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Thomas Meredith
He named Brighton Township in 1858 and sold land to the Marne Town Company for the founding of Marne in 1875. He was a noted early Iowa publisher and operated the Brighton House Hotel (now the Masonic Hall) here in his later years.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pg. 53. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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