Hi List, As this is the best list of all I thought someone might know when looking at land records if it says it was purchased by a warranty, what does that mean. What is or was a warranty. I am looking at 1871 land records. Thanks, Karen

You have all been great - thanks!

My grand father Col, Charles C. Horton Col. 2nd Iowa Cav. Iowa Legislator from Muscatine Iowa wrote the bill to create the Wittenmyer Home at Davenport Iowa. Believe a friend of mine Scott Rynaberger (spelling) was manager of the Home in the 1840s. Col. Horton 1897 to 1916 was Commundent of the Iowa Soldiers Home now Iowa Veterians Home at Marshalltown. This is in..www.brockwayfamily.com Under Horton. John H.Brockway

I need a big favor.Would someone mind looking for a family named Wade. I'm looking for Nanny/Nancy b. 1859/1860.Possible middle initial M. She was born in Iowa.She was white. Nannie was in Texas during the 1880 census. The lookup would be for 1870. I do not know her parents first names.Sorry. Dianne Hardin in Ca.

Thomas Mugan is still in Jefferson, Greene county, Iowa in the 1910 census. He is living alone and is listed as Thomas Moran. On the image it is Mugan. He is 71 years old, he and parents born in Ireland, married once, and is a commercial laborer in dry goods. He and Annie must have seperated? Cheryl

Annie Mugan is in Greene county, Iowa in the 1900 census. She is listed as 83 years old, widowed, married at age 20, born in Canada, parents born in Ireland. She owns her property and its value is $5,500. She immigrated in 1883 and was naturalized. Her son, Daniel W. is living with her, he is 61 and single, born in Iowa. He is a proprietor at a cigar store. Also, her son Thomas A. is living with her. He is 54 years old and single. He is an attorney at law, born in Iowa.

Thomas Mugan is listed as Thomas Meegan in the 1900 census for Green county Iowa. Again, you can make out that the name is actually Mugan. He is 61 years old, born in March of 1839 in Ireland. He immigrated in 1859 and was naturalized. He is listed as a merchant. He is also listed as married, but there is no wife with him, he is living alone. He stated that he has been married for 32 years. Maybe Ann was in the hospital or possibly caring for a family member somewhere? Cheryl

Military Warrant   From 1788 to 1855 the United States granted military bounty land warrants as a reward for military service. These patents were issued in various denominations and based upon the rank and length of service. They were often assigned to heirs or other individuals.   I hope this info helps. Judy Neu Springwater, NY

In the 1880 census for Green county, Iowa.....your Mugan family is listed as Thomas P. Magan, with wife Ann. When you look at the census image it is clearly Mugan!! It appears that Thomas' occupation was restaurant/grocer. There children are: Daniel, age 11 Micheal, age 7 Thomas A., age 4 then there is a Martin Cleary(?) age 22 living with them and listed as a boarder. He is a clerk in a store. Cheryl

There is a marriage listiing for Thomas P. Mugan and Annie Brennen on Ancestry.com..........thier marriage date is Dec. 28, 1867 in Boone County, Iowa. Cheryl

