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. Shirley in Tucson

Thanks Nancy and Dick for the replies, I can hardly believe the rapid response. Ed Sheldon

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

My understanding is that many of the inmates were orphans and not "feeble-minded." You'll find information about the institution at the IAGenWeb Mills County site (http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamills/). Greta Thompson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Tague" <dicktague@devtex.net> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 3:28 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 > >

: Can anyone shed some light on this "Institution for Feeble Minded" in : Glenwood,Mills Co.? : http://iagenweb.org/history/register/stateinstitutions.htm You can read a little info on this State institution from the 1909-1910 Iowa Official Register at the above URL. Cathy Iowa History Project http://iagenweb.org/history/

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 > > > >

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 A. W. JOHNSON Possessing no advantages at the outset of his career, Augley W. Johnson belongs to that class of men whose every faculty must be exerted in order to achieve distinction, and through the stimulating friction of battling with difficulties he has risen superior to circumstances, taking his place among the foremost attorneys of Sioux City and northwestern Iowa. He was born November 14, 1888, at Centerville, South Dakota, and comes of sturdy Scandinavian stock. His father, John D. Johnson, emigrated from Sweden to the United States and sought the opportunities of the west. He took up the study of photography and for several years was employed in the Butler studio at Vermilion, South Dakota, mastering every phase of the business. In 1896 he went to St. Paul, Minnesota, opening a studio, which he operated for seven years, and in 1903 chose Sioux City as the scene of his activities. He was recognized as an expert retoucher and his work displayed the lastest improvements in photography. His artistic skill and honorable dealing new to him a large patronage and he continued the business until 1920, when he retired. His wife, Ebba (Hanson) Johnson, was a daughter of Ture Hanson, of Stockholm, Sweden, who left his native land in 1872 and came to the new world, locating in Sioux City. For several years he was captain of a steamboat plying between Sioux City and Fort Benton, Montana, and Bismarck, North Dakota, and after abandoning a steamboating life took up a homestead in Clay county, South Dakota. From time to time he added to his holdings until he became the owner of many acres of valuable farm land. During his declining years, however, he lived retired in Sioux City, his death occurring July 25, 1917, at the age of eighty-four. Mr. Johnson received his early education at Centerville, South Dakota, and was a student in the Cleveland high school at St. Paul, Minnesota. He paid his expenses at Morningside College by working in the telegraph department of the Illinois Central Railroad at Sioux City and for two years read law in the offices of the firm of Harding, Nickle & Kindig. He next went to Des Moines, Iowa, becoming connected with the Western Union Telegraph Company, and was engaged exclusively in government work which required an expert operator with a thorough knowledge of the code. During this period he attended Drake University, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1913. He completed a three-year course in tow years and was graduated with high honors, winning a prize for excellence in the studies of evidence and real property. Mr. Johnson began the practice of law at Sioux City in June, 1913, and his ability soon won recognition. In 1916 he was chosen for the position of assistant city attorney, which he filled for two years, and in 1921 was appointed United States commissioner for the northern district of Iowa. He has since served in this capacity, meeting every requirement of the office, and also has an extensive and desirable clientele. He has a comprehensive knowledge of the fundamental principles of jurisprudence and the ability with which he presents his cause has won for him many favorable verdicts. In 1914 Mr. Johnson married Miss Hildur E. Ohlund, a daughter of John and Mathilda (Swanson) Ohlund, of Sioux City. to this union has been born one child, Arlene, who is ten years of age and attends the public schools. Mr. Johnson is a prominent Mason, belonging to Tyrian Lodge, No. 508, A. F. & A. M., and Sioux City Consistory, No. 5, A. & A. S. R. of which he is junior warden of Boaz Chapter, Rose Croix, No. 5. He is a member of Woodbury Lodge, No. 98, K. of P.; Western Star Lodge, No. 282, I. O. O. F., and is also identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Sioux City Lodge, No. 112. He has served as president of the Sioux City Consistory Club and is also connected with the Hi Twelve Club and the Swedish Business Men's Club. he is affiliated with the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church and was its secretary for a number of years. He founded the Sioux City Bar Library, which now contains approximately five thousand volumes, owned by the local bar association, of which he is an ex-president. He is also a member of the Iowa Stat and American Bar Associations and a man of high intellectual attainments and fine character who had dignified the profession of his choice. 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/

