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Franklin County, Iowa
Books
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History of Franklin County, Iowa : a record
of settlement, organization, progress and achievement / Chicago:
S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1914, 937 pgs. (Surname
list and Table of Contents)
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Franklin County History, Iowa / Des Moines,
Iowa: unknown, 1941, 77 pgs.
Periodicals
Hawkeye Heritage:
Annals of Iowa History:
- Sketch of Franklin County (January 1872) TEXT Only
FRANKLIN COUNTY lies in the third tier
south of Minnesota and in the fifth west of the Mississippi River. It
contains sixteen townships making an area of fine hundred seventy-six
square miles, and was named for Benjamin Franklin of Revolutionary fame.
The county was created in 1851 and attached to Chickasaw for judicial
and election proposes.
In October, 1852, James B. Reeves, John Mayne
and Addison Phelps made claims near a creek in the eastern part of the
county where they found a fine body of timber. The grove and creek were
named for Mr. Mayne. The following year Dr. Aldrich took a claim and
built a cabin near where Ackley stands. He sold the claim to Thomas
Downs who was frozen to death in 1855 by a fierce blizzard which
overtook him while crossing an unsettled prairie. During the summer and
fall of 1852 several families made claims along Mayne Creek. In 1853 B.
F. White settled near the Iowa River in the western part of the county.
In 1854 a report reached the scattered settlers that a band of three
hundred hostile Indians was approaching and the families fled for
protection to Beaver Grove in Butler County. Upon their return their
property was found unmolested. The first school in the county was taught
by Mrs. H. J. Mitchell in 1854 in a log cabin at Maynes Grove.
At the August election in 1855 the county was
organized by the choice of the following officers: James B. Reeves,
judge; S. R. Mitchell, clerk; Isaac Miller, treasurer; and Soloman
Staley, sheriff. The first county seat was located by the Commissioners
about two miles north of Hampton. On the 7th of April, 1856, the
citizens at an election voted to move it to the new town of Benjamin
which had been laid out in June, 1856. The name was soon after changed
to Hampton which became the permanent county-seat. The first settler in
the new town was James Thompson who moved from Vinton early in 1856. Job
Gardner and George Ryan donated to the county the undivided half of
eighty acres of land upon which Hampton was located in order to secure
the county-seat. The first newspaper was the Franklin Record
which was established by Stephen M. Jones and M. S. Bowman at Hampton in
1859. The Illinois Central Railroad touches the county on the south
while the Iowa Central runs through from south to north.
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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