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From: "Mike or Sharyl" <>
Subject: [IAALLAMA-L] Hx Paint Creek twp. 1882/ part III
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:23:45 -0800


(continued)
During this year, 1851, Nathan'l BEEBE commenced getting out timbers for
what is now known as the Waterville mill, and Colonel SPOONER and Mr.
CARPENTER came in and joined him, and the mill was built, and started in the
winter of 1852 & '53. They also opened a store in the spring of 1853 near
the mill.
In the spring of 1851, Thomas B. TWIFORD, of county seat notoriety, and
William McCOY built the Thomas ELLIS' saw mill about 3 quarters of a mile
above where BEUMER's mill now stands and it did a good business untill 1860.
By this time many settlers had come in, the Norwegians generally settling on
the north side of the Creek, the Irish on the south side with a few
Americans and other nationalities sprinkled in and among them, but the
larger percent of settlers were "of foreign" birth.

The county records fail to show when the township was organized by the
election of township officers, but there is an entry on them dated Dec. term
1853, as follows: Paint Creek township organized so as to conform to the
congressional township of town ninety seven, range four. The trustees gave
the town ship its present name and the records show the first elefction to
be held in Riley ELLIS' mill where the corn cracker was August second, 1852,
James BRYSON, George WATKYNS and Reuben SENCEBAUGH, being the judges of the
election, and William McCOY and Thomas G. ELLIS were the clerks. The oaths
were administered to the clerks by James BRYSON and to the judges by William
McCOY. The trustees appointed William McCOY township clerk. These are the
earliest dates our records show. The next election was held on the first
Tuesday in November 1852 and was the Presidential election. The third
election was held on the fourth of April 1853, and is the first record I
find of the election ot township officers, being for trustees, James BRYSON,
Andrew MITCHELL and Reuben SENCEBAUGH; for clerk William McCOY; for assessor
James BRYSON; for constables John BRYSON and John STULL; for justices of the
peace James BRYSON and Reuben SENCEBAUGH. At this election there were cast
for the county seat, fifty-eight votes of which Columbus had forty-nine, and
Waukon nine. The trustees held two meetings in the winter of '52 &'53, one
to appraise and divide section sixteen, and the other to divide the township
into road districts, doing their work so well that the districts remain the
same to this date.
(to be continued)
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Sharyl Ferrall




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