A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 HARRY S. JOHNSON, former clerk of the District Court of Linn County, is a member of the Cedar Rapids bar, where he has practiced since 1913. Mr. Johnson is a World war veteran and one of the men of his generation who have become prominent in the professional and civic life of the state. He was born on a farm near Dixon, Illinois, August 17, 1888, and was five years of age when his parents moved to Iowa. He spent his boyhood at Clear Lake, graduating from high school there in 1908, and after that for one year attended the Memorial Military Academy at Mason City. Mr. Johnson as a boy learned to depend on his own efforts and he worked his way through college. He is well known in baseball circles, and while in school he played professional baseball during the summer vacations. For two years he was with the Columbus team in the Nebraska Stare League. Mr. Johnson graduated LL. B. from Drake University in 1913 and is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of that university. When he began practice at Cedar Rapids, in 1913, he was member of the firm Peck & Johnson, and during 1915-16 of the firm Crosby, Fordyce & Johnson. He left his law work to join the colors May 1, 1917, entering as a private, and when honorably discharged, February 8, 1919, was first lieutenant in the One Hundred Twenty-sixth Field Artillery, Thirty-fourth Division. After his military service he resumed practice at Cedar Rapids as member of the firm Fordyce & Johnson. Mr. Johnson was elected and served three terms as clerk of the District Court. He was in that office from January, 1921, to December 31, 1927. While clerk he reorganized the filing system and put his office on a thorough efficiency basis, so that he is credited with having handled more business at less cost than any previous clerk in the county. Since 1928 Mr. Johnson has carried on a general civil law practice, with offices in the Higley Building. He still keeps up his interest in baseball and since 1926 has been president of the Cedar Rapids Baseball Club. He is a member of the Linn County, Iowa State and American Bar Associations, the American Legion, is a trustee of the B. P. O. Elks, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of El Kahir Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Johnson married at Des Moines in December, 1920, Florence Wagner. She is a graduate of Drake University and Northwestern University and was a teacher until her marriage. They have one son, Lawrence Hanford Johnson. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 GEORGE M. JOHNSON, M. D. For more than two decades Dr. George M. Johnson has been engaged in teh general practice of medicine and surgery at Marshalltown, where through a display of talent, natural and acquired ability, sincerity and a pleasing personality, he has inspired confidence and built up a large and lucrative practice. His experience has been broad and comprehensive, and both as a professional man and a citizen he is accounted one of the valuable members of Marshalltown's population. Doctor Johnson was born at Clinton, Connecticut, October 10, 1875, and is a son of Dr. George O. Johnson. His father, who is now deceased, was born in La Grange, Ohio, where he was well educated for the profession of medicine, and for some years was engaged in practice at Clinton, Connecticut. He came to Iowa in an early day, engaged in practice at Wyoming in Jones County, Iowa, where his work was largely of a country practice character, but finally he settled at Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, where he continued to make his professional headquarters for over a third of a century. During his long residence in Iowa he was well and favorably known in his calling and was a member of the Jackson County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In his later years he removed to the Oklahoma Territory and engaged in practice there. At the time Oklahoma was admitted as a state to the union he was elected a member of the first State Legislature as senator from Caddo County. He passed away at Guthrie, Oklahoma, while serving his second term as senator in the Stare Legislature. Gurthrie at that time being the capital of the state. His wife, who was born in New York State, was taken by her parents to Geneseo, Illinois, at an early date, and was there reared, educated in the public schools and married. After attending the grade and high schools at Maquoketa, Iowa, Dr. George M. Johnson entered the Iowa State University in 1893 and took two years of academic work and two years of premedical work. In 1897 he entered the famous Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he pursued a medical course of two years and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He immediately commenced the practice of his profession at Maquoketa, where he remained until 1908, in which year he settled permanently at Marshalltown, where he has wince remained and now maintains commodious, well-equipped and well-appointed offices in teh Masonic Temple. Doctor Johnson occupies a high place in his profession and is equally proficient in all its departments, therefore having taken up no specialty. He has the esteem of his fellow practitioners for the manner in which he observes the ethics and amenities of the calling, and is a member of the Marshall County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was made first lieutenant of Company M. Forty-ninth Regiment, Iowa National Guard, and in 1898 went to Cuba, subsequently being honorably discharged and mustered out of the service in May, 1899. In 1905 he was commissioned a captain in the Iowa National Guard, but resigned in 1908, because of the pressure of his professional duties. When the United States was drawn into the World war Doctor Johnson immediately enlisted in the Medical Corps, and in July, 1917, received the commission of captain. He was serving at Fort Riley, Kansas, when he developed a severe case of ulcer of the stomach, and was sent to Chicago, where he was confined in a hospital for four months. When discharged therefore he was declared unfit for further duty and received his honorable discharge December 24, 1917. Doctor Johnson is a member of the Congregational Church, and with other active members of the Chamber of Commerce is active in civic work. He belongs also to the Lions Club and for twenty years has been a member of the official board of the Young Men's Christian Association of Marshalltown. At River Forest, Illinois, Doctor Johnson was united in marriage with Miss Marjorie A. Millikin, whose father was one of the pioneer Congregational ministers of Iowa, and whose brother is Robert A Millikin, former noted scientist of the University of Chicago, who is now identified with the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. Three children have been born to Doctor and Mrs. Johnson: Harriet M., born in 1904, at Maquoketa, Iowa, who was an art teacher in the Des Moines public schools for two years. She married Charles A. Mosher, and resides at Aurora, Illinois. Marjorie N., born in March, 1908, is attending Ames College. Janet G., born January 15, 1915, is attending public school at Marshalltown. Doctor Johnson is now serving his third term as a member and third year as president of the Marshalltown school board, and is a great friend of education. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)

