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Fairfield Weekly Ledger
Jefferson County, Iowa
Transcribed by:  Joey Stark

Note:  Typographical errors (followed by [sic]) and spelling variations in names in this document are intentional and reflect the actual newspaper articles.   Transcriber’s notes are occasionally included and are indicated with [Ed. note:….].  Surnames shown here are in UPPER CASE for easy location; not rendered as such in the newspapers.

June 18, 1868
 

Marriages

---On Wednesday evening, June 10th, 1868, at the residence of the bride’s parents, in this city, by Rev. W. C. SHIPPEN, Mr. Thomas L. HUFFMAN and Miss Ella, daughter of Dr. J. E. KING, all of this city.

Again has a bright oasis appeared in the desert life of a poor editor, and for the event that caused it we are duly grateful.  May our friend HUFFMAN and his sweet bride ever live in the full enjoyment of all the bliss and happiness that falls to the human species.--- Our wish is that all their bright anticipations may be realized.

---June 4, 1868, by Rev. R. M. TRACY, at the residence of the bride’s father Mr. Abraham C. FISHER and Miss America E. ELLEN, all of this county.
---June 9, by Rev. J. A. WILSON, Mr. John A. O’NEIL and Miss Artie E. CHASE, both of this county.
---May 10, 1868, by Rev. J. G. CONDIT, Mr. Abraham HOLIPETER and Miss Sarah HUMPHREY, both of Jefferson county.
---In this city on the 7th of June, 1868, by Rev. C. DARBY, Mr. John McWHINNEY and Miss Catharine GIFT, both of this place.
---May 17, 1868, by Rev. Edward McCARTY, Mr. Sidney CURTIS and Miss Susannah PIERCE, both of this county.

Real Estate Transfers --- The following deeds to lands and town lots in Jefferson county, have been placed on record at the Recorder’s office for three weeks ending June 15, 1868.

