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Book Title: History Of Western Iowa, Its Settlement And Growth

HARRISON COUNTY.

This county is one of the most populous, popular, and, at the same time,
conservative counties of Iowa. It is rich, without being aggressive; secure,
without being assertive; in other words, a fine body of land, owned by a fine
class of people, Harrison county has a right to be proud of herself.

Lying on the Missouri River, in the fourth tier from the southern boundary,
Harrison is one of the western border counties of the state; is twenty-four
miles north and south by an average of about twenty-seven east and west, and
contains a superficial area of nearly six hundred and sixty square miles.

Like most of the counties in Iowa bordering the Missouri River, Harrison county
presents a greater variety of surface configuration than is found in the inland
counties to the eastward. A number of streams, that are more or less fully
described in the histories of adjoining counties, gain the Missouri bottoms
within the limits of this county, issuing from the uplands through the bluffs,
causing them to assume those strikingly picturesque and peculiar shapes
characteristic of the scenery of the valley of the middle Missouri. Nearly every
portion of the county is well watered and drained by clear, sparkling streams
and brooklets, which flow diagonally across its territory in a general southwest
direction. The principal of these water-courses are the Boyer, Soldier and
Little Sioux Rivers, and Wilson, Pigeon and Mosquito Creeks, several of which
are of considerable size, and afford along their course in this county a number
of excellent mill sites, only a portion of which have been improved. The valley
of the Boyer is a beautiful tract of alluvial land, from one-half to two miles
in width, bounded on either hand by gently ascending slopes until it nears the
Missouri bottoms, where the surroundings become more abrupt and bold. The course
of the Little Sioux in this county is mostly through the bottoms, though where
it merges from the uplands it is marked by bluffs of peculiar interest, whose
tops are conical peaks, flanked by sharpcrested, spur-like ridges. One of the
most beautiful valleys of this slope is that of the Soldier River, which is
bordered by bluffs which are unrivaled in the variety and picturesque beauty of
their scenery. The bottoms slope gently from the foot of the bluffs toward the
river, and form well-defined terraces, which afford beautiful rural situations.
The valleys of Pigeon and Mosquito Creeks, in the southeast, are margined by
high sloping upland, and their beds occupied by tracts of rich alluvial lands,
which are unsurpassed for beauty and fertility. The current of the Missouri
River, which bounds this county on the west, is very rapid, with a deep,
constantly changing channel, often cutting off whole sections of land in one
season. These bottoms are vast level plains, varying in width from four to ten
miles, and are bordered on the east by beautiful rounded bluffs, rising from one
to three hundred feet above the river level. They are traversed by low benches
or undulations, which, running more or less parallel to the river, are
intervened by low grounds that afford natural drainage channels, that receive
and confine within bounds much of the surplus waters of the Missouri in seasons
of freshets, which would otherwise flood extensive tracts of the best land for
agricultural purposes in the West. A belt of cottonwood timber extends through
the county up and down the river, from one-half to six miles in width,
interspersed with elm, mulberry, walnut, willow, ash, etc. The cottonwood grows
very large and tall. In passing over the bottoms through the timber, a person
will observe a streak of very heavy cottonwood timber, and then of tall willow
trees from a foot to three and four feet each in circumference. The willow
follows the old bed of the river, and as soon as the channel changes and leaves
the bed dry it springs up rapidly, and when the bed of the river is raised to a
certain height,then cottonwood crowds in, and a dense forest is soon made. The
soil in the bottom is very rich and deep, producing every kind of grain and
vegetables in the greatest abundance. Corn grows very large. The grass is said
to be so rich and luxuriant that cattle will keep fat on it even in winter
without cutting or curing. Many farmers in mild winters have let their cattle
range in the bottoms without any feed, pasturing them on the grass and keeping
them in good order. Water underlies the soil of the bottoms at the depth of
fourteen feet, and wherever you find water there you find quicksand. It is
supposed that the whole bottom, from the bluffs of the Nebraska side to the
bluffs in Iowa, has been one vast lake, and the Missouri River running through
it has filled it up and formed the bottom lands. There is every indication of
it. Every few rods along the bottoms you will see evidence of where once has
flowed the channel of the river. The settlers on the bottoms say they are
getting drier every year, and less subject to inundation. The agent who located
swamp lands in 1857 relates that he rode for miles through water where there is
now fine, high and dry farming lands. The low places along the bottoms are fast
filling up, and where once were ponds and marshes is now dry land with good
farms upon them. The Missouri bottoms will be at no distant day covered with the
finest farms in the Union.

There are quite a chain of lakelets commencing near the mouth of the Little
Sioux River and continuing along the bottoms. Some of them are near the bluffs,
others out in the bottoms and near the river, while all have at one day been in
the channel of the river or are the old bed of the Missouri. Many of these
little lakes have fish in them; and are beautiful and nice little sheets of
water. The channels of the streams in the bottoms are, or have been, changing.
The mouth of the Soldier River is one mile from where it was twelve years ago,
and the Missouri also, at this point, is over a mile from where it was in 1855.
The land in the old channel is as high as that of the surrounding country; no
more subject to inundations, and is covered with a heavy growth of cottonwood.
The lakelets, it is said, are fast filling up, and perhaps when the country
becomes settled and cultivated will entirely dissapear. Persons digging wells
frequently find logs, driftwood, bark, etc., several feet below the surface. A
farmer digging a well recently, near what is known as Soldier's Lake, found a
large pocket knife fourteen feet below the surface.

The soil in the uplands consist of the light colored deposits of the bluff
formation, which does not differ materially from that in the bottoms, except
that the silicious material of which it is largely composed is more finely
comminuted, and has a less amount of vegetable matter or humus. As the soil of
the uplands and bottoms was derived from the same source, it only differs in
degree, that in the former reaching a depth of sixty or one hundred feet below
the surface. It is said that dirt taken out of wells sixty feet deep seems to
produce as well as that on the surface. The soil is easily cultivated, and
produces all the grains and vegetables common to this latitude in great
abundance. It does not cave; wells do not have to be walled, except for a few
feet down from the top and at the waters' edge. The soil never bakes, but can be
plowed without injury in wet weather. It stands both wet and dry weather
remarkably. A failure of crops has never been known. The soil in the bottoms is
more of a clay nature, and in wet weather is very sticky.

Harrison contains more timber than any other county on the Missouri slope, yet
it is limited in extent, its distribution being governed by circumstances
favorable to its preservation, and is consequently found in the deep shaded
ravines that crowd up into the bluffs, and along the small streams which are
confined to narrow valleys hemmed in by steep bluff ascents. But, as observation
has repeatedly shown in all parts of the state, forests are not necessarily
confined to the valleys and moister localities, and thrive as well in one
location as another, when the devastation of the prairie fires are checked for a
period of sufficient duration to allow the young trees a few years of unretarded
growth. Hundreds of acres of prairie have been overgrown with thrifty groves of
vigorous young timber within the memory of early settlers, which period extends
back scarce a score of years. These tracts of young forests add a pleasing
feature to the landscape in these beautiful undulating divides, as that near
Magnolia, and Harris' grove south of Logan, attests. Fine groves are met with in
the valleys of the Soldier and Little Sioux Rivers, while the banks of the
Missouri throughout its course in this county are lined with a belt of fine
forest growth.

Numerous orchards have been set out in the county, and apples, pears, quinces
and grapes grow in abundance, and of excellent quality. Some peaches have been
raised, while in the bottom lands the finest quality of wild grapes are found in
great profusion. In 1867 over five hundred barrels of wine were made from these
grapes and shipped to Chicago, besides large quantities which was used at home.

Limestone is found, the best and most extensive quarries being found near Logan,
from which a considerable amount is annually shipped to Council Bluffs and other
points. There are also two or three other quarries which have been worked to
some extent in other parts of the county.

As a stock-raising and producing county, Harrison has had quite a reputation,
the native grasses being very nutritious and affording excellent pasturage at
nearly all seasons of the year. Fat cattle from this county have for years been
famous in Chicago markets and command the highest prices.

Daniel Brown was the first white man who settled in the county, locating where
the village of Calhoun now is, April 3, 1848. His nearest neighbor was twelve
miles distant, his nearest mill twenty-two miles, and nearest post office
Council Bluffs, twenty-five miles. He had to go to St. Joseph, Missouri, one
hundred and fifty miles for provisions that season, and while he was gone the
Indians came and robbed his family of provisions and all the necessary articles
of comfort. When he returned he found his family destitute of food and clothing.
Soon after his return the Indians stole all his horses, and all those of the
other settlers in the county. He and his son followed them for several miles,
trying to recapture them, but were unsuccessful. They fired a number of shots at
the Indians. The Indians frequently killed his cattle and annoyed him a great
deal during the first few years of his residence in the county. The following
were also among the first settlers. Silas Condit, two brothers by the name of
Chase, Charles Lepenta, James Hardy, Dr. Robert McGovern, Andrew Allen and Jacob
Patee.

The county was organized in 1853, when Stephen King elected County Judge; P. G.
Cooper, District Court Clerk; Chester Hamilton, Sheriff; William Cooper,
Treasurer and Recorder; George White, Surveyor; and Jacob Huffman, Coroner. The
first county court was held August 5, 1853, by Stephen King, Judge. First road
petition presented was for the establishment of a road, commencing at the south
line of the county, running thence to the residence of Daniel Brown, and thence
to Magnolia. The first mortgage on record was made by Samuel Jack to James Jack,
acknowledged by Frank Street, County Judge of Pottawattamie County. First deed
on record was made by Ezra and Catharine Vincent, to Walter Barrenger, conveying
the northeast of the southeast of section 8. township 79, range 48. The first
wedding was celebrated June 9, 1853, Stephen King, County Judge, uniting in the
holy bonds of wedlock, John Jones and Miss Elizabeth Outhouse. The second
occurred on the 16th of the following August, when the same judge united Samuel
McGaven and Miss Mary M. Harden. The total number of marriages since the
organization up to January 1, 1868, was four hundred and ninety.

The first district court was held by Honorable S. H. Riddle in May, 1855, at
which time the first cause on the docket was William Kennedy vs. D. Pate, while
the total number were four civil and one criminal. The first grand jury were:
Creed Saunders, James Garnett, John Conger, Chester Staley, H. Locklin, T.
Meadus, P. R. Sharp, Thomas Sellers, S. A. Seaman, Solomon Barnett, John Deal,
I. H. Holton, D. E. Brainard, Silas Rue and Solomon Garnett. D. E. Brainard was
appointed foreman. John Jeffary was the first person naturalized, and Thomas
Thompson the second. The number of cases since the organization of the county up
to November 25, 1867, were, civil, 749, and ninety-one criminal.

In the Fall of 1853 a party of Indians camped on Willow Creek. The settlers were
afraid that they would commit some depredations, organized a company and went to
drive them off. Among the number was a gentleman from Virginia, who had been a
captain in the Virginia militia, and had brought his broad sword and regimentals
with him, and was "decked out" in full dress, and took command. He boasted of
his bravery and would show the bloody red skins a trick or two." The company set
out on horseback, marching in gallant style, led by their brave and daring
officer —- in his own imagination. The bloody savages were to be exterminated, a
brilliant victory to be obtained, and the troopers were to return home covered
all over with glory. While marching along to the scene of conflict, they
discovered the Indian encampment about a mile ahead across Willow Creek. They
halted, commenced firing, and continued it for some time. The Indians hearing
it, some half a dozen warriors got on their ponies and rode towards the troopers
to see what was the matter. The latter seeing the warriors approaching, suddenly
imagined that they would be surrounded, overpowered, slaughtered, and scalped,
broke for their homes as fast as their horses could carry them. Many of the
troopers were so badly scared that they did not know their own houses, but went
on past them. The warriors seeing the fleeing troopers, raised a big laugh, and
rode back to their encampment in safety.

For several years the Indians annoyed the settlers a great deal by stealing or
begging. Companies were frequently organized to drive them off, and some times
there would be some shooting, but no one was ever hurt. Mr. Brown states that in
1853 there was a large party of Indians encamped on the Boyer; he with
twenty-six others went out to drive them off. They came near the encampment and
formed in battle line. The chief and a half-breed got on their ponies and rode
out to them. The chief proposed to make a treaty with the whites, and it was
made with the condition that the Indians should leave the county. There were 120
warriors with their women and children. The Indians left the county.

