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Title: The history of Mahaska County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Union historical company, Des Moines, pub. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Des Moines, Union historical company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s purchase into two coun-ties, Des Moines and Dubuque. The boundary between them was a linerunning due west from the lower end of Rock Island. They also organizeda county court in each county, and for Des Moines county made the seatof justice at Burlington. The first court was held in April, 1835, in a loghouse. In 1838 Iowa was made a separate Territory and Burlington wasmade the capital and so remained until after the admission into the Unionas a State. The Territorial Legislature met for several years in the firstchurch erected in Burlington, kno^vn as Old Zion. In this same buildingthe supreme judicial tribunal of the Territory also held its sessions, as wellas the district court. The first white man to settle permanently within the limits of Scottcounty, was Capt. B.W. Clark, a native of Virginia. He had settled and madesome improvement on the Illinois side of the Mississipj^i, but in 1833 hemoved across the river and made a claim and commenced an improvement HISTOKT OF IOWA. 145
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146 HISTORY OF IOWA. wliere the town of Buffalo was laid out. His nearest white neighbors on thewest side of the Mississippi, were at Burlington and Dubuque. David H.Clark, a son of Capt, Clark, born April 21, 1834, was the first white childborn within the limits of what is now Scott county. Before the time, June 1, 1833, that the Indians were to give possessionto the whites, Geo. L. Davenport had been permitted to make a claim. Hehad been a favorite with the Indians from boyhood, and for this reason hewas permitted to go upon the lands while others were kept off. The landupon which a part of the city of Davenport is located, and adjoining or nearLe Claires reserve, was claimed by R. H. Spencer, and a man named Mc-Cloud. Mr. Le Claire afterward purchased their claim interest for $150. The project of laying out a town upon Mr. Le Claires claim Avas first dis-cussed in the autumn of 1835, at the residence of Col. Davenport, on EockIsland. The persons interested in the movement were Aiit

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