[A] L. G. Weld, Iowa Journal of History and Politics, vol. i, no. 1.
[B] This is the view of nearly all the writers and historians, but Professor Weld in vol. i, no. 1, Iowa Journal of History and Politics, holds to the opinion that the landing was made at the point in Louisa county where the Iowa river enters the Mississippi and gives cogent reasons for his belief.
[C] Hon. Sidney A. Foster, Des Moines.
[D] N. H. Parker in Iowa As It Is in 1855, p. xiv.
[E] Iowa As It Is in 1855, p. xv.
[F] Response to a toast at a banquet in Waterloo in honor of Hon. Horace Boise, ex-Governor of the State.
[G] Notes on the Wisconsin Territory, pp. 14-15 (1836).
[H] Letter written by Peter H. Engle, of Dubuque, in 1838.
[I] The Constitutions of Iowa, pp. 23-24 (1902).
[J] Rev. Dr. S. N. Fellows, A Record of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Cornell College, p. 91.
[K] The pioneer settlements about Mount Vernon had sent several flat boats down the Cedar and Mississippi to New Orleans with cargoes of wheat, corn and potatoes. With the proceeds of sale of boats and cargo, sugar, molasses and other goods were purchased and shipped by steamers to Muscatine. Col. Robt. Smyth was one of those who thus made the voyage from Stony Point, three miles south of Mount Vernon, to New Orleans.
[L] During the melee a farmer from north of town gave a stentorian yell for Jeff Davis and was promptly knocked down by a federal soldier home on furlough. The soldier was afterwards arrested for assault. On the day of the trial before Judge Preston of Marion some thirty Mount Vernon men were present armed with various weapons, including corn knives. The case was dismissed.
[M] See Minutes of Iowa City Presbytery, Lyons, May 9, 1856.
[N] This is according to Lawrence's history, and in harmony with statements from Dr. A. W. Drury. Mrs. Elizabeth Harner, daughter of Bro. Troup, says he came to Iowa in 1838.
[O] Chandler Jordan, mentioned above, died about a year ago, and Mr. Liddington was killed in the mill in the winter of 1909-10 by getting wound up in the shafting, and since then the old mill has stood idle.
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316.
Page 11: The Muskwaki Indians were probably the Meskwaki, also spelled
Mesquakie or Meskwahki Indians. (a large number of Muskwaki Indians
were camping)
Pages 67-81: Some names in the Members List are not in alphabetical order, but match
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The grain rates from Cedar Rapids to Chicago were thirty cents a
hundred pounds and the noise of protest which was made then was quite
similar to the noise which is sometimes
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the only mention of John B. Taylor in the book. (May 26, John Zumbra to
Angeline Eggleston, by Rev. John B. Taylor.)
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