NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 W. S. KNAPP Among the families that through past years have been closely and actively identified with the progress and upbuilding of Sioux City, none takes precedence over the one of which Walter Sewell Knapp is a worthy representative. In all phases of community life the members of this family have stood stanchly for progress and improvement and have been potent factors in the city's substantial prosperity. Walter S. Knapp is a native son of Iowa, born in Northwood, Worth county, on the 12th of September, 1874, his parents being Clarence Albert and Sarah Elizabeth (Sewell) Knapp, the latter born at Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1851. A sketch of Clarence Albert Knapp, deceased, amy be found on another page of this work. Walter S. Knapp received his education in the public schools, attending the high school but not graduating. He was about thriteen years of age when the family came to Sioux City and when a youth of sixteen he entered his father's hardware store. He has been actively identified with the business to the present time, being now president of the Knapp & Spencer Company. The trade of this firm has steadily increased through the years until now it is one of the largest independent wholesale hardware concerns in the northwest, selling to retailers in northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. Practically every item carried in the largest and most up-to-date hardware stores anywhere in the country may be found in this establishment. The company is housed in splendid building, six stories and basement, the large stock carried insuring quick service to buyers. One hundred and ten men are employed and the policy of the company has made friends of all who have had dealings with it. Walter S. Knapp is also a stockholder and director of the First National Bank of Sioux City. Like his honored father, he has shown as effective interest in the public affairs of his city, giving his support to all movements for the betterment of the community and contributing generously to all worthy objects. On October 18, 1899, at Unadilla, New York, Mr. Knapp was married to Miss Mary Catherine Robinson, who was there born June 10, 1878. Mrs. Knapp is active in the club and social life of Sioux City and is a member of the Woman's Club. Politically, Mr. Knapp gives his support to the republican party. He is a member of Tyrian Lodge, No. 508, A. F. & A. M.; Sioux City Chapter, No. 26, R.. A. M.; Zodok Council, No. 24, R. & S. M.; Columbian Commandery, No 18, K. T.; Sioux City Consistory, No. 5, A. A. S. R.; and Abu-Bekr Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He also belongs to the Sioux City Country Club, the Sioux City Boat Club and the Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been a director for nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Knapp are communicants of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal church. By reason of strong and alert mentality and sound business judgment, he holds a place in the front rank of commercial interests of Sioux City. He is ably carrying forward the business so soundly established by his father and which has long been numbered among the most successful and substantial mercantile enterprises of this section of the country. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

I was wondering if anyone has access to this census for Page county? I am looking for my great-grandfather. His name was: John F. Duncan Born: around 1840 in Kentucky In 1910 he was in the Page county "home" for people who had no where else to live. I believe he lived there until he died. I am trying to narrow down his date of death. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you Kathy Ruth Salem, OR

In a message dated 10/26/04 7:08:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, IOWA-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > From about 27th Street and higher, the street is still residential and > very nice, Des Moines University (Osteopathic) is at 3200; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sue, My aunt lives at 3100 Grand in a high rise condominium, and I'm still waiting to hear if she has information on the house in question on Grand. Nanci

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 C. A. KNAPP The late Clarence Albert Knapp, prominent Sioux City hardware merchant, was born at Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 13, 1846, a son of Willima Albert and Lucinda Amelia (Gilbert) Knapp, who came from England in 1630 and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts. From him and his wife, Unity (Buxton) Brown, the line of descent is traced through their son Caleb and his wife, Hannah Smith; their son Samuel and his wife, Hannah Bushnell; their son Joshua and his wife, Abigail Bostwick; their son Danile and his wife, Lucy Gray, to their son, Ezra Gray Knapp and his wife, Anah Peck, who were the grandparents of our subject. His father became a pioneer hardware merchant of Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1834 and represented Winnebageo county in the Wisconsin legislature during 1865-66. Clarence Albert Knapp was educated in the public and high schools of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and at Lawrence University of Appleton, Wisconsin. In 1866 he began his business career as clerk in a hardware store at Fond ju Lac, Wisconsin, and in 1868 became an independent merchant in the hardware trade at Northwood, Iowa. He then sought a broader field an din 1881 embarked in the wholesale and retail hardware trade at Oskaloosa, Iowa, in association with E. C. Spalding, under the firm name of the Knapp & Spalding Company, In 1887 the firm removed to Sioux City, where they established a strictly wholesale hardware business. In 1885 the company was reorganized as The