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The following is the list referred to. Immediately after the name of each pioneer will follow the name of the place he came from, the date of his arrival and where he located. In many instances, however, information has been seanty as to such dates, etc .. and in some cases we have been able to give only the names:
EDWARD ARNOLD, Massachusetts. May 7, 1857. ( Was father of the second child born in county, viz .: Win. Arnold. Feb. 1. 1858. First located west of M. Gorman's place between Ponca and Martinsburg. Was first elerk of county, elected in fall of 1858.
JAMES ALEXANDER. lowa, December. '56.
FIRST HOUSE IN COUNTY, BUILT IN MAY, 1856, BY ADAM SMITH.
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ROBERT ALEXANDER, Iowa, December, '56.
THOMAS ALEXANDER, Iowa. December, '56.
SAM ALEXANDER, Iowa. December. '56. went to Pike's Peak in '60. The Alexanders located on Powder Creek.
C. ANDREWS. Ohio. '57. located on Ionia bottom.
J. P. ALLISON, Ohio, '57, located in what is now Silver Creek Township, on the farm where C. F. Putnam lives.
J. W. BRAMBLE, Vermont, came in fall of '56, moved up his store from Logan in spring of '57.
S. P. BALTZLY, '57.
OLIVER BALTZLY, 57.
B. BEESON, lowa, spring of 57, located in Ionia bottom. WM. BIGLEY, SR., and his sons,
WM. BIGLEY. JR .. and
JAMES BIGLEY, came from Pennsylvania in fall of '56. located near Ponca in South Creek valley, on farm now owned by the family.
PARKER B. BROWN. Massachusetts. August, 56, took claim on South Creek.
GEORGE BROWN. Massachusetts. August, '56, took claim on South Creek.
E. M. BISBEE. New York, spring of 58, Ponca.
JAMES BARRETT, New York, 58. Ponca.
CHARLES BUCKMAN, Pennsylvania. May. 56. vicinity of Ponca. J. P. BURGMAN. '57.
M. B. BELLOWS. 58. settled near Lime Creek.
JOHN BUNTZ, Pennsylvania, May, '56. near Ponca.
JACOB BUNTZ. Pennsylvania, May. '56. near Ponca.
O. BOTTLESON, '57.
E. BAKER. 56.
JAMES CLARK, Ohio. August. '56. located on West Creek. GERHART CARSTINES, May; 56, near Ponca.
A. CURRY. from Philadelphia, Pa., came May 7, 1857. set- tled on South Creek, where Harry Filley now lives. In 1860 moved to his present location on West Creek, tive miles west of Ponca.
JOHN CAVANAGH came from Holioke. Mass., and arrived May 7. 1857. took claim near head of South Creek, as also did his son. Bernard Cavanagh, who came from the same place with him.
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CARSON. lowa, an uncle of "Kit" Carson. He came with Frank West in August, 1856, to lay out Ponca.
C. B. CUMMINGS, fall of '56, located near Dixon on Lime Creek and was one of the founders of that town.
LOUIS CASTNER, came down the Missouri from Fort Ben- ton in spring of '57.
JOHN CARPENTER and hisbrother, New York. 57. settled at North Bend.
HUGH COMPTON. New York, '57, settled near North Bend. L. CRoss, Vermont, 57. took claim near Ionia.
Doc CONKLING, Ohio, started saw mill at Dixon in 1857.
P. DAILEY, Massachusetts, spring of 57. first settler in Daily valley.
JACOB DUEL, New York. 57. settled near North Bend.
LEANDER DAVIS, New York, in spring of '58. first settled on West Creek, six miles west of Ponca. Same year moved to Ponca.
M. DELOUGHRY, Ohio. May 7. 1857. settled on South Creek.
DEMING. Pennsylvania, May 7, 1857. located on Sonth Creek. Moved away in 58.
D. DONNELLY. '56. South Creek.
DANIEL DONLIN, June '56. located where his son. Wm. Donlin. now resides near Martinsburg. Said son was the first white child born in county, Angust 5, 1857.
P. DEMPSEY came from Girard. Erie county, Pa .. 57. first located up South Creek. Afterwards removed to West Creek.
DEXTER, Ohio, a brother-in-law of F. Freeman, came in fall of '56. He was a partner of Whitcome in the first saw mill near Ponca.
