100 Years in Shelby Iowa 1870-1970
Proud of Our Past - Planning Our Future

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter I	Shelby As It Was	Before 1870	11
Chapter II	Pioneer Days	1870 through 1889	17
Chapter III	Gay Nineties	1890 through 1905	27
Chapter IV	Gas Light Era	1905 through 1914	33
Chapter V	World War I	1915 through 1919	44
Chapter VI	Roaring Twenties	1920 through 1929	47
Chapter VII	Dirty Thirties	1930 through 1939	58
Chapter VIII	World War II	1940 through 1949	69
Chapter IX	Jet Age	1950 through 1959	83
Chapter X	New Generation	1960 to 1970	99
Chapter XI	Organizations		108
Chapter XII	Various Things		187
Chapter XIII	Recollections		227
Chapter XIV	Biographies		243
Chapter XV	Pictures		373

Table of Contents transcribed from pg. 445.

GENERAL INDEX

A
Alumni	34, 78, 177, 430
American Legion	154
American Legion Auxiliary	157
Ancestors in Early Shelby History	187
Athletics	53, 170
B
Bands	54, 55, 60, 64, 180
Band and Vocal Parents	128
Bank Reorganization	49, 71, 187
Benham House	191
Ben Hite and Bentown	191
Biographies, Chapter IV	242
Birthday Party	412
Boys 4-H	141
Boy Scouts	55, 129
Bunting's Football	229
Businessmen	18, 25, 29, 42, 46, 47, 67, 69, 97, 105
C
Camp Fire Girls	131
Carnival	35, 36, 37, 66, 95, 96, 97
Cemetery Association	21, 28, 65, 181
Census	51, 69, 105, 192
Centennial Week Story	412
Centennial Committee	442
Chatburn Mill	18, 19, 23, 195
Chautauqua	33, 45, 54, 55, 63
Chime Clock	195
Chinch Bugs	70-71
Churches	62
Clyde Mansfield and His Clydesdales	196
Clyde Williams Story	30, 31, 34, 196
Community Club	131
Corn Story	11, 50, 70, 198
Country Schools	164
Cub Scouts	130
D
Dances	22
Dick Willey Recollects	229
Did You Know?	223
Dirty Thirties Era, Chapter VII	58
Doctors of Shelby	73, 200
Douglas Stump Remover	200
Dry Years	63-65
E
Early Residents Hand Picked	201
Easter Star Lodge	152
Elm Trees	201
Epidemics	22, 28, 35, 41, 44, 45, 59, 61, 81, 82, 87
F
Fair	30, 41, 210
Farewell to Shelby	201
Farm Bureau	55
Federated Club	132
Fires	29, 38, 63
Fire Department	182
First House	12, 202
Five Immigrant Sisters	202
Former Churches	128
Former Lodges	154
Future Farmers of America	178
G
Garden Club	137
Gas Light Era, Chapter IV	33
Gas Plant	20
Gay Nineties Era, Chapter III	27
Girls 4-H	143
Girl Scouts	140
Give a Man a Horse	203
Graduates	430
Grand Army of the Republic	158
Grandma Eckel Reminisces	230
H
Hawkins, Jim	17, 24, 287
4-H Boys	56, 141
4-H Girls	143
Hensel Painting	204
High School Graduates	430
History Book Committee	443
Home Town	444
Horse Power	232
Hot Lunches	53, 179
I
Ideal Club	144
In Conclusion	443
I.O.O.F.	27, 29, 149
J
Jet Age Era, Chapter IX	83
July 4th	18, 20, 23, 25, 44, 55, 60, 71
K
Kelly's Army	204
Kirkpatrick Triplets	205
Ku Klux Klan	55
L
Lady Lottery Winner	214
Long-Time Family Farms	205
L.H.W. Club	132
Lumber Wagons	233
Lutheran Church	108
M
Magill	44, 206
Mansfield Horses	196
Masonic Lodge	20, 148
Mayors	70, 226
Markets	19, 28, 33, 38, 51, 59, 60, 62, 66, 67
Medical Center	95, 206
Methodists	20, 117
Mill	18, 19, 23, 195
Music for Dancing	186
Musings of Matthiessen	234
My First Impressions of Shelby	234
My Old Neighborhood	235
N
Naming of Shelby	14
New Generation Era, Chapter X	99
News	214
Nicknames	225
Near Meeting After Fifty Years	220
Norman Will	206
O
Odd Fellows Lodge	27, 29, 149
Old Party Line	149, 237
Old Cook Stove	227
Old Letters	209
Old Settlers	428
Old Water System	238
One-woman News Staff at 75	187
Opponents' Opinion of 1950 BB Team	238
Ora Babbitt Farm	207
Order of Eastern Star	152
Organizations, Chapter XI	108
P
Park	133
Pictures, Chapter XV	373
Pioneer Days Era, Chapter II	17
Planning Committee	442
Post Office	29, 39, 59, 67, 186A
Presbyterian Church	120
Propp Kept us Out of War	239
Q
Quellar Family	208
R
Railroad	12, 18, 31, 47, 65, 208
Ramblings of Red Meredith	239
Rebekah Lodge	153
Recollections, Chapter XIII	227
Roaring Twenties Era, Chapter VI	47
Robberies	27, 29, 56. 61. 67, 97, 104
Rural Electrification Admin.	64-65
S
Schools	53. 164, 166
School Superintendents	226
Scrap Iron	71, 73, 74
Shelby As It Was, Chapter I	11
Shelby's Government	27, 31, 35, 36, 38, 50, 226
Shelby Medical Center	206
SHELBY NEWS	18, 49, 64, 214
Shelby's Own Undertaker	215
Silver Creed and Its Past	216
Silver Creek Social Society	146
Silver Front	217
Social Farmerettes	147
Social Neighbors Club	147
Sons of Veterans	161
Square Dances	218
Stage Coach	14
Stingy-Ridge Kid Sez	227
Stormy Weather	40, 41, 61, 62, 64, 86, 218
Story Told By a Neighbor	239
Superintendents	430
T
Telephone	27, 61, 211
Tift Poem	444
Three Eras of Threshing	28, 239
Tribute to a Teacher	220
Thirteen Large Steers	223
U
Undertaker	215
Uranium Tunnel	220
V
Various Things, Chapter XII	187
W
War: Spanish American	30-31
War: W. W. I, Chapter V	44, 45, 46
War: W. W. II Era, Chapter VIII	69
Waynes Remember	240
Wild Freight Engine	221
Winther's Farewell	201
Wish Books	241
Women's Relief Corps	163
Wrestling Linns	221
Z
Zimmerman, Armored Engineer	222

