CHAPTER VI -- PIONEERS (CONT'D)

DOUGLAS.

Probably Nelson Ward, who settled in Douglas in 1853 or 1854, was the first settler there. Others came very shortly after, such as Charles Kidd, Jonathan Wyland, F. G. Clarke, Lytle Woods, and others.

From a poll list of Douglas township, showing the voters at the November election of 1876, I take the following list of pioneers: George Errett, B. McCord, John Unger, George Weaver, William Venworth, W. P. Kimball, S. F. Hurless, H. H. Gill, Jerry Slates, Joseph Goodman, Samuel Osborn, Henry Ash, C. W. Burright, T. J. Wyland, W. A. Johnson, William Watkins, J. M. Hale, Samuel Groves, Jackson Billeter, James Gill, Levi Billeter, William Gill, E. Connley, Thomas Kimball, David Carter, John East, Hugh East, J. C. Reed, Thomas Darling, W. D. Smith, G. L. Buckley, Lewis Blain, E. B. Fairchild, Samuel Birch, George Newhouse, Chancy Randall, Frank Slates, C. J. Kimball, Abram Sedam, Lewis Wilson, A. Muck, E. D. Oaks, Solomon Oaks, S. W. Harmon, H. W. Stoker, G. Edwards, James Stoker, Pearson Fountain, William Young, J. C. Harris, Jackson Young, Hiram Harmon, George Eokers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel Slates, William Spurgeon, John D. Maxwell, Miles Reynolds, Niram Pratt, Chatham Kimball, Chris Landon, Orlando Philbreak, C. Page, L. L. Jarvis, R. M. Maxwell, Adam Rasley, W. H. Rasley, Charles Schreder, J. P. Blair, J. C. Buckman, John Chatburn, Nick White, Thomas French, George Kibby, Allan Maxwell, Henry Wells, James T. French.

Transcribed by Denise Wurner, October 2013 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pp. 113-114.

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