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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iowa, (search)
ubuque; whites occupy deserted villages, but are driven out by United States troops under Lieut. Jefferson Davis, by order of Col. Zachary Taylor......1830 David Tothers makes the first settlement in Des Moines county, 3 miles southwest from the site of Burlington......1832 Treaty at Rock Island; the Sacs and Foxes cede to the United States Iowa and a part of Wisconsin, known as the Black Hawk purchase, reserving 40 miles square to Keokuk......Sept. 21, 1832 Zachariah Hawkins, Benjamin Jennings, and others settle a colony at Fort Madison......1832 First permanent settlement in Scott county by Antoine le Claire......1833 Dubuque founded......1833 Iowa included in Territory of Michigan, erected by act approved......June 28, 1834 Aaron Street founds Salem, first Quaker settlement in Iowa......1834 Iowa included in Territory of Wisconsin, erected by act approved. April 20, 1836 Treaty at East Davenport between Governor Dodge, United States commissioner, and th
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Spunky Tenant. (search)
Runaway horses. --The horses drawing one of the Confederate wagons, loaded with saddles, became alarmed from some cause while passing down Main street yesterday forenoon, and made off in great haste, to the great terror of street passengers. They turned down 13th street by our office, running at high speed towards Shockoe Slip, the wagon coming in collision on its way with a buggy which it forced out of its track without serious damage, and the horses knocking a man down near the Columbian Hotel, close to which they were stopped. The name of the man, who received a severe bruise on his head, is Benjamin Jennings. He is from Powhatan county.