General Index transcribed from pp. 446-447.

Biographical Index

NAME		PAGE
A
Adams Story,	Alexander	243
Albertus Family,	Gustavus	243
Anderson,	Carl T.	244
Anderson Family,	Nels	245
Atchley,	Dr. B. D.	245
B
Babbitt Family,	Glen	246
Barrett Family		247
Battey Family,	George	248
Benedict,	C. R.	249
Best Family,	M. V.	249
Best Family,	Arthur M.	250
Bittle,	Henry Harrison	252
Bladt,	Jurgen	252
Blumer,	Fredolin	252
Boardman Family,		253
Bohland Family,	Phillip	253
Bothwell,	(See Marshall)	312
Branstiter's		254
Brown Family,	Ed	256
Brown Family,	Tom	256
Brown,	Lawrence (See Tom Brown)	256
Brown,	W. H.	257
Buckley,	H. H.	258
Buckley Family,	J. L.	258
Buckley,	William	259
Bunting Family,	E. H.	259
C
Carstens Family,		259
Clapp Family		261
Coker,	James F. and family	261
Collins,	Eli A.	263
Cooper,	Daniel C.	264
Crane Family		264
Croft,	Orpha Nathan	265
Cook,	J. W. (Ted) (See Jones)	297
Clark,	Okey (See Jones)	297
Cunningham Family		265
Curry Family,	A. E.	266
Cushing Family		267
Cutshall Family,	Lem.	268
D
Dahl,	Andrew P.	268
Damgaard Family,	Julius	269
Dea Family		269
Davis Family,	Raymond	271
Delph Family		272
Dittmer Family,	Jochim	272
Dohrmann Family		273
Donaldson Family,	O. A.	274
Drake,	Florence	274
Durr Family,	Andrew	275
E
Eberharts,	The	275
Eble Family		276
Eckel Family		277
Edwards Family,	C. C.	278
Eggerss Family		279
Evans Family,	Ira and Sarah	280
F
Fennern Family,	A. R.	281
Frum Family		282
Freads Family	(See Stuhr)	356
G
Gill Family,		283
Green Family,	Charles J.	283
Greve,	Ernest P. and Doris	284
H
Haas,	Franz and Margaret	284
Haas,	Gustav J.	286
Hansen,	Anton	286
Hawkins,	James F. and family	287
Hein,	F. H. Family	288
Henderson Brothers		289
Heinie,	Henry	290
Hilborn Sisters		290
Hildebrandt,	Carl T.	291
Holdorf,	Charles J.	291
Hite,	Ben (See Chapter 12)	191
Holst,	Claus	292
Holtz,	Fredolin	292
Howland,	W. C.	293
Hughes,	W. F.	293
Hursey,	Holly (See Myers)	326
J
Jensen,	John L.	294
Jensen,	L. C.	294
Johnson,	Chris J.	295
Johnson,	John C. Family	296
Jones,	N. Jasper Dr.	297
K
Kay,	Rudolph H.	298
Keeney	M. T.	298
Kern,	Family	299
Kern,	George	299
Kern,	Albert	300
Kern,	Edmund	300
Kern,	Frank	300
Kern,	John N.	301
Kern,	Charles L.	301
Kern,	Lloyd (See Frank Kern)	300
Kern,	Floyd (See Frank Kern)	300
Kern,	James F. and family	302
Kiesel,	Adam	302
Koch,	Louis John	303
Koch,	Randolph and Esther Mansfield	303
Koch,	Jack	304
Kubelck,	Carl Martin	304
L
Lawson,	Family	305
