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State Historian Tells Muscatine's Story in Bloomington Roots
State historian recounts Bloomington Muscatine's early saga from 1838 to 1849. It covers founders, editors, steamboat era, ferry disputes, river trade, and the town’s slow growth amid colonists and professionals shaping Muscatine County.
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Muscatine
William J. Petersen
State Historical Association of
Iowa
Michigan
Bloomington
Pinch
Cedar River
Wolverine
William Gordon
William St. John
Giles
Jonathan Pettibone
J. Craig
John Champ
Norman Fullington
Moses Couch
Lyman C. Hine
Suel Foster
John Yanatta
James W. Casey
Adam Ogilvie
T. M. Isett
Mr. Norton
Muscatine County
James
Campbell
Covington
Kentucky
William Crum
Jews Standard
Town City
Town Standard
Bloomington Herald
John B. Russell
Thomas Hughes
The
Herald
John Mahin
Mahin
Muscatine Journal
Orion Clemens
Mark Twain
Journal
Mississippi
Dubuque
Willliam Gordon
River News
Robert C. Kinney
Kinney’s
James W. Neally
Territorial
Joseph
Warfield
Williams
Town Recorder
the Herald
John Phillips
Phillips
Brooks & Reese
Stowell
Washington
Levi Thornton
Edward E. Fay
Fay
Pliny Fay
Tyler
Muscatine Mail
Ely Reynolds
Geneva
Reynolds
J. P. Walton
Benjamin Weed
New England
Second Street
George M. Reeder
William L. Smith
Benjamin
Olds
James Davis
Grim Reaper
J. Lightner
Charles H. Fish
W. Hollingsworth
J. S. Lakin
Champion
Sappington
James Weed
Mulcatine
Joseph Williams
Territorial Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
C. Hastings
Finois
David C. Cloud
William G. Woodward
Stephen Whicher
A. J. Leffingwell
J. Scott Richman
Relph P. Loewe
Pinch 'Em Stily
J. A. Parvin
Parvin