In the Fall of 1853 quite a large party of Ottoe Indians were encamped within
eight miles of Magnolia. One evening the settlers informed them that they had
better leave or the Sioux would attack them before morning. In the night a
firing was heard by the settlers. They went upon a high bluff to see what was
the matter, and sure enough the Sioux were pouring a heavy fire into the
encampment of the Ottoes. The latter were screaming and yelling with all
vengeance, and fled into the Missouri bottoms. The next day the settlers
attacked them and drove them across the Missouri River. They swam the river on
their ponies. Harrison County seemed to have been a hunting ground for the
Indians, as no tribe resided in the county.

On Willow Creek, about six miles from Magnolia, there are old ruins of some kind
of a house that has the appearance of having been built out of burnt brick.

MONDAMIN.

Mondamin, one of the heavy shipping points of the Lower Missouri Valley, is
situated thirty-eight miles north of Council Bluffs on the Sioux City & Pacific
Railway. The oldest settlers on the town-site is Capt. John Noyes, who with
Clarke Ruffcorn, his son-in-law, came here from the east and settled in the
township in the fall of 1856. The township at that time was a fraction of Raglan
township. It was subsequently named Morgan, which name it still bears. Although
Capt. Noyes is the oldest settler in Mondamin, he preceded Mr. E. J. Hagerman,
the present postmaster, but a few weeks. The former gentleman arrived by boat,
while Mr. Hagerman came bv team. Both started from the same place together and,
but the difference in the time required for the journey intervened between their
arrivals. Previous to the arrival of Messrs. Noyes and Ruffcorn, there were but
four settlers in the township. Mr. David W. Fletcher, although there was no
thought of a town being located in the vicinity at that time, had just previous
to the advent of the gentleman named established a general merchandise store,
and shortly after the arrival of Mr. Hagerman, the two formed a partnership.
With one exception, no other business house was erected in the place prior to
its platting, in the winter of 1867-8, when the railway was first laid through
the town. The exception noted was a general store erected by Capt. John Noyes,
some months after.

The postoffice was established in Mondamin in the summer of the year 1868, and
the D. W. Fletcher before-mentioned was commissioned as postmaster. Mr. Fletcher
held the position less than a year, when he was succeeded by the present
postmaster, Mr. Hagerman. As the salary attached to the office amounted to but
twelve dollars per year there was not a great deal of wrangling over the
appointment. The office at present, though having considerable business, is not
a money-order office.

The town was platted in the winter of 1867-8 by John I. Blair and others of the
Iowa Land Company. At first, when the railroad was built, no town was platted,
the calculation being to locate the town some distance north of the present
site. Measures to this end were actually taken, on account of the unwillingness
of settlers to part with the required land. Some of the settlers, however,
reconsidered matters, and the town was eventually located where it now stands.
The site comprises 160 acres, though it is not all platted. Eighty acres of this
land was sold to the owners of the town-site by Capt. Noyes, and the remainder
by Messrs. Fletcher and George Morgareidge, in the fall and winter of 1868.
Previous to the building of the railroad, no thought of a town in this
particular locality was had.

The oldest building now on the town-site is the residence of Dr. T. H. Allison.
This structure was erected in the fall of 1868.

Although the vicinity of Mondamin is not, strictly speaking, a wheat country, it
has other resources of magnitude, and its trade in corn is not second to that of
any town on the line of the Sioux City & Pacific railway, north of Missouri
Valley Junction. This promises to continue, as a twenty-five-year resident of
the county gave the assurance that in the time specified, there had never been a
failure, and but few small crops. Mondamin has cribbing capacity for 100,000
bushels of this grain, and the number of bushels handled by dealers during the
year closed was 200,000. The coming year promises an increase.

In addition to corn, cattle, hogs, wood and other country products, are exported
in large quantities. One dealer of Mondamin paid nearly fifty thousand dollars
last year for hogs alone.

Mondamin having reach about two hundred population, her enterprising citizens
took measures at the October, 1881, term of the Circuit Court to file articles
of incorporation, with a view of securing a village charter. In sequence
thereto, an election to secure ratification by the citizens was had, and a
mayor, clerk and five trustees were elected. Subsequently it was discovered that
in accordance with the revised statutes, a sixth trustee would be necessary to
give legality to the incorporation, and another election was held. The second
election resulted in the re-election of the officers first chosen, and F. M.
Dupray as an additional trustee. The full board was: E. J. Hagerman, Mayor; A.
Spooner, Clerk; Byron Strode, Thomas Reagan, Z. T. Noyes, E. Jones, P. C.
Spooner, F. M. Dupray, trustees. The first meeting of the board was held
November 26th, 1881.

One of the most potential influences in the incorporation of the place, was /The
Mondamin Independent/, a neat little six-column folio newspaper published
weekly, the first number of which was issued August 13th, 1881, by W. H. Wonder,
who, a year before, had established in Mondamin /The Musical Banner/, a
four-page musical journal. Besides conducting these journals, the publisher
practices his profession of teaching and publishing music, organizing musical
conventions, etc. The results of the incorporation are beginning to make
themselves apparent in the shape of new sidewalks, etc.

The general business of Mondamin, classified, is as follows: Three dry goods and
grocery stores, two grocery and notion stores, one drug store, jewelry store,
hotel, restaurant, two hardware and tin-shops, furniture store, blacksmith shop,
wagon shop, two livery stables, shoe shop, stock shipper, three grain dealers,
meat market, billiard hall and saloon, agricultural implement dealer, lumber
yard, harness shop, carpenter shop, dealer in music books and sheet music. There
is also a notary public and insurance agent. The bar has one representative
here, and medicine three.

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES.

/Mondamin Congregational Church Society/. —- This society was organized with
about thirty members, in the early part of 1876, by Rev. C. N. Lyman, of Onawa.
Mr. Lyman still ministers to the spiritual wants of the congregation, and holds
services in the school house once in two weeks. Although somewhat at a
disadvantage for the present regarding a place of meeting, arrangements have
been made for the erection of a suitable house of worship the coming spring, and
over $700 have already been subscribed for the purpose. The society, owing to
the departure from the vicinity of a number of its original members, is now not
quite as large as it was at the outset, and at present has but about twenty-five
members. The society has also a Sabbath school in connection therewith, of which
P. C. Spooner is superintendent. The average attendance is about forty-five, and
services are held every Sunday morning in the school house.

/Methodist/. -— Although there is no organized Methodist society, of any branch,
in Mondamin, there are a number of adherents to the doctrines of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and for their benefit services are held in the school house
once in two weeks by Rev. H. J. Smith, of Little Sioux.

/Other Religious Sects/. —- Although there are numerous representatives of other
religious sects in this vicinity, particularly Universalists, there is no other
organized society beyond the one mentioned. The sect particularized has
occasionally been preached to by various itinerant brethren of their belief.

/Mondamin Public Schools/. —- Although the town is incorporated, Mondamin, as
yet, has not been made an independent school district, but the limits within the
jurisdiction of the town school is known as Sub-District No. 1 of Morgan
Township. It is believed, however, by those in a position to know, that the
sub-district has sufficient population to warrant its admission as an
independent district, and that this consummation will soon be attained. There
are 100 pupils in the sub-district. The sub-district erected a one-room
building, 30x40 feet in dimensions, in the fall of 1871. when the sub-district
was first organized, but the increased attendance has necessitated the renting
of another room. This difficulty, however, is soon to be met by a larger public
edifice. The first sub-director was E. M. Harvey. The present one is E. J.
Hagerman.

/Mondamin Lodge No. 392, I. O. O. F./ —- This lodge was organized May 22d, 1879,
with charter members as follows: F. M. Dupray, N. G.; E. Jones, V. G.; J. A.
Yost, S.; A. W. Garrison, P. S.; F. W. Brooks, C. M. Gilmore, Byron Strode,
Thomas Byers, B. J. Faylor, members. Six other members were also initiated the
same evening, and of these several were immediately placed in officers' vacant
chairs. The lodge was organized by D. G. M. J. C. Miliman, of Logan. The lodge
at present contains thirty-four members, with the following officers: B. J.
Faylor, N. G.; Benjamin Morrow, V. G.; J. A. Yost, S.; R. B. Hall, T.; F. M.
Dupray, W.; B. Strode, C.; T. Morrow, R. S. N. G.; T. C. F. Brenneman, L. S. N.
G.; C. Gilmore, O. G.; William Griffith, I. G.; A. Forrester, R. S. V. G.; E.
Jones, L. S. V. G.; Anton Uhrig, R. S. S.; Z. T. Noyes, L. S. S. The lodge which
is in a flourishing condition; meets in Noyes' hall every Saturday evening.

/Mondamin Lyceum/. -— This society has just been organized with thirty members,
and its history is yet to be made. The object is intellectual and social
development. B. Strode is the President, and the Society holds its meetings in
the schoolhouse on Friday night of each week.

/Mondamin Chorus Choir/. —- This society consists of about fifteen members, and
it is non-sectarian in character. The object is musical cultivation. The choir
meets every week in the schoolhouse.

RIVER SIOUX.

This thriving place is located on the Sioux City & Pacific Railway, at or very
near the junction of the Missouri and Little Sioux Rivers, on the south side of
the latter stream. It contains a population of 225. The town, although
unincorporated and small, is delightfully situated in the midst of heavy timber,
of various kinds, and is one of the most progressive business places in the
county. The town owes its origin to the advent of the Sioux City & Pacific
Railroad, the authorities of which platted it in October, 1868. The original
town site was a few hundred yards north of the present one, on the north side of
the Little Sioux River. This location, however, was found to be too low for a
town site, as it was subject to inundation, and the town was accordingly removed
to its present location. This transfer was made in the summer of 1876. The new
location showed the wisdom of those who chose it, as it is the highest point of
land on the railway south of Sergeant's Bluffs. On the original town site there
were but three settlers, Reuben Newton, depot agent, S. Chase, who lived there
prior to the advent of the railroad, and E. J. Davis.

The land to which the town site was finally transferred was owned by Henry
Herring, E. J. Davis and James Crabb and the undivided half of eighty acres, was
by them given to the railway company with the understanding that the town should
be removed thereto.

As before stated, the business of Little Sioux, in proportion to population and
number of establishments, is quite large. The following are the various kinds of
business, ennumerated: Two general merchandise stores, drug and grocery store,
drug store, hardware store, three saloons, hotel, lumber yard, two saw-mills,
blacksmith and wagon shop, grain and stock dealer, butcher shop.

The professions are represented in River Sioux by two physicians, two lawyers
and one civil engineer.

As River Sioux is situated in the midst of a productive country, which is
rapidly increasing in population, the shipments of various kinds of produce are
necessarily quite large, and they are rapidly increasing in amount and value. At
present they will aggregate from two to three car loads per day. The business of
the station is ably handled by the agent, R. Newton, who is at present the
oldest settler on the town site, he having removed thereto with the transfer of
the town site. Although River Sioux cannot properly be described as a port of
call for Missouri River steamers, vessels of this description have in previous
years come up the Sioux as far as the town, and it is thought that a systematic
course of dredging and widening of the channel would make it possible for this
description of craft to come up at all stages of water. In justice to dissenting
opinion, however, it must be stated that there are those who regard such a
scheme as chimerical to the highest degree.

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES.

/Methodist Episcopal Church Society/. -— This society has no church building,
but is composed of about thirty members. The congregation meets in the town
hall. The society has been in existence only since the organization of the
Little Sioux Circuit in 1876, and has no resident pastor, and it is now one of
the appointments of the Little Sioux Circuit, of which Rev. H. J. Smith, of
Little Sioux, is the minister. The erection of a church at no distant future is
being discussed. Outside of the members of the society, there is a good
attendance of non-members, and there is more than a probability that the society
will soon see a church of its own. Besides this society, there is no other
organized religious body in River Sioux, although occasional services have been
hetld in the place by the clergymen of other denominations.

/Odd Fellows/. -— There is a lodge of Odd Fellows at River Sioux. The lodge
contains twenty-three members, and was organized in January, 1879. The following
is the list of elective officers first installed: N. G., J. Simmons; V. G., J.
Bowie; S., C. A. Demun; T., S. Demmon. The present elective officers are; John
Whiting, N. G.; Henry Herring, V. G.; James Harmon, S.; John Henry, W.

