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Newspaper
Eldora Herald Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1955
Page
3
Gary Cooper and Hayward star in The Garden of Evil color feature at the New Grand Theatre. A vivid tale of trespassers and original sin unfolds across three showings this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday June 8 9 16.
The narrative recounts Major 3 B Cunningham founding a Steamboat Rock store and first postmaster role, his 1856 overland return to Indiana, and a perilous wagon crossing that left Martha Wardwell unhurt but scared. It follows Reuben Wardwell’s Civil War service, later Steamboat Rock life, a ruined footbridge, river routines, and local gatherings with Everett Noyes’s boyhood sled cow incident.
Daniel Bates of Ohio arrived with his family in Clay township in 1856 and moved to Steamboat Rock in 1876. His son Daniel stayed on 160 acres with wife Isabella Livingston and children Edward Mary Anna and Joseph. William F Pence settled in 1856 on section 20 with Eliza Fuson. their children James Etna William Ellen Minnie Oliver and Cecil. George Hathaway couple, Ohio natives, bought 200 acres in section 10 in 1884. children Elsia George Marilla Thomas. Grandson Roy Hathaway still resides in Steamboat Rock. Samuel W Stewart, Irish native, came in 1884 from Ireland.
The article profiles Clay township figures born in Jefferson County and late settlers in Steamboat Rock. It notes Charles R. Green born in 1838, his Ohio-born wife Anne Brainard, and children Fannie Jessie Samuel and Eddie. It highlights Solon F. Lathrop as an early entrepreneur with land known as Lathrop's Pasture, later Harned's Pasture. Henry Luiken arrives in 1874, becomes postmaster 1885 89, and builds business ties in Steam boat Rock. It also covers Lutken family history from Illinois and Louisiana, his role as postmaster, and the four Lutken daughters who taught in Hardin county before marriage.
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