Mills County, Iowa

Historical Events and Stories

Mills County Underground Railroad

• Abolitionists
• Woodfork, Henry (Platteville)

• Anti-Abolitionists
• Nuckolls, Columbus (Glenwood Vicinity)
• Nuckolls, Lafayette (Glenwood Vicinity)

• Anti-Salvery
• Briggs, Daniel C. (Silver Creek Township)
• Hallam, Aurelia Stillman Woodruff (Tabor Vicinity)
• Hallam, John (Tabor Vicinity)
• Hoyt, Hiram (Indian Creek Township)
• Hoyt, Sarah (Indian Creek Township)
• Morse, Edwin A. (Indian Creek Township)
• Tolles, Charles Wesley (Silver Creek Township)
• Tolles, Sylvia Case (Silver Creek Township)
• Wheeler, Daniel H. (Glenwood Vicinity)

• Associated with John Brown
• Hoyt, Hiram (Indian Creek Township)
• Tolles, Charles Wesley (Silver Creek Township)

• Conductors/Agents
• Garner Family (Civil Bend)
• Briggs, Daniel C. (Silver Creek Township)
• Hallam, Aurelia Stillman Woodruff (Tabor Vicinity)
• Hallam, John (Tabor Vicinity)
• Hoyt, Hiram (Indian Creek Township, east of Hastings)
• Hoyt, Sarah (Indian Creek Township)
• Morse, Edwin A. (Indian Creek Township)
• Nash, Anna Case (Silver Creek)
• Nash, Z. B. (Silver Creek)
• Sheldon, Hon. Edward T. (Lived in Tabor, Fremont County)
• Tolles, Charles Wesley (Silver Creek Township)
• Tolles, Sylvia Case (Silver Creek Township)
• Wheeler, Daniel H. (Glenwood Vicinity)
• Woodford, Isaac Newton (Vicinity unknown)

• Slave Catchers/Bounty Hunters
• Castle (Glenwood)
• Follett, W. K.
• Foster, Joe (Glenwood)
• Gardner, Jim (Glenwood)
• Linville, George
• Wyatt

• Unknown Status
• Wing, Jesse F. (Platteville)
• Wing, Mary H. (Platteville)
• Woodford, Isaac Newton (Vicinity unknown)
• Woodfork, Henry (Platteville Township)

Source: Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, State Historical Building
600 E. Loccust Street, Des Moines, IA 50319

For additional information see Iowa's Underground Railroad