Lamoni, Decatur Co., Iowa, 1882 Business Directory This information extracted from the 1882-1883 R. L. Polk "Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory". Submitted by Phyllis Jackson, ========================================================================== A village of 400 people and a station on the M A br C B & O RR, in Decatur county, 15 miles southwest of Leon (c h) and 65 (air line) southwest of Des Moines. Shipments, grain and live stock. Exp, Am Tel, W U Mail, daily. Thomas Teale, postmaster. Last Name(s) First Name(s) Occupation or Business Be Dell & Earl general store Bell & Hart hotel propr Dancer D grain and lumber Denvor J W physician Derry George harnessmaker Dobson E O furniture Farmer & Tilton general store Graham W meat market Hammer & Buck harnessmaker Hudson W general store Reider W M farm implts Todd E milliner Tole Thomas drugs and hardware Ward W H general store ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for their private use as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. =========================================================================