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the detachment rejoined the regiment, which had moved to Alexan- dria, Louisiana. On the 3d of July about two hundred men were mustered out. On the 8th of August the regiment left Alexandria, crossed the Sabine River into Texas, and pushed on to Hempstead. The route was through a poor country and the men and animals suffered much from lack of food.
On the 30th of October the regiment set out for Austin, where it was mustered out. As it had turned over its horses to other regi- ments, the regiment marched on foot to Brenham, one hundred miles, and thence traveled by rail and steamboat to Madison, where, on the 13th of December, the men were discharged.
THIRD CAVALRY.
This regiment was mustered in January 28, 1862, at Camp Bar- stow, Janesville. It contained the following Grant County men.
Henry M. Taylor, Quartermaster, Boscobel; John H. Judy, Sad- dler Sergeant, Boscobel.
Company A-Martin V. Tower, Clifton.
Company G-Jacob Busgen, Leroy Rogers, Perry Swarts, Boseo- bel; John McWilliams, Ellenboro; Samuel Long, Hazel Green; Hugh Calhoun, Charles H. Gardner, Daniel F. Ingersoll, John Reynolds, Ira D. Smith Jamestown; Edward Bride, Samuel W. Cooper, Elias Davis, Martin Dixon, Francis Dougherty, Byron Graham, Nelson Hall, Dud- ley Hall, Nathan F. Hatch, Elijah Hooker, Leonard H. Humason, Na- than Janney, Wm. Janney, Richard H. Jones,- Hershey Jones, William Jones, Wm. Long, Leroy Long, Thomas Maine, Henry Marshall, An- drew McCann, Isaac McWilliams, Frank Myers, Frederick Miller, Da- vid C. Newcomb, Adam Nuhn, Francis Rose, James Russell, John Snow- den, Edward N. Thomas, Edward Tweedell Benjamin Walls, Warner Wood. Platteville; Elijah Butler, Lawrence O'Brien, James A. Otwell, Smelser; Alfred Medley, Albert Medley Lima.
Company K-Conrad Kercher, Muscoda.
Company M-Captain Jay Thompson, 2d Lieut. Henry M. Taylor, Edgar Barber, Isaac Briggs, Asbury Burris, Henry W. Clark, Wm. J. Clark, Martin L. Closson, Wm. S. Closson, Benj. F. Crandall, George W. Crandall, Johnson S, Curtis, Wm. Garahty, Ira A. Haney, David M. Haney, Peter W. Lewis, Thomas Lewiston, James R. McCord, An- drew C. McCord, Peter Miller, Benijah A. Montgomery, Moses L. Montgomery, Wm. H. Montgomery, Charles Nutter, Robert O'Dell,
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Stephen M. Partlow, Wm. H. Phillips, John B. Pittenger, George W. Reynolds, Leroy Rogers, Sidney S. Smith, Frederick A. Smith, Abel L. Tyler, David Winkler, Isaac Woodward, Boscobel; James H. Clark, Wm. Simons, Fennimore; James Brady, Hayes Jones, Luther W. Pet- tigrove, Muscoda.
On the 26th of March, 1862, the regiment left the State for St. Louis. Three miles from Chicago several cars of the train carrying the regiment were thrown from the track and twelve men were killed and twenty-eight wounded. The regiment reached St. Louis on the 28th. On the 22d of May it embarked for Leavenworth, Kansas, where it arrived on the 27th. In early June the regiment was sta- tioned, by detachments, in different parts of the State, extending from the Nebraska line on the north to Fort Scott on the south, to hunt up and expel the jayhawkers and bushwhackers of that region. Com- panies C, F, I, and M were sent, on the 12th of June, from Fort Leav- enworth to Fort Scott, where they arrived on the 17th. This march of 130 miles was accomplished in five days without the loss of a man or a horse.
