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During the first period that the county seat remained at Waterloo the town progressed fairly, and did a considerable amount of business, but when the seat of justice was moved therefrom in 1847 it began to decline rapidly. Then when the seat of justice was returned thereto in 1854 strenuous efforts were made by the proprietors of the town to revive its business inter- ests. It, however, revived only partially, and after the county seat was moved from it the second time, and located permanently at Kahoka, its death became a certainty, and there is nothing left there now but the site upon which it once stood.
J. W. Murphy, in his history of the "Outlaws of the Fox River Country," relates a story about "Old Floyd," who was a half-breed, and a historic character in and about Waterloo. He
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says: "The most insignificant looking person that ever came under the observations of the writer was an old fellow who went by the name of 'Old Floyd,' who did chores and odd jobs around a Missouri tavern for a scrap with the dog and a bed in the hay- mow. * * Old Floyd is dead now, and his bones lie mouldering and forgotten, without a slab to mark the spot where they slumber, or a friend to train the vines that circle and blossom over his grave with each returning summer. He is gone-his poor old body was buried years ago, and with it per- ished and died a rich fund of anecdote, and a vast treasure of the legendary lore of pioneer times. His life was a romance that never was written, and probably never will be, but for all that a romance that would rival the imagination of Capt. Mayne Reid or Edward Bonney. The only mean thing we ever knew Old Floyd to do was to drink too much whisky; although the one crime, if crime it may be called, that he, in his humble way, did perchance for all his latter years, was the killing of a young Indian chief who had won the affections of the dusky maiden whom Floyd desired to marry. The two men fought a savage fight on a high bluff near Waterloo, Mo., and Floyd wounded his antagonist and pushed him over the cliff into Fox River, a hundred feet below, where his life blood ebbed away, and dyed the water a crimson red. The Indian girl then married Floyd, and he whipped her one day when he was drunk. Then she, with the memory of her murdered lover still in her heart, threw herself from the same cliff, and left Floyd a widower. The spot where these two Indian lovers died is known to the people round about there now as Lover's Leap, and has been vis- ited and admired by a great many persons."
Chambersburg is a small village, about eight miles northwest of Kahoka. It was established about the year 1837, at which time Simeon Conway and Henry Snively opened the first store there, and who continued in business several years. Jack Noe opened a store there about the year 1850. The place now con- sists of one store, kept by Edmonson, one Methodist Episcopal Church, one Catholic Church, and a few other buildings.
Mount Vernon was laid out in September, 1837, by R. Q. Stark and Justice Ensign. It was located on the southwest
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quarter of Section 14, and the southeast quarter of Section 15, in Township 65 north, Range 8 west, and was at the point first selected for the county seat of justice, but as the latter was not located there, the place was not improved, and consequently Mount Vernon has been known only as a paper town. The site of this town was in front of the present residence of Oscar F. Ensign.
WINCHESTER.
This town was laid out and established by William P. Thomas, on the 27th day of July, 1837. It contains a public square, and three blocks, with eight lots each; four blocks, with six lots each, and one block, with five lots. An addition, consist- ing of a strip of lots all around the original plat, was laid out by Washington Dunbar, on the 5th day of January, 1857. This town is situated about ten miles southeast of Kahoka. Paris Judy opened the first store and grocery. He was followed by Samuel Banks, and he by a Mr. Fleck, and he by Henshaw. At the present writing the town contains two general stores, the one kept by John W. Dunbar and the other by Samuel Dunbar; also one drug store, kept by Samuel Taylor, and one grist-mill and wool carding machine run by Mr. McCarty. There are also two blacksmith shops, a district schoolhouse and two churches-the Christian and Methodist; and also a boot and shoe shop kept by Frank Kamuf. The physicians are Albert R. Black and Dr. Lewellen. Winchester is surrounded with a good farming country, and for an inland town it does a very good business.