1910 > IOWA > CHEROKEE > 3-WD CHEROKEE Series: T624 Roll: 396 Page: 87 Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State County Location Year MILES ZEVA A 46 M W IL IA CHEROKEE 3-WD CHEROKEE 1910 May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) Colette Miles wrote: > I am looking for information on my grandaunt Bessie S. Miles Bonsall. > born-November 3, 1900 in Cherokee County, Iowa, died-December 20, > 1942, buried in Oakhill Cemetery, Cherokee County, Iowa, and also on > her family. > > I have a page out of a marriage listing stating that she married > Theodore A. Bonsall on June 7, 1923, and her tombstone says that her > name is Bessie Miles Bonsall. Her obituary says that Bessie and > Theodore had one daughter named Eva. I am unable to find them listed > on any census for 1930. As far as I know they have always lived in > Cherokee, but this has never been proved either. > > If anyone out there knows of this Bonsall family please contact me, it > would be greatly appreciated > > My father seems to think that she was also married to Tom Crane, but I > have found no evidence of this. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from > McAfee® Security. > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > > ==== 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 > >

I am looking for information on my grandaunt Bessie S. Miles Bonsall. born-November 3, 1900 in Cherokee County, Iowa, died-December 20, 1942, buried in Oakhill Cemetery, Cherokee County, Iowa, and also on her family. I have a page out of a marriage listing stating that she married Theodore A. Bonsall on June 7, 1923, and her tombstone says that her name is Bessie Miles Bonsall. Her obituary says that Bessie and Theodore had one daughter named Eva. I am unable to find them listed on any census for 1930. As far as I know they have always lived in Cherokee, but this has never been proved either. If anyone out there knows of this Bonsall family please contact me, it would be greatly appreciated My father seems to think that she was also married to Tom Crane, but I have found no evidence of this. _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

Hello Iowa listers, I am looking for a copy of the Teaser, published by the Iowa Lakes Genealogy Society March 1999, Vol. 14, Issue 4. If anyone has this issue I can let you know what article I need. Thanks for your help. Grace Keir

Below is a part of this chapter. You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER XIII THE INDIAN AND THE FUR TRADE The lure of furs and lead brought Frenchmen, Englishmen, Spaniards, and American to the Iowa country to trade with the Indians. French control of the fur trade in Iowa began when Nicolas Perrot came to the Upper Mississippi Valley in 1685. You remember that he erected two trading houses, or forts, as they were called, across the river from Iowa. One of these was at Prairie du Chien and the other was in Illinois, not far from teh present site of Dubuque. Other Frenchmen following Perrot came to the Iowa country to trade for furs. The songs of French boatmen could be heard on rivers of northeastern Iowa as they pushed their canoes into the Indian country. And over a long road across northern Iowa, the Chemin des Voyageurs, traders went afoot. Prairie du Chien was the center of the fur trade during the French period. From here the packs of pelts (skins) were taken by boat over the Fox-Wisconsin waterway to Green Bay, and from there by the Great Lakes to Quebec or Montreal. Then many were shipped from these cities to far-off Europe. After England won Canada from France, English traders came to the Iowa country. They employed many of the French boatmen and trappers to help them. By giving the Indians many presents and selling them goods of high quality, they soon made the red men their friends. 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 C. H. JENSEN Clay Henry Jensen, an able and successful young attorney of Sioux City, was born in Davenport, Iowa, on the 26th of November, 1887, his parents being Henry and Allee (Sneverkrubbe) Jensen, both of whom are also natives of this state. The father is a retired agriculturist residing at Alvord, Iowa. Clay H. Jensen acquired his early education in the public schools of Davenport and Rock Rapids and received his more advanced intellectual training in Highland Park (now Des Moines) University. He engaged in the profession of school teaching for a brief period prior to taking up the study of law in the office of Judge Kennedy in Sioux City and he was admitted to the bar in 1922. He maintains offices in the Iowa Building and has been accorded a steadily increasing clientage as he has demonstrated his ability in the work of the courts. His diligence and energy in the preparation of his cases, as well as the earnestness, tenacity and courage with which he defends the right, as he understands it, challenge the respect and admiration of his associates at the bar. He has membership in the Woodbury County Bar Association, the Iowa State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In 1908, at Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Jensen was united in marriage to Ethel Hume, daughter of Dr. Hume of that city. They are the parents of two daughters, Virginia and Helen. The mother is a member of the Women's Club and also of the Church Society. Mr. Jensen gives his political allegiance to the republican party, believing that its principles contain the best elements of good government. He belongs to both the Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias, holding membership in Tyrian Lodge, No. 508, A. F. & A. M.; and Columbia Lodge, No. 13, K. P. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Unitarian church of Sioux City. He derives pleasurable recreation in motoring and fishing and has manifested considerable skill in amateur photography. His life has been actuated by worthy motives and high ideals in every relation, and his many friends attest the intrinsic worth of his character. 