Early in September, 1862, Companies I and M were substituted, at Fort Scott, for C and F. They were constantly engaged in scout- ing expeditions and as escort for trains to General Blunt's army in southwestern Missouri, until January, 1863, when Companies C and G were added to the command and remained until July, when Com- pany G returned to the regiment. Meanwhile the first and third bat- talions were engaged in the duties incident to border warfare. In June Company G went to Shawnee, Kansas. In the fall six com- panies were detached and afterward took part in the battles of Cane Hill and Prairie Grove, but they were not the companies containing the Grant County men. In May, 1863, Companies B, G, H, I, and M marched to Fort Blunt, in the Indian Territory, as escort for a supply train. A force of 1,500 Texans and Indians attacked them on the 30th of May, when they were only four miles from the fort. The enemy was repulsed. On the 4th of June they set out from Fort Blunt as escort for a returning train, and on the 20th turned about as escort for another train to the fort. At Cabin Creek, on the 27th, they were attacked by a much superior force of Rebels. The enemy were driven fifty miles across Verdigris River. On the 16th of July they marched - from Fort Blunt southward. The next day they fought a battle at Honey Springs, where the Rebels lost many prisoners and all their
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artillery. Afterward the Third Cavalry crossed the Arkansas River and pursued the enemy, having some skirmishes, and on the 19th returned to Fort Blunt.
On the 22d of August a detachment of the Third participated in an expedition in which a large quantity of Rebel stores were captured and the town of Perryville burned. The detachment then went to Van Buren, Arkansas, where it was joined by Companies E and K. On the 16th of October they made a raid to Waldron, Arkansas, routed a superior force of the enemy, and captured thirteen prisoners. The next day they attacked a large body of Rebel Choctaws, captured their stores and put the force to flight. Early in November they at- tacked a thousand Rebels and after a sharp fight drove them across the Arkansas River, capturing many prisoners. In December a scout- ing party penetrated to the Red River, returned without loss, captur- ing many prisoners.
In January, February, and March, 1864, three-fourths of the regi- ment reënlisted. On the 30th of March the regiment moved from Van Buren for Little Rock, whence the veterans went home on furlough .. Returning to duty, they landed near Little Rock on the 27th of July. The regiment was then employed in picket duty, in scouting between the Arkansas and White Rivers, and in escorting trains between Huntsville and Duvall's Bluff. On the 28th of August 104 men of the Third accompanied an expedition of eight hundred mounted men in. pursuit of Shelby's forces, who were encountered forty-five miles from Huntsville, repulsed, and pursued, the Third sustaining no loss. On the 7th of September the command returned to a camp near Little Rock.
Company M was stationed at Pawnee, Kansas, engaged in scout- ing, picketing, and foraging. They were highly commended by the chief of the cavalry in the department. A detachment of the Third took part in the battle of Newtonia, November 4, 1864, and gained much credit for its action.
On the 25th of September 141 men of the Third joined an expedi- tion at Little Rock for Fort Smith, and returned on the 13th of Octo- ber, after a March of four hundred miles. The seven veteran com- panies, B, E, G, H, I, K, and L, were stationed in the vicinity of Little Rock during the fall and winter, scouting, guarding trains, patrolling the roads, and clearing the country of bushwhackers, with whom they had frequent encounters.
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On the 10th of March a detachment of forty men of the Third left Little Rock and near Clear Lake, forty miles distant, fell into a strong ambush, losing two killed, three wounded, and eleven prisoners, none of them Grant County men.
The original term of service of the regiment having expired, it was reorganized in April, 1865, and the twelve companies made ten. That part of the regiment which was at Little Rock moved to Duvall's Bluff on the 21st of April, and on the 3d of June embarked for St. Lcuis, whence they proceeded to Rolla and Springfield, Missouri. On the 18th of July they began the march to Fort Leavenworth, arriving in two weeks. This battalion was mustered out on the 8th of Sep- tember, and on the 14th arrived at Madison, where the men were dis- charged. The remainder of the regiment was mustered out on the 29th of September and reached Madison on the 2d of October, except Companies G and L, which remained at Fort Leavenworth nearly a month longer, reaching home November 1, 1865.
MILWAUKEE CAVALRY.
The following Grant County men were in this company :
Albert Galskowski, 2d Lieut , Andrew J. Adams, George W. Ander- son, Calvin Ladd, Boscobel; Charles Millbrook. Jacob Schreiner. Lan- caster; Edward H. Emery, Philo Huntley, Washington F. Selleck, Millville; Ardellis Adams, James Askew, Wm. H. Clark, Cecil Drake, George Harlocker, Abner H. Larrabee, Wm. H. Rogers, Wellington W. Selleck, Mt. Hope; Patrick Bartley, David Beard, Jackson Ruthford, Daniel Taylor, William H. Woffenden. Patch Grove; Wilson Lowry, Wyalusing.
This company was recruited under the supervision of Captain Gus- tav Van Deutsch, of Milwaukee, in July and August, 1861, and left the State in September for St. Louis, where it was mustered into the United States service as an independent acceptance on the 23d of that month. It served a short time as body-guard of General Fremont, and it was afterward incorporated, as Company M, with the Fourth Missouri Cavalry and served with that regiment until mustered out.
