This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bush, Grant, Baldwin, Wassam, Osborn, Lawrence Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.families.aol.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fl.2ADE/1858.5 Message Board Post: Mahaska County, Iowa Biographical Dictionary, 1887 Richland lies in the northeast corner of the county, and comprises township 77 north, range 17 west, of the 5th principal meridian. The section lines were run by James GRANT, who afterward became one of the leading attorneys of the State, a District Judge, and a very wealthy man. Thompson BALDWIN, Moses WASSAM, Lauren OSBORN, Powell BUSH and William LAWRENCE are numbered among the early settlers of the township. ...