Past and Present of Jasper County, Iowa, Volume 2B.F. Bowen, 1912 - 1365 pages |
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Page 759
... Pioneer Woman Called " Good Squaw " -State Capital Once Located in Jasper County - The Underground Railroad -Old Settlers ' Society - Jasper County's First Celebration - Population Sta- tistics - Postoffices - Village Plats and ...
... Pioneer Woman Called " Good Squaw " -State Capital Once Located in Jasper County - The Underground Railroad -Old Settlers ' Society - Jasper County's First Celebration - Population Sta- tistics - Postoffices - Village Plats and ...
Page 790
... pioneer and it was some time before he was comfortably situated . The effects of his service in the army rendered him an invalid later in life and he did not work after 1881 . Edwin S. Haines , of this review , grew up on the home farm ...
... pioneer and it was some time before he was comfortably situated . The effects of his service in the army rendered him an invalid later in life and he did not work after 1881 . Edwin S. Haines , of this review , grew up on the home farm ...
Page 798
... pioneer and progressive farmer is E. L. Duncan , of Powe- shiek , Jasper county , he being a member of a sterling old family , members of which have done much in the general development of the western part of the county and who have ...
... pioneer and progressive farmer is E. L. Duncan , of Powe- shiek , Jasper county , he being a member of a sterling old family , members of which have done much in the general development of the western part of the county and who have ...
Page 808
... pioneer days to the present time . LYMAN A. LONGLEY . No citizen of a past generation in the eastern part of Jasper county was held in higher esteem than the late Lyman A. Longley , of Rock Creek town- ship , whose life chapter has been ...
... pioneer days to the present time . LYMAN A. LONGLEY . No citizen of a past generation in the eastern part of Jasper county was held in higher esteem than the late Lyman A. Longley , of Rock Creek town- ship , whose life chapter has been ...
Page 808
... pioneer das to the present tic held ' n ship .. with the is stil al [ good wt 1 ... d.enel means til LI 1 ANY LONGIFY staron in the cistem part of ja per county was Lyman A Longley , of Rock Creek town- ened at the seal set thereon by ...
... pioneer das to the present tic held ' n ship .. with the is stil al [ good wt 1 ... d.enel means til LI 1 ANY LONGIFY staron in the cistem part of ja per county was Lyman A Longley , of Rock Creek town- ened at the seal set thereon by ...
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Baxter born April born August born December born July born March born November born October born September Buena Vista township Charles children were born citizens Clear Creek township daughter death occurred deceased died in infancy early eighty acres Elk Creek township emigrated engaged Fairview township family consisted farmer and stock father born February following children forty acres George grew to maturity Grove township Henry home farm home place honored hundred acres hundred and sixty Illinois Independence township Indiana James Jasper county John Kellogg township later lives in Newton located Lynnville Malaka township Marion county Mariposa township married Mary Monroe mother Mound Prairie township named as follows native Newton township Ohio parents Pennsylvania pioneer Politically purchased Reasnor Republican resides Richland township Sarah settlers Sherman township sixty acres sketch spent stock raising success twenty acres united in marriage widow wife William York
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