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 following items have been recently added to "The Irish in Iowa" at http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm MILITARY Men with nativity of Ireland who fought in Iowa Regiments During the Civil War. From Roster and Record of Iowa Troops in the Rebellion, Vol. 1. State of Iowa, 1911. http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/cw.htm BIOS http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/bioindex.htm Surnames include: Cousins, O'Loghlin, Mitchell, McKee, Hickey, O'Reilly, Redfern, Mathews, Hanson, Mahony, Beattie, Pickett, Maher, Meehan, Carlon, Coughlan, Donohoe, Guthrie, Searight, Hennessey, Hogan, Robinson, Tierney, Kennedy, Young, Smith, Dunlap, Nicholson, Barr, Kerr, Ryan, Lennox, Sullivan, Doyle, Donnelly, McElligott, Downs, Harrington. HISTORY New Melleray Abbey - Dubuque. http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/newmelleray.htm History of Holy Name Catholic Church, Marcus, Cherokee Co, IA http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/holynamemarcus.htm IRISH IN IOWA RESEARCHERS Researcher Pages Updated http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/irishsurnamesatog.htm http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/irishsurnamesitom.htm http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/irishsurnames.htm Cathy Joynt Labath Irish in Iowa http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 W. C. JARNAGIN William Claude Jarnagin, proprietor and publisher of the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune, has been continuously identified with journalistic interests during the past quarter century. His birth occurred at Colfax, Iowa, on the 14th of August, 1879, his parents being Joseph Warren and Sarah Catherine ( Aikin) Jarnagin, the former born at Monmouth, Illinois, in October, 1853, and the latter at Leighton, Iowa, in October, 1856. Joseph Warren Jarnagin published newspapers at Colfax, Oskaloosa, Montezuma and Cedar Falls. He was descended from early English colonists who settled in the south under the name of Jarningham, while his wife came of Pennsylvania Dutch lineage. Ancestors of William C. Jarnagin of this review in both the paternal and maternal lines fought in the Revolutionary war. William C. Jaarnagin completed a high school course at Montezuma, Iowa, by graduation with the class of 1896 and three years later, in 1899, was graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar Falls with the degree of Master of Didactics. It was in 1901, soon after attaining his majority, that he followed his father's footsteps in the newspaper field, becoming proofreader on the Des Moines Daily Capital. Subsequently he was employed as reporter on the Des Moines Daily News and the Sioux City Tribune, next became associate editor of the Cedar Falls Daily Record and afterward returned to Des Moines. In the last named city he was identified successively as reporter, city editor and managing editor with the Des Moines Daily Capital, which he represented for eighteen years, serving as managing editor during the last thirteen years of that period. On the 1st of February, 1922, he purchased the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune and a year later removed to Storm Lake to begin its publication. Here he has remained to the present time and has built up a successful newspaper enterprise, the Pilot-Tribune being an interesting, newsy journal with an extensive subscription and advertising patronage. At Woodbine, Iowa, on the 3d of May, 1902, Mr. Jarnagin was united in marriage to Jean Gilchrist, a native of Harrison county, Iowa. Her parents were Scotch and her maternal grandfather was William Bogie, gardener for Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford. Mrs. Jean Jarnagin is an ardent member of the P. E. O., has done much newspaper work and originated the Elizabeth Dale department of the Des Moines Capital. She is the mother of a son and a daughter, namely: Philip Gilchrist Jarnagin, who is a graduate of Drake University, where he specialized in journalism, and who is connected with the Fairall Advertising Agency at Des Moines; and Jane Catherine Jarnagin, a junior in the College of Liberal Arts of the State University of Iowa. In his political views Mr. Jarnagin is a stanch republican. He served as president of the Storm Lake Commercial Club in 1924 and also made a most commendable record as president of the Storm Lake Kiwanis Club in 1926. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, while fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, belonging to the blue lodge at Storm Lake, as well as to the consistory and to Za-Ga-Zig Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Des Moines. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias, is an associate member of Sigma Delta, Chi, a journalistic fraternity, and also belongs to Delta Sigma Rho, an honorary debating fraternity. Mr. Jarnagin has gained an extensive circle of warm friends in these various connections. He ever stands fearlessly in support of what he believes to be right and his position upon any vital question is never an equivocal one. 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. Hubbard Jesse W. Hubbard, a successful attorney, has continuously followed his profession in Sioux City for thirty-two years and worthily bears a name which has long been synonymous with the highest ideals in Iowa's citizenship. He was born in 1871 and his life has been spent in this city, in which he is esteemed and respected. His father, Asahel Wheeler Hubbard, was born January 18, 1819, in Haddam, Middlesex county, Connecticut, and was a son of Simeon and Esther (Wheeler) Hubbard, both of Puritan stock. At the age of nineteen he went to Indiana and for a time sold books in Rushville, where he afterward taught school. He devoted his leisure hours to the study of law and in January, 1841, was licensed to practice in the district court of Rush county. For sixteen years he was connected with litigated interests of that locality and in 1857 started for the west, establishing his home in Sioux City, Iowa. While in Indiana he represented Rush county in the state senate for three years, from 1847 until 1850, refusing to become a candidate for reelection, and a year after his arrival in Iowa was called to the office of judge of the fourth