Chapter 14 CHAPTER XIV THE GREAT RIVER THE GLORY AND MAJESTY OF THE FATHER OF WATERS - DESCRIPTION OF THE KEELBOAT - AN EARLY TRIP FROM CAIRO TO GALENA - A LIST OF THE EARLY STEAM CRAFT THAT BREASTED THE CURRENTS OF THE UPPER RIVER - BRINGING DOWN THE LOGS - THE FERRIES WHICH HAVE BROUGHT PEOPLE INTO SCOTT COUNTY - THE LONG-AWAITED HANNEPIN CANAL (Pictures included with this chapter are:  The Ferry "Davenport - Davenport Waterworks and Settling Basin - A Short Line Packet - John Wilson's Ferry Showing The Old Fort Across The River) In April, 1823, Daniel Smith Harris, a lad of fifteen, left Cincinnati on the keel-boat Colonel Bumford for the LeFevre lead mines, now Galena, where he arrived June 20th, following, after a laborious voyage down the Ohio and up the Mississippi.  It came about in the evolution of things required for specific purposes that the keel-boat was constructed.  This boat was built to go up stream as well as down.  It was a well modeled craft, sixty to eighty feet long and fifteen to  eighteen feet wide, sharp at both ends and often with fine lines, clipper built for passengers or traffic.  It had usually about four feet depth of hold.  Its cargo box, as it was called, was about four feet higher, sometimes covered with a light curved deck, sometimes open, with a "gallows frame" running the length of the hold, over which tarpaulins were drawn and fastened to the sides of the boat for the protection of the freight and passengers in stormy weather.  At either end of the craft was a deck eight or ten feet in length, the forward or forecastle deck having a windlass or capstan for pulling the boat off bars or warping through swift water or over rapids.  Along each side of the cargo box ran a narrow walk about eighteen inches in width, with cleats nailed to the deck twenty-eight or thirty inches apart to prevent the crew from slipping when poling up stream.  About the time the keel-boat Colonel Bumford was passing St. Louis the steamer Virginia departed for the upper river with a load of supplies for the United States military post at Fort Snelling.  She arrived at Fort Snelling May 10, 1823, the first boat propelled by steam to breast the water of the upper Mississippi.  She was received by a salute of cannon from the fort and carried fear and consternation to the Indians, who watched the smoke rolling from her chimneys and the exhaust steam from her escape pipe with a noise that simply terrified them.  The Virginia was scarcely longer than the largest keel-boat, being about one hundred and twenty feet long and twenty-two feet beam.  She had no upper cabin, the accomodations for the passengers being in the hold in the stern of the boat, with the cargo box covering so common to the keel-boat of which she herself was but an evolution. 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

I have Krebs in my family and was wondering if any of you are related to Schulyer Hammond m. Ella Jane Krebs? She would be my great grandmother. Any help much appreciated. Her daughter Dorothy married Sylvester Lawson. Marie (Woolheater) Nutting ----- Original Message ----- From: <karmalot@aol.com> To: <IASCOTT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:25 PM Subject: [IASCOTT] HANNEMANN 1767, and about 1867 KREBS > 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/2256.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Hi I have a Nicolaus HANNEMANN 1767 and a KREBS being married in Iowa around 1867to a HENNEMAN but can't kind the sheet right now. Our roots are from the German island of Fehmarn. If if find it I drop you a line. Lee KREBS > > ______________________________

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MOELLER, ILLIAN (?) Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/2311 Message Board Post: MOELLER Ida L. MOELLER, beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis MOELLER of Blue Grass, died at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening at St. Luke's hospital after a long illness. She was 20 years and seven months of age. Besides her parents she leaves to mourn their loss two sisters, Mrs. Emma ILLIAN (sp?) Wilma, and two brothers, Ernst and Louis MOELLER. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the family home 2 1-2 miles northeast of Blue Grass with burial in Blue Grass cemetery. Date: March 6, 1907 Source: The Davenport Democrat and Leader **Disclaimer - I have no information or connection with this family!!**

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOBBS, CHURCH Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/2310 Message Board Post: HOBBS Mrs. Anna HOBBS, an old settler of Davenport, died Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Rock Island, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.H. CHURCH, Thirteenth avenue and Twentieth street. She would have been 79 years old on March 19, and her death resulted from the infirmities of age. She was one of the early settlers of Davenport, having lived here for 60 years, or ever since she was 15 years old. She moved to Rock Island four years ago. Mrs. HOBBS was born in England, March 19, 1828. Date: Wednesday, March 6, 1907 Source: The Davenport Democrat and Leader

