CHAPTER VI -- PIONEERS (CONT'D)

FAIRVIEW.

From the best data obtainable the author is inclined to believe that the first man to settle in what is now Fairview township was Thomas Jefferson Tague, a Kentuckian, who built a log cabin on the east side of the Botna river in 1851 near the south boundary line of the county. The next earliest settlements were the Custer-Hack-Watson-Waterbury settlements of and in the vicinity of Hacktown. Other early settlers were: Japheth Brown, William Howlett, Sr., William Howlett, Jr., Lambert Howlett, Henry Lee, Byron L. Bunnell, Caleb Smith, Rev. A. Johnson, J. H. Louis, Horace Beckley, Christian Johnson, Henry Johnson, Thomas McDonald, Peter Madson, C. Rold, Niels Rold, Peter Rold, Soren Rold, Soren Lundby, Andrew Lundby, Alex Samuels, Jens Tonneson, Lars Weien, N. Vogt, Geroge Hayward, H. Cooper, W. E. Cooper, A. K. Cooper, George Campbell, J. M. Hansen, L. W. Trotter, D. Walters, Jacob Walters, R. P. Foss, C. W. Meier, Ed. Guernsey, Albert Wicks and others.

Transcribed by Denise Wurner, October 2013 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pp. 112-113.

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