judicial circuit, which at that time embraced about thirty counties in the northwestern portion of the state. He served for four years and his rulings indicated strong mentality, careful analysis, a comprehensive knowledge of the law and an unbiased judgment. His record won him election to congress in 1862 and for six years he was one of the able, conscientious members of the national legislative body. He was a whig until the party ceased to exist and then became a republican. Judge Hubbard was equally successful as a business man and financier and aided in organizing the First National Bank of Sioux City, of which he was president for a number of years. During his wise administration the institution enjoyed a steady growth and he was also prominently identified with the railroad business. He reached the age of sixty years, passing away September 22, 1879, in Sioux City, and his grave in Floyd cemetery is marked by a massive column of granite, bearing upon it this inscription: "Erected by his fellow-citizens, in memory of a faithful public servant, a self-sacrificing citizen, a true man." The public schools of his native city afforded Jesse W. Hubbard his early educational opportunities and his legal studies were pursued in Yale University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. He returned to Sioux City and became associated with the law firm of Wright, Call & Hubbard, with which he was connected for five years. Since 1898 he has practiced under his own name and each year has chronicled a marked increase in his clientele, which now ranks with the largest and most remunerative in the city. He has devoted much time to the study of real estate and probate law and is recognized as an expert in the examination of titles. He is well versed in all branches of jurisprudence and in the preparation of his cases is most thorough and painstaking. Mr. Hubbard is married and has three children: Edward, a boy of fourteen, who is now attending school in Washington, D. C.; and John and Katherine, aged respectively thirteen and seven years. Mr. Hubbard is a member of the Sioux City Bar Association and the Professional Men's Club. Along fraternal lines he is connected with the Masonic order, belonging to Tyrian Lodge, No. 508, F. & A. M., and exemplifies in his life the beneficent teachings of the craft. 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 C. W. Hoxie Among the worthy retired farmers and veterans of the Civil war now living in Clay county, is Charles W. Hoxie, who is also numbered among those who have contributed to the development and progress of this section of the state. Mr. Hoxie was born in Branch county, Michigan, on the 7th of July, 1849, and is a son if Orton and Hannah M. (Van Patten) Hoxie. His parents were born, reared and married in New York state, whence they went to Michigan in 1812, locating on a farm, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The father was engaged in railroad construction work and laid the first T rail on the Rock Island railroad into Joliet, Illinois. They were the parents of six children, three of whom are still living. Charles W. Hoxie was reared on his father's farm in Michigan and received his education in the public schools of that locality. In 1864, when fifteen years of age, he enlisted, at Jackson, Michigan, in Company I, Thirteenth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry, withwhich he served to the end of the war. He took part in a number of the big closing battles of that war and marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. He came through with but one slight wound and was mustered out of the service at Louisville, Kentucky. He then returned home and remained on the farm with his father until he had attained his majority. He was then married and in 1871 he started west, locating in Cherokee county, Iowa, from which point he soon afterwards went to O'Brien county, Iowa, where he took up a homestead in Grant township. He lived on that place until 1878, when he rented the farm and moved to Spencer. For awhile he was engaged in grading work on the railroad, but later he sold his O'Brien county farm and bought one hundred and forty-four acres of land in Clay county, to the improvement and cultivation of which he devoted his efforts, making of it one of the best farms in this section of the state. He is now retired from active business affairs and is living in a comfortable and attractive home in Spencer. In 1871 Mr. Hoxie was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Bishop, daughter of Levi and Susan Bishop, both of whom are deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Hoxie have been born five children, namely: Alice,who is the wife of J. C. Taber; Nina M., the wife of R. W. Dean; Frank O., who lived on his father's farm; R. W.; and one that died in infancy. Mr. Hoxie is a member of Annett Post, No. 124, Grand Army of the Republic, and in political affairs gives his support to the republican party. Mr. Hoxie is a poet of more than ordinary ability and has a large collection of his writings in book form. Many of the poems have been published and have received very flattering comment. Mr. Hoxie is a man of sterling character, has always given his support to those movements which have had for their object the betterment of the community, and has ever been regarded as a reliable and dependable citizen. 