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Scott County, Iowa

Books

  1. Scott County History, Iowa / Davenport, Iowa?: unknown, 1942, 139 pgs.

  2. Burrows, J. M. D.. Fifty Years in Iowa : being the personal reminiscences of J.M.D. Burrows, concerning the men and events, social life, industrial interests, physical development, and commercial progress of Davenport and Scott County during the period from 1838 to 1888. / Davenport, Iowa: Glass & Co., printers and binders, 1888, 195 pgs. (Table of Contents)

  3. The Early Day of Rock Island and Davenport : the narratives of J.W. Spencer and J.M.D. Burrows / Chicago: Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1942, 330 pgs. (Table of Contents)

Periodicals

Hawkeye Heritage:

  • January 1971 Hawkeye Heritage
    • Bible - ANGIER
    • Bible - John DAVIS
    • Bible - JORDAN
    • Bible - KNOX-THORINGTON
    • Bible - LOWRY
    • Bible - MAYHEW
    • Bible - MC BRIDE and HULL
    • Marriages, 1831-1851
    • Marriages, 1852-1854
    • Probate Record, Books I and II
    • Scott County History
    • THORINGTON Descendants of Strong DINNING
  • Settlers before 1846 (October 1972)
  • Planning Ahead. Scot Reunion (Autumn 1995)

Palimpsest:

  • The Interurban Years (March/April 1981)
  • Furlough (May/June 1979)

  • Music in Early Davenport / July 1964

  • Emerson at Davenport (September 1926) (Text Only)

  • Beginnings of Davenport (August 1939) (Text Only)

  • Davenport Times (October 1950) (Text Only)

  • The Davenport Democrat (October 1950) (Text Only)

  • The Laus in Scott County (March 1955) (Text Only)

  • A Davenport Boyhood (April 1956) (Text Only)

  • Music in Early Davenport (July 1964)

  • Iowa Annie Wittenmyer Home (June 1967)

  • Davenport -- Past and Present (September 1967)

  • The First First National Bank (November/December 1973)

  • In a Mist: The Story of Bix Beiderbecke (July/August 1978)

  • River Town: Davenport's Early Years (January/February 1979)

  • The Davenport Boat Club's Celebrated Regatta (July/August 1980)

  • Davenport's Golden Building Years (March/April 1982)

  • Dr. Emerson's Sam: Black Iowans before the Civil War (May/June 1982)

Annals of Iowa History:

  • History of Scott County (January 1863) TEXT Only

  • History of Scott County (April 1863) TEXT Only

  • History of Scott County (July 1863) TEXT Only

  • History of Scott County (October 1863) TEXT Only

  • History of Scott County (January 1864) TEXT Only

  • History of Scott County (April 1864) TEXT Only

  • Industrial History of Scott County, Iowa (October 1939) TEXT Only

  • Industrial History of Scott County, Iowa (April 1940) TEXT Only

  • Industrial History of Scott County, Iowa (July 1940) TEXT Only

SCOTT COUNTY was created in 1837 from territory belonging to the original counties of Dubuque, Cook and Muscatine. It lies on the Mississippi River in the fifth tier north of Missouri and contains four hundred fifty-five square miles. The county was named for General Winfield Scott who was in command of the department of which this county was a part in 1832. An account of the earliest settlements and the contests for the county-seat have been given elsewhere.
     The survey of the public lands of Iowa began in the fall of 1836 and was completed in Scott County, by A. Bent, in March, 1837. The first county officials were appointed by Governor Lucas in 1838 and consisted of Ebenezer Cook, probate judge; A. H. Davenport, sheriff; and Isaac A. Hedges and John Porter, justices of the peace. D. C. Eldridge was the first postmaster of Davenport. In October, 1838, Judge Thomas S. Wilson held the first term of court in the county. Alexander McGregor opened the first law office in 1836. The first steam mill was built by A. C. Fulton in 1844. The first church was organized in the spring of 1838 by Father Samuel Muzzuchelli, and Italian Catholic priest. A Presbyterian church was organized the same year with ten members. The first sermon was preached by the noted pioneer Congregational minister, Rev. Asa Turner, in Pleasant Valley in the summer of 1836.
     The Wapsipinicon River forms a large part of the northern boundary of the county, while the Mississippi flows along the eastern and southern limits. These rivers are bordered with fine bodies of native timber while several groves are found in the interior of the county.

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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