*Disclaimer: I debated whether to post this editorial as it could be offensive to some readers. However, in the interest of presenting the viewpoints of the time, I decided to forge ahead. Please keep in mind the opinions expressed were written 160 years ago. I am merely the transcriber. The Daily Gazette City of Davenport Wednesday Morning June, 11, 1862 The Negro Race The Democrat of this city has a leader in its yesterday morning's issue commencing with the following assertion:--"The argument made by the higher law-ites of to-day is that the Negro is just as good as a white man, and is worthy of rank and position of equality with the best Circassian (?) stock." He there adds that, "when the Black Republican party was organized it was with the view of drawing its strength from the same doctrine." As many of our Republican citizens patronize the Democrat and permit it to be left at their residences for their wives and children to peruse, for fear the latter, who are not presumed to know much about political matters, attach credit to the assertion of that paper and believe the head of the family to belong to a party of blacks, if not to be actually in favor of a black man for President, we will file one or two exceptions. It always seems to us a waste of time to contradict assertions that every sensible man knows to be false, but yet as pe! ople will read them and the uninitiated believe them, it sometimes becomes necessary. What the Negro would have been had he from the beginning been placed under the same enlightening influences that the white man has enjoyed, we leave to the speculations of anthropologists. The question is, what is he now and what is he capable of doing. To admit, that after hundreds of years of enslavement both of body and mind, denied access to every means of mental culture and taught from his earliest infancy that he is of an inferior race, the Negro is now capable of occupying high position in the Government, is to argue that he is naturally of a race superior to the white man. Philanthropists are now taking the Negro from his low estate and arousing his dormant faculties to an appreciation of the truths of the Christian religion. That lies at the foundation of all human knowledge and excellence, and until men and nations learn to appreciate its truths they cannot occupy as high position in the scale of being, or secure to themselves the full amount of happiness that man! was destined to enjoy in this state of existence. The simple circumstance that the most ultra anti-slavery men and women, those who were formerly termed abolitionists, are seeking now to elevate the moral and mental conditions of the Negro, by instilling into his mind the primary principles of education, is proof positive of the absurdity of the position assumed by our erudite neighbor. The Republican party never sought to draw strength from the doctrine that the Negro was worthy of rank and position in his present condition; or that he is now, or ever was as good, mentally or morally, as the white man. As politicians they viewed the question from a political stand-point. Without reference to the negro's capabilities for even self-government, they saw that his enslavement was a curse to the people that indulged in it. It rested like a mildew upon those States that sanctioned it, blighting the prospects of the people, effeminating their minds, and rooting out the principles of Christianity. All history told them a nation could not live happily with such an incubus preying upon it. They saw the evil was growing continually. Freedom could not keep pace with its advance. So, as a party they planted the stakes; they threw a wall around the curse, and said to the Democratic party, all of the territory outside of this wall is forever dedicated to freedom; we resp! ect your rights within these bounds, our's you must regard without them; henceforth we are two parties, and slavery is the dividing line between us. From that day until now, every political question has been merged in this; like Aaron's rod, it has swallowed up all the rest; and the Republican party is as ready to-day, as in 1856, to meet its opponents, and contend for the abridgement of slavery, or the glorious principles of freedom to all men. Military Items from Adj't Gen. Baker's Offices Promotions and Appointments.-Sam'l D. Brodtbeck, late Major of the 12th Iowa Infantry, to be Special Aid-de-Camp to Governor. Maj. John M. Corse, to be Lieut. Col. Of the 6th Iowa Infantry, vice Cummins. Capt. John Williams of Co. G, 6th Iowa Infantry, promoted to Major of said regiment, for gallant conduct at the battle of Shiloh, vice Corse, promoted. Capt. Samuel R. Edgington, Co. A, 15th Iowa Infantry, to be Major of said regiment, vice Brodtbeck, resigned. Ass't Surgeon Richard J. Mohr, to be Surgeon of the 10th Iowa Infantry, vice Davi resigned. 1st Lieut. W. Dean, to be Capt. Of Co. A, 5th Iowa Infantry, vice Childs resigned. 1st Lieut. Daniel S. Melvin, to be Capt. Co K, 5th Iowa Infantry vice Comstock, mustered out. 1st Lieut. Wesley Moreland, to be Capt. Co. C, 7th Iowa Infantry, vice McMullen promoted. Serg't Frank M. Suiter, to be 2d Lieut. Co. B, vice Flanagan mustered out. 5d Lieut. Benj. Owen, to be Capt. Co, H. 2d Iowa Cavalry, vice Sanford resigned. Resignations-Wilson T. Smith, Capt. Co. B, 15th Iowa Infantry, May 23. M. R. Ridreick, 2d Lieut. Co. G, 3d Iowa Infantry, May 23d. Phillip H. Goode, 1st Lieut. Co. F, 15th Iowa Infantry, May 23. Lieut. Col. Thomas Drummond, 4th Iowa Cavalry, to take effect June 2d, 1862. Lieut. A. B. Reyburn, 5th Iowa Infantry, mustered out by order of Gen. Halleck. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann List Adm. for: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES Assist. CC: Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project