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 S. B. Hoskins Dr. Samuel Bennett Hoskins, one of the foremost representatives of the medical profession in northwestern Iowa, has been a practicing physician and surgeon of Sioux City for nearly three decades. He is numbered among Sioux City's worthy native sons, his birth having here occurred on the 4th of April, 1871. The following interesting review of the life of his father, John C. C. Hoskins, is copied from a history of Iowa which was published in 1915: John C. C. Hoskins came to an honorable old age; in fact was almost a nonagenarian when called to the home beyond. As a Pioneer of Sioux City his name should be engraved upon the pages of Iowa's History, but he was not only a resident, he was also one of the active business men of Woodbury county and a supporter of all those projects which tend to promote public progress, upbuilding and advancement. He was born in Lyman, Grafton county, New Hampshire, January 18, 1820. His father, Samuel Hoskins, engaged in the practice of medicine. He married Harriet Byron, daughter of Caleb Cushing, of Orange, New Hampshire, who late in life removed to Chelsea, Massachusetts, where he passed away in 1873. In tracing the ancestral line of J. C. C. Hoskins it is found that he was desended from early Massachusetts families, represented in America since an early period in the colonization of the new world. The Hoskins family was represented at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1834, while the Cushings lived at Hingham in 1635, as did the Hawke and Lincoln families, all of whom were ancestors of Mr. Hoskins. The Reeds were in Weymouth in 1835; the Cobbs on Cape Cod before 1640; and John Drake came over with Winthrop, while his cousin, Thomas Drake, settled in Weymouth in 1853. Mr. Hoskins also traced his ancestry back to the Cottons of Boston, the Sawyers of Lancaster and Newburyport, and the Wainwrights and Ambroses of Essex county. In fact there seems no one of his progenitors who came to this country after 1700, save his great-grandfather, John Church, a Presbyterian elder from the north of Ireland, who arrived in 1872, and the Huguenot, Jacques Pineaux, the father of Dolly Pineaux, his great-great-grandmother, famous to this day among her descendants for her personal beauty and he magnificent golden hair. William Hoskins, an ancestor in the paternal line, was at Scituate in 1634, was a freeman of Plymouth colony in 1638, an esquire in 1642, and bore the reputation of being a well-to-do man of religious character. His son William, together with William Reed and Thomas Drake, was a member of the colony that purchased Bristol county from the Indians and settled at Taunton, whence his numerous descendants have gone out far and wide into the northern and middle states. William Hoskins came from Norfolkshire, England, and was a wheelwright by trade. A contemporary biographer continues with the ancestral history of Mr. Hoskins: "His descendants down to the grandfather of J. C. C. Hoskins have been mechanics or farmers of the middle class. Few of them have been needy, fewer have been rich, few of them ignorant, but not many of them college bred, very few merchants or lawyers and fewer clergymen or physicians, much disposed to have their own way, tolerably ready to hear argument and be led by reason, but quick to oppose any show of assumed authority; in every conflict for individual freedom, since the days of Henry VIII at least, they have fought against prerogative and oppression. None of the family have held important public offices, but many of them were respectable and influential in their neighborhoods. His maternal ancestor, in the eighth degree, Matthew Cushing, with a numerous family, some of whom were already adults, came also from Norfolkshire. He settled at Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1634. The Cushing family was old and wealthy in Norfolk, and had large landed possessions there. Their history is well known back into the fifteenth century, and there (as in this country since) they were men of education and influence and wealth. The descendants of Matthew Cushing had, previous to the year 1800, furnished more than thirty graduates to Harvard College, and a more considerable number of very eminent clergy and lawyers and judges, than any other New England family. Among them history especially commemorates Thomas and John Cushing, who took very prominent parts in bringing on and prosecuting the war of independence, and William Cushing, who, already associate justice of the United States court, declined the chief justiceship when tendered to him by President Washington. Nor has the Cushing family lacked men of distinction in the present century - Witness Caleb Cushing, of Newburyport, Judge Cushing of Boston, and the late chief justice of the state of New Hampshire. "His parents reared a family of eight - five sons and three daughters - all of whom exemplified the character of their paternal ancestry by a respectable mediocrity of ability, so far as the accumulation of wealth and extended influence go, and their maternal ancestry by a considerable fondness for reading and literature, which doubtless led to the college education of the subject of this sketch. Three of the sons - all that were physically able - also proved that the family hatred of oppression retained its ancient strength, by enlisting at the very outset of the war against slavery, and fighting for freedom until all were free. So in the Revolutionary war his grandfather Hoskins and four brothers fought from the beginning to the end. "His father led a hard life in a hard country among the granite outliers of the White mountains, but he was always honored and respected by all that knew him, and when he died, in 1873, at Chelsea, Massachusetts, where he went to live in his old age, he was much mourned through the whole circle of his acquaintances. Not less beloved nor less widely mourned was his wife, who, after her husband's death, came to Sioux City, where she had a home with her son, J. D. Hoskins, until she died in August, 1882." During the boyhood of J. C. C. Hoskins his father engaged in the practice of medicine in a rural community, where his patients usually paid in farm produce. The boy had comparatively few advantages, yet was eager for a college education. His desire for this was never quenched, yet in the beginning it seemed impossible of fulfillment. However, by working at farm labor in the summer and teaching school in the winter, he eventually saved enough to meet the expenses of a college