Can someone look up a Leila Hope Miller who was from Hamilton County in 1900? Born in 1889 (no month or date) she married Elmer Larson around 1910 +/- and lived around Woolstock, Blairsburg and Stanhope. Her father's name may have been George Miller with brothers Charles and Earl. She passed away on Feb 13, 1963 in Stanhope. Thanks! Gil Larson

Dear Iowa County, Iowa researchers, New additions to the Iowa County IAGenWeb site! Below is a list of new items. For a full list of additions, visit the "What's New" page: http://rootsweb.com/~iaiowa/whatsnew.htm Many thanks to our generous contributors! Please, if you have any records you would like to contribute, we'd love to get them on the website! Sincerely, The Iowa County IAGenWeb Team Steve Williams - Coordinator Netha Meyer - Assistant Coordinator http:/iagenweb.org/iowa/ -------------------------------------------------------- Obituary Extracts: Birth, Marriage, Death and Parentage - Netha Meyer's Collection 1405 records added (3322 total) - Contributed by Netha Meyer Census: 1860 Iowa County - Troy Township 521 records added - Contributed by Steve Williams Cemetery Photos: Gravestone Photo Project 151 photos added - Contributed by Virginia Larson 127 photos added - Contributed by Earl Parks Obituaries: A complete record of recent Iowa County obits 124 added - Contributed by Netha Meyer Obituaries: 19 added - Contributed by Steve 10, Kate Jackson 3, Dave Jackson 2, Chris Petersen 1, volunteer 1, Sharyl Ferrall 1, Ava Simmons 1