Hello from hot, steamy Iowa! I'm in the process of transcribing my grandmother's 1911-1914 diary. She lived in Muscatine, but talks about taking the "Firefly" to or from Davenport on many an evening. Just offhand, does anyone have any information on the Firefly? Was it a train? She also writes of the Interurban Express, so they are two different things. If nobody knows, I'll contact the library. (I just hate to bother them as much as I do!) Elaine Rathmann Assist. CC: Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm. for: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lanpher Holien VanDenBrandt Doubek Longbotham Zagaria Sutmar Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/2309 Message Board Post: Edward W. (Ted) Lanpher, age 66, of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Lima, Peru. Died June 4, 2002 from colon cancer. Preceded in death by parents, Murray and Aimee Lanpher; sister, Cynthia Sutmar; brother-in-law, William Sutmar; and nephew, Steven Sutmar. Born on October 31, 1935 in Davenport, Iowa, Ted grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended Nativity Grade School, Cretin High School, and St. Thomas College. After college, he served in the U.S. Air Force for ten years, including three transformative years in Japan. In the years following, Ted committed himself to global social justice, ultimately leading him to his mission in Lima. His compassion, determination, kind spirit, and wry humor touched all who knew him. Retired from NSP Co., Aug. 1998. Current member of the Maryknoll Mission Association of the Faithful, assigned to Lima, Peru, S.A. Formerly served on the boards of the Resource Center of the Americas and Global Education Associates. Longtime member of the Newman Cen! ter and the community of St. Francis Cabrini. Survived by loving companion, Pam Zagaria; daughters, Molly Lanpher (Kathy Peterson) of Minneapolis, Cynthia Holien (David) of Watertown, SD, Jane Lanpher (James Van Den Brandt) of Cross Plains, WI, Amy Doubek (Jeff) of Lake Geneva, WI; and son, Daniel Lanpher (Melissa McGrath) of New Haven, CT. Also survived by grandchildren, Allison, William, Hannah, David and Ava; former spouse, Monica Delaney Mitby; sister, Jean Longbotham; and many other loving relatives and friends. Ted and his family wish to thank the Fairview medical staff and Fairview Hospice for their exceptional and tender care. Visitation Sunday (June 9), 3-6 pm, followed by a 6 pm Mass of Christian Burial, both at the Church of St. Frances Cabrini, 1500 SE Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Private interment. Arr. O'Halloran & Murphy, 651-698-0796. ``Dad, you loved to run. You're running free now. We love you so deeply.'' published June 07, 2002 Minneapolis Star /Tribune

This concludes Chapter 13 CONWAY'S DEATH William B. Conway died at Burlington in the prime of life, November 6, 1838, some four months after his arrival in the territory and after a brief illness of typhoid fever.  He was succeeded in office by James Clark, at that time editory of the Burlington Gazette, who became the last of the three territorial governors of Iowa.  The young secretry was regarded as one of the most gifted men in the territory and had endeared himself to everyone in Davenport for his many traits of character, brilliant, eccentric and otherwise, and also on account of his stanch support of everything that tended to the upbuilding and progress of the city.  His body was received in Davenport on the 9th of November by a committee appointed for the purpose and was taken to St. Anthony's church where solemn services for the dead were performed by Rev. Father Pelamourgues.  On the morning of the 9th a public meeting, whose proceedings were solemn and impressive, was held by the citizens of Davenport, which convened at the Davenport hotel.  The object of this meeting was for the purpose of the citizens to testify their respect to the memory of William B. Conway.  T. S. Hoge was called to the chair and Judge G. C. R. Mitchell was appointed secretary. On motion it was ordered that John H. Thorington, Thomas S. Hoge, Duncan C. Eldridge, Ira Cook, G. C. R. Mitchell, Richard Pearce, Antoine LeClaire and John Owens be appointed a committee to make the necessary arrangements for the funeral of the deceased, and also to draft and report resolutions expressive of the sense of this meeting.  The committee having retired for a short time reported the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That this meeting has heard with the most profound regret of the death of William B. Conway, Esq., late secretary of the territory of Iowa.  Possessing a mind richly cultivated and improved, a disposition amiable and kind, he was generous and hospitable; of manners the most bland and courteous; respected, honored and beloved by all who knew him.  We feel that in his death this neighborhood has lost its brightest ornament, and the territory one of its ablest and most worthy officers and highly valued citizens. Resolved, That this meeting sincerely condole with the family of the deceased in their severe and deep affliction, and pray that He who tempers the blast to the shorn lamb may support and protect them. Resolved, That as a mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, we will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the chairman and secretary, and the Iowa Sun and other papers throughout the territory be requested to publish the same. Resolved, That Antoine LeClaire and G. C. R. Mitchell be, and they are hereby appointed a committee to deliver a copy of the proceedings of this meeting to the respected widow of the deceased.                                                                 TH. S. HOGE, Chairman,                                                             G. C. R. MITCHELL,  Secretary. During Secretary Conway's Davenport residence he used his influence in congress to bring to Rock island a government arsenal and armory. 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 13 cont. T. S. PARVIN GOVERNOR'S SECRETARY The young man whom Conway refers to in his letter to the territorial council was T. S. Parvin, who had come from Ohio to serve as governor's clerk.  