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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1977
Page
4
The Linn County Heritage Society received an 1841 letter by Elias and James Miller Doty to their Ohio parents. It details distant travel to Bertram area and early hardships including sickness and isolation in pioneer Iowa Territory life.
The story centers on Elias and James Doty of Big Creek Bertram and Westport who planned a Linn county mill now tied to the Doty family letter donated by William C. Dale of Albany. The letter, preserved by Phyllis Wennermark, reveals their hopes, hardships, and deaths, with Elias killed at the mill frame raising in 1841 and James later dying under unknown circumstances.
Mt Mercy college hosts Festival at Mound Farm May 1 to May 7 with a big top circus tent folk artists a play a thieves market puppet show helium balloons jesters and refreshments. Highlights include Everybody Loves Opal May 1 8 p.m. and May 2 7:30 p.m. Tickets are 1.50 public 1 Mt Mercy students.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Co publishes daily and Sunday from 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. The paper lists subscription rates by carrier and mail with different term options and notes no mail subscriptions in carrier areas. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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