A TOPICAL HISTORY of CEDAR COUNTY, IOWA 1910 Clarence Ray Aurner, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.

INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS	click on PAGE No.
PREFACE
C.R. Aurner	10
Section I. PIONEER HISTORY
Old Hotel, Rochester ~ Fleming Hotel, Tipton, 1859 ~ Mason Hall, Rochester	15
Pastoral Scene - Creek Pasture	21
Lurenda Humphrey Casebeer, A Pioneer ~ Hannah James, Ninety Years, Six Months Old ~ on left: Miss Surrilda Sterrett, who came to Cedar County in 1836. On right; Mrs. Margaret Jenings, daughter of Hector Sterrett. She was the firs white child born in Cedar County	27
Samuel Gilliland in his ninety-seventh year. Came to Cedar County in 1836. Served on the jury in 1841. The cabin beside hime was made by him as a model of the one in which he was married in 1839.	31
The Moffet Homestead ~ The Humphrey Home, 1845	37
South Cedar Street, Tipton, July 4, 1866	41
The "Old Stone Mill"	45
Facsimile of Deed given in 1848 by William Maxson	49
Section II. COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT
Cedar County Scenes	57
Cedar County Home for the Poor ~ Cedar County Poor Farm Asylum	65
Views of Cedar County	71
Memorial Day, Tipton	79
Views of Rochester, the First County Seat, settled in 1836: Brick Store Built by William Baker ~ Old Brick Residence of William Green ~ Rochester Mercantile Company ~ Main Street, Rochester	87
Original Brick Courthouse, Tipton 1859 ~ Present Cedar County Courthouse	95
Section III. TOWNS AND TOWNSHIPS
West Branch Scenes	103
Main Street, Mechanicsville ~ Panorama of Mechanicsville ~ Oak Street, Mechanicsville	109
The New Elevator at Downey ~ View of Downey	113
Downey Savings Bank ~ Fifth Street North of Square, Tipton: Old Hammond store shown third from the right	117
Geological Section Deep Well - Tipton	121
Views of Durant, Iowa: City Park ~ Town Hall ~ Water Works ~ Washington Street, Looking West	125
Residence of W. A. Kester, Centerdale ~ Schonborn Elevator, Centerdale	131
Blacksmith Shop, Springdale ~ Main Street, Springdale, Looking East	135
Main Street, Stanwood	139
City Hall, Lowden ~ Clinton Street, Lowden	143
City Water Works, Clarence ~ East Lombard Steet, Clarence	147
Bird's-eye View of Bennett From the South	151
Section IV. EDUCATIONAL
The Second Schoolhouse in Tipton ~ "Old Union School" and Former Pupils and Teachers, the First Graded School in Iowa	157
Mechanicsville Public School ~ Lowden Public School ~ Bennett Schoolhouse ~ Rochester Schoolhouse after Rebuilding	163
Stanwood High School ~ Scattergood Seminary	163
Group of High School Buildings: Durant High School ~ West Branch High School ~ Clarence High School ~ Springdale High School ~ Downey High School	171
Tipton High School Building about 1880 ~ Tipton Schools	177
Section V. CHURCH and ITS ORGANIZATIONS
West Banch Churches: Friends' Meeting House ~ Friends' Church and Parsonage ~ Methodist Episcopal Church ~ Presbyterian Church ~ Danish Lutheran Church	185
Methodist Episcopal Church, Mechanicsville ~ Presbyterian Church, Mecanicsville	191
Scattergood Meeting House ~ St. Paul Church, Durant	195
Evangelical Church, Bennett ~ Methodist Episcopal Church, Bennett	201
Group of Clarence Churches: Methodist Episcopal Church ~ Presbyterian Church ~ Evangelical Church, School and Parsonage ~ Catholic Church	205
Tipton Residence of Rev. Joshua Riale. The "Historic" house where the first prayer meeting of the congregation was held January 26, 1866 ~The Seven Original Members of the Tipton Congregation: Mrs. Susan Neiman, Eliza Bingeman, Isaac Neiman, Mrs. Eliza Neiman, Mrs. Lidia Millhouse, Samuel W. Neiman, Harriet Neiman	211
Methodist Episcopal Church, Stanwood ~ Presbyterian Church, Stanwood	217
Lutheran Church, School and Parsonage, Stanwood ~ Methodist Protestant Church, Downey ~ Baptist Church, Downey	221
Tipton Churches: Reformed Church, Lutheran Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, Catholic Church, Presbyterian Church	227
United Congregational Church, Centerdale ~ Friends Church, Springdale	233
Section VI. INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS
Farm Scene	239
Scenes from the Hamil Farm, Iowa Township	245
The Nelson Mill, Durant: The Only Flouring Mill in the County	251
Handing Heavy Blocks in the Bealer Quarry ~ General View of the Bealer Quarry	257
Material Ready for Shipment, Bealer Quarry	263
Section VII. TRANSPORTATION
The Twentieth Century "Limited"	269
Durant Depot ~ Mechanicsville Depot	273
Old Postoffice, Rochester, on the Albin Stage Line	277
Clarence Depot ~ Bennett Depot	281
Stanwood Depot ~ C. & N. W. Water Plant at Stanwood	285
Tipton Depot	289
Map about 1857 Proposed Railroads	293
Lowden Depot ~ West Branch from the South, Showing Block System on the C. R. I. & P. R. R.	297
Section VIII. JUDICIAL MATTERS
Old Jail of 1857 ~ Cedar County's First Couthouse, Rochester	305
Group of First Rochester Buildings	319
Section IX. MILITARY HISTORY
Soldiers' Monument in Cedar County	337
Company F, First Regiment, Iowa National Guard. Taken at Des Moines, Iowa, immediately after muster, Forty-Ninth Iowa, Spanish American War	355
Tipton Contingent in Fiftieth Iowa Regiment ~ Grand Army Post, May 30, 1910	373
Dolly Spear in Camp ~ A Florida Stable of the Cedar County Horses in the Spanish American War	383
Raising the Flag over Morro Castle, Havana, January 1, 1899. Members of Company F, Forty-Ninth Iowa, Taking Part in the Ceremony	393
Section X. JOHN BROWN IN CEDAR COUNTY
Luke F. Parsons, Salina, Kansas. The only survivor of the John Brown Bond at Springdale, 1857-8, and of the fight at Ossawatomie, Kansas	411
Barclay Coppock ~ Edwin Coppock	415
Edwin Coppock's Last Letter, page 1	420
Edwin Coppock's Last Letter, page 2	421
William Maxson ~ Farewell Letter of John E. Cook to William Maxson and Family	425
Edwin Coppock's Monument at Salem, Ohio	429
Last Letter of Aaron D. Stevens to His Sister	433
John Brown's Old Home at Springdale	439
Courthouse at Charleston, Virginia ~ "Travelers' Rest," West Branch, Iowa	445
Section XI. THE PRESS and LITERARY ORGANIZATIONS
Carnegie - Tipton Public Library	453
Public Library, West Branch	463

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