Knapp & Spencer Company. Mr. Knapp was president of The Knapp & Spalding Company from its organization and continued as head of the reorganized business until about 1916, when he retired from the presidency and was made chairman of the board of directors. In 1916 Mr. Knapp was elected president of the National Hardware Association of the United States. He held membership in the Sioux City Golf and Country Club, the Commercial Club and the Boat Club and was a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity, in which he attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and was past commander of Columbian Commandery, No. 18, K. T., of Sioux City. His political affiliation was with the republican party and he was a communicant of the Congregational church. Mr. Knapp was married May 11, 1870, to Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of John Sewell, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and left two children: Walter S., president of the Knapp & Spencer Company; and Marguerite Clare Knapp. He died in Sioux City, Iowa, November 1, 1918, when seventy-two years of age. The following tribute to Clarence A. Knapp was paid by G. M. Evenson: "A pleasant journey down life's pathway, in the company of one whom I have grown to look upon almost as a father, has been interrupted by the Great Creator of all things who has taken this fellow-traveler from my side and given to him the great reward that awaits all men who have used their lives as my companion used his life. His was a dual personality, but unlike the dual personality known so well to all of us as Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, my companion's two personalities were both beautiful. I wish all of you might have known him as I did. I wish all of you might have seen him in his home life where he exemplified one side of his dual personality. I wish you could have seen how he made his home a beautifully successful home by giving to every detail of it that same careful, gentlemanly, courteous attention that made his business life so successful. I wish you might have sat with my friend in the evening firelight and watched the play of emotion on his face as he told me of some new book he had just read. I wish you could have seen, as I have so often seen, his sincere devotion to the companion of his life, his beloved wife. I wish you could have seen him pay court to the affections of his daughter, and I prize it as one of the most beautiful mind pictures I have of him, the first time I saw him and this daughter together. It was on the first Sunday I ever spent in Sioux City. I was invited to his home for dinner on that day and in the afternoon he proposed that he, his daughter and I go out to Riverside park in order that I might see that playground. His devotion to his daughter, who was then a girl of fifteen, was such as the fairest lady of the land might covet from the most noble knight that ever lived. I stood in profound admiration watching the manner in which he handed that little daughter down from the carriage. And this was the same man in whose presence I had sat the day before and heard drive a shrewd bargain in galvanized sheets. That wonderful business mind could, during the passing of a night, cast aside all thoughts of business and so far as I could see he considered it one of the greatest privileges of his life to wait upon his daughter. "Yet his was not a complex life - it was a simple life because it had a unifying motive. It was his principle - yes, it was his life's oath, to give every man more than a full measure. Worry was not a part of my friend's life because there was no confusion. He met each day's tasks with a smile and a feeling of confidence that he was equal to them. His imagination never soured because he kept away from gloom and small, petty things, and instead of letting his life grow moldy as he grew old he let in the sunlight and pure air of which he knew there was such an abundance. It was his philosophy that a life lived in pessimism, which frowns upon gaiety, and takes delight in suspicions and fault findings, grows moldy and poisonous. Love of our own kind, he believed, turns us as naturally towards happiness as a fern in a lady's window bends its stalks towards the sunlight. In all the days that I have been associated with him - during all the trying business periods through which he steered this business ship, I never heard a cross word pass his lips, and no matter what the turmoil of problems that lay before him, he received every caller promptly, and neither his manner nor his face showed other than that each one was welcome, and his business, no matter how selfish or uninteresting, received courteous consideration and attention. But it was in his work as a buyer that he proved that a man does not have to indulge in sharp or questionable practices to be successful in business. He knew hardware and its value as few men did, and the dignity with which he approached a business proposition always called from the seller a like dignity and brought from the seller the best he had to offer. I have seen and heard him drive many a bargain, yet I never knew or heard of a man who had entered into a business contract with my friend who was not happy because of that fact. His business was his life's blood - he loved it, not with avariciousness - not as a miser loves his pot of gold, but just because this magnificent institution that stands at the corner of Third and Nebraska streets is the realization of his dream, while he drive his ox team forty miles across country to his little hardware store at Northwood, Iowa. "Ill since last March, yet with days now and then when there was a partial return to his former strength and vigor, he always wanted, when out for a ride, to 'go down past the store' so that he might once more embrace with his eyes the product of his life's work. he