Sketches of Early Iowa Land Booms in Washington County
Narrates 1854 land rush near Lexington Cedar township and Lime Creek with rival entries at the Iowa City land office. A wealthy Oskaloosa magnate buys over 2,000 acres. "Old Gil" Folsom processes duplicates slowly. Notes school lands priced at $1.25 an acre with 10 year credit, urging better long term endowment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Office
Lexington
Cedar Township
Lime Creek
Jin
Iowa City
Littler
Congress
Registers
Mahaska Co
Oskaloosa
Gil" Folsom
Early county newspapers and their pioneers in Washington
A history of Washington County’s first papers from 1844 to 1860, detailing S. A. James’s Domestic Quarterly Review, the Washington Argus, the Washington Press, and the Washington Democrat. It covers editors, political alignments, publication lifespans, and the rise of steam printing, with notes on key figures like J. F. Rice, A. R. Wickersham, T. H. Stanton, H. A. Burrell, and Col. B. B. Bolens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. James
Washington
Washington County
Iowa Territory
Young Men's Lyceum
Iowa City
William R. Harrison
Iowa
Brighton Township
Wilson
Isaac Baker
Ann
Harmony
F. H. Lee
Thomas Baker
House of Representatives
King
Domestic Quarterly Review
Review
West
United States
T. S. A. James
Our County
Our City
Washington Argus
Lewis F. Waldin
J. F. Rice
Argus
Rice
Boone County
Washington Press
A. R. Wickersham
Republican Party
Towit
A. H. Patterson
Albert Allen
J. R. Lewis
J. F. Malin
H. Wallingford
W. H. Jenkins
W. FE. Woodstock
John T. Burris
James Dawson
A. J. Disney
8. C. Corbin
James M. Ferguson
Wm. Perry Organ
A. 8. Bailey
Wickersham
Thos. H. Stanton
Bailey and Stanton
Mr. Wickersham
Stanton
Bailey
H. A. Burrell
Burrell
Leing
Bolens
Washington Democrat
Col. B. B. Bolens
Story
U. P
Brace
Early Iowa Gazette Pioneers and Granger Roots
This sketches of early events recount Washington County paper history from Wiseman who built a Republican to Democratic Gazette lineage. It notes John Wiseman’s leadership, editors Story and Goudy, and the rise of The Globe The Iowa Granger and The Washington Democrat with key figures Bailey Kellogg Waters and Hood shaping local press and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
N. Littler
Washington County Gazette
I. A. Keck
Sigourney
Washington Gazette
Wiseman and Blacknore
John Wiseman
Blacknore
Gazette
Wiseman
A. 3. Bailey
W. L. McClelland
Republican Party
The
Deleware Co
Ohio
Deleware
van Trump
Lancaster
Chillicothe
Rev. A. Story
L. H. Goudy
Goudy
Mr. Wiseman
Waters
Hood
Marietta
Portsmouth
Columbus
Democrat
Government to issue new embossed passport design
The government plans a new passport style with vest-pocket dimensions. Embossing and color sealing will be done by machinery rather than by hand, signaling a move toward standardized production.
Coast tilt study station near Machias to study sea movement
A new sesmographic and geodetic station will be built near Machias Maine in the extreme north to study puzzling coastal tilt toward the sea. A young North Carolina inventor reports elimination of interference and static squealing and provides clearer high notes from instruments and voice by radio.
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Machais
North Carolina
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S. A. James Esq
Shiloh
Andy” Johnson
Simons Clothing
P. O
W. T
Col. Kolen
Father McGaughey
Harrison Ball
Carpenter Shop
the Record
Chris T. Jones
Record
A. S
8. P. Bailey
Gazette Printing Company
Brother
Consolidated Paper
Press and Gazette
Granges
McClelland and I
Globe
Grangers
Mt. Pleasant
Samuel L. Howe
Iowa True Democrat
Free Soil
Howe
McCleland
Iowa Granger
Brighton Star
L. B. Freak
Clorinda
Senate
Legislative Assembly
Des Moines
Charles Foster
Alvin Sanders
Henry
U. S
Nebraska
George E. Spencer
Alabama
Col
FE. S. Bolens
Messrs. Kellogg and
McCracken
Leader
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