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Biographical History of Shelby and Audubon Counties, Iowa.

Chicago: W.S. Dubar & Co., 1889.

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HISTORY OF AUDUBON COUNTY.


CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Geology, Topography, and General Features . . . . . . . . . . 638

CHAPTER II.

EARLY SETTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATION . . . . . . . . .639
First Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .643

CHAPTER III.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .645

CHAPTER IV.

ELECTION RETURNS -- COUNTY, STATE AND NATIONAL . . 651
Liquor Prohibitory Amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .654

CHAPTER V.

SPECIAL EVENTS AND OTHER MATTERS . . . . . . . . .655
Special Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .655
Assessed Valuation of Property in 1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . .656
Marriage Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Population, by Townships, in 1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Population at Various Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

CHAPTER VI.

THE NEWSPAPER PRESS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .657

CHAPTER VII.

VARIOUS THINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Educational . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Audubon County Soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Railroads, the Squatters, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
Stock-raising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Agricultural Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

CHAPTER VIII.

TOWNS AND VILLAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Record of Village Plats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .667
Audubon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 668
Exira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 675
Brayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .680
Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .681
Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 683
Kimballton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 683

CHAPTER IX.

CRIME IN SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES . . . 685
The Jellerson Murder and Subsequent Lynching . . . . .686
Polk City Murderers Captured and Lynched . . . . . . . . 689
Crooked Creek Outlaws . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .692
Murder of C. H. Kleva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .693

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.