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Johnson County, Iowa

Books

1. Wilcox, Francis Orlando,. Some Aspects of the Financial Administration of Johnson County, Iowa / Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1934, 192 pgs.

2. Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin,. Iowa City : a contribution to the early history of Iowa / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1893, 125 pgs.

3. Johnson County History, Iowa / Iowa City, Iowa, 1941, 104 pgs.

• Most counties are included in the Iowa statewide books

• Click here for a brief history of Johnson County

Periodicals

Hawkeye Heritage:

• Smith Cemetery (April 1968 Hawkeye Heritage)
• July 1972 Hawkeye Heritage
  • Cemeteries in Johnson County, Iowa
  • Coralville, Iowa
  • Earhart, Trowbridge-Lenz, State, Friends, Molback Cemeteries
  • Graper Farm, Shetler, Brenneman and Overholser Cemeteries
  • Johnson County, Iowa
  • Map
  • Mortality Schedules, 1850 Census
  • Place Names
  • Reference Sources
  • Some Johnson County Firsts
  • The First Iowa Census and Johnson County Tax Lists
  • The State University of Iowa, Iowa City

Palimpsest:

• Iowa City Municipal Airport (September 1930) (Text Only)
• Capital at Iowa City (May 1939) (Text Only)
• Iowa City Lot Sales (August 1940) (Text Only)
• Iowa City Through the Years (February 1967)
• University of Iowa (February 1971)
• "Indian Look-Out", Below Iowa City (January/February 1973)
• The Iowa State Psychopathic Hospital (Part one) (November/December 1973)
• Drill on the Campus: The Student's Army Training corps, 1918 (November/December 1975)
• Frontier Stone: The Story of Iowa's Old Capitol (July/August 1976)
• Old Capitol Restored (July/August 1976)
• The Iowa City Writers' Clubs (March/April 1978)
• The Orphan's Friend: Charles Collins Townsend and the Orphan's Home of Industry (November/December 1979)
• Images of Victorian Iowa (Bertha M. Horack Shambaugh) (March/April 1980)
  The Library Fire of 1897 (July/August 1980)
• American Classic (January/February 1981)
• Growing Up in Iowa City: Recollections of an Historian (January/February 1983)
• An Intellectual Centennial for Iowa City: The No Name Club Reaches 100 (May/June 1986)
• A Whale for Iowa (Summer 1987)
• Welsh Settlements in Iowa (January/February 1978)
• Portias of the Prairie: Early Women Graduates of the University Law Department (January/February 1986)

Annals of Iowa History:

• History of Johnson Co. Iowa (January 1868) TEXT Only
• History of Johnson Co. (July 1868) TEXT Only
• History of Johnson County (October 1868) TEXT Only
• Medical Dept. of Iowa State U. (January 1869) TEXT Only
• Recollections of Johnson County Bench and Bar (July 1882) TEXT Only

Iowa Journal of History and Politics:

• Establishment and Organization of Townships in Johnson County (April 1911) TEXT Only

JOHNSON COUNTY was created in December, 1837, and named for Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States. It lies in the third tier west of the Mississippi River and in the fourth from the south line of the State, containing an area of six hundred eighteen square miles. The Iowa River flows through it in the south-easterly direction, bordered by fine woodlands and furnishing water power.
     As early as 1836 John Gilbert, an Indian trader, established a post on the Iowa River where for several years he carried on traffic with the Indians. Soon after Phillip Clarke and John Meyers settled near him and opened farms. In 1838 Gilbert and Clarks laid out a town which they named Napoleon and which became the first county-seat. Settlers came rapidly and in the fall of 1838 S. C. Trowbridge received a commission from Governor Lucas to organize the county. He called an election at Gilbert's trading house on the 10th of September at which Henry Felkner, Abner Wolcott and Samuel Strugis were chosen county commissioners. The first term of court was held at Napoleon in 1839 at which Judge Joseph Williams presided. The county-seat remained at Napoleon until the Capital of the State was located at Iowa City when it was moved to that place and the town of Napoleon soon reverted to a farm. The first school was opened by Jesse Berry at Iowa City in 1840. On the 10th of June, 1841, the first number of a weekly newspaper was issued by William Crum and called the Iowa Standard which was a supporter of the Whig party. In December of the same year the Iowa Capital Reporter, a Democratic journal, was established by Van Antewerp and Hughes. The first frame house was built in Iowa City by Wesley Jones in 1839 in which he opened a store. Walter Butler the same year built and kept a hotel. Jacob De Forest was the first mayor of the capital city in 1853.

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 #