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 DAVID NICHOL JOHNSON, county attorney of Louisa County, has been an able lawyer of this section of Iowa for over a quarter of a century. His success as a lawyer has been the accompaniment of a fine mind and character, and at all times he has been faithful to the discharge of his duties and obligations as a citizen. Mr. Johnson was born in Clearcreek Township, Keokuk County, Iowa, May 12, 1877. His father, William Johnson, was born in Richland County, Ohio, and was a child when the family moved to Iowa in 1854, being early settlers in Keokuk County. William Johnson was a brave soldier of the Union during the Civil war, being a captain of a company in the Thirteenth Iowa Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, but remained with the colors until the end of the war. After the war he was a farmer and merchant, and died in 1922, at an advanced age. He married Helen Marquis, of Keokuk County, Iowa, who died in 1881. Of their five children the two now living are David N. and Mrs. Eva Keifhaber of Manitoba, Canada. David Nichol Johnson was reared on a farm in Keokuk County, attended public schools there until 1897, and in the meantime had helped his father and also hired out as a farm hand. For two years he taught school in Keokuk County, and teaching paid part of his expenses while in the University of Iowa, where he took the law course and graduated June 12, 1901. After graduating he taught two years in Keokuk and WAshington counties and in 1903 formally launched himself in the practice of law at Columbus Junction, during the first year having an associate Fred M. Molesberry. He then practiced alone, and remained at Columbus Junction for seventeen years. While there he served about ten years as justice of the peace and was secretary of the school board for five years. He was also secretary of the local fair association two years. Mr. Johnson was elected for his first term as county attorney in 1920, and at that time he moved his home from Columbus Junction to Wapello. He has also served as city recorder of Wapello. In 1926 he was again elected county attorney and in 1928 reelected, and gives most of his time to the work of his office. He is a member of the Sons of Veterans, the Knights of Pythias, the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Johnson married, September 6, 1899, Miss Mamie Goeldmer, of Clearcreek Township, Keokuk County. She died December 14, 1917, the mother of three children: Everette G., of Chicago; Mrs. Alice Stegal, of Muscatine; and Miss Evelyn. The son Everette is an accomplished musician, and organized a well known orchestra, called the Chicago Cadet Band. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 ANDREW J. JOHNSON, of Clinton, represents one of the old established industries along the Mississippi River, the manufacture of pearl buttons. From the standpoint of personal experience he is now one of the oldest men in that business in Iowa. Mr. Johnson, who is manager of the Clinton branch of the Pioneer Pearl Button Manufacturing Company, was born in Germany, February 18, 1873. His parents, Eilert and Mary Johnson, died when he was a child, and at the age of sixteen he and the brother accompanied an uncle to the United States. Mr. Johnson acquired all his formal schooling in Germany and has been steadily at work ever since coming to this country and his industry and ability have brought him to a place among the honored business men of Iowa. For the first three years he was in America he worked at Concordia, Missouri. In 1892 he went to Muscatine, Iowa, being then about nineteen years of age. After one year on a farm he was employed for two years with the Muscatine factory of the H. J. Heinz Company. Then, in 1895, he started to lean the business of manufacturing pearl buttons. His apprenticeship was served in the Muscatine branch of the Pioneer Pearl Button Manufacturing Company. For a time he worked with Mr. Boepple, originator of the pearl button industry at Muscatine. Mr. Johnson not only mastered the technic of his craft but early in his experience showed executive ability and enterprise to take an independent part in the industry. In 1905 he established at Davenport the Tri-City Button Company. He was at Davenport until 1909 and in 1910 he started the factory of the Fremont Pearl Button Company at Fremont, Wisconsin. Mr. Johnson in 1919 returned to Iowa and at Lyons established the factory known as the Clinton branch of the Pioneer Pearl Button Manufacturing Company. Here in 1926 he installed the new cutting machines, owned and patented by his company. These represent a great advance in the process of manufacturing, since each machine is capable of being operated with a minimum of training and experience on the part of the operative. At the Clinton factory only the blanks are cut and weekly shipments are made to the main factory, now located at Poughkeepsie, New York, where these blanks are finished into pearl buttons. Mr. Johnson married, October 5, 1897, Miss Ida Sell, of Muscatine, daughter of Fred and Lena Sell, farmers. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were born six children, Louis, Arthur, Lillian, Elmer, who is deceased, Ernest and Pearl. Mr. Johnson is a popular member of business circles in Clinton, belonging to the Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Baptist Church. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 EMMONS JOHNSON. It was nearly seventy years ago that Emmons Johnson, a young man of sterling character and exceptional talent, came to Iowa and established his residence in the little frontier village that was the nucleus of the present City of Waterloo, the vital metropolis and county seat of Blackhawk County, and it was in this city that his death occurred after he had attained to the patriarchal age of ninety-two years, his mental and physical powers having been remarkably vital and commanding up to the close of his long and useful life. Mr. Johnson did much to advance the civic and industrial development and progress of Iowa and long had special prominence and influence in connection with banking enterprise in this state, his splendid character and powers having well equipped him for leadership. He was one of the most venerable and highly honored pioneer citizens of Iowa at the time of his death. Emmons Johnson was born in Ellicottville, Cattaeraugus County, New York, January 23, 1835, and his death occurred April 5, 1927. He was a son of Dr. Elisha, who was born November 8, 1793, and Herma (Jewett) Johnson. His paternal grandfather, Noel Johnson, was born October 12, 1765, in Rhode Island, and was one of the earliest settlers in Cattaraugus County, New York, where he passed th remainder of his life. His wife was Mary Weaver, who was born June 17, 1770. Dr. Elisha Johnson was reared and educated in the old Empire State and became one of the influential physicians of his day and generation in Cattaraugus County, where he was long and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession and where he passed the closing years of his life in th village of Otto. His wife, Herma Jewett, was a daughter of Salmon and Ellen (Cole) Jewett and a granddaughter of Caleb and Hannah (Curtis) Jewett. Caleb Jewett was born January 16, 1741, and died, in Litchfield, Connecticut, February 8, 1820, he having served as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution, in Colonel Burot's regiment of the Continental Army. His son Salmon was born October 27, 1770, and was venerable in age at the time of his death. The earlier education of Emmons Johnson was obtained in the village schools of Otto, New York, and thereafter he continued his studies in academies at Springville and Fredonia, that state, besides which he was a student for a time in Brown University, having in the meanwhile taught in rural schools and by this means provided for the advancement of his own education, his final course of study having been historic old Amherst College. Mr. Johnson was twenty-five years of age when, in 1860, he made his way to Iowa, with Waterloo as his destination. He proceeded to the terminus of the railroad and thence came by stage to Waterloo, which was then a mere frontier village of a few hundred population, the greater part of the site of the present modern city having at that time still been Government land, and such land having been for sale at the rate of $1.25 an acre. For a time Mr. Johnson was employed on a pioneer farm near Waterloo, and he next engaged in the grain business, he having in this line later transferred his headquarters to Independence, Buchanan County, and having erected the first grain elevator at that place. Upon his return to Waterloo he became one of the principals in the Leavitt & Johnson Bank a private institution, and later established the Johnson & Leavitt Bank at Waverly, Bremer County. It was in the year 1866 or 1867 that Mr. Johnson thus removed to Waverly and established the first bank in Bremer County and built the first substantial brick residence in Waverly. He there remained until 1871 and in the meantime served as a member of the State Senate. In 1871 he sold his interest in the bank at Waverly and resumed his association with banking enterprise in Waterloo, as a member of the firm of Leavitt, Johnson & Lusch. A few years later Mr. Lusch sold his interest to his interest to his associates, and the latter continued their bank as a private institution until 1898, when it was reorganized and chartered as the Leavitt & Johnson National Bank. In October, 1891, was organized the Leavitt & Johnson Trust Company, and in 1900 Mr. Johnson purchased Mr. Leavitt's interest in this institution, of which he continued chairman of the board of directors until he was nearly ninety years of age, he having been also the organizer of the Waterloo Savings Bank. The name of Mr. Johnson ever stood for all that was careful conservative and reliable in banking operations, and his policies and his personal integrity commanded to him uniform popular confidence and esteem. He was a man of thought and action, and he made his life count worthily in its every relation. His political allegiance was given to the Republican party ad he was signally liberal and public-spirited as a citizen. His religious faith was that of the Congregational Church, of which both he and his wife were charter members and he was also a member of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1876-1877, living in Evanston. Mrs. Johnson, whose maiden name was Lucy Leland, was born at Morrisville, Madison County, New York, a daughter of Uriah and Maria (Chamberlain) Leland and a granddaughter of Joshua Leland, who was born at Sherburn, Massachusetts, his great-grandfather, Henry Leland, having been among the first settlers in that locality and records show that, as owner of the site, of eighty acres, Henry Leland laid out the town of Sherburn in 1654, much of the land that he owned in that district being still held by his descendants. Joshua Leland became one of the pioneer settlers in Madison County, New York, and his son Uriah was the first white child born in that county. The Leland family has been one of prominence in America, as one generation has followed another, and there has been published a comprehensive genealogical history of the family. Mrs. Lucy (Leland) Johnson long preceded her husband to the life eternal, her death having occurred February 22, 1892, when she was fifty-eight years of age. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Emmons Johnson were five in number: Elbert Leland, Lewis E., Marian Louise, Walter Emmons and Alice Lucy. The daughter Marion Louise, to whom the publishers are indebted for the data for this memoir of her honored father, is the widow of James D. Easton, to whom a tribute is given in the following sketch, and she still resides in Waterloo. The younger daughter, Alice Lucy, is the wife of David H. McKee, of Waterloo. In March, 1895, Emmons Johnson married the widow of James Kellogg, of Rochester, New York, who was Ella Harriet Clark, a native of New York State. She lived in Waterloo for thirty-two years, dying December 26, 1928. No children were born to this union of marriage. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/histo ry/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)

