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Harrison County, Iowa
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Judy Wallis White. Harrison
County, Iowa Landowners, 1884 (not indexed) #
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Palimpsest:
Annals of Iowa History:
HARRISON COUNTY was created in 1851, lying
on the Missouri River in the fourth tier north of the Missouri State
line. It contains an area of six hundred ninety-five miles and was name
for General William H. Harrison, ninth President of the United States.
The valley of the Missouri River on its western border spreads out in
level bottom land to the width of from four to ten miles and is of
unsurpassed fertility. The Boyer River runs through the county in a
southwesterly direction and the Little Sioux crosses its northwest
corner. On the 3d of April, 1848, Daniel Brown took a claim on Willow
Creek in a grove near where the village of Calhoun stands. He was robbed
by the Indians who plundered his cabin and drove away his horses and
cattle. Among the earliest settlers were Silas Condit, two brothers
named Chase, James Hardy, Charles Lepenta, Dr. Robert McGovern, Andrew
Allen and Jacob Pattee. For several years the early settlers were
annoyed by wandering bands of Indians who came through that region on
hunting expeditions.
The county was organized in 1853 by the
election of the following officers: Stephen King, judge; P. G. Cooper,
treasurer; Chester Hamilton, sheriff; William Cooper, clerk, and John
Thomson, school fund commissioner. In March, 1853, the county-seat was
located by commissioners near the geographical center of the county
where a town was laid out and named Magnolia. The first term court was
held in May, 1855, by Judge S. H. Riddle in a log house. A newspaper was
established in 1858 by Isaac Parish at the town of Calhoun, named the Harrison
County Flag; it was the first in the county. The Northwestern
Railroad was constructed through the county following down the Boyer
valley and in a southwesterly direction reaching Council Bluffs in 1868.
Dunlap and Logan are towns on this line of road which were laid out in
1867. Missouri Valley is at the junction of the Sioux City and Pacific
Railroad with the Northwestern and was laid out in 1867. Many of the
earliest settlers in the county were Mormons who crossed the State in
1846-7 and remained when their brethren continued their journey from
Kanesville to Salt Lake.
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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