/Good Templars/. -— Although there is no temperance organization in River Sioux,
an effort is making looking towards the organization of a subordinate lodge of
the Independent Order of Good Templars.

/Public Schools/. —-The school district, of which Sub-District No. 6 (River
Sioux) is a part, is Little Sioux Township District, which was organized in
April, 1857. Sub-District No. 6 was organized September 21, 1874, and Charles
McEvers was elected the following spring as sub-director. The present officers
of the school township are: Samuel Ellis, President; Samuel Dewell, Secretary;
Charles Smith, Gilbert Smith, S. A. Page, Samuel Taylor and George W. Rock.
Sub-District No. 6, has at present a neat little school-house 26x40 feet in
dimensions, but as there are ninety children of school age in the Sub-District,
the space is inadequate to its wants, and the coming season a larger structure
will be erected at a cost of $3,000. The school is under the supervision of E.
A. Baldwin, of Little Sioux, and is in a flourishing condition. Although
containing but one room, two departments have been maintained until recently,
but lack of space necessitated the discontinuance of one department. This state
of affairs is to be remedied hereafter. Upon the completion of the new
schoolhouse, the District will be made Independent.

WOODBINE.

The first permanent settler in the vicinity of Woodbine was Richard Musgrave,
who arrived in 1852, from Council Bluffs. Mr. Musgrave settled in the
Twelve-mile Grove, two miles south of town, where he still resides, engaged in
farming. Mr. Musgrave was one of a number of monogamous Mormons who came to
western Iowa and located at the time of the migration of the original church
from Illinois and Missouri.

L. D. Butler was the second permanent settler in the vicinity. He has never
resided in the town proper, but has been in business there most of the time
since his arrival. Mr. Butler came to Council Bluffs in 1849. At that time, this
portion of Harrison County was a wilderness, inhabited only by wild deer, elk,
wolves, etc. The only settlements that had been made anywhere near were by the
Mormons aforesaid, of whom Mr. Butler was one at the time. In a stray excursion
northward, Mr. Butler was struck by the beauty and fertility of the land in the
neighborhood of what is now Woodbine, and in 1853 he came here and located near
the town-site, occupying one of a number of abandoned Mormon dwellings until he
could erect a suitable building. The building he put up was situated about one
and one-half miles east of the present town. He then commenced farming. Mr.
Butler built a grist and saw-mill at the point mentioned in the year 1855. This
was the first mill erected in Harrison County.

Among other old settlers are Jacob Harshbarger, David Selleck, Dr. Cole, Henry
Hushaw, G. W. Pugsley, John Jeffries, Matthew Hall and others whose names could
not be readily obtained. These came between the years 1853-5.

The town was platted in the fall of 1866, by the Blair Town Lot and Land
Company. This was the year of the completion of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway to this point. The Land Company purchased 1,200 acres of land for the
use of the town, though but a comparatively small portion of it has been
platted. The parties selling this tract to the Land Company were Matthew
Winters, David E. Barnum, Hiram Wisener, W. F. Clark, G. M. Brown, I. McAtee,
John Johnson and M. Kiger.

The town was incorporated in the latter part of 1877, and the first meeting of
the town council was held on December 7th, 1877. The following was the
composition of the first council: A. W. Curtiss, Mayor; C. C. Matter, Recorder;
Joseph Clizbe, J. W. Vinacke, G. H. Kibler, C. W. Jeffries, C. D. Stevens,
Trustees. The present officers are: J. V. Mallery, Mayor; Frank Folts, Recorder;
Frank A. Butler, T. L, Canfield, J. C. McLain, H. B. Kling, S. L. Winter, O. D.
Smith Trustees.

The money-order postoffice at Woodbine is a legitimate successor of an office
established in 1858, eight years before the town was platted. The original
office was located at the grist-mill of Mr. Butler, previously mentioned, some
distance from the town-site. The intention of the settlers was to name the
office Harrison City Postoffice; but the department at Washington did not care
to issue papers with that name as there were already several Harrisons in Iowa,
and it was thought an additional one would lead to confusion. The name Woodbine
was finally suggested by Mrs. Butler, and it was accepted. The name was taken
from the cottage in which Mrs. Butler resided, as a girl, in England. The first
postmaster was Mr. Butler, who held the office for about ten years and for some
time after its removal to its present site. The present postmaster is Lysander
Crane, who has been in office about a year. The postoffice name was applied to
the town by the platters of the same.

The first building erected on the town-site was Gallagher & Bros, saloon, which
was built just before the railroad was graded to this point. The first residence
was put up in 1866, by William A. Jones. The next building erected was in 1866
by J. P. Moore. The house, the Woodbine House, is still standing, with
additions, and was the first hotel in the place. Among other buildings erected
about this time, were the residence and the hardware store of A. Cadwell,
Sleight & Williams' agricultural implement warehouse, C. D. Stevens' grocery
store, L. D. Buttler's general merchandise store, (the first in the place),
McAtee's grocery store, Dr. Cole's drug store and several other smaller concerns.

Woodbine Lodge, No. 405, I. O. O. F., was instituted in April, 1880. Charter
members: F. J. Porter, S. L. Winter, W. J. Callender, A. P. Lathrop, W. C.
Sampson, George Musgrave, and others. First officers: F. J. Porter, N. G.; S. L.
Winter, V. G.; W. J. Callender, Secretary; W. C. Sampson, Treasurer. Present
officers: A. P. Lathrop, N. G.; George Musgrave, V. G.; H. B. Kling, R. S.; J.
V. Mallory, P. S.; S. L. Winters, Treasurer. The Lodge has about forty members.
Meetings are held in Odd Fellows' Hall Wednesday evenings of each week. The
Lodge is in excellent working condition, and its membership is of as equally
excellent a standard.

The Masonic fraternity is as well represented by men of standing and
thorough-going qualities. Charter Oak Lodge, No. 401, A. F. & A. M., was
instituted in 1880. Its charter members were: R. Yeisley, H. C. Harshbarger, F.
J. Porter. J. R. Burkholder, C. D. Stevens, W. H. DeCou, Lysander Crane, P. A.
DeCou, R. Jacobson, L. D. Butler, I. A. DeCou, J. S. Hall, G. Smith Stanton.
First officers: Reuben Yeisley, W. M.; H. C. Harshbarger, S. W.; F. J. Porter,
J. W.; G. Smith Stanton, Secretary, C. D. Stevens, Treasurer. Present Officers:
Reuben Yeisley, W. M.; F. J. Porter, S. W.; H. H. Rathbun, J. W.; H. C.
Harshbarger, Secretary; C. D. Stevens, Treasurer; J. R. Burkholder, S. D.; C. W.
Mendenhall, J. D.; N. E. Cowles, Tyler. The membership is twenty-five. Meetings
are held Saturday evenings on or before the full moon.

Woodbine has a circulating library of about 800 volumes. This library is owned
and conducted by Geo. Musgrave, proprietor of the /Twiner/, at his office.

There are three church buildings, the Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal and
Baptist. The religious interests of Woodbine are zealously cared for.

There is every advantage offered in an educational way. The school building is a
handsome and roomy structure of four departments. C. C. Matter is the principal;
Miss Hester Hillas teaches the Intermediate Department; Miss Etta Boies, the
Second Primary; Miss Harriet Elkins, the First Primary. One hundred and fifty
pupils are enrolled. The building was built in 1880, is of brick, two stories in
hight, and cost about $5,000.

MODALE.

The location of this place is on the Sioux City & Pacific Railway, sixty-five
miles south of Sioux City, and a little less than thirty-two miles north of
Council Bluffs. Modale contains ahout 200 inhabitants, most of whom are native
Americans. The village is not incorporated.

Modale was laid off by Benjamin Martin in 1872, under the the name of
Martinsville, which is still the legal name of the place, in all deeds of town
property it being thus designated. The name Modale, however, is the older name,
and seems to be preferred by the citizens. The name had a somewhat singular
origin. In the year 1858, the few settlers then living in the vicinity were
desirous of securing a postoffice, and a petition was drawn up and sent to
Washington asking that one be established. T. A. Dennis, who forwarded the
document, also sent recommendations as to name and location. The name suggested
was ''Missouri Dale;" but the writing being somewhat illegible and the word
"Missouri" being abbreviated to "Mo.." the postofnce authorities could make
nothing of it but "Modale" and with that name the papers were filled out. This
postoffice was located two miles and a half northwest of the present town. The
postmaster was Stephen Hester. The office was shifted according to population
several times before it reached its present location. The last move was in 1873.
C. J. Cutler, the present postmaster, the oldest living settler on the town-site
was the first postmaster. The name Modale was further fixed by the building of
an addition called "Modale addition" after the town was platted, and by the
railway company's giving the station the name of Modale.

At the time of the building of the railway through here, in the fall of 1868,
the intention of the company was to make no regular station, but simply a
station. This idea was carried out, and it was a number of years after before
any but flagged trains stopped at Modale. But in course of time, as population
and products increased, a station was found necessary and one was made, the
enterprise of Mr. Martin and others providing the town site. The original plat,
as laid out by Mr. Martin, contained but ten acres, but a year afterward thirty
acres more were platted by that gentleman. About the same time Alonzo Beebe
platted the Modale addition of six acres, which made the total number of acres
in the town site forty-six. No more additions have been made since.

The oldest building on the town site is the old school house, which though still
standing, is deserted and dilapidated. This building, size 26x30 feet, was the
second school house in the district, and was erected in 1866. The first building
erected after the town site was platted was the residence of A. M. Snyder, which
was erected in 1874, and in which Mr. Snyder still lives. A number of other
small residences were erected shortly afterward.

Among the early settlers of Modale are C. J. Cutler, before mentioned; B. F.
Martin, son of the founder of the town, and A. M. Snyder, also previously
mentioned. These all came about the time the town was platted. There were
others, some of whom are dead, who were also early settlers of the immediate
vicinity. Among the extreme old settlers of the vicinity, though not a resident
of the town proper, is J. J. Anderson. He, however, is separated from the town
by but a narrow lane. His house had been built for many years prior to the
platting of the town. Mr. Anderson came to the township some time in the early
'50's. Other old settlers in the township are Joseph Haskins and Joseph Bross,
who both came to Taylor Township nearly thirty years ago. The priority of
settlement was not ascertained.

The business of Modale, though not varied, is large in proportion to its
population, and is constantly improving. The exports consist principally of
corn, hogs, cattle and wood. The latter, regarding which no exact figures could
be obtained, is shipped across the river into Nebraska. Modale has a large
corn-cribbing capacity -— at least 100,000 bushels, but double that amount of
this cereal was shipped during 1881. Besides, a large quantity was purchased for
home consumption. The shipments of cattle and hogs amounted to several hundred
car loads of each, but as the cars in which the animals were shipped were
sometimes partially filled at towns above before reaching Modale, it is not
possible to give the exact number.

The situation of Modale is a beautiful one, and it was high enough to escape the
heavy overflow of the Missouri in 1881. There is heavy timber near the town, and
a number of citizens find profitable employment in clearing it. The people, like
most of the people on the valley, are wholesouled and generous, and the vicinity
presents many advantages to prospective settlers. The merchants carry stocks of
goods far heavier than the town would at first sight seem to warrant, yet all
seem to be thriving and doing good business.

Modale is not yet incorporated, though the subject of incorporating has received
considerable attention.

The business of Modale, classified, is as follows: Two general merchandise
stores, grocery store, hardware store, furniture store, millinery store, drug
store, saloon, two hotels, butcher shop, two blacksmith shops, carpenter and
wagon shop, weigh scales, two stock dealers, lumber and agricultural implement
dealer, wood yard, lumber yard, harness and shoe-maker, and livery stable. Two
physicians comprise the practicing professional men of the place.

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES.

With these Modale is but moderately well supplied -— in fact, of secret
societies she has none, though there are a number of members of various orders
in the vicinity. She has no church building beyond a Union church, built by a
stock company at five dollars per share, and in this the societies which exist
in Modale hold their services. It is open to all denominations. This church was
built in 1875 and it is 28x46 feet in dimensions. The cost was $1,200. Below are
given the church and other societies of Modale:

/Methodist Church Society/. -— This society was organized in 1866, by Rev. A. J.
Andres, the society at that time containing but six or eight members. The first
services were held in the school house. The society now numbers nearly fifty
members, and the services are held every other week in the Union Church. The
pastor is Rev. H. J. Smith, of the Little Sioux Circuit. This church has a
Sabbath School of sixty members, of which W. W. Morton is the Superintendent.
The school was established in 1876.

