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The history of Nodaway county, Missouri
What wonderful changes a few years have wrought in Northwest Missouri! Less than forty-five years ago not a single white man dwelt within the present limits of Nodaway County. Its soil had, doubtless, occasionally been pressed by the feet of the reckless hunter and daring adventurer, but its beautiful rolling prairies, its charming timber-fringed streams and enchanting groves, were the homes of the antelope, the elk, the buffalo and the red man. How all has been changed by the hand of progress! To-day the busy hum of industry everywhere resounds* and the voice of culture and refinement echo where once was heard the howl of the wild beast and the war-whoop of the Indian. These have been years fraught with important events to the sons and daughters from the old firesides of Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio and Indiana, and from the more distant homes beyond the Atlantic. The energy and bravery of these hardy pioneers, and their descendants, have made Nodaway County what it is. Their labors have made the wilderness "to bud and blossom as the rose," and, to preserve the story of this wonderful change, and to hand it down to posterity as a link in the history of the great state of which Nodaway County forms an integral part, has been the object of this book.
Table of Contents
HISTORY OF MISSOURI.
CHAPTER I.
LOUISIANA PURCHASE 9
CHAPTER II.
DESCRIPTIVE AND GEOGRAPHICAL 14
CHAPTER III.
GEOLOGY OF MISSOURI 20
CHAPTER IV.
TITLE AND EARLY SETTLEMENTS 26
CHAPTER V.
TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION 32
CHAPTER VI.
MISSOURI ADMITTED INTO THE UNION 55
CHAPTER VII.
MISSOURI AS A STATE 40
CHAPTER VIII.
EARLY MILITARY RECORD 46
CHAPTER IX.
CIVIL WAR IN MISSOURI 51
CHAPTER X.
AGRICULTURE AND MATERIAL WEALTH 60
CHAPTER XI.
EDUCATION 66
CHAPTER XII.
RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS 73
HISTORY OF NODAWAY COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
FREFATORY 79
CHAPTER II.
PLATTE PURCHASE 86
CHAPTER III.
PHYSICAL FEATURES 54
CHAPTER IV.
GEOLOGY OF NODAWAY COUNTY 101
CHAPTER V.
FIRST SETTLEMENTS 113
CHAPTER VI.
PIONEER LIFE 119
CHAPTER VII.
NODAWAY COUNTY ORGANIZED 130
CHAPTER VIII.
COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP SYSTEM — GOVERNMENT SURVEY'S - ORGANIZATION OF TOWNSHIPS 142
CHAPTER IX.
ATCHISON TOWNSHIP 150
CHAPTER X.
GRANT TOWNSHIP 159
CHAPTER XI.
GREEN TOWNSHIP 166
CHAPTER XII.
HOPKINS TOWNSHIP 174
CHAPTER XIII.
HUGHES TOWNSHIP 191
CHAPTER XIV.
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP 209
CHAPTER XV.
JACKSON TOWNSHIP 217
CHAPTER XVI.
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP 224
CHAPTER XVII.
LINCOLN TOWNSHIP 232
CHAPTER XVIII.
MONROE TOWNSHIP 243
CHAPTER XIX.
NODAWAY TOWNSHIP 249
CHAPTER XX.
POLK TOWNSHIP 259
CHAPTER XXI.
UNION TOWNSHIP 309
CHAPTER XXII.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP 315
CHAPTER XXIII.
WHITE CLOUD TOWNSHIP 322
CHAPTER XXIV.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS 329
CHAPTER XXV.
CALIFORNIA GOLD EXCITEMENT 339
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHRONICLES OF THE WEST 347
CHAPTER XXVII.
BENCH AND BAR 360
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CRIMES — TRIALS 430
CHAPTER XXIX.
Centennial Address, by Dr. H. E. Robinson — Old Settlers to whom Prizes were presented at Burlington Junction, 1880 — Presentation of Prizes at Fair of 1881 — Hon. Lafe Dawson's Address 430
CHAPTER XXX.
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS 443
CHAPTER XXXI.
RAILROADS 464
CHAPTER XXXII.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS. EARLY CHURCHES AND MINISTERS 471
CHAPTER XXXIII.
FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF NODAWAY COUNTY 482
CHAPTER XXXIV.
TORNADOES 502
BIOGRAPHICAL.
LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS
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More than forty years have passed, since the first white settlement was made within the bounds of that territory now known as Nodaway County, Missouri.
Nearly a half a century since, the uncivilized aborigines roamed the prairies wild and free, unfettered by the restraints of common or statutory law, and uncircumscribed by township boundaries and county lines. The transformation which has taken place in the physiognomy of the country alone, is beyond the comprehension of the finite mind; luxuriant groves, where there was the wide stretching prairie; cultivated fields where was the primeval forest; orchards, vineyards, and gardens where waved the tall prairie grass. So marked has been the change in the physiognomy of the country that there has been a decided change in the climatology. The elements themselves seem to have taken notice of the great change, and have governed themselves accordingly. While the annual rainfall and the mean annual temperature remain the same in quantity, they are entirely different in quality, and although imperceptible and independent of man's will, they have, nevertheless, come under the same civilizing power which has changed the wilderness into a fruitful land.
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