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CHAPTER XX.
CLIFTON AND LIMA.
Clifton-Annaton-Livingston-Lima-Arthur.
CLIFTON.
The first settler in the town was Francis C. Kirkpatrick, who came in 1827. His essay in agriculture is described on page 17. The next settler of record was William I. Madden who settled on Section 12 in 1837. William Kirkpatrick came in 1838, John Henry in 1839, Andrew Clifton in 1841, William Clifton in 1842, Isaac W. McRey- nolds, William Bull, Ross J. Ferry, Benjamin Britten, and Lewis Crow in 1843. The Crow Branch Diggings were opened this year, and among those who came the next year was William Andrew. John Watson and Enoch Johnson came to the mines in 1849. William Howdle and Gilbert Bunker came in 1851, William Allen in 1854, Peter Biddick in 1855, and John Allen in 1856. Mahlon Fawcett set. tled on Section 34 in 1853. After 1856 the fertile prairies of the town filled up rapidly with farmers, too numerous to be mentioned.
The town was organized in 1850. It is Town 5, Range 1, and contains thirty-six square miles, a large portion of it fertile prairie. The Crow Branch lead mines have been of some importance but agri- culture has long been the chief industry of the town. The agricultural interests of the town suffered for lack of transportation until the build- ing of the railroad, noted elsewhere; but now there is a depot in the town and two or three others near its borders. The population of the town has been : in 1855, 730; in 1860, 961; in 1865, 877; in 1870, 1,076; in 1875, 999; in 1880, 1,078; in 1885, 1,073; in 1890, 1,074; in 1895, 1,044.
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Nelson Millard John McLeod
1855 William Clifton Jesse S. Jones
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ANNATON.
In 1861 William Kraemer established a wagon factory, and laid out the village of Annaton in Section 18, town of Clifton, on Platte River. He also opened a store. The wagon buisness flourished for several years.
In 1865 there was some excitement over reported discoveries of oil at Annaton. The matter is referred to at some length on page 59.
A grist-mill was built in 1875, by a Mr. Jacobs, who sold it two years later to Gottlieb Wilke, who in turn sold to Jordan Scheel. The mill was abandoned some time ago. The machinery was taken to Ok- lahoma about January 1, 1900.
Mr. Kraemer's business did not prosper in the latter years of his life, and he died in 1889.
Muender Brothers bought Kraemer's store, and it was burned January 22, 1888, with a loss of $4,000. Another small store was put in by George H. Selleck. It was burned February 4, 1890. G. H. Goldman, who was appointed postmaster in 1890, and still retains the office, put in a small stock of goods, but soon sold it to two Arab peddlers. The post-office is all that remains of Annaton's former in- stitutions.
LIVINGSTON.
This thriving village was a result of the building of the railroad from Galena to Montfort Junction. It is situated in Section 13, Clif- ton. It has one general merchandise store, one drugstore, two hard- ware stores, three grocery stores, two meat markets, one furniture store, one millinery shop, one harness shop, one barber shop, two hotels, one livery stable, one restaurant, two blacksmith shops, and a
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creamery. It has a school-house and two churches: Free Methodist and Methodist Episcopal.
Meridian Lodge, No. 327, I. O.O. F .- This lodge was instituted in Livingston in 1885, with the following officers: - Orton, N. G .; A. E. Rundell, V. G .; J. S. Cocklin, Sec .; P. Jacobs, R. Sec .; J. W. Sleep, Treas .; N. Millard, W .; W. A. Johnson, Con.
The village bears the name of a family quite prominent in the town, but as they were not pioneers, they were not mentioned above. The names of several members of the family appear in the list of of- ficers above.
Martinville is a post-office and small village in Section 14. The village site was surveyed in November, 1856. Gilbert H. Bunker, Adam Keith, Andrew Brown, Isaac Sinnett, William Allen, William C. Wright, Charles Gundlach and Sanford Millard were the proprietors.
New California is a small village in Section 28. A post-office was established here in 1850, which was the nucleus of the village. The office was discontinued in 1855 but restored in 1856, with W. O. Thomas, later of Montfort, as postmaster. The village plat was surveyed February 3, 1850, by C. G.Rodolf. William Henry was the proprietor.