course and at the age of twenty-one was graduated from Dartmouth with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He later received the degree of Master of Arts from the same institution. He gave a note to his father for six hundred dollars payable on demand. He possessed but one suit of clothing and little else of this world's goods when he applied for the position of principal of the academy at Lebanon, New Hampshire, which had recently been taken over by the Universalist church and was called The Lebanon Liberal Institute. he was engaged at a salary of four hundred dollars per year and entered upon his duties in September, 1841. Subsequently his salary was increased to five hundred dollars and many men who afterward won distinction in professional life or political circles were among his students. His earnings as a teacher enabled him to discharge his financial obligations to his father, but in 1846 his health failed and he was obliged to abandon teaching. Mr. Hoskins then turned his attention to civil engineering and was first employed on the construction of the Cochituate water works at Boston, Massachusetts, beginning the preliminary survey in June, 1846, and remaining until the completion of the works in the fall of 1848. He had charge of the Newton and Brookline tunnels until they were well under way and was then deputed to make a survey for what is now the Brookline old reservoir. When the survey was approved he took charge of the construction work and so continued until its completion. In 1849 he was connected with Thomas S. Williams, who had been appointed superintendent of the Sullivan Railroad in New Hampshire. Not long after Mr. Williams was made superintendent of the Boston & Maine Railroad and left Mr. Hoskins in charge of the Sullivan Railroad for some months. Later the latter joined the former in Boston and was engaged on the construction of the Boston & Maine Railroad until June, 1850, when an engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engaged him for the excavation and construction of its tunnels. On the 15the of June, 1850, he found himself near the western end of the railroad on the Monongahela river. He was then engaged to relocate a portion of the western division with the instruction to lay as good a line as possible and to get as near the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania as he could without touching that state. That task successfully accomplished, he was then given charge of the tunnel division and when the work was well under way was transferred to the preliminary survey of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, which is now the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, crossing the Ohio river at Parkersburg, West Virginia. At that time there had been no work so difficult undertaken in the United States. In one hundred miles there were twenty-two tunnels and a ruling grade of eighty feet per mile. For nearly six months Mr. Hoskins directed the efforts of a corps of sixteen men, covering a broad extend of rugged country. He located sixty-five miles of the road and superintended the construction of thirty-seven miles, including the central and most difficult portion. The work was begun in the summer of 1852 and a train made the initial trip to the Ohio river on Christmas day of 1856. Mr. Hoskins left his position in January, 1857, and, declining an advantageous offer from the Texas Railroad Company, started for the far west. He had become interested in the shaping of events in Kansas and, accompanied by his wife, started for that state April 7, 1857, going from Parkersburg, Virginia, to St. Louis by steamer, the trip covering eight days. Leaving his wife with relatives in St. Louis, Mr. Hoskins then proceeded by rail to Jefferson City and thence to Lexington, on to Kansas City, and to Leavenworth, Weston, St. Joseph, Omaha and Council Bluffs, arriving in Sioux City, May 5, 1857,. Fellow passengers informed him that Kansas had settled her difficulties and would doubtless be a free state and he intended to settle there, but his cousin, John C. Flint, urged him to go to Sioux City before making a permanent location. Mr. Hoskins recognized the advantages and opportunities here offered, purchased lots and a house on Nebraska street and there resided for many years. Sioux City was then a frontier village, having no communication excepting by river trip to St. Louis, occupying fourteen days. There was no railroad within three hundred miles and across the river was Indian territory, while to the east there was no settlement of any kind for more than a hundred miles, nor none to the north until Pembina was reached. Sioux City was a town of log cabins, board shanties and tents, yet people believed in its future and were eagerly buying lots. Mr. Hoskins had been married July 10, 1856, to Miss Clarissa Virginia Bennett, of Weston, Lewis county, Virginia, the second daughter of Hon. James Bennett, an influential lawyer who had often represented his district both in the lower and upper houses of the Virginia legislature. Mrs. Hoskins remained in St. Louis while her husband went on the prospecting trip and when Sioux City had been determined upon as their future home he returned and brought his wife to northern Iowa, where they arrived on the 5th of June, 1857. He also bought some supplies, a few floor boards, a window and a door and in a little cabin sixteen feet square, on Nebraska street, they set up housekeeping until a small frame house was built, there continuing to reside until the spring of 1864, when the property was sold. Two of their eight children were born in that primitive home. The last work which Mr. Hoskins did as a civil engineer was when he made the preliminary survey for the Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad in the autumn of 1866. He became the first president, as well as chief engineer, of that road and was very prominent and influential in public affairs. In 1858 he was chosen