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS.
The following Grant County men enlisted in various organiza- tions. too few in each regiment to justify a history of the organization in this work.
First Cavalry .- Co. A-Hubert Shulter, Waterloo. Co. B-Anson
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Bi Rice. Company C-Oliver A. Noble, Little Grant; Wm. A. Noble, John Worley, Wm. Worley, Fennimore. Company D-Lars Jensen, Jo- seph Myers, Ofen Haven; Andrew Barnett, Patch Grove. Cumpany F-Allen Carpenter, Frederick Washburn, George H. Washburn, Lima; Joshua Bidwell, Christian Orcener, Jeffrey Key, Patch Grave; Horace G. Blackman, Paris; Alexander Moore, Christopher C. Price, Wing- ville; Andrew Barret, Daniel T Brown, Peter Pickhartz, Little Grant. Company I-Isaac N. Hayden. Company K-George W. Hyde; . Wm. J Keith, Clifton. Company L-Robert Brindley, Chatham Crook, JohnCrook, Amos Devoe, George E. Hendricks, Isaac N Hayden, Sam- uel Jones; Louis T. Pennock, Cory C. Webb, Boscobel; John C. Coles, Paris. Company M-George F. Coole, Anson Cook, Ezra Edgcomb, Wm. L. Jacobs, Boscobel.
Fourth Cavalry .- Company G-Edward A. Harris, Platteville. Company H-Lewis Horn,
First Heavy Artillery .- Company A-Richard Calvert, Tafton. Company C-Cornelius Johnson. Company E-Wm. W. Fitch, Abra- ham Key, Wilson O'Key, Samuel W. O'Key, Hazel Green; Jesse Wag- ner, Beetown; Company F-Ira M. Riker, Muscoda. Company H- Alonzo Ishmael, Cassville; Cassius M. Morse, Little Grant. Company I-James O'Neill, Potosi. Company L-John Thomas, Hickory Grove. Unassigned recruits-Thomas Binderbock, Jonas Fuller, John Hunti- mer, Emanuel Silance, John Walker, Potosi.
Second Battery -- Philip Bittinger, Muscoda.
Sixth Battery .- Henry S. Keene, Lancaster; Frank W. Parrish, Muscoda.
Twelfth Battery .- Ferdinand Ketterer.
Thirteenth Battery .- William H. Arms, Hazel Green.
First Infantry .- Company B-Isaac McWilliams.
Fourth Infantry .- Company D-Julius M. Jones, Platteville.
Thirteenth Infantry .- Company E-Edward Gray, Boscobel.
Fourteenth Infantry .- Company K- Captain John N. Price, John F. Hill, Anthony Hornell, Captain John J. Postel, James A. Blair, Augustus W. Carley, Simpson B. Drake, Ferdinand R. St. John, Mus- coda. Unassigned recruit-William Oliver, Glen Haven.
Seventeenth Infantry .- Company F-Anthony Brandler, Blue River; Thomas Christopherson, John Donnegan, Louis Robinson, Bos- cobel; Hagh Clark, Cassville. Company H-John Platt, Beetown; Bur- gess Fowler, Cassville; Benj. F. Washburn, Blue River; Thomas J.
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Evans, Wm. Hannons, Jonas P. Sawyer, Boscobel. Unassigned, John Pehix, Little Grant.
Eighteenth Infantry .- Company A-Samuel G. Elton, Beetown; James Armstrong, Bent Markinson, Joseph L. McKittrick, Jacob Os- trander, Boscobel; Edward Anthony, Clifton; James A. Sturgeon, John Sturgeon, Lancaster.
Twenty-third Infantry .- Company B-Franklin Neff, George E. Hanford, Platteville. Company C-Leonard J. Harvey, Clifton.
Twenty-fourth Infantry .- Company A-John S. Cook, John A. Horner, Boscobel.
Thirtieth Infantry .- Company A-Francis Farleigh, Boscobel. Company B-R. M. DeLap, Boscobel. Company E-Joseph Adkins, Beetown; James Heffron, Thomas Heffron, Hazel Green; Joseph Day, Lancaster; Peter Clow, Lima. Company H-Almeron Updike, Mus- coda.