In 1855 a post-office called Plum Grove was established in Sec- tion 24.
A prominent figure in the history of Clifton was Thomas Watson, who came to Crow Branch Diggings in 1850, and died in 1895. He was long chairman of the town board and a justice of the peace.
LIMA.
This is one of the towns organized in 1849. Among the early set- tlers were Farnam Johnson, who settled on Section 20 in 1838; Isaac Gilham, on Section 33, in 1836; Joseph J. Basye, on Section 4, in 1839; Isaac Z. Whittaker, on Section 10, in 1839, and William D. Hirst in 1847. James McNair came to the town in 1846, but the same year went to Fennimore. Henry Rewey came in 1844. John Whitcher, the father of George S. Whitcher, came in 1845, and lived in the town until his death in 1878.
The town is settled largely with a very good class of people of na- tive stock, but one region is known as the "Bad Lands," on account of the crimes committed there. The Sisley case has been described in Chapter X, Part I. John Fank, one of the "hard cases" of the Bad Lands, was killed by William Holzer on the night of September 1,
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1890. It was known that Holzer was an enemy of Fank and stood in fear of him. On his arrest Holzer confessed that he met Fank in a corn-field and, after a quarrel, shot him and buried the body in Hol- zer's pasture in Section 22. The quarrel, he said, was about the man- ner in which Fank had treated Holzer's wife. Holzer was sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment.
Henry Wagner committed suicide May 21. Thecause was trouble with his wife.
Lima is Town 4, Range 1, and contains thirty-six square miles. It is mostly high prairie and excellent farming land. The industry of the town is wholly agricultural. Its population has been : in 1850, 580; in 1855, 792; in 1860, 872; in 1865, 910; in 1870, 1,085; in 1875, 1,020; in 1880, 1,154; in 1885, 1,126; in 1890, 1,040; in 1895, 1,082.
The principal officers have been as follows:
Chairman. Assessor. 1849 Norman McLeod S. D. Watkins Wm. Graham Ephraim Pound do Wm. H. Bassett S. L. Johnson
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1855 Jesse Waldorf Moses Lambert C. H. Steel
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ARTHUR.
A post-office called Wasburn was established in 1855 in Section 8. A small village grew up here. It is now called Arthur. The vil- lage plat was surveyed in November 1856. Nelson Newman was the proprietor. It was long the headquarters of a circuit of the M. E. Church.
The village has the honor of organizing the first grange of the once powerful order of Patrons of Husbandry in the county. The fol- lowing are the first officers: Johnson P. Rundell, Master; Lyborn
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Wells, Overseer; Harvey Conkling, Lecturer; Lewis Harvill, First Steward; Wm. Swiers, Assistant Steward; John Williams, Chaplain; Smith Fawcett, Treasurer; Reuben Woodward, Secretary; John Nix- on, Gate Keeper; Mrs. Almeda Swiers, Ceres; Mrs. C. Cushman, Po- mona; Miss Alice Kirkpatrick, Flora; Mrs. Naomi Fawcett, Lady As- sistant Steward. The grange was organized February 20, 1873.
The village has a lodge of Odd Fellows, Washburn Lodge No. 228, with the following officers : J. D. Carpenter, N. G .; C. W. Cook, V. G .; L. H. Treglown, R. Sec .; C. E. Stehl, P. Sec .; B. Bourett, T .; W. H. Glenn, W .; J. Anthony, C.
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CHAPTER XXI.
HARRISON AND PARIS.
Harrison, Whig Diggings-Town of Harrison-McKee's Saw-Mill -Paris, "Detan's" City-Settlement and Organization of Paris-Dickeyville.
HARRISON, WHIG DIGGINGS.
These mines are (or were) located on the southeast quarter of Section 7, town of Harrison near and west of the Platte River. When the first mines were discovered cannot be learned, but the two most valuable lodes were discovered in 1841. These were the Gilbreath & Goza, and the Druen, Vance & Goza Leads. In the summer of 1843 the aggregate amount of mineral which had been raised at these mines was 3,360,000 pounds, worth from $10 to $17 a thousand. It was for a time a booming mining camp, but never was a town. Stores, liquor shops and gambling places all did a thriving business in rude board shanties. The settlement or camp was made a precinct in July, 1840, with the name Big Platte Precinct. In 1842, the name was changed to Red Dog Precinct, the name of the mines having been changed to Red Dog Diggings. The first polling place was at William Moorhead's house. Among the justices of the precinct were William Cole, Robert Glenn, Samuel Lemon, Ralph Carver. and E. E. Brock, names that became familiar in other parts of the county. Also James Gillis, O. L. Stone and Miles Vineyard were among justices. The de- posits of mineral being worked out, the camp disappeared and the place became a solitude.