/Christian Church Society/. —-This society has had a number of ups and downs. It
was first organized in 1861 by Rev. D. R. Duncan, with twelve or fifteen
members; but since then it has several times fallen into a condition of decay,
and has as many times been reorganized. It now has between thirty and forty
members and seems to be in a flourishing condition. The services are held in the
Union Church. The present pastor is Rev. D. G. Mullis.

/Modale Public. School/. —- This school is not independent, but is the school of
Sub-District No. 3, Taylor Township. As elsewhere announced, it was organized
twenty yars ago, when there were but four families in the district. The first
sub-director was James Mackintosh. The growing demands of the community have
caused larger buildings to be erected twice, and the present building is the
third one erected by the Sub-District. The present building was erected in the
summer of 1881. It is a two-story frame structure, 30x50 feet, and has two
rooms, each of which constitutes a department. The higher department is taught
by J. A. Bradley, and the lower by Miss Clara Vanderhoof. There are 104 pupils
in the Sub-District. Several unsuccessful moves have been made in the direction
of rendering the Sub-District independent.

/Modale Band of Hope/. -— This is an independent body, which was organized
November 6th, 1881. Arrangements are now in progress to secure for it a charter
from the State Band of Hope, thereby making it a subordinate band of that
institution. The officers are: J. A. Bradley, Superintendent; W. W. Morton,
Assistant Superintendent; Eva Martin, Secretary; Bessie Silsby, Treasurer; Eva
Martin, Chorister; Pamelia Taylor, Organist. The band meets every Sunday at 3
P.M. There are seventy members.

/Modale Literary Society/. -— This society has just been organized with J. A.
Bradley as President. Meetings are to be held weekly in the school-house. There
are but a few members as yet.

DUNLAP.

The settlement of Dunlap began in the summer of 1867, the prior settlement,
which was virtually its beginning, however, being the town of Olmstead, to which
reference has been made hitherto. The Olmstead settlement was known as the
Yankee settlement, as its founders and population -— if the latter word is not
too comprehensive for so small a town -— were from New England.

Of this Olmstead settlement it may be said that Henry Olmstead, H. B. Lyman,
Edward Brace, and Calvin Nay, came together in the autumn of 1855 from
Connecticut; J. L. Roberts came in November of the same year. The same autumn
witnessed the arrival of James Welch, who settled on what is known as the Sam.
Ettinger farm, about thirteen miles south of Dunlap. During the same autumn E.
P. Brown built a log house about one-half mile west of Galland's Grove, in
Harrison Township. A man named Riley, a native of Connecticut, came the same
autumn in search of health.

About the last of November, 1855, Olmstead, Riley and Roberts assembled on the
townsite of Olmstead, and voted a township organization. Olmstead was Chairman
of the meeting, Riley was the Clerk, and Roberts sustained the important role of
"voter." Both Riley and Olmstead are now dead. Riley died in Connecticut;
Olmstead was killed by a runaway team. The latter was the first County
Supervisor for Harrison Township, L. Kellogg, the next, and was succeeded by
Roberts, whose term of office included the year during which the settlement of
Dunlap was begun.

Like the "paper towns" in Iowa and elsewhere, Olmstead was not doomed to
anything but a transitory existence. The establishment of the line of the C. &
N. W. Railroad elsewhere than had been expected terminated the existence of a
number of towns, and Olmstead was among the number.

Dunlap is located on section 3, township 81, range 41, and was platted by the
Cedar Rapids Land Company in 1867. The town was incorporated in the spring of
1871. Its first officers were: L. G. Tubbs, Mayor; Frank Griffin, Recorder; S.
M. Williams, W. C. Chapman, B. F. Carpenter, W. P. Webster, J. R. Wheeler,
Trustees; Samuel Baird, Marshal; S.J. Patterson, Treasurer; William Magden,
Solicitor; William Sears, Street Commissioner; H. W. Cotton, Assessor.

The following are the present town officers: F. W. Olmstead, Mayor; D. T.
Stubbs, Recorder; O. P. Simmons, G. W. Chamberlin, John Noonan, Charles Gager,
G. P. Moorhead, E. R. Cadwell, Council; E. K. Burch, Solicitor; J. B. Patterson,
Treasurer; W. Van Slyke, Marshal. Board of Education: S. J. Patterson,
President: R. R. Ballard, Secretary; J. A. Nay, M. Barrett, M. Roberts, H. W.
Gleason, W. C. Chapman, J. Van Scoy.

Dunlap Bank, a prosperous and substantial institution, was organized in 1871,
the firm at first being Clark, Kellogg & Thompson, and afterwards Kellogg,
Morehead & Thompson. The present firm are Kellogg, Morehead, Satterlee &
Patterson. L. Kellogg is president, S. L. Amsden Cashier, David Stubbs Assistant
Cashier. The bank building, a handsome brick structure, was erected in 1879.

The town was named by the Railroad Company in. honor of one of its officials.
Its population, according to the census of 1880, is 1,418; its present
population is fully 1,500.

Among the leading industries may be mentioned I. Scholfield's flouring mill,
which was erected in the summer of 1871. This mill is about five-eighths of a
mile west of Dunlap, is 32x66 feet in dimensions, and three stories high, has
four run of stones, and a capacity of sixty barrels per day. This mill has all
the machinery for making the patent flour; but is mainly employed in doing
custom work, a very large amount of which comes to it. Mr. Scholfield also owns
a grain elevator at Denison.

His mill office and residence are connected by telephone. Mr. S. has a farm of
three hundred acres connected with the mill, and is extensively engaged in hog
raising. He is also the owner and editor of the Dunlap Reporter. This paper was
started in 1871 by Geo. R. Brainerd, who was succeeded by G. W. Thompson. Mr.
Thompson ran the paper about two years, part of the time in connection with
James Ainsworth. Thompson sold to L. F. Cook, who ran it until May, 1880, when
Mr. Scholfield purchased a half-interest. In May, 1881, Mr. Scholfield purchased
Cook's interest and assumed entire control. He has changed the paper from an
eight-column folio to a five-column quarto, and greatly enlarged its scope,
paying very particular attention to the wants of the farming community, as well
as to those of the home circle and the fireside. In this undertaking he is
meeting with success. L. Ballou is the local editor.

There are three brickyards, of which James Van Scoy, Aaron Van Scoy, and Joseph
Wood are proprietors. These yards furnish brick of the first quality at very low
prices.

The business of the town in general may be classified as follows: Hotels, 3;
general merchandise, 4; groceries, 5; hardware and farm implements, 3; bakery,
1; drug and bookstores, 3; livery stables, 2; clothing, 1; furniture, 2;
jewelers, 2; wagon and blacksmith shops, 2; blacksmith, 2; harness, 2; boot and
shoe store, 1; meat markets. 2; confectioners, 3; barber shops, 2; grain
elevators, 2; lumber yards, 2, agricultural implements and machinery, 1; art
gallery, 1; cigar factory, 1; billiard rooms, 2; attorneys, 5; physicians, 6.

The Railway Eating House and Hotel, leased and conducted by Chapman & Castle, is
liberally patronized by the traveling public. The building is large and roomy,
and the accommodations excellent in every respect.

The postoffice of Dunlap was established in 1867, a Mr. Willard being the first
postmaster. He was succeeded by B. F. Carpenter, and he in turn by Dr. D.
Satterlee. The office was made a money order office July 17th, 1872. Dr.
Satterlee is the proprietor (in connection with his office) of a well conducted
and arranged book and drug establishment.

All in all, Dunlap is not only a thriving town, but, to the unprejudiced
observer, a town destined to grow steadily in importance. It has, moreover, a
substantial and beautiful appearance, situated as it is, on a "bench"
overlooking the rich and fertile Boyer Valley, and equipped, as it is, with many
handsome and substantial buildings.

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES.

/The Baptist Church Society/. —- Organized in August, 1872, by Rev. E. G. O.
Groat. F. W. Foster was the pastor in April, 1880, and was succeeded by Rev. A.
G. Delano, the present pastor, in December, 1881. The church building was
erected in 1878, and cost $l,800. The membership is twenty-five. Wm. H. Garrett
is the Sabbath School Superintendent. Present officers: G. W. Chamberlin, J. N.
Chapman, Deacons; J. M. Baber, Clerk; J. N. Chapman, W. H. Garrett, Col. Brown,
Trustees.

/The Catholic Society of Dunlap/. —- First held services in 1871, under the
charge of Rev. Father McMahon, of Council Bluffs. The building of the church was
begun in 1872, and completed in 1878. The edifice is of brick and about 46 feet
by 70 feet in dimensions. There is also a brick parsonage attached, which latter
was finished in 1881. Rev. Father Lynch is the present pastor, and took charge
of the society in 1876. There are between 200 and 300 communicants. The parish
includes Missouri Valley, Magnolia, Logan and Woodbine. The church was dedicated
in 1880, and is called St. Patrick's Church.

/Congregational Society/. —- Rev. H. S. Mills is the present pastor of this
flourishing society. Among the first members who participated in the
organization are L. Kellogg and wife, Theodore Kellogg and wife, H. B. Lyman and
wife, and J. L. Roberts and wife. A church building was erected in 1876, in
which services are at present held. Previous to that time services were held for
a number of years in an old building, on what is known as "Gospel Hill." The
present church edifice was erected at an expense of $4,000, and is among the
finest in the city. There is a parsonage near the church building. The present
membership is over 100. M. P. Brace is Superintendent of the Sabbath School,
which has an attendance of 100 pupils.

/M. E. Church Society/. —- Rev. Fletcher Brown is the present pastor. The
society was organized in 1869, and has now a membership of about 100. The church
edifice was erected at an expense of $5,000. Z. T. Dunham is President of the
Board of Trustees, and M. S. Bowman, Secretary and Treasurer. R. N. Blair is
Superintendent of the Sabbath School, which is in a flourishing condition, and
has an attendance of 115 pupils.

/Dunlap Lodge, Iowa Legon of Honor, No. 117/. —- Meetings are held on the first
and third Wednesday evenings of each month. This Lodge was instituted in August,
1881, with fifteen charter members. Its first officers were Charles Reiher,
President pro tem; Dr. A. H. Hazlette, V. P.; L. A. Sherman, T. S.; Dr. S. J.
Patterson, Treasurer; L. Ballon, Secretary. The present officers are T. B.
Beach, President; T. E. Miller, V. P.; the remaining officers same as above. The
present membership is about twenty-five, and meetings are held in Odd Fellows Hall.

/Hospitable Lodge No. 244, A. F. and A. M/. -— Instituted under dispensation in
August, 1868. Charter members and first officers: Dr. D. Satterlee, W. M.;
Daniel Smith, S. W.; A. N. Warren, JW. — E. W. Davis, Charles M. Robins, Thomas
Rue and C. H.. Wing. Present officers: Dr. D. Satterlee, W. M.; J. A. May, S.
W.; O. Colburn, J. W.; A. D. Jones, Treasurer; W. J. Williams, Secretary; A. M.
Warren, S. D.; I. Colburn, J. D. The present membership is about fifty. Meetings
are held in Masonic Hall Tuesday evenings on or before the full moon of each month.

/Golden Rule No. 178, I. O. O. F/. -— Instituted Sept. 4th, 1869. Charter
members: G. W. Thompson, W. W. Granville, P. Soules, E. W. Holbrook and Fred
Kemp. First officers: G. W.Thompson, N. G.; P. Soules, V. G.: H. W. Colton,
Secretary; W. W. Granville, Treasurer. Present officers: J.H. Read, N. G.; P. W.
Tyler, V. G.; W. T. Howard, R. S.; S. R. Lindsey, P. S.; Z. W. Pease, Treasurer.
Membership eighty-five. Meetings are held in Odd Fellows Hall in Commercial
block Thursday evenings of each week.

/The Band of Hope/. —- Organized in 1877. Present officers: Mrs. L. A. Nay,
President; L. G. Tyler, Secretary; Miss Edith Pike, Treasurer; Miss Eva Waitley,
Assistant Secretary. This organization is an anti-tobacco, profanity and liquor
association, and has a membership of about seventy-five. Meetings are held the
first Tuesday evenings of each month. Entertainments are given weeklv, and
consist of music, speaking, etc. Every third Sunday in each month regular
exercises are held. They are non-sectarion in their character, and are held
Fridays in the Congregational Church alternating on Sunday between the M. E. and
Baptist Churches. This Society is in a flourishing condition.

