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Clinton County, Iowa
Books
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The Biographical record of Clinton County, Iowa /
Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901, 521 pgs. (Surname
list)
Periodicals
Hawkeye Heritage:
Palimpsest:
- M. A. Disbrow & Company: Catalogue Architecture
(July/August 1975)
- W. B. Leffingwell, Iowa Sportsman (November/December 1980)
- Marquis Childs -- Interpreter of the Mississippi River
(November/December 1986)
- The Interurban Years (March/April 1981)
- The Fenians in Iowa (Irish) (March/April 1981)
CLINTON COUNTY was created in December,
1837, from territory embraced in the original county of Dubuque. It was
named for De Witt Clinton the illustrious Governor of New York, contains
an area of seven hundred twenty square miles and lies on the Mississippi
River in the fifth tier south of the Minnesota line extending farther
eastward than any other county in the State. The city of Clinton lies
farther east by more than sixty miles than Keokuk, both on the
Mississippi River. Clinton and Jackson are the most easterly counties in
the great bend of the Mississippi River forming the east boundary of
Iowa. The Wapsipinicon River enters the county from the northwest and
forms a large portion of the boundary line separating Clinton from Scott
County.
In July, 1835, Elisha Buel crossed the
Mississippi and made a claim where Lyons was laid out. In 1836 James D.
Bourne who was an agent of the American Fur Company established a post
and made a claim on the Wapsipinicon, becoming a permanent citizen. He
was the first postmaster in the county and kept the office named Monroe
which was on the mail route from Davenport to Dubuque. He also kept a
ferry across the Wapsipinicon at that place. During the year 1836 Dr.
George Peck made a claim on the banks of the Mississippi and laid out
the town of Camanche, named for an Indian tribe. Joseph M. Bartlett made
a claim two miles below Buel's the same year and built a log cabin. He
opened a store and laid out a town where Clinton stands, which he named
New York. In 1837 Mr. Buel, G. W. Harlan and Suel Foster laid out the
town of Lyons. Eli Goddard, D. C. Bourne, W. D. Follett and others
settled in various parts of the county during the following year.
In February, 1838, the county-seat was
established by a vote of the people at Camanche. The county was fully
organized in 1840 and the first election was held April 6th in the house
of Lyman Evans at Camanche. In 1841 three commissioners were chosen by
the Legislature to relocate the county-seat. They selected a place
twenty miles west of the Mississippi and gave it the name of Vandenburg.
A log court-house and hotel were built and the court-house was used for
school and church purposes. J. Wood was the first school teacher in the
county. The name of the town was soon changed to De Witt and the
county-seat remained there about thirty-five years, when it was removed
to Clinton.
Clinton was laid out on the old site of New
York in 1855 by the Iowa Land Company. The Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska
Railroad Company was organized in 1856 to build a railroad from Clinton
to the Missouri River. The road was pushed with energy and was the first
to cross the State, reaching Council Bluffs in the fall of 1867.
The first newspaper in the county was
established at Camanche in 1854 by Bates and Kanapp and named the Camanche
Chief. In June, 1860, Camanche was destroyed by the great tornado
which swept through central Iowa that year. A railroad bridge was built
across the Mississippi at Clinton and in the course of years Lyons and
Clinton grew together and became one city.
Source: History of Iowa: From the Earliest
Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Benjamin F. Gue.
New York: The Century History Co. 1903 #
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