Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1893 -
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
January 24, 1893
Licensed to Wed. Marriage licenses were issued at the County
Clerk's office yesterday to the following persons:
Harry J. Tremain, a native of Iowa, 24 years of age, of Humboldt,
Iowa, to Carrie E. Lorbeer, also a native of Iowa, 24 years of
age, of Pomona.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2008]
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Morning World
Herald
Omaha, Nebraska
February 20, 1893
A Centenarian.
Mason City, Ia., Feb. 19. -- The oldest man in Iowa and probably
in the west, is Mr. Charles L. Pool of Allamakee county, who will
celebrate his 107th birthday on the 15th of the coming month. He
was born in Congrasbury, Somersetshire, England, in 1786. He was
thrice married, his first wife living but nine years. In England
his business was farming and speculating in teasles, and after
coming to this country he was engaged in farming as he was able
to work at all. In 185? he came to this country with his wife and
ten children, leaving his oldest son in England. He settled first
in Kane county, Illinois, where in 1850 his wife died. In 1851 he
removed to Allamakee county, which has since been his home,
although he has spent one year in Dakota. Although so advance in
years, Mr. Pool can walk about, and with the aid of his glasses
can read the tinest print. Two years ago he was hurt by a fall,
since which time he uses a cane to assist him in walking. Mr.
Pool has seventy living descendants, seven children and
sixty-three grandchildren.
[transcribed by S.F., Nov. 2003]
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Watertown Herald
Watertown, Jefferson Co. N.Y.
Saturday, February 25, 1893
Judge S.C. Hastings, millionaire and pioneer, died on Saturday,
in his 79th year, in San Francisco. He was born at Watertown in
1814, but went west to attend school. He and Henry Ward Beecher
were students at Lawrenceburg, Ind. He then settled in Iowa and
studied law. He was the first supreme judge of the Hawkeye state,
and took Iowa into the union with him in the twenty-ninth
congress. He was married to Miss Arzela A. Bradt of Iowa. He went
to California early in the fifties, and was the first supreme
judge of that state. He accumulated a large estate, which he
divided among his children about four years ago, reserving only
enough to assure him of maintenance. His fortune was estimated at
one and a half millions.
[transcriber note: Judge S. Clinton Hastings was born in
Jefferson co. NY in 1814. He came to Burlington, Des Moines Co.
in 1837 and served in the Iowa Territorial General Assemblies. He
served on the Iowa Supreme Court as Chief Justice for one year
from January 26, 1848, to January 14, 1849. He also was the first
representative in the U.S. Congress from the state of Iowa.
-transcribed by S.F., March 2008]
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Salinas Weekly
Index
Salinas, California
Thursday, March 2, 1893
Died -- RUSSELL -- at West Grove, Iowa, Feb. 15, 1893, of
pneumonia, Samuel RUSSELL, son-in-law of Mr.& Mrs. Ira TUCKER
of Salinas City.
[transcribed by D.S., August 2005]
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Salinas Weekly
Index
Salinas, California
Thursday, March 16, 1893
Personal & Social
J. JACOBSEN and family, consisting of wife & 4 children,
recently arrived from Iowa and are staying with their friends,
Mr.&Mrs. M.J. FRESE, on the Buena Vista. H. HANSEN, a cousin
of Mr. JACOBSEN, is also a member of the party. They have become
tired of the rigors of Iowa winters and will locate permanently
in the Salinas valley.
[transcribed by D.S., August 2005]
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Neosho Times
Neosho, MO
April 6, 1893
Lacona, IA -- April 3, 1893 -- Henry McKinness & his 3 sons
were killed when a boiler in the sawmill exploded.
[transcribed by S.B., August 2005]
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Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn, New York
April 24, 1893
Timothy Collins of Waukon, Ia., was paralyzed after sneezing a
week ago and he is still helpless.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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San Francisco Call
San Francisco, California
June 1, 1893
Commencement Exercises at Palo Alto University
The following students are now Bachelors of Arts:
L.W. Bannister, Des Moines, Iowa, BA English
M.A. Campbell, Des Moines, Iowa, BA English
The following students received Masters of Arts Degrees:
Oscar Magnus Benzon, Newell, Iowa, German
Carl Lane Clemans, Manchester, Iowa, Ph.B in Mathematics
[note: the very lengthy description of the commencement was not
transcribed, only the Iowa graduates; transcribed by S.F., July
2014]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
June 13, 1893
John Brennan, one of the most widely-known Irish-Americans of
Iowa -- a lawyer, orator, politician and author -- who spends all
his winters in Southern California, reached his home in Sioux
City a few days since, and in an interview with a Journal
reporter gave out over a column of very good English and very
questionable logic, which appeared under the caption:
"Paradise of the Indolent: Such, John Brennan Says, is
Southern California." He made a passably commendable effort
to discourage his shivering fellow townsmen from emigrating; yet
it is easy to imagine that when another winter's blizzards are
sporting with the snowdrifts, and Mr. Brennan is again picking
oranges in the land he cannot help praising, many a Hawkeye will
dig up the aforementioned interview and wonder how things can be
so awfully bad when the conditions are as described. For in the
very article in question Mr. Brennan is in candor compelled to
say of the land he warns people of: "California, indeed, is
a very beautiful country, with a soil that is abundantly
productive, with a climate mild as a mother's jove, and scenes
that are fairer than the Garden of the Gods. If it were my home I
would cling to it affectionately, but it isn't my home. When one
first sets his eyes upon it he is dazzled by the splendor of the
sunshine and fascinated by the verdure of its valleys. There is a
balm in its every breeze and an inspiration in its lofty mountain
peaks and the perpetual roll of the waves upon its coast line.