DONAHUE took claim up South Creek in '57.
J. B. DENTON, New York, 57, near lonia. Was first judge of county, elected in fall of 1858.
JOHN ERNST. Pennsylvania. '56. Ponca.
FRANCIS FREEMAN, Ohio, fall of ,56. located at first on claim near river, afterwards removed to Ponca.
HENRY FORD, Pennsylvania, spring of '56. NATHAN FELTER, Illinois, 57. Ponca.
WM. FISTER (or PFISTER.) Pennsylvania, '57. The farm he located and lived on up to the time of his death is two miles southwest of New Castle.
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FARWELL, Illinois. '58, Concord.
HENRY FORTH, spring of '56, took claim on creek east of Ponca.
ABE FORNEY, Illinois, spring of '57, located in South Creek.
HENRY A. FULLER, New York, fall of '56. was one of Ponea's town proprietors in company with Dr. Stough and Frank West. Fuller moved away in '63 and now resides in Omaha.
HARRY FILLEY.
MICHAEL GILLAN and his son, Wm. Gillan, came from Pennsylvania in November, '56. Wm. Gillan now lives on land near Martinsburg, then taken. Started from Pennsyl- vania day after election, when they voted for Buchanan.
MURTHA GORMAN, Pennsylvania, '56. South Creek, between Ponca and Martinsburg, and about five miles from Ponca.
PAT GREEN and his sons, Thomas Green and Pat Green, Jr., arrived May 7, 1857, from Taunton, Mass. They took a claim adjoining what was afterwards known as the "Win- ston place." three miles south of Ponca.
J. H. S. GROVE, Pennsylvania, '57. near Ponca.
J. GUILBERSON. 58, at Dixon.
HENRY HOESE.
FRANK HOESE and
W.M. HOESE came in 56 from Pennsylvania. They built the first house in Ponca in fall of '56. near creek.
DAN HANNAFON, '56, located up South Creek. Was thought to be too free with neighbors' cattle. Left in two years to the joy of all.
PRESTON HOTCHKISS and
EL HOTCHKISS, in '56 from Ohio, came with the Whit- comes, and Preston Hotchkiss had an interest in Whitcome's mill near Ponca.
R. M. HOTCHKISS. Iowa, spring '57, located in what is call- ed Brookey's Bottom in northwestern part of county.
J. C. HARRINGTON, Massachusetts, '57. Ponca.
RICHARD HAGGIN, Iowa. '57. located near Dixon. Was the second sheriff of the county.
THOS. HALVERSON, Wisconsin, spring of '57. lived in Big- ley's revine.
L. HOUTEN, '57.
F. HARDER. New York. '58, village carpenter of Ponca.
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JOHN HAGGIN, lowa. '57. Dixon.
Z. HAGGIN, lowa, '57, near Dixon.
O. F. HAGGIN, Iowa, '57. near Dixon.
FRANK JORDAN, New York, '58, located near Ponca; came with Leander Davis.
BILL JONES, in spring of 57: lived up South Creek way. The first (and last) buffalo ever killed in county was killed in fall of '57 by Jones and Forney. There were plenty of elk in those days, but buffalo meat was a rarity.
ISAAC KUGLER, Pennsylvania, came with first party of settlers in May, '56: located near Ponea.
ABRAHAM KNEISS. lowa, 58: took claim near Bigley's ravine.
MARCELLUS LATHROP. in August. 56, from Massachusetts; located on West Creek, on land west of the Todd place, now owned by Roden.
LA FABRE, '57; located near New Castle.
EL LoYDand
('YRUS LOYD, came in '56 from Pennsylvania and left in 57: Ponca.
J. W. LOGAN, 57: near Dixon.
JOHN MCKINLEY, came from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and arrived May 7. 1857: first located in South Creek valley, then removed to farm now owned by Sam. Mckinley two miles west of A. Curry's place, and from there to farm where he now resides, adjoining Ponea on the west.
JOHN MALONE, 57.
W.M. MALONE. '57, and
PETER MALONE, '56, from Hanging Rock, Ohio, and first located on Powder Creek, where Dan Curry now lives. John Malone was first treasurer of county, elected in fall of 58.
