The territory comprised in Congressional Twp. 93N range 29W, is known as Delana Township.  It is bounded on the east by Humboldt Twp., on the south by Rutland Twp., and on the west by Wacousta Twp., while its north boundary line meets the southern boundary of Kossuth County, Riverdale Twp.

The first inhabitant of this township, although hardly to be viewed in the light of a settler, was a man by the name of Eastman, who located on the east half of section 3.  He kept groceries and whiskey for sale at his cabin but was not what you could call a storekeeper.  After awhile he was driven off by Hugh Johnson and his son, who claimed the land, but never lived on the property; sold it later for $400.oo to Samuel C. Church and Hiram Fleming.  Eastman built the hut which stood on the property, later owned by G. W. Hanchett, in which he lived the summer of 1855. 

Enos Bond is believed to have built a cabin on the N. W. Quarter of section 13 in 1856.  In this same year quite a few settlers appeared in this locality and selected farm land.  Among them was Hiram Fleming, S. H. Church, S. W. Trellinger, Edward France, T. Elwood Collins, J. W. Hewitt, Mahlon Collins and William Dean.  Hiram Fleming built a log cabin home and it became a noted stopping place for all who were traveling from Fort Dodge to Algona.

The first birth was that of Allie, the son of T. Elwood Collins, born October 3, 1856.  He lived only one year and seven months; his was also the first death in the township and burial was in the cemetery on section 12. 

The first marriage of residents of this township November 11, 1857, when T. J. Smith and Roxa Fleming went to Algona and were married. 

The first land was broken by D. W. Trellinger in the fall of 1856, and the first crop of corn was raised by him the following year.  Mr. Trellinger had a creek named for him.  Hiram Fleming raised the first wheat crop in 1858 on section 13.  the winter of 1856 was extremely wet, and very difficult because of impossible sloughs. 

The first blacksmith in the township was Isaac Palmer, who came in the year of 1857 and entered a claim to the S. W. Quarter of section 7 in Humboldt Twp.  In 1864 he sold out and moved to Fort Scott, Kansas.

Andrew Gullixson was the first Norwegian to settle in Delana Township in 1865, and was soon numbered among the prominent men of the community.  He married Anna Rossing of Lafayette County, Wisconsin.  They had ten children.

The first postmaster was George W. Hanchett, while Mahlon D. Collins was the first justice of the peace.  He also kept a store in Sumner, 1857.  Sumner was the first town in Humboldt Count; the plat which was filed for September 19, 1857, in section 12, the southeast quarter.  One of the founders, F. C. Collins built a frame house which was the home, meeting house, and also served as a schoolhouse.  Together with a store, blacksmith shop and a couple of houses, the town of Sumner soon vanished after a few years, and the land became farmland once more.  The first regular schoolhouse was erected in 1866, and is now constituted in District No. 1.

Delana Township has three creeks:  Bloody Run, Lotts and Trellinger.  Bloody Run, as told, was so named because of an Indian massacre several years before 1870.  It was a handicap to the settlers of the southern part of the township.  Many lived south of Bloody Run Creek as long as 8 or 10 years before being able to get to Bode to trade.  There were no bridges and often the water got into the wagons as they forded the water, or they had to go over two miles west before crossing 

Among other known early settlers of Delana Twp. Were:  Christopher Olson, who came in 1870; L. B. Gangestad, 1872; C. F. Gullixson, 1866; L. K. Opheim, 1869; and Captain T. A. Rossing, 1862.