/The Ladies' Christian Temperance Union/, is also one of the effective means for
the promotion of its object in Dunlap.

/The Young Peoples' Library Association/. —- This society was organized in 1879
and began with five or six members. It has now about seventy members. The
present afficers are: Frank Miers, President; Mrs. H. M. Mills, V. P.; Charles
Strong. Secretary; Chas. Waitley, Librarian. The prayer room of the
Congregational church is used for library purposes. There are already about 200
well selected volumes in the library. The membership fee is fifty cents, with
ten cents dues per month thereafter. No one can become a member of this
organization but those between the ages of 16 and 30 years.

/Guiding Star Encampment No. 68, I. O. O. F./ -— Instituted Feb'y 26th, 1874.
Charter members: C. H. Tyler. G. W. Chamberlain, H. W. Colton, L. G. Tubbs, Hugh
Ballard, Wm. Spendlove, A. K. Grow, R. B. Hillas, Z. W. Pease, G. W. Thompson.
First officers: G. W. Thompson, C. P.; C. H. Tyler, H. P.; G. W. Chamberlain, S.
W.; A. K. Grow, J. W.; Wm. Spendlove, S.; Z. W. Pease, Treasurer. Present
officers: W. T. Hall, C. P.; Wm. Spendlove, H. P.: Samuel Ballard, Sec.; L. R,
Lindsey, J. W.; J. Reed, S.; Z. H. Pease, Treasurer. Membership, about fifty.
Meetings are held in Odd Fellows' Hall on the second and fourth Mondays of each
month.

/Knights of Pythias/. —- An order of this society is being organized with
encouraging prospects for success.

/A. O. H., Division No. 1/, was organized in September 1880. Charter members: J.
T. Noonan, M. J. Duggan, Ed. Lehan, Will. H. Page, W. Cavanagh, Peter Wall,
James Malone, John Doherty, Richard Doherty. First officers: M. J. Duggan,
County Delegate; J. T. Noonan, President; John Doherty, V. P.; W. Cavanagh, R.
S.; W. H. Page, F. S.; Peter Wall, S. at A.; Thomas Noonan, Marshal. Present
officers: S. T. Noonan, County Delegate; John Doherty, President; Jno. Brady,
V.P.; W. Cavanagh, R. S.; Richard Doherty, F. S.; Michael Duggan, S. at A.;
Thos. Noonan, Marshal. Membership, thirty-two. Meetings are held in Lahman's
Hall on the first Sunday of each month.

/Dunlap Cornet Band/. —- Organized in 1879, and has 10 members. A. S. Read is
President, Henry Holden Secretary, H. W. Gleason Treasurer and Leader. The
organization is a highly creditable one.

The Fire Department of the city was organized in the winter of 1879 and 1880,
and has a chemical engine. There are about thirty active members, composing a
most effective organization. J. A. Phillips is Chief, and B. W. Philbrook, Foreman.

/Schools/.—The first school taught was in 1857, by Louisa Cole, in an old
building at the Olmstead settlement. There were but three pupils in attendance
during the first term. The first school taught in the new Dunlap settlement was
in 1868, in a building now occupied by J. L. Roberts as a residence. Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Ostrom were the teachers. Mrs. Ostrom is still living, and is yet a
resident of Dunlap. Harris McKenney, of Harris' Grove, was the next teacher, and
he, in turn, was again succeeded by Mr. Ostrom, who conducted the school, which
was a private one, for several years. The first public school was taught by Mr.
McKenney in
1868. The first school house was erected in 1870. It is a two story frame, and
cost between $2,000 and $3,000. The present structure, an elegant and commodious
brick building, was erected in 1880, at a cost of $13,000. It has six
departments, presided over by the following corps of teachers: I. A. Sabin,
Principal; J. G. Thompson, Higher Intermediate; Miss Jennie Barrett,
Intermediate; Mrs. Sarah Kebler, Lower Intermediate; Miss R. M. Childs, First
Primary; Miss Stella Bang, Second Primary.

LITTLE SIOUX.

This town, which has as handsome a location as any on the Missouri River bottom,
or, in fact, in the State, is situated on the south side of the Little Sioux
River, about one mile east of River Sioux and the Sioux City & Pacific Railway.
The town dates back to the year 1855, when forty acres of the present site were
laid off by S. W. Condit and T. B. Neeley. A short time afterward, Messrs.
Condit and Martin laid off forty acres more. Another forty-acre tract was again
platted in the year 1857. The parties making the last addition were Joseph Jenks
and Jasper Bonnly. D. M. Gamet, merchant of Little Sioux, now the oldest settler
on the town site, -— recorded the first plat. Mr. Gamet was at that time
Treasurer and Recorder at Magnolia, then the county seat; but he shortly
afterwards moved to Little Sioux, where he has since remained. Mr. Gamet
established the first general merchandise store in Little Sioux in 1857. He was
also engaged in the hotel business, his hotel being headquarters for the stages
belonging to the line between Sioux City and Council Bluffs. Although Mr. Gamet
is at present the oldest settler on the town site proper, and settled in Western
Iowa in 1846, there were others who made Little Sioux their place of residence
prior to his advent. Among these latter may be mentioned the Messrs. S. W.
Condit, T. B. Neeley, and Gabriel Cotton, the first and the last of whom are
deceased, and J. L. Perkins, whose reputation is international in connection
with the propagation of potatoes. Mr. Perkins, who was born a pioneer, came here
in the year 1853. He resides at present but a few yards beyond the town limits.
Moses German, now living outside the town limits, came in 1854. The S. W.
Condit, before mentioned, came in 1849. Jasper Bonnly came here in 1856, and
still farms near town. Avery Barber, now of Nebraska, also came here about the
same time. There are also other old settlers residing in the neighborhood who
came but a short time subsequently. At the time Messrs. Condit, Neeley and
Cotton settled within the limits of what is now Little Sioux Township, Harrison
County, though named, was not organized.

Though Little Sioux has been established for a long time, it made no marked
growth till within the past half-dozen years, and most of the buildings are of
recent erection. Notwithstanding this fact, it would be difficult to find a
handsomer or more enterprising town of the same size in any portion of Iowa.
This in spite of the fact that through a misapprehension in regard to matters,
the Sioux City & Pacific Railway left the town a mile distant from its track,
and makes it dependent upon the station of River Sioux for its transportation
facilities. Nevertheless, the citizens of Little Sioux are hopeful of a direct
east and west line's running through the town at no far distant day. In case
this hope should be realized, the 400 population of Little Sioux will be doubled
within a very short time thereafter. The citizens are enterprising in the
abstract, and though they missed one chance in securing a railroad, they have in
everything else been up to the times. One mark of this trait of character is the
erection of a large iron bridge across the Little Sioux River at this point.
This bridge was built ten or twelve years ago at an expenditure of about three
thousand five hundred dollars. The bridge is 200 feet in length and consists of
three spans.

The various business lines of Little Sioux, classified, are as follows: Three
general merchandise stores, two grocery stores, jewelry and miscellaneous store,
grocery and stationery store, shoemaker shop, drug and grocery store, drug
store, barber shop, hotel, two restaurants, livery stable, boot and shoe store,
two furniture stores, meat market, blacksmith shop, blacksmith and wagon shop,
grain and stock dealer, lumber and hardware dealer, agricultural implements,
warehouse, saw and grist mill and milliner shop.

The professional men are two clergymen, one lawyer, and three physicians. The
postoffice, which was established in the early history of the place, is presided
over by T.J. Lanyon. It is like that of River Sioux, not a money-order office.
In addition to the branches of business already given, several insurance
companies are represented by local agents.

The exact shipments of grain and other produce from this point, cannot well be
definitely ascertained, but they are quite considerable, and are constantly
increasing.

The stocks of goods carried by the merchants of Little Sioux are quite large,
and in several cases would be creditable to a town of 1,500 inhabitants.

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES.

/Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/. -— This sect,
monagamous Mormons, is in point of numbers, better represented than any other
church in Little Sioux, and many of the leading business men of the place are
connected therewith. This congregation represents a section of that portion of
the Mormon Church which separated from the original Mormon Society under the
leadership of Brigham Young. Joseph Smith, Jr.. son of the founder of the Mormon
Churches, is at the head of the reorganized branch, which numbers some 15,000
adherents. The headquarters of this branch are at Lamoni, Decatur county. The
society has had an existence in Little Sioux for twenty years, and the
congregation at present numbers about 140. The society has a church which was
erected in 1876, at a cost of several thousand dollars. The size of the
structure is 24x50 feet. The presiding Elder for this branch is D. M. Gamet, who
holds services every Sabbath.

/Roman Catholic Church Society./ —- The Catholics of the neighborhood have
hitherto been without either church building or church society, and have been
compelled to go elsewhere to enjoy the benefits of their form of worship.
Although still lacking a society, the Catholics of the neighborhood have just
finished a church building 26x40 feet in dimensions, and a society is in process
of formation. The only Catholic service, as far as is known, ever held in Little
Sioux proper, was on the Sunday preceding the opening of the church, January 29,
1882. This service was held in the house of M. Murray, and conducted by Rev.
Father Michael Lynch, who will preside over the new church in addition to the
previous charges of Dunlap, Missouri Valley, and Magnolia. The congregation of
the new church consists of about twenty families, or 100 people, and services
will be held once in four weeks.

/Methodist Episcopal Church Society/. -— The first sermon preached in Harrison
County under the auspices of this society, perhaps of any society, was in June,
1852, at Harris' Grove, by Rev. William Simpson; but the first sermon preached
in the immediate vicinity of Little Sioux, was in 1865, by Rev. J. M. Rusk, who,
when the county was divided into two circuits in 1857, assumed charge of the
Western Circuit, and continued as its pastor for two years. The first class
formed in Little Sioux was in March, 1864, from which time the society began its
growth. The first regular preacher, who officiated at Little Sioux, was Rev. J.
W. Adair. The Little Sioux Circuit was detached from the Magnolia Circuit in
1876, and as it now stands it consists of Little Sioux, Soldier Valley, River
Sioux and Mondamin. The present pastor, who resides in Little Sioux, is Rev. H.
J. Smith. The Little Sioux Society owns a building about thirty feet in
dimensions. There are twenty-four members, and a good attendance of non-members.
Services are held once in two weeks.

/Universalist Church Society/. -— This society was organized in the latter part
of 1870, by Rev. E. Vedder, of Dunlap. Mr. Vedder held the position of pastor
but a short time, when he was forced to resign on account of ill-health. He was
succeded by Rev. James Hoyt, of Belle Plaine, who continues to hold services
once in four weeks. The society has no church buildings, and its meetings are
held in the public hall. A movement has been inaugurated, however, for the
erection of a church edifice. The membership is from thirty to thirty-five.

/Union Sabbath School/. -— Although there is no denominational Sabbath School in
Little Sioux, there was organized some time ago a Union Sabbath School with an
attendance of thirty-five. R. C. West is the present Superintendent.

/Little Sioux Lodge. A. F. & A. M./ -— This bodv was organized in 1878 with the
following officers: H. M. Huff, W. M.; P. B. Terry, S. W.; A. Gleason, J. W.; B.
F. Croasdale, S.; S. J. Smith, Tr.: G. F. Straight, S. D.; E. A. Baldwin, J. D.;
N. F. Hillard, T. The present officers are: N. F. Hillard, W. M.; F. C.
Scofield, S. W.; C. Ellis, J. W.; B. F. Croasdale. S.; S. J. Smith, Tr.; W. L.
Woodward, S. D.; Isaac Hunt. J. D.; T. J. Lanyon, T.

/Public School/. -— The public school of Little Sioux is a graded one, and
comprises three departments, grammar, intermediate and primary. The Principal,
Thomas Macfarlane, has charge of the first named department; the Intermediate is
under the care of Miss Alice Smith, and Mrs. C. Donaldson is teacher of the
Lower department. The school district is the Independent District of Little
Sioux. It was organized from Township District No. 1, July 31st, 1879. The first
school officers for the district were Michael Murray, President; L. S. G.
Sillsbee, Secretary; A.M. Ellis, Treasurer. The present officers are: Michael
Murray, President; I. W. Bassett, Secretary; C. E. Cobb, Treasurer. There are
175 pupils in the district. The school house is a two-story structure, 30x65
feet, with four rooms, though but three of the rooms are in use. Another
teacher, however, is to be engaged the coming year.

