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Brown's Gazetteer
Guide and Business Directory
New Jefferson and Scranton
1869
NEW JEFFERSON, the county seat of Geene[e] county, is two hundred and thirty-one miles west of Clinton.
An old court house and much talk of a new one, the Jefferson Era (weekly), one bank, one hotel and
the Revere House, together with the names below, make up this town entire. Lake City, thirty-five miles,,
and Sac City, fifty-five miles, both northwest, are tributaries.
| Allen, L. D. |
dentist |
| Anderson, J. F. |
harness mkr. |
| Anderson & Twogood |
meals |
| Annis, Jessie |
propr. Revere House |
| Blake ____ |
millinery |
| Blair, Mrs. Chas. H. |
millinery |
| Cline, John |
dentist, post office building. |
| Cochran, G. W. C. |
grocer |
| Coleman & Harrington |
gen'l mdse. |
| Cowan, J. V. |
(al) pysician, post office
building. |
| Culley & Hassett |
hardware and agriculture. |
| Dewitt Clinton |
Sheriff |
| Fisher, John |
saloon |
| Franklin, Bowman & Bingham |
furniture |
| Gray, John |
harness mkr. |
| Hankins & Jay |
grocers |
| Harker & Allison |
gen''l mdse. |
| Howard, J. D. |
county clerk |
| Jones & Northway |
hardware |
| Knox, L. E. |
station agt. |
| Kush, Sol |
clothing |
| LeGore & Henderson |
dry goods, fancy goods, notions,
hats, caps and groceries. |
| Luydam, J. |
barber |
| Mayes, Wm. B. |
atty. and real estate agent |
| McBride & Birchard |
druggists |
| McCeely, Geo. |
grocer |
| McDuffle, M. B., P.M. |
atty. and stationery |
| McDuffle, M.D. |
co. supt. |
| Mills, D. R. |
shoe mkr. |
| Money, M. H. |
M.D. and editor Jeffersoon Co.
Era |
| Mugan, T. P. |
billiard hall |
| Perry, J. A. |
ex. agt. |
| Potter, Harvey |
county judge |
| Price & Inbody |
blacksmiths |
| Reading, Chas H. |
grocer |
| Reece & Clark |
dry goods |
| Rippey, Henry C. |
atty. |
| Rumsey, Mrs. E. A. |
millinery |
| Russell, J. J. |
atty. |
| Smith, J. W. |
propr. Massasolt House |
| Stiles, T. G. |
county recorder |
| Tolliver, G. S. |
county treasurer |
| White, O. J. |
shoemaker |
SCRANTON, Geene[e] county, Iowa, New Jefferson the couonty seat situated nine miles east. Scranton is a small
way station with only a station house and a few section men's houses. It is expected to make a place worthy
of considerable note, owing to good farming lands surrounding and the enterprise of its citizens. A survey has
[remainder missing]...
Source: Brown's Gazetteer of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, and Branches,
and of the Union Pacific Rail Road.
Author: C. Exera Brown
Published in Chicago, Ill. by Bassett Brothers Steam Printing House.
1869
Transcribed by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
Added January 11, 2021
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