HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY, IOWA
TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES AND TOWNSHIPS, EDUCATIONAL, CIVIL, MILITARY AND POLITICAL HISTORY: PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND BIOGRAPHIES OF OLD SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS
Springfield, Ill: Continental Historical Company, 1884
TABLE OF CONTENTS
NOTE: Individual sections will be added below via links as they are transcribed.
If there is no link for a given section, that section has not yet been transcribed.
| CHAPTER I |
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| INTRODUCTION | 231 |
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| CHAPTER II |
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| PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY | 233 |
| Sub-divisions | 234 |
| CHAPTER III |
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| THE ABORIGINES | 235 |
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| CHAPTER IV |
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| EARLY SETTLEMENT | 240 |
| Mormons | 241 |
| Permanent Settlement | 244 |
| Early Voters | 254 |
| First Events | 255 |
| Relics of the Aborigines | 258 |
| Political Speeches | 260 |
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| CHAPTER V |
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| PIONEER LIFE | 261 |
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| CHAPTER VI |
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| REMINISCENCES, INCIDENTS, ETC. | 272 |
| By R. D. Geehon | 274 |
| Story of Casper Schain | 278 |
| Belle Macomber | 279 |
| The Coffin Case | 280 |
| From an Old Settler's Diary | 280 |
| By Thomas Meredith | 282 |
| A Mysterious Murder | 290 |
| By H. A. Disbrow | 291 |
| By G. B. Olney | 295 |
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| CHAPTER VII |
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| COUNTY GOVERNMENT | 297 |
| Board of Supervisors | 301 |
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| CHAPTER VIII |
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| OTHER OFFICIAL MATTERS | 307 |
| Population | 307 |
| Civil Townships | 309 |
| Town Plats | 310 |
| Matrimonial | 311 |
| Financial | 317 |
| Stock | 319 |
| Registry of Deeds | 320 |
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| CHAPTER IX |
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| POLITICAL | 341 |
| Registry of Deeds | 330 |
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| CHAPTER X |
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| NATIONAL, STATE AND COUNTY REPRESENTATION | 341 |
| Congressional | 341 |
| County Judge | 350 |
| County Auditor | 352 |
| Recorder | 355 |
| Treasurer and Recorder | 356 |
| County Treasurer | 357 |
| County Recorder | 359 |
| Clerk of the Court | 360 |
| Sheriffs | 363 |
| County Surveyors | 369 |
| Coroner | 372 |
| Drainage Commissioner | 373 |
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| CHAPTER XI |
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| CASS COUNTY COURTS | 373 |
| District Court | 374 |
| District Court | 379 |
| County Court | 380 |
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| CHAPTER XII |
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| THE BAR | 381 |
| Attorneys of Atlantic | 383 |
| Attorneys of Lewis | 390 |
| Bar of Anita | 390 |
| Bar of Griswold | 391 |
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| CHAPTER XIII |
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| THE MEDICAL PROFESSION | 392 |
| Physicians of Lewis | 394 |
| Physicians of Atlantic | 397 |
| Physicians of Griswold | 404 |
| Physicians of Reno | 406 |
| Physicians of Anita | 406 |
| Marne Doctors | 408 |
| Wiota Doctors | 408 |
| Medical Association | 408 |
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| CHAPTER XIV |
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| ECCLESIASTICAL | 409 |
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| CHAPTER XV |
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| THE PRESS OF CASS COUNTY | 430 |
| Cass County Gazette | 433 |
| Atlantic Messenger | 438 |
| Atlantic Weekly Telegraph | 440 |
| Atlantic Daily Telegraph | 442 |
| Anita Times | 444 |
| Cass County Democrat | 445 |
| Daily Democrat | 446 |
| Anita Times | 447 |
| Cap Sheaf | 450 |
| The Northwestern Journal | 451 |
| Lewis Independent | 454 |
| Marne Message | 455 |
| People's Advocate | 456 |
| Sunday Morning Clipper | 457 |
| Anita Tribune | 458 |
| Griswold Advocate | 461 |
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| CHAPTER XVI |
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| EDUCATIONAL | 462 |
| School Fund Commissioner | 471 |
| County Superintendent of Schools | 471 |
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| CHAPTER XVII |
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| RAILROADS | 474 |
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| CHAPTER XVIII |
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| THE WAR FOR THE UNION | 476 |
| Fourth Infantry | 481 |
| Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fifteenth Infantry | 489 |
| Thirty-third Infantry | 489 |
