All of which Uncle Sam had to pay himself, as he undoubtedly did.  Thus ended the first criminal prosecution in the Scott county district court.  Nobody convicted, nobody responsible for costs, but the government. Next followed an indictment for perjury.  Then the grand jury retired, but, finding no further business, was discharged with two days' fees and mileage, excepting John Work, who, having taken himself off without leave, stood attached to appear at the next term of court for contempt. As previously stated, the first case docketed in Scott county district court was entitled:  "Jabez A Birchard, Jr., administractor, vs. H. G. Stone, C. C. Applegate, William Stacey and Alfred White."  The suit was brought on a certain promissory note of defendants, made to the plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of one Daniel Wyman, deceased, whereby they "jointly and severally promised to pay five hundred and fifty dollars without defalcation or stay of execution, value received in a quit-claim to a certain tract of land lying at the mouth of Sycamore creek."  The note was drawn July 1, 1837, payable nine months after date.  It was not paid as agreed, and suit was brought for the October term, 1838 - the first court held in the county.  James W. Grimes, of Burlington, was the plaintiff's attorney, and G. C. R. Mitchell and Jonathan W. Parker, of the law firm of Parker & Mitchell, of Davenport, for defendants. The musty old papers in the office of the clerk of the district court contain the usual proceedings - the original petition in the lawyer-like handwriting of the future governor of Iowa and senator of the United States; the answer of the defendants in the more plain and leisurely written hand of hte future judge, Mr. Mitchell.  The subpoena by which Roswell H. Spencer, Andres J. Hyde, Medad J. Lyman, George Carpenter and Ira F. Smith were summoned to appear, is made out on a roughly printed blank from the Iowa Sun printing office, by D. Hoge, clerk of the court in the May term of 1839. The answer contains the usual denials, denying everything that the plaintiff's petition contains, slick and clean.  The case went for the plaintiff, and execution was issued for the sum of $353.73, which was paid July 5, 1839, to Mr. Birchard, and the execution was declared satisfied in full, by A. H. Davenport, sheriff, by Richard Hamer, deputy.  The entire cost of the suit amounted to $17.12 1/2.  This would be considered a very moderate bill in these late days of more expensive litigation.  A scrap of paper in the bundles shows that the witness, Carpenter, did not live to collect his witness fee, but that it was collected into the estate after his decease by William Nichols, administrator. In December, 1873, the Democrat of Davenport had this to say of this case:  "Thirty-five years have elapsed since James W. Grimes drew up the petition and Ebenezer Cook filed it.  The judges, the two clerks of the court (Ebenezer Cook and David Hoge), the attorneys on both sides, the plaintiff and two of the defendants (Stacey and White), have passed beyond the bench and bar of earthly tribunals; the two sheriffs and two of the defendants are yet among the living.  Frazer Wilson, the first sheriff of Scott county, is a resident of Rock Island, we believe; and A. H. Davenport is a merchant residing in LeClaire, where also lives Applegate, and (we believe) Mr. Stone.  Two of the witnesses, Roswell H. Spencer and Andrew J. Hyde, are yet living, the former in Rock Island, the latter on the same farm of many broad acres on which he lived at the time which we write.  The original papers before us, in all their mustiness, seem not to have been opened out to the light for a third of a century.  The paper is coarse, dingy white, rough of surface and guiltless of ruled lines.  The seal bears the impress of the 'silver quarter,' and wherever used is denominated the 'temporary seal.' "Exceedingly has the business of this court swelled since the filing of these original papers.  Numerous judges have occupied the same bench since then, one of them, G. C. R. Mitchell, one of the attorneys in the case.  Lawyers by the hundreds have appeared within the bar since them, and clients by the thousands have sought justice thereat, sometimes in vain, more often, let us hope, sought and found; millions have rained from the pockets of those who thought to secure their rights or defend their wrongs, and still the court sits on, the suing and the sued; lawyers and clients gain in numbers year after year as the earth revolves, and the world increases in light and knowledge.  So it has and does; so it will until the mystic millennial day, when the lion plaintiff and the lamblike defendant shall lie down together in peace, and the child-like lawyer shall lead them - no more forever." The second session of the district court of Scott county was opened May 27, 1839, and as before, in St. Anthony's church.  