Iowa News from across the Country
- 1848 -
Iowa News from across the Country
- 1848 -
Boston Daily Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
April 14, 1848
Married at South Abington, 4th inst., by Rev. E. Porter Dyer, of
Hingham, Mr. Charles Cummings, Principal of Medford High School,
of S.A.; also, by Rev. Dennis Powers, Rev. Ebenezer Alden, Jr.,
of Tipton, Iowa, to Miss Maria Louisa Dyer, of S.A.
[transcribed by S.F.,
October 2017]
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Daily National
Intelligencer
Washington, D.C.
May 12, 1848
Died, on the 20th of April, at New Orleans, on his return from
Vera Cruz, where he had been for the recovery of his health, Mr.
David Sleator, of Dubuque, Iowa.
[transcribed by S.F., October 2017]
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THE NORTH STAR
Rochester, New York
July 14, 1848
INDIAN MURDER. - We learn, that a man known here as "Pat
Murphy," was killed and scalped by the Indians, a few days
since, somewhere on the Maquoketa River, Iowa. - Galena
Jeffersonian.
[transcribed by C.J.L., December 2006]
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Vermont Chronicle
Bellows Falls, Vermont
September 27, 1848
Died. At his residence near this city [Dubuque], on the 27th, Dr.
Stephen Langworthy in the 71st year of his age. Dr. L. was born
in Windsor, Vermont, on the 4th of November 1777. In early life
he emigrated to St. Lawrence county, N.Y., where he was connected
with the Medical Staff of the American Army, while engaged with
Great Britain in 1812. In 1819, he removed to the State of
Illinois, and thence to Iowa in 1834, where he procured a home
for his numerous family, a few miles north of our city. He was
the father, by his first and second marriage, of twenty-one
children, fourteen of whom are still living, and were permitted
to be present at his funeral, and to see his earthly remains
deposited in the grave. Though he had been the subject of many
privations in early life, yet he had the great satisfaction in
his last moments of having his children all present and of
knowing in the hour of dissolution, that they were left in
comfortable and agreeable circumstances. - Dubuque Express
Printers in New Hampshire and at Buffalo, N.Y., are requested to
notice.
[transcription note: the obit took a few months to make it into the Vermont paper, he actually died July 27, 1848; transcribed by S.F., October 2017]
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THE NORTH STAR
Rochester, New York
December 15, 1848
ABOLITIONISM IN IOWA. - A slave belonging to a person named
Hughes, residing in St. Louis, Mo., escaped the other day, and
was traced to Bloomington, Iowa, where he had obtained employment
as cook of the American House. His owner appealed to the Courts
and arrested him, whereupon the landlord of the American and a
number of citizens took part with the slave; their efforts were
stoutly resisted by Mr. Freeman, the master's agent, who
succeeded in retaining the boy. While thus engaged, Mr. Freeman
was arrested by a peace officer, and taken before Justice Cloud
to answer a charge of assault and battery upon the landlord. Upon
this charge he was fined $20 and costs. After an investigation of
his right to arrest the negro, he was a runaway, and that Mr. F.
was duly authorized to deliver him to his owner, the humane
Justice discharged the boy, and decided against his being taken.
This decision was hailed with applause, the negro warmly
congratulated by many persons present, and to cap the climax,
walked arm in arm to the American House with a respectable
physician. - N.Y. Evangelist.
[transcribed by C.J.L., July 2005]