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Pioneering events mark early settlement of Kossuth County
The excerpt chronicles late 1850s to early 1860s in Kossuth County detailing first land claims by Asa and Ambrose Call, the first log cabin near Cresco, earliest deaths and elk hunt, first women settlers in 1864, Cresco township, initial surveys, first merchants, the 1856 county division, first post, first jail, first bank in 1870, the Aug 13 1870 passenger train arrival, and early civic beginnings including a paper by the Calls and the first school and circuses, painting a vivid portrait of the county’s birth.
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Asa C. Call
Ambrose A. Cail
Algehea
Ann C. Call
Ambrose A. Call
W. T. Smith
Chubb
Cresco
Mahuren
Malachi Clark
Cresco Township
W. H. Ingham
D. B. Stine
Cedar Rapide
Kossuth
Eliza Maxwell
Rachel Clark
Elizabeth Clark
Hackman
William G. Clark
Samantha Persons
D. A. Haggard
Collar
Ramsey Township
Charles Easton
Hig Cave
William Koonz
Havens F. Watson
Algona
Humboldt Township
Humboldt County
Joseph W. Moore
J. R Jones
H. A. Henderson
St. Nicholas
Kendall
Titonka
Michael Fisher
Mra
John Heckart
Riverview Cemetery
al- Gona
Mapeacra
Lewis H. Smith
Taylor
Stacy
Hierar le
James Henderson
Mike Fox
H. W. Walston
Richard Smith
Lewis H
Lever Halverson
George A. Lowe
Smith & Lowe
H. I. Watson
Plum Creek Township
Sam Gilpin
C. B. Willson
Horace Haa‘kin
Orange Minkler
William Cleary
Mary A. Caulkins
Father Taylor
Ladies’ Sewing Society
Mr. Cleary
Georgia
Plum Creek
Samuel Reed
Hig Ridge
Irvington
Lewis Hy, Smith
Ingham & Smith
John Goeders
T. H. Lantry
H.C. McCoy
Michael Reichhoff
Thomas Robison
McCormick
John H. Manny
Hezekiah A. Henderson
Kossuth County
Ambrose
Call
Schenck
Union Township
Mre
Fletcher Hofiue
First Circus
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