CHAPTER VI -- PIONEERS (CONT'D)

PIONEERS OF CLAY TOWNSHIP.

The following named persons appear to have settled in Clay township in 1866: I. Pucket, T. W. Winters, Lorenzo Winters, Silas Whitney, Thomas Whitney, Lewis LaFleur, D. Hudson, Ayers Martin, George Hoper; in 1867 came Mason Fish and his sons, E. F. Fish and George M. Fish; about 1868, Chris Johnson and Ole Johnson, and about the same time Judson Wilmarth and William Wilmarth; David Thomas, in about 1871 or 1872; Phillip Armentrout and his brother, George Armentrout, in 1871; Dr. P. B. Allen about 1872; D. C. Arkwright about 1870. Other pioneers were Geroge F. Brigham, Harmon Pinney, John Lamphere, John Baird, Peter Carl Hansen, Lewis Kellogg, Daniel Fleming, Andrew Kolb, Peter I. Peterson, George James, Rasmus Hansen, E. A. Noon, J. M. H. Clark, Thomas McMahon, John G. Gassnick, M. Seymore, David Pritchard, George W. Potts, John M. Clark, George W. McCrory, M. S. Fudge, and others. Some of the names of the earliest Danish settlers are found elsewhere in this work.

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. 109-110.

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