J. MURPHY, Massachusetts. 57: South Creek valley.
DANIEL MCKENNA, Pennsylvania, '56: took claim in South Creek valley.
ROBERT MCKENNA, Pounsylvania, 56.
MULHOLLAND, '56; near North Bend.
MICHAEL MCCUE, 58; near Ponca.
JOHN MASSINGER, New York, 57.
JOHN MASCALL and
ZEB. MASCALL, located on Lime Creek in 56. John Mas-
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call resided there until '94 and then removed to Vermillion, South Dakota.
MONS NELSON, '56; near North Bend.
E. NELSON, 58: North Bend.
JAMES O'CONNER.
JOHN O'CONNER and
ANDY O'CONNER, from Massachusetts in '56. They first located on the extreme southern frontier of settlement in county, about two miles south of Cavanaghs. They after- wards moved to places between Ponca and New Castle.
CHARLES F. PUTNAM, Massachusetts, August 1, 1856. located near Ponca on West Creek. First sheriff of county, elected in fall of '58. Built first frame house in county in fall of '57 on the claim he took, section 8. township 30, range 6. J. G. Crowell now owns place.
N. S. PORTER, New York, June 27, 1858, located in Ponca. PEWITT, '57. at North Bend.
J. J. PIERCE and his son
H. M. PIERCE, came from Davenport, lowa, in the spring of '58, and located at Ionia.
H. PASCHALL, Pennsylvania, spring of '56. On creek east of Ponca.
JOHN RODEN, fall of '56: located where he now lives, three miles west of Ponca on New Castle road.
E. RICKER, Vermont, '56; owned the Jeff Wilbur place near Ponca.
FRANK RICKER, Vermont, '56: Ponca.
R. ROGERS came from Pennsylvania to Dakota county in '56, and moved to Ponca in '57: was the village blacksmith.
JOHN RUSSELL, 58, near Dixon.
M. RUSSELL, 58, near Dixon.
ROBINSON. '5S. North Bend.
JOHN STOUGH, Pennsylvania, November, '56, Ponca.
DR. S. B. STOUGH. from Pennsylvania, came August 13. 1856, Ponca.
JACOB STOUGH, Pennsylvania, October, 57. Ponca.
MAURICE SCOLLARD, and his nephews, viz:
JOHN SCOLLARD, and
PAT SCOLLARD, came from Pennsylvania in '56. located between Ponca and Martinsburg.
EDWARD SERRY, from Massachusetts, in '56, and moved
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his family here in '57. Located on West Creek, a mile west of where Roden now lives. Place now owned by Rogosh.
PHILIP SHERMAN, Wisconsin, '57, Ponca. Stayed till '59 and went to Oregon.
HANS STINSON. Wisconsin. 57. near Ponca.
J. SOUTHERLAND, Illinois, 57. located at North Bend. Was the wealthiest settler in the country at that time.
ELIAS SHOOK, lowa, 5S, lived in Ponca.
YANKEE SMITH, New York. 57, between Ponca and New Castle.
JOHN SINGELTON, Ohio, summer of '57, was engineer of Conkling's mill at Dixon. Left in 59.
ICH. SHERMAN. Wisconsin, 57. Ponca.
JOHN SNYDER, Pennsylvania, spring of '56, took claim up South Creek.
ADAM SMITH, Pennsylvania, came in May 56, was with first party who entered county. Took the land now owned by Wm. O'Connor, (half a mile south of Ponea), who bought it of Smith in '64. Mr. Smith now resides in Missouri.
GUSTAVUS SMITH, brother-in-law ot the Hoeses. came from Chicago in the spring of '57, took the claim now com- prising part of New Castle village. He lived there until his death. July 27. 1850.
JOHN SADER. Pennsylvania. 57, located about a mile west of New Castle. between there and the Fister place. Smathers lives on the place now.
OWEN SWEENEY, Pennsylvania, spring of '57. located near the "Lone Tree" in the Daily valley.