J. J. HODGEN from Adoline WILLIAMS and husband, 40 acres in Walnut township.  Deed dated August 17, 1867.  200 00
J. J. HODGEN from Nathan McCONNELL and wife, 10 acres in Penn township.  Deed dated April 18, 1867.  400 00
John CASTEEL from J. H. TAYLOR and wife, 12 acres in Lockridgetownship [sic].  Deed dated December 16, 1867. 200 00
Randolph GAMBELL from Elizabeth LEECH and husband, 160 acres in Polk township.  Deed dated May 15, 1868.  1,500 00
C. G. CLEVENGER from C. S. SCOTT et. al., 230 acres in Keokuk county, and 36 acres in Polk township.  Deed dated November 3, 1858. 2,528 00
R. R. CASADAY from W. N. SMITH and wife, 1 acre in Penn township.  Deed dated May 25, 1868.  8 00
W. W. MORGAN from Samuel ENGLAND and wife, 80 acres in Penn township.  Deed dated May 1, 1868.  500 00
B. M. ALLENDER from Peter ANDERSON and wife, 15 acres in Lockridge township.  Deed dated May 11, 1868.  75 00
J. D. CRAIL from George CRABBS and wife, the undivided half of 100 acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated April 7, 1868. 1,410 00
J. D. CRAIL from George CRABBS, Ad’r, 100 acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated April 7, 1868.  1,040 00
Sara FREELAND from J. H. YANCY and wife, 30 acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated May 14, 1868.  200 00
R. T. GILMER from J. S. SCOTT and wife, 360 acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated October 23, 1865. 7,000 00
R. T. GILMER from W. J. McCULLOUGH and others, 80 acres in Round Prairie township.  Deed dated April 16, 1868.  500 00
August WALGREN from B. M. ALLENDER and wife, 7½ acres in Lockridge township.  Deed dated May 11, 1868.  75 00
I. E. McCULLOUGH from W. J. McCULLOUGH and others, 80 acres in Round Prairie township.  Deed dated April 16, 1868. 500 00
Owen HADLEY from Zeno HADLEY and wife, 26 acres in Blackhawk township.  Deed dated June 3, 1867.  362 50
Smith BALL from Joseph RIDGEWAY et. al., 120 acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated May 6, 1868.  550 00
Martin L. CREEK from Hiram SMITH and wife, 5 acres in Liberty township.  Deed dated March 2, 1868.  150 00
Martin L. CREEK from William CLARRIDGE, 15 acres in Liberty township.  Deed dated May 9, 1868.  225 00
B. C. ANDREWS from Barclay JOHNSON and wife, 40 acres in Penn township.  Deed dated February 26, 1868.  1,300 00
A. B. McCLAIN from W. A. McCLAIN and wife, 45 and 6-100ths acres in Liberty township.  Deed dated December 16, 1867.
500 00
Samuel COURTNEY from David COURTNEY and wife, about 97 acres in Walnut township.  Deed dated April 17, 1868.  1 00
John GOBBLE from A. & F. BRIDGMAN, 5 acres in Polk township.  Deed dated April 15, 1867.  35 00
J. B. GOBBLE from W. L. DUKE, 10 acres in Polk township.  Deed dated December 17, 1866.  80 00
J. B. GOBBLE from A. MITCHELL and wife, 5 acres in Polk township.  Deed dated January 18, 1868.  40 00
J. B. GOBBLE from J. H. SEARS and others, 5 acres in Polk township.--- Deed dated July 20, 1868 [sic].  25 00
Ward LAMSON from Jas. F. WILSON and wife, 9 square rods in Fairfield township.  Deed dated June 7, 1868.  12 00
   [Ed. note:  One rod is equal to 16½ feet as a measure of distance.]
Samuel ENGLAND from Nathan TALBERT and wife, 30 acres in Penn township.  Deed dated May 1, 1863.  510 00
Samuel ESCHELMAN from C. T. COWAN and wife, 14 and 2-100ths acres in Des Moines township.  Deed dated January 5, 1867.  610 00
Estate of Samuel PANCOAST from Wm. BALDING and wife, 5 and 8-10ths acres in Liberty township.  Deed dated June 12, 1868. 125 00
James CASSADAY from Rufus CASSADAY and wife, 31 acres in Penn township.  Deed dated June 9, 1868.  550 00
L. T. GILLETT from Charles NEGUS and wife, 80 acres in Polk township.--- Deed dated August 14, 1852.  100 00
David MAJOR from E. B. LONG and wife, 40 acres in Fairfield township.  Deed dated April 23, 1868.  600 00
Jacob MILLER from J. J. HODGEN and wife, 20 acres in Walnut township.  Deed dated April 4, 1868.  377 00

Union School Rooms
Fairfield, June 6, 1868.

Association met pursuant to adjournment.  The minutes of the previous meeting were read and adopted.  Exercises were conducted in mental arithmetic, history, select reading, grammar, object-lessons and practical arithmetic, by Messrs. HERON, MURRAY, MORRISON and GIFT.

Miscellaneous business now being in order, D. HERON was elected President, G. CASE, Vice-President, and Miss Maggie PATTEN, Secretary.

The committee on programme reported the following:
  Inaugural address:  by the President.
  Grammar:  Wm. H. AXLINE.
  Elocution:  Miss Maggie PATTEN.
  Mental-arithmetic:  E. I. HINSHAW.
  Orthography:  D. BROWN.
  Declamation:  Gideon SAMPSON.
  Select-reading:  J. W. CREAMER.
  Object-lessons:  Mrs. HOWE.
  Essays:  Misses KIRKPATRICK, STEVER and JEFFERS.
  Penmanship:  A. J. COMBS
  Geography:  Messrs. PIERCE and DAVIS.

In consequence of the next regular day for meeting being on the 4th of July, it was moved and seconded that the meeting be on the last Saturday in June.  Carried.

Mr. MORRISON was appointed a committee of one to secure signers and form a choir for the benefit of the Association.

By order of the County Superintendent all the members of the committee of this county, on Institutes, are requested to attend the next Teachers’ meeting.

Adjourned.
 Wm. AXLINE,
   Secretary, pro tem.

