Info posted "as found" on the web. ///Steve Looney/// ============================================================ HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF POLK COUNTY MISSOURI FIRST ENTRY OF LANDS, RECORDING OF DEEDS, ETC. >From the records of the U. S. Land Office at Springfield, we learn that government lands in Polk County were first opened to entry in the fall of 1837. The first entry was made by William Jamison, commissioner of Polk County, October 5th, 1837. The land first entered was that on which the town of Bolivar was built. R. K. Payne, JOHN LOONEY, and Washington Williams entered lands in the same year, which are now embraced within the limits of Looney township. LOONEY TOWNSHIP Looney Township, named in honor of BENJ. LOONEY, who settled there in 1833 and died in 1875 ... Among the earliest may be mentioned John Mooney who settled near the present town of Brighton, Richard Saye, Samuel Asher, John and David Ross; Aaron, Gideon and Nelson Ruyle, J. N. Sloan, JOHN and BENJ. LOONEY, Jacob, Thomas and Smith Lemmon, Joseph Tuck, Pittman and Thomas Woolard, W. W. McNight, James Faulkner, Charner DeGraffenreid, Nathaniel Herndon, Daniel and Martin Harpool, Wm. Maxey, William Daly, Hartwell Johnson, Wm. Winton, Hugh Boyd, Robert E. Acock, Abram and John Slagle and Abram Sears. JACKSON TOWNSHIP Jackson Township lies in the southwest corner adjoining Greene and Dade Counties ... Among the first settlers were ISAAC LOONEY, Michael Crow, Adam Zumwalt, Isaac Ruth, James Malicoat, Jeremiah Acuff, Woods Hamilton, Berry Coats, Jonathin Rice, Thomas Burros, Joseph Linn, Middleton Lane, Henry and James King, John McClure, Anguish New, Thomas J. Kelly, Bletcher Holder and several families of the Potters and Mitchells. ============================================================