History of Yell County, Iowa

Excerpts from the "The History of Iowa", by Benjamin F. Gue. Copyright 1903
Transcribed by Sue Soden .

Copyright © 1998 by Sue Soden.

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YELL COUNTY, IOWA
1851 created
1853 abolished
see Webster County

Yell County was created by an act of the General Assembly in 1851 and
embraced all of the present territory of Webster except the north tier of
congressional townships. It was named for the second Governor of Arkansas,
Colonel Archibald Yell, who was killed at the Battle of Buena Vista in the
Mexican War. The county had never been organized up to 1853, when by act of
the Legislature it was incorporated with the new county of Webster. This
county was formed by uniting the former county of Webster, which had first
been named Risley, with Yell County, making thirty-two congressional
townships, to which the name of Webster was given. By this act the county
of Yell ceased to exist.