Janet thank you very much i appriciate your help sandy

Odd as it may sound, part of Durant IS in Scott County, part in Muscatine County and part in Cedar county!! Makes for some interesting research. Sandra

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spurrell/McNamara/Litzenberger/Kelly/Alexander/Rodgers/ Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/2330 Message Board Post: I am looking for anyone knowing Candace Spurrell. She married a Richard Shear then divorced him. I am Candaces daughter. She divorced Richard Shear abt. 10 months before I was born, therefore I don't believe I am his daughter. He is also passed away. This is a long shot but I thought I would try to see if anyone would knew Candace around August 1950 in hopes of finding my biological father. Thanks.Connie

OK :-) I'll start looking, keep your fingers crossed :-)....Janet & Family ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sandbugee@aol.com> To: <IASCOTT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [IASCOTT] 1870 Census Look up please > I have heard that scott co is very close to Durant Cedar co so they may have > been visiting there when he was born, George was born 2/11/1870 so it is > possible they were back in scott co. that is why im looking?. I do know that > later in 1870 they moved to Larchwood Lyon co. because they bought a farm > called Dewandel farm.. i would appriciate any help .. > > sandy > >

Janet I have had someone do a look up in cedar co for 1870 and he isnt listed there so that is another reason i figure he is back in scott co. sandy

I have heard that scott co is very close to Durant Cedar co so they may have been visiting there when he was born, George was born 2/11/1870 so it is possible they were back in scott co. that is why im looking?. I do know that later in 1870 they moved to Larchwood Lyon co. because they bought a farm called Dewandel farm.. i would appriciate any help .. sandy

Chapter 17 cont. EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES. At the meeting, July  28, 1857, the desirableness of a city register of mortality was presented by Dr. Ames; and Drs. Ames, Baker and Adler were appointed a committee to prepare a memorial to the city authorities upon the subject.  This seems to have been the first inception of what has grown into an active and important part of the city's work, viz: that of the board of health.  Action was slow, however, and three years later, July 31, 1860, a committee was again appointed to wait on the city council with reference to the passage of an act requiring the registration of births and deaths, and in April, 1886, steps were taken to present the matter of registration of births and deaths before the state society, with a view to general action urging the enactment of a state law to that effect.  At the same meeting, the approach of cholera being anticipated, the city council was requested to act immediately in cleansing the streets and sewers. During the cholera season of 1873 the society cooperated actively with the city board of health to improve sanitary conditions.  These sultry, depressing days of late July, August and September, when citizens, well at one setting of the sun, had been stricken down and buried before the next, are still a gruesome memory to those who passed through them.  The record from July 14th to September 28th, as presented to the society by Dr. Maxwell, was: cases, 258; deaths, eighty to eighty-five.  A mortality of one in three was bad enough, but even this was far exceeded druing the first half of the epidemic, when scarcely one of those stricken recovered.  At its meeting of the following May the society expressed by resolution its strong disapproval of the action of the city council in constituting a health board without a representative of the medical profession to insure its intelligent action; also setting forth strongly the danger inherent in cesspools and the need of efficient sewerage.  That our city is today almost free from cesspools, latrines and surface wells, while its excellent sewer system is at last being extended to the neglected north slope, is largely due to the persistent efforts of Drs. Cantwell, Peck and others of the Scott ocunty society, who have had preventive medicine most strongly at heart. At the annual meeting in 1881 the desirablility of having especially educated and licensed plumbers and a sanitary engineer was urged, and in May of the same year the board of health was strongly recommended to take action forbidding burials within the city limits. The state board of health also owes much to this society, whose members have been firm supporters of that beneficent organization form its inception.  Dr. Cantwell, in his presidential valedictory, January, 1878, recommended that delegates to the state society be instructed to favor the movement for a state board of health with powers similar to those of the state board of Illinois; Dr. Peck, through his position as surgeon of the Rock Island road, succeeded in making operative the recommendations of the newly organized board with reference to the transportation of dead bodies; and the kindly and erudite Dr. Robert J. Farquharson, who planned our contagious disease hospital, now called St. Robert's in his memory, was the efficient secretary of the board from 1880 until his death. In March, 1861, the society makes feeling record of the first death among its members, that of the young and cultured Dr. Ezra James Fountain who, through an overdose of chlorate of potassa, fell a martyr to his zeal in professional investigation.  Two years later, April, 1863, another honored member, Dr. James Thistle, one of those who called the first meeting, head finished his earthly labors. In April, 1865, smallpox was reported as existing in the city, and Dr. Peck was made chairman of a committee to confer with the city authorities with a view to securing compulsory vaccination. As bearing on the present move for the introduction of kindergartens into the public schools, it is interesting to note that as early as 1867 Dr. A. S. Maxwell brought before the society, at its annual meeting, the desirablility of less crowding and shorter hours for the primary pupils; and the society, through its committee reporting in May, declared that:  "The Scott County Medical society as a body, looking to the physical and mental welfare of the younger school children of our community, do most heartily approve and recommend the plan of requiring children to attend but one session of three hours each day in the primary department of our city schools," and pledged itself to cooperate with the board of directors and teachers to effect the change.  On numerous subsequent occasions the Scott county society has shown its interest in the schools by offering sanitary inspection, and urging prevention of disease by the vaccination of pupils and by quarantine of those affected with scarlet fever or other contagion. At the November meeting, 1872, Dr. J. W. H. Baker presented an appreciative letter from President Thatcher of the state university, acknowledging the donation to the medical department of that institution of "The Thistle collection of medical books."  The founder of this department, one of the foremost medical schools of the west, and many other active workers, were contributed to it by the Scott County Medical society. 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