loved his business because it was a part of himself, and into the principles of its conduct, into the rules that governed it, into the very mortar that held the bricks of the walls together, he had put the rules that he had laid down, early in his life, to govern his conduct. I never have known and never expect to know any man whose ideals of business honesty and integrity were higher than my friend's because there are no higher rules. His were the rules of the Great Creator and of His Son whom my friend chose to take as his example. "My friend read the future, not as the clairvoyant does by fakes and bluffs, but he read the future because he read men. His gray eyes under bushy brows looked straight through one, and his keen mind quickly separated the truth from untruth. His prognostications of future market conditions were so true as to cause one to believe that he held the fate of any line of goods being considered in his own hands. Men left his office, stripped of the very best they had to offer in the matter of price and terms and always glad that they had given it up. His going out of the lives of the rest of us leaves a void that can never be filled because God does not make duplicates of men and there will never be another Clarence A. Knapp. ""It is fortunate for the Knapp & Spencer Company that his son, Walter S. Knapp, approaches the task of taking his place at the head of the institution founded by his father, with deep and sincere knowledge of the great task that lies before him. Mr. Walter S. Knapp has for twenty-six years been a close student of his father's methods and so devoted were these two men to each other, so in accord were their ideals and principles, that all of us who are left to continue this business may proceed with a confident feeling that the right man has his hand upon the helm of this business organization and that the principles laid down for the conduct of the business by its founder will continue to be its principles as long as his name remains a part of it. And if it be given to those who have preceded us on the great journey, to pause and look back upon us mortals whose time has not yet come, I know my friend well enough to say that a smile of satisfaction will come over his face when he sees us laboring here below and steering this ship of business true to the course he laid out upon the chart of life." Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Below is part of the chapter. You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER XV MAHASKA AND RANTCHEWAIME One evening in the spring of 1824, before there were any white settlers living in Iowa, an Indian made a camp for the night on the prairie near the mouth of the Des Moines River. This was Mahaska, whose name meant White Cloud in English. He was the chief of the Iowa tribe of Indians. His father, old Mauhawgaw, the Wounding Arrow, had led the Iowas into the Iowa country only a few years before. Soon afterward a band of Sioux Indians visited his village and invited the Iowa chief to a feast. Mauhawgaw accepted, but the Sioux were really enemies, and when he came to their feast, they killed him. The Iowa Indians were very angry, of course. They sent a war party against the Sioux, and Mahaska brought home the scalp of the Sioux chief. Thus it was that Mahaska had become the chief of the Iowas. Mahaska looked like a chief. He was over six feet tall, strong, and good-looking. Whether in war against enemies, or hunting the buffalo on the prairie, or in the games the young Indian men enjoyed, Mahaska was a leader. He had already led his warriors in fully eighteen battles, and he had never been defeated. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 J. W. KINDIG Iowa has always been distinguished for the high rank of her lawyers and as one of the ablest and most successful members of the legal profession in the state James w. Kindig is entitled to specific mention in this work. The firm of Kindig, Stewart & Hatfield, of Sioux City, is recognized generally as one of the strongest law firms in the northwest and not a little of this prestige has been gained through the personal labors and ability of Mr. Kindig, who has long enjoyed a reputation as an unusually sound and safe practitioner. James W. Kindig was born in Welton, Iowa, on the 3d of December, 1879, a son of David and Margaret (Tully) Kindig. His father was a native of Massillon, Ohio, and came of Swiss and Pennsylvania German stock. The grandfather, Jacob Kindig, drove through from Ohio to Iowa, with his family, in a prairie schooner, in 1854, at which time the son David was but two years of age. They settled in Welton, Clinton county, and were among the earliest pioneers. There Jacob Kindig spent his remaining years, dying at the age of seventy-nine years. David Kindig was reared on the Clinton county farm, and was educated in the district schools. About 1877 he was married to Margaret Tully, who was born and reared at Welton. Her father, James Tully, came to this country from Scotland and first settled in the vicinity of Welton, Clinton county. David Kindig continued to farm in Clinton county until 1886, when he came to Woodbury county, buying a farm in Arlington township, which is still a part of the estate. His death occurred there in October, 1917, at the age of sixty-five years. James W. Kindig attended the district schools and Morningside Academy. Later he attended Morningside College, where he was graduated in 1906, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and then entered the law school of the University of Washington, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1907. he immediately came to Sioux City and engaged in practice in partnership with W.L. Harding, who later (1916-19) served as governor of Iowa. Some five or six years later Mr. Kindig severed this connection and allied himself with W. H. Munger, now judge