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History Of Hamilton County, Iowa V1 (1912) (Paperback)
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History Of Hamilton County, Iowa V1 (1912) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER III THE FIRST SETTLERS By F. Q. Lee The Arrival Of Preston
Bell Settlers In 1850 Settlers In 1851 Settlers In 1852 How "jas"
Caught A Deer The First Store Other Settlers In 1852 The First Mill
An Eccentric Character A Pioneer Prayer MeetIng Arrivals In
1853?Claim Jumpers The First Land Entry SloughIng Down Pioneer
Hospitality Arrivals In 1854 Dave Beach Walks To Des Moines The
First Bridge The Arrival Of W. J. Silvers Story Of M,r. Silvers'
Trip To Hamilton County?Silvers Finds His Home?An Early Disaster
Arrival Of The Willsons Mrs. Willson's Story Other '55 SetTlers
Homer As A Pioneer City The' Second Store Arrival Of Benj. Millard
First Settlement On Skunk River. Arrival Of Preston Bell Earlj' in
the spring of 1849, a young man, born and raised in the state of
Indiana, seeking a home on the frontier, and who had been stopping
for some time near Des Moines, Iowa, loaded his few worldly
possessions into a covered wagon and with an ox team, started
northward in search of a location. He followed the course of the
Des Moines river, passing through the small settlements on the way
until, at Swedes Point in Boone county, he left all settlements
behind him. When he came to where the Boone river empties into the
Des Moines, he followed that stream a few miles, where he found a
location to his liking. It was on the west bank of the Boone. What
he found was from forty to sixty acres of what is called "weed
bottom," which made it possible to plant a crop at once. A high
bluff ran back of the cleared bottom lands and at the foot of this
bluff, he built a pole cabin and blazed out a "claim" running from
the river over the bluffs and back over the level lands to the
west. All of the lands thus "blazed out" were wooded, except the
weed bottom. Having broug...
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