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GRAHAM.
Graham is situated in the southwest part of Nodaway County, eighteen miles from Maryville. It is two miles east of the Nodaway River, and is located near a little creek called Elkhorn. The town was laid out by Andrew Brown in 1856, with four blocks. In 1858, Mr. Brown laid out in addition, two complete blocks and one fractional one. About the same time, Abraham Linville, Henry Linville's uncle, laid out what is known as Linville's addition to Graham. In 1858 there were but two stores, dealing in general merchandise, kept by Burns & White, and McFadden & Daugherty ; there was one drug store, by Brand & Welsh, and a hotel by Dr. W. H. Woodward. There was at that time, and for several years previous, a steam saw and grist mill, operated by Wilson & Brown. This mill first directed attention to the locality of Graham. In early days, when mills were almost unknown, this one sup- plied a large section of country. Graham can boast of the first house of worship built in the county, with the exception, perhaps, of the Catholic Church in Maryville. In 1856, a very handsome church edifice was erected in the town by the various denominations which held religious services in that community. This was the only church building in the county, after its erection, except the Catholic Church at Maryville, until the building of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Maryville.
The town was called Jacksonville from the time it was laid out until 1859, when the name was changed to Graham by a special act of the Legislature. A few years before the town was laid out, a post office was secured for that community, which was located about half a mile north of the present town site. This post office was called Graham, in honor of Col. Amos Graham, through whom it was secured. The name of the town was changed from Jacksonville to Graham in order that the town and post office might have the same name.
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Andrew Brown, the founder of Graham, died some years since, at the residence of his son-in-law, Henry Linville. He was an estimable man, highly esteemed and respected, and possessed all the noblest attributes of the human character.
Graham was almost depopulated during the war, no business was transacted, and there was but one little store in the place from 1862 to 1864, which was kept by James M. Lawson.
In 1864, R. C. Bohardt and John Schmidt each laid out an addition, and Mr. Bohardt laid out another addition in 1871, and one more in 1873. In 1874 additions were laid out by Henry Forcade and Jacob Fletcher.
Graham was incorporated in the year 1871.
Graham is finely located, and has many natural advantages. It is mostly surrounded by timber, and is situated in the midst of a country very rich and productive. The city lies upon the crest and sides of a beautiful roll of land, which affords one of the finest prospects in the Nodaway Valley.
There are three living springs in the corporation, and two of them, the Brown Spring and the Spencer Spring, afford a sufficient quantity of water for steam power. These springs are of great value to the town. There are four fine stone quarries within half a mile, that contain a fine quality of stone for building purposes. The passage of the railroad on the west side of the river, and the location of Maitland as a competing point, has for a time thrown a shadow over Graham, but the people of the town believe that at no distant day they will possess railroad facil- ities, and Graham will again be filled with commercial life and activity.
SECOND MILL IN THE COUNTY.
We must not omit to state that the second mill erected in the county was built near the present site of Graham. It was built by Andrew Brown, from Ohio, in 1841. It was a log building 18x18 feet. It had a brush dam, and had a capacity of five or six bushels an hour. It was located on the Elkhorn, called by the settlers a " Wet Weather Creek," which ran nearly dry in summer. The mill washed away in the flood of 1844. It contained a small bolt turned by hand for flour.
GERMAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
This church was organized in 1869, by Nicholas Dilk, L. Geyes, Geo. Hartman and Dh. Eberlin. The church has had the following pastors : F. Arusperger, H. Fiegelbaum, F. Unland, G. Koeing, J. W. Buchholz and Wm. Fiegebaum. The church was erected and dedicated in 1875. The cost of construction was $1,800. The present trustees are as fol- lows : N. Dilk, G. Hartman, L. Geyes, Dh. Eberlin and Ch. Westphal. The church is in good condition. This church is at Graham.
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THE GRAHAM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
was organized in 1860. The names of original members were as follows : John Cowen, Mary E. Cowen, Henry Walker, Martha Walker, Elizabeth Gressham, Sarah Vinsonhaler, Aaron Cole, Mary Cole, A. E Rea, Eliz- abeth McCoy and Mary Waterman. The church was built in 1872 and is a frame building costing $2,300. It was dedicated by Rev. M. L. Anderson and Rev. W. G. Thomas, November, 1872. The names of pastors being as follows : W. M. Stryker, N. H. Smith, M. L. Anderson, W. C. Thomas, A. D. Workman and B. D. Luther. Number of present membership, 30. The first Sunday School was organized in 1873.