No secret, I googled .. they have quite an extensive dictionary at that one .. :-) I bookmarked it .. I may need those words some day <g> 'M.G. abbrevation in marriage records' was my phrase. Tina ----- Original Message ----- From: "bluebear" <[email protected]> To: "Rich Lowe" <[email protected]>; "Allamakee co IAGenWeb" <[email protected]>; "Iowa List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] titles on marriage records >I agree with Don Woodley that it stands for Minister of the Gospel and > probably could document if I had to. In censuses you sometimes see that a > person was an M.G. Ah, I see that Tina has documented it. Where do you > find > all those nifty websites you share, Ms Vickery? > > Greta > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rich Lowe" <[email protected]> > To: "Allamakee co IAGenWeb" <[email protected]>; "Iowa List" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 9:39 PM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] titles on marriage records > > >> I've never seen the term But my guess off the top of my head was >> something to do with "magistrate" and this google page result may confirm >> it. >> >> < >> http://www.casd.uscourts.gov/CASD/filerev.nsf/a7b7cf43d8fc87e28825643c000af027/1fb444075fe160a1082567610071e792?OpenDocument >> > >> >> Rich >> >> 09:15 PM 11/12/2006, Allamakee co IAGenWeb wrote: >>>Hi Iowa listers, >>>I'm hoping someone can help me with a title that appears frequently on >>>some >>>old marriage records I'm transcribing. One of the columns is for "By >>>Whom >>>Married". The person who performed the marriage is listed by name and >>>then >>>their title. Some are obvious: >>>J.P. = Justice of the Peace >>>Rev = Reverend >>>Pastor >>>but a LOT of them have the title M.G. or MG behind their name. I can't >>>figure out what it stands for and 'marriage guy' is the only thing that >>>comes to mind. :-) Anyone have a better guess or know for sure? >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Sharyl Ferrall >>>coordinator: http://iagenweb.org/clayton >>> >>> >>>_____________________________________________ >>> >>>For additional information concerning how the list >>>works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >>>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >>>_____________________________________________ >>> >>>------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