J. STEFANNI, spring of '57, located on lonia bottom.
C. W. TODD, Vermont, spring of 58, located on West Creek, two and a half miles west of Ponea.
W. TRIPP. located in 57 near Ionia.
F. VAZANNI, 57. near Dixon on Lime Creek.
FRANK WEST. lowa. came in Angust, '56, laid out first twenty-four blocks of Ponca that fall. Was there part of the time for several years, now lives in Des Moines, Iowa.
MR. WHITCOMB and his two sons. Josiah Whitcomb and Frank Whitcomb, from Ohio, came in fall of '56. located on river bottom northeast of Ponca, where they put up the first steam mill in county.
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WHITCOMB, cousin of Josiah and Frank Whitcomb, came at same time, located on adjoining land.
P. J. WINSTON, Pennsylvania. 57, South Creek.
E. P. WEBSTER, Massachusetts, '57. one and one-half miles west of Ponca.
J. P. WEBSTER, Massachusetts, '57, near Ponca.
EUGENE WILBUR, New York, '58, located in Ionia bottom. A. WHITE, '57. Ionia bottom.
RICHARD ZACK, '57, near Dixon.
(Mention is made of Dixon and Concord. These are not the present villages of those names, but were in what is now Hooker Township.)
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CHAPTER IUI.
PARTICULARS AND EXPERIENCES OF FIRST SETTLEMENT OF COUNTY - - THE RAPID AND INCREASING TIDE OF PIONEERS -- THE BIRTH OF PONCA -PAPER TOWNS AND THE TOWN- SITE BUSINESS IN 1856 AND 1857 - CONCORD, NORTH BEND, DIXON AND IONIA - THE DESIRE FOR COUNTY ORGANIZA- TION -- ATTENDING ELECTION AT ST. JOHNS - THE FIRST GRASSHOPPER RAID SEEN BY THE PIONEERS - ORGANIZA- TION OF COUNTY AND LOCATION OF COUNTY SEAT FIRST ELECTION OF COUNTY OFFICERS.
As appears from the list in the foregoing chapter. a good sized crowd of settlers made homes, in 1856, 1857 and 1858. in the country which afterwards became Dixon County. The list containsabout one hundred and fifty names, many of them heads of families, and represent not less than two hundred and fifty or three hundred persons.
It will be noticed by looking over the names and dates of settlement, that the first party of settlers arrived May 9. 1856. a little over thirty-nine years ago. They camped the first night on the south bank of Aoway Creek, and but a stone's throw from where Ponca now is.
They had a right to come that far under the treaty made the year before with the Omahas, but could not legally cross to the north side of the creek. as there the Ponca Indians still held sway. The party consisted of Adam Smith and wife, Henry Paschal, Henry Ford, Charles Buckman, Mrs. Buckman, John Buntz, Gerhart Carstines, Isaac Kugler and wife and John Snyder, most of whom were from Pennsyl- vania. They selected their lands near each other for mutual protection and company. Mr. Smith taking land which is now the farm of Wm. O'Connor half a mile south of Ponca, and the others making claims in his neighborhood up and down the creek. being careful, however, not to encroach on the adjacent hostile territory.
The above, whose names are especially mentioned because
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they were the first in the county and who properly divided the title of "first settler" between them, were soon followed by others. For a few months not many cared to incur the hostility of the Poncas, and cross the Aoway. But as time went on, settlers became less fearful, and occasional- ly one would venture over the boundary and take possession of one hundred and sixty or three hundred and twenty acres, (generally the latter,) as near as could be guessed at, the lands not yet having been surveyed. For safety. the settlers. whether located on government or Indian land, organized a "squatters club." so called, which assumed to protect its members in their claims and to settle any disputes which might arise. The meetings of the squatters were held at the house of Adam Smith and for about two years were the only dispensers of law and order in the country. They ran things about as equitably and fairly as one could expect.
Crimes in those days were rare, and the fact that no courts, dilatory motions or rules of law could interfere be- tween an offender and his deserved punishment, had a ten- dency to keep things straight. We venture to say that leg- islatures and courts of justice of the present day could with profit study the law making and law enforcing squatter government of our predecessors thirty-nine years ago.