Great red and white roses bloom perennially, and by a sort of
paradox in nature, the very middle of the winter is the most
delightful season ... Southern California is an excellent place
in which to live. A man who is industrious and willing to work
there can find some sort of employment -- can find work for
wages. If he has capital he an go into some business, big or
little, pretty much the same as in any other country. And though
his earnings may be small or his profits little, he can, if
necessary, manage to live for rmuch less money than it costs him
in a colder climate." If that is the way Mr. Brennan talks
against this region, what a poem his praise of it would be.
[transcribed by P.H., Jan. 2004]
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New York Times
New York, New York
June 16, 1893
Married.
Hale-Perkins. On Thursday, June 15, at Shaw Farm, Waterford,
Conn., by the Rev. Drs. Edward E. Hale and George W. Alexander,
Rose Postlethwaite, daughter of Dr. Maurice Perkins of Union
College, New-York, to Dr. Edward E. Hale, Jr., of Iowa City,
Iowa.
Hale-Perkins.
New-London, Conn., June 15. -- Prof. Edward Everett Hale, Jr., of
Iowa University was married this afternoon at the old Shay
farmhouse, Waterford, Conn., to Miss Rose Perkins, second
daughter of Prof. Maurice Perkins of Union College. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, father of the
groom, assisted by the Rev. George Alexander of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New-York. The bride was given away by her
father, and was attended by six bridesmaids. A wedding supper, at
which fifty guests were present, followed the ceremony. Mr. and
Mrs. Hale left on the evening train for Concord, Mass. They will
sail for Europe on June 23. Returning, they will reside in Iowa
City.
[transcriber notes: both write-ups of this wedding were in the same issue, the longer of the two appeared in the column "Weddings Yesterday"; note the bride's surname in the the shorter notice, given as Postlethwaite, although her father's surname was Perkins. A typo? Had the bride been previously married? -transcribed by S.F. November 2006]
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Cheyenne Daily Sun
Cheyenne, Wyoming
October 13, 1893
New Rockford, N.D., Oct. 12 - A Northern Pacific train, with a
party of thirty Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin hunters, left the
track two miles south of here yesterday, owing to a broken rail
and turned over on its side into a ditch. Flames broke out and it
seemed for a time as if some would be burned to death. The fire,
however, was put out before any of the injured were reached.
Twenty men were injured, all of whom were brought to this place
immediately after the accident. Those most seriously hurt are:
F. Barron of Calmar, Ia., concussion of the brain
W.C. Earle of Waukon, Iowa; spine injured
A.J. Hatch* of Dubuque, head bruised and internal injuries
C.H. Earl, Waukon, Ia., leg broken
The other men injured are:
A.F. Jagger, F. Jagger, F.J. Earling, Alvis Glale, Titus Schmidt,
A.F. Heebe and James Reinfrid, of Dubuque, Ia.
V.E. Strayer, W.J. Moody, of Calmar, Ia.
J.T. Ayres, Elma, Ia.
Oscar Vanderbilt, Des Moines, Ia.
[*Note: another Wyoming paper also reported on the accident,
giving the name A.J. Puich rather than A.J. Hatch of Dubuque. -
transcribed by S.F., Dec. 2013]
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The Mitchell Daily
Republican
Mitchell, Davison Co., Dakota Territory
November 23, 1893
A Postmaster Missing
Des Moines, Ia. Nov. 18 -- Postmaster L. Winter, of Woodbine,
heretofore prominent and highly respected is absent, his
whereabouts unknown, and his affairs in bad shape, the full
extent of his indebtedness being yet unknown. Gambling on the
Chicago board of trade is said to be the cause of his trouble.
His postoffice accounts seem to be all right and he paid 0ff
$2,000 of debts before leaving.
[transcribed by C.D., October 2006]
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Los Angeles Herald
Los Angeles, California
November 24, 1893
Died. In this city, November 22, 1893, James I. Donovan, beloved
husband of Mary Ellen Donovan and brother-in-law of J.C.
McMenomy, a native of Dubuque, Iowa. Friends and acquaintances
are respectfully invited to attend his funeral from his late
residence, 226 1/2 East Fifth street, then to the cathedral of
St. Vibiana, where a solemn requiem high mass wil be celebrated
for the repose of his soul, commencing at 9 o'clock today. San
Francisco papers please copy.
[transcribed by S.F., July 2014]