M. E. CHURCH
was organized at Robt. Rea's house in section 18, 62, 36. The names of original members were, Robt. Rea and Eliza A. Rea and Jane M. Rea, and a colored lady, Celia Vance. Pastors, A. Clemons and James K. Chamberlin. It was re-organized in 1864 at Gra- ham with the following members : Robt. Rea, Eliza A. Rea and Jane M. Rea, Daniel Bender and Mary Bender, Aaron Cole, sen., and Geo. W. Osea Cole. The church was built in 1869,-is a frame build- ing and cost $2,000.00. It was dedicated in 1869 by W. H. Flowers. It is clear of indebtedness. Names of pastors, L. V. Morton, W. H. Turner, W. Cowden, Wm. Hanley, J. G. Thompson, J. G. Breed, B. T. Stanber, Robt. Develing, S. H. Enyart and J. A. Shewalter. Number of present membership, 60. The parsonage cost $500.00.
GRAHAM LODGE NO. 202, ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMAN
was organized in Graham August 26, 1880, with the following charter members : William B. Palmer, John S. Spencer, William T. McGinnis, Martin Bond, George H. Peterson, L. D. Summers, S. S. Dougherty, Joseph R. Stone, Perry Spencer, G. D. Mowry, John Vanderlinde, Wil- liam H. Maurer, F. H. Turnure, S. M. Twaddle, Perry L. Cheny, Joseph Long, A. Ashee, George E. Baublits. The present number of members is eighteen. This lodge meets on the second and fourth Friday nights of each month.
GRAHAM LODGE NO. 112, A. F. & A. MI.,
was organized in 1867, with the following officers : T. R. Hedgepeth, W. M .; J. M. Brand, S. W .; N. Wood, J. W .; J. R. Welch, Secretary ; M. Palmer, Treasurer. This lodge has been fairly prosperous and numbers now forty-four members. It meets the Saturday night on or before the full moon of each month.
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GOLDEN RULE ENCAMPMENT, NO. 40,
was organized in May, 1869, with the following officers: J. R. Bradford, C. P .; R. C. Bohart, S. W .; W. H. Dunby, J. W .; J. W. Morgan, Scribe ; D. M. Vinsonhaler, Treasurer. The present number of members is twenty. It meets the first Saturday night in each month.
HESPERIAN LODGE, NO. 189, I. O. O. F.,
was organized in 1868, with the following named charter members : J. R. Bradford, Joseph Ensor, S. G. B. Kavanaugh, R. C. Bohart, Jacob A. Cardell and J. W. Morgan. Prosperity has marked the history of this lodge, which now numbers forty members. It meets Tuesday evening of each week.
CHAPTER XIV.
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP.
BOUNDARIES OF INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP-PHYSICAL FEATURES-EARLY SETTLERS- PIONEER CORN MILL-EARLY TRAPPERS-INDIAN POW-WOW-GAYNOR CITY- AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS-SCHOOLS.
The township of Independence is bounded on the north by Taylor County, Iowa, and Worth County, Missouri, on the east by Worth County, on the south by Jackson Township, and on the west by Union and Hopkins Townships. This township contains sixty-three square miles. Independence is the northeast township in Nodaway County.
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED.
At the May term, 1856, we find the following order of record organ- izing Independence Township.
" Ordered that Jackson Township be divided by a line dividing Township Sixty-five in the center thereof east and west, and that all the territory north of said line, and formerly in Jackson Township, be called and known by the name of Independence Township."
On June 15, 1866, the following order of court appears defining the bounds of Independence Township:
" To commence at the northeast corner of said county, being the northeast corner of the northeast fractional quarter of section 33 ; thence west to the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 33, township 67, range 34; thence south on the section line between sections 33 and 34, township 67, range 34, and sections 3 and 4, 9 and 10, 15 and 16, 21 and 22, 27 and 28, 33 and 34, township 66, of range 34 ; and thence east on the range line between ranges 65 and 66 to the north- east corner of the northeast quarter of section 5, township 65, range 35, [34 ?] thence south on section line between sections 4 and 5, 8 and 9, 16 and 17, to the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 19, [20?] township 65, of range 35 [34 ?] thence east on section line between sections [17 and 20-evidently an error-] 16 and 21, 15 and 22, 14 and 23, 13 and 24, township 65, range 34; sections 18 and 19, 17 and 20, 16 and 21 to the east line of the said county to the southwest corner of the southwest quarter of section 15, township 65, range 33 ; thence north in
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the center of sections 15, 10 and 3, township 65, range 33 ; thence west on township line and county line to the southeast corner of section 33, township 66, range 33 ; thence north on section line between sections 33 and 34, 27 and 28, 21 and 22, 15 and 16, 9 and 10, 3 and 4, township 66, range 33, and sections 33 and 34, to the place of beginning."
