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1882 History of Floyd County, Iowa
Contents

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HISTORY OF IOWA
SECTION TITLE	PAGE		SECTION TITLE	PAGE
Former Occupants	17		Giography	63
Pre-historic Races	17		Geology	76
The Indians	20		Climate	89
Manners and Customs	23		Settlement by the Whites	90
Explorations by the Whites	25		Indians of Iowa	95
First Explorers	25		Pioneer Life	136
Subsequent Settlement	27		Territorial History	142
Louisiana Territory	31		State Organization	150
Missouri Territory	46		Iowa and the Rebellion	169
Arkansas Territory	47		State Institutions	269
Iowa Territory	48		Educational	221
Minnesota Territory	49		Miscellaneous	229
Kansas Territory	49		Eminent Men of Iowa	229
Nebraska Territory	50		Financial	236
Northwestern Territory	51		Census of Iowa	237
Expeditions against the Indians	54		Census of the United States	238
Black Hawk War	57		State Officers	240
The State of Iowa	63

HISTORY OF FLOYD COUNTY
Chapter I, Indians and Early Settlement	249
Chapter II, Scientific	288
Chapter III, Organic	322
Chapter IV, Political and Biographical	346
Chapter V, The Courts and the Bar	384
Chapter VI, Criminal	411
Chapter VII, Military	419
Chapter VIII, Military Continued	459
Chapter IX, Agricultural	505
Chapter X, Census and Financial Progress	536
Chapter XI,  Railroads	552
Chapter XII, Educational	577
Chapter XIII, Literary	588
Chapter XIV, The Press	603
Chapter XV, Eminent Dead	634
Chapter XVI, Miscellaneous	641

CHARLES CITY
The Beginnings	668
Early Settlers	672
City Officers	672
Business Men in Early Days	675
Manufactories, etc.	676
The Bridge	683
Charles C'y Public Schools	684
St. Charles Graded School	688
G'l School History resum'd	690
Pres't Status of the Charles City Schools	693
Banks	694
Hotels	696
Religious	699
Societies	706
Miscellaneous	718
Temperance	719
In Memory of Pres. Lincoln	719
In Memory of Pres. Garfield	720
Meetings	720
Casualties	721
Biographical	724

TOWNSHIP HISTORIES
Cedar	791
Floyd	805
Niles	830
Pleasant Grove	838
Riverton	867
Rockford	883
Rock Grove	929
Rudd	982
Scott	993
St. Charles	1010
Ulster	1022
Union	1062