Hon. Thomas S. Wilson had succeeded Judge Williams upon the bench; A. H. Davenport had been appointed sheriff by the territorial legislature; and at chambers in Dubuque, on the 21st of the previous February, Davis V. Berry was appointed district attorney.  This was an entire re-organization of the tribunal of justice in this judicial district, which  embraced the counties of Scott, Clinton, Dubuque and Johnson.  There was no lack of business on the docket.  In fact, for a community so young and a population so sparse the alacrity with which it embraced the courts was highly gratifying - to the lawyers.  On the first day of the court James Grant, an attorney for the village of Rockingham, moved that "this court do not remove to the village of Rockingham, for reasons by him filed."  The records assert, "Therefore, the court, after havingheard the argument of the counsel on the part of the motion and that of counsel opposed, took the same under advisement until tomorrow morning."  Again we quote the Democrat: Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

FRANK ANDRESEN 14 May 1932 Jul 1966 issued in MN 477-36-9617

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/1080.2.2 Message Board Post: I'm not related to this family, but I have access to some records so I thought I'd look. I found that Carl George Karges was born on September 20, 1916 in Rochester, Monroe Co., NY, and died December 15, 1956 in Fresno, CA. His mother's maiden name was Greensmith. Do you know where they would have been in 1920?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Karges Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/1080.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Jacquelyn. If you haven't already, check the Scott County IAGenWeb site at http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ . There is information on the Karges there. Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott County IAGenWeb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/2355 Message Board Post: I am looking for any information concerning my father Frank Andresen. He died in Wisconsin in 1966. Please e-mail me with any and all information. I would be very grateful.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/1080.2 Message Board Post: My father was Carl George Karges. His father was Henry Karges from Rochester New York. I know very little about either of them but would dearly appreciate any information. Carl was married to my mother, Florence Luke and they divorced and or seperated when I was very young. My mother passed on several years ago so noe I am searching for anything I can find on my father....thanks for the sound board.

CLERK'S FEES. Entering defendant's appearance.......$  .12 1/2 Discharging bail.................................25 Entering suit on court calendar...........12 1/2 Docketing cause...............................18 3/4 Filing papers.....................................31 1/4 Swearing and impaneling jury............50 Taxing costs......................................37 1/2 Entering motions............................... .11 3/4 Issuing subpoenas.............................37 1/2 Issuing writ of executions.................. .25 Taking two recognizances..................50 Entering discharge.............................12 1/2 ________ Total................................................$5.31 1/4 SHERIFF'S FEES. Attending prisoner before court.....$  .25     Making out jury list........................25 Appearance of defendants.............12 1/2 Opening court................................12 1/2 Serving on nine witnesses..............1.68 3/4 Mileage, forty miles.......................3.20 _______ Total.............................................$ 5.63 3/4 OTHER FEES. District attorney's fee...........$   6.00 Witness fees........................83.36 _____ Total fee bill........................$100.31 To be cont. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

Chapter 18 cont. "The judge and the parties to the suit are all dead and gone.  The justice, now a venerable old man, is still a good citizen of Davenport.  Mr. McGregor, having retired from farming several years after the time hereof written, moved into the city and established a law office, and in time drifted into the banking business.  Speaking of Mr. McGregor, it may be in order to relate a practical joke in which he and Ebenezer Cook had a slight interest.  Mr. McGregor being away from Davenport awhile, sought to surprise his friend, Mr. Cook, who, going to the postoffice one day, was surprised when Postmaster Eldridge handed him out a considerable package, on which the postage amounted to $5.40 cents.  Postage was not prepaid then as now.  The parcel was from Pekin, Illinois.  Mr. Cook looked it over in astonishment.  He knew no one at Pekin; the handwriting, moreover, was not familiar.  He was not a Rothschild, and $5.40 for the single item of postage was a good deal of specie.  After much hesitation and not without some misgivings, he paid the postage and opened the package.  Pebbles and sawdust! that and nothing more, save a mere scrap of writing, which revealed the identity of the sender.  