LURAY:
This town is situated on the Keokuk & Western Railroad, and about nine miles west of Kahoka. It was surveyed and laid out on the northern part of Section 10, in what is now Wyaconda Township, in October, 1837, by George Combs and Robert Q. Stark, two of the pioneer settlers of that part of the county. The town as then laid out contained a public square, and twenty-nine blocks, each containing four lots seventy-seven feet square. "Miller's addition to Luray," which was subsequently laid out by Michael Miller in the north end of the east half of the south- west quarter of said section, contains six blocks, each containing
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twenty-two lots of the same size as those in the original plat. The first house in Luray was built by Smith Tinsley. It was a one story log cabin about fourteen feet square, with an open fire- place in one side with a stick and mud chimney. About the year 1838 Mr. Tinsley opened a store in this rustic building, and according to the custom in those days whisky was one of the principal articles kept for sale. Soon after this another store was opened in another log cabin, and the next merchants were John Brown and Joseph White. These early merchants fur- nished tea, coffee, sugar, ammunition, etc., to the pioneer settlers, but for want of transportation they would not buy butter, eggs and other products at any price, consequently a home market was not established for many years later. Wages were then "two bits " (25 cents) per day, and George Combs, one of the proprietors of the town, helped his few neighbors in that vicinity to butcher their hogs for that price. The town grew very slowly. At the outbreak of the civil war, and for some years prior thereto, the business of the town was carried on by Messrs Egnew & Arnold, - Rollin, Oliver Moore, M. C. Moore, William Daggs, and Wesley and Jesse Hunt. The first named firm kept a gen- eral store, and did the most extensive business.
The business of Luray and the men who conduct it at present writing are as follows: General stores, J. C. Stauffer, J. W. Fonda and J. M. Shore; grocery, I. B. Chamberlain; drugs, M. A. Wooldridge; grocery, hardware and notions, W. S. Bellows; harness and saddles, W. H. Hunt; jewelry, W. B. Bradley; hotel, T. L. Davis; wagon shops, William Randle and S. T. Ogden; paint shop, C. C. Gilmore; postmaster, Nathaniel Davis; barber and agricultural implement dealer, F. M. Stauffer; blacksmiths, Gilbert & Stevens and O. S. Cross; hoop dealer, Isaac Rowe; millinery, Mrs. E. Scott; livery stable, Davis & Stevens; corn-mill and saw mill, J. V. Faulkinburg.
The town contains two very fine church edifices, one of which was built by the Baptists in 1866, and the other by the Methodist Protestants in 1887. The former is constructed of brick, and the latter of wood. The Methodist Protestant Church was dedi- cated by Rev. John Sexsmith, its present pastor, on the 26th day of June, 1887. In an early day religious services were held in
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the old schoolhouse, which stood on the public square. The town also contains a large frame public school building, which is very pleasantly located near the church edifices. The physicians are Drs. M. L. Stafford and A. S. Tinsman.
Luray Lodge, No. 336, I. O. O. F., was chartered July 31, 1875, and the charter members were William Hill, N. G .; Walter Bellows, V. G .; Alfred Miller, Permanent Secretary ; C. N. Stauf- fer, Recording Secretary; P. J. Payne, Treasurer and Thomas Wolcott. The officers at the present writing are William Hill, N. G .; John Riggs, V. G .; E. Hayman, Secretary; W. L. Hoh- stadt, Treasurer, and O. S. Cross, Warden. The lodge has twenty-one members, and it is in good financial condition.
Aaron Brokaw Post, No. 203, G. A. R., was chartered in 1885, with about twenty-seven members. The first officers were William Hill, Commander; J. J. Johnson, V. Com .; J. Dennison, Jr. Vice Com .; E. Jones, Q. M .; William Randle, Surgeon; A. Morgan, Chaplain; C. C. Sawyer, O. D .; C. Hummel, O. G .; A. C. Dewey, Adjt .; E. Fickle, S. M .; Alf Cameron, Q. M. S. Other charter members were James Barklow, Ephraim Jones, E. Cotton, P. Lane, G. W. Wilson, J. M. Morgan and G. W. Flemming. The officers at the present writing are J. W. Dennison, Com .; W. B. Bradley, S. V. C .; L. Hohstadt, J. V. C .; C. C. Gilmore, Q. M .; C. Reed, Surgeon; S. Wells, Chaplain; William Randle, O. D .; Samuel Brown, O. G .; T. L. Barden, Adjt .; J. Barklow, S. M., and J. Cameron, Q. M. S. The post has thirty-nine members in good standing, and has had in all fifty members. Some have died, and some moved away and were demitted to join other posts.
THE ANTI-HORSE-THIEF ASSOCIATION.