/Little Sioux Home Literary Society/. -— This society is devoted to intellectual
and social improvement. It has been in existence but a short time, and as yet is
not very firmly established. The society meets every other Friday, in the public
hall.

MISSOURI VALLEY.

Missouri Valley, as do others of Harrison County's more important towns, dates
its beginning from the first appearance of the iron horse. The town is located
at the junction of the Boyer Valley with the Missouri Valley in the southern
part of Harrison county, at the base of the high bluffs on the north, and on the
margin of the Boyer Valley on the south, extending some two miles, and of the
Missouri bottoms on the west, some seven miles wide, to the Missouri river, thus
giving a large and extended plain on the south, which, for beauty and fertility,
is unsurpassed by any part of Iowa. The town was located by the Chicago &
Northwestern R. R. Co. January 16th, 1868, an election was held to determine
whether Missouri Valley should, or should not be incorporated. This important
question was this time decided in the negative by an adverse vote of 21.
Missouri Valley is the junction of the Chicago & Northwestern, Sioux City &
Pacific, and the Nebraska Division of the Sioux City & Pacific railroads. The
shops and general offices of the latter company are located here, and the
officers of the company, who have tneir offices in this city are as follows:

J. S. Wattles, Superintendent; C. F. McCoy. Assistant Superintendent; J. E.
Ainsworth. Chief Engineer; K. C. Morehouse, General Freight Agent; J. R.
Buchanan, General Passenger Agent; P. E. Robinson, Assistant Passenger Agent; P.
C. Hills, Traffic Auditor; A. T. Potter, Train Master; B. F. Hageman, Train
Dispatcher; T. B. Seeley, Train Dispatcher; Chas. Foster, Master Mechanic; Wm.
Wells, jr., General Agent; F. M. Marsh, Road-Master; P. W. Brown, Store Keeper.

There are also located here the general repair shops, locomotive, car, paint and
boiler shops of this road. The repair shops were started in 1868, and now give
employment to about one hundred men. The general office building was erected in
1878 and affords room for all the above named offices. It is two stories high
and is 32 ft. by 68 ft. in dimensions. The Sioux City & Pacific and Chicago &
Northwestern companies, have, in connection with each other a freight house 24
ft. by 60 ft. in dimensions.

There is also an eating house, owned jointly by the two companies, which is
leased and operated by John F. Cheney & Co., of Sioux City. All the offices of
the S. C. & P. are connected by telephone and speaking tubes and furnished with
elevators.

The town takes its name from the fact that it is the point of intersection of
the Boyer and Missouri river valleys, the valleys of which at this point expand
into a broad plain, several miles in width, and which comprises one of the
finest agricultural districts in Western Iowa. It is one of the most important
towns in Harrison county, and is provided with direct communication with Omaha
and Council Bluffs on the west, Sioux City on the north, St. Louis and Kansas
City on the south, and with the east by the great railways terminating on the
Missouri River. The general character of the country surrounding this
enterprising and progressive town is undulating or rolling, but not to so great
a degree as to impair its utility for agricultural purposes. The soil is rich
and fertile and produces an abundance of cereals. The raising of live stock is a
very important feature of this township's industries.

Missouri Valley claims a population of 2,000, but it is also said that the
census of 1880 was inadequately taken, and that the population given by that
census 1,407, was much below the mark. The town is located at the base of the
bluffs that skirt the valley of the Missouri River, from the summits of which a
grand landscape is presented to the view. The dark bluffs dwarfed by distance
that form the margin of the Nebraska shore can be seen for miles up and down,
and compose a scene worthy of the contemplation of an artist's eye, and, with
the added picture of the prosperous town in the distance, forms a spectacle,
which, not only pleases the senses, but delights the practical eye.

Missouri Valley was finally incorporated in 1869, and is located upon Section
15, Township 78, Range 44. The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad was built to the
present site of the town in the autumn of 1867, and the building of the town was
commenced almost immediately afterwards, the town-site being platted by the
railroad company during the winter of 1867-8. Among the first settlers may be
mentioned Henry Warner, and Smith & Cogswell, who opened a business
establishment during that winter, W. C. Ellis, who came during the spring of
1868 and started a general merchandise store.

The old town of St. Johns, two miles south of Missouri Valley on the other side
of the Boyer river, was abandoned in consequence of the location of the latter
place, and nearly all the residents of St. John removed to the new town that
winter and the following spring, among them, John B. Lahman, who established a
harness shop, Harris & McGavren, who established a hardware store and Ellis &
Bro. who engaged in general merchandising. The American House, now the well
known Commercial Hotel, was built in the spring and summer of 1868. The old town
of St. Johns dates its settlement from the year 1857, when the town was laid out
and platted by Geo. H. Cotton. The company which planned the town was composed
of Dr. McMahon, J. C. Purple, C. Vorhees, Dr. Robt. McGavren, G. H, McGavren,
John Deal and E. W. Bennett. There were several good business establishments,
hotels, etc., and the town of St. Johns was prosperous up to the establishment
of Missouri Valley. Dr. G. H. McGavren moved from St. Johns to the Valley in the
summer of 1869. By that time St. Johns was nearly deserted, and Missouri Valley,
its successor, was just entering upon a vigorous and substantial growth. Shortly
after Dr. McGavren's removal to the new town, he opened a drug store.

Several newspaper experiments have been essayed in the Valley from time to time,
with variable success, and ultimate failure, save in the case of the /Missouri
Valley Times/, formely the /Harrisonian/, and founded by Judge D. M. Harris,
who, with his son, Robert H., continues to publish this prosperous and excellent
paper.

The business houses of Missouri Valley, briefly classified, are as follows:

Physicians, 3; newspaper office, 1; drug stores, 2; bakery, 1; harness and
saddlery store, 2; boots and shoes, 2; tailors, 2; groceries, 5; hardware, 2;
saloons, 5; cigar stores, 1; gun store, 1; general merchandise, 6; hotels, 3;
barber shops, 2; livery barns, 3; billiard parlors, 1; furniture, 1; bank, 1;
wagon factory, 1; carpenter shops, 3; grain offices, 2; attorneys, 3.

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES.

Missouri Valley has five church societies and three church edifices. An
additional church edifice will be erected during the coming spring. These, with
her excellent schools and other societies calculated to advance her interests,
combine to make a community affording exceptional religious, intellectual and
social advantages.

The Methodist Episcopal Church building was erected in 1869. The membership is
large and increasing, and the society in a condition of encouraging prosperity.
These remarks apply equally to the other church organizations of the Valley.
Rev. W. W. Carhart is the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Society. The
Presbyterian Society erected their building in 1868. Rev. O. C. Weller is the
pastor. Rev. Father Lynch is pastor of the Catholic Society, whose place of
worship was erected in 1869. At the date of present writing, the Baptist Society
is not supplied by a regular pastor. This society, however, has suitable grounds
already purchased, upon which an appropriate edifice will be erected during the
approaching spring. Rev. Mr. Hoyt is in charge of the Universalist Society,
whose services are held in the Town Hall. C. W. Harris is Superintendent of the
Methodist Sunday school; W. H. Campbell, Superintendent of the Presbyterian
Sunday School.

A short distance up the bluffs, overlooking the town, stands the Public School
building, an imposing brick structure, in the modern style of architecture,
provided with all the improvements which the later spirit of educational
progress can suggest, and affording unusual advantages. This costly structure
is, indeed, a gieat credit to the community, and is, in itself, a sufficient
commentary upon the enlightened liberality of Missouri Valley's enterprising
citizens. The corner stone was laid, with appropriate public ceremonies, on the
17th day of August, 1871. Nearly four hundred pupils are enrolled. There are six
departments, the following being the efficient corps of teachers: E. N. Coleman,
Principal; Miss L. A. Ferguson, Assistant; W. R. Kirkham, Grammar School; Miss
Annie Legan, Intermediate; Miss Hattie N. Legan, First Primary; Miss Estella
Mattox, Second Primary. The members the Board of Education are: F. M. Marsh, A.
Edgecomb, W. W. Hume, W. H. Ramsyer, Joseph Harker. D. M. Harris is President of
the Board, F. M. Dance, Secretary, and M. Holbrook, Treasurer.

/Valley Lodge No. 232, A. F. & A. M/. -— Instituted in 1868. First officers:
Robert McGavren, W. M.; W. C. Ellis, S. W.; P. D. Mickel, J. W. The Lodge has
about ninety members. Meetings were first held in the second story of Fatchman's
restaurant, and after several changes, the Lodge permanently located in the
second story of Bump & Smith's brick building, corner of Fifth and Erie streets,
in a handsomely furnished hall, which is also used as a place of meeting by the
other lodges of the town. Valley Lodge is in a prosperous and flourishing
condition, a statement which may as appropriately be made with reference to the
other lodges of Missouri Valley. The following are the present officers: F. M.
Dance, W. M.; C. J. Carlisle, S. W.; G. H. Carleton, J. W.; Thomas Weston, S.
D.; George Barnes, J. D.; C. S. Hoar, Secretary; J. H. Crowder, Treasurer.

/Valley Chapter No. 26, O. E. S/. -— Instituted July 8th, 1878. Charter members:
Mary E. Boies, M. M. Harris, Annie Davis, Ella Davis, Carrie Todd, Jennie
Manchester, Mary M. Chapman, Belle Ransom, J. J. Legan, Louisa Miller, Laura A.
Mann, Annie Schultz, Martha Pelan, Effie Mickel, Mollie Mathews, Viola Palmer,
Annie Janes, Hattie N. Legan, Lizzie Butler. First officers: E. J. Chapman, W.
P.; Mary E. Boies, W. M.; C. C. Lahman, A. M. Present officers: Mrs. C. C.
Lahman, W. M.; D. M. Harris, W. P.; Mrs. Carrie Todd, Treasurer; Mrs. D.
Burgess, Secretary; Mrs. J. W. Axtell, W. A. M. The membership is forty-six.

/Triune Chapter No. 81, R. A. M/. -— This Chapter was organized under
dispensation granted March 27th, 1876; its charter was granted October 4th,
1876. The petitioners for the charter were: William Pelan, H. P.; Robert
McGavren. K.; E. J. Chapman, S.; C. W. Turton, Secretary; Theodore Mann, C. H.;
T. W. Merritt, P. S.; J. T. Sharp, R. A. C.

/Missouri Valley Lodge No. 170, I. O. O. .F./ —- Instituted October 21st, 1869.
First officers: D. M. Harris, N. G.; William Compton, V. G.; T. E. Dubois,
Secretary; James Laughery, Treasurer. Present officers: G. W. Burbank, N. G.; A.
Edgecomb, V. G.; G. T. Hopkins, Secretary; D. M. Harris, P. S.; James Laughery,
Treasurer.' The membership is fifty-two.

/Lilian Lodge No. 20, Daughters of Rebekah./ -— Instituted October 20th, 1875.
Charter members: Robert McGavren, J. K. McGavren, F. M. Dance, William Compton,
John S. Goss, James Laughery, James Ferrill, Reuben Palmer, D. M. Harris, G. W.
McGavren, A. M. Cross, E. A. Boies, E. R. McGavren, Mary E. Boies, Martha
Compton, Mary S. Goss, Rhoda Ferrill, Lizzie Laughery, Martha M. Harris, Ellen
Cross. Present officers: G. W. Burbank, N. G.; Mary E. Boies, V. G.; G. T.
Hopkins, Secretary; Mrs. William Compton, Treasurer.

