MARNE
In the summer of 1875 a corporation known as the Marne Town Company, bought one hundred and sixty acres of land on sections 21 and 28, Brighton Township, of Thos. MEREDITH, and laid it out in lots. This company was composed of Paul WIESE, A. LANGFELDT, C. HANNEMAN, H. BUCK and E. GEISLER. The town was laid out on the north side of the Rick Island railroad track, which had been built in 1868. In 1877 Thos. MEREDITH surveyed and platted an addition to the town on the south side of the railroad track and for a time there was a keen rivalry between the two sections of the town. The pioneer settler on the town site of Marne was Hans SUWONILER, who came in 1875. Other first settlers were Edwin WHEELER, Rudolph LORENZEN, Julius LANGFELDT, Henry BUCK, Fred WERSENGER, Adolph KOCH, John FINDLAY, besides many others of whom lack of space here precludes mention. The town of Marne, by the census of 1900, has a population of 410 m and has had a steady growth since its birth. The town possesses excellent school and church facilities, progressive citizens and is a trading point of no little importance. Among Cass County's municipalities Marne takes rank with the best.
From:
Exposition Souvenir Album, published by Democrat Publishing Company, Atlantic, Iowa, 1904. Transcribed by Brenda Magee, June, 2010.