of the fourth judicial district court. This law partnership continued until January 1, 1915, after which Mr. Kindig served two and a half years as assistant county prosecuting attorney and corporate counsel for the board of supervisors. For a year following he served as assistant attorney general of Iowa and in 1918 the law firm of Kindig, McGill, Stewart & Hatfield was formed, continuing until 1925, when Mr. McGill withdrew from the firm to become Iowa attorney for the Chicago Joint Stock Land Bank at Des Moines. The firm are attorneys for the Sioux City Public Utilities, for the Armour Packing Company, The Toy National Bank, The Farmers Loan & Trust Company and for numerous bonding and insurance companies and has been associated as counsel with practically all of the more important cases in the local courts and those of neighboring counties. On September 3, 1908, Mr. Kindig was married to Miss Gerturde Crossan, who was born and reared in Sioux City, a daughter of Allen Crossan, who came to this city in the '80s and for several years was one of the notable figures in the building of a greater Sioux City, being extensively engaged in the real estate business. He now lives in Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. Kindig have two children, Burdette C., born February 22, 1911, and Lowell c., November 26, 1913. Mr. Kindig is a member of Morningside Lodge, No. 615, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Morningside Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Columbian Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar; Sioux City Consistory, No. 5, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; Abu-Bekr Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Sioux City Lodge, No. 112, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He belongs to the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce, the Professional Men's Club, the Sioux City Country Club, the Sioux City Rod and Reel Club, and maintains professional affiliation with the Sioux City Bar Association, the Iowa State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is a member of the board of trustees of Morningside College and is a director of the Sioux City Service Company. Mr. Kindig is a man of forceful individuality and attractive personality. By a straightforward, honorable course he has built up a large and lucrative legal business and has been successful far beyond the average of his calling. In discussions of the principles of law he is noted for clearness of statement and candor, his zeal for a client never leading him to urge an argument which is not in harmony with the law. Years of conscientious work have brought with them no only increase of practice and reputation, but also that growth in legal knowledge and that wide and accurate judgment the possession of which constitutes excellence in the profession of law. He maintains a deep interest in the public affairs of his city, giving his earnest support to every measure for the upbuilding of the city and the betterment of the public welfare, and no worthy cause appeals to him in vain. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 L. L. KELLOGG In but few persons have there been combined so perfectly the qualities which commend men to their fellows as was the case with the late Leonard Lamb Kellogg, president of the Sioux City Gas and Electric Company, whose death occurred June 7, 1925. Possessing a strong and alert mind, a kindly and tolerant disposition, yet positive in his convictions and courageous in their utterance, a soundness of judgment and shrewdness in business affairs that would have insured success in any undertaking, and a never-failing friendliness in his relations with those about him, he commanded the respect and admiration of the community throughout his long and useful life. Mr. Kellogg was born at Haverhill, Ohio, on the 30th day of October, 1856, and was a son of William and Thurza (Story) Kellogg, who also were natives of the Buckeye state. The father was for many years a farmer in Scioto county, Ohio, and commanded the respect of all who knew him. The subject of this memoir attended the public schools of Haverhill. At the age of seventeen years he began his association with the gas business, an industry with which he remained closely identified to the day of his death, a period of more than half century. he became office boy for the Ironton Gas Company, with which he remained about ten years, rising to the position of superintendent of the company. He then went to Galena, Illinois, as superintendent of the gas plant there, and about 1883 became superintendent of the gas plant at Nebraska City, Nebraska. In each of these positions he had achieved eminent success and in 1885 was induced to come to Sioux City as superintendent of the plant of the Sioux City Gas Company, which at that time had but a few hundred patrons. Subsequently he was made manager of the company and eventually became vice-president. When electricity came into general use, the company was reorganized as the Sioux City Gas and Electric Company, and in 1912 Mr. Kellogg was made president of the company, in which capacity he served to the time of his death. From the beginning of his connection with this company he had great faith in its future possibilities, expressing his faith by buying stock in the company from time to time as opportunity offered and his means permitted, until eventually he became one of its largest stockholders. He devoted himself closely to the interests of his company, showing a remarkable comprehension of the situation here in the days when only a cool and dispassionate judgment could solve the problems. His labors were effective in their eventual results and the Sioux City company came to be regarded as one of the best managed public utilities in the middle west. Mr. Kellogg was married in 1883 to Miss