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A Brief Foreword | . |
Chapter I---Historic Iowa | . |
Four Score Years Ago | 5-6 |
The Indian And His Fate | 6-10 |
Black Hawk War | 10-15 |
Indian Treaties | 15-16 |
First Land Title In Iowa | 16-17 |
Early Settlement | 17-18 |
Civil Government For Territory And State | 18-20 |
The Territory Becomes The State of Iowa | 20-22 |
The State Becomes Republican. | 22 |
The Capitol Removed To Des Moines. | 22-23 |
Climate, Topography & Lakes and Streams. | 23-24 |
Iowa and The Civil War. | 24-27 |
Educational Institutions. | 27 |
The First School Building At Dubuque. | 27-29 |
State University and Colleges. | 29-32 |
State Institutions. | 32-37 |
The Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Constitution of Iowa. | 37-40 |
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Chapter II---A Beautiful Country | . |
Lieutenant Albert M. Lea's Description of "Iowa District of Wisconsin Territory". | 41-43 |
Iowa District of Wisconsin Territory. General Description. | 43-51 |
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Chapter III---Law And Order | . |
First Officials Chosen To Govern The Settlements | 52-53 |
Subdivision of Old Des Moines | 53-54 |
Revision of The Organizing Act | 54-57 |
How "Claims" Were Made | 57-59 |
First Settlers | 59-60 |
First Settler In The County | 60-61 |
First Settler In Bloomington | 61-63 |
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Chapter IV---Story of The Rocks | . |
Drainage And Surface Characteristics | 64-66 |
Geological History | 66-73 |
Land And Fresh Water Mollusks | 73-75 |
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Chapter V---The Mississippi | . |
The "Father of Waters" Brings To Muscatine It's First Settlers | 76-77 |
An Early River Panorama | 77 |
The Boats Of Other Days | 77-79 |
Great River Stories | 79-81 |
Rafting Days | 81 |
The Clinton "Nigger" | 81-82 |
The First Raft Pilot | 82-83 |
First Electric Light on The Mississippi | 83 |
Mississippi Steamboats "Perfect Palaces" | 83-84 |
Arrival of The Steamer Muscatine | 84 |
Racing on The Mississippi In Early Times | 84-85 |
Ferry Boats | 85-86 |
Rafting of Lumber | 86-87 |
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Chapter VI---Order Out of Chaos | . |
Muscatine County is Organized | 88-89 |
County Divided Into Commissioners' Districts | 89 |
District Court | 89 |
The First Grand Jury | 89-90 |
First Petit Jury | 90 |
Probate Court | 90 |
Commissioners Court | 90-91 |
Members Commissioners' Court | 91-92 |
Commissioners' Court Abolished | 92 |
The County Court | 92 |
The Supervisor System | 92-94 |
Board Increased To Five Members | 94-95 |
County Officers | 95-96 |
Court Houses and Jails of Muscatine County | 96-102 |
County Farm | 102 |
Then and Now | 102-104 |
Farm Statistics For 1910 | 104 |
Population of Muscatine County in 1910 | 104-105 |
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Chapter VII---Pioneer Life | 106-115 |
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Chapter VIII | . |
Iowa's First Legislature | 116-117 |
An Arbitrary Member From Muscatine | 117-119 |
Hastings A Unique Character | 119-122 |
No Spoils For Muscatine | 122 |
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Chapter IX---Civil War | . |
President Lincoln Calls For Seventy-Five Thousand Men To Put Down Rebellion | 123-125 |
Iowa Rallies To The Colors | 125-128 |
Muscatine Eager For The Fray | 128-129 |
Two Regiments From Muscatine County | 129-130 |
Devotion To Country Unparalleled In History | 130-131 |
First Iowa Regiment | 131-133 |
Thirty-Fifth Iowa Regiment | 133-137 |
Eleventh Iowa Infantry | 137-141 |
Sixteenth Iowa Infantry | 141-146 |
Seventh Iowa Infantry | 146-150 |
Eighteenth Iowa Infantry | 150-153 |
Eighth Iowa Infantry--The Eighth At Shiloh | 153-156 |
Volunteer Roster From Adjutant General's Reports | 156-189 |
The Soldiers' Monument | 189-192 |
Grand Army of The Republic | 192 |
Reduced Fac-Simile of Charter Original Post No. 1---G. A. R. | . |
Charter Members of Old Post, No. 1 | . |
Charter Members of Old Post, No. 1 | . |
Benjamin F. Stephenson--Founder of the G. A. R. | . |
Woman's Relief Corps, No. 122 | 192 |
Company C, Fifty-Fourth Regiment | 192-194 |
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Chapter X---Honorable Mention | . |
Men Who Left The Impress of Character on The Community | 195-208 |