M.G. - abbreviation for Minister of the Gospel, or preacher http://www.genealogy.edu/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=2770 Tina Vickery ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allamakee co IAGenWeb" <[email protected]> To: "Iowa List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: [IOWA] titles on marriage records > Hi Iowa listers, > I'm hoping someone can help me with a title that appears frequently on > some > old marriage records I'm transcribing. One of the columns is for "By Whom > Married". The person who performed the marriage is listed by name and > then > their title. Some are obvious: > J.P. = Justice of the Peace > Rev = Reverend > Pastor > but a LOT of them have the title M.G. or MG behind their name. I can't > figure out what it stands for and 'marriage guy' is the only thing that > comes to mind. :-) Anyone have a better guess or know for sure? > > Thanks, > Sharyl Ferrall > coordinator: http://iagenweb.org/clayton > > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

I agree with Don Woodley that it stands for Minister of the Gospel and probably could document if I had to. In censuses you sometimes see that a person was an M.G. Ah, I see that Tina has documented it. Where do you find all those nifty websites you share, Ms Vickery? Greta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Lowe" <[email protected]> To: "Allamakee co IAGenWeb" <[email protected]>; "Iowa List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] titles on marriage records > I've never seen the term But my guess off the top of my head was > something to do with "magistrate" and this google page result may confirm > it. > > < > http://www.casd.uscourts.gov/CASD/filerev.nsf/a7b7cf43d8fc87e28825643c000af027/1fb444075fe160a1082567610071e792?OpenDocument > > > > Rich > > 09:15 PM 11/12/2006, Allamakee co IAGenWeb wrote: >>Hi Iowa listers, >>I'm hoping someone can help me with a title that appears frequently on >>some >>old marriage records I'm transcribing. One of the columns is for "By Whom >>Married". The person who performed the marriage is listed by name and >>then >>their title. Some are obvious: >>J.P. = Justice of the Peace >>Rev = Reverend >>Pastor >>but a LOT of them have the title M.G. or MG behind their name. I can't >>figure out what it stands for and 'marriage guy' is the only thing that >>comes to mind. :-) Anyone have a better guess or know for sure? >> >>Thanks, >>Sharyl Ferrall >>coordinator: http://iagenweb.org/clayton >> >> >>_____________________________________________ >> >>For additional information concerning how the list >>works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >>http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >>_____________________________________________ >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

I've never seen the term But my guess off the top of my head was something to do with "magistrate" and this google page result may confirm it. < http://www.casd.uscourts.gov/CASD/filerev.nsf/a7b7cf43d8fc87e28825643c000af027/1fb444075fe160a1082567610071e792?OpenDocument > Rich 09:15 PM 11/12/2006, Allamakee co IAGenWeb wrote: >Hi Iowa listers, >I'm hoping someone can help me with a title that appears frequently on some >old marriage records I'm transcribing. One of the columns is for "By Whom >Married". The person who performed the marriage is listed by name and then >their title. Some are obvious: >J.P. = Justice of the Peace >Rev = Reverend >Pastor >but a LOT of them have the title M.G. or MG behind their name. I can't >figure out what it stands for and 'marriage guy' is the only thing that >comes to mind. :-) Anyone have a better guess or know for sure? > >Thanks, >Sharyl Ferrall >coordinator: http://iagenweb.org/clayton > > >_____________________________________________ > >For additional information concerning how the list >works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >_____________________________________________ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Would you believe "Minister of the Gospel? I have seen this title spelled out on some. Don Woodley RAOGK Volunteer for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin counties. Researching Ayers/Ayres, Butler, Carpenter, Woodley on one side; Trindle, Cornford & Relf on the other.

Wow! What a great response! Thank-you so much. The consensus seems to be 'Minister of the Gospel', but 'monsignor' and 'magistrate' are certainly good alternatives. To additionally confirm 'Minister of the Gospel' I checked the Clayton co. website for the first two men listed in the marriage records as MG: N.W. Bixby & Osias Littlefield. Bingo! Both were clergymen. (Now, why didn't I think of doing that in the first place? LOL) The genealogy dictionary is terrific! I've bookmarked it. Back to my transcriptions ..... Sharyl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allamakee co IAGenWeb" <[email protected]> To: "Iowa List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:15 PM Subject: [IOWA] titles on marriage records Hi Iowa listers, I'm hoping someone can help me with a title that appears frequently on some old marriage records I'm transcribing. One of the columns is for "By Whom Married". The person who performed the marriage is listed by name and then their title. Some are obvious: J.P. = Justice of the Peace Rev = Reverend Pastor but a LOT of them have the title M.G. or MG behind their name. I can't figure out what it stands for and 'marriage guy' is the only thing that comes to mind. :-) Anyone have a better guess or know for sure? Thanks, Sharyl Ferrall coordinator: http://iagenweb.org/clayton

Hi Iowa listers, I'm hoping someone can help me with a title that appears frequently on some old marriage records I'm transcribing. One of the columns is for "By Whom Married". The person who performed the marriage is listed by name and then their title. Some are obvious: J.P. = Justice of the Peace Rev = Reverend Pastor but a LOT of them have the title M.G. or MG behind their name. I can't figure out what it stands for and 'marriage guy' is the only thing that comes to mind. :-) Anyone have a better guess or know for sure? Thanks, Sharyl Ferrall coordinator: http://iagenweb.org/clayton

Hi again Jean, If at first you don't succeed, you should probably quit. But I haven't had the mornin' "cuppa" yet. Living next door to the Wilkinsons in 1880 are brothers Francis 36, Edward 35, & John 45, Mc Geachy, all Scotland. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Tague" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:10 AM Subject: [IOWA] Fw: Wilkinson - McQuilkan > Sorry Jean, lost the first line. > May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dick Tague" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:59 AM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Wilkinson - McQuilkan > > > > Jean, Referencing Mona's response, there was a Bristol, in Bristol twp, > > Worth co. Bristow, in Butler co. as Mona indicated, was in West Point > twp. > > 1880 West Point twp. has a NEAL 50, Catherine 33, Wilkinson, both > Scotland. > > Sons Duncan 6 & David 3, both Ia. Dick ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1337 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

