The History of Henry County, Iowa

 

Table of Contents

HISTORY OF NORTHWEST AND STATE OF IOWA

History Northwest Territory 19
History of Iowa

HISTORY OF HENRY COUNTY

Geology 323
Physical Geography 333
Primordial Man 335
Indian Occupancy 336
Advent of the White Man 361
Settlement of the County 366
Organization 388
Early Session Laws 388
Burlington & Mt. Pleasant Plankroad 392
Poorhous 393
Burlington & Missouri River R.R. 394
A Fruitless Effort 395
District Court Records 398
Probate Records 400
Marriage Records 401
Official Roster 404
Educational 412
Insane Asylum 434
Reform School for Girls 443
Press 447
Samuel Luke Howe 448
Senatorial Successions 452
Miller-Thompson Contested Election 457
War Record 463
Population 494
Statistics 495
Dairy Business 496
Swine Culture 501
Sheep Culture 501
Fruit Culture 502
Post Offices 502
Mount Pleasant 502
Salem 536
New London 544
Trenton 547
Rome 549
Lowell 550
Winfield 551
Swedesburg 552
Marshall 554
Hillsborough 555
Oakland 555

ILLUSTRATIONS

HENRY COUND VOLUNTEERS

Infantry
Cavalry
First Infantry, A. D. 491
Artillery
Engineers Regiment of the West
Miscellaneous

BIOGRAPHICAL TOWNSHIP DIRECTORY

LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

ABSTRACT OF IOWA STATE LAWS

MISCELLANEOUS

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When the Northwestern Territory was ceded to the United States by Virginia in 1784, it embraced only the territory lying between the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers, and north to the northern limits of the United States. It coincided with the area now embraced in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and that portion of Minnesota lying on the east side of the Mississippi River. The United States itself at that period extended no farther west than the Mississippi River; but by the purchase of Louisiana in 1803, the western boundary of the United States was extended to the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Pacific Ocean. The new territory thus added to the National domain, and subsequently opened to settlement, has been called the "New Northwest, in contradistinction from the old "Northwestern Territory.