Elizabeth Pritchard, of Ironton, Ohio, and they became the parents of two children, one of whom is deceased, the survivor being Alice Marie, who was educated at Washington College and is now at home. Politically Mr. Kellogg was a stanch supporter of the republican party, in the affairs of which he took a deep interest. He was a close personal friend of William McKinley and Mark Hanna, and because of this personal relation he was most active in the great campaign of 1896, managing the party's interests in Woodbury county. In 1897 Governor Shaw appointed him a member of the commission for the erection of the state hospital for the insane at Cherokee, an office which he filled with rare fidelity to the interests of the taxpapers and with credit to himself. On the completion of this work, he resigned form the commission and thereafter took no very active part in public affairs, except as a delegate to the state conventions of his party. He was a member of Tyrian Lodge, No. 508, F. and A. M.; Sioux City Chapter, No. 26, R. A. M.; Sioux City Consistory, No. 5, A. A. S. R.' Abu-Bekr Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and Sioux City Lodge, No. 112, B. P. O. E. He also belonged to the Sioux City Boat Club and the Sioux City Country Club. His religious connection was with the Congregational church. To such men as Mr. Kellogg the great middle west owes its prosperity. He performed his full part in the development of Sioux City's resources and through a long series of years could always be depended upon to support whole-heartedly and unselfishly every worthy enterprise and undertaking for the public good. His standard was a high one and he maintained it faithfully, being universally recognized as splendid citizen, of lofty character, sturdy integrity and true to his ideals - such a man that the world was better for his having lived. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Sue, The house at 2124 Grand would have been a mansion; it is now an office building, I didn't know but the School District does own it. That street had originally been called Sycamore, but after the mansions were built, the name was changed to Grand. Several of the mansions still exist, but most have been turned into offices. The Governors's home at 2300 Grand, called Terrace Hill, was built about 1860 and is a spectacular home. From about 27th Street and higher, the street is still residential and very nice, Des Moines University (Osteopathic) is at 3200; 3600 Grand is now a large high-rise, higher-priced apartment building; the Art Center is at 4700 Grand. Finding further information would be rather time-consuming, but I'll send your questions on to some others I know who might be able to help. Pat On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:07:32 -0500 "Sue Thielmann" <sthielmann@machlink.com> writes: > Is anyone up on Des Moines history? My husband's grand-uncle, Arthur > Heun, was the architect of a house in Des Moines that I have only > seen called the Brinsmaid House. I am curious if this house still > exists and if so where is it? > > Here is the reference I found to this house in a article about > George Mann Niedecken. "In 1902, Niedecken painted the murals for > the Sedgewick S. Brinsmaid house in Des Moines, Iowa. Designed by > Arthur Heun (1864-1946), the house was heavily influenced by Wright. > It featured leaded glass windows by Orlando Giannini, who executed > work in glass and mosaic for Wright's D.D. Martin house in Buffalo. > Examples of the Giannini glass from the Brinsmaid house are now in > the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York." > > I sounds as if it was a well-appointed house, probably in Prairie > Style. > > Sue > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >

Lana, In 1920 the Myron Harden family is in the town of Marshall in LYON co. Mn. In the h/h are daughter Mate Gatewood & Myron's grand young 'uns Harden W., 4 4/12 and Mary Ann, 2 0/12 Gatewood. Both kidz born Ca. The Mn. on-line death index has a William Emerson Gatewood who died in Lyon co. on 10/14/1918. The soc. sec. master file indicates the Harden W. Gatewood who died in Oakland, Alameda co. on 24 Jul, 2001 was born 20 Aug, 1915. Requesting his ss5, (application for soc. sec. card) should give you his father's full name and mother's maiden name. In 1930 May Harden, Mate Gatewood & the 2 children are in Berkley, Alameda co. City directories for Berkley may indicate their arrival period. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) Lana wrote: >Hello, listers. Today I am trying to track down a family that was in Iowa for about 20- 30 years, then moved several times, and am trying to determine roughly WHEN they relocated. >On June 4, 1884, May STANDRING married Myron W. HARDEN (this was in either Decorah or Burr Oak, IA I believe). At some point, they moved to Grafton, ND, then to Marshall/ Lake Bent, Minnesota "early in the 1890s". Myron died in Marshall in 1921. May moved to Oakland, California (and died there aprox. 1942) with their daughter, Mate HARDEN, who was the widow of William GATEWOOD. I believe their son was Harden William GATEWOOD, who died in Oakland in 2001. His obituary states that he "returned to California" with his mother, grandmother, and sister Mary Ann SMITH. >My major need is to confirm that Harden William GATEWOOD is indeed the son of Mate & William, and to try to figure out roughly when the family (Mate, her mother May, and Mate's children) went "back to California", or for that matter when Mate moved to California in the first place. Can anyone help? It would be so very appreciated. > > >