My opinion is you should post the answer back to the list, so that other listers don't waste their time looking up the same thing. Plus it goes into the archives in case anyone else is ever searching for those names. Lyndsey >From: "Jim and Maggie" <backwood@cox-internet.com> >Reply-To: IASCOTT-L@rootsweb.com >To: IASCOTT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [IASCOTT] Re: IASCOTT-D Digest V02 #327 >Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:25:55 -0500 > >If you can help someone with a lookup, how do you reply to them. I have >the >1880 census and index for the US and I was able to find the Gulk's in >Benton, Iowa. >----- Original Message ----- >From: <IASCOTT-D-request@rootsweb.com> >To: <IASCOTT-D@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 1:05 PM >Subject: IASCOTT-D Digest V02 #327 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

Pros & cons doing it either way Lyndsey, I can see the value of archiving it on a specific surname list, but on a general list such as county or state level, people are searching for a specific family in a specific time period. I would rather receive 2 or 3 replies with the same information but then receive one more with a relative or future mate living next door. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent. (Irish proverb) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyndsey McCollam" <lizardpoint1@hotmail.com> To: <IASCOTT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [IASCOTT] Re: IASCOTT-D Digest V02 #327 > My opinion is you should post the answer back to the list, so that other > listers don't waste their time looking up the same thing. Plus it goes into > the archives in case anyone else is ever searching for those names. > > > > > >> > > >If you can help someone with a lookup, how do you reply to them. I have > >the > >1880 census and index for the US and I was able to find the Gulk's in > >Benton, Iowa. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/02

Hi there :-)! I have the 1870 census for only Scott Co, Iowa...but before I go looking thru pages upon pages.....you said that George was born in 1870 in Durant, Cedar Co, Iowa....I am a bit confused....how could he be in Cedar Co & Scott Co. at the same time? Janet & Family ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sandbugee@aol.com> To: <IASCOTT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 9:16 AM Subject: [IASCOTT] 1870 Census Look up please > Hi > > Im trying to track my ancestors movements in Iowa I was wondering if someone > could do a census look up for me for the year of 1870 in Davenport Scott co > Iowa . my ancestor Thomas Gulk born 9/9/1845 in Flensburg Holstein Germany > Emmigrating to the usa in 1865 first settling in Davenport Scott Co Iowa. > Their first son George Gulk/Gulck was born in Durant Cedar co Iowa on > February 11, 1870. so i would appriciate if anyone could do a look up for me. > Thomas Gulk was married to Elizabeth Gerdes on may 29 1869. Elizabeth was > born 4/17/1847 In Holstein Germany. thier children are. > > George Gulk February 11, 1870 in Durant, IA > Mary Gulk September 26, 1873 in Belle Plaine > Herman T. Gulk May 14, 1877 > Frank H. Gulk August 12, 1880 > Amanda Christine Gulk January 19, 1886 in Belle Plaine Iowa > > Although the other children would not be listed on the 1870 Census for Scott > Co i wanted to list them just incase they were found on another census. > > sandy > > >

If you can help someone with a lookup, how do you reply to them. I have the 1880 census and index for the US and I was able to find the Gulk's in Benton, Iowa. ----- Original Message ----- From: <IASCOTT-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <IASCOTT-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 1:05 PM Subject: IASCOTT-D Digest V02 #327