This organization was effected in September, 1863, at Luray, in Clark County. On that occasion there met at that place David Shuler, David Mauck, John Wilson, James Day, H. L. McKee and Maj. David McKee, of Clark County; William Everhart, Jonathan Longfellow, S. Grant, William Beach and W. Matlock, of Scotland County, and James McGowen, of Upton, Iowa. These gentlemen framed the first constitution and by-laws of the society, and advertised to meet again in October of that year at Millport, in Knox County. When the time arrived a goodly number of
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the best men of Lewis, Clark, Scotland and Knox Counties, Mo., and of Lee, Van Buren and Davis Counties, Iowa, assem- bled at Millport. At this meeting the constitution and by-laws prepared at Luray were taken up and adopted, and thus the organization of the society was completed. The grand officers were then elected as follows: Maj. David McKee, Grand Worthy President; William Beach, G. W. Vice-Pres .; William Ever- hart, Grand Worthy Secretary; William Grant, Grand Worthy Treasurer; and H. L. McKee, G. W. Marshall. Maj. McKee served as the principal officer for eight years. The grand officers in March, 1879, were G. N. Sansom, of Kahoka, G. W. Pres .; John Ewalt of La Belle, G. W. V. P .; C. W. Gray, of Acosta, G. W. Sec'y ; A. A. Hays, of Kahoka, G. W. Treas ; John Neil, of Rush- ville, Ill .; G. W. Marshall. Missouri can boast of some of the best subordinate orders in existence ; and the same can be said of other sister States. Good men for awhile were afraid to join the society, but seeing the good it accomplished in bringing horse- thieves and other criminals to justice, the people began to join it, so that in 1879 there were over 125 sub-orders, with a member- ship of over 4,000. This society gets the evidence before they prosecute, and in consequence seldom ever fail. The society was brought into existence on account of the great prevalence of crime at that time. But having suppressed much of the crime, it has had but little work to do in Northeastern Missouri for the last few years.
On the 8th of June, 1858, the county court incorporated the town of Luray under the name and style of "The Inhabitants of the Town of Luray;" and Erastus Sackett, John J. Agner, Sam- uel Dobyns, Richard M. Edellen and B. F. Conner were appointed as trustees thereof. The town was re-incorporated on the 22d of April, 1874, and Riley Draper, J. F. Murphy, G. R. Jones, P. Hancock and A. J. Payne were appointed as trustees. The cor- porate officers at the present writing are William Hill, George Gilbert, W. H. Hunt, O. S. Cross and J. W. Fonda, trustees; Nathaniel Davis, marshal; and J. W. Wilson, attorney.
The shipments from Luray, of the leading articles of com- merce, for the year ending June 1, 1877, were as follows: grain, 34 car loads, or about 34,000 bushels ; hogs, 40 car loads, or 3,600
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head; cattle, 19 car loads, averaging 20 head each; hoops, 28 car loads, containing about 850,000 hoops; wood, 7 car loads averaging 10 cords each. Eldorado, which adjoins and may with propriety be called an addition to the town of Luray, was laid out in October, 1871, by James W. Summers and his wife. It is . located in the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of Sec- tion 10-65-9, and contains a public square, and twenty-eight blocks. It lies between Luray proper and the railroad, the depot of the latter being situated thereon. Luray is surrounded with a rich agricultural country, and consequently is an important shipping and business point on the Keokuk & Western Railroad. It contains about 400 inhabitants.
ATHENS.
The original town plat of Athens contains nine blocks, each containing eight lots. It was laid out and established in Novem- ber, 1844, by the pioneer settler of that vicinity, Mr. Isaac Gray. Six additions were afterward laid out to this town, with the expectation that it would become a city of magnificentimportance. It is handsomely located on the banks of the Des Moines about two and a half miles below the northeast corner of the State. On the. opposite side of the river lies the village of Croton, in Iowa. George Gray built the first storehouse in Athens, and kept the first store therein. This building stood under the bluff, near the present residence of "Uncle " Joe Benning. The town has been a place of considerable trade and enterprise. At one time, before the late war, it contained eight dry goods stores; ยท but like many other towns with seemingly bright prospects it has declined, so that at the present writing it contains only the following business houses: Dry goods-J. W. Townsend and Edward Schee; groceries-Hiller & Co., and George Wilson. There are also two wagon shops, one blacksmith shop, a district schoolhouse and two churches-the Methodist and Congrega- tional. A large water-power flouring-mill ( the building of which is still standing) did a prosperous business for many years, hav- ing a trade which extended far into the country toward the west and southwest.
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FAIRMONT.
This town was surveyed and established in August, 1851, by Thomas A. Gassaway and James Owen. It is situated on the southwestern part of Section 21, in Township 64 north, and Range 9 .west, being in the civil township of Washington. The original plat contains a public square, and eight blocks containing ten lots each. Several additions to the original town have been laid out as follows: Owen's addition, by James Owen, in October, 1852; Craven's addition, by James B. Craven, in August, 1854; Rowe's addition. by Thomas P. Rowe, in February, 1885. At the original survey of the town D. Woods assisted in carrying the chain, and bought the first lot that was sold. "He was well known in those days as the landlord of the Cow Bell Tavern, a name his house got by his using a big brass cowbell suspended on a pole to call his boarders to their meals." James Owen was the first postmaster, and James B. Craven the first physician of the village. He was afterward killed in Hewitt's store by one Childers, who split his head open with a mowing scythe. The first store was opened by George Stovall. At one period consid- erable damage was done in the town and vicinity by lightning. Within one year two men, a Mr. Popejoy and a son of Peter Piatt, were killed on the public square, and in the country sev- eral head of stock were struck down, but nothing of the kind has occurred for many years since.
