Early Settlers of Muscatine County, Iowa
who signed the petition 4 Jun 1849.

Abstracted from the Early Settlers Records, Book 1, of Muscatine,
Iowa and put into alphabetical order by Diana Hanson <idea@inav.net>.
Submitted to the USGenWeb Project Archives on July 2nd, 1998.

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On June 4, 1849, the name of Bloomington, Iowa was changed to Muscatine
for the following reasons:

Frequent miscarriages of letters by mail occur by reason of there being
towns in Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois of the same name.

Burlington is sometimes mistaken by postmasters for Bloomington and
mail matter is carried to and lies at the former place that is destined
for the latter.

The reason for adopting the name of MUSCATINE is obvious - it is the name
of one of the most noted and ocnspicious land marks on the Mississippi
River, a name co-eval with the first discovery of the course of the river
by LaSalle, at the head of which the town is situated, and is the name of
the county of which the town is the seat of justice. There is no other town
within the knowledge of your petitioners of the same name.

Petition was sworn and subscribed in open court the 4th of June, 1849 by
D.C. Cloud, Justice of the Peace, sworn to by Lyman C. Hine, sherrif of
Muscatine County, Iowa. 

EARLY SETTLERS WHO SIGNED THE PETITION:

SURNAME, FIRST NAME

Achter, Johann
Albee, E.H.
Aller, James S. 
Ament, W.D.
Anderson, Samuel
Appler, W.J.
Arkin, A.P.
Ayrs, W.S.
Banks, A.T.
Barlow, T.M.
Bartholew, B.
Beaumar, John M. 
Becke, ?
Beil, Barhardt
Benidger, Jackson
Bennett, J.
Berkshire, M.M.
Binna, W.
Blake, J.
Block, M.
Boon, A.T.
Borland, Jas.
Branhams, G.L.
Bridman, Jos.
Brisbine, James
Brisbine, Joseph
Brisbine, Oliver
Brown, Malen
Browning, C.
Browning, Wm. L.
Butler, J. 
Butler, Jacob
Butler, Wm.
Cadle, Richard 
Chatfield, Lucian
Cloud, D.C.
Couch, Moses
Crandol, Thomas 
Crane, Joseph
Cullin, B.
Cummins, John L.
Dawson, John
Day, I.C.
Dayotn, John H.
Deming, Horace
Dietz, John C.
Dorman, Jim
Dougherty, John B. 
Douglass, Robert
Downy, P.
Drury, Wm. A. 
Dunbar, N.S.
Dunn, J.H.
Dunsmore, D.
Fay, Phiny
Feifer, X.P.
Fenimore, J.S.
Fimple, Andrew
Fisher, A.
Foster, Suel
Foushee, James B. 
Fowler, Chas.
Fowler, Henry
Freeman, J.P.
Fulton, Alexander
Fulton, John P.
Fyock, John
Garners, H.H.
Gelchmann, Henri
Goldsberry, A.B.
Gordon, J.G.
Gordon, J.G.
Gordon, Wm.
Graham, Thos.
Grand M.D., C.H.
Green, J.A.
Greeno, Michel
hagan, Jacob
Hallock, Nath
Harvey, G.C.
Hastings, C.
Hatch, E.
Hine, H.H.
Hine, L.C.
Homlbs, T.M.
Howland, B.F.
Huber, John J. 
Hudson, I.N.
Humphreys, Ansel
Humphreys, G.W.
Humphreys, Jas. A.
Hunt, T.G.F.
Isett, Thos. M.
Jackson, A.
Jackson, Peter
Jarboe, Jas M
Jennison, H.Q.
Kane, J.W.
Kelly, Jas. P.
Kierck, Carl
Kinsley, G.M.
Kirkpatrick, Mark
LaCossitt, H.D.
Lakin, J.S.
Leffingwell, Wm.
Lemp, John
Lilly, W.H.
Lucey, John J.
Mahin, Jacob
Matthews, H.
McCloud, D.G.
McCormick, Noah M. 
McCullough, I.
McMinomy, Jeremiah
Messick, Jos. B. 
Molis, Henry
Moore, H.W.
Moore, Thom. W.
Mormon, Franklin
Norman, Chas
Ogilvie, Adam
Olmsted, Ed
Overman, E.
Parmer, Devore
Parmer, G.W.
Parmer, L.D.
Parvin, D.J.
Peterson, Lewis Jr. 
Phelps, C.L.
Plummer, E.
Purcell, Alfred
Purcell, Lemuel L. 
Reece, Henry 
Reece, Joseph R. 
Reed, John
Reeder, Geo.
Reuling, Adam
Richman, J. Scott
Richman, J.W.
Robbins, A.B.
Roth, John
Rukee, John
Seiler, John
Sells, Luke
Sherwood, William
Shupe, David H.
Simpson, Patterson
Smalley, Abram
Smith, A.H.
Smith, Lyman
Spring, Cyrus
Springer, G.A.
St. John, W.
Stahl, Conrad
Stein, S.G.
Stevenson, Geo. D.
Stewart, E.
Stone, F.H.
Stout, N.L.
Strong, James
Stroup, Geo.
Swem, James
Terry, G.H.
Terry, H.W.G.
Thurston, F.
Tillard, Robert
Wallace & Breading, Breading
Wallace & Breading, Wallace
Warfield, A.O.
Warfield, D.R.
Washburn, A.
Washburn, P.L.
Washburn, Z.
Waters, Chas. O.
Waters, David K.
Way, Jacob
Webler, J.C.
Weed, Chester
Whicher, Stephen
White, L.C.
White, W.F.
Will, Erwin
Williams, Charley
Williams, J. 
Williams, W.
Willmering, G.W.
Wood, Thos.
Worsham, W.G.
Wreys, Luther
Ziegler, John