TOWN OF HARRISON. 1
Among the first settlers in this town were J. W. and A. H. Kaump, who came in 1836 and settled on Sections 13 and 15 respectively. Abram Travis settled in Section 10 in 1835. In 1837 Chauncey Jones and Obed King came and settled on Section 1, and Dickinson B. More- house in Section 30. In 1840 Mr. King was killed by a tub of rock falling on him while he was digging a well. In 1838 Absalom Mc- Cormack settled in Section 34. In 1839 O. S. and Obed K. Jones came and settled on Section 12 and John Shipley on Section 10. In 1838
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Carns settled near Whig Diggings. John N. Eayers and James T. Murphy came to the town in 1840. That same year James Likens set- tled in the west side of the town near Rockville, and in 1846 opened a farm on Section 17. In 1847 Thomas McMahon settled in the town. In June, 1840 James Gillespie and Timothy Carrington laid out a town called Tippecanoe on the southeast quarter of Section 12, but no town was ever built there.
There has been little bloodshed in the town, despite the roaring times of Red Dog Diggings. In the spring of 1881 Noah B. Gammon shot and killed C. P. Rice in a dispute about a private road. The trial excited a great deal of interest. On the first trial the jury disagreed, and on the second trial Gammon was convicted and sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
The town was organized in 1849.' It includes Town 3, Range 2, containing thirty-six square miles. The population has been as fol- lows: in 1850, 764; in 1855, 962; in 1860; 923; in 1865, 984; in 1870, 1,045; in 1875, 1,049; in 1880, 1,090; in 1885, 1,078; in 1,078; in 1890, 1,020; 1895, 1,010.
The principal town officers have been as follows :
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1849 D. Wiker
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David McKee
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MCKEE'S SAW-MILL.
In 1833 Stewart McKee, an energetic Scotch-Irishman, came to Platteville with the intention of putting up a grist-mill, as he was a mill-wright. But the locality was greatly in need of a saw-mill, and Mr. Rountree advised him to establish one and aided him to do so. A suitable waterpower was found on the Little Platte, about five miles southwest of Platteville, in the town of Harrison, and the mill was speedily erected and put into operation. The great demand for lumber
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by the incoming settlers taxed the mill to the full of its limited capac- ity. It furnished lumber for the building in Belmont used by the legis- lature of 1836, illustrated on page 132, and for Rountree's new store in Platteville. Every settler's house for twenty or thirty miles around contained lumber from McKee's mill, if it were only slabs for roofing. In 1836 he added a run of stones for grinding corn, a much needed institution. He then leased the mill for a year to Adams & Co. At the expiration of the lease he resumed control and kept it until 1858, when he sold it to George Marshall, who ran it several years and leased it to a man named Zimmerman. After that it was aban- doned. Its ruins may still be seen on Section 24.
Stewart McKee was a prominent man and well known all over Grant County. In 1848 he obtained a divorce from his second wife. The Herald said of it: "Stewart McKee's divorce case has cost more time and money than all the public printing the county has to pay." After selling his saw-mill, he went to St. Louis, and from there to Belleville, Ill., where he died about thirty years ago. His son David remained in the county and attained some prominence as an editor, lawyer, and soldier.
PARIS, "DETAN'S" CITY.
In 1828 Martial Detantabaratz began a settlement on the west side of Platte River about half a mile above the confluence of the Little Platte. He had an ambition to build a city there, and he called the place Paris. He built a furnace and put in a store there. In 1835 he and N. E. Thouron, of Philadelphia, laid off a town plat. Very little can be learned about this place or its residents. It appears that John Nicholas lived there in 1833, Moses Stewart in 1838, and O. L. Stone in 1839. In 1839 Detantabartz built a toll-bridge across the Platte at Paris-the first bridge we learn of in the county. In 1842 Edward B. Thurtle kept a tavern at Paris. It does not appear that there was ever a post-office at the place.