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Chapter XI---The Townships | 209 |
Montpelier Township | 209-215 |
Moscow Township | 215-221 |
Wapsinonoc Township | 221-229 |
Sweetland Township | 229-233 |
Cedar Township | 233-234 |
Seventy Six Township | 234-236 |
Pike Township | 236-239 |
Wilton Township | 239-246 |
Fulton Township | 246-247 |
Goshen Township | 247-248 |
Orono Township | 248-249 |
Lake Township | 249-250 |
Fruitland Township | 250-257 |
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Chapter XII---The Huntsman's Paradise | 258-259 |
A Great Hunter | 259-260 |
The Old Gun Maker | 260-262 |
Boil Coffee In A Wash Basin | 262 |
Shoot Pelicans On The Lake | 262-263 |
Keystone Gun Club | 263-264 |
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Chapter XIII---Germany's Contribution | . |
From "Der Faderland" Came Many To Muscatine County | 265-269 |
Breweries | 269-270 |
Bands | 270 |
German Lodges | 270 |
J. F. Boepple, Founder of The Pearl Button Industry | 270-271 |
The German Press of Muscatine County | 271-272 |
Complete List of Civil War Veterans of German Descent of Muscatine County | 272-277 |
German Societies | 277-278 |
St. Joseph's Mutual Aid Society | 278 |
The German Mechanics Aid Society | 278-279 |
The Champion Hose Company | 279 |
The Harmonic Male Choir | 279 |
The Muscatine Maennerchor | 279-280 |
The Vorwaerts Turnverein | 280-281 |
The German-American Alliance of Muscatine | 281 |
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Chapter XIV--- The County Seat | 282-284 |
A Description of Charming Scenery | 284-287 |
The First Election | 287 |
Name Changed To Muscatine | 287-289 |
Police Department | 289-290 |
Fire Department | 290 |
Water Works | 290-291 |
The First Postmaster | 291-293 |
Muscatine's First City Directory | 293-295 |
Muscatiners Who Have Gained State And National Distinction | 295-298 |
Caravansaries | . |
Iowa House, Afterward Pennsylvania House | 298-299 |
Lawson House, or Old Vanatta Hotel | 299 |
Muscatine Hotel | 299-300 |
The American House | 300 |
Clover House | 300 |
Palmer's Tavern | 300 |
Park House | 300-301 |
Scott House | 301 |
Ogilvie House, Now The Commercial Hotel | 301-302 |
Hotel Webster, Now Hotel Grand | 302 |
Muscatine An Industrial City | 302-303 |
Friends Oats | 303 |
Manufacture of Pearl Buttons | 303-305 |
The High Bridge | 305-306 |
Weed Park | 306 |
Grand Opera House | 306 |
The Family Theater | 306-307 |
The A-Muse-U | 307 |
Base Ball Club | 307 |
Muscatine Cemetery, Greenwood Chapel & St. Mary's Cemetery | 307-308 |
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Chapter XV---Churches And Parishes | . |
The Methodist Episcopal Church | 309-312 |
Trinity Episcopal Church | 312-316 |
The Congregational Church | 316-323 |
St. Matthias' Congregation | 323-329 |
First Baptist Church | 329-331 |
First Presbyterian Church | 331-332 |
The Evangelical Protestant Church | 332-334 |
German Baptist Church | 334 |
First German Presbyterian Church | 334-335 |
African Methodist Episcopal Church | 335-336 |
Society of Friends | 336 |
The Mulford Mission | 336-337 |
St. Mary's Catholic Church | 337-338 |
Musserville Church | 338 |
Evangelical Lutheran Zion's Church | 338-339 |
German Methodist Episcopal Church | 339-340 |
First Church of Christ Scientist | 340 |
Grace English Lutheran Church | 340-341 |
St. Malachy's Church At Ardon | 341 |
German Congregational Church | 341 |
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Chapter XVII---Educational | 342-344 |
No Male Teachers | 344 |
To Establish High School | 344-346 |
Renamed Buildings | 346-347 |
By W. F. Chevalier | 347-348 |
Attendance Increases | 348 |
Building on East Hill | 348-349 |
Method of Promotion | 349-350 |
School No. 1 In Olden Days | 350-351 |
Ten Months of School | 351-352 |
Old School No. 1 | 352 |
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Chapter XVII---The Medical Profession | 353-354 |
Pioneer Physicians | 354-355 |
Tragic Death of Dr. Hershe | 355-360 |
Muscatine County Medical Societies | 360-362 |
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Chapter XVIII---Bench And Bar | 363-365 |
Judge Joseph Williams | 365-369 |
Judge S. Clinton Hastings | 369-371 |
D. C. Cloud | 371 |
Judge William G. Woodward | 371 |
Stephen Whicher | 371-373 |
Judge A. J. Leffingwell | 373 |
J. Scott Richman | 373-374 |