Thirty-sixth Infantry .- Company B-Henry W. Bratnober, Hazel Green; Alfred E. Totten, Fennimore; James H. Hopkins, Darwin D. Thompson, Lewis H. Arnold, George S. Hoadley, Anthony Haney, Walter Vanvickle, Hickory Grove. Company H-William Clement, Glen Haven; Jerome B. Allen, Alanson Daggett, John Healy, Little Grant; Thomas A. Dunstan, Jesse Grotovant, Timothy O. Hale, John G. Parrish, Edward B. Parrish, Smelser; George W. Earl, Wyalusing. Company K-Augustus Corbin, Harrison. All of these were recruits.
Thirty-seventh Infantry .- Company F-John Atchison, Gardner L. Gordon, John Greenhalgh, Geo. Piele, Joseph A. Rollins, Clifton; Geo. Cass, Neill McPhail, Thomas Morgan, Platteville. Company G-Hans B. Warner, Clifton. Company H-Dudley D. McLeod, Lima; Oliver P. Manlove, Muscoda ; Wm. Mound, Platteville. Company I-Henry Donaldson, Lancaster. These were all recruits or drafted men.
Thirty-eighth Infantry .- Company B-Matthew Hunter, Joseph Sargent, Clifton; Franklin McReynolds, Wm. W. Russell, Fennimore. All recruits.
Fortieth Infantry .- (100-day men) Company G-William Clifford, Wingville.
Forty-fifth Infantry .- Company C-George Stephenson, Boscobel. Company D-Luther Barber, Harrison. Company H-George Dag- gett, Boscobel.
Forty-eighth Infantry .- Company C-Joshua A. Bradley, Joseph H. Clark, John Magwigan, Thomas E. Magwigan, Addison L. Root,
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Abner Shrake, Adam Shrake, Patch Grove; John Elder, John W. Laird, John L. Lyons, John F. Root, Wyalusing. Company I-Henry Prew, Boscobel.
Fifty-first Infantry .- Company K-Henry Rupka, 2d Lieut., Po- tosi; Arthur Doe, Clifton; Wm. Baggs, Martin Plauranto, Harrison.
Fifty-second Infantry .- Company A-Ned Coleman, Beetown; Oli- ver Downing, Wyalusing. Company D-John M. Bird, John H. Wait, Jamestown; Company E-Wm. Miller, Wm. H. Watkins, Jamestown; Charles Foot, Potosi.
Berdan's Sharpshooters .- Company G-Robert Casey, Samuel Hall, Daniel Rogers.
Unassigned Recruits and Drafted Men .- John F. Butcher, Philip Corr, John Flaherty, Tony Gabriel, Thomas McCabe, Wm. McDonald, Patrick McManus, Samuel Pierson, Daniel Santry, Dennis Shays, Bos- cobel.
Unassigned Colored Troops .- Brown Lockhart, Charles Shepard, Charles A. Taylor, John Taylor, Pinckney Taylor, Beetown; Albert Hamlet, Lancaster; Willis Howard, Clifton; Leroy Ironmonger, Glen Haven; Jeremiah Taylor, Millville.
Second California Cavalry .- Company G .- George H. Rountree, Platteville.
Fourth Iowa Cavalry .- Company G-Marcellus Brock.
Fifth Iowa Cavalry .- Company E-Lieut. Andrew Guler, Frank Gillihan, Nick Hoffman.
Seventh Iowa Cavalry .- Company E-Ira Patterson.
Eighth Iowa Cavalry .- Company G-William Mitchell.
Tenth Missouri Cavalry .- Company G -- Owen H. Owens.
Second Kansas Cavalry .- Company E-Marion M. Harper.
First Kansas Infantry .- Company B-John Fairall.
Eighth Illinois Infantry .- Company F-John J. Owens.
Twelfth Missouri Infantry .- Company F-Silas Lane.
Fourteenth Illinois Infantry .- Company I-Charles Palmer.
Ninetieth Illinois Infantry .- Company B-Michael F. Donahoe, John Byrne.
One Hundredth Illinois Infantry .- Company G-Sergeant Benj. F. Gridley, Platteville.
One hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry .- Company E- William A. Butler.
Fortieth Ohio Infantry .- Company F-William Miller.
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Third Iowa Infantry -Company C-Robert Beard, William A. Armstrong.
Twenty-first U. S. Artillery .- David W. Garvin.
Dubuque City Battery -Theodore Jackson.
Navy .- Peter Larsen. Joseph Bond, John Thompson.
GRANT COUNTY SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
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CHAPTER XI.
THE SPANISH WAR.
