History Society Meeting

DYER, MITCHELL, GREY, GAGE, SHUFFLETON

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Date: 2/1/2006 at 10:09:38

p. 127 Heaton’s big Scrap-book – Meeting of the Historical Society, July 1. (Year?)
Hon. H. B. Mitchell told of buying a barrel of whiskey at the first distillery in this county, which he took to the garrisons at Ft. Des Moines. Jonathan Dyer was the distiller. He was a great wolf hunter, killing four or five wolves at a time, two of which he would bring in on his saddle and tie three to his horse’s tail and drag them. When Dyers came in 1839 there was but one little log cabin in Fairfield, inhabited by a bachelor lawyer named Thomas Gray. When Gages came, there were ten families and besides Gray, there was a lawyer named Shuffleton, making twenty per cent of the population lawyers.