Hi Im trying to track my ancestors movements in Iowa I was wondering if someone could do a census look up for me for the year of 1870 in Davenport Scott co Iowa . my ancestor Thomas Gulk born 9/9/1845 in Flensburg Holstein Germany Emmigrating to the usa in 1865 first settling in Davenport Scott Co Iowa. Their first son George Gulk/Gulck was born in Durant Cedar co Iowa on February 11, 1870. so i would appriciate if anyone could do a look up for me. Thomas Gulk was married to Elizabeth Gerdes on may 29 1869. Elizabeth was born 4/17/1847 In Holstein Germany. thier children are. George Gulk February 11, 1870 in Durant, IA Mary Gulk September 26, 1873 in Belle Plaine Herman T. Gulk May 14, 1877 Frank H. Gulk August 12, 1880 Amanda Christine Gulk January 19, 1886 in Belle Plaine Iowa Although the other children would not be listed on the 1870 Census for Scott Co i wanted to list them just incase they were found on another census. sandy

Chapter 17 cont. SCOTT COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. On the 18th of October, 1858, pursuant to a published notice that a meeting would be held for the purpose of organizing a medical society for Scott county, nine physicians met at the office of Drs. Witherwax and Carter, then on Third street west of Brady.  Dr. James Thistle presided and Dr. Tomson was secretary.  Committees were appointed to report upon the several subjects of constitution and by-laws, code of ethics and fee bill, and then the meeting adjourned.  Thirteen physicians met at the adjourned meeting on the 28th of October, at the office of Drs. Fountain and Adler, on Second street, between Brady and Main, and the reports of the respective committees were received and adopted.  Under that report a constitution and by-laws, as well as the code of ethics recommended by the American Medical association, was also adopted and the following permanent officers to serve one year were elected:  president, Dr. E. S. Barrows; vice president, Dr. Lyman Carpenter; secretary, Dr. J. J. Tomson; treasurer, Dr. James Thistle; and censors, Drs. T. J. Saunders, John Adler and John W. H. Baker.  It had been agreed upon that the regular meetings of the society should be held four times in the year, yet the necessity seemed to exist for a special meeting and the members agreed to meet again in two weeks.  Consequently the society convened in the Young Men's Literary association room on the 11th of November, the vice president occupying the chair.  At this meeting the fee bill was adopted and the constitution was signed by the members then initiated.  The first regular quarterly meeting took place January 27, 1857, at the office of Drs. Fountian and Adler, President Barrows in the chair.  At that meeting a resolution was adopted and a committee appointed relative to forming a union with the Rock Island County Medical society.  Drs. Barrows and Saunders were elected delegates to the American Medical association to convene in Nashville, Tennesee, the succeeding May.  The second quarterly meeting was held in the  council chamber at the corner of Brady and Third streets, April 28th.  Members of the Rock Island County Medical society were admitted as honorary members, which entitled them to all privileges save that of voting.  Dr. Patrick Gregg, first president of that association, read an eloquent and instructive address.  Dr. Baker was appointed to deliver an essay at the next meeting.  Drs. Fountain, Thistle, Carter, Pelton and Barrows were appointed delegates to the state association to meet at Iowa City the following June.  At the meeting held October 27th, resolutions were adopted making the annual meeting to occur the last Tuesday in January.  This society has now been in existence over a half century and has had a most honorable career. The original members of the society were as follows:  T. J. Saunders, Horace Carpenter, W. M. Line, John T. O'Reardon, George W. Carter, William Keith, John M. Adler, Lyman Carptenter, John W. H. Baker, Lewis F. Pelton, Johnson J. Tomson, J. M. Witherwax, J. Thistle, E. J. Fountain, C. C. Parry, E. S. Barrows, and A. S. Maxwell.  These were the original signers of the constitution and by-laws of the society.  Then shortly afterward the following were taken in as members:  George E. McCosh, William H. Saunders, George B. Harrison, H. P. Hitchcock, Alfred H. Ames, James McCortney, Ignatius Langer, Charles S. Shelton, James Gamble, James S. D. Wallis, Thomas Gault, Samuel Knox, W. A. Hosford, Thomas J. Iles, J. A. Church, W. F. Peck, James Irwin, S. D. Richardson, D. W. Stewart, and L. French.  The honorary members of the society from Rock Island County Medical society were as follows:  William A. Knox, Samuel C. Plummer, W. F. Cady, Calvin Trusdale, Samuel K. Sharpe, P. Gregg, and J. R. Hayes.  The following extracts from the minutes of the society practically give a history of the medical fraternity of Scott county: 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 17 cont. EARLY PHYSICIANS. "Dr. Thomas J. Saunders, recognized by the profession as a scholarly M. D., graduated at the Pennsylvania university in 1843, to please his father.  The law was his choice as a profession; but as that did not accord with the moral sentiments of a highly worthy disciple of George Fox, he acceded to his father's wishes and became an M. D., practiced medicine for a while in New Jersey, and traveled for a time in Europe.  After his return, in connection with his practice in New Jersey, he was prominently engaged as a politician, serving several terms as secretary of the senate.  In 1855 Dr. Saunders came to Davenoport and practiced his profession successfully.  His ability for public service has for the last twenty years kept him engaged in its employ.  He was secretary of the constitutional convention of 1857; was member of the senate from Scott county; served four years as paymaster in the army which handled the rebellion.  