Linn,	Jacob B.	306
Luxford,	Dean H. Family	309
M
Madsen,	Oga	310
Madsen,	John	311
Mansfield,	Harry Clyde	311
Mansfield,	J. C.	312
Manx,	Family	312
Marshall,	Andrew Bothwell	312
Marshall,	Freeman	313
Martens,	Claus, Family	314
Martens,	Hans, Family	315
Mattox-Crispin,	Family	315
Maxwell,	Samuel	316
Maume.	J. F., Family	316
McEwen,	J. P.	317
McFadden,	Brothers	317
McKnabb,	O. C.	318
McLaughlin,	C. J., Family	319
Messerschmidt,	Augusta, Family	319
Messerschmidt,	Henrietta	320
Messerschmidt,	Richard	321
Miller,	Frederick Andrew, Plagman	321
Moore,	Levi	323
Moore,	John C., Family	323
Moore,	W. H., Family	323
Mortensen,	Peter, Family	324
Mowry,	John L.	325
Myers,	Hursey Families	326
N
Nelson,	Anton	327
Nelson,	James Newton	329
Nelson,	Marten, Family	330
Newman,	Charles W.	331
Nielsen,	Mads Christian	331
Niemann,	Johann, Family	331
Noehren,	Carl Henry	332
Norman,	Alfred	333
Norman,	Tom (See Pryor)	334
O
Olson,	Clifford H., Family	334
Orth,	Walter Albert (Bert)	335
Osborn.	L. E.	335
P
Paul,	John, Family	336
Petersen,	Andrew	337
Petersen,	Andrew P.	338
Peterson,	Clarence, Family	339
Pingel,	Peter, Family	339
Plagman	(See Miller)	321
Pomeroy,	R. M.	3451
Pomeroy,	John	342
Pomeroy,	W. R.	342
Preuss,	Wm. (See Eggerss)	279
Prior,	Charles	343
Propp,	R. M.	344
Pryor,	Arthur, Family	344
Putnam,	Esther Beryl	345
R
Reams,	Joseph B.	345
Reed,	John H.	346
Rieber,	Peter, Family	346
Rihner,	Family	346
Robinson,	W. S., Family	347
Rock,	Julius, Family	348
Rohrs,	Family	348
S
Sallman,	Nels	350
Savage,	Andrew Jackson	350
Schade,	Henry, Family	351
Schnackel,	Fred, Family	351
Scott,	Family	352
Sindt,	Gustav Adoph	352
Slaughter,	Brothers	353
Smith,	James Findley, Family	354
Starner,	Frank, Family	355
Stoker,	L. O., Family	355
Stuhr-Soukop-Albertus-Freads		356
Sutton,	J. M., Family	357
T
Tate,	James, Family	357
Turk,	Family	358
V
Vogt,	Peter,	358
Volkens,	Family	358
Von Eschen,	Aaron A., Family	359
Von Eschen,	Ben, Family	359
W
Wahling,	Family	360
Walstrom,	Floyd (See Ed Brown)	361
Watkins,	Hiram, Family	361
Watson,	John, Family	362
Wayne,	Charles and Ethel	363
Weibley,	John W.	363
Wendt,	William R.	364
Willey,	Richard, Family	364
Williams,	George and T. F. A.	365
Williams,	Samuel P.	366
Winther,	J. M. T. (In Chapter 12)	201
Woltmann,	Adolph, Family	366
Wunder,	Henry, Familyh	368
Z
Zimmerman,	William A., Family	369

Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2021. Biographical index transcribed from pp. 448-449.