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CENTENNIAL HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 GUTHRIE COUNTY. IOWA 
 
 CONTAINING A SHORT HISTORY OF IOWA, HIS- 
 TORY AND DESCRIPTION OF GUTHRIE 
 COUNTY; EARLY SETTLEMENT, 
 INCIDENTS, ETC. 
 
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 By MRS. S. :B. MAXV/ELL. 
 
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 CARTER, HUSSEY ^ CUR^, PRINTERS. 
 
To MY Friends and Neighbors, 
 
 THE GOOD PEOPLE OF GUTHRIE COUNTY, IN GENERAL, AND THE OLD 
 
 SETTLERS, IN PARTICULAR, THIS LITTLE WORK IS 
 
 REGARDFULLY INSCRIBED BY 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, A. D. 1876, by 
 
 Mrs. S. B. MAXWHLL, 
 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 To the many hospitable, kind and obliging friends, who 
 have encouraged and assisted me, I return my warmest 
 thanks. 
 
 To Col. Raney, Capt. Thomas Seely, J. W. Cummins, 
 Esq., Michael Leinart, Esq. and Capt. O. B. Hayden, for 
 courtesy, kindness and assistance, I acknowledge my 
 indebtedness. 
 
 To my advertising patrons, I thank you, and tender you 
 my sincerest wishes for your success and prosperity. 
 
 To my publishers, and the editors of our county papers, 
 for courtesies shown me, I thank you. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Stuart, Oct. 10, 1876. SADIE B. MAXWELL. 
 
HISTORY OF IOWA. 
 
 In writing a history of Guthrie county, a brief sketch of 
 the State will not be out of place. The tirst settlement in 
 the State of Iowa was made by a colony of miners from 
 Prairie du Chein, under Julien Dubuque, in 1788, — one 
 hundred and fifteen years after the discovery of these 
 shores by Marquette and Joliet. 
 
 Iowa, at the time of this settlement, was a part of the 
 Spanish province of Louisiana. 
 
 Previous to the year 17G3 and at the close of the " Old 
 French War," the entire continent of North America was 
 owned by France, Great Britain, Spain and Russia. 
 
 In 1763, Spain obtained by cession from France, the 
 territory west of the Mississippi. 
 
 On the 1st of October, 1800, by treaty of St. Idelfonso, 
 Spain ceded back to France, the Territory of Louisiana. 
 
 On the 30th of April, 1803, France ceded it to the United 
 States, in consideration of the sum of $11,250,000 and the 
 liquidation of certain claims held by citizens of the United 
 States against France, — the claims amounting to over 
 $3,000,000. 
 
 March 31, 1803, the President was authorized by Con- 
 gress, to take possession of the territory and provide for 
 it, a temporary government. 
 
 October 1, 1804, this territory was divided into the "Dis- 
 trict of Louisiana" and the Territory of Orleans. 
 
 On the 4th of July, 1805, the ''district" of Louisiana was 
 organized into a "territory" of the same name. 
 
 On the 30th of April, 1812, the Territory of Orleans 
 became a State of the Union, under the name of Louisiana. 
 
6 HISTORY OF IOWA. 
 
 December 1, 1812, the Territory of Louisiana was, by 
 authority of Congress, re-organized and called the Terri- 
 tory of Missouri. 
 
 July 4, 1819, Arkansas Territory was made and com- 
 prised the present State of that name and the country to 
 the westward. 
 
 March 2, 1821, by a "joint resolution" of Congress, the 
 State of Missouri. — being a part of Missouri Territory, — 
 was admitted into the Union. 
 
 June 28, 1884, the territory north of the State -of Mis- 
 souri, was made a part of the Territory of Michigan. 
 
 July 3, 1836, AVisconsin Territory was taken from that 
 of Michigan and embraced the present States of Iowa, 
 Minnesota and ^Yisconsin. 
 
 July 3, 1838, the Territory of Iowa was formed, includ- 
 ing, beside the present limits of the State, what is now 
 Minnesota and extending northward to the British line. 
 
 After several attempts to locate tha boundaries of the 
 State of Iowa, it was finally admitted, with its present 
 limits, on the 28th day of December, 1846, making the 
 twenty-ninth State in the Union. Thus our proud young 
 State is but thirty years old, and we challenge any of the 
 other States to a comparison of enterprise and progress. 
 
 When admitted into the Union, the population of Iowa 
 was 97,588; according to the last census, it is 1,350,544. 
 
 It is situated between the 40th and 43d parellels of lat- 
 itude, and east and west between the two great rivers, — the 
 Mississippi and the Missouri. Its area is 55,045 square 
 miles and contains 35,228,200 acres of land. The distance 
 across the State, east and west, is about 300 miles; north 
 and south, over 200 miles. Its surface is about ninety per 
 cent prairie, mostly undulating, thus giving us compar- 
 atively little " swamp land." According to White's Report, 
 ninety-five per cent of the surface is tillable. 
 
 No State is richer in the chief wealth of the nation — 
 Agriculture. 
 
IlISTOUY OF IOWA. 7 
 
 But a few short years ago this was the "far west," and 
 when it was announced by a friend or neighbor that he was 
 going to Iowa "to live," we thouglit it a terribly reckless 
 undertaking, and could only comfort ourselves by sighing 
 sadly, "Ah, well; 'westward the star of empire takes its 
 way' — and ever will. If they are determined to risk their 
 lives among the savages, where the only mark of civiliza- 
 tion is an occasional fort, or a settlement of deluded whites, 
 we can but commend them to the tender mercies of the 
 All-father, whose watchful eye is ever over us." 
 
 To-day all is changed. Iowa is no longer "away out 
 west," — that region having receded to somewhere nearer 
 sunset. The broad prairies are dotted with well cultivated 
 and well stocked farms, and on every hand may be seen 
 the evidence of thrift and general comfort, found only in 
 agricultural regions. The farmer is here rewarded with 
 abundant harvests — all the cereals yielding abundantly, 
 while the fruits adapted to this climate and all " garden 
 vegetables " can be grown successfully. The soil is less 
 susceptible to the effects of drouth or extremely wet weather, 
 than that of most other States. 
 
 "Distance lends enchantment," and we hear, with feelings 
 of rapture, the glowing descriptions of the ever-green and 
 exuberant loveliness of the south, or with feelings of awe 
 of the " icy deserts " of the far north. Tourists fill our 
 imaginations with the grandeur of the mountain scenery of 
 the west, but nowhere can be found, scenes of quiet, grace- 
 ful beauty, equal to those of the prairies of Iowa. The 
 graceful undulations of the prairie; the ever welcome 
 groves; the clear, swiftly flowing streams, make a mag- 
 nificent scene, while to add to its loveliness, the wild prairie 
 flowers of various hues and varieties, greet us at every 
 step; indeed so profuse are they upon the unbroken prairie, 
 that verily, it may be said, "we tread upon a carpet of 
 roses." With the limpid Mississippi on her eastern and 
 the turbid Missouri on her western boundary, and traversed 
 
8 HISTORY OF IOWA. 
 
 by numerous railroads; with all the resources of commerce 
 at her command; with unlimited water power for man- 
 ufactures, and nearly every acre of land available for 
 farming or grazing, Iowa, with her live and enterprising 
 citizens, is making rapid strides toward thS front rank in 
 the Union. 
 
 The Sacs and Foxes, when driven by the whites from one 
 hunting ground to another, and when finall}^ driven across 
 the Mississippi river, as they lay down discouraged and 
 exhausted, exclaimed, " Iowa! " " Here we rest," or "Here 
 we sleep." Thus Iowa means a resting place, and he who 
 would rest, not from labor, but from the turmoil and con- 
 fasion of crowded towns and cities, ma}' here find an 
 "Iowa." 
 
DESCRIPTION OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Guthrie county is situated between the 41st and 42d par- 
 allels of north latitude, and is twenty-four miles square, 
 which gives it an area of five hundred and seventy- six 
 square miles. It lies in the fourth tier of counties from the 
 south, and also in the fourth tier from the west line of the 
 State. It is bounded on the north by Carroll and Greene 
 counties, on the east by Dallas, on the south by Adair, and 
 on the west by Audubon county. 
 
 The soil partakes of the general character of the prairie 
 soil of the west, sand loam, and on the margins of the 
 streams alluvial, all highly productive, as our numerous 
 and bountiful crops testify. It is well watered and as well 
 timbered as most counties in the west part of the State; 
 though the bodies of timber may not be as large as along 
 the larger streams of some counties, yet the numerous 
 streams, whose valleys and ravines are covered with an 
 average quality of timber, some quite good (said to aver- 
 ag e a mile in width), make up our lack of large tracts. 
 Bear Grove, containing eighteen hundred acres, is the 
 largest in the count}^. It is situated in Bear Grove town- 
 ship, in the middle western part of the county, while others 
 of less extent are distributed along the various streams, at 
 more or less convenient distances, from the open prairies, 
 some sections being three, some five, while no section is 
 more than ten miles from timber. 
 
 A great many "artificial" groves have been and are still 
 being planted, which besides being a protection from 
 storms, to buildings and orchards, may in time afford a 
 limited supply of fire-wood. 
 
10 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 The insufficiency of timber for fuel is abundantly com- 
 pensated in the coal fields, which underlie many parts of 
 the county. The native forests embrace several kinds of 
 oak; hickory, walnut, cotton-wood, maple and elm. The 
 artificial groves are maple and cotton-wood, with an occa- 
 sional one of willow. 
 
 Where there is any protection from the fires which sweep 
 the prairies in the late autumn and early spring, consider- 
 able tracts have been covered watli a vigorous growth of 
 hazel, oak, etc., as that on the uplands of middle 'Coon 
 near Panora, where it is said not a shrub was seen in the 
 early settlement of the county. 
 
 The principal streams of the county are, Middle river, 
 middle and south Raccoon rivers, with their numerous trib- 
 utaries, the most important of which are. Brushy Fork, 
 Bear, Beaver, Willow, Seely and Mosquito creeks. South 
 Raccoon rises in the divide about four miles south of the 
 north-west corner of the county and runs in a south-east- 
 erly direction, receiving near the centre of the county, 
 Brushy Fork, which enters the county in the north-west 
 corner and is the most important stream of the two. 
 
 Middle Raccoon enters the county four miles east of 
 Brushy Fork and runs nearly parallel to it, at a distance 
 of, from two to six miles ; its course is south-east and leaves 
 the county in Jackson township, about eight miles from 
 the south line, while south 'Coon makes its exit four miles 
 below. 
 
 The stream next in importance is Middle river, which 
 rises in Bear Grove, and pursues the same general course 
 as the others, leaving the county one and a-half miles east 
 of Casey, on the southern boundary, or about eight miles 
 from the west line. Its chief tributary is South Fork of 
 Middle river. Troublesome creek in the south-west part of 
 Bear Grove township, receives the numerous small streams 
 of that part of the township, and runs in a south-westerly 
 direction. The larger branches of south 'Coon are, Seely 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 11 
 
 creek, in Bear Grove and Centre townships, Bear creek, 
 which drains Centre and part of Valley townships, Beaver 
 creek, from Valley and Beaver townships, and Deer creek 
 and Long Branch from Penn. 
 
 The chief branches of middle Raccoon river are, Willow 
 creek, from Highland township and Bay's Branch, from 
 Cass. Mosquito creek, w^hich rises in a lake of the same 
 name in the eastern part of Dodge, drains Richland town- 
 ship, as does also a small stream called Greenbrier. The 
 lakes (which are small) are. Pilot, Swan and Mosquito in 
 Dodge, and Lone Tree in Richland. This latter takes its 
 name from a single cottonwood tree that stands upon its 
 shore; the name is very suggestive, and in the early days, 
 before artificial groves were made, this lone tree was a 
 pleasant relief to the eye, from the wdde stretches of prairie, 
 which on a very warm day were apt to become monotonous. 
 We remember the stories that used to be told to " us green 
 ones " about seeing this tree from Dalmanutha, a distance 
 of twenty miles and even further, forgetting that w^e might 
 possibly think of the obstacles to be overcome in seeing a 
 thing at so great a distance, — the rotundity of the earth's 
 surface, the limit of mortal vision, etc. — but perhaps they 
 thought we would think this a " mighty " tall tree, (a west- 
 ernism we learned about this time). 
 
 The rivers aiford sufficient w^ater pow^r for all manufac- 
 turing purposes; there are two large woolen mills, with a 
 number of grist and saw mills located on them, all doing a 
 good business; of these we will speak hereafter. 
 
 As you enter the county on the east, the prairie sweeps 
 away in gentle undulations, as far as the eye can reach, 
 and should you view it for the first time, on a balmy June 
 morning, when the breezes gently sway the tall prairie 
 grass, just close your eyes and imagine yourself on deck 
 of an ocean steamer, and when you open them again you 
 can scarcely realize that you are upon terra firma. But I 
 was thinking of several years ago; the farmers are fast 
 changing that billowy green ocean, into cultivated fields 
 
12 HISTORY OF GUTHKIE COUNTY, 
 
 and gardens, dotted with neat little cottages, orchards, 
 groves and shade trees. 
 
 But going back to the uncultivated " surface," as you 
 approach middle 'Coon valley the scene changes; the 
 prairie becomes high and rolling, and as you near the river, 
 rough and broken. To the westward of this river the sur- 
 face is a succession of symmetrical ridges, the sight of 
 which, make you wish you were a child again, that in 
 winter you might coast upon these hills to your heart's 
 content, or in summer, lie down and roll from summit to 
 base. Though Time's gentle hand has painted numerous 
 silvery steaks above our brow, we nerier pass these hills 
 but sympathy with these childish diversions takes posses- 
 sion of us. 
 
 These ridges or high undulations, continue to the great 
 water-shed divide, which separates the drainages of the Mis- 
 sissisppi and Missouri rivers, and marks our western 
 boundary. 
 
 These ridges as well as the less rolling prairie are con- 
 sidered valuable farming lands, while all parts of the 
 county are adapted to stock raising. Taken as a whole, 
 Guthrie county is one of the best grazing and farming 
 counties in the State. 
 
 There is an abundance of coal, mines of which are being 
 opened in many localities throughout the county. The 
 first one opened was that of J. T. Frazier in 1858, three 
 and a-half miles south-east of Panora. Mr. Frazier at that 
 time delivered coal at ten cents per bushel. 
 
 In 1865 we paid thirty cents a bushel, for a most inferior 
 quality of coal; now we get very good coal for just half 
 that price. 
 
 We have stone that affords excellent building material, 
 quarries of which have been opened on south 'Coon, Bea- 
 ver and Deer creeks, and 'Coon's branch. At Farnsworth's 
 quarry on the latter named stream, a superior article is 
 found. This quarry furnishes stone for the foundation of 
 the new court house. 
 
HISTORY OE^ GUTHRIE COUNTY. 13 
 
 Besides possessing mineral wealth, a soil unexcelled in 
 fertility ; timber in moderate supply; water power abund- 
 ant for all manufacturing purposes, and in connection with 
 the fine grazing lauds for stock raising, scenery unsur- 
 passed in beauty, Guthrie county possesses the advantages 
 of railway communications, having the Chicago, Rock 
 Island and Pacific on her southern border, and the Chicgoa 
 and Northwestern and Des Moines and Ft. Dodge within 
 easy reach on the north and east. 
 
 FIRST SETTLEMENT OP GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Previous to 1848, what is now Guthrie county, was the 
 home of the red man, this being a part of the resting and 
 hunting ground of Johnny Green, the Musquaka chief, and 
 his tribe. The foot of the white man had never trodden 
 the beautiful emerald carpet of the wild prairie; his hand 
 had never plucked from this part of Nature's garden, the 
 loveliest flowers, planted by Nature's bountiful hand. The 
 hunting grounds and camping places of the red man were 
 along the streams and certain beaten trails, where he could 
 roam or rest unmolested. 
 
 In the spring of 1848 a single emigrant wagon, contain- 
 ing the household goods and gods of John Nevins, stopped 
 on section 1, town 78, range 39, since known as the Charles 
 Harper place, made a claim of the same and went to work 
 to improve it. He built a little cabin, plowed up several 
 acres of land and planted the first crop in Guthrie county. 
 After gathering his corn in the fall, he w^ent with his family 
 to visit friends in the "Fort,"' where he was obliged to 
 remain until spring, on account of the snow which was 
 quite deep and thickly crusted. This is said to be one of 
 Iowa's severest winters, during which, much wild game per- 
 ished, by reason of its severity. " There is no great loss 
 without some small gain." Mr. Nevins' loss proved the 
 gain and salvation of his neighbors in Dallas county, as. 
 
14 HISTORY OF GUTHKIE COUNTY. 
 
 they, upon the verge of starvation, went to his crib and 
 with hand-sleds drew the corn home, and with the "hominy" 
 made therefrom, drove the wolf from their doors. These 
 neighbors were Leroy Lambert, John Hayes, Jerome Paige, 
 David Daily and a Mr. Randolph, all living in Dallas 
 county. 
 
 In 1847, Benjamin Kunkle removed from Champaign 
 county, Ohio, to Wapello county, Iowa, but his ideal of 
 home and country had not been realized to him there j so 
 in the fall of 1848 he came farther west; on and on he came, 
 over the almost boundless prairie, across the clear, purling 
 streams, past occasional farm houses and hamlets, and 
 leaving the latter miles behind him, he finally reached his 
 present place, where, with thanks to the All-father, who 
 had guided his steps hither, he rested from his journeyings, 
 staked out a claim and determined to make this a home — 
 his home. 
 
 With him came a Mr. Parrott, who also made a claim, but 
 who never returned to " claim " it. Here in solitude and 
 in silence, with no companions, save his horses and his 
 dog; with no roof but his " covered wagon " to shelter him; 
 with no table upon which to partake of his plain meals of 
 corn bread and bacon, prepared by his own hands, save 
 the green earth, but with willing hands and a brave heart, 
 he went to work to prepare a home for his loved ones. 
 
 Here he built a cabin and made such improvements as 
 were necessary to prove his sincerity in taking his claim 
 and to entitle him to hold the same. This being done he 
 returned to Wapello to spend the winter with his family, 
 intending to bring them to the new home the ensuing 
 spring, but the high waters prevented this, and he was 
 obliged to remain until the latter part of August, when he 
 started westward, arriving at his place on the first day of 
 September, 1849. 
 
 Though the cabin was built, it had neither door nor win- 
 dow and they were obliged to wait on the outside until a 
 •<loor could be sawed out, at least a doorway; the door 
 
HISTORY OF GLTHRIE COUNTY. 15 
 
 "being a blanket hung on nails. They made their beds 
 upon the ground, there being no floor in the cabin, and 
 slept sweetly in their own home. 
 
 The family arose early the next morning and went out to 
 view their newly acquired possessions. The cabin stood in 
 a little grove, beyond wdiich, to the eastward, ran a little 
 stream ; away beyond and in every direction stretched the 
 beautiful, undulating prairie, the tall, rank grass, still 
 fresh and green, dotted with gorgeous autumn flowers, 
 while here and there might be seen a deer or an elk bounding 
 away in all his native grace and freedom. The prospect 
 that met their eyes was indeed enchanting and with hearts 
 full of gratitude, that they had found a country so beautiful, 
 and so blest by Nature, they began the duties of the day— 
 of a new life, as it were. 
 
 Though they entered upon this new life wath true courage, 
 think not, happy reader of to-day, that their's w^as a life of 
 sunshine; oh, no: far from it. It was one of privation and 
 toil, x,nd though the beacon of Hope ever upheld and sus- 
 tained them, small w^onder is it, that its light sometimes 
 grew dim, or that their hearts were sometimes oppressed to 
 the verge of despair, by homesickness and loneliness. 
 
 As " necessity is the mother of invention," so the neces- 
 sity of finding a more convenient and comfortable place than 
 the ground upon which to sleep, produced the " prairie 
 bunk," which consisted of two poles, usually hickory, the 
 ends of which were laid on a log at either side of the cabin, 
 extending across one end of it, with slats of smaller poles; 
 sometimes, however, they made an old fashioned " cord 
 bed," using basswood bark for the cord. This made a 
 double bed, the walls making the head pannels; foot pan- 
 nels they did without. 
 
 A packing box answered the purpose of a table, while 
 their chairs consisted of smaller boxes of the same kind, 
 and rough home-made stools. Their lights were " dips " 
 made of deer suet. Deer were so plentiful that venison 
 
16 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 with the provision they were able to bring with them, con- 
 stituted their food. 
 
 On the first day of September, 1849, Mr. Knnkle and 
 family arrived at their cabin; on the 12th day of Septem- 
 ber, 1849, Mrs. Knnkle gave birth to the iirst white child 
 born in the county, Malinda Jane, now the wife of G. W. 
 Mount. Her's was a brave heart, who could thus leave a 
 comfortable home and face the privations of pioneer life. 
 No peans may be sung for her; no story written, extoling 
 her bravery, nevertheless she is a true heroine and her just 
 reward is certain. 
 
 When Mr. Kunkle came, he brought with him the first 
 hogs ever brought to the county. 
 
 With Mr. K. came J. W. Cummins, who made a claim 
 where Stevenson Mount now resides. He remained here 
 but a short time, when he returned to Wapello, where he 
 remained until the next spring, when he moved on his 
 claim. In 1854, he moved to and improved the Carey Har- 
 bor farm. In the spring of 1861 he came to his present 
 place, which is well improved and cultivated. He has fine 
 hedges, fine groves and a fine orchard. 
 
 Mr. Cummins was born near Springfield, 111., educated 
 himself, and came to Wapello county with his father In 
 1847. He cast his first vote for president in 1852,^yoting for 
 Scott; assisted in organizing the Repu:blican party; has 
 been sheriff of Guthrie county three terms. One of Guth- 
 rie's oldest citizens, he has been identified with everything 
 that x'^ertains to her best interests and has the courage to do 
 what his judgment dictates is right. With the aid of an 
 intelligent and lovely wife, he makes his home a model of 
 hospitality. 
 
 In the fall of 1850, came Abraham Moore, Samuel Moore, 
 Fred Fry, James Moor^ and Benjamin Denslow, eacli of 
 whom made claims and erected cabins thereon, and with the 
 exception of Samuel Moore and Fred Fry, who had their 
 families with them, moved on their claims in the spring of 
 1851. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 17 
 
 The claim of Fred Fry was the one " staked off" by Mr. 
 Parrott, who did not return to it, so Mr. F. was at liberty 
 to "jump " it. This is now the J. J. Morris farm. 
 
 In February, 1850, John Davis made a claim of what is 
 now the Culbertson farm. He has since (in 1864) removed 
 to Oregon. The same year came Conrad Brumbaugh, 
 Andrew Brumbaugh, Theophilus Bryan, John Van Order, 
 Jacob Van Order, J. Schellhart, Michael Leinart, David 
 Bay, Michael Mock, Daniel Messinger, George Messinger, 
 Joseph Kicks and Nicholas Hartman. 
 
 Conrad Brumbaugh came in May, 1^50, and made a 
 claim, half a mile west of Panora, where his son Henry 
 now lives. 
 
 John and Jacob Van Order made claims; the former, 
 where John Cline now resides, the latter, where Peter 
 Batchelet's home now is. 
 
 Theophilus Bryan, bought the claim of John Van Order 
 and afterward that of Jacob Van Order, familiarly called 
 Jake. Mr. Bryan came in March, 1851. 
 
 Andrew Brumbaugh made a claim of what is since 
 known as the Silas Harper farm. He, as well as John Van 
 Order, has since removed to Oregon, while Conrad Brum- 
 baugh and Jacob Van Order have been removed to where 
 claims and cabins are supposed to form no part of their 
 possessions. 
 
 J. Schellhart made a claim of what is now known as the 
 Hosier place, which passed into the hands of J. Anderson, 
 then to Abraham Hosier, and is now owned by Col. Nichols. 
 Mr. S. left the county years ago and no one knows where 
 he is. 
 
 Michael Mock made a claim where Rev. S. Anderson 
 now resides. Mr. Mock is now living in Polk county. 
 
 David Bay (for whom Bay's Branch was named) settled 
 on the T. Roberts place. He went to Texas several years 
 ago, where he died. 
 Michael and George Messinger made claims; the former 
 
18 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 on what is now tlie John Allen Wasson farm, and the latter 
 in the same vicinity. 
 
 Solomon Messinger made a claim where J. White now 
 resides. Michael, too, followed the star of empire to its 
 utmost limits — Oregon. 
 
 The present farm of Jas. Foster was claimed by Nathan 
 Maynard. Joseph Ricks also made a claim near the Brum- 
 bangh mill. 
 
 Nicholas Hartman, too, made a claim, but went to Cal- 
 ifornia several years ago; however, he discovered that Iowa 
 was good enough for him, and he returned to Dallas^ 
 county, where he now resides. 
 
 Of all those who came in 1S50, Henry Brumbaugh and 
 wife, who were then children, and Michael Leinart and 
 family, are all that are left in this part of the county, Cass 
 township, while of the settlement made in Jackson, Mr. 
 Kunkle, J. W. Cummins, Benj. Denslow, Sam. Moore and 
 J. W. York, are all that remain of those who came pre- 
 vious to 1851. 
 
 In May, 1850, Michael Leinart bought a claim of David 
 Bay, which is the old Leinart farm, south-east of Panora. 
 In November, of the same year, moved his family from the 
 old homestead in Dearborn, Indiana. On his way hither, be 
 stopped with friends in Wapello county, who remonstrated 
 against his bringing his children where they would receive 
 no education. But he was not to be dissuaded from his 
 purpose. Though, like most of the old settlers, their 
 purses were light, yet their hearts were brave and their pur- 
 pose fixed. Their first residence was a shanty, but the pros- 
 pect of a brighter and better future, made it a happy home, 
 even amid the hardships of pioneer life. What though 
 an occasional pang of homesickness clouded the hour, 
 or the dismal howl of the wolf, brought before them, with 
 a vividness they could not relish, their isolated condition; 
 what though the larder was sometime empty and many 
 seeming discouragements presented themselves, their un- 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. !&• 
 
 bounded faith in the future prosperity and enlightenment 
 of this fair land, enabled them to accept the situation 
 hopefulh', if not at all times . cheerfull}^, and in time to sur- 
 mount all difficulties. Neither did they borrow trouble 
 concerning the education of their two children, Valentine 
 and Saranda. On the 21st day of January, 1851, a second 
 daughter, Mary, now the wife of Jesse Johnson, of Panora, 
 was born to them. When she was fifteen years old, she 
 received a first-class certificate and taught a district school 
 and she had never been to school out of the county either. 
 She has since been a successful teacher, and her father and 
 mother have just cause for self-gratulation, on their judg- 
 ment in selecting a home, as they certainly have nothing to 
 regret on the score of educational facilities, of which I will 
 speak hereafter. 
 
 Not long since an old settler inquired of me, "How are 
 times in Stuart now?" "Well, really I do not know; 
 everybody is complaining of hard times." "Hard times, 
 indeed! it disgusts me to hear the croakers of to-day com- 
 plaining of hard times, small houses, lack of money, etc. 
 Bless your soul, I wish you could have lived here in the 
 early days of our county; you'd be ashamed to say hard 
 times now. Why, there were times when we were fortu- 
 nate, if we had half a bushel of corn or a bushel of pota- 
 toes in the house." 
 
 The first year of their arrival here was devoted to pre- 
 paring the land for the next year's crop. After turing the 
 sod over or breaking the prairie, if done early enough in 
 the season, they raised a crop of sod corn, which was good 
 only for stock; the next spring they put in a crop of wheat, 
 or corn, so they must wait over a year to realize anything 
 from their own industry, at least until they could have any 
 kind of grain of their own raising. 
 
 Those who brought wheat or corn, flour or meal with 
 them, fared well for a time, but those who failed to do so, 
 sometimes suffered. 
 
■20 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 The nearest mill was below Winterset in Warren county. 
 from which nearly all their breadstuff's were drawn by ox 
 "teams. As the distance was great, the streams not [bridged 
 and. in high waters impassable, and as oxen travelled 
 slowly any way, as soon as they could get 'round to it, an 
 occasional settler constructed something that answered the 
 purposes of a mill. One made by Mr. Kunkle, consisted 
 of a large concave stone fixed permanently on the ground 
 and another, convex, made to revolve in this, by horse 
 power. A still more primitive arrangement was Andrew 
 Brumbaugh's mill, which differed from the other, in that it 
 was operated by men and women; a pole was tixed, one 
 end in the upper stone and the other in the ceiling, by which 
 they turned the mill. 
 
 Abram Moore owned a large coffee mill and several of 
 the neighbors ground their corn upon that. They also 
 ground corn, wheat and buckwheat upon the ordinary fam- 
 ily coffee mill. 
 
 Many families, among whom was that of Mr. Denslow, 
 lived on corn, with an occasional meal of wild meat for 
 nearly two years. For some time after they raised a crop of 
 wheat they lived on bread and turnips, the only variety or 
 luxury being salt. When they came to Guthrie, their 
 worldly possessions consisted of a team of horses and ten 
 dollars in money. Mr. Denslow came in the fall of 1850, 
 and made a claim on Sec. 4, T. 79, R. 30. In the spring 
 he moved his family, and April 20, 1851, he made another 
 claim on Sec. 35, T. 78, R. 30. 
 
 They lived, as did the rest of the old settlers, in a cabin, 
 with the usual prairie bed, "made" table and benches. They 
 are now well-to-do. Mrs. Denslow is yet hale and hearty, 
 full of life and energy, and as I remarked to her the only 
 time I ever saw her, " She seemed to have grown fat over 
 the haid times." "Oh," she replied, "it is all over now 
 and we can afford to laugh, but I tell you it looked i^retty 
 blue sometimes then." 
 
 The experience of one old settler is substantially the 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 21 
 
 experience of all old settlers, so we give that of those, 
 whose history we are most familiar with. 
 
 In 1S4S the first settlement was made. In September, 
 1849, the first birth occurred. To the first settler nearly 
 two years had rolled peacefully away, though not without 
 its hardships and privations, and in August, 1850, this 
 liandful of people was called upon to perform the last sad 
 rites over the remains of their neighbor, a Mr. M'Cullough,. 
 who died in a cabin, which stood near the present site of 
 Pearson's mill. A rude box, made by kind neighbors, was 
 his coffin; a sheet furnished b}'" Mrs. Kunkle, his shroud; 
 the hearse, an old cart drawn by a yoke of oxen, and his 
 final resting place, a beautiful bluff near Morrisburg. 
 Slowly through the timber and over the prairie, to the place 
 prepared for the reception of the mortal M'Cullough, the 
 funeral procession wended its way. Without a word they 
 lowered the coffin; in silence they covered it with the clods, 
 and in silence returned to their cabins. Though no oration 
 was said and no sermon preached, yet that reverential 
 silence, their manful tenderness and their silent, heartfelt 
 prayers, as they committed their fellow-man to the kind 
 embrace of mother earth, were quite as acceptable in the 
 sight of God. Though no stone marks his resting place, 
 while his pall-bearers live, he will not be wholly forgotten. 
 
 The winter of 1849-50 being very severe and feed scarce, 
 many of the cattle died, and the work cattle that lived 
 through, were so reduced as to be unable to draw the plow 
 to break up the prairie sod for the spring crop, so the set- 
 tlers were obliged to go the weedy bottoms along the 'Coon 
 river and plant a sufficient quantity of corn to keep the 
 wolf from their door, until they could open out their 
 claims. 
 
 In 1850 the land in the western part of the state was sur- 
 veyed by the Government, it having been previously pur- 
 chased of the Indians, who made their exit from Guthrie 
 in 1849, their ugly moccasin tracks in their serpent trails 
 being scarcely obliterated when our first settlers airived. 
 2 
 
22 inSTOKY OF GUTHKIE COUNTY. 
 
 A few of them still remained, who Indian-like, stole some 
 horses from Dallas county and made good their escape, 
 but were captured at Kanesville and the horses recovered. 
 Ever since its settlement the county has been visited by 
 roving bands of some tribe, for the purpose of hunting and 
 selling their furs, who do no harm except begging and 
 stealing what they can, and casting a general feeling of 
 repugnance over the community where they happen to stop. 
 I recall a laughable incident connected with one of their 
 visits. A band of Musquakas camped west of Panora; 
 every day squads of them would go through town, stop- 
 ping at every house to beg. 
 
 Previous to this, an enthusiastic philanthropist said she 
 would like nothing better than to have a negro family on 
 one side of her and an indian family on the other; she 
 would take so much pleasure in civilizing them. Very 
 evidently she had, like all the rest of us, been reading Pope's 
 "Lo, the poor Indian," and perhaps Longfellow's "Hiawa- 
 atha,"' and with the rest of us, her symj)atlnes were with 
 the '' poor, abused Indian." When the Musquakas came 
 to her house, they did not look very spirituelle, nor yet like 
 the imaginary " noble red man of the forest." Thej' entered 
 without permission and demanded something to eat. "With 
 fear and trembling she collected everything she had pre- 
 pared for her family and gave them. This did not satisfy 
 them, and seeing a red and green quilt, such as our graud- 
 iiiothers and our mothers delighted in, upon the bed, a 
 squaw marched up and deliberately helped herself to it. 
 The ladj^'s heart sank within her. "Ah," sighed she, men- 
 tally, "there go hours, days, weeks; aye months of weary 
 labor, and I dare not open my mouth. Alas, alas; what 
 shall I dof Echo answered, alas, alas. After they had de- 
 parted with her fancy bed-quilt and other things, she simply 
 said, with a sigh of relief, " Surely distance lends enchant- 
 ment."* 
 
 Besides those already mentioned, who came to Guthrie 
 county in 1851, were Addison and William Cave, who set- 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 23 
 
 tied where tlipy now reside; Aaron Hougham on the Pear- 
 son place; J. W. York, on the farm now owned by William 
 Harvey, Sr.; Joseph Cave settled wh^t is now known as 
 the Windowmaker farm; David Thompson, his present 
 place; William Miler, the farm owned by LarkinManlsby; 
 Henry Harper, the place where T. E. Harbor now resides; 
 Oeo. Rohr, the place of Milton Harbor. S. G. Weeks 
 took a claim, which is now the farm of W. T. Connor, and 
 his son, A. G. AVeeks made a claim where John F. Branson 
 lives. Hiram Haskins *• claimed'' the farm now owned by 
 William Swisher, west of Dale City. This list, with those 
 before named, embraces all that were living in the county 
 south of middle Raccoon river at the date of its organiza- 
 tion. 
 
 Among those settling north of the river, or in the Leinart 
 and Brumbaugh settlements, besides those already named, 
 were John and Michael Messinger, T. M. Boyles, Wm. 
 Grames and Asa Cox. 
 
 In the dim twilight of a May evening, in 1S51, a solitary 
 emigrant wagon halted at the cabin of Conrad Brumbaugh, 
 and a little band of travellers, consisting of a man, his 
 wife and two children, weary and travel-worn, were wel- 
 comed to a home, as hospitable as kind hearts and ready 
 hands could make it. These more than welcome guests, 
 were Asa Cox and family, who had come west to seek a 
 
 home. 
 
 Mr. Brumbaugh, fortunately, had two cabins on his 
 <;laim, one of which he generously offered them, rent free, 
 as long as they desired to occupy it. Of this kind ofter 
 Mr. Cox availed himself, remaining in the cabin until 1853. 
 In 1853 Mr. Cox erected the residence now occupied by 
 Lewis Harvout, which was the second house built in Pa- 
 
 nora. 
 
 While they yet lived on Mr. Brumbaugh's place, the two 
 families possessed one cow in common; one would milk her 
 in the morning and the other in the evening. Panooch and 
 Des Moines supplied these settlers with groceries and dry 
 
24 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 goods. They frequently walked to Panoocb, a distance of 
 twenty-five miles, for goods, which they carried upon their 
 backs or drew upon. hand- sleds. 
 
 This was a lonesome walk, as there was but one cabin, 
 in 1S51, between Panooch and the present site of Panora. 
 For flour and meal they went below Winterset and the 
 Fort (Des Moines), and like all the old settlers, when they 
 ran ashore, they ground their grain upon hand mills and 
 coffee mills. 
 
 In 1852 when Anderson's mill was approaching comple- 
 tion, everybody depended upon its supplying them with 
 breadstuffs, but the high waters prevented its being put in 
 operation at the expected time, and for four weeks the good 
 people lived upon potatoes and squashes. 
 
 Mrs. Cox says the best meal she was ever privileged to 
 partake of, was at the house of a neighbor, in 1851. She 
 had been eating corn bread all summer long, and was per- 
 haps a little tired of it. Her neighbor said she had some 
 wheat and they would have a change. She ground the 
 wheat upon her coffee mill and made graham gems, which 
 were excellent and which were so grateful to Mrs. C.'s 
 palate, she will never forget them. 
 
 All the summer long she had lived in her cabin, without 
 having seen a single traveller. One afternoon in October 
 she looked away to the east, and there, oh, joyful sights 
 was a covered wagon; they did not wait to see who w^ere its 
 occupants, but ran to meet it. It contained a solitary man, 
 and stranger though he was, he w^as welcomed with as much 
 joy as would have been the dearest friend they ever knew. 
 Said one of these pioneers, in relating this incident, " if I 
 ever wept for joy, it was then. The first train of cars I 
 ever saw was not so grand a sight as was that covered 
 wagon. Never before, nor since, have I felt such emotions 
 of pure delight.'' 
 
 A valuable acquisition to the neighborhood was Aunt 
 Polly, an aunt of Mrs. Cox, who was the good angel of all 
 the households, especially in sickness. Was a neighbor 
 
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IIISTOKY OF GUTHRIE COU^s'TY 
 
 25 
 
 sick, Aunt Polly was sent for, and she, with kind heart and 
 willing hands, was ever ready to ftive assistance and en- 
 couragement. 
 
 The old settlers lived peacefully, without political con- 
 tentions or dissentions, until the summer of '51, when, by 
 permission of the Legislature, their desire for self-govern- 
 ment was gratified. 
 
 ORGANIZATION OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 In the winter of 1850-51, the Legislature, then in session 
 at Iowa City, divided the territory west of Dallas county 
 into counties, and as it was a Democratic body, named our 
 county after the great Democratic statesman of Kentucky, 
 
 Guthrie. 
 
 At this session, L. W. Babbitt, of Kanesville, and E. R. 
 Guiberson, of Madison county, represented Marion, Polk, 
 Dallas, Jasper, Marshall, Story, Boone, Warren, and Madi- 
 son counties, as well as all the rest of the territory in western 
 
 Iowa. 
 
 Judge McKay, who was then judge of the 5th Judicial 
 District, appointed Theophilus Bryan organizing sheriff for 
 Guthrie county. On the 8th day of August, 1851, he pro- 
 ceeded in his official capacity to divide the county into two 
 townships, or election precincts, the line dividing them com- 
 mencing where Middle 'Coon river crosses the east line of 
 the county, and running along said river to the section line 
 between sections 9 and 16, T. 79, R. 30, thence west to the 
 west line of tl!e county. The north township was called 
 Cass, the south Jackson. The place designated for holding 
 elections in Cass was at the residence of Andrew Brum- 
 baugh ; in Jackson at the residence of Fred Fry. 
 
 The next thing in order was to post written notices, call- 
 ing a county convention to nominate candidates for the 
 different county offices, to be voted for at the ensuing 
 election, which was to be held on the first Monday of August. 
 The said convention was held at the cabin of Joseph Ricks, 
 
26 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 near the old Brumbangh mill, when the following nomina- 
 tions were made : For County Jndge, T. Bryan ; County 
 Clerk, S. G. Weeks ; Treasurer and Recorder, T. M. Boyles ; 
 County Assessor, James Moore ; Prosecuting Attorney, 
 Fred Fry ; County Surveyor, A. G. Weeks ; School Fund 
 Commissioner, Aaron Hough am ; Inspector of Weights 
 and Measures, Sam'l Moore ; Sheriff, Michael Messinger. 
 
 At the August election they were all duly elected and 
 qualified according to law. At this election, J. W. Cum- 
 mins and Aaron Hougham were elected Justices of the 
 Peace for Jackson township. At this time the population 
 of the county was 222. The number of votes cast 39 — all 
 Democratic, which would indicate, to those of like faith, 
 that themillenium, politically speaking, was nearer at hand 
 then than now. At the second election there were four 
 Whigs in the count3% J. W. Cummins, J. H. Gander, John 
 Anderson, and David Bay ; but as they were a hopeless 
 minority, they had no ticket In the field. The names of 
 those who voted at the first election are, in Jackson town- 
 ship, Abraham Moore, James Moore, Samuel Moore, Benj. 
 Moore, Fred Fry, H. Haskins, James Haskins, S. G. Weeks, 
 A. G. Weeks, Aaron Hougham, J. W. York, Benj. Dens- 
 low, Benj. Kunkle, G. W. Rohrer, J. Nevins, Henry Harper, 
 Mathew Piper, J. W. Cummins, David Dailey, and Jerome 
 Paige. The latter named two gentlemen lived in Dallas 
 county, but it was more convenient for them to vote in 
 Guthrie. Mr. Paige was elected constable for Jackson 
 township, in which capacity he served for some time. At 
 that time it was not considered "irregular" to select such 
 officers from over the line ; or, as Guthrie was, previous to 
 its organization, attached to Dallas for judicial and revenue 
 purposes, perhaps they had formed a sort of second-cousin- 
 hood and thought it was all in the family. 
 
 Those voting at the first election in Cass township were : 
 Michael Messinger, John Messinger, George Messinger, 
 Daniel Messinger, David Bay, Michael Mock, Andrew Brum- 
 baugh, Joseph Ricks, John Davis, T. M. Boyles, John 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 27 
 
 Vanorder, Jacob Yanorder, Theopliilns Bryan, Micbael 
 Leinart, Conrad Brumbaugh, NicJiolas Hartman, Wm. 
 Grames, Peter Yandeventer, and Nathan Maynard. Of 
 this number Mr. Leinart is the only one now remaining in 
 the county. 
 
 The iirst ballot box used in Cass was Aunt Hannah Bry- 
 an's tea-pot. At the next election they had an oblong box 
 of walnut sides and bass wood ends, made by Richard 
 Gilbert. This latter is now in the possession of Mrs. Cyn- 
 thia Campbell, who treasures it as a relic of by-gone 
 days. 
 
 At the first election in Cass, Mr. Leinart was elected a 
 Justice of the Peace, but failed to qualify, and Nathan 
 Maynard was appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr. Leinart 
 was then elected Assessor for Cass, which ofiice he ac- 
 cepted. 
 
 The county being properl}^ officered, the next thing was to 
 have a county seat, the site for which was selected and the 
 same reported on, the 25th day of September, 1851, hy 
 David Bishop, of Madison county, and Lewis Whitten, of 
 Polk, commissioners appointed for the purpose by the 
 Legislature of 1850-51. 
 
 After looking the ground over and discussing the relative 
 merits of the different localities, they finally selected S. E. 
 i sec. 32-80 — 30. The original plat contained one hundred 
 acres, with streets eighty feet wide. Several additions have 
 since been made. 
 
 Mr. Bishop was paid 814 and mileage, and Mr. Whitten 
 S15 and mileage for services in locating the seat of justice. 
 With regard to the naming of the place, there are two 
 stories. The one is that Mr. Bishop had thought out the 
 name of Panora before leaving home. The prettier and 
 more likely story is tliis : Two travelers were standing on 
 the hill southeast of this place, and as they took in the 
 beautiful landscape — the wide-spreading prairie to the north 
 and east, the river, with its wood-crowned bluffs, wind- 
 
28 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 ing around the west and south — tlie foliage at this time of 
 the year being of the most gorgeous hue, for • 
 
 "It was just after the death of the flowers, 
 
 And before they were buried in snow, 
 When had come that mystical season 
 
 When nature is all aglow — 
 Aglow with a thinly veiled splendor, 
 
 More sweet than the brightness of spring- 
 Aglow with a beauty more tender 
 
 Than any the summer could bring !" 
 
 One of them exclaimed, as the flitting clouds left the scene 
 now in shadow and again in the soft, dream}'' light of the 
 autumn sun, " What a beautiful panorama !'' The expres- 
 sion, with a slight abbreviation, suggested itself as an 
 appropriate name for the newly created county seat. Even 
 if we were compelled to divest the name of its romantic 
 associations, it is musical, and the location such as would 
 warrant an enthusiast in weaving as many and as fanciful 
 stories as he chose concerning it. 
 
 The first building erected in Panora w^as the present resi- 
 dence of Louis Harvout, by Asa Cox, now deceased. 
 Perhaps precedence should be given to the little log cabin 
 which stood on the lot now owned by John Boblett, as the 
 logs were drawn on the ground in 1851 by Michael Linhart. 
 In 1852, just previous to the building of the Cox house, 
 Abram Hursche, a Frenchman, bought the logs and built 
 the cabin. The next building, and the one wherein the 
 first hotel w^as kept, by Mr. Samuel Harris, is the one 
 now occupied by James Harris as a residence, and was 
 built in 1853. Previous to the building of this hotel, 
 however. Judge Bryan commenced the erection of the i^res- 
 ent Roberts house, wdiicli w\is then intended for a residence, 
 but was used as both residence and dry goods store. 
 
 The first stock of goods brought to the county was by 
 Judge Bryan, in 1852, and consisted of a barrel of molas- 
 ses, a sack of coffee, two or three pants patterns, and a few 
 other things, which were kept at his residence, on the John 
 Cline place. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 29 
 
 The first general store (including whiskey, which was 
 called groceries) was opened in the little cabin above refer- 
 red to, in 1853, by Abram Hursche and Thomas Turner. 
 
 The first carpenter in the county was Richard Gilbert, 
 who came to Panora in 1853. 
 
 In 1854, Bryan and Craig opened a general store in what 
 is now the bar room of the Roberts house. 
 
 In 1855, Michael Rosebrugh opened a hotel or boarding 
 house in the Dr. Gustine house. 
 
 The first school house was built and the first school taught 
 by a Dr. Sloan, in 1853. 
 
 The first church was built in 1856 by the Presbyterian 
 Mission Society of New York, who sent one Harmon here 
 as a missionary to preach to the heathen. The church was 
 20x28 feet in size, and stood on the east side of Court 
 House square. It w^as used as a church and Court House 
 — (here is where McFarland held his famous courts) — for 
 two or three years, when it was converted into a dwelling, 
 then a wagon shop, and, finally, Dan Hardy bought and 
 used it as a blacksmith shop. It is at present used for the 
 same purpose by Mr. Warner. This Rev. Mr. Harmon 
 was thought by Panorites to be quite as much in need of a 
 missionary's instructions as were those he pretended to 
 enlighten. He built the under-ground house, known as the 
 ' ' ground-hog house." He dug a cellar, put a frame inside 
 of it, intending some time to raise it up, and put a stone 
 wall under it ; but he had a w^ay of never finishing w^hat he 
 begun, and the house, what is left of it, is under ground 
 still. It may be interesting to new-comers to know" what 
 kind of team Brother Harmon drove — two milch cows with 
 an Indian pony as '•lead." 
 
 The first permanently located blacksmith was Lucien 
 Hogelin, who came to Panora in 1853, and started a black- 
 smith shop in '54. 
 
 In 1855, Daniel Hardy came to Panora and commenced 
 blacksmithing in an old stable that stood on the w^est end 
 of the present site of J. C line's store building. The stable 
 
30 HISTOEY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 was made of slabs, and, though it contained no windows, it 
 let in the rain and daylight all over. Blacksmithing must 
 have been a good business in those days, as Mr. H. made 
 the first month 8108, over and above all expenses, including 
 household ; as flour was then selling at $6.75 per hundred 
 weight, and other things in proportion, this was no small 
 item. Merchants, at this time, brought their flour from 
 Skunk river, and other goods from Keokuk- and other 
 points on the Mississippi. As these were almost invari- 
 ably drawn by ox teams, four or five weeks of time were 
 necessary to make the trip. If, in the mean time, the sup- 
 ply of tea and coffee ran out in some families, those more 
 fortunate shared with them their little store, while tobacco 
 chewers passed 'round the " plug," taking a smaller bite 
 each time, until it was " all chawed up and spit away," and 
 then — poor martyrs — (ladies, you who had to live with 
 them, I am sorry for you, but please don't tell the aforesaid 
 martyrs that I said so.) 
 
 In 1855, there were four dry goods, or general stores, kept, 
 respectively, by Bryan, Craig, Boblett and Powell. The 
 latter " kept store" in the " old shingle house," which was 
 made of boards or shingles, split out of the timber with 
 an ax. 
 
 John Cline started the first plow and wagon shop in the 
 county in the spring of 1856. In the autumn of the same 
 year he succeeded Judge Bryan in the dry goods trade, and 
 " held forth" in "Phil's^' bar-room. Mr. Cline is now in a 
 building 24x60, two stories and basement. The upper story 
 is used for Masonic and Odd Fellows' Hall. 
 
 This building was erected in 1873 at a cost of $5,000. 
 This is one of the best buildings of the kind in the county, 
 and Cline and sons have, by strict attention to business, 
 and to the wants of customers, become one of the most 
 popular houses in thecounty. Mr. Cline came here in '55. 
 
 In 1856, S. Zinn established a general store in the Good- 
 speed building, where the first treasury was kept. In 1860, he 
 took H. Culbertson in as a partner ; in 1864, sold to Hoover 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 31 
 
 and Cbas. Zinn, who were succeeded in 1867 by Zinn and 
 Thompson. In 1872, Mr. Thompson went to St. Joseph; 
 Mo., and returned to Panora in 1874, where he now is, 
 engaged in the same business, which has increased largely, 
 and is now in a very flourishing condition ; stock kept 
 fully up to the time, and goods sold at popular prices. 
 
 In 1869, Chas. Woodworth succeeded V. M. Lahman in 
 the dry goods business. In 1872, he erected a substantial 
 brick building, and in 1873, took M. Woodworth as a part- 
 ner, and added to their stock hardware, groceries, clothing, 
 and millinery. They then occupied three store rooms. In 
 1876, sold the grocery department to Trent Bros. They also 
 sell agricultural implements. 
 