For the last few years has been engaged for the war department in assessing damages, or taking evidence to that effect, caused by Sherman's army in east Tennessee.  But with all these diversitities of engagements he has never ceased to entertain a respect, together with an interest kept up, for the medical profession. "Dr. E. Fountain and Dr. J. M. Adler came to Davenport in 1854, from Aspinwall, on the isthmus, where they had been engaged for two or three years as surgeons of the Panama Railroad Company. "Dr. Fountain was from West Chester county, New York, a graduate of the College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, in 1851; was most estimable for his many moral virtues and fully competent, and master of his profession for his term of experience.  In 1861 he became infatuated with the supposed medical virtues of an article called chlorate of potash, which he claimed to have used with great success, and to confirm his own conscientious opinions of its action on the system experimented upon himself rather than his patients, took an overdose on March 27th, and died from its effects within forty-eight hours. "Dr. Adler, as partner of Dr. Fountain, continued the practice until 1865, then removed to Philadelphia, where he continues at present in a large and successful practice. "Dr. C. C. Perry, from Sandy Hill, New York, came in 1852 or 1853, practiced for a few years, then devoted his attention wholly to a scientific branch of the profession which he has made a specialty, and at present is engaged in exploring southern California.  As a botanist Dr. Perry possesses a celebrity to which he is worthily entitled, and second to very few. "Dr. ______ McCarn came to Davenport about 1860, remained a year or two, went to Memphis, Tennessee, and died with yellow fever in 1867." In the north part of the county there settled the following practitioners, as furnished by Drs. Gamble and Knox: Dr. Zebulon Metcalf, regular, from New York, came here in 1841, practiced three years, and removed to Clinton county. Dr. Zachariah Grant practiced here in 1835, died about 1844.  Dr. Nelson Plummer, irregular, came here in 1842, and removed to Farmington in 1848, and now resides there.  Dr. Philander Chamberlin, irregular, commenced practice here in 1844; he removed from here in 1848 and now resides in Oregon.  Dr. James Gamble, regular, graduate of Missouri Medical college in 1847, came to LeClaire in July of the same year, and has been and is now in active practice here.  He is the oldest practicing physician in the county.  Dr. Sylvenus Rowe, irrgular, commenced pactice here in 1846.  He removed to Michigan where he now resides.  Dr. Austin, irregular, came here from New Jersey in 1848, and practiced two years, then returned to New Jersey.  Dr. William P. Hills, regular, came here in 1850 from Pennsylvania, practiced about five years and now resides in Clinton county, Iowa.  Dr. James Van Horne, regular, came here in 1853, from Pennsylvania, practiced about two years and now resides on a farm near Cordova, Illinois.  Dr. S. W. Tret, irregular, came here in 1856, practiced until 1863, now resides in Denver, Colorado.  Dr. W. F. Hays, homeopathist, came here in 1857, practiced about five years, and now resides on a farm in Clinton county, Iowa.  Dr. T. S. Smith, regular, came to Pleasant Valley in 1860, practiced several years, and now resides on a farm in Pleasant Valley.  Dr. F. W. Bellfield, regular, located in Valley City in 1861, and practiced there until his death in 1873.  Dr. E. D. Allen, regular, located in Pleasant Valley in 1879, practiced two years and now resides in Madison county, Iowa.  Dr. Barnes, irregular, located here in 1867, and remained about one year.  He now resides in Henry county, Illinois.  Dr. Bradway, irregular, came here in 1855, practiced two years and now resides in Cass county, Iowa.  Dr. Taylor, irregular, came here in 1870, practiced two years, and died in 1875.  Dr. Brown, irregular, came here in 1869, practiced four years and now resides in Guthrie county, Iowa.  Dr. Barkalow, regular, located here in 1880, practiced one year and now resides in Muscatine county, Iowa.  Dr. J. A. DeArmand, regular, located here in 1876, and is now practicing here; graduated at Pennsylvania university.  Dr. T. C. McClery located here in 1875, in partnership with Dr. Gamble, and now resides at Exeter, Nebraska.  In 1853 Dr. Joseph P. Hoover, a graduate of Pennsylvania Medical college, located in Princeton and practiced medicine three years.  Dr. J. T. Tate moved to Princeton in 1854 and practiced one year.  In 1856 Dr. Thomas Gault, a graduate of Berkshire Medical college, Massachusetts, located in Princeton, and practiced in partnership with Dr. Samuel Knox for six years, and now resides in Rock Island, Illinois.  In 1856 Dr. Samuel Knox, a graduate of Pennsylvania university, located in Princeton and practiced in partnership with Dr. Gault for six years; after Dr. Gault left he still continued in practice there and is still in active practice.  In 1855 Dr. C. G. Martin, a graduate of Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, came to Princeton and practiced one year.  Dr. S. Semple, a graduate of Jefferson Medical college, came to Princeton in 1858, and stayed two years.  In 1858 Dr. G. L. Bell came to Princeton and practiced ten years; he is now in Chicago.  In 1859 Dr. Bowman came to Princton and practiced one year.  Dr. Logan came to Princeton in 1860 and practiced one year.  In 1869 Dr. S. Gast, cancer, commenced practice in Princeton and is still there.  In 1869 Dr. Blackburn located in Princeton and practiced until his death, in 1880.  In 1875 Dr. D. A. Kettle located for practice in Princeton and is still there.  In 1878 Dr. C. W. Knott located in Princeton and practiced medicine three years; now resides in Benton county, Iowa.  In 1878 Dr. John Knox, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, located in Princeton and is still practicing there. 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

