Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1860 -
Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
March 13, 1860
Married. In Simsbury, Feb. 27, by Rev. Joseph Vinton, Mr. Charles
Raymond of Lyons, Iowa, and Georgie C. Tuller, daughter of Col.
J.A. Tuller, of the former place.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2009]
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Omaha Nebraskan
Omaha, Nebraska
April 6, 1860
Emigrant Arrivals
Below we publish the list of arrivals in this City as taken from
the register of the Ferry Company, onboard the steam ferry.
March 31st
- Ross' company, Allamakee county, Iowa, 4 wagons and 10 men
- Bishop's company, Newton county Iowa, 1 wagon, 3 men
April 1st
- Giller's company, Butler, Iowa, 2 wagons, 3 men
April 2d
- W. Griffey and family, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 2 wagons, 5
persons
- Her's company, Buchanan county, Iowa, 1 wagon, 2 men
- Connolly's company, Woodbury county, Iowa, 3 wagons, 8 men
- Carpenter's company, Fort Didge, Iowa, 2 wagons, 5 men
- M.B. Davis's company, Lewis, Iowa, 1 wagon, 7 men
April 3d
- Richard's company, Jefferson county, Iowa, 1 wagon, 2 men
- Petr's company, Clinton county, Iowa, 1 wagon, 5 men
- John McCune, Council Bluffs, 1 wagon, 3 men
- Robertson's company, Hamilton county, Iowa, 2 wagons, 6 men
[transcribed by S.F., May 2015]
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Daily Democrat
Rochester, Monroe co., NY
May 10, 1860
Miscellaneous Items.
The Davenport News, Iowa, throws some light upon the
recent suicide of Miss VAN DUZER, an account of which we have
published. The girl was in love with one young man, while her
mother wanted her to marry another, and it is supposed she wanted
to frighten her mother by pretending to hang herself, but
succeeded in hanging herself in reality.
[transcribed by G.S., Oct. 2003]
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Hartford Daily
Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
June 12, 1860
Married. In Newark, N.J., June 10, by Rev. Dr. Poor, Rev. Chas.
W. Bissell of Poquonnock, Ct. and Anna M., daughter of Capt. Geo.
K. Smith, of Bowen's Prairie, Iowa
[Note: Bowen's Prairie is in Jones co.; transcribed by S.F., May 2009]
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New York Times
New York, New York
July 12, 1860
The Late Tragedy in Iowa
The Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye gives the following additional
particulars regarding John Kephant, who was lately lynched by a
mob for murdering Mrs. Willis and her two children in Jefferson
County. He pretended to be a preacher, "was a zealous
exhorter, positive and prompt in manner, talked much about duty
and honesty, with apparent sincerity." He was an elderly
man, but "rather good loooking, of good address, and
plausible and gracious in conversation." His ruling passions
seemed to be avarice and lust. Under the guise of being a
minister of the church to which Mrs. Willis belonged, he caught
her in his meshes, and induced her to become his housekeeper --
poisoned her husband -- induced her to sell a farm of 160 acres
which her husband had owned, for which she got $400 in gold, and
his aim then was to get possession of this money. She refused to
let him have it, and the only way in which he could get it was to
kill her; so, under cover of a dark night, while she was asleep
with her three children, in the emigrant wagon in which they were
traveling, he deliberately murdered her with an axe. In the
morning the children, on waking and seeing the mangled corpse of
their mother, becamse alarmed and made an outcry. To hush them he
murdered the two youngest, sparing the boy James, who knew where
the $400 was concealed, with the hope that he would reveal the
whereabouts of the money. Had the lad told him where the money
was, the scoundrel would then probably have immediately put him
also out of the way, he being the only witness against him. But
the boy kept his secret, and after the hoary headed murderer was
arrested, the $400 in gold was found in a barrel of soap-grease
in the wagon, where doubtless the poor woman had concealed it.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2009]
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New York Times
New York, New York
September 24, 1860
Married.
-Baldwin-Marven. In Woodstock, N.B., on Monday, Sept. 17, by the
Lord Bishop of Fredericton, Simeon Baldwin, Jr., of Clinton,
Iowa, to Mary S., daughter of Charles Marven, Esq., of the former
place.
[transcribed by S.F., Oct. 2006]
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Democrat
Pike Co., Illinois
October 25, 1860
The Davenport (Iowa) band, have sued the Mayor of that city for a
serenade they gave him last spring, on the occasion of his
election.
[contributed by G.S. August 2003]