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 C. L. JOY Chauncey L. Joy, attorney at law of Sioux City, has long enjoyed high standing in professional circles in this part of the state. Sioux City also numbers him among her worthy native sons, for his birth here occurred on the 7th of February, 1864. His father, William Leonard Joy, was a leading representative of the legal profession in Sioux City for forty-three years and ever maintained a foremost place among the prominent lawyers of Iowa. In 1899, when seventy years of age, he was called to his final rest. His birth occurred in Townsend, Vermont, on the 17th of August, 1829, his parents being William H. and Hetty (Leonard) Joy, the former the grandson of a patriot of the Revolutionary war. William H. Joy followed farming and was also the owner of milling property, and during his youth William Leonard Joy largely assisted his father. In the meantime, however, he attended school and prepared for college as a student in Lelinad's Seminary in his native town. When twenty-one years of age he entered Amherst College, completing the regular course with the class of 1855, but in the meantime devoting three winter seasons to teaching school. He was a teacher in Leland's Seminary for a few terms and during that period devoted all his leisure hours outside the schoolroom to the study of law, which he continued under the direction of Judge Roberts. Early in the spring of 1857 he was admitted to the bar and almost immediately afterward came to Sioux City, Iowa, where he arrived on the 5th of May. There he remained as an active member of the bar until his death, which occurred in California. William Leonard Joy entered into partnership with N. C. Hudson, under the firm style of Hudson & Joy, and the relation was maintained until 1866, after which he was alone in practice for two years. He then became the senior partner of the firm of Joy & Wright, which for twenty years maintained a reputation as the leading law firm of Woodbury county. These gentlemen acted as local attorneys for the Illinois Central Railroad Company and as general attorneys for the Sioux City & Pacific, the Dakota Southern, the Covington, Columbus & Black Hills Railroad Companies and for the Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad & Land Company. The clientage of William L. Joy continually increased, and he practiced in both the state and federal courts. He practiced in northwestern Iowa at a time when his professional labors were attended with many hardships and difficulties. During the winter seasons and when the waters were high he traveled the circuit. The journeys were often fraught with danger, for he had to make his way over wide prairies which were crossed by swollen streams. There were nights spent by the lawyers in wandering over bleak prairies, searching amid blinding snows and piercing winds for a dim trail; days and nights spent in wet clothing, journeying through drenching rains and swollen streams, crossing the almost trackless prairies; trips on foot made through mud and water to Dakota City and back; crossing the Missouri in skiffs and dug-outs amid floating ice and angry waves, when the chances of reaching the shoreless land were better than those of making the home port. Then, too, for many years the possibility was ever before them in their journeys that the red man might be lurking for them in every clump of trees. This constant exposure to danger made them fearless almost to recklessness. As he found opportunity, William L. Joy made investments in real estate and became the owner of extensive property interests. In 1888 the partnership of Joy & Wright was dissolved, and Mr. Joy afterward became the senior partner of the firm of Joy, Hudson, Call & Joy. He did not confine his attention, however, entirely to his legal practice, for he became a factor in financial circles. For many years he was the president of the Sioux National Bank, which was organized in June, 1881, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, which was afterward increased many fold. He was also a stockholder and a director in the Iowa Savings Bank, which was organized January 15, 1883, and was likewise a director of the Union Loan & Trust Company. On the 10th of October, 1859, William L. Joy was united in marriage to Miss Frances Alfreda Stone, who was born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and is a representative of an old New England family. She passed away in Sioux City, December 28, 1913, mourned by her many friends. By her marriage she became the mother of two children: Chauncey L., of this review; and Helen F., wife of George Y. Skeels. William L. Joy gave his political support in early life to the whig party and afterward to the republican party. He was always deeply interested in school matters and for more than a quarter of a century was a member of the school board of the independent district of Sioux City. He gave the benefit of his large business experience and much valuable time to the district. To him and his colaborers, who comprised some of the most prominent citizens of Sioux City, is due the excellent condition of the public schools of the city and most of the property the district now owns. He was twice called to represent Woodbury county in the lower house of the state legislature, serving in 1864 and 1866, and he took an active part in many public movements and measures having direct and important bearing upon the welfare of the community. One of his special duties was the investigation concerning railroad interests of northwestern Iowa, and he succeeded in carrying through the measures for which he was sent. Having accomplished this work, he steadfastly refused to again become a candidate for office. For two years he was a member of the board of county commissioners. He was frequently urged by his friends to become a candidate for judge of the district and circuit courts and also of the supreme court, and his analytical mind and freedom from bias were qualities that would have enabled him to grace the bench, but he never desired such office. He held membership in the Baptist church for many