Whether Mr. Cook ever retaliated or not is not known." The cases already mentioned pertained to the first day's session of the district court of the county of Scott, territory of Iowa.  A grand jury had been called, also a petit jury, and the machinery of the court placed in running order, though the petit jury venire had not been returned when the court adjourned for the day, on the 4th day of October, 1838.  The court convened the next morning.  The first case on the docket was that of William Gibbons vs. Otis Bennett, entitled "Trespass in the case" - probably a "claim jumping" case, involving as the plaintiff swears in an affidavit for bail, about $700.  The parties were Clinton county people, that county being attached to Scott for judicial purposes.  The noted firm of Rorer & Starr, of Burlington, appeared for defendant.  Plaintiff nonsuited and the order of the court entered up "that the defendant go hence without delay, and recover against plaintiff the costs by him, about his defense, in this behalf expended."  Whether he ever succeeded in getting even with said plaintiff is not recorded upon the papers at hand.  The court papers fail to show the name of the plaintiff's attorney, if he had any.  Of the defendants, Mr. Rorer was regarded as one of the first judicial minds of the commonwealth.  Mr. Starr is dead.  When the lamp of his life went out one of the rarest, brightest intellects of the state was taken. Some very important business was transacted on the second day; for on motion of Gilbert C. R. Mitchell, W. B. Conway, the first territorial secretary of Iowa, James Grant and J. Wilson Drury were admitted to practice at the Scott county bar.  Conway, during his short residence here, took up the quarter section now known as the Camp McClellan tract.  He died in Burlington, the territorial capital, the following year, 1839.  His body was brought to Davenport for burial, the funeral rites being performed by Rev. Father Pelamourgues, of St. Anthony's church.  James Grant was for many years a citizen of Scott county, while J. Wilson Drury resided here and in Rock Island.  Both became noted lawyers and occupied the judicial bench, the former in this district, the latter in that of Rock Island.  At this time Mr. Grant had but recently come in from Chicago, then part corn field and nearly all mud hole.  He was a farmer also, having located on a farm in Blue Grass township.  On his coming into this district he brought the most extensive law library then in the territory, and held the reputation of keeping the best private one until his death. On this same day of court the grand jury which had been in session, made the first report of indictments, as follows:  the first finding was not "a true bill," in the case of Jemima Bennett for adultery; and the same was true of Otis Bennett; Catherine Miller, having been considered by that body on a charge of "assault with attempt to kill," was likewise found not guilty.  William Gibbons was prosecuting witness in the first two cases.  The fourth case reported was that of Philena Brown, for arson, against whom "a true bill" was found.  George Eldred was prosecuting witness.  This latter case, like the first two, originated in Clinton county before William Hogan, a justice of the peace there, and was founded on a charge that "on the night of the third day of September, 1838, she did burn one certain log house or cabin, which was the property and residence of this deponent (George Eldred) with a number of other articles; or that he believes the above named Philena Brown is guilty of the act, and further deponent saith not."  She was held to bail in five hundred dollars to appear at the next term of the district court, Matthew A. Harrington and R. C. brown, sureties.  The case came on for hearing before Judge Williams, with Simeon Meredith, prosecuting attorney, and Rorer & Starr, attorneys for defendant, who cleared their client and an attachment was issued against Mr. Eldred for the costs, amounting to $100.31, which Dupty Sheriff Broddleston returned with "no property found."  The fee bill may not be uninteresting.  It was as follows: To be cont. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

Index to WWI Soldier's Discharge Records Scott Co, Iowa (These are on film at the Davenport Public Library) B Bacon, William Ellsworth Baenjiger, Alfred T Bagonye, Eugene I Bahns, Harro O Bailie, Arthur Ray Bailey, Samuel Baker Jesse Peter Bakoulas, James Baldridge, John H Banks, Carl F Bank, Howard Banks, Willie A Bannister, Willie Barraclough, George Barbee, Homer Bark, Fred Barnes, Joseph Barron, Vincent Thomas Bartels, Charles C Barton, William L Barton, Hugh P Bauer, Alfred Baurose, Fred C Barrett, Walter Thomas Beatty, Henry W Beck, Fred A Becker, Orrie Louis Becker, John J Jr Beckmann, Arno Beckmann, Allison R Beckmann, Herman J Bedford, Robert Irving Behm, John H Behning, Harry A Behrend, Julius E Bein, Fred C Beliel, Frank B Bell, Clarence Bell, John William