 J. J. Jones came to Panora in 1856, and went into the dry 
 goods trade with Judge Bryan. He has alternated the 
 business with farming ever since ; has been in the store 
 since 1872. 
 
 In 1854, A. Saltzman came to Panora from Indiana, and 
 commenced the manufacture of boots and shoes, which he 
 continued until 1867, when he established a grocery store. 
 In 1872, he was succeeded by Lahman and Saltzman, and 
 retired for a short time, when he again went into business, 
 which he expects to continue. 
 
 Lahman and Saltzman, grocers, on the corner of Main 
 and Union streets, succeeded A. Saltzman in 1872 ; have 
 built up a large grocery trade, and merit their success. 
 
 Trent Brothers, grocers, succeeded Woodworth Brothers 
 in April, 1876. The Messrs. Trent are old settlers, having 
 come to the county in 1856. Having been engaged in farm- 
 ing, they are entitled to their share of credit in the develop- 
 ment of Guthrie county. 
 
 The only furniture store in Panora is that of W. H. 
 Burns, successor to the Panora Furniture Company, which 
 he bought out in 1871, and built the house he now occupies. 
 He carries a good stock, and is doing a good business. He 
 also owns a farm of a half section two miles northeast of 
 town. Mr. Burns, during the late war, served in the Ninth. 
 
32 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 N". Y. Regiment — Zouave — was wounded at Antietam, after 
 which he was appointed lieutenant of a reserve corps. 
 
 Jackson and Garlow, hardware dealers, successors to J. 
 L. Grace. This store was established in 1863 by William 
 Maxwell, who was succeeded in 1865 by Maxwell and 
 Brumbaugh, who in turn were succeeded by J. L. Grace, 
 who sold to the present firm in 1875. Mr. Jackson is one of 
 the long settlers. He came with his father, W. T. Jackson, 
 in November, 1852. Mr. Jackson bought the present J. 
 Oline farm of Judge Bryan. In 1853, he bought of Marshall 
 Craig the farm where he now resides. 
 
 Panora has two drug stores. That of Pentecost and 
 Hayden w^as established in July, 1868. In 1871, they built 
 a good two story and basement frame building, 20x60 ft. 
 They make use of the entire building, carrying the largest 
 stock in the county. In the rear of the store they have an 
 office, nicely fitted up, and which communicates with the 
 bank. This is the oldest drug firm in the county. 
 
 In March, 1875, S. M. Curtis succeeded Dr. Gustine in the 
 drug trade. The doctor opened the business in 1872. 
 
 Hart Roberts commenced manufacturing boots and shoes 
 in 1868 ; put in a stock in September, 1875. Mr. Roberts 
 came to Panora in 1856 with his father, Andrew Roberts, 
 who was a Methodist minister. The building occupied by 
 Mr. Roberts was put up in 1855 by A. Saltzman, and used 
 as a shoe shop and dwelling ; size 16x16. 
 
 J. E. Wagner, boot and shoemaker, commenced business 
 in 1869. 
 
 Jno. Wiedman came to Panora in December, 1868, and 
 commenced the manufacture of boots and shoes ; keeps a 
 shop on the southeast corner of Main street. 
 
 A. McGrew, grocer, commenced in 1869, second door from 
 the corner of Vine, on Main street. 
 
 Woodworth and Fountain, dressmakers, since May, 
 1876. 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Chase, millinery and notions, west of Court 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 33 
 
 House square, commenced in the fall of 1871. This is the 
 only establishment of the kind in Panora. 
 
 Panora has one jeweler, A. G. Peck, who commenced in 
 1873. 
 
 She has four blacksmiths, L. Hogelin, already spoken of, 
 Sylvester Jasinsky, who began in 1869 ; E. Warner, in the 
 old Presbyterian church, in 1874 ; and 1. Warner, carriage 
 maker and blacksmith, on the corner of Main and Vine 
 street, in 1S73. 
 
 Wm. Fisher, wagon maker, since 1867. 
 
 I. Deardorff, harness and saddlery, commenced in July, 
 1873. 
 
 The Roberts house was opened in the spring of 1864, by 
 Philip Roberts, the present proprietor, and is the only hotel 
 in town. This is head-quarters for all the hack lines — ^to 
 Stuart, Guthrie Centre, Jefferson, Carrolton, Adel, and 
 Perry. Mr. Roberts also keeps a livery and feed stable 
 and several fast horses, the finest of which is Bashaw, or 
 Guthrie Boy. 
 
 J. R. Powell, real estate agent, came to Panora in 1855, 
 and opened a general store, in which he continued for three 
 years, when he removed to Dallas county and went to farm- 
 ing. In 1866, engaged In the real estate business ; came 
 back to Panora in the spring of 1876, and continues in the 
 same business. 
 
 Lewis Harvout, also a real estate dealer, came to Panora 
 in May, 1854. The same year, was appointed Treasurer 
 and Recorder, to fill a vacancy. At the same time he 
 taught the school (the second ever taught in Panora) at the 
 enormous salary of $12.50 per month. He attended to the 
 duties of the treasurer's office mornings, noons, evenings, 
 and Saturdays (I am not informed how late he worked 
 Saturday nights.) He taught the school for two or three- 
 years. 
 
 The Guthrie County Bank was organized in January, 
 1875, with S. D. Nichols, president ; L. J. Pentecost, cash- 
 ier ; Geo. H. Moore, E. J. Reynolds, and O. B. Hayden,. 
 
34 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 directors. This bank is doing a prosperous business on a 
 " solid basis." When a dividend is declared — which is 
 done every six months — the dividend at once becomes capi- 
 tal. Nothing is ever taken cut, each member having ample 
 means besides the bank. The president, Col. Nichols, was 
 born in Middlesex county, N. J. Came to Guthrie county 
 in 1857, and has practiced his profession — that of law. In 
 1866, he was elected District xlttorne}^ of this district. In 
 the late war he served four years in the Fourth Iowa In- 
 fantry, entering the service as lieutenant, and going through 
 all the promotions up to colonel, which rank he held at the 
 close of the war. He is our present State Senator, the first 
 Outhrie county has had. By his untiring industry and 
 close attention to business, he has acquired a large amount 
 of property. 
 
 L. J. Pentecost is a native of Indiana ; came to Panora 
 in 1868. Mr. Pentecost, too, served in the war of the rebel- 
 lion, enlisting in the Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry in 1861 ; 
 was wounded at the battle of Stone River. After he fell, 
 the enemy fought over him all day, and supposing they 
 "'had him" anj" way, paid no particular attention to his 
 removal. They left him a little too long, however, and our 
 boys picked him up when the rebels were driven back. 
 After this he was retained in the medical service in Nash- 
 ville. 
 
 O. B. Hayden was born in Indiana, and educated at As- 
 l^ury University ; came to Panora in July, 1868. He served 
 in the Ninth Indiana Cavalry; enlisted as a private in 
 1863. In 1864, he was promoted, for meritorious service, to 
 the rank of captain, which rank none filled more gallantly 
 than Capt. Hayden. 
 
 E. J. Reynolds came to Guthrie county, from Indiana, in 
 1852, and has been engaged in farming. He is sewing his 
 third term as treasurer of the county, which speaks well for 
 Mr. Reynolds, as, if he were not an efficient officer, looking 
 well to the people's money (if you touch my money you 
 touch me,) he would not be so long retained in office. 
 
HISTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 35 
 
 George H. Moore was born in Virginia, in 1827; moved 
 to Ohio when six years of age; came to Guthrie county in 
 1865. Mr. Moore owns a fine farm of seven hundred acres 
 of land, over three hundred of which are improved and wsll 
 cultivated. He has a nice home, and is one of Guthrie's 
 substantial citizens, and said to be her wealthiest. 
 
 The first physician that ever lived in the county was Dr. 
 Er. H. Rust, who came to Panora in the autumn of '53. He 
 is now living in Redfield, Dallas county. In the winter of 
 '54, came Dr. Curry; in the spring of the same year, Dr. 
 Jno. W. Gustine, who practiced here (with the exception of 
 a short time, during which he was in the drug business, in 
 Des Moines) until the fall of 1875, when he removed to Car- 
 roll county, where he owns a large farm, and is engaged in 
 stock raising. 
 
 Physicians practicing in Panora and vicinity at present 
 are Drs. Reynolds, Shreeves, and Drumeler. 
 
 Dr. Reynolds is an old settler, having come to the county 
 in '53. He was born in Owen county, Indiana, and educaled 
 at the Eclectic Institute, Cincinnati; has been in practice for 
 thirteen years. 
 
 Dr. T. J. Shreeves, a native of Illinois, was educated at 
 Rush Medical Collegn. The doctor has practiced his pro- 
 fession for twenty years. He came to Panora in March, 
 1875. 
 
 Last, but not least, is Dr. C. M. Drumeler, a native of 
 Virginia, who came to Panora in May, 1876. He was edu- 
 cated at the State University of Missouri, and St. Louis 
 Medical College. 
 
 As stated in another place, the first school house was 
 built in Panora in 1853, and the first public school in the 
 county taught in the fall of the same year, by a Dr. Sloan. 
 The same year, the first Sabbath school — Union — was 
 organized by Rev. John De Moss, and was held in the 
 school house. 
 
 The M. E. Church Society was organized in 1852, with a 
 membership of twelve. Service was held at the residence of 
 
36 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 the members until the completion of the school house. 
 Their first church building was erected in 1857, on Church 
 street, being the house that now does duty as a residence 
 for J. Swartz. Their first minister was a Mr. Mason. In 
 1869, the society erected a good brick building on Main 
 
 street. Present membership, seventy; minister, Rev. 
 
 O'Flyng. 
 
 The U. B. Church was organized in 1852; the house built 
 in 1861. 
 
 The Church of Christ, at Panora, was organized in 1854, 
 under the evangelistic labors of Elder Clayborn Wright, of 
 Green county. Benj. Mitchell and Alex. Wasson were 
 chosen elders, and Wm. C. Jones, deacon. About the 
 year 1858, the church was divided, and the place of holding- 
 meetings was changed to McClaran's school house, for a 
 time, when it was changed back to Panora. In 1874, they 
 erected a building 32x52, which is the only church — this 
 being the only society of this faith — in the county. They 
 commenced with but few members, but have steadily in- 
 creased to a membership of one hundred and sixty-seven. 
 This is the new branch of the Christians, or Campbellites. 
 
 The Presbyterian Church was organized under the mis- 
 sionar}^ labors of Rev. Mr. Harmon, in 1856. 
 
 The Baptist Church was organized August 21, 185S, by 
 Elders J. A. Nash, of Des Moines, and T. S. Griffith, of 
 Dubuque, with twenty two members. In 1871, the society 
 commenced the erection of a church edifice in Panora; but 
 the hurricane of that year injured it to such an extent that 
 the society — being small and financially weak — was unable 
 to repair and finish it, so they sold it to the Cumberland 
 Presbyterians, who now own it. There are five Baptist so- 
 cieties in the county, with two church buildings — one at 
 Guthrie Centre; and one three miles east of Panora — 
 both supplied by the Rev. Mr. Fish, of Guthrie Centre. 
 
 Most of the above religious societies have fiourishing 
 Sabbath schools. 
 
 The public schools, under the supervision of I. Miller, 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 37 
 
 principal, with Mr. Hemphill and Mr. Chase as assistants, 
 are also in a nourishing condition, and fnlly up to the de- 
 mands of the times. 
 
 The first white child, born in Panora, was John, son of 
 Samuel and Elizabeth Harris, born in '54:. 
 
 The first marriage was that of James Harris and Nancy 
 Ritz, same year. 
 
 Odd Fellows' Lodge, No. 145, was organized October 
 17th, 1SC7. 
 
 Pioneer Lodge, No. 121, A. F. and A. M., was organized, 
 under dispensation, October ISth, 1857. Petitioners, Bro- 
 thers M. F. Gerard, Thos. Roberts, S. E. Zinn, Levi Wil- 
 liamson, Richard Gilbert, Jos. Roberts, Nathan Goslen, N. 
 B. Linbach, and Theodore Parrish. 
 
 M. F. Gerard was elected W. M. 
 Thos. Roberts " " S. W. 
 S. E. Zinn '' " J. W. 
 
 Jos. Roberts " " Treas. 
 
 Nathan Goslen " ' " S. D. 
 
 Levi Williamson " '' J. D. 
 Richard Gilbert '' " Tyler. 
 Was organized, under charter, June 2, 1858, by electing 
 the following officers: 
 
 Thos Roberts, W-.M. 
 S. E. Zinn, S. W. 
 Nathan Goslen, J. W. 
 Jos. Roberts, Treas. 
 N. B. Linbach, Sect. 
 Daniel Hardy, S. D. 
 Theo. Parrish, J. D. 
 Phil. Roberts, Tyler. 
 Richard Gilbert, Steward. 
 This is the first lodge organized in the county. Present 
 membership, fifty-eight. 
 
 Panora rejoices in an Anti-Profanity Association; some- 
 thing that every town and neighborhood might profit by, as 
 profanity, and especially " slang," are largely on the in- 
 3 
 
38 HISTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 crease. We read and hear so much of it, that even ladies 
 are tempted to emphasize their opinions by an occasional 
 " slang" word, or phrase. The anti-Profanity Association 
 of Panora numbers forty-five members, with Miles Wood- 
 worth as President; I. Miller, Vice-President; O. B. 
 Hayden, Treasurer; Lew Apple, Secretary. Of the fifteen 
 articles of the constitution of this association, I select the 
 following: 
 
 Article 1st. ''This association shall be known as the 
 ' Panora Anti-Profanity Association,' and shall have for its 
 object the inculcation of a language, purified of oaths and 
 expletives, and the dissemination of tracts for that pur- 
 pose. 
 
 Art. 2d. "The members of this association shall be citi- 
 zens of the State of Iowa, and between the ages of fifteen 
 and one hundred years, who shall have signed the constitu- 
 tion and by-laws and subscribed to the confession of faith, 
 herewith attached. 
 
 Art. 9th. " As soon as profanity is no more in the land, 
 this association will be without a mission,"' etc. 
 
 By-Laws. — Article 1. All expressions are prohibited 
 wherein the name of Deity is used in any than a reverential 
 sense, and with the homage due from man to his Creator. 
 The following expressions are prohibited : " Darned," 
 "Darn it," "Dern," " Dern it," "Holy cats,' "By gad," 
 "Holy Moses," "By George," "By Godfrey," "Dog on 
 it," "By jingo," " Jumping Jehosaphat," etc., etc. 
 
 Since its organization, the society has contributed over 
 one thousand tracts. 
 
 Panora has the oldest newspaper in the county, " The 
 Yedette," a history of which is given elsewhere. Its editor. 
 Lew Apple, was born in Elk county, Pennsylvania; came 
 to West Union, Fayette county, Iowa, in 1857, where he 
 remained until the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, 
 when ho enlisted, serving, in the Twenty -first and Twelfth 
 Indiana Regiments. He came to Panora in 1868, since 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 39 
 
 which time he has edited ''The Vedette" without change or 
 intermission. 
 
 The early history of the Post OflSce is given elsewhere. 
 As stated, it was first kept by Mr. Jno. Anderson at his 
 cabin; then by Judge Bryan, at his cabin. The first build- 
 ing, used exclusively for a Post Office, was the little frame 
 that stands on the south side of Dr. Gustine's lot; in size, 
 8x8. 
 
 This was made a Money Order Office August 1st, 1S70. 
 The average annual amount of money order business is 
 from S2S,0(»0 to 830,000; is the separating office for six 
 different routes — two daily and four semi-weekly; supplies 
 twelve different offices. D. Brown, the present pleasant and 
 accommodating Post Master, came to Panora in 1866. He 
 worked at the tailor's trade till 1867, when he was appointed 
 to his present position. Though ever ready to oblige a 
 friend or neighbor, none sticks more closely to his own 
 business. 
 
 Panora was incorporated in 1872. Its present officers? are: 
 Mayor, J. D. Lennon; Recorder, O. B. Hayden; Treasurer, 
 W. H. Burns; Councilmen, Lew Harvout, T. Henderson, 
 J. A. Thompson, Isaac \Yarner, John Wiedman. 
 
 Though Panora is without railroad facilities, she has the 
 advantages — from a mctral standpoint — over some of the 
 other towns. She has no saloons, which is, indeed, a 
 *' feather in her cap." She has the High School, the ad- 
 vantages of which are so fully appreciated by every intelli- 
 gent reader, that enumeration here would be superfluous. 
 And for a basis (if I may use the expression), she has the 
 products of one of the finest agricultural regions in Iowa. 
 
 John Anderson, father of Rev. Samuel Anderson, built 
 the first mill in the State, west of Des Moines, in the autumn 
 of 1852, sawing the lumber therefor with a whip saw. The 
 same year, it was converted into a flouring mill, and as 
 isoon as it was put in operation, and the water in the 
 streams had fallen sufficiently to be forded, teams, to the 
 number of five or six at a time, came from Council Bluffs 
 
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40 HISTORY OF GUTHKIE COUiNTY. 
 
 and the "Fort,"' from Jeflerson and from neighborhoods, 
 for many miles around, being frequently obliged to remain 
 several days before they could be served. 
 
 They now had a mill, but they did not always have 
 wheat or corn, especially during the tirst year of their resi- 
 dence here. To illustrate the necessary economy and man- 
 agement practiced in the early days, I will tell you how 
 Mr. Vanorder obtained his " bread.'' He made shingles 
 and hauled them to Mr. Boone, near Booneville, and traded 
 them for wheat; and previous to the erection of the Ander- 
 son mill, he took his wheat to Griser's mill, ten miles below 
 the Fort, to have it ground. 
 
 The Anderson mill is now owned by Hanyon and Nichols; 
 at least the site is. The mill has all been changed, to suit 
 the demands of the constantly increasing population. 
 
 As this chapter will, necessarily, be somewhat miscel- 
 laneous, the reader will excuse me if I make a hodge-podge 
 of grist mills and churches; beer saloons and school 
 houses; politics and religion, etc., as, were I to make such 
 division or separation as would be desirable in a History, 
 I would have more chapters than ideas or incidents. It is 
 true, sudden transitions of emotion are not always pleasant; 
 but if I should jumj) suddenly from a wedding to a funeral, 
 you must blame circumstances, not me. 
 
 Having obtained your permission to garble the doings of 
 the old settlers, I will begin by explaining that though Scott 
 had but four votes in Guthrie county, in the election of '52, 
 he had more admirers, as I will prove to you. A hickory 
 pole had been raised in Court House square to celebrate the 
 election of President Pierce. Lydia Cox, who a short time 
 previous, was married to Walter Tuttle, was so piqued at 
 her husband's assisting at the "pole raising,'' that she de- 
 termined to have revenge. She went at midnight, accom- 
 panied by her little brother Henry, and borrowed an auger 
 of Henry Brumbaugh, with which to fell the obnoxious 
 pole. They arrived in safety at the pole, and she had bored 
 three holes through it and started in with the fourth. The 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COFXTY. 41 
 
 certainty of success roacle her strong, and the fear of detec- 
 tion made her nervous. Her cumulated " nerve force"' was 
 too much for the auger, and it broke. Ye who have had the 
 " cup " dashed suddenly from your parched lips, can appre- 
 ciate her feelings. Mortified and angry, she returned home 
 without having accomplished her object. 
 
 "When the depredation was discovered, a reward was 
 offered for the discovery of the offender. He was never dis- 
 covered. However, suspicion fastened upon Felt}^ Schell- 
 hart, poor fellow, who, though not proven guilty, was 
 unable to prove his innocence, and many were the cold 
 looks he got — all for a woman's political enthusiasm; and 
 slie didn't want to vote, either. 
 
 Among the first settlers, not already spoken of, are: 
 Richard Gilbert, who came to Panora in September, 1853. 
 He was then a widower, and, with his two little boys for 
 companions, traveled, by wagon, from Indiana, weary, 
 hungr}'', and travel worn. He stopped at the cabin of Mr. 
 Campbell, and asked if they could let him have something 
 to eat. "Yes,'' said the good lady; "come in and sit 
 while I grate some corn and bake it.'' She grated the corn 
 up on a raddish grater. 
 
 Mr. Gilbert entered the E. \ of sec. 3-79—30, and forty 
 acres in sec. 9. 
 
 Judge James Henderson came to the county in the fall 
 of '53. In August, 1854, he was elected County Judge to fill 
 a vacancy, and removed to Panora, the county seat. He 
 has ever been an upright and mind-your-own-business sort 
 of citizen, much respected by his friends and neighbors. 
 He is still living in Panora, though in feeble health. 
 
 Rev. D. W. Harper, who came, as stated, in '53, settled 
 where he now resides, on the south side of Panora, where 
 he has one of the best orchards in the county. He is a class 
 leader and exhorter in the M. E. Church, in which he has 
 ever taken a deep interest, and for the advancement of 
 which he has labored assiduously. 
 
 Mr. Hugh Campbell, with his family, came on the 10th of 
 
42 HISTORY OF GUTHKIE COU^^Ty. 
 
 September, 1853. They went into a house belonging to 
 Judge Biyan, on the Batchelet place. (This house is now 
 used as a stable by George Campbell, four miles southeast 
 of Panora.) In November, they removed to the place where 
 Mrs. Campbell now resides. In June, 1854, Mr. Campbell 
 died, leaving a wife and eleven children. A stranger in a 
 new, wild, lonesome country, bereft of a husband's love and 
 counsel, rare must have been her fortitude and courage to 
 remain and rear, unaided, save by her noble boys, so large 
 a fami]}^ In the rebellion, she gave the first sacrifice (from 
 this county) on the altar of patriotism, in the person of her 
 son Hugh, a mere boy of eighteen, who gave bright promise 
 of a noble and useful manhood. In May, 1861, he enlisted 
 in Company C, Fourth Iowa Infantry, and on the 5th day 
 of October, 1861, he departed this life at Rolla, Mo. 
 
 In the same regiment were eight Campbells, but one of 
 whom — Wm. H., brother to Hugh — returned. William H. 
 Campbell enlisted as a private, and was promoted to the 
 rank of captain. He was educated at Mt. Pleasant, gradu- 
 ating in 1869. In 1870, he represented Guthrie county in 
 the Legislature. He is now practicing law in St. Joseph, 
 Mo. Placed in whatever situation, the Hon. William H. 
 Campbell will never be found wanting in integrity and true 
 courage. Mrs. Campbell has several other sons, all well- 
 to-do and respected citizens. 
 
 In October, 1853, Abrani and Kobinson Hosier came to 
 the county. The former purchased the farm of Jno. Hen- 
 derson, and the latter, in 1859, succeeded Mr. Martin in the- 
 hotel business. ' They all went to Oregon in 1865. Mrs. 
 Abram Hosier is still living in Panora. 
 
 Peter Batchelet came in '53, and purchased of Judge 
 Bryan the place where he is now living. He has a comfort- 
 able home, a fine orchard, and pays some attention to stock 
 raising. He is hospitable and good natured, and is always 
 ready to have " fun with the boys." 
 
 Among those who came in 1854, are, Dr. Gustine, Peter 
 
HISTORY OF GUTIIRIE COUNTY. 43 
 
 and John Boblett, Robert Wasson, Jos. Dyson. James and 
 Thompson Cline, and others. 
 
 Dr. Gnstine came in Jnly; had long, dreary and labori- 
 ous rides in Guthrie, Dallas, Green, Carrol, Adair, and 
 Anderson counties. The population was then scattered 
 over the country in sparse settlements, with immense terri- 
 tory between. The order of architecture, in those days, 
 was designated by no special name, but was noted for its 
 simplicity. Log walls, puncheon floors, clap-board roofs, 
 old-fashioned log fire places, with mud and stick chimneys, 
 constituted its important principles. Some cabins had not 
 even floors or chimneys; others were destitute of " daubing 
 and chinking." 
 
 The first case of sickness the doctor attended was that of 
 a boy in Carroll county, who had hemorrhage of the 
 bowels. He died the same night the doctor was called, and 
 he (the doctor) rode eight miles to secure the assistance 
 of a man, and also to get lumber, and the two constructed 
 a rude coffin, or box, for the remains. They also dug the 
 grave, and the doctor assisted in covering the coffin with 
 " the clods." Eight persons, including the famih^, followed 
 the remains to the grave. It was a dark, gloomy day, and 
 the feelings of our friend were as sombre as the occasion. 
 
 The doctor was educated at Pittsburg and Philadelphia, 
 in each of which cities he had practiced his profession, pre- 
 vious to his coming west. Coming from the city to the very 
 confines of civilization, he found novelty enough in his all- 
 night and all-day rides to satiate the desire to see nature in 
 all her primitive glory. 
 
 I remember a story that used to be told of the doctor's 
 visit to a man who was suffering from nervous prostration, 
 or something of the sort. In diagnosing the cjtse, among 
 
 other things, he said: "Mr. , you have been overdoing; 
 
 yon are a very energetic man, and — " " Oh, yaas, I know, 
 doctor; I've had 'em for five or six years." " Had what ?" 
 " ^"^^y? the energetics." I do not think the doctor laughed 
 at all; but I do know he wished himself out on the prairie 
 
44 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 " all by himself." He lias passed throiigli many laughable 
 as well as many sorrowful scenes, and yet he agrees with 
 the rest of the old settlers in saying they were all quite con- 
 tented and happy. 
 
 James Cline remained in Guthrie twelve 3'ears, during 
 which time — in 1862 — he, in conjunction with his brother, 
 John Cline, built the Panora woolen mills. In 1866, he. 
 with a number of the old settlers, went to Oregon, where he 
 remained several years, but finally came back to Keokuk 
 county, where he now resides. 
 
 Peter Boblett was born in October. 1791, and his wife 
 May 4, 1794, the former in Bedford, and the latter in Camp- 
 bell county, Virginia. Mr. Boblett served in the war of 
 1812, under Captain Gray. Jul}- 1st, 1S54, they came to 
 Panora, where they lived in a tent for six weeks. They 
 then bought the Thomas Roberts farm, where the}^ re- 
 mained tvv^o years, when the}^ returned to Panora, where they 
 have remained ever since. This couple are aged, respectively, 
 eighty-five and eighty-two years, and yet they retain their 
 mental faculties, and keep much better posted in the news of 
 the day than many younger persons. Of the family, who 
 came about the same time, Mrs. Rosebrugh, a daughter; 
 Peter Boblett, a son; and Wm. S. Blue, a son-in-law, have 
 passed away. Mr. Blue opened the first harness shop in 
 the county, in the old part of the Van Laliman residence, 
 which then belonged to M. Rosebrugh, who kept a boarding 
 house. Mr. Rosebrugh is living in Stuart; Mrs. Roberts, 
 Mrs. Blue, and Mrs. Swartz are all living in Panora, while 
 one son is living in Oregon. 
 
 In July, 1854, Mr. John Boblett, went through Guthrie 
 county to Council Bluffs and Omaha, the latter just then 
 being surveyed, and the former but a mere hamlet. He 
 found nothing that pleased him so well as Guthrie, so he 
 returned to Panora and bought the shanty of Hursche & 
 Turner and opened a store. He purchased of " Ed. & Bob. 
 Robinson " a cabin wliich stood upon the lot now owned by 
 Charley Campbell, which he used as a dwelling. For some 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 45 
 
 time they had neither tables nor chairs, and took their 
 scanty meals Gipsy fashion. Bye and bye he purchased of 
 Hursche, a table, two chairs and two rough bedsteads. Dur- 
 ing the dreadful first year they had but little to eat, and 
 sometimes were really hungry. He went to a well-to-do 
 farmer living near Booneville, to buy corn, but he would 
 not let him have any ; however he offered to sell him a small 
 lot, that had been left by a man who had " gone to Texas." 
 Out of five bushels he picked a half bushel, that under or- 
 dinary circumstances he would not have used, but the wolf 
 must be kept from the door b}' some means. As soon as 
 blackberries, of which there was an abundance, began to 
 '"turn" they picked and ate them, as well as green wild 
 grapes. While they were yet living without bed-steads 
 (they had plenty of bedding,) two belated travelers from 
 Sac City sought shelter at their door. Mr. Boblett ex- 
 plained how they were situated, but offered them such rest 
 and shelter as they could give. The wanderers gladly ac- 
 cepted this, and when they were all abed, there was not 
 standing room for a cat, if they had possessed one. 
 
 After a time they " fixed up " the " loft " in the Hursche 
 shanty, for a sleeping room for the boys. When it snowed 
 they had a white spread, given gratuitously through the 
 " chinks," and Avhen it rained they "got a ducking." 
 
 Mr. Boblett gave two sons to the army, Isaac and Jacob, 
 the former enlisting in the 29th Iowa, and the latter in a 
 cavalry regiment." "Uncle John" has seen hard times 
 and much sorrow, yet he has never regretted coming to 
 Iowa. 
 
 Joseph Dyson, with his family, came from AVest Va. An 
 ox team, with a few household goods, constituted his 
 worldly possessions. He rented the mill of John Anderson, 
 which he operated for some time. He next opened a gen- 
 eral store on the corner of Main and Union streets. Mr. 
 Dyson died several years ago. 
 
 It was in this 3'ear, *54, that the cemetery west of town 
 was laid out. An incident connected with the selecting of 
 
46 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 the ground, is related with much feeling by some of the old 
 settlers. One of the committee chosen for the purpose, was 
 talking with some neighbors, when he started suddenly, 
 saying, I must hurry and meet the grave yard committee; 
 some of us may die, and there w^ould be no place to bury 
 us.*' The ground was selected, and a plat made, and in 
 just two weeks this gentleman's wife was laid to rest in the 
 new cemetery. Mrs. Conrad Brumbaugh died on the first 
 day of May, 1851, and was buried here, though there was 
 no burying ground marked out. Her coffin was made of 
 rough boards, or slabs. 
 
 In 1855-6 Iowa seemed to be the Eldorado of Indiana 
 and Illinois emigrants, and Guthrie county received her 
 share of the same. 
 
 Of the many who came at this time to Cass towi\ship, 
 Mrs. Casandre Roberts, with her two sons, Joseph and 
 Phil., settled where Joseph now resides. The latter had 
 been here in '53, purchased the land and built a cabin — 
 without doors or windows. When they moved, the family 
 consisted of eighteen j^ersons. (only four of whom were the 
 children of Mrs. Roberts.) They landed on the prairie, 
 where they waited until a doorway could be sawed out; one 
 of the boys crept through under the logs to get inside, in 
 order to assist in the operation of sawing. Tradition says 
 it was Phil, that ''went under," but Phil says he was off 
 in the slough, prospecting for water; if his proportions 
 were as ample then as now, I am inclined to think he is cor- 
 rect. For some time their door was a bed quilt, their win- 
 dows the chinks in the walls, and their bedsteads the floor. 
 About two w^eeks after their arrival, they were visited by 
 a terrific storm; the wind blew the lights out as fast as they 
 could be struck; the lightning glared threateningly, and the 
 thunder was terrible, while the rain was a genuine flood. 
 Each whispered courage to the others, (the whisperings of 
 eighteen voices ought to have inspired courage,) but the 
 lightning revealed anything but courageous attitudes. One 
 Smith, who had been very brave — with his tongue — was seen 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 4T 
 
 crouching on one hand and knee, while with the other hand 
 he endeavored to ward off the lightning's fierce darts. 
 
 Their first furniture was made of native lumber, sawed at 
 Brumbaugh's mill. 
 
 The same fall, '55, came Mr. Leach, now of Highland, 
 and not being able to procure a house, Mr. Robert Wasson, 
 who lived on Bay's Branch, kindly.shared his mansion with 
 them. They lived thus for several months, the two families, 
 of fifteen persons, living in one room, and cooking by one 
 fire-place. Mr. WassOn now owns a fine farm in Cass, and 
 Mr. Leach one in Highland. 
 
 James Foster, who came in '55, paid §15 per acre for the 
 land he now owns, and not being able to pay for it at once, 
 in '57 sold a part of it at $6 per acre, the financial crash 
 of that year putting a stop to immigration, and causing 
 hard times generally. 
 
 B. T. Hook came from Ohio in 1855, and purchased the 
 Hook place. He raised, the next year, one thousand bush- 
 els of corn, which he sold to emigrants at the " handsome " 
 price of two dollars. Mr. Hook was County Treasurer for 
 four years, filling the office acceptably to all. In 1866 he 
 removed to Mt. Pleasant for the purpose of educating his 
 children, at which place he died several years ago. He gave 
 his brightest, best boy, Marcellus, a sacrifice on the altar of 
 his country. George is an M. E. Minister near Sioux City, 
 Robert is in Texas, and Belinda in Colorado. 
 
 Thomas Roberts came to Guthrie in September, 1856, and 
 purchased the south half of sections 34-80-30 two miles 
 east of Panora, and which is now one of the most desirable 
 farms in the county, and one of the most home-like homes; 
 good dwelling, good large barns, orchard and evergreens; 
 in short everything that goes to make a home comfortable. 
 The Roberts are noted for their hospitality and sociability, 
 and Mr. Roberts is '' Uncle Tom " to every body. He has 
 been extensively engaged in stock raising, secured patents 
 on the 14-mile gun, in ^hort, has been successful in all his 
 undertakings, unless we except his effort to make his neigh- 
 
48 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 bor bray. This one failure of liis life is worthy of record. 
 A party of old settlers w<mt to Des Moines, and while there 
 it rained so hard they knew they could not ford the streams, 
 so they bought a skiflF and a large, strong rope, and loaded 
 them into the wagon. When they came to the first stream, 
 Walnut creek, this side of Des Moines, they took the wagon 
 to pieces and sent it over in the skiff; they then sent one 
 ■end of the rope over by W. T., who landed on an island 
 near the west bank. In the mean time the other end of the 
 rope was attached to the " head-stall " of the large mule, 
 while it was supposed the smaller one would follow. There 
 stood T. in the water up to his knees, hauling in the rope, 
 hand over hand, working like a good fellow. When the 
 mules reached the middle of the stream, the current took 
 the little one, which was paddling his own canoe, down 
 stream. Uncle Tom, who had remained behind to see them 
 into the water, became for once thoroughly excited, and as 
 visions of a forty-mile walk, with several streams to 
 swim, — alas he could not swim I — loomed up before 
 his mind, he started down the bank on a run, call- 
 ing out, " bray, Tracj^ bray." Tracy never heed- 
 ing, hauled leisurely away, while poor uncle Tom shoo'd 
 and called, and called and shoo'd, and finally succeeded in 
 scaring the creature across. When all were safely over he 
 demanded the reason of T.'s refusal to bray. " Well, Mr. 
 E,.," replied he, "I am willing to do anything in reason, 
 but from making a jackass of myself, you will have to ex- 
 cuse me." 
 
 "Pete" Hamilton, one of the Zo?i^-time settlers, came 
 with his parents, who are still living north of Panora, in 
 1856. He went to Oregon in '65, to Texas in '73, and finally 
 came back to Panora, where he is a fixture, for the present. 
 
 Thompson Cline, a settler of '56, who lives northwest of 
 Panora, has a good farm, of which he has made a 7iome, in 
 the true sense. He has one of the best, though not one of 
 the largest orchards in the county, has four hundred trees 
 in bearing, all choice varieties. Mr. valine has always ta- 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 49 
 
 ken a deep interest in religion, sometimes preaching to the 
 people. He is a good citizen, and has the courage to be an 
 original man, qnietly and unobtrusively asserting his in- 
 dividuality. 
 
 Henry Culbertson and Silas Harper, southeast of Panora, 
 are both old settlers, have good farms, and very fine or- 
 chards. In the same neighborhood is also Frederick Knowl- 
 ton, who owns a good farm and orchard. 
 
 Among the many other old settlers, are Thos. Frazier, J. 
 B. Youts, S. Wasson, Benj. Mitchell, A. McClaren, R. 
 Farnsworth, Mr. Dubbs, E. Reynolds, J. Deihl, Mr. Ritz, and 
 Rev. S. Anderson. The latter gentleman is a son of Jno. 
 Anderson, who built the first mill and kept the first post- 
 office. He is a gentleman of liberal education, a minister 
 of the Cumberland Presbyterian faith, a good man, a desi- 
 rable citizen, and a successful farmer. No one would be 
 more missed from the community in which he lives than the 
 Rev. Samuel Anderson. 
 
 There are so many settlers who came early enough to en- 
 title them to notice as " old settlers,'' that it is impossible, 
 (in a limited work like this) to get all of their names and 
 history. The experience of one old settler is, in all that 
 pertains to the privations and hardships of pioner life, the 
 the experience of all old settlers. They all saw hard times, 
 were lonely, and sometimes even hungry, but they all agi-ee 
 in asserting that the early days of Guthrie County were the 
 happiest of their lives. They lived on corn and game, en- 
 joyed good health, went twenty-five and even forty miles to 
 attend dancing parties, and Fourth of July celebrations, 
 and friendly visits at a distance of five and ten miles, were 
 considered a great treat. The greatest good to the greatest 
 number, was their motto, and with few exceptions they lived 
 up to it. 
 
 The First Fourth of July celebration was held at Panora 
 in 1857. 
 
-5.0 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 JACKSON TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Among the old settlers in Jackson, not already men- 
 tioned, are, J. J. Morris, Stevenson Mount, T. E. Harbour, 
 D. A. Lilly, A. Swisher, J. A. Trent, M. Mount, J. A. 
 White, D. Brumbaugh, Jos. Kemvorthy, Jno. Lonsdale 
 and others. 
 
 J. J. Morris, a native of Gurnsey county, Ohio, came to 
 Outhrie from Missouri in the autumn of '51, and, being a 
 bachelor, made his home with the family of Mr. Jas. Moore, 
 who resided on the place now owned by Mr. Morris. In 
 the winter of '52 he bought tlie claim of Fred Fry. On the 
 14th of June, 1852, he entered the s. -J s. w. I, Sec. 35, 79, 
 'SO, and lots 3 and 4, Sec. 4, 79, 30. His farm is a very fine 
 one, lying on both sides of the old State road. On the 
 north side of the road is a beautiful meadow, that to the 
 causal observer " tells no tales," but to the old settlers it 
 possesses considerable interest, as being the site of the his- 
 torical cabin of Fred Fry, where the first election in Jack- 
 son was held, as was also the second, at which latter, the}^ 
 had some " spiritual " assistance through the mediumship 
 of one Piper, who was making considerable disturbance, 
 when he was requested by a member of the election board 
 to desist. "Now, look'e here," said he, " this is Mr. Mor- 
 ris' house, an' if he tells me to leave, I'll git. No other 
 man, 'lection board or no 'lection board, hes any right to 
 boss me, drunk or no drunk." The members of the board 
 at the election, were Benj. Kunkle, Abram Moore and 
 Benj. Marlenee. 
 
 Stevenson Mount came to Iowa, settling in Dallas county 
 in 1851. He came to Guthrie in 1854, and bought of J. W. 
 Cummins, lot 4, Sees. 3, 79, 30. Upon the resignation of 
 Mr. Cummins as post master of iVllen post office, Mr. 
 Mount was appointed to the position. He has several 
 times been elected county supervisor, which position he has 
 filled acceptably. He has ever taken a warm interest in 
 the welfare and prosperity of the county, and is a much 
 respected citizen. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 51 
 
 T. E. Harbour came to the county at au early day, set- 
 tling near the east line of the county, where he kept a stage 
 station for some time. He has been county judge and 
 treasurer, which positions he filled with honor to himself 
 and satisfaction to the people. 
 
 Enoch Kenworthy came to the county in 1854, settling 
 where Mr. Hollingsworth now resides, near Stuart. 
 
 Joseph Kenworthy came in 1856, stopping with his 
 brother Enoch, until he could "rear himself a mansion,"' 
 the lumber for which he purchased at Morrisburg. This 
 shanty, I mean mansion, was 11x12 ft. in size, without a 
 floor, except a temporary one of carpet. A table, which 
 had been in Mrs. K.'s family for nearly forty years, was 
 brought as a keepsake, so the}^ had the advantage, in that 
 particular, over some of their neighbors. For chairs, they 
 used a bench the first year, then David Tomlinson (our 
 " Dave " of Stuart) made them half a dozen from hickory 
 poles, his only tool being a shaving knife. Their bedstead 
 was the ordinary " prairie bunk."' Enoch, having the 
 advantage of being a carpenter, and being a little aristo- 
 cratic beside, peeled the bark from the soft maple poles, of 
 which he made his bedstead (the first settlers never had 
 occasion to use this word in the plural). They, (the poles), 
 were so smooth and white, as to excite the envy of his less 
 fortunate neighbors. Mrs. Joseph Kenworthy was very 
 enthusiastic in her praises of the new country and as she 
 thought over the novelty of the situation and congratulated 
 herself upon her freedom, would often indulge in pleasant 
 reveries of the future. One evening, just after she had 
 removed her shoes preparatory to retiring, she was awak- 
 ened from one of these delightful musings, by a peculiar noise 
 that " struck terror to her soul." She bade the little ones 
 (her adopted daughter and a little son of E. Kenworthy) 
 climb upon the bed. She then called to Mr. K. who was 
 out doors, to come and kill a rattle snake. He took the 
 iron bar from the end of his wagon and came laughing, 
 expecting, not to kill a snake, but to quiet a woman's 
 
52 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 whim. As he approached the door, his snakeship gave 
 him a salute that made him '* laugli out of the other side 
 of his mouth.*' He bade Mrs. K. to jump upon the bed, 
 and just as he raised his weapon to strike, the wind blew 
 out the only light, a skillet of lard with a rag wick. While 
 darkness prevailed the snake rattled so fiercely and in such 
 close proximity to the bed, that its occupants, with clasped 
 hands and blanched cheeks, made up their minds to bid 
 farewell to this fair land, if not from choice, of necessity. 
 Mr. Kenworthy struck a light in time to see the intruder 
 start out through a chink beside the door; he nailed him to 
 the floor with the iron bar or rod which his wife held, while 
 he climbed out of the window and with a tent pole dis- 
 patched the enemj^ Possibly they slept sweetly that night, 
 but I think they did not. 
 
 In the autumn he built a house on the west side of the 
 farm, the same now used as a barn by his tenant. 
 
 Mr. Kenworthy has kept adding to his farm, until he 
 now owns 1,400 acres, 500 of which are under cultivation. 
 This is one of the finest farms in the State; it is well culti- 
 vated; contains a good dwelling, a good barn and other 
 out buildings. The cosy white house with its green blinds; 
 its ample door yard of green grass and flowers; its ever- 
 green and fruit trees, in short, all its surroundings make it 
 one of the most home-like places in the county. 
 
 Travel on the route from Fort Des Moines to Kanesville, 
 through our county, commenced in the spring of 1852. 
 The mail hacks, too, run this route for the first time. 
 
 January 19, 1853, the name of Kanesville was changed 
 to Council Bluffs. 
 
 The first blacksmithing done in the township was by Mr. 
 Kunkle, who erected a temporary shop on his farm in 18 — 
 
 Josiah Lamb built the first saw mill on middle 'Coon 
 river, in 1852. This was afterward converted into a flour- 
 ing mill. 
 
 MoRRiSBURG was laid out in 1855 by J. J. Morris, and 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 53 
 
 contained forty acres of land — twenty acres from the farm 
 of Mr. Morris, and twenty from that of Mr. Moore. The 
 town was called Fairview; but it was discovered that there 
 was another Fairview in the State, so, in 1856, the name 
 was changed to Morrisburg. 
 
 The first building was a log house, built by Mr. Morris 
 for a dwelling. In August, "55, he sold it to a Mr. Closser, 
 who opened a general store. The Post Office was also kept 
 here, it having been moved up from the Mount place. 
 
 In 18G6, there were several business houses in Morrisburg 
 — all doing a good business. There was a dry goods store, 
 by Mr. Wright, a drug store, a blacksmith shop and hard- 
 w^are store, by Wells McCool, one saloon — but that was 
 short-lived — a hotel, a good school and church — M. E. 
 
 After the stages were withdrawn from this route, her oc- 
 cupation was gone, and now all that remains of Morrisburg 
 is the church, the school, and J. J. Morris (This latter is 
 quite an item, as he is six feet six inches tall — the tallest 
 man in the county.) 
 
 In 1865, the stage route was changed to Adel and Panora, 
 which route was used until the railroads, north and south of 
 us, were built far enough west to change it. 
 
 Dale City nestled away among the knolls and little hills 
 on the south bank of South Racoon, in one of the most 
 picturesque little valleys imaginable, was laid out in 1862, 
 by Jno. Lonsdale. It contains a woolen factory, estab- 
 lished in 1858, by Mr. Lonsdale. The building is 46x60 
 feet; two stories high; employs twelve hands, most of whom 
 are women. 
 
 Mr. Jas. Lonsdale keeps a dry goods store, which was 
 started by Jno. Lonsdale and Jos. Kenworthy, in 1861. 
 
 There is a hotel, by Bickford; a blacksmith shop, by 
 
 Wm. Pearson; saddler, John McLuen. 
 
 The post office is kept at the store of Mr. Jas. Lonsdale, 
 Jno. Lonsdale, post master. 
 
 This post office, like our county seat, has been a per- 
 ipatetic institution, having had no permanent abiding place 
 4 
 
54 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 until recently. It is the old Allen post office, which has 
 perambulated " through " Allen, Fairview, Morrisburg, and 
 Dale Cit}^, for several years, alternating between the latter 
 two places. 
 
 Mr. Lonsdale, senior, a native of England, came to the 
 county in 1853, and jDurchased land; came again in 1855, 
 and commenced the erection of his woolen mill. He also 
 prepared a place for his family, and brought them here in 
 1866. Mr. Lonsdale has a farm of four hundred and 
 eighty acres, well cultivated and improved. A comfortable 
 and commodious dwelling stands on a little eminence that 
 overlooks the river on the north, and the beautiful valley, 
 with its rich prairie, in every other direction. 
 
 This delightful little valley, with its cosy little homes, 
 seems a very garden spot of nature. As I sit, this beauti- 
 ful June morning, upon a terrace in the door yard of the 
 hospitable home of Mr. Kenworthy, and listen to the myr- 
 iads of song birds that till every shrub and tree, and take 
 in the beauty of all the surroundings; the dew upon the 
 emerald, velvety carpet, that sparkles like so many di- 
 amonds; the fragrance of apple and plum blossoms; the 
 bursting buds of the lilac; the beautiful evergreens, with 
 their nice new dress — the old cones still clinging to their 
 branches, reminding one that the old habits may still cling 
 to us, when the old of our mortal selves shall have put on 
 the new of immortality; — the broad expanse of prairie, 
 now made into fields of huge proportions, stretching away 
 in every direction, far as the eye can see, even away over 
 theVooded slopes of the 'Coon — the beautiful green knolls 
 rising beyond and above the oaks and elms; — here and 
 there a farmer, riding leisurely along, committing the seed 
 to the care of Mother Nature, confident that she will, in her 
 own good time, yield him rich returns for his labor; — I 
 wonder that, amid so much of loveliness, so much of 
 beauty, there should be discontent and heart-ache; I won- 
 der why the farmer, amid his delightful surroundings, 
 should not have more of the poetry and less of the prose of 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 55 
 
 this blight world? Why, in all onr transactions, the al- 
 mighty dollar must obtrude its unpoetic face? But. there; 
 I must come back from these enchanting scenes, leave these 
 *'^ refreshing"' reveries for the rough practicalities of every 
 day life, still wondering why? 
 
 BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Previous to 1855, Guthrie count}'' had but two townships 
 — Cass and Jackson. In April of that year. Bear Grove 
 was organized, and embraced the west half of the county. 
 
 Nathan Davis, now living in Oregon, was the first settler 
 in what is now Bear Grove townshij), arriving in the fall of 
 1853. 
 
 In 1854, came George Worden, S. R. Saxton, and several 
 others, the former of wiiom built the hotel known as ".Mid- 
 dle River Station," which was kept by Mr. Davis. His one 
 boarder was Capt. Thomas Seeh% then a land agent. This 
 was the regular stopping place for the stages of the West- 
 ern Stage Company, and an occasional traveler, independ- 
 ents of the stages, would stop with him. 
 
 The commissioner appointed for the purpose, E. B. New- 
 ton, opened this stage road in 1853, and previous to the 
 building of Worden's Station, the stages ran from Morris- 
 burg to Hamlin's Grove, in Audubon county — a distance of 
 thirty -five miles — without a single house being in sight to 
 relieve the lonesomeness of the continuous stretch of prairie, 
 or at which they could stop to change horses, or get a "bite 
 to eat " for themselves. Travellers and drivers were obliged 
 to carry lunches for themselves and feed for their horses. 
 
 After the Worden station was built, and Mr. Davis in- 
 stalled as its landlord, two of his friends, Mr. N. and Mr. 
 R., went up to visit him. The bed was of the sapling vari- 
 ety and double, extending entirely across one end of the 
 house. They slept feet to feet, the guests in one end of the 
 bed, and the host and hostess in the other. Said one of the 
 guests, in relating the incidents of this visit: "When we 
 stretched out, we lapped, knee deep; but, with all the incon- 
 
56 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 venience, I eiijoj^ed the vi&it more than some I've made, in 
 more pretentions style.*' 
 
 Thongh the pioneers were always ci^■il to strangers, and 
 ready at all times to render any assistance possible, j^et 
 some of them were rather laconic in their answers to the 
 questions pnt to them; and when they meant what they 
 said, wanted to be believed. 
 
 One da}^ two men drove np to Mr. D's, -and asked him 
 how far it was to the next stopping place. '' Fourteen 
 miles,*' replied he. " Mercy, cried one of the men,"' is there 
 no place this side where we can stop?" " Yes, d — n it; you 
 can stop on the side of that hill if you want to.'' They 
 drove on without more questions. 
 
