Re: Query: Dr. Alexander Wiltse, Clayton County
WILTSE, DUNHAM
Posted By: Daniel Cooley (email) In Response To: Query: Dr. Alexander Wiltse, Clayton County (Betty Brandt Passick)
Date: 5/25/2020 at 20:22:42
Hello Betty,
While I don't have anything on Dr Alexander Wiltse I do have some entries from Garnavillo Gem of the Prairie, Arnold D and Laverne E Roggman, 1988.p414-5 (late 1850s) Phillip Wiltse left Garnavillo for the gold fields of California (so did my grand uncle Warren Cooley who came back empty handed).
pp410-11 From Dr. Linton's diary which he kept while at the gold fields. There are over fifty entries beginning Aug 3 1860 for the following Garnavillo men at the gold fields: ...Phillip Wiltse...
pp49-51 First landowners in Garnavillo Twp.
Henry A. Wiltse, 1852, Sec 9-93-3 and Sec 26-93-3My gr2 grandfather Andrew Sutherland Cooley settled on Sec 32 south of Jacksonville (later Garnavillo) while Henry Wiltse was a considerable distance away on the north side.
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