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 G. H. Bliven George H. Bliven has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of law in Sioux City for the past twenty-eight years and is accorded a liberal clientage. He is a western man by birth, by training and by preference and possesses the enterprising spirit which has ever been characteristic of the growth and development of this section of the country. He was born on a farm in Dakota county, Nebraska, October 22, 1875, his parents being Curtis B. and Sarah (Stormer) Bliven, the former a native of New York and the latter of Pennsylvania. They were married in 1867, became residents of Sioux City, Iowa, in 1888 and his mother still makes her home there. His father died in September, 1916. The Bliven family comes of Welsh ancestry, the lineage being traced back to the immigrant ancestor who left the little rock-ribbed country of Wales in 1634 to establish a home in the new world. The grant-grandfather, Samuel Bliven, served in the Revolutionary war, going to the front with the troops from Rhode Island. The grandfather, Charles B. Bliven, was a private of the Second Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil war, serving from May, 1863, until June, 1864. He also did military duty against the Indians in South Dakota and he is acquainted with every phase of pioneer life, having settled in Dakota county, Nebraska, when it was a frontier region in 1857. George H. Bliven attended country schools in Nebraska to the age of twelve years and then, following the removal of the family to Sioux City, continued his education in the public schools there, being graduated from the commercial department of the high school with the class of 1891. After farming for four years he determined to make the practice of law his life work and with that end in view became a student in the lowa department of the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL. D. in 1898. Immediately afterward he opened a law office in Sioux City, where he has since remained. A contemporary biographer said of him: "His preparation of cases is most thorough and exhaustive. He seems almost intuitively to grasp the strong points of law and fact, while in his briefs and arguments the authorities are cited so extensively and the facts and reasoning thereon are presented so clearly and unanswerably as to leave no doubt as to the correctness of his views or of his conclusions. Every point is given its true prominence and the case is argued with ability and power, so that he rarely fails to gain the verdict desired. In addition to his law practice he has other business interests, being president and treasurer of the Hawkeye Investment Company and secretary of the Central Adjustment Company." On the 19th of October, 1904, in Sioux City, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Gliven and Miss Sara E. Murphy, whose father, George Murphy, came to Sioux City in 1854. They are the parents of a daughter and a son: Katherine, who was born October 13, 1905, and who is the wife of R. B. Plotts, of Omaha, Nebraska; and George H., Jr., whose birth occurred on the 8th of October, 1906, and who is now a student in the State University at Iowa City, Iowa. Mr. Bliven gives his political allegiance to the republican party but has never been a political in the sense of office seeking. He is interested in municipal welfare, however, and cooperates in many movements which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride. He made a creditable record as a member of the school board from 1912 until 1924. The military chapter in his life history covers five and one-half years' service as a private and first sergeant of Company L of the Fifty-second (now Fifty-sixth) Regiment of the Iowa National Guard. In religious faith Mr. Bliven is a Presbyterian, while fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, belonging to Landmark Lodge No. 103, A. F. & A. M.; Sioux City Chapter No. 26, R. A. M.; Columbian Commandery No. 18, K. T.; Sioux City Consistory No. 5, A. N. O. S. R.; and Abu-Bekr Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a director of the Masonic Building Association and also belongs to the Lions Club, the Sioux City Boat Club and Sioux City Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Almost his entire life has been passed in Sioux City and his record is as an open book to his fellow townsmen, who entertain for him warm regard and recognize the fact that he has made wise use of his time and opportunities, while his talents have brought him enviable success in his chosen life work. 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 the first part of this story. The entire section is online on the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE PALIMPSEST EDITED BY JOHN ELY BRIGGS VOL. XII ISSUED IN SEPTEMBER 1931 NO. 9 COPYRIGHT 1931 BY THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IOWA Written by Ruth A. Gallaher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE WITTENMYER DIET KITCHENS One morning in January, 1862, a woman walked into a military hospital at Sedalia, Missouri, and glanced keenly about the large room filled with cots, each one holding a sick or wounded soldier. It was breakfast time and the attendants were moving about with trays. As the men looked up in surprise at seeing a woman visitor at that hour of the morning, some of them may have recognized her, for many of the patients were Iowa men and the woman was Mrs. Annie Turner Wittenmyer of Keokuk, already experienced as a relief worker among the soldiers. As she stood there surveying the crowded room, Mrs. Wittenmyer was surprised to see on one of the cots her youngest brother, David Turner, a lad of sixteen. he had just waved away the attendant carrying his breakfast tray. "If you can't eat this you'll have to do without, there is nothing else", was the response of the waiter. The sister stepped to the side of the cot and glanced at the rejected tray. "On a dingy looking wooden tray", she wrote later, "was a tin cup full of black strong coffee; beside it was a leaden looking tin platter, on which was a piece of fried fat bacon, swimming in its own grease, and a slice of bread." No wonder the young soldier, sick with typhoid fever and acute dysentery, looked upon such food with distaste. The meeting was indeed fortunate for the sick boy, who was nursed back to health by his efficient elder sister. The incident, however, had a more far reaching effect, for it made Mrs. Wittenmyer realize in a concrete way the need of special diets for hospital patients. At this time Mrs. Wittenmyer was a women in her middle thirties - born on August 26, 1827. Her hair was already snow white, but her keen blue eyes and fair complexion denied the suggestion of age. For almost a year she had been going about the camps and hospitals along the Mississippi River where Iowa regiments were to be found, bringing good cheer, food delicacies, and supplies for the men in the hospitals. She had helped to organize the Keokuk Soldiers' Aid Society and partly through her efforts the women of Iowa were mobilized to furnish money, jellies, potatoes, fruit, sheets, hospital garments, and whatever else was needed to make the men a little more comfortable. 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/

Marilyn, The index Cheryl refers to is Ancestry's. On your HQ he's indexed as Thomas Morgan in Jefferson, Greene. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) Chebow1@aol.com wrote: >Thomas Mugan is listed as Thomas Meegan in the 1900 census for Green county >Iowa. Again, you can make out that the name is actually Mugan. He is 61 years >old, born in March of 1839 in Ireland. He immigrated in 1859 and was >naturalized. He is listed as a merchant. He is also listed as married, but there is >no wife with him, he is living alone. He stated that he has been married for >32 years. Maybe Ann was in the hospital or possibly caring for a family >member somewhere? Cheryl > > >==== 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 > >============================== >You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from >http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ > > > >

The 1895 xscript on Ancestry lists Thomas P. Mugan, Anna , Daniel W. & T. Aguinas but it's formatted by surname only so wouldn't show another surnamed individual if they were in the household. I think by 1900 Thomas & Anna were separated or divorced. In 1920 she appears as a widow and he shows up as divorced. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) MMMugan@aol.com wrote: >Need help locating my great-grandparents, the Thomas P. MUGAN(1840's-1928) >family of Jefferson (Greene county), IA. ( I have access only to Heritage >Quest--no luck) He married Anne BRENNAN (1847-1933) in 1867 in Boone, IA. >Birthdates for their sons (Dan, Mike, T.A.) seem to be 1868, 1872, and 1874. A >daughter Lucy, died in infancy. >Family lore has it that they also raised a foster daughter, or at least "took >her in", as was common in those days. Am trying to find her name. It may have >been "Nellie" Wise, but that could have been a married name. Am hopeful that >a census may show who was living in the household and any other pertinent >facts. > > >

Need help locating my great-grandparents, the Thomas P. MUGAN(1840's-1928) family of Jefferson (Greene county), IA. ( I have access only to Heritage Quest--no luck) He married Anne BRENNAN (1847-1933) in 1867 in Boone, IA. Birthdates for their sons (Dan, Mike, T.A.) seem to be 1868, 1872, and 1874. A daughter Lucy, died in infancy. Family lore has it that they also raised a foster daughter, or at least "took her in", as was common in those days. Am trying to find her name. It may have been "Nellie" Wise, but that could have been a married name. Am hopeful that a census may show who was living in the household and any other pertinent facts. I would be very grateful for any/all help. Thanks. Marilyn Mugan Holmes

NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 R. I. Beaty The law of compensation holds good throughout the world. Industry and tenacity of purpose win success when intelligently directed, while strength of character commands uniform regard. Both of these Robert I. Beaty has won and for more than twenty years his name has been closely and prominently associated with building operations in Sioux City. He was born August 18, 1872, in Clinton county, Missouri, and in both the paternal and maternal lines is of Scotch and Irish descent. His parents were Robert H. and Mary B. (Slemons) Beaty, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter a Virginian. Mr. Beaty was educated in the public schools of Clinton county and remained in his native state until he reached the age of twenty-eight years, working his way steadily upward in the business world. He was made superintendent of the Northern Building Company of Minneapolis and in 1900 arrived in Orange City, Iowa. He had charge of several large construction jobs and remained with that corporation until 1903. He supervised the building of the Sioux county court house at Orange City, devoting one and a half years to that task, and in 1904 moved to Sioux City, becoming a member of the Haakinson & Beaty Company. The business was incorporated in 1904 and has since been conducted under the style of the Haakinson-Beaty Company, of which Carl E. Haakinson is the president. Mr. Beaty acts as secretary and treasurer of the company and his broad experience and detailed knowledge of the business have been essential to its success. The corporation specialies in fabricated steel and ornamental iron work and in construction circles of this part of the state the firm name has long been synonymous with enterprise and reliability. The company has furnished the material for many of the finest buildings in this part of the country and since its inception the business has made rapid strides. In 1904 Mr. Beaty was married in Orange City, Iowa, to Miss Marie Oggel, whose father is the publisher of Volks Vriend, a widely read journal of that city. Helen M., the only child of this union, is nineteen years of age and a student at the State University in Iowa City. Mr. Beaty belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is also a Rotarian. He is a consistent member of the First Baptist church and a good citizen whose influence is always on the side of reform, progress and improvement. 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 is on the Iowa History Site. This was very interesting about the home and about President Lincolns family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE PALIMPSEST The Harlan Home Written by Martha Thomas Dyall At the end of the vista on North Main Street in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, stands an imposing old house with wide verandas and white columns. It is the Harlan Home. Built by Senator James Harlan, it was occupied by him for may years, and during the latter decades of his life it was also the home of the son and grandchildren of Abraham Lincoln. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 R. J. Barrett One of the best known and most reliable business firms in Sioux City is that of the R. J. Barrett & Sons Company, cut stone contractors, who also bear the distinction of having been the pioneers in that line in this city. For four decades this firm has furnished practically all the cut stone for building operations in this vicinity and during this period has been regarded as absolutely trustworthy in every respect. Robert J. Barrett was born in London, England, on the 16th of March, 1867, and is a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Young) Barrett, bot also natives of that country, the father born at Portsmouth and the mother at Market Rasen. The family emigrated to America in 1871, locating first in Toronto, Canada, where they remained until 1881, when they crossed the border into the United States, settling in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the father engaged in business as a cut-stone contractor and where Robert J. Barrett of this review learned the trade. In 1887 Robert Barrett, the father, came to Sioux City, and established the firm of Barrett Brothers, his partner being James Barrett, who represented this district in the state legislature for two terms. The present firm of R. J. Barrett & Sons Company is a continuation of the original firm, which owned the first stone yard in Sioux City. The business was originally located at Third and Court streets but was later removed to its present location at First and Nebraska streets. This firm furnished the stone and stone work for practically all of the early buildings and schoolhouses of this locality, their first job being the Security National Bank building, at Fourth and Pierce streets, since remodeled and now occupied by the F. W. Woolworth Company. The Barrett concern was also awarded the contract for the first Bancroft school building and all subsequent school buildings in this city. Other buildings of note for which the Barretts supplied the stone were the Knapp & Spencer Company building, the First Presbyterian, First Methodist Episcopal and Lutheran Evangelical churches, the Tolerton & Warfield Company building, Warfield-Pratt-Howell Company, the Dymond (Winchester-Simmons Company), Farmers Loan & Trust Company building, First National Bank building, the new city hall and other important structures. Robert Barrett passed away in 1904 and is survived by his widow, who is still living in Sioux City at the age of eighty-one years. Robert J. Barrett, whose name introduces this article, acquired his education in the public schools of England and Canada and then learned the trade of jeweler and copper plate engraver. In 1894 he entered into partnership with his father under the firm name of R. Barrett & Sons, his father at that time becoming engineer of construction on the state building at Anamosa, Iowa. On July 1, 1920, the business was incorporated as R. J. Barrett & Sons Company, of which Robert J. Barrett is the president, Mrs. Maria Barrett the vice president and Robert W. Barrett the secretary and treasurer. In 1891, at Luton, Woodbury county, Iowa, Mr. Barrett was married to Miss Ruby Howe, the daughter of William Howe, of Braidwood, Illinois. They became the parents of three sons and one daughter, as follows: Florence, who is deceased; Robert W., who wedded Miss Katherine Kuhl and is the father of three children - Robert L., Betty Jane and Shirley May; George F., who was married to Miss Betty Nelson and has two children, Loraine F. and Phyllis M.; and Ralph W. Robert W. Barrett served on the Mexican border with the Second Iowa Regiment and was discharged in 1917 with the rank of sergeant. In June, 11917, he reenlisted in the Second Iowa Regiment and was stationed at Deming, New Mexico. He was made a sergeant and was assigned to the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Machine Gun Battalion. Later he was transferred to the machine gun battalion of the One Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment. He was sent to the Third Officers Training Camp at San Antonio; Texas, where he was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Machine Gun Battalion, with which he was sent overseas. While in France he was detailed to various camps and used in machine gun training until the signing of the armistice. He was discharged on July 8, 1919, as a second lieutenant, and returned home. Politically Mr. Barrett is independent of party lines, voting according to his judgment as to the fitness of candidates for the offices they seek. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men and formerly belonged to the Rotary Club, the membership in which is now held by his son, Robert W. Barrett. The name of Robert J. Barrett is on the membership rolls of the International Cut Stone Contractors' and Quarrymen's Association. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. As a diversion form the routine of business Mr. Barrett engages in the breeding of pigeons and rabbits, on which he is considered an authority, being a judge for the National Rabbit and Cavy Association, in which capacity he has served at Chicago, Omaha and other cities and at state tournaments. He is also fond of the game of billiards. Mr. Barrett owns a summer home on Madison lake in South Dakota. He is regarded as a man of sound judgment and keen foresight, progressive in his methods and public spirited in his attitude towards all efforts to improve his community along material, civic or moral lines. He has been a worthy example in all that constitutes true manhood and good citizenship and none more than he is deserving of the confidence and esteem of the entire community. 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. The whole chapter can been seen on the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER XI THE INDIANS OF IOWA No one knows when the Indians first came to Iowa. That they lived in almost every part of the state is shown by mounds which have been located in nearly every county. Perhaps you know of some Indian mounds near your home. In some of the mounds that have been dug upon stone axes, war clubs, fragments of pottery, flint arrowheads, spearheads, and skeletons have been found. Some of these mounds are round, some are long, and others are shaped like animals such as birds and bears. A favorite location for them was on terraces alon streams and rivers. In northeastern Iowa, Indian graves are found in caves in teh sides of hills and bluffs. Caves and overhanging cliffs along the streams were also used as homes. 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/

Opened in 1851, The New York Juvenile Asylum merged with the Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. I recently acquired "A Day With Dr. Brooks" authored by Mary E. Dodge. It appeared in the December, 1870 issue of Scribner's Magazine, pgs. 36 - 58. It is a compelling story. I am putting it up in segments. The fourth installment is available: http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/resources/brooks04.shtml Tina Vickery http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/ http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/whats_new.shtml