Box 4
Contains 56 Results:
Dodge, Grenville Mellen. Notebook about railroads, photograph, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous.
Donaldson, David. Agreement with Martha Black whereby he agrees to do harvesting in exchange for room, board, and one-third of the harvested grain. Washington county, Iowa, June 15, 1870
Dungan, William H. Petition of Dungan and 150 other citizens of Crawfordsville, Washington County for emancipation., 1863
Espeset, James Howard. Legal secretary's notebook involving cases in Emmet county, Iowa., 1866-1912
Holograph notebook.
First National Bank, Shenandoah, Iowa. Stock certificates, 1908 and 1917. With certificates from the Shenandoah National Bank, Fairview Land Company, American Live Stock Powder Company, and the Gravity State Bank, 1908-1929, 1908, 1917, 1908-1929
Flaherty, Ray W. Reminiscences, 1876, of the University of Iowa: Student Army Training Corps [ca. 1918], football, and faculty.
Typescript
Fremont County. Warranty deeds, referees' deed, quit-claim deeds, and abstracts of title concerning Section 24, township 69, range 40, Fremont County, Iowa, 1885-1924
Gobble, Thomas Wilson. Excerpts from diary, 1858-1880; edited and typescript 1957; General stores - Iowa; Abingdon, Iowa., 1858-1880
Edited by the great-grandson of the author, J.R. Gobble.
Grimes, James W., 1816-1872, Governor. Iowa City. Commission as Notary Public for John W. Davis. May 26, 1872
Heinold, Mary. Legal receipt for payment on a note; Johnson county, 1898
Iowa. Executive Department. Certificate appointing James B. Bell a commissioner, June 14, 1876
Signed by Samuel Jordan Kirkwood.
Iowa. Executive Department. Certificate appointing James N. Callan commissioner, May 2, 1870
Signed by Samuel Merrill, Governor and Ed Wright, Secretary of State.
Iowa. General Assembly. Petition to President James Knox Polk, January 24, 1868
The Iowa Band [of Circuit Missionaries], 1843-1873. Photograph of the last five surviving members, 1873
Ephriam Adams, Harvey Adams, Daniel Lane, A.B. Robbins, William Salter. A description of the Iowa Band from a booksellers catalog
Iowa Railway Contracting Company. Certificate of Incorporation, 1864-1866
Iowa Soldiers Orphans Homes. Board of Trustees Minutes,, 1866-1888
Autograph notebook.
Irish, Gilbert. Promissory Note. Iowa City, February 4, 1865
Louthan, J.B, Dr. 1816-1893. Louthan (1853-1872) ledger, recording his practice of medicine in Iowa. Letter to his son, John M. Louthan, March 30, 1871; Photographs of Dr. Louthan and his two sons, Dr. John M. and Dr. Bruce S.; also relates to history of Tama county and includes a Louthan genealogy.
McCaull, Robert. Letters to his wife, Eliza, 1873-1883. Original letters, printed excerpts, obituary for Robert McCaull, McCaull's entry in the 1880 census, cemetery records, and other documentation for Robert McCaull.
McCaull was active in the Grange movement and organized 84 granges in three counties in south central Iowa. Most of these letters are written on stationery from the Pleasant Ridge Grange, No.22, in Garden Grove, Iowa, of which McCaull was Secretary. Eliza was in Chicago taking a cure for an unnamed, though probably "female problem" disease in the summer of 1873, when most of these letters were written. One letter is from her son, J. L McCaull. In 1883, Robert writes from Auburn, New York where he had settled when he first arrived from Scotalnd. 2011 addendum: McCaull Family letters -23 letters from brothers and sisters of Robert McCaull and his wife, 1869-1887. Grange correspondence - 13 letters having to with Grange business in south central Iowa, 1872-1883. Many of these are accompanied by envelopes.