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Ancient Leeds cookbook owned by Maquoketa family
Mrs. H. D. Barton of Maquoketa possesses a 1758 Leeds printed cook-book that has remained in the Barton family since Near Plainfield Iowa. A Clarksville youth Gerald Reuter and Bernadine and Wilma Baumgardner, daughters of William Baumgardner, perished with their father following in a second car when an automobile plunged through a bridge railing into 20 feet of water.
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Maquoketa
H. D. Barton
Leeds
England
Barton
Bernadine
Wilma Baumgardner
Gerald Reuter
Clarksville
William Baumgardner