township assessor and city engineer and continued in office until 1871. He made profiles and advised street grades which were adopted in 1858 and revised and readopted in 1871. At different times he was called to public office, being appointed to fill vacancies in the position of county sheriff and also of mayor. He was for three terms a member of the school board and for one year was county superintendent of schools and never caused to feel the deepest interest in the cause of education. He was also postmaster of Sioux City for nearly sixteen years, retiring from the office in the spring of 1878. He aided in founding the first two national banks of Sioux City and was a director of one of these for several years. He was also founder and one of the directors of the First Savings Bank; was president of the Sioux City Building Fund Association for many years; and in 1864 aided in organizing the J. M. Pinckney Book & Stationery Company. He was one of the founders of the Unitarian church of Sioux City and one of the founders and honorary president of the Sioux City Scientific Association, now the Sioux City Academy of Science and Letters. He became a member of the Odd Fellows lodge in the early '50s and remained a member until his death. In fact, there were few important business or public interests of Sioux City with which he was not connected from the earliest period of its development, and he aided in laying broad and deep the foundation upon which its present prosperity has been built. Mr. Hoskins was survived by his wife and the following children: Dr. S. B. Hoskins and Mrs. Mary H. Wakfield, both living in Sioux City; Dr. J. B. Hoskins, of Allen, Nebraska; Mrs. Helen E. Johnson, of Los Angeles, California; and Mrs. Jucy M. Ayres, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mrs. Clarissa Virginia (Bennett) Hoskins, the mother of the above named, departed this life in December, 1916. Mr. Hoskins passed away in Sioux City, August 13, 1909. For a number of years prior to his death he had lived retired, enjoying a rest which he had truly earned and richly deserved. All who knew him recognized his worth, appreciated his splendid qualities and respected him for his upright life and what he accomplished. His history, indeed, forms an integral chapter in the annals of Sioux City and of the development of the northwest. Samuel Bennett Hoskins, whose name introduces this review, completed a high school course in Sioux City by graduation in 1888 and then entered the University of South Dakota, from which institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1892. His professional training was acquired in the State University of Iowa, which conferred upon him the degree of M. D. in 1896. The following year he was offered and accepted the position of house physician in the Homeopathic Hospital of the State University of Iowa. It was in the summer of 1897 that he began the private practice of medicine in Sioux City, where he has remained continuously to the present time and has long been recognized as one of the leading representatives of the healing art. He has membership in the Sioux City Homeopathic Society, the Iowa State Homeopathic Society, the American Institute of Homeopathy and the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley. In 1902 Doctor Hoskins was united in marriage to Miss Anna Loefstrom, of Omaha, Nebraska. They are the parents of two daughters, namely: Clarissa H., who is superintendent of the branch libraries of the Sioux City Public Library; and M. Charlotte, assistant librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library. Fraternally Doctor Hoskins is affiliated with Landmark Lodge No. 103, A. F. & A. M., and with Sioux City Lodge, No. 164, I. O. O. F., and he enjoys high standing in social as well as professional circles of his native city. 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/

Hi Debby, Do you see anywhere in your material a bio for Dr. John Osborn Skinner he was first in norther Iowa and then after the Civil War (surgeon under Sherman) practiced in Des Moine. He was born in Meigs Co. OH to Asahel and Jane (Everton) Skinner and his grandfather Daniel Skinner of Corinth, ME was a Rev. Vet. Thanks Ginny in WY

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 H. H. Hoberg Among the highly respected and influential citizens of Clay county who, after years of earnest and well directed labor, are now retired from active business pursuits, stands H. H. Hoberg, of Spencer, and no man enjoys public confidence and esteem to a greater degree. He was born in LaSalle county, Illinois, December 2, 1857, and is a son of H. H. and Frederica (Schlingman) Hoberg, both of whom were natives of Germany. They came to the United States early in the '50s and located in LaSalle county, where they lived until 1868, when they moved to Livingston county, Illinois, and bought a farm. There the mother died in 1879, leaving two sons. The father was again married in 1889 and in 1896 came to Spencer, Iowa, where he lived until his death, which occurred Auguest 31, 1900. H. H. Hoberg was reared on the farm in Livingston county, Illinois, and secured his education in the public schools. When he attained his majority he started out on his own account, working about a year as a farm hand, and then for seven years he farmed rented land in Illinois. In 1889 he came to Clay county, Iowa, and bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, on which he located and to the improvement and cultivation of which he devoted himself with such success that he was enabled to buy more land, until today he is the owner of six hundred and forty acres of well improved and highly cultivated land in this locality. In 1906 Mr. Hoberg retired and moved to Spencer, where he owns an attractive home and is now enjoying a well earned leisure, though still maintaining a general supervision over his properties. On April 13, 1882, Mr. Hoberg was united in marriage to Miss Anna E. Vollmer, who