History of Linn County Iowa: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Bind 1Pioneer Publishing Company, 1911 |
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A. J. McKean Anamosa appointed August avenue Bank became Bever Bohemian bridge building built cabin Carpenter cashier Cedar Rapids Cedar river Center Point Central City Chicago church citizens Coe College Coggon Cook Cornell College corner court creek Daniels district Dubuque early days early settlers elected November Ellis erected Fairfax Father George Greene Grove Henry Hosea W Indians Iowa City Isaac Isaac Cook J. J. Snouffer J. P. April James January John Johnson Joseph Judge July known land later Linn county Lisbon lived located lots Marion Mary mayor miles mill Mississippi Missouri Missouri River Mound Builders N. B. Brown October organized pastor pioneer prairie Prairieburg present president railroad recorder road Robert Samuel Sarah Scotch Grove Sioux City Smith Smythe Springville street territory Thomas town township Vernon Waubeek young
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Side 55 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Side 352 - At any meeting of the board of trustees a majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time...
Side 32 - Iowa, that the county of Linn be and the same is hereby organized from and after the 10th of June next, and the inhabitants of said county be entitled to all the rights and privileges to which, by law. the inhabitants of other organized counties of this Territory are 'entitled...
Side 15 - Des Moines River, thence up the said river Des Moines, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to a point where it is intersected by the Old Indian Boundary line, or line run by John C. Sullivan, in the year 1816; thence westwardly along said line to the "old" northwest corner of Missouri; thence due west to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri River; thence up in the middle of the main channel of the river last mentioned to the mouth of the Sioux or Calumet River; thence in a direct...
Side 195 - Section 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, That the...
Side 4 - I thank thee, Blackgown, and thee, Frenchman," addressing M. Jollyet, "for taking so much pains to come and visit us; never has the earth been so beautiful, nor the sun so bright, as today; never has our river been so calm, nor so free from rocks, which your canoes have removed as they passed; never has our tobacco had so fine a flavor, no.r our corn appeared so beautiful as we behold it today.
Side 233 - Bluffs ; from Lyons City northwesterly to a point of intersection with the main line of the Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, near Maquoketa, thence on said main line, running as near as practicable to the forty-second parallel across the said State to the Missouri River...
Side 4 - ... so free from rocks, which your canoes have removed as they passed; never has our tobacco had so fine a flavor, nor our corn appeared so beautiful as we behold it today. Here is my son, that I give thee, that thou mayest know my heart.
Side 21 - Somebody said that the history of a nation is the history of its great men. If our century has produced greater, better, nobler men who have achieved more for the human race than any other century, it indicates, if it does not prove, the progress of our world. It is a great thing to feel that this is true. The dream of the eighteenth century was free government — democracy...
Side 352 - ... day, and at the close of the polls the votes shall be counted, and a true statement thereof proclaimed to the electors present by one of the judges, and the clerk shall make a true record thereof, and...