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Achenbach, H. Ackley, C. T. Ackley, G. C. Ackley, James Ackley, J. M. Ackley, R. J. Ackley, S. J. Adams, Allen Adams, J. B. Adams, J. R. Aldrich, H. C. Alexander. T. Allen, C. M. Allen, Henry Allen, O. B. Andrews, E. P. Ankeny, J. Anthony, J. D. Apel, George Arkills, M.E. Ash, W. H. Asper, A. J. Atherton, E F. Atherton, J. L. Austin, Edmund Babcock, A. A. Bahcock, I. T. Bacon, E. F. Bailey, R. Z. Baker, Geo. A. Baker, V. W. Balch, W. D. Ball, John Ballard, W. H. Baltimore, A. Baltuff, V. Barnev, V. G. Barnum, T. J. Barth, George Bartz, Chas. Beal, Frank Beattir, E. G. Beck, Chas. T. Becker, J. A. Beelar, C. F. Beelar, Jacob Bell, John Benedict, F. L. Benedict, H. L. Benjamin, De G. Bennett, Geo. Bennett, Sam Berg, Edward Bicknese, J. F. C. Billings, Josiah Billings, Timothy Birney, L. Bissell, S. P. Bleckley, Wm. Bluut, Ezekiah Blythe, S. G. Boon, T. W. Bort, M. E. Boulton, G. F. Boulton, Z. D. Bowdoin, E. P. Bowers, Geo. Bowles, N. D. Bowman, C. W. Boyer, Wm. Bradley, J. S. Braunton, Wm. Briggs, W. S. Brill, W. E. Brisco, Iohn Britton, S. P. Bronson, B. K. Brown, A. M. Brown, C. C. Brown, E. S. Brown, G. L. Brown, H. M. Brownell, A. S. Brownell, W. Brunner, M. Brvan, 'T. E. Bucklin, S. Bumgardner, H. Burgess, A. W. Burr, P. W. Burton, F. A. Butler, A. Butler, D. Butler, L. A. Campbell, D. G. Carbiener, M. Carney, A. Carr, George Carter, W. B. Case, A. G. Childs, J. S. Clark, C. H. Clark, C. J. Clark, L. B. Clark, T. S. Clark & Kendall Clarke, John Clay, Samuel Clemens, J. Cogswell, F. B. Cogswell, S. B. Cole, M. S. Cole, P. P. Coley, James Collins, A. Collins, A. L. Collins, C. P. Collison, U. A. Conner, James Conner, Jesse Conner, J. D. Cook, A. W. Cook, K. H. Coon, Theo Cott, H. H. Cotton, N. W. Courtright, B. Cramer, H. J. Cramer, J. R. Crocker, F. Crowell, E. Crowell, E., Jr. Crowell, J. H. Crowell, S. W. Crumb, W. O. Cutter, C. E. Danforth, C. Danforth, F. C. Darland, Benj. Darland, J. W. Darling, Chas. Davies, T. W. Davis, Egbert Dawley, J. B. Dean, D. W. Dean, Ira R. Dean, Wm. Deunls, Wm. W. Dinkel, C. Dodge, Henry Dodge, Ira Doolittle, A. O. Doorc, Allan Doore, Joel Drager, John Dumbolton, C. J. Dumboltou, J. Duncan, De W. C. Duncklee, Daniel Durkee, Wm. Dutcher, N. Dyas, David East__an, G. B. Eaton, H. Edwards, Jesse Eggert, Robert Egloff, E. C. Egnew, A. A. Eichmeier, H. Elliott, E. Elliott, G. Elliott, Rev. G. Elliott, J. W. Ellis, A. E. Ellis, C. D. Ellis, E. W. Engelbart, C. Esser, A. J. Evans, A. H. Evans, F. D.	Fairfield, W. B. Farnham, S. F. Faville, S. Ferguson, C. M. Ferguson, D. M. Ferguson, John Ferguson, S. F. Fiddick, James Fisher, E. J. Fisher, W. N. Fitch, L. P. Fleenor, N. Flint, A. L. Flint, W. S. Forbes, E. F. Forbes, J. G. Forthun, L. Foster, L. M. Franklin, C. R. French, S. D. Gabel, F. W. Gage, H. Galbraith, Wm. Garber, H. Gaiber, Thos. Gates, Chas. Gates, John Gates, J. F. Gates, Martin Gaylord, E. Gay lord, J. Gaylord, J. G. Gajlord, J. J. Gaylord, L. Gelhaus, Aug. Gerhard, D. Gibson, Wm. Giermann, Wm. Gilbert, George Goddard, S. Gonser, W. H. Goodmiller, J. Graham, J. F. Green, H. L. Green, O. J. Giveo, W. J. Greenwood, B. P. Grierish, Wm. Griffin, Beiij. Griffith, A. S. Guilbert, E. J. Gutches, W. W. Halstead, 1. Hanchett, E. H. Hand, T. A. Hansburg, Wm. Hanson, O. J. Hardman, D. A. Hardman, David Harrison, A. M. Harvey, W. H. Harwood & Mooney Harwood, S. Haughey, J. Haven, S. W. Hayes, D. W. C. Haynes, E. B. Heintz, G. F. Heintz, J., Jr. Heintzelman, G. A. Hemphill, J. B. Henry, John Hering, W. C. Hewitt, S. R. Hildreth, A. B. F. Hirsch, M. A. Hoel, D. A. Hoel, James Hoffman, J. Hofmeister, C. Holbrook, W. E. Howard, H. S. Howard, John Howard, J. M. Howard, W. B. Howell, Chas. Hubbard, P. M. Hubbard, T. S. Hudson, C. W. Huie, R. J. Hutches, I. M. Hutchinson, E. M. Ingram, Henry. Inman, A. Inman, E. Inman, H. C. Ireland, M. Jeffrey, J. W. Johnson, D. E. Johnson, T. W. Johnson, W. H. Johnson, W. R. Jordan, John Joslyn, E. M. Judd, Wm. A. Judson, A. C. Jung, Wm. Keister, C. Kellogg, J. Kelso, T. S. Kelly, Chas. Kennedy, J. Keyes, L. J. Kidney, J. A. Kilbourne, C. Kimball, S. King, Robert