Governor Lucas sent his young fellow Ohioan to Cincinnati after books and suggested that he purchase stationery there.  Congress had appropriated $5,000 for a territorial library and Mr. Parvin was appointed librarian.  Mr. Parvin came to Davenport to consult Secretary Conway and was joined by him on the boat, and the two made the trip to Galena together arranging the prospective purchases.  Conway was disbursing officer for all funds appropriated by congress and held all to the letter of instructions, thus becoming involved in trouble with both the governor and legislature.  In Bloomington Herald of Dec. 25, 1840, for which paper Mr. Parvin was acting as legislative correspondent, Mr. Parvin writes, "The 'Iowa Minstrel' was one of Nature's poets, and had he lived would have left more numberous proofs of his claims to the proud title which has so justly been awarded him.  Should your distant readers adk to whom I refer, tell them the late Secretary Conway, the scholar and the poet whose untimely death deprived his adopted land of one of its brightest ornaments, and the literary world of a devoted son and an aspirant after all that is noble and worthy of emulous fame." In penning these lines the great man who in after years was one of the most honored citizens of Iowa showed his magnanimity toward an associate who for a long portion of their acquaintance delighted in belittleing him and systematically spelled Parvin with a small p in all communications referring to him by name. 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 13 cont. REPORT The committee on expenditures to whom was referred the communication of the Hon. William B. Conway, secretary of the territory of Iowa, dated Nov. 24, 1838, beg leave to make the following report: That in the discharge of the duty assigned them they find with much regret the report of the honorable secretary of our territory to the council, dated Nov. 24th, is of such a nature as to call forth a severe animadversion upon its tone and spirit.  The evident intention of that communication was not only to treat the resolution offered by Mr. Hughes and adopted by the council with irony and contempt but at the same time to convey the idea that articles asked for by the resolution were unnecessary and unimportant. The reason of the adoption of the resolution offered by Mr. Hughes is obvious to every member of the council but it may not be known to the community at large, that great pains were taken to prevent the merchants and citizens of Burlington from crediting the officers of the council and house of representatives of this territory for small articles necessary for their use, and the honorable secretary of the territory was understood to intimate that accounts made by the officers of the legislature would not be paid by him.  It therefore became necessary to ask by resolution the furnishing of small articles. On the arrival of the members of the legislature, in accordance with the proclamation of the governor, they found the house which they were to occupy (notwithstanding the great "peril" which the honorable experienced in returning from St. Louis "to provide for the comfort and convenience, the ease, elegance and dignity of the honorable legislative assembly") unfurnished and unprepared for their reception and the reason assigned by the honorable-secretary for this delay is that it "was the act of God, etc."  Your committee would not pretend to impute blame to the honorable secretary for the frustration of his great design by the Creator of the universe, whose powerful arm can arrest the progress of governors, secretaries and legislatures; yet your committee do think it somewhat surprising that the acts of God so far intervened as to prevent the officers of the council and house of representatives from getting upon the credit of the legislature a few tin cups and a bucket to drink out of, which articles as well as many others the honorable secretary on account of peril or some other cause unknown to your committee neglected to furnish. As the legislature was not supplied with many necessary articles of stationery and furniture they were left with no other alternative than to inform the honorable secretary of the territory of their wants, presuming that so far as he was able, he would comply with their request; nor do your committee believe that any resolution has passed the council during the present session in any disrespect to the honorable secretary or his office; nor could the council possibly imagine from their friendly intercourse with him heretofore that he would ever reply to a resolution of their body with such a communication as the committee now have under their consideration, and it is a source of much regret that the honorable secretary should have so far forgotten the dignity which he owned to himself, his officers and the representatives of the people as to attempt to ridicule their proceedings and make their acts the subject of merriment and derision.  The honorable secretary may rest assured that the present legislature will not tamely submit to the insults and derision of any officer of this territory and they at all times defind to the last their honest rights and the liberty of the people whom they have the honor to represent.                                                                          