/Anchor Lodqe No. 66, K. of P./ -— Instituted December 19th, 1881, by A.
E.Menuez, D. D. G. C. Charter members: D. J. Adlum, M. I. Bailey, F. Carlisle,
W. M. Carlisle, T. O. Carlisle, E. N. Coleman, E. C. Connors, W. W. Cook, N. S.
Dahl, F. Dodson, W. H. Fensler, O. B. Fredericks, W. M. Harmon, G. F. Hopkins,
F. Johnson, A. S. B. King, C. W. McGavren, Neil McLeod, J. E. Marsh, T. P. Oden,
W. R. O'Neal, W. H. Ramsyer, W. H. Ransom. L. Shauble, H. N. Warren. First and
present officers: C. W. McGavren, P. C.; L. Shauble, C. C.; A. S. B. King, V. C;
G T. Hopkins, P.; J. E. Marsh, K. of R. & S.; E. N. Coleman, M. of F.; W. H.
Ramsyer, M. of E.; H. N. Warren, M. at A.; N. S. Dahl. I. G.; T. B. Oden, O. G.
W. R. O'Neal, T. O. Carlisle and W. M. Harmon are Trustees.

/Missouri Valley Lodge, No. 175, I. O. G. T/. —- Instituted in 1869. This Lodge
has had a somewhat varied existence, having been re-organized at several
different times. There are at present about fifty members. Meetings are held in
the Town Hall. The present officers are: Mrs. Annie Schultz, W. C. T.; Miss
Jennie Gump, R. H.S.; Miss Emma E. Harris, L. H. S.; Miss Estella Mattox, W. V.
T.; Chas. B. Wilson. R. S.; C. S. Hoar, F. S.; Miss L. A. Ferguson, W. T.; Miss
Donna Goltry, W. C.; Harry Stonesifer, W. M.; Miss Tennie Harris, W. D. M.; John
Kane, W. I. G.; Wid Lucas, W. O. G.; Miss Kittie E. Clark, Organist.

/Women’s Christian Temperance Union./ —- Organized in 1880. Present officers:
Mrs. S. C. Hileman, President; Mrs. E. J. Ferguson, Mrs. H. C. Warner, Mrs. S.
L. Berkley, Mrs. S. A. Rogers, Mrs. D. Fenner, Vice-Presidents; Mrs. G. E.
Wilson, Treasurer; Mrs. E. A. Livingston, Secretary.

/Public Library/. —- The Missouri Valley Public Library Association was
organized in September, 1881, and has established already a library of about one
thousand volumes, which number is constantly increasing. The library is located
on the corner of Erie and Sixth streets. Mrs. Anna Schultz is the President;
Mrs. C. H. Foster, Treasurer; D. M. Harris and M. Holbrook, Finance Committee.

/Building and Loan Association/. —- The Missouri Valley Building and Loan
Association was organized in October, 1880. About $5,000 of capital was loaned
the first year. D. M. Harris, is President: G. H. Carleton, Vice President; W.
H. Bradley, Secretary; M. Holbrook, Treasurer.

/Harrison County Agricultural Society/. —-Organized in 1858, and held their
twenty-third annual fair at Missouri Valley, October 4th, 5th, and 6th, 1881.
The present officers of the Society are: Phineas Cadwell, President; H. B. Cox,
Vice President; J. K. McGavren, Secretary; F. M. Dance, Treasurer. The fair
grounds are located about one-half mile west of town, and contain forty acres
finely set out in growing trees. There is a good one-mile track and substantial
buildings have been erected; the grounds are fenced in, and advantageously
situated, with reference to stock and other shipments, immediately on the line
of the railroads, and also upon the bank of Willow Creek, thus insuring a good
water supply. Six thousand people are estimated to have visited the fair of 1881
in a single day.

LOGAN.

The county seat of Harrison County, is in every respect creditable to the
popular will which elected it to that position of official distinction and
importance. Logan is located on the east bank of the Boyer River, and occupies
about one hundred and sixty acres of land on a "bench," about seventy-five feet
above the bed of the Boyer. After leaving the "bench," the elevated land is
timbered for from one-quarter to one-half a mile, and gradually opens to a
section of prairie country of beautiful aspect, and dotted with improved and
well cultivated farms. There is also a good and well improved section of farming
country to the east.

The town, as did Missouri Valley, Woodbine and Dunlap, grew out of the location
of the line of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and began its existence in
the summer of 1867. It is located on section 19, township 79, range 42, and
section 24, township 79, range 43. The Court House is upon, or very nearly upon,
the division line of these two ranges.

A word here is in order as to the original town proprietor, Henry Reel, or
"Uncle Henry Reel," as he is termed by his fellow townsmen. Mr. Reel was born in
Montgomery County, Va., in 1803. Although stricken in years, he still retains
considerable vitality, and is mentally as keen as in his younger days. From
Virginia he moved to Ohio, and about the year 1824, he again moved to Putnam
County, Indiana, where for forty years he resided. In 1853, he came to Harrison
County, to where Logan now stands. At one time he had more than 1,040 acres of
land in a body, in and around the present town-site of Logan. The coming of the
railroad was what caused the location of Logan. It was the only available
station between Missouri Valley and Woodbine, and although Mr. Reel was at first
opposed to the location of a town upon his premises, he finally yielded to the
march of events, and, with an engineer in the employ of the railroad company,
laid out the future county seat. Subsequently a company oought an addition, and
laid out the remainder of the town. The members of this company were: T. M. C
Logan, P. J. Rudasill, McCurley, A. L. Harvey and G. S. Bacon. John Reed and
Cutler Williamson are largely interested in town property.

Among the earliest settlers were: Judge Davis, George White, C. C. Cole, P. J.
Rudasill, and A. W. Clyde, who came in 1867. There were others, whose names the
writer did not obtain.

C. C. Cole established the first dry goods store, and was followed next in the
mercantile business by P. J. Rudasill. George White built the first hotel. G. F.
Waterman established the first drug store.

Logan was incorporated in 1876. The first town officers were: John V. Evans,
Mayor and Treasurer; E. R. Cadwell, Recorder; George Musgrave, Marshal; J. A.
Lusk, N. Palmer, Simon Mills, A. J. Norman, Lewis Walters, Councilmen. The
present officers of Logan are: William Cadwell, Mayor; D. M. Hardy, Recorder; D.
Kerkendall, Marshal; G. B. Seekel, J. W. Stocker, George Guilford, J. W. Reed,
G. B. Cadwell, Fred. Kimpel, Councilmen.

The Logan Postoffice was established in December, 1867. John Reel was the first
Postmaster. He was succeeded by C. C. Cole. William Giddings, the present
Postmaster, was appointed May 12th, 1875. The office was made a money-order
office July 1st, 1877.

/The Huron County Flag,/ the first paper published in Harrison County, was
published at Calhoun, Isaac Parrish being the editor -— in 1858. Within less
than a year it was taken to Magnolia, and Capt. William M. Hill became the
editor. /The Flag/ was subsequently removed to Missouri.
/The Magnolia Republican/ was started in 1858, Geo. R. Brainard being the editor
and proprietor. Brainard was succeeded by Henry Ford, and the latter by W. F.
Benjamin. The /Republican/ was continued until 1865, when it was changed to the
/Western Star/ by Hon. Joe H. Smith. The /Star/ continued until 1871, the
various editors being Hon. Joe. H. Smith, H. C. Cutler, Musgrave & Cook, G. F.
Waterman, George Musgrave. The paper was then removed to Logan, where it was
published for more than two years, when it was moved to Harlan.

/The Huron County Courier/ was moved to Magnolia in 1875, from Canton, Ill., by
Alpheus Davison, and from Magnolia to Logan in 1876. In August, 1880, Henry Reel
purchased the /Courier/. A. J. Hard was the editor and manager for one year,
when D. S. P. Michael succeeded him. Mr. Michael is both manager and editor, Mr.
Reel still being the proprietor. The /Courier/ is a handsomely printed
eight-column folio, and well deserves the favor which is bestowed upon it by the
public.

One of the valuable features of Logan is the stone quarry belonging to Mr. James
McCoid, and located just across the Boyer River from town. This Quarry was
discovered about nine years ago. The upper stratum is about nine feet and eight
inches below the surface. The stone is limestone, and is of excellent quality
for building purposes. Beneath this are eighteen inches of yellow clay; then
eighteen inches of black slate. Under that is large, blue rock, eighteen inches
in thickness, which has been used as material for foundations, but which,
however, Mr. McCoid states, is not durable. Beneath this are eighteen inches of
yellow clay, under which there is layer after layer of a rock which very closely
resembles granite, and is from six to eighteen inches thick. Numerous shipments
of rock are made from this quarry to other points. It is stated to be the only
paying quarry in Harrison county.

There is a public square of from three to four acres, planted in trees, and
located between Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Sixth and Seventh streets.

A Driving Park Association is about to be organized, the grounds to be located
on the farm of A. Whyte, adjoining town.

J. A. Lusk built a portion of the Lusk House in I860. Additions have been made,
until now it is one of the most commodious, as well best managed hotels in
Western Iowa.

The town is well supplied with lawyers and physicians, has two banks—the
Harrison County Bank and P. Cadwell & Co's. -— a flouring mill, two hotels, and
quite a number of first-class business establishments.

Brick-making is carried on quite extensively at Logan. Large shipments are made
to other points, the brick being of the best quality.

The population of Logan is perhaps about 1,000, and is steadily increasing. The
town has a durable appearance, is neat and attractive, and is keeping in every
respect even pace with the rapid strides that are being made by her sister towns
of Western Iowa.

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES.

/Logan Baptist Church Society/. —- Organized in 1868, by Rev. George Scott, of
New York, at that time living at Denison. The pastors in order have been: Rev.
George Scott, J. E. Rockwood, E. G. O. Groat, B. F. Goldsby, J. E. Rockwood,
Geo. Scott, J. E. Saunders, E. G. O. Groat, which latter is the present pastor.
The membership is seventy-five. The church building was erected in 1869 at a
cost of about $2,000, and has a seating capacity of two hundred. The parsonage
was erected in 1876. There is a good Sabbath school, with about fifty pupils. J.
E. Massy is the Superintendent. From this church soil other similar societies
have grown. This was the first Baptist Society organized in Harrison County,
holding meetings at Magnolia, Woodbine and Logan alternately. Meetings at Logan
were first held over Rudasill, Wood & Low's store. P. J. Rudasill was a prime
mover in the organization of the Baptist Society, and was indefatigable in
promoting its interests. Rev. Mr. Groat has charge of the society at Magnolia,
which has sixteen members.

/First Presbyterian Society/. -— Organized August 29th, 1869, by Rev. George K.
Carroll, of Council Bluffs, Synodical Missionary. The first pastor was Rev. T.
K. Hedges, who was succeeded by Rev. J. B. Welty. Rev. Carroll is the present
pastor. The erection of the church building was begun in the autumn of 1877, and
the building was completed in the summer of 1878, at a total cost of $4,000. It
will seat three hundred people, and is a very handsome structure. Rev. T. H.
Cleland, of Council Bluffs, preached the dedicatory sermon, and was assisted by
Rev. T. K. Hedges. The membership is about seventy. There is also a Sabbath
School with an attendance of seventy. C. N. Cadwell is the Superintendent.

There is a Universalist Society presided over by Rev. J. M. Hoyt, of Belle
Plaine. Services are held once in every two weeks in the church building owned
by Henry Reel's.

The Adventists also have a society, the particulars concerning which are at this
writing inaccessible.

Henry Reel erected a church building in 1878, in which services are held by the
Old Regular —- or as this sect is commonly known, the "Hardshell" —- Baptists.
Services are held regularly once a month. There is no regular pastor and no
organized society.

The members of the Board of Education are: John V. Evans, G. B. Seekel,
President; J. W. Barnhart, D. S. P. Michael, James Sorrey, A. K. Grow. George W.
Wilson is the Secretary, and J. W. Reed, Treasurer. The school building, which
was erected several years ago, is a very handsome and costly brick structure,
and contains five departments. Prof. S. G. Rogers is the Principal; Sarah
Gallagher, Grammar Department; Belle Wood, Intermediate; Clara Hedges, First
Primary; Clara M. Evans, Second Primary. The enrollment is about three hundred
pupils.

