Logan Herald-Observer (Newspaper) - October 28, 1954, Le Mars, Iowa 1854 SOUVENIR EDITION t HARRISON CENTENNIAL c y i ir SECTION ONE LOGAN SECTION ONE OCTOBER 28, 1954 OFFICIAL HARRISON NEWSPAPER VOLUME 70, NUMBER 43 Lewis and Clark First White Men In Harrison County On August County Was Authorized Fourth General Assembly OB March Harrison County was at time a part of Keokuk It was established in 1851 and became an organized March 7.1853, by an act of the Fourth General which enactment also appointed Abram Charles Wolcott and A. D. respectively Mills and mie as Commissioners First Person To Be Killed In County Occurred hi 1850 Squatters And Regulators Were Important In 1854 3y a treaty of 1830. the United States obtained a Cession of the mie as The first person murdered in southwestern portion of as to locate the county seat was one of the a reservation for the name of which was to be wives of a Frenchman named tamie and from the and who were to who at the completion of that act. up to in March for such I date referred lived near that tribe of Indians held The county derived its the village of Little This exclusive legal sway and in honor of the ninth was an Indian trader of all the above-named of the United and had previous to this tune including what is now An two Omaha and Harrison But in Sheriff was also appointed by both were living with him 1846, the Government made a same He was The Omahas ana Sioux were at new treaty with tne by The with each at that which they pitched their tents met the home of A. and in the spring of 1850. west of the Missouri River and Jones In Pottawattamie County i while these squaw wives of gave the white race control and executed the business were planting the their former hunting and fishing which they were They i Sioux numbering about selected the southeast corner secretly stole upon section 32-C043, and then One of the wives no for tne purpose to the 160 acres thus selected the not quite 14 territory fo name of and the and while tne Organizing Sheriff called an Sioux were advancing the tion on the first Monday of er told her daughter as soon mis the same 1853. at shots were fired to fall time a fuH corps of county the ground and feign 5f FIRST Daniel Brown Settled At Calhoun In 1847 Uriah Hawkins Came To County During 1847 First Government in Harrison County Was Set Up Und Old County Judge Stephen King Was First Judge was There were other locations to remain in that condition until an opportunity arose for her she would run for the claiming the county Daniel Brown wanted it at what platted and called while might another group wanted it from 1847 to 1S53 even was very forceful in its When a pioneer land all he was ex- to do was to stay j until such time as procure a title from the which many During Many Hot Battles Were Waged Over Early County Seat When Harrison County was in 1853, by a-i Act of the the county seat locating A. D. of Abraham cf and Charles of Mills decided upon Magnolia as the spot to the ants of the people But with i the development of any especially one settled in i advance of railroad there must needs be many changes made and not will these changes effect the location of the seat of jus Magnolia having been made the seat of justice by the in the people had tired of the citizens j such management and needless were now ready to expense and a was ing At the time Magnolia was Calhoun and the vicinity SO range 44; Washing I the Present Logan were both township SO. range 45: Cass sharp The question 79 41: ever uppermost in the mind 1-' the people of and is extreme feeling over their Historical writings are usually dry and but once in a the effect of an fact can be traced down through the corridors of time in- to the lives of many people throughout a wide The reading of such a compilation sometimes is often pleasantly in- formative and interesting to one who has resided in the ity which is made the subject of the AH life and achievement is present wisdom comes from and ob- Present commercial can come past exertions and The deeds and motives of men and women who have gone before have been instrumental in ing the destinies of men and and The development of Harrison County by zhe pioneers and the following generations a three or five in proportion to township 79. range 44: own early defeat caused trouble j and an arduous It The first of population and size of territory 79 range 45- all along down through great sacrifice 1 3. where now or on ou they W think this least one full j to the man who were now 10 ana a doing business for made by which several township 79. range 42: of as other counties in ships were divided into j township 79. range 43: jtm three or in proportion TO j township 79. range 44: first government of J population and size of territory J 79 range 45- j under the old in this way Harrison County j township 78. range 41; Union iTt TQ T At the time of the was divided into two voting one west of the Boyer at Magnolia and the other east of the river at Owen who then lived af which later became a de- funct but marked on the earner maps cf the county as a Swim Boyer With PoD Book The first election returns were carried to the house of Stephen King to be Thomas B. Ty had strategy ned before the shots were and the girl true to fell prone to the but the er wounded as she knew she would ran to attract the at- tention of her invader and thus a Such an outrage forth the swift hand of pioneer The offended must er leave the county or swing to the nearest In those days men stood as in old ary shoulder to lands were to be entered Sioux was hawked and the girl in the meantime making her The next Indian murdered was in Clay Township in 1864. A King to be of and Neeley and James Hardy took tiie poll books from tne west weie side of the county to Ar- riving at the banks of the then Bover they staked out their un- dressed and swam the their clotting and book above their and ing dressed proceeded to their j The result of the election was the placing ir. office ting and one of their a young was whereupon a dare-devil named William aim ber of trusty men from the would usually pany to see that justice was granted as against land sharks and mere land lators of which there were No charge was made for such brotherly except a or me pay for sort of When was imposed upon all felt the blow and hurried to build tevy to attend to her business County Judge had three instead of twenty men man The management of county matters being left in. hands of a single it 78, range 42; township 78. range 43; township 78, range 44; and township 78, the position of county Stephen fii a The first elected to i and From a trackless The people residing along and virgin lard east of the Boyer have ern Iowa and Harrison County in was m a court and was amenable referred to a fire which the of hv art in to TIO save on the day of when an things were