From the Presbyterian, May 30th.
DEATH OF REV. GEORGE JUNKIN, D. D.
On the afternoon of the 20th inst., the Rev. George JUNKIN, D. D., L. L. D., departed this life, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

This announcement will fill numerous hearts, in many parts of this land and of the world, with sadness;  for the deceased was widely known and greatly venerated and beloved;  and the fruits of his labors, as a minister, an author, and an educator, are spread far and wide over this country, and in the missionary fields in distant lands.  Dr. JUNKIN was born November 1st, 1790, in a stone dwelling, which is still standing, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, near to the present town of Kingston.--- His father, Joseph JUNKIN, was born near the same place in 1750, and his mother, Eleanor COCHRAN, in Franklin county, on the banks of the Antietam, in 1760.--- both branches of Dr. JUNKIN’s ancestry were adherents of the section of Scottish Church usually called covenanters--- the staunchest branch of the great Puritan family.  His great-grandparents migrated from Scotland to Ireland during the persecutions under the house of Stuart, and his grandfather came to America about 1737.

Dr. JUNKIN’s childhood and early youth were passed upon his native farm in Cumberland.  In 1806 the family removed to Mercer county, Pa., then almost a frontier --- fragments of the Leni Lenappe Indians still lingering in the district.  He entered Jefferson College, Pa., in 1809, and graduated in 1813.  During his college course he attended chiefly upon the ministry of the Rev. Dr. John McMILLAN, the apostle of West Pennsylvania, and sometimes upon that of Rev. Dr. RAMSEY, of the Associate Church.  In an autobiography begun but not completed, Dr. JUNKIN dates his first religious convictions, and he thinks also a renewal of his heart, as early as 1799, in his tenth year.  From that time his conscience, as trained at the family altar, and under parental and especially maternal teachings, controlled his life.--- Thenceforward he maintained regular habits of secret devotion.  Under Dr. McMILLAN’s preaching, his religious impressions were often quickened;  but he mentions the ministrations of his pastor at Mercer, Pa., the Rev. James GALLOWAY, (subsequently his brother-in-law,) as the instrumentality employed by the spirit of God in giving him such clear and satisfactory views of the plan of salvation, and of his personal acceptance in Christ, as led to a public profession of religion in 1811, during his College course.  In October, 1813, he entered the Theological Seminary of Dr. MASON, in New York, and pursued his studies under that prince of American preachers and teachers.--- He was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Monongahela, (Associate Reform Church,) on the 16th of September, 1816.  The Presbytery at first refused to license him on account of his views upon catholic communion of God’s people;  but upon his asking to be dismissed to another Presbytery, they rescinded their refusal, and gave him license to preach.  His first ministration was in the Court-house of Butler, Pa.  After missionating for some time in different parts of Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland, he spent six or eight months in missionary labor in Philadelphia, and was ordained to the full work of the ministry at Gettysburg, Pa., on the 29th of June, 1818.  He was called the same year to the united congregations of Milton and Pennell, (McEwenville,) Pa.  On the 1st of June, 1819, he was united in marriage to Miss Julia Rush MILLER, of Philadelphia, with whom he lived a life of the most tender and perfect harmony for thirty-five years.  His ministry at Milton continued about eleven years --- years marked by abundant labours, the influence of which is recognized and confessed to this day.  To his pastoral labors he added for a time those of editor of a religious and agricultural bi-monthly.  He was also, in a sense, the founder of the Milton Academy, which, under the Principalship of Dr. KIRKPATRICK, educated so many men who have attained to eminence and usefulness.

In 1830 Dr. JUNKIN was called to the position of Principal of the Pennsylvania Manual Labor Academy at Germantown, Philadelphia county, where he toiled assiduously, and sacrificed much in the cause of education.  In April, 1832, he accepted the call to the Presidency of Lafayette College.  Many a column would be needed to tell the full story of the arduous labors and self-denying efforts exerted in behalf of the College by Dr. JUNKIN, who spent time, and strength, and money in organizing its operations of labor and teaching, besides traveling to solicit funds in its behalf.

It was at this time, from 1832 to 1837, that Dr. JUNKIN took such a prominent part in the ecclesiastical contest that resulted in the disruption of the Presbyterian Church, and its division into Old and New-school, he taking the side of the former, and knowing no half-way measures in dealing with the party from whom he differed.  At this time he wrote his work on Justification, which was printed by students on the Lafayette College press.