Isolated Enlistments-Company C, Fourth Infantry.
The part taken in the actual military operations of this war by Grant County men was not sufficient to justify any description of those operations. The President's first call for volunteers, April 15, 1898, was filled mostly by militia companies with a military training. As Grant County had no such company, it furnished no regular con- tingent to the three Wisconsin regiments who went out under the first call. A few Grant County men were in the service in various organ- izations.
ISOLATED ENLISTMENTS.
E. E. Burns, of Platteville, went out in the company from La- fayette County, but was rejected on a physical examination. Dwight Arthur, son of L. J. Arthur, of Lancaster, served on the gunboat Ban- croft. Samuel E. Snyder served in Manila in the First South Dakota. Wm. A. Bell, of Potosi, was in the Rough Riders. Ford Brittenham, of Bloomington, was in Company E, Fifth Illinois. Oscar Zimmer- man, of Mt. Hope, was in Company K, Third Wisconsin, and died of disease at Coamo, Puerto Rico. Simeon Hayes, of Muscoda, was in the Rough Riders at Santiago. Fred L. Auchter, of Lancaster was in the Sixth Illinois. Charles Nye, of Platteville, was in the Seventh Ill- inois. Charles Morse, of Beetown, was in the First Montana.
COMPANY C, FOURTH INFANTRY.
The call for additional volunteers was made by the President in June, 1898, and Grant County was allowed one company. A com- pany had been organized and drilled at Lancaster by L. A. Dodd, but a commission as captain of the Grant County company was obtained by E. E. Burns, of Platteville, who recruited a number of men in and near Platteville, and joined such of the Lancaster men under Dodd as had enlisted in the U. S. service. Another contingent under R. D.
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Blanchard, of Boscobel, joined them, and the company was organized with the following roster :
E. E. Burns, Captain, Platteville; L. A. Dodd, 1st Lieut., Lancas- ter; R. D. Blanchard, 2d Lieut., Boscobel; M. Pritchett, Beetown; F. Anderson, George Shrake, Bloomington; R. W. Addey, J. Anderson, W. O. Brown, Frank Brainerd, Clarance Bryan, Marsh Burris, Wm. Bauer, George Clark, E. L. Ellis, John Faith, Asa Guernsey, Carl Hoff, Frank Hassert, John Julian, John Little, Wm. Lageman, Herbert Mc- Donnell, Roy Mclaughlin, Alton Marsh, Garfield Miller, R. W. Patter- son, Lee Patten, John Rau, William Reeter, Thomas Swenson, Jesse Tuffley, Henry Thiede, Mike Meyer, George Woolley, Milo Walcott, Edward Wilson, M. Lawler, L. Newton, Charles Pease, Boscobel; G. C. Dietrich, James E. Kelley, Eugene Moon, W. H. Sturmer, O. Kraft, Cassville; M. E. Dorman, B. A. Heberlein, Joe Morrison, Fennimore; John Coombs, E. Dimick, P. R. Evans, Melvin Goodrich, Richard Grundy, Al. Gardner, L. M. Hawk, J. A. Huftil, Clarence Kitelinger, George LaForge, Ernest Lane, George McGonigal, Matt. Muench, Ed. Morton, Henry Pollock, Harvey Oates, A. F. Oelker, William Ress- meyer, Eugene Starr, Philo Stephens, William Ward, Peter White, Robert Williams, Lancaster; R. C. Fache, Liberty ; William Bettinger, Muscoda; Harry Gilmore, James Dugdale, Joseph Morris, Harry Irle, Otis Culver, W. Woodworth, J. W. Mink, E. Ditmar, F. E. Harwood, E. O. Longbotham, G. T. Steffens, Frank Fry, W. H. Wonzer, Fred W. Brooks, William Wilkinson, Frank Meyer, A. B. Holmes, Andy Bed- fett, H. A. Thrasher, Jos. Reger, J. J. Day, G. Ehring, Samuel Hooks, Isaac Prideaux, W. R. Moore, George Day; C. Parish, L. Gesland, Ed. Hardcastle, Ernest Calvert, C. Coates, Fred Cook, George Manuel, Frank Long, Platteville; Noah Eastman, Wingville; Thomas Glynn, Woodman. Charles novaes + Roy nouris
The company left Lancaster, Boscobel, and Platteville for Camp Douglas, Fond du Lac, June 29, where it became Company C, of the Fourth Wisconsin Infantry.