 A few 3'ears later, when these primitive hotels assumed 
 an " upper story,*' P. Gad Bryan, who had been up to Au- 
 dubon county, holding court, stopj^ed at one of them, and^ 
 out of respect to the dignity of his profession, the landlord 
 gave him the best room in the house, said room being 
 directly over the office. To make it more comfortable^ 
 the pipe from the stove in the office extended up through 
 the ceiling and through this room, "so as to take off the 
 chill, you know." Whenever a fire was made in the stove, 
 the smoke would come puffing out through the leaky pipe 
 in the " best room," almost suffocating the distinguished 
 guest. 
 
 In the morning, after a smoky evening, when the iirst fire 
 was made, the smoke, being no respecter of persons came, in 
 all its impudence, to the eyes, nostrils and throat of Mr. B. 
 He stood it as long as was agreeable (?), and, being consid- 
 erable of a philosopher, concluded to have some fun out of it. 
 He sprang out of bed, yelling "^re, fire, FIRE"! Every- 
 body in the house, including landlady and children, came 
 to the rescue. The landlord rushed frantically into the 
 room, inquiring, " Where's fire? Quick; where*s there any 
 fire?" "1 don't know," cooly replied the judge. "What 
 the d — 1 did ye yell fire for, then?" " Where there is smoke 
 there is fire, and as there is so much smoke here, I sup- 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 57 
 
 posed there must be a little fire somewhere," was the philo- 
 sophical reply. The landlord's chagrin can better be im- 
 agined than written. As he hurried down stairs he relieved 
 himself of this little speech — ''' sold," adding a few exple- 
 tives by way of emphasis. Finally, they all had a good 
 laugh over the little scene, and parted good friends. 
 
 The first school in Bear Grove township was a private 
 school, taught by Mrs. S. R. Saxton, at her residence in the 
 Grove, where she, with her family, still reside. This was in 
 1854. Miss Mar}^ Cram taught the first public, or dis- 
 trict school, in 1855, after the organization of the town- 
 ship. 
 
 " Old Father Knott" preached the first sermon. The first 
 Sabbath school (Union) was organized in 1858, by AVilliam 
 Campbell. 
 
 There are now three church organizations, ten sub-dis- 
 tricts, and nine schools. 
 
 The first white child born was Lillian Harrington, Dec. 
 5th, 1855, now deceased. 
 
 The first death was that of a soldier, who came home and 
 died in 1864. The township had then been settled for nearly 
 twelve years, and contained thirty-two families. The old 
 settlers used to tell stage-coach passengers that Bear Grove 
 was so healthy they were raising a subscription to send east 
 for a poor, old man to come out and settle among them, so 
 they could start a " grave yard." I presume they did not 
 feel quite organized, or civilized, without a grave yard. 
 
 The above was the first hurlal, a death, by accident, hav- 
 ing occurred in the winter of 1856-7. At the beginning of 
 the terrible snow storm that caused so much suffering, and 
 which will be remembered by many old settlers, a lad, a 
 nephew of a Mrs. Sheeder, then residing in the neighbor- 
 hood — neighborhoods extended over considerable territory 
 in those days — went out to follow up a large herd of elk, 
 tracks of which he had discoveved leading up a ravine. 
 When he left home, there were no signs of a storm, but, be- 
 fore nightfall, occurred one of Iowa's proverbial sudden 
 
58 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 changes, and the worst storm of the season ensued. As the 
 young man did not return, search was made the next day, 
 and continued, at intervals, for some time, but without suc- 
 cess. The next summer his bones and gun were found 
 twelve miles north of home, where it is supposed he per- 
 ished in that terrible storm. 
 
 The first marriage in the township was was that of Grant 
 Parkhurst and Fanny Comstock, by Rev. R. C. Meek. 
 Among the early marriages was that of a Mr. North, now 
 living in Casey, to a Miss Betts. They were married by 
 'Squire Owens, who was left-handed. When the couple 
 joined their right hands, the 'squire called out, " other 
 hands, if you please; that's wTong." This, of course, caused 
 a little hesitation, and, consequently, a little confusion, 
 when he was heard to remark, in an aside, " Dog my cats, 
 if I haven't used my left hand so long, I thought everybody 
 was left handed.'' 
 
 The story of another "early marriage" is this: A Mr. 
 Cooper and a Miss Fleak were both hired to work for a 
 prominent farmer, near Lynn Grove. As Cupid lurks in 
 the lower, as well as the higher, walks of life, the little 
 rogue whispered pretty stories in their ears, and, as is usual 
 in such cases, they agreed to tread life's rosy path together. 
 In short, as soon as an opportunity presented itself, they 
 would "get married." The opportunity came one day 
 when C. was working on the prairie, in bucksin breeches 
 and colored shirt, and Miss F. was kneading dough in the 
 kitchen. 'Squire Owen was seen driving along the winding 
 road over the prairie, and Miss Fleak called to him to come 
 in. She then sent one of the farmer's little boys to bring 
 the prospective bridegroom, while she returned to her 
 kneading board. Pretty soon the groom came in, wiped 
 the perspiration from his face with his shirt sleeve, while 
 the soon-to-be bride sprinkled four over her hands, rubbed 
 the dough therefrom as well as she could, walked proudly 
 into " the room," with her sleeves rolled above her elbows. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 59 
 
 and fragments of dongh clinging to lier finger nails, and 
 took her place beside the happy groom. 
 
 They were married then and there without further ado, 
 and spent their honey moon, she in the kitchen and he on 
 the prairie, and were as happy as if they had taken " a 
 trip." 
 
 In June, 1855, Perry Crooks and family — followed in a 
 short time by his nephew, Capt. John McEwen — landed on 
 Bear Creek (which romantic name was given it on account 
 of several bears having been killed on its banks b}^ a 
 "band" of Government surveyors), where the first thing 
 they did was to mow the grass from out a shed, the size of 
 which was nine by fourteen feet, the shed having been 
 moved up from Dalmanutha, a few weeks previous. This 
 one shed, "constituting the various apartments of the family, 
 excepting the kitchen, which was out of doors, under the 
 blue canopy, they'commenced roughing it in earnest. 
 
 Though their house could not be called a mansion, yet 
 the characteristic hospitality of the family discovered itself, 
 even here, as a little incident will illustrate. 
 
 One night, after the family had retired, two men, who had 
 lost their way, stumbled on this habitation, and asked for 
 shelter. Of course, with the limited space at their com- 
 mand, the spare bed was lacking. There were two or three, 
 all filled with members of the family. Capt. McEwen's 
 generous heart at once suggested a way to provide for the 
 wanderers. He called out, " Aunt Mary, make me a bed 
 under the bed, and they can have mine." And in the dis- 
 pensation of true hospitality, the proud, noble-hearted man, 
 who bowed only to his Maker, crept under the bed, that two 
 fellow-mortals might have shelter and rest. Ever thus, the 
 Crooks homey from the shanty to the good, substantial 
 dwelling, continued to be a beacon light to weary travelers 
 through the Grove. 
 
 During the summer of "55, Crooks and McEwen erected a 
 saw-mill — the second one in the county — on Bear Creek. 
 They also erected a log house, that they might be better 
 
60 IIISTOKY OF GUTHUIE COUNTY. 
 
 protected from the storms, wliicli. it seems, were more fre- 
 frequent then than now. 
 
 Wolves, deer, elk, and wild tuikeys, were abundant at 
 this time. One evening, in the winter of '57, Harry Crooks, 
 then a lad of twelve j'ears, went to the barn to do the feed- 
 ing (the men having gone to Panora), and in a few mo- 
 ments he was heard londly calling for the butcher knife. 
 Maggie, a little girl of ten (now Mrs. Grnbb), and the hired 
 girl ran out with the knife. They found Harry astride of a 
 large deer, and holding on by his antlers. He commanded 
 the girls to " cut the deer's throat '" while he held him. They 
 commenced sawing away, and finally Harry came down and 
 took turns with them, until the desired end was accom- 
 plished, and the, trio marched triumphantly into .the house, 
 feeling, no doubt, much as a general might who had won a 
 great battle. How did the boy catch the deer? There was 
 a crust frozen over the top of the snow, hard enough to 
 bear the children, but not hard enough to bear the heavier 
 weight of the deer. The snow was very deep, and, in his 
 struggles to escape, the deer would break through at every 
 step, and, finally, through sheer exhaustion, he concluded to 
 hold still and have his throat cut. 
 
 After a residence of fourteen years at the Grove, in '69, 
 Mr. Crooks removed to Guthrie, where he died in 1874, 
 mourned by all who knew him. The family still remain at 
 Guthrie; and while they are living in anything but pioneer 
 style, they still remember the old friends and the old days. 
 
 Captain McEwen is married, and living in Ohio. 
 
 W. R .Grow, who came, with his family, in the fall of 
 1855, built them a shanty in the Grove, and suffered the 
 privations incident to pioneer life, died in March, 1875, at 
 Casey, where his family now reside. 
 
 Among the substantial farmers and business men are, S. 
 R. Saxton, R. R. Kirkwood, W. A. Reed, W. Sheeder, I. 
 C. Hadlee, J. P. Coates, C. Pettit, and others, whose names 
 I have not at hand. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 61 
 
 Bear Grove contains more timber than an}' other town- 
 ship in the county, except Cass and Jackson. 
 
 DODGE AND ORANGE TOWNSHIPS. 
 
 Dodge township was organized in April, 1855, the election 
 being held at the residence of John Clark, the first settler in 
 the township. It then embraced within its limits the terri- 
 lory now known as Dodge, Highland and Orange townships. 
 It is second from the east line of the count}^, in the north 
 tier. 
 
 The general surface of Dodge is much the same as that of 
 Highland — in the northern part, low, or level; in the cen- 
 tral and southern part, rolling, verging to roughness in some 
 parts. Coal is found in this township also. 
 
 Some of the principal farmers are D. Chambers, "W. S. 
 Mount, D. Neal, H. Belding, and D. H. Crippin. 
 
 W. S. Mount is a son of Stevenson Mount, of Jackson 
 township, and is an old settler, having come to this county, 
 with his father in 3854. He is one of our present supervis- 
 ors, a substantial and w^ell-to-do farmer, an intelligent and 
 upright man, and a much respected citizen. 
 
 Orange township was organized in 1857, and is the north- 
 west township of the county. The first settlement was 
 made in '53-4 by Benjamin and Joseph Tuttle, who came 
 from Michigan; George and Lawson Mingus, who came 
 from North Carolina; "Wm. P. Hopson, of Illinois; and 
 Joel B. Younker, of Ohio. Jacob Cretsinger came at an 
 early day. 
 
 The first white child ])orn in the township was a grand- 
 daughter of Benjamin Tattle. The first death was that of 
 George Mingus. 
 
 The townshiiD was made a district, or school township, in 
 1858, with the following school board; Stephen Hammond, 
 President; Joel B. Younker, Treasurer; and a Mr. Rude, 
 Secretary. The first public school was taught by a Miss 
 Heller, in a log cabin, with inincheon fioor and clap-board 
 
62 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 roof, which stood on the farm of Wm. P. Hoj)soii. The 
 number of pupils was seventeen. 
 
 The first school house was built in 18G0. There are now 
 in the township five school houses. 
 
 In 1873, the Wesleyan Methodists organized the first 
 church, under the leadership of Rev.. E. Grinnell, followed 
 in February, 1874, by an organization of the Christian de- 
 nomination, by Elder McDaniel. 
 
 Orange township, situated as she is, in the fertile valleys 
 of middle 'Coon, south 'Coon, and Brushy Fork, with her 
 abundant supply of water, timber, coal, and stone; the pro- 
 ductiveness of her soil; the beauty of her scenery, and the 
 excellent class of people within her borders, will compare 
 very favorably with any township in the county. 
 
 A story is told of an early settler, who w^as very much 
 afraid of Indians — always on the alert for them. One day 
 he heard a noise he did not understand, and thought, of 
 course, it was Indians. (You know, we always see and hear 
 just what we are looking for.) He crept up the chimney to 
 hide, whispering between his chattering teeth to his wife to 
 sit still; they w^ouldn't hurt a woman. 
 
 N. Wilson, J. F. Moore, and John Cretsinger, are among 
 the prominent farmers. 
 
 BEAVER TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Beaver township was organized in April, 1857, by E. W. 
 Moore. It was made a district or school township in May, 
 1858. 
 
 In 18G2 Beaver bought a library of one hundred and sev- 
 enty volumes, which was the first district library in the 
 county. 
 
 The first settlement was made by Lemuel Coleman in the 
 spring of 1852. Mr. Branson, Henry Maines, and Thomas 
 Coleman came in November of the same year. Grain and 
 provisions were scarce and mills almost Inaccessable, so 
 he went to Des Moines to winter, and returned in the spring, 
 built a cabin, and commenced breaking and improving a 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 63^ 
 
 farm on a " j)re-emption," not being able to enter or buy 
 land. Bye and bye he sold one of his horses, the proceeds 
 of which sale enabled him to enter forty acres of land. In 
 1854 he sold his wagon and entered forty-eight acres more. 
 The next year he bought another forty acre lot. Thus little 
 by little, he has gathered together a snug farm, with a nice 
 orchard of bearing trees, and is surrounding himself with 
 the comforts ne<;essary, to pass the evening of his days in 
 peace and serenity. With what fortitude they endured the 
 hardships of pioneer life, I will let Mr. Coleman tell in his 
 own language, which I copy from a diary kej^t by him. 
 
 " The privations endured are known only to those who 
 have tried a new home, in a new countr}'' 1q the far west, but 
 by honest toil and God's blessing, we have always had 
 something to live upon, and now my fondest expectations 
 on leaving my native State are more than realized. When 
 I look back, I see much for which we should be truly thank- 
 ful to our Heavenly Father. 
 
 When first instated in a home of our own, it was in the 
 wilds of the west, surrounded by nature, almost undis- 
 turbed, with but five families within seven miles of us. To- 
 the west it was thirty miles to the first house, north and 
 south we knew not how far. Many difficulties were before 
 us, but with health and a firm reliance on God for aid, and 
 determined minds, they have melted away like mist before 
 the sun." 
 
 The first thing Mr. Coleman did after breaking the prai- 
 rie, was to plant fruit trees. Many of them have been de- 
 stroyed by hail storms, hard winters, etc., but as fast as one 
 tree is destroyed he plants another. 
 
 The territory now embraced within the limits of Beaver 
 township, was, prior to its organization, a part of Jackson- 
 township. In 1854 there was but one sub-district in Jack- 
 son. 
 
 The members of the first school board were: Henry 
 Maines, president; Thos. M. Coleman, Secretary. The 
 Board ordered the erection of a I02: house, each settler 
 
-64 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 furnishing his share of logs, but before it was ready for oc- 
 cupancy, they concluded to have a frame building, which 
 was built in "58. 
 
 Mr. Coleman taught the first school in 1S57, in one room 
 of Lemuel Coleman's dwelling. In this school, there were 
 from one family, a father and two sons as pupils, the three 
 learning their a, b, c, together. ]\[r. Coleman also taught 
 the next two schools. 
 
 The first religious meetings w^ere held in '53 by " The 
 Church of God,'' or Winebrenarians ; of this, more in an- 
 other chapter. 
 
 In 1853 Henry Maines settled where he now resides. He 
 was almost entirely alone with his family, there being but 
 two or three other families near him, and they not xery 
 near. He went to Missouri to mill, swimming his oxen 
 across the streams in his way, andtoDes Moines or Kanes- 
 ville for groceries. He has now a large farm and a com- 
 fortable home, the result of economy and industry. 
 
 When Mr. Maines came to the county he had two sons, 
 mere lads, John and Jesse, who have now large, well c^il- 
 tivated and well stocked farms of their own. John owns 
 the best barn in the county. It was built in 1875, at a cost 
 of $7,000. Its size is 54x150 feet, 55 feet high. In the base- 
 ment is a self-feeding crib, constructed something on the 
 principle of an hour-glass, just so much corn escaping at a 
 time, which is capable of feeding two hundred cattle at 
 once. It is six feet wide, and runs through the centre, leav- 
 ing space for a drive round it. A trough running the whole 
 length of the crib, receives the corn, as it drops from it. 
 There is also a drive in the first story above the basement, 
 where the crib, which holds about fifteen thousand bushels 
 is filled from the wagons, as the corn is gathered from the 
 field. In the second story is a chute for running the hay 
 through to the basement. In the yard is a never failing 
 spring of pure water. The cattle go in and out at their leis- 
 ure, " eat when they're hungry, and drink when they're 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 6f> 
 
 dry," as hapi)y as if the other line of the old couplet had 
 no reference to them. 
 
 In 1871 Wm. Hanaford, an Englishman, came to Stuart, 
 with thirteen dollars in his pocket, a large family to sup- 
 port, and only his hands to depend upon. He hired out 
 by the month, to Kenworthy and Maxwell, worked for 
 them two years, during which time he bought and paid for 
 a house and lot. He now owns, in Beaver township, a farm 
 of four hundred acres, all under cultivation, and nearly all 
 paid for. He is no " old settler,"' but he, with others, 
 among w^hoai should be mentioned H. S. Brown, on section 
 sixteen, is the kind of settler to improve a new country. 
 
 Among other large farmers I notice W. H. Curtis, C- 
 Sayer, C. E. Genung, E. Genung, R. McCullough, C. Thom- 
 as, T. C. Galbraith, B. Wells, Mrs. Mary C Crooks, Mr. 
 AV6rnock, and J. S. Cummins. 
 
 Beaver townshij) is one of the finest in the county. Bea- 
 ver creek and Spring branch are the principal streams,, 
 along the former of which, there is a fair growth of timber. 
 The surface along the streams is hilly, while toward the 
 south and east it is beautifully undulating. 
 
 PENN TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Penn township w^as organized in 1857, with a poi^ulation 
 of 306. The present population is, exclusive of the town 
 of Stuart, 1,531, that of Stuart, 1,674, making a total of 
 3,205. 
 
 It is bounded on the north by Jackson tow^nship, on the 
 east, by Dallas county, on the south, by Adair county, and 
 on the west, by Beaver township. The surface is princi- 
 pally undulating; in some parts rough and hilly, though 
 no portion but is, or may be made tillable. 
 
 Underlying the surface are beds of coal, mines of which 
 have been opened, three or four miles north of Stuart, and 
 furnish a partial supply for the demands of the township. 
 
 Stone, also is found, and considerable quantities have- 
 been quarried from the bluifs along Deer creek. 
 
66 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 The first settlement in what is now Penn township — then 
 a part of Jackson — was made in 1850, by Addison and 
 William Cave, who settled where they now reside, and oth- 
 ers, who have been mentioned in connection with the first 
 settlement of the county. 
 
 The first death in the township was also the first in the 
 county, being that of Mr. MeCullough, in 1850, who died 
 in a cabin, near the present site of Pearson's mill. 
 
 The next death was that of Julia Ann, daughter of Da- 
 vid Bowles, who died in 1854, and was buried at Bear 
 creek, in Dallas count}^ 
 
 The first grave made in the township (MeCullough was 
 buried in Jackson) was for the reception of the remains of 
 a lad by the name of Isadore Switzer,in the spring of 1856. 
 As there was then no cemetery or burying ground, he was 
 buried on the ridge between the residences of W.M.McCol- 
 lum and Alex. Lamb. 
 
 Lizzie Grifiith, daughter of John Griffith, was born in 
 February, 1856. 
 
 Mary Catharine Bowles, daughter of David Bowles, was 
 born the same winter, whether before or after Miss Grifiith, 
 I am not advised; but the first white child born in the town- 
 ship, is one of the above ladies. 
 
 The first religious service was held at the Pioneer school 
 house, under the auspices of the Methodist denomination 
 in 1855. 
 
 The first Sabbath School was taught by the Friends, at 
 the residence of Elias Hadley, in 1856. 
 
 The first school was that at the Pioneer school house, in 
 the Thompson neighborhood. 
 
 The first church edifice erected in the township was the 
 Summit Grove, or Quaker Meeting House, near Stuart, in 
 1856. In the winter of the same year a subscription school 
 was kept in this meeting house by Darius Bowles, who is 
 now living in Missouri. 
 
 The first postofiice was established in 1858, at the resi- 
 -dence of Rev. J. W. McPherson, near Dexter, and called 
 
IIISTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 67 
 
 Hacks ville, which, upon the location of Stuart, was re- 
 moved there, and the name changed to Stuart. Mr. 
 McPherson was the postmaster at Macksville, and A. L. 
 McPherson the first after the removal of the office. 
 
 In the spring of 1854 Cyrus and David Bowles came to 
 the county, Cyrus settling where Mr. Fink now resides, and 
 David on the McPherson place. 
 
 The only " house " within several miles of them was an 
 Indian wigwam. They all "camped out"' for some time, 
 sleeping in a tent, or a wagon, as the state of the weather 
 seemed to indicate was best. 
 
 When finally they built a cabin, it was the only habita- 
 tion on or near the Mormon trail (this branch of it) for a 
 distance of ten miles, either east or west. 
 
 In the summer of '54 David went to Warren county to 
 work in Pearson's mill, and Cyrus and his family were left 
 alone, " strangers in a strange land." In this trying situa- 
 tion only the implicit faith in a Guiding Power, so charac- 
 teristic of the Friends, sustained them in their loneliness. 
 
 In the autumn of the same year, David returned to Guth- 
 rie, and several more piojieers were added to their little set- 
 tlement. Among these were Alex. Lamb, Reuben Grifl[ith 
 and a Mr. Switzer. 
 
 In 1855 came T. C. McCollum, Elias Hadley, Calvin Car- 
 son, Mary Mills and family, Levi and William Kivett and 
 John Pearson. The latter came to Warren county, from 
 Vermillion county. 111. He built several mills in Warren 
 county. 
 
 The same year of his arrival here, he commenced the 
 erection of his flouring mill, on South Raccoon river, which, 
 however, was not in oj^eration until 1857. 
 
 The first manufacturing establishment of any kind was 
 the carding machine of the Cave Brothers, on South 'Coon, 
 two miles below Pearson's mill. This was afterward con- 
 verted into a sawmill which was swept away by the floods 
 of two or three years ago. 
 In the year of J 856, when the tide of immigration into 
 
68 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 the State was at its highest, the Rev. Jos. W. McPherson, 
 Hon. A- L. McPherson. D. Tomlinson, and many others 
 came to the county. 
 
 centre;township. 
 
 In 1858 Centre township was organized by E.B.Newton, 
 and the first election held at Gnthrie Centre. Jas. Ewing, 
 Chas. Huxley, and E. B. Newton constituted the first town- 
 ship board. 
 
 The first settlement was made by W. W. Newton, who 
 came to the county in 1854, and entered the S. E. ^ Sec. 18- 
 80-32. There were then but three families living on the 
 South 'Coon — a lonely outlook for Mr. Newton. He was 
 the first township clerk; established the first hardware store 
 in Guthrie Centre, in 1870, at which time he also did busi- 
 ness as a real estate agent. Mr. Newton served in the late 
 war, enlisting on the 21st day of March, 186-4, in Company 
 L, Fifth Iowa Cavalry. He is now in Union township, at 
 Walnut Grove. 
 
 Hon. Isaac Parrish came to the State in the spring of 1854, 
 settling in Des Moines, where he remained one year, when 
 he came to Guthrie county and settled on the west side of 
 Brushy Fork, but made his first improvement on the Shaw 
 place. He dealt largely in real estate, entering a great deal 
 of land in Guthrie and other counties. He was the first 
 resident attorney in the county; was District Attornej'' in 
 1855. In 1857 he removed to De Soto, Nebraska, but re- 
 turned in a short time to Harrison county, Iowa, where he 
 died in 1860. 
 
 In 1839-40 Mr. Parrish represented the Cambridge, Ohio, 
 District in Congress, and in 1844-5 he represented the 
 McConnellsville District, same State. 
 
 In November, 1855, Mr, Chas. Huxley, came to the county, 
 and from the date of his arrival until the 14th of April, he, 
 with his family — seven all told — existed in a shanty 12x12 
 in size, without a floor, and so low that the wolves, which 
 which were then quite numerous, ran over the roof, making 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 69 
 
 anything but sweet music in the ears of the lady and wee 
 ones. To Mr. H. it was equal, if not superior, to an or- 
 gan (possibly of the hand variety). AVhen Mr. Huxley 
 built a chimney, which necessary appurtenance the hut 
 lacked, his tools were, a horse shoe, which he used as ham- 
 mer, and a clap-board for a trowel; for morter, he used clay 
 that had been thrown from a well; instead of the ordinary 
 sticks, he used stone; when he "pulled" from its native 
 bed, a huge specimen of the latter, in order to release two 
 smaller ont^;^ which he wished to use, two large wolves 
 jumped over his head. Of course he knew they were 
 wolves, but some new-comers would have thought that away 
 out here in Iowa, stones had legs, (we are not accountable 
 for what we think wlitn frightened) Mr. Parrish generously 
 '• let " this house to Mr. Huxley, free of rent. They too, 
 used the hickory pole, double bed, which, during the day, 
 answered the purpose of a sofa. 
 
 That Mrs. Huxley was homesick is not to be wondered at, 
 for surely the prospect was not a very bright one. To cap 
 the climax of the terrors of a new country, a bald-headed 
 neighbor (any body within fifteen or twenty miles was a 
 a neighbor,) called one evening, and overhearing the re- 
 mark that he looked young to be so bald, explained that it 
 was the effects of the cold Iowa winders, w^hereupon the lady 
 insisted upon "going back; she would not stay in a land 
 so cold as to freeze the top of a man's head like that." 
 
 In April, 1856, Mr. Huxley moved into a log mansion 16 
 xl8 in size, which he erected on the corner of Fifth and 
 State streets. (Guthrie Centre, in the meantime, having 
 been laid out.) This building now stands on Main street, 
 two doors west of the post office, and is occupied by An- 
 drew Hazlet, as a harness shop. I have in my possession 
 a photograph of this building, which I shall bequeath 
 (when photographs cease to interest me,) to the Old Settler's 
 Association. 
 
 Mr. Huxley, ever alive to the interests of his town and 
 count}'", is an honored and much respected citizen. 
 5 
 
70 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 ISox. 3, 1855, Wm. Tracy and family landed in Guthrie 
 county. There were then no houses to rent, and on a cold, 
 bleak prairie, in a driving snow storm, wife and children 
 weeping bitterly, what was he to do f Of himself, he could 
 do nothing, but Mr. Newton, who lived at a short distance 
 from the present site of Guthrie Centre, kindly offered him 
 the use of the loft in his cabin until he could do better. The 
 offer was gladly accepted, and they climbed a ladder to 
 their place of abode, Mrs. Tracy going last. When she 
 reached the top of the ladder the loft was so full she sat 
 down on the Hoor and kept her feet on the top round of the 
 ladder. 
 
 Mr. Tracy entered the land uj)on which Guthrie Centre 
 stands, and sold it to E. B. Newton in the spring of '5G. 
 
 In 1857 he built the first saw mill in the township, which 
 was afterward made a flouring mill. It is told of a miller 
 whom Mr. T. employed, that he would float the screenings 
 d-own stream for his swine, and if, perchance, a poor little 
 fish sought a bite he would whip the water to drive the fish 
 away. 
 
 Mr. Tracy is a native of Belmont count}^, Ohio, educated 
 at Sarahsville; commenced the practice of law in 1858. He 
 has been editor, miller, farmer, real estate dealer and law- 
 yer. He is now engaged in the practice of law. 
 
 In May, 1856, William Holsman came to the county, set- 
 tling twelve miles above Guthrie Centre; in 1858 he re- 
 moved to Panora, and in 1862 to Lynn Grove, where he 
 owns a farm of 1,000 acres, half of which is under cultiva- 
 tion. In 1858 he was a^^pointed Sherift' to succeed Lee 
 Brumbaugh. He has served as such officer for five j^ears. 
 
 Mr. Holsman is extensively engaged in stock raising, 
 paying considerable attention to the breeding of fine stock. 
 His farm is well timbered and watered, and one of the best 
 improved farms in the county. 
 
 In the spring of 1856 Guthrie Centre was laid out by E. 
 B. Newton, (who afterward sold an interest to Capt Seely,) 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 71 
 
 on the east half of the southwest quarter, and the north- 
 west quarter of the southeast quarter of section 6-79-31. 
 
 The first building erected was that of Mr. Huxley. 
 
 The next was that of Mr. Warrington, a blacksmith shop, 
 which stood on the corner of Ninth and State streets. This 
 was built of buckeye logs, and was used for three years, 
 without a chimney, Mr. Warrington being unable to pro- 
 cure the brick necessary for its construction. In the sum- 
 mer of '57 he built a log house and moved his family into 
 it (they were stopping with Mr. Huxley,) before there was 
 a roof on it. In the meantime Mr. Newton had erected a 
 frame building 16x20 — the one now occupied by Godfrey 
 Jerew. as a dwelling — the use of which he donated to the 
 citizens for church and school purposes. The first religious 
 service was held in September, by Rev. Mr. Meek, of Audu- 
 bon county, who came on Saturday night, stopping with 
 Mr. Warrington. He brought with him his own robe and 
 pillow, and made his own bed on the ground, in the cabin. 
 There was a very hard rain that night, and when they arose 
 from their d(r)owny couches, one of them remarked, 'if we 
 ■don't grow it is not because we are not well watered." 
 
 While the minister preached to the sinners at church, Mr. 
 Warrington shod his horse, which had to be i^icketed on 
 the prairie. The divine found this such a convenient ar- 
 rangement, saving so much time and expense, that he re- 
 peated the practice whenever it was necessary. Mr. Meek 
 was of the M. E. Church, South. 
 
 Blacksmith shops were not numerous in those days, and 
 work was brought to Mr. Warrington from Audubon, Shel- 
 by and other counties. In 1865 he was engaged by the 
 Western Stage Company, to do their shoeing from Des 
 Moines to Council Blutfs. His shop was then kept in a 
 wagon, as he traveled from one station to another. If he 
 met a stage he compelled the driver to stop while he ex- 
 amined the shoes of the horses. Mr. Warrington has asso- 
 ciated with him Mr. Cyphers. 
 • The first school was taught by Louis A. Ileno, in 1857. 
 
72 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 The place was of course wild and new, and deer and elk 
 were no nncommon sight. A few days after the opening of 
 the school, four or five handsome deer came up to the door, 
 and the little ones (Dr. Huxley was among them,) all 
 jumped up and ran to see them. The teacher, though not a 
 profane man, in his excitement, remarked (to himself of 
 course,) '' I be dod denied if I don't wish I had my gun." 
 
 The next building erected in Guthrie Centre was a frame 
 dwelling, by George Bike, in 1858, and though not intended 
 for such use, was kept as a hotel. There being no hotel in 
 the neighborhood, travellers would come and beg permis- 
 sion to stop, and he could not turn them away, so the first 
 thing he knew he was keeping hotel. 
 
 His sisters, now Mrs. E. B. Newton and Mrs. Dickey were 
 keeping house for him, and though their accommodations 
 were few and small, and their meals, of necessity, tiery plain, 
 yet their kindness and cheerful efforts to make their guests 
 comfortable, endeared them to all. 
 
 The present hotel was built by Judge De Long in 1858 — 
 George Bike doing the carpenter w^ork — and sold to S. Reid, 
 who kept the first " regular '• hotel. In 1874 Richard Pat- 
 terson purchased, enlarged and improved the house. In 
 May, 1876, David Wesley took charge, Mr. Patterson retir- 
 ing for a time to rest, he and his family having worked very 
 hard to make the Pacific House comfortable and home-like 
 for guests. 
 
 To continue the business Houses of Guthrie Center, James 
 Lyons, dry goods and groceries; established in 1870. 
 
 Mr. Lyons served in the late war, enlisting in the First 
 Iowa Cavahy. Was wounded, and discharged in the 
 spring of '62. Again enlisted in the Twenty Seventh Iowa 
 Infantiy, as 2d Lieutenant in Aug. '62. Quit the service in 
 1863, having been disabled, in consequence of wounds re- 
 ceived at Montevallo, Missouri in '62. 
 
 Stover Brothers & Motz, successors to Motz, keep a 
 general store, in a good building 22x80, on Main street. I. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 73 
 
 E. Motz is an old settler, having come to the county in 
 1861; business established in 1847. 
 
 Prior & Shocklin, groceries, boots and shoes; opened in 
 '75. Both these gentlemen are old settlers, Mr. Prior com- 
 ing to the county in June, 18.56. He first settled at Bear 
 Grove, and came to Guthrie Centre in '66. Mr. Shocklin 
 came in June, 1858, and went into the boot and shoe busi- 
 ness. 
 
 Woods & Headlee, groceries; established in April, 1876. 
 David Woods served nine months in the 18th Ohio Inf. 
 
 Jones & Yancleef, groceries; successors to Jones & Lee. 
 Mr. Jones came to the county in the spring of 1873, and R. 
 G. Vancleef in the fall of the same year. 
 
 The latter gentleman served in the 28th Iowa Infantry 
 three years; was in thirteen engagements and numerous 
 skirmishes; was with the first Iowa troops who went to 
 Washington, and the first to rout the rebels from the Shen- 
 andoah Valley. 
 
 D. H. Brumbaugh, hardware and agricultural implements, 
 established in 1873. Mr. Brumbaugh has a good store- 
 building 22x70 ft., story and a half high. He occupies the 
 entire building; has a good stock, and is doing a good busi- 
 ness. Attentive and obliging, he finds his way to the hearts 
 of the people, and wins their esteem, which he deserves. 
 
 Mr. Brumbaugh is an old settler, having come to the 
 county in 1854, with his father, Daniel Brumbaugh, senior, 
 who settled on Middle Raccoon river, and built the saw mill 
 in 1855. 
 
 Lenon & Bower, drugs; successors to Dr. Bower, who 
 established the business in 1872. The present firm have 
 been doing business since 1875, since which time it has 
 steadily increased. Mr. Lenon came to the county in Dec, 
 1859, since which time he has been engaged in business in 
 Panora, Stuart and Guthrie Centre. 
 
 - Elias Costenbader, furniture; this is the first furniture 
 store ever established in the place; opened in 1870. 
 
 S. J. Lee, agricultural implements; opened in '73. 
 
74 HISTORY OF GUTIIKIE COUNTY. 
 
 Wm. Neely, bakery and restaurant ; established in 76; 
 gets np warm meals on short notice. He served in the 157th 
 N. Y. Infantry, as color sergeant; was in a number of 
 battles. Mr. Xeely was also in the regular service, in the 
 Mexican war. 
 
 D. Jones, livery stable; opened in '75, and is the first 
 ever opened in the place. 
 
 Carson H. Prior, jeweler; opened in '76; is an old settler^ 
 having come to the county in '56, at the tender age of eigh- 
 teen months. 
 
 Stephen Earle, wagon maker, 1870. 
 
 McLuen & Gibson, blacksmiths; both old settlers. 
 
 Andrew Hazlet, harness maker. 
 
 J. H. Mohler, harness maker; successor to J. L. Glasner,. 
 in 1874. Served twenty-nine months in the 92nd Ohio Inf.; 
 was in the battles of Mission Ridge and Chicamauga, and 
 numerous skirmishes. 
 
 H. C. Church, meat market. 
 
 E. A. Shelly, barber, 
 
 Motz & Muntz, millers; the mill was built by Hollings- 
 worth & Williams in *65. Mr. Motz purchased in 1873 and 
 admitted Muntz as partner in '76. 
 
 Mrs. Blanchard, millinery and dress making, opened in 
 the spring of '75; keeps a full line of millinery goods and 
 notions. 
 
 Miss Alice McLuen, milliner; established in the spring of 
 '73. She is an old settler, having come to the county with 
 her parents in '55. 
 
 Miss Crawford, music teacher. 
 
 Rev. H. S. Fish, dentist; came to Guthrie Centre in Nov.^ 
 1875. Mr. Fish received his literary and theological educa- 
 tion at Lima, N. Y.; was ordained a minister in the Bap- 
 tist Church in 1843. 
 
 W. H. Stiles, attorney; is a native of Ohio, was educa- 
 ted at Western, Lynn county, Iowa; came to Guthrie Cen- 
 tre in 1873. 
 
 A. K . Updegraflf, attorney; is a native of York county 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 75 
 
 Pa., was educated at the Fairlield Union Academy, Ohio. 
 He came to Panora in 18G8, where he commenced the prac- 
 tice of law; removed to Guthrie Centre in 1874. May 6, '61, 
 Mr. Updegraff enlisted in company E, 2nd Iowa Infantry. 
 
 Wm. Tracy, attorney; (history given in the begiiming of 
 the chapter.) 
 
 J. B. Carpenter, attorney; was born in Plymoutli, Yt., 
 August 13th, 1837, and received a common school and aca- 
 demical education in that State and Massachusetts. At the 
 age of eighteen he emigrated to Illinois, where he read law 
 and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of that 
 State in 1859. He practised law in Illinois and Texas until 
 the year 1867, when he was appointed by the General Gov- 
 ernment, one of the District Judges of the last named State. 
 At the expiration of his term of office he engaged in the 
 practice of his profession in Texas until 1873, when he re- 
 turned north. March 1st, 1875, became to Guthrie Centre, 
 and now devotes his whole time to th3 practice of law. 
 
 Elbert W. Weeks, attorney; was born in Lake county, 
 Ohio, Oct. 7th, 1851. Graduated from the law department 
 of the Iowa Sate University, June 24, 1873. He came to 
 Guthrie Centre in May, 1876, where he expects to remain. 
 He has practiced his profession three years. Mr. Weeks is 
 an old settler, if not of Guthrie county, at least of Iowa, 
 having been in the State for twenty years. 
 
 John Bower, physician and surgeon, is a native of Pa., 
 was educated at Penn. College, Philadelphia. He came to 
 the county in the spring of 1868, settling at Panora; re- 
 moved to Guthrie Centre in the autumn of the same year. 
 The doctor has practiced his profession for thirty years. 
 
 C. E. Huxley, physician and surgeon, is a native of No- 
 ble county, Ohio; w^as educated at Ann Arbor, Mich.; has 
 been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1874. The 
 doctor is an old settler; lie came with his father in 1855. 
 
 J. Y. Hopkins, physician and surgeon, was educated at 
 the "Medical College of Ohio," at Cincinnati. Emigrated 
 to Iowa in 1853, and to Guthrie Centre in 1869, where he 
 
76 HISTORY OF GUTIIKIE COUNTY. 
 
 has practiced his profession ever since. I am unable to 
 give the doctor's nativity, as lie was born upon the briny 
 deep during the voyage of his parents from Ireland to 
 America. He is improving a nice farm one and a half miles 
 north of town, to which he has given the name of Forest 
 Home. 
 
 Ira P. Wetmore, bank, abstract and real estate office. 
 This bank was established in 1872 in Panora, and moved 
 here in May, 1874; has a complete abstract of Gnthrie coun- 
 ty. The bank building is a good two story frame, 18x32, 
 with good office rooms above; fire-proof vault, of solid 
 stone wall on the outside and brick inside, with air cham- 
 bers between. The floor is solid masonry three feet thick. 
 HalFs best burglar and fire-proof safe. 
 
 Mr. Wetmore came to the county in '66. He is a native 
 of Galesburg, 111., where he was educated. Dec, 1861, he 
 enlisted in the 13th Illinois Cavalry; served one year as 
 corporal, sergeant, and was detailed by General Boyd as 
 scout. One incident of his army life has deeply impressed 
 him with " man's inhumanity to man." His comrade, one 
 Church, a scout,was overtaken and his horse shot from under 
 him; in falling, his leg was so crushed he could not move. 
 The rebels carried him into a building which had been used 
 by our boys as a commissary store room, chained him to 
 the w^all, and, — inhuman wretches, — fired the building. Mr. 
 Wetmore is the possessor of three fine farms, the one just 
 east of town being one of the finest in the county. 
 
 A novelty in agriculture, is Mr. Wetmore's " potato 
 patch." It is a mound, or rather block of earth four feet 
 square, built of sod on the outside, and filled in with loose 
 dirt; the potatoes are put in near the surface. This is cer- 
 tainly a combination of the useful and the ornamental, as 
 its object is to save room, and I am sure it looks pretty. 
 
 F. A. Mann, editor and proprietor of the Beacon Light; 
 came to Guthrie Centre April 18, 1S74; Mr. Mann purchased 
 the half interest in the Journal, owned by Henry Hess, and in 
 conjunction with H Kautzman enlarged and changed the 
 
niSTOEY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 77 
 
 Journal to the Beacon Light, issuing the first number of the 
 latter on the 20th of May following. In March, 1875, F. A. 
 Mann purchased tlie interest owned in the paper by H. 
 Kautzman, and from that time to the present, the patron- 
 age and circulation of the Beacon Light has been steadily 
 increasing. Mr. Mann Avas born Aug. 17th, 1839, at Mt. 
 Pleasant, Hamilton county, Ohio. Came to Davis county, 
 Iowa, June 3d, 1856. Railroads were then scarce in Iowa, 
 and the western and northwestern portions of the State 
 were unsettled. In 1862 he moved to Guthrie county, lo- 
 cating on a small tract of wild land in Beaver valley. Here 
 he remained until 1874, when he entered the newspaper 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Mann was educated at Farmer's College, College Hill, 
 Ohio, formerly Gary's College. Of this College Freeman 
 Cary was President and founder, and Hon. S. F. Cary 
 Treasurer. Mr. Mann's mother was a school-mate of Alice 
 and Phoebe Cary, his grandmother occupied a conspicu- 
 ous place in Alice's " Clover Nook," of which the village 
 of Mt. Pleasant is the original. Mr. Mann's father. Dr. 
 Horace C. Mann, was the first Free Soil candidate for Con- 
 gress in the Cincinnati District, and received thirty odd 
 votes. A great grand father was one of the first settlers in 
 the Miami Valley, Ohio, at the beginning of the century, 
 receiving from the Government a large tract of land near 
 Middletown, for his services in the Revolution. 
 
 Mr. Jno. E. Parrish, foreman in the Beacon Light office, 
 and first editor in the county, (editor of the Guthrie Sentinel 
 in '56,) is a native of Cambridge, Gurnsey county, Ohio. 
 He came to Guthrie in 1855, remained until the winter of 
 '57, when he moved his printing press to De Soto, Nebraska, 
 where he edited the Pilot. In 1864 he returned to Panora, 
 remaining only a short time, when he went to Oregon and 
 California'. Finding no better place than Iowa, he returned 
 in 1870 to Guthrie Centre. 
 
 Jas. H. Rogers, our present Recorder, was born in Essex 
 county, N. Y. ; was educated at St. Lawrence Academy, 
 
78 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 same State. He came to Guthrie county in 1870; taught 
 school and read law until October, 1873, when he was ap- 
 pointed Deputy Auditor. Mr. Rogers was elected County 
 Recorder in 1874, has been nominated for re-election in 1876, 
 and will in all probability be elected. 
 
 H. K. Dewey, County Auditor, was born in Royalton, 
 Windsor county, Vermont; educated at the same place, and 
 at Commercial College, Hartford, Conn. He came to 111. 
 in 1865, and to Guthrie county in 1869. Previous to his 
 election to the office of Auditor he was engaged as a farmer. 
 In Illinois was engaged in the drug business. 
 
 Guthrie Centre was made an independent district in April, 
 1876. Principal of the school, H. E. Long; assistant, Miss 
 Mary Bower. The latter was educated at the University, 
 at Iowa City, the former at Knoxville. The schools num- 
 ber about one hundred pupils; the houses are small, but the 
 contract has been let for building a new and commodious 
 brick building during the centennial year. 
 
 The M. E. Church was organized in 1856 by Rev. Mr. 
 Anderson, with nine members, three of whom are still mem- 
 bers. The present membership is ninety. The church 
 building was erected in 1870. 
 
 There is also a Baptist Church, of which I unfortunately 
 did not obtain the history. Rev. H. S. Fish is the Baptist 
 minister. There are five organizations of this denomina- 
 tion of christians, and two church buildings in the county. 
 
 Masonic Lodge was chartered in 1858, with ten members. 
 It'now has a membership of fifty, with Dr. J. Y. Hopkins, 
 Master; Senior Warden, H. K. Dewey; Junior Warden, 
 Levi Cyphers; Treasurer, A. K. Updegraff"; Secretary, F. 
 A. Mann. 
 
 There is also an Odd Fellows Lodge. 
 
 ■ The Post Office, the general history of which is given 
 
 elsewhere, was made a money order office in July, 1875. 
 
 No. of orders issued is 587; paid out, $6,285, and deposited 
 
 $5,895; making an average of about $1,100 per month. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 79" 
 
 Average number of letters daily 150. Chas. Huxley, post 
 master. 
 
 Mr. Huxley kept the first post office in the old log build- 
 ing, which he put up in 1856. He has been post master 
 most of the time since. 
 
 E. J. Reynolds, County Treasurer, came to Guthrie with 
 his father, Gillam Reynolds, in June, 1852, settling on the 
 hill southeast of Panora, where he entered the S. W, i of 
 section 5-80-30, and much more in the same farm. The 
 father died in 1857. When they first came, there were twenty- 
 four of them, (two or three uncles and their families,) and 
 they all lived in a cabin 18x20. A " goods " box was their 
 table, and the floor their chairs. They went to mill near 
 Winterset, going as had been their wont in the east, when- 
 ever they were nearly out of bread-stufis. Here it was all 
 corn. In December they went to mill, remained over night, 
 and started back in the morning. In the afternoon of the 
 first day it commenced snowing, and continued to snow and 
 blow all the next day. It was with difficulty they traveled 
 at all. They went all day long, and into the night without 
 a mouthful to eat. Blinded by the snow, hungry and al- 
 most frozen, they were about giving up in despair when 
 they heard the bark of a dog. They followed the sound, 
 which led them back a short distance in the direction from 
 which they had come, and finally up to a cabin. They 
 went to the door to beg permission to stop, when lo, they 
 found themselves at home. It was then eleven o'clock, and 
 they had passed the house, and were only saved by poor 
 old Towser. 
 
 From the hunting stories that are told, they must have done 
 some hunting in this township. Two old settlers, T. and N., 
 went out to follow the trail of a deer; they saw him run into 
 the brush, and it was agreed that T. should go through the 
 brush and N. would go round it. Pretty soon he started 
 up close to T., who stood, guri in hand, watching for him. 
 " Here he is, here he is, come quick, or he'll get away." He- 
 forgot that his gun was loaded. 
 
80 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 They tell of a snake bunt too, in which two brave printer 
 boys were concerned. A snake had gone into a hole in the 
 ground, and the j)rinters, with a brave old English captain 
 to command them, commenced war ujDon his snakeship. 
 The captain, with a spade, threw out the ground, while 
 typo stood with a hand-spike ready to kill him as soon as 
 he should be brought to light. He was just telling what 
 lie'd do if he saw the snake, when the captain gave the 
 command to strike; he did strike — for home as fast as his 
 heels would carry him, yelling at the top of his voice, ''take 
 him off, take him off!" Typo number two ran also, but not 
 so fast as number one. 
 
 I have just learned an item about the first hotel keeping. 
 They placed a board on tressels for a table, and sat on the 
 floor Instead of chairs; in course of time they took this ta- 
 ble for a bench, upon which to sit, and made a higher bench 
 on the same plan, which answered the purpose of a table. 
 
 The first agricultural society was organized in 1859, with 
 
 E. B. Newton, President; Thos. Seely, Secretary; J. J. 
 Groom, Treasurer. The first fair was held in Guthrie Cen- 
 tre, and all articles, except live stock, were exhibited in the 
 school house. 
 
 The race track extended around one entire block. 
 
 On the 15th of June, 1875, an old settlers' meeting was 
 held at Guthrie Centre, for the purpose of effecting a i^er- 
 manent organization. J. W. Cummins was President, and 
 
 F. A. Mann, Secretary. 
 
 Permanent officers were selected by committee as fol- 
 lows: J. W. Cummins, President ; Thomas Seely, Yice- 
 President; Wm. Tracy, second Vice-President; John Cline, 
 Corresponding Secretary; and Wm. Holsman, Treasurer. 
 
 Thos. Seely, E. B. Newton, and Wm. Holsman, were ap- 
 pointed a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws. 
 
 The constitution and by-laws of the old settlers' associ- 
 ation of Scott county, with slight alteration, were adopted. 
 
 To go back to Guthrie Centre — it is situated in the south 
 'Coon valley, surrounded by prairie ridges and wooded 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 81 
 
 slopes. Yon can trace the river np and down, for a consider- 
 able distance, by the timber, which skirts its borders. To 
 the west and north you behold those beautiful undulations 
 which so charm the eye, and in the distance look so like the 
 billowy ocean. A little west of south, you see Dalmanutha,. 
 while, seemingly, in a direct line east of, and at a distance 
 of what seems to be a quarter of a mile, but is really one 
 mile, stands a grove of some dozen trees, which look like 
 so many sentinels, placed there to guard some hidden 
 treasure. This is the site of Gopher station. Here and 
 there the prairie is dotted with a herd of cattle grazing 
 quietly; here and there a grove and a farm house. 
 
 As you come down middle 'Coon and Brushy valleys, you; 
 behold scenery equal in beauty to that found in any part of 
 the State. At this season of the year (June) the prairie is 
 one continuous carpet of flowers, while the trees and the 
 grass are of the greenest green. 
 
 Guthrie Centre has no railroad; but, then, to her credit 
 be [it said, she has no saloons. She may lack some ad- 
 vantages, but, happy Centre, she has soft water in her wells. 
 This, to the ladies (gentlemen don't care; they don't have 
 to scrub and wash, and spoil their hands; they're a careless 
 lot, any way), is of untold value, and they can forego many 
 of the so-called advantages of the hard water towns for the 
 sake of this great luxury. Casey, too, has soft water. 
 
 THOMPSON TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Thompson township was organized in 1858, and is the 
 second from the west line of the county, in the southern 
 tier. The first settlement was made in 1853, by Aaron Cop- 
 poc and A. E. Porter. In 1854, Mr. Coppoc laid out the 
 town of Dalmanutha, and John Betts kept the first stage 
 station, which was then the most important business of the 
 place. 
 