Inventors of Davenport, Scott, Iowa 1843-1873 Extracted from Iowa Inventors and Inventions The Palimpsest Part I and II July and August 1969 Land Preparation Harrows-Reimer & Asbahr Plows Plow Point-Kniphals Planting the Crop Seeders-Baldwin & Jones, Morehouse Planter, seed-Harrah & Baldwin Planter, corn-Dutcher (Blue Grass) Cultivating the Crop Cultivator-Lynch (2), Lynch & Raff, Parmele (2), Sanders Harvesting the Crop Corn Husker-Petersen Grain binder-Harrah, Gifford & Johnston, Parker (2) Grain Weighers-Brockett Harvester Attachments-Fowler (2), Harrah & Jones Harvester, rake-Buckwalter, Fowler, Sternberg & Stuhr Milling Grains Millstone, parts for-Smith (Princeton) Smut Machine-Thompson Food Honey, Beehives-Donnel Butter, Churns-Klingenberg & Mau Food Processing & Handling Coffee roaster-Petersen Dough Kneader-Jones Drinking Vessel Cover-Heuermann Kneading Board-Jones Oven-Moore (2) Trellis,grape-Custer Fences & Gates Fence-Haviland Gates-Balschmiter, Harrah Hardware Universal Joint-Heuermann Housekeeping Items Dust Pan-Morgan Toilet Case-Dapron Items for the House Alarm Lock-Swingle Blinds, window & Venitian- Andresen & Aabahr Cistern Regulator-Plumb Fire escapes-Heuermann (2), Knocke, Wohle Mirror, Window-Voss & Brandt Sash holder-Morgan Window Shade-Simmons Clock Making Hemp-brake-Witt & Sinn Sewing Machines Tatting shuttle winder-Jones Washing and Ironing Sod iron holder-Von Doehren & Reimers Washing machine-Jones (2), Lamb, Nissen Washing machine heater-Pratt Furniture Bedsteads-Patton, Simmons Sofa-Ciscor Home, Farm & Shop Crib Ventilator (farm)-Ross Horse power-Heuermann, Liebey Milking device-Nichols Pens for livestock-Dow Tumbling rod cover-Heuermann Tools Bolt Cutter- Peters Bung Cutter-Sternberg Brewing Wine filter-Schmidt Wine press-Davenport & Case Building Construction Brick Mold or press-Evans, Hughes Sawing Machine-Schwam & Weber Dry Goods & Groceries Bag holder-Darling Mining & Stonework Rock drill-White & Baumgardner, White Shoemaking & Leather Work Hide & Leather dressing machine-Baumgardner & White Metal Manufacturing Porcesses Plows, Manufacture of-Skinner Wooden Manufacturing Processes Plans for making blind slats-Andresen Transportation Thill coupling-Clark, Woeber & Woeber (2) Trucks, moving-French (2), Hoyt Rail transportation-valve gear, locomotive engine-Petersen Misc Amusements Carousel-Schnieder Fishnet-Cartwright Firearms Cartridge-White, Williams Firearms-Berg Liniments, Panacaeas & Medical Aids Medicine-Hall Pessory-Atkinson Schoolroom Equipment Desk, school-Chandler (3), Cochran Slate Surface, artificial-Wagner Stationery Portfolio-Pratt Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm

