At the outbreak of the Spanish American War in 1898, Governor Shaw of Iowa requested that Col. J.H. Sweney of Osage form a company of men to represent Mitchell County.   The following is a list of those men recruited.
Barrett, Robert L.
Christianson, M.
Conca, F.E.
Gibbons, T.J.
Huddleston, Joseph W.
Loban, Marion
Moeller, H.H.
Moss, Charles R.
Prime, John
Sweney, Col. J.H.
Young, John T.
Young, Rollo

 

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[Mitchell County History, 1973]
Submitted by Kathy Pike, April 2005