promised to all standing tms almost unlimited power and authority and the large amount of public money left at his old records indicate that this trust was dom During the whole term cf years in which this system of county government was jn we find bitt in- stances where a default all As a rule the ty judges were held in r gh and day or rain Si shot and killed the young Sometimes a cr feave been lost or destroyed by fte fire of 1854. so no positive data can be had as to just what the first county court did ed the court records in 1854. We will supplement this by adding that the log cabin court house located at by some ways preferred the county seat to remain at Magnolia rather than to have it removed to and as -a natural whenever Calhoun would try to have it removed from the east side of the county would rally to keep it at In the summer of the first county court asa located at oy some little else Civil living in I j j than routine ed in 18o4 and the petitions portioning out county including the small amount of school funds j earliest books and papers of the then required and an j with its on occasional consumed the were all most of his Honor's In 1861. when the supervisor February 4. 1954. P. G. Cooper j system came into effect the then acting county ty judge was relieved of much phen King having at- as from that date un- tempted to so divide the counn til the abolishment of the office that there should be five in 1869, when thf auditor system teem ana were hut through j duties related to for several terms oversight his attempt was but bate and part of the road busi some stones then te poag apon county P. G. massacre in Minnesota had ed a morbid thirst for Indian of tne served on the The county to the effect that if hej remained sn the neighborhood j one i then iree to the teken in the on page all supposed right to said j thai he would be part and 3oard of of 40 Years Writte By Butts in 1890. Is Colorful Picture To the desk of the come an article of interest written in 1890 by D. W. that was and from were er The men of the settlement who had banded together for such purpose were be- came 3 unto themselves and usually were but rimes had to appeal to j Lynch who dispatched I without listening to long of from each This utter failure and stiH the of tho j ir. two i i Little the of court the snip of D E in 1857. when on the 19th of was di I sub thf boundary andj i names of which i Murdered at Dunlap names o vc township 81, range i. Madron jn 81, range 42, the vicinity of Calhoun present ed the Board of Supervisors with a praying that the tion be submitted to the whether Magnolia should still the county Then came out an equally asking the Board to deny the At the final Calhoun fell short in the matter of and the question was dropped for six Missouri Valley In Fight In 1870. Missouri which then six years also saw particular has become a center of prosperity and with billions of vast way a network and hard surfaced grand educational and religious splendid industries and immense agricultural and livestock Can any thinking person be in- sensible to the fascinating study which discloses the aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who laid the foundation upon which those who followed after have perfectly reared the prosperity of 1954? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace and record the progress of a county from its first to pre- serve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of tion which unite the past with the and even in this brief account reflect as much of much advantage in the county's history as is the motive of this the seat of Hense that year consumed in ing thick as the leaves at autumn for a sion of the question at the eral election of that The twenty men public that of a pretty wherein 4'.c-i' of actual Ira COUNTY SEAT linn al Ho a foir i on township range 43; frequently Times Grasshoppers In delving into musty tomes and old newspaper files and odd diaries and aH of which have a bearing on those adventurous LEWIS AND CLARK on page while at part in a of Plague On five different occasions the rich in verdure and foliage nowi Among this band t in 1R90 bv D W ncn in anu in oy u. protectors or are one of the pioneers of we see m Qf at that landscape and the Qf looked back toward the paths of steady tread and use honored citizens of as the years have come and with a for those tne county at this Little did he dream chased each ot county as we view the hunter of A DEDICATION A O v i v. i om ifi t c i A rison the first as the following experienced these plague commenced to hatch rough log the first prairie Smoke was found the plain truth again appeared in countless 12 I I i quite grasshoppers have in then broken up or and over H a and j they could do but slight finally in Unless one has in the when their in the fall time of 1954.) William T. N. G B. F. Chester to Ballon far Thomas B Joeli The the the deep the shady the a Of grass and bubbling the sparkling so abundant that to tell rivulets and pebbly brooks in of it now WOuld seem places that we know from tion changed is the may yet be seen and the grass used to grow admired by the new and and far up on the shape of the ground and green we now notice size of the stream and bare inter- are much the same as 40 and mullen but beyond these few and there and SOTne remaining features of at and and hogs how the sheep are ready to nip the last whose names scene in this beautiful n of are now forgotten by a majority WSS Se there was on page 1 of the present seeded the and bridged the erected and and whose deeds and motives have mental in convening this county from a less wilderness and virgin ano shaping the destinies of this and Progress Edition of the Logan er and The Woodbine Twiner is dedicated for the pose of the centennial of on rf those who laid the wayside ever ry as the breath fcr their toil and have made Harrison County a land of where those who followed after them received a rich the wifi broken in places of ace I v of the plain truth concerning they again appeared in countless the destruction they of millions They sound like a fish began hatching in 1838, an remained in these parts un- Joly 15. since the settlement by Twelve years 27, In at o'clock the latter part of the dropped down as be i- tne p began to light much more to and with such a continuing so to until kmg found bv a County much ming s of past and in such multi- shea vy falling tudes that when alighting on was kept up until The full-grown com their fences and out buildings were united weight either bent or covered with broke off the Whole fields obiect a lead Qf were thug covered ORCHARD ESTABLISHED PRIOR TO WAR -A the experiment One is of ed tarried 1863. thr their at the fair October of the samel uere set out juci prior to had nearly all CAM War As but little of this on page the of the y were in instances