By an act of the General Assembly, approved February 25, 1863, a portion of the original territory of Independence Township was severed from the township and attached to Worth County when it was organized.
PHYSICAL FEATURES.
The land of this township slopes gently toward the south, being quite level in the central and southwestern portion, but rolling in the southeastern, and more rolling and even bluffy in the northern portion of the township, on the headwaters of Honey Creek. Platte River flows through the southeastern corner of the township, making an elbow toward the northwest. The affluents of the Platte as we pass from it eastward are Brushy Creek, Honey Creek, with numerous branches, and Long Branch. In the western portion of the township are found the headwaters of Mazingo Branch and Mowery Branch, which flow south- westerly and empty into the One Hundred and Two River. A few stone quarries are found in the township, and about one-tenth of the land is timbered. The soil of the township averages well, while that in the middle and southwestern portions is very fine. The bottoms along the Platte River are sometimes a mile in width, the passage into the valley being by easy gradients, the bluffs seldom being steep or more than twenty feet in height. Ail the common varieties of timber are found along the Platte that are found in this latitude. Independence township consists principally of high, rolling prairie land. The soil is a rich, black prairie loam, intermixed with sand, and is very fertile. The town- ship is well adapted to fruit, and produces abundantly all the usual varieties. The land is well watered and all the grasses flourish. There are nine public schools in the township, which bring the advantages of common school education within the reach of all.
EARLY SETTLERS.
The first settlements in Independence Township were made in the marginal groves along Honey Creek and Platte River.
Samuel Russell was the first settler in the township. He emigrated originally from Indiana, and remained a few years in Andrew County. In 1845, he came to Nodaway County, and took a claim on what is now section 16, township 65, range 33. He built a log house one-fourth of a mile east of the Platte River, near the edge of the timber. He was a
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good farmer and a kind neighbor. In 1847, he sold his claim to Elisha Brown and went to Oregon, and died soon after his arrival there, near Oregon City. He left a wife and two children in Oregon.
In 1849, Elisha Brown sold this claim to A. J. Anderson, who still resides upon it. Mr. Brown having disposed of his claim, went to Ore- gon, his wife dying on the way before he arrived there. Mr. Brown, while hunting, in Oregon, encountered and was killed by a grizzly bear.
The second settler in Independence Township was Raphael Dixon who emigrated originally from Tennessee and remained a few years in Andrew County. In 1846 he came to Independence Township and set- tled on the east side of Honey Creek, at the very edge of the timber, on section 32, township 67, range 33. He took a claim on the open prarie and opened a farm containing half a section of land. He is remembered by the pioneers as a good citizen, of marked social qualities, and very hospitable. His home was a rendezvous for social parties made up of acquaintances for miles around, and on Saturday and Sunday there would be gatherings of friends at his house who would engage in those pastimes in vogue among the pioneers. Some would try their skill at shooting at a mark, others would take a game of cards, and all of them would imbibe a little, a habit very common in pioneer times. A most cordial welcome was extended to all who would come on such occasions, and the day passed off with great enjoyment. The board would be spread with an abundance of good things common to pioneer days. Mr. Dixon owned a horse mill to grind corn for the neighbors which made his house a great resort. Sometimes the young folks would have a dance, on which occasion Jack Anderson would play the violin. In 1863 Mr. Dixon went to Nebraska, where he is still living on a farm. Wm. Dixon, his son, now resides on Honey Creek.
In the following year, 1847, Isaac Guill emigrated from Kentucky, and took a claim in the timber, one-half mile east of Honey Creek. He opened a farm of 160 acres of land. He was a man very quiet in his personal habits, and a good neighbor. In 1863 he went to Nebraska and is now deceased.
John Hall came from Iowa in 1847, and settled near the Platte River, on the east side, on the southwest quarter of section 8, township 65, range 33. He was a kind neighbor, and a good farmer. He sold his farm to Isaac A. Lanning in 1852, and went to Oregon, where he died four years ago.
