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THE DAILY HAWK EYE GAZETTE, BURLINGTON, IOWA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1933ftO' *No tume ic more thoroughly mined with the founding ofl;:*gtoo than that of Dr. WU-an H Eos*. H* came la 1823, c out tfc* first town site, aur-i the first mails, n* the first*Af\or, first countv clerk sad sf aud tor. turned ths first aid for Old Zion, was the. --mb n the first sliding, built'lt; first hool souse In Bur-Among the musty old at the Bn. lianrii FreeSt**tit**Lit -ary• *Poor■ *g rk4 *I*■ «mMrs. Cora * *ariaa. found a maau-iftec by 0r. Ross. Itti - oeragfcy and was. aswm art able to figur-•ten shea he was about• of age It tells tome his life, much of the *. mntng of Burlingtonthat s town laid oat at the old trading post on White and McCarter's claim would make a great commerl-dal point, 1 proposed to lay out a town for them and build me s cabin one of the lota as 1 wished tosnd effects fromonmore my goodsQuincy, to establish myself in trade and become a permanent drtsen but they would not consent to It for fear I would interfere with their right of obtaining s pre-emption but I returned to Quincy snd hired three hands to go up sod build me s cabin for fb* re- eption of my goods.but they refused to let them build until my father arrived a day or two afterwards. After viewing theword JHJEFFERSON STREET ABOUT TIIE YEARweek to the nearest postoffice on1860the proceeds of the office over to icourt. treasurer, auditor and Honey Creek seven miles from Bur-i him. Whether he ever accounted to!^OI]d*_r' ^lchard *nd 0 nX-1 ■’*sm* f lt;*! 0 W '¥ ft '# :('MBmm,*1k-',:m•1% Jn'sjf*+' •' SJif. 1 , .i*7lt;W-'k rrMUE.rAWJJSBM V- : *. vm illiam and Nan- oss, was S, 1892, in Lexington. Fay-y. Kentucky, finished his la the Old Transylvaniain March, 1*11, tail, trt VI Sftourl Territory, sad• Lou Mana. Pike countv, on' i April remained one year • rd to Kentucky and stud-t e and m the spring of1 *lt;lt;i at Indianapolis, Ind..* y-ped in the practice of tnedi-Doctor Samuel Mitrhell, 4nrtf, JS27. Bom of the spirit; J »nd v»ined the Methodist- pal church under the ‘ ‘ground without say in r a White or McCarrer be stuck fits cane in the ground for a corner and aet the boys to chopping snd they builtBoss, the!®* • cabin on the spot where Sunderland’s steam mill stands, and on the first of September I shipped on s steamboat snd landed my goods at Flint Hills, snd in November White and McCarver agreed that 1 should surrey out the town, and 1 commenced the survey out at the comer of my cabin and ran first the froLt line to the mouth of Hawkeye creek and then as far west in b’ocks until It reached my claim two blocks west of the public square.11 IWML C W JlT-. *1 -' -*1 * 1 t; I’m¥ wlwiWi / a“ IL ¥■ftal klM 1 iHlf ft IB I I gg¥' i iI If iPJ* Mil4 ^%BT *% ft *v!•/;' i•*Vv4* »•' * * % - .fc* q, /[Itir*A/jac-arPS -tJtII-v-*%I-i'w%uFTmV kr« % w #•V-» wf :•I iaFlington kept by Colonel Redman, a way office from the foot of the Rapids of the Des Moines to Galena carried once a week on horsebackI wrote Wm. T. Barry, postmaster general, to establish a postoffice at Flint Hills, Black Hawk purchase, previous to my laying out Burlington in the fall of 1931nmissioned As 1'ostmasterHe commissioned me as postmaster and carried once a week from Flint Hils, Illinois, to Sbockokonuntil a regular route was established In a bond of J300.CK;. When I called for the mail bags, blanks, etc. that was sent to Shockokon for my office,Colonel Redman refused to givethem up. saying It would be malfeasance in office to send the mail out of the United States. I told him as I was required bv the department to carry the mail at my own expense until a regular route was es tablished. If be would tend me the mail I would give him the proceeds of the office until I could hear from the department, which he agreed todo, and I carried the mail for six months at my own expense, whichcost me S25-00 ner .nnmh and turnedgovernment for the amount 1 knownot I presume It was the first post-office established In Iowa. In the winter of 1833 and 4. the legislature of Micbfgan Territory in session at Detroit, the seat of government, organized Des Moines county extending from Rock Island to our southern boundary on the Missouri state Hue Including all of the country west of the Black Hawk purchaseFirst Copy oi Laws.Baker, justices of the peace. In thewinter of 1834 and 1835, the Black Hawk purchase, with the country nortu of the state of Illinois and east of the Mississippi to the Michigan state line, was organized into Wisconsin territory, and elections were held in Des Moines county forthree senators and nine representatives. The senators were Arthur Inghram. Joseph B. Teas snd Jeremiah Smith. Jr. Thlt;* representatives were Isaac Lefler. Thomas B!a!r. David R. Chance. John Box. GeorgeIn the sprin og 1534 I rgce ____at