In 1841 Dr. JUNKIN accepted the Presidency of Miami University, Ohio, but returned in 1844 to resume the Presidency of Lafayette, Dr. YEOMANS having resigned, which position he again left in 1848, when he became President of Washington College, Virginia.  Here he remained nearly thirteen years, until secession compelled him to leave Lexington, and abandon the chosen home of his advancing years.  His patriotic resistance to the rebellion is well known to the most of our readers;  his farewell words to the students were, ”I will never hear a recitation, or deliver a lecture, under a rebel flag.”  In 1844 he was the Moderator of the General Assembly in Louisville.  In April, 1866, he received the honorary appointment of Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy in Lafayette College.  He also wrote numerous books of a practical character.

The last seven years of Dr. JUNKIN’s life were busily spent in frequent preaching, and in public efforts in behalf of temperance, and in opposition to legalizing Sabbath desecration.  His voice will no longer be heard in forcible appeals for reform.

The funeral of Dr. JUNKIN was attended from his son’s residence in Philadelphia.  Addresses were made by the Rev. Dr. BREED, Rev. Dr. KNOX of Germantown, and Rev. John CHAMBERS.  Dr. BREED very truly remarked that--- “The mind of Dr. JUNKIN well harmonized with the material home in which it lodged---massive, compact, and strong.--- To say that Dr. JUNKIN was a man of talents --- of talents of a very high order and commanding power --- is to say the truth;  but only a part of the truth.  He was a man of genius --- with all the force, fire, and originality of true genius.  That mind spread over a surface of amazing breadth, and penetrated also to an amazing depth.  It has not been our lot to come into intimate contact with another man who had possessed himself of, and thoroughly thought out and mastered so many of the leading topics of educational, mental, and moral science, of social and political economy, and of theology.  These topics, thoroughly sifted and striped [sic] of irrelevant surroundings, were laid away as specimens in a musium [sic] upon the shelves of a capacious and wonderfully faithful memory, and there always with reach of a wonderfully ready recollection, to be summoned forth at will for use, whether in conversation, debate, or literary composition.”

A large number of clergymen, members of the Board of Trustees of Lafayette College, and other sympathizing friends, were in attendance, notwithstanding the inclemency of the day.  Besides the brethren already mentioned, Rev. Dr. CATTELL, President of Lafayette College, and the Rev. Dr. James CLARKE, a former co-presbyter of Dr. JUNKIN, took part in the interesting and impressive services.---  Thus closes the earthly career of one who has been long known and much beloved in our Church and country.  He literally fell with his harness on.  He performed public duty almost to the last.   He was taken ill on Monday morning, and died on Wednesday.  That afternoon the place of worship in the widow’s home, of which he was chaplain, was prepared for the accustomed service, but he came not.--- “He never disappointed us before,” said a poor old widow who came to his funeral.  But he was dying at the time.  His last official duty was to preach in the Magdalen Asylum less than a week before his end.  Thus has departed one of the ablest leaders of the Presbyterian Church.

Proceedings of the City Council
          Council Chambers, June 28, 1868 [sic]

Council met with Mayor C. DAVID in the chair.

Present – Ald’rs ALEXANDER, CRAWFORD, FERGUSON, MERRICK and SHRINER.  Absent --- ACHESON, MONFORT and PRATT.

Minutes of the previous meeting read and approved.

Claims of E. K. BROWN, for keeping insane man, $1 50, and J. C. MONROE for mending pumps, 50 cents, were read, and, on motion, referred to the committee on claims.

On motion of Ald’r FERGUSON, the Committee on Public Property was instructed to visit the grave yard and instruct the Sexton in the necessary repairs.

Ald’r SHRINER was appointed on the Standing Committee on Claims, also on Standing Committee on Public Property.

On motion of Ald’r ALEXANDER, further time was granted to the Committee on Streets and Alleys, on petition of P. N. WOODS and others.

Solicitor MILLER tendered his resignation, which, on motion of Ald’r SHRINER, was accepted.

On motion of Ald’r MESSICK, 30 days time was added to the order of City Council passed April 1, 1868, viz:  the sidewalk order.--- The ayes and nays on the above motion were:  Ayes --- ALEXANDER, CRAWFORD, FERGUSON, MESSICK and SHRINER.  Nays --- None.
On motion, adjourned to meet Thursday, June 25, 1868, at 7 P.M.
 G. H. CASE, City Clerk.