ROBERT RALSTON,                                                                       STEPH. HEMPSTEAD,                                                                               JEM. D. PAYNE. This report was adopted by the council and the affair known as the "penknife and tin-pan controversy," occasioned no small talk until the 27th of December, when it was ended as the following printed proceedings show: The president submitted the following communication from the secretary of the territory:        SECRETARY'S OFFICE, TERRITORY OF IOWA, DEC. 27, 1838 To the Honorable the Legislative Council: GENTLEMEN:  In compliance with the friendly suggestions of his honor, Judge Wilson, who kindly consents to be the bearer of this note, I hereby inform the honorable body that I am willing to withdraw my communication to that body of the 24th of last November provided the report of the committee on expenditures together with the subsequent proceedings of the council in reference to said communication be consequently withdrawn, which I have been informally advised, the council are disposed to do.  And if so, I am prepared to renew my relations with the council, official and personal, as they existed prior to the 24th of last November. If, however, there be any misapprehension as regard the disposition of the council toward the secretary of the territory this note will be immediately returned to me by the honorable gentleman to whom it has been intrusted. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,                                                                                                WILLIAM B. CONWAY,                                     Secretary of the Territory. Whereupon Mr. Payne offered the following: Resolved, that the secretary be allowed to withdraw his communication of the 24th of November, and that the proceedings of the council in relation thereto be also withdrawn. These controversies growing out of a conflict of jurisdiction between coordinate branches of the government were never thoroughly healed. The legislature attempted to override the functions of the governor and secretary and did many follish things and we present the following as one of them: Resolved, by the council and house of representatives of the territory of Iowa that the postmaster of Davenport, Scott county, Iowa, be and he is hereby authorized to have the mail from Davenport to Dubuque conveyed in two-hourse post coaches during the present session of the legislative assembly. Here is the doctrine of "state (or territorial) sovereignty" first asserted for young Iowa, it having before been supposed that congress regulated the mails. 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 Saturday, March 10, 1900 THE TIMES 20TH CENTURY DIRECTORY Errors in Names and Locations and Any Changes From the Way the Names Appear in The Times, Including Removals, Must be Reported to the Office or the Directory Manager in The Times Building Within 48 Hours From This Evening, as These Names Will go in Book Form Then. Der Demokrat, H. Lischer Printing Co, pubs 207 w 3d Dervitz, Mrs Dora, r CC Cook's Home Dessaint, Miss Edna r 1108 Perry Dessaint, Louis A, wife Sadie R, stamp depy U S Int Rev Collr's Office r 1108 Perry Dessaint, Louis R, r 1108 Perry Deteker, Wm bartndr Mrs. M Ford, r 323 e 2d Deters, Miss Annie dom 217 e 6th Deters, Charles r 1626 Franklin Deters, Charles F wife Mary shoe mnfr 1626 Franklin r same Deters, Ludwig, r 1626 Franklin Deters, Miss Minnie wks Dav Pearl B Co r 708 Hennepin Deters, Theo wife Catherine r 1454 w 7th Deters, Wm H wife Catherine r 708 Hennepin Dethlefs, Magdaline, wid C F r rear 1005 w 5th Dethlefs, Wm H wks F L Bills r rear 1005 w 5th Detlefs, Harry ,clk H Thode r 1838 Rockingham rd Detlefs, Louis, wife Margaret H. lab r 1927 w 4th Detlefs, Marcus clk H Ewert r 1123 w 3d Detlefs, Mathias, wife Mary, mason r 1123 w 3d Detlefsen, Claus wks J Hansen r 1417 Leonard Detlefsen, Henry wife Anna D tinsmith 516 w 2d r 410 Brown Detlefsen, Miss Mary M, r 1417 Leonard Detmers, George H, wife Nettie harnessmkr Arsenal r 703 e 6th Dettling, Eugene W wks J Hill r 632 w 3d Dettmann, Charles, wks Metal Wheel Co r 228 Ripley Dettmann, Miss Dora cigmkr N Kuhnen Co r 228 Ripley Dettmann, Ferd, cigmkr N Kuhnen Co r 228 Ripley Dettmann, John, wife Augusta lab r 228 Ripley Deubner, Max B wife Sophia porter F T Schmidt & Sons r 517 Harrison Deutsch, Miss Belle r 1102 Iowa Deutsch, Eugene A r 1102 Iowa Deutsch, Henry wife Matilda mngr Bee Hive r 223 w 13th Deutsch, Isaac trav agt Dav Leaf Tob Co r 223 w 13th Deutsch, Joe, vice pres Bee Hive Cloak & M Co 114 w 2d r 223 w 13th Deutsch, Mrs Matilda sec Bee hive Cloak & M Co 114 w 2d r 223 w 13th Deutsch, Paul r 1102 Iowa De Vine, Miss Ellen, tchr r 924 Myrtle De Vine, Thomas J, wife Mary E wks Arsenal r 924 Myrtle Devlin, Charles J vice pres Marquette Third Vein Coal Co 1 Masonic Temple r Topeka, Kan Devlin, Miss Evangeline F r 519 w 11th Devlin, Miss Frances wks Reimers & F Co r 519 w 11th Devlin, Miss Genevieve, wks R Krause Co r 705 Iowa Devlin, James B wife Mary r 431 w 8th Devlin, Johanna wid Albert r 519 w 11th Devlin, Miss Josie I printer Io Catholic Messenger r 519 w 11th De Warf, Bartholomew A wife Kate r 418 e 12th De Warf, Fred r 418 e 12th De Warf, John carp r 418 e 12th De Warf, John F wife Josephine, stonemason r 418 e 12th De Warf, Miss Mary L r 418 e 12th Dewey, Harry I, wks Arsenal r 2222 Cherry Dewey House, Henry Lorenzen propr 120 w Front Dewey, Miss Lottie A r 2222 Cherry Dewey, Miss Mary A r 2222 Cherry Dewey, Wm H wife Margaret A, wks Arsenal r 2222 Cherry Diamond Jo Line Steamers, James Osborn agt 113 e Front Dibbern, Frank H wife Anita clk The Fair r 807 Ripley Dick, Wm M wife Mattie Confectr 227 e 4th r same Dickman, James shoemkr The Famous r Rock Island Ill. Dicks, Nathaniel E wife Catherine J fireman r 2304 Cherry Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm

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RE: John Perry and Rowenna (Lair) Cooper I meant Blue GRASS not Blue Springs Sorry! Dixie A. Laire Red Oak, Iowa

