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Henry County, Iowa

Books

1. Portrait and biographical album of Henry County, Iowa. / Chicago: Acme Pub. Co., 1888, 682 pgs. (Surname and Table of Contents)

• Most counties are included in the Iowa statewide books

• Click here for a brief history of Henry County

Periodicals

• July 1968
  • The Badley Cemetery
• July 1969
  • 1854 Special Census
  • Check List
  • Grand Army of the Republic
  • Henry County, Iowa
• October 1969
  • 1860 Census Mortality Schedule
  • 1883 Pension List
  • Bit and Pieces
  • First Marriages
  • Grand Army of the Republic

Palimpsest:

• Mennonites in Mount Pleasant (December 1942) (Text Only)
• YMA of Mount Pleasant (March 1948) (Text Only)
• James Harlan (March 1960)
• Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (March 1960)
• The Harlan-Lincoln Home (March 1960)
• T.T.T. Society (April 1963)
• Midwest Old Threshers Reunion (August 1966)
• Joseph A. Dugdale: A Friend of Truth (November/December 1975)
• Harriet Ketcham, Resolute Artist (May/June 1986)
• An Amish Mennonite Farmer Chooses Iowa (Winter 1988)
• Furlough (May/June 1979)

Annals of Iowa History:

• Site of Civil War Camp in Henry County ( 1960) TEXT Only

HENRY COUNTY as first established in December, 1836, from the original county of Demoine, embraced portions of the present counties of Lee, Des Moines, Van Buren, Jefferson and Washington. On the 21st of January, 1839, it was established with present boundaries. It lies in the second tier west of the Mississippi River and also in the second north of the Missouri State line, contains an area of four hundred thirty-three square miles and was named for Governor Henry Dodge of Wisconsin Territory. The Skunk River runs through the county in southwesterly direction.
     In the spring of 1834 James Dawson made a claim west of Mt. Pleasant. In the fall of the same year Presley Saunders of Springfield, Illinois, made a claim where Mr. Pleasant is located and the following year made the first plat of the town. In 1837 the Legislature of Wisconsin Territory located the county-sear at Mt. Pleasant. A postoffice had been opened the year previous. Among the earliest settlers were Joseph Moore, A. C. Dover, John Wilford, Aaron Street, Jesse Hancock, Rev. W. M. Mortow, Rev. Samuel Hutton and Presley Saunders.
     The county was organized in 1837 when the following officers were elected: Robert C. Roberts, treasurer; W. D. Brown, sheriff, and Robert Caulk, Samuel Brazelton and George J. Sharp, commissioners. The first term of court was held in a log cabin at Mt. Pleasant in April, 1837, at which Judge David Irwin presided. The first house in Mt. Pleasant was built in the fall of 1835 by Joseph Moore who opened a store in it. William Thompson was the first mayor of Mt. Pleasant. In 1849 D. M. Kelsey established the first newspaper called the Iowa Freeman. In and about the town of Salem a large number of families of Quakers settled at an early day. The first insane asylum of the State was located at Mt. Pleasant. The main line of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad runs through the county from east to west.

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 #