 The site of Dalmanutha is on high, rolling ground, about 
 six miles north of Casey, on the old stage route, which was 
 also the original Mormon trail. Though it has gone to de- 
 
82 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 cay — nothing being left but tlie residence of Mr. Porter and 
 the post office — it once contained three hotels, three black- 
 smith shops, and a dry goods and grocery house. 
 
 In 1855, Rev. J. C. Johnson came to the county, settling 
 four miles west of Casey. There were then but three or four 
 families in what is now Thomj)son township. Like all the 
 rest of the early seitlers, they were obliged to bring their 
 corn and other necessaries from Adel and Des Moines, and 
 sometimes even as far as Keokuk. 
 
 " The groves were God's first temples;" so thought these 
 worthy pioneers, who, during the summer of '55, held relig- 
 ious service in Stanfield's grove, protected from the wind 
 aild sun by the friendly trees only. Mr. Johnson was as- 
 sisted in his clerical labors by Rev. Aaron Coppoc, a cousin 
 of the Coppoc whose soul commenced its celestial march 
 with poor old John Brown, or shortly thereafter. 
 
 Mr. Johnson owns a farm of five hundred and sixty acres, 
 being the largest farm in the township. 
 
 *The first school was taught by a Miss Chantry, in 1857, 
 at her brother's house, and numbered ten pupils. In 1860, 
 the neighbors built a log cabin school house, wherein was 
 held a subscription school. This cabin, which was built at 
 Stanfield's grove, answered the double jDurpose of school 
 house and church. 
 
 The creed of these faithful worshippers was that (»f 
 United Brethren. 
 
 Casey — a description of which is given in another place — 
 is situated in this township. 
 
 Among the "solid" farmers are E. B. Newton, E. A. 
 Porter, J. A. Porter, D. L. Chantry, W. A. Jefferson, G. 
 N. Driggs, M. N. Chantry, S. B. Chantry, W. M. Ander- 
 son, A. S. Miller, W. W. Stanfield, S. P. Thompson, H. H. 
 Jones, and others. 
 
 E. A. Porter conducts a large dairy for the manufacture 
 of butter exclusively, in which he uses the milk of two hun- 
 dred cows. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUI^TY. 83 
 
 Mr. E. ;B. Newton, one of the early and prominent set- 
 tlers, came to the township in 1869; to the county in July, 
 1853.. 
 
 He first settled at Panora, which, at that time, contained 
 one house. The first thing he did was to look up the county 
 judge, whom he probably expected (?) to find in his ofiice, 
 dressed in his best broadcloth, and lounging in an easy 
 chair. Instead, he met him on the road, in the dress of a 
 laboring man, and carrying a " shaving horse" on his back. 
 The county oflices, in those days, were not fat enough to 
 keep their holders in broadcloth. Mr. Newton lived in 
 Panora about a year, when he moved to Jackson township, 
 two and a half miles south of Panora, where he remained a 
 year, when he removed to Guthrie Centre, at which place he 
 remained until his removal to Thompson township, where 
 he has a beautiful home, surrounded with^every comfort. 
 His home is net only beautiful and comfortable, but hospi- 
 table, as his friends can testify. Mr. Newton is also a real 
 estate dealer with an office in the town of Guthrie, which is 
 distant from his home about three miles. The farm upon 
 which he resides contains over four hundred acres. Mr. 
 Newton is the principal founder of Guthrie Centre, of which, 
 as well as his connection with the mail route through the 
 county, mention is made in another place. 
 
 Mr. S. W. Cole, another settler, now a resident of Casey, 
 came to Guthrie count}^ in 1858. 
 
 In that year occurred one of the worst floods ever known 
 in this part of Iowa, unless we except that of '51. It com- 
 menced raining the 12th of May, and rained almost continu- 
 ously until the 13th day of June. Mr. Cole brought a load 
 of goods here in the spring, returning to Iowa City for his 
 family in July. The only bridge on the route, that had not 
 been swept away, was the old Scott bridge, over the Des 
 Moines river, at the " Fort." 
 
 Mr. Cole had a large family, and had also some fine stock 
 with him. Mr. Scott, the proprietor of the bridge, and one 
 of Polk county's old settlers, looked at the '• outfit" a mo- 
 
84 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 ment, and asked him where he was going. "To Guthrie 
 connty, sir." " Let him pass, said he to his man; " any 
 man who takes a family of that size, and such stock, to a 
 new county, ought never to pay toll." They followed the 
 stage road, and when they reached Dale City, they found it 
 impossible to cross, so they were obliged to go up to 
 Brushy, where a temporary bridge had been erected. The 
 stages crossed the river at Dale City in a boat. 
 
 ]Mr. Cole first settled near Guthrie Centre; but in the 
 spring of '59, moved to a large farm of 480 acres, in Beaver 
 township, where he engaged extensively in the raising of 
 fine stock, in which he has been very successful. The best 
 beef and butter we have ever had, during a twelve years' 
 residence in the county, came from the herd and dairy of 
 Mr. Cole. In 1859 and '60, he run a threshing machine, and 
 during that time he hauled wheat to Des Moines, and sold 
 it at 22i cents per bushel. 
 
 Thompson township is being rapidly settled, and in a 
 few years there will be no wild lands; all will be made into 
 farms. Some partslof its surface are rough, but most of it 
 is desirable farming land. Middle river is its p'rincipal 
 stream. 
 
 VALLEY TOWNSHIP 
 
 was organized in 1872, and lies west of Jackson, embracing 
 Tp. 79 — north of Range 31, west. 
 
 The first settlement was made by A. G. Weeks, in 1851, 
 being a part of the farm of Mrs. Willy and family. Mr. 
 D. E. Willy, husband of Mrs. Willy, settled in this town- 
 ship in 1855, on a farm of six or seven hundred acres of 
 land, being one of the most desirable locations in the 
 county. 
 
 Mr. W. J. Revell is also one of the early settlers of 1854; 
 resides upon the same farm he at first located, which is one 
 of the largest and best improved in the county. 
 
 George Headlee and the Swan family, early residents, 
 settled in the same vicinity in 1856. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 85 
 
 Capt. Thomas Seely, a native of Wayne county, New 
 York, is doubly entitled to his title, as, previous to his com- 
 ing west he " navigated"' Lake Superior as captain of a 
 steamer, and was also a captain in the war of the rebellion. 
 He came to Guthrie when it was wild and new, and, with an 
 abiding faith in the future greatness of our county and 
 State, he has ever been steadfast in his devotion to their 
 best interests. He was appointed county surveyor in 1854; 
 treasurer in 1855; a member of the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion; register of the State Land Office; agent to select our 
 swamp lands; County Supervisor; and has filled all these, 
 with all other places of trust to which he has been called, 
 with honor to himself and satisfaction to all. He came to 
 the county in 1853; lived at Panora, Bear Grove, and Guth- 
 rie Centre until the year 1859, when he removed to his 
 present farm, two miles southeast of Guthrie Centre. This 
 is a beautiful farm of four or five hundred acres, a fine 
 orchard, and nice artificial groves. 
 
 Elwood Brown, an old settler in this part of the county, 
 came, I believe,''in 1856. He was a native of Pennsylvania; 
 was a "veteran wheel horse" in the Whig, Free Soil, and 
 Republican parties. He was an original thinker and 
 writer; was kind, generous, and charitable; unobtrusive, 
 yet firm in his convictions and steadfast in principle. In 
 September, 1869, he departed this life, and we all felt that a 
 great sorrow had fallen upon us. A true friend had left us; 
 a good man was gone. 
 
 One son, Webb, who, in the late war, had been in every 
 battle and skirmish in which his regiment engaged, and es- 
 caped unhurt, when about the last shot was fired, fell by 
 a rebel bullet. 
 
 Another son Howard, a geritleman of fine intellect and 
 liberal education, full of generous impulses and true to his 
 trust, whatever it might be, died in 1874, at St. Joseph, Mis- 
 souri. 
 
 Mrs. Brown is still living, I believe with their only 
 daughter, Mrs. Harlan. 
 
86 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 In lSi)6, G. W. Harlan came from Pennsylvania, where 
 he had been engaged in the dry goods trade; but meeting 
 with misfortune, he concluded to come west and "try his 
 fortune." He owns a "fine farm, about three miles south of 
 Guthrie Centre. Mr. Harlan was elected County Treasurer 
 in 1867, and has taken a warm interest in the welfare of the 
 county. 
 
 Another settler of 1856, is Major Farnsworth, who lives 
 near the east line of the township. He has been engaged in 
 the nursery business, in which he has been unfortunate, 
 though he is cheerful, and goes on the try, try again plan. 
 
 Speaking of the comparatively easy times now-a-days, 
 he said: " It is true, the hail storm of last fall (1875) de- 
 stroyed 43,000 trees for me, beside a bearing orchard of 
 2,000 trees, but that's nothing. I have plenty to go on yet; 
 but when, in '57, I had but few cattle, and most of them 
 died, and I had little else, I almost had the blues. Not 
 only myself suffered, but my neighbors as well. There 
 were no land marks by which we could go from one place 
 to another, and we had to stay Indoors and eat hominy, 
 which we made by boiling corn in lye, which process hulled 
 it; then we cooked it, and, if we happened to have salt, we 
 seasoned it; if not, we didn't." 
 
 The Assessor, in 1857, reported one family in twenty as 
 having coffee in the house. 
 
 The winter of 1849-50, was excessively cold and stormy. 
 As an offset to this, the next winter, '50-1, was mild and 
 pleasant. On the 20tli day of May, 1851, it commenced 
 raining, and rained for forty days and nights, without a 
 single intermission of twenty -four hours. The streams were 
 so swollen as to be impassable, and the crops were much 
 injured. 
 
 In 1853, cattle lived out doors nearly all of the time until 
 the last of February, when there was a deep snow fall, that 
 lay on the ground until April. 
 
 From "The Guthrie Sentinel," I see that snow fell in 
 
HISTORY OF GUTIIKIE COUNTY. 87 
 
 December, 1856, to the depth of many inches, drifting to the 
 depth of fifteen feet in some places. 
 
 The winter of 1856 was very severe, stunting the cattle to 
 such a degree that they did not sufficiently recover to en- 
 dure tlie winter of 1857, which is referred to by the old set- 
 tlers as " the hard winter." Much of the stock perished 
 from insufficient food and shelter. 
 
 The snow was so deep, the men made snow shoes, and 
 went to mill and to the grocery with hand sleds. 
 
 In the summer of 1858, Guthrie was visited with another 
 flood, commencing on the 12th of May, and rained almost 
 continuously until the 13th of June. 
 
 Among the prominent citizens of Valley township, not 
 already mentioned, are, Mr. Harmon Reed, father and bro- 
 thers, who, though not of the earliest settlers, are good, 
 substantial citizens, and valuable acquisitions to the 
 county. 
 
 Thomas Henderson and brother, sons of Judge James 
 Henderson, came at an early day, and are men of consider- 
 able means and excellent taste, as their fine farms, fine 
 groves, good orchards, and pleasant homelike homes tes- 
 tify. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors, in October, 
 1875, it was ordered that the township boundaries be 
 changed, to conform with the congressional townships. 
 Cass and Jackson being dissatisfied with the change, it was 
 ordered, at the June session, 1876, that their boundaries re- 
 main unchanged. The above change gives us two new 
 townships. Seely, Baker and Centre are no more. 
 
 VICTORY AND UNION TOWNSHIPS. 
 
 Victory township was organized in 1871. The first set- 
 tler in this territory was John Vanorder in 1851. 
 
 Among the early settlers, are, Thomas Moffitt, A. H. 
 Haughtelin, the Reeds and the Vandeventers. 
 
 The first death was that of Mrs. Jacob Vanorder. 
 
88 iiisTor.y of gutiikie county. 
 
 Middle 'Coon and Brnsliy Fork drain the township. (The 
 original name of the latter stream was East Fork, bnt ow- 
 ing to the brushy nature of the timber along its banks, it 
 has been christened Brushy Fork.) 
 
 The surface is generally rolling, except that portion lying 
 north of 'Coon river, which is level. This is well adapted 
 to grain and stock raising. The high, rolling prairie be- 
 tween the two rivers presents one of the finest view^s to be 
 found in the west, and, with its fine, rich land, makes it one 
 of the most desirable locations for a home the heart could 
 wish. 
 
 Brush}^ Fork has but little timber. Middle 'Coon, which 
 runs through the township from east to west, is well lined 
 with all the kinds of timber common to Iowa. There is one 
 good saw mill on this stream, with several good mill sites, 
 which will probably be improved al no distant day. Some 
 of the most desirable farming land in the county is found 
 in Victory. There are many fine farms and a number of 
 fine orchards, that of A. H. Haughtelin, numbering one 
 thousand bearing trees; said to be the best in the county. 
 Mr. Dunley has six hundred trees, nearly all in bearing. 
 There are also others, smaller, but quite good orchards. 
 
 The farmers as a class — mostly " Buckeyes" and "Hoos- 
 iers"— are hospitable and kind, and their eff'orts to bring 
 their schools up to the highest standard of country schools, 
 attest their intelligence. 
 
 The widow McClaren is an old settler in this township. 
 Judge Thomas Moffitt settled at Moffitt's Grove in 1852. He 
 has been Count}^ Judge; is now post master of Moffitt's 
 Grove post office, and is seventy-five years old. 
 
 Union township was organized in 1862, with thirteen 
 voters . 
 
 The first settlement was made by John Frost, in 1854. 
 The first birth occurred in Mr. Frost's family in May, '55. 
 
 The first death was that of Peter Luckinbill, who lived 
 and died on the farm now owned by Robert Harron. He 
 died in the winter of '57 — the winter the old settlers will 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 89 
 
 never forget — and lay dead for six weeks before lie could be 
 buried, on account of the storms and deep snow. The snow 
 was so deep and drifted, they could get to no burial place; 
 and if they could, the ground was frozen so deep and hard, 
 they could not dig a grave. His eldest son died the same 
 year. 
 
 The first church organization was effected in 1858, by Rev. 
 Jas. Carrie, of Panora, who held religious worship every 
 three weeks, at the residence of E. D.'lvers. This was a 
 Methodist organization. 
 
 In June, 1858, a subscription school was taught by Miss 
 Philena Jordan, in a log cabin, built for the purpose by the 
 patrons of the school. Whole number of pupils enrolled 
 was twelve. 
 
 In 1859, a grant was made for a school district, subject to 
 the school board of Centre township, and a school house 
 built by the same in 1860. Miss Jordan continued teach- 
 ing for some time after the school house was built. 
 
 The population of the township now is 286. Voters, 70. 
 
 This township possesses desirable farming land, and, 
 except a lack of railroad facilities, has many inducements 
 for farmers seeking new homes. It has timber sufficient for 
 practical uses, while groves are being planted for shade, 
 protection from storms, and for prospective fuel. Water 
 privileges, too, are sufficient for the demand. 
 Among the prominent farmers are C. B. True, T. Johnson, 
 M. A. Collins, L. Ansberry, C. C. Nesselroad, J. Stewart, 
 and others. 
 
 Mr. Nesselroad is an old settler. 
 
 HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP. 
 
 On the second day of April, 1860, there was filed, with the 
 county judge of Guthrie county, a petition, asking that the 
 territory, known as 81 — 30, be formed into a civil township, 
 and the same be called Highland. The petition was granted, 
 and in the following November the township was organized 
 by electing A. Littlejohn, County Supervisor; Wm. McCoy, 
 
90 HISTORY OF GUTHEIE COUNTY. 
 
 Township Clerk; J. W. Arrovvsmitli, Justice of the Peace; 
 John McCoy, J. A. Clearwater and W. H. Clearwater, 
 Trustees. Highland's share of the road fund for 1860, 
 drawn from the County Treasurer, amounted to $16.18. 
 
 The first settlement made in the township w^as by Richard 
 Squires and family, who moved from Illinois, and settled 
 upon and improved the s. e. i of Sec. 20, 81. 32. This was 
 in 1853. One of his sons, W. B., settled upon the n. w. J 
 of Sec. 21, and another son, N. J., improved the s. e. J of 
 of Sec. 15, all in the summer of '53 In the autumn of '53, 
 a Mr. Lamb settled on Sec. 18; William Hill and Samuel 
 C«aming on Sec. 35, east of Willow Creek. 
 
 In 1854 the following settlers came to the township: 
 Alex. Littlejohn. who came from Indiana; Jacob Clear- 
 w^ater, also from Indiana, and his two sons, J. A. and W. 
 K., and Thomas Wilkison. In 1855 came J. W. Arrow- 
 smith and Moses McCoy. In 1856 Charles and William 
 Bowers came from England, and settled upon Sec. 30. 
 Patrick Toole and Patrick McDonald, the latter the father 
 of ex-sheriff M. McDonald, settled upon Sec. 19. 
 
 Mr. McDonald afterward bought and improved the e. ^ 
 of Sec. 6, and is the wealthiest farmer in the township. 
 
 The first frame house w^as built in 1859 by H. J. Smith, 
 on Sec. 20. Previous to Mr. Smith's leaving for Pike's 
 Peak, he sold the house to the township trustees for a 
 school house. They moved it from the e. i n. e. i Sec. 20, 
 to the e. i of n. w. ^ of the same section. This was the 
 only school house in the township until the fall of ^66^ 
 when it caught fire and was burned to the ground. 
 
 It w^as in this house the first election was held. The 
 number of votes cast at said election w^as seventeen. After 
 the destruction of the school house, the remainder of the 
 term was taught in an old house belonging to R. J. Patter- 
 son. During this term of school a new departure was 
 inaugurated, that of teaching on Saturday and having no 
 school on Monday, " so the big girls could do the washing- 
 without staying out of school." This practice is still re- 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 91 
 
 tained in some of the townships in the north-west part of 
 the county. 
 
 Previous to 1867 the township was not divided into sub- 
 districts, the whole being one district. During the earlier 
 years of the township's existence, one of her treasurers 
 bought some hogs of a neighbor, promising to pay for 
 them in a few weeks; the time expired, but the money was 
 not forthcoming. 
 
 " Well," thought the seller, "he'll go to Panora pretty 
 soon to draw the school fund, and I think I'll go too, and 
 see that he gets it." Accordingly, when Mr. Treasurer went 
 to Panora to make a draw on the County Treasurer, his 
 neighbor accompanied him, and without a warrant drew 
 from the sub-treasurer the pay for his hogs. 
 
 The first church was organized in 1860, by Rev. Adair of 
 the M. E. church. 
 
 The first temperance lecture was delivered in 1866,. by W. 
 H. Games. An old settler says, that since that lecture 
 they drink more buttermilk and less whisky, and in fact 
 are thoroughly reconstructed, as the township can boast 
 more temperance men than any other township in the 
 county. A temperance society, which numbers forty mem- 
 bers, was organized in 1875 by Mr. Games. 
 
 The first school was taught by Wm. McCoy. 
 
 There are two church organizations, the Methodist Epis- 
 copal and the Christian, or New Light, each with about 
 thirty members. There are also two Sabbath-schools, the 
 Methodist Episcopal and a union school, both well at- 
 tended. 
 
 Religious meeetings are held in school houses !No. 5 and 
 No. 8. There are, in this township, ten sub-districts and 
 seven schools, about eighty voters and three hundred and 
 forty inhabitants. 
 
 Out of sixteen Granges of Patrons of Husbandry in the 
 county, but four remain. One of these is in Highland. 
 
 This township has an abundance of both coal and timber 
 
92 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 for all practical ])urposes. The timber consists of oak, 
 walnut, hickory, ash, elm and maple. 
 
 There are two coal banks opened, one on the farm of Mr. 
 W. H. Games, and another on Section 28. Iron ore and 
 sand stone are also found, the latter good for ])uilding pur- 
 poses. The coal mined here is of excellent quality. 
 
 Middle 'Coon river and Willow Creek furnish water 
 power for manufacturing purposes, while these, with nu- 
 merous spring branches, furnish water for live stock, the 
 year round. The general surface is rolling, except in the 
 north, above Willow Creek, where it is low. For produc- 
 tiveness of soil, beaut}'' of scenery, puritj" of water and 
 liealthfulness. Highland can well compare with the other 
 townships, while in hospitality and general " mind-your- 
 own-business," her intelligent people cannot be excelled. 
 
 Among the " substantial *' citizens not already mentioned, 
 are W, H, Games, Richard Patterson and M. McDonald. 
 
 Mr, Games came to the county in 1865, settling where he 
 now resides. No greed of gain has induced him to gather 
 up all the acres within his reach, neglecting, thereby, to 
 make his home comfortable for his family, but instead, lie 
 has made his place a home, in the true sense of the word. 
 He has built a good, comfortable farm-house, planted a 
 grove and an orchard, beautified his door yard with ever- 
 greens, built him a good, large barn, with all the necessary 
 out-buildings, has his farm thoroughly cultivated, and with 
 his amiable and intelligent wife, believes that happiness can 
 be more easily attained by the cultivation of the head and 
 heart, along with the cultivation of the soil. 
 
 R. J. Patterson, who resides near Mr. Games and Chas. 
 Smith, now deceased, came from Cincinnati in 1856, stop- 
 ping a short time in Panora. They then went up on Brushy, 
 a distance of twelve miles, now in Orange township, where 
 they camped out, living in a tent during the day and sleep- 
 ing in the wagon at night. This way they lived for six 
 weeks, when they moved into a house on Mr. Smith's place, 
 about six miles further up, which they had in the mean 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 93 
 
 time built. And here, in a little log house, the two fam- 
 ilies, consisting of fifteen persons, lived until the next 
 winter. When they were on their way from Panora to 
 their camping ground, Mrs. Patterson was anxiously look- 
 ing for the residence of Isaac Parrish, who had sold 
 them their land and who lived near it. Tired with watching 
 and waiting, she was giving up the hope of ever seeing it, 
 when suddenly coming to the top of a hill, she caught sight 
 of a building and joyfully exclaimed, "0, there's the hen 
 house, anyway! I presume we will soon see the house." 
 " Yes, certainly," replied Richard, provoking man, for 
 when they came up, lo and behold, it was the very house 
 itself. 
 
 The winter of 56-7 was the very hard winter, when so 
 much stock perished. 
 
 The ground was covered with snow and sleet nearly all 
 winter, and was so slippery the settlers were obliged to draw 
 their groceries from Panora on hand sleds. 
 
 They began the winter with two sacks of iiour, two of 
 middlings and some meal. The snow coming sooner than 
 they expected it, they were not prepared for winter, as they 
 would otherwise have been. When their supply of meal 
 ran out, they ground corn on the cofiee mill, first drying the 
 corn in the stove oven. It stormed so violently they were 
 obliged to take their chickens into the house to save them. 
 
 During one of the storms Mr. Patterson was on the south 
 side of the house sawing wood, and little Frankie, now 
 Mrs. Ham Kautzman, came out and went to the southeast 
 corner of the house, the wind caught her up, carried her 
 past her father, and on past the house, and in a moment 
 more she would have been borne out of his reach, but the 
 necessity of the moment gave him strength and speed, and 
 he saved her. 
 
 As soon as spring opened they returned to Panora, Mr. 
 P. declaring "they couldn't come another such a winter 
 on him." 
 
 They returned to Cincinnati in a short time, where they 
 
94 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 remained a year or two; they then returned to Orange town- 
 ship, w^here they remained several years. In 1874 they 
 bought the hotel at Gnthrie Centre, w^hich they kept for two 
 years, removing in the spring of '76 to Highland. 
 
 Michael McDonald lives about two miles north of the resi- 
 dence of Mr. Games, and is another successful farmer, as 
 well as an old settler. He came with his father in 1856, be- 
 ing then a lad of twelve j^ears. He staid at home like a 
 good boy until the breaking out of the rebellion, when he 
 insisted upon enlisting in the company then forming in 
 the county; to this his father objected on account of his 
 extreme youth. They were making hay, Michael mowing 
 with a scythe. He started the old gentleman to the barn 
 with a load of hay, draAvn by a yoke of oxen, while he 
 took the only horse — no, it was an old blind pony, rode to 
 Panora and enlisted. The next day his father came down 
 and wanted him to return home. " Now look'e here, dad," 
 said this young America, with a bit of the Emerald Isle 
 clinging to him, " you can take me home if you want to, but 
 I'll run away and go to Missouri and enlist, and once I'm 
 over Mason Dixon's line you can't touch me." 
 
 He didn't know what "Mason Dixon's" line meant, but 
 thought it would scare the old gentleman, " all the same." 
 Mr. McDonald was elected .Sheriff of the county in 1873. 
 
 GRANT AND RICHLAND TOWNSHIPS. 
 
 Grant w^as organized in 1869, a Congressional township. 
 
 The first settler was John Wickersham, in 1857; the next, 
 Joel E. James, in 185S. In 1867, Grant had three voters 
 and about 200 acres of land in cultivation. In 1876 she 
 has about one hundred voters and 6000 acres of land in 
 cultivation. 
 
 The first school was organized in 1870, There are now 
 five schools. 
 
 There are two religious societies organized, who hold 
 worship in the school houses. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 95- 
 
 The largest and best improved farm is that of Gf. W. 
 Wetmore. embracing section 16, which he bought in lSb*8> 
 but did not move upon it until October, 1874. It is all 
 fenced and under cultivation. Mr. Wetmore employs ten 
 or twelve teams and about ten hands; has on the farm twO' 
 tenant houses, besides a beautiful and comfortable resi- 
 dence. Two years ago Mr. W. jDlanted four and a-half 
 miles of osage fence on his farm. He has 200 fruit trees, 
 with four rows of soft maple 'round them. This is said to 
 be the best improved farm in the county. Mr. Wetmore is 
 a native of Galesburg, 111., and previous to his settling at 
 "Hill Side," as he calls his farm, had been a real estate 
 dealer. He is a descendant of Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 Mr. Joel E. James, who came to the county in May, 1858, 
 was here in time to see a little of the hard times. He came 
 from Indiana and settled where he now resides. He built 
 them a cabin and they lived in it during the summer with- 
 out a roof. In the fall he made a roof of raw hides, which 
 he procured in this way: emigrants passing through, fre- 
 quently lost a cow or an ox, by death, which Mr. James 
 would skin, drying the skin in the sun; these stretched 
 over pole rafters made an excellent roof, being rain and 
 wind proof. 
 
 The two Mormon trails, one through Madison and Adair^. 
 and the other through Guthrie, by Dale City and Dalma- 
 nutha, came together and verged into one road near Mr. 
 James' place. In 1858, when the last of the " hand cart 
 brigade" went through, one woman, a fifth wife, deserted 
 the train and took refuge with Mr. James and his family, 
 where she remained a short time, when she went east. As 
 frequent mention is made of the " Mormon trail" and the 
 "hand cart" expedition, a very brief sketch of that expe- 
 dition will not be out of place here. 
 
 Until the year 1856, the Mormon emigrants had always 
 made the journey across the plains, with ox carts under the 
 charge of some of the elders, who were returning fron* 
 their missionary labors across the ocean, bringing witli^ 
 
■96 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 them the fruits of their labors, in the jDersons of those who 
 were converted to their faith. Tlie able-bodied went on 
 foot, while those too young, too old or too feeble to walk, 
 went in the wagons with the baggage. After much time 
 , and deliberation spent on the subject of reducing expenses, 
 Brigham Youno- hit upon the plan of having tham cross 
 the plains in hand carts. 
 
 Accordingly, Mr. Webb, father of Ann Eliza, was ordered 
 to Iowa City from England, where he was engaged in mis- 
 sionary work, to build the hand carts that should take the 
 large number of converts to the new Zion. 
 
 After camping some time at Iowa City without tents or 
 shanties, they took up their weary march by companies, 
 going through Guthrie on the old Mormon trail, through 
 Morrisburg, Dale City and Dalmanutha. The carts were 
 ordinarily drawn by one man and two women, some, how- 
 ever, were drawn by women only, and when they came to a 
 3X>ugli or muddy place, they doubled teams, one or two going 
 behind the cart and pushing, by means of a forked stick, 
 the fork being placed over the shoulder and under the arm, 
 while the other end was placed against the cart. 
 
 Each company was under the supervision of a captain, 
 who rode in a caniage. The captains of the companies 
 who went through in 1856, were Savage Willie, Atwood 
 and Woodward. 
 
 They were so scantily provided with provisions, that they 
 would stop and beg of the farmers for something to eat — 
 poor, weary, exhausted creatures, who were, nevertheless, 
 content to endure these hardships because it was done in the 
 name of religion. Occasionally a weary train would go 
 ■fhrough as late as 1858. 
 
 Beside^ witnessing the hardships of the Mormons, the 
 the citizens of Grant, with the rest of Guthrie's good 
 people, had many hardships of their own to endure. 
 
 Among the more prominent farmers are, A. Kirkpatrick, 
 IM. Rowland and D. F. Arnold. 
 
 A story is told of an old gentleman in this township, 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 9T 
 
 who, several years ago, hired himself to teach school, signed 
 and approved his own contracts, and taught when it snited 
 his convenience. 
 
 The soil of Grant is rich and warm, and noted for its 
 productiveness and the early maturity of its crops. It is 
 situated on the great water-shed divide, and is the head of 
 numerous creeks and small streams which water its surface-. 
 It has no timber and no waste land; it is said to be the 
 best farming land in the county. The citizens of Grant do 
 their trading and get mail at Adair, six miles from "HiH 
 Side," farm. Grant is in the south-west corner of ^the 
 county. The town of Adair is located on the south line of 
 the township, in Adair county. 
 
 It was laid out in 1873, by Capt. Charles Stuart for th® 
 railroad company. It contains 2 drug stores; 3 hotels; 2 
 dry goods stores; a steam elevator; a lumber yard; 2 coal 
 yards; 2 blacksmith shops; 1 boot and shoe shop; 1 butcher 
 shop;l furniture store; 1 hardware store; 3 farm machinery 
 sale rooms; 1 livery stable; 1 cooper shop; a large steam 
 flouring mill; a fine frame school house, two stories high-, 
 which cost $3,500. The flouring mill, elevator and lumber 
 yards belong to Capt. Stuart, and are under the supervisr 
 ion of Mr. Arnold, his agent. 
 
 Besides other advantages possessed by Grant, she has 
 soft water; think of it, you ladies who have to use hard 
 water. 
 
 RICHLAND TOWNSHIP 
 
 Was organized in 1868, with a total population of forty- 
 seven. It is situated in the north-east corner of the county 
 and has been from the first, a Congressional township of 
 six miles square, or thirty-six sections of land. Its surface 
 is level; in some places low; though it contains but few 
 acres of waste land. It has no timber; is watered by 
 numerous small streams. 
 
 The largest farmer in the township is Herman Miller; his 
 farm contains about 800 acres, 300 of which are now under 
 
'9S HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 cultivation, and Mr. Miller expects soon to cultivate all of 
 it. He has built him a fine residence, perhaps the finest 
 in the comity. Mr. Miller is a native of Williams county, 
 Ohio, and his wife the daughter of Gen. Stough of the 
 same place. 
 
 Hon. W. F. Cardell, our last Representative, has a fine 
 farm in this township. Much to the regret of his neigh- 
 bors, Mr. Cardell has removed to Perry, Dallas county. 
 
 Among the other j^rominent farmers are Capt. I. R. 
 Shipley, Geo. Miller, Mr. Godfrey, Mr. Wisner, J. S. Ellis, 
 W, Wright, A. Kirkpatrick, J. Measures, Mr. Marsh, and 
 others. 
 
 Captain Shipley is an old settler, and has one of the 
 best improved farms in the township. 
 
 Advance is the post office in this township, with Mr. 
 •Shorey as post master. 
 
 GUTHRIE. 
 
 Guthrie, situated on Sec. 27, T. 78, 31, five miles west of 
 Stuart on the line of the C, R. I. & P. R. R., was laid out in 
 I^ovember, 1868, by B. F. Allen, Cook and Johnston, for 
 the railroad company. 
 
 G. W. McPherson bought the land for the company of 
 M. Hollingsworth, paying therefor $15 00 per acre. 
 
 Pending the "incubation" of a name for the place, it 
 was called " The Switch." Being situated wholly in Guth- 
 rie county, (the other towns are partly in Adair) it was 
 finally called Guthrie Switch ; being neglected by its father 
 or founder, the poor child never received a name, so the 
 good people of the town dropped the " Switch," and it was 
 henceforth known as Guthrie. 
 
 Guthrie, though in the heart of a fine country, and in- 
 habited by the best of people, has not grown so rapidly as 
 the other towns on the road. The title to the land having 
 been in litigation for several months, building was retarded, 
 men being afraid to buy. Finally, in May, 1869, a com- 
 promise was effected and building at once commenced, which 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 99 
 
 was again interfered with by the failure of B. F. Allen, who 
 
 holds the title to the unsold land- 
 
 < 
 
 Id December, 1868, the first business house was built by 
 Dr. Leroy, for a drug store, but he sold it to P. H. Lenon, 
 who let it to a party who opened a saloon — another illus- 
 tration of a bad beginning making a good ending. The sa- 
 loon, was removed in a short time to another place. 
 
 0. B. Dutton built the house occupied by F. Bickford and 
 opened a dry goods and grocery store. 
 
 Mr. H. N. Ross opened the first hardware store in the lat- 
 ter part of 1868. 
 
 About the same time a shanty was built on the north 
 side of the track, and Gregg & Weir opened a dry goods 
 and notion store. 
 
 January, 1869, Mr. S. F. Stults built the building on the 
 corner of Sherman and Fifth streets, and he, in partnership 
 with E. B. Berry, opened a drug store. When Mr. Stults 
 was building he was obliged to board a mile from town, 
 there being no accommodations of that sort any nearer. 
 
 In February, 1869, George McPherson, built the hotel, but 
 sold it to Mrs. Jackson, who let it to a Mr. Gregory, who 
 kept the house. 
 
 In the spring of 1869 Mrs. Jackson was married to a Mr. 
 Snowden, and she disposed of the hotel to S. Reid, who 
 built the addition, and has kept the house ever since. This 
 is the only hotel in the place. 
 
 The first dwelling house was built in April, 1869, by G. 
 W. McPherson. 
 
 The next dwelling and office was that of Alanson Hill, 
 attorney, who came to Panora in 1865, and to Guthrie in 
 1869. Mr. Hill went to California in 1875 in search of 
 health, but returned to Guthrie in 1876. 
 
 The depot was built in October, 1869. 
 
 The post office was established in 1868, O. B. Dutton, 
 post master, who served only a few weeks, when Mr. Stults 
 was appointed. Mr. S. served until November, 1870, when 
 he resigned in favor of J. W. Harris, the present official. 
 
100 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 From this office, for quarter ending April 1st, 1875, were 
 issued money orders to the amount of $41] 9.77. Fees on 
 same, 836.85. Orcfers paid, $2,258.95. 
 
 In May, 1869, J. Whitney started the first shoe store and 
 shop. 
 
 Dr. Carmicbael, the first physician, came in May, 1869. 
 
 The first blacksmith shop was built in March, by Mr. 
 Snowden, who sold to Mr. Poling. 
 
 The Poling Brothers still continue the business of black- 
 smithing. 
 
 In the spring of 1869 a man by the name of Woods came 
 from Davenport to Guthrie, and stood "round the corners" 
 until he excited the curiosity of the citizens, who finally in- 
 quired of him what he was going to do? " Keep a peanut 
 stand," was the curt reply. He built a little shanty on the 
 corner of Sherman and Fifth streets, where Duncan's drug 
 store now stands, and put in agricultural implements. 
 
 [n the fall of 1868 J. Z. Moore opened the first lumber 
 3^ard, and was followed in a short time by another, by G. 
 W. McPherson. 
 
 The first carpenter in town was Joseph Reynolds. 
 
 In 1873 Silas Berry opened a confectionery and fancy 
 grocery store; he also keeps books and stationery. 
 
 Guthrie has two drug stores; that of Duncan &ManwelI, 
 who commenced here in 1872. In 1875 they erected a frame 
 building 22x70 ft., two stories high. 
 
 In 1876 Stults & Hoge opened a drug store. 
 
 Two dry goods and grocery houses; F. B. Bickford & 
 Spaulding, successors to C. S. Henderson, who succeeded 
 Henderson & Bickford. This latter firm established the 
 business in 1869; and Martin & Kile, successors to R. New- 
 ton. This firm occupy the largest store room in town, being 
 22x80 ft. 
 
 One Exchange Bank, that of Stults & Bike, who com- 
 menced the banking business in 1875. They have just 
 erected a nice new building on Fifth street. Both are old 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 101 
 
 settlers in Guthrie county, having come here in 1858 and 
 1857. 
 
 A restaurant and grocery house by W. McCoy. Hitch- 
 cock Brothers, groceries and dry goods. 
 
 In 1875 J. B. Richardson put up a building, and put in a 
 stock of boots and shoes, and groceries. 
 
 In 1869 H. N. Ross established the first hardware store, 
 and was succeeded in 1871 by the Harris Brothers, who still 
 continue in the business. 
 
 Guthrie has one meat market, kept by Geo. Baker. 
 
 One harness shop, opened December, 1874, by J. L. 
 Jones. 
 
 One furniture dealer, J. D. Taylor, established 1875. 
 
 Two dealers in farm machinery, H. N. Ross and C. R. 
 Crabb. Mr. Ross has just erected a new store building on 
 Fifth street, 24x60 ft. 
 
 J. M. Sanborn has also erected a fine new building, and 
 deals in light and heavy carriages. 
 
 J. M. Moore & Co., Real Estate dealers and Bankers, 
 commenced business in 1871. 
 
 E. B. Newton, one of Guthrie County's oldest and most 
 substantial citizens, is engaged in the Real Estate business 
 since 1873. 
 
 Miss Martin and Mrs. Taylor are the milliners for Guthrie, 
 and Mrs. McOmber the dress maker. Miss Sadie Wells, 
 milliner and dress maker. 
 
 C. A. Ross, the railroad agent and operator. 
 
 Guthrie has three physicians; Drs. Lytle, Trotter and 
 Miller, the latter a graduate of Keokuk Medical College. 
 
 One town hall 40x70 ft., over Duncan & Manwell's drug 
 store and Harris Brothers hardware. 
 
 Three elevators, the first of which was built in 1869 by 
 Groom & Sampson, who were succeeded by Mr. Sampson, 
 who sold to Chas. Stuart in April, 1876. Capacity of this 
 elevator 3,000 bushels. 
 
 The Grange Elevator was built in 1874, by the Patrons of 
 
102 mSTOKY OF GUTHKIE COUNTY. 
 
 Husbandly, who sold to F. B. Bickford in March, 1S76. Ca- 
 pacity, 12,000 bushels. 
 
 In 1875 Chas. Stuart built an elevator of 30,000 bushels 
 capacity, operated by horse power. Doing a business of 
 $25,000 or $30,000. 
 
 The lumber business, started by J. Z. Moore in 1868, and 
 also that of Geo. McPherson, was closed out by these gen- 
 tlemen in 1869, at which time Groom & Sampson opened 
 a yard; in 1870 Mr. Sampson bought out the interest of Mr. 
 Groom, and continued in the business for four j^ears, when 
 he closed out. 
 
 In 1875 Chas. Stuart opened a lumber yard, and is do- 
 ing a good business. 
 
 Guthrie, happy place, has but one lawyer, Alanson Hill, 
 one of Guthrie county's many good men. 
 
 One beer saloon, which is offset by a flourishing Temper- 
 ance Society, w^hich was organized in the winter of 1875. 
 This organization has a membership of three hundred and 
 forty, including the cold water army — a children's society. 
 Much good has been accomplished by this army of temper- 
 ance workers, who hold meetings once a fortnight, which, 
 besides being successful in their main object, temperance, 
 are looked forward to with much pleasure, as an intellectual 
 treat, literary exercises of a high order being a part of the 
 entertainment. 
 
 The Presbyterian Church was organized in the spring of 
 1869, by Kev. H. H. Kellogg, with barely enough members 
 to form a Society. 
 
 The church building was erected in the fall of the same 
 year. The Methodists, who have no house of their own, 
 use this on alternate Sundays with the Presbyterians. 
 
 There is one Sabbath School— Union— which numbers 
 over one hundred pupils. The Superintendent of this school 
 is Mr. J. C. Hitchcock. 
 
 Guthrie is an independent school district, with a building 
 24x38 feet, two stories high . Two teachers are employed 
 at present; (May, 1876,) Miss Emily Kellogg, Principal, 
 Miss Celia Sampson, assistant. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 103 
 
 CASEY. 
 
 Casey, situated on the C, R. I. & P. Railroad, twelve 
 miles west of Stuart, and six miles east of the west line of 
 the county, is a thriving town of 525 inhabitants, noted as 
 are all our western towns and villages, for the enterprise 
 and industry of her citizens. Its surroundings are among 
 the most beautiful and picturesque in the county, the hills 
 and groves on the south and west, relieving in pleasant 
 contrast, the prairies of the north and east. It has been 
 my fortune each time to visit Casey in the season when the 
 trees and ground were brown and bare, and I could not 
 resist the temptation to make these hills the graves of some 
 race of mighty giants, who millions and millions of years 
 ago, inhabited this lovely spot, and I wondered why these 
 beautiful streams should have received such unpoetic names, 
 as northwest fork and south fork of Middle river. I won- 
 dered, too, if Mother Nature did not breathe one sigh of 
 l^ity for those who by this ugly name, certainly detracted 
 somewiiat from her beauty, as the sound of the name and 
 the sight of the stream do not harmonize; in nature all is 
 harmony. 
 
 Sitting by an upper window of the hospitable home of 
 one of her jirominent citizens, where I could have a grand 
 view of the surrounding scenery, weaving fancies over these 
 gigantic tombs, I could not refrain from asking myself the 
 question, whether in the heart of the little city there might 
 not be graves as stupendous as these; not the graves of 
 inanimate bodies, but of buried hopes; of departed schemes 
 of ambition, to whose memory no head-stone may be 
 reared, but w^iich, away in the quiet recesses of some ach- 
 ing hearts, lie mouldering still. 
 
 In the winter of 1868 Messrs. Marshall and Weeks laid 
 out the town, the original plat containing ninety acres, 
 being a part of Sec. 34, T. 78, R. 32, and part of Sec. 3, 
 77, 32. 
 
 In 1870 Messrs. S. B. Moody and John Woods each laid 
 
104 inSTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY, 
 
 out an addition on the north of the original pLit, the two 
 containing about fifty acres. 
 
 Of these founders, Mr. Marshall is engaged in the hard- 
 ware trade, which he began with Mr. Hartpence, in 1869. 
 He also sells farm machinery and coal. Mr. Weeks is 
 farming south of town. Mr. Woods is retired from bus- 
 iness, except an occasional real estate transfer. Mr. Moody 
 opened the first dry goods store in April, 186S, in which he 
 still continues, and is doing a good business. 
 
 Casey was so called out of respect to a Mr. Casey, a 
 railroad contractor, and friend of Mr. Tracy, president of 
 theC, R. I. &P. Eailroad. 
 
 Marshall and Weeks donated the grounds for depot and 
 railroad buildings. The company use a steam pump. at 
 this place, to force the water from the river to the tank. 
 
 The first business house was that of Loomis & Son, vari- 
 ety store, in the building now occupied by Dr. Wolf as a 
 drug store. The building was erected in 1868. G. A. 
 Loomis, the son, is in tlie real estate business and is a 
 Notary Public. 
 
 About the same time T. L. Pollard, now dead, built the 
 place now occupied by J. E. Gharrett, as a farm machinery 
 warehouse, and opened the first drug store. 
 
 The depot was built in the fall of 1868. In December of 
 the same year, C. E. Dean opened the first boarding house, 
 south of the track, in the building now used as a section 
 house, but as he had another house in De Soto, Mr. Har- 
 roun, Mrs. Dean's father, superintended this one. Mr. H. 
 is now living in Cameron, Missouri. In March, 1869, Mr. 
 Dean took the boarding cars, which stood here until No- 
 vember, when they were moved to Stuart. 
 
 Mr. Dunham kept the first hotel, in a shanty, which he 
 built. After Mr. Denning put up the Denning House, Mr. 
 Dunham moved the shanty to Avoca, where he and his 
 elder daugher, Ella, kept hotel in it, while Mrs. Dunham 
 and " Old Phil." kept the Denning House. The house 
 changed landlords several times, and in December, 1871, 
 
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 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 10f> 
 
 Mr. Denning took charge himself and has run it success- 
 fully ever since. The house contains twenty rooms with a 
 prospective addition of several more. Travelers find this 
 a neat and orderly place as well as a pleasant home. 
 
 In 1S6S Carter's boarding house was started, and was 
 converted into a hotel in 1869. Mr. Carter died in 1875, 
 since which time Mrs. Carter has conducted the business 
 quite successfully — another instance of woman's capability 
 to do business. 
 
 After the town was laid out a post office was established 
 on the south side in Adair county, and Mr. R. H. Marshall 
 appointed post master, receiving his commission in Feb- 
 ruary, 1869. 
 
 In the fall of 1872 the office was discontinued, and Casey 
 received her mail at Guthrie for two or three weeks, though 
 the post master, Mr. Harris, very generously acted as letter 
 carrier to them. At this time, an office was established on 
 the north side and E. M. Day appointed post master. 
 
 The present, punctual and competent post master, W. D. 
 Kelsey, was appointed in April, 1875. To give some idea 
 of the business of the office, the Money Order business 
 amounted to 815,364.00; postage, $902.35 in one year. The 
 average number of letters mailed daily is 125. This is tlie 
 separating office for twenty-two offices in Guthrie, Adair, 
 and Dallas counties. 
 
 January, 1870, E. M. Day established the first newspaper, 
 called the Casey Union. The paper changed hands several 
 times, and finally Mr. Day bought back a part of the type, 
 etc., and started the State Granger, which flourished only a 
 short time; this was in 1872. In the same year the Casey 
 Clarion was established by Hartpence & Marshall, editors 
 and proprietors, who sold in June, 1874, to Thos. Boydston, 
 who in turn sold to Ham. Kautzman, the present editor, in 
 December, 1875. This is an ordinary country office, with 
 good job press and a good advertising patronage. The 
 editor, though a young man, may be called an old settler, 
 having come to Guthrie county in 1856, Mr. Marshall, one 
 
106 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 of the founders of the paper, came to Guthrie in 1863, and 
 though he may not come in the list of old settlers, he 
 is not a new comer, and he has certainlj^- done much for 
 the improvement of his town. 
 
 Though T. L. Pollard sold the first drugs in Casey, Mr. 
 Henry North established the first exclusive drug store In 
 1869. Mr. North, too, is an old settler, having come to 
 Guthrie in 1855. He first settled in Bear Grove township 
 and has lived in several different places in the county. He 
 still continues in the drug business. 
 
 W. W. Hyzer, a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, 
 established a drug store, in 1874, and is doing a good bus- 
 iness. 
 
 Dr A. R. Wolf, druggist, is also doing a good business. 
 
 Besides the dry goods and grocery store of S. B. Moody, 
 there is another, established in 1872, by Burns & McFar- 
 land, who are also doing a good business. 
 
 Casey has two furniture stores; that of Wm. Tift, who 
 commenced business in 1873, and Irion & Schneitman, 
 established in January, 1876. This latter house has a 
 gocd selection of furniture and is doing a good business. 
 
 John Ives, at the livery stable and feed store, keeps nice 
 carriages and buggies, good horses and careful drivers. 
 
 Buck Brothers established their livery stable in 1873. 
 They are also proprietors of the hack line between Casey 
 and Guthrie Center, and from Casey to Fontanelle. These 
 gentlemen, too, are old settlers, having come to the county 
 in 1857. 
 
 There are four houses selling agricultural implements; 
 Marshall & Stoffel, south side; Freeman, on the north side; 
 J. E. Gharrett, a branch house, whose principal warehouse 
 and residence is in Stuart. 
 
 C. A. Berry & Co. established a house of this kind in 
 1871. In 1876 they went in as a branch house of Dryden 
 & Berry, of Des Moines. This firm also sells sewing 
 machines, the Victor being their favorite. 
 
 Casey has two harness makers; Jacob Blattner, estab 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 107 
 
 lished in 18G9, and Albert Kalkofen, in 1873. Four black- 
 smith shops; J. F. Phillips, Jno. Simmons, Mr. Shaw and 
 Mr. Eckhart. Two shoe shops, carried on by G. H. Har- 
 rington and S. R. Sterner. 
 
 Two meat markets; that of Ostrander Brothers and Dan. 
 Moody & Cady; the latter lirm are also coal dealers. 
 
 One restaurant and bakery, by J. S. Townsend, since 
 
 1875. 
 
 One milliner, Mrs. Lintlmrst, who has been in business 
 since November, 1872. 
 
 J. F. Rogers, sells sewing machines and organs, since 
 January, 1876. 
 
 Mr. L. H. Heald, a native of Temple, N. H., in 1874, es- 
 tablished the only jewelry store. 
 
 In 1871, John Ivers established himself in the grain com- 
 mission business, and in 1873, went into banking, in which 
 business he still continues. Mr. Ivers is an old settler, hav- 
 ing come Guthrie county in 1857. He has been a member 
 of the Board of Supervisors from Centre township, and 
 was at one time County Auditor. 
 
 There are two grain dealers; J. W. Woods, and R. T. 
 Young & Company. 
 
 Two lumber yards, that of Belden & Richards, succes- 
 sors to E. O. Whitmore, who started the first lumber yard 
 in 1869, and sold to the present firm in 1876, and Rutt & 
 Rutt, successors to Hatch & Wingate. 
 
 In the beginning of this sketch, I say Loomis & Sons 
 built the first business house; this is true, yet there was 
 another put up a short time previous, by Kilbourne & 
 Rutt, who brought it from Fontanelle, framed and ready 
 to put together. It was used as a real estate oflSce. 
 
