This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lacy, Singleton, Farmer, Dewey. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4136.1 Message Board Post: THE WESTERN BUGLE. September 21, 1853. Vol. 2, No. 22. -- "......The writer in many points seems to be well informed, and speaks sensibly and to the point in regard to the importance, and future prospects of our State. Like whirlwind our State is being swept by a bevy of railroads, and ere we are aware, the shrill whistle of the cars will be at our door, laden with the rich harvests of our productive soil to feed the starving millions of Europe, and enrich our beautiful State. The perfumes of Arabia, the spices of India, the silks and teas of China, and the delicious fruits of the tropics will be transported fresh through our beautiful and favored State to supply the eastern cities ere the sun in her annual course shall have many time passsed. Day is breaking!!! YOUNG AMERICA is too large for his daddy's breeches. Hurrah !!! everybody. "Watchman tell us of the night. For the morning scenes do dawn." --From the "New York Railroad Journal" N.B.-- Notice, that the east was taking note of YOUNG AMERICA, that spirit of freedom which had come to pervade that new country which called itself the "United States". In Fremont county, we know that Sidney hosted the railroad meeting which eventually led to the St. Joseph - Council Bluffs Railroad. On September, Sidney had hosted a railroad meeting in which the prospects of building a railroad along the South Tier State Road was explored. That didn't "pan out", but we know now that the July 4, 1855 meeting would lead to lasting results. GEORGE LACY (the Lacy Grove neighborhood was named after him), ANDREW JACKSON SINGLETON (he had surveyed for the State of Iowa that segment of the state road in Iowa which in its entirety ran from St. Joseph to Council Bluffs; was the person for whom the Singleton Grove neighborhood was named), THOMAS FARMER (he was an outstanding resident of the McKissick Grove neighborhood), Doctor WILLIAM DEWEY (he was the main force which succeeded in getting the State Capitol moved from Iowa City to Des Moines) -- these men emerge from the railraod history of Fremont county as the county's YOUNG AMERICA in the 1850's. Their biographies need to note this about them.--W.F.