Bell, Raymond Jack Benson, Barney T Begahn, John G Beranek, George G Berg, Edward Anthony Berger, Charles Berger, Paul J Berger, William Max Berodt, William Berthel, Peter A Bertram, Emil Berwald, Walter E Beyer, Harry H Bierberback / Biederback, William F Biles, Harry Birtness, Jarvin S Bishop, Dale E Bischoff, Raymond L Bischoff, Walter M Biscor, Thomas G Bitterman, Grant B Bixby, Herbert C Blackledge, Louis L Blackburn, George A Blair, William L Bledsoe, Edward M Blesse, William F Blickhan, Edward R Block, John R Brubeck, Frank Rudolph Blub??, Charles H Blunk, August Christian Blunk, Joseph A Blunk, Walter J Bockman, William Bohmsack, Fred O Boldt, Carl G Bolte, Fred W Bomberg, Perrin Leroy Bonham, Jacob F Borchers, Elmer H Borsen, Arthur C Bosworth, Cosless W Bowers, Henry E Bowling, Raymond H Braam, Arnold Bragonier, DeWitt Bramman, Ernest G Brammer, Roy I Brandt, Charles F Brandt, Herman J Brashear, George L Brasch, Raymond L Brashear, William Dudley Breede, Henry William Bremer, Albert Fred Bremer, John A Brentise / Brentice, Henry W Briggs, Charles C Briggs, Edison H Briggs, Francis Marion Britt, John Brown, Albert W Brown, Chester A Brown, Claude C Brown, Clyde Raymond Brown, Clyde Wesley Brown, Fred O Brown, James Brown, Oscar W Brown, Paul R Brownell, W.P. Broders, Elmer L Brooks, Walter L Brugge, Anthony P Brussel, George Bryson, Harold Buck, Theodore M Buemann, Charley Bull, John Clair Bullis, Delbert Burlingame, Claude E Burns, Earl L Burrows, Lewis W Burton, James A Burton, John B Buser, Myron W Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm

Chapter 18 cont. On motion of Gilbert C. R. Mitchell, Rufus Harvey, of Rock Island, Illinois, was admitted to practice at the Scott county bar, the first to be admitted before the local court. On motion by the same Simeon Meredith was also admitted, and there being no district attorney, he was by the judge appointed to that position pro tempore. Jonathan W. Parker was also admitted to practice. On motion of the district attorney the venire for the original grand jury was set aside and a venire de novo for a grand jury was awarded and made returnable forthwith.  The sheriff reported as follows:  Wheeler Hedges, W. B. V. Franks, Samuel Hedges, Alfred White, M. J. Lyman, J. M. Robertson, John R. Spicer, Isaac Hawley, W. L. Cook, L. S. Colton, John Forrest, L. M. Strong, John Work, John Robinson, Ephriam Knapp, James Thompson, A. J. patten, W. H. Patten, Cheney Munger, Seth F. Whiting.  Wheeler Hedges and W. B. V. Franks were excused from attendance.  The jury as impaneled were sworn in, with Samuel Hedges as foreman.  The jury was charged and retired to consider business. The first term of the Scott county district court lasted for three days.  On the third day the venire which was placed in the hands of the sheriff on the first day for a petit jury was returned.  The names of those selected were as follows:  Roswell H. Spencer, A. J. Patten, James Mackintosh, Walter B. Warren, Jacob Heller, Ephraim Lane, John Lewis, Andrew J. Hyde, William H. Baker, Caleb A. Cardner, Robert Mackintosh, Daniel Wilson, Richard Peace, John Squires, M. A. Harrington, James Hall, Cheney Munger. Why there were but eighteen is an open question.  The jury was returned October 6, 1838, but on examination of the records of the county commissioners we find that on the 4th of the preceding May a panel of twenty-four was announced as "the petit jury of the first term of the district court of Scott county."  There are no records of such a term being held, and no one now living can give any account of it.  The records of the commissioners show that of the twenty-four called by the board only eleven came. The jury impaneled October 7th was discharged on the same day and the proper allowance of per diem and mileage allowed. The first case docketed in the district court was that of  J. A. Birchard, Jr., administrator, vs. Horatio G. Stone, C. C. Applegate, William Stacy and Alfred White, in which leave to file declaration was granted. The second was that of Paul Fullmer, vs. Martin W. Smith, and Philip Suiter.  The defendants were the owners of a mill, just below the present city of LeClaire.  Various cases followed, in which Elias Moore, Jacob Parlin, Benjamin W. Clark, William Gibbons, Otis Bennett, Philena Brown, Smith Mounts, John Henning and various other parties were mixed up in the meshes of the law.  The most interesting one, probably, was that of Alexander W. McGregor vs. John Wilson.  In speaking of the case the Democrat, of Davenport, says:  "Now the plaintiff was a lawyer, or had been before his coming west.  He came with a considerable stock of goods, which he soon disposed of and then settled on a farm in the lower part of the township.  As all men are liable to be elected to places of honor, so was McGregor elected to the territorial legislature which then had its sessions at Burlington.  Men had axes to grind in those days as well as in this more advanced generation, and John Wilson had a dull implement of that sort in connection with a coveted ferry franchise between Davenport and Rock Island.  