1853: Land Entries at Council Bluffs,May 23, 1853:  (1) 31 acres in the northwest quarter of section 18 township 67 range 41; (2) southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 7 township 67 range 41; (3) northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 18 township 67 range 41.

1854: Land Entry at Council Bluffs, Feb. 1, 1854: West half of the southwest quarter of section 18 township 67 range 41.

Stephen Cromwell - Land Purchase

1853: Land entry, dated May 30, 1853, at Council Bluffs, for the west half of the northwest quarter of section 31 township 69 range 41.--Courthouse transcript.

Source: The Annals of Iowa; April 1874 quarterly issue, p. 109.

The District Court, at its June session was largely occupied with criminal business. The most important civil case was that of Ida P. CARY vs. Charles BAUGHN, involving the title to a large amount of valuable property in the eastern part of the City of Council Bluffs. The plaintiff claimed the property as the only daughter and heir at law of Stephen T. CARY, who died in 1855. The defendant derived his title from the widow of CARY, who claimed it under a Will in which all property of the deceased was devised to her; but the Will was executed in the State of Indiana, before the property in dispute had been acquired, and before the birth of the plaintiff. Testimony was introduced on the trial to show that the Will had been re-published just previous to the Testator's death, and the jury gave a verdict for the defendant, which, however, was set aside by the supereme court.