 Casey has two lawyers; C. M. Burnett, who came here in 
 1874, from Indiauola, where he was educated at Simpson 
 Centenary College; and Chas. Whitney, a native of Og- 
 densburg, N. Y., who was educated at Chicago and St. 
 Louis. He practiced medicine for a number of years, but 
 
108 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 finally abandoned that for the more congenial profession 
 of law. The Dr. came to Guthrie in 1871. 
 
 We have here four physicians, the pioneer in the frater- 
 nity being Dr. Alfred Warren, a native of Marietta, Ohio, 
 who was educated at Keokuk and St. Louis. The Dr. came 
 to Guthrie in 1864, stopping at Guthrie Centre; has prac- 
 ticed his profession for seven years, the latter three of which 
 have been in Casey. 
 
 Dr. James Smith, Dr. J. J. Wolf and Dr. J. H. Wheelis, 
 are also prominent and popular practicing physicians. 
 
 F. jST. Eaton, station agent for the C, R I. & P. Railroad, 
 has been in the employ of the road at Casey since April, 
 
 1869. He has also been operator for the W. IT. Telegraph 
 Company. 
 
 Casey has two schools; an ordinary district school on 
 the south side, and a graded school on the north side, 
 where they employ two teachers, Mrs. Hatch having been 
 ^he principal of this school for several years. 
 
 She has two churches; the Methodist, which is a building 
 of 24x36 ft., with a seating capacity of 50, a membership 
 of thirty and a flourishing Sabbath-school. 
 
 The Congregational church was built in 1870, and the 
 society, though small, has flourished finely. 
 
 Two halls; Town Hall or Middletons Hall, 22x60 ft., 
 built in 1875, and Burn's Hall, where the Masonic and Odd 
 Fellows Lodges are held. Masonic Lodge was chartered in 
 
 1870, and has a membership of thirty. Odd Fellows Lodge 
 was chartered in 1873, has thirty-five members. 
 
 The cemetery, three-quarters of a mile south-east of town 
 is in Adair county. 
 
 Casey has two music teachers, Mrs. Katie Martin and 
 Miss Belle Grow, both good teachers. 
 
 She has also two elocutionists, Mr. and Mrs. Hatch, of 
 whom we may well be proud. They came to Guthrie in 
 1869, Mrs. Hatch having been principal of the Burlington 
 public schools for a number of years previous. 
 
 Though ever ready to sympathize with those in trouble, 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 109 
 
 yet there is one poor unfortunate here, whose case, while it 
 excites our pit}', is nevertheless ridiculous. A German by 
 the name of Kalkofen, left his wife somewhere in Pennsyl- 
 vania, to visit friends, while he came west to look for work; 
 he brought one little boy with him, while she kept one with 
 her. AVhen he was ready to send for her, he found he had 
 forgotten where he left her and the poor fellow has never 
 been able to find her. He came here three or four years 
 ago. 
 
 STUART. 
 
 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was built 
 through the county, or rather at this point on the line be- 
 tween the two counties, Guthrie and Adair, in the latter part 
 of 1868. In 1857, after the road had been surveyed, the 
 project of laying out a town at this point, was suggested by 
 Hon. A. L. McPherson, but the idea was not carried out 
 until September, 1868. In the meantime certain parties had 
 been promised a station one mile west of the present site of 
 Stuart. 
 
 In May, 1868, Capt. Chas. Stuart, who was born in Bar- 
 net, Caledonia county, Vermont, but whose home has been, 
 for a number of years in Neponset, Illinois; came to Adair 
 county and commenced breaking prairie. On the 4th day 
 of September, 1868. he bought of D. Tomlinson and others 
 the south i of S. W. i Sec. 33, T. 78, R. 30. Sept. 1st, of D. 
 G. Barkalow, the S. i and N. W. i of S. W. i Sec. 4-77-30, 
 in Adair county. November 6th, of Margaret Bowles, five 
 acres of the N. W. of S. W. h 33-78-30, north side. Nov. 
 9th, of S. W. Hadley, (excepting ten acres,) S. E. of S. E., 
 32-78-30. 
 
 Dec. 24th, 1869, of Foster Griffith, the E. i of N. E. i 5- 
 77-30. 
 
 The town was surveyed and laid out in December, 1868, 
 and January, 1869, by Mr. Stuart. To induce the company 
 to make this a division station, lands and money were do- 
 nated as follows : 
 
110 HTSTOEY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Capt. Stuart donated 80 acres of land, much time, and 
 $1,000 in money. A. L. McPlierson donated the N. E. i of 
 N. W. i of Sec. 4, T. 77, R. 30; 13^ acres of which cost him 
 $75 per acre, owing to said land belonging to heirs, who 
 had not joined in the sale to McPherson, nntil after he had 
 donated it to the railroad company. He also gave five 
 acres in Sec. 28, T. 78, R. 30, containing a large spring, 
 for water privileges, in case they should fail to find a suffi- 
 cient quantity to supply their shops when built, on grounds 
 already donated. 
 
 He also donated $800, $300 of which, however, was to aid 
 in putting in a switch. 
 
 George Gray donated $500, and devoted much time and 
 energy to the enterprise, going at one time to a distant part 
 of the State, to try to induce certain land owners here to 
 contribute money or land, one of whom promised him $100, 
 which, however, he failed to pay, so Mr. Gray had that to 
 pay. 
 
 Several others donated small amounts, but to the liber- 
 ality, energy and enterprise of these gentlemen, are we 
 mainly indebted, for the foundation of our live town of 
 Stuart. 
 
 In 1870 Kenworthy and Maxwell's addition was laid out 
 on the north side, and Royce's addition on the south side. 
 In 1876 Hollingsworth's addition was added. 
 
 Mr. Kenworthy also laid out two other additions. 
 
 When Stuart was laid out there were four buildings here, 
 all dwellings, situated as folio tvs : The residence of widow 
 Hadley, on Highland street, now occupied by David Tom- 
 linson, and the abode of Mr. Tomlinson on Front street, 
 near the depot, and which is now numbered with the things 
 that were. There were also two houses on Division street, 
 the one now occupied by Mr. Baxter as a residence, and the 
 brown frame north of it. The latter was built and used by 
 S. W. Hadley as a residence, and for a short time the post- 
 office was kept there. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. Ill' 
 
 The first building erected Avas the little brown frame 
 dwelling, on Division street, nearly opposite the Congrega- 
 tional Church, which was built by Dr. Horton, who taught 
 school north of town and practiced medicine. This was in 
 April, 1869. 
 
 The next building was a small, one story frame, 20x40 
 feet, on the south side, by A. L. McPherson, and used as- 
 a ware-house, grocery store, and post office. This office 
 was established in 1858, at J. AV. McPherson's,nearDexteiv 
 and called Macksville, but upon the location of Stuart was 
 removed here, through the exertions and influence of A. 
 L. McPherson, who was postmaster. After the location of 
 the office here. Miss Gussie Haine acted as Mr. McPherson's 
 deputy. 
 
 After a time Mr. McPherson sold out to Mr. Tomlinson,. 
 who moved, building and all, to Nassau street, north side, 
 and it is now occupied by C. W. Champion as a saloon. In- 
 1870 Mr. Tomlinson was appointed postmaster, and con- 
 tinued the office in the same building. 
 
 The next improvement was Chas. Stuart's lumber yard, 
 J. B. Blanchard foreman, who thought he was "roughing 
 it " just a little when he had to walk nearly a mile to get 
 his meals, the nearest boarding place being Mr. Ewers', east 
 of town. The above improvements w^ere all made in April,. 
 1869. About the first of May, the building immediately 
 south of McElroy's saloon, on Division street, was opened 
 as a hotel by a Mr. Millis. 
 
 The next hotel was that of Mr. A. L. McPherson, on Nas- 
 sau street, called the Stuart House, and kept by Elliott & 
 Batcheldor. Wm. B, Hussey bought and kept the house 
 for three months, when Mr. McPherson bought it back again. 
 It was kept as a hotel and boarding house two or three 
 years, and now does duty as a private residence, for Mr. 
 McPherson, half a mile east of town. Mr. McPherson also 
 built the first livery stable in Stuart, about the same time- 
 with the hotel, which was built in May, 1869. 
 
 In October, 1869, Berner & Toedt erected the building; 
 
112 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 now occupied by Mr. Crocker as a harness shop, and open- 
 ed the first hardware store. In December of the same year 
 J. E. Gharrett put up the building now owned and occupied 
 "by Mrs. Compton, and opened the lirst dry goods house. 
 
 In January, 1870, H. P. Sliields built the little frame 
 shanty on Nassau street, west of Bunker Brothers livery 
 stable, for that seemingly necessary adjunct of every town 
 — a saloon. 
 
 Lindley & Porter built and opened the first drug store, in 
 the building now occupied by O. E. Given; this institution 
 has gone the way of all perishable things, and one of the 
 firm has turned "Quaker Preacher," in the north part of the 
 State. 
 
 From Nov. to the last of Dec, 1869, Charlie Dean lived 
 -on the side track, in boarding cars; he then went to Casey, 
 but returned and opened the Dean House, on the 2d of Feb., 
 1870, ground for which was broken on the 1st of Jan. This 
 was built by Chas. Stuart, but has since been bought by 
 Mr. Dean. In the summer of 1869 Capt. Stuart built the 
 main part of the building on Main street, near the depot, 
 known as the Stuart House, and generously offered it, free of 
 Tent, to any person who would put in a stock of dry goods. 
 "The building stood vacant — at least the store-room did — for 
 -one year, when. Bates & Adams accepted the offer. In the 
 mean time Mr. Stuart had built the wing or addition on the 
 north side of this building, and it was opened as a hotel'by 
 Mr. Dunham. 
 
 The ensuing summer, 1870, H. P. Shields built the two 
 ^story frame building on the northeast corner of Maine and 
 Nassau streets, and moved his saloon into the lower room, 
 ■while the upper story was used as a hall. This and the 
 old school house was for some time the only place for hold- 
 ing meetings, lectures, etc. 
 
 About the same time Mr. Dunham built the hotel, at pres- 
 ent known as the Carrol House, and the hotel part of the 
 Stuart house was converted into tenements, tailor shop, 
 v-etc. A Mr. McClane being our first tailor. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 113 
 
 When Mr. Shields moved into his large building Billy 
 Schlarb opened the first barber shop in the small one. 
 
 The same summer the old school house, (which is now 
 converted into a tenement house,) was built, and the first, 
 school taught by a Mr. Foote, a dissipated young man, 
 who, after his term of school expired, lingered around for a 
 time, calling himself a lawyer, though I believe that is as 
 far as the "calling" ever went. Finding he was not ap- 
 preciated by Stuartites, he went to Polk county, where he 
 succeeded in getting some little position, which he managed 
 to leave in disgrace. 
 
 In the fall of 1870 Dr. LeRoy erected and occupied as a 
 drug store the two story frame building opposite the Dean 
 House, at present occupied by Pat Ryan as a shoe stoye, 
 though the doctor still retains the proprietorship of the 
 building. I believe the only other business house put up 
 this year was a grocery store by J. Taylor. Occasionally^^ 
 when you looked out in the morning, you would see a 
 dwelling which had sprung up in the night, mushroon like, 
 at least so it seemed, they went up so rapidly. When the 
 writer hereof was shown the foundation of the house at 
 present occupied by Mr. Hubbard, as her probable future 
 abode, she exclaimed, " Oh dear! I don't want to live away 
 out here in the corn-field, with no neighbors but prairie- 
 chickens.'' Now the cornfield and chickens have receded 
 very far bej^ond these limits. 
 
 In the fall of 1870 the McPhersons moved their livery 
 barn from Nassau and Tremont to Nassau and Sherman 
 streets, the same now owned by the Bunker Brothers. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Moulton opened the first shoe shop in the 
 office of the old Stuart House, where he remained a short 
 time; he then moved to the little shop built by Mr. Shields 
 for a saloon, and used next by Billy Schlarb as a barber- 
 shop. Billy in the meantime, having moved to his own 
 house on Main street. 
 
 Mr. Shields, after a prosperous year or two, sold out to 
 Mr. Gibbs, the present owner, and went to Texas, where he- 
 
114 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUXTY. 
 
 remained three or four years, when he returned to Stuart, 
 just as every one does, who leaves it. , 
 
 Capt. Stuart's Elevator, of which we will speak hereafter, 
 was built in the fall of 1870. We will not attempt to follow 
 the rapid construction of building and consequent frequent 
 changes^ but will notice the more important ones, and give 
 a synopsis of the business houses and firms as they now 
 are. 
 
 We will begin with the old railroad shops, which were 
 completed and machinery put in, in Dec, 1869, J. G. 
 Crockett of Boston, the present very able and efficient fore- 
 man, assuming control. They then employed from fifteen 
 to twenty hands. The buildings were constructed of wood, 
 and Stuart and all the surrounding country were in a quan- 
 dary as to their permanent location here, and many per- 
 sons sagely shook their heads and refused to " tarry " with 
 us, because, said they, " You'll see; these shops will be re- 
 moved as soon as the Company get a good ready." The old 
 lady Tcnew the cow w^ould eat the grindstone. 
 
 In 1874 the present permanent and substantial brick shops 
 were built, and in Jan., Ih75, Mr. Crockett, with his corps 
 of workmen moved in. 
 
 The dimensions of the machine shop are 100x150 feet. 
 Blacksmith and boiler shop 60x100 feet. 
 
 The round house contains at present sixteen stalls; when 
 •completed wdll contain thirty-eight; until then the old build- 
 ing, what there is left of it, part of it having been moved to 
 Des Moines, will be used. The number of workmen under 
 Mr. Crockett's supervision is, seventy machinists and help- 
 ers; twenty-six engineers and twenty-seven firemen. In 
 1870 the number of engines run out daily, was from three 
 to five; it now requires sixteen or seventeen. The amount 
 of money paid out monthly to the above named employees, 
 is from $12,000 to $15,000. 
 
 ■ The present amiable and pleasant clerk in the office of 
 the shops is Mr. Chas. Morris, who edited the Locomotive 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 115 
 
 during 1873. Mr. Morris was born in Bureau county, 111., 
 came to Iowa in 1868, and to Stuart in 1872. 
 
 The only casualty wortliy of note occurrinoj in the shops 
 was that of 1871, wherein Mr. Potter had both legs broken 
 by the falling of a drive-wheel, which had been brought in 
 for repairs. The rail shop, under the supervision of the 
 road master, runs four forges, and employs six or eight 
 men; will employ twelve. 
 
 Mr. Crockett was born at Dover, N. H. Has been in the 
 employ of the railroad company at this place since 1869. 
 Previous to this time he was employed as foreman in the 
 shops at Chicago. 
 
 We have a very good depot building, built in July, 1869, 
 presided over by Mr. A. Smart, who has been agent here 
 for four years, but has been in the employ of the railroad 
 company for eleven 3^ears. Mr. Smart was born and edu- 
 cated in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he also learned rail- 
 roading. Civil Engineering, etc. While we are looking at 
 Mr. Smart — he is handsome to look at — here come our 
 friends Isaac and Jane, from the east. Isaac owns a farm 
 out a few miles, but says if he is suited with Stuart and its 
 people he will stop with us, so we will show them over town, 
 and introduce our people to them. 
 
 First, we will go to the Dean House, the only one of our 
 pioneer hotels remaining unchanged, except for the better. 
 Mr. Dean has made a great many improvements since buy- 
 ing the house, the last being the erection of a sample room 
 on the west of the hotel. Mr. Dean was born in Monkton, 
 Vermont, and was for several years a railroad man, but 
 finally found his '' forte " in hotel keeping. It is easy to 
 see this house has a head; some one to manage and con- 
 trol it. You find every body and every thing, each in his 
 or its place. He has accommodations for forty guests, be- 
 sides his regular boarders, but we will take numbers 9 and 
 12, as associations make them dear to us. Now lay aside 
 your wraps, take a good wash, and go down to dinner. 
 
116 HISTORY OF GUTHEIE COUNTY. 
 
 We all enjoyed our dinner hugely, and leaving our "traps" 
 in care of Bowlby, Mr. Dean's accommodating clerk, we 
 went over to the Carrol House, to see what they were doing 
 over there. We found Mr. and Mrs. Wright at home, on 
 Main street, nearly opposite the Dean H(»use, and glad to 
 see us. Every thing seemed to be in good order, and we 
 learned that Mr. Wright can accommodate thirty guests be- 
 sides a large number of boarders; also that he is a native 
 of Ohio, and has been in the Carrol House since April, 
 1875. 
 
 The streets being very muddy, and Jane being very tired, 
 begged me to interview the livery men next, and hire a car- 
 riage in which to continue our investigations. We first 
 went to Bunker Brothers, whom we found in the old 
 McPherson barn on Nassau street. They commenced busi- 
 ness in 1873, sold out in 1874, and re-commenced again in 
 December, 1875. They keep fourteen horses and plenty of 
 nice vehicles to accommodate all who may call, but being 
 better acquainted with Pat., we went to Egan & Lahman's, 
 on Main street, and hired one of their nice new carriages. 
 They keep twenty horses, and the best " rigs" between Des 
 Moines and Council Bluffs. Lahman is a native of Penn., 
 and Pat of Ireland. The latter came to Guthrie in 1872, 
 and commenced business as stable boy for P. Roberts, at 
 Panora. By honesty, industry, and good behavior he is 
 now the joint proprietor of one of the best livery stables in 
 the country. 
 
 After driving through town and its suburbs, my friends 
 were so well pleased with the location, the surround- 
 ings, the business air and enterprise of our citizens, that 
 they begged me to drive them to our real estate dealers, 
 that they might purchase a home. I advised them to buy 
 a lot and build to suit themselves, and of course they took 
 my advice; so we went to the office of Tait & Failor, 
 the new firm from Newton, who were polite, gentleman- 
 ly and sensible (and flattering ourselves that we were 
 entitled, in a small degree, to the latter adjective), we 
 
HISTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 117 
 
 at once purchased a handsome residence lot, and as Isaac 
 is no monopolist, he had the deed made out in his wife's 
 name. Carrying out his anti-monopoly principles, Isaac 
 bought for himself a lot of A. C. Baxter, whose office is with 
 Mr. Haden, one door east of the post office. Mr. Baxter 
 is also a Justice of the Peace. 
 
 My friend said, if he could get what he thought he ought 
 to have for his farm, he would sell it. I've told you he was 
 against monopoly; now this has nothing to do with pol- 
 itics; it is business, and of course he didn't want any- 
 body to monopolize his farm, unless, well, unless it paid 
 him to have it so. However, he left description, etc., with 
 Bunker Brothers, whose office is down by their livery barn. 
 They are successors, in the real estate business, to C. S. 
 Fogg, who sold to them in March, 1875. 
 
 Envy forms no part of my composition, but I did feel a 
 little "bad" to see my friends getting all the good bargains, 
 so we went and bought a lot for myself, of Wm. B. Hussey, 
 who came to Stuart in October, 1869, and occupies an office 
 over Exchange Bank. 
 
 We found Mr. Roberts another real estate dealer, in Dr. 
 Crandall's office, and of him we rented a house to live in 
 while ours were building. 
 
 By this time our purses were exhausted, and we went to 
 Exchange Bank to have them replenished. We found 
 Messrs. W. B. Conger and A. H. Savage ready to wait 
 upon US, and through politeness of Mr. Savage, was shown 
 over the building, which we found to be a substantial brick, 
 two stories high, the upper story of which is fitted up for 
 offices. The lower story is finished in neat style, with all 
 the conveniences for doing an extensive business; a fire and 
 burglar proof vault and safe, decidedly the best in the 
 county. The vault is built with walls two feet thick, arched 
 ceiling, floor of solid masonry and heavy iron doors. The 
 safe is a Diebold & Keinzle. As there are five doors, three 
 combination and two key locks, between day light and the 
 money in the safe, we advise burglars to let it alone. 
 8 
 
lis HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 This bank was established in December, 1871, by J. T. 
 Hubbard, who sold out to Mr. Savage, in 1874. In 1875 
 Mr. Conger was admitted as a partner. Exercising our 
 mother Eve's curiosity, we discovered that Mr. Savage is 
 a native of Jasper, New York, and Mr. Conger, of Gales- 
 burg, Illinois. 
 
 Having filled our purses, we went' next to the lumber 
 yards and bought material for our houses. We first went 
 to the oiRce of Gray & Blanchard, successors to Chas. 
 Stuart, who established the business in 1869, and sold out 
 to the present firm in May, 1875. The average amount of 
 lu/nber sold, by this house, is 30,000 feet per month, at 
 about $7,500, or nearly $100,000 per year. The ofRce occu- 
 pied and owned by Messrs. Gray & Blanchard, was built 
 hy Capt. Stuart, in 1871. These gentlemen both came here 
 from Illinois, — Mr. Blanchard in 1869, and Mr. Gray, for 
 permanent residence, in 1874, though he had done business 
 here previous to that time. 
 
 As it was our plan to patronize every business house, ex- 
 cept the saloons, we went to the lumber yard on the north 
 side of the track, which we found presided over by Wm. 
 Gray, of the firm of Gray & Stephenson, in their office on 
 Front street, between Tremont and Division. This firm 
 came here from Davenport, in 1874, and sold, last year, 
 three and a half millions feet of lumber. 
 
 Being live yankees, and wishing to drive business, we 
 hired all the drays and transfer wagons, and sent our lum- 
 her and building material to the desired places. First, we 
 loaded Mr. Mills' big transfer wagon with the heavy timbers ; 
 then came Elliot, Lawton, Tomlinson, Ed, Douglas, our 
 one colored man, and finally we loaded Billy Warren's 
 lightning express with the finer articles, as we knew he 
 would be careful and prompt. We knew this from obser- 
 vation, and from the fact that he was a few years ago, the 
 successful proprietor of the stage line from here to Green- 
 field, and afterward of a livery stable. 
 
 We sent Isaac up to see the lumber properly delivered. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 119 
 
 and while we awaited his return, we engaged our builders. 
 We (Jane and I) each wanted to let her contract to Dixon 
 & Corry, whom we found busy as bees, drafting plans for 
 houses, etc., in their office on the north side of Nassau street, 
 between Division and Tremont. They employ live or six 
 hands during the winter, but when the building season 
 opens they will employ from twenty to thirty. Mr. Dixon 
 came to Stuart in 1870, and had been engaged in the furni- 
 ture business until last January, when he sold out to his 
 partner, Mr. Eustace. Mr. Corry has been here since 1874. 
 Mr. Corry learned architecture in Belfast, Ireland. They 
 told ns they could build two or three housfs and have them 
 finished about as soon as one alone, but as our plan was to 
 patronize all the business houses, they directed us to the 
 Centennial Carpenter Shop on Nassau, between Division 
 and Gaines streets. Mr. Caldwell, of the firm of Wright & 
 Caldwell, came to Guthrie in 1869; to Stuart in 1874. Mr. 
 Wright in 1875. They employ seven or eight hands. 
 
 Morrison Brothers, on Front street, near Main, came to 
 Stuart in 1870. Employ eight or ten hands. 
 
 Being so fortunate as to find men enough to undertake 
 our several buildings at once, we concluded to go home — to 
 Dean's — and rest till morning. After breakfast next morn- 
 ing, we went down to the " house " (you know Mr. Dean 
 has built them a nice little residence south of the hotel) to 
 read the Register with Mrs. Dean and canvass the situation 
 at Washington. While we were in the midst of an enjoy- 
 able gossip, our friend Isaac came bustling in, '" Well," 
 said he, "just like women's way of doing business — to set 
 a lot of carpenters to work without nails, &c. ; they are all 
 OH the ground ready to lay the foundations." " Very well, 
 Sir Isaac; order up the carriage and we'll go and see if we 
 can redeem ourselves." We drove to the pioneer hardware 
 and stove store of Berner & Toedt, in their new brick build- 
 ing on Nassau street, and found every thing we wanted, 
 nails, locks, door-knobs, &c. In 1869 Mr. Berner and Mr. 
 Fred. Toedt opened the first hardware store in Stuart, in the 
 
120 IIISTORY'oF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 building at present occupied by Mr. Crocker as a harness 
 shop. In 1873 they built the brick they now occupy, which 
 is 24x70 feet; two stories high. In 1875 Mr. Fred. Toedt 
 sold out to his brother Henry, so the firm name remains the 
 same. Fred, went to Yinton where he is engaged in the 
 same business as here. 
 
 H. B. Seydell, hardware and stove dealer, we found next 
 door to Ryan's dry goods house, in the frame building which 
 was moved over from Morrisburg in 1873, having done 
 duty there as a dry goods store, under the proprietorship of 
 a Mr. Wright, an old settler of that place. Mr. Seydell 
 came here from Iowa City in 1874. We found a nice stock 
 of goods, and a proprietor who remembers the little cour- 
 tesies which help one on their weary way. As we were out 
 we concluded it would be as well to get ready for house- 
 keeping, so we went first in search of carpets — we always 
 put down our carpets first thing — and found a good assort- 
 ment at J. P. McQui.stion's. We found, too, a nice stock of 
 goods and notions, everything neat and orderly; an accom- 
 modating clerk, who happens to be the proprietor, and who 
 has evidently been in the business a long time, though he 
 has been here only since December, 1875. His store is in 
 the new brick block on the north side of Nassau street, two 
 doors west of Division, is 22x55 feet, and well filled. Mr. 
 M. is a native of Pennsj^lvania. 
 
 For our prints and cotton — for quilts and comforts — we 
 went to M. Ryan's. Geo. McCann & Co. — Mr. Ryan being 
 the compan}^ — opened this house in 1871. In 1872 uncle 
 George retired, and the business has since been conducted 
 by Mr. Ryan alone, who is doing a business of from 
 $25,000 to $30,000 yearly, including the grocery department. 
 Mike came to America from '• ould Ireland " in 1867. 
 
 Being still in need of curtains, mats, and various toilet 
 articles, we went to Bates & Adams', where we found, in 
 addition to dry goods and groceries, a nice line of fancy 
 goods. This house was established in 1871, in the old Stu- 
 art house, where it remained two years, when it was removed 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 121 
 
 to the building now occupied by Mr. Seydell. In 1874 they 
 built the substantial brick which they now occupy. The 
 building is 44x70 feet, and divided into two apartments, 
 in one of Avhich is kept the groceries and queensware. in 
 the other the dry goods and notions; a nice arrangement. 
 
 They are now erecting a second story 44x70 feet, and IG 
 feet high, to be used for a public hall. 
 
 On the opposite side of the street, two doors east of the 
 post-office, we found the new house — dry goods and grocer- 
 ies — of Mr. Wineman, who came here in October, 1875, from 
 Scott county, this State. The building this gentleman occu- 
 pies is the one built by Mr. Yeile after the fire of 1872, and 
 used as a grocery store. Mr. Yeile is still a resident of 
 Stuart, though he is out of business. 
 
 Further down the street on the same side, we found Mrs. 
 Compton, in the building erected by Mr. Gharrett, in 1S69. 
 This house was opened in 1872; has been closed for several 
 months, but was opened a short time ago by Mrs. Compton, 
 who will demonstrate woman's ability to do business of 
 this kind. The stock consists of dry goods, groceries and 
 queensware. 
 
 " Oh dear,'' says Jennie, " I am so tired climbing in and 
 out of this buggy ; do send it home and let us walk." And 
 we tramped the rest of the day, stopping for dinner of 
 course. 
 
 " Jennie, let's go and buy our groceries next." " Why, 
 silly, where are you going to put them.^ The houses are 
 not yet done." " It is not necessary to have them delivered 
 until we need them, but we can leave our orders." 
 
 As we had bought dry goods of all the dry goods and 
 grocery houses, we went to those who sold groceries exclu- 
 sively. Mr. J. E. Bell, on the corner of Main and Nassau 
 streets, in the Dunham building, has a good stock of nice 
 groceries, which he sells at fair prices. Mr. Bell came here 
 from Nebraska in December, 1875; and in May, 1876, asso* 
 ciated with himself a Mr. Downs. So the firm name here-^ 
 after will be Bell & Downs. 
 
122 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Now, I never conld endure tobacco in any form, but dear 
 little Jane thought Isaac ought to have some of those nice 
 looking cigars, we saw in Mr. Scotfs window, so to indulge 
 the indulgent little woman, we went in. Mr. Scott came from 
 Newton in March, 1876, and occupied the old meat market 
 built by Mr. Trent in 1870; the original building has been 
 enlarged, painted and papered, and made to look like new. 
 
 The next place — grocery — visited was that of J. E. Dutton 
 successor to J. Tajdor, whom he bought out in February, 
 1876. Mr. Dutton has been in the same business in Dexter, 
 and bids fair to make this house as popular as it was under 
 the old management. 
 
 Wall & Glassock commenced business on the corner of 
 Nassau and Division streets, in December. 1875. Mr. D. 
 B. Wall went into partnership with Mr. Veile in March, 
 1874, and sold to Wineman, October, 1875. Judging by 
 the crowd of customers, he is doing well. 
 
 There is also a grocery house on the south side, kept by 
 a Mr. Smull, but being tired out we did not go over, but 
 rested until the next day. Bright and early we started on 
 our •' gadding tour " over town. We were just in the act 
 of engaging Billy Warren to move us to our temporary 
 habitation, (we had some goods stored away in a barn, or 
 warehouse, or no matter where, they were only " old things'' 
 anyway, and we were not going to spoil our new one,) when 
 W3 were met by Mr. Dixon, who informed us it would not 
 be worth while to move twicn, as we could have our new 
 houses in about two weeks from the time they were com- 
 menced. "Why, dear me," cried Jane; "if you haven't 
 the smartest folks in Stuart I ever saw. Just tliinlc of it; 
 a house ready to move into, in two weeks from its com- 
 mencement ! I'm so glad Isaac is going to stay here." Our 
 spirit of enterprise started my friends off with such an im- 
 petus, it fairly took my breath to keep up with them. I 
 finally remonstrated in these gentle words: "Now, look 
 here, good people, if you are going on at this rate, you can 
 go on without me; I'm not going to kill myself in one day."' 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 123 
 
 Fearing I meant what I said, my friends slackened tlieir 
 speed — and we sauntered into A. A. Savage's bakery and 
 restaurant, and had a cup of hot coffee to " rest " us. 
 Albert was very polite and attentive, gave us the best of 
 bread, nice pies and cakes — I mean for Isaac — you know, 
 we ladies didn't want any thing but the coftee. 
 
 Jane wanted a pair of new shoes, so we went into Moul- 
 ton & Little's, where we found just what we wanted. Mr. 
 Moulton came to Stuart in 1871, and commenced in the 
 office of the old Stuart House as a shoemaker; he moved 
 two or three times, but by industry, economy, upright and 
 fair dealing, his business increased to such an extent that 
 in 1873, he took Mr. Little as a partner. 
 
 And they built the house they now occupy, and put in a 
 good stock of boots, shoes, and every thing kept in a first 
 class shoe store. Mr. Moulton is our pioneer shoeman, and 
 one of the good substantial citizens who give tone and per- 
 manence to our community. Both members of this firm 
 are natives of Massachusetts. Little Johnny says he ate 
 his first chowder on Plymouth Rock, and was near enough 
 the hub to be one of the fellows . 
 
 The clothing and shoe store of D. Felgar was the scene of 
 our next raid. Mr. Felgar commenced here in 1871 as a 
 clothier, shoe dealer and manufacturer; in 1875 he sold the 
 manufacturing part of the shoe business to Mr. J. M. Ross, 
 who continued the same in the back part of the same build- 
 ing. In 1872 Mr. Felgar was burned out, as were all the 
 houses in this block — south side of Xassau street, between 
 Tremont and Division — including P. H. Lennon, Veile, 
 Hussey, Dixon & Eustace, John Leonard and J. T. Mont- 
 gomery, several of whom were at the time residing as well 
 as doing business in the block. Louis Zeiger, too, lost a 
 building by the fire. 
 
 'N. B. Kahn, two doors west of the post-office, came here 
 from Chicago in October, 1875, and has the only exclusive 
 ]y furnishing house in the city. 
 
 Isaac, though well pleased with Stuart, and not knowing 
 
124 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 that we are not incorporated, tliought to have a little fun at 
 
 the city's expense. Said he, '" Mrs. M , why don't you 
 
 fall through one of these man traps in your sidewalk and 
 break your neck — no, I mean your arm? You might col- 
 lect damages enough to make you rich." Thinking he had 
 said something witty, he threw back his head for a good 
 laugh, when down he came, plump on the sidew^alk, running 
 his elbow through a broken plank and tearing the sleeve of 
 his new coat. You all know just how he looked when he 
 got up. To illustrate, let us " digress " from our expedition 
 long enough to tell the story of a fall of one of our promi- 
 nent lawyers. 
 
 The street being as slippery as ice and sleet could make 
 it, he slipped and fell. On getting up he gave the prescribed 
 and customary glance to see if any one was looking. A 
 man on the opposite side of the street, haw-hawed at the 
 top of his voice, when our Blackstone indignantly called 
 out: " Fool, what are you laughing at ^ 1 see nothing- 
 funny." 
 
 But to go back to poor Ike; we took him into Mr. Todd's 
 tailor shop to have his coat mended, and while there learned 
 that Mr. Todd came here in 1873, that he keeps a good 
 assortment of the best cloths and vestings, which he manu- 
 factures to order. We left Isaac to have his coat mended 
 and his boots blacked by our city boot-black, who waited 
 outside, while we went to the place, said to be dearest to the 
 female heart, (I know it is dear to her purse,) the jeweller's. 
 We went first to see W. P. Huntoon, late of Victor, who 
 came here in February, 1876. We found a good assort- 
 ment of clocks and watches, and a fair showing of silver- 
 ware; we 23urchased a nice berry dish and spoon, and took 
 them up to E. V. Boynton, watchmaker and engraver, to 
 have them engraved; not that Mr. Huntoon could not en- 
 grave them, but you know we are dividing our trade. We 
 found the former house four doors west of Main street, on 
 Nassau, and the latter, one door east of the post-office, 
 Mr. Boynton came here from California in June, 1875. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 125 
 
 W. K. Lindsay, jeweller and watchmaker, successor to 
 Lindsay & Campbell, next door west of Mrs. Compton, is 
 our pioneer jeweler. He came here from Davenport in 1871. 
 A peculiar and eccentric man by the name of Cornish was 
 our very first jeweller, who kept a little shop where Dr. 
 Beach's office now is; he remained but a short time, leav- 
 ing about the time Mr. Lindsay came. The building occu- 
 pied by him was erected by Jos. Barker, in 1870, for a 
 grocery store. 
 
 Having done our errands to the jeweller's, we went back 
 up street in time to see Ike come sheepishly out from the 
 tailor's. Jane laughed so heartil}^ at the thought of the 
 "joke," that her false teeth took a new departure and fell 
 into another of our side walk traps, striking a stone be- 
 neath and — alas, and a lack went to pieces. It was now 
 her turn to look 'round, to see if any one was looking. 
 Seeing a lot of street urchins looking delightedly on, the 
 poor little woman began to cry, but I hurried np stairs to 
 Dr. Miller's ofl5ce, where she soon had an impression taken 
 with the promise that she should have her teeth in the even- 
 ing. Dr. Miller came from South Bend, in October, 1874, 
 and everybody wonders how they got along without a 
 dentist. His office is over D. Felgar's clothing store, corner 
 of Tremont and Nassau street. 
 
 Well, here we are at the new bakery and restaurant of 
 J. Gr. Goodman; we'll go in and take dinner. (Jane dined 
 on oyster soup for obvious reasons.) Mr. Goodman began 
 in March, 1876. 
 
 Next to W. A. Eustace's, on Nassau street, three doors 
 west of the post-office, to select our furniture. Mr. E. came 
 here in the fall of ] 869. In 1872 went into partnership with 
 Mr. Dixon, who withdrew from the firm in January, 1876. 
 This is the only furniture house in town, but as he keeps 
 every thing we need, there is no necessity of our suffering 
 for want of furniture. 
 
 Then up street, three doors west of Division, to S. C. 
 Walters', where we bought one of those nice Western Cot- 
 
126 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 tage organs — though he sells other kinds, as well as sewing 
 machines, sheet music, &c. This house was established in 
 -October, 1873. Mr. Walters came from Des Moines. 
 
 On the southeast corner of Tremont and Nassau streets, 
 we found Messrs. Hartsell &: Dowdle, successors to Mont- 
 gomery & Weaver, \vhose pej; organs are the Burdette and 
 -Silver Tongue; and their favorite sewing machine, the 
 Wilson. They have been in business since January, 1876. 
 
 Thursday morning our friends wanted to send word home, 
 so we went to the Atlantic & Pacific telegrajDh office in Dr. 
 Dosh's drug store, and asked Bert Hurlbut, operator, to 
 say ** all is well.-' Then we went to the Western Union, 
 Pat. Levy, operator, and telegraphed home for more money, 
 that we might continue our investigations of the business 
 houses of Stuart — you know it takes money to get all 
 'round. 
 
 Next to A. Swartz's photograph rooms, west of the Dean 
 House, and sat for a " negative." We also tried his sweet- 
 toned Estey Organs, which he keeps to sell. He began in 
 1872, and is evidently doing a good business. 
 
 A friend had sent me an Indian pony from the west, and 
 Rodecker & Pearson were to build me a handsome phaeton, 
 so we went to see if it was finished. We started for the 
 old Stuart House, but remembered that it had burned to 
 the ground on the night of the 24th of February, 1876, just 
 after the close of a masonic ball. Messrs. R. & P., after 
 the fire, moved their stock into Gibbs' place, corner of Main 
 and Nassau streets, and were as busy as if nothing had 
 happened. Mr. Rodecker has met with losses of a similar 
 character before, and Mr. Pearson with disasters of various 
 kinds; among which, is the occasional washing away of 
 his mill-dam on Raccoon river, three and a half miles north- 
 east of town. Nothing daunted, they are going at once to 
 rebuild on the old site. Mr. Rodecker established the bus- 
 iness here in 1873, and admitted Mr. Pearson as a partner 
 in 1875. 
 
 We called at W. C. Crocker's harness and saddlery store. 
 
IIISTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 127 
 
 opposite the Dean House, in Berner & Toedt's first build- 
 ing. He came here from Atlantic in January, 1875; em- 
 ploys three hands, and is doing a brisk business. 
 
 At John Leonard's, west of the post office, we bought a 
 nice harness for our pony, and as ''it will be summer time 
 bye and by,*' we also bought fly nets, etc. In 1871 Mr.. 
 Leonard bought out John Brown, our first harness maker; 
 was burned out in 1872, but has rallied from that disaster, 
 and is doing a good business. 
 
 In the evening, Thursday, we went to the new Episcopal 
 Chapel and reading room, to enjoy a social evening witlt 
 the Helping Hand Society. We were pleasantly entertained 
 and noticed that the building was go'thic in design, 18x4d 
 feet. This society deserves special mention and credit, as 
 it has, in the face of many discouragements, built this 
 house in less than a year's time. To the perseverance of 
 the ladies is this enterprise mainly due. Though it is con- 
 trolled by the Episcopal Society, yet it is free to all who 
 may avail themselves of the privileges offered by a free li- 
 brary and reading room. 
 
 We were weary enough to enjoy our nice clean beds at 
 Dean's, and after breakfast Friday morning started again 
 on our tramp. Mr. D. calls it gadding. Jane and I went 
 in search of a laundry, and Isaac went to the barber's. In- 
 stead of one, we found three, while Ike found Billy Schlarb^ 
 our pioneer barber, who has been here since 1871. He evi- 
 dently believes the old saying about the rolling stone. Ou? 
 friend found everything neat and orderly, and Billy and 
 two or three assistants quite busy. 
 
 Isaac brought his dog and gun with him — he never goes 
 without them — and as the latter was a little rusty, he took 
 it to Geo. Morse, on the South Side, and had it cleaned ancJ 
 "fixed up,*' and as the former was hungry (he didn't get 
 rounft in time for breakfast at the Dean House,) we went to 
 Geo. Gray's meat market " to get the poor doggy a bone.'*" 
 Mr. Gray put up the building and opened the market la 
 January, 1874. They furnish to Stuart and vicinity seven; 
 
128 HISTORY OF GUTHKIE COUNTY. 
 
 or eight beeves per week, besides sheep and hogs. They 
 may be found on the south side of Nassau street, between 
 Main and Tremont. 
 
 We were told there were two other meat markets; one 
 east of Main street, kept by Chas. Griffiths, the other, south 
 of the track, by Mr, Simcoke. Speaking of meat markets, 
 reminds us; the first one kept in Stuart was by C. E. Dean. 
 
 Keally ; here comes Mr. Dixon again, and says he is read}^ 
 for the plasterers and painters, so we went in search of J. 
 T. Montgomery, whom w^e found in the office with Corry & 
 Dixon, two doors east of Exchange Bank. Mr. M., with a 
 squad of assistants, started for the scene of action, but gave 
 us a gentle hint that it was too cold to plaster without fire, 
 and we ordered up three or four stoves, from Berner's and 
 Seydell's, and went to Gould & Holmes' and asked them to 
 sendiup some of their nice clean coal. Their office is on 
 -Front street, two doors east of the Iowa House. This firm 
 began business as ice dealers in 1874. In 1875 they added 
 the coal business; in March, 1876, they added agricultural 
 implements, lime, etc. They are both railroad engineers, 
 Ibut if they both happen to be absent at the same time, 
 Oharlie Darling, their clerk, will attend to all customers. 
 Tommy Holmes, of this firm, run the first engine to Stuart, 
 l>eing the engine of a construction train. We had no special 
 business at the elevators, but as we were doing the whole 
 town we could not slight them. We went first to that of 
 Crray & Blanchard, successors to Chas. Stuart, of whom 
 tliey purchased in May, 1875, The amount of grain han- 
 dled is from four to five million bushels per year. The ele- 
 vator is operated by steam, runs a feed mill, corn sheller, 
 and fanning mills, and has every appliance necessary in a 
 business of this kind. It is said to have no " superior " in 
 the State. 
 
 Immediately west of this is the elevator of the Joint 
 Stock Comj)any, J. R. Bates, President; Wm, Gray, Secre- 
 tary; A. H. Savage, Treasurer, It was built in 1875, has a 
 "Capacity of twenty thousand bushels; a twenty-five horse 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 129 
 
 power engine; steam separator, and wheat cleaner, corn 
 shellers, etc. Cost of the building $9,000. 
 
 Being so near, we went up to the steam flouring mill, to 
 see what was going on there. . In 1872 Capt. Stuart offered 
 Wm. Leach $1,200 to move his (Leach's) mill from Nepon- 
 set, 111., to Stuart. He accepted the offer, tore down the 
 mill, brought it here and rebuilt it; and when it had been 
 running only two weeks, was burned to the ground — un- 
 doubtedly the w^ork of an incendiary. The building was 
 three stories high, contained two run of burrs, and a forty 
 horse power steam engine. In a few hours after the fire- 
 the generous citizens of Stuart, with Capt. Stuart at their 
 head, had subscribed $4,000 toward the re-building of the 
 mill, which was done at once. The present mill is about 
 the same as the first one, and is at present owned by Messrs. 
 Cooke & Drake. 
 
 On our return down town we stopped in at Stoke's feed 
 store, and engaged feed for pony. Next to this place we 
 saw a sign that read "Pumps and Lightning Rods," and as 
 we knew we should want -both, we stopped — much to Isaac^s 
 chagrin, as he was getting ^t^ery hungry — and made a pur- 
 chase of J. Montgomery. The last two named places are od 
 Division street near Front. 
 
 Our bonnets were pretty dusty after our "climb" through 
 the elelevators and mill, and after dinner we took them to 
 Miss Hills', on Nassau, and had her " brush them up.'' 
 She has plenty of nice new ones, but for economic reasons 
 we are wearing our old ones. Miss Hills began here in 1874 ; 
 is a native of Dallas county, and was for a number of years 
 a school teacher. She owns the building she occupies, and 
 is one of the sensible women who 'practically demonstrate 
 their ability to take care of themselves. We would add^ 
 Miss Hills keeps a full assortment of notions and fancy 
 goods as well as millinery ; she also does dress making. 
 
 Up on Tremont street we found Mrs. Chamberlain, who 
 keeps a choice lot of hats and bonnets, trimmings, etc., and. 
 does dress making. She came here in J 875. 
 
130 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Two doors west of the post office is the tirm of Rowell <fc 
 Hooker, Milliners, who commenced here in November, 1875, 
 though Mrs. Row^ell has been a resident of Stuart since 1872. 
 In 1873 her husband was apppinted postmaster, and filled 
 the office for about eighteen months, when he died. Mrs. 
 R. succeeded him, and retained the office seven or eight 
 months. " 
 
 Isaac said if he didn't sell his farm he should want some 
 new farm machinery, so I took him up to J. E. Gharrett's 
 warehouse, on West Nassau street, and as he commenced 
 "jerking " the machines around and making comments cal- 
 culated to aw^e " green ones,'' hunting items, J. E., in his 
 quiet way remarked, " I have the Marsh Harvester." "Is 
 that so?" asked my friend; "that's just what I want; in 
 fact I wouldn't have any other.'' In 1869 Mr. Gharrett 
 opened the first dry goods house in Stuart, in which he 
 continued until the fall of 1872, when he went to selling 
 agricultural implements. Besides the Marsh Harvester he 
 keeps other reapers, as well as a general stock of farm ma- 
 chinery. He has a branch house at Casey. Is a native of 
 Indiana. 
 
 Of the other warehouses of the above kind, we found 
 that of Gould & Holmes — as before mentioned — in their 
 coal office on Front street, and Bunker Brothers in their 
 real estate office, near their livery stable. The above firms 
 are all doing a good business, which may be taken as an 
 indication of the improvements going on in the country. I 
 presume the gentlemen thought the plows were very clean ; 
 may be they were, but some how our gloves were stained 
 and our hands soiled, so we we went to Dr. LeRoy's drug 
 :sk>re for some of his nice toilet soap for our hands, and 
 ^rasive soap for our gloves. Besides a good stock of first 
 ■class goods, kept in a handsome and well finished store- 
 room, we found a quite extensive Circulating Library. To 
 Dr. LeRoy, Stuart is indebted for " reading " not otherwise 
 attainable. 
 
 Next, to Dosh & Herriot's Drug Store and engaged pa- 
 
HISTORY OF GUTimiE COUNTY. 131 
 
 per hangings, etc., for our new houses. They are inagood 
 brick building, 20x70 feet, two stories high, and well fin- 
 ished. Have a good stock of the various articles usually- 
 kept in a first class drug store. In 1873 Dr. Dosh com- 
 menced this business in the first building erected by Dr. 
 LeRoy, and removed to the present place in 1875, Mr. Her- 
 riot being admitted a partner previous to their removal 
 
 In August, 1875, there was erected on the corner of Tre- 
 mont and Division streets, a substantial and handsome 
 brick building 25x55 feet, two stories high. In March, 1876, 
 Dr. Treat, a native of Orion, Michigan, but who has prac- 
 ticed medicine for the last eight years in Marquette, Michi- 
 gan, and previous to that time in Chicago, opened in the 
 above building (which he ow^ns) a new drug store, and in 
 our rambles about town, w^e called upon him. On either 
 counter there are beautiful oval-front show-cases, and the 
 shelving is finished in black w^alnut, veneered with burl 
 butternut, the same being neat and very handsome. The 
 Doctor's stock, which is entirely new, is full and complete. 
 
 Then to Given & Phillips', on Nassau street, in the build- 
 ing formerly occupied by E. Lindley. Mr. Given came here 
 in 1871, from Vinton, Iowa, formerly from Pittsburg, Pa., 
 and has been engaged as salesman in the several drug 
 stores ever since, until he went into business for himself, in 
 April, 1875. Though their building is not so new or nice 
 as the others, they are doing a good business. Mr. Phil- 
 lips, familiarly known as "old Phil," is at present in 
 Wales, his native place. In Ollie's case we shall have to 
 reverse the saying, " last but not least," in matter of stature 
 we mean. 
 
 Learning that the Working Band, the Congregational 
 Society, met that afternoon at the pleasant home of Mrs. 
 Lunt, we looked in upon them, and they certainly looked 
 very happy and seemed to be enjoying themselves; they 
 have prepared a great many fancy and useful articles for 
 the fair they expect soon to hold, the proceeds of which 
 are to furnish their church. Mrs. A. E. Todd, wife of the 
 
132 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 minister, is president of this society, and Mrs. Dr. Miller, 
 secretary. The Hie of the society is Mrs. Gharrett. 
 
 Now we'll go the post office, and then home. We found 
 the business of the office for the last quarter was as fol- 
 lows: No. of money orders issued, 377; amount of money 
 received $4,907.79; amount of fees, 42.90; No. of money 
 orders paid, 184; amount required to pay them, $2,350.75; 
 No. of letters mailed, 17,750; No. received, 16,550; greatest 
 No. mailed in one day, 330; average number per day, 225. 
 H. C- Trout, post master since 1874. 
 
 The first thing we did Saturday morning, was to go to 
 Masonic Hall, over J. P. McQuistious store. It was locked 
 up so we could not get in, but one of the good brothers in- 
 formed us that the hall was 19x50 ft. The Lodge was 
 chartered in 1870. It now has a membership of forty. The 
 Odd Fellows meet in the same hall. This latter Lodge 
 was chartered in 1871, and has a membership of one hun- 
 dred. 
 
 The Congregational Church on Division street was built 
 in 1871, Captain Stuart donating the lot whereon to build. 
 It will seat two hundred persons; has an organ and a good 
 choir, Mrs. Todd, organist; Mrs. Adams, soprano. By the 
 efforts of the Working Band, a part of the Church has 
 been carpeted. This society has a membership of forty; a 
 flourishing Sabbath school of ninety pupils, Mr. Reed 
 superintendent. Rev. A. E. Todd, the minister, is a native 
 of Massachusetts, and was educated at Yale College. 
 