From the first start in May, the rush of pioneers rapidly increased and soon became very great. Favorable reports of the country were sent back by the settlers to their old homes in the East and there incited the "Nebraska fever" to rage and grow. All now know how attractive this country is in the spring and summer. The grass covered and flower be- decked prairies, hills and valleys, the trees and vines, the Italian sky and genial sun, all these radiant beauties peculiar to this country and climate presented a picture strongly in contrast with what eastern people had been accustomed to see. Hence the desire became almost universal to come. Not all could come. indeed not many when compared with the whole, but all longed to see a country where dingy fogs and bottomless mud were unknown and where farms equal- ling those of the Mohawk valley could be had for the asking.
Prominent with the throng which came during the sum- mer and fall of 1856, may be mentioned Dr. Stough. John Roden, James Clark. Marcellus Lathrop. George Brown, C.
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F. Putnam, John Stough, Henry, Frank and William Hoese, the Malones, the Scollards, the Gormans, the Gillans, McKen- nas, O'Conners, etc. The attractive valleys of South Creek and West Creek soon began filling up, and in the choicest locations were seen the homes of settlers and fields coming under the dominion of the breaking plow.
In August, (1856), Frank West and Mr. Carson came up from Sioux City. Like those who came before them they saw the ominous sign which one Charley Rulo, a half breed. had put up on the bank of the Aoway, warning settlers not to cross under the penalty of being fired back by the Ponca Indians. Nevertheless, West kicked aside the threathening notice, and with Carson crossed the Rubicon to where Ponca City now is. In the October following. West platted the first twenty-four blocks of this place and named it Ponca, after the Indian tribe.
Frank West, who took so prominent a part in the starting of Ponca was quite a rustler in his way. He was the son of a banker at Des Moines, lowa, and had unlimited nerve. plenty of money and a large number of friends. He had various town site projects, one of which was Niobrara, and in that business was generally successful. He was an expert marksman and a great Indian fighter, and in the Niobrara country and south and east of there his name was a terror to the Pawnees and Poncas.
In 1856, the town site business was extensively followed. and in the hands of speculators like West was made very profitable. It did not much matter whether buildings were erected or anything else was done, except to survey ont and number the lots and blocks, drive the stakes, give names to the streets and make and record the map. Then the pro- prietor would be in a position to sell his lots and gather in from credulous eastern people of wealth a golden harvest. The scheme generally resulted profitably to the lot sellers. A beautiful map of an alleged town, with pictures of churches. opera houses and elegant residences nicely shown on the margin, was attractive, and many were bitten by their anx- iety to purchase lots, the price of which seemed to them dog cheap. As an instance, the town site of Curlew in Cedar county, Neb., was probably the most glaring and successful fraud of all the fifty or more town sites in the river counties
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of Northern Nebraska. Curlew had ten thousand lots, and it never had a house then or since.
But though houseless, its fascinating map and pictures, demonstrating the tremendous growth and importance of the place, gave the lots a rapid sale in New York and other eastern cities. Its ten thousand lots brought to its proprie- tors not less than $150,000. It was that sort of townsite speculation which generally prevailed in Nebraska, in 1856 and 1857. Whether Ponca was or was not started by Mr. West for purposes of speculation in the east, or with the object of making more than a paper town, cannot be told. but whatever the intent may have been at the first, the ad- mirable location, the unfailing water power, the protecting hills and the presence of a vast body of valuable timber on one side and innumerable acres of rich land on the other, soon showed that this would, in earnestness and truth, become a real and permanent town.
In the spring of 1857 the balance of the town, comprising in all three hundred and twenty acres was platted by Messrs. Stough and Fuller. The land had not yet. however, been surveyed by government and not until after such survey were Stough and Fuller enabled to perfect their plat so as to make it harmonize with the lines of the government sur- veyor. Such completion of the map was made May 5, 1358, and the same was duly filed in Dakota county clerk's office, June 15th. of that year.
In the neighborhood of Ponca, other towns were also staked out in the fall of 1856. On the hills a short distance southeast of Ponca the rival cities of St. Paul and Addison were surveyed, and being on land south of the creek where the title was not disputed by the Indians, it was thought that one of them would take precedence as the coming town, instead of Ponca. But nothing more than the platting, was done in behalf of St. Paul or Addison and they both soon became settlers' farms.