years and lived a life which brought him not only prominence but the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. His demise was deeply mourned, and his memory is still cherished by many with whom he came in contact. Chauncey L. Joy, whose name introduces this article, received his early education in the public schools of Sioux City and continued his studies in the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1886. the same year he went to Nebraska, where he was admitted to the bar, but had practiced for only a short time when he left that state for South Dakota, where he also secured admission to the bar. After a brief period, however, he returned to Sioux City and was admitted to practice in Iowa. Here he became associated in professional work with his father as a member of the firm of Joy, Hudson, Call & Joy. Following the demise of William L. Joy, he formed a partnership with A. H. Burton which was maintained until the death of the latter several years later. Since that time Chauncey L. Joy has followed his chosen profession independently and he has won well merited success therein. His clientage is extensive and of an important character. He is remarkable among lawyers for the wide research and provident care with which he prepares his cases. At no time has his reading ever been confined to the limitations of the questions at issue. It has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected but for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them. On the 2d of August, 1924, Chauncey L. Joy was united in marriage to Miss Frances Matthews, of Maine, whose forefathers left England to take up their abode among the early settlers of this country. Mr. Joy exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party. He made a commendable record during twenty years' ser vice as referee in bankruptcy in Sioux City. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and fraternally is affiliated with the Masonic order, being a member of Landmark Lodge No. 103, A. F. & A. M.; Columbian Commandery, No. 18, K. T.; Sioux City Consistory, No. 5, S. P. R. S.; and Abu-Bekr Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is likewise identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Below is only part of the chapter. The whole chapter is on the Iowa History site. STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER XIV FIGHTING INDIANS AT OLD FORT MADISON Two years after Lieutenant Pike returned to St. Louis the government erected a trading post, or factory, as it was called, for the Sauk and Fox Indians. To protect this post a small fort with three blockhouses was built near-by. You remember that the British fur traders had gained great influence over the Indians of the Upper Mississippi Valley. President Jefferson thought that a fort in this region would help the Americans gain control of the fur trade. Instead of building the fort at one of the places recommended by Lieutenant Pike, it was placed at the present site of Fort Madison, Iowa. Perhaps you have seen the stone chimney, which marks the site of this old fort. The well which the soldiers dug and used may still be seen, but nothing else remains to remind us of the time that Indians and soldiers fought in this part of Iowa. Early in the autumn of 1808, Lieutenant Alpha Kingsley came up the Mississippi with a company of soldiers to erect the fort and trading house. He had been told before he left Fort Belle Fontaine, above St. Louis, to select the best place he could find near the mouth of the Des Moines River for the post. The location he picked was really not very good, for high bluffs at the rear made it possible for the Indians to look down into the fort. Wooded ravines near-by also made good hiding places for the red men. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

The obituary for Clara TOMS SAWYER, born prob. in Ogle County, Illinois, 30 January 1862, and died Souix Falls, South Dakota 03 March 1921, says that her two daughters (unnamed) accompanied her body to Glidden, Iowa, for burial. The cemetery wasn't named. Would appreciate any information for burials in Glidden. Her death certificate said Clara was the widow of Hoiden? (could that be Harden?) SAWYER. Her parents were James R. and Elizabeth (HELLER) TOMS. James died in Liscomb, Iowa in 1873. She had a brother John M. TOMS who lived in Iowa and had a wife Susan.

I wanted to thank you all that responded today to my dilema on Bessie Miles Bonsall. I have never found her husbands burial place. But I think that the family said he was still living when Bessie died. Thank you all Colette Miles-Cherokee County CC. In 1930, they are in Westfield, Plymouth County, Iowa: Indexed as BONNELL but the image says: BONSELL, Ted A. 25 Iowa, married at 19, trucker " Bessie S. 29 Iowa, married at 22 " Eva L. 3 Iowa RC _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx

I looked up the address under: www.iowaassessors.com & went to Polk County. It looks like the property is now a school district & the house is gone. Pam

But you don't get off that easy Sue. Backing up a bit, in 1900 Sedgewick & wife are living with her parents at 29th & Ridge Rd. in the 1st ward of Des Moines. In 1910, Sedgewick & wife are still in the 1st ward at what looks like 3600 Grand Ave. and it appears to be a multiple dwelling unit. I too, can send you the image to view if you wish. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) Shirley Siltala wrote: >Hi, Sue, > >According to the 1915 Des Moines city directory, he lived at 2124 Grand >Avenue in Des Moines. I'll send the image off list, but perhaps someone >that still lives there can tell us if the house still exists. > > > >