Hi Muscatine and Scott Co. researchers! I am excitedly putting together information on the family of John Perry and Rowenna (Lair) Cooper. This family lived in Muscatine Co., Montpelier Twnshp and John and Rowenna are buried in Blue Springs Cemetery, Blue Springs, Scott Co., Iowa. Rowenna Lair Cooper was the sister of my great grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Lair. She and her brother had to go live with seperate families at a very young age, so I am totally overwhelmed at finding Rowenna at all. Finding she had a big family has me in "hog heaven". I believe Rowenna may have come to the area with relaitves on her mother's side by the name of CRAIG. Rowenna married John P. Cooper Jr in Oct 1866 Scott Co. She was in the Miami Co., IN census in 1860, so her move to Iowa came within that time frame. I am especially interested in Richard S. and Elizabeth Craig who are also buried in Blue Springs Cemetery. I have found (on-line) where Richard was a Mexican War veteran. Below are some questions that maybe some Scott Co. & Mucatine Co. researchers might be able to help me with, as I am not familiar with your area and the research material available. 1. What small town newspaper would a have carried obits for people who did in this area and were buried at Blue Springs Cemetery? Besides trying to acquire Cooper family obits, I am thinking I also may write a local paper and advertise for Cooper descendants to contact me if they have the interest. 2. Was there any state census (1865?) where records county records could be checked for my Rowenna Lair or Richard Craig between 1860 and 1870? 3. Is there anyone interested in doing some research for me on this family? Marriage names and dates, death dates of the children and so on, of the Cooper family listed below? Thanks so much! Dixie A. Laire Red Oak, Iowa dal@heartland.net **************early information just put together************ Descendants of John Perry (Jr.) Cooper Generation No. 1 1. JOHN PERRY (JR.)2 COOPER (JOHN PERRY (SR.)1) was born December 1845 in Iowa, and died April 06, 1919 in Scott Co., Iowa. He married ROWENNA A. LAIR October 25, 1866 in Scott Co., Iowa - by G. W. Dowds Witness: John P. Cooper, Sr., daughter of JACOB LAIR/LAIRE and ELIZABETH CRAIGH. She was born December 1849 in Indiana, and died August 03, 1915 in Scott Co., Iowa. Notes for JOHN PERRY (JR.) COOPER: Tombstone Records of Scott County, Iowa Page: 105 Name: John Perry Cooper Birth Date: 1840 Death Date: 06 Apr 1919 Cemetery: Blue Crass Comment: Scott co. la.; Dav. Democrat 07 Apr 1919 Relative: wif: Rowena A. Lair Notes for ROWENNA A. LAIR: 1870 Census Iowa County : Muscatine Co. Location : Montpelier Twp Page # : 156 38/38 Cooper, John P. 24 Farmer b. IA (living a few houses away from his parents) John had no personal estate value... Rowena 25 Keeping House b. IN Marg A. 4 Arabella 2 Lair, Benjamin 18 b. IN Farm Laborer value of personal estate - $800 ---------------------- 1880 Muscatine Co, Mont Pielier Twnshp pg 76/80 Cooper, John P. age 34 Father Farmer IA TN KY Rowenne age 30 Wife Keeping House IN OH VA Mary A. dau age 13 IA Arabella dau age 12 IA Rosa M. dau age 8 IA Virgil A. son age 4 IA Maria B. dau age 3 IA Viola E. dau age 4/12 IA Cooper, John P. Sr. Father Farmer retired age 69 TN VA TN ---------------- 1900 Montpelier Twnshp, Muscatine Co., IA Census 11 / 11 Cooper, John P. Head Dec 1845 age 54 IA TN KY Farmer Rowenna Wife Dec 1849 age 50 IN OH VA Mamie Dau May 1877 age 23? IA Perry Son May 1881 age 19 IA Farm Laborer Charles Son Sept 1885 age 14 IA Farm Laborer Eldon Son Jan 1893 age 7 IA At School Marriage Notes for JOHN COOPER and ROWENNA/ELIZABETH LAIR: Scott County Iowa 1866 Cooper, John P. Jr. Lair, Roanna 24 Oct 1866 by G. W. Dowds Witness: John P. Cooper, Sr. m. 25 Oct 1866 Children of JOHN COOPER and ROWENNA/ELIZABETH LAIR are: i. MARY A.3 COOPER, b. May 1867, Iowa. ii. ARABELLA COOPER, b. Abt. 1868, Iowa. iii. ROSA M. COOPER, b. Abt. 1872, Iowa. 2. iv. VIRGIL A. COOPER, b. Abt. 1876, Iowa. v. MARIA B. "MAMIE" COOPER, b. May 1877. vi. VIOLA E. COOPER, b. 1880. 3. vii. PERRY COOPER, b. May 1881, Iowa. viii. CHARLES COOPER, b. September 1885, Iowa. Notes for CHARLES COOPER: Cooper, Charles Age: 34 Year: 1920 Birthplace: Iowa Roll: T625_512 Race: White Page: 13A State: Iowa ED: 136 County: Scott Image: 47 Township: Blue Grass 310/313 Charles 34 single street laborer Mississippi Street ix. ELDON COOPER, b. January 1893, Iowa. Generation No. 2 2. VIRGIL A.3 COOPER (JOHN PERRY (JR.)2, JOHN PERRY (SR.)1) was born Abt. 1876 in Iowa. He married ANNA ?. She was born Abt. 1879 in Germany. Notes for VIRGIL A. COOPER: Cooper, Virgil A. Age: 44 Year: 1920 Birthplace: Iowa Roll: T625_512 Race: White Page: 6A State: Iowa ED: 146 County: Scott Image: 541 Township: Davenport South Howell St. 109 118 136 Cooper, Virgil A. Head 44 b. IA IA IA moulder foundry Anna Wife 41 b. Germany Germany Germany Berneice dau 11 b. IA Dorothy dau 10 b. IA Sanders, Dorothea dau 9 b. IA " , Lucille dau 6 b. IA Children of VIRGIL COOPER and ANNA ? are: i. BERNEICE4 COOPER, b. Abt. 1909, Iowa. ii. DOROTHY COOPER, b. Abt. 1910. iii. DOROTHEA SANDERS, b. Abt. 1911. iv. LUCILLE SANDERS, b. Abt. 1914. 3. PERRY3 COOPER (JOHN PERRY (JR.)2, JOHN PERRY (SR.)1) was born May 1881 in Iowa. He married ELSIE ?. She was born Abt. 1890 in Iowa. Notes for PERRY COOPER: Cooper, Perry Age: 38 Year: 1920 Birthplace: Iowa Roll: T625_504 Race: White Page: 1B State: Iowa ED: 113 County: Muscatine Image: 651 Township: Fulton 22/23 Cooper, Perry Head 38 b. IA Farmer Elsie Wife 30 b. IA Effie Dau 13 b. IA Cleo Dau 7 b. IA Children of PERRY COOPER and ELSIE ? are: i. EFFIE4 COOPER, b. Abt. 1907, Iowa. ii. CLEO COOPER, b. Abt. 1913, Iowa.