Chapter 17 cont. ANTOINE LE CLAIRE A PATIENT. "To return to the subject of my first patient, Dr. Bardwell asked me to give Mr. LeClaire my attention, by a system of prognosis best know to the trade.  To quote his language, 'I have been examining him for about a week and have come to the conclusion that it is a plain case of abdominal dropsy, and, thinking it expedient to be in time, I have brought along my box of instruments with the intent of relieving him of a gallon or two of water by tapping.'  I proceeded to the examination of the case and asked if I might see Mrs. LeClaire.  She came into the room and gave me the history of the case.  Then the council  commenced, by my saying, to my mind it was an unmistakable case of inflammatory rheumatism, and the tapping had better be done in the arm.  The difference of my opinion so far as related in the diagnosis did not seem to create any surprise, but my suggestion of bleeding astonished greatly.  He asked if I was candid in my view of the subject.  'Most certainly I am,' was my reply.  Dr. Bardwell then spoke thusly:  'Mr. LeClaire, here are two doctors, one may be taken and the other left, which will you have?'  Mr. LeClaire's reply was, 'Dr. Burrows may bleed me.'  I did bleed him and Dr. Bardwell was kind enough to hold the bowl, and then hurried off to the ball.  From that day forward to the day of his death, twenty-six years later, the patient was mine. "I made twelve visits, in as many days.  The sequel was most satisfactory, for within ten days from my last visit Mr. LeClaire rode on horseback from Davenport to Rockingham, and without asking for my bill, handed  me a handful of silver, interspersed with gold pieces, saying, 'I will pay you the balance some other time,' then bade me good-by, for he had not dismounted, and rode off.  The sum given me was $1.50.  He did pay the balance, besides contributing annual payments for small service.  On my removal to Davenport, in the spring of 1843, he presented me with a deed of out lot No. 31, then called four-acre lots, saying to me:  'If you don't want that lot, sell it; I felt that I had never paid you for your services.'  I attempted an acknowledgment, but he said, 'Don't say anything, for I owed it to you.'  I did sell the lot subsequently for $1,000.  It was the one upon which Sargent's row is built.  The population on January 1, 1837, of the domain now known as Scott county, was below 200, after which immigration set in with great rapidity. "During this summer Dr. A. C. Donaldson, from Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, located in Davenport as the first resident physician.  He was well qualified for a successful practice of the profession; was eminently upright in thought and act and deserved a better recompense for his medical ability and his moral worth than the world afforded him.  He remained in Davenport but two years, or perhaps three, removed to St. Louis, and subsequently to California, where death overtook him. "During the summer and autumn of 1837 a few cases of bilious remitting fever occurred, but yielded readily to treatment.  The winter following several cases of bilious pneumonia demanded prompt attendance and special vigilance in the observance of changes indicative of greater danger.  These were the diseases, and the principal ones, which called for medical help up to the year 1849.  Since that year, or from that period, the summer and autumnal fevers ceased to be epidemical and pneumonia became less frequent.  It may be well to mention here that the fevers of 1849, after the third of fourth day, assumed a typhoid character, the remission hardly observable, and the nervous depression occasioning great anxiety.  Old citizens well remember that year, for in it occurred the death of David Hoge and Miss Sophia Fisher. "I think it was Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia,-a great name up to about 1825-who said the lancet was a 'sheet-anchor' in all inflammatory diseases.  So it might have been said of quinine, as used in remittent and intermittent fevers, in both the Mississippi and Missouri valleys from 1830 up to 1850.  During that period 120,000 square miles west of the Mississippi and north of St. Louis became populated, and all of it more or less malarious.  In some of these years the demand for quinine was so great that the supply in the American market became exhausted.  'Sappinton's pills' were indirectly the power which worked steamboats up the river from 1835 to 1843.  They were, verily, the 'sheet-anchor,' not only aboard but in many households.  Dr. Sappington was a regular allopathic aboard boats but in many households.  Dr. Sappington was a regular allopathic physician of considerable ability, residing up the Missouri rive, who thought it would be a benefaction to the new civilization of the west to prepare quinine, ready to be taken, in the form of pills.  The boxes contained four dozen each, and the pills two grains each.  The direction on the box was to take from two to twenty, as the urgency of the case seemed to require, without reference to the stage of the paroxysm. 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