Judge Ralph P. Lowe | 374-375 |
Jacob Butler | 375 |
Harry O'Connor | 375 |
Judge De witt C. Richman | 375-376 |
Judge George Meason | 376 |
Alden Broomhall | 376-377 |
George W. Van Horne | 377 |
Thomas Hanna | 377 |
Muscatine Bar Association | 377-378 |
First And Last Member of Congress | 378 |
Pioneer Bench And Bar | 378-381 |
A Fashionable Quadrille And An Indian War Dance | 381-382 |
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Chapter XIX---Journalism | 383 |
First Issue In A Stable | 383-384 |
Starting Newspaper in 1840 | 384-385 |
Dr. C. O. Waters' Next Edition | 385 |
Herald Becomes A Whig Paper | 385-386 |
John Mahin Enters Herald Office | 386-388 |
F. A. C. Foreman The Next Editor | 388-389 |
First Muscatine Journal Printed | 389-390 |
John Mahin Becomes Editor | 390 |
Orion Clemens Becomes Partner | 390-391 |
Daily Journal Is Established | 391-392 |
Mr. Mahin Takes Sole Charge | 392-393 |
Journal Printing Company Organized | 393-394 |
Editor of The Journal Fifty Years | 394-397 |
The News-Tribune | 397-399 |
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Chapter XX---Banks And Bankers | . |
Greene & Stone, Bankers | 400-401 |
First Trust & Savings Bank | 401-402 |
Hershey State Bank | 402 |
The Muscatine State Bank | 402-403 |
The German-American Savings Bank | 403 |
Recollections of A Pioneer Banker | 403-404 |
Early Muscatine Bankers | 404-405 |
Then Came Isett & Brewster | 405 |
Abbott, Dutton & Patterson | 405-406 |
After Failure of Bank | 406 |
Merchants' Exchange | 406-407 |
Bank at Wilton | 407 |
Men Were Trained | 407-408 |
Strong And Able Men | 408 |
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Chapter XXI---Transportation | 409 |
Early Stage Coaches | 409-410 |
The Railroad | 410-411 |
Muscatine North & South Railway | 411-412 |
Citizens Railway & Light Company | 412-419 |
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Chapter XXII---Associations | . |
Old Settlers' Association | 420-422 |
Muscatine County Agricultural Society | 422-423 |
Iowa Lodge of Masons No. 2 | 423-427 |
Electra Chapter of The Eastern Star, No. 32 | 427-428 |
Muscatine Lodge, No. 5, I.O.O.F. | 428-429 |
Wyoming Lodge, No. 76, Knights of Pythias | 429 |
Muscatine Camp, No. 106, Modern Woodmen of America | 429-430 |
Musquitine Tribe, No. 95, Independent Order Red Men | 430 |
Benevolent And Protective Order of Elks, No. 304 | 430 |
Eagle Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen, No. 10 | 430-431 |
Muscatine Tent, No. 9, Knights of The Maccabees | 431 |
Laurent Council, No. 1035, Knights of Columbus | 431-432 |
Muscatine Aerie No. 815, Fraternal Order of Eagles | 432 |
The Muscatine Turnverein | 432 |
St. Joseph's Mutual Aid Society | 432 |
The German Mechanics' Aid Society | 432-433 |
Women's Organizations | 433-435 |
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Chapter XXIII---Looking Upward | 436-438 |
The Muscatine Chautauqua | 438-439 |
Young Men's Christian Association | 439-441 |
Young Women's Christian Association | 441-442 |
Hershey Memorial Hospital | 442-443 |
Bellevue Hospital | 443 |
Old Ladies' Home | 443-444 |
German Lutheran Orphans' And Old People's Home | 444-445 |
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Chapter XXIV---Chronology | . |
Records of Events From 1834-1910 | 446-489 |
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Various Views and Street Scenes | . |
View From Tow Head in 1901 | . |
East Side of Iowa Avenue, Looking North From Third Street, in July, 1877 | . |
South Side of Second Street, East of Sycamore, in 1867 | . |
View of Iowa Avenue, 1874, Looking North From Near the Corner of Third Street | . |
Northeast From Court House Dome | . |
South From Court House Dome | . |
North From Court House Dome | . |
Southeast From Court House | . |
Second Street, Looking West From Cedar in 1869 | . |
Scene at Corner of Third and Chestnut Streets, Looking up Third, in 1866 | . |
Second Street, East of Cedar, in 1866 | . |
Third Street Looking East from Iowa Avenue in 1866 | . |
Iowa Avenue Looking North from Front Street | . |
View From East Hill, in 1869, Looking Across Mad Creek Toward Klenfeld's Foundry | . |
Building Pappoose Sewer Between Third and Second Streets in 1895 | . |
Building Pappoose Sewer Between Second and Front Streets in 1895 | . |
Grange Factory, Northeast Corner Third and Mulberry Streets, 1877 | . |