At the present writing the town contains the following busi- ness and business houses: General stores-Henry Weber, J. B. Sawyer, Charles Caruthers; groceries-E. Hyman, William Lewis, W. McNealey; hardware-John Bowman; drugs-J .. Bosious; harness and saddles-P. J. Starr; millinery-Miss Nora Caruthers and Mrs. Sallie Culbertson; also a blacksmith shop by George Goulty, and one hotel, the Starr House by H. Hewitt, who is also the postmaster. One of the most of impor- tant industries of the town is the Fairmont Plow and Wagon Shops, established by the present owner, M. Mills, in the year 1857. The machinery of these shops, when first established, was run by horse power, but it is now run by steam. The main building of these works is forty to sixty feet and two-stories high. First class plows and wagons are extensively manufactured here.
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Mart J. Miller runs a saw mill and corn mill, P. M. Enoch makes boots and shoes. The professional men are T. A. Bull, dentist, and Drs. W.C. McReynolds and - Mackey. The town also contains a public schoolhouse and a Baptist Church-the latter of which was erected about the year 1884. Also a Union Church built in 1879, and which is used by the Methodist Epis- copal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church South.
PEAKEVILLE.
This small village, six miles north of Kahoka, was laid out in August, 1852, by Mrs. Mary E. Peake. It contains two general stores kept respectively by John Wilson and John Coovert; also three blacksmith shops, a postoffice and two churches-the Chris- tian and the Church of God.
UNION.
This small post hamlet, about five miles south of Kahoka, was surveyed and laid out December 5, 1855, by Benjamin Rodgers. It contains one general store, a church and school house, postoffice and a few dwelling-houses.
KAHOKA.
The original town of Kahoka was surveyed and established by William W. Johnson, Moses F. Clawson and Miller C. Duer, in December, 1856. It contains the public square, and eight blocks containing twelve lots each, and six blocks containing six blocks each, and one block containing only three lots. It is situ- ated on the east half of the southeast quarter and the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 24 in Township 65 north, and Range 8 west. The lots are 50x140 feet in size, and all streets are sixty feet wide and the alleys twenty-five feet wide. In April, 1865, the following four additions to Kahoka were surveyed and laid out into lots, viz .: "Johnson and Dixon's addition," containing eighteen lots; "Clawson's addition," containing twenty-one lots; " Clawson, Allen and Duer's addition," containing twelve lots; and " Cohagan's addition," containing eighteen lots. "Johnson's addition," which contains the courthouse square and twenty blocks was surveyed and laid out in July, 1870. It is located on the west side of the northwest quarter of Section 19, in Township
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65 north, Range 7 west. " Hiller's addition " was surveyed and laid out in October, 1871; it contains twelve blocks, and lies north of and adjoining Cohagan's addition and west of the street running along the west side of the courthouse square. "Clark's addition to Kahoka" was laid out in April, 1882, by Linus G. Clark; it contains eight blocks of different sizes, and lies east of the original town plat and south of Johnson's addition. The " Wash- burn heirs' addition " was laid out in December, 1886; it lies at the west side of town in the same section with the original plat, and contains four lots of five and three-quarters acres each, and five large residence lots. " Ackland's addition to Kahoka " was laid out by James Ackland in December, 1885; it contains twenty- one lots, and lies on the west side of Hiller's addition.
The first house in Kahoka was built by John Cramlin in 1857. It was a small dwelling-house, and stood on the present vacant lot north of the northeast corner of the public square. It was afterward consumed by fire. The first business house in the town was a " dram shop " kept in a small building at the south- east corner of the public square. It was erected by E. Z. Shan- non. The third improvement in the town was made by a Mr. Huston, who erected a dwelling-house and blacksmith shop on the west side of the public square. The lot was given to him by William W. Johnson to induce him to make the improvement and open the shop. The next improvement was the erection of a building, and the opening of a dry goods store by William Bush. This took place about the year 1858. The first hotel, the "Kahoka House," which stands at the northwest corner of the square, was built about the year 1858, by W. H. Huyke, who ran the hotel business there for a number of years, and then sold the property to John C. Kelly. At the beginning of the civil war the only store in Kahoka was kept by George Bostic. At the close of the war Jacob Trump, now one of the leading merchants of the town, started a boot and shoe shop. Then came Dr. Myers, who practiced medicine for awhile and then started a drug store. The next merchant was John S. Clark, who opened a grocery, which he kept a few years. Soon after the close of the civil war certain parties began to prospect for the location of the county seat at Kahoka, and this gave the place an impetus which caused
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it to grow more rapidly, and when it was chosen as the perma- nent site for the seat of justice the merchants were Jacob Trump, George Bostic, John Jordan, James Fulton and others.