 Speaking of Sabbath schools, we are reminded of the 
 first one held in Stuart. The first building erected 
 after the town was laid out, was used as a grocery 
 store and post office, as spoken of in the beginning of this 
 chapter. A Sabbath school, under the direction of William 
 Crow, and numbering as many pupils and teachers as 
 could crowd in, was held in this building. Captain Stuart 
 happened in one morning as they were trying to get $10 
 subscribed for a library. The Captain told them if they 
 would buy a S30 library, he would give them $15. He also 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 133 
 
 promised them a better place wherein to hold their school, 
 in three weeks, and in three weeks from that day the scliool 
 was held in the Stuart House. 
 
 Captain Stuart also donated the lot upon which the Meth- 
 odist Church is built. This is a nice little frame 40x60 ft., 
 nicely finished and capable of seating three hundred per- 
 sons. Here, too, is an organ and a choir, led by S. C. 
 Walters. Mr. Martin, the minister, is a native of Indiana 
 and was educated at Asbury University. This society, too, 
 has a Sabbath school, numbering one hundred and fifty 
 pupils, Mrs. Dr. Beach, superintendent. These items con- 
 cerning the churches, we learned from members, as we could 
 not attend services until the next day, there being none 
 held on Saturday. 
 
 The lot for the Catholic Church was sold by Captain 
 Stuart, at half price, and in the fall of 1875, the Church, 
 which is not yet finished, was built at a cost of $3,000. 
 Service is held by Rev. Father Gaul, of Atlantic, but the 
 society expects soon to have a resident priest. 
 
 Services are conducted in the Episcipal Chapel, by Rev. 
 J. S. Read, of Des Moines. 
 
 There is also a Christian Church on the south side, which 
 was built in the early part of 1875. This society numbers 
 about twenty members, and employs the Rev. Mr. Kennel, 
 of De Soto, to conduct religious services occasionally. 
 
 Having learned these particulars, and rested ourselves 
 with a good dinner, we went, upon invitation, to the hos- 
 pitable home of Mrs. Dr. Dosh, to meet the Ladies Mite 
 Society of the Methodist Church, and found a happy and 
 united little band, with Mrs. Dr. Beach, as president, [and 
 Mrs. Dr. Dosh, as secretary. The pecuniary object of the 
 society, is the furnishing of the church, but the primary 
 object, is the promotion of good will, the better acquain- 
 tance, and sociability of its members. 
 
 If we are ever inclined to be homesick, it is Saturday eve- 
 ning, when the week's duties are done, and we have a 
 moment to give to the indulgence of reveries, wherein child- 
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134 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 lioocVs home, absent loved ones, and far away scenes take 
 the place of reality. Thus indulging, we were leisurely 
 tracing our way homeward, when "Home, Sweet Home" 
 in the very style to suit our mood, came floating gently 
 down to ns from the Silver Cornet Band. This band was 
 organized in 1872, the citizens subscribing from $150 to 
 $2(J0, brass instruments being purchased at the time. In 
 1875 the band purchased silver instruments, at a cost of 
 from $600 to $700. Upon the organization of the band J. 
 T. Montgomery was elected leader, which position he has 
 ever since held. At the outset, not one of them, unless it 
 was the leader, could play a tune correctly; now they fur- 
 nish music for the neighboring towns, going as far, upon 
 one occasion, at least, as Illinois. To illustrate the pro- 
 ficiency they have made in so short a time, as their invita- 
 tion to Illinois would indicate, we will tell you a little 
 story. The next day after the burning of the flouring mill, 
 two suspicious looking men were arrested and tried before 
 'Squire Moulton; Captain Stuart acting as prosecutor. It 
 was alleged they were seen lurking near the mill the eve- 
 ning previous, and they were trying to prove an alihi. 
 They asserted that they were in the grove north of town, at 
 the time indicated, and the Captain asked them who else 
 was there. They answered, " the band." " What were 
 they playing?" queried he, "Coming Through the Rye," 
 promptly answered the witness. " That's so; I've no more 
 questions to ask." Some one wanted to know of Mr. S. 
 why he accepted that answer as final. " Oh, I Tcnow its 
 true, for that's all they can play." 
 
 Monday morning we went to school, to the new school 
 house, a fine brick building, 48x54 ft., two stories high, 
 besides a high basement, with five ordinary school rooms 
 and two recitation rooms. It was built in 1875 by Mr. 
 Corry, and is the best building in the county, and much 
 better than those usually built by towns, the size of Stuart. 
 Cost of the building, $11,000. Stuart was made an inde- 
 pendent district in the spring of 1872, and the first school 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 135 
 
 board elected was J. W. Hayes, president, J, E. Gharrett, 
 J. Wolfinger, C. Green and Wm. Leach. To go back to 
 the early times, the first school honse built here was in 
 1870, by Kenworthy and Stuart, and when this sub-district 
 was organized, the school district bought it of them. Be- 
 sides this house, we had a school over McCann's (now 
 liyan's) store, and finally we used the Christian Church for 
 another school room, and when they all "ran over" we 
 built the present house of which we are justly proud. We 
 have two hundred and seventy-four pupils enrolled, five 
 teachers, wdth Prof. J. T. Marvin as principal. Mr. Marvin 
 is a native of Oneida county. New York; was educated 
 at Grinnell and at the University at Iowa City. 
 
 In room No. 4, we found Miss Eva Blanchard, surrounded 
 by a happy little group, who seemed perfectly at home— a 
 good sign in a school room. Miss Blanchard wvas born at 
 Ft. Covington, New York, and educated at Ft. Covington 
 Seminary. 
 
 Miss Ellen P. Hall, a native of Osceola, Stark county, 
 Illinois, and educated atKockford Seminary, presides, with 
 a graceful dignity, over No. 3. 
 
 Miss E. J. Decker, in No. 2, was born at Aurora, N. Y. 
 and educated at Aurora Seminary. 
 
 Miss Ida B. Crockett, In No. 1, is a native of Kittery, 
 Maine, and was educated at the Illinois Normal at Engle- 
 wood. Miss Crockett is a daughter of J. G. Crockett, fore- 
 man of the railroad shops, and has been a resident of Stuart 
 for the past five years, except when away at school. 
 
 The present is a very efficient corps of teachers, and are 
 doing a good work for Stuart. They have the encourage- 
 ment so necessary to teachers, in the knowledge that their 
 efforts are appreciated. Prof. Marvin has, with the assis- 
 tance of his pupils, started a nice library, having already 
 between twenty and thirty volumes. The present school 
 board is comprised of the following named gentlemen: W. 
 P. Moulton, president, O. B. Ward, M, Ryan, James Laird, 
 
136 "HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 land J. E. Sidebotham. Charles Berner, treasurer; D. 
 Felgar, secretary. 
 
 Speaking of teachers, we found three music teachers; 
 Mrs. Wick, Miss Piper, and Miss Savage, of Elmira, N. Y., 
 a sister to A. H. and A. A. Savage. 
 
 We next interviewed the Lecture Association. B. S. 
 Adams, j^resident; D. Felgar, secretary; W. P. Moulton, J. 
 B. Blanchard and J. Tennant. executive committee. This 
 Association was organized in the fall of 1875, and has fur- 
 nished Stuart with entertainments she otherwise would have 
 lacked. 
 
 Next, in perfect Madam Grundy style, we sought to 
 acquaint ourselves with the antecedents and business of 
 our physicians. We first called upon Dr. Le Roy, he 
 being our oldest acquaintance in the fraternity, having 
 known him for the last seven years. The Doctor came to 
 Guthrie county in the fall of 1869, locating at Panora, but 
 removing to Stuart in 1870, having previously practiced his 
 profession in Buffalo, N. Y., and Davenport, Iowa. Since 
 his removal to this county he has twice had the western 
 fever, and has lived (engaged in the practice of medicine) 
 in Council Blufts, Iowa, St. Joseph, Missouri, and San 
 Deigo, Southern California. Iowa appeared to be his 
 destined home, and he has, at last, permanently located in 
 in the town of Stuart, where he has erected one of the finest 
 brick drug stores in Western Iowa. The Doctor was born 
 in Ohio, and studied his profession in the city of Dublin, 
 Ireland. His experience in the treatment of all classes of 
 diseases, is quite extensive, having had sixteen years prac- 
 tice in various towns and cities in the United States. 
 
 The first physician in Stuart was a Dr. Horton, who 
 practiced here a short time, when he sold out to Dr. Dosh, 
 who came here ia May, 1870, from Davenport. The Doctor 
 was born in New York, and was educated in his profession 
 at Rush Medical College, Chicago. He commenced the 
 practice of his profession in Stuart, where he has resided ever 
 since; be is our pioneer doctor. In October, 1875, Dr. Dosh 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 137 
 
 associated with himself in the practice of medicine. Dr. J. 
 H. Kersey, who is a native of Hendricks connty, Indiana, 
 and received his academic education at Spring School, In- 
 diana; his medical education at Ann Arbor and Bellevue, 
 New York. The Doctor came to Dallas county in 18G9, 
 and to Guthrie in October, 1875. 
 
 Dr. W. H. H. Crandall commenced the practice of medi- 
 cine at Windsor, Brown county, New York, in 1840. In 
 1843 he went to Pennsylvania where he continued in con- 
 stant practice until the breaking out of the rebellion, when 
 he went into the United States service. In 1863 he was dis- 
 charged on account of disability, caused by over-work in 
 the field. The Doctor came to Des Moines, from Scranton, 
 Pennsylvania, in 1864, and to Stuart in 1874. He is a 
 thorough reformer, having been one of the first members of 
 the United States Reform Association. The Doctor has 
 manufactured as well as used the "new remedies" for 
 thirty years. 
 
 Dr. D. Beach, a native of Ohio, was educated at Keokuk, 
 Iowa. He came to Des Moines in 1859, where he practiced 
 medicine for fifteen years. He came to Stuart in 1874, and 
 expects to remain here. Previous to his coming to Des 
 Moines, he spent six years in California. The Doctor's 
 oflfice is on Nassau street, between Division and Tremont. 
 Dr. James E. Roper was born in Edgefield district, S. C: 
 was educated at S. B. M. College, at Macon, Georgia. 
 Came to Iowa in 1869, and to Stuart in 1874. The doctor 
 has practiced his profession for thirty-three years. 
 
 Our researches among the attorneys of Stuart, elicited 
 the following information: Charles Haden, Esq., whom we 
 found at home, up stairs, one door east of the post-oflice, 
 was born and educated on Nantucket Island. He came to 
 Guthrie county on the 4th of October, 1875, in a most 
 violent rain storm. At that time there was but one other 
 lawyer in the county, Col. Nichols. In 1860, when the 
 county seat was removed to Guthrie Centre, Mr. Haden fol- 
 lowed it, and wh^n it returned to Panora, in 1SG2, re- 
 
138 HISTORY OF GUTimiE COUNTY. 
 
 turned with it; where he remained until 1857, when he came 
 to Stuart. Previous to his coming to Iowa, he practiced 
 law in Indiana. Mr. Haden, coming to Guthrie county in 
 her infancy, identified himself with her interests, and he is 
 entitled to much credit for the persistency with which he has 
 worked for her good. 
 
 E. R. Fogg was born at Stetson, Maine; was educated at 
 East Maine Conference Seminary ; came to Panora in 
 August, 1865. In 1SG7 he was married to Miss C. Mount. 
 In 1872 he went to Council Bluffs, where he remained but a 
 short time; in the fall of the same j'ear he turned his face 
 eastward, and stopped at Stuart; where he has remained 
 ever since. Mr. Fogg is Stuart's oldest lawyer, and practi- 
 cally her first . A man whose name I have forgotten and 
 cannot learn, came here to practice law, but for some unac- 
 countable reason, left town clandestinely. This was previ- 
 ous to Mr. Fogg's coming. 
 
 C. S. Fogg was born at Stetson, Maine; was educated at 
 Bucksport, Maine, and also graduated in the law depart- 
 ment of the Iowa State Universit}''. Mr. Fogg practiced 
 his profession a short time in Panor?», and came 
 to Stuart in September, 1872. His office is on Division 
 street. 
 
 B. S. Adams is a native of Pennsylvania ; was educated 
 at Davenport, where he commenced the practice of law. 
 He came to Guthrie county in 1868, settling at Panora, 
 where he remained five years. He came to Stuart in 1873. 
 
 West of J. P. McQuistion's dry goods store, there was 
 built in March, 1876, a new office 16x40 feet, one and a half 
 stories high. This is the office of the new law firm — Messrs. 
 Tait & Failor — who came herefrom Newton, January, 1876. 
 Mr. Tait, a native of Ohio, was educated at Mount Union 
 College, Ohio. Mr. B. F. Failor, also a native of Ohio, 
 was educated at Wettenburg, same State. 
 
 " Well," exclaimed my friend Isaac, as we came down 
 from this last office; " I enjoy these visits, but I'd like to 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 139 
 
 know how many more lawyers we are going to see?" "We 
 have but one more — Col. Raney — but we will see him when 
 we go the Register office.-' " We've not been to the black- 
 smiths' yet." "Well, we will go and see one of the old settlers 
 lirst; I mean D. Hardy, on Division street, who came to 
 Guthrie county in 1855. In May, 1S55, he started a black- 
 smith shop in Panora, and with the exception of the time 
 he w^as in the army, (of which we will speak in another 
 chapter,) he has plied his trade and is said to be one of the 
 best mechanics in the business. Mr. Hardy came to Stuart 
 in 1871. 
 
 On the same street, south of Nassau, we found Mr. Nel- 
 son, blacksmith and w^agon maker, who came to Stuart in 
 November, 1874. Mr. Nelson runs a steam emery wheel for 
 polishing plows, &c. 
 
 Mr. Williams, on west Division street, and F. Orbit, on 
 Nassau, commenced business, respectively, in 1874 and 
 1875. 
 
 Mr. Middleton, on the south side, and Messrs. Rodecker 
 & Pearson, finish the list of blacksmiths. I believe we have 
 been everywhere but to the printing offices and the cemetery. 
 We will first go and visit the Locomotive office on Division 
 street, south side. The Stuart Locomotive was founded in 
 January, 1871, by H. O. Hall, and sold to Capt. Stuart in 
 the fall of 1872. The first year of Mr. Stuart's proprietor- 
 ship, Chas. Morris edited the paper. In November, 1873, 
 J. J. Flynn took editorial control of the paper. The Loco- 
 motive has a circulation of 1,000; is the official paper of 
 Adair county, and has a large circulation in Guthrie county. 
 The office is supplied w^ith good newspaper and job presses*.. 
 Another fi-xture of the office is Mr. John Thode, foreman, 
 who commenced with the foundation of the paper and has 
 faithfully " staid by " ever since. Mr. Flynn, editor, was 
 born at Saratoga Springs, New York; was left an orphan at 
 the age of three years. At thirteen years of age he went to live 
 with the Hon. John Conklin, cousin to Hon. Roscoe, with 
 whom be commenced his education, having the advantage 
 
140 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 of an extensive libraiy. He continued his studies at Ver- 
 mont Conference Seminary; came west and taught school 
 one year, and finally graduated at North Western Univer- 
 sit3^ Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Flynn came to Stuart in the 
 spring of 1873, taught school during the summer and fall, 
 and while his school was yet in session, took editorial con- 
 tol of the Locomotive. He is also editor of the Greenfield 
 Transcript, of which Chas. Stuart is proprietor. 
 
 My friends began to think me quite rude for quizzing 
 people so, and had started down stairs while I stood gazing, 
 transfixed, upon a genuine live curiosity. It was two 
 huge objects, about the same size, connected by something 
 that looked like a large wire, or stem, and surrounded by a 
 halo — no, that's not the word; let me see, it was an aura — 
 no, that is not it either; well, it was a misty something, 
 any way. I gave it a glance and involuntarily tcok a step 
 backward, toward the door; I looked again and took 
 another step; then I whispered to the editor: " Are you a 
 materializing medium?" "Oh, no indeed; why?" "I thought 
 the Siamese twins were dead ." "Oh, yes ; they've been dead a 
 year or two." " Well, isn't that their ghost?" " Thatf oh, 
 no; iliat is the old meerschaum and Jack Thode." It 
 occurred to me just then, that our friends wanted to see me 
 down stairs. 
 
 Our next " quizzing " place was the Register office. The 
 Register was established in 1872 at Fontanelle, by Col. J. 
 Raney, editor and proprietor, and moved to Stuart in 
 October, 1875. Though the paper has been running here 
 but six months, it already has a circulation of seven hund- 
 red. A little historical sketch of the hand press used in 
 this office, may not be uninteresting. In 1832, Rev. E. P. 
 Lovejoy, brother to Hon. Owen Lovejoy, established 
 at St. Louis, the St. Louis Observer, a religious 
 paper, which was fearless and out-spoken, against all 
 wrong-doing; the injustice and impolicy of slavery, received 
 its full share of attention, and the paper was consequently 
 called by its enemies, an abolition paper. In 1836,— St. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 141 
 
 Lonis having become a very uncomfortable place for liim — 
 he went to Alton, Illinois, and continued the publication of 
 the Observer (changing the name to " The Alton Observer"). 
 Amid the revilings and insults of his enemies, and the i>er- 
 sonal violence of infuriated mobs, he continued to edit the 
 paper until the 17th of August, 1837, having, during this- 
 time, had three presses destroyed by pro-slavery mobs. 
 He went to Cincinnati and purchased another press, which 
 arrived at Alton on the 6th of November, and was guarded 
 that night by the mayor and others ; but on the night of the 
 7th, the warehouse wherein it was stored, and tvhich was 
 guarded inside by Mr. Lovejoy and a few friends, was sur- 
 surrounded by a mob, who, seeing no other way to accom- 
 plish their fiendish purpose of destroying the press and 
 types, set fire to the building, murdered Lovejoy and several 
 others, by shooting, and threw the press into the river. 
 This same press was afterwards fished out of the river^ 
 cleaned, up and brought to Washington, Iowa. It has 
 changed hands a great many times, and finally "brought up" 
 in the Adair Register office, and was brought to Stuart by 
 Col. Raney when he moved the paper here in 1875. Besides 
 possessing historical interest, it is the oldest press in the 
 State. Col. Raney was born in Tennessee, and educated 
 at Wabash College, Indiana. He followed the trade of 
 carpenter and builder for several years in New York, and 
 finally moved to Joe Davis county, Illinois; where, in May, 
 1861, he enlisted in the United States service, as Captain of 
 Co. E., 15th 111. Inf. For meritorious conduct at Pittsburg 
 Landing, April 6th and 7th, 1862, he was promoted to 
 Major. In November, the same year,he was promoted to 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, and to Colonel by brevet in September, 
 1865, having served during the entire war. The Colonel 
 came to Adair county in 1866, practiced law two years, was 
 chosen Clerk of the Court, which position he occupied four 
 years. In April, 1876, he sold the Register to Mr. Charles 
 R. Wright. Mr. Wright was born near Hagerstown, Md.,. 
 in October, 1844. In December, 1860 he removed to Ohio,. 
 
142 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 and in 1861 enlisted in the United States service in the 25th 
 Ohio Infantry, and served in tlie ranks until the battle of 
 Gettysburg, in July, 1863, at which battle he was wounded 
 and remained in hospital until December, 1863. On the 
 25th of December, he was commissioned by President Lin- 
 coln as A. Q. M., and ordered to duty on Morris Island, S. 
 C In March, was ordered to Jacksonville, Florida, where 
 he remained until February, 1865. In 1872 he came to 
 Davenport, Iowa, and for nearly a year worked as a com- 
 positor in the Gazette office. From Davenport he removed 
 to Adel, Dallas county, in 1873; since which time he has 
 been employed as mechanical manager of the Dallas 
 County News and Dexter Herald. Mr. Wright has been 
 engaged in the printing business nearlj^ eighteen years, in 
 Ohio, Pennsylvania and Iowa. 
 
 Through the kindness of Mr. Corry we were shown what 
 lie calls his den, but it looked to us more like an artist's 
 studio. There were ranged singly and in groups the fated 
 family of Mr. J. T. Montgomery, done in oil, by Mr. Mont- 
 gomery himself. That of his father is is a very good like- 
 ness, while the expressive features of his lovely wife, gaz- 
 ing admiringly upon her baby boy, are so true to life, you 
 cannot but make her doleful fate seem a horrid nightmare, 
 while you gaze through a misty veil at her real self. Mr. 
 M's. master piece is the cluster of fruit in the corner. He 
 has genuine talent, but lacks the opportunity to improve it. 
 What he has done he has done unaided by masters, and in 
 moments snatched from his hours of rest and recreation. 
 
 We have too, in Stuart, a poet and an elocutionist, of 
 whom we will speak in another chapter. 
 
 As we are so near the Sheriff's office we will go up and 
 ask him to furnish us the census of Stuart for 1875 and 
 1876. In 1875 the number of males was, 654; No. females, 
 504. Total, 1,158. 
 
 In 1876 the No. of males was, 873; No. of females, 801. 
 Total, 1,674. No. of children ])orn in Stuart, 144. Total 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 143 
 
 No. on the North Side, llSl. Total on the South Side, 
 493. Gain over census of 1875, 516. 
 
 Mr. J. Tennant, who furnished us these census items, 
 came to Stuart in 1870, and was employed as fireman on 
 the railroad. In August, 1872, he went with Wm. Maxwell 
 to Texas, where he remained a short time. He, with the 
 rest, who went at the same time, came home broken down in 
 health, and did not recover from the Texas that he inhaled, 
 imbibed and absorbed generally, for two or three years. 
 
 In 1876 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, with head- 
 quarters at Stuart. In wliatever place or occupation found, 
 none more steadfast in principle, or truer to a trust assumed, 
 than Judd Tennant. 
 
 As the Cemetery is the last place to which any of us wish 
 to go, we drove out there after everything else of interest 
 had been seen. We found it one mile northeast of town, 
 in a beautiful grove of oak trees, high and dry, and a most 
 lovely location for the purpose for which it is designed. 
 Lovely, did I say? Yes, lovely; for here in winter, the 
 scraggy boughs, with their brown leaves, hold the pure 
 mantle of snow, from "trailing" in the earth, and when 
 spring time comes, the wild flowers spring up and teach us 
 ia lesson of the universal resurrection. Here too, the happy 
 wild birds may come and sing to us in our humble homes, 
 and who may say we cannot hear them. 
 
 The Cemetery was named Oak Grove, from the oak trees 
 which cover its gently sloping knolls. The first interment 
 was that of Mr. A. P. Booth, who died in August, 1874. Mr. 
 Booth was a native of England, and had been, for several 
 years previous to his death, employed by the C.,R. I. «&P. 
 Railroad Company. 
 
 In a short time after this the first grave was made in Oak 
 Grove, another grave was made, and one of nature's love- 
 liest children rests therein. Mrs. Clara, wife of Tommy 
 Holmes, in her beauty and purity, with her life-work just 
 begun, was called from love and duty, from wifehood and 
 
144 HISTORY OF GUTHEIE COUNTY. 
 
 motherhood, from all that makes life grand and noble, and 
 mourned and beloved by all who knew her, she rests in 
 peace in her beautiful home. There are a great many graves 
 here now, and while we wandered from one to another, we 
 related the sad occurrences connected with the removal of 
 some of these silent ones. 
 
 iSever shall we forget the thrill of horror which ran 
 through our community, on Saturday night, July 3, 1875, 
 when messengers brought the news of the drowning of Mrs. 
 J. T. Montgomery and two children, her father-in-law and a 
 Mr. Baker. They had all been to a Fourth of July celebra- 
 tion (the Fourth coming on Sunday, it was celebrated on 
 Saturday) at Greenfield, Adair county, and were returning 
 in the evening. They arrived at Middle river, just at dusk, 
 and as they had had no trouble crossing in the morning, 
 supposed it perfectly safe. There was no bridge at this 
 place, so the river had to be forded. The terrible rain of 
 the night previous had so swollen the stream as to make it 
 extremely hazardous crossing, but Mr. Montgomery being 
 fearless and rather daring, attempted the perilous feat. 
 When midway of the stream, the wagon bed became de- 
 tached and floated down stream, with all its precious 
 freight, and all were lost save Mrs. John Montgomery and 
 one of Mrs. J. T. Montgomery's children. J. T. Montgom-' 
 ery, husband of the nnfortunate lady, had remained at 
 Greenfield with the band, of which he is leader. The bodies 
 were not recovered until Tuesday evening, when they were 
 followed to Oak Grove by the largest concourse of people 
 ever gathered together in the county. 
 
 Speaking of drowning reminds us; there have been four 
 deaths by drowning in the railroad pond, west of town. In 
 1874 a boy by the name of Millis was drowned while bath- 
 ing; in the summer of 1875 Sherman Smith was drowned 
 in the same manner. Late in the autumn of 1875 two 
 brothers— Sidebotham— were drowned while skating. The 
 elder brother, a lad of fourteen, broke through the ice, and 
 in his efforts to rescue him, the younger brother also went 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 145 
 
 under, and both were drowned. It has been Mr. Thoraas 
 Hubbard's lot to assist in recovering each of these bodies. 
 As this seems to be a recital of horrors, we will tell you of 
 one more. In the fall of 1S70 a Miss Jennie Swanson, while 
 in a temporarily deranged state of mind, threw herself be- 
 fore an approaching train, and was horribly mutilated, her 
 head being severed from her body. 
 
 I think of still another, which however, did not terminate 
 fatally. In the summer of 1872 Johnny Hayes was struck 
 by a ball club, which slipped from the hands of Arthur 
 Piatt, a school-mate. Though a severe surgical operation 
 was had, and a three month's sickness followed the acci- 
 dent, yet the little fellow bore it all bravely, recovered, and 
 is now living in Chicago. 
 
 Lest I have overlooked any one, I will recapitulate and 
 see. There are in Stuart, 2 hotels; 5 boarding houses; 1 
 bank; 2 lumber j^ards; 2 hardware stores: 4 drug stores; 
 7 grocery stores ; 3 meat markets; 2 bakeries and restau- 
 rants; 2 shoe stores; 2 clothing stores; 3 milliners; 3 jewel- 
 ers; 2 carriage and wagon shops; 5 blacksmith shops; 2 
 harness and saddlery stores; 2 livery stables; 2 elevators; 
 1 steam flouring mill; 1 furniture store; 3 music stores; 2 
 jewing machine rooms; 3 agricultural implement ware- 
 houses; 5 dry goods stores; 1 feed store; 3 carpenters and 
 builders, with about 50 assistants; 2 coal dealers; 2 tailors; 
 1 barber; 1 gunsmith; 5 billiard and other saloons; 5 drays 
 and express wagons; 3 laundries; 1 boot black; 1 veterina- 
 ry surgeon; 1 auctioneer; 2 brick makers; 4 live stock 
 dealers; 2 telegraph offices; 2 halls; 5 churches; 1 school 
 house; 3 ministers; 6 lawyers; 7 physicians; 1 dentist; 5 
 real estate dealers ; 3 insurance agents; 5 schoolteachers; 3 
 music teachers ; 2 secret societies; 2 news papers; 2 libra- 
 ries; 1 silver cornet band; 1 photographer; a lecture asso- 
 ciation; post office, and cemeter3^ We have besides a 
 deputy sheriff, a poet, a painter and elocutionist. The 
 railroad shops; several coal banks near town, which furn- 
 ish a very fine article of coal, 2 milk wagons and a brew- 
 
146 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 ery, I believe complete the list. This, when we consider 
 that it is but just seven years since the first house was built 
 in Stuart, is an excellent showing. 
 
 Note. — Stuart was " written up " in February and March, 
 and there have been several changes in the business houses 
 which I will note briell3^ 
 
 The Dean House was purchased in August by Mr. But- 
 ton, who came from Dexter! Mr. D. and family are good, 
 intelligent people, desirable neighbors, and we welcome 
 them, but we regret to lose Mr. and Mrs. Dean. Mr. D. is 
 here yet, but his wife is at present with friends in Mo. We 
 hope she will return, as we cannot well spare her. She is one 
 of the few women who have the courage to assert their in- 
 dividuality and live accordingly; not copying Mrs. Grund}^ 
 nor any of her numerous relatives. Mrs. Dean was born 
 in Genesee county, N. Y., educated at Pembroke, same 
 State. Though petite in stature and delicate in health, she 
 has accomi3lished much good. Having no children of her 
 own, she has always given a home to one or more homeless 
 girls, who have found in her a mother indeed, for mother 
 love asserts itself in good women, though they have never 
 borne children. Discountenancing wrong, yet ever ready to 
 forgive and lend a helping hand to the erring, she lives out 
 the belief that " to err is human; to forgive divine." 
 
 J. P. Mcquistion, has returned to the oil regions, where 
 he is interested in oil wells, and a Mr. Persons has opened 
 a hardware store in the place occupied by the former gen- 
 tleman. 
 
 J. Taylor has opened*a grocery in Moulton, & Little's 
 place, (where they kept a shoe store,,) and Mr. Moulton is 
 editing the Locomotive, Mr. Flynn having gone to Dubuque, 
 where he is engaged, with the editorial staff, upon the 
 " Times." 
 
 Mr. Savage, the baker, (having married Miss Lou Dudley) 
 has removed to Penn., and a Mr. Mack has opened a shop 
 at the same stand. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 14T 
 
 The firm of Tait & Failor is changed to Tait & Zeiger. 
 
 Mr. Leonard has gone out of business, and another har- 
 ness shop has been opened on Division street, north of Nas- 
 sau, by Mr. Huffman. 
 
 A new furniture store has been opened in one of Mr. 
 Tait's new buildings, west of Walters' music store, by E. 
 M. Cross. 
 
 We have also two new meat markets. One on the South 
 Side, by Mr. Fox, and one on Division street by Mr. Ault- 
 man. 
 
 There has been a change in the school, too, Mr. Marvin, 
 retiring, and Prof. Cotton taking the place of Principal. 
 The first school the Professor attended, at Bedford, Pa., was 
 taught by Miss Matilda Marvin, now the mother of San- 
 key, the singer, (Moody's Sankey.) 
 
 The seating capacity of our school house is 240, and the 
 number of pupils attending school 356. The Episcopal 
 Chapel is used as a school room. 
 
 Another hardware store has just been opened by a Mr. 
 Smythe. 
 
 A Loan and Insurance office by S. P. Rhoades. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 The first religious service held in the county was by Rev. 
 Michael Hare, of Des Moines, in 1850, at the residence of 
 Mr. Kunkle, in Jackson township. Mr. Hare was of the 
 M. E. Church, and preached occasionally at the cabin of 
 Mr. Kunkle, and also at the home of Mr. Bay, in Cass. 
 
 The first Church building was the historical Presbyterian. 
 Church, in Panora, which was built in 1856. 
 
 In 1852 the friends of the U. B. Church effected an orga- 
 nization in Panora, but built no church until '61. 
 
 In 1S53 about a dozen persons, who had removed from 
 Indiana, and settled on Beaver Creek, organized themselves 
 into a society called the Church of God, sometimes known 
 as Winebrennarians. For several years they had no min- 
 ister of their own, but kept up their meetings with but little- 
 
148 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 preaching, until 1862, when Elder Nye settled among them. 
 
 They number at present about sixty members, and their 
 pulpit is regularly supplied by Elder Richardson, of Dex- 
 ter. 
 
 In some things this society is quite peculiar; having no 
 discipline, or articles of faith; taking the scriptures as their 
 only rule; taking no distinctive name, other than that the 
 church was designated by in the days of the apostles , and 
 in the washing of each others feet as a religious ordinance. 
 In their meetings they give the largest liberty to all chris- 
 tian people, allowing any one who desires, to take part in 
 their exercises, claiming every christian person as a brother 
 or sister. At Enos Miller's residence, and at the old Bea- 
 ver gchool house, appointments have been kept up for 
 twenty years. 
 
 In 1862 a Congregation of Brethren, formerly known as 
 German Baptists, or Bunkers, was organized by Elder H. 
 Flory, Joel Brubaker and Geo. Kinny, ministers, and Wm. 
 Bennett and David Miller, deacons, who held a series of 
 public meetings, and also a council meeting, at which it was 
 decided that a love feast should be held, in June of the 
 same year, at the residence of D. Brumbaugh. 
 
 During the progress of these meetings, all persons hold- 
 ing letters of membership, united with the Indian Creek 
 Church, which, at that time, embraced six or more counties. 
 
 At the time of holding the first love feast, the Congrega- 
 tion had eight members, namely; Jacob Walters, J. W. 
 Deihl, J. D. Haughtelin, A. H. Haughtelin, Eliza Haugh- 
 telin, S. A Chamberlin, Catherine Walters and Lydia 
 Brumbaugh. 
 
 In June, 1865, 'Coon River Congregation came into ex- 
 istence, with Des Moines river as its eastern boundary, the 
 south line of this tier of counties as its southern boundary, 
 and with no known western or northern boundary. 
 
 In 1871, B. E. Plaine and A. McClaren, generously dona- 
 ted three acres of ground to the society, whereon to build 
 ^ meeting house, and for a burying ground. The building 
 
HISTORY OF GUTIIEIE COUNTY. 149 
 
 was erected in 1873. The present membership is one hun- 
 dred-and twenty; five ministers; two of them ordained el- 
 ders, or bishops, and five deacons. 
 
 The church bnilding is 40x40 feet in size, and cost $2,000. 
 
 In the winter of -55 the Friends held volnnteer meetings, 
 at the residence of David Bowles and others in Penn town- 
 ship. After holding meetings for several months they were 
 visited by a minister, or traveling Friend, by the name of 
 Daniel Wood, who advised them to request for a prepara- 
 tive meeting. This, however, was not then granted. An 
 established meeting for worship only, was granted in the 
 fall of '55, and a preparative meeting shortly thereafter. 
 The volnnteer meetings commenced with a mere handful of 
 worshipers, and when their first " reejuest " was made 
 there were but nine families in this society. In 1856 Bear 
 Creek monthly meetings were held here and at Bear 
 Creek alternately. In 1865, there being a sufl^icient number 
 of members, Summit Grove monthly meeting was estab- 
 lished. Their church edifice, known as the Summit Grove 
 meeting house, near Stuart, was built in the autumn of '56. 
 
 Spring Yalley preparative meeting, in ThomjDson town- 
 ship, forms a part of Summit Grove monthly meeting. 
 
 The number of families belonging to this meeting is sixty. 
 
 As most of the churches and church organizations are 
 spoken of in the history of the different towns and town- 
 ships, I will not give them here. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 The first school in the county was a " subscription 
 school," taught by Spencer Catlin, in 1852, at his own res- 
 idence, a log house, in the Kunkle neighborhood. The 
 number of pupils was 15. 
 
 The first school house built in the county was at Panora, 
 in 1853, and the first public school, taught by Dr. Sloan, in 
 December, 1853. 
 
 This was a frame building, Richard Gilbert, builder, and 
 
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150 niSTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 besides its use for school purposes, took the place of church, 
 court house, town hall, etc. 
 
 Theophilus Bryau, M. Leinart and Richard Giljjert com- 
 posed the first school board for Cass township. 
 
 As the county became more thickly settled, a school was 
 taught in nearly every neighborhood, sometimes at the 
 cabin of one of the settlers, and sometimes a house was 
 built for that purpose. 
 
 As the townships were organized and made district town- 
 ships, houses were built by the district. 
 
 In order to show what advancement we have made in 
 educational matters, the old settlers interested, if any re- 
 main in the county, will allow me to relate an " anecdote" 
 or two, illustrative of the manner in which some of our 
 early shools were conducted. When Highland was made a 
 district township, it was not divided into sub-districts for 
 some time. There was but one school house in the town- 
 ship for several years, though there were several schools 
 taught. 
 
 The lirst school taught in this township was by a Mr. 
 McCoy, a man habitually so ver?/ tired as to sleep most of 
 the time, and when the children thought it time to recite, 
 they would wake him up and inform him that their lessons 
 were ready. 
 
 Another school in Highland was obtained and conducted 
 •in an entirely original manner. OneMorden who w^as sub- 
 director for his district, induced a friend to represent him, 
 to the County Superintendent, as being well qualified for 
 the position of teacher. His excuse for not seeing that 
 official in person, was urgent business in another direction. 
 
 The friend secured a certificate for him, and being sub- 
 director, he liired himself and taught by proxy, his wife 
 doing, or pretending to do the teaching. She began with 
 six or seven pupils, but they dropped off, one by one, until 
 she had but two or three left. 
 
 One day a neighbor from another district, seeing one of 
 her former pupils running at large, asked him why he was 
 
mSTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 151 
 
 not in school. "0, 'cause the school ain't worth a ; 
 
 the school ma'am washes, cooks, sweeps and keeps school 
 all at one time; then she doctors folks, too." 
 
 She taught in the same shanty in which the family resided, 
 and when Mr. M. went to draw his pay, he brought in a 
 bill for fuel, house rent, and teacher's wages. 
 
 In another sub-district, in a neighboring township, there 
 lived one family, consisting of a man, his wife and two 
 small children. 
 
 At a meeting of the school board, in which he represented 
 his sub-district, he asked for a stove, with which to heat the 
 school room, saying he would furnish the room. A war- 
 rant was given him, with authority to purchase a stove, 
 w^hich he did without delay, and without delay he proceeded 
 to set it up, in place of his old cook stove, which was worn 
 out. He had bought a new cooking stove which should 
 answer the double purpose of heating the school room and 
 cooking the family dinners. The pipe ran up through the 
 ■ceiling and through a low upper room, a drum being placed 
 upon it, in this room, which was converted into a school 
 room. 
 
 He next hired his wife as teacher, and two or three times 
 a day she went up to the school room, by climbing a lad- 
 der, little thinking she was climbing the "ladder of Fame;" it 
 was the very necessary and almighty dollar that prompted 
 her. She, too, charged for fuel, rent and wages. 
 
 This last story comes from Union township, which fur- 
 nishes another interesting school item. 
 
 One of the sub-districts contained but one family, yet the 
 township had furnished them a house. As in the other 
 <.*ases, the man hired his wife to teach the school, which was 
 composed of her own four or five little ones. Teachers 
 wages at this time were $30 per month. 
 
 One warm day she carried a large basket of wool to 
 school — it was not Mary's little lamb — and set the pupils 
 picking it. 
 
 The work was progressing finely and all seemed happy; 
 
152 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 she was, no donbt, revolving in her mind, the problem of 
 how many yards of flannel it would be necessary to make, 
 in order to clothe that school, when a shadow fell across 
 the floor. Great Heavens! Poe's Raven cast not a blacker 
 shade than this to her. There stood the County Superin- 
 tendent! 
 
 Whether he drilled that school in the intricacies of wool 
 picking, tradition saith not. Neither does tradition say 
 whether any of the above teachers went to Congress. They 
 certainly deserve well of their country. 
 
 In 1856 there were but four townships in the county, viz: 
 Cass, Jackson, Bear Grove and Dodge. 
 
 In 1863 there were eleven districts in the county and forty- 
 five sub-districts. No. of school houses, three brick and 
 twenty-three frame. 
 
 The earliest report on file in the County Superintendent's 
 oflBce, is for the period between October 5, 1865, and Octo- 
 ber 4, 1866. From this report we have 
 
 No. district townsliips 12 
 
 Sub-districts 53 
 
 No. persons bet-\veen the ages of 5 and 21, males, 832; females 804 
 
 No. schools in the countj' 51 
 
 No. pupils attending in the county 1341 
 
 No. teachers in the county, males, 38; females 43 
 
 Average compensation for teachers per week, for males, $8.25; for 
 
 females $5 95 
 
 Average No. days taught, tor winter, 2743; for summer 2704 
 
 Average cost of tuition per week, for each pupil is, for winter, $ .64; 
 
 for summer $ 52 
 
 Aggregate amount paid teachers during the year is $7 781 02 
 
 Amount of teachers' fund in hands of District Treasurers 861 47 
 
 NO. OF SUB-DISTRICTS. 
 
 Cass 8 Penn 4 Dodge 3 Union 1 
 
 Centre 8 Orange 4 Beaver 1 Bear Grove 2 
 
 Jackson 8 Thompson 5 Highland 1 Panora, Ind.... 2 
 
 Total 12—52 
 
 During this period James L. Grandstafi" was Superin- 
 tendent, the first in the county. 
 
 Gs C. Miller, our present very efficient Superintendent, 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 153 
 
 reports in 1875, a school population of 3,633, and 126 
 schools. 
 
 District townships, in 1875, were 15; Independent dis- 
 tricts, 3. 
 
 (Penn and Jackson townships have since organized Inde- 
 pendent districts.) 
 
 No. teachers employed, 95 males; 116 females. 
 
 Average paid teachers, $30.15 males; $29.61 females. 
 
 Between the ages of 5 and 21, 1,930 males; 1,703 females. 
 
 No. school houses, frame, 114; brick, 4. 
 
 Value of the same, 857,875. 
 
 Value of the apparatus, $1,599. 
 
 Volumes in library, 39. 
 
 Teachers' fund on hand at last report, $4,436.82. 
 
 School house fund, credit $16,517.65. 
 
 Contingent fund, credit $5,638.56. 
 
 Guthrie county has the honor of being the first county in 
 the State, to comply with the Act of the Legislature in its 
 session of 1874, creating County High Schools. 
 
 At present, the school is being taught in the old Court 
 House, at Panora, but the contract has been let for build, 
 ing a new brick building, the people having voted a por- 
 tion of the Swamp Land Fund to that purpose. 
 
 A brief history of this fund will not be out of place here, 
 . The swamp land fund of Guthrie county, originated from 
 a donation of the swamp and overflowed lands of the State 
 of Iowa, by the United States, under an Act of Congress, 
 passed in 1850. The Legislature of Iowa conveyed to the 
 different counties of the State, such of these lands as lay 
 within the limits of each county. 
 
 The county of Guthrie ordered the selection of the swamp 
 lands, in the spring of 1855; the agent, Capt. Thos. Seely, 
 who was appointed by Judge James Henderson, selected 
 and returned to Commissioner of the General Land Office, 
 in July following, 11,700 acres. 
 
 Of this amount, all with the exception of 720 acres, had 
 
154 HISTORY OF GUTIIEIE COUNTY. 
 
 been sold by the United States, previous to the approval of 
 the selections, made by the county agent, by the Commis- 
 sioner. Of the last named amount, 400 acres have been 
 patented to the county, and the Government has indemni- 
 lied the county for 2,400 acres, sold for cash, amounting to 
 $3,000, and 4,440 acres in scrip which was located in Car- 
 roll county. By the sale of this last named amount, the 
 county has realized $22,000. Estimated value of land now 
 owned by the county, is $2,000. Total, $27,000. 
 
 The count}' has still a claim of about 5,000 acres, for 
 which the Government has not given indemnity, and 3,200 
 acres in controversy with the Chicago, Rock Island and 
 Pacitic Railroad. 
 
 In February, 1876, by a vote of the people, this fund was 
 decided to be used in the construction of a Court House 
 and a High School building. 
 
 The County High School was organized in January, 1876, 
 with M. M. Wagner, as principal, and C. E. Peterson, 
 assistant. The school opened with sixty pupils, and the 
 daily average has continued about the same. 
 
 The school board[jis composed of G. C. Miller, president; 
 .L. J. Pentecost, secretary; Dr. John Bower, treasurer; Jas. 
 Foster and W. T. Conner, trustees. 
 
 G. C. Miller, County Superintendent, is a native of In- 
 diana; came to Guthrie in 1870; was elected to the office in 
 1873, but his duties began in January, 1874. Mr. Miller 
 was educated at Des Moines. 
 
 Mr. Wagner was educated at the State Normal at Pots- 
 dam, N. y., his native place. 
 
 Mr. Peterson, who came to Guthrie 'in 1856 (conse- 
 ■quently an old settler though a young man), is a native 
 of Sweden, and was educated at the Agricultural College 
 at Ames. 
 
 Under the present management. Prof. F. C Wildes, a 
 native of Bath, Maine, where he was educated, takes the 
 place of Principal of the High School, the other two gen- 
 tlemen acting as assistants. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 155 
 
 Mr. Wildes came to Iowa in 1869, settling at Burlington, 
 where he remained bnt a short time; he then removed to 
 Danville, where he resided four years, then to New Lon- 
 don, where he remained three years, and came to Guthrie 
 in September, 1876. 
 
 On the 8th day of May, 1876, each of the High School 
 boys set out, upon the school grounds, a Centennial tree. 
 May the trees, as well as the boys, "live long and pros- 
 per." 
 
 As sketches of the schools of the different towns are 
 given in the descpription of the towns, I will not repeat 
 them here. 
 
 Every effort is being made to improve our schools, and 
 to raise the standard of qualifications of our teachers. 
 The educational system of our State, while inferior to none, 
 far surpasses in excellence, that of many older States. 
 
 Our intelligent people believe, that expenditure in pro- 
 viding schools of the highest order, is economy, and econ- 
 omy is wealth. They appreciate that a close connection 
 exists between intelligence, honesty and a " worldly com 
 petence," while ignorance and vice go hand-in-hand with 
 poverty. They believe with Daniel Webster, that " if we 
 work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, 
 time will efface it; but if work upon immortal minds, if we 
 imbue them with high principles, we engrave upon these 
 tablets, something which no time can efface, but which will 
 brighten to all eternity. The teacher in the common school 
 or the Sabbath school may, with the sunlight of truth, 
 photograph upon the tender minds committed to his charge, 
 a thousand forms of holy beauty." 
 
 The contract for building the High School building at 
 Panora, has been let to Jackson & Garlow of that place. 
 
 Dimensions of the building are: basement, 58x37, with 
 two wardrobes, 10-2x12-8 and 11-10x11-10; two school 
 rooms in the basement. First floor about the same as the 
 basement. High School room occupies the upper story, 
 and is, in size, 50x34. Main hall, 28x14. 
 
156 
 
 HISTORY OF GUTUPwIE COUNTY. 
 
 I have obtained, through the kindness of Prof. AVildes, 
 the course of stud}^, introduced by that gentleman and 
 adopted by the High School Board. 
 
 GUTHRIE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 COURSE OF STUDY. 
 
 PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Ftrist Term. Second Term. Third Term. 
 
 Reading, 
 
 English Gnimmar, 
 Arithmetic, 
 Algebra, 
 
 Physiology, 
 English Grammar, 
 Arithmetic, 
 Algebra, 
 
 Physiology, 
 English Grammar, 
 Modern Geography, 
 Algebra. 
 
 REGULAR COURSE. 
 
 SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, LANGUAGE. 
 
 First lerm,. 
 
 Natural Philosophy, 
 Geometry, 
 German or Latin, 
 
 FIRST YEAR. 
 
 Second Term. 
 
 Natural Philosophy, 
 Geometry, 
 German or Latin. 
 
 Third Term. 
 
 Chemistry, 
 Geometry, 
 German or Latin. 
 
 Physiology. Lecture every three weeks. 
 
 Chemistry, 
 Trigonometry, 
 General History, or 
 French or Greek, 
 German or Latin. 
 
 SECOND Y'EAR. 
 
 Chemistry, 
 Trigonometi*y, 
 General History, or 
 French or Greek, 
 German or Latin. 
 
 Geology, ) o^l.^-' 
 
 Eng. Literature [position. 
 General History, or 
 French or Greek, 
 German or Latin. 
 
 GeolOCV, ) Or Latin 
 
 T-i T ... i r Prose Co 
 
 Eng. Literature [position. 
 Rhetoric, or French or 
 
 Greek, 
 German or Latin. 
 
 THIRD YEAR. 
 
 Astronomy, | or Latin 
 
 T-, T .. \ - Prose Com- 
 
 Eng. Literature \ position. 
 Rhetoric, or French or 
 
 Greek, 
 German or Latin. 
 
 Astronomy, \ p'o^'cL 
 Eng. Literature j ^mo^"' 
 Constitution of U. S., or 
 
 French or Greek, 
 German or Latin. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTy. 157 
 
 FOURTH YEAR. 
 
 Zoology, } Or Greek Prose Com- ZOOlOgV, ) Or Greek Prose Com- Civil GOVemmeilt, 
 
 BotarTy, f p"*''*-"'- Botany, i position- Botany, or Ancient Geo- 
 
 physical Geography, or Physical Geography, or grapjiy, 
 
 French or Greek, French or Greek, Moral Philosophy, or 
 
 German or Latin. German or Latin. French or Greek, 
 
 German or Latin. 
 
 Music. 
 
 Drawing. — One lesson per week. 
 
 Classes of the Preparatory Department, and of the first and second 
 years of the regular school, have compositions and declamations each, once 
 in three weeks, alternately. 
 
 Classes of the Preparatory Department, and of the first, second and 
 third years of the regular school, have spelling and definitions once a week. 
 
 Written examinations every four weeks, and also at the close of each 
 term of twelve weeks, upon the work of the term. Upon the last examina- 
 tion depends promotion to higher grades. 
 
 Pupils who pass satisfactory examination, will be admitted to the school 
 at the beginning of each term. 
 
 At the beginning of each term, a so-called normal class is formed for the 
 benefit of those young ladies and gentlemen who expect to teach at the close 
 of the term. But we expect after this year to extend the normal course to 
 at least one year, and have, as requisites for admission, the completion of the 
 Sigh ScTiool course, or satisfactory examination upon the work included in 
 that course. 
 
 This will furnish the county with at least partially educated teachers, and 
 will necessarily bring the schools to a much higher grade than they at pres- 
 ent have. 
 
 Teachers of the school at present: 
 
 F. C. Wildes, Principal. 
 
 C. E. Petkrson, 
 
 M. M. Wagner. 
 
 POST OFFICES. 
 
 Previous to 1852 the few pioneers of Guthrie received their 
 mail matter at Panooch, and McKay, in Dallas county. 
 
