[Transcribed by Norma Jennings, Aug 2011. Copyright (c) 2011 by Norma Jennings
Source: History of Louisa County, Iowa, from its earliest settlement to 1912
S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1912; Author: Arthur Springer; Page 50-51.
Note: This enumeration also appears on page 26 of the full Des Moines County
1836 census: http://iagenweb.org/census/1836/1836-ia-des_moines.html]
The first government sale of land in Louisa County was not until November 1838
and for that reason we have no public land records regarding the ownership of
and transfer of various tracts and claims prior to the winter of 1838. The
earliest official record of any kind which gives the names of the early
settlers in this part of the country is of the census which was taken in July
of 1836. This census was taken in pursuance of the act of Congress organizing
the Wisconsin Territory and was made by Solomon Perkins, who styles himself
"sheriff and censor, D.C.T.C." Mr. Perkins being at that time sheriff of the
Wisconsin Territory of which Louisa County was then a part.
The following list appears by itself on page 5 of the census and was taken by
Zadok C. Inghram as assistant to Sheriff Perkins, and we give it with his
spelling. (NOTE: According to the census of Burlington, it seems that Zadoc
Inghram was then living in Des Moines County although it is a well known Louisa
County name in later history.)
Males Males Females Females
Name under 21 over 21 under 21 over 21 Total
Isaac Parsons 4 1 6 1 12
John H. Benson 2 2 1 5
William L. Toole 1 1
Orien Briggs 2 2 2 1 7
Christopher Shuck 4 2 2 1 9
Elias Keever 2 1 1 4
William Dunbar 1 1 1 3
James A. Campbell 1 6 6 1 14
James Magers 1 3 1 5
John McClung 3 1 3 1 8
John Rankin 1 2 1 4
James Erwin 2 1 1 2 6
John Reynolds 1 2 3 1 7
Thomas Kellow 1 1 2
Robert Childers 3 2 1 2 9
George Umphrey 5 4 5 1 15
Abraham McClary 2 2 1 5
Levi Thornton 4 1 1 2 8
Err Thornton 4 1 5
Silas Richardson 1 1 1 3
Nathaniel Parson 4 3 3 1 11
Samuel Shortridge 3 1 1 1 6
Thomas Starks 1 1 2 1 5
William McClaren 4 2 2 1 9
Joseph Crane 1 2 1 4
Thomas M. Crane 1 1 2
Samuel L. Crane 1 1 1 3
William Starke 1 2 2 1 6
Isaac Lathrop 1 1 2 1 4
John Cobb 1 1 2 1 5
Silas Lathrop 2 1 3 1 7
James W. Casey 6 1 7
John Vanetty 2 2 1 5
Thomas Burdett 3 3
Adison Reynolds 1 2 1 4
Eli Reynolds 1 1 1 1 3
James Davis 2 1 1 4
John W. Ferguson 2 2 1 5
Total 52 71 62 38 223