During that fall also. a town was started near where Lime Creek enters the Missouri river, in the northwestern part of the county, by Messrs. Muholland and Cummings, and by them given the name of Concord, and another embryo city. North Bend, was located a mile north of Concord. by Jacob Duel and two or three others. Afterwards, in 1858, North
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Bend and Concord were each desirous of becoming the coun- ty seat of the new county, and their antagonism toward each other resulted in the platting of a paper town, Dixon. be- tween them, thereby uniting the whole as one.
In 1856, also, parties living in Sioux City located lonia town site, building no houses, however, nor doing anything to hold the claim. In 1858 Ionia came into the possession of L. T. Hill, in whose hands it had prosperous growth for several years, but in 1878 the Missouri changed its channel and raided the town, and the ground on which it stood was washed away, together with its improvements and hopes for greatness. Accounts of those early towns, Concord, North Bend. Dixon and lonia will be more fully given elsewhere.
As to Ponca, it did not at first grow very rapidly, and it remained a town only on paper until late in the fall of 1856. when Messrs. Henry, Frank and William Hoese built the first house. It was a comfortable log building one story high and was located near the creek. No farther advance was made until the next year. The country was growing faster than the town, a condition of things always taken as a healthy sign.
In December. "Old Man Whitcomb," as he was called, his sons and a partner (Dexter) and two assistants (Preston and Hotchkiss) came from Ohio and brought with them a steam saw mill which they located on the Missouri river bottom. a mile below Ponca landing. This, the first mill in this part of the country, suggested the possibility in the near future of houses of boards instead of logs, and hence was deemed an establishment of much importance to the settlers. Whitcomb's mill did a prosperous business for several years and eventually a small run of burs was added to it for grind- ing corn, so that the laborions task of grinding out a grist in a coffee mill which had been the general custom, became a thing of the past.
In the spring of 1857 the second house in Ponca was put up by Stough brothers and the third by H. A. Fuller and John Cavanagh. In June a store building. (a pretentious. one story structure, 16 by 40 feet), was erected by Mr. Bram- ble, and soon after a house and shop by Mr. Rogers, the vil- lage blacksmith. All were built of logs, and in fact log houses were all they had in the county until the fall of 1857,
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when C. F. Putnam built a frame house on his farm. The first frame building in Ponca was commenced in 1858 by Mr. Whitcomb, and finished in 1859. It was designed for a hotel and was quite large, and its two tall stories loomed up with metropolitan dignity. No one ever occupied it any great length of time, although people stopped there tempor- arily for want of better quarters, and during a few weeks in 1859 Preston Hotchkiss used it as a hotel. Its emptiness ex- cept on special occasions and its general creaky and rattle- trap condition gave it the name of the "Old Air Castle." Despite its name. however, the "Air Castle" was quite a use- ful building during its existence. Here were held religious and political meetings, elections, debating societies, probate courts. Indian shows and public gatherings of all kinds. But in the course of time the building without care or re- pairs went into decline. and during the winter of 1862, when the soldiers stored in it a few loads of corn. its floor fell down and collapse and chaos ended its career.
In 1857 and 1858 the circle of settlement continued to widen and extend. Of those arriving up to the close of 1858 it has been very difficult and many instances impossible to obtain full particulars. Among the few who now reside in the county are Dr. S. B. Stough, John Stough, Jacob Stough. John MeKinley and N. S. Porter, of Ponca city: P. Dempsey. of Silver Creek township: C. F. Putnam, of Ponca township: John Roden. Bernard Cavanagh. John Maskall. Alexander Curry and John Malone. These comprise nearly all who re- main ont of the one hundred and fifty who came in those first three years. During the long interval between then and now. death has removed many from the country which their enterprise helped to subdue. Among them are Judge Arnold. John Cavanagh, William and James Bigley and their father, P. J. Winston. E. M. Bisbee. Francis Freeman. Edward Serry. James and Robert Alexander. Gustavus Smith, the founder of New Castle: Michael Gillan, Murtha Gorman. Maurice Scollard, William Pfister, John Sader and P. Dailey. There are of course many others. Some of the early settlers, after remaining a few years, moved away and are spending useful lives in other places. Of the more prominent, Messrs. Fuller and West, onee town proprietors of Ponca, now reside. the former in Omaha and the latter in
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