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INTERESTING AND REMINISCENCES - Odd Fellowship 1875

KELLY, HEMPSTEAD, OUISCONSIN, DAVENPORT, BURLINGTON, KEOKUK, ROCK ISLAND, STEPHENSON, FORT ARMSTRONG, FLINT HILLS, BLOOMINGTON, LUCAS

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 5/8/2017 at 14:30:59

Thursday, October 28, 1875
Paper: Dubuque Daily Times (Dubuque, Iowa)
Page: 3

INTERESTING AND REMINISCENCES
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Concerning Iowa, Odd Fellowship, and
Some Dubuquers
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Extract from an article of Odd Fellowship in
Cedar Rapids Republican
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The was all “Ouisconsin” Territory, laboring under the Gaelic deprivation of a “W.” Burlington was its capital, in in-fitting and out-fitting hall-way house of river traffic, for Keokuk was not, and Bloomington has not learned its name; Rock Island was Stephenson’s Landing, and Col. Davenport was glowering through the port holes of Fort Armstrong at the picturesque bluffs was which to grow a city . Tom Kelly was burrowing in the lead hills at Dubuque, hiding in the earth’s bowels from Indians on one hand and United States on the other. Everything went to Burlington, which then called itself “Flint Hills,” because every shower washed the Indian arrow and spear heads out of its paths. On the separation of Iowa and “Ouisconsin” came stout “Jackonian Governor Lucas, to quarrel with his council and meet in a young Stephen Hempstead a will as stout as its own, and designated to rule Iowa as one of its successors. Here in the midst of Indians, fur traders, trappers, buckskin hunters, Indian agents, frontier Methodist preachers, territorial officers and all the pomp and circumstance of the new born commonwealth, sprung up Odd Fellowship, dedicating its Pacific altars to the trinity of friendship, love and truth.


 

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