The story goes that Wilson induced McGregor to lend him a helping hand in this ferry job.  In fact, it is said some notes of hand were passed - the consideration of which had to do with able services to be rendered in Wilson's interest.  There is a tradition among the old settlers that the labor was duly performed; but somehow Wilson became a defendant in court, the bone of contention being these promissory notes already alluded to.  The suit was brought before John Forrest, justice of the peace, who after hearing the testimony and looking up the law points, satisfactorily, decided in favor of the plantiff. "It is pretty generally noticed, even in this day, that when a party in a law suit loses his case he thinks the judge, or jury, or the attorneys haven't done their duty by him, and he wants to appeal.  If he has property to stand the racket of the law, there are plenty of good attorneys who will stand by him to the end - the end of the cash balance anyhow.  Wilson's pocket was thrifty and his blood up.  He would appeal.  But the justice could see no use in that.  He had decided the case just right, as he verily believed, and he would hear to nothing of the sort.  But the records of the court show Judge Williams' order, that the inferior court have all the papers and proceedings thereof touching the McGregor-Wilson case brought before him by the opening of the court the next morning, or be attached.  It is probable that the papers were forthcoming. To be cont. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

Greetings List, The following list of names are from Oakdale Cemetery, Davenport, Interment Book 1939-1989 pg. 8, Aug. 1940. {FHL # 1503406 1939-1989 & # 1503405 1857- 1939} This is one of the pages I copied because one of my ancestors was on it, I do not have the book. I did my best on deciphering the handwriting and I am sure I made mistakes. If so, I apologize. If you know of any incorrect information, you may want to add your corrections. The name I was interested from this page shows incorrect information for the birthplace and age at death, which may also be true for some of the other names, but I included the information provided anyhow, as it may help identify someone more clearly. Cathy Name/Birthplace/Late Residence/Age,Social Status&Date of death,/ Section # /Lot # Hy. G. GOLDSCHMIDT Davenport Davenport 78 W - 7 Aug. 1940 11 - 52 ======= Michael DUGGLEBY England Davenport 70 W - 7 Aug. 1940 15 - 300 ======= Chas. A. SCHASSER ? Dixon, IA Davenport 67 W - 1 Aug. 1940 15 - S ½ 396 ======= Hy. D. MOHR Davenport Davenport 73 W - 9 Aug. 1940 9 - E ½ 13 ======= John SPIES Germany Davenport 66 W - 7 Aug. 1940 15 - 237 ======== John Peter BERGLAND Sweden Moline, IL 64 M- 11 Aug. 1940 17 - E ½ 103 ======== John Joseph MULFORD Davenport St. Joseph, MO 55 S - 10 Aug. 1940 3 - W ½ 75 ======= Minnie A. WINTERS Germany Davenport 71 M - 14 Aug. 1940 15 - 215 ======= Anna SCHULTZ Germany Davenport 73 W - 14 Aug. 1940 28 - W ½ 126 ======= Jerry KROLL Austria Davenport 62 S - 14 Aug. 1940 19 - G55 - T10 ======== Gus TRAKAS Greece Davenport 69 S - 16 Aug. 1940 19 - G69-T16 ========= Emma S. CONNOLE Walcott, IA Davenport 72 M - 17 Aug. 1940 28 - 158 ======== John C. HEISRICHS ?? Davenport Davenport 50 S - 19 Aug. 1940 16 - S ½ 119 ======= Mamie E. WINCKLEY Nebraska Oregon 75 M - 15 Aug. 1940 7 - S ½ 198 ========= Wm. VOORHIS Davenport Davenport 42 S - 22 Aug. 1940 16 - S ½ of S ½ 79 ========== Alfred? STEGALL Gillman, IA Davenport 67 W - 23 Aug. 1940 19 - G66-T14 ======== Christine FARSBERG Sweden Rock Island, IL 82 W - 24 Aug. 1940 15 - G37-T2 ======== A. H. Frank HERTZLER Iowa Moberly, MO 77 M - 24 Aug. 1940 13 - 136 ======== Frank Leslie CLENDENEN Davenport {this is wrong, he was b. Cass Co. MI, 1864} St. Louis, MO 82 W - 24 Aug. 1940 {also wrong his age was 76} 15 - 164 ========= Infant CANTRAL ? Davenport Davenport Stillborn 29 Aug. 1940 19 - G49-T15 ========== Carl Wm. YOUNGBERG ? Sweden Davenport 50 M - 31 Aug. 1940 27 - N ½ 238 ========= Margaret CAMERON Davenport Davenport 30 M - 4 Sept. 1940 15 S ½ 382 =======

The following files have been recently uploaded to the Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project Pages at http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm St. Joseph's Catholic Church Baptismal Index 1872-1921 "S" Surnames http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/stjoess.htm St. Marguerite's Cemetery Records (now Mt. Calvary) Abstracted from Tombstone Records of Scott Co, IA-A W.P.A. Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/stmargueritescem.htm Index to WWI Soldiers Discharge Records (Surnames A & Z) http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ww1dischindex.htm >From Linda Danielson: Tombstone Photos-Fairmount Cemetery (Surnames: Bunge, Meinert, Voelkers, Erps) http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/fairmountcemphotos.htm >From Betty Vandevoort Tombstone Photos-Fairmount Cemetery (Surnames: Gruhl, Bunge, Hasse, Thessen, Carlsen, Misfeldt, Gray, Hehnke) http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/fairmountcemphotos.htm Tombstone Photos- Pine Hill Cemetery (Lensch) http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/pinehillcemetery.htm >From JoAn Hoffman Blumer Family Photos http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/picsanddocs2.htm >From Elaine Rathmann Descendant Trees for: John Sanders Martin Raffensperger Nicholas Worthington David Lesslie Bezaleel Sanford Peter Hans Hansen James Bell http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/desclink.htm Also from Elaine Rathmann Bios From Vol 2 History of Davenport and Scott County" by Harry E. Downer - S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1910 Chicago http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/1910.htm William Nikels, Anna C Schmalz, Reinholdt Sieg, Wm August Moeller, E.O. Ficke, M.D., Wm. Marlette Chamberlin, Gustave Koester, Jesse Dodds, E.J. Lancaster, Wm Hamilton Wilson, Wm . Weir, Jacob Eldridge, Edward Roth, Chas. H. Moeller, Henry Horst, Frank T. Logan, L.J. Porstmann, M.D., F.C. Skinner, J.C. Hasler, J.C. Burmeister, David Y. Pollock, F.J. Sessions, Bert Quinn, Merton Bowling, Louis Eckhardt, Oscar Woods

I have started making an index to the WWI Soldier Discharge Records. These papers contain information similar to the info I have scanned on my husband's grandfather, William Petersen. See: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iascott/ww1petersenenlist.jpg http://www.rootsweb.com/~iascott/ww1petersendisch.jpg The Davenport Public Library has these papers on film. A Abel, Charles Svend Abendroth, Edward Abbiewitch, Abraham Abramson, Charles Edwards Abrams, Alva Ackerman, Walter Adams, Alonzo T. Adams, William Adamson, Charlie Adek, Koch Adelquist, Carl L Algren, Axel A Albertson, Arthur Alex, Edwin L Alexander, Myrl Elsworth Alfred, Ellsworth Laurence Allen, Lawrence F Allen, Ray Allen ,Roy Paul Allender, Drexel C Altenburg, Henry Oscar Amhof, Harry L Andresen, Carl O Anderson, Carl W Anderson, Eric G Anderson, Harry M Andranlaky, George N Apostal, Mike Archer, Earl Russell Armose, Lauredo M Arp, Alfred C Arp, Benhard H Arpe, Wm H Ast, Alfred F Asmus, John H Z Zabel, Grover Zantow, Frederick W Zaltowski, Joseph K Zantow, Gustav J Zurcher, Joseph S Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm

Chapter 18 cont. SOME EARLY HISTORY OF THE DISTRICT COURT. When Scott county was organized it was made part of the second judicial district of the territory of Wisconsin and David Irwin was appointed as the presiding judge, and the original records of the first district court held in Scott county are still preserved in a small record book, which is a valuable part of the archives of the county in the clerk's office at the court house.  The transcription of these early records is in the handwriting of Ebenezer Cook, first clerk of the court. The first entry made upon the records of the district court is a certificate of the appointment of Ebenezer Cook clerk of the court, bearing date may 30, 1838, and signed by David Irwin, presiding judge of the second judicial district of Wisconsin territory, and associate judge of the supreme court.  Mr. Cook accepted the appointment and entered into bonds with John H. Sullivan and Adrian H. Davenport.  This appointment was continued by Judge Joseph Williams, the first presiding judge of the second judicial district of the territory of Iowa, under date October 5, 1838. It was further ordered by Judge Irwin tha the seal "hereunto attached" be until further notice recognized as the seal of the second judicial district for Scott county.  This seal, be it known, bears no judicial impress, no scales of justice, not even a vestige of Justice herself, in her usual blindfolded condition; but simply the coat of arms of the United States as represented on one side of a good round silver quarter dollar, such money, in those primitive days, being in vogue.  As a seal of the court it is believed to have been as good as any other for the time being.  So much having been effected in the interest of justice unto some, and law for everybody, nothing further appears to have been done until the following October. In 1838 Hon. Joseph Williams was appointed judge of the second judicial district.  Judge Williams was from Pennsylvania, and settled in Muscatine early in the year 1838.  He was a man of good talents, though not of judicial mind.  As a public speaker he was considered one of the best in the territory.  He was said to have been a natural orator, his powers of mimicry and facial expression being almost perfect.  While on a visit east some years after he met an old schoolmate and companion of his boyhood.  The two together spent some happy hours in recalling the scenes of long ago.  Judge Williams wrote upon one of the books of his friend the following: "O, Jerry, Jerry, I've found you at last, And memory goes back to the scenes of the past, And I think of old Somerset's mountain of snow, When you were but Jerry and I was but Joe." Judge Williams opened court here on the 4th day of October, 1838.  