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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.
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.
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.
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]
The Iowa guardsmen had participated in all-Army maneuvers at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana in 1940, and were among the first to be federalized. Companies L, M and the Howitzer Company, all from Sioux City, were among the first Americans sent to Europe when they landed in Londonderry, Northern Ireland early in the war.
The first white settlers in the area around Paris were the James Lytle family, in 1841. Paris was founded and staked out on the west side of the Wapsipinicon River, in sections 19 and 20 of Jackson Township, in 1845. A school was established just west of Paris in 1850. [2]
Seal of the Territory of Iowa. Most of the area in the territory was originally part of the Louisiana Purchase and was a part of the Missouri Territory. When Missouri became a state in 1821, this area (along with the Dakotas) effectively became unorganized territory. The area was closed to white settlers until the 1830s, after the Black Hawk ...
He was born at Hopkinton, New York, in February. 1807.In 1827, with his brother James, he engaged in lead mining in Illinois, and in 1830 came to what would become Dubuque (then still part of Michigan Territory) for the same purpose, supposedly the first white settlers in that area since the death of Julien Dubuque.