ANDREW JACKSON ANDERSON
. was born April 3, 1823, in Pulaski County, Kentucky. His father's name was James Anderson. The latter was born in Montgomery County, Vir- ginia, and there married one Elizabeth Clifton. The twain, after their marriage, moved to Kentucky, where James Anderson died while the
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subject of this sketch was yet a small boy. Elizabeth Anderson subse- quently came to reside with her son in Nodaway County, Missouri, where she died April 13, 1881, in the seventieth year of her age. Andrew J. Anderson removed from Kentucky to Hendricks County, Indiana, in 1829. He resided there until 1840, and in November of that year, came to a place called Jamestown, in Andrew County, Missouri, on the road between Savannah and St. Joseph, where he made his home until 1844. In March of this last year, he came to Nodaway County, and located on a quarter section of land situated about one mile east of what is now called Sweet Home, in Jackson Township. On the 3d of February, 1848, he was united in marriage to Candace Grindstaff, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Grindstaff. In March, 1849, he moved to his present place of residence, in Independence Township. He was not the first settler, how- ever, in this township. Samuel Russell was the first white man who took up his residence there. He located upon what afterward was surveyed as the southwest quarter of section 16, in township 65, of range 33. He broke thirty-four acres of the land and built a log cabin upon it. This was in 1845. In 1847, he sold his squatter's claim on this land to one Elisha Brown, for $50, and the latter in turn sold his interest in it in February, 1849, to Andrew J. Anderson. Samuel Russell and Elisha Brown immediately after selling out their interests in this claim, removed to Oregon Territory, where the former shortly afterwards died. Elisha Brown was killed in an encounter with a grizzly bear, but the date of his death is not known. The land was surveyed by the United States about the year 1845. As Mr. Anderson's claim was on the sixteenth section, it belonged to the school lands after the survey, and could not be sold under the then existing law until the Congressional township to which it belonged contained sixteen inhabitants. In 1853, the requisite num- ber of inhabitants having settled in the township, Mr. Anderson caused a petition for the sale of this section to be presented to the County Court, and procured an order to sell it. At the sale he became the purchaser of the southwest quarter, upon which were his improvements, for $1.25 per acre. Mr. Anderson has seven children living-James, Elizabeth, Andrew J., Delicia, Martin, Charles Perry and John. James married Rosanna, daughter of George Hawk, and now lives on his farm, adjoin- ing his father's on the east. Elizabeth married Fielding Thompson, who is a farmer, and lives near his father-in-law. The other children are unmarried, and reside with their father.
At the time Mr. Anderson settled in Independence Township, the Pottawatomie Indians, although they had by treaty relinquished their claim to the Platte Purchase, and been removed to their reservation in Kansas, yet they frequently returned to their old hunting grounds in quest of game, as many as two hundred or three hundred coming in one body. One of their favorite resorts and camping grounds was in the
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grove of timber skirting the Platte River immediately north of Mr. Anderson's residence. Frequently, however, they encamped higher up the stream, near the site of Vinemiller's mill, now called Defiance. In December, 1849, about two hundred Pottawatomies, including squaws and papooses, made an incursion into the county and constructed their temporary wigwams in a grove near where Simeon Davidson now lives. A white man named Isaac Rice, who had married a squaw, accompanied them. After hunting for a few days, they hired Jacob Grindstaff to go to St. Joseph and purchase of Joseph Robidoux a barrel of whisky, called in the tongue of the Pottawatomies goodnetoss. Grindstaff arrived safely with the whisky at the Indian camp on Christmas eve, accompanied by Andrew J. Anderson and David Spooneman, who fell in with him as he passed their homes. Immediately on the arrival of the firewater the squaws secreted all the knives, guns, and tomahawks, to forestall any effusion of blood. The drinking and carousal began at midnight in the "forest primeval," and was prolonged through the day and night following, when half the whisky being exhausted, the residue was carefully reserved for a subsequent pow-wow. It is scarcely neces- sary to note the fact that the three sturdy pioneers, Anderson, Spoone- mare and Grindstaff, then in the prime of vigorous manhood, imbibed freely of fire-water, joined in the grotesque dances and lustily imitated the war whoop of their savage hosts. One old Indian who was accom- panied by his daughter, a dusky maiden of eighteen summers, having exhausted his proportion of whisky, proposed to sell her to any one of the three white men for a single gallon of goodnetoss.
When Mr. Anderson first settled in Independence, wheaten flour was not used, and even corn meal was esteemed a luxury. The settlers got their grinding done at Hughes' Mill, on the One Hundred and Two River. Money was extremely scarce. Mr. Anderson and Jacob Grind- staff, in 1845, assisted the United States surveying party in their work for a short time, the former carrying the chain and the latter the flag. In this way they earned three or four dollars apiece. With this money they both made a trip to a mill north of St. Joseph, where they each purchased a sack of corn meal, which they brought home on horseback. On their return they swam both the Platte and One Hundred and Two Rivers. Usually they made their corn meal by hollowing out the top of a stump, in which as a mortar, they placed the corn, and with an iron wedge inserted in a sweep, or beam fastened to a pivot, they pounded the kernels of corn into meal. Few bears were ever seen in the county. One was killed by David Spoonemare on the Platte River, near Caleb Conway's. This was in 1846. Deer, prairie chickens, and quails abounded everywhere. The early settlers enjoyed lives of health and comfort, if not of luxury. Little attention was paid to agriculture, and most of their time was consumed in the pleasures of hunting.
