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Unique Iowa School at Center of Court Battles
Keokuk April 6. Lee county courts have been tied up by lawsuits challenging the terms of Josiah White’s 1850 will which tasked a Cedar township manual labor school to educate poor white, colored or Indian children using land bequests in Iowa and Indiana. The case seeks to enforce the will’s perpetual operation and restrict debt or sale, with ongoing actions to reopen 1908 decrees and secure a supplemental decree.
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