This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cromwell, Scroggins (Scoggins), Booth, Sloan, English, Winkler, Hardin Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1668 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--RECORDS OF THE CROMWELL FAMILY condensed by Mrs. Hugh Jackson.--Mrs. Cromwell was born Henrietta Hardin in Simpson county, Kentucky; moved with her parents to Independence, MO, in 1831, and to Council Bluffs in 1839. Her father was the Indian agent, or farmer (?), for the Pottawatamies. Returned to Independence in 1842; married Stephen Cromwell in 1842. Moved back to Kentucky; came to Fremont county in 1846. Kept a boarding house at Austin. Stephen Cromwell bought the first lot sold in Sidney; built first hotel in Sidney in Bock D, about where Hotel Sidney now (1951) stands. While hotel was being built they conducted a tenement or boarding house in a log house eas of present Argus Printer' s building. Later built another hotel on the northwest corner of the square.--The Sidney Argus - Herald, Nov. 1, 1951. 2.--S.T. Cromwell: On the lists of early settlers. First lot sold in Sidney was Lot 5 in block E, to S.T. Cromwell. Exchanged lots with W.R. English and built the first tenement house in Sidney on the English lot.--Lingenfelter, page 14. 3.--One of the early sheriffs of Fremont county.--Lingenfelter, p. 32. 4.--1849: S.T. Cromwell elected inspector of weights and measures at the first election in April 1849.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 373. 5.--1849: Bond of Stephen T. Cromwell as inspector of weights and measures approved at the first meeting of the Fremont County Board of Commissioners, Sept. 10, 1849.--Minutes. N.B.: I believe this is the first time we see any indication that Mabel (and Pauline Winkler) had found the "Minutes of the County Board of Commissioners" in the Fremont County Court House.--W.F. 6.--1850: Federal Census for Fremont county, Iowa. Stephen Cromwell....42.....b. VA Henrietta.................27.........KY Adair.......................6..........KY Fulton......................3..........KY Stephen...................2..........Iowa Thomas.................1/12........Iowa Ellizabeth W. Scroggins...27.....KY Oliver..............................17.....MO Thomas P. Booth.............32.....KY 7.--1851: ORDERED to serve as petit juror at the second term of the District Court.--Minutes, April 8, 1851. 8.--1852: Fremont county Census: "Franklin township" S.T. Cromwell.......8 m....2 f 9.--1853: Land entry, dated May 30, 1853, at Council Bluffs, for the west half of the northwest quarter of section 31 township 69 range 41.--Courthouse transcript. 10.--1854: Fremont county Census: "Sidney township" Stephen Cromwell....5m...3f...1 voter..no militia...no alines 11.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" S.T. Cromwell...45.....b. VA....10 years in Iowa Henrietta..........33..........MO...10 A. H. (m).........12...........MO...10 F.C. (m)...........10..........Iowa...10 S.W. (m)..........8...........Iowa.....8 T.T. (m)............6...........Iowa.....6 M.E. (f)............4............Iowa.....4 H.J. (f).............1............Iowa......1 Chas. Sloan.....18..........KY........8 years in State