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 E. F. JORDAN Among the energetic and progressive business men of Sioux City, who have been builders of the community's business prosperity, specific mention should be made of Edward F. Hordan, president of the Winchester-Simmons Hardware Company, Iowa's largest wholesale hardware firm, for a large part of the splendid growth in business which this company has enjoyed has been due to the vigilance, the perseverance and the sound judgment of Mr. Jordan. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 22d of March, 1857, and is a son of Charles E. and Emily P. (Ray) Jordan, both of whom were descended from old Revolutionary war stock. The father was long engaged in railroad work in various capacities. Edward F. Jordan attended the public schools of Worcester and graduated from high school in Chicago, Illinois, in 1874. At an early age he began his identification with the hardware business, for, in January, 1875, he entered the employ of the wholesale hardware firm of Miller brothers & keep, Chicago. He remained with them five years and in 1880 became a traveling salesman for a wholesale hardware firm of St. Joseph, Missouri. After being on the road several years for that house, he entered the employ of the Simmons Hardware Company, of St. Louis,having his headquarters in Omaha, from which point he looked after the company's business in Nebraska. He held that position nineteen years and then was made sales manager and secretary of the Sioux City branch of the Simmons Company. In 1922, after the merger of the Winchester Arms Company and the Simmons Hardware Company, Mr. Jordan was made president of the Winchester-Simmons Hardware Company, Sioux City branch, which house does an exclusive wholesale business, covering the territory of Nebraska, wyoming, South Dakota and northwestern Iowa. In this responsible position, as formerly, Mr. Jordan has abundantly proven his eminent qualifications as a business man and executive, his record with the Simmons Company and its successor being one of which he has just reason to be proud. Mr. Jordan is a director of the Sioux City Building, Loan and Savings Association. Fraternally he is a member of Tyrian Lodge No. 508, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Sioux City Consistory No. 5, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and he also belongs to the Sioux City Boat Club and the Chamber of Commerce. His religious affiliation is with the First Congregational church, and he is a member of its board of deacons. He has been successful in business, respected in social life and as a citizen has discharged is obligations to the community in a manner that has gained the respect of all. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

I don't know about IA, but in WI, here is a page about such and Institution.. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/institutions/feeble.html (We be neighbors).. :-) Tina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Tague" <dicktague@devtex.net> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Institution in Mills Co. > In that time period Ed, it was a state controlled facility. I believe it > is still in existence today. Dick > > May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) > > > > EASheld@aol.com wrote: > > >Can anyone shed some light on this "Institution for Feeble Minded" in > >Glenwood,Mills Co.? > >I found some in,mates there aged 22 and 23 ,children? Was this a state or > >County home? > >This was in the 1920 census and these folks may be related to me. Thanks,Ed > >Sheldon > > > > > >==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > >The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > >instructions, list rules and other useful information. > >Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > > >============================== > >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Is anyone up on Des Moines history? My husband's grand-uncle, Arthur Heun, was the architect of a house in Des Moines that I have only seen called the Brinsmaid House. I am curious if this house still exists and if so where is it? Here is the reference I found to this house in a article about George Mann Niedecken. "In 1902, Niedecken painted the murals for the Sedgewick S. Brinsmaid house in Des Moines, Iowa. Designed by Arthur Heun (1864-1946), the house was heavily influenced by Wright. It featured leaded glass windows by Orlando Giannini, who executed work in glass and mosaic for Wright's D.D. Martin house in Buffalo. Examples of the Giannini glass from the Brinsmaid house are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York." I sounds as if it was a well-appointed house, probably in Prairie Style. Sue

Hello, listers. Today I am trying to track down a family that was in Iowa for about 20- 30 years, then moved several times, and am trying to determine roughly WHEN they relocated. On June 4, 1884, May STANDRING married Myron W. HARDEN (this was in either Decorah or Burr Oak, IA I believe). At some point, they moved to Grafton, ND, then to Marshall/ Lake Bent, Minnesota "early in the 1890s". Myron died in Marshall in 1921. May moved to Oakland, California (and died there aprox. 1942) with their daughter, Mate HARDEN, who was the widow of William GATEWOOD. I believe their son was Harden William GATEWOOD, who died in Oakland in 2001. His obituary states that he "returned to California" with his mother, grandmother, and sister Mary Ann SMITH. My major need is to confirm that Harden William GATEWOOD is indeed the son of Mate & William, and to try to figure out roughly when the family (Mate, her mother May, and Mate's children) went "back to California", or for that matter when Mate moved to California in the first place. Can anyone help? It would be so very appreciated. Thank you, Lana Piche' Saskatchewan, Canada

In 1930, they are in Westfield, Plymouth County, Iowa: Indexed as BONNELL but the image says: BONSELL, Ted A. 25 Iowa, married at 19, trucker " Bessie S. 29 Iowa, married at 22 " Eva L. 3 Iowa RC