ACORD, G.B.

ACCORD, ACORD, GILMAN, ARGYLE

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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
October 8, 1909.

"Fremont County's First Baby". -- G. B. Acord of Brewster, Wash., is here this week visiting among relatives and old-time friends. Mr. Acord is said to have been the first white child born in Fremont county, the date of his birth being June 1841.

His parents who were among the few white settlers in this region then lived on the farm now owned by Frank Gilman in Washington township, designated on the map as section 11 township 67 range 42, though at the time of his birth no permanent survey had been established and that section of the country was still a matter of contention between the states of Iowa and Missouri.

It was in this neighborhood that the settlement of Austin once flourished and where A. H. Argyle opened for sale the first stock of merchandise ever brought to the county.