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Jefferson County Online
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The following is a chapter from "The History of Jefferson County, Iowa", Page 469, published by the Western Historical Company of Chicago in 1879.
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UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
The United States Land Office was removed from Burlington to Fairfield in 1842. William Ross, Arthur Bridgeman, Bernhart Henn, George Wilson, Francis Springer and James Thompson were Registers, and John Hawkins, V. P. Van Antwerp, W. H. Wallace and J. W. Culbertson were Receivers.
In 1856, the office was removed to Chariton, in Lucas County.
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