Davenport Times Davenport, Scott, Iowa March 22, 1900 McGuire (See also Maguire) McGuire, Arthur J, wks Metal Wheel Co r 1848 w 4th McGuire, James J, mch Metal Wheel Co r 1848 w 4th McGuire, Miss Josephine V, r 1848 w 4th McGuire, Miss M Ella tchr High Sch r 401 Kirkwood boul McGuire, Patrick, wife Mary watchman r 1848 w 4th McGuire, Richard H r 646 e 6th McGuire, Thomas J, mach opr Metal Wheel Co r 1848 w 4th McGuirk, Ambrose P, wife Mary M lawyer 19 Whitaker bldg r 1709 Main McHale, John wife Minnie lab r 826 w 2d McHart, Miss Anna music tchr r 1947 w 3d McHart, Miss Clara r 1947 w 3d McHart, Frank L clk Glucose Co r 1947 w 3d McHart, Miss Helen tchr r 1947 w 3d McHart, John C wife Helen F real est 43 Whitaker bldg r 1947 w 3d McHenry, Mrs. Clara r 310 Gaines McHugh, Patrick, wife Bridget wks Metal Wheel Co r 511 w Locust McInnis, Neil wife Margaret clk Dr W D Middleton r 416 w 7th McIntyre, Miss Agnes C bkpr O G Murray r 702 Farnam McIntyre, Charles C wife I Jennie mngr N Y Life Ins Co r 1643 Le Claire McIntyre, Miss Isabelle A r 702 Farnam McIntyre, James wife Ida S state agt Emerson & Fisher Co r 732 e 13th McIntyre, John wife Mary A steamftr Dav Steam Heating Co r 702 Farnam McIntyre, Miss Mae I r 732 e 13th McIntyre, Miss Mary L r 702 Farnam McIntyre, Wm B clk D R I & N W r 1643 Le Claire McKeage, Miss Anna nurse St. Luke's Hospital McKeague, Daniel, lab r 1338 e Locust McKeague, James H lab r 1338 e Locust McKeague, John R wife Margaret N lab r 1342 e Locust McKeague, Richard S, printer Democrat r 1338 e Locust McKee, Charles H, r 810 LeClaire McKee, Miss Elizabeth r 1928 Farnam McKee, Miss Elizabeth C r 810 LeClaire McKee, Miss Susanna r 1928 Farnam McKenney, D W wife Jennie director Manual Training Sch rms 612 Kirkwood boul McKenzie, John W (col) cook r 311 e 2d McKinney, Miss Fannie M r 1356 4th av McKinnon, Malcom, wife Myra A reporter The Republican r 218 w 12th McKinsey, Howard H wife Winnie H molder r 414 1/2 w 3d McKown, Charles S wife Elizabeth W r 426 e Pleasant McKown, Louis W wife Birdie J trav agt r 1608 Park av McLain, Miss Ann L clk Newcomb Loom Co r 601 Farnam McLain, Daniel P wife Bridget M yardmaster D R I & N W r 601 Farnam McLane, Mrs. Elizabeth r 1437 w 7th McLane, James r 1437 w 7th McLane, Miss Mary r 1437 w 7th McLaughlin, Edmund L wks Arsenal r 2234 Cherry McLaughlin, Miss Ellen wks Harkert & Co r 707 Marquette McLaughlin, Harry clk rms 418 Main McLaughlin, L Paul, wife Minnie polisher Arsenal r 207 Brady McLaughlin, Miss Mary dom 2013 Brady McLaughlin, Michael H r 2334 Cherry McLaughlin, Rose, wid Patrick r 2234 Cherry McLaughlin, Miss Rose A r 2234 Cherry McLaughlin, Thomas wife Mary r 517 e 10th McLorrence, D (col) waiter Kimball House McLoskey (See also McCloskey) McLoskey, Charles wks Kimball House r 1708 Iowa McLoskey, Charles A wife Anna agt r 1708 Iowa McLoskey, Miss Lizzie G clk The Famous r 1708 Iowa McLoskey, Miss Mary r 1708 Iowa McMahan, Abner lab r 2202 Eddy McMahan, Wm wife Kate lab r 2208 Eddy McMahon, Andrew P lawyer 44 Whitaker bldg rms 612 Perry McMahon, Bernard, foreman r 422 Division McMahon, Don rms 124 College av McMahon, Miss Ellen r 420 Division McMahon, Ellen wid James r 1810 w 4th McMahon, James r 420 Division McMahon, Miss Jennie F wks J Goos Co r Rock Island Ill McMahon, John, wife Hulda wks Canning Co r 11191/2 w 5th McMahon, Miss Kate r 420 Division McMahon, Miss Maggie r 