Kirley, Geo. Klinetop, E. Knapp, A. Knapp, J. R. Koch, Aug. Koehler, Aug. Koehler, H. Koehlstaedt, H. Koeruer, S. Kuck, Jobn Lamb, C. E. Lamb, W. D. Lambert, G. F. Laugstaff, W. M. Lanphere, W. Large, I. S. Laihrop, I. S. Leeson, E. Leigh, Chas. Leland, S. P. Lenz, C. A. Leonard, J. Lessin, M. F. Liudon, R. Lindsay, J. C. Lines, John Lines, Wm. Lockwood, J. C. Lockwood, J. P. Lockwood, S. Lonergan, D. Longbotham, E. Losee, Hiram Lyon, O. H. Makepeace, J. N. Manchester, D. Mansfield, E. L. Marshall, J. Martin, J. W. Martin, M. Martin, W. K. Martzon, J. Mathers, Wm. Mathews, R. N. Maxsou, Geo. McConkey, J. C. McEwen, O. McEwen, W. L. McKenna, D. McKenna, M. McKinney, J. McKinzie, P. D. McNitt, E. W. McRoberts. J. F. Mead, D. B. Merckel, C. Merriam, G. D. Merrill, S. Merriman, I. M. Metz, Jacob Mever, G. W. Meyers, C. F. Miles, W. F. & H. F. Mills, John Miner, L. P. Mitchell, C. E. Mitchell, Geo. Moll, John Montrose, E. D. Moore, A. Moore, E. R. Moore & Paddleford Morris, C. W. Morrie, G. P. Morrison, J. Morse, Wm. Murdock, S. Myers, H. H.	Naden, Isaac Nash, G. F. Neel, Henry Neldon, Halvor Nevins, J. M. Nicholson, T. W. Nickerson, M. H. Nienstedt, A. Nies, H. B. Nixt, M. Noble, John Noble, S. H. North, J. P. Nye, H. M. Oaks, C. H. O'Hair, J. OHara, P. Owens, J. E. Palmateer, A. Palmer, A. E. Palmer, Wm. M. Parsons, Thos. Patterson, J. G. Payne, H. A. Pease, E. L. Perrin, H. J. Perrin, W. Perry, D. D. Perry, John Perrv, W. H. Phelps, N. Pierce, H. Pippin, T. Pitcher, J. H. Pomeroy, O. Poolev, J. B. Porter, B. F. Powers, L. D. Powers, O. Prall, M. Pribbenow, E. C. F. Pringle, Geo. Quinby, J. G. Quinby, S. A. Rankin, R. J. Raymond, F. Raymond, H. C. Raymond, J. Raymond, L. Reams, D. Reiniger, E. A. Reiniger, G. G. Reiniger, R. G. Rex, S. Rice, Norman Richards, D. J. Riche, E. A. Ripley, S. Robbins, O. N. Roberts, C. M. Roberts, James Roberts, Murray Roberts, W. W. Roberts, Zina Robison, W. G. Root, Abner Roschen, Wm. Rose, P. Rosenkrans, E. A. Roseukrans, N. Roziene, F. A. Ruddick, G. W. Ruggles, O. M. Schermerhorn, A. Schermerhorn, J. B. Schrimager, J. Schroeder, A. Schunemann, W. Scofleld, A. B. Scott, H. C. Scott, L. A. Seaton, A. P. Shafer, S. K. Sharkey, P. Sharp, Isaac Shaw, C. H. Shaw, H. B. Shaw, O. R. Shepardson, J. B. Sherwin, F. Schultz, I. Schnllz, P. Slocnm, C. A. Smith, A. O. B. Smith, C. D. Smith, E. M. Smith, G. P. Smith, H. Smith, J. W. Snyder, I. Sours, S. Spencer, W. G. Sprague, H. D. Sprague, Wm. Staebler, J. C. Starr, S. B. Starr, S. H. Stevens, B. W. Stevens, S. M. Stewart, W. F. Stone, Aug. Stoner, D. Stout, H. E. Strawn, Mrs. E. Strong, A. H. Sullivan, J. E. Summers, H. Sutton, T. P. Swartwood, J. Sweet, L. D. Sylvester, C. A. Taylor, J. P. Teeling, E. A. Tift, R. C. Timmons, B. Tostenrud, O. Town, C. E. Towner, C. H. Towner, R. R. Towner, W. B. Townsend, C. M. Townsend, J. C. Towslee, M. Towslee, N. Treadway, A. Trigg, J. S. Tripp, W. G. Van Myers, A. R. Vietmeier, C. Voelker, J. Vorhes, R. S. Wadey, H. Wagnor, Wm. Wait, Waldo Wallace, J. Waller, J. R. Waller, T. W. Waterbury, S. S. Waterman, G. B. Watkins, Chas. Welton, J. West, A. B. Wheat, F. M. Wheeler, D. A. Whitbeck, J. White, H. D. Whitehead, G. H. Whitesell, J.W. Whitnev, F. L. Wiggins, J. G. Wilbur, H. Wilke, R. F. Williams, E. H. Wilson, R. B. Wilson, T. S: Witzel, J. Woelfer, C. Wood, C. E. Wood, D. B. Wood, D. S. Wood, J. W. Woodhouse, S. W. Woolley, F. R. Worden, A. F. Workman, Wm. Worsfield, Geo. Wright, A. S. Wright, B. F. Wright, E. B. C. Wyatt, Geo. Wyatt, James Yerrick, S. Yeomans, S. P. Yocum, J. C. Young, A. Young, Mrs. E. R. Zimmar, J.

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Britton, S. P. Brownell, W. Clark, T. S. Court House Flint, W. S. Gage, H. Gaylord, J. J. Gaylord, S. E. Gaylord, W. P. Gilbert, Milo Green, W. J. Haynes, E. B. Inman, H. C. Hildreth, A. B. F. McEwen, O. Montrose, E. D. Nickerson, M. H. Oaks, C. H. Patterson, J. G. Ripley, Sanford Shepardson, J. B. Smith, J. w. Smith, S. M. W. Starr, S. B. Treadway, A. B. Worsfield, Geo.

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