Volume 2
By
CLARENCE RAY AURNER
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| IOWA STORIES Volume 2 By CLARENCE RAY AURNER |
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Transcribed by Sharon Elijah, June 21, 2013
| PREFACE | p. 3 | |
| CONTENTS | p. 5 | |
| I. | WHEN IOWA WAS WITHOUT A NAME | p. 9 |
| What the first settlers found - No local law - The Iowa Country joined to Michigan - The first counties - The Iowa Country joined to Wisconsin - The Territory of Iowa. | ||
| II. | MANY COUNTIES IN PLACE OF TWO | p. 19 |
| The two large counties divided - Arrangement of counties - County seats - Attached counties - The debt of the large counties - Each county to pay its share. | ||
| III. | HOW COUNTIES WERE MANAGED | p. 30 |
| Selecting a clerk - The business of counties - Collecting money - Waiting for pay from the county - Amount of taxes - Guarding prisoners - The county seals - The county board and other offices. | ||
| IV. | THE HISTORY OF A PIECE OF LAND | p. 41 |
| Each piece distinguished from every other - The surveyed townships - The civil township - The first townships - Where to look for land history. | ||
| V. | MAKING A NEW STATE | p. 49 |
| Governor Lucas wants a state - Voting for a constitution - The boundary of Iowa - Iowa admitted to the Union - Territorial governors of Iowa - First State election - The General Assembly. | ||
| VI. | BUILDING A NEW CAPITAL CITY | p. 57 |
| Governor Lucas arrives at Burlington - Other Territorial officers - Locating a new city - Laying out the “City of Iowa” - The capitol building - The steamer Rock River visits the capital - Territorial officers move to the “City of Iowa” - Another capital in view - The last of Monroe City. | ||
| VII. | THE IOWA-MISSOURI QUARREL | p. 68 |
| Causes of the dispute - The Sullivan survey of 1816 - An army approaches - The Iowa militia ordered out - Good sense prevents a fight - Congress helps to settle the trouble - The boundary fixed. | ||
| VIII. | THE CALICO RAILROAD | p. 77 |
| Talk about railroads in 1844 - The direction of the first one mentioned - The St. Louis market - Plank roads - The first road surveyed - Money for it - Work begun - The end of it all - The Calico. | ||
| IX. | THE BEGINNING OF REAL RAILROADS | p. 88 |
| Chicago and St. Louis become rivals - The big “M and M” railway - Muscatine wants the main line - A great celebration - First freight shipments - Reaching the capital city-Another celebration. | ||
| X. | OTHER MAIN LINES OF RAILROAD | p. 97 |
| The Dubuque and Pacific - The right of way - The Market of the Northwest - St. Louis objects to any bridge - The Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska - Another celebration - The steamer Black Hawk - Eight roads by 1857 - Public land for their use - Desire for railroads. | ||
| XI. | THE BUSINESS OF RAILROADS | p. 107 |
| Like that of steamboats - Some cargoes - New kinds of freight - Shipments of game - Express companies. | ||
| XII. | LAYING BY SOME MONEY FOR SCHOOLS | p. 112 |
| Provision for school lands - Renting the lands - Using the money from lands - Other school money - University land - Other ways to help schools. | ||
| XIII. | LAWS FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | p. 122 |
| After 1834 - Governor Lucas would have a good law - Borrowing laws - Districts - School taxes not favored - Laws of 1847 and 1849 - How one district acted - Graded schools - Union schools - Re-writing the school laws, 1856 - Mr. Horace Mann asked to help. | ||
| XIV. | THE FIRST STATE SCHOOL | p. 129 |
| Called a University - Divisions of a university, 1849 - Opening a School, 1855. | ||
| XV. | THE FIRST COLLEGES | p. 132 |
| Their beginnings - First planned in New England -The Iowa Band, 1843 - A minister’s decision - Church people plan schools - What the pioneers wanted. | ||
| XVI. | SOME EARLY NEWSPAPERS | p. 142 |
| First at Dubuque Lead Mines - Some changes in names - What names meant - What papers contained - Some advertisements. | ||
| XVII. | OPENING THE WAY | p. 154 |
| French explorers - Claims of France - Lewis and Clarke on the western border - Sergeant Floyd buried on Iowa soil, 1804 - General Pike on the eastern border - Duty of the soldiers - Story of Lieutenant Albert M. Lea - Indians attack whites - Danger passes. | ||
| XVIII. | WHAT THE INDIANS OF IOWA GAVE UP | p. 162 |
| Early lines drawn between tribes - Sacs and Foxes and Sioux - Boundary of the Black Hawk Purchase - Purchase of 1837 - The Ioway’s claim - Sacs and Foxes leave in 1845 - Sioux last to go - Where the money paid the Indians went - The white man’s advance. |