CHAPTER VI -- PIONEERS (CONT'D)

PIONEERS OF CENTER TOWNSHIP.

The earliest pioneer of what is now Center township, was either Dwight Terrill, who settled at Bowman’s Grove in 1853, or L. D. Sunderland, who appears also to have come in the same year, and who settled a few miles northeast of what is now Harlan. Very early settlers were J. W. Chatburn, P. Billeter, William McGinnis, Washington Wyland, W. J. Davis, Adam Brandt, W. W. Brandt, J. M. Cox, John T. Miles, Samuel Blake, B. F. Blake, C. C. Redfield, E. Chichester, W. L. Baughn, M. Barton, H. Baughn, William Roberts, P G. Errett, G. M. Hubbell, S. W. Dayton, T. P. Duncan, George Swinehart, J. J. Miller, M. Poling, M. Obrecht, George H. Miller, C. F. Potter, E. S. Canine, Fred Gooding, John T. Gillett, J. B. Stutzman, Horace Graves, C. E. Graves, Charles Graves, Elias Daws, C.W. Daws, I. P. Wyland, W. W. Cox, P. T. Nelson, Henry Custer, W. H. Errett, Rufus Yoder, Solomon Wyland, S. Harter, G. W. Knauss, J. Swaney, W. H. Gillett, David McMullen, O. A. Gibbs, X. Duncan, Martin Petersen, Christian Goodyear, Samuel McMullen.

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. 122.

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