This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dawson, Hathaway, Ross Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1702 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.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont count, Iowa. Jacob Dawson.....30....b. OH....merchant E.J.....................24........OH J.H.......................1........PA M.H. Hathaway....20........OH....printer Hartford Ross......16........OH....farmer 2.--1852: Fremont county Census: "Scott township" Jacob Dawson.....2m....2f 3.--1852: ALLOWED $15.00 ON SALARY AS PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.--Greenwood, Nov. 1, 1852. 4.--1854: Fremont county Census: "Scott township" Jacob Dawson....5m....2f....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 5.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county. NOT SHOWN. N.B.: Jacob Dawson had come to Fremont county from Pittsburg, PA, where he had been a member of the bar and had been connected with the office of the Pittsburg Gazette. His postoffice in Fremont county--in "Scott township" because at this date that township comprised all of township 70 that layed in ranges 40, 41, and 42--was noted in October 1851 by the government surveyor who was subdividing T70 R42 into sections. The surveyor noted "A cabin in the SE quarter of Section 21 is called Dawsonburg"....In March 1852, Dawson took over as the editor of the Kanesville "Frontier Guardian". In 1856, Dawson crossed the Missouri river and founded the town of Wyoming at the mouth of Weeping Water Creek. However, interests from Nebraska City bought up the city lots and then refused to improve on them, and in this way effectively strangled Wyoming. In 1863, Dawson again moved to Salt Creek, Nebraska where he platted the town of Lancaster. In 1867, Nebraska passed over Omaha and Nebraska City and chose Lancaster as the capitol. Nebraska changed the name to "Lincoln" and Jacob Dawson is said to have lived just long enough to see the foundations of Lincoln well laid.--W.F.