the postofflce at Macomb, 111 j W. Teas and Drs Payne and Jen-the laws with instructions enveloped in oil cloth from Detroit. Michigan Te. ritory, to publish in different parts of the county, notifying the people to hold elections in the fall of 3834. to elect one supreme judge and two associates, for *be district court, one superior judge, one prokins and Re. nolds. and one nor recollected to meet in the fall of 1834 and winter of 1835 in BelmontGrant.iD* C ONGESTIONAlbuquerque, N. M of those reports you very seldom)_Onebate judge, one recorder/one clerk *r any more Is being investigated of court aDd two justices of thejby Paul Redd ngton, chief ©* thepeace. The following persons were jr. S. Biological Survey. A conges-elected tn fill said offices: Colonel tion of deer is reported on the Shel-William Morgan, supreme Judge; ton ranee in the SacramentoHenry Walker and Young L Hughs, associates: Leonard Abney, superior Judge; John Whitaker, probateRoss, clerk ofjudge; Williamtain s. Reddingtor. left Albu jerque with John Oatfltn. state biolo/lcal survey leader, and M. E, Musgrave regional /orest and game expert.ana,*nartc*•an**Saneyed the ftainsDuring the winter of 1833 and1*34 we surveyed end marked outPr^ficber In chsrge! *** °* tb€ clMima immediately andadjoining and around Burlington In addition to the various building* and Improvements I made tn the« £*.V2v ' a#Jeffereonfronts.street as It looked some 70 years ago with wooden canopies, southern style overresidingi.M to Phebe Carterf*r of Benjamin•Ton, by Judge Smith of ]proper, in the fall and winterspring I and 1834. I built two cabinson my claim for a dwelling and a cabin for a school house and preaching, and cleared and fenced a number of acre* for pasture anu *owed gras* and cultivated a garden tn 1834- During the summer of 1S34 I visited the Black Poarded Tvadoc C. Inghram and pro-fease, crossed the Missis-; cored him to teach a school. Two about the first of Aogn ;t brother* by the name of Philip*who I hired to make rails, occupied the cabin I bnilt for a school house thru the winter of 1S3S snd 34. andplantedIMichaelAttnin 182T. f * igrated to Palmyra, Ma-r *tv. Missouri On the firstgust, 1830. moved to Quincy.inty, niinofs. In June. • ■ wife sod two children diedible scourge, the cholera.TiV+T __* tr Ing post called Flint Rillr a f laitn Immediately westo's tug the claim of H S. » M W. McCarrer on which •r* c was afterward* laid outto perfection, and hiredNaddy to gather it Samuel Lervm built a cabin, occupied ani improved the farm until sold. I likewise fenced and cultivated 40 acres incom in 1834, on the prairie adjoining the John Pearson farm. On the 10th of September Colonel Wil'inm Morgan and family, and bis son-in-law. Charles Teas and family withlow the mouth and bottom of Hawk-eye creek, called lower Burlington,\*ca ted First fa hi*.ng the country betweentheir goods and effects landed or east bank of the river opposite Flint Hills and was ferried over that evening and next morning by my father. They camped that night in the cabin of M. M. McCarver. I was called {lows river*, believing prairie and badbuilt a pen and fed bogs. And the i upon to \;Mt one or me canur* ;i grain that fell thru the floor grew that was sick, and there was 1'ieito perfection and made ears in the first sight I got of my present fill of ’Ml. In tha meantime I had 1 The next morning the Colonel m rail* made and fenced 180 acre* of downas he owned the claim below Hawk-eye creek, which was one—half of the White and McCarver claim, held as such by David Teihero, where he had built tw-o cabins when he first visited Flint Hills In February, 1832, and bought David Tetheros interest in said claim in the fall of 1832.Planted First Corn.At the time and date of 1832 he had laid a claim in person aboutthree miles southwest of Burlington which, in 1S33, he fenced, broke and planted fifty acres of ground in corn. It was when he lived on the bank of the river below town, the winter of •1833 and 4, that I entered into a arriage contract with his daughter Matilda Morgan, and was married on the 3rd of December, 1533, on the east bank of the Mississippi river opposite Burlington, having obtained license at Monmouth, Illinois, and joined in wedlock by JudgeMcAllen of Monmouth, there beingno judicial organization weat of the river in the Black Hawk purchase. As I was taking three newspapers at that time, one from New* York, one from Cincinnati and one from St. Louis, and publishing frequently a description of the Black Hawk purchase and receiving letters on business, I had to go or send once a/*■■ ' 1/1 mm%rVijv • - *7* lt;* *****i arPfrfijkt ‘g*y iv «*»the river the first high ground l»e-Mim*r3U ■'*'Arrt m
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Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Mon, Sep 11, 1933
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