Extracted from the 1882-1883 R.L. Polk "Iowa State Gazeteer and Business Directory" .
WOODBURN. Containing 350 inhabitants, is a station on the C.B. &
Q. R.R. in Clarke county, 146 miles west of Burlington, and 10 east of Osceola
(c h), the nearest bank location. A public school, with Catholic, Methodist
and Presbyterian churches are here.Shipments, cattle, hogs, oats and corn.
Exp. Am., Mail, daily. E. _. Knight, postmaster.
Data includes surname, first name(s), occupation or business.
Boden, J.W., harnessmaker | Bourgaze, John, furniture | Blythe, C., druggist |
Clark, J.A., restaurant | Coppock, B., lumber | Hill, A.K., hotel and livery |
Humiston, H.L., railroad and express agent | Humiston & Zoller, grain and general store | Johnson, D.B., general store |
Johnson, I.J., grain and general store | Marks, Rev. W.F. (Methodist) | Martin, M.T., physician |
Morris, M., justice of peace | Randolph, D.W., grocer | Rowly, L.H., blacksmith |
Smith, G.W., blacksmith | Smith & Kerr, flour mill | Tedrow, J.L., grain and general store |