 In 1852 a petition was sent to the Post Office Department, 
 for a post office at Panora, (the petitioners did not ask for a 
 mail route, as they knew they could not get it,) which was 
 granted, and John Anderson appointed post master. The 
 citizens paid the expenses of carrying the mail, which was 
 done by any person who might be going either way. 
 
l^S IIISTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 The post office was an old straw hat, suspended by a 
 piece of twine from the rafters of the cabin, and when any- 
 one wished to ascertain if the " dear ones left behind" had 
 remembered them, they had only to tip the hat and ex- 
 amine its contents. Mr. Anderson was then living on the 
 Hosier place. 
 
 At the expiration of the year, or in 1853, Judge Bryan 
 was appointed post master, and kept the office at his cabin. 
 Valentine Leinart, a lad of eleven years, carried the mail 
 weekly, to and from Redfield, at twenty-five cents a trip; 
 Richard Gilbert's pet pony " Old Phil," figured in this ex- 
 tensive mail arrangement, as he carried the boy. Valentine 
 was regular and prompt, and understood the responsibility 
 of his position. A little girl one day ran after him, hold- 
 ing a letter in her hand, which she wished him to carry to 
 the office for her mother. " No, sir," said he emphatically ; 
 " you don't come that on me; you take that letter to the 
 post office, and if Tie gives it to me, I'll carry it." 
 
 In 1852 a post office was established in Jackson town- 
 ship, and called Allen, in honor of B. F. Allen, of Des 
 Moines; Hoyt Sherman was then post master at the "Fort," 
 and on the 16th day of August, 1852, J. W. Cummins was 
 commissioned post master. He kept the office at his cabin 
 on the Mount place, until he sold to Mr. Mount in '54, when 
 he resigned and James Mount was appointed. 
 
 After Fairview — since Morrisburg — was located, in 1855, 
 the office was moved there, and James Moore appointed 
 post master; he served a short time, when J. J. Morris was 
 appointed. 
 
 In May, 1856, a post office was established at Guthrie 
 Centre, and Mr. Charles Huxley, the present incumbent, 
 appointed post master. The office was kept in a little log 
 house on the corner of State and Prairie streets, built by Mr. 
 E. B. Newton, and used as a dry goods and grocery store, 
 as well as a tailor shop ; the latter being kept by the post 
 master. 
 
 This office was kept up by private means, the citizens, 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 15^ 
 
 Capt. Seeley, E. B. Newton, Wm. Tracy and Chas. Huxley, 
 hiring a man to carry the mail to and from Allen post office- 
 at Fairview, a distance of thirteen miles. Mr. Huxley car- 
 ried the mail on horseback, when a horse could travel, and 
 upon his own back when the roads were too bad for a 
 horse. 
 
 In July, 1856, a mail route was established from Adel to 
 Magnolia, and the contract for carrying the mail awarded 
 to a Mr. Maddox. This contract was for two years; in the 
 winter of '57, Mr. W. W. Newton, brother to E. B., bought 
 the contract of Mr. Maddox. The next contract (for four 
 years, from July, '58 to July, '62,) was let to Downs & 
 Butler. The next four years (from '62 to ^66,) was let to E. 
 B. Newton. 
 
 Previous to the establishing of a mail route, these offices 
 were supplied weekly; afterward, semi-weekly. There are 
 now twelve post offices in the county, seven of which have 
 daily mails, namely: Stuart, Guthrie, Casey, Dale City, 
 Panora, Guthrie Centre, and Dalmanutha ; while Bear 
 Grove, Dodge, Moffitt's Grove, Tuttle's Grove and Advance, 
 have a weekly, or a semi-weekly mail. 
 
 A little over twenty years ago, a mail route was estab- 
 lished through the county, and the citizens thought it a 
 gigantic stride ( as it was) toward civilization; to-day we 
 can read the morning's " daily," printed at the capital of 
 the State, every morning at breakfast, while those of us 
 who live away from the railroad, can read it at dinner and 
 at tea time. 
 
 NEWSPAPERS. 
 
 THE WESTERN PIONEER — DEMOCRATIC. 
 
 The Western Pioneer was the first newspaper published in 
 the county. It was established at Guthrie Centre, the first 
 issue appearing January 15th, 1856; Wm. Tracy, editor 
 and proprietor. It was printed in a log house 16x18 feet,, 
 the same being occupied by a family of sixteen persons^ 
 
160 HISTORY OF GUTHKIE COUNTY. 
 
 The house stood half a mile west of town. After publish- 
 ing the first number, Mr. Tracy purchased the frame of an 
 old saw mill, moved it up to town, and converted it into a 
 a printing office, where he continued the publication of the 
 Pioneer at odd intervals, for several months, after which it 
 was published regularly as a weekly. It was so cold in the 
 mill, they were obliged to heat the press — so the ink would 
 work — by placing under it, a kettle of burning coals. 
 
 THE GUTHRIE SENTINEL — DEMOCRATIC. 
 
 The first number of this paper was issued January 25th, 
 1856, at Panora, by John E. Parrish, editor and proprietor. 
 It was issued regularly, weekly; was a small sheet 13x20 
 inches. The first five issues (I was shown a file of the 
 papers, which is still in Mr. Parrish's possession,) contain 
 President Pierce's message, being continued from one num- 
 ber to another. 
 
 In November, 1856, Mr. Parrish sold a half interest in the 
 paper to B. F. Dilly. He then purchased of Wm. Tracy, 
 the Western Pioneer and press. In the winter of 1857 he 
 removed both presses to De Soto, Nebraska, where he pub- 
 lished a paper called the Pilot. The " Sentinel " press was 
 afterward removed to Harrison county, Iowa, and the 
 *' Pioneer" press left at De Soto. 
 
 THE GUTHRIE COUNTY GAZETTE — REPUBLICAN. 
 
 This paper was established at Guthrie Centre, in the 
 spring of 1859, by J. B. Beesack, proprietor. In 1861 
 Stephen H. Springer took charge of the paper as editor and 
 proprietor; at the expiration of one year he moved the 
 offi.ce to Panora, where he continued the publication a short 
 time, when he sold out to Mr. Beesack, who removed the 
 *' outfit " to Poweshiek county. 
 
 THE GUTHRIE COUNTY LEDGER — DEMOCRATIC. 
 
 In April, 1861, the Ledger was established at Panora, by 
 'Jf. M. Lahman. S. B. Nichols became a partner, but in a 
 
HISTOEY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 161 
 
 short time sold his interest to P. H. Lenon, who in turn, 
 sold back to V. M. Lahman. In 1S64 D. M. Harris pur- 
 chased the paper and continued its publication until the 
 fall of 1866. when he removed the press to Missouri Valley, 
 Iowa. 
 
 THE GUTHRIE COUNTY NEWS — REPUBLICAN. 
 
 In 1864 S. H. Springer established the News, having pur- 
 chased the press and material at Council Bluffs. In 1865 
 Dr. E. B. Fenn became a partner. In 1866 they sold to A. 
 
 F. Sperry and Frank Baker, who changed the name of the 
 paper to The Guthrie Vedette. Sperry & Barker sold to 
 
 G. W. Cambridge in 1867; and in 1868, Lew Apple, the 
 present editor and proprietor, bought the press and paper. 
 
 THE GUTHRIE CENTRE JOURNAL — REPUBLICAN. 
 
 This paper was started in 1872, by S. H. Springer, who 
 sold out in the fall of 1873. April 18th, 1874, F. A. Mann 
 purchased the half interest in the Journal, owned by Henry 
 Hess, and in conjunction with H. Kautzman, enlarged and 
 changed the Journal to The Beacon Light, issuing the first 
 number of the latter on the 21st of May, following. 
 
 In March, 1875, F. A. Mann purchased the interest owned 
 in the paper by H. Kautzman, and is still its sole editor, 
 and proprietor. 
 
 The paper is now Independent in politics. 
 
 THE STUART LOCOMOTIVE — REPUBLICAN. 
 
 The Locomotive was established in 1871, by H. 0. Hall,, 
 who sold to Capt. Stuart in 1872. Chas. Morris edited the 
 paper, the first year of Mr. Stuart's proprietorship, since 
 which time J. J. Flynn has been its editor. 
 
 THE CASEY UNION — REPUBLICAN. 
 
 This was established in 1870, by E. M. Day. The paper 
 changed hands several times, and finally, in 1872, Mr. Day 
 
162 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 bought back a part of the typo and material, and started 
 The State Granger, which tiourished only a short time. 
 
 THE CASEY CLARION — DEMOCRATIC. 
 
 Hartpence & Marshall, editors and proprietors, estab- 
 lished this paper in 1872, and in June, 1874, sold to Thos. 
 Boydston, who in turn, sold to Ham. Kautzman, the present 
 -editor, in December, 1875. 
 
 THE STUART REGISTER — INDEPENDENT. 
 
 This paper was removed to Stuart from Fontanelle, in 
 October, 1875, by Col. Raney, editor and proprietor, and 
 sold to Chas. R. Wright, in April, 1876. 
 
 CLUB LAW. 
 
 Every new settlement or community not under an organ- 
 ized form of government, has its period of transition from 
 first settlement, to a condition of law and order. Though 
 our old settlers were, with very few exceptions, peaceable 
 and honest men, yet as men will differ in their opinions of 
 right and wrong, it was thought best to follow the example 
 •of other counties in the State, and make laws whereby they 
 mi^ht protect themselves against speculators and others, 
 who might be disposed to dispute their claims. 
 
 As there are some who do not understand the laws gov- 
 erning the first settlement of these lands, I will explain 
 as explicitly as possible their main features. 
 
 The pre-emption Act, passed by Congress, for the benefit 
 •of those settling upon government lands, provided that the 
 heads of families should each have the right to take one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land, and by living upon it, the 
 ■same should be exempt from entry for the period of twelve 
 months from and after date of first settlement. 
 
 "Claim Laws" were enacted by the people for mutual 
 protection, and gave to each head of a family the right to 
 claim S20 acres of land. If a man wished to make a claim 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 163 
 
 he was obliged to build bim a habitation of some sort, 
 usually of logs, or if accessible, rails, j)ut up cob-house 
 fashion, and stay in it one night. He could then file his 
 intentions to make a claim, with the officers of the Club. 
 
 In order to retain his claim, the settler must not be absent 
 at any one time to exceed six months; if he remained 
 longer away his claim could be "jumped" by another, who 
 wished to become a bona-fide resident. 
 
 It was expected by these claim holders that at the expi- 
 ration of the pre-emption period, the land would be o^^ened 
 for entry, by the Government. However, before it was 
 opened for entry, it was offered for sale to the highest bid- 
 der; if any man failed to prove his pre-emption, another 
 might bid over him. This, in most cases, would have 
 been financial ruin, but the club prevented such disaster. 
 The Government allowed the Claim-holder 160 acres, and 
 the Club allowed him 320 acres, so it must defend his right 
 to the other 160 until he could enter it ; by which time it was 
 expected he would have the requisite sum " saved up." It 
 cost him about 81,00 to pre-empt; then he saved the entry 
 price by pennies and dimes; dollars were scarce in those 
 days. For a vault, some of them used an old stocking; 
 others the little tin savings bank, usually possessed by the 
 little ones of the household. 
 
 All claim-holders were members of the club, and they 
 elected a committee of five, and adopted such rules and 
 regulations as to them seemed necessary for their protec- 
 tion. All violations of the rules were promptly reported to 
 the committee, who at once called a meeting and notified 
 the Clan of time and place of holding such meeting, and 
 they turned out to a man. 
 
 The old settlers of Polk County organized a club in 1848, 
 and the rules and regulations adopted by this organization 
 were afterwards adopted by Dallas and Guthrie counties. 
 
 To the Hon. Thos. Mitchell, of Polk County, who was a 
 member of the Club of that County, I am indebted for a 
 copy of the following 
 
164 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 RESOLUTIONS : 
 
 1st. Resolved, That we will protect all persons who do, 
 or may hold claims, against the interference of any person 
 or persons who shall attempt to deprive such claim holders 
 of their claims and improvements by pre-emption, or oth- 
 erwise. 
 
 2nd. Resolced, That we will, in all cases, discountenance 
 the speculator, or other person, who shall thus attempt any 
 innovation upon the homes of the rightful settlers; that we 
 will not hold fellowship with such person, and that he be 
 regarded as a nuisance in the community. 
 
 3rd. Resolved, That no person shall be allowed to pre- 
 empt, or purchase in any form from Government, any land, 
 which shall be held as a claim, unless he shall first obtain 
 the consent of the claimant. 
 
 4th. Resolved, That the filing of an intention to pre- 
 empt any claim, contrar}^ to the rights of the settler, or 
 claimant, be regarded as an attempt, wrongfully, to deprive 
 the citizen of his home and his claim. 
 
 5th. Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed, 
 and that it shall be their duty to inquire into and adjust all 
 diflSculties and contentions in cases where claims are in 
 dispute. 
 
 6th. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of said committee 
 to notify any person who shall pre-empt, or attempt to do 
 so by filing his intention to pre-empt the claim of any other 
 person, to leave the vicinity and country, and that they have 
 authority to enforce, a compliance with said notice. 
 
 7th. Resolved, That we will sustain and uphold said 
 committee in decisions, and in the discharge of all their du- 
 ties, as defined in the foregoing resolutions. 
 
 8th. Resolved, That all persons be invited to sign the 
 foregoing resolutions, and that the signers pledge them- 
 selves to be governed by the same, and to aid in sustaining 
 the same. 
 
 The above resolutions, as before stated, were adopted 
 by the Guthrie County Club. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 165 
 
 There were very few cases in tliis county where complaint 
 was made to the committee, for as a sjeneral thing, the rules 
 of the Club were better observed by the pioneers than were 
 Legislative Enactments. 
 
 When it became necessary for the committee to use very 
 stringent measures in adjusting disputes, it was called, 
 " Raising the Club." 
 
 One instance is related by old settlers in which the Club 
 was raised in a very peaceable manner, or rather in which 
 shrewd measures were taken to avoid the necessity of rais- 
 ing the Club. When the auction sale of land took place at 
 Des Moines, there were two or three speculators awaiting a 
 chance to bid on some choice land in Guthrie, that was 
 " claimed." To prevent this, members of the Club invited 
 them to take a ride down below the Fort, which invitation 
 they accepted, and were kept there until the sale closed. 
 
 The land in this part of the State was surveyed in 1850, 
 and opened for entry in 1S51. 
 
 On the 30th day of June, 1851, William B. Cave entered 
 the N. E. i of the N. E. i of Sec. 13, and S. E. i of the N. 
 E. i, and the E. iof the S. E. i of Sec. 12, all in township 
 78 north. Range 30 west, 5th P. M. This was the first land 
 entered in Guthrie County. 
 
 The second entry was made by one Samuel Carpenter, a 
 soldier of the war of 1812; who laid an 80 acre warrant on 
 lots 7 and 10, Sec. 2, T. 78, R. 30. 
 
 Some of the first settlers, at times had considerable anx- 
 iety with regard to their lands, and it required some watch- 
 ing to guard them. Among those who settle any new coun- 
 try, there is always found a class who come for a time, 
 " squat " on, or even enter a piece of land and exist — usu- 
 ally by trapping and hunting — until the march of civiliza- 
 tion drives them further west; of course Guthrie county had 
 a few of this class, among whom was one Ingraham who 
 had bought 40 acres of land, near Guthrie Centre. Next to 
 him was a very fine piece, which he coveted, but the 
 land being entered by a non-resident, and he not having 
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166 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 the wherewith to purchase, thought he would obtain the 
 same by strategy. He removed the corner stakes, carried 
 them down near Panora and exchanged them for another 
 set; that is, he put the stakes he had removed from the cov- 
 eted piece, in the place of those belonging to another, which 
 had not been entered, and vice versa, thinking thus to keep 
 purchasers away until he had saved up money enough to 
 buy the land; but he "counted w^ithout his host." Mr. E. 
 B. Newton, who knew the "run" of the sections, discovered 
 the fraud, and Ingraham was compelled to " change back," 
 after which he left for parts unknown. 
 
 Another story is told of one Rosecrans, who, when he 
 wished to enter a certain tract of land in the eastern part of 
 the county, and not being able to read the numbers, pulled 
 up a corner stake, and taking it under his arm, walked to 
 Des Moines, and marched boldly into the Land Office, ex- 
 plaining to the Agent that he "wanted the land where that 
 stake belonged." The Agent explained to him the nature 
 and penalty of his act, but in pity to his ignorance, prom- 
 ised not to have him punished, if he would carry back the 
 stake and put it where it belonged. Glad to escape so eas- 
 ily, but trembling at the thought of coming so near the 
 Penitentiary, he did not let grass grow under his feet, in re- 
 placing that stake. 
 
 This is the same man of whom Mr. E. B. N. afterward 
 purchased a farm, or rather a piece of land. Mr. R. told 
 him to come down on a certain day, and they would go to 
 the " Squires " and have a deed made out, and they would 
 sign it. " Now look a here, ole man," interposed his wife, 
 " wa'ts the use a foolin Mr. N. down here ? I won't sign the 
 deed; you Tinom I wont." "Yes you will, by G — d; you 
 know you will," roughly replied the husband. At the ap- 
 pointed time all parties put in an appearance at the office 
 of the justice — said office being a little cabin, of course — 
 and Mrs. R. still insisted that she would not sign the deed. 
 The justice remarked that she was evidently there for some 
 purpose, and it seemed to him it would be just as well to 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 167 
 
 sign it at once, if she was going to do so. " Well, I'll not 
 sign it without a new drjess any how," was the diplomatic 
 reply. Upon being promised the dress, she was quite will- 
 ing to •' make her mark." 
 
 JUDGES, COURTS, ETC. 
 
 Guthrie county is in the Forty-ninth Senatorial, the 
 thirty-ninth Representative, the Seventh Congressional and 
 the Fifth Judicial District. It is also in the Second Circuit 
 of the Fifth Judicial District. 
 
 Previous to its organization, Guthrie county was attached 
 to Dallas, for Judicial and Revenue purposes. In 1853 she 
 was added to the Sixth Judicial 3)istrict, of which James 
 Sloan was elected Judge, in 1851; he resigned in 1852, and 
 Allen A. Bradford appointed to fill the vacancy. The latter 
 was elected in 1853, and resigned in 1855, when E. H. Sears 
 was appointed. In 1856 the boundaries of the district were 
 changed, and C. J. McFarland elected Judge. 
 
 In 1858 the boundaries of the district were again changed 
 and: 
 
 J. H. Gray elected October 12, 1858. 
 
 J. H. Gray elected October 14, 1862. 
 
 Died October 14, 1865, and C. C. Nourse appointed Octo- 
 ber 16, 1865; qualified October 20; resigned August 1, 1866, 
 and H. W. Maxwell appointed to fill vacancy August 1st. 
 
 H. W. Maxwell elected August 9, 1866. 
 
 H. W. Maxwell re-elected October 11, 1870. 
 
 John Leonard elected October 13, 1874. 
 
 CIRCUIT JUDGES. 
 
 F. W. Mott was elected in 1868. 
 John Mitchell was elected in 1872. 
 
 John Mitchell was nominated, and will, in all probability, 
 be elected in 1876. 
 
 The first District Court held in the county was in Septem- 
 ber, 1803, Judge A. A. Bradford presiding; clerk, S. G. 
 
168 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Weeks; sheriif, J. W. Cummins. It was held in the Rob- 
 berts House, then belonging to Judge Bryan, though unfin- 
 ished and unoccupied. When the Judge arrived, the 
 County Judge was absent, the sheriff and the clerk were at 
 home, eight or ten miles from Panora, not aware that there 
 would be court. The Judge sent for them, and a jury was 
 called consisting of Richard Gilbert, Asa Cox, Alexander 
 Wasson and Joseph Ricks, the only ones that answered to 
 the call. Two or three defaults were taken and one case 
 tried, that of Dr. Gaff", of Winterset, against A. Moore for 
 professional services. After the case went to the jury, it 
 was compromised by the parties. This was the first law 
 suit in the county, having been previcfusly tried before 
 Justice Hougham; M. L. McPherson for the plaintiff', and 
 Fred Fry for d^^fendant; verdict for the plaintiff". The 
 case was appealed with the above result. At the trial be- 
 fore the Justice, several of the jurors were citizens of Dallas 
 county. 
 
 At the trial before the District Judge, his Honor paid 
 the witness fees. 
 
 Judge Bradford's home was in Sidney, Fremont county ; 
 the district then was bounded on the east by a line run- 
 ning east of Dallas count}^, on the south by the State 
 line, and on the west by the Missouri river. When 
 the Judge came, he drove a mule team and carried 
 his rations with him. He stopped on the prairie, " staked " 
 his mules, ate his lunch, and went up to hold court; while 
 thus engaged, the cattle mutilated his harness to such an 
 extent, as to make it necessary to supply missing parts 
 with rope. 
 
 The next term of the District Court was held in the spring 
 of 1854, at which time the first grand and petit juries were 
 impanneled. The Judge— Bradford— " swore" them upon 
 the bible, compelling every grand juryman to kiss the 
 same. 
 
 The first criminal prosecution was that of William 
 Rhoades and Noah Trogler, for larceny. At a preliminary 
 
mSTOEY OF GUTIIKIE COUNTY. 169 
 
 examination before Justice N. Maynard, of Cass township, 
 Khoades gave bail, but Trogler being unable to do so, was 
 committed to jail in Polk county. 
 
 (I have before me the receipt given to our sheriff, by the 
 sheriff of Polk county, upon his becoming the custodian of 
 our prisoner. It bears no date, and runs as follows, xerha- 
 tim et literatim : 
 
 "Received of the Sheriff of Guthrie county Iowa the 
 boddy of Noah Trogler, upon an order of Nathan Maner 
 Justice of the Peace, in and for Guthrie county Iowa to 
 detain said Trogler in the jail of Polk county Iowa. 
 
 Ft. Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. 
 
 W. H. McHENRY, 
 
 Sheriff Polk County, loioaP 
 
 The above bears no date, but was given in January, 1854. 
 This sheriff is at present a resident of Des Moines. 
 
 At the trial of the above case, Trogler had no counsel, 
 and the court appointed M. L. McPherson to defend him, 
 which he did by quashing the indictment, which charged 
 him of robbing the store of one Edward Serry; whereas, 
 Edward Serry was only the clerk, the store belonging to 
 one Baker. — The indictment was drawn up by an attorney 
 from Council Bluffs, named Pierce. As soon as Trogler 
 was liberated, McPherson took him aside and informed him 
 he was " a poor devil" and advised him to "git," which 
 sage advice he took without hesitation. He died shortly 
 after, on the Des Moines river. 
 
 Rhoades took a change of venue to Cass county. 
 
 The county paid McPherson ten dollars for defending 
 Trogler, which was the first attorney's fee ever paid. 
 
 The above term was held in the school house. An amus- 
 ing incident of this term of court, may interest some of our 
 friends on Beaver. Three old settlers came to see what was 
 going on. It rained very hard as they came into town, and 
 they rode at a break-neck speedy Sheriff Cummins came 
 
170 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 to the door and called their names — wishing them to' serve 
 as jnrors: — being unaccustomed to sncli matters, they sup- 
 posed they were going to be punished "for running their 
 horses;" one of them hid behind the school-house, while 
 the others went in, trembling with affright. The judge could 
 not articulate distinctly, owing to the effects of a pommel- 
 ing he had received at the hands of some land owners, or 
 squatters in Fremont county, where he dealt in real estate. 
 
 As he could not make himself understood by words, he 
 pointed to the prisoner, when one of the men, (now one of 
 our prominent citizens,) who had been called up to be sworn 
 as a juror, but supposed he was being examined as a wit- 
 ness, called out, "I don't know him; I never saw him; I 
 don't know a thing about it." 
 
 The first "trial by jury," was had at this term, being a 
 claim for damages, by M. H. Craig, plaintiff, GriflBn Jack- 
 son, defendant. 
 
 The claim was made in consequence of the shooting, by 
 Jackson's son, of a mare belonging to plaintiff. The wit- 
 nesses were examined, the attornrys argued the case pro 
 and con in elaborate speeches; the judge charged the jury 
 in as able a manner as his " sore jaw " would permit. The 
 jury retired to deliberate and were much chagrined to find 
 upon count, that there were only eleven of them, in conse- 
 quence of tvhich, the jury was discharged by the court. 
 
 Judge Bradford held another term of court in the fall of 
 1854. 
 
 He was very unpopular as a judge; was self-willed and 
 overbearing. On account of the " land trouble " spoken 
 of, he resigned his position and removed to Nebraska, 
 where his pugilistic proclivities again got him into trouble, 
 and he was shot by a member of the " club," whom he was 
 supposed to have defrauded. 
 
 The man was arrested in Nebraska, and taken to Fre- 
 mont county, Iowa, for trial, but for some reason, a change 
 of venue was taken to Guthrie county. The term came on 
 and the prisoner filed his affidavit for change of venue, be- 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 171 
 
 cause, as the petition stated, "the people of Guthrie county 
 are too moral to try a case of this character and mag- 
 nitude." 
 
 In 1855 there were two terms of court held by Judge E. 
 H. Sears, also of Fremont county, who was a gentleman of 
 tine appearance and agreeable manners; presided with dig- 
 nity, and was esteemed by all who knew him. 
 
 The first records now in the county, are of the April 
 term of 1855, those prior to that time, if any existed, were 
 probably destroyed in 1855, when E. Serry, the clerk, blew 
 out his candle and his eye with the same breath. 
 
 In the spring of 1856, Judge J. C. McFarland — the noto- 
 rious — held his first term of court in our county. The 
 liquor question seems to have been a very important one, 
 under his regime. 
 
 His first charge to the grand jury was some thing like 
 this: " Gentlemen; we have in Iowa, a prohibitory liquor 
 law, and that law must be obeyed. Some talk of the un- 
 constitutionality of this law; if it is unconstitutional, that's 
 none of your business. If you know of any man in the 
 county who sells without license, indict him and I'll fine 
 him like the devil." 
 
 At this time one Daggart kept a salo(»n in Panora and 
 was indicted by the grand jury, for keeping a nuisance. 
 When McFarland came, in September, to hold court, he, in 
 company with the grand jury, were passing this saloon, 
 when one of them jokingly asked: "Judge, can't you treat 
 us?" "Yes; certainly;" and stepping to the door, he com- 
 manded Mr. Daggart to " let this jury have all they want 
 to drink and charge it to me." He and two or three jury- 
 men went in and drank. 
 
 Shaking his finger at the saloon-keeper, he " encourag- 
 ingly" remarked: "Daggart, if you ever ask me to pay 
 for this, I'll have you indicted, d — n you." Daggart, then 
 under indictment, thought to make his fine lighter by toady- 
 ing to the Court. 
 
172 HISTORY OF GUTIIKIE COUNTY. 
 
 Imagine his surprise then, when, after hearing the case 
 and the verdict of the jury, the judge said: " Mr. Clerk, 
 you will enter a fine of $50 and costs."' Seeing a look of 
 reproach upon Daggart's face, he pointed his finger at him, 
 and with a face and voice full of scorn said: " You have 
 violated the law and must abide the penalt}'. The Court 
 understands herself, and if, — as I said before, — she does 
 some times drink a little, that's none of your business." 
 Previous to this, at the same term, he had fined a man ten 
 dollars for drunkness, and in his charge to the jury, among 
 other things, said: "Every man should be punished for 
 this crime, (drunkness.) The Court herself some times gets 
 a little tight, but j^ou nor the grand jury has any thing to 
 do with that; that is not within your jurisdiction. You 
 will therefore " (he had given his reasons for believing the 
 man drunk) " render a verdict of guilty." 
 
 A man by the name of Wood, who, by the way, was the 
 first white child born in Keokuk, but was then living in Des 
 Moines, used to come up to Panora with the Judge, pick 
 up a case when he could, or in the absence of the District- 
 Attorney, act in his stead. He went by the euphonious 
 sobriquet of " Old Timber." The judge and he were good 
 friends, but in his gruff way, especially when intoxicated, 
 (and that was not infrequently) His Honor, handled him a 
 little roughly. 
 
 Upon one occasion a petition for judgment on a note of 
 hand, came up for hearing and Timber demurred. In a 
 very peremptory manner, the judge overruled the demurrer; 
 said he: "Timber, sit down; I overrule the demurrer." 
 Mr. Wood looked up in amazement, when he again shouted, 
 " Timber, sit down, d — n you! or Til fine you for contempt." 
 After adjournment Mr. Wood sought an explanation of the 
 Court's treatment. "Why, confound you, if you'd demurred 
 against the note and not against the petition, I'd knock the 
 whole thing out of court for you." 
 
 The judge's famous charge to the grand jury, at its 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 173 
 
 session in April, 185S, lias been published several times, 
 but will bear repeating. 
 
 After appointing Thomas Roberts foreman, he called him 
 'Squire. Just able to hold up his head, his tongue loth to 
 perform its wonted task, he began; "Gentlemen of the 
 Grand Jury: (hie) you will find the law of Iowa (hie) in the 
 laws of — (hie) of — of Iowa. It is your duty, gentlemen, to 
 see that the said law is not — (hie) not — vi'lated (nodding). 
 You are made, (hie) gentlemen, a body to enquire into 
 every (hie) breach of the — (hie) — the law, and to do this is 
 your sworn — sworn — sworn duty. 'Squire, you will indict'" 
 — seeing the jury and every body else ready to laugh, he 
 finished as hurriedly as his " tired condition " would allow. 
 in this lucid strain: 'Squire, you will — (hie) — you will 
 indict every body in the (hie) world, except this court. Mr. 
 Clerk, you will let the 'Squire have — (hie) — have all the 
 books in the world. You will retire, gentlemen, to your — 
 (hie) — Adjourn court, Mr. — (hie) — Mr. Sheriff, to — one — 
 o'clock," and his head, unable to keep its "balance,' 
 dropped upon his breast. 
 
 The next thing in order was to put the Court to bed, until 
 she " sobered off." 
 
 This term of court was held in the Presbyterian church, 
 which then stood east of the square. 
 
 Judge McFarland's home was in Boonsboro. In politics 
 he was strongly democratic. 
 
 He was chosen a delegate to the Cincinnati convention, 
 which nominated James Buchanan for President, in June, 
 1856, and took an active part in the campaign following the 
 nomination. In a speech at Newton, he held up his right 
 hand saying, " There, gentlemen, is the hand that drew the 
 Cincinnati Platform." If there was honor in that let him 
 have it. 
 
 In physique and appearance he was remarkably tine; he 
 was a man of scholarly attainments, and possessed of a 
 warm and generous heart, but the destroyer of so much 
 that is good and noble in man, clouded his better nature, 
 
174 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 leaving prominent only his coarser self; but in the language 
 of one of his friends: "Whatever may have been his 
 faults, we will call them eccentricities, and kindly draw the 
 veil of charity over them." 
 
 The first resident attorney in the county was Isaac Par- 
 rish, who was appointed District Attorney in 1855. About 
 the same time came B. F. Dilly, a protege of Mr. Parrish. 
 Next came Col. Nichols, W. L. Henderson, and Charles 
 Haden. The latter gentleman will no doubt recollect his 
 first ofSce in the famous first treasury building, over Good- 
 speed's store. B. T. H., not having seen the "new lawyer" 
 for several days, was anxious to know what had become of 
 him; so he went into the store one day, and, being a little 
 deaf himself, talked — as deaf people are apt to do — a little 
 louder than was necessary for ordinary hearers. " Zinn," 
 said he, "what's become of that long-legged lawyer?" 
 "Oh! he's around somewhere." "I hear he knocks the 
 socks off the boys." " The boys," being some of the other 
 lawyers. The long-legged attorney was in the attic and 
 heard the conversation, and some body had to treat, of 
 course. 
 
 COUNTY OFFICERS. 
 TREASURERS. 
 
 T. M. Boyles was elected in August, 1851; resigned Feb- 
 ruary 9, 1852. 
 
 M. Leinart appointed March 29, 1852; settled September 
 9, 1852. 
 
 Nathan Maynard, elected August, 1852; resigned June 6, 
 1853. 
 
 Wm. Jones, appointed September 22, 1853. 
 
 John H, Miller, elected in August 1854, resigned October 
 15, 1854. 
 
 Lew Harvout, appointed October 15, 1854. 
 
 Frank Revelle, elected in April, 1855, resigned June 4, 
 1855. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 175 
 
 Thos. Seely, appoined June 5, 1S55. 
 
 T. Bryan, elected August, 1855; died November 13, 1856. 
 
 W. L. Henderson appointed to fill the unexxnred term. 
 
 J. T. Mount, elected August, 1857; took possession No- 
 vember 4, 1857, and died November 19, 1857. 
 
 W. L. Henderson,, appointed November 5, 1857; served 
 to October, 1858. 
 
 B. T. Hook, elected October, 1858; re-elected October, 
 1859. 
 
 T. E. Harbor, elected October, 1861; served three terms 
 or 6 years. 
 
 G. W. Harlan, elected October, 1867. 
 
 Jos. Kenworthy, elected October, 1869. 
 
 E. J. Reynolds, elected October, 1871, and is serving his 
 third term. 
 
 Previous to 1855 the salary of the treasurer was $50 per 
 annum. In 1855-6 it $150. In 1857, $300. In 1862, $1,500. 
 
 The first treasurer's office was his residence, and the first 
 safe, his pants pocket. When the office attained the dig- 
 nity of a separation from domestic scenes, it was kept in 
 the attic or loft over Goodspeed's store. This was reached 
 by means of a ladder, and was so low, that an ordinary 
 sized man could not stand erect in it. 
 
 There is a dispute as to what constituted the treasury 
 vault. Some say it was the treasurer's hat, others say it 
 was the old ballot box, while a third party assert that it 
 was an old trunk; as far as the fire and burglar proof qual- 
 ities are concerned, I think one would have been as good 
 as the others. 
 
 The building is the one now occupied by A. Fountain as 
 a residence. 
 
 In 1856 the treasurer's office was moved to the house of 
 Mrs. Betsey Harris, then a hotel, and kei)t in a " general" 
 sleeping room, to which they boys gave the cheerful name 
 of "The Potter's Field." 
 
 The Outhrie Sentinel, by J. E. Parrish, was published in 
 this room. 
 
176 inSTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Upon the resignation of T. M. Boyles, first treasurer, it 
 was necessary to make a settlement; it was found that he 
 had collected the total amount of $18.50, and his vouchers 
 amounted to the same. During Boyles' administration, the 
 first marriage license was issued by Judge Bryan, on the 
 30th of March, 1852, to Michael Meg^inger and Lucinda 
 Casteel. 
 
 In those days the candidate for matrimonial happiness 
 paid the treasurer one dollar, for which he got a receipt; 
 upon presentation of this receipt, to the county judge, he 
 received his license ;'that is, if his examination by the judge 
 was satisfactory to that worthy. 
 
 About the first business Mr. Leinart did as treasurer, was 
 the issuing of an order for marriage license to Israel Yan- 
 deventer and Rachael Moore. He was standing upon a 
 log, chopping, when Mr. Y. came up and inquired: "Are 
 you the treasurer?" "Yes, sir." "Well, come to the 
 house, I've business with you." "All right, sir; what can I 
 do for you?" " Well, the fact of it is, I want to get mar- 
 ried, and I want an order on the judge." "All right again, 
 if you've got your dollar." 
 
 What do you think of that way of doing business. Cen- 
 tennial young gentlemen? 
 
 One young man wanted to get his license on credit; this the 
 treasurer, at first, refused to grant, but finally, taking pity 
 on the poor fellow, gave him the necessary receipt; true 
 love in his case didn't " run smooth," and he was not mar- 
 ried for several weeks. In the mean time he had earned 
 the (to him) mighty dollar, by trapping and hunting. 
 
 Upon the settlement of county oflicers, on September 9, 
 1852, in view of the depressed state of the county finances, 
 they all agreed to give to the county, the amount due them, 
 for services to the same, except such sum as they might 
 have in their pockets at the time. The treasurer had in his 
 pocket the enormous sum of $5 which he had collected, and 
 which was the amount of salary retained by him, for his 
 six months service. 
 
HISTORY OF C4UTimiE COUNTY. 177 
 
 SHERIFFS. 
 
 Michael Messinger, elected in August, 1851. 
 
 J. W. Cummins, elected in August, 1853. 
 
 James Cline, elected August, 1855. 
 
 Levi Brumbaugh, elected August, 1857; failed to serve 
 his term out, and P. Roberts appointed, but resigned in a 
 short time, and Wm. Holsman was appointed to fill va- 
 cancy. 
 
 Wm. Holsman was elected August, 1858. 
 
 E. A. Porter was elected October, 1861. 
 
 Wm. Holsman, elected October, 1863. 
 
 J- W. Cummins, elected October, 1865. 
 
 J. W. Cummins, elected October, 1867. 
 
 T. Turner, elected October, 1869. 
 
 M. McDonald, elected October, 1871. 
 
 M. McDonald, elected October, 1873. 
 
 James McMillan, elected October, 1875. 
 
 COUNTY JUDGES. 
 
 T. Bryan was elected August, 1851. 
 
 T. Bryan was elected August, 1853; resigned in 1854. 
 
 James Henderson appointed to fill vacancy. 
 
 James Henderson, elected August, 1855. 
 
 Aaron Hougham, elected August, 1857. 
 
 T. E. Harbor, elected August, 1859. 
 
 James Berry, elected October, 1861. 
 
 Thomas Moffitt, elected October, 1863. 
 
 Howard Brown, elected October, 1865. 
 
 Wm. Elliot, elected October, 1867. 
 
 In 1868 the office of Auditor was created by the Legisla- 
 ture and that of County Judge annulled. 
 
 Wm. Elliott, being County Judge, was ex-officio the 
 County Auditor, but failing to serve his term out, Wm. 
 Ivers was appointed to fill the vacancy. 
 
 E. Mount was elected in 1869. 
 
 Joshua Prior, was elected in 1871. 
 
178 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 H. K. Dewey, was elected in 1873. 
 H. K. Dewey, was elected in 1875. 
 
 COUNTY CLERKS. 
 
 Silas G. Weeks was elected August, 1851. 
 
 Ed. Serry, was elected August, 1853. 
 
 Ed. Serry, was elected August, 1855; resigned in the 
 summer of '56, and Wm. Tracy appointed; served one 
 montli. 
 
 Wheelis was elected in 1857; committed suicide, and 
 
 Theo. Parrisli appointed November, 1858. 
 
 J. P. McEwen, elected October, 1860. 
 
 Tlieo. Parrisb, elected October, 1862. 
 
 Wm. Maxwell, elected October, 1864. 
 
 Wm. Maxwell, elected October, 1866. 
 
 C. W. Hill, elected October, 186S. 
 
 C . W. Hill, elected October, 1870. 
 
 C. W. Hill, elected October, 1872. 
 
 C. W. Hill, elected October, 1874. 
 
 Clerk Wheelis tried to cut his throat with a razor, but he 
 didn't cut deep enough (perhaps the razor was dull), so he 
 took strychnine and finished the work. 
 
 In the winter of 1855 Edward Serry kept his office in a 
 little log building, w^hich stood on the east side of the 
 Square, on what is now a vacant lot belonging to Colonel 
 Nichols, where he also kept a general store, including 
 whisky, which, in winter, he sold by the pound, chopping 
 it out with a hatchet (this latter commodity would scarcel}^ 
 have accommodated the old settlers, who, before starting 
 on a trip across the prairies, poured whisky in their boots, 
 to keep their feet from freezing). 
 
 Serry may have kept his powder dry, but he certainly 
 did not keep it in a very safe place, or perhaps a better 
 statement w^ould be, that he didn't sleep in a very safe 
 place. He slept upon his counter, beneath which, stood a 
 keg of powder. It was his habit to spend some time in 
 reading, after he had retired to rest on his counter — bed* 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUZ^TY. 179 
 
 One night after having been thus engaged, he blew out his 
 candle, and a spark went into the keg of powder. Instan- 
 taneously the roof parted and Serry was blown a distance 
 of sixty feet. In an instant he jumped up, his clothes 
 burned entirely off him, and one eye gone, and ran to the 
 well for water to extinguish the flames, calling at tLe top of 
 his voice, " Save the books, boys, save the books." He 
 afterwards went to Sioux City where he died. .The build- 
 ing has been repaired and moved to the south side of town 
 where it is used as a residence. 
 
 I believe there has nothing very [dreadful befallen any of 
 the other Clerks. 
 
 J. P. McEwen went to Ohio, several years ago, was mar- 
 ried and has settled down on a nice farm, where he is 
 happy and contented, and we can but hope that our loss is 
 the Captain's gain. Brave in war; gentle, yet manly, in 
 peace; in friendship, true, generous and warm-hearted; 
 steadfast in principle, even to stubbornness; self-sacrificing, 
 — refusing military and other preferment, that his friends 
 might profit thereby — intelligent, social and refined; and 
 noble in all things, he is truly a desirable citizen and neigh- 
 bor, and we regret that he left us. 
 
 RECORDERS. 
 
 Previous to 1864 the Treasurer was also the Recorder. 
 His duality was acknowledged by his having to give sep- 
 arate bonds as such officers. In 1864 the office of Recorder 
 was made separate and distinct from that of Treasurer, and 
 Chas. Haden was elected first Recorder. 
 
 Howard Brown, elected in 1866. 
 Godfrey Jerue, elected in 1868. 
 . Godfrey Jerue, elected in 1870. 
 Benjamin Levan, elected in 1872. 
 James H. Rogers, elected in 1874. 
 James H. Rogers, nominated in 1876. 
 The first deed on record is from J. C. Culbertson and 
 
180 HISTOKY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 wife to Benjamin Marlenee and the first mortgage to school 
 Fund. 
 
 SUPERVISORS. 
 
 The Board of Supervisors was created by the Legisla- 
 ture, March 22, 1860; took effect July 4, 1860. The first 
 Board in Guthrie County was organized January 7, 1861, 
 and was composed of the following named gentlemen : 
 
 Thomas M. Coleman, from Beaver township. 
 Nathan Davis, from Bear Grove township. 
 Joseph Dyson, from Cass township. 
 Thomas Seely, from Centre township. 
 Isaac H. Sutton, from Dodge township. 
 A. Littlejohn, Irom Highland township. 
 Jesse B. Moore, from Jackson township. 
 S. H. Hammond, from Orange township. 
 Collin Marshall, from Penn township. 
 D. B. Reese, from Thompson township. 
 
 Theodore Parrish, Clerk of District Court, ex-officio Clerk 
 of the Board of Supervisors.' 
 
 As will be seen, we had one Supervisor from each town- 
 ship; in 1870 the system was somewhat modified, by reduc- 
 ing the number to three, from the county at large. 
 
 Members of the present Board are, T. M. Coleman, Wm. 
 Anderson and W. S. Mount. These gentlemen are all 
 prominent and much respected citizens. 
 
 Mr. Coleman, besides being prominent in the affairs of 
 the county, is well known as a man of more than ordinary 
 literary ability. His writings reveal a mind uncontam- 
 inated by contact with the world, and we know he has at 
 heart the best interests of the people. 
 
 Mr. Anderson is a prominent citizen of Thompson town- 
 ship, a well-to-do farmer, and his highest aim is not the 
 accumulation of broad acres, but the cultivation and devel- 
 opment of a good farm and the making of a liome, in the 
 true sense of the word. 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 181 
 
 Mr. Mount, we claim as one of Guthrie's children, as he 
 has been brought up here. He enlisted at the age of nine- 
 teen and served four years in the late war. 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
 
 In 1875 Col. S. D. Nichols was elected State Senator, 
 and is the first and only Senator Guthrie county has had. 
 
 In 1854 Judge T. Bryan was elected to represent this dis- 
 trict in the Senate, but his election was contested by Mr. 
 Jordan, of Polk county. The Legislature was in favor of 
 Bryan's taking the seat, but as there was some chicanery in 
 counting the votes, he refused to accept it. 
 
 Our first Representative was Dr. E. B. Fenn, who rep- 
 resented us in 1864. 
 
 Wm. H. Campbell, represented us in 1870. 
 
 Wm. Maxwell, in 1872. 
 
 H. F. Cardell, in 1874. 
 
 G. J. Maris, in 1876. 
 
 The above dates are the years in which the Legislature 
 held its sessions; each Representative was elected the year 
 previous to that in which the session was held. 
 
 The most remarkable thing I recall in the Representative 
 career of these worthies, is in the case of Dr. Fenn. A 
 young and handsome lady of Des Moines was sent to the 
 Capitol to deliver to a gentleman a verbal invitation to a 
 little social gathering. She delivered the message to our 
 Representative, when upon some remark by him, she dis- 
 covered he was not the gentleman she sought. She made a 
 saucy apology by saying she had been instructed to invite 
 the homliest man in the House. 
 
 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. 
 
 From Tattle's History, I condense the following, in rela- 
 tion to the Constitutional Convention, as being of especial 
 interest to Guthrie county, as one of the prominent workers 
 in that body was Capt. Thomas Seely, who represented 
 Guthrie, Dallas and Polk counties. 
 12 
 
182 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 "The Fifth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, met at 
 Iowa City, and commenced its regular session on the 4th 
 day of December, 1854. At this session an act was passed 
 for the revision of the constitution of the State, and pro- 
 vided for an election on the first Monday in August, 185G, 
 for taking a vote of the people for, or against, the constitu- 
 tion. The result of the election was a majority of 18,628 
 in favor of holding the convention and carrying out the 
 law. 
 
 An election for delegates was held in November. 1856, 
 and the Convention met at Iowa City on the 19th of Jan- 
 uary, 1857. The clause in the old constitution, limiting 
 State indebtedness, and also the one prohibiting banking, 
 were stricken out by the Convention. A State Board of 
 Education was created, the office of Lieutenant-Governor, 
 and a grant of privileges of banking to corporations. 
 
 On the 3d day of August, 1857, the constitution was sub- 
 mitted to the voice of the people, at an election held on 
 that day, and the result was a majority of 1,630 for the 
 constitution, and the same took effect by proclamation of 
 the Governor, on the third day of September, 1857." 
 
 CONGRESSMEN. 
 
 From the District in which Guthrie is situated: 
 
 From 1851-1853, Bernhart Henn, of Fairfield. 
 
 From 1853-1855, Bernhart Henn, of Fairfield. 
 
 From 1855-1857, Augustus Hall, of Keosaqua. 
 
 From 1857-1859, Samuel R. Curtis, of Keokuk. 
 
 From 1859-1861, SamuelR. Curtis, of Keokuk; resigned 
 and went to the army and James F. Wilson elected to fill 
 vacancy. 
 
 From 1863-1865, Jno. A. Kasson, of Des Moines. 
 
 From 1865-1867, Jno. A. Kasson, of Des Moines. 
 
 From 1867-1869, G. M. Dodge, of Council Bluffs. 
 
 From 1869-1871, F. W. Palmer, of Des Moines. 
 
 From 1871-1873, F. W. Palmer, of Des Moines. 
 
 From 1873-1875, Jno. A. Kasson, of Des Moines. 
 
HISTOHY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 183 
 
 THE FIRST REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, 
 
 In Guthrie county, was held March 15, 1856, of which 
 Richard Gilbert was chairman, and Charles Campbell, sec- 
 retary The County Committee appointed was: Jackson 
 township, J. W. Cummins; Bear Grove, Thomas Seely; 
 Dodge, Thos. Moffitt; Cass, S. E. Zinn and A. Trout. B. 
 T. Hook was nominated for School Fund Commissioner, 
 and was elected at the spring election. At that time there 
 were two elections a year. 
 
 COUNTY SEAT AND COURT HOUSE. 
 
 At the June session, 1853, of the County Court, it was 
 ordered that a court house be built, and the funds arising 
 from the sale of lots be appropriated to pay the expenses 
 of the same. The contract was let, but the project was not 
 carried out. 
 
 The first Monday in April, 1859, a vote was taken to re- 
 move the county seat from Panora to Guthrie Centre, (the 
 argument of the latter place being its central location) 
 which resulted in a majority of 18 for Panora. The same 
 year the court house was built at a cost of $2,400. 
 
 At the April election in 1860, another vote was taken to 
 remove the county seat to Guthrie Centre, and the result was. 
 a majority of 20 in favor of the latter place. Here it remained 
 two years, when, in April, 1862, it was voted back to Pa- 
 nora by a majority of 57. 
 
 In 1870 a vote was taken for its re-removal to Guthrie Cen- 
 tre, which failed of its object. This, however, was accom- 
 plished in 1873, and Guthrie Centre is still the seat of jus- 
 tice. The jail was built in 1868, at a cost of $4,400; it is 
 30x20, two stories high; first story of stone, three cells and 
 a hall; the upper story of brick, is fitted up for a residence 
 for the jailor. 
 
 The importance of the result of the elections in the county 
 seat fight was so great as to cause considerable excitement 
 and some feeling among the adherents of the rival towns. 
 
164 HISTORY OF CrTIIRIE COUNTY. 
 
 They had some sport too. At the election of 1860 both 
 parties had prepared bonfires, hired anvils and anticipated 
 a jollification. Centre "jubilated " in earnest, and Panora 
 to make herself believe she was not disappointed. 
 
 As soon as the result of the election was announced by 
 the Board, the Centerites, anxious to take possession of 
 their long-sought but newly found treasure, came over in 
 full force, with a carriage in which to convey the Judge,. 
 (Harbor) a "ten ox team " and wagon for the safe, and a 
 procession, a dozen "wagons strong," to give dignity to the 
 occasion. Returning, they met a reinforcement of five yoke 
 of oxen, which were attached to the wagon containing the 
 safe, making a team of twenty oxen. They marched tri- 
 umphantly into Centre and deposited the safe in a building 
 prepared for its reception by E. B. Newton. Buildings for 
 the different county offices were furnished by the citizens, 
 free of charge. 
 
 A great many laughable incidents are connected with these 
 contests, one or two of which I may be permitted to relate. 
 An old gentleman was sent over to Centre to see that the 
 ballot box was not stufted nor tampered with. The "boys" 
 enticed him, with the one thing dear to his stomach, and 
 too frequent indulgence in the same, prevented his return- 
 ing in time to deposit his own vote. The next morning he 
 was taken to task "for not getting in in time to vote.'' 
 " What was you doing ? AVhy didn't 3^ou come back ?" 
 