1810 w 4th McMahon, Miss Mary wks Hakert & Co r 1810 w 4th McManes, Raymond H clk Lee B & D Co rms 414 1/2 w 2d McMann, Robert wife Alice mach Dav F & M Co r 1931 w 5th McManus, Mrs. Bridget grocer 327 w 18th r same McManus Building 20? Main McManus, James V mach P D Quirk r 327 w 18th McManus, Miss Mary T bkpr H H Vogt r 417 w 8th McManus, Parker W, wife Flora E County Treas 2d fl Court House r Telegraph rd nr 3d McManus, Parker W jr clk Glucose Co r Telegraph rd nr 3d McManus, Wm G helper People's Light Co r Telegraph rd nr 3d McMeans, Frank E wife Sarah clk Ry M S r 1603 Arlington av McMichael, George harnessmkr Sears-Frizzell Co bds 518 Main McMullen, James A wife Cora M spec agt N W Mut Life Ins Co r 503 e 15th McMullen, Lewis T wife Alvina wks Bett Axle Co r 46 Putnam bldg McMullen, Mary wid Alex r 707 Marquette McNall, Elmore driver bds 704 w 16th McNamara, Miss Esther C r 130 w 16th McNamee, Martha wid Lawrence r 528 w 2d McNamee, Thomas lab r 528 w 2d McNamer, Joseph wife Lida driver D Regennitter's Sons r 410 e 2d McNeil, Miss Anna stenog D R I & N W r Rock Island, Ill. McNeil, Orrin S wife Charlotte r 1606 Brady McNern, Hugh broommkr Lee B & D Co r 1938 Bridge av McNern, Julia wid Edward r 1938 Bridge av McNerney, Patrick J wife Mary V A horseshoer 223 e 3d r 1730 Farnam McPartland, Frank lab r 1620 Harrison McPartland, Hugh r 1620 Harrison McPartland, John (McPartland & Raphael) 217 Perry r same McPartland, John wife Julia lab r 1620 Harrison McPartland, Miss Mary E lino opr The Republican r 1620 Harrison McPartland, Thomas treas Hobson Theatre r 1620 Harrison McPartland & Raphael (J McPartland O Raphael) proprs Hobson Theatre 217 Perry McPeck, Mary wid Wm r 424 e 3d McQuaid, Miss Mary (Geisser & Co) 45 McCullough bldg r 928 Farnam McQuillan, Mrs Mamie r 1730 Marquette McSteen, Miss Florence r 914 LePage McSteen, Miss Gertrude r 914 LePage McSteen, Paul T timekpr Arsenal r 914 LePage McVey, Lee R wife Clara trav agt r 617 w 8th McVey, Ora L bricklayr r 502 w 17th Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm The Irish in Iowa http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

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/689.1783.1 Message Board Post: Stefan Arp, my wife's mother is Betty Arp and her father was from Kiel, Germany. His name was Hans Adolf Arp. Hans was married originally in Germany and his first wife died. He then moved to Canada and remarried sometime after this. Hans was in the merchant marines (sailor) and also worked as an engineer on the railroad. He lived on Prince Edward Island in Canada. He was born about 1890 ish and died around 1968-70. My wife's mother has very little else information to go on, but I am finding very few Arp and most are from Kiel, Germany. Can you provide any information on possible connections. Thank you. Matt Phillips cm499@hotmail.com

I want to thank everyone who responded to my question about the Catholic boarding school. I know have 2-3 different places I can check along with addresses and phone numbers. You've all been a great help. Donna --

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RHEA Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/2215.1.1 Message Board Post: Jacque, Yes, I am still researching this family and I would LOVE to exchange information with you. Please contact me at: thetrheas@aol.com. I hope to hear from you soon. Becky