Detantabaratz (called by the French "Le Jaune"-the Yellow) got into financial difficulties and through them almost into a duel with David G. Bates, a prominent business man of Galena, of whom "Detan" had borrowed freely. The Frenchman chose swords as the weapons, and as he had been a dragoon in the French army, he had so much the advantage of his antagonist, who was quite unskilled in fencing, that the duel never came off. The financial difficulties of the founder of Paris on the Platte increased to such an extent that he
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hung himself in despair in the summer of 1842, and his infant city per- shed soon afterward.
In 1828 Asa E. Hough built a furnace on the Platte a few miles below Paris and named the place Gibraltar, but it never became even a village. Hough built a saw-mill a short distance up the river from the furnace. In 1834 he abandoned the furnace and built a residence near the mill. In 1845 he went to Potosi to live and died there the next year. Although a pioneer, smelter, sawyer, and farmer, he was a scholarly man. He became noted for his success in agriculture and the raising of blooded stock.
SETTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF PARIS
The town of Paris was one of the original towns organized in 1849. It was then thinly settled, the city of Paris having vanished. The few old settlers whose names can now be learned were: Robert Durley, who settled in the town in 1834, Isaac Hornbeck, who settled on Section 21 in 1844, Thomas Longbotham, on Section 22 in 1846, Frederick Maring, on Section 21 in 1856, and Josiah Willey, on Sec- tion 25 in 1858. About the beginning of the war the town began to be settled up with Germans, who now constitute the bulk of the pop- ulation. In 1850 the town had a population of 391; in 1855, 496; in 1860, 682; in 1865, 771; in 1870, 907; in 1875, 940; in 1880, 876; 1885, 803; in 1890, 778; in 1895, 832.
The surface of the town being mostly steep hillsides and clay ridges, it is not first-class farming land, and the population has been largely drawn off the last twenty-five years to the more fertile prairie lands of the West.
The following is the roster of the principal officers of the town :
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1849 J. N. Jones
Eben M. Hart
Silas Brooks
Morgan V. Mitts
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Madison Smith
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HISTORY OF GRANT COUNTY.
DICKEYVILLE.
This is a small village or hamlet on Section 22, Paris. It contains, besides the post-office, store, blacksmith shop, etc, usual to such set- tlements, two churches-Union and Catholic. There has never been any regular village site surveyed (at least no plat has been recorded), but the buildings are placed along the Dubuque and Lancaster road.
The place has a camp of Modern Woodmen, Dickeyville Camp, No. 6451, with the following officers: G. W. Hoadley. V. C .; James Hamilton, W. A .; John Maring, E. B .; Will Shinoe, C .; F. Cox, E .; Joe Cullen, C. F .; W. S. Knox, A. F. Leuher, C. Deiters, M.'s.
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CHAPTER XXII.
WOODMAN, MARION, AND LITTLE GRANT.
Woodman-Marion-Little Grant.
WOODMAN.
The first actual settler within the present limits of the town was Joseph Turnby, who settled on Section 34 in 1842. In December, 1837, John D. Ashley laid out a town he called Sutherland, on the Wisconsin River in Section 2. No lots were sold and the town never had any inhabitants. There is a tradition of a town called Allendoo- dleville at the forks of Green River early in the forties, but what basis there was for the tradition cannot he learned. William F. Richards created another paper town on Green River, Section 36, in 1856. In 1858 the first school in the town was taught by Ira Phillips in his res- idence. The first school-house was built was built in 1860 in what is now District No. 5.
The first stores were put in in 1863, by T. N. Hubbell, John H. Barnett, and Julius Lindig. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Store, by a Mount Hope and Woodman company, was started in 1866. In 1864 George Campbell built a warehouse with a capacity of 5,000 bushels.
In 1866 Israel Miles boughta building that had been built in 1864 by A. S. Young, and opened a hotel. He afterward sold out to James A. Faris. In 1869 Nathan, Schreiner & Co., of Lancaster, built a warehouse with a capacity of 10,000 bushels at a cost of $2,000.
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