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Book Title: History Of Des Moines County Iowa

PREFACE

   In presenting this volume to the people of Des Moines County, the author has
this to say. It was with some reluctance he undertook the task of writing a
history of the county and its people. He felt such a history ought to be
written, but would have preferred that its writing would have fallen to a more
competent person. He does not claim that the work presented is a complete
history of the county in every respect, nor that it is free from error. To write
such a history would be impossible. It is the best that could be produced under
the circumstances and within the allotted time for its writing. The writer has
lived in the county for fifty-nine years and knew many of the pioneers and early
settlers of the county while many of the incidents of which he has written, are
from memory.

   He is under many obligations to the Hon. J. L. Waite, editor of the
Burlington Hawkeye; Hon. Arthur Springer of Wapello, Louisa County; Mrs. A. T.
Hay, the oldest living native resident of Des Moines County; Hon. Daniel Matson
of Mediapolis; the Hon. J. H. Dodds and H. C. Springer of Danville; and to Miss
Miriam B. Wharton, the efficient librarian of the Free Public Library of
Burlington, for valuable assistance in procuring proper material for the work;
and he is especially under obligation to Hon. Thomas Merrill of Mediapolis for
permission to obtain information from the valuable history of Yellow Springs and
Huron Townships written by his father, J. W. Merrill, now deceased.
                                         A. M. ANTROBUS.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA AND ITS PEOPLE

By AUGUSTINE M. ANTROBUS

ILLUSTRATED
 VOLUME I
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 
1915 

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