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William Abbe (c. 1800–1854) served on the Iowa Council and is believed to have been the first white settler in Linn County, Iowa. Originally from Ohio, he traveled west in search of land in 1836. Little is known about Abbe until this time. Abbe Creek, on which he established his homestead, still bears his name today.
In 1856, Casady moved from Indiana to Sioux City, Iowa, one of the first white settlers on the historically Indigenous Dakota land of the Western frontier.He fought in the Sioux Wars as part of the Sioux City Cavalry, an armed group of white settlers that was formed in November, 1861, and merged into the 7th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry as Company I in July, 1863.
As the settlers came into Iowa, they naturally established communities. Significant of these were Burlington, Dubuque, Davenport, Keokuk, Fort Madison, and Muscatine. [37] By 1836, when the first census was taken in Iowa, there were 10,531 inhabitants. [38] This rapid immigration was but a sign of things to come.
They married and she returned with him to Sioux City. In the 1860s, they settled on a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) farm in the Salix, Iowa area. On February 18, 1896, Bruguier died from pneumonia. He was interred at the Catholic cemetery near Salix. In 1926, he was re-buried near the grave of his first two wives and War Eagle. [1]
While in Iowa, Taylor became engaged to the daughter of another settler. In 1865, he moved to Yankton, South Dakota, to launch and edit the Dakotan, the first Democratic newspaper in the Dakota Territory, under the aegis of Congressional delegate John Blair Smith Todd. While he was away, his betrothed married another man.
The area was closed to white settlers until the 1830s, after the Black Hawk War ended. It was attached to the Michigan Territory on June 28, 1834. At an extra session of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Michigan held in September, 1834, the Iowa District was divided into two counties by running a line due west from the lower end of Rock Island ...
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In 1851 the first white settlers came into the area of the present county and settled on Clear Lake. Four years later, on August 7, 1855, the first elections were held and the first legal proceedings occurred in 1857. In the summer of the same year, Livonia was chosen as the new county seat. In 1858, the seat was returned to Mason City.