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Subject: Emigration to - and - from Fremont county by 1895.
Date: 17 Oct 2004 14:32:02 -0600
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Surnames: Singleton
Classification: Immigration
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In the Government Documents library at the University of Iowa, at Iowa City, there is an analysis of the 1895 Iowa State Census for Fremont county. It states that 219 people enumerated at that time said that they had been born in Franklin county, Iowa but had emigrated to Fremont county! Never before have I ever seen a reference to his amazing statistic, and I'm very inclined to think it to be a mistake. I can't think of any reason why families from Franklin would have moved to Fremont in such great numbers.
Other results are more understandable: 183 people who had been born in Mills were now living in Fremont county--but 246 Fremont natives had moved from Fremont county into Mills; 138 had Page county nativity, but again 306 who had been born in Fremont said they had moved from Fremont county into Page! So, Fremont county had given more than it received.
As might be expected, the South Tier State Road served as an emigration route for many with nativities stated to have been of the southern-most tier of Iowa counties: Page--138; Taylor--34; Ringgold--19; Decatur--65; Wayne--(not shown); Appanoose--43; Davis--45; Van Buren--(not shown); Lee--33.
BUT, natives of Fremont county also emigrated eastward to Page--306; Taylor--22; Ringgold--11; Decatur--24. Montgomery county picked up 61 natives of Fremont county; Shelby picked up 10; Cass--21; Union 12.
(The South Tier became the Waubonsie Trail in 1912, and after that was renamed as Iowa State Highway No. 2.)
The South Tier State Road wasn't the only emigration route for natives of Fremont county. Along the old State Road which ran from Fremont county northward along the Missouri river, all the way up to Sioux City--all along this road one can see its presence: 246 Fremont county natives moved into Mills county; 122 natives into Pottawattamie; 78 natives into Harrison; 133 natives into Monona; 110 natives into Woodbury.
How did Fremont county come out in this trade? 183 natives of Mills had emigrated to Fremont; 45 had emigrated from Pottawattamie; Harrison--18; Monona -- 19; Woodbury--7.
(By the way, the State Road from Fremont county up to Sioux City, had been surveyed for the State by Andrew Singleton, after whom Singleton Grove in northeastern Prairie township was named. Singleton is buried in the Chambers cemetery.)
A surprising number of emigrants who were born in northeast Iowa show up in Fremont: From Dubuque county--43; from Jackson county--44; from Jones--52; from Polk--27; from Linn 21; from Marion--48. Was 1895 late enough to show the Irish who I know came from that area to the Imogene section of Fremont county?
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