The appointment of E. Cook as clerk was reaffirmed, and the "two bit" seal declared in full virtue.  The court met in St. Anthony's church, a small building still standing in St. Anthony's church grounds and now used as a part of the parish schoolhouse.  Father Pelamourgues, the then Catholic priest in charge, deemed it no desecration of the holy place to have it temporarily used as a temple of justice.  In those early days St. Anthony's served as a public hall and was utilized for all meetings of the people, debating societies, etc.  It was a building of a single room, and small at that, hence afforded no accommodations for juries.  Down Front street, three doors east of Main, was a low, two-story building, the property of George L. Davenport, but partially completed, though the Iowa Sun had been darting its rays from the upper story since the previous August; - here was found a room in which the first Scott county grand and petit juries held their deliberations.  The building was afterward finished and became the first family residence of Mr. Davenport. Frazer Wilson was appointed deputy marshal for this term of court, the marshal of the territory not being present.  The first business transacted was the issuing of a venire for a grand jury returnable forthwith, whereupon the marshal subpoenaed the following named jurors:  John Work, James O. Kelley, J. A. Birchard, L. S. Colton, R. H. Spencer, James McIntosh, Walter B. Warren, Caleb H. Gardner, James Hall, Andrew Logan, M. J. Lyman, M. Strong, Benjamin W. Clark, Jacob Heller, Philip Suiter, William L. Cook, Samuel Hedges, A. J. Hyde, John Robinson, Isaac Hawley, John Lewis, Ira Cook and Smith Mounts.  R. h. Spencer was appointed foreman. After being charged the jury retired, and after spending some time returned into court and by their foreman reported that they had no business before them.  They were each allowed for one day's attendance and mileage from their place of residence, after which they were discharged from any further attendance at this term as grand jurors. to be cont. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

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Mrs. Anna Christina Schmalz Biography >From "History of Davenport and Scott County" Vol. II by Harry E. Downer-S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1910 Chicago. Surnames: Schmalz, Woolenhaupt. Mrs. Anna Christina Schmalz, well known in Princeton, where she has many friends, was born in Aprote', Germany, November 11, 1831, and is, therefore, in her seventy-ninth year. Her parents were Johannas and Anna Christina Woolenhaupt, also natives of Germany, in which country the father followed the shoemaker's trade. Mrs. Schmalz spent her girlhood days in her native country and was a young lady of eighteen years when she crossed the Atlantic to America in the spring of 1849, landing in New York. She then made her way to Davenport, where she lived for two years, after which she came to Princeton and since that time has lived in this section of the county. On the 26th of April, 1854, she gave her hand in marriage to Christian Schmalz, the wedding being celebrated in Newburgh, New York. They became the parents of nine children: Louise; Catherine and Gusta, twins; George, Otto, Emma, Andrew, Anna and Ella. Mr. Schmalz was for thirty years engaged in merchandising in Princeton, being numbered among the leading and enterprising business men of the town, and on his retirement from commercial pursuits he removed to a farm in Princeton township. For a while he carried on the work of the fields but later retired and was enjoying a period of well earned rest up to the he time of his death, which occurred on the 5th of July, 1904. Mr. Schmalz was a republican in his political views but never aspired to office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, in which he met with signal and well merited success. His life was ever upright and honorable and commanded the trust and confidence of his fellowmen. He held membership in the German Lutheran church, in which he was confirmed when a child. Throughout his life his actions were in harmony with his Christian professions and he ever attempted to follow the golden rule, doing unto others as he would have them do unto him. Mrs. Schmalz is now enjoying a well earned rest and makes her home with her daughter, Ella, who has charge of the home. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES

Charles H. Moeller Biography >From "History of Davenport and Scott County" Vol. II by Harry E. Downer-S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1910 Chicago. To view the three pictures of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Moeller, Godhardt Moeller and Mrs. Godhardt Moeller that accompany this biography, please go to the main Scott county, Iowa page at: http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ and click on Pictures/ Documents section. Surnames: Moeller, Westphal, Werner, Smallfeldt, Theada, Frick, Ressen, Dietz, Hamann. Prominent among the industrious, enterprising and successful farmers of Cleona township is Charles H. Moeller, a native of Louisiana, born at Covington, about sixteen miles from New Orleans, on the 15th of June, 1852. His parents, Godhardt and Mary (Westphal) Moeller, were both born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in the year 1826 and came to the United States in 1850, locating at New Orleans. In October, 1852, they came up the Mississippi river to Davenport and located upon a farm in Blue Grass township. Four years later they removed to Cleona township, here the father engaged in farming until about twenty-one years prior to his demise, when he retired from active life. He had been most successful in his agricultural pursuits, becoming the owner of eight hundred and sixty-six acres of land in Scott county. At the time of his retirement he removed to Walcott, where he and his wife spent their remaining days, the former passing away in 1902 and the latter surviving about two years,! her death occurring in 1904. In their family were four children, namely: Charles H., of this review; Anna, the wife of Albert Werner, postmaster of Walcott; E. E., of Stockton, Iowa; and Herman D., residing in Worthington, Minnesota. Charles H. Moeller was barely four months old when he came with his parents to Iowa, and therefore his entire life has practically been spent within the borders of Scott county. Reared under the parental roof, amid the busy activities of rural life, he acquired his education in the district schools near his home and at an early age became familiar with the tasks that fall to the lot of the farm lad. During the periods of vacation he assisted his father in the work of the fields and continued to make his home with his parents until attaining his majority. Upon reaching man's estate he entered business life on his own account as an agriculturist and has never sought to engage in any other line of activity, wisely choosing as his life work the occupation to which he had been reared. That his selection was a wise one is his undertaking and from time to time invested in land, until he eventually became the owner of eight hundred and six acres of this of valuable farming land. Th! is property is all located in Cleona township with the exception of one hundred and sixty acres, which lie in Hickory Grove township, and is equipped with five sets of buildings, all in excellent condition and good repair. He makes his home on two hundred and six acres of this property, located on section 26, and to the cultivation and development of this farm is directing his entire energies. The rest of the land is leased, the rental therefrom forming a most gratifying source of income. With the tilling of the soil he also engages in stock-raising to some extent, making a specialty of short-horned cattle and Percheron horses, and this branch of his business has become an important factor in the large measure of success which is his. In 1877 Mr. Moeller was united in marriage to Miss Fredericka Smallfeldt, a native of Mecklenberg, Germany, where her birth occurred on the 7th of August, 1855. She came to America when a little maiden of ten summers in company with her parents, Christ and Mary (Theada) Smallfeldt. The mother is now deceased, but the father survives and makes his home at present in New Liberty. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Moeller have been born nine children, as follows: Otto, who passed away at the age of nine months; Mattie, the wife of Herman Frick, of Cleona township, Herman, who died at the age of four years; Anna, the wife of Paul Ressen, also a resident of Cleona township, operating one of our subject's farms; Hulda, who married Ben Dietz, of the same township; Amanda, the wife of Emil Hamann who makes his home in Cleona township; Rudolph and Edward, both residing at home; and Charles H., Jr., who passed away when eleven years old. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Moeller has ever given stalwart support to the democratic party, although he has never taken an active part in politics. He has not, however, been unmindful of his duties as a citizen but is regarded as one of the leading and representative men of Cleona township, whose position on all questions of moment is never an equivocal one. On the contrary he stands loyally in support of what he believes to be right and as the years have passed his labors and influence have contributed to the general welfare of the community. A man of domestic tastes, he has sought his happiness at his own fireside, in the companionship of his family, who know him as a loving and devoted husband and kind and indulgent father. He is also popular with a large number of friends, who hold him in high respect and regard because of his upright principles and honorable manhood. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES