CHAPTER VI -- PIONEERS (CONT'D)

PIONEERS OF LINCOLN TOWNSHIP.

Probably the first settler of Lincoln township was Jacob Bosley, who settled there in 1865, and possibly the second was T. A. Long, who built a log cabin on section 24, in 1868. Very early settlers were L. S. Taylor, William Southwick, Dan Soesbe, James Hardman, Dan Miller, J. P. (Pence) Miller, Milt Stephenson, John Anderson, the Forman boys, Lues Lueck, Wayman Scaddon, James Harvey, Mr. Livingston, J. O. Ramsey, James Casey, Martin Johansen, A. H. Wick, J. W. Salter, Ira Stevens, L. Bishop, O. Comstock, Joseph Pierce, Mr. Lawson.

L. S. Taylor tells me that at the first election attended by him in the township in 1874, there was but one old man among the voters, and that few of those present had any gray hairs. The only elderly man at the election was John Lawson, then residing in the vicinity of Tennant.

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. 123.

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