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IOWA STORIES Volume 2 By CLARENCE RAY AURNER | ![]() |
Transcribed by Sharon Elijah, June 21, 2013
PREFACE | p. 3 | |
CONTENTS | p. 5 | |
I. | WHEN IOWA WAS WITHOUT A NAME | p. 9 |
What the first settlers found - No local law - The Iowa Country joined to Michigan - The first counties - The Iowa Country joined to Wisconsin - The Territory of Iowa. | ||
II. | MANY COUNTIES IN PLACE OF TWO | p. 19 |
The two large counties divided - Arrangement of counties - County seats - Attached counties - The debt of the large counties - Each county to pay its share. | ||
III. | HOW COUNTIES WERE MANAGED | p. 30 |
Selecting a clerk - The business of counties - Collecting money - Waiting for pay from the county - Amount of taxes - Guarding prisoners - The county seals - The county board and other offices. | ||
IV. | THE HISTORY OF A PIECE OF LAND | p. 41 |
Each piece distinguished from every other - The surveyed townships - The civil township - The first townships - Where to look for land history. | ||
V. | MAKING A NEW STATE | p. 49 |
Governor Lucas wants a state - Voting for a constitution - The boundary of Iowa - Iowa admitted to the Union - Territorial governors of Iowa - First State election - The General Assembly. | ||
VI. | BUILDING A NEW CAPITAL CITY | p. 57 |
Governor Lucas arrives at Burlington - Other Territorial officers - Locating a new city - Laying out the “City of Iowa” - The capitol building - The steamer Rock River visits the capital - Territorial officers move to the “City of Iowa” - Another capital in view - The last of Monroe City. | ||
VII. | THE IOWA-MISSOURI QUARREL | p. 68 |
Causes of the dispute - The Sullivan survey of 1816 - An army approaches - The Iowa militia ordered out - Good sense prevents a fight - Congress helps to settle the trouble - The boundary fixed. | ||
VIII. | THE CALICO RAILROAD | p. 77 |
Talk about railroads in 1844 - The direction of the first one mentioned - The St. Louis market - Plank roads - The first road surveyed - Money for it - Work begun - The end of it all - The Calico. | ||
IX. | THE BEGINNING OF REAL RAILROADS | p. 88 |
Chicago and St. Louis become rivals - The big “M and M” railway - Muscatine wants the main line - A great celebration - First freight shipments - Reaching the capital city-Another celebration. | ||
X. | OTHER MAIN LINES OF RAILROAD | p. 97 |
The Dubuque and Pacific - The right of way - The Market of the Northwest - St. Louis objects to any bridge - The Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska - Another celebration - The steamer Black Hawk - Eight roads by 1857 - Public land for their use - Desire for railroads. | ||
XI. | THE BUSINESS OF RAILROADS | p. 107 |
Like that of steamboats - Some cargoes - New kinds of freight - Shipments of game - Express companies. | ||
XII. | LAYING BY SOME MONEY FOR SCHOOLS | p. 112 |
Provision for school lands - Renting the lands - Using the money from lands - Other school money - University land - Other ways to help schools. | ||
XIII. | LAWS FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | p. 122 |
After 1834 - Governor Lucas would have a good law - Borrowing laws - Districts - School taxes not favored - Laws of 1847 and 1849 - How one district acted - Graded schools - Union schools - Re-writing the school laws, 1856 - Mr. Horace Mann asked to help. | ||
XIV. | THE FIRST STATE SCHOOL | p. 129 |
Called a University - Divisions of a university, 1849 - Opening a School, 1855. | ||
XV. | THE FIRST COLLEGES | p. 132 |
Their beginnings - First planned in New England -The Iowa Band, 1843 - A minister’s decision - Church people plan schools - What the pioneers wanted. | ||
XVI. | SOME EARLY NEWSPAPERS | p. 142 |
First at Dubuque Lead Mines - Some changes in names - What names meant - What papers contained - Some advertisements. | ||
XVII. | OPENING THE WAY | p. 154 |
French explorers - Claims of France - Lewis and Clarke on the western border - Sergeant Floyd buried on Iowa soil, 1804 - General Pike on the eastern border - Duty of the soldiers - Story of Lieutenant Albert M. Lea - Indians attack whites - Danger passes. | ||
XVIII. | WHAT THE INDIANS OF IOWA GAVE UP | p. 162 |
Early lines drawn between tribes - Sacs and Foxes and Sioux - Boundary of the Black Hawk Purchase - Purchase of 1837 - The Ioway’s claim - Sacs and Foxes leave in 1845 - Sioux last to go - Where the money paid the Indians went - The white man’s advance. |
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