The Fourth Wisconsin left Camp Douglas for Anniston, Ala., in September. There it was placed in the Second Brigade, First Divi- sion, Third Army Corps. The close of the war rendered their services against the Spaniards unnecessary, but they were retained in the ser- vice and kept drilling, pending the long-drawn peace negotiations, till the spring of 1899, when they were mustered out and reached home March 2 and 3.
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PART V. TOWN HISTORIES.
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LANCASTER, GENERAL HISTORY.
First Comers-Lancaster Laid Out-The First Fire-Fires-Murders, Suicides, etc .- Various Matters-Town Officers-Village Officers-City Officers.
FIRST COMERS.
The first white men to reside within the limits of the present city and township of Lancaster were Nehemiah Dudley, Thomas Segar, and Ben Stout, who came some time in 1828. They built a cabir near the Big Spring (and it was then in fact a large spring), about where the electric light plant is now located Segar and Stour soon de- parted, probably to prospect, but Dudley remained a year, when he sold his claim to Aaron F. Boyce (the name is always spelled thus in the deeds given by this person and his brother), and went away to the mines. In 1828 William Morrison located on the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 36, about two miles and a half from the present city, and lived there many years. The same year Henry C. Bushnell came with his family and located in Bushnell Hol- low, near the upper spring. He built a rough log cabin (which was standing not many years ago) and lived there many years. His daughter Harriet was born here March 18, 1888. She died in Bee- town, February 9, 1898, as Mrs. Greenlee. During the Black Hawk War in 1832, these settlers "forted" at Cassville and Prairie du Chien, but returned at the close of the war.
Boyce, a Kentuckian, came from Cassville in 1829 and bought out Dudley, occupying his cabin. He cultivated a few acres of ground, as was the wont of Kentucky frontiersmen. In 1836, the year before the village was laid out, he was induced by the high price of onions to put in five acres of the pungent bulbs on the ground soon afterward occupied by the court-house. It was a bad speculation. The ensuing winter was terribly severe and Boyce's onions all froze. In November, 1834, Boyce entered his claim : the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 3, Town 4, Range 3 west. In August, 1836, G. M. Price
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entered the west half of the same quarter section. Agriculture in the county in the thirties was generally confined to vegetable patches around the miners' cabins, but the fertile prairie near Lancaster seems to have attracted several settlers. Henry Hodges and Thomas Shan- ley lived on the prairie south of the present city in 1831; D. R. Burt, Lucius Ashley, and Fitzgerald in the summer of 1835. James Bon- ham seems to have entered the southwest quarter of Section 3 (within the present city limits) in 1835, and probably lived there before he went to his Hurricane home; but he sold to Price in.1837. In 1831 Harvey Pepper came and settled about a mile west of the present site of the court-house. In 1832 he and his family took refuge from the Sauks at Mineral Point. In 1836 he, with his family, settled on Pigeon Creek and built the mill known as the "old Calder Mill." In 1832 James P. Cox, afterward prominent in the politics of the county, set- tled on his farm about four miles south of the present city. Dr. A. W. Morrow located in 1835 on what is known as the Rhodes place, three miles southwest of town. Edmund and Elijah Harelson and Henry Wood came in 1832 or 1833. In 1835 Abram Miller located on Pig- eon Creek. Cutler Salmon, James Boyce, Joseph Mckinney, and Mr. Warfield came the same year. Five or six miles southwest of the present city a group of settlers located in a neighborhood called Hur- ricane, but a separate history of this neighborhood will be given.
Hodges and Shanley built a large double log cabin which became the resting-place for many a weary traveler, long before there was a hotel in the region. Shanley was a Missourian, a man of good parts. and he soon took a prominent part in the public affairs of the county. Thomas Elliott located just east of the present city in 1836. Thomas J. Taylor located in 1836 on the west half of the northeast quarter of Section 3, but sold out the next year and removed to the Hurricane.
According to the reminiscences of Jerry Garner, an old pioneer of Lancaster, the old Pigeon mines were discovered in June, 1839, by Harvey Miller, father of Montgomery Miller, now living in Lancaster, by finding some float mineral in a spring. This induced Joseph Bon- ham and John Brown (better known in those days as General Brown) to prospect in that vicinity. They struck what proved to be the Bon- ham Lead. Major Garner, who had just arrived in Lancaster, heard of the discovery and went down to see it. They had taken out about two thousand pounds of mineral. He bought one-fourth, paying for it with a span of horses and two hundred dollars. Just at this time
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