Following is a list of the business and business men of the town at the present writing: Dry goods-Strickler and Stafford, G. S. Stafford, Jacob Trump & Bro., George W. Bostic, Leo Jor- dan and W. T. Peet & Co .; groceries-George Thompson, James Painter, I. E. Schermerhorn, Dr. Lee Goodman, Myers & Myers, James Fulton, George Trump and L. L. Duer; drugs -- Martin Bros., Crawford & Martin and Dr. Lee Goodman; hardware- Turner & Vandolah, Moffit Bros. and John Langford; stoves and tinware-Kirch & Schreyer and D. G. Moore; saddles and har- ness-John A. Lehew, J. H. Oldenhage and Adam Lang; notions and small wares-Mrs. Ann Smith and Mrs. Crossmond; black- smiths -- George N. Sansom, James A. Lehew and Verkler & McNealy ; jewelers-Fulton & Warner ; gunsmith --- Horace Long- anecker ; furniture-Carle & Hummel; hotels-Commercial Hotel, kept by Mrs. A. Ferguson, Kahoka House, kept by D. Martin, Tremont House, kept by J. H. Strickler, Webster House, kept by Thomas Webster, and Hotel Walker, kept by Body & Walker; butcher shops-John Slagle, Wesley White and A. F. Turner; barber shops-George Miller and Loyd Stauffer; ice cream par- lors -- Mrs. B. F. Waggener; restaurant-John Kirch; marble works -- Dixon & Butler; grain dealers-Sherwood & Dowell and John A. Bott; the latter runs a corn sheller and corn and oats mill; livery-William W. Johnson and David Martin; wagon shop- Frank Halbeck; billiard rooms -- Ed. Calloway; boot and shoe maker-John Myers; lumber yard-Kakoka Lumber Company. In addition to the foregoing, John Langford and John A. Lehew are dealers in agricultural implements, wagons, buggies, sewing machines, etc., and W. G. Moseley deals extensively in poultry. There is also a good steam-power flouring-mill, with roller process, in the town. The foregoing is probably as good a classification of the business as can be made, but it is proper to say that some of the dry goods merchants also sell groceries, and boots and shoes.
Banks-The Clark County Savings Bank was organized in 1874, with an authorized capital stock of $50,000, one-fifth of
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which was then paid up. The officers of this bank are R. J. Wood, president, and William McDermott, cashier; and the stockholders are Henry Black, S. F. Sackett, Mrs. C. F. Childers, R. J. Wood, John E. Stafford, John M. Hiller, Matlock & Hiller, William E. White, John R. White, J. W. Montgomery and Will- iam McDermott.
The Kahoka Savings Bank was organized in 1883, with a paid up capital stock of $10,000. The present officers are George W. Bostic, president; James R. Hume, cashier, and L. C. Bostic, assist- ant cashier. The stockholders are the three officers named and Mrs. J. R. Hume, James H. Hodges, William R. Hodges and Dr. Joseph Myers. These banks do a loan, exchange and collec- tion business, and sell foreign exchange.
Physicians-The physicians are Samuel Neeper, William Martin, - - Crawford, Joseph Myers and D. M. Scott. The dentists are W. W. Cleveland and M. Richardson.
Kahoka has five first-class church edifices, belonging respect- ively to the following donominations: Presbyterian, Baptist, Cumberland Presbyterian, Congregational and German Evan- gelical; also a large and commodious public schoolhouse, and the Kahoka college building, of which further mention will be made.
SHIPMENTS.
The shipments from Kahoka of the live stock, grain and other leading articles of commerce for the year ending June 1, 1887, were as follows: Horses and mules, 7 car loads; cattle, 13 car loads averaging 20 head each; hogs, 55 car loads, or 4,950 head; sheep, 1 car load; poultry, 10 car loads; wool, 2 car loads; meal, 2 car loads; hoops, 19 car loads; grain, 127 car loads, or 127,000 bushels; dressed poultry, 171,000 pounds.
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