Sault Ste Marie Mission, and two years later Nicholas Perrot, of the Canadian government, discovered the region of Lake Michigan, as far south as the present site of the city of Chicago, Illi- nois. He held a council with the Indians in the spring of the next year, when they were taken under the protection of the King and formal posses- sion was had of the Northwest. The same year Marquette established the old town of Michillimackinac.
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