History of Linn County Iowa: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911]Brewer, Luther Albertus
History
History of Linn County Iowa: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911]
Brewer, Luther Albertus
Linn County (Iowa) -- Biography; Linn County (Iowa) -- History; Registers of births, etc. -- Iowa -- Linn County
CHAPTER XL THE BRIDGES ACROSS THE CEDAR AT CEDAR RAPIDS
AND EARLY STEAMBOATING ON THE CEDAR RIVER 420
CHAPTER XLI BANKS AND BANKING IN LINN COUNTY 435
CHAPTER XLII ROSTER OF COUNTY OFFICERS 451
CHAPTER XLIII HISTORY OF MARION, THE COUNTY SEAT 460
CHAPTER XLIV LINN COUNTY IN WAR 470
CHAPTER XLV ODDS AND ENDS OF HISTORY AND REMINISCENCE 479
FOOTNOTES End of document
ILLUSTRATIONS
LUTHER A. BREWER _Frontispiece_
B. L. WICK 4
LEWIS FIELD LINN 8
A SCENE ON THE CEDAR RIVER AT CEDAR RAPIDS IN THE FIFTIES 12
RESIDENCE OF ISAAC CARROLL IN 1839 12
AN EARLY LAND DEED 16
SHEPHERD'S TAVERN 20
GEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS 24
THE ASTOR HOUSE 28
DOUBLE LOG CABIN BUILT BY WILLIAM ABBE 32
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CEDAR RAPIDS IN 1851 36
RESIDENCE OF WILLISTON JONES 36
DANIEL SEWARD HAHN 40
LINN COUNTY SCENES 44
GOING SHOPPING 48
INDIAN SCENES 48
FORMER PASTORS UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH, LISBON 52
SAMUEL W. DURHAM 56
SOME EARLY MEMBERS UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH, LISBON 60
PRESENT DAY SCENE 64
AN OLD LAND RECEIPT 64
STEAMBOAT ON CEDAR, 1887 64
DR. JOHN F. ELY 68
JOHN A. KEARNS 72
A. J. REID 72
C. S. HOWARD 72
WILLIAM STICK 72
THE VARDY HOUSE, CEDAR RAPIDS 76
FRANKLIN BLOCK AND RESIDENCE OF P. W. EARLE 76
THE LISTEBARGER CABIN, CEDAR RAPIDS 76
MR. AND MRS. GODFREY QUASS 80
MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM GIDDINGS 80
MR. AND MRS. ISAAC MILLBURN 80
MR. AND MRS. W. A. LACOCK 80
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