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Isaac Davis emigrated from Kentucky in 1851, and settled one-half mile east of Honey Creek. He made a good farm of 160 acres, and was a good citizen. He died about two years since.
Allen Stephenson emigrated from Kentucky, and remained for a time in Buchanan County. In 1853, he came and settled on Honey Creek, building a log house on the east side of the creek, and opening a farm in the bottoms on the west side. He became a justice of the peace.
In 1855, Christopher C. Horn came from Indiana and settled on the west side of Honey Creek, on the south side of a grove, which contains about forty acres. His claim is the northeast quarter of section 24, township 66, range 34. He still lives on the same farm.
John York emigrated from North Carolina in 1855, and took a claim on Honey Creek, on the east side, and built a cabin on the bank of the creek. His farm consisted of a 160 acres. He was a Nimrod in his tastes, and a splendid shot. All kinds of wild game were in abundance. He made his living by hunting.
In 1856 Alexander Wilson came from Indiana and took a claim on the west side of Honey Creek, and built a house one-half mile from the creek. His farm lay in the bottom where there was no timber. He has a fine farm-the southwest quarter of section 29, township 66, range 33. His son, William Wilson, has a farm adjoining on the west.
John Wilson, a brother of Alexander, emigrated from Indiana in the year 1856, and located on the east side of Honey Creek about one mile from the creek. He had a farm of 200 acres on the high prairie. He died several years ago.
In the year 1856 came John Stobaugh, a brother-in-law of John Wilson, from Indiana, and settled on the west side of Honey Creek, his farm running down to the creek. He made a good farm in the bottom where there was no timber. Mr. Stobaugh is still living and has acquired a handsome property.
About this time came Michael Shuck from Iowa, whither he had originally immigrated from Tennessee. He took a claim on the west side of the Platte, in the bottom, about one-half mile from the river. He is now in Worth County. He was a good hunter, and pursued this avocation diligently. He is still living in the same place.
William Stingley, a brother of Moses Stingley, came originally from Virginia, and stopped about five years in Washington Township. In 1855, he made a home in this township, in the Platte bottom on the east side, within a stone's throw of the river. He was very hospitable in his nature, and loved music like his brother Moses. He reared a large family and was a good neighbor. He died several years ago, and his family has moved away.
Thomas Lucas emigrated originally from North Carolina and remained six years in Washington Township. In 1856, he settled on
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the east side of the Platte River, on an adjoining farm to Wm. String- ley's. He is still living in the southeastern part of this county.
In 1856, came H. N. Pool, from Iowa, and settled on section 34, township 66, range 33. He made a farm on the west side of the Platte, of 240 acres, consisting of bottom land. He was a man of quiet life, a good neighbor, a fine marksman and a successful hunter and trapper. He died six years ago.
Harrison Davis emigrated from Kentucky in 1856, and located on section 15, township 66, range 33. He made a good farm on the high prairie, between Brushy Creek and the Platte River. There was a fine grove north of his house containing nearly half a section. About five years ago, he moved to Kansas.
Originally, Josiah Shuck emigrated from Kentucky to Iowa, where he remained a few years. In 1856, he came and made a home on the Platte bottom, on the north side of the river, opening and improving a farm adjoining that of his uncle, Michael Shuck. He died several years ago.
John Ham, desiring to make a home in the west, emigrated origin- ally from New Hampshire, and remained a few years in Iowa. Hearing of the Platte Purchase, he came in 1856, and settled on section 34, town- ship 66, range 33, on the bottom, on the west side of the Platte River, opening a farm adjoining that of his father-in-law, H. N. Pool. In the year 1863, the Missouri Legislature cut off a slice from Nodaway County, to form Worth County, so that his farm was just over the line in Worth County. In 1868, he was sheriff and collector of Nodaway County, when both offices were combined in one. Mr. Ham was a fine marksman and a successful hunter. He kept a rifle for hunting purposes, and one for target practice. He could put a hole through a deer's hide every time, even when the deer was on the run. One year, he says, he shot twenty- five deer on the run at twenty-five shots, before Christmas. He hunted considerably with his father-in-law, H. N. Pool, who lived on an adjoin- ing farm. Game was plenty in those days, and the fruits of the chase were abundant. Otter skins were worth in those pioneer times from four to six dollars each, mink skins from seventy-five cents to two dol- lars each, and muskrat skins five cents each. They did not consider muskrat worth killing.
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