Chapter 13 cont. CONWAY'S REMARKABLE LETTER In reply to this resolution the Hon. Secretary addresses to the Hon. Council the communication following, upon receipt of which the following proceedings were had. The president laid before the council a communication from the secretary of the territory. On motion of Mr. Hempstead: Ordered, that said communication do not appear in the journal, and that it be referred to the committee upon expenditures.                                                                                            SECRETARY'S OFFICE, NOV. 24, 1838. To the Honorable, the President of the Council: SIR - A resolution in relation to knives, tin pans, etc. was duly transmitted to this department of the territorial government, where it received that attentive consideration which the magnitude of the subject appeared to demand. To prevent an interruption of that perfect harmony which has heretofore existed, still exists and should continue to exist between the honorable, the legislative assembly and the department of state it becomes necessary to offer in a very respectful manner a few explanatory observations, and especially in relation to the knives.  The secretary would therefore beg leave to explain. In the latter part of last summer a young man of rather interesting personal appearance and associated as then alleged, with the executive department, called on the secretary and stated that he (the young man) was then on his way to Cincinnati in the state of Ohio, on business connected with the territorial library and then and there delivered an executive opinion that it would doubtless be better to purchase the stationery at Cincinnati and politely offered the use and exercise of his own talents in procuring the same, if authorized so to do.  The matter was then held under advisement and in the meantime a letter was received from the executive department directing the attention of the secretary to the facilities afforded by the visit of the young man to Cincinnati, where, it was believed, that stationery could be procured on better terms than at any other place.  In reply the secretary proposed a converence with the executive which resulted in a letter of instruction to the young man, then at or on his way to Cincinnati, authorizing him to make the purchases which it is alleged he did make with his usual ability and on advantageous terms.  A bill of articles has been returned and the young man has returned, but he found it inconvenient, or to use his own language, impossible, to bring on the stationery.  This young man was vested with certain discretionary powers and for reasons which satisfied his discretion after much mental exertion and consultation he omitted the purchase of knives. The navigation of the Ohio was entirely suspended.  This was the act of God whose holy name is pronounced with deep reverence and to whose holy will it is our duty to submit.  Human power cannot resist the dispensation of his providence nor can human wisdom counteract his unfathomable designs.  His excellency, the governor, in pursuance of law named a day on which the legislature should convene; and the secretary to meet the difficulties of a very difficult case proceeded to St. Louis to make preparations for the approaching session, and returned in despite of every peril to provide for the comfort of the honorable, the legislative assembly; in which dutiful design - always exepting knives. Much exertion has been made to procure knives in Burlington but knives of a suitable finish and quality cannot be procured; nor can knives in a sufficient quantity of any quality be obtained, and and the secretary can't make knives.  If he could do so, he would do so with expedition and pleasure, but if it should comport with his own wishes and the wishes of all those whom it may concern, that he should occupy his present station until the next session, he will take especial care  to supersede the necessity of any further legislation on the subject of knives; - for it is the earnest and anixous wish of the secretary that all the members should have knives and stamps and folders; and all and singular, such thing or things, device or devices whatsoever, as may facilitate the operations of the hands in yielding assistance to the deliberationsof the head. The part of the resolution which relates to extra ink-stands and tin pattypans, can, and will be promptly complied with; as well as the separate resolution thus acknowledged which requires increased accommodations for spectators in the lobby and in conclusing the secretary renders to the honorable members of the council, individually and collectively, the fullest assurance of that high consideration which they cannot be more anxious to receive than he is to bestow; and whilst he has no reason to invoke their indulgence, he would make every proper exertion to conciliate their respect, remaining most entirely their obed't serv't,                                                             W. B. CONWAY, Secretary of the Territory. 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Chapter 13 cont. UNKINDLY FEELINGS NEVER HEALED These acts of Governor Lucas created in the breast of Secretary Conway unkindly feelings, which were never wholly healed.  But Governor Lucas, being a man of great experience in public life and familiar with the administration of public affairs, looked upon the acts of his younger associate, ignorant in these matters, as an offensive usurpation of authority.  It was in issuing the above mentioned proclamation that the secretary signed himself "acting governor."  Later the secretary again came into collision with the governor in relation to the administration of the affairs of his office and upon the convening of the legislative assembly by his indiscreet acts he met with opposition from that body from which he was extricated only through the good offices of his friend and fellow statesman, Judge Joseph Williams. T. S. Parvin, L. L. D., at that time editor of Annals of Iowa, had in the July, 1865, issue an article concerning the Iowa territorial legislature.  