Past and Present of Calhoun County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress, and Achievement, Volume 1Beaumont E. Stonebraker Pioneer publishing Company, 1915 - Calhoun County (Iowa) |
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Past and Present of Calhoun County, Iowa, a Record of Settlement ..., Volume 2 Beaumont E. Stonebraker No preview available - 2017 |
Past and Present of Calhoun County, Iowa, a Record of Settlement ..., Volume 2 Beaumont E Stonebraker No preview available - 2018 |
Past and Present of Calhoun County, Iowa, a Record of Settlement ..., Volume 2 Beaumont E Stonebraker No preview available - 2018 |
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American Emigrant Company appointed April August bank Black Hawk board of supervisors building built Calhoun County capital stock Center Township charter members Chicago church civil township clerk Coon River corner county seat Court courthouse District Dodge Dubuque early east election entered erected established Farnhamville filed Fort Dodge George granted held house of worship Illinois incorporated Indians Iowa Jackson Township James January John Jolley June Lake City Lake Creek Lake Creek Township Lincoln Township located lodge Lohrville lots Manson Methodist miles Milwaukee & St Mississippi Moines Mound Builders mounds Northwestern October officers organized Peter Smith petition plat Pomeroy prairie present railroad range 33 road Rockwell City Sacs and Foxes schoolhouse secretary September settlement settlers Sherman Sherman Township Sioux City Somers swamp lands territory tion town township 86 treasurer treaty tribes trustees Twin Lakes Twin Lakes Township United vice president William Yetter
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Page 168 - The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and existence of our national Union, and the perpetuity of popular government, and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Page 226 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Page 168 - Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations...
Page 46 - States, shall be of any validity, in law or equity, unless the same be made by treaty or convention, entered into pursuant to the constitution...
Page 226 - AD 1841; and all estates of deceased persons who may have died without leaving a will, or heir, and also such per cent, as may be granted by Congress on the sale of lands in this State, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the...
Page 165 - Constitution from abundant caution has. declared, "that the migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808.
Page 226 - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or hereafter may be, granted by the United States to this State, for the support of schools, which may have been or shall hereafter be sold, or disposed of...
Page 44 - Iowa," was approved June 12, 1838, to take effect and be in force on and after July 3, 1838. The new Territory embraced " all that part of the present Territory of Wisconsin which lies west of the Mississippi River, and west of a line drawn due north from the head water or sources of the Mississippi to the territorial line.
Page 167 - States shall have declared, by proclamation, that the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the marshals...
Page 36 - ... so free from rocks, which your canoes have removed as they passed ; never has our tobacco had so fine a flavor, nor our corn appeared so beautiful as we behold it today. Here is my son, that I give thee, that thou mayest know my heart.