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$10 and his wife a new dre^s. foi doing so, andi l’urtheT, that he. would not swear to a damn lie for anybody for less than $10.I will admit that I am not sure of the first settler of Concord^ but the first real settlement was around what was known in early days as the Conr* cord schoolhouse about 1 Va mile east of the west line of the township on the old Correctionville Road, now No. 20. John M. Lewis, whose farm was about a mile north of the schoolhouse, was among the first. Spence Lewis can no doubt put us right as to this point. T. rf. Conniff's farm ! was about a mile south of the school-. house. His family was well known . in Sioux City, the most prominent . member of which was Dr. R. E. |Conniff, whose widow and daughter, v'Mrs. Lang, still live in the city. Also j another son of some political prom I inence was William Coniuff, ^ jailor 5 by trade, who was Clerk of! Courts r for some years. The original Connifi family was rather large, but cnlj ■ one daughter, Mrs. J. A. Blondell , still lives in Sioux City. Dr. Connifi was herding cattle for his fathe:. when my parents moved into .tht . neighborhood and he used to tell nr that he knew me when I was a baby , The McGee family located' on ai ‘‘adjoining farm some little timlt;| later than Conniff. Mrs. McGee wa: a sister of John Friel, who locatec f about a mile west of the schoolhouse ; | and of Ed Friel, about % mile east \ j On east of the Lewis place A. Depe.I had a farm, homesteaded I believe.' and it was with them father am .(mother located in the spring of 1873 . and on this farm I was bom in Jan-.; uary, 1874. Alonzo Depee, on whos j farm I was born, was my uncle b ; marriage, his wife, Jane Depee, be fing my father's sister. Later the; j left the farm and went into/ihe hote’ | i business in Sioux City, operating j What was known as the City hotel on Jennings street and later the National house at 3rd and Nebraska , streets, where the Knapp-Spencer building now stands. Later he sold [ the hotel and, having a “yen” for the farm, bought the old farm in Concord back and lived there for several years. However, he never waj a very successful faimer, so finally sold cut and went to California, j Settling about the same -time oi an adjoining farm was his biother Sant Depee, who died before I car remember. On east or. this' load bj the Lewis and Depee farms about i j mile we come to the homestead c-fj a man named Perry. I do not recal : bis first name but he was said ,to br I a somewhat near relative of Admira’, Oliver H. P. Perry, of War of 1812 ;fame and who afterwards commanded the expedition that succeeded in opening Japan to the World trade j One of his daughters married an j uncle of mine and died only a lew i years ago in Omaha. This farm wa-: I, sold to Charles R. Riggs, father of • the present Charles Riggs, membei lt;nf fVlrv PnnvJ «f __f... /» .1
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