At the time the events written of occurred he was private secretary to the governor: The legislature had before this gotten into a controversy which if not exciting was at least ridiculous, with the secretay of the territory and finding themselves hard pushed by his excellency and in need of allies made their peace with the secretary, and very adroitly enlisted him in their cause. Inasmuch as the communications and proceedings in relation thereto were withdrawn (in legislative language) or rather "expunged" I have drawn them forth from my portfolio of old documents and give them to our readers as a matter of serious history of early times. On Friday morning (an unlucky day), Nov. 23, 1838, On motion of Mr. Hughes: Resolved, that the secretary of the territory be requested to furnish the members of the council with penknives, stamps, half-a-dozen inkstands and a tin pan for each stove in the council chamber. 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 13 cont. CONWAY AN ENTHUSIAST Mr. Conway had never held a political office and had had no experience in public affairs, but was an enthusiast of his own kind and immediately left Pittsburg for the new territory, landing at Davenport in the month of July.  He was an Irishman and a member of the Catholic church, and very naturally, upon his arrival in Davenport, made the acquaintance of Antoine LeClaire, one of the founders of this city, and also of Colonel Davenport, then residing on the island of Rock island.  These gentlemen made Mr. Conway believe that Davenport was the greatest town in the territory and the coming city of the west, and that it was the only proper place for the capital of the new territory.  The organic law provided that the governor should "designate the temporary capital of the territory, to continue as such until the legislature should establish the territorial capital."  The organic act also provided that the governor should "divide the territory into three judicial districts" and assign one of three judges appointed at the same time with Conway, to each of said districts.  It also provided that the governor should issue a proclamation "ordering the election of members for the territorial legialature and designate the time of its convening." The Hon. Robert Lucas (twice governor of the state of Ohio and president of the national convention which nominated Martin Van Buren for the presidency), appointed governor of the new territory, had not yet arrived and Mr. Conway's new Davenport friends persuaded him into the belief tha the was "acting governor" of the territory.  The organic act provided that "in the absence or death of the governor" the secretary of the territory should act as governor.  In this belief the young secretary of the territory issued his three proclaimations, naming Davenport as the territorial capital, ordering an election of the members of the legislature and providing for three judicial districts. A few weeks later Governor Lucas, who had been detained by reason of low water in the Ohio, arrived at Burlington and was confronted with these proclamations.  He became very indignant, declaring that all the acts of the secretary as "acting governor" were null and void inasmuch as no vacancy had been created either by his death or absence, as he had not yet entered upon the discharge of his official duties.  He, however, confirmed the action of the secretary in relation to dividing the territory into three judicial districts and the assignment of the judges  - Mason to the first district, a resident of Burlington; Wilson to the third, a resident of Dubuque and Judge Joseph Williams, of Pennsylvania, to the second district.  Upon Governor Lucas' arrival in October following, however, he selected Bloomington, now Muscatine, as his residence. 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 13 cont. WILLIAM B CONWAY MADE FIRST TERRITORIAL SECRETARY OF IOWA - COMES TO DAVENPORT AND MEETS ANTOINE LECLAIRE AND COLONEL GEORGE DAVENPORT In the year 1838 William B. Conway, a young Pennsylvanian who had been admitted to the bar of his state and had taken an active part in politics at that time, came to the young and growing city of Davenport.  He had been previously appointed by President Van Buren as secretary of the then newly formed territory of Iowa.  He immediately fell in love with this section of the country and, meeting such men as Antoine LeClaire and Colonel Davenport, was led to believe by them and others that Davenport was the greatest town in the territory and had a magnificent future before her.  In a letter published in the "Annals of Iowa" in July, 1865, a production of T. S. Parvin, that gentleman had the following to say concerning the appointment of Mr. Conway, his important position and certain of the incidents that grew out of his incumbency of the office.  Mr. Parvin in his article says that prior to the appointment of William B. Conway to the office of secretary of the territory of Iowa, in 1838, he was editing a small political paper in the city of Pittsburg which supported Genreal Jackson during his candidacy for the presidence.  It was a rabid, violent, partisan paper, quite in accord with many of the personal traits of the editor, and by reason of the earnestness of his advocacy of the election of General Jackson and his successor, Martin Van Buren, he was appointed by the latter secretary of the territory of Iowa in June, 1838, a few days after the approval of the act separating Iowa from Wisconsin and creating it into an independent territorial district - the act to take effect in July, following, from which period Iowa dated its territorial existence. 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