Guthrie County IA Archives History - Books .....1850-1860 1932
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Book Title: A Record


Guthrie Center, Iowa, U. S. A.

   THE following is written of the town of Guthrie Center, Iowa, covering the
last five decades of the nineteenth century. It will naturally fall into four
installments as follows:

   The Fifties and Sixties, the First.

   The Seventies, the Second.

   The Eighties, the Third.

   The Nineties, the Fourth.

   It will be of persons deceased, of times important, memory and inspiration
the motive.

   Not all will be set forth herein that can or ought to be said of these men
and their years.

   Fifty years! Never before such years; never to be such years. Never before
such men; we trust always to honor these men in our memory.

1850-60

   The first record movement toward municipal organization of Guthrie Center,
Iowa, began the first day of May A. D. 1854, the date William Tracy entered the
Southwest Quarter of Section Six, in Township Seventy-nine, North, Range
Thirty-one, West of the 5th P. M.

   The east half of this quarter and the northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of said section was all the land involved in the original plat of
Guthrie Center. The southwest quarter of the southwest quarter above was entered
by Lambert Sternberg, and by him deeded to E. B. Newton.

   Tracy deeded one-half of his eighty to Newton, and these two were the record
owners of the land when it was platted for town purposes, April 28, 1856.

   The deed whereby the land in said plat to be used for public purposes was
dedicated, is dated the same date, and was executed by E. B. Newton and wife.
Eveline, and W. M. Tracy and wife; and Thomas Seely took the acknowledgement as
a notary public.

   The land included in this plat was well located and adapted for town site
purposes. It was in the center of the county, in the midst of prairie and timber
lands without limits. South Coon river furnished drainage, power and pure
artesian water in great abundance. A county seat was just hanging ripe on a
slender branch at Panora, eight miles east of the center of the county,—"a great
injustice to be sure."

   Place, time, conditions, were propitious. Man, help yourself! The following
quintet of gentlemen were responsible and most active in developing this project
in the sixth and seventh decades of the nineteenth century (1850-1860)—William
M. Tracy, Eder B. Newton, Thomas Seely, Charles Huxley and William Warrington.


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A RECORD
History
Biography
Memory

Pioneer Times and Peoples

GUTHRIE CENTER I0WA

By ELBERT WRIGHT WEEKS
1932


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