| Thirty-ninth Infantry | 495 |
| Forty-sixth Infantry | 499 |
| First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth Cavalry | 499 |
| First Battery, Light Artillery | 499 |
| First Nebraska Cavalry | 499 |
| Roll of Honor | 499 |
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| CHAPTER XIX |
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| CASS TOWNSHIP | 502 |
| Early Settlement | 503 |
| Organization | 526 |
| Iranistan | 526 |
| Indiantown | 528 |
| LEWIS | 529 |
| Business Interests | 533 |
| Societies | 544 |
| Postoffice | 547 |
| Municipal-Historic Crumbs | 548 |
| Educational | 549 |
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| CHAPTER XX |
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| PYMOSA TOWNSHIP | 555 |
| Organic | 555 |
| Early Settlement | 558 |
| Educational | 574 |
| Postoffice | 576 |
| Historic | 576 |
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| CHAPTER XXI |
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| VICTORIA TOWNSHIP | 578 |
| Early Settlement | 578 |
| Organic-Educational | 585 |
| Historic Events | 586 |
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| CHAPTER XXII |
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| BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP | 587 |
| Early Settlement | 588 |
| Educational | 606 |
| Officers | 608 |
| MARNE | 608 |
| Hotels | 617 |
| Societies | 618 |
| Postoffice-Educational | 623 |
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| CHAPTER XXIII |
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| WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP | 624 |
| Early Settlement | 625 |
| Educational | 633 |
| Historic-Organic | 635 |
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| CHAPTER XXIV |
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| BENTON TOWNSHIP | 636 |
| Early Settlement | 636 |
| Educational-Government | 651 |
| Cowboys | 652 |
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| CHAPTER XXV |
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| NOBLE TOWNSHIP | 654 | |
| Organization and Growth | 654 |
| Early Settlement | 655 |
| German Settlement | 664 |
| Educational | 680 |
| Postoffice-Officers | 682 |
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| CHAPTER XXVI |
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| GRANT TOWNSHIP | 682 |
| Early Settlement | 683 |
| Organic and Educational | 693 |
| ANITA | 694 |
| Municipal | 695 |
| Business | 695 |
| Educational-Lodges | 707 |
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| CHAPTER XXVII |
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| BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP | 710 |
| Early Settlement | 710 |
| Organic | 731 |
| Postoffice-Educational | 732 |
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| CHAPTER XXVIII |
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| UNION TOWNSHIP | 733 |
| Early Settlement | 734 |
| Educational | 747 |
| Organic | 748 |
| Historic | 749 |
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| CHAPTER XXIX |
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| EDNA TOWNSHIP | 749 | |
| Early Settlement | 750 |
| RENO | 760 |
| Edna Postoffice | 762 |
| Historic-Educational | 762 |
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| CHAPTER XXX |
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| LINCOLN TOWNSHIP | 764 |
| Early Settlement | 764 |
| " A Thought " | 771 |
| Historical Items | 772 |
| Organic | 776 |
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| CHAPTER XXXI |
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| MASSENA TOWNSHIP | 776 |
| Early Settlement | 777 |
| Educational | 786 |
| Organic | 788 |
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| CHAPTER XXXII |
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| FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP | 788 |
| Early Settlement | 789 |
| Organization-Educational | 800 |
| First Items | 802 |
| WIOTA | 802 |
| Business Development | 803 |
| Postoffice-Society | 806 |
| Municipal-Coronet Band | 807 |
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| CHAPTER XXXIII |
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| PLEASANT TOWNSHIP | 807 |
| Early Settlement | 808 |
| Historic | 820 |
| Educational | 820 |
| Religious | 821 |
| GRISWOLD | 821 |
| The Beginning | 822 |
| Business Development | 823 |
| Societies | 829 |
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| CHAPTER XXXIV |
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| ATLANTIC TOWNSHIP | 831 |
| Early Settlement | 832 |
| Early Items and Incidents | 841 |
| GROVE CITY | 850 |
| Business Interests-Postoffice | 851 |
| Educational-Hotel | 852 |
| ATLANTIC | 852 |
| The Beginning | 853 |
| Municipal | 855 |
| Business Development | 857 |
| Banks | 867 |
| Hotels | 881 |
| Water Works | 884 |
| Postoffice | 886 |
| Societies | 893 |
| Press | 893 |
| Fires | 899 |
| Presbyterian Church | 902 |
| Atlantic Schools, by R.H. FROST | 904 |
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Transcribed by Brenda Magee, January 2010.
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