was born in Illinois, a daughter of August and Dorothy Vollmer, both of whom were natives of Germany, and both are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Hoberg have been born two children, as follows: Minnie H. is the widow of Ray E. King and the mother of three children, David H., born July 31, 1915, Margaret L., born March 19, 1917, and Mary L., born January 25, 1920. Carl, born April, 14, 1885, lives on his father's farm. He is married and has five children, three sons and two daughters. Politically, Mr. Hoberg maintains an independent attitude, voting according to the dictates of his judgment, and has been active in affairs relating to the welfare of the community, having served as commissioner of highways in his native state and as a member of the Clay county board of supervisors. Fraternally he is a member of Spencer Lodge, No. 312, A. F. and A. M., in which he has passed all the chairs, and Sioux City Consistory, No. 5, A. A. S. R. Mr. and Mrs. Hoberg are also members of Evening Shade Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star in which Mrs. Hoberg served as worthy matron for three years. He and his wife are members and liberal supporters of the Congregational church. He is a genial and companionable gentleman, has a wide acquaintance throughout this county, and commands the respect and good will of all who know him. 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. H. Henry Among the leaders in financial circles in Sioux City is Lemuel H. Henry, vice president and chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank, and a man who has stanchly supported every enterprise or movement for the upbuilding of Sioux City. He was born at Vernon, Van Buren county, Iowa, on the 9th of May, 1871, and is a son of Thomas P. And Jennie M. (Bennett) Henry. The former was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, and was there reared and received a public school education. At the opening of the Civil war, he responded to th president's call for troops, enlisting from Van Buren county, on May 27, 1861, and was mustered into service at Keokuk, Iowa, as a private in Company F, Second Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under Captain J. M. Tuttle, to serve three years or during the war. The regiment was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, Sixteenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee. He participated in the battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February 14-16, 1862, Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, and Corinth, Mississippi, October 3-4, 1862, there sustaining a shell would. He also received a gunshot would at the battle of Fort Donelson. He was honorably discharged at Pulaski, Tennessee, December 31, 1863, but re-enlisted on January 1, 1864, as a private and veteran in the same company and regiment. He took part in teh siege of Atlanta, Georgia, and in Sherman's march to the sea. He was promoted to sergeant in December, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, and was again honorably discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, July 1, 1865, at the close of the war. At the time of his death he was a member of Elias M. Wore Post, No, 516, Grand Army of the Republic, but had previously been a charter member of Shriver Post, No. 177, at Vernon, Iowa, which he had served as commander. On February 16, 1870, he was married to Miss Jennie M. Bennett, who also was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, and whose parents, Samuel M. And Sarah M. (Whitson) Bennett, were early settlers of this state, her father coming from Ohio and her mother from Pennsylvania. They were both of Quaker descent. Mrs. Henry's oldest brother, Lemuel W. Bennett, was killed at the age of seventeen years in the Civil war, while serving with the Eight Regiment Iowa Cavalry, and her youngest brother, Corwin N. Bennett, died at the close of the Spanish-American war, after serving in the Fiftieth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. The death of Thomas P. Henry occurred in 1900, and his widow then made her home with her son, Lemuel H., until her death, which occurred February 2, 1925. Lemuel H. Henry secured his education in the public schools of his native county and in a business college at Burlington, Iowa. During vacations and after leaving school he followed farming until eighteen years of age, when he decided to start on a business career. His first job was as timekeeper for the Phillips Fuel Company, of Ottumwa, Iowa, at their mines near that city, where he remained three months. He then accepted a position as messenger in the Ottumwa National Bank, remaining there two years. He then went to Burlington, Iowa, where he became associated with a fire insurance company, first as bookkeeper, and later as treasurer. In January, 1899, the company removed to Sioux City, and in 1901 Mr. Henry entered the Iowa State National Bank, which institution later absorbed the First National Bank, using the latter name. Mr. Henry was made cashier of this bank in 1906, holding that position until 1915, when he was elected vice president, and in 1924 was made chairman of the board of directors, which positions he still retains. Politically, Mr. Henry is an ardent supporter of the republican party and takes a deep interest in public affairs but has never sought office of any nature. He is a member of Tryian Lodge, No. 508, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Sioux City Consistory, No. 5, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; Abu-Bekr Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Sioux City Lodge, No. 112, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Association of Reserve City Bankers, the Sioux City Country Club and the Kiwanis Club. He is actively interested in civic affairs and throughout the range of his acquaintance is held in the highest measure of confidence and esteem. 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/