/Boyer Valley Lodge No. 149, A. O. U. W./ -— Instituted January 31st, 1878.
Charter members: John V. Evans, A. L. Harvey, J. B. McArthur, Fred. Kimpel, C.
N. Hull, E. R. Cadwell, John H. Smith, C. L. Hyde, J. N. Young, S. I. King, W.
W. Smith, A. J. Miller, E. P. Cadwell, W. H. Moore. First officers: Jno. V.
Evans, P. M. W.; C. N. Hull, M. W.; Fred. Kimpel, Foreman; E. R. Cadwell,
Overseer; J. B. McArthur, Recorder; C. L. Hyde, Financier; A. L. Harvey,
Receiver; J. N. Young, Guide; John H. Smith, I. W.;E. R. Cadwell, O. W.; John V.
Evans, J. W. Rudd, E. R. Cadwell, Trustees. Present officers: R. G. Brown, P. M.
W.; D. Stewart, M. W.; James Ervin, Foreman; William Burnett, Overseer; George
Kelly, Recorder; Fred. Kimpel, Financier; D. M. Harvey, Receiver; C. L. Hyde,
Guide; J. B. McArthur, I. W.; John V. Evans, O. W. J. B. McArthur is
Representative to the Grand Codge for 1882; John V. Evans, D. D. G. M. W. for
the Fourth Judicial District of Iowa, and has held the office ever since the
organization of the Lodge. The Lodge's condition is a prosperous one. It was the
first Lodge of A. O. U. W. organized in the Fourth Judicial District of Iowa.
Meetings are held every Tuesday evening in Odd Fellows' Hall.

/Logan Lodge No. 219, I. 0. G. T./ -— Instituted November 14th, 1877, with
thirty-five charter members. First Officers: Frank Rugg, W. C. T.; Mary E.
Wilson, W. V. T.; Belle Clevenger, C.; J. H. Giddings, S.; Adelia Fuller, A. S.;
L. Harrington, F. S.; James Harrington, Treasurer; A. B. Rogers, W. M.; James
Copeland, D. M.; Nancy M. Wilson, I. G.; O. J. McKenney, O. G.; Wells R.
Wheeler, R. H. S.; Lottie Noyes, L. H. S.; Isaac P. Hill, P. W. C. T. Present
officers: Frank Stearns, W. C. T.; Mrs. K. Berry, W. V. T.; Lottie Cadwell. S.;
Ben Wade Stearns, A. S.; C. A. Harvey, F. S.; Myra Grow, W. T.; Mrs. W. C
Cadwell, W. C; F. H. Laporte, W. M.; Fannie Barnhart, I. G.; Willis Clevenger,
O. G.; W. C. Cadwell, P. W. C. T.; Tillie Grow, Lodge Deputy- The membership is
about fifty. Meetings are held every Wednesday evening in the hall over
Stockwell's grocery.

There is also a Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

/Chrysolite Lodge, A. F. & A. M./ —- Working under dispensation. Organized
November 30th, 1881. Its officers are: Stephen King, W. M.; A. W. Ford, S. W.;
A. L. Harvey, J. W.; J. W. Barnhart, Secretary; William Giddings, Treasurer;
S.I. King, S.D.; J. V. Evans, J. D.; J. W. Stocker, S. S.; A. B. Milliman, J.
S.; J. W. Stewart, Tyler. The membership is about twenty-five.

/Logan Lodge No. 355, I. O. O. F./ -— Instituted in June, 1876, Charter members:
T. M. C Logan, J. C Milliman, Fred. Kimpel, J. N. Young, W. H. Eaton, J. E.
Townsend. First officers: J. C Milliman, N. G.; Fred. Kimpel, V. G.; W. H.
Eaton, Secretary; T. M. C. Logan, Treasurer. Present officers: W. C. Cadwell, N.
G.; J. V. Evans, V. G.; C. L. Hyde, Secretary; J. E. Massey, P. S; T. J.
Roberts, Treasurer. Membership, twenty-two.

/Columbia Encampment No. 101, I. O. O. F./ —- Instituted in 1880. Charter
members: T. M. C. Logan, A. K. Grow, J. C. Milliman, Almor Stern, L. D. Parker,
G. W. Smith, J. V. Evans, J. N. Young, Fred. Kimpel, C. L. Hyde. First officers:
A. K. Grow, C P.; T. M. C. Logan, H. P.; J. V. Evans, S. W.; J. C Milliman, J.
W.; Almor Stern, Scribe; C. L. Hyde, Treasurer. Present officers: J. V. Evans, C
P.; A. Stern, H. P.; J. W. Barnhart, S. W.; C. L. Hyde, J. W.; W. C. Cadwell,
Scribe; J. N. Young, Treasurer. Membership, about thirty.

MISCELLANEOUS COUNTY DETAILS.

There was a considerable settlement in 1855, which was largely added to in 1857,
and still more largely in 1860. Amos Chase came in 1851, as did also S. W.
Condit, both of whom are now deceased. These, with H. M. Huff and C. W. Oden,
were among the earliest settlers near Little Sioux. A pioneer settler in the
same locality was also T. B. Neeley (the first representative to the State
Legislature). Mr. Neely was a well-informed man of sterling and peculiar
qualities, and, it is said, walked to Iowa City, at that time the State Capitol,
carrying his shoes slung over a staff upon his shoulder.

Of Jacob Pate, who settled near Sandy Point, on the Missouri bottoms, on the
western side, it is related that his particular characteristic was a steady
determination to “keep ahead of the keers.” He said he always had kept ahead of
the cars, and he always meant to do so. But railroads finally came in upon Jacob
from both the East and the West, and the old man had to succumb to the
inevitable. He died a few years ago.

In Harris Grove and vicinity there were the McKinneys (Michael and John).
Michael died about the year 1860, and John in the winter of 1880, the latter at
Logan. Both had large families and considerable property. William Dakan came to
Harris Grove at a very early day. He settled first near St. Johns, and soon
afterwards moved to Harris Grove, where he is still living. Pearson Vore came to
Harris Grove in 1856 and has been a continuous resident of that locality ever
since. He is now about 81 years of age, and has had the misfortune in the later
years of his useful life to lose his sight. James B. McCurley came to Harris
Grove about the year 1853, moved to Logan about the time the town was organized,
and is still living there. Judge Dow and family, who came in 1853, moved
subsequently from Harris Grove to about eight miles below Denison, to what is
now called in honor of the Judge, Dow City. John Rogers, with his family, came
to Harris Grove in 1856. His grandson, Prof. S. G. Rogers, is now Principal of
the Logan Public Schools. J. T. Stern, a venerable and sagacious settler, whom
it was the historian's misfortune to be unable to see, settled at Harris Grove
in 1857. He has resided on the same farm from that date continuously to the
present time, and is 67 years of age. Almor Stern, son of J. T. Stern, came to
Logan in 1878, and was elected Auditor of Harrison County in that year, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of W. H. Eaton, who had been Auditor for eight
years prior to that time, and who was the first person elected to that office in
the county.

There are thirty and thirty-three one-hundredths miles of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad in Harrison County; thirty-two and forty-eight hundreths
of the Sioux City & Pacific, aud about one-half mile of the Milwaukee road in
the southeast corner. The C. & N. W. came down the Boyer Valley in 1866; the
Sioux City & Pacific was built about the same time, and commenced running in
1867. From that time forward there was a steady growth. The population at that
time was 7,000; now it is nearly, if not quite 20,000. The census of 1870 gave
only about 8,000. the population having nearly tripled within the past ten years.

Among the pioneers of Union Grove are: Samuel Wood, who came in about the year
1852, and has lived there ever since: Samuel Dibbles who first came about
twenty-four years ago; Father Smith, now Postmaster of Union Grove, who came
nearly twenty years ago; Jason Whitinger, William Cox, and the Smith family, who
have lived there for twenty-five years. The Dobson family were also old
settlers, but subsequently moved to Crawford County.

A full list of the first county officers, with the exception of the Board of
Supervisors, is as follows: D. M. Gamet, Recorder; W. V. Cooper, Clerk of the
Courts; Stephen King, County Judge; H. C. Harshbarger, Auditor (appointed in
1868); J. Z.Hunt, Surveyor; J. H. Smith, County Superintendent; C. M. Hamilton,
Sheriff.

The present county officers are; I. P. Hill, Treasurer; A. K. Grow, Recorder; C.
L. Hyde, Clerk of the Courts; Wiley Middleton, Sheriff; J. D. Hornby, County
Superintendent; A. J. Miller, County Superintendent elect; Logan Crawford,
Surveyor; Almor Stern, Auditor; J. K. McGavren, Thomas Morrow, Allen Stoker,
Board of Supervisors.

The settlement at Twelve-Mile Grove had for its pioneers Richard Musgrave, who
came in 1852; the Meffords, in 1851. Robert Mefford was the head of the Mefford
family. Matthew Hall and L. D. Butler are also old settlers. The latter now
lives at Woodbine.

Col. Asher Service, a man of native force of character, and who was at one time
a political power in the county, settled at Six-Mile Grove about the year 1850;
Owen Thorp in 1852. James McCoid ran a store there twenty-two years ago.

The well known Olmstead settlement in Harrison Township will be found to be
treated of in that part of the county's history devoted more particularly to the
town of Dunlap. By many, Harrison Township is considered the banner township of
the county, in respect to the surface of the land, which is there more level.
Mill Creek enters the Boyer in that township, giving it an exceptional "lay of
land." There is, indeed, a fine southern view from Dunlap down through that
section of country.

A grist mill was built on Allen's Creek west of Magnolia in 1853 or '54. It was
never operated, but was afterwards moved away. The first mill on the Willow
Creek, about one mile east of Magnolia, was built in 1854 by a Mr. Chatburn.
Jacob Huffman also built a mill on the Willow about two miles below Chatburn's.
E. T. Hardin built a saw mill at Calhoun on the Willow, about two miles below
the Huffman mill. The first flouring mill in the county was built by Henry Reel
on the Boyer in sight of the present town of Logan -— in July, 1855. This mill
began operations October 1st, 1850. The next mill was started at Woodbine by L.
D. Butler, and in 1858, Butler and Grow put up their flouring mill. All these
pioneer mills were run by water power. A. K. Grow built a mill in 1867 on
section 31, in Harrison township, about half-way between Woodbine and Dunlap.
This mill was very rudely constructed, its exterior being anything but handsome
in appearance, but the excellent quality of its flour was undoubted, and built
up for its owner quite a reputation. This mill was subsequently washed away.

The mills in the county now are: I. Schofield's flouring mill at Dunlap; Dalley
& Noyes' mill at Woodbine; Alfred Longman's mill at Logan; a steam mill at
Missouri Valley; also one at Magnolia; one at Calhoun, at the place where Hardin
put up his saw mill; one on the Soldier River, by Theodore Mahoney, and
Schofield's at Little Sioux.

About six miles northwest of Logan, in Magnolia Township, is the town of
Magnolia, on the southeast quarter of section 32, township 80, range 43. The
county seat of Harrison County was located at Magnolia by A. D. Jones and A.
Fletcher, on the 14th of March, 1853. G. H. White was the Surveyor. The report
of the Commissioners and Surveyor was approved by P. G. Cooper, County Judge,
December 13, 1853, his acknowledgment being taken before E. Todd, Justice of the
Peace. The election which resulted in changing the county seat from Magnolia to
Logan, was held in the autumn of 1875. The tussle for the prize was peculiarly
interesting, protracted and exciting, but provoked so many animosities, that it
would hardly be possible for the matter to be treated of at length here in what
all would admit to be a strictly impartial manner.

Lots were first sold in Magnolia in November, 1853. Ex-Judge P. G. Cooper is
still living, in Blair, Nebraska. Among other early settlers of Magnolia
township were Judges Hardy and Brainard. The removing of the county seat has had
a depressing effect upon Magnolia, which has since that time, to say the least,
failed to make encouraging headway.

It will be noted that Harrison County, like many other Western communities, has
had her full share of "paper towns."

Upon the removal of the county records to Logan, the old Logan House was rented,
in which to keep them. As an inducement to secure the county seat, the citizens
of Logan contributed $6,000, depositing this sum in bank before the election.
The election was carried, however, by a very small majority. The Court House was
built in Logan in 1876, and cost about $11,000.

The following is a list of Representatives to the State Legislature from
Harrison County. The Representative for 1863 resided without the present limits
of the county. The years of their election are given:

T. B. Neely, 1855; D. M. Harris, 1857; W. W. Fuller, 1861; ------, 1863; L. R.
Bolter, 1865; Jos. H. Smith, 1867; Stephen King, 1869; Geo. H. McGavren, 1871;
P. Cadwell, 1873; L. R. Bolter, 1875; H. B. Lyman, 1877; Geo. Ritchison, 1879;
L. R. Bolter, 1881.

Additional Comments:
From book: The History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; Harrison
County Chapter; 1882 Sioux City: Western Publishing Company

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