Sorry Jean, lost the first line. May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Tague" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:59 AM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Wilkinson - McQuilkan > Jean, Referencing Mona's response, there was a Bristol, in Bristol twp, > Worth co. Bristow, in Butler co. as Mona indicated, was in West Point twp. > 1880 West Point twp. has a NEAL 50, Catherine 33, Wilkinson, both Scotland. > Sons Duncan 6 & David 3, both Ia. Dick ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1337 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

Jean, Referencing Mona's response, there was a Bristol, in Bristol twp, Worth co. Bristow, in Butler co. as Mona indicated, was in West Point twp. 1880 West Point twp. has a NEAL 50, Catherine 33, Wilkinson, both Scotland. Sons Duncan 6 & David 3, both Ia. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Harnick" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:12 PM Subject: [IOWA] Wilkinson - McQuilkan > Looking for NEIL (McQUILKAN) WILKINSON b Scotland c1828 -- married to _____ McGEACHY. Went from Ontario Canada to Bristol, Iowa, no date available. Emigrated to Canada 1853. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1337 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

I'm not certain, but I believe that you might mean he went to Bristow, Iowa (not Bristol?). Bristow is in Butler County, Iowa, and there is the following in the 1870 census for Butler Co.: Wilkinson, Alexander, 50, blacksmith, b. Scotland Wilkinson, Mary, 43, wife, keeping house, b. Scotland Wilkinson, William, 6, son, b. Canada West Wilkinson, Catharine, 15, b. Scotland There is a Francis and Catharine McGerthy living next door, who are also from Scotland. Francis is 35, Catharine is 25, and living with them are Edward McGerthy, 32, and John McGerthy, 33, also born Scotland. I hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Harnick" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:12 PM Subject: [IOWA] Wilkinson - McQuilkan > Looking for NEIL (McQUILKAN) WILKINSON b Scotland c1828 -- married to _____ McGEACHY. Went from Ontario Canada to Bristol, Iowa, no date available. Emigrated to Canada 1853. > > Thanks in advance for any connection, descendants, cemetery ? > > Jean > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You might want to check the http://people.mnhs.org/dci/ website ... it has limited death certificate information posted but I did find a Reuben Paulson and a number of Robert Paulsons. On several death certificates that I've ordered the website had shown some info as not available ... but to my surprise more was there than was shown. Luann Ouellette South Dakota ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:56:16 -0600 From: "Cathie Nelson" <[email protected]> Subject: [IOWA] PAULSON b. IA To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This is a hit and miss. I am looking for the birth of a Robert Paulson in the early 1930's, possibly around Sioux City, IA. He is/was the son of Reuben Melvin Paulson and Caroline (nee Hammer) Paulson. Robert had a brother, Merlin R. Paulson, who was born in November 1930 in Sioux City, IA and then, the family must've moved to Anoka County, Minnesota because they had twins born there in July 1935. Is there someone onboard this list that would have access to birth records, for this time period, that would also disclose parentage? Robert Paulson seems to be a pretty common name. Thanks, Cathie Cathie Nelson [email protected] EarthLink Revolves Around You. ------------------------------ To contact the IOWA list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the IOWA mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of IOWA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 64 ***********************************

This is a hit and miss. I am looking for the birth of a Robert Paulson in the early 1930's, possibly around Sioux City, IA. He is/was the son of Reuben Melvin Paulson and Caroline (nee Hammer) Paulson. Robert had a brother, Merlin R. Paulson, who was born in November 1930 in Sioux City, IA and then, the family must've moved to Anoka County, Minnesota because they had twins born there in July 1935. Is there someone onboard this list that would have access to birth records, for this time period, that would also disclose parentage? Robert Paulson seems to be a pretty common name. Thanks, Cathie Cathie Nelson [email protected] EarthLink Revolves Around You.