 The old man had one stiff finger, which did duty in clean- 
 ing out his old pipe, which operation he was performing 
 when the question was put. Ramming his finger down into 
 the pipe, and boring vigorously, he replied : " Gad, I was 
 watching the movements of the boys." 
 
 The crowd thought the joke so good, they forgave him 
 the loss of his vote. 
 
 When the county seat was returned to Panora in 18C2, 
 the waters were so high, a raft had to be built, upon which 
 to float the safe across the river. It was now Centre's time 
 to " feel bad;" and it appears their man didn't succeed any 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 185 
 
 Ibetter in " keeping watch of the movements of the boys" 
 than did the Panora man. 
 
 Mr. S n will remember his midnight ride — almost 
 
 equal to Paul Revere's — when he and his friend rushed fran- 
 tically over to Casey, to get some tickets printed. Return- 
 ing at midniglit, cloudy, and as dark as Egypt, they were 
 lost on the prairie, and stumbling accidentally upon a sign 
 post, they sought information from it, but alas, it was too 
 dark to see the board. They lighted matches, but the wind 
 blew them out. What could they do? "Lost; 'lection 
 coming off to-morrow, no tickets for distribution, oh my!" 
 They were desperate. A happy thought struck Mr. S. "I 
 have it; I'll climb the post, and one single Hash of a match 
 will show me where we are. Elated almost beyond control 
 he started up with the agility of a squirrel, but when he was 
 about half way up, he came down with the tliumx) of a bear; 
 he had over-estimated the strength of the post, or else un- 
 derestimated his own weight, but no difference, the result 
 was the same. As he lay there upon his back, wondering 
 whether it were best to get up or lie still, his — his — well, his 
 tlioughts " were not loud but deep." 
 
 Happily they returned before it was time to open the 
 polls, and now Mr. S. believes inforeordination. This ride 
 was taken in the interest of the last contest. 
 
 In Feb., 1876, by a vote of the people, it was decided to 
 devote two-thirds of the Swamp Land Fund to the building 
 of a court house. This is now under contract, will be built 
 of brick, and will cost, when finished, 822,000. 
 
 The Assembly of 1855 attached Carroll County to our 
 county for civil purposes, and called it Carroll township. 
 Its first election was held the 2nd of April, at the residence 
 of Henry Copeland. In August the township was author- 
 ized by Judge Henderson to elect its own county officers, 
 and Guthrie's jurisdiction over her ceased. 
 
 In July, 1855, under act of the Legislature, Guthrie county 
 commenced the sale of spirituous liquors, and John Bob- 
 lett was appointed first agent, giving a bond of $1,000. The 
 
186 HISTORY OF GITTimiE COUNTY. 
 
 county furnished $60, to which the agent added 820 more,, 
 and purchased one barrel of whisky, one keg of brandy 
 and one keg of wine. During his agency of six months, 
 the profits on the sale of liquors were $30, and his commis- 
 sion amounted to the same. This was not profitable to the 
 county, so J. J. Owen was appointed. Mr. Owen first es- 
 tablibhed himself in an old smoke house, on the Alex. 
 Wasson place, but afterward moved up to town. It 
 seems this agent was not very scrupulous in his sales, nor 
 in the quantity of water he mixed with his whisky. 
 
 A man from up country, whom the old settlers v>'ill re- 
 member, bought two gallons of whisky for mechanical pur- 
 poses. After his jug was filled and the whisky paid for, 
 the agent remarked, "Mr. V., I was not aware that you 
 were a mechanic?" '•' 0, yes," said the honest mechanic,. 
 *'I am shaving shingles." 
 
 Seeing the great mistake in establishing this agency the 
 Legislature, in 1856, abolished the same. 
 
 A man by the name of Snow kept a " shop," — a private 
 institution — and, selling contrary to law, his goods were- 
 confiscated, and a receiver by the name of Smith appointed. 
 When the whisky was called for by the county authorities 
 they found Smith had received it so effectually there was. 
 none left for revenue purposes. 
 
 In the early days, it was not considered out of place to 
 drink a little just for the stomach's sake, but some how it 
 very often went to their heads, some times producing bad 
 thoughts. The Rhoades and Trogler affair came about as 
 the incidental result of one of the early marriages, and the 
 accidental result of being able to buy whisky by the buck- 
 etful. 
 
 The foolish and disgusting charivari was then in vogue, 
 and to quiet (?) the rioters, the bride-groom went to the 
 "grocery " and bought a pail full of whisky, gave them a 
 tin cup, and told them to help themselves. While the rest 
 of the " boys " were thus engaged, the robbers broke into 
 Serry's store, and robbed it of $170. 
 
HISTOHY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 187 
 
 PATENTS. 
 
 As the inventive genius of our people must not go unno- 
 ticed, I will give a few of the results of tlie exercise of this 
 faculty. 
 
 In 1868 Hill and Roberts invented the 14-mile gun, for 
 which they secured patents in the United States and 
 France. 
 
 " The principle of this invention is, that a series of pro- 
 jectiles are meshed one with another, like a nest of boxes, 
 each attached to the other by a fuse connected with a charge 
 of powder. At a given distance from the gun the first 
 charge explodes, giving new impetus to the projectile, then 
 the second and third, and so on to the last, the last projec- 
 tile receiving the force of the charge, until it has over- 
 reached the distance in which that of common balls are usu- 
 ally spent." 
 
 In 1872 Wells McCool invented a riding attachment for 
 plows and harrows; in the same year he made an improve- 
 ment on this invention, and also invented a spring bed bot- 
 tom, for each of which he received patents. 
 
 In 1873 he invented a walking gang plow, which is a doub- 
 le stirring plow, that will, with one man and three horses 
 do the work of two men and four horses, thus lightening la- 
 bor and saving expense. 
 
 Previous to the spring of 1854 all the breaking was done 
 by large and clumsy plows with wooden mold boards; 
 finally these were improved upon by using steel mold- 
 boards, but with either, it was necessary to use five or six 
 yoke of oxen. In the spring of '54 Mr. E. B. Newton in- 
 augurated a reform in breaking prairie, by using a new 
 light stirring plow drawn by two horses. 
 
 Until he demonstrated, beyond a doubt that it could be 
 done, his neighbors ridiculed the experiment as likely to be 
 a failure. 
 
 Now we have become so used to improvements, that we 
 are " not surprised at any thing." 
 
ISS HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 In 1800 Mrs. Micluiel Rosebrugli invented and had pat- 
 ented, a bleaching box, said by milliners to be a labor-sav- 
 ing and usefnl invention. 
 
 In 187C Marshall Willy invented and had patented a 
 flexible and adjnstable farm gate. This is adjustable, so 
 as to open or slide over snow-drifts, and to separate small 
 stock from large. 
 
 John Cline invented and patened a bag-filler, for the fill- 
 ing of paper sacks, with groceries, flour, etc., and also for 
 filling grain sacks. The invention consists in a bag-filler 
 which will accomodate itself automatically to diflferent 
 sized sacks, in combination with a pivoted, vertical arm. 
 A stand is attached to the counter, having at its upper end 
 a socket to receive the lower portion of the vertical rod; 
 the upper portion of this vertical rod is removable from 
 the stand; a horizontal arm having at one end prongs, to 
 which one section of the funnel is rigidly secured, and the 
 other end is pivoted in the mortise in the upright rod. 
 There is a flexible section of the funnel, which is pivoted to 
 the upper end of the fixed section by rivets, which allows it 
 to swing outward and upward, thereby accomodating itself 
 to sacks of different sizes. The sack is suspended on a 
 hook attached to the rear end of the fixed section. 
 
 WOMEN OP GUTHRIE. 
 
 When a county, town or city improves rapidly, it is said 
 to have an enterprising, energetic, "go-ahead" class of 
 men at the head of its affairs. This is true, but it is only 
 half the truth. Unless woman stands shoulder to shoul- 
 der with man, uniting her influence and efforts with his, 
 the whole business as well as social world must be at a 
 stand still, to say nothing worse. 
 
 While I appreciate and admire all that is noble and 
 manly in man; acknowledge the superiority of his physical 
 strength; respect his energy and perseverance in business; 
 in short, confess this would be a " queer world " without 
 him, and lonesome, too; yet I do think there is too much 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 189 
 
 exacted of women and too little credit given them for the 
 good they accomplish. 
 
 Show me a farmer who has surrounded himself with broad 
 acres, and I will show you a woman whose industry, tact, 
 and economy have played an important part in winning 
 these same broad acres. Show me a successful man in any 
 business and nine times out of ten I will show you a woman 
 whose judgment and economy have accomplished even more 
 than his own exertions. 
 
 I do not mean by, this, that all men who fail of success 
 have extravagant or ignorant wives: oh, no, in(Jeed. Many 
 a poor, illy clad, worked-to-death, heart-weary wife, treads 
 the domestic tread-mill unceasingly, economizes with patch 
 upon patch, and yet her liege lord does not succeed. 
 
 But where in society, in business, in religion, in politics 
 even, men succeed, nine times out of ten ; could you get at 
 the root of the matter, the first cause as it were, you would 
 find woman a greater help than most men are willing to ac- 
 knowledge. 
 
 Now, my good friends, I am not throwing stones at any 
 of you, I am simply preparing the way for a little just 
 praise of the many good women of Guthrie county. If we 
 have any bad ones, we will kindly draw the veil of silence 
 round them, and prove to you by illustration, that the de- 
 velopment of our beautiful adopted home, Guthrie, is as 
 much due to our women as to our men. 
 
 I ask you to look back upon the revolution in our Con- 
 gregational church society in Stuart, upon the advent of 
 Reverend Mr. Todd. How did he inaugurate a reform ? 
 Mr. Todd, though a gentleman, a thoroughly good man, 
 and an excellent minister, has a looman to help him; a wife 
 whose just appreciation of woman's work, gives her cour- 
 age to be true to her trust. She has had admirable aids in 
 the persons of many of her neighbors, whose willing hands 
 and kind wishes, have seconded her eff'orts to bring harmo- 
 ny and sociality, not only in their own society, but to the 
 people generally. 
 
190 HISTORY OF GUTimiE COUNTY. 
 
 What little band of men, without means, save willing 
 hands and hearts, would have undertaken, as did Mrs. Dixon 
 and a few other ladies, to build a church ? Yes, actually, 
 a church and free reading room, which has been accom- 
 plished in less than a year. How did they pay for it ? 
 With the proceeds of concerts, festivals, mite societies, etc., 
 and to the perseverance, energy and courage of a few wo- 
 men, we are indebted for a free reading room. 
 
 We have a woman at the head of the Methodist Sabbath 
 School, and no man would be a better Superintendent than 
 Mrs. Dr. Beach, or more assiduous in his efforts to educate 
 and elevate the little ones up to a high standard of mor- 
 ality. 
 
 It has been demonstrated that women, as educators, are 
 equal, if not superior to men. Prominent among them is 
 Mrs. J. B. Hatch, who was for several years, previous to 
 her 'removal to Guthrie county, Principal of the public 
 schools of Burlington. She has been a resident of the 
 county several years, during which time she taught school 
 in Casey; conducted Teacher's Institutes, and normal 
 schools. She is also a fine elocutionist, giving readings at 
 different places in the county and State. In whatever field of 
 labor she has been engaged she has distinguished herself, 
 as she excels in all her undertakings. I regret to state the 
 fact that Mrs. Hatch has concluded to leave us, and take up 
 her residence in Des Moines. 
 
 Most prominent among the women who have labored for 
 the recognition of the importance of woman's work is Mrs. 
 Emma W. Harlan. Mrs. Harlan was married at the age 
 of sixteen; came to the county when it was wild and new; 
 is the mother of a large family of children, (eight or nine) 
 and yet she has found time for reflection, and action upon 
 all the important topics of the times. During the war she 
 had the courage to make patriotic speeches — a thing but 
 few women had the courage to do. She was agent for our coun- 
 ty for the Soldier's Orphan's Home. She has, upon several 
 occasions, read the Declaration of Independence for Fourth 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 191 
 
 of July Celebrations, and has found time to prepare and 
 deliver several temperance lectures. Besides all this, she 
 has been a frequent contributor to the newspapers. What 
 man would or could have accomplished more ? A man 
 may accomplish more in one line of business, or one kind 
 of work, than a woman, but I defy men to look after and 
 keep track of as many different things as women do. 
 
 Mrs. Saranda Leinart Young, of Panora, has distin- 
 guished herself by her superior penmanship, pen flourish- 
 ing, pen drawing, etc. She has been a successful teacher of 
 both schools and penmanship; graduated at the Commer- 
 cial College, Des Moines. At her home may be seen speci- 
 mens of her work, which excite the admiration and wonder 
 of the beholder. 
 
 "VYe have in Stuart a genuine poetess, whose lyric num- 
 bers wake many a responsive echo in sympathetic hearts. 
 Though an invalid for many years, scarce able to leave her 
 bed, she possesses the pure and childlike faith that enables 
 her to see good in all things. Confined to her home, her 
 mission is accomplished by reaching the hearts of others 
 through the pen. This lady is Sarah E. Elliott. 
 
 In the very humblest walks of life we find heroism in wo- 
 men, seldom exhibited, under like circumstances, by men. 
 As an instance, we have among us a woman educated in 
 German, French and Latin, who takes in washing to sup- 
 port eight or nine children, that being the only work for 
 which she can receive sufficient remuneration to enable her 
 to keep her family together. I refer to Mrs. Oakes. 
 
 Miss Ida Crockett, one of the teachers in our public 
 schools at Stuart, a beautiful (in the true sense of the word) 
 young lady, who was educated at Englewood, has already 
 distinguished herself as an elocutionist. If one so young 
 and retiring can hold an audience spell-bound now, the 
 world will yet hear of her. 
 
 Our lady teachers are doing a good work for the rising 
 generation. There are so many in the county, we cannot 
 particularize, but their work is so well understood, and their 
 
192 HISTORY OF GUTimiE COUNTY. 
 
 efforts SO generally appreciated that, as a class, they may 
 congratulate themselves as taking the lead in woman's 
 work. 
 
 "VYe have many, very many good women and true, who 
 though but little known outside of their own families, are 
 nevertheless, by their quiet home influence, doing much for 
 the refining of society, the education of the rising genera- 
 tion, and consequently, for the development and improve- 
 ment of our county. Most of our i)ioneer women are 
 found in this latter class, and their children are among our 
 most promising young men and women. Among those 
 whose sensitive, unobtrusive and retiring natures, would 
 forbid the use of their names in print, I take the liberty to 
 mention Mrs. Capt. Seeley. Coming from a home of lux- 
 ury and refinement, to the " western wilds," with its disad- 
 vantages, she has, nevertheless, done a noble work in rear- 
 ing a family of noble, manly boys, and beautiful and 
 intelligent girls. 
 
 A great many men (that means most of them) think and 
 feel, that they are born to command and to plan, and 
 women, to obey and to execute. Perhaps they are, but 
 had I time and s^oace, I think I could disprove this. How- 
 ever, I will not quarrel with you, my big brothers, but 
 simply ask you to give to my sisters, the credit due them, 
 for the work they have done and are doing for Guthrie. 
 
 CENSUS RETURNS. 
 
 The census of 1875 was the thirteenth taken by State 
 authority, and the twenty-first enumeration of the inhabi- 
 tants, of what is now the State of Iowa, by whatever 
 authority made. 
 
 In 1836, under the provisions of the act of Congress, or- 
 ganizing the Territory of Wisconsin, Gov. Henry C. Dodge 
 caused a census of the new Territory to be taken. The 
 population was then 10,531, found in the counties of " De- 
 moine " and Dubuque, creations of the Territorial legisla- 
 ture of Michigan, and comprising all the organized terri- 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 193 
 
 tory north of the northern line of the State of Missouri, 
 from the Mississippi to the Pacific. 
 
 In 1838 the organic act for Iowa Territory, provided for an 
 enumeration thereof. This was taken under the direction 
 of the Governor of the Territory, Hon. Robert Lucas. 
 
 The number of inhabitants was 22,859, more than double 
 the previous census. 
 
 Since this time, the increase has been rather spasmodic, 
 owing to circumstances which always influence immigra- 
 tion. 
 
 The average annual increase, during the Territorial de- 
 cade, was 8,706, or, 82.67 per cent. 
 
 First decade of the State, 42,147, or, 43.19 per cent. 
 
 From 1856 to 1865, 26,183, or, 5.04 per pent. 
 
 During the next decade, 59,584, or 7.89 per cent. 
 
 The present population of the State is 1,350,544. 
 
 The population of Guthrie county at the first enumera- 
 tion : 
 
 In 1851 tvas 223 
 
 In 1853 was 300 
 
 In 1854 was 723 
 
 In 1856 was 2,149 
 
 In 1859 was 2,754 
 
 In 1860 WHS 3,058 
 
 In 1863 was 3,205 
 
 In 1865 was 3,249 
 
 In 1867 was 3,906 
 
 In 1869 was 5,219 
 
 In 1870 was 7,061 
 
 In 1873 was 8,017 
 
 In 1875 was 9,638 
 
 The number of votes cast at the first election in the county,, 
 which was held in 1851, was 39. At the second election: 
 
 In 1852 was 49 
 
 In 1853 was 73 
 
 In 1856 was 261 • 
 
 In 1866 was 799 
 
 In 1875 was 2,239 
 
194 
 
 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Michael Messenger, sheriff of the county, and ex-officio 
 assessor thereof, on the 29th day of May, 1852, made report 
 in relation to taxable property, as follows: 
 
 1360 acres of land entered, valued at $ 3,200.00 
 
 48 liorses, valued at 1,795.00 
 
 284 cattle, valued at 3,214.00 
 
 108 sheep, valued at 134.00 
 
 406 swine, valued at 345.00 
 
 41 vehicles, valued at 1,293.00 
 
 Money and credits 2,363.00 
 
 Household furniture 156.00 
 
 Property not enumerated 447.00 
 
 Total ^12,947.00 
 
 July 26th, 1852, the first levy of tax was made by the 
 county, as follows: For county purposes, (ordinary, in- 
 cluding support of poor,) six mills, making a county fund 
 of $776.00; for schools, one mill, or the sum of $129,47. 
 
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 Coal mines ; No. of banks open in 1874 was 8 ; bands 
 emploj^ed, 25; tons mined, 1183; value of same, 84,155 ; 
 Xo. acres land assessed in the county, is 378,219; reported 
 value per acre, $5.27 ; reported value of lands, $1,993,800, 
 equalized value ; reported value of town lots, $162,142 ; in- 
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 erty, $2,896,941 ; State tax at two mills, $6,656.28 ; equal- 
 ized value of lands and town lots, $2,517,234 ; value of 
 personalty in 1865, $204,711 ; in 1875, $513,992 ; reported 
 total value in 1865, $1,745,496 ; in 1875,62,896,941. 
 
 Total No. of horses of all ages 5587 
 
 No: sold for export in 1874 128 
 
 No. mules and asses 224 
 
 No. sold for export 9 
 
 Total No. milch cows 4984 
 
 No. pounds butter made in 1874 279369 
 
 No. pounds cheese made in 1874 475 
 
 No gallons milk sold ... 7525 
 
 No. work oxen 25 
 
 No. all other cattle 11875 
 
 No. cattle slaughtered or sold for slaughter in 1874. . 2726 
 
 No. thoroughbred short.horns 22 
 
 No. hogs 25740 
 
 No. sold for slaughter 24748 
 
 Total No. sheep in the Co. in 1874 4327 
 
 No. pounds wool obtained in 1874 18310 
 
 No. sheep slaughtered or sold for slaughter 646 
 
 No. sheep killed by dogs 199 
 
 No. dogs in the Co. in '74 1693 
 
 Total No. stands of bees 240 
 
 Pounds of honey and beeswax 1815 
 
 Value of products of farm $792461 
 
 Value of market garden produce 2673 
 
 Value of products of the orchard 4265 
 
 Value of small fruits 881 
 
 Value of products of the herd 421466 
 
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198 HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 Value of products of the dairy 47487 
 
 Value of products of the forest 15197 
 
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 Horses 5578 189656 
 
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 MILITARY.— CONTINUED. 
 
 Besides the list of soldiers copied from the Adjutant-Gen- 
 •eral's report, I have from private sources the following. 
 
 J. A. Thompson, at the age of seventeen, enlisted in the 
 12th Ohio Cavalry, as private; was promoted to captain; 
 was wounded at Saltsville, Ya., and Saulsburg, N. C. 
 
 J. C. Harwood, aged 38, a native of Virginia, enlisted 
 in the 14th Iowa Infantry, from Jones county, Aug. 9, 1865. 
 Was in seventeen battles and skirmishes; taken prisoner 
 -at Shiloh; paroled at the expiration of fifty-three days. 
 Mr. Hartvood is a farmer, living in Seeley township. 
 
 S. H. Willey, a native of Dela\vare, enlisted in the 9th 
 Indiana Infantry, October 6, 1864. Served in 4th corps, 
 1st Division, 3rd Brigade; discharged June 13, 1865. Par- 
 ticipated in the engagements at Spring Hill, Franklin, and 
 Nashville. Is now a resident of Jackson township. 
 
 H. E. Church enlisted at Dixon, 111., as private in Co. C. 
 7th 111. Cavalry. Served under Gen. Thomas in Mississippi, 
 Tennessee, and Alabama. Traveled much, saw much, suf- 
 fered much, and as a true soldier, enjoyed much. Was 
 discharged at Huntsville, Alabama, October 19, 1865. 
 
 Capt. Wni. W. Hyzer, enlisted at Grand Rapids, Michi- 
 gan, in the Third Michigan Light Artillery, which he com- 
 manded for two and a half years. Was in active service 
 three years and nine months; was in most of the engage- 
 ments of Western Department, the more noted of which 
 -are: Cornith, luka, Resacca, Kennasaw, Atlanta, South 
 Edisto, Sheraw, Bentonsville and others. Went with 
 Sherman in his famous "March to the Sea," opened the 
 first gun on Savannah, dismounting two of the enemy^s guns 
 and silencing eight more. Capt. Hyzer is now engaged in 
 the drug business in Casey. 
 
 Cap. W. R. Douglas, enlisted at Lindenwood, Ogle Co., 
 Illinois, August 13, 1862, in Co. G. 74th 111. Infantry. En- 
 tered as private; was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 
 12th W. S. C. Inf., August 13, 1863. June 15, 1865, was 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 211 
 
 commissioned Captain Co. E. same regiment. Served in 
 the armies of the Cumberland and Tennessee, under Gen- 
 erals Buel, Rosecrans and Thomas. Was in the battles of 
 Perry ville, Stone River and Nashville. Was in special 
 mounted service about one year, fighting guerrillas, chief of 
 whom, was Major McNarie. AYas one of the body which 
 captured Hood's entire army, which capture was the climax 
 of the Nashville campaign. Was mustered out January 
 26, 1866. 
 
 Captain Douglas is now a resident of Bear Grove town- 
 ship. 
 
 Romeo G. Hoge enlisted "when a small boy" at Col- 
 umbus, Ohio, in the Signal Corps, U. S. A., March 7, 1864. 
 This corps was sent to camp of instruction at Georgetown, 
 D. C, where it remained two months, when it was assigned 
 to the army of the Tennessee, which it joined three days 
 after ihe fight at Resacca, Georgia. After the capture of 
 Atlanta, and just before Sherman started " to the sea," it 
 was assigned to the army of the Cumberland, with which it 
 remained until after the fight at Nashville. AVent on the 
 " raid" to Texas, where they remained the greater part of 
 ^65 and a part '67. Were discharged by special order, at 
 San Antonia, Texas, April 20, 1866. Mr. Hoge is now en- 
 gaged in the drug business at Guthrie. 
 
 Herman Miller, of Richland township, served in the 3rd 
 Ohio Cavalry, as did also Wm. Maxwell. 
 
 I presume there are others in the county who served in 
 the army, but I have not been able to obtain their names. 
 
 Had I time and space, I would be glad to give a brief 
 history of the service of our gallant soldiers; reminiscences, 
 incidents, etc. Let it suffice to say, that the memory of the 
 patriots who sacrificed their own interests, and risked their 
 own lives to save our glorious country, will be perpetu- 
 ated, not only in history, but in the hearts of many loving, 
 loyal ones. 
 
 While much credit is due to our officers for gallant 
 
212 HISTOEY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 services, just as much is due to our private soldiers. Each 
 acquitted himself creditably, according to his ability and 
 opportunity. 
 
 Guthrie county responded nobly to the call for volunteers, 
 sending more than her quota; yet, through some mistake, 
 she was included in the draft of '64. 
 
 At the November session of the Board of Supervisors, in 
 1862, a preamble and resolution was offered, the substance 
 of which is as follows: Gov. Kirkwood, in his report of 
 the several quotas of men furnished by the several 
 counties for the war, credited Guthrie county 
 with only one hundred and twenty-eight men, leaving a 
 deficit of ninety- six men; and the enrollment list for Guth- 
 rie county, as returned by Mr. Hanyan, U. S. Drafting 
 Commissioner for said county, and also the report issued 
 by the Attorney-General, that said county had sent iuto the 
 service one hundred and three men, and since the call for 
 600,000 additional volunteers, Guthrie county has sent one 
 hundred and forty-six additional men, making a total of 
 two hundred and fifty volunteers — twenty-six more than 
 her quota; it was therefore resolved to apply to the Gover- 
 nor to rectify the mis,ake. 
 
 The mistake, however, was not rectified, and a draft was 
 made. 
 
 At the January session of 1864, the Board voted a bounty 
 of $100 to each volunteer, — which was paid in 1866. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 As I have come into possession of several items of inter- 
 est, since the chapters to which some of them would natu- 
 rally belong, were written, and others which seem to have 
 no particular place, I will give them as they occur to me. 
 
 The workmen now engaged in making the excavation for 
 the basement of the high school building, dug up the root 
 of the hickory pole raised in honor of President Pierce's 
 election, in 1852. . 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 213 
 
 In the early settlement of the county, I speak of Panooch 
 and McKay, in Dallas county. The former was changed to 
 Adel in 1853. 
 
 McKay's post office was established, probably, in 1851, 
 and a town was laid out a 3^ear or two later, and ealled 
 Irishtown, which name it retained for several years, when 
 it was changed to Redfield. 
 
 The first house built in Panora was the log house of Mr. 
 Hursche. This is its Jiistory : A Mr. Penny came here with 
 the Cox family; he made a claim southeast of Panora, and 
 to entitle him to hold it, he must have a shanty, which he 
 engaged Mr. Brumbaugh to build. He faied to return, so 
 the cabin was torn down and the logs sold to Mr. Hursche, 
 who employed Mr. Leinart to draw them — with an ox team 
 — to where he wished to build. 
 
 I say Anderson's mill was the first west of Des Moines. 
 There was a small mill in Dallas founty — Lamb's mill — 
 prior to that time, but, like Rip Van Winkle's drinks, "it 
 didn't count." It was a small affair and was run but a 
 short time. 
 
 Gopher Station, which was built and kept by John Betts 
 — one mile east of Dalmanutha — was a strong frame with 
 straw and mortar walls, plastered inside and out and its 
 earthy appearance no doubt, suggested its name. 
 
 ."Andy" Brumbaugh did blacksmithing as early as 1851, 
 but kept no " regular" shop. 
 
 The Thos. Frazier place was first settled by a man by the 
 name of Robinson. 
 
 Among the old settlers who escaped my notice, is Mr. 
 Silas Seelj^, brother to Capt. Seely, who came to the count}^ 
 in 1854. He acted as deputy treasurer to the Captain. He 
 was a gentleman of intelligence and culture, and was much 
 missed when he left the county in 1856, or '57. He is now 
 a resident of Missouri. 
 
 Ayres Rose, of Centre township, is an old an much es- 
 teemed resident of the count3^ He is a well-to-do farmer; 
 has surrounded himself with the comforts of life, and 
 14 
 
214 HISTOEY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 
 
 though he has seen much care and sorrow, retains his faith 
 in humanity and Divinity. 
 
 An instance of the liberality and generosity of the early 
 county officers, not already noticed, is that of Michael 
 Leinart, who gave to the county, his salary as assessor, 
 and also as township trustee. This, in the days when 
 money was scarce, and the pioneers needy, is worthy of 
 l-ecord and remembrance, as showing the disinterestedness 
 of Mr. Leinart. But few officials would be willing to serve 
 the people, exclusively for the people's good, as has done. 
 Ever ready to encourage the right, he is ever firm iu dis- 
 countenancing wrong-doing. 
 
 Judge Bryan died in October, 1856. A wife and daughter 
 survive him. The former is now the wife of Phillip Roberts. 
 The daughter. Miss Lou. Bryan, a beautiful young lady 
 Tvho might distinguish herself as a singer, did not her 
 modest and retiring disposition prevent it. 
 
 Not many years ago, we had in the county a genuine 
 " post-trader." He kept a little store in the county, and 
 also the post office. A Stuart attorney owned a piece of 
 land near him. Mr. Postmaster wanted the land, and pro- 
 posed to Blackstone to trade his store for it, offering as an 
 inducement, to '' throw in the post office." The trade was 
 not effected. 
 
 In 1876 a District Agricultural Society was organized, 
 with Geo. Gray, president; S. P. Rhoades, secretary; J. R. 
 Bates,treasurer. 
 
 The District is composed of the counties of Guthrie, 
 Dallas, Madison and Adair. 
 
 The first fair of the society was begun on the 10th of 
 October, 1876, and continued four days. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hatch came to Guthrie county in 1869, and 
 staid six years, removing to Des Moines in the spring of 
 1876. Mr. Hatch is a native of Connecticut, Hartford Co., 
 but has lived in Iowa since his boyhood; has been educated 
 in the excellent schools of the State and at Iowa College. 
 
 His wife was born and educated in New York, being a 
 
HISTORY OF GUTHRIE COUNTY. 215 
 
 graduate of the State Normal School. She has been for 
 years, a most successful teacher. They are both, at present, 
 occupied with their chosen profession, teaching reading and 
 elocution, and by their patient perseverance and hard labor 
 are slowly but surely climbing to the highest round thereof. 
 Mrs. Hatch is a contributor to the leading periodicals, is 
 a sensible and entertaining writer; she is the author of the 
 charming children's stories, published in the Register. 
 
216 ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 GEO. GRAY. J. B. BLANCHARD. 
 
 GRAY & BLANCHARD, 
 
 Finishin? and Uppers a Specialty. 
 
 Also, DOORS, TODOfS AND BLINDS. 
 
 We have a fine large shed, in which we keep all our better Lumber, and we can, and will, sell 
 as low as any one dare. We also have an Elevator and Feed Mill in connection with our business. 
 Will pay highest market price for Grain, Hogs and Cattle. 
 
 GRAY & BLANCHARD. 
 
 Office and Yard, Soutli Side Railroad Track, STUAKT, IOWA. 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, 
 
 I have a large well selected Stock, which I am selling 
 at Bottom Prices. 
 
 DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS and SHOES, 
 
 STUART, - - - IOWA. 
 
 ly Stoci is Coiniilete, and I am offering Bargains in all lines. 
 
 The largest assortment to be found in either Guthrie or Adair 
 
 Counties. 
 
 PRODUCE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. 
 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 217 
 
 BERNER & TOEDT, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 HARDWARE, STOVES AND TINWARE, 
 
 Carpenters' Tools, Guns and Revolvers, Ammunition, Table 
 and Pocket Cutlery. Farming Tools, Leather and Rubber 
 fielting. Iron (well and cistern) Pumps. Gas and Lead Pipes. 
 Hard and Soft Coal Base-burners. 
 
 AGENTS POR THE CELEBRATED 
 
 CHARTER OAK COOK STOVE. 
 
 l£e S© all 3{iuOs qI fafe Wmk In 
 
 Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper, and employ first-class workmen. 
 
 We have the largest and best stock of Tinware in this 
 
 section. Call and see us. 
 
 Pioneer Brick Block. Nassau Street. STUART, IOWA- 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, 
 
 AND GENT'S FURNISHING- GOODS, 
 
 If ycu want an3rthing in Ms line, give him a call and save from 10 to 15 per cent. 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 PIANOS, ORGANS AND SEWM MACHINES. 
 
 A full line of Sheet Music and Small Merchandise, and 
 
 Sewing Machine Oil and Attachments kept 
 
 constantly on hand. 
 
 Nassau Street. STUART, IOWA. 
 
218 ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 Br. Tieat's lew Ims Store, 
 
 EVERYTHING TM" THE LINE OF 
 
 FANCY GOODS OF EVERY VARIETY. 
 
 GLASS, PAINTS, OILS, BRUSHES, LDBRICATIN& OILS of all KinJs. 
 
 BOOKS, STATIONERY, TOBACCOS, 
 
 Can "be found at Dr. Treat's Kew Brick Erug Store. 
 Corner Nassau and Division Streets. STUARTi IOWA. 
 
 o-o"criLiD d3 :E3:oiL.3^v<rE!s, 
 
 DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF 
 
 FARM MACHINERY, 
 
 Also Lehigh, Anthracite, Blossburg and Des Moines Coal, which we 
 sell as cheap for cash as any dealers in Stuart. 
 
 CALL m EIAMISE ODR STOCK OF FARM WAGONS, 
 
 Which we sell lower and warrant to wear longer than any wagon in this market. We always 
 
 keep a full line of Pumps, Plows and Reaper Repairs. Remember our goods are 
 
 warranted to give satisfaction, or no sale. 
 
 Cfflse and Warehouse, seoond door east of Iowa House. STUART, IOWA. 
 
 W. K. l—INDSAV, 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 nooizr^, ETC. 
 
 STUART, IOWA. 
 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 21^ 
 
 XDIEB- 
 
 e ISO "ST, 
 
 PHYSICIAN AXD SURGEON, 
 
 Sixteen years experience in the treatment of all Acute and Chronic Diseases, and diseases 
 
 of women and children. Calls made at towns on the Railroad, where regular 
 
 attendance is not required. Medicines sent by mail or express. 
 
 The Doctor can be consulted daily at his Office, in his 
 
 New Brick Drug Store. 
 
 Corner Nassau and Treuiont Streets. 
 
 STUART, IOWA. 
 
 Dr. W. H. H. CRANDALL, 
 
 PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, 
 
 Makes the treatment of Chronic and Malignant Diseases of Men, Women"and Children a 
 specialty. 
 
 Having had some forty years experience in the general treatment of Acute, Chronic and 
 Malignant Diseases, he feels qualified to meet the wants of the people. Dr. Crandall prepares and 
 puts up all classes of Medicines for every form of disease prescribed for. 
 
 m B. lAlI & s 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 Jfl 
 
 Two Doors West of Post Office. 
 
 STUART, IOWA. 
 
 :e3:- c. Tieo"CJT, 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 School, Miscellaneous and Blank Books, 
 
 Ml fdEeipal Sally md IDeefely 'Fapars, 
 
 TOBACCO. CIGARS, CANDY AND NOTIONS. 
 STUART, - - - - - - - IOWA. 
 
220 ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 Mrs. S. H. CHAMBERLAIN, 
 
 AND DEALER IN 
 
 RIBBONS, LACES, TRIMMINGS, ETC. 
 
 Trfffiont street, two tccrs ncrtn of Er, LeRoy's Erng store. STUART, IOWA. 
 
 CHAS. S. FOGG. 
 
 ATTORNEY AT LAW, 
 
 Divisicn Stieetnonh "of R. R. Track./ STUART, IOWA. 
 
 DOSH & HERRIOTT, 
 
 n-^^^E x^xE ccivSI'x.ete: 
 
 DRUG STORE 
 
 STUART, IOWA. 
 
 EGAN & LAHMAN, 
 
 MiYery amd F&edl Mi^M&s, 
 
 MAIN STREET, - - STUART, IOWA. 
 
 Keep the best turn-outs west of Des Moines. Prompt and 
 
 careful drivers. 
 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 221 
 
 THE BEACON LIGHT, 
 
 F, A. MANN, Editor and Proprietor, 
 
 i^iiUt, south Side c^init Mvtti, htt. ^tvewtU ^ (^iglttU, 
 
 '^^ An eight column folio : published each Wednesday. Official paper of town and county, having 
 thejlargest circulation of any paper in the county. 
 
 Dr. OWEN'S INFIRMARY, 
 
 Corner Seventh and Mulberry Streets, 
 DES MOINES, - - - - IOWA. 
 
 Blindness, Deafness, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Dyspepsia, Diseases of the Liver, Heart, Kidneys, 
 Blood, Nerves, and in fact, all Chronic and specific diseases of Man and Woman, successfully 
 treated. Crossed Eyes straightened, artificial eyes inserted, and all intricate and delicate operations 
 performed. 
 
 Dr. J. W. OWEN, 
 Cor. 7th and Mulberry Sts., Des Moines, 
 
 JOHN T. MONTGOMERY, 
 
 ^iffhtnin^ Sack d ^um^s, 
 
 DIVISION STREET. BET^VEEN" NASSAU and FRONT, 
 
 STUART, ------- IOWA. 
 
 CARROL HOUSE, 
 
 A. J. WRIGHT, PROPRIETOR, 
 ICvCairL Street, - Sfaart, lo-^^a. 
 
 ROOMS AND TABLE FIRST-CLASS. COBVENIENT TO DEPOT. 
 
-222 ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 W. P. MOULTON, Editor. CHAS. STUART, Proprietor. 
 
 STUART LOCOMOTIVE, 
 
 Published every Monday morning, at Stuart, Iowa, a division station on Chicago, Rock Island 
 •and Pacific Railroad, and the best town between Des Moines and the Bluffs. 
 
 The Locomotive is the local organ for both Adair and Guthrie Counties, and constantly increas- 
 ing its circulation. 
 
 THE STUART WEEKLY REGISTER 
 
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 mrR .....^. 
 
 OiT-A-ss^-Tir STX^EE:x, si-TTp^^xea:, xottnT.^- 
 
 CHARLES R. TVRIGHT, Editor and Proprietor. 
 
 The best advertising medium in the County. Job Work a specialty 
 and promptly executed. 
 
 GUTHRIE VEDETE. 
 
 OFFICIAL PAPER OF GDTHRIE COUHTT, 
 
 SDishes up local affairs lively. Largest circulation of any paper in the County, and is the only one 
 
 using a power press in working off its edition. A first-class advertising 
 
 medium. 
 
 PANORA, - - - IOWA. 
 
 ABET OLAHI© 
 
 HAM KAUTZMAN, Editor and Pulslisher. 
 
 $(^h Wmk md Mmi^lMit§ SellalkS. 
 
 In Politics, Strictly Independent. Prospective Circulation, 600 Copies* 
 
ADVERTISEilENTS. 223 
 
 F. B. BICKFORD. R. B. SPAULDINCJ. 
 
 BZCSFOKD (& SF2iT7Z<DZ2!TG, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, CLOTHIH&, NOTIONS, Etc, 
 
 Bottom Prices Quaranteed at all times on our Goods. 
 
 g-xjthrie;, - - lOTVA. 
 
 J. W. HARRIS. J. M. HARRIS. W. M. HARRIS. M. E. HARRIS. 
 
 HARRIS BROTHERS, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, 
 
 §w Potos Coal, p«H«c gttrajis k ffiarttom ^intt. 
 
 Also agents for Sweepstakes Th'-eshing Machines and McCormick Reapers 
 
 and Harvesters. 
 G-XJTHRIE. . - - - . - - . IO"WA. 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 BB7 @OOSS, glOOlEIlE, lOTIOfS, 
 
 HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, Etc. 
 <3--crTixxeiE:, ------- xoTxr.^- 
 
 To tlie Close Casli Buyers of Mlirie anl Aiair Connties, Sreetinr. 
 
 I am permanently located in my Store, at Guthrie, Iowa, selling 
 
 Groceries, Canned Fruits, 
 
 Wooden and Earthern Ware, Boots and Shoes, for ready pay at 
 the lowest possible cash rates. Country Produce taken. 
 
 .; J. B. RICHARDSON. - GUTHRIE, IOWA. 
 
224 ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 BANKERS AND NEGOTIATORS OF LOANS. 
 
 Selling Real Estate and Collections made a Specialty. 
 
 LAW, EXCHANGE AND LOAN OFFICE. 
 
 Loans on Real Estat? promptly |negotiated at reasonable rates. Collections on all parts of the 
 
 country a specialty. 
 
 HITCHCOCK BROTHERS, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, 
 
 IbTotions a^ad. I^'U.riiisliizig' 0-ood.s, 
 
 At prices never before heard of. Also, a full line of Groceries. Country Produce taken. Call and 
 e.\amine our stock and prices, before purchasing elsewhere. 
 
 GUTHRIE, IOWA. 
 
 MISS SADIE WELLS, 
 
 Xotioi)^ ai\(i ^finiQ^irig^ of all iur\d^. 
 
 :dz2,ess 2vr.A.2s:x^TC3- ii^r .^XjXj xts BX^.£>.:tTCixES. 
 
 GUTHRIE, lO'WA. 
 
 Pays Taxes, buys and sells Real Estate, etc. Also agent for National 
 
 Line of Ocean Steamers to all parts of the World. Sells 
 
 the Celebrated Needham & Son Organs. 
 
 GUTHRIE, ----- IOWA. 
 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 225 
 
 DEALER IX 
 
 ^ ^^/S)i\^^ 
 
 
 Perfumery, Dye Stuffs, Pure Wines and Liquors for medicinal purposes, Patent Medicines, 
 
 Notions and Fancy Articles, and all articles generally kept by Druggists. 
 
 Physicians' Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. 
 
 CASEY, -_--_- IOWA. 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 SHELF t HEAVY HARDWARE 
 
 AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 
 
 South Side Eailroad. CASEY. IOWA. 
 
 PANORA, IOWA. 
 
 Q&ad ^mammOidaUQn^ at aU tlai@a« 
 
 The Stabling has been enlarged and improved and now gives 
 
 ample room. 
 
 J. J. jorviiis, 
 
 GENERAL DEALER IN 
 
 Ready Made ClotMui, Hats, Caps, Boots M Slioes. 
 
 Also, DEALER in CLOTHS, BLANKETS, STOCKING YARN. Etc. 
 PANOKA, - IOWA. 
 
226 ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 S. D. NICHOLS, Pres. L. J. PENTECOST, Cashier. 
 
 §nthne §onnt^ §mtk. 
 
 Geo. H. Moore. E. J. Eeynolds. 0. B. Hayden. 
 
 T. -.^- 'z:x3:on^s^:E=soisr, 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 NOTIONS ANB GENERAL MERCHANDISE. ; 
 PANORA, ... - - . IOWA. 
 
 JOHN CLINE. JAS. M. CLINE. W. H. CLINE. 
 
 J. CZiXlTS: (& SOXTS, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, Notions, 
 
 Queensware, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Woolen Goods, Blankets, Tobacco, Cirgars, 
 Flour, Butter, Eggs, Bacon, Fish, etc. 
 
 Brick Corner. PANORA. IOWA. 
 
 JOHN JACKSON. JAS. GARLOW, 
 
 JACKSON & GARLOAV, • 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 SHELF & HEATY HARDWARE 
 
 Stoves and Tinware, Agricultural Implements of all kinds, Moline Buggies and Wagons, 
 
 Pumps, etc. Also agents for the Victor Scale. Glidden's Patent Steel Barb 
 
 Wire kept in stock. 
 
 South Side of Public Square. PANORA, IOWA. 
 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 22T 
 
 PEITTECOST (& HA^DEIT, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 BMUOB 
 
 'j7 mBBBm^iij^%^jaiiii!iiBW^' 
 
 Chemicals, Fine Toilet Soap, Fancy Hair and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery and p'ancy Toilet 
 
 Articles. Paints, Oils, Vaanishes, Glass, Putty and Dye Stuffs. Watches, Clocks, 
 
 Jewelr)", Carbon Oil, Lamps and Chimneys. School Books and Stationery 
 
 a Specialty. Physicians' Prescriptions Accurately Compounded. 
 
 PANORA, ------ IOWA. 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 WY GOODS, GROCERIES, 
 
 Realy-male ClotMni, Hats, Caps, Boots aiiJ Slioes. 
 
 GUTHRIE CENTRE, - - - . IOWA. 
 
 JNO. BOWER & CO., 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 DKUGS, MEDICINES, 
 
 Paints, Oils, School Books, Stationery, etc. Business in charge of 
 
 P. H. LENON, who started the first drug store 
 
 in the county. 
 
 GUTHRIE CENTRE, - - - IOWA. 
 
 GUTHRIE CENTRE MILLS 
 
 MOTZ & MUNTZ, Proprietors. 
 
 All kinds of Custom Work done on Short Notice. 
 
 BEST BRANDS OF FLOOR AND FEED KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND. 
 GUTHRIE CENTRE, ------ IOWA. 
 
■^28 ADVERTISEMENTS. 
 
 f auh, ^bstvact & §ul Estate ©«ic(, 
 
 GUTHRIE CENTRE, IOWA. 
 
 J. B. CARPENTE'r 
 
 ATTORiy AND COUllLOR AT lAW, 
 
 Will practice in Guthrie and adjoining counties, and in the Supreme 
 
 and Federal Courts. Collections, the Payment of Taxes 
 
 and Real Estate promptly attended to. 
 
 GUTHRIE CENTRE. ------ IOWA. 
 
 Clerk of District and Circuii Courts, 
 
 1I4L ISf Aflj TkZ PAfllS, MW, 
 
 Office in the Court House, Guthrie Centre, Iowa. Will Pay Taxes, 
 Collect Rents, Lease Farm and Town Property, etc. Have complete 
 Abstract of all the Records of Guthrie County. 
 
 ATTORNEY AT LAW, 
 R. J. conne:i_l_y, 
 
 Hoiixeoj>atliic IPliysiciaii, 
 
 DES MOINES, IOWA. 
 
ADVERTISEMENTS. * 229 
 
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 DEALER IN 
 
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 GUTHKIE CENTRE. IOWA. 
 
 A. K. UPDEGRAFF. ELBERT W. WEEKS. 
 
 UPDEGRAFF & WEEKS, 
 
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 GUTHRIE CENTRE, - - IOWA. 
 
 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 
 
 HI. S. IFISEC, 
 
 nDElSTTIST- 
 
 Permanently located in Guthrie Centre. All work warranted 
 to give satisfaction or money refunded. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Adair Q^ 
 
 Bear Grove Township 55 
 
 Beaver Township 63 
 
 Centre Township 68 
 
 Casey 103 
 
 Churches 147 
 
 Courts 167 
 
 Club Law 163 
 
 Congressmen 182 
 
 Clerks— County 178 
 
 County Seat and Court House ". 183 
 
 location of , 27 
 
 County High School 156 
 
 Constitutional Convention 181 
 
 Census Keturus 192 
 
 Dodge Township , 61 
 
 Dale City 53 
 
 Dalmanutha 81 
 
 Guthrie County, description ot 9 
 
 first settlement of. 13 
 
 women of 188 
 
 organization of 25 
 
 Guthrie 98 
 
 Guthrie Centre 71 
 
 Grant Township 94 
 
 Highland Township 89 
 
 Iowa, historjf of 5 
 
 Jackson Township , 50 
 
 Judges , 167 
 
 Legislature, members of , 181 
 
 Morrisburg. 52 
 
 Military 200 
 
 Miscellaneous 212 
 
 Newspapers 159 
 
 Orange Township 61 
 
 Officers — County 174 
 
 Post Offices 157 
 
^i INDEX. 
 
 Patents 187 
 
 Penn 65 
 
 Panora 29 
 
 Recorders 179 
 
 Richland 97 
 
 Supervisors 180 
 
 Stuart 109 
 
 Schools 149 
 
 Sheriffs 177 
 
 Thompson Township 81 
 
 Union Township 87 
 
 Valley Township 84 
 
 Victory Township 87 
 
 ADVERTISERS. PAGE 
 
 Berner & Toedt 217 
 
 Beacon Light 221 
 
 Bickford & Spaukling 223 
 
 Bower Juo. & Co 227 
 
 Brumbaugh D. H 229 
 
 Crandall W. H. H 219 
 
 Chamberlain Mrs. S. H 220 
 
 Carrol House 221 
 
 Casey Clarion. 222 
 
 Cline J. & Sons 226 
 
 Carpenter J. B 228 
 
 Connelly P. J 228 
 
 Dosh & Herriott 220 
 
 Egan & Lahmaii 220 
 
 Fogg Chas. 220 
 
 Fish H. S 229 
 
 Gray & Blanchard 216 
 
 Gould & Holmes 218 
 
 Guthrie County Bank. 226 
 
 Harris Brothers 223 
 
 Haden Chas 228 
 
 HillC. W ...". 228 
 
 Hopkins J. Y 229 
 
 Hitchcock Brothers 224 
 
 Hyzer W. W 225 
 
 Jones J. J.. 225 
 
 Jackson c% Garlow 226 
 
 Kahn & Son 219 
 
 Lindsay W. K 218 
 
 LeRoy Dr 219 
 
 Lyon J. A 227 
 
 Moore J. M 224 
 
 Montgomery Jno. T 221 
 
 Martin & Kile 228 
 
3 INDEX. 
 
 Marshall R. H • 325 
 
 Motz & Muntz 227 
 
 Newton E B 224 
 
 OwenDr 221 
 
 Pentecost & Hay den 227 
 
 Panora House 325 
 
 Ryan M 316 
 
 Ryan Pat 217 
 
 Richardson J. B 333 
 
 Stuart Locomotive 239 
 
 Stuart Register 329 
 
 Treat Dr 218 
 
 Trout H.C 219 
 
 Updegraff & Weeks 329 
 
 Vedette Guthrie 222 
 
 Walters S. C 217 
 
 Wells Sadie 224 
 
 Wetmore I. P , 228 
 

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